{"id":18699,"date":"2016-01-01T06:47:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T14:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=18699"},"modified":"2016-01-01T06:53:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T14:53:06","slug":"friday-fun-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/01\/friday-fun-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun &#8211; HAPPY NEW YEAR!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you nursing the results of a wee bit too much celebration from last night, you may want to just move on to the next post, because these will be New Year&rsquo;s Fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>It goes without saying that they are best viewed in <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 128, 0);\"><u><strong><em>Full Screen<\/em><\/strong><\/u><\/span>.&nbsp; And some of them tend to be quite long, so fill free to skip forward.&nbsp; And if your <em>YouTube<\/em> screen ends up white with a gray circle in the center containing a white exclamation mark &ndash; the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/dekesmith\/2012\/06\/07\/what-is-the-gray-circle-with-an-exclamation-mark-or-bang\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>&ldquo;Gray Circle of Death&rdquo;<\/em><\/a> &ndash; it&rsquo;s because your Flash Player is overloaded.&nbsp; So be sure to only play one at a time, and stop it before you play the next one.<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ll start with a quick, one-minute overview from around-the-world.&nbsp; (And apparently <em>SkyNews<\/em> has one font setting: <span style=\"font-size: 36px;\"><strong>HUGE!<\/strong><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4MlI-s37vtI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a more in-depth view from <strong>London, New York, Dubai and Japan<\/strong>.&nbsp; (No offense to all my Big Apple friends, but your <strong>Times Square <\/strong>New Year&rsquo;s Eve fireworks pale in comparison to almost every other city.&nbsp; OK, I did come across a kind of puny display from <strong>Reykjavik, Iceland <\/strong>&ndash; but what do you expect?)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6_0LIV8umTk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This one is purported to be of the world&rsquo;s largest firework shells &ndash; <strong><em>48&rdquo; diameter<\/em><\/strong> shells!&nbsp; In <strong>Trump&rsquo;s <\/strong>vernacular, it&rsquo;s <em>YUUUGGGEEE!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first minute-and-a-half is them loading a shell in its <strong><em>12<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>METER<\/em><\/strong> firing tube!&nbsp; It&rsquo;s a little boring after you&rsquo;ve seen it a little while, so you can skip forward in jumps.&nbsp; The actually firings are very impressive &ndash; but the video is pretty static, filmed from just one point of view.&nbsp; So after you&rsquo;ve seen a couple of them, you can skip forward also.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XSEJK3YBXI8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a nicely done series of still photos of New Year&rsquo;s Eve fireworks from around the world, but put together as a YouTube video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f3acbI7Jmj8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently there&rsquo;s a big competition between <strong>London <\/strong>and <strong>Sydney <\/strong>(or, as they spell for New Year&rsquo;s Eve &ndash; <strong><em>SydNYE<\/em><\/strong>) when it comes to New Year&rsquo;s Eve fireworks.&nbsp; This is <strong>Sydney&rsquo;s<\/strong> celebration in HD:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3V2-_aP9BFo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is <strong>London&rsquo;s <\/strong>celebration from the BBC in HD &ndash; I think it&rsquo;s the best display of them all as it&rsquo;s very professionally done.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gUQr4tyNXjo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And if you prefer to just look at pictures of the rivalry, <em>&ldquo;Daily Mail&rdquo;<\/em> has a nice series:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3380869\/London-s-New-Year-s-fireworks-display-rivals-Sydney-s.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3380869\/London-s-New-Year-s-fireworks-display-rivals-Sydney-s.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(64, 224, 208);\"><span style=\"font-size: 36px;\"><u><em><strong><span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);\">HAPPY NEW YEAR!<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you nursing the results of a wee bit too much celebration from last night, you may want to just move on to the next post, because these will be New Year&rsquo;s Fireworks. 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