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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 Pioneer Toy Factory Guide

Tis the season of giving and receiving on FrontierVille! The Toy Factory is now available on your homestead where you can collect and redeem toys. Don't forget your neighbors need toys too, you don't want to be a scrooge. Share the spirit of the holidays You will see a yellow arrow and a Toy Factory building off to the right side of your homestead. Click the arrow and start growing your toy factory! Click on the toy factory to see this window: You can acquire Pioneer Toys by: Tending to your homestead, visiting neighbors, and collecting daily bonuses from your buildings. Requesting a Pioneer Toy from your neighbors directly (by clicking on the “Ask for Toys” button). Receive a Pioneer Toy bundle from a neighbor who uses the Free Gifts page. Purchase 5, 10, or 20 Pioneer Toys by clicking on the “Buy More Toys” button (for Horseshoes). Click on a Toy Bundle-related feed where you can receive a Toy Bundle. Note: We are rolling out this feature today and some of you m...

FrontierVille Gingerbread House

FrontierVille continues to celebrate the holidays and now players have a chance to build a gingerbread house. The Gingerbread house guide is part of the official guides from FrontierVille. 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. Source [ FrontierVille Forums ] An original post by Sociolatte

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 ...