Holiday in Sunday

Snow storm hits many parts of north-eastern United States

0 comments Posted by Aritha H at 10:46 AM

Huge swaths of the north-eastern United States have been hit by a rare October snow storm that struck across the region from Virginia all the way to Maine.

Dubbed "Snowtober" by news organisations covering the unusually early winter storm, the massive weather formation dumped up to 30cm (one foot) of snow in parts of the country that rarely see it this early in the year. Some estimates put the number of people affected by the unseasonal weather at around 60 million.

In a few parts of the country the storm was an almost once-in-a-lifetime event. New York City has seen measurable October snow just three times since 1869, when America was still recovering from the civil war. But 2011 has been an unusual year for New York weather, as the city was also directly hit by Hurricane Irene just a few months ago. Over New York and other areas the storm was also accompanied by thunder and lightning, another fairly rare event known as "thundersnow".

The freezing weather also represented a challenge to the anti-Wall Street protesters camped in Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan: last week New York police and fire department officials arrived at the camp to remove all their electrical power generators and fuel supplies, citing them as a fire hazard. The protesters are already legally banned from erected tents.

However, organisers have long been prepared for the onset of cold weather, though few expected it to arrive this early.

"Occupy snow!" read a jokey message from the Occupy Wall Streetofficial Twitter account as the weather hit. A planned rally on Saturday with local union groups and civil rights organisations outside New York's City Hall, as well as a protest over foreclosed homes in the outer borough of Queens, were still set to go ahead.

The storm was of a particular type that regularly hits the region called anor'easter due to the fact that it forms to the south-west and then barrels north-eastwards along the coast and up into Canada. However, they are usually associated with the depths of winter or the very end of autumn, not the Halloween period.

Across the entire north-east, local authorities had readied snow ploughs and spread salt and grit on the roads. As the storm hit, speed restrictions were imposed on the main freeways. It also caused widespread power outages as downed trees and falling branches brought down electricity lines. The problem was especially acute as many trees still had leaves on them, making their boughs both heavier and able to catch more snow.

In the state of Pennsylvania alone at least 18,000 people were cut off by early afternoon. On the Twitter account of the Weather Channel, viewers sent in unusual pictures of the October storm.

One showed boats covered in snow in Stamford harbour, another showed snow falling over Times Square and the Statue of Liberty, and many showed snow falling on trees that still had all their red and yellow autumn foliage. In its latest weather forecast, meteorologist Bernie Rayno on the AccuWeather website flashed up a picture of a carved and grimacing pumpkin covered with snow: "That sums it up. An unhappy looking pumpkin on this Saturday with the snow falling."

But, even as millions of Americans prepared to cancel Halloween celebrations and parties, or at least wear much warmer costumes, it was not all bad news. In the major Vermont ski resort of Killington, authorities took the unusual step of opening up one of their expert ski trails. A handful of other trails also opened, including one in Connecticut. However, the storm was set to be a one-off rather than any indicator that a long winter had begun months early. After the weather has passed the region's weather was set to return to a more normal pattern. In New York this week the forecast is for sunny weather with temperatures back up to up 13C (55F) by Tuesday.

from : http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Daylight Savings 2011: We Should Be Ready?

0 comments Posted by Aritha H at 10:44 AM

here comes that one day sure to screw up your life for at least 24 hours, if not the entire week: Daylight Savings Time 2011.

That’s the day, Sunday, November 6, 2011, when you have to set your clocks forward – not backward – one hour. (Remember, that’s one week from now.)

That little fact is lost on many, and results in people like this blogger, forgetting to adjust their clocks.

Fortunately, we have smartphones to do that for us. And if you’re anything like this blogger, you use your smartphone, in this case an Apple iPhone as your watch. (It’s a more complicated physical process, reaching for the iPhone versus twisting and looking at the wrist, but it does the job.)

But even with that, what confuses many is what time it is with respect to what they have to do, and when they wake up. That hour time difference just plain feels different and takes about a week to get used to.

So with all of that hassle, the question is, do we have to do this? Many say it helps to save energy, and that it was started in World WarI to save fuel by reducing the need to use artificial light.

But others say it’s unnecessary to have to do Daylight Savings at all.

My take is, given the way we work in an Internet age, I’m not sure Daylight Savings is the big energy saver it was in a time before the information age.

Moreover, this paragraph offers another reason not to do it, at least in the way we’re used to:

The Uniform Time Act of 1966 provided the basic framework for alternating between daylight saving time and standard time, which we now observe in the United States. But Congress can’t seem to resist tinkering with it. For example, in 1973 daylight saving time was observed all year, instead of just the spring and summer. The current system of beginning DST at 2 AM on the first Sunday in April and ending it at 2 AM on the last Sunday in October was not standardized until 1986.

So, all of this is government-directed. That means we can elect to stop doing it all together. But until we do, remember that on November 6, clocks go forward one hour.

from : http://blog.sfgate.com

Heavy Autumn Snowstorm Barrels Across Northeast

0 comments Posted by Aritha H at 10:41 AM

October, said the calendar. Before Halloween. And the 2.5 million trees occupying New York City’s open spaces confirmed it was fall — not winter — with glorious canopies of leaves stretching along their boughs.

Yet snow was falling. Not a light, mischievous form of frozen precipitation, either, but heavy, wet flakes driven on the gusts of an angry weather system barreling across the Northeast from the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday, cracking sturdy limbs and toppling power lines as it went. It also shattered records, threatening some more than a century old, and elicited the kinds of warnings from public officials that are not usually heard until deep in winter.

On Sunday,about 2.3 million customers from Pennsylvania reaching up into New England found themselves without electricity, according to reports, as the region was lashed by surprisingly high winds, snowdrifts and surging seas. On a weekend that might normally have been spent raking leaves, people were forced to react quickly — retrieving shovels, charging batteries, finding fuel for generators, searching for boots and mittens and checking refrigerators and cupboards.

In Connecticut, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said at a briefing Sunday morning that more that the 750,000 homes were without power, breaking a record for the state that was set in August when the remnants of Hurricane Irene hit the state. People could be expect to be without electricity for as long as a week, the governor said.

The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency reported Sunday that more than 650,000 customers were without power across the state. Crews were out assessing the damage but could not provide an estimate of when people would get power back. In New Jersey, PSE&G reported Sunday morning that about 271,000 customers remained without power, down from about 350,000. Most of the customers were in Bergen, Essex, Passaic, Union and Middlesex counties, the utility said. Power companies serving New Hampshire reported 280,000 customers without power.

The conditions in Washington were so bad Saturday night that the White House interrupted its Halloween party, and President Obama comforted some children whose costumes were obscured by winter coats as they lined up at the North Portico for a treat of cookies, M&Ms and dried fruit.

“I know it’s cold here; you guys doing all right?” he asked. “It’s not ideal out here.”

He could have been speaking to a great swath of the nation.

By evening’s end, the storm, a menacing northeaster, had winds of up to 60 miles per hour and blanketed parts of New Jersey and southern New England with more than a foot of snow before it showed any signs of petering out by early Sunday. In coastal areas, shorelines battered in late August by Tropical Storm Irene’s tidal surges were readying for more flooding.

The storm has been cited in three deaths. In southeastern Pennsylvania, an 84-year-old man was killed when a snow-laden tree fell on his home, The Associated Press reported. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut said that one person had died in his state, in a Colchester traffic accident. And in Springfield, Mass., a 20-year-old man was electrocuted by a downed power line, the A.P. said.

“We seem to have hit the jackpot,” said Charlie Foley, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service. “It is unusual to have something like this before Halloween.”

By midday, the snowfall tallies were already threatening to break records. Roughly six inches of snow had already piled up in Lee, Mass., in the heart of the Berkshires, where gusts of winds were swirling. In Worcester, Mass., the record of 7.5 inches was set in 1979. By 7 p.m., the National Weather Service reported that 6.9 inches had fallen there, but by 11 p.m. the snow still falling hard and unabated. The forecast there was for 11 inches.

In West Milford, N.J., there were 18 inches of snow reported at 10:30 p.m. Earlier in the evening, at about 8:15 p.m., 19 inches had accumulated in Plainfield, Mass., with four or five more hours of accumulation predicted. The highest snowfall in New York State was in Orange County, where about a foot piled up, according to the National Weather Service.

source : http://www.nytimes.com/

Grand Theft Auto 5 announced, where would it take place?

0 comments Posted by Aritha H at 6:05 PM

The fifth installment in Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series is officially a real thing. And with the first trailer dropping next week, we speculate as to where we think GTA 5 could potentially take place...as well as where it probably won't.
The biggest news this morning is undoubtedly that Rockstar Games' anticipated sequel, Grand Theft Auto V, is officially in the works. And with zero information about the game available, we put our heads together to come up with 3 places GTA V could realistically take place in -- and 3 places it almost certainly won't.

based on review from http://www.gamepro.com

Grand Theft Auto V: 3 Places it Might Be Set In (and 3 it Won't)

Grand Theft Auto V: Vice City

After the return to Liberty City in GTAIV, it only makes sense for the next game to expand on the series' most popular setting: Vice City. The money font in the logo is our society's biggest vice, the Roman Numeral "V" is a natural fit for the title, and we all need an excuse to drive around in a convertible while blasting "I Wear My Sunglass at Night."

Grand Theft Auto V: Washington D.C.

Prepare to have your mind blown. Grand Theft Auto V actually gives away its setting in the logo, with the "V" symbol. It's modeled to look like a logo on a United States dollar bill. Moreover, look at the meaning of the "V" -- it's a direct reference to the Five-Dollar Bill, whichused to use a Roman numeral before switching to the standard "5" in the 1920s. So, who's the U.S. President on that bill? Abraham Lincoln, whose most famous memorial stands at Washington D.C. -- the same city where U.S. currency is printed, at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. It all makes sense. Everything points to Washington D.C.

Grand Theft Auto V: Vegas

The "V" shown in the official logo -- which is written in the same font as the United States five-dollar bill -- could denote that the new game takes place in Sin City for obvious reasons (money, it begins with a "V"). But aside from that, we'd jump at the chance to revisit a high-definition version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas' fictional version of Las Vegas, "Las Venturas."

Grand Theft Auto V: Fargo

We've seen the East Coast and the West Coast; could it be time for the storied franchise to focus on the heartland? Possible missions could include an encounter with a deranged killer and his wood chipper, or the discovery of a downed plane full of drug money. Cameos by Garrison Keillor and Prince!

Grand Theft Auto V: Orange County

This unlikely setting for the Gran Theft Auto series dials up the difficulty by a huge amount. Orange County’s incredibly over-resourced and bored stiff police department is just dying for something to happen, and they’ll throw everything they can at you given any excuse. And navigation is even more difficult. Flat as a pancake, and with no discerning features because the mountains in the distance are always obscured by smog, Orange County’s cookie-cutter suburbs consist of blocks featuring the same low-rise beige apartment blocks, family homes and a strip mall with Palmera Bread, Jumby Juice, Starblicks, GFC Chicken and a 24-7 Corner store.

The objective: find a way to get the hell out of there.

Grand Theft Auto V: Venus

The new GTA V logo is hinting at something. Perhaps it symbolizes a $5 bill in the G-string of the Statue of Liberty. It might also be the first letter of the next fictional location. But don't get ahead of yourself thinking GTA V is going to take place on Venus. That would be a little too out there.

in my opinion I prefer like V for vegas cheer :)
source : http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/224282/grand-theft-auto-v-3-locations-it-might-take-place-in-and-3-it-wont/

Social bookmark site SEO tutorial..

0 comments Posted by Aritha H at 1:36 PM

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Demi Lovato Got A 'Rush' Singing Anthem At World Series

0 comments Posted by Aritha H at 1:12 PM

Demi Lovato had a lot to celebrate on Monday night. Not only did the Texas native nail the "Star Spangled Banner" to open Game 5 of the World Series, she did it in Arlington, Texas, on a night when the Texas Rangers beat the St. Louis Cardinals to take a 3-2 lead in the fall classic.

Wearing a red Rangers jersey with a short black leather skirt and a black blazer, Lovato shook off the butterflies she was feeling earlier in the day, when she tweeted she was "so nervous/excited about tomorrow!" and did her best.
As it turns out, the19-year-old "Skyscraper" star had nothing to fear, as she confidently performed the notoriously tricky song with a touch of soul and some impressive high runs. As a bonus, unlike some notorious anthem flubs in the past, Lovato not only hit her notes, but got all the words right as well.
"The rush of going out there ... nothing compares to it. I feel like I'm about to jump out of a plane," Lovato said before her big moment, while chilling off-field with her family at the stadium. MTV News hung out with Lovato before she walked out and she told us that the sound check had gone well but she was still feeling uneasy about her opening gig. "I can't imagine how nervous I'm going to be in 15 minutes," she said, thrilled that she hadn't forgotten any of the lyrics in her first run-through.

"Getting to do this in my hometown of Dallas, Texas, is such a dream come true, because I've been to these Rangers games many times. I've sat in the nosebleed sections where you can barely see anything and now I'm going to be singing on the field," she continued. "That to me is such a dream come true and it represents my journey and how far I've come. I just feel so blessed and so thankful and so honored." She was feeling so grateful in fact, that she offered a prayer beforehand in which she thanked her fans and asked for strong vocals while praising the opportunity to sing the National Anthem.
"It's a different environment from my shows; there are people that come there to see me," she said. "Here, they are coming here to see baseball and I am actually just singing the National Anthem. So it's kind of more pressure for me to do good because I want to impress people that didn't come here to see me and I also want to impress people with a song they've heard a million, kajillion times. ... If anything, to be able to step up in front of 51,000 people is going to be incredible."
Lovato followed in the footsteps of "American Idol" winner Scotty McCreery and "New Girl" star Zooey Deschanel, who have both lent their vocals to earlier World Series games.

Matt Barnes and Gloria Govan: It's Over!

0 comments Posted by Aritha H at 1:10 PM

Matt Barnes and Gloria Govan of the NBA's LA Lakers and VH1's Basketball Wives fame, respectively, have announced their split. They had a nice run together, mostly.
After calling off their engagement last year, but convincing the public they're still a couple, the two confirmed the breakup we ALL knew was coming this week.
Matt emailed out a statement today about the split from Gloria Govan (sister of Gilbert Arenas baby mana/Shaq mistress Laura Govan), saying the following:

“I’d like to address rumors surrounding mine and Gloria’s relationship. We've reached the difficult decision of ending our relationship and will be going our separate ways. We will work together to raise our sons and wish each other only the best.”
Gloria just tweeted her statement saying:
"I'm sure you guys are hearing a ton of buzz about Matt and Me breaking up, sorry to say... its true!!!!!! But the most important thing is focusing on my kids and continuing to have a good relationship with their father, thanks for your support!!!"
A heated Twitter exchange this month between Matt and a fan - who suggested Barnes should Govan or else someone else will - was a bad sign.
Responded Barnes: "He can have her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Classy. Meanwhile, she Tweeted Saturday: "If someone is dumb enough to walk away, be smart enough to let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you."
Well spoken, Gloria Govan. Well spoken.
[Photo: WENN.com]

source : http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/10/matt-barnes-and-gloria-govan-its-over/

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