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...
PetVille's new backyard contest is now live. You need to post a picture of your pet in the backyard with a creation that you design. It could be anything from swing's to birds to a full backyard creation. Anything to make your Pet feel more comfortable in the backyard. So with the new launch of a nice landscaped backyard. PetVille needs some help to create the perfect environment. Landscaping is now the Buzz word for the backyard in PetVille You can draw sketch or paint or simply use screenshots from PetVille to submit your new design. The Winner will receive a 100 in Pet Cash! Enter the Backyard Designer Contest The winning entries will also be featured on PetVille’s Fan Page ! Here are the rules we have reposted from their blog The Rules One entry per person. If you post multiple images, only the first one you post will be entered and additional images will be removed. You must post your entry to this thread. You may use any free image hosting website to display the pict...