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Q: Setting Parameters to initialization-actions script while creating dataproc cluster I want to pass or set parameters that will be used in the initialization-actions script while creating dataproc cluster.
I am following this link and used the --metadata option. This is how my create command looks like
gcloud dataproc clusters create cluster-name \
  --initialization-actions gs://bucket/folder/init_script.sh \
  --metadata bucket_param="my_value"

I tied both the below ways to print the value of bucket_param inside init_script.sh
echo $bucket_param

and
bucket_param=$1
echo $bucket_param

In both the cases, the value of bucket_param that is set using --metadata bucket_param="my_value" is NULL and my subsequent steps fail in init_script.sh.
I am not sure how to pass or set values to be used in init_script.sh. Can someone please help?


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Green Fairy – Behind the Scenes 4
Posted on February 1, 2013 by Kyell
Jean's turn.
Where to start with this noble asshole of a chamois? I almost had the reverse problem with him that I did with Sol: he was going to be immediately sympathetic by virtue of being the narrator of his own story, starting out in prison, and writing a good-faith (supposedly) letter to his father. What I channeled for him was that backwards rationalization we feel when we find ourselves at the end of some adventure that has not turned out at all the way we'd planned and we are trying to justify it. I think if you had asked Jean before he met Niki whether he would think himself capable of the things he ended up doing (trying to avoid being too spoilery), he would have hesitated. I don't believe he thought of himself that way, and–paradoxically–even less so upon reflection in prison. He feels that his friends and companions and Niki himself drove him to those acts, and so he shifts the blame away from himself in his own mind as well as in his story.
Of course, he is further altering his story to appeal to his father, leaving out things like "I gave a dancer twenty francs" and substituting, "My purse was stolen" (one of the lies you get to see through Niki's eyes). But while it is manipulative–Jean thinks he can get people to do what he wants and think of him the way he wants, and perhaps Niki's greatest crime in his eyes is being immune to that–it is not completely dishonest, not in his eyes. He believes that he should be allowed to do whatever he wants, like dress up a boy to impersonate a girl, and congratulates himself on his cleverness when he succeeds, but blames others when he fails.
My favorite aspect of Jean's story is that his tone doesn't change, but once you start to see Niki's viewpoint, you begin to understand that Jean is a very unreliable narrator. Everything from then on is thrown into question, and everything you've already read, as well. His friend and former lover becomes much more sympathetic (I think).
But by the end, I think the narrative actually becomes a little more honest, and there is something of a transformation there, although not much. Jean is unable to escape the cold fact of what he's done, and as much as he rationalizes it, when it comes to having to describe it to his father, he cannot run around it, because it is the entire reason for his story. He can't just explain it away. So he has to construct a reason for it, and I think he does not land too far when he says there is love. As I was writing Jean's take on it, I felt him lose his desperation to justify himself to his father–he regains it, a bit, when the whole episode is over–but I think his writing, there at the end, is mostly to justify himself to himself. And I am not entirely sure he succeeds.
Footnote: one person said that the footnote about where the manuscript was found was cold and heartbreaking, in a way. I am glad that so much of a story can be told in one line.

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Pearl Harbor veteran is now last survivor…
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Pearl Harbor veteran is now last survivor living in Butte County
Art Wells, then 95, of Chico, left, speaks to a representative of Rep. Doug LaMalfa's office (not pictured) as Chico VFW Post Commander Mike Halldorson looks on just before the Pearl Harbor remembrance ceremony Dec. 7, 2017, at the Gridley-Biggs Cemetery in Gridley. Wells regularly attends the annual ceremony, but won't be able to make it this year. (Dan Reidel — Enterprise-Record file)
By Natalie Hanson | nhanson@chicoer.com | Chico Enterprise-Record
PUBLISHED: December 6, 2019 at 2:39 pm | UPDATED: December 6, 2019 at 4:18 pm
CHICO — On Dec. 7, 1941, a young Arthur M. Wells was aboard the U.S.S Pennsylvania when Japanese bombers surprised the American fleet on the day that lives in infamy. Seventy-eight years later, he's the last remaining survivor of the battle of Pearl Harbor still living in Butte County.
Arthur M. Wells holds a photo of himself when he served in the U.S. Marine Corps. (Mike Halldorson — Contributed)
Wells, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps from July 5, 1940 to Nov. 2, 1945, turns 98 in January. After serving and surviving at Pearl Harbor and the Japanese attack on the U.S. military base Dec. 7, 1941, his military career included the Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa Invasions in 1944-1945.
Wells ultimately served duty on a series of battleships. When the war ended, he and wife Dolores moved to Chico, where they started a business and raised four sons.
Pearl Harbor survivor Art Wells shows off a photo of his wife Dolores just before the Pearl Harbor remembrance ceremony Dec. 7, 2017, at the Gridley-Biggs Cemetery in Gridley. (Dan Reidel — Enterprise-Record file)
His son Jeff Wells remembers "quite a charmed life" with his three brothers (all deceased) and parents Arthur and Dolores. While Jeff's father was very busy running the family business with Dolores as secretary, he would still take his sons to all of their sports activities and games growing up, including Little League.
He was very involved in local youth sports, his son said, even helping build and remodel a Little League field in town.
"He was a great dad, had all his kids in sports," Wells said.
A very busy businessman and father in the Chico community, Wells didn't spend much leisure time on hobbies or entertainment, his son said. He didn't usually watch movies or TV, except for watching football games as a family on Sundays.
"He probably liked '40s music," the younger Wells guessed, as that was the music he said his father would have listened to in his youth.
Wells remained active into retirement, particularly as a member of the veteran community in the VFW, according to Mike Halldorson, who met him about 20 years ago when they were both in business. Halldorson once owned an appliance store at Walnut and Ninth Street.
Wells even wrote a book about his experiences in the war, "The Quack Corps: A Marine's War Pearl Harbor to Okinawa," published in 2001.
"It's really well written. … I'm in awe of his writing ability," Halldorson said.
Wells continued to meet regularly with other veterans and Pearl Harbor survivors even late in his life.
"He was the head of the Pearl Harbor survivors around here, head of the newsletters they sent out here, and when they disbanded he got involved in VFW here," his son said.
Wells always attended the yearly celebration of Pearl Harbor, which is honored in Gridley, until 2018. As he won't be attending this year due to receiving medical care, Halldorson saluted him in person, thanking him for his service.
"The VFW just made him a life member," Halldorson said.
Wells currently resides at Twin Oaks Rehabilitation Facility. His wife Dolores, 97, is still living at home, said Jeff Wells.
Two other longtime Butte County residents noted for surviving the battle of Pearl Harbor were Vere Gardner and Homer Lane. Gardner died in March 2019 and Lane died in January 2014.
Art Wells, 95, of Chico, left, and Vere Gardner, 94, of Gridley, chat just before the Pearl Harbor remembrance ceremony Dec. 7, 2017, at the Gridley-Biggs Cemetery in Gridley. Gardner died in March. (Dan Reidel — Enterprise-Record file)
The annual Pearl Harbor remembrance ceremony takes place every year at the Gridley-Biggs Cemetery.
Time: 9:55 a.m. Saturday — local time for when the attack took place (7:55 a.m. in Hawaii).
Place: Military Veterans Court of Honor at Gridley-Biggs Cemetery.
The commemorative two-bell ceremony includes a prayer, singing of the national anthem, rifle firing by the honor guard and the playing of taps. The program is conducted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 5731 in Gridley.
Natalie Hanson
Natalie Hanson covers the city of Chico, seniors and general assignments for the Chico Enterprise-Record after previously editing and writing for A&E. She has written and edited for multiple publications including The Orion at Chico State and is studying journalism and international relations. She is passionate about student journalism, covering the community and quality coffee.


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St. George Experience
Friday 9/16
5-10 pm
Saturday 9/17
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St. George Middle Eastern Festival
Live Music & Dancing
Ethnic Foods & Sweets
Church Tours
Children's Games Area
Join us for our 25th Anniversary of the St George Middle Eastern Festival. Being our 25th Anniversary, we are planning for it to be bigger and better than ever. This will be your chance to enjoy many delicacies of Middle Eastern culture, hear live music, join in the dancing, bid on wonderful finds in the silent auction and shop at our Emporium as well as shop with a variety of vendors, take tours of the church and learn more about Orthodox Christianity. There is something for everyone, including a Children's Game Area with inflatable amusements and more.
All parking is offsite at the Events Forum Center (11313 USA Parkway, Fishers, IN) with continual shuttle bus service bringing guests back and forth to St George Orthodox Church. The only onsite parking is limited to handicap parking. There is a $5 charge for parking.
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The St. George Middle Eastern Festival started 27 years ago at our old church on 4020 North Sherman Drive. It originally started as a smorgasbord where the neighbors and community members came and enjoyed a home cooked meal that was prepared by our St. George Ladies with the help of the St. George Men (Knights). In 1995, the smorgasbord was converted to a festival with food, live music, dancing, shops, pastries, and church tours.
The purpose of the St. George Middle Eastern Festival is to celebrate our Faith, Heritage, and Cultural diversity among our parish. It gives our church and the congregation an opportunity to connect with the community and with each other. The festival also provides an opportunity for our church to raise funds to pay a portion of our mortgage each year.
The festival is usually scheduled on the 3rd weekend of September. It starts on Friday afternoon and ends in the late afternoon of Sunday. Our festival attracts approximately 7,000 visitors.
The festival has food booths, featuring foods like falafel, kibbe, hummus, gyros, kabab, lamb shank, honey balls and other sweets from the Middle East. The festival also has a live band, dancers, vendors, and church tours.
The festival offers opportunities for local businesses to offer sponsorships and to have vendor booths. In addition to the local community getting involved through sponsorships, advertising and vendor booths, the festival preparation and execution requires a coordinated effort of hundreds of volunteers to ensure its success. Our internal and external sponsors play a major role in the festival success as well.
The festival is open to all in the community with no entrance fee.
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In 1998, Amin Sultan gained international recognition with the release of his first video clip entitled "Ya Msafer". This song and video aired on all the major Arabic radio and television stations including ART and MTV Europe's " Mashaweer". Amin was granted live interviews on LBC Int. Lebanon, and ANA Washington D.C.
In 1999, Amin released his second video clip,"Wailek" which was featured on art's Top20 and WEEKEND shows. "Wailek" is currently playing on ART and MTV Europe. Amin again made appearances on LBCI, and ANA television stations. He was also featured as a special guest with Dr. Hala Serhan on ART's show LAYLA.
As an Arabic artist in America, Amin embraced the opportunity to introduce the beauty and richness of Middle Eastern music to Americans as well as those of all different nationalities. Amin's style of music is Middle Eastern with western and European influences. Amin and his producers entered " Wailek" in a national contest, and were bestowed the honor of receiving the 1999 Telly Award for best video production. Inspired by the success of Latin artists Amin aspires to pioneer the music industry and put Arabic music on the map in the Western Hemisphere.
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Tomáš Kóňa est un footballeur international slovaque né le  1984 à Nitra.

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 Coupe de Slovaquie : 2017

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Footballeur international slovaque
Joueur du FC Nitra
Joueur de l'AC Sparta Prague
Joueur du FC Fastav Zlín
Joueur du FC Petržalka 1898
Joueur du FK Senica
Joueur du Spartak Myjava
Joueur du ŠK Slovan Bratislava
Naissance en mars 1984
Naissance à Nitra
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Home > Films > D > Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows | 2012
Surrey; Devon; London; Buckinghamshire
Johnny Depp,
Michelle Pfeiffer,
Eva Green,
Chloë Grace Moretz,
Jonny Lee Miller,
Helena Bonham Carter,
Bella Heathcote,
Jackie Earle Haley,
Dark Shadows location: the site of 'Collinwood Manor''Collinwood Manor': Bourne Wood, Farnham, Surrey
Although it's set in coastal 'Maine', Dark Shadows was made entirely in England. Tim Burton's homage to the cult US TV series of the 70s (which didn't make it to the UK) is, of course, gloriously Gothic, but doesn't contain any surprises. It suffers from pet project syndrome, and it feels time for Burton and Johnny Depp to move out of their comfort zone.
The centre of the story is the 'Collinwood Manor'. After much location scouting, as far away as Scotland (Ecclesgreig Castle, near Montrose, supposedly an inspiration for the setting of Bram Stoker's Dracula, was a contender), the mansion was finally built from scratch in the familiar locale of The Bourne near Farnham, Surrey. The clearing, south of Dene Lane, off Tilford Road, southeast of Farnham, was used by Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe for both Gladiator and Robin Hood. More recently, the forest became the muddy battlefield of WWI for Steven Spielberg's War Horse and saw Marvel's hammer-wielding superhero battling inhuman hordes in Thor: The Dark World.
Amazingly, the fishing port of 'Collinsport' is a set built at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, making good use of the facility's enormous water tank.
Although the towering cliffs are CGI, the rocky beach scenes were filmed on the south coast of Devon, at Great Mattiscombe Sands near Start Point, about nine miles from Kingsbridge.
The asylum, from which the young Maggie escapes, is Beckenham Place Park, Beckenham Hill Road, Lewisham, a golf course near Bromley in South London.
Visit: Surrey
Visit: Bourne Wood (rail: Farnham, from London Waterloo)
Visit: Devon
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Flights: Heathrow Airport; Gatwick Airport
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5 Brilliant Logic Puzzles To Give Your Brain A Crazy Workout
By Paul Fox
When you have some free time, it's hard to resist watching some television or spending time on social media. Basically, anything to avoid using your brain! There's no shame in relaxing with something undemanding every once in a while.
That being said, it's nice to challenge yourself every once in a while, too. Just as you should exercise your body to stay strong and healthy, you need to treat your brain like a muscle that requires as much training as anything else!
That's where these challenging logic puzzles come into play. Take as much time as you need on each of them to give your brain a workout!
1. Four criminals, all facing the same direction, are on a few steps in a line. The fourth man is separated from the other three by a wall. Because of this, the first man can see the second and third man in front of him, the second man can only see the third man, and the third and fourth men can see no one.
Each criminal is wearing a hat, but they don't know which color their own hats are. They are told, however, that there are two black hats and two white hats among them. They are instructed to shout out their hat colors once they've figured out which color it is.
They also have been given rules: They may not move or turn around at all, they may not speak a word to each other, and they must not take their hats off at any point. Assuming they all follow the rules, which one of them is the first to speak up, and why?
Answer: After taking some time to think about it, Man 2 is the first one who yells out the color of his hat before anyone else. Did you guess correctly? There's a rhyme and a reason to why this is the answer, of course. So, why is it that he's the one who speaks first? That's because the third and fourth men can't see anyone else, while the first man knows his hat is either black or white because he sees both in front of him.
Man 2 only saw a black hat in front of him. Since he knew that the man behind him—Man 1—could see two hats, that man should've shouted out his own hat's color if Man 2 was also wearing black. (Two black hats would mean that Man 1 was wearing a white one.) But since Man 1 didn't say anything, the second man was able to deduce that he was wearing a white hat. Hats off to you if you answered this correctly!
2. Prince Charming was searching everywhere for his true love. Just as summer was coming to an end, he encountered an old witch's shack. Exhausted, the prince asked if she could take him in for just one night. The witch agreed, and was quite hospitable as she gave him a bed, water, and food.
Before the prince left the next day, the witch gave him a gift. "One day," she began, "you will find your passage blocked by a wide river without a bridge to pass over it. You will have no choice but to swim to the other side. Luckily, you'll never be let down by this magical tunic!"
Prince Charming thanked her and resumed his quest. A hundred days and nights passed before he found the river that the old witch had spoken of. As it turned out, he was able to cross the bridge without the magic tunic! Can you explain why?
Answer: it was the end of summer—September—when Prince Charming visited the witch, and 100 days went by before he got to the river. It was already the winter by that point, so he was able to walk across the frozen river to the opposite bank with ease!
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3. One dark night, there was a hit-and-run in which a car struck a pedestrian in a narrow side road. A police officer at the scene of the crime said that the car was moving very quickly. Six bystanders saw the accident as it happened, but their reports were contradictory.
The first witness said that he saw a man driving a blue car. The second witness said that the headlights were off as the car moved at a high speed. The third witness said that the car wasn't actually going very fast, and she noticed license plates. The fourth witness said it was a Toyota with its headlights switched off. The fifth witness said that a woman drove the car, and that it didn't have license plates. The sixth witness said that it was a gray Ford.
Luckily, the driver was caught along with the vehicle, but it was revealed that only one of the six eyewitnesses gave a completely correct report. Everyone else provided one piece of information that was true, and another that was false. With that in mind, consider the following questions:
What was the brand of the car? What color was it? Was it going quickly or slowly? Were there license plates? Were the headlights on or off? And was the driver a woman or a man?
Answer: the vehicle was a blue Ford with license plates that was driven very fast by a woman with the headlights turned off. Start with the information that the policeman provided—that the car was moving very fast. Since each witness (except for one) provided a false statement and a true one, we can use the process of elimination to determine the correct facts.
For example, the witness who correctly claimed the car was moving at high speeds—the policeman could back her up on that fact—would also have been correct about her other statement: the car's headlights were off. That means the other witness who claimed the headlights were off was correct on that fact, but wrong on their second statement (that it was a Toyota). From there, you can keep eliminating details until you find the accurate details!
4. A driver was changing a tire when all four of his lug nuts fell into a sewer grate. It was practically impossible to get them back, and the man feared he'd have to spend a great deal of time waiting at the side of the road. He had no reason to worry, though: a child riding a bike at that moment provided a solution, and the man was able to put in a new tire and safely drive the car to the nearest gas station. Can you guess what the kid told him?
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Answer: the boy on the bicycle told the motorist to borrow one lug nut from each of the other tires on the car, and use them to tighten the new tire on the vehicle as best as he could. That way, each tire had three lug nuts.
5. A farmer has three big hutches in a row in his backyard where he keeps his rabbits. One hutch is painted red, another is yellow, and the third one is green. There were twice as many rabbits in the green hutch as there were in the yellow hutch, but that changed recently.
One day, the farmer decided to take five rabbits from the left-hand hutch and donate them to a local school. In addition, he took half of the rabbits that remained in the left hutch and placed them in the red hutch. Which color is the left hutch?
Answer: The left-side hutch is yellow! Think about it this way: we knew from the start that there were twice as many rabbits in the green hutch as there were in the yellow one, right? That means there was an even number of rabbits in the green hutch.
When the farmer moved five rabbits out of the hutch on the left, the number of rabbits that were still there became even (which we know because it had to be divisible by two). As such, the left hutch had an odd number of rabbits before some of them were removed. Thus, the left hutch couldn't have been green, nor could it have been red given the information that's been provided!
Wow, all of those logic puzzles were sure to give anyone's brain a nice workout! Wouldn't you love to find out how you stack up to everyone else?
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Q: XNA, C# - Check if a Vector2 path crosses another Vector2 path I have an XNA question for those with more experience in these matters than myself (maths).
Background: I have a game that implements a boundary class, this simply hosts 2 Vector2 objects, a start and an end point. The current implementation crudely handles collision detection by assuming boundaries are always vertical or horizontal, i.e. if start.x and end.x are the same check I am not trying to pass x etc.
Ideally what I would like to implement is a method that accepts two Vector2 parameters. The first being a current location, the second being a requested location (where I would like to move it to assuming no objections). The method would also accept a boundary object. What the method should then do is tell me if I am going to cross the boundry in this move. this could be a bool or ideally something representing how far I can actually move.
This empty method might explain better than I can in words.
        /// <summary>
    /// Checks the move.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="current">The current.</param>
    /// <param name="requested">The requested.</param>
    /// <param name="boundry">The boundry.</param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public bool CheckMove(Vector2 current, Vector2 requested, Boundry boundry)
    {
        //return a bool that indicated if the suggested move will cross the boundry.
        return true;
    }

A: After a fair bit of research and more than anything finding out the right terms to google I have a solution that I have just built into my test bed and it works perfectly.
I have taken an example found on the net and tested it, then changed it to meet the needs of this question. It should be noted I have made changes since testing this as I only have a VM on this laptop that cannot run XNA apps so while I am confident it should work there may be mistakes.
All we need to do is pass in a vector of where we are, a vector of where we would like to be and the boundary (which is effectively a line made up of a start and end vector). The method will tell tell us if the two lines (one being the path between the current location and the requested location and the other being the boundary) cross. As an added bonus if they do cross and out parameter will tell us where.
This is a very useful system for creating powerful collision detection.
        /// <summary>
    /// Based on the 2d line intersection method from "comp.graphics.algorithms Frequently Asked Questions"
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="currentLocation">The current location.</param>
    /// <param name="requestedLocation">The requested location.</param>
    /// <param name="boundary">The boundary.</param>
    /// <param name="collisionVector">The collision vector.</param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static bool Intersects(Vector2 currentLocation, Vector2 requestedLocation, Boundary boundary, ref Vector2 collisionVector)
    {
        float q = (currentLocation.Y - boundary.Start.Y) * (boundary.End.X - boundary.Start.X) - (currentLocation.X - boundary.Start.X) * (boundary.End.Y - boundary.Start.Y);
        float d = (requestedLocation.X - currentLocation.X) * (boundary.End.Y - boundary.Start.Y) - (requestedLocation.Y - currentLocation.Y) * (boundary.End.X - boundary.Start.X);

        if (d == 0)
        {
            return false;
        }

        float r = q / d;

        q = (currentLocation.Y - boundary.Start.Y) * (requestedLocation.X - currentLocation.X) - (currentLocation.X - boundary.Start.X) * (requestedLocation.Y - currentLocation.Y);
        float s = q / d;

        if (r < 0 || r > 1 || s < 0 || s > 1)
        {
            return false;
        }

        collisionVector.X = currentLocation.X + (int)(0.5f + r * (requestedLocation.X - currentLocation.X));
        collisionVector.Y = currentLocation.Y + (int)(0.5f + r * (requestedLocation.Y - currentLocation.Y));
        return true;
    }

A: I suggested an answer already, but here is another one, similar, yet different :
I would use a variant of the Point-Line Distance, as taken from Wolfram once again! http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Point-LineDistance2-Dimensional.html
If you take equation 14, but take off the absolute ( | | ) in the numerator, you get a signed distance. I never heard about a signed distance concept so don't expect this term to be accurate though. Ok, so if the signed distance of the origin and the destination are different, it means that the origin and the destination are on opposite sides of the line :
public bool CheckMove(Vector2 current, Vector2 requested, Boundry boundry)
{
    // Assuming you got 2 points in boundry.
    float signedDistanceCurrent = GetSignedDistance(current, boundry.Vector1, boundry.Vector2);
    float signedDistanceRequested = GetSignedDistance(current, boundry.Vector1, boundry.Vector2);

    return signedDistanceRequested * signedDistanceCurrent < 0;
}

public float GetSignedDistance(Vector2 point0, Vector2 point1, Vector2 point2)
{
    // Equation 14 without the |s.
    return ((point2.X-point1.X)*(point1.Y-point0.Y)-(point2.X-point0.X)*(point2.Y-point1.Y))/((point2.X-point1.X)^2+(point2.Y-point1.Y)^2)^(0.5F);
}

Btw, I prefer this answer to my previous one, but it's up to you.
Edit: Btw, with that method, you can also know when the collision happened : If you do this :
float timeFractionToCollision = -signedDistanceCurrent / (signedDistanceRequested - signedDistanceCurrent);

You'll get the fraction of the period fraction of the time period the collision happened in.

A: i think what you want is to find their angle, so just do X/Y and compare, if the angle is same, they are parallel..
like this:
float radians = (float)Math.Atan2(vector.X, vector.Y);

A: I think what you're trying to do is a 2D ray-box intersection (with an axis-aligned box). You can find many online algorithms for this, including this one: http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/raytrace/rtinter3.htm

A: For all your mathematical needs, I suggest you first try on MathWorld.Wolfram.Com. Here is an article about Line-Line Intersection : http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Line-LineIntersection.html
The part that interests you is up, and including, the 4th equation.
Using that, you get the intersection coordinate. Then you can check if that coordinate will be crossed during that movement. For this check, you can do something like :
public bool CheckMove(Vector2 current, Vector2 requested, Boundry boundry)
{
    // If your object doesn't move, it can't hit anything!
    if (current.X == requested.X && current.Y == requested.Y) { return false; }

    Vector2 impactPoint = /* Your code to get the impact
                            point from the link above */;

    Vector2 movement = requested - current;
    float timeToImpact = 0;
    // We checked for object movement already, so it's either moving in X, Y or both.
    // I choose to check for X first, but you could check for Y.
    if (movement.X != 0)
    {
        timeToImpact = (impactPoint.X - current.X) / movement.X;
    }
    else
    {
        timeToImpact = (impactPoint.Y - current.Y) / movement.Y;
    }

    // I don't consider a collision at 0 to be a collision since I think
    // it had to be resolved the period before.
    return timeToImpact <= 1 && timeToImpact > 0;
}

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The Mexican Center League was a Class C Minor League Baseball circuit that operated in 1956 and 1957.

History
By 1955, the outlaw Mexican League was struggling for survival during its confrontation against Major League Baseball. As a result, Anuar Canavati, president of the Sultanes de Monterrey team, led a group of new owners that helped make the league part of Organized Baseball as a Class AA circuit in 1955. On the other hand, he encouraged the creation of the Mexican Center League, which operated as a Class C circuit between 1956 and 1957, as a support for the Mexican League. Canavati also served as president of the six-team league during its brief period of existence.

Cities represented/Teams
Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes
Rieleros de Aguascalientes  (1956)
Tigres de Aguascalientes  (1957)
Chihuahua, Chihuahua
Dorados de Chihuahua (1956–1957)
Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua
Indios de Ciudad Juárez (1956–1957)
Durango, Durango
Alacranes de Durango (1956–1957)
Fresnillo, Zacatecas
Mineros de Fresnillo  (1956)
Rojos de Fresnillo  (1957)
Saltillo, Coahuila
Saraperos de Saltillo (1956–1957)

Standings

1956

1957

Sources

1956 establishments in Mexico
1957 disestablishments in Mexico
Defunct baseball leagues in Mexico


A gold child is defined as up to secondary school age (ID may be requested) and a child in the Take a Kid to the Footy area must be under 13 with children under 2 free.
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