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You can play all kinds of online drinking games here on games.co.za. Lots of different games with different goals to attain. Play a game of mini golf, for instance, or be a bartender. Mix coctails or play a game of beer pong. But whatever you do, keep walking straight and don't drink too much! Have fun with these silly drinking games!
Can you keep the balance between studying, drinking, and getting a girlfriend?
Invent a great cocktail. Don't shake too long or it'll go terribly wrong. Plenty of drinks to choose from!
You've had way too much to drink last night, and now you don't know where you are. Try to escape the room.
Help the Simpsons catch as many of the falling kegs of beer and put them in your car.
In this game you're a geek who needs to defeat the Frat Boys at beer pong. Try not to pass out.
This is your first day working in a bar and you have to try to sell as many drinks as you can.
Serve you customers a refreshing glass of beer in this game. Mind the empty glasses.
And the idea in this game is that you keep sitting at the bar too. but being drunk, this isn't that easy...
You're the bartender in this game. Can you keep your customers happy and make enough money to stay?
Can you still aim decently after a couple of drinks?
Can you run the bar really well? Are you a great bartender? find out in The Bar!
It's Friday afternoon and you've got to slam in some nails in this beer game. Cheers!
You're the bartender in a cocktail bar. Mix the best drinks for your guests.
You wake up dehydrated and with a headache in a student flat. Can you find the way out?
Keep your beer up right, even when you've already had a few. Save your best time as HiScore.
Your friends want to go out drinking with you, but it seems you have some work to finish in the bar first.
This game'll prove why driving while drinking is not a good idea. Dodge traffic and drive in a straight line.
Drink as many shots at the bar as you can and try to stay seated on the bar stool. How long will you last?
Try to find all the hidden pieces of the broken wine bottle in this game. Can you find them all?
Can you take over New York City as the head of a crime family? Collect property by any means.
Walk in as straight a line as possible with the drunk man.
Can you shoot and be drunk at the same time?
Connect the kegs of beer to the bar by laying the right pipes in the right places.
Aim carefully, because you only have five flaming cocktails to rid yourself of all celebrities.
Mini Golf and beer? There is no better combination of hobbies!
You're 30 metres tall, You destroy everything in your path, and you're out to free your hubby from prison!
Help Sam get home on time. It won't be easy, because he's just a little bit too drunk to do it without help.
Collect all the beer with the leprechaun and beat up anyone you encounter on your way!
After a night partying on the town you need to get home. How? A bit of projectile vomit should do the trick.
Grab all the cans of beer. That's probably all we have to tell you about this game!
Grab the drink at the right moment. Make sure the waiter doesn't see you go for it, Britney!
Not Frogger but Pubber. Help the drunken lout to the next pub.

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Why: Matt asked for a smorgasbord of writers. Templeton (voice of Paul Lynde) sings that song and eats a lot throughout. The next morning, he is all fat. I haven't heard this song in like 15 years, but I sing it all the time (incorrectly).
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After the crowds have ceased
Each night when the lights go out
It can be found on the ground all around
Oh, what a ratly feast!
Melon rinds and bits of hotdogs
Cookie crumbs and rotton cotton candy
Melted ice cream, mustard dripplings
Moldy goodies everywhere
Lots of popcorn, apple cores
Bananna peels and soggy sadwiches
And gobs of gorgeous gook to gobble at the fair
A fair is a veritable smorgasbord orgasbord orgasbord
After the gates are shut
Each night when the lights go out
It can be found on the ground all around
That's where a rat can glut, glut, glut, glut!
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Prank shows are nothing new. Candid Camera spanned seven decades, Punk'd targeted celebs and now even Betty White has a prank show for old people called Off Their Rockers. Nathan For You (10:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Comedy Central) is pegged as a prank show or parody of the dime-a-dozen business-rescue programs on today, but it's actually much more. Aside from offering terrible advice to local businesses — to comedic results — Nathan Fielder offers sometimes-silly, often-hilarious commentary on so many facets of contemporary American culture, keeping perfect deadpan all the while.
Season One debuted quietly in 2013 — few Americans were familiar with the Canadian comic, so he flew under the radar for the most part. But as his "pranks" gain more attention, there is concern that the added attention could inhibit the gag.
Case in point: It seems "Dumb Starbucks" will be the "Pig Saves Goat" of Season Two. Like last year's fabricated animal video that got mainstream viral attention before the show even premiered, Fielder made headlines earlier this year after opening a "Dumb Starbucks" that borrowed the coffee conglomerate's name and logo under "parody laws." Only this time, more people knew this would be part of the show. That episode airs July 29.
The show's (and Fielder's) rising popularity could be its Achilles' heel — Fielder's stunts will grow less effective as his notoriety grows. Sacha Baron Cohen will never be able to top his material from Da Ali G Show now that Borat is a household name. So it will be interesting to see how or if Fielder evolves his style — if he's able to remove himself while still orchestrating parodies (like his funny Twitter prompts — follow @nathanfielder), he might be able to keep this going.
This week, Nathan arranges a fake movie shoot and later worries he committed fraud.
Brew Dogs (9 p.m., Esquire) – Hosts James and Martin head to the St.
Patrick's Day capital of the world — no, not Ireland; Chicago! — to concoct the greenest beer of all time.
Wilfred (10 p.m., FXX) – Ryan and Wilfred take sides during Kristen's custody battle.
The Walking Dead: Dead, White & Blue Weekend (9 a.m. Friday-9 p.m. Sunday, AMC) – Since nothing says, "America," quite like zombies, AMC is airing every episode of the series this weekend. The marathon culminates with a Talking Dead preview special for Season Five — premiering this October — Sunday at 9 p.m., with showrunner Scott M. Gimple and random guest Aisha Tyler.
Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular (8 p.m., NBC) – Enjoy this outdoor holiday tradition from the comfort of your couch. Featuring performances by Lionel Richie, Miranda Lambert, Enrique Iglesias, Ariana Grande and more.
True Blood (9 p.m., HBO) – Not Eric! Pam finally tracks down our favorite Viking vamp (after a tease in the form of an Eric-Jason sex dream — more of that, please), only to find him in dire straits. Elsewhere, the Fangtasia prisoners try to use witchcraft to escape; Sookie's group has a run-in with the Bon Temps vigilantes; and Sarah Newlin returns!
Halt and Catch Fire (10 p.m., AMC) -– Cameron takes over software and butts heads with Gordon. Hurricane Alicia (a real 1983 tropical cyclone) forces everyone to reevaluate their decisions.
The Leftovers (10 p.m., HBO) – Kevin sees a therapist to discuss his recent happenings; Meg faces the realities of joining the Guilty Remnant; Jill and Aimee believe Nora — the Mapleton woman who lost her entire family during the event — could be dangerous.
Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus (9 p.m., HBO) – A group of award-winning actors in Belarus — a country bordered by Russia, Ukraine and Poland, where uncensored art is illegal — risk imprisonment, exile and death to perform and create provocative art.
Finding Carter (Series Premiere, 10 p.m., MTV) – The Face on the Milk Carton fable gets a contemporary makeover with this new drama about Carter, a teen who discovers the woman she believes to be her mother is actually her kidnapper. It could be watchable, but will surely lack that '90s Lifetime movie je ne sais quoi.
Tyrant (10 p.m., FX) – Barry makes plans to stay in Abbudin indefinitely, and his family has mixed emotions. New evidence arises in the attack on Jamal, causing more uncertainty for Barry.
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Frazier was lucky Ali spent so much time holding, if he had hit him more Joe would have been blind after the halfway mark.
As it was Frazier looked like he had stuck his head in a bees nest .
Get real.
Frazier lucky? C'mon McVey I'm surprised at you. Puhleeese!!! Unless Ali got hold of the stuff Liston used to blind him, Joe wasn't losing his sight. Manilla yes, but FOTC II no way.
According to Joe, Ali had no zip or sting on his punches. It was a shoeshine job and you don't have to post pictures of Joe's face after the fight to prove your point because it makes no sense.
Except for the right hand in the second round, Ali's punches were hardly dangerous. He was throwing shots for the judges scores, nothing more. Certainly he didn't have the conviction in his punches like he did against Frazier in the 14th round of Manilla or any other round in 1975. Very few punches that Ali threw in the FOTC II can compare with the murderess yet desperate intentions he had in Manilla.
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All great parties must come to an end. Unfortunately for the Waste Management Phoenix Open, patrons usually run out of steam long before the kegs are dry.
Once again, our Mardi Gras of golf concludes with a whimper, a hangover and a burp from the couch.
This time, Hunter Mahan won the tournament in muted triumph, holding off a charge from 21-year old Rickie Fowler. Two people were removed for semi-streaking at the 16th hole, hauled away in their boxer shorts. And though the dreary weather didn't help, the official Sunday attendance of 43,983 was significantly less than last year's closing act (60,425), even though the 2009 championship round ended in the first quarter of a Super Bowl involving the hometown Cardinals.
It was the lowest final-round gathering since the tournament moved to TPC Scottsdale and began tracking daily-attendance figures in 1991. It also was a stark contrast to what forecasters had expected when the tournament was temporarily moved to the end of February, prompting many to believe that this year's Open would shatter attendance records.
It's not that the 2010 tournament lacked story lines, good players or plenty of adult beverages. J.B. Holmes awed galleries with his mind-boggling drives. Camilo Villegas indulged fans with his Spider-Man crouch while surveying the greens. Phil Mickelson signed autographs and returned every smile. Fowler almost became the sixth-youngest player to win an event since 1963, speaking to the volume of young talent on tour. And nothing could compare with the tale of Arizona State amateur Braxton Marquez, who once worked the skyboxes overlooking the infamous 16th hole.
Marquez lost his father to liver cancer last March, a man who ran a catering business that serviced the tournament, a man who predicted his son one day would walk the fairways as a participant in the Phoenix Open.
Marquez was having a rough senior year at ASU. But in the span of one week, he qualified for this tournament, made the cut, proved a point and fulfilled his father's dream. Imagine the closure this tournament provided the young Marquez, who celebrated the same way every day: He strolled into the 16th hole with the look of a conquering hero, waving his Sparky head cover to the adoring crowd.
"I was just a local boy with nothing to lose, but this week has meant everything to me," Marquez said. "Hopefully I opened a lot of doors that were closed before, and I just really enjoyed the week."
Marquez finished in 78th place (last), but that hardly mattered. And when his tournament was over, he pulled out his lucky ball marker.
"It's a silver dollar," he said. "But I had them carve out the silver, put in my father's ashes, and sealed it up."
Yet for all the individual success stories, the final round of the Phoenix Open often seems anticlimactic. Over the week, the event attracts a huge throng of partygoers, a crowd that doesn't necessarily care about golf. For the most part, that's a good thing. Extending its reach has allowed the tournament to attract massive crowds, and as a result, donate millions of dollars to charity.
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Action-horror title Devil's Third has been given the chop by THQ, with the game now looking to be offloaded to a new publisher.
Speaking during an investors call this week, THQ CEO Brian Farrell said the game – the brainchild of Ninja Gaiden dev Tomonobu Itagaki – was unlikely to turn a profit, and as such no longer fits the publisher's profile.
However, there's still a chance that Devil's Third may be picked up by another publisher.
Said Farrell: "When we ranked all of our product releases when we underwent our restructuring, the profitability of Devil's Third wasn't comparable with our other franchises."
Elsewhere, THQ also confirmed that it has delayed the release of Obsidian's South Park: The Game, with the action-RPG now due to launch in Q4 of FY2013 – that's anywhere between January – March next year.
The publisher's line-up is as follows:
-Darksiders 2; console, PC; August 2012.
-Saints Row: The Third - Enter The Dominatrix; console, PC; September 2012.
-Annual WWE Game; console, PC; Q3 FY13.
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After a decade of releasing albums and numerous European tours, it's nothing short of amazing that the best EKTOMORF can come up with on their seventh release is such a ridiculous ripoff of the Max Cavalera school of simpler-is-better mono-thrash. It's not a passing resemblance, it's not an occasional inflection — it sounds like this Hungarian quartet went into the studio and said "how much can we possibly steal from SOULFLY, even if it means getting our asses kicked for it?"I suppose it could be a case of parallel development — I mean, who's to say a "third world posse" couldn't erupt in Hungary just as easily as in Brazil? But let's go down the checklist – we have heavily-accented vocals delivered in a Cavalera bellow. We have thudding two-note riffs and big tribal beats with occasional Latin percussion flourishes. We have the obligatory acoustic-guitar spooky world music sounding ethinc bit ("Who Can I Trust"). We have lyrics about oppression, overcoming enemies, and the like, and song titles written in the same font SOULFLY stole off the side of an incense box years ago. I mean, check them out: "We Rise"? "I'm Against"? "Chamunda"? Give me a fucking break. With even the genuine article, the SOULFLY discography, becoming a bit redundant and stale, and the looming prospect of a Cavalera reunion in SEPULTURA at some point soon, who needs such a blatant ripoff? Start a cover band if you're that far up your idols' asses, but don't peddle your thinly-veiled tribute as something original or worth anyone else's time. Better yet, put those ten years of life experience to use and try developing a personality, instead of wearing someone else's like a second skin.
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Spring preview continued: So I've discussed what may be Maria "Shriek"apova's French Open Nike dress and Roger Federer's gear through Roland Garros. Now let's turn our attention now to what Nike has for Rafael Nadal's spring tennis fashion.
Sony Ericsson + European clay-court tournaments: The image above is what the World No. 2 will be wearing in Miami and the European clay-court tourneys. He continues with his trademark look - the Dri-Fit Sublimated Sleeveless in vivid blue/black/white and the Dri-Fit Capri Pant in white with black side stripe for day and black with vivid blue side stripe for night. His bandana is the Sublimated Bandana in vivid blue and white.
French Open: The defending Roland Garros champion will be going for a fourth straight title and looks to be on the hunt in this outfit.
Rafa continues with the Dri-Fit Sublimated Sleeveless but in green spark + olive khaki and the Dri-Fit Capri in olive khaki with green spark side stripe.
The Spaniard will debut a new colorway in the Air Max Breathe Cage II: classic green/white/black metallic.
And of course no Rafa outfit would be complete without the wrist and headbands for our swashbuckling Spaniard:
(images via tt.tenniswarehouse.com + Doug Benc/Getty Images for Sony Ericsson)
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FASHION FIX: Preview of Rafa's Nike fashion campaign for spring
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Manila, Philippines – Adamson and National University face off today in a key Group B match-up while University of Santo Tomas tries to bounce back from an opening day setback against La Salle-Dasmarñas in the Shakey's V-League Season 10 First Conference at The Arena in San Juan City.
The Lady Falcons and the Lady Bulldogs hurdled their opening day rivals in similar convincing fashions last week, making the 4 p.m. encounter a toss-up between two of the league's most fancied squads for the solo lead in their side of the two-group tournament sponsored by Shakey's.
Meanwhile, a primer on the Shakey's V-League will be aired starting at 9 a.m. today (Sunday) on GMA News TV station Channel 11, according to the organizing Sports Vision.
Regular telecasts of the country's premier women's volley league will be aired Mondays to Saturdays starting at 1 p.m. after the noontime news program Balitanghali.
Games can also be viewed on live streaming on http://www.v-league.ph.
While Adamson, a two-time champion, is expected to rely again on its experience the way it did when it swept University of San Carlos, 25-13, 25-22, 25-21, NU hopes to re-display its awesome firepower anchored on sisters and middle hitters Aleona and Jaja Santiago.
The Lady Bulldogs shook off a second-set meltdown to topple the Arellano Lady Chiefs, 25-21, 25-19, 23-25, 25-20, with the Santiagos combining for 32 hits to set the early pace in the spiking department with a 33.57 percent norm.
But the Lady Falcons are the early leaders in blocks with an average of three per set behind middle hitter Pau Soriano and utility Mylene Paat with guest player and former star Angela Benting, Marleen Corteel, Shiela Pineda and Erika Alkuino tipped to reinforce the team's offense.
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Stuart Percy
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1st round (25th overall), 2011
186 lbs.
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2008-09: Stuart Percy played for the Toronto Marlboros in the GTHL. He was chosen in the first round, 15th overall, of the 2009 OHL Priority Selection by the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors.
2009-10: In his OHL rookie season, Percy played in 52 games for the Majors. He scored 3 goals and added 15 assists for 18 points. Percy registered 1 assist in 16 playoff games. Percy played for Team Ontario at the 2010 World U-17 Hockey Challenge, picking up 3 assists in 6 games for the silver medal squad.
2010-11: In 64 games for the Majors, Percy scored 4 goals and added 29 assists for 33 points to go along with 50 penalty minutes. In 20 playoff games, he scored 2 goals and added 10 assists for 12 points. Percy registered 4 assists in 5 Memorial Cup Tournament games for the Majors. Percy played for Team Orr at the 2011 CHL Home Hardware Top Prospects Game.
2011-12: Percy made his pro debut — appearing in one regular season game and three playoff contests for the AHL's Toronto Marlies — following an injury-filled third junior season that included two concussions and an October knee injury. He had an assist in his AHL debut on April 15th against Adirondack and played all three games in the first round series with Rochester; finishing plus-one with no points nor penalties. Limited to 34 games during the regular season for Mississauga St. Michael's, he scored 5 goals with 25 assists and was plus-18 with 41 penalty minutes. The Majors reached the playoffs after finishing fifth in the Central Division. Percy was minus-two in the six-game series with Barrie; scoring 1 goal with 1 assist and getting 4 penalty minutes.
2012-13: Percy returned to Mississauga for his fourth OHL season — skating for the re-christened Steelheads — and finished the season in the AHL playing for the Toronto Marlies. In four AHL games he scored 1 goal with 2 assists and was -1 with 2 penalty minutes. Toronto finished first in the North Division and reached the second round in the AHL playoffs. Percy did not play in any playoff games. In 68 games with Mississauga he scored 13 goals with 32 assists and was -8 with 44 penalty minutes. The Steelheads reached the playoffs despite finishing last in the Central Division; falling to Belleville in six games. Percy had 2 assists and was -6 with 4 penalty minutes in six playoff games.
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Percy possesses all-round capability, and is very calm under pressure situations. He moves the puck efficiently out of the defensive zone and is starting to become a threat offensively – although he is unlikely to develop into a premiere offensive defender. He is still developing his power and skating skills.
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Originally Posted by Dawn, post: 249433hideous |?hid??s|
ugly or disgusting to look at : his smile made him look more hideous than ever.
extremely unpleasant : the whole hideous story.
hideously adverb : [as submodifier ] a hideously expensive camera.
hideousness noun
ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French hidos, hideus, from hide, hisde fear, of unknown origin.
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You will be surprised at the changes Josh. The castle is "proper" now. As a castle should be! I know you won't get to see it covered in lights at Christmas, during your upcoming tour here, but it's pretty then too.
O.M.G.....That is the most AWESOME picture! Wish I could've seen it as a b-day cake! I don't remember the Cinderellabration decor.
I like the new Wishes pre-show where they project images onto the castle. That's pretty sweet. You can't see any of the pics of the people but the rest of the graphics are pretty dang cool. I tear up a bit when they make the castle black & white and Walt is there.
I think the dumbest thing was the Mickey hand and wand with Epcot in script on Spaceship Earth. I think that was a total "what were they thinking?" moment.


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Ninja Fishing is a great new casual title from Gamenauts with nice colorful art, addictive gameplay, and a mostly good sense of humor. It combines elements from several fun and popular touch and tilt controlled titles and throws them into a blender, and somehow it all works wonderfully. The progression can feel a bit slow, but it's good fun overall.
As is commonly known, ninjas are generally better at anything and everything than us common folk. Except maybe in the case of Otoro, the fitness-challenged ninja fisherman. In true fat ninja fashion, Otoro is fishing because he's endlessly hungry for some delicious sushi. While popping off pop culture references above the surface, you'll be guiding the fishing line as it descents into the watery depths, trying to avoid fish in order to reach the end of your line, where treasure awaits. Once you hit anything or reach the end, you'll begin reeling your line in, collecting as many fish as you can on the way back.
That's phase one. In phase two, we enter a Fruit Ninja knock-off mode, slicing the fish up into delicious aquatic appetizers. Each fish you slice is worth money, and like Fruit Ninja, you'll have to avoid slicing the random bombs that enter the screen. Money is used to buy longer lines, bigger starting weights that let you skip portions of play, stronger katanas for slicing, and much more. Saving up for everything can be a tedious process, but the addictive gameplay makes up for it. Add the OpenFeint achievement and leaderboard network to the mix, and it gets that much more addicting. This is a solid game that is totally free and mostly funny (save for some obnoxious references), and definitely worth a download.


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In the wake of the recent blockbuster launch of the iPhone, Apple is reportedly planning a sequel of sorts...dubbed by one analyst as "an iPhone nano," the device is apparently set to debut just in time for the holiday buying season.
AppleInsider reports on the new iPhone: "Conceived as a scaled back, lower cost alternative to today's iPhone, the second iteration of the handset is presumed to marry iPod functionality with rudimentary cellular capabilities. More resource-heavy Internet browsing and e-mail capabilities are not expected of the device."


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JUNIOR IN 2004-05:Swam Cal's fifth-fastest 50 (19.96) and 100 (43.88) freestyles last year; both times were PRs...anchored the winning (2:52.87) 400-free relay in dual-meet win over Stanford; that time set a new Spieker record...swam his 100 free PR in fifth-place finish vs. Stanford...was 37th (20.08) in the 50 and 38th (44.47) in the 100 frees at NCAAs...an All-American after swimming the third leg of the eventual-champion 200-free relay that set a then-NCAA meet and pool record (1:16.49) in the NCAA prelim; a different Cal quartet set a faster mark in the final...at Pac-10s, was 11th in both the 50 (20.30) and 100 (44.41) frees...honorable mention Pac-10 All-Academic team member...third (23.38) in the 50-meter free in the Janet Evans Invitational.
NATIONAL: At 2005 U.S. Nationals, took 14th (23.65) in the 50-meter free...at 2005 U.S. World Championship trials, was 12th (23.31) in the 50- and 39th (52.45) in the 100-meter frees.
SOPHOMORE IN 2003-04: Sidelined by elbow surgery.
FRESHMAN IN 2002-03: Scored points for Cal at Pac-10s, tying for 11th place in the 100 free (45.08) and finishing 14th in the 50 free (20.45)...swam third leg of the 400-free relay that broke a Texas Invitational record (2:52.86).
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2001 graduate of Redwood High School...helped his high school to four league titles and two CIF Division II runner-up finishes...played water polo...first-team All-Valley pick in swimming and water polo.
PERSONAL: Interdisciplinary studies major...parents are Tom and Terese Lane...born Feb. 24, 1983, in Visalia, Calif.
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The three Bellevue police officers involved in the March 22 shooting death of Russell Smith were warranted in their use of deadly force, an inquest jury concluded Thursday.
Smith, 51, an armed-robbery suspect, was fatally shot by Bellevue SWAT officers in Columbia City after he attempted to run down officers with his car, police said. He was in his car at his brother's house near South Hudson Street and 42nd Avenue South around 5 a.m. when officers arrived to serve a warrant. When officers approached the residence they noticed Smith in the driver's seat of a Mercedes-Benz parked in the driveway.
Smith saw the officers, according to a Seattle Police Department news release issued after the incident, then put the car in reverse and backed up, striking a pickup and pushing it several yards into the street.
Bellevue officers gave numerous commands for the suspect to stop, but Smith switched the car into drive and stepped on the gas. Three Bellevue officers fired their weapons. The officers were afraid Smith would run them over, police said.
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Smith was pronounced dead later that morning at Harborview Medical Center.
The three officers were justified in their use of deadly force, the six-member jury concluded after a three-day inquest convened by King County. In a statement issued Thursday after the verdict, the Bellevue Police Department called Smith a "dangerous felon."
"Instead of complying with police commands and surrendering, he tried to use his car as a deadly weapon against the officers," the statement said. "Mr. Smith was shot as a result of his own decisions."
The jury found that the three officers had reason to believe Smith presented an "imminent threat of death or bodily injury to himself or others" when they shot at him. The six members were unsure, however, of whether Smith would have known the people surrounding the car were SWAT officers.
That the jury was unsure raises a "significant policy question," Smith's family attorney Fred Diamondstone said.
"I believe that that type of an assault on a vehicle would provoke a flight-or-fight type of gut-level reaction," Diamondstone said. "Mr. Smith's reaction was to put his car in reverse and try to get out of there."
Bellevue Police Chief Linda Pillo has ordered a Firearms Review Board to convene and determine if the officers' actions followed department policy. The board is scheduled to meet early next week.
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Lieberman vs. Gore
Just whose side is this guy on? On many key issues, the Connecticut Democrat has directly opposed positions taken by Al Gore. In addition to the three proposed debates between Mr. Gore and George W. Bush, and the one between vice-presidential candidates Lieberman and Dick Cheney, perhaps a fifth one between Mr. Gore and Mr. Lieberman should be scheduled. Here are some examples of the issues they could debate: Partial privatization of Social Security
Vice President Gore: "Bad for American families and bad for our economy." Sen. Lieberman: "A remarkable wave of innovative thinking is advancing the concept of privatization.... I think in the end that individual control of part of the retirement-Social Security funds has to happen." Tax-funded school vouchers
Vice President Gore: Mr. Bush "proposed private school vouchers to drain money away from public schools." Sen. Lieberman: "There are some who dismiss suggestions of school choice programs and charter schools out of hand, direly predicting that these approaches will 'ruin' the public schools. The undeniable reality here is that this system is already in ruins, and to blindly reject new models and refuse to try new ideas is simply foolish. We can and must do better for these children, and to cling stubbornly to the failures of the past will just not get us there." Affirmative Action
Vice President Gore: "[T]he true test is standing up to those who say they want to eliminate affirmative action." Sen. Lieberman: "You can't defend policies that are based on group preferences as opposed to individual opportunities, which is what America has always been about." White House fundraising
Sen. Lieberman: "Based on the excuses the Committee heard in testimony to justify much of the outrageous behavior described above, we can probably expect even more surreal images than money being raised from a Buddhist temple, even more hustlers trying to put their change into the subway turnstile at the White House gate, and even more alienation and apathy from the people we are elected to serve."


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Police in Columbus called in a snow plow to push Gatorade bottles off the road after a tractor-trailer truck crashed on an interstate ramp and dumped its load.
Cleanup after the 3 a.m. crash Thursday on a ramp from Interstate 270 east to I-71 north continued to snarl traffic well into the morning rush hour.
Police say the driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a guard rail. There were no injuries. The truck's gas tank was ruptured, but the leak was quickly plugged.


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I bought some Ferodo shoes from Vintage Brake a while back. They are a little on the high side but had a rare set in stock for my Yamaha. If you can't get the Ferodo linings or shoes (my #1 choice) you might check out Hitchcock's for an upgraded relined shoe set they offer for about 45 pounds. An upgrade to a disc brake would be more worthwhile in my opinion if you are setting your bike up as a cafe bike. I like the look of the drum brakes on my Bullet and understand there limitations and adjust my riding style accordingly. Drums are fine for stock or lightly modified Bullets but IMHO an upgrade to a front disc should be made if a full performance build is done to the bike or if you ride in heavy traffic where stopping on a dime is a necessity. Good luck to you and your project. It looks like things are coming along nicely.Brad
Should maybe be ridable photographable on Saturday. We'll see.
Won't be forgetting the digi camera on Saturday, that's for sure. I'll probably be bringing the Leica or the Rollei, too.
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Be a part of the unveiling of the newly completed Windemere CLC at the dedication ceremony on Tuesday, October 4, at 5:30 p.m.
This significant milestone marks the 25th Community Learning Center to open in the 15-year plan that Akron Public Schools and the City of Akron set into motion to remodel and reinvent the district school buildings and transform them into community learning centers.
Hear remarks from Superintendent David W. James and Mayor Don Plusquellic as they invite you to celebrate in this exciting event; and join them, and the community, on a tour of the new Windemere CLC. A new atmosphere built on academic excellence, design and innovation were at the heart of this new building. The new school will serve as an inspiration to the students and the community in aspects of education, expansion and exploration.
Windemere CLC is located at 2283 Windemere Ave. For more information, contact Principal Patricia Durkin at 330.761.7937.
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Police charge man allegedly involved in burglaries, recover stolen guns in Pittston
Police recovered stolen guns from a man allegedly involved in two burglaries in Pittston.
Donald J. Thomas II, 36, no known address, was charged with multiple counts of burglary, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal trespassing and two counts of possession of prohibited firearms.
According to the affidavit filed by Pittston police:
Police found Thomas, a convicted felon, and Ryan Rydzfski, 26, of Pittston, on Friday after getting a call about two men fitting their descriptions breaking into cars in the area of Fulton and Broad streets. Thomas threw down a backpack, in which were multiple stolen guns, ammunition, containers of pennies and other items, and took off running.
Rydzfski stayed and agreed to talk with police. He told police Thomas used to be his cellmate and said Thomas had a lot of money on him lately, which he called "funny" because Thomas didn't have a job.
Police called him back for an interview the following day because they believed Rydzfski didn't give them the entire story. As Rydzfski told police the event from the day before, officers stopped him and told him he was lying. Rydzfski then told police he was on probation and didn't want to go to jail.
Rydzfski told police that on July 1 he, Thomas and a man by the nickname of "Blaze" went to break into a house. He said after Thomas asked him to serve as lookout, he got scared and left.
Police had responded to a call that day from a resident who reported two masked men were in his Butler Street house when he came home, and the suspects fled. The resident reported $1,500, jewelry and two of his uncle's Purple Heart medals from World War II were stolen.
Police ran the serial numbers on the guns that were in Thomas' backpack and found they were stolen July 4 from Eugene Bolka of Fulton Street. Rydzfski told police he stood as lookout while Thomas broke in and stole the guns and money. Police said charges are pending against Rydzfski.
Police found Thomas hiding in a dryer at Rydzfski's residence in Pittston. Thomas was jailed Saturday at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility, unable to post $40,000 straight cash bail set by Magisterial District Judge Ronald Swank. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. July 9 before Magisterial District Judge Alexandra Kokura Kravitz.
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Every time a cat goes to the bathroom, they leave a trail of scent that can serve as a means of communication.
When cats in the wild are claiming territory, they want their presence to be known. Other times, they prefer to keep it hidden and will bury their waste.
It's not uncommon to relieve themselves in different locations and reserve specific spots for specific duties. You may have already noticed these tendencies in your cat – for better or worse.
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|Running Time: 97 mins.
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|Genre: Drama, Foreign, Period
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Summary:A recreation of the decade-long love affair in the 18th century in a Cape Town penal colony on Robin Island. The two lovers were a Dutch sailor imprisoned there for sodomy and a young Khoi herder. The Khoi were part of the Hottentot tribal group and as such were the untouchables of that time. The two were placed on trial and this love affair and the legal battles are the grist of Greyson and Lewis' film based partly on court transcripts from the time. In South Africa, during the 1700s, sodomy was a crime deemed worse than murder, and the fact that these two young men had indulged in it was also complicated by the fact that this was an interracial love affair.


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For over 20 years, WTCI's Professional Exchanges Program department has designed and delivered exchange programs for foreign professionals from around the world. Topics cover a wide array of technical and educational subject areas. We have a number of volunteer opportunities available and we encourage you to get involved and make a difference.
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A Chinese treatment dating back more than 2,500 years, acupuncture entails inserting very fine needles into the skin in order to influence physiological functioning of the body. According to practitioners of Chinese medicine, illness occurs when the body's life energy or "Qi" (pronounced "chee") is out of balance.
Qi travels throughout the body along special pathways called meridians. By piercing pressure points along specific meridians, Qi may be restored. The goal is to re-establish balance within the flow of Qi, so the body will heal itself.
The National Institutes of Health has completed many studies on acupuncture and has concluded that acupuncture is safe, effective for certain conditions and should be integrated into standard medical practice.
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This policy brief analyzes the effectiveness of school language policies across 14 immigrant-receiving countries. It examines various methods countries have adopted to help immigrant students gain proficiency in the language of instruction, identifies contexts that seem to elicit positive outcomes, and provides recommendations.
This report identifies features of remittances that make them ideal leveraging agents for poverty reduction and migration management agendas, and proposes a four-part international research and policy agenda for maximizing the development impact of international remittances.
This report draws from the existing body of knowledge surrounding circular migration to identify: research gaps, shortcomings of common policy routes, innovative circular migration policies, and critical considerations for policymakers seeking to design and implement positive circular migration schemes.
For an increasing number of scholars, international migration has undergone a transformation particularly in the last decade or so. Although circular migration's impact on development is far from settled, a review of the current literature suggests increasing optimism about its developmental potential.
Previously confined to everyday conversations among migrants and their families, remittances are now on the minds of most governments, members of civil society, the international community, and, to some extent, the private sector. The continued deficiency in our understanding of some of the fundamental aspects of remittances is evident in current literature.
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1. Good News: 170 Zapatista Bases Return to Chilon
- The 170 Zapatista support bases that were expelled from San Marcos Aviles, Chilon, Chiapas, by members of the PRI, PRD and PVEM political parties in retaliation for building an autonomous Zapatista school have returned to their homes in San Marcos. According to the Good Government Junta in Oventik, they were accompanied in their return by a group of Zapatistas from nearby communities and are now working their lands again. The return demonstrates the Zapatista practice of defending their lands with the non-violent solidarity of numbers!
2. The Army of God's "Commander" Writes To Blake Mora
- Esdras Alonso Gonzalez, Director of the Eagle Wings Church and self-described commander of the evangelical grouping known as the Army of God, sent a letter to federal Interior Minister, Jose Francisco Blake Mora. In it he asks the federal government to intervene in the Mitziton Ejido against ejido members adhered to the EZLN's Other Campaign
against the Fray Bartolome de las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) for supporting the Other Campaign adherents. He claims that the Other Campaign adherents never stop provoking and destabilizing.The letter denies that the Army of God is an armed group or a criminal group and blames the Zapatista movement, including its supporters and its "outside" "advisors", as well as foreigners of supporting conflict and asks the government to check the visas of the foreigners. And on and on...
Prior to the letter, Mitziton had denounced that attacks and provocations were increasing. Much of the current conflict is over the Army of God's illegal logging on Mitziton's ejido lands.
the letters, members of the Army of God allegedly kidnapped and tortured 2 soldiers from the Rancho Nuevo Military Base. There is no report of any charges being brought against them.
3. Mitziton Responds
- Mitziton Ejido owners adhered to the Other Campaign sent their own letter to Blake Mora. They indicate that the problem in the community is not because of religious divisions. "That has only been a pretext for those who attack and demean us. We know that the right to freedom of religion exists and we comply with it. We are not Catholic traditionalists. We are men, women, girls, boys and elderly that struggle for our indigenous rights, recognized in international laws and our own Constitution, which at times have been violated by the three levels of government." They assert that all the facts they state in their denunciations are true. In another denunciation, Mitziton once again demanded that the government relocate the ejido members belonging to the Army of God.
4. Release 15 More Sentenced for Acteal Massacre
- Another group of those sentenced for participating in the Acteal Massacre on December 22, 1997, were released early from the El Amate Prison in Chiapas due to "good behavior." Las Abejas of Acteal, the Catholic pacifist organization to which all the victims belonged, expressed their "rage and indignation" at the release. Bishop Arizmendi of the San San Cristobal Diocese criticized the "progressive liberation" of those involved in the killings, fearing that over time it would be like there was no massacre.
5. Chiapas Wins Appeal Over Mining As New Threats Emerge Against Mining
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in Mexico City determined that the barite mine located in Chicomuselo Municipality will have to remain closed until the Canadian company Blackfire, concessioner of the deposit, fulfills the regulations indicated by the Chiapas Secretary of Environment, Housing and Natural History (Semavihn). The Semavihn closed the mine for alleged violations of state environmental law after the November 2009 murder of Mariano Abarca, leader of the community movement against mining. This April, Blackfire obtained a protective order (injunction) enabling the company to continue mining, but the Chiapas government appealed and won. The movement of Chicomuselo residents opposed to the barite mine continues and death threats have been made to a parish priest and to Mariano Abarca's son, Uriel, who is working with those opposed to the mine because of the contamination it causes to the soil, air and water.
6. Police Dismantle Radio
- On October 12, police dismantled Radio Proletaria, a community based station operated for the past four years by the Emiliano Zapata Proletarian Organizacion (OPEZ-MLN) in the OPEZ-MLN offices in a barrio of Tuxtla Gutierrez, the capital of Chiapas. At least five people associated with the station were arrested, including a 15-year-old who hosts a music program. OPEZ is in the midst of a statewide protest, demanding the release from prison of two of its leaders, Caralampio Gómez and Juan Díaz Gómez. In recent days the radio station reported on permanent encampments maintained by OPEZ-MLN in front of the state government palace and the United Nations office in San Cristobal de las Casas. Gómez is considered a "political prisoner" by his organization.
7. Shooting at Zapatista Bathing Spa; Zapatistas Detain 1 Man
- On October 22, 2 men began to shout death threats at Zapatistas who were working at the El Salvador Spa, adjacent to Agua Clara Ejido, Comandanta Ramona autonomous municipality. When the 2 men palmed their machetes while making the death threats, the Zapatistas decided to detain them. One was able to escape and, from a distance, fired 50 shots at the Zapatistas. The other man was detained. Both men are known as assailants who rob tourists on the highway between Ocosingo and Palenque. In fact, the man detained is none other than Manuel Perez Gomez, who had been detained previously by Zapatistas after the 2009 incident in Bachajon. In that incident, police detained 7 Other Campaign adherents and 1 Zapatista after anti-Zapatistas accused them of being the ones who were robbing tourists. The Zapatistas then detained the "real robbers" and announced their detention. After that announcement, the Zapatista was quickly released and the Other Campaign members were eventually all released.
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1. Oaxaca: 2 More San Juan Copala Murders
- Two members of the Movement of Unification and Triqui Struggle Independent (MULTI), identified with San Juan Copala autonomous municipality, were murdered on October 17 in an ambush perpetrated on the highway to Yosoyuxi by men that were carrying high power rifles. One of the victims, Teresa Ramirez Sanchez, together with another 134 inhabitants of San Juan Copala, enjoys the precautionary measures dictated by the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IAHRC). Jordan Ramirez Gonzalez, husband of the dead woman, to whom the organism also granted said measures, was injured in the attack. Serafin Ubaldo Zurita, the 34-year-old driver, and Teresa Ramírez Sánchez, 30, died in the vehicle, while Domingo Ramírez Ortega, 62, and Jordan Ramirez Gonzalez, 34, were injured. On October 9, the IAHRC had asked the Mexican government to implement precautionary measures to protect the 135 Triquis of San Juan Copala. The IAHRC is a commission of the Organization of American States (OAS).
2. Oaxaca: CODECI Leader Murdered in Tuxtepec
- On October 22, Catarino Torres Pereda, Secretary General of the Citizen's Defense Committee (Codeci) and one of the first prisoners because of the APPO's 2006 popular movement in Oaxaca, was
in the organization's offices, located in the city of Tuxtepec, in the northeast corner of Oaxaca near the Veracruz border. Torres Pereda was a leader in the struggle for indigenous and campesino rights, an adherent to the EZLN's Other Campaign and a leader in the APPO. Codeci is pointing fingers directly at the state government of Ulises Ruiz (PRI). Torres Pereda worked for the election of the successful PRD candidate for governor.
3. Oaxaca: MULT Leader Also Murdered in Triqui Region
- On October 23, a leader of the Movement of Unification and Triqui Struggle (MULT), Heriberto Pazos Ortiz, was executed in Cinco Senores, located to the east of the city of Oaxaca. Earlier in the month, on October 12 (Dia de la Raza), Pazos Ortiz was one of the MULT leaders calling for a dialogue with the rival Triqui group, the MULTI. Church officials have called for a peace dialogue between the 2 groups and the MULT marched for peace and introduced its representatives to the dialogue. The MULT is also a member of the Other Campaign.
Pazos Ortiz was shot and killed as he was riding in the back seat of a vehicle, escorted by 3 guards; one private bodyguard and 2 agents from the State Investigation Agency (AFI, in Spanish). The killers pulled alongside the car and shot at Pazos Ortiz through the open back window, killing him. The guards did not immediately realize what had happened because the guns had silencers. State officials are investigating the murder and have detained the 3 guards. The MULT is defending the guards and claiming they are innocent. Meanwhile the current PRI government of Ulises Ruiz leaves office at the end of November. A PRD Governor will take office December 1.
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In 1986 the IOC had voted to alter the Olympic schedule so that the Summer and Winter Games would be held in different years. To make the adjustment, the Winter Games in Lillehammer were held just two years after the previous Winter Games in Albertville, instead of the usual four year gap. The Games were also notable in that they were organized under a banner of total respect for the environment. Well-organized and supported by the Norwegian people with their natural love of winter sport, the Games featured such architectural wonders as the Gjøvik Olympiske Fjellhall for ice hockey which was carved out of a mountain and the Vikingskipet speed skating oval that looked like an upside down Viking ship.
In what would become a pattern, Canada posted its best-ever Winter Games medal total with 13, including three gold. Two of those came from biathlete Myriam Bédard who won both women's individual events. Her victory in the 15km built on her bronze medal two years earlier. In the Olympic debut of the 7.5km sprint, she won gold by just 1.1 seconds. As Canada's only double gold medallist of the Games she was given the honour of being the Canadian flag bearer at the Closing Ceremony.
Canada's third gold medal came in another relatively new Olympic event. After finishing seventh in the official debut of freestyle skiing in Albertville, Jean-Luc Brassard carved his way to top spot in the men's moguls. A second freestyle event, aerials, were included for the first time in Lillehammer and Canadian teammates Philippe Laroche and Lloyd Langlois won silver and bronze, respectively.
Canada once again won multiple medals in short track speed skating. Nathalie Lambert won silver in the inaugural women's 1000m event and then helped the 3000m relay team also win silver. On the men's side, the lone Canadian medal was a 1000m bronze by Marc Gagnon, the first of his five career Olympic medals.
On the long track oval, Susan Auch won silver in the 500m to become the first Canadian woman to win an Olympic medal in the sport since 1976. Elsewhere on the ice, Elvis Stojko won the first of his back-to-back Olympic silver medals in men's figure skating while Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler won their second straight Olympic bronze medal in the pairs event.
Canada's first medal at the Games came from alpine skier Edi Podivinsky, whose bronze in the men's downhill equaled Canada's best ever performance in that event. Canada's final medal of the Games was won by the men's ice hockey team on the last day. They came away with silver after losing an emotionally-charged game in a dramatic shoot-out against Sweden.
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Olympic Oath (officials): Kari Karing (figure skating)
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Microsoft's commitment to winning a bigger chunk of online services and advertising business was underscored Thursday when the company slightly lowered its profit forecast for the current fiscal year to reflect planned spending increases.
"We do not make these investments lightly as the loss in this division will be a drag on an otherwise exceptionally good performance," Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said in a conference call with reporters and analysts as Microsoft closed the books on its 2008 fiscal year.
The company had $60.42 billion in revenue for the year, which ended June 30, up 18 percent from 2007 and the fastest revenue growth rate for the company since 1999. Full-year operating income was $22.49 billion, up 21 percent, and earnings per share hit $1.87, up 32 percent.
For the fourth quarter, revenue was $15.84 billion, but earnings per share of 46 cents fell a penny short of Wall Street expectations. That stemmed in part from sales in businesses that have slimmer profit margins and hiring increases, among other expenses.
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The earnings miss, coupled with the lowered guidance for the current fiscal year, pushed Microsoft shares down more than 6 percent in after-hours trading to $25.88. It closed the regular session at $27.52; the company made its earnings report after the market closed.
The stock also gave back some earlier gains as optimistic investors bought up shares ahead of the earnings news, said Alan Davis, analyst at D.A. Davidson in Lake Oswego, Ore.
Microsoft's decision to pump an additional $500 million into its businesses this year, and the market's reaction to it, adds another chapter to a story that has been running for much of this decade.
"They seemed to always be defending themselves on the spending side," Davis said. "It reared its head again today."
Some portion of Microsoft investors would rather see the company use the huge and still-growing revenue stream from its core businesses of Office and Windows to deliver bigger profits.
Analysts peppered Liddell with questions about how long the increased investments will continue and when they might result in a better return from the Online Services Business, which posted a $1.23 billion loss for the year on revenue of $3.21 billion.
"There had been a bump in spending already built into the preliminary guidance, so this is a pretty high pile now," said Charlie Di Bona, analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. "I don't think that's necessarily bad, but it is incumbent on them to do a pretty good job of explaining to their shareholders what they're spending this on and what they expect to get out of it."
An incremental $500 million may look paltry next to the $47.5 billion Microsoft was prepared to spend at one time earlier this year to buy Yahoo and accelerate its online strategy.
Di Bona said that the difference is the Yahoo strategy was clear. "In the absence of Yahoo, none of it's clear anymore," he said.
The outcome of Microsoft's 5 ½ month pursuit of Yahoo is still to be determined. The company made another proposal to buy just Yahoo's search business last weekend. It was promptly rejected, and both sides have squabbled in the media about the details and motivations of the offer.
Yahoo's Aug. 1 shareholder meeting could be decisive if the company's investors elect a board amenable to a Microsoft deal.
Meanwhile, Liddell sought to address investor concerns about where the incremental spending is going. To start, he said, the short-term investments give the company the opportunity to participate in an online advertising market Microsoft expects to be worth $80 billion by 2012.
"This area represents one of the largest growth opportunities for the company," he said.
Specifically, Microsoft wants to drive increased awareness and search traffic to its Live Search engine; continue building its advertising platform; improve communications and social-networking tools across the phone, PC and Web; and enhance its MSN portal.
He said success will be measured by overall advertising revenue, as well as the company's ability to hit "aggressive growth targets" in the next five to 10 years for Microsoft's share of Internet searches and worldwide page views, among other things. He didn't say what those targets were.
Di Bona said the explanation was a start, but he expects to hear more at Microsoft's annual Financial Analyst Meeting on Thursday.
"With the stock where it is and obviously the investor skepticism that's embedded in that stock price, I think they need to be fairly explicit," he said.
While Microsoft dialed back its full-year profit forecast by a penny to between $2.12 and $2.18 a share, reflecting the increased spending, the company actually increased its sales expectations to between $67.3 billion to $68.1 billion. Liddell gave little indication that Microsoft expects trouble in the U.S. economy to hinder sales.
Microsoft's fourth-quarter result resembled the forecast for the current fiscal year.
Sales were strong in the core businesses, with client revenue of $4.37 billion, up 15 percent from a year ago, and Windows Vista hitting 180 million licenses in the market. That put to rest some concerns about Vista after Microsoft's fiscal third quarter report in April.
The company's server business had its 24th consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, turning in $3.74 billion in operating income.
But profit was slowed by spending, and by the slimmer margins on its Xbox 360 and consulting businesses.
The Entertainment and Devices Division, which produces the Xbox 360, met its goal of profitability with operating income of $426 million for the full fiscal year, a first. But the company stumbled to the finish with a $188 million loss in the quarter.
Microsoft also bought back $5 billion of its stock in the quarter and accelerating the pace of hiring.
Colleen Healy, investor-relations manager, said about half of the operating-expense increases in the fourth quarter, about $250 million, went to aggressive recruiting.
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TWO MOTORCYCLE enthusiasts are set to enter a legal battle over ownership of a 53-year-old classic bike, says a report on today's expressandstar.com
South Staffordshire farmer Anthony Barrett and Birmingham businessman John Marston are locked in dispute over which one of the men has legal rights over the ownership of a Velocette 250cc MOV, which was stolen from the Mr Barrett's farm in September 2003.
After its disappearance the machine was innocently bought by Birmingham businessman John Marston. It is understood that he purchased it from a legitimate dealer for an undisclosed amount.
Mr Barrett eventually traced the machine after placing an advert on internet auction site ebay last October, offering a £5,000 reward for its return. He is claiming up to £50,000 damages in a legal action that experts estimate could cost both sides up to £20,000 each in costs if it goes to trial. Court papers conclude that publication of the ebay piece "severely damaged" the reputation of Mr Marston and caused "considerable hurt and distress."
Mr Marston said at his home in Harborne: "I am a man of good character who has been collecting historic motorcycles for many years. Hopefully the matter can be settled fairly quickly without having to go all the way to the High Court."
Mr Barrett, who had reportedly turned down a £25,000 offer for the bike before it was stolen, said at his home in Essington: "It was my property, remains my property and I will never give up ownership of it."
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