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Disney's Beauty and the Beast
- Date: 08/16/2019 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
- Location: James Armstrong Theater
3330 Civic Center Dr
Torrance, California 90503
Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the smash hit Broadway musical, is coming to Torrance! Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature film, this breathtaking spectacle has won the hearts of millions of people worldwide.


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Now that rules are in place (PDF) are in place, many of the lending abuses that caused the housing crisis are now illegal. However, many credit-worthy borrowers are not able to access responsible loans in today's unprecedented tight credit environment. There are three distinct issues:
- Ensure that all credit-worthy borrowers can access responsible, affordable mortgages;
- Ensure that the future housing finance system serves all credit-worthy borrowers;
- Provide options for borrowers who continue to experience foreclosures.

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Being compared to such an exciting city as New York is a good gauge in considering the option to visit the city.
Most people would jump at the chance to visit New York, so don't miss the chance to experience this vibrant Brazilian city.
Experiencing the charm of Belo Horizonte in just two or three days will take some planning before arriving.
Book a morning flight from Rio and you will have that afternoon and the following day to enjoy the city's main attractions.
To get a good feel for the city and its history, start with an afternoon tour at the Museum of Arts and Crafts. This popular cultural venue is located in the historical downtown area. It occupies two pavilions housed in architecturally impressive train stations connected by an underground tunnel. At this one stop, visitors have the opportunity to view the many contributions made by workers and artisans in the country's history as well as admire the architectural heritage of the city.
The large public square outside the main entrance has been chosen as the location for the Fan Fest during the 2014 FIFA World Cup games in Belo Horizonte. This has resulted in a number of restaurants and shops opening up and provides a chance to enjoy some local cuisine. Belo Horizonte is becoming the trendsetting hub for the global beauty and fashion market. Many fashionistas travel to the city just to be able to purchase designer labels that are not available outside the country. Only five per cent of the goods made in Brazil are exported which leaves a whopping 95 per cent ready for purchase inside the country. That should keep the shoppers in your group busy for your second day in the city.
Enjoying the evenings will be great fun as the nightlife is part of the Belo Horizonte experience. It is world renowned as the bar capital of Brazil and it is safe to say there is more than one bar on every corner. The selection of cold beers and bar food are legendary.
Your timing for visiting in April puts you in the right time frame for participating in the annual bar contest Comida de Buteco. This celebration last the whole month with the bars all competing for the right to brag about the status of their establishments. Tasty culinary dishes are offered along with cold beers to convince patrons to vote for the owners. Judging is also done on cleanliness and attitude of the staff so expect to be treated well.


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I realize this is a bit early in my blogging career to be repeating recipes, but screw it. Here's some more cake pops.
I couldn't resist. They are just too freaking cute. Seriously look at how cute they are! I am so humble.
I attended my boyfriend's cousin's bridal shower this past weekend and was asked to do the desserts. After some of the ladies saw my last cake pop post, they requested that I make them for the shower, of course I obliged. The wedding colors this time let me experiment with some new flavors and food colorings, plus I decided this time, I would go completely from scratch. I was regretting this decision a little when 4:30 am rolled around the night before the shower, and I was still sitting at my center island tying little tiny bows on the sticks, but was quickly reassured that they tasted WAY better than the boxed cake versions. Whew, all worth it. Thank god.
The colors if you haven't guessed by now were orange and blue, and I did my best to match the bride's invitations with the candy melt coating and the bows.
I made some with standard yellow cake, with an added buttermilk tang, which were then mixed with vanilla buttercream and dipped in orange candy melts. The second batch consisted of blue velvet cake, mixed with cream cheese frosting, and dipped in white candy melts. If i didn't have an severe dislike of any and all blue-colored foods, I would have eaten a whole lot of these guys. My waistline thanks me for this unfounded and completely irrational food aversion.
These turned out VERY blue, even though I used way less food coloring than called for. I need to work on my food coloring skills, well that among may other baking-related skills.
If I have learned anything though, it is that people love these bad boys, and I can imagine I will be making these over and over again, with endless possibilities of fillings and toppings, flavors and colors. I can barely stop thinking about the cake pops in my future, though that may be the fault of the sugar bomb I just consumed. Yep, I have leftovers. Thank god for leftovers.
Cake Pops
The majority of this round of pops (with the exception of the yellow cake, recipe below) is mish-mashed from previous posts on cake pops and cupcakes. I used my red velvet cake recipe and just substituted blue food coloring for the blue velvet pops. You can find the recipes and pop directions here:
Blue (Red) Velvet Cake and Cream Cheese Frosting Recipes
Buttercream Frosting Recipe and General Assembly Directions
The majority of this round of pops (with the exception of the yellow cake, recipe below) is mish-mashed from previous posts on cake pops and cupcakes. I used my red velvet cake recipe and just substituted blue food coloring for the blue velvet pops. You can find the recipes and pop directions here:
Blue (Red) Velvet Cake and Cream Cheese Frosting Recipes
Buttercream Frosting Recipe and General Assembly Directions
Yellow Buttermilk Cake
adapted from Culinary Institute of America
adapted from Culinary Institute of America
3 1/2 cups cake flour
2 cups granulated sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks) room temperature
1 cup buttermilk, room temperature
4 large eggs, room temperature
2 large egg whites, room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly butter and flour two 8 or 9-inch round cake pans.
In the bowl of your stand mixer, sift or whisk together the cake flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add the butter and half the buttermilk. Beat with the paddle attachment on a medium-low speed until combined and smooth, about 3-4 minutes.
In a medium sized bowl, with a fork, whisk together the eggs, egg whites, the rest of the buttermilk, and the vanilla to combine, just until eggs are broken up. Add the egg mixture to the batter in 3 additions, mixing on medium speed for 2 minutes after each addition, being sure to scrap down the sides of the bowl frequently.
Divide the batter evenly between the two pans, and bake on the middle rack of the oven for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick or skewer inserted into the center comes out clean. Let cool in pans until they are cool to the touch, then turn out of pans and cool completely on wire racks.
As always, make sure the cakes are completely cool before you attempt the cake pops, otherwise your frosting will melt and you may some some trouble rolling intact balls.
Like I said the possibilities are endless when it comes to cake pops, if anyone has any interesting combinations or new fun flavors, I would love for you to share them in the comments! After all, cake pops are for sharing. Happy cake pop making, and hope you all have a wonderful 4th of July weekend!


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Partial thromboplastin
time (PTT) is a blood test that measures the time it takes your blood to clot.
A PTT test can be used to check for bleeding problems.
clotting factors are needed for blood to clot
(coagulation). The partial thromboplastin time is an important test because the
time it takes your blood to clot may be affected by:
Another blood clotting test, called prothrombin time (PT) or INR
(international normalized ratio),
measures other clotting factors. Partial thromboplastin time and prothrombin
time are often done at the same time to check for bleeding problems caused by a
problem with the clotting factors.
Partial thromboplastin time (PTT) is
done to:
The activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) test is
used after you take blood-thinners to see if the right dose of medicine is
being used. If the test is done for this purpose, an APTT may be done every few
hours. When the correct dose of medicine is found, you will not need so many
Many medicines can change the results
of this test. Be sure to tell your doctor about all the nonprescription and
prescription medicines you take.
The health professional drawing blood
The blood sample is taken from a vein in
your arm. An elastic band is wrapped around your upper arm. It may feel tight.
You may feel nothing at all from the needle, or you may feel a quick sting or
There is very little chance of a problem from
having blood sample taken from a vein.
Partial thromboplastin time (PTT) is a
blood test that measures the time it takes your blood to clot.
The normal values listed here—called a reference range—are just a guide. These ranges vary from lab to lab, and your lab may have a different range for what's normal. Your lab report should contain the range your lab uses. Also, your doctor will evaluate your results based on your health and other factors. This means that a value that falls outside the normal values listed here may still be normal for you or your lab.
60–70 seconds
30–40 seconds
The heparin dose is changed so that the PTT or APTT
result is about 1.5 to 2.5 times the normal value.1
Reasons you may not be able to
have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
CitationsPagana KD, Pagana TJ (2010). Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.Other Works ConsultedChernecky CC, Berger BJ (2008). Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 5th ed. St. Louis:
Saunders.Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009).
Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed.
Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.Pagana KD, Pagana TJ (2010). Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
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Jan Martin
Term: 2007-15
Jan Martin, a Colorado Springs native, is serving her second term on city council.
Prior to serving on council, Jan served on numerous boards and commissions, including:
- Citizen Project
- City's Charter Review Committee
- Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum Foundation (Vice president)
- Downtown Partnership and Leadership Pikes Peak Board of Trustees
- El Paso County's Citizen Outreach Group
- Ronald McDonald House Charities Board (President)
As well as serving the city of Colorado Springs, Jan is the Owner of Martin Business Group, Inc., which specializes in information systems and business training for local organizations, and a part time instructor for the online MBA program at the University of Phoenix.
Jan holds a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Northern Colorado and a MBA in finance from Regis University.
In her spare time, Jan enjoys golfing and other outdoor activities.
Contact Jan:
Council member Jan Martin
P.O. Box 1575
Colorado Springs, CO 80901
Phone: (719) 385-5486
Fax: (719) 385-5495
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Let $M$ be a compact smooth manifold without boundary. A Riemannian metric $g$ on $M$ induces a volume measure (or Lebesgue measure) $m_g$ on $M$.
A diffeomorphism $f:M\to M$ is said to be {volume--preserving} if $f_*(m_g)=m_g$, that is, for each Borel subset $A\subset M$, $f_*(m_g)(A):=m_g(f^{-1}A)=m_g(A)$. Or equivalently the Jacobian (determinant of the tangent map $Df_x:T_xM\to T_{fx}M$) satisfies $J(f,m_g)(x)=1$ for every point $x\in M$.
If we change the Riemannian metric to $g'$ and the induced measure $m_{g'}$, the volume--preserving property with respect to $g$ is slightly distorted: there exists a uniform constant $C\ge1$ such that
$C^{-1}\le J(f^n,m_{g'})(x)\le C$, for every point $x\in M$ and every time $n\in\mathbb{Z}$.---- $(*)$
My question is: is $(*)$ a characterization of volume--preserving?
That is, for a given $f\in\mathrm{Diff}(M)$, if $(*)$ holds for some arbitrarily chosen Riemannian metric $g$, does there exist a Riemannian metric $g'$ such that $J(f,m_g)=1$?


text: Some of you may have never heard of Jays, Westone or even Sennheiser prior to our headphone reviews, so when I mention Jensen, Audiovox and Soundcat, you may be scratching your head. Well, the three have teamed up and created Ear Budeez, an upgrade earphone which is likely one of the least expensive on the market. Even in Canada, they can be found for less than 20$ – a nearly impossible feat – abroad, they are marketed starting at ~8$ US.


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I've not payed much attention to 'how' the universe is structured but it seems vitally important to me right now.
Briefly I've been going through a lot of panic and suffering for the last year about incarnations (my mothers funeral was a year ago this week) and it's been turning into a Gnostic (?) view of the universe as punishment and suffering. Instinctively I narrowed it down to a 'child of time' Ayin experience but of course I could be wrong.
I've been scouring posts on this forum and I seem to have noted that elemental energies work their way up to Human - that the HGA is actually an Ipissimus that takes on a New mind to train in incarnations - and that some voluntarily take an oath for continual reincarnation.
So the questions are.
Do the elementals acquire a HGA, or does a HGA choose certain energies to evolve?
(This question will probably illustrate my confusion. I'm not even sure how to phrase the issue).
If the HGA is already perfect, why does it need to evolve energies? If it is our higher self If it knows the lessons why does the Briatic consciousness need to learn lessons? In short, what the bugger is going on? Is the universe being raised in consciousness in the four worlds through the influence of Atziloot ?
And finally - by signing the Oath and dedicating your energies to the AA , will the forgone conclusion be that one will have to reincarnate to serve humanity? Or is that choice made MUCH further down the line and it is a choice in actuality?
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The Northern Ontario Railroad Museum and Heritage Centre is putting on "Mining Rocks of the North" exhibit from August 3 to September 5, 2011
They will have special events that will include "Gold Panning on Vermillion River" on August 20, 2011, as well as the exhibit.
If you have questions about the history of Capreol and Area including the towns of Sellwood and Milnet, the museum has books, and photos.
The museum is located at 26 Bloor St. Capreol, Ontario.
The website is http://normhc.ca/silverstripe/


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Our Vision - Where we are going:
- Have customers that want to do business with us.
- Be the recognized leader in our chosen product lines.
- Be a place where employees prefer to work.
Our Mission:
- Customer Focused - To deliver products and services that delight our customers and are better than our competition.
- Employee Concerned - To be a company that grows its employees with challenges, continuing education and a personally rewarding place to work.
- Financial Returns - To generate a profit that allows us to accomplish these goals and provides our stakeholders a fair return on their investment.
Our Values:
- Integrity & Honesty in all Dealings - Truth is the foundation of all good relationships. Relationships are the foundation of how we will build a great company. Tell the truth with discretion and trust. Never withhold information coworkers need.
- Respect for all people - All people, inside and outside the company, deserve our respect. Respect means treating others as you would want to be treated.
- Trust with each other - We need to trust each other when dealing with each other. Only when there is very clear evidence should trust be abandoned.
- Concern for People - We need to be concerned about helping each other be successful in our jobs, but also to help each other remove obstacles to success in our personal lives when appropriate.
- Continuous Improvement - Strive for continuous improvement in all activities from all employees.
- Open communication - Information and knowledge are key to making good decisions. All resistance to information flow should be removed wherever it exists and constraints on confidentiality should err on the side of the free flow of information.
- High Expectations - We expect each and every employee to provide his/ her best efforts towards the company's success. All employees are to help each other contribute to the maximum of their abilities and skills.


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Ely Rotary to host soup supper March 8
ELY– Gateway Rotary Club is hosting a chili/chicken noodle soup supper from 4 until 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 8. It will be held at the legion hall in downtown Ely.
This a fundraising project for various programs at College Community schools, especially at Prairie Edge and Prairie Woods facilities. There will be live entertainment provided by Shima Country Sounds, and a bake sale supplied by local residents.
The cost is $5 per person and children under 5 are free.
Questions can be directed to Brad Buchanan at 319-560-8075.


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Hi everyone,
Well, I'm probably the most inexperienced Java programmer here. I'm a freshman in college, possibly interested in going into the computer science field. I'm in my first semester programming class, and we're working with Java ...
I joined this forum to ask qusetions when I need to and to hopefully learn.


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Community Health Systems, a Franklin, Tenn.-based company, agreed Tuesday to purchase HMA for $3.9 billion in cash and stock.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH — A major twist has been thrown into Bert Fish Medical Center's quest to merge with Health Management Associates Inc., a Naples-based, for-profit hospital chain.
Community Health Systems, a Franklin, Tenn.-based company, agreed Tuesday to purchase HMA for $3.9 billion in cash and stock, drawing to a close weeks of speculation that HMA would be subject to a takeover.
The transaction shouldn't affect talks between HMA and the Southeast Volusia Hospital District Board of Commissioners, a seven-member panel that oversees Bert Fish, Tomi Galin, a spokeswoman for Community Health, wrote in an email.
"Community Health Systems' acquisition of Health Management Associates will take several months to complete — and while that is happening, we anticipate that HMA will move forward with its strategic opportunities for growth," Galin wrote.
Pete Lawson, an executive with HMA who has been working on the Bert Fish deal, could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
The Southeast Volusia hospital board is in the process of drafting a letter of intent with HMA. Once the letter of intent is signed, it is expected to take 120 to 180 days to close the deal.
Commissioner Ferd Heeb viewed the purchase as a positive development because it will result in a "bigger, more financially secure company" that would operate the 112-bed public hospital in New Smyrna Beach.
"I don't think it will affect Bert Fish at all," Heeb said. "In the world we live in today, mergers and acquisitions are the name of the game."
The acquisition would dramatically expand Community Health's footprint in Florida, where only two of its 135 hospitals are located. HMA operates 23 hospitals in Florida.
The purchase agreement means Bert Fish's overseers will need to conduct a new round of due diligence on Community Resources, said Sheryl Skolnick, an analyst with CRT Capital Group LLC who has followed HMA closely. Both HMA and Community Health are interested in hospitals in small to mid-size markets, she said.
"Community in many respects is very similar to HMA," Skolnick said, adding that the transaction is still a long way from being finalized. "It is not a foreign experience for them at all."
Community Health's purchase of HMA is expected to close during the first quarter of 2014 and is subject to approval by 70 percent of HMA's stockholders, antitrust clearance and customary closing conditions.
Once the purchase is approved, Community Health would have 206 hospitals in 29 states with a total bed count of more than 31,000. Community Health says the transaction will strengthen its physician and hospital network and create cost savings, putting it in a better position to adjust to health care reform.
Community Health wants to buy HMA at a discount. HMA said Tuesday it was served with a fresh round of subpoenas from the federal government regarding physician relationships and emergency-room operations. The company also reported lower-than-expected earnings, and its stock sank 11 percent, closing at $13.30 in trading Tuesday.
Joe Benedict, chairman of the Southeast Volusia hospital board, said he expects the board will discuss Community Health's offer, but he, too, doesn't expect it will affect the board's direction.
Bert Fish's board of commissioners started their search for a partner in the fall. Their request for proposals netted two suitors — HMA and Halifax Health, a 678-bed public hospital system based in Daytona Beach. After conducting weeks of interviews with representatives from both suitors, hospital commissioners narrowed the field to HMA.
Halifax Health is interested in resuming talks if the Southeast Volusia Hospital District decided to change direction, said John Guthrie, a Halifax Health spokesman.
Bert Fish made an unsuccessful attempt to merge with Florida Hospital in 2010, but a judge voided the deal because of repeated violations of the Sunshine Law, which requires the public's business be conducted in open meetings.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Bert Fish time line
November 2010: Circuit Judge Richard Graham rules that members of the Southeast Volusia Hospital District board violated the Sunshine Law when they held 21 closed meetings that resulted in the merger with Adventist Health System, which operates Florida Hospital. The ruling is issued as a formal order Dec. 27.
May 2012: The Southeast Volusia Hospital District and Bert Fish Medical Center accept a $6 million settlement to resolve claims that an Orlando law firm provided faulty legal advice during the merger process and begin working on another attempt at a merger.
October 2012: Bert Fish issues another call for proposals for potential partners. Naples-based Health Management Associates Inc. and Daytona Beach-based Halifax Health respond.
June 2013: Bert Fish hospital commissioners vote to negotiate exclusively with HMA after weeks of interviews with the two suitors.
July 2013: Community Health Systems agrees to purchase HMA for $3.9 billion in stock and cash.
SOURCE: News-Journal archives


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Blog Archives
Monday Morning Realist: Divisional Playoff Edition
By: Akiem Bailum (@Li495Akiem on Twitter)
Technical Faults
Unfortunately, the last few weeks, I have been MIA on TRST due to some internet issues pertaining to where I was staying at over the Christmas break. I have since returned to campus, where my computer works beautifully with the internet & have missed writing columns, doing videos, talking to fans, and dropping an occasional one-liner online. But I'm back and just at the right time—when it looks like the NFL playoffs may have hit its peak in terms of competitive games.
Instant Classic
It was the Divisional Playoff Round this week in the NFL, which means that the teams that won last week in the Wild Card matchups headed on the road to face those teams that had earned byes. One of those was the Baltimore Ravens who have plans on having Ray Lewis (and potentially Ed Reed as well) retire from the NFL as Super Bowl Champions as did John Elway, Jerome Bettis, and Michael Strahan. They beat the Colts last week in Baltimore.
This week, their opponent was Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos at Sports Authority Field in the Mile High City, and going into the game, almost everyone (except me and a few others) picked the Baltimore Ravens to win this football game. Most of the national football press felt it would be a rout and that there was no reason to be played.
This game was the reason why there is the phrase "Any Given Sunday". At the beginning of the game, it looked like it would be a Broncos coronation party. The first score of the game came on a special teams play as Denver's Trindon Holliday returned a punt return 90 yards for the first touchdown. Denver took a quick 7-0 lead. That would be erased by a 59 yard bomb from Joe Flacco to Torrey Smith to tie it at 7. Then, Peyton Manning threw an interception (one of his two for the game) to Corey Graham who returned it 39 yards for the score.
Poor Champ Bailey.
Baltimore 14-7. All of a sudden, the Ravens who everyone wrote off were in it on the road vs. the high-octane offense of the Broncos.
It was tied going into halftime thanks to another TD pass from Flacco to Smith. 21-21.
Holliday Season apparently wasn't over in Colorado as Holliday had on his Devin Hester (circa 2008) cleats on. After his punt return, he returned a kickoff return for 104 yards for a Denver touchdown. 28-21. The Ravens later tied it again.
With the score at 35-28 late in the 4th quarter, John Fox made an extremely questionable decision by not throwing on a 3rd & 7 with Peyton Manning as his quarterback. That would've sent the Ravens home packing their valuables for the spring & summer months. That gave the Ravens new life & they capitalized. A 70 yarder from Flacco to Jacoby Jones tied it up again at 35. One thing has to be said about the Ravens—most say that the receiving corps of the Atlanta Falcons is the best in the NFL with Julio Jones, Roddy White, Tony Gonzalez, etc. Torrey Smith and Anquan Boldin aren't too shabby either.
The game eventually went into two overtimes with the Ravens winning 38-35 on a 47 yard field goal from Justin Tucker that came after an interception of Manning. Ray Lewis will play another game & Peyton Manning has another loss in the postseason.
Oh, and yeah, the Tebow memes began immediately on Twitter.
Flacco was 18/34 for 331 yards and 3 TDs. Ray Rice rushed for 131 yards. Smith and Jones had huge receiving days for Baltimore. Peyton Manning's line was 28/43 for 290 yards, 3 TDs and 2 picks. Eric Decker (who is now dating supermodels apparently because of the notoriety he's gained from catching Manning's passes) had 6 of them for 84 yards.
This game was the game of the playoffs so far and was an instant classic. One of the best playoff games in history. It belongs in the archives.
Baltimore's season goes on as they are clearly playing to get Ray Lewis one more ring before it's all set & done for #52. Their opponent in the AFC Championship Game will be the New England Patriots, as it was last year.
New Game, New Stakes, Same Venue, Same Result
The numbers 42 and 14 were on the minds of the Houston Texans all week as they prepared for their AFC Divisional Matchup in Foxboro vs. the New England Patriots. That was, of course, the score that the Pats thrashed the Texans by back on Monday Night Football late in the season in Foxboro, despite the fact that it was billed at the time as what could've been the best football game on the 2012 Monday Night Football programme.
Midweek, fans were abuzz as runningback Arian Foster used critical words from a Dan Shaughnessy Boston Globe column that basically called the Texans a fluke team and that Houston would be easy pickings for Brady's bunch—as his Twitter avatar.
Similar to the armchair quarterbacking going on by pundits concerning the Ravens/Broncos matchup, almost no one outside of Houston picked the Texans to defeat the Patriots.
The first play of the game was a 94 yard kickoff return from the Texans' Danieal Manning. Just what Houston needed to get off to a quick start & send New England a message that this wasn't Monday Night Football anymore.
Instead, 3 plays later, they had to settle for a Shayne Graham 27 yard field goal to put Houston up 3-0. It should've been 7-0. Those first few minutes were emblematic of the Texans' offense over the last few games. They struggle in the red zone and Matt Schaub wasn't the same Matt Schaub that led the Texans to an 11-1 record through the first 12 games of the season.
Of course, you can't settle for field goals when you play Tom Brady and the Patriots and it was only a matter of time before they made Houston pay. They took the lead at the end of the 1st quarter and would ultimately extend it to a 17-3 advantage. We haven't heard much of the name Shane Vereen before this game, but Brady has an ability to turn unknowns into household names down the road. He had 3 touchdowns on the day.
While the Texans did hang tough and made it a game at halftime with the score at 17-13, it'd be an entirely different story in the 2nd half as the Patriots began doing what the Patriots seem to do a lot of the team—make their opponents look like they belong in college. They'd get the ball back in the beginning of the 2nd half, and scored a touchdown on their first possession thanks to a Stevan Ridley 8 yard run. Ridley is one of the things that makes this Patriots team so dangerous. They could run the ball in previous years when they had players like Corey Dillon, and it looks like they've got that again with Ridley—believe it or not.
The Patriots won the game 41-28 & will play the Ravens in a rematch of last year's AFC Title Game that is well known for Billy Cundiff's Wide Left—better not mentioned in the state of Maryland.
I have to give credit to the Texans for hanging tough. They kept on playing hard football until there were triple zeros on the clock at the end of the 4th quarter. They got a couple of more touchdowns, even though they came 3 quarters too late. Houston has rising stars like J.J. Watt, Arian Foster, and a future Hall of Fame wideout in Andre Johnson. What some in Houston will be clamoring for is a quarterback that can perhaps challenge Schaub's starting job but that's not happening.
As for the Pats, this AFC Championship Game should be a fun one. If any AFC team can prevent New England from going back to the Super Bowl, it's Baltimore. It should've been Baltimore last year if weren't for the…well…we know by now.
The game, though, came at a cost as Rob Gronkowski reinjured his left forearm and has been declared out for the remainder of the postseason.
Bottom line is this: Sunday night can't get here soon enough.
San Francisco's Treat
With a home win vs. the short-handed Minnesota Vikings under their belt, the next test for the Green Bay Packers would be on the road in San Francisco vs. the 49ers. They didn't look like the same team they were when they hit their peak shortly after the controversial Golden Tate "Fail Mary", but still looked good enough to win postseason games. Injuries, of course, hurt them throughout the season as well. Also, there was the (I believe, overhyped) element of Rodgers being passed over in favor of Smith by the 49ers in the NFL Draft.
The story for the Niners was that Colin Kaepernick was playing in his first postseason game since Jim Harbaugh made the decision to stick with Kaepernick after the injury to Alex Smith. When it came to playoff experience, Rodgers (a 1 time Super Bowl champion) vs. Kaepernick looked like a mismatch.
And it was…for the team hailing from the Badger State of Wisconsin.
Early on, a Sam Shields Pick 6 interception of Kaepernick to make it 7-0 Pack seemed to confirm the concerns some had about Kaepernick in this kind of environment in his first playoff game. He made up for it by running 20 yards for a touchdown to tie it at 7. The score would be 24-21 going into the half.
After that, the Packers would tie it on a field goal from the much maligned Mason Crosby. 24-24. From that moment on, Candlestick Point was Colin Kaepernick's world and the Packers were simply living in it. Kaepernick's total line was 17/31, 263 passing yards, 181 rushing yards, 2 passing TDs, 2 rushing TDs, and 1 pick. That 181 is an NFL record for any QB, regular season or playoffs. The 181 is also more than the entire rushing attack of the Packers, who finished with 104.
Frisco also got huge outings from Michael Crabtree (9 catches for 119 yards and 2 touchdowns) and Frank Gore (23 carries, 119 yards, 1 TD). For the Packers, Aaron Rodgers went 26/39 for 257 yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.
Green Bay's season has ended with a thud on the road. Their offseason will be filled with talk of potential free agency departures, most notably Jermichael Finley and Greg Jennings. The stuff coming from Jennings himself, as well as what's coming from the team, make it a near inevitability that Jennings will not be returning to Lambeau Field in 2013-2014. Jennings, of course, will demand major dollars for a team to commit to his services.
As for the 49ers, they'll be returning to the NFC Championship Game. After Kaepernick's performance vs. Green Bay and the fact that they have a stellar defense on top of everything else, there are many that will predict the Niners to win their matchup when they head on down to…..
Snatching Defeat From the Claws of Victory (And Vice Versa)
Even though at the beginning of the year I picked the Atlanta Falcons to represent the NFC at the Super Bowl, I spent the entire second half of the season zoned in on the NFC and, in particular, who looked like the surprise team that would give someone like an Atlanta or Green Bay or San Francisco issues in the playoffs. While no one mentioned it because of their distance from the East Coast, the Seattle Seahawks looked like that team.
Not only were the Seahawks making a run, but with the news that the Sacramento Kings were on the verge of being sold to two Seattle based businessmen to return the Sonics back to the city, Seattle sports were running on Cloud 9 status.
Earlier in the year, the Falcons were having a tough time stopping the run. The Seahawks have a Pro Bowl runningback in Marshawn Lynch. They have a defense as good as anyone's in the league—just the ingredients needed to pull off an upset against Atlanta's Dirty Birds.
Such a scenario played itself out Sunday afternoon at the Georgia Dome & for the first half, Atlanta looked to be answering the bell rather soundly and smoothly. Russell Wilson made some rookie mistakes and there was the huge stop that the Falcons got on both 3rd & 1 (and 4th and 1) when it looked like the Seahawks would score their first touchdown of the game down big early.
Another one of them was late and had to do with clock management, but there is conversation in Seattle that the last 1st half play run by the Seahawks actually was got off in time.
Meanwhile, it was 20-0 Falcons heading into overtime and 49ers fans by the Bay began calling their travel agents to book flights for Atlanta.
Seattle wouldn't get their first score until 9:47 remaining in the 4th quarter on a 29 yarder from Wilson to Golden Tate. 20-7 Atlanta. A Falcons drive late in the 3rd quarter led to Jason Snelling touchdown pass from Matt Ryan making it 27-7. Maybe, that's where the game was over.
Seattle then said, not so fast as they have played the NFL's version of the Boston Red Sox circa 2004 a lot this season—always playing 4 quarters. Down 27-14, the Seahawks' Earl Thomas picked up a key interception—one of Ryan's two interceptions on the day. That gave the Seahawks a chance to inch closer and it became 27-21. With 31 seconds to go, the 'Hawks got their first lead of the day courtesy of a two yard run from Marshawn "Beast Mode" Lynch to make it 28-27.
But, it was with 31 seconds to go. And as the Bears in 2008 and this year's Panthers and Raiders will tell you, you are giving Matty Ice 30 minutes if you give him 30 seconds. Two long passes were all the Falcons needed to get into field goal range for Matt Bryant, who was called the other "Matty Ice" by head coach Mike Smith in the Falcons' postgame press conference.
The 49 yard kick from Bryant was wide right and sure to go down in history as one of the lowest moments ever in Atlanta sports—except for Pete Carroll calling a timeout on the sidelines. A clear instance of the bush league move known as "icing the kicker". In my opinion, such a move is bogus and ought to go into the category of unsportsmanlike penalties. It should be an automatic 15-yard penalty.
So thanks to Carroll pulling off a move that he should've left at USC, Bryant got another shot and split the uprights beautifully. 30-28. An onsides kick would make it interesting at the end, but the Seahawks weren't playing the Packers and it wasn't Monday Night Football in Seattle. This Hail Mary attempt from Wilson wound up in the hands of Julio Jones. Falcons will host the 49ers in the NFC Title Game.
Seattle's season is over, but there's clear reason for optimism in the Emerald City. No one (me included) had the Seahawks even making the playoffs and now they have a bright future with Wilson at the nucleus of it. The Seahawks have nothing to be ashamed of. They will be back next year and likely for years to come.
As for the Falcons, they've finally won a playoff game & have (for now) put to rest the common talking point among football pundits that it's a team that's only built for the regular season & can't win in the playoffs. They've won. Now, can they send the Falcons to the Super Bowl for the first time since losing 34-19 to the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXXIII—John Elway's last game.
As for stats, Matt Ryan was 24/35 with 250 yards, 3 TDs, and 2 INTs. Even though there was been increasing talk around Atlanta surrounding Jacquizz Rodgers, veteran runningback Michael Turner had himself a resurgent game with 98 yards on 14 carries.
For the Seahawks, Wilson went 24/36 for 385 yards, 2 TDs and 1 INT. He'd also be sacked twice, once by Vance Walker and once by Johnathan Babineaux. For the most part, the Falcons' defensive line turned off "Beast Mode". While Lynch had the 1 TD that put the Seahawks up late, he only had 46 rushing yards on the day on 16 carries. Zach Miller and Golden Tate did have huge receiving days as both went over 100 yards and each scored a touchdown (8/142 for Miller, 6/103 for Tate).
And among everything else, my preseason Super Bowl prediction of Ravens vs. Falcons is still alive for another week. I'm not boasting, though.
Did I mention earlier also that this upcoming Sunday can't get here soon enough?
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For the second successive season Arsenal face a two-goal first-leg deficit when they head to the Allianz Arena after Toni Kroos and Thomas Muller scored at the Emirates Stadium.
Had Mesut Ozil scored an early penalty things might have been different and there was a temporary reprieve when David Alaba also failed to net from 12 yards before Kroos' stunning strike finally broke down the 10-man Gunners' resistance.
Szczesny was shown a straight red card by Italian referee Nicola Rizzoli after clattering Arjen Robben to concede Bayern's penalty.
"It killed the game," Wenger said.
"These rules are different in every country
In Italy they send off for these kind of fouls.
"Our keeper went genuinely for the ball
He touched Robben, who made certainly more of it
I told him (Robben).
"Wojciech misjudged the situation, there was no clear desire to make a foul, he misjudged the ball.
"The game delivered what it promised at the start
The game was until then top quality and in the second half I think it was, for neutral people, boring.
"It was one-way traffic and the referee made a decision that basically killed the game."
Szczesny made an obscene gesture when leaving the field which may invite UEFA action.
Wenger did not see the Pole's reaction and also was not aware of an incident involving Robben and Bacary Sagna.
Arsenal defender Sagna believes social media talk of the Dutchman spitting on him was false.
Sagna said: "I don't think so
Things went well with me and him tonight."
Wenger criticised former Chelsea winger Robben's reaction to Szczesny's challenge, the Frenchman suggesting the Dutchman exaggerated the contact.
"He has enough experience to know to make more of it," Wenger said
"Overall I felt that Bayern made a lot of every single contact
We are not used to that in England
We complain sometimes.
"Fouls were given today that usually are not given in the Premier League
It's different rules (in Europe) and we have to accept it."
Bayern boss Pep Guardiola refused to debate the incident and answer Wenger.
Guardiola said: "I don't answer my colleagues
I saw on TV, it's a penalty.
"(Szczesny was) the last player and the referee decided it's a penalty
The rules say (a foul by) the last man is a red card."
The incident was all the more frustrating for Arsenal as Ozil had spurned the chance to give his side the lead, his weak penalty saved by Manuel Neuer.
Without Mikel Arteta and Olivier Giroud on the field, Ozil was the nominated penalty taker, but he appeared less than confident.
Wenger added: "We needed that tonight because you could see that Bayern were on the ropes at the start of the game.
"We had three good chances in the first 15 minutes
I felt that to make them more insecure, we needed to score that penalty
But he missed it.
"He was affected by it
I think he wanted to do so well tonight that it affected him.
"You could see even five, 10 minutes later on the pitch he still was shaking his head
It had a huge impact on his performance."
Wenger's options to change the game were limited as Lukasz Fabianski had to come on in goal and Kieran Gibbs went off with a hamstring problem.
It meant Giroud was an unused substitute after being overlooked in favour of Yaya Sanogo, with Wenger insisting it had nothing to do with Giroud's alleged affair.
"Giroud is a strong character, and what happened doesn't influence his behaviour on the pitch," Wenger added.
"I just decided to give him a breather for one or two games, and to give him a chance to come back refreshed.
"Also I wanted to give an opportunity to Sanogo, and I think he did very well."
Wenger, whose side won 2-0 at Bayern last season, exiting on away goals, refused to concede defeat in the tie.
"It isn't over because we will fight until the end," he added.
Guardiola celebrated a first win at Arsenal as a manager and praised the performance of Kroos in particular.
He said: "I like players with personality
They take the ball and they want to play and play and play.
"Toni was great
An incredible goal
I'm very happy with his performance."
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A 30-inch-long deep-sea bug? This picture purporting to show a
deep-sea isopod, of the species Bathynomus giganteus, has been
posted to sites such as Reddit and Cruisers Forum.
It may look like a creepy-crawly April Fool's joke - but an expert on deep-sea species says the bizarre giant bug shown in pictures circulating on the Internet is the real deal.
"I've seen the pictures, and they are real, and they really do get that big," Craig McClain, assistant director of science for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in North Carolina, told me today.
McClain specializes in deep-sea biological systems and covers the subject on his Weblog, Deep-Sea News. So he was the go-to guy when pictures of the bug, reportedly hauled up aboard a remotely operated vehicle operating near an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, started turning up on Web sites ranging from Reddit to Cruisers Forum.
"It's an isopod," McClain said. "It's like the rolypolys or pillbugs that you find in your garden. It's the same group of animals."
But this deep-sea isopod is no pea-sized rolypoly: The critter grows to a size of 20 inches or more. The bug shown in the pictures that are currently making the rounds is on the "larger size" of the spectrum, measuring 30 inches in length, McClain said. But there are a lot more big bugs out there.
|Click for video: See the giant isopod in action.
"They're really common in the deep water in the Gulf of Mexico," he said.
That's where this specimen of Bathynomus giganteus was said to have been found. The story has been pieced together over the past few days, from reports bubbling up on the Internet forums: The bug was a hitchhiker that apparently latched onto an ROV operating around Seadrill's West Sirius rig in the Gulf of Mexico, at a depth of about 8,500 feet. One photo taken from the side and another displaying a full-frontal view were posted via Reddit late last week by a member who said he works for "a sub-sea survey company."
McClain said he received the pictures himself from a researcher who has been active in the area. "We're sort of an online clearinghouse for that sort of thing," he said. My efforts to contact McClain's source via e-mail were unsuccessful, however.
The circumstances of the story definitely raised warning flags: It's hard to put your finger on exactly who is providing the images. The shots of the bug don't provide a definitive sense of scale. And April Fool's Day, prime time for Internet pranks, is just around the corner. But McClain told me everything he's seen so far matches up with what he knows about giant isopods.
"It's definitely not an April Fool's joke," McClain said.
I'll take his word on that. And no matter what you think about the latest pictures, Bathynomus giganteus is no joke. The species was discovered and first described more than a century ago by French zoologist Alphonse Milne-Edwards, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History has a nice big collection of giant isopods.
One YouTube video shows an isopod walking along the seafloor, and another shows the carnivorous bug vying with eels and crabs to chow down on tunafish.
McClain and his colleagues at Deep-Sea News have frequently written about the bug. Here's a smorgasbord of Web links:
- When isopods attack!
- Why is the giant isopod giant?
- Isopods in their native element
- The science of everything and giant isopods
- Cosmos magazine: Dwarfs and giants (PDF)
Speaking of smorgasbords, I couldn't help but notice that some sources claim the giant isopods are "something of a delicacy" in Taiwan, where they are boiled and served with rice at oceanside restaurants.
If those reports are true, that would be one thing McClain didn't know about one of his favorite deep-sea monsters. "I've never heard of anybody eating them," he said.
More about deep-sea creatures:
- Giant squid captured on video
- 10 deep-sea secrets revealed
- Thousands of new species found in deep sea
- Giant marine life found in Antarctic waters
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How To Playback Video Files Using AVS DVD Player
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Playback Video Files Using AVS DVD Player
by Galina Smirnova
Turning your personal computer into a multimedia center is quite easy. You will need to have a player that will let you playback media files of various formats - video and audio. Using AVS DVD Player is just like using a common hardware DVD player with other video files support as it has the same controls and is just as easy to use. Apart from DVD playback AVS DVD Player supports the playback of the following video and audio file types:
Video files: Audio Video Interleaved Files (*.avi), MPEG Video Files (*.mpg; *.mpeg; *.mpe; *.mp4; etc.), Windows Media Video (*.wmv; *.asf; *.asx), Video CD (*.dat), DVD Video Information Files (*.ifo), DVD Video Objects Files (*.vob), QuickTime Movie (*.mov; *.qt), Mobile Video (*.3gp; *.3gpp; *.3g2; *.3gp2), DV Files (*.dv), Microsoft Digital Video Recorder (*.ms-dvr; *.dvr-ms), Google Video Files (*.gvi), OGG Video Files (*.ogm), Matroska Video Files (*.mkv), Flash Video (*.flv).
Audio files: WAV Files (GSM, ADPCM, DSP and others), MP3 (MPEG 1/2 Layer 3, including VBR), MP2 (MPEG 1/2 Layer 2), M4A Files, WMA (Windows Media Audio 9), Ogg Vorbis (ver 1.0), AAC Files, MPC (MusicPack), AIFF (Apple), AU (UNIX).
Read the step-by-step instructions below on how to playback your video files collection on your personal computer using AVS DVD Player.
- Step 1. Download and install AVS Video Tools
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- Step 3. Creating video files list
- Step 4: Setting AVS DVD Player audio parameters
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After that select the place on your computer HDD where the video file is stored:
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Click the Playlist button to open the Playlist window:
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As you can see, watching a video can be as easy as that and comfortable as well.
If you have a question on how to do something on the computer you can submit it via email by clicking HERE You will not receive a reply, but all topics will be considered.
Galina Smirnova is senior marketing manager for Online Media Technologies, Ltd., makers of AVS audio and video products. She has been working with computers since she was a child and loves helping users with software. In her spare time she likes horse-back riding, playing the piano, and yachting.


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Acta Theologica
On-line version ISSN 2309-9089
Print version ISSN 1015-8758
Acta theol. vol.33 suppl.17 Bloemfontein Nov. 2013
Discernment and biblical spirituality: an overview and evaluation of recent research
Kees Waaijman
Prof. dr. Kees Waaijman, Professor Emeritus, Radboud University, Nijmegen and The Netherlands and Research Fellow, Department of New Testament, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
This article briefly and very generally explores some of the developments in the field of biblical spirituality over the past six decades by analysing and discussing some seminal publications on the theme of discernment. It begins the overview with the articles on discernment and discretion in the Dictionnaire de Spiritualité (1957) and then focuses on publications of the past twenty years. It discusses how discernment has moved beyond uncritically assumed dichotomies, beyond the separation of discernment and discretion, and the division between the Bible and philosophy. It also points out how recent publications emphasised for the first time the importance of communal discernment and thus overcame the untenable dualism between personal and communal discernment.
Keywords: Spirituality, Biblical Spirituality, Discernment of Spirits
Trefwoorde: Spiritualiteit, Bybelse Spiritualiteit, Onderskeiding van die geeste
This article aims to concisely and briefly analyse the field of discernment as it has been researched over the past six decades. This is especially needed, because no such research overview is available at present. In order to meet the need for such an overview, the article focuses on some of the major research works in the scientific forum during this period of time with regard to discernment, particularly as it was understood in the field of biblical spirituality. In doing so, it offers some suggestions about research trends within which future discussions on discernment could be conducted. Given the restricted space, only the most basic trends can be pointed out.1
Recent literature on discernment will be discussed by opening up the space between the two poles of an ellipse. The ellipse covers the six decades in which spirituality as a discipline developed extensively from a discipline that was studied within rather fixed boundaries to a vast field of research that can hardly be overseen.
One pole consists of the basic insights reflected in the third volume of the Dictionnaire de Spiritualité which appeared in 1957 at a time when such boundaries were set and clear. Consisting of 17 volumes with over 60000 pages written by more than 1500 contributors, this publication appeared from 1932 to 1995. Its full title is Dictionnaire de spiritualité. Ascétique et mystique. Doctrine et histoire. This encyclopaedia is a valuable point of departure, because it both offers a synthesis of the research on discernment available at that time and was influential in the subsequent period. An analysis of this material will expose the reader to a wide range of publications which appeared in the foregoing era.
The other pole is a bibliography of the monographs of the past twenty years with regard to discernment. This second pole will reflect literature published since 1990, which provides an insight into the present state of the art and a useful framework for an ongoing reflection on discernment, especially in terms of biblical spirituality. This overview of literature of the past two decades can only be cursory, as approximately 280 studies have been published. Any present discussion of discernment will benefit from such an overview.
The theme of discernment in the Dictionnaire de Spiritualité is developed in such a way that the materia tractanda is divided into two separate articles or lemmata. The first one, dealing with the discernment of the spirits (in Latin known as discretio spirituum), encompasses 70 columns. This first lemma was written by five specialists: Jacques Guillet (1957: 1222-1247) for the biblical period; Gustave Bardy (1957:1247-1254) for the time of the Patristics in east and west; Francois Vandenbroucke (1957:1254-1266) for the Middle Ages; Joseph Pegon (1957:1266-1281) for the modern period, and Henri Martin (1957:1281-1286) for systematic reflections and conclusions. The second article or lemma, discussing the virtue of discretion (in Latin known as discretio), encompasses 19 columns. This second article was written by only one expert, André Cabassut (1957:13111330). These articles will now be discussed in terms of three issues.
2.1 Splitting the theme
One of the first questions that presents itself has to do with its form. It is an intriguing question as to why it was decided to split the field of discernment into two lemmata. In addition, it is also striking to note the imbalance in the number of columns allocated to the two sections. This also begs an explanation.
These questions could be answered on two levels. On the one hand, the article reflects the Jesuit background of the editors, who were Jesuits. In this tradition, there is a self-evident and decisive difference between discernment of the spirits and discretion as a virtue. They regarded Ignatius of Loyola as the champion of discernment of the spirits. This is clear by the extensive attention paid to him in this first article. The whole period of the modern discernment of the spirits is dominated in this article by the figure and works of Ignatius. Twelve of the fifteen columns are devoted to him and to Scaramelli, who was also a Jesuit. Major figures from this period are not even named or considered. This includes Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Vincent de Paul and Francois de Sales. It is, for example, equally striking that no attention was paid to Gerlach Peters, one of the main sources of Ignatius with regard to discernment. The second article in the encyclopaedia about discretio, the capacity to distinguish and the sense of moderation, starts with a discussion of Thomas Aquinas, who connected the traditional notion of discretio with the Aristotelian virtue of fronesis (prudence) as the mother and moderator of all virtues, as discretio was regarded since the times of the desert monks.
The question is whether this redactional decision to separate the two seminal motifs of discernment is tenable and whether there is such a fundamental difference between the two forms of discernment that the two separate articles can be justified. This is even more so, given that there is an enormous overlap in the two articles of spiritual writers. Both articles discuss authors such as Cassian, Augustin, Gregory the Great, Bernard, Richard of St. Victor, Thomas Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, Thomas a Kempis, and Ignatius himself. There are, obviously, differences between "discernment of the spirits" and "discretion", but there are also deep and inseparable connections. Whatever may be our position regarding the approach of the theme of diakrisis, it is important to take a critical stand concerning the dichotomy that was created between these two discernments in the encyclopaedia.
2.2 Splitting the background
A second question that presents itself has to do more directly with the field of biblical spirituality. It is striking that the two lemmata are presented against different backgrounds. The discernment of the spirits starts with a great deal of biblical data from both the Old and the New Testament (Qumran included). The data is discussed in 25 columns. This is more than 30 per cent of the article. In the lemma discretio, on the other hand, only one column deals with the Bible. After some semantic remarks concerning the notion of discretio, it starts with a description of the philosophical background of this concept. This is done, first, in a discussion with Thomas Aquinas, who identified discretio with prudentia, the moderator of all virtues. After this opening paragraph, discernment is discussed in terms of Greek philosophy. It involves reflection on the notion of measure, moderation and harmony as the inner rule of conduct in all domains of human activities.
Once again, one could question whether these differences in background are tenable and are grounded in reality. "Discernment of the spirits" has 25 columns with a wealth of biblical material without any reference to the philosophical traditions, whereas "discretion" has only one column containing biblical information and five columns of philosophical discussions. Are there enough reasons for such a contrast?
2.3 Individual and communal discernment
A third question that presents itself concerns the subject and the object of the two forms of discernment in each of them. In both, "discernment of the spirits" and "discretion" are perceived as acts performed by an individual. This impression is confirmed by the fact that discernment is placed within the context of spiritual direction, conscience, personal experience, choice and feelings. The subject is challenged to examine and test the deeper motivations. Subject and object are similar in this article. It is about the human person, accompanied by a spiritual director.
Completely absent in this presentation - which has been strongly influenced by post-tridentine individualistic spirituality - is the communal dimension of discernment. This communal aspect is an essential feature in, for instance, the Collationes of Cassian, the Carmelite Rule, the practices of the Modern Devotion and the conferences of Vincent de Paul. A pertinent example can be found in the last words of the Carmelite Rule, "You are, however, to use discernment, which is the moderator of virtue" (Waaijman 1999:247-257). The Carmelites practised this discernment in the weekly chapter. It is in this chapter where "excesses and faults of the brothers, if such come to light, are to be corrected in the midst of love" (Waaijman 1999:131-136).
In discussions of discernment, one needs to consider a balance between the two extremes. There is, on the one hand, discernment for an individual by an individual, accompanied by an individual. There is, however, also a group discernment performed by the group for a person or for a group. From this point of view, the lack of a communal perspective on discernment in the encyclopaedia's article challenges contemporary researchers to re-conceptualise discernment.
In a second part of this article, attention must be paid to the other pole of the ellipse, by discussing monographs on discernment which were published over the past twenty years. During this period, approximately 280 studies were published. This represents an average of 15 monographs annually. In this instance, one can specify three observations.
3.1 The world of the spirits
A first observation is how much research has been carried out over the past two decades concerning the world of the spirits. Many of the publications of this period can be grouped together because of their interest in this theme.
Some remarks are needed to explain why these publications are related bibliographically to the theme of "discernment of the spirits". Many scholars, who are not theologically interested in spirituality, regard the world of the spirits as an important field of experience. For them, this includes good spirits, evil spirits, angels and devils. Whereas, in the theology of spirituality, the spirits are mostly spiritualised into motivations or dynamics, the field of the spirits is concrete and almost material in anthropology. That is the reason why these studies of the world of the spirits are mostly done by anthropologists and sociologists. I counted 115 studies, almost fourty per cent of all monographs in the field of discernment of the spirits.
On the one hand, these publications describe the esoteric scene in terms of themes such as channelling, near-death experiences, voices, visions, demons and angels. From the perspective of higher spirituality and well-established schools of spirituality, this world of the spirits belongs to the so-called dark areas of spirituality. One does, however, find this shadowy empire in the artistic sphere of film, theatre, poetry and novels. Three titles provide good examples of this interest, the nature of research on them and the extent to which this research is being conducted. There is, first, the German publication with the telling title, Lexikon der Monster, Geister und Demonen. Die Geschöpfe der Nacht aus Mythos, Sage, Literatur und Film: Das (etwas) andere Who is who (Borrmann & Borrmann 2001). In an English context, there is the equally comprehensive Spirits in culture, history, and mind (Mageo & Howard 1996) and Rethinking ghosts in world religions (Poo 2009).
On the other hand, this shadowy side of modernity is mirrored by two other phenomena which form part of our culture. The first one concerns indigenous spiritualities. A significant number of monographs describe the world of spirits in indigenous spiritualities and in different cultural settings such as India, China, Thailand, Cambodia, Korea, Africa, Brazil, and so on. Paradigmatic is the more recent study of Cohen (2010), The mind possessed: The cognition of spirit possession in the Afro-Brazilian religious tradition. The other phenomenon is the world of the spirits in late medieval culture. In this instance, there is a large number of studies, among which there is a German title, Engel, Teufel und Dämonen. Einblicke in die Geisterwelt des Mittelalters (Herkommer e.a., 2006, Berner Mittelalter Zentrum). Two other studies focus on ghosts in medieval times. There is Medieval ghost stories. An anthology of miracles, marvels and prodigies (Joynes, 2001) and Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The living and the dead in medieval society (Schmitt & Fagan, 1998).
This world of spirits is closely connected with the experiences of women in the Middle Ages. It is striking that some, especially from the perspective of the so-called higher spirituality, regard their experiences as belonging to the lower areas of spirituality and mysticism of those days. All these shadowy areas deal with experiences, imageries, voices and visions, perceived as representing the divine world. They have been judged in a mostly depreciating manner as lower experiences that are different from higher areas of spirituality, particularly from clerical spirituality, which developed certain techniques of discernment and claimed the grounds of the so-called higher spirituality.
This has implications for reflection on and research of spirituality, but also of discernment. Until recently, spirituality with its modern rationality failed to develop categories in order to understand the value of representations such as these that were so different from what interested researchers on spirituality until now. Authors took a judgmental attitude towartds these phenomena associated with the world of the spirits. They regarded themselves as the true judges who could relegate these phenomena to the so-called lower areas of spirituality. There is still a need to reflect on this issue in order to design categories of discernment that do not display the inquisitional attitude of judging and that do not depreciate lower forms of spirituality. It is spirituality of the marginals that deserves to be taken seriously and as phenomena in their own right.
3.2 Ignatius and the others
Reflection on discernment cannot ignore the prominent figure and place of Ignatius. The position of Ignatius of Loyola in the field of discernment is still very strong. This is made clear by the fact that, over the past twenty years, 28 monographs alone were dedicated to the Ignatian approach of discernment. This is significant, given that it represents ten per cent of the publications that appeared in this period.
It is striking, though, that Ignatius has been losing his dominant position in research on discernment. Gradually, other figures have been studied, as is reflected in monographs on discernment on Origen, Cassian, Benedict, Evagrius of Pontus, Bernard of Clairveaux, Clara of Assisi, Bridget of Sweden, Catharine of Siena, Gerson, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Jonathan Edward, Pierre Favre, and others. Although the monographs on these authors do not match the 28 monographs in the Ignatian style, they make a significant contribution, because they opened up new perspectives. In doing so, they provide a new entry into the history of Christian spirituality.
In addition, it is noteworthy that the important theme of the origins of Christian discernment is now dealt with more adequately. In the time of the Dictionnaire, the entire Bible was analysed by one person only (Jacques Guillet). Over the past 20 years, nine monographs have been published, three of them more thematic in nature, the others focusing on texts. Various authors have now contributed with specialised studies on discernment.
The titles of the three thematic monographs reveal the more complex and specialised nature of the ongoing reflection on discernment. There is, first, a more general work on Authenticity: A biblical theology of discernment (Dubay 1997) and the Spanish work, Dos caminos: El discernimiento en Jesucristo (Randle 2003). Then there is a more focused work on Prophecy and discernment (Moberly 2006).
This thematic work is supplemented by six studies devoted to Biblical and Early Christian texts. The most encompassing study is the analysis by Elisabeth Hense, Frühchristliche Profilierungen der Spiritualitát: Unterscheidung der Geister in ausgewáhlten Schriften: Didache, Erster Clemensbrief, Barnabasbrief, Hirt des Hermas, Erster Johannesbrief, De Principiis und Vita Antonii, in which she traces discernment in a wider range of early Christian texts. Other studies deal with New Testament writings (Paul and the Synoptics), whereas two texts from the New Testament received special attention: 1 John 4 and 1 Corinthians 12 and 14.
From this overview of publications on discernment over the past two decades, one major conclusion can be drawn regarding future research. The bibliographical data from this period indicates that a more balanced picture of the tradition of discernment is available than was the case in earlier times. This more informed picture is, however, restricted to the period since the New Testament times. It remains striking that research on discernment in the Old Testament is still mainly lacking. In fact, it is so striking that it appears that discernment does not exist in Old Testament Scripture. This indicates a major area of research that requires more attention.
3.3 The community as subject and object of discernment
A third observation concerns the communal dimension of discernment. It was pointed out how, for a long time, discernment was regarded as an individual matter. It was mostly associated with spiritual direction and the challenge to an individual to examine and test his/her deeper motivations. This initial approach changed to a very large extent. Approximately 50 monographs of the past 20 years deal with the communal dimension of discernment. This is a notable development, especially since this represents almost twenty per cent of the publications that were considered for this essay. When this is compared with the situation almost six decades ago and the point of departure in the Dictionnaire de Spiritualité, this is really a breakthrough.
There is a further pattern to be noted in these studies. Some of them are focused on the community as medium in quo the discernment is performed. In this regard, the following five titles are indicative of the trend in this research: Guidelines for communal discernment (Curtiss 2008); Group spiritual direction: Community for discernment (Dougherty 1995); Grounded in God. Listening hearts: Discernment for group deliberations (Farnham, 1999); Communal wisdom: A practical guide for group discernment (Gallagher & Richardson, 2009), and Discerning God's will in community (Sparks, 2002). Such titles would have been inconceivable at the time of the Dictionnaire de Spiritualité. They further indicate that modern research on discernment is seeking a balance. This is confirmed by a publication by Martinez (2001), Discernimiento personaly communitario: Necessidad, claves, ejercicio, in which both personal and communal discernment is investigated.
Other studies on communal discernment, if not most of them, are related to processes of discernment in the church. In this instance, it is again notable how such studies are focused on discernment in Protestantism, particularly in reformed contexts. A good example of this trend is the work by Elfond (1999), We discern together: Group guidance in the Reformed tradition. In fact, in Protestantism in general, discernment has become an important issue. This happens, as the publications reveal, in faith communities of the Mennonites, the Quakers, the Lutheran Church, the Presbyterians, the Pentecostals, the Methodists and the Baptists.
The growing interest in discernment among Protestants, however, differs from group to group. Their interests vary. In some works, discernment is related to distinguishing truth and error. Once again the titles say it all: A call for discernment: Distinguishing truth from error in today's church (Adams 1998); Exposing witchcraft in the church (Godwin 1997), and God's trademarks: How to determine whether a message, ministry, or strategy is truly from God (Otis 2000). In these studies, the interest is oriented towards the difference between true and false. The basic feeling behind the need for discernment is that of uncertainty. In some instances, the notion of discernment is understood naively as being about judging. In this case, one could even sense an inquisition in waiting.
Other studies, however, reveal a distinctly more open attitude. In this instance, the interest is more hermeneutical, as the following titles reveal: Uncovering your church's hidden spirit (Hahn 2001); Discerning congregational identity and ministry (Howe 2002), and Equipping believers with a hermeneutical and theological foundation for exercising spiritual discernment (Langford 1994).
These publications reveal that they originated in times of transition. This awareness of living in such times is even reflected in a publication by Bassman entitled Discerning congregational calling in a time of rapid change (2007).
Finally, in these publications, discernment is understood as supporting the church in its reflection on the way forward and on its future. That discernment, which helps to discover the way of God in our time, is indicated in the study by Morris & Olsen entitled Discerning God's will together: A spiritual practice for the church (2001). Discernment thus has practical implications - it is about the process of decision-making, as Ortiz (2000) argues in his Discernment: A theological process in ecclesial decision-making, and about Selecting church leaders: A practice in spiritual discernment (Olsen & Morseth 2002).
This pattern with its various aspects alerts one to the broad scope of discernment. It is not only individual and communal in nature; it also has different functions within a communal setting. Future research needs to be aware of the need to open up this broad scope on discernment more fully. It should avoid focusing on regarding discernment merely as separating good from evil or simply as judgement. By taking a fresh look at this phenomenon and having an openness to its complexities, one can read the signs of the times without the stress of anxiety.
In this short reflection about recent publications, presented with broad strokes of the brush, almost too broad, it has become abundantly clear that there have been major developments in the reflection on discernment as a research topic. The brief and sketchy overview of the publications in the field over the past six decades confirms the large number of new perspectives that have been mooted. In many instances, simply noting the titles is already informative about these many perspectives.
This history challenges the researcher to continue thinking in a new way about discernment as a central issue in spirituality. More debate is, for example, needed about what discernment may be. More effort is needed to transcend some dichotomies which can no longer be seriously defended. This includes such dichotomies as separating discernment and discretion, the bible and philosophy, and the dichotomy between Ignatian and other traditions. In addition, the dualism of personal and communal ways of discernment, the uncritical schism between higher and lower forms of spirituality, and the opposition between judging and understanding are no longer tenable.
These dichotomies are not all differences "for the sake of heaven" and may well not endure. They may be useful to sharpen our sense for discernment. It could be that discernment opens up a hermeneutical dimension, thus helping to decipher complex situations and mixtures of power and freedom. Discernment is perhaps a process of listening and learning, seeking the golden mean which could establish itself in the midst of the spiritual community. Discernment may try to understand the way to God's destination, as Richard of Saint-Victor stated:
Discernment is knowing what is, in the light of what is possible from the perspective of God for whom nothing is impossible (Vandenbroucke 1957:1257).
All these dimensions are needed in the ongoing reflection on discernment as a key issue in spirituality.
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Dougherty, R. 1995. Group spiritual direction: Community for discernment. New York: Paulist Press. [ Links ]
Dubay, T. 1997. Authenticity: A biblical theology of discernment. San Francisco: Ignatius Press. [ Links ]
Elfond, C. 1999. "We discern together: group guidance in the Reformed tradition". Thesis (D Min). Washington, DC: Wesley Theological Seminary. [ Links ]
Farnham, S., Hull, S. & Mclean, R. 1999. Grounded in God: Listening hearts discernment for group deliberations. Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Pub. [ Links ]
Gallagher, Β. & Richardson, S. 2009. Communal wisdom: A practical guide for group discernment. Kensington, N.S.W.: Nelen Yubu Publications. [ Links ]
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Howe, Α. 2002. Discerning congregational identity and ministry. Thesis (D Min). Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. [ Links ]
Joynes, Α. 2001. Medieval ghost stories: An anthology of miracles, marvels and prodigies. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. [ Links ]
Langford, Α. 1994. Equipping believers with an hermeneutical and theological foundation for exercising spiritual discernment. Thesis (D Min). Fort Worth, TX: Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. [ Links ]
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Olsen, C. & Morseth, E. 2002. Selecting church leaders: A practice in spiritual discernment. Bethesda, MD: The Alban Institute. [ Links ]
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1 This article was originally presented as an introductory paper to a conference on Discernment in Spirituality and Biblical Spirituality held in Malta in May 2012. The intention was to introduce the participants to the most recent publications in the field and to explain some implications for further reflection on discernment. It does not wish to be comprehensive or exhaustive. The format of that presentation is retained in this article.


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Kris Lin-The Wave Real Estate Sales Centre
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Interview with Kris Lin : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Kris Lin : wave .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Kris Lin : The model of "WAVE" connects different space and functions in series. This enables the original untidy space become harmonious and united. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Kris Lin : The design was used in the projects. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Kris Lin : 20 days .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Kris Lin : This design was commissioned and also was that I decide to pursuit an inspiration. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Kris Lin : My design was used by another company. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Kris Lin : The client commission me and I also want to design a good work. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Kris Lin : Someone who want to buy the house or apartment and want to sale the house and apartment. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Kris Lin : This project is close to the scenic area Dongli Lake. Standing at the lakefront, the game of throwing little stones into the river is recalled that one stone causes thousands of layers of waves. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Kris Lin : CAD .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Kris Lin : The suspended ceiling, which is made in the shapes of waves, adopts the idea of "one stone causes thousands of layers of waves". .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Kris Lin : Jiayu Yang.Yes,I did. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Kris Lin : No,It isn't. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Kris Lin : In the original space, irregular pillar position and tube well, as well as asymmetric wall spaces make the space pattern look in disorder, which is also a difficult problem at the beginning of the design. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Kris Lin : I want to compet with more people in the international arena. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Kris Lin : This project is a Real Estate Sales Center. The owner is China Vanke Co., Ltd (the world's largest real estate company). .
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When Chee Kiong and Yan first mooted about asking me to do a pre-wedding shoot for them, I was really excited. After all, it was my first time doing pre-wedding photography and I didn't want to disappoint the couple. The day finally came when I traveled to Hulu Langat with them for a full day shoot back in the month of May. Being an inexperience photographer, it was certainly a good learning experience for me. Anyway, the couple requested me not to put up their pre-wedding pictures until their wedding day was over as they wanted to keep the photos as a surprise for their family and friends.
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