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The great enthusiasm and commitment of the then members helped this Branch to be recognized as an examination center in the year 1998. We started to organize the CA examinations for PE I, PE II and for Final course. The results at each level have been very encouraging and satisfactory. Today we are proud to say that several of our students have emerged as Toppers with their names appearing frequently in Merit Lists of CPT , IPCC & Final Examinations in All India Level. The Branch also organizes Annual Students Elocution and Quiz contest which motivates students to appear in public and present their views. The Siliguri Branch of EICASA was formed in the year 2009. The Branch has a fully equipped Computer lab where IT Training for Students is conducted. We are also having a well equipped library for the students as well as for the members.
In the Year 2015 the Branch Celebrated its 25th Anniversary.
On 24 th February 2017 , Siliguri Branch of EIRC made History , when CA. Manish Goyal of Siliguri was elected as Chairman of Eastern India Regional Council (EIRC) of ICAI.
The Branch has been holding teleconferences, seminars, CPE programs on various topics as a part of its regular activities to keep ourselves updated with recent developments in the fields of Taxation, Audit, corporate Law etc. The Institute has started a Post qualification course on Information System Audit ( ISA ) for the members. Training & Examination for the Course are held at Siliguri itself. Other Post Qualification Courses on DIRM, WTO have also been successfully undertaken by members . The Certificate Course on Concurrent Audit of Banks , IFRS Certification Course etc have also been completed by several of the Branch members.
The number of membership is growing with a faster pace and keeping that in mind we have already constructed modern & state of art Seminar Halls at at 1st & 2nd Floors of the ICAI Bhawan , Teenbatti more , Siliguri so as to serve the members in a better way. In future we will try to install a video conferencing facility to develop a network with as many branches as possible. A new Branch Building at Kawakhali , Silguri is also in pipeline for which the Land has already been allotted by the SJDA.
For Continuous Three Years i.e 2013-14 , 2014-15 & 2015-16 , Siliguri Branch of EIRC & Siliguri Branch of EICASA has bagged the Best Branch & Best Student Association Awards by ICAI, New Delhi . Siliguri Branch of EIRC has also been awarded the Best Branch Award & Siliguri Branch of EICASA has bagged the Best Student Association by EIRC, Kolkata. We received the Best Branch Award from EIRC and Highly Commended Performance Award under Medium Category from ICAI NewDelhi in 2016-17. In the past also Siliguri Branch has been awarded the Best Branch of ICAI Award by EIRC in all category and the Highly Commendable branch by ICAI, New Delhi in small category branches.
The first batch of GMCS Classes was organized at Siliguri in October, 2009. We have now already conducted several Batches of GMCS , Orientation Program & IT Training. The Siliguri Branch successfully organized the National Convention of CA Students at Siliguri in 2009 , 2012 , 2013 & 2015.
We believe that with the excellent teamwork and harmonious relationship with our members we will be able to achieve the goal. We take tremendous pride in being the members of Siliguri Branch of EIRC of ICAI.


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package org.apache.jena.sparql.exec;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.apache.jena.query.DatasetFactory;
import org.apache.jena.query.QueryExecution;
import org.apache.jena.query.QueryExecutionDatasetBuilder;
import org.apache.jena.query.QueryExecutionFactory;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;

public class TestExecEnvironment {

    /** QueryExecutionAdapter.adapt must not return null; see https://github.com/apache/jena/issues/1393 */
    @Test
    public void testQueryExecAdapter() {
        try (QueryExecution qExec = QueryExecutionFactory.create("SELECT * { ?s ?p ?o }", DatasetFactory.empty())) {
            QueryExec qe  = QueryExecAdapter.adapt(qExec);
            Assert.assertNotNull(qe);
        }
    }

    /** Tests QueryExecBuilderAdapter's special logic for passing on the initialTimeout and
     * overallTimeout calls to the delegate. This should succeed without errors. */
    @Test
    public void testQueryExecutionDatasetBuilderWrapping() {
        QueryExecBuilder builder = QueryExecBuilderAdapter.adapt(QueryExecutionDatasetBuilder.create());

        try (QueryExec qe = builder
            .query("SELECT * { ?s ?p ?o }")
            .initialTimeout(1, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
            .timeout(2000)
            .overallTimeout(3, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
            .build()) {
        }
    }
}

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Kordell Stewart, Doug Flutie, epic Hail Marys and our wildest college football finishes
Bill Connelly
ESPN Staff Writer
Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com.
Mark Schlabach
ESPN Senior Writer
Senior college football writer
Author of seven books on college football
Graduate of the University of Georgia
There are so many things to love about college football: tradition, pageantry, rivalries and marching bands.
What's the best thing about America's best sport? The dramatic finishes. The "I can't believe that just happened" plays that are as much a part of college football lore as Heisman winners and national champions.
Tonight's Throwback Thursday: CFB Classics celebrates one of the greatest endings of all — the 1994 Miracle at Michigan (7 p.m. ET, ESPN and ESPN App). Before you watch Kordell Stewart and Michael Westbrook hook up at the very end (spoiler alert!), two of our experts, Bill Connelly and Mark Schlabach, break down the other great Hail Marys and wild finishes they've seen.
Which Hail Mary do you remember most?
Schlabach: I told you earlier this spring, Doug Flutie's last-second Hail Mary that gave Boston College a 47-45 victory over Miami in 1984 was probably the first football game when I vividly remember being glued to the TV until the very end. Growing up in Indiana, I'd watched plenty of Notre Dame games before that. But Gerry Faust was coaching the Fighting Irish back then, so I'd retreat to the backyard by halftime most of the time. (I met Faust in an elevator at Notre Dame once, and I was struck by how genuinely kind he is.)
In 1994, Kordell Stewart connected on a final-play, 64-yard Hail Mary to Michael Westbrook to lead Colorado past Michigan. AP Photo/Jon Freilich
That 1984 game was incredibly entertaining. Miami's Bernie Kosar threw for 447 yards, which was a lot back then. But the Hurricanes still couldn't seal the deal. I couldn't believe Flutie had the arm strength to heave it 63 yards — and neither did the Miami defenders, because they weren't even in the end zone. Flutie's Hail Mary pass was perfectly thrown over the top of them. The Eagles' celebration on the field might have been the best part, and the fact that Flutie's roommate, Gerard Phelan, caught the winning TD made it even better.
Connelly: Yeah, it has to be Flutie for me too. Part of that has to do with age. A decent number of us in this writer community are in the same age range, and this was in the sweet spot in which college football was becoming a national thing. That was quite a gateway-drug-type of moment. Brent Musburger's call, Flutie's mid-80s belly shirt — it was perfect.
But we've been blessed with quite a few from which to choose. If I were a smidge older, maybe I'd remember the 1980 Holiday Bowl pass more. If I were younger, maybe Stewart-to-Westbrook or the Bluegrass Miracle would have been a more formative memory. These happen just enough that there's one for each age range, and we all know to keep watching until the final pass hits the ground, just in case.
Which Hail Mary had the most significant impact on a season?
Schlabach: Was it the Prayer at Jordan-Hare? In 2013, Auburn trailed Georgia 38-37 and faced fourth-and-18 with 36 seconds left. If you're a Georgia fan, the memory of what happened next is forever etched in your brain with all of the other near misses (hello, DeVonta Smith!).
Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall, a former UGA defensive back, dropped back and fired a wobbling pass over the middle for Ricardo Louis. Two Georgia defenders stood there for something like 39 seconds, waiting for the lame duck to finally come down. But then UGA safety Josh Harvey-Clemons knocked the ball out of fellow safety Tray Matthews' hands. The ball bounced right to Louis, who had his back turned, and he ran 73 yards for a touchdown and improbable 43-38 victory.
Two weeks later, Auburn beat Alabama 34-28 with the dramatic "Kick Six" in the Iron Bowl. The Tigers won an SEC championship and lost to Florida State 34-31 in the final BCS National Championship.
Connelly: November 2013 yielded an amazing string of wild endings. But another impactful finish happened two years earlier: Michigan State quarterback Kirk Cousins' Hail Mary to Keith Nichol gave Wisconsin its first loss of the season. Considering how well Russell Wilson and the Badgers were playing at the end of the year, they could have made the Alabama-Oklahoma State BCS debate even more interesting if they'd had only one loss instead of two.
Schlabach: That was my first trip to East Lansing, Michigan, for a football game. It was cold and blustery, but what a finish. Poor Nichol. He lost the starting quarterback job to Sam Bradford at Oklahoma and then Cousins at Michigan State. At least he was on the tail end of one of the most famous plays in MSU history.
Who's the most famous quarterback who threw a Hail Mary in college?
Schlabach: I can think of a few, but Southern Miss' Brett Favre comes to mind. Against Louisville in 1989, the score was tied at 10 with only nine seconds left. The ball was at the Golden Eagles' 20-yard line.
Favre took the snap and rolled to his right. A Louisville lineman nearly brought him down, but Favre broke away with a devastating stiff-arm. From the quarterback! Favre planted his feet and threw the ball as far as he could. Louisville defenders tipped the ball at their 35-yard line, and Darryl Tillman caught it. Tillman broke a tackle and outraced two defenders into the end zone as time expired in a 16-10 win.
Connelly: Yeah, but did Favre have a cereal named after him like Flutie?
(Genuine question. Favre played in Green Bay. It's possible.)
Not all great endings were Hail Marys. What's the best non-Hail Mary finish you can recall?
Schlabach: The aforementioned Kick Six might have been the most bizarre and improbable ending I can recall in recent history. Or California's "the band is on the field" play against Stanford in 1982, which, again, was a little before my time as a college football die-hard.
But the entire ending of Boise State's 43-42 win over Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl is still one I'll never forget. Of course, I didn't see it happen in real time because I fell asleep on the couch. It was still as much fun watching the replay the next day. The hook-and-ladder and Statue of Liberty play for the winning 2-point conversion were so memorable. Chris Petersen pulled out every stop in taking down the Sooners that night.
Connelly: You stole a lot of good answers. A few more to add:
Iowa beating LSU in the 2005 Capital One Bowl. It wasn't really a Hail Mary, per se, but a strangely open, last-second, Drew Tate-to-Warren Holloway pass in Nick Saban's last game as the Tigers' head coach.
Speaking of LSU, how about either the last-second touchdown pass from Matt Flynn to Demetrius Byrd to beat Auburn in 2007, or the utterly wild and chaotic sequence that led to a win over Tennessee in 2010?
The Bush Push!
One last question: What's your favorite Keith Jackson call?
Desmond Howard's 93-yard punt return against Ohio State in 1991 is now synonymous with one of the most famous calls in college football history. USA TODAY Sports
Connelly: I certainly enjoyed "Hello, Heisman" when Desmond Howard returned the punt for a score against Ohio State in 1991, but it has to be the one we're showcasing Thursday — Colorado-Michigan. Jackson's voice cracked. It was such a moment that even the greatest college football announcer of all time lost his mind for a split second.
That said, what made Jackson so great was his mastery of the mundane. He got to call plenty of moments like this, but in the absence of something special, he charmed a game all the same. In 1998, when Missouri played at Ohio State (and I was a Mizzou sophomore), his simple presence let me know it was a big game; and when he called Missouri "the burly bunch from Boone County," it felt like Grandpa was winking at you. He made the fans feel like they were an important part of college football's culture. (Even if your team has spent decent chunks of its history not really mattering all that much.)
Schlabach: "Whoa, Nellie!" There are so many of them. "Bo Over the Top!" Or Vince Young running into the end zone on fourth-and-5 against USC: "He's going into the corner. … He's got it!"
I don't remember watching the 1979 Sugar Bowl between Penn State and Alabama, but I still love listening to Jackson's call of the Crimson Tide's famous goal-line stand. He sets up the sequence like only Keith Jackson could: "The yard marker in the Sugar Bowl shows a half a yard to go for the touchdown and the possibility of tying or going ahead for Penn State. Nineteen-game win streak, only undefeated team in the country, ranked No. 1 in the nation, Alabama ranked No. 2. Everything could be hanging on fourth-and-goal with a half a yard."
After Alabama's Barry Krauss stood up Mike Guman at the goal line, Jackson said, "Guman! He didn't make it" And then Jackson closed his mouth and let the crowd do the talking.

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Officers from Metropolitan Police were called at around 6.20am on Saturday (July 14) to reports of a man suffering multiple stab injuries in Rye Lane, Peckham.
A man, believed to be aged in his late 40s, was found at the scene with multiple stab injuries and was rushed to a south London hospital. He remains in critical condition, according to the Met.
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Freeview offers around 40 digital TV channels, including the main five channels, plus channels like ITV2, BBC3, E4, Dave, Quest, 5 USA, Pick TV, plus news, music and kids channels.
Freeview's the cheapest way of getting digital TV. Freeview boxes are available for a one-off cost of about £20, and there's no subscription.
Freeview is available subscription-free via a TV aerial. You need to be in a Freeview reception area though.
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5. Scan for Freeview channels - the option will be available via the Freeview's on-screen menu.
At the moment, Freeview isn't operating on full power in the UK. This is partly so that it doesn't interfere with normal analogue telly, and partly as some transmitters have not been converted to digital yet. Coverage and signal strength will improve as we get closer to 2012, when the switchover is complete.
To check if you're in a coverage area, enter your postcode into the Freeview Postcode Checker. This will tell you if you're meant to get Freeview where you are.


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Jimmy Rave Forced To Retire After Sudden Arm Amputation (www.cagematch.net)
H Jenkins
Jimmy Rave had hard news to deliver today. He retired from professional wrestling after spending 21 years in the sport he loves.
He discovered an infection in his arm last Tuesday. Doctors tried to save it, but it was too late. His arm had to be amputated. The former ROH and Impact Wrestler has to retire, and very suddenly.
Rave wrestled all over, and you can see his career in graphic form thanks to Cagematch below. It really puts it into perspective how many people he entertained over the years.
His in-ring career is now over. He didn't note what he will do next, but Rave has already received a ton of support from the pro wrestling community. This is heartbreaking to hear.
Our best goes out to Jimmy Rave as he enters this next chapter in his career.


The week before last, Andrew and I took some time off work and enjoyed a week staycation here in Toronto. We had decided that rather than travel somewhere, we would relax at home and enjoy the city. We had a great time checking out great new restaurants, many of which are walking distance from our house!
Blue Plate : We went here for both a dinner and a brunch and enjoyed both the food and the atmosphere.
Universal Grill : An old favourite that we had forgotten about on Dupont.
Zocalo : Awesome new place that opened up at Bloor & Symington. Great food and service.
We watched 'Scott Pilgrim'. Perfect Toronto-centric movie.
June Harlow : Very new restaurant at Dupont and Edwin with wonderful food. Their dessert menu includes freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and homemade smores.
Bloordale Pantry : We've been here multiple times now for their brunch. Delicious.
Yasi's : They sell Kawartha Dairy ice cream and they are half a block from our house. Danger.
I made a Vanilla Peach Pie with lattice crust!!!
Lots of walks on the West Toronto Rail Path. One of our favourite things about our neighbourhood right now.
A visit to see Andrew's brother, Mike at the organic farm he's living/working on. We were sent home with a load of amazing produce.
I made zucchini bread! with part of a zucchini from the farm.
That sounds lovely. HOw did you get the picture of the three of you at night? (i.e. what did you put your camera on? Did you use a flash?) I love the picture from the farm.
oh I am so glad you had a good time!
Isn't Zaloco the best?! and it is so close to your house.
I was there for dinner last night.
I love your pictures too.
Oh your timing is perfect! I have a stay-cation coming up, 10 days! We'll be doing 2 small day trips, but these restaurants sound perfect as we will also be visiting a family member in hospital in the west end.
that pie looks gorgeous!!! mmmm!
<3 these glimpses into your life!
Staycations = lovely. And I agree with you about Zocalo. We took some friends for brunch yesterday and it was delicious.
peanut – thanks so much! the night time photo of the three of us was taken by putting my camera on a bench and using the remote control i recently got. no flash! i never use flash. my aperture was f 1.8. if your camera is resting on something steady, then clear night time shots are totally possible.
suz – i love these flats. they are made from recycled newspaper. i bought them from moxsie.
jill – i can't believe i can walk to so many great places now. our neighborhood gets better every day!
tasha – enjoy your staycation! any of those places would be great to visit. so delicious.
michelle – i wish i had some pie left to share with you. next time! it was really great. and now i'm not scared to make pies.
amanda – you're right, i should do this more often!
joanna – i love their idea of open sandwiches. i need to go back and try out more of their menu!
Sounds really good. People don't even realize they do not necessarily have to leave Toronto for holidays. If I have some free time, I actually really like to stay and explore places I don't know, since there is just so many (even though I have lived here for years). Oh by the way, the pie looks unbelievably delicious.
This post totally inspired me! I made Martha Stewart's zucchini chocolate cakes and some peach rosemary jam and can't wait to have some time to re-explore Vancouver. Sounds like a great stay-cation!
ps. Would not have included a smiley emoticon if I knew it would turn into a yellow headed man! I hope you're laughing.


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Some fans love Pharrell's 'It Girl' video; others call him a pedophile
Nov. 2, 2014 06:03 am JST Nov. 2, 2014 | 06:45 am JST
By Audrey Akcasu
Last summer, the international pop-star Pharrell Williams rocked Japan with his single, "Happy," which launched countless fan-made remakes across the country. Joining in with the "happy" Japanese people, he has since collaborated with renowned artist Takashi Murakami to make a remix of virtual star Hatsune Miku's video "Last Night, Good Night (Re:Dialed)." This time around, however, Pharrell is trying to bring fun Japanese culture to the rest of the world.
Pharrell once again mingled with Murakami in creating the video for his song "It Girl." As director, Murakami managed to bring in almost every facet of Japanese pop-culture. Let alone the bright, flashing colors and pop-out words (in both English and Japanese), the video fluctuates from 8-bit video game style, to rotoscoping, and to good ole Japanese animation and back again. It's a lot to look at, if not borderline overwhelming.
One cool aspect of the video is that it contains some nice scenes of a typical Japanese summer that uninformed Westerners wouldn't otherwise be exposed to. The appearance of Pharrell in 8-bit and anime-style was kind of cute too – except the part where he peeps on bikini-clad anime-girls with binoculars.
While Japanese and Westerners alike were surprised by the excessive cute and moe images, they reacted quite differently. The Japanese seem to appreciate Murakami's "art" of combining rough hip-hop culture with overly-cute otaku culture.
Westerners on the other hand, are either rejoicing over Pharrell's open-mind and creativity or are disgusted and now see him as a creeping pedophile (again, the binoculars). Others were displeased for other reasons, seeing the video as doing anime, and many of its fans, a dishonor by inaccurately portraying "typical" anime.
I actually got a little caught up in reading the vehement and often explicit arguments going on in the comment section on YouTube between the pro- and against-Pharrell viewers. Check out some of the (more appropriate) comments from English-speaking viewers:
The against-Pharrell viewers:
"This is actually disgusting. And please STOP with the 'how do you know it's an underage girl!!' … This is gross and I don't see how anyone can support it. Ewww."
"There are so many things wrong with this video…"
"He looks like a pedofile (sic) stalking little girls lol."
"This is the Anime I stayed away from."
"Dude, you're ruining anime for people."
The pro-video viewers:
"This is awesome, I give you major props for this. It's creative and something you like, so never be afraid to share it with others. :)"
"Now I love this guy more. ( ̄▽ ̄)ノ_彡☆Respect!!"
"Thank you Pharrell for being original and for loving the anime, you rocks bro! (✧∀✧)"
I can come to understand how the scantily clad, long-legged, big-breasted girls of anime, and those other anime girls who might look younger than their years, could cause some unaccustomed/uninformed people to be offended by the video. I have to say though, I've watched my fair share of anime over the years and the cute, pig-tailed blond that Pharrell's character becomes infatuated with seems a little pre-adolescent-looking to me too.
Source: NetLab
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Akemi Mokoto
Nov. 2, 2014 07:16 am JST
There is no "some" about the first part. MOST people loved it. An overwhelming majority of comments, blog post, and news articles has had nothing but good things to say. I think this is only the 5th out of hundreds of blog post/news sites to mention pedohile? Seems kind of ridiculous to humor the opinion of the small minority. I knew from the first time I saw the video an hour after it was released that this would happen. Let's clear things up now: IT'S NOT PEDOPHILIA! Even of he said he wanted to have sexual contact with her, it still wouldn't be. Why? A pedophile is someone with a primary attraction to children. What is the definition of children? A child. Child? "A person below the age of majority." KEYWORD: PERSON! Not drawing, not person-like, just PERSON. A person is a human. Are Anime characters humans? Nope! So is this pedo? Nope! Move on.
skaizun
Amazing what raises peoples' ire. Gun control? Drugs? Terrorists? Infrastructure? Hunger? Gangs? This vid doesn't even make the top 20.
Bad2Dbone
Ha ha ha,
William likes anime , great for him, but this video contains stalking, pimpin' , sugar daddy'n ,young girl desires , and the lyrics does not help either:
When you bite on my lip And hold my hand, and moan again, I'm a hold that a$$
I would say , the person that directed this video (Takashi Murakami) is definite a Pedophile.
enough said!
They are drawn and stylized girls, you can't consider them like real people, come on. In this case, how much pedophilia we saw in tons of cartoons? I mean, also in Disney cartoons. In Aladdin the princess, who is only 16 years old, kisses Jafar, who is a very old man. That scene was disgusting but everyone accepted it because it's only a cartoon.
Mocheake
Much ado about nothing.
albaleo
"uninformed Westerners"
I'm not sure why, but I found that expression more unsettling than the video.
lucabrasi
Genuine question:
How do you know the princess is only sixteen in Aladdin?
I must have watched it a hundred times with my kids, and I don't remember her age being mentioned....
@lucabrasi: Jasmine says she is 16 years old to his father in one of the first scenes.
Now I remember, thank you.
But doesn't she say she has to be married before her sixteenth birthday?
So she's actually fifteen....
badsey3
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pharrell+williams+happy+japanese+version
Seem to be one of those 8/16 bit hybrid games that never took off with some obvious rips in it.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Fantasy_zone_arcadeflyer.PNG Opa-Opa (Fantasy-Star) type happy.
The little girl represented in video is actually representing the audience, and wast majority of that audience are teen girls, so , this video is centered around them, its fun video where they are playing , and enjoying in fireworks, and itd itd .
I take great imaginary offense.
@lucabrasi: yeah, you're right. She is actually 15.
Here the Disney princesses ages.
http://www.babble.com/celebrity/the-ages-of-the-disney-princesses-will-surprise-you/
First of all, I agree with the first poster that wrote that there are very few people who object to this video. I don't see "pedophilia" in this at all.
It's just a fact. Young girls are pretty and cute. Teenage girls are also pretty and cute and slowly become sexier as they become older teenagers.
This is naturally how humans mature. I don't hesitate to say if a young teenager is cute or pretty. They are. If a boy or a teenage boy is handsome and good looking - he is. There's no "pedophilia" involved here.
The maturing of a young human being is a reality that many in the west have somehow twisted and become ashamed of. The word "pedophillia" has been tweaked and thrown around for far too many things and situations.
The anime girls in this video are cute and pretty. Good. I'm glad Japan doesn't have a problem with this. I hope they never do.
He's a lolicon! lol
Just saw Pharrell's video....I LOVED IT!!
Nothing wrong with it at all!
DaDude
Video is better than the song. I like some of Pharrell's songs and his producing with the Neptunes but sometimes he sounds like a wannabe Curtis Mayfield.
""uninformed Westerners"
Actually, you'd be more apt to find "informed" Westerners the ones who are against this kind of sexualization of little girls -- they're the ones who know how easily it flies and is accepted here.
yakimo: "Western media just loves the word pedophile..."
Better than loving pedophiles themselves, or defending them as 'part of the culture'.
Anyway, haven't seen the video yet, so I can't say, but having just been to the convenience store a few minutes ago and seen all the magazines with young girls in bikinis at the front of the racks while I was grabbing some frozen stuff, I'm sure there's a reason some people are against what they see -- and there are the lyrics, as Bad2DBone points out.
Watched the video linked above, nothing of interest there.
As was said nothing pedophilic there, drawing style is obviously by someone not skilled copying Japanese style.
yakimo
Nov. 2, 2014 12:01 pm JST
in japan its big part of their culture , learn to love it or second option is to leave. plain and simple
yakimo: "learn to love it or second option is to leave. plain and simple"
That argument doesn't fly if you're trying to bring the culture to other nations, as Pharrell is trying to do here. You often here about this kind of thing: "kawaii ambassadors" being labelled as bizarre if not a little sick in terms of sexualization, or "tarento" like Hard Gay being not at all well received by non-Japanese here or overseas (if they were unlucky enough to see it), and then you get a similar reaction by people such as yourself: "it's part of the culture! If you don't like it, leave!" Heck, just last week on a thread with about Amazon.jp selling kiddy-porn you had Japanese defending it as 'cute'! Yes, a LITTLE GIRL showing her panties to the camera is 'cute' to them. If you're defending that kind of thing as "a big part of their culture" you are really not doing the culture a service.
As for this video, I doubt it's as bad as the amazon example, but if it's as some people say than I think that's a shame.
For 99% of japanese people this video has nothing negative on it. only western media makes a fuss out of it.
Most westerners wouldn't care about this video either. Only the over-PC crowd who need to find a problem with everything.
Sweet video! Deal with it!!!
Guillaume Varès
Nothing offensive here, just awfully bad taste!
CGB Spender
Must be a big shock for westerners to suddenly being confronted with so much moe anime. haters will be haters. Actually the video is quite OK. If you think this is tasteless you need to get your head checked! Uh oh, there are some young looking drawn girls in bikinis! God forbid! Not every culture applies to your occidental conformities of morale and sinning.
What was positively surprise is that the music isn't bad. He doesn't use crappy auto tune like countless others (or at least not overdone). That's a big plus!
Brian Wheway
if you think this vid is in poor taste and its portraying girls in the wrong manner, well take a look or DONT look at Beyonce,s DVDS thats pure filth and porn far far worse than this vid by WF
Agree many of the in vids and shows by Beyonce, Gaga, Cyrus, etc are way more explicit and leave nothing to the imagination.
Sometimes wonder if they want to sell a song, their body or whatever. Grew up in the 70's & 80's and we had sexy singers both male and female but the music was foremost.
shiboritate
You can see the video on you tube. It's great! I have no idea what the issue is here. Haven't y'all ever seen anime before? This one's pretty innocent, pure, and sweet. The male protagonist seems to be roghly the same age as the it girl. What the hell is the problem here? Puritans shouldn't be watching anime or music videos and expressing unrealistic views on humans.
The anime actually is pretty accurate in representing a beach in Japan in summer. I guess this might be disturbing to Puritans, the Taliban, and Islamic State, but I think it's quite a bit closer to heaven than to hell.
drawing style is obviously by someone not skilled copying Japanese style.
Drawing style is by artist Takashi Murakami and Japanese Anime Studio NAZ. Perhaps ya can't tell.
only western media makes a fuss out of it
It's a Western song artist for primarily Western consumption.
Am I the only who thinks that people should complain about the PV "Anaconda", that is almost porn with REAL girls, seen by millions of people, also little kids, rather than obsess over cartoon girls in bikini?
The world is really messed up.
Lostrune2.
Being married to an animator I can tell, this is pure quality.
You can see the video on you tube.
You can see the video on this very page (embedded from YouTube).
Some people complain about the fact Japanese are closed and think their culture can't be understood by the foreigners. But, someway, Japanese are right. If they draw a young girl in bikini, because of the particular style of drawing (that is absolutely irrealistic) well they are perverts. If Disney draws sexy teenagers half-naked like Jasmin, everything is normal. If in Japan there are groups like AKB48, this means Japanese are pervert. If in the US you have "talents" like Miley Ray Cyrus, it's normal. If Norway kills whales, the press remains rather quiet. If Japan kills whales, it's a continuous Japan bashing, with some people on internet saying "they deserved the tsunami" and racist things like these.
Western double standards is what makes Japanese feel insecure about themselves and misunderstood, bringing them to increase their need to be isolated from the rest of the world.
No big deal. In a few days time those who kicked up a stink will have found something or somebody else to whine about.
danalawton1@yahoo.com
come on.... get a life people... its not like this guy is trying to make some sort of political statement. He's just having some fun and mixing anime in with it. As for him being a "pedophile", what did you expect... did you want him to dress these girls in business suits and throw in some gray hair. Lighten up!
wontond
The video is Lolita-ish. You could even say it's a little creepy, but pedophile, no way. Makes me think they don't even know the meaning of the word. The PC crowd are too sensitive, and need to chill out.
CoconutE3
Love the music & video is definitely "different". Agree that the main pigtail girl needs to age by another 5-6 years.
Kuribo1
Awesome video. Love anime and happy that he chose this style, I mean heck I got a fever and the only prescription is more cow bell!
Aizo Yurei
Song: it's aight, it's Pharrell. Video: It's cute and aight. I like some of the art. Especially the pixel art. I'd give it a 6/10. Just because it has almost nothing to do with the lyrics.
If you want to use anime in your video that's cool but I highly doubt Pharrell has experienced any of these Japanese summer culture things. Going to a festival or eating shaved ice. Kind of lame.
Pharrell is a bit odd. Get real famous for one pretty average song and has siad and sung plenty of pretty creepy stuff. a big hat doesn't make him talented.
Get real famous for one pretty average song
That's what made him a household name, but he already had a pretty solid degree of fame previous to that, from his work with the Neptunes, and then in particular his singing in 'Get Lucky' by Daft Punk, which was one of the major summer hits in 2003.
Pharrell has been pretty famous in music for over a decade. Some of you not into American pop/hip hop/R&B may not know but he has a huge award shelf...I remember some of his big hits under his production teams in the late 90s. And the video was cool. Stop looking for negativity everywhere.
Here's the New Yorker magazine's take on it:
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/pharrell-williamss-lolicon-girl
What are we to make of Pharrell Williams's latest video for "It Girl," which features the hip-hop star singing, "Hold my hand, and moan again, I'ma hold that ass" to images of what appears to be a prepubescent cartoon girl? Although seemingly well received (it has been viewed more than two and a half million times on YouTube since its release on September 30th), the video has left some American critics struggling to describe the experience of watching it. Pitchfork lauded the work as "an animated epic," while a more cautious Rolling Stone dubbed it, incongruously, "Pokemon-inspired." It seems to have bewildered fans, too. Debates have sprung up on various blogs: "Why did he choose such young characters?" wondered one viewer on Tumblr, who declared the video "creepy."
JWithers
Yeah....whatever. I see no problem here even if there is a problem.
No 1: I don't like being spammed with all those colors. I don't even have seizures but I fear I might have one if I keep watching.
I personally like seeing human beings. I still believe God got it right. He made man in his image. So I don't really care for animated girls.
Furthermore, it makes real girls all the more disappointing. Girls are just never going to be this genki in real life.
Yes, Modern feminism is on the march and as a man I feel attacked by it. There's no sitting on the fence on that topic but it will NOT push me to focus on virtual beauties.
Sorry but I turned this video off almost immediately.
So how old are these girls in the video? I don't know. We'll never know cause they can say whatever they want. However, we can determine who the target audience is. The statistics will roll in.
Personally I am against Japan's borderline pedophile culture so I only hope that this project gets very little attention in the U.S.
Sorry Pharrell but I'm not HAPPY about this video. That's not because of the debate. It just sucks in my opinion.
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Google DeepMind: the story behind the world's leading AI startup
We look at the history of Google DeepMind and the projects currently underway at the London-based startup
Thomas Macaulay
Tom is online editor. He studied English Literature and History at Sussex University before gaining a Masters in Newspaper Journalism from City University. He's particularly interested in the public sector and the ethical implications of emerging technologies.
By Thomas Macaulay | Mar 07, 2019
On 27 January 2014, Google made its biggest European acquisition to date, when it splashed out £400 million on DeepMind, a small startup with a grand ambition: "To solve intelligence and then to use that to solve everything else."
DeepMind wants to find the holy grail of AI: an artificial general intelligence, a cognitive system as broad as a human brain and capable of completing a vast range of tasks and perhaps overcoming the greatest threats to civilisation. As DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis put it in an interview with the Guardian: "What we're working on is potentially a meta-solution to any problem."
Hassabis cofounded DeepMind in 2010 alongside Shane Legg, a machine learning researcher from New Zealand, and childhood friend Mustafa Suleyman, who had dropped out of a degree in philosophy and theology at Oxford to set up a counselling service for young Muslims.
Suleyman gave a rare insight into DeepMind's work during a machine learning conference in London in June 2015.
"Our deep learning tool has now been deployed in many environments, particularly across Google in many of our production systems," he said.
"In image recognition, it was famously used in 2012 to achieve very accurate recognition on around a million images with about 16 percent error rate. Very shortly after that it was reduced dramatically to about six percent and today we're at about 5.5 percent. This is very much parable with the human level of ability and it's now deployed in Google+ Image Search and elsewhere in Image Search across the company.
"As you can see on Google Image Search on G+, you're now able to type a word into the search box and it will recall images from your photographs that you've never actually hand labelled yourself. We've also used it for text and scription. We use it to identify text on shopfronts and maybe alert people to a discount that's available in a particular shop or what the menu says in a given restaurant. We do that with an extremely high level of accuracy today. It's being used in Local Search and elsewhere across the company.
"We also use the same core system across Google for speech recognition. It trains roughly in less than five days. In 2012 it delivered a 30 percent reduction in error rate against the existing old school system. This was the biggest single improvement in speech recognition in 20 years, again using the same very general deep learning system across all of these.
"Across Google we use what we call Tool AI or Deep Learning Networks for fraud detection, spam detection, handwriting recognition, image search, speech recognition, Street View detection, translation. Sixty handcrafted rule-based systems have now been replaced with deep learning based networks. This gives you a sense of the kind of generality, flexibility and adaptiveness of the kind of advances that have been made across the field and why Google was interested in DeepMind."
DeepMind's tech and applications have evolved rapidly since then, but to understand how it happened we have to go back to the 1980s, when a chess prodigy in Finchley, north London was thinking about how the mind works.
Gaming the system
Hassabis has been described as "the brains behind DeepMind".
The son of a Greek Cypriot toy salesman and a Chinese-Singaporean John Lewis employee, Hassibis reached the rank of chess master as a 13-year-old, completed his A-levels at the age of the 16, and was then accepted to Cambridge but told to join when he was older. He used the academic hiatus to help design the Theme Park video game, and went on to graduate at 20 with a double-first in computer science.
He then set up his own video games studio before returning to academia for a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at University College London (UCL), where he met his fellow DeepMind founder Shane Legg, then a research associate at UCL's Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit.
Hassabis brought his old friend Suleyman to the team and the trio together founded DeepMind. Their first experiment harked back to Hassabis' previous career, when the trio taught an algorithm to play old Atari games including Space Invaders and Pong.
The convolutional neural network they built to this was the first deep learning model to successfully learn control policies directly from a high-dimensional sensory input using reinforcement learning. This impressive achievement was soon surpassed by subsequent forays into gaming.
Games had long been the setting of memorable feats in computer science before DeepMind took them on, from DeepBlue defeating Garry Kasparov at chess to IBM Watson winning Jeopardy contests, but one always seemed too complex for a machine to master: a 2,500-year-old Chinese board game called Go.
In chess, there are around 20 possible moves for the average position. In Go, that grows to 200, on a board that has more possible configurations than the number of atoms in the universe.
DeepMind wanted to take on the challenge.
The team developed a system called AlphaGo that taught itself how to play the game by studying hundreds of games-worth of historical data about positions and moves made by Go champions and then devising its own strategies. In 2016, AlphaGo became the first program to defeat a professional Go player when it won against European champion Fan Hui. The next year, the program defeated Kie Joe, the world's number one player.
"Ultimately, we want to apply these techniques to important real-world problems like climate modelling or complex disease analysis, right?" Hassibis told the Guardian. "So it's very exciting to start imagining what it might be able to tackle next…"
Developing use case
The subsequent expansion of DeepMind from research into real-world applications has not been straightforward.
In September 2015, DeepMind partnered with the Royal Free NHS Trust to develop a patient safety app called Streams that reviews test results for signs of sickness and sends staff instant alerts if an urgent assessment is required. The app also helps clinicians to quickly check for other serious conditions such as acute kidney injury and displays results of blood tests, scans, and x-rays at the touch of a button.
Nurses said the app saved them up to two hours a day, but the data-sharing agreement soon fell foul of privacy laws.
In July 2017, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ruled that the Royal Free had breached the Data Protection Act by providing DeepMind with the personal data of around 1.6 million patients.
Concerns grew the next year when Google announced it will directly manage DeepMind Health, contrary to the initial acquisition agreement to allow DeepMind to operate independently. Critics fear that the change will shift the company's focus from research to products, while privacy campaigners worry that Google will now have access to NHS patient records.
Despite these challenges, the DeepMind's team has grown rapidly to over 700 employees - 400 of whom have PhDs - plucked from overseas institutions and the golden triangle of research universities in Cambridge, London and Oxford through "acqui-hires" of the academics behind Dark Blue labs and Bision Factory.
Across six floors of a King's Cross office block, they continue to develop new AI applications from NHS systems that recognise sight-threatening eye diseases from a digital scan of the eye to a feature for Android phones that predicts which apps users will use to boost battery performance.
DeepMind's future is unclear but its AI leads the world and its founders say they remain committed to their humanitarian mission.
"I'd be much more pessimistic about the way the world is going to go if I didn't know there was something as game-changing as AI on the way," Hassabis told The Times in December 2018.
"There are so many problems out there, from Alzheimer's disease to climate change, that are hugely complex and where we seem to be making almost no progress. Either we need an exponential improvement in human behaviour or an exponential improvement in technology, and the world doesn't look like it's getting its act together on the former."
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A nonprofit group says it is returning nearly $10,000 it received for its role in buying and distributing copies of children's books self-published by embattled Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh.
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The Maryland House of Delegates has advanced a measure to reform the University of Maryland Medical System's board in response to a scandal involving self-dealing book sales that has engulfed Baltimore's mayor.
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The system says staffers have a "high degree of confidence" that "Exercising Is Fun" was delivered in 2011 and remember it being distributed in 2011 and 2012, but no documentation about its distribution or copies were found.
Officials say FedEx receipts show they received "A Healthy Start for Herbie" in 2013 and "Fruits Come in Colors Like a Rainbow" in 2015. Only 8,700 copies of the 19,500 copies of the latter that were mentioned in a document were found. Officials say Pugh staffers retrieved books from the warehouse several times, but there's no documentation of when or how many.
Baltimore's mayor repeatedly sponsored legislation as a Maryland state senator that would've benefited a hospital system that bought her self-published "Healthy Holly" children's books in a seemingly symbiotic deal.
The Baltimore Sun reports Catherine Pugh sponsored and co-sponsored bills between 2011 and 2016 that would've benefited the University of Maryland Medical System, which was paying her hundreds of thousands of dollars through a no-bid book deal. Eight bills sought to lessen the financial impact of malpractice lawsuits.
Health care provider Kaiser Permanente also spent $100,000 on Pugh's books after she became mayor, when the company was seeking a contract with the city.
Pugh's office says she's now on an indefinite leave of absence due to deteriorating health. Republican Gov. Larry Hogan has asked the state prosecutor to investigate.


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As you can see, proper utilization of hashtags will give you the ability to market smartly on Twitter. They can be immensely helpful. However, you should keep in mind that you do not want to go overboard on the tags in all of your tweets!
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Sunderland's Darren Bent went 'Tweeting' mad when he personalised his Umbro Speciali football boots.
Darren Bent hit the headlines in the summer for using his Twitter account ) to have a go at Spurs chairman Daniel Levy for holding back his transfer from Spurs to Sunderland. Now he's becoming renowned for his Twittering, he's decided to publish his Twitter account name on his football boots.
Bent d'©buted the new personalised football boots when Sunderland drew 2-2 with West Ham.
Bent didn't get on the scoresheet, but has a modest tally of eight goals from ten games.
Bent has also used the Twitter community to help him decide upon his next pair of football boots which will see him featuring a dynamite design on the sole of the football boot.
We've seen initials, children's names, squad numbers and more used in boot personalisation, but is this the most bizarre boot personalisation you've come across?
'El mano de Dios '86' The hand of God added to Messi's boots is the best one!
The weirdest is this one by Bent, of those who see his boots, whose gonna write it down and follow him?
Clint Dempsey has that stupid snake logo on his boots. Something to do with him rapping I think.
Theo Walcot has TH14 on his boots. Same initials and number as Thierry Henry.
Beckham and Lampard are both bizarre. They have a logo of themselves on the boots.
What on earth is he putting a twitter id on his boots for? its just a pr gimmick.
I like the middle design for the sole of his new boot. Its much more interesting than sticking your twitter name on your tongue.
I like the third sole.
Also, the reason the snake is on clint dempseys shoes was because of propaganda in the revolutionary war, for you need every part of the snake to be successful. And, clint dempsey (ace- rap name)'s boots are sick.
Everyone has their own style so its important what they put on their boots.
David Villa has a lot of stuff written on his boots. The other has the asturian flag and the other one has the flag of spain while both boots have his nickname and the name of his daughter.
its definitely a gimmick, but how much do you want to bet hits on his twitter have skyrocketed since?


When Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines in November 2013, between 14 and 16 million people were affected.
Richard is a local registered nurse who was first on the scene to support people in his community.
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In New York, the Whitney Biennial foregrounds work focused on identity amid the emergence of a new form of politicized art by African-American artists.
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1993: In New York, the Whitney Biennial foregrounds work focused on identity amid the
emergence of a new form of politicized art by African-American artists.
In recent decades the different politics of identity—racial, multi cultural, feminist, and queer—have sometimes followed similar trajectories, at least as they are taken up in art. In a first phase,
an essential nature—of blackness, ethnicity, femininity, or homo sexuality—is often claimed in the face of negative stereotypes, and positive images of this nature are put forward (that is, once minority artists have won access to art institutions at all). Then, in a second phase, this critique of stereotypes is pushed to the point where such identity is seen as a social construction more than an essential nature, and the assumption of simple categories is complicated by the fact of multiple differences (e.g., that one might be black, female, and/or gay at the same time). The undoing of stereotypes is an espe- cially urgent task for artists concerned with the imaging of race, and they have developed a number of strategies to this end, including critiques of documentary forms of representation, testimonials of personal experience, and turns to alternative traditions of art.
Turning the tables
One of the most prominent artists involved in this project is Adrian Piper (born 1948). Already active in avant-garde circles in the late sixties and the early seventies, Piper adapted several devices of Per- formance and Conceptual art in her own investigation of the "visual pathology" of racism. In her "Mythic Being" series (1973-5), for example, she staged performances in public spaces that under scored the ideological construction or "mythic being" of the macho image of the African-American male, whom she impersonated. Later, in My Calling (Card) #1 (1986), she used the Conceptualist technique of the written declaration, here in the guise of a business card that informed the recipient of the card, after he or she had made a racist remark, that its bearer (Piper) was black. Piper also turned techniques of Installation and video art to her own critical purposes. Tor instance, Four Intruders Plus Alarm Systems (1980) confronts its audience with four large photographs of "angry young black men"; as viewers process their own reactions to these images, they also hear a taped recitation of hypothetical reactions from (other) white viewers. Cornered [1] confronts its audience as well, here with an overturned table set in a corner that in turn "corners" viewers with a videotape in which Piper considers the likelihood
1 • Adrian Piper, Cornered, 1988 Video installation consisting of videotape, monitor. table chairs, birth certificate, dimensions variable, 7 minutes
that the white people among them also have black ancestors: once again the myth of a simple or pure identity is challenged.
In the seventies Piper trained in Kantian philosophy, which she teaches to this day. Her dissertation adviser at Harvard was John Rawls, whose A Theory of Justice (1971) is a landmark in the field of political philosophy, and in her art Piper has consistently posed her specific arguments regarding racial inequity within the general framework of human rights issues. Other artists involved in the questioning of racial representations have tended in the opposite direction, toward a postmodernist suspicion about universal claims. Yet Piper is skeptical of any position that forgoes "the potent tools of rationality and objectivity," which she regards as necessary to the critique of the "pseudorationality" of racism, "the defenses we use to rationalize away the uniqueness of 'the other'." "All you have to do," Piper argues, "is to echo or depict those defensive categorizations as they are, without too much aesthetic or literary embellishment, in order to generate a certain degree of self-awareness of how inadequate and simplistic they are." Piper sometimes renders this "echoing" concrete through photographic and documentary testimony of her own experience and history.
Carrie Mae Weems (horn 1953) often employs personal images and stories as well. However, trained at the California Institute of the Arts and the University of California at San Diego—two
hotbeds of postmodernist art and theory—Weems is more inclined than Piper to question objective claims of truth-value. On the other hand, she draws less on avant-garde models of the sixties and seventies than on African-American precedents of the Harlem Renaissance in the forties, especially the writer Zora Neale Hurston and the photographer Roy DeCarava (his 1955 portrait of his Harlem neighborhood, The Sweet Flypaper of Life, is a particular touchstone for her). In her phototext work, Weems is content neither with strictly positive representations of African-American identity nor with merely negative demystifications.
Weems developed her signature combination of intimate pho tographs and narratives in Family Pictures and Stories (1978-84). Here, accompanied by texts and tapes, 35-millimeter snapshots tell the tale of four generations of her extended family in their various migrations from Mississippi. Even as the work reports on harsh conditions of racism, poverty, and violence, it also resists automatic assumptions about black victimization. As the critic Andrea Kirsh has argued, "Family Pictures takes two practices as points to resist: first, the imaging of black people as 'other' in the photo documen- tary tradition (a tradition that is almost the exclusive property of white photographers); second, the official sociological studies com missioned by the US government in the 1960s" (such as the famous Moynihan Report on "the black family"). Weems questions the objectifying often produced in the sociological tradition, with a nuanced account of black families drawn from her own stock of memories and experiences; and she questions the othering often pro duced in the documentary tradition through an alternative vision of black communities as developed in the work of DeCarava and others. (Informed in folklore—Weems also did graduate work in anthro pology at UC Berkeley—she has since extended her gaze to black societies in the Sea Islands, Cuba, and elsewhere.)
In the "Kitchen Table" series [2], Weems refined her complex approach. This work consists of views of one or two black subjects (a man and a woman, two female friends, and soon) seated at a kitchen table under a stark light; beneath the images run narrative texts in a third-person voice (usually that of a woman, sometimes of a man) that mulls over the different demands of personal longings, roman tic relationships, domestic arrangements, and workaday obligations. It is rare in American art, not to mention American culture at large, that such subjectivities are given such evocative expression.
Like Piper and Weems, Lorna Simpson (born 1960) also frames racial images for our critical reflection, yet her phototext works are neither as confrontational as those of Piper nor as intimate as those of Weems (her classmate at UCSD). Although also concerned with the alienation produced by stereotypes, Simpson concentrates on the use of photography as evidence, especially in the construction of pseudo objective typologies of black identities. The manipulation of photos and texts for purposes of identification and surveillance was developed in the nineteenth century by the Prench criminolo-
2 • Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Men Reading Newspaper), from the Kitchen Table series, 1990 Three silver gelatin prints, each 71.8 x 71.8 (28 1/4 x 28 1/4)
gisl Alphonse Bertillon and the English statistician Francis Gallon, but clearly the deployment of "the body as archive" for reasons of discipline and punishment continues in the present, for instance in the "profiling" used (programmatically or not) by police, employ ers, and everyday people on the street. In her early work, Simpson was concerned to mirror this typological gaze—to catch it in the act, as it were—and to trouble its prejudicial classifications.
This work features simple photographs of black figures, most of them female, often with hairstyles and clothes that suggest a partic ular group or class identity (chignons or Afros, a white cotton servant shift or a black business suit). Rarely does Simpson show entire faces, and often her models are turned away from us: such partial or obscure views solicit our curiosity, but they also frustrate any desire to master the figures through either fetishistic details or holistic images. The short texts that accompany the photographs, often single words or simple phrases, further challenge any habit of reading that is either voyeuristic or sociological or both: although often elliptical, the texts can be cautionary, even accusatory. For example, Guarded Conditions (1989) consists of eighteen Polaroid prints of a black woman of unknown age in servant clothes, seen from behind with her arms crossed behind her back. Below the photos run two texts in block letters that alternate throughout the sequence: "SKIN ATTACKS … SEX ATTACKS … Here, with great economy and force, Simpson conveys the condi tion of many black women as double targets of racism and sexism. At the same time, like Weems, she does not indulge in victimology: the poses can be read as defensive or defiant or both, and the markings of "skin" and "sex" are underscored in a way that seems to strengthen rather than to debilitate the woman pictured.
Again like Weems, Simpson combines critique and beauty in her work, as if to refute advocates of either principle who deem the com bination somehow impossible. For example, her exquisite early work The Walcrbearer |3] presents a black girl, once again in a white cotton shift and with her back turned to us. In her right hand, the girl
holds a plastic bottle by its neck and in her left a silver pitcher, and almost nonchalantly she lets water pour out of both. Underneath the image is this text in simple capitals: "She saw him disappear by the river. / They asked her to tell what happened. / Only to discount her memory." The Waterbearer "declares the existence of subjugated knowledge," as the critic bell hooks has argued, but it is a knowledge that appears resistant even when it is ignored, for the action of the girl indicates a small refusal, a slight subversion: spilling the water, releasing her burden, forgoing her task, she nonchalantly spites her implied deniers (she seems oblivious to her observers as well). Her pose is also subtly transformative: her unbalanced arms suggest a tilted scale of justice, and her contrapposto stance recalls any number of canonical figures in Western art—from ancient muses, through the maids of Vermeer, to paintings by Ingres, Seurat, and a host of others—only to redirect them toward a subject matter rarely repre sented in Western art at all. The Waterbearer thus recalls a classical tradition of beauty and grace in order to refashion it almost insou- ciantly. In her recent films and videos, Simpson has developed this aesthetic of subversive beauty further still.
The stereotypical grotesque
If Piper, Weems, and Simpson resist and redraw racial stereotypes, other artists exaggerate them to the point of critical explosion—a complementary strategy that the critic Kobena Mercer has termed "the stereotypical grotesque." Pioneered in the early seventies by artists in the States such as Betye Saar (born 1929), Faith Ringgold and David Hammons, this kind of parody was developed in the eighties and nineties by artists in Britain such as Rotimi Fani- Kayode (1955-89), Yinka Shonibare, and Chris Ofili, among others, in photography, painting, and other media. Influenced by the homoerotic portraits of Robert Mapplethorpe, the Nigerian- born Fani-Kayode (who delighted in his own outsider status as a gay African man in London) exaggerates the primitivist cliches of
3 Loma Simpson, The Waterbearer, 1936 Silver-gelatin print with vinyl lettering. 114 x 194 x 4 (45 x 77 x 1 3/4)
SHE SAW HIM DISAPPEAR BY THE RIVER, THEY ASKED HER TO TELL WHAT HAPPENED,ONLY TO
DISCOUNT HER MEMORY,
African sexuality in his portraits of near-naked black men, who are shown painted, feathered, or otherwise costumed in exotic "tribal" garb 141. Meanwhile, his compatriot Shonibare caricatures the other side of the primilivist fantasy: for example, in the three photos of his "Effnick" series (S| he assumes the sumptuous costume and haughty pose of a bewigged English gentleman of the late eighteenth century, a leisured man of letters (or perhaps a Victorian dandy who adopts this artificial style anachronistically). This fictional aristocrat, whose holdings might include colonial plantations worked by slaves, could well be the subject of a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds—except for the fact that he is black. The imposture thus becomes a kind of travesty that renders the cultiva tion of the aristocrat more than suspect.
In Britain, of course, racist ideology is keyed to a complex history of colonialism more than to a traumatic legacy of slavery. One result is that "black" is a broader category in the Britain than in the United States, and its investigation involves many different sub jects, cultures, and traditions. Indeed, British black art and film has explored a wide range of issues of the African diaspora and "the Black Atlantic." And in the eighties and nineties this great multi culturalism of multiple differences and hybrid states provoked an extraordinary efflorescence of painting, photography, and film- making by such different artists as Isaac Julien, Sonia Boyce, Steve McQueen, Keith Piper, and Ingrid Pollard, to name only several.
Of special relevance here is the work of Julien, which has spanned feature films, television documentaries, and film installa tions. From Who Killed Colin Roach?, a 1983 documentary about the suspicious death of a young black man while in police custody, through Looking for Langston, a luscious short film of 1988 evoking the gay life and aesthetics of the great poet Langston Hughes, a leader of the Harlem Renaissance, to his film installations with double and triple projections of the 1990s, such as The Attendant and The Long Road to Mazat/dn, Julien has explored different representations of race, class, art, and homosexuality in British and American culture at large. Again and again lie has used the force of desire to disrupt any rigidity in the definition of these categories, and he has doubled his thematic blurring of the edges between genders and sexualities with a formal blurring of the lines that divide genres and disciplines: fiction and nonfiction; imagistic and narrative; art and documentary; film and video. A cofounder of Sankofa Film and Video, a collective of young black British film makers, in the early 1980s, Julien has long collaborated on projects in which politics and aesthetics are never pitted against each other; at the same time he has developed a cinematic style, rooted in gay black sensibility but not confined to any restrictive identity, that is distinctly his own.
Legibilities of race
The strategy of "the stereotypical grotesque" is also developed by young American artists such as Kara Walker (born 1969), whose tableaux and installations consist of postings and projections, on the
4 – Rotimi Fanl-Kayode, Nothing to Lose IV (Bodies of Experience), 1909
white walls of galleries and museums, of black-paper cutouts |6]. Walker cites the genres of the cameo and the silhouette, but where one might expect the safe profiles of loved ones that are typical of these discreet forms, Walker restages ante-Bellum caricatures of Deep South slaves and slave-owners involved in wild scenes of sex and violence. In effect, she restages the myths of racist lore, but in a ribald fashion that undermines them at the same time. These fantasies persist outrageously in the American unconscious, Walker suggests; at the same time she subjects them to subversively exces sive reimaginings.
The Walker silhouettes are both very visible and quite anony mous in a way that points to the ambiguous legibility of race in social relations today. This ambiguity is treated by some artists in the medium of painting, often through analogies of canvas with skin and paint with skin color. Ellen Gallagher (born 1965) has devel oped a language of tiny pictographs set on large fields of paper and canvas [7]. Often built up in shallow relief, her symbols look from a distance to be abstract forms; their combination of repetition and variation is sometimes associated with the rigorously nonobjective paintings of Agnes Martin. Only on closer examination are these forms revealed to be eyes, mouths, faces, hair styles, and the like— that is, physical attributes that arc singled out for special significance in racist physiognomies. Even as Gallagher mimes this typological process, however, she breaks down its constituent parts, its loaded details, nearly to the point of their utter deconstruction.
5 Yinka Shonlbare, Untitled, from the "Effnick" series, 1997 C-print. reproduction on Baroque frame edition two of five. 122 x 91.5 (40×36)
6 • Kara Walker, Camptown Ladies, 1998 (detail) Cut paper and adhesive on wall dimensions variable
7 • Ellen Gallagher, Preservo (Yellow), 2001 Oil, pencil, and paper on magazine no page. 33.7 x 25.4 (13 3/4 x 10)
Glenn Ligon (born 1960) also plays with the legibility of race, here through the trope of paintings in black on white and white on black [8]. He has borrowed texts and images involving race, often drawn from writers like James Baldwin and critics like Frantz Fanon, setting them on canvas with various degrees of contrast between figure and ground, surface and depth. In effect, Ligon turns the formal issues of modernist painting into perceptual tests of racial readings, and vice versa. Here the structural questioning of abstraction and signification—from the early canvases of Jasper Johns through the continued investigations of Robert Ryman— takes on new social meaning and political valence.
Coco Fusco, Bodies That Were Not Ours (Now York Routledge, 2001) Thelma Golden, Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art. New York. Whitney Museum of American Aart, 1994) Stuart Hall and Mark Soaly. Different; Contemporary Photography and Black identity (London. Photdon Press 2001)
Kellie Jones et al. Lorna Simpson (London Phardon Press 2002) Kobcna Mercer, Welcome to the Jungle. New Positions in Cultural Studies (Routledgo. 1994)
8 • Glenn Ligon, Untitled {I Feel Most Colored ..), 1990 Oil on wood 203.2 x 76.2 (80 x 30)
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Der Begriff Ökoterrorismus bezeichnet politisch motivierte Rechtsübertretungen, die im Zusammenhang mit der Umwelt (Ökologie) stehen. Nach verschiedenen Verständnissen bezeichnet man damit entweder
 Handlungen mit dem Ziel, der Umwelt zu nutzen beziehungsweise sie vor Schaden zu bewahren oder
 Taten mit erheblichem Schaden für die Umwelt.
Die Wortschöpfung geht auf verschiedene Berichte zur Sicherheitslage in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika des Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) beziehungsweise auf Reaktionen verschiedener Umweltschützer zurück und bezieht sich auf Aktivitäten der Öko- und Tierrechtsbewegung.

Unterschiedliche Begriffsauffassungen
Ökoterrorismus wurde geprägt durch das US-amerikanische Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) als:

Umweltschützer sehen ihn als einen Propagandabegriff, der von den Strafverfolgungsbehörden zur Kriminalisierung ihrer weitestgehend legalen Proteste genutzt wird. Nach ihrer Auffassung versucht man damit, die Öffentlichkeit zu täuschen, Einzelfälle herauszustellen und der inhaltlichen Auseinandersetzung auszuweichen.

Beispiele für die unterschiedliche Verwendung
Umweltschützer verstehen unter dem Begriff Ökoterrorismus zum Beispiel den Kahlschlag von Urwäldern, den hohen CO2-Ausstoß der Industrienationen, die Belastung der Umwelt mit Chemieabfällen, den allgemeinen Raubbau an der Natur oder die andauernde Nutzung von unsicheren Atomkraftwerken. Der Kanadier David Suzuki hatte 2005 den Premierminister Australiens, John Howard, wegen seiner Mitverantwortung für das Scheitern des Kyoto-Protokolls, als Ökoterroristen bezeichnet.

Weitere Beispiele
 Earth Liberation Front, Eric McDavid
 Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Rezeption
In Literatur und Film kommen mitunter "Ökoterroristen" vor. So greifen die Figuren Poison Ivy und Ra's al Ghul (beide aus dem Comic-Universum von DC, insbesondere in Batman-Comics und diversen Verfilmungen) zu kriminellen Methoden, um die Umwelt gegen den Einfluss des Menschen zu verteidigen. Auch im Comic The Secret Service (Verfilmung 2014) tritt mit Richmond Valentine ein derartiger Charakter auf.

Einzelnachweise

Naturschutz
Tierschutz
Terrorismus

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Mariah is the one. She turned 4 on Thursday.
Her parents had just started letting Maranda Wilborn go outside again, and she had started first grade after missing nearly every day of kindergarten at Jefferson Elementary School.
"Her teacher was telling us Maranda was just starting to open up," said the girl's dad, Randy Wilborn.
Then Maranda fell ill with a fever in late October, which meant another trip to Cardinal Glennon's Emergency Department. A routine blood test revealed the new battle for the family.
Acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer that starts in the bone marrow, often acts more aggressively than other leukemia, especially when it follows another cancer, her doctor said. It's also more likely to come back.
"We know that these are sneakier than your average AML," Ferguson said.
That said, there was plenty on Maranda's side even before finding her sister was a match.
Throughout the discoveries of Maranda's cancers and treatments, the Wilborn family has relied on their faith. That faith is perhaps even stronger now, Myiesha and Randy said.
"We saw what the Lord has done. We're not worried," Myiesha said.
The oncologist has reassured the family that treatment can be successful. That first step was finding a donor.
The family is accepting donations to help with costs associated with transportation and missed work to accommodate Maranda Wilborn's treatments. Go to www.gofundme.com/family-of-maranda-wilborn for more information.
Maranda's oncologist says he didn't actually believe the blood count test showing AML when he saw it.
"She looked great. I actually didn't believe the (differential blood count test) when they forwarded it. I went down, looked at the slide, I looked at her. She had no fever, no pain; she actually looked quite good," Ferguson said.
Maranda was to go to the hospital for a planned five-day course of chemotherapy on Thursday, her mother said. Thursday is also Mariah's fourth birthday, and the girls planned to have cake and watch movies at the hospital. During Maranda's last stay, they watched "Home Alone" and all its sequels.
Myiesha thinks the family will be home for Thanksgiving, unlike last year when the family stayed at the hospital for every birthday, anniversary and holiday. She's looking forward to feeding her daughter, knowing that Maranda is usually sad to be in the hospital and doesn't eat well there.
"At home it's 'give me give me give me,'" Myiesha said, laughing.
Now that a match is made, doctors will soon use high doses of chemotherapy to "give leukemia a last kick and get her bone marrow out" to make room for the healthy donor bone marrow, Ferguson said.
He said some people with AML are in remission but keep undergoing chemotherapy for that reason. This form of leukemia is "more aggressive" in coming back, he said.
The higher dose chemotherapy and early donation process will leave Maranda's immune system completely unable to fend off the slightest illness. She will have to stay in an isolated hospital environment for several weeks, and be "pretty limited" socially for about six months.
Donor's bone marrow regenerates within a couple of days, he said. Recipients take longer, which leaves them open to infection longer.
"We really don't trust the immune system to fight off these things," Ferguson said, explaining that the new cells would need six to 12 months to regenerate an immune system, and Maranda will need to undergo all baby and child vaccinations again.
Typically, bone marrow donors have to be 18 to donate; the bone marrow registry website says the upper age limit is generally 44. Ferguson explained that "extra safeguards are in place" to ensure exceptions such as under-18 siblings are donating in a safe and ethical manner.
She's a fighter. She's got a great attitude, a great family. We are doing everything we can to be invited to her college graduation.
Maranda and her family have a reputation around Cardinal Glennon and The Costas Center, where she receives treatment. She's quiet and reserved, and they love and support one another.
Through the months of sickening chemotherapy and painful platelet infusions, the doctor and nurses at Cardinal Glennon see their patient of more than a year as a determined fighter but also a quiet girl starting "to come out of her shell a little," Ferguson said.
"She's just a sweet girl; you can tell just by looking. The whole family is. They come in together all the time," said nurse Elena Antoine, who works at The Costas Center.
The family generally spends most of the day at The Costas Center for Maranda, Antoine said.
"The kids all play together when they are here; they make the most of it," Antoine said.
Maranda last week said, in the quiet voice she typically saves for non-family, that Antoine was her favorite nurse.
"You don't have me fooled, I told her. I know who you are," Antoine said she told Maranda.
It's not all games and laughter at The Costas Center, Antoine said. Maranda has had an allergic reaction to the platelets she gets as part of her chemotherapy treatment, and the girl was itching, coughing and vomiting.
"And that little girl is just sitting there with her legs crossed, tears coursing down her face just ... keeping her same composure," Antoine said.
For more information on the National Bone Marrow Registry, go to www.BeTheMatch.org.


TC Restaurant GroupLuke Bryan is revealing more details about his new restaurant and honky tonk set to open on Lower Broadway in Nashville.
Luke's 32 Bridge Food + Drink will be Music City's only six-floor entertainment venue, complete with four live music stages, eight bars, and two restaurants, including one serving sushi on the multi-level rooftop. The new 30,000-square-foot hot spot will occupy the historic American National Bank Building at 301 Broadway.
So far, there's no word on the opening date for the new destination, which will be operated by the same company behind FGL House and Jason Aldean's Kitchen + Rooftop Bar.
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