Wise Words for You

Think elevated thoughts and your thoughts become like stars.  Hold elevated thoughts in your mind, and thoughts, like stars, become bright and luminous. When your mind becomes like the clear starry night sky, your thoughts, like stars will brighten your mood and illuminate your world.

The most important part of you is your mind (not your brain – the brain is the hardware and the mind creates the software). Care for your mind, make friends with it, always feed it healthy food, engage it in positive activity, exercise it with knowledge and wisdom. Like a garden returns fragrance and beauty according to the care invested, so your mind will repay you with thoughts, ideas and visions of great beauty when tended and invested with care. Your mind is not made of matter but it does matter what you give it and what you create with it. Where your mind goes, you go. What your mind creates becomes your destiny.

Only when we find the quietness in our own minds can we begin to hear our inner teacher, so that we may receive some in-tuition. Only when we are ready to recognise and value the wisdom that we carry at the core of our being will we turn our attention inwards and ‘listen in’. But it’s been a long time since we truly listened, so a little practice and patience will be needed. Sit down, be quiet and listen in at some point today and you might be surprised at what you hear. Then do it again tomorrow. All you need to do is remember that you are the listener and not the noise.

The estimated  Cyberpunk 2077   file size has been revealed several months before the game’s release. Pre-orders for CD Projekt RED’s hotly anticipated sci-fi RPG have now begun on the PlayStation Store and it’s this PlayStation Store listing that has given fans an idea of just how large the game will be. The description for  Cyberpunk 2077  on the PlayStation Store reveals that the game will take up at least 80GB of space on the PS4’s hard drive. CD Projekt RED is probably still optimizing the game to make it as storage friendly as possible and with just under 10 months to go until the game’s release, some assets could be made much smaller. However, if the game does end up being around 80GB, some PS4 players may end up needing to buy an external hard drive. CD Projekt RED may be able to optimize some parts of the game, but the way that the developer has described  Cyberpunk 2077  does suggest that it will be a huge title. The developer has gone for ve...

First Bus announced yesterday, its intention to sell the Bolton bus depot and operations to Rotala PLC. The intended sale would include the Bolton depot site, with 18 bus services transferring across to Rotala. The sale is expected to complete in the next few months and more than 500 employees who work for the Bolton bus operation will transfer to Rotala. First Manchester will continue to operate existing local bus services from the Bolton site until the sale is completed and customers should see no changes to their daily journeys throughout this period of transition. Going forward, First Manchester will focus its attention on the remaining bus services that primarily operate from the Oldham bus depot.  Vantage services will also continue to be operated by First Manchester. Following a review of its Manchester operations completed last year, First Bus took the decision to reduce exposure in Greater Manchester due to the current uncertainties in that particul...

Think elevated thoughts and your thoughts become like stars.  Hold elevated thoughts in your mind, and thoughts, like stars, become bright and luminous. When your mind becomes like the clear starry night sky, your thoughts, like stars will brighten your mood and illuminate your world.

Sometimes we find ourselves in situations in which we try to make others happy, even though in doing so we neglect ourselves and experience sorrow. We often do things for the sake of others, even though it is difficult. And if this gift is not recognised or appreciated we tend to get upset. I will experience the greatest happiness if I give without expecting anything in return. I have to learn to give wisely. When I give with a pure heart I will experience happiness and make those around me happy too.

When you want to do something sincerely and are decisive about it; the power of concentration becomes available to you. Concentration allows you to achieve more in less time and respond to situations in a more effective way.

A SPECIAL train has smashed the record for the quickest journey between Oxford and London Paddington. GWR's bullet style train completed the journey in just 37 minutes 35 seconds in a non-stop run to mark the 175th anniversary of the Oxford to Didcot line. The service left Oxford at 11.27am and beat the previous record, set in 1982 during a state visit, by more than three minutes. A special journey from London Paddington to Oxford marked the opening of the line back in 1844, with the record attempt part of GWR's celebrations to mark the milestone. The IET 'bullet style' Intercity Express Trains have been in service since October 2017 and now operate on all of GWR’s long distance routes. Laurence Waters, a photo archivist at Didcot Railway Centre, was one of the special guests on board. The Cumnor resident said: "The highlight was passing through Reading at 95mph. "It was quite amazing getting in that quickly - they really put on a show." GWR's...

Remember that you are very special. No one can play your role better than you.

Surreal, disturbing, crossing the boundary of good taste,  Little Britain  features some of the most grotesque characters ever seen on television.  Combining a series of wickedly funny sketches observing life in modern Britain as seen through the eyes of Matt Lucas and David Walliams and linked together by Tom Baker's insightful and eloquent dialogue ("today's show is finishing early because I have to do a pooh now!"), the series was a triumph for BBC3, where it debuted on the digital station's opening night. And the characters that populated 'Little Britain' quickly reached cult status. The wheelchair-bound Andy, who can secretly walk without any problem but enjoys being pushed around and waited on by his caring and oblivious friend Lou; Sebastian Love, the effete personal secretary to the Prime Minister (Anthony Head), who has a huge crush on his boss; Vicky Pollard, Britain's most illiterate teenager who had a baby but "swapped it ...

Vice City Stories improves upon some of the flaws found in the first game, not the least of which is improved length and direction, as well as a great deal more personality. The story's still pretty sub par, though, and as much as this is very much Grand Theft Auto, certain conventions of the series are starting to feel a bit antiquated. Additionally, much as was the case with Liberty City Stories' transition to the PS2, Vice City Stories loses a lot of its appeal when played on a console versus the PSP. Still, it's cheap to buy, and if you don't own a PSP or just never got around to playing it upon its original release, this isn't a bad way to go if you absolutely, positively must get your GTA fix. Vice City Stories returns to the pastel- and neon-colored excesses of the 1980's and Vice City. Modeled after '80s-era Miami, GTA: Vice City told a  Scarface -inspired tale of Tommy Vercetti, a shunned mobster who found himself sifting through the af...

Each one of us is a walking radiator. Mostly we radiate thoughts and attitudes. From deep within we radiate our state of being, and the essential, original and eternal state of every being is peaceful and loving. But we block and distort this energy with our attachments. Attachments turn love into fear, peace into anger and then distort our attitudes and actions towards others. This is neither relaxing for ourselves, or for those around us. Which is why detachment is the secret to living lightly and lovingly.

Keeping Up Appearances  became one of the best loved British television sitcoms ever, with great casting and acting and the writing talents of Roy Clarke who has written some of the best and funniest sitcoms that have ever graced our TV screens, like  Last of the Summer Wine  and  Open All Hours .  Keeping up Appearances  ran for five series from 1990 to 1995, with 44 episodes including four Christmas specials. Not only was the show a huge success in the UK, it was also very popular in the United States and Australia.  Patricia Routledge starred as the Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet), who spends her entire time trying to climb the local social ladder, much to the dismay of her long suffering husband Richard, played by Clive Swift. It is Richard that has to put up with the worst of Hyacinth's behaviour and the man must truly have what can only be described as having the patients of a saint. Hyacinth is not a bad person, just one that has high ...

Spanning eighteen years and forty-two episodes,  A Touch of Frost  became one of Britain's best loved Television Detective shows, and starred actor David Jason in the title role.  Although Jason was better known for his much-loved comedic roles in  Only Fools and Horses  and  Open All Hours , the British Public continued their on-screen love-affair with him, despite his change in genre.  The television series took place in the fictional town of Denton, and was based on R.D. Wingfield's series of 'Frost novels'. The content of the first four books made up a total of eight of the forty-two episodes, whilst the last two were never used as their content was thought to be too graphic for the tone of the show.  In the opening episode, Detective Inspector Jack Frost finds out his wife has terminal cancer prompting him to go out and get drunk before breaking police protocol by approaching an armed man, who promptly shoots him. Despite his...

The monetization of nostalgia is nothing new, but the process seems to have accelerated in this current generation of consoles. HD remasters and "built-from-the-ground-up" remakes litter store shelves, and we're invariably delighted to lap up these colorful reminders of our gaming past. Occasionally, these are cynical ways to mine our memories for cash, but other times they give old gems the polish they need to shine once again. Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is, happily, the latter, and thanks to modern updates in the right places it feels as good today as the original did 20 years ago. There was a danger Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled would show its 1999 progenitor up to be a dated game best left in the past. Instead, developer Beenox has proved how impressive and durable Naughty Dog's original work was while also tweaking it in the right ways. The original game's list of 18 tracks has been expanded upon with 13 more from its sequel, Crash Nitro Kart, a...

Love dissolves hate. Kindness melts cruelty. Compassion calms passion. Cooperation evokes love and when we bow, others bend. This creates harmony.

"When I look and I find, I still love you I still love you" (Freddie Mercury at the end of singing this song) The video was filmed on May 30, 1991. It was Freddie Mercury 's last filmed performance, as he died on November 24 of that year. Unreleased backstage footage of the shooting of the video appeared in the  Days of our Lives  documentary , showing Mercury's deteriorating physical condition (extremely skinny and pale) largely covered up by makeup and colorful attire. Brian May speculated in the documentary that Freddie was "saying his goodbye" in that video, knowing that he would likely not be healthy enough to perform anymore. The song was originally written by Roger Taylor about his children, and how parenthood made him look back on his own life. Inevitably, the song took on new meaning when it was announced that Freddie Mercury had AIDS and knew he was going to die soon when he recorded this. Mercury did not tell the public about his ...

You could barely move in the 1970s and 80s without seeing or hearing Noel Edmonds. He'd been hugely successful on Radio 1 and that involved regular appearances on  Top of the Pops .' All that led to  Multi Coloured Swap Shop  on Saturday's mornings and onwards to the Saturday night spot. Initially he presented  The Late Late Breakfast Show  and  The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow  and in 1991 it morphed into  Noel's House Party  running until 1999. At one stage, a senior corporation executive at the BBC said he considered the show to be the most important one on the channel. In many ways he was right as the shows high ratings grabbed the viewers and they stayed there for the rest of the evening. Noel's House Party  was set in a fictional house in the wonderfully named village of Crinkley Bottom, cue dirty joke. The strength of the show wasn't in the quality of the jokes that is for sure but every week viewers would see sever...