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Q: E/RecyclerView: No adapter attached; skipping layout. Problem in AsyncTask I want to retrive data from some website using Jsoup and place that data in RecyclerView. Of course first part I do in AsyncTask. But when AsyncTask retrive data, it isn't showing in my activity and I get E/RecyclerView: No adapter attached; skipping layout error. Here's my code.
AsyncTask:
public class MyAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<Void, ArrayList<Game>, ArrayList<Game>> {

Activity activity;
public AsyncResponse asyncResponse = null;
Connection connection;

public MyAsyncTask(Activity activity) {
    this.activity = activity;
}

ProgressBar pb;

@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
    super.onPreExecute();
    pb = activity.findViewById(R.id.gamesActivity_progressBar);
    pb.setVisibility(VISIBLE);
    connection = Jsoup.connect(myURL);
}

@Override
protected ArrayList<Game> doInBackground(Void... voids) {
    ArrayList<Game> gamesList = new ArrayList<>();
    try {
        Document doc = connection.get();
        Elements games = doc.select("some css selectors");
        for(Element elem : games)
        {
            Element loser = elem.select("some css selectors").first();
            Element winner = elem.select("some css selectors").first();
            Element loser_points = elem.select("some css selectors").first();
            Element winner_points = elem.select("some css selectors").first();
            String loser_string = loser.text();
            String winner_string = winner.text();
            String loser_points_string = loser_points.text();
            String winner_points_string = winner_points.text();

            gamesList.add(new Game(winner_string, loser_string, winner_points_string, loser_points_string));
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return gamesList;
}

@Override
protected void onPostExecute(ArrayList<Game> strings) {
    pb.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    asyncResponse.processFinish(strings);
}

}
Activity:
public class GamesActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements AsyncResponse {

    MyGamesAdapter adapter;
    RecyclerView recyclerView;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_games);

        recyclerView = findViewById(R.id.gamesActivity_recyclerView);

        MyAsyncTask asyncTask = new MyAsyncTask(this);
        asyncTask.asyncResponse = this;
        asyncTask.execute();
    }

    @Override
    public void processFinish(ArrayList<Game> output) {
        adapter = new MyGamesAdapter(output);
        recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);
    }
}

A: You are trying to attach adapter to RV before initilize it here
recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);

First try to initialize and then set to RV
Option - 1:
ArrayList<Game> gameList;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    ...

    adapter = new MyGamesAdapter(gameList);
    recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);
}

And then
@Override
public void processFinish(ArrayList<Game> output) {
    gameList = output;
    adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}

Option - 2: Remove recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter); from onCreate and add it inside processFinish. Check below:
@Override
public void processFinish(ArrayList<Game> output) {
    adapter = new MyGamesAdapter(output);
    recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);
}


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Community Asset Status for St. Andrews
November 2, 2013 by bluenosebible
Birmingham City Supporters' Trust, Blues Trust, have announced the listing of St. Andrews as a community asset following successful talks with Birmingham City Council.
This decision means if the club's owners were looking to sell St. Andrew, they'd be legal obliged to inform the Blues' Trust and give them six months to put an offer in for the asset.
The listing was made under the 2011 Localism Act where a building or stadium can be deemed important to a group of people in the community.
Chairman of the Trust, Steve McCarthy, confirmed the news and his pleasure over the outcome, "We are delighted that Birmingham City Council agrees that St. Andrew's holds a special place in the local community and with the people of Birmingham.
"We'd also like to thank the Council for the support they have shown throughout the application process.
"It is important that St. Andrew's continues to be the home of Birmingham City Football Club for many generations to come. It's ours, and will always be ours."
Deputy Leader of Birmingham City Council, Ian Ward, also gave his thoughts on the news, "I fully understand the concerns of Blues fans about the future of the club.
"This will go some way to giving fans a better understanding about what the future may hold, if a situation ever arose that saw St Andrew's put up for sale."
By Oliver Osborn (The Bluenose Bible)
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Situated opposite the Masjid al Haraam, this 76 storey luxury hotel is one of the tallest buildings in the world and is inside Makkah Clock Tower. It offers a fully equipped fitness centre, hot tub, sauna and a steam bath.
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DR4 has improved alot on certain parts and has made the zombie killing more enjoyable while aslo gutting alot of what made the series great.
for example you now have a compact inventory system , with melee , throwable weapons and firearms and having food as intant healthpacks, you can no longer throw weapons that aren't for that certain category, alot of brawling moves that frank had aren't making a return, some of them are linked to weapons like the double lariat or quick time events instead of letting you do some of these freely like in past tittles.
the enemies while most of the times there are thousands are thousands of zombies they feel like very little due to how overpowered you are even at the start of the game and nope theres no difficulty settings here, even the evo zombies and the freshly infected rarely pose a threat to the player also it doesn't help that theres a ridiculous amount of food lying around, it gets easier if you decide to unlock a certain skill that lets you get healthpacks from defeated soldiers and enemies, not even the normal soldiers and exo suit soldiers are that much of a threat if you're well armed, but then again most of these die in 3 hits, the exo troopers with flamethrowers are the hardest to fight againts, but they don't have enough animations to fight you and give you a bad time, they're mostly anoying to deal with most of the time rather than a challenge.
the side missions and survivors, this is the most bland aspect of the game, they took the rather lameish aspects of the stranded survivors from DR3 and amped that to 11, even those had way more personality to them than these guys, the missions vary from 3 generic as hell missions and then rescue the survivor or destroy obscuris equipment or kill the troopers and free the survivors, or kill zombies and free the survivor.
the vendors, while it was a nice touch and a good step to water down the abuse of the OP weapons that 3 had, alot of the vendors don't offer much variety of weapons , almost all of them sell the same stuff, the clothing vendor seem the most useless of them all, due that most of the clothes they sell, you'll find them at the mall at the start, couldn't they just put hard to get outfits and really expensive clothes, or after beating the game they could have more clothes variations thats nowhere to be seen, or something cool like adding new set of clothes each week that didn't make the cut on the main game dunno.
theres no day/night cycle, and its only triggered by story missions, why would they do that????
now , onto frank, frank's personality seems on par with what we've seen in case west and part of off the record, but jesus some parts fell flat and some jokes ended up being really weak or ended up downright cringeworthy, they had 3 writers onto this game, and only 1 felt good to write a proper dead rising story or maybe the story could have been a bit longer, dunno. they could have written frank in a better way, with less jokes or making them more subtle.
other problems is that theres half combo weapons that there were in DR3, its a given all the weapons we have in this game are amazing , but why getting rid of half the content??, also overtime mode is dlc I believe, don't take my word, it better be damn worth it.
I saw a couple reviews that gave it a score around 5-7. Seems it is just another Capcom mess.
Also how is a 7/10 a mess?
See if you had 3 games in a series that got a metascore around 80+ and the 4th one gets a 74 and a user score of only 4,8..well you messed up something.
forgot to say, this game had 3 writers,so go figure, they could atleast have kept the writer that worked on DR2-3 for the sake of story consistency.


Athena is an arcade title developed by SNK. The NES port was developed by Micronics and was surprisingly only released in North America.
The game includes 8 worlds including the world of Forest, Cavern, Sea, Sky, Ice, Hell, and Labyrinth.
Throughout the game Athena must collect various weapons and items in order to progress. Only specific weapons can be used on the boss of each world.
The game is known for it's difficulty and length. There are no mid world checkpoints or save/password options making the game difficult to complete. The NES port is also riddled with glitches.
Athena was followed up only by a direct sequel that was only released to mobile phones in 2006, however the character of Athena returns in several SNK fighting games including King of Fighters 2000, SVC Chaos, and NeoGeo Battle Coliseum.


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SAGINAW — Zac Chichester scored 25 points to lead Dow High over host Saginaw Arthur Hill 68-59 in Saginaw Valley League boys' basketball on Friday night.
Mitchell Hayes and Jacob Stone scored 13 points each and Ben Zeitler added nine points for the Chargers (10-7, 7-4 SVL), who played without leading scorer Isaac Moolenaar due to illness.
"I'm very pleased with the guys tonight," Dow coach Mark Dickerson enthused after his team's fifth straight win and his first over Arthur Hill in his four-year tenure. "They executed our game plan. Zeitler did a fantastic job of being our floor general — handling the pressure and taking care of the ball."
Dow hit six 3-pointers while building a 20-10 lead after the first quarter. And after the Lumberjacks pulled within 48-46 after three quarters, the Chargers pulled away in the fourth thanks in part to hitting 9 of 10 from the free throw line.
Dow visits Lapeer on Tuesday.
In the Dow junior varsity team's 59-45 win, Shane Juday scored 13 points, Jacob Tomsich 11 points and Anthony Zeitler nine points for the Chargers.
Arthur Hill won the freshman game.


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Turn over the soil in the garden plot using a sturdy garden fork. Mix in five to eight shovels of rich, well-rotted compost to improve nutrient levels in the bed.
Dig holes that are 3 inches deep and 8 inches apart. Space rows 1 foot apart. Plant garlic closer, if desired, but it will create more, smaller heads at harvest.
Break off the garlic from the head.
Place one clove of garlic in each hole so that the imprint part is down and the pointed top is up.
Fill in the soil over each clove of garlic, making sure to eliminate air holes, which cause oxidation that leads to rot. Water the area until the soil is damp to a depth of at least 4 inches.
Spread a 4-inch layer of mulch such as chopped leaves or alfalfa on the garlic bed.
Water once a week though dry weather to keep the soil moist to a depth of 4 inches.
Discontinue watering in mid- to late June. Too much water will encourage green growth but neglect bulb development as harvest time nears.
Where each clove breaks away from the head is a hard, imprinted place where it attaches to the base of the head. Make sure this imprint is not damaged. Damaged cloves are more likely to rot than sprout.
Garlic plants put out long scapes that curl twice and the produce a flower in the spring. These are delicious. Snap them off the plant and add them to salads, stir fries and summer soups.
When the lower leaves begin to turn brown in August, the crop is ready to harvest. Dig up a head or two to check its development. Big and plump heads mean it's harvest time.


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Letter to the Editor of the Defiance Crescent-News. Published August 26, 2012.
Who is this "our God" I keep reading about in the letters to the editor section of The Crescent-News?
If the letter writers spoke of our flag, our country, our military, or our government, I would readily understand what they mean. As a citizen of the United States, I have a common connection with all other U.S. citizens. Our country belongs to all of us, contrary to what right-wingers think when they speak of taking back their country.
We have no "our God" in the United States. We may be one people, under one flag, willingly governed by those we elect to office, but we do not have a common God, a deity that every citizen must worship and obey.
Where in the U.S. Constitution is this "our God" mentioned? At best, the U.S. Constitution mentions a generic God, a deist form of a Creator God. Even then, the founders of this country, understanding the danger of having state-sanctioned religion, made sure that there was a separation of church and state, and no religious requirement for holding office. They made sure there was not only freedom of religion, but also freedom from religion. Christian, atheist and Muslim alike are equal in the eyes of the state.
All that letter writers have is a personal God, a God they believe exists. I have no problem with them having a God or believing whatever they want to believe about that God. However, when they suggest that their personal God must be the God of all then I take issue with such a claim. As a citizen of a secular state that codified the freedom of, and from, religion in its founding documents, I object to any suggestion that there is an "our God" I must worship and obey.
Going down the "our God" road leads to violence, bloodshed and a loss of freedom. Such a notion must be resisted at every turn, lest we wake up one morning and find a Christian theocracy ruling the United States.
Letter to the Editor of the Defiance Crescent-News. Published May 27, 2012.
Cal Thomas is right about one thing. The Bible clearly condemns homosexuality. The Bible is not ambiguous about homosexuality. It is a sinful behavior that is the mark of a reprobate heart. If the Bible is taken literally, it is clear that no homosexual will inherit the kingdom of God.
And this is the very reason the Bible should not be used as a legal standard in the United States. Christians are free to live according to the dictates of the Bible, however, in a secular state, a particular religion's moral code of conduct has no business being codified into law.
There are many moral strictures in the Bible that many moderns find abhorrent. The Bible has been used in the past to justify all kinds of vile behavior. Not too many years ago segregationists routinely quoted the Bible to justify their dehumanizing of the African-American race. We matured as a nation and realized the Bible was wrong about slavery and the so-called inferior races.
In the same manner, the Bible is wrong about homosexuality. In fact, the Bible is wrong about many sexual matters. At best, the Bible is a religious text that promotes sexual repression and control. It is a book that is currently being used by single, white, Catholic men to deny women birth control and control of their own bodies. Christians who willingly submit to such anachronistic laws are free to do so, but Christian sects have no right to force, through the legal process, others to live by their moral code.
We say we are a Nation that believes in privacy but it seems that many Christians only support a right to privacy when what is being done in private lines up with their moral code. Simply put, Christians need to mind their own business when it comes to the sexual proclivities of others. What goes on behind closed doors between consenting adults is nobody's business. Again, Christians are free to live according to their interpretation of the moral code of the Bible, but in a secular state they have no right to insist, through legal means, that others do so.
Homosexuals should have the same civil rights as any other American. Since marriage is a legal act licensed by the state, matters of religion have no place in the process. Two men, two women, or a man or woman should have the same freedom to marry. There is no civil reason for denying homosexuals the right to marry.
Christians need to realize that the United States is not a Christian nation. It never has been. Christianity does not deserve special status and certainly the Bible should have no weight when it comes to enacting law.
Our legal system should reflect what is best for the American people. How best to live as a pluralistic people in a secular state. Allowing homosexuals to marry and have the same civil rights as heterosexuals is absolutely essential as we mature as a nation.
Letter to the Editor of the Defiance Crescent-News. Published August 10, 2010.
Attempting to formulate a reply to the responses to my letter to the editor has left me with quite a quandary. In 500 words I must respond to issues that deserve far more treatment than I can give them. Every letter writer committed the same error as Jack Palmer.
They assumed a priori that everyone believes in the Bible, their God and their version of Christianity. According to them, it is self-evident that the Christian God is the true God. They base their assertion upon the Bible, and therein lies the problem. They believe the Bible is the inspired word of God. I suspect most of the letter writers also believe the Bible is inerrant.
I do not believe the Bible is a supernatural book. The Bible is a manmade book of spiritual writings. It is rooted in a nomadic and agrarian economy that no longer exists. The last book of the Bible was written 1,900 years ago. While certainly the Bible has some value in the 21st century, it is not a book that should be used as a divine road map for life nor as a rulebook for governing society.
The Bible is best suited for use in tribal worship, cultural events and acts of personal piety. In other words, our society is far better off if the Bible is relegated to the same shelf as the great classics of the past.
Because I do not believe the Bible to be the divine truth, threats of divine retribution and judgment have no meaning to me. They did at one time. I was a student of the Bible for over 33 years, attended a Christian college and pastored evangelical churches for 25 years. As an agnostic, I have a humanistic worldview. It is a worldview that focuses on the here and now rather than eternity and a mythical home in heaven.
With all the suffering in the world, time spent pining for a mansion in the sky seems scandalous. The responses to my letter make it very clear to me that no two Christians agree on anything. Every letter writer espoused a different form of Christianity. Every letter writer has their own version of God and what constitutes a right, saving relationship with that God. This shows me that there is no such thing as Christianity (singular) in America.
Instead, what we do have is multiple Christianities, with every Christian picking and choosing what they want to believe from the Bible and then making God into their own image. Christians continue to use Pascal's Wager with unbelievers to no effect. I would reverse the challenge and ask Christians, What if this is it? What if there is no heaven or hell?
What if you've spent your entire life seeking an eternal destiny that doesn't exist? A life wasted that could have been spent enjoying the here and the now. A life wasted that could have been spent living and loving rather than trudging through a wicked world in search of a heaven and eternal reward that does not exist. We each have one life. This is it. Love and live.
Letter to the Editor of the Defiance Crescent-News, published March 1, 2009.
President Barack Obama has made a plea to the pro-life movement asking them to work with him in reducing the number of abortions in the United States. One would think that his overture would be readily accepted. No matter what position a person holds on abortion, it would seem that reducing the number of abortions is in the best interest of everyone, especially for the unborn.
Unfortunately, President Obama's plea was rejected. It seems pro-lifers don't want to get their hands dirty by holding hands with those with differing views. Better to stand on the sidelines and chuck rocks than actually work toward reducing abortions.
The latest pro-life attempt to outlaw all abortions is to encourage the passage of "personhood laws." Such laws would grant personhood at the moment of conception. Thus from the moment of conception forward that which grows in the womb of the mother is a person protected by the same laws and constitutional rights as those who are born.
I am sure that pro-lifers are well intentioned in their attempt to get personhood laws passed, but such laws would wreak havoc on the our legal system.
If such laws were passed, women having an abortion would be guilty of murder as would the doctors who perform abortions. Women who lose the implanted egg during a car accident could be guilty of vehicular homicide. Disposing of fertilized eggs at a fertilization clinic would be considered murder. Women who take birth control pills that cause a spontaneous abortion would be guilty of murder. I could go on and on about the implications of such a law.
Whatever we may call the fertilized egg, a person it is not. Until the fetus is viable outside of the womb it should not be granted personhood status.
The vast majority of all abortions take place prior to viability, with most occurring in the first 13 weeks of pregnancy. Instead of focusing on the point where most abortions take place, the pro-life movement would rather focus on later-term abortions which make up 1 percent of all abortions. Of course this is a calculated political move. What raises more money? Pictures of four-week-old fertilized eggs or 30-week-old aborted fetuses?
The pro-life movement here in northwest Ohio is missing a great opportunity to work with people, like myself, who don't believe life begins at fertilization, but who sincerely desire to reduce the overall number of abortions.
I am in contact with a number of people who have similar views as mine. They sit in the back pew of the church, silenced by the rhetoric of the pro-life movement. They desire to work toward reducing abortions, but they have no opportunity to act on their beliefs because they are considered baby killers and often considered non-Christian.
If pro-lifers are sincerely interested in reducing abortions, then it is time for them to move down from their lofty pinnacle to where sinners like me, who are willing to work toward reducing abortion, are found.
Letter to the Editor of the Defiance Crescent-News, published October 5, 2008.
Ed Singer wrote the one letter I have read so far that succinctly distills the issues at stake in the 2008 presidential election. His appeal to Catholic school tradition is key to our choosing the next president of the United States. I only wish evangelical Christians had such a social tradition.
While groups like Sojourners and Evangelicals for Social Action attempt to bring social issues to the forefront of public discussion, evangelicalism is, for the most part, still a captive of the Republican Party. Many evangelicals are two-issue voters — abortion and homosexuality.
While I am certainly pro-life, I believe we miss the mark when we become single-issue voters. The issues are much broader and more complex than that. We need to think carefully about the current condition of our country and where we want to go in the future. I am 51 years old and I have voted in every election since Jimmy Carter won the White House. I am of the opinion that the current election is the most important election of my life.
I would ask my fellow evangelicals to consider what I call a "consistent life position." It is not enough to be pro-life. We must also consider the issues of war, terrorism, torture, capital punishment and poverty. We must also consider the broad issue of social justice. What does it mean for me to be my brother's keep? In a world filled with poverty, disease, war and injustice do I have a moral obligation to keep in regards to my fellow human beings?
America is a great nation filled with honorable, loving and just people. In recent years, as we waged pre-emptive wars, turned our backs on the poor of the world and continued to ignore to hurting and suffering in our own country, we have become less honorable, less loving and certainly less just. We need a president who will take a completely different course than the one we are on now and who will lead us back to being a nation of honorable, loving and just people.
As much as I like John McCain, I believe he will be four more years of George Bush. Will Barack Obama be any different? I don't know. I find his speeches to be stirring, and they certainly are filled with all the things I think are important. Time will tell whether or not Barack Obama can deliver on what he has promised. I am willing to give him the chance. We cannot continue to stay the course, and I fear that is exactly what John McCain will do. We need a radical departure from the status quo.
Barack Obama's message is one of change, and I can only hope that the change he brings will reinvigorate us as a nation and that will return to being a people of goodwill, both at home and across the world.
Letter to the Editor of the Defiance Crescent-News, published July 22, 2008.
We will never collectively progress as a nation until we admit that much of our social, economic and political belief is based upon myth. Time shapes facts into collective myths that are rarely, if ever, examined by the average citizen.
Christian ministers continue to preach the Christian nation myth. America has never been, and never will be, unless the Christian right gets its way, a Christian nation. We have always been a secular, pluralistic society. Any notion to the contrary is revisionism and not supported by our collective history. In secular America there is a clear separation of church and state. For this reason, questions concerning the religious beliefs and practices of presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama should be considered out of bounds and irrelevant.
Our political leaders continue to preach the myth of continual economic growth. Few people seem to question the notion of continual economic growth. Is unlimited, unconstrained growth possible? Will we ever reach a place where no more growth can take place? Do we really need one more restaurant in Defiance? Do we really need one more drug store? Do we really need another church on another corner? How many varieties of the same old stuff do we really need? When will our razor have enough blades?
We are rapidly approaching the time where the myth of continual growth will be clearly revealed. Soaring food and energy prices, collapsing housing and economic markets are all signs that continual growth is not sustainable. Words like sustainability, conservation and self-sufficiency are the common vocabulary of the future. An economy built on consumption will ultimately fail because it cannot sustain itself. We are consuming ourselves to death. We cannot rely on the government to tell us the truth about the economic condition of America. Statistics like the GDP, unemployment, poverty rate, etc. are massaged and manipulated by government officials to such a degree that they are essentially meaningless.
The evangelical Christian church and many of our government leaders continue to promote the myth that war brings peace. In fact, our entire national history rests on the foundation of this myth. Our nation has a bloody, warring history. We have bombed, killed and destroyed all who have stood in our way. From the early days of our nation to the present conflict in Iraq we have used military force and brutal war to force our will on others. We have rarely been a peaceful people.
War will never bring peace. It can't. It may bring a cessation of hostilities, but peace can only come through peacemaking. A peaceful country will not have nuclear armaments capable of destroying the world many times over. A peaceful country will not wage pre-emptive wars and will only use its military forces for acts of self-defense. Peaceful nations act peaceably. Our national conduct shows us to be anything but peaceful.
Peace begins at home with each of living like peacemakers. Peace begets peace.


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Is Ozymandias Alive or Dead? HBO's Watchmen Series Says Both.
A newspaper confirms Adrian Veidt's death. Yet, Jeremy Irons older version of the character seems alive in captivity.
By Brady Langmann
Before Episode Three of HBO's Watchmen re-introduced us to Silk Spectre/Laurie Jupeczyk and filled us in on what she's been doing all these years, out of all of the original heroes, we've had the most face-time with with Ozymandias (non-superhero name: Adrian Veidt). You know, the man we last saw in the comics sending a giant telepathic squid hurdling into Madison Square Garden.
But that doesn't necessarily mean we know what's going on with him in his retirement years. Played by Jeremy Irons as an older version of the character, Veidt now lives in a strange, mysterious castle in the woods, surrounded only by a number of people (who are likely clones, robots, or clones of the same robots) doing his every bidding. In the world of the HBO series, we've learned that the public believes him to be dead. And Episode Three tells us that the robots and Veidt aren't alone—there's the mysterious Game Warden, who seems to be holding him in captivity.
Here, we run down everything you need to remember about Veidt, as well as what the HBO series has told us about what he's been up to after the comics, to get the most out of Watchmen on HBO.
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Who is Ozymandias?
In short: The smart one. Adrian Veidt is the son of mega-rich German immigrant parents, so when they died, he inherited their estate at age 17. He gave it all to charity, and did what every young-in did nearing the 1960s: Took a bunch of drugs and found himself. Veidt traveled the world and throughout the Mediterranean, ending up in Babylon at the site of Alexander the Great's death. That's where, eventually, he took said drugs and decided to become a superhero—calling himself Ozymandias.
When he returned to America, Ozymandias began busting up organized crime (side note: he's not superpowered or anything, but it's understood that he's just as skilled physically as he is mentally, you know, if a Crossfit bro could catch a bullet), which brought him in the same circles as the main Watchmen crew, like the Comedian and Dr. Manhattan.
In the mid-1960s, a superhero named Captain Metropolis invited Ozymandias to become a member of a new superteam called the Crimebusters. When they tried to meet, the Comedian —who Veidt doesn't have the best relationship with—kind of shat all over the idea of superheroes in general (i.e. how could a few people stand up against the threat of nuclear war?), so the group never came together. That's when Veidt retired from superhero-ing, and started work on a much bigger mission.
What was his mark on Watchmen?
This is when things get weird. Veidt is taking in all the terrible stuff happening in the world (on a giant, Best Buy-esque multi-TV setup, no less), and starts thinking that he can bring about world peace all by himself. The plan: Create a ginormous squid creature in his laboratory, teleport it to the middle of New York City so that it kills a bunch of people on impact, and convince world leaders that Earth is under threat of alien invasion, so that they unite against a common threat. Boom: World peace.
Over the course of Watchmen, Ozymandias does everything he can to fulfill his agenda—and stop anyone who might get in his way. We find out that the Comedian, who dies early in Watchmen, figured out the plan, so Veidt kills him. There's also a controversy that runs throughout Watchmen, where people think Dr. Manhattan was causing terminal cancer via radiation poisoning in his associates—turns out Ozymandias framed him in an attempt to get the blue guy to flee earth. He also frames Rorschach—who's on his tail the entire series, investigating the Comedian's death—for murder.
In the final act of Watchmen, Veidt completes the plan—killing three million people and successfully convincing the public that the squid was an extraterrestrial being. The only hope for justice? Before his death, Rorschach sends his findings about Veidt's crimes to the New Frontiersman.
Where did he end up after the events of Watchmen?
We're not totally sure. Near the end of Watchmen, Ozymandias has one final conversation with Dr. Manhattan. Right before Dr. Manhattan leaves Earth for the last time, Ozymandias asks him, suddenly, "Jon, wait, before you leave… I did the right thing, didn't I? It all worked out in the end?" Dr. Manhattan asks, "In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends." As Ozymandias starts to ask, "Jon? Wait! What do you mean by…" And Dr. Manhattan vanishes. The last panel we see of Adrian Veidt is him, alone, looking backward, stern-faced.
Of course, it's still unclear whether or not Rorschach's account of Veidt's wrongdoing was published in the New Frontiersman—but it's obvious that when Watchmen ends, he's unsure whether or not he made the right decision.
What happened to Veidt after that remains unknown. While the events after the conclusion of the comic were outlined in 2017's currently unfinished Doomsday Clock comics, Lindelof's series is not treating that story as canon in the HBO series. The only clue we get to Veidt's whereabouts in the new series only confuses things more. When we're introduced to Louis Gossett Jr.'s mysterious Will Reeves he's reading a newspaper with the headline, "Veidt Officially Confirmed Dead." But, if he's dead, why do we see an older Veidt, played by Jeremy Irons, hanging out comfortably in his castle?
In Episode Three we learn more about what the Watchmen world thinks happened to Veidt. When Laurie Blake and Agent Petey are flying to Tulsa, OK, to investigate Judd Crawford's death, they have a brief conversation about Veidt.
They look out the window at the towering, new-age-looking Millennium Clock, and Petey mentions that someone named Lady Trieu bought Veidt's company from him. Petey also adds that he's heard rumors around the FBI that Veidt had plastic surgery and moved to Argentina, where he's living incognito.
Of course, we know that Veidt isn't in Argentina, exactly—just the strange castle in a Scotland-looking coastal area. And if there wasn't any doubt, Episode Three confirmed that Veidt is up to more than just play-writing. We see him building some sort of freeze-resistant suit, which he puts on one of the robot-clones. He asks the servant, "Are you ready to venture into the great beyond?" And in the next cut, we see that the robot froze to death. "We're going to need a thicker skin," he says.
When Veidt goes hunting for new materials, he's nearly shot down by a masked figure—who we learn is called the Game Warden. The Game Warden sends a threatening letter to Veidt, where he refers to "the terms of your captivity," and writes that he'll shoot to kill if Veidt violates those terms again.
So what exactly is going on with Veidt's living situation? Is he there against his will? If he is, whatever dangerous, inter-dimensional-or-space-travel situation he's working with his servants on might just be his ticket out.
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Q: Line Integral to Find Work on Slope (Without Explicit Use of Vector Calculus Format) Ok, so my math class has introduced the Line Integral as a way to find the work done on a two-dimensional slope by gravity on an object traversing any distance on the slope. This is all supposed to be useful for Maxwell's equations later, but I know nothing of those right now. (P.S. We use the original texts a lot of times, with some supplementary material.)
The equation we're given, (which is actually straight out of Maxwell's "Treatise On Vectors and Vector Operations") is this: $L = \int_0^S R \space cos \space\epsilon \space \mathrm{d}x$
S is the distance on the slope. R is here the force of gravity. Epsilon is the angle between the force of gravity and the tangent of the slope. Now I understand how to do this sort of thing with a straight line. It would just be the equation without the integral. $R \space cos \space\epsilon$ is just the projection of the gravity vector onto the slope, so its the "living" force that's acting in the direction down the slope. The rest of R is countered by the normal force. dx would be an actual non-infinitesimal distance. And so we'd have force x   distance which gives us work
I don't understand how this integral is working though. Why would we try to find the area under the graph of the work done if we're trying to find the work done? I also don't understand how the change of epsilon is determined in this equation.
The book is here: http://books.google.com/books?hl=fr&lr=&id=WtExAQAAMAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR1&dq=The+operation+of+integration+of+the+resolved+part+of+a+vector+quantity&ots=jD6WFkOpwj&sig=GJWbq0KEb5iHrvSnvubKuMTWvMg#v=onepage&q=The%20operation%20of%20integration%20of%20the%20resolved%20part%20of%20a%20vector%20quantity&f=false
You can use the tab at the right to navigate to page 13, where this extract is from.
I'm sorry if this doesn't make much sense. But thanks for any help!

A: Note that the integral in the quote has $s$ as parameter and integration variable, not $x$. Written in really long form this would be
$$\int_0^S R(\vec P(s))\cos\epsilon(s)\,ds$$
where $\vec P(s)=(x(s),y(s),z(s))$ and $R(\vec P(s))=\|\vec R(\vec P(s))\|$ and
$$\cos\epsilon(s)=\frac{\langle \vec R(\vec P(s)), \dot{\vec P}(s)\rangle}{\|\vec R(\vec P(s))\|\,\|\dot{\vec P}(s)\|}$$
and since it is assumed that $s$ corresponds to the path length, $\|\dot{\vec P}(s)\|=1$.
Thus another form to write the line integral is
$$\int_\Gamma \langle \vec R(\vec P), d\vec P\rangle$$
So you see that there is no area directly involved, it is all more complicated.
Think about the path $\Gamma$ consisting of many small straight segments $[\vec P_{k-1},\vec P_k]$, $k=1,...,N$, and that the force $\vec R$ is nearly constant along each segment. Then you can compute the work along each small segment without integration, and summing up all small segments gives an approximation of the integral formula,
$$\sum_{k=1}^N \langle \vec R(\vec P_k), \vec P_k-\vec P_{k-1}\rangle.$$

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Raven McCarty (Nightshade)
Membership: Helix
Archetype: Hermetic Mage: Circle: Unknown
Preferred Weapon: Katana
Runner Song: http://www.shadowsofseattle.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/01-Raise-Your-Glass.m4a
Bio: Well I couldn't be less surprised by the return of Nightshade seeing what her husband pulled off, Nightshade as well faking her death and going into hiding is just par for course with these next generation runners. Though like her husband, the Queen of the mana bolt just couldn't stay out of the spotlight for long and has reared her ugly head. Nightshade has returned to the world and for some this couldn't be better, but for most this is a serious issue. Seeing that Nightshade is a career criminal and has zero remorse for anything she has ever done, she sheds no tears for the poor souls that she has sent to the grave. For Nightshade this was just business as normal, and as long as she was getting paid is that mattered to her. So having another powerful magi returning to the world will become a serious problem for the already over worked police and seeing that like her husband, Nightshade is very loyal to her beloved Seattle so you can bet your lucky stars that she will be entering the fight for freedom and going straight after the people that threaten her way of life.
Nightshade was born and raised in Seattle and has lived here her entire life, this magi has not had a very easy life with growing up in the Bowery and being raised by wage slave parents that had to work off the books do to being zeroed during the Data Crash. This meant that Raven would be forced to survive on her own and take to the streets at a very young age to help support her parent and siblings. She would trade her childhood inhabitation's for a life of crime, Nightshade would eventually have to leave school and focus full time on her petty crimes to keep food on the table and a roof over her head. Her parents even working full time, barley made enough combined to keep the power on, so as the eldest child she sacrificed everything to assist her struggling family. Raven's parents where not supportive of her new endeavours and would even report fer to the local police, turning in there own daughter to the authorities for the reward money even though she was bringing in more than enough money to help support the family. Once Raven got wind of her families betrayal she swiped the credits she gave them and escaped the apartment before the police arrived, from this point she was a wanted women and as well forced to live on the streets.
So in 2040 at the wise old age of sixteen Nightshade would become a full time criminal and enter the dangerous world of the shadows, this is where she would make a name for herself and as well find the tutelage for her fledgling magical capabilities. To even think there was a time that Nightshade was weak little girl is hard to fathom, but everyone has to start somewhere. For Nightshade this would start with working as a courier for various criminal agencies and as well taking the jobs that the founding fathers deemed beneath them. This rookie was entering the world at a time when the streets where being prowled by the likes of the Wolf Pack, Old Guard, Brothers Grimm and the Dirty Dozen as well as the many independent freelance founding fathers. This was not a very good time to be starting off and yet it was the golden age of runners, so for Nightshade she was able to secure her spot in the new age, by surviving the tail end of old Seattle. She would find regular work acting as a messenger for the older runners and as well looking up to these killers as mentors, Nightshade would find a kindred spirit in Fable and become his apprentice some point in the early 2040's, thus removing herself from the shadows entirely until she finished her training under a true master of the hermetic arts. Fable would become like a father to Nightshade and she would be more then willing to whatever he wanted.
Though for Fable Nightshade was a lost soul in need of proper guidance, and he knew that he couldn't protect her from the life of the shadows, but he could provide her with all the wisdom and guidance to prepare her for the dangers that would await her once she left his shadow. Nightshade proved her worth for Fable and proved that she was ready to fly on her own without the protection of her adoptive father and her elder brothers inside the Old Guard. She would be given one last bit of of advice from her mentor being "Watch for the winds, they will blow once again and you must be prepared my daughter for your generation will be tested and tried. Now fly, spread your wings Nightshade the world is your oyster." She would take these words to heart, though as Nightshade prepared to return to the shadows and claim her place amongst the kings. The tides where turning with the founders stepping out of the game and leaving a void for the next age of runner to claim the throne. This would be the time of Nightshade and she would claim the throne as the queen of the magi, this next generation runner was entering the game at almost 30 and was more prepared then anyone else that would step into fill the void.
Nightshade would quickly become the chosen hire, and with her contacts being provided to her by the Old Guard, who still watched there little sisters back. Nightshade's popularity would reach the heavens, and he would quickly rise to the top in short order, securing top paying jobs and living the high life within Seattle. Even though he was working as a complete freelance operator, she knew that to survive in the shadows you needed to be a team player and this was no longer the golden age when solo operators could not only succeed but thrive. No this was the new age and do to changes in the game caused by her mentors and friends, she needed to find a group of like minded runners to band together and work as a unit. So when Raven heard the rumours that a fellow runner was putting together a team, she jumped at the chance to work with an icon like Quickdraw, he might have been deemed a net generation runner like her, but this dwarf was from the founding fathers age and was already a world class runner just new to Seattle. Nightshade would partner up with Quick and others to form the original Wind Runners, and well so would begin the first of the new teams to enter the game, between the leadership of Quickdraw and the guidance of Nightshade this team would quickly rise to the top and eventually grow to big causing a division in the ranks. This would create a subset of that would separate and eventually go to become the Unknown Soldiers but prior to that they would just be known as the Pain Brigade. The roster between the two teams would shift as the years went by, though with the war of the shadows looming and Hollywood causing serious discontent within there world the new age of the runners would almost be the last age.
As these Next Generation runners were becoming Hollywood sensations over night, and being tested nightly by wannabe and fake runners flooding into Seattle to strike it rich in there yard, the Seattle veterans that have already paid their dues began to feel threatened by this new batch. This new breed of runners entering would not play by the same rules set forth by the founders and their was zero respect given to the operators that already paved the way. No these new runners where coming into their yard and disrespecting the masters, stealing the jobs and going directly after the seasoned veterans. Nightshade and her ilk would have to fight nightly to stay alive from a new batch of wannabes that where flooding into Seattle do to the popularity of programs like "Shadow Beat" and other major blockbuster movies. Nightshade couldn't stand all the disrespect that was being hurled her direction and she knew her boss and friend was also getting tired of the posers coming into there yard and marking it as theirs without truly earning there place.
Though for Nightshade the words of her adoptive father would remain deep in her mind, she would take those words as warning of things to come. So by the time Exodus a dear friend of hers was murdered in cold blood by a group of posers, she knew war was coming and they where going to have to reclaim the shadows and defend Seattle from the parasites that have leached onto the there way of life. Taking the dangers of being a runner and adding a direct conflict between the best of the best and eventually crowing the true kings and queens of the streets. Though all this did was make the Next Generation look like unrelenting and uncaring bastards that would never bow out and allow the torch to be passed to the next generation. Yet that was not the case, they all heard the warnings of Fable and as well respected their elders looking up to many as mentors and icons. The problem was once the War of the Shadows began the legends would have to fight for there lives nightly, never knowing who they could trust so as the true New Breeders where entering the shadows most of them would become unintended causalities in a war that had been waging for many years.
Nightshade knew that this was going to cause a disturbance in the winds and she finally understood Fables words, she knew that they were being tested and sadly they failed. They allowed pride and emotion to guide them, they allowed themselves to be consumed by anger and blinded by the rage for the Winds of Change had blown and they got swept up in the chaos that ensued. Yes the Wind Runners, the Pain Brigade, Ministry, and Regulators had done countless good deeds as well as many nefarious operations. They had failed to heed the biggest warning and that was to beware of the Winds and allow the New Breed there right to shine, The War of the Shadows had consumed them and these once noble runners where all deeply consumed by revenge to see beyond and by the time the smoke cleared the damage was done and darkness would linger over them.
As much as these runners would try to slip into the shadows, the media wouldn't allow them to vanish, they had become household names and popularity had garnered them great wealth as the operations would be secretly filmed and then sold to production houses to be used as scripts and reality television. For the first time, the world of the runner would be broadcast live into the homes of millions of citizens that would gobble it up, thus causing a chain reaction and creating a demand for more runners to enter the game. Yet for the real hero's of the shadows, this was creating a serious situation in witch they couldn't trust anyone entering their world thus causing further discontent and keeping the fire of war burning bright. Even the generations best deckers couldn't stop the media from obtaining the video footage and as more blood would be spilled the ratings would sky rocket. The media would keep the war going for the sake of money, thus turning an already bad situation even worse, Nightshade tried many times to walk away like Fable explained but with the pesky reporters hounding her, and secretly recording her every move Nightshade would never be given a chance to vanish. Even when her friend Quickdraw would commit mass murder killing multiple reporters that would hound the duo all it did was create a demand for more footage and during that week the ratings went through the roof, these runners had become more then criminals, they had become celebrities and this was something they never wanted nor signed up for.
The whole situation would explode in the winter of 2068 when the Wind Runners and the now Unknown Soldiers would once again unite and take the fight directly to the media houses. They would forgo trying to figure out where the recoding devices where located, they figured if they brought the war directly to those that have propagated and profited of the exposure of their world. They could end this once and for all and allow the New Breeders a chance to work in peace, well this had to affects yes it did end the reality programming that hounded this generation but it also created on of the highest rated programs in trideo history. The two teams paired with the Regulators and Ministry assaulted the three media buildings in the early evening to make sure that everyone was inside when they struck and starting at the ground floor, the runners began to clean house. Leaving nothing but a river of blood pouring into the cities gutters. They murdered hundreds of civilians and guards that never stood a chance under the sheer level of talent those runners had, though again the media had the last laugh as they where broadcasting the assaults live on television. Thus even after the last citizen perished, these runners had to fight their way out of the building from the incoming Lone Star officers that flooded in and waded through the rivers of blood. Needless to say the runners where successful, but for Nightshade and Quickdraw this was the last straw and after laying to waste countless police officers and escaping the building with there allies it was time to end this for good. So live television Nightshade cast Urban Renewal and somehow managed to strike all three buildings simultaneously showing her true power as the three buildings came crumbling down, while Quickdraw unloaded with his machine gun into the awaiting police. The last thing the cameras caught before going dark, was Nightshade telling Quick yes I will marry you then everything went dark.
Well after this the Next Generation runners would mostly step out of the game, trying to provide the New Breed with a New Seattle to work in, though the damage they caused would never allow the incoming runners a chance to work with ease, the police would haunt there every move, the media would stalk them and War in the Shadows that was still raging on would continue to claim victims. Also do to the inept nature of a vast majority of the posers and wannabes that flooded the city in the later part of the 2050's and early part of the 2060's would cause the corporate and government contractors to outsource to a private company hiring their own runners and mercenaries off the record of course. Eventually a vast majority of the work would dry up and the runners would be forced to work for independent contractors who would bring politics into the world of the Shadows. Nightshade and her generation should have been able to just pass the torch to there successors but instead they would become icons, villains and pegged the problem children and by 2073 would have to deal with an enraged and frustrated generation of founding fathers that would return to put an end to the war once and for all. The Next Generation runners that once looked up to the founders as mentors was now being hunted by the same people that trained and paved the way for them. This needless to say didn't end well for the Next Generation, as they could in now way match the skill of the true legends that came before them, and one by one they were being taken out. Though the worse casualty was the death of the Mother Hen of Runners, the magi known as Crazy Glue would be assassinated while she was out for a drink at the Jackals Lantern, this would bring the War of the Shadows to it's climax as the Unknown Soldiers would accuse the Wind Runners and thus the once friends would begin killing each other out of revenge for the Death of Crazy. This civil war would only end when Arrow and King would sit down and iron things out, some say Claw was also involved in the peace treaty and from the ashes would rise a new team that would bring the Wind Runners and the Unknown Soldiers back together and reunite the runners into the new team known as Helix.
Well we know that Nightshade was supposed to have been killed, along with her husband Quickdraw during this time. Assassinated and left for dead, well this has been recently proven false as they are both back from the dead. Though it seems that the duo did manage to escape from the shadows with there alternate identities and hide within plain sight. With Quick assuming the role of Aztec CEO and President and Raven being his loving wife, that headed there Magical Research division, though we know that since they have both been outed and ousted there is no returning to Aztec, but what is even scarier is what damage did they do when they worked inside a company that they now fight against. Quickdraw has fully sided with the Patriots and is a known Hive Buster and Raven is anti the UCAS and in full support of the Patriots and there quest for freedom. What did they steal, what did set into motion and what is in store for Aztec in the coming days now that Nightshade has returned.
So welcome back to the days when Quickdraw and Nightshade ruled the streets and welcome back to the days when you could physically see a mana bolt tearing down the street as the Queen of the mana bolt has returned. The streets might have changed, but the game is the same and the rules haven't changed, the Next Generation and the Founders have buried the hatchet and now work side by side, the Old Guard and Helix have aligned to form the Sentinels. They haven't merged, but they now stand united in defence of the city and her people, the Sentinels and the Emerald City Defenders now stand as the final line of protection for Seattle, though they are going to be in for a fight as the UCAS will not just role over for a bunch of career criminals that are know fighting for freedom for all. So even though the times have changed, the cycle continues once again and we once again welcome in a new age where runners of all generation work united to restore their way of life and prove that division will only end up bringing forth the end of there way and so again the winds have blown and hearkened in a a new generation, a new age the return of the runner.
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The winners were all delighted to be awarded McCallum chanters.
"The annual New Zealand summer school was another big success. There were over 200 students in attendance. The pipers were encouraged to write original compositions and submit them to a group of adjudicators. The 3 winning tune-writers were delighted to be awarded McCallum chanters".
McCallum Bagpipes latest Roadshow will be in the North East of England on Friday 18th November, 2011 at 8pm.
The venue for the roadshow is the Dubmire Royal British Legion Club, Britania Terrace Fence Houses, Houghton Le Spring DH4 6LJ.
The show will feature Rory Grossart, Steven Leask, Stuart McCallum, Willie McCallum and Kenny MacLeod. MC for the event is Allan Hamilton.
Tickets £7.00 (including supper) available from Kevin Reilly Telephone 0191 512 0650 or 07931322114 or email: kevnreilly@aol.com or alternatively contact members of the Houghton Le Spring Pipe Band.
All proceeds go to RSPBA North East Branch and Sunningdale School for children with profound handicaps and complex medical needs.
All expenses are covered by McCallum Bagpipes Ltd.
This year's Argyllshire Gathering Senior Piobaireachd was won by Iain Speirs of Edinburgh. This is the most prestigious event at the Gathering as it is restricted to former winners of the Highland Society of London's Gold Medal. Iain's winning tune was 'Port Urlar'.
Iain was taught originally by Jack D. Crichton and by his grandfather, Jock Speirs, Pipe Major in the London Scottish and of the Johnnie Walkers Pipe Band and his father Tom Speirs, Inverness Gold Medal (1980) and Clasp winner (1983). He is currently taught by Donald MacPherson.
Winning this event guarantees the winner a place at the Glenfiddich Championship in October but Iain had already qualified by virtue of winning the overall championship at London last November.
Iain has been a long time player of McCallum chanters and we wish him all the best for the Glenfiddich this year.
The 8th Annual McCallum Victorian Solo Piping Championships was promoted by the Moorabbin City Pipe Band and held at the Essex Heights Primary School in the eastern suburbs of Melbourneon Sunday 11th September.
The day was successful with over 50 entries over 6 Grades of Light Music and 3 Grades of Piobaireachd.
The McCallum Victorian Solo Championships also encompasses the Victorian Pipers Association Gold Medal for Piobaireachd which was won this year by David MacDonald of Melbourne.
Alasdair Thom, fromScotland, won the Silver Medal.
The overall A Grade Light Music was won by R J Houston and the overall B Grade Light Music by Christine Poulter.
The McCallum Prize Bagpipes are awarded each year to a supportive and up and coming young piper as an encouragement award.
All the pipes have been won by pipers over the eight years who have gone on to play at A or B Grade level and also play in Grade 1 & 2 pipe bands, 3 of which have played at the World Pipe Band Championships in Grade 1 with bands such as Dowco Triumph Street, Peel Police and the Band Club.
This year the McCallum Prize Bagpipe was awarded to Ellen McAnulty (pictured below).
Gordon Bruce, pictured below, became only the 3rd person in history to win the double silver medal at the Argyllshire Gathering (Oban) and Northern Meeting (Inverness).
Gordon is originally from Arbroath and now stays in Kilwinning.
He graduated in 2007 with a 1st Class Honours Degree from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama's BA Scottish Music – Piping Degree, becoming the first piper to graduate from the Piping Degree with 1st class Honours.
Gordon is the Bagpipe instructor at West Lothian Council, and PM of the West Lothian Schools Pipe Band, who have now begun to compete this year, Gordon having built the band up from scratch.
Previous bands Gordon played with are:- Arbroath RBL, Gordon Walker's 52nd Lowland Regiment and Scottish Power.
Gordon currently receives tuition from Anne Johnston. Anne is a previous winner of the Silver Medal at the Northern Meeting, and just to complete the family picture, Ann's son Finlay is also a previous winner of the same medal.
The tunes played by Gordon this year were 'The Gen is Mine' (Oban) and 'The Battle of Auldearn (No1 Setting)' (Inverness).
As well as winning both Silver medals also achieved the overall for the B grade events at the Northern Meeting.
Gordon won all these events playing a McCallum Solo Chanter (McC²) which he has used for a number of years.
We wish Gordon all the best for the Gold Medal competitions next year, although he will be a very busy man as he gets married next summer.
At the Argyllshire Gathering, on 24th August, 2011, the Highland Society of London's Gold Medal was won by Callum Beaumont, from Bo'ness, playing the tune 'Keppoch's March'. He becomes the latest piper to be added to the illustrious list of players to have won this award dating back to 1873.
Callum was originally taught by Bert Smith and Tom Speirs and currently takes tuition from Willie McCallum. Callum is an instructor at the National Piping Centre and plays with Inveraray and District Pipe Band. He has previously won the World Pipe Band Championship with Shotts and Dykehead and Simon Fraser University Pipe Bands.
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TOLSA Showcases PANGEL® Series of Additives at American Coatings Show 2018 in Indianapolis
Tolsa Group Mar 01, 2018
MADRID, Spain, February 27, 2018 – TOLSA, based in Madrid, a leading global supplier of specialized additives for the paints and coatings industry, will showcase its industry-leading portfolio of rheological additives based on high-purity sepiolite technology, at the American Coatings Show (ACS) 2018 (Booth #2265) April 10-12 in Indianapolis.
TOLSA will highlight its broad range of products and the performance of its high-growth U.S. additives business which has emerged as a formidable supplier to the paints and coatings market. TOLSA has built a strong foundation in the U.S. by producing unique additives for water-based and solvent-based systems. The company has experienced strong growth over the last several years and its long-term strategy is to expand its resources and capabilities with new investment in technology, manufacturing, capital, and personnel.
"With our broad product portfolio we are firmly positioned as a strategic supplier to the U.S. market," said Michelle Mercurio, sales director for TOLSA USA. "Our innovative technology has now been validated in the U.S. and we continue to see strong results as our products gain market share."
TOLSA has built a strong foothold in the U.S. market with sales and technical offices in Casper, Wyo. and a warehouse located in Addison, Ill. The company has a broad distribution network which includes partners such as MSullivan, TCR Industries, Chemo, and DarTech. TOLSA owns one of the largest and highest purity sepiolite mines in the world in Madrid.
At the ACS show, TOLSA will highlight the PANGEL® series of rheological additives for water-based and solvent-based paints and coatings. The product range is based on a wide variety of special clays, including sepiolite, attapulgite, montmorillonite, and saponite with each sharing the capabilities of easy build up, shear thinning, and thixotropic gel structures.
PANGEL® additives are composed of extremely high-purity sepiolite minerals. TOLSA developed the technology required for purification and production of highly efficient and very low-crystalline silica additives which are unique in the industry. These two key characteristics make them extremely good candidates as attapulgite additives alternatives.
A key feature of PANGEL® technology is its ability to yield fewer defects when incorporated into a coatings system, thus providing a competitive advantage for the end-user. PANGEL® products are characterized by the "3S" benefits they deliver: settling, sedimentation, and syneresis. They are particularly efficient in architectural and industrial coatings where solids content and filler density often drives strong variations in coatings stability.
Broad Product Portfolio Meets Market Demands
PANGEL® series products are sold as micronized solids. Their dispersion process is similar to that of other solid components of the formulation, ensuring an appropriate wetting of the product and application of sufficient mechanical energy (shear).
For water-borne systems, TOLSA offers the PANGEL® S series, produced from high-purity sepiolite with outstanding suspension and anti-sagging capacity unaffected by electrolytes. PANGEL® S9, a purified sepiolite, is one of TOLSA's leading products, offering high-shear thinning. It is normally used as a co-thickener with HEC or associative thickeners for improving syneresis and sedimentation and replaces attapulgite thickeners at half dosage. Other products for water-borne systems include the PANGEL® W series, specifically developed to enhance thickening and anti-sagging properties with water retention and excellent brushability, and the PANGEL® M series, produced from high-purity bentonite for easy gelling and dispersing capacity.
Products for solvent-based systems include the PANGEL® B series which are rheological organoclay additives based on high-purity sepiolite with extra performance and additional suspension capacity, anti-sagging, and homogenizing; and the PANGEL® OM series, rheological organoclay additives based on high-purity bentonite for easy incorporation. The PANGEL® OMD series consists of self-activated organoclay additives based on high-purity bentonite for easy incorporation into solvent-based systems.
TOLSA will hold a special customer reception during the show at the Hilton Indianapolis. Those interested in attending can contact industrial@tolsa.com.
About TOLSA
TOLSA is a longstanding global company specializing in the extraction and process of sepiolite, bentonite, and attapulgite clays. Our success is based on the complete integration of all key processes, which are carried out in the 12 countries in which the company operates. Clays are processed and manufactured for a variety of industrial applications including drilling muds, foundry castings, bleaching earths, and animal feed additives, among others. TOLSA has 19 logistic platforms that together with our 10 manufacturing centers and 11 sales offices provide a deep expertise. An international team of more than 850 highly qualified professionals from more than 18 countries ensures its leadership position in the special clays sector.
TOLSA's international scope allows it to offer a wide range of products throughout the world. The company focuses on intelligent production that is modern, efficient, precise, flexible, punctual, safe, and respectful of the environment. Each process is subjected to stringent quality controls and the company is certified under ISO 9000 and ISO 14000. TOLSA has a production capacity of more than 1 million tonnes and its factories are located near mining operations, or in port areas near end users. For more information, visit www.tolsa.com/industrial/en or email industrial@tolsa.com.
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Q: Crystal Reports Joining Tables from Different Databases I'm trying to pull data into a crystal report from two different databases. My understanding is that its possible to pull data from two identical tables using a UNION query, however my tables aren't the same. They need to be joined on a particular column. For example, assume a table with EmployeeID and EmployeeName and a second table in a second database with EmployeeID and EmployeeSalary. Is it possible to join these tables on the ID and show the Name and Salary of each Employee?

A: You should be able to add both databases to Crystal under the 'Database' drop-down menu -> 'Set Datasource Location' option screen.
Or if both databases already exist in 'My Connections' then when you're creating a new report, on the Data page, click each database instance that you want to build the report from and log in to each one.
For your specific case, if creating a new report. In the Data screen of the Standard Report Creation Wizard:

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*Click Database A, log in

*Move TableX over to the selected tables

*Click Database B, log in

*Move TableY over to the selected tables

*Click 'Next'

*In the Links screen Crystal should SmartLink the tables based on their shared column, in your example EmployeeID

*If it doesn't SmartLink on EmployeeID then manually link the tables based on the EmployeeID column

It is also possible with Oracle 9 and up to create a DBLink between the two databases and in the raw sql queries you would simply call the dblink out with @dblink syntax like the following:
    select employeename,
           employeesalary
    from tablea a
      inner join tableb@dblinkname b
        on a.employeeid = b.employeeid


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Natural Gas Shortages Hit China as Temperatures Plunge
For many people across China, a shortage of natural gas and alarmingly cold temperatures are making a difficult winter unbearable. For Li Yongqiang, they mean freezing nights without heat.
"We dare not turn on the heat overnight — after using it for five or six hours, the gas stops again," Mr. Li, a 45-year-old grocer, said by telephone from his home in northern China's Hebei Province. "The gas shortage is really affecting our lives."
The lack of natural gas, which is used widely across China to heat homes and businesses, has angered tens of millions of people and spilled over into caustic complaints on social media.
One person in Hebei Province wrote of waking early four nights a week because she was too cold to sleep despite two comforters on her bed. A viral video on China's internet shows a high-rise apartment building in a different northern province, Shanxi, with the windows plastered with bright red posters of the sort often seen at Lunar New Year — except that these posters say "cold."
Already this winter, hundreds of millions of people have caught Covid since Xi Jinping, China's top leader, abandoned his "zero Covid" policy in early December. That policy had kept infections low but required costly precautions like mass testing — measures that exhausted the budgets of local governments. Many towns and cities now lack the money they need even to pay their own employees, much less to maintain adequate supplies of gas for homes.
The crunch, experts said, has exposed systemic weaknesses in China's energy regulations and infrastructure, while showing the reach of the global market turmoil provoked last year by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has long been a major supplier of natural gas to China and many regions, particularly Europe. When Russia halted exports to Europe last summer, nations bid up world prices as they stockpiled supplies from elsewhere. A surprisingly warm winter has since helped push gas prices lower in Europe, but the bitter cold is now pushing them even higher in China.
At the same time, China's provincial and municipal governments have reduced customary subsidies for natural gas consumption that used to keep a lid on heating bills. The national government has responded by telling local governments to provide heat, without giving them money to pay for it. As a result, gas is effectively being rationed, with households receiving the minimum needed for cooking food but very little for heat.
"It's a perfect winter storm for Xi," said Willy Lam, a longtime analyst of Chinese politics who is a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation. "Nothing seems to be working, partly because nobody seems to have much cash."
This is the third grass-roots energy crisis in just five years for Mr. Xi. His government abruptly banned coal-fired boilers across large areas of northern China in 2017 in favor of gas ones. It was a quick fix for air pollution, but residents soon found there was not enough gas for all the new boilers.
Then in 2021, the price of coal jumped higher than the regulated price at which utilities could sell electricity generated from coal. Reluctant to lose money, utilities temporarily closed power plants, contributing to a wave of blackouts.
Many in Europe worried last year how they would heat their homes this winter after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia reduced and then halted natural gas shipments to the continent.
But Europe has not just had an unusually warm winter. Gas companies there have raised prices, encouraging conservation, and governments have subsidized consumers to offset at least part of the extra cost. European companies also accumulated large stockpiles of extra gas last autumn. Worries have faded that families in Europe will not have enough natural gas to heat their homes this winter.
In China, the temperature has become unusually frigid. Over the weekend, numerous weather stations in northernmost China's Heilongjiang Province reached the lowest temperatures they had ever recorded. Mohe City, the northernmost city in China, reached lows for three straight days below minus 50 degrees Celsius. China's meteorology agency has issued nationwide warnings this week of very cold weather.
The government has taken notice of the gas shortages.
"Some localities and enterprises have not implemented measures to ensure the supply and price of energy for people's livelihood," Lian Weiliang, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic planning agency, said at a news conference on Jan. 13.
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Balsamic chicken <—– Link to the recipe!
This was tonight's dinner! This is a recipe that I got off of Pinterest. It looked easy enough, and now it is part of my weekly rotation! It's quick and delicious and goes with just about anything! My nearby store didn't have much in the way of veggies; I was planning on a spinach salad, so I went with what I had! Onions and Potatoes!
My friend boiled them together when she made them and now that is the only way I will eat them!
Here we have 3 large potatoes and one tiny onion with some salt and pepper. Boil until the potato slides off the fork and drain!
I added some more salt and pepper to taste then threw in some garlic powder. I love me some LOTS of garlic!
I crowded the pan here because I was lazy, but I recommend doing this amount in two batches. It gives you a better sear on the chicken. And the final product. Meat and potatoes! Hopefully I can drag myself to the actual grocery store tomorrow and get some fruit and veggies!
The link to this recipe is at the top of the page. I strongly recommend you try this recipe out! It's absolutely delicious!
When my roommate was living with me she often made this for me, and the other night I had a craving for it. So I decided to attempt it myself. I went a little red pepper happy but other than that it was perfect. I made it with what I had on hand and that was spinach. My friend made it with spinach and bok choy before. I believe usually it's made with green onions or scallions on top.
To make this I first bought firm (もめん)tofu. Then I put it in a strainer that was sitting on top of a bowl so the liquid can drain out. To help that along I put paper towels then two heavy bowls on top to press the water out.
Next is to slice the tofu and set the pieces on paper towels. In a pan I put some oil and let it get hot and pan seared the tofu on both sides for about 4min each. Then I removed the tofu onto a plate. TIP: the more water left in the tofu the longer it will take to get a good sear on it.
I sautéed some spinach then added a few spoonfuls of sauce for flavor. (I'll write the recipe for the sauce at the bottom.) Then I removed these onto a plate.
Once you have cooked the spinach and removed it. Add the tofu back in and dump in the sauce. Let it simmer and soak in all the flavorings. If the sauce reduces all the better.
To plate it up I just put the rice first, then spinach, then the tofu and TADA! A simple yummy meal.
I like to double the recipe because I'm one of those people who love sauce.