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In fact, the Panthers' (3-2, 1-1) only bus trip so far has been a one-mile ride to face cross-town rival Jefferson.
That changes this weekend as four of Jackson County's next five games are away from Panther Stadium.
Jackson County faces its first true road test Friday when it travels to Carnesville to take on Franklin County (1-3, 0-1) in another Region 8-AAA contest.
Panther coach Benji Harrison said playing away from home won't make that big of a difference.
"I really don't think it's a big deal," he said. "I really don't. I think because we have a lot of seniors, they know how to handle that kind of thing."
Jackson County will face a Franklin County squad that's coming off a 45-19 loss to Hart County.
The Lions are off to a 1-3 start under coach Tommy Welsh after a 6-5 campaign last year.
Welsh, in his fifth year at Franklin County, is a 21-year head coaching veteran with 129 coaching victories to his credit.
Harrison said he's known Welsh for a while and knows the kind of coach he is.
"He's a guy who's not going to do something to beat himself," he said. "He's going to be really fundamentally sound and try to play good defense and protect the ball on offense."
Offensively, the Lions operate out of the I-formation and set up their play-action passing game with a strong running attack. Harrison is wary of Lion quarterback Ben Cheek.
"He's as good of a thrower as I think we've seen all year," Harrison said.
Defensively, the Lions are very multiple but base out of a four-man front. Harrison said Franklin County's defensive line and outside linebackers are both very good.
"They're just a real sound football team," Harrison said.
This will be a homecoming of sorts for Harrison. He spent six seasons there as an assistant coach under former head coach Danny Durham.
"I know a lot of people there," Harrison said. "It will be the first time I've been back there to play. It will be fun … It will be kind of odd being on the other sideline but we're looking forward to it."
More than anything, this is a crucial Region 8-AAA game for Jackson County, which is coming off a 35-6 loss to North Oconee.
Winning this contest would put the Panthers back over .500 in region play and go a long way in helping Jackson County reach its goals.
"We want to get back to 2-1 and control our destiny," Harrison said. "We never want to get into a situation where we have to rely on someone else to beat someone else. This goes a long way as far as maintaining that."
Jackson County at Franklin County
•When: Friday, 7:30 p.m.
•Where: Ed Bryant Stadium, Franklin County
•Last year: N/A
•Records: Franklin County 1-3, 0-1; Jackson County 3-2, 1-1
•Franklin County's coach: Tommy Welch (21-24 at Franklin County, fifth season; 129-93-1 overall, 21st season)
•Jackson County's coach: Benji Harrison (3-2 at Jackson County, first year)
•Last week: Hart County 45, Franklin County 19; North Oconee 35, Jackson County 6
•Series: Franklin County leads 9-1
•What else: This is the first meeting between these schools since 2009. Franklin County won that meeting 42-7 ... Jackson County's lone win in this series came in 2001 (21-14) ... Franklin County suffered 10 consecutive non-winning seasons before going 6-5 last year ... Jackson County head coach Benji Harrison was an assistant coach at Franklin County ... This is Jackson County's first game outside Jackson County this season. Four of the Panthers' first five games were at home. The other was at Jefferson, which was a one-mile trip for the Panthers. Four of Jackson County's next five games are on the road.
•What the coach is saying: "What they feel good about is getting in the I (formation), running the ball and play action passing off it," Jackson County coach Benji Harrison said of Franklin County's offensive scheme.


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Arm & Hammer Animal Nutrition is focused more than ever on helping dairy producers successfully navigate the journey through the transition period, the most critical time in a dairy cow's life.
Key to this commitment is a new online information hub, www.transition.ahdairy.com, which ARM & HAMMER™ has developed to assist dairy producers and their advisors in plotting a better course through transition and overcoming or preventing potential roadblocks.
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Dairies spend a tremendous amount of time, attention and resources managing the transition period. The physiological changes and stresses surrounding calving can disrupt immune function and leave cows susceptible to a variety of disorders. In fact, researchers estimate that 30% to 50% of dairy cows are affected by some form of metabolic or infectious disease around the time of calving.1
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Cisco and NetApp: Build a Strong Foundation for Private Cloud with Flexpod for SAP Applications
Do I still need to introduce Flexpod, the integrated stack from Cisco, NetApp and VMware ? We wrote in this blog several times about this solution , which is obviously pretty successful.
NetApp, like EMC and HDS , is a very good partner of Cisco Data Center. That's why I strongly encourage you when going to Cisco Live next week in San Diego to visit NetApp booth (#826) , and attend the theater presentation (Tuesday 6:45 pm PST)dedicated to Flexpod on Cisco booth .
Of course Flexpod is not the only integrated stacks that Cisco is providing on the market –Vblock from VCE is another example. But we have reasons to believe that Flexpod is definitely a very good solution and approach for converged infrastructure and private cloud deployment in a mission critical application environment . Recently we wrote about Flexpod with Microsoft private cloud, and even more recently about Flexpod and Citrix desktop virtualization.
At SAPPHIRE 2012, I asked Cisco VP Server Access and Virtualization Satinder Sethi , and NetApp VP Thomas Stanley Global Alliances and System Integrators, to tell us what benefits this pre-integrated unified architecture is bringing to the SAP customers.
As a proof point of the business impact of Flexpod, I invite you to watch what Waltz executives have to say about the benefits of this solution.
Established in 1985, the Walz Group is a leading provider of critical communications and compliance solutions – This solution allow the IT organization to focus on improving products and services instead of infrastructure support.
As additional proof points, check also what Bert Odinet Vice President and Chief Information Officer, FreeportMcMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. and Matthias Krauss Service Architects Team Leader at BASF IT Services GmbH have to say about Flexpod deployment in a SAP environment.
To know more abour Flexpod for SAP Applications check here
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Friday, April 18, 2008
Custom widget adapters
Adapters are simple devices. On one side of the adapter is a data structure like a Java object storing data. SimpleAdapter handles Java objects that can be meaningfully translated into Strings by invoking the objects' toString() method (every Java object supports that but for quite many of them, the toString() format is not meaningful for the end user). On the other side of the adapter, there is a View that the data structure was transformed into. That View is displayed to the user. As we use Adapters to supports list views, the Adapter handles lists of Java objects (that are eventually transformed into a list of Views).
Android's built-in adapters are sufficiently versatile but it is often handy to create a custom adapter. Let's look at the following example.
You can download the example code from here.
The example is a simple weather display. A weather entry consists of 3 data items: name of the city (String), temperature in the city in degrees (integer) and an icon showing whether the sky is sunny, overcast or it is raining. The first two entries could be handled using SimpleAdapter but the third cannot: SimpleAdapter does not handle icons. Therefore we create our own adapter, called WeatherAdapter that takes list of Weather objects storing the weather info and turns that list into Views that can be rendered as list rows.
The most important part of the trick happens in a private class in WeatherAdapter.java called WeatherAdapterView. WeatherAdapter does nothing more than manages a list of WeatherAdapterViews. WeatherAdapterView is the View the Weather data object is mapped to. It is itself a composite View, composed by a LinearLayout. The LinearLayout is set up programmatically (as opposed to an XML layout) and contains two TextViews and one ImageView. The ImageView encapsulates the icon. It is worth checking how the icon images are referenced in Weather.java: as the icons are in the res/drawable directory, R.java has integer IDs for them. The getSkyResource() method in the Weather class just returns this resource ID based on the sky member variable of the Weather class.
23 comments:
- spinifu said...
Thanks very much for the code.I've used it to make a list with one more field than yours, and one icon as yours. But i'm getting this error which i cant fix up:
"List views can't have UNSPECIFIED size"
My activity is launched from other, but it never gets launched, before the layout shows up it gives me this error. I create my entries of the list dinamically, after the user presses some buttons. But i've commented the code that actually sets the customAdapter and the app won't work either way. Thanks for listening, cheers.
- August 15, 2008 at 1:11 AM
- LukeW said...
your sample i call it a view that consist with text and static images, i mean the image is static just in the drawable folder, my question is what about the dynamic image? how to handle it with a simpleCursorAdapter or a adapter extends simpleCursorAdapter? "dynamic" here means for example the contacts icon, which can get by id by People.loadContactPhoto function. but I need a structured cursor like this: row1: id, name, phoneNumber, icon.row2: id, name, phoneNumber, icon. than what should i do to get this cursorAdapter?
- December 12, 2008 at 10:18 AM
can't download zip file.
- March 9, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Hello, do you have any idea how the yellow pressed state and the black selected state can be cutomize?
- June 28, 2009 at 2:08 PM
- Gabor Paller said...
"Hello, do you have any idea how the yellow pressed state and the black selected state can be cutomize?"
The easiest way is to apply a theme. Sadly, the documentation is not the best, this is a very good introduction.
I also aim to provide an example, just some more days of patience, please ...
- June 29, 2009 at 10:04 PM
- Gabor Paller said...
- June 30, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Hi Gobler,
I have the same problem what LukeW had asked, can you please tell us how to handle dynamic contents, how to show them in a ListView?
I want to do the keyvalue kind of mapping in which I'll fetch name and it's id from database and show only name in the list. When any click happens on name, I want to get the id of the corresponding name.
Please reply.
- July 7, 2009 at 11:52 AM
- Gabor Paller said...
Hi, andnewb.
Are you looking for this one?
Note that the example program was created on a pre-1.0 SDK. It probably needs some massaging to run on today's SDK.
- July 7, 2009 at 3:33 PM
- Markus said...
I tried your code and it works fine. But I found a crazy problem. If a Button element is in the List, the list element is not more clickable. Only the button can be clicked.
Any idea how that could be?
Thanks for help and for the source code.
- October 20, 2009 at 11:06 AM
- Gabor Paller said...
Markus, does this help?
- October 27, 2009 at 12:50 PM
- Tavi said...
Now, that's the simplest, most to-the-point, extremely-useful piece of advice/code in the past two days and 10 Android tutorials :)
Thank you so much!
- February 8, 2010 at 12:13 AM
- Intosia said...
Thanks! Nice tutorial, looked everywhere for some nice tut, couldnt find what i needed!
- February 23, 2010 at 11:49 AM
Awesome - I was looking for something very similar to this and it works perfectly. You saved me a bunch of time - thanks!
- March 10, 2010 at 10:55 PM
Thanks so much :)
- April 20, 2010 at 11:35 AM
Man! I struggled for this for three days and finally you came to rescue with a ever-so simple code! Thanks a ton!
- July 23, 2010 at 6:32 AM
- windspinner gal said...
thanks for the sample. it was a nice thing that you shared it with the readers.
- August 4, 2010 at 5:52 AM
Great piece of informative code.
One question, how do you make the icons get pulled from a URL?
- August 18, 2010 at 5:18 PM
- Kiran Wali said...
This is very good post..
- November 17, 2010 at 10:12 AM
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- October 12, 2012 at 2:12 AM
- asyrofil afika fatta said...
thank you ..
your tutorials helpfull..
but the link is broken.. so i can't see your code.
- July 4, 2013 at 8:36 AM
- Gabor Paller said...
asyrofil, I could download well the example code from the link in the post.
This is the link.
- July 4, 2013 at 9:36 AM
- AC Connectors said...
I am really impressed after read this so thanks for sharing.
EV adapter
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Baylor remained No. 1 in The Associated Press women's basketball poll for a ninth straight week while Toledo entered the Top 25 for the first time since 2001.
The Lady Bears cruised to wins over Oklahoma and West Virginia and then won their 40th straight Big 12 regular-season game Monday night by beating Kansas State 90-68.
Brittney Griner scored a career-high 50 points in the game.
Baylor, which received all 40 first place votes for the second straight week, will play in the Big 12 tournament this weekend before hosting the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament.
No. 2 Notre Dame and No. 3 Connecticut also played Monday night for the Big East regular-season crown. The Irish rallied to win 96-87 in triple overtime.
Stanford and California are fourth and fifth. Duke fell one spot to sixth. Kentucky, Penn State, Tennessee and Maryland round out the first 10.
Toledo has won 14 straight and is No. 25. The Rockets were last ranked Nov. 19, 2001, for a week before falling out. LSU also jumped in at No. 22 after beating Kentucky, Alabama and Texas A&M over the past eight days.
Iowa State and Purdue dropped out.


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Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology
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Holistic counselling: Through the shadow to compassion
Steve Edwards
Patricia Sherwood (2012). Bunbury, Australia: Sophia Publications. ISBN: 978-0-9804044-2-5
This is not a conventional counseling book detailing ICD or DSM diagnostic schemas and cognitive behavioural therapeutic techniques. Instead, it clearly articulates its own original and descriptive, conceptual and diagnostic, expressive and therapeutic language. For example, light figure resources and/or archetypes such as Buddha, Christ, St Teresa or Mandela may be chosen by a client for use in vibrant energetic therapeutic sequences to transform pathologies existing in past life and/or cellular memories in the form of imprints, implants and discarnates (having no material body or form). Although such terms may be new for many conventional counselors, they may find them more descriptive, valuable, relevant and universally applicable than any others they have encountered to date.
The author, Dr Sherwood, is a well-known Australian academic who was one of the founders of the Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology. In addition to supervising doctoral students at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, Trish, as she is affectionately known, is also Director of Sophia College, supervising over 20 free community counselling services run by students and graduates of Sophia College's holistic counselling programmes in various regions in Australia and internationally. She has hosted many South African academics, professionals and students over the past fifteen years as well as having visited South Africa on National Research Foundation International Science and other Grants hosted by Zululand and Rhodes Universities in 2004, 2007 and 2012.
This second book on holistic counselling, a more in-depth sequel to Holistic Counselling: A New Vision for Mental Health (Sherwood, 2007a), is a culminating point in Dr Sherwood's training and counselling practice over the past twenty years. She is also the author of such literary gems as The Buddha is in the Street (2003), The Healing Art of Clay Therapy (2004), Search for your Self: Pathways to Personal Growth (2010), Infertility to Fertility: the Journey of the Psyche (2007b), Emotional Literacy: The Heart of the Classroom (2008) and Clay Therapy Healing Rwandan Genocide (2012). These books are typically based on over 20 000 personal or supervised student client cases that Dr Sherwood's has worked with as Sophia College Director or in her own busy clinical practice as a Mental Health accredited Social Worker specializing in trauma and abuse recovery, anxiety disorders and stress management.
In simple terms, the shadow is our other side. It has appeared in various guises, forms, states and stages throughout documented history. For example, as demons from Hades for Homer and Virgil, as a devil that tempted Buddha and Jesus Christ, as Dante's Inferno, and as Freud's destructive sexual and aggressive drives, culminating in human violence, appropriately recognized as basic cause of all illness. The shadow is called by its proper name by Jung, Wilber and other authors. Moreover, it has many other names, such as evil, sorcery and witchcraft, all of which are manifestations of intentionality, a core notion of Buddhism, which is deeply understood by Dr Sherwood and forms one of the underlying frameworks for this book.
In Hindu philosophy, the distinction is made between guru and pandit, or counselor and teacher, and this distinction may be invoked to describe the relatively distinct approaches of Carl Jung and Ken Wilber with regard to the phenomenology and function of the shadow. Encouraged by her ongoing research, teaching and community counselling commitments, Sherwood's text manages to combine many of the oceans and streams, wetness and water molecules of the theoretical and practical approaches of both the guru and the pandit, which makes this book unique indeed. Hopefully, this brief review will provide some taste of this for the reader.
Sherwood (2012, p. 178-179) quoted Jung as follows: "Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual conscious life the blacker and denser it is." Another Jungian (cited in Sherwood, 2012, p. 178-179) quote follows: "The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole-ego-personality, for no-one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge."
Wilber's (2000) integral approach involves the integration of what have been described as typically illusory human dualisms, ranging from ego-shadow through self-other and life-death, body-mind and ego-shadow polarities. For Wilber (2000), shadow work thus typically involves "the dark night of the soul" (p. 209) as the self sheds old unwanted painful coils, transcending and including older more limiting structures on the way to a new stage in an ongoing whole making, developmental and evolutionary process. This implies the evolution of consciousness from a confused, shallower, lower, relatively undifferentiated intra-psychic self as well as the involution of higher or deeper levels of consciousness from a pre-existing, greater, spiritual self.
Sherwood's text brings further integral praxis. While the shadow is viewed as representing all that we are unaware of, or dislike about our worst self, its polar opposite and antidote, compassion, is an ideal quality of our greatest self. All holistic and/or integral psychotherapists must struggle to enlighten and transform those shadowy, dark reflected realms in their personal and transpersonal consciousness as well as in the consciousness of their clients. Sherwood's (2012) book provides in-depth insight into this perennial, healing journey from darkness to light, illness to health, fractured states and stages of consciousness to wholeness, health, integrity and compassion, that great "redeemer of the shadow in ourselves and others" (p. 2).
Although similar in structure, this second, holistic counseling text has deeper, broader, individual and community, perennial and universal counselling implications than its predecessor. It comprises a compendium of approaches, methods, techniques and sequences to identify, assess and heal shadow states of pride, jealousy, revenge, hatred, injustice, cruelty and greed, as respectively associated with the regions of the brain, eyes, lungs, heart, kidneys, reproductive and eliminatory organs for which antidotes of humility, empathy, forgiveness, love, justice, creativity and generosity are required. These regions correspond with those of chakra and other energetic healing systems.
Sherwood (2012) described her counselling model as holistic because, among other reasons, it incorporates the inextricable connection between body and mind which was recognized by the Buddha some 2500 years ago with special reference to the role of breath as primary mediator and, as noted by Sherwood, the primary determinant of how we store our experience. Consequently, as was the case in its predecessor (Sherwood, 2007a), breath plays a fundamental role throughout this second holistic counselling text, both with regard to its underlying philosophy as well as its detailed therapeutic intervention sequences.
The first introductory chapter titled "Transforming the Shadow to Compassion" provides an overview of the essential theme of compassion, of phenomenology as the main approach, of Rudolf Steiner's model, which provides the main theoretical underpinning, and of Sherwood's unique form of holistic counselling as the main method. Sherwood (2012) described phenomenology as the "ideal methodology for the exploration of shadow experiences because it is particularly suited for researching the meeting between senses (material world) and soul (the immaterial human experience). It is in this place of the marriage between bodily sensing and soul life, that the holistic model has been developed to uncover human inner experience (p. 12).
Steiner's anthroposophical model of a human being integrates spirit into the body-mind model of the somatic psychotherapies. Nine-fold spirit-soul-body conceptual perspectives and fourfold physical, etheric, astral, "I am/I AM" energetic perspectives are distinguished. For example, the rhythmic, vibrating, dynamics of the etheric and astral create patterns which eventually leave imprints in the physical body, which becomes a map for inner experience, and although memory of such imprints may become fainter, the imprints themselves seem to vibrate as strongly as they did when they first occurred. Thus, in addition to breath, Sherwood (2012) has found that "consciousness can better access the imprints when equipped with non-verbal modes of expression which include sensing, gesturing, visualizing moving andsounding" (p. 18).
As a document, the book adopts a similar format to the first holistic counselling text. Each chapter begins with an illustration and an accompanying vignette that sets the scene for the rest of the chapter and grounds the detailed therapeutic counselling techniques that follow. Illustrations are typically classical. For example, the illustration for Chapter 1 is Bellini's sculpture of the rape of Persephone by Hades. The accompanying vignette tells the classical story of Persephone's abduction to the underworld and her rescue by her mother, Demeter, and Adonis, representative of universal love. Other chapter illustrations include Demeter, Joan of Arc, Isis, Midas, Christ, Adam and Eve with Cane and Able, and the rising phoenix to represent such shadow states as pride, jealousy, revenge, hatred, injustice, cruelty and greed.
In addition to illustrations that introduce chapters, there are other colored illustrations of energetic shadow imprints, implants and discarnates, accompanied by detailed descriptions of intervention sequences for specific shadow states. Non-verbal languages of breathing, sensing, gesturing, visualizing and sounding are used to facilitate the expression and transformation of shadow experiences. For example, a general, typical sequence involves sensing the imprinted shadow, then drawing or sculpting the exact shape of the breath constriction associated with the particular shadow state. This facilitates full experiencing, insight into, release of, and/or liberation from the original organic tensile felt sense and negative energetic vibrations of the shadow state, as well as its full integration into the self and consequent flourishing health and wellbeing.
This is simply one example of a therapeutic sequence, in which the book abounds. Some forty expressive, gestalt therapeutic techniques are identified throughout the book to deal with different manifestations of shadow states. These include finding the perpetrator through gesture, self-forgiveness, past life review, dialogue between shadow and its antidote, calling back missing soul parts and returning other soul parts to the light, curse dissolution, identifying the double, dissolving deals between doubles and doubles, dissolving attachments to dark beings occupying the client's "I" position, realigning the heart with the light, releasing nature spirits, elementals and devas and protecting light workers.
As in the first holistic counselling book, artistic mediums valuable for differential trauma manifestations to physical, etheric, astral, contracted and expanded "I"s, such as architecture, sculpture, painting, music and poetry, are combined with the therapeutic effects of different colours, working with clay, drama, dance and various other physical activities. The essential expressive process involves a dramatic enter-exit-behold (EEB) sequence. When ready, clients are encouraged to step into the imagined traumatic space, re-experience the breath constriction, gestures and sounds associated with the most recent traumatic experience, step back, describe and gesture the breath block and sound associated with the trauma, then gain perspective on the experience through drawings, movements such as 'shake it off', and verbal descriptions of qualities lost in order to replace these with new healing energetic patterns, experiences, qualities, resources, skills, competencies, stories and relationships over time.
A similar sequence is enacted for each successive past traumatic experience until the original imprint, implant or discarnate is removed. Therapeutic creativity is dependent on careful listening, observation and empathic intuiting of the client descriptions of their problems and the solutions needed. A special advantage of the model is its immediate propensity for non-verbal expression as well as pre-testing and post-testing with drawings and or sculptures to leave clear audit trails and an empirical evidence base for future counselling and research.
The holistic model and therapeutic sequences especially require great empathy and clinical skill in client management for clients with severe disorders, in order to provide alternative resources for clients, both psychotic and non-psychotic, who experience encounters with discarnates, or spiritual entities not experienced as part of the psyche. For example, in the case of a psychotic episode this may mean practice in strengthening with alternative resources, before assisting the client to give up maladaptive delusions or hallucinations. If the client has not yet had a psychotic episode, the discarnate, hallucination and/or delusion, typically unconscious or experienced as a foreign part of the self, may be reintegrated into consciousness. This may require even greater care and skill.
Outstanding in its applicability for counselling theory and practice, the text is also written in beautiful, metaphorical language, as for example, the following descriptions of bitterness on the one hand and compassion on the other demonstrate: "When feeling dominates in a person, they are most likely to go to despair and desperation. When the willing attribute dominates in an individual, they are most likely to go to bitterness and revenge. Bitterness is the child of the marriage of despair and hatred who wears the clothes of revenge" (p. 33) ... "Until we have grasped the scientific and spiritual realities of interconnectedness, the foundation of the building of compassion cannot be laid" (p. 242).
The book has shining integrity in keeping with its holistic approach and philosophy. Aspects of the shadow that appear in some of the client experiences, and typically surface in depth psychotherapy, that could have been more explicitly covered are those generally suppressed, shadowy, opposite gender experiences that Jung refers to as the anima in men and animus in women. These aspects, typically revealed in manly gentleness and womanly assertiveness, if suppressed by a client's social conventional world, are very valuable general resources to be encouraged in psychotherapy. Although these aspects are relatively neglected, this text is outstanding in its "return to the light" resource sequences, which called to mind the beautiful saying by Marianne Williamson (1992, p. 190) as famously quoted by Nelson Mandela:
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
As was its predecessor, this is a resource book for the future. A review such as this can only sketch some aspects of the work. In itself, the book requests and deserves repeated reading and recommendation. Although complete as a living work of art and social science that stands on its own foundations, the book is also a work in progress. This book was written as an essential resource for student counselors, thus other criticisms of the present text that need to be stated are that there are still too many minor linguistic and referencing errors as well as no detailed index at the back of the book. Although the 40 sequences mentioned are helpful, when further editions of the book appear, the author and editors should include a full cross-referencing index for student usage and general reader friendliness.
Finally, it seems fitting to allow Dr Sherwood (2012) to speak for herself, again in her own inimitable style in summarizing the core theme of this excellent book:
Intentionality is the creator of shadow states and by implication the focal point that can best unravel these states. By dissolving intentions that sustain greed, hatred, cruelty, pride, injustice and revenge in whatever myriad of forms that have been created, the energetic space of this contaminated will energy, bound by unskillful thinking without feeling is cleared. In this new cleared space, the heart can breathe again and compassion can be reborn ... (p. 246).
The book concludes with an apposite quote from Thich Nhat Hanh (cited in Sherwood, 2012, p. 248):
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
Other valuable information, books and resources may be accessed through the Sophia College website:
Referencing Format
Edwards, S. (2013). Holistic counselling: Through the shadow to compassion [Review of the book Holistic counselling: Through the shadow to compassion]. Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 13(2), 5pp. doi: 10.2989/IPJP.2013.13.2.7.1194
Sherwood, P. M. (2003). The Buddha is in the street. Bunbury, Australia: Edith Cowan University. [ Links ]
Sherwood, P. M. (2004). The healing art of clay therapy. Melbourne, Australia: Acer Press. [ Links ]
Sherwood, P. M. (2007a). Holistic counselling: A new vision for mental health. Bunbury, Australia: Sophia Publications. [ Links ]
Sherwood, P. M. (2007b). Infertility to fertility: The journey of the psyche. Bunbury, Australia: Sophia Publications. [ Links ]
Sherwood, P. M. (2008). Emotional literacy: The heart of classroom management. Melbourne, Australia: Acer Press. [ Links ]
Sherwood, P. M. (2010). Search for your self: Pathways to personal growth. Edinburgh, Scotland: Floris Books. [ Links ]
Sherwood, P. M., & O'Meara, K. (2012). Clay therapy healing Rwandan genocide. Bunbury, Australia: Sophia Publications [ Links ]
Wilber, K. (2000). Integral psychology. Boston, MA: Shambhala. [ Links ]
Williamson, M. (1992). A Return to Love: Reflections on the principles of a course in miracles. New York, NY: HarperCollins. [ Links ]
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Loatheb used to be pretty ridiculous. Everyone in the raid needed to have shadow protection potions, bandages, healthstones, the things from felwood and needed to be totally stacked with consumables (this was back when you could have multiple elixirs and flasks and food buffs all at the same time). In addition to the huge consumable farming requirements, you would also commonly see guilds collecting world buffs (Onyxia and Nefarion head, Hakkar's heart, Dire Maul North buffs, etc.) to get their first kill. The current version is not a pushover by any means, but he is nowhere near as difficult as he used to be.
The major challenge in the fight comes from the healer side of things and it is a pretty unique challenge. The boss periodically puts a debuff on the raid called Impending Doom that does a bunch of shadow damage when it runs its course. It can't be dispelled or resisted, you just have to eat the damage. But the twist is that your healers can't just heal up the raid damage like they would in any other fight because Loatheb has an aura that is active 17 out of every 20 seconds that reduces all healing effects by 100%. The level 60 version was slightly different in that if you cast a healing spell, all of your healing spells would go onto a 1 minute cooldown. With the number aoe heals available to the raid these days, its not terribly hard to get the raid healed up after an impending doom so its not necessary to have the raid stocked with consumables to heal themselves and/or absorb the damage. The other part of the fight is the spores. From the 4 corners of the room, spores spawn and they float toward Loatheb kinda like the power sparks in the Malygos encounter – when you kill a spore, the 5 closest gain a "debuff" called Fungal Creep that increases your crit by 50% and reduces threat generated by 100% and lasts 90 seconds (I think). You will want to have the groups in your raid cycle through so that everyone gets the debuff.
The fight used to be a huge DPS race. Healing classes didn't have nearly as many AoE heals and since each healer could only use one healing spell per minute, it usually went to the tank so the fight was all about killing the boss before he killed the raid with Impending Doom damage when bandages, healthstones, and shadow protection potions were all on cooldown. Since you had 40 people, you needed a strict rotation to pick up the spore buffs so that everyone would have it as much as possible and even the tank would want to pick it up once he established a threat lead for a little bit more damage. Now, its nowhere near as strenuous. As the tank, you can pick up the debuff if you want, just keep an eye on Omen because hunter pets might creep up on you while your threat generation is zero.
Healing can still be tough if your healers aren't paying attention and you might have a few people die along the way, but its not a huge problem because afaik there isn't an enrage timer so the boss will die eventually (I think there is a video on youtube of a prot warrior and a holy pally 2-manning the encounter over the course of 3 hours). One thing I know our resto druids like to do on this fight is to put up a Regrowth on as many people as possible, even though it does zero healing while the necrotic aura is up, so that when the aura goes down they can hit wild growth and get a huge burst of aoe healing during the 3 second window. The other healers will time their casts so that the moment the aura goes down, their cast finishes so they can squeeze 2 or 3 heals into that 3 second window.


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What would you do if you weren't afraid?
As Gloria Steinem observed, "Whoever has power takes over the noun — and the norm — while the less powerful get an adjective." Since no one wants to be perceived as less powerful, a lot of women reject the gender identification and insist, "I don't see myself as a woman; I see myself as a novelist/athlete/professional/fill-in-the-blank." They are right to do so. No one wants her achievements modified. We all just want to be the noun. —Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In
Today I was reminded, albeit in a roundabout way, that I am a changed woman. Gone are the days of swallowing voice, of sitting on the fringe, of not settling for anything less than extraordinary.
In 1997, I was one of the very few women accepted into the Chase Global Bank program, an MBA in miniature. It was implicit that acceptance ensured you were recruited by the top investment banks — Morgan, Goldman, Lehman. There were rumors on the Street that the Glass-Steagall Act would soon be repealed, and a merchant banking background was considered lucrative since future profitability was predicated on managing and understanding all phases of the deal process. While I found gender parity in college, where I majored in Finance and Marketing, the program was an old boys' club — you were rarely the girl they studied with; rather, you were the girl they slept with. This was a time when women had their choice of three colored suits: navy blue, black, or a very somber burgundy. Skirts always cut at the knee, hose were required, and makeup was kept to a minimum. One had to look the part of a lady without drawing too much attention to the fact that one was a lady.
All of these rules started to annoy me to no end.
From birth I was a woman who would never take no for an answer. A woman who would not bend to bias or bullshit. After the nine-month program came to a close, I graduated number three in a class of ninety, was recruited by Morgan Stanley, and won approval from the boys. Until I stepped into the WASP-y hallways of Morgan Stanley, where Managing Directors routinely slept with Associates and it was commonplace for a man to rest his hand on a woman's thigh, inching up. Although I managed to artfully dodge sexual overtures (save the one time my belligerent, married boss asked for my virginity after a night of client entertainment), I felt protective of the women who didn't want to make waves, who just wanted to blend in. Our generation of women banded together against the boys and the older women who seemed determined to press their expensive heels down on our heads. After threatening a coworker with genital mutilation should he inch his hand up another thigh, I was labeled the difficult one. The smart one with the big mouth. I lasted two years at Morgan before I would trash my suits, enroll in Columbia's MFA program, and start a job at a burgeoning luxury goods dot.com.
Whether I was working at a luxury company that went bust, a Fortune 500 cable giant, or a publishing mecca, men have always been my champions, while women were the ones to be feared. My whip-smart, ambitious, collaborative generation — one that didn't trade on their sex, dole out favors, or accept fingers inching up the thigh — served as a threat to the old guard rather than a triumph. I repeatedly endured catty queen bees and ladies who rumor at lunch. Frustrated, I longed for a professional mentor who was maternal, smart, strong, and supportive. I wanted to learn from a woman who led with confidence, who understood that one shines not because she desires to glare but because she allows others to ferret out her greatness. As I shifted into my thirties, I was determined to be this woman. Maybe it was because my mother was such a heartbreaking disappointment, but I felt a maternal instinct that was not one of procreation, but of cultivating and grooming strong, passionate young women in the workplace.
In 2010, I was given the extraordinary opportunity to manage 22 accounts and oversee a team of 19 women at social media marketing agency. To say that the challenge was overwhelming was an understatement, but perhaps the most gratifying part of my job — beyond growing topline revenue, diversifying my portfolio, and implementing innovation and efficiency — was the impact I had on a team of mostly millennial women. When it came to salary negotiation, I taught them to fight for what they deserved. While I encouraged them to bind together as a team, I also made them celebrate their individual strengths. From the straight-out-of-college associate to the seasoned director, every team member had a voice, and I taught them how to shout. I made them sit at the table. I told them they were equal to any man in the room.
In 2011, when my two male bosses, my great champions, elevated me to partner status, there was a fever in the office. At the time, the agency employed a considerable amount of women, but I was the first to hold peer status in executive leadership; I now owned a percentage of the company. When my partnership was announced and I had to stand up and talk about my new role, my voice shook and my body was nerve-wracked. But then the thunderous applause. All the women I'd supported were my mentors; they buoyed me, proud that I'd earned this role because of my talent, ambition, confidence and compassion. When I look at my life, I can say with certainty that that day was one worth photographing. One worth remembering, always.
Recently I learned of a staggering statistic: 3% of executive positions in agencies are held by women. Hearing this coincided with my resignation, and as I made the rounds of catch-ups and lunches, some women joked, your leaving changes that number. Those words resonated with me over the past two months as I've been thinking about the things I carry. I think about my ability to see the world differently and write about it in the most magical of ways. I think about how I've been in a passionate, lifelong affair with food. And then I think about that day when I made partner, and I was proud that I had the power to lift other women up.
Today I spent the day with my best friend, a great woman with a heart that could blanket an ocean. A patient mother of two children, a devoted wife, a fantastic cook, a brilliant contract lawyer in a Fortune 500 company — she reminds me of our capacity to be fearless. Imagine what we could do if we knew we couldn't fail? Some would have children, run a home, and find flexibility in a career they love. Others would break ranks and find their love in their work, their art, and in mentoring all of their adopted children in the office. Barefoot, we'd run through the garden at night. We'd get our feet wet; we'd tumble, we'd fall and skin our knees in the gloaming. But here's the thing — we'd get up and keep running. Keep at it until the sun stretches across the horizon.
Today my friend reminded me of the greatness in myself, and slowly my next chapter begins to write itself. I'm meant to lead. I'm meant to buoy great women. I'm meant to run, run, run wild.


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When the Panthers recently announced a deal with Charlotte that would keep in the team in town for 15 years in exchange for $143.75 million in public money for renovations at the team's stadium, there was a sense of finality to the situation.
The finish line, however, remains miles away.
As explained by Erik Spanberg of the Charlotte Business Journal, Panthers president Danny Morrison told the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce's board of directors that the effort to put the deal in place is "a process."
Indeed it is. Regardless of any agreements reached with the city, using public money is a more complex endeavor, especially when the package includes money from the state's coffers. The Legislature eventually will must approve of the plan.
In this specific case, the fact that an increase in the local restaurant and hotel tax will generate far more money than the renovations will require creates a political playground for pet projects that would be funded by the excess. Moreover, the red states remain lukewarm when it comes to using public money for anything, especially when the proposed recipients already are billionaires.
So the deal won't be done until it's done. And until it's done the Panthers won't be tied to Charlotte for another 15 years.


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Virunga National Park is a World Heritage Site in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DCR) that contains the greatest diversity of habitats of any park in Africa: from steppes, savannas and lava plains, swamps, lowland and montane forests to volcanoes and the unique giant herbs and snowfields of Ruwenzori over 5,000 meters (m) high. Known for its mountain gorillas, it also shelters some 20,000 hippopotamuses and birds from Siberia spend the winter there.
The park is managed by the Congolese National Park Authorities, the Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature (ICCN) and receives vital funding from the European Union. The park was established in 1929 as an extension of the Albert National Park, the first park in Africa. In 1996 it became a Ramsar site and was insribed on the World Heritage List in 1979. In 1994, it was put on the World Heritage in Danger List due to vast numbers of war refugees and subsequent massive poaching, deforestation and degradation.
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The Virunga National Park (formerly Albert National Park) lies from the Virunga Mountains, to the Rwenzori Mountains, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, bordering Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda and Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda. It is 7,800 square kilometres (3,000 sq mi).
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Originally a vast forest refuge for innumerable species, the region was largely deforested during the 20th century. The Park borders several biogeographical zones and covers three major habitat types: open grassland, closed forest and humid montane. Within these it protects a very wide variety of habitats. 1,938 species have been recorded.
The open land habitats grade from steppe to savanna to swamp, the result of low rainfall, soil type, grazing and fire.Forest habitats grade from thickets to dense forests. Montane habitats grade from transitional foothill forest to alpine zones.
Before the civil war some of the largest wild animal concentrations in Africa lived in the grasslands along the rivers of the park. There were some 200 species of mammals in the park, 23 of them threatened. The savannas support elephant in the southern plains, hippopotamus, (essentially decimated by late 1996), buffalo, numerous antelope and Defassa waterbuck , warthog and various monkeys. Leopards are widespread though few and little seen, but lions may have increased in numbers.
Mountain gorillas live on the slopes of the Virungas. Out of a total mountain gorilla population of 630 animals, about 140 were recorded there in 1980 and 279 in 1986. But between 1989 and 2001 their numbers increased from 320 to 355 owing to efficient patrolling. Eastern lowland gorillas Gorilla live on Mount Tshiaberimu northwest of the lake and in the Semliki valley forests, threatened by illegal farmers and tree fellers. Other uncommon animals are an isolated population of 30-40 chimpanzees in the southern lava field forest of Tongo, and in the north, a small relict population of okapi, topi, forest hog and bongo. There is also three species of pangolin aardvark.
The bird population is very diverse with over 800 species, 24 being endemic to the Virungas. The wetlands include herons, ibisis, egrets, bitterns, duck, geese, darters, cormorants, skimmers, shoebills, openbills, ospreys, gulls, francolins, warblers and weavers and there are large numbers of pelicans on the lower Rutshuru river. The papyrus yellow warbler may exist in the far north. Rare birds in the volcanic highlands are Grauer's swamp warbler in highland swamps, and Rockefellers sunbird in bamboo, forest and heath stream thickets; in the Ruwenzori mountain forests, Shelley's crimsonwing and Stuhlmann's doublecollared sunbird in the bamboo and alpine zones. Notable mountain forest birds are the Rwenzori turaco, Musophaga johnstoni and the handsome francolin; also the forest ground thrush and the shoebill.
Lake Edward (Rutanzige) which is shallow, has an impoverished fish fauna, but many cichlid species, and quite a rich invertebrate fauna. Recently crocodiles have returned to the upper Semliki river. The monitor lizard and snakes are common including python, puff adder, blacknecked cobra, and green mamba.
Threats: The Park was placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 1994 after civil war in Rwanda and the influx of 1.5 - 2 million refugees into Kivu province. This led to massive uncontrollable poaching and deforestation: 9,000 hippopotamus were killed; fuelwood cut for refugee camps was estimated at 600 metric tons/day, depleting and erasing the lowland forests. Most of the staff were unpaid and lacked means to patrol the 650 kilometer (km) -long boundary. The north and center of the park were successively abandoned; many guards were killed. Protective soldiery also turned to poaching. The fishing village near Lake Edward (Rutanzige) grew to threaten the integrity of the Park. Most of the gorillas living higher up the mountains have survived but tourism ceased. The park has become a threatened island in a sea of subsistence cultivation.In 1996, the World Heritage Committee recognized that major effort would be needed for at least ten years after this tragedy to rehabilitate and restore management of the Park and regain local support for its conservation. The UNHCR and other agencies in charge of refugee camps sited within and on the edges of Virunga were contacted and the government informed of the Committee's wish to help the IUCN and world institutions by providing training and technical assistance to deal with the threats to the park.


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|A homemade bundt cake made with bananas and maple with a swirl of nut praline in the center.
Banana Maple Bundt CakeToday I needed to use up some overripe bananas. Though I made a few minor changes, this recipe originated from the Baking Delights website (though it is no longer on the site) and was delish! Flavor-wise, it's basically a light and fluffy banana cake, but with an elegant twist! I think I let mine go a bit too long so, don't do that!
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Recipe: Banana Maple Bundt Cake©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 15 min |Cook time: 1 hour | Yield: About 12 servings
For the Walnut Praline:
- 1/4 cup of unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup of light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts or pecans
For the Cake:
- 3 cups of all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons of baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) of unsalted butter
- 1-1/3 cups of granulated sugar
- 2/3 cup of light brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon of maple extract
- 2 large eggs
- 4 ripe bananas, mashed
- 1 cup of sour cream
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a large bundt pan. For the swirl, melt butter and brown sugar in a sauce pan stirring until smooth and blended. Add walnuts, remove from heat and let cool. Blend dry ingredients together in a bowl and set aside. Toss the nuts in a tablespoon of the flour.
Using the paddle attachment on an electric mixer beat butter until creamy. Add the sugars and beat until fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time beating a minute or so between each. Scrape down sides, add the vanilla and maple extracts and stir together. Reduce speed to lowest setting and beat in the bananas. Add half of the dry ingredients, then the sour cream and blend well. Add remaining flour mixture.
Pour about 3/4's of the batter into the bundt pan, top with praline mixture, and using a knife, swirl mixture gently into the batter. Top with remaining batter, and bake at 350 degrees F for about 1 hour or until a pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool in the pan for ten minutes in the pan, turn the pan out onto a plate and allow to cool completely.
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They're knocking on doors, shaking hands with residents, holding forums and making phone calls.
The candidates for mayor and the District 1 Cape Coral City Council seat are making that one last push before the Sept. 10 primary - as well as the early voting which begins Saturday - in hopes that enough people will vote for them so they can advance to the general election on Nov. 5.
But the question isn't so much if kissing babies will make a resident vote for them, but maybe if kissing babies will get that resident to vote at all.
Voter participation in local elections has been miniscule. Only 11 percent of registered voters voted in the 2011 city primary, and only 16 percent bothered to vote in the general election.
That hasn't stopped the candidates from making their rounds, attending meetings and pitching their platforms.
Dan Ashby, 43, a 10-year resident who works for Hertz, said he was ready for the primary in his quest for mayor.
"The campaign has gone well, it's been awesome meeting and talking to all the citizens and getting their views," Ashby said. "It's been a humbling experience speaking with those folks."
Jim Burch, 62, a consultant and a 21-year Cape resident, who previously served as a council member as well as mayor, is doing things differently in his quest for the District 1 seat. He's taking old campaign signs and reusing them for this campaign, understanding not many people have extra money.
"We've been talking to some businesses and looking at putting a few signs up. I'm not trying to press people for money," Burch said. "We're trying to manage our campaign the same way we manage our city, with as little cost as we can."
Steven Golub, 60, an eight-year resident who works as a teacher, is also running in District 1. He said he is also ready, and is in touch with how the residents feel about the way city government handles things.
"My goal was to run against the good-ol' boys and the utilities program. There are too many unanswered questions," Golub said. "This is exactly what I'm running against."
The calendar is dwindling down to the last few days, starting with city forums held Thursday and tonight at 7 p.m. at City Hall and going all through a week from Tuesday.
For the candidates, their approach isn't going to change much.
Marni Sawicki, 43, a four-year resident who works in marketing, said the only difference will be that she will ramp up the intensity in her drive for mayor.
"We're into the home stretch, so we're really focusing on the undecided voters," Sawicki said.
Fellow mayoral candidate A.J. Boyd, 46, a 20-year Cape resident who works in real estate, said his plan is simple; to get out and meet as many people as possible, especially those who came after his previous governmental stint as a Cape council member.
"There are those who didn't meet me in my nine years on council. I want to meet those people and spread the word about getting Cape Coral back on track," Boyd said.
Graham Morris, 28, an eight-year resident who is a student, is also running in District 1. He said he will do some last-minute things, such as launch a Web site and hold fundraisers to get that 11th-hour push.
"I'm hoping to get a concert fundraiser going. I'm going to go out and use every opportunity I can to get past this primary," Morris said.
Of course, the candidates want to get residents to vote for them, whether they actually will may be another story. While the candidates don't agree on everything, they all said it was important to get out and utilize their right.
That right is especially important to mayoral candidate Vincent Cummings, 41, a military chaplain who was born and raised in Cape Coral. Having been in the military overseas and serving his country, he believes to do otherwise is not an option.
"When you choose not to vote, you're giving your input in public policy making to someone else. In the end, a minority elect the leaders to make the laws," Cummings said. "Being a veteran, it's embarrassing that those who have sacrificed everything for our freedom."
The incumbent, Mayor John Sullivan, 70, an eight-year resident who has championed many causes for military veterans, said 100 percent of registered voters should vote 100 percent of the time.
"They should be involved with the government. Many people made many sacrifices to give them the opportunity to select the government leaders," Sullivan said. "It's a crying shame people don't get out and exercise that right. Many people gave their lives for us to get out and vote."
Mayoral candidate, David Carr, 46, a resident since 2004, said if you don't use your right to vote, you have no right to complain, which is why he always tell people to get out and vote in every campaign stop he makes.
"There are a lot of things I don't think are right in the city, and I'd like to see a lot more people vote. I don't care if they vote for me, I just want to see them vote," Carr said.
David Headd, 72, a real estate professional and 25-year resident, running in District 1, said it's sad, but the reality is that the city should be pleased if 20 percent go to the polls, and offered a solution.
"If you don't participate, you don't have the right to complain if taxes are put through you don't like," Headd said. "I'm hoping the last election debacle that a lot of people will do a mail-in ballot, which is easier to do and might raise the percentage."
Early voting will take place from Saturday, Aug. 31, and Tuesday, Sept. 3, to Saturday, Sept. 7. Offices are open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday. Offices will be closed Sunday and Monday for Labor Day.
Early voting will take place at the Constitutional Complex at 2480 Thompson St. in Fort Myers on the 3rd floor, as well as at their Cape Coral office at 1031 SE 9th Place, behind the Lee County Government Building.
You can still call for an absentee ballot, but the deadline is Wednesday, Sept. 4, said Sharon Harrington, supervisor of Lee County Elections.
On election day, the polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and everyone should go to their normal precincts throughout town.
Every registered voter gets to vote in every race on the ballot in both the primary and the general election: City council races are non-partisan, and all council members are elected citywide although officials must live in the district they represent.


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YORK, PA – Senior Tim Hartung (Mohnton, Pa./Governor Mifflin) made his final home cross country meet a memorable one as the Spartans' All-American won the Rich Achtzehn Classic on Saturday at John Rudy Park in York. The Spartans finished second as a team, finishing ten points back of team champion Franklin & Marshall.
The Spartans accumulated 48 points to easily outdistance third place St. Mary's while Howard Community College placed fourth followed by Hagerstown in fifth.
The victory at the Classic is Hartung's first win in the event. He finished fifth as a freshman, second as a sophomore, and fifth as a junior. He cruised to the win in a time of 27:02.17, winning the event by over 12 seconds.
Junior Michael Stetson (Old Bridge, N.J./Old Bridge) ran a smart race as he placed 11th with a time of 27:34.91. Freshman Matt Hayes (Drexel Hill, Pa./Cardinal O'Hara) also ran well for York as he placed 14th with a time of 27:38.53. The trio of Craig Eppler (Bethlehem, Pa./Northampton), Wil Murray (Cape May Courthouse, N.J./Middle Township), and Aaron Robertson (Mohnton, Pa./Governor Mifflin) finished 16th, 17th, and 18th to give York a great pack effort. Eppler ran the race in a time of 27:41.98 while Murray finished just under two seconds later. Robertson notched a time of 27:53.34.
Junior Connor Simpson (Warminster, Pa./William Tennent) placed 21st with a finish of 27:59.11 while freshman James Gonzales (Baltimore, Md./Dundalk) was the eight Spartan finisher as he clocked a 25th place finish for York.
First year head coach Stephen LoBianco was happy with the performance of his guys.
"Overall the guys were able to work as a pack the first part of the race and moved up the last two miles and secure that our top seven were below 28 minutes. Our one through seven gap was 57 seconds which I am very happy with. Our fifth guy this year ran the same time as our 2nd guy last year," said LoBianco.
Six of the Spartans' top runners finished inside the top 20 in the event. There were 114 participants in the classic.
The Spartans will be off next Saturday and will return to action on Saturday, September 28 when they travel to the Salisbury Invitational at Winter Place Park in Salisbury, MD. The event is scheduled for an 11:00 am start.
Tim Hartung photo by Scott Guise - Director of Athletic Communications


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If I understand this correctly, when I use a cryptographic (hardware) engine, I have to trust it. Are there any cryptographic algorithms with properties that allow me to verify the correctness of an engine in a computationally cheaper way than to do the same work myself?
In my paranoid reality I assume the engine was specially built to return correct results except for plaintexts with certain keywords for which it would build in a backdoor. What I am looking for is a general way to verify the correctness of the output for arbitrary input without knowing the correct output (although I am not sure this is mathematically possible).


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Cause of tremors, twitches, spasms and jerks
I`ve had tremors (started in head/neck once in awhile)but now for the last 3 months they are everyday. it has progressed into my left shoulder and upper arm. They started and are ALWAYS when im resting (about to fall asleep). prior to this starting, i had times when i went to bed and had body jerking movements in head, left shoulder, my back arched backwards and jerks in a leg. I can only describe the jerks in that they are similar to when you fall asleep and you jerk because you dream you`re falling. my body also twitches in various locations for no reason. I also have eyelid twitching that comes and goes in spells. i can have it for days at a time. the tremors are now occuring when i sit and relax (not sleeping) but this is sometimes. I also experience left arm weekness (in spells that come and go). Im bothered by these tremors, however; im sure they could be worse. i also get internal body shakiness sometimes. Twice i`ve awaken because it feels like my tongue starts to tremor and a couple times my throat did as well. I do have a cervical bone spur and i am in menopause. I have fibromyalgia too. what could cause this and is it possible it could be one of my ongoing conditions?
Tremor can be caused by numerous conditions. Tremor of the head, tongue, and voice is more commonly seen with a diagnosis of essential tremor. Many other medical conditions and medications can cause tremor as well.
Twitching of muscles can be caused by numerous things, and together with tremor does not really help in obtaining a proper diagnosis.
Parkinson's disease (PD) is one condition that can cause tremor (often at rest), but this symptom alone is not enough to make a diagnosis. PD is diagnosed by examination findings of the cardinal features suggestive of parkinsonism, and also by obtaining a history consistent with the disease. The cardinal features include
- slowness/smallness of movement,
- tremor,
- rigidity, and
- postural instability.
In addition to PD, these cardinal features can be seen with other conditions. An evaluation by an experienced physician can help assess for PD or one of the other causes for parkinsonism.
This forum in not intended to provide individual diagnosis or medical advise. I recommend you discuss your symptoms further with your doctor, and possibly obtain a referral for consultation with a physician experienced with assessing tremor.
For more information:
Go to the Parkinson's Disease health topic.


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Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
What are the signs and symptoms of cervical cancer?
Christina S. Chu, MD, Assistant Professor of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, responds:
Patients with cervical cancer may experience a thin, watery vaginal discharge that can be blood-tinged. Classically, patients have painless, heavy, irregular vaginal bleeding or spotting after intercourse. Patients may also experience heavier than normal periods. As the tumor grows larger, the bleeding may increase and become continuous. Symptoms of tumor that has spread outside of the cervix may include flank pain, leg pain, sciatica, painful urination, bloody urine, rectal bleeding, or constipation. It is important to note that many of these symptoms are not specific to cervical cancer and may be caused by other medical conditions. You should discuss individual symptoms with your gynecologist.
Of course, women should not wait until they are experiencing symptoms before they see a physician. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends that starting at the age 18 or the age of first sexual intercourse (whichever comes first), every woman should have a yearly pelvic examination and Pap test. After three or more normal, consecutive, yearly Pap tests, low-risk women may undergo the test less frequently at the discretion of their physicians. Even women over the age of 65 should continue to undergo routine screening for cervical cancer. Women who have undergone hysterectomy with removal of the cervix should still undergo Pap testing of the vagina.


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Grade Level: 6th– 8th grade
Subject Matter: Life Science
National Standards: NS.5-8.1, NS.5-8.3
Pipe cleaners – two for each student, available at crafts stores or tobacconists.
14 sets of different colored or types of beads, available at crafts stores. Each bead's diameter must be wide enough to fit around the pipe cleaner. The number of beads you need depends on the number of students or groups of students.
14 small containers, one for each color or type of bead.
Several small hand mirrors (optional).
Colorful Chromosome Handout
Pencils – one for each student.
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid): genetic information found in every living organism.
Chromosomes: rod-shaped structure that contains genes.
Genes: basic unit of DNA that codes for specific traits or characteristics in an organism, such as eye or hair color.
Prep: Sort the 14 sets of different colored or types of beads into small containers, so that each container contains one specific type or one specific color of bead. Label each container with one of the traits listed in the Colorful Chromosome Handout. (For example, place all red beads into a container labeled "dark hair.") Write the color or type of bead that matches the trait in the appropriate column on the Colorful Chromosome Handout before making copies for students.
1. Begin the lesson by having students watch the Science Friday Video, "CreatureCast: Why Cells Cooperate." Explain to students that every cell contains DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), a set of instructions that enables each cell to perform its duties.
2. Ask students to explain what a physical human trait is. Can they name some physical characteristics (eye color, hair color, etc.) that they observe among their classmates? How does DNA relate to human traits?
3. Inform students that our physical traits are determined by a specific segment of genes, which are grouped together to form chromosomes. Tell students that they are going to make a simple model of a chromosome using pipe cleaners, and that they will add beads to represent some of their own genetic traits.
4. Give every student two pipe cleaners. Have students overlap the pipe cleaners so that they form an X-shape. At the center of the 'x,' students should twist the two pipe cleaners together securely. Tell students that the pipe cleaners represent a pair of chromosomes, the structural unit that holds genes.
5. Distribute copies of the Colorful Chromosomes handout to each student. Have students circle the traits that they themselves have, along with the corresponding bead color that represents that trait. Inform students that each bead color represents the set of genes for that particular trait. Students can use a mirror, or partner with each other, to determine if and which traits they have for hairline, dimples, earlobe and tongue rolling.
6. Have each student collect the beads that represent his or her genes, and lace the beads through any of the four parts of the pipe cleaners. Once students have placed all of their traits on the chromosome model, have them bend all four ends of the pipe cleaner so that the beads do not fall off.
7. Tell students that they have created a simple model of a pair of chromosomes that represents them. Ask students to compare and contrast their own chromosome model with those of the other students in the class. Create a chart on the board that graphs the number of students that have each trait. Why are some traits collectively found in everyone? Why are some traits not found in everyone? Which are some of the traits that occur the most often (high frequency) and the least often (low frequency)?
DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is located in the nucleus of almost every cell in the human body. DNA is coiled into structural units called chromosomes that contain all of our genetic information. Humans have 46 chromosomes in each of their cells: 23 from our mother and 23 from our father. Our chromosomes contain smaller segments called genes that determine our physical traits. Some traits are general human traits, such as two arms, two legs, or two eyes. Other characteristics are more specific, such as curly or straight hair, attached or detached earlobes, etc.
• What are some advantages or disadvantages to being a multicellular organism?
• Do all organisms inherit 23 chromosomes from their mother and 23 from their father?
• What are examples of other observable human traits? What are examples of non-observable human traits?
• Why would a scientist study high frequency traits in the human population?
Extend the activity by having students perform the same experiment with another class or group of students, or "population." Compare and contrast the results. Are they surprised by the results? What are possible reasons for similar or different results?


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by Allie Schreffler
Sharon Katz and The Peace Train, a riveting five-piece act with an even more riveting history, will open the Chestnut Hill Community Association's summer concert series at Pastorius Park at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 13.
Featuring guitar, vocals, saxophone, drums, bass guitar and dance, this South African group is known for its captivating instrumental and vocal melodies and compelling lyrics. True to its name, this band is also involved in more than just music: From the band's beginning, its members have all been actively involved in promoting world peace.
The group began its peace endeavors in South Africa during the apartheid regime. Vocalist and guitarist Sharon Katz began her musical career hiding from the police just to perform, but she and many others took an active role in promoting peace in South Africa. In 1992, Katz made history when she formed the country's first 500-voice multiracial choir to encourage interracial harmony.
A year later, she began her Peace Train concert tour, during which 150 other musicians traversed the area by train to perform and to promote peace and democracy. Soon, radio stations began to notice and broadcast her efforts, and the popularity of the music from the tour – and the cause – spread like wildfire.
People of all different backgrounds and opinions were encouraged to cease hostility and to transition peacefully to democracy under Nelson Mandela, who was elected soon afterward. After this earth-shattering tour, Katz's band permanently took the name "The Peace Train."
Ever since this fiery debut, Sharon Katz and The Peace Train have continued to gain new audiences. During an eight-city tour of the United States, Katz and her then-45-member group continued to make headlines among audiences at each stop, from New Orleans to Philadelphia and beyond.
Other musicians, too, noticed the band's potential. Upon invitation, Sharon Katz and The Peace Train recorded for a studio album alongside Sting, Madonna, Paul Simon, Tina Turner, and Elton John. Later, one of the band's albums was even nominated as the "Best World Music Album."
When Katz, a Mt. Airy resident, isn't working to heal the world at large, she works to heal individuals in South Africa from memories of the apartheid through music therapy. She also used proceeds from her CD sales and other contributions to create programs that provide food, music therapy and more to orphans and communities that have been affected by HIV/AIDS.
The Pastorius Park Concert Series is sponsored by the Chestnut Hill Community Association, the Chestnut Hill Community Fund and Chestnut Hill Hospital. To learn more about Friends of the Peace Train or to become one, visit http://friendsofthepeacetrain.shutterfly.com/.


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Exhibition Reveals the Power of Images in Civil Rights Movement
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights is a multimedia traveling exhibition, curated by Maurice Berger, that explores the historic role of iconic images and visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s. It contains scores of photographs, illustrations, audio and video recordings, and objects such as dolls. Associated resources include a website, on-line film festival, and richly illustrated companion book.
The exhibition was at the International Center for Photography in New York City in 2010, the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago from January 17 to May 15, 2011, and the Smithsonian National Museum of American History from June 10 to November 27, 2011. Visit the project website for additional venues. The exhibition has received praise in national media such as NPR and in The New York Times.


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HERSHEY, Pa. — A team led by Penn State College of Medicine researchers has developed a tool to help scientists study the influence of social networks on health. The team integrated — for the first time — scientific articles on both social networks and physical and online environments, to help scientists better study how to influence people's health through their social interactions.
While the term "social networks" often refers to online services like Facebook, in this case it means any in-person or virtual social interaction.
The project was led by Liza Rovniak, assistant professor of medicine and public health sciences, who studies how to engineer in-person and online interactions to support healthy behaviors.
"By engineering new environments or placing people in different environments, we can shape health behaviors — such as physical activity, safer sex or smoking cessation," she said. "It's easy to conceptualize how to change the environment. It is harder to conceptualize how to change people. So the question becomes, 'What can we manipulate in our physical or virtual environments to change what people say or do to encourage healthy behavior?'"
"What can we manipulate in our physical or virtual environments to change what people say or do to encourage healthy behavior?"
— Liza Rovniak, assistant professor of medicine and public health sciences
As Rovniak began her own National Institutes of Health-funded research exploring how to promote networks of people to walk more consistently in their community, she realized there was no framework available on how to engineer a social network.
"I needed to know what variables to target," she said. "How do the 'ingredients' of a social network work together, and how does the structure of social networks and the physical and virtual environment influence people's activities?"
By putting the literature on social networks and physical environment approaches together in one place, a more effective recipe for engineering social networks can be assembled, she said. Results were published in BMC Public Health.
Researchers have already identified variables of social networks that can be studied, including behaviors like modeling physical activity for others to observe, tracking and rewarding people's physical activity and praising people.
"Another variable is the structure of the network, which creates opportunities for the behaviors of social networks to happen," Rovniak said. "These behaviors can then help promote physical activity."
Rovniak hopes her work putting key variables related to social networks and the environment together in one place will lead to better research in the field by helping scientists keep better track of what's already been targeted.
In practical terms, if a researcher wants people to use an exercise device while at their desks, variables can be more easily selected that could help build social networks to support using the device because of Rovniak's work. From there, the scientist could generate a hypothesis about how these variables will influence physical activity and develop an intervention to test the hypothesis.
"Before, it was tough to create a hypothesis about how to engineer social networks," Rovniak said. "There are so many variables. Now, with this framework, we can more systematically test and refine hypotheses and work toward developing stronger social network interventions to sustain healthy behaviors."
Also on this research project are Jennifer Kraschnewski, Christopher Sciamanna, Elizabeth Kiser, Chester Ray, Vernon Chinchilli, Daniel George, all of Penn State College of Medicine; Stephen A. Matthews and Melissa Bopp, Penn State University Park; James F. Sallis, University of California; Melbourne Hovell, San Diego State University; and Ding Ding, University of Sydney.
The National Institutes of Health and the Pennsylvania Department of Health using Tobacco CURE funds provided funding. (R00HL088017, CA138192, HL67350)