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My Current Collection – January
by radiantdreamer January 29, 2010 in Anime Figures, Things I Find Interesting 62 comments	tags: aerith, ah my goddess, alice, Alter, Alvis Hamilton, aria, asuka, ballistics, belldandy, black lagoon, black rock shooter, burst angel, cloud, evangelion, fate stay night, final fantasy, gemini sunrise, good smile company, gothic devil girl, hardy daytona, human mage, K-ON!, Kannagi, Kotobukiya, Last Exile, lineage II, masamune shirow, miku hatsune, motorcycle, my collection, needa, nendoroid, pia carrot, queen's gate, raquel gothic, revy, rize, saber, sakura, shall, shana, shuraki, tifa, tony aka, vocaloid, yuffie, yuna
I'm sure most of you have come up against the problem of owning too many anime figures, that you're running out of room. My own personal solution is to rotate them, and keep some of them in storage. This keeps things fresh. You may recall a previous post on my collection, so let's see how things have changed since then.
International Saimoe League 2009! VOTE NOW!
by radiantdreamer May 11, 2009 in Anime & Video Games 0 comments	tags: Aisaka Taiga, Alice Carroll, Alstreim, C.C., Chiba Kirino, Chii, Evangeline McDowell, Fate Testarossa, Fujibayashi Ky?, Furude Hany?, Furude Rika, Furukawa Nagisa, Hakurei Reimu, haruhi, Hiiragi Kagami, Hiiragi Tsukasa, Hinamori Amu, Holo, Ibuki F?ko, Ichinose Kotomi, Illyasviel von Einzbern, Index Prohibitorum, K?zuki Kallen, Kamio Misuzu, Kasuga "?saka" Ayumu, Katagiri Y?hi, Katsura Hinagiku, Kawashima Ami, Kawasumi Mai, Kawazoe Tamaki, Kinomoto Sakura, Kirisame Marisa, konata, Konjiki no Yami, Kurata Sayuri, Kushieda Minori, Louise Vallière, Maria, mikuru, Minase Nayuki, Misaka Mikoto, Misaka Shiori, Mizunashi Akari, Nagato Yuki, Nagi, Patchouli Knowledge, Remilia Scarlet, Ry?g? Rena, Ry?gi Shiki, saber, Sakagami Tomoyo, Sanzen'in Nagi, Sawatari Makoto, Shameimaru Aya, shana, Shinku, suigintou, Suiseiseki, Sunohara Mei, T?saka Rin, Takamachi Nanoha, Tsukimiya Ayu, Vita, Yagami Hayate
Vote for your favorite moe! International Saimoe League 2009! Moe (?? ?, /mo.e/, pronounced "mo-eh" literally "budding", as with a plant) is a Japanese slang word originally referring to fetish or love for characters in video games or anime and manga. For example, ??????, meganekko-moe, "glasses-girl moe", describes a person who is attracted to fictional characters with eyeglasses. "Moe!" is also used within anime fandom as an interjection referring to a character the speaker considers to be a moekko. It is even used in some anime, such as Ouran High School Host Club, Lucky Star, Kaichou-wa Maid-sama!, K-ON, and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. There are various interpretations of what moe is today. While some argue that moe is a pure, protective feeling towards a character[1], popular use denotes moe as an adjective used to describe any features of a character that particularly "turn on" the person, sexually or otherwise.[2] The expanded use of the word has led to it being used to describe anything "hyper-cute" as well, such as the genre of anime-inspired music unique to Akihabara. Both the spellings moe and moé are used in English.[3] Some writers add an accent mark in an attempt to indicate that […]
Miku Hatsune in SC4?! Well, sort of…
by radiantdreamer August 07, 2008 in Anime & Video Games 20 comments	tags: alice in wonderland, auron, bandai, bruce lee, cammy, character creator, dead or alive, final fantasy, flame haze, hamburglar, kasumi, little red riding hood, miku hatsune, nakoruru, namco, no more heroes, phoenix wright, ronald mcdonald, sailor moon, sakura, samurai shodown, shana, sienna, Soul Calibur, street fighter, the last blade, travis touchdown, video games, vocaloid, yuki
The Create a Soul feature of Soul Calibur IV is pretty fully featured this time around. They've added a lot of detail to it in order to make clothes fit better, have more colored parts, and overall good revamp of the color tinting system so things don't go completely out of whack when tweaking colors. Several people on NeoGAF have already made some great recreations. I've posted my own recreations here, as well as a few of my favorites that I've seen on GAF, with minor modifications. Note that all details are color calibrated as accurately as possible, and with Japanese voices instead of English.


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Bloomberg's Trial Balloon Shows Why the Political Press Is Out of Touch
His base is other media executives. That's it.
In practical terms, there really isn't much point in discussing the impact Michael Bloomberg would have on the race for the Democratic Party's nomination. As Alternet's Josh Holland said, the former New York mayor has been on the edge of running for president for years. Let's save that energy for if and when he jumps in.
But I think it's worth discussing why the Washington press corps has been talking about Bloomberg and his potential affect on the Democratic field. Put another way: it's worth discussing how American elites view him relative to how normal people view him. Not surprisingly, the elites are seeing something normal people are not.
Bloomberg represents a mythical creature that's wholly the product of the press corps' imagination.
What are they seeing? A "centrist," I suppose. Bloomberg is a Democrat who used to be a Republican. The founder of Bloomberg LP is a billionaire who's fighting gun violence and wants government to take action on climate change. He's cozy with Wall Street and shared its interests but he has a reputation for solutions-oriented politics. Given that, Bloomberg "could cause a seismic disruption," according to the Times.
Should Mr. Bloomberg proceed with a campaign, it could cause a seismic disruption in the Democratic race. With his immense personal wealth, centrist views and close ties to the political establishment, he would present an instantaneous threat to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who has been struggling to raise money and is already defending his ideologically moderate base on multiple fronts.
This news broke Thursday. On Friday, the Times reported the results of a new poll finding that Democratic voters in key states want a "moderate" who is willing to "work with Republicans." The poll emerged just as the debate over Bloomberg was getting heated, giving some people ample reason for saying, "See, I told you so!"
OK what's going on? First, the press corps dislikes a stale narrative. Stale narratives are boring. Boredom is so painful that reporters will seek out ways of livening up the story. This is not necessarily a bad thing. What's bad is reporters being dishonest about this tendency, meaning they deny it. Fact is, it's November. The Democratic story has been stagnant for months. There are weeks to go before Iowa. The press corps has been jonesing for something new. Enter Bloomberg in the nick of time.
Second, Bloomberg represents a kind of mythical creature that's wholly the product of the press corps' imagination. This chimera just happens to see the world in exactly the same way as media executives do. (In Bloomberg's case, this makes sense. He's a media executive.) They don't like "socialism" but they don't like the Republican foray into fascism either. While the former prevents them from being as greedy as they want to be, the latter is bad for business. The great talent of the Times' David Brooks is telling these people they are right about everything while not appearing to be entirely in the tank for them. Now imagine if Brooks got to pick a Democratic nominee. You got it.
A "centrist" who sees the world in the same way as media executives do won't derail the gravy train.
Third, and related to the second, a "centrist" candidate who sees the world in the same way as media executives do is someone who won't derail the gravy train. To be sure, Trump has been good for CBS, as its former executive said, but for the most part, media companies would prefer that politics return to "normal." "Normal" is one party being just as bad or good as the other, and nothing really matters. This anti-moral worldview looks for a never-ending supply of partisan conflict that can be packaged and repackaged, sold and resold, to an audience festering with outrage. With Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, executives might risk being forced to adapt to a changed political landscape. But with someone like Bloomberg, they wouldn't have to.
As I said, the press corps is seeing something in Bloomberg that normal people are not. How do I know? Consider the claim, totally unfounded, that Bloomberg poses "an instantaneous threat" to Joe Biden. I can't believe that sentence was published. It overlooks why Biden remains a top three contender. As the former vice president to the first black president, he offers a conservative bet for African-American Democrats solely focused on victory. African-American Democrats are, moreover, the strongest base of power in the Democratic Party, which is another way of saying that whatever African-American Democrats tend to want African-American Democrats tend to get.
Do they want Bloomberg more than Biden? Please.
As if on cue, Axios reports this morning that Bloomberg was probably testing the waters—again. His own internal polling shows "big, perhaps insurmountable hurdles, particularly if Joe Biden stays in." Actual voters are interested in Biden and the other candidates already in the rise (some more than others). They are uninterested in a candidate whose real base of power is media executives out of touch with reality.
POLITICS IN PLAIN ENGLISH!
This is a civics program I co-host every month at New Haven's Institute Library. The next one is on Nov. 12 (Tuesday). Special guests include Frank Harris, columnist for the Hartford Courant and a professor of journalism at Southern Connecticut State University; and Batya Ungar-Sargon, opinion editor for The Forward in New York.
We're going to talk about a lot of things but especially religion, race and politics.
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When: Nov. 12 (Tuesday) at 7:30 p.m.
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For a laugh
I've been pretty flip about the extent to which Bloomberg has a built in constituency among cable pundits, but this clip of a roundtable staring blankly as Todd explains how Bloomberg could do well in the primary and general is something else. https://t.co/6emZOle8LR
— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) November 8, 2019

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Indonesia Executions: Country Not Yielding to Outside Pressure to Halt Executions of Convicted Drug Traffickers
By Staff Reporter Apr 27, 2015 01:25 PM EDT
The Indonesian government is not succumbing to political pressures when it comes to its policy of executing drug traffickers, Indonesia's attorney general's office said.
Amidst petitions from bilateral donors led by the Australian government, Indonesian President Joko Widodo refused to even take the calls from Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to discuss the fate of two Australian citizens found guilty of drug trafficking who are being prepared for execution this week, the BBC reported.
President Widodo, who is on his first leadership term, needs higher public approval ratings and had recently declared a "national emergency" regarding drug abuse.
The Indonesian leader also turned down a petition filed by the European Union in March.
According to the Jakarta Post, the executions of the nine which include the two Australian nationals, a Brazilian, a Nigerian, a Filipino and an Indonesian will proceed as planned, Indonesian Attorney General H. M. Prasetyo said.
Prasetyo told state-owned Anatara News Agency on Monday that all the governments of the convicted drug traffickers can approach the Indonesian government and launch an appeal, but no one can influence how they will uphold their sovereignty.
He noted that the accused would be notified two days before the day of execution. Those being prepared include the two Australian nationals who confessed to being part of the so-called Bali Nine group of Australians arrested back in 2005 attempting to bring 18.5 pounds of heroin out of the Indonesian resort island and back to Australia.
The others convicted for drug trafficking include a Brazilian claiming to be mentally ill; the four Nigerian men, a female migrant worker from the Philippines, and an Indonesian worker.
Indonesia's attorney general added that the executions were postponed last week because the country played host to the 60th Asia-Africa Conference held in Jakarta through Sunday.


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I checked in to The Golden Palace Hotel having had a restless night at Shampoo Villas. Aside from the runny bottom and the traffic noise first thing in the morning, I had been disturbed by the cleaning boy; who insisted on coming in and half-heartedly moving a brush over the floor and then asking for money for his hard work. I gave him 1 Rupee and told him that I wasn't happy – what with there being no electricity or water.
The policy that most budget hotels seem to have in India is that, if the room is empty or presumed empty, all amenities are switched off. I pointed out that brown smudge down the toilet to the boy. "No Water" I said and HE was dissappointed with 1 Rupee? Ha!
The manager wasn't in yet, to check me in, so I got comfortable in the room before he turned up a couple of hours later. His name was Ajit, or something like that, about five foot four and wearing a baseball cap that read 'Commando' with a little pistol symbol upon it.
As he checked me in he told me about a 'safari' he runs for his guests and that he had some photos he wanted me to see. I agreed to look at them tomorrow qith him.
At 3pm I headed over to the school for a chai with the boys. After which, one gave me a lift on his moped down to the entrance to the City Palace, where I intended to get a boat around the lake from the City Palace jetty. I was almost beginning to feel like a local.
I got up to the jetty and asked for a ticket for the Lake Picola Tour, with a stop-off at the deserted Palace of Jag Mandir. "Come back at 5 o'clock. Need at least five people." I was the only one there. The last tour had just ended and three Europeans were getting off of the boat.
"Mind if I come?" I had an hour to kill after all.
He, Carlos, was originally from Bournemouth, had moved to London and was now living in Geneva; that's where I assumed the girl 'Sylv' who was with him was from too; the other guy was from Tel Aviv, I didn't catch his name.
We strolled into the glorious dining hall of the City Palace Hotel; it was vast and had three enormous chandeliers slung from the ceiling. At the far side of the dining hall was an arched colonnade exposed on one side to a spectacular view across the lake. We sat at one of the tables next to the windows and admired the vista. The table was laid with proper teacups and napkins; quite a change for us all.
Carlos and Sylv ordered cream teas. I had a straight Darjeeling and Mr TelAviv – a juice. It was mightily expensive by Indian standards but boy did it feel good to have a proper cup of tea! The atmosphere was great – a sitar and drum duo played further along the colonnade where other guests also sat having afternoon tea. It was like a scene out of a Merchant Ivory film.
It was here that I got my DV camera out in public for the first time and captured as much of the moment as I could before the inevitable questions came. Yes, I was the proud owner of a JVC GR-DV1 – one of the first-ever consumer digital video camcorders available on the market. Sleek, silver and about the size of a paperback novel it could capture images in 'broadcast quality' resolution and fit discreetly into my bag. (A far cry from the clunky Hi8 and cumbersome VHS camcorders that previously ruled the analogue home-video market.) I had brought it along for the trip not knowing whether it would be able to cope with the humidity, which it was finding somewhat stifling.
I bid farewell to my brief friends and headed down to the lake to catch the boat which, I was surprised to find, was practically full of Indian women and children. It seated about twenty and there were at least fifteen of us altogether. We set out around the lake at a serene pace, enjoying the sights of Udaipur across the water, and then stopped at Jag Mandir to check out the Palace which had been almost untouched since its construction.
It was relatively small compared to other monuments in the city – but interesting all the same. Above us, monsoon clouds were gathering and the moment we stepped back ashore it started to rain. I nipped back to the hotl before the real downpour began.
After about an hour it let up and I went out to see if David had been stupid enough to traipse to the roof garden; he hadn't. The roof garden was far too soaked to eat at so I headed in to town, brolly in hand, to a restaurant called Shivram. They were showing Natural Born Killers a highly tedious Oliver Stone movie written by Quintin Tarrantino. I indulged in a pizza – which translated as stuff on top of a nan bread.
Back at the hotel I tuned into the BBC world Service, on my 10 band Matsui radio, and caught up on world affairs: William Hague becomes leader of the Conservative Party. Who? Where did he come from? The new grey man who won because no one else was suitable? All I know is that he looks like a young Neil Kinnock and has an equally annoying voice.


This is simply a "historical saving's place" for Shots of the Day from SGA Tuesdays.
Dennis Philips: Closest to the pin, Lakes #11 Par 3. Back-of-the-green pin placement; about 175 yds and two feet from the pin. I did not see the shot - but, it must have been a great-looking tee shot.
Buddy Murray: Third Shot on Lakes #10 Par 5. Buddy "ticked the tree" with his drive and was in the right-side short ruff after the drive. He hit a well-struck hybrid to the left fairway ruff, direction of the now-very-mature Oak that is a great "aiming tree" for Lakes #10 (I am so happy that the club replaced the original tree when it was "struck down" years ago... I am sure that I have photos of both the "gone" and the "current" aiming trees...). Anyway - Buddy was faced with an in-the-ruff-downhill lie 180 yds to the green (Lakes #10) with the pin in the upper-back level (greenside back bunkers are, of course, ALWAYS in-play on Lakes #10 when the pin is back). He hit another hybrid perfectly, stayed "on the green" a bit long and "two putted" for his well-earned par following his slightly-missed tee shot. A true "Shot of the Day".
Tom Yancey: Lakes #14 Par 4 and Lakes #12 Par 4 - Wow. I played with Tom on this day and he hit two terrific bunker shots. We started on the Lakes 14th hole and he pushed his opening drive slightly right - long - catching the last part of the right-side fairway bunkers. Having little chance to hit the green (so I thought) as he was located just short of the edge of the bunker, Tom hit a perfect shot onto the green 9.5 feet left of the pin. A terrific first-non-drive-shot of the day. Later, on the 12th Lakes, Tom duplicated a similar-situation shot from the left-side bunker. Again, just short of the edge of the bunker, he hit the green this time 11.25 feet from the pin. Two terrific golf shots.
Dave Shogren: Oaks #13 Par 3 - OK! I have finally gotten my handicap up to where I have a stroke on Par-3s. Today: The pin is 140 yards from the tee. I took my 145-yard club (Hogan Apex 5-iron, mid-70s version) and hit it 145 yards: Just past the back-pin onto the fringe. Left the pin in. Drained the putt. Net-1. Finally. Went well with my six double-bogies today. It seems that I will continue to get a stroke on par-3s.
Al Spicer. Al's last two holes were Lakes 16 and Lakes 17. Both holes were fine pars. On 16, his tee shot was just short of the green and he made a very nice approach shot and the resultant uphill par putt was in the middle of the cup. On Lakes 17, he pulled his drive slightly left into the rough and made a good recovery shot to the middle of the fairway 108 yards to the green - with a back pin facing him. He hit a perfect wedge 2' 5" from the cup and had an "easy" par putt to end the day with two solid pars.
Don Lynch. Lakes Par-4 8th. Don pushed his 3-wood drive just to the right of the right-side fairway trap - staying in-bounds. Did the tree bother Don? No! He hit a 5-iron under the tree(s) onto the green and two putted for his net-3. Later on, on the 10th hole Lakes he hit a nice drive and second shot to leave about 110-yards to the front-ish pin. Don's third shot hit the green - but, rolled across the green into the back trap with a downhill lie facing him. Did this bother Don? No! He ignored the downhill-in-the-trap situation, hit a sterling shot to 10-feet from the cup and drained the putt for another net-birdie. I could have selected his earlier play on Lakes 5 as shot(s) of the day..... Don's drive was just short of the creek with a downhill lie. Don hit a terrific iron to just short-left of the 5th green and proceeded to hit a wedge to 9 feet from the pin and one-putted for a net two. Don also had a net two on Lakes 6 and 7. A nice round, today!
Karol Rochelson. Oaks Par-4 7th. Karol hit his usual down-the-middle drive and followed that with a beautiful 140-yard shot to the green. The difficult on-a-mound pin was no problem for Karol: A two putt gave him a net eagle! Karol's partner for the day was Willis Hedgepeth and Willis' sterling par-4 was net birdie. Willis' drive was a little left and his second shot was over the fairway bunker AND over the greenside bunker resulting in a two-putt 4. I wish we were playing best-two-of-four this day.
Dave Shogren. Oaks Par-5 18th. Dave will not mention the other 17.75 holes; he played terribly today. On Oaks 18th, his final shot FINALLY produced some results. His drive was just OK, short of the right-hand fairway trap. Second shot had to be left-side and he did that, past the corner - just - with about 160 to the mid-level pin. As the shot is uphill, Dave hit a nice 170-yard iron shot to gimmee distance for a birdie/net eagle. Why can't he do this type of thing more often? Answer: His swing is not good enough.
Jerry Ettinger. Oaks Par-2 9th. Jerry is our first two-time Shot of the Day winner. Today, he played a wonderful bunker shot for an up-and-down net birdie on Oaks 9. The pin was far-right and Jerry was in the middle-back trap a LONG way from the pin. His sand wedge shot ended up three feet away from the cup and his putt was right in the middle.
Don Lynch. Lakes Par-5 4th. Don had a very nice drive down the left-center of the fairway past the 4th-fairway-mound. A slightly pushed second shot left a difficult over-the-trap third shot: Result? One foot short of making it over the trap to the green - and, the ball entered the trap as a fried-egg lie! Now, faced with a quite long bunker shot to the pin: Don hit it out of the trap stiff-to-the-pin! Net birdie. Well done. If Don's partner had played average today.... Oh, well, there are other SGA Tuesdays. A beautiful day, though!
John Wenhart. Oaks Par-5 18th. John placed his well-struck drive directly into the middle of the fairway just short of the right-side first set of fairway traps. After he slightly pushed his second shot, he was blocked from "around the corner" and placed his third shot perfectly 50 yards short of the front pin. His fourth shot went onto the green - and, into the hole for four; a net eagle! Well done.
Jim Hickman. Lakes Par-4 7th. Although a par-4, Lakes #7 plays, for many of us, as a par-5. Jim, playing from the Blue tee, hit a wonderful down-the-middle-of-the-fairway drive, leaving an uphill 178-yard second shot to a back pin. His hit-perfectly iron shot was just over the green and past the fringe in the rough. A perfectly-struck sandwedge just past the pin led to an "easy" one-putt par 4. A great par on a beautiful day.
Jim Hickman's Second Shot, Uphill 178 Yards - A "Shot of the Day"
Jerry Ettinger. Oaks Par-5 11th. Jerry was on the upward slope, in the rough on the right side of the fairway and just short of the trap past the creek. He hit a terrific 133-yard shot to the back fringe of the green, 14.5 feet from the back pin. He hit the middle of the cup for a net three.
Dean DeMasi. Hit a beautiful 143 yard shot across the pond to the Oaks #8 green - 12 feet 4 inches to the hole. Drained the putt for a net one.
Dave Mazo. 12th Hole Lakes. Dave pulled his drive left, ending up short of the first trap and slightly blocked by the left-side trees. 188 yards from the green. Dave hit a perfect draw shot that landed just ten yards short of the green, rolling to the middle of the green setting up a sure two putt (he did so!).
Ed Utley. Oaks 3rd Hole. Ed hit a beautiful tee shot just over the left bunker that rolled slightly downhill to six feet from the pin. Don Lynch was his partner and Don hit a wonderful second shot, over the bunker, to the green from the right-side area. Don drained his putt for a par/net two. Ed? He hit it right in the middle of the cup for a birdie/net one. I made a 35-footer for a birdie/net two. Ed's "one" wins shot of the day - but, our foursome had a fine hole!


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Roman Vishniac (, Roman Wischnjak; * 19. August 1897 in Pawlowsk bei Sankt Petersburg; † 22. Januar 1990 in New York) war ein US-amerikanischer Biologe, Fotograf und Pionier der Wissenschaftsfotografie. Besonders bekannt wurde er für seine Fotografien des jüdischen Lebens in Mittel- und Osteuropa vor dem Nationalsozialismus.

Leben
Vishniac wurde in Pawlowsk, nahe Sankt Petersburg als Sohn des wohlhabenden Schirmfabrikanten Solomon Wischnjak und seiner Frau Manja geboren und wuchs in Moskau auf. Schon als Kind interessierte er sich für Biologie. Zu seinem siebten Geburtstag schenkte seine Großmutter ihm ein Mikroskop, das er ausgiebig benutzte. Es gelang ihm, durch dieses Mikroskop Fotos zu machen. Unter anderem machte er Aufnahmen vom Muskel einer Küchenschabe in 150-facher Vergrößerung.
Ab 1914 studierte er in Moskau Biologie, wo er unter anderem dem Biologen Nikolai Koltzoff assistierte. Kurz darauf wurde er zur Armee eingezogen.

1918 lernte Vishniac Luta (Leah) Bagg kennen. Ihre Familie stammte aus Riga, im Juli 1920 kehrte sie ins nun unabhängig gewordene Lettland zurück. Vishniac desertierte und folgte Luta. Da das Paar sich verlobte, erhielt auch Vishniac einen lettischen Pass, der es ihm und Luta erlaubte, nach Berlin auszureisen. Wenige Jahre zuvor war bereits Vishniacs Familie nach Berlin ausgewandert, um dem Antisemitismus, der auch nach der russischen Revolution nicht abnahm, zu entgehen.

Kurz nach der Ankunft in Berlin heiratete Vishniac Luta Bagg. Das Paar bekam zwei Kinder, Wolf (1922–1973) und Mara (* 1926). Versuche, eine Existenz als Geschäftsmann aufzubauen, schlugen fehl. Danach widmete Vishniac sich nur noch seinen wissenschaftlichen Neigungen: der Mikroskopie und der Fotografie.

Mitte der 1930er Jahre verschlimmerte sich die Situation der Juden in Osteuropa beträchtlich. Das Berliner Büro des American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee bat Vishniac, die osteuropäischen Ghettos und Schtetlach aufzusuchen, um dort die Armut und das Elend bildlich festzuhalten. Von 1935 bis ca. 1939 reiste Vishniac häufig von Berlin nach Osteuropa, um die Kultur und das Leben der orthodoxen Juden zu dokumentieren.

Angesichts der zunehmenden Diskriminierung und Unterdrückung der Juden im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland bot die lettische Staatsbürgerschaft der Familie Vishniac zunächst noch einen gewissen Schutz. Nach der Reichspogromnacht am 9. November 1938 floh Luta jedoch mit den Kindern Wolf und Mara zu ihrer Schwester nach Schweden. Roman Vishniac folgte seinen Eltern nach Frankreich. Bald darauf wurde er in Paris verhaftet und interniert. Lettland war von der Sowjetunion annektiert worden und Vishniac wurde als staatenlos angesehen. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt war die Scheidung von Roman und Luta bereits beschlossene Sache. Sie wurde nur aufgeschoben, da man Komplikationen bei der Vergabe von Visa befürchtete. Luta Vishniac gelang es schließlich, für die ganze Familie Visa für die Vereinigten Staaten zu bekommen. Am Silvestertag 1940 kamen die Vishniacs mit der S.S. Siboney in New York an. An Bord dieses Schiffes waren unter anderem auch Antoine de Saint-Exupéry und Jean Renoir.

In den USA hatte Vishniac es zunächst sehr schwer, beruflich Fuß zu fassen. Er sprach zwar Deutsch, Russisch und Jiddisch, aber kein Englisch, was sich als sehr hinderlich bei der Arbeitssuche herausstellte. Schließlich gelang es ihm, einige Porträtaufträge zu bekommen, die Vishniac und seine Familie jedoch nur schlecht ernähren konnten. 1942 entstand eines der bekanntesten Porträts Vishniacs, das von Albert Einstein. Vishniac hatte sich unter dem Vorwand Zugang zu Einsteins Haus verschafft, Grüße gemeinsamer Freunde aus Europa überbringen zu wollen. Vishniac fotografierte Einstein in einem Augenblick, in dem dieser in Gedanken versunken war und ihm keine Beachtung schenkte. Dieses Bild sollte Einsteins Lieblingsporträt von sich werden.

1946 wurde Vishniac von Luta geschieden. Nur ein Jahr später heiratete er Edith Ernst, eine Freundin der Familie. Bald darauf gab er die Porträtfotografie völlig auf, um nur noch auf dem Gebiet der Mikrofotografie und der Biologie zu arbeiten.

Auch im Alter blieb Vishniac aktiv. 1957 wurde er Mitarbeiter der Forschung am Albert Einstein College of Medicine und 1961 wurde ihm der Titel Professor of biological Education verliehen. In seinem achten Lebensjahrzehnt wurde er zum Chevron Professor of Creativity am Pratt Institute ernannt.

Er unterrichtete Orientalische und Russische Kunst, Philosophie, Religion in der Wissenschaft (insbesondere jüdische Inhalte), Ökologie, Numismatik, Fotografie an der City University of New York, an der Case Western Reserve University und verschiedenen anderen Instituten.
In den sechziger Jahren entstanden mit Unterstützung der National Science Foundation eine Reihe von Lehrfilmen, u. a. über Zellbiologie, Embryologie, Evolution, Genetik, Ökologie, Botanik, die Welt der Tiere und die Welt der Mikroben, die auf Vishniacs farbigen Mikrofotografien basierten.

Er erhielt Ehrendoktorwürden von der Rhode Island School of Design, vom Columbia College of Art und vom California College of Art. 1984 wurde er als Ehrenmitglied in die American Academy of Arts and Letters aufgenommen.

Er starb am 22. Januar 1990 an Darmkrebs.

Werk

Fotografie in Osteuropa, 1935–1939
Vishniac wurde bekannt durch seine Fotos von jüdischen Ghettos und Schtetlach in Osteuropa. Das Berliner Büro des American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee wollte Gelder sammeln, um den von Armut betroffenen jüdischen Gemeinden zu helfen. Vishniacs Bilder sollten das Elend dokumentieren. Jedoch entwickelte Vishniac großes Eigeninteresse an dieser Arbeit. Noch Jahre, nachdem die Arbeit für das Komitee abgeschlossen war, reiste er nach Russland, Polen, Rumänien, in die Tschechoslowakei und Litauen.

Die Arbeit an seinen Fotografien konnte oft nur unter Schwierigkeiten erfolgen. In vielen Ländern war es Juden verboten, Kameras zu tragen, geschweige denn zu fotografieren. Deswegen gab Vishniac sich als Handelsvertreter aus und fotografierte grundsätzlich mit versteckter Kamera. Gelegentlich wurde er unter dem Verdacht der Spionage verhaftet.
Die Fotografien, die so entstanden, zeigen Menschen, meistens in kleinen Gruppen, wie sie ihrer alltäglichen Arbeit nachgehen, häufig religiöse Texte lesend, manchmal auch einfach nur dasitzend und teilnahmslos starrend. Kaum sieht man auf diesen Fotos den Anflug eines Lächelns.
Trotz der ungünstigen Bedingungen, unter denen diese Bilder entstanden, ohne zusätzliche Beleuchtung, außer gelegentlich einer Kerosinlampe, sind sie erstaunlich kontrastreich und haben eine verblüffend hohe Schärfentiefe.

Mehrere Bücher mit den Fotografien aus dieser Zeit wurden später in den Vereinigten Staaten veröffentlicht: Polish Jews, 1947, A Vanished World, 1983, To Give Them Light, 1993 und Children of a Vanished World, 1999.

Mikrofotografie und Biologie
Vishniac war ein unermüdlicher Arbeiter auf dem Gebiet der Mikrofotografie, insbesondere der Interferenz-Mikroskopie und des mikroskopischen Films. Er entwickelte Methoden, seine Objekte lebend zu fotografieren, im Gegensatz zu anderen Forschern, die lediglich tote Exemplare ablichteten. Er hatte beträchtliches Talent, die sich bewegenden Lebewesen auf dem Objektträger seines Mikroskops in exakt dem richtigen Moment zu fotografieren. Laut Philippe Halsman, seinerzeit Präsident der American Society of Magazine Photographers, war Vishniac ein "besonderes Genie" auf dem Gebiet der Mikrofotografie. Er beschränkte sich nicht auf bestimmte Forschungsgegenstände, sondern arbeitete mit vielen verschiedenen Exemplaren, z. B. Protozoen und Glühwürmchen. Seine Arbeit blieb in Forschungskreisen nicht unbemerkt. In drei aufeinanderfolgenden Jahren gewann er einen Preis der Biological Photographic Association in New York.

Eines der spektakulärsten Beispiele von Vishniacs besonderem Talent war eine Fotografie seiner Tochter, bei der das Facettenauge eines Glühwürmchens als Objektiv dient.
Als Biologe spezialisierte Vishniac sich auf mikroskopische Meereslebewesen, die Physiologie der Wimpertierchen, den Kreislauf einzelliger Pflanzen, Endokrinologie und Metamorphose. Jedoch beschäftigte er sich hauptsächlich mit seinen Forschungsgegenständen, um sie besser fotografieren zu können.

Weitere Fotografie
 Vishniacs Fotos von Insekten, die mit einer Kleinbild-Spiegelreflexkamera mit Zwischenringen gemacht wurden, sind bemerkenswert.

 In seiner Berliner Zeit machte er zahlreiche Fotos alltäglicher Szenen. Später, schon in den Vereinigten Staaten, entstanden berühmt gewordene Porträts, u. a. von Albert Einstein und Marc Chagall.

 Darüber hinaus ist Vishniac ein Pionier der Zeitraffertechnik, an der er bereits zwischen 1915 und 1918 arbeitete.

Ausstellungen (Auswahl)
 2014: Roman Vishniac:(re)discovered., Joods Historisch Museum in Amsterdam.
 2014: Roman Vishniac. De Berlin à New York, 1920–1975, Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme in Paris
 2013: Roman Vishniac Rediscovered, International Center of Photography in New York
 2005–2007: Roman Vishniac's Berlin, Jewish Museum Berlin, Goethe-Institut New York
 2001: Roman Vishniac Children of a Vanished World, Spertus Museum in Chicago
 1993: Man, Nature, and Science, 1930–1985, International Center of Photography in New York
 1971: The Concerns of Roman Vishniac, The Jewish Museum in New York
 1962: Through the Looking Glass, IBM Gallery in New York

Religion und Weltanschauung
Vishniac hatte stets starke Bindungen zum Judentum. Er wurde zum Zionisten und zum erbitterten Kämpfer gegen den Antisemitismus. Zahlreiche seiner Verwandten wurden in den Konzentrationslagern der Nationalsozialisten ermordet.
Er sah stets religiöse Aspekte in seiner Arbeit, wenn er auch kein strenggläubiger Anhänger des jüdischen Glaubens war. "Die Natur, Gott, oder wie auch immer man den Schöpfer des Universums nennen will, offenbart sich auf das deutlichste beim Blick durch das Mikroskop," sagte er einmal.

Bildbände
 Verschwundene Welt. Mit einem Vorwort von Elie Wiesel, Hanser Verlag, München und Wien 1983, ISBN 3-446-13841-2.
 Wo Menschen und Bücher lebten. Bilder aus der ostjüdischen Vergangenheit. Mit einem Vorwort von Elie Wiesel, Kindler Verlag, München 1993, ISBN 3-86150-083-3.

Weblinks

 Einige Fotografien aus A Vanished World in der Singer Gallery
 Dr. Vishniac and the Beauty of the Real aus Kodak International Review - No. 9, auf der Webpräsenz der Biologischen Fakultät der Universität von South Carolina (englisch)
 Informationen zu Vishniac bei Luminous-Lint (englisch)
 University of South Carolina Newsfilm Library Collection of Roman Vishniac's Scientific Imaging: 100 images (englisch)
 Roman Vishniac, 92, a Biologist And Photographer of Jews, Dies, Nachruf von Richard F. Shepard in der New York Times vom 23. Januar 1990 (englisch)
  in einem Interview mit Roman Vishniacs Enkel, auf jewishhamilton.org (englisch)
 Artikel von Alana Newhouse 29. März 2010 New York Times (englisch)
 Literatur von und über Roman Vishniac in der Bibliothek des Jüdischen Museums Berlin

Einzelnachweise

Biologe
Fotograf (Vereinigte Staaten)
Kunsthistoriker
Hochschullehrer (Yeshiva University)
Hochschullehrer (City University of New York)
Hochschullehrer (Pratt Institute)
Hochschullehrer (Case Western Reserve University)
Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Letters
Person (Zionismus)
Russischer Emigrant
Emigrant aus dem Deutschen Reich zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus
Russe
Lette
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1897
Gestorben 1990
Mann

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game crashed when trying to go to volvo dealer. ive been waiting for a daycab and flat top cascadia since the release of this game.
where is a volvo truck dealer in american truck ?
from where i can buy that truck ?
Works great for ATS1.5x. Could use some more detailed texture work. but it is a good job so far.
Its not for ETS2, you need to discover the Volvo dealer first, there 3 of them, one in San Fran, LA and Tucson !
This mod looks great… if it can work properly for me.
Went to Volvo dealer and customized this truck.
Then I go to buy it and it freezes. I removed any colliding mods that had anything to do with Volvo except the 670.
Repeat 6 times and the game freezes after customizing.
I can't get this mod to work unfortunately. I did download VNL 670 Volvo as well to see if that would fix the crashing issue when I open up the Volvo dealership but unfortunately it isn't working. 🙁 The truck looked so nice damn.


My name is Petter and I'm the Art Director at Lone Hero Studios. We are a three-people team from Sweden. This is our first dev journal and here we are going to share what we are working on and the progress we are making.
Anyway, today I want to introduce our new game!
The game is currently in development and we still don't have a name for it, but the project name is Warrior's Journey. This will definitely change though.
So what is Warrior's Journey? It's a single-player action-adventure game set in a world inspired by Japanese mythology. You will follow a warrior ('s journey, hint hint) through fights against imposing enemies with focus on one-on-one battles. We want to make a game that will show both the character's and the player's growth throughout the game and to visualize this in different ways.
Right now we are also slowly but steadily creating the fundamental building blocks, iterating on the art style and also making great progress building and polishing on the combat system (follow @Yoshida_Jiro for more of that). We will cover this in future dev journals so we can show you how the game changes as new things are added.
We know what game we want to make, but we don't know what we will find during the development. We know from experience that a lot of features can be based on happy accidents and discoveries throughout the course of making the game.
This fog effect, for example, was just something we were trying out for fun. We then put it in the game and really liked it.
We continued to work on it and combining it with gameplay and this is how it looks now.
We'll continue to post and share what we are doing on social media, so make sure to follow us at @loneherostudios on Twitter! In the next dev journal we will dig deeper into the art style, where we are now and what lies in the future.


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Thomas Jefferson replies to George Wythe's February 22 letter saying he will be able to help John Marshall in the negotiations with Caleb Lownes. Jefferson then references his own previous letter from February 28 and proposes additions to it in this current letter. Jefferson says that he is making plans to write a Parliamentary Manual for the legislative bodies of the US and hopefully have them function more efficiently. He needs help gathering all the information though and asks Wythe to answer his following questions saying that Wythe is the only person in America "whose information and judgment [he] has sufficient confidence in". Jefferson asks him detailed questions regarding how committees, the House, and the relationship between the House and the Senate will work along with how bills will move amongst them.
"Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 7 April 1800, pg 1." Image from the Library of Congress, The Thomas Jefferson Papers.
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Philadelphia Apr. 7. 1800.
Th: Jefferson to G. Wythe.
I received in due time your favor of Feb. 22. and shall with pleasure assist mr Marshall in the negotiation with mr Lowndes, whenever desired either by mr Marshall or our executive.
I wrote you a troublesome letter sometime ago, and now propose some additiments to it. it is with vast reluctance I do it, and would not do it, if books could furnish the information I want. but these are minutiae of practice, which are hardly to be met with in the books, and therefore can only be learned from practical men; and you know how destitute we are of such in Parliamentary reading at present. that science is so lost, & yet so important, that I am taking considerable pains, and shall pursue it through the ensuing summer to form a Parliamentary Manual, which I shall deposit with the Senate of the US. and may thence possibly get into the public possession. to this I shall not object, if I can be satisfied that what I shall prepare will be correct. on the contrary it may do good by presenting to the different legislative bodies a chaste Praxis to which they may by degrees conform their several inconsistent & embarrassing modes of proceeding. But there is but one person in America whose information & judgment I have sufficient confidence in, to be satisfied that what I may put together, would be rigorously correct: and he is so absorbed in other useful duties, more peculiarly his own, that I have no right to trouble him with helping me through mine. I can ask it only on the score of charity, for which we are all bound to find time. we shall probably rise the 1st. or 2d. week of May, after which I shall be at Monticello, where & everywhere it will give me the greatest pleasure to hear of the continuance of your health. may you enjoy it with many long years of life for the solace of your friends & service of your country. Adieu most affectionately.
In Committee.
The paper before a committee, whether select or of the whole, may be either such as originates with themselves, as a draught of an address, Resolutions or a bill referred to them. in every case the bill or other paper is first read by the clerk, & then by the chairmen by paragraphs. Scob. 49. pausing at the end of the paragraph, & putting questions for amending or striking out the paragraph, if proposed, & then on the paragraph as amended, or unamended: except that in the case of a bill, no question is put on the paragraph; because all parts of the bill having been adopted by the house, stand of course, unless altered or struck out by a vote.
When through the whole a final question is put whether the Address, or the Resolutions, or the Amendments to the bill shall be reported to the house? if decided negatively, what they have done falls; but in the case of a bill referred to them, the bill itself remains, & is to be reported without amendments.
Queries on the above passage.
It is believed to be certain that the chairman, in every case, reads the bill or other paper by paragraphs, and puts questions on amendments, or for striking out the paragraph, if proposed: but in what cases does he put a question whether the paragraph is agreed to either as amended, or where no amendment has been made?
And in what cases does he put a final question on the whole?
What is the form of that question? to wit is it whether they agree to the address, resolutions, or bill in the whole, even where they have already past a vote of agreement on all it's parts? or is it only whether it shall be reported to the house?
In the House.
When the report of a paper originating with a committee is taken up by the house, they proceed exactly as in the committee, except that after the paragraphs have, on distinct questions, been agreed to seriatim, no question needs be put on the whole report.
On taking up a bill reported with amendments, the amendments only are read by the clerk. the Speaker then reads the first, & puts it to the question & so on till the whole are adopted or rejected, before any other amendment be admitted, except it be an amendment to an amendment. then the Speaker reads the bill itself by paragraphs; as he does also if it has been reported without amendments, or if, on the 2d. reading, it has been taken up in the house without commitment; putting no questions but on amendments proposed. and when through the whole he puts the question whether the bill shall be read a 3d. time?
Much doubt is entertained on this whole passage.
1. After the amendments of a committee to a bill have been agreed to in the house, does the Speaker then read the whole bill over from beginning to end by paragraphs?
2. does he put a question on each paragraph as amended, or if unamended?
3. If the bill has been reported without amendments, the same questions arise.
4. If the bill be not committed on the 2d. reading, but is taken up & considered in the house, the same questions arise.
5. On a report of an Address or Resolutions framed in a committee when taken up in the house the same questions arise.
Equivalent questions. Where questions are perfectly equivalent so that the negative of the one amounts to the affirmative of the other, & leaves no other alternative, the decision of the one concludes necessarily the other. thus the negative of striking out amounts to the affirmative of agreeing, & therefore to put a question on agreeing, after that on striking out, would be to put the same question in effect twice over; which is contrary to rule.
But in questions on amendments between the two houses, a motion to recede being negatived, does not amount to a positive vote to insist, because there is another alternative viz. to adhere. therefore another question is necessary.
Additional queries.
On a disagreement between the houses on amendments to a bill and a conference agreed on, can the conference propose, or authorize either house to propose an amendment in a new part of the bill, having no coherence with the amendment on which they have disagreed?
When a Previous Question has been moved & seconded, may the Main Qu. be amended before putting the Prev. Qu? we know it cannot afterwards; and that it is a vexata questio whether it may before: what is mr Wythe's opinion on it?
When a member calls for the execution of an order of the house, as for clearing galleries &c. it must be carried into execution by the Speaker without putting any question on it. but when an order of the day is called for, I believe a question is but 'Whether the house will now proceed to whatever the order of the day is? is it so?
It is a general rule that the question first moves & seconded shall be first put. But this rule gives way to what may be called Privileged questions; & these privileged questions are of different grades among themselves.
I. A motion to adjourn simply takes place of all others, for otherwise the house might be kept sitting against it's will, & indefinitely.
II. Orders of the day take place of all other questions, except for adjournment.
III. After these there are other privileged questions which all require considerable explanation.
It is proper that every Parliamentary assembly should have certain forms of question, [is?] adopted, as to enable them fitlyto dispose of every proposition which can be made to them. […] 1. the Previous Question. 2. To Postpone indefinitely. 3. To […?] a question to a definite day. 4. […] on the table. 5. To commit. 6. To amend. The proper occasion for each of these questions should be understood.
1. Then a proposition is moved, which it is useless or inexpedient now to [eagness?] or discuss, the Previous question has been introduced for suppressing for that [tione?] . The motion, it's discussion.
2. But as the Prev. Qu. gets rid. of it only for that day, it may be postponed indefinitely, after which it cannot be read again during that session.
3. When a motion is made which it will be proper to act on, but information is wanted, or something more pressing claims the meant time, it is adjourned to such day within the session as will answer the views of the house. Sometimes, however, this has been irregularly used by adjourning it to a day beyond the session to get rid of it altogether, as would be done by an indefinite postponement.
4. When the house has something else which claims its immediate attention, but would be willing to reserve in their power to take up a proposition whenever it shall suit them, thereafter […]. It may then be called for at any time.
5. If they are ready to take it up at present, but think it […] more amendment & digestion than the formalities of the […] will conveniently admit, they refer it to a Committee.
6. But if the proposition be well digested, & may need but few & simple amendments, & especially if these be of leading consequence, they then proceed to consider & amend it themselves.
Though a question therefore has been first moved & amended, yet it […] to be first […?] to wit, 1. The Previous Question
2. to postpone it 3. to adjourn it to a definite day. 4. To lay it on the table. 5. To commit it. 6. To amend it.
But it may be asked: Have these questions any privilege among themselves? Or are they so equal that the common principle of 'the first moved first put.' Takes place among them? This principle prevails among them in every instance, except that when a proposition has been moved, and a motion […] to amend it, the whole subject may be postponed, adjourned, laid on the table, or committed, to that amendment gives way to the other privileged questions […] if it […] if commitment does not give way to postponement, despite adjournment or leaving on the table, or are there any other interpretations?
So far respects the case of two or more of the privileged questions contending for privileges between themselves, when both were moved on the original or Main Question, but suppose one of them to be moved, not on the original previous question, but on the secondary one. […] suppose a motion for the P. Qu. can a motion be made to postpone, adjourn, or lay that on the table? Or suppose a motion to postpone, can we move to adjourn that motion question, or lay it on the table, or […] it? Etc. etc. this is not allowed. Because it would […] as questions too much to allow them to be piled one on another several stones high: & the same result may be had in a more simple way by deciding the secondary question itself negatively, but the useful character of amendment gives to that, & to that alone, a privilege of attaching itself to a secondary & privileged question, in the case of an amendment. That is there may be an amendment to an amendment. [qu. if there can be an amendment to a postponement, definite adjournment, or commitment?] but this is not admitted in another degree, to wit to amend an amendment to own amendment of a Main question. This would lead to too much endorsement. The line must be drawn somewhere, & usage has drawn it after the amendment to the amendment. The same result may be sought by deciding against the amendment to the amendment, & then moving it again as it was wished to be amended. In this form it becomes only an amendment to an amendment.
14. Another exception to the rule of priority is when a motion has been made to strike out a paragraph. It's friends may move many amendments for rendering it as perfect as they can, which shall be put to the question, before a vote is taken on striking out the whole paragraph.
Other privileged questions, viz. on ordering privilege, reading papers the […] difficulties.
When a motion is made to strike out a paragraph, section, or even the whole bill from the word 'whereas' and to insert something else in lieu thereof, it is understood that the friends of the paragraph, section, or bill have first a right to amend & make it as perfect as they can, before the question is put for striking out. suppose the question is then put on striking out, & that it passes in the negative. can any further amendment be made to it after that?
1. A motion is made to amend a bill or other paper by striking out certain words and inserting others; & the question, being divided, & put first on striking out, it is negatived, and the insertion of course falls.
2. After this, a motion is made to strike out the same words & to insert others of a different tenor altogether from those before proposed to be inserted, is not this admissible?
3. Suppose the 2d. motion to be negatived; would it not be admissible to move to strike out the same words, & to insert nothing in their place.
So if the 1st. motion had been to strike out the words & insert nothing, & negatived; might it not then have been moved to strike out the same words & insert other words?
When any paper is under the correction of the house, the natural order is to begin at the beginning, & proceed through it with amendments. but there is an exception as to a bill, the preamble of which is last amended.
Does this exception extend to any other form of paper? e.g. a resolution &c. or would the preamble of the resolution be first amended according to the natural order?
Suppose a proper, e.g. a resolution, brought in without a preamble, & that a motion be made to prefix a preamble; can such a motion be received and acted on before the body of the paper is acted on?
In Committee. The paper before a committee, whether select or of the whole, may be a bill, resolutions, draught of an address &c. and it may either originate with them, or be referred to them. in every case the whole paper is read first by the clerk, & then by the chairman by paragraphs, Scob. 49. pausing at the end of the paragraph, & putting questions for amending if proposed. in the case of distinct resolutions originating with themselves, a question is put on each separately as amended or unamended & no final question on the whole. if it be a bill, draught of an address or other paper originating with them, they proceed by paragraphs, putting questions for amending, or striking out paragraphs if proposed, but no question on agreeing to them; that is reserved to the close, when a question is put on the whole for agreeing to it as amended, or unamended. but if it be a paper referred to them, they proceed to put questions of amendment if proposed; but no final question on the whole; because all parts of the paper having been adopted by the house stand of course, unless altered or struck out by a vote. even if they are opposed to the whole paper, & think it cannot be made good by amendments, they must report it back to the house without amendments & there make their opposition.
When the committee is through the whole, a member moves that the committee may rise, and that the Chairman may report the paper to the house with or without the amendments agreed to, as the case may be.
Is it's statement exact as to the cases where questions are to be put on agreeing to the paragraph as amended or unamended? or
In what cases is a question put whether the paragraph is agreed to either as amended, or where no amendment has been made?
What is the form of that question? to wit, is it Whether they agree to the address, resolutions or bill in the whole, even where they have already past a vote of agreement on all it's parts? or is it Whether it shall be reported to the house?
In the house. When the report of a paper originating with a committee is taken up by the house, they proceed exactly as in the Committee.
On the 2d. reading of a bill, if it be taken up in the house without commitment the Speaker reads it by paragraphs, pausing between each to give time for proposing amendments. when through he puts the question Whether it shall be read a 3d. time?
On taking up a bill reported by a committee with amendments, the clerk reads the amendments only. then the Speaker reads the first & puts it to this question & so on till the whole are adopted or rejected. when the amendments of the committee are through, other amendments may be proposed to any part of the bill; but the Speaker does not read the bill over; nor does he when it is reported without amendments; but having waited a convenient time, puts the question for the 3d. reading.
Doubts on this passage.
1. After the amendments of a committee to a bill have been agreed to in the house, does the Speaker then read the whole bill over from beginning to end by paragraphs.
3. if the bill has been reported without amendments does he read it by paragraphs? does he put questions on agreeing to every paragraph?
4. if the bill be taken up in the house on the 2d. reading, without commitment, does he read it by paragraphs? does he put each paragraph to question?
5. on an address, resolution &c. reported by a committee, does he read them by paragraphs? & put them to question by paragraphs?
"Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 7 April 1800, pg 10." Image from the Library of Congress, The Thomas Jefferson Papers.
It is proper that every Parliamentary body should have certain form of question, as adopted, is to enable them fitly to dispose of every proposition which can be made to them. such are 1. the Previous question. 2. to Postpone indefinitely. 3. to adjourn a question to a definite day. 4. to lie on the table. 5. to commit. 6. to amend. the proper occasion for each of these questions should be understood.
1. When a proposition is moved, which it is useless or inexpedient now to express or discuss, the Previous Question has been introduced for suppressing for that time the motion & it's discussion.
2. Put as the Previous question gets rid of it only for that day, it may be postponed indefinitely after which it cannot be moved again during that session.
3. When a motion is made which it will be proper to act on, but information is wanted, or something more pressing claims the present time, it is adjourned to such day within the session as will answer the views of the houses. Sometimes however, this has been irregularly used by adjourning it to a day beyond the session, to get rid of it altogether, as would be done by an indefinite postponement
4. When this house has something else which was not it's present attention but would be written to reserve in their power to take up a proposition whenever it shall suit them, they order it to lie on their table. it may then be called for at any time.
5. If they are ready to take it up at present, but think it will warrant more amendment & digestion than the formalities of the house will conveniently admit, they refer it to a committee.
6. But if the proposition be well digested, & may need but few and simple amendments, & especially if these be of leading consequence, they then proceed to consider & amend it themselves.
Qu. the exactness of these definitions of questions & their occasions? and particularly as to postponement, the parliamentary uses of which I recollect with great uncertainty.
On a disagreement between the houses as to amendment to a bill, and a conference agreed on, can the conferees propose, or authorise either house to propose an amendment in a new part of the bill, having no coherence with the amendment on which they have disagreed.
When the Previous question is moved, must the debate on the Main question be immediately suspended?
When a Previous question has been moved & seconded, may the Main question be amended before putting the Previous qu.? We know it cannot afterwards; and that it is a vexata questio whether it may before. what is mr Wythe's opinion?
When a member calls for the execution of an order of the house, as for clearing galleries &c. it must be carried into execution by the Speaker without putting any question on it but when an order of the day is called, for I believe a question is put 'Whether the house call now proceed to whatever the order of the day is? is it so?
When a motion is made to strike out a paragraph, section, or even the whole bill from the word 'whereas' have as the friends of the paragraph a right to have all their amendments to it proposed before the question is put for striking out?
After the question for striking out is negatived, can the section receive any new amendment? if the equivalent question whether the section as amended shall stands part of the bill, had been put and decided affirmatively, it is apprehended no after-motion to amend could be received.
1. A motion is made to amend a bill or other paper by striking out certain words, & inserting others, & the question being divided, & put for on striking out, it is negatived, & the insertion of course falls.
2. After this a motion is made to strike out the amendments & to amend others of a different tenor altogether from those before proposed to be inserted. is not this admissible?
3. Suppose the 2d motion to be negatived; would it not be admissible to move to strike out the same words & to insert nothing in their place?
So if the 1st motion had been to strike out the words, & to insert nothing & negatived, might it not then have been moved to strike out the same word. & insert other words?
When a paper is under the correction of the house, the natural order is to begin at the beginning, & proceed through it with amendments. but there is an exception as to a bill, the preamble of which is last amended.
Does this exception extend to any other form of paper? e.g. a resolution &c. or would the preamble of the resolution be first amended, according to the natural order?
Suppose a paper, e.g. a resolution, brought in without a preamble & that a motion be made to prefix a preamble; can such a motion be received and acted on before the body of the paper is acted on?
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TinyOwl, Mumbai's leading food ordering app which envisions connecting people with their favourite food seamlessly, has received Series B funding of Rs 100 crore from Matrix Partners, Sequoia Capital and Nexus Venture Partners.
Started in 2014, TinyOwl aims to enhance the meal ordering experience of users with its carefully-designed app. The company had earlier raised $3 million from Sequoia Capital and Nexus Venture Partners in December, 2014.
Today, TinyOwl is the leading food ordering app in Mumbai, with associations across more than 4,000 restaurants. It processes almost 2,000 orders every day. In less than one year, the company has built team strength of 400 employees.
Currently TinyOwl has two products: TinyOwl – for food from nearby restaurants and TinyOwl HomeMade–for healthy food from local chefs.
"With our initial funding and unique business model, we have experienced immense growth in last one year in Mumbai itself. We plan to use the current funding for national level expansions aggressively and innovating on the products side to give seamless experience to the users," said Harshvardhan Mandad, Co-founder and CEO, TinyOwl.


India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley holds his briefcase as he arrives at the parliament to present the federal budget in New Delhi, India, Feb. 1, 2018.
With an eye on general elections next year, India has announced several populist measures that include a health insurance program for 500 million people, and billions of dollars for rural development and affordable housing in its annual budget.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the measures aimed at improving "ease of living" for citizens, the vast majority of whom live in rural areas.
The announcements came amid widespread rural distress due to falling crop prices. Several farmers protests, sometimes violent, took place last year.
In a country where two thirds of the 1.3 billion people depend on agriculture, there are growing worries the anger in the countryside will pose a challenge for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government when it seeks reelection next year.
FILE - India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses his supporters during a campaign meeting ahead of Gujarat state assembly election in Kalol on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, Dec. 8, 2017.
Saying "my government is committed to the welfare of the farmers," Finance Minister Arun Jaitley added the government would focus on building rural infrastructure such as roads and irrigation projects, as well as opening new agricultural markets to help farmers get better prices for their crops.
Jaitley promised to sharply increase the price at which government buys food grains for its stocks and said that agricultural trade, which is restricted, will be liberalized to allow farmers direct access to markets.
"We consider agriculture as an enterprise and want to help farmers to produce more from the same land parcel at lesser cost, and simultaneously realize higher prices for their produce," he said.
Much attention was also focused on the health insurance plan unveiled by the government, which Jaitley called the "world's largest." It aims to give medical coverage of about $7,800 to 100 million poor families annually.
FILE - A patient has his blood taken to be tested at a fever clinic especially set up to cater to those suffering from fever, one of the main symptoms of several mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue, at a hospital in New Delhi, India, Sept. 15, 2016.
The measure is significant in a country where poor people are often forced to sell their assets, such as land and jewelry, to pay for healthcare. Government hospitals, which provide free medical facilities are inadequate and overcrowded, and private hospitals are usually unaffordable for lower income groups, who seldom have health insurance. The government also said it would build more health centers in rural areas.
FILE - A farmer walks through a paddy field on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Nov. 19, 2016.
But even as the government is making its massive outreach to rural areas, there are worries that it also faces growing disaffection because it has been unable to meet its pledge to create millions of jobs for India's young population. It was a key plank that catapulted Modi to power in 2014.


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The eight-year-old girl, belonging to a nomadic tribe, was kidnapped on January 10 and her body was found on January 17.
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The charge sheet also names head constable Tilak Raj and sub-inspector Anand Dutta -- who took Rs 4 lakh from Sanji Ram and destroyed crucial evidence.
Sanji Ram, considered the main accused, is accused of having hatched the conspiracy with the other accused for kidnapping the girl as part of a strategy to remove the minority nomadic community from the area.


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Gaming AI beats human top scores by cheating
The artificial intelligence system had no qualms about exploiting ancient bugs to win.
By Charlie Osborne for Between the Lines | March 2, 2018 -- 11:12 GMT (03:12 PST) | Topic: Innovation
An artificial intelligence (AI) system tasked with playing retro 1980s arcade game Q*bert managed to secure impossibly high scores by exploiting an ancient bug.
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The bot was programmed to use evolutionary strategy (ES) algorithms, which includes machine learning (ML) and allows the AI to learn, adapt, and change tactics depending on the situation and other players.
ES and reinforcement learning (RL), which is based on behavioral psychology and revolves around a simple reward system, have already been used to beat human players in games including Chess and Texas Hold 'em.
In the poker game, as AI learned how its competitors played, it was able to reach levels of "superhuman performance."
When it comes to Q*bert, however, the AI didn't seem to mind cheating to rack up those points.
As reported by The Register, researchers from the University of Freiburg, Germany, implemented ES in a gaming AI to compare the success of ES in comparison to RL.
In a paper, the researchers found that ES can beat RL in a number of cases.
Q*bert requires players to jump from cube to cube in order to change their color while avoiding obstacles and enemies in order to progress to the next round.
However, the AI was able to find and exploit a bug which caused the platforms to blink, allowing it to bounce and rack up close to a million points.
Speaking to the publication, co-authors of the paper Patryk Chrabaszcz and Frank Hutter said that the AI was fed roughly 1.5 million parameters to create the ES system and as high scores were the goal, exploiting the ancient bug was the most natural path to take.
"To find the bug, the agent had to first learn to almost complete the first level -- this was not done at once but using many small improvements," the researchers said. "We suspect that at some point in the training one of the offspring solutions encountered the bug and got a much better score compared to its siblings, which in turn increased its contribution to the update -- its weight was the highest one in the weighted mean."
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The AI's exploration of different paths and tactics during tests did not always find and exploit this bug, but in eight out of 30 tests, the exploit was used. RL systems used as a comparison did not reach the high scores of its ES counterpart.
However, the latter tended to outperform ES in racing and shooting games where understanding context, rather than patterns, was crucial.
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RC Laser Sailing
Rygged Start System
Sailing Location
Finding us is easy.
Our home is the Keith LePage Community Boatshed in Paquita Park. Located on the edge of the Sir Douglas Mawson (main) Lake, we share it with the rowing and canoe polo clubs. It has toilets and showers (including for the disabled) as well as a common area and exclusive workshop and dedicated storage area for our use. Out the front is a great launching platform, outdoor seating and a number of shady trees. Parking is plentiful.
Club Organised Days
Tuesdays and Saturdays
Take the Mawson Lakes Boulevard which runs off Main North Road into the Mawson Lakes central business district.
At the roundabout turn into Park Way and then at the first street on the right into First Avenue.
Follow it to the end through the roundabout into either of our 4 designated car parks or on the weekends only into the general parking area for Technology Park (they don't mind us using their spaces on weekends). On weekends we try to avoid parking in the nearby Douglas Drive, and other streets leaving it for the residents and businesses but on weekdays street parking is the only option. Respect for residents and businesses is paramount at all times.
Limited disabled parking is available down the driveway on a first come first served basis which we manage for those in most need. Be assured we seek to have it extended.
Member Organised Days
Wednesdays and Sunday Mornings
We don't have sole access to the boatshed on these days so Wednesday sailing takes place at the northern end of the lake adjacent Innovation House and on Sundays from the old boat-deck site on the Boulevard side of the lake. There are street parking restrictions in place on the Boulevard during the working week, but for Sunday mornings, Salisbury Council has lifted the restriction to allow car parking in several limited places.
Sunday Afternoons Laser Group
Racing takes place at the northern end of the lake adjacent Innovation House starting at 1pm on scheduled days - with access to the shed.
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