NEW YORK and BERLIN, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

Now through July 23, artnet Auctions is presenting a special online auction of
Urban Art from 1972-Present. The sale traces the evolution of Urban Art from the
1970s to today with a spectacular range of 175 artworks by 60 artists including
Banksy, Jean-Michel Basquiat, CRASH, Faile, Keith Haring, and Mr. Brainwash.

To view the Multimedia News Release, go to:
http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/artnet/39039/

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Early New York Graffiti Art

Leading the sale is a collection of early works by some of the most influential
New York Graffiti artists of the 1970s and 1980s.  

SAO PAULO, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Technology to Link Loyalty Programs From Companies in Different Industries,
Including TAM Fidelidade

Multiplus Fidelidade, the new business unit at TAM (NYSE: TAM; Bovespa: TAMM4),
and Oracle have signed a contract to implement the technological platform using
the Oracle Siebel Call Center and Oracle Siebel CRM Loyalty solutions, which
will link the loyalty programs of companies representing diverse industries --
from an airline company to gas stations, phone companies, supermarkets, hotels,
bookstores, movie theaters, banks, credit cards, internet service providers,
automobile manufacturers, and more -- and integrate them into a network of
loyalty initiative programs.

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We decide  

I have pondered writing about the transhumanism movement for a while, and the opportunity has finally landed on my desktop when I read a brief article by Kyle Munkittrick of the Institute for Emerging Ethics&Technologies. The article is in the form of a FAQ expressly addressing the question of whether aging is a moral good, and in it Munkittrick briefly explains and (thinks that he) refutes some of the standard arguments against transhumanism. Let’s take a look.

LONDON, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

IBM (NYSE: IBM (http://www.ibm.com/investor)) was awarded the prestigious Coffey
International Award for its application of technical expertise in innovative
ways to address the greatest societal challenges of our time at the annual
Business in the Community (BITC) Awards for Excellence yesterday.

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IBM earned the award for World Community Grid
(http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/), in essence the virtual equivalent in
processing power to a Top 10 supercomputer devoted to humanitarian research.
World Community Grid gains its power from the aggregated spare computing
capacity of 1.3 million PCs belonging to 460,000 volunteers from over 200
countries.  

Patrick Draper is a graduate student in physics at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab. He is a native of Illinois and lives in Hyde Park, Chicago with his wife Karen and parrot Felix, to whom he is grateful for their love, patience, and correcting his sign errors. He is a supporter of the international effort to put a muon collider on Mars, and is waiting for NASA to return his phone calls.
I asked Patrick to write here about his studies on the discovery reach for a MSSM Higgs boson after I saw his paper on the arxiv a month ago, and am now glad I did. Enjoy!

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

Global Strategies Group (GLOBAL) has further strengthened its worldwide senior
management team as it continues to grow its Integrated Security line of business
for clients operating in challenging environments.  

LONDON, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Users' Professional Email Signature or Mail Disclaimer Consistency Enforced by
Automated Marketing and Corporate Central Control by Adding a Branded Disclaimer
to Email

Exclaimer http://www.exclaimer.com, the mail utilities software developer, has
announced the launch of Signature Manager to provide a disclaimer to email,
automated branding, campaign and mail disclaimer signature functionality to all
corporate email as it is sent.  

Just what would time travel look like?  This question was posed to me by a movie director in L.A..  It turns out there are three parts to this question-- what physics suggests, what movies have done in the past, and what looks good.

The last is up to her and her special effects staff.  The middle one-- Hollywood traditions for time travel-- are worth examining to scope out possibilities.  I'll then conclude with what I think physics suggests is most likely.

Were I to invent categories for movie time travel effects, I'd create the following:

1.   techno with lots of lights and whooshing (ala 2001, though that wasn't time travel)



2.   high speed vehicle (similar to techno, but with speed lines)

MILPITAS, California, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- CM1624 Provides Excellent EMI Suppression, Lowest Line Capacitance and Robust
15kV ESD Protection

California Micro Devices (Nasdaq: CAMD) today announced the CM1624, an
application specific microSD (micro Secure Digital) interface protection filter
for mobile and computing devices. The popular microSD flash memory card is
increasingly used in portable devices to allow users to store or use data across
different devices. The CM1624 protects the microSD memory card user interface
against ESD (electrostatic discharge) damage to the card or to the hardware and
suppresses EMI (electromagnetic interference) while providing excellent digital
signal integrity.