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Mobile displays have become a focal point of design activity in the wireless-handset, PDA and mobile-computing sector. With wireless data services arriving and streaming media being seen as a key application, these displays must be reworked to provide high contrast and faster response times while still meeting the tight power and space budgets of today's mobile devices. To meet these heavy demands, manufacturers are working on revolutionary technologies, such as organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), that promise higher contrast, lower power and faster response times for video applications. At the same time, many of these manufacturers are evolving strategies that will enable existing supertwist-nematic (STN) liquid-crystal displays to support enhanced services and deliver brighter contrast without consuming more power and adding tremendous cost to manufacturing.
"As mobile products become entertainment terminals, one of the biggest criteria will be the performance of the display," said Stewart Hough, vice president of business development at Cambridge Display Technology (CDT). The challenge is picking the right display technology for that mobile device. With so many options to choose from, that's a daunting task, but some due diligence can minimize the risk.
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Of all the new technologies coming to market, OLEDs have clearly captured the most attention in the mobile-communication space. Unlike STN displays, which require a light source to operate, OLEDs are emissive, generating their own red, green and blue light. Those are then mixed proportionately in an additive process to synthesize a range of colors on the display.
OLEDs come in two flavorssmall molecule and polymer. Small-molecule OLEDs are constructed with molecules weighing roughly 100 to 400 atomic units. A shadow mask is used to manufacture these displays; the molecules are deposited onto a glass substrate by means of an evaporation/vacuum process, said David Williams, vice president and CTO of Kodak's Display Products division.
Polymer-based OLEDs, often called PLEDs or light-emitting polymers, take a different approach (Figure 1). As opposed to using a small molecule, these displays are developed by grouping together a chain of molecules that delivers an atomic weight of 100,000 to 500,000 atomic units, CDT's Hough said. Additionally, instead of a vacuum process, polymers are deposited on the glass using an inkjet printing process.
Right now, manufacturers are split on which OLED scheme will be the best to use. Many companies, including Philips, Seiko and CDT, are banking on the polymer technique. By avoiding the vacuum process and using the inkjet placement, Philips believes it can produce a more cost-effective method for developing OLEDs, said Peter Hopper, chief executive officer of Philips' Mobile Display Systems unit.
But according to Williams, arguments that the vacuum process is too costly don't stand up. Kodak will be commencing mass-production of small-molecule displays next year, he said said.
Williams also pointed out that PLED displays come with their own set of challenges, citing in particular the production of the color blue. "They haven't developed blue polymers that are stable yet."
Hough conceded that CDT is expecting to hit a maximum 100,000-hour lifetime on its red and green polymersbut only 5,000 hours for blue polymers.
Though philosophies may differ, "OLEDs are bright, deliver high contrast and are easily readable," said Bob Melcher, CTO at Three-Five Systems.
On the contrast front, Kodak's Williams said existing LCD technologies deliver a contrast of roughly 20:1. OLEDs, on the other hand, can deliver a contrast of 1,000:1 in dim-light conditions, he said. Viewing angle is also a big win. Typically, STN developers quote brightness at a 90 degrees viewing angle. "OLED's brightness stays the same at all angles," Williams said.
Aside from brightness and viewing angle, a fast switching speed allows OLEDs to effectively handle video, a major selling point. According to Paul Semenza, executive vice president at research firm iSupply/Stanford Re-sources, OLEDs can deliver a switching time in the microsecond range. But building drivers that can take advantage of this response time is a real challenge.
Power consumption is also being touted as a big win for OLEDs/PLEDs. Unlike STN or thin-film transistor (TFT) displays, they do not require all pixels to be lit, thereby saving on power, Melcher said. But not everyone is convinced that OLEDs will have substantial power saving.
A white paper from Philips states that PLEDs consume 70 milliwatts when handling text messages and 200 mW for video signals, while backlit LCDs drew approximately 150 mW when displaying both video signals and text. The paper also showed that in a typical standby mode, the PLEDs drew almost three times more power than LCDs: 3 mW, versus 1 mW for LCDs (Figure 2).
Despite these numbers, designers should not rule out the possibility that OLED developers will actually deliver on their promise of a lower-power solution, industry watchers say.
Other OLED issues revolve around pricing and timing. To be successful in the long run, they must compete with STN and TFT displays in terms of cost, Hopper said. And that could make the mass adoption of the technology at least four years away, Hopper added.
Timing is another barrier for OLEDs. While Motorola Inc. has already rolled out an OLED display in a GSM phone, most put the delivery of OLEDs to the mass market out until at least late 2003 or early 2004, if not longer. That long lead time could give STN manufacturers the time they need to advance to a point where OLEDs become less attractive.
A plastic approach
Interest is also beginning to stir around the development of organic transistor technologies that will allow developers to build displays using a low-cost plastic substrate (Figure 3).
Transistors on plastic substrates enables the development of flexible displays and, potentially, even foldable ones, said Michael Kane, distinguished member of the technical staff at Sarnoff.
Furthermore, according to Kane, depositing transistors on plastic can reduce manufacturing costs by eliminating expensive vacuum-processing steps. Material costs also go down. For example, Sarnoff has developed a tiny active-matrix display using Mylar, the same variety of plastics used to produce soda bottles. However, as Kane points out, to make transistors for today's displays, manufacturers must heat glass to 250 degrees C. which can curl a plastic substrate.
To solve this problem, Sarnoff is working on a transistor technology that can be implemented in a low-temperature process, thus allowing it to be deposited on glass. So far, the company has been able to use this process to implement all of the layers, except the organic-semiconductor layer, Kane said. Sarnoff is searching for new compounds, such as poly hexylthyiophene, to solve those problems. Kane said Sarnoff has proven that this technology can produce a transistor on glass if it's deposited using an eye droppera technique that clearly is not feasible in real-world applications.
Sarnoff is still working on poly hexylthyiophene and other compounds, but doesn't expect to see organic-transistor technology on the market for three to five years, said Kane.
If Sarnoff can find an optimal compound, however, organic transistors may provide a nice complement to polymer LED technologies. According to Kane, PLED developers have struggled with depositing transistors through the inkjet process. The answer could lie in marrying PLEDs with organic transistors.
LCDs push ahead
While most manufacturers focus their attention on revolutionary solutions like OLEDs, they are also spending a great deal of time looking at ways to push existing display technologies to new plateaus. Philips is one company focusing a lot of attention on enhancing the performance of existing color STN displays, Hopper said. One of the solutions the company is touting is a color-adjusting technology (CAT), which improves the color quality of STN displays.
Over the past few years, designers have turned to transflective displays-those that merge reflective and transmissive technologies. However, these typically require a trade-off between color saturation and reflectance.
In an LCD, a single-color film, or filter, covers each pixel. Thick filters are used for transmissive displays and thin ones for reflective, because in the latter displays the light passes the filter twice. But since transflective displays house both reflective and transmissive technologies, designers must be careful about which filter technology to choose. If the thin filter is used, color saturation will decrease, creating a washed-out look. If a thick filter is chosen, poor reflectance will result in a dark picture.
CAT technology helps bridge this gap. Through CAT, a corner of the pixel filter is made thinner than the rest, allowing light to pass through the filter unimpeded and without adding color. Color saturation is improved through the thicker color filter, while reflectance is equally enhanced as a result of the filter's partial-reflectance "window." CAT technology will also be customizable: Users will be able to adjust color setting based on viewing angles and other requirements, Hopper said.
Philips is also addressing the reflective brightness of its color STN displays through an integrated diffusing reflector technology (IDR) [Figure 4]. Using an IDR, Philips can process the rear-pixel electrodes to improve and optimize the reflective brightness of the display, according to Hopper.
For its part, Seiko also is developing technologies that will increase the overall luminescence of current color STN displays. "We have developed patented polarizers that increase luminescence, reduce backlighting and increase contrast on STN displays," said Mike McLachlan, director of marketing at Seiko. "These polarizers increase brightness by 20 to 30 percent and contrast by a minimum of 25 percent."
Seiko is also looking for ways to increase the video performance with smart addressing, which will allow engineers to drive a color STN display at 60 nanoseconds, allowing full-motion video. "These displays will not deliver the greatest video performance," McLachlan said. "But for a lot of people this video performance will be good enough."
Integrating drivers
Along with evolving the physical display, efforts are under way to provide higher levels of integration across the entire display subsystem. In particular, many members of the display-development community are eyeing low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) transistors as a means for integrating the display driver and other surrounding electronics onto the display substrate itself.
According to iSupply's Semenza, the LTPS process employs the very same steps that are involved in developing amorphous silicon, which is the base technology for most of today's TFT displays. The big difference, however, is that LTPS requires recrystallization, which entails imparting energy into the TFT to change the structure of the silicon. "The primary benefit of this step is that the resulting polysilicon TFTs have much higher electron mobility, allowing them to switch faster and be smaller," Semenza said. "This, in turn, allows more functions, such as the driver circuitry, to be built onto the display glass."
The integration of driver circuitry also may lead to more durability by reducing the number of connections to the display glass, thus increasing resistance to damage from shock or other external damage, Semenza said.
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Will These Short Love Quotes Bring You Happiness?
Quite often when Brian returns from a little excursion to the grocery store, he has a story to tell. So when he returned home the other day, I was intrigued with his story.
This story is too good to keep to ourselves, so let me share it with you.
Here's what happened.
Brian was at the deli counter, and in his usual friendly manner, he asked the deli clerk (I'll call her Kara), "How's it going?"
As Kara kind of bobbed her head from side to side, Brian observed that she seemed kind of down and out. So he again questioned her.
This time she replied,"I'm having a hard time finding a job in my field. I finished school, and I don't want to work here anymore. I missed a few open house employment job searches at certain locations."
So Brian advised her…
"Don't try to force it! You are a good person. You studied hard. If the right job has not come to you, it will. You'll see!"
As Kara listened, he continued, "Do you remember some time in your life when you wanted something to work, and you forced it and it did not work out? I told my daughter that one day when she wanted to meet the right guy, and I said to her: Don't force it. Don't try to make it work. You won't attract the right person by forcing it."
Well, Kara was so pleased and so happy from what Brian said that she smiled from ear to ear.
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I'd say that Kara was listening to Brian's words of wisdom with her heart, wouldn't you?
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These are short love quotes for you to live by.
Who needs for you to listen with love and with your heart?
When someone is talking to you, do you think about what you're going to say next instead of listening to them with love?
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Don't you want your loved ones to feel that way when you listen with love to them?
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The leaders of Cyprus' two rival communities are making "real progress" at reunification talks after months of complex negotiations, U.N. envoy Alexander Downer said Friday.
Downer said "more has been agreed between the two parties and written down" than at any other peace talks since 1974, when Turkey invaded the island and it divided along ethnic lines. The invasion followed a coup by supporters of union with Greece.
President Dimitris Christofias, a Greek Cypriot, and Mehmet Ali Talat, the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots, started talks in September, and they are expected to carry on well into 2009.
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Chris Paul and Derrick Rose are undoubtedly the game's top two point guards. Their styles are a study in contrast. Each player uses a different set of finely honed skills to overwhelm and bewilder opponents.
Their matchups are among the most intriguing individual faceoffs in the league, and on Sunday they'll start opposite each other in the All-Star Game. But before they do that, we'll break down these talented lead guards, one category at a time, to determine which one is the better player.
Paul is simply as flawless a ballhandler as the league has seen. He has stripped flash from his game and uses only the dribble to gain an advantage. He can stop on a dime with a pull-back crossover on the elbow or freeze a big man with an in-and-out dribble with either hand.
But one of Paul's best weapons is his half dribble -- faking a spin move -- which defenders are forced to play honest. Many point guards consider it one of the trickiest moves to defend. "It's so tough because he does it so fast," Denver Nuggets point guard Ty Lawson says. "You have to assume he's going to spin." In traffic Paul keeps the ball low and close to his body, which makes it very hard to strip, as evident in a career-low 2.2 turnovers per game.
Rose's handle doesn't quite have the fluidity of Paul's but is nonetheless airtight. It's tough to find a quicker crossover than Rose's, which he can snap left-to-right and back in a flash, making it extremely difficult to recover. It's this ability to cover ground laterally that's become a crucial weapon in creating shots for himself and others. Rose can slalom to the rim quicker than most guys can get there in a straight line, zipping through collapsing holes in the nick of time. He's also got a terrific step-back move in which he keeps his dribble then rockets toward the rim after the defender commits his momentum forward.
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Morneau aiming for Twins' Opening Day lineup
Morneau aiming for Twins' Opening Day lineup
"That's the goal," Morneau said. "Everything has gone well, so far. I'm not going to get overly excited or anything else. I can't put more into [it] than what it is, but as of right now, that's the plan."
Morneau, who suffered a season-ending concussion last season on July 7 in Toronto, said he has been in constant contact with doctors this spring, and that they ultimately will decide whether he plays in the regular-season opener.
"If everything continues to go well, they have the final say," said Morneau, who added he'll be in contact with doctors through the first half of the season. "Being honest with my feedback is important. As much as I want to be out there for Opening Day, if something's not right, we're not going to risk it. But so far, everything has been good."
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Morneau finished Grapefruit League play in Florida feeling healthy -- and batted .313 (5-for-16) over his final five games, after starting out the spring going 0-for-13. But he's more satisfied with the way he feels than his results at the plate, and is just excited he's ready to play in exhibition games against the Braves in Atlanta on Tuesday and Wednesday.
"I get to leave with the team, so I'm pretty happy," Morneau said. "So we'll go to Atlanta and see how the trip goes. It's a continuous process with the travel and all that. So hopefully, everything reacts well and continues to go the way it's gone -- so we can go to Toronto for Opening Day. That's the plan."


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Report N1 (added on April, 23, 2005)
I was contacted by a "girl?", Masha, ID #8520 in the UA-Dating agency, the other day. UA seems to be a good agency so far, as I asked them about a gal I couldn't find in their d-base. They confirmed back to me she is not a 'member' and I'm currently playing with her. She'll be in my next report. Anyway, UA provides free translations, so when "Proton" popped up [again] (gee...don't they know who I am by now?) I immediately contacted UA-Dating, and hopefully they will clean 'her' off the d-base.
I hope this will be enough info for you to get her on the scam list.
Actually it's not the girl in the photo I'm sure.
My understanding is that "Proton Translation Service" does some photo theft, and/or "uses" girls in their "cafe". They (Proton) join these agencies on behalf of a girl with their own internet access using her pic and info. She may be real and just a little on the 'dumb' side as far as Proton using her. Then again you never know.
Anyway, here are the letters and only photo I got from "Masha" in her "three free translations".
Michael (USA)
Report N2 (added on April, 12, 2006)
I have many contacts with this kind of "ladies".
This is one of funniest askings (at least for me):
At first ofcause she gave me not answers to my letters, but only copy-paste mails (as "they" do usually).
After some of them, agency "Planet" asked money 'coz quota of Masha's letters is over!!!
Then I sent a new letter to M. from another my e-address,and got reply exactly the same girl-introduction as i already had in previous address. (OK, may-be quota for one man?)
But then "Planet" started ask money for translation service. ("If I want to go on with this lady, I must pay for translation ... bla-bla-bla")
But ...
I had already told them: "I can read and speak russian perfectly (better than english!), WE don't need translation!!!"
They repeated their ...
After what I didn't reply anymore.
Money asked by: "Planet"
address is: Western Union Ukraine, Lugansk Bank Aval.
on the name of their manager Tanya Vasil'chenko.
They repeated their "money-mails" even a month later after i stopped.
NB!! If e-mail address started with "pl_ " , it means Planet. and then follows a girl's first name. (I have met some more likely written addresses on sites of scammer's blacklist). So, if You have address with the same beginning, You'll know...
Also, i got many contacts like this - from metrodate.
As you see - sorry for my english!!
We have not a translation services :))
Nick (USA)


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Humans not 99% chimpanzee? Who would have guessed?
|July 10, 2007
|Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design
Well everyone, actually.
David Tyler discusses the recent startling admission that the claim that humans share 99% of our genes with chimpanzees has long been known to be wrong:
For over 30 years, the public have been led to believe that human and chimpanzee genetics differ by mere 1%. This 'fact' of science has been used on innumerable occasions to silence anyone who offered the thought that humans are special among the animal kingdom. "Today we take as a given that the two species are genetically 99% the same." However, this "given" is about to be discarded. Apparently, it is now OK to openly acknowledge that those who are involved in this research have never been comfortable that the 1% figure was an accurate summary of the scientific information. But more recent studies have made it impossible to sustain the old orthodoxy. They have raised "the question of whether the 1% truism should be retired."
The claim should actually never have been made, for reasons that Jonathan Marks addresses in What does it mean to be 98% chimpanzee?. So why was it made?
It is comments like these that can give sociologists of science a field day, for they reveal how social context influences what results are emphasised and what are overlooked. In this particular case, evolutionary biologists need to take full responsibility. It is good to see a start being made in setting the record straight. Steve Jones, professor of genetics at University College London, writes: "DNA is beside the point. To concede so much to biology risks taking such privileges away from ourselves. [. . .] Chimps may resemble Homo sapiens in a tedious and literal sense, but in everything that makes us what we are H sapiens is unique indeed. Biology, in its proof of our physical similarity to other primates, underlines its own irrelevance."
O come on, Jones! For many years now the similarity was used not to underline biology's irrelevance but ours. That was not an accident either, it was the promotion of materialist propaganda in the guise of science. And the schtick is being retired now because no one was prepared to believe it. Want to know why? How about the rabbi's reflections on sharing your genes with the chimp and the banana.
Tyler addresses the details in his most interesting post.
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1Patrick CaldonJuly 10, 2007 at 6:41 am
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2rswoodJuly 10, 2007 at 9:15 am
I guarantee that when using these facts in conversations the response will be, "1% or 6.4%, the point is we're extremely close to chimps because we evolved from them/common ancestors."
While there is a genome of a human, which is not really one human's genome, and there is a genome of a chimp, it will take several genomes of each before we can appreciate the differences. And based on current technology and cost, that is in the future.
We look around us and see incredible differences in each human we see. What parts of the human genome account for these differences and which are the same from person to person. The same information will be needed for chimps. This information will be necessary before anyone can assess how much is each species different or alike?
What is the allele structure of each? That is how different are the alleles within each species as well as how different they are between each species. Or what makes each human different? How many differences are there in identical twins allele wise? (Is there anything written on this?) And if there is none, then what accounts for differences in behavior besides experience or physical changes to their bodies?
We are a long way from answering the question of how closely related is each species let alone what makes individual members of a species what they are. We will need the latter before we can determine the former with any certainty.
Common Design and convergence are two other alternatives that explain any similarities between any two populations.
Unified physics theory explains animals' running, flying and swimming:
"Our finding that animal locomotion adheres to constructal theory tells us that — even though you couldn't predict exactly what animals would look like if you started evolution over on earth, or it happened on another planet — with a given gravity and density of their tissues, the same basic patterns of their design would evolve again," Marden said.
And before anyone wants to say "scientifically" that humans and chimps share(d) a common ancestor, one has better be prepared to demonstrate that any mechanism can account for the physiological and anatomical differences.
Otherwise all they have is faith. Faith in Mother Nature, Father Time, the blind watchmaker and those magical mystery mutations that still elude our ever watchful eye.
One of the problems with any discussion of evolution is the mechanism for creating change. Behe, just said in his book that mutations don't cut it. So that rules out gradualism. NS cannot work on nothing.
What is left? There are many people like Alan McNeill that say there are other naturalistic mechanisms but the lack of evidence here is just as conspicuous as for gradualism.
So what is left? A mysterious intelligence that every now and then modifies the genome of a species and sends it on its way? Or some other mechanism such as front loading? Or something else that is consistent with common descent?
Whatever it is, it is consistent with common descent.
There are many people like Alan McNeill that say there are other naturalistic mechanisms but the lack of evidence here is just as conspicuous as for gradualism.
I have tried to understand Alan McNeill's perspective. The best I can tell, his view is that there are situations when natural selection plays a limited role. He points to the opening up of a new lake that theoretically happened sometime in pre-history. The result is that the lake contains bunches of new fish species, variants of common species. He conjectures that when the new territory opened up, any variant that "worked" could be successful because there was no competition in this uncharted territory. If I understand him correctly, his view, therefore, is just a twist on the same old story. I personally think that McNeill exaggerates the uniqueness of his perspective, that he offers nothing but a variant/circomstance of RM+NS.
I certainly cannot speak for Allen MacNeill but I believe he says it is RV + NS/GD. The RV is just a short hand for random variation which may be caused by a myriad of processes including SNP's. The NS/GD are just the two processes of population genetics that drive differences in the percentage of alleles in a population if they are present.
Allen is fond of throwing a lot of information out that may not be relevant to the discussion but here is what is up on his website at the moment:
"And what might this "engine" of change be? Exactly what Darwin said it was in the Origin of Species: the "laws of variation" of which naturalists of his time were almost "completely ignorant." That is, given that some variations are heritable and that they can be passed from parents to offspring in the process of reproduction, then it is the processes that cause such variations that are the real "engine(s)" of evolution, including evolution by natural selection."
He goes on in this very interesting post to say
"Clearly, the "engine(s)" of variation are prodigious, as it/they have been able over time to modify something as simple as a mycoplasm into an oak tree or a blue whale. Some supporters of "intelligent design" (ID) would dispute this statement, of course, claiming (without any empirical evidence) that "you can't get here from there." However, we clearly have gotten here from there; the real question is "how?" There are logically at least two possibilities:
• The process(es) by which the "engine(s) of variation" have produced the necessary variation have operated endogenously by means of a prodigious (and undirected) "random variation generator," the products of which have been sorted over time by natural selection (i.e. the Darwinian hypothesis), or
• The process(es) by which the "engine(s) of variation" have produced the necessary variation have operated endogenously by means of a less prodigious "non-random variation generator," the products of which have been sorted over time by natural selection (i.e. the ID hypothesis).
Noticing that the only difference between these two possibilities is the amount of variation and its source immediately suggests a way of testing the two hypotheses: do the currently identified mechanisms of genetic and phenotypic variation produce enough variation to get from there to here, or not? If the answer is "yes," then the ID hypothesis is unnecessary, and therefore irrelevent to science.
So, the next obvious question is, what are the currently identified mechanisms of genetic and phenotypic variation, and do they provide enough variation to get here from there? The answer to this question will be posted soon -watch this space."
Interesting is that Behe's book just eliminated option 1 of Allen possible mechanisms. But I bet he would not agree.
From a software engineer's perspective: I would expect any good designer to reuse effective design patterns. This is why arguments referencing similar molecular machines or genetic sequences across species do not favor the Darwinian view from my perspective. To the theist it merely shows God is a good designer.
On the other hand, I would be very surprised to see completely novel ways of doing the exact same complex function within the same organism or similar organisms. For a creator-god this would either indicate poor design skill or showiness. But then of course God reserves the right to be showy! However, in software engineering this would not make it past a good code review. The developer would be told to go back and consolidate (re-factor) similar functions to reuse a common component instead of having to maintain two separate and unique components providing the same function.
Now if I were an advocate of Darwinism, I would be looking for just such a case. Instead of pointing out the similarity of DNA between man and chimp, I would look for separately-located components with identical functionality and with radically different complex designs at the molecular level. Since natural selection is blind to engineering best-practices, one would expect to find random mutation producing such results. Conversely, as a proponent of design, I would look for cases where identical complex function employs the same design pattern across multiple species where their common ancestor (according to Darwinian view of the fossil record) did not possess the function. It seems entirely unlikely complex novel functionality would develop similarly in two separate evolutionary pathways as a result of mutation – i.e. a chance material mechanism. One would expect the designs to be different unless we make the unsupported assumption complex systems can only be configured in one way. That is certainly not the way it is in my world of engineering.
So what is left? A mysterious intelligence that every now and then modifies the genome of a species and sends it on its way? Or some other mechanism such as front loading? Or something else that is consistent with common descent?
Whatever it is, it is consistent with common descent.
But we don't know what universal common descent would look like. That is because it has never been observed.
The best we can do is to just say "X is consistent with UCD" without any way of verifying that assertion.
IMHO the data is also consistent with convergence and Common Design.
The nested hierarchy of living organisms was first used as evidence for Common Design.
In order for that same data to be consistent with universal common descent something else would be required to explain the physiological and anatomical differences observed between allegedly closely related populations such as chimps and humans.
To date that something else has remained elusive.
BTW alien colonization is still a possibility. And even though that may just push things back a little (meaning how did those aliens arise), we have to work with what we have. And what we have is the living organisms on this planet. So we study them.
And if the data gleaned from that demonstrates that universal common descent is a pipe-dream, then so be it. We can't make something up just because we don't like the data. Yet that is what has happened. Which is why I left biology for electronics. Electronics is all about reality…
If I may beg to add: 1% of 3*10^9 ~ 3*10^7, i.e 30 mn four-state elements, or 60 megabits of potential information.
In a case of a programming language, a few bits can make all the difference, as the NASA computer programmer who left off a comma on the code for a rocket can testify. It went off-course on launch, and had to be destroyed — before it did a lot of damage.
A comma has in it, maybe eight bits of information?
But, in the context of that particular comma, eight bits was all the difference between a launchable rocket and one that had to be destroyed.
So, what was that again about dismissing the significance of "1%" or "2%" or "6.4%" or whatever claimed percent difference in genetic code or protein sequences, in such a highly non-linear semantic system?
[Not to mention 500 bits — much less 60 millions — has in it ~ 10^150 states, so there are immediately major Dembski-type upper probability bound problems on randomly accessing the human genome state starting from say a chimp-like initial state was it some 4 – 10 MYA or whatever is projected into the unobserved past?]
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You use the phrase "universal common descent." I just use "common descent." The evidence available only points to some lines as having common descent.
What we are talking about is the presence of certain very odd nucleotide sequences across species and their origin. It is statistically improbable that they could have arisen independently. The most convincing to me are the deletion events. We had this discussion a short time ago and most of the posts were on retro viruses but there are many other pieces of information.
There is no evidence that everything descended from a single celled cell organism as far as I know, There is obviously the use of DNA in all life and the use of similar proteins across organisms and similar organization systems within the genome of very disparate organisms but this does not necessarily indicate common descent from naturalistic causes.
Since all these things appear across the various phyla, it means that these proteins and organization systems were in use prior to the Cambrian Explosion.
The real mystery is the mechanism which as Allen MacNeill points out could be consistent with an intelligent designer if endogenous forces cannot produce the variation necessary. And Behe's book did just that, it eliminated the possibility of endogenous forces causing the changes necessary.
I doubt Allen MacNeill will agree with my assessment of Behe's book because he will be toast in the biology community if he does.
You use the phrase "universal common descent.†I just use "common descent.†The evidence available only points to some lines as having common descent.
I agree. I was just trying to differentiate between the two so no one got confused.
What we are talking about is the presence of certain very odd nucleotide sequences across species and their origin. It is statistically improbable that they could have arisen independently.
I disagree. Any nucleotide has a 1 in 4 chance of being either an A, T, C or G. Therefore by chance alone we would expecty some similarities.
The most convincing to me are the deletion events. We had this discussion a short time ago and most of the posts were on retro viruses but there are many other pieces of information.
Common mechanism explains both- as does Common Design.
Do you know what it takes to get the same retrovirus in the same location on both chromosomes?
You said:
"I disagree. Any nucleotide has a 1 in 4 chance of being either an A, T, C or G. Therefore by chance alone we would expect some similarities."
We are not talking about single nucleotide similarities or differences but much longer sequences with the exact same deletions. The odds of this appearing in cows and goats or other similar type species and nowhere else are infinitely small.
Common design only makes sense for these sequence if the sequences in question have function. We may have to wait a long while for that to be determined. Right now the sequences are buried in the same introns across species and smells of creation by a mutation event at some previous time. If you want to hold out hope of every sequence having function, then they could be common design but right now the betting is on some of the genome having some randomness to it.
We are a long way from seeing an explanation of each sequence in the genome.
I personally think there was design at several points and this design had a lot of flexibility built in it so that an organism could adapt to the environment and change based on the flexibility that was built in. Over time this process of adaptation will eliminate a lot of diversity in a particular species through natural selection and genetic drift. So an iguana on Galapagos and one in Ecuador will be similar but have slightly different genomes based on their environments and isolation from each other.
On top of this, there is the ongoing mutation process that will modify parts of the genome and possibly eliminate parts of the diversity of the species and may occasionally add some diversity in the sense of adding a new allele. So we see both planned diversity and random destruction in a genome and it is probably hard to distinguish which is which in many instances.
But this is just my speculation and could change in a second if I see contradictory evidence. But to me it fits the data bettter than anything. But what do I know.
Excellent post. It is the type of logic that is usually lacking from these discussions. Off the top of my head I do not know which position it will support more or if there are other positions we are not considering.
Your comments must have gotten held up for some reason.
Thanks. I'm new to the board and my comments were held up until approved by the moderator.
As an engineer my understanding of life science is limited to reading books and internet sites/blogs. I was hoping someone out there might know first-hand whether or not any research was being done along the lines of my post.
As an engineer you might be interested in a video by MIT available for free on the internet.
Go to http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/363/ and there is a video titled
"The Implications of Synthetic Biology"
It will not answer your question but it is about engineering design in biology. Here is a quote about it
"There's no mistaking Drew Endy's profession: "I like to make things — that's what I do.†From his engineer's perspective, the slow and painful methods of bioengineering demand a solution. Endy hopes to refine the tools necessary to move the field forward. "We're going from looking at the living world as only coming from nature, to a subset of the living world being produced by engineers who design and build hopefully useful living artifacts according to our specifications,†says Endy."
BHearn, I'm going to disagree with you on a couple of fronts. First, I don't think its very productive to try and second guess God (or whatever you wish to call the designer). It's just as inappropriate to think along these lines in support of design as it is when one is criticizing design.
Second, I don't think you appreciate just how unlike designed things cells are. For example, when you turn the lights off in a room, do you tear the switch out of the wall and throw it away? When you shut down your computer, do you toss out the keyboard (and I mean every time!)? After you take your Porsche for a spin, do you rip out and discard the ignition switch (and maybe some spark plugs to boot)? When you are sifting through bids for construction, say for a house, would you seriously consider one that proposes that doors and windows be disposable, and that they be replaced after every use, regardless of cost?
If you answer yes to any of these questions, then congratulations, you are applying biochemical principles to engineering. If you answer no, then you have learned that, at its core, life is not like anything a rational engineer would design. And you have learned that the parallels that many here see between design and biology are cosmetic at best, and certainly do not extend to the fundamental strategies in play in living things.
Thanks for the link – I'll have to check that out.
I suppose anyone trying to form a theology around what they observe and the beliefs they form runs the risk of "second guessing" God. Surely however there ought to be good reason to not do so – otherwise let's all go back to our respective professions and drop the whole matter 😉
Your comments on why life is not anything like what a rational engineer would design are interesting, yet merely hypothetical. Perhaps you could point me towards literature which might support your view.
And, Dembski, Behe and others of which I have read seem to me to view, say the bacterial flagellum, as an engineered machine – so I don't see how I'm out on a limb.
I still think it would be interesting to structure research around analyzing the machines of life and cataloging them according to what makes sense from an engineering standpoint versus genetic mutation. Such a catalog (in my novice software engineering point of view) might show a pattern and prove fruitful. My original question was to find out if this has already been done.
Hi BHearn,
My comments about the irrationality of living things are far from hypothetical. If you know how to access Pubmed, then you should go there and do a literature search for the term "proteasome" (I didn't misspell it). You'll find that the cutting edge in terms of gene expression is all about breakdown, turnover, literally ripping the switch out of the wall and tossing it.
Dig a bit more and you'll find that the themes that underlie the recognition therein are all low information – zero CSI, if you would.
(Wikipedia has an article on the proteasome, but it doesn't do justice to the regulatory aspects of the process.)
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Since Sept. 18, 2012, Nadine Efstathiou has dreaded hearing the phone or finding a letter from the Massachusetts Parole Board in her mailbox.
Since Sept. 18, 2012, Nadine Efstathiou has dreaded hearing the phone or finding a letter from the Massachusetts Parole Board in her mailbox.
"When you see that (parole board) letter, you think, 'I can't open this,'" she said, seated in her West Roxbury apartment last week.
For nine months, she waited to hear whether Thomas Childs, convicted of second-degree murder for the Aug. 20, 1983, shooting death of her husband, Kostas Efstathiou, would be released from MCI Norfolk.
On June 17, she received word, six months after being told the decision would be made: 71-year-old Childs was denied parole. The man whom the board described as having "an extraordinary history of violent criminal conduct, with much of that conduct involving firearms," has been up for parole three times for Efstathiou's murder. He is next eligible for a hearing in 2017.
"Well, the wait was worth it … (but) it was very frustrating," Nadine Efstathiou said in the tidy home she shares with her daughter Jennifer, her daughter's fiancé, Angel, and her granddaughter. She and her husband also have two sons, Donnie and Teddy.
The quiet, well-manicured street where she lives is a contrast to her life at the time of the parole hearing. In fall 2012, she was homeless, living with different friends and trying to survive a wave of depression she had been grappling with since her husband was killed.
On Aug. 19, 1983, Childs and some of his friends, who had been drinking and doing drugs at a party decided to head out to a Roslindale Dunkin' Donuts to get some coffee. While there, Childs told the parole board in September he and his friend Kevin Murphy heard sexually offensive comments being made to their female friends, coming from a nearby car.
The two decided to take matters into their own hands, said Childs. Admitting he was drunk when he and Murphy approached the car, Childs said he discovered there were three men inside, one of whom was sleeping, when he went to confront them. The man who was asleep was Efstathiou.
"It all happened in a second," said Childs at the September hearing. Saying he rested his .38 on the driver's side window, he claimed the passenger, Efstathiou, woke up as he and Murphy spoke to the other men, "and reached for the gun" which went off, Childs said.
"I did not mean to shoot and kill anyone … but I had," said Childs at the hearing.
After killing Efstathiou, Childs said he ran home and put on a pot of coffee to sober up. With Murphy, he eventually went to the West Roxbury Police Station and told officers what happened, he said at the hearing.
In rejecting Childs' bid for parole, the parole board detailed several highlights of Childs' long criminal history, which began in April 1955.
By "January of 1963, during one of his many incarcerations, Mr. Childs and six other inmates escaped from the Plymouth County House of Correction after taking two corrections officers hostage," the parole board stated. "Mr. Childs used his position as institutional barber to obtain a straight razor that he used to assault the corrections officers. Mr. Childs and his co-perpetrators bound, gagged and locked the officers in a cell," the board continued.
"Mr. Childs committed four armed robberies while on escape," they wrote.
Even after these crimes, in 1975 he received a full pardon for several offenses, including the four armed robberies. Only eight years later, he murdered Kostas – or Charlie, as Nadine called him – Efstathiou.
Finding hope
Nadine Efstathiou's life had been in a holding pattern since her husband was murdered. After the most recent parole hearing for Childs, she said she was at a low point. She said she was struggling with numerous problems, some of which she preferred to keep private.
"I was slowly losing my family," she said, before deciding to enter a women's recovery program in Fall River in October 2012.
Efstathiou said she had seen counselors on and off since the murder and had tried different medications, but had basically suffered for 30 years until she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Feelings of fear and anxiety overwhelmed her from the time of the killing. After Childs had been convicted in 1984 and jailed, Efstathiou said, "I would always check to see if he was (still locked up)."
Not depending solely on information from the Victims Services Unit of the state Executive Office of Public Safety, she said she would call the jail herself to be sure he was still incarcerated.
Wishing she had been diagnosed with PTSD decades ago, she said, "I would have been more stable … I was just hibernating."
Now on the proper medication and going to counseling, Efstathiou said the program "helped me. It was what I needed."
The program, which enabled her to rebuild her family relationships, has given her a "tool box" of coping strategies, should feelings overwhelm her again.
"Lately, I've been having these feelings of 'what would my life be if Charlie was still here?'" she said as her granddaughter napped in a nearby bedroom. Reflecting on the strong bond she now has with the 2-year-old, she looked down and reflected, "To think all he has missed."
While the specter of yet another parole board hearing looms five years from now, for the first time in a long time Nadine Efstathiou has been thinking happier thoughts about the future.
"It's brighter every day for me and my family. (The parole board's decision) has lifted a lot of anxiety off of me," she said, smiling.


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The Los Angeles Sparks, which, at 25-9, had the league's best regular-season record, feature rookie Christi Thomas, who helped the Lady Bulldogs reach the Elite Eight last spring. In her past eight games, Thomas has averaged 9.5 points, 6.4 rebounds and 1.63 steals. The Sparks take on Sacramento in the first round, which features Lady Hardman Grooms.
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Twelve: Goals galore
Even the most notorious nitpickers will have to admit that the Bundesliga sent its fans into the international break in style. The past weekend produced no less than 34 goals in the nine games, which is pretty good even for the most goal-hungry of the big European leagues. The last time so many goals graced a weekend, we were only a few days away from Christmas eve.
It's also rather unusual that so many goals are scored so early, as the past round of games was only matchday number 12. Normally, the goalfests come in late spring - of the 15 most productive matchdays, no less than six were the final days of a season. (And the all-time record, 53 goals, dates from matchday 32 of the 1983-84 season.)
But that's not all. As the stats experts at Kicker magazine pointed out on Monday, the most recent round of games was highly unusual for two other reasons. One, it was the first matchday since March 2008 on which not a single team managed to keep a clean sheet. Two, Freiburg's late winner at Nurnberg - scored from the spot and three minutes into stoppage time - means that every team has now managed to win at least one game away from home. Apparently, that has never before happened so early in a season.
This seems to indicate that the Bundesliga, despite Bayern's perceived dominance and Augsburg's obvious problems in adapting to top- flight football, is as competitive as ever. And indeed, the final game of the weekend underlined this, as the clash between Bayern and Augsburg was not at all the one-sided affair people had expected.
In fact, you have to say Augsburg were a tad unlucky to drop points, as only an amazing Manuel Neuer save seven minutes from time stood between the newly promoted team and a draw against the biggest club in the land.
Then again, that's what goalkeepers are there for. And after quite a few weeks in which Bayern barely allowed a shot on goal, prompting people to joke they had wasted millions on a goalkeeper they didn't need, it was about time Neuer proved his class, not to mention his worth. "He's done his job," Bayern president Uli Hoeness said after the final whistle, adding with a smile: "He's now paid off €1 million."
Needless to say, one of the goals that secured Bayern's win was scored by Mario Gomez, who's now been on target 20 times in 18 competitive games. However, it's a testament to the fact that the league is also as offensive as ever that Gomez is not at all running away, as it were, with what is generally called the Golden Boot. (In Germany, the trophy is actually a small wooden cannon.)
Of course, Gomez leads the goalscoring charts, but he is, well, 'only' three goals ahead of Schalke's Dutch striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, who was unavailable on Sunday (more about that in a minute), and only two goals ahead of Claudio Pizarro. The Bremen forward has gained considerable ground on Gomez this weekend by netting a hat-trick that helped Werder turn a two-goal deficit against Cologne around.
Pizarro is definitely on a roll. He's scored eight goals in the last six league games, which led his coach, Thomas Schaaf, to say: "With age, he becomes better and better." Not that there was anything Pizarro had to prove. Since October 2010, when he scored his 134th goal in Germany to finally overtake Giovane Elber, the Peruvian is the most successful foreign striker in Bundesliga history.
It is doubtful whether Huntelaar will ever challenge Pizarro in that particular department, simply because the Dutchman was already 27 when he got into the Bundesliga and just doesn't have enough time left. (Pizarro was 20 when he started his first spell at Bremen in the summer of 1999.)
But Huntelaar is, as we said last week, as red-hot as Gomez and Pizarro - which is why Schalke fans will have been very annoyed to see him sidelined on the weekend. The reason for the Dutchman's absence was a facial injury sustained in an aerial duel. Bizarrely, that kind of collision with that kind of consequence was the story of the past ten days.
On Friday, October 28, Leverkusen's Michael Ballack was hit in the face by the elbow of Freiburg's Jan Rosenthal and broke his nose (which is why he played Saturday's game, a disappointing 2-2 draw at home with Hamburg, wearing a face mask).
Five days later, on Wednesday, Bayern's Bastian Schweinsteiger collided with Napoli's Gökhan Inler and fractured his collarbone. He'll miss the remainder of the first half of the season, which is particularly deplorable - from Bayern's point of view - because he'd been in such great form and would have been needed for the next Bundesliga game: the much-anticipated clash with champions Dortmund.
However, Dortmund will also be missing a key player. On Saturday, centre back Neven Subotic was almost knocked out by the elbow of Wolfsburg's Sotirios Kyrgiakos and suffered a severe injury, breaking bones in his face. Interestingly, in none of those three cases, the opposing player was booked. And that also goes for the fourth facial injury, the multiple nasal fracture Huntelaar sustained in the Europa League last Thursday. However, in this case it was a collision with a team-mate, Joel Matip, that had such painful consequences, which explains why there was no yellow card in this case.
Huntelaar was, slightly surprisingly, replaced by the recently signed Finnish striker Teemu Pukki on Sunday against Hannover 96. Some observers had doubted the wisdom of that transfer, arguing you shouldn't buy a striker just because he's scored against you - Pukki had put three past Schalke in the Europa League qualifiers. But in the first game he started for Schalke, Pukki proved he can score against other Bundesliga teams as well, netting two - and hitting the post - as Schalke earned a point in a thrilling game.
Which takes us back to the beginning of this rundown - goals galore. One team bucking this trend are Hoffenheim, who have scored only 15 goals so far, less than Hertha, Cologne, Mainz and even Freiburg. This comes as a bit of a surprise, as the club - obviously fearing it was in danger of becoming an at best faceless, at worst boring epitome of mediocrity - had signed coach Holger Stanislawski from St. Pauli to return to the exciting, attacking ways of 2008 and also add some Pauli-esque fire and verve.
So far, it's not been the success story they had hoped for in the village. Some fans already fear that mid-table mediocrity could soon be something Hoffenheim are actually hoping for. You can't blame them, considering Stanislawski commented on Saturday's draw against Kaiserslautern by saying: "After this performance, the trend is downward."
Which is why Bayern versus Dortmund and Gladbach versus Bremen are not the only interesting games after the international break. The prospect of watching Hamburg take on Hoffenheim may be less mouth-watering, but is, in its own way, just as thrilling.
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This is my grandson Gaige Plunginger, age 12 with his first nice 8-point buck which he got with his 44 Ruger, in the Maine 2009 season. He downed the deer with one shot, on a day with the rain coming down hard.
We sat in the stand for over 3 hours in the rain, for this buck to come out. He turn to me after he saw the deer go down, and said: Papa I got him, and he want down, papa I just love to hunt. To hear him say this and to be with him meant more to me than any deer I ever shot. Thank you for letting me share this with others.
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I always love seeing young hunters with thier trophy's. Has off to any hunters young or old for sitting in the rain for 3 hours waiting for a deer.
Congratulations Gaige and keep on hunting. If your ever in Kansas look me up.
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LONDON – Another huge diamond is hitting the market – this time it's a pear-shaped gem that belonged to heiress Christina Onassis. It will be auctioned June 11 at Christie's with an estimated value as high as $4.3 million.
Dubbed the "Poor Little Rich Girl" by the media, Onassis was the only child of the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Twenty years after her death at age 37, her family is auctioning 45 pieces from her jewelry collection. The sale is expected to realize more than $15 million.
The diamond, now on display in Geneva, is a glittering symbol of a glamorous, but troubled, international lifestyle that would outdo most Royals and pop stars today. Sold by the famed 5th Avenue jeweler Harry Winston, it weighs in at 38 carats and is rated as D in color. Christie's describes the brilliantly white gem as potentially flawless. Christina Onassis wore it on a pendant necklace.
The Onassis diamond becomes available at a time when the market for large diamonds is uneven. Earlier this year, Christie's sold a 39-carat "D" color, flawless diamond for $6.87 million – and it did not carry the Onassis name or the pedigree of Harry Winston's. On May 31, the auction house will offer a flawless, 101-carat diamond that is the largest of its kind to be sold in two decades.
But in April, Sotheby's withdrew a 72- carat "D" flawless white diamond when bidding failed to meet its presale estimate of $10-12 million.
Other highlights of the Onassis collection to be sold include:
• A sapphire and diamond necklace by Harry Winston (estimate: $234,000- $292,000)
• A ruby and diamond necklace by Van Cleef and Arpels (estimate: $58,500-$78,000)
• An exceptionally rare bowenite Buddha by Carl Fabergé that was prominently displayed took on her father's yacht. The figurine's hands and head move on springs and pivots, and it was described as having "serenely rocked" as the ship plied the Mediterranean. Bowenite is a mineral that is very similar to jade. Christie's estimates the Buddha will fetch $487,000 to $681,000.
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Situated in a quiet pocket of Centenary Heights is this wonderful three bedroom property which has recently been refreshed throughout with new paint, floor coverings and lighting. At the heart of the home is the kitchen which has been beautifully renovated and is complete with a new dishwasher, electric cooktop and oven, stone bench tops and a stacker pantry catering for all your storage needs.
Bamboo flooring has been installed in the living areas and kitchen adding that extra modern touch to the property and allowing for easy living. All three bedrooms feature ceiling fans and built-in wardrobes and are all conveniently located close to the family bathroom which has a built-in bathtub, shower and vanity with a separate toilet.
Just around the corner from the family bathroom is a fully renovated built-in laundry with new tiles and cupboards and offering plenty of storage space, leading out to your very own covered outdoor entertaining area, the perfect spot to sit back and relax while hosting family and friends for weekend barbecues. The yard is neat and tidy and has plenty of room for the children or family pet to run around in privacy and is complete with a garden shed for the home handyman.
NBN ready with security screens throughout and only a stone's throw to Southtown Shopping Centre's amazing café strip, you really have everything you need right at your doorstep. A single carport is located at the front of the home as well as insulation and brand new venetian blinds throughout the property and a gas heater in the main living area. The neighbourhood is friendly and quiet, the perfect location for family living with council general rates coming in at approximately $2212.34 per annum.
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A Yemeni man was shot and killed by gunmen on his way to work at the U.S. Embassy in Sana early Thursday morning. The car carrying Qassem Aqlan, who headed an embassy security team, was shot at by masked attackers on a motorcycle. "This (assassination) operation has the fingerprints of al Qaeda which carried out similar operations before," a source told Reuters. Assassination attempts have been frequent since Yemen's Army cleared Islamist fighters out of many towns earlier this year, while the U.S. has been on high alert for its embassy staff overseas since the ambassador to Libya was killed with three others on Sept. 11 in Benghazi.


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As publishers continue to expand their electronic offerings - libraries need to deal with the opportunities and pitfalls electronic collections raise - accessibility, usability, content, and cost. Gregory has expanded and updated her classic manual for coping with these issues. Hailed as invaluable and definitive by reviewers, this how-to covers all the specifics of collection policies and processes; budgeting and acquisitions; evaluation and assessment; and preservation issues. Totally new sections explain digital rights management, new technologies, and new models and standards for organizing and accessing content. The included figures, forms, and worksheets give professionals the tools they need to prioritize and manage their work. This manual is essential for delivering the next wave of information to users.
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It's the World Cup kickoff party, on Fortaleza Beach.
The FIFA Fan Fest is alive! Tens of thousands on Fortaleza beach, enjoying Brazilian music, World Cup moments – pic.twitter.com/XSuXnaHO8L
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This is the first thing I've seen from Brazil in the past few months that makes me somewhat want to be there.
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Last month, we wrote about a survey list that appeared in The Princeton Review's Best 366 Colleges. The list, titled, "professors get low marks," cited seven engineering schools among the worst ten colleges in the country for teaching quality.
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