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Microscopic heterophyid trematode parasitic worms of the Genus Ascocotyle infect certain amnicolid and hydrobiid snails and certain cyprinodont and poeciliid estuarine fishes as first and second intermediate hosts. Adult trematode worms are found to mature in the intestines of particular definitive hosts, most often piscivorous birds, but also certain mammals. A survey of these parasites, harvested from fish hearts and gills collected in Mississippi, Texas and California, shows that they are obligated to complex life cycles requiring at least three disparate and different hosts to achieve fecundity. Methods of infection, host infection site and host specificity are often unique to each different species of these parasites. Additionally, Ascocotyle worms demonstrate highly specialized structures such as HCl resistant cysts, HCl sensitive penetration glands and sensory organs which may serve to guide them to the specific infection site. These heteroecious life cycles and specialized structures are shown to be too complex to have developed by chance, therefore, evolutionary mechanisms appear insufficient to explain them. A creationist design argument for the presence of such parasites is promulgated.
Trematode, obligate parasite, intermediate host, cercaria, metacercaria, life cycles, design, chance.
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"'Racism' is used to justify and facilitate the exploitation of peoples, and it's based on the false belief that humanity is divided into a plurality of 'races' that stand in relation to each other as 'inferior' or 'superior' based on physical and/or cultural differences. There are no 'races' – only people(s), groups of people(s), united and distinguished by common history (social development), habits, interests etc. – sometimes we call all of this … ideology." – James Yaki Sayles
Greetings, brothers and sisters. A firm, warm, and solid embrace is extended to you all. In the past year we have witnessed a succession of murderous assaults against the people from various segments of the bourgeois apparatus reflecting a common character structure: The authoritarian psychology. In July 2011 a group of racists beat Jason Smith, a young New Afrikan man, to death in Louisiana; in February 2012 Trayvon Martin was murdered by a racist vigilante in Sanford, Fla.; that same month Christian Gomez was allowed to die of starvation-related complications by guards while on hunger strike at Corcoran State Prison in California; in March 2012, 17 people, nine of them children, were slaughtered by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Bales in two Afghan villages as they lay down to sleep; that same month Kendrec McDade was slain by racist police in Pasadena, Calif.; in April 2012 Gerardo Perez-Ruiz was murdered by border vigilantes in Eloy, Ariz.
Each of these atrocities can be traced back to warped thought processes. The U.S. mass psychosis is the key inhibiting factor of social progress in this nation and the origin of sadistic violence in the modern world. Though all of these atrocities offend the humanity of each of us, we'll highlight two of the cases to illustrate the etiological correlation of racist, xenophobic, sadistic violence and authorization psychology.
Imagine if you will, you are walking home one evening from the local convenience store with a can of tea and a bag of skittles for your younger brother. You're looking forward to the Miami Heat game with your father when some strange man drives up and accosts you: "Hey! What are you doing around here? Come here! You need to explain your presence to my satisfaction."
You're a young man, a child really, and you don't know who this guy is. He could be a kidnapper, pedophile, racist murderer – you don't know. "I'm going home, man." And you attempt to continue on your way … but he prevents you.
You're frightened and confused as your fight or flight response kicks in; an altercation ensues and you scream for help as this strange white man pulls a gun. He aims at your chest and your screams of terror are cut off by the thunderclap of a gunshot, and the shock of pain as the hot bullet rips into your flesh slamming you backwards. You fall to the ground feeling the wet pavement under your cheek. As your life flows out of your body, your young eyes glaze to darkness as you die …
You wake to the familiar ache of hunger in your small cell in Corcoran State Prison ASU. You've been on hunger strike, and now something is wrong. Your heartbeat is racing, you can't get enough breath. You knock on the wall to alert your neighbor to your distress. Soon the rest of the guys on hunger strike begin to kick and bang on the doors.
The prison guards can clearly hear the yells of "Man down" and your cell number as a sharp pain grips your chest and abdomen and you fall to the cold cell floor. The calls of "Man down!" and kicking on cell doors becomes more insistent as if the others can sense the grip of death closing around your body. The guards continue to ignore these calls.
Fear and panic seize you as your body no longer obeys your commands. You've not eaten in many days. It was the only way to bring attention to the reality of the U.S. domestic torture program being carried out in ASU (Administrative Segregation Unit) and SHU (Security Housing Unit) torture units in California. That coupled with your illness has weakened your body too much to resist the draw of the veil.
It seems like so much time has passed since those around you began calling for aid to help you and none has come. None will ever come as you realize you are about to die … It hurts so much, perhaps death is not such a bad thing … Your eyes begin to flutter … They open and shut once more … but they see only emptiness … You have passed on …
These nightmare imaginings, which were the reality for Trayvon Martin, Christian Gomez and all those victims we named at the outset, all have a common psycho-social correlation in their aggressors: All these instances involved social expressions of the same warped character structure; all these instances involved the murder of people of color by Euro-Americans or repressive forces of the U.S. state consistent with that historic dynamic; all these instances involved, despite mass outcry, at least the attempt at tacit justification or explanation by authoritarian interests in the U.S.
We have included in our previous discussions the pathology that has been created by our failure to deal with the legacy of racism and the capitalist authoritarian psychology that spawned it. It has claimed five more victims here and 17 more in a single night in Afghanistan. Trayvon Martin and Christian Gomez did not have to die. But they did. George Zimmerman and CSP-Corcoran ASU guards both share the identical psychological character structure of authoritarian man, reinforced by their particular stations in the U.S. social arrangement: the dominance of white male privilege and state power.
George Zimmerman, an affluent member of an exclusive gated community, clearly exemplifying the perceived supremacy of his Euro-American parentage and economic station, felt completely justified in pursuing this New Afrikan child that he identified as "Black" to the 911 operator. He then stated, "They always get away," just before hunting down, accosting and subsequently murdering this poor child.
Much of America does not get that within the New Afrikan community there is still a discussion held between parents and male Afrikan children about the dangers they face in the larger society because of their sable skin. For any that believe this is an exaggeration, the execution of Trayvon, Jason and Kendrec is proof these fears continue to be well grounded in truth and prudence. The fact that Mr. Zimmerman continues to feel justified in executing Trayvon, as evidenced by his self-serving statements to Trayvon's parents at the bail hearing, should chill all of you reading this. The state released him.
Within the New Afrikan community there is still a discussion held between parents and male Afrikan children about the dangers they face in the larger society because of their sable skin. For any that believe this is an exaggeration, the execution of Trayvon, Jason and Kendrec is proof these fears continue to be well grounded.
The irrational core of such justifications lies in the racial dehumanization of New Afrikans (males in particular) in the U.S. This dehumanizing dynamic is embodied in the historical development of property relations in the U.S.: a wealth surplus cultivated on the backs of Afrikan slaves working stolen Native American lands.
The unique ideological basis of capitalist economic development in the U.S., which incorporates the race-caste system as a vital component of the class structure, created a corresponding character structure that this process reproduces and re-enforces in its citizens. There has never been a conflict between democracy and racial oppression, inequality and exploitation in the mind of authoritarian man in Amerika. The pathological dehumanization of racism is the central component which allowed Zimmerman to not only murder a New Afrikan child for walking "his" neighborhood, but to justify doing so as "self-defense" and have that "justification" echoed by the Sanford Police Department. Such irrational reasoning has an origin.
In "the ignoble parody of modernity," Cornel West states, "racialized persons and racist practices were systemized and canonized principally owing to the financial interests and psychic needs that sustained the slave trade and New World slavery." It is this racial component of economic exploitation and conquest which is the developmental foundation of U.S. society still celebrated on Columbus Day. The irrational mentality of George Zimmerman did not fall from the sky. It was developed from the authoritarian mass psychology and national ideology of the U.S.
While a historical analysis of U.S. economic conditions gives us a glimpse into the material basis for racist ideology, it provides little insight into its irrational core – how it got there in this warped form today. Subject to the socio-economic conditions of U.S. capitalist society, Amerikan man reproduces those unique historical economic processes in his ideology.
This is why some three centuries after the "Willie Lynch method" was introduced to increase the productive output and relative safety of enslaving Afrikans in the Amerikas, the same twisted psychic structures that process created continue to be reproduced in both New Afrikans (the slave mentality, inferiority complexes, self-hatred) and Euro-Amerikans (authoritarian white male privilege, superiority complexes, hatred of other human phenotypes) in the U.S. today.
Ideologies reshape man's being; we discover his material core by analyzing the process by which he forms ideologies. The toxic historical process and development of U.S. patriarchal authoritarianism exemplified by its brutal enslavement of Afrikans, bloody extermination of Native Americans, conquest and annexation of lands and resources, from Northern Mexico to the Philippine Islands, continue to give rise to the psychic certainty of additional atrocities in those who maintain the ideological "traditions" of the "Amerikan way" today.
The toxic historical process and development of U.S. patriarchal authoritarianism exemplified by its brutal enslavement of Afrikans, bloody extermination of Native Americans, conquest and annexation of lands and resources, from Northern Mexico to the Philippine Islands, continue to give rise to the psychic certainty of additional atrocities.
You see, the irrational formation of an ideology also makes man's character structure irrational. Thus the genesis of the pathologically warped reasoning of Zimmerman; that he, not this frightened child, was "justified" in "defending himself." Such a position is an indictment of the modern U.S. authoritarian mass psychology itself.
Now that the mainstream media, who shamefully ignored this tragedy initially, have gotten so involved that the mass psychological nature of authoritarian ideology is on display. National media outlets are asking the parents of Trayvon, "Shouldn't George Zimmerman be given a fair chance?" "Shouldn't we let the process play itself out?" These are legitimate questions, but they are questions that should not have to be asked. That they felt it necessary to ask questions like this is the best proof that we are going about this all wrong.
For example, Pat Buchanan asked on one news program, "Would Al Sharpton and others have come forward had it been a white male who had been shot by an Afrikan citizen?" We all must see how illegitimate these questions are, but entertaining such irrationality is what the pathology created by the historical legacy of racism has reduced us to.
We actually think that because there is a New Afrikan citizen in the White House – who is shamefully and routinely disrespected by the political establishment – and at the head of the Attorney General's Office that, somehow, we are not the same nation we were in the not so distant past. Many say and think this, while simultaneously – again – engaged in a conversation about the lynching of Trayvon Martin … and we don't see the contradiction.
To be sure, for weeks we've watched corporate mass media put forward theories of justification which absolve this gun toting, self-appointed "neighborhood-watch commander" of culpability in murdering this child – even going so far as attempting to disparage Trayvon's character with such descriptions as "He was a troubled youth with behavior problems" in one breath, while dialoging on the analysis and re-analysis of the police video of Zimmerman's head in the next.
The underlying message of the corporate mass media was given unvarnished clarity only days later in a tweet by a white New Jersey police officer, who said of Trayvon, "Act like a thug; die like a thug." This simple articulation of the modern dehumanization of New Afrikans in Amerika by the authoritarian apparatus was the guiding ethos of George Zimmerman and the Sanford police.
To those with this twisted mindset, Trayvon was not a "human" child walking home from the store to watch the game with his family; he was "one of them," "Black," "they," a "thug" – something other than and inferior to Zimmerman himself. In his mind he was justified in pursuing Trayvon, justified in accosting him, justified in murdering him because George Zimmerman was an upper-middle class white man "protecting" his community, and Trayvon just some "Black thug" in a hoodie.
This is really the type of sick, twisted rationalization that was proffered by Zimmerman and initially accepted by the Sanford police. Even when it was clear the nexus of protestation had forced the reactionary state to cleave with the authoritarian social imperative and finally arrest Zimmerman, instead of focusing on the self-evident atrocity of Trayvon's murder and inexcusable delay in the state seeking redress, the authoritarian regime used this moment for law enforcement to sing its own accolades and re-enforce the authoritarian status quo by stressing the position that the national outcry at this one man lynching was not a factor in the state's decision to prosecute.
They verified it by allowing Zimmerman to deposit $15k with a bail bondsman and just walk out of jail scott free, as though such a warped human hiding behind the "stand your ground" statute does not pose a threat to the safety and lives of others. Just as disturbing , only weeks later, it was discovered Zimmerman was not having such a great economic difficulty as he'd led the court to believe. He had raised some $250k online for his "defense." The fact that so many Amerikans donated money to Zimmerman in just a few short weeks that he was able to amass a quarter million dollars is definitive proof of the mass psychosis of the authoritarian psychology in Amerika.
The "stand your ground" policy that is the law in Florida does include the Trayvon Martins of this nation; how can it not? With this in mind, how can any rational person entertain, even for a second, the explanation of Zimmerman, who's admitted to pursuing and confronting this child before slaying him?
We live in a society that has never committed itself to changing the way that it thinks. The same social, political and economic forces that created the mentality that lynched Emmett Till and later James Byrd is the same system that is responsible for what is call racial profiling today. This is the same type of thinking that resulted in the murders of Kendrec McDade and Gerardo Perez-Ruiz earlier this year.
These are the same forces that created the hate which bombed a church in Birmingham, Alabama, that claimed the lives of four little New Afrikan girls attending Sunday school in 1963; the same hate which killed James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1964; the same hate that murdered Jason Smith in Louisiana in July of 2011.
Trayvon Martin's black skin is what put him on the radar of Zimmerman and he said as much to the 911 operator. The dispatcher specifically told him not to pursue Trayvon, but Zimmerman hunted Trayvon anyway because he felt he had the authority to do so. The authoritarian mindset had fatal results.
The outrage that has been and continues to be expressed is justified. But it is not enough to demand justice. George Zimmerman is a symptom of a diseased society. We have legalized hate with the legislation of racial profiling and laws such as "stand your ground," Arizona's anti-immigrant statues and "gang" injunctions on entire communities of color. It is a crisis of culture, a manifestation of the malignant sickness of bourgeois society.
The core authoritarian psychology that gives social validity to these warped mindsets must itself be eradicated. We will continue experiencing these atrocities until such time as the minds of the masses are transformed, until we realize a victorious revolutionary change in this society.
But this pathology finds its most indifferent expression not in the gated communities of the upper middle class. No, it finds its most indifferent expression in prisons. Over the past 30 years, with tacit state sanction and support, the victims' rights lobby and prison industrial complex have waged a successful dehumanization campaign on those who've abrogated "the law." The compulsion of socio-economic desperation, race-class disenfranchisement, and intentional underdevelopment of specific segments of the underclass – overwhelmingly New Afrikan, Latino and Native American – have been irrationally discounted as the origin of "crime," and the onus for survival activities has been placed solely on the shoulders of the individual offender.
From this artificial social perspective has arisen the myth of the sub-human, predatory, criminal offender. Those consigned to U.S. prisons do not simply lose their physical freedom; they lose their social designation as fellow "humans." Society views prisoners the same way we view vermin – as something other than human, repugnant and unworthy of compassion. Christian Gomez discovered this with fatal results. Prison, as a tool of social control and race-caste containment, has always been a key component of U.S. capitalism, but the broad based, systematic dehumanization of prisoners has expanded in direct proportion to the economic expansion of the prison industrial complex.
In the 2010 annual report of Corrections Corporation of America the world's largest private prison purveyor, they state: "The demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by the relaxation of enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices … For instance, any changes with respect to drugs or controlled substances or illegal immigration could affect the number of people arrested, convicted and sentenced, thereby potentially reducing the demand for correctional facilities to house them."
Those consigned to U.S. prisons do not simply lose their physical freedom; they lose their social designation as fellow "humans."
The CCPOA (California Correctional Peace Officers Association), GEO Group [the world's second largest private prison purveyor], and the Fraternal Order of Police have parroted these same lines openly in their lobbying efforts at the state and federal level. Do you not see the inherent contradiction in a public safety apparatus whose speculative profits and salaries are attached to maximizing criminal offenders, not reducing them?
This view they hold of prisoners and potential prisoners as commodities by the various aspects of the prison industry – both public and private – provides a compelling economic motivation for maintaining that social dehumanization in the overall populace. Seventy percent of all TV programing is crime and punishment content, from "Cops" to "Judge Judy," from "Law and Order: SVU" to "Blue Bloods" and countless others – all re-enforcing the message of corporate mass media and the labor aristocracy of prison guard unions like the CCPOA that prisoners are not humans but some subspecies of bipedal animal entirely separate from humanity itself. This is particularly pronounced in American paramilitary organizations like police or prison guards and is a manifestation of the mechanization of authoritarian man in the West.
Like the authoritarian process itself, this mechanization of man took centuries and finds its origins in man's efforts to disassociate himself from the animal as he developed technology. The best analysis of this is given by Wilhelm Reich in his piece, "The Human Struggle for Freedom," where he states: "His viciousness, his inability to live peacefully with his own kind, his wars, bear witness to the fact that man is distinguished from other animals only by boundless sadism and the mechanical trinity of an authoritarian view of life, mechanistic science and the machine … Man's claims are peculiarly contrived to make him forget that he is an animal … Man's life is dichotomized: One part of his life is determined by biological laws (sexual gratification, consumption of food, relatedness to nature); the other part of his life is determined by the machine civilization (mechanical ideas about his own (self) organization, his superior position in the animal kingdom, his racial or class attitudes toward other human groups, valuations about ownership, science, religion etc.)
"His being an animal and his not being an animal – biological roots on the one hand and technical development on the other hand – cleave man's life and thought. There is thus no contradiction in the mind of the prison guard in upholding their oath to the Constitution's noble humanistic ideals and dehumanizing imprisoned citizens. The warped character structure of the authoritarian psychology to differentiate itself from the "animal" – "the criminal" – makes that dehumanization a simple economic determination for prison staff, an almost reflexive psychological process intimately connected to their economic empowerment, socio-political prestige and influence.
That New Afrikans and Latinos make up 75 percent of the prison population, but a scant 26 percent of the national population gives a corresponding race-caste "justification" to this dehumanizing dynamic in their minds. So ignoring Christian Gomez' – and the entire unit's – pleas for help as he died in agony was no great feat for the prison guards. That the only outcry that has been heard has come from the relatively small community of social progressives reveals the immutable truth of the pervasiveness of the authoritarian mass psychology in the U.S.
Society's support for this evil in service to power and privilege is exposed by their apathy and silence. Despite his mistakes in life, Christian Gomez was not only human, he was a hero, and those of us who are principled people cannot allow his sacrifice to be forgotten. Much has been said about the medical problems that he had which contributed to his tragic death. However, the question that we must ask is: How dreadful must the conditions under which he and others were housed have been that Christian would commit himself to starving himself given his medical condition?
How sick and twisted must the core psychology of our nation be that so few of us have expressed our horror and outrage at the prison guards who just stood idly by, ignoring screams for help, and let him die in agony? How long will we allow racism and the authoritarian psychology at the core of those guards' character structures to govern our cultural mores? The same sadism in service to the authoritarian imperative laid waste to the peaceful protest at Attica in 1971; gunned down W.L. Nolen and other freedom fighters in the late '60s and let them bleed out on the yard, feeding the melancholy history of Soledad State Prison; assassinated George L. Jackson in San Quentin on August 21, 1971, … and allowed Christian Gomez to die horribly in Corcoran ASU on Feb. 2, 2012.
Much has been said about the medical problems that he had which contributed to his tragic death. However, the question that we must ask is: How dreadful must the conditions under which he and others were housed have been that Christian would commit himself to starving himself given his medical condition?
Only in struggle, in actively educating those who are unconscious, organizing those who are conscious and mobilizing the advanced elements against the authoritarian psychosis will we effect meaningful change in the ideology of hate and sadistic violence which is at the core of authoritarian man's character. It is incumbent upon all freedom loving people to change the culture in which we live. Institutional racism, by whatever name it is called, must be confronted and destroyed wherever it rears its ugly head.
As we have stated before, you, the 99 percent – the people – are the greatest force on this planet. You have the power to change this society and the world you live in now, to dictate the kind we all live in the future. The power to change the culture that has already taken so much from us … and of us, is in your hands.
The NCTT (NARN (New Afrikan Revolutionary Nation) Collective Think Tank), both here in Corcoran SHU and Pelican Bay SHU, have put forward practical programs and platforms for all of us to build toward a brighter world. From the 10 core objectives of the occupy movement national coalition and three pilot programs – CCE (Closed Circuit Economic) Initative, Sustainable Community Agricultural Commune; Block-Vote Democratic Initiative – developed here; to the glorious efforts put forward by NCTT Chairman Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa and Abdul Olugbala Shakur, such as The Bunchy Carter Institute for Revolutionary Change in Pelican Bay give us all the tools and institutions capable of forging the transfer culture necessary to turn the tide of history. By taking up these tools and supporting these efforts, we consciously act to shatter the chains of the authoritarian psychosis, to free the minds of all masses – to free ourselves.
You, the 99 percent – the people – are the greatest force on this planet. You have the power to change this society and the world you live in now, to dictate the kind we all live in the future.
Let us end this discussion with these words echoed down the corridors of history as a basis for a lasting solution to these ills of society: "The commune. The central citywide revolutionary culture. But who will build the commune that will guide the people into a significant challenge to property rights? Carving out a commune in the central city will involve claiming certain rights as our own – out front. Rights that have not been respected to now. Property rights. It will involve building a political, social and economic infrastructure, capable of filling the vacuum that has been left by the establishment ruling class and pushing the occupy forces of the enemy culture from our midst. …
"The revolutionary is outlawed … Revolution is illegal. It's against the law. It's prohibited. It will not be allowed. It is clear that the revolutionary is a lawless man (or woman). The outlaw and the lumpen will make the revolution. The people, the workers, will adopt it. This must be the new order of things, after the fact of the modern industrial fascist state. …
"You will find no class or category more aware, more embittered, desperate or dedicated to the ultimate remedy – revolution. The most dedicated, the best of our kind – you'll find them in the Folsoms, San Quentins and Soledads." – George L. Jackson
Trayvon, Christian, Kendrec, Gerardo, Jason and those nine children in Afghanistan will never know justice as long as the authoritarian psychology and ideology of hate responsible for murdering them is allowed to persist. There is only one sure cure. You are no longer ignorant to its reality or origin.
Will you continue to stand idly by, content to submit to the bonds of the ruling 1 percent, submitting to conformity, turning a blind eye to the evil pervading the very fabric of society? Or will you stand with us and those who dare to change the nature and structure of capitalist society, dare to change the culture of hate, dare to struggle, dare to win?
Your choice will determine the course of history. History will be kind to those of us who love freedom. The spirits of Trayvon, Christian, Kendrec, Gerardo, Jason and those nine Afghan babies are watching all of us with an interested eye. What will you show them?
In solidarity with the Bunchy Carter Institute for Revolutionary Change. Until we win or don't lose.
For more information on the NCTT COR-SHU or its work product, contact: Zaharibu Dorrough, D-83611, CSP-COR-SHU 4BIL-53, P.O. Box 3481, Corcoran, CA 93212; J. Heshima Denham, J-38283, CSP-COR-SHU 4BIL-46, P.O. Box 3481, Corcoran, CA 93212; Kambui Robinson, C-82830, CSP-COR-SHU 4BIL-49, P.O. Box 3481, Corcoran, CA 93212; and Jabari Scott, H-30536, CSP-COR SHU 4BIL-63, P.O. Box 3481, Corcoran, CA 93212.
For more information on other NCTT projects or the Bunchy Carter Institute for Revolutionary Change, contact: NCTT Chairman Sitawa N.J. Dewberry, C-35671, PBSP-SHU D-1-117, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City, CA 95532, or Abdul O.S. Harvey, C-48884, PBSP-SHU D-4-112, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City, CA 95532.
This statement was transcribed by Kendra Castaneda.
The father of Jason Smith, 14, describes his son's KKK murder on June 6, 2011, and asks for help.


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What a great way to get my living room hifi'd up! I'm in.
Bring that guy home to Mama!!!!!
Oooh Oooh! Can I enter here too?!? Papa wants!
Would be an outstanding shiinning light in my system
Looks like a nice additn to my system!!!
Sign me up. I could always use another DAC
Wonderful product with great company history and reputation
Please sign me up for the sweepstakes.
Please enter me in the sweepstakes!
Count me in - this would be a great upgrade (potentially) for my arcam CD92.
I hope I win this, I need a DAC in my system, and this one would work nicely!!
Wow, nice Arcam rDAC... please enter me!
Happy Listening1
actually in the market for a dac. yes please.
I WON!!! No.....seriously.......you all can quit now............dude, seriously.....
Beats the heck out of my onboard audio, if I win this I'll be upgradeing my headphones sooner than later
As I used to say while playing board games as a kid... "Is it my turn to win now!?"
I took taking turns very seriously.
I recently discovered that my A/V receiver will not pass any digital input through any of its analog outputs to my listening system, so I've been looking at DACs.
The missing link in my budget audiophile system!
I used to work for an DAC manufacturing company. I know good quality conversion when I hear it! Would love to have a listen!
The only dac I have right now is inside my Marantz CD 63SE! Time for me to get with the times.
Great idea, got me signing up! I definitely could use that.
It would be a great system match for me. Thanks !
Well, it looks like I didn't win those cables. But this nice DAC would be nice, also.
Hello, Count me in too...
Would love to get this DAC to connect to my iTunes library and Rotel amp.
I'd like to hear it's "stunning accuracy and musicality".
It would be great to have this. I have converted to mostly computer playback and this will be a great upgrade from the headphone/RCA cable interface.
Dac's are coming out of the woodwork. It is not the chips that count. It is not the interface. It is the power supply, the grounding, and the output stages. That's my humble opinion. Having auditioned some very expensive DACs lately, I am still convinced that vinyl is better. I said "it's not the chips that count" but what I really mean is that none of the currently available chips succeed in being perfect at clocking and being immune to jitter and being able to recreate a sound wave perfectly. Inexpensive DACs like this designed by engineers that make compromises wisely might well be the way to go, because even the DACs that do everything right still sound digital. Felt compelled to express this, though my first instinct was to simply post "I'll gladly take it and give it a try".
Please enter me into the contest, this looks like another wonderful product from the folks at Arcam....Thank you.
Does it go well with the Van den Hul cables from the last sweepstakes?
i hope i win i hope i win!
Better recieve a birthday present late than not at all!
I'd love to have one of these in my system.
Excited to join the Stereophile community!
Hi Everyone,
Wow!! This would be a great addtion to my ever-growing collection of small silver or black electric boxes. Best of luck.
I wish it came in black but the silve would look pretty on my shelf!
This might be a good product. I wanna one for free.
I doubt that I will win, but contact me if I am selected.
Yes I would like to enter to win a swell lookin DAC. Sweet.
I love this Dac! Want it soo bad. NOM NOM NOM NOM MUNCH!
Hey, this would be great for my setup!
I have an Arcam CD player -- now long in the tooth -- and I can testify to the fact that them guys know their DACs.
it would so nice with the rest of my equipment
This would go nicely with my new Audioengines!
This looks amazing. I would love to add this to my home setup. Thanks!
And I happen to be in the market for a DAC, so thank you for the opportunity to try and win one.
Mark, from Upstate New York
I'll give it a nice home here on Maui. ;-)
Then at least I would have something to compared to my Audioengine D1. :D
Appreciate your work. Thanks for the opportunity to explore using a new DAC.
Great new DAC. I've realy been needing a USB DAC. Love that dCS technology inside.
this is cool! may i have one please.
this is cool! may I have one please.
I've been looking at DAC/integrated amp options extensively and have found nothing but headaches. If I won this I could focus on a high quality amp and finally break into hifi audio.
My cheap DVD player goes straight to the amp, so I do really need that DAC
Jumping through the hoop!
I'd love to have this for my new Squeezebox touch.. hope I win.
piece of equiptment - simple and very "mac-like" looking (if you like that kind of stuff)
would look great with my system.......
This Arcam rDAC would be a great addition to my computer audio system!
I know its in there somewhere!
Just started the hunt for a solid budget DAC. Look forward to more info on this one.
I would love to have this for my system. Thanks for the chance to win.
this DAC looks awesome, it would pair beautifully with my iMac. not to mention my Ibasso is busted! :-(
This would be great for my budget hifi system!
In the words of Al Davis "just win baby"!


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Writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait takes a subversive concept (honesty is overrated) and marries it to an outrageous scenario (a woman's family learns that she once, uh, performed for a dog) to create . . . a romantic comedy? Well, sort of. Like Goldthwait's underrated Shakes the Clown, Sleeping Dogs Lie stakes out territory in the land between black comedy and drama. But Sleeping Dogs plays it much straighter than the alcoholic clown movie. Yeah, blowing dogs is a matter custom-made for cheap laughs, and in the first five minutes, Goldthwait goes for them. But then the film settles into a fairly serious exploration of the value of secrets. In fact, Sleeping Dogs' biggest fault may be that it's occasionally a little too serious. Goldthwait also delivers a rambling, charming commentary in which he talks about filming on a shoestring budget and wonders who the hell would care to hear him. -- Jordan Harper
Phantasm (Anchor Bay)
It's time to recognize the schlock auteur who brought the world the dumb fun of Beastmaster, Bubba Ho-Tep, and the Phantasm series, and this loaded disc is a good place to start. What Don Coscarelli lacks in skill and artistry, he makes up for with originality: floating killer metal balls and killer dwarves and killer topless ladies and killer creepy old men and killer . . . And what he lacks in witty dialogue and good actors, he makes up for with boobs and blood. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but horror fans will delight in the special features alone: docs, interviews, and a commentary track with the director and stars. The opening trailers, mostly for Coscarelli's other films, are worth a rental alone. -- Harper
Payback: The Director's Cut (Anchor Bay)
This is no standard-issue repackaging of a failed film, with a few scenes slapped on to justify the cynical money-grab. Eight years after Paramount stole his movie and handed it to Mel Gibson to rewrite and even direct, writer-director Brian Helgeland finishes the job -- by starting over from scratch, more or less -- meaning he rounded up the excised footage, edited the sucker entirely on film like it was 1978, readjusted the colors, and even commissioned a brassy new score. To Gibson's credit, he helped fund the do-over and appears in the instructive making-of doc to bless this version, in which his character is even more detestable than before (he gives a woman a beatdown, after all, in a sequence no less shocking today). "It's valid," Gibson says, grinning through his thick Apocalypto beard. "It's a good film." And that's about right: It's a good film, but closer to great than anyone ever imagined. -- Robert Wilonsky
How William Shatner Changed the World (Allumination)
Shatnerphiles might hope for some kind of gloriously delusional monument to the man's ego. Unfortunately, though, this is simply a repackaging of a TV documentary called How Star Trek Changed the World. Evidently, someone somewhere along the line decided the Emmy-winning star of Boston Legal is more marketable than the moribund series these days. It's fun to watch interviews with scientists inspired by devices they saw on sci-fi TV . . . but it's a stretch to say that Shatner -- rather than, oh, maybe Gene Roddenberry -- was responsible for any of it. Among the few extras are some unrelated trailers and a hilariously brief bio that omits every single role Shatner is known for. -- Luke Y. Thompson


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Scott González is my new hero!
jQuery 2.0 Beta 2 Released
The next beta of jQuery 2.0 has arrived! This beta has several changes and tweaks based on the feedback we received from those of you who generously tested the first beta. We really need you to test this version as well and let us know what still needs to be done. We believe this version is very stable and ready for you to try; don't wait until the final release and then find out your code doesn't run with it.
Remember that jQuery 2.0 will not run on IE 6, 7, or 8; we're saving that duty for jQuery 1.9. We fully expect that most Internet web sites may continue to use jQuery 1.x for quite a while, as long as older versions of IE still comprise a large proportion of web surfers. And so the jQuery team will also continue to support both the jQuery 1.x and 2.x lines. Don't feel like you're missing something or falling behind by using 1.9 on your web site, since the APIs for 1.9 and 2.0 are the same.
If you'd like to try jQuery 2.0 on web sites where you still need to support IE 6, 7, and 8, you can use conditional comments. All browsers except old IE will get the second script and ignore the first:
<!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="jquery-1.9.1.js"></script> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte IE 9]><!--> <script src="jquery-2.0.0b2.js"></script> <!--<![endif]-->
There are lots of other environments where jQuery 2.0 should fit in very well. Here are a few suggestions:
- Google Chrome plugins
- Mozilla XUL apps and Firefox extensions
- Firefox OS apps
- Chrome OS apps
- Windows 8 Store ("Modern/Metro UI") apps
- BlackBerry 10 WebWorks apps
- PhoneGap/Cordova apps
- Apple UIWebView class
- Microsoft WebBrowser control
- Cheerio or jsdom with node.js
- Intranet applications
On the node.js front, the jQuery team now owns the "jquery" and "jQuery" names in npm and will soon be shipping 2.0 releases there.
You can get this latest beta from the jQuery CDN:
To run pre-1.9-era code with jQuery 2.0, you can also use the jQuery Migrate plugin to restore deprecated features from those older versions and/or diagnose compatibility issues. We strongly recommend that you do use Migrate for older code, it will save a lot of time and trouble in debugging.
What's New
Lots of bug fixes: All the relevant fixes from jQuery 1.9.1 and 1.9.2pre have been incorporated into jQuery 2.0 beta 2. We sadly had to back out some optimizations that aren't supported by older versions of WebKit such as Android 2.3, but most of those didn't have a significant size impact. Still, we plan to bring them back as soon as we can! To help us out, anytime you see an old Android phone you can "accidentally" whack it with a hammer.
New .data() implementation: This new code is a complete rewrite by Rick Waldron. It's smaller, simpler, and much more maintainable than the old code.
Increased modularity in custom builds: You can now exclude all the redundant event shorthands such as .mouseover(...)
if you're willing to use .on("mouseover"...)
Minimal selector engine: Richard Gibson created a small wrapper around the browser's native querySelectorAll
and matchesSelector
APIs that can be used as a replacement for the full-fledged Sizzle selector engine. Be aware, however, that there are major differences in the supported selectors and semantics. This minimal engine does not support jQuery selector extensions like :radio
or :first
for example.
Custom Builds
We'd love for you to try out the custom build system which is based on grunt. The README gives more detail on making a custom build. As of beta 2 you can replace Sizzle with a simple selector engine and exclude css, event aliases, animations, offset, and deprecated functionality such as .andSelf()
that has not yet been removed. In addition you can exclude a subset of the script, JSONP, or XMLHTTPRequest transports. That's right, reject any module in our jQuery reality and substitute your own.
Here is an example of what you can save with modular builds. Let's say you don't need the css, offset, dimensions, or deprecated modules and plan to do animations completely via CSS transitions and classes. In addition you only use JSONP via $.ajax()
. You'll use .on()
for event management and keep your selectors simple so that the minimal selector engine can do the job. The build command to do that is:
grunt custom:-sizzle,-css,-event-alias,-effects,-offset,-dimensions,-deprecated,-ajax/xhr
The resulting file from that custom build is just 17,530 bytes when transferred by gzip, which is 40 percent smaller than the full 2.0 build at 29,387 bytes gzipped. For comparison, the current 1.9 branch is 32,770 bytes gzipped.
We still think that the vast majority of jQuery users are best served by the simplest option: Use the full version of jQuery, served from a CDN or your local server. Most jQuery plugins are not written in a way that would allow you to use a subset of jQuery core functionality — after all, they never anticipated any of it would be missing! But for situations where it's worth the time to determine those dependencies, jQuery's current level of modularity offers awesome flexibility.
Many thanks to the people who contributed fixes to this release: Adam Coulombe, Andrew Plummer, Danil Somsikov, Dmitry Gusev, Isaac Schlueter, James Burke, Jean Boussier, Julian Aubourg, Karl Sieburg, Mark Raddatz, Mike Sherov, Nguyen Phuc Lam, Oleg Gaidarenko, Pascal Borelli, Richard Gibson, Rick Waldron, Ryunosuke Sato, Timmy Willison, and Timo Tijhof. Special recognition to Scott González for his minimalist work simply titled, "Whitespace".
- #13388: Ajax request not returning responseXML
- #13276: In IE 9/10 $.parseXML() returning document object instead of XMLDOMDocument
- #13292: $.ajax with 1.9.0 doesn't call anymore success function in case of 204
- #13306: File input added to serialized forms caused a change in behavior and only halfway follows spec
- #12656: Make event shorthands an excludable module
- #13316: Check against jquery.min.js with TestSwarm
- #13335: "use strict"; break asp.net ajax postacks in FF
- #12846: overflow:hidden is not removed when .stop() is called
- #13183: Wrong animation initial value calculation (1.9.0rc1)
- #13143: e.target can be a text node on mousewheel
- #13360: Creating String.prototype.namespace can cause an exception in jQuery.Event
- #13232: In 2.0beta1, using html() function on a tbody selector yields insertion of new tbody
- #13233: Unexpected behavior when iterating over and manipulating detached nodes in jquery 1.9
- #13282: QtWebKit — TypeError: '[object Object]' is not a valid argument for 'Function.prototype.apply' (evaluating 'elem.nodeType')
- #13434: Create querySelectorAll/matchesSelector selector option
- #13331: jQuery.fn.add returns incorrect order in Chrome and Safari
- #13420: jQuery 1.9.1 fails to filter SVG parent nodes by class name when using .parent() and .closest()
- #13499: Descendant selector fails when searched ID doesn't exists but NAME does (IE7 only)
- #13505: jquery#add: seems to get items in collection out of order on larger lists
- #10814: make support as lazy as possible with closure in mind
- #12040: Test against Content Security Policy (CSP)
- #13089: support adds zoom style to body in Chrome/Safari
- #13265: parent method fails with text nodes in IE10
- #13332: .closest("*") yields input even for non-element nodes
- #13349: find function slower since 1.9.0, especially in chrome
40 thoughts on "jQuery 2.0 Beta 2 Released"
This is great news! I especially like the custom builds. Modularity FTW
Thank you guys we love jQuery!
This is great news specially for mobile developers. Parsing times will hopefully be cut in half with this release.
I'm hopping the JQM team will make the best use of this new custom build system and make it work with their own custom build system. So that we can generate a single and more efficient peace of code.
Is it me or do the conditional statements above mean IE9 doesn't get jQuery at all??
_jquery 2.x not running on anything<=IE8,totally awesome.
@Ben Squire: gte means "greater than or equals", so IE9 gets jQuery 2.0 with this conditional statement
You guys are great!
You still can't compare Zepto.js and jQuery 2 file size, 10.9?KB vs 29.1?KB compressed gzipped file size. jQuery is almost 3x bigger.
@Binyamin: What do you think is in that difference? Zepto would have a similar size if it addressed the issues the jQuery community fixed over the years. Filesizes like this should be a non-issue, stability is what matters.
If Zepto sticks around, it'll just grow to similar filesize. I doubt it will though because people know better. Do yourself a favor and go for something stable.
The difference between jquery 1.9 and 2,0 is less than 3.4 KB (gzipped). For such a small difference, is it worth maintaining two version? Thank you for all your hard work :)
@MAddy: they're not done, but anyway, it's not only about file size, but also about performance and maintainability.
function jQuery_2(){
$('IE8').parents().kill() ;
} -
Cool, been waiting for 2.0 so that I can deploy my Mobile 1.3 app without IE 6/7 nonsense.
Right on, right on.
omg omg omg. Hecks yeah, thanks again guys.
I'm reading my email repeating to myself "I don't have time for that" and pressing delete. I said to myself, "About the only thing I'd make time for is is jQuery came out with a 2.0 version…"
Please fix the RSS FEED for the JQUERY BLOG.
I've been preferring microjs.com stuff (and TJ Holowaychuk's components) a lot lately because of size and modularity, though jQuery is the only thing that gives you cross-browser peace of mind when doing client work and you just need to deliver. So this 2.0 (and everything new in it) sounds like the right thing at the right time.
Cool! jQuery rocks!
Thank you guys we love jQuery!
we love jquery();
It is so sad for those computers that installed the IE6/7/8.
Finally there is jquery 2. It has been long journey and through JQ learned JavaScript. Thank you for your good work!
"Remember that jQuery 2.0 will not run on IE 6, 7, or 8"
Also remember that this is a VERY bad decision. Now is not the time to ditch IE7 and IE8. Ditching IE6 is ok, but IE7 and IE8 are still in use, and customers demand websites to (at least) work on them. Web developers may decide not to have their sites work on IE8, but jQuery must not make this decision for everyone at once.
So, ditching support for the newest IE that runs on Windows XP (which is IE8) is a horrible decision, iyam. And one that will prevent many (if not all) commercial users of jQuery from upgrading to 2.x.
Sorry, this is all I can (and will continue to) say about jQuery 2.0.
Ditch IE6 but support IE7 and IE8, and you will have my respect once more. -
Thanks to every one ..
Yes I read it, using two different versions of jQuery. Welcome to hell. No way I'm doing that. -
oh,my god!there are a lot of people with the version of ie9 following in china.
"Don't feel like you're missing something or falling behind by using 1.9 on your web site, since the APIs for 1.9 and 2.0 are the same."There you go. They are not forcing you to use 2 versions, IE6,7,8 are supported with a fully functional version of jquery. jQuery 2.0 is only for people for whom absence of IE support is not a problem, but higher size / complexity / slowness might be an issue (e.g. WebView in a mobile application).
Also remember that XP is about a year away from being completely out of support too, with Server 2003 to follow in only a year afterwards.
as I read the windows xp in out of support in April 2014, thats a long time to wait.
I think this is great, as long as 1.9, 1.10 in future, are fully supported for some time. It's convenient to have a specialized 2.0 for something like a mobile site or on a page that uses lots of HTML5 elements – which rules out most older browsers anyway.
IE 10 takes ignores conditional comments, so the code snippet used in the beginning is irrelevant on IE10.
@ Robert McLaws
It does work as published if you try it out. Carefully check the extra comment tags in the gte IE9 section. -
Robert's illustration demonstrate's exactly this – while conditional comments not applying to IE10+, not exactly the smartest thing to do. If you have IE10 installed, I can imagine it would be very difficult to test working scripts and lte/gte comments.
Too bad "grunt" doesn't actually work at all:
throw new TypeError('Arguments to path.resolve must be strings');..seen this for weeks now. Fun times.
I am using 2.0 in my phonegap app and want to go live by early May
What do you guys think? i am going to package 2.0 in my build instead of referring to CDN
Also what is the 2.0 release targeted?
@ernest – with IE10, you can use the F12 developer tools to simulate IE7, 8, and 9 – so that resolves the conditional comments problem, though I understand there are other issues than that one point.


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10 People Who Went Missing in Rocky Mountain National Park
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10 Silly Beliefs People Have about Animals
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The 10 Worst Diplomatic Faux Pas By Famous Politicians
Nowhere are faux pas more dangerous than in politics, where one wrong word could potentially lead to conflict between nations. Despite that, many politicians still make their fair share of gaffes when abroad, as seen by the following examples.
10 Jimmy Carter's Lust For Poland
President Jimmy Carter arguably contributed a lot to the use of interpreters in politics—sign language interpreters first appeared on national TV during his acceptance of his party's nomination, and he was also the president who signed into being the Court Interpreters Act of 1978. That said, he's had his troubles with translation, too.
In 1977, during a visit to Poland, Carter gave a speech to express his aim to learn the Poles' "desires for the future." His interpreter, however, translated that phrase to a baffled Polish audience as "I desire the Poles carnally."
This first gaffe was bad enough, but the interpreter, Steven Seymour, wasn't quite done. He also mistranslated Carter's words about his departure from the US into a phrase that meant that the President had abandoned his country for good. Seymour even turned Carter's praise for the Polish constitution into words calling it an object of ridicule. Obviously, Carter got a new interpreter for the rest of his visit.
Incidentally, it's not the only time a US president's words—whether through mistranslation or by direct quote—have led to a diplomatic contretemps in Poland. In 2012, President Barack Obama sent Polish hackles flying up when he referred to Nazi death camps in the country as "Polish death camps," seeming to suggest that the Polish and not the (German) Nazis were responsible for them. Since this was during a posthumous award ceremony for a Polish hero of the resistance against the Nazis, one might say he couldn't have picked a worse time for his slip.
9 George Bush Sr. Flips Aussies "The Forks"
On a visit to Canberra in 1992, George H.W. Bush unwittingly insulted a group of locals by giving them the V-sign while riding past in his armored car. The gesture might mean "Victory" in America, but it means something radically different in Australia when given with the palm facing inward, as in Bush Senior's case. Used that way, it's actually equivalent to the upraised middle finger in the US.
Later that same day, Bush Sr. gave a speech at the local center for American Studies advocating stronger efforts "to foster greater understanding" between the American and Australian cultures. The Lakeland Ledger, reporting the president's gestural gaffe, wrote, "Wearing mittens when abroad would be a beginning."
8 Voreqe Bainimarama Snubs Medvedev For His Aide
Voreqe Bainimarama, the prime minister of Fiji and the man from whom the term "Bainimarama Republic" originates, caused rather an embarrassing moment for his Russian hosts when he visited Moscow for a diplomatic meeting. As may be seen in the official videos of the encounter, Bainimarama's outstretched hand somehow managed to miss Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev despite the Russian PM putting out his own palm for the greeting. Instead, Bainimarama clearly turned away from Medvedev and shook hands with the latter's two aides—prompting the snubbed Medvedev to try to hide his embarrassment by acting as though he had extended his arm to brush imaginary dust off it.
Considering that this was the first visit by a Fijian PM to Russia, it was not a very auspicious start for such a precedent. Fortunately, Bainimarama eventually managed to hit the target later on, as may be seen in the photos of the two shaking hands.
7 George Bush Sr. Vomits On His Host's Lap
Admittedly, he could hardly have helped it if he was feeling ill, but Bush Sr. made one of the best-known faux pas in international politics when he puked on Japanese PM Kiichi Miyazawa during a diplomatic banquet.
Luckily for Japanese-American relations, he wasn't doing it to act out his stance on a geopolitical issue. Bush Sr. was allegedly ill with intestinal flu at the time. The incident gained him some popularity in Japan for a while, though, as a new word for vomiting entered Japanese slang shortly afterward: bushu-suru, or "to do a Bush."
6 Michelle Obama Touches The Queen
The Queen of England is untouchable—in many situations, literally so. Formal protocol for meeting the Queen dictates that you shouldn't touch her beyond a polite handshake (they call it that, but it's actually just a brief meeting of the hands when done properly).
So when First Lady Michelle Obama broke the rule by throwing an arm around Her Majesty, the British media was understandably shocked. It was a breach of one of the classic rules of conduct.
Fortunately for Mrs. Obama, the Queen herself seemed to take it in stride. It wasn't the first time she had to suffer (common) contact, after all. Former Aussie prime ministers John Howard and Paul Keating have both been accused of touching the Queen, and Canadian cyclist Louis Garneau is known to have done the same when he put an arm around her for a personal photo. Still, one would think that the first two—as well as Mrs. Obama herself—as political figures would have been more mindful of royal etiquette than a former cyclist simply hoping for a nice keepsake.
5 Prince Philip And The Aboriginal Spears
Royals make mistakes too. The famously gaffe-prone Duke of Edinburgh asked some Aborigines during a visit to Australia if they still threw spears at each other.
The recipient of the question, Aboriginal businessman William Brim, said, "No, we don't do that anymore."
The jury's still out on whether or not Prince Philip's query might have tempted them to change that.
4 Silvio Berlusconi And Obama's Tan
Silvio Berlusconi has always been popular for his mouth, but when he referred to US President Barack Obama as "suntanned," other mouths still fell open. He made the remark twice, even including the US First Lady in the second statement, which he issued later in Milan: "You wouldn't believe it, but they [Barack Obama and Michelle Obama] go sunbathing at the beach together—his wife is also suntanned."
When criticized for the remarks, he responded by calling his critics imbeciles and saying that he had been complimenting the Obamas.
Whether or not Barack and Michelle Obama took it that way is uncertain, since there were no responses from their side. It is a point of interest, though, that during the G20 meeting where he and the Obamas met again, Berlusconi was the only world leader that Mrs. Obama greeted with a handshake instead of a kiss and embrace.
3 Schröder Puts Out The Holocaust Victims' Memorial Flame
In 2000, the German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder was visiting Israel when he made one of the worst faux pas a German official can do while in the country. As all foreign dignitaries in Israel do, he went to pay his respects at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, guided by Israeli PM Ehud Barak. An eternal flame there burns for the six million Jews slain by the Nazis. Unfortunately, when Schröder went to turn the flame up, he turned the switch the wrong way, extinguishing the fire.
Barak tried to fix the flame but was unsuccessful. In the end, it took an employee of the Yad Vashem memorial to light it again with a gas lighter.
2 David Cameron's Poppies
The British PM caused a bit of friction with his hosts on his 2010 visit to China when he and his delegation turned out for an official event with poppies as their boutonnieres. Cameron's delegation was observing the British custom of donning poppies in November to remember their war dead. Unfortunately, red poppies mean something else to the Chinese, especially when associated with the British.
The Chinese fought the Opium Wars against the British in the 19th century, and they lost both wars as well as Hong Kong in the aftermath. Poppies—the source of opium—are therefore bitter reminders of the shame from those defeats, and the Chinese officials actually requested that Cameron and his fellows remove the poppies before the event. The British officials refused.
1 Sarkozy And Obama Think Netanyahu Unbearable
During 2011's G20 summit at Cannes, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US President Barack Obama were overheard by the press having a private dialog about Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister. In another accidental hot-mic moment, the two discussed Netanyahu with less than their usual diplomacy.
"I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar," said Sarkozy at one point.
"You're fed up with him?" Obama retorted. "I have to deal with him even more often than you."
While the exchange wasn't published by the media during the summit, it did eventually leak out soon after . . . which probably did not help the three leaders' efforts to hinder Iran's nuclear plans at the time.
When asked about the conversation, Sarkozy's and Obama's offices had no comment. Presumably because they had exhausted them all in their conversation during the summit.
Valerie Chu is a political scientist who has taken time away from the academic circuit (she spent several years teaching at a university) to pursue other avenues of interest, including freelance writing and working as a content consultant for several online publications and companies.


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Toddler Abducted From Eddie Long's Ga. Church Campus Found by Good Samaritan
A two-year-old toddler who briefly went missing Tuesday from the parking lot of Bishop Eddie Long's New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Dekalb County, Ga., was recovered by a Good Samaritan hours later.
"I was just asking God to put a shield over that little girl," Melba Williams, who found toddler Myrai Robinson hours after she was abducted, told local news station WXIA-TV.
Williams was walking to her car on her lunch break when she found Myrai Robinson crying alone in a stolen 2010 Dodge Caravan around 1 p.m. in the parking lot of the nearby Lithonia High School, where it had been abandoned.
"She was standing up in the front seat crying," Williams said of the two-year-old, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Moments before finding the toddler, Williams had heard the Levi's Call, or Abmer Alert, on the radio and knew the description of the missing vehicle and the missing child. She chose to call 911, even though she was worried she was being too nosy.
"I told her, 'Mama's coming, it'll be OK,'" Williams said, adding that she kept telling herself "It could've been one of mine.'"
Williams, 59, has seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Robinson was abducted from the parking lot of Long's New Birth Missionary Baptist Church's fitness center around 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 16.
She had been left unattended in a minivan while her caregiver, Rhonda Rivers, 44, ran inside the building for about five minutes.
Rivers left the keys in the ignition and the door unlocked, and when she returned to the parking lot from the fitness center, the still unidentified suspect had taken the vehicle and the toddler.
Since the recovery of the child, Rivers has been arrested for second-degree child cruelty and reckless conduct, according to the DeKalb County Sheriff's office.
Bishop Eddie Long's New Birth Missionary Baptist Church has yet to make a statement on the child abduction.
The toddler was delivered to her mother, Charity Gibson, unscathed on Tuesday afternoon.


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When the basic premise of the drug war is that we do not own our own bodies, the recurring theme of police sexual assault in the media over the last several months seem less like freak occurrence and more like an expected, perhaps its inevitable outcome. Last year there was the police rape of a New Mexico man and another very similar incident in El Paso, In both cases, the victims were held under suspicion of carrying drugs inside their bodies, and subjected to numerous intense and invasive violations as successive tests turned up negative. These cases are gruesome, graphic and brutal examples of the kind of power the state has granted itself over us.
It does not end with just these incidents; strip searches are routine at airports. If we wish to travel via air, then we must grant the state permission to invade our privacy and our bodies. Probably the most explicit form of state rape – that is some kind of sexual assault or violation undertaken by a representative, or someone with authority granted by the state – is prison rape. What gives a government official this power? If we consider the specific case of the man in New Mexico, it is unlikely that two men on the street would have been able to apprehend him and conduct these acts without him protesting, resisting, trying to get away or, at the very least, gaining support from bystanders.
Given the position of authority granted to these men, however, means that physical resistance isn't even a reasonable response. The presence of law enforcement in this man's ordeal provided the implicit threat of an infinitely scalable escalation of violence. Had he attempted to stop one of the doctors from violating him, at least one officer would have gotten involved to subdue him; were he successful in subduing one cop, it is likely that a second cop would have used lethal force against him; in the unlikely event that he could have stopped this, the state has near unlimited resources to stop him. He could be chased to other states, even extradited from another nation. As soon as the state is involved in a situation like this, the individual citizen has already lost. While some instances are eventually dealt with in an appropriate manner, the aforementioned prison rape by prison authorities shows that even after sexual assault takes place, the opportunity for recourse is minimal to non-existent — to the point where authorities were able to deny that such a thing was even a problem.
Recently a report by the Department of Justice, surveying nearly 2 million prisoners from federal, state, local and private prisons, found that almost half of sexual assaults in prison are perpetrated by prison staff. In cases where allegations were substantiated, less than half the offenders were prosecuted or faced jail time. This issue stems from the conflict of interest that arises when state officials are expected to be held accountable to and prosecuted by other state officials. It's the same reason we don't see police engaged in acts of brutality being handcuffed by their peers. Inmates attempting to report such offenses must deal with possible retaliation by the accused or their peers, who have been granted power over them by the state. As demonstrated before, their actions carry with them the implicit threat of infinitely scalable violence.
If these cases do reach court, again we have the problem of representatives of the state sympathizing with fellow agents of the justice system. This is exemplified by the recent sentencing of a police officer charged with violently anally assaulting twelve victims. The officer in question, who is by any account a serial rapist, faces only two years in prison. Four other officers were involved, reportedly assisting by holding down and even pointing guns at the victims. The accomplices face no charges at all.
Writing here about the horrors of state rape and the power dynamics involved is in no way meant to minimize the horrors of rape by private individuals against others. The difference in this situation is that the power given to the attackers is artificial. With the elimination of the organization that grants the power to strip rights from other human beings, backed by the implicit threat of infinitely scalable violence, we can at least remove this scourge from our society.
William Sheppard is a left anarchist and activist with a particular interest in online rights, privacy and encryption.


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While browsing SO today I found this question here and it starts with this:
Sure, you're gonna tell me that SOAP is depracated and all, well i'm forced to use it
Found lots of statement like this one on SO up till now, this one just triggered me to ask this question.
REST has its uses, SOAP has its uses, in some places they intersect as functionality but they are not replaceable to one another.
So I wonder, why do people think SOAP is "deprecated"? Is it ignorance? Complexity of SOAP and WS-* specs? REST hype? What?
If you think SOAP is deprecated please tell me why. I'm curious!


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TOKYO (AFP) - A court in Japan has told Google it must de-link words in its autocomplete function to prevent the search engine suggesting criminal acts when users type one man's name.
The Monday ruling by Tokyo District Court was the first time a court in Japan has ordered the search giant to alter this aspect of its algorithm, said Mr Hiroyuki Tomita, a lawyer representing the plaintiff.
The court also ordered the US-based company to pay 300,000 yen (S$3,809) for the mental anguish experienced by the man, whose identity has been withheld.
The plaintiff claimed that when users begin typing his name, the search engine automatically suggests what they might be looking for.
Clicking through these results takes users to websites that defame the unidentified man, his case said.
Because Google's search functions are not based in Japan, the Japanese court cannot compel it to make the change.
Google told local media that it was studying the ruling.
Last year, the same court approved a petition by the same man to have his name delinked from autocomplete suggestions, and issued a temporary injunction, which Google did not follow.
This week's ruling is permanent - although it can be appealed - and is attached to a defamation case that attracts damages.


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NEW YORK >> Some relief from suffocating gas prices will likely arrive just in time for summer vacation. Expect a drop of nearly 50 cents as early as June, analysts say.
After rocketing up 91 cents since January, including 44 straight days of increases, the national average this past week stopped just shy of $4 a gallon and has retreated to under $3.98. A steady decline is expected to follow.
In Hawaii, the average price of a gallon of regualr gas is $4.592, down slightly from yesterday, according to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report. The price of gas in Honolulu remained the same at an average of $4.481 a gallon.
It might not be enough to evoke cheers from people who recall gas stations charging less than $3 a gallon last year. But it would still ease the burden on drivers. And it might help lift consumer spending, which powers about 70 percent of the economy. A 50-cent drop in prices would save U.S. drivers about $189 million a day.
Typically, gas prices peak each spring, then fall into a summertime swoon that can last several weeks. This year's decline should be gradual but steady, said Fred Rozell, the retail pricing director at the Oil Price Information Service.
Some drivers might not notice much of a price drop at first, Rozell cautioned. When average gas prices fluctuate nationally, some areas are affected more than others. In cities with many service stations, for instance, prices can be slower to fall. It's even possible prices will rise at some stations in coming days even if they decline nationally.
And after the galloping surge in prices this year, many gas station owners are reluctant to lower prices until they see their competition doing the same, Rozell said.
"It's just the nature of the business," he said. "They're going to try to get the most they can."
Station owners still feel bruised from their own higher costs earlier this year. In some cases, their suppliers raised prices so quickly that station owners couldn't pass along those higher costs to consumers fast enough. Competition also makes it hard for some stations to raise prices.
"So station owners will be watching each other this summer," Rozell said. "When one guy drops, so will the other."
A drop in prices would take some pressure off struggling consumers as well as businesses. As prices soared this year, surveys showed that motorists started to drive less. MasterCard SpendingPulse said this past week that it had recorded its sixth straight week of declining gasoline consumption.
That's a cautionary sign for the economy, because most drivers conserve fuel only after curbing spending on other discretionary items like furniture, computers and vacations.
Over the past month, gas prices have risen 36 cents a gallon in Columbus, Ohio, to $4.10. Steve Garrett has felt it. He's scrapped a summer trip to Myrtle Beach, Fla. And the bakery distribution center where he works has begun closing sites and laying off staff to save fuel on bread and pastry shipments.
If prices fall fast enough, Garrett, 43, said he may think about another vacation in August.
"But right now, I'm still just scared about the economy," he said. "I still might lose my job."
This past week, a confluence of factors stemmed the rise in gasoline prices.
Oil, which is used to make gasoline, tumbled 15 percent in price. Investors who were worried about rising oil supplies and falling gasoline demand in the United States helped drive down the price. Oil prices were also responding to a rising dollar. Oil is priced in dollars. So a stronger dollar makes oil less appealing to people buying with foreign currencies.
It was the largest weekly drop for oil in two and a half years. Some analysts predict that oil will keep falling in coming weeks — from about $97 a barrel to about $80.
Many U.S. refineries also are expected to boost production after a series of unplanned shutdowns stemming from power outages and other problems. Those refineries would pump more gasoline to gas stations. And the increased supplies should push down prices.
"It's going to be $3.50 per gallon this summer," oil analyst Andrew Lipow said. "At the very least, you can expect prices to fall 40 cents or so over the next several months."
Thirteen states and Washington, D.C., have recorded average prices above $4 per gallon. Prices shot up much higher than that in Hawaii, Alaska and parts of Illinois.
The run-up persuaded U.S. Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska to ask residents to post photos of local pump prices because "the rest of the country doesn't understand" what it's like to live with gasoline above $4.20 per gallon.
In Illinois, florist Harry Schneider said he had to cut back on shipments from his Melrose Park shop just before Mother's Day. With Chicago-area gas prices averaging $4.45 a gallon, Schneider said he couldn't afford to deliver some arrangements.
"I need to make enough to cover the driver's wages, wear-and-tear on the vehicles and fuel," Schneider said. "I keep looking at my own bottom line and wonder, 'How long do I want to keep losing money?"'
In San Francisco, some top officials have traded their city-owned SUVs for more fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles. Police Chief Greg Suhr said he and his command staff would switch to Ford Fusion Hybrids. Mayor Edwin Lee opted for the Fusion sedan, which gets an average mileage of 39 miles per gallon.
Elsewhere, some hotel chains are starting to offer discounts to help offset higher gasoline costs.
Those changes may need to stay in place for a while. Even if oil falls steeply in coming months, analysts note that world demand continues to rise. Lipow predicts that oil could return to about $110 a barrel by year's end.
If that happens, and if any major hurricanes this year disrupt refining operations later this year, expect gasoline prices to once again flirt with $4 a gallon.
"It all depends on the weather," Rozell said. "Trying to predict anything beyond 30 days is witchcraft.
Associated Press Writers Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus, Tammy Webber in Chicago and Robin Hindery in San Francisco contributed to this report.


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We couldn't have ordered up a more exciting new leading man! Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz will join leading lady Betsy Wolfe in the company of Broadway's Waitress in the role of Dr. Pomatter beginning on November 3. The two-time Grammy winner will play a limited 10-week engagement in the musical at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
Mraz is most known for the 2009 chart-topper "I'm Yours." He won a pair of 2010 Grammy Awards for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Make It Mine" and Best Pop Collaboration for "Lucky." Mraz's albums include Waiting for My Rocket to Come, Mr. A–Z, Yes! and Love Is a Four-Letter Word. The sweet-voiced star's TV gigs have included appearances on Sesame Street, Saturday Night Live, Opening Act and Dancing with the Stars. He produced the 2012 documentary film The Big Fix and narrated the 2015 doc Unity. Waitress will mark Mraz's stage-acting debut as well as his first appearance on the Great White Way.
Waitress, based on the film of the same name, features a book by Jessie Nelson and a Tony-nominated score by Sara Bareilles. The cast, under the direction of Diane Paulus, is currently led by former Broadway.com vlogger Wolfe as Jenna, Drew Gehling as Dr. Pomatter, Caitlin Houlahan as Dawn, Maia Nkenge Wilson as Becky, Dakin Matthews as Joe, Eric Anderson as Cal, Will Swenson as Earl and Christopher Fitzgerald as Ogie.
As previously announced, two-time Tony winner John Cullum will join the cast of Waitress as Joe on October 5.
Get a first listen of Mraz's Dr. Pomatter with his and Bareilles' take on "Bad Idea" from Bareilles' album What's Inside: Songs from Waitress.


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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Britain's Prince Harry has apologized for wearing a Nazi uniform to a party, admitting he made a bad choice and saying through his publicist, "I am very sorry if I caused any offense."
The apology was released on Wednesday by the Clarence House Press office: "I am very sorry if I caused any offense or embarrassment to anyone. It was a poor choice of costume and I apologize."
The press office said, "Prince Harry apologized tonight after he was pictured on the front page of The Sun newspaper in a Nazi soldier's uniform which he wore to a fancy dress party."
An image of the front page of Thursday's editions was released to the media late Wednesday.
A large headline reads, "Harry the Nazi."
Next to it stands the prince, who is wearing slacks and a short-sleeve shirt, both beige, with a red Nazi insignia on his left arm.
Prince Harry is third in line to the British throne after his father, Prince Charles, and his brother, Prince William.
On Thursday, Jewish groups and lawmakers in Britain criticized Harry for the stunt.
"I think a lot of people will be disappointed to see that photograph and it will cause a lot of offense," said opposition Conservative Party leader Michael Howard, who is Jewish.
"The fact that the palace has issued an apology indicates that this was a mistake by the prince," said Rabbi Jonathan Romain, a spokesman for the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain. "But having being given, the apology should now be accepted." (Full story)
Sun Managing Editor Graham Dudman advised media outlets it owned the copyright to the images and must be credited for their use.


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Tail recursion makes your loops cleaner
Recursion is one of those things that functional programming languages shine at—but it seems a bit disappointing that in many cases, you have to convert your beautiful recursive function back into iterative form. After all, iteration is what imperative languages do best, right?
Actually, explicitly tail-recursive functions in functional programming languages can be fairly beautiful: in fact, in the cases of complicated loops, they can be even prettier than their imperative counterparts. Take this midpoint line-drawing algorithm as an example:
circleMidpoint d r = go 0 (-r) k0 where k0 = 5 - 4 * r x1 = ceiling (fromIntegral r / sqrt 2) go x y k | x > x1 = return () | k > 0 = d (x,y) >> go (x+1) (y+1) (k+8*x+8*y+20) | otherwise = d (x,y) >> go (x+1) y (k+8*x+12)
There are three loop variables: x, y and k, and depending on various conditions, some of them get updated in different ways. x is a bog-standard loop variable; ye old C-style for loop could handle it just fine. But y and k are updated differently depending on some loop conditions. But since they're parameters to the go helper function, it's always clear what the frequently changing variables are. You lose that nice structure in the imperative translation:
// global variables and loop variables are all mixed together int k = 5 - 4 * r; int y = -r; int x1 = ceil(r/sqrt(2)); for (int x = 0; x <= x1; x++) { // only x is obviously an index var draw(x, y); if (k > 0) { y++; k += 8*x + 8*y + 20; } else { k += 8*x + 12; } // does it ever make sense for any code to live here? }
I've also managed to introduce a bug in the process...


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Cervical cancer is a type of cancer that develops in a woman's cervix (the entrance to the womb from the vagina).
Cancer of the cervix often has no symptoms in its early stages. If you do have symptoms, the most common is unusual vaginal bleeding, which can occur after sex, in between periods or after the Menopause
Abnormal bleeding doesn't mean that you definitely have cervical cancer, but it should be investigated by your doctor as soon as possible. If your doctor thinks you might have cervical cancer, you should be referred to see a specialist within two weeks. Read More About: Symptoms of Cervical Cancer and Diagnosing Cervical Cancer
Over the course of many years, the cells lining the surface of the cervix undergo a series of changes. In rare cases, these precancerous cells can become cancerous. However, cell changes in the cervix can be detected at a very early stage and treatment can reduce the risk of cervical cancer developing.
The NHS offers a cervical screening programme to all women from the age of 25. During cervical screening (previously known as a "smear test"), a small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked under a microscope for abnormalities.
An abnormal cervical screening test doesn't mean you definitely have cancer. Most abnormal results are caused by an infection or the presence of treatable precancerous cells, rather than cancer itself.
Women aged 25 to 49 years of age are offered screening every three years, and women aged 50 to 64 are offered screening every five years. For women who are 65 or older, only those who haven't been screened since they were 50, or those who have had recent abnormal tests, are offered screening.
You should be sent a letter confirming when your screening appointment is due. Contact your doctor if you think you may be overdue for a screening appointment.
Almost all cases of cervical cancer are caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV). HPV is a very common virus that can be passed on through any type of sexual contact with a man or a woman.
There are more than 100 different types of HPV, many of which are harmless. However, some types of HPV can cause abnormal changes to the cells of the cervix, which can eventually lead to cervical cancer.
Two strains of the HPV virus (HPV 16 and HPV 18) are known to be responsible for 70% of all cases of cervical cancer. These types of HPV infection don't have any symptoms, so many women won't realise they have the infection.
However, it's important to be aware that these infections are relatively common and most women who have them don't develop cervical cancer.
Using condoms during sex offers some protection against HPV, but it can't always prevent infection, because the virus is also spread through skin-to-skin contact of the wider genital area.
Since 2008, a HPV vaccine has been routinely offered to girls aged 12 and 13. Read More About: the Causes of Cervical Cancer and Preventing Cervical Cancer
If cervical cancer is diagnosed at an early stage, it's usually possible to treat it using surgery. In some cases, it's possible to leave the womb in place, but it may need to be removed. The surgical procedure used to remove the womb is called a Hysterectomy
Radiotherapy is an alternative to surgery for some women with early stage cervical cancer. In some cases, it's used alongside surgery.
More advanced cases of cervical cancer are usually treated using a combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
Some of the treatments used can have significant and long-lasting side effects, including early menopause and infertility. Read More About: Treating Cervical Cancer
Many women with cervical cancer will have complications. These can arise as a direct result of the cancer or as a side effect of treatments such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery.
Complications associated with cervical cancer can range from the relatively minor, such as minor bleeding from the vagina or having to urinate frequently, to life-threatening, such as severe bleeding or kidney failure.
The stage at which cervical cancer is diagnosed is an important factor in determining a woman's outlook. The staging, given as a number from one to four, indicates how far the cancer has spread.
The chances of living for at least five years after being diagnosed with cervical cancer are:
In the UK, just under 1,000 women die from cervical cancer every year.
Following the success of the NHS Cervical Screening Programme and the early detection of cell changes, the number of cervical cancer cases in the UK has reduced. Around 3,000 cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed in the UK each year.
It's possible for women of all ages to develop cervical cancer, but the condition mainly affects sexually active women aged between 30 and 45. Cervical cancer is very rare in women under 25.
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Directory graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/mp3d
3d/3dgeom version 1.34 ====================== This entire package is released under the LPPL, version 1 or (at your option) any later version. This release is a intermediary release of the 3d metapost package. It updates the 3d package (CTAN:graphics/metapost/macros/3d) and adds features facilitating the creation of space geometry drawings. There have been a number of changes, and as a consequence we had to slightly update the description published in TUGboat in 1998. See the doc directory. The doc directory contains both the old 1998 article, a corrected version, the 2001 GUTenberg article on geometry in space and its translation which appeared in 2003 (TUGboat 2001). The 1998 package is completely contained in this release in the directory v1.0, except that some files have been renamed in order to prevent a conflict. For istance, 3d.mp has been renamed into 3d-1.0.mp when necessary. Also, the doc directory from the 1.0 version has been transferred to the current doc directory. The 1.0 version should still be of interest for the documentation of its file, which used mft (see for instance v1.0/doc/3d-1.0.ps). As version 1.34 is an intermediate release, it may lack some uniformity which might be added later. Also, the sources do contain preliminary and documented material. This release contains three directories: doc : documentation examples : all the examples from the Space Geometry article inputs : the files needed for metapost HOW TO CREATE AN ANIMATION -------------------------- Details are given to produce the standard animation under UNIX, with the binaries listed below. For other architectures, you may have to adapt the write_script macro in the 3d.mp file. 1) create a directory and copy the .mp files from the inputs directory to it. 2) apply metapost to animpoly.mp ; this will create 100 files named animpoly.101, animpoly.102, ..., animpoly.200. It will also have created a script file named create_animation.sh 3) copy the gifmerge utility (as well as programs such as pnmcut,...) in this directory or let it be reachable through PATH. 4) apply sh to create_animation.sh; this will create the animation; first the metapost outputs are converted to gif, then they are collated with gifmerge. 5) the result is animpoly.gif which is a GIF89A animation file; it can be viewed under netscape or simply with a program like xanim. Binaries required by the 3D package ----------------------------------- As it is, the generation of animated gifs requires the following programs: awk gs (ghostscript) pnmcut ppmquant ppmtogif gifmerge These executables are not part of that distribution. The first two are widely available on UNIX. The three p* programs are part of the NETPBM toolkit. You can find this toolkit on the web through any search tool. And gifmerge can be found at http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~kiwi/GIFMerge. I have no idea how to port all this on other architectures, but I assume there are similar tools for PCs or Macs. I'd be interested to get feedback and details so that i can include instructions in future releases of my package. ======================================================================== Denis Roegel, 17 August 2003 email@example.com
Download the contents of this package in one zip archive (2.5M).
threed – 3D animations
Create animations of 3-dimensional objects (such as polyhedra) in METAPOST.
Package | threed |
Version | 1.34 |
Licenses | The LaTeX Project Public License |
Maintainer | Denis B. Roegel |
Contained in | TeX Live as mp3d MiKTeX as threed |
Topics | 3D Graphics METAPOST use |