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Monthly Archives: March, 2016
The new bicycle
The invisible bicycle helmet My friend Hap sent me a link to this video....
The lifeline?
From Tim Urban's wonderful site, Wait But Why, comes a discussion of Why Cryonics Makes Sense, in which he explains — in his usual light-hearted, cartoon-illustrated, occasionally-profane fashion — how he moved from thinking:
Cryonics is the morbid process of freezing rich, dead people who can't accept the concept of death, in the hopes that people from the future will be able to bring them back to life, and the community of hard-core cryonics people might also be a Scientology-like cult.
to actually signing up for an appointment with one of the big cryonics companies.
If you are of a religious persuasion and believe that your deity of choice is likely to provide a better chance of long-term survival than Alcor, Inc., then you'll probably have dismissed cryonics out of hand, but the article may at least persuade you that cryonicists (your new word for today) are not complete nutters. They completely understand all the possible hiccups that might not allow you to be revived in the future, but think that the experiment — which is less costly than you might think — is worth undertaking. They view cryonics in much the same way that people in the past might have viewed organ transplants. An interesting read.
Wait But Why adopts an unusual format for these longer pieces, going into some depth on a subject to explain it for normal readers, yet doing so in an amusing way.
There are shorter, amusing posts on the site too — see How I handle long email delays, for example — but for the longer ones, if, like me, you seldom sit there twiddling your thumbs and thinking, "Where can I go to read 14,000 words on some random topic this morning?", then I recommend signing up to get them in your inbox.
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Rose and I enjoy visiting art galleries, and occasionally making some modest purchases. Actually, we'd like to make a lot more, but on the occasions when we aren't limited by budget, we're limited by the available space in our little house.
So if I told you that we had recently ventured into life-size bronze sculptures, you might think we'd finally abandoned reason for madness.
But then, you'd need to see a picture of our latest purchase.
Just wondering… What is it that estate agents really mean when they...
Holiday snaps I was going to post a picture or two from...
Photoshopping David Hopkin sent me this rather nice picture: It originally...
Radio silence I'd like to apologise to regular readers for the slightly...
Playing with my Canon flashguns using PocketWizard FlexTT5 triggers and an AC3 on my Fuji X-Pro 1 and X-Pro 2. They work fine as long as you don't need TTL metering. (I don't.)
For those interested in the details…
First, I set the flash mode on the camera to 'Forced flash' to make sure flash is always triggered even if the camera thinks there's enough ambient light.
Next, even though the camera just sees this as a simple on/off flash trigger, I want the AC3 to be able to control the flash levels on the Speedlites, so all of the communications between those bits need to be in TTL mode to get that level of control. So the Speedlites are in TTL mode, and all the PocketWizards are also configured to use TTL communications.
Finally, I want to adjust the levels manually, so the switches on the AC3 are set to the 'M' position, and I can use the dials to turn the individual flash levels up and down from the camera, even if they're buried inside a softbox, or somewhere similarly inaccessible.
It's possible you may see one other glitch if you try this, but it's easy to fix. The central connector pin on the bottom of a flashgun does the basic triggering. The other ones are for the surrounding control communication, and manufacturers handle this differently, so Fuji equipment will be expecting different things on these pins from Canon kit, or from PocketWizards designed to work with Canon kit. This can cause confusion – in fact, when I first tried this, I got strange messages on the X-Pro 2 screen about internal temperature warnings – others have seen this too, and it's presumed to be a bug in the early firmware, since it happens instantly when the camera is switched on from cold. This morning, I had no problem, but it may be a good idea anyway to stop the different parts from trying to communicate when they don't speak the same language.
Some people just put tape over the extra pins. Perhaps somebody sells a hotshoe adapter that only connects the single pin. I had a really dumb PC-sync-to-hotshoe adapter in the bottom of my bag, so I put this between the PocketWizard and the camera, and plugged it into the PC-sync socket on the Fuji… and it all worked beautifully, as well as giving me a bit of extra space for reaching controls and things. (See the top picture above.) Who would have thought that this old connector from the 50s would be a good way to connect to sophisticated high-speed bi-directional radio communication systems?!
All in all, I'm very happy with this setup, and it gives me one less reason to carry my heavy Canon kit around.
Flash of inspiration Over the last few weeks and months I've been trying...
Flash of inspiration For several years I have avoided the use of flash...
Light painting – Making Future Magic About six years ago I did some brief experiments with...
Walking in a Wimpole Wonderland The hill behind Wimpole Hall farm was beautiful first thing...
A celebratory introduction
One of our favourite furniture shops in the area, Angela Reed in Saffron Walden, now has a cafe. And it's very good.
I have a new camera. It's also rather good. Time to celebrate by bringing the two together, I thought.
We then went to see a different catering establishment: the old kitchens at Audley End.
Oh, for the curious, my new toy is a Fuji X-Pro 2… a nice update to my much-loved X-Pro 1. These were quick test shots with my 18-55 zoom.
Lighten our darkness This is St Mary's church in Saffron Walden, and I...
Thought for the day If you give a talk in a research establishment, is...
The oil change of the future My car's going in to the garage for a service...
Just testing… A quick test of Joe Tan's Flickr Photo Album plugin...
Always look on the dark side of life
Lovely cartoon from Brevity.
Spotted on Facebook a while back. Shared in the free world.
Always look on the dark side of life I love these nihilistic security questions from Soheil Rezayazdi… Thanks...
Delicate surgery Got a spare tree stump lying around? Here's an idea...
Grabbiti? Lovely cartoon by Mobii, who has since done several variations...
SubEthaEdit [Original Link] This shared editor is a very cute app...
From 'Art Roflmao'. Lovely.
Cambridgeshire Art Fair For those in the Cambridge area not heading for Strawberry...
Hopeful news from the USPTO Quoted on Paul Bissex's blog: Last month, USPTO representatives met...
Fog on the Barrow-downs
A slightly surreal dog-walk this morning.
In the Beechwoods Yesterday morning's dog walk. Enjoyed this post? Why not sign...
The people who walked in darkness I seem to be doing a lot of this at...
Sunshine below, blue sky above On my walk this morning with Tilly. More info about...
My mother, in her younger days, used to be a midwife. She once delivered a pair of twins, just as the clocks were going back.
The younger one ended up with a birth certificate stating that he was born before the older one…
Burrowing through Status-Q Back in June I mentioned that I'd installed my variation...
RSS to Mail If you're not very good at checking your RSS feed...
Mail, man! Those of you who are kind enough to read my...
Feed on this… For some years, I had a handy sign-up form on...
Not very sheepish
This handsome lass posed nicely for me in the sunlight.
She seemed remarkably unfazed by the fact I had Tilly beside me on a lead.
Tilly was much less composed about it. She didn't quite know whether to protect me from this beast, or run away…
Canine calculations My friend Jon Crowcroft told me recently that "On the...
Tickr for Flickr If you have a Mac and you don't need to...
Simply messing about in boats We've escaped to the Lake District for a few days,...
Amusing domain names A nice post about ambiguous domain names. Enjoyed this post?...
Ansible – the absolute basic overview
Ansible is a system for setting up, managing and configuring machines – one at a time, or in vast numbers simultaneously. We're using it more and more at Telemarq.
There are several tutorials out there that go into some detail about how to use it. This isn't one of those (though it'll teach you the basics). This is just intended to give you an idea of what's going on if you find yourself sitting in front of a directory full of Ansible files, looking at unfamiliar file formats.
Also available on YouTube.
I had these slides in a directory from when I was bringing some friends up to speed in the past, so I added a soundtrack in case they were useful to others.
Transmit Transmit is a fabulous FTP client for the Mac, which...
How to turn Apple Photos into a more powerful editor Apple recently released OS X Yosemite 10.10.3, which includes their...
From Webcam to Webcar? My car now has a web page. Sadly, it's for...
Mac OS X and Subversion Non-geeks can skip all of this! Subversion is a very...
The end of an era? Or the start of one?
Early yesterday morning, Richard and I set off to drive from Cambridge to Sheffield for a business meeting — my first such trip in my electric car. It's 260 miles there and back, and I've done longer journeys, but this was the first where professional courtesy was contingent on the state of the UK charging network.
Fortunately, we had a perfect run, charging six times without delay, problem or queueing. And if you're thinking that six is rather a large number for that length of trip, you'd be right, and we could have done it in fewer stops. But there are different approaches to recharging your car. I decided to go for lots of quick partial charges (each typically a 15-20 min stop) because the rate at which the batteries charge slows down noticeably as they fill up: on these 'rapid' chargers at motorway service stations, it's quicker to charge from 0%-80% than it is from 80%-100%, but you still get the same miles-per-percent. Also, I hadn't visited any of these locations before, so I was curious to see more of them, and also didn't know what to expect in terms of congestion. Sub-zero temperatures also reduce your range significantly if you want to keep your toes warm!
The upshot is that a journey like this, even when things are going perfectly, took about an hour longer in each direction than it would have done if we were burning dinosaurs. Richard was a trooper and raised no objection to getting up for a six o'clock departure. For some people, that would be unacceptable. Personally, I find I rather like it – I would normally stop at least once en route anyway and I suspect that getting out and stretching my legs every 40 mins or so is very beneficial from a safety point of view. I certainly arrive feeling more relaxed than in the old days. The extra time you spend on occasional long journeys is offset by the fact that I never have to visit petrol stations during the week. And it's still much quicker than using public transport.
It's also much cheaper. Many non EV-owners don't realise that a significant proportion of public chargers are free to use, including the Ecotricity ones found at many service stations. This means that the 'fuel' cost to get the two of us from Cambridge to Sheffield and back yesterday was around £2.50, since we only paid for the charge I did at home before we set off.
But that's about to change. In a podcast this week the founder of Ecotricity announced that they would start charging for charging in 'a couple of months'. This comes as no surprise: we knew the free ride couldn't last forever. Some welcome it, because the reliability of the network should improve when out-of-action chargers mean a loss of revenue. Hopefully the numbers of charging stations will also increase, and it's less likely that the 'pumps' will be blocked by casual chargers, or those with plug-in hybrids, who don't really need it, leaving more of them free for those with pure electric vehicles, who do.
But we're all wondering what Ecotricity's pricing will be. They are an honourable company with good motives, and are unlikely to resort to excessive profiteering from their effective monopoly on much of the UK's motorway network. On the other hand, there are large chunks of the country that they don't cover — try going south of Gatwick, for example — and the rapid chargers available in those areas from other companies are often selling their electricity with a 5x markup, such that petrol is a cheaper alternative. Even at those rates, it would take a long time to recoup the tens of thousands of pounds needed for a 50kW rapid charger installation. In due course, as EV ownership and awareness increases, and competition starts to become more real, the financials will change. After all – installing a petrol station is outrageously more expensive, but you can be sure of a flow of regular customers throughout the day. Even if electricity at the service station proves more expensive than petrol, most people do 90-95% of their charging at home or work, so the benefits of going electric are still substantial.
I'm in the fortunate position of having an electric car with a 'range extender': a small 650cc generator in the back that allows me to double my electric range using a couple of gallons of fuel. So Richard and I could have gone from Cambridge to Sheffield using 50% electricity from home and 50% petrol. We were able to charge at our destination, so we could have done the same on the way home. This would have been faster, though we wouldn't have felt quite so smug about our lack of CO2 emissions, or the fact that the whole trip cost us less than one of the lattes we consumed on the way, though it might still have cost us less than the sum total of all our lattes!
My somewhat pricey BMW is, however, the only car on sale in the UK at the moment which falls into this mostly-electric-with-a-little-bit-of-petrol category. Part of the reason I bought it was because it was so perfect for riding out this transition that we're going through. Those who own, or sell, pure-electric vehicles will be watching the Ecotricity prices with rather more skin in the game.
I think it's vital that the other key part of our successful trip yesterday: the fact that there was a space available immediately at every charge point we visited, continues to be the norm, until they are much less of a scarcity or the range of affordable electric vehicles increases substantially. That means that companies will probably continue to need substantial government incentives to keep installing them ahead of the growth in electric vehicle sales, because it's going to be hard to pay for them simply by charging for electricity in the short term. In the long term, however, such an investment will definitely be worth it for the nation.
We drive in interesting times.
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Transcribed by GekkaHikko and translated by GlitterBerri.
Square's newest creation, Chrono Trigger!
With an introduction by Mr. Kazuhiko Aoki and Mr. Hironobu Sakaguchi!
Mr. Toriyama designed the characters, monsters, and the look of each era.
Mr. Horii did the scenarios, and Mr. Sakaguchi was in charge of the entire system. Our desire to make a completely new RPG resulted in the creation of Chrono Trigger.
The meaning of Chrono Trigger is "time trigger."
This epic game was born from the collective dream of Akira Toriyama, Yuuji Horii, and Hironobu Sakaguchi.
Passing through a variety of eras from the past, present, and future, it is a story of a fight against monumental evil.
With its recurring themes of light and shadow, the game is partly characterized by the never-before-seen depth of its beautiful visuals.
Players can soar on the wings of time in the time machine designed by Mr. Toriyama.
Player and monster characters can attack while moving around during battle.
The magic effects are more impressive than in Final Fantasy VI.
The enemies are many and varied, ranging from small monsters to powerful giants!
Now to introduce the characters.
With a Japanese blade and a hint of the Orient, our protagonist, Chrono!
The spin-kicking, club-carrying, fist-fighting Ayla!
Our hero's advisor, the talented inventor, Lucca!
The strong and dependable battler, Robo!
And now, Mr. Sakaguchi, Mr. Horii, and Mr. Aoki take the stage! Let's listen as these three spill the secrets behind the creation of Chrono Trigger!
Around two years ago we traveled to America to do some research, checking out the latest in computer graphics.
I ended up travelling together with Mr. Horii and Mr. Toriyama.
During the trip we decided that we wanted to create something together, something that no one had done before.
We got all fired up about it.
That's right, we were really enthusiastic about it.
Just talking about it was really exciting.
However, once we decided we were going to do it for sure, we spent a year or a year and a half thinking about all the difficulties we'd encounter.
We had almost given up when we received word from the producer, Mr. Aoki.
He said "No, if you're going to talk like that, please ask me. I definitely want to help make it happen."
Was it difficult, Mr. Aoki?
My life was made considerably more difficult thanks to this project.
We were staying together too.
That's right, one year ago, wasn't it?


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Discussion in 'vBench (Works in Progress)' started by MarquisMini, Oct 11, 2016.
Finally starting to work on these artlerymen .
While i am finishing some white coats for the last two regime ts left, i will ocassionaly work on the French Royal.Artilley present at Yorktown.
I will start by re-coating two chasseurs originaly from the saintonge regiment which were left out and put them to use , marching near the emplacement of the siege guns.
The whole artillery will include two 12 lbs canons , i will have to build the gun emplacement from scratch, and have their respective crews converted figures from Front rank and Trident , they are british artillery crew who will be converted to resemble the Frenchies.
Great amount of work ahead, but very excited to work on the las phase of the project.
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Going to look good my friend and what a lot to do ...looking forward to seeing the artillery pieces .
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Master of Mini????, dang man, now i have a lot of pressure to do a good job !!!
I am using scale 75 deep blue and a dab of Vallejo dark sea blue for the coats, as for the pants and vest i am using a different blue, andrea sea blue and dab of scale 75 cantabric blue.
Always like to see a slight difference between the coat and the other gatments when they have the same color .
The other figure in the picture is a conversion i did from Trident , an american artillerymen to a Frenchie, the head with the pokalem hat is from Trident as well.
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Finished the blues on the coat, vest and breeches.
The red on the cuffs and piping on the lapels as well.
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I really like P3, especially the red colors.
I was going to add the grenadier sword but decided to do the right thing and cutted the hilt guard and built the eagle head instead , i also shortened the sword.
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Finished these two gunners today, and inam very pleased with the result.
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This just gets better with every set off figures you produce Daniel. I agree with Nap - master of the minis. Excellent work in such a small scale.
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I am converting one of the front rank Artillery crew figures to a french Artillery gunner.
I added a collar, "shaved "the long lapels and replaced by the french style lapels, added some lenght to the turnbackas and will work on that tonight.
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Finally finished the gaiters and buttons.
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Third man wanted in connection with murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee captured in downstate Danville
Posted May 16, 2016, 1:35 p.m. by Jeff Mayes | View Comments
By MITCHELL ARMENTROUT
Kevin Edwards | Chicago Police
The third man wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in November was arrested in downstate Danville over the weekend.
Kevin Edwards, 22, was stopped for a traffic violation Saturday night and arrested for resisting arrest and obstructing a peace officer, according to the Vermilion County sheriff's office.
He was being held at the jail in Danville on Monday morning and had been questioned by Chicago Police detectives, sheriff's officers said.
Chicago Police are coordinating with the sheriff's office to get Edwards back to Chicago to answer for his involvement in the murder of Tyshawn, department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
Dwright Boone-Doty | Chicago Police
"Mr. Edwards, and his associates, Dwright Boone-Doty and Corey Morgan, committed one of the most reprehensible acts of violence in recent history by luring and executing Tyshawn Lee. We are hopeful this provides some level of solace to the family and now CPD will work with our prosecutorial partners to ensure we build the strongest case possible to hold them accountable," Guglielmi said.
A first-degree murder warrant had been out for Edwards' arrest since about four weeks after Tyshawn's slaying on Nov. 2, 2015, police said previously.
Boone-Doty, 22; and Morgan, 27, have already been charged with the murder and remain held without bond.
Corey Morgan | Chicago Police
Authorities have said Tyshawn was lured into an alley in Auburn Gresham's 8000 block of South Damen and killed execution-style. Boone-Doty offered to take the boy to a store for candy and walked him down the alley before shooting him repeatedly at close range, Cook County prosecutors allege.
Tyshawn Lee | photo provided
Police have said Tyshawn was killed in retaliation for the Oct. 13 murder of Corey Morgan's brother Tracey Morgan, 25, after he left a police-sponsored meeting of parolees whose goal was to resolve gang conflicts in the area.
Police have not detailed Edwards' alleged involvement in the killing.
Filed under: Corey Morgan, Dwright Boone-Doty, Kevin Edwards, Tracey Morgan, Tyshawn Lee

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This publication constitutes a selection of papers presented at the 6 th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New Sounds 2010, held in Poznań, Poland. It consists of two volumes, presenting state-of-the-art achievements and perspectives for future research related to the acquisition of second language phonetics and phonology. The key issues include the development of explanatory frameworks of phonological SLA, the expanded scope of domains under investigation, modern methods applied in phonological research, and a new take on the causal variables related to ultimate proficiency in L2 speech. This first volume contains a selection of 27 articles that cover a wide variety of themes including L2 speech perception and production, segmental and prosodic features, as well as factors related to foreign accentedness, individual variability and ultimate achievement in the acquisition of speech.
Contents: Cristina Aliaga-Garcia: Measuring perceptual cue weighting after training: A comparison of auditory vs. articulatory training methods – Walcir Cardoso: Teaching foreign sC onset clusters – Juli Cebrian/Joan C. Mora/Cristina Aliaga-Garcia: Assessing crosslinguistic similarity by means of rated dissimilarity and perceptual assimilation tasks – Eva Cerviño-Povedano/Joan C. Mora: Investigating Catalan-Spanish bilingual EFL learners' over-reliance on duration: Vowel cue weighting and phonological short-term memory – Dina El-Dakhs: Lexical access in second language speech production: The case of Arabic-English bilinguals – Cheryl Frenck-Mestre/Pauline Peri/Christine Meunier/Robert Espesser: Perceiving non-native vowel contrasts: ERP evidence of the effect of experience – Anastasia Giannakopoulou/Maria Uther/Sari Ylinen: Phonetic cue-weighting in the acquisition of a second language (L2): Evidence from Greek speakers of English – Jian Gong/Martin Cooke/M. Luisa García Lecumberri: Towards a quantitative model of Mandarin Chinese perception of English consonants – Silke Hamann/Paul Boersma/Małgorzata Ćavar: Language-specific differences in the weighting of perceptual cues for labiodentals – Xuliang He/Vincent J. van Heuven/Carlos Gussenhoven: Choosing the optimal pitch accent location in Dutch by Chinese learners and native listeners – Sam Hellmuth: Accent distribution effects in L2 English: Causes and implications – Miyoko Inoue: Phonetic cues used by Swedish speaking learners in perception of Japanese quantity – Susan Jackson/John Archibald: Phonological representations and perception of L2 contrasts – Matthias Jilka/Natalie Lewandowska/Giuseppina Rota: Investigating the concept of talent in phonetic performance – Michal Kubánek/Václav Jonáš Podlipský: Does reliance on top-down cues in L2 speech perception change with growing experience? – Vladimir Kulikov: Features, cues, and syllable structure in the acquisition of Russian palatalization by L2 American learners – Mary O'Brien/Ulrike Gut: Phonological and phonetic realisation of different types of focus in L2 speech – Öner Özçelik: L2 acquisition of sentential stress: Implications for UG – Sandra Schwab/Joaquim Llisterri: The perception of Spanish lexical stress by French speakers: Stress identification and time cost – Geoff Schwartz: Avoiding stop insertion after English /ŋ/ - a representational solution – Helena Spilková/Wim A. van Dommelen: Function words in read and spontaneous speech produced by L2 and L1 speakers – Bruce L. Smith/Rachel Hayes-Harb: Speech production and speech perception by German speakers learning English as a second language – Laura Catharine Smith/Wendy Baker: Acquiring the high vowel contrast in Quebec French: How assibilation helps – Annelie Tuinman/Anne Cutler: L1 knowledge and the perception of casual speech processes in L2 – Ewa Waniek-Klimczak: Aspiration and style: A sociophonetic study of the VOT in Polish learners of English – Magdalena Wrembel/Andrzej Grzybowski: Reinvestigating sound-colour mappings in L1 and L2 vowel perception – Martha Young-Scholten: Development in L2 phonology: Another perspective on age.


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I think it was a combination of factors because all her several charges were complained by not just Henry, but by others, such as Thomas Cromwell, Kathrine of Aragon and even God. Henry just got so bored and angry. He just got so fed up with all the flirting and all the losing of her temper.


I cringe every time a new report is released, not because I don't want to hear it, but because I am angry/frustrated/sickened that the Church is still covering these horrific acts up.
I am in Southern California, a former member of both the Los Angeles and Orange Diocese where we went through the exposure 15+ years ago. Wasn't anyone in power in the other dioceses across the nation and world paying attention? Did you think it was only a problem La La Land? Did you not see it happening in your own diocese? Or did you see it and think there's no way it will come out in your diocese? Just keep shifting priests around and hiding it in the name of the sanctity of the confessional?
There needs to be a Church-wide program in place. We know this is not exclusively an American problem. In my heart I believe there was a reason Pope Francis was selected to lead us at this time.
I explain to non-Catholics that the Church is like an aircraft carrier going at full speed. Changing direction takes a lot of time and effort. It is necessary, and the laity needs to continue to demand it, but changing behaviors and mentality of the "old school" is still going to take more time. Unfortunately.


The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Amgen v Sandoz provides a measure of clarity for innovator companies and biosimilar makers eyeing patent litigation.
While the Supreme Court of the US held in June that initiating the pre-litigation information exchanges set out in the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) – colloquially referred to as the "patent dance" – cannot be enforced under federal law, the Federal Circuit's decision goes a step further. It holds that initiation of the exchanges cannot be enforced under state law, either. As a result, innovators seeking to compel disclosures from biosimilar makers have no recourse other than to sue for infringement. For a number of reasons, however, the decision might not prove as impactful in the long run as it may seem.


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Vic-sur-Aisne è un comune francese di 1.770 abitanti situato nel dipartimento dell'Aisne della regione dell'Alta Francia.

Società

Evoluzione demografica

Storia

Antichità
Solo due vestigia testimoniano l'esistenza di Vic-sur-Aisne all'epoca romana:
 La via romana (ovvero chaussée Brunehault), che si estende per alcuni chilometri lungo l'Aisne dall'ingresso al villaggio in direzione di Soissons. A nord, la strada dipartimentale n. 2 coincide con la strada in direzione di Noyon.
 La pietra miliare, visibile nella corte del castello, davanti all'ingresso del dongione. Si tratta di una colonna alta circa 1,60 m, che porta l'iscrizione:

                      IMP.CAES.                    Sotto l'Imperatore Cesare,
                      M.AVRELIO.AN                 Marco Aurelio Antonino,
                      TONINO.PIO.AVG.              Pio, Augusto,
                      BRITANNICO.MAX.              Grande Vincitore dei Bretoni,
                      TRIB.POT.XIIII.IMP.          rivestito 14 volte della potenza tribunizia,
                      II.COS.IIII.P.P.PRO          acclamato due volte Imperatore, quattro volte Console,
                      COS.AB.AVG SUES.             padre della patria e Proconsole, da Augusta Suessionum (Soissons),
                      LEVG.VII                     il settimo miglio.

Una terza vestigia era ancora visibile parzialmente, unicamente durante i giorni più secchi dell'anno, fino alla costruzione della chiusa e dello sbarramento attiguo: i resti di piloni di un ponte che scavalca l'l'Aisne a livello del suddetto sbarramento.

Questi tre elementi confermano il tracciato antico di una via romana importante che collegava Durocortorum (Reims) a Rotomagus (Rouen) da una parte, e Samarobriva (Amiens) dall'altra parte, passando per i luoghi di Augusta Suessionum e di Vicus.

Medioevo
Dopo la caduta di Siagrio di fronte a Clodoveo (486), e con lui dell'ultimo territorio ancora ufficialmente Romano in Occidente, la borgata non fece più parlare di sé per circa tre secoli.
Un riferimento al territorio di Vic appare da un atto datato dall'814, secondo il quale Berta, figlia di Carlomagno, faceva dono, alla morte di quest'ultimo, di queste terre al monastero di San Medardo di Soissons.
Nell'889, di fronte all'avanzata dei Vichinghi, che risalivano l'Oise fino a Choisy e Noyon, Oddone, conte di Parigi, al quale toccava proteggere San Medardo e le sue dipendenze, intraprese la costruzione d'un primo castello sul promontorio di Vic. Le fortificazioni e la sua guarnigione ebbero il proprio ruolo. Mai i Normanni risalirono l'Aisne.
Nel corso dei secoli X e XI, il castello fu scenario delle lotte che opponevano i Signori di Coucy, i monaci di San Medardo e i Re di Francia, passando più volte dall'uno all'altro. I monaci finirono di porre il dominio di Vic sotto la protezione dei signori di Pierrefonds, che vi tennero una guarnigione permanente fino alla fine del XIII secolo.
Il borgo divenne a quest'epoca sede d'una castellania, dipendente da Pierrefonds, poi viscontea, vassalla dei conti di Soissons.

Periodo rinascimentale

Francesco I, poi Enrico II, approfittando dei loro frequenti soggiorni al castello di Villers-Cotterêts, fecero qualche deviazione per la castellania di Vic-sur-Aisne.
Con una lettera datata nel mese di maggio 1536, Francesco I accordò à Vic l'organizzazione di due fiere commerciali per anno, una in data 9 giugno e una il 21 settembre; così come l'organizzazione d'un mercato settimanale di lunedì. Enrico II spostò nel 1581 il mercato settimanale al venerdì; poi, con lettere patenti datate 1602, Enrico IV lo spostò al mercoledì.

Quest'epoca è sinonimo di prosperità. L'alleanza delle estese aree cerealicole intorno, del fiume, del borgo e del porto fecero di Vic il solaio di grano della regione. Soissons e Compiègne, Villers e Noyon si disputavano le riserve dei magazzini di Vic. Gli stessi monaci poterono permettersi il lusso di stabilire il prezzo del grano.

I traghetti di Vic e di Fontenoy (dipendenti dalla castellania di Vic) erano i soli punti di passaggio sull' l'Aisne tra Soissons e Choisy, il che permetteva al territorio di ricevere dei diritti di pedaggio.

La prima guerra di religione (aprile 1562 - marzo 1563) non afflissero la regione, nonostante la prossimità immediata di Noyon e di Calvino, nativo di questa città. Il 27 settembre 1567, le voci estive di une attacco imminente degli Ugonotti si rivelarono fondate. Soissons rese le armi in giornata, Vic cadde qualche giorno dopo. La linea del fronte si stabilì tra Vic e Attichy. Il castello passò poi a turno di ruolo sotto il controllo della Lega, poi sotto quello degli ugonotti. I combattimenti cessarono nel 1597. Le truppe reali occuparono la piazza.

Toccò a un protestante, Jean Hotman, assumersi la missione di raccogliere i fondi e coordinare i lavori di ricostruzione del castello di Vic-sur-Aisne, saccheggiato durante anni di guerre. I lavori ebbero inizio nel 1599, e diedero lavoro a tutti gli artigiani della regione. Le carpenterie furono concepite a Compiègne, le ardesie delle coperture a Soissons, le parti in ferro battuto furono opera di artigiani di Cœuvres, vetrerie e opere in legno dai villaggi sparsi delle foreste di Retz, Compiègne e Laigue; fino al gesso, che fu trasportato dai sobborghi parigini. Quanto alle cave di pietre angolari della valle dell'Aisne, esse furono evidentemente utilizzate.
Un'epidemia di peste nel corso dell'anno 1625 rallentò un po' l'avanzamento dell'opera. Alla morte di Hotman, nel 1636, il cardinale Mazarino ottenne dal re il potere di proseguire i lavori.
Dopo la morte di Mazarino, nel 1661, l'abbazia di San Medardo di Soissons e le sue dipendenze (fra le quali Vic-sur-Aisne) furono legate alla Casa Savoia. A partire dal 1674, i lavori si ristrutturazione si estesero alle fattorie e alle chiese vicine.

L'abate di Pomponne, già noto a Vic per avervi fondato la 1ª compagnia di arcieri nel 1666, decise di scambiare l'abbazia di Saint-Maixent vicino a Poitiers contro quella di Sam Medardo.
Egli finanziò e diresse i lavori dei ponti Notre-Dame e della Tournelle, scavalcando le strade d'Osier a nord e a sud del castello. Par motivi di salute pubblica, egli ordinò la pavimentazione delle vie principali. Fu anche lui all'origine della costruzione del municipio, distrutto poi con i bombardamenti del maggio 1918. E infine, l'istigatore della ricostruzione del grande padiglione e delle scuderie poste all'ingresso del castello, così come la realizzazione dei giardini sulla terrazza con orto, secondo i gusti dell'epoca.

Rivoluzione e Impero
Durante la rivoluzione, l'insieme dei beni dell'abbazia di San Medardo fu messa in vendita a profitto della nazione.
Riguardo al castello di Vic, maître Bricongne, notaio a Soissons, formulò l'offerta per un valore di  lire per conto di Jean-Baptiste Paul Antoine Clouet.
Suo figlio Anne Louis, generale e barone dell'Impero, ufficiale della Legion d'onore per decreto imperiale, si legò d'amicizia con Antoine de Reiset, membro della nobiltà alsaziana. De Reiset sposò Amélie Clouet, e prese possesso del castello di Vic nel 1805.
Anne Louis Clouet fu sindaco di Vic per dieci anni, prima di ritirarsi a Parigi, ove morì il 18 maggio 1816.

Restaurazione e Secondo Impero
Le ritorno dei Borboni al potere vide egualmente il ritorno d'un ponte gettato sull'l'Aisne, il primo dall'antichità. Carlo X approvò con patente regale la concessione di diritti di passaggio al signor Bayard de la Vingtrie sul ponte ch'egli si proponeva di costruire, il 6 dicembre 1829.
L'opera si presentava sotto forma di ponte sospeso a senso unico, unendo pietra da taglio e metallo.

Sono esentati dal pedaggio i rappresentanti dell'autorità, i militari, gli ingegneri e i costruttori dei Ponts et Chaussées, i funzionari di navigazione, gli agenti delle tasse.
Divenendo insufficiente per il traffico locale e dando segni di debolezza, la concessione fu rescissa e il ponte distrutto e sostituito da un'opera interamente metallica a doppio senso, inaugurata nel 1898. Il passaggio su quest'ultima divenne gratuito.
Nel corso della guerra del 1870, le truppe prussiane ne fecero una tappa nella regione, preferendo proseguire la loro marcia in direzione di Parigi. I combattimenti ebbero luogo più a nord, sul celebre chemin des Dames.

Prima guerra mondiale

Il castello di Vic, situato sulla linea del front, fu dichiarato « ambulanza » dal mese d'agosto 1914. Esso accolse i feriti dei differenti campi impegnati nel conflitto. Da settembre, le truppe tedesche presero possesso di un borgo. Le barone de Bunha, colonnello di un reggimento di Ussari, requisì il castello. L'occupazione non durò che qualche settimana prima del ritorno delle truppe alleate. Gli stati maggiori alleati si successero durante quattro anni: i generali Saës, Guillemin,  Mac-Mahon, Lucette,  Ségonne, Trouchaud, Beyraud-Reynaud, Hollandin, Franchet-d'Esperey…

Nel maggio 1918, la città fu evacuata e subì i bombardamenti delle truppe nemiche. Più del 75 % delle abitazioni e opere di servizio furono distrutti, fra cui il ponte e il municipio. Nello stesso mese, le forze alleate, Francesi, Belghe e Britanniche in testa, se raggrupparono su Vic. Fu in questo momento che iniziarono i saccheggi del castello. L'insieme delle cantine contenenti champagne, cognac, vini borgogna e bordeaux, come console, guéridon e statuette in marmo, porcellane di Cine, delle Indie e del Giappone, opere e manoscritti russi, furono vuotate dei loro tesori. Gran parte del mobilio fu trasferito nel palazzo imperiale di Compiègne nel periodo tra le due guerre.

In totale, l'occupazione del castello da parte delle truppe alleate causò più danni dei bombardamenti nemici.  franchi oltre ai danni per i primi, contro  franchi per i secondi.

Una necropoli militare fu creata alla fine del conflitto, ai margini della strada che porta a Carlepont.
Essa raggruppa i corpi di circa  soldati morti nei combattimenti avvenuti all'intorno.

I rifugi erano piuttosto rozzi.

Seconda guerra mondiale

Il ponte ricostruito da meno di 20 anni fu nuovamente distrutto nel 1940, nel corso della campagna di Francia. La regione di Vic fu una delle prime a veder apparire un movimento di resistenza, concentrato tra Soissons e Compiègne.
I resistenti di Vic, Montigny, Courtieux, Bitry e Saint-Pierre si raggrupparono in una medesima organizzazione di resistenza e parteciparono attivamente a facilitare la liberazione della regione da parte delle truppe canadesi francofone nel settembre 1944.
La denominazione F.F.I. (Forces françaises de l'intérieur) della regione era secteur 138.

Al termine della guerra, i lavori di ricostruzione iniziarono a pieno ritmo.
Vic riprese il suo statuto di capoluogo di cantone. Videro la luce a quell'epoca la Posta, la Coop (spezieria), due panetterie, una macelleria, due cokerie, un negozio di chincaglieria, quattro bar-tabaccheria, due parrucchieri, tre banche, una libreria.

Note

Altri progetti

Comuni dell'Aisne

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11.1 Specialization and Symmetry
Despite the fascinating possibilities suggested above, a compact multicellular condition will probably develop on many worlds with highly organized life.* This is primarily because multicellularity permits specialization.
Specialization permits a division of labor in the primitive cell colony. Some cells become expert at, say, moving the body around. Others, free to ignore motion, may perfect their skill at digesting foodstuffs. The division of labor allows cells to do what each does best, and the aggregate efficiency is vastly increased.
It is the business of life to accumulate information and complexity. The specialized, highly differentiated organism is the bearer of far more information than a more homogeneous or generalized entity. The specialist metazoan has greater complexity.
This is not to say that complexity per se necessarily has survival value. But solutions to complicated environmental crises may require complicated solutions. As Carl Sagan observes, a solution involving many molecules will frequently be qualitatively superior to one which involves only a few.20 There does seem to exist a general evolutionary trend towards increased information storage, greater complexity, and higher levels of biological specialization.
By "specialization" we usually mean "the utilization of specific structures which perform given functions within the body." These structures are called organs.
Organs, while specialized in function, need not be specialized in structure. It is entirely possible that extraterrestrial lifeforms might have what is often referred to as "distributed organs." Instead of neat packages of similar cells, distributed organs would be scattered throughout the body. There are precedents for this on our own world.
For instance, insects inhale oxygen like other animals and yet they have no lungs. Unlike the localized organs found in humans, mammals and other animals, the insect "lung" permeates the entire body. The insectile structure is crisscrossed, like a piece of Swiss cheese, with a network of tracheal tubules and microscopic holes. Air reaches the interior cells only by diffusion. The insects' "lung" is a distributed, nonlocalized "organ."
Peter Ritner has suggested that a creature's brain might be of a distributed nature.1550 We can imagine an enormous blob of alien protoplasm suffused with more or less generalized nervous tissue. The organism's brain and body, like the breathing apparatus of the insect, would be coextensive.
The number of organs of each type is highly variable. The squid, for instance, has two kinds of hearts -- one for arterial blood and one for the venous. Many terrestrial creatures have two or more eyes, multiple anuses and stomachs, pairs of arms and legs, and so forth.
Sometimes, organs combine several functions at once -- such as the human mouth. There is no reason to believe that ETs will have exactly the same combinations as us.
They may have separate organs for eating, drinking, breathing and speaking. The dolphin, for example, eats through its mouth, breathes through its blowhole, and "speaks" through its "ears." The land snail's lung opens onto a passageway quite distinct from its food canal, and sea cucumbers breathe through their rectums. (This is called "anal respiration.") Brachiopods can only vomit their solid and liquid wastes, because they have a "blind intestine," a kind of alimentary cul-de-sac.
Then there is the ant lion, which is incapable of voiding any excrement at all. This is because all digestion occurs outside of its body, by the powerful saliva it injects into its victims. After the prey's innards have turned to soup, the ant lion sucks the victim's body clean of the predigested pap, leaving a dry husk behind. There are no wastes.
And the members of phylum Nematomorpha (long worms) have no mouths at all. All nutrients are "eaten" by direct absorption through the skin. Aliens can be no less strange in their organ arrangements.
There is also the possibility of multiple-brained extraterrestrial animals. After all, Brontosaurus and Diplodocus, two species of giant dinosaurs, carried an enlarged section of neural tissue in the hip region -- larger than the brain itself! The volume of this "sacral enlargement" in Stegosaurus, another fossil animal of grand proportions, was perhaps twenty times larger than the brain in the cranial cavity in the head. Further, Homo sapiens (a species not yet extinct) tenders a curious "split brain." The left and right hemispheres are two coordinated organs with distinct functions and reactions to stimuli.502 Most vertebrate brains have a similar dual construction.
In addition to varying degrees of specialization and organ distribution, most extraterrestrial multicellular lifeforms will display some sort of symmetry. Symmetry refers to the basic geometrical layout of an organism, the way its various parts are positioned with respect to one another, its shape.
Probably the first to appear in evolution was radial symmetry. The radiolarians -- small, spherical lifeforms -- are ideal examples. The main body is distributed around a single point in a radiating fashion.
The cylinder shape is another form of radial symmetry, in which parts are arrayed around a line instead of a point. Many sponges and coelenterates display this pattern.
However, virtually all of the metazoans may be regarded as having bilateral symmetry. In this design, an imaginary line drawn from head to tail bisects the animal into two similar pieces. That is, the organism may be divided down the middle by a plane which results in two mirror-image halves. Humans are organized in this fashion, as are all mammals and most chordates. Bilaterality, if we can trust the fossil record of a single specimen planet, must have great selective value because it has been re-invented countless times in most phyla of the animal kingdom.
Of course, body symmetry reflects lifestyle. Primitive sedentary or attached animals are usually radial, a body configuration that permits exploration of the environment in all directions. Conversely, animals that must pursue their food more actively need a more mobile, streamlined shape. The bilateral cylinder is ideal for efficient unidirectional movement through viscous media such as water. And it is characteristic of the most successful of Earth's fauna, including all of the vertebrates and most of the invertebrates.
Based on the evidence of literally millions of terrestrial animal species, we conclude that highly-organized mobile aliens will most probably have bilateral symmetry if they have any physical form at all.
* Terrestrial organisms display remarkably little variation in the sizes of the individual cells, most falling within a single order of magnitude of scale. However, colder planets may spawn lifeforms with somewhat smaller cells than ours. This is because there is less thermal disruption at the molecular level at lower temperatures.63 But how small can cellular building blocks be? The 1000 Angstrom "pleuropneumonia-like organism," or PPLO (the smallest living thing on planet Earth capable of independent metabolic activity), is probably extremely close to the theoretical limit of roughly 400 Angstroms.1440,2395 An alien analogue to a human being, if constructed of cells this small, would weigh a mere fifty milligrams and would stand only five millimeters tall.
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Premature Burial
Posted on September 14, 2004 by Keith
After the runaway success of Fall of the House of Usher and Pit and the Pendulum, Corman was growing dissatisfied with his AIP contract. He had proven to be a profitable director, and now he was a critically acclaimed director as well. His two films had more or less single-handedly lifted the reputation of AIP out of the realm of the drive-in circuit and established them as a genuine studio that made genuine movies with genuine class. Corman's two Poe films also lifted the flagging reputation of horror, which since its heyday at Universal during the 1930s had sunk lower and lower until it was basically considered schlock, then almost replaced entirely by science-fiction and Communist paranoia films. Hammer's Horror of Dracula and Curse of Frankenstein had gone a long way to revitalizing the horror genre, but Corman's Poe films undoubtedly contributed a great deal to solidifying the resuscitation, at broad but especially in the United States where theater owners were proud to see that yep, we could make 'em just as good here as they could over there.
So while Corman was basically getting along with AIP head honchos Sam Arkoff and John Nicholson, he thought that maybe in light of his more or less revolutionizing the way he, the studio, and horror films were regarded in America, he might be entitled to a better contract. AIP politely disagreed with him, and so Corman took himself and his idea for the third Poe film elsewhere. Because Vincent Price was under contract to AIP, he couldn't cast Price in the lead role, and so he set about looking for a new actor to fulfill the spotlight in his production of The Premature Burial. Corman eventually came up with Ray Milland. Milland was blissfully ignorant of the fact that one day in the future AIP was going to graft his head to Rosie Grier, and so he agreed to take on the Poe-perfect role of a man obsessed with the belief that he will be buried alive, as was his cataleptic father. Because Richard Matheson was also under contract to AIP, Corman turned to screenwriters Charles Beaumont (7 Faces of Dr. Lao) and Ray Russell (X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes). The essence of the films, however, came with Corman. Like the previous two films, The Premature Burial would come steeped in the signature atmosphere of the Poe films: billowing fog tumbling across eerie landscapes, tormented souls, a psychedelically-tinted nightmare sequence, creepy old houses, brooding characters, and as is obvious from the title, a thing or two about being buried alive.
The day Corman was to begin principal photography, he was pleased to see Arkoff (or maybe Nicholson, or maybe both of them) show up on the set to wish him good luck despite the differences they'd had over Corman's new contract. Differences, hell! It turned out that AIP had just purchased the studio for which Roger Corman was making the picture, so it was going to be an AIP film after all. Granted it was too late to recast the lead, but Milland was still thought of as an Academy Award winning actor, and not as "the white guy from The Thing with Two Heads," so his casting in the lead was something to crow about, even if the part, like all other leads in the Poe films, was tailor-made for Vincent Price.
Milland plays Guy Carrell, an upstanding and intelligent member of the gentry who has a small quirk in the form of a near crippling fear of being buried alive. Now no one wants to be buried alive, except maybe show-off escape artists and people competing for fifty bucks and a burger on the latest reality show, but Guy's fear of being entombed while still among the living goes way beyond the usual healthy fear of having dirt piled on top of you. So obsessed is he with the concept that it threatens to ruin his newly minted marriage to Emily Gault, who is played by Hammer Studios veteran Hazel Court (The Curse of Frankenstein, and she would appear later in two more Corman AIP Poe films, The Raven and The Masque of the Red Death) — and if you know Hazel Court, then you don't want to derail anything involving her in your bedchamber. Guy shuns his wife and friends in favor of building the most elaborate tomb ever devised.
I'm not exactly certain what Guy's occupation is, but it must have something to do with being an architectural, engineering, and mechanical genius, because the failsafe tomb he constructs for himself is a marvel. If I set out to build my own premature-burial-proof tomb, it would probably end up looking like a couple of pieces of plywood nailed together with a hole cut in the back so I can crawl out if I should happen to find myself mistaken for a corpse. Buy Guy's tomb is utterly lavish. In fact, it's seems even nicer than his home. It comes stocked complete with a break-away coffin so that should one wake up and find oneself in such a pine box, one need only tap the side to have the whole thing spring open or fall to pieces. A variety of levers sound various alarms to let everyone know he's been mistakenly buried, just in case the half dozen or so escape hatches don't open. And should that happen and he has to wait for someone to her the bells, he can while away the hours reclining in plush overstuffed chairs, drinking brandy, and flipping through the tomb's selection of reading material. And should these ten thousand redundant escape plans all fail, he's also stocked the tomb with poison, so that when he's finished all his sausages and books, he can just kill himself rather than be bored. I've seen fewer failsafe devices on the nation's nuclear arsenal! Not that I've seen the nation's nuclear arsenal, but I can't imagine it's as well thought-out as Guy's crypt.
You'd think that would be the end of it, but various things keep happening to keep Guy preoccupied with being buried alive. Additionally, his wife and the local quack think that if he's ever going to make any progress in combating his phobia, he needs to, among other things, ditch the tomb. You'd think that since the tomb has brought him an unparalleled peace of mind, they'd just let it be. I mean, it is a nice crypt, after all, so why not keep it around? Even if he isn't buried alive, it'll be a swell place to just be buried regular and dead. This being a Corman Poe picture, it's no great leap to figure out that someone is plotting to use Guy's fear of premature burial to drive him mad and thus achieve some small sort of financial or property gain that hardly merits such a lavishly complex and psychologically difficult scheme. Some people would just whack him on the head with a candelabra and blame it on Colonel Mustard, but these people always have to construct intricate "drive them mad" intrigues that are as complicated as Guy's crypt.
Like the previous two Poe films, The Premature Burial has a tendency to get bogged down beneath the weight of its own exposition-heavy plot. Unlike the previous two films, however, it doesn't have Vincent Price on hand to liven up the material. Milland gives it the ol' college try, but he seems lost with this type of material despite his commitment to delivering a solid performance. Where as Price would have had no problem taking the script and making it work for him, Milland's portrayal comes across as excessively whiny at times and dreadfully dull at others. Still, at least Milland put effort into the role and manages a few strong scenes, which is more than could be said for the shameful display put on by Jason Robards when, some years later, he too found himself filling in for Vincent Price in a Poe film, that one being Gordon Hessler's Murders in the Rue Morgue.
If nothing else, The Premature Burial proves that it wasn't just fan bias toward Vincent Price that kept Milland and the movie from earning a more cherished spot. Price was more than a fan favorite: he was an integral ingredient in making the films successful. Without him, it wasn't just that "things just aren't same." His absence from the Poe films very nearly causes them to cease being Poe films. Exactly why Price is so indispensable to Corman's Poe pictures is a little difficult to explain, but if you see them, well then you just understand. Part of it, naturally, has to do with the fact that Price was a marvel at turning a bad script into a good movie, and while the script for The Premature Burial isn't bad per se, it is perhaps something much worse: dull.
Corman pours on the atmosphere – there is more fog here than in the previous two films combined, and believe me those films had a lot of fog in them – but Ray Milland simply doesn't have Price's knack for making you want to listen to him talk even during the slow spells. He never manages to invest the character with any sort of spark, and as such no real sympathy for him or his story ever develops in the viewer. It's a perfectly serviceable performance, and Milland has nothing to be ashamed of (unlike you, Jason Robards!), but, well — just watch the end, when Guy emerges from his inevitable getting buried alive scene and has thus gone completely bonkers and launches into a gleefully mad bout of revenge. Milland is OK, but you just can't help thinking how great the whole scene would have been if Price was given a chance to do it.
The rest of the cast performs with the usual competency one has come to expect by this point from both AIP and Hammer films, though some of the characters seem to be involved in subplots that never really go anywhere or get fully explained (why was Guy out there helping steal a corpse in the beginning of the film anyway?). Besides Hazel Court, who gets more of a chance to act here than she did in Curse of Frankenstein (and has one of the best scenes in the movie, during which she explains to Guy that he's already dead, and his obsession with being buried alive has, in a way, already buried him alive), familiar faces like Alan Napier (Alfred the butler from the old Batman television series) and Dick Miller (The Terror, Truck Turner, Gremlins, and about ten million other movies) are on hand to round out the cast with their solid character acting. Unfortunately, the script tends to let the performers down, and almost all the characters are either undeveloped, underdeveloped, or just plain unlikable.
Without Price around to liven things up, the weakness screams at you like one of those screaming skulls. You know the ones. The ones that scream. I don't know enough to know how closely the movie clings to the original 1844 story, but by all accounts, it sticks to the source material pretty tightly. Poe himself was possessed of a very similar fear of being buried alive, which is why it figures so frequently into his stories and thus so frequently into the Poe movies. Still, after seeing a buried alive plot in both of the previous films, one can't help but hope for something a little different the third time out. Instead, we get the "total package" buried alive movie, one in which interment of the living isn't just a part of the plot, but the entire plot. And speaking of plots, did I miss the part where they tell us exactly why shadowy characters are attempting to drive poor Guy insane? Plus, you'd think that after the guy has gone on and on about catalepsy for the whole movie, when he actually does lapse into a cataleptic state, they'd do more than just shrug and go, "Well, looks like he's dead. Let's get to burying'"
The lack of freshness combined with some gaping lack of explanations keep The Premature Burial situated firmly around or maybe, if I'm feeling good, slightly above the mediocre mark. Plus, it's just not scary. Even with the gnarled old trees and fog, there are never any chills, and certainly nothing on par with the rampaging sister Usher in House of Usher or any number of scenes in Pit and the Pendulum. As such, Premature Burial remained for a long time the ignored entry into Corman's cycle, more or less skipped over as people hastened to get from Pit and the Pendulum on to Tales of Terror, Masque of the Red Death and The Raven, when everything was back as it should be and Vincent Price was once again stalking across the screen in period costumes. Premature Burial feels like a misfire – not a dreadful misfire, or an entirely unwatchable one, but a misfire never the less. The pieces — Corman, Poe, Price, Matheson, and musical composer Les Baxter — clicked so perfectly in the first two films that it becomes obvious something is amiss in The Premature Burial. The film does have its moments — chief among them Milland's exquisitely enthusiastic tour of his "buried alive-proof tomb" — but the whole thing never fully gels. It was obvious that there just shouldn't be any tinkering with the formula, so AIP made sure everything was back in place for the fourth film, the anthology Tales of Terror.
Release Year: 1962 | Country: United States | Starring: Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney, Heather Angel, Alan Napier, John Dierkes, Dick Miller | Writer: Charles Beaumont and Ray Russell | Director: Roger Corman | Cinematographer: Floyd Crosby | Music: Ronald Stein and Les Baxter | Producer: Roger Corman


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Theses and Dissertations (2005-2017)
2005 UB Theses and Dissertations in the Proquest database
Bilingual access to interlingual homographs: An examination of effects of sentential context, word frequency, and proficiency
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Conklin, Kathryn Colleen
Support for the exhaustive activation of multiple meanings of interlingual homographs like coin (meaning money in English and corner in French) comes primarily from studies presenting homographs in isolation (e.g., Beauvillain & Grainger, 1987; Dijkstra & Van Heuven, 1998; De Groot et al., 2000). I investigated whether exhaustive activation occurs when interlingual homographs are presented in sentential contexts. My studies examine the influence of word frequency and sentence context, which have been shown to influence the activation of multiple meanings of lexically ambiguous words in monolingual studies (e.g., Tabossi, 1988; Duffy et al. 1988; Martin et al. 1999). I investigated the role of sentence context (Experiment 1), language of processing (Experiment 2), word frequency (Experiments 3-4), and proficiency (Experiments 3-4) on exhaustive activation of interlingual homographs. French-English bilinguals made lexical decisions to homograph translations (e.g., "corner" for coin ) or control words following sentences ending in interlingual homographs. Experiment 1 showed slower lexical decisions to homograph translations relative to control words following neutral sentences but not following sentences strongly supporting only one homograph meaning, when processing was in L2 English. Experiment 2 revealed slower lexical decisions to homograph translations relative to control words following sentences in a second language (L2), but not a first language (L1). In Experiments 3-4, lexical decisions to L2 homograph translations were slower following homographs having a high L1 frequency (e.g., French coin 129 occurrences in a million) than following homographs having a low L1 frequency (e.g., French four 10 occurrences in a million). These results show that lexical access is exhaustive, but that it is constrained by sentential context and influenced by L1 word frequency. Asymmetrical inhibition effects are hypothesized to be due to weaker representation of L2 words which permits more strongly represented L1 meanings to be activated more quickly and influence processing. These results parallel those in the monolingual literature and indicate that processing in L2 is subject to the same mechanisms as L1. These findings can be explained in terms of the Bilingual Interactive Activation+ Model (Dijkstra & Van Heuven, 2002) and the Context Sensitive Model (e.g., Martin et al. 1999).
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Q: No funciona el atributo required en el elemento select Tengo un formulario en mi proyecto laravel, en el cual quiero validar ciertos campos, el caso es que utilizo el atributo required de HTML5, la cosa es que solo me funciona en los elementos input en cambio en los select no funciona ni uno.. da igual si es un select normal o un select2.
Alguien sabría decirme si hay alguna incompatibilidad con Laravel o algo?
<select id="hola" name="hola" required>.
     <option value="" selected>
          Choose option
     </option>
     <option value="hello_world">
          Hello world!
     </option>
     <option value="goodbye_world">
          Goodbye world!
     </option>
</select>

En otros proyectos esto funciona perfectamente, pero no sé si con laravel hay otra manera, sin usar validator, ni JS Validate, ni nada, simplemente quiero usar el required de HTML5.
Aunque quite el selected sigue del option sigue haciendo lo mismo, en teoría al tener value="" al hacer submit debería saltar igual.

A: El problema que tienes es que siempre tiene un valor el select, me explico:
Si pones esto:
<select id="hola" name="hola" required>
     <option value="hello_world" selected>
          Hello world!
     </option>
     <option value="goodbye_world">
          Goodbye world!
     </option>
</select>

Tu has puesto que la primera opcion siempre este select y ademas, le añades un valor, si quieres que la primera opcion no cuente como required, le tienes que quitar el valor, y ademas como está puesta la primera no tienes que poner selected, porque ya va a salir por defecto. Ejemplo:
<select id="hola" name="hola" required>
     <option value="">
          Hello world!
     </option>
     <option value="goodbye_world">
          Goodbye world!
     </option>
</select>

Espero que te funcione

A: Para agregar a la respuesta de Alberto, la documentación dice:

Un elemento select con un atributo required y sin un atributo multiple, y cuyo size es "1", debe tener un elemento option hijo.
El primer elemento hijo option de un elemento select con un atributo required y sin un atributo multiple y cuyo size es "1", debe tener un atributo value vacío o no debe tener contenido de texto.

https://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/select.html

Esto se traduce en estas posibilidades de escribir un campo vacío:
<select required aria-required="true" id="hola" name="hola">
  <option value="">Choose</option>
  ...
</select>

Si quieres tener la opción vacía:
<select required aria-required="true" id="hola" name="hola">
  <option> </option>
  ...
</select>

También puedes usar un espacio en vez de

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On Whose Terms
UFO/ET DISCLOSURE ON WHOSE TERMS?
UFO/ET Disclosure on whose terms, our choice is clear. Will it be a Bilderberg orchestrated disclosure false flag alien invasion, using the secret space fleet to simulate an invasion with alien bodies displayed before the press as proof of alien contact? Will we allow the Bilderberg global mafia to do such a dangerous dishonest disclosure with the intent to scare people in order to get them to approve a one world government and dictatorship to fight the aliens? Or will our choice be an honest straight forward balanced approach on our terms, where it is shown that the universe is highly populated with many different types of extraterrestrials with many motives and agendas? Will we allow a truthful presentation that seeks to avoid interactions with less evolved extraterrestrials like the Greys, so as to interact and emulate more ethical evolved human extraterrestrial civilizations?
If we make the second choice, then we have to fight for the right to have it our way because Bilderberg is going to try to do whatever it takes to maintain their power, just as the regime in Syria is doing now to maintain its power over its people. Control over money and extraterrestrial contact is at the heart of Bilderberg global covert power. I fear that things are going to get a lot worse before they get better. I expect global civil war to slowly erupt into overt conflict as more and more people wake up as to who will determine humanities evolution on earth.
Bilderberg started this global civil war covertly over 60 years ago against the people of this planet. They did this when they suppressed ET knowledge and technology out of selfish self-interest that would have moved human evolution forward to a bright future as portrayed in the Star Trek series. I think the present covert war is soon to become an overt war, as people wake up to defend themselves against the Bilderberg globalist mafia and it's probable Grey extraterrestrial allies that seem to have been infiltrating our society from within as described by Dr. David Jacobs.
The whole point of my new book UFOs Exopolitics and the New World Disorder available on Amazon, is to raise the public discussion and debate up to the point where we and the public have the knowledge and the awareness to choose our own destiny in regards to extraterrestrial contact. This is why I am so passionate in promoting my book to the public. We have got to get this right; our human evolution on earth depends on it!
The following are some recent links to interviews relating to issues and implications relating to ongoing extraterrestrial contact. We need to get beyond wondering what happened at Roswell, what was that light in the sky, or did Eisenhower meet with aliens in 1954, to the issues and implications of extraterrestrial contact in both the past and present!
Rick Scouler interviews Ed Komarek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rh46R1xxBCs&fb_source=message
Ed Komarek interviews Clifford Stone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3p6MLTada8
Jeffrey Prichett interviews Ed Komarek
http://www.examiner.com/article/ed-komarek-on-his-new-book-ufos-exopolitics-and-the-new-world-disorder
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Anonymity Will Be the Next Victim of Internet Censorship
Eerke Boiten
December 24, 2013 Updated: December 24, 2013
The worrying developments in UK internet freedom over the last year make predictions for 2014 gloomy to say the least. But censorship now affects us all so we should be thinking about it. And it's not politically driven censorship we should be most afraid of.
This year has been characterised by tension between the UK government's use of terrorism laws and free speech and, more recently, by concern over the unavoidable over-blocking of content in the name of protection. Yet there are greater threats to our internet freedom than the heavy hand of the government.
Oversight versus interference
Both the government and internet service providers have abdicated responsibility for the quality control of the security filters being put in place in a bid to prevent children from accessing pornographic content at home.
ISPs such as BT and Sky have delegated the task of deciding what to block to third party companies. For accountability and oversight that is bad news but in terms of possible political interference it is actually good.
Why censorship?
There have been three main drivers for internet censorship. One is child abuse imagery, the banning of which is in line with the general population's views. Websites containing child porn can be taken down, for example through the Internet Watch Foundation, and, since November, search engines have returned warnings and reduced results when certain terms have been searched for. Although porn in general is not illegal, the ISPs' filters will have an impact on the blocking of child abuse by negatively affecting the distribution of borderline illegal material.
The second driver is combating extremism. It is still unclear how censorship will be applied here, but classification is highly problematic. No clear public mandate exists for this censorship, nor are links with legislation on issues such as hate speech or proscription of organisations, made explicit. In its filters, BT does not have an "extremism" category, although some content may fall within its "weapons and violence" or "hate" labels.
The final category is media organisations aiming to protect their copyright. The 2010 Digital Economy Act allows for ISPs to apply sanctions (such as bandwidth restriction and disconnection) to users who have downloaded copyrighted material. ISPs have also been forced to block file sharing websites, such as The Pirate Bay and BT includes the practice in its filtering. But file sharing isn't always illegal and even when it is, public opinion is divided about whether or not it is acceptable. The heavy-handed measures that can be taken show the impact of the commercial interests in this domain.
Mission creep
It's important to note that BT is filtering in 14 categories, even though David Cameron promised nothing broader than "porn" filters. The generous explanation for this is that the third party providers being used by ISPs already had a range of filtering options in place for parental controls or use in schools, for example filtering against high bandwidth activities like file sharing and media streaming already.
More worryingly though, it has been reported that the BT filters also restrict access to sites promoting the use of proxies. This is where the next battle over internet censorship will be fought. Restricting the technological means through which internet users can obscure their IP addresses and hide the content they are accessing from others is the next big target.
Again, the excuse may be that the third party providers already have this built into their products for good reasons. In the context of school web filters, for example, circumvention of filters needs to be prevented.
But it looks like these measures could well be broadened. The IWF and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre have been
asked to investigate child abuse imagery in the "Dark Web". The only predictable, and sensible, recommendation for reducing child porn to come out of this will be to restrict access to the Dark Web. And that has to be done by restricting a user's ability to disguise their activities.
Media companies and the TTIP
This by itself will not cause the UK government to restrict access to Tor, VPNs, or proxies in general. However, the media copyright lobby will want to make it happen because peer-to-peer networks, content indexed through torrent sites, possibly using some form of anonymous routing along the way, carry the majority of the "illegal" file sharing load.
Media companies stand to gain significant powers, possibly trumping national legislation, through trade agreements such as TTIP. Using these, they will want to close off all avenues of illegal file sharing, and they are unlikely to care about collateral damage to internet privacy. Thus, we have to worry about restrictions on the use of Tor anonymous routing, VPNs, proxies, and any other ways that allow us to be more anonymous and protected on the internet.
This prediction then brings together the two big internet freedom storylines of the last six months. The government's desire for quick internet censorship solutions will end up impeding our capacity to defend ourselves against overzealous surveillance from intelligence services and tech companies.
The Tor fightback
The good news is that Tor traffic has proved hard to detect and shut down. Many countries have tried and failed. Security companies claiming to have the required technology typically are only able to block older versions.
These days, Tor connections look like normal secure web traffic. Currently only China systematically and openly blocks Tor (with its Great Firewall) for long periods of time. They do this by blocking the eight "directory authorities" that form the entry point to Tor, in combination with Deep Packet Inspection. In response, the Tor project continually develops new camouflage methods, and also very promising tools for detecting internet interference. Russia and Japan have been reported to be considering blocking Tor. All is not lost, but we should be on our guard.
Eerke Boiten is a senior lecturer in the School of Computing at the University of Kent, and Director of the University's interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security Research. He receives funding from EPSRC for the CryptoForma Network of Excellence on Cryptography and Formal Methods.
Julio Hernandez-Castro does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations.
This article was originally published at The Conversation. Read the original article.
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
Digital Democracy Lets You Write Your Own Laws
By Gurchetan Grewal and Mark Ryan
The British Commission on Digital Democracy is considering "Parliament 2.0", a vision of the future in which citizens participate in online elections, electronic referendums, and richer relationships ...


> > bugs, by having timeouts everywhere. And that worked too.
> > pipe, and then the trap springs and the kernel oopses.
> > crtc commits are already refcounted that's easy to do.
> Or make the event a part of the atomic state?
would be a bit bigger.


Nose: Plums, grapes and figs. There's some sweet toffee and a bit of butterscotch candy. Light strawberry jam. There's some faint wood char and a hair of fudge. Dark chocolate, the real kind. True dark sweets.
Taste: Sweet malty cereal. Plums and strawberry jam. There's a good deal of sherry funk here too. Reminds me a good deal of the funk from a Signatory Mortlach I had a while back. It's oily and sweet though, very satisfying sherry overall.
Finish: Medium but entirely gentle. No ethanol but the funk intensifies and some raspberry preserve gets thrown in with all of the other fruit and fudge. A great dessert dram.
Overall: I like Signatory and I think they make generally impressive picks. This guy falls nearer the bottom of my list of Signatory's in terms of rating but there's nothing bad to be said. It's sweet and there's definitely sherry. It's fudgey and complex. It's squarely a cut above an average dram and therefore I give it a 6. With the new scale, this means that Dalmore 19yr Sherry Cask lives happily with other drams like Macallan 12, Scapa 16, Glengoyne 12 and Bruichladdich Waves from my archive. Thanks for reading!


Anniversaries are a reminder of the love you have for your spouse and the commitment you made to each other. When choosing the right gift, it's important to consider your spouse's interests. Your spouse might enjoy fly fishing, gardening, or eating at Taco Bell. A great gift can be an experience like a trip to a local river for a day of fishing, a purchase like a new trellis for a garden, or a gesture like a midday meal delivered to work. Gifts, experiences, and romantic gestures can all be perfect for your loved one as long as they are heartfelt.
Put your spin on traditional gold gifts. Each year has a traditional symbol and gemstone to help you choose an appropriate gift. Gold represents the first anniversary, but many new couples don't have the disposable income for expensive jewelry, so consider choosing small items such as earrings, cuff links or engraved pens. Even a new gold iPhone case can be a thoughtful gift if it will be meaningful for your spouse.
Find mementos that have special significance. Use your imagination. Perhaps you have an inside joke or a shared memory that means a lot to both of you. Find a memento that represents it, or create one by hand. Consider your first date, your proposal, your wedding, or other important milestones in your relationship. Give one small symbolic gift for each year you've been married based on your shared experiences. Seek out gifts that come from the places you were at or that symbolize those events.
Buy a bottle of the kind of wine served at your wedding.
Frame the tickets from a special date or event.
Bottle sand and shells from a trip to the beach.
Create a homemade gift. Small gifts that you took a lot of time making can mean more than an expensive piece of jewelry. Ask a friend to go to a paint and sip class, or better yet, take your spouse and gift each other your creations. Bake them a homemade dessert or make a flower arrangement by hand.
Personalize a gift online. Creating a gift doesn't necessarily mean painting, baking or building. In the 21st century, you can create a thoughtful gift with just a few clicks. Many shopping websites will let you customize gifts from pillows with your picture on them to cell phone covers engraved with your wedding date and everything in between.
Prepare a candlelight dinner. Taking the time and effort to plan a romantic dinner shows your spouse how important they are to you. Cook one of their favorite meals, dress up, and set the mood using candles and music. This is a great option if you have a tight budget but want to create a lasting memory.
Cook baked chicken or fish with vegetables. Both are easy to make, eat and clean up.
Make a homemade pizza with your spouse's favorite toppings.
Buy a light dessert such as cupcakes or ice cream and serve with fresh fruit.
Decorate with flowers and candles. A candlelight dinner or rose petal-filled bedroom might be cliche to some couples, but for others, this is a special gesture of love. Roses are also a romantic gesture, but consider giving a bouquet or arrangement along with another more personal gift and a handwritten card.
Use music to convey your feelings. Create a mixtape, Spotify playlist or other compilation of the songs that define your relationship. If you're feeling brave, record a video of yourself singing a song that is meaningful to you both and upload it to YouTube so your spouse can see and hear your ode to love for years to come.
Enjoy a couple's massage or other relaxing activity together. This may sound obvious, but when you are celebrating your love, it's important to kindle the flame of romance. In lieu of a traditional gift, a romantic afternoon at the spa can create new memories and convey your love. If a massage isn't for you or your partner, try going on a picnic or taking a stroll through a park.
Write them a letter. Express your love through words that will be kept and cherished forever. Share your favorite memories, what you love about them, and what your hopes are for your future together.
Visit a new place together. Instead of a gift, take your spouse to do something that they have always wanted to do. Go to a new restaurant, a winery in the next town, or to an art gallery. Chances are high that your spouse has dropped hints of places they want to go throughout the year. Check out your significant other's Facebook saves, Pinterest pins, and Amazon wish lists for ideas.
Buy them tickets for a special event. Take your significant other to an experience that is meaningful to them, even if it's not your favorite thing. Sporting events, concerts, plays and movies are a few events that you can enjoy together. Choose the event based on their interests and your price range.
Take a trip together. Trips are a great way to celebrate the love you share. For some couples, a trip planned in advance is the best way to relax and enjoy the moment, but for others, a surprise getaway will show just how much you care.
If it's a milestone anniversary, buy a traditional gift such as a watch or necklace to surprise your spouse with on the trip.
Create a bucket list for the year and start the first item while on the trip.
Write down the date of the anniversary or set a reminder in your phone so you don't forget.
Always include a card. Even in the digital age, people still cherish handwritten notes.
Avoid practical or household items unless they are really meaningful.
Stay in your budget. If you find something you love that is out of your budget, shop around in stores and online to find similar options.
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May your day be filled with touches of beauty, a little elegance, strength for hospitality, connection to traditions, a moment to slow down in the midst of celebration, and tall glasses of iced tea shared with family and friends.
And thank you, dear Patriots, for sacrificing your tea and your lives.
What a beautiful photo to represent the 4th of July. I love the fruit representing the colors. Great post….
Thank you, ladies, for your visits and comments. Great to meet you both and plan to visit your blogs as well.
And yes, Frivolitea, I think you spelled cranny correctly. And please plan to search out crannies regularly as I will be adding more and more each day.