diff --git a/_pages/about_einstein.md b/_pages/about_einstein.md
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-Write your biography here. Tell the world about yourself. Link to your favorite [subreddit](http://reddit.com). You can put a picture in, too. The code is already in, just name your picture `prof_pic.jpg` and put it in the `img/` folder.
-
-Put your address / P.O. box / other info right below your picture. You can also disable any these elements by editing `profile` property of the YAML header of your `_pages/about.md`. Edit `_bibliography/papers.bib` and Jekyll will render your [publications page](/al-folio/publications/) automatically.
-
-Link to your social media connections, too. This theme is set up to use [Font Awesome icons](https://fontawesome.com/) and [Academicons](https://jpswalsh.github.io/academicons/), like the ones below. Add your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, or just disable all of them.
diff --git a/_pages/dropdown.md b/_pages/dropdown.md
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----
-layout: page
-title: submenus
-nav: true
-nav_order: 8
-dropdown: true
-children:
-  - title: publications
-    permalink: /publications/
-  - title: divider
-  - title: projects
-    permalink: /projects/
-  - title: divider
-  - title: blog
-    permalink: /blog/
----
diff --git a/_pages/news.md b/_pages/news.md
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----
-layout: page
-title: news
-permalink: /news/
----
-
-{% include news.liquid %}
diff --git a/_pages/profiles.md b/_pages/profiles.md
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----
-layout: profiles
-permalink: /people/
-title: people
-description: members of the lab or group
-nav: true
-nav_order: 7
-
-profiles:
-  # if you want to include more than one profile, just replicate the following block
-  # and create one content file for each profile inside _pages/
-  - align: right
-    image: prof_pic.jpg
-    content: about_einstein.md
-    image_circular: false # crops the image to make it circular
-    more_info: >
-      <p>555 your office number</p>
-      <p>123 your address street</p>
-      <p>Your City, State 12345</p>
-  - align: left
-    image: prof_pic.jpg
-    content: about_einstein.md
-    image_circular: false # crops the image to make it circular
-    more_info: >
-      <p>555 your office number</p>
-      <p>123 your address street</p>
-      <p>Your City, State 12345</p>
----
diff --git a/_pages/projects.md b/_pages/projects.md
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----
-layout: page
-title: projects
-permalink: /projects/
-description: A growing collection of your cool projects.
-nav: true
-nav_order: 3
-display_categories: [work, fun]
-horizontal: false
----
-
-<!-- pages/projects.md -->
-<div class="projects">
-{% if site.enable_project_categories and page.display_categories %}
-  <!-- Display categorized projects -->
-  {% for category in page.display_categories %}
-  <a id="{{ category }}" href=".#{{ category }}">
-    <h2 class="category">{{ category }}</h2>
-  </a>
-  {% assign categorized_projects = site.projects | where: "category", category %}
-  {% assign sorted_projects = categorized_projects | sort: "importance" %}
-  <!-- Generate cards for each project -->
-  {% if page.horizontal %}
-  <div class="container">
-    <div class="row row-cols-1 row-cols-md-2">
-    {% for project in sorted_projects %}
-      {% include projects_horizontal.liquid %}
-    {% endfor %}
-    </div>
-  </div>
-  {% else %}
-  <div class="row row-cols-1 row-cols-md-3">
-    {% for project in sorted_projects %}
-      {% include projects.liquid %}
-    {% endfor %}
-  </div>
-  {% endif %}
-  {% endfor %}
-
-{% else %}
-
-<!-- Display projects without categories -->
-
-{% assign sorted_projects = site.projects | sort: "importance" %}
-
-  <!-- Generate cards for each project -->
-
-{% if page.horizontal %}
-
-  <div class="container">
-    <div class="row row-cols-1 row-cols-md-2">
-    {% for project in sorted_projects %}
-      {% include projects_horizontal.liquid %}
-    {% endfor %}
-    </div>
-  </div>
-  {% else %}
-  <div class="row row-cols-1 row-cols-md-3">
-    {% for project in sorted_projects %}
-      {% include projects.liquid %}
-    {% endfor %}
-  </div>
-  {% endif %}
-{% endif %}
-</div>
diff --git a/_pages/publications.md b/_pages/publications.md
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----
-layout: page
-permalink: /publications/
-title: publications
-description: publications by categories in reversed chronological order. generated by jekyll-scholar.
-nav: true
-nav_order: 2
----
-
-<!-- _pages/publications.md -->
-
-<!-- Bibsearch Feature -->
-
-{% include bib_search.liquid %}
-
-<div class="publications">
-
-{% bibliography %}
-
-</div>
diff --git a/_pages/repositories.md b/_pages/repositories.md
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----
-layout: page
-permalink: /repositories/
-title: repositories
-description: Edit the `_data/repositories.yml` and change the `github_users` and `github_repos` lists to include your own GitHub profile and repositories.
-nav: true
-nav_order: 4
----
-
-## GitHub users
-
-{% if site.data.repositories.github_users %}
-
-<div class="repositories d-flex flex-wrap flex-md-row flex-column justify-content-between align-items-center">
-  {% for user in site.data.repositories.github_users %}
-    {% include repository/repo_user.liquid username=user %}
-  {% endfor %}
-</div>
-
----
-
-{% if site.repo_trophies.enabled %}
-{% for user in site.data.repositories.github_users %}
-{% if site.data.repositories.github_users.size > 1 %}
-
-  <h4>{{ user }}</h4>
-  {% endif %}
-  <div class="repositories d-flex flex-wrap flex-md-row flex-column justify-content-between align-items-center">
-  {% include repository/repo_trophies.liquid username=user %}
-  </div>
-
----
-
-{% endfor %}
-{% endif %}
-{% endif %}
-
-## GitHub Repositories
-
-{% if site.data.repositories.github_repos %}
-
-<div class="repositories d-flex flex-wrap flex-md-row flex-column justify-content-between align-items-center">
-  {% for repo in site.data.repositories.github_repos %}
-    {% include repository/repo.liquid repository=repo %}
-  {% endfor %}
-</div>
-{% endif %}
diff --git a/_pages/teaching.md b/_pages/teaching.md
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----
-layout: page
-permalink: /teaching/
-title: teaching
-description: Materials for courses you taught. Replace this text with your description.
-nav: true
-nav_order: 6
----
-
-For now, this page is assumed to be a static description of your courses. You can convert it to a collection similar to `_projects/` so that you can have a dedicated page for each course.
-
-Organize your courses by years, topics, or universities, however you like!