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The 9 Most Hilariously Irresponsible Old-Timey Weapons
In the early days of crime fighting, people didn't quite know how to act. Westerns and gangster movies suggest that cops and robbers have always just pointed their guns and shouted "Freeze!" But it turns out that fighting real-life crime back in the day was more like a James Bond movie, if Q designed the weapons while drunk. For instance ...
#9. Machine Gun Vest (1929)
What looks like an early prototype of Tony Stark's arc light reactor is actually a vest that, when the strings are pulled, causes your bow tie to spin around and whistle .... oh sorry, that's the other string-operated novelty vest. This one causes "a fusillade of bullets" to pour forth from your body like a swarm of tiny lead chest-bursters.
It's easy to imagine the scenario that Samuel Schwarz had in mind while designing the Vest Machine Gun. A hold-up artist pulls out his gun and tells Schwarz to "Stick 'em up!" to which Schwarz would reply, "You asked for it, buddy," raising his arms and activating the eight-barreled machine gun hidden in his chest. But wait, eight goddamn machine gun barrels? We're all for booby trapping your clothes with deadly weapons, but that seems like a lot of machine guns with which to shoot someone at point-blank range. That starts to feel less like ironic justice, more like the type of guy who goes around asking nerds if they want a "Hurts, don't it?" (if that bully then disintegrated their torso like a human landmine).
"Ask me to raise the roof. I dare you."
You'd think they'd be a little more careful with a gun that was so easy to fire while yawning, or high-fiving someone, or signaling a touchdown, or putting your hands in the air so as to wave them around like you just don't care OH MY GOD, EVERYONE AT THE DISCO IS DEAD.
Amazingly, three years earlier, a German inventor had devised a similar contraption with a pistol rigging concealed inside a small satchel:
Popular Mechanics
"Only one shot in the crotch, Hans? Keep practicing!"
#8. Bank Teller Trapdoor (1919)
Bank robberies were apparently such a problem in the early 20th century that the number one industry was figuring out creative ways to dispatch crooks with your hands raised above your head. This trapdoor, triggered via the bank teller's foot, seems to be the humane, if a bit overly dramatic option. A trapdoor opens, and just like that the bandit is "forthwith" trapped in a chamber below the floor, where he is kept until, according to the product description, he can be:
... fished up by a policeman. "Fished up" is no idle jest; for the cashier has at his right hand a wheel which, when turned, will open a valve in the compartment below and flood it with water.
"Oh, hey. Sorry, Mr. Vanderbilt -- I thought your checkbook was a revolver."
Holy shit, what?! So what we're learning here is that -- besides the fact that, starting today, we're making it a requirement to use the word "forthwith" at least once in every article -- it was once considered OK to just casually drown a thief the way you'd flush one of those creepy hundred-legged bugs that somehow end up squiggling around in your bathtub?
#7. Gun-Mounted Camera (1934)
It probably says something about humanity that we invented the camera gun over half a century before the camera phone. Things only get grimmer when you read the operating instructions:
Photographic identification of fleeing criminals may be obtained with a recently perfected camera which is attached to a pistol or rifle and worked by the gun's trigger.
Worked by the gun's trigger? We wouldn't trust RoboCop to differentiate between a criminal fleeing and what we would do if you pointed a gun at our face and repeatedly pulled the trigger while telling us to smile. Add the clearly bloodthirsty cops of the 1930s to the equation, and we're not feeling great about their willingness to learn to pull the trigger lightly to take a photo, and not pull it all the way. We have a feeling that this gun ended up taking more pictures of Rorschach blobs of brain matter frozen in place on whatever the terrified "criminal" happened to be standing in front of.
Modern Mechanix
POW! "Haha, you should've seen the look on your face! Wait till the boys at the station see this one!"
#6. Vehicles and Pedestrians and Bullets, Oh My! (1922, 1959)
When the Thompson submachine gun -- a gun capable of firing a thousand .45-caliber bullets per minute -- was introduced in the early 1920s, the law enforcement community's first thought was "Let's strap that fucker to a motorcycle." Spraying a steady stream of hot lead while weaving between lanes might seem impractical, and it is; we should point out that the gun came loaded with military grade ammunition as well as birdshot. Sure, birdshot could still pepper innocent, sidewalk-bound bystanders with thousands of tiny, survivable wounds. But still. Motorcycle machine guns, you guys!
We at least hope they included an easy dismounting system so the gun could be popped off when the officers parked the bike to grab some lunch, rather than leaving a loaded machine gun out on the street. But we have to assume they didn't, since these were the same people who designed a motorcycle-mounted machine gun at a time when they were still figuring out which color lights should mean stop and go.
It was the '20s, so the average toddler probably had more firearms experience than modern Marines.
The modern lack of non-tank vehicle-mounted firepower in civilian areas tells us that they at least learned their lesson. Except that, nearly 40 years later, the same magazine highlighted a car-hood-mounted gun designed for Texas Rangers and fired by some kind of pistol grip arcade controller sticking out of the car's dashboard.
Popular Mechanics
Texas summers are hot. Why leave your air-conditioned squad car just to shoot a dude?
We're assuming this had less to do with inexperience and more to do with the world generally being tired of waiting around for video games to be invented.
#5. Electric Glove (1935)
In what must have been one of the earliest steps in a chain of events that ultimately culminated with the phrase "Don't Tase me, bro!" grating on your last nerve, Cirilo Diaz of Cuba invented the joy buzzer to end all joy buzzers in the form of the Electric Glove. Designed to be worn by a police officer with the power pack concealed underneath his uniform, one light touch from the Electric Glove to a rioter or other ne'er-do-well would immediately send 1,500 volts coursing through his nervous system, while sending blood coursing through the erection of the cop who just learned what it feels like to be a God of lightning.


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Regular Meeting No. 8 of the 52nd Session
Present: Chair Allen, Secretary Bruck, Past Chair Daley, Parliamentarian Corbin; Senators Baynes, Blair, Blank, Branoff, Clark, Culbreth, Fikry, Gustke, Hanley-Bowdoin, Hudson, Kellner, Khosla, Kinsella, Krotee, Lindbo, Martin, Moore, Overton, Robarge, Schultheis, Scotford, R. Smith, Tetro, Williams, Wessels, Yencho
Excused: Provost Nielsen: Senators Dawes, Fahmy, B. Smith, Johnson,
Absent: Senators Banks-Lee, Brownie, Fauntleroy, Hooper, Young
Visitors: Chancellor Oblinger; Katie Perry, Senior Vice Provost; P.J. Teal, Secretary of the University, Suzanne Weiner, Library Administration, Melissa Watkins, Chair of the Staff Senate, Thomas Conway, Dean, Undergraduate Academic Program; Ellis Cowling, University Distinguished Professor At-Large; Kevin MacNaughton, Facilities; Lee Fowler, Athletic Director; John Gilligan, Vice Chancellor of Research and Graduate Studies;
1. Call to Order
Chair Nina Strömgren Allen called the eighth meeting of the fifty-second session of the North Carolina State University Faculty Senate to order at 3:00 p.m.
2. Welcome and Announcements
Chair Allen welcomed Senators and Guests.
Chair Allen reminded the Senators that President-Elect Erskine Bowles would be speaking at the General Faculty Meeting on February 14.
Chair Allen announced that she attended a strategic planning meeting this morning and noted that it was very interesting to see what our strategic plan is shaping up to be.
3. Approval of the Minutes, Meeting No. 7, November 15, 2005
The motion passed unanimously to approve the minutes.
4. Memorial Statement for Professor Robert Burns
Dean Malecha from the College of Design read a memorial statement in honor of Professor Robert Burns who passed away on October 28, 2005 in a tragic automobile accident.
5. Remarks from Chancellor Oblinger
Chancellor Oblinger stated that he wanted to show the senators an eight-minute DVD giving a broad overview of expenditures, and the bond status.
Chancellor Oblinger stated that given the number of times that he has talked about the inconveniences generated by the bond programs and the parking challenges, as well as some of the positive feelings that
have been received from students, faculty, and staff impacted by that bond program he thought he would show an eight-minute DVD that was shown to the Board of Trustees. He noted that Kevin MacNaughton, Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities is responsible for keeping this program going. The DVD contains a mix of pictures, dates, completions, and dedication dates.
I would like to share a few other items with you not the least of which would be an update on the strategic plan and how the faculty will not only see it but also have an opportunity to give input.
Chancellor Oblinger stated that we have a lion's share 63% expended and that means committed and underway or completed as well as another 19% under contract. You will see some of the remaining projects that have yet to be undertaken that are part of the bond project.
The next slide gives you a summarization of what I was talking about in terms of capital construction on this campus over the last several years totaling some $858M; $468M as it relates to the bond and non bond projects as gifted buildings like we dedicated approximately ten days ago, the Friday Institute. You will see the Joyner Visitor Center that will be dedicated in March. We will also dedicate the Dorothy and Roy Parks Alumni Building on Centennial Campus in April. Those are gifted buildings. As you know the Wolf Pack Club has supported the development of many athletic facilities.
Many of you and certainly all of your deans have had input on additional capital needs on this campus, which is shared there in the additional $826M that we do not have but we have identified needs and applications of those numbers of dollars to our capital infrastructure needs and then beyond that an additional $681M. My point here is to show you that there is over planning taking place and that we have a lot yet to do in the future but I can't help but wonder what we would be like now and into the near future if we had not undertaken above that first red illustration of the total.
Please remember that was put together to illustrate to the trustees what had transpired over time.
You saw portions of this slide when I was here before about what we were going to recommend to the trustees. The next step in this process is to present this case to the Board of Governors who will in February decide whether or not this is the additional campus initiated tuition structure that we would have. It is three hundred and twenty-five dollars across the board in all categories of students, that would be undergraduates, graduates, in state and out of state; an increase in fees of $90.60 and, in three professional programs an increase over and above what you see posted above that thousand dollar figure in the school of architecture in the College of Design as well as the professional program in graphic design also in the College of Design. The professional programs have to be supported by the students impacted. Dean Malecha did a wonderful job presenting to the trustees and those elements of either fee or tuition increases were passed by the Board of Trustees and are now in General Administration.
We did have the opportunity on the sixteenth of November to spend the entire day with President-Elect Bowles. Many faculty, staff, and students had the opportunity to interact with the President-Elect. He came very well prepared. He certainly had done his homework about NC State University. He reflected that ours was the only mission statement that talked about economic development and the statewide impact of that economic development. He knew facts and figures. He is very numbers driven which is
meant to be a positive statement. He wants to be very supportive. He emphasized staff and stated that it means that the General Administration is here to serve you. It is here to support your aspirations as an institution and that is what I pledge to do. I believe that he was very sincere and up front in all of his questioning and I do believe that he will be exceptional to work with. I will tell you that his first priority is faculty salaries. The students ask him three questions. The three items were the student vote in the Board of Governors, the status of tuition increases that were being proposed and the predictability of tuition. He is in favor of the student vote in the Board of Governors. He understands the tuition situation. He explained about the federal budget and the state budget and he closed after he explained the pressures on both of those budgets. He said as students you just need to expect that tuition is going to increase and he said but I assure you as the President that we will not take that duty likely, we will not overdo it. We will do it with full discussion like we have had on this campus every since we have had that opportunity to propose campus initiated tuition increases and he indicated that he had studied the word practicable and thought he knew what it meant. He thought he knew what it meant when the constitution was drafted and he thought he knew what it meant now. I think the visit went very well. Not only has he agreed to do the introductory remarks at the February 14 General Faculty Meeting but he has also agreed to take two trips that we are aware of. We have already given him the itinerary of one out in the eastern part of the state that would show our cooperation with Carolina and Duke and it relates to Marine Sciences and Cooperative Extension. We would plan and hope to take him to the western part of the state where we also have facilities with tenure track faculty present and get him out into the Asheville area so that he can see truly the reach, the depth, and the breath of NC State University and he is eager to do that.
I would like to commend the Senate leadership on what I think is a first and it deals with the way you are attempting to communicate with faculty at-large relative to posting on the web an Executive Summary. I appreciate your willingness to do that and I thank you.
We have not revised the strategic plan on this campus since 1995 and it is a very strong feeling of mine that we ought to do so particularly with a new president coming on line. We ought to state unequivocally what our territory is and how we plan to do it and the kind of support that we need to perform the way we are use to performing.
We had quite an extensive conversation about research extensive universities and I do feel strongly that he understands that every institution has aspirational goals. Every institution in the system and he is responsible for every single one of them. I am also convinced that we are not all going to be treated the same way and therefore it behooves us to not only give him the material that we gave him and a white paper that talks about those aspirational goals but to present him fairly early in his term as President with an updated strategic plan for NC State University and I hope that you will agree with me on that and I hope that you will provide input.
The last thing that I would like to mention is one that deals with the heart of the university and I couldn't agree more with what Marvin said about Bob Burns. I will share on a very personal note that he was the first administrator I got to know because I came here, as Associate Dean and he was already an Associate Dean. He befriended me and showed me where some of those buttons on campus were and was a tremendous asset to all of us and he will be solely missed. He will live on in the minds of many.
Congratulations to Linda Hanley-Bowdoin on becoming an American Association Academy of Sciences Fellow. She is a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Biochemical and Genetics and the other individual that was recognized as well was Dr. Michael Purugganan who is also a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Genetics.
Senator Baynes stated that with regards to the research building he sees that the budget came in at $49M at CVM. He wanted to know if that was within budget or over budget?
Associate Vice Chancellor MacNaughton stated that this bond program could not have been timed at a better moment in time in that we hit a market place back in 2001 that was basically flat on its back. Every project at the front end of our program came in well below budget. We are now taking those savings that we accrued on the front end and putting them on the back end of the project because the construction industry has awakened and we are seeing fairly elevated prices. We have commodities issues. We have the localized market here in the Triangle. We have Chapel Hill, Central, Wake County Public Schools, and the Convention Center, a lot of competition so we are seeing a real tight market place right now.
Senator Baynes wanted to know the start and completion date for Carmichael Student Recreation.
Associate Vice Chancellor MacNaughton stated that they are looking to start the construction at the beginning of 2006, which will be an eighteen-month project.
6. Remarks from John Gilligan, Vice Chancellor for Research & Graduate Studies
You saw the sources of funds that came from the bonds or athletics and other sources, some of those sources were F&A funds generated by faculty research process either committed from the college or my office that went toward those buildings and so there is some significant money going into those structures that are specifically dedicated to research.
Intellectual Property and Commercialization Process
Approximately 20% of our faculty are engaged in some kind of involvement of disclosure of their intellectual property in order to create a possible mention of patents and they are interested in what happens with that at the back end. I have just provided new leadership for the Office of Technology Transfer. About two weeks ago I put Dr Dave Winwood in charge of tech transfer again. He was previously in charge of Tech Transfer from 2000-2002 prior to going to Ohio State. I hired him back in terms of responsibility for Centennial Campus and now in addition to Centennial Campus he will also have Tech Transfer. In particular it was something that was needed, his experience on the commercialization side and also his problem solving side because he is a facilitator and he wants to look beyond the boundaries of an individual office and get problems solved and I think he is going to be a welcomed addition to that office. He is well known throughout the country in his circle and I think he will be a contributor to that process.
When you look at our patent and license activity over the past years it has been very good. You will see it in our Results Magazine that will be coming out soon. It shows the number of disclosures made by our faculty, the number of patents filed, and the number of patents issued. It also shows the licenses from our patents that we generate to the industry and the number of starting companies that comes out of the minds of our faculty. We have been doing very well and I think when you look at the numbers it shows. The only thing that is not doing well is our revenue. It tends to go up; we had a big spike when we had the big contribution from the Textile project and Humanities and Social Sciences. We have gotten up to $7.0M in one year and then things started to turn around after the dot com BUST and now we are pulling in about $3.0M per year.
Industry funding is very unique at NC State. We are always in the top ten in the country in the amount of industry coming to do research with our faculty. It is between thirty-five and forty million dollars a year so we are unique in that sense. For the size of the university that we are without a medical school this is a very strong position so we have close interactions with industry and that tends to drive our interest in the commercialization process because industry is interested in spitting out, licensing, and building things and putting them in the market place and that is what our faculty do here at NC State. I think the bottom line is that the purpose of tech transfer in this whole process is really building partnerships on the research side because that is what those companies want. The reason why we are in this business other than the fact that we are supposed to do it by federal government is because we build partnerships with industries. We bring in three to four million dollars per year. Essentially forty percent of that goes back to the inventors so about $1.6M goes back to the inventors. We have some very successful inventors on our campus. The remainder is used to support the running of that office and doing the legal work outside the university. That is really the kind of involvement that we have as a university with regards to building these partnerships with industry and spending out new companies and its relationship to research on our campus.
Questions from the Executive Committee
How does the Tech Transfer Program work to facilitate the academic mission of the university?
It is a service to the research mission because of its tie in with the research funding and therefore academically it is attached to the research mission through that coupling. It doesn't have an academic mission in and of itself although industry would like for you to publish anything. The first thing that they put in their clauses when it comes to these industry contracts is you can't publish anything. We take that out. It is not the Tech Transfer Office that does that it is the Office of Sponsored Programs that has specialists in negotiating these industry contracts. We do approximately three hundred of these industry contracts per year that are finished. Industry in general does not want you to publish because they want to protect everything that they possibly can and not get it out to the competitors so in terms of the academic mission we want to maintain the capability to publish everything for our students and for the faculty and we are dead set against any restrictions that we have along those lines so in terms of the academic mission that is a poor rule that we have. In support of the academic mission that is key.
The next question has to do with the concern for the majority of the responsibility for financing and marketing of patents is left with the individual faculty member.
Yes and no. If we had more money coming in from licenses and revenues like that we could be more speculative in terms of processing patents. It costs about $20,000 to get each US patent through the legal. Twenty thousand dollars doesn't sound like a lot to an individual but when you add it up over those sixty or eighty patent applications we have per year it gets to be quite a sum of money so we have to be very selective in how we speculatively invest our dollars in terms of going after those patents. It is a combination of making those judgments that we have to rely on our experts in those areas. If we have a company that you know you are working with on a research grant many times they will be willing to fund that patent cost as part of the deal and we can negotiate that up front. So to say that faculty are left on their own, well it is either going to have to be the company that funds that or money coming from everyone else in that money coming into the university or if you have additional sources of money it is an alternative way of doing it. I don't think that you are being left out at least in this question that was raised. We do speculate and we do pay for patent cost.
What are the tech transfer obligations in terms of investment of time and money to promote patents?
Well that is their job. That is where they spend all their time estimating the value of those patents, talking with companies trying to make sure that if we do invest in that patent it is going to yield some kind of license to a company on down the road because otherwise what good is a patent without a way to get it into the marketplace so that is really what we have to go on.
There is concern about how the office deals with student co-inventor issues with respect to distribution of royalties and in agreements.
I'm not sure what that question means except that students are treated exactly like faculty when it comes to inventions. They get the same royalty share. They get the same ownership capability and rights as anyone else so students are part of the whole mix.
Collaborations with industry are often hindered rather than furthered by the office. There is a concern with too much of one-size fits all modes of IP negotiations, whether it is a one day or five year agreement. The corporation seems to be treated with the same level of legal requirements.
I don't think that is entirely true but you do have to worry about precedence and you do have to worry well if you accept it for this one person or group everybody else wants that same deal especially if it's a small deal, a small amount of time and a small amount of money. The big guys who gets lots of money and do it over a longer period of time are going to want the same deal or better so this is business when it gets down to the core of it and there is some concern about setting precedence but I will tell you that each deal is looked at individually and a lot of things come into play here in terms of how these negotiations are done. Actually this is not a tech transfer question. This is an industry negotiation question. We have our specialist; Richard Best is head of the group that does the industry negotiations.
How is the process of the review of invention disclosures handled?
Fill out the form. The form is very simple. Invention disclosure goes to your department head, then to the dean's office, and then to the Intellectual Property Committee. They along with the staff of Tech Transfer and the lawyers that we have on assignment review all the invention disclosures and decide if they look liable and make a decision as to whether we want to, in fact, it is NC State property meaning that it was done with our equipment, in our laboratories and you as a result of being an employee here the university has ownership rights to that. Therefore once that is decided it is turned over to the staff member and they start pursuing the licensing of patent cost issue and then eventually getting it licensed. The Intellectual Property Committee is the first group of faculty that reviews that with the advice of the staff.
How is the Intellectual Property Committee selected?
I appoint them because of their expertise and their ability to review material and their time of dedication for the process which is a significant amount of work that they have to put in to looking at all of those disclosures. I make sure that there is representation to cover all the areas that are needed and to make sure that these people are fair.
It seems that often the Office of Technology Transfers delays decisions on paperwork for many weeks to the detriment of faculty and students. In some cases funding opportunities are lost due to the actions of the Office of Technology Transfers. What methods are used to ensure timely responses to faculty needs? How can these be improved to eliminate the current long delays experience in dealing with these issues?
I assume that he is talking about industry funded research negotiations. Again it may not even be a tech transfer issue, it may be a negotiations issue. It does take time to do an industry negotiation. It may take a few weeks or a few months. Occasionally they take longer than that for some fundamental reason. I guarantee you that its usually not something as simple as what royalty rate or license rate that we are going to charge to an industry or unit if they license our stuff, that is not where it gets hung up. It usually gets hung up in something like publications, liability, things that are much more general and much more broad than a tech transfer issue per say. Occasionally we will have two or three per year that we did not do because the industry will refuse to go along with any reasonable terms. The whole idea is to protect the faculty and students here. There is no incentive to delay this. We want the research dollars coming into the university. We want the F & A dollars coming and we want the licenses going out.
It seems that OTT often acts without regard to legitimate needs and concerns of faculty and students.
Again I am not sure if it is OTT that he is really talking about here.
Who oversees the OTT to ensure that the best interest of the university as a whole including the students, faculty, and research sponsors are served?
Vice Chancellor Gilligan response was, "I do that."
How does the overseer balance the financial aspects of tech transfer and IP against the legitimate educational mission of the university?
We always try to make sure that we have full publication rights, a reasonable amount of protection for our IP that is produced. We are not demanding any large amounts of royalty, funding, licensing, rates or anything like that out of the norm. We are well within the kind of norms for getting the kind of support for our faculty and student inventors that they need.
Questions from the Senate
Senator Yencho wanted to know the university's policy on protecting their inventions and policing royalty revenues making sure that the industry that we work with report honestly.
Vice Chancellor Gilligan stated that two and a half years ago he started an enforcement division within the Office of Tech and Transfers. "We have two people that are hired specifically to go after groups that owe us money or are in the rears. When it comes to trying to make sure that companies pay us the correct amount that is a tough question because we have to rely to a large degree on what the company says that they make. We have gone after a couple of those. It is expensive because we have to hire investigators and auditors to go and work with the company. We include in the language that we have the right to audit all the books in the company to make sure that we are getting our fair share."
Senator Clark stated that he develops instructional materials. "Here they are telling me that I have to pay royalty to these students that I've had to work for hire. A lot of your unwritten rules and the National Science Foundation, NIH expect that money that deals especially with materials to stay in the university but now you are telling me that I need to pay royalties to these students. Could you elaborate on that?"
Suzanne Weiner stated that those items should have been referred to the Copyright Committee. She is surprised that a decision was made without consulting them.
Vice Chancellor Gilligan stated that it is work for hire but it really needs to go to that committee first for them to review.
Senator Clark wanted to know in terms of the negotiation of contracts, what part of input do we have as faculty when that process goes on.
Vice Chancellor Gillgan stated that faculty should be involved as advisors and noted that there is a conflict there at some point where you can't be involved.
Senator Robarge wanted to know how many applications are reviewed and what percentage of applications is turned down. "Do you think that is sufficient for this campus or is there a large number of faculty who are not even considering the patent process at all?"
Vice Chancellor Gilligan stated that we are consistent based on the number of disclosures that we receive. The patent applications are more than one hundred twenty but we have to be selective and the number of patents actually issued is forty-five or fifty.
Senator Tetro wanted to know if there is an attorney on staff.
Vice Chancellor Gillgan stated that they have had an attorney in the past but because of the specialties needed having one attorney on staff is not going to be able to cover all the science and technology we have here so it has to be dedicated to a specific area. He doesn't know of any office in the country that has its own offsite attorneys.
Senator Baynes wanted to know if NC State goes after international patents.
Vice Chancellor Gilligan responded yes. They try to get the US patents first and depending upon the technology you are talking ten to fifteen per country so you have to be pretty selective in what you do there as well.
Senator Moore asked, "How much of your department's operating budget do you have to generate as opposed to what comes from the university?"
Vice Chancellor Gilligan responded that most of his budget is provided from the flow of licenses and royalties that come back. Some of it comes from F&A money because some of the work is contract negotiation so it is related to research. Money comes in life that is becoming larger because of the financial strains that this office has right now so we are supplementing the office from F&A funds in order to perform these research functions related to contract negotiations. "We cannot use state money for this purpose. We can use F&A dollars if they are properly coded to contribute to the research process in general so I am doing more of that now."
Senator Hanley-Bowdoin stated that she thinks what is being said is that all the intellectual property have financial value. She has been in a situation where she was asked by a private foundation to insure that the work that they are doing is being protected so that it doesn't get locked up by a company and so that it will be available to third world developing countries, which is where it is most valuable. There is a case where the cost of protecting the information may well not ever be recovered financially by development here in the US but it is a part of what she hopes would be our larger mission to provide solutions to serious problems around the world. Senator Hanley-Bowdoin thinks there need to be some consideration in the way this office is funded that there could be a growing requirement to insure that the university own intellectual property so that it would be available for groups of people where it may not otherwise be available. "Agencies are asking for that."
Senator Martin asked Vice Chancellor Gilligan to comment on the post patent activity.
Vice Chancellor Gilligan stated that the job of the staff along with the faculty member is to go out and search to find out where those markets are. "We can always hire more staff members in order to search out those markets and it is a matter of time and money when you get down to it."
Senator Baynes stated that he has spent the past two months with students whose jobs were to take several of their patents to the market.
Vice Chancellor Gilligan stated that every faculty member feels that his work is worth ten million dollars and he can understand that because they have put a lot of work into it. "We feel the same way but it is time and money in getting that done but that is certainly the goal of the organization."
7. New Business
Senator Martin stated that one issue of new business that was discussed at the Executive Committee, which was inspired by a discussion from the Staff Senate, is they suggested that it might be wise for the Faculty Senate to also initiate a legislative affairs committee patterned after what they are doing in the Staff Senate. Anyone who is interested in exploring a possibility should contact either him or Chair Allen.
8. Reports
Faculty Assembly
Immediate Past Chair Daley reported that each university reported on how they handled the budget reductions at their school. Another item distributed was the Board of Governors strategic direction. They updated the six strategic directions that they already had and added a seventh strategic direction in economic transformation. The item that prompted the most attention was their addition to the preamble; the leadership of each campus is to align campus-planning efforts to these strategic directions adopted by the Board of Governors. Implication is that there is going to be a lot more monitoring at individual campuses to see that their strategic plans fit into what the system wants us to.
Emphasis was placed on health care benefits, why the legislature didn't do anything this last session. There is a bill that is still alive and there is hope to try to get them to do something positive about the benefit package.
One other item that was discussed: Their system is based entirely on budget and faculty FTE's. Over the last year 475 new faculty positions were added to the system. Only eleven of those are at NC State,
which puts up in the same category as NC A&T, Elizabeth City State, and UNC Pembroke. Appalachian State, Fayetteville State, Asheville, and Charlotte have two to three times as many new faculty positions as NC State. Chapel Hill, excluding the medical school had twice as many new positions as we did. Past Chair Daley stated that he thinks we have to emphasize in terms of how we are going to be able to do things in the future. If we are not filling these lines and getting new positions we are not going to be competitive in a number of areas where the growth is and we want to grow research dollars and teaching things.
Chair Allen stated that she received a number of emails from faculty in her department (Botany) asking that we keep asking to see if we can get that 25% help for staff and faculty. She noted that it is a benefit that would be wonderful.
9. Adjournment
Chair Allen adjourned the meeting at 4:35 p.m.

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MCDONALD, Pa. - The Fort Cherry High School Class of 2013 held commencement exercises Friday in the high school's gymnasium.
Class President Ian Lodge gave the welcome, speaking about the uniqueness of his classmates and the importance of quality over quantity.
"It is not the quantity of memories we've amassed, but the quality of the memories," he said. "This is to us, the Class of 2013, and all our accomplishments."
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GRADUATION DAY — Rebekah Welesko, Fort Cherry High School Class of 2013 valedictorian, addresses the class during commencement exercises Friday at the high school. -- Summer Wallace-Minger
Valedictorian Rebekah Welesko gave a speech, comparing herself and her classmates to the character of Alice in "Alice in Wonderland," remarking, like Alice, she and her classmates have spent the past four years figuring out who they were.
"Today ceremoniously marks the end of the first act of our lives," she said.
Welesko said the graduates would wake the next day as new people, ready to begin the second act of their lives. Like Alice, they would sometimes find themselves confused, lost and only wanting to go home.
"I ask you to stop. Think. Breathe," she said. "Realize that you are home, you have always been home and will always be home - it isn't a place, but a feeling."
Welesko described the feeling of home as a loved one's voice on the telephone or a care package.
"Although we say goodbye today, we will never truly leave one another," she said. "We still have each other in our hearts and our memories."
She advised her classmates to cherish the time they had spent together.
"Hold it close to your heart, and you can never be lost or alone," she said.
After spending high school learning who they were and making decisions about what they wanted to do with their lives, Welesko told her classmates they would change their minds again and again as they learned more about themselves.
"It's OK to change your mind," she said. "We are all puzzles, and we will spend our lives trying to put ourselves together and finding new pieces every day."
Welesko asked her classmates to trust their hearts and their instincts to lead them into the best possible relationships and experiences and understand they had to leave their comfort zones to find themselves.
"As we part, I ask you this: Be true to yourselves, find something you love and never let it go, create a life for yourself that you will be satisfied with 40 years from now, and, sometimes, look back on us and reflect," she said.
Salutatorian Riley Sember also addressed the class and thanked all those who had gathered to celebrate commencement.
He predicted that the class would see its share of adversity, but would rise to the challenge.
"We're going to make mistakes, and we'll be stronger for it," he said, suggesting his classmates remember all that they have already accomplished when faced with difficulties.
Sember reminisced about all the class had shared, including trips, dances and sports events and spoke about all the "lasts" the class experienced.
"It didn't hit me until the senior banquet," he said. "I couldn't wait to graduate, then I realized this is all I've known over the past 13 years.
"As we say goodbye, I want you to know one thing: Even though we won't see each other every day, you will still be in my thoughts."
Class Vice President David Randour gave the farewell.
"This isn't saying goodbye forever, but thank you for all the great years you've given me and we've given to each other," he said.
Superintendent Robert Dinnen thanked the school board, faculty, administration and families for their support of the class, which he said was one of the brightest and most talented the school had produced.
"When you walk out of here, it's all your time, and there's two things to spend your time on - passion and obligation," said Dinnen. "It was our obligation to see you educated, but it was our passion to see you through to adulthood - to build your minds, build your bodies and build your characters."
Principal Robert Frioni certified the class and presented it to the board and audience. James White, board president, presented the diplomas. Class Treasurer Jacob Colega presented the class gift.
The Ranger Concert Band performed "Pomp and Circumstance" for the processional and recessional, and the Fort Cherry Chorus performed "Halls of Ivy" and "For Good."
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The Best Little Road Course in Texas
Purpose-Built Track Gives Formula One New Hope in the U.S.
Austin, Texas
On Sunday, the world of international motor-sport will turn its helmeted eyes to, of all places, Texas.
It is here that Formula One—the richest and most popular form of racing on the planet—will return to the U.S. for the first time since 2007, unleashing some 17,000 horsepower on pavement that is barely dry.
The 2012 U.S. Grand Prix will take place at the new $400 million Circuit of the Americas—the first purpose-built F1 racetrack in this country. It is the latest attempt in F1's quest to establish a foothold in America—the most important realm it hasn't conquered.
As luck would have it, the world championship can be clinched in Austin, which has assured the race a strong turnout. Still, in a sense, the most important race already has been won: that which the promoters faced in their own white-knuckled battle to finish the circuit in time. It is a plot with as many twists as the 3.4-mile track itself.
It all started in 2010 when a group of investors drummed up a quixotic plan to lure F1 back to the U.S. with a circuit outside Austin. They recruited Texas tycoon Red McCombs, the former owner of the Minnesota Vikings and San Antonio Spurs, and approached Bernie Ecclestone, F1's mercurial leader.
Ecclestone had a rocky history in this country. Nine U.S. cities have hosted F1, but each event has failed due to poor facilities and contract disputes. For F1, which races in Asia, Australia, Europe, South America—virtually everywhere but here—the U.S. market is a wellspring of fans and money.
A contract was signed in 2010. But as the project moved along, rumors surfaced that construction was way behind. Then came financial problems. In November 2011, Ecclestone crossed the Austin race off the calendar, stopping the bulldozers in their tracks.
A new set of investors came in, headed by local businessman Bobby Epstein, who joined with McCombs and negotiated a new contract with Ecclestone. At one point, Epstein estimated that the race had a 5% chance.
But with new funding in place, construction continued. On Oct. 21, the promoters organized a christening ceremony complete with rides around the circuit courtesy of Mario Andretti, the only living American F1 champion. At the time, backhoes were still hurling dirt around.
If ever there were a season for F1's return, this is it. The U.S. Grand Prix is the penultimate race on the 2012 calendar. The championship has come down to a duel between Germany's Sebastian Vettel (of the Red Bull team) and Spain's Fernando Alonso (Ferrari). Vettel, the two-time defending F1 champion, holds a 10-point lead, meaning he can clinch the title if he places well ahead of Alonso on Sunday.
A third straight title for the 25-year-old Vettel would put him in the ranks of the best of all time. Alonso has managed to lead in points much of this season despite piloting a less-competitive car. He is fighting to bring the drivers' trophy back to Ferrari, the most successful team in F1 history, for the first time since 2007.
"This season has been the best in my memory in terms of being unpredictable and different teams that were not expected to be great coming alive," said Andretti. "You can't write a script like this. The championship could unfold right on our own track."
When the checkered flag waves Sunday, the future of F1 in this country should become clearer. Promoters are expecting between 110,000 and 120,000 spectators Sunday, the climax of three days of racing and events, including a music festival headlined by Aerosmith. Tickets for the race are nearly sold out, according to track officials.
Austin's Circuit of the Americas has a contract to host F1 through 2021. In 2014, F1 is planning a second U.S. race in Weehawken, N.J., against the backdrop of Manhattan. That race was scheduled for June 2013 but was pushed back—a testament to how hard it is to host F1.
Compared with Nascar's traditional oval tracks and closed wheel cars, every F1 circuit is a winding roller coaster and every car a unique open-wheel marvel of technology. "An F1 car is like a fighter jet—the technology, the G-force, the quickness," said Scott Speed, the last American driver to compete in F1 (2007), who has since competed in Nascar. "Nascar feels more like a 747."
The concern is whether these events will pay for themselves—whether F1 once again will fail to resonate here despite its wild popularity overseas. Another drawback: no American drivers. Though McCombs initially said it was "imperative" that an American be on the grid in Austin, there won't be any.
"The sport isn't relevant here," said Speed. "We have the NFL, hockey, IndyCar, Nascar and drag racing. Other countries don't have that infrastructure of entertainment."
Clearly the checkered flag isn't all that is at stake in Austin. "If we can get traction [in the U.S.] and people enjoy our sport then it's going to be fantastic," said Red Bull F1 driver Mark Webber, who is fourth in the standings entering Austin. "It's the most popular motor sport in the world and that's a very important and I suppose precious market for us."
Andretti is optimistic. "It never had a steady home," he said of F1 in the U.S. "Finally it'll have a proper home."
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The last time a Ferrari driver won the Formula One drivers' championship was 2007, when Kimi Raikkonen did it. An earlier version of this article said a Ferrari driver hadn't won since 2004.


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The context is a bug in which Ubuntu are updating package list timestamps every 30 minutes on their archive mirrors, which forces
[apt-get|aptitude] update commands to download package lists though they haven't changed:
The proposed workaround is to run
touch over the affected index files prior to running
apt-get update. This make their timestamps current, and avoids having to re-download them. This speeds processing by up to several minutes (2-3 seconds vs. 2-6 minutes in various tests). This despite running a local
apt-cache-ng proxy.
We're running into this testing (mostly) and deploying (somewhat) Ubuntu-based images for our AWS infrastructure in which
apt-get update runs a couple of times. 3-6 minutes vs. 3-20 seconds makes a big difference in our iteration time.
It seems odd to me that apt doesn't rely on filesize or hashes to determine whether or not files have changed. Timestamps are very trivially modified, and seem awfully brittle to base this behavior on.


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HOUSTON — The Seattle Mariners finally scored some runs and helped Felix Hernandez pick up his 100th career win.
Kyle Seager and Jesus Montero each smacked a two-run homer in the Seattle Mariners' 7-1 win over the Houston Astros in the opener of a three-game set.
Hernandez (2-2) fanned nine and surrendered five hits and a walk over six scoreless frames for the Mariners, who had dropped five of their last six games coming in.
Hernandez had been stuck on 99 wins since his Opening Day victory at Oakland. He suffered subsequent losses to the White Sox and Rangers before taking a no- decision against the Tigers on Wednesday.
Seattle's offense, which averaged an American-League worst 3.05 runs per contest coming in, had totaled only 13 runs over its last eight games.
Rick Ankiel hit a solo shot for Houston, which has lost eight of its last nine tilts. Brad Peacock (1-2) allowed seven runs on nine hits and a walk over 4 1/3 innings to pick up the loss.
The M's opened the scoring with a run in the first and plated a pair in each of the third, fourth and fifth innings to jump out to a big lead.
Justin Smoak grounded an RBI single down the first base line with runners on the corners and two away in the opening frame. Seager belted a no-doubt two- run shot into the second deck in the third, while Montero cracked a two-run blast off the facade in left-center in the fourth.
Kendrys Morales hit a towering solo homer into the first couple row of seats and Montero lifted a sacrifice fly to right later in the fifth to give the M's a 7-0 advantage.
The Astros got on the board in the seventh when Ankiel launched a solo shot into the Crawford Boxes in left.
Game Notes
Dustin Ackley had three hits and scored a run for Seattle … Peacock has not gotten past the fifth inning this season … The M's were 4-for-8 with runners in scoring position.


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hi guys,
this weekend i wanted to do a HD pano of about 80° (HFOV )
However if i set the focal lenght to 200mm i had to do multiple Row.
How can i do this with the 15° stops (upper rotator)?
i don't want to dommage the rotator while not set to 15°
i shoot this @70mm.
so only one Row.
I want to create a more bigger images !
Thank you for your help !
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(CNN)-- Many of us went through a winter that seemed nonexistent. There were no major blizzards or numbing arctic outbreaks. And it looks as if spring continued much of the same weather pattern throughout the United States.
After reviewing the past several months, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that May 2012 will end as the second warmest on record in the United States. It also said that the spring period of March through May will go down as the warmest on record since record keeping began in 1895.
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The average temperature in May over the contiguous United States was 64.3 degrees, or 3.3 degrees above normal. For spring, the average was 57.1 degrees, 5.2 degree above normal. The previous record for warmest spring was set in 1910; this spring beat that year by 2 degrees.
If you look back over the last 12 months from June 2011 to May 2012, it is the warmest 12-month period of any 12 months on record, according to NOAA.
The warm temperatures were not tied to any one particular part of the country. In the contiguous United States, only Oregon and Washington had spring temperatures near normal.
Data starting on January 1 through the end of May show many cities are off to their warmest start since record keeping began at the location:
Chicago – Warmest in 54 years
New York City (Central Park) – Warmest in 137 years
New York City (JFK) – Warmest in 55 years
Philadelphia – Warmest in 72 years
Washington (Dulles) – Warmest in 50 years


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Tempting Tuna Skillet
Categories: Low-fat, Pasta Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
This cheesy, creamy skillet dish has all the essential ingredients for a hit: tuna, seashell pasta, and cheddar cheese!
Serves: 5 servings
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons chopped fresh mushrooms
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
- 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 8 ounces small seashell pasta (about 2 3/4 cups)
- 2 1/2 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 1 1/4 cups skim or low-fat milk, divided
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1/8 teaspoon ground white pepper
- 3 tablespoons instant nonfat dry milk powder
- 3/4 cup frozen (thawed) green peas
- 3/4 cup shredded or diced nonfat or reduced-fat process Cheddar cheese (about 3 ounces)
- 1 can (12 ounces) water-packed albacore tuna, drained
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- Spray a large, deep nonstick skillet with nonstick cooking spray, and preheat over medium heat. Add the mushrooms, onion, and thyme, and stir to mix. Cover, and cook, stirring occasionally, for about 3 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender. Add a little water or broth if the skillet becomes too dry.
- Add the pasta and the broth to the skillet, stir to mix, and increase the heat slightly to bring the mixture to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer, stirring occasionally, for about 9 minutes, or until the pasta is almost al dente and most of the liquid has been absorbed.
- While the pasta is cooking, place 2 tablespoons of the milk and all of the cornstarch and pepper in a small bowl. Stir to dissolve the cornstarch, and set aside.
- Add the remaining 1 1/8 cups of milk, the milk powder, and the peas to the skillet, and stir to mix. Increase the heat to medium, and bring the mixture to a boil, stirring frequently. Stir the cornstarch mixture, and add it to the skillet. Cook and stir for a minute or 2, or until the sauce is slightly thickened and bubbly.
- Reduce the heat to medium-low. Add the cheese to the skillet, and continue to cook, stirring frequently, for a minute or 2, or until the cheese melts.
- Stir the tuna into the skillet mixture, and cook for another minute, or until the tuna is heated through. Add a little more milk if the mixture seems too dry. Serve hot.
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Welder Series Step Notch Kit - The Low Down On Gettin' Down LowWritten by on December 27, 2010 Installing The Welder Series Step Notch Kit
Paul Horton's Welder Series may well be one of the best-held secrets in the classic truck and street rod hobby. Horton began building hot rods back in 1960 and over time started a street rod shop and line of parts under the Horton Street Rod Products name. Horton had always prided himself with helping builders solve "special" problems with chassis components and parts-many of which were readily available (and often from kits that were in stock at Horton). In order to make those weld-it-yourself parts easier to identify, the name "Welder Series" was used to identify the components Horton designed and manufactured-a "series" of parts cataloged primarily for welders.
As labor is usually a large part of the cost of any project, the more labor you can provide yourself, the fewer dollars the project will cost. The unique idea behind Welder Series kits is that if you can weld, you can make professional quality kits (crossmembers, IFS systems, four-bar assemblies, and nearly any other classic truck or street rod chassis component) using their predesigned parts. Everything comes in the box except the welding. Assembly sheets show and tell how the kit components go together and installation sheets show how to position the part in your project. All of the parts used in Welder Series kits (and even more individual handy bits and pieces) can be ordered individually too, allowing you to pick the individual components you need to make your own custom parts. And to make sure the component assembly is easy and trouble-free all Welder Series components are CAD designed and CNC machined.
Welder Series offers a 58-page catalog filled with hundreds of professional kits and components that will help anybody build a quality classic truck or hot rod for less money-by just using these well-engineered kits and components and your own welding talent. And this is just what I ended up doing this past weekend.
My '57 Chevy pickup is equipped with coilover suspension front and rear, but I've made the decision to convert it over to a RideTech air-ride suspension in the near future. With that in mind I picked up my copy of the Welder Series catalog and found a Step Notch kit that would be perfect for the rear framerails. I figured it'd be a lot easier to do the frame modification ahead of time so I'd be one step ahead when I finally do my air-ride conversion. So take a look at this particular Welder Series kit and see how easily it's installed-then get a hold of 'em and order or download your own Welder Series catalog. You'll be amazed at all that's offered as well as how much cash you'll end up saving in the process.
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The lines on the main pieces aren't just reference lines, they're actually laser-cut slits that go all the way through the pieces. If you look closer you'll see that at each end and in the center of each slit are small material bridges holding the piece together. These bridges are all that get bent while forming the assembly; they hold the pieces to not only hold 'em together but space the seams uniformly for welding.Bending the pieces into shape is easily accomplished by clamping them in, either using a vise or to a bench top, sliding a pair of good-sized adjustable wrenches over the edges of the plate and bending the sections over to a right angle.As I bent each section I double-checked 'em with a square to make sure they were positioned correctly.This shot shows the first piece with three of the four tabs bent into position. Since the small little bridges are all that are actually being bent it takes very little effort to make the bends.Here's a close-up of the bridges. You can see how they hold the pieces in shape and spaced perfectly for a deep strong weld at every seam.With the main section formed the next step is laying the large inside plate on top of the open side of the main section so that it sits on the small unbent bridges equally on every edge. They can then be clamped together, tacked, and then finish-welded together.Here are the first notch, which is welded and ready for the next step, and the components for the other side shown together. Welder Series has designed all of the preformed kits so they're just as easy to prep for welding as the step notch. I can't wait to try an IFS crossmember assembly in the future!
Another neat thing with the Step Notch kit is that you have the ability to make some minor adjustments. For instance, I didn't need nor want the full height of the notch as shipped, so I trimmed about 2 inches off the bottom of the boxed section so that the notches ended up shorter while still giving me the space I desired. (In this shot the notch assembly is sitting with the long legs on the outside of the framerail just to illustrate how much I shortened it.)Once I'd trimmed the height of the notches I then slid them over the 'rails and marked the inner legs at the point they met the lower 'rail flanges.Next, I trimmed the inner legs at the marks I'd previously made, and then tacked and finish-welded the notches to the framerails.With the notches fully attached to the framerails the next step was to whip out my trusty reciprocating saw and cut out the centersections of the original frame.With the 'rails opened up the last step was to trim and then weld in the four (two on each side) inner boxing plates for the final bit of reinforcement. And that's all it took-one Saturday afternoon and an extremely affordable and easy-to-assemble Welder Series Step Notch kit. Too bad I didn't have that air-ride system on hand, I could have accomplished the whole shootin' match last weekend while I was at it! But all kidding aside, you have to check out what Welder Series has to offer; you'll be amazed at what they have available and how inexpensive it is!


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Thanks for the reply. Were you running the x64 or 32 bit version of ubuntu.
Thanks for the reply. Were you running the x64 or 32 bit version of ubuntu.
Tried Ubuntu 12.04 x64 ended up at the same b43 firmware missing panic as with 12.10.
So lame.. Why make an installer panic if it can't load the network drivers, just continue to boot and allow the user to fix it later. Heck even Microsoft installers at least installs the OS and lists unknown devices.
Tried b43.blacklist=yes but then I get a panic with yes invalid for b43.blacklist error.
So how hard was it to install Fedora on your Mac Book Pro 5,1?
Had the same problem when trying to install Live Ubuntu (can't remember which version, 12.10 I think) on my Powerbook G4, had to switch to a different version in the end. Ridiculous.
The fact that it stops installing (or worse yet, hangs/freezes) for not finding a specific driver for a piece of hardware which is not critical to the normal basic functioning of Linux, is indeed wrong.
The fact that each version of Ubuntu have their own specific behaviour wrt to installation is even more troublesome I think (but being a Linux noob, what do I know ? ^^).
Having said that, when you consider the enormous amount of effort the Linux developers community have consented over the years to offer an OS for free - even incomplete and with its own flaws (but which OS doesn't have any ?), that continues to support even old hardware and obsoleted processors...
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He's the one who forked rEFIt to create rEFInd. The above link details his process in installing Ubuntu in BIOS emulation and then switching to EFI mode. Basically, you end up installing Ubuntu in the BIOS mode, set up all of your drivers and hardware, then switch. I've found that most information around somehow bases off of his site.
I just completed an install of 12.10 on a MBP 8,2, and it was quite a process. However, I am able to boot the installer directly in EFI mode, which it sounds like yours is refusing to do. I know it's frustrating, but I think it's worth it to stick with it for the experience benefit alone.
Thanks for the link to http://www.rodsbooks.com/ubuntu-efi/index.html I had tried using refitnd but hadn't studied hsi page in depth.
I kept trying differnt refitnd.conf setting in my Mac partition EFI directory but couldn't get it to work. Out of desperation I mounted the EFI partition and copied the ubuntu directory to the Mac Partition EFI folder same spot as refited folder. Wouldn't you know no more Grub rescue errors it just booted.
I have tried so many things at this point I am not 100% sure if that was all it was or a combination of changes that made it work.
I have another hard drive here that I will reload Mac OS X on then install ubuntu to walk through the steps to get it back up and running.
I belive the ubuntu folder on the EFI partition was created using boot rescue but I do not know that for sure. I also had a grub partiiton with an grub.efi in it as well but that may have come from my attemps to manual build grub. Not sure which put what where.
If I get a few minutes I will try to reinstall from scratch so those who follow in my foot steps will have a guide.
Here is my How to Install Ubuntu 12.10 x64 on a Mac Book Pro 5,1 (5.1) then fix it so it boots in EFI mode so the 9600M GT video card can be powered down and the 9400M video card used instead.
I got most of my information from this website (http://www.rodsbooks.com/ubuntu-efi/index.html) but had to make some minor changes to get it to work. I suspect it was because the author had a slightly newer MacBook Pro that had true EFI 2.0 boot where as my Mac Book 5,1 does not.
Step 1. Boot Mac OSX and install eEFInd (http://www.rodsbooks.com/ubuntu-efi/index.html)
This is done by running the install script ./install . This copies the files to the mac partitions/EFI directory. Note this is not the EFI Partition /EFI directory but is the Mac OS X partition /EFI directory. On my Mac 5.1 the firmware will only boot EFI files from the MAC Partition EFI folder, I believe this is different on new Macs that support true EFI 2.0 booting where the 5.1 does not as its a EFI 1.1 boot. Anyways its important to install rEFInd using ./install.sh and not ./install.sh esp as that will use the EFI partition and rEFInd will not be loaded on the MacBook 5,1 because its not a true EFI 2.0 boot
Reboot computer twice if you dont get the rEFInd boot prompt, not sure why but multiple people stated that you have to boot twice to get it come up after its install, I never experienced this but thought I should pass along the info.
Step 2. You need to make room on your hard drive for ubuntu. I already had Windows 7 installed so I shrunk the Windows 7 Bootcamp partition to make room. If you dont have windows 7 installed you can use the OS X Disk Utility to resize your mac or bootcamp partition to make room.
Step 3. Download the Ubuntu 12.10 x64 Mac Specific Alternative ISO and burn the image to a DVD, be sure to burn the image to the DVD not just the single file else it won't be bootable.
Reboot MacBook and hold option (ALT) key, you should get a EFI Boot Icon and then after a couple seconds you will get the Windows with a CDROM icon displayed to allow the boot of the Ubuntu 12.10 install CD.
You will need a wired connection later to fix the video and wireless drivers so now is a good time to plug in the Ethernet card.
Click Windows with CDROM icon and wait for little white circle with Keyboard to appear at the bottom of the screen and press a key to allow changing the boot options.
Choose your Language, then click F6, using the down arrow select "nomodeset" press enter so the x appears, press the ESC key to close this menu being sue that the x is still selected on nomodeset,
Press Enter to boot "try Ubuntu without Installing" with the nomodeset options selected. The Macbook 5,1 should boot into Ubuntu 12.10 Live CD. If not try a clean reboot meaning power off then power on so we know the 9600GT is the active card. If you boot without "nomodeset" you will get a blank screen as the default video drivers crashes with the 9600G MT. Note that during the live CD boot you will get a black screen for up to a minute before Ubuntu loads the desktop.
Now that the Ubuntu Live DVD has booted you can double click the Install Ubuntu 12.10 Icon from the Desktop.
I choose to Download Updates and Install Third Party Software but you will need a wired connection before these options will be available as the wireless card drivers wont be enabled yet.
When Prompted for "Installation Type" pick "something else".
This will open a tool that shows the partitions.
On my Partitcular setup I have a EFI, HFS+ OS X , NTFS BootCamp ntfs, And then 75 GB of free space that I freed up by shrinking my Windows 7 Partition. There are multiple tools out there for resizing including Disk Utility built into OS X. Be sure to back up your data first in case something goes wrong.
Select the FreeSpace and click the + icon to create a new partition from the list, select Logical for the Type and use as ext4 and mount point is set to /, I made this one 40GB in my case.
The new partition should be added to the list and the freespace will have shrunk in size. Write Down the Partition Device for your / partition we will need it later when we create or EFI bootloader. Ie /dev/sda4
Select FreeSpace again and click the + icon to create another new partition from the list and make sure its type is ext4 and mount point is set to /home, I made this one 20GB in my case.
The new partition should be added to the list and the freespace will have shrunk in size.
Select FreeSpace again and click the + icon to create another new partition from the list and make sure its type is swap, I made this one 15GB in my case, but should be at least 2 times the amount of ram your mac has. Click Install, if you dont already have a Bios boot partition, I didnt, you will get an error saying that you need a separate Reserved for Bios Boot Partition, We are using refind as our bootloader and its already installed on our OSX partition, rEFInd will find the ubuntu boot files and add an icon for us so we dont need the Bios Boot partition so we can ignore this warning and click continue.
Once the Ubuntu install starts you will need to pick your time zone and pick your keyboard English (US) - English (Macintosh) for me.
Set your computer name, username, and password. Be sure to remember your username and password in case you have to boot into single mode later.
Now you have to wait for the install to finish.
Once you have rebooted you should see the rEFInd boot prompt and have a new Penguin Icon that can be used to boot Ubuntu in BIOS. At this point we havent fixed our video card issues and we still need to boot with nomodeset options but we set this option differently after we have installed ubuntu.
Step 4 Boot Ubuntu in Bios Mode and Make Ubuntu Boot in EFi Mode.
In rEFInd you should see a new Linux Penguin icon, You can click this icon to boot Ubuntu but you will need to press e as soon as you get the grub prompt as we dont have the correct video drivers yet and without adding nomodeset we will get a black or scrambled screen as the default nouveau driver will crash with the 9600M GT.
So we Click the Penguin and get a text based GNU Grub version 2.00 menu,now we need to press e on the keyboard to modify the boot entry and add nomodeset.
After pressing e you will have a screen with a bunch of text. Find the text quite splash and add after it nomodeset then press f10 to boot with this new menu entry.
At the Desktop press Control + Option + T to open a terminal windows.
Type sudo apt-get purge grub-pc grub-pc-bin
You will see an older style GUI screen that asks are you sure you want to remove grub, be sure to select yes.
In Terminal Type
sudo mkdir /boot/efi
sudo apt-get install grub-efi-amd64
sudo grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=ubuntu --recheck /dev/sda4 (Note this is the ubuntu / partition Device Name we wrote down up above).
--This may give some errors about missing variable just ignore its because we are Bios booted and installing EFI grub but what this will do is create a EFI boot file for gub in our /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu folder that we can then copy to the OS X /EFI folder to allow us to EFI boot ubuntu.
sudo update-grub
We have two options at this point we can reboot into mac OSX and install fuse so we can read the ubuntu partitions in OS X and do the copy all in OS X between the partitions or we can copy the folder to a usb memory tick and use that to do the copy in OS X.
The USB Option is simpler but if you dont have a usb stick handy the other option works just as well.
To use the USB Option
Open up your home directory and under computer navigate to File System, boot, efi, EFI, right click on the ubuntu folder and select copy
Open the USB memory Stick and paste this folder to the Memory Stick.
Reboot into Mac OS X, Copy the ubuntu folder from the USB memory strick to your mac hard drives /EFI folder.
To use The Fuse in Mac OS X
Boot into Mac OS X, if you already have installed a version of fuse you should see your unix partitions listed in finder if not you need to install fuse or macfuse to see the Ubuntu Partitions. Which of them you install depends on what version of OS X you are running.
FUSE (http://osxfuse.github.com/) or for older OS X versions MacFuse (http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ )
Once you have fuse installed you can open a Terminal windows in OS X and type diskutil list to see a list of partitions. We are looking for our / disk partition we created earlier, you should be able to tell by its size. In my case it was listed as disk0s4
So to manually mount the partition we need to run these commands in an OS X Terminal
sudo mkdir /Volumes/Ubuntu
sudo mount t fuse-ext2 /dev/disk0s4 /Volumes/Ubuntu
Now in finder you should see your ubuntu partition. We need to copy /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu folder to our mac partitions /EFI folder. After were are done our /EFI folder will have a /refind and /ubuntu directory in it and this will add a new ubuntu icon to rEFInd so we can boot ubuntu in efi mode.
Now we can reboot the computer and EFI boot into Ubuntu using the new Orange Circle Ubuntu Icon (not the Penguin), keep in mind we still havent fixed our video problem so we are still going to need to press e at the grub menu and add nomodeset behind quite splash and this time we will boot into terminal single mode only because the default nouveau video card driver will crash when it detects both video adapters.
To fix the Video card driver issue we need to login using the username and password we created during the install.
Also be sure at this point you still have a pluged in a wired connection because we need to download the latest version of the nvidia drivers from the internet.
We have to download the linux-source files as there appears to be a bug in nvidia-current-updates where it will install but show the message module build for currently running kernel skipped because source not found so the kernel never gets patched and the driver never loads.
sudo apt-get install linux-source
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.5.0-17-generic
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current-updates
type sudo reboot to restart the computer.
Now when we boot using the rEFInd Ubuntu logo we will see the ubuntu logo and then a quick flash of the nvidia logo.
We can make sure we are running the correct driver and both video cards are present by pressing Control + Option + T to launch terminal and typing nvidia-settings we should see both video cards.
You can power down the 9600M GT using a couple of applications. Google gpupwr to find the source code another MacBook Pro 5,1 user created. You can alos add outb commands to the grub menu to power down the adapter. There is also a project called Bumblebee out there that is geared for newer MacBooks, I was not able to get it to work correctly but I am not sure I installed it with the correct nvidia drivers.
Hope this saved someone all the hours it took me of reinstalling over and over trying to make since of the madness that was the install of Ubuntu 12.10 on a Macbook Pro 5,1
Let hope the next version of Ubuntu is a little more along the way of an automated Install on the Mac Books.
@Andrewiski: You are a savior sent from above
I've been trying to install 12.10 on my 5,3 macbook pro which should have identical hardware as yours but a smaller screen. Hopefully your approach will finally produce results.
Hope it works out for you! You will get a black screen for 15 seconds or so even with the correct nvidia drivers and efi boot so be sure to wait at least that long as I didn't the first time through.
Good Luck, Please post your results.
I've been trying to do this since I got the MBP 3 or 4 years ago. I have been unsuccessful on every attempt until I found this thread.
I've now got battery life in linux that is comparable to that in OS X.
Thank you.
Glad it worked out for you.
If only we could get Windows 7 to EFI boot we would be in business. I have tried multiple different things but the Windows 7 EFI bootloader always crashes. I was able to get Windows 8 to efi boot on a 10,2 Mac Book pro for a friend. I havn't tried to get Windows 8 to efi boot on my Macbook 5,1 yet, so not sure if it will work or not. Its on my todo list. Just think Windows on your Mac Book Pro that will run on battery longer then 60 minutes and not melt the tray table on the airplane.


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Policy Uncertainty Threatens 1,600 American Wind Jobs at Vestas — and 37,000 Jobs Nationwide
by Richard Caperton
From now until the day Americans vote for president, every single candidate running for office will be talking about one thing: jobs.
But while candidates ramble on about who's creating and who's killing jobs, they're ignoring the simple things that would actually help businesses create jobs – particularly in the crucial clean energy industry.
Exhibit A: Congress's refusal to extend the production tax credit (PTC) is about to kill tens of thousands of high-paying jobs in the wind industry and is already causing businesses to stall projects, reduce orders and decrease manufacturing activity.
Yesterday, Vestas – a leading manufacturer of wind turbines – announced that it will have to lay off as many as 1,600 workers if Congress raises taxes on wind power by not renewing the PTC. What's most frustrating is that there's an easy fix. All Congress has to do is extend the PTC to 2016, as I called for earlier this week, and the whole problem would be avoided.
At a time when so many politicians are making tax issues a key piece of their campaigns, it's quite ironic that one of the nation's fastest growing industries is suffering from uncertain tax policy.
Sadly, there's a lot of history for us to learn from on this issue. As has happened every other time the PTC has expired, wind turbine installations in 2013 will collapse. In fact, the Energy Information Administration currently projects literally zero wind projects for 2013. This chart shows how the PTC expiration has hurt wind in the past and will in the future:
Letting the PTC expire will hurt the entire wind industry, but it's especially devastating to manufacturers like Vestas. As I wrote in my recent paper, "Good Government Investments in Renewable Energy":
Unfortunately, we don't have as many people working in the wind industry as we could. While the wind-manufacturing sector has grown in recent years, it has historically been crippled by the PTC expiring every two years. Manufacturers know that this on-again, off-again cycle for the industry would leave them with virtually no business every other year, so American wind farms use some imported parts
The Vestas announcement is bad news, but it's not unexpected. In November, a bipartisan group of governors implored Congress to not raise taxes on the wind industry, warning of the economic impact in their states:
Wind-related manufacturing is beginning to slow in our states because the credit has not yet been extended. If Congress pursues a last minute approach to the extension, the anticipated interruption of the credit's benefits will result in a significant loss of high-paying jobs in a growing sector of the economy.
Navigant, an economic consulting firm, went a step further and put numbers on this tax increase, estimating that not renewing the PTC would kill a whopping 37,000 jobs.
This policy uncertainty isn't just impacting manufacturers and onshore developers, it's also holding up offshore wind developers. As we outline in our report on offshore wind tax policy, NRG recently announced that its Bluewater Wind project would not move forward and cited Congressional inaction on the PTC as a key factor.
If Congress doesn't do something soon, more wind power companies will be forced to follow in Vestas' footsteps. Instead of just talking about putting people back to work, members of Congress should actually do their jobs to protect American workers.
Richard Caperton is Director of Clean Energy Investment at the Center for American Progress.
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Are you aware of the documentary film "Windfall" that's been released? I've seen a review or two and predict that it will be talking point of the month for all sides of this debate.
The fossil fuel plutomaniacs and their Rightwing political allies are determined to destroy renewable energy, and extract every last cent of money from their polluting 'assets'. This development is entirely predictable-we've seen exactly alike behaviour in Austr-failure-and worse is yet to come. Every new generation of Rightwing ideologues, zealots and stand-over thugs is worse than the one before. Its the 'Descent of Man' (New Abridged Edition)through 'unnatural selection', with service to the Kochtopus and other psychopathic Gods the sole criterion for unfitness.


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I know what yeast nutrient is, but was browsing around the brew supply and noticed yeast accelerator. Anyone know that the REAL difference (if any) is chemically? See it mentioned through a goggle search, but not certain what it actually does. Does it shorten the fermentation time by enhancing the yeast metabolism rate? Are there downsides if this is the case? Thanks.
Yeast nutrient is used primarily to ensure a strong fermentation and is typically added toward the end of boil. Yeast accelerator is used to fix a stalled fermentation. Each contains various ingredients like phosphates and minerals to help in these cases.
Yeast nutrient is "vitamins and minerals" to help yeast grow and ferment.
Yeast energizer is like "speed" to kick start a stuck fermentation.


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I came across this youtube video. Being a beginner in Aikido I was wondering, is this the traditional way of tying your belt? Are there other ways to do it? Does it matter how you tie it?
With Japanese forms, you'll find a greater emphasis placed on even the small things. That said, the method demonstrated to tie the aikido belt in that video is the same way I've been instructed to tie my belt in karate.
The benefits of that method are:
That said, the method shown seems to be the correct way of tying a belt who's sole purpose is to display rank. This is the same for aikido, judo, taekwando, etc. I've seen students from other schools who just put the belt on any way they can. Either the ends of the belt hang so far down they trip on it (not wrapping it enough), or the wraps don't lay flat and it looks messy. Any time you are in a competition where you are being judged, the way you present yourself shows the way you approach your training. If you look haphazard, often the results of the forms you demonstrate echo that presentation.
There's another type of belt (or obi) that is used with traditional sword arts where you use a hakama and gi. The obi for sword arts functions to hold the saya (scabard), and has no purpose related to displaying rank. There are multiple correct ways to tie an obi that goes with the hakama.
For Aikido I was taught the same method as in the video, except that I start with the end hanging to the left instead of the right. I was told this is so rolling is more comfortable. The X tying version (starting with the middle of the belt on your stomach and wrapping around both directions simotaneously) is supposedly used by martial arts that don't do a lot of rolls (like Karate). All the places I've ever trained at Aikido have tied their belt with the "flat back" version.
When I took Kenpo the instructor said I should start with the end hanging to my right (as shown in the video). So I had to learn how to tie my belt in the opposite direction of what I was already accustomed to. My friends who did Taikwondo / Karate at other places usually tied their belt in the X fashion.
This website has an interesting division of belt tying. For the colored belt he shows the X version (starting from the middle of his stomach). For the black belt with name and school he shows the flat back version.
This one is pretty much what I see Shihans and high ranks do:
Ask your Sensei or an advanced student. I've learned Aikido in a number of different schools (often I have find a new school if I get laid off at work and have to move). Some schools want it one way. Others, another. I is the same with techniques. Your dojo will have a specific way of doing things with a level of importance attached to each practice.


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WHEELING - When it comes to postseason play, any mistake can be costly.
So, when Madonna gave up two early unearned runs to Bishop Donahue, it proved to be too big of a hole for the Blue Dons to dig themselves out of as the Bishops went on to win 6-1 on Lisa's Field during a West Virginia Class A Region 1, Section 1 semifinal.
''We started off a little slow,'' Donahue coach Curt Mele said. ''We were able to take advantage of a couple mistakes they made early. In this time of the year, you have to be able to.''
Madonna (8-10), however, had the perfect opportunity in the third to make up for its early errors.
Annie Magnone and Amanda Paul advanced on a wild pitch to third and second, respectively, and an Emalee Hvizdak bunt loaded the bases with only one out for the Blue Dons as Madison Burchill stepped to the plate.
After falling behind 3-0, Bishops pitcher Andrea Guzek kept her cool and battled back to strike out the senior.
''She was able to work her way through it,'' Mele noted. ''That's a very positive sign. This is sectionals now. We're going to need her to carry us.''
A Taylor Thompson groundout at the next at-bat left all three baserunners stranded. It also left Blue Don coach Chris Conti shaking his head.
''That hurts,'' he said. ''When you get the bases loaded, you have to at least get one or two runs out of something like that and we didn't capitalize on that. That's what I tell the girls when the bases are loaded, those are the types of things you need to capitalize on. We haven't been doing that. These past couple of games, we get runners into scoring positions, but we just don't capitalize.''
If Madonna needed a lesson on how to capitalize, all it needed to do was to watch the Bishops (17-11) in the bottom half of the frame.
After Guzek advanced to third on a wild pitch, the senior was brought in by an Abby Mele hit that landed between left field and third base.
Selena Ghaphery then slid into home on another wild pitch and Tess Fallova drove in Morgan Carroll to put the Bishops ahead 5-0.
Abby Randolph scored Sommer South in the sixth to make it 6-0. Madonna got on the board in the seventh as Aubrey Platek scored on a wild pitch.
''It took us a couple innings to get our bats moving, but finally we got some solid hits,'' Mele said. ''On defense, I thought we were very solid. They had a couple hits on us, but for the most part I was very happy with the way we played.''
The Bishops' victory gave them a day off as Madonna will have to face Wheeling Central with its season on the line. If the Blue Dons fall today, Donahue and Central will play a best-of-3 series for the sectional crown.
Bishop Donahue 6, Madonna 1
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Bishop Donahue 011 301 x - 6 4 0
MADONNA: Kaczmarek (LP, 4K, 4BB) and Magnone; Paul 2S.
BISHOP DONAHUE: Guzek (WP, 4K, 2BB) and Scott. Mele S, EBI; Randolph S, RBI.


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