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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

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...

FrontierVille Gingerbread House

You will have to complete the following tasks to complete the ginger bread house. Once you have completed the mission in CityVille you will see the horseshoe icon on the left side to claim your reward. Upon clicking it you will need to click on the green button to claim your reward. Please use the below links if you are having issues with the ones in the gingerbread house.

#delicious Trend on Twitter

Contrary to rumors being circulated delicious is not being shut down. In fact Yahoo on their company blog have announced that delicious is not being shut down but will need to find a home outside the company. Delicious does have a lot of loyal and faithful users who have used this service to store all their bookmarks on the net. The panic created from the rumor that delicious is bing shut down has sent users scurrying to find an alternate service and try to export their bookmarks. People are actively discussing the situation on Twitter and many users have started to panic. Which is not the case since the service is not actually being shut down. This is what yahoo had to say about the whole thing What’s Next for Delicious? Many of you have read the news stories about Delicious that began appearing yesterday. We’re genuinely sorry to have these stories appear with so little context for our loyal users. While we can’t answer each of your questions individually, we wanted to address what w...

FarmVille Podcast - December 17th, 2010

FarmVille Podcast - Dec 17th: Hey Farmers, and welcome to this week’s installment of the Official FarmVille Podcast! My name is Lexilicious, and I am here to bring you all of the latest news and information about FarmVille from Zynga. This week, we will be discussing our latest releases, I will be giving you guys information on some of our new community events and everyone will be getting a sneak peek of things coming to FarmVille in the near future. Now, The FarmVille team has seen some pretty creative farms popping up since the release of our Limited Edition Winter Holiday items, and we figure it’s only fair that the jolliest Farms get the recognition they deserve.   That’s right folks, it’s time for you to show us your decorating skills once again. This holiday season we want to see your farms at their merriest! Submit photos of your winter themed farms from Dec. 16th - Dec. 31st for a chance to win 500 Farm Cash and 500,000 coins in our Winter Holiday Decorating Contest! If you are...

FarmVille The Snowball Fight/Snowman Guide

Winter is here and snow is on the ground in big giant heaps! What better way to make use of this special time of the year by engaging in two of our favorite traditional snowy activities: snowball fights and snowman building? In FarmVille for a limited time you can now do both. Read on for the details! Blast ‘em with a Snowball A snowball fight isn’t much fun by yourself—you need to get your neighbors involved (perhaps unwittingly). You can start the fight simply by visiting your neighbor’s farm. You’ll see a pop-up window asking if you want to throw a snowball at them. To do this, simply click on the “Share” button: You’ll be prompted to post a snowball fight notice to their feed. You’ll see an on-screen animation of a snowball hitting them… or does it? There’s a chance you could miss your neighbor and hit someone else by accident.   Whenever someone gets hit, they have the option to throw a snowball back by clicking on the “Retaliate” button on the feed post: You’ll then be shown a ne...
Winter is here and snow is on the ground in big giant heaps! What better way to make use of this special time of the year by engaging in two of our favorite traditional snowy activities: snowball fights and snowman building? In FarmVille for a limited time you can now do both. Read on for the details! Blast ‘em with a Snowball A snowball fight isn’t much fun by yourself—you need to get your neighbors involved (perhaps unwittingly). You can start the fight simply by visiting your neighbor’s farm. You’ll see a pop-up window asking if you want to throw a snowball at them. To do this, simply click on the “Share” button: You’ll be prompted to post a snowball fight notice to their feed. You’ll see an on-screen animation of a snowball hitting them… or does it? There’s a chance you could miss your neighbor and hit someone else by accident. Whenever someone gets hit, they have the option to throw a snowball back by clicking on the “Retaliate” button on the feed post: You’ll then be shown a new ...

You can now use the new Facebook profile

Yes, it's up and running you can now switch your profile to the whole new design. You can now share your profile like never before of Facebook. For those who do not wish to do so, they can stick to the old profile. With the new profile people will be able to share more and find and network with others who have similar interests. So once you choose to use the new profile layout and design it starts with a snapshot of yourself. You can then choose to share some of the activities you are into. Giving you a chance to share your experiences.You can also share your interests and highlight your meaningful relationships. Like when people find you on FB they will also be able to see people you went to college with etc. Many users have already started using the new profile design. Many others will not shift since a lot of personal stuff gets highlighted. You can also share how you connect with friends.  Motorcycling with Drew Hamlin and 2 others We go on rides through the bay every Sunda...

PetVille Stocking Design Contest

The Winter Holiday Design-a-Stocking Contest is on. Get ready to see a lot of Xmas themed contests on PetVille and other Zynga games on Facebook. Christmas is already in the air and you can now feel it on the games you play. The Rules: One design entry per person. You may submit up to 3 images of your single design in a single post. You must post your entry to this thread. Please see this guide on how to post images . You can submit your designs as a digital image that you created using paint or other design program, a scanned or digital photo of a home made stocking or even ASCII art. The submitted design must be owned and created by you. "Borrowing" other people's designs is grounds for disqualification. Copywritten characters are NOT allowed under any circumstances. Disqualified entries may be removed from the submission thread. No insulting or making negative comments about other contest entries, this will not be allowed and may result in the disqualification...