text:
The Bethel Clarion
Vol. XX No. 5 BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.) November 15, 1940
Bethel Coed 0. Anderson
Heroine of Captains Girls
Finnie's Film Features
New Film
Picture Features
Daily Life in School
Dean Directs Taking of
Natural Color Movie
"Bethel Coed," a typical Bethel
student, will be the subject of a
film to be made for the purpose
of advertising Bethel. That new
picture, "A Day in the Life of
Bethel Coed," will be in natural
color, and will be a program of
forty minutes' duration.
Dean Emery Johnson, director
of the new film, said that the film
will portray, on the screen, a cross
section of the student life at Beth-el.
Third Film Produced
This film, the third of its
type, will be used in special
promotional work for Bethel.
The first film was produced
about six years ago, under the
direction of C. E. Carlson.
The second film, in natural col-or,
was produced about three years
ago, supervised by Dean Johnson.
Alarm Clock Starts Day
A day of activities in Bethel gen-erally
starts with the ear-splitting
clanging of the alarm clock. Break-fast
is next on the program of the
day's experiences. Rapidly shifting
scenes will bring glimpses of every
phase of activities in Bethel. Class-es,
prayer meetings, sports and a
scene in chapel will find them-selves
shown in natural color. Oth-er
features of school life will be
brought before the public.
Miss Bethel Coed will , be
chosen from the feminine stu-dent
body, not on a popularity
basis, nor for talent alone, but
exemplifying the typical Beth.
el coed.
The actual work on the scenes
will get under way as soon as ade-quate
equipment has been pro-cured
to allow unhampered prog-ress.
Assistants to be chosen by Dean
Johnson will help in arranging the
lighting effects required in the pro-duction
of such films. The thou-sand
foot film was expected to
take the entire school year to fin-ish.
Miss Olga Anderson, from Anoka,
was chosen by ballot to lead this
year's girls' basketball team. The
newly elected captain has been a
regular on the squad for the past
two years, holding down a first
string guard position.
Miss Anderson, who is five feet
eight inches in height, has a nat-ural
sports ability. Not only has
she ability, but she is consistent.
In practice, she improves day by
day, and game by game.
In the capacity of captain, Miss
Anderson will direct the team from
her guard position.
Rioting in the first snowstorm
of the year, will long be remem-bered
by many Bethel students as
that one long night when as many
students as possible piled in avail-able
beds in an effort to take care
of all snowbound students.
Driving being impossible, many
who live in homes in the Twin
Cities were unable to return after
classes and were forced to join the
swelling number of students who
found themselves snowbound with-in
a few blocks of the campus.
Food was provided for the snow
refugees by the Boarding Club. A
shortage of food supplies was not-ed
at breakfast Tuesday morning
when thei milk truck failed to ar-rive
with the milk order. Candy
bars, gum and pop formed the
main diet of the women stormed-up
in the J. C. building.
As many as thirty girls slept in
the college building, beds being
temporarily realized in the first
floor reception room, the girls'
recreation room, and in the room
immediately behind the Zoology
laboratory. Some were dubious
about keeping "Oscar" company all
The majority of beds in the
Seminary dormitory accommodat-ed
two men.
Deficiency in the coal supply
was discovered Tuesday, when it
was estimated the supply would
last until noon. Temporary evacu-ation
of the college building was
thought necessary to conserve the
coal until more could be secured.
The college building was fully
heated all Monday night because of
the "roomers for the duration."
Famous Far-North
Alumni Officers
Officers of the Bethel Alumni
Association for 1940-41 were elect-ed
by ballots mailed to the mem-bers
of the association. Announce-ment
of the results was given at
the annual Homecoming Banquet.
Rev. John G. Johnson, '18, pas-tor
of the Elim Baptist Church in
Minneapolis, was chosen as presi-dent.
Other officers include: Wil-bur
Sorley, '39, v. pres.; Lillian
Johnson, '37, recording sec'y; Rob-ert
Wingblade, '37, treasurer. Rev.
H. Wyman Malmsten was unani-mously
reelected to the post of
Alumni secretary.
In the meanwhile students faced
the situation with fortitude and
maintained informal order among
themselves while cooperating with
those faculty members who had
braved the storm to take charge.
Thursday, Nov. 21, 5:00 P. M.
Monday, Nov. 25, 8:00 A.M.
C.E. Praises Co-op
School Spirit
Homecoming this year was one
of the best we have ever had from
the viewpoint of student leader-ship
and cooperation, according to
Professor C. E. Carlson, advisor of
the homecoming committee.
"This occasion," says Prof. Carl-son,
"was one of the finest demon-strations
of student leadership and
cooperation that I have seen.
Leadership of a high type was
demonstrated in the planning and
the distribution of the large
amount of work which had to be
done. Cooperation of an equally
high type was shown by almost
every student who was asked to
help. Great willingness to work
in good time indicated that we
have splendid school spirit. It was
a pleasure to watch the project de-velop."
Arctic Blasts Herald
Chautauquan Friday, 8 P. M.
Portraying vividly on the screen
the life of our far northern neigh-bors,
the eskimos, Richard Finale
brings to Bethel this evening a
series of motion pictures which he
has taken to illustrate his book,
Among the Igloo Dwellers.
As Author
It is not always that the author
of a book about a far-away land is
able to illustrate its every chapter
with motion pictures of actual
events. But Richard Finnie, Fel-low
of the Canadian Geographical
Society and a member of the Ex-plorers
Club of New York, can do
In his recently published
"Lure of the North" he tells
of his unique flight over the
North Magnetic Pole in search
of a vanished expedition and
chronicles the highlights of his
year among the primitive Cop-per
Eskimos. As official his-torian
and cameraman for the
Canadian Government he film-ed
most of the scenes which
he has described in his new
book. He is to lecture to Beth-elites
with his documentary
motion picture, "Among the
Igloo Dwellers," which por-trays
in candid-camera fashion
the daily activities of stone
age Eskimos; and this is the
cinematic prototype, as it
were, of "Lure of the North."
The picture includes remark-able
close-ups of animals such
as reindeer, seals, polar bears,
white foxes, and musk oxen.
Expeditionary Veteran
Richard Finnie was born near
the Arctic Circle, which partly ex-plains
his special interest in the
polar regions. During the course
of his eight expeditions in the past
sixteen years he has gained the
distinction of having filmed more
of Canada's million-square-mile
northwest than anyone else. He
is an entertaining speaker as well
as a recognized authority on the
Canadian Arctic.
Prankish Blizzard Piles Snow ;
Students Pile Blankets, Quilts
• Roger Rendahl
Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
By Caroline Dilgard
This week we had some very in-teresting
interviews, but perhaps
the most enlightening was with
Doris Molander. We found her in
the library engaged in the pursuit
of learning, her chief hobby at the
present time. However, she was
very gracious in telling about her
many other interests, with at least
one of which most of you are al-ready
About a year ago Doris started
to collect all different kinds of
pennies and now has more than a
thousand in a big jar. She has a
Canadian souvenir bank in the liv-ing
room at home and all visitors
are told of her hobby and expected
to contribute whatever pennies
they have with them. (You can
exchange silver for pennies at the
corner grocery.) In the collection
are old pennies, new pennies, Can-adian
and American. There is one
old Indian-head coin that Doris al-ways
puts back into the visitors'
bank for good luck. It seems to
work all right.
We asked why the pennies were
being saved. We thought maybe
Doris would buy a cedar chest, a
set of china, or save up for entry
into an old ladies' home, but we
were wrong. She won't tell what
the purpose is; but it isn't any-thing
we guessed, and we guessed
Please don't think Doris is just
interested in money. She has some
very interesting scrapbooks con-taining
memoirs of her days at
Johnson High School, St. Paul, and
also a Bethel scrapbook. She col-lects
perfume bottles and has some
from Florida, Washington, and
various other places.
But above all, Doris is an ath-lete.
She likes all outdoor sports,
especially hiking and swimming.
She also enjoys indoor activities
such as volleyball, basketball, etc.
Needless to say, we concluded
our interview with great satisfac-tion
at finding such an all-around
good sport as Doris willing to
make her contribution to our hob-by
Postscript: After leaving Doris,
we quizzed David Anderson, only
to find his sole hobby is being
happy. In fact, his favorite subject
and biggest interest is Joy.
Postscript No. 2: There is a
pretty little lady, with the nicest
dimples ready to flash at the
slightest provocation, from Winni-peg,
Manitoba, at the St. Paul Bi-ble
Institute. Her name is Joy Jes-sup.
(Get it?)
Members of the Chapel Commit-tee
are to be heartily commended
for the fine work they have done
this year in an effort to improve
the worship programs and to cre-ate
student interest in our daily
periods of group devotions. The
result is that more people are at-tending
services regularly and
with enjoyment than did last year.
Chapel should not and need not
be hedged about with rules and
regulations. However, people who
have not been properly trained
must be helped to understand and
appreciate this quiet hour of com-munion
with God, and for that rea-son
the committee members have
made some suggestions about cha-pel
The plea that students refrain
from conversation during the cha-pel
hour is especially worthy of
note. Reverent silence is conduc-ive
to worship and lends a solemn
dignity to any service.
Also, respectful attention by the
Quote Pauline Phillips : "A girl
isn't an old maid until she quits
struggling," unquote. A few more
sophomore athletic victories, like
the last one, and Gene Nyman will
have the entire feminine constitu-ency
of Bethel served up to him
on a platter. Mr. Goose has been
gruesomely murdered, the seniors
have a self indictment.
Sadie Hawkins caught up with
Val Hauk on Homecoming. Nice
seeing Gladys around, eh "Knob-by."
Warner Lundberg came in to
keep the home fires burning in 205
when Sammy is o nthe other side
audience is an inspiration to any
speaker and will be greatly appre-ciated
by him. The argument for
inattention has been offered by
some in this manner: "If you give
youth something worth having, it
will be eagerly accepted; but that
of inferior quality will be respected
without ceremony." However, we
can all learn something from any-one,
if we keep ourselves free
from prejudice. Thus, the com-mittee
hopes we will be fair in our
attitude toward our speakers, and
rightly so. The men who have ap-peared
in our worship sessions
this year are of high caliber and
we feel that they have been truly
appreciated by the majority of our
Being on the Chapel Committee
is pretty much a thankless task,
so let's all cooperate in true Bethel
fashion and continue to make our
Chapel services periods of real
worship and devotion, blessed of
God and of benefit to all present.
of the water. Luke "Cornblossom"
says fifteen is the limit, or is it
girls. The way some couples look
we'll be seeing a lot of "ice cubes"
this spring. Look out fellas, Betty
A. is coming in full force.
Bethel's mythical twenty pounds
are seeking Ann Walberg in the
boarding club. Thanksgiving may
provide many happy hearts besides
full stomachs.
The Unice Anderson vs. Gordon
Nelson bout has reached the sec-ond
round. Winner thus far—Dan
Other Boats
By Gordon Larson
"And there were al— ith Him
other boats." Mark 5:36.
As you have read the account
of Jesus with His disciples in the
storm on the Sea of Galilee, have
you ever noticed that in the ac-count
as narrated by Mark, that
Jesus reclined?
How prone we are as humans to
notice only the big things, the
centers of attraction, the star foot-ball
player or the best oratorical
preacher and not acknowledge the
"lesser lights," who are also essen-tial
in making the world go round.
"Let not ambition mock their
useful toil,
Their homely Joys and destiny
Yes, there were other boats.
In facing the difficulties of life
we are often tempted to think our
lot seems to be so much harder
than others. In some instances
that may be so, and yet I wonder
if those cases are not very few.
When the storm arose on the Sea
of Galilee all the boats were af-fected
alike. The same waves beat
against each boat. Perhaps we
think financial difficulties come
only to us, or the lesson assign-ments
are most perplexing and
ours is the heavy end. How con-soling
that there were other boats.
Travellers say that storms
come very suddenly upon the
Sea of aGlilee. Because the
Sea is shallow, the waves
quickly rise to a great height.
In our great sea of life all may
be smooth sailing until per-haps
unexpectedly unforseen
problems, even tragedy may
come. Remember, "And there
were also with Him other
Besides the consoling thought
that there are others facing the
storms of life, it is a greater com-fort
to know there is One who
is always near us. Jesus and His
boat were there as the other boats
faced the storm. As all power was
His to still the storm, so is the
Master even now able to help us
even in our most perplexing prob-lems
if we call upon Him.
"If you must whisper, whisper a
prayer."—Carl Lundquist.
The noon prayer meetings are
for YOU.
edihyikd e0.1 I MEDITATION
The Bethel Clarion
A bi-weekly campus newspaper.
1480 North• Snelling Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
Published by students every other Tuesday
except in July and August.
Marvin Toews Editor
Paul Anderson Managing Editor
Alice Schouweiler Campus Editor
Gene Nyman Sports Editor
Caroline Dilgard, Roger Rendahl, Ethel Ruff Features
Elving Anderson, Betty Anderson, Eunice Anderson, Rosaline Anderson, Gun-ner
Hoglund, Herbert Johnson, Helen Heitzman, Dave Moberg, Jeanette
Peterson, Muriel Salmonson, Russel Taft. Reporters
Dallas West Daily News Service
Miss Enid Platts Adviser
Archie Johnson Business Manager
Gerald Larson Advertising Assistant
Hazel Fossum, Doris Johnson Circulation Assistants
Dean Emery Johnson Adviser
Printed by the Anderson Press
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Entered as second-class matter October 9, 1935, at the postoffice of St. Paul,
Minnesota, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
In Appreciation
S. M. C. Dates Set I wish to sincerely thank all q~t 2U
By Gunner Hoglund
"Get wisdom ; and with all thy
getting get understanding." Prov.
A visiting stranger was slowly
wending his way from one class
building to another on one of our
smaller college campuses. Midway
between the two buildings he
paused to inquire of an oncoming
student where he was going in
such a hurry.
"Oh," answered the student,
"I've got to hurry to get to an 8
o'clock class on time. The prof
is hard on tardy students and I
want to get in good with him."
Again the stranger went on.
This time he made his way into a
large and spacious library. Paus-ing
at one of the tables where a
young lady seemed absorbed in a
text book, he asked of her what
she was studying.
"Oh," she said, "I've got to get
through this chapter in psychol-ogy.
I want to be ready for any
surprise quiz the prof may spring
on us tomorrow."
Now the stranger made his way
to the far end of the room where
a lone student, a young man about
20 years of age, was bending over
a book. He seemed absorbed in
what he read and when the stran-ger
lightly tapped him on the
shoulder, there was no response.
Again the stranger tapped his
shoulder and quietly asked what
he was studying. After a few mom-ents
the student emerged from his
reverie and looked up at the stran-ger
with a face glowing with in-terest.
"What have I been doing? Oh,
I've been far away. I've been off
in Rome with Savonarola preach-ing
to the people of Italy. This is
so interesting I can't take myself
away from it."
Now the stranger had found his
man. He stopped his inquiries and
spoke to this student at great
Leaving this story this question
arises: What if this stranger en-tered
the halls of Bethel? Would
he find here a student who really
knew the secret of true education;
one who saw not just the grades
and assignments but one who could
discern deeper into the real values
of an education?
An education is something that
is not only valuable but in reality
is also beautiful. An education can
be both valuable and beautiful if
it is sought after in the right man-ner.
However, many of us fail in
this endeavor. We seek after gold
and for our earnest efforts all we
obtain is "fool's gold."
The principal factor in any edu-cation
is not to remember facts
Midway Pkwy. & Pascal Ave.
Drug Needs Photo Finishing
Penny Campaign On
The Bethel Boarding Club of-ficially
began its penny-a-meal
campaign for Bethel last Wednes-day
evening, with the distribution
of the penny-a-meal boxes at a de-licious
chicken dinner prepared by
Mrs. Olson. During the past few
years the Boarding Club members
have very enthusiastically sup-ported
the penny-a-meal project,
and are doing so again this year.
At the end of the month the money
will be counted and the table hav-ing
the highest average amount
per member will receive special
recognition in the form of a roast
turkey with all the trimmings.
Omark Temporary Pastor
While awaiting the arrival of
their new pastor, Rev. D. E. Ander-son,
the Bethany Baptist Ghurch
of St. Paul hag had Prof. Rueben
Omark of the Seminary filling the
pulpit for the month of October.
He expects to continue until the '
latter part of November.
for the sake of knowing them
alone. No, we obtain facts and
wisdom in order that with them in
our possession we shall be more
capable of understanding life. It
is all well and good to know a law
in economics but until we can ap-ply
that law to our own life and
existence it is practically useless.
Likewise it is well and good to
read Macaulay's description of ur-ban
London for the sake of filling
a course, but until we can picture
ourselves sitting in one of the cof-fee-
houses listening to a discus-sion
carried on by two poets of
that time and enjoy ourselves in
that thought, our study has little
value at all. When we feel Macau-lay's
inspiration to write beauti-fully
and when we too feel surging
up in our minds a desire to write
with him, then we have reached
at least partially the secret of true
In short, we must be careful
(yes, we should avoid by all
means) the danger of letting the
material we obtain reside for a
few days in our mind — material
which, after the exam, immediate-ly
is forgotten. This may be ob-taining
wisdom to a limited de-gree
but certainly not an under-standing
of life.
Prompt Delivery Service
597 Snelling Avenue No.
Phone: NEstor 1321
927 Rice Street
Phone: FlUmboldt 1338
1219 Arcade
Phone: TOwer 3291
For Nov. 21-25
Six seminaries, colleges and Bi-ble
institutes are to meet for mis-sionary
study and reports from
foreign fields. The program as re-leased
by Keath Williams, presi-dent,
FRIDAY, November 22
7:00—Missionary pictures of
Alaska — Rev. Walter
8:00— Message— Dr. C. L.
SATURDAY, November 23
10:00—Prayer service.
10:30—Business meeting.
11:00—Message—Dr. Eicher.
2:30—Message—Dr. Eicher.
5:00—Fellowship dinner.
7:30—Pictures and message-
-Dr. Eicher.
SUNDAY, November 24.
10:30—Morning service.
2:30—Rally service.
All evening services and all Sun-day
services will be held in the
Simpson Memorial Church, corner
of Fry and Charles streets.
All other services will be held in
St. Paul Bible Institute.
A large number of college stu-dents
are expected to be present.
All those who remember the re-treats
of last year will be looking
forward for a time of deep spirit-ual
Several other missionaries will
be present to add their testimonies
to those of Dr. Eicher and Rev.
For Your
those persons who labored and
worked so faithfully on commit-tees
to provide one of the best
Homecoming celebrations that we
have had.
To the various committee chair-men,
which include Betty Daniel-son,
decorations committee; Ger-ald
Larson, tickets committee;
Mary Ann Liljenstrom, publicity
committee; Francis McOlash, food
committee; and Ray Applequist,
program committee, special appre-ciation
in return for the fine co-operation
that you have shown and
the work that you have done. I
wish also to thank our advisor,
Prof. C. E. Carlson, for the help he
gave us in suggestions and work.
Thank you all!
Chairman, Homecoming Commit-tee.
Blomberg's Food and Drug
Mullarky's Meat
Hamline and Iowa NEstor 7996
Have Your Shoe Doctoring
done at
Arona and Albany
The Anderson Press
4209 Standish Ave. — Minneapolis, Minn.
F. 0. Hagen J. W. Hagen
755 No. Snelling Ave., St. Paul
1573 University Ave. Midway 9910
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Cedar 1851
Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Basketball Aspirants
Begin Pre-Season Workout
Varsity Swamps
Alumni, 63-47
Nyman, Adam Take
High Score Honors
Basketball took over the sports
spotlight once more when the
Bethel squad tangled with the
Alumni on Friday evening, as a
climax to the homecoming festivi-ties.
The present Indian squad,
captained by Gordie Peterson,
emerged on the long end of the
score of 63-47. The play was ex-ceptionally
fast for a pre-season
game but the passing of both teams
left much to be desired.
Scoring honors for the evening
went to Gene Nyman, center for
the victors, who scored 25 points.
Appelquist hit the hoop six times
for a total of twelve points. High
point man for the Alumni team
was Coach Bill Adam, who garner-ed
sixteen points.
The game summary:
Appelquist 6 0 3 12
Halvorsen 2 1 4 5
Nyman 12 1 3 25
Marquardt 1 1 2 3
G. Peterson 0 1 4 1
Swanson 3 0 4 6
G. Larson 1 1 1 3
Gustafson 2 0 0 4
W. Wessman 2 0 0 4
Beck 0 0 0 0
Magnuson 0 0 0 0
— — —
Total 29 5 21 63
D. Johnson 2 4 1 8
Hovinen 4 1 1 9
Ferre 2. 2 3 6
Adam 7 2 0 16
S. Paulson 1 2 4 4
Backlund 0 1 1 1
V. Wessman 0 0 3 0
Dickau 1 1 1 3
Sorley 9 0 0 0
— — —
Total 17 13 14 47
Frank Noyes officiated.
Ping Pong Tourney
To Start Nov. 25
Fellows! Are you interested in
ping-pong? If so, please sign your
name on the sheet posted on the
bulletin board for that purpose.
Coach Adam announced that the
names of all men who sign before
November 20 will be shuffled and
drawn for pairings in a ping-pong
tournament. Play will begin on
November 25 and participants may
play their matches at their con-venience.
The winner of two of
three games will be advanced to
the next bracket.
Don't fail to sign today!
Coeds Try Archery
Archery has been introduced to
Bethel gym classes this year for
the first time in school history.
While freshman girls practice bas-ketball,
sophomore classes prac-tice
archery. Coach Adam hopes
to hold archery exhibition between
halves of some of the basketball
Dead End Kids Champs
Of Volleyball Tourney
The Dead End Kids copped the
intramural volleyball champion-ship
by dumping the Plugs in the
tournament finals. The Kids took
three straight by scores of 16-14,
15-11, and 15-8. The personnel of
the winning team is as follows:
Gunnar Hoglund, Wesley Lind-blom,
Kenneth Nordquist, Cliff
Bjorklund, Melvin Swanson, Ger-ald
Larson, Dave Anderson, and
Gene Nyman.
The men's gym classes have now
turned their attention to basket-ball.
Each class is divided into
two squads and will play a three
months schedule. Coach Adam
states that a tournament will be
held in February to determine the
gym squad champs.
Men's Squad
Viewed by Critic
Bethel's first official basketball
practice of the season was held in
the college gym on Monday, No-vember
4. Eighteen men are be-ing
drilled daily in the fundamen-tals
of the game. Only four let-termen
returned this year so the
season's success will depend large-ly
upon the new material.
Those who will probably see the
most action are:
Gordon Peterson, captain and
two-year letterman who plays a
guard position. "Pete," who is six
feet tall, hails from Worcester,
Ray Applequist of Rockford, Ill.,
has also won two letters. He stands
five feet ten, and plays a smooth
game at either guard or forward.
Gene Nyman, six feet two inch
center from Fergus Falls, is work-ing
to hold the pivot spot again
this season. He won a letter last
year but was lost to the team at
midseason because of an ankle in-jury.
Lowell Marquardt of St. Paul
measures about five feet ten inch-es
and plays at a guard position.
He has won one letter in college
Truman Halvorsen, who claims
Minneapolis as his home town and
measures just shy of six feet, has
been working out at a forward po-sition.
Glen Swanson, freshman from
Sioux Falls, S. Dak., is only five
feet nine inches tall but has plenty
of speed. He will be used in the
forward line.
Willis Wessman of Red Wing is
another aspirant for a forward po-sition.
He is five feet eleven, and
has had no previous experience.
Other squad members include
Bob Beck, Roland Gustafson, War-ren
Magnuson, Gerald Larson, Ir-win
Bjelland, Bob Norstrom, Con-rad
Tedlund, Vic Osterman, Stam-ford
Widen, Dick Braun, and Bob
Arona & Albany Ayes.
Como Shoe Repair Shop
Worthy of Christian Support
Blaje Theodoroff, Prop.
Home Phone, M 18241
1560 West Como at Snelling
Girls Vie For First
Honors; Veterans Back
"Dribble, dribble, down the
Pass, pass, watch that score!"
It won't be long until we'll be
watching that score. The girls are
practicing every day and Coach
Adam really knows how to give
them a workout.
The forward combination of
Mary Ann Liljenstrom, Betty
White, and Virginia Carlson, (with
Ginnie playing the pivot post) will
be good with practice. Ethel Ted-erman,
Margaret Erickson, and
Virginia Lundholm hati e strong
possibilities as forwards — in fact
they are only a shade. behind the
first three.
Olga Anderson and Arlene John-son,
veterans from last season, are
in front for the guard position
while Dorothy Nelson and Sara
Mae Swenson are fighting for the
other guard post. Coach may pos-sibly
shift Virginia Lundholm or
Ethel Tederman to guard positions.
The girls have 12 games sched-uled,
both preliminary and other
Watch THEM Score.
Dischinger. Some of these men are
improving rapidly and will be
pushing the veterans for positions
on the starting lineup. Those who
fail to make the first string will
be placed on the B team and a
schedule of games will be arrang-ed
against outside teams.
Games scheduled on the local
gym before Christmas holidays in-clude
a contest with Concordia on
December 18.
The team will engage the U. of
M. Farm School on December 7 on
their floor. On December 12, they
will travel to Waldorf for a fracas
there and will play Rochester J. C.
the following evening on the re-turn
trip. The Concordia and
Rochester games are both confer-ence
Rudeen Food NI
Free Delivery—NE 7469
Snelling at Thomas
S. Berglund Lumber Co.
824 Arcade St.
1171 Snelling Ave. No.
1940 - 41
Click tabs to swap between content that is broken into logical sections.


text:
VirtualBox is a hypervisor used to run operating systems in a special environment, called a virtual machine, on top of the existing operating system. VirtualBox is in constant development and new features are implemented continuously. It comes with a Qt GUI interface, as well as headless and SDL command-line tools for managing and running virtual machines.
In order to integrate functions of the host system to the guests, including shared folders and clipboard, video acceleration and a seamless window integration mode, guest additions are provided for some guest operating systems.
- 1 Installation steps for Arch Linux hosts
- 2 Installation steps for Arch Linux guests
- 3 Export VirtualBox virtual machines to other hypervisors
- 4 Advanced configuration
- 4.1 Using USB webcam / microphone
- 4.2 Using Arch under Virtualbox EFI mode
- 4.3 Synchronize guest date with host
- 4.4 Enable shared folders
- 4.5 Replace the virtual disk manually from the .vbox file
- 4.6 Starting virtual machines with a service
- 4.7 Extension pack
- 4.8 Accessing a guest server
- 4.9 Sharing keyboard and mouse
- 4.10 Sharing files
- 4.11 D3D acceleration in Windows guests
- 4.12 Virtual hard disks
- 4.13 Starting virtual machines with a key binding
- 4.14 Detecting web-cams and other USB devices
- 4.15 Sending CTRL+ALT+F1
- 4.16 VirtualBox on a USB key
- 5 Troubleshooting
- 5.1 Windows XP guest and old Nokia phones not working
- 5.2 Fix ISO images problems
- 5.3 GUI does not match GTK Theme
- 5.4 OpenBSD
- 5.5 VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE (0x80BB0007)
- 5.6 USB subsystem is not working on the host or guest
- 5.7 Failed to create the host-only network interface
- 5.8 WinXP: Bit-depth cannot be greater than 16
- 5.9 Mounting .vdi images
- 5.10 Use serial port in guest OS
- 5.11 Windows 8.x Error Code 0x000000C4
- 5.12 Windows 8 VM fails to boot with error "ERR_DISK_FULL"
- 6 External links
Installation steps for Arch Linux hosts
In order to launch VirtualBox virtual machines on your Arch Linux box, follow these installation steps.
Core packages
First, from the official repositories, install the virtualbox package which contains the GPL-licensed VirtualBox suite with the SDL and headless command-line tools included. The virtualbox package comes with virtualbox-host-modules as a required dependency.
You can install the qt4 optional dependency in order to use the graphical interface which is based on Qt. This is not required if you intend to use VirtualBox in command-line only. See below to learn the differences.
VirtualBox kernel modules
Next, in order for VirtualBox to virtualize your guest installation, you will need to add kernel modules to your host kernel.
As you have to know, the binary compatibility of kernel modules depends on the API of the kernel against which they have been compiled. The problem with the Linux kernel is that these interfaces might not be the same from one kernel version to another. In order to avoid compatibility problems and subtle bugs, each time the Linux kernel is upgraded, it is advised to recompile the kernel modules against the Linux kernel version that has just been installed. This is what Arch Linux packagers actually do with the VirtualBox kernel modules packages: each time a new Arch Linux kernel is released, the Virtualbox modules are upraded accordingly.
Therefore, if you are using a kernel from the official repositories or a custom one (self-compiled or installed from the AUR), the kernel module package you will need to install will thus vary.
Hosts running an official kernel
- If you are using the linux kernel, make sure the virtualbox-host-modules package is still installed. The latter has been installed when you installed the virtualbox package.
- If you are using the LTS version of the kernel (linux-lts), you need to install the virtualbox-host-modules-lts package. virtualbox-host-modules can now be removed if you want.
Hosts running a custom kernel
If you use or intend to use a self-compiled kernel from sources, you have to know that VirtualBox does not require any virtualization modules (e.g. virtuo, kvm,...). The VirtualBox kernel modules provide all the necessary for VirtualBox to work properly. You can thus disable in your kernel .config file these virtualization modules if you do not use other hypervisors like Xen, KVM or QEMU.
virtualbox-host-modules package works fine with custom kernels of the same version of the Arch Linux stock kernel such as linux-ckAUR. However, if you are using a custom kernel which is not of the same version of the Arch Linux stock one, you will have to install the virtualbox-host-dkms package instead. The latter comes bundled with the source of the VirtualBox kernel modules that will be compiled to generate these modules for your kernel.
Since the
virtualbox-host-modules comes with the official Arch Linux kernel (linux) as a dependency, if you want to remove this default kernel you do not use, you will have to install virtualbox-host-dkms as well. Then, you will be able to remove virtualbox-host-modules then linux (if no other packages require it).
As the virtualbox-host-dkms package requires compilation, make sure you have the kernel headers corresponding to your custom kernel version to prevent this error from happening
Your kernel headers for kernel your custom kernel version cannot be found at /usr/lib/modules/your custom kernel version/build or /usr/lib/modules/your custom kernel version/source.
- If you use a self-compiled kernel and have used
make modules_installto install its modules, folders
/usr/lib/modules/your custom kernel version/buildand
(...)/sourcewill be symlinked to your kernel sources. These will act as the kernel headers you need. If you have not removed these kernel sources yet, you have nothing to do.
- If you use a custom kernel from AUR, make sure the package linux-headers is installed.
Once virtualbox-host-dkms is installed, simply generate the kernel modules for your custom kernel by running the following command structure:
# dkms install vboxhost/virtualbox-host-source version -k your custom kernel version/your architecture
# dkms install vboxhost/$(pacman -Q virtualbox|awk {'print $2'}|sed 's/\-.\+//') -k $(uname -rm|sed 's/\ /\//')
To automatically recompile the VirtualBox kernel modules when their sources get upgraded (i.e. when the virtualbox-host-dkms package gets upgraded) and avoid to type again the above
dkms install command manually afterwards, enable the
dkms service with:
# systemctl enable dkms
dkms service enabled while the virtualbox-host-dkms package is being updated, the VirtualBox modules will not be updated and you will have to type in manually the
dkms install command described above to compile the latest version of the Virtualbox kernel modules. If you do not want to type in manually this command, if the
dkms service is automatically loaded at startup, you just need to reboot and your VirtualBox modules will be recompiled silently.
If you want to keep that
dkms deamon disabled, you can use an initramfs hook that will automatically trigger the
dkms install command described above at boot time. This requires to reboot to recompile the VirtualBox modules.
To enable this hook, install the vboxhost-hookAUR package from the AUR and add
vboxhost to your HOOKS array in
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf. Again, make sure the right linux headers are available for the new kernel otherwize the compilation will fail.
dkms command, the
vboxhost hook will tell you if anything goes wrong during the recompilation of the VirtualBox modules.
Load the VirtualBox kernel modules
Among the kernel modules VirtualBox uses, there is a mandatory module named
vboxdrv, which must be loaded before any virtual machines can run. It can be automatically loaded when Arch Linux starts up, or it can be loaded manually when necessary.
To load the module manually:
# modprobe vboxdrv
no such file or directory errors when using modprobe, you may need to update the kernel dependency modules database modprobe is using with
depmod -a.
To load the VirtualBox module at boot time, refer to Kernel_modules#Loading and create a
*.conf file (e.g.
virtualbox.conf) in
/etc/modules-load.d/ with the line:
To ensure full functionality of bridged networking, ensure that the
vboxnetflt and
vboxpci kernel modules are loaded as well and that the net-tools package is installed.
Add usernames to the vboxusers group
To use the USB ports of your host machine in your virtual machines, add to the
vboxusers group the usernames that will be authorized to use this feature. The new group does not automatically apply to existing sessions; the user has to log out and log in again, or start a new environment with the
newgrp command or with
sudo -u $USER -s. To add the current user to the
vboxusers group, type:
# gpasswd -a $USER vboxusers
Guest additions disc
It is also recommended to install the virtualbox-guest-iso package on the host running VirtualBox. This package will act as a disc image that can be used to install the guest additions onto guest systems other than Arch Linux.
Use the right front-end
Now, you are ready to use VirtualBox. Congratulations!
Multiple front-ends are available to you which two are available by default:
- If you want to use VirtualBox in command-line only (only launch and change settings of existing virtual machines), you can use the
VBoxSDLcommand. VBoxSDL does only provide a simple window that contains only the pure virtual machine, without menus or other controls.
- If you want to use VirtualBox in command-line without any GUI running (e.g. on a server) to create, launch and configure virtual machines, use the
VBoxHeadlesswhich produces no visible output on the host at all, but instead only delivers VRDP data.
If you installed the qt4 optional dependency, you also have a nice looking GUI interface with menus which is usable with the mouse.
Finally, you can use PhpVirtualBox to administrate your virtual machines via a web interface.
Refer to the VirtualBox manual to learn how to create virtual machines.
Installation steps for Arch Linux guests
Follow these installation steps to install VirtualBox additions on your fresh Arch Linux guest installation.
Install the Guest Additions
On other GNU/Linux distribution, the Guest Additions can be installed in two different ways:
- either via the regular installation process described in the Virtualbox manual (on the host, clicking "Install Guest Additions" from the Virtualbox menu, then on the guest, mounting the cdrom manually in
/mnt, then execute
- or via a simple package you can install from the official repositories.
On Arch Linux guests, the official process does not work, you will get
Unable to determine your Linux distribution as an error message. You have thus to use the second way and install virtualbox-guest-utils which provides virtualbox-guest-modules as a required depencendy.
VirtualBox guest kernel modules
Guests running an official kernel
- If you are using the linux kernel, make sure the virtualbox-guest-modules package is still installed. The latter has been installed when you installed the virtualbox-guest-utils package.
- If you are using the LTS version of the kernel (linux-lts), you need to install the virtualbox-guest-modules-lts package. virtualbox-guest-modules can now be removed if you want.
Guests running a custom kernel
As this installation step is quite similar to the Vitualbox kernel modules section for the host described above, please refer to that section for more information and replace all virtualbox-guest-modules, virtualbox-host-dkms and vboxhost-hookAUR by virtualbox-guest-modules, virtualbox-guest-dkms and vboxguest-hookAUR respectively.
Load the Virtualbox kernel modules
To load the modules manually, type:
# modprobe -a vboxguest vboxsf vboxvideo
To load the VirtualBox module at boot time, refer to Kernel_modules#Loading and create a
*.conf file (e.g.
virtualbox.conf) in
/etc/modules-load.d/ with these lines:
vboxguest vboxsf vboxvideo
Launch the VirtualBox guest services
After the rather big installation step dealing with VirtualBox kernel modules, now you need to start the guest services. The guest services are actually just a binary executable called
VBoxClient which will interact with your X Window System.
VBoxClient manages the following features:
- the shared clipboard and the drag and drop between the host and the guest;
- the seamless window mode;
- the fact that the guest display is automatically resized according to the size of the guest window;
- and finally checking the VirtualBox host version.
All these features can be enabled indepently and manually with their dedicated flags.
$ VBoxClient --clipboard --draganddrop --seamless --display --checkhostversion
But VirtualBox provides a currently undocumented feature, a Bash script
VBoxClient-all which enables all these features automatically and checks if a X11 server is really running before enabling some of them.
$ VBoxClient-all
To start that script automatically when system starts run the following command as root (or sudo): $ systemctl enable vboxservice
If you don't want to use systemd: (If you are unsure, use the method above):
- if you are using a desktop environment, you just need enable a checkbox or add the
/usr/sbin/VBoxClient-allto the autostart section in your DE settings (the DE will typically set a flag to a .desktop file in
~/.config/autostart- see the Autostart section for more details -);
- if you do not have any desktop environment, add the following line to the top of
~/.xinitrc(copy the file from
/etc/skel/.xinitrcif it does not exist) above any
Now, you should have a working ArchLinux guest. Congratulations!
Export VirtualBox virtual machines to other hypervisors
If you plan to use your virtual machine, created with VirtualBox, on another computer which has not necessarily VirtualBox installed, you might be interested in following the next steps.
Remove additions
If you have installed the VirtualBox additions to your VirtualBox virtual machine, please uninstall them first. Your guest, especially if it is using an OS from the Windows family, might behave weirdly, crash or even might not boot at all if you are still using the specific VirtualBox drivers in another hypervisor.
Use the right virtual disk format
Supported formats by VirtualBox
VirtualBox comes with its own container for the virtual hard drives: the Virtual Disk Image (VDI) file format. Even if this format is used by default when you create a virtual machine with VirtualBox, you can specify another one. Indeed VirtualBox does flawlessly support other formats:
- VMDK: this format has been initially developed by VMware for their products, but it is now an open format. If you intend to use any VMware product, you will need to use this format since it is the only one supported by VMware.
- VHD: this is the format used by Microsoft in Windows Virtual PC and Hyper-V. If you intend to use any of these Microsoft products, you will have to choose this format.
- Tip: Since Windows 7, this format can be mounted directly without any additional application.
- Version 2 of the HDD format used by Parallels (Desktop for Mac).
- QED and QCOW used by QEMU.
The format you will need to choose depends on the hypervisor that will be used.
Specific virtual disk format differences
Before converting your virtual drive, please keep in mind these specific virtual disk format differences:
- The VMDK does offer the ability to be split into several files of up to 2GB. This feature is specially useful if you want to store the virtual machine on machines which do not support very large files. Other formats do not provide such an equivalent feature.
- Changing the logical capacity of an existing virtual drive with VirtualBox
VBoxManagecommand is only supported for VDI and VHD formats used in dynamic allocation mode to expand (not shrink) their capacity.
Convert your virtual disk format
VirtualBox only supports the virtual disk convertion between VDI, VMDK and VHD formats. Here is an example of convertion from a VDI to VMDK vitual drive.
$ VBoxManage clonehd ArchLinux_VM.vdi ArchLinux_VM.vmdk --format VMDK
If you want to replace the virtual disk you defined during the virtual machine creation process by the one you have just converted, use the
VBoxManage storagectl command, or the GUI, or modify the .vbox configuration file.
Create the VM configuration for your hypervisor
If your hypervisor (like VMware) does not support import of VirtualBox configuration files (.vbox), you will have to create a new virtual machine and specify its hardware configuration as close as possible as your initial VirtualBox virtual machine.
firmware = "efi"
Finally, ask your hypervisor to use the existing virtual disk you have converted and launch the virtual machine.
Advanced configuration
Using USB webcam / microphone
- Make sure the virtual machine is not running and your webcam / microphone is not being used.
- Bring up the main VirtualBox window and go to settings for Arch machine. Go to USB section.
- Make sure "Enable USB Controller" is selected. Also make sure that "Enable USB 2.0 (EHCI) Controller" is selected too.
- Click the "Add filter from device" button (the cable with the '+' icon).
- Select your USB webcam/microphone device from the list.
- Now click OK and start your VM.
Using Arch under Virtualbox EFI mode
My experience with this configuration was pretty terrible, but it does work.
UPD. Using efibootmgr has the same effect as using VirtualBox boot menu (see the note below): settings disappear after VM shutdown. First,
efibootmgr does *not* work. It will appear to work, but all changes it makes appear to be overwritten on reboot. After performing a standard UEFI/GPT installation, reboot and you should get dumped to the EFI shell. Type exit and you will get a menu. Select the Boot Management Manager, Boot Options, Add Boot Option. Use the file browser to find the grub efi file and select it. Add a label if you want. Afterwards, select Change Boot Order from the menu, use arrow keys to select your Arch option, and
+ to move it up to the top. GRUB should boot by default now.
Other options are: 1) move your loader to
\EFI\boot\bootx64.efi, 2) create
\startup.nsh script, which executes desirable loader, like this:
Here I'm using consistent mapping name (HD16a0a1). It is probably a good idea, because they do survive configuration changes.
c key inside GRUB and type
exit. Obviously, this will only work with
grub-efi, not
Regenerating the
grub.cfg file may also be required to fix broken UUIDs. Check with the
lsblk -f command that they match.
F12 right after starting virtual machine. It comes in handy when using rEFInd + EFISTUB, for example.
Synchronize guest date with host
To keep the date and time synchronized, make sure you have virtualbox-guest-utils installed in your host (see above). To enable the service for subsequent boots, run
# systemctl enable vboxservice
To start immediately, run
# systemctl start vboxservice
You also need run this daemon in order to use the auto-mounting feature of shared folders that are mentioned above.
Shared folders are managed via the VirtualBox program on the host. They may be added, auto-mounted and made read-only from there.
If automounting is enabled, and the
vboxservice is enabled, creating a shared folder from the VirtualBox program on the host will mount that folder in
/media/sf_SHAREDFOLDERNAME on the guest. To have that folder created on the Arch Guest, after the Guest Additions have been installed, you need to add your username to the
vboxsf group.
# groupadd vboxsf # gpasswd -a $USER vboxsf
If you want a shared folder (e.g
/media/sf_Dropbox) to be symlinked to another folder in your home directory for easy access, you can type on the guest:
$ ln -s /media/sf_Dropbox/* ~/dropbox
VBoxLinuxAdditions.run script provided in the Guest Additions iso does this for you, however, Arch does not recommend using it.
Manually mounting
Look at the following for more info: [1]
mount -t vboxsf <shared-folder-name> <mount-point-on-guest-system>
If you get an error like:
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device
modprobe vboxsf
For additional info, see this post.
To prevent startup problems when you're using systemd, you should add
comment=systemd.automount to your
/etc/fstab. This way, they are mounted only when you access those mount points and not during startup. Otherwise your system might become unusable after a kernel upgrade (if you install your guest additions manually).
desktop /media/desktop vboxsf uid=user,gid=group,rw,dmode=700,fmode=600,comment=systemd.automount 0 0
Don't waste your time to test the
nofail option.
mount.vboxsf is not able to handle this (2012-08-20).
desktop /media/desktop vboxsf uid=user,gid=group,rw,dmode=700,fmode=600,nofail 0 0
Replace the virtual disk manually from the .vbox file
If you think that editing a simple XML file is more convenient than playing with the GUI or with
VBoxManage and you want to replace (or add) a virtual disk to your virtual machine, simply replace in the .vbox configuration file corresponding to your virtual machine the GUID, the file location and the format to your needs:
<HardDisk uuid="{670157e5-8bd4-4f7b-8b96-9ee412a712b5}" location="ArchLinux_vm.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal"/>
then in the
<AttachedDevice> sub-tag of
<StorageController>, replace the GUID by the new one.
<AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" port="0" device="0"> <Image uuid="{670157e5-8bd4-4f7b-8b96-9ee412a712b5}"/> </AttachedDevice>
VBoxManage for the convertion, this command will output the GUID just after the convertion. Using a random GUID does not work, as each UUID is stored inside each disk images.
Starting virtual machines with a service
Find hereafter the implementation details of a systemd service that will be used to consider a virtual machine as a service.
Description=VBox Virtual Machine %i Service
ExecStart=/usr/bin/VBoxHeadless -s %i
ExecStop=/usr/bin/VBoxManage controlvm %i savestate
<user> with a user that is a member of the
vboxusers group. Make sure the user chosen is the same user that will create/import virtual machines, otherwise the user will not see the VM appliances.
To enable the service that will launch the virtual machine at next boot, use:
# systemctl enable vboxvmservice@your virtual machine name
To start the service that will launch directly the virtual machine, use:
# systemctl start vboxvmservice@your virtual machine name
VirtualBox 4.2 introduces a new way for UNIX-like systems to have virtual machines started automatically, other than using a systemd service.
Extension pack
VirtualBox requires an extension pack in order to provide support for RDP, as well as USB 2.0 and PXE booting for Intel network cards, etc., available at this webpage: VirtualBox Downloads. This PUEL licensed extension pack is free for personal use.
To install the Extension pack you download and save it to your hard drive and then open the VirtualBox main program. Click on preferences and on the left side click Extensions. On the right side, click the add package icon and then open the folder that has the extension and click to install it.
Additionally you can install the Extension Pack from the command line using VBoxManage.
VBoxManage extpack install <tarball> | uninstall [--force] <name> | cleanup
As an alternative, you could also use virtualbox-ext-oracleAUR from the AUR.
Accessing a guest server
To access Apache server on a Virtual Machine from the host machine only, simply execute the following lines on the host:
$ VBoxManage setextradata GuestName "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/Apache/HostPort" 8888 $ VBoxManage setextradata GuestName "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/Apache/GuestPort" 80 $ VBoxManage setextradata GuestName "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/Apache/Protocol" TCP
Where 8888 is the port the host should listen on and 80 is the port the VM will send Apache's signal on.
To use a port lower than 1024 on the host machine, changes need to be made to the firewall on that host machine. This can also be set up to work with SSH or any other services by changing "Apache" to the corresponding service and ports.
pcnet refers to the network card of the VM. If you use an Intel card in your VM settings, change
pcnet to
Sharing keyboard and mouse
- To capture the keyboard and mouse, click the mouse inside the virtual machine display.
- To uncapture, press right
To get seamless mouse integration between host and guest, install the #Guest Additions inside the guest.
Sharing files
In the settings of the virtual machine go to shared folders tab and add the folders you want to share.
- NOTE: You need to install Guest Additions in order to use this feature.
In a Linux host, Devices → Install Guest Additions Yes (when asked to download the CD image) Mount (when asked to register and mount)
In a Linux host, create one or more folders for sharing files, then set the shared folders via the virtualbox menu (guest window).
In a Windows guest, starting with VirtualBox 1.5.0, shared folders are browseable and are therefore visible in Windows Explorer. Open Windows Explorer and look for it under My Networking Places → Entire Network → VirtualBox Shared Folders.
Launch the Windows Explorer (run explorer command) to browse the network places -> expand with the (+) sign : entire network → VirtualBox shared folders → \\Vboxsvr → then you can now expand all your configured shared folders here, and set up shortcuts for Linux folders in the guest filesystem. You can alternatively use the "Add network place wizard", and browse to "VBoxsvr".
Alternatively, on the Windows command line, you can also use the following:
net use x: \\VBOXSVR\sharename
VBOXSVR is a fixed name, replace
x: with the drive letter that you want to use for the share, and sharename with the share name specified with VBoxManage.
In a Windows guest, to improve loading and saving files (e.g. MS Office) by VirtualBox Shared Folders edit c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts as below:
127.0.0.1 localhost vboxsvr
In a Linux guest, use the following command:
# mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint (Notes: sharename is optional or same as selected in the VirtualBox-Dialog , mountpoint of the shared directory in the hosts filesystem)
- Automatically mounting a shared folder is possible through the linux-guest
/etc/fstabfile. You may also specify the uid=#,gid=# (where # is replaced by the actual numerical uid and gid) to mount the share with normal user permissions instead of root permissions. (this can be helpful to mount parts of your host
~/homefor use in your Linux-guest. To do this add an entry in the following format to the linux-guest
sharename mountpoint vboxsf uid=#,gid=# 0 0
sharename with the share name specified with VBoxManage, and mountpoint with the path where you want the share to be mounted (e.g. /mnt/share). The usual mount rules apply, that is, create this directory first if it does not exist yet. Note that if you have told VirtualBox to "automatically mount" the shared folder, this step may not be necessary and your folder will be found somewhere under
Beyond the standard options supplied by the mount command, the following are available:
to set the character set used for I/O operations (utf8 by default) and
to specify the character set used for the shared folder name (utf8 by default).
D3D acceleration in Windows guests
Recent versions of Virtualbox have support for accelerating OpenGL inside guests. This can be enabled with a simple checkbox in the machine's settings, right below where video ram is set, and installing the Virtualbox guest additions. However, most Windows games use Direct3D (part of DirectX), not OpenGL, and are thus not helped by this method. However, it is possible to gain accelerated Direct3D in your Windows guests by borrowing the d3d libraries from Wine, which translate d3d calls into OpenGL, which is then accelerated.
After enabling OpenGL acceleration as described above, go to http://www.nongnu.org/wined3d/ in your Windows guest and grab the "Latest version (Installer):". Reboot the guest into safe mode (press F8 before the Windows screen appears but after the Virtualbox screen disappears), and install wined3d, accepting the defaults during the install. (You may check the box for DirectX 10 support if you like, don't touch anything else.) Reboot back to normal mode and you should have accelerated Direct3D.
Virtual hard disks
Cloning a Disk Image and Reassigning a UUID
Assigns a new UUID to the given image file. This way, multiple copies of a container can be registered.
$ VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid /path/to/disk.vdi
Compacting Linux disks
Boot the Linux guest VM and remove all bloat (unwanted packages, temp files, etc.). When satisfied, wipe the freespace using dd or preferably dcfldd:
$ dcfldd if=/dev/zero of=fillfile bs=4M
When the fillfile hits the limit of the virtual hdd, the vast majority of user-space (non-reserved blocks) will be filled. Alternatively, run the command as root to get all of them. Example message: "8192 blocks (8192Mb) written.dcfldd:: No space left on device."
Once this occurs, simply remove the fill file and powerdown the VM:
$ rm -f fillfile && sudo shutdown -hF now
Now compact the disk:
$ VBoxManage modifyhd /path/to/your.vdi --compact
Compacting Windows disks
See this article.
Increasing Windows disk size
If you find that you are running out of space due to the small hard drive size you selected when created your VM, you can take the following steps:
Create a new vdi in ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks by running:
# cd ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks # VBoxManage createhd -filename new.vdi --size 10000
where size is in mb, in this example 10000MB ~= 10GB, and new.vdi is name of new hard drive to be created.
Next the old vdi needs to be cloned to the new vdi, this may take some time so wait while it occurs:
# VBoxManage clonehd old.vdi new.vdi --existing
Detach old harddrive and attach new hard drive, replace VMName with whatever you called your VM:
# VBoxManage modifyvm VMName --hda none # VBoxManage modifyvm VMName --hda new.vdi
Boot the VM, run Partition Wizard 5 to resize the partition on the fly, and reboot.
Remove old vdi from VirtualBox and delete
# VBoxManage closemedium disk old.vdi # rm old.vdi
Disk image format conversion
qemu-img program can be used to convert images from one format to another or to add compression or encryption to an image.
qemu-img is provided by the qemu package.
QEMU to VDI
From QEMU 0.12.x on,
qemu-img is able to convert directly to VDI and back, if necessary:
$ qemu-img convert -O vdi test.qcow2 test.vdi
VMware to VDI
You can
$ VBoxManage clonehd source.vmdk target.vdi --format VDI
although recent versions of VirtualBox are able to use (and also create) .vmdk images directly.
Starting virtual machines with a key binding
It can be useful to start the virtual machines directly rather than start the Virtual Box console. To do this, simply assign a keybinding in .xbindkeysrc to
"VBoxManage startvm vm-name" keycode keyname
If you have a space in the vm name, then enclose the vm-name in single apostrophes. For eg.
"VBoxManage startvm 'Windows 7'" m:0x0 + c:163 XF86Mail
Detecting web-cams and other USB devices
Make sure you filter any devices that are not a keyboard or a mouse so they do not start up at boot and this insures that Windows will detect the device at start-up.
Sending CTRL+ALT+F1
If your guest operating system is a GNU/Linux distribution and you want to open a new TTY shell or exit X via typing
F1, you can easily send this command to the guest simply by hitting your Host Key (usually the right
Ctrl key +
F1 or
F2, according to what you need to do.
VirtualBox on a USB key
When using VirtualBox on a USB key, for example to start an installed machine with an ISO image, you will manually have to create VDMKs from the existing drives. However, once the new VMDKs are saved and you move on to another machine, you may experience problems launching an appropriate machine again. To get rid of this issue, you can use the following script to launch VirtualBox. This script will clean up and unregister old VMDK files and it will create new, proper VMDKs for you:
#!/bin/bash # Erase old VMDK entries rm ~/.VirtualBox/*.vmdk # Clean up VBox-Registry sed -i '/sd/d' ~/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml # Remove old harddisks from existing machines find ~/.VirtualBox/Machines -name \*.xml | while read file; do line=`grep -e "type\=\"HardDisk\"" -n $file | cut -d ':' -f 1` if [ -n "$line" ]; then sed -i ${line}d $file sed -i ${line}d $file sed -i ${line}d $file fi sed -i "/rg/d" $file done # Delete prev-files created by VirtualBox find ~/.VirtualBox/Machines -name \*-prev -exec rm '{}' \; # Recreate VMDKs ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid | cut -d ' ' -f 9,11 | while read ln; do if [ -n "$ln" ]; then uuid=`echo "$ln" | cut -d ' ' -f 1` device=`echo "$ln" | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | cut -d '/' -f 3 | cut -b 1-3` # determine whether drive is mounted already checkstr1=`mount | grep $uuid` checkstr2=`mount | grep $device` checkstr3=`ls ~/.VirtualBox/*.vmdk | grep $device` if [[ -z "$checkstr1" && -z "$checkstr2" && -z "$checkstr3" ]]; then VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/.VirtualBox/$device.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/$device -register fi fi done # Start VirtualBox VirtualBox
Note that your user has to be added to the "disk" group to create VMDKs out of existing drives.
Windows XP guest and old Nokia phones not working
To get working Windows XP and Nokia phones with PC Suite mode, VirtualBox needs two simple steps:
1. Add a rule to udev with
LABEL="usb_serial_start" ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6001", \ GROUP="usbfs", MODE="0660", GROUP="dialout" LABEL="usb_serial_end"
2. Create the group
usbfs and add its user to it
# groupadd usbfs # usermod -a -G usbfs $USER
After logging out, connect a Nokia phone with PC Suite mode and start Windows XP to test the new rule.
Fix ISO images problems
While VirtualBox can mount ISO images without problem, there are some image formats which cannot reliably be converted to ISO. For instance, ccd2iso ignores .ccd and .sub files, which can give disk images with broken files.
In this case, you will either have to use CDEmu for Linux inside VirtualBox or any other utility used to mount disk images.
GUI does not match GTK Theme
See Uniform Look for Qt and GTK Applications for information about theming Qt based applications like Virtualbox or Skype.
Some people with older computers can have trouble running an OpenBSD VM, manifesting as bunch of segmentation faults and total unusability. Starting VirtualBox with the -norawr0 argument may solve the problem. You can do it like this:
$ VBoxSDL -norawr0 -vm NameOfYourOpenBSDVM
VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE (0x80BB0007)
This can occur if a VM is exited ungracefully. The solution to unlock the VM is trivial:
$ VBoxManage controlvm <your virtual machine name> poweroff
USB subsystem is not working on the host or guest
Sometimes, on old Linux hosts, the USB subsystem is not auto-detected resulting in an error
Could not load the Host USB Proxy service: VERR_NOT_FOUND or in a not visible USB drive on the host, even when the user is in the vboxusers group. This problem is due to the fact that VirtualBox switched from usbfs to sysfs in version 3.0.8. If the host doesn't understand this change, you can revert to the old behaviour by defining the following environment variable in any file that is sourced by your shell (e.g. your
~/.bashrc if you're using bash):
Then make sure, the environment has been made aware of this change (reconnect, source the file manually, launch a new shell instance or reboot).
Also make sure that your user is a member of the
storage group.
Failed to create the host-only network interface
To be able to create a Host-Only Network Adapter or a Bridged Network Adapter, the kernel modules
vboxnetadp and
vboxnetflt need to be loaded, you also need to make sure the net-tools package is installed. You can load these kernel modules manually with:
# modprobe -a vboxdrv vboxnetadp vboxnetflt
To load these modules automatically at boot, refer to Kernel_modules#Loading and use a program name of
WinXP: Bit-depth cannot be greater than 16
If you are running at 16-bit color depth, then the icons may appear fuzzy/choppy. However, upon attempting to change the color depth to a higher level, the system may restrict you to a lower resolution or simply not enable you to change the depth at all. To fix this, run
regedit in Windows and add the following key to the Windows XP VM's registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services] "ColorDepth"=dword:00000004
Then update the color depth in the "desktop properties" window. If nothing happens, force the screen to redraw through some method (i.e.
Host+f to redraw/enter full screen).
Mounting .vdi images
Mounting vdi images only works with fixed size (static) images; dynamic size images aren't easily mountable.
First we need one information from your .vdi image:
$ VBoxManage internalcommands dumphdinfo <your .vdi file location> | grep offData Header: offBlocks=4096 offData=69632
Then, add to your
offData 32256. (e.g. 32256 + 69632 = 101888)
Now you can mount your vdi image with the following command:
# mount -t ext4 -o rw,noatime,noexec,loop,offset=101888 <your .vdi file location> /mnt/
Use serial port in guest OS
Check you permission for the serial port:
$ /bin/ls -l /dev/ttyS* crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Feb 3 09:12 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 65 Feb 3 09:12 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 66 Feb 3 09:12 /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 67 Feb 3 09:12 /dev/ttyS3
Add your user to the
uucp group.
# gpasswd -a $USER uucp
and log out and log in again.
Windows 8.x Error Code 0x000000C4
If you get this error code while booting, even if you choose OS Type Win 8, try to enable the
CMPXCHG16B CPU instruction:
$ vboxmanage setextradata <your virtual machine name> VBoxInternal/CPUM/CMPXCHG16B 1
Windows 8 VM fails to boot with error "ERR_DISK_FULL"
Situation: Your Windows 8 VM refuses to start. VirtualBox throws an error stating the virtual disk is full. However, you are certain that the disk is not full. Bring up your VM's settings at Settings > Storage > Controller:SATA and select "Use Host I/O Cache".

subset: commoncrawl


text:
I fear I am turning into a moany old cow. On and on I go, whinge whinge whinge, with no good reason. Either life is so boring, yawn, isn't motherhood a drudge, I've got no work on, I'm a total failure - or !!! everything is chaos !!! Kitty is ill!!!! and I haven't a MINUTE to myself and GOD MAN ALIVE if only someone would HELP ME.
I'm worried that it's all getting a bit samey, that I'm starting to repeat myself, going on, getting boring. And I also think I might be starting to repeat myself.
That reminds me of my mother's favourite story about the Queen Mother, which goes like this:
The Queen Mother is visiting an old people's home and she says to an old dear: "Do you know who I am?" The old dear smiles and points a trembling finger yonder: "Oh, if you don't know who you are, you go and speak to that lady over there."
Then my mother cries with laughter.
I am jolly lucky that my mother is alive, in good nick and living just up the road. She is catnip for toddlers, my mother. She lets them make a terrible mess and break things, pick food off her plate and put marbles in their mouths. When children reach a certain age, (about two and a half), she takes them out collecting sticks and then they bring them back to the house and set fire to them.
So as you can imagine, the last ten weeks living at my mother's house has been like paradise for Kitty. She calls my mother Gagu (pronounced Gah-gee), which is a mutation of the Welsh for granny, "Mamgu".
"GAH-GEE?!" shrieked Kitty every morning. "GAH-GEE! GAH-GEE! GAH-GEE!" We are back home now and Kitty wanders the echoey rooms saying "Gah-gee?" sadly.
Living in my childhood home has made me start to really fetishise childhood in a way I never thought I would. There are millions of children at my mother's house, all the time. Never fewer than two, under five. So there is Play-Dough smelted against almost every surface, boxes of Lego, Charlie and Lola videos and an audience of stuffed toys wryly watching the action in every room.
Now Kitty is walking and talking I've turned into one of those mothers who wants to preserve their child's "innocence" and bang on to myself about wanting her to be able to be "free" to "be a child".
I'm being an idiot, though. I remember clearly the grim games of "grown-ups" that used to go on in the playground, my own yearning from about nine years old, to be several tens of years older than I actually was. Being small feels so unimportant. You are liable to be laughed at by grown-ups, they just won't take you seriously - it's dementing. You long to be older so that people will treat you with some fucking respect.
But I still plan to forge ahead with manufacturing a neat little cosily conventional childhood for Kitty, (even though it's actually for me), with Peppa Pig box sets, tea at 5pm, strict bedtimes, bucket and spade holidays, picture books, rocking horses, baking fairy cakes, wellies with frog eyes on the front. All that crap.
And I could do worse in my quest to shape Kitty's memories to my liking, than getting to be a dab hand at Welsh cakes, verily the taste of my childhood. They are also known as, I think, drop scones or griddle cakes. It's basically a sort of scone batter cooked in a dry frying pan. They are as delicious as they sound.
You cannot buy these, they do no exist commercially - and what I mean by this is that you CAN buy things that claim to the Welsh cakes on the packet, but the whole point about them is that they have to be eaten about half and hour off the griddle, still warm, with salted butter. Once they are not freshly made, piping hot, they cease to be Welsh cakes. At least that's my view.
They're alright the next day but not as good. My mother makes a batch when there is about to be an extra large kiddie invasion and we all stand at the kitchen counter at 3.15pm shoving them in our faces with both hands, before swinging on the curtains, daubing ourselves with mud and fighting each other with sticks.
Please note the self-raising flour.
Mamgu's Welsh cakes
Makes about 20
8 oz self raising flour
4 oz butter
2 oz caster sugar
2 oz currants
1 egg
1 Put the flour, butter and sugar into a bowl and then cut in the butter (this is easier if the butter is soft. Yes I know this is a pain in the bum, but butter only takes 30 mins to soften up in a room temperature kitchen, so go away and fold some laundry or something).
2 Rub the butter in with your fingers until it looks like breadcrumbs.
3 Beat the egg, add in and mix until there is a pliable dough.
4 Roll out to a thickness of 1cm and then cut with a pastry cutter
5 Fry in batches in a hot, dry frying pan for about 4 minutes each side, or until golden brown, and then transfer to a cooling rack. My mother claims to have seen these baked on a hot hoe over an open fire in a field, but I think she might be having me on. You can never quite tell with her.


text:
STOCKTON - The sun has gone down on a farmer's plans to build solar panels on what he describes as salty, unproductive land on Roberts Island.
STOCKTON - The sun has gone down on a farmer's plans to build solar panels on what he describes as salty, unproductive land on Roberts Island.
The death of Michael J. Robinson's would-be solar farm shows how increasingly difficult it can be to complete a non-agricultural project within the highly regulated inner core of the Delta.
Robinson's father, longtime grower Mike Robinson, expressed his frustration Friday.
Yes, preserving farmland is important, the elder Robinson said. But other uses may be appropriate in limited areas where farming isn't as profitable.
As water quality deteriorates in the estuary - with the possibility of future water supplies being diverted away from the Delta - the elder Robinson said Friday that he believes other land uses should be considered where it makes sense.
"If we don't have water here shortly, and there is no water to irrigate in the Delta, is (agriculture) still worth protecting that vehemently, or are there other avenues to go?" he asked. "It's like saying, 'You drive a '58 Chevy, you're stuck with driving a '58 Chevy for the rest of your life.' "
Robinson's 120-acre solar farm, which met its demise earlier this month, would have had to survive a gantlet of bureaucratic processes because of its location in the Delta.
The project won approval from the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors in January 2012, against the advice of county staff. The county's General Plan says projects in the Delta must be related to water, recreation or agriculture.
But the General Plan was only one hurdle. The property was also under Williamson Act contract, requiring that it remain in agriculture.
The Robinsons attempted to take advantage of a new state law allowing easements to build solar projects on ag land. After all, while preserving farmland is a priority in California, so is developing renewable energy sources.
But even as they pursued that goal, things were changing in the Delta.
Two more state agencies - the Delta Protection Commission and the Delta Stewardship Council - were raising concerns that the solar farm might require further review. In 2013 the council passed a new Delta Plan under which the solar project could theoretically have been appealed.
Ultimately, the same board that initially approved the solar farm rejected the Robinsons' request for more time. The vote was 4-1, with Supervisor Steve Bestolarides supporting the extension.
"It's hard to get anything done in San Joaquin County," Robinson said Friday, saying the project was "dead."
Whether it ever would have really lived is not clear. In letters to the county, the Delta Protection Commission pointed out that the site was designated as prime farmland and that hay and tomatoes had been produced there.
The commission said the project wasn't consistent with its own plan for the Delta, which recognizes the estuary as an agricultural region of great importance. Maintaining agriculture is a "cornerstone" of that plan, said Erik Vink, the commission's executive director.
"In our view, the proposal was not consistent" with the plan, Vink said this week.
"It's not uncommon for landowners to claim that their property has impaired value agriculturally and therefore should be a candidate to conversion for another use," Vink said. "But we didn't see the evidence for that being the case. The information we had indicated the property had been farmed and continued to be farmed."
Robinson confirmed that tomatoes were grown on one small portion of the land but added that most of the property was too salty for crops.
Local and state farm bureaus also opposed the solar farm, arguing that it was an "industrial" facility simply incompatible with farming.
Contact reporter Alex Breitler at (209) 546-8295 or email@example.com. Follow him at recordnet.com/breitlerblog and on Twitter @alexbreitler.


text:
Hi! I'm a 2.5-3.0 player still learning/taking lessons, need someone to hit/practice with. Free mostly on weekdays during the day or evenings, some weekend days. I've met some cool hitting partners through this site, but they all moved or got too busy to play. I can't guarantee that it'll be a challenging game, but I do love to play so I'm sure it'll be fun. Email me your availability, looking to make a consistent hitting/practice schedule so I can get better already!
Views: 512
Replies to This Discussion
Hi Gwen,
I'm available before 10 am and 7 pm almost every day. I work in East Pasadena. So let me know if that works for you. Hope to hit some balls soon.
Hi John- I can do before 10 am and did you mean after 7pm? I usually play at the courts at Cordova/Chester or the Rose Bowl. This week's pretty much set for me, are you free Monday?
Yes, after 7 pm. Would you rather play at the PCC courts? I haven't tried them yet. But, they seem to be in very nice conditions. And at night, they seems to be very well lit. Monday's good for me day or night.
I've actually tried playing there before but have gotten kicked out. I think you need a student ID or some sort of court pass. I don't mind trying again and moving to if we get kicked out. Monday works for me, is morning good?
Yup, Monday morning's good for me. I emailed you my cell #. If anything changes, give me a buzz. What time would you like to meet in the morning. See you then.
hi i am sam, i woud like to play tennis but my level went down a little bit i used to be 4.0 not it must be 3.0 or 2.5 not that i dont like it but .. u know it feels awful to go back and forward with levels ... but you see i always liked playing with different level tennis players because i learn something o r a lot from them ...slicing, volley, serve, etc , more, would be nice if we play soon, there is this place USTA tennis association that hey have tennis tournaments every week i think, and i would like to get ready for one of them in the near future but first i need a hitting partner.....
Thank u!!!
again, My name is Sam
P.S. My time i can manage it , i am a self employed guy for now :) ....
Hi im available in pasadena in the mid morning to early after noons see my facebook.
Hello Alfredo,
I am available and I am new member so please accept my friend request or you can call me 213 268 0124. Thank you. Rubel
Hi Gwen, Where do You Play? IM very close to South pasadena where have a choice of free Courts. Call me text me 818 590-5441 Alfred.
my name is Sam... 818-221-5589 whenever you'd like to call me to play ...do so...am free mornings and afternoons....
i live in glendale .... open to all tennis players / levels ... :)
Hey Gwen,
I'm available to hit on Wednesdays nights after 6 if you are able to. I'm a 3.0 player..i think, so it'll be a good rally. I played in high school, but havent played much since.
Let me know if you're game,
Hi Gwen,
My schedule is pretty flexible right now so email me at firstname.lastname@example.com and let's set up a time and place. Jonathan.
© 2019 Created by Mark / The Mayor. Powered by


text:
It's been pretty apparent that one of the things that really hurts our pass rush is playing on the road.
Soldier field this time of the year usually has one of the worst playing surfaces in the NFL. Do you guys think the poor condition of the field is going to have a negative effect on our D? I am thinking it will definately slow down Irving and Clemons from getting to Cutler. Also as a side note there is a 40% chance of rain on Sunday.


text:
Jeremy Irvine's Railway Man regimen helped him learn script
JEREMY IRVINE lost weight to play a torture victim in new movie THE RAILWAY MAN by taking long country walks as he learned his script.
The star plays a younger version of Colin Firth's character Eric Lomax, who is captured and subjected to violence during World War II.
Irvine was required to slim down for the role and he used his exercise time to help him memorise his words for the shoot.
He tells GQ magazine, "I'd walk all day through the Cambridgeshire countryside with my script to burn calories. I think I scared my mum a bit."


text:
4. A good book, like Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse, which I currently have stashed away in my bag.
5. Cute straw beach bags like this one from Tory Burch.
6. A good sunscreen - I love this Kiehl's Super Fluid formula because it doesn't pill like a lot of other sunblocks out there. And with an SPF of +50 I feel confident that I'm getting good protection.
7. A couple of pairs of oversized sunglasses - the bigger, the better I say! So these sunnies by House of Harlow 1960 more than fit the bill.


text:
Reaching the Surface of Mars Safely
Landers therefore need systems to ensure a safe landing. For example, Mars Pathfinder and the Mars Exploration Rovers both airbag landing systems. When hitting the surface, the lander is protected inside something that looks like a huge, bouncing ball. Future landers using airbags might include new technologies that would prevent the "ball" from rolling down steep terrain once it lands.
Another new landing gear design would use a structure that acts as a shock absorber to protect the main body of the lander. This shock absorber would also have legs to help stabilize the craft upon landing. Both the shock absorber and legs could crumble or be destroyed without jeopardizing the main lander.
Even better than mere protective systems, "smart landers" of the future will be able to achieve safe landings by scanning the terrain about half-a-mile above the surface and guiding themselves to much smaller target zones--down to a few hundred feet in size. Then, they will be able to dodge large hazards like boulders and crevices at the very last moment. In case they aren't aware of last-minute hazards, these landers will carry impact protection systems that will be lighter than those on our present landers.
These sophisticated approaches to landing safely will also allow future landers to carry more equipment. This greater "load" capability will enable missions that are not feasible with current technology, such as sample returns of rock and soil to Earth or heavy drilling equipment for exploring deep beneath the Martian surface in a search for liquid water and possible past or present signs of life.


text:
Paceline's chamois cream comes in two different versions: you've got yer straight Chamois Butt'r (in the tube, £12.99 for 227g) and yer Chamois Butt'r Eurostyle (in the jar, £13.99 for 227g).
They're both mineral oil-based with a whole bunch of other long-named ingredients in there (iodopropynyl butylcarbamate, anyone?). The difference is that for your extra pound, the Eurostyle version comes with witch hazel leaf extract, menthol and schinus mole fruit extract. Together, they give a cooling, slightly tingly effect - a bit you get with menthol chewing gum... but on your undercarriage.
They're a similar consistency to one another - a lot like Savlon, say, in texture - and they're easily applied either directly to your skin or to the seatpad of your shorts. They're not entirely odour-less but neither smells strongly.
Once slapped on, the Chamois Butt'r does a fine job of preventing soreness and chafing, and it doesn't disappear even over the course of a long ride. It comes out easily enough in the washing machine too.
The Eurostyle version also comes in 5ml individual sachets at 70p a pop, so you can take one or two with you and re-apply during your ride but, to be honest, we never felt the need so would stick with the jar - it's cheaper.
On the whole, we'd be inclined to go for the Eurostyle version complete with that cooling effect. It just feels a bit better and for the sake of an extra quid, why not?
Good chamois cream - easy to apply and it does the job. Go for the Eurostyle version for a cooling feel
If you're thinking of buying this product using a cashback deal why not use the road.cc Top Cashback page and get some top cashback while helping to support your favourite independent cycling website
road.cc test report
Make and model: Paceline Chamois Butt'r
Size tested: Eurostyle
You can get cheaper, but it's not an outlandish price
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? Yes
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes
About the tester
Age: 40 Height: 190cm Weight: 74kg
I usually ride: My best bike is:
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Expert
I regularly do the following types of riding: time trialling, commuting, sportives, general fitness riding,
Mat has worked for loads of bike magazines over 20+ years, and been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. He's been road.cc technical editor for eight years, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a past winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer.


text:
FTC Charges Marketer of "Vitamin O"
with Making False Health Claims
FTC News Release
March 15, 1999
Rose Creek Health Products, Inc., based in Kettle Falls, Washington, and its sister corporation have been charged by the Federal Trade Commission with making blatantly false and unsubstantiated health claims in their advertisements for a purported nutritional supplement called "Vitamin O." The defendants' ads — which have appeared in USA Today and in other newspapers, and on the Internet — claim that Vitamin O can cure or prevent serious diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and lung disease. The FTC says that Vitamin O appears to be nothing more than saltwater.
The FTC is seeking preliminary and permanent injunctions to halt the dissemination of the defendants' advertisements and resulting consumer injury.
"When consumers see claims for Vitamin O, we hope they think Vitamin NO," said Jodie Bernstein, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. "This case brings home the message that unsubstantiated and outlandish claims for dietary supplements will not be tolerated. It also should remind the media that they can do their readers an important service by screening ads and refusing to run those that are clearly false."
The FTC's complaint detailing the charges names Rose Creek Health Products, Inc., its sister corporation, The Staff of Life, Inc., and Donald L. Smyth, president and sole shareholder of both corporations. The defendants sell various dietary supplements via mail order, including Vitamin O. The defendants claim that Vitamin O, when taken orally, enriches the bloodstream with supplemental oxygen. The ads state that Vitamin O consists of "intact oxygen molecules in a liquid solution of distilled water, sodium chloride and trace materials." A two ounce bottle of Vitamin O costs $20.00 to $25.00.
The complaint alleges that the defendants, through statements and testimonials contained in their ads, falsely represented that Vitamin O:
- administered orally allows oxygen molecules to be absorbed through the gastrointestinal system;
- prevents and is an effective treatment for life-threatening diseases, including cancer and pulmonary disease;
- is an effective treatment or prevention for many other physical ailments, including breathing problems, chronic headaches, infections, colds and flu;
- has a beneficial effect on human health; and
- was developed by Dr William F. Koch and used by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts during NASA space missions.
According to the complaint, the defendants' ads also falsely claim that they have medical and scientific research that establishes the efficacy of Vitamin O, and that the efficacy claims are supported by a reasonable basis.
The Commission vote authorizing staff to file the complaint was 4-0. The complaint was filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, in Spokane, on March 11, 1999.
Related Documents:
- Federal Trade Commission, Plaintiff, vs. Rose Creek Health Products, The Staff of Life, and Donald L. Smyth, Defendants. United States District Court, Eastern District of Washington at Spokane. Civil Action No. CS-99-0063, FTC File No. 992-3107.
This page was posted on November 28, 2005.


text:
I have recently upgraded my desktop OS from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10 (complete re-install). Before the switch I made a list of all programs installed on my Ubuntu 12.04.
sudo dpkg --get-selections > file
After that I re-installed Ubuntu 12.10 and when all was done I performed the following command:
sudo dpkg --set-selections < file
sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade
Here is when the problems start: I get several warnings like this when performing the commands above:
dpkg: warning: package not in database at line xxx
and many of the programs are not installed. I don't know what the line means.
I have searched the web, and it seems that I'm not the only one suffering from this. I have not find any solution that worked for me.
Any ideas what is causing this?


text:
About this item
When Ren was twelve years old, she lost her older brother to a car accident. For twenty-five years he's been a presence in her life, appearing with a song or a reflection in the moonlight. Her connection to the ghosts around her has made her especially sensitive as an archaeologist, understanding the bare outline of our ancestors, recreating lives and stories, and breathing life into those who occupied this world long before us. On the cusp of the most important find of her career, it is the ghosts who are guiding her way. But what they have to tell Ren about herself, and her developing relationship with the first man to really know her since her brother's death, is unexpected—a discovery about the relationship between the past and the future, and the importance of living in the moment.


text:
Game 37: Pistons Off, Memo On
Much like the Knickerbockers and Peskywolves own the Utah Jazz, the Utah Jazz owns the
Honeybees Hornets and the Pistons. Encouragingly, it was the J's first three-game win streak since they went 5-0 to open the season.
This was Memo:
(This is a Media Day '07 picture; I had to dig around on the Internet for much too long to find it. He was a little chubbs a year ago huh?)
Memo was conflagrating and torched his ex-team, going 8-9, including 3-3 from 3, in the first half. He got into foul trouble midway through the 3rd, but as AK said afterwards, he got the Jazz off to such a hot start that by the time he left the game, the Jazz didn't need him anymore. DWill was either still under the weather or his shot was still AWOL. AK had a very AK line with 11, 7, 7, 2, 2 and was diving for loose balls even in the 4th with the Jazz up by 20. And though he came close (9&7), Sap's streak ended as he only played 22 minutes.
I always read the Detroit Bad Boys game thread when the Jazz play the Pistons because there are always some great comments. Rob G., whose last mention on this blog was for his comment, "Who is that devastatingly handsome man who just checked in for the Jazz? I'm a straight man, but my god he is beautiful," had this to say today:
Rob G – Jan 10th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
god, Korver is so scrumptious
There was also:
Garrett – Jan 10th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Can we leave Boozer and Millsap and just sign Jerry Sloan instead?
And speaking of Boozer…
Let me just recap.
Boozer strained his quad Nov. 19 against MIL. The injury somehow failed to get better or improve as the weeks dragged on. Around Missed Game #15, Boozer got his second MRI, which was "inconclusive" like the first. He then flew to LA to get a third MRI around Missed Game #20, and his personal doctor, Richard Ferkel, decided on Dec. 30 or 31st that Boozer needed surgery.
Complicating matters, the surgery could not be performed right away and was scheduled for January 9th because Boozer had a blister on his knee caused by a burn from a hot pack, "which increased the possibility of an infection with the surgery."
I'd think it was a joke if…well, if it didn't involve Boozer/a Dukie.
So the surgery apparently takes place as planned (perhaps taking medical advice from Derek Fisher, Boozer insisted on having it performed in LA). HOWEVER, neither Boozer nor his agent bothered to contact the Jazz to update them, and the Jazz front office waited for over 24 hours before Boozer's doctor returned their calls. WTF? When Ferkel finally contacted them, he spoke to the Jazz trainer rather than a team official. (source, source, source)
Boozer is now out for at least 4 weeks of rehabilitation.
I didn't know any of this when I woke up this morning, and was therefore quite confused when I tuned into KFAN and heard Locke and the other guys questioning whether the Jazz FO would be able to get any information from Boozer's doctor (due to patient confidentiality), and whether Boozer and his agent would be able to bamboozle Jazz officials into believing his condition was much more serious than it really was if they could prevent contact between his doctor and the team. Just 12 hours before that, all of the KFAN guys were defendng Boozer like it was their own personal reputations at stake.
Interesting. (And let's remember that like the Jazz cast and crew, KFAN cast and crew are also employees of the LHM Group.)
Nissalke said in the post-game that he doesn't think Boozer will be back at all this year. The 1280 guys, in their post-game, had this to say.
Tell me Jerry isn't talking specifically about Boozer here:
"A lot of guys say, 'I'm going to go out there and play, I'm not about to let somebody step in and take my spot,'" Sloan said. "'I'll play when I'm hurt, I'll play when I'm banged-up, I'll play when things aren't going well to try to prevent that from happening.'"
All sideshow drama aside, maybe the damage has been done and it's time to cut the cord. It's hard to say since it's only been three games, but it seems like the Jazz have turned the corner and have a new mindset to start their season for real. This may be attributed to the guys no longer (subconsciously?) waiting around for Boozer to return to the lineup, and instead finally moving on and ahead without him.


text:
Abt Card
Selecting the right professional style range hood just became easier. Broan introduces the E60000 range hoods, in 18" wall-mount versions. These new models come with integrated internal blowers or dedicated external blower capability. Styling is fresh and modern, yet designed to easily complement popular pro-style cooking products. Both embody professional features such as powerful blowers, baffle filters, brilliant halogen lighting and variable speed controls. And while you won't see this feature it is hard to miss the quiet operation—two Sones or less at normal speed. To carry the professional theme even further, select the optional stainless steel backsplash with adjustable shelving. When you want professional style and performance, trust Broan to cover every detail.
Approximate Dimensions:
Warranty Information:
Fill out the form below to request Better Price for this product.
Enter your zip code for a more accurate delivery estimate.


text:
Rebuilding the White Sox
View Single Post
Golden Sox
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Oswego, Illinois
Posts: 1,510
Steve Stone
I very rarely watch Sports Talk Live hosted by Dave Kaplan. Kaplan is a Cubs fan and basically ignores the White Sox, so I simply don't watch the show. I was channel surfing last night and saw Steve Stone on the show and I watched him. Stone mentioned the Cubs trade with the Orioles and how good of a trade it was for the Cubs. He then mentioned how much easier it will be for Epstein /Hoyer to build the Cubs than it will be for Rick Hahn and the White Sox. Stone said that the Cubs will have more money to deal with than Hahn will. He than said that this White Sox team just doesn't draw enough fans. He said last years team was in first place and didn't draw 2 million fans. It was obvious by his comments that he's not exactly happy being here with the White Sox. That being the case maybe he should leave his job with the White Sox. I have news for him, at his age I seriously doubt that another team would hire him. But still, if he doesn't like it here I wish he would just leave, the sooner the better.
Golden Sox
View Public Profile
Find all posts by Golden Sox
See Barchart of Posts by Golden Sox


text:
The transfer of inmates came after escape attempts from the Daggett and Beaver county jails. An internal review showed that there may be security issues at the county jails, so the state corrections officials ordered the transfer of all first degree felons back to state facilities.
On September 23, two convicted murderers escaped from the Daggett County jail. They were captured nearly a week later in Wyoming.
On October 28, a convicted rapist escaped from the Beaver County jail for several hours.
The transfer of state inmates from the San Juan County jail has had an impact on the programs offered at the facility. San Juan County has one of only two treatment programs for sex offenders.
In addition, San Juan County has one of two programs in county jails that offer college-level courses through Utah State University. The transfer of inmates came after the beginning of a new semester and took roughly half of the students who were enrolled in the program. Registration timeframes will keep enrollment low through the remainder of the school year.
San Juan County is pursuing a possible expansion that could triple the number of state inmates in the jail.


text: Artist: Chip Tha Ripper f/ Wale Album: Tell Ya Friends (Mixtape) Song: 25 Wives Typed by: AZ Lyrics Yea Chip, check it out 25 wives Wish I could have... If I could have 25 wives... [Verse 1: Chip Tha Ripper] Just me with all y'all That'd be so wonderful Make daddy proud: I love every one of you My angels: I feel like Flava Flav but sexier The sex is gonna be messier But ain't gonna be no stress in here We living good all of us We winning, that's obvious. We got whips, Cars R Us We smoke good: it's foggy, plus The status: they all mad at us Teamwork: that's our recipe for living lavish Yeah, we get this cabbage I'm the head coach of the team If everybody play their position, we can win this thing Called life, happiness, liberty, freedom If I got all y'all, there won't be no sense in cheating Y'all the truth, got a connection with you all Ambisexuals. If this ain't Heaven what's it called? Must be life. No greater feeling in the world If I had 25 wives, I would love all my girls... [Chorus: x2] I wish I could have 25 wives We'd all get it poppin, we'd all get high: that's fly If I could have 25 wives I'd love them all like they love me We hustle to survive [Verse 2: Wale] Got women in every city. Winning in every city Her body's been paranormal since buying that pair of titties, look Silicone bitches got the confidence But natural bitches get all my compliments I ain't trying to conflict: Nickels to dimes and shit Make something out of nothing. Nigga, I MacGyver that bitch Niggas wild as shit. No rubber, just climb in that bitch Take your hat off and get to cuttin: Kung Lao on that bitch Mortal Kombat, my shit is beyond rap I keep it 100 nigga: Warren Moon, Warren Sapp Hit, I never call her back. Bet she keep on coming back You keeping her dry, shit, I named that bitch "Tsunami Cat" I'm too polished, I ain't looking for acknowledgement Put my squad on my back like I'm wearing me a starter jacket Ya'll lame niggas. No bitches when ya'll are out I get that Ivy League brain, catch me with a dark mouth [Chorus x2] [Outro: Wale] It's Double M-G yo It's nothing but a motherfucking undefended free throw I'm getting each ho Eyes lower than Ichiro