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It's only week two of the prep football season, but there's a small-school showdown on tap for Fleming Field in Shadyside.
It's a battle of 1-0 combines Friday when the Tigers roll out the red carpet for rival Monroe Central for a 7 p.m. kickoff.
"This is a good matchup between two outstanding programs," said Monroe Central head coach Jay Circosta, who just began his 45th year as a teacher earlier this week.
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SHADYSIDE SOPHOMORE Austin Dorris is one of the Tigers' big-play threats. The 6-5 wide receiver caught two passes last week in the Tigers' victory against Strasburg.
Both coaches realize how much this game means to their teams for so many reasons, but both also realize there are eight more games after this week.
"It's still early," Circosta said. "It's certainly not the end of the season for either team regardless of the outcome. You can look at many years in the past where the team that lost this game still went on for an outstanding season.
Case in point is last season when the Seminoles routed the Tigers, 42-14. Shadyside finished the regular season 7-3, earned a home game in the playoffs and eventually advanced to the Region 21 championship game.
Shadyside comes into this week's game after a convincing 35-0 victory at Strasburg.
"This will be a true test this week," said Shadyside head coach Mark Holenka, who is in his fourth season at the helm of his alma mater. "We won't be able to afford some of the mistakes we made against Strasburg this week because they won't be easy to overcome in a game of this caliber."
While the Tigers played well in all facets, Holenka isn't anywhere near ready to crown his team.
"I still think the jury is out on us," Holenka said. "I think we made some improvements from our scrimmages to the first game, but not in all areas, which is what we were hoping to do."
Monroe Central, which lost several key pieces to graduation, has battled through an early season injury and dealt with a veteran opting not to come out for the team, but still found a way to post a 14-7 victory against Atwater Waterloo last Friday.
"Time will tell what kind of team both us and Waterloo are," Circosta said. "We sputtered some offensively in the first half, but got better in the second half. Defensively, I thought we did some good things and showed improvement from our scrimmages."
Circosta, who is a Shadyside High graduate, knows his defense will be challenged this week by the Tigers' bevy of options both on the ground and through the air.
"Unfortunately, Shadyside does a lot of things well," Circosta said. "After watching them, I am impressed because they're big up front and they've got good skill people."
Senior quarterback Chase Kinemond leads the way. An equal threat on the ground and with his arm, Kinemond completed 6-of-12 passes for 89 yards and a touchdown last week. He wasn't asked to run the ball. His only carry was a sack.
The Tigers' have depth in the backfield with senior Brooks Ramsey, who's been slowed by injury and carried just five times last week. The workhorse was junior Chris Littell, who ran for 106 yards and two scores on seven carries. Eric Howell and Alex Quinn are also options in the backfield.
When the Tigers pass, Kinemond's favorite targets are 6-3 senior Cody Hudson and 6-5 sophomore Austin Dorris. The duo caught all six of Kinemond's completions last week.
"We'll have to play well defensively because Shadyside poses a lot of problems," Holenka said. "They're not one-dimensional by any means and they've got the ability to put the ball into people's hands who can hurt you with big plays."
Moving the ball against the Seminoles' defense is never an easy chore for anyone and Holenka is well aware of that.
"Monroe is always solid defensively because they execute their schemes so well," Holenka said. "They mix up their fronts, but whatever they play, they play well. They make you earn your first downs and any points you might score."
On the offensive side, the Seminoles got things going in the second half when they posted better than 200 rushing yards to control the clock.
"Monroe obviously lost some really good players, but they replaced them with good players," Holenka said. "They might not be as physical a player as Tyler Kinchen was, but they're really balanced with speed and power."
The Seminoles are led onto the field by quarterback Korey Lafferre, who has taken over the duties under center this season. He completed just 1-of-6 passes for 15 yards, but he did run for 86 yards on 13 carries.
"I am really pleased with how Korey has progressed at quarterback," Circosta said. "We're inexperienced at wide receiver since we lost our top three guys from last season, which includes moving Korey to quarterback. We're hoping our passing game grows a little bit, but we're not sure how soon that'll happen."
The Seminoles' leading rusher last week was Levi Brown, who ran for 112 yards on 16 rushes last week.
"You can't key on one guy," Holenka said. "We'll have to defend the entire field because of the speed Monroe has. We've got to continue to tighten up the bolts in all three aspects of the game."


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How Young Entrepreneurs Stare Down Personal Crisis
When starting up Gamblino in June, 27-year-old Frank Wilson had a long list of things to do. Getting hit by a car wasn't one of them.
A week after filing the articles of incorporation for the New York City based virtual-betting app maker, Wilson was struck by a car while leading a charity bike ride. He broke his leg in multiple places, shattered his ankle, bruised some ribs and it put him out of commission indefinitely. That presented serious problems for the fledgling company.
"The hardest thing has been traveling around our launch cities for our sales efforts," says Wilson. "Getting through airports isn't exactly fun and the titanium in my leg sets off the detectors every time."
Between coping with car accidents and health troubles -- and even damages caused by natural disasters like the hurricane that just clobbered the East Coast -- the road to entrepreneurship is riddled with personal adversity. Of course, having to overcome such obstacles is fact of life for many, it can be downright hobbling for young entrepreneurs.
Not only might they not have health insurance, they could be majorly in debt and need to keep their fledgling venture going and growing to meet their payment obligations. Plus, without the right mentality, it's easy to become despondent -- not to mention, lose focus on your startup or even give up on your dream of entrepreneurship entirely.
To figure out how to avoid this fate, we asked three young entrepreneurs who've been struck by personal tragedies to kindly share how they coped -- and even thrived -- due to the experience.
1. Look to your network for support.
Networking isn't just a way to cultivate professional contacts. The people you know and work with can provide the support you need when a crisis strikes.
After recently quitting her day job, Vannessa Wade was all set to relaunch Connect The Dots PR, the Houston-based PR firm that she initially launched in 2006, when she found out she had sickle-cell anemia. The crisis came out of nowhere, says the 31-year-old. But she powered through and continued with the relaunch -- thanks in large part to asking her network for support.
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"I talked about my journey, and, in return, I heard stories about how rare and beautiful things came out of ugly situations," says Wade of her experience networking. That was uplifting, she says, adding: "When you learn about other people overcoming things, it can help you stay on the path to following your dreams."
2. Set big goals, but focus on baby steps.
After he was hit by the car, Wilson from Gamblino says he drew strength from aggressive short and long-term goal-setting.
"I decided on my physical recovery goal early on: To beat my last triathlon time by fall 2013," says Wilson. "In the meantime, I've focused on short-term goals, such as making it up and down the stairs to my fourth-floor walkup apartment on my own."
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That strategy also helped propel Wilson's business. "It has allowed us to break down and accomplish the wide-ranging tasks required to take Gamblino from an idea to a finished product in a matter of months."
3. Don't be afraid to pivot.
Micah Daigle, 28, knows the power of resiliency. He's been suffering from an increasingly progressive digestive condition for more than a decade.
"It took me awhile to realize just how debilitating [the condition] had become," says the San Francisco resident who had started several businesses that ultimately failed, before admitting he needed to focus on his wellbeing. "It's impossible to build a healthy business if you yourself aren't healthy," he adds.
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Daigle is now setting his sights on consulting projects in the crowdfunding space through his latest venture, the Collective Agency. The decision to give up being a full-time founder was difficult, but necessary, he says.
"The hardest decision was to take an indefinite break" from running a company full time, Daigle says. "It felt like giving up." But, he adds, "I knew it was the right thing to do if I was ever going to get to a place where I'd have the health to sustain projects."
Have you needed to overcome a personal crisis on the road to starting up?Let us know how you did it in the comments section.


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MCGREGOR (November 11, 2012)-One man died, a woman was injured and another man was in county jail after a fight early Sunday morning in a McGregor restaurant parking lot turned into a violent stabbing.
Police officers arrived just after 12:10 a.m. Sunday at Doc's Saloon on Main Street to find Charles Darrell McKenzie, 49, of McGregor, suffering from several stab wounds, according to McGregor police Chief Steve Foster.
An East Texas Medical Center ambulance took McKenzie to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 1:10 a.m., Foster said.
McLennan County Justice of the Peace Kristi DeCluitt ordered McKenzie's body taken to Southwest Institute of Forensic Science, in Dallas, for an autopsy.
Foster said witnesses told officers the suspect in the stabbing had left the scene.
A short time later, officers learned a man and a woman were in the parking lot at the police station and one of them had suffered stab wounds, Foster said.
Foster said two officers returned to the police station to find Paula Rios, 32, and Augustine Jimenez Gurrero, 33, both also of McGregor, at the police station and discovered Rios had suffered stab wounds as well.
While officers were administering first aid to Rios, they learned Gurrero, who is identified as Augustine Jimenez in online McLennan County Jail records, had been identified as the suspect in McKenzie's stabbing and took him into custody.
Rios was flown to Scott & White Hospital in Temple for treatment.
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Witnesses told police McKenzie was stabbed after he tried to defuse an argument between a man and a woman.
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St. Clairsville's Jaylon Brown admits that the college recruiting process did get a bit frustrating.
Hearing time and time again that he was too small to play at the Division I level simply did nothing but serve as motivation.
"I went to a few camps and coaches said they were looking at bigger backs, which really put a chip on my shoulder," Brown said.
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He verbally committed to Youngstown State University Thursday afternoon. The Penguins, who are members of the Football Championship Subdivision, offered Brown after he attended their camp earlier this summer.
"I actually tried to call (the coaches on Wednesday) to commit, but I couldn't get a hold of them," Brown said. "I had been talking to my parents and coach (Brett) McLean and I just came to the decision that it was the best place for me."
Getting the decision out of the way at this point means Brown can focus strictly on football, which officially gets under way Monday when double sessions begin.
"It's great to have this out of the way and off my chest," Brown said. "Now, I can think just about playing football and not think about schools or recruiting."
Brown's path to the Penguins started when Ron Stoops, a Penguins' assistant, visited a Red Devils' track practice in the spring and invited Brown to a camp.
"I went to the camp and performed pretty well," Brown said. "They offered me shortly after the camp. I got to tour the school, really liked the campus, it's not too big and the coaches were good guys."
Prior to YSU, Brown's only other offer was from West Virginia Wesleyan, a Division II school.
"It was frustrating at times because most of the coaches all said the same thing about staying patient and waiting it out," Brown said. "That's tough for me as a high school kid when you're seeing other guys on Twitter getting offers and things like that."
Brown had a huge junior year for the Red Devils in helping to lead them to the Division IV state title game.
He ran for 1,834 yards and 34 touchdowns last season en route to second-team all-Ohio honors. He was first-team all-Eastern District, all-OVAC, all-Times Leader and all-Valley.
"I don't have individual goals set for myself," Brown said. "It's all about winning and doing anything I can to help the team win. If you listen to people, some think we're going to be down. We're anxious to get on the field and show that we're still going to be a pretty good team."
Though Brown has been playing tailback since he was in seventh grade, Youngstown State is looking at Brown, who was the bronze medalist in the 100 meter dash, as a slot back.
"When I went through the camp, I worked with the wide receivers," Brown said. "I really enjoyed it. I'll definitely have to improve my route running and obviously adjust to the speed of the game."
Brown becomes the second Red Devil player on the 2013 squad to cast his college lot. Michael Ferns committed to Michigan more than a year ago.
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What can I do to expedite an EEOC case I have involving my former employer. I really think they are stalling...waiting for me to die!
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I looked at the EEOC website, and the regulations, and I can't find anything about getting an "expedited" investigation, unless you're a federal employee and an administrative law judge is involved.
According to the website, in 2004, the average investigation took six months. If you are severely ill, and if you are close to death, you need to make that point to the investigator, to make sure you've given all the evidence you can give. I'd suggest you ask, as nicely as you can, why the delay? Is the investigator waiting for something from you? Your doctor? The respondent? Is there anything you can do to move this along?
If respondent is dragging its heels, suggest to the investigator that it's had an opportunity to present it's side of the story, and if that opportunity hasn't been taken advantage of, the investigation should proceed anyways. If the investigator has gotten all the evidence it wants, but simply hasn't written up the case, I'd suggest writing a letter to the investigator's supervisor and to whomever is managing that particular office.
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This seems like such a silly question, but! When playing the piano, I sometimes struggle to turn the pages of my music without noticeably sacrificing the sound of the piece or making the book / sheets fall. For a complicated piece where there isn't a break in one hand that would allow raising a hand to turn the page, is there a trick I can use to quickly flip the page of music and keep the music going?
One of the tricks you can use is one I have learned watching Gustav Leonhardt in concert. For difficult page turns, he uses a little copy of the start of the next page that he pastes on the side of the preceding right page as a flip.
Not only is it easier on his memory but it allows to grab the page quickly and turn it efficiently. Now that scanners and printers exist, this is really easy to do. Leonhardt often copied the parts by hand (which is not bad for memory).
A related thing you can do is to copy the right and left side and putting them in front of you at the same time when studying the passage. It will flow better in general, you will be less dependent of the precise moment you do the page turns, when you use the original score (which is usually required in concert for copyright reasons).
In general I find that I am slowed by grabbing the page, not by the actual turning. You could bend the corners of the pages forward so that it's easier to grab quickly, or use those sticky flags on the pages, or something like that.
As for turning pages where there's no break for one hand, you need to memorize the music. You can memorize all of it and discard the sheet music1, or memorize the last few bars after you did have a break, or memorize the first few bars of the next page before a break.
1: In a performance you should probably keep the sheet music even if you're not paying attention to it, so that if you suddenly go blank you can just glance up.
A pianist I used to work with would never actually grab the pages she was turning. She would just rely on the friction of her fingers between the front face of the page and swipe the page across. It was a very fast, efficient, and somewhat violent movement. I would not recommend this on any score with a weak binding or easily torn pages.
Disclaimer: I've never managed to do this myself.....she had some special way of folding the sheets of her music so that they wouldn't clump together.
Every pianist I know photocopies and hole punches the sheet music to go into a 1" black binder. This also allows them the luxury of unfolding taped pages so they can play until a break before needing a page turn, but the use of a binder alone should make it easier to grasp and cleanly turn a page compared to a bound paperback or folded free sheet music.
Of course, the pianists I know would all memorize their solo literature and acquire a page-turner if accompanying an instrumental soloist--and then there is the questionable legality of photocopying for that purpose, but anyway that's the perspective I'm familiar with: Memorize, if not: page turner, if not: minimize page turns with taped photocopies, and/or: photocopies in black 3-ring.
Little Post-It notes as tabs sticking out from the edge of the page. Line them up from top to bottom and it's easy to grab the top one and turn the page.
Another trick with a bad page-turn is to take a pair of scissors and cut horizontally across the middle of the page, like a Dutch door. Then you can turn the top half first and the bottom half later.
There are so many great suggestions above, but a particularity I've found isn't always immediately obvious:
If you're having trouble turning pages, you need to practice turning pages.
Just like any other difficulty with a piece, you take a line or so before the difficulty, and practice through to a line or so afterwards. Spend some time figuring out if you need to simplify some part of the piece. Try memorizing a section before or after the page flip, and it can help you get to a part of the piece where it is easier to spare a hand for a moment. This might come in handy even if you have a page-turner, to give you the moment to nod for the page flip!
For a high tech solution, there's the Freehand Systems MusicPad Pro Plus. It's an LCD tablet that stores and displays sheet music while letting you turn pages with a foot pedal.
Most likely overkill for most people though.
Me, I just print out / photocopy the sheet music and tape the pages together so I can spread them out four pages wide. A 6-page-long piece now requires only one page turn, 8 pages, two turns, etc...
I've had my fair share of awkward page turns over the years, and there's a few things I've picked up that really do help:
My method
Spend some time with the piece and memorize the next chord, for all of the page turns; that way, you can have your left hand or right hand on the piano keys and automatically find the next notes as you take a second to turn the page.
Also, practice turning the pages beforehand. You can fold the corner of the page up a little bit, for easier gripping and you can even place tabs on your music (like post it tabs, etc from Staples).
The easiest "trick" is to simply memorize the next note and be able to play that note while turning the page.
If you can try to memorize the part of when you have to turn the page then you will be able to but I would still practice the part of the song when you do.
I get to know a piece well, then rewrite it onto one page or two using my own peculiar notations. Once I know the piece, I just need reminders of what to play. The actual notes are memorized by my fingers, so to speak. While learning the piece, page turning is a problem, sure, but there's no audience to be bothered by ugly breaks in the music.
My piano teacher sometimes uses his iPad in place of sheet music -- all he had to do was swipe the screen to turn a page.
Of course, this only works if you can find an electronic version of the music you're playing (although I suppose you could always scan your music and convert it into a pdf).
There are iPad apps that help page turning with either a foot pedal or even better a camera watching your head for a page turn movement. Have a look at e.g. piaScore app that has these capabilities.
You can just photocopy/print everything onto a single large DINA3 page. That's not sufficient for sight-reading, but by the time you are playing the music before an audience, you need the score as a visual pattern-based reminder of what you are playing more or less by heart anyway.
Which means that you really need to scan/copy from the score you have been learning from. Creating a somewhat superior version by typing everything into a notation program and printing to that size with different layout and line breaks will not really work for the visual cue thing.
As various people have contributed, a 3-ring binder can provide stability of the sheets on the stand. Another way of getting more stability is to photocopy onto card stock (stiff paper). Card stock falls off the stand much less easily.
One more idea is to do as I've seen percussionists do for percussion ensemble. They'll use a large piece of something stiff -- cardboard, I imagine -- and glue or tape the individual sheets on in two rows. On a piano stand, this would mean you'd have to look slightly up to see the first row.
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I found out about this mental disorder today, and I think there's a good chance I might have this. People tend to call me pretty, no matter how ugly I feel. There's always something that I see in the mirror that I hate.
Here's the wikipedia page: Body dysmorphic disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I suggest you all read through it, because it's quite informative and I don't really want to quote everything. I will summarize though.
BDD is a psychological anxiety disorder in which the affected person is excessively preoccupied with an imaginary (or slight) flaw in their appearance. This is a terribly dangerous disorder, and has more than DOUBLE the completed-suicide rate of major depression and 45 TIMES the general US population rate. People with this disorder are extremely self-critical with their self-image, and often wish they could change many things about themselves - despite being generally normal or even highly attractive. Others will often disagree or protest that this flaw even exsists, because the flaw(s) only exist in the eyes of the affected.
BDD is often percieved as a vanity-driven obsession, when it's actually the opposite. People with this will often compulsively look at themselves in the mirror (or window, reflection, whatever they can find) or sometimes cover up all mirrors.
The most common areas that the "defect" exists are the skin (73%), hair (56%), and nose (37%). Other common areas include the toes, weight, abdomen, bre@sts/chest, eyes, thighs, legs, teeth, and facial features.
BDD usually develops during adolencence, where people are generally the most sensitive about their appearance. Personality traits like perfectionism, neuroticism, introversion/shyness, and sensitivity to rejection or critique can also make someone more susceptible to developing BDD.
I suggest you also look at the wikipedia page for the symptoms and compulsive behaviours associated with the under-diagnosed and little known disorder.
Its a really terrible disorder actually. Many people with eating disorders, especially when that disorder is centered around actually losing weight(some people use it for control), have it too.
I can't really say whether or not I think I'm suffering from it. I share a lot of these traits, but I think its different from the impression of BDD that I've had and is more heavily connected to my anorexia than this. Typically, when I manage to fix the flaws I perceive, I'm happy, its not never ending for me. If I work out, I feel better. If I'm not broken out, I tend to feel more confident. I usually only have those two points which bother me a lot and a lot of people with this tend to constantly pick things wrong with them, so even if one thing is better, they will continue.
Hayley, see the doctor. I worry about you darling and if mental illness happens in a first degree relative(like your mother), it increases your chances dramatically. Better to do it now than later because if it progresses, you might decide you don't have a problem. Many people with these sort of illnesses think that way.
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I obsess over the majority of the things on that list, Spirit. My skin (too many pores, just disgusting), hair (too frizzy, naturally too... ugly), weight (could stand to lose a couple pounds), thighs (ew, stretch marks and way too big), teeth (not white enough), eyebrows (too thick), upper arms (too big), height (not tall enough), head (too small, facial features too big)... I pick apart everything it seems.
I didn't know it was a disorder until today, so don't feel completely out of the loop, Spirit.
Yeah... mental disorders tend to run in my family. >.>
I have a lot of the compulsive behaviours found on the list... compulsively checking the mirror, attempting to camouflage defect (I used to always wear hats to hide my hair - I also did that to distract from other features like my eyebrows. I also rarely wear shorts - unless it's really hot, I wear jeans because I hate my legs), I shave/pluck every time I spot a hair where it shouldn't be, I seek reassurance, comparing myself to others (do that ALL the time), etc etc.
I'll get it checked out sometime this week. I don't have time tomorrow, because I have to help my dad out with stuff at his work. >.>
Oh, my. Well, a lot o f the stuff you're complaining about was never really visible to me whenever I saw a pic of you, especially the weight and height; you're taller and ore spread out than I am, so I'm thinking the size of your thighs probably fits your body... and it's much better than being one of those girls with drumsticks as legs, IMO.
I'm concerned for like Kitty is; even though we've never actually met, you're my friend and I want you to be happy. a mental illness will only make yo end up the opposite I hope that when you go see the doctor, that things will get better (however slowly).
I have a distorted body image but that is part of my eating disorder. I'm (recovering) bulimic and am so critical of my body. I was anorexic for over a year so I believe the thinking still persists even though I no longer meet the "official" criteria.
I totally understand what you're going through. I'm mostly concerned about my nose, eyebrows, abdomen, upper arms, and thighs. It's incredibly awful, it really is. People tell you "oh you're so beautiful" and you look in the mirror and don't see it. It sucks!
I've been in therapy for about 3 years now and still am working on this (among a host of other issues). I'm slowly overcoming my fear of weight and being "fat", you know, learning to trust other people when they say "you're still slim". It's hard, no doubt about that.
Your sarcastic, spazzy, and smexy lover!
Yeah, my boyfriend is blaming himself a little and thinks I don't believe him when he tells me that I'm beautiful... That's not true, I don't think he's lying per say, I just don't understand what he finds so beautiful about me because I don't see the beauty at all. >.> It does suck, I agree.
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I have a design. Some parts of it are white, I want to extrude everything except the white. The white, will be holes. This cannot be done manually, it must be done by color white. What tool is the easiest way to get this done?
I don't think there is anything in standard graphics applications (i.e., the Adobe Creative Suite) that is going to help here.
The quickest way I can think of would be to use a 3D application like Bryce to get what you by using the terrain editor. The caveat is that most terrain editors extrude on gray scale with white being the highest elevation and black being the lowest, but that's a simple inversion of the image to get what you need.
3D applications are off-topic here, but pretty much all of them have some kind of a terrain editor that does exactly what you describe. The reason why I suggest Bryce is because they have a free version for you to play with.
This can be done in Photoshop CS 6 Extended, but the one thing that you'll need to do is invert your layer, as Photoshop uses white to be the highest point and black to be the lowest point. Heres a quick example.
Create your height/depth/grayscale image (remember to use 32-bit for best results). You'll want to have one layer (selected) when you do the next step. In the 3D panel select Mesh from Depth Mask > Plane... Done.
In the example above I make a separate layer with the gradient, difference clouds with gaussian blur, and text along with the black background and converted it.
I hope this helps. Cheers!
I would vectorize the image in order to get a vector line around the white part. Then import this vector into your 3D tool and extrude it.
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The 5 Ballsiest Ways Fans Have Affected The Outcome of Games
#2. A Fan Grabs a Football Player Mid-Play and Tries to Rip His Head Off
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When the Arena Football League was created in 1987, several ideas were implemented to differentiate it from the NFL -- for instance, the half-size field allowed for higher scores and faster action, and the tiny arenas were a great cover for how little the public gave a shit. Also, there was no "out of bounds" area -- the fans were right up against the field, separated from the players only by a low wall:
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This is what we call "foreshadowing."
You'll notice that it's like that all the way around the field, including the end zone. So if you're a player near the edge of the field, you're within arm's reach of a fan. This means it was really just a matter of time before something like this happened:
On August 8, 2011, C.J. Johnson of the Georgia Force was ready to receive a kick from the Sharks when he backed into the wall separating the crowd from the action. A front-row Sharks fan decided that whole ball-catching thing was unacceptable, so he reached out, wrapped his arms around Johnson, and slammed him against the wall several times over. He even attempted to rip his helmet off, because of ... shit, who knows? Maybe he thought there was creamy nougat underneath.
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Admit it: You'd watch Arena Football if this were legal.
Now, if you tried this crap at an NFL game, several very not good things would happen. Security would pounce immediately and throw your ass out of the game. Several fans might throw their shitty $9 draft beers at you, because the alternative would be to actually drink them, and who wants that? Also, you would not get on camera, and the announcers would barely even mention you. All in all, it sounds exceedingly pointless.
Of course, this is Arena Football, so none of this happened. The fan got to stay, he got ample camera time, and the announcers treated it like the funniest thing they'd ever seen. Several of the Sharks players even ran over to the guy and took turns high-fiving him.
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Because nothing teaches a moron that what he's doing is wrong more than being high-fived by his idols.
The only remotely legit part here is that the Sharks were penalized for what turned out to be beyond-blatant interference. The ball was given to the Force on the 20-yard line, which, on a 50-yard field, is a pretty big deal. However, the fan clearly got into the Force's head, and they ultimately lost 64-55.
Ha, that's Arena Football for you! What a silly little bush league operation! There's no way that kind of garbage could happen in the NFL, right? Well ...
#1. Boston Patriots Win Thanks to a Blocked Pass -- from a Fan
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It's not that rare for crazy fans to run onto the field during football games. It's never a big deal -- the players stand around in mild annoyance for a few minutes while security tackles the drunken fan and drags him away. If a fan ever ran onto the field during a play, the refs would just blow it dead and maybe penalize the home team.
That's why the story we're about to tell you will likely never, ever happen again, even if professional football is being played 200 years from now. What this fan did is one of the most singular accomplishments in the history of professional sports, although we're assuming the guy was far too inebriated to remember any of it later.
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You mean a guy with a mustache like that is starved for attention? Naawww.
The Boston Patriots of the 1960s were like Charlie Sheen's Cleveland Indians of the NFL: a gaggle of misfits and lovable losers who resembled a circus more than a professional sports team. They would start snowball fights mid-game, share their sideline with the opposition (because their stadium had no extra space), and grab former players from the crowd because they didn't have enough men on the field.
But perhaps the most unforgettable incident of them all occurred on November 3, 1961, when a fan ran onto the field, directly inserted himself into the game ... and won the damn thing.
In the final seconds of this game, the Patriots were winning by one touchdown, 28-21. The visiting Dallas Texans had the ball, however, and were on the 5-yard line. One pass into the end zone would tie it up. If they missed, fans were waiting on the sidelines to charge the field in celebration. But one of these fans (who many believe was Patriots owner Billy Sullivan, an accusation he never actually denied) felt that waiting in the background while insulting the Texans' mothers was overrated and useless. So, he decided to take matters into his own hands.
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Yep, he's actually doing that cartoonish sneak walk.
This guy not only ran onto the field, but assumed position -- he literally went back there and positioned himself like another safety. And no one noticed.
Texans quarterback Cotton Davidson snapped the ball. He read the play and made a pass to wide receiver Chris Burford for a seemingly easy touchdown ... at which point this random guy literally leaped into action. He batted down the ball, making the pass incomplete and securing victory for the Patriots.
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"Should that guy be here? He must have forgotten his pads and helmet at home. Happens to the best of us."
Amazingly, nobody noticed this as it was happening -- it was only when footage was studied the next day that anyone spotted the rogue spectator. By then, obviously, it was too late to protest.
And here's the thing: If you don't know much about football, you have to understand that of the 12 players on that defense, only one of them correctly read the play, saw the receiver's route, and got into the right position to defend the pass: the drunken guy in a windbreaker.
It was going to be a touchdown otherwise -- the quarterback had the other 11 guys fooled. Only the fan had it right. So where other drunken spectators stumble out and try to hug the QB or get an autograph, this guy did the equivalent of stealing a baseball and then striking out the hitter. Hank Stram, head coach of the Texans, jokingly called it "the best defensive play [they'd] seen all year long." Hell, we think it's one of the best plays ever.
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Andrew G. Harmon, 66, Of Aledo died Sunday March 31, 2013 at the Genesis Senior Living in Aledo, Illinois. Graveside services are 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Aledo Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday at the Fippinger Funeral Home in Aledo. In Lieu of flowers, memorials may be left to the American Cancer Society or St. Jude's Children's Hospital. Online condolences can be made at www.fippingerfuneralhome.com
Andy was born November 13, 1946 in Monmouth, to Kenneth "Fuzz" and Mary Alice Baker Harmon. He graduated from Aledo High School in 1965.
He was employed at Deere & Company in Moline for 30 years retiring in 1998.
He was a member of the NRA and he enjoyed Trap shooting, Hunting, go carts and NASCAR. In his early days he raced cars and motorcycles at Cordova and he was an avid Chicago Bears Football fan.
Survivors include two daughters, Keri Doherty of Arma, KS, Shannon (Wil ) Thomas of Burkburnett, Texas, one son Joe ( Lori ) Harmon of Springfield, MO, eight grandchildren, five great grandchildren, one sister Kathleen (James) McChesney of Aledo, several nieces and nephews and a special friend, Billie Harrison-Holt of Aledo.
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The 6 Weirdest Dangers of Space Travel
When mankind finally makes the big leap from Earth to space, it's probably not going to be the time-warping black holes or mouth-raping aliens that do him in. In fact, tomorrow's astronauts will be on the lookout for dangers that are laughably mundane. For every one dude who gets awesomely exploded by lasers or asteroids, hundreds will die of ...
#6. Moondust
Budget cuts and recession drama may have temporarily shelved America's dreams of a moon colony, but Russia's -- not so much. The word on the street is that Vlad Putin not only wants a permanent Russian base on the moon by 2030 but also wants to harvest helium from our nearest space neighbor. Ambitious? Yes. Insanely dangerous? Probably. But not for the reasons you'd expect. Soviet Russia, you'll remember, never quite finished its part of the race to the moon, so they don't know what's up there. And what's up there is MOONDUST.
We're keeping the moon-bots a secret until someone else gets up there. Can you imagine the look on Putin's face?
Wait ... How Can That Kill Me?
Look at the famous footprint Buzz Aldrin left on the moon's surface:
It looks like mud. But it can't be, because there's no water up there. What you're seeing is dust that is the consistency of flour. Or if you want, cocaine.
Now imagine that this cocaine sticks to everything it touches and is so fine that it seeps into your space suit, yet so rough that it scratches your skin like sandpaper. And pretend that instead of getting you high, it gives you hay fever. And while we're at it, let's pretend that it clogs up your lungs and kills you.
In conclusion, cocaine is safer than space travel.
Fun game, right? It wasn't so fun when the actual Apollo astronauts played it 40 years ago.
Back in 1972, Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan were so busy being the last humans to walk on the moon that they didn't remember to wipe their feet before re-entering their space capsule. Which was surprising, because they already knew how troublesome moondust could be. During their mission, the dust clogged the joints in their suits to the point that they couldn't move, and the dust was so erosive that it wore through three layers of Kevlar-like boot material. Thanks to their childlike negligence, that same moondust found its way into the ship, and they were stuck with it for the whole ride home.
The first thing they noticed about the dust was that it went airborne right away, and that it smelled like gunpowder. Before too long, the astronauts couldn't help but breathe in the stuff, and Schmitt later complained of congestion and a kind of "lunar hay fever." Fortunately, that little bit of dust was just enough to give him the moon sniffles and not much else, and Schmitt felt fine the next day.
Lunar hay fever. It's a wonder there isn't a Tom Hanks movie about this guy.
What we've learned since then, however, doesn't bode well for future moon travelers. Scientists later found out that moondust has properties similar to those of freshly fractured quartz, or silica, and that stuff is lethal to human lungs. On Earth, it affects people working in quarries or mines, and about 16,000 people died of silicosis between 1968 and 2002.
And don't get us started on Mars dust. The dirt on the Red Planet is so dangerous that NASA calls it the No. 1 risk of a manned expedition to Mars. It's corrosive and gritty and doesn't just sit there like moondust; it whips itself into dust devils, slapping everything in sight like an angry space pimp. Scientists don't even know whether the stuff is toxic yet. Future astronauts are going to have to be part spacemen and part housekeepers, because they're going to have to keep their space houses fastidiously clean to stay alive up there.
We can't afford more of Schmitt's Three Stooges shenanigans.
#5. Space Junk
The last thing you'd expect when you go to space is an orbiting junkyard. But we've got one, in all its Sanford and Son glory, just hurtling itself around Earth waiting to clobber the big dummies who were stupid enough to put it up there in the first place.
Let's see dolphins make a mess this impressive.
Usually when we succeed at launching something into space, we also succeed at leaving something in space. Sometimes it's just a bolt, or a fleck of paint. Other times it's an entire spacecraft that's no longer functioning, like the satellite Vanguard I (that bad boy has been orbiting the planet for 50 years, and it's probably going to go 240 more before it re-enters Earth's atmosphere). There are spent rocket stages, defunct satellites, explosion fragments and even needles up there, reminding us that we are not only not very good at space, but also supergood at litterbugging.
Wait ... How Can That Kill Me?
Of course, you can see how running into an old rocket booster could do some damage to a space traveler. They're big and heavy; that makes sense. But a fleck of paint? Dust?
Dried paint flecks are a little scarier at 17,000 miles per hour.
You're probably imagining this space junk floating freely like an astronaut on a spacewalk, aren't you? The Blue Danube plays calmly as a little speck of Soviet scrap metal flitters and tosses in a slow-motion dance. If that's what you're picturing, you're doing it wrong. What you should be imagining is that fleck of paint racing at 17,000 miles per hour, and that same fleck colliding into a medium-size spacecraft and disabling it. Because it can.
What a fleck of paint did to the Challenger in 1983.
There are about 5,500 tons of space junk up above our heads right now, or about 600,000 objects larger than a centimeter. And only a tiny fraction of those are currently being tracked. Today's spacecraft shields can deflect only the stuff that's smaller than a centimeter, and the only way to avoid the rest is to maneuver the ship out of the way. But that works only if you know it's coming, which you probably wouldn't. Plus, when space junk collides with other stuff, as two satellites did in 2009, they make hundreds of baby space junks, each ready to start its own inevitable journey of spacecraft killing.
But even if we get supercareful about leaving bits of stuff around, space has plenty of natural flying debris for us to contend with. Cosmic dust, for instance. It's just what it sounds like: tiny little particles of dust, like what you have in your home right now. Only instead of being made of leftover Cheetos and cat hair, this dust is made of leftover asteroids. But it's dust nevertheless. Small, hard to detect and the sure sign of a careless space housewife.
"Oh no, that's ... that's probably fine. We'll rope it off or something."
It's not the individual particles of dust that will disable spaceships -- it's the accumulation of dust into clouds, which also travel at incredible rates. In 1967, NASA's Mariner 4 spacecraft ran into a cloud of cosmic dust. The resulting onslaught was described as "a shower of meteoroids more intense than any Leonid meteor storm we've ever seen on Earth." Part of the insulation was ripped off, and the impact of the dust was so great that it changed the orientation of the Mariner. In other words, cosmic dust had enough force to knock a spacecraft off course. That's what future astronauts are going to have to avoid: untrackable, unstoppable pieces of trash and dirt clouds capable of destroying their billion-dollar ride home.
#4. Static Electricity
For most of us, static electricity is just a mild annoyance. For those who have amused children and not-bright adults by rubbing a balloon on their heads and sticking it to the wall, static electricity is a hilarious blessing from God. For humans in space, however, static electricity is murder lightning waiting to deliver a death zap to anyone in its way.
The first trials of the woolen space suit didn't end well.
First, a quick review of how static electricity works. Every surface is made up of atoms, and every atom carries a charge. Usually that charge is neutral, but when two objects come into contact with each other, the electrons from one can travel to the other, changing the charge of each object. After the electrons accumulate for a while, they're going to give a little zap when they transfer between things. In humid weather, it's easy for the water in the air to conduct electrons off our bodies, so we get fewer zaps, if any at all. In dry weather, however, a walk across the carpet is going to end with a mini-lightning bolt between our hand and the doorknob.
And a bad hair day.
Wait ... How Can That Kill Me?
Space is really, really dry.
Recently scientists realized that the surfaces of the moon and Mars can accumulate enough static electricity to short-circuit vital astronaut-life-preserving equipment, maybe even the suits protecting them from the vacuum of space. Without moisture to carry off electrons, astronauts face miniature lightning storms every time they touch anything after walking around on space soil. The static on Mars is so bad that NASA even engineered reverse lightning rods for the Mars Pathfinder. But those wouldn't work on the moon, because the moon doesn't have an atmosphere. Plus, remember all that business about deadly moondust? Static charges are going to stir that shit up, clogging equipment and suits with electrically charged devil dirt.
Above: Reverse space lightning rods. Easily in the top 10 coolest things ever built by the government.
And it doesn't take a lunar walkabout to get the static going, either. Unpredictable solar storms can generate enough electricity to knock out equipment as well, just when astronauts need the most protection. But hey, at least they could stick an assload of balloons to the walls of their broken-down spaceships as they breathe their last gasps of air, right?


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I've been looking at the Chrome Store and I started to think about developing some nice stuff to publish there, since I have a machine installed with Chromium and I see the WebApp market a lot better than the platform-specific one. But what a site really needs and how it should be designed to be considered a WebApp?
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Therefore even the Google docs sees no distiction between a normal site and a web app.
All a website really needs to be considered the site of a web app is, well, an app. Of course there are many other things that should be on the site such as a Contact page and I believe that a company blog is always a nice touch. I recommend going with a minimalist layout for a web app as no body likes clutter.


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Suzuki unveiled a sporty version of its bestseller Swift. The Suzuki Swift Sport 2012 will be presented at the Frankfurt Auto Show 2012. Powered by a 1.6L gasoline engine, the sporty Swift pumps out the power of 136 horses with a max torque of 160Nm. The new Swift is perfect with the tuned 6-speed manual transmission; and combine that with a sporty suspension, you get a racer with an excellent cornering stability and a more nimble and more stable handling. [Picture Update: Sept 22, 2011]


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24 May 2007 1:34 AM #1
TextField.hide() doesn't hide the label
When using .hide() on att TextField the associated label is still visible. Is it suppose to be that way or what? Feels kind of silly to have the label visible when the input field is hidden.
24 May 2007 1:56 AM #2
TextField hiding
try this
new Ext.form.TextField({ fieldLabel: elem[i].label, name: elem[i].id, itemCls : 'invisible' })
24 May 2007 2:04 AM #3
hide() on a textfield hides the textfield. That's how it should work. If you want to hide the textfield and it's label there are other ways to go about it. (One posted above)Jack Slocum
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24 May 2007 9:15 AM #4
It is indeed strange to display the label and not the textfield
Maybe add a parameter to the Field.hide(true) to also hide the label.. or just thinking maybe hiding the label should be default and can be change by a parameter... or add an extra field.hideLabel()
29 May 2007 5:12 AM #5
So if one wanted to share a form between two functions (e.g. an Add and and Edit function) what might be considered best practice for hiding one of the TextFields (and it's label) that is only applicable to one of the operations?
14 Jun 2007 2:47 AM #6
hiding the label and :
the hidden true does indeed do whats its suppose to, but the job is still only one third done. I still need to hide the label and the semicolon. giving a blank label will take care of that, but its still : there. What I am really after is just the equal of <input type='hidden' .. how can I do this?
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14 Jun 2007 7:24 AM #8
You could set the labelStyle:'display:none', or labelSeparator:' ' or ' 'Tim Ryan
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Anyone with SVN access care to add that labelStyle and labelSeparator config options to the API docs please?
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Don't get it
Hi All - New to all of this. First I have to say that I love this library. I think a great job was done by all involved putting this together. After reading this I still can't get the label to appear/disappear. I agree it is kinda silly to have the label but not the form element visible. Seems to me that you should be able to directly access each Config setting within an element. Something like ext.formpanel.elementid.hiddenLabel=true this way you could easily set any config setting in a function and handle it through an event ect. Also a hideall and showall for a particular form element would be helpfull as well. It would simply hide or show everything that has a display under that elment. When I first set hide I assumed this would happen. Am I missing something? I ran around in circles for hours and hours and hours over this one. Is there a cleaner way to do it then is discribed here and also if a bit more code context could be put around the examples I would REALLY appriciate it. I'm still wet behind the ears! Many thanks in advance.


text: Can you slim down by popping a pill? As a country, we're well on the way to being grossly unhealthy. And it's not a new trend. In 2008, Australia hit a milestone: after years of downing meat pies, snags and pints, we officially became the fattest nation in the world, according to a study by Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute. It reported that 26% of adult Australians – almost a whopping four million people – were obese. And if you include those who fall into the overweight category as well, that figure jumps to nine million. No wonder so many of us are turning to over-the-counter help. Looking for our unbiased, expert comparisons? See body fat scales reviews. The pills that claim to make you slim and trim are an integral part of Australia's billion-dollar weight-loss industry. So we took a closer look at a selection of diet pills and checked out the ingredients that reportedly give them their fat-busting properties. What we found were products that aren't rigorously tested, and active ingredients with little or no proof of their effectiveness. Overall, the current evidence for the effectiveness and safety of these products is pretty sketchy. At present, a balanced, kilojoule-controlled diet combined with an exercise plan is still the best way to control your weight. The spruik You've seen the ads – you know, the ones that say "I lost eight kilograms with this product!" or "Yes, I want my body to absorb less fat!" They can be pretty convincing, especially when supported by "scientific evidence" and amazing "testimonials", complete with before and after shots. It used to be that such dramatic testimonials came with the fine print that these people are "exceptional" and that "individual results may vary". But in 2005, the law changed so that testimonials and photos must be of typical cases. However, in the testimonial pages of some websites, many cases still seem exceptional. If you look at the fine print, it's often explained that their results are due to a lot more than taking product X, such as changes in diet and activity levels. The reality You'll typically find that weight loss pills are designed to be used in conjunction with an energy-controlled diet and regular exercise. But isn't that what we're trying to avoid by taking the pills in the first place? The truth of the matter is that these products may or may not assist with weight loss - but whatever their impact, it seems that we can't escape actually doing the hard yards if we want to see results. The active ingredients Weight loss pills tend to contain a mix of herbs and vitamins, and often stimulants such as caffeine, which can result in high blood pressure and heart palpitations. Herbs contain many chemicals, the presence and concentration of which can vary according to the source and the preparation. And in most of these weight-loss pills, ingredients are only individually tested for safety, but they may interact with one another or with other medications differently than they do on their own. Amazingly, two products we looked at contained both bitter orange and panax ginseng, which aren't recommended to be taken together due to an increased risk of fatal heart arrhythmias. Hydroxycitric acid (HCA) What is it? A derivative of the fruit from the plant Garcinia cambogia. May also be listed as brindleberry, Malabar tamarind, or Garcinia quaesita. What they say it does Modifies metabolism, reduces fat synthesis and decreases appetite. Can they prove it? Studies provide contradictory evidence. Some show positive results, while others show no difference between the group taking HCA and the placebo. More comprehensive studies are needed. Side effects and interactions None known. It appears to be safe over the short term in the doses studied. Products: Naturopathica FatBlaster Max, Supprexxa Metabolism Formula. Bitter orange What is it? An extract of the Seville orange, it's also known as Citrus aurantium. Used in place of ephedra, as it contains similar compounds. What they say it does Increases metabolism and fat burning while decreasing appetite. Can they prove it? Limited promising evidence; more research is needed on its safety and effectiveness. Side effects and interactions Has been linked with fainting, heart attack and stroke. It is advised that you avoid bitter orange if you have a heart condition or are taking other medications. Products: Rapid Burn Dual Action Weight-loss System, FatBlaster and FatBlaster Max, Hershel-Beck Laboratories Xantrax. Capsicum annum What is it? Capsaicin from chillies. What they say it does Increases metabolic rate and reduces appetite. Can they prove it? Studies on capsaicin are interesting but mixed – one shows that having a spicy entrée can reduce your total food intake over the whole meal. Side effects and interactions Short-term burning pain. Products: Supprexxa Metabolism Formula. Green coffee extract What is it? An extract of raw coffee beans – it's believed that chlorogenic acid is the active ingredient. What they say it does Increases metabolism and glucose control. Can they prove it? There are some positive results from studies. However, the quality of the studies is poor, so more rigorous trials are needed. Side effects and interactions None known, but the product's safety hasn't been confirmed in a large analysis. Has the potential to increase heart rate and blood pressure. Products: Hydroxycut Advanced, Xantrax, FatBlaster Max. Green tea extract What is it? The catechins extracted from green tea. What they say it does Reduces fat synthesis and absorption and increases metabolism. Can they prove it? Conflicting results. Some studies suggest it needs to be taken with caffeine to be effective. Side effects and interactions? Deemed safe when formulated and taken appropriately. There's some concern that green tea extracts may cause liver toxicity, especially if taken on an empty stomach. Products: Xantrax, FatBlaster, FatBlaster Max, Rapid Burn. Chitosan What is it? Derived from the powdered shells of crustaceans. What they say it does Binds to dietary fat to stop absorption. Can they prove it? Studies show varying results, with only minor weight loss shown. Side effects and interactions If it does work, there could be malabsorption of nutrients and loose, oily stools. Products: Rapid Burn. Chromium picolinate What is it? Chromium is an essential trace element commonly used in the form of chromium picolinate. What they say it does Enhances insulin sensitivity and fat burning. May increase lean body mass. Can they prove it? Experts agree there's insufficient evidence to recommend it as a weight-loss aid. Side effects and interactions No studies have reported side effects. However, it may cause DNA damage in high doses. Products: Hydroxycut Advanced, Optislim Max, FatBlaster, FatBlaster Max, Xenadrine Ultra, Rapid Burn, Supprexxa Metabolism Formula. Sprung! Australia has seen two product recalls that bring into question the regulation around listed weight-loss aids. In October 2010, we saw weight-loss chocolate bars pulled from sale as they contained an unlisted ingredient - the prescription drug, sibutramine. Previously a leading prescription weight-loss medicine, sibutramine was withdrawn from the Australian market after being associated with cardiac events such as non-fatal heart attack and stroke. In another worrying event, the heavily advertised Latin Seed was withdrawn for containing poisonous yellow oleander, instead of candle nut as claimed on the label. It can cause a variety of symptoms from diarrhoea to heart damage. While these events are unusual, the fact that they do happen makes it difficult to see how the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) can consider these products "low risk". Government approved? If you think that weight-loss pills are evaluated for safety and efficacy like prescription medicines, think again. The TGA is the body that's been charged with regulating complementary medicines. In Australia, all complementary and alternative medicines – such as weight-loss pills – need to be entered on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods. On this register there are two types of products –"registered goods" and "listed goods" – and it's important to know the difference between the two. Registered goods are medicines that are considered high risk – such as prescription medicines. They are evaluated by the TGA for quality, safety and efficacy before being released onto the market. Listed goods (identified by an AUST L number) are considered lower risk. They must only contain ingredients that have had their safety and quality approved for use in listed products, but they aren't evaluated for efficacy. Manufacturers can apply for a listing by just filling in an online form and paying a fee. Around 20% of products are randomly audited to make sure they meet standards. Manufacturers also have to hold a file of evidence to prove that their products work. Based on the literature we looked at, we suspect their "proof" is pretty underwhelming. In 2008, there were about 100 times more listed weight-loss products than registered products – today there are probably more. The evidence? So, if the products aren't evaluated for efficacy, how do you know whether they are worth the money? The short answer is you don't – unless you do some legwork. We looked at the literature around the most common "active" ingredients. Several systematic reviews have concluded that, at best, more research is needed before any conclusions can be drawn.


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First I would like to say that I have only worked with java for 1 month now. This is probly a pretty simple question. I searched and the classic fruit example did not make any sense to me. I spent hours looking at it and trying to figure out how to apply this to make it work. It does not make any sense to me because everyone explains how to get and set a property with 2 lines of code and no structure statements. I would really appreciate a breakdown in how to talk to non-static from static.
I would like to setText in text box in my OBD2nerForm class from a separate and static class.
public class OBD2nerForm extends java.awt.Frame {
/** Creates new form OBD2nerForm */
public OBD2nerForm() {
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public String setText(String text){
I think I have a static reference to this instance of the form defined here..
public class Status {
public static OBD2nerForm form = new OBD2nerForm();
it is called from my main like this
public class obd2ner {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
Then when I try to call it.. Status.form.getText gives me the initial values when the form is created. When I setText, it does not change the one on the screen.
I am just displaying this to keep it simple. There are many other parts going on. I have a static monitor on a serial port and I want it to grab the next data to be sent from the text box and then increment it.
I just don't understand how to use a getter and a setter on a non-static. It's not quite doing what I need it to do. It seems like I am seeing one instance on my screen and it is using a new instance to perform the getting and setting.
I tried this as per an answer I received, but it did not work...
public class OBD2nerForm extends java.awt.Frame {
String X = "";
//Trying out the runnable method of incrementing the code public String getNewScannerValueRunnable(){
Runnable doWorkRunnable = new Runnable() {
public void run() {
return X;
I could really use some other suggestions. i just don't understand what has to happen here.