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You will be given a choice of GP whom you will be registered. Although you can see other GPs within the surgery, but for continuity of care we request you see with your registered GP for all routine appointments. As each GP specialises in various medical fields you may from time to time be referred to them for a particular medical complaint.
The Royal College of General Practitioners has produced a useful guide for patients about the services on offer at GP Surgeries and how to access them. You can download the guide below.
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Microsoft has announced this week that it will continue to offer downgrade options to both volume licensing customers and end-users when Windows 7 ships. Customers who purchase a system from a qualifying OEM with a version of Windows 7 that they don't want will be able to fall back to equivalent versions of Vista or XP. This latest extension to XP's availability has, inevitably, made the headlines, as if Microsoft's decision to allow users to fall back to the venerable system is a judgment of Windows 7 before it even ships.
The announcement does not, however, represent any great shift in licensing policy. Volume license customers have long had the ability to use their licenses for any prior equivalent version of Windows—in principle allowing an organization to continue to install NT 4 or even Windows 95 if it preferred—and the continuation of this policy with Windows 7 is just business as usual.
This "business as usual" position was reinforced by Microsoft. Redmond dismissed any attempt to position Windows XP downgrades as a hedge bet against Windows 7 uptake failure as spurious. When asked to clarify the situation by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley, the Microsoft representative emphasized that this capability was nothing new. "This is not the first time that Microsoft has offered downgrade rights to a version other than its immediate predecessor and our volume-license customers can always downgrade to any previous version of Windows," said the spokesperson.
OEMs will also continue to offer end users the ability to downgrade their Windows 7 systems for a limited time. Again, this is not unusual in and of itself; such downgrades were available for Vista (to XP) and XP (to Windows 2000) in the past, again for limited periods, at least for customers buying the business-oriented versions. Although the lukewarm reception that Vista received among business users and the development of the netbook market led to regular extensions of that "limited period", Microsoft's intent, at least, was for there to be a brief transition during which Vista and XP were sold side-by-side, after which Vista would take over.
Windows 7's downgrade rights may be a little different to those of its predecessor, however; indications are that XP downgrades will continue to be possible, even for non-volume license customers. Given that Windows 7 is in many ways a relatively minor refresh to Windows Vista, this is perhaps unsurprising. When it comes to software and hardware compatibility, Vista and Windows 7 are all but identical, and so switching from Vista to Windows 7 is unlikely to cause businesses any problems. As such, a downgrade option that only permitted downgrading to Vista would have little benefit. Migration from XP is the scenario liable to raise compatibility issues, and so it will continue to be the case that XP-using businesses will want to stick with XP on new systems.
All in all, though, the Windows 7 downgrade story will be much the same as the Vista story. The most surprising thing about this announcement is that people are even surprised by it; the continued availability of XP downgrades is not an indictment of Windows 7, but rather a continuation (in spirit) of Microsoft's conservative, business-friendly stance on new OS releases. As much as Redmond would like all its customers to switch to the latest-and-greatest on release day, the company recognizes that the wheels of business turn slowly, and that sometimes a little more time is needed.

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VCU alumnus, CAAHoops.com founder and bocce enthusiast Mike Litos (@VCULitos) will join the VCU Ram Radio broadcast team for the 2012-13 season as color analyst. He'll join play-by-play voice (and former child acting star) Robby Robinson to bring VCU Men's Basketball into your living room (and car, and mobile device, etc.).
I recently caught up with Litos to get some answers to the questions that are burning up Ram Nation right now, such as, "Would you be supportive of a Wham! reunion?"
CK: A select few get to come back to their alma mater and put in a position like this. How exciting is this opportunity for you, as a long-time fan?
ML: I'm rarely at a loss for words, lots of them, but I'm still having a difficult time articulating how exciting this opportunity is for me. I will say it's extremely humbling to even be considered…we've got incredible momentum as an athletics department and a university, so to become a bigger part of that is thrilling. I very much look forward to digging in and contributing where I can.
CK: Your predecessor, Mike Ellis, was known for his knowledge of Xs and Ox, his stories and his undying devotion to officiating. What can fans expect when they turn the dial to listen to the game this year?
ML: It's possible I've given aid to an official who, shall we say, may have erred in his interpretation of the rules. I'll continue to help out the zebras. But really what people can expect is an answer to the question why. My goal is to be invisible. What I mean is that the radio audience gets a mental picture of what's occurring on the court. Robby does a great job explaining what's happening; my job is to depict what's happening that impacts what Robby is describing.


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Direct Mail Drives Store Traffic for the Retail Industry
Spending on direct mail is expected to increase again in 2011, and retail is one of the vertical markets expected to drive this growth. Direct mail continues to be a widely used channel for customer acquisition in the retail industry. According to Target Marketing's annual "Media Usage Forecast," more 69 percent of marketers plan to use direct mail for customer acquisition in 2011.
PODi's recent report, "Traffic Generation Solutions for the Retail Market," reviews several successful applications, highlighting ideas that work and the results achieved. One highly productive strategy is to integrate print, online and social media to enable viral sharing of a retail promotion.
Chick-fil-A is one of the largest privately-held restaurant chains in the United States with nearly 1,500 restaurants in 38 states and Washington DC. Local franchise owners in Covington, LA, needed a direct marketing solution that would establish a customer database and increase store traffic.
A plastic postcard with two perforated cards, featuring campaign offers, was mailed to consumers in the Covington area. Recipients were instructed to log on to their personalized URL (pURL) in order to activate their two offers and go into the store to redeem them.
Upon visiting the pURL, users were taken to a customized microsite for the Chick-fil-A campaign. Users validated their contact information on the first screen, selected the offer they wanted to activate, and answered a few questions from Chick-fil-A. Next, users were given the opportunity to share the offer on up to 265 social networks, email, and SMS. All recipients who shared the offer with friends were entered into a sweepstakes.
The results of this campaign were outstanding:
- 279.8 percent visit rate—Over 5,000 plastic postcards were sent out, and due to the integration of social sharing, 14,124 visited the campaign microsite.
- 120.6 percent response rate—Over 6,000 individuals provided their contact information. Since a third party list was used, all data captured was new – delivering a higher number of leads than the initial outbound campaign.
- 24.8 percent coupon redemption rate—Store owners reported 1,300 coupon redemptions from the campaign. The number of redemptions coming from viral sharing almost equaled those coming from mail.
The full report is available exclusively to PODi members. For more information on PODi membership and benefits including case studies, sales and marketing tools, and training resources visit www.podi.org/membership.
Source: PODi.


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Hobby Lobby increases bottom wage to $14 per hour
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. says it is raising its bottom-level wage for full-time employees to $14 per hour.
The company said Monday it is also raising the pay of part-time workers to $9.50 per hour. In all, 17,726 workers will receive raises.
Hobby Lobby says the raise for full-time workers will be $1 per hour, and 50 cents per hour for part-time workers.
The company has more than 500 stores in 45 states, including 20 stores in Oklahoma.


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Dassault Systemes is one of the French industry's greatest successes. Everyday, unbeknownst to most of us, we use products designed using DS software: cars, gadgets, buildings and even clothes. This €2bn (£1.6bn) company provides all the necessary tools for what has become known as Product Lifecycle Management: starting from the initial design, moving to the software that runs the manufacturing process, then to distribution logistics and, at the end of its life, disposing of the product.
Hence a simple question: what could be the axis of communication for such a company? The performance of its latest release of CAD software? Its simulation capabilities?
No. Dassault Systemes opted to communicate on a science-fiction iceberg-related project. The pitch: a French engineer – the old-fashion type, a dreamer who barely speaks English – envisions capturing an iceberg from a Greenland glacier and tugging it down to the thirsty Canary Islands. The DS mission (should it choose to really accept it): devise all the relevant techniques for the job: minimise melting, maximise fuel-efficiency.
The result is a remarkable and quite entertaining documentary, a 56-minute high-tech festival of solutions for this daunting task's numerous challenges. I watched it in HD on my iPad, in exchange for my email address (the one I'm dedicating to marketers). It's a huge, multimillion-euro video production, with scores of the helicopters shots, superb views of Greenland and, of course, spectacular 3D imaging, the core DS business.
The budget is so high and the project so ambitious, that the documentary was co-produced by several large European TV channels such as France Televisions and the German ZDF. Quite frankly, it fits the standard of public TV – for such a genre.
But this is neither journalism nor National Geographic film-making. It's a "brand content" operation.
In advertising, brand content is the new black. You can't bump into an ad exec without hearing about it. It's the new holy grail, the replacement for the other formats that failed and the latest hope for an ailing industry. But there are side effects.
Let's have a closer look.
1) What defines Brand Content as opposed to traditional advertising?
In a good BC product, the brand can be almost absent. It's the content that's front and centre. In France, advertisers often quote a series made by the French Bank BNP-Paribas titled Mes Colocs (My roommates). The title says it all. Launched two years ago, it featured 20 shorts episodes, later supplemented by ... 30 bonus ones, all broadcast on YouTube and DailyMotion.
Mes Colocs became such a success that two cable TV channels picked it up. The brand name does not appear – except in the opening credits. But, far from being a philanthropic operation, its performance was carefully monitored. BNP-Paribas' goal was obvious: raising its awareness among young people. And it seems to have worked: the operation translated into a 1.6% increase in accounts opening and a rise of 6.5% in the number of loans granted to young adults (details in this promotional parody produced by the agency.)
This dissociation between brand and content is essential. An historical French brand has been rightly celebrated for being the first to do brand content decades before the term was coined: Michelin with its eponymous guides provided a genuine service without promoting its tires (read Jean-Louis' Monday Note Why Apple Should Follow Michelin.)
The following opposition can be drawn between traditional advertising and content-based message :
2) Why the hype ?
First of all, media is increasingly fragmented. Advertisers and marketers have a hard time targeting the right audience. BCt is a good way to let the audience build itself – for instance, through virality. It is much more subtle than relying on the heavily (and easily) corrupted blogosphere.
Second, most digital formats are faltering. Display advertising is spiraling down due to well-known factors: unlimited inventories, poor creativity, excessive discounts, bulk purchasing, cannibalisation by value killing ad networks, etc. Behavioral targeting is technically spectacular but people get irritated by invasive tracking techniques (see my previous take: Pro (Advertising) Choice.)
Three, marketers have matured. The caricatural advertorial grossly extolling a product is long gone. Today's contents are much smarter; they provide information (real or a respectable imitation), and good entertainment. Everything is increasingly well-crafted. Why? Because – and that is reason #4 for growth in BC – there is a lot of available talent out there. As news media shrinks, advertising agencies find an abundance of writers, producers, film-makers all eager to work for much more money they could hope to get in their former jobs. Coming in with a fresh mindset, not (yet) brain-washed by marketing, they will do their job professionally, accepting "minor" constraints in exchange for great working conditions – no penny pinching when you do a web series for a global brand.
Five, compared to traditional advertising messages, brand content is cheap. As an example, see the making of a recent and highly conceptual Air France commercial shot in Morocco; the cost ran into seven figures. Now, imagine how many brand content products can be done with the same investment. Brand content allows an advertiser to place multiple bets at the same time.
3) The risks. (Here comes the newsman's point of view)
Brand content is the advertiser's dream come true. The downfall of the print press has opened floodgates: publishers become less and less scrupulous in their blurring of the line between editorial and promotion – which is precisely what ad agencies always shoot for. Most women's magazines, the luxury press, and now mainstream glossies allocate between 30% and 70% to such "tainted" editorial: nice "journalistic" treatment in exchange for favours on the advertising side. I'm not blaming publishers who do their best to save their business, I'm just stating the facts.
The consequence is obvious: readers are not informed as they should about products. Less and less so. (Although islands of integrity like Consumer Reports remain.) That is not good for the print media as it feeds the public's distrust. While many publications lose what's left of their credibility by being too cosy with their advertisers, brands are becoming increasingly savvy at producing quality contents that mimic traditional editorial.
As brands tend to become full-blown media, the public will get confused. Sooner or later, it will be difficult to distinguish between a genuine, editorially-driven prime-time TV show and another one sponsored by an advertiser. Call it the ever shrinking journalism.


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When European number separators are used in an Excel spreadsheet (for example, "1.234,567") and the spreadsheet is placed into an Adobe® InDesign® 2.0 document, the number separators are imported incorrectly. For example, "1.234,567" is imported as "1,234.567." The Excel Import Filter Update resolves this issue.
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Adobe InDesign 2.0.2 running on Mac OS 9.1 or 9.2.x, or Mac OS X v.10.1.x or 10.2.x. For additional information, refer to the current system requirements for InDesign 2.0.
Note: If you are using InDesign 2.0, you must update to version 2.0.1, then update to version 2.0.2 before installing this update. If you are using InDesign 2.0.1, then you must update to version 2.0.2 before installing this update. You can verify which InDesign version you have installed from the Component Information dialog box. To open this dialog box, press Command and select About InDesign from the Apple menu (Mac OS 9) or InDesign menu (Mac OS X).
After downloading a ".hqx" file on a Macintosh, use StuffIt Deluxe or StuffIt Expander to access the file's contents. StuffIt Expander is available as a freeware product.
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1. If InDesign 2.0.2 is running, quit the application.
2. Open the InDesign 2.0 application folder (to locate this folder, search your computer for a folder named "Adobe InDesign 2.0").
3. Open the Plug-ins folder in the InDesign 2.0 application folder.
4. Move the Sangam Preferences UI file from the Excel Import Filter Update folder (which you decompressed after downloading) to the Filters folder in the Plug-ins folder. When prompted whether you would like to replace a file with the same name, select Yes or Replace.
5. Open the Filters folder in the Plug-ins folder.
6. Move the Reader For Excel file from the Excel Import Filter Update folder (which you decompressed after downloading) to the Sangam Readers folder in the Filters folder. When prompted whether you would like to replace a file with the same name, select Yes or Replace.
7. Launch InDesign 2.0.2.
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What rap songs look like in sign language
Holly Maniatty creates music - for the deaf.
Teaming American Sign Language with dance moves and body language, the 33-year-old from Maine brings musical performances alive for those who can't hear. Her clients are a who's who of rock, pop and hip-hop: Bruce Springsteen, Eminem, Mumford and Sons, Jay-Z, Billy Joel, Marilyn Manson, U2, Beastie Boys and Wu-Tang Clan, to name a few.
At a Wu-Tang performance, Method Man took notice of her signing, came down from the stage and joined her.
"He said, 'That's dope,' and gave me a hug and a fist pump," she said.
This month, she found herself at New England's largest drag queen show, signing as performers from all over sashayed down the runway and lip-synched to booming music.
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Masking 101
When painting around a window, we use masking tape to keep the paint from getting on the glass. Just like that tape, in card making the term"masking" describes covering one part of the card to keep from stamping or inking on it. In future tutorials we will demonstrate more advanced masking techniques. For today we will introduce the basics.
Here are two cards on which I combined masking with sponging to create a moon.
I punched a 1-1/4" circle out of the sticky part of a post-it pad. I like to use a sticky-note pad for masking, because it is easy to reposition without leaving a mark on your cardstock.
On the first card I'm using the circle that I punched out. After sticking it to the cardstock I sponged all around the circle with pumpkin pie ink. In this card the un-inked circle is the moon.
She stamped a second frame on a sticky note (colored yellow for easy visibility) and punched or cut it out to cover the stamped frame.
After covering the stamped frame, she stamped the entire card with a floral background stamp.
The mask is removed to reveal the un-inked space for her sentiment.
Please leave a comment or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com to give us feedback or suggestions for future tutorials. If you would like to submit a tutorial, or provide photos for a specific technique, please include that information as well.


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By Leila B. Salaverria
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:40:00 04/16/2010
MANILA, Philippines—In the automated elections on May 10, the mindset is that the winners would be known in a jiffy.
Well, not exactly.
Results will be posted pronto in real time as they are spewed out by a computing machine on a website, to be announced later, but these will be from each one of the 76,000 precincts nationwide.
You'll have to do the addition yourself to know what's up.
After saying again and again that the results of the automated election system (AES)—meaning contest outcomes—will be known within 48 hours, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Thursday said for the first time that in fact this was unlikely to happen.
Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez, speaking at a forum of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (Focap), said the poll body was not required to add up the results of the precinct voting or to provide a running tally on the website.
"We'll provide the precinct data. That's more than we've ever done before," Jimenez said.
It doesn't compute
Alfredo Pascual, convenor of AES Watch, said that the data from the individual precincts, without any summation, would not be of much use considering the sheer number of candidates.
"Try adding that up," said Pascual. "That doesn't mean anything."
He also pointed out the possibility that around 30 percent of the counting machines might encounter glitches, as the Comelec itself has confirmed. In which case, he said, a manual count would have to be done.
Random audit
In addition, Pascual said that before the proclamation of winners, a "random manual audit" would be undertaken by the board of election inspectors.
This means that in each legislative district, one precinct will be selected and the results there will be manually tabulated, totaled and compared with the automated count to check its accuracy.
Mechanics of this exercise have yet to be hammered out with barely three weeks before election day.
Cesar Flores, spokesperson for Smartmatic-TIM, said the company, as part of its P7.2-billion contract with the Comelec, will make available the website where the results from the precincts will be posted as they come in.
Website for precinct results
Flores, in an interview with the Inquirer, said the website will be announced a few days before the elections.
On the website for the 2008 Venezuelan elections, the company showed consolidated results, Flores said, but the Comelec had refused to put consolidated results on its website to discourage trending while the proclamation of national winners is pending.
The Comelec, he said, does not want to be accused of overstepping the duties of the Congress, which counts and proclaims the winners of the presidential and vice presidential races.
Jimenez said that the Comelec would announce the results of its tally after the canvassing at the municipal and provincial levels are completed, which is expected to be about two to three days after the elections. But the Comelec is only authorized to proclaim the winners up to the senatorial level, he said.
The proclamation of the president and vice president would have to be done by Congress, which is tasked with canvassing the results and which would only convene on May 30.
At the moment, Jimenez said, the poll body's plan is to just post the precinct results on the website, whose name would only be disclosed on the eve of the elections for security purposes.
The data on the website will play an important part, he said, because it provides transparency and helps in fact-checking.
Additional burden
When asked why the poll body would not sum up the results, Jimenez said the Comelec was not required to do so. "As far as transparency is concerned, all of the data is there."
He also said that if the results of the summation would be included on website, there would have to be a canvassing program included on it. This would be an additional burden for the site, he added.
The absence of an official summation of the election results on the website raised concerns that those who would be counting the votes based on the website data might come up with different figures and create confusion.
Henrietta de Villa, chair of the Comelec's citizens arm Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), said her group and the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) would meet to discuss the possibility of conducting a joint tally of the election results.
'Democratized' counting
De Villa also said that with the election data made available to the public at once, the holding of parallel counts had been "democratized."
"Everyone can do the count," she said in the same Focap forum, adding that the PPCRV itself would be conducting an internal parallel count. With a report from Kristine L. Alave


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RS Components stocks a fantastic range of test connectors for any test and measurement requirement. You'll find test plugs and sockets, crocodile clips, needle point probes and adaptors, among many other test connectors.
The Internet of Things (also referred to as IoT), is the increasing use of cheap and easy to program hardware to add internet and other types of connectivity to everyday objects.
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Rings and bracelets have been around for thousands of years. The first major technological advance on these was the wristwatch – which became popular during the First World War. Now, we're inserting technology into many things – smart bracelets, watches and rings are becoming common. And technology is also making it into other items that we wear.
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In today's world we are interacting with wireless technology more than ever, whether at home in the office or at the workshop, it's never far away. Contactless payment, wireless internet access and GPS are the everyday applications we associate with wireless communications.


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It's Sunday afternoon and Deb is feeling poorly…but not so poorly that she's not offering considerable editorial input into this post. In between the sniffles and requests for lemsip etc…she's throwing in various comments relating to various icons from the sci-fi genre. To be fair, I have borrowed her laptop as it's the only one in the house running Windows 7.
I will attempt to minimize the in-jokes and references but I thought I'd better go on record and report the fact that I am under some duress here. Honestly, some people are soooo geeky !
What I want to do in this post is to go through :
- setting up VirtualBox and running Ubuntu as a guest os
- getting the Guest desktop to display in a full screen
- getting the Number Keypad to work in the VM
- setting up a directory so that files can be shared between guest and host
The Three Laws
Just a quick note about terminology.
Host – is the Windows 7 OS that we're going to install all this stuff on
Guest – is the Ubuntu machine that we're going to be running in the Virtual Machine
To boldly go…
The first steps in our brave new (virtual) world ( don't worry, she's got to go to the loo sometime), is to install the Oracle VirtualBox VM. You can get it from here.
Next, we need to get a copy of Ubuntu. Best bet is to use the latest Long-Term Support version ( currently Ubuntu 10.04.2) from here.
Just follow the wizard steps to install VirtualBox.
When you configure the new VM through the wizard, select the appropriate Operating System ( in this case, Linux) and Version (Ubuntu) then accept all of the other defaults for now.
When you actually start the new VM for the first time, you'll be presented with the First Run Wizard. Moving swiftly on ( before Deb gets in with any Harry Potter references), you'll get a screen asking you to Select Installation Media.
Just select the Ubuntu iso you downloaded earlier.
Once you get Ubuntu desktop up, then click the install icon on the desktop. Note – at this point, you're Numeric Keypad will not be working. We'll fix this a bit later, but for now, you need to use the number keys above the letters on your keyboard.
Once you've done this, you need to make sure that the virtual cd/dvd is removed from the virtual cd/dvd drive before you virtually re-start the virtual machine. Hmmm, no response. Somehow I think she may not have seen Tron.
Anyway, the easiest way to do this is to go to the VirtualBox Devices Menu, select CD/DVD Devices / Remove Disk From Virtual Drive
When you reboot, you should now be running the installed version of Ubuntu and not just the live CD image in the VM.
We can rebuild him….
Moving swiftly on from Deb's musings on the subject of exactly which bits of Steve Austin were bionic, the next step is to install Guest Additions in Ubuntu.
Before doing this it's a good idea to run Update Manager in the Ubuntu guest ( System / Administration / Update Manager). This is because, if you have a linux kernel update, it does tend to mess up the Guest Additions installation and require a re-install.
With Ubuntu up and running in the VM, go to the VirtualBox Devices Menu and select Install Guest Additions.
This should load a CD into the virtual drive. You then need to navigate to the cd in Nautilus ( Places / Computer/ CD/DVD Drive) and then click autorun.sh. When prompted, just click the Run button.
Once the installation is complete, do a shutdown of the virtual machine ( removing the virtual CD/DVD first).
I canna change the laws o' physics
However, we can now start to address some of the issues with which we are currently faced.
First up is getting the Ubuntu Guest to display fill-size in fullscreen mode. This is especially useful if you happen to have two monitors at your disposal as you'll be able to use one for the host and one for the guest.
With Ubuntu shut down, amend the Display settings for the VM in VirtualBox. The Video Memory should be set to 64MB and the Enable 3D Acceleration checked.
Now, when you go into the Ubuntu System Menu and select Preferences / Monitor, Ubuntu should recognize the monitor type VBX. Additionally, you'll also be able to increase the resolution to something in-line with what's running on the host.
Once these changes have been made, switching the VM to fullscreen mode ( VirtualBox Menu, Machine / Fullscreen) should now result in the desktop taking up all of the available real-estate.
The Numeric Keypad can also be enabled by means of settings in the Ubuntu System/Preferences Menu. This time, go to Keyboard.
First of all, in the Mouse Keys tab, uncheck Pointer can be controlled using the keypad.
Secondly, in the Layouts tab, click Options… and under Numeric Keypad Layout Selection check Legacy. The Number pad should now work.
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Although the clipboard is set to be bi-directional by default, it would seem that, with the Win7 host / Ubuntu guest combination at least, you can only cut and paste from the Host to the Guest and not the other way around.
You can, however, set one or more host directories to be visible to the guest OS and use this as a means of transferring files between the two.
First, we need to create the shared folder in windows ( I slapped mine on my Windows Desktop). Let's assume it's called vShare.
Now we need to set it up in Virtual Box. So, with the Ubuntu VM powered down, go into Settings / Shared Folders. Select the folder you want to use as the share and click OK. Note – you shouldn't check either the Read-Only or Auto-Mount boxes. Also, avoid underscores in the folder name as these don't seem to work too well for some reason.
Now, when you start the Ubuntu guest again, you need to mount the share ( note that the mount-point name in the guest needs to be different from the name of the shared folder on the host) :
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/hostShare $ sudo chmod 777 /mnt/hostShare $ sudo /sbin/mount.vboxsf –w vShare /mnt/hostShare
Note that if you've chosen a different name for your shared folder, use the name of the folder that's shown in the VirtualBox Devices / Shared Folders dialog box.
To get the share to load everytime you startup the Guest os, you need to edit /etc/rc.local and add the following line :
/sbin/mount.vboxsf -w vShare /mnt/hostShare
To make it easier to get to from within the host, you can put a symbolic link on the desktop :
$ ln –s /mnt/hostShare $HOME/Desktop/host_share
A folder called host_share should now appear ( or materialize, if you prefer, ) on your Ubuntu desktop.
Escaping the Mirror Universe
By now, you will have noticed that, by default, Ubuntu has it's Window control buttons on the left of the Window title bar rather than the right. If this is starting to get on your nerves…
On the Ubuntu Desktop, hit Alt + F2.
In the Run Application box that appears , type in gconf-editor and hit Run.
In the tree menu in the left-hand pane now navigate to apps/metacity/general
Right-click button_layout in the right-hand pane then click Edit Key.
Change the settings to menu:maximize,minimize,close
The buttons should now magically have switched sides.
The Final Frontier
As I've nearly exhausted Deb's supply of Star Trek references, I'll leave you with this thought :
Klingon programs do not have parameters, they have arguments…and they ALWAYS WIN THEM !


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I've done a search for this, both on the forums and on the wider internet, but haven't been able to find anything relating to what I would like to learn, or any firm advice on it.
My question is this: How does one update an existing Raspberry Pi RISC OS installation to use the newest RISC OS RPi ROM (I know that they're different to the others available for download from the RISC OS Open website, especially since they're clearly labelled as such ), without reflashing the whole thing and setting it up again from scratch? Is it a matter of connecting the card to another computer and swapping out the relevant files in the FAT32 boot partition, or is there some better method of doing this (such as running some sort of command or application within RISC OS itself)?
I'm very familiar with dealing with updating Linux distributions, but having not used RISC OS anywhere near as much, I'm still a little puzzled by this aspect of it.
Thanks very much in advance for any tips on this!


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There's a portion of the population that doesn't respect, doesn't believe in, or that simply desires to abolish copyrights altogether; they have their non-rivalrous resource argument to bring to the debate; now here's something to toss back at them…
Every investor wants to invest in ventures where the incremental costs of scaling to infinity and beyond are minimal to zero. In other words, $100 buys you the first 100 widgets, but the cost of producing the next 100 widgets is de minimis. In fact, the competition for investment capital is often won or lost on a cost-to-scale analysis basis.
The problem with the "fuck copyrights, you can make money from live performances" argument is that this thinking limits an artist's ability to scale to: his or her capacity to perform (live) on a consistent basis. If music (for example) is consistently stolen borrowed or free, where does the capacity to scale through minimal additional investment come from? T-shirts?
BY: Bruce Warila
One might argue that if you reach the top tier of the profession that the capacity to generate easy, incremental income scales far beyond the income generated via performances. However nobody wants to invest in a business or an industry where the only way to obtain a financial exit is to hit a home run. There are far too many investment alternatives where you can pile up rewards by hitting singles and doubles…while preserving the opportunity to hit a home run also.
Art requires investment, as somebody always has to pay the bills. Investing in artists has to appear attractive on a cost-to-scale analysis basis. Every attempt: legal, cultural or otherwise, to weaken copyrights is an assault on every artist's capacity to scale via minimal incremental investments, and thus the capacity to compete for investment dollars.
Who wins the race for investment money, the artist with the epic song or the software developer with the snazzy iPhone app? Which took more time and skill to create? It's all software to me.
For those of you that detest dumping art into an investor equation, simply substitute the concept of investment dollars with a personal time-cost / benefit analysis and ask yourself why so many artists become hobbyists prior to obtaining traction; the key reason is: the lack of copyright respect results in the sinking perception that scaling one's digital entertainment business by shoveling time (or investor money) at it, often results in a negative return. For many, there simply ends up being…better ways to make a living.


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The discovery of a perturbatively-coupled, 125 GeV Higgs, together with the absence of LHC signals for supersymmetry, places the principle of naturalness under tension. In this talk I will discuss the possibility that the weak scale is unnatural, with its value determined environmentally in the landscape. In particular, this environmental selection may be driven by BBN: as the weak scale is increased, the abundance of Hydrogen in the early universe is rapidly depleted. That our own universe contains an O(1) fraction of primordial Helium arises as a conspiracy among the weak scale, the neutron-proton mass difference, and the planck scale.


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|sidux-team around Stefan Lippers-Hollmann (slh); sidux e.V
|First released
|Latest preview version
|Release date and age
|sidux 2008-04 pontos "Ποντος" / 2008-12-23
|Frequently updated
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|GNU General Public License, LGPL
|sidux.com, cap.gediam.de/index-en.htm
[Mivo Tv] sidux is a desktop-oriented operating system based on the "unstable" branch of Debian, which uses the codename Sid. The distribution consists of a Live CD (bootable CD-ROM) for i686 or x86-64 architecture and can be installed to a hard drive through a graphical installer. sidux is maintained by a team of developers including former Kanotix developer Stefan Lippers-Hollmann (slh). Initial administration was managed by The sidux Foundation, Inc. located in the United States. Now the Berlin, Germany based non profit organisation sidux e.V. is administering and supporting the project.
- 1 Installation
- 2 Installing LXDE-Sid
- 3 Installing from sidux
- 4 apt-get dist-upgrade
- 5 External links
Installing LXDE-Sid
Download of the lxde-sid-iso
You can download lxde-sid lite iso here.
Download English Version: http://www.cap.gediam.de/download-en.html
Info on German Version: http://www.cap.gediam.de/index.htm
Release Notes
A snapshot from dec. 25. 2008 is uploaded (nearly sidux-pontos). Feel free to test itdownload. As an addition of one kernel prepared for Eee -701/900/900A/1000 especially with a script eee_config after HD-installation is installable, (look for installation) installation For the Asus-Eee-901/1000 a nessesary wlan-modul is installable with the same script.
Attention! The creation of an iso on USB-stick/sd-card isn't possible directly with my lxde-sid iso.
Please use the liveusb-creator: http://sidux.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-10929.html More informations you get here: more help and tools for eeepc-user: http://walter.flightshop.de/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Furthermore I have add a new icewm-sid version (nearly sidux-pontos). Don't be surprised- the wallpaper you will get after hd-disk-installation. The icewm-version comes with a 486-kernel from the debian-sid-repo for AMD-k6 and most VIA-processors. How to install look please here: http://cap.gediam.de/installation-en.html
For both versions I have made a little script for removing of the displaymanager gdm and installing the lightweight display-manager slim (start it with start_slim after HD-installation).
Main and current
lxde-sid lite is, current applications and kernel, an unofficial sidux based linux-distribution (on GPL2/3 basis) with a resources protecting and functional graphic surface which aims at it to connect. Lxde-sid lite is fully compatible to sidux or Debian-sid. Also valid for the lxde variant one therefore finds also many helpful tips these in the sidux-manual are. Lxde-sid lite is suitable also well for the use on various netbook computers youtube (Asus-Eee, Acer One, medion Akoya/ MSI Wind, ...). There are no versions numbered particularly. The lxde-sid lite-iso always represent snapshot of the Debian-sid programmes at a particular time. Lxde-sid lite has (rolling release) on a request of its own fast and simply brought on a current state to itself almost any time. Please follow the notes and on the sidux web page: http://sidux.com
Application programs contained on the CD
It is numerous easy programs usually contain:
- office-software
- Internet (browser, e-mail, chat),
- PDF observer
- network tools
- image processing
- photo administration
- multimedia
- system administration
- games like chess and skat
Many further programs are post installable from the gigantic and very current Debian-sid sources. The repositories of debian-sid contain the most extensive and most current binary soft keeping choice of all linux distributions. With lxde-sid lite you can profit as a user of it. The tools known under sidux or Debian are helpful.
Indications for the installation
After the download the file can be burned as CD iso. Please burn in the DAO mode absolutely pay attention that with a low combustion rate (as small as possible than 10x). The iso is produced with a special compression algorithm and is very sensitive regarding burning defects. It is described, like one Lxde-sid lite installs himself on hard disk, on USB stick or on SD smart card (also 'bootfromiso').
Installing from sidux
Download the latest version and burn the ISO. sidux includes a nice, easy to use, graphic user interface (GUI) to help with the installation.
After you reboot, sidux will check the hard drives (since you are using ext3). Do not worry if it reboots after sidux notices the time is off. It will reboot and boot up no problem. The only error I dealt with sidux not being able to load the modules for VirtualBox.
One of the first things you will after you finishing installing sidux is read the sidux Qucikstart Manual.
Installing LXDE
Since sidux uses the Debian sid repositories, install is performed by
# apt-get update && apt-get install lxde
In KDM or GDM choose LXDE as session.
apt-get dist-upgrade
With Debian or Ubuntu, you normally used apt-get update && apt-get upgrade to update your system. With sidux, you cannot, you have to use apt-get dist-upgrade in a Runlevel 3. This is where you have to be comfortable working in the command line. Once you are in init 3, run apt-get dist-upgrade which will upgrade to any newer packages in the sid repository. Once you have updated your system, you can go back to init 5 (Runlevel 5) and install packages by using apt-get install <package> relatively easily. You just got to remember to use apt-get dist-upgrade in init 3 regularly to keep your system up to date. Weekly updates are recommended, up to twice daily is possible depending on the mirror.
External links
- LXDE with sidux - Installation how to on the LXDE Blog
- sidux Linux with LXDE - First Impressions
- sidux homepage
- LXDE-Sid Website
- Converting Sidux from KDE4 to LXDE
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Romanians will readily flirt with the danger of cadmium poisoning just to have a fleet of lovely yellow taxicabs — just like New Yorkers.
Among the first things you notice when you cross the border from Hungary to Romania is the explosion of sunflower yellow. Some of it is due to the yellow stripe in the Romanian national flag, but a more significant contributor is cadmium sulfide: the pigment in the yellow paint used on every taxicab in the country.
I haven't been to Bucharest since 2005 and this may have changed since their admission to the regulation-happy European Union in 2007, but on my last trip, I asked a Dacia rep about it and he told me that Cadmium Yellow was still legal to use there. This is the paint you need to achieve the rich, saturated yellow you can see on the cab above.
The problem with cadmium is that it "has no constructive purpose in the human body" according to the Wikipedia page of cadmium poisoning, and that's putting it mildly. The heavy metal will attack bones, lungs and kidneys alike with reckless abandon, leading to osteoporosis, cancer and the whole spectrum of kidney diseases.
Still, it's a lovely color. Paired with a home-brew rear wing and a sawed-off shotgun exhaust, it transforms a lowly Dacia Logan into a wicked Bucharest cruiser.
Photo Credit: Gergely "AlieN" Antal, R&F Handmade Paints


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General purpose computer algebra system: generated text databases
DescriptionAxiom is useful for research and development of mathematical algorithms. It defines a strongly typed, mathematically correct type hierarchy. It has a programming language and a built-in compiler. Axiom has been in development since 1973 and was sold as a commercial product. It has been released as free software. Efforts are underway to extend this software to (a) develop a better user interface (b) make it useful as a teaching tool (c) develop an algebra server protocol (d) integrate additional mathematics (e) rebuild the algebra in a literate programming style (f) integrate logic programming (g) develop an Axiom Journal with refereed submissions. This package contains the text databases generated during the build process used in computing the hierarchical domain structure, among other uses.
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LineageOS 15.0 unofficial custom ROM based on Android Oreo is now available for Samsung Galaxy J7 (2015). A new branding of the highly popular CyanogenMod, LineageOS 15 promises full stock experience with better performance and extensive customization choices. Follow this guide for links and steps to install LineageOS Samsung Galaxy J7 (2015) custom ROM.
Before you install LineageOS Samsung Galaxy J7 (2015)
- Create a backup of your data for when you run into some problem during the process.
- Make sure that your Samsung Galaxy J7 (2015) has at least 80% of battery life.
- Your device should be rooted.
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Step 1: Connect your Samsung Galaxy J7 (2015) to your PC using USB cable and copy the downloaded files to the internal storage of your device. Power off your device and unplug from the computer.
Step 2: Boot your Samsung Galaxy J7 (2015) to Recovery mode: press and hold Power, Volume Up and Volume Down buttons. Release them when you see the Bootloader or Fastboot menu. Use volume keys to navigate and Power button to select a choice. Select Bootloader > Recovery.
Step 3: Select Backup and Restore to perform Nandroid Backup and then go back to the main menu. Next, wipe data by selecting wipe data/factory reset. Also, wipe cache partition to perform cache wipe. Finally, Delvik Cache should also be wiped from Advanced > Wipe Delvik Cache.
Step 4: Now, select Install zip from sdcard > choose zip from sdcard from the main recovery menu. Locate the LineageOS Android 8.0 Oreo custom ROM. Select and confirm.
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Conn. package stores open New Year's Eve
HARTFORD (AP) -- New Year's Eve revelers in Connecticut will have more time to purchase their libations this year.
Due to a new law allowing retail liquor sales on Sundays, package stores will be open Sunday and Monday, New Year's Eve.
Package stores must remain closed, however, on Tuesday, New Year's Day. Also, no grocery stores will be allowed to sell beer that day.
Connecticut law allows alcoholic drinks to be served until 3 a.m. on the morning of Jan. 1 in bars, restaurants, clubs and other establishments.
However, local ordinances take precedence and may reduce those hours.
Restaurants, bars, cafes and casinos where food must be served are allowed to serve liquor on New Year's Day under their permits for normal operations.
The Sunday liquor sales bill became law in May.


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Paulo Bento gathered his players in a circle and, one by one, pointed out his penalty takers. First, João Moutinho. Then Pepe. Then Nani. Then Bruno Alves. And then, the decisive penalty, the one that would send Portugal to the second final in their history, Cristiano Ronaldo. Bento and his assistants, discussing the order and then giving the orders, were clear. His players were not. Alves went up third, only to turn back. It was Nani's turn. Nani scored. When Alves went up again, he missed. Ronaldo didn't get the chance to go up at all. His moment never happened.
After the game, Ronaldo said that the decision to take the final penalty was the manager's. Then, in front of different microphones, he said that it was the group's. He scored the final penalty against England at the World Cup in Germany in 2006 and he would have imagined a repeat when Xabi Alonso's first penalty was saved. Yet almost half (42%) of the teams that have been the first to miss this century have still won. And as for the tenth, he is the phantom penalty taker: in nine of the last ten shoot-outs at World and European championships, there has not been a 10th taker.
What Ronaldo could not achieve, Cesc Fábregas did. But his story was not the only story. The cliche talks of the drama of the penalty shootout, and it is invariably dramatic, but there has rarely been one with so much narrative as this: Ronaldo's redemptive moment removed; a first penalty missed but forgotten; the captain saving his team to keep the dream of a unique treble alive; the confusion between Alves and Nani; the final miss crashing off the bar, a moment's doubt as to whether it might have gone in; that penalty from Sergio Ramos; the symmetry for Fábregas.
Iker Casillas, the man they call Saint Iker, saved Moutinho's penalty. Andrés Iniesta and Gerard Piqué scored theirs. And then Ramos scored his ... the way he scored his. The evening before, Vicente del Bosque had recommended that those who do not normally take them practice them. Men like Piqué and Iniesta and Ramos. They practised against Pepe Reina, not Casillas: there was little psychological value for the goalkeeper in seeing penalties fly past him if he was going to face them the following night. "Oh, I suffer," Casillas said afterwards, dismissing suggestions that goalkeepers alone enjoy shootouts. "Mentally, I really suffer!"
Ramos was among those practising. He had an idea going round in his head but wasn't letting on. When he stepped forward way after midnight one image came to Spanish minds: the ball sailing into the stands in the semi-final of the Champions League against Bayern Munich, taking Real Madrid's hopes with it. The German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer commented that he had known which way some players went but hadn't known that Ramos liked to put his miles over the bar. When Bayern lost the final, Ramos took satisfaction in advising Neuer to be a little more humble next time. Still, there was fear. Then catharsis.
"Olé, tus huevos!" as they say. What balls. "Well, grinned Ramos, "I never doubted that I had them."
"Apart from the occasional joke, I had no idea that he was going to do that," Del Bosque said. "Players are brave: they have a lot to lose and nothing to gain but they stepped forward."
"Del Bosque knows I'm a bit mad," Ramos smiled. "Ramos didn't tell us that he was planning that, but from what he said [afterwards] he had been thinking about it for a while," Casillas said. "He's got real guts. Chapeau!"
"I'm not surprised that Sergio took it like that because he's been talking about it for a long time," said Alvaro Arbeloa. "But I didn't believe him."
"I didn't want to practise too many penalties like that in training in case word got out," Ramos laughed. "Maybe there'd be a camera there to catch it. I had the idea but I didn't decide to do it until I was starting my run up. You think about the situation and what could happen. I thought dinking it was the best way to beat the goalkeeper because I could see clearly that he was going to the side. I was doubting, thinking about going to my favourite side – and I'm not going to tell you which one that is in case! – but when I saw the goalkeeper so straight, so serious, I decided. I looked him in the eyes and thought I'd dink it."
Ramos was beaming, his man-of-the -match award in his hand. "This is my first," he said. "I was able to remove the thorn from my side from the semi-final of the Champions League. You're aware of the comments people make – that it's a lot pressure, that you're not equipped to take on that kind of responsibility and all that … In fact it's the complete opposite: I like to take on the responsibility." Crack under pressure? I'll show you crack under pressure.
Next up, Fábregas. The fifth and decisive penalty that Ronaldo was denied; the moment. "I was going to shoot down the middle and then at the last minute I thought: 'No, no, I'm going to go to the side'," he explained. "I changed my mind. The same thing happened against [Gigi] Buffon [in 2008]. I could see that he was going to go to one side and I changed. It's not something you control, it just happens."
"Did you know you were going to score?" he was asked. "How would I know that?" he shot back, "I'm not some psychic!" He paused. "But, yes, I did have a feeling, an intuition."
Fábregas had been thinking about it all afternoon. Remembering the past and seeing the future. In 2008, he scored the penalty that changed Spain's history forever, beating Italy in the shoot-out after a 0-0 draw in the quarter-final. "I had the feeling that it was going to happen again," he said. "I just had a sense. And, that's life, it did. It's a miracle. I was down to go second after Xabi Alonso and I said 'no, no' because I had that memory from last time and I was positive about it. I don't know how to explain it; it was kind of like a deja-vu."
Cesc stood where he had stood four years ago, on the night that started it all. He stood over the ball and talked to it; it was time to make history together. Again. And then he started his run-up.


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One evening in January 1902 on his walk around the College of St. Thomas campus, Father John Dolphin encountered a 16-year-old boy who looked cold, tired, hungry and scared.
The college's fifth president took the youth to the dining room for a hot meal and began a story whose impact still is felt on the St. Thomas campus – and throughout Catholic higher education in the Midwest – some 105 years later.
The youth, Ignatius Aloysius O'Shaughnessy, told Dolphin that the previous day, he and two classmates at St. John's University skipped Sunday vespers and headed for the woods and a hidden barrel of beer. They were nabbed upon their return to campus and expelled the next day. O'Shaughnessy was going to take the train home to Stillwater but got off in downtown St. Paul and walked several miles to St. Thomas.
One of his drinking buddies had beaten him to St. Thomas, but he had been turned down for admission after saying he thought he had been treated unfairly by St. John's. Dolphin asked O'Shaughnessy if St. John's was justified in expelling him.
"Absolutely," he said. "I knew the rule and the penalty. I broke the rule and got caught. They had to fire me."
Dolphin appreciated O'Shaughnessy's honesty and accepted him on the spot. He went on to star on the football team, serve as secretary to the president and graduate in 1907.
The decision may have seemed minor at the time, but it proved to be fortuitously providential. O'Shaughnessy became the largest independent oil operator in the United States, amassed great wealth and gave most of it away – with St. Thomas and Notre Dame as primary beneficiaries.
"St. Thomas was the beginning of dad's philanthropy with education," said his son, Larry O'Shaughnessy, who studied for two years at St. Thomas, taught here for three years after graduating from Yale University and served on the Board of Trustees. "It made sense he would turn first to St. Thomas because of all the college had done for him."
In this centennial year of I.A. O'Shaughnessy's graduation from St. Thomas, it is appropriate to look back on his remarkable accomplishments – as an entrepreneur, as a philanthropist, as a friend and counselor to four St. Thomas presidents, and as a trustee who believed fervently in the importance of a liberal arts education.
" 'Unique' is a strong word. It should be used with the greatest restraint," James Shannon, president of St. Thomas from 1956 to 1966, wrote in a Minneapolis Tribune commentary after O'Shaughnessy's death in 1973. "Having said that, I say that Ignatius Aloysius O'Shaughnessy was a unique human person. He was brilliant, tough, relaxed, determined, incisive, devout, witty, generous and a thoroughly lovely man."
The youngest of 13 children
I.A. O'Shaughnessy was born July 31, 1885, the youngest of 13 children of Mary Ann and John O'Shaughnessy, a Stillwater shoemaker. The boy who would become known as I.A., or Nashe to close friends, liked to tell how he was named.
"By the time I arrived," he told the St. Paul Pioneer Press, "mother had run fresh out of all the regular names like John, James and Joseph and, being a good Catholic, went to the calendar of Saints. So I became Ignatius." He chose his middle name at confirmation. "Aloysius is the patron saint of boys," he said, "and the sister who taught me at St. Michael's grade school had that name. I liked her."
O'Shaughnessy enrolled at St. John's in 1901. St. John's played St. Thomas for the first time in football that fall and won 16-0 behind O'Shaughnessy, who rushed for 76 yards and won a pipe from the alumni association for the longest run. "However, in those days," O'Shaughnessy later recalled, "if a student was caught smoking a pipe, he was immediately sent home."
O'Shaughnessy may not have smoked that pipe, but he did drink that beer and was expelled all the same. After arriving at St. Thomas, he made his mark on its gridiron as well and was described by the Collegian publication as "a hard, conscientious worker, and well-fitted in every respect to lead the Purple and Gray." He was captain of the 1905 team.
Dolphin thought so highly of O'Shaughnessy that he was appointed the president's secretary in 1903. O'Shaughnessy continued in that role, and later as the college's bookkeeper, under Dolphin's successor, Father Humphrey Moynihan. One responsibility was to buy uniforms for all students after the U.S. War Department made St. Thomas a military school.
O'Shaughnessy spoke fondly of his collegiate years and his appreciation for Dolphin and Moynihan, and he remembered occasions such as the holiday that was declared when enrollment reached "the magnificent sum of 200."
It is not clear exactly when O'Shaughnessy graduated. Various publications over the past century have listed 1905, 1906 and 1907 as the date of graduation, and most sources cited 1907, perhaps because he continued his studies while working for Moynihan.
From insurance to oil
In any event, it is known that O'Shaughnessy left campus in 1907 to become secretary of the St. Paul Amateur Athletic Association, the forerunner to the St. Paul Athletic Club. He met Lillian Smith at St. Mark's Catholic Church, and during their courtship he asked her if he could kiss her. "But we're not even engaged!" she said, to which he responded, "OK, then, will you marry me?" She did, in 1908, and they had five children.
O'Shaughnessy left St. Paul to join two older brothers in the insurance business in Texas. He later went on his own, establishing insurance companies in Texas and Colorado. When World War I broke out, he leased a factory in Kansas to make tires on a government contract, and in 1917 he turned to the business – oil – that made him his fortune.
He established the Globe Oil & Refining Co. of Oklahoma and found he had the "touch." He negotiated oil field leases with Indian tribes and the federal government, and pumped, refined and sold oil. With Globe and other companies that he established throughout the Great Plains area, including Lario Oil and Don Oil (named after his two youngest sons), O'Shaughnessy became known as "King of the Wildcatters."
He was "an aggressive individual who bears the reputation of always operating on a lone hand and under his own steam," the National Petroleum newsletter wrote in 1944. "I.A. O'Shaughnessy runs I.A. O'Shaughnessy's business to suit I.A. O'Shaughnessy." Even so, the newsletter went on to say, employees were loyal to him because he paid them well and encouraged them to establish a union to protect their rights. When he sold a refinery, the union thanked him "for your ceaseless effort for better working conditions for your employees." It was said that he treasured the letter as much as any honors he received.
The O'Shaughnessy's started to raise their family in Oklahoma, but Lillian missed St. Paul and once told her husband, "Nashe, I can't raise a family like this." He agreed and they moved, first to Minneapolis and then in 1928 to a house at 1705 Summit Ave., which remained his home for the rest of his life. He took trains and drove to his oil fields.
Nobody is quite sure why, but three decades after graduating from St. Thomas, O'Shaughnessy surfaced on campus in 1938 as a trustee. He may have become more interested because his three sons attended St. Thomas Academy when it was on the Summit Avenue campus. He wasted no time in making his mark by reaching an "arrangement" with Archbishop John Murray.
"Mr. O'Shaughnessy would put up a building if Archbishop Murray would do likewise," Leonard Rogge '31, who held key administrative positions for four decades, recalled in an oral history. "The building undertaken by Mr. O'Shaughnessy was O'Shaughnessy Hall."
A Christmas present to students
"Here's Your Christmas Present," the Aquin stated in December 1939, referring to the $400,000 athletics building that would open the next month. The Minneapolis Times-Tribune called him an angel and opined, "One pair of wings for Mr. O'Shaughnessy." Wrote an Aquin reporter: "When you line up a shot on the billiard table in O'Shaughnessy Hall and say to the fellow next to you, 'Gimme room, chum,' look twice, because that 'chum' may be Ignatius O'Shaughnessy, donor of the building.
"Mr. O'Shaughnessy looks forward to a dip in the pool and a workout on the handball courts. … He has already scheduled a bowling match with Father Moynihan (James, the president) as his partner against Father Flynn (Vincent, who became president in 1944) and Father Foran (James, an administrator)."
O'Shaughnessy told a dedication ceremony audience that he had long believed St. Thomas needed new recreational facilities. He recalled how the social hub of his college years was Mrs. Tilley's Stand, a farmhouse at Cretin and Grand where students bought candy and pop.
"Recognizing the importance of small private colleges in our American life and recognizing the many needs of these institutions, I have had in mind for some time to do something in that direction," he said. "It was only natural that I should turn to the institution which gave me so much in my youth. What I have done, I did in appreciation of what I have received, what my sons are receiving now … and what I hope their children will receive."
Turning to Murray, he said, "Your Excellency, I am giving this building to you without any expectation of reward in this life. It is a gift from my heart. May others follow my example!"
And others did, although it was O'Shaughnessy who primed the pump. Over the next 35 years, his gifts to `St. Thomas totaled $8.5 million ($90 million in today's dollars), including $100,000 for Albertus Magnus Hall – the 1947 building in the Murray "arrangement."
O'Shaughnessy's generosity extended to other colleges, most notably Notre Dame but also St. Catherine, Carleton, Macalester and Hamline. A $4.5 million gift underwrote construction of the Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, fulfilling Pope Paul VI's "lifelong dream." Dozens of other organizations, ranging from orphanages to hospitals to orchestras, received checks from him. Without the O'Shaughnessys, one recipient wrote in 1972, "the St. Paul Opera is a mere whisper."
Why he gave away money
O'Shaughnessy offered several reasons for giving away his money:
· "A man with money has the responsibility of putting it to good use," he told the Pioneer Press in 1956. "Money is not the most important thing in life; food, shelter and clothing can be bought with money, but the important things, health and happiness, cannot."
· He loved to joke about money. When asked what it felt like to give so much money to Notre Dame, where his contributions included $2 million for the O'Shaughnessy Liberal and Fine Arts Hall, he replied, "It gives you an empty feeling – in your pockets." After seeing "Hello, Dolly!" with Shannon, he said, "You know, that girl has the right idea. Money is like manure. It doesn't do any good unless you spread it around." Doing so was a relief because then "you don't have to worry about spending it. I've got good health, two suits of clothes and I eat three meals a day. What more do I need?"
· He knew people were impressed with, if not awed by, his money, and he tried to put them at ease. Several St. Thomas students once encountered him in a St. Paul hotel and, recognizing him from his portrait in the library, talked with him. One student acknowledged O'Shaughnessy's generosity by saying, "Well – thank you very much for the college, sir!" He just smiled: "Oh, that's all right," and waved goodbye.
At least in the case of St. Thomas, the businessman in O'Shaughnessy made sure every donated dollar was spent wisely. He followed every detail of planning and construction and even reviewed expense invoices that Rogge sent him.
Library for truly educated
He was the most involved in the construction of O'Shaughnessy Library. Shannon became president in 1956 and remembered that after his first trustees' meeting, he walked around campus with O'Shaughnessy, who asked him about the college's greatest need. "A new library," he replied, to which O'Shaughnessy agreed and said, "The library is the heart of any campus. You get an architect, and I'll build the building."
In his oral history, Rogge said he informed O'Shaughnessy the library could cost $2 million. "Cut it back to $1 million," O'Shaughnessy replied. Rogge did, but returned time after time to O'Shaughnessy for approval to fund additions that would increase the price tag to $1.6 million. He paid every penny. Shannon had told O'Shaughnessy the building would be less expensive if not designed in Collegiate Gothic architecture, and the donor said: "How much money are you putting into this building?" And so, Rogge added, "we had a Gothic library."
Costly as it was, O'Shaughnessy wanted to make a statement with elements such as the stained glass medallions of writers, philosophers and church leaders in the library windows.
"He was saying, 'We need a library that will embody the ideals of scholarship and the church,' " said John Lindley, who co-wrote a lengthy profile on O'Shaughnessy for Ramsey County History magazine in 2004. "These things are extras, luxuries even, in the construction of a building, but I.A. was willing to pay because they were important to him. It was more than four walls and a roof."
The bond of loyalty
At the dedication ceremony for the library in 1959, O'Shaughnessy spoke about St. Thomas with fondness and passion, recalling Dolphin's "kindness" a half century earlier.
"The bond of loyalty between any alumnus and his alma mater depends primarily on whether the school did for him in his youth what it promised to do," O'Shaughnessy said. "If in his mature years, he finds by experience and competition that his early instruction was sound and his youthful formation was complete, his appreciation for the school in which he was trained, and shaped, and made aware, will grow with the passing years. …
"On this happy public occasion, I can say with pride that in my youth on this campus, this vision of what was possible, for a man to attain by means of effort and grace, was put before my youthful imagination. And I shall always be grateful for the spiritual formation, intellectual discipline and the manly example that were offered to me and to my generation at St. Thomas as the means available for turning such visions into reality."
O'Shaughnessy reminisced about his discussions with the Moynihan brothers, who had longed for an "adequate" library and not just shared space in Ireland or Aquinas Halls. "I can still recall the graphic remark of Father James: 'Once a man has learned to read carefully and with discrimination, all he needs is a bibliography and a quiet place.' The heart of the campus, the college library, is at long last adequate."
Even so, O'Shaughnessy warned, the knowledge that students would attain in a library – and at the college, for that matter – would not guarantee they would be truly "educated."
"Nor will it suffice to answer for you in your later years the basic questions of life," he said. "Knowledge is necessary for wisdom, but wisdom is necessary if one is to secure himself the rewards of eternal life. This college is committed to the task of teaching you to use the means for attaining this salutary wisdom. I am proud that I have been able in some way to assist you in this search for wisdom."
Letters and telegrams of congratulation poured into St. Thomas. Nick Coleman, the 1949 Mr. Tommy Award winner who would go on to a distinguished political career, told O'Shaughnessy the library was "unbelievably wonderful…. St. Thomas will (become) the sort of center of learning that I would have had trouble getting into (particularly if I remained insistent on ending sentences with prepositions). But! The better the school, the more for me to brag about in the future."
Learning how to think
O'Shaughnessy felt just as strongly about the value of a liberal arts education. Years earlier, in laying the cornerstone for a building at Notre Dame, he said such an education enabled people to gather not only facts but to regard them "in a perspective broad enough to develop sound judgment, a sense of value, and above all, a moral sense." One would learn "how to think…. It is much better for a man to learn how to think than how to do," and he "is never going to allow anybody to teach him what to think."
O'Shaughnessy's next St. Thomas project was to assist Shannon with the separation of the college and the academy. Many opposed the idea, but "again the steady hand and cool head (and deep pockets) of I.A. O'Shaughnessy guided the discussion," Shannon wrote in his autobiography, Reluctant Dissenter. O'Shaughnessy gave $728,000 to the project and helped Father John Roach, then headmaster, raise the funds for the academy to move to Mendota Heights in 1965.
One more major St. Thomas project remained for O'Shaughnessy: a new classroom building. Monsignor Terrence Murphy identified the need for one when he became president in 1966, and O'Shaughnessy became the largest single donor ($2 million) to what was named O'Shaughnessy Educational Center when it opened in 1971.
"Doing good for others"In the last decade of his life, O'Shaughnessy received many awards. The Chamber of Commerce named him a Great Living St. Paulite in 1966, Pope Paul VI named him a papal count in 1967 (the only one in the United States) and the National Conference of Christians and Jews conferred its National Brotherhood Award in 1971.
Larry O'Shaughnessy said his father, a larger-than-life figure in public, enjoyed the attention. In business and civic life, "he always was the life of the party," his son said. "But at home, he was quiet, respectful. I guess he thought of home as a refuge, of sort, where he didn't have to be the center of attention."
On Thanksgiving eve in 1973, I.A. O'Shaughnessy died in a Florida hospital. He was 88. The wake was held four days later in the foyer of OEC, followed by a funeral Mass in the Cathedral of St. Paul and a memorial Mass in the Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Father Theodore Hesburgh, then president of Notre Dame, gave the funeral eulogy. He reflected on how St. Thomas Aquinas had said that a good man is one who knows the right things to have faith in, to hope for and to love.
"How did I.A. O'Shaughnessy meet this test?" Hesburgh asked. He talked about O'Shaughenssy's faith in God, family and friends, his hope "to do good for others" and his love of God.
"All of us can be very proud that he was a dear part of our lives," Hesburgh said. "While we will all miss him greatly – those twinkling eyes, that spontaneous smile, that great heart – both our lives and our institutions have been enriched by his presence and his great spirit, and we will long be reminded that he passed this way on his path to heaven and eternal life."


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Former netball star Sharni Layton has joined the Magpies and Chiocci said she could play anywhere on the ground.
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