[Networked_Performance] Networked_Performance ”” VIDA 13.0: Art & Artificial Life ...: Over the last decade, in the same formal space, VIDA has been bringing together inter-disciplinary projects that respond to this situation. By means of formal strategies that defy the boundaries between existing practices, these projects offer new ways of reflecting on what we understand by life and artificial life.

[Jun Cristobal] The essential Juvenal Sanso « Jun Cristobal: By his use of well-loved painting subjects, the seascape and the flower, I can say that Sanso’s heart is actually in subverting the very subject matter in trying to express something other than what is seen by hint of his inflections. To provide contrasts in color where there should not be, to gleam with his usual ultramarine and green and then sometime re-coursing to deep red in isolating the objects from its ground there is an illusion created, one of warmth similar to the light of home.

[we make money not art] Interview with Daniel Canogar - we make money not art: The Virtual Museum wants to be a didactic tool, the best source for A Life Art on the web, where you will not only see documentation of VIDA awards, but you will actually be able to experience some pieces first hand with web-based projects. It will also document the history of A Life art, and show many landmark projects that have significantly contributed to the field.

[AMERICAblog News] AMERICAblog News: Scientists create artificial life in a test tube: This is an amazing development. The research opens the way for scientists to create new life forms that can be genetically programmed to carry out a variety of functions, .

[netEX - networked experience] call: VIDA 11.0 AWARDS | netEX - networked experience: VIDA 11.0 rewards works of art developed with artificial life technologies and related disciplines: robotics, artificial intelligence, etc. We are looking for works of art with emerging behaviours, which evolve over time, react with their environment and seem to have a life of their own.

[NeMe] NeMe: VIDA 11.0 - FINISHED PROJECTS: 11.0 rewards works of art developed with artificial life technologies and related disciplines: robotics, artificial intelligence, etc. We are looking for works of art with emerging behaviours, which evolve over time, react with their environment and seem to have a life of their own.

[TheFishSite - Fish Farming Industry News] Cultured Aquatic Species: Red Swamp Crawfish: Although captive fisheries for introduced Procambarus clarkii exist in several other countries (such as China, Spain, and Portugal), there is no place where crayfish are more highly regarded socially and have had as much impact to the economy of a region than in the southern United States. Crawfish are cultivated and consumed for food in several southern states but Louisiana dominates the crawfish industry of North America in both aquaculture and wild capture fisheries, where the industry contributes well in excess of USD 150 million to the state's economy annually.

[Religion and Other Curiosities - Peter Berger's Blog] Pentecostalism - Protestant Ethic or Cargo Cult? - Peter Berger's ...: It is important to understand that what has happened in Brazil is part of a vastly larger global phenomenon.  The characteristics of Pentecostalism have been around throughout Christian history, all the way back to the gathering of the early followers of Jesus in Jerusalem at the Jewish feast of Pentecost (from which the movement derives its name), when the Holy Spirit is believed to have descended “like the rush of a mighty wind” and caused people to speak out in strange languages (Book of Acts, chapter 2). But most scholars date the beginnings of modern Pentecostalism from the so-called Azusa Street Revival of 1906, when William Seymour, a one-eyed African-American Baptist preacher moved from Texas to Los Angeles, where he started services in an abandoned stable in a run-down part of town.

[The Irish Economy] The Irish Economy » Blog Archive » After the Fall: Affiliates in Ireland conduct substantial R&D work, but it appears that a significant portion of the intellectual property held by these affiliates originated as a result of parent-company activity in the United States, and the property rights were subsequently relocated to Ireland where the tax regime for patent royalties is favorable. The royalty income, much of which is for use of the patents in other countries, is treated as arising from sales of services and is counted as part of the value added of the affiliates that hold them.

[Madame Pickwick Art Blog] THE BULL LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY | Madame Pickwick Art Blog: While many literary critics are hung up on observing that bullfighting in The Sun Also Rises is symbolic of Ernest Hemingway’s seeming obsession with masculinity and machismo, there are likely more subtler symbolic meanings can be gleaned from the vivid depictions of bullfighting in the novel. For example, the piercing dialogue and resulting momentary revealing glimpses of characters in the novel can be viewed as characters feinting about each other in an open arena.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Some Notes On Paraguay v Spain: While surprised that del Bosque chose to substitute a midfielder rather than a striker (Randinho's beloved Llorente, for example :) ) for the struggling Torres, the introduction of Fabregas immediately breathed life into a gasping Spanish ....

[FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Funny Pictures and Funny Videos of Owned, Pwned and Fail Moments] McNugget Rage FAIL - FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Funny Pictures and Funny ...: By the way, English is hard to learn because it has a lot of exceptions and because it is a hodgepodge of Latin words, Norse words, and Germanic words, and hence does not have any kind of reasonable phonetic pronunciation. However, it does have a relatively simple grammatical structure compared to a lot of other languages, because instead of having lots of endings, it just uses word order.

[Fifteensquared] Fifteensquared » Blog Archive » Guardian 25093 / Rover: The clue is a straightforward definition of a fairly unusual word: adding a question mark does not make it cryptic! The lustrum was the expiatory offering made by the censors in ancient Rome for the whole people every five years, after completing the census.

[Economix] Europe's Debt Crisis: Your Questions Answered - NYTimes.com: This initiative can buy time for policy makers in other countries that have come under duress (notably Portugal, Spain and Ireland) to implement difficult austerity measures and (hopefully) move toward a broader and deeper restructuring of private debts-notably those of financial institutions. It does not change Greece’s (nor anyone else’s) levels of outstanding debts and their even more worrisome profile in the period ahead.

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[beauty tips] What Is An Advance Health Hands Hands Care Directive (Or Living ...: The possible need for extra paperwork is that some documents, usually those called living wills or health care declarations, just set out the individual’s specific instructions. They spell out the care he does or doesn’t want if he’s terminally ill or permanently unconscious, usually with particular attention to end-of-life decisions such as resuscitation and artificial prolonging of life.

[GREAT DEALS AROUND THE NET - DEALNAY.COM] Quicken Willmaker Plus 2009 Edition: Estate Planning Essentials ...: I was looking to create a straightforward will to establish guardianship of my children if both my wife and I died, and also to create a durable health care power of attorney for the two of us. I had called a lawyer, recommended to me by a lawyer friend, and she estimated she would charge me $1500 for this service.

[Maryland Dating Services] Alzheimer's - Choice of protection with durable power of attorney ...: Once you are in the process of caring for an elderly person with Alzheimer's need to write your loved the durable power of attorney for finances and their advanced health care directives. Unfortunately, if the person is not of sound mind or body (especially if They are in the middle and late Alzheimer's), then it is too late for them to prepare for this important legal document.

[North Carolina Estate Planning Blog] NC "Will to Live" Durable Power of Attorney : North Carolina ...: Most people who execute living wills, health care powers of attorney and other advance directives express their desire to not have their lives prolong. Thanks to a client, I recently discovered the "Will to Live" Durable Power of Attorney, which is designed for persons who want to be kept alive by artificial nutrition hydration and nutrition, as well as other life-prolonging measures under most circumstances.

[Joining Their Journey] Planning Ahead | Joining Their Journey: Healthcare insurance can play a key role in helping to ease some of the financial burden of long-term care. Some families have private insurance and it’s important to research coverage and speak to the appropriate company representatives to make sure you understand all the benefits available under the policies.

[MassResources.org] Senior Resources: How Do I ...?: A federal law known as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) protects the privacy of your medical information. HIPAA limits the ways doctors, pharmacies, other health care providers, health insurance companies, nursing homes, and Medicaid/Medicare can share your personal health information.

[EZArticles.info] Iron Man | EZArticles.info: Although Iron Man is not immediately under suspicion, Stark is forced to hand the armor over to the authorities.[volume & issue needed] Eventually Stark and Rhodes, who is now his personal pilot and confidant, track down and defeat those responsible, although Hammer would return to bedevil Stark again.[volume & issue needed] With the support of his then-girlfriend, Bethany Cabe, his friends and his employees, Stark pulls through these crises and overcomes his dependency on alcohol.[volume & issue needed] These events were collected and published as Demon in a Bottle. Even as he recovers from this harrowing personal trial, Stark’s life is furthered complicated when he has a confrontation with Doctor Doom that is interrupted by an opportunistic enemy sending them back in time to the time of King Arthur.[volume & issue needed] Once there, Iron Man thwarts Doom’s attempt to solicit the aide of Morgan Le Fay and the Latverian rulers swears deadly vengeance, to be eventually indulged sometime after the truce needed for both to return to their own time.[volume & issue needed] This incident was collected and published as Doomquest.

[Australian Private Equity] Senior Care Terms and Definitions | Australian Private Equity: A seal of approval given by a governing body to a housing and/or service provider.  To become accredited, the community or provider must meet specific requirements set by the accreditation entity and is then generally required to undergo a thorough review process by a team of evaluators to ensure certain standards of quality.  The accrediting organizations are not government agencies or regulatory bodies.  Examples of some accreditation bodies for the senior housing and care industry include CCAC (Continuing Care Accreditation Commission), CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) and JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations).

[Patrick D. Newton's Estate Planning Blog] Patrick D. Newton's Estate Planning Blog: Why do single people ...: To comply with the U.S. Treasury regulations, I must inform you that (i) any U.S. federal tax advice contained in this blog was not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, by any person for the purpose of avoiding U.S. federal tax penalties that may be imposed on such person and (ii) each taxpayer should seek advice from their tax adviser based on the taxpayer's particular circumstances.

[The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » Bits Bucket For August 26, 2010: Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith Alexander recommended 33 months in prison - at the low end of the federal sentencing guidelines - while Fullerton’s attorney, Thomas Brown, suggested a year and a day in prison, according to minutes of the sentencing held Monday.

[An-You Healthcare Blog] An-You Healthcare Blog » Senior Care Terms and Definitions: A seal of approval given by a governing body to a housing and/or service provider.  To become accredited, the community or provider must meet specific requirements set by the accreditation entity and is then generally required to undergo a thorough review process by a team of evaluators to ensure certain standards of quality.  The accrediting organizations are not government agencies or regulatory bodies.  Examples of some accreditation bodies for the senior housing and care industry include CCAC (Continuing Care Accreditation Commission), CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) and JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations).

[Your Legal Services] Quicken Willmaker Plus 2009 Edition: Estate Planning Essentials ...: Completing my Will & Powers of Attorney and putting all of my important papers like deeds, titles, financial statements and insurance policies, in one place (known to loved ones) has given me tremendous peace of mind in knowing that my loved ones will have a much easier time resolving all of the legal matters if I become incapacitated or when I die.

[Get Rich Slowly] Life After Debt: What It's Like in the Third Stage of Personal Finance: So yes, we spent what others would consider exhorbatant amounts on travel (we were stationed in Europe, after all), my husband skiid, husband and son played golf, and I bought quilt fabrics to my hearts content. Darling husband also had a fiat sports car.

[Nursing Home Administrators' Blog] Curious Consent Standards in Nursing Home Admissions « Nursing ...: Support for this position is fairly widespread and is a outgrowth of the importance of autonomous determination in American health care. In brief: nursing home care is seen as different enough from other provider types, that the type of front-line health care that a guardian usually makes decisions on (administration of prescriptions, whether to have certain hospital-based treatments, etc.), that the decision to admit a patient into a nursing home represents in effect a different, more substantial level of capacity for the court to determine.

[Compassion and Choices] Compassion and Choices » Council of Catholic Bishops Veto Millions ...: Compassion & Choices, the nation's oldest and largest nonprofit working for end-of-life care and choice, sharply criticized the action as an imposition of dogma over the desires and dignity of patients and families. ...

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[io9: top] Scientists create "artificial life" - synthetic DNA that can self ...: Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the team of scientists combined two existing techniques to transplant synthetic DNA into a bacteria. First they chemically synthesized a bacterial genome, then they used well-known nuclear transfer techniques (used in IVF) to transplant the genome into a bacteria.

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[Hoax Forum] Hoax Forum | Scientists make 'artificial life' -- what might be ...: Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first living cell to be controlled entirely by synthetic DNA. The researchers constructed a bacterium's “genetic software” and transplanted it into a host cell.

[Bible Prophecy In The News] Artificial Life Breakthrough Announced by Scientists | Bible ...: and transplanted it into a host cell. The resulting microbe then looked and behaved like the species “dictated”

[Jivezone.net] The Life Extension Pathway, Resveratrol etc. and Cancer Control ...: At full dose, it would bias the system toward true CR mimicry of AMPK driven mitochondrial regenesis, while at one tenth full dose, it would bias the system toward the neogenic meta-mimicry we described in detail, before. Since neogenesis takes several days to complete, while regenesis is much quicker, a circadian/lunar cycle plan that forces the system into lengthy defaults to life extending regenesis, might look something like this: Low dose neogenic resveratrol could be coordinated with anti-oxidants, dietary nutrient loading and/or power based exercise for five to seven days, or so, then followed by high dose resveratrol coordinated with daily food avoidance between dinner and breakfast and/or high oxygen utilizing endurance exercise prior to breakfast in a more extended time frame, say about three weeks, to entrench mitochondrial efficiency, cellular house cleaning and a shift away from glucose toward fat burning.

[Give 'em hell Pike!] Give 'em hell Pike! » Synthia: “a new, entirely artificial life ...: They’ve grabbed a bacterium, slipped this synthically mastered DNA in (and that’s the innovation, almost “printing” the genome up), it ousted the indigenous DNA and took over - viruses do this kind of thing all day, every day. What’s occurred is a hijacking, not a genesis.

[Suprbay Forum - All Forums] Artificial life, cloning, and DNA manipulation. Do you want it or ...: The team was led by Dr Craig Venter of the J Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Maryland and California.He and his colleagues had previously made a synthetic bacterial genome, and transplanted the genome of one bacterium into another.Now, the scientists have put both methods together, to create what they call a "synthetic cell", although only its genome is truly synthetic.

[PakistanNews.com.pk] Chinese scientists developing artificial cornea to benefit ...: A group of Chinese researchers are cultivating human cells to make artificial corneas in a laboratory, bringing hope to some 5 million victims of corneal blindness in China. The research team from the Ocean University of China (OUC) is expected to produce a complete cornea and begin clinical trials in three to five years, said Fan Tingjun, deputy dean of the College of Marine Life Science at the OUC.

Longevity Meme Newsletter: This is one of several techniques shown to restore function in spinal injury using transplanted stem cells: "A UC Irvine study is the first to demonstrate that human neural stem cells can restore mobility in cases of chronic spinal cord injury, suggesting the prospect of treating a much broader population of patients. Previous breakthrough stem cell studies have focused on the acute, or early, phase of spinal cord injury, a period of up to a few weeks after the initial trauma when drug treatments can lead to some functional recovery.

[Home & DIY Blog] Artificial Life Breakthrough | Home & DIY Blog: The team of scientists and researches claim to have successfully added to a host cell a synthetic bacterium’s genetic software. The end result of this experiment was a host cell that looked and behaved like the impregnated synthetic DNA, which was effectively being dictated.

[Web Hosting Blog] Timeline of the United States finds « Web Hosting Blog: 1965 Discovery of aspartame Aspartame is the name for an artificial, non-saccharide sweetener, aspartyl-phenylalanine-1-methyl ester, which is a methyl ester of the dipeptide of the amino acid phenylalanine and acidsaspartic acid. Aspartame in 1965 by James M.

[Open Gardens] Open Gardens » Scientists create artificial life - congratulations ...: Dr Venter told BBC News: “We’ve now been able to take our synthetic chromosome and transplant it into a recipient cell – a different organism.

[Tomorrow's Trends] Tomorrow's Trends » Blog Archive » “Artificial life” created in lab: Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first living cell to .“genetic software” and transplanted it into a host cell.

[crpx.net] The First Election Debate on ITV1 - 15th April 2010: E3 2010 Coverage - Machinima - Nintendo 3DS Demo - Part 2 (Nintendo E3 Press Conference 2010); TNA Today (August 2, 2010); 2010 Chevrolet Silverado Marysville WA; New Artificial Life Form! First Synthetic Cell! ...

[Health Insurance Article Blog] Scientists Create “Artificial Life”: Scientists in the USA today announced they have created the world's first synthetic living cell. The team of scientists successfully created a bacterium's genetic software and then transplanted it into a host cell.

[Science Media Centre] Science Media Centre » Blog Archive » Experts on Craig Venter's ...: The difficulties they report in terms of getting the synthetic genome booted up were due to a single base pair mutation in an essential gene (dnaA) which they noted after several attempts.  Correcting this mutation allowed the synthetic genome to work properly, although its not clear how the mutation occurred – whether in the synthesis or assembly step.  The transplantation process involves using an antibiotic selection process where the newly transplanted genomes infer resistance to the transplanted cell to live in the presence of a lethal antibiotic.

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[EVOBODY] Artificial Life Forms Evolve Basic Intelligence « EVOBODY: Avidians are not microbes, or sci-fi alien life forms. They are the digital offspring of Charles Ofria External Link and colleagues at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing.

[the Foresight Institute] the Foresight Institute » Can “artificial life” evolve ...: Brains that have been evolved with HyperNEAT have millions of connections, yet still perform a task well, and that number could be pushed higher yet,” he says.

[The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech] The New Search for ET: Seeking Out Artificial Intelligence and ...: SETI's chief astronomer, Seth Shostak, says that "artificially intelligent alien life would be likely to migrate to places where both matter and energy ”” the only things he says would be of interest to the machine-based life ”” would be in plentiful supply. That means the SETI hunt may need to focus its attentions near hot, young stars or even near the centers of galaxies."

[USAHitman | Conspiracy News] Alien hunters 'should look for artificial intelligence ...: Many involved in Seti have long argued that nature may have solved the problem of life using different designs or chemicals, suggesting extraterrestrials would not only not look like us, but that they would not at a biological level even work like us.

[The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech] New Tech: Artificial Life Forms Created that Evolve Intelligence: in a computer world called Avida, and replicate using strings of coded computer instructions instead of DNA, they are similar to real life microbes: they compete with each other for resources, replicate, mutate, and eventually evolve to become artificially intelligent life forms. Unlike real-life Darwinian microbes, their evolution can be stopped at any time, reversed, repeated, and the precise sequence of mutations that led to the new trait can be dissected. 

[American Scientist Online] Artificial Life Forms Evolve Basic Intelligence » American Scientist: Similar to microbes, Avidians take up very little space, have short generation times, and can evolve new traits to out-compete their rivals. Unlike microbes, their evolution can be stopped at any time, reversed, repeated, and the precise sequence of mutations that led to the new trait can be dissected.

[io9] The extraterrestrial life that we're looking for might be ...: Biological alien life could be almost unrecognizable to us, but at least they would have to think in a way that's governed by the rules of biochemistry, just like us. Thinking machines, on the other hand, could have cognitive processes that are almost entirely incomprehensible to us, which would make the job of finding and understanding a potential alien radio signal that much more difficult.

[Xenophilia (True Strange Stuff)] Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence « Xenophilia (True ...: Similar to microbes, Avidians take up very little space, have short generation times, and can evolve new traits to out-compete their rivals. Unlike microbes, their evolution can be stopped at any time, reversed, repeated, and the precise sequence of mutations that led to the new trait can be dissected.

[Quasi Mundo] Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence - The strange and ...: FOR generations, the Avidians have been cloning themselves quietly in a box. They’re not perfect, but most of their mutations go unnoticed.

[Peace Jaway] BBC News - Alien hunters 'should look for artificial intelligence ...: Both Dr Shostak and Dr Elliott concede that finding and decoding any eventual message from such alien thinking machines may prove more difficult than in the "biological" case, but the idea does provide new directions to look.

[Gyrovague's Raves] Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence « Gyrovague's Raves: But in many ways they are similar to real life: they compete with each other for resources, replicate, mutate, and evolve. They - or things like them - might eventually evolve to become artificially intelligent life forms.

[Instapundit] Instapundit » Blog Archive » ARTIFICIAL LIFE FORMS evolve basic ...: "Glenn also has a rather dry sense of humour, which I'm guessing not enough people pick up on." -- Andrea See

[traviswire's blog] The Conundrum of Intelligent Machines - traviswire's blog: According to the official project website, “Using the huge computational capacity of IBM’s eServer Blue Gene, researchers from IBM and EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) will be able to create a detailed model of the circuitry in the neocortex – the largest and most complex part of the human brain.”

[Singularity Hub] We Live in a Jungle of Artificial Intelligence that will Spawn ...: Because we’re all surrounded by artificial intelligence. I love when friends ask me when we’ll develop smart computers…because they’re usually holding one in their hands.

[Screenwriting Basics] Screenwriting News - 652th Edition « Screenwriting News « News ...: Are mankind's days numbered as the dominant intelligence on planet earth? Artificial intelligence has been explored in stories and movies from the Golden Age of Science Fiction with the likes of Isaac Asimov in 'I Robot' to Spielberg's ”¦ Brent Weichsel - Film Director, .

[Big Think] Video Blog Series--Part 2: How to Become a Superhero & How to ...: The development of such a robot will stem out of  cheaper and more powerful computing devices, advances in Artificial Intelligence, the development of new materials and quantum computers.  In addition to building a robot, developments of all kinds of new materials as a result of nanotechnology and carbon nanotubes will allow for the development of a Super-Suit that would allow you to have super strength, speed and even the ability to stop a bullet in it's tracks. 

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[IPWatchdog] JCVI Creates World's First Genetically Engineered Self-Replicating ...: I am smiling ear to ear.  You just couldn’t make this stuff up.  A team of humans creates genetically altered and a self-replicating synthetic cell using a computer.  I suspect that computer was running some pretty powerful and sophisticated software.  So the anti-patent crowd should be sufficiently whipped into a frenzy over this story top to bottom.  It hits all the hot button issues, life, genetics, software, ethics and it rolls them all into one.  But while we might relish the anguish of those in the anti-patent community, this type of scientific advance should not be taken lightly because it has the potential to fire up those with an anti-patent agenda and could also fire up religious groups as well.  The coming together of such strange bedfellows would result in an alliance with enormous political power.  So innovators need to pay attention and be vigilant.

[IBN Top Headlines] Indians among creators of 'artificial life' - Tech News - IBNLive: Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md., and San Diego, Venter's team aimed to go further. A few years ago, the researchers transplanted an entire natural genome ”” the genetic code ”” of one bacterium into another and watched it take over, turning a goat germ into a cattle germ.

[Drudge Retort] Scientists Create Artificial Life | Drudge Retort: The process that they used is actually becoming common enough that companies that make oligos (small DNA pieces) are offering services to completely synthesize genes of interest with mutations in place as an alternative to other methods of creating mutant proteins.

[The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech] New Tech: Artificial Life Forms Created that Evolve Intelligence: in a computer world called Avida, and replicate using strings of coded computer instructions instead of DNA, they are similar to real life microbes: they compete with each other for resources, replicate, mutate, and eventually evolve to become artificially intelligent life forms. Unlike real-life Darwinian microbes, their evolution can be stopped at any time, reversed, repeated, and the precise sequence of mutations that led to the new trait can be dissected. 

[Greener Buildings] Will Synthetic Biology Lead to Truly Living Buildings? | Buildings ...: Parametric modeling, 3D printing, tissue engineering, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, self-organized manufacturing, artificial intelligence, artificial photosynthesis, swarm robotics, self-replicating machines, self-healing materials, programmable matter, thermodynamics and systems theory. All of these individual fields have great potential in many applications.

[WAMU: Art Beat] WAMU 88.5 FM American University Radio - News Features for Friday ...: The recipient cell started out with synthetic DNA and its original cytoplasm, but the new genome "booted up" that cell to start producing only proteins that normally would be found in the copied goat germ. The researchers had tagged the synthetic DNA to be able to tell it apart, and checked as the modified cell reproduced to confirm that new cells really looked and behaved like M.

[Untitled] » Blog Archive » Playing God or Breakthrough?: is a “cell controlled by a genome assembled from chemically synthesized pieces of DNA.” In addition, the cytoplasm or the liquid part is of the host cell. To further clarify, DNA was synthesized first from yeast, then was modified in-vitro and in-silico, and then transplanted into a bacterial cell.

[Dvorak Uncensored] » Creating Self-Replicating, Synthetic Life ”” Are We Now God ...: # 26 sargasso said, on May 21st, 2010 at 9:55 am. Biotechs insert man made genetic material into human, yeast and bacterial cells each day and have been doing it for ten years.

[Breaking News,World News,Latest Updates,Asia,Europe,America,Africa,Politics,Sports,Disaster,Economy] World's First Man-Made Life Created At J. Craig Venter Institute ...: mycoides genome was isolated from the yeast cell and transplanted into Mycoplasma capricolum recipient cells that have had the genes for its restriction enzyme removed. The synthetic genome DNA was transcribed into messenger RNA, which in turn was translated into new proteins.

[chungmatdo's blog] - chungmatdo's blog: Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development Corporation, has called the notion of a technological singularity "intelligent design for the IQ 140 people...This proposition that we're heading to this point at which everything is going to be just unimaginably differentt's fundamentally, in my view, driven by a religious impulse.

[Boing Boing] Craig Venter creates synthetic life form - Boing Boing: In his opinion [4] Judge Sweet said: "The information encoded in DNA is not information about its own molecular structure incidental to its biological function, as is the case with adrenaline or other chemicals found in the body...this informational quality (of DNA) is unique among the chemical compounds found in our bodies, and it would be erroneous to view DNA as 'no different' than other chemicals previously the subject of patents....DNA, in particular the ordering of its nucleotides, therefore serves as the physical embodiment of laws of nature - those that define the construction of the human body”¦the preservation of this defining characteristic of DNA in its native and isolated forms mandates the conclusion that the challenged composition claims are to unpatentable products of nature."

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[BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch] BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: 'Playing God' with the climate?: I know that what I say will be ignored and many non altruistic organisations will be itching to see what negative things they can do with this new technology. My real fear is that young budding biochemists will also be itching to experiment with the new technology and may not bother with the bio-safeguards in their rush to explore the unknown.

[Everyone's Blog Posts - United Starseeds] Apna Article.: Then, after using artificial stimulants all day for energy, we may use drugs or alcohol to fall asleep at night. This vicious cycle of chemical dependency is all-too-common. Many people don t realize that the cycle can trigger ...

[遠離青史與良辰] Muffled Dialect Spoken by Green Fruit: If, to borrow the words of a scholar of Chinese literature, ¡°as we now understand, the ¡®newness¡¯ of new literature and poetry is an artificial construction on the epistemological break,¡±3 then perhaps the imagined contestation between ¡°old¡± and ¡°new¡± also needs to be revisited, because the temporal distance from the vested interests and heated debates in the early part of the twentieth century no longer have to get in the way of a more clear-headed perspective. Perhaps the time has come, as a number of Chinese scholars have begun to realize, for a different sort of history of modern Chinese poetry, one that incorporates both new-style and old-style poetry (Huang 2002;

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[Creative-i] Creative-i : From Marx to Goldman Sachs: The Fictions of ...: ”˜The entire artificial system of forced expansion of the reproduction process cannot, of course, be remedied by having some bank, like the Bank of England, give to all the swindlers the deficient capital by means of its paper and having it buy up all the depreciated commodities at their old nominal values.’ [15] Marx wrote this reductio ad absurdum not dreaming that it would come true in autumn 2008 as the U.S. Treasury paid off all of A.I.G.’s gambles and other counterparty ”˜casino capitalist’ losses at taxpayer expense, followed by the Federal Reserve buying junk mortgage packages at par.

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[By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog] The Sacrament of Grief « By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog: For much of the prayer life of my youth, “repetition” was anathema, inseparable from its descriptor, “vain.” I would winnow my mind to find new words to carry my mostly unchanging requests and gratitude skyward: “…nourish and strengthen…” “…give us the energy we need…” “…at least not kill us…” (It depended on who had done the cooking.) But this focus on new verbiage was no reliable prophylaxis against artificiality, and my prayers bounced back off the ceiling no less often than usual.

[catching days] A Day in the Life of Diane Lefer | catching days: And I know the desire is always there to focus on the work and lose myself in it, but in reality while the novel remains with me, percolating, I can’t always remain with it. Getting up though and moving around means the blood is flowing throughout the body and not just accumulating in the butt which is not the part of my body that does the best thinking.

[We Blog The World] Women, Men, and Their Relationships | We Blog The World: Women, on the other hand, have their emotional eggs in many baskets- friends, parents, children, etc. It is devastating for a man to lose a woman because he losses his single source of emotional support and women do just fine when the relationship ends because they have emotional support from other people.

[Peer Review on Science Blogs] It's ALIVE! : Pharyngula: If you're dreaming of using the draft Neandertal sequence to make your own resynthesized caveman, you're going to have to appreciate the fact that that is a job more than three orders of magnitude greater than building a bacterium. Also keep in mind that the sequence introduced into the bacterium was not exactly as intended, but contained expected small errors that had accumulated during the extended synthesis process.

[The Distributist Review] The Distributist Review » Blog Archive » The Place of Guilds in A ...: In other words, the chief function of the guilds is to oversee a particular trade or industry so that its prices and wages are fair, (xiv) its products are well-made and are produced in such a manner as not to harm either the worker or the larger physical environment, and there is an approximate equivalence between the number of workers in a particular trade and the public’s genuine need for their product or service so that there will be steady work for all in the trade or industry. In addition, guilds would probably take on many of the subsidiary functions now performed by government or others, e.g., pensions and health insurance, owning their own industrial banks or credit unions to provide financial services to guild members and their families, especially financing for those starting out in the field, and they would act as trade associations to represent the trade to outside interested parties, such as the government, other guilds whose members serve as suppliers or customers, etc. Moreover, in a Catholic society guilds would operate as frankly religious societies, striving to inculcate a spirit of both justice and charity in their members and to sanctify their work by means of attendance at Mass in common, devotion to the patron saint of the guild, Masses and prayers for deceased members and so on.

[BaristaKids] Take Back the Kitchen And the Boobs (BaristaKids): That pregnant women will go to great lengths for the health of their unborn child, even fighting something as extreme as an addiction to nicotine, but then, seemingly give up on breastfeeding with much less effort. I didn't have the impression she was judging or insulting anyone but, rather, placing the blame on the formula companies and a society that often does not support those who would otherwise choose to breastfeed, I think the first poster misunderstood a negative spin that was never intended (as evidenced by alma's subsequent post) and the rest of you were, as usual, all too happy to run with it.

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[Intelligent Design the Future] Intelligent Design the Future: Has Craig Venter Produced ...: This episode of ID the Future features an excerpt from an interview on the Albert Mohler program featuring CSC Director Stephen Meyer, author of the recent book, Signature in the Cell. Was there intelligent design in the recent experiments on artificial life?

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[Evolution News & Views] Evolution News & Views: Stephen Meyer Discusses Craig Venter's ...: While praising the ingenuity of Venter's research team, Meyer explains that Venter did not really succeed in producing .Meyer also talks about the hierarchical nature of the information controlling the morphogenesis of organismal form and its implications for both neo-Darwinism and ID, before ending with a discussion of how the unique dimension of the .

[Stephen C Meyer - News] Has Craig Venter Produced Artificial Life?: This episode of ID the Future features an excerpt from an interview on the Albert Mohler program featuring CSC Director Stephen Meyer, author of the recent book, Signature in the Cell. Was there intelligent design in the recent experiments on artificial life?

[Latest Science News Articles] Genome From A Bottle - Science News: Should some brilliant albeit soulless hacker obtain DNA materials and fabricate a computer model for whatever drug addled genetic model a Clive Barker fan dreams up, we will have some bizarre organism which owes more to pop horror than the desire to create clean fuels or cure disease. Imagine a fan of the Klingons (after the change) creating his concept of life.

[Unreasonable Faith] Craig Venter Creates Synthetic Life Form | Unreasonable Faith: Craig Venter, the pioneering US geneticist behind the experiment, said the achievement heralds the dawn of a new era in which new life is made to benefit humanity, starting with bacteria that churn out biofuels, soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and even manufacture vaccines.

[WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook] Craig Venter on Synthetic Life | WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom ...: As the result of Venter’s work, creationism is a scientifically legitimate explanation. The evolution of Venter’s synthetic cells would demonstrate creationism and evolution to be compatible- not a surprising idea, if one takes the careful philosophical approach of Sober.

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[New Discoveries & Comments About Creationism] Did Dr Craig Venter Create A Synthetic Life Form? « New ...: Synthetic, involves designed from scratch, not copied from a natural genome. Keep in mind, the entire organism must be successfully produced .

[Science Media Centre] Buy Antibiotics Without Prescription - Online DrugStore: “The choice of Mycoplasma by the Venter group for genome synthesis and transplantation is based on the small size of the genome and for the mycoides species has a reasonably fast growth rate. The difficulties they report in terms of getting the synthetic genome booted up were due to a single base pair mutation in an essential gene (dnaA) which they noted after several attempts.  Correcting this mutation allowed the synthetic genome to work properly, although its not clear how the mutation occurred –

[Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Life From Scratch - Science News: Szostak has a far more fundamental aim: to show how unguided natural events might have led to life on Earth in the first place, and to show how the scenario might also play out in myriad other places in the universe. Like bookends on a long row of volumes, the two exercises would frame the story of evolution so far.

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[Technology Review Feed - arXiv blog] Technology Review: Synthetic Genome Reboots Cell: To distinguish their synthetic genome from the naturally occurring version, the researchers encoded a series of watermarks into the sequence. They began by developing a code for writing the English alphabet, as well as punctuation and numbers, into the language of DNA--a decoding key is included in the sequence itself.

[Peer Review on Science Blogs] It's ALIVE! : Pharyngula: It was a large undertaking to assemble the 1 million base pair synthetic chromosome for a mycoplasma. If you're dreaming of using the draft Neandertal sequence to make your own resynthesized caveman, you're going to have to appreciate the fact that that is a job more than three orders of magnitude greater than building a bacterium.

[Science Against Evolution] Creating Life: Synthetic biology and artificial life have been in the news lately. This month we will look at the difference between them, and what implications they have for the theory of evolution. We've been following J. Craig Venter's attempts to “ create life” for a ... that he has shown how life could have begun accidentally. But, if you read past the misleading headlines, you will see his work proves just the opposite. The first line of a blog at Wired.com, written in. 2008 said, ...

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[The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech] New Tech: Artificial Life Forms Created that Evolve Intelligence: Unlike real-life Darwinian microbes, their evolution can be stopped at any time, reversed, repeated, and the precise sequence of mutations that led to the new trait can be dissected. 

[NeuroLogica Blog] NeuroLogica Blog » Artificial Life: Eric writes (to Paisley): “This distinction you keep drawing between awareness and consciousness is not well defined. I’ve been talking about consciousness, which I define at my web site, and if you think there is some additional problem shared by all life, then maybe we should be talking about the merits of vitalism (esp since you have suggested that mechanism X, in a living thing, convers awareness, but not if the same mechanism is in a mere machine).”

[Evolution News & Views] Evolution News & Views: Nick Lane Takes on the Origin of Life and DNA: It becomes Spiegelman's monster - a prolifically replicating strand of RNA, capable only of the most artificial and frenzied existence. Curiously, it doesn't matter where the starting point is: you can start out with a whole virus or with an artificial length of RNA.

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[ActionBioscience] Extreme Environments: Is There Life in Sea Ice? (ActionBioscience): So the contact rate is much higher””600 times higher than it is in seawater (based on model calculations by one of my former graduate students, Llyd Wells), and that sets up the potential for “horizontal,” also called “lateral,” gene transfer [when an organism incorporates genetic material from another alien organism, in this case transmitted via viruses]. This high contact rate also sets up the potential for the virus to attack the cell, reproduce within it, and then cause cell lysis [death of a cell when its contents spill out after a break in the cellular membrane].

[Tom Pittman's WebLog] Artificial Life: First, this is about computers -- very tiny computers, but Crichtonis at pains to show us some of their programming. The code he shows isnot in any common industrial programming language like Lisp (which mightbe appropriate for the artificial intelligence of this story) or C++;

[Answers in Genesis Articles] News to Note, May 22, 2010 - Answers in Genesis: Nonetheless, Ayala agrees that “[m]orality is a unique human trait, one of the most important and most distinctive traits that characterize humanity,” and that separates us from animals. What Ayala leaves out is what no evolutionary theory of morality is able to provide: why humans chose to live cooperatively in the first place (i.e., being able to choose does not imply a rationale for choosing), why humans still choose to “follow the rules,” and why most evolutionists insist that humans ought to behave morally, when according to evolution we are the result of the “survival of the fittest” in a world where nature is not nice.

[Quasi Mundo] Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence - The strange and ...: Avidians are not microbes, or sci-fi alien life forms. They are the digital offspring of Charles Ofria and colleagues at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing.

[Anguished Repose] They replicate, mutate and evolve - the new technology! OMG ...: Similar to microbes, Avidians take up very little space, have short generation times, and can evolve new traits to out-compete their rivals. Unlike microbes, their evolution can be stopped at any time, reversed, repeated, and the precise sequence of mutations that led to the new trait can be dissected.

[Council For Responsible Genetics Blog] Council For Responsible Genetics Blog | Venter Speaks Out on the ...: In a DER SPIEGEL interview, genetic scientist Craig Venter discusses the 10 years he spent sequencing the human genome, why we have learned so little from it a decade on and the potential for mass production of artificial life forms that could be used to produce fuels and other resources.

[Everyday Christian] Conversation With An Atheist -- Christian Blogs | Everyday Christian: Reactions to Venter’s accomplishment have been mixed–while it has been trumpeted as the creation of artificial life, many scientists said the reaction was overblown, and took issue with Venter’s claim of having created a truly synthetic cell. Here, we round up a selection of responses from all corners of the science world.[1]

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[American Scientist Online] Artificial Life Forms Evolve Basic Intelligence » American Scientist: Similar to microbes, Avidians take up very little space, have short generation times, and can evolve new traits to out-compete their rivals. Unlike microbes, their evolution can be stopped at any time, reversed, repeated, and the precise sequence of mutations that led to the new trait can be dissected.

[Zantive Forums] Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence: For instance, Clune has found that unlike old-school neural networks, brains evolved with HyperNEAT tend to be symmetrical and ordered - like real brains. His analysis of the networks shows this comes from having evolved symmetry and pattern-generating instructions right at the start of the series of instructions.

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[Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society] Article round up: July 2010 « Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and ...: quality of life as well as bringing new ethical dilemmas. As medical science continues to advance, significant numbers of the reproductive-aged population are living with chronic and/or terminal conditions but have reasonable odds of lengthy survival and wish to have children.

[Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Life From Scratch - Science News: Craig Venter. Venter's team is using chemical sequencing machines to make a panoply of genes for the highly evolved parts of a modern .

[Britannica Blog] Science Up Front: Born Identity: Elizabeth Marquardt on Anonymous ...: The lack of donor tracking also means that persons conceived via artificial insemination are unable to obtain information about half-siblings, and hence the possibility of accidental incest is very real.  “The American Society of Reproductive Medicine has a professional recommendation that 25 or fewer offspring should be conceived from the sperm of any one donor, but this is only a recommendation, not a law,” Marquardt said.  “And to know you could have even 25 unidentified half-siblings is mind-boggling and disturbing to people conceived in this way.”

[HealthMinistry Blog] Dumbing Down Society Part I: Foods, Beverages and Meds ...: The toxic effects of fluoride on the central nervous system was subsequently confirmed by previously-classified government research. Two new epidemiological studies which tend to confirm fluoride’s neurotoxic effects on the brain have shown that children exposed to higher levels of fluoride had lower IQs.”

[Bruno's Mauritian Blog] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08 | Bruno's Mauritian Blog: Buy-out arm of BofA is spun off: Bank of America has spun off its mid-market private equity arm to form Ridgemont ”¦ http://bit.ly/bhnScZ #; I have some Pop Candy 3-D glasses left over from Comic-Con ”¦ ..... Colophon. This blog contains the ramblings and various thoughts of a physicist, amateur guitarist and Manchester United fan. The blog also endorses economically liberal values and is generally supportive of the Lib Dems UK and the Mouvement Militant Mauricien. ...

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[Quasi Mundo] Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence - The strange and ...: FOR generations, the Avidians have been cloning themselves quietly in a box. They’re not perfect, but most of their mutations go unnoticed.

[The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech] New Tech: Artificial Life Forms Created that Evolve Intelligence: in a computer world called Avida, and replicate using strings of coded computer instructions instead of DNA, they are similar to real life microbes: they compete with each other for resources, replicate, mutate, and eventually evolve to become artificially intelligent life forms. Unlike real-life Darwinian microbes, their evolution can be stopped at any time, reversed, repeated, and the precise sequence of mutations that led to the new trait can be dissected. 

[MX510] Artificial Life Forms Evolve Basic Memory, Strategy | MX510: Calopteryx notes a New Scientist piece on how digital organisms in a computer world called Avida replicate, mutate, and have evolved a rudimentary form of memory. Another example of evolution in a simulation lab is provided by reader Csiko: "An evolutionary algorithm was used to derive a control strategy for simulated robot soccer players.

[bioethics.com] bioethics.com » Blog Archive » Op-Ed: Artificial life forms evolve ...: FOR generations, the Avidians have been cloning themselves quietly in a box. They're not perfect, but most of their mutations go unnoticed.

[Strike-The-Root] Artificial Life Forms Evolve Basic Intelligence | Strike-The-Root ...: Avidians are not microbes, or sci-fi alien life forms. They are the digital offspring of Charles Ofria and colleagues at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing.

[Knight Science Journalism Tracker] Knight Science Journalism Tracker » Blog Archive » New Scientist ...: One question. The story comes with illus - a moth-like sea monkey or something that is labeled as “artificial life from a digital sea.” What is that thing? Who made it? Did it evolve spontaneously in computers? ...

[Alex J. Kane] Alex J. Kane » Blog Archiv » Identity, the Mind, and the Future: In an age of improving medical technology, artificial life support, advanced robotics, and the possibility of advanced virtual reality (check out what Sony’s doing in the video gaming industry; the Future with a capital F is now) or even artificial intelligence is so close to the verge of what was once purely science fiction that it’s simultaneously astonishing and frightening.

[Blog] Nutkracker Videos | Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence: At the 12th annual international conference on artificial life in Odense, Denmark, this month, philosopher and computer scientist Robert Pennock of MSU will present the findings of experiments in which Avidians were made to evolve memory. ”¦ “In the past, the approach has been to start with high-level intelligence and reproduce that in a computer,” says Grabowski.

[Instapundit] Instapundit » Blog Archive » ARTIFICIAL LIFE FORMS evolve basic ...: "Glenn also has a rather dry sense of humour, which I'm guessing not enough people pick up on." -- Andrea See

[Singularity Hub] We Live in a Jungle of Artificial Intelligence that will Spawn ...: Everything (all matter) is in a competition (Circle of Life, Evolution) to build and filter the best knowledge/information, so that we evolve and gain a higher level of consciousness. You can actually see this in nature.

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[Wizbang] Sarah Palin questions Obama's manhood on immigration (Wizbang): I wonder if the spoiled Silver Spoons on Morning Joe knew how much they hurt Democrats, Progressives, Liberals when they didn't challenge NJ Gov. Christie.

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[Sistema Limbico] Literature, science, links and more”¦. | Sistema Limbico - Blogs en ...: ”˜Instead of mucky green it became a deep, idealized blue, as if someone in Google’s Politburo had given the command that, in the absence of other info, it should be colored to match the waltz.’ Tracing the pixilated route of the Danube in preparation for his trip, Eames, without even realizing it, stumbles upon an astonishing discovery: for all its innovative hype, Google has replicated the conventional, nineteenth-century view of European geography. The updated version of Metternich’s famous ”˜East of Vienna, the Orient begins’ could very well be ”˜East of Vienna, Google Earth ends.’

[Cagle Blogs] Cagle Blogs » Obama Debt Commission will Call for Trillions in Tax ...: if you were intent on destroying the US economy, what would you be doing different than what Obama is doing and plans to do——–If I were going to destroy the US economy I would allow as many companies to merge as possible thereby cutting down on competition and creating virtual monopolies. I would then allow those companies complete freedom so that they would have no need to serve the customer or look to long term profits from consumer loyalty, thereby allowing them to only concentrate on a dollar today rather than 10 in the future.

[Popular Symbolism] Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - Information Control (Spoilers): GW being affected by a worm cluster (leading to a cascading effect on the entire neural network governing Arsenal Gear’s command and control system), Olga and Snake directly participating with Raiden as part of a joint effort - all of this combines to put unbearable strains on the S3 Plan simulation’s basic framework. The model cannot handle this transition from zero-sum to a non-zero sum wargame, hence it breaks down even faster, and better yet, the AI agent tries to convince Raiden - through Raiden’s brain implants - that the ’game’ is ’Over’ - ergo, ’Fission Mailed’ (a deliberate misspelling of ’Mission Failed’ - because GW’s mind is deteriorating so rapidly, when it tries to abort the mission, it even gets the spelling wrong).

[Mind Hacks] The curious case of Morgellons disease « Mind Hacks: If the goal of this story was to increase ratings, or God forbid, generate support for the Morgellons cause, I find it despicable and sadly lacking compassion and journalistic integrity. This target was created for research into artificial skin, wound dressing as well as cancer research tools.

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[Crave: The gadget blog] iPhone 4 hitting 17 more countries on Friday | Apple - CNET News: Starting July 30, consumers will be able to buy the new model in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. The iPhone 4 will sell through Apple's retail and online stores as well as authorized resellers.

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