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Mysterious magnetar boasts one of strongest magnetic fields in Universe
Scientists using ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope have discovered that a curious dead star has been hiding one of the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe all along, despite earlier suggestions of an unusually low magnetic field.
The object, known as SGR 0418+5729 (or SGR 0418 for short), is a magnetar, a particular kind of neutron star.
A neutron star is the dead core of a once massive star that collapsed in on itself after burning up all its fuel and exploding in a dramatic supernova event. They are extraordinarily dense objects, packing more than the mass of our Sun into a sphere only some 20 km across – about the size of a city.
A small proportion of neutron stars form and live briefly as magnetars, named for their extremely intense magnetic fields, billions to trillions of times greater than those generated in hospital MRI machines, for example. These fields cause magnetars to erupt sporadically with bursts of high-energy radiation.
SGR 0418 lies in our galaxy, about 6500 light years from Earth. It was first detected in June 2009 by space telescopes including NASA's Fermi and Roscosmos' Koronas-Photon when it suddenly lit up in X-rays and soft gamma rays. It has been studied subsequently by a fleet of observatories, including ESA's XMM-Newton.
"Until very recently, all indications were that this magnetar had one of the weakest surface magnetic fields known; at 6 x 1012 Gauss, it was roughly a 100 times lower than for typical magnetars," said Andrea Tiengo of the Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, Pavia, Italy, and lead author of the paper published in Nature.
"Understanding these results was a challenge. However, we suspected that SGR 0418 was in fact hiding a much stronger magnetic field, out of reach of our usual analytical techniques."
Magnetars spin more slowly than neutron stars, but still complete a rotation within a few seconds. The normal way of determining the magnetic field of a magnetar is to measure the rate at which the spin is declining. Three years of observations of SGR 0418 had led astronomers to infer a weak magnetic field.
The new technique developed by Dr Tiengo and his collaborators involves searching for variations in the X-ray spectrum of the magnetar over extremely short time intervals as it rotates. This method allows astronomers to analyse the magnetic field in much more detail and has revealed SGR 0418 as a true magnetic monster.
"To explain our observations, this magnetar must have a super-strong, twisted magnetic field reaching 1015 Gauss across small regions on the surface, spanning only a few hundred metres across," said Dr Tiengo.
"On average, the field can appear fairly weak, as earlier results have suggested. But we are now able to probe sub-structure on the surface and see that the field is very strong locally."
A simple analogy can be made with localised magnetic fields anchored in sunspots on the Sun, where a change in configuration can suddenly lead to their collapse and the production of a flare or, in the case of SGR 0418, a burst of X-rays.
"The spectral data provided by XMM-Newton, combined with a new way of analysing the data, allowed us to finally make the first detailed measurements of the magnetic field of a magnetar, confirming it as one of the largest values ever measured in the Universe," adds Norbert Schartel, ESA's XMM-Newton Project Scientist.
"We now have a new tool to probe the magnetic fields of other magnetars, which will help constrain models of these exotic objects."
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To read this news article in depth, see Weakling magnetar reveals hidden strength on ESA's Science & Technology pages.
"A variable absorption feature in the X-ray spectrum of a magnetar," by A. Tiengo et al is published in Nature, 15 August 2013.
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text: Meggan last edited by pikahyper on 03/19/20 05:25PM View full history OriginOriginMeggan received her powers from the time she was born and her unusual appearance was startling to her gypsy family. Born during a blizzard her body's natural response to the cold was to grow fur over her entire body. Her family hid her away in their wagon but rumours of her spread quickly through the caravan. The people imagined her a demon with wings, fangs and red eyes so Meggan took on that appearance. Confined to the wagon with only the television for company she never learned to read or write. In her late teens, Great Britain was hit by a reality-warping wave by Sir James Jaspers. Meggan was separated from her family and put into a concentration camp and she never saw her family again. Jaspers was defeated and reality returned back to normal with majority of the people forgetting that the wave ever happened.Meggan in her new formMemories fully intact and unable to find her family, Meggan found an abandoned warehouse to live in. Despite her appearance she made friends with some local children, Mickey and Josie Scott, who would bring her food and try to calm her during full moons. It was during a full moon that Meggan had her first meeting with her future husband, Captain Britain. Full moons caused Meggan to take on a werewolf type appearance. Captain Britain assumed she was a villain and the two fought. During this fight Mickey Scott was killed when part of the building fell on him. In her anguish, Meggan fled from the scene only to return some time later at his funeral. Captain Britain was there to apologize to the Scott family, he realized that Meggan was not a villain and invited her to stay at his mansion.Upon arriving at the mansion, she was greeted by Elizabeth Braddock ( Psylocke), Brian's sister, and her seer friend, Alison Double, who described Meggan as having a beautiful "aura". Having always looked monstrous, did not believe her and was unaware that she could change her appearance. Meggan spent most of her time at the Braddock Manor watching television and soon developed a crush on Brian. When Captain Britain was investigating the Warpies, mutated children that were born all over Britain due to the effects of Mad Jim Jaspers' warping of reality, Meggan was drawn to a van. Inside were the Warpie children and their anger overwhelmed her, and she was caught in the Cherubic Whirlwind created by the children. Fighting off their influence she felt her appearance changing and subconsciously changed her looks to those of Brian's ideal woman. The two soon fell in love and moved into a lighthouse after Betsy turned the mansion into a sanctuary for the Warpies.CreationMegan was co-created by Alan Moore and Alan Davis and first appeared in the UK comic Mighty World of Marvel issue 7 (1983). She was first seen in her beautifull human-like form in the UK comics Captain Brittain issue 8 and issue 9 (1985).Major Story ArcsExcaliburOriginal ExcaliburIn search of her heritage, Brian and Meggan went to Russia. During the couple's first kiss Meggan took on an reptilian appearance. The witch Baba Yaga had possessed her and tried to make her kill her love, Brain Braddock. Meggan was able to defeat her by looking inside herself and remembering ancient spells. While they were traveling, Brian's sister Betsy had taken up the Captain Britain mantle. They retired to the lighthouse until Betsy was critically injured and Brian once again took up the Captain Britain mantle. During this time Meggan had started to learn to read and write. After Betsy recovered, she joined the X-Men in America as Psylocke. Meggan was watching TV when the X-Men's death in Dallas was televised. She was shocked at their deaths but Brian took it much harder and wallowed in grief, which was worsened by drinking heavily. After he rejected her attempts to console him, Meggan went to Muir Island where she met Nightcrawler and Kitty Pryde. After rescuing Rachel Summers, aka Marvel Girl (then Phoenix), from the Warwolves the group formed Excalibur.The group moved into the lighthouse, but Brian found it hard sharing the cramped quarters with people he barely knew, in contrast to Meggan, who enjoyed the company. This difference in opinion strained Brian and Meggan's relationship, with Meggan unable to understand Brian's frustrations, and Nightcrawler was often there to cheer her up after she and Brian argued. The two became quite close and Meggan began to take on his appearance in response to this. At one point they almost kissed but stopped at the last moment. It was during this time that Meggan began to wonder if there was a true Meggan underneath or just reflections of what others desired. When Excalibur went to New York to help Rachel - Marvel Girl, Meggan quickly came under the influence of the demons and turned into the Goblin Princess. She was defeated by Kitty Pryde with the Soulsword after torturing several members of Excalibur. Embarrassed at her actions she stayed in New York where she constantly changed appearances in response to those around her. After returning to England, Meggan and Excalibur traveled to many different Earths.In a world inhabited by a faery race, Meggan took on their appearance and they greeted her like a princess. During their travels to various worlds Meggan and Rachel began to take on each others likeness due to their close quarters. After returning home Captain Britain and Nightcrawler got into a fight over Meggan which caused her to leave, along with Rachel, in search of her family. After a meeting with a false fortune teller they were lead to a cave inhabited by an old Neuri who was being used by his captors. After freeing him the old being took Meggan to an astral plane where she reverted to her natural appearance, she also discovered that she had the ability to sense others life forces.Her quest to find her family at a standstill, Meggan and Rachel returned to Excalibur in time to deal with Necrom. It was revealed that Merlin had been influencing the team all along in order to repair the energy matrix connecting Otherworld with the Earth. Unhappy with being manipulated Meggan and Brian destroyed the lighthouse which cut Merlin off from accessing the energy matrix.Brian proposesBraddock Manor served as the groups new headquarters and was visited by Jamie Braddock and Sat-Yr-9. The duo drugged Excalibur but Meggan soon came to and battled Jamie Braddock, resisting his reality warping and causing him to lose control of the alterations he had made to the rest of the team, restoring them to normal. Brian, still under the control of Sat-Yr-9, was ordered to kill Meggan but could not bring himself to hurt her and broke free of Sat-Yr-9's control. With Jamie taken out by the visiting Psylocke and Excalibur back to full strength, Sat-Yr-9 fled. Now aware Sat-Yr-9 had murdered his former girlfriend Courtney Ross, Brian focussed on trying to track the killer down to the point of leaving Meggan feeling as if he was ignoring her and their relationship suffered. After realizing his mistake he took her on vacation and proposed to her.During their trip Captain Britain lost his powers as a result of Excalibur's actions against the energy matrix and Meggan began to withdraw from him. When asked about her aloof attitude she revealed that it was Brian's aura that attracted her to him and now that it was gone she didn't know if she could love him.Captain Britain's powers were eventually returned to him by Roma. After traveling to the future, Brian was lost in the time stream as the group returned and Meggan went into a catatonic state. Her concerned teammates tried to contact her by various means but were unsuccessful. After some time Meggan began to revive and take on various forms. Sensing her lover was near she also sensed a connection between Brian and Rachel, one that Rachel had been aware of but kept quiet. Angered at this Meggan attacked Phoenix Force and forced her to help Brian return to the correct time stream. Her efforts to contact her lover brought on a change in Meggan's powers, she could now control the forces of nature. This was revealed when she stopped lava from harming the group during a cave-in.MarriageThe Wedding of Captain Britain and Meggan.After things calmed down Meggan and Brian resumed their plan to marry. On a trip to Hong Kong, Brian was kidnapped by The Dragons Of The Crimson Dawn. During the battle Brian's energies were raised to a critical level and Meggan helped to release them into the atmosphere. Captain Britain lost his powers as a result of this and left to explore his new life. Meggan became lonely in his absence and was attracted to Colossus, but though he was likewise attracted to her, both avoided acting on these feelings, as Meggan still loved Brian. Upset and even more alone Meggan awaited Brian's return and would sit on the docks waiting. He finally returned and although he was powerless the two decided to marry immediately. The couple was married on Otherworld by Roma, the event attended by Excalibur and many of the X-Men.After the festivities the members of Excalibur decided to go their own way. Meggan helped Brian with his scientific experiments until the heroes were informed of trouble on Otherworld. They arrived to discover that Roma had gone mad and killed most of the Captain Britain Corps. Brian regained his powers and defeated the villain behind it. Roma stepped down and named him King of Otherworld, Meggan stayed with her love and helped him to rebuild the Captain Britain Corps.House of MHouse of MDuring the House of M, Meggan and Brian were given 48 hours to locate the crack in reality that was letting the wave through. Arriving on Earth the couple were caught in the wave and discovered that they, along with Psylocke and Phoenix Force, were the royalty of England. In search of the missing member of the House of M, she battled the Omega Sentinel alongside her husband. When they arrived at the location of their lighthouse Meggan realized that this was where the warp in reality was. After saying goodbye she entered the warp and with the help of her friends closed it from the inside. Once reality was restored very few remembered what had happened, Captain Britain included in this. He has only vague memories and is unaware of Meggan's sacrifice.A Hope in HellMeggan was next seen trapped in a dimension connected to Plokta; a duke of Hell's dream corridor being attacked by a demon. Seeing his beloved wife through the door from our dimension to hers Captain Britain jumped in to save her. He soon realized he was living in a dimension where all his dreams became real. Thinking Meggan to be nothing more than an illusion he forced himself to believe that Meggan did not exist. Because of this Meggan faded from existence only to reappear in hell. However, Meggan was not dead or damned and soon found that nobody knew if she belonged in Hell at all. Seeking assistance Meggan was passed up through the Princes and Dukes of Hell to the five Lords of Hell. By offering them information on the location of their missing Duke of Hell, Plokta (who had been trapped in his own dimension by Captain Britain and MI:13)Meggan was able to ask the Lords a question: Did she and all the other souls belong in there? In answer to this question Dormammu, one of the lords, tricked Meggan into emphatically connecting with Hell itself using her powers. This turned Meggan into a grotesque monster before Dormammu transported her to another part of Hell. Once here Meggan began to emphatically connect with the demons around her and, using her anger, lead an uprising in Hell. Soon she had a small army of followers why named her "Gloriana" and was back to her elf-like form with a new costume. She decided to take this as her super hero name and continued to lead the Demons against Hell. Using her powers of empathy Gloriana showed the Demons hope and literally bringing a hope to hell the demons were able to fight on their own. Using her hope Meggan found a portal out of Hell that, with a little help, landed her on one of Dracula's (who was invading Britain) ships bound for England where she was immediately met by Doctor Doom. He had secretly struck a deal with Dracula who was leading a vampire attack on Great Britain. Doom planned to undermine the vampire lord's plans by using Meggan as his secret weapon. Doom left Meggan in Dracula's flagship - ostensibly as a hostage to be used against Captain Britain. However, the more self-confident Meggan used her empathic power to undermine Dracula's control over his followers, disrupting his already put-upon army. That moment, Captain Britain attacked the flagship as part of MI13's offensive against Dracula and the lovers were reunited. Together Captain Britain and her took out Dracula's strongest ally, Lilith. With the battle won, Brian offered her time if she needed it, but she assured him that all she ever needed was for him to stay the same.PowersElementalMeggan is an extremely powerful mutant. She is an empath, elemental, and shapeshifter. These combination of these powers give Meggan a myriad of powers. Given elemental powers she can control the 4 basic elements: Air, Fire, Earth, and Water. Meggan can be called an elemental empath, elemental shapeshifter, or an empathic shapeshifter.Meggan is an empath, which allows her to feel the emotions of others. She has been shown to feel the emotions of people, animals, and plants. She can also influence others' emotions. She can see psychic, natural and magical auras. This gives her the ability to track someone down by their aura.Being an empathic elemental she can connect to the earth and the four elements. Meggan can control nature with her elemental powers and, being an empath, she has great control over this. The environment acts upon Meggan's emotions. If she is mad, volcanoes will erupt or a storm will come. She can stop a forest fire without even trying. She can split lakes in half with a wave of her hand. Meggan can also affect the magnetic fields around herself. She can increase mutants with elemental powers. She can also affect man-made things; for instance, when she needed to get to a lower level in a building she talked to the atoms to make a hole and sealed it back up as if nothing ever happened. She can use her focus her elemental powers into an energy blast. When Meggan was attacked by Baba Yaga, she manipulated the magical energy and used it against her.shapeshifterMeggan is also a shapeshifter. She can become anything living. She can grow in size or mass. She has been shown to even become creatures in legends. When Meggan was an infant she was a furry baby. This happened because she was cold and, thus, her body adapted. When Meggan shape shifts she gets the special power of whatever being she is impersonating. She once took the shape of a dragon-like being and she gained the power of fire breathing. Once she became a werewolf and had the werewolf's heightened sense and agility. She also grew into a humanoid bunny when she needed to track someone down. She gained the bunny's agility and jumping skills. Meggan can also shape shift into humans. Depending on her mood she shape shifts into whatever her mood reflects. If she feels loved by everyone she shape shifts into a beautiful woman. If she feels hated she will reflect that hatred. She has been shown to mimic creatures that are around her; such as when she took on an appearance similar to Nightcrawler when she was around him. With her elemental powers she has been shown to alter her appearance due to the weather; such as grow gills and fins when underwater, and grow fur when cold. She can increase her muscles to become stronger. She has even been able to beat Captain Britain very easily. When Galactus was taking the life force of Earth, Meggan got mad. She grew to Galactus's size and the bigger she got the more the environment was being destroyed. Being an empathic shapeshifter she can mimic the powers of others. She has mimicked the powers of Dazzler, Rogue, Colossus, Longshot, Storm, Wolverine, Havok, Nightcrawler, and even Silver Surfer. Being an elemental shapeshifter, she can turn into the elements. Thus far, she has only been shown to turn into sand and water.WeaknessesMeggan is vulnerable to telepathic attacks. Meggan doesn't have the normal psi-blocks that humans have. She can also be dominated by someone with a stronger mental power than she does; for example, when she became a dark evil person upon meeting Dracula. She is also barely able to read and write.StatusKnown Relatives: William (father), unidentified mother, Brian Braddock (husband), James Braddock (brother-in-law), Elisabeth Braddock (sister-in-law), Sir James Braddock (father-in-law, deceased), Lady Elizabeth Braddock (mother-in-law, deceased) .Citizenship: United KingdomPlace of Birth: Near Fenborough Station, London, England.Marital Status: Married.Occupation: Queen of Otherworld, adventurer.Education: No formal schooling; self-taught from watching television.CharacteristicsGender: FemaleHeight: Usually 5'7", 5'10" in true form (variable)Weight: Usually 120 lbs., 130 lbs. in true form (variable)Eyes: BlueHair: BlondeUnusual Features: Pointed ears; hair purple as Goblin Princess; eyes white with no pupils in her true form.Other VersionsEarth-597On this earth Fraulein Meggan is a member of the Lightning Force, a Nazi version of Excalibur. Like in Earth-616, she and Hauptmann Englande were a couple.Earth-597 Megganfirst Appearance: Excalibur #9Earth-811Days of Future PastEarth-9620Days of Future Tense.First Appearance: Excalibur #94Earth-9997On Earth X, Meggan was frozen into a statue by the Grey Gargoyle.Earth-1189On Earth-1189 Meggan is a member of the Captain Britain CorpsFirst Appearance: Excalibur #15Earth-99476In the universe called Dino-World she is called Megon.First Appearance: Excalibur #51 Other MediaGamesX-men: Battle of The AtomX-men: Battle of the AtomMeggan is featured in the mobile card game "X-Men: Battle of the Atom" based on the comic book story with the same name. Her cards are:Meggan Marvel: War of HeroesMarvel: War of HeroesMeggan appears in several cards in the mobile card game Marvel: War of Heroes. 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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a Swiss philosopher and novelist who was an important figure in the Enlightenment. In his novels and discourses he claimed that civilization had weakened the natural liberty of mankind and that a truly free society would be the expression of the "general will" of all members of that society. He influenced later thinkers on both ends of the political spectrum.


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RBC I "Uranium Drive-In," a new documentary by Telluride filmmaker Suzan Beraza, takes a revealing look at Nucla and Naturita, two western Colorado communities that hoped a controversial uranium mill would bring economic revival. But local hopes were dashed when the company involved, Energy Fuels Resources, recently walked away.
It's a tribute to Beraza's empathy that the film has been well received by both environmentalists and miners. Rather than attempt a hard-hitting polemic on the politics of nuclear power, the filmmaker created a close-up portrait of life in an area that's remote, rural and just about jobless.
The U.S. uranium industry, which has been trying to come back strong in the Four Corners region, faces bleak prospects — not from political opposition but from market economics.
Energy Fuels, for example, has announced that in 2014, the controversial White Mesa Mill near Blanding, Utah — America's last active uranium mill, will be closed for at least a year. Two of the company's mines near the Grand Canyon will also be idled.
Because the price of uranium is at a five-year low, Energy Fuels says it's cheaper to buy it than to mine and mill it. The shutdown affects hundreds of jobs in Blanding alone, where not long ago civic leaders called Energy Fuels the county's "economic juggernaut" and a "crown jewel of private enterprise."
"Fukushima" is likely the best one-word explanation for what has happened to the price of uranium yellowcake. Since the destruction of Japan's nuclear power plant and the closure of many nuclear plants in Japan and Germany, surplus uranium has piled high. Speculators had based their hopes on what they call a looming supply gap, wherein we reached peak uranium in 1981, and, depending on which study you believe, the world runs out in 12 years or perhaps in 100 or 200 years.
Starting in 2005, thousands of new uranium claims were filed in the American Southwest. The price of yellowcake spiked in 2007, but the boom ended when the 2008 financial crash crippled commodities and uranium mining stocks tanked. Finally, the Fukushima disaster wiped out what was left of price gains.
For Blanding, Nucla and Naturita, the outlook is even darker because the United States holds only 4 percent of the world's known uranium reserves. Eighteen other countries, including Australia, Canada, Russia and Kazakhstan, are more than willing to supply future nuclear power plants. But Jennifer Thurston, a uranium-mining activist who is featured in "Uranium Drive-In," thinks that a lot of rural jobs could be created simply by cleaning up the mess that the industry has already left behind.
A prime target for such cleanup is the White Mesa Mill in Blanding. Controversial from the beginning, it was built in 1980 near the Ute village of White Mesa, where it displaced numerous Anasazi cultural sites. Early on, the Ute Mountain Tribe challenged its licensing, calling the state's environmental standards inadequate. The Grand Canyon Trust also said that "systemic" problems were apparent at the mill, including violation of radon standards and contamination of local springs and ground water.
One of its harshest critics has been Moab environmentalist activist Ken Sleight, who has called it a "full-scale nuclear waste dump." He says much of the mill's profit has come not from processing uranium ore, but from fees for "recycling" nuclear waste (a process in which a small amount of uranium is extracted). Tailings and contaminated soils are trucked in from several states and even other countries. What's left over is a toxic and radioactive industrial chemical stew stored in open pits with 30-year old plastic liners. In 2010, a monitoring well near the village revealed elevated amounts of chloride, fluoride, uranium, cobalt, cadmium, molybdenum, nickel and manganese.
Cleaning up uranium is never cheap. It cost $127 million to turn the town of Uravan into a theme park of radioactive rubble. It cost taxpayers a half-billion dollars to clean up a mill at Monticello, and it will take a full billion to finally dispose of the Moab tailings.
Untold billions more will be needed just to clean up the 30 uranium-related sites on the EPA's national priorities list. Who will be left holding the bag? Hint: a scant $18 million bond has been posted for the White Mesa Mill's cleanup.
"Uranium Drive-In" has been screened at festivals in Telluride, New York City and Denver. Upcoming showings of the documentary include Naturita, Jan. 14, Aspen, Feb. 17, and the Durango, Colo., Film Festival, Feb. 28 to March 2.
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I had noticed that unless there is some assignment or something important, my camera lies safely in its abode. I felt I'm not photographing enough in order to make myself a better photographer. Hence came the idea of undertaking a 365 Project.
In the beginning, I was daunted by the huge mountain of 365 Project. I thought to myself how long would I climb it successfully before I run out of oxygen. Each of the passing day meant fewer ideas for future shots. That's when the climb began to feel stiffer. Slowly I could see the one's who joined the project being motivated by me began to drop out one by one. There came a time when I was the only man climbing to the top. No, I didn't think them to be my competition but on the contrary it was fun to have some people working on the same personal & collective goal.
The goal was distant but as they say, "to eat an elephant you need to just take an ant size bite". Similarly, one must approach 365 Project one day at a time. No point in seeing it as a whole as that will definitely mean failure. I spread the word about my project all across my family & peers as that would mean further opportunities(and less nagging when I'm photographing as the food arrives at the hotel).
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Secondly, 365 Project teaches you to be patient. Everyday you will be under pressure(see it as good pressure) to produce a different unique photograph for the day. As the clock clicks & you're yet to photograph here you will begin to rush on things. And as you rush things, they get messier. Its time you stay calm & think about what & how to photograph. To be honest, I just had a single day in the year where I was under utmost bad pressure but still managed to produce a decent photograph. Over the time it got into me that 24 hours is a long time-span to get one photograph – a unique, well crafted, well seen photograph.
In a gist, 365 Project teaches you the qualities you need to lead life beautifully. The virtues of humility, patience, perseverance, endurance, practise, completing small chunks to accomplish large tasks/goals all help you to lead a better life. I highly recommend you to undertake the '365 Project'. I'm continuing the project for the second successive year. Would love to have your company. Do drop your project links in comments so I can follow you. 🙂


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Posted: Mon 29 Sep 2008, 02:40
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Here's my list of suggestions:
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Posted: Fri 10 Oct 2008, 23:21
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ok, I have something. I asked in another post about problems with my mouse. here's the reference:
is there any way this fix can be incorporated in the new puppies from here on out? here's the code which allows the back and foreward buttons to work. obviously a mouse configuration wizard would be better but this is pretty good in the mean time.
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
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Posted: Sat 01 Nov 2008, 16:26
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Could I suggest an Apple Bootstrap Loader? That way Puppy will work non-intel macintosh hardware.
The only windows I have are those on my home.
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Posted: Mon 03 Nov 2008, 18:15
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is it also possible at boot to have an option to boot to the hard drive? it would be convenient not to have to take the cd out all the time
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Posted: Mon 03 Nov 2008, 18:47
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37fleetwood wrote:
is it also possible at boot to have an option to boot to the hard drive? it would be convenient not to have to take the cd out all the time
If you install unto a HDD you can do this.
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Posted: Mon 03 Nov 2008, 22:50
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Yep, both Frugal (works similar to livecd, but from a harddrive instead of cd) and Full (like a normal distro).
Menu -> Setup -> Puppy universal installer
EDIT: Oh, I get it. To boot the underlying OS even though the disk is in the drive. Yes, that's possible. We used to have that option in the older Puppy 1.x.x versions. Hold on and I'll dig up the options that go into isolinux.cfg to enable that.
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Posted: Mon 03 Nov 2008, 23:05
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Okay. Basically, I think that during the pause where you could add "puppy pfix=ram", if you instead give it this, it will boot from the HD:
localboot 0x80
I'm not certain that will work, but I think so.
This can be made simpler. In the iso there is a file called isolinux.cfg. It contains something about like this:
default puppy
display boot.msg
prompt 1
label puppy
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=cd
timeout 50
Basically, it has one "section" labeled "puppy", which is the default. When you type in the option "puppy pfix=ram" what you're really doing is telling it to use the "puppy" section and to pass the option "pfix=ram" to the kernel. That is the only significance of the "puppy" in that command.
Now, what you need to do to make it simple is this: add another section with a simple name that just uses that localboot command. The modified file would look like this:
default puppy
display boot.msg
prompt 1
label hd
localboot 0x80
label puppy
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=cd
timeout 50
Then just replace the isolinux.cfg in the iso with the modified one (use IsoMaster) and burn the new CD. Now when the CD splash screen comes up, you can simply type
and it should boot from the HD.
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Posted: Tue 04 Nov 2008, 03:04
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Wow too much information!
what I'm asking for I guess would be a splash screen that I could down arrow through to get the puppy pfix=???? I want which has something like boot to hdd as it's default option? I'm not saying that it is something I want to type in to get there or it would be easier to simply push the eject button on the cd drive. case in point, I'm running nop 4.1 as my main os on a full install, but would like to have Church pup (or some other pup) in the drive to do some other specialized function. I want the cd to boot to the hard drive by default unless I press the down arrow to the pfix I want for running off of the cd, one of which needs to be boot cd normally. most other distributions of Linux do just what I am suggesting. I think it is time to decide what Puppy is going to be. I recently have gone through and tried most of the most common flavors of Linux in my bid to be completely Microsoft free. funny but Puppy seems to beat all the large distributions hands down! the down side is Puppy is still trying to be stripped down which is good but I don't think it means it needs to be difficult if the solution is easy and doesn't cut into the ability of the older slower machines. maybe there could be two releases, first one that keeps up with technology but is still Puppy and the other with a mind toward Legacy systems. the overall charm and value of Puppy is it's lack of needless complication. Suse is like riding the Queen Mary, big smooth slow and completely not in your control. puppy is small fast and totally customizable. keep the small philosophy but maybe small doesn't mean 100mb any more maybe 250mb is the new 100mb. also it needs to be considered that the older machines still have Puppy 1, 2, and 3 to use which can still be developed without gaining too much weight. it hasn't been that long since I stumbled across Puppy and Puppy 2.15 ce was the top of the line! my bid is let Puppy 5 gain some weight and continue to develop Puppy 3 as a screamin system for older smaller machines. just a thought from someone who is not as concerned with size as much as with usefullness, of course I don't want Puppy to be like Suse which now comes on a Dvd and installs everything, just make it work really well and easily and I will pick the programs I want.
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Posted: Tue 04 Nov 2008, 03:28
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Not sure how to do that type of menu. I'd have to read through the isolinux docs. I do know how to set up a menu where you just type the number of the option you want and press enter, though, like in Puppy 1.x.x. And it could still have the 'puppy' option too, in case you wanted to be more specific. I attached an example screenshot from Pizzapup 1.0.5. (Option 5 was to use pfix=ram (actually, pfile=cd as it was called back then), but I didn't list it for come reason. It was definitely implemented - I'm looking at the code now.)
Scrollable menus would be nicer. I just haven't gotten around to finding out how.
Boot screen from Pizzapup 1.0.5
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Posted: Tue 04 Nov 2008, 14:15
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pizzasgood you might wanna check out the grub cd bootloader..
it has the menus and supports a nice splash (nimblex uses it)
Taking Puppy Linux to the limit of perfection. meanwhile try "puppy pfix=duct_tape" kernel parem eater.
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Posted: Wed 05 Nov 2008, 00:41
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Noted. Next time I get motivated to mess with the boot menus I'll check it out.
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Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 05:32
Post subject: wish list..
It'd be nice to have a little bit more multilingual support which means:
- dropping JWM in favour of something else.. the openbox pet supports multibyte hints.. to a degree
- if licensing is ok include the wqy fonts would be nice so i can read those crazy japanese/chinese websites.
It would be nice to include a pidgin release that is compiled against the seamonkey nss/nspr libraries and dropping ayttm.
Probably to keep the release from getting bigger you can drop the additional background images , games, and the 101 calculator / editor apps and reduce them down to 1 and make the others addons.
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Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 08:04
Post subject: Longer term wish list
Rather than just bolting on features from a wish list, perhaps we should be thinking about the direction of future Puppies?
I currently use it as a live-CD loading into RAM without a save file, in the past I have used the save file. I have never used multisession, although it looks intriguing. I have never done a frugal or full install. I have once loaded a Puppy onto a USB stick. One of Puppy's strengths is this variety. I don't think we should be optimising the boot process for a particular use.
If Barry is going to rewrite the init script it would be great if it supported Mark's ideas for easy internationalisation. Now we have the posibility of more than three SFS files could these be used for localisation, i.e. could we have a CJKV SFS?
The 100MB limit was not an arbitrary anti-bloat goal. The intention of Puppy was that it could be loadaed into RAM for speed. Every time you increase the size you make that goal impossible for old, RAM-challenged PCs. The way Puppy works has been changed a few times to try and reduce the amount of stuff loaded into RAM, all this effort was for nothing if it ends up as a DVD-sized monster which loads applications slowly off an optical disk.
What makes Puppy unique? Do we want or need to keep all of these features? Does the project need to fork into low-RAM and large-RAM variants? Yes, I like all of the attractive screens and windows being proposed and I like the huge range of apps. But what I really like is that I can put a CD in to a machine and have a usable operating system shortly afterwards that is awesomely fast.
I've got nothing to say against Ubuntu, SuSE or any other Linux distro but Puppy was different. I'd like it to remain different. It still seems to have some of the best hardware detection around which is a very impressive feature for a small distro.
I'd like to see a minimal Puppy which allows you to load up multiple SFSs to personalise your own system. Personalisation would include language packages, browsers, wallpapers, office tools, graphics tools, multimedia apps, developer tools, networking apps and so on.
People occasionally moan about the calculators. These are very small, so what is the problem exactly, do I have to use "bc"?
Sorry if this is slightly off-topic but I feel it is relevant. We should probably be thinking about a maintainable structure for Puppy. A smallish core with multiple bolt-ons each maintained by a separate developer would be more stable/maintainable surely? Bolting lots of extra features onto existing Puppy will just make things more complicated.
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Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 15:48
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Subject description: small minimalistic puppy linux
I would also like Puppy linux to develop to a minimalistic distro with a "living" repository for personalizing it.
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Posted: Sat 15 Nov 2008, 16:15
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Hi, to everybody!
There are few wishes for the next release:
0). MC installed by default
1). Inkscape instead of InkLite
2). Opera instead of Seamonkey+Pctorrent: we would have a 3 in 1 solution, a browser, a mail client and a Bittorrent.
3). GQview for image viewing.
4).Gimp instead of anything else for image processing.
5).Mplayer or VLC instead of gxine (which works not with subtitles)
6). More flexible remastering possibilities, to remaster the .sfs file itself, to be able to remove some preinstalled apps we consider useless.
I love Puppy, it's great as it is, my suggestions are more likely for some bigger version
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Fake Flash player scams have been around for a long time, but remarkably they still haven't gone away. Now, they're targeting users in Turkey.
A recent attack that we found starts off with a video link sent to users via Facebook's messaging system (sent in Turkish). This "video" prompts users to install a Flash Player update ; it actually installs a browser extension that blocks access to various antivirus sites. It also sends a link to the "video" to the victim's Facebook friends via the messaging system, restarting the cycle.
This targeting appears to have worked: based on feedback from the Smart Protection Network, 93% of those who accessed pages related to this attack were from Turkey.
The browser extension pushed to users was in the format used by Chromium-based browsers like Google Chrome. It would not work in other browsers, like Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. It also stops the user from accessing the extension settings page, to prevent the user from removing or disabling the extension.
As we noted earlier, this threat is cyclical. The fake update, detected as TROJ_BLOCKER.J, installs the extension (detected as JS_BLOCKER.J) that blocks the antivirus websites. JS_BLOCKER.J then downloads a malicious script which is used to send the Facebook messages with the link to the video. This script is detected as HTML_BLOCKER.K.
In addition to Facebook messages, Twitter accounts "promoting" this page were also spotted:
Turkey is one of the world's most active Facebook-using countries, with 19 million daily active users and 33 million monthly active users. In addition, this attack's behavior – blocking antivirus sites – is not actively harmful to users, although it would leave them vulnerable to future attacks.
Facebook is working diligently to prevent users from encountering these types of attacks. We protect users by detecting and blocking the files and sites related to this attack. Users can also protect themselves further through these simple tips:
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"We don't need leaders who know about leadership – we need leaders who embody the capacity to lead in the midst of ambiguity and complexity. The concept of embodied leadership is derived from somatic coaching, a unique approach that brings the body forward as an advocate in creating a place for change and transformation. It brings together language, action, feeling and meaning and is based on the idea that the mind and body are inextricably linked: to develop one, you must cultivate the other.
In our current culture our head is the important bit. The body is what brings it around from meeting to meeting, and if our body's lucky, we'll take it to the gym occasionally and look after it. That's common sense in our culture, and when we think about leadership, the body may have something to do with it – body language for example – but the head's the important bit; right?
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Matheny shuffles lineup in advance of matinee finale
MILWAUKEE -- Cardinals manager Mike Matheny shuffled his lineup Tuesday, sitting regulars Matt Carpenter and Allen Craig with Wednesday's matinee finale against the Brewers looming.
"Some guys that look like they could use a day," Matheny said. "Every one of them said the exact same thing: They want to keep playing. That's exactly what you want to hear. But when it doesn't look right, you know that physically there are some things they're trying to fight through, too. You're just trying to find days."
Matheny said Tuesday was a good option before Wednesday's 1 p.m. CT game.
Daniel Descalso, Matt Adams and David Freese all contributed key pinch-hits in the Cardinals' four-run eighth inning of Monday's 8-5 win, and all were in Tuesday's lineup.
"It is a balance, but I also have a lot of faith in the guys that we have," Matheny said. "You look at our lineup, and that's a legit lineup, and we have two of our everyday guys out. As we go down this stretch, we're going to need everybody. We saw that yesterday. If we just put guys completely on the shelf and don't give them opportunities, we can't expect to come through in situations like last night."


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The sparse production on Origins, the seven song debut EP from Seattle's Black Whales creates the feel of catching a live performance of a cutting edge band in a local club. Lead singer-guitarist Alex Robert's vocals are a haunting echo amidst chiming guitars and rhythmic drumming as they drift across the room. The inventive arrangements, infectious melodies, and cryptic lyrics bring to mind early R.E.M.
The mid-tempo "Young Blood" conveys a youthful, restless spirit, and on "Running In Place," which has more of a dance club beat, Robert demands, "Give me something to believe in, or I'm gone." "The Boxer" isn't the Simon & Garfunkel song, but exudes a similar sense of alienation along with a guitar riff borrowed from Nils Lofgrens's "Keith Don't Go." Black Whales occasionally tap into Country & Western, particularly on the catchy "Roll With The Punches," and slow things down on the hypnotic title track.


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Five excellent PlayStation Mobile games for your Vita
Buy a couple of these and your Vita home screen will quickly fill up with icons. Of course, the nature of the platform means there is going to be a whole lot of really bad games that no one should ever play, and just like the iOS app store discoverability is a bit of an issue.
And so we've created a little list of games (five, to be exact) that represent the best of what the PlayStation Mobile platform offers for Vita owners. Considering that combined these games cost less around $20, you can hardly fault value for money here:
There's no real goal to the game other than the leaderboard, but then it does not need more than that.
Aqua Kitty
It controls tightly and has a charming art style as well. There's a surprisingly large number of levels too, making this game one that will last.
Haunt The House: Terrortown
Needless to say, this game is laugh-out-loud fun, and the best $5 I have spent on a game in a very long time.
Best of all, if you want to test for yourself whether this game still holds your attention, it's a free download with microtransactions to fund the rest of the game if you find yourself hooked. Which you will.
Frederic - Resurrection of Music
This game is proof that a music game doesn't need popular tracks to be effective. Resurrection of Music has an insane (but entertaining plot), interesting mechanics, and one of the best music game soundtracks ever. It's premium priced by PlayStation Mobile standards, but nonetheless essential.
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Producer Jaakko Salovaara (aka JS 16), founder of the independent label 16 Inch, teamed up with him to release his first single, called "Sandstorm." British Neo-Record became involved in the newcomer project soon after. In June 2000, Darude achieved the status of chart-topping artist in the U.K. Around the same time, Ville Virtanen successfully performed on the BBC Top of the Pops show, bringing forth the release of his debut album titled Before the Storm. ~ Drago Bonacich


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City leaders want to make traveling Vietnam Memorial a permanent display
Community gathered to remember Vietnam soldiers at closing ceremony
City leaders and community members spent the afternoon remembering more than 58,000 soldiers who lost their lives during the Vietnam War.
The traveling Vietnam War Memorial has been in Fort Smith for the last five days.
City leaders held a closing ceremony on Sunday before the replica of the Vietnam Wall in Washington, D.C. is packed up and driven to its next destination.
"You know, these are just names on a piece of enamel," said Vietnam War veteran Jack Harris. "But it's what it means to people. It's history."
Harris is a member of the local Vietnam Veterans Chapter. He says the wall has been part of the healing process for him.
"This is the first time I've actually seen it," said Harris. "I didn't go to Washington because I thought it would be too emotional for me."
Vietnam veteran Len Cotton, father of Rep. Tom Cotton, said he knows two soldiers whose names are written on the wall.
"It's touching," said Cotton. "I'm going to see their names before I leave here today. It means a lot when you see their two names up there."
City leaders are working to make a permanent home for the traveling memorial in Fort Smith.
"The most important thing is Fort Smith is in the center of the United States," said Ivy Owen, executive director of the Chaffee Crossing Redevelopment Authority. "Veterans that want to come see the wall and can't get to D.C., it's much easier for them to come to Fort Smith than to the East or West coasts."
The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority is in the process of setting up a page on their website where people can submit letters supporting the request to make the memorial wall a permanent display.


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The students were asked to submit a Revit 2011 model, an animated walk through video, and a rendered image. The design concept was centered around "Sails of History" where the students would design "An America's Cup Youth Pavilion."
Here are the top three entries along with a few honorable mentions and a quick bit as to what our impressions were on them in terms of how BIM was used to communicate their ideas.
First Place, Entry #48 by Erina Yamada
Academy of Arts and Sciences/Build San Francisco
This model contained a nice variety of forms and was put together quite nicely. The student did not spend too much time on any single item in the model and it appeared to be at an even level of completion. This model contained an interesting stair system, lighting, a green roof, and a topography surface with attention paid to the modeling of interior as well as exterior features of the design.
Second Place, Entry #13 by Matthew Lew
Lowell High School/Build San Francisco
This was an amazing model with a beautiful design. The image below is one of the student generated renderings contained internally within the Revit model. This student should be very proud and definitely has a future in design!
Third Place, Entry #16 by Priscilla Ng
Lowel High School
This was a nicely put together model. The curtain system was well modeled and had some interesting forms that exploited some of the advantages of the use of BIM. Very nice work!
Honorable Mention, Entry #44 by
Billy Hu, Alan Fu and Bryant Fu
George Washington High School
Modeling a dome shaped curtain system deserves a mention for sure. I did not find any doors or breaches in the dome system to support entry or a patio or this model may have made it higher in the finishing. A very interesting design!
Honorable Mention, Entry #61 by Baby Joy Quejarro
Academy of Arts and Sciences/Build San Francisco
A green roof, clam shell beds, and nice use of various model elements gets this entry an honorable mention. This was a neat building and a well built model.
Honorable Mention, Entry #4 by Cooper Minetti
Alhambra High School
This entry was nice in that the presentation was well communicated and put together onto a sheet. The student used some advanced elements and I'm sure they learned plenty while putting this model together, nice work.


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ATLANTA, GA-- One cold February day four years ago, Simon Weinstein's furnace stopped working. He made a decision he regrets to this day: He called a company called Mechanics Heating and Air.
"It's the middle of February and I don't have heat. So I really need heat," said Weinstein, who said he called the company based on an advertised low-cost service call. "I gave them a check for five hundred dollars."
Weinstein subsequently disputed the bill, took it to an arbitrator and lost. Yet his problems with Mechanics continued in ways he never expected.
First, a little about Mechanics. The Better Business Bureau opened a file on the company six years ago, fielding complaints about overcharging, bait-and-switch and other issues. Mechanics Heating and Air currently carries a rating of F, according to the Atlanta area BBB CEO Fred Elsberry.
"They've had an F before. And they got it up to a D rating," said Elsberry. "And when we saw their practice of continuing to threaten customers, we issued the alert on the company in the last two to three weeks. And that drove the F rating that they have today."
Yes, he said "threaten customers."
The company controls several websites. One of them is menacingly devoted to what it calls "the consequences" of actions taken by customers who dare to complain about Mechanics Heating and Air's service.
"We are always keeping an eye out for other examples of slanderous and vindictive 'customers' to make 'examples' out of," says one of the sites controlled by the company.
Simon Weinstein knows them firsthand.
"They put a website up in my name!" said Weinstein.
Call up simonweinstein.com, and you get a site devoted to a lengthy treatise on Mechanics Heating and Air's unflattering view of Simon Weinstein -- complete with links to the public tax records of his home in Buckhead, and his 2005 divorce.
"They found a lot of personal information on me that's a matter of public record and they just put it all on the web," Weinstein said. "I consider it an invasion of privacy."
But Weinstein added that he's never had any encounters with people who have actually stumbled onto the material on the internet.
Weinstein isn't the only target. There are more than a dozen domains listed that Mechanics Heating and Air claims to have bought and used to clobber former customers who griped about the company.
"Here is our growing list of abusive customers who made the wrong choice (and paid the price!)," says the headline above the list of domains.
"This is a company that's using intimidation," said Elsberry. "As opposed to, say, simply looking at the best practices in the industry and maybe following them."
On its various websites, Mechanics Heating and Air claims to have thousands of satisfied customers. Out in the world, the company stays well hidden within a locked office in a building on Canton Highway -- behind an apparently permanent sign that says "back in fifteen minutes."
When we contacted Mechanics Heating and Air, a man named Monty White Jr. responded. He declined an email request for an interview -- which he apparently viewed as "a threat," and promised to "start an investigation into (11 Alive's) practices."
"If somebody Googles me, they see this" content created by Mechanics, said Weinstein. "So they wanted to give me a hard time, and they found a way to give me a hard time."
"The question in my mind is, gosh, what can I do? And I'm not sure there's much you can do."
He's right, according to Alan Begner, a high profile Atlanta first amendment lawyer. The sites may be opinionated and obnoxious, but he says if they aren't false or libelous, Mechanics Heating and Air can probably use the internet to say whatever they want about former customers -- or reporters, or whomever they choose.
The Better Business Bureau and the Georgia Office of Consumer Protection have ongoing investigations into the business. But they deal with ripoff allegations, and not the company's unusual online approach to customer relations.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) Jio Fontan scored 15 points including a pair of tiebreaking free throws with 6.9 seconds to play and USC pulled out a 71-69 victory over Stanford on Thursday night in the Pac-12 opener for both schools.
Eric Wise added 14 points for USC (6-8). Four of the Trojans' losses have come against schools that are currently among the top 20 in the nation including Minnesota, Illinois, San Diego State and New Mexico.
Fontan, who sprained his left thumb in the first half of USC's 63-61 overtime win over Dayton on Sunday, shot 5 for 12 from the field.
The Trojans finished last season with a school-record 26 losses and were 1-17 in the conference. The only victory came against Utah in the first intra-conference meeting with the Utes after the Pac-10 expanded to 12 schools.


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FDA Supports Freshway Foods Voluntary Recall of Lettuce
Freshway Foods1 of Sidney, Ohio, announced today a voluntary recall of certain romaine lettuce products because of the possible connection between the recalled romaine lettuce and an outbreak of foodborne disease. FDA supports this action by Freshway Foods. The outbreak, which is still under investigation, involves cases in Michigan, Ohio, and New York of illnesses due to infection with E. coli O145, a harmful bacteria.
On May 5, 2010, the New York state Public Health Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, in Albany reported finding E. coli O145 in an unopened bag of Freshway Foods shredded romaine lettuce being recalled.
A Freshway Foods press release says the recalled shredded romaine lettuce was sold to wholesalers, food service outlets, and some in-store salad bars and delis in the following areas: Alabama, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Symptoms of infection with harmful E. coli may range from none to mild diarrhea to severe complications. The acute symptoms include severe abdominal cramps and diarrhea, which may be bloody. Patients may progress to serious complications, such as kidney damage. FDA and CDC encourage anyone with the symptoms listed to contact his or her health care provider immediately.
The recalled shredded romaine lettuce has a "best if used by" date of May 12 or earlier. The Freshway Foods press release advises restaurants, distributors, and retailers to throw out or refrain from using shredded romaine lettuce from Freshway Foods with these "use by" dates. Additionally, Freshway Foods is advising consumers not to eat "grab and go" salads sold in-store salad bars and delis at Kroger, Giant Eagle, Ingles Markets, and Marsh stores.
Shredded romaine lettuce from Freshway Foods with "use by" dates after May 12 are not involved in this voluntary recall. Romaine lettuce and other types of lettuce and leafy greens from other producers are also not affected by this recall.
Multiple lines of evidence have implicated shredded romaine lettuce from one processing facility as a source of infections in a multistate outbreak to which this recall may be related.
To date, 19 confirmed cases of E. coli O145 illnesses have been reported from Michigan, Ohio, and New York. These illnesses include 12 individuals who have been hospitalized, and three with a potentially life threatening complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). HUS is a serious condition in which the body's blood-clotting mechanisms are altered, causing blocked circulation or bleeding in the brain or kidneys.
The evidence includes preliminary results of product traceback investigations that indicate:
* The shredded romaine lettuce consumed by ill persons in three states originated from one processing facility
* preliminary results of a case-control study in one state that found a statistically significant association between E. coli O145 infection
* and ingestion of lettuce from the same processing facility; and recovery of E. coli O145 from an unopened package of shredded romaine lettuce from the same processing facility that was obtained from a food service entity associated with the outbreak.