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The Microsoft earnings call kicks off in just a few minutes.

Naturally, at least part of that surge can be attributed to Apple's recently-launched iPhone 5 — earlier versions of the Cupertino company's tiny mobile juggernaut accounted for nearly half of Verizon's postpaid activations earlier this year after all, and Verizon is expected to shine a bit more light on the smartphone breakdown when the earnings conference call kicks off at 8 30 AM Eastern.

The call kicked off with the operator's suggestion that Facebook is "happy to take a couple of questions on yesterday's news" but would prefer to focus on what it wants to talk about — namely anything but The New York Times story.

The "surprise calendar countdown," as the giveaway program is being called, kicks off with a $35 credit for Hotel Tonight.

The calls kicked off a slow process of reconciliation.

Sciences en Marche, as it's called, kicked off this morning when 25 scientists left the Pic du Midi observatory in the Pyrenees for a 10-kilometer walk down the mountains, after which another group of scientists took over for a 48-kilometer bike ride to the Center of Atmospheric Research in Lannemezan.

"The Q," as it's now called, kicked off festivities Thurday night with a lineup of some of the best chefs in business, hammy hosts Emeril Lagasse and Guy Fieri, and small plates of fancified classics ranged from a pig-head cake with a farm egg and micro greens to crispy pork shoulder with apple mostardo, pickled onions and micro celery.

Lacking equipment, Randy and Cheryl Phillips crushed their first barrel of grapes with their own feet in 2004; that first stomping of petite sirah and zinfandel grapes later became the couple's first vintage, called Kick-Off.

The Year Of The Horse Party, as it's called, kicks off LuckyRice's most ambitious year yet.

The "Make a Call" campaign kicks off this week in Alaska before stops in Arizona, California and 19 other states and the District of Columbia.

The series, called "Raw/Cooked," kicks off on Sept. 16 with an exhibition of work by the 29-year-old Bushwick-based sculptor Kristof Wickman.