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Microsoft Surface chokes on a glass of wine after being freeze-dried and oven-baked
0. phoneArena posted on 23 Nov 2012, 07:49
Afterwards, it was free for all over there - an egg was cut with the Touch Cover, the skateboard stunt was recreated, and the unsuspecting slate was tossed in the air, finally giving up the ghost completely with a cracked screen and all. Watch the festivities inside...
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1. jubbing (Posts: 150; Member since: 20 Aug 2008)
It actually survived a heck of a lot more than I was expecting. Is it possible the wine also corrupted the machine (drunk lol!) because of the previous freeze + heat tests?
4. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 4331; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
While i agree with the drop and wine spilling, i think frying the egg and putting it in the freezer is totally irrelevant on testing the tablet's durability.
Seriously, who in his or her right mind do things like that?
2. XYZ360 (Posts: 53; Member since: 01 Jan 2012)
quiet strong for a tablet
3. 7thspaceman (Posts: 1584; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
hmm some times you have open up a device to get the water off printed circuit boards. by the way no "surface Computer was advertised to be water proof. so that part of the test was a fail before it was started. but I am sure Microsoft's Surface designers may make a more resistant tablet in surface #2. Buy the way the Surface Pro coming out this January will fail the water test because it has air vents on it's sides to let it's CPU vents it's heat out the body. but then again if they turn the surface pro on it's side and let the water run out it's CPU heat vents and let it dry out a while like experts say it might survive.
5. saadasadkhatri (Posts: 9; Member since: 29 Sep 2012)
Enough for durability marketing stunts, no one need that much of ruggedness!
Everyone just need a working tablet with lots of useful applications.
MS can you just stop this nonsense marketing and start showing some real life use of this tablet by using only touch gestures without some stupid keyboard.
6. ElektronicGeek91 (Posts: 105; Member since: 26 Sep 2012)
This is SOOO DISTURBING!! lol. Only because I really want one.


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AMD Q2 2014 Quarterly Earnings Analysisby Brett Howse on 7/17/2014 7:55 PM EST
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Loki726 - Thursday, July 17, 2014 - linkInteresting to see the GPU division surpassing the CPU division in revenue.... Reply
eanazag - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkNot a total surprise as their products match up this way also. Reply
nunya112 - Saturday, July 19, 2014 - linkNo surprise at all.
The CPU side SUXS BALLS... HAIRY BALLS.... BIG HAIRY STINKY BALLS
And the GPU division ABSOLUTELY KILLING IT ! Reply
Samus - Sunday, July 20, 2014 - linkTo most people its just as obvious Intel CPU's are superior to AMD CPU's just as nVidia GPU's are superior to AMD GPU's.
However, the superiority of nVidia GPU's are AMD GPU's aren't nearly as substantial as Intel's CPU's over AMD. The real problem with AMD GPU's are with OEM's, software quality and product cycle alignment with nVidia.
Unlike AMD CPU's, AMD GPU's are exceptionally well engineered, just as well as nVidia's, albeit entirely different approaches. This makes AMD GPU's superior for datamining (Bitcoin, etc) where a competing nVidia GPU would need to be TESLA-based, and even then not as effective at mass execution. But the downside is AMD's less powerful but more plentiful cores are no competition to nVidia's more powerful but less plentiful core's in raw texel throughput, making them better for gaming.
Which is interesting when you consider AMD GPU's are in all the game consoles. The answer to that: they're cheaper. Just like their CPU's. Console OEM's would never hit their price target using Intel CPU's and nVidia GPU's. That approach is why the original XBOX wasn't as successful as the XBOX 360. It was just too expensive compared to the PS2 and Gamecube, and even at that price Microsoft lost tons of money on it, somewhere in the order of $100/ea at launch. Reply
hardrock_ram - Monday, July 21, 2014 - linkWhat an insight .. Reply
samirotiv - Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - linkPeople who don't know where not to put apostrophes shouldn't be allowed to exist. Reply
Demiurge - Friday, July 25, 2014 - linkI would agree that nVidia's software and marketing are superior, but GCN is pretty close to the exact same µarch that nVidia has been using. Personally, I like aspects of both GPU competitors. There are things that you can find to dislike about both of them if you look hard enough. Anyone remember the 5000-series? Everyone has their 5000-series at some time... no one hits 100%.
I wonder hypothetically if the K10 would have had 2x the number of modules it does have, would it have been enough? I figured that's where they were going trying to save space and utilize resources more efficiently. It seemed like a key component like a process shrink or new silicon technology was missing from K10. It's a shame, but Intel went through the same growing pains with P4 and now we have enhanced Pentium-like micros returning in Core to the far foreseeable future. It really is a shame, we could've used some upstart to kickstart a performance race again just like the K6 vs. P2 (P3), and the K7 vs. P4... Those were the days... Reply
Gizmosis350k - Saturday, July 26, 2014 - linkNvidia GPUs are not better than AMD - AMD is the best Reply
aryonoco - Thursday, July 17, 2014 - linkThat's only because they are writing the revenue from the game consoles for the GPU division, where in reality those SoCs both have a GPU and a CPU and AMD would not have won those contracts without its Jaguar CPU.
Which shows the absurdity of the current reporting, and why the reorganisation in reports coming from next quarter is necessary. Reply
Kjella - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkTrue, but we'll no longer see the split between machines where AMD is the central processor and add-on cards as it'll be CPU/APU/GPU lumped into one big "traditional" sack, I wish they'd just split out the new business from the GPU instead. In any case, I hope they manage to sell that inventory. It keeps going up... Reply
eanazag - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkI agree that their reporting needs a revamp. I would still expect to see their GPU division still being profitable. Their GPU division should actually get some credit from the CPU side, which would make the CPUs look worse. This would really sum up their whole current existence and marketing. People buy the CPUs because the GPUs keep them afloat performance wise.
The chipset division needs to be graded financially. They have been sitting on their asses too long. Name an innovation that came from there. They could do more there on the client and server side and make the whole platform more competitive. Intel is spanking them there for no good reason. Reply
icetorch - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkHopefully when their next chipset comes out, with their next architecture in 2016, it will be a lot better. Also to note, AM3+ motherboards are getting pretty outdated. Reply
StevoLincolnite - Sunday, July 27, 2014 - linkThe current 900 series chipset is essentially the exact same as the 800 series chipsets, which in turn were only a minor improvement over the 700 series chipsets.
In-fact the 980G is a rebadged 880G chipset and some 960/970G Chipsets are re-badged 860/870G chipsets, IGP and all.
Some OEM's however like Asus re-purposed the 5-6 year old 760G chipset to be AM3+ compatible like with the ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3 motherboard.
AMD has been stupidly lethargic with it's chipset innovation.
Here we are in the middle of 2014 and AMD's chipsets STILL don't support PCI-E 3.0 and USB 3.0 natively, not to mention the lack of Sata 3.2, heck even Sata 3.1, if you wan't those features they are included via secondary chips, which increases board complexity, thus the BoM and hence price and possibly impacting reliability. Reply
Wreckage - Thursday, July 17, 2014 - link"Total debt went up from $2.14 billion to $2.21 billion."
I think this is the real killer for AMD. The interest payments alone on this debt have to be upwards of a $100 million or so a year. Reply
SuperMecha - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkIt's closer $200 million a year. Reply
Death666Angel - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkHow do you pay 10% interest on loans these days. That's more than most struggling European countries pay today. Reply
ShieTar - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkInterests are basically the same thing as profits, i.e. money paid to investors instead of workers and suppliers. But usually you don't have to pay taxes before handing out interest payment. So most modern companies are actively trying to pay as much interest as they possibly can, and only keep a little money for the official profits.
For AMD: They paid 177M$ of interest in 2013, but in 2009 (when their CPU business was still going stronger) they even paid 439M$ in interest. At the same time, AMD only paid 9M$ of income taxes in 2013, so thats just 5% of the money handed to their investors/creditors.
So really, the interesting result from a financial report are always the EBIT figures (Earnings before interest and taxes), not the largely random net income. Reply
eanazag - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkWhy wouldn't AMD be looked at like a struggling European country? Most of my kids have never seen a day where AMD was profitable. Reply
Roland00Address - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkWow your revenue went up $400 million but your profits only went up $80 million in the gpu division. Looks like they are not making a lot of margins on those game console chips, what is that, roughly 20%? I know they have to buy the chips from tmsc and gf, but you should barely have any R&D costs since you reused your jaguar and video card design, and those costs should have happened months ago, you are now just printing silicon. Reply
CiccioB - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkThe margins on console chips were debated a lot when nvidia took them as an excuse for the fact that they didn't have the chance to enter console market due to lack of an integrated CPU+GPU architecture (whose advantage is only to keep costs low).
However, many interpreted those claims only as an excuse with no reference to reality. Many thought that margins were really high, but nvidia could not offer anything (as it couldn't).
Reality is that Sony and MS are not stupid and aimed since day 1 of their R&D for the next-gen consoles at lowering the costs as much as possible. And APUs are a good way to obtain that. And they knew. And so they wanted the APU to cost much less than an architecture with an Intel CPU+nvidia GPU. Both Intel and nvidia could lower their margins enough to create a cheap discrete architecture. But Sony and MS want even lower costs. AMD was there to satisfy both of them.
Whoever think about this could never think that AMD would have high margins. Sony and MS were not surely keen to pay them (discrete architecture would be the best solution then at the same costs).
Someone (like me) said that. But hordes of fanboys just used nvidia statements to prove that AMD was the winner, the best, that was going to have great profits for the next years only based on console chip shippings.
But, as we see, they were wrong. And we still do not know if the future APUs shrinks have to be paid by AMD or MS/Sony.
In the end, though nvidia statements on too much lower margins were a marketing necessity as they had nothing to offer to equal APUs costs, they were not telling bullshit.
My question is: seen the high profits and the fact that this "stream" of cash coming from console chips is now well consolidated (and will be similar for the next quarters) but the company could not make profits, when ever they are? Reply
pTmdfx - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkThe executives have already explained this in the earlier Earnings Call, that the non-recurring engineering expenses of the semi-custom chips *were paid* by the customers. So basically the margin of the semi-custom chips is likely nothing but just profit. Reply
jjj - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkLast year the Graphics revenue was 320mil and that includes the old consoles ,so it's safe to say that GPU this quarter was under 300 mil.
But it is sad that the CPU side is fading away like that. They need to target "console like performance"with their 20nm APUs (or 14nm if they end up skipping 20nm) as soon as possible and then get those new cores out fast. Reply
silverblue - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkI don't think the lack of availability of the A8-7600 has helped as it appears to be the one APU that people are looking to purchase. A more custom approach to their APUs could also help; they did say they would create chips based on a modular design with different combinations of compute units to suit requirements but I imagine this isn't very high on their list of priorities right now.
Providing "console like performance" would be a difficult task; the CPU performance is there with Steamroller but even with "only" 512 cores, there's a lack of memory bandwidth. I'm not sure raising the number of cores to 768 would even get the APU to XBox One levels; the XBox One has a quad channel memory interface pushing 68GB/s which is practically double that of a dual-channel PC, so there's going to be diminishing returns for adding extra cores without the bandwidth to back them up, and that's without considering ESRAM or stacked memory. Reply
Hrel - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkso, what? Maybe 6 years till they start selling off business assets and go away entirely. Reply
vortmax2 - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkYou don't want them to go away entirely...that's a bad thing for competition, innovation and prices. Reply
HighTech4US - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkWell if they do go away then Charlie and his annoying fanboi flock would also disappear. So that would be a plus. Reply
CiccioB - Monday, July 21, 2014 - linkYou are supposing that without AMD things remain the same for Intel.
But that mey not be true. Reply
Demiurge - Friday, July 25, 2014 - linkWhat is the typical use case performance delta between Haswell and Ivy Bridge at the same frequency? Also, what is the frequency delta between the two, what is the performance delta there? I think Intel's last several years have shown what they think they need in terms of performance to sell CPU's. They've actually focused on other markets as a result too. Look at their restructuring... Reply
Gizmosis350k - Saturday, July 26, 2014 - linkYour post stinks of Intel's cock. Reply
nunya112 - Saturday, July 19, 2014 - linkAs a share holder I can't be happy at all with this report! My shares have lost value for 2 years straight! Reply
Gizmosis350k - Saturday, July 26, 2014 - linkDon't worry the 9th generation of consoles will save AMD Reply

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Fritware with overglaze-painted luster design and splashes of turquoise, 35 cm diameter
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Accession Number: C15w10
The invention of luster painting – the decoration of ceramics with a glittering, metallic film – is usually credited to ninth-century Muslim potters in Iraq. A complicated technique in which metal oxides are fired in a reducing kiln, luster painting passed within a few centuries from Iraq via Egypt to Iran (Persia), presumably through migrant potters who guarded the technique as a trade secret. The decorative potential of luster's other-worldly iridescence was explored by Iranian potters during the twelfth through fourteenth centuries, a period of brilliant innovation and prolific production in the ceramic arts circumscribed by the reigns of the Great Saljuqs and the Il-Khanids.
The finest painting and most ambitious decorative programs for lusterware were produced in the central Iranian city of Kashan. Several stylistic features of the Gardner Museum's plate suggest an attribution to Kashan: the monumental figures set against a luster background, the kidney-shaped leaves, the plump-breasted bird, and the minute spirals painted and scratched through the luster. Scholars have linked the plate to two famous luster-painted plates in the Freer Gallery of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum, because their ceramic bodies seem to have been produced from the same mold with 29 scallops in the cavetto. The Freer plate, arguably the most accomplished of the three, bears a date of 1210.
At its center, the plate in the Gardner Museum presents a vignette of courtly life in the classical period of Islamic civilization. The elevated status of an elegantly attired couple is revealed in their refined decorum and possessions. The serene countenances of the couple betray neither the pains of separation and romantic disappointment lamented in the concentric bands of poetry, nor the pleasures of their musical activity. The figure on the left plucks an ancient harp (chang) that rests on his knee. For centuries, the Persian harp was one of the most prized instruments in aristocratic circles, and was celebrated in poetry and painting. The lower hand of the figure on the right holds a folded handkerchief (mandil), another allusion to wealth and refined manners. Beautiful and costly handkerchiefs were a source of pride among the wealthier classes and an elaborate etiquette governed their usage.
Source: Mary McWilliams, "Ceramic Plate: A Courtly Couple," in Eye of the Beholder, edited by Alan Chong et al. (Boston: ISGM and Beacon Press, 2003): 168.
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PKK communists act alongside the alleged terror organization Ergenekon. The alleged terror organization Ergenekon is the founder of that evil and satanic organization, the PKK. The alleged terror organization Ergenekon planned that right back in the 1970s. It brought the PKK out in the 1980s, and it has always used PKK as its bloody proxy. They have martyred our troops. They have martyred our police. And they are still doing so. They are now in a stage of rest and regeneration.
What the PKK, an army of fanatical killers, fears most is enlightenment; public enlightenment. That is why it attacks schools. It attacks fossil exhibitions. It attacks booksellers. It burns books. They are trying, in their own eyes, to stop people learning the truth.
But they can never succeed. They have recently fallen into a panic when they realized the invalidity of Darwinism and materialism because the collapse of Darwinism means the collapse of the PKK's entire philosophical system. That is why the PKK thinks it is being very clever in sending hired killers, the alleged terror organization Ergenekon's left-overs, to attack places where people can be enlightened. They attack booksellers and burn cars. They do the most awful things. They imagine they can stop the public from being enlightened in this way. On the contrary, however, thanks be to Allah, activities in this area are continuing with a great fervor, many more times over. One becomes ten, ten becomes a hundred, and a hundred becomes a thousand, masha'Allah. (Adnan Oktar, January 2nd, 2013, A9 TV)2013-02-25 16:14:36


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Avalon - Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - linkToo bad Geil's new enthusiast memory line is Black Dragon instead of Golden Dragon. I had some DDR Golden Dragon stuff, and it was awesome...very nice looking modules too. Reply
Skobbolop - Monday, June 12, 2006 - linkhaha.. :D that's so typical. after i posted my comment i just wanted to give the compro USB tuner another shot. and after som tweaking and minor adjustment is actually is quite good. Not as good as a standard televison, but watchable.
ps. i still get a lot of those products returned though.. i wonder why. Reply
Gary Key - Monday, June 12, 2006 - linkWe found their latest products to be on par with others at the show. I think the latest update to the PVR2 software is what made the difference. After comparing the two releases, I can understand why some people would return the product. We were allowed to play with their Release 3 software and were quite impressed. We will have a couple of reviews of their products up in July. Reply
Skobbolop - Monday, June 12, 2006 - linkWell. I sell Compro products and i get alot of them returned. The customers are simply not satisfied with the quality. Don't know about the new products though.
i've personally tried an analogue USB tuner for a short period of time and i can't say that i was impressed. That said, i've never really tried any other external tv tuner, so i wasn't quite sure what i was expecting when i tried the compro device. Reply
sprockkets - Monday, June 12, 2006 - linkHope people know push email is only with Exchange, and good luck getting it to work. Reply
xsilver - Monday, June 12, 2006 - linkI thought there was a limited timetable for moving to ddr3; but now there is one??
does ddr3 just bring more bandwith improvements and lower power use at cost of latency again or is there more? Reply
Gary Key - Monday, June 12, 2006 - linkDDR3 allows higher clocks which will eventually equate into additional bandwidth although none of the mainstream processors are currently starved for bandwidth with DDR2. Some of the original product roadmaps from SIS and Intel showed DDR3 capable chipsets in Q4 of this year. It now appears these plans have slid to late Q1 / early Q2 of next year. DDR3 samples we noticed were at CAS7 settings, for DDR3, CAS5 will be considered very low latency. Reply


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"Over the last 12 to 18 months we have worked together with local businesses, inSwindon, and the police to bring all these things together to have the most efficient network.
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"If we see one major incident and act quickly upon it we can save thousands of pounds for the health budget, so savings will be made everywhere. Our security staff can react straight away if any businesses are broken into, reducing risks and hopefully working more closely with small businesses.
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Town centre Inspector Paul Saunders welcomed the new technology, which could help prevent, detect and solve crimes.
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Emma Faramarzi, cabinet member for housing and public safety, said the cameras were not for spying on residents but would act as a deterrent.
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- The tenacious wolverine, a snow-loving carnivore sometimes called the "mountain devil," could soon join the list of species threatened by climate change -- a dubious distinction that will put it in the ranks of the polar bear and several other animals that could see their habitats shrink drastically due to warming temperatures.
Federal wildlife officials on Friday will propose Endangered Species Act protections for the wolverine in the lower 48 states, a step twice denied under the Bush administration.
The Associated Press obtained details of the government's long-awaited ruling in advance of Friday's announcement.
It's likely to mean an end to trapping the animals for their fur. But federal officials said other human activities -- from snowmobiling and skiing to infrastructure development and transportation corridors -- do not appear to be significant threats to wolverines and would not be curtailed.
There are an estimated 250 to 300 wolverines in the contiguous U.S., clustered in small, isolated groups primarily in the Northern Rockies of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Washington. Larger populations persist in Alaska and Canada.
Maxing out at 40 pounds and tough enough to stand up to grizzly bears, the animals will be no match for anticipated declines in deep mountain snows that female wolverines need to establish dens and raise their young, scientists said.
In some areas, such as central Idaho, suitable habitat could disappear entirely, officials said.
Yet because those losses could take decades to unfold, federal wildlife officials said there's still time to bolster the population, including by reintroducing them to the high mountains of Colorado.
"This is a species there is still time to do something about," said Mike Thabault, ecological services director for the Fish and Wildlife Service's mountain-prairie region.
He added that more wolverines in more places could help offset habitat losses, with Colorado playing "a key role" in that strategy.
Wildlife advocates, who sued to force the government to act on the issue, said they hope the animal's plight will be used by the Obama administration to leverage tighter restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions.
As with the polar bear, the government is seeking to sidestep that thorny proposition by not addressing threats outside the wolverine's immediate range.
But a special rule proposed by the Fish and Wildlife Service would allow Colorado's wildlife agency to reintroduce an experimental population of the animals that eventually could spill into neighboring portions of New Mexico and Wyoming.
Federal officials also would shut down wolverine trapping in Montana, the only one of the lower 48 states where the practice is still allowed.
In recent years, Montana wildlife officials have waged court battles against environmentalists who want to stop trapping. If Friday's proposal goes through after a 90-day public comment period, wolverine trapping would be banned.
Once found throughout the Rocky Mountains and in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range, wolverines were wiped out across most of the U.S. by the 1930s due to unregulated trapping and poisoning campaigns, said Bob Inman, a wolverine researcher with the Wildlife Conservation Society.
In the decades since, they have largely recovered in the Northern Rockies but not in other parts of their historical range.
While reintroducing the animals further south, in Colorado, might seem counterintuitive, Inman said the state's abundance of 14,000-foot mountains make it ideally suited as a refuge for the animals as warmer temperatures set in at lower elevations.
Only one wolverine currently inhabits the state, a male that wandered down several years ago from northern Wyoming. It now frequents areas in and around Rocky Mountain National Park.
Inman said the state has enough high-mountain territory to support as many as 100 of the animals. "That's like a 30 percent increase in their population size," he added.
Any reintroduction into Colorado would require approval from state wildlife commissioners and the Legislature, Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Randy Hampton said.
Representatives of the state's ski and agriculture industries have previously raised concerns about the potential impacts of wolverines being brought back, but Hampton said it could take years to work out all the details.
Other areas where wolverines once roamed also could serve as future refuges, although there are no pending reintroduction plans beyond Colorado, officials said.
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PHILADELPHIA – To open the 2013-14 season, the University of Pennsylvania men's and women's swimming teams will dive into competition against the Connecticut Huskies on Saturday at 1 p.m. The meet will take place in the Wolff-Zackin Natatorium.
In last year's meet with the Huskies, the women secured a win at Sheerr Pool, 174-125. In hopes of another win, the Quakers will look to the return of senior Shelby Fortin, who competed at the NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships and set five individual records at Penn last year.
Fortin was also a member of the record breaking 200, 400, and 800 Free Relays. The 200 and 400 relays were also raced by sophomore Emma Siewert, junior Christina Hurley, and sophomore Emily Baturka. Siewert, along with sophomores Sydney Stinner and Annie McCotter, competed in the 800.
Hurley and Baturka kept the relay records coming with senior Anne Maercklein and junior Lauryn Brown in the 200 Medley [relay]. Another sophomore who set records as a freshman is Lauren Church with her times in the 100 Fly and 200 Back.
Even though this is the first meet for the Red and Blue, the Huskies have already seen fellow Ivy institution Yale, in a non-scored meet. UConn hosted both Army and Villanova in separate events, following the meet with Yale. The season was officially opened when the Huskies hosted the Knights, two weekends ago, and won, 188-112. The following weekend was the matchup against the Wildcats, with the UConn winning a tightly contested one 159-140. The Huskies enter Saturday's meet with a 2-0 record.


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After completing her undergraduate studies at Arizona State University, De Blasi attended law school at the University of Washington and worked for the federal government for six years on oil spills and other environmental cases. She returned to Arizona, and worked for the attorney general's office for one year in the environmental section.
In 2004, De Blasi joined Quarles & Brady. As a partner with the law firm she practices in the area of environmental and natural resources law. She assists clients in getting permits, navigating enforcement actions and does renewable energy work.
De Blasi became the firm's Valley Forward representative in 2007. She jumped right in as a board and executive committee member. De Blasi works on the entries committee for Valley Forward's signature fall event, the Environmental Excellence Awards. Last year, she served her second term as chair of the energy committee, a new endeavor responsible for organizing meetings and events, building membership and planning educational field trips for members.
"We are involved because it (Valley Forward) provides great networking opportunities with nature business leaders in the community," De Blasi says. "As a firm we have many clients that are members as well, and we can interact with them on a different level."
De Blasi says the organization serves as an educational source. Valley Forward tries to take a neutral stance on environmental policies because it has such a diverse membership. Rather than take sides, Valley Forward holds educational forums where it explains what the policies are about.
"Valley Forward is such a great way to stay on top of the issues that are happening out there," De Blasi explains.
The energy committee planned a debate in the fall with the candidates for state corporation commission. Members of Valley Forward met the candidates and talked about renewable energy credits.
"(Valley Forward) brings the most value to be able to do things I love doing, and interact with things I really like on issues I care about the most," De Blasi says.
De Blasi adds the biggest challenge for Valley Forward is maintaining membership. When companies are faced with smaller budgets, outside memberships are usually the first thing to get cut. Despite companies cutting ties with the organization, some individuals have chosen to stay on as members because they have a passion for the organization, and believe it is important.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - There's little hope for a deal to avoid tomorrow's sequester, $85 billion dollars of mandatory across-the-board spending cuts that will go into effect because congressional leaders failed to reach a deal on spending reduction.
The sequester is the result of the Budget Control Act of 2011, otherwise known as the deal to lift the debt ceiling. The debt ceiling was raised in exchange for $1.2 trillion dollars in spending cuts, which were to be determined by tomorrow by a bipartisan group of senators and representatives, a so-called super committee.
The group failed to reach an agreement, despite the threat of sequestration which was designed to be unpalatable to both parties (Republicans balking at defense cuts, Democrats balking at cuts to education and social programs); that failure automatically launches the massive cuts tomorrow to defense and other departments and agencies.
The White House warns the sequester will cost 700-thousand jobs this year and slow economic growth, which is already slow, by half. The Obama Administration recently released state-by-state details of the effects of sequestration.
This is what it might mean for Florida:
- The state could lose $54.5 million for primary and secondary education, putting about 750 teacher and teacher aid jobs at risk.
- Head start would be eliminated for about 2700 children across the state.
- About 6200 fewer college students would get financial aid. 1700 fewer would get work study jobs.
- 31,000 to 41,000 civilian defense workers would be furloughed.
- Army, Air Force, and Navy operations in Florida would lose about $170 million.
- The state would also lose about $5.2 million in environmental funding for clean water and air quality.
- Programs that provide meals to seniors would lose $3.8 million in funds.
- The FAA says it could be forced to shut the control tower at Orlando Executive Airport, and cut controller hours at Orlando International Airport.
Many Republican leaders have called White House estimates scare tactics. But the impasse is real. The two sides simply cannot agree on how to reduce spending and balance the budget. Republicans insist there will be no more tax hikes on the wealthy, while the White House insists the only way to move the economy forward is with a mix of cuts and revenues.
One thing both sides agree on: the impact of sequestration will not be immediate. The effects will play out throughout March, with most of the pain coming toward the end of the month. All cuts can immediately be reversed if and when Congress reaches a deal.
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The Bank of England will weigh the weakness of Britain's wage growth against the strength of its economic recovery when it delivers fresh forecasts in its quarterly inflation report on Wednesday morning, containing signals about when a rise in interest rates is likely.
<To be delivered in tandem with the latest UK employment data, the BoE's estimates of the amount of slack in the economy will be one of the most closely watched metrics. At the last quarterly inflation report in May, the BoE estimated the amount of spare capacity was between 1 – 1.5 per cent, judging there was room for this to narrow further before rates tightened.
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PopeJohn Paul II's Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes
Hail Mary, woman of faith, First of the disciples! Virgin Mother of the Church, help us alwaysTo account for the hope that is in us, With trust in human goodness and the Father's love. Teach us to build up the world beginning from within: In the depths of silence and prayer, In the joy of fraternal love, In the unique fruitfulness of the Cross.
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