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Import data
Import someone else's data.
DROP TABLE employeeParking;
DROP TABLE employeeCopy;
CREATE TABLE employeeParking(
id TEXT,
parkingSpace TEXT );
INSERT INTO employeeParking VALUES ('E01','F8');
INSERT INTO employeeParking VALUES ('E02','G22');
INSERT INTO employeeParking VALUES ('E03','F7');
CREATE TABLE employeeCopy (
id TEXT,
name VARCHAR(20),
phone INTEGER );
INSERT INTO employeeCopy VALUES ('E01','Harpo',2753);
INSERT INTO employeeCopy VALUES ('E02','Zeppo',2754);
INSERT INTO employeeCopy VALUES ('E03','Groucho',2755);
To allow data to be imported into your system a mimic of your system can be made and then all that needs to be done is the rows from the old copy have to be deleted and then the table can be refilled with the fresh imported copy.
This method is not completely ideal but is efficient as a temporary measure until an up to date version of the table is made.
CREATE VIEW copy AS
SELECT employeeParking.id, COALESCE(name, employeeParking.id) AS name,
COALESCE(phone, 'Not Available') AS phone, parkingSpace
FROM employeeParking LEFT OUTER JOIN
employeeCopy ON (employeeParking.id = employeeCopy.id)
Hack 10 Converting subqueries into joins
Hack 11 Converting aggregate subqueries into joins
Hack 16 Search for a String across columns
Hack 24 Multiply Across a Result Set
Hack 25.5 Splitting and combining columns
Hack 26 Include the rows your JOIN forgot
Hack 30 Calculate the maximum/minimum of two fields
Hack 33 Get values and subtotals in one shot
Hack 50 Combine tables containing different data
Hack 51/52 Display rows as columns
Hack 55 Import Someone Else's Data
Hack 62 Issue Queries Without Using a Table
Hack 63 Generate rows without tables
Hack 72 Extract a subset of the results
Hack 78 Break it down by Range
Hack 88 Test two values from a subquery
Hack 98 Find and stop long running queries

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Army ROTC: Marlin Company
Leadership that Lasts a Lifetime
The Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), in partnership with Virginia Wesleyan University, offers students an elective curriculum in addition to coursework required for college majors. Participating students receive outstanding leadership training and excellent scholarship opportunities. Freshmen and sophomores may participate in the program without obligation to join the Army. Those who continue in ROTC, graduate as commissioned officers of the Army and have vast opportunities to specialize in a wide range of special interests called branches.
"I truly believe in the ideals of the Army ROTC program, and am very proud to have 5 of our players committed to the program. These guys are truly student-athletes: they show a strong commitment to their academics & the lacrosse program, but on top of that they give tirelessly of themselves to the USA & the ideals of the Army ROTC program. Their presence & involvement with the program has definitely benefitted my team."
-J.P. Stewart, Lacrosse Coach, Virginia Wesleyan University
Is ROTC for you?
Those who succeed in the Army ROTC program are students who excel and want something more our of their college experience. Generally, ROTC students are scholars who enjoy academic coursework, athletes who are physically strong, and leaders who have a great desire to learn and serve.
Cadet Heather Bishop
"I learned about ROTC through some friends that are Cadets and I wanted to join the Army after College. I researched about the program and saw the benefits of the program. I decided it would be helpful for me and something I would be interested in. I came to Virginia Wesleyan to play for the softball team. Upon graduation I plan on joining the army and continuing towards a Military Police Officer."
Cadet Jarret Hagwood
"The scholarships great, but you also get to interact with other cadets and the cadre at ODU. The Cadre at ODU are very understanding about athletes and I really like that. Upon graduation I plan on being a firefighter for the city of Norfolk and a 2nd lieutenant in the Army National Guard. My advice to future cadets is if you want something fun, challenging, and rewarding join Army ROTC."
Cadet Commander Matt Hovsepian
"I learned about ROTC from a family friend in California who commissioned through ROTC. I applied for and was granted a full tuition scholarship. I have grown from being involved in Army ROTC and playing a varsity sport at Virginia Wesleyan. Some of the things I've taken away from the program are leadership, time management, and discipline. I know the lessons I've learned on the lacrosse field will help me be a better Army Officer. Virginia Wesleyan is a great place for young leaders to develop and the Marlin Detachment is getting stronger with great leaders emerging as a result. Upon graduation I will be assigned to Ft. Bragg, North Carolina as a Military Police Officer."
Cadet Mike Connors
"I came to Virginia Wesleyan because I got recruited by head lacrosse coach JP Stewart, the school was in an area I like and I was interested in the liberal arts education you can receive here. Upon getting accepted into the College I knew you could attend Virginia Wesleyan and participate in ROTC at ODU, so I decided to try and do this. I applied for an ROTC scholarship because it was a great opportunity for me to get an education, develop leadership skills, and in the near future serve my country by becoming an officer in the US Army. After graduating, hopefully with a degree in psychology, I plan on entering either military intelligence or infantry."
Contact Information
Old Dominion University ROTC is the parent group for the Marlin Company.
VWU ROTC Advisor
Amy Rush
Army ROTC Marlin Company


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Management expert, author and teacher Peter Drucker once said that the best managers and leaders were those who knew how to ask the right question, not those who were always trying to give the right answer.
As a big believer in organizations using their staff to create change, build new policy and envision what might be possible, I challenge you to do something radical that will build your staff's strength and stamina for seeing what is possible and finding new ways to get things right for your customers.
I propose that you do a little exercise with your staff to help you differentiate your club from your competitors. The purpose of this exercise would be to discover the most impactful areas to boost your customers' love for your company and their loyalty to it. Start by calling a staff meeting with a few of your key leaders and some of your frontline staff. In that meeting, tell your staff that you are going to switch every membership contract to a month-to-month and you will begin selling only month-to-month memberships that feature a 100 percent unconditional money-back guarantee in the first 30 days.
This change will likely scare many of the people in the room. Many of them may be thinking that members will begin leaving the club if this change is made. Ask for your staff's thoughts. Then, ask them why they think people might leave the facility if you made this switch. To each answer, keep asking "why" until you find the root cause.
Once you get to that root cause, ask your staff what your organization would have to look like to be absolutely fearless about going to month-to-month contracts that have a guarantee.
These questions should reveal areas where you can innovate around customer needs. However, the essence of these questions is that people do not buy memberships—they buy solutions.
The gap between the fear of going to month-to-month memberships with a guarantee and the security and readiness to do so is a proxy for the degree to which you sell memberships as opposed to solutions. After all, a membership is only a solution for the most dedicated and advanced exerciser.
Now, organize your answers to these questions by measuring the urgency and the impact of each idea that came from the question about what your club would have to look like for your staff to be fearless about going month-to-month. Some of the information will have to do with plant and equipment, and some will identify processes and services. I suggest that you separate these and then rate each category. First, rate each item in both categories for urgency. You can simply give each a 1-10 rating with 10 being "most urgent." When measuring for urgency, you usually will discover stuff that is already "on fire."
Next, give each item a similar rating for impact. When measuring for impact, you are looking for what would affect the greatest number of customers.
New innovations usually fall under mid to low urgency but have high impact. For example, suppose one of the ideas is to create an end-to-end process to guide members that need help. Since it does not yet exist, it is not directly causing issues, so it has less urgency. But maybe it is such a good idea that it would be a game-changer for your business. That has a lot of impact. By comparison, a glaring hole in service and hospitality training usually falls under high urgency and high impact.
With these results, you can take action. If something is high impact but low urgency, create an initiative to build it out. Choose the items with the highest urgency and the highest impact to start addressing now. Create action plans with hard dates and crystal clear commitments.
Whether you actually intend to go to month-to-month with a guarantee is not relevant. Being able to do it without fear is.
This exercise was beneficial for my facilities when we did it years ago. I have taken other groups through this same exercise, and it is always an eye-opener. It is not for the faint-hearted and is only for operators who wish to focus on differentiation through the evolution of their business model.
Blair McHaney is president of Confluence Fitness Partners Inc., which operates two Gold's Gyms in Washington. He previously served as president of the Gold's Gym Franchisee Association and is an educator on customer experience management.


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Iran's prison transfer of American pastor causes anger, worry for family, supporters
BOISE, Idaho – A decision by Iranian officials to transfer an American pastor to a notoriously violent prison has heightened concern among relatives and energized lawmakers pushing for his immediate release.
Thirty-three-year-old Saeed (SAH-yeed) Abedini was convicted and sentenced earlier this year to eight years in prison for creating a network of Christian churches in private homes in Iran. Until recently, he was being held in a prison with other political detainees.
But family members and human rights officials say Abedini was moved Sunday to an extremely brutal prison outside Tehran.
Abedini's wife Naghmeh (NAHG-meh) Abedini says she fears even more for her husband's life and is urging American and international leaders to act.
On Thursday, 23 U.S. senators sent a bipartisan letter asking President Obama to engage in direct talks with Iran.


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Options: Finding Financial Aid
By The FoolProof Team
Begin your search by filling out the scholarship and financial aid applications for any school you apply to. Financial Aid offices are very knowledgeable, and a major purpose of most is to work with prospective students to put together a financial aid package that will enable an academically qualified student to attend their institution.
FAFSA: Free Application for Federal Student Aid ...and more
The next step is to fill out the FAFSA—Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The U.S. government provides a number of grant and loan programs to help finance higher education. To apply for any federal aid program, you and your family must submit the FAFSA. The information provided in this form is used to determine what federal aid you may be eligible for. Most colleges and universities also use the federal FAFSA form as part of their financial aid process to qualify students not just for federal grants and loans, but also for their own scholarship and financial aid programs.
There is no fee to file the FAFSA. It must be filed only once and preferably should be submitted online. The FAFSA website also provides information for completing the form. If you prefer using paper forms (a much slower process), such forms are available from the Financial Aid Offices of individual schools and from the Federal Student Aid Information Center at 1-800-4-FED-AID (1-800-433-3243) or 1-319-337-5665.
A wide variety of scholarships are available beyond those offered by colleges and universities. Scholarships are offered by corporations, community organizations, national organizations, religious organizations, government organizations, and foundations. You don't need to be an athlete or the smartest in your class to receive a scholarship. Numerous scholarships exist to award excellence in particular fields or for special student populations.
For example, some scholarship programs recognize excellence in music, visual arts, theater arts, science, or entrepreneurship, just to name a few. Other scholarships may be designated for women, minorities, or other groups. Individual companies may offer scholarships for employees or employees' children, local community residents, or study in a specific field. Other scholarships may be available after you have completed a specific amount of study, for example a semester or year.
Scholarship information is available from your high school guidance counselor's office, local library, college library, college or career school financial aid office, and particularly the Internet. You don't need to pay for help in finding scholarship and financial aid information. Nor do you need to use a fee-based scholarship search service. Many of these so-called scholarship services or seminars are only interested in taking your money not in helping you locate and apply for actual scholarships. The Federal Trade Commission has posted useful tips for checking out scholarship search scams.
You can find scholarships online, particularly those offered by groups and institutions other than colleges and universities. An excellent website, FinAid! provides a guide to Financial Aid including links to several scholarship search sites.
Apply for several scholarships. Most scholarships usually cover a small portion of tuition and fees, so one scholarship is usually not enough.
Other Sources of Financial Aid
This credit union probably has products to help pay for college. Check out their website.
Scholarships might also be available from professional organizations that you or your parents belong to.
Looking for Student, from the U.S. Department of Education, is a good resource.
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Nintendo files patent to turn Wii remote into touchpad
Nintendo has filed a patent that would give the Wii Remote some touchpad functionality.
Nintendo has filed a patent for an accessory that gives touchpad functionality to the Wii remote. The device uses a combination of LED and mirrors to imitate the effects of a touch pad, though it doesn't seem to able to project images directly onto the screen like you would see in the DS or Wii U. The patent states it could be used for drawing applications or to add a mouse pointer interface to a game.
Siliconera reports that the device would snap onto the Wii remote, but as long as your fingers aren't touching the pad it would still react like a normal controller.
The Wii U will include one of its new touch screen controllers, and all of the demos we saw at E3 involved only one person holding it while the other players used Wii remotes. Nintendo has offered conflicting statements on multi-controller support for the Wii U, and a solution like this would offer some of the functionality for each of the players. Nintendo has also hinted that the 3DS could potentially double as a Wii U controller, but has seemed hesitant to commit to the idea.
Companies patent all kinds of ideas, but not all make their way to market. It will be interesting to see if this patent will ever come into fruition.
Steve Watts posted a new article, Nintendo files patent to turn Wii remote into touchpad.
Nintendo has filed a patent that would give the Wii Remote some touchpad functionality.


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Target (NYSE:TGT) expects to hire about 70,000 workers for the holiday shopping season, 20% fewer than last year.
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The discount retailer decided to lower its seasonal employee count by 18,000 after its permanent employees expressed interest in working extra hours during the year's busiest shopping season.
Target said one-third of its seasonal hires last year became permanent workers.
Last month, Target reported a 13% decline in its second-quarter earnings amid costs related to the company's expansion into Canada. Target also saw weaker-than-expected sales and cautioned that consumer spending will likely continue to be weak.
Rival Kohl's (NYSE:KSS) said Thursday it plans to hire about 53,000 seasonal associates for the holidays, roughly level with last year's headcount.
Shares were trading 31 cents lower at $65.08 early Friday morning.


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In a move of government oppression we can sort of get behind, Iran's culture ministry has banned a number of men's haircuts including the mullet and other "decadent Western cuts." What else is deemed illegally unstylish?
Pony tails and elaborate spikes are also deemed immodest, so aging rockers and the cast of Jersey Shore should probably stay out of Tehran for awhile. There is actually a guide to which styles are now acceptable for male citizens. The catalog will be unveiled later this month at the Modesty and Veil Festival, which we wish was something we made up for comedy but is, in fact, a real actual event. Acceptable 'dos seem short and boring, however Elvis-style pompadours, retro '80s bangs, and short spikes are on the list. A new addition to the code is the goatee, which was once frowned upon but is now OK, a change probably due to the country's love of '90s movies starring Ben Affleck (that we made up). In recent years, several Iranian barbershops have been shut down for offering "Western" styles like the mullet. We wish we could get a similar law on the books.
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When you think about it, the Angry Birds are like the collectible guns of a first-person shooter. Once you unlock them, each type does something different. So, if the titular avians of Rovio's ubiquitous mobile hit are weapons in their own war, the upcoming Angry Birds Space will be increasing their arsenal with a few all-new squawkers.
Seen in the video above, the freshly revealed Ice Bird's the newest kind of feathered fury coming to ABS. I fell off the Angry Birds bandwagon when a firmware update wiped all my old save data, but the idea of experimenting with new mechanics like this might be enough to draw me back in the new game.


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Hope College President Dr. James E. Bultman, who has led the college since 1999, has announced that he will be retiring at the end of the 2011-12 school year.
Bultman, who is 69, announced his intention to retire to the campus community on Monday afternoon. He had informed the college's Board of Trustees during the board's spring meeting held on campus on Thursday-Friday, May 5-6.
"I am deeply grateful for a supportive Board of Trustees, a dedicated administrative team, a talented faculty, a resourceful staff and diligent students," he said Monday. "By God's grace and goodness much has been accomplished together."
"I will have been a college president for 27 consecutive years - close to five times the national average," Bultman said. "There is little doubt that this is a privileged position. And it is a special joy to be president of one's alma mater. This is a responsibility I do not take lightly. Indeed, I can say with the psalmist, 'the lines have fallen to me in pleasant places.'"
"As for Hope, I can only predict a very bright future as one of the nation's leading Christian liberal arts institutions," he said. "My personal passion, shared by so many, is that Hope will continue to provide an exceptional undergraduate experience in a caring and vibrantly Christian environment. Few colleges aspire to this; fewer still are able to achieve it. Gratefully, Hope is one of these."
"You've given me a rare and privileged opportunity to lead the college I love," Bultman said as he concluded his campus announcement. "Martie and I will treasure your trust in us forever."
Trustees chair Joel G. Bouwens said that a search committee comprised of trustees, alumni, faculty, administrators and students will be constituted and begin its work immediately with a goal of selecting the 12th president of Hope College in time for the 2012-13 school year.
Bultman became the college's 11th president on July 1, 1999. A 1963 Hope graduate, he assumed office having already had more than two decades of direct experience with the college, including his student days.
Bouwens praised Bultman for his dedicated and effective leadership.
"Jim Bultman has worked tirelessly on behalf of Hope throughout his presidency, a passionate and articulate advocate for the distinctive education that Hope provides," said Bouwens, who has served on the board since 1993 and led it since 2003. "His commitment to providing the best for students in both program and facilities has made a lasting difference in creating a stronger Hope College not only for today's students but for those to come."
"No less crucially, he and his wife Martie have touched many students' lives through their active and enthusiastic participation in the day-to-day life of the college," Bouwens said. "They invite students to their home, and regularly attend student scholarly presentations, performances and athletic contests, a reflection of their shared and very real personal interest in students as individuals."
Hope has enjoyed distinction on a variety of external measures during Bultman's tenure, ranging from holding more grants through the National Science Foundation's summer "Research Experiences for Undergraduates" program than any other liberal arts college in the country, to national accreditation in all four arts programs (art,
dance, music, and theatre), to recognition earlier this year as one of only 115 colleges and universities across the country named to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's "2010 Community Engagement Classification," a reflection of the college's institution-wide emphasis on service and service-learning.
During his second year as president, Hope launched the "Legacies: A Vision of Hope" comprehensive campaign, the largest single fund-raising effort in the college's history. The campaign's four major components included construction of the A. Paul Schaap Science Center and renovation of the Peale Science Center; construction of the DeVos Fieldhouse; increasing the endowment; and general campus improvements, including the construction of the Martha Miller Center for communication, modern and classical languages, international education, and multicultural life, and a renovation of Lubbers Hall. When it concluded at the end of 2001, Hope had raised more than $161 million from more than 3,300 donors, well above the goal of $105 million.
In addition, Hope has enhanced its athletic facilities with the new Van Andel Soccer Stadium and upgrades to the baseball and softball stadiums, and completed an adaptive restoration of historic Graves Hall. More recently, he has led the college in updating its mission statement and creating additional missional literature to both provide an overview of the distinctive qualities of Hope and serve as a guide for the future.
The past 12 years have also been a period of steady growth in enrollment, from 2,943 students in 1999 to more than 3,200 students each year since 2006. The college graduated its largest class in its history, 745 students, on Sunday, May 8, and is anticipating one of its largest freshman classes next fall.
Bultman joined the Hope College education faculty in 1968, chaired the department of education from 1976 to 1982, and was dean of the social sciences from 1982 until 1985. He was head baseball coach at Hope from 1971 to 1985, and an assistant football coach from 1970 to 1984.
He took office at Hope having had extensive experience as a college president. From 1985 to 1999, he was president of Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa. Northwestern, like Hope, is one of three colleges with ties to the Reformed Church in America.
An active leader in higher education circles, Bultman is chair of the Board of the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA), chair of the Division III Presidents Council of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), a member of the Presidents Council of the Michigan Colleges Foundation (MCF), and a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (AICUM).
He is a member of the Holland Area Chamber of Commerce and the Holland Rotary Club, and serves on the Board of Directors at The Bank of Holland, the Board of Directors of the Economic Club of Grand Rapids, and the Board of Governors of the Van Andel Institute.
Bultman has served an elected term on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) where he chaired the Student Financial Aid Committee; served as chair of AICUM; and served as chair of the Board of Directors of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. Additionally, he was a member of the Council of Presidents of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA); and was chair of the Iowa College Foundation, the Iowa Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and the Commission on Campus Concerns for NAICU.
He graduated from Hope with a major in chemistry. He holds a master's degree and doctorate in educational leadership from Western Michigan University.
Before joining Hope's faculty, Bultman taught and coached in the public schools in Portage and was the assistant principal of Portage Northern High School.
Hope presented him with a Distinguished Alumni Award in May, 1995. He received an honorary degree (L.H.D.) from Keiwa College, a sister college of Northwestern in Shibata City, Japan in March, 1998 and the honorary degree (Litt.D.) from Hope College on the occasion of his inauguration on October 22, 1999. In October, 2001, Bultman was presented a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Western Michigan
University Alumni Association.
Martie Bultman is also a 1963 Hope graduate. The Bultmans have two grown children: a son, Matthew, in Overland Park, Kan., and a daughter, Heather, in Broadhead, Wis.; and five grandchildren.


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It's time to start talking about getting our (Utah Co.) hackerspace running again. We need everyone that is interested to attend the meeting this Saturday. Details are below:
Location: UVU BRC (Thanks Victor!)
Date/Time: 2015/01/17 19:00 MT (GMT -7:00)
Topics up for discussion:
– Possible Locations
– Leadership Structure
– Other things directly relating to TheTransistor
– BSidesSLC / OpenWest 2015
– Upcoming LAN Parties / Events / etc.
See you there!
P.S. Several of us will be going to Hot Pot afterwards, everyone that wishes to attend is invited. For those that haven't been, it's about $15/person (+Tip) and WELL worth it.


text: >KevinO wrote: > David Mathog wrote: > > Convert 16KW to horsepower and find 16000 * .00134 => 214 hp. > 16KW / (746W/HP) = 21.45 HP Kevin is correct, the decimal point slipped one position in my post. Oops. So a 16KW rack is in the range where if it were an automobile motor it probably would be air cooled. As others have pointed out, motors air cool better with ambient temp air than do computers because the difference in temp between the heat source and the cooling medium is much greater. We've discussed water cooling. What about a phase change based system? Specifically, some coolant which is liquid until it hits the CPU and then boils, with cooling taking advantage of the latent heat of vaporization, which is likely to be much larger than the heat capacity of a normal liquid coolant. I'm not talking about the little units that go on each CPU and radiate out the back of each case, but rather a common system where all the tubes from the heat sinks join up outside the case and go off to one big condensor. There are numerous substances that boil at around the right temperature, although pentane (bp 36C) has some obvious disadvantages. Most of the freon based refrigerants I've seen boil at -30C or so, and that's actually a bit cooler than needed, since going that route would lead to condensation problems on the return pipes. Surely there must be heavier ones that boil at higher temps, and all of these would be insulators, which is good if leaks occur. Water could be used if the vapor pressure in the gas phase section was very low. Pretty sure that's how the little heat pipes in the Shuttle mini computers function. For wiring many machines to a common condensor probably better though if the gas phase was at around 1 atmosphere so that a leak somewhere wouldn't mess up the cooling so dramatically, at least until all the coolant had boiled off. One might imagine a relatively simple system with a "room coolant level" (RCL) below which every CPU must be located. Distribution pipes from the bottom of the main coolant tank (at room temp) gravity feed all the CPUs. Effectively they are all submerged. A second pipe out the "top" of each cooling block goes upward, carrying the evaporated coolant, and these join together somewhere above RCL where they enter a condensor, presumably outside the room, and the condensed coolant comes back in to the top of the coolant tank. If proper geometry is maintained no pumps would be needed. Of course the condensor could be located in the machine room if an existing chilled water line is available. The trickiest thing to my mind would be keeping the pressure in the gas phase part of the loop low enough that each CPU remains "immersed". If the vapor pressure goes too high the coolant would be pushed down below the heat sink at which point effective cooling would cease. Regards, David Mathog mathog at caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech


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Alex Chilton, the mercurial leader of the Box Tops and Big Star who burst from the Memphis music scene in 1967 singing "The Letter" in the smoke-gravel voice of a grizzled soul man even though he was just 16 at the time, has died. He was 59.
Chilton was pronounced dead in the emergency room of a New Orleans hospital Wednesday after complaining of shortness of breath and chest pains, longtime friend Pat Rainer said Thursday. The cause of death has not been determined, but Rainer said Chilton's wife, Laura Kerstin, said he appeared to have suffered a heart attack.
Chilton died just as many of his musical disciples in the alternative-rock world that Big Star's relentlessly tuneful and uncompromising guitar rock helped inspire were gathering in Austin, Texas, for the annual South By Southwest Music Conference.
Big Star was scheduled to play a reunion performance Saturday. John Fry, owner of the Ardent Studio in Memphis where Chilton recorded with the Box Tops and Big Star, said Thursday that the other band members had decided to proceed with the show as a tribute to Chilton.
"You can't throw a rock at South By Southwest," Fry said, "without hitting someone who was influenced by Big Star."
The conference's creative director, Brent Grulke, said in a statement, "Alex Chilton always messed with your head, charming and amazing you while doing so. His gift for melody was second to none, yet he frequently seemed in disdain of that gift. He seemed as troubled by neglect as he did by fame. . . .
"It was impossible to know what he was thinking," Grulke's statement continued. "But it was always worth pondering, because that's what a truly great artist makes us do. And make no mistake: Alex Chilton was an artist of the very highest caliber."
In fact, Chilton was immortalized in a song named after him by the Replacements, the Minneapolis band from the '80s and '90s that was one of countless Big Star descendants.
"Children by the million sing for Alex Chilton when he comes 'round," the Replacements' lead singer and songwriter, Paul Westerberg, sang, imagining how much better the world might have been had those millions actually heard Chilton's music.
That, however, was a bit of willful rock 'n' roll wish fulfillment. Originally, Big Star's fans numbered not in the millions, but hundreds, perhaps thousands. Like the Velvet Underground, Big Star's influence developed well after the band no longer existed, influencing acts from R.E.M. and the Posies to the Bangles and Teenage Fanclub.
Eventually, millions did hear at least one Big Star song, "In the Street," used as the theme song for the Fox TV comedy series "That '70s Show."
Its cult status grew past the point that Chilton himself thought was reasonable.
"There are only three or four of the tunes, like 'In the Street' and 'When My Baby's Beside Me,' that still work for me," Chilton said in 1995. "I think in general Big Star is overrated."
William Alexander Chilton was born in Memphis on Dec. 28, 1950, one of four children of Sidney and Mary Chilton. Sidney Chilton was a jazz trumpeter and Mary was a classically trained musician who immersed their children in music, both recorded and live, often hosting jam sessions at home.
That set the stage for Alex to become a habitué early on of Memphis' many recording studios, where he soaked up the sounds of blues, R&B, soul, rock and gospel musicians working there.
After performing in a talent show at Central High School, Chilton was drafted for the Box Tops and coached by producer Dan Penn toward the gritty, soulful vocal style that turned their recording of Wayne Thompson's song "The Letter" into a nationwide hit that spent four weeks at No. 1, when Chilton was still 16.
"Cry Like a Baby" reached No. 2 the next year, and the Box Tops charted eight other songs in the Top 100 before the group disbanded out of frustration over not being able to record the band's own material.
Early on, Chilton once complained, producers "kicked our little band out of the studio and brought in all the session players."
Not long after the demise of the Box Tops, Chilton fell in with guitarist Chris Bell, bassist Andy Hummel and drummer Jody Stephens and formed Big Star, in which Chilton became an "invisible man who can sing in a visible voice," as the Replacements' song put it.
That group tapped the melodic invention and rich vocal harmonies of such '60s groups as the Beatles and the Byrds -- Chilton's voice often reminiscent of Byrds' lead singer Roger McGuinn -- in songs of romantic disillusionment and frustration.
The downcast tone of many flew in the face of the reassuring folk rock of James Taylor and Carole King that ruled the charts in those days as the masses sought emotional salve during the fractious days of the Vietnam War.
"Big Star is like a vulnerable Beatles," Counting Crows lead singer Adam Duritz once said. "They sing about all those dreams that you had when you were young that got broken. I'm not sure people were ready for that music back then. It was very confused and vulnerable music, and it was great."
Big Star also had the misfortune of depending on the venerated Stax label to distribute its recordings. Stax was undergoing financial difficulties at the time and declared bankruptcy before the third of Big Star's albums was released.
Consequently, none of those albums -- "#1 Record," "Radio City" and "3rd/Sister Lovers" -- ever cracked the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. That was partially responsible for sending Chilton into a psychological tailspin, and he spent the next decade in a haze of alcohol and drugs.
"I certainly regret wasting 10 years drinking and drugging," he told the Boston Globe in 1994, "but I didn't know what else to do." He quit music entirely for a time, and worked at odd jobs including as a tree trimmer for a Louisiana power company.
Still, the influence of what he'd done with Big Star was felt in the bedrooms and garages of aspiring musicians around the country, to the extent that Rolling Stone magazine once proclaimed, "It's safe to say there would have been no modern pop movement without Big Star."
Chilton himself continued to record sporadically, issuing a series of inconsistent solo albums in the '80s and '90s. In 1994, he returned to Memphis' Ardent Studios, where both the Box Tops and Big Star had recorded, and made a new album mostly of pre-rock tunes he'd grown up with, titled "Clichés," and followed with the next year with "A Man Called Destruction."
To Chilton, the up and down life path was preferable to sacrificing his musical vision.
"I'd be happier doing anything in this world -- delivering papers, I don't care -- than if in 1971 I'd tried to sound like then-popular bands Ten Years After or Led Zeppelin," he said several years ago.
"I've always done what I wanted to do or what I thought was best for any given moment, but it was never what people expected or thought they wanted," Chilton said. "Staying true to your own vision is the only thing I can do. It's hard to say in general about career moves, but I'm kind of happy where I ended up."
In addition to his wife, Chilton is survived by a son, Timothee, from his first marriage; and a sister, Cecelia.


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BOSTON, Mass. - MIT finished 12th overall and fourth among Division III teams at the highly competitive All-Division New England (NEICAAA) Championship, Saturday at Franklin Park. Yermie Cohen paced the Engineers' unit, finishing 35th overall with a time of 26:00.
MIT felt the loss of No. 1 runner Jake Ruzevick, who dropped out of Saturday's race amid the hot and humid conditions. Despite the setback, the team posted a solid performance. Brian Jacokes finished second for the Cardinal and Gray after dipping through the chute in 26:36. Joseph Roy-Mayhew finished four seconds and three places back in 83rd out of a field of nearly 300 competitors, while Chris Bruce also finished among the top 100 (95th) after finishing with a time of 26:45. Trevor Rundell capped the scoring for MIT after splitting 27:07.
The meet was dominated up front by a powerful Division I contingent, which was won by Brown University. Williams (5th) and Amherst (8th) were the only Division III schools to finish among the top 10, while the Engineers finished the race sandwiched between Bowdoin and Tufts en route to their final spot in the team standings.
MIT showcased tremendous depth in Saturday's meet as the Engineers enjoyed a great showing by the sub-varsity team. With a lineup that would have placed 14th in the varsity race, MIT's sub-varsity, which was comprised of four freshmen and one sophomore, finished the race third overall behind two Division I teams. Rookie Gihan Amarasiriwardena split 26:12 to author the Engineers' top time.


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Israeli officials on Sunday warned that they will escalate the battle against Gaza-based terrorists after a series of cross-border attacks on Saturday left seven Israelis wounded.
The violence began on Saturday afternoon, when Palestinian terrorists fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli army patrol vehicle on the Israeli side of the Gaza security fence. The missile scored a direct hit, and four Israeli soldiers were wounded, one seriously.
Israeli tanks immediately responded by bombarding selected terrorist installations in Gaza. Palestinian sources said four people were killed by the return fire.
A short while later, missiles and mortar shells started landing on Israeli towns and villages across the southern Negev region. At least 60 missiles and mortars were fired into southern Israel over the course of Saturday night.
Three Israeli civilians were wounded in the night-long barrage, and widespread damage was reported. Israel responded with air strikes on additional targets in Gaza.
Both Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, and its allies in Islamic Jihad claimed credit for taking part in the attacks. Israeli officials said they would be sorry for doing so.
"The IDF is striking and will continue to strike Gaza," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a press conference. "Terrorist organizations are suffering grave setbacks at the hands of the IDF. The world must understand that Israel will not sit idly."
Netanyahu closed by warning that Israel is "ready to escalate our response."
Just two weeks ago, Israeli military officials cautioned that if the violence emanating from Gaza did not cease, Israel would have no choice but to launch another ground invasion.
Col. Amir Baram, commander of one of Israel's top paratrooper units, told Channel 2 News that the Israeli army will likely have to enter Gaza in the near future.
"I think there won't be a choice. We'll need to enter Gaza soon," said Baram, noting that the only way to truly cripple the terrorists' capabilities is to go house-to-house and destroy their weapons caches.
Israel last entered Gaza in force during the winter of 2008-2009. Despite the massive escalation in terrorist rocket fire that forced Israel to take action, the international community predictably blamed Israel for the conflict and its casualties.
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But the good news is that I am now on Spring Break for the next week. I've already been to ACPL once and plan to get a few more trips in before work picks up again in May. I'm also heading down to Cincinnati to do some research in Hamilton, Ohio and since the weather isn't cooperating for a cemetery expedition to Switzerland County, Indiana, I think I'll go to Rabbit Hash, Kentucky. Then I can see the crazy place where 5 generations of my family lived. Plus I'll stop by grandma's and pick up some more slides and ask her some more questions about her life.
Here were my genealogy goals for March 2011:
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- Work on husband's family lines in Alsace, France. (I found them in France, but I have to be in the right mood to deal with records in French. Two weeks of being sick in February didn't help.) Did not do. Work got in the way and I remembered that I needed to research his line in Butler County, Ohio so I could add it to my research trip for next week.
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Author Notes: These "truffles" came about one evening when I was making some Irish potato candy. While I love Irish potatoes in their original, the combination of cream cheese and coconut in the mixer just seemed to be crying out for more additions. Since almond and coconut go so well together I decided to add some ground almonds to the mix, and these "truffles" are the happy result. Smooth and creamy with a bit of a crunch from the almonds and coconut this candy seemed to be channeling an Almond Joy. A dusting of cocoa powder was all they needed to pull it all together. —Couldn't Be Parve
Food52 Review: In two words (no, actually four); insanely easy, insanely rich. I love the idea of a unique, yummy, no-cook holiday confection, and Almond Joy Truffles fit the bill perfectly. After creaming together the butter and cream cheese and adding the vanilla I was a little skeptical that the almonds and coconut would be incorporated but it came out brilliantly, and when dusted with the cocoa powder tasted just like an Almond Joy on steroids. Can't wait to share them with co-workers tomorrow! —wssmom
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tablespoons butter (or margarine if making vegan)
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This Eclipse DemoCamp will be sponsored by Eclipse Foundation
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- On the occasion of Eclipse's 10th Birthday, Bangalore also decides to join the celebration.
- The event starts with Eclipse Birthday Cake Cutting @ 6pm.
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- Snacks and Drinks will be served during the event and post Presentations we would start with the Dinner.
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Construction of an Imitating Nano-motor Driven by Six ATP-binding RNAs of Bacterial Virus phi29
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A switchable imitating DNA-packaging motor was constructed in the laboratory. The motor is driven by six synthetic ATP-binding pRNA (packaging RNA) molecules that bind to the connector and function in a manner similar to the driving of a bolt with a hex nut. Conformational change and sequential action of the RNA ensure continuous rotation of the motor, with ATP as energy.
A 5-um DNA was packaged using this synthetic motor using one ATP to translocate two base pairs of DNA. The DNA-filled capsids were subsequently converted into infectious virus. Direct observation revealed that the motor can tow a bead more than 500 nm.
The 3D structures of pRNA/motor complex and the pRNA monomer, dimer and hexamer have been probed by photo affinity crosslinking, chemical modification interference, nuclease probing, cryo-AFM and computer modeling. pRNA's size and shape can be controlled and manipulated at will to form stable dimers, trimers and arrays for nanotechnological applications. The motor can be turned off and turned on again.
The formation of ordered structural arrays of the motor complex and its components and the ease of RNA dimer, trimer, and hexamer manipulation with desired shape and size make this motor system a promising tool for use as building block for nanodevice and/or for gene delivery. Efficient inhibition of the growth of cancer or cancer cell was demonstrated in cell cultures or animal models through the use of motor nanoparticle to deliver therapeutic siRNAs and/or ribozymes to breast cancer cells, human oropharyngeal epidermoid carcinoma KB cells, leukemia model T cells, lung cancer cells, or hepatitis B virus-infected cells.
In 1987, Dr. Guo received his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Genetics in Dwight Anderson's lab at the University of Minnesota/School of Dentistry. His postdoctoral fellowships were with Enzo Paoletti in the Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health in 1998 and as a visiting scientist with Bernard Moss at NIH. Dr. Guo joined Purdue University in 1990, and has been a full Professor of Molecular Virology since 1997. His current main research interested is in nanobiotechnology. His lab has been continuously supported by grants from NIH, NSF, and DOD. In recognition of his research efforts at Purdue, Dr. Guo was the recipient of an NIH First Award in 1992 and the "Pfizer Distinguished Faculty Award for Research Excellence" in 1995; the status of Purdue Faculty Scholar was conferred in 1998.
Ongoing research in his lab involves answering fundamental questions concerning the mechanisms of the phi29 DNA-packaging motor and the role of six pRNAs, and applying these findings to human health and nanotechnology, such as the engineering of pRNA and other motor components to be used as nanobuilding blocks and for array construction, and for gene and drug delivery for specific cell-targeting in the treatment of cancers and virus-related diseases.
Dr. Guo is an editor or editorial board member for six journals, including four in nanotechnology and bionanotechnology, and has been an advisor and honorary visiting professor of three foreign national research institutes and three foreign universities. He has published more than 70 original research papers in refereed journals including Science, PNAS, and Molecular Cell, more than ten reviews, and more than 100 conference reports. He has also chaired or been the keynote speaker at numerous symposia and international conferences. His work has been in the news by television (NBC, MS-NBC, and ABC), newspapers (Indianapolis Star and Washington Times), magazines (Scientific American), and online, including Space Daily, Science Daily, the NSF Newsletter, the Science website and many nanotechnology-related web sites. He has been invited multiple times to speak and contribute to document preparation for National Nanotechnology Initiatives (NNI) organized by NIH, NSF, NIST, NSET and the National Sciences & Technology Council, and to serve as a panelist to evaluate the medical research of the Army, Navy, Air Force and other Department of Defense programs.
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|Aethyr & Nam-Ek
| Powers and
|All Kryptonian powers under a yellow sun (Demonstrated: Super strength, super speed, invulnerability, heat vision, x-ray vision)
|Played By
| Alana de la Garza[1]
Leonard Roberts[3]
| Unknown (Aethyr)
Deceased (Nam-Ek)
The Disciples of Zod were two Kryptonians loyal to General Zod.
They arrived on Earth in the Black Ship during the 2005 meteor shower, intent on finding Kal-El and forcing him to free Zod from the Phantom Zone.
Physical AppearanceBoth Aethyr and Nam-Ek had identical, unnaturally bright, green eyes, displayed little emotion and were ruthless and brutal in pursuit of their goals. They considered humans savages and had little qualm about hurting or killing any that got in their way. When they first emerged from the ship both wore Kryptonian armor and Aethyr had a bracelet on her right wrist. The bracelet contained inscriptions of the Mark of Zod and Aethyr also wore the mark on her lower back as a tattoo.
Powers and Abilities
Under a yellow sun, both Kryptonians gain all Kryptonian powers and abilities and demonstrated immense control over them.
- Super strength - They were ginormously stronger than humans, but in the Phantom Zone, they are utterly stripped of their abilities. However, they were so much weaker than Clark that they didn't even try to fight him, and instead just tried to trap him in the Phantom Zone. Aethyr was able slap Jonathan effortlessly and Namek was able to slide the metal door in Luthor mansion as if it were nothing.
- Super speed - Both disciples were able to move and run at speeds that surpass the sound barrier.
- Invulnerability - Their whole bodies were totally impenetrable, and only kryptonite could hurt them.
- Heat vision - The disciples were able to emit extensive heat from their eyes.
- Telekinesis - They, like Kal-El and General Zod, can influence the trajectory and movement of Kryptonian objects.
Like all Kryptonians, Zod's disciples are inherently weakened by kryptonite. They both got sucked into the portal wormhole to the Phantom Zone's dimension.
Early life
Zod's disciples were his two closest allies and were given major roles in the civil war on Krypton. While Zod determined where should be attacked, his disciples were given roles in which they too determined where should be attacked and they often conversed with Zor-El giving them an upper hand and knowledge of where should be best to attack.
When notified that Zod had been captured, they contacted Brainiac and determined that since Zod had been captured and that Zor-El was planning to destroy Krypton, they should flee and find the planet where Jor-El would send his only son Kal-El so they could use him to free Zod and create a Kryptonian paradise. They then left Krypton in the Black Ship along with Brainiac and when the Crystal of Air was stained with blood, the Black Ship was notified and immediately traveled to Earth.
Season FiveThe Black ship landed in Smallville along with a meteor shower and the two emerged from the ship. They traversed Smallville in search of Kal-El, leaving a trail of destruction and brutality in their wake. The two believed themselves the last survivors of Krypton and wished Kal-El to join them in making earth into a new Kryptonian paradise. Eventually, they came face to face in the Luthor mansion, where Clark refused to join them in their insane quest. Aethyr decided to banish Clark to the Phantom Zone, viewing him as a threat since he did not wish to ally with them. However, Clark managed to knock them into the portal they opened, in a bit of poetic justice; their brutal methods had come back to haunt them.
Season Six
Months later, when Kal-El was exiled to the Zone, the two disciples confronted him, seeking revenge for their imprisonment. They blamed him, when it in reality it was their own fault for opening the portal in the first place; Clark had only caused them to fall into the portal in self-defense, as it would not close otherwise and the Earth would be under threat from them.
The two wished to execute him immediately, but Raya's quick witted deception convinced the two that he could free them from the Zone. At the last moment she betrayed them, slicing open Nam-Ek's throat and killing him.
Aethyr was last seen stabbing Raya the instant before Kal-El triggered the escape portal from the Zone. Whether she remained in the Zone, despite Raya escaping, or landed somewhere on Earth wasn't revealed.
Season Seven
Over a year later, Jor-El said that Bizarro was indeed the final Phantom Zoner to be dealt with, indirectly confirming that Aethyr was left in the Zone.
- Season Five: Arrival, Lockdown (Mentioned only), Oracle (Mentioned only)
- Season Six: Zod
- Kara and the Chronicles of Krypton
- Season Eleven: Guardian (flashback only)
In the Comics
- Nam-Ek
Nam-Ek was a genius healer specialized in biology, truly committed in making life for his fellow Kryptonians better. During his studies, Nam-Ek found out that most of Kryptonian medicine was based on the radiations emitted by the Rondor, a sacred beast of the planet whose horn could cure any known disease. Nam-Ek thought that a deeper study of the Rondor's horn could have opened new frontiers for medicine and research, but he had a single obstacle, Kryptonian law. According to the law, in fact, the Rondor was a sacred beast and its killing and the removal of its horn were considered as an unforgivable sin and a grave crime, punished in ancient times with death. Nam-Ek considered that the potential benefits surpassed by far the risks and decided to try all the same: he secretly captured a Rondor and surgically removed its horn: the beast didn't survived the operation. The healer studied the horn for days, until he was able to create a serum out of it. Sure that the serum would have granted immunity to any disease, Nam-Ek drank the serum, that had some unforeseen side effects, his skin turned purple and leathery, his nails became claws and a big horn, just like a Rondor's one, grew in the middle of his forehead. Transformed into a Rondor-Kryptonian hybrid, Nam-Ek was unable to conceal his crime and was arrested and sent to the Phantom Zone.
Nam-Ek was to be considered lucky being imprisoned in the Phantom Zone, since Krypton exploded shortly after: also in the dimensional prison, however, the other Zoners saw him as a wicked creature, because both his hideous appearance and his past . Feared and distanced, Nam-Ek spent years in complete solitude, an isolation that affected badly his mental health. With the days, the sharp intellect and the scientific genius were replaced by paranoia and an incredible need for company.
At last, Nam-Ek was freed by Amalak, a space pirate who hated everything that was Kryptonian and was searching for an ally in his long time battle against Superman. Having become naive and gullible, Nam-Ek was more than happy to become Amalak's partner and joined his crusade against Superman. Thanks to the serum, Nam-Ek had gained also the Rondor's powers, not just his appearance, as well as was able to cure anything with his horn and for this reason, Amalak renamed him Antibiotic Man, something that the Kryptonian took as a compliment and was proud of. The two, together, attacked Superman with a series of physical and psychic attacks, with the Antibiotic Man healing both himself and Amalak everytime Superman managed to land a blow on them. Ultimately, Superman managed to defeat both of them and while Amalak died by accidentally stabbing himself, Nam-Ek was closed in the Phantom Zone once again. [4]
He was freed again years after, when the space-time continuum was torn apart and on Earth he managed to subdue many heroes, vanquishing with no effort even the powerful Wonder Woman. He was imprisoned once again when Aethyr, the physical embodiment of the Phantom Zone, was convinced by Mr. Mxyzptlk that torturing Kryptonians was fun and brought him to collect its former prisoners.
- Aethyr
A result of two galaxies that collided and were destroyed, Aethyr is the collective melding of all the souls that were lost. A powerful, cosmic demon like being whose thoughts create the Phantom Zone. It is a godlike being who exists solely in the Phantom Zone. In fact, it is one of the only beings truly native to the zone and all things that exist within the deepest reaches of the expanse are subject to its whim. It is millions of years old and is in control of all the galaxies, including the Phantom Zone. It is also in control of The Projector, the gateway to the Phantom Zone.
Aethyr was also referred to as "The Oversoul".
It was erased from existence, following the collapse of the Multiverse in the Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series.
- They blame Clark for imprisoning them in the Phantom Zone, when it was their own fault for opening the portal to the Phantom Zone in the first place. Clark didn't wish them harm, but the portal wouldn't have closed until to snagged a victim.
- They seem to view any lifeforms not Kryptonian to be unworthy of their concern, as they murdered humans without a single sign of remorse.
- Nam-Ek and Aethyr's names both appear in Kevin J. Anderson's novel, The Last Days of Krypton. However like the show, their physical descriptions fit that of Non and Ursa, from Superman: The Movie and Superman II.
- Nam-Ek and Aethyr's backstory is never told. It is likely the Disciples were a sect of Zod's followers established after the destruction of Kandor. If they were soldiers in Major Zod's army, they would have had clones in the Orb, but not all the names of the people in the Orb are disclosed so there is a chance they were inside but not seen.
- Nam-Ek appears in 2013's film Man of Steel, as a hulking Kryptonian and follower of Zod. He fights Superman along with Faora in Smallville. He also appears in the comic book tie-in of the film, which reveals his origin as a young pilot of Krypton who along with Kara Zor-El and other Kryptonians have as a final test a trip to the jungle.
- ↑ Aethyr in Arrival
- ↑ Aethyr in Zod
- ↑ Nam-Ek
- ↑ https://moviecomicswhoswho.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/nam-ek-antibiotic-man/
See also
| Zod in Smallville
|Kryptonians in Smallville


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==Dual Booting from Multiple Hard Drives==
==Dual Booting from Multiple Hard Drives==
To dual boot from two separate hard drives (e.g., one dedicated Linux drive and one dedicated Windows drive) and Windows is not on the first hard drive, the Windows boot loader must be "tricked" into thinking Windows is on the first hard drive. Do this by adding the following lines to your menu.lst config file:
To dual boot from two separate hard drives (e.g., one dedicated Linux drive and one dedicated Windows drive)
Windows is not on the first hard drive, the Windows boot loader must be "tricked" into thinking Windows is on the first hard drive. Do this by adding the following lines to your menu.lst config file:
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd1) (hd0)
Revision as of 21:29, 11 November 2011
This is a simple article detailing different methods of Arch/Windows coexistence.
Windows and Arch Dual Booting
In this example, we will install Windows first, and subsequently install the GRUB bootloader along with Arch, allowing for dual boot.
Installation will be standard, but there are a few things to keep in mind:
1. You may have to use logical partitions for some of your partitions, because there can only be up to 4 primary partitions per disk.
2. Remember to write down your partitions numbers: "sda1, sda2... sda8", noting which type of partitions belong to their relevant number. For example:
- sda1
- Windows - 30GB should be enough. Many new games exceed 10GB each so bear this in mind.
- sda2
- /boot - 100MB is enough (optional)
- sda3
- / - about 25GB is appropriate
- sda4
- swap - between 1024MB and 4096MB (optional)
- sda5
- /home - use rest of hard drive (optional)
It is important to note that there is a 1024 cylinder limit with some older BIOSs. This means that the BIOS cannot access things beyond the 1024th cylinder (about 8.5GB), so the /boot partition should be in the first 8.5GB (space before Windows partition). GParted LiveCD or a partitioning tool in SystemRescueCd are useful for moving and resizing partitions to accommodate this.
3. When installing grub, you must configure /boot/grub/menu.lst), and make sure to install grub to /boot (or root (/) if you did not create a separate partition for /boot). Installing grub onto your Windows partition may cause Windows not to boot. There should be about three lines at the end of the file that speak about chainloading to boot other OSs, these can most generally be uncommented if you follow above convention, this would place windows boot point at hd0,0 or sda1. Thus you would have something akin to this:
# Windows XP title Windows XP rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1
The parts of this entry break down as follows:
- title Windows XP
- Can be anything you like, it will just be what is displayed in the grub bootup screen
- rootnoverify (hd0,0)
- Remember the partition numbers we wrote down, here you write in the partition number of your windows partition. This sets the windows boot at root, even though GRUB cannot read it.
- chainloader +1
- What this does is call the Windows boot loader that is still in MBR in our case, since GRUB cannot boot Windows itself.
- The file is read from the top down, so the system listed first will be the one to auto boot, if no keys are pressed during the grub boot screen.
- GRUB uses a zero indexed system of numbering drives and partitions, which is a different convention than you may be used to seeing:
First disk, first partition=sda1=hd0,0 First disk, second partition=sda2=hd0,1 Second disk, first partition=sdb1=hd1,0
Dual Booting from Multiple Hard Drives
To dual boot from two separate hard drives (e.g., one dedicated Linux drive and one dedicated Windows drive).
Windows + Arch
You have Windows installed on the first hard drive and you want to install Arch on the second one. Follow this procedure :
1/Unplug the Windows hard drive (this is not needed if you are sure you know which drive have the Windows on it and which one is supposed to receive Arch. But this way you are sure you won't do any mistake)
2/Install Arch on the second hard drive (that has become the first if you have unplug the Windows one)
3/Be sure to install GRUB on the MBR on the Arch drive (I didn't test with syslinux but it should work too).
4/At the end of the process you should be able to boot on Arch but not on Windows (the disk is unplug and even if not, GRUB doesn't know how to boot Windows... Yet !)
5/Log in on Arch
6/edit /boot/grub/menu.lst (that needs root access) At the end add :
# (2) Windows title Seven rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1
I use '(2)' because '(0)' and '(1)' are already used by Arch.
If you want Windows to be loaded by default (the happy wife, happy life way !) Change the 'default' value by the one used for declaring Windows just before (here it is '2'). Ex :
# general configuration: timeout 8 default 2
7/halt your computer and plug-in the Windows drive
8/Restart the computer. You should see the GRUB menu proposing Arch and Windows. Select the one you want et voila !
Arch + Windows
If Windows is not on the first hard drive, the Windows boot loader must be "tricked" into thinking Windows is on the first hard drive. Do this by adding the following lines to your menu.lst config file:
map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0)
So the entry for Windows on second disk, first partition will look like this:
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional root (hd1,0) savedefault makeactive map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1
Or if the above configuration doesn't work, you might try the one below from the Arch Wiki GRUB page:
title Windows map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive #if you use Windows7 this line should be commented out chainloader +1
More information on GRUB configuration can be found in the GRUB manual.
Other Layouts
1. You could use:
- sda1
- Windows XP
- sda2
- swap
- sda3
- root
- sda4
- home
and not use an extended partition (as /boot will be in the / partition as well).
2. LVM (Linux Volume Management) is also a possibility to use. You could simply create a single LVM partition and let it create the other partitions inside it. This allows a single partition to hold all your needed GNU/Linux data, and allows to easily partitions when necessary.
Notes on /home
You may not wish to store you documents on this mountpoint, especially if you wish to share data between both Windows and Arch Linux. Historically, this was done on a FAT partition because writing to NTFS was still experimental. NTFS-3G now offers stable writing to NTFS partitions, so you can just leave this as another partition that will be shared by both Windows and arch. Another option would be to use some of the tools in Windows, such as fs-driver and use an ext3 or ext2 partition to store documents (fs-driver will mount ext3 partitions as ext2, so you will not be able to take advantage of journaling while in Windows).
Using Windows boot-loader
Another option is sort of the reverse of what is described at the beginning of this article where GRUB loads the Windows boot loader, which then loads Windows. Under this option, the Windows boot loader load GRUB, which then loads arch.
Using Windows 7 Boot-Loader
Excerpted from http://www.iceflatline.com/2009/09/how-to-dual-boot-windows-7-and-linux-using-bcdedit/
This assumes you have already resized your Win partition, created Linux partitions, and installed linux. Some documents state that the partition being loaded by the Win boot-loader must be a primary partition but I have used this without problem on an extended partition.
- When installing the grub bootloader, install it on your /boot partition rather than the MBR. Note: For instance, my /boot partition is /dev/sda5. So I installed grub at /dev/sda5 instead of /dev/sda
- Under linux make a copy of the boot info by typing the following at the command shell:
my_windows_part=/dev/sda3 my_boot_part=/dev/sda5 mkdir /media/win mount $my_windows_part /media/win dd if=$my_boot_part of=/media/win/linux.bin bs=512 count=1
- Boot to windows and run cmd with administrator privileges (navigate to Start->All Programs->Accessories, Right-click on Command Prompt and select "Run as administrator.")
bcdedit /create /d "Linux" /application BOOTSECTOR
- BCDEdit will return an alphanumeric identifier for this entry that I will refer to as {ID} in the remaining steps. You'll need to replace {ID} by the actual returned identifier. An example of {ID} is {d7294d4e-9837-11de-99ac-f3f3a79e3e93}.
bcdedit /set {ID} device partition=c: bcdedit /set {ID} path \linux.bin bcdedit /displayorder {ID} /addlast bcdedit /timeout 30
Done! Reboot and enjoy. In my case I'm using the Win bootloader so that I can map my Dell Precision M4500's second power button to boot linux instead of windows.
Using Windows 2k/XP Boot-Loader
For information on this method see http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html. I do not believe there are any distinct advantages of this method over the linux boot-loader, you will still need a /boot partition, and this one is arguably more difficult to setup.