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     WelCome To New York City From USA

Tour By Battery Park

The southern shoreline of Manhattan Island had long been known as "The Battery," and has been a popular promenade since the 17th century. At the time, an artillery battery there served as protection to the town. The Battery was the center of Evacuation Day celebrations commemorating the departure of the last British troops in the United States after the American Revolutionary War. 

Just prior to the War of 1812, the West Battery, later renamed Castle Clinton, was erected on a small artificial offshore island nearby, to replace the earlier batteries in the area; later, when the land of Battery Park was created, it encircled and incorporated the island.

While the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and Battery Park Underpass were under construction from 1940–52, the park was partly closed; it was later re-landscaped and expanded by 2 acres (0.81 ha). Peter Minuit Plaza was built in 1955; the East Coast Memorial was dedicated in 1963. Battery Park was included within a "group of historic waterfront sites" designated Harbor Park, by the government of New York State, in 1982. 

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CNN anchor Poppy Harlow passes out

Ah, the joys of pregnancy: The food cravings. The stomach upsets. The fainting while live at the anchor desk on CNN.

Maybe it was all those hot lights, but anchor Poppy Harlow passed out briefly while on the air Monday morning. She was discussing the war on terror when suddenly she wasn't, or at least not making much sense, as her voice faltered and words failed her.

At the time viewers could hear her but couldn't see her because the screen was filled with a CNN graphic on the results of a recent network poll showing that a majority of Americans are dissatisfied with the progress of the war on terror.

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            WelCome To Singapore

Tour By Gardens by the Bay

Gardens by the Bay is a recent addition to Singapore’s tourist attractions, but is one that gardeners won’t want to miss visiting. Open less than a decade, Gardens by the Bay is built on reclaimed land in central Singapore. 

It consists of three gardens: Bay Central, a garden with a waterfront walk that will eventually connect the other two gardens; Bay East, which is opening in phases as sections are completed, and Bay South, the largest garden, which showcases tropical horticulture and includes tree-like structures up to 50 meters (160 feet) high that dominate the Gardens’ landscape.

The Conservancy is a non-profit organization that contributes 75% of Central Park's $57 million annual budget and employs 80.7% of the Park's maintenance staff.

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Washington Post pulls cartoon depicting Ted Cruz's d...

Senators Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Marco Rubio, R-Florida, have had a contentious few weeks on the campaign trail sparring over policy positions from immigration to government surveillance in an effort to break out in a crowded GOP primary field and solidify their own support for the Republican nomination.

But just three days before Christmas, the Washington Post has brought the two senators together on a central tenet of politics -- that children are off limits.

Earlier Tuesday, The Washington Post had published a cartoon by Ann Telnaes, the paper's editorial cartoonist, that depicted Senator Cruz dressed like Santa Claus accompanied by his two daughters who are attached to strings and wearing red outfits looking like "trained monkeys" as Cruz put it.

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            WelCome To New Zealand


Tour By Mount Cook

Mount Cook is known as Aoraki by the Maori. It stands at 3,754 metres, which makes this mountain the highest in New Zealand, Australasia, and Oceania. Sir Edmund Hillary, (a New Zealander), was the first man to climb Mount Everest. He gained his mountaineering experience on Mount Cook.The mountain consists of three peaks, the Low Peak, Middle Peak, and High Peak. Tasman Glacier, the longest glacier in New Zealand lies to the east while Hooker Glacier is in the west.

Mount Cook is protected within Mt Cook National Park. This park has a number of other significant mountains including Mt Tasman the second highest mountain in the country. As you can imagine, there are plenty of places for climbing, but for the average traveller, there are miles of tracks ranging from easy to difficult.

Scenic flights are a great way to see this alpine expanse with one favourite trip being a heli-skiing adventure starting at the top of Tasman Glacier. This is where the country's longest ski run starts with a 29km run to the end of the glacier.Mount Cook National Park is certainly a challenging rugged alpine environment, but with world-class hotel, camping facilities, a tourist information centre, and walks, it is not without its comforts.

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WelCome To Melbourne From Australia

Tour By GIPPSLAND

Summertime in Gippsland is a celebration of the good life, both indoors and out. Sample the finest seafood at seaside hamlets, stock up on gourmet produce at farm gates or while away a sunny afternoon at a local winery. Swim, surf and snorkel at pristine ocean beaches or try a spot of boating and water-skiing on the region's sparkling waterways. Walk through lush rainforests and coastal wilderness or just cast a line in a mountain stream and listen to the native birds.

Journey between two of Victoria's most loved tourist attractions - the Penguin Parade on Phillip Island and Wilsons Promontory National Park at the southernmost tip of mainland Australia.

Spend a few days in boutique accommodation in the historic village of Walhalla. Wander past beautifully restored buildings, visit quaint cafes and shops, and go back in time on a walk down the Long Tunnel gold mine.

You'll uncover much more than these two major sights as you wind your way through south Gippsland on this 200-kilometre drive. Detour along the Bunurong Coastal Drive for sweeping ocean views and unique rocky outcrops, wander along almost deserted rugged beaches, cast a line for a fish supper, or enjoy a counter meal in a typical country pub before you reach the breathtakingly spectacular Wilsons Prom.

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Bernie Sanders Declares War On The DNC

The presidential campaign of Democrat Bernie Sanders effectively declared war on the Democratic National Committee Friday, condemning as unfair a punishment the party doled out after discovering that Sanders staffers had inappropriately accessed sensitive information from Hillary Clinton’s campaign held by the DNC.

The DNC maintains a master voter file, which campaigns supplement with their own information. On Wednesday, a vendor error created a security breach that several Sanders staffers, including its top data official, exploited to access valuable Clinton campaign data. The DNC responded by barring the Sanders campaign from the database entirely, which includes data generated by the campaign itself.

Saying the national party violated its pledged neutrality with the punishment, Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver threatened to sue the DNC in federal court and accused the national party of “trying to help the Clinton campaign” with “our data [that] has been stolen by the DNC.” 

:DRYVRS Ep. 1 "Just Me In The House By Myself" starring Macaulay Culkin

The former child star appears in a hilarious web series parodying his role in the hit 1990 film, entitled DRYVRS. Episode One, entitled Just Me In The House By Myself, shows Culkin's character working as a driver for on-demand car service DRYVRS, apparently a fictional version of Uber. 

'I was just a kid!' Macaulay Culkin plays Home Alone's traumatised Kevin 25 years on in hilarious new web series DRYVRS. And while he never says his name, it is obvious that Culkin is playing a grown-up Kevin, albeit one entirely unsanctioned by the studio.

Here's the first episode of the new comedy web series :DRYVRS, created and written by musician, actor and producer Jack Dishel. The series stars Jack as an on-demand car service passenger and chronicles the strange drivers he encounters. The debut episode guest stars Macaulay Culkin as his driver.

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Charges against Bergdahl being referred for court-martial

WASHINGTON (AP) — The attorney for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was released in exchange for five Taliban detainees from Guantanamo Bay, says the soldier’s case has been referred for trial by a general court-martial.

Attorney Eugene Fidell says the convening authority did not follow the advice of the preliminary hearing officer who had recommended that Bergdahl’s case be moved only to a special misdemeanor-level military court. Fidell said in a statement Monday that he had hoped the case would not go in this direction. 

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George W. Bush Cold Open - SNL
This week’s Saturday Night Live opened in high style with alum-turned-film starWill Ferrell playing former President George W. Bushin the cold open. The momentous occasion?

An announcement that the term-limited Dubya will seek the 2016 Republican nomination for president.





Ferrell’s Bush ran through a critique of each of the current candidates, and by the time it was over, it was difficult to argue that he’d be much worse than any of them. Or that Will Ferrell playing George W. Bush would be much worse, for that matter.

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX

Apocalypse picks up ten years after the events of X-Men: Days of Future Past timeline, with Professor X (James McAvoy), Magneto (Michael Fassbender), and Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) still estranged from one another. Their paths are forced back together when Apocalypse awakens in his tomb and, finding the 1980s era wanting, decides to give the world a forced evolutionary jumpstart

His assistants, the Four Horsemen, are mutants familiar to X-Men comics fan. Apocalypse finds Ororo Munro, a.k.a. Storm (Alexandra Shipp) on the streets of Cairo. Angel (Ben Hardy) is participating in a fight club in Berlin. Psylocke (Olivia Munn) is working in Eastern Europe for Caliban, a mutant power broker. The final Horseman is Magneto, who has been attempting to live a normal life in Poland with a woman he loves.

Meanwhile, Mystique has been helping to rescue oppressed mutants, including Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee), and becomes involved in the struggle against Apocalypse when she hears what happened to Erik. This leads her to Charles Xavier, whose school for gifted youngsters has grown significantly over the past decade. His students include young Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) and Scott Summers, a.k.a. Cyclops (Tye Sheridan).

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Protesters interrupt Trump rally

Supporters tried to cover up demonstrators with coats and signs, and even started shoving some of the protesters, but Trump used their appearance to speak out against an increasingly divided country. 
"Look at what happens," he said. "Our country is so divided. There's hatred between people. We want to bring it together." 

But the full event lasted less than an hour, which is unusual for Trump, who generally speaks for at least an hour. He took questions for nearly two hours this week in Manassas, Virginia. 
Protesters mixed with supporters at Donald Trump's speech in Raleigh, North Carolina, on  Friday night, interrupting him 10 times during an unusually short event. 

The Lie We Live

We build their cities, we run their machines, we fight their wars. After all, money isn’t what drives them. It’s power. Money is simply the tool they use to control us. Worthless pieces of paper we depend on to feed us, move us, entertain us.

These are some of the words from a video that summarizes absolutely everything that is wrong with our culture right now, from the choices we make to the people that have control over us in this world.  We have to face the truth and darkness before we can face the light.


                         

The answer is simple.  It comes to down doing the things we already know we should be doing.  Follow your heart, pursue your passions, and don’t be afraid to create your own path in life.  Be true to yourself.  Our world needs people to come alive to the fact that they are beautiful and unique individuals who were never meant to have a cookie-cutter personality or lifestyle.  You beat the system by conquering your own false belief systems about who and what you are “supposed” to be.

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Ralph Peters calls Obama 'a total pussy' on live television
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters called President Obama “a total pussy” during a live interview Monday for what he views as his impotent response to the threat of Islamic extremist terrorism.Peters, a Fox News military analyst, appeared on Stuart Varney’s Fox Business program to respond to Obama’s Sunday night Oval Office address on the threat of terrorism, a speech that was widely panned. Peters, a fierce critic of Obama’s national security policies, was visibly angry as he blasted the speech.

                     

Mr. President, we’re not afraid! We’re angry! We’re pissed off! We’re furious!” Peters said. “We want you to react. We want you to do something. You’re afraid! I mean, this guy is such a total pussy, it’s stunning! We, the American people, who he does not know in any intimate sort of manner, we want action. We want action against Islamic State.”

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Jimmy Carter: I'm free of cancer

Less than four months after announcing he would undergo radiation treatment for brain cancer, former President Jimmy Carter is now saying he is cancer-free. 
Carter, 91, announced that his cancer is gone during a Sunday School class at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.


"When I went this week, they didn't find any cancer at all," he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press, which said his remarks were met by applause and gasps.

                     

The former president revealed back in August his plans to receive treatment during a news conference in Atlanta, explaining that doctors had found "four spots of melanoma" on his brain.

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Three Persons Stabbed In London Tube Station

A man stabbed three people at an east London Tube station Saturday before police subdued him with a stun gun and made an arrest, London’s Metropolitan Police said. 

                                                                                 

Police said they were treating the stabbing at Leytonstone station as a terrorist incident. One man sustained serious injuries not considered to be life-threatening, police said. Two others suffered minor injuries.

                       
Commander Richard Walton, who leads the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, said: “We are treating this as a terrorist incident.” “I would urge the public to remain calm, but alert and vigilant. The threat from terrorism remains at severe, which means that a terrorist attack is highly likely.”

Tease (HBO) - Game of Thrones Season 6

"Game Of Thrones" Season 6 Teaser: HBO Knows How Much You Love Jon Snow

The first teaser for the sixth season of HBO’s Game of Thrones just dropped. And to make you all a little crazier than you already are, it is 100% about Jon Snow. Make of that what you will.

Game of Thrones — as well as George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels on which the series is based — has a long history of really twisting the knife into loyal fans, killing off beloved characters are casually and cruelly, usually right around the time you think they’re about to check off a significant personal win. It’s infuriating, but you eventually get used to it. That is, until the fifth season which, like the fifth book, ended on a maddening cliffhanger with the apparent death of newly-minted Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch Jon Snow (Kit Harington) at the hands of treacherous underlings.



                     


Book readers long assumed that Jon Snow was definitely not killed off for real. Partly for complicated reasons too geeky to get into here, and partly because, after the deaths of Ned Stark, Robb Stark, Caitlyn Stark, Oberyn Martell, and so on and so on and so on, Jon Snow was one of the only mildly sympathetic characters left alive. HBO, however, really milked that final shot of season 5, zooming in on Jon Snow bleeding out in, well, the snow, then insisting all summer long that yes, Jon Snow is really, truly dead. Cue the pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth from fans (myself included).

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Samsung Agrees To Pay Apple Over Patent Dispute, But It's Not Over Yet - Newsy

Samsung finally has agreed to pay Apple over a long-running patent dispute. Samsung will pay $548 million to Apple before Dec. 14 for violating the company's patent for its "pinch to zoom" feature. This is a major landmark in a legal fight that began way back in 2011. A court initially ordered Samsung to pay $1 billion, but that was reduced through further legal action.

                       

Although, Samsung doesn't seem to think that money will stay in Apple's pocket forever. It said in the settlement that it reserves the right to get the money back if something changes in the future. And the South Korean company has said in the past it plans to take the fight to the Supreme Court. 
There's another patent infringement case between the two companies that will go before a jury next year. If it loses, Samsung could be ordered to pay Apple $382 million. 

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Aaron Rodgers Hail Mary Touchdown Lifts Packers Over Lions

One day after celebrating his 32nd birthday, Aaron Rodgers delivered himself the ultimate birthday present: A 61-yard Hail Mary on the final play of the game to beat the Lions.

The miraculous throw capped a miracle comeback that saw the Packers score two touchdowns in the game's final three-plus minutes in a shocking 27-23 win at Ford Field in Detroit.

                               


Since a game can't end on a defensive penalty, the facemaske call gave the Packers one untimed down from their own 39-yard line, and that's when Rodgers delivered himself the ultimate birthday present.

Coldplay - Adventure Of A Lifetime

Coldplay have released their video for “Adventure of a Lifetime.” The Mat Whitecross-directed clip features the British quartet as CGI gorillas frolicking around the jungle. See the video in the player above.

Each member of the band was filmed using motion capture equipment by a company called The Imaginarium. Then via computer graphics and animation, Chris Martin and company were transformed into gorillas who sing, dance, play musical instruments and goof off in the jungle.


                           

Last week, Coldplay announced their new album A Head Full of Dreams and released the first single "Adventure of a Lifetime". Today, they shared a teaser for "Adventure of a Lifetime" video, which looks bonkers. Apparently, they'll be playing instrument-wielding CGI chimpanzees, in their best Planet of the Apes impersonation.