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Style # 207043
With a circle cutout at back and metallic fabric, this bebe top is sure to sculpt a perfect work-to-cocktails look. Try it tucked in a pencil skirt and top it off with a blazer that you can later remove after hours.
- 92% nylon, 8% spandex.
- Center back to hem: 23" (58 cm).
- Hand wash.
- Imported.
- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S.
Metallic Back Cutout Top is rated out of 5 by 3.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Lizabird from Great fit Although snug (M) it fit and feels real nice. I normally buy between S/M. I like that you can dress it up, or play down with demin.
Date published: 2013-02-01
Rated 5 out of 5 by yuliya from Super fast shippihg, top fits great Top fits great, looks beautiful, very nice fabric.
Date published: 2013-01-30
Rated 5 out of 5 by Kathy01 from Love this versatile top! This top fits great and you can easily wear a bra underneath without it showing through the circle cutout in the back. The metallic fabric is comfortable; not scratchy at all. It can easily be worn casually with jeans or dressed up with a skirt and jacket.
Date published: 2012-10-27


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| Transfert du pseudo-coefficient de Kottwitz et formules de caractère pour la série discrète de $\mathrm{GL}(N)$ sur un corps local
Broussous, P.
Soit $G$ le groupe $\mathrm{GL}(N,F)$, où $F$ est un corps localement compact et non archimédien. En utilisant la théorie des types simples de Bushnell et Kutzko, ainsi qu'une idée originale d'Henniart, nous construisons des pseudo-coefficients explicites pour les représentations de la série discrète de $G$. Comme application, nous en déduisons des formules inédites pour la valeur du charactère d'Harish-Chandra de certaines telles représentations en certains éléments elliptiques réguliers.
| Random Harmonic Functions in Growth Spaces and Bloch-type Spaces
Eikrem, Kjersti Solberg
Let $h^\infty_v(\mathbf D)$ and $h^\infty_v(\mathbf B)$ be the spaces of harmonic functions in the unit disk and multi-dimensional unit ball which admit a two-sided radial majorant $v(r)$. We consider functions $v $ that fulfill a doubling condition. In the two-dimensional case let $u (re^{i\theta},\xi) = \sum_{j=0}^\infty (a_{j0} \xi_{j0} r^j \cos j\theta +a_{j1} \xi_{j1} r^j \sin j\theta)$ where $\xi =\{\xi_{ji}\}$ is a sequence of random subnormal variables and $a_{ji}$ are real; in higher dimensions we consider series of spherical harmonics. We will obtain conditions on the coefficients $a_{ji} $ which imply that $u$ is in $h^\infty_v(\mathbf B)$ almost surely. Our estimate improves previous results by Bennett, Stegenga and Timoney, and we prove that the estimate is sharp. The results for growth spaces can easily be applied to Bloch-type spaces, and we obtain a similar characterization for these spaces, which generalizes results by Anderson, Clunie and Pommerenke and by Guo and Liu.
| Haar Null Sets and the Consistent Reflection of Non-meagreness
Elekes, Márton; Steprāns, Juris
A subset $X$ of a Polish group $G$ is called Haar null if there exists a Borel set $B \supset X$ and Borel probability measure $\mu$ on $G$ such that $\mu(gBh)=0$ for every $g,h \in G$. We prove that there exist a set $X \subset \mathbb R$ that is not Lebesgue null and a Borel probability measure $\mu$ such that $\mu(X + t) = 0$ for every $t \in \mathbb R$. This answers a question from David Fremlin's problem list by showing that one cannot simplify the definition of a Haar null set by leaving out the Borel set $B$. (The answer was already known assuming the Continuum Hypothesis.)
| Asymptotical behaviour of roots of infinite Coxeter groups
Hohlweg, Christophe; Labbé, Jean-Philippe; Ripoll, Vivien
Let $W$ be an infinite Coxeter group. We initiate the study of the set $E$ of limit points of ``normalized'' roots (representing the directions of the roots) of W. We show that $E$ is contained in the isotropic cone $Q$ of the bilinear form $B$ associated to a geometric representation, and illustrate this property with numerous examples and pictures in rank $3$ and $4$. We also define a natural geometric action of $W$ on $E$, and then we exhibit a countable subset of $E$, formed by limit points for the dihedral reflection subgroups of $W$. We explain how this subset is built from the intersection with $Q$ of the lines passing through two positive roots, and finally we establish that it is dense in $E$.
| The Minimal Growth Rate of Cocompact Coxeter Groups in Hyperbolic 3-space
Kellerhals, Ruth; Kolpakov, Alexander
Due to work of W. Parry it is known that the growth rate of a hyperbolic Coxeter group acting cocompactly on ${\mathbb H^3}$ is a Salem number. This being the arithmetic situation, we prove that the simplex group (3,5,3) has smallest growth rate among all cocompact hyperbolic Coxeter groups, and that it is as such unique. Our approach provides a different proof for the analog situation in ${\mathbb H^2}$ where E. Hironaka identified Lehmer's number as the minimal growth rate among all cocompact planar hyperbolic Coxeter groups and showed that it is (uniquely) achieved by the Coxeter triangle group (3,7).
| Uniform Convexity and Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás Property
Kim, Sun Kwang; Lee, Han Ju
A new characterization of the uniform convexity of Banach space is obtained in the sense of Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás theorem. It is also proved that the couple of Banach spaces $(X,Y)$ has the bishop-phelps-bollobás property for every banach space $y$ when $X$ is uniformly convex. As a corollary, we show that the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás theorem holds for bilinear forms on $\ell_p\times \ell_q$ ($1\lt p, q\lt \infty$).
| Composition of Inner Functions
Mashreghi, J.; Shabankhah, M.
We study the image of the model subspace $K_\theta$ under the composition operator $C_\varphi$, where $\varphi$ and $\theta$ are inner functions, and find the smallest model subspace which contains the linear manifold $C_\varphi K_\theta$. Then we characterize the case when $C_\varphi$ maps $K_\theta$ into itself. This case leads to the study of the inner functions $\varphi$ and $\psi$ such that the composition $\psi\circ\varphi$ is a divisor of $\psi$ in the family of inner functions.
| Umbilical Submanifolds of $\mathbb{S}^n\times \mathbb{R}$
Mendonça, Bruno; Tojeiro, Ruy
We give a complete classification of umbilical submanifolds of arbitrary dimension and codimension of $\mathbb{S}^n\times \mathbb{R}$, extending the classification of umbilical surfaces in $\mathbb{S}^2\times \mathbb{R}$ by Souam and Toubiana as well as the local description of umbilical hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{S}^n\times \mathbb{R}$ by Van der Veken and Vrancken. We prove that, besides small spheres in a slice, up to isometries of the ambient space they come in a two-parameter family of rotational submanifolds whose substantial codimension is either one or two and whose profile is a curve in a totally geodesic $\mathbb{S}^1\times \mathbb{R}$ or $\mathbb{S}^2\times \mathbb{R}$, respectively, the former case arising in a one-parameter family. All of them are diffeomorphic to a sphere, except for a single element that is diffeomorphic to Euclidean space. We obtain explicit parametrizations of all such submanifolds. We also study more general classes of submanifolds of $\mathbb{S}^n\times \mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{H}^n\times \mathbb{R}$. In particular, we give a complete description of all submanifolds in those product spaces for which the tangent component of a unit vector field spanning the factor $\mathbb{R}$ is an eigenvector of all shape operators. We show that surfaces with parallel mean curvature vector in $\mathbb{S}^n\times \mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{H}^n\times \mathbb{R}$ having this property are rotational surfaces, and use this fact to improve some recent results by Alencar, do Carmo, and Tribuzy. We also obtain a Dajczer-type reduction of codimension theorem for submanifolds of $\mathbb{S}^n\times \mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{H}^n\times \mathbb{R}$.
| Perturbation and Solvability of Initial $L^p$ Dirichlet Problems for Parabolic Equations over Non-cylindrical Domains
Rivera-Noriega, Jorge
For parabolic linear operators $L$ of second order in divergence form, we prove that the solvability of initial $L^p$ Dirichlet problems for the whole range $1\lt p\lt \infty$ is preserved under appropriate small perturbations of the coefficients of the operators involved. We also prove that if the coefficients of $L$ satisfy a suitable controlled oscillation in the form of Carleson measure conditions, then for certain values of $p\gt 1$, the initial $L^p$ Dirichlet problem associated to $Lu=0$ over non-cylindrical domains is solvable. The results are adequate adaptations of the corresponding results for elliptic equations.
| A Remark on BMW algebra, $q$-Schur Algebras and Categorification
Vaz, Pedro; Wagner, Emmanuel
We prove that the 2-variable BMW algebra embeds into an algebra constructed from the HOMFLY-PT polynomial. We also prove that the $\mathfrak{so}_{2N}$-BMW algebra embeds in the $q$-Schur algebra of type $A$. We use these results to suggest a schema providing categorifications of the $\mathfrak{so}_{2N}$-BMW algebra.

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Style # 185101
AVAILABILITY: Unavailable for immediate shipment.
Rhinestone Heart Padlock Necklace is rated out of 5 by 9.
Rated 5 out of 5 by 2drinkkim from love it love this necklace, its cute and fits perfect not cheap looking at all...
Date published: 2013-07-31
Rated 5 out of 5 by mommom2 from Very chic necklace! This is my first purchase from BeBE, I loved my necklace!
Date published: 2013-07-03
Rated 2 out of 5 by Trembert from Beautiful until... Item was beautiful online but once I received it, it wasnt s nice. Color was already changing, stones were coming off... UGH
Date published: 2013-06-08
Rated 5 out of 5 by Thequeengets from Super cute, I love it! I received it as a gift on Dec. 2012 in color gold and it still is looking like new, I have no problem with discoloration at all on the chain or the other parts. It is very eye catching and enhances any outfit simply beautiful. Only one little rhinestone in the "key" charm is missing because once I dropped it by mistake, but luckily it's not even visible because it goes behind the main piece which is the "heart". If you take care of bebe jewelry like this one, it should last you a long time like new. I keep mine inside the box it came from. Also like another reviewer said, don't wear perfume or lotion in that area of your body where/when you wear your necklace. Still loving mine so much :)
Date published: 2013-06-07
Rated 5 out of 5 by Diva49 from Nice to wear everyday. This jewlry looks as good as any expensive pieces. It has a great feel to it. People think its Tiffany.
Date published: 2013-04-13
Rated 4 out of 5 by Jenni30 from Nice length...Great look Nice and reasonable priced not like some others similar items I have came across. Nice to wear to work or for a night out on the town.
Date published: 2013-04-11
Rated 1 out of 5 by 87bebe from Disappointed!!! Was in love when I saw this necklace... So I ordered it off line, when it came I took it out the bag and a rhinestone was missing... So upset :(
Date published: 2012-10-04
Rated 1 out of 5 by riley from Initially attractive I ordered the necklace in gold and was initially impressed. The necklace became discolored after only wearing it twice. The gold coloring rubs off easily and this piece is not worth $36.
Date published: 2011-10-05


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Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein headed underground to see a series of splashy subway ads for their Broadway show "Kinky Boots," and got some unexpected reactions from the 42nd Street crowd. "One woman rushed up to Cyndi and was pushed back by a photographer," said a spy, "but the lady yelled out, 'I am not going anywhere! I lost my virginity to this woman's music!' " No word on whether she meant "Girls Just Want To Have Fun," "She Bop" or, perhaps, "Time After Time."
Cyndi Lauper encounters pushy fan
By PageSix.com Staff
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One of the joys of Europe is the continent's linguistic and cultural diversity, and that goes far beyond the 23 official and working languages of the European Union. There are a plethora of minority tongues which are now standing tall and proud, from Catalan to Guernsey Norman, which just happen to be two of the languages featured by the independent publisher Francis Boutle, who over the last few years have brought out a series of books that aim to bring marginal language literature into the mainstream. This evening, at the Irish Centre in Camden Square, Esperantists gathered for the launch of Star in a Night Sky, a bilingual anthology of Esperanto literature edited by Paul Gubbins for Francis Boutle. Both Clive Boutle from the publishers (in English) and Paul Gubbins (in Esperanto) spoke and I was gratified to see how much of the latter I understood. I briefly studied the language while I was reading Chinese and Japanese at Oxford, and indeed I was President of the Oxford University Esperanto Society, though I haven't been involved in "green star" circles for a long time. Detractors like to claim that no-one speaks the lamguage, which is manifestly untrue; there were people from Sweden, Slovakia and Slovenia, amongst others, happily chatting away in Esperanto with Brits at this evening's event and I have met keen Esperantists in Poland and Japan. Of course, Esperanto is a language of idealism, as its name implies. But the new anthology is a salutory reminder that over the past 125 years since the Polish Jewish doctor Ludwig Zamanhof invented the idiom, some interesting and sometimes moving creative literature has been crafted in it.
Link: www.francisboutle.co.uk


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Drake's of London has just the thing for dandies celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
BY Gareth Wyn Davies | 29 May 2012
OK, so £50 probably is a bit steep for what's basically a 45cm x 45cm piece of silk. But look at it this way: long after the crêpe-paper bunting has perished and next week's street parties have become a dim memory, this limited-edition jubilee handkerchief by Drake's, my favourite purveyor of handkerchiefs and ties and other gentlemanly requisites, will be going strong.
Though as blowing your nose on it seems disrespectful somehow, I think it best to use it only as a pocket square. The shame of it is, folding hides that lovely pattern. And anyway how do you fold a pocket square? I'm firmly of the just-shove-it-in persuasion myself - flat-and-square with the edge running parallel to the top of the pocket looks too prissy, even to this uptight Virgo - so I can't help you there, sorry.
I can, however, direct you to Youtube. Among all the home videos of people lancing their own boils there is more edifying stuff, such as a post called, aptly, 'How to fold the perfect pocket square' by
. It's worth watching because you will learn a) to master the art of hankie origami and b) not to go overboard with the guyliner, as the presenter seemingly has. He looks as though he's improvised with a Berol marker. Anyway, I digress. For the less patriotic, Drake's also runs to lots of other prints, a few of which are pictured below.


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Recently, when looking at a bug related to Timestamp, I found out that the valueOf() method in java.sql.Timestamp works differently in JDK 6 than the earlier versions.
Timestamp.valueOf(), when provided with a timestamp which contains a date or a month with a single digit. eg. 2009-9-20, 2009-9-3, 2009-12-4 etc., behaves differently in JDK 6 – it throws an IllegalArgumentException saying that the timestamp is not properly formatted. Whereas JDK 5 (and earlier versions) works just fine providing the proper values with '0' prefixed to those single digit numbers. However JDK 6 is fine with hours, minutes, seconds being single digits. As usual, got curious and started exploring why this happens by looking at the source code for the Timestamp class in JDK 5 and 6.
Here's the JDK 6 Timestamp.valueOf() snippet:
int counterD = 0;
int intDate[] = {4,2,2};
int counterT = 0;
int intTime[] = {2,2,12};
while(stringTokeninzerDate.hasMoreTokens()) {
String tokenDate = stringTokeninzerDate.nextToken();
if(tokenDate.length() != intDate[counterD] ) {
throw new java.lang.IllegalArgumentException(formatError);
//Commenting this portion out for checking of time
while(stringTokeninzerTime.hasMoreTokens()) {
String tokenTime = stringTokeninzerTime.nextToken();
if (counterT < 2 && tokenTime.length() != intTime[counterT] ) {
throw new java.lang.IllegalArgumentException(formatError);
The code in bold shows that there is a strict check on the length of the digits that constitute the datepart of the timestamp. The commented out source is the reason why the format of the digits in the time part is not strictly enforced.
I thought it's good to dig more into this and asked in Stack Overflow and people helped out in identifying more details: The behaviour is already filed as a bug and more info about the bug was found here. A workaround for this problem is available here.


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That is no easy question to answer. Linux 2.6 is the result of over 2 years of rapid development and stabilisation of new features, and is architectually quite different from its 2.4 counterpart. Some of the more major changes are listed below:
Joseph Pranevich has written a very detailed document,
In the past, Gentoo has instructed users to use
The above may not mean much to you, but fear not, the hard working Gentoo developers have put effort into making the migration from devfs very easy.
With Linux 2.4, chances are that you used OSS (open sound system) drivers to power your sound card. OSS has been replaced by a newer and better set of sound drivers: ALSA.
ALSA, the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, is a new set of sound drivers with a new and improved API, present in the Linux 2.6 kernel. It is backwards compatible with OSS applications, provided that you select the right kernel configuration options!
LVM support has historically been implemented in Linux 2.4. Linux 2.6 features
a new version of LVM, named
If you are not a LVM user, but you think LVM2 sounds useful for you, you can
convert your disks to this format at a later date, by following the
Some of the changes brought in with Linux 2.6 also required some changes in the base system applications. Before continuing, you should ensure that your system is relatively up-to-date, and to be perfectly sure, you should update all world and system packages where updates are available.
In particular, make sure you have the latest stable versions of the following packages:
# emerge --sync # emerge -ua world
Linux 2.6 introduces a new module format, and therefore requires new tools for
handling modules. These are bundled up into the
You should now remove modutils and install module-init-tools:
# emerge --unmerge sys-apps/modutils # emerge module-init-tools
There is no configuration involved here. Simply use
# emerge -a udev
You should now read the
When the system boots up, the system requires some essential device nodes. As udev is not included in the kernel, it is not activated immediately. To work around this, you must ensure that you have some essential device nodes on your disk.
Our installation stage files will have created the required devices during the initial installation. However, some users have reported that this is not the case. We will use this opportunity to check that the device files exist, and create them if they do not.
As your existing device manager will be mounted at /dev, we cannot access it directly. So we will bind-mount your root partition to another location and access the /dev directory from there.
# mkdir -p /mnt/temp # mount -o bind / /mnt/temp # cd /mnt/temp/dev # ls -l console null
If the above
# mknod -m 660 console c 5 1 # mknod -m 660 null c 1 3
You should now unmount your bind-mounted root partition, even if you did not have to create those devices:
# cd # umount /mnt/temp # rmdir /mnt/temp
ALSA requires you to have some packages installed, so that applications can use the ALSA API. These packages will also allow you to control the mixer and volume levels. Install the required utilities as follows:
# emerge -a alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-tools alsa-headers alsa-oss
The first thing you need to do is install sources of a 2.6 kernel of your
choice. The two Gentoo-supported 2.6 kernels are currently
In this guide, we'll use
# emerge -a gentoo-sources These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.10-r4 Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y
When performing the above
Various components of the Gentoo utilities rely on /usr/src/linux being a symbolic link to the kernel sources that you are running (or wish to compile against).
We will now update our /usr/src/linux link to point at the kernel sources we just installed. Continuing our example:
# cd /usr/src # ln -sfn linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r4 linux
Before we get stuck into configuring the kernel, I'll attempt to detail the most common errors that people make when migrating to Linux 2.6, as some of these points will influence the way you configure the new kernel.
You'll be asked many many questions, since there have been a large amount of
changes. Many people who do try a
In Linux 2.4, the only way to achieve good CD/DVD writing results was to enable
the (rather ugly)
You don't need to enable any extra options to support CD writing. Just be sure
You won't get your normal console beeps (or any response from the PC speaker at
all) unless you specifically enable the new PC speaker option
Device Drivers ---> Input device support ---> [*] Misc <*> PC Speaker support
Very recently, a new USB storage device driver has been added to the kernel. At the time of writing, this driver ("ub") is still in its early stages and some users find it to be unreliable. If you have problems accessing your USB hard disk, USB flash disk, USB card reader, or USB digital camera, then you could try reverting to the older SCSI-style driver:
Device Drivers ---> Block devices ---> < > Low Performance USB Block driver
If you have edited your
If you are a desktop 2.4 user, you may have hacked your system into running X at a higher priority, as in some cases it seems to provide better desktop performance.
There have been many scheduler changes in 2.6 which change this behaviour. If
you continue to run X at a higher priority, it will do exactly what it is
supposed to (run the
In Linux 2.6, you no longer need to renice desktop applications to get good interactivity. Please remove your "niceness" hacks!
One of the changes that a default udev configuration introduces is different
organisation of the mouse device nodes. Previously, you would have had nodes
such as
Since the old X configurations typically reference
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse No such file or directory. (EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse0" No core pointer
To correct this, open your X11 config in a text editor, and update the mouse
# nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" EndSection
If you used the original Serial ATA drivers under Linux 2.4, you probably
observed your SATA devices having names such as
Linux 2.6 introduces some new SATA drivers (libata) which are based on the SCSI
subsystem. As these drivers are based on SCSI, your SATA disks will now show up
as SCSI devices. Your first SATA disk will be named
If you used the
The developer of bootsplash appears to have lost interest in his project, given
some design problems. However, Gentoo developer
If you use
The I2C hardware drivers are now included in the Linux 2.6 kernel, no external
i2c package is required. Remember to compile support for your specific I2C
devices into the kernel configuration. You will then be able to use
As with Linux 2.4, you have two options for managing your new kernel build.
We'll now get on with configuring the kernel. Open menuconfig in the usual way:
# cd /usr/src/linux # make menuconfig
You will probably be familiar with using menuconfig from configuring 2.4
kernels. Fortunately, the front end has barely changed at all, but you will
observe much better organisation of kernel options, plus
Be sure to enable the following important kernel options:
File systems ---> Pseudo Filesystems ---> [*] /proc file system support [*] Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)
(the following are required for udev):General setup ---> [*] Support for hot-pluggable devices (the following are required for ALSA):Device Drivers ---> Sound ---> <*> Sound card support Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ---> <M> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture <M> Sequencer support <M> OSS Mixer API [*] OSS Sequencer API (and dont forget to select your soundcard from the submenus!) (the following are required if you use LVM for disk management):Device Drivers ---> Multi-device support (RAID and LVM) ---> [*] Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM) <*> Device mapper support
Also, remember to enable support for the filesystems that you use, and the
hardware present in your system. Be sure to enable support for the IDE
controller on your motherboard if you wish to benefit from fast DMA disk
access. Refer to the
Now that we have configured the kernel, we can start the compilation process:
# make && make modules_install
Wait for the kernel compilation to complete (and observe the much more readable compilation output).
The next step is mounting your
# mount /boot # cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.10-gentoo-r4 # cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.10-gentoo-r4
Note that the above instructions are examples only, you should follow your
usual procedure of updating kernels by following the instructions in the
When updating your bootloader config, do not remove the old entry pointing at your 2.4 kernel. This way, you will easily be able to switch between the two if something is not working.
Now continue onto the
If you prefer to use genkernel instead of manually configuring your kernel, you will be happy to hear that using genkernel to produce 2.6 kernels is very similar to the process you performed when producing your previous 2.4 kernel.
You should invoke genkernel as shown below:
# genkernel --udev --menuconfig --bootloader=grub all
In the above example, we also take advantage of genkernel features to open menuconfig to allow you to customise the kernel configuration (if you wish), and to update the grub bootloader configuration after compilation.
You should choose genkernel arguments that suit you, but do not forget to
include the
If you choose to update your bootloader config yourself, then you must remember
to include the
title=Gentoo Linux (2.6 kernel) root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.10-gentoo-r4 udev root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 initrd /initrd-2.6.10-gentoo-r4
Many users will additionally rely on kernel modules that are built outside of
the kernel tree. Common examples are the binary ATI and Nvidia graphics
drivers. You now need to install those modules, which will compile against the
2.6 sources found at
Refer again to the
You may have decided to compile some kernel components as modules (as opposed to compiled directly into the kernel) and would like to have them autoloaded on bootup like you did with 2.4. Also, if you installed any external modules from the portage tree (as described above) you will probably want to autoload them too.
You can achieve this similarly as to how you did with 2.4. Simply open up the
# nano -w /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
# /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6: kernel modules to load when system boots. # # Note that this file is for 2.6 kernels. # # Add the names of modules that you'd like to load when the system # starts into this file, one per line. Comments begin with # and # are ignored. Read man modules.autoload for additional details. 3c59x nvidia
Fortunately, upgrading from the LVM1 user tools to the LVM2 versions is very simple:
# emerge --unmerge lvm-user # emerge lvm2
It's now time to boot into Linux 2.6. Close all applications and reboot:
# umount /boot # reboot
When you reboot, if you followed this document correctly so far, you will have the option of either loading Linux 2.4 or Linux 2.6 from your bootloader. Choose Linux 2.6.
Once the system has booted, check that things are working. If you made a
mistake in the kernel configuration, don't worry, you can skip back to the
We will now complete the ALSA configuration and unmute the audio channels. The ALSA packages provide a useful utility to make this process relatively simple:
# alsaconf
The process is straightforward: allow the
You should now add
# rc-update add alsasound boot
At this stage you should refer back to the
By now you are running Linux 2.6 and hopefully have all issues ironed out. You should now update your Linux kernel header files and re-merge glibc so that userspace applications can take advantage of new Linux 2.6 features.
# emerge -u linux-headers
After updating your headers package, you should generally re-merge glibc.
There is a new feature here that you may be interested in - NPTL. NPTL is a new
threading model present in Linux 2.6, which features much quicker thread create
and destroy times. This won't make much of a difference to most systems, but
you may wish to enable it during this migration process! To enable NPTL, edit
Now re-merge glibc (you should do this even if you did not choose to enable NPTL).
# emerge -a glibc
If you enabled NPTL, existing binaries will not use it until they are
recompiled. However, any binaries compiled from this point onwards
# emerge -e world
Alternatively, you can just let your system "naturally" convert itself to NPTL as you update to newer versions of packages when they are released.
With the incredible amount of work that went into Linux 2.6, it is sometimes inevitable that things which used to work fine, no longer function as expected.
If you have any problems with your 2.6 kernel, and you can confirm that this
problem does not exist with Linux 2.4, then please open a bug with us on our
Hopefully you have just completed a smooth migration and you are enjoying the benefits which Linux 2.6 brings over 2.4.
I would like to say a word of thanks to the many users who effectively 'tested' this document while it was in its early stages, and provided feedback about how the migration process went. Sorry that I did not reply to all the emails (there were a lot!), but I did read every one, and refined this document where appropriate. Enjoy your 2.6-enhanced systems :)
After you have been running 2.6 for a while, you may decide that you no longer
have any requirement to be able to use Linux 2.4. The steps you can take to
clean up your system are detailed below.
The 2.4 kernel source code can be removed, using the emerge utility as usual. For example, assuming you have 2.4 versions of vanilla-sources and gentoo-sources installed, you could use the following command to remove them while keeping the 2.6 versions intact:
# emerge --unmerge =vanilla-sources-2.4.* =gentoo-sources-2.4.*
Portage will not completely clean out your 2.4 kernel source installations, because some temporary files are created during compilation. It is safe to remove these remnants with the following command:
# rm -rf /usr/src/linux-2.4.*
You can additionally remove modules and information files relating to your old 2.4 kernel installations, as these are no longer needed.
# rm -rf /lib/modules/2.4.*
The 2.4 kernel binaries you used to boot from can also be safely removed. You
should mount your
Some Linux 2.4 users will have previously installed the
The devfs management daemon,
# emerge --unmerge alsa-driver i2c devfsd
If you are LVM2 user, you may wish to convert your data into the LVM2 data
format in order to benefit from the advantages which LVM2 provides. However,
this operation will prevent you from ever accessing your LVM data from a 2.4
kernel. If you want to continue with the conversion (this is totally
optional!), then you should examine the
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Cinco de Mayo is a fun day to celebrate ... with dance ... crafts and food. Whether you are of Mexican heritage or not, it's still a time to get in on some fun. Let's get ready for a Mexican Hat dance and celebrate Cinco de Mayo with this fun Boot sandwich. This sandwich is a sure hit to celebrate the day. We included a pattern for the boot sandwich parts. Although this is not a difficult sandwich to make the angles need to be cut right to resemble a boot. Trust me.
For the Boot:
- 4 slices dark brown bread
- Orange pepper
- Cucumber
- Yellow pepper
- Red pepper
- Sandwich filling
Trace pattern onto paper, or photocopy, for boot sections and then cut out to use as templates. Remove crusts from bread and then using 2 slices at a time, cut out boot pieces. Make the heel from the orange pepper and cut the "spur chain" from yellow pepper. To make the spur, first cut out a large circle from a red pepper slice. Then, make "V" cuts to form the actual spur.
Cut a cucumber slice in two and use this to make the curved top of the boot. Garnish plate with cucumber slices. Yee Haw!
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Thandie Newton: 'Kung Fu Panda 2' Premiere with the Kids!
Thandie Newton attends the UK premiere of Kung Fu Panda 2 held at the Vue Westfield on Sunday (June 5) in London, England.
The 38-year-old British actress brought along her two daughters Ripley and Nico, as well as one of their pals, to the premiere.
Thandie's film Retreat is set to be released later this year.
The thriller is about a couple (Newton and Cillian Murphy), who "escape from personal tragedy to an Island Retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a Man is washed ashore, with news of airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe."
10+ pictures inside of Thandie Newton at the premiere with her kids…


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Prohibition by Price
The recent success of Ken Burns' newest documentary, "Prohibition," has Americans wondering how our nation could have been so foolish as to try and outlaw alcohol. Prohibition resulted in widespread lawlessness, inhibited honorable commerce, strained police resources and risked lives of bootleggers and civilians alike.
While we rarely hear calls for the explicit prohibition of cigarettes today, politicians in Olympia, Washington and other state capitols routinely practice "prohibition by price." That is, they are attempting to drive the price of a legal product so high with "sin" taxes ($3.02 per pack in Washington) that cigarettes are becoming — for all practical purposes — a prohibited product, and with all of the unintended consequences. Last month a state senator introduced a proposal to drive the price even higher with a new $1.00 per-pack tax hike.
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The unintended consequences of which we speak include smuggling, violence against property and people (including police); government corruption and distribution of dangerous, adulterated products. Potentially worse, in several instances across the country cigarette smuggling has been used to generate profits for known terrorist groups such as Hezbollah. The state of Washington will only exacerbate these types of problems if it were to adopt the most recent proposal.
We have spent years studying the effects of excise taxes on cross-border economic phenomena and have twice published full statistical analyses of cigarette taxes and smuggling. We estimated in 2010 that more than 31 percent of all cigarettes consumed in Washington in 2009 were illicit, but that figure leapt to 43 percent when the state hiked taxes from $2.02 to $3.02 per pack.
Because Olympia pols are giving serious consideration to another $1.00 excise tax hike we re-estimated our model to reflect the proposed increase. The output shows that raising taxes by $1.00 per pack would increase cigarette smuggling to more than 53 percent of the total market.
This is a staggering amount of smuggling — an estimated 119 million packs of cigarettes annually. Based on our 2010 study results this would give Washington the highest smuggling rate in the country. What is all the more remarkable is that the figure would be nearly 5 percentage points higher if we had not subtracted out cigarettes from Washington state that are smuggled into Canada (Canada's taxes are higher still).
Of course, smuggling illicit products across international and state borders is hardly the only parallel that can be drawn between cigarette prohibition and the actual era of Prohibition. Other examples include the involvement of organized crime; violence against law enforcement; theft; the sale of adulterated products (such as bath tub gin then and counterfeit cigarettes today partially filled with sawdust); and police corruption. Just last October, eight former and current duty cops in New York were arrested for cigarette smuggling, among other crimes.
In March, 2011 a federal corrections officer pleaded guilty to taking bribes for smuggling cigarettes into a prison. If government can't keep illicit cigarettes out of prisons, how can pols in Olympia expect to thwart massive smuggling of contraband smokes into the state?
The one major difference between alcohol Prohibition and today's illicit smuggling activities involves the use of smuggling profits in financing terrorist organizations. Last December United States Congressman Peter King of New York wrote in an Op-Ed for the website Politico.com that one federal investigation found "far too many examples" of a "terrifying nexus between cigarette smuggling and terrorism."
In our last study we also detailed this connection and reported on an instance where Michigan-based smugglers actually imposed a 25 cent "resistance tax" on cartons of contraband smokes designed to support in part the Hezbollah resistance movement..
If alcohol Prohibition taught us anything, it is that consumers and taxpayers are not sheep lining up to be sheared. People will adjust their behavior based on the incentives they face. Unfortunately, those incentives often lead to harmful consequences that may outweigh any good government hopes to accomplish with its policies.
Legislators in Olympia should reject the latest cigarette tax hike grab in the name of public safety, among other reasons.
Related Articles:
Updated Research Affirms Link between Cigarette Taxes and Smuggling
High Cigarette Taxes Lead to More Smuggling
The Cost of High Cigarette Taxes
Strong Link Between Cigarette Tax and Illegal Smuggling Rates


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Category: Religious News
Church Shelter
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — Concordia Lutheran Church, a small Missouri Synod congregation in Williston, N.D., has 30 to 40 job-seekers sleeping in its building on a typical night, with dozens more staying in their vehicles in the church parking lot.
Since May of last year, some 450 people — primarily men — have slept inside the church while they searched for work and housing. New arrivals to Williston are often unprepared for the city's severe housing shortage driven by the influx of people looking for oil jobs.
Guests are allowed access to Concordia's church building no earlier than 9 p.m. unless they're part of a Bible study. Doors lock at 11 p.m., and everyone needs to be out of the building and parking lot by 8 a.m. They also take turns doing cleaning chores each morning.
Concordia's pastor, the Rev. Jay Reinke says the unfamiliar men make some church members and neighbors uncomfortable, but some of the overnighters have taken classes to join the church, and two of them have been baptized.


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Becoming an LGBT Welcoming Congregation: A Drive Time Essay
Recently, I presented a smaller congregation with the certificate for becoming a Welcoming Congregation. This congregation was, and is, remarkable in many ways. This was the first time I could remember preaching where there were no out bisexual, gay, lesbian, and/or transgender (LGBT) people in the pews that Sunday—nor any who had endeared themselves to the congregation or who had agitated them through the Welcoming Congregation process. This was a group of straight people who had worked on homophobia because it was the right thing to do.
Secondly, this congregation not only wanted its certificate but wanted to know what to do next. In the several months since, they've distributed information to libraries and counseling centers and are having continued conversations about what else they can do.
This congregation has experienced a conversion. A conversion that revolves around moving from a lack of faith to religious belief.
Let me paint a picture.
A lesbian hears inclusive language in the worship services at her congregation sometimes, but not always. She has been asked if she has a husband, has never seen two people of the same gender hold hands at any church function, and sees only one person who is not straight—a gay man—in leadership. He leads the choir and everyone knows he's gay and he's funny, and he knows a lot about music.
The congregation has a non-discrimination clause, teaches Our Whole Lives to the children, and has had a neighboring gay minister come to preach. They'll gladly vote on any resolution that comes their way, expressing indignation at blatant homophobia in the community.
But when this woman suggests that the congregation might undertake the Unitarian Universalist Association's (UUA's) Welcoming Congregation process, she meets resistance. She is told that the congregation is welcoming. And that's true when you compare it to the rest of the world. However, without words, her suspicions are confirmed. She does not feel good about the conversation.
What she has just experienced is a lack of faith. In many ways, I believe this is the most common form of oppression that bisexual, gay, lesbian, and/or transgender people face in our movement. When she brings it up, she gets told the oppression is not there.
The lesbian knows homophobia and heterosexism so well—so well that it becomes instinctive and thus beyond words. She assumes that the straight folks have some reference point that will allow them to understand. The straight folks know privilege so well and assume this person, who looks like them, must have the same privileges too. They think she must be whining.
The experience of the lesbian, probably without her knowing it, has been invalidated by the straight people. They have trusted their experiences over hers and have gotten defensive about it. She gets defensive back and suffers from what feels like a lack of faith.
She gets quiet—perhaps after being angry—but she gets quiet. The silence is interpreted as acquiescence. The silence is the oppression she knows so well. She may be invited to do other things
—to teach RE, serve on a committee, do a reading during the service. Anything but force the issue onward.
In this case, conversion will happen when people are able to step outside of themselves and let her experience be hers and, most importantly, let it be real. A lack of faith becomes belief—belief that the human in front of you is sharing her story. Listening to her and honoring her experience allows her humanity. In that moment, both the straight people and the lesbian turn from a lack of faith and toward religious belief.
The converted welcome these conversations because they know how to listen. They know that not everyone sees the world as they do. The converted learn from these experiences, being grateful for seeing the world in a different way.
About this Essay
Audio Essay Series: Volume 1, Track 12 (MP3, 4:29 minutes)
Author: The Reverend Keith Kron
Date of Release: June 23, 2005
About the Drive Time Essay Series
This Audio Essay series was created by the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, for the purpose of supporting its valued lay leaders. Copying and sharing these essay texts, downloadable audio files, and the companion Lay Leader Drive Time Essays compact disc is welcomed and encouraged.
Comments or suggestions? We welcome your ideas about this Audio Essay series and your lay leader questions. Please send them to Don Skinner, the editor of InterConnections, a resource for lay leaders: interconnections [at] uua [dot] org.


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Drudatz wrote:- No-No's Ability Beaver Dam not only blocks your attacks but his own too
Chromepeacock wrote:My fluxfire feline was like that but after it got killed and revived next battle it was fine, all abilities showed up
NathKnave wrote:Not a bug, but probably a fix: The dragonkin racial applies for only one round like the tooltip says instead of the two rounds it always used to.
Jalad wrote:Edit: Nevermind, I tried switching up the order of my team (Kun-Lai Runt was first) and that seemed to do the trick.
Anyone else not getting credit for fighting some of the legendary pets? I have fought Ka'wi three times now, and it won't credit me. I do NOT want to abandon and fight them all over again for the day, he's my second to last
Ryazan wrote:E: Tooooo slow with the beaver dam.
Few other bugs:
- Gusting Grimoire is Uncommon but this is said to be hotfixed "soon".
- A lot of ability animations have been speed up but they are a bit out of sync.
- Elite pet experience gain is low, but it's not yet known whether this is intended or not.
Mykro9 wrote:Any chance we can ticket this and get the stone back?
Jaladar wrote:So far the issue I have is with my Anubisath Idol....He is a rare level 25, yet all of his abilities are locked except Crush. The rest of my team appears ok, but I haven't been through all of my pets yet. Anyone else seen this issue? I restarted WOW but no change.
I should note--they are only locked out while in battle-- I can see them and change them just fine when out of battle.
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Ambassador Cam, #39: The Skeleton Rises
As the LAUSD prepares to break ground on a new, tiny pocket park and Bobby Kennedy memorial at the Ambassador site (see Curbed LA for full details), construction has already begun on what appears to be the high school portion of the site's three-school complex.
Curbed L.A. had more details last month:
The scope of the project includes a K-3 School, a 4-8 Middle School, and a High School, for a total of 4,624 students. The 92,000-square-foot K-3 building will accommodate 1,150 seats within 46 classrooms on three floors. The school will be located on the Ambassador Hotel site. The 4-8/High School building will accommodate 3,474 seats within 130 classrooms on six floors. The area is 382,000 square feet, and the rehabilitated Cocoanut Grove building is an additional 48,410 square feet of enclosed and covered areas.
The proposed subterranean parking structure will accommodate a total of 442 parking spaces on two levels for faculty and administrative staff. Playfields for the proposed 4-8/HS will be constructed above the parking structure. The scope also includes construction of a gymnasium building. This structure will accommodate the gymnasium court for grades 6-8 and Central Plant equipment on the first floor, and a gymnasium court for grades 9-12 on the upper level. This is one of the first LAUSD schools with an extensive public art program.
Yes, you'll notice that the main, high school building has been designed to emulate the old Ambassador. But it's pretty much a token gesture.


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Grab a cuppa, get comfy - and let's talk about living as a Square-Peg in a round-hole world.
Consider this your grace space, where we connect around what's right with you, not what's wrong with you!.
Grab a cuppa, get comfy - and let's talk about living as a Square-Peg in a round-hole world.
Consider this your grace space, where we connect around what's right with you, not what's wrong with you!.
Posted on Saturday, 08 June 2013 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
What's wrong with what's right? Well…let me tell you a story:
Awhile ago I was posting #whatsright photos on Instagram (and sometimes Facebook) often, as reminders to myself of what's right in my life, because -
over the past ass-chilling winter (it's now boob-sweating summer) I noticed that I was having a very easy time noting (loudly - and repeatedly) what was wrong in my life (and in the world, and in the universe, and and and), but not such an easy time noticing what was right - even when what was right was right in front of my face. I wrote about that in a post called (interestingly enough) What's Right.
So I was flowing along, posting my #whatsright photos, when I got stuck.
One day (a less-than-thrilling day) I noticed that I was planning my #whatsright post in a way that felt odd (very odd - even fake). I wasn't feeling the #whatsright - I was just trying to force myself to see (or at least talk about) something nice.
Ewwww! It wasn't my intention to paste something fake and fluffy on top of yuck. #whatsright started out as a helpful gratitude-ish practice and I wanted it to stay that way!
I needed to stop doing #whatsright posts in order to figure out what was wrong with what's right (at least the way I was doing it) - so I did (stop, that is). It took awhile, but I figured it out (whew).
The problem was - I'd forgotten AND! First (during the ass-chilling winter) I was all about the grumble, then (after I'd been putting up #whatsright photos for a bit) I was all about the oooooohahhhhhsweet.
But life isn't all one or all the other - it's a mix of manure and flowers (metaphorically speaking). <- read Chicken Poop for more thoughts on the inevitability of poop.
Back in the aforementioned ass-chilling winter it was important for me to pay attention to (and start looking for) what was right, since I'd been focusing on only what was wrong. But I didn't need to try to turn everything into something right (pasting #whatsright on top of what sucked) - all I needed was AND.
In order for me to honestly (and whole-heartedly) see, and share, what's right in my life (I bet this is true for you too) I needed to allow AND. I needed to notice what's right (true, beautiful, sweet, green, moist, lovely) AND what's argh, grrrr, and ohfuck (and even ohfuckityfuckfuck). All of it!
I don't always have to share both sides of the AND, but I have to be aware of them both (which, ironically, is how #whatsright started).
Hmmmm, I think I'm ready to go back to posting #whatsright photos now! Come visit me on Instagram, and tag me (@squarepegkaren) if you post a #whatsright photo so I can see what's right with YOU!!
Posted on Tuesday, 09 June 2015 in Encouragement, Mindfulness, Self-care, Those Challenging Emotions | Permalink | Comments (2)
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Jump, I signed up for The Great Discontent's #the100dayproject - committing myself to play with watercolors for, well…100 days.
I even set myself up with a playfull hashtag: #100daysofWCplay, using the initials WC because they are an abbreviation for water closet/toilet.
Well, here we are 50 days into the project (half way! half way!) - and I'm more than a little amazed at my consistency (flabbergasted, actually) because I've honored my commitment every day (night, to be truthful) - even when I've felt far from motivated.
The thing is, I committed myself to doing the #the100dayproject for self care reasons:
1) I needed more play in my life (play is vital for my Self, ab-soul-utely vital - but I often put it off, there's always something to get to first and then - ohmy, I'm too tired, how about tomorrow?),
and 2) I can always use more (ok, some - any) consistency in my life - and consistency is so much easier (for me, anyway) when there's some form of accountability involved. #the100dayproject was a perfect fit with my needs!
When I talked to myself about watercolor play, the word "play" sounded suggestive of ease (and easiness), but in reality (at least for me) it's tethered to trouble.
Some of the troubles that've troubled me while I've been playing with watercolors are:
Allowing myself to look like a pre-beginner -
or, as the voices in my head say: "a kindergarten flunk out" - is it obvious that I've still got problems with this?
Trying to keep from making this "the only thing" -
…which I am wont to do with new creative pursuits (anyone remember Toad, from The Wind in the Willows - for whom each new pursuit/hobby/interest became "the only thing", sucking up all his money and time?).
Being consistent -
soooo easy to say: "Today was a busy day, I'll catch up tomorrow" - which is a default for me, and makes it so easy to let things slide for a LONG time.
And mostly, trying to keep it FUN - just a joyful adventure while learning a thing or two.
It's so easy for me to get lost in all there is to learn - lost in excitement about all the possibilities, which can lead to overwhelm - or with the need to get an A++++ (ohgod, the eternal drain of good grades and being told "you can do anything") before I've even begun. Sigh.
What are the troubles that trouble YOU when you're playing - or doing your favorite self care?
Remembering, and actually doing the things that constitute self care (which isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition - we all need different things) isn't always easy, there are so many other things to do - but WOW, so worth it! I'll tell you about some of the benefits that I received in a future post.
The photos above are from my watercolor play time (they're my favorites - the "good" ones; there are plenty of awful ones - that's how play is). If you'd like to see all of my watercolor play photos (hey, it might give you a giggle - or inspiration to create without worrying about results), visit me on Instagram (or on Facebook, if we're friends there - and if not, you can send me a friend request).
P.S. I don't usually (or ever) put the #whatsright hashtag thingy on the photos for the #the100dayproject, but the whole thing has been so right!
P.P.S. If you want some ideas for self care (I've stored up plenty because I'm always needing them!), check out Community is an Inside Job in the Square-Peg Shop - it's all about Self Care, and filled with good!
I've included one of the recordings, Building a Self-care (Love Thyself) Toolbox (as a gift) right on the page linked above - go have a listen!
Posted on Monday, 25 May 2015 in Creativity & Process, Encouragement, Self-care | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I said I would "do writing" this morning - even got up early for that very purpose. What did I actually do?
Gathered some laundry and threw it in the washer (it was needed - can't go without underdrawers! Well, I can - and have - but it's a good drying day for laundry).
Spent a decent amount of time perusing the sales page of a vibrant writing class (even while knowing that my funds are limited at the moment) because - words! (and, you know - inspiration). I cooked myself breakfast (a rare treat) and wrote up a list of to-dos for next week (it's a damn busy week - no way I could keep track of it without some kind of list),
and checked out the price on a pair of much-needed shoes (my feet have been killing me; I need particular shoes to keep the pain at a minimum <-truth!),
did yoga - haven't done yoga in weeks; I really needed to get back to it because when I don't do yoga it affects my sleep - and contributes to my foot pain.
I got dressed and put on my eyebrows
(I have none - and folks without eyebrows have a scary kind of look that I didn't want to have today. Fact: I have eyebrows, they're just not where they're meant to be. I have a lot of them between my eyelashes and eye crease, in that space known as my eyelid, also some in approximately the middle of my forehead - just don't have any on my brow line; unless you count the few white ones that grow long and stick straight out)
because I have an errand to do later today and I didn't want to head out naked and eyebrowless.
I checked the weather - and rechecked it because I forgot what I read the first time (that's how I found out that it's good clothes drying weather).
And now it's getting close to time to head out for that errand, so instead of getting started with writing knowing I'll have to stop soon (probably right when I get into the groove) I think I'll practice my language skills (on Duolingo - do you know about Duolingo? It's a fantastic, free, language learning program).
And other stuff - I did other, less important, stuff too - plenty of it.
If writing brings you clarity, heals you, connects you to yourself, others, ALL (as it does for me), I'd love to know what you do instead of writing. Care to share?
Photo: mine (Karen); filter: Moku Hanga App
It took the rose pictured above about 8 years to finally bloom - and it had to shoot out a 6 ft. long, thorny branch to bloom on (past the tall grasses, planted after it - that went wild and kept it from enough sun). May we have that kind of steadfastness, grit, endurance, fortitude, COURAGE to bring our writing(s) to bloom (thank you, Thesaurus)!
Want to hear (and/or read) stories that bring you awareness, allowing, acceptance and appreciation (i.e. celebration!) - of yourSELF! As you are. Now!
Yeah? Good! Then check out Square-Peg Celebration: Stories of Acceptance and Grace.
There's a gorgeous 47-page pdf including the essays, Slightly-British Daughter's gorgeous photography, and inspiring quotes - plus a recording of each essay! (see: hear and/or read!)
What are you waiting for? Go on over and listen (there's a free mp3 sample!).
Posted on Saturday, 16 May 2015 in Creativity & Process | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Subtitled: A bizarre bookstore, a delightful parenting book, a wild-wonderful book about poetry, and me falling in love with Books (again).
For the past couple years my relationship with Books has been in a lull.
I've read articles and blog posts more than books, and the books I have read I've read on Kindle or Blio - not in-your-hand books. Until these books.
All of a sudden I'm remembering how much I love holding an actual book, how good they smell, how I can love them so much that I get antsy and wrapped in anticipatory grief as I get close to the end of a good one. I think Books and I will be hanging out more frequently in the near future.
I'm going to tell you about the books that I'm loving (it'll take a few blog posts), starting with the delightful parenting book, Parenting with Presence.
Maybe I've misled you by calling this parenting book "delightful", what it closer to fact is: I was full of delight as I read it.
I'm rarely a fan of parenting books because I've seen too many that speak with the voice of Authority (that ugly, bossy, above-you, shame-on-you-dipshit, voice).
This one is different (which is why I was full of delight while reading it). It's gentle and deep, very practical, full of stories and activities/practices. And the author, Susan Stiffelman, MFT, speaks with the voice of Real (not mean, old Authority). Also, (the best part) you can hear love in her voice!
Obviously, with the title Parenting with Presence, this book is for parents (young 'uns, not adult children). My children are adults (the youngest turns 25 in about a minute), but still I found this book interesting (and delight-full, as I mentioned) because it's about relationships and presence.
Stiffelman writes about children being our best teachers, which sounds cliche - but isn't in this book (you've got to read it to see how she does this). She writes about things you don't often see written about in non-shaming ways, like anger (parents' and child's) and disappointment in parenting (there's a whole chapter, called Throw away the Snapshot, that delves into that subject - with a crap-ton of wisdom).
At the end of book the author predicts that "the world will be populated with more and more people who grew up feeling seen, appreciated, and enjoyed" as many people begin "parenting with greater presence, attunement, and engagement" That sounds good, right?
If you're a fan of Eckhart Tolle (can't say I'm a fan because I've only read one of his books, The Power of Now - but there was a page in that book that I read over and over and over - and will tell you that if it didn't literally save my life during a terribly hard time - it certainly saved my sanity) you might be interested to know that the publisher of Parenting with Presence says: "The book is an inaugural title in Eckhart Tolle's new publishing imprint with New World Library, which features books hand selected by the bestselling author of The Power of Now for publication".
Upcoming books I'll be sharing the love about in future posts:
~ ~ ~ ~Full Disclosure: The publisher of this book, New World Library, sent me a copy of the Parenting with Presence to consider for review; I did not receive money for the review. Also, Square-Peg People is affiliated with Amazon.com, which means that when you buy from the link above you don't pay a penny more, but you help support Square-Peg People. Thanks!
Posted on Saturday, 09 May 2015 in Books | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
I'm ready to jump in!
Well, it's a bit cold to jump into Lake Luxembourg (pictured above), plus you're not actually allowed to swim there, so I probably wouldn't jump in even if the temps were higher, but I'm ready to jump
into Spring,
into fun,
into some consistent online socializing.
And look what I found to help me jump -> TWO super cool Instagram-centric gatherings:
Starting April 1st there's Susannah Conway's April LOVE photo challenge.
During the ass-freezing Winter (just now passing), when I was seeing the same four walls seemingly ALL THE TIME, I grew weary of attempting to find fresh things to photograph ("That wall? Again??"); I am so looking forward to having prompts that help me focus/find things to photograph and share on Instagram - and super excited about checking out other people's photos.
There are also a whole bunch of folks connected with this gathering who'll visit my email box (yours too, if you sign up) through the month of April with self-love stories and inspiration - YES!
Then there's Elle Luna & The Great Discontent's 100 Day Project - which is described as: "...a celebration of process that encourages everyone to participate in 100 days of making."
Starting April 6th I'm going to play with watercolors for 100 days. I've always been drawn to watercolors, yet it's rare for me (three/four times in the past 10 years) to get my set out and experiment. That is about to change! P.S. I'm on the hunt for watercolor tutorials for newbies, so if you know of any please share in the comments!
Spring is shaping up as FUN!
Want to join me? The water's warm (metaphorically speaking) and these gatherings are no cost, plus (imho) I think that participating in them is guaranteed to establish some new online friendships (cool, right?).
Want to hear (and/or read) stories that bring you awareness, allowing, acceptance and appreciation (i.e. celebration!) - of yourSELF! As you are. Now!
Yeah? Good! Then check out Square-Peg Celebration: Stories of Acceptance and Grace.
There's a gorgeous 47-page pdf including the essays, Slightly-British Daughter's gorgeous photography, and inspiring quotes - plus a recording of each essay! (see: hear and/or read!)
What are you waiting for? Go on over and listen (there's a free mp3 sample!).
Posted on Monday, 30 March 2015 in Creativity & Process | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I'm not a fan of Winter.
Last year we had broken water pipes, our electric went out during a couple storms (uh oh, water in the basement and no sump pump), and our oil burner suffered a shit load of problems (the repair guy was out so much he began to seem like one of the family).
Winter makes me nervous. There's less light here in Winter, too - which just adds to my seasonal angst/grouchiness.
In an effort to open myself up a bit (you know how, when you're IN something unpleasant, you can curl up and close down somewhat? I've been doing that - sigh) - and also to increase my connection (I feel guilty about not being here on the blog for such a long time -- and I so miss talking with you!), I started doing something I'm calling what's right.
On February 6th I shared this on Facebook:
Consider: I've whined and growled at oil burner problems a number of times here on FB, and could probably have told you the number of days the heater was acting up (when it was), but today - with ass-freezing temperatures outside, and the heater, down the hall from me, humming along doing its job - I realized that I can't tell you how long the heater's been running smoothly.
And I may not have mentioned that the heater problems earlier this year led me to an incredibly solid, caring, and super-service oriented oil burner repair company.
I want to bring that seeking and paying attention to what's right thing into ALL of my life!
After posting that I started to document (daily) what's right in my life. NOT as an effort to drown out, or ignore, what's wrong or pissy - just to widen my perspective - see more than just what was annoying/angsting/scaring/depressing me.
I've been sharing photos and little notes about what's right in my life on Facebook and Instagram - using the hashtag #whatsright - and I would love to have you join me. <3
p.s. the purple flowers in the picture above remind me of the Albert Camus quote: "In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer." YES!
Posted on Tuesday, 17 February 2015 in Encouragement | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sarah O'Leary shares about making a big change - and the guidance that led her. Please enjoy Sarah's contribution to our holiday encouragement series, Support Stories:
The Voice
Fir needles crunched beneath my feet, and the faintest whiff of their sharp, sweet aroma wafted through the summer air. My feet felt solid and good, coming down one after another along this narrow trail. My breathing deepened as the trail began to climb, I glanced up at the screech of a birdcall.
For those few seconds I felt connected, present to the wilderness surrounding me. Then, immediately my mind floated off, racing into the past. The same old whining stories began to reverberate in my brain.
What am I doing with my life? Should I move? Where? How can I possibly to do it without any money? When I get back we're going to hit the same old walls, but we won't really argue we'll just reach for the wine. And then we'll feel better. And then I'll feel worse. There's no opportunities for me in that town. But where can I go. How can I possibly make it on my own? Why aren't I more proactive in building my business? Why haven't I done more yet? Why aren't I there yet? What's wrong with me?
The circular train of thought was familiar, not in a comfortable way, more like a frustrating way. But still, there's a measure of comfort in familiarity.
I'd circle and circle, knowing something had to change, but feeling totally blocked on how I could make it happen. In the usual pattern my mind would then flit away and light on something new – maybe a friend's problem, or a party I'd be attending that weekend. And I'd run away from the pain.
Today something different happened.
As I wound around a bend in the path, waxy rhododendron leaves brushing my arms, a voice spoke up so loudly I nearly wheeled around to see if another hiker had come up behind me.
"If you're going to make a change the time is now. The city you will visit tomorrow is where you're meant to go."
Wait, what?
I'd spent the night at one of my favorite retreats nestled in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. Since I was making the 8-hour drive to Oregon to attend a conference I'd decided to spend the 4th of July here at one of my favorite spots on the planet.
"Well, I don't know," I told the voice. "I can check it out, but it seems like a long shot. I hardly know anybody here in Oregon. And how would I make money?"
In my previous escape fantasies I'd imagined perhaps a temporary move to a closer city where I'd be offered a well-paying and satisfying job.
However, despite trolling Craig's List and telling a few friends of my interest, the golden opportunity had not yet materialized.
"You can sit around a wait for life to happen to you," the Voice responded. "And another 10 years might go by in a fog of gin & tonics. NOW is the time. If you wait it will get harder to leave, not easier. One of you might get very sick. Something could come up that will hold you there."
"But… I can't just take off right away! I have to figure things out. I don't have enough savings."
"You have that cash. Use that. The next step will show up."
The $2500 or so that I'd saved up did not seem like it could carry me through a move to a new city. But, wait – maybe I had a little more than that?
"But, what about my daughter? She just moved back to our town. I can't just leave now," I continued to object.
"What sort of way to live do you want to model for her? Do you want to show her how to 'settle' and play it safe and comfortable? Or do you want her to see you stepping up to your dreams, living in courage?"
One by one, this Voice disintegrated each objection that popped up in my mind. My steps faltered and I found myself on my knees on that trail, tears pouring from my eyes.
Although I consider myself intuitive, I'd NEVER received such clear and directed guidance!
I fumbled in my pack and pulled out my tiny moleskin notebook. As the tears continued to roll down my cheeks, I began to scrawl the insights that were coming. I knew I needed some sort of physical evidence to take back, to hold my feet to the fire. It would be so easy to slip back into the familiar and oddly comfortable sense of discontent and that 'someday…'
That same bird called out once again and I watched it circle the brilliant blue sky. My feet found their way down the trail once more. I scrambled over a downed tree limb, running my fingers over the damp bark, breathing in the musty, earthy scent.
It felt like home.
A few weeks later I piled a carefully selected assortment of belongings into my car and drove away from the life I'd once loved, but now knew must end. Many more tears had fallen as I said my goodbyes, and gave away possessions. For the first time in my life I walked in a direction that did not please others.
My heart pounded as I pulled onto the highway and headed north. I had no idea what lay ahead.
What I did know was that when I'd finally softened, ceased the objections and accepted my guidance, things had fallen into place with an ease that astonished me. I did have a bit more than $2500 stashed away I discovered. A friend offered me her couch until I could find a room. Others reached out, and I realized I knew more people than I thought in Oregon.
That day I embarked on a Hero's Journey, and now, two years in, I'm still riding the waves of that journey.
But not once have I regretted listening to the powerful Voice of guidance that spoke to me in the woods that day. My heart blew open right then, and this journey has led me to teachers, to new friends, to amazing opportunities.
And, most importantly, surrendering to my Guidance has allowed me to continue to experience an inner knowing that I could never have guessed was possible in my previous life.
I now have no doubt that we all are supported! All we have to do is listen.
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More Support Stories here!
Posted on Tuesday, 16 December 2014 in Encouragement | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Slightly-British Daughter* has done it again! She's created a calendar full of wonderful quotes and photos to encourage us through the coming year!!
For the past couple years, as I've shared the Square-Peg calendar, I've mentioned my hope/desire that we go into the new year "with all the love and self-acceptance, radical self-care, and celebration our hearts can hold (and then maybe a teeny bit more!)."
I keep repeating those words because I believe that, when we are aware of, accept, appreciate, and love ALL of ourSelf (all: the pretty bits and the pain in the ass bits, even the mean and ugly bits), we have deeper, truer love and compassion for others (a different, more open-hearted love and compassion than we have before we learn to love and accept ourSelf. <- and this is so important today, with racism and hate rampant!!
Here are the words I ended that hope/desire with in previous years:
"What a difference we could make out in the world (not to mention our own room, house, neighborhood) if we stepped into acceptance and appreciation of our Selves."
So, this year I'm asking: How about we make 2015 the year we do this? Are YOU in?
YOUR copy of the Square-Peg People 2015 calendar is waiting for you - just click on the link to download.
Here are a couple screenshots of the calendar:
Wishing you a grace-filled, heart-open, Self-appreciating/accepting/LOVE-ing, Square-Peg shiny 2015!
*Other places you can find Slightly-British Daughter (who occasionally answers to her given name, Lauren): Instagram as PaperHelen - and on her blog, also called PaperHelen.
Posted on Monday, 15 December 2014 in Encouragement | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
You know that feeling you get when, in the dark of winter, you ride by a home with a light in the window? It's a kind of tender, sweet/sad, feeling - and, for me, an antidote to the groundedlessness and hectic horror that the holidaze bring.
Which brings me to the story below, it's the kind of thing I keep bringing myself back to - for grounding, for a sense of reason and purpose, and - for love! Let's sit here and have some tea (spiked?) - we can contemplate love (and grounding, and purpose...) together. Here we go:
Ya'll Fall Down
I've told this story before, but this year it means something different to me. The neighbor in the story doesn't live next door anymore - we've got new neighbors.
Neighbor got divorced and he and his family moved to different houses. And I am reminded (again) how things are always changing - sometimes falling down, sometimes being put right (and often - too often, for my comfort - not knowing which is which).
I used to get great delight from seeing my neighbor's holiday lawn ornaments fall over. Wait, let me explain:
Mr. Neighbor had a little family of flat, white, wooden reindeer and a 3-D, 3 ft. tall plastic Santa. Each year he'd take the decorations out of storage and lean the reindeer against the house for a few days. They'd be behind a brick half-wall whose purpose (during the rest of the year) was blocking Neighbor's trash cans from view.
Santa would also be behind the half-wall, visible only from my driveway and one of the windows of my house. For whatever reason, Santa was always placed nose facing into the corner - and what with the hunch of his shoulders and the angle he was tilted he always looked to be taking a wiz.
Within a few days Mr. Neighbor would begin to assemble the family of reindeer. Each had a flat, wooden cross-piece that fitted into the the bottom of the flat reindeer making them able to stand. Almost immediately after Neighbor got all the reindeer pieced together and placed on somewhat flat ground - positioned near each other and Santa - we'd have a storm. A dashing, windy rumpus of a storm. Every year.
And at least one reindeer would bite the dust (or snow), but Neighbor quickly got the reindeer upright again and all was well.
Wind and winter storms are normal around here in December, though - so the reindeer were in constant peril. Rudolph and/or a couple buddies fell over frequently. It got so that each time I would head out to the driveway I'd look over and take a body count. And it started to seem funny to me. Very funny! Every trip to the car meant laughing til my sides ached.
I like to think of myself as a semi-kind person, so I wondered what was the matter with me. Why did I find it so amusing that Neighbor struggled with resuscitating reindeer? The answer hit me surprisingly quickly (the way the wind hit the reindeer - though I didn't fall down) - it had more to do with Neighbor fixing the reindeer than it did with them falling over.
I had the aha moment one day after a wind storm - when Neighbor didn't come out and set the reindeer right. I didn't know if he was sick, gone for the day or what - but seeing the bodies made my heart sad. When he finally fixed them I started laughing again.
My laughter wasn't mean-spirited, it was more like JOY. I knew that Neighbor did the whole reindeer thing (putting them up and taking care of them) for his little son. I laughed because I knew how much he loved his little boy and that he'd keep standing those reindeer up.
And, having had the (metaphoric) wind knock my own (metaphoric) reindeer on their (metaphoric) asses way more than once, I was thrilled by the chance to witness Neighbor's perseverance - his willingness to stand those reindeer up again and again.
I laughed because it's beautiful (and JOYful) to watch any of us keep trying - keep standing things up even when we know life will probably knock them down again. Whether we do it for our kids, ourselves, for Life itself, for The Beloved - it's always for LOVE.
And that's something to smile, giggle, even guffaw about! (And besides, things falling over make good sight gags!!)
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Pssst, If you've had the (metaphoric) wind knock you on your (metaphoric) ass recently -
or are feeling glum and bah humbugish this holiday season -
please come on over and read some of the heart-opening stories being shared in the Strength from Within holiday encouragement series.
Some great writers share solace and encouragement for the holiday season (doesn't matter what holiday you do - or don't celebrate) - you're not alone!
Posted on Saturday, 13 December 2014 in Encouragement, Home & Family Life | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
And here's gentle-hearted Teresa Deak, continuing our holiday encouragement series with a story about her unique way of accessing support, love, and wisdom (and a little encouragement to give it a try yourself). Enjoy!
Butterflies to the Rescue
Photo credit: Teresa Deak
It was a scary moment.
John far ahead, out of sight.
My tires too skinny, my bike too new, too unfamiliar.
Traffic to my left too fast, too close.
A shoulder too narrow, too filled with dirt and grit.
A hill to my right no protection to stop a tumble.
As I pictured John having to double back only to find my broken body on the side of the road, I decided
it would not and could not be that way.
It came to me in a flash an inspiration.
Suddenly they were riding with me.
A dancing tapestry of every colour.
I could feel them all around me.
I felt stronger.
I could breathe!
I felt protected, their evermoving wings a forcefield of love and beauty.
I pedalled faster.
With this newfound butterfly confidence, my ride suddenly became a pleasure.
I was impervious to my previous fear.
Smiling, I arrived at our meeting point. John was surprised to see me so soon.
I whispered to him about how scared I had been and the boost the butterflies gave me.
It was a turning point.
Since the day those butterflies arrived, they have never left me, yet they leave me all the time.
Always willing to offer love, ease, healing they flow through me out to you and the world.
They are not only mine you can claim them, too.
Breathe deeply. Once. Twice. Three times.
Clear your mind to make space for the butterflies.
Open your heart. Allow them to show themselves.
Notice how they feel, what they look like to you. Maybe you don't see them at all, and that's okay, too.
Listen for their wisdom. Feel for their gifts.
Whenever you feel the world around you is too much, invite those butterflies to dance their tapestry around you.
Let their colours and light fill you up so you, too, can travel safer, more confidently, freer.
Try it as a visualization. Just one butterfly. How does it feel when it arrives?
Do you notice how big it is? What color? What do you do when you first "see" your butterfly?
Do you smile?
Imagine that butterfly brings its friends. They float around you. Gently. Their colours a beautiful swirling inspiration. You are held in their beauty and love. You are protected and lifted by their gifts.
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More Support Stories here!
Posted on Tuesday, 09 December 2014 in Encouragement, Guest Posts | Permalink | Comments (1)
Pat Schneider: How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice
Brene Brown: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Staci Boden: Turning Dead Ends into Doorways: How to Grow through Whatever Life Throws Your Way


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Used your example and did the N-Z. EagleForumFan 18:07, December 16, 2007 (EST)
Finished the links. I took out the # sign because it's REALLY hard on over-40 eyes ;-). EagleForumFan 03:51, December 17, 2007 (EST)'
I put them in a simple table. Design isn't my forte. Please feel free to 'edit mercilessly'.EagleForumFan 03:28, December 19, 2007 (EST)
- Wow. Thanks. I was on vacation for a while these past few days and I come back to see all my work done for me. Great job! --Stranger 10:07, December 22, 2007 (EST)
- per discussion, adding in USScouts links. EagleForumFan 01:39, December 30, 2007 (EST)
- You were using the ones by Craig Lincoln, right? Also, something gone haywire with the Cit. in the Community PDF, can you figure it out? It looks the same as the others on the edit screen. --Stranger 14:22, December 30, 2007 (EST)
- Shows up the same on my screen...EagleForumFan 05:20, January 6, 2008 (EST)
What do you think about adding in "Mr. R's Passports"? They're pretty nice; sort of a condensed worksheet intended to be smaller (4" x 5"). Let me know if you think they'd be a good addition, and I'll put them up (or not). [Mr. R's Passports] EagleForumFan 05:20, January 6, 2008 (EST)


text: St. Albert the Great Who Is Albert the Great? On November 15th, the Church remembers Saint Albert the Great, who had become a name even in his own time due to his logic, philosophy, and advances of the sciences. St. Albert, who is also called Saint Albertus Magnus and Albert of Cologne, was a Dominican priest and a teacher, and has been declared a Doctor of the Church. He is the patron of medical technicians, philosophers, scientists, students, and students of theology. A Brief Biography Not much is known of Albert's childhood and early education. He was born sometime between 1193 and 1206 at Lauingen, Swabia (now part of modern day Germany), the son of a military nobleman. At some point he went to study at the university at Padua, though exactly when is unknown. In 1223, he answered the call to the religious life, and joined the Order of St. Dominic. After completing his studies in theology, he became a teacher. One of his students was the young St. Thomas Aquinas. Albert introduced Greek and Arabic science and philosophy to Europe and became widely known for his interest in what would later be termed as the natural sciences. In 1254 Albert was made a provincial of the Dominican Order, and in 1260 was made Bishop of Regensburg, an office from which he resigned after 3 years. He would outlive St. Thomas Aquinas, and learning of the death of his pupil, whose theological skill had surpassed his own, came as a devastating blow to Albert. Upon the death of St. Thomas, Albert cried out that the "Light of the Church has been extinguished." After 1278, Albert's health declined rapidly; his mind became clouded and forgetful and his body was weakened. He died at Cologne, Prussia (modern day Germany) on November 15th, 1280. Albert and the Natural Sciences "The aim of natural science is not simply to accept the statements of others, but to investigate the causes that are at work in nature" – St. Albert As mentioned above, one of Albert's legacies, in his own time and beyond, was his knowledge and interest in the sciences. He is credited for bringing the scientific ideas of Aristotle to medieval scholars; and also for indicating the method and the spirit in which that teaching was to be received. His appreciation of Aristotle was also critical – he recognized the strengths of Aristotle, but also pointed out his errors. He was considered an expert in physics, geography, astronomy, chemistry, and other natural sciences. His studies and writings not only advanced scientific knowledge in his time, but are also considered important and influential because of his emphasis that Faith and science go hand in hand. Philosophical and Theological Influences Even greater than St. Albert's influence on the study of natural sciences is his lasting influence on the study of philosophy and theology. He gave Christian theology and philosophy the form and method it largely retains today. In a way, he cleared a path for his student, St. Thomas, who would excel beyond St. Albert's skills and accomplishments. Albert adopted principles of Aristotle in order to systematize theology, developing a process of scientific exposition and defense of Christian doctrine. The choice seemed shocking to some, but was in line with teaching laid down by St. Augustine, which explained that "truths found in the writings of pagan philosophers were to be adopted by the defenders of the true faith, while their erroneous opinions were to be abandoned, or explained in a Christian sense." The Aristotelian methods were comprehensive and logical, and would prove useful when applied to the study and teaching of Christian theology. You can read more about St. Albert the Great in the sources for this article: The New Catholic Encyclopedia and the thorough introduction section of 'Albert and Thomas: Selected Writings' A Prayer to Saint Albertus Magnus Dear Scientist and Doctor of the Church, Natural science always led you to the higher science of God. Though you had an encyclopedic knowledge, it never made you proud, for you regarded it as a gift of God. Inspire scientists to use their gifts well in studying the wonders of creation, thus bettering the lot of the human race and rendering greater glory to God. Amen. (Prayer is from the Patron Saints Index)


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Christina Lustenberger
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Born and raised in Invemere BC, my parents instilled a strong passion for the mountains in me. Starting at the age of two I was raised skiing on the local hill at Panorama Resort and, so began my love for the great white outdoors. My father Peter "Lusti" ran the local ski shop at Panorama, appropriately named "lusti's" and my mother had the task of chasing my older sister and I around the slopes. Eventually joining the ski-racing program when I was old enough, it was all progression from there. Competing on the Canadian Alpine Ski Team for six years, achieving top 10 World Cup results, and competing in the 2006 Winter Olympic Games were some of the highlights of my racing career.
Until the age of 24, traveling the world for ski racing was my life. However, I always felt that there was more to Skiing than just racing. Retiring from the Alpine Team was a tough choice, but ultimately a leap in the right direction; The mountains had so much to offer and skiing them was where I wanted to be! Switching my focus from alpine racing to Backcountry skiing, I developed a passion for ski mountaineering.
I decided to level out my skiing skills with my mountain skills and enrolled in the Thompson Rivers University Adventure Guide Program. After taking this course and committing two years of backcountry training.
I am now working as an ACMG assistant ski guide for CMH heli skiing, and Whitecap alpine; a remote backcountry ski lodge in BC .
My love for the mountains has opened up a life of opportunity and incredible experiences. I feel truly blessed to be able to be working towards a goal, while all the while combining my passion for skiing.
Living out new adventures through skiing with great friends is something I hope to be able to do the rest of my life. I am so excited and feel very privileged to be a member of the Arc'teryx Team and will continue to push the limits of women's ski mountaineering!
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Summer temperatures are soaring! Even a short walk in the blazing sun is enough to make us hot and in need of a cool drink. Imagine how your dog feels if he has to stay outdoors for extended periods…
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Ahhh, summer vacation. Long, leisurely hikes in the mountains, romping on the beach, camping under the stars… all great experiences for you to have with your pup. Preparing ahead of time will ensure…
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With the arrival of spring, comes a flood of spring kittens, and the result is that shelters and animal rescue centers are full of homeless cats and kittens. If you have room in your heart (and your…
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Education Equity Now- Youth Rally Call!
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Many of us here on VOY join in conversations on education and equality for all. Governments and UNICEF this week had a rallying call to get millions of children back to school and learning. We want to share pieces and videos by youth for YOU.
Background on the Event:
Kicking off at the Regional Ministerial Education Conference in Istanbul, 'Education Equity Now, is supported by the Government of Turkey and UNICEF. It calls on 20 governments in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The goal is to get every child into school, every child learning early, every child learning well, and every child supported by a well-governed and well-resourced education system. The event concluded today, and we would like to share stories from youth who are participating in this conference. For your listening and viewing pleasure- you might want to hum along to one of the videos!
"All of us share the common desire to have an education"
Youth Representative, Anna Susarenco delivered the conference keynote speech and speaking on behalf of youth. She addressed key issues that affect young people today: children without technology, youth who have their own children, youth with no education, and education and unemployment. Youth Representative Anna Maria Duminica also spoke at the conference. She spoke about inclusion and "believes that all of us share the common desire to have an education." I wonder how many of us VOY users out there share the same dream as Anna Maria. She also stated that "education is the field of our dreams...Our experiences, our thoughts, our energies (are what will) bring more positive change to education." Anna Maria was addressing the conference, but to me, her words can speak not just to the conference, but to youth as a whole. What do you think?
Check out these videos!
(1) The first video we bring to you is Nikola's from Montenegro: "I now attend the music high school, where I am involved in integrated education with people without disabilities, but the words of teacher Katica, her soft and wise voice, her teachings, will be embroidered on my soul forever."
WATCH Embroidered in My Soul: http://bit.ly/1h7cygD
(2) This second video, We Build the World We Want, is quite similar to a song many of you may know. Special thanks to Lady Gaga for permission to use the music: http://bit.ly/18JbUDy
"The world we see in this century
It's not the world we want
We need to work on improving it
We need you all to start and bond"
Stay tuned this week to all tags "Education Equity" on Voices of
Youth as we continue to share some of the great articles, pieces,
and poems from the young people at the conference.


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Now, first off, I'm a Canadian. We don't have a branch of US Bank as far as I know. So imagine my surprise this morning when I got the following:
Kinda funny since I DON'T have an account. But what would happen if I did fill out the form? Lo' and behold, it allowed me to continue (I had asked to pay bills and got a screen to update my Debit/credit cards). So I put in a fake VISA number along with some arbitrary date, fake pin and a fake "security number". It happily accepted them all.
Dear U.S. Bank valued member,
Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the Internet Banking community we have
issued this warning message.
It has come to our attention that your account information needs to be updated due to
inactive accounts, frauds and spoof reports. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of
your online experience and renew your records you will not run into any future problems
with the online service. However, failure to update your records will result in account
Once you have updated your account records your online banking account will not be
interrupted and will continue as normal.
Please follow the link below and renew your account information.
U.S. Bank Internet Banking
You can find the "real phish" here. It's interesting to look at the source and figure out where they are putting stuff. I wonder how much people would be willing to phish if all they got was garbage?
Oh.. and I've notified the Anti-Phishing Workgroup so I don't know how long this site will remain up. Anyone speak korean? Perhaps the ISP should also be notified.


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We had a hard time deciding between Tony's informative article and the upcoming still-waiting-in-our-queue-to-be-published Steve Husted's Slackware review, Maynard's Gnome review and Daan Goedkoop's "Designing the operating system of tomorrow" article (among ~20 entries we received), but Tony's won extra points because of its originality (there aren't too many 'FreeBSD on SPARC' articles around). Congratulations Tony! We would also like to thank all participants for their submissions!
Please note that we currently host a new competition and this time the prize is really big: 'Aspire Swatter 2004' costs 3,000 US dollars! If we judge of the partiticipation on the Xandros competition, we don't expect more than 5-6 articles to be submited for the Aspire competition because this time we specifically ask submissions for development articles. So if you are a developer, your chance to win is huge! Read here for details.


text: I build ecological agent-based spatially-explicit simulations in C++. What I am looking for is a good way (better then windows) of creating a user display/interface. I do want the app to run on 2000/XP (that's what most of my isers will have.) Specificlly, the ability to display parameter values real time, interactively change parameter values, display pixel based 2-D maps, display bar graphs real time, and real time line graphs. Is OpenGL useful for this type of app and what would be a good resourse for building it. Any other ideas would be appreciated.


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- Overview of UW Libraries Reserves and E-Reserves policies, procedures and tips. Includes information about copyright compliance.
- Fill out your form completely to speed processing.
- If you have any questions, contact Engineering Reserve.
- Use one reserve form for each class.
- Please do not submit a syllabus in place of the reserve form. Usually the syllabus lacks important reserve information, which slows processing.
- Titles not held in the UW Libraries will be ordered.
- Please allow additional time for the acquisition and processing of material -- sometimes it takes months for a book to arrive. If you wish, you may place your personal copy (see below) of the book on reserve while we wait for the ordered book to arrive.
- Renewing reserve lists.
- If you would like the same items to be placed on reserve the following quarter, be sure to contact the reserve staff. If we do not hear from you, the material will be taken off reserve after the end of the quarter.
Special Materials
- Electronic Reserves (E-Reserves)
- Information for Faculty About Electronic Reserves.
- Managing Your Own E-Reserves
- Copyright Compliance
- Homework Solutions, Class Notes, and Test Files.
- These types of materials must be accompanied by a reserve form. Instructors are responsible for adding new solutions to the notebooks and making sure they are up to date (if necessary). Instructors are encouraged to use Electronic Reserves (E-Reserves) for these types of materials.
- Personal Copies
- Personal copies may be placed on reserve at the owner's risk. The library cannot be responsible for material that is lost, stolen, or damaged while on reserve.