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Q: Pygame - speed variable cannot change from 5 I have absolutely no idea why, but when I try to change my speed variable from 5 to any other number, the whole thing hangs after one repetition.
My game is just a rectangle that is controlled by the mouse, and it has to go between two walls that have randomly spawned heights. Here is my main function:
def main():

    pygame.init()

    # Game sounds
    pygame.mixer.music.set_volume(1.0)

    song = "Music/boss.WAV"
    pygame.mixer.music.load(song)
    pygame.mixer.music.set_endevent(pygame.constants.USEREVENT)
    pygame.mixer.music.play()

    passSound = pygame.mixer.Sound("Sound Effects/passPillar.wav")
    passSound.set_volume(0.3)
    levelUpSound = pygame.mixer.Sound("Sound Effects/levelUp.wav")
    levelUpSound.set_volume(0.5)

    # Set the width and height of the screen [width,height]
    width = 1000
    height = 800
    size = [width, height]
    screen = pygame.display.set_mode(size)

    pygame.display.set_caption("boxes")

    # Loop until the user clicks the close button.
    done = False

    # Used to manage how fast the screen updates
    clock = pygame.time.Clock()

    # Hide the mouse cursor
    pygame.mouse.set_visible(False)

    # the player and its variables
    playerDimension = 50

    playerX = width/4

    playerScore = 0

    playerLevel = 1

    scoreBarWidth = 50

    # the walls and their variables
    extraWidth = 70

    wallWidth = playerDimension/2

    wallHeight_1 = randint( (height/5) , (height*4/5) )
    wallHeight_2 = height - wallHeight_1 - playerDimension+extraWidth

    wall_Y_1 = 0
    wall_Y_2 = wallHeight_1 + playerDimension+extraWidth

    walls_X = width - wallWidth

    speed = 5

    # Game over and Intro screen
    gameOver = False

    introScreen = True

    # Fonts
    font = pygame.font.SysFont("Avenir Next", 26)

    titleFont = pygame.font.SysFont("Avenir Next", 36)

    # Game loop
    while not done:

        # ALL EVENT PROCESSING
        for event in pygame.event.get():

            if event.type == pygame.QUIT:

                done = True

            elif event.type == pygame.constants.USEREVENT:

                # When the song stops playing, start song again
                pygame.mixer.music.load(song)
                pygame.mixer.music.play()

            elif event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:

                if event.key == pygame.K_r:

                    if gameOver:

                        gameOver = False

                        introScreen = True

                        playerLevel = 1
                        playerScore = 0

                        walls_X = width - wallWidth

                if event.key == pygame.K_SPACE:

                    if introScreen:

                        introScreen = False

                        levelUpSound.play()

        # ALL GAME LOGIC

        # GET MOUSE POSITION
        if not gameOver:

            pos = pygame.mouse.get_pos()
            y = pos[1]

        if not gameOver and not introScreen:

            # Format is x,y,w,h twice for both rects
            touchingUpper = collisionDetect(playerX, y, playerDimension, playerDimension, walls_X, wall_Y_1, wallWidth, wallHeight_1)

            touchingLower = collisionDetect(playerX, y, playerDimension, playerDimension, walls_X, wall_Y_2, wallWidth, wallHeight_2)

            gameOver = touchingUpper or touchingLower

            if walls_X == 0: # Move wall back to start and change heights

                wallHeight_1 = randint( (height/5) , (height*4/5) )
                wallHeight_2 = height - wallHeight_1 - playerDimension+extraWidth

                wall_Y_1 = 0
                wall_Y_2 = wallHeight_1 + playerDimension+extraWidth

                walls_X = width - wallWidth

            else:

                walls_X = walls_X - speed

            if walls_X == playerX:

                playerScore += 1

                if playerScore < 5:

                    passSound.play()

                elif playerScore == 5:

                    playerScore = 0

                    playerLevel += 1

                    levelUpSound.play()

            scoreBarWidth = playerScore*50

        # ALL CODE TO DRAW
        screen.fill(screenColour)

        # the player
        pygame.draw.rect(screen, playerColour, [playerX, y, playerDimension, playerDimension], 0)

        pygame.draw.rect(screen, wallColour, [walls_X, wall_Y_1, wallWidth, wallHeight_1])#the upper wall
        pygame.draw.rect(screen, wallColour, [walls_X, wall_Y_2, wallWidth, wallHeight_2])#the lower wall

        for i in range(0, playerLevel):

            pygame.draw.rect(screen, levelsColour, [20 + (i*40), 20, 30, 30], 2) #levels

        pygame.draw.rect(screen, scorebarColour, [20, 60, scoreBarWidth, 30], 0) #scorebar filler
        pygame.draw.rect(screen, scorebarOutlineColour, [20, 60, 5*50, 30], 2) #scorebar outline

        if gameOver:

            text1 = titleFont.render("Game Over!", True, wallColour)
            text1_rect = text1.get_rect()
            text1_x = screen.get_width() * 1.7 / 3 - text1_rect.width / 2
            text1_y = screen.get_height() * 1.2 / 3 - text1_rect.height / 2
            screen.blit(text1, [text1_x, text1_y])

            text2 = font.render("You reached level " + str(playerLevel) + ".", True, wallColour)
            text2_rect = text2.get_rect()
            text2_x = screen.get_width() * 1.7 / 3 - text2_rect.width / 2
            text2_y = screen.get_height() / 2 - text2_rect.height / 2
            screen.blit(text2, [text2_x, text2_y])

            text3 = font.render("Press R to restart.", True, wallColour)
            text3_rect = text3.get_rect()
            text3_x = screen.get_width() * 1.7 / 3 - text3_rect.width / 2
            text3_y = screen.get_height() * 1.8 / 3 - text3_rect.height / 2
            screen.blit(text3, [text3_x, text3_y])

        elif introScreen:

            text1 = titleFont.render("Press Space to start!", True, wallColour)
            text1_rect = text1.get_rect()
            text1_x = screen.get_width() / 2 - text1_rect.width / 2
            text1_y = screen.get_height() * 1 / 3 - text1_rect.height / 2
            screen.blit(text1, [text1_x, text1_y])

        # Update the screen
        pygame.display.flip()

        # Limit frames per second
        clock.tick(200)

    # quit.
    pygame.quit()

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? The ultimate goal is to make the speed proportional to the playerLevel, to increase the difficulty over time.

A: It looks like you might be name shadowing something. I managed to reproduce your error (although I had to create all the colours and comment out the sounds), but when I renamed speed to wall_speed everything started to work

A: Instead of
if walls_X == 0: # Move wall back to start and change heights

use
if walls_X <= 0: # Move wall back to start and change heights

Why?
You use the variable speed only in one place:
walls_X = walls_X - speed

The initial value for walls_X is 975 (width - wallWidth) and then you repeatedly decrease it by speed - for speed == 5 to 970, 965, 960, 955...
The problem arises when you test the value of walls_X - in the statement:
if walls_X == 0: # Move wall back to start and change heights

If speed is not a divisor of 975 (i. e. it is different from 1, 3, 5, 13, 15, ...) walls_X will never reach 0 and your test walls_X == 0 will never pass.


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Risk 2210 A.D. Review
Now it is time to review one of my all-time classic games - Risk 2210 A.D. .
Risk 2210 AD starts with the premise and mechanics of regular Risk - take over the world by rolling dice (attacker gets a max of 3 dice, defender gets 2, but defender wins ties), and then throws in everything including the kitchen sink. 2210 adds commanders, space stations, water territories, lunar territories, and special ability cards. The game is played for 5 rounds, and at the beginning of each round all of the players bid "Energy Points" to determine who gets to pick their turn order first (as in, if I bid the most, I can choose to go first, or I can choose to go last and try to go first next turn for back-to-back turns). After the turn order is set, each player takes their turn. First, as in normal Risk, they collect reinforcements, but in addition to reinforcements, the active player gets to collect an equal number of Energy Points. With these points, they can purchase commanders (that allow them to enter water or space, to play different cards, and that roll 8-sided dice instead of the normal 6-sided ones). Points are also used for buying and playing the cards, buying space stations, and for bidding on turn order. Once the active player has placed their reinforcements and spent their Energy Points, they take their turn by attempting to take over more territories with the hope that they will be able to collect for continent bonuses on the next turn.
One of the major pro's for Risk 2210 is that the game is very fast paced (not to be confused with short - the game will still take over an hour). It only plays 5 rounds, but this is often enough to determine a very distinct winner without even needing to count end of game totals. There are many more territories and continents available, so the chances of getting bonuses and large numbers of reinforcements are much higher, and factor in that certain cards can give you even more armies, and this means that players will have more "useful" (bloody) turns.
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The cons of Risk 2210 are more minor. First, people that really enjoy the original Risk may not like that the game is only played for 5 rounds instead of until one person takes over the world (and moon). Also, there is still quite a bit of luck and randomness involved - as in the original, how well you roll dice will determine how well your armies perform, but now which cards you draw can also influence the game.
Overall, Risk 2210 gets an 9.0/10. This is one of my personal favorite games, but I also realize that it is not perfect. It is a game that I would highly recommend to anyone that is interested in war games or the original Risk.
If you like Risk variants, then you should definitely check out Risk: Legacy.
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John November 10, 2010 at 5:26 AM
This is the most popular among my current board game friends as well and I'd agree with the rating. I would add that while often the 5 year cap is just a way of ending the game after only 3 hours rather than 7, it has a definite impact on strategy especially when playing all 5 players. I've seen people win at the end of year 5 by employing tactics that would not have been sustainable for the long term and yes even by extra point cards in their hand, the variety of strategy is a nice addition to classic risk.
I would also comment on the same use of treaties with other people as in classic risk. Part of the game is poker/reading your opponents. When will they betray you? How can you foil their efforts? If you don't break that guys bonus can you rely on the next person too? etc. This can be a great or infuriating characteristic.
I highly recommend you take a look at the new Risk: Legacy. I saw it and instantly fell in love with it. I'm currently getting a group together for the long haul of 15 games (plus whatever we decide to do once the world's done being modified)!
If you like Risk 2210, you'll love the campaign style of game play that has evolved from 2210.
Josh Edwards December 21, 2011 at 9:21 PM
Yeah, I've been drooling over Risk: Legacy since I first saw it! Hopefully I'll be able to join a group to play it after the new year.
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If we want to define how "open" any industry is, we should start with a number: the cost of entry. By this we simply mean the monetary cost of getting into the business with a reasonable shot at reaching customers. Is it in the neighborhood of $100? $10,000? Or more like $1 billion? Whatever the magnitude, that number, most definitively, is what determines whether an industry is open or closed.
This definition of "open" strikes me as a more complete definition. If it's all about the cost of entry, it encompasses the open-source argument, but it brings with it some added implications.
By Wu's definition, the barriers of entry to reaching customers are what determine openness. By this definition, I'd argue that Apple's iOS development community is more open than Android's: the barriers to getting a good product into the hands of paying customers are far fewer. Yes, the iOS developer program costs $100, but look at what that affords you: access to a massive and growing collection of customers who are far more likely to pay you for your product, and instead of wrestling with device fragmentation, you only have to develop for two screen sizes.
We talk about whether our political process is transparent —-look at the high net worth of our politicians, and it's clear that there are financial requirements for getting your voice heard in this country.
We talk about the importance of education in our society, but when tuition prices skyrocket, our society becomes less of a free and open community. If you graduate and are burdened by debt, you are less likely to pursue your dreams, and more likely to work for the highest (or only) bidder.
The recent battles over patents show that if the cost of defending yourself is too high, then the patent system truly isn't open to small innovators.
The declining costs of getting your message out to the world is what's driving the free and open exchange of ideas on blogging platforms like Wordpress, Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook. Folks who used to read the newspaper can now participate in the discussion, and the old media empires can't keep up with this new, open world.
PS: This book has been incredible so far. I found it through Seth Godin, and it is full of annotations on my Kindle. So good!


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Q: beforePageLoad failing when a view column is computed I've got a view control which opens an xpage.  When the xpage opens, the beforePageLoad event fires.  It checks to see if there are any attachments in a particular field of the document being opened and if there are, it returns list of the filenames.  This was working fine.  Then, I was asked to change what's displayed in one of the columns of the view.  I added a variable to the view control's data section to access the row.  I then added some javascript to the column to display the data differently.  That worked and it displayed the data as wanted.  However, when I now click on the link to open the xpage, when the beforePageLoad event fires, the code that's there now fails.  It fails with this error at the starred line:
Script interpreter error, line=9, col=49: 'closureField' is null at
 [/Function_ReturnListOfClosureAttachmentNames.jss].ReturnListOfClosureAttachmentNames(CCEB1351591847CB85257E7C005EF68C)

function ReturnListOfClosureAttachmentNames(ltDoc ){
var closureAttachmentFileNames = "";
var thisLT = ltDoc;
var closureField:NotesRichTextItem = thisLT.getFirstItem("closeAttachments");
*>>> var eos:java.util.Vector = closureField.getEmbeddedObjects();<<<
var eosi:java.util.Iterator = eos.iterator();
while (eosi.hasNext()) {
    var eo:NotesEmbeddedObject = eosi.next();
    closureAttachmentFileNames = closureAttachmentFileNames +","+eo.getName();
}

return closureAttachmentFileNames;

}
I call this function from the beforePageLoad event and pass it currentDocument.getDocument().  I think I might have lost the document context after changing the column display data from 'view column' to 'computed value' but I'm not sure.  Any ideas would be appreciated.
thanks!
Clem

A: Figured it out: When I assigned a variable to the view, when you click on a linked column in that view, it loads the current ViewEntry into the context and not a current document. So I put the unid of the doc from the selected ViewEntry in an application scope variable and returned it to the Document Id property when I open the xPage. I have to now update all my views but there aren't too many luckily. Thanks for working through this with me!
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Security NewswireHospitals & Medical Centers
Research Finds Violence in Emergency Departments Is Increasing, Harming Patients
Violence in America's emergency departments is increasing, causing harm to physicians, staff and patients, according to new research. Nearly half (47 percent) of emergency physicians report having been physically assaulted while at work, with 60 percent saying those assaults occurred in the past year. Nearly 8 in 10 also say that patient care is being affected, with 51 percent of those saying that patients also have been physically harmed.
The results of a poll of more than 3,500 emergency physicians across the nation were released, alongside new research about violence in Michigan emergency departments, presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), ACEP18/Scientific Assembly.
"More needs to be done," says Vidor Friedman, MD, FACEP, president of ACEP. "Violence in emergency departments is not only affecting medical staff, it is affecting patients. When violence occurs in an emergency department, patients can be injured or traumatized to the point of leaving without being seen. It also can increase wait times and distract emergency staff from focusing on other patients who urgently require a physician's assistance."
Nearly 7 in 10 say violence has increased in the past 5 years, with 25 percent reporting it is increasing greatly. Almost half (49 percent) of all respondents say hospitals can do more by adding security guards, cameras, security for parking lots, metal detectors, and increasing visitor screening inside hospitals, especially in emergency departments.
"Nearly three-quarters (70 percent) of those assaulted say that their hospital administration or hospital security did respond to the incident, yet among those whose hospital responded, only 3 percent say that the hospital security actually pressed charges," said Dr. Friedman.
Dr. Friedman says nearly all women who are emergency physicians (96 percent) reported that a patient or visitor made inappropriate comments or unwanted advances toward them, and 80 percent of men reported the same.
More than a quarter (27 percent) of emergency physician who were assaulted in the past year, say assaults occurred more than once. Nearly a third (27 percent) of those assaulted got injured. About half of those injured (44 percent) reported being hit or slapped. Almost one-third say they have also been either punched, kicked or spit upon. Almost all (97 percent) say a patient committed the assault. A quarter (28 percent) reported that they had been assaulted by a patient's family member or friend.
A new study (Reassessment of Violence Against Emergency Physicians) published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine and presented at ACEP18 found that despite increased security measures in Michigan, the problems of emergency department violence are getting worse.
"Emergency physicians across all demographics experience various forms of violence and are increasingly concerned about becoming a victim of violence," says Terry Kowalenko, MD, FACEP, an emergency physician in Michigan and co-author of the study. "Despite increased risks, our research found that there is very little published on topics such as situational awareness, verbal de-escalation, self-protection techniques or weapons awareness for emergency physicians to use."
According to Dr. Kowalenko's research, 72 percent of emergency physicians in Michigan reported experiencing violence in the past year. More physicians in 2018 reported feeling "constantly fearful" of becoming a victim of violence (8.1 percent vs 1.2 percent in 2005), with 21.9 percent reporting feeling frequently fearful (up from 9.4 percent in 2005).
Other findings of the poll include:
Almost three-quarters (71 percent) personally witnessed others being assaulted during their shifts.
More than 80 percent of emergency physician respondents say a patient has threatened to return and harm them or their emergency department staff.
Half of emergency physicians report that at least half of all assaults are committed by people were seeking drugs or who are under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
More than 40 percent of emergency physicians believe that more than half of assaults are committed by psychiatric patients.
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Q: Modify non-adjacent lines specified by line numbers I know the line numbers in advance, and keep them in another file:
cat linenos
2
15
42
44
... etc

as you see the lines are non-adjacent so I cannt use one range for sed.
The goal is to modify target file lines by, say, prepending them with a marker like MARKER
Straight forward way is to call sed multiple times to modify each line:
for l in $(cat linenos)
do
  sed -i "${l}s/^/MARKER/" target_file
done

which apparently will call sed multiple times.
CAUTION: *Not only is this approach inefficient it can also make things go wrong if the modification is other than inserting a marker like this. Any line deletion or insertion sed command like d a r, will make initial line number in linenos invalid for the next sed runs in the loop.
What would you suggest to improve/optimize that?
Sample linenos file
cat linenos
2
5

Sample target_file
cat target_file
line one
line two
line three
line four
line five
line six

Expected result of modified target_file
cat target_file
line one
MARKERline two
line three
line four
MARKERline five
line six

Possible approach i came up with is dynamically create sed scenario
SEDCMD=$(for l in $(cat linenos); do echo -n "${l}s/^/MARK/;" ; done)

sed -i -e "$SEDCMD" targetfile

@steeldriver's below approach shares the idea, but is more elegant and concise

A: With perl (where GNU sed got -i from):
perl -pi -e '
  BEGIN{$l{0+$_}=1 while <STDIN>}
  $_ = "MARKER$_" if $l{$.}' target_file < linenos

We feed the list of line numbers on perl's stdin. That is read in the BEGIN block.
For each line of input, we convert that line to a number with 0+$_. That makes the newline character go away and also canonicalises the numbers (all of 1e0, 1, 01 become 1).
The %l hash table is populated with value 1 for each line number as the key.
The target_file is processed in the main -p loop where MARKERS is prepended to lines where the current line number ($.) is found in %l with a non-zero value.

A: $ awk 'NR==FNR{a[$1]="MARKER"; next} {print a[FNR] $0}' linenos target_file
line one
MARKERline two
line three
line four
MARKERline five
line six

or to save a bit of memory:
$ awk 'NR==FNR{a[$1]; next} {print (FNR in a ? "MARKER" : "") $0}' linenos target_file
line one
MARKERline two
line three
line four
MARKERline five
line six

If you want "inplace" editing (same as perl and GNU sed with -i) use GNU awk and change awk '...' to awk -i inplace '...' and add a print; before the next statement so your linenos file doesn't get emptied. IMHO it's simpler to just do this with any awk (or any other UNIX tool):
awk 'script' linenos target_file > tmp && mv tmp target_file

A: If fileN contains the numbers of lines to be modified, and target_file is the text file that contain the lines to be modified. The minimum solution will require to read each file once.
Sorted
If the file that contains the line numbers contains one number (bigger than 1) per line, is sorted and there are no repetitions, we can use:
awk 'BEGIN{ getline lineN <"fileN"} {
     if(NR==lineN){$0="MARKER " $0;getline lineN <"fileN"}
     }1' target_file

Which will keep only one line in memory (of each file) and walk both files from start to end. However once awk has processed a line, line 15 for example, it won't go back to line 12, for example. So, the file lineN has to be sorted (not repeated, and greater than 1) for this to work.
Unsorted
Of course, the naive solution is that the line numbers file could be sorted sort -nu fileN.
But, if the list of line numbers may be unsorted (and repeated), we may use either sed , ed (the precursor of sed), or awk (later):
Convert each line in lineN to a sed editing command like s/^/MARKER /. Either shell printf or sed could do that:
printf '%ss/^/MARKER /\n' $(<fileN) | sed -f - target_file
sed 's#$#s/^/MARKER /#' fileN       | sed -f - target_file

{ printf '%ss/^/MARKER /\n' $(<fileN); printf '%s\n' ,p Q; } | ed -Gs target_file
{ sed 's#$#s/^/MARKER /#' fileN ; echo "w"      ; } | ed target_file

Note that in the last case the editing is done directly and at the original file. The last command w writes the modifications to file. If what is needed is to print the result then use the third option, which will print all lines.
awk
In awk, capture the whole fileN in memory and process target_file
awk '{ if(NR==FNR){
                     a[$1]=1
                  }else{
                     if(a[FNR]==1){ printf("%s","MARKER ")};
                     print
                  }
     }' fileN target_file

Or, with a variable to control when the list of files with line numbers has ended:
awk '{ if (dofile==1) {   if(a[FNR]==1){ printf("%s","MARKER ")};
                          print
                      }else{
                          a[$1]=1
                      }
     }' fileN fileK   dofile=1   target_file

Note that the last version allows several files with line numbers, like fileN and fileK in the example.
Also note that the awk versions do not process repeated line numbers. All repeated line numbers are processed just once.

A: You could use sed itself (or another text-processing utility of your choice) to turn the line numbers into sed expressions, then pass those to sed using the -f switch
Ex.
sed 's:$:s/^/MARKER/:' linenos | sed -f- -i target_file

This at least only calls sed twice.

A: Another way, using ed instead of sed to modify the target_file in place:
(while IFS= read n; do echo "${n}s/^/MARKER/"; done < linenos; echo w) |  ed -s target_file


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INSIDE STORY: Embracing family, friends and faith on Opening Day
Why I love root, root, rooting for the home team.
Bobby Ross Jr.
ARLINGTON, Texas — My three favorite holidays: Thanksgiving. Christmas. Opening Day.
I was blessed to join my 16-year-old son, Keaton, and 49,029 fellow baseball fans at my beloved Texas Rangers' season opener against the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday afternoon.
Bobby and Keaton Ross at the Texas Rangers' Opening Day
I originally planned to watch the game from the comfort of my couch in Oklahoma City. But at the last minute, my friend Trey Morgan, minister for the Childress Church of Christ in the Texas Panhandle, texted to let me know he had two extra tickets to the game.
"Would you know anyone who might want them?" he asked.
(Insert rowdy scene of me doing the happy dance and calling my wonderful wife, Tamie, to beg permission to make an unscheduled trip down south.)
Trey and Lea Morgan at Globe Life Park
This was the remarkable scene at Globe Life Park for the first of the Rangers' 162 regular-season games (as captured by a Dallas Morning News photographer):
So, how exactly did our Louis DeLuca get this amazing opening day photo. Here, he'll tell ya: http://t.co/1gLZk7ihGd pic.twitter.com/pm1mSZxbq1
— Evan Grant (@Evan_P_Grant) April 1, 2014
As I was munching on a $5 hot dog before the game, I received an email from Chad MacDonald, the San Diego Padres' vice president and assistant general manager of player personnel.
MacDonald, a member of the North Davis Church of Christ in Arlington, wrote to clarify a detail in the story I was writing about him (it's now online). My thanks to Doug Peters, the North Davis church's senior minister and a fellow Rangers fan, for introducing me to MacDonald.
"Enjoy opening day … one of the best days of the year!" MacDonald replied back when I told him where I was. (His Padres, by the way, defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, 3-1, Sunday night in MLB's North American opener.)
Chad MacDonald in the San Diego Padres' dugout
In case you missed it, baseball actually opened this season in a cricket stadium in Australia. That two-game set featured the Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks. Diamondbacks pitcher Brad Ziegler wrote a piece for mlb.com titled "Opening Day brings chills for Ziegler every year." Amen, brother!
Ziegler, a member of the East Grand Church of Christ in Springfield, Mo., signs autographs with a favorite Scripture, as he shared in a 2010 Christian Chronicle interview. USA Today recently called him "the unofficial social conscience of Major League Baseball players." He is the son of Greg and Lisa Ziegler. Greg Ziegler is a minister for the Bentonville Church of Christ in Arkansas.
Here's a photo of Ziegler with his newborn son, Joshua, that his wife, Kristen Ziegler, posted on Facebook this week:
Brad and Kristen Ziegler with Joshua
Almost before I finished scarfing down my hot dog, my Rangers found themselves down, 6-0. Then they rallied and took at 7-6 lead after three innings. Then they coughed up the lead again and eventually lost, 14-10. That prompted some good-natured ribbing from my friend Dan Cooper, a Phillies fan and minister for the Pitman Road Church of Christ in Sewell, N.J.
"Happy for me, sad for you," Cooper said in a text after the game was over.
"Had a great time!" I replied. "We'll get you tomorrow!"
(And we did.)
Fortunately, Opening Day isn't about winning or losing. It's about the promise of spring. It's about starting fresh.
As one fan put it:
Happy Opening Day! Today, fans of each team (except Cubs fans) feel like this may be their teams year
— davideprince (@davideprince) March 31, 2014
In so many ways, baseball is like our spiritual walk.
It reminds me of all those trite but true cliches:
You can't hit the ball if you don't swing the bat.
Take it one game at a time.
It's a marathon, not a sprint.
In a 2006 Chronicle column, I wrote:
One of my favorite verses is 2 Timothy 4:7, where Paul says: "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." I'm certain that if Paul had lived after Abner Doubleday invented the precious game of baseball, he would have said something about pitching into the ninth inning and keeping his team close.
Meanwhile, I am honored and humbled to reveal that I will make my first major-league start for the Rangers tonight (or maybe they're talking about a different Ross Jr.):
Screenshot from Fox Sports Southwest
Well, I've had enough fun for one column.
I'll leave you with this simple message: Play ball!
Bobby Ross Jr. is Chief Correspondent for The Christian Chronicle. Reach him at [email protected]
MORE BASEBALL STORIES
• From bat boy to major-league executive: Chad MacDonald devoted to his faith
• Oh, Brothers!: For Rockies pitcher with 0.28 ERA, there's a higher calling
• Boys of summer: Josh Willingham's faith, character praised
• Reliever Ziegler signs autographs with a favorite Scripture
• For love of God, family and baseball
• Cecil Cooper adjusts to life out of baseball
• Play ball: Travels bring ballpark fun, fellowship
• Twins coach puts faith not in game, but in God
• Baseball fan's orange T-shirt is for the Birds
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How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and Its Hope for the Future
Ami Ayalon, Anthony David
Hardcover (9/8/2020)
Truth to Power, 9781586422974, 320pp.
Admiral (Ret.) Ami Ayalon is a former Flotilla 13 (Israel's navy SEALs) commando, commander of the navy, director of the Shin Bet security agency, cabinet minister, Knesset member and a recipient of the Medal of Valor, Israel's highest military decoration. With Sari Nusseibeh, he established the People's Voice peace initiative in 2002. He is a member of Commanders for Israel's Security, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Haifa Research Center for Maritime & Strategy and chairman of AKIM Israel (the National Association for children and adults with Intellectual Disabilities). He organized and was featured in the Academy Award-nominated documentary, The Gatekeepers. Anthony David, historian and biographer, teaches creative writing at the University of New England's campus in Tangier, Morocco.Dennis Ross, American diplomat and author, has served as the Director of Policy Planning in the State Department under President George H. W. Bush, the special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clinton, a former special assistant to President Barack Obama and as a special adviser for to the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He is The Washington Institute's William Davidson Distinguished Fellow.


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UPDATED AFN national callout to Stop the March for England, Brighton April 27th
Meet 11.30am, bottom of West St, Brighton, Sunday April 27th
With only four days to go until Brighton's opposition to the far-right nationalist March for England, details are becoming clear. In response to changed information coming from the police, Stop the March for England – the campaign group that has been organising the opposition to the fascist demonstration – has changed the details of the anti-fascist callout.
The fascist march will be held in the same location as last year – along a short stretch of the main seafront road. However, the police have announced they are running the route back to front, i.e. starting from the bottom of West Street heading towards the Palace Pier roundabout and then back again rather than the other way around. They are saying the march will start on Kings Rd just east of West St and stop just short of the roundabout so that it will be able to stay open to traffic. The police have also indicated the march will be starting at 12.30pm and should be over by 1.30pm.
The section of seafront road between West St. and the roundabout will be closed between 11.00am and 2.00pm. The pavement on the north side of the seafront road will be closed to pedestrians during this time. As you can see on the map all the roads connecting with the seafront road will be blocked. Last year this was with giant mobile metal walls, so we should expect this again.
The police designated area for anti-fascist protestors is the pavement on the beach side of the seafront road, as it was last year. Last year this was lined with large squares built of crowd barriers and weighted with ton sacks of sand to keep the two sides apart. Again, we should expect this to be similar to previously.
Last year some of the fascists were bussed into and out from the march, but many of them also wandered down through town from the train station in small groups. This year the police are saying no transport will be provided by them, so it is possible that we could see all of the marchers wandering down through town from the station and then back again, although it would be unwise to take everything the police say at face value.
As we know from previous years, the actual march is a small part of the total events of the day. Due to pressure from anti-fascists, the march has been gradually squeezed to take up less time and a shorter and shorter distance. However, it is to be expected that there will be fascists hanging around town all day into the evening.
The police are also saying that they will be enforcing legislation to make people remove any face coverings, although of course what they actually do on the day depends on what it is practical for them to do.
For background info see our previous national callout for Brighton and Stop the March for England fact file
Practical details
Contact your local AFN group for details of any transport to Brighton.
For information from the streets in advance and on the day:
Twitter: @stopmfe
Facebook: Stop the March for England
Web: stopmfe.wordpress.com
Email: stopmfe@ymail.com
« Capture the flag part 3! Anti-Fascist Network & Hunt Saboteurs Association announce affiliation »
Date : April 23, 2014
Tags: Brighton Anti-Fascists, mfe, Stop MFE
Categories : events, news


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Over ear headphones for gaming and music?
I'm looking for over ear, headphone with great sound quality for gaming and edm music, Price isn't really an issue but 140 - 250 euros would be great. I play many games and i am hearing a lot of EDM music i have heard from most reviews and some people that claim that dt990 pro and akg 712 pro are very good in gaming and edm music. some another people say that dt990 pro have very treble, and v-shape,. in some another people dont have problem with v-shape and treble. i am hearing a lot of different opinions . but if someone has dt990 pr0 and akg 712 pro i would like to share with me his opinion and his thoutghs and experience with these 2 headphones dt990 pr0 and akg 712 pro in gaming and edm music experience.. ;if someone can give me analutical information for these 2 headphones ?dt990 pr0 and akg 712 pro? how these 2 headphones act in gaming and edm part? what rate you put for dt990 pro for gaming like details,, bass,, soundstage, Sound:,,Bass:,,Mids:,Treble:,Positioning:,Clarity:?? and etc? from 0-10 for the gaming? in dt990 prO? what rate you would put for the music which i hear? trance, house, psy trance, techno, deep house, chill out,, drumerbase,, uplifting trance?.. techno trance, electro,dubstep, trap,hardstyle? what rate you would put for 0 to 10? these 2 headphones akg 712 pro, dt990 pro and V-moda crossfade m-100 are very good headphones for gaming and edm music?
what rate you put for dt990 pro for gaming like details,, bass,, soundstage, Sound:,,Bass:,,Mids:,Treble:,Positioning:,Clarity:?? and etc? from 0-10 for the gaming? in dt990 prO? what rate you would put for the music which i hear? trance, house, psy trance, techno, deep house, chill out,, drumerbase,, uplifting trance?.. techno trance, electro,dubstep, trap,hardstyle? what rate you would put for 0 to 10? i have heard from most reviews and some people that claim that dt990 pro and akg 712 pro are very good in gaming and edm music. some another people say that dt990 pro have very treble, and v-shape,. in some another people dont have problem with v-shape and treble. i am hearing a lot of different opinions . but if someone has dt990 pr0 and akg 712 pro i would like to share with me his opinion and his thoutghs and experience with these 2 headphones dt990 pr0 and akg 712 pro in gaming and edm music experience..
i have heard from most reviews and some people that claim that dt990 pro and akg 712 pro are very good in gaming and edm music. some another people say that dt990 pro have very treble, and v-shape,. in some another people dont have problem with v-shape and treble. i am hearing a lot of different opinions . but if someone has dt990 pr0 and akg 712 pro i would like to share with me his opinion and his thoutghs and experience with these 2 headphones dt990 pr0 and akg 712 pro in gaming and edm music experience.. ;if someone can give me analutical information for these 2 headphones ?dt990 pr0 and akg 712 pro? how these 2 headphones act in gaming and edm part?


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package hudson.util;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Resolves variables to its value, while encapsulating
 * how that resolution happens.
 *
 * @author Kohsuke Kawaguchi
 */
public interface VariableResolver<V> {
    /**
     * Receives a variable name and obtains the value associated with the name.
     *
     * <p>
     * This can be implemented simply on top of a {@link Map} (see {@link ByMap}), or
     * this can be used like an expression evaluator.
     *
     * @param name
     *      Name of the variable to be resolved.
     *      Never null, never empty. The name shouldn't include the syntactic
     *      marker of an expression. IOW, it should be "foo" but not "${foo}".
     *      A part of the goal of this design is to abstract away the expression
     *      marker syntax.
     * @return
     *      Object referenced by the name.
     *      Null if not found.
     */
    V resolve(String name);

    /**
     * Empty resolver that always returns null.
     */
    VariableResolver NONE = name -> null;

    /**
     * {@link VariableResolver} backed by a {@link Map}.
     */
    final class ByMap<V> implements VariableResolver<V> {
        private final Map<String, V> data;

        public ByMap(Map<String, V> data) {
            this.data = data;
        }

        @Override
        public V resolve(String name) {
            return data.get(name);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Union of multiple {@link VariableResolver}.
     */
    final class Union<V> implements VariableResolver<V> {
        private final VariableResolver<? extends V>[] resolvers;

        public Union(VariableResolver<? extends V>... resolvers) {
            this.resolvers = resolvers.clone();
        }

        public Union(Collection<? extends VariableResolver<? extends V>> resolvers) {
            this.resolvers = resolvers.toArray(new VariableResolver[0]);
        }

        @Override
        public V resolve(String name) {
            for (VariableResolver<? extends V> r : resolvers) {
                V v = r.resolve(name);
                if (v != null) return v;
            }
            return null;
        }
    }
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these are my top 10 reasons that T-Town had my heart in 2017!
An annual holiday tradition to celebrate with our growing tribe.
Truth be told; we attend all the shows!
7. The joy of opening doors for so many!
I am so grateful for your continued referrals so I can do what I love.
Our Christmas candles reminded us that the brightest flame lasts the longest.


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Movie of the Week Reviews
AWFJ Movie of the Week, August 1st to 5th: SUICIDE SQUAD
July 31, 2016 June 8, 2020 Dorothy Woodend 0 Comments Action, cara delevinge, Comic Book, David Ayer, Jared Leto, Joel Kinnaman, Margot Robbie, Neil Minow, Pam Grady, Sandra Kraisirideja, Suicide Squad, viola davis, will smith
The latest comic book adaptation to hit summer screens is David Ayer's hyperbolic super villain extravaganza. You would have to be in a coma to miss the veritable onslaught of marketing. Whether it's strange stories about Ayer's directorial methodology (read: manipulation) of his cast members, or the fact that the production had an on-set therapist — the film differentiates itself with a focus on the villains of the story. Read on…
The film is set in the DC Comic universe, with shadowy government agency rounding up a crew of the world's worst criminals to save the earth, or die trying. Maybe both. The cast alone is something to witness — from Jared Leto's leering, tattooed version of the Joker to Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, a killer cupcake, with a penchant for chaos. The most terrifying presence onscreen may just belong to Viola Davis as agent Amanda Waller, the mastermind of the entire scheme.
As the summer drags into the final fews of hot weather and bad behaviour, this nihilistic romp might be just the ticket. Let's hope that Suicide Squad lives up to the hype.
AWFJ Movie of the Week Panelists Comments:
Neil Minow: Suicide Squad looks like the wildest ride of the summer.
Pam Grady: The Joker returns in the form of Jared Leto in Suicide Squad, but it is Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn that appears to be the one to stand out in a stacked deck of super villains in this ribald, ultra-violent comic book adaptation.
Film Details:
Title: Suicide Squad
Directors: David Ayer
Release Date: August 5th, 2016
Language: >English
Principal Cast: Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, Cara Delevingne
Screenwriters: David Ayer
Poduction Companies Atlas Entertainment
Distributor: Warner Brothers
AWFJ Movie of the Week Panel Members: Thelma Adams, Nikki Baughan, Anne Brodie, Candice Frederick, Pam Grady, Leba Hertz, Loren King, Cate Marquis, Jennifer Merin, Nell Minow, Perri Nemiroff, Liz Whittemore, Jeanne Wolf.
Other Movies Opening the Week of August 1 to August 5
Edited by Sandra Kraisirideja, AWFJ.org Associate Editor. Written by Dorothy Woodend
← EQUITY, INTO THE FOREST, NERVE, BAD MOMS, JASON BOURNE and Other July 29 Openers – Reviews by Jennifer Merin
SPOTLIGHT August, 2016: Margot Benacerref, Filmmaker and Cultural Activist →
Dorothy Woodend has been the film critic for The Tyee since 2004. Her work has been published in magazines, newspapers and books across Canada and the US, as well as a number of international publications. Dorothy is also the Senior Festival Advisor for DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver.


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China Finally Diversifying Out of the Dollar?
Everyone knows that China has $2 trillion in foreign reserves. Two-thirds of those reserves are said to be denominated in dollars.
But - after years of speculation - there are increasing signs that China is diversifying out of the dollar.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Is this why the US is trying to provoker China; as a warning that the US is willing to attack China if China dumps the dollar?
Analysis: so much more than a naval water fight
No shots were fired, no one was injured, and the most potent weapon employed was a water hose. By the standards of modern war, Sunday's encounter between a US surveillance vessel and a group of Chinese naval ships, was a drop in the ocean — but 48 hours later the ripples were still spreading.
Was the US hoping for a new USS Pueblo incident?
China Reports Falling Prices
By: DonRobertson
The New York Times KEITH BRADSHER March 10, 2009 HONG KONG — Most economists still do not expect the Chinese economy to suffer a broad decline in prices this year, but statistics released on Tuesday did provide disturbing whiffs of possible deflation.
Consumer prices were 1.6 percent lower last month than a year earlier, the first decline since December, 2002, the National Bureau of Statistics announced in Beijing. February's result represented a precipitous drop from an inflation rate of 8.7 percent in February of last year, when rising prices were a top priority for the Chinese government.
Chinese coin counterfeiter legal in China
Isn't he worried that the Secret Service or some other U.S. government agency will come after him for making counterfeit U.S. coins? After all, the coins struck by the U.S. Mint, regardless of date, are all still legal tender, and thus subject to U.S. coin counterfeiting laws. It is illegal for him to sell these coins in the United States, even via eBay.
Jinghuashei responds by claiming that he is operating within the confines of the Hobby Protection Act, a U.S. law that requires all nongenuine numismatic items produced after 1973 to be permanently and conspicuously counterstamped with the word COPY. When informed that his eBay auctions are not in compliance with this law, because he is using a punch that says REPLICA, he seems unconcerned.
The situation is worse for collectors of ancient coins. There are no laws to prevent crooks from creating fake ancient Roman and Greek coins for sale to collectors. Oddly enough, however, certain historically important known fakes have become more valuable than the originals.
Recent history: US to China tech/intel transfers to continue?
By: mytrueword
COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA
US, China Agree to Joint Military Exercises
By Al Pessin, 16 July 2008
Admiral Timothy Keating says the understanding was reached during a dinner he hosted in Washington for the commander of China's Guangzhou Military Region, General Zhang Qinsheng.
http://www.skolnicksreport.com/chinesesp4.html
"THE RED CHINESE SECRET POLICE IN THE UNITED STATES",
Part 4 by Sherman H. Skolnick 11/13/02
http://roundtable.truck.net/viewtopic.php?t=8654
Did Bush Sell A Top Secret Spy Plane To China?
Aries II down: Another technology transfer to China
By Al Martin
April 5, 2001—In the continuing effort to make China the bogeyman of the 21st century, Washington has scored yet another coup–the loss of the EP-3E Aries II surveillance aircraft.
After Clinton's visit, US/China military sharing re-newed
Updated Sunday, March 1, 2009 1:11 am TWN, By Marianne Barriaux, AFP
China, U.S. to resume high-level military ties
BEIJING -- China and the United States agreed to resume high-level military exchanges during talks here that a senior U.S. defense official described Saturday as his best ever.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-01/14/content_6390335.htm
US admiral's visit to boost ties
By Cao Desheng (China Daily)
US Pacific Command Commander-In-Chief Timothy Keating Sunday started his second visit to China in less than a year - a trip Chinese observers say would help strengthen military ties between the two countries.
US Gives China Eminent Domain Over US Property
US Gives China Eminent
Domain Over US Property
Beyond High Treason
A. True Ott, PhD, ND
"BEIJING, China -- Sources at the United States Embassy in Beijing China have just CONFIRMED that the United States of America has tendered to China a written agreement which grants to the People's Republic of China, an option to exercise Eminent Domain within the USA, as collateral for China's continued purchase of US Treasury Notes and existing US Currency reserves.
The written agreement was brought to Beijing by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and was formalized and agreed-to during her recent trip to China."
Superficial calm follows rioting over lack of aid for Sichuan earthquake victims
China bars foreigners from Tibet
Foreign tourists planning to visit Tibet have been told by travel agencies that the region has been closed to outsiders until the end of March.
The month marks the 50th anniversary of the escape into exile of the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
In March last year, Tibet witnessed a wave of violent anti-China protests - the worst unrest there for 20 years.
Maybe the Tibetans don't like living under occupation any more than the Palestinians.
Obama Sells US To China Inc
AIM Column
With Hillary Clinton having signaled to the Chinese dictators that we will beg for their money and ignore unfair trade practices and even human rights violations, it will be left up to President Obama to seal the deal.
The truth is starting to seep out. Because of the need for more money to finance the latest bailout-the Obama economic stimulus plan-America is going further in debt to the Chinese Communists. Our country is officially being sold to the highest bidder. And we have striking confirmation of this fact from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Russia defends sinking cargo ship
Russia has expressed its regret over the deaths of eight Chinese and Indonesian sailors whose ship was fired on by Russian forces.
But Moscow blamed last week's incident squarely on the ship's captain.
Clinton wraps Asia trip by asking China to buy US debt
"Because our economies are so intertwined the Chinese know that in order to start exporting again to its biggest market, the United States had to take some very drastic measures with this stimulus package," Clinton said.
Clinton added: "The US needs the investment in Treasury bonds to shore up its economy to continue to buy Chinese products."
I think the word "asked" in the headline should probably been replaced by the word "begged". And it is apparent that Clinton didn't really get an answer to that for the Chinese leaders with whom she met.
Eight feared dead after Russia sinks Chinese cargo ship
Eight crew were feared dead after Russian Coast Guard vessels fired on a Chinese ship that was fleeing port after a dispute over a rice cargo, Chinese and Russian sources said Thursday.
Washington Post: The Chinese stole the design secrets to all -- repeat, all -- U.S. nuclear weapons.
By: TheBigWedding
I can make a very good guess as to helped them to our nuclear secrets.
Witness: Top of Beijing luxury hotel 'exploding'
A massive fire engulfed a newly constructed, unoccupied luxury hotel in central Beijing on Monday night as crowds watched a nearby fireworks display to celebrate the end of Lunar New Year.
Any minute that sucker will collapse just like WTC-7.
Any minute.
Any minute now.
Yessir.
Gonna come right down.
Let's go get a beer or something.
Commentary: Will Obama see sense about nuclear threat?
By: poorrichard
THE possibility that, in an Obama administration, science will drive rational public policy provides an unprecedented opportunity to deal with a gnawing yet persistently neglected threat to the world: nuclear weapons.
No government is likely to declare how many strategic nuclear warheads it has, but the US and Russia are thought to possess at least 5000 apiece. The 2002 Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty required each nation to have no more than 2200 "operationally deployed" strategic warheads by 2012, yet this represents no real progress towards disarmament, as the target number is essentially identical to that proposed at the 1997 summit on nuclear arms reduction between Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin in Helsinki, Finland.
China becomes third largest economy
By: jackrabbit
China overtook Germany to become the world's third-largest economy in 2007 after the Chinese authorities revised upwards the figures for growth during that year.
Yuan-settlement test to start
By: disinter
CHINA'S central bank said yesterday that it plans to implement a pilot program that would settle overseas trade with the Chinese currency instead of the US dollar.
Those moves are expected to facilitate overseas trade, as Chinese exporters might face losses if they continue to be paid in US dollars, analysts said.
Dec 21 08:37
"Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money"
Americans know that China has financed much of their nation's public and private debt. During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama and John McCain generally agreed on the peril of borrowing so heavily from this one foreign source. For instance, in their final debate, McCain warned about the "$10 trillion debt we're giving to our kids, a half a trillion dollars we owe China," and Obama said, "Nothing is more important than us no longer borrowing $700billion or more from China and sending it to Saudi Arabia." Their numbers on the debt differed, and both were way low.
China; Review the old and deducing the new makes a teacher
By: meltdown101
The remedies proposed by Governments the world over are not working as every real economic indicator confirms. The eternal corrupting influence of Money on Government policies and planning have all but guaranteed that whatever methods are employed to redeem the economy from the whale's mouth, they will be like drops of rain meeting a river. The one overwhelming factor that does not seem to be factored in to the equation is that to get oneself out of a financial mess one needs financial resources. Not the borrowed kind but the saved kind. This is where China holds an Ace.
China arrests dozens after riot
POLICE in northern China have detained dozens of people who rioted because they were angry about the compensation paid for the death of a local man, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.
Chinese wealth fund turns back on western banks
China Investment Corporation is to put the brakes on making investments in western banks until governments come up with coherent policies to cope with the global economic downturn.
Lou Jiwei, the chairman of the sovereign wealth fund, said today: "Right now, we do not have the courage to invest in financial institutions. We have to wait for the time when there won't be massive collapses of financial institutions."
China had lost confidence in many financial institutions, Lou said, because foreign governments seemed to be changing their policies "every week".
China reveals 300,000 children were made ill by tainted milk
By: malterwitty
Nearly 300,000 children were made sick and six may have been killed by milk tainted with the toxic plastic melamine, Beijing has said in a major revision of numbers of those affected by China's worst recent health scare.
...but melamine in US baby formula is safe. Really.
China's currency falls by record against U.S. dollar
China's currency staged a record loss against the U.S. dollar Monday, falling to the lower end of its daily trading limit, in what some analysts said is a policy shift as authorities let the yuan depreciate against the greenback in an effort to help bolster the decelerating economy.
Nov 01 13:46
Chinese news exposes the Rand Corporations plans to start World War III
Chinese news outlets are frantically discussing a recent meeting between the Rand Corporation and the Pentagon.
The Rockefeller - Ford/Carnegie Foundation controlled Rand Corp. suggests that a war with a major world power will revitalize the economy helping the current banking elite to maintain their control over America.
China And Russia Hint At Dropping US Dollar
Reports from the Russian media suggest that the country is on the verge of an agreement with China to renounce the US dollar and stop using it in international settlements.
"The recent meeting between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Wen Jiabao, created a financial sensation," reports RIA Novosti.
"Wen said that the two nations could withstand the global financial crisis if they joined forces; Putin urged him to go farther and stop using U.S. dollars in Russian-Chinese settlements."
Oct 31 21:32
Watch out for bad Choco-coins
Pirate's Gold Milk Chocolate Coins, made by Sherwood Brands, have just joined the ever-expanding list of recalled, made-in-China products containing the contaminant melamine.
Bailouts Continue; China Does It Differently
Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke will go down in history as two of the most incompetent Federal Reserve chairmen our country has ever had. Like Mr. Magoo, they blindly drove the stock market and then the real estate market into some of the biggest bubbles our world has ever seen.
Meet the World's New Reserve Currency: The Chinese Yuan
Bank of China buys into Rothschild bank
BEIJING: Bank of China Ltd. is buying a stake in French bank LCF Rothschild and says the two will develop private banking and asset-management services for China's newly rich.
China's fast-growing banking industry is eager to expand its foreign ties, and the latest deal announced late Thursday came despite industry turmoil following the failure of Wall Street house Lehman Brothers.
Judge orders Chinese Muslims freed from Gitmo
By: TiredOFThis
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A federal judge has ordered the immediate release into the United States of a group of 17 Chinese Muslims who have been held in the U.S. military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for several years.
WHY NOT FREE THEM ALL? have any charges been filed? gheesh.
China cancels, postpones military exchanges with US: Pentagon
China has canceled or postponed several military exchanges with the United States in protest against a proposed 6.5 billion dollar arms sale to Taiwan, a Pentagon spokesman has said.
"The Chinese reaction is unfortunate and results in missed opportunities," said Major Stuart Upton.
Upton said senior level visits and exchanges involving humanitarian assistance, and disaster relief issues that had been scheduled to take place before the end of November, were canceled or postponed.
China cuts military ties with the US
China has abruptly cancelled several military agreements with the United States in protest at a decision by the US to sell $6.5 billion (£3.7 billion) of arms to Taiwan.
The new masters of the universe?
"Can you save us? We're here to be rescued!"
That, in a nutshell, was the collective cry of a swarm of American (and European) bankers, auditors, consultants and industrialists that thronged the cavernous halls of the colossal convention centre in Tianjin at the weekend.
Sep 26 03:04
China banks told to halt lending to US banks
BEIJING, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Chinese regulators have told domestic banks to stop interbank lending to U.S. financial institutions to prevent possible losses during the financial crisis, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday.
China Blames Wall Street Meltdown On Fed Overissuance Of Currency
By: lvillas
China's state media today reports on the real reason behind the Wall Street meltdown and a subject that the mainstream US media dare not mention - the Federal Reserve's overissuance of currency - which the Chinese say is part of a wider agenda to justify increased control over the global economy.
China - Hair Bands Made From Used Condoms
BEIJING (AFP) - Used condoms are being recycled into hair bands in southern China threatening to spread sexually-transmittable diseases they were originally meant to prevent, state media reported Tuesday.. Errr.. Recycling anybody?
America and China Joined at the Hip
18/9/08 "Counterpunch" -- - With the government now having spent over $800 billion in less than a year shoring up tottering financial companies that had become little more than casinos (and rigged ones at that), America is looking increasingly like China, a country where the state has been gradually getting out of the business of directly owning companies.
Number of female paedophiles nearly DOUBLES in four years: Warning over 2,297 cases of abused children as 'lack of understanding' means women are less likely to be reported for crimes


GRETNA – A financial services company is seeking damages over an overdue JCPenney account.
Midland Funding LLC filed a suit Oct. 9 against Deborah Singleton of Harvey in the 24th Judicial District Court, alleging open account.
According to the claim, the plaintiff is seeking damages for an open account in the balance of $3,234.60 plus interest.
The 24th Judicial District Court Case number 776661.


It has been deemed a controversial decision for Bradford City to sack manager, Stuart McCall this morning. He has been named somewhat a club legend by the vast majority of fans who thought very highly of him. Nonetheless after a six game winless run Bradford City decided time was up for their former player.
So who could be in the firing line to replace him? Here are three managers I believe suitable replacements.
There's no doubting Grayson's ability when it comes to getting out of League One.
He achieved promotion from League One in his first full season in charge as Leeds, Huddersfield and Preston boss.
Being a former Leeds and Huddersfield man I'm not sure how thrilled Bradford fans would be there is hardly doubting Grayson's record and I believe him to be an ideal appointment.
The former Dortmund and Stuttgart man is currently the bookies favourite for the reign at Valley Parade and brings good coaching experience to the table.
He guided the 2007 Bundesliga champions to promotion from the 2. Bundesliga last season but was dismissed last week with just 6 wins from 20.
Wolf is a good name to bring to the table and as much as it could be a risk with no experience in this level of football I think he'd do a good job.
The Oldham manager is reportedly in the running for the job and ironically his side's 2-1 win over Bradford proved to be the end of the road for McCall.
Wellens in on his first spell as a manager and has made a good impression amongst Oldham fans.
Wellens is doing a great job but it would probably be a big step up for him with Oldham fighting near the bottom and Bradford in the promotion mix.
There is enormous pressure on whoever comes in with Bradford fans desperate to return to the Championship.


Please welcome guest blogger Claire Howden. Teacher. Reader. Book Collector. Mathematician.
I have talked to Claire many times about how I don't want PudStar to be counting on her fingers at 38 like I do, getting sweaty palmed at the thought of times tables like I do, and having a panic when having to supervise Year Six Maths (me?!). Claire loves maths AND reading, and making children 'mathematicaly literate' is something she is passionate about. So here she is with her first post on all things maths and reading…and my palms aren't sweaty at all as I read it. Really they aren't.
Are you one of those mums who doesn't want their son or daughter to "be like me" in maths? You were never any good at it in school and you just know it will be something he/she struggles with the way you did? Not that it matters because you are happy baking and gardening, doing your crafty things; and you have a really great career as a librarian and you love reading; so something had to give right?
Well, I'm here to tell you that you are wrong! You do love Maths and in fact, you apply in it some of the most complex and practical ways every time you sit down to make that Halloween outfit or put the final touches on that jelly swimming pool cake! In a series of guest blogs over the coming months, I will happily remind you of all the ways that you, and your child, can interact with numeracy in the activities you love to do together.
In honour of my favourite blogger, this post is all about the joys of mixing baking and Maths. As no doubt you have often heard, this is just one area of the home that you can readily see Maths applied. Not only that, but these are the areas that children often struggle with as their numeracy skills develop. So here are my Top Five ways to incorporate mathematics into your kitchen.
The most obvious way is in the measuring of the ingredients you will use. With younger children, talking cups and spoons is a great way to develop an understanding of measuring mass. It's really important that children begin to understand what these non-metric measures look like, so encourage them to measure out the two cups of flour for that cake or even the two cups of rice for the rice cooker for dinner. While you're at it, help them measure the water that goes into the rice cooker too…liquid and mass measurement in one hit! Who would have thought it! With older children, ask them to use the kitchen scales to measure the grams or ounces from a recipe. You could make it even more exciting by asking them to fill a cup and then check to see the actual mass of the ingredient. Are the cup measures accurate???
When rolling out cookie dough or pastry, rather than just using your keen, experienced eye to judge how thick it is, get out a ruler and have your helper measure the height. If it's not right, keep on rolling! Make a science experiment out of it (if you have the time) and see what happens to the end product if you make it thicker or thinner.
If working with smaller children, have them count out the number of cupcake wrappers that you'll need to fill the tins.
Once the cupcakes have cooked and cooled, agree on a number of lollies or silver balls (my favourite) to go on the top of the cake. The language of "if I have baked 12 cupcakes and we are going to put 4 mini marshmallows on each, how many will we need all together?" has just helped your child develop excellent problem solving strategies. For younger children you could work it out retrospectively, that is, count them all up at the end. For older children, ask them to work it out first and then check their answer by actually doing it!
Lastly, when cooking your pizza treat on a Friday night, make it a patterning lesson. Decide on the delicious additions you will make to the pizza and then have your child place them in a pattern that is fair for all of the eaters. Starting from the outside and working inwards, you could start with pineapple, pineapple, ham; or for something more adventurous sweet potato, olive, goat's cheese. What a treat!
The kitchen is a veritable cooking pot of options for numeracy skill development that is only limited by your imagination. Cooking temperatures, mixing times, and even ratio for the ideal washing up water, are all tasks that you would do without thinking. By speaking your thoughts and processes out loud, those automatic actions may just develop a little earlier for your child…and you'll have an enthusiastic helper at meal times too!
Brilliant! Some clever ideas that are new to me and I will be sure to put them into practice. Like you Megan I still need to count on my fingers. Math was never my strong point and I cannot help Levi anymore with his math homework. He has to wait till Joel gets home. But cooking and measuring I can do!
I totally can relate to these math fears! As a teacher I often sit down and make sure I can do the problems! Thanks for sharing simple numeracy that can be incorporated into every things which of course is way more fun!


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Absorption of Office Space Keeps Pace with 1999
HOUSTON-About 1.8 million sf was absorbed during the last six months. Deliveries amounted to 2.2 million sf, half of it preleased.
By John Howe | Updated on September 12, 2000
HOUSTON-The fifth largest real estate market in the US, Houston saw growth in the energy sector by mid year that, along with increased diversification in the regional economy, has boosted absorption of office space and held vacancy rates at bay, according to data compiled by Delta Associates, Alexandria, VA. About 1.8 million sf was absorbed during the first half of 2000, much the same pace as in 1999, while the vacancy rate stood at 19.7%.
Deliveries amounted to 2.2 million sf, half of which was pre-leased on delivery. Last year, 7.5 million sf was delivered, but only 36% of it was pre-leased, according to Delta.
So far this year, rents have risen at about 2.5%, on an annualized basis, although some submarkets are enjoying double those increases.
Major trends here include increased absorption of class A buildings, which began to go up in 1998 after a 15-year lull. Also, less office space is being erected now than in 1998-99, which has tamped fears of overbuilding.
Ares Inks Deal to Anchor Anderson's Century City Tower
Investment firm pre-leases 206K SF in "reimagined" campus on Avenue of Stars.


Charbonneau's first Toronto exhibition features many works on paper and large-scale paintings. Space is the dominant theme in his works. While both, the works on paper and paintings, show a masterful knowledge of colour choice and space, the works on paper demonstrate a degree of restraint in their study-like play. This translates into the larger paintings yet due to their scale, also allows one to be encompassed by the overlapping networks of shapes and lush surfaces that Charbonneau constructs.
A graduate of architecture, the artist is interested in the way space is imagined, appropriated, and inhabited. Lived space is neither uniform nor random, rather it is influenced by culture and experience. It is precisely this human space that interests Charbonneau. In certain instances, his paint application is so thick it creates a third dimension, expressive of the artists' virtuosity.
Toward the Horizon features the delicate watercolours of Myron Jones. Included in the exhibition are works from Jones' Charentes, Lorenzana, and Tuscany series. Jones translates his travels through France and Italy into intimate works on paper through subtle variations of colour and composition.
Jones is a Toronto-based artist working in oil, acrylic, and watercolour. His work is housed in the collections of the Canada Council Art Bank, City of Vancouver, Surrey Art Gallery, and other private collections across the country.


An intriguing option for employed physicians seeking a return to private practice is the single-specialty group practice. Here, three or more physicians who practice the same medical specialty share clinical and administrative facilities, patient records and employees.
The single-discipline group practice model is similar, but is composed of only one discipline, such as primary care, vision care, surgery, etc. In both models, income and expenses are distributed among the physicians according to a prearranged plan.
• Capital and scale – A single-specialty group can better cost-justify (and afford) advanced technology, as all members will benefit from it. By contrast, a large multi-specialty group may find it harder to justify a software purchase if it will only benefit three specialists in a 150-physician practice.
• Reputation – A single-specialty group is fine-tuned — they know their specialty backwards and forwards. They're going to do it well, so they can quickly develop a reputation as a high-quality provider.
• Negotiating leverage – A single-specialty group in a smaller area could become the go-to group for every insurance company that needs that specialty.
• Focus – With its focus on a single specialty or single discipline, the group can also better stay abreast of today's complex business and regulatory environment. For example, a good medical biller for a single-specialty group will excel at that specialty — billing patients accurately and efficiently with fewer wrongly entered codes and information.
Ultimately, a single-specialty or single-discipline group practice is like a tailored suit — perfectly fitted for your specialty.


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#define SQLError_h

#include "bindings/core/v8/ScriptWrappable.h"
#include "wtf/PtrUtil.h"
#include "wtf/text/WTFString.h"
#include <memory>

namespace blink {

class SQLErrorData {
  USING_FAST_MALLOC(SQLErrorData);

 public:
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                                              const String& message) {
    return WTF::wrapUnique(new SQLErrorData(code, message));
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                                              const char* message,
                                              int sqliteCode,
                                              const char* sqliteMessage) {
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        code, String::format("%s (%d %s)", message, sqliteCode, sqliteMessage));
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    return create(data.code(), data.message());
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      : m_code(data.m_code), m_message(data.m_message.isolatedCopy()) {}

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class SQLError final : public GarbageCollectedFinalized<SQLError>,
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 public:
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  const SQLErrorData m_data;
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}  // namespace blink

#endif  // SQLError_h


Watching live television broadcasts on mobile devices is common in some countries, but not the U.S. A new effort is taking shape to change that.
A group of broadcasters plans to use this week's Consumer Electronics Show to promote their plans to deliver news, sports, weather and other local content to users on the go. While cellphones are an obvious target, backers of the effort also expect users to receive local programming on laptop computers, portable DVD players and devices in cars.
Results may not come quickly, or easily. Competition for users' attention is stiff, including an array of on-demand video offerings for mobile devices as well as another mobile broadcasting network that is trying to build a U.S. audience.


Website Forensics – What can your website tell you?
Google analytics is a goldmine of data, the problem is this causes its own challenges. As you try and understand and interpret the information provided, Google is constantly changing the interface to make things 'easier' to understand.
As Google Analytics experts we work with you to both analyse and interpret the information as well as providing ongoing insights into how you website is performing, what customers are looking for and identifying areas for improvement.
94% of business visit a suppliers website to collate information and research before contacting them. Are all of these customers contacting you? If not why not?
There are a number of ways in which businesses can identify companies visiting there websites. Most of these require some form of paid software and a contract to go with it.
At grow our aim is to look at finding a simpler solution that matches the needs of your business and provides the information you want when you want it.
Marketing automation is key to nurturing those customers that are visiting your website, engaging in social media et al but haven't yet made contact.
Why Choose Grow to help understand your customers?
Its all about experience. Our team have extensive knowledge and experience of analysing data to deliver core business and marketing information.
What do your customers like to do in there spare time?
Are they android or Apple fans?
What do we offer as part of Website Forensics?