George readies Spartans for unfamiliar NCAA Tournament opponent


By Matt Sheehan | Published 16 hours ago

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Head coach Cathy George talks with the her team during the volleyball game against Ohio State Oct. 20, 2012 at Jenison Field House. MSU lost the game 3-1 and is set to play against Indiana on Oct. 26. Danyelle Morrow/The State News



When the MSU volleyball team found out they were slated to play San Diego in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the Spartans didn?t know very much about their next opponent.

So little, in fact, that most people at the viewing party were unsure of little more than the geographic location of their tournament foe.

The team that plays in the West Coast Conference held a lot of mystery, but head coach Cathy George still knows the bare basics about San Diego (21-6 overall, 13-3 WCC) heading into the team?s NCAA Tournament matchup.

?San Diego is a very defensive-minded team, and we knew that right off the get-go,? George said.

Some other quick facts that the Spartans (23-9, 11-9) found out early was how successful of a season their upcoming opponent has had. After compiling a 13-3 record in their conference, the Toreros claimed a share of the WCC title after a win over then-No. 13 Brigham Young.

Since finding out the pairings on Sunday, the Spartans had three days to scout and get a better idea of the squad from ?Anchorman? Ron Burgundy?s home town.

?They definitely are led by their middle attack and (junior middle hitter Katie Hoekman), and they really have a lot of balance in their offense,? George said.

The Toreros also are known for their offensive balance, as five players average more than two kills per set.

Another discovery that the Spartans found is that San Diego plays an identical style to them, playing in a 6-2 system, which allows for six players to act as hitters while two others act as setters. The style is conducive to well-rounded players with multiple skill sets on the floor, combining dynamic talent with general versatility.

Junior outside hitter Lauren Wicinski believes that MSU is the only team in the Big Ten to run that system, and also mentioned that San Diego plays a different variation of the style than the Spartans do.

?We know they run a 6-2 like us, so they are very similar to us, but their blocking is a little bit different than what we do,? Wicinski said. ?They play a little different of a style than us, but they are going to have to get used to our style as well.?

Despite not going up against a lot of teams that run a 6-2, sophomore libero Kori Moster said that the Spartans will not have to make a lot of adjustments during the match against San Diego.

?That?s the beauty of our system,? Moster said. ?We really don?t have to change our game plan in order to exploit a lot of the teams that we play.?

The Spartans head out to Los Angeles to take on the Toreros on Friday at 8:30 p.m. at UCLA?s New Pauley Pavilion.



Source: http://statenews.com/article/2012/11/george-readies-spartans-for-unfamiliar-ncaa-tournament-opponent

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Movado sets 75-cent special dividend, ups guidance

PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) ? Movado Group Inc. on Wednesday announced a special cash dividend, the latest in a string of companies to set one-time payments before the end of the year, and lifted its guidance for the year after a strong fiscal third quarter.

Shares rose $1.79, or 5.6 percent, to $34.02 in premarket trading.

The Paramus, N.J., company's special 75-cent dividend will be paid in December, as will its regular quarterly dividend of 5 cents.

Many companies are making special end-of-year dividend payments or moving up their quarterly payouts because investors may have to pay higher taxes on dividend income starting in January.

Investors have paid a maximum 15 percent on dividends since 2003. But that rate will expire in January, rising to as much as 43.4 percent for the highest earners, unless Congress and President Barack Obama reach a deal on taxes and government spending. Even if there is a compromise, there's no guarantee that the tax rate for dividends will remain at its current level.

Movado, which designs watches and runs stores in the U.S., also raised its adjusted profit guidance for the year ending in January to $1.50 per share from $1.40 per share. Analysts polled by FactSet predict earnings of $1.47 per share. The period includes the critical holiday shopping season.

The company still projects revenue of $510 million, in line with analyst expectations.

Net income in the August-October quarter more than doubled, to $34.5 million, or $1.34 per share, from $16.4 million, or 65 cents per share, in the same quarter last year.

The recent quarter's results included a $9.9 million tax benefit. Excluding that, the company said it posted an adjusted profit of 67 cents per share. Analysts expected a profit of 61 cents per share.

Revenue rose 12 percent to $160.2 million from $142.6 million.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/movado-sets-75-cent-special-dividend-ups-guidance-133714770--finance.html

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Men may share more genes with sisters' kids than with cheating wife's kids

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 27, 2012 A University of Utah study produced new mathematical support for a theory that explains why men in some cultures often feed and care for their sisters' children: where extramarital sex is common and accepted, a man's genes are more likely to be passed on by their sister's kids than by their wife's kids.

The theory previously was believed valid only if a man was likely to be the biological father of less than one in four of his wife's children a number that anthropologists found improbably low.

But in the new study, University of Utah anthropology Professor Alan Rogers shows mathematically that if certain assumptions in the theory are made less stringent and more realistic, that ratio changes from one in four to one in two, so the theory works more easily.

In other words, a man's genes are more likely to be passed by his sisters' children if fewer than half of his wife's kids are biologically his rather than the old requirement that he had to sire fewer than a quarter of his wife's kids, according to the study published online Nov. 28 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

"Imagine a mutation that encourages its bearers, if they are men, to be helpful and invest resources in the children of their sisters," Rogers says. "If that man lives in a society where most of his wife's children were fathered by other men, then this gene may not be in many of his wife's children. A man really doesn't know if any of his wife's kids were fathered by him, but he knows he and his sister have the same mom. So this gene may, in fact, be in more of his sisters' children."

"Thus, over time, the frequency of this gene increases because men are increasing the survival and fitness of their sisters' children the ones more likely to carry the gene," he adds.

The new study "shows that it is much easier than we thought for your niece to be a closer relative than your wife's daughter," Rogers says.

The research was funded by the University of Utah.

Why Men Help their Sisters' Kids: Theory and Debate

"Men invest in children in many ways; they care for them, feed them and leave them resources when the men die," Roger says. "But in some human societies, these are the children of sisters rather than those of wives. For decades, anthropologists have wondered why."

Extramarital mating is common in some cultures, including in central Africa and South America, he says, but not in the U.S. or other Western societies where infidelity, as prevalent as seems, much is less common by comparison.

"In some societies it is expected; it isn't seen as cheating," Rogers says. "And it isn't really just about promiscuity. Even where extramarital sex isn't common, women get divorced and remarried and have households with offspring from several men."

Rogers says: "In many societies where extramarital mating is the norm, men may not share genes with the children of wives. There is less doubt about relatedness to sisters' children. This suggests an interesting hypothesis: perhaps natural selection has shaped this practice, by encouraging males to direct investment toward genetic relatives."

"There was great enthusiasm for this idea during the 1970s, until a problem came to light," he continues. "Simple calculations suggested that the explanation collapses unless men father fewer than about one in four of their wife's children. Many have doubted that the number the paternity threshold number could really be this low."

Rogers' new study shows it is much easier than that for the idea to be true for natural selection to favor men who help their sisters' kids. He shows the theory holds true if men father fewer than half their wife's kids rather than fewer than one-quarter of those kids something much more likely to happen in reality.

The study shows this mathematically by relaxing assumptions previously made as part of the uncle-caretaker theory.

Rogers says it isn't enough to take into account the probability of paternity the odds that a child's biological father also is his mother's husband. The new study shows that if the assumptions made in old studies are relaxed, another parameter also must be measured: "the probability a brother and sister had the same biological father. The higher that probability, the more closely related a man is to his sister and his sister's kids."

Making Old Assumptions More Realistic

Rogers examined four assumptions made in previous studies and changed them to be more realistic. In this more realistic theory, men are more likely to share genes with their sister's children than under the old theory.

The first two assumptions of the existing theory were that "women are equally receptive to extramarital affairs and that each has an infinite number of paramours," says Rogers. "These assumptions both lower estimates of relatedness between men and the children of their sisters. Relaxing either assumption increases our estimate of the fitness payoff to men who invest in children of sisters."

[Rogers notes the theory applies to a man's sisters' children, but not to his brothers' children "because your brother has no more confidence than you do about the paternity of his wife's children. Sisters are a better bet, because they know who their kids are."]

"Previous calculations assume every woman in the population is equally promiscuous," Rogers says. "If you relax that assumption and instead assume some women are more promiscuous than others, it means men are more likely to share genes with their sisters' children."

"The earlier theory also assumed women each woman had an infinite number of boyfriends," instead of a range from one to infinity, he adds. "It made the math simple and it gave you a wrong answer."

The new study showed mathematically that a man's relatedness to his sister's kids increases if his wife has fewer rather than more extramarital partners and if she allocates sex and thus having children unevenly among them.

A third problem with previous studies is that they assumed resources given to any child were equally valuable. Rogers says that didn't account for the fact that giving your wife's kids twice as many resources isn't necessarily twice as good once the kids have what they need but may be only half again as good for them. So the man may be better off also giving resources to his sisters' kids.

"The old model didn't account for that, and because of that, it biased things in favor of the wife's children. When the nieces and nephews share fewer genes, they end up getting zero resources rather than some reduced share, as they should."

The fourth problem with most previous calculations was that they didn't account for a simple reality: "The best thing for a man to do depends on how his wife is going to respond," Rogers says. "If wives punish their husbands one way or another for delivering goods to their nieces and nephews, it's not just the husband deciding what is best for the husband. Women have an active role in all of these decisions and that role was ignored in the previous model."

Another study published recently took that into account, making it easier to understand how natural selection might favor men who invest in their sisters' offspring.

Rogers believes that natural selection and genetics ultimately contributes to people helping their relatives in most cultures, even if the primary motivation may be tax breaks for those who provide cash gifts to relatives rather than passing on one's genes.

"People are nice to relatives all over the world, and I think selection has something to do with that," he says.

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Men may share more genes with sisters' kids than with cheating wife's kids

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 27, 2012 A University of Utah study produced new mathematical support for a theory that explains why men in some cultures often feed and care for their sisters' children: where extramarital sex is common and accepted, a man's genes are more likely to be passed on by their sister's kids than by their wife's kids.

The theory previously was believed valid only if a man was likely to be the biological father of less than one in four of his wife's children a number that anthropologists found improbably low.

But in the new study, University of Utah anthropology Professor Alan Rogers shows mathematically that if certain assumptions in the theory are made less stringent and more realistic, that ratio changes from one in four to one in two, so the theory works more easily.

In other words, a man's genes are more likely to be passed by his sisters' children if fewer than half of his wife's kids are biologically his rather than the old requirement that he had to sire fewer than a quarter of his wife's kids, according to the study published online Nov. 28 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

"Imagine a mutation that encourages its bearers, if they are men, to be helpful and invest resources in the children of their sisters," Rogers says. "If that man lives in a society where most of his wife's children were fathered by other men, then this gene may not be in many of his wife's children. A man really doesn't know if any of his wife's kids were fathered by him, but he knows he and his sister have the same mom. So this gene may, in fact, be in more of his sisters' children."

"Thus, over time, the frequency of this gene increases because men are increasing the survival and fitness of their sisters' children the ones more likely to carry the gene," he adds.

The new study "shows that it is much easier than we thought for your niece to be a closer relative than your wife's daughter," Rogers says.

The research was funded by the University of Utah.

Why Men Help their Sisters' Kids: Theory and Debate

"Men invest in children in many ways; they care for them, feed them and leave them resources when the men die," Roger says. "But in some human societies, these are the children of sisters rather than those of wives. For decades, anthropologists have wondered why."

Extramarital mating is common in some cultures, including in central Africa and South America, he says, but not in the U.S. or other Western societies where infidelity, as prevalent as seems, much is less common by comparison.

"In some societies it is expected; it isn't seen as cheating," Rogers says. "And it isn't really just about promiscuity. Even where extramarital sex isn't common, women get divorced and remarried and have households with offspring from several men."

Rogers says: "In many societies where extramarital mating is the norm, men may not share genes with the children of wives. There is less doubt about relatedness to sisters' children. This suggests an interesting hypothesis: perhaps natural selection has shaped this practice, by encouraging males to direct investment toward genetic relatives."

"There was great enthusiasm for this idea during the 1970s, until a problem came to light," he continues. "Simple calculations suggested that the explanation collapses unless men father fewer than about one in four of their wife's children. Many have doubted that the number the paternity threshold number could really be this low."

Rogers' new study shows it is much easier than that for the idea to be true for natural selection to favor men who help their sisters' kids. He shows the theory holds true if men father fewer than half their wife's kids rather than fewer than one-quarter of those kids something much more likely to happen in reality.

The study shows this mathematically by relaxing assumptions previously made as part of the uncle-caretaker theory.

Rogers says it isn't enough to take into account the probability of paternity the odds that a child's biological father also is his mother's husband. The new study shows that if the assumptions made in old studies are relaxed, another parameter also must be measured: "the probability a brother and sister had the same biological father. The higher that probability, the more closely related a man is to his sister and his sister's kids."

Making Old Assumptions More Realistic

Rogers examined four assumptions made in previous studies and changed them to be more realistic. In this more realistic theory, men are more likely to share genes with their sister's children than under the old theory.

The first two assumptions of the existing theory were that "women are equally receptive to extramarital affairs and that each has an infinite number of paramours," says Rogers. "These assumptions both lower estimates of relatedness between men and the children of their sisters. Relaxing either assumption increases our estimate of the fitness payoff to men who invest in children of sisters."

[Rogers notes the theory applies to a man's sisters' children, but not to his brothers' children "because your brother has no more confidence than you do about the paternity of his wife's children. Sisters are a better bet, because they know who their kids are."]

"Previous calculations assume every woman in the population is equally promiscuous," Rogers says. "If you relax that assumption and instead assume some women are more promiscuous than others, it means men are more likely to share genes with their sisters' children."

"The earlier theory also assumed women each woman had an infinite number of boyfriends," instead of a range from one to infinity, he adds. "It made the math simple and it gave you a wrong answer."

The new study showed mathematically that a man's relatedness to his sister's kids increases if his wife has fewer rather than more extramarital partners and if she allocates sex and thus having children unevenly among them.

A third problem with previous studies is that they assumed resources given to any child were equally valuable. Rogers says that didn't account for the fact that giving your wife's kids twice as many resources isn't necessarily twice as good once the kids have what they need but may be only half again as good for them. So the man may be better off also giving resources to his sisters' kids.

"The old model didn't account for that, and because of that, it biased things in favor of the wife's children. When the nieces and nephews share fewer genes, they end up getting zero resources rather than some reduced share, as they should."

The fourth problem with most previous calculations was that they didn't account for a simple reality: "The best thing for a man to do depends on how his wife is going to respond," Rogers says. "If wives punish their husbands one way or another for delivering goods to their nieces and nephews, it's not just the husband deciding what is best for the husband. Women have an active role in all of these decisions and that role was ignored in the previous model."

Another study published recently took that into account, making it easier to understand how natural selection might favor men who invest in their sisters' offspring.

Rogers believes that natural selection and genetics ultimately contributes to people helping their relatives in most cultures, even if the primary motivation may be tax breaks for those who provide cash gifts to relatives rather than passing on one's genes.

"People are nice to relatives all over the world, and I think selection has something to do with that," he says.

###

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Inside the Law School Scam: Legal scholarship

Before I begin, please note that the contents of this post reflect only my own views, not those of my co-editors, my school, my colleagues (all of whom are fabulous teachers, scholars, mentors, administrators, and people), or our wonderful students and alums (who are smart, hard working, and will make or already are great lawyers) . . .
I think there is great value in legal scholarship. The public benefits by getting legal and government structures that make real people's lives better. Students benefit from the scholar's ability to turn chaos into order and communicate both the chaos and the order to someone who hasn't done the same work. The students have to start with order and see how it is constructed from chaos and how to explain that before they can learn to do the same thing, which really, is what lawyers do for their clients.

-- Prof. Marcia McCormick, commenting on the value of legal scholarship in the face of criticisms that question whether the law students who subsidize it are getting their money's worth --

So as I sit here on a Saturday night, I am having the great pleasure of putting the finishing touches on my last books as a law review editor.? I have procrastinated about this, at least somewhat, because I am pretty convinced that the law review is a pretty meaningless activity.? Sure, being the EIC was an interesting experience, I got to do some editing and other work that I would not have done -- and it's undeniable that the long-term career benefits of having the EIC next to my name are large.

BUT -- here is the stark reality.? We had 12 open slots last year for articles.? Through Expresso, I think we ended up having something like 1800 submissions.? 1800!!!!!? Of those 1800, I would say 1500 were absolutely awful.? Terrible.? The student comments written by second-year students were better -- usually far better.? As I would work with the articles editor on picking pieces, I would become more and more depressed about the meaning of legal scholarship and what I was actually doing.

I further realized that the whole law review enterprise was another cog in the wheel for raising the costs of law school.? One aspect of your criticism of legal scholarship that has not been made yet is the undeniable connection between "scholarship" and USNWR rankings.? As you surely know, deans try to control every and any input that they can in the USNWR process.? They know that the academic survey counts.

?Never mind the fact that the academic surveys are largely stagnant -- I think many deans believe that if they hire professors who write stuff that gets published, it could possibly raise their academic reputation score and thus increase their USNWR ranking.? So, you hire senior faculty, who write lousy articles, and you pay them lots of money -- or you hire junior faculty with the promise of writing lousy articles and you promise them light teaching loads.? Either option contributes to increased costs for students -- but very few care about that because the students are largely insensitive to costs (at least up until now).

I should be fair and say that not EVERY submission was bad -- I would say about 300 were good.? But every night last summer and fall when I would read the very many bad articles, I kept thinking -- is having a faculty person write this REALLY the best use of resources?? Maybe instead of encouraging people to write all of these articles, we could encourage people to, well, teach, take on higher teaching loads, which means we would need fewer faculty overall, and thus decrease the cost of faculty, and perhaps pass on some of the savings to students in the form of lower tuition?

-- Email from the EIC of the flagship law review of a moderately well-ranked law school --

The observation that most legal scholarship is bad is neither original nor in itself necessarily too significant.? (Cf. Sturgeon's Law).? The problem -- again -- is cost.? Back when I was doing the basic research for David Segal's better New York Times critiques of legal education, I calculated that the total amount of legal scholarship being published annually had increased about sixfold since the early 1970s, that "scholarly output" had increased by about three and half times per capita, and that at present the average law student pays about $12,000 over the course of his or her legal education to subsidize the production of law review articles (a sum that has roughly tripled in constant dollars over the past 25 years).

When people ask how to go about bringing the cost of law school back toward having some rational relationship with the net present value of a law degree, one of the first questions that needs to be answered is: how much of the legal scholarship students pay for is worth what they pay for it?? I'm not suggesting this is an easy question to answer.? I'm suggesting the question needs to be asked.? At present, my sense is that, at most law schools, it is simply taken for granted that the production of ever-greater numbers of law review articles is a primary institutional goal, and this is reflected by the faculty hiring process in particular, and the allocation of scarce resources in general.?

Source: http://insidethelawschoolscam.blogspot.com/2012/11/legal-scholarship.html

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MO: Cyber Monday sparks Internet tax debate ? Watchdog News

ONLINE TAXES: One estimate said Missouri could reap $500 million if it collected sales tax on all purchases made online by state residents.

By Johnny Kampis | Missouri Watchdog

ST. LOUIS ? Online retailers like Amazon were expected to reap millions during the Christmas shopping event known as Cyber Monday, but Missouri?s coffers won?t benefit because the state doesn?t collect sales tax from Internet-only stores.

The Show Me State faces the same conundrum as the rest of the nation ? how to make ?remote sellers,? or those who sell to Missouri residents but who do not have a physical presence in the state, pay sales taxes on the goods they sell.

David Overfelt, president of the Missouri Retailers Association, said local businesses are hurt by an uneven playing field.

?We?re concerned that everybody plays by the same rules,? he said. ?There?s been some pretty big estimates that Missouri could see a windfall of $400 million to $500 million in revenue that would be spread throughout the state and local governments.?

Missouri was one of 44 states that helped form the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement, which minimized costs and administrative burdens on retailers who operate in multiple states, making it easier for them to pay sales taxes in each state. That agreement also encourages remote sellers to collect taxes on purchases online or by mail.

But Missouri has not passed corresponding legislation; a bill was introduced into the General Assembly last year but failed to pass.

?Congress truly has to act on this,? Overfelt told Missouri Watchdog. ?All a state can do is try to make it simpler for companies who operate across state lines to pay their sales taxes.?

The governing board of the Streamlined Sales Tax group notes that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the 1992 case Quill v. North Dakota gives Congress the power to level the playing field for local merchants under the Commerce Clause.

The group said that 1,400 retailers have voluntarily collected more than $700 million in sales taxes in states that have passed the streamlined legislation, but that states could be missing out on more than $23 billion in uncollected sales tax from businesses that aren?t participating.

Amy Blouin, executive director of the Missouri Budget Project, said the growth in remote sales could put extra burden on state and local government services, which rely heavily on sales tax collections for their budgets.

The U.S. Census Bureau said online sales represented 5.2 percent of total retail sales last quarter, a percentage that continues to creep up.

Blouin advocates passing streamlining legislation in the state.

?Taking the steps to modernize the state?s sales tax structure is critical to ensure that Missouri prevents further loss of state and local tax revenue,? she said.

Missouri?s general revenue sales tax rate is 3 percent and funds about a quarter, or nearly $2 billion, of the general budget. An

OVERFELT: Local and online merchants should be on an even playing field.

additional 1.225 percent rate is earmarked to fund K-12 schools, parks and conservations efforts.

Local sales taxes vary greatly across the state, making the overall sales tax rate under 6 percent in some jurisdictions and greater than 10 percent in others.

Overfelt said he?s heard rumblings that if Missouri could collect online sales taxes there might be interest in reducing the state?s overall rate.

?We certainly wouldn?t be opposed to that,? he said.

There?s been pushback from some online merchants on the Internet sales tax issue.

Top online auction house eBay, where tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of small merchants make a living selling their wares, released a video post-election arguing against requiring its users to pay sales taxes except to customers they serve within their own states.

Brian Bieron, eBay?s senior director of U.S. government relations, said requiring users to collect and file sales taxes in 50 states would be onerous.

?We think for a small business that?s an especially negative change and we oppose that change,? Bieron said.

Contact Johnny Kampis at johnny@missouriwatchdog.org.??For more?Missouri Watchdog?updates, visit?Facebook?and?Twitter, or sign up for a?free newsletter.

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Source: http://watchdog.org/62480/mo-cyber-monday-sparks-internet-sales-tax-debate/

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Important Factors To Consider When Choosing A Cloud Backup ...

?The growing number of online backup providers has made it very difficult to choose the right provider that meets your business needs. This article provides a list of essential factors to consider when choosing the right cloud backup service for your business.

1. Simplicity


For any business, time is money. A reliable cloud backup system should offer the most simplicity when it comes to installation and use. Everything needs to be handled via a central, remote location so there is no need to install software on individual computers.


2. Complete data recovery


It is possible that your computer system will become corrupted unexpectedly. A reliable backup service should offer complete data recovery that allows you to recover or repair your entire system from the cloud. With today's internet speed, it should only take a few hours to complete a full data recovery.


3. Restore options


Ensure that the service also offers several restore options, such as restore from an older version, restore deleted files, and drag and drop restore. These options must be available for a mobile device or a web interface, and must also able to restore data or documents to their original location.


4. Block level backup


If the cloud backup service does not use block level backup technology, you should avoid it. Block level backup technology breaks up larger files into smaller file blocks. This technology allows you to only backup the modified file blocks, and as a result you save both time and bandwidth.


5. Speed


Backing up an entire computer is time-consuming. Make sure that the online backup service uses disk defragmentation technology, or other technologies to speed up the process. Keep in mind that a slow backup solution can significantly reduce productivity and efficiency.


6. Security


Security is very important to all businesses, so make sure that the service uses at least 256-bit encryption to secure your data.


7. Easy access


One of the main benefits of using online backup is the ability to access your data from anywhere. You should be given the ability to access your backup from mobile devices and a web interface. You must also be able to restore, view, edit and share your backed up data on the go.


8. Performance


Many people complain that their backup service slows down their computer performance. A top class online backup should never interrupt your work. The backup service should offer different performance modes such as presentation mode, battery mode or high performance mode. The backup service must be able to detect when the computer is in high or low load, so it can adapt the backup process without reducing computer performance.


9. Cost


Lastly, as a business owner you need to consider the cost of the?
backup solution, and should avoid cloud backup providers that have surprise or hidden fees. A flat fee would be more beneficial for businesses.? Author Bio:
This article is one of many written by David Hamer, who is an expert author on the subject of online data storage.

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'Soft Robotics': A groundbreaking new journal on engineered soft devices that Interact with Living Systems

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New Rochelle, NY, November 20, 2012Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers announces the launch of Soft Robotics, a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the science and engineering of soft materials in mobile machines. The Journal breaks new ground as the first to answer the urgent need for research on robotic technology that can safely interact with living systems and function in complex natural or human-built environments. Soft Robotics will be published in print and online with Open Access options.

Multidisciplinary in scope, Soft Robotics combines advances in biomedical engineering, biomechanics, mathematical modeling, biopolymer chemistry, computer science, and tissue engineering to provide comprehensive coverage of new approaches to constructing devices that can undergo dramatic changes in shape and size in order to adapt to various environments. This new technology delivers vital applications for a variety of purposes, including surgery, assistive healthcare devices, search and rescue in emergency situations, space instrument repair, mine detection, and more. The Journal covers topics related to device development such as soft material creation, characterization, and modeling; flexible and degradable electronics; soft actuators and sensors; control and simulation of highly deformable structures; biomechanics and control of soft animals and tissues; biohybrid devices and living machines; and design and fabrication of conformable machines.

Soft Robotics is led by Editor-in-Chief Barry A. Trimmer, PhD, Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor of Natural Sciences and the Director of the Neuromechanics and Biomimetic Devices Laboratory at Tufts University. A distinguished team of Associate Editors includes John H. Long, Jr., Vassar College (biomechanics); Josh Bongard, University of Vermont (computer science and controls); Fumiya Iida, Swiss Institute of Robotics and Intelligence Systems (biorobotics); Qibing Pei, UCLA (materials development and applications); and Nanshu Lu, University of Texas (flexible electronics). Bill Ferguson, PhD from the Publisher will serve as Managing Editor.

"This powerful new journal provides a much-needed cross-discipline forum on the rapidly advancing science and engineering of Soft Robotics which has great potential for benefit to mankind and our world," says Dr. Trimmer.

Company founder and CEO Mary Ann Liebert comments, "Soft Robotics is an important and growing field with great promise; the Journal will make a significant contribution to the literature and also advance the field. Under the leadership of Dr. Barry Trimmer, this journal will play an important role in the advancement of soft robotic technologies and applications."

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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including Disruptive Science and Technology, Cellular Reprogramming, and Journal of Computational Biology. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 70 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available on the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers website at http://www.liebertpub.com.


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[ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 26-Nov-2012
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Contact: Bill Ferguson
bferguson@liebertpub.com
914-740-2100
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News

New Rochelle, NY, November 20, 2012Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers announces the launch of Soft Robotics, a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the science and engineering of soft materials in mobile machines. The Journal breaks new ground as the first to answer the urgent need for research on robotic technology that can safely interact with living systems and function in complex natural or human-built environments. Soft Robotics will be published in print and online with Open Access options.

Multidisciplinary in scope, Soft Robotics combines advances in biomedical engineering, biomechanics, mathematical modeling, biopolymer chemistry, computer science, and tissue engineering to provide comprehensive coverage of new approaches to constructing devices that can undergo dramatic changes in shape and size in order to adapt to various environments. This new technology delivers vital applications for a variety of purposes, including surgery, assistive healthcare devices, search and rescue in emergency situations, space instrument repair, mine detection, and more. The Journal covers topics related to device development such as soft material creation, characterization, and modeling; flexible and degradable electronics; soft actuators and sensors; control and simulation of highly deformable structures; biomechanics and control of soft animals and tissues; biohybrid devices and living machines; and design and fabrication of conformable machines.

Soft Robotics is led by Editor-in-Chief Barry A. Trimmer, PhD, Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor of Natural Sciences and the Director of the Neuromechanics and Biomimetic Devices Laboratory at Tufts University. A distinguished team of Associate Editors includes John H. Long, Jr., Vassar College (biomechanics); Josh Bongard, University of Vermont (computer science and controls); Fumiya Iida, Swiss Institute of Robotics and Intelligence Systems (biorobotics); Qibing Pei, UCLA (materials development and applications); and Nanshu Lu, University of Texas (flexible electronics). Bill Ferguson, PhD from the Publisher will serve as Managing Editor.

"This powerful new journal provides a much-needed cross-discipline forum on the rapidly advancing science and engineering of Soft Robotics which has great potential for benefit to mankind and our world," says Dr. Trimmer.

Company founder and CEO Mary Ann Liebert comments, "Soft Robotics is an important and growing field with great promise; the Journal will make a significant contribution to the literature and also advance the field. Under the leadership of Dr. Barry Trimmer, this journal will play an important role in the advancement of soft robotic technologies and applications."

###

To sign up to receive email alerts for Soft Robotics, please email journalmarketing2@liebertpub.com.

About the Publisher

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including Disruptive Science and Technology, Cellular Reprogramming, and Journal of Computational Biology. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 70 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available on the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers website at http://www.liebertpub.com.


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