On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Tame the wilderness and build a thriving frontier town. The game starts with you and your wagon. There are some crops to harvest for which you get coins. Chickens to feed and once you do this your game is started. On their Facebook page this is what FrontierVille has to say Howdy Pardner! Come join us on the frontier, where you’ll carve out a home in the wilderness and raise a family. There may be bears and snakes, but there’s gold too, and your fellow pioneers are there to help! This is very much like FarmVille accept your farm is now your homestead. Some of the objectives include growing your own crops to feed your family and keep your livestock from running away and eventually growing into a frontier town. There is a lot more intelligence in the game. Saplings can grow into trees and bears can attack your farm. Zynga has put in considerable though and effort into creating this game. Social games are different from PC games and one thing we notice is all the good items on social ga...