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  Beryl-project.org
Beryl is an OpenGL accelerated desktop that seeks to provide a free, open source desktop experience to the community that reflects the wishes of the users.
Beryl is a combined window manager and composite manager written in C using OpenGL to provide acceleration.
Beryl is a fork of the Compiz project, started by David Reveman of Novell.
www.beryl-project.org   (445 words)

  
  Beryl - Information about the Gemstone Beryl
Beryl exists in a number of different varieties, some being better known by their own name, for example, emerald is the grass green variety and aquamarine is the sky blue variety.
While all emeralds and aquamarines are beryl, not all beryls are emeralds or aqua's.
Pure beryl is colourless, often called white, and although quite rare, tends not to be valuable because it does not have much brilliance.
www.24carat.co.uk /beryl.html   (517 words)

  
  Beryl - Gentoo Linux Wiki
Beryl also provides a copy method of compositing, which does not require any special environment or drivers, allowing it to function with older drivers without texture-from-pixmap support.
Beryl was previously available via the Gentoo xeffects overlay but has since been removed in favor of the new bleeding edge compiz-fusion (a merge of compiz and Beryl).
Beryl can be called to replace your existing window manager by right-clicking the diamond in the system notification area, pressing 'Select Window Manager', then pressing 'Beryl'.
gentoo-wiki.com /Beryl   (1150 words)

  
  BERYL MCBURNIE   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Beryl McBurnie, who was born on November 2, 1913, turned to the dancing as a child of eight.
The battle that Beryl fought to gain acceptance of the Trinidad folk dance was a long and hard one, and the wide success she eventually enjoyed, thereby helping to change attitudes, must stand among the trophies of her life.
Beryl danced for many years with a group known as "The Brisbanes", and it was at this time she became known for her own special talent in interpreting musical and rhythmic expression in folk dance.
www.nalis.gov.tt /Biography/bio_BERYLMCBURNIE_pleofcentury.htm   (1542 words)

  
 Beryl Blog
Beryl and Compiz (at least the plugins part of compiz) are now merging, in the hope of a better future.
The forums are currently at http://www.opencompositing.org and everyone currently using Beryl should check it in the next days or weeks to find information about the new merged project (setup instructions, etc) when they are available.
During the process of reorganization the decision was made to reorganize and trim the Beryl teams in an attempt to increase effectiveness.
blog.beryl-project.org   (0 words)

  
 Beryl FAQ - Beryl Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Beryl is a fork of the Compiz project, which was initiated by David Reveman of Novell.
Beryl [Dev Release] or Beryl svn is buggy?
Beryl is almost entirely written in C, frontends can be written in C or python.
wiki.beryl-project.org /index.php/FAQ/Beryl   (1464 words)

  
 Hurricane Beryl
Beryl is moving toward the northeast near 23 mph...37 km/hr...and this motion is expected to continue during the next 24 hours.
Beryl is moving toward the north-northeast near 9 mph (15 km/hr), and this motion is expected to continue tonight with a turn to the northeast by late tomorrow.
Beryl is moving toward the north near 9 mph (15 km/hr) and this general motion is expected to continue through tonight.
www.disastercenter.com /hurricane/Beryl/Beryl.html   (2836 words)

  
 NASA - Hurricane Season 2006: Beryl (Atlantic)
Beryl is moving toward the northeast near 21 mph (33 km/hr) and this motion is expected to continue with an increase in forward speed today.
Beryl is moving toward the north-northeast near 13 mph and this motion could bring the center of the storm near the southeastern coast of Massachusetts tonight (July 20) or Friday morning.
Beryl shows the classic signature of a tropical cyclone with rainbands (as shown in blue) spiraling around the center.
www.nasa.gov /mission_pages/hurricanes/archives/2006/h2006_beryl.html   (1991 words)

  
 Women in Aviation: Biography of Beryl Markham
Beryl was determined to set a new light-plane record for the trip, and, despite head winds, rainy autumn weather and the lack of a radio to keep her on course, Beryl saw no reason why she couldn't succeed.
Beryl finally decided to record her love of Africa and flying in a published book entitled WEST WITH THE NIGHT, which was released in 1942.
Beryl described the book as a combination of "the exhilaration of flight" and "a native's love for the dark heart of Africa." Rose Field described the book as "more than an autobiography; it is a poet's feeling for her land' and adventurer's response to life; a philosopher's evaluation of human beings and human destinies."
library.thinkquest.org /21229/bio/bmark.htm   (1313 words)

  
 eBay Guides - BERYL
Beryl is often unknown to the general public, even the gemstone-buying public.
Golden beryl is a yellow-green and called Heliodor, Pink Beryl is called Morganite The green beryl, emerald, tends to be infested with inclusions.
Morganite is a member of the beryl family that is named after one of the world’s wealthiest bankers and gemstone enthusiasts, J. Morganite is the pink, peach or lilac variety of the mineral beryl.
reviews.ebay.com /BERYL_W0QQugidZ10000000002569041   (931 words)

  
 Beryl Bayer's Equine Action Art
Beryl now lives in rural north central Florida: horse country, where she is inspired by the graceful strength of the areas many equine subjects.
Beryl paints with exaggerated movement and color to express the dynamics of saddled or harnessed horses, and their bond with their rider or driver.
Beryl's works are or have been displayed by the Miami Watercolor Society, the Gold Coast Watercolor Society, the Florida Watercolor Society, the American Academy of Equine Art, and the University of Texas.
berylbayer.com /index.html   (313 words)

  
 Beryls   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As pure beryl, they are colourless, but they are able on account of their structure to store various foreign substances, and it is these which give rise to the various colours, turning a plain, colourless gemstone into a green, yellow, pink or blue treasure.
The typical hexagonal beryl crystals with their often vertically striated surfaces are mainly found in the gemstone deposits of South America and those of Central and West Africa.
In particular, beryls are well suited to rectangular or square step cuts, since it takes a clear design to bring out the transparent beauty of this colourful gemstone family to the full.
www.gemstone.org /gem-by-gem/english/beryl.html   (875 words)

  
 Beryl, gemstones shopping at Multicolour.com
Beryl is the mineral and family name for the well known gemstones, emerald and aquamarine.
Beryl is a silicate mineral in which the silicate molecule combines with the metals aluminum and beryllium.
The family name beryl is used to describe stones which are not distinctly green enough to be classified as emeralds or stones where the color may be borderline between yellow and green.
www.multicolour.com /beryl.html   (523 words)

  
 BERYL (Beryllium Aluminum Silicate)
Beryl is often unknown to the general public, even the gemstone-buying public.
Beryl is colorless in pure form; it is the many different impurities that give beryl its varied coloration.
The name beryl is used for the red and golden varieties, which are simply called red beryl and golden beryl, respectively.
mineral.galleries.com /minerals/silicate/beryl/beryl.htm   (404 words)

  
 LORE: Beryl   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Most clerics of Beryl prefer the mace or the heavy mace, usually together with an enchantment that does not involve Water (although such enchantments are not necessarily forbidden).
Nearly all of Beryl’s temples are hidden in the Svirfneblin cities in the Underdark; however, at least one is known to be on the surface, in the city of Stone on Rilara.
Beryl's Geode has no divine powers as most of Her Perfection’s clerics dwell below the earth, and its arcane meanings, if any, are unknown.
nwn.layonara.com /Beryl   (604 words)

  
 MP2 Research Group - Beryl Group Minerals - Species: Beryl
Beryl occurs in several gem varieties that are avidly sought after: blue to green aquamarine, yellow heliodor, grass green emerald, pink morganite, red 'red beryl', and colorless goshenite.
Beryl is one of the oldest known minerals, though the origin of the term "beryl" is unclear.
Beryl is most commonly colorless, white, blue to green, yellow, red, or pink (Anthony et al., 1995).
www.uno.edu /pegmatology/pub/beryl/beryl.html   (567 words)

  
 Art:21 . Beryl Korot . Biography . Documentary Film | PBS
Beryl Korot was born in 1945 in New York, where she continues to live and work.
An early video-art pioneer and an internationally exhibited artist, her multiple-channel (and multiple-monitor) video installation works explored the relationship between programming tools as diverse as the technology of the loom and multiple-channel video.
In the context of Korot’s body of work, which began with her early video tapestries, "Three Tales" extends and deepens her interest in both technology as a material in which to make work — video, weaving — and as a relevant exploration of history in which to base her work.
www.pbs.org /art21/artists/korot/index.html   (213 words)

  
 Varieties and Uses of Beryl
However, impurities within the beryl give it many colors to make it the wonderful gemstone that it is. Beryl is a hexagonal mineral, with a six fold axis (Wenk and Bulakh p.
Beryl is composed of beryllium, aluminum, silicon, and oxygen.
Beryl was first found in Egypt thousands of years ago.
www.emporia.edu /earthsci/amber/go336/vogelsberg   (1121 words)

  
 Beryl - Facts, Lore, History, Myths and Pictures
Pure beryl is colorless, but it also occurs in a variety of colors including green, yellow, greenish-yellow, blue to blue-green, red, colorless and pink when tinted by impurities.
Beryls are some of the most valuable of all the colored gemstones.
Beryl is a 7.5 to 8 on the Mohs scale and is found in Colombia, Africa, Brazil, Russia, Pakistan, and California.
www.bernardine.com /gemstones/beryl.htm   (369 words)

  
 Beryl - openSUSE
Beryl is an OpenGL accelerated desktop that seeks to provide a free, open source desktop experience to the community that reflects the wishes of the users.
exec beryl and exec emerald and exec beryl-manager and
So to stop Beryl from starting you won't have to remove the file, simply disable XGL (gnome-xgl-switch --disable-xgl) and the file will be ignored until XGL is re-enabled.
en.opensuse.org /Beryl   (1152 words)

  
 Beryl Markham Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Beryl Markham (1902-1986), raised by her pioneer father in Africa, trained race horses, worked as a bush pilot, and was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic, from east to west.
Beryl Markham was born in Ashwell, Leicestershire County, England on October 26, 1902.
Because of her unique status in the tribe, Beryl was allowed to train as an equal in games of skill with the boys.
www.bookrags.com /biography/beryl-markham   (1772 words)

  
 Beryl Markham Links
The Kenyan aviatrix Beryl Markham (1902-1986) is best known for her celebrated memoir West with the Night, first published in 1942--and an international bestseller upon its republication in 1982.
Beryl made aviation history in 1936, when she became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from East to West.
In 1928 Beryl, five months pregnant, was invited to dine at Karen Blixen's house with Denys Finch Hatton and the Prince of Wales (later Duke of Windsor).
www.karenblixen.com /beryl.html   (202 words)

  
 SDNHM - Beryl
The most highly prized form of beryl is the emerald (medium to dark toned green or bluish-green).
Other beryl gems include aquamarine (light blue and light bluish-green), golden beryl (golden yellow), heliodor (yellow and brown), morganite (pink to light purplish-red), and goshenite (colorless).
Most beryl is not gemstone quality, and is used as the main industrial source for beryllium.
www.sdnhm.org /fieldguide/minerals/beryl.html   (199 words)

  
 BERYL: Factsheet & Information Page - MINERALMINERS.COM
Beryl also occurs in mica schists of metamorphic-hydrothermal deposits wherein the schists and other associated host rocks form by chemical interaction between granitic rocks or pegmatites and enclosing basic (silica-deficient) rocks.
Beryl is usually recognized by its hexagonal form and color, distinguished from quartz by its higher specific gravity, and from apatite by its greater hardness.
Beryl is also the principle source of beryllium, which is used in the manufacture of light-weight metal alloys of high tensile strength and superior hardness and fatigue resistance.
www.mineralminers.com /html/berminfo.htm   (726 words)

  
 Beryl Family Colored Gemstones Information sheet ~PGR Gems
Pink and peach morganite, named after gem collector extraodinaire J.P. Morgan; heliodor, also known as golden beryl; rare red beryl, which is as red as emerald is green; pale green beryl, which is a green version of aquamarine; and colorless beryl, or goshenite, which shows off the brilliance of this gem family.
Red beryl is the rarest member of the beryl family.
All the gemstones in the beryl family are brilliant and durable and perfect for jewelry use.
www.pgrgem.com /color/datasheets/pgrberyl.html   (448 words)

  
 Beryl Mineral Data
From the ancient Greek, beryllos, signifying a "precious blue-green color of sea water" stone, but through later usage, applied only to beryl.
Comments: Transparent Goshenite, the colorless variety of beryl with orthoclase and muscovite.
Comments: Transparent emerald, the green variety of beryl on calcite (marble) matrix.
webmineral.com /data/Beryl.shtml   (0 words)

  
 Digg - aiglx + Beryl
Not to mention, the performance of beryl is waaaaaaaaay better than that of vista.
Beryl put's it's manager for switching between beryl and metacity, and you can change the preferences and theme options from it.
Beryl takes a different track, accepting code for a lot of plugins that wouldn't meet his standards (as David said).
digg.com /linux_unix/aiglx_Beryl   (3153 words)

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