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Indiana Faces Off Against...Indiana
With its hayloft hoops and small-school folklore, Indiana has always been the romantic home of basketball. But this year the Hoosier State owns the bottom line, too: Though other Big Ten states have bigger populations, Indiana outranks them all in producing starting basketball players for the nation's leading conference.
When the No. 3 Hoosiers host top-ranked Michigan on Saturday night at Assembly Hall (9 p.m. ET, ESPN), five of the best players on the court will be from Indiana, including Wolverines starter Glenn Robinson III and sixth man Mitch McGary. The Hoosiers' homegrowns include preseason All-America center Cody Zeller and the starting backcourt of Yogi Ferrell and Jordan Hulls.
In fact, the state of Indiana is responsible for 12 of the Big Ten Conference's 60 starters this season. That's twice as many as five years ago and three more than the number of players reared in Illinois, a state with nearly twice as many people.
It's hard to say for certain what turned Indiana into the Ford Motor Co. F -0.39 % of college basketball, rolling out game-ready players on a conveyor belt. But the surge comes after jumps in state population and high school hoops participation—the latter shadowing a player who became just Indiana's second No. 1 NBA draft pick since 1977.
Greg Oden, the 7-foot center once named Indiana's Mr. Basketball, played with Mike Conley Jr. and led their Indianapolis high school to three consecutive state championships in the mid-2000s. From there both decamped for Ohio State, where they led the Buckeyes to the national championship game as freshmen.
Oden and Conley enrolled in high school just after a boomlet: Between 1990 and 2000, Indiana's population rose 9.7%, the second-highest growth rate among Big Ten states behind Minnesota. And many born during that span took up basketball. While national high-school participation in the sport barely budged, the number of male players in Indiana grew 21% between Oden and Conley's freshman and senior seasons—a net gain of nearly 2,400 players. The school year after Oden and Conley graduated, Indiana's boys high-school basketball participation reached its 10-year peak. High-school freshmen and sophomores from that season are now college upperclassmen.
Oden and Conley's high-school dominance also had a more immediate effect. It forced others to raise their games, said New Orleans Hornets guard Eric Gordon, who grew up in Indianapolis and played at Indiana. "Everybody wanted to be on their P's and Q's and get all their guys together to try to beat their guys," he said.
Indiana's outpouring of elite prospects helps explain the Hoosiers' resurgence. Just as the state was saturated with talent, fifth-year coach Tom Crean pledged to hold on to the best of it. "He had no choice but to make Indiana his playground," said Evan Daniels, a Scout.com recruiting analyst. Crean lucked out with timing: The state's last three classes of seniors produced 17 four- and five-star prospects, according to Scout.com, compared with 10 in the three years before that. Crean snapped up four of them, including Zeller and Ferrell. Hulls, second in the Big Ten in three-point percentage, now plays 3 miles from his high school.
The Hoosiers had fallen behind in recruiting their own in recent years. After legendary Indiana coach Bob Knight was fired in 2000, successor Mike Davis signed just two recruits from Indiana in his six seasons. Then Davis's replacement, Kelvin Sampson, was found guilty of recruiting violations that landed Indiana on NCAA probation.
Other Big Ten coaches have pounced on Indiana prospects. The Wolverines regularly play more Indiana products than Michigan natives. Two of Michigan State's three leading scorers are Indianans. And no high schooler in Indiana scored more in 2009 and 2010 than Deshaun Thomas, who was poached by Ohio State and now leads the Big Ten in scoring. Indiana's influence even extends to coaching staffs. The top four teams in the standings—Michigan, Indiana, Michigan State and Ohio State—all feature head or assistant coaches with strong ties to the state.
So now, even as Indiana's golden age of player production makes locals' hearts burst with pride, it's also giving them heartburn. Indiana has become its own worst enemy, producing more stars than its flagship school can retain. In other words, to win their first regular-season conference title since 2002, the Hoosiers must survive a gauntlet—of Hoosiers.
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Unlike the epistles, which have the author's name at the beginning, the gospels do not say who wrote them. How did the names Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John get attached to them, and how certain can we be that these are the actual authors?
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They are named that way by tradition and we cannot be 100% sure that the tradition is accurate.
Then there are questions like how does Q measure into this, or was their a Q to begin with? (My Hebrew professor actually believed in the traditional order Matthew-Mark-Luke). (Personally, my guess is that there actually was a gospel penned by Matthew in either Hebrew or Aramaic, it was then translated into the Greek and amended to become the Gospel we know today, the original would serve as Q, however. Of course, I am a programmer, not a theologian).

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DrugDiscovery@Home - is a distributed computing project which uses the power of personal computers worldwide. The computing time is kindly provided by volunteers who want to make their impact into discovery of new drugs in the fields of cancer and degenerative diseases.
Here is a presentation:
Click here
Here you can find answers on some general questions:
What is all of this about?
What is volunteer computing?
Why people participate in volunteer computing?
I am interested, how can I join?
What are the teams?
What is the BOINC client and how it works?
Can you describe more the strategy and methods of Drugdiscovery@home?
Q:What is all of this about?
A: This web site is about drug discovery and distributed volunteer computing. It gives the opportunity for volunteers worldwide to make impact into several of the most important and exciting fields of scientific research - creation of new cures in the fields of cancer and degenerative diseases. The Drugdiscovery@home project studies chemical molecules which potentially can become a drug regulating signal transduction pathways that work improperly and cause cancer or degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease or osteoporosis. The another big goal is development and testing of in silico drug discovery methods and software applications. You can find more about scientific background of the research on our Science page. The general scheme for Drugdiscovery@home project and its main software packages used you can find on this scheme:
Q:What is volunteer distributed computing?
A:The time between clicks of the mouse or even between typing is much more than just the time when you actively work on a computer. So, most of the time the resources of your PC are used by idle system tasks less than 5%. If you don't want to waste that time you can participate in distributed computing and help solve problems important to humanity. Volunteer computing uses the power of personal computers distributed globally. It can result in computational power similar to parallel processing on clusters and supercomputers and can thus solve serious scientific problems which require a lot of computational time.
Q:Why people participate in volunteer computing?
A:Most of the time personal computers have no jobs. This spare time can be used for making something important for the science and benefit the world. Also this will open a door to the volunteer computing community, which is very broad and includes several millions people worldwide. Charity is one of several compelling reasons. All volunteers get a so called credit - virtual units which correspond to how much of computational time you have donated to the projects. These are used for user-user competitions and also competitions between teams of users and even the whole countries. Some of the projects also consider additional benefits for users on different basis. For example in our project several directions of such benefits are discussed on forums (Forum). Competitions sometimes are so attractive, projects are so important and interesting that some users specially by PCs for participation on volunteer computing. Participation in volunteer computing is also called "number crunching".
Q:I am interested, how can I join?
A:To participate in Drugdiscovery@home distributed computing project you need a special software, called BOINC client, which you can to download here (click to download). You operational system will be identified automatically. The you click downloaded file for starting the installation. When installation will be complete you need to click on BOINC icon and in the projects window type: boinc.drugdiscoveryathome.com - the software will start download the applications and solving the computational tasks.
Q:What are the teams?
A:The team here is as ordinary team everywhere - people united by some purpose, in our case for the purpose of number crunching. The purpose of team is generally to generate as much credits as possible with latest top hardware of its participants. This can be don. Team can have a web site, socializing activities, you can find friends there and...whatever, all teams have different structure and rules.
Q:What is the BOINC client and how it works?
A:The name of the program comes from Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. The BOINC client and BOINC server (which manages each of the projects and is deployed and managed by project administrators) were developed in University of California, Berkeley, one of the top world universities. The purpose of BOINC client is to download scientific software (applications) and their tasks on your PC, run them, get results, validate and calculate your credits. You can see detailed statistics on tasks which are/were computed on your PC. The software applications are provided by projects administrators. In our case these are two applications - GROMACS and Autodock. GROMACS software is required for protein structure modeling and for studies of proteins complexes with potential drugs.
You can find more information about BOINC and distributed computing in our FAQ page.
Q:Can you describe more the strategy and methods of Drugdiscovery@home?
A:The purpose of Drugdiscovery@home project is to develop and use the recent in silico methods drug discovery process in the fields of stem cells, aging and cancer. We start from several biotargets. Our project is new and we have just finished all main testing and development stages and just started the calculations so we urgently need computing power to get the first results. Our primary biotargets are proteins participating in Wnt, Shh and Notch signaling pathways. You can read more about it in the Science section. The main purposes of these chemical compounds are: activate signaling pathways(through proteins) which are required for stem-cells self renewal and differentiation into different types of tissues (which is a very important task for regenerative medicine) and other chemicals which can inhibit the proteins which trigger different types of cancer (the goal includes metastasis front cells killing required for cures at metastasis stage). All compounds will be tested in academic and industrial organizations with corresponding fields of research. Our current goal is to validate the methods, get first positive results, publish report as scientific paper and then start more broad usage of the project.
Our primary research interest is the development of new therapies for cancer and gerontology. Our project is powered by an online community of volunteers who donate their computing power to help model drug interactions. When our project is ready, anyone can participate by registering and downloading software to automatically perform analysis. Our project uses the Berkely Open Infrastructure for Networked Computing (BOINC), one of the dominant solutions for running volunteer computing projects. As applications we use now Autodock4.2 virtual screening software, coupled to GROMACs molecular dynamics software. These applications are used for refinement of 3D structures for offline modelled biotargets and in silico structure based drug design. Main innovation of the project is the use of high-performance molecular dynamics for structure based drug design.
You are wellcome to contact us with any questions regarding the project:
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My boyfriend and I are arguing about whether the phrase "a lot of ideas" should be followed with is or are. I say that it should be is because the verb is linking to a lot, not ideas. If it were "lots of ideas" I would say it is definitely are. He thinks, though, that since a lot is synonymous with several it should be are. Which is correct?
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Logically you are correct; "a lot" is the subject of the sentence. Colloquially, "a lot" can also mean "many", which takes a plural verb.
If you were talking about a lot more directly as a lot, you would use the singular:
For cases where I really mean "many" I try to say either "lots of" or "many" instead of "a lot of X are".
Lot, when used as a lot or lots, means "a large number or amount." It is used a pronoun in informal contexts and, in the phrases as the one you used as example, is used as plural.
It's what happens with other indefinite pronouns, such as both, few, many (which means "a large number of") others, and several.
The original meaning of lot as used here is "a number of units of an article, a single article, or a parcel of articles offered as one item" (Merriam-Webster) and is thus clearly singular (e.g., The driver delivered a lot of trees to the parking lot in time for Christmas).
Early on (evidently 16th century), this concrete sense began to be used in a figurative or transferred sense (e.g., 1575: "a lot of wasps" --OED) and in variations such as "a lot," "lots of," "the lot," etc.
With time and frequent use, the phrase "a lot of" has come to be considered plural. Though lot will forever remain grammatically singular, it will also always be considered plural by most readers and writers.
This presents the careful writer with a dilemma: to be grammatically correct or to blend in with the herd? Should one write "In the background of this picture there are a lot of trees" or ". . . there is a lot of trees"?
In defense of plural construction I have actually encountered the arguments: "the grammar of English has changed" and "a lot of" has become a "syntactic unit" (or a "lexical unit"), both of which I find spurious.
No, dilemmas such as this (some of which have already been noted in this thread) abound in English, and, regrettably? there can be no resolution; each writer must decide for him or herself.
It seems a bit too simplistic to me to equate 'a lot' with 'many.' It is definitely counter-habitual, like the 'none of them is' vs 'none of them are' question. But 'a lot,' from any which angle is referring to a single object.
It is also not only with 'a lot' that we tend to keep it in plurals. Even when we say "There are a number of problems with your report," we are taking a single object, which is 'A number' and giving it the plural verb form.
Yet we never say "There ARE a bunch of papers in my study." So it seems to me, at the cost of sounding damning, that while we all say it, because it sounds ok to us, we are grammatically incorrect. Many who say 'None of them are' find it very difficult to adjust.


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Hi. I have some questions concerning tropical geometry:
1) If I'm correct, there is a notion of 'tropical morphism' between tropical manifolds. What about a notion of 'rational map' between such varieties? In fact, I wonder if some authors have already introduced/considered tropical notions analogous to the standard notions of classical birational geometry (birational map, blow up, etc.). Of course, I'm aware that 'tropical modification' that is 1-codimensional blow-ups do not have to be considered as birational transforms but as isomorphisms.
2) Is there a theory of linear systems on tropical surfaces?
3) What about the notion of "canonical class" of a smooth tropical surface?
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The clicking sound of the freewheel on my singlespeed when it's coasting is annoying for me, so I flipped over my back wheel and rode fixed for a few months in blissful silence. But having to pedal all the time even when going downhill, over bumps and around corners, was probably even more annoying - so today I am flipping it back again to the freewheel. Then I wondered, is there any such thing as a silent freewheel hub that I can buy? If so, what's the search term I'm looking for?
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As already said, Shimano used to manufacture Silient Clutch rear hub. But that has been stopped a few years ago, so if you manage to source one - you are lucky man.
I used to have one of them and it was truly silent. It was heavier than standard shimano LX hub, but it was silent and with instant engagement.
Also I used Chris King hubs. If you put a lot of grease in their mechanism - they also become silent. Pretty much with most of the freewheels, if you put a lot of thick grease in them, you'll silent them for some time. Unless you ride Hope hubs -)
I've heard about Stealth hubs - they are claimed to be silent, but I never had a chance to try them out.
You might as well read this thread about silent hubs for further information.
Police / Law Enforcement bikes often have a quiet freehub. This Cannondale Law Enforcement bicycle refers to it as a "Silent Clutch Rear Hub" and specifically mentions "R085" as a model number (further googling suggests it's a Shimano).
I don't know about other bikes, but in BMX there is a type of hub called a freecoaster - you can coast backwards and forwards without pedaling, and it is silent.
Apparently they have them for mountain bikes as well.
Single speed hubs with coaster brakes don't click, at least I have never seen one that clicks over here in Europe.
Bought a pair of wheels from Neuvation. I have to say, their hub is dead silent.
Short answer is get used to it. The clicking of freehubs/freewheels is like a fine wine- it's an acquired taste.
Shimano R085, 8/9 speed, 36H $100
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this is the only thing i've been able to find. been searching since new years 2013.
Check out the Stealth Hub from True Precision Components; as opposed to using pawls these hubs use a roller clutch. They are completely silent when the coast, the engagement is instantaneous and the cost is astronomical ;) I recently built myself a new rear wheel for my singlespeed mountain bike using one of these and really enjoy coasting in silence.
Although, now that I think about it, the bike is probably spaced at 120mm; it could be spread out to 130 to use a standard road hub, or axle spacers could be added to the BMX version.
As for silent clutch being dead, it would appear not as it's featured on Shimano's Disc version of the Nexus 3speed and I've found new wheels thru J+B imports that are build with silent clutch hubs.
I have on my Kona Unit 2013 the stock "Formula DC52" - it's very quiet.


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Robert L. "Bob" Legris, 89, passed away Monday, April 22, 2013, in Fort Smith. He was born Feb. 4, 1924, in Kankakee, Ill., to Justin Joseph and Isabella (Tourangeau) Legris. As a member of "the Greatest Generation," he joined the Army Air Corps following the attack on Pearl Harbor that sparked World War II. He eventually became an expert at one of America's most important secret weapons, the use of radar, and flew night missions out of the Philippine Islands as a member of a crew of a B-24 Liberator known as "the Snoopers." He loved radar school because it was so secretive. There was never any homework. He didn't discuss his military career much, but was still very proud of his service to his country. Bob worked as a research and development engineer for A.O. Smith and Roper Stove before joining the staff at Rheem Manufacturing in Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1966. During his career, he worked on the design teams that perfected the self-cleaning oven and the concept of electronic ignition for heating appliances, but he regarded his greatest adventures as moving his family away from what had been their hometown for generations to join Rheem in Michigan and then on to establish the new Rheem plant in Fort Smith in 1970. He was a past president of the Rheem Management Club. He was married to the love of his life for 61 years and was most proud of his family, particularly his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was a member of Christ the King parish for more than 40 years and was also a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Fort Smith Noon Exchange Club. He volunteered for the Fort Smith Trolley and he also drove the Sam Van. He was preceded in death by his wife, Marie; and his sister, Adair.
He is survived by three sons, Jon Pierre Legris of Portland, Ore., Claude W. Legris and his wife Paula of Fort Smith and Marc R. Legris and his wife Barbara of Fort Smith; three grandchildren, Angela Dobbins and her husband Steven of Broomall, Pa., Nicole Legris of Benton, Ill., and Justin Carter Legris of Nashville, Tenn.; and two great-grandchildren, Matthew Gabriel Dobbins and Emily Catherine Dobbins, both of Broomall, Pa.
Rosary will be said at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Edwards Funeral Home Chapel. Funeral Mass will be 12:30 p.m. Friday at Christ the King Catholic Church with burial at the U.S. National Cemetery in Fort Smith. Service is under the direction of Edwards Funeral Home.
Pallbearers will be Bud Wicks, Dick Fuhrman, Vickie "Cookie" Muratore, Jerry Muratore, Paul Rivaldo and Gary "Elf" Slack.
Honorary pallbearers will be Dan Lawson and Glen Thames.
Visitation will be prior to the Rosary from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday at Edwards Chapel.
Memorials may be sent to Fort Smith Christmas Honors, c/o Fort Smith Chamber of Commerce, 612 Garrison Ave., Fort Smith, AR 72901; or to U.S. Marshals Museum, 14 N. Third St., Fort Smith, AR 72901.
Online condolences may be sent to www.edwardsfuneralhome.com.


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9 Real Life Mad Scientists
Are we too hard on mad scientists? After all, many of the world's greatest discoveries were made using experiments that would make the average citizen run screaming from the room.
So really, is there such a thing as a "mad" scientist at all? A man whose methods go so far above and beyond, that you doubt his very sanity?
Yes. Yes there is. Here are nine of them.
#9. Harry Harlow, Monkey Torturer
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What is love? American psychologist Harry Harlow decided to find out. And what stronger bond is there than that of a child and mother? So he did studies on rhesus monkey babies and their mothers, to find the nature of love itself. What could be more noble?
Wait, what's the title of this article again? Oh, shit.
The Madness:
Harlow had a "Rape Rack" in his lab.
That's what he called the forced mating machine he used for the monkeys. See, it turns out Harlow wasn't big on using euphemisms to make people feel better about his experiments. And that's a problem, because he decided early that the best way to find out the nature of love was by torturing baby monkeys.
If you think "torturing" is too strong a word, you should know that he called another of his devices the Iron Maiden.
"To be honest, I don't even know why I'm doing this."
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His most controversial experiment, however, involved a device affectionately dubbed the pit of despair, where a baby monkey would be placed in a small isolated chamber for periods of up to a year, without any contact with any living creature. As a result, the baby monkeys became psychotic and never recovered.
"You mean you don't like being tortured? Fascinating!"
So when it came time for Harlow to present his findings, we're guessing he just summed it up as, "What is love? Well, you know that feeling you get when you've been locked in a tiny dark space alone for a year? It's the opposite of that."
#8. Jack Parsons, Occult Rocket Scientist
The Scientist:
As a rocket propulsion researcher at the California Institute of Technology and co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, chemist Jack Parsons was destined to be immortalized in history as "the guy who knew a lot about rockets." Though, we assume history would have a better handle on coming up with nicknames than we do.
The Madness:
Here's Jack Parsons:
Well, we certainly don't see anything odd there. But as it turns out, Parsons was into the occult. Really into it.
Which would be cool if he kept it to himself, like getting a couple of weird tattoos or holding the occasional orgy in a circle of black candles (thus making him the greatest scientist in history). But no, Parsons didn't believe in moderation in his craziness. He was a strict follower of the Thelema, a sort of spiritual philosophy on life lead by this man, Aleister Crowley:
He was one of Crowley's most devoted students and was even chosen to lead a Masonic/Religious/Quasi-secret organization in California.
Eventually Parsons started invoking the name of the Greek god Pan before every rocket test, because half-goat/half-man, forest creatures are known for their technological aptitude.
Wait, it Gets Weirder:
The infamous publically discredited super fraud L. Ron Hubbard was often Parsons's "magical" buddy. Together they did many cool things, like participating in a ritual known as the Babalon Working, an attempt to summon a living goddess. They didn't succeed, as far as we know. Later, Hubbard defrauded a large sum of money from Parsons and used it to publish his book Dianetics, the basis for the Scientology movement.
Parsons didn't live to see Scientology bloom, as he died shortly after when science exploded in his face. And we mean that literally: He died in an explosion of volatile chemicals he kept laying around. Thanks a lot, Pan.
#7. Sidney Gottlieb, aka Dr. Feelgood
The Scientist:
Sidney Gottlieb was an American military psychiatrist with a Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. He worked with the CIA during the Cold War, using all of his scientific know-how in the field of biochemistry to help America get a leg up over the evil Ruskies.
The Madness:
Unfortunately, Gottlieb's scientific know-how came down basically to "let's poison everyone." For example, he was the man behind the idea to saturate Castro's shoes with thallium and thus make the hair of his beard fall out, further proving to us that the CIA had some very liberal theories about the source of Castro's power.
Not that we blame them. This thing looks like it will jump up and eat us any second.
Gottlieb also proposed killing Castro with a poisoned cigar, a poisoned wetsuit and a poisoned fountain pen. His later idea for a batch of poisoned poison was unfortunately rejected by the agency.
To prove he wasn't just a one note guy, Gottlieb later on tried to assassinate an Iraqi general and the prime minister of Congo with neurotoxins. Which are different than poison. Somehow.
Wait, it Gets Weirder:
Gottlieb was also the head of the MKULTRA project, which studied the possibilities of mind control in espionage... using LSD. The Agency wanted to know if the drug we now associate with hippies could help break a man's mind for interrogation purposes. So Sidney and his colleagues did what they had to in the name of science: They tripped like crazy, day and night.However, they soon grew lonely and invited more and more people on their acid trips. Too bad they didn't have the decency to tell them about it. That's right, the kindly old Sidney spent some time going around America slipping LSD into people's drinks and observing the effects. He mostly chose hookers and drug addicts for his experiments because he gathered no one would care or believe what they had to say about the crazy old man drugging random citizens.
It's a tough job, but someone has to fluffy cloud. I am made entirely of light.
#6. Giovanni Aldini, Corpse Reanimator
The Scientist:
An early 19th century Italian physicist, Giovanni Aldini was the nephew of Luigi Galvani, the man who pioneered galvanism, or "hooking up shit to batteries," as our wise janitor explained to us.
Aldini spent most of his life testing the medical applications of this discovery and wound up becoming the 19th century science equivalent of Elvis Presley. In the end, for his contributions to science, the emperor of Austria made him a Knight of the Iron Crown, a title which could only have been cooler if they fit the words "lightning" or "dragon" into it.
We're just saying.
The Madness:
We were serious about the Elvis thing. Aldini traveled Europe with what can only be described as a science circus. His little big top of horror and science was a magnificent theatrical spectacle in which Aldini electrocuted human corpses and animal carcasses. And, of course, it always gathered huge crowds, because 19th century Europe simply did not have enough horror and violence in its everyday life.
During one show in London in 1802, Aldini electrically stimulated the heads and trunks of cows, horses, sheep and dogs with high powered batteries. The people witnessing this reported that the animals' jaws and eyes started moving almost as if they were alive. It was pretty much Satan's puppet show.
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In January 1803, Aldini presented his most famous experiment. He was given the body of a hanged criminal, George Forster, who had been executed for the murder of his wife and child. Aldini created quite possibly one of the inspirations for Mary Shelley's famous work.
Displaying Forster's body for the public to see, he electrocuted his face, which started to twitch and move; his mouth and eyes opening and, according to all accounts, he looked very much alive.
But believing he did not freak out the people and humiliated Forster enough, Aldini stuck an electrified rod straight up the corpse's ass, after which the body started to kick and punch around so much, most people were sure he came back to life and started screaming about hanging him again. But how do you kill something... that has already died?
Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, Monkey Man Inventor
Ah yes.
#5. Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, Monkey Man Inventor
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Illya Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian and Soviet biologist famous for creating animal hybrids. This was a man who could take a zebra, a donkey and a turkey baster and pull a Zonkey out of his ass. He also created a hybrid of an antelope and cow (with the milk-giving properties of an antelope and the swiftness of a cow).
Well, how can this possibly go wrong?
The Madness:
Ivanov was also an insane old kook, ordered by Stalin to create a super race of slave ape-man hybrids who would serve the Communistic Russia in taking over the free world. That is, if you believe certain Scottish newspapers.
How much of that is true? Well, we do know the man did inseminate a few chimpanzees with human baby goo to create said hybrid. Mainly for the typical mad scientist motive: "Why the hell not?"
So in 1926, in Conakry (Africa), aided by the French and Soviet government (who expressed more interest in knocking up apes than is acceptable), Ivanov managed to inseminate three chimpanzees. Not one of them became pregnant. That we know of.
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Concluding that his experiment failed due to doing the whole thing backwards, Ivanov attempted to knock up a human female with liquid monkey juice. In 1929, he obtained the support of the Society of Materialist Biologists, a group associated with the Communist Academy ("Monkey on girl action? Count us in!"), and actually found willing female volunteers for the project.
Now all they needed was the gravy for Ivanov's baster. The good doctor wrote a Cuban heiress, Rosalia Abreu, who had a large chimpanzee menagerie outside Havana, asking if she could provide him with some nice monkey semen.
Word got out about this and the project was shut down by... the Ku Klux Klan.
There is not one bit of this that makes any sense.
They threatened the lady who owned the chimps and got her to back down. The Klan apparently figured that chimps breeding with white women was actually way worse than what they had been fighting up to then.
Congratulations, Ivanov. You found a way to get the whole world agreeing with the Klan.


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Dr. John Krupczak is a Program Director for the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) and Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE:EHR) programs in DUE. Krupczak has served as a Senior Fellow for the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE), National Academy of Engineering (2008-2010). He is a past chair of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Liberal Education Division (now LEES Division) and the founding Chair of the ASEE Technological and Engineering Literacy Division (now TELPhE Division). Dr. Krupczak has also held positions at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory in Texas, and Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan. He received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a B.A. in Physics from Williams College. Dr. Krupczak is also a Professor of Engineering at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. Krupczak was Engineering Department Chair (2006-2013) and received the Hope Outstanding Educator Award from the graduating class of 2009.


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I was listening to a Tripod song, an Australian comedy band, and they used the 'name' dax ipsa (spelled phonetically). It was obviously some sort of joke, but I have no clue what it actually means? Is this something specific to Australia?
Adding some context from Russell's answer:
Gatesy: I'm Batman.
Scod: Really?
Gatesy: No, I impersonate Batman, for photos and that, you know.
Scod: I don't really get it. What's your real name?
Gatesy: I can't tell you that. People used to tease me at school.
Scod: Oh, come on.
Gatesy: Okay. It's "Dax Ipsa".
Scod: Do you mind if I call you "Batman"?
Gatesy: Yeah, sure.
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Found the song on youtube, and linked to the start of the dialog in question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrlEWc72LWY&t=2m25s


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In the book Ramsey Theory by Graham, Rothschild and Spencer the authors state:
The Hales Jewett Theorem strips van der Waerden's theorem of its unessential elements and reveals the heart of Ramsey theory. It provides a focal point from which many of the results can be derived and acts as a cornerstone of much of the more advanced work. Without this result Ramsey theory would more properly be called Ramseyian theorems.
I am interested in knowing as to what further advanced results flow from the Hales Jewett theorem and why is the theorem so crucial.
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Recent and archived news articles by Jo Craven McGinty of The New York Times.
Health Law's Small Co-ops Have Had a Mixed Success So Far
How the co-ops perform will help determine whether the new health care law can inject more competition into the nation's entrenched insurance market.
February 27, 2014, Thursday
New Health Law Frustrates Many in Middle Class
While the Affordable Care Act clearly benefits those at the low and high ends of the income scale, many middle-class Americans don't qualify for health care subsidies, and are facing steep premium prices.
December 21, 2013, Saturday
As Hospital Prices Soar, a Stitch Tops $500
Hospital pricing is often convoluted, and hospital charges represent about a third of the total United States health care bill.
December 3, 2013, Tuesday
Forging an Art Market in China
Works by Chinese artists are drawing prices tantamount to those of Picassos at auctions in Beijing, Shanghai and other cities, but bidders don't always pay, and many artworks may well be no more than copies.
October 28, 2013, Monday
Health Care Law Fails to Lower Prices for Rural Areas
More than half of the counties in the 34 states on the federally run health exchange are served by just one or two insurers, and the premiums are high in areas with the least competition.
October 24, 2013, Thursday
Federal Data Reveals Variety of Health Care Plans
The federal government released data late Tuesday showing a wide variety of health care plans available on federally run exchanges.
October 1, 2013, Tuesday
In Mayoral Race, Attacking Real Estate Industry but Taking Its Cash
A new set of dirty words has cropped up in the race for New York City mayor: "real estate," "developers" and "condos." But that hasn't stopped the major campaigns from collecting donations from the industry.
September 3, 2013, Tuesday
To Protect Its Empire, ESPN Stays on Offense
Emerging competitors, decreasing cable subscriptions and rising political opposition to bundled channels have created a precarious environment for ESPN, which is fighting back.
August 27, 2013, Tuesday
The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill
While the American medical system is famous for expensive drugs and heroic care at the end of life, a more significant factor in the nation's annual health care bill may be the high price tag of ordinary services.
June 2, 2013, Sunday
New Jersey Hospital Has Highest Billing Rates in the Nation
The Bayonne Medical Center billed Medicare for common treatments at a rate more than four times the national average, according to a Times analysis of 2011 data.
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WHEELING - Ohio County commissioner-elect Orphy Klempa resigned his West Virginia Senate seat effective Monday, and the process begins today to find his successor within the next 15 days - a task that must be accomplished by Christmas.
Ohio County Democrat Party Co-Chairman Robert "Rocky" Fitzsimmons said he will be among those applying for the Senate seat when a six-member 1st District Senate replacement committee meets to choose the area's next senator.
"I will put my name in for consideration," Fitzsimmons said Monday. "I know my passion for it is there."
Fitzsimmons expects the committee to see "moderate" interest in the job.
State law requires the committee to collect resumes and recommend three possible candidates for the vacant Senate seat to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin within 15 days of Klempa's resignation.
John Saunders - also co-chairman of the county party - will represent Ohio County on the Senate replacement committee, along with Wheeling lawyer Teresa Toriseva. Brooke County Democrat Chairman John Martino and his wife, Marge Martino, will represent Brooke County; and Lil Douglass and Dino Rossi, Hancock County.
The 1st District now also includes Marshall County, though its representatives won't be included in the decision because it was not part of the district when Klempa was elected in 2010.
Saunders said the committee will decide this week where interested candidates should send their resumes, and when the committee will convene to consider them.
"I guarantee we will meet the 15-day limit," Saunders said.
Neither Saunders nor Fitzsimmons were certain whether weekends and holidays were included in the 15-day process, and they are seeking further clarification. If so, the 15th day would fall on Dec. 25 - Christmas day.
"If the process stretches into Christmas week, we'll talk to the Legislature about an extension," Saunders said. "We won't want to take people away from their families on Christmas just because it's the 15th day."
Klempa submitted his letter of resignation to Senate President Jeff Kessler, D-Glen Dale, on Sunday, shortly after Kessler was selected by Klempa and other Senate Democrats as their nominee for Senate president.
"I wanted to make sure Senator Kessler was re-elected to the Senate president position, and I handed him my resignation dated (Monday)," Klempa said.
Klempa was first elected to represent the 3rd District in the House of Delegates in 2006. In 2010, voters elected him to a four-year term representing the 1st Senate District that expires in 2014.
On Nov. 6, Klempa was elected to the Ohio County commission seat left vacant when former commissioner David Sims was appointed circuit court judge.
Klempa said Sims will swear him in to his commission seat sometime before he is scheduled to take office Jan. 1, though the time and date of the ceremony are still being coordinated with Sims' judicial schedule.


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The GOP confab in Cleveland witnessed Facebook and Twitter playing a bigger role than ever before.
Nicely balanced, comfortable and well-designed, the Adonit Jot Touch is an excellent pressure-sensitive stylus for the iPad.
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Multitouch support and a lower price highlight the updates to Wacom's 13-inch combination display/graphics tablet.
One of our favorite gaming laptops get a sharp 4K display that will make all kinds of content look better, although it's a bit of a tease, as you can't actually crank most games up to that resolution.
KitchenAid featured an updated, three-part sous vide cooking system during the IFA 2015 electronics trade show. But the appliance manufacturer is focused strengthening the product's presence in Europe rather than expanding to the US, where sous vide use is less common.
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Alright, in beginning anew, I'd decided that I'm going to try something that I never have before. I'm going to try an build my own tactics rather than use various ones from this forum's tactic area that have been created by others. I love reading other careers where managers are more involved and I hope to emulate these.
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- taking care of those "other" fixes...the "I can't discuss here" fixes
Loaded Nations with all of their Leagues
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- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United States
League will change as the career progresses and likely shrink in size. The large number to begin with is to help facilitate an unemployed career beginning in smaller leagues.
Starting Date: July 2011
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August 24, 2010
New York University's Creative Writing Program will host the 2010 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards Reading on Friday, September 24, 7 p.m. at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, located at 58 W. 10th Street (between 5th and 6th Aves.).
The event is free and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come, first served basis. For more information, call 212.998.8816 or visit www.cwp.fas.nyu.edu. Subways: F, L (6th Avenue); 1 (Christopher Street); A, B, C, D, E, F (West 4th Street).
The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards program was created by celebrated writer Rona Jaffe (1931-2005) to identify and support women writers of exceptional talent in the early stages of their writing careers. Grants of $25,000 are given to writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry to make writing time available and for such specific purposes as child care, research and related travel costs.
The women writers featured in this event are: Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams; Rachel Aviv; Sara Elizabeth Johnson; Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich; Laura Newbern; and Tiphanie Yanique (bios of the winners are listed below).
Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams (nonfiction) is working on a memoir, The Following Sea, which explores the lives of her parents, an American father and a mother from the Northern Mariana Islands, who raised her on a yacht in the South Pacific. She says of the book project, "Even though it seemed we were as close as a family could be for 10 years, their marriage fell apart and our lives went off in three different directions so that later, I would look back and find my own childhood recondite, shifting. After the split, my mother had returned to her home and my father had moved across several countries, married seven more times, and had a number of other children. As for myself, I never lived with my parents again after the age of 12. The book is a way to recover our past and trace how the strange and fantastic lives that have happened since still connect us." Abrams lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, and teaches at UNC Wilmington, where she received her B.A. and M.F.A. She plans to use her grant to lessen her workload and devote the next year to finishing her book.
Rachel Aviv's (nonfiction) writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, The Nation, The Believer, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and explores such diverse subjects as Braille literacy among the blind, present-day Christian missionaries who convert children, and the neuroscience of dreams. She has a B.A. from Brown University and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. She has taught classes on narrative medicine and is a 2009 recipient of a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. Aviv is working on a book about adolescents and young adults in the pre-stages of schizophrenia, and a piece on this subject is forthcoming in Harper's. She plans to follow a small group of patients from a Maine psychiatric hospital for the next year and write about their lives during this time. She says, "I am drawn to this clinic because it offers a rare glimpse into a community of adolescents self-consciously struggling to maintain their grasp on reality." Her Writer's Award will allow her to spend extended periods of time at the clinic for research and cut back on freelance work so she can concentrate on this project for the next year. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Sara Elizabeth Johnson (poetry) lives in Los Angeles, California, and received a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.F.A. from the University of Oregon. Her poems have most recently appeared in Best New Poets 2009, New England Review, and Iron Horse Literary Review, and she is working on a first collection of poems. She writes, "Deriving much inspiration from ancient and medieval nautical, cartographic, and navigational technologies, my current book-length manuscript, Vessel, arises from a 'lovesickness' in that it examines the wide and almost palpable distance that lies between one body and another, and the desire to cross that distance—that sea—into the lover's body." Johnson received a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in 2009-2010, and her Rona Jaffe Award will allow her to maintain her momentum from this residency and delay finding full-time work in order to focus on her book during the next year. Her nominator states, "Sara has impressed me with her agile and probing intellect, a wide interest in contemporary poetry, a self-possession rare among writers her age, and a poetic imagination both fiery and magnificent."
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (nonfiction) received her M.F.A. from Emerson College in 2009. She also holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Columbia University. Her essays appear in The Bellingham Review and Fourth Genre, and she has received fellowships from the Millay Colony and the Ragdale Foundation. She is working on her first book, Any One of Us, a personal narrative that combines memoir with an inquiry into a murder and the murderer's past. She states, "In 2003, as a Harvard Law student who passionately opposed the death penalty, I took a job defending murderers in Louisiana, one of whom, I knew, was a sex offender. I had grown up being sexually abused, and to me this man was the worst of the worst—and the ultimate test of my commitment. The choices I have made and the work I have done since leaving Louisiana have put me in the unique position to tell a deeply personal and illuminating tale of this hidden world." Marzano-Lesnevich plans to use her Rona Jaffe Award to delay full-time work and finish the first draft of this book. She currently lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and teaches creative writing at Boston's Grub Street.
Laura Newbern (poetry) is an associate professor of English at Georgia College & State University. She received a B.A. from Barnard, an M.A. from N.Y.U., and an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2007, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, and Triquarterly. Her collection, Love and the Eye, was selected by Claudia Rankine to receive the 2010 Kore Press First Book Award and will be published this fall. Newbern's new manuscript, tentatively titled Nightfall, focuses on her current home of Milledgeville, Georgia—her neighborhood and a local state hospital that was once the largest asylum in the world. She says of her project, "Presently, I live in a small town, and I find myself, many evenings, on my porch, watching the movements of my neighbors. But I also mean 'nightfall' in the sense of mental darkness. My interest lies in the notion of 'asylum' as inviolable refuge, in the salubrious environments created for sometimes terrible isolation." Newbern will use her Writer's Award to take a semester off from teaching to work on this book.
Tiphanie Yanique's (fiction) first book, How to Escape from a Leper Colony: Novella and Stories, was published by Graywolf Press in 2010. She received her B.A. from Tufts University and her M.F.A. from the University of Houston. Originally from the Virgin Islands, her work is centered in the Caribbean and has received the Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, and a Fulbright in Creative Writing. Her fiction has also appeared in Callaloo, Transition Magazine, American Short Fiction, and London Magazine. Her nominator describes her novel in progress, tentatively titled The Novel of Love, as "an extremely talented and compelling piece of work, filled with many voices and evoking the mystery of the Caribbean." Yanique states, "I wonder what a serious modern literary romance might reveal about the particular black experience of love in the New World." Her Writer's Award will allow her to pay for elder and child care next year so she can focus more on her writing. Yanique lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is assistant professor of creative writing and Caribbean literature at Drew University.
The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards program was created by celebrated writer Rona Jaffe (1931-2005) to identify and support women writers of exceptional talent in the early stages of their writing careers. Grants of $25,000 are given to writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry to make writing time available and for such specific purposes as child care, research and related travel costs. A selection committee reviews nominations by appointed writers, editors, and scholars from across the country. The selectors and nominators serve anonymously. Direct applications and unsolicited nominations are not accepted by the Foundation. Since the program began in 1995, the Foundation has awarded more than $1 million to emergent women writers. For more information, visit www.ronajaffefoundation.org.
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Child care is an increasingly important part of young children's lives as more Moms and Dads go to work.
We think of child care as a learning center for our children, but it is a good place for Mom and Dad to learn as well.
Give yourself some extra time when you bring or pick up your child from your care program. What do you see?
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Put the PRNDL in D to move forward, in R to reverse, and use L when climbing steep hills.
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Bulletin 2005/06 – 45 October 21, 2005
On October 3, 2005, the State Attorney General's Office released a legal opinion concluding that a parcel boundary map is required to be released to the public for copying and inspection and the assessor must provide this information as promptly as possible in an electronic format (if the data is held in that matter) and can charge only a fee that covers the direct cost of producing that copy or a fee set by statute.
The entire opinion in PDF format is available on the Attorney General's website, or by using the following link http://caag.state.ca.us/opinions/published/04-1105.pdf (PDF)
1. According to the AG opinion, a parcel boundary map (and the incorporated information) is geographic data held by the county assessor subject to processing and manipulation, not a software application that could be "run" to generate geographic data and information which would therefore be exempt from disclosure and release to the public.
2. The parcel boundary map data is a public document under the Public Records Act and parcel boundary map data held in electronic format is subject to inspection and copying.
3. The parcel boundary map data must be provided in an electronic format to the public once the county assessor has actually compiled this information and data in an electronic format. However, an assessor is not required to compile parcel boundary map data in an electronic format under any state law.\
4. The county assessor is required to "make the records promptly available to any person upon payment of fees covering direct costs of duplication, or a statutory fee if applicable."


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The Gotellis' Golden AnniversaryWritten by on September 6, 2012
Then & Now: Gotelli Speed Shop
It should come as no surprise to any reader that the traditional speed shop is an endangered species. Once upon a time, every town seemed to have one. Most of us are old enough to remember how real speed shops always smelled like oil and hot metal. That's because a real engine builder was busy in the back or basement, expertly massaging and installing the same parts you saw up front, perched seductively on pegboard hooks or posed teasingly behind glass. Not one single part was anything that anyone's car or truck actually needed, yet we lusted after them all.
Remember Saturdays? Every one was like a holiday. Remember the buzz when your town's hero racer pulled up with loaded trailer, grabbing a gasket set or carb kit on the way to the dragstrip or oval track on the outskirts of town? Street racers issued challenges and told lies. Old farts in their forties and fifties groused about hot rodding going to hell in a hand basket after the overheads arrived. All hands were on deck behind the glass showcases, where knowledgeable countermen struggled to keep up with phone orders and walk-ins. Remember working up the nerve to ask to examine both the Edelbrock and the Weiand manifolds? Who could forget the mechanical foreplay of touching and feeling and fondling every port and runner before deciding?
San Franciscans don't need old memories to appreciate Saturdays spent at their favorite speed shop of the '60s, because it's still in business—same location, same building, same smells, same family. At least two Gotellis have manned the counter most years since May 1962, when legendary northern California fuel racers Ted Gotelli and Bruno Gianoli started selling hardcore speed equipment in the front and racing engines out back. Incredibly, we found Bruno and many of the same machines in that rear shop, 50 years later.
After Terrible Ted died in 2001, Larry sold his share of the business to little brother Teddy, now 62, who runs Gotelli Speed Shop with his wife, Cookie, and their son, Joe, 25. While acknowledging the double whammy of government regulation—particularly in California, which restricts engine modifications to '76-and-newer vehicles to state-exempted products—and mail-order competition that's crushed so many independent speed shops, the family credits this one's survival to half a century of product knowledge, integrity, fair prices, and customer loyalty. "Not a week goes by that I don't talk somebody out of spending 500, 600, 700 bucks on something that won't work in his application," says Joe, the third-generation counterman and heir apparent. "If we don't have that, we don't have anything."
His father adds, "All of the guys I saw in here in the '60s did their racing, got married, started families, and left. Now those guys are back in here on Saturdays with their kids and grandkids," says Ted Jr. "That's what's fun for me."
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El Camino Real is no longer bordered by dirt, and the tree line is long gone, but the building that Terrible Ted erected on leased land is remarkably unchanged. Owning the building outright and leasing space from a friendly landlord have been keys to surviving the last half-century, according to the family.The nattily attired Organ Grinders were notorious for partying as hard as they raced. Bruno Gianoli, a charter member, explains that the name "Sam" was embroidered onto the front of every shirt, in honor of the club's mascot, Sam the mule. Sam occasionally accompanied members to the track, where racers and fans fed him cigarettes. Car owner Ted Gotelli appears at the far left of this Polaroid photograph.Champion Speed Shop founder Jim McLennan, shown suiting up circa 1962, was Ted Gotelli's business and Top Fuel rival, lifelong friend, and onetime driver. The San Francisco Bay area was second only to SoCal for dragster talent, and these two late greats sit at the tippy-top of everyone's list of local heroes. McLennan's legacy continues with sons Bobby and Mike in Nostalgia Top Fuel, while Ted's son and grandson keep Dad's name flying above his famous speed shop.Terrible Ted (with cigar) and driver Denny Miliani were one of very few out-of-area teams feared in Southern California. "We'd leave the shop at 4 p.m. Friday afternoons, drive south six hours, race Saturday nights at Lions, run Half Moon Bay or Fremont the next day, and be home Sunday night," recalls Ted Jr.While Joe Gotelli, a former computer consultant, drags his parents into the 21st century with computerized business systems and online product postings on eBay and GotelliSpeedShop.com, it's refreshing to see this special-orders holdover from "Papa" Ted's paper era.Here's something no other speed shop on the planet can claim: in-house engine building by Nor Cal legend Bruno Gianoli, 81. When we visited, his projects ranged from a flathead Ford and a Rambler six to a Mopar wedge and an 8-71-blown aluminum Chevy.Bruno could open a speed-equipment museum with his personal stash of go-fast goodies. We were stunned to find this cherry front cover for an Algon fuel-injection system.The trophies crammed into every available flat surface here—a small percentage of awards won by Terrible Ted's roadsters and dragsters—are themselves worth a trip to South San Francisco. Gotelli Top Fuelers driven by Jim McLelland, Denny Miliani, and Kenny Safford won many of the West Coast's most prestigious drag meets of the '60s (including Orange County International Raceway's '67 opener), frequently setting Top Speed and/or Low ET over the humbled touring pros. Had family and business obligations not restricted his travel to weekends, Terrible Ted would've been a threat to dominate any national event.


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India qualified for London Olympics and how! After a wait of eight long years, the Indian hockey team has made it to the London Olympics to be held this year, beating France by 8-1 on Sunday.
Indian hockey team qualifies for London Olympics
Hey i am always with my Indian Hocky team, and i will support to Hocky team Cheers India.


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City of Lansing offices will be closed Monday in observance of the Presidents Day holiday. City offices will reopen at 8 a.m. Tuesday. The Lansing Community Library is also closed on Monday.
A reminder: trash pickup scheduled for February 21 will not be delayed as Lansing's contractor, Deffenbaugh Industries, does not observe the Presidents Day holiday.
Those who would like to get updates on Deffenbaugh's trash pick-up schedule can follow these four simple steps: 1. Go to www.deffenbaughinc.com. 2. Scroll to the bottom of the webpage. 3. Click on Email and Alerts. 4. Enter your contact information and submit.
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I've had my bike for a month or so and just gave it a clean. There is now a little bit of water trapped under the shimano shifters clear plastic covers. Is this a problem? Will it disperse eventually? Was going to ping off the covers but was not sure if they would go back on easily or the correct way to get them off.
Any help appreciated, know very little about bike maintenance!


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I want to know what techniques are known to present a diffeomorphism on a surface with boundary (the diffeomorphism is not necessarily the identity restricted to the boundary) as product of Dehn twists (of course, up to isotopy). I know there are a few books I can look at but can someone briefly describe the methods, or at least refer to exact pages of a book? Perhaps this is not easy to do in general, can you choose a diffeomorphism and show me how you present it as Dehn twists on a low genus surface?
$\newcommand{\RR}{\mathbb{R}}$Dehn twists are orientation preserving, so you can never write a reflection as a product of Dehn twists. On the other hand writing an orientation preserving, periodic element $\phi$ as a product of Dehn twists is a non-trivial problem -- that is to say, there are mechanical ways to get the desired product, but often the number of Dehn twists required is surprisingly large! For a slick (read, comprehensible) solution we need more details about how the surface and periodic element are given.
In general, the mechanical solution is as follows.
Sometimes a slick solution can be found using the braid relation and its generalization, the "chain relation". In your comment, it sounds like you are drawing the surface in $\RR^3$ and the periodic element $\phi$ is induced by a rotation of $\RR^3$, so I will just point out the following nice fact, given as an exercise in Thurston's book: not every periodic element is induced by a symmetric embedding of the surface into $\RR^3$. Consider the element of order six in the mapping class group of the torus...


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The Babylon spoken of in Revelation chapter 14;8 KJV is clearly labeled as a city, and in Chapter 18:1 & 2 it seems to be more of a systematic degradation of God's holy words.
In chapter 19:1, 2 & 3 God is judging Babylon which would lead me to believe that it would more suit judging Satan and his minions.
Rev_14:8 KJV
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city,
because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Rev 18:1 & 2 KJV
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great
power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is
fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a
cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Rev 19:1, 2 &3 KJV
1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying,
Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:
2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which
did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants
at her hand.
3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
David Gusik puts forth these words in his commentary on Revelation 14:8;
Revelation 14:8 An angel announces Babylon's fall.
>And another angel followed, saying, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city,
because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication."
Babylon is fallen: More on Babylon will come in Revelation 17. For now, it is
to see it representing mankind in organized rebellion against God.
"Prophetically, 'Babylon' sometimes refers to a literal city, sometimes to a
religious system, sometimes to a political system, all stemming from the evil
character of historic Babylon." (Walvoord)
Because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication:
When we are told that Babylon has led all nations into fornication, the main idea is
spiritual fornication - the worship of other gods. However, we are never surprised
to see spiritual fornication accompanied with literal immorality. <
And his comments on Revelation 18:5 are;
>Revelation 18 - The Fall of Commercial Babylon
A. Announcing the fall of Babylon.
1. Introduction: is this the same Babylon as is described in chapter 17?
a. Good scholars see the issue differently. Some point to two manifestations
of Babylon, one religious and one commercial or material. Others see the
two as one, both being judged at the same time.
b. There are definite similarities between Babylon as described in Revelation
17 and Revelation 18. Both are under the rule of Antichrist, and have ruling
queens; both are filled with blasphemy; both hate the saints, and shed their
blood; both are associates with kings in fornication; and both are under
judgment and destroyed.
c. However, there are also some significant differences:
Religious Babylon (Rev. 17) Commercial Babylon (Rev. 18)
1. Mystery Babylon 1. Great Babylon; Babylon the Great
2. Symbol: a harlot woman 2. Symbol: a great city
3. Identified with Rome (inland) 3. Identified with a port city
4. Woman, whore, and mother 4. Habitation, great city, market place
5. Guilty: religious 5. Guilty: greed, self-indulgence
6. Destroyed by a political 6. Destroyed by a sudden act of God
power that previously supported
d. In my view, it is best to see them as intertwined, yet somewhat distinct.
Religious Babylon of Revelation 17 is judged at the mid-point of the seven-
year period of tribulation. Commercial Babylon is judged at the end of that
Those and other commentaries I have studied have caused me to wonder if they were the same or one religious and one Commercial
Can anyone recommend any sources for further study on this subject?


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I'm interested in determining the skill modifiers for a Gold Dragon for Pathfinder, for a one-shot game for a friend where they play a dragon. Dragons have massive perception modifiers which can probably be deduced from their stats (wis, one rank per skill, etc) but is there any information anywhere else about any other skill modifiers for dragons (such as fly!)
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Gold dragons have no racial ability modifiers.
Dragons have these class skills: Appraise, Bluff, Climb, Craft, Diplomacy, Fly, Heal, Intimidate, Knowledge (all), Linguistics, Perception, Sense Motive, Spellcraft, Stealth, Survival, Swim, and Use Magic Device.
For example, a Young Gold Dragon has 9 skill points per HD (6 for being a dragon, +3 for Int modifier). His stat block enumerates 9 skills, so I think designers put max ranks (12) in each of them.
The dragon's Perception modifier is +22 which coincides with: 12 from ranks, +3 from being class skill, +3 from Wisdom and +4 from the Alertness feat. Being so, it seems that Gold Dragons have no racial Perception bonus.
The same breakdown is valid for Sense Motive (Pathfinder's Alertness applies to that skill too).
A quick scan through the other skills reveals that no racial modifiers are applied. The oddball here is the Fly skill, which includes Size and maneuverability modifiers. Its breakdown is: +10 = 12 ranks, +3 class skill, +1 Dex, -2 Large size, -4 poor maneuverability.


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I am designing a site which has around 19 main links and each page consists of 8-10 sub pages. which is the best way to design the site?
I suggest you start with this tutorial on information architecture: http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/information_architecture_tutorial/
Confirm you understand the objective
Ask a basic question: what is the objective of this page? Every site out there has millions of links, but the best ones only show the links that are relevant to the users's task at hand. Remember, every link on a page affects the overall visual coherence, so in effect, having lots of links will unavoidably affect usability. Google.com has a lot of links in its index but it has none at its first point of entry -- it relies on search.
So, consider some alternative methods of representing this structure:
Tweak the list content
If your client has some other reason for this structure, at the very least, group your links into chunks of no more than 5 links -- the eye movement will 'chunk' each list rather than scanning (which happens with lists of > 6 elements).
Also spend some time on the labels: users only read the first 2 words so keep your links to this.
Look at competitor sites
Also look at competitor sites (booking.com, kayak.com, hotels.com) to see how they deal with what I'm sure is the same problem.
Look at amazon.com home page - they have 14 links on the left navigation bar and 10 links on the top to the right of the logo (you may have to be logged in to see all of them).
They also have about a million links below the fold :-)
so, 19 links on the main navigation bar + 10 on secondary navigation is doable.
The big question is if it's wise, and in most cases it's far better to show fewer choices - and it's your job to convince the client the site will sell more with fewer choices (you can always quote experiments in the field (wikipedia, video) or offer to do A/B testing)


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Though rising uncertainty over the fiscal cliff, debt ceiling and tax reform have hindered business confidence, the most important domestic energy development in the last 50 years is poised to reshape American manufacturing, with access to vast shale supplies creating a competitive advantage.
Favorable oil-to-gas price ratios driven by the production
of natural gas from shale will drive a renewed US
competitiveness that will boost exports and fuel greater
domestic investment, economic growth and job creation within
the business of chemistry.
This is according to the Year End 2012 Situation and
Outlook, published Friday by the American Chemistry
Council (ACC) trade group.
After three years
recovering from the recent recession, the global economy
stumbled in 2012. The euro area entered a recession again, and
a pronounced slowdown in China helped spread economic
uncertainty around the world, the ACC said.
In the US, although GDP surpassed its pre-recession peak,
growth is slow and a typical business cycle expansion has yet to
Despite this, the business of American chemistry remains a
bright spot.
Though rising uncertainty over the fiscal cliff, debt
ceiling negotiations and tax reform have hindered business
confidence, the most important domestic energy development in
the last 50 years is poised to reshape American
Access to vast, new supplies of natural gas from shale deposits
creates a competitive advantage for US petrochemical manufacturers. Ethane,
a natural gas liquid derived from shale gas, is used as a feedstock by American chemical
companies, giving them an advantage over foreign competitors
that rely on a more expensive oil-based feedstock.
Following a decade of high and volatile natural gas
prices that destroyed industrial demand and lead to the closure
of many gas-intensive manufacturers, shale gas offers a new era
of American competitiveness that will lead to greater
investment, industry growth, and employment, said Kevin
Swift, ACCs chief economist and lead author of the
The business of chemistry is a $760 billion enterprise and
one of Americas most significant manufacturing
industries, with more than 96% of all manufactured goods
touched by products of chemistry.
For the business of chemistry in the US, the softening of
the manufacturing recovery has dampened domestic chemical
demand and weakness in Europe and elsewhere has affected
export sales. But exports remain a bright spot for the
Aided by a favorable oil-to-gas ratio, chemical exports
grew 1.8% to $191 billion dollars in 2012, helping to turn a
trade deficit into a modest surplus, Swift said.
Well see exports continue to grow 4.7% in 2013 and
another 6.2% to $209 billion in 2014."
While overall shipments in the business of chemistry slipped
1.5% in 2012, they are expected to increase nearly 9% over the
next two years, to $794 billion in 2013 and $833 billion in
According to Swift, it is not only the chemical industry
that stands to benefit from increased access to natural gas
from shale. Other natural gas and energy intensive
manufacturing industries will also realize renewed
competitiveness and increased output, potentially creating
662,000 direct and related jobs and generating $342 billion in
economic expansion.
Within the business of chemistry, several end-use markets
have already shown signs of growth. At nearly $3,650 of
chemistry per vehicle, light vehicles represent an important
market for the industry and production continues to
US light vehicle sales are expected to rise in 2013 and 2014 as
pent-up demand, improved employment and greater availability of
credit foster demand. The slowly recovering US housing market
(more than $15,000 of chemistry per start) is also likely to
spur demand.
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6 Everyday Words With Disturbing Alternate Meanings
So the whole news world was up in arms recently because of this newscast referring to Barack and Michelle Obama "fisting" each other in the White House, the speaker blissfully unaware of the unsettling slang definition of the term.
And while we can all laugh at that lady and her obliviousness, the truth is there are all sorts of everyday words that, in the right crowd, will draw the same muffled laughter as the fisting gaffe up there. Such as...
#6. Cottage
You Know It As:
A small, quaint house favored by the idle, rich, hobbits and humans in Warcraft.
But It Can Also Be:
A public urinal that is used for homosexual intercourse, as well as the arrangement of some.
"I think my favorite part of pissing is that we get to have sex with each other afterwards.
Wait, What?
"Cottaging" has a rich and storied history, dating back to the turn of the 20th century. At that time, "cottage" was just a euphemism for a public lavatory, due to the overwhelming similarity of comfortable out-of-town lodgings to cramped, piss-stained cubicles.
Over the next few years however, the homosexual community started using cottages for illicit encounters with such regularity that by 1920 the definition of the euphemism had been amended to include the gay stuff. Both the word and the practice are still active today, and recently enjoyed a brief renaissance following the arrest of U.S. senator Larry Craig, who we here at Cracked salute for his dedication to lexographical preservation.
How To Use It In A Sentence:
"So Vince, Todd, Blake and I were all thinking about getting a cottage together. It'll be a tight fit, but I'm sure we can all squeeze in somehow."
#5. Russian and Italian
You Know Them As:
Languages favored by Communist dictators and wacky pasta chefs, respectively.
But They Can Also Be:
The acts of rubbing your penis between breasts and ass-cheeks, respectively.
Wait, What?
You have America's thriving sex industry to thank for these two little gems; which are still in full, throbbing use today. You see, escorts, when placing ads in the newspaper, have developed little abbreviations for the "services" they offer, mostly to save on space and moral outrage. A woman who prints an ad saying that she offers "Bare-Back Blowjob to Completion, No Quitting, No Spitting," would run into all sorts of trouble, but one offering "BBBTCNQNS" will, at most, run afoul of a spellchecker.
Among these unassuming jumbles of capital letters are the "languages spoken." It all started with French, which was used to mean "oral sex." Not too hard to figure out, right? It was soon followed by Greek, which meant "anal sex." Again, not exactly a stretch for anyone even remotely familiar with ancient Greek recreational pastimes.
Then, however, we come to Russian and Italian. We honestly don't know what we're supposed to think here. Are Italians indecisive about anal sex? Are babushka women especially agile? Do we even want to think about this anymore?
How To Use Them In A Sentence:
"Can you believe Grandma MacTaggart speaks Russian and Italian? And at her age, too!"
#4. Oats
You Know It As:
A staple animal feed, a visually unappealing breakfast dish and the first thing you think of when Quakers are mentioned.
No, that's with an "e." "Oates."
But It Can Also Be:
A merciless, retributive beating.
Wait, What?
This one had its start in mid-18th century rural England, where the farmers had apparently just discovered irony in its most rudimentary form. We like to imagine its first usage going a little something like this:
FARMER JOHN: Oi, Farmer William!
FARMER WILLIAM: What's all this then, Farmer John?
FARMER JOHN: This 'ere 'orse won't move unless I give 'im extra oats!
FARMER WILLIAM: (Thinking for a second) 'E wants oats, does 'e? I'll give 'im 'is oats! (FARMER WILLIAM begins furiously whipping FARMER JOHN'S horse.)
FARMER JOHN: Cor, that's bloody brilliant!
FARMER WILLIAM: Now, let's go drink warm beer and eat spotted dick!
FARMER JOHN: Blimey!
By the early 19th century, "giving someone their oats" had caught on outside of rural areas as a way of stealthily implying that you were going to beat the hell out of someone who had wronged you. At some point the term got changed to "oatmeal," presumably because cereal grains are infinitely more menacing when they've been mushed up and heated.
How To Use It In A Sentence:
"My kids are real picky eaters, so I figured that after coming home from the bar tonight I'd give 'em some oatmeal."


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NHRA Hot Rod Reunion Bowling Green - Hot Rod HeritageWritten by Gerry Burger on December 1, 2011 A Gathering of Geezers Meet in Bowling Green for Reunion Number Nine
Our hot rod heritage is a rich one, and after many years of attending rod runs that frankly suffer from a certain sameness, we look forward to the annual trek to the NHRA Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Holley is the major event sponsor, which seems only natural since Beech Bend Raceway is literally in their backyard.
The event is a magical one, with all the right components to put it on the top of many hot rodders' must-attend list. First, the location is simply amazing, with a dragstrip that was established in 1951. The fact that it is located in the midst of an amusement park that was established in 1898 adds to the heritage and charm of the event. Beech Bend Park includes ample room for campers, plenty of shade trees and beautiful grounds. This means there is something for everyone from the kiddies to the hard-core hot rodders attending the event.
A big show 'n' shine surrounds the dragstrip while the vendors' midway is formed inside the oval racetrack directly behind the dragstrip. The event consists of the Hot Heads drag racing, a Cacklefest, and the SoffSeal Show 'N Shine along with a free Lifetime Achievement Honoree Reception, sponsored by the Justice Brothers and Dynamat. This year the honorees were the entire Cluster Busters Car Club along with Dave Boertman, Jack Doyle, Jim Oddy, Bill Pryor, Jim Naramore, and Tom Raley. The 2011 Grand Marshall was famed drag racer Bruce Larson.
The swap meet is filled with real hot rod and race car parts, and the event is non-stop action and fun. As you might expect, traditional hot rods, gassers, and muscle cars dominate the show and shine area, while vintage drag cars fill the staging lanes at the fabled Beech Bend track.
Even more race cars are on static display and this is an event where you can actually talk with living legends of drag racing from the '50s-70s. Folks like Bruce Larson, Don Garlits, Bobby Langley, and more were on hand this year. Cars from the golden age of drag racing seem to be everywhere, with the likes of Jungle Jim's funny cars and Don Nicholson's first AFX car on display, along with less-famous vintage drag cars from across the country. For the participant, the racing camaraderie is second to none, and for the spectators sitting under the covered grandstands in genuine '50s theater seats is simply the perfect way to view great nostalgia drag racing.
The Show 'N Shine surrounds the racetrack and while it is a big show you can still cruise around the track and into the pit area. Shade trees abound so hanging out with your hot rod is comfortable, when you're not at the swap meet or watching the racing action.
This year NHRA debuted a new schedule with the event beginning on Thursday and ending with the finals on Saturday night. Things were going just great on Thursday, with picture-perfect weather all day. Friday the racing was interrupted by a shower or two, but the track quickly dried and the vendors uncovered their wares as the event continued. The street rods were pouring into the park and we had all the makings of another great Hot Rod Reunion. But Mother Nature had other plans, as by Friday evening the rain was approaching. When a tornado warning was issued for the immediate area everyone headed for cover. Unfortunately the rain would not abate until 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon.
That moved the Cacklefest from Saturday night to Saturday afternoon as workers dried the track. At 4:30 p.m. the track was lined with top fuel dragsters, fuel coupes, funny cars, and supercharged gassers. Due to the weather conditions it was a static Cacklefest with no push-starts, but still the roar of race engines and the stinging fumes of Nitromethane filled the air in yet another incredible display of vintage horsepower.
The drag racing began by 5:15 p.m. and would continue until midnight to get all the class eliminations run. The finals were wrapped by midnight, a real tribute to the work of the NHRA crew in race control.
And so another reunion was in the books, NHRA, Holley, Hot Heads, and SoffSeal did an amazing job getting the program completed. Of course it would have been better had the weather cooperated, but we'll be back next year for the 2012 version of the Hot Rod Reunion. Next year will be the 10th anniversary and you can bet it will be the best one yet—and that's really saying something. Be there!
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While the Willys might have been the preferred coupe, tracks all across the country were populated with coupes like this '37 Chevrolet. Because of their parallel leaf spring, solid axle, and front suspensions early Chevys were a natural for drag racing.Not all of the Deuce three-window coupes were relegated to the show 'n' shine area, some were out on the track carrying the front wheels off the start.That's 100 percent pure, original, Austin bare sheetmetal you are seeing. This may be one of the best Austin bodies left on the planet, and like any good gasser it launches hard.When Mike Millsap isn't behind the counter or in the shop building street rods at Sachse Rod Shop, you can find him piloting his Junior Fuel dragster. The rail runs in the mid-7s.Don Garlits slides into his Swamp Rat for a little Cacklefest action. Anyone who has ever gotten a good snoot full of spent nitro will understand the look on Garlits' face, a lesser man would wear a mask.The afternoon sun lights up the gold metalflake on the K.S. Pittman Willys coupe. The late K.S. Pittman campaigned several Willys gassers through the glory years of drag racing.While the term "gasser" often conjures up visions of Anglias, Willys, and Austins, a large majority of D/G cars were often Tri-Five Chevrolets. One walk through the pit confirms that theory.This C/Gas '55 Chevrolet is a barn find gasser that last raced in 1965. Greg Porter gave the car a sympathetic restoration and now runs 12s in the quarter-mile with this authentic gasser. The yellow Plexiglas windows and gold metalflake seats are 46 years old.
The Helger Brothers Speed Shop in Little Compton, RI, fields a great vintage top fuel car. There is nothing quite like the sights, sounds, and smells of top fuel competition.This Model A truck was part of a race team support group, and you have to love the door art on this very cool pickup.Traditional-style hot rods are predominate at the Hot Rod Reunion, J.R. Drake's chopped-and-channeled sedan has that dragstrip refugee look, right down to real mag wheels.Traditional hot rods and nostalgia drag racing make the Hot Rod Reunion a trip back in time. A scalloped Deuce roadster and a deeply channeled Model A sedan set the mood perfectly.Jack Medlock motored in from Richmond, KY, in his traditional Model A sedan. We really like the look of the unchopped top along with the perfect stance.The SoffSeal Show 'n Shine was brought to an end on Friday afternoon by a band of strong storms followed by steady rain. Street rods, muscle cars, and vintage drag cars sure look good together.Real magnesium wheels, pie-crust slicks, and speed holes everywhere add up to one very cool '34 Ford truck. But our favorite part of C. Crowley's hauler was the holey headliner.


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Meijer Store Director Scott Flanagan presented a check for $1,200 to Cari O'Connor, Toys for Tots area coordinator, Thursday.
"Meijer is excited to partner with local community agencies to ensure that children have a happy holiday," Flanagan said.
O'Connor said Toy for Tots appreciates Meijer's support every year, as well as that of the community throughout Ionia County. "We couldn't fill the need without that support," she said.
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While I was trying to install ubuntu 12.04 alongside windows 7 on a seperate partiton on my PC, the ubuntu installation failed; now i can't boot into windows 7 anymore. When I inserted the hard disk into an external source to read its contents, I found about 6 partitons present there, while there were only 3 before. I saw that it has copied some linux files to one of the partitons.
What do I do now to be able to at least boot my Windows 7?