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CFO Moves this week include:
|Colgate-Palmolive Company
|Libbey Inc
|Waters Corporation
|Bunge Limited
|InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp.
|Adams Resources & Energy, Inc.
|Wireless Telecom Group, Inc.
|Illumina, Inc.
|Titan International, Inc
|CECO Environmental Corp.
|Calyxt, Inc.
|Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc.
|UDR, Inc.
|PAR Technology Corporation
|Renova™ Therapeutics
|Verscend Technologies, Inc.
|Vistra Energy
|Rent-A-Center, Inc.
|Sensient Technologies
|PriMed Management Consulting Services, Inc.,
|MusclePharm Corporation
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Xerox [NORWALK, Conn.] (NYSE: XRX) announced that William F. Osbourn, Jr. will serve as chief financial officer of Xerox Corporation. Osbourn joins Xerox following a 13 year career at Time Warner Cable (TWC) which culminated with him serving as co-CFO. Osbourn also served as the controller and chief accounting officer, for eight years. Before joining Time Warner, Osbourn spent 14 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and was admitted to partnership in 2000. Xerox also announced that Leslie Varon, who has served as CFO since October 2015, will retire following the completion of the separation and after ensuring a smooth transition.
Colgate-Palmolive Company [NEW YORK] announced that Charles A. Bancroft, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Global Business Operations of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, has been elected to the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Bancroft joined Bristol-Myers Squibb in 1984 and has since held positions of increasing responsibility. Mr. Bancroft was appointed Chief Financial Officer in 2010 and has served in his current role since 2016. Prior to joining Bristol-Myers Squibb, Mr. Bancroft was an auditor with KPMG.
Libbey Inc. [TOLEDO, Ohio] (NYSE MKT: LBY) announced that Sherry Buck, vice president, chief financial officer, will be leaving the Company, to pursue another professional opportunity. In the interim period, Mrs. Buck's former duties will be assumed by Ronni Smith, vice president, corporate controller. Ronni Smith joined Libbey in May 2006 as the assistant corporate controller and was appointed vice president, corporate controller in 2012. Prior to joining Libbey, she was an accounting supervisor at Ford Motor Company.
Waters Corporation [MILFORD, Mass.] (NYSE: WAT) announced Sherry Buck as its Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Buck replaces Eugene G. Cassis, Waters Corporation CFO since February 2014, who will transition to a senior advisory role. Sherry was CFO of Libbey Inc. for more than four years. Prior to joining Libbey, Ms. Buck spent nearly 20 years at Whirlpool Corporation in a number of leadership roles, including CFO, Global Product and Enterprise Cost Leadership, and Vice President, U.S. Finance.
OCC [CHICAGO] announced that Amy Shelly has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. She replaces Kim McGarry. Prior to joining OCC, Shelly was the interim Chief Financial Officer for a private equity portfolio company in 2016. From 2015 to 2016 she was a project manager for CF Industries. In 2014 Shelly was the interim Chief Financial Officer for Volant Holding LLC. From 2008 to 2014 Shelly was Chief Financial Officer for Optiver U.S. LLC.
Bunge Limited [WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.] (NYSE: BG) announced the appointment of Thomas Boehlert as EVP – Chief Financial Officer. He succeeds Drew Burke, who is retiring. Boehlert was Chief Executive Officer, President and a Director of First Nickel Inc. from 2011-2015. Prior to that, he was Chief Financial Officer for Kinross Gold Corporation, and served as Chief Financial Officer for several energy companies including Texas Genco, Direct Energy and Sithe Energies, Inc. Previously, Boehlert spent 14 years in investment banking with Credit Suisse. He started his career as an auditor at a KPMG predecessor firm in 1983.
InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] announced the resignation of Steven McAllister from the position of Chief Financial Officer. In connection with his departure, the Company has appointed Melanie Morel-Ferris to assume the responsibilities and title of interim Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Morel-Ferris has served as the Company's Controller since May, 2016. Prior to joining InVivo, Ms. Morel-Ferris served as the Corporate Controller of Astrodyne TDI, from July 2014 to May 2016. Prior to that, Ms. Morel-Ferris served as the Associate Director of Corporate Accounting of ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc., from January 2014 to July 2014, and as a Senior Accounting Manager at ARIAD from January 2011 to December 2013. Ms. Morel-Ferris began her career at Deloitte.
Adams Resources & Energy, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NYSE MKT: AE) announced the election of Josh C. Anders as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company. Sharon C. Davis will resign from her position as interim Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company and will continue in her position as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Accounting Officer of the Company. Mr. Anders served as Vice President, Controller and principal accounting officer for Southwestern Energy Company from 2012 through 2016 and held various finance and accounting positions of increasing responsibility from 2010 through 2012 with Southwestern Energy Company. Immediately prior to joining Southwestern Energy Company, from 2007 to 2009, he was Vice President, Business Development and Treasurer of Beryl Oil and Gas LP. Prior to that, he held various accounting and finance managerial positions with Pogo Producing Company.
Wireless Telecom Group, Inc. [PARSIPPANY, N.J.] (NYSE MKT: WTT) announced that Michael Kandell is joining the Company as its new Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Kandell will succeed Robert Censullo, who has served as Wireless Telecom Group's CFO for five years Michael joins Wireless Telecom Group from Avaya, Inc. where he was Senior Director of Accounting. Prior to Avaya, Mr. Kandell worked at Precision Partners, Inc. for 3 years and at Ernst & Young LLP in New Jersey for 7 years.
Illumina, Inc. [SAN DIEGO] (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced the appointment of Sam A. Samad, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Sam was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the pharmaceutical segment, and Vice President, Healthcare Supply Chain Services. He also previously held finance roles at Eli Lilly and PepsiCo Inc.
Titan International, Inc. [QUINCY, Ill.] has approved the transition of James M. Froisland from his current position as Interim Chief Financial Officer to Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Froisland was appointed as Interim Chief Financial Officer in May 2016. Mr. Froisland has experience as a Chief Financial Officer, Chief Information Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Secretary, Consultant and Board Member for domestic and international public and private equity owned companies, including Westell Technologies, Inc., InfuSystems Holdings, Inc., Material Sciences Corporation, and Burns International Services Corporation. He also held financial leadership positions at Anixter International, Inc., Budget Rent a Car Corporation, Allsteel, Inc., and The Pillsbury Company. He began his career at KPMG LLP and is a Certified Public Accountant.
nCino [WILMINGTON, N.C.] announced that Jeff Babka has joined the company as chief financial officer. Prior to joining nCino, Babka was a venture partner at Insight Venture Partners. Previously, he was CFO of Applied Predictive Technologies. Before that, from 2005 through 2009, Babka served as CFO of NeuStar, Inc.
CECO Environmental Corp. [CINCINNATI] (NASDAQ: CECE) announced the appointment of Matthew Eckl as Chief Financial Officer. He replaces Edward Prajzner, the Company's current Chief Financial Officer, who will serve in the new role as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development. Mr. Eckl currently serves as the Vice President, Finance – Energy Group at Gardner Denver, Inc. Mr. Eckl joined Gardner Denver in 2012. Prior to joining Gardner Denver, Mr. Eckl served from 2002 until 2012.
OpenX [LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Eric W. Muhlheim as chief financial officer. Eric was most recently chief financial officer of Helix Education, Inc. Prior to Helix, Eric served as chief financial officer of Altius Education, and before that in various leadership roles spanning 16 years at The Walt Disney Company.
Calyxt, Inc. [ST. PAUL, Minn.] announced the appointment of Bryan Corkal to the new role of Chief Financial Officer at Calyxt. Mr. Corkal joins Calyxt from Monsanto, where he spent over 17 years in a variety of key financial roles. Most recently, he served as North America and Latin America North Supply Chain Finance Lead. Mr. Corkal's prior roles included serving as Director of Investor Relations, before which he was the CFO for the Latin America North region for Monsanto in Mexico City.
Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. [TAMPA, Fla.] (NYSE: OSG) announced that Christopher Wolf will become the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, taking over from Rick F. Oricchio. From December 1 to December 29, Mr. Wolf will serve as the Chief Financial Officer of OSG's subsidiary, Overseas Bulk Ships, Inc. Mr. Wolf has experience as a Chief Financial Officer, having served in this role at several companies, including most recently at Higher One Holdings, Inc., where he worked from 2013 to 2016. Earlier in his career, Mr. Wolf was a Chief Financial Officer at Acxiom Corporation and Catalina Marketing.
UDR, Inc. [DENVER] (NYSE: UDR) announced the appointment of Joseph D. Fisher as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Fisher succeeds Tom Herzog, who resigned as Chief Financial Officer in June 2016. Mr. Fisher has been a member of the Deutsche Asset Management real estate securities team since 2007 most recently serving as Co-Head of the Americas and Co-Lead Portfolio Manager. Prior to that he was in real estate private equity within Deutsche Asset Management as an Associate in the Structured Debt Investments Group from April 2005 to June 2007, and as a Portfolio Analyst in the Portfolio Management Group from May 2004 to June 2006. From June 2003 to May 2004 he was an Asset Management Analyst at Principal Real Estate Investors.
PAR Technology Corporation [NEW HARTFORD, N.Y.] (NYSE: PAR) announced the appointment of Bryan Menar as its new Chief Financial Officer. Menar joins PAR from Chobani, LLC. where he was Vice President Financial Planning & Analysis. Menar has also had senior finance level roles at JC Jones & Associates, Goldman Sachs & Co., and Ernst & Young LLP.
Bsquare [BELLEVUE, Wash.] (NASDAQ: BSQR) announced that Peter Biere will join the company as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Biere has spent eight years as CFO of two NASDAQ listed companies, Zones and Lumera.
Renova™ Therapeutics [SAN DIEGO] announced that Catherine Bovenizer is joining the company as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Ms. Bovenizer was the Vice President of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer at Apricus Biosciences.
Verscend Technologies, Inc. [WALTHAM, Mass.] announced that Joe Driscoll has joined the company as chief financial officer. Prior to joining Verscend, Driscoll was the CFO of PC Connection, Inc. Before his time at PC Connection, Driscoll held CFO and senior finance positions at Summer Infant, Inc.; ACT Electronics; Staples, Inc.; and Safety 1st.
Vistra Energy [DALLAS] (OTCQX: VSTE) announced the appointment of J. William "Bill" Holden as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Mr. Holden previously held numerous roles over 20 years at GenOn Energy, Inc./Mirant Corporation, culminating as the company's executive vice president and chief financial officer. He also held key treasury, risk, operational, development and international positions during his GenOn/Mirant tenure. Holden started his career with Southern Company in 1985 and held various corporate finance roles over almost a decade. His experience also includes, most recently, serving as executive vice president and senior advisor at The Taffrail Group, LLC.
Emma [NASHVILLE, Tenn.] announced the hiring of Wellford Dillard as chief financial officer. Prior to Emma, Dillard also served as the CFO at multiple venture capital-backed companies, including Social Tables, VideoBlocks and GetWellNetwork.
Rent-A-Center Inc. [Plano, Texas] announced that Guy J. Constant resigned his position as Executive Vice President – Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Rent-A-Center, Inc. Maureen B. Short, the Company's current Senior Vice President – Finance, Investor Relations and Treasury, will serve as Interim Chief Financial Officer.
Sensient Technologies [MILWAUKEE] announced the election of Scott Morrison to its Board of Directors. Mr. Morrison is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Ball Corporation. Prior to joining Ball Corporation, Mr. Morrison held a number of senior corporate banking roles at Bank One, First Chicago and NBD Bank, Detroit.
PriMed Management Consulting Services, Inc. [SAN RAMON, Calif.] announced that Tim Richards will assume responsibilities as chief financial officer, succeeding long-time CFO, Rick Messman. Richards most recently served as an Executive Director of Finance at Kaiser Permanente. Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente, Richards was an Audit Manager at KPMG.
MusclePharm Corporation [DENVER] (OTCQB: MSLP) announced the appointment of Peter C. Lynch as the Company's new Chief Financial Officer, Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer. Mr. Lynch has held financial leadership positions at several large corporations that include Kärcher North America, Inc., Honeywell International Inc. and Gates Corp.


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Crew President and General Manager Mark McCullers has no doubts that the latest addition to the team's Homegrown stable will succeed after an agreement with 19-year-old midfielder Wil Trapp was announced Thursday.
Trapp was a national prep player of the year after leading Gahanna Lincoln High School in suburban Columbus to a state championship in 2009; a two-time Crew Soccer Academy Player of the Year; a major contributor for two seasons at the University of Akron and appeared in five matches for the U.S. U-20 National Team this year.
"Wil has found a way to be successful at every level," McCullers said.
Signing with the Crew was a natural step for Trapp, who said he's been a fan since attending his first game when he was three or four and the club played in Ohio Stadium.
"To grow up with them and see how they've evolved and the players that have come in and out, they've been in my heart ever since I was young," Trapp told MLSsoccer.com. "Now to be on the team it's more than I had hoped for."
"It's surreal. It's massive. I've dreamt of it every night and now it's here."
He's the fourth Homegrown player to join the Crew as he follows forward Aaron Horton , goalkeeper Matt Lampson and forward Ben Speas. Lampson appeared in three games and Speas one as rookies in 2012, while Horton's lone game came in June 2011.
Crew Head Coach Robert Warzycha said the professional environment in training and the opportunities whether with the first team or in reserve games and friendlies is invaluable to young players such as Trapp.
"It's not up to the coaches whether he plays. It's up to the players," Warzycha said. "If he shows enough then we are going to put him on the field. It's up to Wil whether he's going to take a chance and progress and fit in the team."
Trapp said he discussed turning pro after his just-completed sophomore season with Akron coach Caleb Porter, who will coach the Portland Timbers next season.
"Caleb and I had talked throughout the season whether or not - regardless of his decision - to leave," Trapp said. "He gave me his blessing and that I was ready to move on to the next level.
"He called me this morning and said good luck and congratulations. I said, 'Thanks, coach. See you soon.'"
While forward Brian McBride was his favorite Crew player, Trapp also took inspiration from former Gahanna player Seth Stammler, who played 142 games for the New York Red Bulls from 2004-2010.
"When I was real young they had a high-school camp and he was one of my counselors," Trapp said. "He came back when we made our run for the state championship in 2009 with Gahanna and I talked to him then. It's great to have another guy from Gahanna go through this process."
Trapp finds inspiration to make MLS jump
Crew President and General Manager Mark McCullers has no doubts that the latest addition to the team's Homegrown stable will succeed after an agreement with 19-year-old midfielder Wil Trapp was announced Thursday.

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Caroline Quiner has been a pioneer girl all her life, and whenever she possibly could, she went to school. Now that she has graduated out of school, she gets to be a teacher! At first she teaches summer school, and it wasn't very hard. The only people that she tought were girls and younger boys. she has a little bit of trouble, but she fixes that. she also meets a young boy named John Friday who needs help, and Caroline is the one wh...


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Presenting: Nike's new 'blackout' Brazil kit for 2011.
As you can see, it's very, VERY black – a bit 'post-apocalyptic Batman' if you will…
Apparently the shirt is being marketed as a 'special edition' by Nike and as such Brazil won't actually be wearing it competively at any point, but that doesn't stop it from being utterly ravishing.
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'Homeland' sweeps Golden Globes again
"Homeland" has won the award for Best Drama Series two years in a row, while Claire Danes and Damian Lewis won for best actress and best actor. It's a pretty incredible show, even with the elevated craziness of Season 2. And while I don't think it's quite as good as "Breaking Bad" it's hard to argue with these choices.
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It wasn't exactly the way Troupe told it, but the Amtrak train that took me home from Los Angeles through the Southwest to Chicago and then to New York, followed a great deal of the old Route 66, even made stops at some of the places mentioned in the song. The return trip was delightful.
On the way to the West Coast, however, the story is not so pretty. In fact, it was a nightmare, thanks to the floods and fires that caused Amtrak to cancel all trains.
In any case, I got to where I was headed in one piece and then Wednesday, June 15 came and it was time to meet some new friends.
That evening, I reconnected with Tom Wark and Jack Everitt, two guys that I first met online and then came to meet in person on a couple of past trips to the West Coast. That was a blast. But the real treat for the evening was to meet other Internet friends that I had yet to meet face-to-face: Samantha Dugan, John Kelly, Ron Washam, Charlie Olken, and Marcia (whose last name I didn't get) plus Wark's new wife, Charlie's long-standing wife, John's winemaking assistant, all of whom I was introduced to by name, but in my oncoming dotage have not held in memory. I apologize for that gap, and should have taken notes.
What I do remember of that evening wholeheartedly was conviviality. We ate good food served at Harvest Moon in Sonoma (oh, those sardines), drank fabulous wines brought by each of us, and talked trash as well as serious. (Have you ever sat at a table of nearly a dozen self-confident people with opinions? If not, don't try it without some practice.)
I was especially pleased with the overall good reception of the Finger Lakes wines that I brought to the dinner.
The memorable evening fell in the middle of my trip, and that made it all the more wonderful, as it was a fine break from the combination work and scouting that I was doing while on the West Coast (in seven days, I racked up 1800 miles on a rented car). The work was to interview a few people for research pertaining to my next book, which is under contract. The scouting was to satisfy a sense that I had that it is time for me to move on, to relocate.
Unfortunately or not, the places I had planned to visit in southern Oregon as candidates for that relocation did not live up to expectations. Or maybe it is simply that I am not ready. Whatever, I have decided to stay put for the time being. It didn't help that, despite a proliferation of coffee kiosks throughout the region, or maybe because of them, I could not find a decent cup of unadulterated espresso in southern Oregon.
People who deal with and survive cancer are also faced with our mortality, and that often makes us believe either that what we have may not be enough or it may not be the right thing for us. In the past few months, while facing mortality, and although I'd like to claim exceptionality, I proved to myself that I am as ordinary as any man. But after searching on this trip, and doing a lot of thinking as well, I have come to the conclusion that what I have is enough and it is right for me.
The only thing that I need to do to make comfortable the time that I have left on this earth is for me to escape the deep winters that often afflict this part of the country. For that, I don't need to go to a warmer place; I need to be in a place that provides me with access to things that I cannot have while hibernating in my rural community, and that includes a good unadulterated double espresso—daily.
My latest thought, then, is to find a temporary apartment each winter in Manhattan. There, I can indulge in what truly makes me happy—cultural events. To do that in the Finger Lakes in winter it takes clearing the driveway of snow and ice, warming the car, driving in snow and ice for a minimum of 35 miles one way, and then trying to enjoy the evening while thinking of the energy-draining drive home in the dead of night and winter.
In Manhattan, all it takes to enjoy cultural events is to get dressed, go downstairs and either walk or take a taxi, whatever the weather is.
I am so glad to have reached a stage in my life where I get to enjoy conviviality more often and to also make decisions mostly on my terms. So, fuck cancer. It has nothing on freedom, friends, and conviviality.
I think I'll need another conviviality trip to the West Coast soon—better still, maybe some of my new friends would like to see how green is our valley during a Finger Lakes summer here in the East.
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IronsPigs split with Herd
The Herd lost their second straight game against the IronPigs at Coca-Cola Park on Tuesday night by a 2-1 score. The back-to-back losses means that Buffalo could only earn a split of the four-game series against the International League North division rivals.
Buffalo still has not one a series in five tries at Lehigh Valley after the IronPigs debuted in 2008. The Bisons won the first two games of the series over the weekend, but fell 6-3 on Monday night. Tuesday's loss meant a series victory will have to wait until the Herd returns to Pennsylvania in August.
Buffalo could only muster one run in the Tuesday's series finale. Mike Hessman's two-out single in the first inning plated newcomer Daniel Murphy for the game's first run. For Hessman, the knock gave him his league-leading 49th RBI on the season.
Lehigh Valley answered quickly in the bottom of the first on John Mayberry's RBI-single. In the fourth, the IronPigs pushed across a second run on Melvin Dorta's two-out hit into center off Herd starter Pat Misch. That proved to be the game-winner.
Drew Carpenter and two IronPig relievers held the Bisons to just six hits in the loss. Misch suffered his first loss of the season for Buffalo to fall to 4-1. The southpaw allowed just two runs in six innings of work.
In his first action since his month-long stay with the Mets, Manny Acosta threw two shutout innings for Buffalo.
BISONS NOTES: Daniel Murphy's action was just his second career Triple-A game. Murphy played one game with New Orleans in August, 2008 but was promoted to New York for his major league debut a day later. He finished Tuesday's game 1-4 with a run scored…Mike Cervenak was 1-4 at the plate and has now hit safely in each of his three games since being activated off the disabled list…Pat Misch picked up his first hit of the season with a fifth-inning single.


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Gun, ammunition found hidden in stuffed animals
Sources: Passenger set up by child's mother
Federal transportation officials at Rhode Island's T.F. Green Airport said gun parts and ammunition found hidden inside a child's stuffed animals posed no threat to the public.
Sources told News Center 5 that the incident was a set-up stemming from an ongoing child custody dispute.
"It appears to be a result of a domestic dispute," said T.F. Green Airport Chief of Police, Leo Messier. "It was jointly investigated by the FBI, Rhode Island State Police and Rhode Island Airport Police and it was determined there was no threat to safety at any time"
The Transportation Security Administration said that a man traveling to Detroit with his 4-year-old son on Monday afternoon was stopped when a T.S.A. officer noticed the disassembled gun components "artfully concealed" inside three stuffed animals.
The stuffed animals were inside the child's carry-on bag, which had been put through an X-ray machine as part of normal security screening.
Authorities said a .40-caliber gun was found inside one animal, while a magazine loaded with two .40-caliber rounds and a firing pin were found inside a second animal. Another part of a gun known as a slide was found inside the third animal.
"He indicated to law enforcement he was unaware these items were in the stuffed toys," said Ann Davis of the T.S.A.
The parts could have been assembled to make a full firearm, authorities said.
Sources told NewsCenter 5 that the gun parts were planted in the toys by the boy's mother after the child spent the night with the woman. The couple has been engaged in an ongoing child custody dispute, sources say.
The items were confiscated. The man and his son were allowed to continue their travel.
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I am a geologist with extensive experience in Paleontology, Stratigraphy, and Paleoecology. My role in the Geology Department has been to introduce and interpret the many relationships between the geological and biological aspects of the Earth using the fossil record of invertebrates, vertebrates and plants as opportunity allows. For 4.2 billion years, life has affected the development of this planet, occasionally in the most important ways. As a Paleontologist, my teaching and research explain and clarify those relationships, especially by putting them in an objective, historical context. Earth history is not random, nor is it dogma. The Earth responds to evolution of the life upon it, just as life responds to the tectonic, petrologic, and climatic habitat Earth produces. I play the part of knowledgeable interpreter as I have taught Historical Geology, Invertebrate Paleontology, Paleoecology, Micropaleontology or Dinosaurs, all courses that establish the relationship I mentioned above.
My research has focused on rocks of Cambrian, Ordovician, Cretaceous and Quaternary ages from both marine and terrestrial settings. Fossils that I work with have ranged from some of the oldest tracks and trails on Earth to some of the smallest mites in the fossil record. I have discovered new species of Cretaceous snails and evidence for predation on Ordovician ones. Paleontology is a field-based and specimen-based discipline making fossil collecting, curation and systematic study the beginning of a research process in which all our students have an opportunity to participate. Our well-known paleontology class field trip, "Facies and Fossils of the Cincinnati Arch", has opened the door to the world of fossils and many student research opportunities have developed as a result. Examples of student B.S. Theses in Paleontology and Stratigraphy can be found on the thesis site.
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Antidepressants increased the risk compared to placebo of suicidal thinking and behavior (suicidality) in children, adolescents, and young adults in short term studies of major depressive disorder (MDD) and other psychiatric disorders. Anyone considering the use of paroxetine mesylate or any other antidepressant in a child, adolescent, or young adult must balance this risk with the clinical need. Short-term studies did not show an increase in the risk of suicidality with antidepressants compared to placebo in adults beyond age 24; there was a reduction in risk with antidepressants compared to placebo in adults aged 65 and older. Depression and certain other psychiatric disorders are themselves associated with increases in the risk of suicide. Patients of all ages who are started on antidepressant therapy should be monitored appropriately and observed closely for clinical worsening, suicidality, or unusual changes in behavior. Families and caregivers should be advised of the need for close observation and communication with the prescriber. PEXEVA (paroxetine mesylate) is not approved for use in pediatric patients. (See WARNINGS: Clinical Worsening and Suicide Risk, Precautions: Information for Patients, and Precautions: Pediatric Use)
Concomitant use of PEXEVA in patients taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) (or within 14 days of use of MAOIs), thioridazine, or pimozide is contraindicated and can become life threatening. PEXEVA is also contraindicated in patients with a hypersensitivity to paroxetine or any of the inactive ingredients in PEXEVA tablets.
Clinical Worsening and Suicide Risk: All patients being treated with antidepressants for any indication should be monitored appropriately and observed closely for clinical worsening, suicidality, and unusual changes in behavior, especially during the initial few months of a course of drug therapy, or at times of dose changes, either increases or decreases.
Families and caregivers of patients being treated with PEXEVA should be alerted about the need to monitor patients for the emergence of agitation, irritability, unusual changes in behavior, and the other symptoms described above, as well as the emergence of suicidality, and to report such symptoms immediately to healthcare providers. The prescriber or healthcare professional should instruct patients, their families, and their caregivers to read the Medication Guide and should assist them in understanding its contents.
PEXEVA is not approved for use in bipolar depression. Prior to initiating treatment with an antidepressant, patients should be adequately screened to determine the risk of them having bipolar disorder, since PEXEVA may activate mania or hypomania.
In patients receiving SSRIs in combination with a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI), there have been reports of serious, sometimes fatal, reactions including hyperthermia, rigidity, myoclonus, autonomic instability with possible rapid fluctuations of vital signs, and mental status changes that include extreme agitation progressing to delirium and coma. Some cases presented with features resembling a potentially life-threatening Serotonin Syndrome or Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS). Paroxetine should not be used in combination with a MAOI, or within 14 days of discontinuing treatment with a MAOI.
Potentially life-threatening Serotonin Syndrome or Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome-like reactions have been reported with SNRIs and SSRIs alone, including PEXEVA, but particularly with concomitant use of serotonergic drugs, including triptans, with drugs that impair the metabolism of serotonin (including MAOIs), or with antipsychotics or other dopamine antagonists. If concomitant use with a triptan is clinically warranted, careful observation of the patient is advised, particularly during treatment initiation and dose increases. Concomitant use of PEXEVA with serotonin precursors (such as tryptophan) is not recommended.
Thioridazine with PEXEVA is contraindicated because elevated blood levels of thioridazine can prolong QTc interval and contribute to arrhythmias and sudden death.
Infants exposed to paroxetine in the first trimester of pregnancy have an increased risk of congenital malformations, particularly cardiovascular malformations; ventricular septal defects (VSDs), atrial septal defects (ASDs), and right ventricular outflow tract obstructions.
Neonates exposed to PEXEVA late in the third trimester have developed complications requiring prolonged hospitalization, respiratory support, and tube feeding. Respiratory distress, cyanosis, apnea, seizures, temperature instability, feeding difficulty, vomiting, hypoglycemia, hypotonia, hypertonia, hyperreflexia, tremor, jitteriness, irritability, and constant crying have been known to occur. Infants exposed to SSRIs in late pregnancy may have an increased risk for persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN).
For women who intend to become pregnant or are in their first trimester of pregnancy, paroxetine should only be initiated after consideration of the other available treatment options.
Patients should be monitored for symptoms when discontinuing PEXEVA. Dysphoric mood, irritability, agitation, dizziness, sensory disturbances (e.g. paresthesias such as electric shock sensations and tinnitus), anxiety, confusion, headache, lethargy, emotional lability, insomnia, and hypomania have been seen to occur. A gradual reduction in the dose, rather than abrupt cessation, is recommended whenever possible.
Tamoxifen: Some studies have shown that the efficacy of tamoxifen, as measured by the risk of breast cancer relapse/mortality may be reduced when co-prescribed with paroxetine as a result of paroxetine's irreversible inhibition of CYP2D6. However other studies have failed to show such a risk. When Tamoxifen is used for the treatment or prevention of breast cancer, alternative antidepressants with little or no CYP2D6 inhibition should be considered.
Akathisia, hyponatremia, abnormal bleeding have been known to occur. Discontinuation of PEXEVA should be considered in patients with symptomatic hyponatremia. Patients should be cautioned about the concomitant use of PEXEVA and NSAIDs, aspirin, warfarin, or other drugs that affect coagulation since combined use of psychotropic drugs that interfere with serotonin reuptake and these agents has been associated with an increased risk of bleeding.
Patients should be advised that taking Pexeva can cause mild pupillary dilation, which in susceptible individuals, can lead to an episode of angle closure glaucoma. Pre-existing glaucoma is almost always open-angle glaucoma because angle closure glaucoma, when diagnosed, can be treated definitively with iridectomy. Open-angle glaucoma is not a risk factor for angle closure glaucoma. Patients may wish to be examined to determine whether they are susceptible to angle closure, and have a prophylactic procedure (e.g., iridectomy), if they are susceptible.
As with all antidepressants, PEXEVA should be used cautiously in patients with a history or family history of mania or hypomania, or with a history of seizure disorder.
The most common side effects (incidence of 5% or greater and incidence for paroxetine at least twice that of placebo) that have been reported with PEXEVA include nausea, dry mouth, constipation, decreased appetite, infection, drowsiness, tremor, sweating, muscle weakness, trouble sleeping, abnormal ejaculation, impotence, and other male genital disorders and female genital disorders.
PEXEVA® is a registered trademark of Sebela International Ltd.
All other registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
© 2017 Sebela Pharmaceuticals Inc. All rights reserved. For U.S. Audience Only


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by Ahmed Zaher
As the off-season gives way to the pre-season, many triathletes are beginning to refine their race schedule. Part of that process might involve a decision on whether to re-hire a coach, sign on with a new one, or try a new, self-coached approach. If you're going the solo route—or are just looking for feedback—check your program against these five aspects of a winning training plan.
1. Start from the end
I once read the quote "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." Decide on your destination first, meaning your "A" race and your goal for that race. Then settle on the path you're going to take to get there.
Define and summarize your A-race with one key training weekend (or three day block) that includes a multi-day, swim-bike-run session. This should be placed one to two weeks before you begin to taper and, when accomplished, leaves you with the best sense of preparation, both physically and mentally. Once you have that session defined, writing a plan is easy—all you have to do is back off the benchmark workouts, covered below. (Our experience also shows that this key, multi-day session can be effective as long as it does not exceed three days.)
An example of a key workout for an athlete with a few years of triathlon under his or her belt, is as follows:
Friday: Swim
- warm-up
- 4-7 x 500 swim with 1 minute rest (4 for slower swimmers, 7 for elite level swimmers)
- cool down
Saturday: Brick
-5 hour bike in zone 2-3 HR/power
-1 hour run, with 9 minutes in Zone 2-3, followed by a 1-minute walk
Sunday: Brick
-2 hour bike in zone 2-3 HR/power
-2 hour run with 9 minutes in zone 2-3, followed by a 1-minute walk
From there, back off 10 percent every three to five weeks. You will find that when you start your plan nine months before the race, this key session will be very achievable.
2. Identify your strengths and weaknesses
Make sure you identify your strengths and weakness while taking into account the course, competition and distance. For example, the bike might be a strength for a bigger athlete on flat course, but a weakness on a hilly course. Make sure your plan starts with working more on weaknesses and slowly transition to working on your strengths as well.
3. Benchmark workouts every three to five weeks
Your benchmark workouts should be derived from your key workout. They should be very specific to your goal and take into account your strengths and weaknesses. An example of a benchmark workout five weeks before the key session above would be:
Friday: Swim
- warm-up and cool down with 3-6 x 500 swim with 1 minute rest (3 slower swimmer, 6 elite swimmer)
- cool down
Saturday: Brick
- 4 hour bike in zone 2-3 HR/power
-50 minute run with 9 minutes in zone 2-3, followed by a 1-minute walk
Sunday: Brick
-1.5 hour bike in zone 2-3 HR/power followed by a 1 hour and 45 minute run, with 9 minutes in zone 2-3, followed by a 1 minute walk
4. Recovery that matches training
Every athlete requires a certain amount of recovery to match their training load. It helps prevent injury and enables better performance in training and racing. This variable is the amount of recovery you have to do to recover from a week or month of workouts and is dependent on age, fitness, and training load.
An example of an accurate recovery load for an athlete training for IRONMAN would be 30 minutes of stretching every other day, foam rolling once every three days, one cryosauna session and one massage per month. (Of course the best recovery tools are still sleep and proper nutrition.)
5. Balance
Achieving consistency in training—one of the main keys to success—is only possible with two things: life balance and fun. When writing a training plan, make sure you include a few fun workouts and lead-up races. Make sure you organize your time and workouts so as not exclude quality time with family and productivity at work. Quite simply, this is the best way to get healthy physically and mentally.
Ahmed Zaher is an eight-time IRONMAN World Championship finisher and founder of Playtri coaching.


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Posted: Sat 10 Oct 2009, 22:41
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Make Puppy recover automatically from improper shutdowns
Subject description: Developed on Puppy 4.1.2 Retro, presumed applicable to most
I do computers for a living, and using Puppy to make computers usable that most people think are landfill anchors is very fun to me. I started on that kick last winter (I live in a seasonal area and winter is really dead....) and I continue with it to this day. This posting is coming to you from a computer running Puppy 4.1.2 using Firefox 3.5.3.....all on a Pentium II-350mhz w/ 160mb RAM. It's a full HD installation. It runs so well that once I get on it, I'm just zipping along, doing this, clicking that, and I often forget that it's actually not my main computer until the internet hangs up, since it comes through my main computer and is shared from there.
Anyway, I get these computers all snazzed up and ready to play ball, and then pawn them off on old people who want in on this computer thing. More often than not, sooner or later, something doesn't go as expected and they freak out and just turn them off. Stock, Puppy doesn't recover from this well. It'll hem and haw in the driver initialization phase, then end at a # bash prompt and await user intervention. Invariably that user intervention is a phone call to me.
I wanted to put an end to that little problem.
Actually, under 4.1.2 (my all-time favorite Puppy so far) this creates several problems. First of all, it leaves them X-less, and computer-illiterate people don't like the absence of a GUI so well. Second, if you type "startx" to coax X back to life, some things won't work right until it's rebooted again, such as USB. Third, it would be a good idea to do a "fsck" to make sure that nothing got its feathers ruffled by being dumped in a pile, but that's not easy to do safely without a LiveCD.
Here are modified startup and shutdown scripts that fix that. This is for full-HD installations, and I don't know what, if anything, it would do to frugal or CD-based installations. You may have to just copy what I did into your startup scripts, depending on what version of Puppy you're using, but the changes I made should work in all versions of Puppy. These scripts are drop-in ready for Puppy 4.1.2 RETRO, which is what they were created for. To find my additions, search for my username "silverpuppy" as I denoted the pieces I added that way.
Notice where these have been added in, as they work correctly there. As far as I know, some of these could move around a little and still work fine, but the addition that calls e2fsck MUST be in the exact same place as it is in mine or it likely won't work. This is well explained in the comments within the script.
Credit where credit is due: I couldn't have done this without the genius of Puppy forum user mikeb, who contributed so much to my understanding of how this could work, and even directed me to some almost ready-to-implement code that saved me a lot of time scratching out my own. (I'm actually fairly new to Linux, though I've been computing for 20 years.) The forum in which we hashed this all out is
My files are attached, ready to drop into place on 4.1.2 Retro full HD installs on hda1. Slight revision to the fsck line will be necessary for the non-retro kernel or SATA installations to reflect the nomenclature change. Also, if Puppy is not installed to the first partition or the first hard drive, appropriate changes will have to be made. Everything else should work no matter what with no revisions. Hope this helps someone!
EDIT: I have just attached a new archive (made in Windoze, sorry, but should open in PupZip OK) that includes ready-to-use files for not only 4.1.2, but also 4.3.1, which I am actually considering liking.
(Those of you who know me know that I despise 4.2......)
Do be aware that 4.3 supports timezones, and this creates an odd problem: when you write the superblock, it gets written in GMT, so if you install 4.3.1 and set the timezone to anything WEST of Greenwich (such as anywhere in the States) fsck will freak out if it is run from the rc.sysinit because it's not allowed to automatically fix the "superblock last write time is in the future" error. If anyone has ideas on how to fix this without having the timezone set wrong, let me know. (Here, not by PM.)
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Posted: Sun 11 Oct 2009, 05:23
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if Puppy is not installed to the first partition or the first hard drive, appropriate changes will have to be made
I've used your files, and my BoxPup installation is on sda3.
Could you explain what changes would need to be made?
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Posted: Sun 11 Oct 2009, 10:23
Post subject: Good to see, now here we go........
Thanks for trying my files. Glad to see someone getting some mileage out of them. I really like them......
The change you MUST make is in the insertion that calls e2fsck to check the hard drive. By default, it instructs e2fsck to check /dev/hda1, which is the proper name and location for the Puppy installation on my boxes. In your case, you'd just change the partition to /dev/sda3 and everything will be happy.
If you don't change it, it will still appear to recover properly, and mostly will, but no fsck will ever take place, although the "Checking...." message will still appear, since it is only a text line, not the output from fsck.
I'm not sure what kernel and/or Puppy BoxPup is based on; it might be better to just take my revisions from my files and insert them into yours. But if mine work on your puplet, then don't worry about it. I guess I'd suggest trying mine intact first to see if they work, but keep a backup of your original ones in case they don't so you can then go back and customize and use your original ones.
That help?
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Posted: Sun 11 Oct 2009, 18:39
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1. I'm a Linux & Puppy newbie.
2. In folder /etc/rc.d and files rc.shutdown & rc.sysinit I can find no examples of:
3. I think I'm going to be forced to restore the original files.
4. Something of possible interest:
I right-clicked on the new rc.sysinit and clicked "Open"...
The screen went all kinds of strange colored patterns, then black then back into the desktop.
But once there things were not working quite right, so I rebooted, and then all seemed OK.
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Posted: Sun 11 Oct 2009, 22:04
Post subject: Ok then.....
Well, for a newbie you sure are talkative! 487 posts or what was it......
Anyway, you're correct, the ORIGINAL files don't contain any reference to /dev/hda1 or any of the other stuff you mentioned. My files do contain that in the section that performs the fsck on the Puppy partition.
If you just drop in the files, I don't know what will happen on BoxPup because I don't know what it's based on. I guess I could look it up......it will likely work, but you'll have to change the fsck section to reflect your configuration. Change /dev/hda1 to /dev/sda3 and you should be in good shape on that.
The best approach if you're not using Puppy 4.1.2 would be to simply search my files for silverpuppy, my username, which I put in the comment header and footer around all the stuff I added. I even put in the header --silverpuppy-- and in the footer --end silverpuppy-- so there can be no mistake about what I have added and what was there before. Just look at what's before and after in my files and put them in the same places in yours. There are 2 sections in each with additions from me. The ones in rc.shutdown are very brief, the ones in rc.sysinit are longer. Just be SURE you get the first insertion in rc.sysinit in the right place or it won't work. Full details on exactly where it must go are in the comments within the file itself.
If you really get stuck, upload your original files and I'll put my code into it and re-upload them so you can have a ready-to-go set, and hopefully you and maybe others can see what I did and understand it better with a second example.
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Posted: Mon 12 Oct 2009, 04:42
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1. I had put your files in place and BoxPup wouldn't boot, so I used another Puppy to put back the originals.
I've been incorrectly searching those for your changes.
2. Re-downloaded your files.
(a) Found 1 reference to /dev/hda1 in file rc.sysinit, and changed that reference to read /dev/sda3
(b) Replaced my original files with yours, and will now try rebooting.
That worked OK.
3. Uploaded my original copies in an archive file.
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Posted: Tue 13 Oct 2009, 01:25
Post subject: OK, here you go
Sorry it took me so long to get around to it. Here's my code injected into your original files. Looking at the files, I think that my original files are probably interchangeable with yours. It appears that yours is based on 4.1.1, and using my files based on 4.1.2 should work fine, if not better.
But nonetheless, here are your files modified by moi.
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Posted: Tue 13 Oct 2009, 03:16
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The altered files are now in place, then rebooted without incident.
Thank you SilverPuppy.
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Posted: Tue 13 Oct 2009, 04:43
Post subject: Hee hee hee......[rubs hands evilly]
Good, so the files boot properly (knew they would
) but now you need to MAKE an incident so you can observe their behavior under the conditions they are designed to compensate.
Boot 'er up, and just when Puppy thinks you're about to check your email, unplug it! That's the "improper shutdown" these modifications compensate for.
Expected behavior:
Upon restoring power, Puppy will boot through "Loading Kernel Modules" after which the message will be shown "Cleaning up after improper shutdown........" then almost immediately after it "Rebooting to finish......." after which Puppy will indeed go through its normal shutdown routine and reboot. Upon reboot, it will progress to "Making Filesystem Usable" and then immediately issue the message "Checking Filesystem after improper shutdown........" which should take a few seconds or more, followed by a summarial output from fsck, and the boot sequence should continue to a normal X window manager just like always.
This seems to take a bit longer then the previous behavior, if you don't think about it, but it's ultimately much faster because a) before, it would dump you at a # prompt and you had to do something, b) you have to reboot anyway after an improper shutdown to restore USB and....something else, I forget, and c) it is absolutely, positively NOT SAFE to fsck a mounted filesystem, so you have to reboot with a LIVECD to do it any other way. THAT'S SLOW.
In short, this fix is the cleverest thing I've done in a long time, which doesn't really say much to me having a life or a brain, since I basically just pieced together stuff from other people and packaged it. But hey, if it helps someone, that's the idea.
Frankly, I'd like to see this behavior included automatically in the future, but I'm not sure how that would be possible, since it only applies to full HD installations, and Puppy is really geared toward frugal and livecd operation. I guess we'll just have to keep patching it it. Not a big deal.
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Posted: Tue 13 Oct 2009, 10:10
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That worked a treat!
1. With BoxPup running and 3 Firefox windows open...
Switched off the power at the power socket at the wall.
All PC hardware is powered by connecting to a couple of daisy-chained 6-socket power strips, so that powered off EVERYTHING PC related.
2. Flicked the wall-switch to ON, and pressed the on-button on the desktop unit.
3. Startup proceeded normally to the point where GRUB offers its choices [part1 on the HDD MBR, part2 in the Ubuntu files on the Ubuntu partition on the internal HDD].
4. Chose to boot BoxPup.
5. First part was too quick for me...
Began rebooting before I knew it.
The remainder of the sequence went pretty quick too.
Booted into BoxPup as per normal.
6. I think this is BRILLIANT!
And as you say, aught to be included as standard in all Puppies/puplets.
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Posted: Sun 18 Oct 2009, 18:49
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I had a power outage while using a full HD install of puppy 2.15 and i never got it working quite right.... now it always starts x with the "woof woof" help page.... (It plays the sound file that I made for it and set it to play). I haven't really been persuing this issue as I simply frugalled puppy 4.2.1 instead.
I do, however, like the full HD install of 2.15 as it boots in only about 90 seconds from pushing the on button to X (400 MHz PII dinosaur). and plus, I have a full Debian set (yep, all 23 cds) of binaries for that kernel (22.214.171.124).
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Location: Ann Arbor MI USA
Posted: Sat 24 Oct 2009, 00:11
Post subject: Puppy 4.3.1 improper shutdown not fixable
A friend returned a Puppy installation that booted to a black screen. xwin/Xvesa fixed it once, but then to try to duplicate the problem I booted and hit the power button. Now it boots to an endless series of the same messages, and e2fsck run from live CD fixes a lot of stuff but then it boots to X with only two icons (fd and sda on top of each other). Full install. Has anyone tried these replacement files with 4.3.1? The fix I had to use was to spend 10 hours setting up XP on a faster computer instead. Maybe frugal install would recover better but it takes 3-5 sec to respond to a mouse click and people end up loading the program 3-4 times.
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Posted: Sat 24 Oct 2009, 16:19
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with frugal installs and liveCD sessions, full installs really don't make much sense to me anymore. its just so much easier to recover from a screwed up system with a frugal install or liveCD session. you just start off a new pup_save file and that's it. Got documents on the old one you wanna keep? Simply rename the old pup_save file instead of deleting it, so you can mount it later and retrieve those documents.
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Posted: Tue 27 Oct 2009, 11:46
Post subject: That's why we love it
Yes, Puppy is flexible.....it embodies the Burger King slogan: "Have it your way." (Don't sue us, BK: we know you own that line.
Personally, I think that just dumping your savefile if something goes wrong is a cheap-and-lazy way to AVOID having to actually fix problems. For example, when sindi had his issues, the pinboard file got corrupted, then deleted by fsck. Simply replacing it from the disc would have fixed the problem. It only takes 30 seconds, and there's instructions in the forum for how to do it. I found said instructions, read them, and fixed my problem in less than 10 minutes after a poorly made PET borked mine.
I've gotten pretty familiar with the way Puppy works, and I think that, done properly, Full HD installs can be VERY reliable, but there are a few things that need to be done to make it really solid:
1. Embrace progress. Ditch EXT2. The journaled nature of EXT3 makes it much more solid and much LESS subject to corruption than EXT2. True, you lose some usable space to the journal, and in a perfect world, keeping that space would make sense, but this isn't a perfect world, so there's Walgreens XD
2. Insert the pertinent code from my startup files into yours. Invariably, sooner or later, you'll get some goof that just hits the button, or the electricity to your house will fail, or whatever. Having it immediately perform clean-up AND an FSCK minimizes both the need to mess around with stuff AND the risk of losing stuff.
3. Use a stable build and find the little fixes for it. I use 4.1.2 with several patches, including CUPS, and it's solid and fast.
4. Don't freak out if something acts weird. There's usually a simple fix for it. Search the forum--virtually all of the problems have been fixed before.
Hope that helps a Puppian along the way somewhere!
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Posted: Tue 27 Oct 2009, 17:10
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I like dumping the save files better because most of the problems I have stem from something or other that i did to tweak the system. Rather than spend a bunch of time trying to recover, I just start anew and keep in mind not to try that tweak again. But then again, I have learned that if I want to tweak my system, I should boot up with a pfix=ram so that my pup_save file does not get corrupted.
I do not believe that it has so much to do with laziness as it does with the fact that recovering your system is all to often, the absolute last thing anyone wants to do at any given moment.... When you want to get something done, you just want to do it, not sit there all day trying to configure your system to accomplish the task, or try to recover from your last attempt to. That happens to be one of the main reasons why Windoze remains at the top of the heap despite its increased vulnerability to viruses and its cost.
I have been spending a lot of time configuring software packages as roxapps, with some even using squashfs to keep the size down. At this point the AppRun script can even be written to execute a roxapp that unzips a tarball and functions exactly like a windows installer. Given that I do that, I benefit in two ways by running a livecd environment (or frugal install) without using a pup_save file. For starters, I do not worry about screwing up the installation that i use just to get stuff done. The second way I benefit is more important, as I can ensure that the app i configured contains all the files it depends on, even if the end user is just using a plain puppy with nothing added on.
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"A Little Night Music" is arguably Stephen Sondheim's most perfect show, if not his most adventurous, but it loses some luster at South Coast Rep through half-baked directorial decisions. Questionable casting, staging and (especially) design choices will leave aficionados to decide whether several delicious performances and the tastiness of the basic material compensate for the curdled dishes in this smorgasbord.
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I'm playing around with maps and sets and I've come across something which I cannot do. I'm trying to get the map interestsFans so it looks like:-
"Programming" { "Peter", "Luke" }
"Cycling" { "Peter", "Thomas" }
"Porno" { "Thomas", "Luke" }
import java.util.*; public class Maps { public static void mapPlay() { Map<String, Set<String>> personInterests = new HashMap<String, Set<String>>(); Set<String> allInterests = new HashSet<String>(); Set<String> allPeople = new HashSet<String>(); Map<String, Set<String>> interestFans = new HashMap<String, Set<String>>(); Set<String> interests = new HashSet<String>(); interests.add("Programming"); interests.add("Cycling"); interests.add("Walking"); interests.add("Cinema"); personInterests.put("Peter", interests); interests = new HashSet<String>(); interests.add("Cinema"); interests.add("Cycling"); interests.add("Eating"); interests.add("Porno"); personInterests.put("Thomas", interests); interests = new HashSet<String>(); interests.add("Porno"); interests.add("Eating"); interests.add("Programming"); interests.add("Walking"); personInterests.put("Luke", interests); /** * Populates the set referenced by allPeople with all * the people in PersonInterests. Also populates the * set referenced by allInterests with all the interests in * personInterests. */ allPeople = personInterests.keySet(); for (String eachSetValue : personInterests.keySet()) { allInterests.addAll(personInterests.get(eachSetValue) ); } /** * Works out which people likes which interests and stores * this information in a map. interests represent * the map key and which people like the interests * represent the map values. */ for (String eachInterest : allInterests) { interestFans.put(eachInterest, new TreeSet<String>()); } for (String eachPerson : allPeople) { for (String eachInterest : personInterests.get(eachPerson)) { // ** HOW TO ADD THE PERSON NAME TO THE VALUE SET // ** OF THE MAP interestFans CORRESPONDING TO CORRECT // ** KEY IN interestFans ?? } } } }
The part im actually having problems with is:
for (String eachPerson : allPeople) { for (String eachInterest : personInterests.get(eachPerson)) { // ** HOW TO ADD THE PERSON NAME TO THE VALUE SET // ** OF THE MAP interestFans CORRESPONDING TO CORRECT // ** KEY IN interestFans ?? }
the specifications are:
for each person in allPeople
For each interest in that persons personInterests
add the person to the set which is the value of that interest in personInterests
im sure lots of you will say you dont understand, and newither do I. I have read over this so many times and it just ties my brain in knots!! im very close to completing the question but I just cant finish it. Any help is much appreciated as I really want to understand this!
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Peter Vanderkaay is a swimmer who won gold in the 4x100m freestyle relay at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, gold medal in both the 4x200m freestyle relay and 200m freestyle at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, and bronze medal in the 400m freestyle at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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Teammate Davis Tarwater and I getting on the bus
Teammate Davis Tarwater and I getting on the bus
The day started with an early wake-up call at 5:45am. I showered, put on my uniform, and headed downstairs to the hotel lobby. Dozens of Olympians were already gathering to eat breakfast. I joined them and then headed to the bus that would take us to the White House.
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On the White House South Lawn
On the White House South Lawn
As we gathered near the stage, someone from the staff announced the procedures for the morning's events. We moved onto the bleacher seating and awaited the President and First Lady. Not too much time had passed before we were called to stand. Then, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama emerged as well as Vice President Joe Biden. Michelle spoke first, followed by the president. They spoke of the amazing feats our Olympic and Paralympic teams achieved in London, dominating the medal count and inspiring countless Americans to chase their dreams. They also spoke about health and fitness and how the Olympic movement encourages youths to stay active and fit. Both the First Lady and the President had some funny anecdotes in their speeches. Most amusing was when the president mentioned how he would talk with Michelle in the mornings about the incredible accomplishments of Olympians, only to follow it up with a casual jog.
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Go USA!!!
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September 13, 2012
Ever since returning from London, I've had a whirlwind experience. For me, I had to move home to Michigan from Florida but the biggest challenge was trying to return the voicemails of friends and family when I landed back in the USA. The support I received during the Games was incredible and it has continued since I've been back. The kind words and excitement were much appreciated. Part of me wishes I could have been back home just to see how excited everyone was during the events. Everything I've heard was incredibly positive and people were glued to the TVs.
I was fortunate enough for London to be my third Olympic Games, and I think I can say that London was my favorite. Everything was designed to make it a great experience for the athletes and spectators alike. It also helped to be able to read the signage and speak the language. To walk away with a medal made it even more special for me. I'm very proud of my performance and the performance of our whole team in general. I think we exceeded everyone's expectation, including our own. It certainly bodes well for USA Swimming in the future!
Me and my Olympic teammate Connor Jaeger at the Closing
It's been about a month since I've been home and I don't know if I've spent more than two days in one place. The opportunity to do fun and exciting things has not ceased yet and it certainly won't stop tomorrow. I'm currently in Greensboro, NC for the USA Aquatics Sports Convention but tonight I'm flying to Washington, D.C. for the Olympic and Paraympic White House visit with the rest of Team USA.
The White House visit is easily one of the most exciting events for the Olympic team following the Closing Ceremony. As a student, I wasn't able to attend in 2004, but I did make it in 2008. It's fun because it will be the first time for me to see many of my teammates since the swimming competition ended, as well as all of the other athletes from other sports I met in London. To some degree, it marks a celebration for us and our achievements from the Games. It's also the first time the team assembles after returning to the United States. Not every day do I get the chance to go to the White House, let along see the president speak and possibly have the chance to meet him personally. Those things just don't happen all the time. I'm hoping that most of my teammates can make the trip so we can share stories and experiences since being home. It will be a once in a lifetime opportunity.
I'll be sure to check in tomorrow after the event for an update. Go USA!