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Schumacher's alleged medical files stolen, says his management
Jun 23, 2014, 3:05 PM EDT
The management for seven-time Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher – who recently came out of a months-long coma after his skiing accident in December – has released a statement saying that someone is trying to sell what are alleged to be his stolen medical files.
The statement discloses that the Schumacher camp can't say if these files are legitimate, but that it will press charges against any media outlet that chooses to use them for publication.
It does not make clear whether the notes came from his time at Grenoble (France) Hospital or at University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he has been transferred to begin his rehabilitation.
Here is the full statement:
"For several days stolen documents and data are being offered for sale. The offeror claims them to be the medical file of Michael Schumacher.
"We cannot judge if these documents are authentic. However, the documents are clearly stolen. The theft has been reported. The authorities are involved.
"We expressly advise that both the purchase and the publication of such documents and data is forbidden. The contents of any medical files are totally private and confidential and must not made available to the public.
"We will therefore, in every single case, press for criminal charges and damages against any publication of the content or reference to the medical file.
"We trust for your understanding."
Schumacher sustained a severe head injury while skiing at the Meribel resort on Dec. 29, 2013. While at Grenoble, he underwent several surgeries and was put into a medically-induced coma; doctors began to slowly bring him out of it in January of this year.
- testover6370 - Jun 23, 2014 at 5:53 PM
Some people just weren't raised right.
- indycar02 - Jun 24, 2014 at 9:11 PM
their arteries must be all clogged up (stroke, ect), their brain must be a real mess.
- techmeister1 - Jun 23, 2014 at 8:23 PM
There is a LOT of scum in the world including some in the media who will commit crimes for financial gain. I hope they catch the thieves and send then to prison for 15 years for theft and attempts to sell the files. If anybody is dumb enough to publish them, they should also get at least 15 years in prison and a minimum 50+ million dollar fine.
- techmeister1 - Jun 24, 2014 at 12:45 PM
It's laughable that two people here find it acceptable to steal medical records and then try to sell them… Maybe the thieves are reading these comments? LOL
- worknman24hours - Jun 24, 2014 at 9:55 PM
People will do anything for money.
Sold to the right news outlet,if truly Michaels medical records,these records would be worth a million or more euros.
Sadly,the families desire to keep Michael's health private has increased the curiosity of the public and thereby the value of these records and any photos of Michael as well.
The world is a cruel place at times.
Keep fighiting ,Mikey,I don't need to know anything other then that you are with your family and heading in the right direction-which by all accounts you are.
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Roos, Emus-----an ME AGAIN./YAY!!
Someone notify the Moderator, quick!
(I don't believe that I wrote that.
Shame job, eh, but that's life, I guess.maaf.)
So I assume that James approves? (or at least, doesn't overtly disapprove?).
OK, fast backward:
we live on the E coast of Australia,(Bundaberg ish )and recently drove to Perth,(W coast) via Alice Springs. Then back home.
As this is a Wood Fired Oven site, my link is tenuous indeed, but I reckon that the use of a home-made version of a Kitch'n Made just may pass muster.
It's a 20 litre domestic water pressure air resevoir, cut in half and capable of such fine control that the most dedicated of spinsters would succumb to it's pleasures.
It is a strange comparison - a tin can and a giant ant hill: yet they're so similar.(Mind you, many sites in Oz suggest that you source your fuel elsewhere).
We've been away for 56 nights. 9 nights at a reunion (Tracker dogs eh, just in case), 2 nights at Bruce Rock, 2 nights at Innamincka, and of the rest, all well.
At last, a pertinent detail.
Tipo 00 flour.
I thought that you bakers were messing with your genitals.
Strewth, now I know why.
That stuff is just so-o-o silky soft an sensous: as opposed to kneading bread.
James, I've rambled on at length on your site, for which I thank you
Also love your contributors - too many to mention.
Re: Roos, Emus-----an ME AGAIN./YAY!!
Welcome home Jeff!
I want to hear more about the homemade KA!!!
No truer words from your mouth with the Tipo comment!!!
Re: Roos, Emus-----an ME AGAIN./YAY!!
Thanks Christo. It was a wonderful trip, but the KA is a poor substitute for the WFO.
Mate I'm still a luddite, but managed to load an image of the stove under the COOKING section. Change it around if you like.
I think it's fairly self-explanatory. The base bolts onto the two strips of 1" steel, with the rotating damper in between.
Inside is a lump of 1/2" mesh,through which the ash can be shaken out next morning, and the charcoal revived.
In use, a good fire is set, then bottom damper virtually closed to promote charcoal formation. Baking,roasting,grilling,stewing are all fine - even to the point of slow cooking with the lid on.
After fodder, the fire is stoked up again as a campfire. Bedtime sees all vents closed, and next AM it takes no time to boil the billy, then bacon, eggs,tomato and toast.
A key point is that it MUST be compact, as space is precious in the old 'ute.
All-up cost of the scrap stainless steel was under $20.
Happy cooking eh.
Luddite Jeff.
Re: Roos, Emus-----an ME AGAIN./YAY!!
WeLCOME BACK BUDDY!!!
I was wondering where you had been...but was afraid to ask.
I hope you have a few good tales of your adventure, your stories always make for great reading.
Re: Roos, Emus-----an ME AGAIN./YAY!!
Thanks RT.
Strewth mate, while it was yet another wonderful trip, there's nothing of note to spin a decent yarn about. No crocks, monkeys or evil rednecks: didn't even rely on road kill for the old dog.(Maybe I'm getting cultured, eh.)
I guess the so called "mini cyclone" in Alice lent a touch of spice. It was a final restock point before we hit the 'desert'. So Liz did the groceries, I hit the butcher, and the ethanol was all ok.
So the sky has been looking strange for a good two hours, and here I am, needing 150L (what's that in primative speak - 38 US gallons ?) of diesel.
So the wind and rain hit. I've got 2 full jerrycans, and 2 empty, and I'm hiding behind a fuel bowser, hanging on to the empty jerrycans. Rain is sheeting through, and the hail is tiny: I just hope a stray dust bin lid doesn't impact the swaying windscreen.(Missus is in the cab, crapping herself. Dog is asleep; smart dog).
Storm over, and I went to settle for the diesel. The checkout chicks reckon I owe 40c. I reckon no, I got 40l, and at $1.80/L it's more like $70.
THEY reckon the computer is down, no record, so bugger off.
You sure you won't cop the bill Ladies?.....ok.....thanks eh...
Anyway, the town is crippled. Trees and powerlines down every which-way. Finally found a servo with power, loaded in another 110L of diesel, and buggered off. Weather bureau reckoned another hit was coming, and I sure didn't want to be in a busted town, thank you.
Fantastic trip West from there. One stretch of 'road' was heavily overgrown with spinifex, to the point that every half hour or so we'd stop, I'd crawl under the Old Girl, and yank the grass away from exhaust and drive train. Average speed was 20 kph that day(Spinifex is a mongrel, spikey,resin-laden tussock grass, normally growing to maybe 3'. This nonsense ranged up to 5'). There's more than a few owners of 4WDs that can attest to the flammability of that stuff, to their dismay.
After that we enjoyed hail, bogs, tyre-eating limestone, closed roads, fantastic scenery, sunsets to die for, solitude for days at a time, and the endless corrugations. Best I stop wasting space.
Eat well, stay safe RT.
Luddite Jeff.
ps. I have an image that should accompany this text, but can't risk it.
Image to follow - maybe. jh.
Re: Roos, Emus-----an ME AGAIN./YAY!!
Jeff, what a great story! Keep them coming and don't be a stranger!
Re: Roos, Emus-----an ME AGAIN./YAY!!
I love it - US gallons and our archaic systems of measure are now "primitive speak". I hope you don't mind if I borrow that phrase the next I get into a debate about how the US needs to get with the times (and the rest of the world) and adopt the simpler and more accurate "metric" system.
Again, I loved the story. You need to write a book - "Tales of the Luddite Leader...TRUTH"
Not sure if Oz has the equivalent of the American Thanksgiving.....if not take Thurs through Sunday of anyway and enjoy the great food from your oven and the time spent with your family...most of all give thanks for all you have.
Stay close Jeff, I think you have far to many friends on the board to worry about expulsion......we will stage a protest US 1960s style.
Re: Roos, Emus-----an ME AGAIN./YAY!!
Hey Jeff,
sounds like you had a different experience with the Alice than me returning from a 16,000km Cape York, Kakadu, the Kimberleys and returning down the Tanami track to the red centre.
I left Derby at 9 am drove to Winjana George for lunch and a 7km walk, visited Tunnel creek and walked the full length, through Fitzroy crossing without stopping and camped in a roadside stop on sunset. Next day, I drove into Hall's creek from 150km out and left at 10 am as I couldn't get any water due to all the taps being secured from the local indigenous inhabitants.
Called into Wolfe Crater for lunch and arrived in the Alice at 2:30 am next morning. There was no way I was going to stop the night on the side of the road with carloads of drunk indigenous looking for more. I was the only vehicle and only person in it
Planning on doing the Merinie Loop and deciding otherwise, I left at 3:00 pm and drove to 150km north of Pt Augusta, arriving back in Adelaide mid afternoon. Not bad 3 1/2 days driving (41 hours on the road for just over 4,000+km) diagonally across this wonderful country of ours.
The most I paid for diesel was $1.75/litre at Drysdale Station well into the Kimberleys on the Mitchell Plateau Road and $1.85/litre a couple of months ago here in Adelaide.
Re: Roos, Emus-----an ME AGAIN./YAY!!
And here's me mixing the caputo 00 with half wholemeal all the time.
What have I been missing?! :confused: :eek:
No, don't answer that...
Sounds as if you've had lots of andventures since you last visited, Jeff. Good to hear from you again!
Re: Roos, Emus-----an ME AGAIN./YAY!!
Frances, we really shouldn't go there. Should we.
Bloody behave. Wholemeal!! Crikey!
Imagine if a feller spelt phonetically.......
Anyway, the pleasure associated with the gentle kneading of Tipo 00 flour does invoke some of the more memorable mammaries - sigh.
Beautiful. (I sigh again).
Shame I buggered it up with rough hands, eh. hahahaha
Yes mate, very different. Alice was ok in the seventies.
We returned for the first time a couple of years ago, and just found it so sad.
" The Red Heart from Bali",
maybe. Just all bullshit, eh? The paintings, the didjeridos, the Nonsense.
But to each their own.
Like yourself, we travel solo. Camped at Fitzroy Crossing, and called in to meet kids at Halls Creek. One was a cop, the other a nurse. Alas they were off on leave, so I chatted up the little sheila representing the Police in Halls Creek. She reckons they go to Fitzroy Crossing on days off!
May their lord protect em, eh.
Reckon I've done enough damage Nissanneil: not intended.
Luddite Jeff.
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Last month's journal.
Previous journals
A friend has published a book, The Beaded Sphere by Judy Walker. From what I have seen she does extraordinary work and the book shows it.
The The Beaded Sphere And Variations - Beading In The Third Dimension is also available from Amazon.com
My Amateur Radio call sign is
I can be found on the ARCO repeater, 147.390+ and the ARCO family net every night at 8:00.
Links to my other pages.
Travels page.
Main Braingarage page
Articles on RV living
Sunday April 27, 2014
It was a long cold winter so I mostly wimped out. It was too cold to do much in the shop and I did not want to burn any more expensive Propane than I had to. What used to cost me less than $25 cost over $75 the last time I filled. I partially filled the big tank once. I called in the morning and got a price but at the time he delivered I was told the price had jumped $.20 but they did sell me at the morning's price.
We had several heavy snows over the winter.
We also used up most of the firewood over the winter.
The cat found the warmest place in the house.
I did manage to get in a little shop time but mostly piddling around. I finished the shelves for the pantry, doors for the island cabinet, and window seats for the upstairs dormers.
Window seat in the dormer.
Window seat makes a great place for a cat nap.
Good weather
Now that good weather has returned I can get back to work. I have plowed the front yard getting it ready for seeding and started on the garden.
My current stack of books
If you buy these or other items though this link to Amazon.com I get a little back.
My reading has slowed plus I am getting more books from the library so the list is not changing much.
My son's books
How to Rebuild and Modify Your Manual Transmission (Motorbooks Workshop)
by Robert Bowen
How to Build Max-Performance Mitsubishi 4G63t Engines (S-A Design) (Performance How-To)
by Robert Bowen
Buy the above books or any others through this link to Amazon.com and I get a little money to buy more books.
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16th September 2014
Australia: Victoria to erase historic consensual gay sex convictions 1
11:40 AM — Gay citizens of the Australian state of Victoria convicted for consensual homosexual acts will soon have their criminal records erased.
24th September 2013
UK: Police destroy DNA records of men convicted of historic consensual sex offences 7
12:01 PM — Greater Manchester Police says it has now destroyed dozens of DNA samples taken from men convicted of historic consensual same-sex sexual offences, following criticism of the practice earlier this year.
15th January 2013
Peter Tatchell accuses police of homophobic witch hunt against gay men 37
10:41 AM — Police in Manchester, Northumbria, and the West Midlands, are visiting gay men convicted of consenting, victimless same-sex behaviour and demanding they provide DNA samples, according to Peter Tatchell.
28th November 2012
London: Pensioner fights to clear gay criminal record 31
11:19 AM — A 73-year-old man who has a criminal record for being in a gay relationship in the 1950s has applied to have his conviction removed.


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Ogilvie Group
Ogilvie Group
Coherent Raman Microscopy
Pulse-shaping Fluorescence Microscopy
Since it first revealed the existence of cells, the microscope has remained one of our most important tools for learning about the biological world. Early microscopes exploited density differences to produce images, but these images contained no chemical information. An endogenous form of contrast that exists for every molecule is its Raman spectrum. Raman spectra, with well-defined transitions in the "fingerprint" region can readily identify different chemical species, providing an exciting mode of contrast for molecular imaging... read more here
Broadband femtosecond laser sources have been frequently used in multiphoton fluorescence microscopy. An ultrabroadband source (>100nm) can access many fluorophores, but lacks the ability to do so selectively. Pulse-shaping techniques employed in the coherent control community can solve this problem...


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Nokia confirms that Carla update for Symbian is not cancelled
A couple of days ago we ran a story that stated the Carla update for Nokia Belle has been cancelled. However, we have now been contacted by Nokia regarding this matter, stating that this is not the case at all.
We have been told that what we know as Carla was just the codename for the Belle Feature Pack 1, which started rolling out last month for the Nokia 603, 700 and 701. The upcoming Nokia 808 PureView will also be running on this same OS. You can read more about the Belle FP1 update here.
We apologize if any misinformation was spread due to our previous post and hope that Symbian continues to get major updates in the future.
Nokia confirms that Carla update for Symbian is not cancelled - reader comments
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Some one spreading rumour that symbian is dead, that people must be punish
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I think you've never used any Smartphone in your life
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Atase.....they ditched symbian carla fow windows?I hope they godown in style..*via symbian fan*
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BlackBerry Desktop Software 2.0 checks in on your Mac
Windows RIMers have been getting one over their Apple counterparts lately, with Wi-Fi music syncing and the like, but now that the BlackBerry Desktop Software 2.0 for Mac has landed, they're back on an even keel.
The Mac OS X friendly platform brings a wealth of features to the Mac BlackBerry brigade including the Wi-Fi music syncing as mentioned, the ability to sync videos and photos with iTunes and iPhoto, and a device-switch wizard which should help you switch from one BlackBerry handset to another.
BlackBerry Desktop Software 2.0 for Mac also introduces a function to automatically restore secure services to a BlackBerry smartphone after a software upgrade, downgrade or reload.
The software is available now, as a free download from RIM.


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This is a project that needs to happen. I know I can use this. Extremely Easy Exercises is an app that will help anyone get in shape without any special equipment. Get in shape with Extremely Easy Exercises at your own pace with exercises that you can actually do without any special equipment. The smart tracker will gradually increase your workouts when and only when you are ready. You won't even realize that you are getting back in shape.
No login required, but you do need to have cookies enabled for the tracker and statistics to work when using from a web browser. iOS app coming soon. The project creator did all of the programming standing up. He got rid of his chair and converted his Mac to a standup desk and started working out slowly to get back in shape which is where he came up with the idea for this app.
You can get a taste of the website here http://extremelyeasyexercises.com
According to time magazine: The study was a meta-analysis of 33 previous studies examining the association between exercise and heart disease risk; nine of the studies estimated the quantity of physical activity people got. The researchers found that participants who got the recommended 150 minutes of physical activity per week had a 14% lower risk of heart disease than those who were sedentary.
Of course, more was better: people who managed 300 minutes of exercise per week had a 20% reduction in heart disease risk, compared with sedentary people. Beyond that, however, the relative benefits appeared to diminished; those who got a whopping 750 minutes per week had a 25% lower risk of heart disease than non-exercisers.
The researchers also found that even little bits of activity — just 75 minutes a week, which amounts to an easy 15-minute walk each weekday — offered significant benefit. People who eked out that much exercise still enjoyed a 14% lower heart risk than those who didn't work out at all.
I give this project an A-, I wish he had a video to demonstrate and better perks but it a project that solves a problem.
In addition to making it available on iOS iPhones & iPads there are some other things that need done.
1. More Extremely Easy Exercises that are safe and fun
2. Don't show the same exercise twice
3. Detailed Statistics (but will never require a login)
4. Pictures and/or Descriptions of each exercise
5. Smart and automatic level advancement, for instance once a user has completed so many 2 minute push-up exercises then next round give them 3 push-ups.
Any other suggestions appreciated
It can work and you can support him there https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1099025159/extremely-easy-exercises


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Your Place or Mine? Locating Digital Art
All that once was directly
lived has become mere representation.' When the French social theorist Guy Debord
made this observation in 1967, he was thinking about the ways in which media-saturated
cultures reduced social relations to an incessant flow of images, the unfolding
of 'a pseudo-world apart, solely as an object of contemplation'. In other words,
within advanced capitalist economies lived experience had become a spectacle1.
Within this 'société du spectacle', human beings were situated
as viewers of a visual language of appearances that effectively separated them
from any sense of first-hand experience. Debord's spectacle immediately brings
to mind Eco's hyperreality, Baudrillard's simulacrum and, more distantly, Plato's
phantasm. But it also sounds very much like what we now refer to as virtuality.
People living in spectacular society don't observe the mediation of their world.
On the contrary, they are totally immersed within a visual environment that
is not real, but that appears to be real. Three decades after its inception,
the phenomenon of the spectacle finds resonance in the emerging social formation
known as virtual culture. The metaphysics of virtual culture have already passed
into the realm of received ideas, a bricolage of neo-Platonist idealism, Cartesian
dualism and Leibnizian monadology. Its fetish is the disembodied sensorium,
liberated from the materiality of the body; its totem is the Web, representing
the decentred network of pure information. Debord's 'separation within human
beings' anticipates this culture based on disembodiment, and his notion of a
'world beyond'2 is suggestive of the abstract, artificial reality of computer-generated
environments that make it possible. More specifically, Debord's postulation
that people are simultaneously immersed in, and are spectators of, apparent
experience prompts consideration of the aesthetics of virtual artifice, particularly
the question of its locality.
Like fractal geometry, digital art is endemic to the computer. While such a statement runs the risk of tautology, it serves to indicate that digital art is unthinkable without the material apparatus of the computer (a CPU and monitor) and its physical proximity to the user: while it is computer-based it is also computer-bound. Even in the case of work that is remote (and accessed via the Internet), an assemblage of technology is required for any interaction that will ultimately allow the user to regard a screen that is sitting on his/her lap or desk. Drawing on Brenda Laurel's metaphor for the current state of interface design, the aesthetic experience of computer-based digital art is like watching a play performed on a proscenium stage3-something is perceived that only occupies a partial place in the spectator's overall sensory environment. This exclusive mise en scène is reinforced by peripheral vision and other perceptual reminders of extra-diegetic experience. While there is agency in the form of interaction, it is limited by the degree to which we can forget that our involvement is still an analogue procedure. Just as in a theatre, where willing suspension of disbelief constitutes a type of immersion, our experience of computer-based digital art works by analogous identification with a mise en scène that is out of the realm of our sensory apprehension. I can watch the antics of Troy Innocent's Shaolin Wooden Men, but I can't appropriate them (as much as I would like to-that Special Go-Man really moves!). As compelling as such experience can be, it hardly places the spectator in Plato's cave, for as with other art forms such as literature and film, identification can only go so far. Following the logic of virtual or apparent reality outlined above, the spectacle and the spectator are as clearly and non-problematically distinct in digital art as in other forms.
Mike Leggett's successful Burning the Interface exhibition was the first major survey of international CD-ROM art. It declared, through the very fact of its occurrence, that digital art is still in the process of finding its place both in the literal and the cultural sense. The fact that this is digital Art (with a capital 'a') does not a priori determine that interactives should be placed within the traditional gallery or museum context. Given the cyberpunk poetics, and indeed politics, of much digital art (the work of Linda Dement or the Cyberdada group, for instance), the 'street' seems a more likely arena, in keeping with cyberculture's disavowal of privacy, institutional hegemony and diminution of public space (it would be a strange day, indeed, if Survival Research Laboratories were to stage A Carnival of Misplaced Devotion in the Museum of Modern Art, or the Tate Gallery). The relationship between digital art and the museum is a problematic one: it is clear that the very nature of digital art as an interactive, rather than contemplative, form doesn't sit well in the institution of the gallery. The time required to become involved with and navigate interactives means that the public, competitive context is not the best situation in which to attempt to experience them. The experience of having one's time with an interactive compromised by the fact that a crowd of potential users/usurpers is hovering in the background is the definitive essay on this topic. Exhibitions such as Burning the Interface, or, to a lesser degree, Cyberzone (currently on show at Scienceworks in Melbourne), ultimately raise the question of the appropriate location of digital art, mainly because the intermediate technology required for its display does not actually need the specialised context of the gallery. Not everyone can have a Brett Whiteley in their own home, but anyone interested in the work of Troy Innocent can, potentially, explore Idea-On>! in the uncompromised, domestic privacy of their own space (providing they have a capable Mac and have gained access to the work through the recent issue of Mediamatic).
As Burning the Interface attests, digital art is at the moment dependent upon the museum context to reach and create an audience, even though the nature of the work itself is often at odds with that context (on a purely practical level, a work such as David Blair's Waxweb is so labyrinthine and encyclopaedic that even assuming one could hog a terminal long enough to attempt to fully explore it, multiple visits to the gallery would be necessary to do so). In this it revisits the complexities surrounding early electronic art of the 1950s such as the multi-media performances of Merce Cunningham and John Cage, or the work of Nam June Paik, as well as the conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s, represented by the minimalist sculptor Carl André. Paik's television and video installations immediately brought the domestic context into collision with the institutional ambience of canonical art. At the same time, however, his 'prepared televisions' generated meanings that were conceptual, and only had meaning within the context of the gallery, since they totally disrupted television's normal function and its iconic understanding as a diversionary, everyday object. In a similar reflexive vein, André's assemblages of bricks de-aestheticised the artwork by confusing artspace with streetscape, disclosing the polemical insight that aesthetic value and meaning is something that is bestowed upon everyday objects, quite often by their mere location within the gallery. Likewise, the collaborations between Merce Cunningham and John Cage brought to the foreground the role of the aleatoric in art, which they interpreted as something that 'happens' anywhere, rather than something that is orchestrated and requires a special auditorium. Cage's poetics of chance operations meant that the artistic event was entirely unpredictable, and showed no respect for the traditional protocols of dedicated performance spaces. The work of Cunningham and Cage has not been given the credit it is due as the first form of electronic, multimedia art. They introduced, for example, the practice of triggering light and sound by the movements of a dancer through a spatial environment criss-crossed by sensors. The legacy of this practice can be seen in the work of the British multimedia artist Chris Hales, as well as in the Mandala system of 'unencumbered virtual reality', currently on display at the Cyberzone exhibition. This system evidences Debord's conception of the spectacle as something that the spectator is not only in, but is watching him/herself in. In this system, the spectator performs actions (without the need for data-gloves and HMD) that locate him/her within the screen space in front. The spectator becomes part of the spectacle, passing beyond the screen into the virtual representation. The dialectic of inside/outside, still entrenched in computer-bound art, has started to implode.
The question of where digital art should take place inevitably invites consideration of the experience of place that such art generates. The most likely and desirable outcome of the trajectory of digital art from the desktop to immersive, virtual spaces is the creation of something that resembles the Holodeck on Star Trek or, even better, the programmable, holographic nursery in Ray Bradbury's story The Veldt. In both cases the emphasis on unencumbered movement through a compellingly realistic environment evidences the principle of spectacular society that apparent reality is all around us, its ruptures difficult to identify (the nursery in the Bradbury story is complete with 'odorophonics', and the simulated sun creates authentic perspiration). Of course, unlike Debord's subjects of false-consciousness, inhabitants of simulated, virtual worlds don't want to find the seams that betray the virtuality of the world they are in. Case's experience of 'simstim' in Neuromancer also suggests the exhilaration offered by inhabiting that 'other space', and in particular the idea of freedom of movement within it.
Complete immersion of the sensorium is still a long way off. Interactive installation art, though, offers some interesting versions of a different kind of experience of identification from computer-bound work. Graham Harwood's Rehearsal of Memory, for instance, focuses attention onto a projected image that is remote, liberated from the small scale of the screen. With this work one becomes highly conscious of interacting with space; with something that is architectural, more expansive, than the totality of the computer apparatus. Interactivity, in this respect, is more inclusive, adding a sense of depth to the experience that is hard to achieve when the screen is only centimetres away. Similarly, sculptural, prehensile interfaces, such as Agnes Hegedüs' Handsight, take inclusiveness a step further by requiring that the user physically becomes part of the interface. In Handsight, the user mobilises a hand-held 'eye-ball' in a transparent sphere, which in turn projects a journey onto a screen. This fantastic, probe-like journey through a world of 3D objects contained in a Hungarian religious bottle is an example of virtual installation art in miniature. The other advantage of Handsight (which seems contrary to its name!) is that one can walk around it, manoeuvring oneself to get the best angle of attack to explore the work's hidden secrets more closely.
Perambulation is undoubtedly an important aesthetic criterion of the virtual experience. Feeling as if one is actually chasing the White Rabbit into Wonderland without worrying about tripping over wires is a tantalising notion. The idea of walking through and interacting within virtual spaces is central to the conceptual work of architects such as Marcos Novak, whose 'liquid architecture' suggests a space through which things, including users, can flow. However, this idea has a much older lineage in the classical ars memoria, a practice of artificial memory designed to enable rhetoricians to recite long speeches or narratives with flawless accuracy. The elaborate memory places or loci designed within the mind of the orator were fabulous buildings, usually in the period style of the speaker, adorned with myriad images and objects which signified a particular piece of information to be drawn on in its correct context within the performance. The orator recited while simultaneously 'walking' through this eidetic, inner place: the spectacle within. We tend to forget that digital art is all about creating what Ted Nelson has called 'magic place(s) of literary memory'4.
The idea of 'the walk' through a fantastic place of memory is very much in evidence in the most recent exhibition of Jon McCormack's seminal work Turbulence. I have seen this great work many times, but its current installation at Cyberzone is undoubtedly the most innovative, in that it extends the potential of the work to accommodate a stronger sense of the virtual experience into which one enters. This is literally suggested by the narrow entry-way, through which one walks into the darkened space that is defined by Turbulence. Through this atmospheric entrance, which resembles a portal to a kind of oddities display (complete with illuminated canisters exhibiting preserved specimens of what look like organic life), the viewr is highly conscious of leaving one world behind and delving into another. The parallel here, of course, is with sideshows and ghost-train rides, early forms of immersive simulation (at the opening of Cyberzone I saw a film crew ingeniously gliding its cameraman into Turbulence on a wheelchair, adding another dimension to the concept of the virtual as a space of mobility). The modest graphic user interface of Turbulence heightens the sensation of being in an unencumbered experience, and its impact is such that one doesn't necessarily have to be in command of it to feel a part of the 'place' that is created within the installation space.
On the basis of this most recent presentation of Turbulence it is easy to imagine a disappearing interface, the creation of a genuinely 'invocational' space (to use Chris Chesher's term) that can be activated, called into being by those 'present' within it5. Turbulence is very persuasive in its evocation of a virtual place that allows one to temporarily forget that there is a world beyond. However, even Turbulence requires a meta-place, a location for this evocation to 'take place', just as earlier perambulatory spaces, such as Myron Krueger's Video Place, did. At the moment, like most computer-bound digital art, it is very much a touring exhibit that finds temporary residence in university galleries, occasional exhibitions, conferences devoted to digital art (such as the AFC's Narrative and Interactivity last year in Melbourne), and major state exhibitions aimed at introducing cyberculture to the general public (Cyberzone). The issue of monumentality is highly contentious within cyber circles, and it remains to be seen whether or not virtual artifice will find a home in the permanent collections of mainstream art galleries. The very ambiguity of digital art's relationship to the gallery crystallises the original question of where it is best located. On the basis of the analogy with Debord's spectacle, it is clear that such art should be all around us, should be everywhere we look (this is, of course, the goal of immersive experience). As an art form dependent upon high technology, though, digital art will have to struggle, as previous avant-garde art has done, with the problematic issue of its location, even its 'locatability'. This problematic is as interesting as the work itself, and promises to be a spectacle to keep at least both eyes on.
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Darren Tofts is senior lecturer in literature, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. With artist Murray McKeich, he is working on Memory Trade. A Prehistory of Cyberculture, to be published in 1997 by 21C Books, an imprint of Craftsman House
1. Debord, G., The Society of the Spectacle, trans. D. Nicholson-Smith, Zone Books,
New York, 1995, p.12.
2. ibid, p.18.
3. Laurel, B., Computers As Theatre,
Addison-Wesley, Menlo Park, 1993, p. 205.
4. Nelson, T.,
Literary Machines,
Mindful Press, Sausalito, 1993, pp. 1/30.
5. Chesher, C.,
'Aesthetics and Politics of Invocational Media',
paper presented at the New Media Forum,
Art Gallery of New South Wales,
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Mark E. Mosteller Sr. recently joined Evolve Bank & Trust as executive vice president, accounting and finance. The new role includes a variety of responsibilities, including management of the accounting and finance department team, accounting internal controls, internal and external financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting, taxes and treasury management. Mosteller also works with senior and executive management and the board on accounting, finance and operational issues.
Evolve Bank & Trust has added Mark Mosteller as its new executive vice president of accounting and finance.
NEW YORK (AP) – The company whose name has long been synonymous with telephones is looking for new ways to reach out and touch someone.
AT&T, which had a popular "Reach Out and Touch Someone" slogan in the 1980s, now wants to be on your TV, car and even trashcan.
The Frayser Community Development Corp. knew the house it wanted on University Street. There were plenty to choose from with multiple abandoned houses on the block. But it wanted the worst one, at 3200 University St.
Even though total mortgage volume in Shelby County dipped slightly in January, Magna Bank – among the top lenders for the month – actually grew its volume in during the month.
In 2012, designer K. Brandon Bell in Memphis and photographer Sarah Rossi in New York City joined forces to help create virtual sets for the Tony Awards, the beginning of a mutually beneficial business partnership that continues to evolve.
When Loeb Properties Inc. acquired the warehouse at 2542 Broad Ave. in 1995, Aaron Petree, the company's current vice president of brokerage, was just starting high school.
When the development team and architect behind the Sears Crosstown redevelopment project needed multiple phases of the project printed –including everything from design renderings to construction documents and floor plans – they turned to Memphis Reprographics.
Five years after the Great Recession rocked the nation and nearly destroyed auto manufacturing in Tennessee, the Midstate's industry is booming again.
Nissan's growth is no small part of that, largely because of the company's confidence in the state of Tennessee and Gov. Bill Haslam, according to José Muñoz, executive vice president of Nissan Motor Co. and chairman of Nissan North America, which is headquartered in Franklin.
Tamp & Tap, the name of the popular Downtown coffee shop and restaurant, is an allusion to both espresso – which is tamped for compression before going into the machine – and also kegs of beer, which are tapped.
New Year's resolutions are tempting to make, and they are even more tempting to forget.
In spite of the insatiable appetite our society has for self-improvement and excellence, good habits just seem hard to acquire. With the beginning of each New Year, we seem compelled to conquer the past by focusing on the future in at least one resolution.
Looking at results from last month might suggest mortgage industry professionals are in the midst of a yearend slowdown, with phones not ringing quite as much as a result of interested buyers at the moment.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Just a few years ago, early adopters of e-cigarettes got their fix by clumsily screwing together a small battery and a plastic cartridge containing cotton soaked with nicotine.
Take a minute to think about your company's website. Does it invoke a sense of pride, or do you cringe and immediately think, "We should really work on that … eventually"?
In today's fast-paced, technologically advanced world, your website is the window into your company, its mission and its values. It can make or break sales, bring in or repel new business and either be a talking point for your business or something you hope clients never comment on. Which category does your website fall into?
Progress is usually expensive and seldom convenient. But the alternative?
Regression, at an ultimately higher cost, and eventually the realization that an opportunity slipped by.
Such was the mindset as University of Tennessee Health Science Center leaders launched a campus master plan designed to enhance UTHSC's position as an urban academic medical center at the core of a larger revitalization of the Memphis Medical Center District.
In sales, as in life, many a person throws in the towel after failure, not realizing that failure is actually an inevitable outcome of the innovative. Thomas Edison is reported to have had more than 1,000 failures before finally inventing a practical electric light bulb. Aptly, he said, "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
What would the NFL be today if Pete Rozelle had never been the league's commissioner? We might still just be watching pro football on Sunday afternoons.
Rozelle's name belongs in the same conversation with retiring Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive. Because what Rozelle did for the pro game – pushing the idea of Monday football for but one example – Slive has done for the SEC and college football overall.
NEW YORK (AP) – JPMorgan Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon says that more coordination between businesses and government is needed to combat the rising threat of cyberattacks.
New York-based JPMorgan said earlier this month that a breach of its computer systems this summer compromised customer information pertaining to roughly 76 million households and 7 million small businesses. Among the customer data stolen were names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal Reserve officials agreed last month that they would begin raising interest rates only when measures of the economy's health and inflation signaled the time was right.
Advertising geeks from across the nation unite annually at "Advertising Week" to hear industry experts share opinions on the current state of advertising and predictions for the future.
Ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft seem to have been eating the traditional cab industry's lunch.
A recent graduate of one of the Start Co. startup accelerators in Memphis, though, wants to help cab companies fight back.
The first thing to understand about the task that Opera Memphis general director Ned Canty feels is before him is that he's not leading a music organization that competes only with other music outlets and venues for audiences' attention.
BankTennessee president and CEO Jim Rout sees new home sales and resales "fairly steady" at the moment.
But, in a common refrain among many local bankers looking at their recent numbers, the activity is not at the level that might be expected, considering still-historic low interest rates.
In about a week the Grizzlies' Quincy Pondexter will deliver the ceremonial first pitch before a St. Louis Cardinals game at Busch Stadium.
If his throw is bad enough, the Grizzlies actually might get more exposure because it'll make ESPN's SportsCenter and get shown again and again.
Latino Memphis will host its 2014 leadership luncheon Tuesday, Sept. 9, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Holiday Inn University of Memphis, 3700 Central Ave. Keynote speaker George P. Bush will share his thoughts on the positive role Latinos play in the U.S. Tickets are $100. Visit latinomemphis.org.
A group of founders with long-standing family ties to Memphis, including sons of FedEx founder Fred Smith, is in the process of launching Big River Distilling Co. LLC, a local vodka distillery which will start production next month.
Rhodes College will host its annual Constitution Day lecture Monday, Sept. 8, at 5 p.m. in Blount Auditorium of Buckman Hall on campus, 2000 North Parkway. Dr. Melvin I. Urofsky, an expert on the U.S. Supreme Court, will explore great dissents and dissenters in the history of the court. Cost is free. Visit rhodes.edu.
Insurers can no longer reject customers with expensive medical conditions thanks to the health care overhaul. But consumer advocates warn that companies are still using wiggle room to discourage the sickest – and costliest – patients from enrolling.
The annual Evolve Bank and Trust Cooper-Young Festival returns next month.
The largest single-day festival in Memphis, now in its 27th year, will be held Sept. 13 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. It's hosted by the Cooper Young Business Association to make the district known both locally and nationally and to draw homeowners and merchants to the neighborhood.
The start of another football season comes with memories of the previous season – the victories, defeats and moments in between.
Somewhere in that space in between is what football at all levels intends to do about concussions and how that changes the game where hits are celebrated and the consequences of those hits increasingly cannot be ignored.
As the owner of Inbalance Fitness in Cooper-Young, Scott Lebowitz is focused on the physical health of the clients who walk through his doors.
Starting a few years ago, however, Lebowitz began to wear an additional, albeit less obvious, professional hat. He's also a commercial property owner, having bought the building in which his business operates as well as the space of other Cooper-Young businesses around him – which means that in addition to his clients' health, he's also paying close attention to the health of the neighborhood.
The one-year anniversary is approaching for theGRIND, a digital publication that launched in January to bring its own take on covering the people, places and events of Memphis.
Leading up to that milestone, the publication has several things in the works that collectively showcase how it's evolved quickly from an idea to the reality of an ambitious media startup. Editor in chief Kendra Lyons, for example, says plans in the works include a print version of the digital-only outlet, as well as a coffee table-style book that would feature the best photography and stories from theGRIND.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Microsoft announced the biggest layoffs in its history Thursday, saying it will cut 18,000 jobs as it streamlines its Nokia mobile device business to focus on using the Windows Phone operating system.
Shelby County mortgage lenders share a few common trends at the moment, as the area's mortgage market begins to shake off the wintry chill of the first quarter.
Many of them report robust purchase mortgage activity, as refinances plummet to small fractions of their business. As a result of the demand, many of those lenders also have been adding mortgage officers to their ranks and plan to continue doing so.
Before a concert gets underway, musicians will run through a soundcheck that serves as a kind of warm-up to the main event, during which participants can make suggestions for tweaks before the big show and can make sure that everything is done that needs to be.
Everything about the redevelopment of Overton Square followed a script.
But weather, or bad weather for that matter, can wreak havoc on the best-laid plans.
After acquiring Overton Square and spearheading construction and leasing, landlord Loeb Properties wanted to activate the revived entertainment district with programming that would draw people to the revitalized district.
The mobile race is on among Memphis financial institutions, with banks rolling out apps that allow banking on the go and a full range of capabilities that translate the brick-and-mortar banking experience to small digital screens.
IF WE DON'T CARE, NO ONE ELSE WILL. Longtime friend and Nashville marketing maven, David Bohan, answered my column about oxymoronic Nashville barbecue with his own column "Marketing Matters" in The Tennessean last week.
Evolve Bank & Trust has added a new name to its compliance department.
Janet Hendrix is a new officer in the department, bringing 25 years of banking and compliance experience with her. In a statement about Hendrix's addition to the company, Evolve President and CEO Scott Stafford said her expertise will be vital to Evolve as it continues to grow and expand.
It's been a hot, humid and restless spring at Overton Park.
The park has been crowded, but not as crowded as expected given the political tempest over parking on Overton's greensward.
Evolve Bank & Trust has added mobile banking services.
The bank's free app is now available for iOS devices via the App Store and for Android devices via the Google Play store.
Second in a two-part series. The Information Age has created a marketplace built predominantly of connected buyers who have largely determined whether or not to buy from us before they ever make contact with a sales rep. Due to readily available info about your company and competitors, sales support is unnecessary early in the buying process, forever changing the role of the sales rep.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Reynolds American Inc. is expanding its Tobaccoville, North Carolina, manufacturing complex as it plans national distribution of its Vuse brand electronic cigarette this summer, the company said Friday.
Memphis attorney Al Bright Jr. has joined the board of Evolve Bank & Trust.
Bright is a law partner in the Memphis office of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP, where he practices business law. He's also the chairman of the board for the Economic Development Growth Engine for Memphis and Shelby County, and its related entities.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The federal government wants to ban sales of electronic cigarettes to minors and require approval for new products and health warning labels.
While the proposal being issued Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration won't immediately mean changes for the popular devices, the move is aimed at eventually taming the fast-growing e-cigarette industry.
Memphis-based Evolve Bank & Trust has added John Copeland as its new chief financial officer.
Methodist North Hospital will hold a stroke support group meeting for survivors and caregivers Tuesday, April 8, at 2 p.m. in day room one at HealthSouth Rehabilitation, 4100 Austin Peay Highway. Physical therapist Melody Clayton will present "Moving Forward." Visit methodisthealth.org.
Every April, many of us take time to reflect and make new commitments as well as strengthen our resolve to act in our city on the hard lessons of 1968.
It seems like heresy to say we may be looking in the wrong direction when we focus our attention on the balcony of what was once the Lorraine Motel.
When the first Frontier Airlines jet kicking off regular service at Memphis International Airport arrives Friday, March 7, from Denver at gate C7, it will symbolize just how much the airport has changed. It is also an indication of how the airport continues to evolve.
I resisted the computer age. I really did. Then one of my generation's early adopters encouraged me to buy a Leading Edge computer. My life was forever changed. No more Wite-Out correction fluid or carbon paper. I was free.
Hetal Engineer has joined the Small Business Administration division of Memphis-based Evolve Bank & Trust.
There are lessons to be learned from even the basic outline of the story of candy in Memphis that go far beyond making something sweet.
The traditional components of the city's better-known business narratives – innovation, tenacity, adapting to change – are part of the outline.
Many of the top-performing CEOs in the world, as determined by Harvard Business Review, are names that aren't exactly fodder for dinner conversation. They know how to create long-term value for their companies but many focus little on creating their own personal brands.
Robert C. Burleigh still enjoys playing tennis four times a week. But the 78-year-old founder of Burleigh Consulting Group admits he is playing more doubles matches these days.
"I'm running a little slower now, so it's mostly doubles now, not a lot of singles," said Burleigh with a chuckle.
Evolve Bank & Trust is offering a challenge grant of $25,000 to Neighborhood Christian Centers Inc. if the nonprofit raises $50,000 by Feb. 28.
Imagine it: Memphis students helping their fellow students make better grades and, in the process, substantially boosting standardized test scores and overall academic performance – a feat school officials have been trying to accomplish for years.
Attendees on the opening night of the Indie Memphis Film Festival a few weeks ago saw splashed on movie screens, before their features got underway, the logo of Memphis-based investment firm Duncan-Williams Inc. and its two-word motto of "Do Well."
Evolve Bank & Trust has announced it will be opening a new office in Jonesboro, Ark., next month.
The Memphis-based bank's new office there includes a group formerly with Liberty Bank, the arrival of which Evolve president and CEO Scott Stafford said "is a great score for us."
Lurene Kelley loves to tell a good story. These days she's sharing some important stories that often go unheard in her role as special assistant for organizational communications in the law offices of the Shelby County Public Defender.
The National Park Service nixed plans for planting greenery on one side of the Crosstown parking garage but is OK with developers of the old Sears Crosstown property replacing windows in the mammoth building with new, similar-looking and configured ones.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Ten years after Congress gave the go-ahead to modernize the nation's air traffic control system, one of the government's most ambitious and complex technology programs is in trouble.
Memphis-based Evolve Bank & Trust generated 203 jobs from Jan. 1, 2012, through June 30 of this year, a feat that was honored in Inc. Magazine's second annual Hire Power Awards.
The shutdown of the U.S government has had a minimal impact on the local housing market so far, but that could change if the shutdown stretches on for a week or more.
Homebuyers in the process of acquiring a house could be delayed while lenders are blocked from key actions like confirming Social Security numbers and accessing IRS tax records.
Most of us by now have received letters from our employers regarding changes to our health care insurance that affect us now or will affect us in the future.
This is in addition to the yearly ritual so many of us have of the annual change in health insurance at our places of work.
Chris Hammond, formerly with Nashville-based Physicians Capital, has joined Memphis-based Evolve Bank & Trust to help expand Evolve's lending operations.
The Shops of Saddle Creek is in store for a multimillion-dollar makeover and expansion, a project that will likely be the first of several development dominoes to fall in Germantown.
Texas-based Trademark Property Co., which has operated the retail center since 2011, will expand the portion of the 148,000-square-foot lifestyle center on the southwest side of Poplar Avenue and West Street in Germantown.
One of Pat Halloran's favorite memories of The Orpheum Theatre Memphis happened back in 1986, when he got the chance to kick around town with Cary Grant for three days.
Start Co., a nonprofit working as a hub of public-private efforts to kick-start new entrepreneurial ventures in Memphis, has launched a new website as the group continues to shift from serving as a local startup resource to becoming a more robust venture development entity.
The Kindness Revolution, a nonprofit organization that raises awareness of values like kindness in leadership, customer service, schools and communities, has honored Evolve Bank & Trust as the "Kind Company of the Month."
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) – You can feel the spirit of George Eastman in Antonio Perez's office.
A picture of Eastman, who founded Kodak in 1880, sits among the current CEO's collection of family photos. The outer areas of Perez's office, built and first inhabited by Eastman about a century ago, include some of Kodak's Oscar and Emmy awards, along with a collection of historic photos. A large portrait of Eastman, who died in 1932, hangs near the entrance.
At the start of the fourth week of the school year for the unified countywide school system, interim superintendent Dorsey Hopson and Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong talked directly about school security for the first time.
Out of the near-crisis in hiring workers after the city's set of economic development plums in the last three years came a workforce training formula that has worked.
But many of the city's companies aren't aware of that formula or the existing programs that grew out of what amounted to an emergency response by local leaders. That's according to a recent survey of manufacturing company leaders by the Greater Memphis Chamber.
Opera Memphis is opening its 2013-2014 season with a month of free opera performances staged at various public venues around Memphis and Shelby County.
The free performances will be presented every day in September, and will lead up to the company's season-opening production of Rigoletto on Oct. 3 and 5.
From where Tamara Cook sits, the future of the Cooper-Young Historic District looks as bright as it's ever been.
Haizlip Studio, at 2125 Central Ave., is hosting a Cooper-Young Festival kickoff party and poster unveiling Aug. 1.
ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) – Dell has delayed Thursday's vote on founder Michael Dell's plan to take the slumping computer maker private in a sign the board needs more time to rally support.
DALLAS (AP) – Dell Inc. is making a late push to win shareholder support for founder Michael Dell's plan to take the slumping computer maker private, an indication that Thursday's scheduled vote could be close.
The mortgage market is starting to get interesting, in a manner of speaking. Earlier this month, interest rates for mortgages rose in what was described as the largest one-day jump in at least 10 years, according to Mortgage News Daily. That in large part stemmed from the Federal Reserve, which has been snatching up $85 billion worth of mortgage-backed securities a month.
Federal Reserve officials sought Thursday to calm investors by assuring them the Fed won't start trimming its bond purchases until the economy has strengthened. They said any pullback in the Fed's stimulus will hinge on the economy's performance, not a calendar date.
You can now have the Cupboard Restaurant's cookbook delivered to your home.
The Cupboard, at 1400 Union Ave., has launched an online store to sell Charles Cavallo's cookbook and other items.
Evolve Bank & Trust has added a new product to its list of offerings for customers – coffee.
The bank has partnered with J. Brooks Coffee Roasters, a local company with a top-notch roast master. "We started this partnership," the bank tells shareholders in its latest update letter, "because everything about Evolve – our people, our products, our branches – is about the experience. We will be serving the coffee in our local branches and making it available to our offices nationwide."
Ray's Take Hopefully you have a financial plan to guide you to your goals, whether they are college for the kids, a vacation home or a secure retirement. However, one of the key indicators as to whether you will be able to achieve those goals is your ability to avoid distractions from your plan.
Dr. Patrick Gray, an associate professor in Rhodes College's department of religious studies, has received the college's Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Research. Gray's research centers on biblical studies, specifically the history and literature of early Christianity and the Greco-Roman context.
Scot Lenoir, Evolve Bank & Trust chairman, has been appointed to the board of The Regional Medical Center at Memphis.
The concept of environmental justice is joining the issue of sustainability in new discussions about planning and the way cities like Memphis should work.
Local and regional planners meet Friday, April 19, at the University of Memphis to talk about "just sustainability" with the Tufts University planner who has been writing about it for the last decade.
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) – With its new "Home" on Android gadgets, Facebook aims to put its social network at the center of people's mobile experiences.
If users choose to download Facebook's Home software starting on April 12, the social network will become the hub of their Android smartphones. A phone from HTC that comes pre-loaded with Home will also be available starting that day, with AT&T Inc. as the carrier.
For family-owned Mosa Asian Bistro in East Memphis, freshness is the key to success.
The neighborhood restaurant creatively blends different styles of Asian cooking into customizable dishes, and it has grown steadily over the years thanks to repeat business from satisfied customers.
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Since 2002 Perimeter Institute has been recording seminars, conference talks, and public outreach events using video cameras installed in our lecture theatres. Perimeter now has 7 formal presentation spaces for its many scientific conferences, seminars, workshops and educational outreach activities, all with advanced audio-visual technical capabilities. Recordings of events in these areas are all available On-Demand from this Video Library and on Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive (PIRSA). PIRSA is a permanent, free, searchable, and citable archive of recorded seminars from relevant bodies in physics. This resource has been partially modelled after Cornell University's arXiv.org.
Quantum coin tossing is a cryptographic task in which two parties, Alice and Bob, wish to generate a shared random bit but do not necessarily trust each other. This task is completely impossible to realize with classical asynchronous communication but becomes at least partially feasible when quantum communication is also available. The best quantum protocol known so far, due to Ambainis, uses qutrits and is near optimal in the sense that either party can bias the outcome with at most a 75% probability of success.
The notion of weak-degradability of quantum channels is introduced by generalizing the degradability definition given by Devetak and Shor. Exploiting the unitary equivalence with beam-splitter/amplifier channels we then prove that a large class of one-mode Bosonic Gaussian channels are either weakly degradable or anti-degradable. In the latter case this implies that their quantum capacity Q is null.
The essential insight of quantum error correction was that quantum information can be protected by suitably encoding this quantum information across multiple independently erred quantum systems. Recently it was realized that, since the most general method for encoding quantum information is to encode it into a subsystem, there exists a novel form of quantum error correction beyond the traditional quantum error correcting subspace codes.
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HOUSTON (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review the case of a Texas death row inmate who's set to die next week for an East Texas slaying more than two decades ago.
The high court made no comment Monday in rejecting the case of 50-year-old Rickey Lynn Lewis.
The Tyler man was on parole for a third burglary conviction when he was arrested for breaking into a Tyler-area home in September 1990, fatally shooting the man who lived there and raping the shooting victim's wife. He also stole the woman's truck and killed her dog.
She managed to climb out a bathroom window after the attack and call police. Her testimony at his capital murder trial helped send Lewis to death row.
Lewis faces lethal injection April 9.
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We knew it wasn't the best idea when Phaedra Parks offered to represent her co-star Sheree Whitfield when she took her ex-husband Bob to court over child support payments, and as it turns out, we were right!
We watched as Sheree struggled to pay Phaedra a retainer fee on time, and cringed when Bob represented himself in court, only to claim Sheree was in contempt of court and later serve her with papers, demanding his child support payments be reduced.
While Sheree tried to keep her cool, it was obvious she was peeved with Phaedra, and wished that the lawyer she paid for was able to outsmart her ex.
Phaedra has publicly stated that she has little experience in divorce law, and later referred Sheree to a reputable family law attorney.
Sheree and Phaedra's friendship seems just fine, but given how things played out, Phaedra's credibility as a lawyer may have taken a hit. Luckily, Phaedra put together a brief video highlighting her impressive career as an entertainment lawyer.
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CHICAGO Big Ten administrators would prefer a plus-one system over a four-team playoff to determine a national champion if the BCS can't be maintained in its current form.
Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman said conference presidents would choose to keep the current BCS system as is if there were a vote today. But he added change appears to be inevitable. In the plus-one format, the bowl games would be played, and then the top two teams would meet for the title.
"We think that in many respects, (the current system is) as good as you could do, with obviously some changes about automatic qualifying and perhaps how the top two teams are selected," he said. "But we're also realistic. That doesn't seem to be one that has gotten a lot of support, and that some movement is necessary."
Perlman spoke on a conference call with reporters Monday, a day after presidents and chancellors met at league headquarters in suburban Chicago. As the top conferences negotiate over a playoff system, the Big Ten is showing some flexibility, while remaining adamant that the bowls and its alliance with the Rose Bowl be preserved.
While it prefers the plus-one model, the conference seems willing to listen to proposals for a playoff system. Either way, commissioner Jim Delany acknowledged, the current poll-based system is flawed. A selection committee might be an option in picking the postseason teams, Delany said.
Three meetings this month could go a long way toward molding the playoff model, although Delany said discussions could stretch beyond that - the BCS meeting June 13 in Chicago; the NCAA Division I Conference Commissioners Association on June 19-20 in Chicago; and the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee June 26 in Washington.
"The key issues are honoring champions, honoring strength of schedule, honoring teams and coaches that try to play good schedules and recognizing a team that plays an additional championship game versus one that doesn't has an additional obstacle of challenge," Delany said.
He has floated the idea in the past that top three conference champions and an at-large team make up the playoff field "as a way to think about who's in the event" but isn't married to that concept.
"We do feel strongly that champions ought to be honored," Perlman said. "There was little disagreement that the polls and certainly the computer polls are not sufficiently transparent. People don't respect them as much as they could. They can't take into account a variety of circumstances. I think we would feel comfortable with a selection committee, but even if you move to a selection committee, I think there are issues about what instructions they're under with regard to how they determine who the best four teams are. We didn't resolve that at this point."
The Big 12 and SEC say the top four teams - not necessarily conference champions - should be in a playoff field.
"I would agree. I think it should be the four best teams," Delany said. "I think the question is whether or not a computerized poll managed the way the one is today is an appropriate proxy for the four best teams. I totally agree we should have the four best teams."


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Sunset River Marketplace, the eclectic art gallery in Calabash, N.C., will feature a retrospective of works by the late Victor Gerloven in an exhibition titled Retrospective: the Gerloven Legacy. The show is being held in conjunction with the thirtieth anniversary of the Brunswick Arts Council, for which Gerloven served as president from 1987 until his death in June 2005.
Gerloven, who studied with abstract artist Mark Rothko in N.Y. provided enthusiastic leadership for the Arts Council. For many years he taught a figure-drawing class in multiple mediums. He championed art programs in schools. He was the force behind the Council's series of Art Symposiums where he prodded the public to ponder questions such as "What is art?". With the help of wife Jeanne, who passed away in March 2007, he organized bus trips to museums featuring national exhibitions. His efforts did not go unnoticed. In 2001, Gerloven was the recipient of the N.C. Governor's Award For Outstanding Volunteerism in Brunswick County.
Gerloven received his Bachelor of Arts and his Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College in N.Y. Before retiring to Brunswick County in North Carolina, Gerloven taught art in N.Y. for more than 55 years. Throughout his career, the artist explored many different art styles and mediums. He said, "I work at art because I keep searching for what I don't really know."
Although he often taught realistic drawing techniques, he was best known for his abstracts. On his website, he said, "I paint emotion. I paint movement. I paint feelings. I use color as color. I paint color to make me feel angry or loving. I use pastels today, tomorrow oils and the next day watercolor. Whatever suits my feelings for the picture I am creating.
"Rarely do I know what the picture will be when I start. As life changes inside and out so does my art work. Painting to me is a way of life, if not life itself."
Jeanette Serens, current president of Brunswick Arts Council says, "Because of Victor's and Jeanne's dedication and perseverance, the arts have been advanced and made available to all art related organizations, communities and schools. They made a difference."
Ginny Lassiter, owner of Sunset River Marketplace concurs. "I wanted to help Brunswick Arts Council celebrate their 30 year anniversary, and what better way to do that than by recognizing the talent, efforts and generosity of Victor Gerloven? He made Brunswick Arts Council a force in this county."
Retrospective: the Gerloven Legacy will feature a range of watercolors, acrylics, monotypes and other works by the late artist. Opening reception is from 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 28. The public is invited and admission is free. Wine, light hors d'oeuvres and other refreshments will be served. The show runs through July 4. According to Howard Love, Gerloven's son, a portion of proceeds from the exhibition will be donated to Brunswick Arts Council.
Sunset River Marketplace is open Monday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Lassiter invites the public to visit the featured show and enjoy complementary gourmet coffee and tea as you stroll through the 10,000 square-foot space. Over 200 local and regional artists are represented in virtually all art media.
The gallery is located at 10283 Beach Drive SW (Hwy. 179) in Calabash, N.C. For information, call 910-575-5999 or visit the website at www.sunsetrivermarketplace.com. Sunset River Marketplace also has a Facebook page.
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The tour guides include history, pirate tales and legends along the way.
But our intractable brains evolved on a diet of campfire tales.
Some stem cell recipients have indeed told tales of unexpected recovery.
The annals of marketing and design are filled with tales of products that gained widespread popularity for unintended uses.
Even a greenhorn could predict what would happen next: more films based on fairy tales.
Even sailors who didn't run aground here told tales of the howling winds and birds.
Players' relationships with bats have inspired any number of myths and tales.
Some of his tales were true, others near-fabrications.
Each is unique, and many of the time-travel tales contain ingenious twists.
His tales include skinny-dipping, nearly getting arrested and plenty of beer.
These tales have spawned legal battles, comics-page yarns, and endless dinner-table diversion.
But her response to my questions, and her way of telling tales from her long life, had me gasping for breath.
She had many tales of what went on at that convention.
Many cultures have flood myths-tales of ancient destruction on an epic scale.
Your students have probably heard stories or fairy tales about the forest, and they may have spent time in the woods.
Work stops and you eat this incredible food and share tall tales.
Fish tend to inspire exaggerated tales, as anglers know all too well.
The history of business is filled with similar tales.
They told tales of people laboring for years on the market but ending up empty-handed.
It will be on the receiving end of rumors and tales of woe commonly heard from some professors and students.
Convene administrators, and tales of lazy, irresponsible faculty members soon erupt.
There have been many tales of people being told by the charity that they would change the registration, and it never happened.
Much of the time, journalists spin tales entirely devoid of history.
Many high-school counselors have heard tales, secondhand if not first, of alumni interviewers' behaving badly.
Storytelling is a human universal, and common themes appear in tales throughout history and all over the the world.
Their light-induced toxicity may also help explain the origin of vampire tales.
For those of us in the tech-review business, however, these flopperoos live on as painful memories-and cautionary tales.
We have more new diseases than ever in history and you believe in fairy tales of magical mutations.
There are plenty of tales of animals finding some alcohol and getting tipsy.
There's no reason to take the author to task for using a personal story amongst his collection of second-hand tales.
It gets your point across without fear mongering and lurid tales.
Furthermore, when confronted with their falsehoods, many subjects did not even realize that they had been telling tall tales.
Confirming some ancient truths captured in two morality tales from different cultures.
If you want people who think to take you seriously, you'll want to leave out fairy tales.
Yet look in the periphery of such allegorical tales and you can find some surprisingly accurate vaticination.
Voters, sick of the tales of graft that fill their newspapers, would have cheered swift action.
His witty and often macabre tales won him critical acclaim and he was a successful short-story writer.
In this febrile mix, the tales about the source of some rumours sound almost as fanciful as the rumours themselves.
Tales of greed and fraud during the boom years abound.
Please stop trying to be smart and disproving real research with your tales of single individuals being miraculously cured.
The have millions to spin their fairy tales and downplay the negatives.
Doing cryptic crosswords or, equally, reading tales of mystery and imagination.
One of the president's top aides told a group of her fellow pols that he had proof that she was behind the unfounded nasty tales.
But don't let the predictability of that narrative dissuade you-these are some colorful characters with fascinating tales to tell.
As the new film shows, updates of the bard's tales require both excess and respect for the text.
People used to sit around and tell tales, particularly the older relatives who would come over and entertain with stories.
The nine stories in that collection-haunting tales of grief and frustrated affection-were widely lauded by critics.
Curious tales are told of his omnipresence, his omniscience.
Ask a dozen soldiers to tell you a story about the war and you'll hear a dozen harrowing or poignant or side-splitting tales.
He spun wild tales of his supposed poverty and backwoods ways, once claiming to have resorted to eating roadkill to survive.
There are no happy endings here, but neither are these tales tragedies.
Violence is a lingering theme, often conveyed with a power that lasts long after the short time it takes to read these tales.
The neighbors' tales had a depressingly familiar ring.
The dinosaurs are long gone, but their tracks remain, telling strange tales of where the creatures went and how they lived.
Elusive monsters have long been the inspiration for sea tales.
Mystics of nearly every faith, including all five of the world's major religions, have long told tales of astral projection.
Researchers and aquarium attendants tell tales of octopuses that have tormented and outwitted them.
To uncover their tales, you need a storyteller with an expert's knowledge and a writer's flair.
The media is rife with tales of animals from polar bears to corals suffering as a result of climate change.
It shows up in many myths and tales, it's perfectly all right if actor plays one especially if it is a comedy.
There were an extraordinary number of people in his short life, many of whom had tales to tell.
The sun rises late and sets early, and even during the day there is little to do but trade tales.
Yet it is only a slight thing that prevents many of them from being folk-tales, or even old wives' tales, narrated by a virtuoso.
The tales of the beast that got away provided irresistible copy for nearly two years.
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- The 300-pound crabcake was served at the Maryland State Fair on Saturday by Handy International. (Photo: Brenda Bowen/Maryland State Fairground)
TIMONIUM, Md. (AP) - A Maryland seafood company says it has broken its own record for the world's largest crabcake.
The 300-pound crabcake was served at the Maryland State Fair on Saturday by Handy International.
Guinness World Records says the company holds the record for a 253-pound crabcake cooked in 2009 at the Honfest in Baltimore.
That crabcake benefited the Special Olympics. Sandwiches from the crabcake cooked at the state fair were sold to benefit the Maryland 4-H Foundation.
Guinness says the attempt has not been formally recognized yet.
The crabcake used about 200 pounds of crab meat along with eggs, breading and seasoning. That's nearly 1,600 crabs, considering the average crab contains just over two ounces of meat.
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CATLIKE stealth may not be a quality you automatically associate with elephants. Nevertheless, these huge animals are capable of moving silently. The spongy cushions of their feet act as shock absorbers, muffling any sounds underfoot.
That elephants must be noisy is just one of the many misconceptions about them. Another is the myth of the elephants' graveyard. The idea of secret valleys where elephants go to die was probably dreamt up by hunters hoping to find a vast pile of ivory. Nor do elephants live for hundreds of years. Ajax, the giant elephant captured by Alexander the Great, is said to have lived for over 300 years. But an elephant's lifespan is closer to a human's, about 65 years.
Lifespan is not all that humans and elephants have in common, according to Clive Spinage. Elephants live in close family units in which adolescent cows look after younger calves, even if ...
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Taking a medical history and performing a physical examination usually provide the information a doctor needs to evaluate a child's health or to understand what's causing an illness. But sometimes, doctors need to order tests to find out more.
Here are some common tests and what they involve:
Blood tests usually can be done in a doctor's office or in a lab where technicians are trained to take blood. When only a small amount of blood is needed, the sample can sometimes be taken from a baby by sticking a heel and from an older child by sticking a finger with a small needle.
If a larger blood sample is needed, the technician drawing the blood will clean the skin, insert a needle into a vein (usually in the arm or hand), and withdraw blood. In kids, it sometimes takes more than one try. A bandage and a cotton ball or swab will help stop the flow of blood when the needle is removed.
Blood tests can be scary for kids, so try to be a calming presence during the procedure. Holding your child's hand or offering a stuffed animal or other comforting object can help. Tell your child that it may pinch a little, but that it will be over soon. With younger kids, try singing a song, saying the alphabet, or counting together while the blood is being drawn.
Common blood tests include:
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