Unless Congress and the White House come together on a bill to fund federal agencies, a large part of the government will be closed on Tuesday, Oct. 1. If a shutdown occurs, Social Security checks, food stamps and unemployment insurance would not be affected. But some vacation plans could be disrupted.
Wintermute may refer to: 1  a program in the game 2064: Read Only Memories that Will make all machines sapient. 2  An artificial intelligence character in the novel Neuromancer. 3  H. Ogden Wintermute, an American writer and historian.  Slim Wintermute (1917â1977), basketball player.
verb (used with object), commuted, commuting. 1. to change (a prison sentence or other penalty) to a less severe one: The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. 2. to exchange for another or for something else; give and take reciprocally; interchange.