REYKJAVIK Air Jordan Retro For Sale Free Shipping , March 10 (Xinhua) -- Iceland saw its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in real term increased by 1.9 percent in 2014, much lower than in 2013 at 3.6 percent, according to the preliminary annual national accounts for 2014 released on Tuesday by Statistics Iceland.
The gross domestic expenditure which increased by 5.3 percent in 2014 was the main drive force of the economic growth.
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The number of people who watched Sunday's Oscars was down and the critics were less than impressed, but Hollywood's biggest night is still a top draw for television advertisers.
This year's telecast - which producers believed could build off 2014's big audience of 43.7 million - attracted its lowest audience in six years and the oldest demographic ever with a median age of 53.
Despite a 15 percent drop in viewership to 37.3 million, however Air Jordan For Sale Free Shipping , it is still worth the price tag for advertisers and broadcaster ABC, analysts said.
"It's definitely a showcase place to be, and they (ABC) never have a problem selling it out year to year," said Steve Kalb, a director at ad agency Mullen.
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Last year's Ellen DeGeneres-hosted ceremony reaped $95 million in ad revenue, according to Kantar Media. This year's figure is not yet available.
ABC pays $75 million annually to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for TV broadcast rights, said Brad Adgate, the research director at Horizon Media. The contract with Walt Disney Co's ABC and the Academy runs through 2020.
However Jordan Shoes For Sale Free Shipping , the search for a way to attract the younger viewers that advertisers prize most leads many to believe the Academy might have to make long-term changes to the ceremony.
Criticism this year focussed on lack of diversity among acting nominees, clunky jokes and the perennial complaint that it is too long. The show clocked in at three hours and 40 minutes and went past midnight on the East Coast.
It also hurt that it was a lackluster year at the box office, and only one film that Americans went to see in droves, "American Sniper," was in the running for best picture.
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The Academy selects the show's producers and host, and its 6,100 members choose winners on merit. The biggest recent change was expanding the best picture nominees from five to up to 10 for the 2010 ceremony in an effort to boost interest.
"As we do each year, the Academy will meet in the coming months to evaluate not only the telecast but also our awards season in its entirety," an Academy spokesperson said in a statement.
ABC declined comment.
Although the Academy might be taking a long view on how to keep the show relevant in a world where TV viewership is on the decline Cheap Air Jordan Shoes For Sale , advertisers are not likely to complain. They like the Oscars reach, prestige and loyal viewers, particularly among women, said Kalb.
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"It's sort of the Super Bowl for women," Kalb added.
BERLIN, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Traffic stood still and fire departments were being called to thousands of individual missions on Friday after torrential rains swept over the German capital.
Numerous streets and cellars were flooded in Berlin after parts of the city were inundated with 150 liters of rain per square meter in less than 24 hours. A speaker of the Berlin water authority described the weather as a once in a hundred years event, noting that the city's annual precipitation only amounted to 580 liters per square meter on average.
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Passengers travelling in and out of Berlin's Tegel and Schoenefeld airports experienced severe delays. The ban on nighttime flights at Tegel airport was lifted in an exceptional measure to allow stranded individuals to continue on with their journeys.
The local fire department had declared a state of emergency as early as Wednesday, but expected the storms to continue. In the course of Friday, the current weather pattern is expected to gradually move northwards away from the capital towards the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Lower Saxony.
Berlin firefighters on Thursday confirmed 2000 deployments by 8:25 pm local time, a number usually only reached on New Years' Eve.
A house in the district of Charlottenburg was temporarily evacuated after authorities became concerned it could collapse. All inhabitants were able to return to their homes again on Friday.
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