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[[Xcompmgr]] is a lightweight composite manager
[[Xcompmgr]] is a lightweight composite manager drop shadowsand simple window transparency within Openbox .
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Revision as of 16:29, 8 November 2007
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Installation
- 3 Getting Started
- 4 Configuration
- 4.1 Preferences
- 4.2 Menu Management
- 4.3 Startup Programs
- 4.4 Theming and Appearance
- 5 Tips & Tricks
- 6 Additional Resources
Openbox is a lightweight and highly configurable window manager with extensive standards support. Its features are well-documented at the official website. This article will pertain to running Openbox under Arch Linux.
Openbox is available from the standard repositories:
# pacman -S openbox
Once installed, pacman will direct you to copy the default menu.xml & rc.xml configuration files to ~/.config/openbox/, for exmaple:
$ mkdir -p ~/.config/openbox/ $ cp /etc/xdg/openbox/rc.xml ~/.config/openbox/ $ cp /etc/xdg/openbox/menu.xml ~/.config/openbox/
Note: do this as a regular user, not as root.
The rc.xml file is the core configuration file for Openbox. It is used to manage keyboard shortcuts, themes, virtual desktops and other features.
The menu.xml file controls the Openbox application menu that appears when you right-click on your desktop. The default items are pretty sparse (if not entirely useless), but it's very easy to modify the menu structure to suit your needs. See the menu section below for more details, or visit the Openbox website.
Getting Started
Using Openbox
To run Openbox on its own, simply add the following to the bottom of ~/.xinitrc:
exec openbox-session
Using Openbox with GNOME
- If you use GDM, select the "GNOME/Openbox" login option
- If you use startx, add exec openbox-gnome-session to ~/.xinitrc
Using Openbox with KDE
- If you use KDM, select the "KDE/Openbox" login option
- If you use startx, add exec openbox-kde-session to ~/.xinitrc
Currently, there are two options for configuring the core Openbox preferences; manually edit the rc.xml, or use the ObConf tool.
Setting Preferences Manually
To configure Openbox manually, simply edit ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml with your favourite text editor.
Setting Preferences with ObConf
ObConf is GUI-based Openbox configuration tool, which can be used to set most preferences including themes, virtual desktops, window properties and desktop margins.
To install ObConf, run:
# pacman -S obconf
Currently, ObConf cannot be used to manage keyboard shortcuts and a few other advanced features. For these modifications, the user must resort to editing the rc.xml manually.
Menu Management
The default Openbox menu is pretty basic and if you don't have any of the listed programs installed, it is downright useless. There are a number of ways to customize your menu.
MenuMaker is a powerful tool that creates XML-based menus for a variety of Window Managers, including Openbox. MenuMaker will search your computer for executable programs and create an XML menu based on the results. It can be configured to exclude Legacy X, GNOME, KDE, or Xfce applications if the user desires.
MenuMaker is available from the AUR.
Once installed, you can generate a complete menu by running:
$ mmaker -v OpenBox3
By default, MenuMaker will not overwrite an existing menu.xml. To do so, run it with the -f (force) argument:
$ mmaker -vf OpenBox3
To see a full list of options, run mmaker --help
This will give you a pretty thorough menu. Now you can modify the menu.xml by hand, or simply regenerate the list whenever you install new software.
Obmenu is a GUI-based menu editor for Openbox. For those who don't enjoy mucking about in XML source code, this is probably the best option for you.
It's available in the standard repositories:
# pacman -S obmenu
Once installed, simply run obmenu and add or remove the desired applications.
obm-xdg is a command-line tool that comes with Obmenu. It can generate a categorized sub-menu of installed GTK/GNOME applications.
To use obm-xdg, add the following line to ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml:
<menu execute="obm-xdg" id="xdg-menu" label="xdg"/>
Then run openbox --reconfigure to refresh the Openbox menu. You should now see a sub-menu labeled xdg in your menu.
Startup Programs
Openbox 3.4+ features support for running programs at startup. This is provided by the "openbox-session" command.
There are two ways to enable autostart:
- If you use startx to log into your X session, change the line that executes openbox to execute openbox-session instead.
- If you log in with GDM/KDM, then select the Openbox session and it will automatically use autostart.
Startup programs are managed in ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh. Full instructions and best practices for how to do this are available at the Openbox website.
Theming and Appearance
Aside from the Openbox Themes, the following section is intended for users who have configured Openbox to run as a standalone desktop, without the assistance of GNOME or KDE.
Openbox Themes
Openbox themes control the appearance of window borders, including the titlebar and titlebar buttons.
Additional themes are available from the standard repositories:
# pacman -S openbox-themes
This package is by no means definitive. box-look.org is another great resource for Openbox themes.
Downloaded themes should be extracted to ~/.themes and can be installed or selected with the ObConf tool.
Creating new themes is fairly easy and again well-documented.
Desktop Wallpaper
Openbox itself does not include a way to change the wallpaper. This can be done easily with programs like Feh or Nitrogen. Other options include ImageMagick, hsetroot and xsetbg.
GTK Themes
GTK2 themes can be managed easily with gtk-chtheme:
# pacman -S gtk-chtheme
Simply run gtk-chtheme and set the desired theme.
For legacy GTK1 themes, install the gtk-theme-switch package and run switch.
GTK Fonts
If you want to change the type and size of your fonts, add the following to ~/.gtkrc.mine:
style "user-font" { font_name = "[font-name] [size]" } widget_class "*" style "user-font" gtk-font-name = "[font-name] [size]"
where [font-name] [size] is the desired font and point size. For example:
style "user-font" { font_name = "DejaVu Sans 8" } widget_class "*" style "user-font" gtk-font-name = "DejaVu Sans 8"
Both font_name and gtk-font-name fields are required for backwards compatibility.
GTK Icons
Extract the desired icon theme to /usr/share/icons (system-wide access) or ~/.icons (local user access).
Add the following to ~/.gtkrc.mine:
gtk-icon-theme-name = "[name-of-icon-theme]"
where [name-of-icon-theme] is the name of the icon theme directory. For example:
gtk-icon-theme-name = "Tango"
Mouse cursor themes
Extract the desired Xcursor theme to either /usr/share/icons (system-wide access) or ~/.icons (local user access).
Add this to ~/.Xdefaults:
Xcursor*theme: [name-of-cursor-theme]
where [name-of-cursor-theme] is the name of the cursor theme directory. For example:
Xcursor*theme: Vanilla-DMZ-AA
Desktop Icons
Openbox does not provide a means to display icons on the desktop. ROX, iDesk, or even Nautilus (and the gnome-settings-daemon) can provide this function.
ROX has the additional advantage of being a lightweight file manager.
Tips & Tricks
Recommended Programs
Login Managers
SLiM provides a lightweight and elegant graphical login solution for standalone Openbox configurations. Refer to Arch's SLiM wiki for detailed instructions.
Composite Desktop
Xcompmgr is a lightweight composite manager capable of rendering drop shadows, fading and simple window transparency within Openbox and other window managers.
Run dialog
gmrun provides an excellent Run dialog box, similar to the Alt+F2 features found in Gnome and KDE:
pacman -S gmrun
Add the following entry to the <keyboard> section ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml to enable Alt+F2 functionality:
<keybind key="A-F2"> <action name="execute"><execute>gmrun</execute></action> </keybind>
File managers
There are many possibilities, but the most popular lightweight file managers are:
For even lighter options, consider Gentoo or emelFM, both of which use the familiar 'Midnight Commander' two pane layout (these two require gtk 1.2.x).
Of course, you can also use GNOME's Nautilus. Although slower than the above, it has the additional advantage of VFS support (e.g. remote SSH, FTP and Samba connections).
There are quite a lot of panels you can install to provide a taskbar and pager to Openbox. The most common are:
Make your choice and add it to your startup file.
Per-application settings
Openbox has per-application settings since openbox 3.3 These settings can be set in ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml by creating new XML element inside <openbox_config> called <applications>, which will contain the settings. Inside <applications> you will need <application name=""> which will determine which application this setting is going to affect. The ways to determine the application are name, class and role, eg.
<application class="Firefox-bin">
The class and name can be found by running
xprop | grep WM_CLASS
When you click the application you want to configure, it will return something like
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "Gecko", "Thunderbird-bin"
The first one is what you put inside name="" and the latter one is for class="", you can use either one, but I prefer the one which doesn't get mixed with anything. After this you need to set the settings you want, available settings are
decor - whether window has borders, titlebar and so on, values yes or no, on or off shade - whether the window is shaded to the titlebar or not (doesn't work with decorations off), values yes, no, on, off and so on position - position of the window when started needs subsection <x>pos</x> - position on pixels reading from top left corner <y>pos</y> - center as value and such work too, you can also leave x or y out if you only want to adjust one value. focus - whether the window gets focused when starting it (not sure about this), values yes no and so on desktop - desktop (workspace) the application starts, value desktop number reading from 0 (if its opened to another desktop, it doesn't get focused) monitor - xinerama head the application starts (useful when you have 2 monitors and want the application to open in another, eg nvidia twinview uses xinerama), values 0 1 screennumber and such layer - layer the application starts on, values Bottom, Normal and Top iconic - whether the application is to be launched iconic, values yes, no, on, off and so on skip_pager - application skips pager, values yes, no, on, off and so on skip_taskbar - same as above, just taskbar, values yes, no, on, off and so on fullscreen - whether app should be started fullscreen, values yes, no, on, off and so on maximized - type of maximization, values Horizontal, Vertical, yes, no, on, off and so on.
Example config showing firefox opening 30 pixels from top centered with horizontal maximization
<applications> <application class="Firefox-bin"> <position> <x>center</x> <y>30</y> </position> <maximized>Horizontal</maximized> </application> </applications>
Additional Resources
- Openbox Website - The official website
- Planet Openbox - Openbox news portal
- Box-Look.org - A good resource for themes and related artwork


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August 12. 2014 12:46AM
Harry Truman once said, "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." That's what Democrats in New Hampshire are trying to do when it comes to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen's record on illegal immigration.
With the Obama administration and Democrats facing widespread criticism for pushing immigration policies that have led to the current crisis on the southern border, the New Hampshire Democratic Party and Sen. Shaheen think they can fool voters by hiding behind Sen. Kelly Ayotte's record.
Democratic Party spokesman Julie McClain claimed that Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte have the same position when it comes to the nation's immigration policies. It is a misleading message the party has aggressively pushed, and it doesn't tell the whole story.
For starters, Democrats won't mention that Shaheen voted against a border fence not once, but twice — in 2009 and again in 2013 — during consideration of the comprehensive immigration bill. Ayotte voted in support of the border fence amendment last year, which would have required the completion of 350 miles of double-layer border fencing.
In 2010, Shaheen also voted against sending National Guard troops to reinforce border security. As a candidate for Senate at the time, Ayotte criticized Democrats who opposed the measure.
The Democrats also have starkly different positions about how to address the current flood of unaccompanied minors across the southern border. Sen. Ayotte has said she believes current law needs to be changed, and she is supporting the CREST Act, which would allow for the speedy return of undocumented minors to their home countries. Sen. Shaheen does not support this bill.
Kelly Ayotte also backed legislation recently to end the President's 2012 executive action allowing for deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA), which she believes has been a key factor in causing the current situation on the southern border. Ayotte strongly opposed the executive action when it was announced in 2012, saying it was a political maneuver that would make it more difficult to fix our country's immigration system. By contrast, Sen. Shaheen called the President's unilateral move a "step in the right direction."
And two Thursdays ago, Jeanne Shaheen voted for the Obama administration's $3.6 billion spending bill, a measure that does not contain a single policy change to address the current border crisis. Ayotte wisely opposed the legislation. While Ayotte supported the immigration bill in the Senate last year, she also worked to improve it. Ayotte was instrumental in including "border surge" provisions and supported measures to strengthen border security provisions even further.
The differences between Shaheen's and Ayotte's records on immigration couldn't be more clear, and the state Democratic Party is trying to confuse New Hampshire voters, who deserve to know the truth about Shaheen's record on this issue.
Nice try, Democrats, but you can't fool us. As John Adams said, "Facts are stubborn things."
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While the thread on using Unicode to type Greek is helpful, I am always surprised that no one has suggested using the shortcut assignment function in the Insert >> Symbol >> More Symbols window (at least for those who are using Microsoft Word). I've been using this method to type in other foreign languages for years, and it seems much more efficient than typing in arbitrary hexadecimal codes (unless I've misunderstood the manual coding method).
Here's a sample arrangement to show roughly what I'm talking about. Essentially, you hold down one, two, or all three of the Ctrl/Alt/Shift buttons and type a Latin letter that either has the same sound as the desired Greek letter or resembles it visually. Only theta, phi, and chi stand out as slight oddballs. Phi uses its pronunciation in modern derivatives as the clue to its base key, while theta and chi use the 'c' and 't' in their respective Latin transcriptions. By and large, however, I believe that an intuitive link of some sort or other between the Greek letter and its base key on the keyboard makes the scheme easy to learn.
I had to improvise with some of my own shortcuts, since many of the more obvious combos were already assigned to accented characters used in writing other languages (mostly with the vowels), but for those of you who only deal with Greek, something like this might work nicely.
α Alt+A
ά Ctrl+Alt+A
ὰ Ctrl+Shift+A
ᾶ Shift+Alt+A
ᾱ Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A
β Alt+B
Γ Shift+Alt+G
γ Alt+G
Δ Shift+Alt+D
δ Alt+D
ε Alt+E
έ Ctrl+Alt+E
ὲ Ctrl+Shift+E
ζ Alt+Z
η Alt+H
ή Ctrl+Alt+H
ὴ Ctrl+Shift+H
ῆ Shift+Alt+H
Θ Ctrl+Alt+ShiftT
θ Ctrl+Alt+T
ι Alt+I
ί Ctrl+Alt+I
ὶ Ctrl+Shift+I
ῖ Shift+Alt+I
ῑ Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A
κ Alt+K
Λ Shift+Alt+L
λ Alt+L
μ Alt+M
ν Alt+N
Ξ Shift+Alt+X
ξ Alt+X
ó Ctrl+Alt+O
ò Ctrl+Shift+O
Π Shift+Alt+P
π Alt+P
ρ Alt+R
Σ Shift+Alt+S
σ Alt+S
ς Ctrl+Alt+S
τ Alt+T
Φ Shift+Alt+F
φ Alt+F
χ Alt+C
Ψ Shift+Alt+Y
ψ Alt+Y
ω Alt+W
ώ Ctrl+Alt+W
ὼ Ctrl+Shift+W
ῶ Shift+Alt+W
Of course, there's still iota-subscripts and aspiration to consider, but a system like the above should at least reduce the hindrances to typing fluency presented by polytonic Greek even if it can't eliminate them entirely. Also, while I'm not sure how acceptable it would be in formal academia, for my own purposes I just leave smooth breathing unmarked and put a single open quote in front of a word with rough breathing. For iota-subscript, I tend to just type the iota normally, highlight it, open the Format window, and select "Subscript." The result doesn't look exactly like the traditional representation, but the intent is clear enough. It's still a break in the flow of typing, but probably not quite as much so as inputting a hexadecimal code is.
Anyway, this is all just an idea, if nothing else. If someone somewhere has already proposed this or I've misunderstood the usual Unicode-input method, feel free to let me know.


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The Parker Brothers company began in 1883 with when George S. Parker invented his first card game, Banking. Parker later obtained the rights to games published by W.& S.B. Ives, and in 1887 collaborated with his two brothers, officially forming the Parker Brothers company. During their first year of business, the brothers published a catalog containing 125 different games. The firm continued to grow, and in 1925 Parker Brothers purchased the educational division of the United States Playing Card Company, producing educational games for adults and children, covering a wide variety of subject matter including real estate, shopping, transportation, and current events. In 1934 the three brothers garnered worldwide attention for their introduction of Monopoly, which has since remained a popular favorite. By 1968, General Mills, the food company, had purchased Parker Brothers and through it introduced the widely popular Nerf Ball. By the 1980s, Parker Brothers developed a publishing arm of the corporation and produced books featuring American Greetings' much-loved Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake. By 1985 General Mills merged its Parker Brothers with Kenner Toys, another subsidiary, both of which joined Hasbro, Inc. in 1991.
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Imagine instead of dollars you were lending corn cobs, in return you would get ceramic pots or miniatures for your kids, no repayment schedule. Maybe a headache for Kiva and Paypal, or maybe not, since Kiva's talented people will never cease to surprise us. The challenge is on!
Throughout Andean towns, villages and communities, el trueque does the trick - a system of exchange by which goods are directly traded for other goods without using a medium of exchange, such as money. El trueque is quite common in Peru and you may find it in local markets all over the Cusco region.
It is not about profiting, it's all about sharing.
In the quiet town of San Pablo, province of Canchis, Cusco Department, 3488 meters above sea level, known for its Carnival (nation's cultural heritage), every week, artisans from even higher lands like Pucará (aprox. 4000m), travel more than 3 hours carrying their handmade pottery to trade for agricultural goods harder to grow in their high land. Cobs are among their favorites in this time of the year. Filling up a pot with cobs, seems to be the fair price.
San Pablo district has around 5000 people. Although the urban center is well served by paved road (Cusco-Sicuani) and services (water and electricity), its area of 524,06km2, going as high as 5000m, makes it difficult to reach everyone, putting San Pablo in the list of the poor districts of Peru according to FONCODES, the Cooperation Fund for Social Development.
It was no coincidence going there. As a Kiva Fellow serving at field partner Asociacion Arariwa, we went to a few towns and communities covered by the Arariwa's Sicuani branch in the province of Canchis, also responsible for the provinces of Acomayo and Canas, south of Cusco.
Arariwa is well known in the region. It was the first financial institution serving some remote areas with micro loans, giving people access to credit in their local communities. Still is one of the few MFIs that go to the borrowers' home to disburse and collect, instead of making them travel far away to bigger cities.
It was a scouting trip for 2 Kiva Coordinators from Arariwa headquarters in Cusco, because, starting next month, Arariwa will post on Kiva's website the loans from this region, strengthening their Anti-Poverty Focus.
So you may not have your cobs, but sure you will not miss the Arariwa's borrowers on your next loan!
We appreciate it ;-)
About the author
Mariana Oom
Mariana was born in Lisbon, Portugal. She is passionate about travelling and always eager for new experiences in new cultures. No wonder Mariana pursued an international career at the Portuguese Trade & Investment Agency (AICEP Portugal Global). For more than a decade, she has been dedicated to the promotion of Portugal and the Portuguese companies and products around the world. Her last assignment was as the Economic and Commercial Counsellor at the Consulate General of Portugal in Macao, P.R. China, cumulating with being the Portuguese Delegate at the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries (Forum Macau). Previously, Mariana helped open and run the Agency branch in San Francisco, CA. She returned to Portugal as a desk officer for South America and Spain. Earlier positions and jobs were in marketing and international business. Mariana graduated from Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE, Lisbon) in Business and Administration Management, and studied at Glasgow University under the EU/Comett II program. After travelling to developing countries, she feels the need to contribute to a fairer world. She is taking a sabbatical to volunteer as a Kiva Fellow and is thrilled to working with field partners in Peru, Bolivia and India.


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On April 29, 2011, millions of people across the world will watch Prince William wed his long term girlfriend and college sweetheart, Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London.
William and Catherine (as she will be known officially) have urged that the ceremony reflects these recessionary times and avoids being overly "lavish," but with a guest list boasting royalty, oligarchs and celebrities, their nuptials will be celebrated by some of the wealthiest people in the world — for whom being "lavish" is a way of life.
Although the official guest list has not been made public and will remain a secret until the big day, the guests listed here are the richest that are expected to be in attendance, according to a number of British publications and websites.
So, who is expected to be the richest in attendance at the royal wedding? Click ahead to find out.
By Antonya Allen
Posted 20 April 2011


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The Walrus Says
We usually think of the backstage crew as just that, out of sight backstage. But in the upcoming Jamestown Community Theatre's production of "Yours, Anne," the entire backstage crew moves on stage at one point to sing of hope.
The crew is made up of two sisters from the Brown family, Stage Manager Erin, 17, and her sister Assistant Stage Manager 14- year-old Allie. This is Erin's first experience behind the scenes. She explained that she had signed up to do props, but Iris Bohensky who had been tapped as stage manager was called up to appear in the cast as Margot, and Erin took over backstage.
Erin said that Allie got the assistant's job because she wanted to help out. "She needs the job."
The third member of the Brown family in the play is Danielle, Erin's twin, who is the play's costume designer.
When we asked Erin what experience a 17-year-old could have to qualify as a costume designer, she said that Danielle had put together separate costumes for some 50 people of all ages who were in a Christmas play at the West Kingston Baptist Church.
"When Mary Wright (artistic director) heard about it, she asked Danielle to take on the costume designer's job," Erin explained. She said that much of the costuming will come from existing 1940s period dress. Some of it they brought with them when they returned to the states from Heidelberg, Germany, where their dad was stationed. Colonel David Brown is currently a professor at the Naval War College's Dept. of Strategy and Policy.
Danielle will come onstage to join her sisters singing "Inscription of Hope" that they sang originally in Alaska as members of the North Wind Children's Choir. Erin said, "Its lyrics were found on a cellar wall in Cologne after the Holocaust.
"Each of us remembered different parts of the song, and we put it all together and sang it at the audition. Mary asked us if we would sing it during the play."
The three sisters have appeared in the choruses of other JCT plays. All of them were in "HONK!" and Allie was in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown." They have also performed in various church plays and with the Wizard of Oz Community Theater in Germany.
"Yours, Anne" is a small musical based on "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl."
It will be staged by the JCT the weekends of March 2 and 9 at the Central Baptist Church.
Jamestowners and particularly East Ferry Deli goers will be saddened to hear of the death of Sheba, the deli dachshund.
Don Weatherbee writes that "she will not be making her twice daily walks down to the East Ferry Deli next summer to visit with her many admirers. She passed away at the ripe old age of 17 1/2 earlier last week without pain or great distress. She was a lovely, dear dog."
She certainly was and will be missed.
We received a New Year's card from former neighbor Adam Donaldson and his wife, Jessy.
After stints with the Peace Corps in Jamaica and Uzbekistan, the couple has settled down in Baltimore.
Jess is in the graduate school at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, earning her Master of Public Health.
Adam is the National Mobilization Manager of City Year, a nonprofit organization that leads 17- to 24-year-olds in full-time service in city schools as tutors and mentors.
Kudos, guys.
*** And, a note from Brazil: hi Jim how are you doing?
my name is Ricardo De Mendonca , i`m from brazil,sao paulo state,
i ve been in U.S. in at the first time in april of 1995 at the Coffin`s house (on standish rd.) because my oldest brother cesar did a exchange youth program in 1976/1977, and you did a great jog about myself on your column, i said somethings about what I was thinking about jamestown ,my job etc etc..
well that´s it .i´m here so far away reading your space in jamestown press
and checked you still working there.i´ve back to U.S.more three times,
and wright now i´m working in one honda dealership in brazil.
you were so gentil, a great proffesional on `- walrus saysthank
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John A. Murphy is in with a "poser" from the '50s. Oh happy Africa..........
Your cat may need a little help in getting enough drinking water, says Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic.
"Did you ever wonder why your cat drinks out of the sink, toilett, or dog bowl more often than their own bowl? Many cats do not like the feel of their whiskers on the edges of the bowl and will seek water elsewhere. As many cats age they will develop some kidney disease and keeping them well hydrated and encouraging them to drink water can make a difference in their disease.
"So, if you have a cat, buy a wide, shallow water dish and fill it to almost overflowing so they can see the reflection in the water. Most cats will play with the water, drink more from their bowl, and stay more hydrated just with that simple change. Of course, if you feel like your pet is drinking more, urinating more, or if they just don't seem as full of energy as they used to, consider having them screened for common age-related changes by your animal's doctor."
Speaking of animals, The Potter League is gearing up for its 35th annual Have A Heart Cocktail Party & Silent Auction Monday, Feb. 12, at the Hyatt Regency, Newport.
The benefit for homeless animals features a Preview Party from 5 to 6 p.m., and the Main Event from 6 to 8 p.m.
There will be some 300 auction items, including skydiving adventure, travel getaways , art, spa experiences, golf excursions, private yacht charters, electronics, airline tickets, treasures for the animal lover, and jewelry, plus much, much more.
Purchase tickets - $75 for both events, $50 for just Main Event - by calling Jill at 846-8276, ext. 105.
Parents and leaders of Boy Scout Troop 1 met at the Senior Center last Thursday to discuss ways to promote increased adult involvement supporting Scouting in Jamestown.
Tom Bailey, troop secretary and advancement co-ordinator, said that the meeting was " to educate parents on the wide variety of ways they can contribute to the troop's continued success. As with any volunteer organization, several adult leaders fill more than one role, and there is always a need to recruit new talent to keep the organization functioning. Troop 1 currently needs adults with a variety of skills, training, or interests to act as merit badge counselors."
Troop leader Jim Archibald was in charge of the meeting and outlined 15 roles of the troop committee to illustrate how others may help.
Tom added that a Troop Resource Survey will be conducted by the troop "to determine how the families of our scouts can support the troop by volunteering their time and sharing their talents with our sons."
Today is the birthday of Scotland's Robert Burns who wrote in 1786, "An honest man's the noblest work of God."
*** Be true!
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Demi Lovato Sings National Anthem at Game 4 of World Series
Oh that national anthem of ours. While beautiful and a symbol of patriotism, it's always a scary song for pop stars to perform and for American fans to watch, since it's easy to botch — a move that makes headlines and becomes fodder for the media and 'SNL.' Just ask Christina Aguilera. Singer and 'X Factor' judge Demi Lovato tackled the task in Detroit at Game 4 (Oct. 28) of the World Series, featuring the hometown Tigers, who are facing elimination at the hands of the San Francisco Giants. So how did Demi do?
She did just fine, even if she did drift and certainly took liberties with the melody and went up and down with her voice. At some points she had us going, "Wait, did she just miss a word?" Overall, the 'Give Your Heart a Break' hitmaker delivered a dramatic, breathy rendition, but she didn't seem to mess up the lyrics nor did she forget a verse.
Dressed in all black, and looking leggy in those thigh-high, "means business" leather boots, Lovato showed that she can sing and that she can hit the big notes. We often forget that Lovato is a singer, given all the attention she received for her rehab and treatment, and her role as a reality show judge. But when it comes down to brass tacks, Lovato's got a stronger voice than we sometimes give her credit for.
PopCrushers and Lovatics, what did you think of Demi's rendition of the national anthem?


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Rosacea is a common and chronic, relapsing skin disease that is often characterized by transient or persistent redness of the face, the prominence of blood vessels in the skin, and the presence of numerous papules and pustules. Most patients will exhibit one or more of the typical signs and symptoms of rosacea and they will often undergo a series of remissions and flare-ups throughout their lifetime. At present, there is no medical consensus on the causes of rosacea and there is no specific cure other than the control and treatment of its signs and symptoms and the proper management of potential triggers.
In order to establish a consistent framework for the clinical management of and research on rosacea, the National Rosacea Society Expert Committee on the Classification and Staging of Rosacea formulated a standard grading system to promote the uniform assessment of rosacea. The standard grading system provides a rating scale for the primary and secondary features of rosacea and a global assessment based on four sub-types of the disease based on a combination of the clinical manifestations of rosacea and the severity of its impact on the patient, including its psychological, social and occupational effects.
Primary and Secondary Features of Rosacea
Rosacea can be diagnosed based on the presence of one or more of its primary features on the central area of the face. These primary features are as follows:
- Transient erythema – the patient has a tendency of excessive blushing or flushing
- Non-transient erythema – the patient often experiences persistent redness in his or her facial skin
- Papules and pustules – there are crops of red and dome-shaped papules and pustules throughout the skin
- Telangiectasia – tiny dilated vessels can be seen on the skin
In addition, rosacea can also exhibit secondary features that can either co-exist with the primary features or occur independently. These secondary characteristics include:
- Burning or stinging sensation, with or without scaling and dermatitis
- Elevated red plaques
- Rough, scaly, dry central facial skin that looks like eczema or dermatitis
- Oedema, often accompanying or following facial erythema or flushing
- Ocular symptoms ranging from burning or itching eyes, bloodshot eyes, eyelid inflammation, and corneal damage
- Occurrence of rosacea at sites other than the face, such as the neck, scalp, ears and back
- Overgrowth of sebaceous glands, open skin pores and skin thickening
Grading of Rosacea
In assessing the primary signs and symptoms of rosacea, clinicians will grade them on a four-point scale usually based on visual observation of their frequency, duration, extent and severity and their progression throughout the patient's history, In some cases, more detailed assessments can be done using advanced technology. The rating scale consists of: absent – 0; mild – 1; moderate – 2; and severe – 3. On the other hand, the secondary features can be simply graded as either absent or present.
The clinical scorecard for assessing rosacea is provided below:
|Primary Features
|Flushing(transient erythema)
|Non-transient erythema
|Papules and pustules
|Secondary Features
|Burning or stinging
|Dry appearance
|If present:
|If chronic:
|Ocular manifestations
|Peripheral locations
|If present:
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|Global Assessment
|Physician's rating by sub-type
|Sub-type 1 – Erythematotelangiectatic
|Sub-type 2 – Papulopustular
|Sub-type 3 – Phymatous
|Sub-type 4 – Ocular
|Patient's global assessment
In assessing papules and pustules, the number of papules and pustules should be recorded and their severity graded using the following scale:
No. of Papules/Pustules
Global Assessment by Sub-Type
Sub-type 1: Erythematotelangiectatic rosacea –Flushing and persistent redness (erythema) of the center of the face, which may or may not be accompanied by telangiectasia (dilated vessels)
Sub-type 2: Papulopustular rosacea – Persistent facial erythema with transient papules in the center of the face
Sub-type 3: Phymatous rosacea – Thickening of the skin, with irregular and enlarged nodules on the nose, chin, forehead, cheeks or ears
Sub-type 4: Ocular rosacea – Sensation similar to having a foreign body in the eye, burning or stinging, dryness, itching, light sensitivity, blurred vision, dilated blood vessels and oedema of parts of the eye
The global assessment for each sub-type is according to should be performed with a scale of 0 to 3 based on a composite of the severity and extent of the signs and symptoms at the time of the examination. The rating should also take into consideration the duration of the signs and symptoms throughout the patient's history. The patient's participation and involvement in the diagnosis and treatment of rosacea are critical since the ultimate goal is to control the condition and minimize its adverse impact on the life of the patient.
Because of this, the patient is also required to provide a global assessment of the severity of their condition using a scale of 0 to 3 based on both the physical manifestations of rosacea and its impact on their quality of life, including the psychological, social and occupational effects.


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Swansea City manager Michael Laudrup has penned a one-year contract extension with the Premier League outfit, keeping him at the club until 2015.
The former Getafe, Spartak Moscow and Mallorca boss joined the Swans during pre-season following Brendan Rodgers' departure for Liverpool, and has since guided them to Capital One Cup success - their first ever major trophy - and a current eighth-place standing in the Premier League.
And Laudrup has revealed his intention to continue his progress at the Liberty Stadium, despite reported interest from a list of top European clubs including Real Madrid.
"We've started something this season that I want to continue," Laudrup told the club's official website.
"I know there has been a lot of speculation [about my future], but I've always said that I am happy here and I never had any doubts I would stay.
"I am delighted to sign the new deal and I'm already really looking forward to next season. I hope there will be some very exciting things happening with the team and with the club in Europe.''
Swansea chairman Huw Jenkins was delighted that the 48-year-old has put pen to paper and labelled the development as a coup and "major boost" for the club.
"This is a major boost for everyone involved with Swansea City, from the players, staff and Board of Directors through to the most important people of all, our supporters," Jenkins said.
"You can never guarantee how things will work out when you employ a new manager, especially after the success we've had in recent seasons, but I think everyone has seen for themselves that Michael has helped take this football club to another level.
"He is a pleasure to work with because he shares the same philosophy as everyone at this football club. He has ensured that we have progressed again this season and I am convinced his knowledge, experience and expertise will ensure we keep moving forward for the next few years."


text: Tests Before Surgery Many surgeons order routine laboratory tests before admission to the hospital, or even before certain outpatient procedures, to identify potential problems that might complicate surgery if not detected and treated early. According to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), some of the most common tests performed before surgery (and possible reasons/symptoms why they are performed) are included in the following list: A diagnostic test which uses invisible electromagnetic energy beams to produce images of internal tissues, bones, and organs onto film; may be used to help diagnose causes of shortness of breath, chest pain, cough, fever of unknown origin, and other abnormal heart, respiratory, and lung sounds. Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) - a test that records the electrical activity of the heart, shows abnormal rhythms (arrhythmias or dysrhythmias), detects heart muscle damage, helps determine the cause of chest pain, heart palpitations, and heart murmurs. Urinalysis - may be used to diagnose kidney and bladder infections, and diabetes. A urinalysis can also detect drugs present in the body. White blood count - may be used to diagnose fever of unknown origin, infection, and use of drugs known to affect white blood counts. The following tests, used on blood and urine specimens, measure certain substances and electrolytes in the body: Glucose - helps to identify causes of excessive sweating with tremor or anxiety, muscle weakness, diabetes, pancreatitis, cystic fibrosis, altered mental status, and alcoholism. Potassium - helps to identify causes of vomiting, diarrhea, congestive heart failure, muscle weakness, tissue damage, hypertension, and diabetes. Sodium - helps to identify causes of vomiting, diarrhea, excessive sweating, dehydration, pulmonary disease, central nervous system disease, congestive heart failure, and cirrhosis of the liver. If you have questions or concerns about any of the tests ordered by your physician, and the importance of having them, be sure to address them before having surgery.


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Careers Slideshow: Labor Costs Slowly Increasing
By Dennis McCafferty | Posted 06-24-2010
As the recovery struggles to take wing, IT salaries in 2010 are rising just slightly over last year's. At the same time, a number of benefits are on the decline. Some benefits, though, such as flex-work schedules, are increasing in popularity as employers attempt to keep valuable IT staffers, according to a new survey from Janco.
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With talk of a "bipartisan compromise" very much in the air, this Examiner editorial becomes must reading. It shows that the compromise reportedly being worked out by a "Gang of Six" — Olympia Snowe, Charles Grassley, Robert Bennett, Lindsay Graham, Mike Crapo, and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee — which includes an individual mandate to buy government-approved health insurance, runs counter to basic conservative/Republican principles. Here's why:
First, the individual mandate is the fulcrum of cooperation between government-run health care advocates and the big health insurance companies that would profit immensely if it's approved. As the Social Security Institute's Larry Hunter trenchantly observed, the big insurers "desperately want an individual mandate passed and will accept anything short of having their CEOs pushed out of an airplane door to get it." Such a "public-private partnership" will work no better for health care than it has in the mortgage industry with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Second, the approach makes a mockery of individual freedom of choice because it forces everybody to buy a government-approved health insurance plan from a government-approved insurer with oversight by government bureaucrats. Finally, because of the intensive government regulation involved, mandated rationing of health care is just as inevitable under this approach as it is under Obamacare. And bureaucrats will be just as likely to make treatment choices that ought to be made by doctors and patients. Supporting such legislation will mark Senate GOPers as Republicans-In-Name-Only (RINO) enablers of the Democrats' long-sought government takeover of health care.
JOHN adds: Tonight's news, while by no means final, is pretty good. Chuck Grassley says Republicans are being "pushed aside" so that the Democrats can move forward with a bad bill. The Hill, meanwhile, says that no Republicans–not even Olympia Snowe–are on board with Max Baucus's Finance Committee bill.


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Like every other feature in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS), the product's new security features are noticeably different from their DTS counterparts. SSIS still uses passwords and encrypts sensitive data, but the approach has changed substantially, simplifying automated package execution, protection, scheduling, and editing. SSIS security features fall into five functional categories: encryption, for securing packages or parts of packages; sensitive-data protection, for identifying and protecting passwords and other sensitive data; SQL Server roles, for controlling access to packages stored in SQL Server; digital code signing, for ensuring that a package hasn't changed; and integration of SQL Server Agent subsystems, for securely storing and executing packages. Let's take a closer look at these new security features and get some guidelines for how and when to use them. I'd like to extend special thanks to Sergei Ivanov, the Integration Services team developer who wrote these features, for answering all my questions and making sure I got the details right.
SSIS lets you use either a password or the user key to encrypt an entire package or just parts of the package. Like your login password, an encryption password can be any password you create. In contrast, SSIS automatically generates user keys for all the users on a machine and makes the keys part of their profiles. The user key is an opaque number that that few users know about and fewer actually see. Using this number as an encryption key has some advantages and disadvantages that strongly suggest you should use it only in certain ways. Because it's basically transparent to all users, the user key is ideal when a user wants to protect a package that only that user will run. For example, when a developer is creating a package, the user key lets the developer work with a package without needing to repeatedly type in a password. The drawback to encrypting packages with a user key is that other users can't open the package unless they log in with the original package creator's credentials. Using a password is more flexible and can add secondary protection to packages, as I explain in a moment.
Sensitive Data Protection
SSIS lets you designate which of a component's properties are sensitive so that you can differentiate between normal package data and sensitive data. Generally when a property is marked sensitive, that property is a password. But the sensitive attribute can protect any information that the custom component writer deems too sensitive to be stored in clear text. To mark a property as sensitive, the component writes a Sensitive= True XML attribute to the property element when saving the component. SSIS detects that attribute on properties and can give special treatment to a component's sensitive-property values depending on the package-protection setting for the package.
Package-Protection Options
SSIS pulls together the concepts of sensitive-data protection and encryption by providing the six package-protection options you see in the sidebar "SSIS Package-Protection Levels," page 41. Figure 1 shows the dialog box you use to select the appropriate package-protection option whenever you save a package to a file or to SQL Server, whether you're using the SSIS Import/Export Wizard or SQL Server 2005 Management Studio. If you save with one of the "sensitive" options—Encrypt sensitive data with password, Encrypt sensitive data with user key, or Do not save sensitive data—the package XML will be visible in the designer, so you can recover the package if you forget the password or are no longer able to log in as the package's creator. This tidbit is good to know if you're ever concerned about impending layoffs, disgruntled package developers, or just long-term accessibility of packages and you're not too concerned about losing the intellectual property that your packages contain.
Encrypting the entire package is a safer way of protecting everything in the package, but it also carries more risk than protecting only the sensitive data. If a user-key password is lost or the person who wrote the package leaves and you can't log in with the original credentials, the package is lost for good. No one, including Microsoft, can do anything to recover the package in such a situation. For some packages, such a loss isn't a problem, but it's good to be aware of the risks associated with full encryption.
SSIS adds three new roles that affect the way you run packages in SQL Server Agent and access packages stored in SQL Server. The db_dtsoperator role is the most limited new role. Users in this role can only enumerate (i.e., determine which packages are available) and view existing packages; operators can't create or modify SSIS packages. The db_dtsltduser role lets users create and modify their own packages and enumerate existing packages. And the db_dtsadmin role lets users create, modify, enumerate, and view all packages. Systems administrators are automatically in the db_dtsadmin role.
You must be in one of these three roles to access SSIS packages. If you aren't, and you attempt to enumerate a package by opening the Packages node for the SSIS Server object explorer in SQL Server Management Studio, you'll get the error message that Figure 2 shows.
You can find the new SSIS roles in the Management Studio MSDB database node under the Security, Roles, Database roles node. These roles apply only to MSDB and control access to the sysdtspackages90 table through the stored procedures that Figure 3 shows. You can find sysdtspackages90 and the stored procedures for accessing it in MSDB.
If you look at the sysdtspackages90 table in MSDB, you'll see two columns of particular interest to this discussion. The readrole column specifies the logins or roles that have read access to the package. Readers can enumerate, execute, and export a package from SQL Server. The writerole column specifies the logins or roles that have write access to the package. Writers can delete, rename, edit, and save a package to SQL Server. By default, these two columns are null.
To open the Package Roles dialog box, right-click a package in the Packages node and select Package Roles, as Figure 4 shows. Figure 5 shows the Package Roles dialog box default settings. When the readrole column is null, all users in any SSIS package role can enumerate and read that package. When the writerole field is null, only users in the db_dtsadmin role and the package's creator can modify or delete the package. To prevent a role from viewing and executing a given package, you must remove the role from the Reader Role comma-separated list. You can also add other roles to the reader and writer role lists. For example, I can add the Agent User, Limited User, and Security Administrator roles to the package reader role by entering them in a comma-delimited list as SQLAgentUserRole, db_dtsltduser, and db_securityadmin. I can also assign users and roles to a package's writer role to let them perform write operations such as DELETE and MODIFY to that package only.
To better understand how these roles interact and see which role has what rights, take a look at Table 1, which shows the rights assigned to each role and the activities that a user in each role can do by default. The table shows that the db_dtsoperator role can't work with its own packages; this limitation exists because the db_dtsoperator role can create packages, so that role can't own any. The table also shows that the Writerole db_stsoperator can't import packages because you can't have a write role on a non-existent package. The Assigned User isn't really a role, but I included it because you can assign a SQL login or role to a package reader or writer role. For example, by default, the db_dtsoperator isn't assigned to the writer role and doesn't have write privileges for packages. However, operators you explicitly place in the writer role will have all write-oriented privileges for that package.
By now your head is probably swimming in roles, but you need to know about one more new role in SQL Server 2005: the SQLAgentUserRole. A user must be in this role to create SQL Server Agent jobs, and users in this role can manage only the jobs that they create. This role is important because it affects a common SSIS usage scenario. After they're built, tested, and deployed, many packages reside on a SQL Server box in a back room somewhere, and a SQL Server Agent job triggers them when they need to run. Because SQL Server Agent integration is important to the security of such packages, let's take a closer look at how it works.
SQL Server Agent Integration
SQL Server 2000 has one SQL Server Agent proxy account. Once enabled, any SQL Server Agent user can set up and execute job steps for the CmdExec subsystem. In addition, DTS doesn't provide good support for unattended execution scenarios. To execute DTS packages with passwords, you have to encrypt the entire command line and paste it into the parameters for CmdExec to pass to DTSRun.exe. To eliminate such problematic practices, Microsoft introduced multiple SQL Server Agent subsystems, which are dedicated environments for executing particular technologies such as ActiveX Scripts, Analysis commands or queries, and SSIS packages. By default, only the sysadmin has rights to create jobs. To grant other users the rights to create jobs, the sysadmin creates proxy accounts, which are essentially wrapped credentials that have SQL Server Agent subsystem associations. Proxy accounts let sysadmins grant job-creation permissions to other users while finely controlling the kinds of jobs those users can create.
Another problem in SQL Server 2000 DTS shows up when a user deploys a working package to the server but the package fails with errors showing that it didn't have access to certain resources. SQL Server 2005 Agent provides a new Run as capability that lets a job step run under the credentials of a user or proxy. This capability means a developer can now create a package under the same credentials that it runs under on the server in SQL Server Agent.
Digital Signing
Digital signing is a new feature in SSIS that lets you sign a package with a code-signing certificate. With this certificate, you can detect whether a package has changed in some way. Whether the change was malicious or inadvertent, digital signing lets you ensure that the package you run today is the same package you deployed yesterday.
However, systems don't remain static over time. Hard drives go out, machines become deprecated, and database names and locations change. You might think that updating a package to reflect those changes means you'll need to sign the package again. But if the package is designed to effectively use package configurations, you won't need to re-sign the package. Because you create configurations after load time, changing configurations to reflect changes in your system and keep packages running correctly won't corrupt the package signing. Thus, digital signing ensures that the package remains untouched, and configurations isolate the package from the constantly changing environment.
Putting It All Together
Now that I've explained SSIS's new security features, let's look at how to use them in different business situations. The following are some typical scenarios a DBA might want to enable.
Tier-three operations. Many large organizations (e.g., MSN) encompass multiple operation tiers. Tier-one operators are typically less-technical employees who use step-by-step instructions for every operation. If a problem arises, they pick up the phone and call another tier for help. Tier-two or tier-three employees know systems more intimately and can usually troubleshoot common problems. Tier-three employees are typically quite technical; they might have created the systems, can diagnose difficult problems, and might be on call for troubleshooting serious problems.
Imagine that a tier-one operator, who shouldn't have write access to packages, needs the ability to change the SQL Server Agent schedules and sometimes the jobs that run the packages. The operator also needs to be able to run all the packages. You can give the operator the necessary access by making sure that
- all packages are stored in SQL Server
- the package reader role is db_dtsoperator
- the package writer role is NULL, which is the default access for db_dtsadmin
- the operator is in the SQLAgentUserRole and the db_dtsoperator role
- the operator is using any OS login credentials, including those in only the user role
Creating packages whose contents are invisible to sysadmins. A common business problem arises when users who are in different companies or are in a different company than the DBA want to share information. Imagine that some employees are creating packages that contain sensitive data and intellectual property that they don't want to be visible to any other user or administrator. For example, the sysadmin might be a contractor or vendor in your company. Or you might be saving packages to a SQL Server on your ISP's systems. If your customers want to protect their passwords so that nobody outside their group can view their packages, be sure that
- all packages are stored in SQL Server or file system
- the package reader role is db_dtsltduser so that no other users can open the packages
- users save packages by using one of the password-encryption levels; users who need the password share it, but administrators won't have package access
Packages running on only one machine. Say you're concerned that sensitive packages might be taken from a given location and opened and plundered offsite. In this scenario, you want to ensure that the package can never be viewed or executed except on a given machine under a certain account. To set these restrictions, be sure that you save the sensitive packages to SQL Server or file system. When importing the package into SQL Server, use the Encrypt sensitive data with user key option. You must be logged in or running Management Studio with the Run as capability under the same account that the package will be opened or executed under in SQL Server Agent, Development Studio, DTExec.exe, or another such package client. Also be sure that you remove all roles from the reader and writer roles except the username for the account under which the package will execute or be opened. Although it's not technically necessary because the package is encrypted with the user key and won't be readable even if others attempt to view it, replacing the roles with the name of the account hides the packages from other users.
Simplify Your Packages
The new security features in Integration Services simplify all the ways you work with packages. Better integration with SQL Server Agent yields finer control and granularity for configuring Agent package-execution schedules. And more options for encrypting the package make it possible to custom fit your package security to the requirements of your operation.


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Daven Presgraves, assistant professor of biology, has won a David and Lucile Packard Foundation fellowship to explore the genetic basis of the origin of species. The $875,000 fellowship, one of twenty awarded nationally by the foundation, will help Presgraves find the 'speciation genes' that cost cross-species hybrids the ability to reproduce.
"The Packard award is a terrific honor, and it provides a great opportunity for us to tackle one of the burning questions in our fieldwhat kinds of evolutionary changes in the genome cause one species to split into two species?" says Presgraves. "We recently found that the X chromosome plays a special role in speciation, but we don't yet understand why. Going forward, we'll combine comparative genomics, genetic mapping and molecular biology to get the answer."
Presgraves focuses on the barrierssuch as speciation genes on the X chromosomethat prevent different species from exchanging genetic material. When one species splits into two, interbreeding between the two daughter species is much more likely to produce sterile hybrids when the species exchange X chromosomes than when they exchange any other chromosomes, says Presgraves. The phenomenon, dubbed the "large X-effect," acts as a wedge that evolves early during the formation of two newly formed species, pushing them onto divergent evolutionary paths.
Scientists expect evolutionary changes in DNA to accumulate in random locations across a genome, but Presgraves instead found that most changes causing hybrid sterility cluster inexplicably on the X chromosome. With the new funding, he will investigate why the X chromosome is a hotspot for "speciation genes" that prevent genetic exchanges between closely related species. Presgraves believes there is something special about the X chromosome that attracts genes that disrupt the creation of sperm in hybrid males.
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship Program has awarded 424 fellowships during its 20-year history, totaling approximately $260 million, to faculty members at 50 top national universities. It is among the nation's largest nongovernmental program designed to support unusually creative researchers early in their careers. The Fellowship Program funds research in a broad range of disciplines including physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean science and all branches of engineering.


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MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Authorities in Bahrain say a bomb blast has wounded at least three policemen during a series of anti-government attacks in the restive Gulf kingdom.
The explosion and firebomb assaults appear linked to a campaign of stepped-up violence by militant factions in Bahrain, where majority Shiites have staged a nearly 30-month uprising calling for a greater political voice in the Sunni-ruled island.
Saturday's attacks also come on the eve of an emergency parliament session called to discuss the rising number of bombings, including one near Bahrain's royal palaces.
The Interior Ministry said three policemen were hurt in a bomb blast, and cars and buildings were hit by homemade firebombs.
More than 60 people have died in Bahrain's unrest, but activists place the figure higher.


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December 17, 2012 20:58 ET
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Dec. 17, 2012) - Calmena Energy Services Inc. (TSX:CEZ) ("Calmena") announces that pursuant to the terms of its long term contracts (the "Contracts") with Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. ("Petrobras") for the provision of drilling services of four single drilling rigs in Brazil, it has delivered to Petrobras written notice of the termination of the Contracts. Calmena's notice stipulates that the Contracts will terminate 30 days from the date of the notice. The decision to terminate the Contracts was made after extended negotiations related to several operational and contractual issues, which were causing financial losses to Calmena, failed to yield a satisfactory result.
Calmena does not anticipate that the termination of the Contracts will have a negative impact on the operations of its heliportable rig, which is operating in the Amazonas state of Brazil under a separate long term contract with Petrobras.
Calmena has begun the process of winding down the current drilling operations of the single rigs in Brazil in an orderly and efficient manner and will be marketing the services of the single drilling rigs, which Calmena believes are among the fastest and most efficient of their size, in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America.
Calmena is a diversified energy services company that provides well construction services to its customers operating in Canada, the United States, Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa. The common shares of Calmena trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "CEZ".
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements relating to Calmena's plans, strategies, objectives, expectations and intentions. Expressions such as "may", "anticipate", "expect", "project", "believe", "hope", "estimate", "intend", "will", "continue", "foresee", and "forecast" and similar expressions and statements are intended to identify forward looking statements. Such statements represent Calmena's internal projections, estimates or beliefs concerning, among other things, an outlook on the estimated amounts and timing of capital expenditures, anticipated future debt, revenues or other expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, assumptions, intentions or statements about future events or performance. These statements are only predictions and actual events or results may differ materially. Although Calmena believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievement since such expectations are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties and contingencies. Many factors could cause Calmena's actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements made by, or on behalf of, Calmena.
In particular, forward-looking statements included in this news release include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to the impact of the cancellation of the Petrobras contracts on the operations of our heliportable rig, the process of winding down the drilling operations of Calmena's rigs in Brazil and the marketing the services of Calmena's single drilling rigs in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America.
These forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, certain of which are beyond Calmena's control, including, but not limited to, the impact of general economic conditions; industry conditions and changes in industry conditions; volatility of commodity prices; decreased demand for energy services; competition from other energy services providers; the lack of availability of qualified personnel or management; ability of Calmena to re-finance or extend the maturity date of its senior debt and generate positive cash flow; failure of counter parties to perform on contracts; failure to successfully negotiate new contracts or renew existing contracts; failure to successfully deploy rigs; changes in income tax laws or changes in tax laws and incentive programs relating to the oil and gas industry; risks associated with international operations, including, but not limited to: seasonality; loss of key customers; fluctuations in foreign exchange or interest rates and stock market volatility; supply and demand for oilfield services relating to the drilling, completion and maintenance of oil and gas wells as well as services related to, oilfield equipment rentals and production and ancillary services; liabilities and risks, including environmental liabilities and risks inherent in oil and natural gas operations; uncertainties in weather and temperature affecting the duration of the service periods and the activities that can be completed; ability to access sufficient capital from internal and external sources; failure to successfully negotiate contracts for drilling rig operations; failure to realize the anticipated benefits of the Company's investments; and the other risks considered under "Risk Factors" in our annual information form for the year ended December 31, 2011 which is available on www.sedar.com.
With respect to forward-looking statements contained in this news release, Calmena has made assumptions regarding, but not limited to: the implementation of the Company's international growth strategy; current commodity prices and royalty regimes; availability of skilled labour; timing and amount of capital expenditures; ability of Calmena to re-finance or extend the maturity date of its senior debt; ability of Calmena to renew existing contracts and enter into new contracts; rig utilization and pricing; future exchange rates; the impact of increasing competition; conditions in general economic and financial markets; industry conditions; supply and demand for oilfield services relating to the drilling, completion and maintenance of oil and gas wells as well as services related to oilfield equipment rentals and production and ancillary services; effects of regulation by governmental agencies; trends in Calmena's operations; and future operating costs.
Management has included the above summary of assumptions and risks related to forward-looking information provided in this news release in order to provide Shareholders with a more complete perspective on Calmena's current and future operations and such information may not be appropriate for other purposes. Calmena's actual results, performance or achievement could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements and, accordingly, no assurance can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do so, what benefits that Calmena will derive therefrom. Readers are cautioned that the foregoing lists of factors are not exhaustive.
These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release and Calmena disclaims any intent or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or results or otherwise, other than as required by applicable securities laws.
The TSX has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
Calmena Energy Services Inc.John R. KingPresident and Chief Executive Officer(403) 225-3879(403) 366-2066 (FAX)Calmena Energy Services Inc.700, 333 - 7th Avenue SWCalgary, Alberta T2P 2Z1www.calmena.com
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During pregnancy, I swapped my journalist's diet (reheated coffee and Snickers for dinner, anyone?) for fruits, vegetables, and plenty of water -- and a day didn't pass without a 30-minute brisk walk. But after the birth of my daughter (and 21 months later, my son), I found myself fueling up with a cup of Starbucks and a Krispy Kreme just to watch the kids crawl around at Gymboree. I was irritable, exhausted, and nostalgic for how great I'd felt during pregnancy. And then it hit me: It wasn't just the hormones that kept me energetic -- it was my pregnancy lifestyle.
Pregnancy is one of a few windows of opportunity when women make significant changes to improve their health, says Raul Artal, M.D., professor and chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine in Missouri. (The others include after an osteoporosis diagnosis or a heart attack.) But after childbirth, many women -- overwhelmed and exhausted -- abandon their healthy regimens. Here's how to hang on to those good-for-you habits.
Pregnancy keeper: Mini-meals and snacks
Why: Frequent little meals keep your energy level up and your mood and blood sugar stable after the baby is born, says Debra Waterhouse, R.D., author of Outsmarting the Female Fat Cell After Pregnancy. Tempted to cut back on calories so you can fit into your jeans? Don't. Waterhouse's stats show that women who diet postpartum retain twice as much weight as women who don't.
Good habit helper: Stock up on healthy snacks (fruits, easy-to-eat vegetables, whole-wheat crackers, and cheese), and while your baby naps, prepare small bags to carry with you. Identify your "energy food" -- the one healthy snack that always gives you a boost -- and make sure it's on hand. Good ones to try: peanuts, bananas, energy bars, and yogurt.
Pregnancy keeper: Lots of water
Why: Dehydration is the number one cause of fatigue, says Waterhouse. We drink about two glasses per day, but our bodies need six to eight.
Good habit helper: Always carry a water bottle with you, even around the house. Remember that the caffeinated beverages you cut back on during pregnancy are actually diuretics (they dehydrate), so don't replace water with cola or coffee. Exercise, Kegels, and calcium
Pregnancy keeper: Regular exercise
Why: Working out can help prevent weight gain and disease, and help you drop postpartum pounds. It also helps new moms sleep better and fight after-the-baby blues.
Good habit helper: Since your child is not going to work around your schedule, work around his. "I would put my baby in a Snugli and do lunges across my living room," says fitness expert Denise Austin, author of the new book and video Pilates for Every Body as well as Bounce Back After Baby. The good news for time-crunched moms is that a new study by Irish researchers found that three 10-minute workouts a day gave as much benefit as a 30-minute block of exercise. Working moms may want to exercise to a video with their babies nearby each evening, while at-home moms may need a brisk walk and some alone-time after Dad returns from work.
Pregnancy keeper: Kegels
Why: They're not just for childbirth. These vaginal-tightening exercises help strengthen the pelvic floor, can prevent bladder problems, and add to sexual satisfaction.
Good habit helper: This may be the only exercise you can do while watching TV, sitting in the car, or talking on the phone. As a reminder, to locate the muscles, try stopping and starting the flow of urine -- that's the motion of the Kegel. (Don't do the exercises while you're urinating, however.) The National Institutes of Health recommend doing 10 kegels three times a day, and Austin does them for five seconds a few times a day. Start them after childbirth (check with your doctor first), and keep doing them until you're a grandma!
Pregnancy keeper: Extra calcium
Why: If you think you only needed extra calcium to build your baby's bones, think again. Almost 80 percent of women don't get the calcium they need daily (1,000 mg), and up to one-half are at risk for osteoporosis -- fragile bones susceptible to fractures. Research has also shown that calcium alleviates PMS.
Good habit helper: Keep taking your prenatal vitamin as long as your doctor recommends it, and then switch to a daily multivitamin. Make foods high in calcium (yogurt, milk, kale, broccoli, and salmon) part of your diet.