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Mixed race couples still face racism in Australia
THIRTY per cent of Australian couples are from a mixed race background. But despite how common these relationships are, reactions to them can be shocking.
Ginger Gormangingergorman
news.com.auDecember 18, 20163:55pm
Ginger Gorman and her daughter Kitty.Source:Supplied
BETWEEN us, my husband and I have got Spanish, Filipino, Chinese, Slovakian, English, Scottish and Irish heritage. In appearance, he's Asian and I'm caucasian.
This is 2016 and so you wouldn't even think that was even worth mentioning. But the fact is, reasonably often this affects the way other people treat us.
When we first got together, I just didn't notice. Or perhaps it's more accurate to say I refused to notice. (Backstory: I spent years at an international school where every second person had mixed-race parents. For me, this was just an everyday occurrence.)
Then one day when our eldest daughter, Elsa, was about 18 months old we took her to the doctor. My husband, Don, was holding Elsa in his arms at the reception counter. In the familiar way of a couple, I was standing to his left and our arms were casually touching.
A lady standing to the right of Don commented on how cute Elsa was and then asked him: "Where's your wife?"
Don pointed to me and the lady went bright red in the face and started stammering: "Oh, oh."
She was clearly embarrassed; I'm not a mind reader but imagine this must have been because Don looks Asian. The woman made the assumption he'd have an Asian wife.
Ginger, her husband Dom, and their daughter Elsa when she was younger.Source:Supplied
The second time I really noticed being treated oddly was when we went to a fancy restaurant for dinner. Don walked in the door first, followed by me. The tall (white) waiter looked straight past him and asked me: "Have you got a reservation?"
"My husband made a reservation," I said, pointedly looking over at Don and thereby forcing the waiter to address him.
To be frank, these experiences are unsettling. I don't want to view my family as unusual because of our skin. But Don — a Filipino Australian who grew up in an all-white suburb of Adelaide — has always maintained that sadly, these interactions are not anomalies.
Treating mixed-race couples as peculiarity is peculiar in itself, not least of all because pairings like mine are so common. In 2006, 30 per cent of all couples in Australia involved partners of different ancestries.
Simon, a friend of a friend, has also had some strange reactions to his mixed race relationship.
"I'm white, she's black. Two things regularly happen at the shops — being served separately while standing together, or me being asked: 'Yes? Can I help you?' on the assumption that I am a weird bystander with no sense of personal space. It's mostly funny!"
While Simon clearly has a better sense of humour than me, there are some darker implications.
In August this year, Yin Paradies, a Professor of Race Relations at Melbourne's Deakin University wrote a fascinating article explaining that racism can actually make us sick.
The same month the University of Washington released research showing "bias against interracial romance is correlated with disgust."
This study also finds "images of interracial couples evoke a neural disgust response among observers."
"These findings are particularly concerning, given evidence of anti-social reactions (e.g., aggression, perpetration of violence) to dehumanised targets," the researchers write.
Before you get too down about it, the US research doesn't necessarily translate to Australia.
Dr Natascha Klocker is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at University of Wollongong. Along with PhD Candidate Alexander Tindale, Dr Klocker studied 65 mixed race couples from Darwin and Sydney, focusing on their experiences of daily life.
"Our interviewees have tended to be couples in which the two partners are 'visibly different' from one another and, therefore, they are the types of couples that we would expect might be particularly likely to experience negative treatment," Dr Klocker explains.
"We specifically asked couples whether they or their children have experienced racism, and how they feel when they are in public places together," she says.
Dr Klocker — who is married to a Tanzanian bloke herself — says her interviewees mainly had "ordinary" experiences and felt "accepted by their families and friends."
"Most feel that they have not been treated differently to other couples," Dr Klocker says, describing this as "a very exciting outcome."
When Prince Harry made a statement confirming his relationship with Meghan Markle (who has a mixed-race background), he slammed the 'racial undertones' of attacks on the couple. Picture: Getty.Source:Getty Images
"The couples who we have spoken to feel that Australia, in 2016, is a great place to be in a mixed-ethnicity relationship," she says.
However, this doesn't mean everything is rosy all the time. Some participants in the study did report experiences such as:
• Noticing stares when they were out in public. (But these were generally perceived as being due to curiosity, rather than animosity.)
• Friends or colleagues making jokes that play on ethnic stereotypes, or questioning whether the relationship was legitimate (or for a visa)
• The ethnic minority partners in the relationships sometimes reported poor service in shops or restaurants.
• When the 'white' parent is out alone with the child, people relatively frequently ask whether the child is adopted or occasionally, if the child is pale skinned but is with his or her darker skinned mother, people would assume the mother was the nanny.
In relation to the last point, Dr Klocker — who has two children — has personally been asked by strangers: "Where did you get her?" and "How long have you had her?"
Another friend of mine, Jenny, has a Thai mother and Australian father. As a child, her father had custody of her and her sister but they lived in Asia.
"We often saw older white males with younger Asian women. Because I look Asian myself, I was extremely conscious of how it looked to others when I walked with Dad.
"So I always walked behind him and never showed affection to Dad in public," Jenny says, "It affects me to this day. I always loudly say the word 'Dad' so people know he's my father."
Tell us! What's your experience of being in a mixed race couple?
Ginger Gorman is an award winning print and radio journalist, and a 2016 TEDx Canberra speaker. Follow her on Twitter @GingerGorman
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It's that time of year – when the weather starts to become crisp, when the leaves begin to change and when your beer distributor puts out the fall lineup of craft beer.
Much like the old Andy William Christmas tune, I often joke that it's the most wonderful time of the "beer." When I was walking around my beer store, I wasn't sure what direction I wanted to take it, whether I wanted an traditional Oktoberfest beer or something with more of a pumpkin or harvest flavor. There were a ton of options but I elected to choose a festive beer that I have actually never had before – Leinenkugel's Oktoberfest.
I wanted to keep my selection in the United States, otherwise I would've chosen Paulaner Brewery's Oktoberfest, which is by far my favorite of the season. I've had Samuel Adams' effort more than enough, so I steered away and chose Leinenkugel's because, let's face it, a brewery based out of Wisconsin has to know a thing or two about German beer, right?
One of the nation's oldest breweries, Leinenkugel's was founded in 1867 in Chippewa Falls by Jacob Leinenkugel, with the first fans being local lumberjacks. Over the years, the brewery has continued to prosper and now the sixth generation of Leinenkugels run it, though it is owned by MillerCoors, producing seven year-round beers along with eight other efforts. Leinenkugel's distributes it's beer to all 50 states, and pumped out more than a quarter million barrels back in 2012. The company is best known for Summer Shandy, a unique – often duplicated – traditional weiss beer with natural lemonade flavor.
But summer is over and I 'm here to enjoy one of the best things about September.
As I look at the label, it's very simple – not surprising for a brewery that's been around longer than Washington has been a state. It's easily recognizable as the Leinenkugel's brand, with a blue and white theme (the colors of Oktoberfest) and a picture of a river with beer tents. There's no writing, other than the mandatory stuff. Oktoberfest, if you're unfamiliar, is a German Style Marzen beer, offering more of a lager taste but with additional spices and fall-like flavor. This particular one is 5.1% alcohol by volume, 20 IBUs and is described to have a perfect malt flavor, along with subtle, spicy hop notes. And, apparently, it's a stein's best friend – but I will be the judge of that!
I will admit, when I opened this beer I was a little skeptical. When it comes to my fall beers, I'm pretty set in my ways and I actually don't like to go off the beaten path too often. There's really not a lot to say about this Oktoberfest, as it's a fairly simple beer, like most of its contemporaries. When I popped it open, it smelled like a typical Oktoberfest, only a little less pungent, which is mostly malt and maybe just a hint of caramel. It has a very rich amber color – though not as dark as usual – and a hefty, slightly off-white head that lingers, in a good way. The taste is a little more potent than the smell, with the hops doing a good job of balancing it out, however we still don't get quite enough of the Oktoberfest flavor that we appreciate in Sam Adams and the likes. It finishes good, but not great, with a little of that malty flavor lingering.
Honestly, I feel like this is a little bit of a watered-down version of an Oktoberfest. It will certainly do the trick in a pinch but is definitely nothing to write home about. Perhaps it just needs a little more of the ingredients that make the traditional marzen style of beer so iconic – more flavor. I will say, it was one of the cheaper offerings at my store, with a price of $9.75, which is a plus. The average BeerAdvocate score is a 3.19 and that's not too far off, as I am going to score this Oktoberfest a 4.7 out of 10. Live and learn.


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Soy Sale: Farmers Work To Market Crop At Premier Soybean Event
Matthew Wilde, Iowa Soybean Association •Sep 6, 2018
Farmers and trade experts believe you sell nearly 4.6 billion bushels of soybeans one deal and handshake at a time.
There's no better place to market the projected record crop than the U.S. Soy Global Trade Exchange & Midwest Specialty Grains Conference & Trade Show in Kansas City. It's the largest annual gathering of buyers in the world, with more than 225 from more than 50 countries in attendance.
United Soybean Board members Belinda Burrier of Maryland and Jim Carroll of Arkansas talk about soy trade opportunities with Loh Jwee Poe, founder and CEO of Mr. Bean in Singapore. The farmers and soy importer participated in the U.S. Soy Global Trade Exchange Trade Team Invitational on Wednesday. (Photo: Matthew Wilde/Iowa Soybean Association)
The three-day event was co-hosted by the U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC) and the Midwest Shippers Association. More than 700 industry officials — including several Iowa Soybean Association farmer-leaders and staff — gathered to talk trade and learn about issues relevant to the industry like supply and demand and transportation.
Producers who are already harvesting this year's bumper crop or on the verge of doing so know they have a great product to sell, but it won't be easy given the ongoing U.S.-China trade war. China slapped a 25-percent tariff on U.S. soybeans, which are part of the tit-for-tat duties between the two nations.
"The U.S. Soy Global Trade Exchange is important every year but particularly this year considering we've lost a key buyer due to the trade situation between the U.S. and China," said USSEC CEO Jim Sutter.
Click here to continue reading this article.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the policy or position of U.S. Soy.
Matthew Wilde
Iowa Soybean Association
Matt tells the stories of Iowa's soybean farmers and was raised on a farm near Grafton, IA.
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Comic book movies have been a staple in the film industry for a long while. Capitalizing specifically on the popularity of superhero comic book movies has always seemed to work from a monetary standpoint. In 2008 there was somewhat of a renaissance of Superhero Comic Book films with Iron Man and The Dark Knight. The world was plunged into a world of cinematic universes and comic book adaptations (some good and some bad). This led to some branching out from the tried and true Marvel/DC heroes into some lesser known properties (The Umbrella Academy, Preacher, The Walking Dead, etc), that have proven that comics can indeed be adapted to film even if it's not Batman or Spider-Man front-running the story.
Superhero comic books are the most common genre in America. Rising to prominence in the 1930s, the superhero genre has never died out completely. No wonder studios are looking to adapt stories from such a rich genre of comics. However, there are many more comics book genres that exist independently, some from bygone eras but others that are being written right under our noses. The superhero comic book movie bubble will burst sooner or later, yet the world has come too far to go back. So I would propose a few genres of comic books that filmmakers and studios should pull from in order to keep things interesting and continue to bring excellently adapted classics to the big screen.
Even when superhero comics were starting to come out, most of the heroes origins were simply tied to World War II. DC had the Blackhawks and the original Flash and Green Lantern enlisted as regular people. Everybody knows the Star-Spangled-Man-With-A-Plan known as Captain America, but Marvel also was running comics called Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos which was regarded as one of the best war comics of the era. But existing independently of the superhero genre and continuity were comics such as G.I. Combat, Commando Comics, and Sgt. Rock. These comics are fairly dated, but even recently there have been some pretty solid war comics to pull from such as Garth Ennis' Adventure in the Rifle Brigade, which acts as a humorous take on covert squad combat or war stories where Ennis keeps it very serious as he tells the war stories of WWII. Last Day In Vietnam was written and published by comic book legend Will Eisner in 2001 as a slightly autobiographical story, chronicling 6 emotional tales told in a wartime setting all with Eisner's art. War stories always contain epic moments of bravery, valor, and fellowship, and could be a box office draw considering how other war films seem to do.
Just as old as superhero comics are the amazing tales told through fantasy. They came to prominence during the Golden Age of comics and many of the characters, stories and elements began to fold into superhero comics as they became popular (Wonder Woman and Thor to name a few). In the '70s we would see Conan the Barbarian comics rise in popularity as well as one of the most popular Fantasy Comics ever: Elfquest. This tale about a society of elves in a fantasy world has garnered a large cult following, and has been trying desperately to see itself in a live action or animated feature for quite some time. Comics like Neil Gaiman's Sandman are probably the most impactful from the fantasy genre. That's not to say we haven't seen some amazing fantasy comics in the more recent years. A lot of Fantasy comics blend a few other genres together, but FABLES is a great example of bringing a wide variety of different fantastical stories that take public domain characters from folklore and put a unique twist on them. It would truly be remarkable to see the genre make a more uniform return in the comic book industry with Tolkien-esque stories that could later be adapted into films along with the throng of other great stories.
Romance Comics
Seen perhaps as a little schlocky, the romance comics printed mostly during the 1940s-1970s were typically meant to be read by more mature readers (as in teenagers/adults wanting a little more realism and romance in their comics). Romance comics used to permeate the industry because of it's unique way to tell a romance centered story. Popular comics from ages past were Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane, Young Romance, and Heart Throbs. Betty and Veronica from Archie Comics has recently made it's way into live action in the TV show Riverdale along with the other characters in the Archie Universe. Even in the past decade though, there have been some critically acclaimed stories that warrant a good live action interpretation. Blankets by Craig Thompson is an autobiographical coming-of-age tale about Thompson's upbringing and first love. Fresh Romance comics are one of the few modern comics dedicated solely to the romance novel with a whole spate of varying romance stories throughout comics. There are plenty of compelling rom-com's and romantic movies nowadays, lets grab a few from the comics to see in live action.
Horror comics have been around for quite some time as well. A lot of horror elements find their way throughout war, fantasy/sci-fi, and superhero comics. Tales From The Crypt and The Vault of Horror were classics during the '70s and had a lot of bone chilling stories to go around. Within the superhero universes we had horror comics like HellBlazer, about the occult John Constantine. The Walking Dead wouldn't exist if not for the horror comic genre. A lesser known horror comics that can absolutely be adapted for film are American Vampire, Stephen King and Scott Snyder's story featuring a vampire living through the past few centuries and how he deals with having a daughter and dodging other vampires concurrently. Nail Biter is an indie comic by Josh Williamson that takes place in the fictional town of Buckaroo, Oregon which has inexplicably been the hometown of 16 deadly serial killers. Law enforcement officers are sent to the city to track down one of the killers and might find out a thing or two about this small town that will leave them scarred. There are many more horror comics to check out and many great stories that would make an extra eerie film.
Slice Of Life Comics
Typically found in a lot more manga than in comics, slice-of-life consists of a story where mundane and day to day events are described and often left pretty open ended. As if we the audience just happened to be dropped into the main characters life and pulled out at some later point. Sometimes there is character development, plot, and growth; sometimes not. Popular slice-of-life comics in the past have been 1991's Optic Nerve by Adrian Tomine collecting a series of short stories, sometimes autobiographical, that contain a realistic look at a characters experience. Brooklyn Dreams is another critically acclaimed comic. Written by J.M. Dematteis, it is simply about a man reminiscing about his life in Brooklyn. More recently with the rise of Image Comics, there has been the opportunity for some amazing creator owned slice–of-life comics such as Octopus Pie, Emitown, Nothing Lasts Forever, and Where We Live. A lot of these comics give such an authentic feel that becomes super relatable since we've all lived life. We know how it goes, but it's always great to gain a new perspective and film is one of the best places to do that. Some more live action slice-of-life comics would be a welcome addition to the library of comic inspired movies.
What genres of comics or properties would you like to see on the big screen? Let us know in the comments below!
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As Dasara nears, the Tourism department, in association with Karnataka State Tourism Development Corporation (KSTDC) and Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), is relaunching 'Palace on Wheels,' a tour of the palaces in and around Mysuru.
'Palace on Wheels', a special and exclusive bus tour that takes people to all famous palaces in and around Mysuru, is likely to be launched on October 10. According to officials, the tour will be launched immediately after a final decision is taken about the cost of the package.
Deputy Director for Tourism H Janardhan said the programme was certain, but the final date would be announced after holding discussions with the authorities concerned, including district incharge Minister G T Devegowda.
According to sources, the initiative is planned to attract visitors to the city and also promote the palaces, art, heritage and culture of the city.
The city gets a large number of tourists, but a majority of them are unaware that Mysuru is home to many palaces. As per the plan, the day-long tour will commence and conclude at the Mysuru Palace. It will start in the morning and end in the evening.
A royal lunch will be served to the tourists at Lalith Mahal Palace.
The charges for the package tour is yet to be finalised, but it will be below Rs 1,000, including food, entry charges to palaces and bus fare, officials said.
Volvo buses will ferry the tourists to nine palaces in and around the city. The list of the palaces is yet to be finalised.
The authorities will provide all details about the palaces on their visit. According to Janardhan, buses will be arranged based on the people's response. A maximum of two buses will be allotted for the tour, he said.


I joined Twitter in May 2017 in response to the continual degradation of Google+. Now about 18 months later, I've posted my 10,000th tweet. That works out to about 550+ tweets a month, or just under 20 tweets a day on average. That seems like a lot 🤣. This won't be a "review" of Twitter. That wouldn't make much sense considering how long Twitter has existed. Instead, this will just be me sharing the experience of my journey to 10,000 tweets.
As a heavy user of Google+ for several years, comparisons would undoubtedly be made between the two social networks. Right off the bat I knew that Twitter was a different experience compared to Google+, and the more I used it the more obvious those differences became. The way Google+ continued to deteriorate just made those differences even more obvious. Many of my friends from Google+ who gave Twitter a try expecting it to perfectly replace Google+ were undoubtedly disappointed. It worked perfectly for me because I knew Twitter isn't a Google+ replacement. I used it the way it was meant to be used and after 10,000 tweets, it's obvious that I've enjoyed it. It's not perfect (we still don't have a damn edit button), but it's possibly the most important social network on the web. More important than Google+ ever was anyway.
The reason why I think it's that important is because practically everyone is on Twitter. Twitter isn't just a social network, it's like the world's online newspaper. I know Reddit claims to be "the front page of the internet", but I'd argue Twitter deserves that title more. Breaking news spreads fast on Twitter. A testament to how important the network is for information dissemination. Politicians and government agencies are on Twitter, so we can get first hand info directly from them rather than from a third-party news report. Sports clubs and athletes are on Twitter, as are movie studios, directors and actors, giving us our fill of entertainment content. Many commercial brands are on Twitter, using the power of social media to market their products. News portals are on Twitter so you can use the network as a sort of news feed. With so many prominent brands and people on Twitter, it gives regular users a platform to get their voices heard. This has always been a strength of Twitter, and it's one of the main reasons I decided to use the platform too.
I've often described Twitter as being the "voice" of the internet. This isn't some catchy marketing phrase I've heard, but something I've noticed even before I started using Twitter myself. When news portals or any online publication wants to include people's reactions in an article, they often look to Twitter. Malaysian news portals do this frequently, often times referring to online commentators as "netizens". I myself have had my tweets used on a number of occasions for various stories. My response to a "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" trailer was highlighted by Yahoo!, my reaction to a politician promising free plastic bags for shoppers in my state before the election got picked up by Asian Correspondent, and my tweet about the song "Despacito" being banned in Malaysia was featured by CNN. I don't see other social networks like Facebook or Instagram perused as often as Twitter in these situations, which is why I feel like Twitter is a great platform to get your voice heard.
Following live events on Twitter is an interesting experience. In Malaysia, we recently had our historic 14th General Election and I stayed up I think until 3 a.m following the news on Twitter (while also watching the news on TV). Social media played a huge role leading up to the elections in Malaysia, and following all the election news on Twitter before, during, and after the election was a very fruitful experience. Other than politics, football matches are a weekly occurrence and following all the latest updates on Twitter is a decent alternative for when I'm not actually watching football. The #phonepocalypse was exciting as more than half a dozen phones were launched in October and following the launch events live on Twitter was something very enjoyable for me. On the other hand, not all live events are enjoyable. Sometimes, disaster strikes like the loss of the Lion Air flight in Indonesia. In these instances, Twitter becomes invaluable as live updates come pouring in as people await confirmation of what actually happened. There is of course the problem of unverified reports and downright fabrications, but if you can isolate the noise, Twitter is probably the best place for live updates.
Two rather big changes took place in my short time on Twitter, both making it easier to post longer content on the network. In November 2017, Twitter doubled its character limit for tweets, and just a month later it introduced an easier way to thread your tweets. As someone who likes writing long-form content, I was rather pleased with the introduction of longer tweets, but many long-time users weren't. After a few months though, it was revealed that having more characters for tweets didn't necessarily mean that all tweets would be longer, which makes sense. Just because you can tweet longer, doesn't mean you need to. So this was a good change as those who needed more space for their tweets had the room to do so, and those who didn't could still keep their tweets short and sweet. Threading was always possible on Twitter, you just needed to post each tweet individually and add to the thread later. The new change made this process less cumbersome as you could compose all your tweets in a thread before posting, and post the entire thread in one click. I thread tweets a lot, both in one go but also over time. I ranted about my university about a month ago, so that was a thread that I composed in one sitting. As for threading tweets over time, my review of OnePlus' Bullets Wireless earphones took a week to complete, as I added tweets to my thread over time as I used the earphones more and more. It's not the same as writing a proper long-form post like you can here on Cake, but I do like the higher character limit and being able to thread tweets.
Twitter may not be everybody's cup of tea. It wasn't mine either back in the day, but that's ok. No social network is one size fits all. Having said that though, I find Twitter to be extremely useful for me, and fun to use as well. 10,000 tweets is only the beginning for me.
I also find Twitter to be a must-have for following news and ideas, even if one doesn't tweet much (like me). However, there's a slight learning curve hence a lot of my friends and non-tech savvy folks still aren't on the platform. It's a pretty geeky place overall.
Congrats!!! That's an incredible achievement, both in sheer prodigiousness as well as in great mentions. I particularly liked this recent tweet of yours.
It's a pretty geeky place overall.
I think Google+ was more of a geeky place than Twitter. Twitter has a very wide scope of users. Depending on who you follow, your content and someone else's will vary significantly.


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Bjorn Again kick off music at sun-drenched Glastonbury Festival
GLASTONBURY, England, June 28 (Reuters) - Abba-tribute act Bjorn Again opened Glastonbury Festival's famous Pyramid Stage in hot sunshine as organisers encouraged festival goers to put on sunscreen and drink plenty of water.
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Q: nullpointerexception with SearchView The older APIs 15 and 16 don't have this error, but for some reason the new API 19 throws a NullPointerException at SearchView.setOnQueryTextListener(this). I can fix it by moving the listener to onCreateOptionsMenu, but then it doesn't work on the older devices and vice-versa when I move it back to onCreateView.
public class EventFragment extends Fragment implements AdapterView.OnItemClickListener, SearchView.OnQueryTextListener, View.OnClickListener
{
    private List<EventItem> items;
    private ProgressBar progressBar;
    private View view;
    private JazzyListView listView;
    static EventAdapter adapter;
    SearchView searchView;

    @Override
    public void onCreate (Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setHasOptionsMenu(true);
        getActivity().invalidateOptionsMenu();

        // creates call to
        // onPrepareOptionsMenu()
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {

           MenuItem searchItem=  menu.findItem(R.id.search);
                searchView =
                    (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchItem);
    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        if (view == null) {
            //inflate the layout for the items in view
            view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_layout, container, false);
            progressBar = (ProgressBar) view.findViewById(R.id.progressBar);
            listView = (JazzyListView) view.findViewById(R.id.listView);

            Button button = (Button) view.findViewById(R.id.button3);
            //Customize listView/searchview
            listView.setTextFilterEnabled(true);
            listView.setOnItemClickListener(this);
            listView.setSmoothScrollbarEnabled(true);
            searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(this);
            button.setOnClickListener(this);
            startService();
        } else {
            // If we are returning from a configuration change:
            //  remove view and re-attach it to the current configuration
            ViewGroup parent = (ViewGroup) view.getParent();
            parent.removeView(view);
        }

        return view;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
        adapter.getFilter().filter(newText);
        return false;
    }

Here is menu:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="@+id/search"
    android:title="@string/hello"
    android:icon="@drawable/search"
    android:showAsAction="collapseActionView|always"
    android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView"
  />

</menu>

Here is the logcat:
 05-13 16:33:34.146  10646-10646/com.parse.starter E/CrashReporting﹕ ParseCrashReporting caught a RuntimeException exception for com.parse.starter. Building report.
05-13 16:33:34.169  10646-10646/com.parse.starter E/CrashReporting﹕ Handling exception for crash
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.parse.starter/com.parse.starter.EventKGHS}: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2035)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2060)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:127)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1181)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4558)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
        at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
 Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.parse.starter.EventFragment.onQueryTextChange(EventFragment.java:160)
        at android.widget.SearchView.onTextChanged(SearchView.java:1091)
        at android.widget.SearchView.access$2000(SearchView.java:90)
        at android.widget.SearchView$11.onTextChanged(SearchView.java:1550)
        at android.widget.TextView.sendOnTextChanged(TextView.java:7692)
        at android.widget.TextView.setText(TextView.java:3365)
        at android.widget.TextView.setText(TextView.java:3218)
        at android.widget.EditText.setText(EditText.java:78)
        at android.widget.TextView.setText(TextView.java:3193)
        at android.widget.TextView.onRestoreInstanceState(TextView.java:3093)
        at android.view.View.dispatchRestoreInstanceState(View.java:9968)
        at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchRestoreInstanceState(ViewGroup.java:2324)
        at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchRestoreInstanceState(ViewGroup.java:2324)
        at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchRestoreInstanceState(ViewGroup.java:2324)
        at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchRestoreInstanceState(ViewGroup.java:2324)
        at android.view.View.restoreHierarchyState(View.java:9946)
        at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder.restoreActionViewStates(MenuBuilder.java:358)
        at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.preparePanel(PhoneWindow.java:429)
        at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.invalidatePanelMenu(PhoneWindow.java:890)
        at android.app.Activity.invalidateOptionsMenu(Activity.java:2671)
        at com.parse.starter.EventFragment.onCreate(EventFragment.java:57)
        at android.support.v4.app.Fragment.performCreate(Fragment.java:1763)
        at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:913)
        at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:1126)
        at android.support.v4.app.BackStackRecord.run(BackStackRecord.java:739)
        at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.execPendingActions(FragmentManager.java:1489)
        at android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.onStart(FragmentActivity.java:548)
        at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnStart(Instrumentation.java:1133)
        at android.app.Activity.performStart(Activity.java:4646)
.......

Judging by the lack of input and results. I must have discovered a bug! I shall soon report it.
Update: what if instead of setting the onquerylistener to "this" I used something else?

A: **Try to listen searchView in activity where you instance the EventFragment **

A: Ok I have corrected the issue. I did three things and I'm not sure which one fixed it or if all of it did, but that is besides the point. First of all,  I created a private OnQueryTextListener class for the SearchView listener to be set to. Then I moved the SearchView OnQueryTextListener to onCreateOptionsMenu. Lastly, and this is the one presume fixed it if I had to pick one, I removed the getActivity().invalidateOptionsMenu(); line. I may still submit a bug report as this really shouldn't have happened in the first place. Leave your explanation of why this may have happened in a comment below or edit my answer.

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Living in Toronto, Ontario
May 12th, 2011 Staff Writer Find a City, Guides, Settlement comments
One of Canada's most culturally diverse cities, Toronto is often referred to being a "world within a city." In fact, for five years in a row now, the United Nations have designated the city as "the world's most ethnically diverse city." A major metropolitan centre with over a hundred different ethnic groups, Toronto is a favourite choice with immigrants.
Toronto is also the country's largest city in terms of population. There's so much to see and do in Toronto, from its wealth of art galleries (Art Gallery of Ontario), performance centres (The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts), rich variety of neighbourhoods and town squares, various shops and restaurants, sporting arenas (Air Canada Centre and Roger's Centre) to the famous harbourfront and, of course, the CN Tower, you'll never run out of fun things to do.
Would you like to live in this city?
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Date Toronto became the capital of Ontario: 1784
Date Ontario was incorporated as a city: 1877
Population (Greater Toronto Area, or GTA, combined): 5,555,912 (Statistics Canada, 2006 Census)
Diversity by the numbers
The following numbers are from the 2006 Census Canada Report and show the number of visible minorities in the city, including the percentage of each in relation to the total population.
Total visible minority population: 2,174,065 (42.9 per cent)
South Asian: 684,070 (13.5 per cent)
Chinese: 486,330 (9.6 per cent)
Black: 352,220 (6.9 per cent)
Filipino: 171,985 (3.4 per cent)
Latin American: 99,290 (2.0 per cent)
Southeast Asian: 70,215 (2.0 per cent)
The city's major industries include the following sectors: finance, business services, telecommunications, aerospace, transportation, media, arts, film, television production, finance, publishing, software production, medical research, education, tourism and professional sports.
The Toronto Transit Commission is the major city transportation service and controls all subway, streetcar and bus services.
Toronto's winters can include cold snaps that average -10°C (but feel twice as cold thanks to the wind chill) and severe snowstorms that have been known to shut down the city. However, while winters can be a challenge, summers are often very warm, ranging from 20°C to 35°C — the high humidity makes it often feel quite hot during July and August. Spring and autumn, on the other hand, are very pleasant, as mild and cool temperatures alternate with wet and dry periods.
City highlights and major attractions
Major attractions in this capital city include:
The CN Tower
The Metro Toronto Zoo
The Air Canada Centre
The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
Toronto Island Park
The Rogers Centre
The Hockey Hall of Fame
Maps of Toronto
Province of Ontario
Toronto Tourism
Also be sure to check out canadianimmigrant.ca's Resources section for more national and city-based settlement information by clicking here.
There are so many fun facts about Toronto! Here are a few you may not know about the city:
You'll find one quarter of Canada's population within a 160-kilometre radius of Toronto.
Toronto is Canada's top tourism destination.
Yonge Street is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as being the world's longest street. It stretches 1,896 kilometres from the lakeshore in Toronto, north to Rainy River, Ontario, near the Minnesota, U.S. border.
The CN Tower is North America's tallest freestanding building, coming in at 553 metres in height.
Over half of the city's labour force has a college diploma or university degree.
There are over 100 languages spoken in the city.
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Q: why selected cell in collection view doesn't show correctly in the UICollection View Swift 3? I am using swift 3 and I have collection view in my app that shows iPhone gallery in that . every things are good But I want the user could select some photos and this can be happen But the problem is that I used another small image in every cells that when the user select that cell the picture will showing a tick that user could understand that cell has been selected - this will work at the beginning but when the user scroll the collection view some cells that user didn't select them has this tick too!
**Remember that select and did deselect are working well and the problem is just for showing this tick **
**I have image with tag in cell and that image will showing a tick or nothing when the user select the cell or didDeselect that **
I know that these codes are more than you think But many some Guys need to access all of the codes so you can see my codes below
 import UIKit
 import Photos
 class ViewController: UIViewController, UICollectionViewDelegate, UICollectionViewDataSource {
let arr_img = NSMutableArray()

@IBOutlet var collview: UICollectionView!

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    let allPhotosOptions : PHFetchOptions = PHFetchOptions.init()
    allPhotosOptions.sortDescriptors = [NSSortDescriptor(key: "creationDate", ascending: true)]
    let allPhotosResult = PHAsset.fetchAssets(with: .image, options: allPhotosOptions)
    allPhotosResult.enumerateObjects({ (asset, idx, stop) in

        self.arr_img.add(asset)
    })

}
func getAssetThumbnail(asset: PHAsset, size: CGFloat) -> UIImage {
    let retinaScale = UIScreen.main.scale
    let retinaSquare = CGSize(width: size * retinaScale, height: size * retinaScale)//CGSizeMake(size * retinaScale, size * retinaScale)
    let cropSizeLength = min(asset.pixelWidth, asset.pixelHeight)
    let square = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: cropSizeLength, height: cropSizeLength)//CGRectMake(0, 0, CGFloat(cropSizeLength), CGFloat(cropSizeLength))
    let cropRect = square.applying(CGAffineTransform(scaleX: 1.0/CGFloat(asset.pixelWidth), y: 1.0/CGFloat(asset.pixelHeight)))

    let manager = PHImageManager.default()
    let options = PHImageRequestOptions()
    var thumbnail = UIImage()

    options.isSynchronous = true
    options.deliveryMode = .highQualityFormat
    options.resizeMode = .exact
    options.normalizedCropRect = cropRect

    manager.requestImage(for: asset, targetSize: retinaSquare, contentMode: .aspectFit, options: options, resultHandler: {(result, info)->Void in
        thumbnail = result!
    })
    return thumbnail
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
    super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
    // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}

//MARK:
//MARK: Collectioview methods
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView,
                    numberOfItemsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
    return arr_img.count
}
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView,
                    cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {
    let cell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(withReuseIdentifier: "cell",
                                                  for: indexPath)
    let imgview : UIImageView = cell.viewWithTag(20) as! UIImageView
    imgview.image = self.getAssetThumbnail(asset: self.arr_img.object(at: indexPath.row) as! PHAsset, size: 150)

    return cell
}

}

 func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didSelectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath)
{
 let cell = collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath as IndexPath)
    if cell!.isSelected == true {

        print(indexPath)
        cell?.backgroundColor = UIColor.orange
        print("Cell is Selected!")
        let selectView : UIImageView = cell?.viewWithTag(22) as! UIImageView
        selectView.image = UIImage(named: "Select.png")
    }

    else if cell!.isSelected != true        {

        collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath as IndexPath)

    cell?.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
        let selectView : UIImageView = cell?.viewWithTag(22) as! UIImageView
        selectView.image = nil

        print("Cell is  Not Selected!")

    }

}

func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didDeselectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
    let cell = collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath as IndexPath)

    print(indexPath)
    if cell?.isSelected == true {
        cell?.backgroundColor = UIColor.orange
        print("Cell is Selected In Deselect!")
        let selectView : UIImageView = cell!.viewWithTag(22) as! UIImageView
        selectView.image = nil
        collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath as IndexPath)

    }
    else if cell?.isSelected != true        {
        cell?.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
        collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath as IndexPath)

        print("Cell is DeSelected!")
        let selectView : UIImageView = cell!.viewWithTag(22) as! UIImageView
        selectView.image = nil

    }

}

A: Just take a button inside your cell and give tag to it.
Take array and do following.
let arr_selected = NSMutableArray()

func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView,
                        cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {
        let cell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(withReuseIdentifier: "cell",
                                                      for: indexPath)

        let btn_check : UIButton = cell.viewWithTag(30) as! UIButton
        if arr_selected.contains(indexPath.row){
            btn_check.isSelected = true
        }else{
            btn_check.isSelected = false
        }
        return cell
    }
    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didSelectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath){
        if arr_selected.contains(indexPath.row){
            arr_selected.remove(indexPath.row)
        }else{
            arr_selected.add(indexPath.row)
        }
        self.collview.reloadData()
    }

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Q: How to reproduce such image schematics/graphs? I would like to reproduce this schematic of a microscope and the graphs below it, but I can´t recognize with which software it has been produced. Do you think it has been programmed or drawn as vectors in some graphic  software?
I am mostly concerned on how the trajectory of ion and electrons (red and blue lines) have been produced.
Any suggestion?
Thank you!

A: You could use Bézier curves to draw the trajectories, e.g. a quick and dirty sketch:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[red] (-1.7286,5.6002) .. controls (-1.7286,5.6002) and (2.5610,5.3482) .. (4.6987,4.7064) .. controls (4.9925,4.6182) and (4.9940,4.4655) .. (4.9940,4.4655);
\draw[blue] (4.9940,4.4655) .. controls (4.9940,4.4655) and (4.8360,3.8956) .. (4.7375,3.8981) .. controls (4.6429,3.9005) and (4.6456,4.5949) .. (4.7064,4.5898) .. controls (4.8256,4.5798) and (4.7803,3.9125) .. (5.0328,3.9059) .. controls (5.2924,3.8992) and (5.4064,4.6032) .. (5.7168,4.6054) .. controls (6.0692,4.6079) and (6.3260,3.9225) .. (6.7349,3.9215) .. controls (7.2980,3.9200) and (7.6279,4.5942) .. (8.1493,4.5898) .. controls (8.4153,4.5876) and (8.8194,4.2087) .. (9.1182,4.0402) .. controls (9.4170,3.8718) and (9.5172,3.9137) .. (9.5172,3.9137);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}


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Chicago PD Recruit Allegedly Attacks Cop On Traffic Stop, 'How Else Was I Supposed To Get Away'
Christopher BergAugust 23, 2022
Schiller Park, IL – A Chicago Police Department (CPD) recruit allegedly assaulted a Schiller Park police officer during an arrest during a traffic stop on Saturday.
The incident occurred at around 2:10 a.m. Saturday morning in the 4100 block of West Grace Street, according to WFLD.
Police officers saw the police recruit, 27-year-old Denisse Balseca, drive into a curb twice.
Officers stopped her vehicle and saw an open container of alcohol in the vehicle. Both Balseca and her passenger had "bloodshot and glassy eyes" and Balseca had the odor of alcohol emanating from her breath as she spoke, according to the report.
Balseca refused to provide basic identity information, her drivers license, or proof of insurance, and she insisted that she didn't need to provide that information, according to CBS News.
The report states that Balseca was "highly uncooperative and hostile" and her passenger was "belligerent."
Balseca still refused to provide her information after officers told her that she would be arrested if she continued to refuse. Officers then advised her that she was under arrest and ordered her out of the vehicle.
The police recruit still refused to get out of the car, and an officer had to place her into a control hold and pull her out.
Outside of the vehicle, Balseca refused to place her hands behind her back and then "pushed, struck, scratched, and kicked" the arresting officer, the report said.
The officer sustained a laceration to his left arm and an abrasion as he wrestled Balseca into handcuffs.
Once handcuffed, Balseca refused to get into the patrol car and needed to be forced in. Once inside of the vehicle, the recruit started to slam herself against the inside of the vehicle, according to the report.
While Balseca was being interviewed at the police station, she questioned why she was arrested and the officer showed her his injuries.
Balseca responded, "How else was I supposed to get away?" according to the report.
The police recruit admitted to drinking "a beer," and submitted to sobriety tests. The sobriety tests gave indicators of impairment and Balseca was "unable to provide a preliminary breath sample."
Officers found Balseca's police ID badge, and then she told them that she had been in the police academy for a month.
Despite the probable cause that Balseca was driving while impaired, and she had assaulted a police officer while resisting arrest, she was not criminally charged.
Schiller Park Police Department Deputy Chief Joseph DeSimone told the Chicago Sun Times that officers have discretion with charging decisions.
"[Officers] have the discretion to charge suspects with charges they deem to be appropriate," DeSimone said, according to the Chicago Sun Times. "I cannot speak for the officer in this case."
Balseca was ultimately cited with ordinance violations for battery, disorderly conduct, improper lane usage, and not having insurance.
However, Balseca's passenger is facing more serious charges.
The passenger allegedly "resisted arrest in that she clenched her fists, tensed her body, curled her arms toward her chest, pulled away, shoved and kicked," according to the report. When she was placed in a cell, she allegedly stopped officers from closing the cell door and officers used a stun gun on her.
The passenger was charged with misdemeanor battery, resisting and obstructing a peace officer, and cited for an open container of alcohol and possession of marijuana and a pipe.
Balseca is currently earning $54,672 a year as a new police officer.
A CPD spokesperson told CBS News, "There is an active Bureau of Internal Affairs investigation into this matter. We will not comment further due to the open investigation."
Christopher Berg
Editor-in-Chief: Twitter/@SnarkyCop. Christopher left his job as a police officer to manage The Police Tribune to provide context to the public about police incidents. Before becoming a police officer, he worked as a law enforcement dispatcher trainer.
Written by Christopher Berg
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02/17/2012 - I noticed while cutting some 1" diameter pockets in 1/2" thick delrin that the pockets measure longer by about 4-5 mils in the x axis. I need to check for slop in the bearings as well as test for backlash in the x axis with a test indicator. I will also check the y axis too, but it has been more solid than the x.
12/29/2011 - In trying to do some machining, the emi noise was causing the x axis and z axis to be unstable. I routed the cables apart from each other with cardboard spacers. That helped the Z axis. The x axis was losing accuracy still. I looked inside of the chassis, and noticed that all of the pwm wires were all bundled together from when I first assembled this system. So I separated the pwm wires. This worked incredibly well!! Today I got the cnc up to it's max of 135ipm!! That's as fast as the 800mhz pc can produce! The system has now been very stable and repeatable. I even raised the voltage from 80vdc to 90vdc to the motors. Now the holding power is even better. I've adjusted the amps a little too. But rerouting the internal pwm wires and external pwm cables did the most good!! I'll start cutting material at high speed to check the accuracy under load. So far the testing is just cutting air. A couple weeks ago I took the y axis dro scale out and cleaned it. It was almost not working at all. It still shuts off at the extreme ends of the y axis travel. But it has been stable for any machining I've needed to do so far.
This evening I machined pockets and drilled hole patterns at 135ipm in wood. The system was perfectly accurate!! Here is a video of the cnc cutting the rectangular pocket code in the air, at up to 135ipm. It plays with Quicktime.
03/14/2010 - The recreated Servo Lite website has been updated with 200 volt Amplifier parts! It allows up to 125ipm feed rates with my 800 hz pc! Works great on Mach3.
03/12/2010 - The Servolite boards have been repaired! They were also upgraded with 200 volt amplifier parts. 125ipm can now be reached!! But there was still a lot of noise on the Z axis as the motor would oscillate severely. I used my oscilliscope to look at the encoder cable signals. There was significant (16-18v spikes) on the encoder wires. I added torroids to the motor power supplies and .022uf caps across the large filter caps for each axis. The encoder signals were still noisy with 16-18v spikes. Noise was reduced to about 3-5v by grounding the shields of the encoder cables to the 5 volt ground power supply terminal. This helped a great deal!!
03/6/2010 - Went to use the cnc system for looking at winding a 3000 turn coil with it. As soon as I turned it on the fets and diodes popped on the Servolite boards. The large variac knob had been rotated from 55vac output to 130vac output when I installed a new power supply in the rack mount cabinet. All 3 axis of Servolite boards have to be repaired.
01/24/2007 - Purchased Mach3 for running my cnc. Also purchased the Newfangled addons from Newfangled Solutions.
01/16/2005 - Here is a great site that has many links to every kind of CNC software you could want.
01/10/2005 - The old Servo Lite website has been recreated here.
02/12/2002 - The play in the Y axis seemed to be related to a lack of oil on the ways. Tightening up of the gibs, did not change much. But after a good oiling, the play is now about .002". The mill only has grease zerks. So the new grease gun is now used to dispense oil. It keeps the ways very well oiled now. The new bearings did not change anything.
01/18/2002 - There is a mysterious .003" of play in the cross axis (Y axis). It can been seen when a circle is machined. It appears that the bearings may be the culprit. New bearings have been ordered.
12/14/2001 - The EMI noise interfering with the CNC electronics was reduced by installing a ferrite bead filter, from KB Electronics, on the output of the VFD. It really made a difference. I removed and replaced the filter 3 times. The results were very repeatable.
11/03/2001 - Mounted the 14000 mfd-75 vdc caps and bridge rectifiers on a panel that was installed into the rackmount cabinet. The voltage to the servo motors is now 75vdc up from about 28 vdc. What a difference in cutting speed!! The motors have way more torque also. The motors and the electronics still stay nice and cool. The higher voltage did create more noise that interferes a bit with the motors. The noise is still being debugged.
10/03/2001 - I found some capacitors that will help upgrade the motor voltage to 75 volts. A mounting plate needs to be made, then testing will follow. The long axis will be getting a new motor mount that moves the motor to the backside of the table.
07/21/2001 - New Ball screws were added to the table a couple months ago. They are smooth and have a little less drag than the ACME screws. This should help the motors cut faster. The CNC retrofit has been great. It cuts aluminum smoothly and reliably. I even cut some painted aluminum chassis panels for a project at work. For faster cutting the motors need a higher voltage power supply. Experimentation with voltages up to 70VDC give the motors more torque. The motors are running at about 30 VDC right now. The motors are rated at 38VDC. Choosing CNC Pro for the software proved to be a good decision. There are other great software packages out there, but this one works great on my slow 75mhz pentium box. The Look Ahead and Constant Contouring features in CNC Pro are so sweet!! The mill can cut perfect circles all day!! All for $200. The Z axis has .020" of backlash. Even though the software can compensate for this, it's just more than I would like the machine to have for real 3D machining. Currently I'm limited to 2.5D.
03/30/2001 - The Servo Lite CNC electronics are now up and running. There was some kind of a ground/noise problem. Every time I turned on the mill, the servo motors would go crazy and start rotating out of control. By disconnecting the shield of the motor cables at the amplifier end, the problem disappeared. Currently the mill still has the ACME screws and nuts in the table. I'll do some checking on the repeatability of the machining. So far initial testing without cutting any material, is showing error to be less than .001". I think the best test may be to see how well it machines a circle. The design for the Z axis hardware can now also be started. I have a rotary table that just needs a motor and an amp to complete the 4th axis. This would make it very easy to port helicopter motors. Heat sinks will need to be added for more reliability of the amps. More pictures are coming.
03/01/2001 - A chassis designed for a rack mount cabinet was gutted to hold all of the Servo Lite CNC electronics. The electronics were successfully powered up. The only problem came from stray chips of metal across the power switch that resulted in some fireworks and smoke on power up. Got to check those salvaged chassis more carefully. Each axis works fine otherwise on the living room floor. The software does not match the axis selected, so there is a bit of debugging ahead. Some heat sinks need to be added to the fets for a longer life. The remaining parts shortage was filled from a local source.
01/29/2001 - The CNC kit is almost completely assembled. The electronics were short just a few resistors. I let Bill know, and he will send the shortages with the motors and encoders. I picked up a new 19 inch rack mount cabinet that's four feet tall. It should protect the computer and all of the hardware from stray chips. The cables still needs to be figured out, and the shelving for the cabinet has yet to be designed.
01/15/2001 - The Bridgeport table is now re-assembled. Just ordered the Servo Lite CNC kit from Bill Wainwright. A chassis still needs to be selected. There will be other expenses like the motor mounting brackets, and possible pulleys and belts if a mechanical reduction is neccessary. Ballscrews are around $900 if they are required.
12/09/2000 - The head of the Bridgeport was completed last night. Today I connected the VFD (Variable Frequency Drive), and test ran the motor. The VFD works great. The VFD converts single phase 120 VAC to 240 three phase and it has variable speed and reversing too. The entire head and pulley assembly run very smooth and quiet!! The next step is to rebuild the table.
11/28/2000 - All of the bearings have been replaced. Ordered parts from JR's in Texas. These will allow the completion of the mill.
11/10/2000 - Just purchased a Bridgeport vertical mill!! It has a seized spindle. Disassembly is well under way. With help from the rec.crafts.metalworking newsgroup, I will finish disassembly and order the neccessary parts. Here are pictures from Marty's site that shows a Bridgeport going through a complete restoration. Here is a Bridgeport serial number chart to identify what year it was made.
8/29/2000 - I now have working 1 gig drive and a fresh Windows 98 SE2 system installed in my old 75 mhz pentium box. This will work great for the brains of a CNC setup. I was also given a 300 mhz 5500 desktop Mac that seems to work ok. So I can drive the CNC from either platform. Mr. Bill's a site that uses open loop servo electronics for better accuracy and economy. He uses standard DC motors instead of stepper motors.


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Salah tipped to win award for successive year after consistently causing havoc
Mohamed Salah doesn't need much introduction, he's had another outstanding year at Liverpool – is he your Fans' Footballer of the Year for a second successive year
Nominees revealed for Fans' Footballer of the Year
Different people consider different criteria when they are voting for individual awards.
Has he or she helped win anything for his or her club?
How many goals/assists/tackles/clean sheets has he or she registered?
How consistent has he or she been over an extended period of time?
Is his or her name Lionel Messi?
When the Football Writers Association (FWA) gave their award for the 2020/21 season to Ruben Dias, it was, presumably, on the basis of his immense contribution to a title-winning campaign.
The Professional Footballers Association (PFA) gave theirs to Kevin de Bruyne, presumably on the basis of his consistent excellence over several seasons.
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 15: Mohamed Salah of Liverpool waves after being substituted during the UEFA Champions League group B match between Liverpool FC and AC Milan at Anfield on September 15, 2021 in Liverpool, United Kingdom. (Photo by Simon Stacpoole/Offside/Offside via Getty Images)
Simon Stacpoole/Offside/Offside via Getty Images)
This year's Ballon D'Or voters should have given their award to Robert Lewandowski, on the basis of his phenomenal stats.
Instead, they went with the last of the criteria listed above.
Me? I would rather prioritise another criteria.
Call it the bums-off-seats clause, the second-take stipulation. You know, when you have to watch something again – and, possibly, again – to convince yourself it just happened.
When you think you have just watched something, the likes of which you have rarely seen before.
Is Mohamed Salah your footballer of the year? Have your say in the comments
31 goals in 46 Liverpool appearances is the headline stat for Mohamed Salah but his impressions are deeper than purely goals
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One such moment came courtesy of Mohamed Salah at Vicarage Road in mid-October when, extricating himself from a swarm of Hornets, he produced THAT goal against Watford.
And it was not the only instance of Mo's mesmeric brilliance in 2021.
That is why he is my Footballer of the Year 2021.
As it happens, Salah has the figures to make an out-and-out case for coming out on top.
Across all club competitions this year, he has scored 31 goals in 46 appearances and made nine assists.
Very decent statistics.
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But as usual, the statistics do not tell half the tale.
Salah, pretty much as he has done from the moment he arrived at Anfield, consistently caused havoc in 2021.
I watched him have to settle for one assist in a recent 4-0 win over Southampton but he scared the Saints defence out of its skin.
And that is routine for a player who appears to have become stronger, more skilful and more lethal as he aged.
Of course, he did not have any team medals to brandish at the end of the 20/21 season, unlike very worthy contenders for individual accolades from the Etihad and from Stamford Bridge.
But that should not always be a prerequisite where it comes to choosing individual award-winners.
Famously, at the end of Manchester United's treble-winning season of 1998-99, the FWA and PFA gave their honours to David Ginola – according to a wonderfully flabbergasted Sir Alex Ferguson, 'for one ****ing goal against Barnsley'.
Funny. Only it was not 'for one '***ing goal against Barnsley'. It was for playing the game with a flamboyance that got you out of your seat, that made you have that second take.
That is what Salah has done throughout this year, that is what he has done throughout his Liverpool career.
And that is why he is my Footballer of 2021.
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"Why would anybody go to Springhill?" one of my colleagues asked.
Simply put, what is good for north Webster Parish is good for south Webster Parish. We share a common tax base, infrastructure, and economic development opportunities.
While I understand there is a natural rivalry between schools and other entities, it should not translate into rivalry and competition across the parish.
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Petre Toba files complaint against CNATDCU
by Nine O' Clock October 12, 2016 0136
On Monday, former Interior Minister Petre Toba filed with the General Prosecutor's Office a malfeasance in office complaint related to the way in which the commission of experts was set up within the National Council for the Certification of University Titles, Diplomas and Certificates (CNATDCU), the body that analysed his doctoral thesis, Agerpres informs.
According to judicial sources, the complaint targets both the members of CNATDCU's General Council, who decided to set up the commission of experts, but also the members of the said commission.
On October 7, the special commission ascertained that ex-minister Petre Toba plagiarised his doctoral thesis and asked for his Ph.D. title to be revoked.
A different CNATDCU commission had previously decided that Toba did not commit plagiarism, however CNATDCU's General Council decided to set up another commission to look into the ex-minister's case.
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Former District 2 Mayor Neculai Ontanu released from prison
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Judiciary priorities in 2016: modifications of Criminal Codes


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Wilson: Indian Country mourns loss of KennedyWe mourn the loss with the rest of America for the Lion of the Senate has gone home at last to be with his brothers and other cherished family members. His special relationship with Indian country and longevity of service to Indian country makes him one of our own icons. Forty years ago he completed the work of his slain brother Bobby by chairing the Special Senate Sub Committee on Indian Education, and delivered the famous Kennedy Report to Congress: "Indian Education a National Tragedy, a National Challenge." This report launched the National Indian Education Association and the modern movement for Tribal control of Indian education.
Tens of thousands of Indian children including my own daughters are showing off their new clothes, their new shoes, and backpacks. They will sharpen pencils, and organize their school supplies; they will decorate their lockers and reunite their circles of friendship. Some will walk through doors of new or renovated schools; get to these schools in new buses, on newly paved roads. All of these hard fought victories were advanced by the Lion of the Senate, from the Indian Education Act to the Tribal College Act, and most recently the reauthorization of Head Start.Native educators salute Sen. Ted Kennedy
A comment on Kennedy posted on Facebook by Ernie Stevens Jr., NIGA chairman:Our thoughts and pray[er]s go out to the Kennedy family. Like his brothers, John and Robert, Senator Kennedy was a great champion for Native Americans. Our hearts continue to be heavy today, Ted Kennedy was a great friend: an American legend and Indian country will truly miss his leadership.
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Championship Time for SUU Gymnastics
Published: March 21, 2014 | Category: Athletics
Southern Utah University gymnastics will compete for the first ever Mountain Rim Gymnastics championship this weekend when the Thunderbirds travel to Provo, Utah, on Saturday. SUU will face Boise State, Utah State, BYU and the University of Denver for the chance to lift the trophy, beginning at 1 p.m.
The Thunderbirds posted victories over each MRGC school during the year, with the exception of Utah State, which swept SUU in the regular season for the first time since 2004.
Southern Utah will still enter the championships as an underdog, ranked No. 4 in the alliance in team RQS with a 195.580. Boise State is first with a 196.200, Denver second with a 196.020, BYU third with a 195.675 and Utah State fifth with a 195.250.
Fans can follow the meet live on BYUtv with coverage beginning at 1 p.m. Live stats will also be available online at suutbirds.com.
Last Meet
SUU gymnastics captured three individual titles, but fell to Utah State in Logan on Fridaynight as the Aggies scored a season-high 196.000 to the Thunderbirds' 195.550.
Last Conference Championship
SUU recorded career-best marks on the first and final routine of the night as the Thunderbirds finished fifth at the 2013 Western Athletic Conference Gymnastics Championship with a 194.925.
Scouting the Field
The Mountain Rim Gymnastics championship will include five top-32 teams, including Boise State (17), Denver (20), BYU (25), Southern Utah (29) and Utah State (32).
Individually, the University of Denver's Moriah Martin and Jorie Hall lead the alliance on vault and beam with regional qualifying scores of 9.895 and 9.845, respectively. Boise State's Ciera Perkins leads the MRGC on bars and floor with a regional qualifying score of 9.890 and 9.895, respectively. DU's Martin is also tops in the all-around with a regional qualifying score of 39.335.