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Published: Friday, March 8, 2013 at 11:56 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 8, 2013 at 11:56 p.m.
The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office is investigating two shootings that occurred Friday night.
In the first incident, a man suspected of breaking into a home near Landrum was shot by the homeowner around 6:30 p.m. Friday.
Media outlets reported the shooting occurred at 532 Highway 14 West.
Few details were available as of 10:15 p.m. Friday.
Sheriff's deputies are investigating the shooting.
Master Deputy Kevin Bobo said the suspected burglar was shot multiple times, but it does not appear his wounds are life threatening.
Bobo said the 7th Circuit Solicitor's Office was consulted, and it appears that the homeowner was within his rights to shoot the man.
The second shooting was reported at 10:18 p.m. at 105 Wilson Court, off 4th Street in Valley Falls.
As a couple was returning home from the movies, deputies say they were approached by two men wearing ski masks and hoodies.
One of the suspects shot the male victim in the chest, and both suspects fled on foot.
A K-9 unit was on the scene late Friday night attempting to track suspects, and victim was transported to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center.
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Toyota Tacoma 2011 is Toyota's pick-up truck target for American market. Tacoma's production began at the San Antonio, TX plant, which was built in 2009 with an investment of $1.4 billion. However, the overall sales haven't been good so far and Toyota's offials are blaiming slumping economy for the slow sales.

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The objectives of this cooperative research project are to:.1)determine spatial distribution, concentration, and types of mineral nutrients, gases, and microbes in poultry litter in a broiler house as affected by environment, house management, and successive broods of broilers;.2)determine base line and changes in pasture land as poultry litter is applied as a fertilizer; and.3)determine influence of environmental and agronomic practices on the fate and transport of nutrients and microbes from litter applied to pasture lands that have not previously had litter applied.
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Work will be done on cooperator's farm in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. ARS will work with cooperator in establishment and maintenance of multi-year on farm experiments designed to identify, quantify, and determine the fate and transport of nutrients and microbes and to generate data and new information to improve efficient farm practices. ARS researchers will work with cooperator to collect litter, soil, runoff, and crop plant samples from the cooperator's farm. Samples will be transported to ARS Genetics and Precision Agriculture laboratories at Mississippi State, Mississippi, for nutrient and microbial analysis. Air samples will be collected systematically from the houses as they are stocked with birds and as subsequent flocks of birds are stocked and grown in the houses.
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"It's pitiful. You've got pictures of them and what not and you can see. It's pitiful. To be honest with you some of them look like a two-by-four."
Joe Green lives next door to one of the farms where some 42 dead cows have been found. Department of Agriculture officials got a call from neighbors about the animals.
George Offutt is an Ag Investigator. He says, "We came in, started looking and of course we did find several dead animals. As time progressed we found more and more."
Some of the cows were found in creeks that feed into the Barren River. The Department of Environmental Services and Animal Control have been contacted to dispose properly of the corpses.
Offutt says, "Between this location of this farm and another farm we're looking at approximately 42 animals at this time."
Green says, "And it's gonna take some tender loving care or a bunch more is gonna die."
Trailers were brought in to take the surviving cattle off the property. Animal Control will test the animals to see if they are diseased. Meanwhile, the Department of Agriculture investigators are trying to figure out why so many animals are dead.
Offutt says, "Well, it is disturbing. It makes you wonder what people are thinking to let something like this happen."
The Barren County Sheriff tells WBKO Tom Holmes Sr. is facing previous animal cruelty charges. Holmes Sr. was charged with second-degree animals cruelty in June of 2004. He is pleading not guilty in that case. Now, he will be charged with second-degree animal cruelty again, as well as improper disposal of dead animals.


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6 Popular Monsters Myths (That Prove Humanity Is Doomed)
#3. Ghosts
Please note that this article is not resolving the question of life after death, but specifically the idea that after death you come back and wander around your house or cemetery as a translucent version of yourself.
Been Around Since...
Now here's a phenomenon even more universal than the zombie or the vampire. Dig into folklore from ancient China, ancient Europe, ancient Egypt, ancient anywhere, and you find ghosts. Humans have believed in ghosts for as long as we've had the brain power to believe anything.
For the Love of God, Why?
The whole idea of the deceased appearing as a blurry, pale form is thought to go back to cave men seeing a person's frosty breath on a cold day and thinking that was the magical stuff that kept them alive (after all, when a man dies, that pale stuff stops coming out). When the caveman sees his friend get eaten by a dinosaur, he sees the steam rise from the wounds into the cold air and thinks, "that's Ogg's soul escaping!" Then he hops into his foot-powered car, strapping himself in with a seatbelt that is also a snake.
Granted, that theory also means ancient man thought that a bowl of soup had a soul, as well as dog turds. But remember it was the tradition at the time to not believe anything unless it was completely retarded.
Thankfully that tradition has passed.
Also, people back then weren't so good at telling the difference between dreams and reality, so a dream about the recently deceased was considered a visit.
But weirdest of all, solidifying the concept was the baffling phenomenon of out-of-body experiences, which scientists have now figured out is due to a malfunction of a part of the brain called the temporoparietal junction. It's responsible for gathering sensory data and using it to create a general sense of how your body is positioned, so you're not always banging your head on things.
But when it misfires, it can mistakenly think your body is, say, across the room from your mind. In experiments scientists have manipulated that part of the brain to make a guy think he was three feet away from his own body.
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Of course these beliefs have been happily assisted by countless mediums and psychics and John Edward types who will "contact" your loved ones and tell you everything you want to hear. For a fee.
But even they are really just playing off the fact that grief makes us selfish; we assume that if our loved ones exist as ghosts, they're surely still hanging around the house waiting to hear from us, rather than, say, up in Heaven playing dodge ball with Teddy Roosevelt.
#2. Werewolves
Werewolves are the next vampires. They star in the Twilight sequel, and there's another huge werewolf movie coming soon thereafter (The Wolfman). So get ready to be fucking sick of werewolves.
Too late.
Been Around Since...
We have freaking cave drawings from 14,000 years ago depicting humans with animal features, or transforming into animals. So, yeah.
For the Love of God, Why?
We'd assume that this one came about when our caveman saw his friend Ogg walk behind a boulder and then saw a wolf come trotting out the other side. Said caveman runs back home and says, "Wilma! I totally saw Ogg transform into a wolf! Ogg is a wolf now! How awesome is that?"
Then Ogg comes ambling up saying, "Why did you leave me back there? I was taking a shit." The tribe thus comes to the natural conclusion that Ogg can transform into a wolf and then turn back.
That's just a guess, of course. What we do know is that the animal the supposed werewolf transforms into differs according to whatever is the most dangerous predator in the region--in Europe, wolf attacks used to be common so they have werewolves. But in Central America they have were-jaguars, in central Asia, were-bears. Which leads us right to...
The "People are Dicks" Factor:
Here we are again, taking a natural phenomenon (wolf attacks) and crazily deciding the hairiest guy in the village must somehow be their ringleader. And yes, accused "werewolves" were put on trial and killed in Europe the same as witches and vampires (by the way, the "transforming at the full moon" part was added in the middle ages or earlier, at a time when it was thought that a full moon in general brought out the crazy in people).
Ozzy never fooled anyone with that moon business.
It didn't help that there is a mental illness that causes people to think they're animals. Strangely, it seems to involve the same misfire in the brain that creates the out-of-body experience; the brain convinces the person that they have a body similar to an animal in shape, and the imagination does the rest. And when I say "the rest" I mean they have been caught eating people.
You'll also notice that the "what if we're all just animals after all?" principle is at play once again, but it takes the "wouldn't it be sort of awesome, though?" idea even further than the vampire. As a werewolf you have none of the disadvantages of the vampire, no allergy to sunlight or garlic or crosses. Just once a month, you become a total badass who can hunt down and tear the throat out of even the strongest man.
So while people back then feared getting killed by a werewolf, you have to wonder how much they actually feared turning into one.
Let's ask the furries.
#1. Aliens
Specifically, we're talking about the "abduct you in the middle of the night and give you an anal probe" aliens. These days they're almost always short, with gray skin and huge black eyes.
Been Around Since...
They've always been around, we just used to call them something else. And the anal probing part isn't new, either. If you're wondering how legends survive over thousands of years, look no further.
If you're a regular reader you already know about Popobawa, a mythical demon in Tanzania who, you guessed it, sneaks into the home of victims at night and rapes them in the ass.
And he won't even lube up first.
Demon abduction/rape stories go way back and as Carl Sagan pointed out in The Demon Haunted World, the details were identical to what we're calling alien abduction stories now--the demons even were often said to be able to fly, or live in the sky. In German folklore you had the alp, a creature who would enter your room at night, sit on your chest, try to coerce you into sex and, sometimes, drink milk from the nipples of men (wait, what?). But even that is just a variation of the incubus, a demon or spirit who supposedly drifted into your home at night and slipped you some demon boner in your sleep. That's a character that goes back at least 4,500 years.
For the Love of God, Why?
You can thank a combination of sleep paralysis and a long tradition of being really uptight about sex.
Primitive people used to think sleep paralysis (when you sort of wake up but sort of don't, and can't move your limbs) was the result of the evil spirit or demon holding them down (often depicted as a demon sitting on the chest) and you can certainly see why. Sleep paralysis can trigger all sorts of random sensory data in the brain, from sounds to hallucinations of someone else in the room to, yes, sexual arousal.
So why do abductees these days describe the aliens as "greys"--guys with huge heads and huge black eyes? That description goes back to the late 19th century at least and some believe it's hard-wired into the brain. Infants are apparently born with a crude idea of what eyes look like; show a newborn a piece of paper with two huge black eyes on it, and it will look right into it as if it was a person.*
When your brain is in that half-asleep state and is trying to paste a face onto the being it thinks is there, it pulls from that same crude, innate template. Just two big dark eyes, with the rest of the face an afterthought.
*babies are stupid.
The "People are Dicks" Factor:
You might not have noticed this, but traditionally our society gets kind of weird when it comes to sex, and especially what it views as deviant sex acts. It's bad now but it used to be much worse, so it's no surprise a society terrified of deviant sex would have nightmares about it. Then, those demons made for great cover stories for women who got pregnant or lost their virginity out of wedlock, and for men who perhaps were overheard having enthusiastic anal sex from the next room. Damn that gay rape demon!
But here's the scary part:
What makes aliens different than the rest of the cheesy horror movie monsters on this list is that lots of people in the modern world still believe in them. About a third of us believe in alien abductions, a number that is growing. There is a movie coming out that's building its entire ad campaign around the assumption that alien abductions are real.
And that, friends, is why the monsters will never die. When the old monsters are disproven, we just invent new ones. I mocked the third-world countries for chasing witches, but even college-educated Americans believe in the supernatural, often more than their non-educated friends. It turns out the stuff we get taught in school just makes us better at inventing reasons to believe. As skeptic Michael Shermer put it: "Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons."
That's why we're just counting down the years until the next "witch hunt." We believe in monsters--and subconsciously think of our fellow humans as monsters--because we want to. And that may be humanity's biggest dick-move of all.
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I guess I must just live a very simple life, but I can't see spending $40 for special implements for cutting cakes!
Plus--read the reviews. Seems like quite a few buys weren't terribly impressed.
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Sure, you can do without it but it's more difficult to keep the same thickness or even.
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I don't do much baking myself, but my mother used to slice cake layers horizontally when she was making a cake for a special occasion or if she just felt like being a little 'fancy & creative', and she did a great job with a length of fishing line. I remember her making one that she even alternated devils food & white layers and chocolate & vanilla cream icing to fill in between the layers.
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MITCHELL — Dakota Wesleyan continues with its tradition of large, collaborative spring concerts with a presentation of "Brahms Requiem" this Sunday with both choirs and DWU's string ensemble.
The DWU music department will perform "Brahms Requiem" at 2 p.m., Sunday, April 21, in the Sherman Center. The concert is free and open to all and will consist of the DWU Choral Union, Wesleyan Choir and LyricWood.
"Among other choral/orchestral requiems, Brahms' masterpiece is an enigma," said Dr. Clinton Desmond, DWU choral director. "The monumental 'Ein deutsches Requiem' premiered in Bremen, Germany, in 1868 and garnered immediate acclaim. Instead of using the traditional Catholic Requiem texts that serve to bless and pray for the soul of the departed, Brahms chose texts from Martin Luther's Bible that sought to comfort the living."
DWU's Jenna Callies, of Mitchell, will perform the soprano solo while Jonathan Saeger, currently a doctoral student at Kent State University, Ohio, will be performing the baritone solos. Desmond met Saeger at Illinois State University, where they both graduated with their master's degrees. Audiences will recognize Callies from DWU musicals, "Xanadu," in which she played the female lead; "Damn Yankees" and also "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." Callies also played Ariel in the Mitchell Area Community Theatre production of "Footloose."


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Is every component of a virus absolutely essential for its infection and replication in a host cell? Or can you just have parts of it to cause infection?
Unless you have a specific virus in mind, I can speak generally about viruses. It seems that the viral genome is reduced to just essential genes. Many viruses segregate their genome into periods of expression: early, mid and late. The early proteins are so-called because they encode for proteins that help their entry into cells (what is called infection). Middle and late genes tend to help the virus co-opt cellular machinery to aid in viral replication. Late genes are then useful for final stages of viral assembly and ultimtely their exit from the cell (lysis) and the newly made viral particles can go on and infect more cells. When viewed in this manner, it follows that removing even one coding region from the viral genome would inhibit the overall infection/reproduction/assembly process. In fact, if you remove the gene encoding for a viral envelope protein, purified virus added to cells in culture are able to infect cells, but not produce complete and functional viral particles. In this sense, they are infection-competent, but reproduction-incompetent.
HIV has nine genes. According to the paper cited below, three of these genes (vpu, vpr and nef) are not required for replication in cultured cells.
(PBMC = peripheral blood mononuclear cell)
As might be expected, none of these genes encodes a component of the virus - they are regulatory genes involved in co-ordinating the infective cycle of the virus. They are however implicated in HIV-associated disease symptoms. According to the Los Alamos National Laboratory HIV Sequence Compendium 2008:
vpu is an integral membrane protein which promotes extracellular release of viral particles and degrades CD4 in the ER.
vpr promotes nuclear localization of the preintegration complex, inhibits cell division, and arrests infected cells at G2/M
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My camera moves and rotates, but relative to the worlds origin, instead of the players. I am having difficulty rotating the camera and then translating the camera in the direction relative to the camera facing angle.
I have been able to translate the camera and rotate relative to the players origin, but not then rotate and translate in the direction relative to the cameras facing direction.
My goal is to have a standard FPS-style camera.
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roll = m_rotationZ * 0.0174532925f;
up = D3DXVECTOR3(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);//Create the up vector
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rotation = D3DXVECTOR3(m_rotationX, m_rotationY, m_rotationZ);
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Domestic animal is not "the same" as cattle, but cattle kept and fed by livestock farmers can be considered "domestic."
There's some good info on Wikipedia, and another web site says:
The state of Florida uses this definition:
While some people do initially think of pets when they hear the term "domesticated animal," (as do some dictionaries) the definition can expand beyond pets such as cats and dogs.
"domestic' means animals that humans have had over the thousands of years, like dogs/cats. Cattle might be included but if unsure, it's better to refer to them as livestock to avoid confusion.


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HILLSDALE — Despite not making the playoffs last year, Hillsdale sits in the top 20 of the first poll of the preseason.
The Chargers were ranked 17th by the American Football Coaches' Association's initial preseason poll, which was released Monday.
Hillsdale's 8-3 campaign last season won them the GLIAC, but they were denied a postseason bid. They ended last season unranked.
This season, they bring back their entire linebacking corps of Brett Pasche, Steven Embry and Devin Moynihan, along with offensive studs Joe Glendening, QB Anthony Mifsud and H-Back Cam White.
Question marks include the secondary, the offensive line and a third-down slot receiver, but the team is loaded for another strong run.
It won't be an easy road, however. Hillsdale's first game is against California (Pa.), who checks into the rankings at no. 11. They also face fifth-ranked Wayne State and seventh-ranked Grand Valley State in October.
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Retailers were hoping shoppers would spend big this holiday season but nationally early figures show holiday sales slumped to the lowest level in 3 years.
Locally owned Bowling Green stores say just the opposite, with this past November and December being some of the biggest sales months they've seen.
Despite the national slump local stores in BG cashed in this holiday season.
"They were skeptical national, and a little scared listening to the news but we had a great Thanksgiving weekend. The best day after Thanksgiving that we've ever had,"says Nicki Smith, Owner of Pappagallo.
Stores such as Pappagallo, My Friends Place, and Heart Strings say this December was even better than last.
"Our sales doubled from last year,"says Meredith Loafman, Owner of My Friends Place.
"We were up a little bit from last year and November had definate increase too from last year,"says Smith.
"Very very good. I cannot begin to explain what a wonderful year we've had. 4Th quarter was the best we've seen,"says Lisa Holman, Manager of Heart Strings.
Heart strings even had to add an extra room this past October to make space for Christmas customers.
"It was unbelievable! Our customers are just wonderful and were so glad they spend their money locally,"says Holman.
And of course holiday deals enticed some customers.
"We did do more promotions in December this year. That worked very well for us and increased our traffic. We did a 12 days of Christmas,"says Smith.
Don't worry just because Christmas is over doesn't mean the savings end.
"We're doing a 30% off sale right now and starting Saturday we have our big 50% off sale,"says Loafman.
"Now the big sales are going we've got spring arriving so were doing our 2 for 1 sale,"says Smith.
"We have a great selection of Christmas items that are 50% off,"says Holman.
So while the nation may be struggling, locally shops seem to be doing okay.
Local store owners say they hope this trend will follow them into 2013.


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What's the difference between "ortibal" and "orbit"? Which one should be used in physics? In quantum mechanics, is "atomic orbital" or "atomic orbit" used? And what about in classical mechanics? A particle's orbit or orbital?
An orbit is a closed trajectory of a classical dynamical system.
Properties of orbits or related to orbits are referred to as orbital properties.
An orbital is a single-electron wave function for an atom or molecule in the Hartree-Fock approximation. (There are also hybrid orbitals for electron pairs in a chemical bond.)
Thus a particle has an orbit (and related properties such as orbital speed) if it is treated classically (e.g., a planet). But if treated by quantum mechanics (e.g., an electron), it instead has orbitals.
In quantum mechanics, strictly speaking, it's usually "orbital" (http://www.chemguide.co.uk/atoms/properties/orbitsorbitals.html ), in classical mechanics, it's "orbit". But classical mechanics is not very good for atoms.


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The 7 Most Bizarre Fast Food Industry Lawsuits
#3. McDonald's and the Case of the Mean Italian Critic
In 2002, Italian food critic Edoardo Raspelli went on a foul-mouthed tirade against McDonald's, going as far as to say that the ambiance at McDonald's was "mechanical" and that the bread was "poor." Vulgarities such as that could only come from a man who sits at the right hand of Satan, his ink well fed by the blood of innocents and the semen of Hitler.
McDonald's, probably after some intensive rounds of therapy and some veterinary-grade tranquilizers to calm themselves, did the only responsible thing they could in the face of this irresponsible attack: they filed a $25 million lawsuit for defamation.
Above: Artistic rendering of an Italian critic.
The Result:
The judge in the case suggested the two parties work it out on their own, apparently out of a baffling desire to not preside over a case where he and the jury are forced to try multiple delicious McDonald's sandwiches to prove they didn't taste "like cardboard" (as Raspelli also said).
Little progress has been reported in the suit since, but Raspelli wound up with a massive amount of free publicity since the suit became huge news in the Italian press. Of course during all of the coverage, his harsh criticisms were repeated over and over again for millions of readers and listeners.
Somewhere there are probably some McDonalds executives wishing they had just had the man quietly killed.
#2. Kentucky Fried Horror Show
KFC only has so many words associated with their brand. Kentucky. Fried. Chicken. It's not entirely practical to sue a state, a method of cooking and a bird every time they pop up in the media, but if two of those things appear together, possibly with a bucket near by, you better believe KFC is taking someone to court.
The makers of the Kentucky Fried Horror Show found that out when KFC sent them a letter calling their movie "alarming, ghastly, disturbing, revolting and vile" which is impressive since it hadn't been filmed yet and KFC had no way to get a script.
However, they did see the promotional art, featuring a head in a red and white striped bucket. The Colonel wasn't going to stand for that kind of chicanery. He stands for the mass slaughter of chickens, not people.
The Result:
Indie filmmakers are known to put movies together on a budget of change found under couch cushions, filmed after they get back from their own jobs at KFC. What they are not known for is fighting major corporations in court.
Thus, the Kentucky Fried Horror Show became the Kentucky Horror Show and the red and white stripes were removed from the promotional artwork, thus making this movie about people in the south dismembered and possibly eaten by the Devil safe for families once again.
#1. The Right to Bear Boobs
Hooters, in a move that had to make more than one legal expert crack some hilarious jokes about "handling evidence" filed suit in 2003 against Kerfs WingHouse Bar & Grill. Hooters sued for $4 million in lost profit because the Winghouse stole some valued trade secrets, such as having waitresses in shorts and tight t-shirts, something Hooters went back in time to invent in the Middle Ages or whenever it was that a bar owner first noticed dudes will pay for more food, beer or bags or horse shit if a woman in a tight shirt is selling it.
The Winghouse, which has 10 locations, was apparently confusing poor, boob-hungry patrons who were just wandering the streets aimlessly in the hopes of finding chicken wings and a glimpse of cotton-clad nipple under an A/C duct. Hooters just couldn't stand for it. Winghouse filed a counterclaim accusing Hooters of trying to use the legal system to crush the competition.
Above: The right to Bear-Boobs.
The Result:
The judge in the case gave the jury a directed order to basically find in favor of the Winghouse, which they did. The argument from the Winghouse was that they can't be stealing a trademark from Hooters because the clothes are functional and functional clothes can't be protected that way. In case you're wondering, the function has something to do with boners.
Hooters tried to appeal the decision and lost once again, proving the legal system will not stand for anyone trying to hold an illegal monopoly on reducing their wait staff to boobies that can serve drinks.
Honorable Mention: McJob
In 2001, Merriam-Webster added "McJob" to their dictionary, defining it as "a low-paying job that requires little skill and provides little opportunity for advancement." The CEO of McDonald's rattled off a bitchy letter, oblivious to the fact people had been using McJob to mean exactly what the dictionary said it meant for well over a decade.
When simply whining like children didn't work, it was later stated in a veiled, sad threat that McJOBS is trademarked and is the name of the program McDonald's uses to train mentally and physically disabled employees. So they were apparently preparing a claim that the dictionary violated the trademark by including the term, demonstrating McDonalds' complete lack of understanding of what a dictionary is.
The Result:
For once, the McDonald's legal team showed some restraint and the lawsuit at the heart of their veiled threats never came to pass. Instead, McDonald's has gone on a publicity campaign to try to convince the whole world to stop acting like jobs at McDonald's aren't awesome.
They've also started a petition again the Oxford-English Dictionary, hoping to convince it to remove McJob and its similar definition ("an unstimulating low-paid job with few prospects").
McDonald's claims that definition is false and has evidence that 90 percent of its employees believe they receive valuable training that will be of benefit for the future, not mentioning how many of them believe that because they have resigned themselves to working at McDonald's for the rest of their lives.
Above: Valuable Training.
For more bizarre lawsuits, read about The 9 Insane Cases That Prove the Legal System is Screwed or find out why all the cool kids want the Dark Knight action figures.


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Well I wanted to see my blog notch up 1337 spam, but I must have blinked.
Never-the-less, I am now on the WoWArmory of Spam Filtering, with 1338 spam caught.
Yes, Yes.. I am meant to be running for a plane… so I will get out of Tree Hugger Dave's way.. assuming he remembers to post his draft…
Farewell, have fun!
Gnomer and Out!


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Note: This high-calorie recipe is especially for kids with cystic fibrosis (CF), who may need additional calories to meet their nutritional needs.
This creamy chicken dish has a wonderful taste of bacon and garlic.
Prep time: 1 hour
Serves: 2
Serving size: 1 chicken breast
Nutritional analysis (per serving):
824 calories
72 g fat
30 g protein
813 mg sodium
153 mg calcium
Note: Nutritional analysis may vary depending on ingredient brands used.
Variations and suggestions:
Serve with a creamy pasta dish or scalloped potatoes.
Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.
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OMAHA, Nebraska (CBS News) -- Mitt Romney on Tuesday won GOP presidential primaries in Oregon and Nebraska, putting the former Massachusetts governor ever closer toward officially clinching the Republican presidential nomination.
In Nebraska, with 74 percent of the votes counted, Romney led by an overwhelming 71 percent support. Rick Santorum, who ended his presidential bid last month, earned 14 percent support.
In Oregon, with 54 percent of the votes in, Romney earned 73 percent. Ron Paul came in second place with 12 percent.
Even if he wins all of the delegates up for grabs Tuesday night, Romney will not be able to earn the number of delegates needed to make his nomination official. Oregon has 25 delegates at stake in its primary, while Nebraska, which will be sending 32 delegates to the national convention, is holding a non-binding primary.
Heading into the evening's two contests, Romney had 963 total delegates, 181 delegates short of the necessary 1,144, according to CBS News estimates.
Still, with no remaining competitors actively campaigning against him, the former Massachusetts governor is widely viewed as the presumptive nominee.
On Monday, Texas congressman Ron Paul announced that he will no longer actively campaign in the GOP presidential primaries, although he says he won't formally suspend his campaign. The libertarian candidate's organization will continue to accumulate delegates to send to the Republican National Convention. Paul has 98 delegates, according to CBS News estimates.


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Pronounced: bren-TUX-i-mab ve-DOE-tin
Classification: Antibody-drug conjugate (targeted therapy)
About Brentuximab Vedotin
Brentuximab vedotin is an antibody conjugate (an antibody with a cell-killing medication attached to it) directed against a protein called CD30, found on the surface of some lymphoma cells. Antibodies, which are normally found in the body, are developed by the immune system to destroy foreign material (such as a germ). Brentuximab vedotin is a manmade antibody that causes the immune system to attack lymphoma cells that have the CD30 protein on them. In addition, the drug has an agent attached to it that disrupts functions critical to cell growth and, in turn, causes cell death.
How to Take Brentuximab Vedotin
Brentuximab vedotin is given by intravenous (into a vein) infusion. The treatment is delivered over 30 minutes and is typically given every 3 weeks. The dosage depends on the person's size and type of cancer being treated.
The blood levels of this medication can be affected by certain foods and medications, so they should be avoided. These include: ketoconazole and rifampin. Be sure to tell your healthcare provider about all medications and supplements you take.
Possible Side Effects
There are a number of things you can do to manage the side effects of brentuximab vedotin. Talk to your doctor or nurse about these recommendations. They can help you decide what will work best for you. These are some of the most common side effects:
Peripheral Neuropathy (Numbness or Tingling in the Hands and/or Feet)
Peripheral neuropathy is a toxicity that affects the nerves. It causes a numbness or tingling feeling in the hands and feet, often in the pattern of a stocking or glove. This can get progressively worse with additional doses of the medication. In some people, the symptoms slowly resolve after the medication is stopped, but for some it never goes away completely. You should let your healthcare provider know if you experience numbness or tingling in the hands and feet, as they may need to adjust the doses of your medication.
Allergic Reactions
In some cases, patients can have an allergic reaction to this medication. Signs of a reaction can include: shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, chest pain, rash, flushing or itching, or a decrease in blood pressure. If you notice any changes in how you feel during the infusion, let your nurse know immediately. The infusion will be slowed or stopped if this occurs. Depending on the severity of your reaction, you may still be able to receive the medication with a pre-medication to prevent a reaction, or if the medication is given at a slower rate.
Low White Blood Cell Count (Leukopenia or Neutropenia)
White blood cells (WBC) are important for fighting infection. While receiving treatment, your WBC count can drop, putting you at a higher risk of getting an infection. You should let your doctor or nurse know right away if you have a fever (temperature greater than 100.4), sore throat or cold, shortness of breath, cough, burning with urination, or a sore that doesn't heal.
Tips to preventing infection:
Liver Toxicity
This medication can cause liver toxicity, which your doctor may monitor for using blood tests called liver function tests. If you develop elevations in your liver function tests, your healthcare provider may need to lower your dose or stop the medication. Notify your healthcare provider if you notice yellowing of the skin or eyes, your urine appears dark or brown or pain in your abdomen, as these can be signs of liver toxicity.
Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare, but very serious brain infection that has been reported with this medication. The signs of PML may develop over several weeks or months. They may include changes in mood or usual behavior, confusion, thinking problems, loss of memory, changes in vision, speech, or walking, and decreased strength or weakness on one side of the body. If you, or anyone close to you, notices you have developed any of these signs, notify your healthcare provider immediately.
Lung Problems
This medication may cause worsening lung problems. Notify your healthcare team if you develop any new or worsening cough or shortness of breath.
Stevens Johnson Syndrome
Stevens Johnson Syndrome is a rare, but serious, allergic reaction that affects the skin and mucous membranes. It typically starts as a rash or painful blisters and can progress to serious damage to the skin and in some cases, death. It is important that you report any rash to your healthcare providers immediately.
Reproductive Concerns
Exposure of an unborn child to this medication could cause birth defects, so you should not become pregnant or father a child while on this medication. Effective birth control is necessary during treatment Even if your menstrual cycle stops or you believe you are not producing sperm, you could still be fertile and conceive. You should consult with your healthcare team before breastfeeding while receiving this medication.
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Our "Invision Generation Series" DVD player (installed by the dealer in our '08 Toyota Highlander) plays some DVDs just fine, but for many others, it doesn't get past the initial previews. It has extra trouble with Disney movies (of course, the very ones our kids want to watch).
I wondered if a firmware upgrade might do the trick, as the unit allows connecting USB. But no mention of this in the manual, or on the mfr's website.
Any thoughts/suggestions? Many thanks in advance.


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To the editor:
I was waiting to see my doctor, and I overheard some people talking. "Did you lease?" "Yes, they will get it one way or the other, I might as well get paid." "I have 140 acres. That is a good amount of money." My heart sank. I realized at that moment that my life was worth less than the money that those people received for leasing their land for natural gas extraction. Not only my life, but their grandchildren's lives, their children's lives, and the lives of everyone they love that will outlive them. Right before me was the age-old battle, money versus everything good.
There is a American Indian proverb: We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. The purpose of this letter is not to criminalize those who support this industry. The purpose is to connect on a personal level. A plea from a 22-year-old, with so much "promise" and "potential," to my respected elder.
All my life, I have been told to treat others the way I want to be treated, try my best in everything I do, and always leave a place nicer than how it was when I arrived. All important life lessons, but the latter is my focus. To leave a place nicer than how it was extends beyond what can fit under a roof. The world does not revolve around me, or you for that matter, it revolves around us. Would I love to be paid a lot of money? Yes. Is that money worth getting in the way of the "promise" and "potential" of those coming after me? No. I am asking that you acknowledge the facts. You're right, not all sites initially lead to water contamination, killing livestock and causing horrible illnesses in the people within surrounding communities. But they inevitably do with time.
The decisions you make concerning how people and the environment are treated affect me because I am both a person and a steward of the land.
I will do everything in my power to make sure that people and the land in which they occupy, and are dependent upon to survive, are taken care of. God gave man dominion over the Earth. This does not mean, however, that man should take for granted the earth's gifts. Rather, that man has a responsibility to care for and nurture what he watches over so that his children and his children's children have just as much, if not more, possibility than he had.
I still have hope in my young heart. Please, treat each other and the earth well, so that not only me, but my siblings, neighbors, your children, great grandchildren, nieces and nephews, will have an even fuller life than you. Do your homework. Make sure the long-term effects are worth the short-term gains. Take all the necessary precautions to ensure that the future does not just come, but that it's beautiful.
Caitlin Estrada


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I have sensitive data on my computers and phones. I use Trycrypt's plausible deniability system on my computers. When law enforcement/border patrol or my spouse asks for access I type in the password for the decoy system. I need this badly for my phone. Does anyone know how to install a plausible deniability system for a smart phone?
Plausible deniability is really more of a political or social tactic than a security measure. As a tactic, plausible deniabilty seeks to prevent the disclosure of information by presenting an argument about the knowledge a given individual has. This is a second order game, at least one level removed from direct protection of information.
An Example: Alice is a ruthless criminal. Bob and Don are her criminal associates. On Monday Bob is a witness to one of Alice's crimes. On Tuesday Alice and Bob have an argument. On Wednesday Bob meets with Carol and tells Carol some confidential information about Alice's activity on Monday that could be used to arrest and prosecute Alice for her crimes. On Thursday, the next time Bob and Alice meet, Alice asks Bob who he met with on Wednesday. Bob claims he met with Don, another of Alice's associates.
By naming Don instead of Carol, Bob has provided Carol plausible deniability about the information he provided to her.
If at this point Alice decided to kill anyone with information about her criminal activity on Monday, she might decided to kill Bob and Don.
How is this relevant to Truecrypt?
Truecrypt is trying to play a similar game. Rather than try to disguise the fact that a user has encrypted some information. They are giving the user two shells under which to hide information. Under shell A is confidential information the user wishes to keep private. Under shell B is information the user is willing to disclose if that disclosure keeps the information under shell A confidential.
Now the content of the information under shell B ("the decoy") is important. If nothing is kept there except freely available public domain information. The plausible deniability will not work. It will not convince anyone (law enforcement, border patrol, or spouse) that the user went to some effort to protect the information. And since the fact that Truecrypt offers 'Plausible deniability' as a feature is well known, most professional phone inspectors will know that what you have presented is a 'decoy'.
Further notice that this tactic depends entirely on the inspector deciding that it is not plausible you have the information they are seeking and as a consequence do not pursue them further.
Lets go back to the criminal Alice from the first example. Lets say she decides not to believe Bob about who Bob met with on Wednesday. Suppose that Alice knows that Bob is friends with Carol and decided to kill Carol just in case Bob told Carol the incriminating information. At this point the plausible deniability tactic's value goes to zero as the recipient of the tactic uses possible instead of plausible as the discriminator for the decision to take action.
That means that this tactic only works against those whose decisions for action are evaluated based on plausible evidence. And most persons who are not under the instruction of a magistrate have a much lower threshold for suspecting guilt.
As for technical solutions, the only thing that comes to mind right off is to use a rooted Android that has been set up for dual/multiple booting. Only a few models of Android phones support this; consult an Android forum for further details.
Now, if you need to protect data from your spouse, it's time to take a long hard look at (1) your marriage and (2) what you're doing. Unfortunately, we probably can't help you with either of those.
If you have an Android Smartphone, you can try this:
You can have two Passwords:
It also offers Optional file Encryption (to avoid other File Managers from reading these Files)
I think this is a Smart Solution!
Otherwise, you can check if your phone supports Truecrypt! (Or a similar Program)
The usual method to gain plausible deniability w.r.t. phones is to have two; a clean phone you show to the cops and your wife, and a dirty phone you show no-one. There are of course considerable practical difficulties with this.
Also, from the scenarios you give, I'd suggest you are making the common security error of over-reliance on technical controls. Re-run the risk analysis and go broader in the treatments you consider. Remember, where practical, risk avoidance is almost always a better treatment approach than risk control - why have sensitive data on your phone in the first place?


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I see this everywhere, but cannot find a proof of it. Is it just this easy; it feels wrong.
Suppose $X$ is noet and $Y\subset X$ with subspace topology. If $Y$ has a descending chain of closed sets $Y_1 \supset Y_2 \supset Y_3 \supset \ldots$, where each $Y_i$ is formed by intersection some closed set in $X$ with $Y$. That is $(X_1\cap Y)\supset (X_2\cap Y) \supset \ldots$ but I can't seem to finish this because it is not as if I can just remove the intersections with $Y$ right?


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9 May 2012 10:03 AM #11
@sapkalparag: I am not sure what you mean by "Hosting project inside a web server". My setup is: the project is in my /users/user/documents tree (which is not a web directory), but I am deploying to the web server (which is not Apache, but the default Mac one).
9 May 2012 12:30 PM #12
On further research I found that the web server running on my Mac is indeed Apache.
10 May 2012 7:25 AM #13
Well same problem here.
I Also have this problem where it says "[ERROR] The current working directory (/Users/username) is not a recognized Sencha SDK or application folder
Any help on this?
When deploying via terminal I end up with a blank white screen, and I DID add an index.html
15 May 2012 4:27 PM #14
Thank you very much!!! You procedure worked for me regarding the simulator. Does the same thing have to be done for packaging (i.e. copy the app.html to index.html and then re-run the packager)?
15 May 2012 9:58 PM #15
@rklowe01: yes. Same procedure.
@WagsMax: Even i am kind of new to everything. N i tried alot but couldn't get myself to get the problem which u guys are facing.
install apache tomcat
start the server
store ur project inside the /root directory inside the apache tomcat folder.
give all ur links in the settings in architect as http://localhost:8080/path/toyour/project
js to highlight: "http://localhost:8080/ " actually points to the root folder in apache folder.
try n post wat happns......
15 May 2012 10:07 PM #16
Hey rklowe01
i read in a diff post that even u were facing the following issue...
(/Users/user/path/to/project) is not a recognized Sencha SDK or application folder
but later u were able to solve it.
plz share exactly what changes u did so that it can help others also.
16 May 2012 1:15 PM #17
I was still getting that error, but I just ignored it as it didn't seem to impact the simulation...
16 May 2012 1:25 PM #18Phil Strong
23 Jun 2012 5:31 PM #19
Having the same issue trying to run in iOS simulator. Help!
I followed the suggestions earlier in the thread but continue to get the following:
cd /Users/glenn_graham/Sites/citybars/
sencha package run simulator.json
[ERROR] The current working directory (/Users/glenn_graham/Sites/citybars) is not a recognized Sencha SDK or application folder
The application was successfully packaged
[DEBUG] Session could not be started: Error Domain=DTiPhoneSimulatorErrorDomain Code=2 UserInfo=0x100615680 "Simulator session timed out."
[Process completed]
24 Jun 2012 12:30 PM #20
I've not tried to deploy direct to the simulator, but work around it a different way.
Firstly, you have to be running a local host webserver. I use a mac, and I think mac even has its own webserver that can be turned on in the machine's properties - but I prefer to use XAMPP. Either way you end up with an htdocs folder which is your local webserver root - accessed via http://localhost
As long as you can preview your app in the browser, you're set.
Then run the iOS simulator. Just put iOS into the mac spotlight search to find it (for mac).
Launch the mobile browser in the simulator. Type in the localhost URL where your app.html file is located, then when the page runs, add it to your simulator home screen. Now, every time you save and preview your app in the desktop browser, you can run the app icon in the sim and check your app full screen.


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Hot Sheet: Stranger Danger
10. MUSIC: Is There Anybody Out There? by A Great Big World
You probably know this New York duo from their single "Say Something," to which Christina Aguilera contributed after she heard it. Their debut full-length album, Is There Anybody Out There?, just came out, featuring that haunting tune as well as the Macklemore-light song "Everybody Is Gay." Affirming? Trite? You be the judge. — Neal Broverman
9. DANCE: Diversi-Tease
It may be cold outside in Minneapolis this time of year, but there will be plenty of hot action inside the city's Ritz Theater during Diversi-Tease, an LGBT-inclusive three-day festival of burlesque, drag, vaudeville, and cabaret that begins Thursday. Presented by the Burlesque Dolls, an affiliate of Twin Cities troupe Ballet of the Dolls, the event will feature more than 40 acts over five shows and offer classes for the general public, welcoming dancers of all ages, sizes, and genders. "I think it's really important to promote and show how within this genre it is so diverse," Burlesque Dolls member Queenie von Curves told the Twin Cities' Lavender Magazine. "Whether it's 'I don't fit into a gender,' or 'I fit into both genders.' Maybe I'm a bigger girl. It doesn't really matter who you are or where you come from as long you can bring it." Order tickets and register for classes at Ritz-Theater.org. — Trudy Ring
8. BOOKS: Tales of the City: The Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin
For those of you following along at home, this is Armistead Maupin's ninth installment in his Tales of the City series, following a group of friends through love, kids, businesses, and drugs, drugs, drugs. The series has been going on since 1978 and has essentially been unfolding in real time. The Days of Anna Madrigal, which involves a road trip to Burning Man, will be the last entry in the much-beloved series. — Michelle Garcia
7. THEATER: A Great Wilderness
A counselor at an "ex-gay" camp in Idaho begins to question his beliefs when one of his charges goes missing in Samuel D. Hunter's play, having its world premiere at the Seattle Repertory Theater. A Great Wilderness was commissioned by Seattle Rep and workshopped at its 2013 New Play Festival, and its subject matter is deeply personal to Hunter. "I wrote this play as an exploration of what my life could have been," he says. "I went to a fundamentalist Christian school growing up, and came out when I was 17. I was faced with two options: self-actualization, being the person I was meant to be, and trying to figure out how to reconcile that with the religious life I had always known, which gave me great comfort and structure; or denying that part of myself and embracing my religious life for better or worse. I chose the first option, and this work is my examination of the latter." The show opened last week and runs through February 16; tickets and info here. — Trudy Ring
6. TV: Lizzie Borden Took an Ax
In Lifetime's Lizzie Borden Took an Ax, premiering this weekend, Christina Ricci stars as one of America's most famous maybe-murderesses, Lizzie Borden, who was accused of hacking her parents to death at their Massachusetts home in the late 19th century. The movie, which also features the talented Clea DuVall as Lizzie's loyal older sister, Emma, is a suspenseful whodunit that portrays the ensuing trial and media sensation caused by the possibility of a young woman's involvement in her parents' brutal killing. (DuVall, in an interview with The Advocate, called Borden "that era's O.J.") Ricci is deliciously eerie in her portrayal of Borden, and audiences may find both creep and camp value in the latest incarnation of one of America's most infamous trials. — Daniel Reynolds
Lizzie Borden Took an Ax premieres Saturday at 8 p.m. on Lifetime. Watch the trailer below.
5. TV: The Carrie Diaries
On the heels of last week's episode, which focused on the effects of the AIDS crisis on the gay community of New York City in the 1980s, tonight's new entry of The Carrie Diaries finds Carrie (AnnaSophia Robb), Mouse (Ellen Wong), Maggie (Katie Findlay), and Walt (Brendan Dooling) deciding to go to their senior prom — at the Waldorf Astoria — together for a final hurrah. Larissa (Freema Agyeman) offers Carrie an opportunity that makes her rethink her plans for the next year, while Mouse learns a secret about Donna LaDonna (Chloe Bridges) that could threaten her reign as queen bee. Meanwhile, Sebastian (Austin Butler) hides a big decision from Carrie. The Carrie Diaries airs at 8 p.m. Eastern on the CW. — Jase Peeples
4. DVD: Dallas Buyers Club
Dallas Buyers Club, the epic true story of one man's fight for survival, arrives on Blu-ray and DVD February 4. With bonus features that include deleted scenes and a look inside the movie, the home video release of the Academy Award–nominated film brings home the Golden Globe–winning performances of Matthew McConaughey as Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, who sees his freewheeling life overturned when he's diagnosed as HIV-positive, and Jared Leto as Rayon, a transgender woman who is dying of AIDS and battling drug addiction. Together the two overcome their differences and unite a band of outcasts in a struggle for dignity and acceptance. — Jase Peeples
3. MUSIC: RuPaul Presents: The CoverGurlz, a New Collection of Classic RuPaul: Songs by the Queens of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 6
We can't think of a more perfect way for Logo and Ru to promote the latest season of Drag Race: having each competing queen cover one of Ru's classics. Get ready for "Click Clack (Make Dat Money)" from Bianca Del Rio, "Ladyboy" from Gia Gunn, "T-Chaser" from Joslyn Fox, and 11 other scandalous songs. The iTunes album is out Tuesday, as are 14 accompanying videos on the YouTube channel WOW Presents. The new season premieres February 24. — Neal Broverman
2. THEATER: Brokeback Mountain, The Opera
If you love opera and Brokeback Mountain, we'll predict that you'll enjoy Annie Proulx's adaptation of her novella into an epic opera. Proulx's collaboration with Charles Wuorinen will premiere Tuesday at Teatro Realin Madrid. According to Out, the opera is fiercely dedicated to the source material, which Proulx says is not a sentimental story: "It is a story about rural regional homophobia ... in a situation that needlessly ends in tragedy. It is only a romantic story if you think the inability to conquer fear and self-loathing are romantic."
1. FILM: Stranger by the Lake
Stranger by the Lake, a French drama directed by Alain Guiraudie, has received much acclaim from both critics and festivals, including Cannes, which honored the film with its Queer Palm award. Stranger follows the story of Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps) and his flirtation with Michel (Christophe Paou), a handsome man he encounters on a beach that gay men frequent for flirtation and sunbathing. Summer loving quickly turns sour, however, when Franck witnesses Michel drowning another man in the lake, an act he keeps a secret in order to protect the man with whom he has fallen in love. An investigation into the murder ensues, and as suspicions run high, Franck must walk the razor-thin line between fear and infatuation. — Daniel Reynolds
Stranger by the Lake premieres today at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City. Watch the trailer below.


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Every plugin I've found so far opens a lightbox when someone comes to the site or goes to a page -- nothing I've found is setup to open the lightbox when the user clicks on a link.
There are some hacks using Fancybox and jquery -- but if one exists I'd much prefer using a plugin, I'm not to comfortable messing with javascript and the theme files.


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Which finite groups have uniqueness for the ordered sequence of composition factors (up to isomorphism)?
Here is a characterization. A group $G$ has two different composition series if and only if it has a factor $H/K$ which is a direct product of two non-isomorphic simple subgroups, where $H$ is a subnormal subgroup of $G$, $K$ is a normal subgroup of $H$. Indeed, if such $H/K$ exists, then clearly there are two different composition series. Conversely, suppose that there are two different composition series $A_0=1 < A_1 < A_2 < ... < A_n = G$ and $B_0=1 < B_1 < B_2 < ... < B_n=G$. Let $j$ be the last index with $A_{j-1}\ne B_{j-1}$ (non-isomorphic), $n\ge j\ge 1$. Let $H=A_j=B_j$. Note that $A_{j-1}$ and $B_{j-1}$ are normal in $H$. Hence $A_{j-1}B_{j-1}$ is normal in $H$. Since it is bigger than $A_{j-1}$, we have $H=A_{j-1}B_{j-1}$. Hence $K=A_{j-1}\cap B_{j-1}$ is normal in $H$ and $A_{i-1}/K$ is isomorphic to $H/B_{j-1}$ hence simple. Similarly $B_{j-1}/K$ is simple. Now $H/K$ has two different normal simple subgroups $A_{j-1}/K$ and $B_{j-1}/K$ with trivial intersection, so $A_{j-1}/K$ and $B_{j-1}/K$ commute and form a direct product. Therefore $H/K$ is isomorphic to the direct product of two non-isomorphic simple groups $A_{j-1}/K$ and $B_{j-1}/K$.


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30 Years Ago: Neil Young Releases 'Everybody's Rockin"
Ever the restless wanderer, Neil Young spent much of the 80s exploring different musical avenues. It's only natural that one path would eventually take him back to the past, which is what happened on 'Everybody's Rockin," released on July 27, 1983.
After his 1982 foray into electronic music, 'Trans,' confused the public, Young looked to a genre that had served him well in the past. However, Geffen Records didn't like the traditional country music sounds of 'Old Ways' and demanded that he put out a rock n' roll album. Young responded with an album of rockabilly.
"I almost vindictively gave Geffen Everybody's Rockin,'" He said. "Geffen wanted more rock 'n' roll. That was the key phrase: 'Well, you want some f—in' rock 'n' roll, do ya? Okay, fine. I can do that. As a matter of fact, my uncle was a rocker, and I'll be him.'"
For the project, Young threw together a handful of musicians he dubbed the Shocking Pinks. Ben Keith, who played pedal steel on Young's biggest seller, 'Harvest,' was recruited to play lead guitar and alto saxophone. In the spirit of the originals, they recorded live and quickly. Of the 10 songs, six were originals, with the other four comprised of covers of early rock songs like Jimmy Reed's 'Bright Lights, Big City' and Bobby Freeman's 'Betty Lou's Got a New Pair of Shoes.'
Naturally, Geffen were not happy with the results and shut down the sessions. Even though they only had 25 minutes of releasable music, the label still put out the album, complete with a photo of the star looking more like Neil Diamond – with slicked-back hair and a pink suit – than Neil Young. The album was slammed, not just because it was rockabilly, but because it was stale rockabilly. The songs Young wrote are uninspired genre exercises and the covers lack the raw energy of the original recordings. Only Junior Parker's 'Mystery Train,' which was also recorded by Elvis Presley, has any sort of life to it.
Later that year, Geffen sued Young for $3.3 million, claiming that he wasn't making records in the style of 'After the Gold Rush' or 'Rust Never Sleeps.' Young countersued for $21 million on the grounds that his contract with Geffen offered him complete creative freedom. It was settled out of court, and Geffen released a new version of 'Old Ways' in 1985. It wouldn't be until he left Geffen for Reprise at the end of the decade that he would return to artistic and commercial success with 1989's 'Freedom.'
"[I]t was a way of further destroying what I'd already set up," Young said about the album in 1995. "Without doing that, I wouldn't be able to do what I'm doing now. If I build something up, I have to systematically tear it right down before people decide, 'Oh that's how we can define him.'"


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Montreal Travel Guide
There is only one word that really captures the essence of Montreal: multifaceted. This city represents the melding of the Old and New Worlds, with 18th-century structures blending into a 21st-century skyline. Old-fashioned houses are now home to funky fusion restaurants, and the familiar sound of English is juxtaposed against the rolled "r"s of French. Rainbow flags fly alongside cloth emblems from India, Portugal and France, and traditional French pastries are sold alongside the ... continue» Read More
When to Visit Montreal
The best times to visit Montreal are from March to May and from September to November, when the weather is milder and hotel vacancies run amok. But aside from fluctuating rates, you'll discover that there really isn't a bad time to vacation here. Warm summer temperatures make exploring on foot much more enjoyable, while the heated Underground City passages provide refuge during the winter. If you are drawn to the temperate summer, make sure to book in advance: Montreal hosts numerous popular festivals during this season.Read More Best Times to Visit Montreal»
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Getting Around Montreal
Montreal Neighborhoods
Montreal is an island city with two main geographic features: Mont-Royal and the St. Lawrence River. Holding fast to the French manner of giving directions, Montrealers defy the compass and use these natural landmarks instead. If someone tells you to go north, they mean head in the direction of Mont-Royal, though it's technically to the west. With this in mind, the St. Lawrence River borders the southern side of the city, with the boulevard Saint-Laurent acting as the dividing line between east and west.
Montreal is also two cities in one, with another city located entirely underground. Visitors can escape Canada's harsh winter weather by exploring the many shopping malls found in Montreal's Underground City.
Downtown Montreal
Accessible via the Green Line's McGill métro station or the Orange Line's Bonaventure métro station.
Bound by rue Sherbrooke to the north, boulevard René-Lévesque to the south, boulevard St-Laurent to the east and rue Drummond to the west, the heart of Montreal is similar to most major business hubs, displaying magnificent skyscrapers, upscale hotels and plenty of fine dining. Downtown is an area where languages and tastes collide while Old-World European architecture shares the street with contemporary structure. At the northern edge of downtown is McGill University's urban campus, which maintains its Anglophone identity amid a French-speaking community.
Boulevard St-Laurent
Accessible via the Green Line's Saint-Laurent métro station.
Known to Montrealers as "La Main," boulevard St-Laurent is the city's most renowned street. Located in the heart of Montreal, boulevard St-Laurent used to be the dividing line between the French-speaking side of the city and the English-speaking side. These days, the linguistic barriers are less distinguished; however, boulevard St-Laurent remains a prominent feature. La Main is littered with boutique shops and top-notch restaurants. Unlike other shopping districts, boulevard St-Laurent shops give visitors a taste of old-fashioned life with window displays featuring golden rotisserie chickens, skillfully decorated pastries and odds and ends from books to shoes.
Golden Square Mile
Accessible via the Green Line's Peel or Guy-Concordia métro stations.
Located within the boundaries of downtown Montreal is the Golden Square Mile. This is a primarily Anglophone area which was once home to numerous Victorian-style mansions constructed by wealthy English and Scottish merchants. Although many of the mansions were torn down to make way for modern construction projects, several still remain intact.
Rue Crescent
Accessible via the Green Line's Peel or Guy-Concordia métro stations or the Orange Line's Lucien L'Allier métro station.
One of Montreal's nightlife hotspots, the rue Crescent area is located on the eastern side of boulevard St-Laurent and runs north to south from downtown Montreal to Plateau Mont-Royal. While the northern part of this street features luxury boutiques in old Victorian buildings, the southern end comes to life in the evenings with plenty of restaurants, bars and nightclubs to satisfy a range of tastes.
Rue St-Denis
Accessible via the Orange Line's Sherbrooke métro station.
Running parallel to boulevard St-Laurent, rue St-Denis overflows with clothing stores, cafes and bistros. Because the street's southern end leads to the Université du Québec à Montréal, the street is often overflowing with students, and at night, the numerous bars and clubs make rue St-Denis one of the most popular spots in the city.
Old Montreal (Vieux-Montréal)
Accessible via the Orange Line's Place-d'Armes métro station.
Sitting southwest of downtown Montreal on the site where the original city was founded in 1642, Vieux-Montréal is characterized by cobblestone streets that are often frequented by street artists and performers. Numerous buildings dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries house historical museums, souvenir shops, boutique hotels, galleries and quaint cafes. Those who spend the day in Vieux-Montréal take advantage of the district's riverside location, which is perfect for waterfront strolls and bike rides. On the southern edge is the Vieux-Port-de-Montréal (Old Montreal Port), a waterfront promenade often frequented by bikers and in-line skaters.
Accessible via the Green Line's Peel métro station or the Orange Line's Mont-Royal métro station.
Towering over the city in the north is Mont-Royal (Royal Mountain) from which the city got its name. Much like New York City's Central Park, the Parc du Mont-Royal is a vast green space where people can run, bike and walk their dogs. Two cemeteries sit along the northern slope, one of which is traditionally Anglophone and Protestant while the other is Francophone and Catholic. The cemeteries represent the linguistic and religious differences that once divided the city.
Plateau Mont-Royal
Accessible via the Orange Line's Mont-Royal métro station.
Starting at the southern base of Mont-Royal running parallel to the St. Lawrence River is the Plateau Mont-Royal district. Although this neighborhood is primarily residential, the southern ends of the city's most popular streets, including boulevard St-Laurent and rue St-Denis, pass through this neighborhood and are home to numerous restaurants and shops.
Mile End
Accessible via the Orange Line's Mont-Royal and Laurier métro stations.
Sitting on the northern edge of Plateau Mont-Royal, this up-and-coming neighborhood is home to several cultural neighborhoods, including Portuguese, Italian, Hassidic and Greek. These different pockets feature numerous ethnic restaurants and supermarkets. Although Mile End is often overlooked by visitors, it has become an increasingly popular shopping area, now boasting several designer clothing stores.
The Village
Accessible via the Green Line's Saint-Laurent métro station or the Orange Line's Champ-de-Mars métro station.
Occupying the stretch of rue Ste-Catherine between rue St-Hubert and rue Papineau, the Village is one of the largest gay and lesbian neighborhoods in North America. The area is filled with antiques shops, bars and cafes. During the summer, rue Ste-Catherine is designated as a pedestrians-only street, making this district easy and enjoyable to explore on foot. But experienced travelers warn visitors to be cautious when walking around the rowdy district at night.
Quartier International
Accessible via the Green Line's McGill métro station.
Sitting south of Parc du Mont-Royal, the Quartier International is Montreal's most recent renovation project. Once a forgotten, run-down area littered with empty parking lots and decrepit warehouses, the Quartier International is now home to several parks, the Palais des Congrès (Convention Center) and the World Trade Centre Montreal, which is home to several import-export companies, law offices and brokerage firms.
Montreal Islands
Accessible via the Yellow Line's Jean-Drapeau métro station.
Located east of the main city in the middle of the St. Lawrence River are Montreal's two islands, Ile Ste-Hélène and Ile Notre-Dame. The larger of the two islands, Ile Ste-Hélène, was used as the site for Expo 67, the city's incredibly successful world's fair. After the fair was over, the site was preserved. It has since hosted the 1976 Summer Olympics and is now home to the La Ronde Amusement Park. The much smaller Ile Notre-Dame is home to the Casino de Montréal and the racing track, which is used for Canada's Grand Prix every June. The islands are accessible by public transportation and are almost entirely car-free.
Underground City
Accessible from most Downtown métro stations.
When winter strikes, Montrealers seek shelter in a giant underground maze. La Ville Souterraine (the Underground City) was constructed alongside major developments – including the construction of the Métro and the construction of the Palais des Congrès (Convention Center) – when many downtown property owners decided to rent their subterranean space out to retailers and restaurateurs. Visitors can access the Underground City directly from the Métro or from most downtown buildings, since many have rented their basement floors to retailers. Today, the Underground City spans the majority of downtown, allowing people to shop, see a movie or grab a bite to eat without ever setting foot outdoors.
Montreal is safer than most U.S. and European cities of similar size. But it's still necessary to exercise common sense, especially after sundown. Avoid walking alone at night, and keep an eye on your valuables. Nightlife hotspots such as rue St-Denis and rue Ste-Catherine can sometimes draw rowdier crowds.
Montrealers are generally very tolerating of all lifestyles and forms of discrimination are rare. However, Montreal is a politically liberal city, and its residents generally do not agree with U.S. policies. Political demonstrations do take place, but they are rare.
More common than political demonstrations are days when temperatures drop below freezing. Montreal's chilly winters can sometimes catch visitors off guard. Winter travelers should make sure to pack plenty of warm layers as well as mittens, scarves and hats.
The best ways to get around Montreal are on foot or by public transportation. Montreal is a very walkable city, but if your feet do grow weary, the Montreal Metro and bus are both cost-efficient and easy to use. There is also a public shuttle bus that runs between downtown and the Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL) and costs CA$10 (roughly $8) per person. You can also take a cab from the airport to downtown, which will cost CA$40 (around $31).Getting Around Montreal»


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