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GoQBots Spring Into Action
Posted by Georgy Cohen in Blogs, Faculty, Life Sciences, Research, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering, Video on April 28, 2011
A new study in the Institute of Physics journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics by Tufts doctoral student Huai-Ti Lin and researchers Gary Leisk and Barry Trimmer details the creation of the GoQBot, a soft-bodied robot inspired by a natural defense mechanism found in some caterpillars called "ballistic rolling." According to a press release by the Institute of Physics, ballistic rolling is "one of the fastest wheeling behaviours in nature"
The below video shows both a caterpillar engaging in ballistic rolling and the GoQBot in action:
The science blog PopSci featured the GoQBot, the latest product of the ongoing biomimetic research at Tufts.
"GoQBot demonstrates a solution by reconfiguring its body and could therefore enhance several robotic applications such as urban rescue, building inspection, and environmental monitoring," Lin was quoted as saying in the press release. "Due to the increased speed and range, limbless crawling robots with ballistic rolling capability could be deployed more generally at a disaster site such as a tsunami aftermath. The robot can wheel to a debris field and wiggle into the danger for us."
barry trimmer, biology, biomimetics, gary leisk, huai-ti lin, soft-bodied robots
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Well, this is how today went. I have learned a lot since doing this with Hank. The goal is not to run a mark then a blind but to use the duck as suction to create opportunities to handle in the field for the first time. So, I didn't spend as much time with Rowdy on pattern blinds as I did with Hank. I am reasonably satisfied with how things went. I made some mistakes, like I was a little late on my first whistle and spent a little too much time fiddling with Rowdy at the line when I first sent Rowdy on the blind after the mark.
The position of the camera gives the impression that I am lining up Rowdy too much to the right but it is just an illusion.
But here is the sequence we went through this morning:
Middle leg of pattern blind with no diversions.
Pattern blind with stickman. Stickman is appx 20 yds off the line to blind.
Pattern blind with duck as diversion. The duck is appx 20 yds off the line to the blind. I used attrition only. Look at the great response to the whistle.
Pattern blind with duck again. With just the attrition on the above Rowdy didn't want to go over by the old fall of the duck. Look at the great angle back.

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French voters went to the polls today to winnow a ten-candidate presidential field down to the "right-of-center" incumbent (Nicolas Sarkozy) and his socialist challenger (Francois Hollande). The two will face each other in a runoff election on May 6. A Sarkozy loss would be the first of an incumbent French president in thirty years. It would threaten the German-French sponsored European Union rescue package. It is no surprise that Germany's Angela Merkel openly supported Sarkozy's candidacy.
The French election previews the U.S. November election contest between incumbent Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney in the following four ways:
1). Both Obama and Hollande offer almost identical leftist platforms (details on this below).
2) The bland challengers (Hollande and Romney) ignite electoral passions less than their more colorful opponents (playboy Sarkozy with his celebrity wife and Obama, the first black president).
3) The sorry state of the economy gives both challengers a hefty leg-up.
4) The French and American elections are foreshadowed by electoral disasters for the incumbent party in off-year races in 2010 and 2011. In both, the incumbent party lost long-held majorities in one house of Congress or parliament.
Whereas the outcome of the U.S. election is currently too close to call, opinion polls show the French socialist candidate poised to win in the run off. As the odds tip increasingly in favor of a Hollande victory, the risk premium on French bonds will rise. It is no secret that the investment community views a Hollande victory a threat to France's solvency. It is too early to count Sarkozy out. The unexpected strong showing of the far right candidate give him reason to hope, for he should attract her voters.
A victory of France's socialist candidate Hollande will not translate into electoral success for his American soul mate, Obama, for three reasons:
First, Hollande's socialist platform will not be the factor that pushes him across the winner's line. Rather Sarkozy bears the intolerable burden of a disastrous economy. In the U.S., incumbent Obama is similarly saddled with blame for the miserable economic performance of the last three years.
Second, the difference in French and American electorates works to Obama's disadvantage. Whereas Hollande's socialism appeals to France's significant left-wing constituency, Obama's leftist program will turn off American voters, who dislike socialism, no matter how well it is disguised or attention diverted from it by peripheral issues.
Third, Hollande and Obama both appeal to disaffected voters, ethnic minorities, welfare recipients, union members, public employees, and low skilled workers. In France, there may be enough of them. In America, there are probably not enough for an electoral victory.
In a side-by-side comparison, it is difficult to differentiate Obama's from Hollande's electoral platform. Specifically, they both favor:


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Kristian's Wed. practice report: Meachem returns, Falcons await the noise
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The Atlanta Falcons have been preparing for two weeks for what is sure to be a raucous and loud SuperDome Sunday when the Saints and Falcons meet at noon in the 2013 season opener.
"We play in a lot of loud venues, and the Supedome is one of the loudest," said Falcons Head Coach Mike Smith. "We have ways that we prepare. We've been preparing since training camp."
Coach Smith is right, the Superdome is one of the loudest in the NFL. However, it's going to have a little extra zest this Sunday with Sean Payton returning to the sidelines in a game that counts.
Meachem returns:
We got our first look at WR Robert Meachem today after he agreed to terms on a one-year deal with the team yesterday. Meachem looked no worse for wear after spending a year with the San Diego Chargers, and refuted reports from the media covering the Chargers that his body was broke down. "All that negative talk that my body was broke and all that, I heard all those things. That was flattering; I love to hear things like that. Now I get to go show the whole world my gift again."
His gift is getting deep, and quarterback Drew Brees says Meachem looks just like he did when he left.
"He's all smiles, he's happy to back," Brees said. "He looks as good as ever. I look forward to getting him incorporated back in."
Meachem says he is ready to go if he's dressed and active for Sunday's season opener against the Falcons.
Galette and Wilson return to practice:
The two outside linebackers that did not take a snap in the preseason because of injuries were listed as "full participation" in practice on Wednesday. Galette has been nursing a hamstring injury since the early part of training camp. Wilson injured his elbow in the first week of camp. The Saints only have three players on their active roster that are outside linebackers, with the other being Parys Haralson whom they acquired in a trade last week with San Francisco. Wide receivers Marques Colston (foot) and Nick Toon (chest) also took every rep in practice today. Safety Isa Abdul-Quddus and defensive end Glenn Foster were the only two players that did not practice.
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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals closed the door on an increasingly popular tactic by plaintiff lawyers who find themselves stymied by restrictions on their former stock in trade, shareholder class actions. Instead of suing on behalf of investors, lawyers sue on behalf of the corporation itself in what is known as a derivative action.
In an influential decision last month, the Second Circuit said independent directors of a -run mutual fund exercised legitimate business judgment in rejecting a lawsuit challenging the fund's approval of a new investment management contract in connection with its sale to Legg Mason. The dismissal was won by lawyers at Goodwin Procter.
The decision whittles away at one of the most powerful tools plaintiff lawyers have in extracting money from corporations, which is forcing them to comply with evidence discovery demands whose cost often can exceed the price of settling the case. After examining an internal report and more than 1,000 pages of exhibits, the court said, lawyers at Harwood Feffer had more than enough information to submit a detailed explanation of what they thought further discovery would uncover.
The decision, similar to rulings in other appeals courts, helps dampen a popular tactic by plaintiff lawyers to effectively double-dip in class actions. One firm files a lawsuit on behalf of investors, while another firm -- sometimes closely related to the first -- files a derivative action against directors on behalf of the corporation itself. Since virtually all corporations indemnify their directors against such litigation, both suits effectively target the corporate treasury, which, of course, means current shareholders.
Lawyers increasingly file such suits in the wake of mergers and acquisitions, for example, accusing directors of accepting offers that are too low or other violations of their fiduciary duties.
Under most state laws, corporations have the opportunity to review demands that they sue themselves, and reject them under the "business judgment rule" designed to keep courts out of the role of second-guessing routing business decisions. Massachusetts, where Citifunds Trust III was incorporated, requires independent directors to decide whether to proceed. The lawyers in this case attempted a standard end-around, arguing the independent directors weren't truly independent because they were paid for their service.
The independent directors had a "blocking position" that they could have used to force the company to seek out lower-cost management contracts than what was proposed by the buyer, Legg Mason, lawyers argued. They didn't do so because they were controlled by Citi with their director pay of $82,000 to $120,000 a year, lawyers said.
The Second Circuit rejected that argument, saying the directors served on 32 to 37 boards and their pay didn't rise to the level of a conflict of interest.
The case demonstrates the lengths plaintiff firms will go to to try and preserve avenues of litigation like derivative suits. The original complaint was filed in 2006 and bounced back and forth between Masachusetts courts and the Second Circuit twice. By reaffirming the business judgment rule, however, the appeals court may cut down on knee-jerk lawsuits following every major corporate transaction, in which lawyers seek a quick settlement and fee by challenging the independence of directors.


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Creative Tauranga and former Cargo Shed stallholders will present their proposals for the future of the building at a council meeting next week.
Tauranga City Council has asked the two parties to speak at the Projects and Monitoring Committee meeting on Monday.
The proposals will be required to align with the current purpose of the Cargo Shed, which is to provide a creative arts venue open to the public. The term of the agreement will be for the 12 month period from 1 July 2013.
They have been asked to provide information about the types of activities that would operate in the shed, the types of experiences that the public would have, audiences they expect to attract, opening hours, assistance required and promotion of the venue.


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I love sauteed squash and onions with a little salt and peller with a baked potato. Yum yum.
I love sauteed squash and onions with a little salt and peller with a baked potato. Yum yum.
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My grandmother was a great cook and baker. I mean, whatever time she spent of the day not cleaning she spent cooking (she lived with us, kinda like having a second mom). She was second generation, but you would have thought she was off the boat the way she cooked. With as good with a wooden spoon as she was in the kitchen, she was as equally adept with it in punishment. I swear, if I pissed her off I could be hiding under my bed, *** up against the wall, with 3 pillows as shields. She could throw that wooden spoon from the kitchen, it'd turn the corner, go down the hall, pick the lock to my room, go under my bed, flip me over, toss the pillows aside, and beat my as raw.
Damn, I miss that woman.
So, I've been playing this game on my phone called, Plague, Inc. It's pretty cool. There's a free version, which only allows you access to the very basic game. The full version only costs a buck and some change, so it's pretty much free, lol. It's pretty cool, though. You get to release a plague in the world, and the objective is to wipe out humanity. You get to choose where it gets released, too. You even get to modify the plague in various ways (and it may even mutate on its own), and the various countries will try and research a cure. Even on the easiest level, the win% is like 25%-33%.
I play Robot Unicorn Attack 2 and I like it....it's too much fun and it consumes a lot of time.


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The Universe
Produced exactly one-half century after man undertook his premier forays into space, the History Channel documentary series 'The Universe' rests on the premise that outer space only just began to reveal its secrets in the early years of the 21st century. The program thus explores this colossal subject with each episode devoted to one subtopic – from the moon to the Big Bang to Jupiter to Mars. Episodes reflect on the ways in which new technologies during the 1990s and 2000s began to dramatically alter mankind's perception of itself and the universe around it. Each one employs a combination of space footage, CG graphics and intense, often speculative scientific discussion. Buy the complete series Blu-ray megaset right here.
Human Planet
Following in the footsteps of Planet Earth and Life, the epic eight-part blockbuster 'Human Planet' is a breathtaking celebration of the amazing, complex, profound and sometimes challenging relationship between humankind and nature. Humans are the ultimate animals – the most successful species on the planet. From the frozen Arctic to steamy rainforests, from tiny islands in vast oceans to parched deserts, people have found remarkable ways to adapt and survive. We've done this by harnessing our immense courage and ingenuity; learning to live with and utilize the other creatures with which we share these wild places. Human Planet weaves together eighty inspiring stories, many never told before, set to a globally-influenced soundtrack by award-winning composer Nitin Sawhney. Each episode focuses on a particular habitat and reveals how its people have created astonishing solutions in the face of extreme adversity. Finally we visit the urban jungle, where most of us now live, and discover why the connection between humanity and nature. Buy the Blu-ray right here.
Doc Martin Collection
The hit British comedic drama 'Doc Marin Collection' is currently airing on PBS stations. Akin to House and Northern Exposure, BAFTA winner Martin Clunes ('Men Behaving Badly') stars as a surly, tactless, self-centered, and uptight doctor—but he's the only doctor in town. Doc Martin is a huge hit in the U.K. with 9 million viewers and a fifth series commissioned, and is syndicated by American Public Television (APT) in the U.S. This value-priced 9-disc collection includes all 30 endearing and off-beat episodes from the first four series. Buy the Series 1-4 collection right here.
South Park
'South Park' Season 14 is now available on DVD and Blu-ray. In addition to all 14 episodes, the DVD and Blu-ray include mini-commentaries on all episodes by creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, never-before-seen footage and deleted scenes. The all-new episodes from this season are available in HD exclusively on xBox Live, iTunes, Sony Playstation Network, Amazon Video On Demand and are also available on SouthParkStudios.com. Launched in 1997, 'South Park,' beginning its 15th season, remains the highest-rated series on Comedy Central. Buy the Season 14 Blu-ray right here.
Growing Pains
Congratulations…you're fired. Mike (Kirk Cameron) receives a car from his pleased parents after he's named Employee of the Month in Season 2 of 'Growing Pains.' (So how's he going to tell them he's been canned?) Mike's not the only one with secrets. Brainy Carol (Tracey Gold) wants everyone to think she has a romantic extracurricular life with a hunky football hero. And what's up with 10-year-old Ben (Jeremy Miller) and those 67 calls to a sex line? (No, it's not what you might think.) These events don't all happen at the same time, but they do all happen at the same place: the Season 2 home-sweet-ho-ho-home of the Seavers – dad Jason (Alan Thicke), mom Maggie (Joanna Kerns), three on-the-grow kids. Jason works as a psychiatrist. You think maybe it's time to add some family appointments to his calendar? Buy the Season 2 DVD right here.
Upstairs Downstairs
One of the most beloved television series of all time is brought back to life in a sumptuous new production with a fresh new cast in 'Upstairs Downstairs' It's 1936 and six years since parlormaid Rose (Jean Marsh) left 165 Eaton Place. Fate brings her back as housekeeper to its new owners, Sir Hallam Holland (Ed Stoppard), his wife Lady Agnes (Keeley Hawes), and his mother, Lady Maud Holland (Eileen Atkins). Rose soon finds she has her work cut out for her as she recruits a new "downstairs" family to help run the elegance and finery of the "upstairs" world. Both upstairs and downstairs, it soon becomes apparent there lies a labyrinth of secrets, lies and scandal. Set against the historical backdrop of a pre-World War II Britain with a new King on the throne, with Fascism on the rise on the continent, and with sexual, social and political tensions at 165 Eaton Place, this new series provides an evocative take on the master-servant relationship. Buy the DVD right here.
The Lucy Show
'The Lucy Show,' starring TV's favorite redhead, Lucille Ball, returns to DVD with more laugh-out loud adventures. In Season 4, scatterbrained Lucy Carmichael relocates to Southern California, only to discover that her banker nemesis, Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) has done the same. With her children off at school, Lucy discovers the life of a "single girl," meeting new friends, going on dates, and trying to make ends meet with part-time jobs. Lucy's zany antics bring her into contact with some of Hollywood's biggest stars including Danny Thomas, Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney and more. The four disc set features all 26 episodes from the fourth season. Buy the Season 4 DVD right here.
Hold On!
The career of the British Invasion pop group Herman's Hermits was in full, fan-shrieking, disc-selling orbit when their first top-billed movie came to theaters, so maybe it's only natural to think NASA would want to name a rocket after them. Well, at least that's what's at stake in the 1966 romp 'Hold On!' that has the five lads on a U.S. tour, where they're mobbed by various birds – and secretly monitored by a nerdy scientist to determine if they are rocket worthy. Yes, 'Hold On!' is not so much about making sense as it is about having fun. A double fistful of Hermits' songs (including the Top-10 hits A Must to Avoid and Leaning on the Lamp Post) adds to the good times. Shelley Fabares, no stranger to the charts with 1962's Johnny Angel, costars. Buy the DVD exclusively at WBShop.com.
The Avengers
When the forces of evil are so overwhelming that no single hero can save the world… the Avengers assemble! Featuring Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Hulk, fans can now own the first 13 episodes of 'The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!' in two must-have, collectible DVD volumes. 'The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!' Volume 1 includes episodes 1-7 plus an exclusive look at the evolving characters and storyline of Season 2, and 'The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes! Volume 2' includes episodes 8-13 plus another exclusive sneak peek at Season 2 that reveals what makes the Marvel Super Heroes and Villains so unique. Featuring your favorite animated Super Heroes – Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, and The Hulk – The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes! sees planet Earth threatened by Super Villains, time traveling conquerors, alien invaders, mythical beasts and rampaging robots — all bent on the total destruction of humanity. Unfortunately against these impossible odds, no individual hero has the power to save the world and just when all appears to be hopeless, the most skilled champions in the Marvel universe join forces to form the mightiest Super Hero team in history. The Avengers come to the rescue when the fate of the world rests on their shoulders. Buy the Volume 1 and Volume 2 DVDs.
The President's Book of Secrets
Journey inside White House history to unveil staggering information about secrets known only to the president, from top-secret intelligence and classified events to covert codes and future technologies in 'The President's Book of Secrets.' Buy the DVD right here.
20th Century with Mike Wallace: America at War
Emmy and Peabody Award-winning newsman Mike Wallace ('60 Minutes') presents a fascinating examination of modern warfare in '20th Century with Mike Wallace: America at War,' as seen on A&E and the History Channel. Featuring compelling archival footage, supplemented with expert analysis from journalists, military leaders, and historians, these 10 thought-provoking episodes show 20th-century conflicts as they happened—and unflinchingly explore the lessons learned in their aftermath. See on-the-spot dispatches from the front lines, as reported by legendary correspondents such as Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, and Morley Safer. Hear expert analysis from journalists, military leaders, and historians—including David Halberstam, Robert S. McNamara, and Sen. John McCain. Buy the DVD right here.
When a wild, man-eating boar goes on a rampage in a small Korean village, all bets are off in the inventive black comedy horror romp 'Chawz,' now available on Blu-ray and DVD. From the acclaimed CGI specialists at Polygon Entertainment, who worked on such revered films as The Matrix, Pirates of the Caribbean and all six Star Wars films, Chawz pays homage to the classic monster movies of the past with sidesplitting hilarity. While at first the absolute carnage is a bit of a mystery, the porcine perpetrator's attacks become more and more gruesome as he slowly reveals himself. Afraid for their lives, the town invites one of the world's most famous hunters to capture the wild boar, heading into the deep dark mountains with a few of the villagers to confront the angry beast and put an end to the massacre once and for all. Buy the DVD right here.
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Enjoying astonishing popularity at a time in TV history when dramatic programs trafficking in "family values" were few and far between, 'Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman' was also one of the last of that hardy breed known as the "TV Western." Set in Colorado Springs, CO, in the years just following the Civil War, the series starred Jane Seymour as Michaela "Mike" Quinn, one of a handful of women doctors west of the Mississippi during the second half of the 19th century. After the death of her father and medical partner, Dr. Mike left her hometown of Boston to set up practice in the hardscrabble village of Colorado Springs. Buy the Seasons 4, 5 and 6 DVDs.
Sex and the Single Mom
Jess Gradwell (Gail O'Grady) is a divorced mother with a high-stress job and teenage daughter in 'Sex & the Single Mom.' A hard-working paralegal who strives to be a lawyer one day, Jess juggles the pressures of her parenting and professional lives with grace and agility. Meanwhile, her 15-year-old daughter, Sara (Danielle Panabaker), is dealing with the pressure of being sexually inexperienced in a world of sexually active teenagers. Jess tries to convince her daughter to abstain from sex until she is in love, but Sara has her heart set on dating the high school bad boy and changing her goody-two-shoes image. So when Mom, who has been vigilantly preaching the importance of responsible sex, ends up pregnant after a brief encounter with a handsome pediatric surgeon, the mother-daughter dynamic shifts dramatically, causing a chain of events that will either break the bond Jess and Sara once shared, or bring them closer together than ever before. Grant Show also co-stars in this scandalous story that will have every Mom on the edge of her seat! Buy the DVD right here.
Martin Clunes (Doc Martin) leads a talented ensemble cast in 'Demob,' a light-hearted WWII-era comedy drama seen on public television. After spending four years entertaining the troops with raunchy stage routines, a pair of soldiers take their act back home—to sometimes disastrous, but always hilarious results. Broadcast on ITV in 1993 and seen on public television in the U.S., Demob paints a nostalgic portrait of post-war Britain with realistic period details, costumes, and comic appeal. The series co-stars Amanda Redman (New Tricks), Simon Williams (Upstairs, Downstairs), James Faulkner (The Bank Job), and comic great Les Dawson in his final role. Buy the DVD right here.
Five-hundred bucks doesn't come easily for private eye Philip 'Marlowe' (James Garner). But when it comes by way of a bribe, it might as well be five cents. He rejects Winslow Wong (Bruce Lee) and his offer of cash…and Wong promptly karates the detective's office into a junkpile. In a colorful whodunit based on Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister, Garner's easygoing style contrasts agreeably with the grim task of sleuthing a case of missing persons, blackmail and ice-pick murders. Carroll O'Connor, Rita Moreno, William Daniels, Sharon Farrell and Jackie Coogan are among the cast of characters living in a sprawling '60s L.A. so hard-boiled somebody's got to crack. And when that happens, it's Marlowe's job to put the pieces together. Buy the DVD exclusively at WBShop.com.
Blood Out
Sometime the law is personal. Packed with full-throttle action and vengeance, 'Blood Out' is now available on DVD and Blu-ray. The good cop/bad cop action-drama features an all-star cast including Val Kilmer, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Vinnie Jones and Luke Goss. In the vain of 'Training Day' and 'Street Kings,' 'Blood Out' stars Luke Goss as Michael Savion, a small town cop who loses his brother in a gang-related murder. City police quickly abandon the case, so Michael takes matters into his own hands and goes undercover to avenge his brother's death. Buy the DVD right here.
In director Dan Ireland's acclaimed and award-winning drama about life on the road, 'Jolene' — in a career-making turn by Jessica Chastain — is a red-haired wanderer who isn't content to call one place home for any expended stretch of time. Setting off to explore the outside world, the free-spirited teen embarks on a decade-long cross-country adventure which finds her crossing the paths of everyone from a firebrand Texan (Dermont Mulroney) who steals her heart and destroys her marriage to his wealthy fundamentalist nephew (Michael Vartan), to an ex-mobster (Chazz Palminteri) attempting to make good in Las Vegas. Denise Richards, Rupert Friend, and Theresa Russell join the celebrated ensemble in this unique coming-of-age story, an Official Selection at both the Phoenix and Palm Springs International Film Festivals, and winner of the "Best Actress" Award (Chastain) at the Seattle International Film Festival. Buy the Blu-ray right here.
The Lickerish Quartet
Master of sophisticated sexploitation Radley Metzger directed the elegant and thoughtful erotic drama 'The Lickerish Quartet.' A wealthy and jaded couple living in a palatial Italian villa (Erika Remberg and Frank Wolff) spend an evening watching pornographic films with their adult son (Paolo Turco). Looking for a change of scenery, the family visits a carnival where they see a stuntwoman performing tricks on a motorcycle. When she removes her helmet, they're surprised to discover that the stunt rider appears to be one of the "stars" of the film they watched earlier, except that her blonde hair has turned dark. Buy the Blu-ray right here.
More Sex and the Single Mom
In the dramatic continuation of 'Sex and the Single Mom,' a mother and teenage daughter deal with their choices regarding men, sex and the consequences of those decisions on their lives in 'More Sex & the Single Mom.' Paralegal Jess Gradwell (Gail O'Grady) met pediatric surgeon Alex Lofton (Grant Show) during expert witness preparation for a malpractice case. Their affair resulted in the birth of a son Alex never knew about. Now engaged to a great man from the office, Jess is startled to see Alex back in the courthouse where they first met years ago. While Jess tries to sort out her complex life, her daughter Sara (Chelsea Hobbs, "Make It or Break It") loses her virginity to an older photographer who has little interest in a relationship. Sara now shares with her mom the flurry of emotions relationships and sex bring to light. Tortured by her conflicted feelings regarding her secure relationship and her smoldering liaison with Alex, Jess finds herself faced with a critical decision.
Buy the DVD right here.
Mom, Dad and Her
15-year-old Sydney Foster (Brittney Wilson) is a troubled teen from a broken home, heading for trouble in 'Mom, Dad and Her.' After being caught shoplifting and a bout of alcohol poisoning, her volatile behavior has finally reached a breaking point. Sydney is sent to spend the summer with her father (Paul McGillion) who hopes to reconnect with her and introduce her to his new wife Emma (Melora Hardin). At first Sydney lashes out, feeling abandoned yet again – missing her boyfriend and her city life. But she slowly forms new relationships with those around her – including a local girl whose mother is dying of cancer – and begins to turn her attitude around. She unexpectedly finds herself connecting with her new stepmother, who is nervously expecting her first child. It is this relationship with her stepmother, and the birth of the new baby, that finally heals the wounds left by her parent's bitter divorce. Buy the DVD right here.
Stan Lee's Superhumans
Throughout history, the forces of evolution and genetic mutation have endowed humans with astonishing new abilities and features. It's a process that continues to this day, and nowhere is it more evident than in the fascinating world of 'Stan Lee's Superhumans.' Co-hosted by Stan Lee, the legendary creator of The X-Men, Spider Man and the Hulk, the series scours the globe for the real life counterparts of Lee's characters – people with unique genetic traits that translate into remarkable powers. In each episode, these "superhumans" undergo tests that may help explain their amazing gifts. Buy the DVD right here.
Bunny and the Bull
A man who has become an emotion basket case thinks back on the friend who made him that way in the offbeat comedy 'Bunny and the Bull' from Great Britain. Stephen (Edward Hogg) is a profoundly neurotic young man suffering from agoraphobia, though this is a relatively recent development, and as he ponders the dim prospect of going out for food, he recalls a vacation in Europe with his former best friend Bunny (Simon Farnaby). While Stephen is quiet and shy, Bunny is outgoing to a fault, and he chases women, guzzles booze and bets on anything as if there's no tomorrow. When Stephen gets dumped by his girlfriend, Bunny suggests a trip to Europe is just the thing to cure his blues, especially after he's enjoyed a windfall at the track. Buy the DVD right here.
Muay Thai Giant
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Sherill Ann Josephson, 73, died peacefully Aug. 10, 2009, surrounded by family at her daughter's home in Steamboat Springs. Sherill was born May 14, 1936, in Gary, Ind. She made her home in Joliet, Ill., for the past 24 years.
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Over the next two years, my goal is to reinvigorate the interest of Northeast corporate design managers, practicing professionals and students and develop meaningful programs and events where young and seasoned professional can easily connect, network and grow their opportunities for professional development and career advancement. An example is enabling IDSA student members to get easier access to internships with leading organizations, there are compelling reasons for both students and design organizations to make that happen and IDSA can be the medium that connects the two.
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Green Marketing: Marketing Strategies for the Swedish Energy Companies
Business firms have become aware of the need to protect natural environment and starts practicing the environmental marketing strategies as part of their social responsibility programs. In this paper presents some cases of firms adopting green marketing strategies and exploratory research method is used to analysis and drawn the conclusion. This paper is based on the review of the most relevant literature and empirical studies. The purpose of this paper is to understand the importance of the environmental marketing strategies into the firms operations. This study also reveals that eco-label is differentiate the producers product is environmental friendly or conventional. Key findings of this paper are that corporations cannot afford to stay away from the green market trends and they need to equally participate in the social programs and for this purpose a decision model is developed based on environmental marketing strategies for high green and low green companies which they can adopt as part of their total corporate planning. This environmental model is developed from the study of existing market literature.
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One of the most terrifying realities of cyber crime is that it's now easier than ever to become a cyber criminal. Yes, people are more tech savvy and therefore understand phrases like 'botnet' and 'DDoS', but the online black market that aids cybercrime has become sophisticated and user friendly too. "All-in-one" kits for spamming phones, buying credit card data and buying hacking software is readily available in an underground industry that has developed and innovated as quickly as the tech industry - its legal counterpart.
Two separate reports released earlier this year by the Rand Corporation and Trend Micro delved into the workings of the online criminal underworld, otherwise known as the 'darknet', and found that the market had dramatically changed in the last decade. Previously, the darknet was inhabited by small dispersed groups of hackers who knew and trusted each other. Now it's dominated by highly organised, sophisticated and financially driven groups that are operating with huge sums of money.
Why? Because online, crime pays. Well, it pays a lot more than "traditional" crime like the drug trade. In the UK, the Cabinet Office estimates that the cybercrime industry is worth £27bn a year, whereas the illegal drug trade is worth just £10bn a year. This is largely because with cyber crime, the links to end users are more direct and the relative ease of worldwide distribution in comparison to the expense of shipping physical products, such as drugs.
It's this ease that has seen the darknet rapidly develop. The Trend Micro report looked into the telecoms black market in China and found that almost anyone can order "all-in-one" mobile spamming kits online, for a range of prices, from shops that look like black-market versions of Amazon. For example, a kit that subscribes people to premium text services without their permission, which is one of the most common scams in China, can be rented per year for between $2,500 to $36,000 depending on the availability of premium service numbers.
This scam is particularly sophisticated. Normally, to subscribe to a premium text service, you would need to send a confirmation text message that clearly states that you want to receive premium rate messages. But this scamming kit automatically tells your phone to send a confirmation text, which it then deletes so there's no trace of wrong-doing. The rented premium service number even sends the scammer diagnostics and reports on how many people have subscribed. This is all automatic and requires little or no attention, allowing the criminal to run multiple scams at once.
Prices for 'exploit kits' that are used to hack into servers and personal computers can wildly range in price too, depending on whether they're rented or bought, the quality of the kit and, interestingly, how trusted the "brand name" is. A rented exploit kit that would be used to hack into an account can cost anywhere between $500 to $10,000 a month, whereas purchasing a hacker's time can cost between $16 and $325 depending on the target.
The iMessage service for iPhones has also become a popular target, with iMessage spamming kits selling for $4,500. For that price you can buy a kit that sends out iMessages to random numbers, it then records which numbers the messages are delivered to, and that number then becomes a spamming target. Just like the premium number scam, the iMessage kit provides diagnostics and reports.
Indeed, malware for mobile phones has been increasing in recent years because of both the popularity of smartphones and the relative ease of setting up a spamming operation. As the RAND report explains "such malware does not require extensive customisation". Short Message Service (SMS) Trojans and fake installers are the most popular forms of malware and accounted for more than 70 per cent of mobile malware as of March 2013, up from 56% in 2011. Similarly, Kaspersky Labs found that the number of SMS banking trojans doubled from 1321 to 2503 in the first quarter of 2014.
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These kits have become more user friendly and don't require mass amounts of technical knowledge to set up. Many offer technical support and other subsidiary services like cloud storage. Vendors often guarantee, for example, that a particular piece of malware is good for 10 hours before it's detected by anti-virus or that a credit card record is good a certain amount of money. The RAND report claims that some vendors even protect their product with a form of digital rights management by tracking what the customer is doing with the product and making sure that they don't break the "terms of use". Some vendors have been known to shutdown customers using their products if they're making too much noise or infecting too many machines.
Outside of setting up your own spamming business, simply purchasing stolen data can be done on the cheap. The RAND report claims that a Twitter account costs more to purchase than a stolen credit card because of the potential yield (from sending out spam messages to the account's followers) is higher. Stolen credit card data prices vary depending on supply, how old the data is, type of card, expiration and the card's credit limit. At its lowest, a stolen credit card record will sell for around $2, but at its highest, when there's limited supply, it will sell for up to $45 a record.
The ease of setting up an illegal scamming operation online will likely increase, as the RAND report predicts, "because of the greater proliferation of websites, forums and chat channels where goods and services can be bought and sold." Similarly the rise in YouTube videos and guides on "how to exploit kit X" or "where to buy credit cards" have acted as a bridge for wannabe scammers. But, most importantly, the market needs these new scammers because it needs to grow and expand, and sellers want to maintain their high profit margins.


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Asked to describe games against highly ranked teams, coach Mike Stoops typically responds with four words: "Shoot, they're all big."
They don't get much bigger than this week.
The 20th-ranked Arizona Wildcats will take on No. 1 Oregon on Friday in Eugene, Ore., with the nation watching. The game will be broadcast nationally on ESPN to a country eager to see if the Ducks are national championship material. Early betting lines list Oregon as a 20-point favorite against a Wildcats team looking to snap a two-game losing streak.
"You want to get up and show what you're capable of," co-defensive coordinator Greg Brown said.
"It's a national TV audience. Everybody's going to be watching, and somebody's going to be teaching a lesson. Either they're going to teach us a lesson, or we're going to teach them."
The Wildcats will try to play spoiler, something the program has done twice in eight previous shots against No. 1-ranked teams. Arizona edged USC's juggernaut 13-10 in 1981 and stunned Washington 16-3 in 1992. Their six losses - to Washington (1982 and 1984), UCLA (1988), Miami (1992) and USC (2004 and 2005) - have come by an average of 18.2 points.
For Arizona (7-3 overall, 4-3 Pac-10), Friday's game marks a chance to pull off an upset while improving its own bowl chances. The Wildcats were routed by Stanford and edged by USC in the last two weeks in games that were, like this one, on national television.
Wide receiver David Roberts said Arizona will happily embrace the spoiler's role.
"We might be the underdog but we ain't gonna play like it," Roberts said.
Two weeks after entering Stoops' doghouse, cornerback Trevin Wade is close to regaining his starting job.
Stoops said Monday that Wade, and not true freshman Shaquille Richardson, will be charged with stopping Oregon's "Blur" offense. Wade was benched midway through the Wildcats' Nov. 6 loss to Stanford and did not start in the following week's loss to USC.
"He's got a great attitude. He's getting into it, practicing 100 miles an hour," Brown said. "My hat's off to him. His back was against the wall, and he came out swinging."
Running backs Nicolas Grigsby and Greg Nwoko (ankle sprains), wide receiver David Roberts (concussion) and backup quarterback Matt Scott (sprained wrist) should all play against Oregon, Stoops said.
Scott, considered the least likely of the group to play, practiced both Sunday and Monday nights. Scott injured his wrist in the fourth quarter of Arizona's Oct. 30 win over UCLA; he did not dress in the Stanford and USC games.
"He's progressed well," Stoops said of Scott. "We feel like he'll be an option; to what extent, I think, will depend on how he feels Friday."
Stoops would not speculate on Scott's role; coaches could use the speedy backup as a change-of-pace to pocket passer Nick Foles.
"I don't know how that will affect the gameplan," he said. "If we feel like that gives us an opportunity to do things with him, then we'll look at him."
In parts of six games, Scott, a junior, has thrown for 772 yards and four touchdowns and rushed for 125 yards.
Both quarterbacks are off-limits to the media before Friday's game, Stoops said.
The Wildcats will celebrate Thanksgiving in Tucson before leaving for Oregon.
The team will have a 12:30 p.m. Thanksgiving meal on Thursday before departing for the Pacific Northwest. Once in Eugene, Ore., the Wildcats will have their regular team meal and late-night snack.
Though playing on or near the holidays are a fact of life for players and coaches, Stoops said he "almost likes" playing the day after Thanksgiving instead of on a Saturday.
"It may seem odd, but it'll be easier this way," he said. "A lot less distractions."
Wide receiver Bug Wright has been suspended indefinitely for an unspecified violation of team rules, UA coach Mike Stoops confirmed Monday night.
Stoops told the Star that Wright, a junior, will not travel with the team when it faces No. 1 Oregon on Friday night. Though Wright remains enrolled in school, it's unlikely that the Tatum, Okla., native will play another snap this season.
Wright, 22, posted mixed results during his junior season. In eight games, three of them starts, he caught 25 passes for 294 yards and two touchdowns. Wright's 4-yard touchdown catch on Sept. 18 helped the Wildcats cement a 34-27 win over Iowa.
Despite his impressive numbers at receiver, Wright struggled as a kick returner - his primary role heading into the season. Wright averaged 6.1 yards per punt return and 28.7yards per kickoff return, and often struggled to catch balls cleanly.
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Better Sitters Today. Better Parents Tomorrow.®
SAFE SITTER® is a babysitting training program for boys and girls ages 11 to 13. The Junior League of New Orleans teaches it in collaboration with The Parenting Center at Children's Hospital.
SAFE SITTER® provides adolescents with improved childcare skills to reduce the number of accidental and preventable deaths among children by teaching CPR, choking child and infant rescue breathing, and how to properly secure a home against safety hazards.
The curriculum is medically accurate and developmentally appropriate and includes the following:
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Single day SAFE SITTER® classes are available on Saturdays and Sundays during the summer. The fee is $50 per child. Classes are held at JLNO's Headquarters at 4319 Carondelet Street in Uptown New Orleans.
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UAIC | RTE5 | Acronym resolution. The resource has been expanded by a rule that consider for expressions like Xaaaa Ybbbb Zcccc the acronym XYZ, regardless of length of text with this form | Ablation test performed. Positive impact of the acronym module: +0.17% on two-way, +0.16% on three-way task. | |
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It comes with the tagline: "Only if You're Tough Enough." And they aren't joking.
The James Mountainsport Series is for serious adventure-sport lovers.
The results from last year - where Dayle McLauchlan, the winner of the 103km MTB, came in at 6hr 24min 4sec, or the winner of the 46km mountain run, Aaron Agnew, finished in 5hr 43min 39sec - tell the story.
It is set in the St James Station Conservation Area of Hanmer Springs, and all of the five event options hark back to the history of the land.
Race director Heath Lunn, whose father Earl was the stockman for Jim Stevenson at St James for more than 40 years, spent a lot of time there growing up and also working as a stockman.
He says that it is no coincidence that this event is notoriously tough.
"The tagline is, in the first instance, a salute to all those high-country stockman out there, and to the very long and often very hard days that they put in day in and day out," said the 44-year-old who is a keen mountain-biker.
"If they're not tough enough you don't tend to last too long in the high country."
The series is in its second year after a successful inaugural staging last year, where 45 athletes competed. About 120 are expected next weekend.
According to Lunn, three factors make the James Mountainsport Series unlike any other in New Zealand - the history of St James, the landscape and the environment, and the challenge.
"All competitors will cross at least one mountain pass in excess of 1300m, and all courses have an average altitude change of between 800m and 900m.
"As much as possible, the course routes follow old stock tracks and heritage-listed stock routes and 4x4 tracks - there is probably less than 2km of metal road in the whole event," he said proudly.
Lunn is also proud to continue his family's connection with the land and produce an event that is befitting to the heritage of the stockman country.
The result is a challenge like no other in New Zealand, and one that will make you a man or break you.
"There is no 'easy out' once you start," said Lunn. "There is no support crew. You're on your own and I am more likely to provide you with incentive from the stock whip than hold your hand.
"But in all seriousness, a big part of the concept for me is the challenge of completing your race on your own," he said.
James Series
When: Saturday, January 26
Where: St James Station Conservation Area, Hanmer Springs
More information: stjamesmountainsports.co.nz


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Lighthearted 'Twelfth Night' shines with inspired comedy
The presence of an audience has always energized the dynamic of comedy, a fact readily, and delightfully, apparent in Shakespeare Orange County's outdoors, under-the-stars staging of "Twelfth Night."
Director Thomas F. Bradac's staging of the 1602 comedy proves that the give-and-take of performers doing their thing and audiences reacting to them are key elements of the process.
Bradac has assembled a stellar cast backed by an expert production team, resulting in a lighthearted frolic as accommodating and devil-may-care as the play's alternate title, "What You Will."
A shipwreck brings a dazed young lady named Viola (Karissa Vacker) to the island of Illyria. The plot hinges on her creation of a new identity for herself: a young man named Cesario.
As expected, and comedically expedient, this device triggers misunderstandings and general confusion.
It's barely plausible that anyone would mistake the slender, delicate, feminine Viola as anything but a young lady in disguise – yet everyone sees the young beauty as a handsome youth. Causing further confusion is the appearance of Sebastian (Shaun Anthony), Viola's fraternal twin, who survived the same shipwreck. As Viola's Cesario garb is identical to that of her brother's, everyone mistakes them for the same person.
Things really get interesting when Orsino (Jeffrey James Lippold), Count of Illyria, employs Cesario to sing his praises to the impatient, ill-tempered Olivia (Marisa Costa), a beautiful noblewoman for whom he pines.
Cesario's eloquence indeed causes Olivia's heart to stir – but for Cesario, not Orsino. To complicate matters, Viola quickly succumbs to Orsino's macho charms. As as long as she's disguised as a lad, though, she's powerless to act on her feelings.
A major subplot has Olivia's derelict uncle, Sir Toby Belch (John Frederick Jones), cooking up a plan to engineer the downfall of Malvolio (John Walcutt), Olivia's virtuous guardian.
Olivia's personal maid Maria (Amanda Arbues) pens intimate love notes to Malvolio in Olivia's handwriting, causing Malvolio to drop all inhibition and behave in a manner baffling to all.
The normally staid older man ultimately appears in an absurd red costume with bright yellow kneesocks, his hair waxed into spikes, his dancing, posing and babbling proof of his derangement.
In fact, set pieces like Malvolio's parodying of sexy rock star moves exemplify the production's style, a skilled blend of vaudeville, music hall and burlesque pulled off in seemingly effortless manner by the cast.
As Cesario lectures Olivia about romance between the sexes, maintaining that women love in the same way as men, Vacker's eyes gleam with both passion and wisdom – traits that make both character and performer attractive.
Often appearing with his chest and midriff bared, Lippold's Orsino is cocky and macho, yet more genuinely charming than parodistic. Costa delivers both Olivia's rude state of boredom and the heights of her character's romantic ecstasy. Walcutt's Malvolio is a prudish, puritanical blowhard, his transformation into a lovesick puppy the stuff of high hilarity.
Every supporting role offers a comedic gem. While Sir Toby is a ruddy ruffian given to "watering" a small shrub by urinating on it, Jones is always obviously more hip and in the know than is his character.
In pink wig and fluffy ruffles, Swanstrom's fluttery, effeminate Sir Andrew Agucheek is all sashes and bows, yet far more than one-dimensional: The character is a top-rank dimwit, his simple-mindedness mining comedic gold.
While most of the Sebastian role is a function of the plot, Anthony gets considerable mileage from his character's delighted surprise over Olivia's romantic hunger for him. He's baffled, yet chooses to see her love of him as a sign of tremendous good fortune.
Alyssa Bradac's every appearance as the fool Feste is the delicious icing on a cake already brimming with comedically delectable ingredients. The wittiest and most sharp-tongued of all, Feste can and does squelch anyone – even the intimidating Malvolio. Bradac's singsong delivery evinces assured comic timing, as do her performances of several songs and a seemingly off-the-cuff trombone rendition of "When the Saints Go Marching In."
In fact, the staging's many delightful musical interludes are authentic to the play's origins. These include three songs with lyrics written by Shakespeare and music by William and Jennifer Georges. The Georges' incidental and transitional music and use of some traditional melodies are all of a piece.
Katie Wilson's costume design successfully integrates a wide variety of sartorial styles – the bright look of pirates and sailors, the ruffled elegance of the nobility, the functional threads of servants – that create an explosion of color and visual interest.
Eric Barker's essentially neutral, all-purpose "starburst" set design benefits from Wilson's handiwork and is also energized by the Georges' rainbow-like lighting.
Ideal for summertime, this agreeable staging invites us to join the play's characters as they revel in the mood of an extended holiday.
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