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Giants slap Greene with five-match ban
Toby Greene is expected to take the unusual step of formally appealing his five-match club suspension by Greater Western Sydney, on the grounds that the punishment is excessive for a player breaching club protocols.
The Giants said that Greene's manager Paul Connors had notified them of their intention to ''dispute'' the ban.
Greene, who cannot play in either the AFL or with the Giants reserves over the next five matches and was fined $5000, will be seeking a reduced penalty in a case that will be heard by a three-man panel. He has been backed by the AFL Players Association, which said the punishment to Greene was ''disproportionate'' given that the midfielder was being disciplined for ''breach of protocols'' by the club, rather than the incident itself, because the club did not want to pre-empt any court finding.
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Greene was charged by police with a range of offences – including assault by kicking, assault with a weapon and intentionally causing serious injury – after an incident in a Caulfield nightspot on Monday evening. The club's penalty – sanctioned by club management and the player leadership group – was handed down early on Friday.
The appeal is likely to be heard early next week by a panel consisting of a club official, the AFLPA player delegate from the club – probably Jonathan Giles – and an independent person agreed upon by the AFL and the AFLPA.
The Greene camp and players' association accept that Greene should be suspended for drinking while injured and for failing to inform the club of the incident. But they believe that he deserved a one-match or, at worst, two-match suspension for the breaches, given that he will also be dealt with by the courts, and that the club maintains that it is not punishing him for the substance of what prompted the police charges.
He does not face court until September, and will receive counselling.
The Giants' administration, however, believe the punishment is appropriate – they note that it has been approved by the Greene's fellow peers in the leadership group, including captains Phil Davis and Callan Ward, who is one of a number of Giant players managed by Connors.
''The AFL Players Association believes that the penalty imposed on Toby Greene is unwarranted in the circumstances,'' said Brett Murphy, the AFLPA's acting player relations manager. ''It's important to note that the penalty relates to Toby's breach of club protocol. Whilst we support the club not dealing with the alleged incidents for which Toby has been charged at this time, to protect the integrity of the criminal process, a five-week suspension for breach of protocols is grossly disproportionate.''
In announcing the penalty, Giants chief executive David Matthews said: ''We are in no way pre-judging the charges against Toby, which will be heard in court later this year. However, Toby has failed to meet the standards expected of the playing group.''


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It may not be stately, but LGA's goofy 'Xanadu' is a great summer camp
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Sonny Malone (Angel Velasco) isn't the smartest guy in the room — and that's probably true even when he's visiting the monkey house at the zoo. He's the prototypical himbo, the man who's at his best when he's just looking pretty and keeping his mouth closed. Girls used to get relegated to such status; now it's the boys' turn.
But Sonny does like to create art, and he sees it in chalk drawings on the sidewalk in Venice Beach as well as the opportunity to open a roller disco in 1980. (He doesn't have much foresight: By 1981, disco — on wheels and not — was dead and would remain that way for 15 years.) That's when Kira aka Clio (Misty Venters), head Muse (of the Olympus Muses), intervenes. Her job is to inspire humans to create, though she's forbidden to let them know that's what she's there for or create anything herself.
That's what counts as a plot in Xanadu, the very loose stage adaptation of the disastrous Olivia Newton-John film of 1980 better remembered for its soundtrack than for any recognizable dramatic energy. But playwright Douglas Carter Beane took the loose idea of the movie and molded it — and it was pretty moldy to begin with — into a snarky, ironic period comedy where cut-offs, head bands, knee socks and Converse high-tops are the peak of fashion.
The main problem with Xanadu is, paradoxically, also it's chief selling-point: Beane's script. It's very inside baseball, with lots of kitschy in-jokes about Southern California and gay culture, that simultaneously elevate the humor and weigh it down.
"This is children's theater for 40-year-old gay people," one character cracks self-referentially, letting the audience know the actors are just as aware of how ridiculous, even inane, the whole undertaking is, but sallying forth nevertheless through a phalanx of puns and creaky one-liners. Beane dares you not to camp it up with him; you resist at your peril.
All of which makes Xanadu fun and completely frivolous. From the sassy black drag queens who are several of the Muse "sisters" to co-director and supporting player Andi Allen in cat-glasses and a Lucille Ball color-and-wave haircut circa Season 2 of Here's Lucy, it's a calculated send-up of Gen-X iconography told with enthusiastic silliness.
The jukebox score is a pastiche of disco-era radio hits like "Strange Magic" and "Evil Woman," shoehorned together like the random shuffle on an iPod … if you like that kind of stuff — and it's nearly impossible not to like it, considering how committed the cast is to the whole aesthetic. This is Velasco's best stage work (he played Juan in Uptown Players' Altar Boyz three years back), as he projects adorable stupidity and naïvete. ("Even my suicide notes are clichés!" he whines in a moment of despair.)
The rest of the cast is equally adept (it ain't easy dancing on roller skates), and this is Level Grounds Arts' most polished production since moving into the KD Studio Theatre. Gnarly, dude.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition August 12, 2011.


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Injury updates offer both good, bad news for Dodgers
ATLANTA -- Dodgers manager Don Mattingly gave a lengthy injury update Friday that included good news on Zack Greinke, the impending return of second baseman Mark Ellis and a setback for utility man Jerry Hairston.
Greinke came out of his first start after collarbone surgery in good shape and is scheduled to throw a bullpen session Saturday before starting Tuesday in Milwaukee. His only concern was running out of gas in the sixth inning Wednesday, which could be addressed by doing more running between starts, but he also expressed concern about risking injury to his legs if he changes his normal routine.
Ellis played three innings for Double-A Chattanooga on Friday and grounded out in his lone at-bat, and is scheduled to play six innings Saturday. He could rejoin the club Sunday or Monday, and Mattingly said he wasn't worried about Ellis rushing, because "he's pretty honest."
"He knows the circumstances if he comes back and goes down again," Mattingly said.
Hairston developed knee discomfort while rehabbing a groin strain in Arizona and "is on hold right now," Mattingly said.
Reliever Scott Elbert's rehab stint has moved to Double-A Chattanooga, and he could pitch on back-to-back days as soon as this weekend, which would qualify him for activation and give the Dodgers three lefties in the bullpen.
Ted Lilly had one rehab start with Class A Rancho Cucamonga, threw a bullpen session Friday and told the club he's ready to be activated. Mattingly said he wants Lilly to make another rehab start -- a repeat of last month's standoff over the same issue.
"It feels real familiar," Mattingly said. "I understand Ted feels he's ready to pitch, and he sees what Zack did out a month with one rehab start."
Hanley Ramirez began playing catch and is hitting in the cage, but after seeing Matt Kemp relapse from the same injury last year, Mattingly concedes he's concerned about anything close to rushing a player back from a bad hamstring pull.
Josh Beckett was able to play catch and reported his strained groin had improved considerably. Stephen Fife's healing shoulder was able to handle a 50-pitch bullpen session Friday.
Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Farmers are maintaining momentum as corn harvest progress flirts with 70 percent, though wetter weather could slow progress by the weekend. In its weekly update, the USDA showed in its latest Crop Progress report that corn harvest is now at 69 percent complete, just shy of meeting trader expectations.
"They've been going gangbusters harvesting - we're expecting corn harvest 70 to 75 percent complete this afternoon and 65 percent for bean harvest," a Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) grain industry source told Reuters.
The 2012 corn harvest continues to shatter records and is again setting a course to put the year's harvest into the history books.
Currently, the nation is nearly a month ahead of the 26-year harvest average dating to the Crop Progress' inception in 1985. Few years come close to matching 2012's record pace:
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All of the top 18 corn-producing states made impressive advancement in harvest corn, with North Dakota making the biggest jump from 36 percent last week to 63 percent this week. Other states with notable gains include Minnesota (25 percentage points), South Dakota (23 percentage points), and Iowa (20 percent).
Click here to see how your state is doing.
The USDA will release the next crop production estimate on Thursday, and analysts with Doane's Agriculture Report expect the government to again drop crop production from the September estimate at 10.7 billion bushels, to 10.4 billion bushels. They also expect the USDA to lower the yield to 121.1 bushels per acre from 122.8 bushels last month. Harvested acreage will likely be revised lower as well, to 86.2 million acres - down 1.2 million from the previous estimate.
Soybeans zoom past 50 percent
Though many eyes are on the nation's corn, progress was also made with soybean harvest.
Currently 58 percent of the nation's soybeans have been harvested, which also falls short of CBOT expectations. However, this week's advancement puts the 2012 harvest 18 percentage points above the five-year average.
Individually, five of the top soybean-producing states reported at or below their state's progress last year. Kansas is currently 12 percentage points behind 2011's report. Other states struggling from last year's pace include Missouri, Louisiana, South Dakota and North Carolina.
Wetter weather ahead
Next week's Crop Progress could show a slight slowdown from the nation's producers as a wetter weather pattern develops. According to Don Keeney, meteorologist for MDA EarthSat Weather, the entire Midwest could receive between 1 to 3 inches of rain, starting Saturday and lasting through the end of next week. Keeney expects the heaviest rains to be in Missouri, eastern Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan.


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A top member of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration, upon accepting an appointment to work for New York City's incoming mayor, delivered Thursday a sharp critique of her current boss' approach to homelessness — a rare public rebuke of a sitting mayor from a subordinate.
At a news conference, Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio named Lilliam Barrios-Paoli, Mr. Bloomberg's commissioner of the city's Department for the Aging since 2009, as his new deputy mayor for health and human services. Ms. Barrios-Paoli is to replace her boss, Linda Gibbs, who has held the deputy mayor post since January 2006.
Ms. Barrios-Paoli strongly criticized the Bloomberg administration's policies on homelessness, denouncing a decision to cancel a rent subsidy program in 2011 that contributed to a dramatic increase in the city's shelter population. There are more than 52,000 people in city shelters, including more than 22,000 children, an all-time high. Since Mr. Bloomberg took office in 2002, the number of people in shelters has increased 71% and the number of families in shelter increased 83%.
"For a long time, there's been a very negative perception of who the poor are, and we have mistreated them in many ways," Ms. Barrios-Paoli said. "We have been punitive. We have assumed that people are poor just because they choose to be poor as opposed to because life happened to them. And I think we need to change that attitude."
"I would have done many things differently," she said, speaking of the Bloomberg administration.
Mr. Bloomberg and Ms. Gibbs, who are leaving city government on Dec. 31, declined to respond to Ms. Barrios-Paoli's remarks, Mr. Bloomberg's spokesman said. A spokeswoman for the city's Department of Homeless Services did not respond to a request for comment.
Ms. Barrios-Paoli said she "clearly shared" her concerns with deputy mayors about the current administration's approach to homelessness, but she suggested her thoughts fell on deaf ears. As an agency head, she said, she couldn't affect policies in other departments.
Ms. Barrios-Paoli was particularly critical of the city's decision to cancel the rental subsidy program known as Advantage, which helped previously homeless families transition to housing. The Bloomberg administration cut Advantage after the state cut its contribution to the program, a decision that also eliminated federal funding.
The mayor-elect and Ms. Barrios-Paoli said they will reinstitute a similar rent-subsidy program, making city funding for it a priority. "There are many ways of getting to that housing subsidy with present funding streams," said Ms. Barrios-Paoli, marking a clear disagreement with Mr. Bloomberg, who said the city doesn't have the money to pay for this program.
Ms. Barrios-Paoli, a former nun, said she has spent the bulk of her career trying to help the poor. She described her appointment to Mr. de Blasio's administration as invigorating because combating poverty is a "central tenet" of his agenda, "not just an afterthought, not just something that it would be good to do."
"I totally believe that we're living a tale of two cities. No question about it," she said, referring to Mr. de Blasio's campaign theme. "I hope to bring a new respect for the poor."
Mr. Bloomberg has previously lambasted Mr. de Blasio's "two cities" theme as divisive.
Ms. Barrios-Paoli previously served as head of the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Personnel Department, Department of Employment and the Human Resources Administration, the nation's largest public welfare agency. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani removed her as head of the welfare agency in 1997 after the two repeatedly clashed.
Mr. de Blasio said Ms. Barrios-Paoli has an "extraordinarily compassionate heart" and is confident she will reverse social services trends in the city, particularly with homelessness.
"An ever-growing homeless population is unacceptable to the future of New York City — it's just literally unacceptable," Mr. de Blasio said. "It will not happen on our watch."


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Friday, September 22, 2017
Pulmonary Fibrosis
When hospice comes in to make the patient comfortable what usually happens at this point? With carbon dioxide slowly building up to 63 over time, does the patient usually go into a coma before death? What is the average length of time that a person lives when this process starts? Thank You.
Hospice is usually started when it is estimated that a patient has less than 6 months to live, although the actual time of life left can be much shorter than 6 months in many patients.
As carbon dioxide builds up, patients tend to get sleepier and sleepier and eventually do go into a coma. The duration of time that this takes is highly variable and can be days or weeks.The role of hospice is to find ways of maintaining patient comfort and this can include oxygen, medications to relieve anxiety (such as lorazapam or diazepam), and medications to relieve pain or shortness of breath (such as morphine or hydromorphone).
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We had our chicken pox vaccination in May 2007. They asked us to take the second set of vaccines 2 months later. Why do we have to take the chicken pox vaccines over 2 sessions? Does this mean only if we take our 2nd set of shots the vaccination is complete? We are going on a trip to India next month so I just wanted to know if we have to take the second vaccine in order for us to be safe. Please advise.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization and Prophylaxis (ACIP) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) now recommend a booster dose of the varicella (chicken pox) vaccine. Over several decades of experience with the vaccine, immunity to chicken pox disease has been found to decrease significantly in a number of teens and young adults who received the vaccine as young children. This has made it easy for them to get chicken pox during the years when it makes a person sicker.
Your doctor is doing the right thing by advising you to get the best protection against illness with the chicken pox virus by receiving two doses of the vaccine at least 2 months apart.
Have a wonderful trip and stay healthy.
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My home course is totally awesome, except the tee locations have moved several times during the first few years of the course's life as it has been tweaked by local players/ clay tees replaced by concrete...etc.
I am about to undertake the challenge of re-measuring the course from the current tee locations.
My question is this: What is the best method of doing this without specialty equipment?
I can get a few of my buddies to help me, we were thinking about using pre-measured string and just measuring from point A (front of tee) to point B (central pole in basket) Should we follow the fairway or should we just go in a straight line from tee to basket? Any tips would be appreciated!


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Two East All-Stars pledge $1,000 per point
By Marc Stein
If you notice Tracy McGrady and Jermaine O'Neal calling for the ball more than usual in the forthcoming All-Star Game, there's a good reason.
McGrady and O'Neal both pledged to donate $1,000 for each point that they score for the Eastern Conference -- McGrady to the Florida Children's Hospital in Orlando and O'Neal to the Housing Authority, with the funds split between branches in Indianapolis and his hometown of Columbia, S.C. An official announcement is expected Thursday.
"Those kids, along with all Orlando Magic fans, will be on my mind on All-Star Sunday," McGrady said.
McGrady and O'Neal have grown close through their association with USA Basketball and as young stars in the East with much in common. The idea to stage a friendly competition for charity in the All-Star Game grew out of their joint venture at last year's All-Star Game, when both players invited the mothers and children from families whose fathers were away serving the country in the Iraq war.
McGrady will be playing in his fourth straight All-Star Game. He scored 29 points in last February's game in Atlanta. O'Neal, an Indiana Pacers forward-center, will be making his third consecutive appearance. He scored 10 points in Atlanta.


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"Retailers and suppliers are in a tug of war," asserted Bill McBeath, co-founder and chief research officer of ChainLink Research, Cambridge, Mass., when he opened the Supply Chain Summit session, "Supply Chain Orchestrator."
McBeath's suggestion was to replace the traditional approach of a retailer selecting a supplier that in turn selects its supplier, with a supply chain orchestrator that would manage and oversee the entire product life cycle.
After posing the rhetorical question: "When should you trust your trading partners and when should you withhold information?" he promptly answered, "Never, and never."
Joining McBeath in the presentation was Ellen Martin, VP, supply chain information systems, for branded-apparel supplier and retailer VF Corp.
"If you share knowledge with a trading partner you may be giving away a competitive advantage to the next company that goes to them," Martin said. "But we had to take that risk. Every partner in the supply chain has to make money, and we couldn't do to our suppliers what we wouldn't do to our own plants."
VF Corp., which had 2006 revenues of more than $6 billion and is based in Greensboro, N.C., operates more than 850 retail stores, manages roughly 1 million SKUs every year and currently has active partnerships with 1,578 factories throughout the world.
Martin cited strategies that have helped VF to better orchestrate its global supply chain, including establishing creative partnerships, getting closer to the source and achieving the right mix of off-shore vs. near-shore suppliers.
VF now has 800 employees in Hong Kong and has recently opened its first prototype showroom in China. "Our designers can spend a week in this showroom making adjustments, and we've been able to reduce the lead time for prototyping from 70 days to 22 days," she reported. "That makes a huge competitive difference."
The company also owns plants in Mexico, which provide the near-shore presence necessary for faster replenishment.


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Case Type: Mortgage Foreclosure, Other Contract & Other Civil
Court File No: 10-CV-12-1631
MidCountry Bank, f/k/a Bayside Bank, Plaintiff, vs. John H. Cross, Sr., Judith L. Cross, Brian Nelson and Cheryl Nelson, Defendants.
1. YOU ARE BEING SUED. The Plaintiff has started a lawsuit against you. The Plaintiff's Complaint against you is attached to this Summons. Do not throw these papers away. They are official papers that affect your rights. You must respond to this lawsuit even though it may not yet be filed with the Court and there may be no Court File Number on this Summons.
2. YOU MUST REPLY WITHIN 20 DAYS TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS. You must give or mail to the person who signed this Summons a written response called an Answer within 20 days of the date on which you received this Summons. You must send a copy of your Answer to the person who signed this Summons located at:
Gislason & Hunter LLP
2700 South Broadway
P. O. Box 458
New Ulm, MN 56073
3. YOU MUST RESPOND TO EACH CLAIM. The Answer is your written response to the Plaintiff's Complaint. In your Answer you must state whether you agree or disagree with each paragraph of the Complaint. If you believe the Plaintiff should not be given everything asked for in the Complaint, you must say so in your Answer.
4. YOU WILL LOSE YOUR CASE IF YOU DO NOT SEND A WRITTEN RESPONSE TO THE COMPLAINT TO THE PERSON WHO SIGNED THIS SUMMONS. If YOU DO NOT Answer within 20 days, you will lose this case. You will not get to tell your side of the story, and the Court may decide against you and award the Plaintiff everything asked for in the Complaint. If you do not want to contest the claims stated in the Complaint, you do not need to respond. A default judgment can then be entered against you for the relief requested in the Complaint.
5. LEGAL ASSISTANCE. You may wish to get legal help from a lawyer. If you do not have a lawyer, the Court Administrator may have information about places where you can get legal assistance. Even if you cannot get legal help, you must still provide a written Answer to protect your rights or you may lose the case.
6. ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION. The parties may agree to or be ordered to participate in an alternative dispute resolution process under Rule 114 of the Minnesota General Rules of Practice. You must still send your written response to the Complaint even if you expect to use alternative means of resolving this dispute.
7. THIS LAWSUIT MAY AFFECT OR BRING INTO QUESTION TITLE TO REAL PROPERTY located in Carver County, State of Minnesota, legally described as follows:
That part of the North 350 feet of the Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 35, township 117 North, Range 25 West of the 5th Principal Meridian, lying Westerly of a line drawn South parallel with the West line of said Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter from a point on the North line of said Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter distant 366 feet East of the Northwest corner of said Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, excepting therefrom the North 270.00 feet of the East 140.00 feet thereof. (Commonly known as 11165 Highway 7, Waconia, Minnesota, 55387).
The object of this action in part is for the purpose of foreclosing the mortgage held by MidCountry Bank, f/k/a Bayside Bank, covering property situated, lying, and being in County of Carver, State of Minnesota, more particularly described as shown above, dated November 7, 2003, and recorded in the office of the Carver County Recorder on April 2, 2004, as Document Number A-383208.
Dated this 5th day of December, 2012.
Signed: Justin P. Weinberg #313798
John M. Schmid #0393382
Attorneys for Plaintiff MidCountry Bank
2700 South Broadway
P. O. Box 458
New Ulm, MN 56073-0458
Fax: 507-354-8447
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I was looking over the ATF website on the definition of a machine gun and ran across:
2.1.6 Machinegun. "Firearms within the definition of machinegun include weapons that shoot, are designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot without manual reloading by a single function of the trigger."
So a former life of engineering systems to defeat or seriously degrade other systems and requirements started me to wonder...
Would a weapon be classified as machine gun if the weapon had multiple triggers, attached mechanical, electronic, remotely or otherwise, where squeezing "N" number of fingers (or toes or other people or other environmental conditions) would result in "N" number of bullets being discharged? In this scenario, only 1 shot would be discharged per trigger activation. For instance the movement of a finger forward or backwards would each be an individual activation, and moving all 4 fingers forward and backwards would result in 8 shots being discharged.
How about a trigger that was activated once based upon detection of an external condition: Sound, heartbeat, whatever.
I have to believe this has been addressed before, but didn't see anything related on this or other sites.
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|December 29, 2011, 02:48 PM
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One pull of a trigger, one shot. Not a machine gun. Like pulling both triggers on a double barrel shotgun. One pull one shot.
Now if you have a device to actuate multiple triggers with one pull the ATF may frown on that. However it is not for us to say what they would think of such a device, it is up to the great guys over in Tech Branch.
Now a device that fires on a trigger pull and the trigger release has been presented to the ATF and they ruled that it is not a machinegun. They determined that releasing the trigger is a single and separate function and not full auto fire. I think people modify Mini 14s to fire this way.
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There was a fairly popular lower grip made for a paintball application that fired when squeezed and fired when released. You could also do a single shot if you wish, which depended simply upon the length of your pull. You could fire insanely fast with this setup. Downside was, length of pull, and a pull weight of about a metric ton. There were also some very very creative electronic firing systems, some of them made specifically for getting around full auto (paintgun) restrictions.
I'm somewhat surprised that the regular firearms industry has not taken a look at some of the innovations in the paintball world. I know they aren't real firearms, but it doesn't change the fact there were some very ingenious and robust firing solutions. Some of which you'd think uncle sam might be interested in since he doesn't have the legal limitations us civies do.
A lot of the electronic triggers were multi function in that they could be fired semi auto, full auto, 2,3,4 shot burst, or some even had a "ramp" mode. This was like the mentioned pull fire/release fire, but if you maintained the pull/release cycle at a specific rate the gun would begin to fire in a full auto like fashion, with an rpm of your choosing. Most of this could be programmed via a series of trigger presses while in "safe" mode.
Anyway, point is I'm surprised there haven't been more innovation in the civilian industries efforts to skirt the full auto issue.
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Maybe make an AR with three very thin triggers placed right next to each over so that they feel like one. This way you can simulate three shot burst.
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But FYI electronic or remote control triggers are also illegal.
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I came up with the idea of an attachable "pump" (like the pump on a pump shotgun) that when slid back and forth would depress the trigger multiple times. You could control the rate of fire by how fast you slide the pump back and forth. It would be legal - no different than a gat trigger, just more effective.
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Really? I'd be curious to see the exact verbiage on this if you can cite it or link it. I don't doubt what you're saying, I'd just like to see how they have it worded.
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The ATF has closed perceived loopholes as soon as they have been exploited for the last 25 years.
The purpose of the Hughes Amendment was to fix the supply of transferable machine guns to what it was on May 19, 1986, at about 183,000. The ATF lives and breathes by that intention. Machine guns were not easy to get pre-86. The ATF did not accept Revocable Living Trusts at that time and many CLEOs would not sign for cheap machine guns. Many of those transferables were created in 1985-86.
The $200 tax was about $400 in today's money, not too bad, but enough to keep people away. You could get a semi-auto AR for about $425. With taxes, if you could get approval without an extremely large donation to a police charity, you would pay about $800 for a good converted receiver AR or $1600 in today's dollars. Cheap bulk ammo wasn't really widely available back then either. Feeding the beast was really expensive. Reselling was a problem, too, as you would have to eat the $200 tax you paid. For these reasons, demand was not really very high.
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In order to understand the ATF you need to be a lawyer... or understand complete gibberish. It's kind of like trying to understand any sort of law/government document.
But I think this may start you on your way. http://nerdbastards.com/2011/12/27/w...e-now-you-can/
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ATF put out a letter in the past, and I've seen it, in which they state that an electronic trigger actuation is classified as a machine gun, since a single activation of the electronic device results in multiple actuations of the firearm. In other words, push a button once, get multiple rounds fired, machine gun. Crank fire triggers require the crank to be activated for each and every round fired, so they are legal. Electronic actuation of a crank fire device is a machine gun (single activation of a button to turn the crank). Think of a mini gun where an electric motor turns the barrel and results in multiple firings of the gun with a single depression of the trigger.
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I have to love the various and devious ways folks keep trying to come up with "something" that will fire like a machinegun but won't be a machinegun.
Why does the term "jailhouse lawyer" keep coming to mind?
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I think I missed the part about electronic triggers. All I saw there was the definition of "machine gun". Of course, reading comprehension might be down a bit. It IS the day after New Years Eve after all.
Based ONLY on the info in the link above it would seem an electronic trigger could be made to work. In the above link it says if the trigger WHILE BEING HELD DEPRESSED allows the weapon to continue to fire until empty, it is a machine gun.
I mentioned earlier an E trigger that could be made to fire in a machine gun like fashion, but the shooter had to continuously pull and release the trigger at a certain rate to maintain the rate of fire. That doesn't quite fit the definition.
To me all this is just a mental exercise. While I'm sure shooting an automatic weapon is just as much fun today as it was when I was in the Corp, it would also be considerably more expensive since I'd be footing the bill, and as a civilian shooter I don't see much of a practical use for it.
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I think my link was for something else...mini-gun, not remote operated trigger system....sorry.
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I have limited experience with BATFE and other "Feds" but I know that like most cops they don't like wiseguys. If someone gets caught with an unregistered machinegun and has not committed, or had the intent to commit, any other crime, the odds are that he will get a good lecture, his "project" will be confiscated, and he will be sent home to think about the error of his ways. But the guy who tries to outsmart them by claiming that his bright idea is really not a law violation, and that they are mentally deficient for even thinking about interfering with his fun, is going to be in line for a lot of interesting discussion, some of which might be with a cellmate.
Those regulations were written by lawyers, with the help of the BATFE Tech Division, guys who have handled and fired more machineguns than most of us have ever seen, including kinds you never even read about. Believe it or not, they really do know what they are talking about, and anyone planning to outsmart them better have some second thoughts.
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So if you had an electronic system that fired 600 rounds per minute (10 per second) if you manually pulled the trigger 4 times a second, it would be classified as a machine gun. You are only pulling the trigger 4 times a second but 10 rounds per second are fired. More than 1 round per trigger pull equals machine gun.
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An electronic button that operates multiple triggers is considered "the trigger" - think drill that causes a trigger to be depressed multiple times; the drill is the machine gun - ATF has already addressed this, before paintball was popular.
Devices that permit a gun to fire on the press and on the release of a trigger were invented many years ago - google "staple Mini-14" or read this: http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/i...p/t-62411.html
People have tried to come up with many ways to get around what does and does not constitute a machine gun. The bottom line is that most are illegal or simply don't work. Every now and then something actually works. The only three things that I know of that simulate full-auto fire that are legal are: Bump-fire stock; gattling gun set-ups; "staple" thingy on a mini-14.
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I might as well as hit two birds with one stone, here. Use a rubber band.
With a little practice, you can get really good at it. If anything, you can switch between single-shot and "fully auto" more effectively than a select-fire
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What if instead of putting the triggers far apart like on a double barrel shotgun you were to put them right next to each over so that one finger could pull multiple triggers. Essentially it would feel like pulling a single trigger when in reality you would be pulling two or more.
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Protecting ICSs from Electronic Threats, II
ICS Security Is a Lifecycle Process that Begins With Conceptual Design of a System and Continues Through to Its Retirement
By Joe WEISS, PE, CISM, Applied Control
The following is the second section of a three-part Security Spotlight series that consists of portions of Joe Weiss' Protecting Industrial Control Systems from Electronic Threats, Momentum Press, 2010. Part 1 ran in the June issue of Control, and Part 3 will run in the October issue. In industrial control systems (ICS), cyber attacks tend to focus on destabilizing assets. Because integrity and availability are most important for ICSs, their security also relies more on authentication and message integrity.
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- "Control system cyber forensics exist." Windows-based HMIs have cyber forensics, but legacy field devices have very little.
- "Control system audit metrics exist." There are no audit metrics specifically for control system cybersecurity.
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Arguably, there are less than several hundred people worldwide with expertise that falls in the realm of ICS security experts. Of that very small number, an even smaller fraction exists within the electric power community.
There are many reasons for this imbalance. As opposed to traditional business IT, the area of ICS cybersecurity is a still developing area. It's an interdisciplinary field encompassing computer science, networking, public policy and engineering control system theory and applications. Unfortunately, today's computer science curricula often do not address the unique aspects of control systems. Likewise, most of the electrical, chemical, mechanical, nuclear and industrial engineering curricula don't address computer security.
Consequently, there is a need to form joint programs for ICS security. Presently, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are developing an ICS security curriculum at the policy level, but there is still a need to develop the technical curriculum.
In addition, the U.S. Department of Energy funded a project in 2004 that helped establish its Computer Emergency.
Response Team (CERT) for the energy industry's control systems, and this has been expanded to include other industries as the Industrial Control System (ICS) CERT. However, the CERT/Coordination Center (CC) at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute and other existing CERTs have little experience in dealing with the direct cyber impacts of Internet- and other cyber-based attacks on ICSs. What is needed is a non-governmental ICS-CERT capability that deals, not only with traditional Internet-based cyber vulnerabilities and threats, but also with those that arise at the intersection of network-based IT systems and ICSs. This ICS-CERT would collect and process cybersecurity reports for ICS end users, distribute alerts and recommendations, develop and disseminate best practices and training on countermeasures, and analyze new data to support existing activities and form responses to new threats.
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DETROIT - Elliott Management is offering to buy Compuware for about $2.35 billion.
The New York-based investment firm wants to acquire the software developer for $11 per share. The offer represents a 15 percent premium over Compuware's Friday closing stock price. Compuware shares jumped 14 percent in morning trading.
Elliott currently holds an 8 percent stake in Compuware. It says that while the Detroit-based company has strong assets, its profitability and growth have significantly lagged in recent years.
Elliott says it's confident that it can find financing for such a deal and wants to meet with the company's board as soon as possible.
Statement from Compuware
"Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR) confirmed today that its Board of Directors has received an unsolicited, conditional, [non-binding] proposal from Elliott Management Corporation to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Compuware for $11.00 per share. The Board said it will review all aspects of the proposal in consultation with its financial and legal advisors in due course. The Board emphasized that shareholders need not take any action at this time."
Karmanos stepping down but staying involved
The offer comes about a month after Compuware founder Peter Karmanos Jr. announced plans to step down as executive chairman next year. He stepped down as CEO in 2011.
The 69-year-old is expected to become a consultant for Compuware, earning $600,000 a year. The move to leave the company's board is effective March. 31. Karmanos in 2011 stepped down as Compuware's chief executive.
Karmanos will be succeeded as nonexecutive chairman by Gurminder Bedi, the company's lead independent director.
Karmanos moved Compuware's headquarters in 2002 from suburban Farmington Hills to a new building in downtown Detroit. He had said earlier that he was aiming to retire by 2013, when he turns 70 and the company turns 40.
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I found this tray when cleaning out our old family home in Stuttgart Ar. Great Grandpa was a pretty hard corp evangelical preacher but they were German and did like their beer. I'm guessing this was a souvineer of a trip to visit family in Illinois pre 1930.
When I saw it I thought it must be some kind of knock off but since I've been seaching for something like it and the closest I've found is one with a darker or black outer trim and looked like it had been tossed around some.
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Johnson stands by Gonzalez after Bosch report
VIERA, Fla. -- Nationals manager Davey Johnson said he supports left-hander Gio Gonzalez, who denied that he used performance-enhancing drugs. A report from the Miami New Times linked the left-hander to Anthony Bosch, who reportedly supplied PEDs to professional athletes from Miami.
Gonzalez reiterated recently that he didn't use PEDs, and Johnson believes him.
"Knowing Gio, I figured there's nothing much to it," Johnson said. "I got to know him real well. I know that he is very conscious of taking care of himself. I know all pitchers are looking for vitamins and whatever they can to help, but he takes care of himself very well. I'm sure he wouldn't do anything to break the rules."
Even though Gonzalez's name has surfaced in the Miami New Times, it has not intensified the Nationals' search to look for a starting pitcher in case Gonzalez is suspended.
"I can't talk about the Gio situation. Right now, I expect to put him in the lineup every fifth day," general manager Mike Rizzo said.
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I'll tell you when you get a little older.
But I want to know.
Well, I'll tell you where taxes come from in other countries, OK? They come from the idea that if we all pool our resources we can better acquire things like schools, hospitals, parks, trains, you know, things that belong to everybody.
But what about our country?
Well, in our country we pay for private schools if we want good schools, and we all buy something called health insurance to take care of us if we get sick, and a teeny bit of our taxes goes to parks and trains, but we don't have very many of those, and we pay for some of them with local taxes. We pay local taxes, state taxes, and national taxes, and lots of other fees. We pay as much in taxes as people in those other countries, but our taxes are different. They come from a different place, and we'll talk about it when you're a little bit bigger.
Why? Why can't I know now?
Well, I can tell you a little part of the story. One reason we pay taxes is to create lots of billionaires. Those are super rich people. Other countries have schools and vacations and doctors, but we have billionaires.
What do we want them for?
Well, we don't really want them, but once we have them it's hard to get rid of them, since some of them decide who pays taxes and who doesn't.
So, taxes come from billionaires? Where did the first billionaire come from?
No, no. Taxes and billionaires both come from something else, and we'll talk about it a little later. Let's go outside and play right now.
But I want to know first.
It's not something that it's nice to talk about, not even in the bathroom. I know: let's go for a walk downtown and maybe we'll get an ICE CREAM CONE, huh?
After you tell me.
Oh boy. All right, taxes come from war. Now let's get out the soccer ball.
You mean killing people?
Yes, killing people.
How does killing people make taxes?
All right. You really want to know, huh? OK, well, when they first made this country, they decided that taxes might be needed in order to pay for guns, cannons, war ships, and soldiers. Alexander Hamilton — you know about him, right? — he didn't have very good luck with guns, but he argued for federal (that's national) taxes in case of wars. The government mostly paid for itself and the little that it did with tariffs. That means it got a little money from everyone who shipped things into the country. But it also taxed certain things, like whiskey — you know that stuff that Uncle Jim was drinking so much of when — yeah, well, the government charged money from people selling whiskey, and there was a rebellion. That means the farmers selling the whiskey refused to pay. So George Washington decided to go and kill some of those farmers — or threaten to with lots of soldiers, and that cost money, so the government created taxes to pay for threatening to kill the people who protested paying taxes. Later it stopped taxing whiskey because people still wouldn't pay.
Then, in 1789, the government wanted to build lots of big ships in case it wanted to kill people in other countries, and so it began taxing property. So, if you owned something big, like a house, you could have to pay taxes for that. Now we could have lots of ships and sailors who could go kill people far away.
Why did we want to do that?
Well, you and I weren't alive back then, and probably most people didn't want it. But some rich people wanted to ship stuff all over the world, and sometimes people in other parts of the world caused problems. So, a bunch of sailors sailed their ship into a place called Tripoli and blew themselves up. Someone told them to do that and they did it, which is why we shouldn't always just do what someone tells us without thinking about it.
Like when you tell me not to eat mashed potatoes with my fingers?
Do you want me to tell you this or not? OK, then listen. Now, in 1798 the French caused trouble and we had to be taxed more. Then in 1812 the British and the Canadians and all kinds of people were out to get us just because we invaded their country, and so we had to have a lot more taxes. We had to pay taxes for owning land, for selling things in stores, for making alcohol, for holding auctions, for buying sugar or carriages, whatever they could think of. In 1815 they brought back the whiskey tax too, and all kinds of other taxes. They thought about creating an income tax — that is a tax on the money you get paid for your job — but they didn't do it.
Then came the Civil War, and BOOM we got the income tax. The North got it in 1862 and we backward Southerners didn't get it until 1863. Rich people didn't fight in the war, so they had to help pay for it, and for our first big government social program — which was the taking care of the veterans after the war. The income taxes were progressive. That means rich people paid at a higher rate than other people. They also had to pay taxes on inheritance, on leaving money to their kids when they died. Nonetheless, the Civil War created super rich people who made money from the weapons.
After the Civil War, in 1872, the income tax and the inheritance tax ended. Taxes shrank and also went back to burdening ordinary people more than the rich people.
That is, until World War I came along, with a very big advertising campaign, restrictions on what you could do and say, and prison for anyone opposed to the war. Now we got an income tax, and estate tax, and more excise taxes — that's taxes you pay for buying things — and taxes on corporations and excess profits. Big new taxes were created in 1914, 1916, 1917, and 1918. And our government moved away from taxing foreign goods shipped into the country. I guess killing foreign people was considered bad enough. We wouldn't want to tax them on top of killing them. But weapons makers and the corporations and the wealthy got taxed. In 1917, the government got 74% of its money by taxing the wealthy and another 13% by taxing luxuries (that is, stuff that mostly the wealthy buy).
After World War I, the government got rid of the excess profits tax and lowered the top income tax rate from 77% to 25%. But then came World War II, which — as far as war-taxes and the draft — got going long before Pearl Harbor. The income tax, for the first time, was applied not only to the wealthy but to 90% of workers. The top rate went up to 94%, and by the end of the war the income tax was raising 40% of the government's money. The top corporate tax rate went up to 95% and raised almost a third of the government's money. A Disney cartoon said "It takes taxes to beat the Axis!" An Irving Berlin song said: "You see those bombers in the sky? Rockefeller helped to build them. So did I!"
By 1943, Congress began cutting taxes on corporations and shifting the burden to ordinary people. When the war ended, taxes were cut, but not back to where they had started. And they were cut by Congress overriding a presidential veto. However, the president started a new war in Korea, and Congress started raising taxes again. And they've never gone away. They've just shifted more and more from rich people to the rest of us.
We've built a permanent military, as if we're always at war. And we've managed to usually be at war in one little country or another. Now, 57% of government spending (in President Obama's proposal for 2013) goes to wars and preparations for wars — that is, if we don't count special programs that pay for themselves with special taxes of their own, like Social Security. Our country has 5% of the people in the world and over 50% of the war spending.
And we hate taxes.
We hate taxes because they were created for war, all they buy us is wars and billionaires, and we don't get in return anything like what people get in other countries. We pay our taxes, and then we have to pay for everything we do, like visiting parks, going to school, seeing the doctor. Taxes came from wars in other countries too, but they changed that. In Costa Rica they have no military except in a museum, and their taxes pay for museums instead of wars. Maybe we should think about changing our taxes too. What do you think?
I'll work on that. After you get me the ice cream.
David Swanson's books include "War Is A Lie." He blogs at http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and works for the online activist organization http://rootsaction.org. He hosts Talk Nation Radio.


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narraboth wrote:To reply your post, I think it's normal that you need a transmission to practice it? So it's probably not 'too bad.'
Hehe, it is too bad if you'd like to actually practice it.
I don't know what they are, but if it's tsa lung practice, even you got WANG and LUNG you wouldn't be able to practice it properly.
No there's just some visualizations. But why wouldn't you be able to practice it (edit: I mean tsa lung) properly even with wang and lung?
udawa wrote:Allowing for Mutsuk's very helpful comments about unreliability issues in the translation, I'm still wondering whether it's worth reading. Any thoughts?
If you're interested for practical purposes and have transmission then it's worth reading. If you don't have transmission but are curious I think it's still worth reading as it is an interesting text, but I don't think there are many practical things in it.


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BRADENTON, Fla. -- Francisco Liriano was acing the test of his penultimate spring start, taking deliberate steps toward his Opening Day assignment -- until he had to unexpectedly come out of Thursday night's Grapefruit League game.
Liriano dealt with some tightness in the area of his left groin muscle all game, and he departed after the last two pitches he threw raised the concern of his catcher.
Liriano was working on a four-hit shutout with two outs in the sixth inning when catcher Russell Martin thought Liriano's 2-and-1 pitch to the Orioles' Adam Jones was on the funky side.
"He'd been spot-on the whole game and the last couple of pitches didn't come out right. I know he was feeling it all game, and I didn't want to see my pitcher have to battle through an inning in Spring Training," said Martin, who immediately motioned manager Clint Hurdle and assistant athletic trainer Ben Potenziano out of the dugout.
After a few minutes of consultation, Liriano left the field and the game.
"It was just a little tightness. I felt it the whole game," said Liriano, his left thigh wrapped in a thick ice pack. "I didn't want to push it and have it get worse. I don't think it's that bad at all. I don't think it's serious. I just want to make sure I'm ready for Opening Day."
Liriano's prognosis will greatly depend on how he feels Friday morning.
"We always talked to him [throughout the game]," Hurdle said. "The last two pitches he threw just didn't look the same."
Until then, Liriano was, as Martin described, spot-on.
"He was really good. Popping strikes, working quick," Hurdle said. "He got in a real nice groove, settled in by the third inning."
Liriano wound up making 76 pitches, and his target was 85. So, other than the abrupt departure, the tuneup was all it was meant to be. Whether the groin issue interrupts his path to the season will soon be determined.
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I've shared a few recipes for grilled pork chops, including one that a Lake Powell client used to call the best pork chops in the world, but this recipe is destined to become a new favorite as well. I loved how the touch of cumin and oregano in this marinade worked with the flavor of the grilled pork. I used thick boneless pork loin chops from Costco, and for grilling this type of lean pork chop I think using a marinade is essential to keep the meat moist. These pork chops were juicy and delicious, definitely a repeater at my house.
(Makes 4 thick pork chops, can easily be doubled. Recipe created by Kalyn.)
4 boneless pork loin chops (1 inch thick)
Marinade Ingredients:
1/4 cup soy sauce (I used Tamari Gluten-Free Soy Sauce; for Paleo use Coconut Aminos instead of soy sauce.)
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 tsp. ground cumin
1/2 tsp. dried oregano (I used Mexican Oregano)
pinch of Chipotle chile powder (or use a dash of hot sauce)
1/2 tsp. onion powder (or use 1-2 tsp. grated fresh onion)
1/2 tsp. garlic powder (or use 1-2 tsp. freshly minced garlic)
(I rarely use onion powder or garlic powder, but a marinade like this is one place where I think they work well)
When you're ready to cook, take pork chops out of the refrigerator and let them come to room temperature. Whether you're cooking on an outdoor grill or using a stove-top grill pan, spray with non-stick spray or olive oil, then preheat the grill or pan to medium-high before you start to cook. (You can only hold your hand there for a few seconds at that heat.) To get criss-cross grill marks, lay the meat at an angle for 2-3 minutes, then rotate 45 degrees after you have the first set of marks.
Grilling time can vary greatly depending on the temperature of the grill, temperature of the meat, and even air temperature when grilling outdoors. I cooked the pork chops in this photo not quite 5 minutes per side. I highly recommend using an instant-read meat thermometer to tell when they're done, but if you don't have one, the pork chops should feel firm to the touch (not hard). Remember that grilled meats continue to cook for a few minutes when you take them off the grill, and don't overcook.
South Beach Diet / Low-Carb Diet Suggestions:
More Pork Chops on the Grill:
(Recipes from other blogs may not always be South Beach Diet or Low-Carb friendly, check ingredients.)
Kalyn's Souvlaki
Grilled Ginger Soy Pork Chops
Grilled Pork Chops with Lemon, Garlic, and Sage
Hoisin Grilled Pork Chops from No Special Effects
Grilled Pork Chops with Onion Marmalade from Kalofagas
Maple-Bourbon Grilled Thick Cut Pork Chops from Kirsten's Home Cooking
Pork Chops with Apricot Brandy Glaze from Fancy Toast
Spicy Orange Miso Pork Chops from Culinary Diasters
Grilled Marinated Pork Chops with New Orleans Style Bordelaise Sauce from Nola Cuisine
Grilled Pork Chops with Herbs de Provence from Sugar and Spice
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I want to see if anyone can help me here before I try Unity, but my problem has to do with C# in Unity. I have a string which acts as a caption and disappears after a certain amount of time. I get the string from a game object script which has a string in it so it looks something like setCaption(object.component.aString); Everything works fine unless I destroy the object right after I get that caption. Then it disappears. I assume this is because anything referencing the object destroyed gets destroyed also or loses reference. I looked around on c# and they have a copy method which supposedly creates a new instance, but same thing happens. So, does anyone know how I could keep from losing that string?
EDIT: Nevermind. There's something weird going on because I can use setCaption("a string"); and the same thing happens when I call the object to be destroyed.
Strings in C# are immutable, so you don't have to worry about dereferencing. Even if you were passing around references, the GC isn't going to surprise you one day and kill off something because it does keep track of references (unless you explicitly use weak references). This is likely an internal problem with the display mechanism. Have you ever looked into the MVC pattern and data binding? It's a very elegant way to propagate data into user controls without having to write code explicitly to do that. For example, your label control could be data bound to a model variable "Caption". When you modify the caption property, a binding update triggers the user control to update its display. Via this decoupling, it's easy to debug UI problems because you just have to look at the model to see if the data is set or not.
This is likely an internal problem with the display mechanism. Have you ever looked into the MVC pattern and data binding?
I haven't looked into that, no. Not sure how it would align with Unity's GUI system. I think I'm referencing the object in another place in the program and that's what's causing the problem when I destroy it. I should have known because things were going too easy.
Yes, heaven forbid we make life easy :lol: I haven't used Unity so I don't know how it manages UI. I read you called a method "setCaption", which made me think back in the day with Win32 and MFC stuff (/me shuddering). MSDNI think has the only article out there that describes data binding in sufficient detail, but the concept applies to any framework, language, or platform. I've written ports for several other languages and it's a lifesaver. If Unity doesn't have something equivalent to that, it shouldn't be impossible to write a wrapper for it.@fireside
I think I'm referencing the object in another place in the program and that's what's causing the problem when I destroy it
That seems weird to me because strings are immutable. The label control will have its own instance of the string, newly created once you call the setCaption method. I'd be more inclined to investigate if the label control is dereferenced or disappearing somehow (logic issue?).
It was in another part of the program where a feature tested for a null after a ray cast and set the caption to nothing if it found one. When I deleted the object, it found a null. I kind of forgot about it. One was doing a mouse-over, one was doing a mouse-click when it was over something. It all worked fine until I deleted an object. The setCaption is my own function and I'm sure worse than anything Microsoft could imagine. Unity code is pretty weird though, to my way of thinking. The GUI is the strangest I've seen but it works all right. Not the most object oriented code around. You don't need much GUI for a game, some buttons and labels.


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