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Say it out loud: Detroit!
That's all you have to do. Detroit. The Motor City. The Arsenal of Democracy. Motown. Techno. Detroit Rock City. "Imported from Detroit." The city that put the world on wheels. The city that built the American middle class. Muscle cars. Marvin Gaye. Jack White. Kid Rock. Like a Rock. The D. Eight Mile. Miguel Cabrera.
This is a city with serious brand power, even if right now it has little else.
Detroit's special place in American popular culture is just one reason why the city's bankruptcy filing Thursday is such a big deal, even if it hardly qualified as a surprise. Detroit is the one-word metaphor for all the anxiety about American decline – even if the reality is that the Southeast Michigan economy all around Detroit is rebounding thanks to the increasing success of the hometown car makers.
The resurgence of the Detroit Three auto makers from their collective near-death experiences during the Great Recession drives the optimism expressed by a broad swath of Detroiters that eventually – after some tough decisions are made and painful losses absorbed – the city can rebound. Detroiters are used to seeing the mighty of the auto industry rise, and fall, and rise again on a roughly ten-year cycle.
Just like America, the Motor City was on top of the world in the 1950s and 1960s. So was the city's most famous corporate citizen, General Motors Co. Their trajectories since then follow similar tracks.
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, General Motors was a powerhouse. It owned roughly half the U.S. car market, and could have grabbed more if its leaders weren't worried about federal trustbusters. GM had two relevant rivals: Ford and Chrysler. It set the pace for automotive design and technology. Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen They were making their first steps onto the world market after recovering from the havoc brought by bombers made in Detroit.
Detroit, likewise, thrived in this world where factories were still located in urban areas, and the development of suburbia as an alternative lifestyle for middle class families who could live father from work because of ever more affordable cars was just beginning. GM had a dominant market share, and so did Detroit.
Leaders of both institutions underestimated the threats posed by changes in technology, culture and global trade that began in the 1950s and 1960s. The first Volkswagen Beetles and Toyotas that appeared on American roads and the appearance in 1954 of the first suburban shopping mall just past Detroit's northern boundary were warnings both institutions failed to heed.
By the late 1980s Toyota, Honda and other upstart rivals were clearly cutting into GM's sales. Ford's aerodynamic Taurus sedan had knocked Chevrolet off its perch as the trendsetter in the mainstream family car market. The company's market share slid to 41% in 1986, and was heading lower. GM's executives knew Japanese rivals were beating them on the company's manufacturing efficiency and vehicle quality.
Still, the response was denial. Anyone who forecast that GM's market share would fall below 38% was "smoking opium," the company's then-president declared. GM's market share today: 18%.
Denial was the strategy for the city, as well. Old inner city factories were closing, and new ones were going up in suburbs and in farm country far from Detroit, including in Southern states, where taxes were lower and labor cheaper. People began to follow the jobs and homes sprang from former corn fields even as mansions sat empty downtown. The construction of freeways through Detroit carved up many once cohesive downtown neighborhoods, making it easier to hold a job in the city while living in one of the new subdivisions that sprawled across the northern suburbs.
Detroit's leaders tried to stem the tide by encouraging development of new downtown monuments. But they balked at attacking the root causes of the outflow of people and money to communities with lower taxes, better services and better schools.
The city and GM also failed to have the showdowns with their respective unions made necessary by their failures in the marketplace. GM sold cars. Detroit sold the experience of living in the city. Not enough people were buying in either case. That meant the money wasn't there to finance deals struck with employees in the fat years for generous pensions and retiree health care benefits.
After some bruising skirmishes in the late 1990s, GM's leaders shied away from a war with the United Auto Workers. Instead, they opted for labor peace and a bet that the company could outrun the bear of retiree legacy costs and uncompetitive factories by selling enough vehicles to cover the ever-increasing costs.
If sales lagged, and they often did, GM just piled on discounts. The strategy would prove toxic – the rebates and cut-rate finance deals ran down the brand image and the resale value of GM cars, making new ones all the harder to sell.
Detroit's leaders also spent the relatively prosperous 1990s and early 2000s betting that some new development downtown – casinos, new stadiums for the Detroit Lions and Tigers, some corporate offices enticed out of the suburbs by tax breaks – could give the city breathing room.
As the city's share of Southeast Michigan's population decreased, leaders shied away from cutting Detroit's municipal workforce and spending to match the diminished tax base. Instead, they borrowed money to tide things over and deferred more fundamental reforms. The result: $18 billion in obligations, including debts to pensioners and bondholders, and basic services that have crumbled to a woeful state.
As Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder pointed out Thursday, it takes 58 minutes on average for police to respond to a call, compared to a national average of 11 minutes.
Both GM and Detroit hoped that a stable economy would allow time for less painful solutions. What they got instead was the financial crisis.
That cataclysm forced GM to make many of the long-needed accommodations to reality that its leaders had put off before. The success that the leaner, far less indebted GM has had since its trip through bankruptcy court is a cause for hope among Detroiters. That GM could go bankrupt was once unthinkable. Now, it's easier to imagine that a giant institution can go bust, and be reborn.
In one key respect, Detroit's story now diverges from GM's. Saving the auto giant was deemed to be a national imperative, worthy of some $80 billion in federal funding.
So far, Detroit isn't so lucky. City emergency manager Kevyn Orr's 11th hour appeal to the White House for federal aid resulted in nothing. Detroit will have to fix this on its own. There are hopeful signs. A diverse collection of young entrepreneurs, as well as some big investors such as Quicken Loans chief Dan Gilbert, are bringing life to some downtown neighborhoods Whole Foods Market Inc. saw enough potential to open a store in the Midtown neighborhood near Wayne State University. The challenge will be spreading prosperity beyond the hipster enclaves.
Still, not for nothing is the city's motto: "Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus," or, "We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes."


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Side Effects of Brachytherapy
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I would like to know the side effects of brachytherapy for prostate cancer, particularly long term.
Richard Whittington, MD, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, responds:
The tissue changes from brachytherapy are not that different from what you see with external beam radiation. The secretory activity falls and there is frequent obstruction of the vas deferens/ejaculatory duct. There is "dropout" of the normal glands within the prostate, which are then replaced by dense fibrosis, or scar tissue. What this all means is that most men will have a dry ejaculate. A biopsy will show fibrous tissue with islands of glandular tissue.
On the whole, the effects are very operator- and definition- dependent. The more skill and experience the brachytherapist has, the fewer and less severe the side effects will generally be.
Most report a risk of impotence that is anywhere from 20% to 50%, depending on how rigid a definition you use. Are men taking sildenafil considered potent? Is a partial erection that does not last long enough for intercourse considered potent? Patients should ask the provider exactly how they define the term potent.
The risk of rectal bleeding is about 10%, and the risk of rectal ulcer is <3%. Most men find that their AUA urinary symptom scores rise by about 2 or 3 points. About 5% of men can have telangiectasis (small dilated blood vessels) of the bladder neck causing some hematuria (blood in the urine) with UTI or heavy lifting, etc.

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Parents and caregivers worldwide are faced with a same dilemma every time they take their children on a vacation or even to a routine activity outside of the home - How much "stuff" do I need to pack for my children? It's amazing how many items are needed to keep children happy, comfortable, fed, and entertained, even during the simplest routine excursions. Short packing lists reminders once jotted down on post-its have become full page checklists, filled with "must-have" items like books, toys, blankets, snacks, crayons, pillows, and more - the list goes on and on. With so many items to keep track of extra baggage is added, carrying capacity becomes a real issue, and stress builds during what should be a relaxing vacation.
Cabeau invented the patent-pending BlanKid Buddy with one thought in mind - Make Travelling More Comfortable For Everyone! The BlanKid Buddy is an ALL-IN-ONE blanket, pillow, and plush animal that converts in 3 easy steps to an completely functional large backpack. It is a space-saver and stress reliever for any lucky parent or caregiver. Imagine being able to place all of a child's "must-have" travel belongings into one bag and actually have THEM carry it!
In surveys, children go wild over each BlanKid Buddy. The amazing BlanKid Buddy helps to make your child self-sufficient and provides you the stress-free trip you planned.
The BlanKid Buddy has multiple features that make it the Most Functional Children's Travel Product Available:
PLUSH BLANKET that will fasten into place under the child?s legs and provides a generous 30" long by 15" wide amount of coverage - more than sufficient for most children ages 3-8.
COMFORTABLE PILLOW created from the animal arms that wrap around and attach behind the child's neck to offer head support while sleeping. The high lateral stabilization supports prevent the child's head from falling to the side, and the safety-tested travel pillow velcro easily releases with minimal pressure. The animal arms also attach under the animal head allowing the blanket to be used as a soft floor pillow and comfortable nap mat when flipped over.
COMPLETE BACKPACK with an incredible amount of space to carry most travel belongings. The backpack includes an extra outer pocket that allows for quick and easy access to smaller items, as well as an additional water-resistant bag. The separate bag attaches to the inside of the backpack and can be removed when converting into the blanket and travel pillow. This inner bag easily detaches and can be cinched for further travel convenience, keeping the child?s belongings together in one manageable location.
3 DIFFERENT ANIMAL BUDDIES made with extremely soft and cuddly plush fabric. Makemba the Monkey is a Bonobo Ape from South of the Zaire River in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pailou the Panda is a Giant Panda from the Sichuan Province of China, and Lula the Ladybug is a Ladybird Beetle from Yosemite National Park, California.
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"From an aesthetic point of view, any architect will tell you that vinyl has no use being on an Eichler," says contractor Jonathan Cooke of Renaissance Man Construction in San Mateo. "But from a cost perspective, a lot of people go with them because they're more affordable, and because they don't have to worry about condensation."
The downside to vinyl doors is their commonly bulky frames, which most often are manufactured only in white or almond. Few vinyl manufacturers produce darker-framed doors (Aurora, among others, offers custom color coating for an additional fee), which are generally viewed as aesthetically more desirable for modern architecture. Dark colors, however, absorb more heat, making the door framing less energy efficient.
General contractor Regev Amir of Diamond Building & Construction in San Rafael recently completed a remodel on an Eichler in Lucas Valley that used Milgard's Style-Line vinyl series. "The client picked a brown color to stay with the old look and to match the house color," Amir says.
In this case, the homeowner opted to leave the doors the same size (eight feet tall) and installed a glass panel to the right of the door. "Milgard is not the best quality door," notes Amir, "but when used with the right colors and glass panels, they can sure make a difference, especially today, when budget is such an important part of a project."
No matter which brand or frame material they choose, homeowners should carefully consider the contractor they hire for door installations. A contractor familiar with modern design and construction can make a new door blend in seamlessly, complete with period-appropriate hardware. "They are going to understand the project and direct you to the right product for your home," Calvert says.
Most aluminum door brands typically are available with simple metal handles free of decoration that present a compatible, minimalist aesthetic. Companies like Slide-Co, a hardware replacement company based in Redlands, can usually source appropriate hardware for a project.
It's also important to understand the structural and legal requirements necessary for every sliding door replacement project. "If you're talking about replacing a door where there's already one in place, you don't have to consider the structural aspects too much," Klopf says. "But you should talk to an engineer if you're adding a door."
For most retrofit installations where a new doorframe is not needed, owners won't need to pull a building permit to replace a sliding door. When installing a slider that demands new frames, however, permits oftentimes are required.
For those homeowners with money to invest and a desire for greater connection to the outdoors, a NanaWall system may be a good fit. At first glance, the NanaWall looks like floor-to-ceiling glass windows, but in reality it's a series of glass panels that can easily open and stow away out of sight to create unobstructed views and access to the backyard or an atrium.
"This is good for making a room look and feel much bigger than it is," says Ebrahim Mana, president of NanaWall. "Homeowners will find they are using their outdoor space much more."
NanaWall panels can be hung from the top or the bottom and have a single thin track. Folding systems can create widths up to 36 feet, and individual panels can offer virtually an unlimited opening size. Swing doors are also available for fixed panels and one or two smaller openings. Made to order, the frames are constructed in aluminum, wood, or aluminum-clad wood.
The NanaWall system is energy efficient and recently received the Energy Star rating. Because the closed system remains air tight when closed, hot or cold air does not breach the barrier. This helps the inside temperature to remain at a constant level, cutting heating and cooling costs.
NanaWall utilizes insulated glass with low-E film to ensure proper insulation from extreme temperatures. The aluminum-framed models are thermally broken to prevent heat transfer. Prices usually run from $1,000 to $3,000 per panel. "NanaWalls are expensive, and if you are removing significant lengths of wall, you would have to put in some seismic strength and structural work," Klopf notes.
The bottom line for sliding door replacements is you get what you pay for. Quality, style, and functionality improve with price and a quality installation. "Everybody wants to be comfortable and enjoy the view," says Aurora's Smelyansky, "and these doors connect people to the world."
Many homeowners have a love affair with their original sliding doors and strive to keep from replacing them. Eichler owner Carol Gilbert says she plans to refurbish her original Arcadia sliders and was lucky to get one original replacement from a neighbor who remodeled.


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The resounding primary victories by Linda McMahon and Chris Murphy on Tuesday will launch a fresh onslaught of political ads, arguments about the economy and a never-ending loop of attacks and rebuttals in what will be one of the nation's most closely watched races for the U.S. Senate.
The fight begins in earnest Wednesday. McMahon, the Republican multimillionaire founder and former CEO of the wrestling empire known as WWE, and Murphy, the three-term Democratic congressman from Connecticut's 5th District, each handily dispatched with primary opponents. Both won by better than 2-to-1 and now face each other in the general election campaign.
"Come September, there's going to be a big flood of TV ads,'' predicted William Salka, a professor of political science at Eastern Connecticut State University. "Because it's an open Senate seat, you're going to see a lot of outside money pouring in."
The seat has been held by U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman since 1988. Lieberman's retirement represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity for an ambitious politician, particularly for Connecticut Republicans who have been unable to win a Congressional seat since U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays was defeated in 2008. Shays was smothered by McMahon on Tuesday.
There's more at stake than the personal ambitions of either Murphy or McMahon, who ran for U.S. Senate in 2010 and lost to Democrat Richard Blumenthal. The race could help determine which party controls the Senate next year. Republicans need to gain at least four seats to recapture the Senate.
Democrats Hold Voting Edge, McMahon Has Fortune
Connecticut's blue state leanings give Murphy an edge, said Salka, who is not affiliated with either party. But, he added, McMahon's vast fortune — she has invested at least $63 million of her own money since entering the political sphere in 2009 — and her effort to reach out to women voters could make the race far more competitive than Washington prognosticators are forecasting.
Unlike Blumenthal, Murphy has never run statewide and remains an unknown to many voters. A Quinnipiac University poll released earlier this summer found that 46 percent of registered voters don't know enough about him to form an opinion.
This has given the McMahon campaign the opportunity to define its opponent, an effort that began well before the primary. For the past few weeks, McMahon has been airing attack ads that paint Murphy as a legislative back-bencher who has accomplished little in Congress, a Washington insider detached from the everyday concerns of Connecticut citizens, and a career politician who doesn't know the first thing about creating jobs and doesn't even have a "jobs plan."
"We've assumed for some time that Chris Murphy was going to be the opponent,'' said Tim Murtaugh, spokesman for the McMahon campaign. "He has spent his entire adult life in elective office and has taken some positions that we frankly feel are wrong for Connecticut, and we intend to be talking about those."
The Murphy campaign aims to keep the discussion squarely on McMahon's record at WWE, the Stamford-based company she built with her husband, Vince McMahon.
"Linda McMahon is running what is essentially a marketing campaign trying to trick voters into thinking she's something she's not,'' Murphy spokesman Ben Marter said. "It's all smoke and mirrors. She likes to talk about her business experience, but if the country was run the way Linda McMahon ran the wrestling industry, we're in deep trouble."
Marter said the Democrats intend to contrast Murphy's efforts in Congress to promote U.S. manufacturing jobs with the fact that most WWE-licensed toys are made overseas. And they will highlight WWE's decision to classify many of its performers as "independent contractors," which means the company does not have to provide health coverage and other benefits. McMahon has said U.S. policy is not conducive to manufacturing, and she has defended her company's treatment of both its employees and independent contractors.
The contrast between Murphy and McMahon, Marter said, "couldn't be any clearer."
On that point, McMahon's team agrees.
"We're running against a professional politician,'' McMahon campaign manager Corry Bliss said. "Our opponent has never worked for a small business or in the private sector ... the choice couldn't be any clearer.''
Opposing Camps
McMahon's business background and outsider status is what drew state Rep. Bill Wadsworth of Farmington to her corner.
"I tend to look at the people who have served in Washington as part of the problem,'' said Wadsworth, a Republican who represents Farmington. "Linda's a fresh face; she hasn't been part of that."
Wadsworth came to McMahon headquarters along Route 4 Monday evening. The campaign was holding an ice cream social on the eve of the primary, but it was clear McMahon was focused on November.
"I tell you, what I hear from folks [is that] they want someone who's not part of the Washington establishment,'' McMahon said, pausing between shaking hands with voters and posing for pictures. "We need a diversity of people in Washington, but what we have the fewest of are businesspeople."
McMahon spent more than $50 million telling her story in 2010. This time, she is refining her image, courting women voters and focusing almost exclusively on jobs. Bliss called her jobs plan "the centerpiece of our campaign."
Across the Connecticut River in a sleepy strip mall in Manchester, Murphy supporters scoffed at McMahon's argument, saying it is all flash and no substance. Volunteers gathered in a storefront campaign office Monday to make a last-minute blitz of phone calls before the primary. But they, too, had their sights set on November.
"Linda McMahon essentially bought the primary; now she's trying to buy the general election,'' said Mike Pohl, chairman of the Manchester Democratic Town Committee. Dressed in a bright red "Chris Murphy for Senate" T-shirt, Pohl paused every few seconds to glance at his buzzing phone. He just put out a robocall reminding Democrats to vote and was bracing for a flood of calls back.
The night before, Murphy held a rally here with Blumenthal, who beat McMahon by 12 percentage points in 2010. Dusting off his trademark line from that campaign, Blumenthal told the cheering crowd that it was "an election, not an auction,'' a swipe at McMahon's millions.
"Linda McMahon has already started blasting the airwaves with false attack ads against Chris Murphy, but they won't work,'' said Geoff Luxenberg, a Democratic state representative from Manchester who is volunteering on Murphy's campaign. "People in Connecticut know their votes are not for sale."
Both the McMahon and Murphy campaigns plan public events Wednesday to launch their campaigns.


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - March Sijun Theme: FILM FRAME STUDY Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Gallery/Finished Work View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "March Sijun Theme: FILM FRAME STUDY" SumalethAdministratorMember #Joined: 30 Oct 1999Posts: 2896Location: Australia Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:29 pm The theme for this month: FILM FRAME STUDY Inspiration image by Flaskpost A few Sijun regulars have been posting studies of film frames, and I think it's a great little exercise. Perfect for a Sijun theme. The idea, if it's not clear, is to grab an interesting frame from a film or television show and try to capture the essence of that image without being fussy. Economy of line is probably a worthwhile goal. -- New and old accepted, 2D and 3D, digital and not, finished or sketched. Feel free to cross-post images into other relevant threads, and to post older images that fit the theme. The more images the better. -- 2012-2: THE EGG 2012-1: UNFINISHED 2011-12: X-MAS 2011 2011-11: LASSO 2011-10: IMMENSE 2011-9: CARS CAR 2011-8: THE TREE 2011-7: DESK STUDY 2011-6: ALIEN LANDSCAPE 2011-5: FRUIT 2011-4: ABSTRACT 2011-3: TACHIKOMA 2011-2: MATERIALS 2011-1: SQUARES_________________Art Links Archive -- Artists and TutorialsLast edited by Sumaleth on Tue Apr 03, 2012 5:44 am; edited 2 times in total Back to top whommemberMember #Joined: 28 Feb 2012Posts: 320Location: Sweden Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 7:13 am Mine is from Centurion, I mirrored the final here from what it looks like in the movie. Wow lol I realized I suck with this stuff these days. Nice activity btw. approx, 1 hour study .. Back to top LakkamemberMember #Joined: 27 Sep 2007Posts: 811Location: Espoo, Finland Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:16 pm at school, so had to go with sketchbook+mouse on this one :p Back to top LakkamemberMember #Joined: 27 Sep 2007Posts: 811Location: Espoo, Finland Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:00 pm mouse again Back to top NidememberMember #Joined: 20 Jul 2009Posts: 477Location: Banks of the Styx Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:22 am Back to top RayTohmemberMember #Joined: 22 May 2008Posts: 263Location: Singapore Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:36 am Study from "The Thing (2011) _________________www.raytoh.com http://torei.blogspot.com Back to top HowiememberMember #Joined: 31 Oct 2006Posts: 229 Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:29 am nice Ray here are some i did not too long ago from Valhalla Rising Back to top samhellmemberMember #Joined: 12 May 2007Posts: 308Location: Hellsinki Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:00 am Because they are awesome. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Gallery/Finished Work All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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'Tis the season of red velvet. I've been hankering for a new red-velvet-something recipe and this one fit the bill.
I got it from the King Arthur Flour holiday preview catalog as I'm on their mailing list and I like trying out their recipes. The downside of using one of their catalog recipes, however, is it almost always calls for an ingredient found only or mostly on their website – it is a product catalog for a reason. However, usually the more specialized ingredients are optional so I typically do without it or substitute something else. In this case, I used red food coloring for the "red velvet flavor" and skipped the cake enhancer.
I had the taste test cupcake while it was still warm from the oven and unfrosted. Almost needless to say, it was delicious. The texture was soft and it was moist. You almost can't not like a warm cupcake. The true taste test, however, is when the cupcake is at room temperature. It was still good but a bit more dense since I probably underbaked it slightly in my abhorrence of dry, overbaked cupcakes. I still haven't mastered the art of a perfect cupcake. I like the texture of Sprinkles cupcakes (their red velvet is one of my favorites, along with their banana, pumpkin, orange ... actually, I think I like all their flavors except the chocolate one) but mine don't come out as light in texture, no matter which recipe I try. I don't think it's necessarily the recipe but my timing on when I take the cupcakes out of the oven. Haven't conquered that trick yet.
I made these for some friends and instead of using the standard cupcake liners, I made them in the mini panettone molds that I ordered from (of course) Amazon. I love using these molds. They're stiff enough that you can pour the batter in and bake them on a baking sheet, no muffin tin needed. Plus they're just cuter than cute. The only downside is if you fill them enough to bake cupcakes to the top, they'll be bigger than a regular cupcake. Oh, did I say that was a downside?
Red velvet cupcakes
From King Arthur's Flour
Yield: 24 cupcakes or two 9-inch round layers
1/2 cup (4 ounces) unsalted butter
1/4 cup (1-3/4 ounces) vegetable oil
1-3/4 cups (12-1/4 ounces) granulated sugar, superfine preferred
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons red velvet flavor (I used red food coloring)
1 tablespoon cake enhancer, optional
2 large eggs
3 cups (12 ounces) cake flour, sifted
1/4 cup (3/4 ounce) Dutch process cocoa
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup (8 ounces) buttermilk
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Place cupcake papers into two 12-cup muffin pans or lightly grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans (to make a layer cake).
Mix the butter, oil, sugar, salt, color, flavor, and cake enhancer, beating until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well and scraping the bottom and sides of the bowl after each addition.
Sift together the flour, cocoa, and baking soda. Alternately add the dry ingredients and the buttermilk to the creamed mixture, one third at a time, beating well after each addition.
Spoon the batter into the prepared pans, and bake the cupcakes for about 18-21 minutes, or the cake for 26-28 minutes, until a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean. Remove the cupcakes from the oven, cool on a rack for 5-10 minutes, then turn out of the pans to cool on the rack.
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Bishop Joseph Walker Hit With New Suit, Accused of 'Destroying' Newlywed's Marriage
Joseph Walker III, leading pastor of one of Nashville's largest churches, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, faces a second lawsuit alleging sexual misconduct involving a congregant and violating the trust of another church member, it emerged Thursday. A church spokesman told The Christian Post the claims are nothing but "fabrications."
Corey Lamont Corbin, a former member of Mt. Zion, claims that Walker betrayed his trust and broke his marriage. The plaintiff alleges the pastor had a years-long affair with his wife, which led to their divorce. The pair had reportedly turned to Walker for marriage counseling not long after getting married. Corbin is asking for $5 million in retribution.
Walker is already facing another sexual misconduct lawsuit, filed by four female former congregants earlier this month. The women accused the pastor of sexual misconduct and violating their trust over the past 10 years. Only one of the accusers, Valencia Batson, has revealed her identity, while the other three women have chosen to remain anonymous. The women are also suing for $5 million.
Corbin alleges he and his former wife, Kesha Moore, then newlyweds, went to see Bishop Walker for pastoral counseling in 2000, "specifically marital counseling for sexual problems." After the counseling, Corbin alleges, Walker began a long-term affair with his wife, which led to their divorce in 2004. Moore was married to Corbin from 1999 until 2004, according to the lawsuit.
It was also suggested in the lawsuit that Moore's relationship with Walker might have not been consensual. The legal documentation mentions that "it is highly unlikely that, given Defendant Walker's extreme and extraordinary control and influence as 'celebrity clergy' over his congregation in general, and given the breach of clerical and pastoral duty of care owed to Kesha Moore, it is difficult to imagine that any true consent could have been given by a reasonable person under these circumstances."
The documentation mentions that Walker affirmed his authority with his congregation by presenting photos of himself with government officials and celebrities, or while "driving his Bentley automobile," during church services over the years.
Mount Zion is one of Nashville's largest churches with some 25,000 members and growing at a rate of over 1,800 members per year, according to the church's website. Walker started his ministry at the church in 1992.
The new lawsuit also names two of Walker's assistants and the church as defendants.
The church replied in a statement that these new allegations, like the previous ones, are fabricated.
"There is nothing new here," church spokesman John Van Mol said in a statement emailed to The Christian Post. "No matter how many times plaintiff's counsel re-hashes the same fabrications, the result will be the same – unworthy of comment."
Church leaders have hinted previously that they see the first lawsuit as an attempt by the plaintiffs to receive financial gains.
Corbin's lawyer, Connie Allison, who also represents Batson, said "spiritual manipulation" was one of the arguments for the lawsuit.
Corbin is "internally destroyed because his spiritual life was destroyed," Allison told CP.
"If someone offered me $5 million to mess with my relationship with God and destroy my marriage – a contract between two people and God – and leave me psychologically damaged for the rest of my life – I wouldn't have that for $5 million," she said. "And I believe he (Corbin) wouldn't either."
"There is no price you can put on that," she added..


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Canada beef plant samples test negative for E. coli
Test samples from the XL Foods meat plant in Alberta have come back negative for E. coli bacteria, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said on Friday, moving closer to a decision on whether to reopen the plant, which the agency closed because some of the plant's beef products were contaminated.
Inspection officials tested meat from 5,000 carcasses that were in the Brooks, Alberta, plant before CFIA shut it down.
CFIA plans to finalize its recommendations on the plant's reopening over the weekend after further review of its bacterial controls.
"We must remain focused on the need to protect consumers," said Paul Mayers, associate vice president of programs for CFIA.
The plant has been closed since September 27 after producing beef contaminated with E. coli bacteria that sickened at least 16 people in Canada.
E. coli bacteria can cause illness, or even death, and symptoms include severe stomach cramps, vomiting and diarrhea. Cooking meat to the correct internal temperature kills the bacteria.
Millions of pounds of beef products have been recalled across Canada and in most U.S. states.
The recalled beef will be thrown out, rendered or cooked and used in frozen foods or soups, said Harpreet Kochhar, executive director of Western Canadian operations for CFIA.
The reprocessed product will not re-enter the food supply unless it is re-tested and found safe, he said.
Reprocessing the recalled products is a safe practice since the meat will be cooked, said Rick Holley, a microbiologist at the University of Manitoba.
The recalled meat is under government control in various storage sites.
The CFIA also said there is another 12 million pounds of beef from a variety of production dates in storage at XL facilities under government control. XL Foods' options for that meat include rendering or cooking it before further testing, but the company has not told CFIA what it hopes to do.
"We will consider any plan that the company presents and we will assess it relative to the ability to provide assurance that product that is available to consumers is acceptable and the safety of consumers is protected," Mayers said.
JBS USA, a unit of Brazilian meat giant JBS SA, took over management of the plant this week and holds an option to buy the Canadian and U.S. operations of privately held XL Foods for $50 million in cash and $50 million in JBS SA shares.


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SEC Approves New Rules Relating to Bond Mutual Fund Volatility Ratings
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South Gray senior Trenton Holloway knew that he and the other Rebel seniors were going to have to be the leaders of the squad this season. His job was more along the lines of hitting the boards and scoring on second chances.
Holloway has been diligent in his rebounding and scoring after two games this season, including leading the Rebels to a 60-49 victory over the Sublette Larks in a first round game of the Bluejay Invitational at Cimarron.
The senior post player scored 19 points to lead the Rebels (2-0), including 15 of South Gray's 23 first half points as his squad didn't have a hot shooting hand to begin the game.
"I have to take a leadership role because we only have three seniors on varsity," Holloway said. "He talked about rebounding a lot. We're a smaller team and we've talked about boxing out to get the rebounds."
Carson Skidmore added 13 points in the win for South Gray, while Tate Skinner scored 12 in the victory.
Taylor Williamson led Sublette (1-1) with 17 points and Jake Gesling added 10 for the Larks in the losing effort.
South Gray allowed only two field goals in the opening quarter to lead 12-5 after the opening quarter before Sublette was able to cut the margin down to six by halftime. The Rebels started getting hotter shooting hands in the second half, scoring 19 points in the third quarter and 37 after intermission to slowly pull away for the victory.
"This is a young team that we have with a lot of sophomores out there," said South Gray head coach Mark Applegate. "We only had two (players) who saw action last year, so we are pretty young. We make our share of mistakes out there, but we learn from them.
"Trenton was our leading scorer and one of our top rebounders last year, so we rely on his experience and his leadership quite a bit."
South Gray will face the winner of Tuesday night's Bucklin/Cimarron game in one Friday night semifinal, while Sublette plays the loser of that game in a consolation game Friday afternoon at the Cimarron Old Gymnasium.
SOUTH GRAY (60) – Tate Skinner 12, Zach Tyler 4, Gaige Foskuhl 2, Gabriel Loya 8, Carson Skidmore 13, Trenton Holloway 19. Totals 16 21-30 60.
SUBLETTE (49) – Levi Whaler 5, Jake Gesling 10, Taylor Williamson 17, Johnny Martens 7, Nathan Cearley 5, Kyler Line 3, Avigael Gonzalez 2. Totals 17 12-24 49.
South Gray 12 11 19 18 – 60
Sublette 5 12 12 20 – 49
Three-point baskets – South Gray 3 (Skinner 1, Skidmore 2), Sublette 2 (Williamson 1, Cearley 1). Records – South Gray 2-0, Sublette 1-1.
Meade 78, Deerfield 19
The Buffaloes actually trailed the Spartans 10-8 late in the first quarter before having their height and athleticism overpower Deerfield. Meade led 63-16 going into the final stanza.
Deerfield (0-2) recorded only one field goal after a three-point play by Alex Mata put the Spartans ahead. Meade led 14-10 after the opening stanza and outscored the Spartans 24-4 in the second quarter and 25-2 in the third in the rout.
Morgan Davis scored 23 points, Jett Little added 17 and Randy Friesen 10 in the victory for the Buffaloes (2-0). Mata led Deerfield in scoring with seven points.
Meade will play the winner of Tuesday's Satanta/Wichita County matchup in a semifinal game on Friday, while Deerfield will play the loser of the game in a consolation bracket contest at the Cimarron Old Gymnasium.
DEERFIELD (19) – Alex Mata 7, Marc Skipper 3, Jordan Calderon 2, Mike Mata 4, Colton Davis 1, Jace Bemis 2. Totals 5 8-24 19.
MEADE (78) – Jett Little 17, Chris Hardaway 7, Corbin Vanderpool 8, Dalton Wiens 1, Trevin Wiens 5, Morgan Olvera 3, Morgan Davis 23, Randy Friesen 10, Ethan Reichmann 4. Totals 28 21-31 78.
Deerfield 10 4 2 3 – 19
Meade 14 24 25 15 -- 78
Three-point baskets – Deerfield 1 (A. Mata 1), Meade 1 (Davis 1). Records – Deerfield 0-2, Meade 2-0.


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According to IDC's latest market assessment, the videoconferencing and telepresence market will continue to be one of the fastest growing networking markets for the foreseeable future.
"Growth has been spurred on by more well-defined video use cases among organizations across a range of vertical market segments, including healthcare, higher education, financial services, legal, law enforcement, manufacturing, and retail," said Rich Costello, senior analyst, Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, at IDC.
Other industry analysts are equally enthusiastic about the market outlook, as more enterprise users find new ways to connect and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders via traditional video meeting rooms and other more flexible video endpoints.
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Infonetics Research released excerpts from its fourth quarter (4Q11) "Enterprise Telepresence and Video Conferencing Equipment" report, which analyzes markets and vendors by region.
"Sales of telepresence and videoconferencing equipment surged in the past two years, with growth accelerating in 2011 as video took off on enterprise IP PBX systems" said Matthias Machowinski, directing analyst for enterprise networks and video at Infonetics Research.
The video conferencing market is being fueled by a confluence of factors, including the proliferation of video-capable equipment, demographic and communication trends that favor video, and industry use cases -- such as tele-learning and tele-medicine.
Most importantly, the video collaboration market is being driven by increasing demand across a growing number of industry verticals that use the technology today.
The Infonetics market study highlights include:
- The global enterprise video conferencing and telepresence market jumped 15 percent to $882 million between the third and fourth quarters of 2011, setting a record high for quarterly revenue.
- For the full year 2011, sales of videoconferencing and telepresence equipment are up 34 percent to $2.99 billion.
- Infonetics expects a cumulative $22 billion to be spent by enterprises on videoconferencing and telepresence hardware and software from 2012 to 2016.
- PBX-based systems had the strongest performance for the year, growing 80 percent, as they offer a cost-effective way to enjoy multi-modal communication using existing infrastructure.
- Market leader Cisco shows no signs of slowing down: its 4Q11 telepresence and videoconferencing revenue jumped 25 percent sequentially and market share is up 3 points to 52.5 percent.
- Dedicated multi-purpose room video systems made up over half the enterprise videoconferencing equipment market in 2011 and will continue to be the biggest revenue-generator among enterprise video solutions.
- Sales of videoconferencing infrastructure and endpoints are strong in all major world regions, but the standout region is the Caribbean and Latin America (CALA), which saw sales nearly double in 2011.


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(Tucson, Ariz.) – March 13th, 2012 -- Attorney General Tom Horne today announced that a guilty verdict has been reached in Pima County Superior Court in the trial of Julianne Mari Lane, a home health worker in Tucson.
Over the course of seven months, Lane, 46, stole money belonging to an elderly patient. The loss was discovered by the patient's family member after receiving several bank notices for insufficient funds.
"Crimes of this kind are among the most disturbing," Horne said. "The vulnerable adult patient in this case trusted Ms. Lane to offer professional care and was instead the victim of theft. The most vulnerable in any society deserve protection and my office is committed to vigorous prosecution of these awful crimes."
"I also want to thank the Tucson Police Department for its cooperation and dedicated work in bringing this case to a conclusion," Horne added.
Lane was convicted on March 9th of one count of fraudulent schemes and artifices and one count of theft / financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult. She had been tried on charges stemming from an indictment filed June 20, 2011 at the conclusion of a joint investigation conducted by the Tucson Police Department, the Attorney General's Special Investigations Section and the Attorney General's Health Care Fraud and Abuse Section.
At the time of these offenses, Lane was already awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to a charge of forgery in another Pima County case.
Sentencing is scheduled to take place on May 14th, 2012. Lane is facing a sentence from 6.5 to 25 years in prison.
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Nathan Dunlap, Colorado's longest-serving death-row inmate, is down to his last hope in the final appeal he is guaranteed to get.
Dunlap's attorneys are currently working on a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court asking the nation's highest court to throw out Dunlap's death sentence. That move comes because last month the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals denied a petition to reconsider its earlier decision rejecting Dunlap's appeal. When the full slate of active 10th Circuit judges was polled on whether to re-hear the case, no one spoke in favor of doing so, according to an order issued June 18.
Dunlap's lawyers argued before a panel of 10th Circuit judges in March that Dunlap's sentence should be thrown out because his trial attorneys didn't adequately present evidence that Dunlap may be bi-polar. His current attorneys said that evidence may have been enough to convince at least one juror to refuse to sentence Dunlap to die.
A lawyer for the Colorado Attorney General's office countered that Dunlap's trial attorneys made a smart legal calculation to keep that evidence from the jury because of reports suggesting that Dunlap was faking mental illness at least some of the time if not all the time. Introducing evidence of mental illness also would have opened the door for prosecutors to introduce evidence that Dunlap bullied staff and patients at the state mental hospital during an evaluation. The 10th Circuit panel agreed.


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Hi Loafer: I think Phil reiterated your sentiments exactly today on the way up to Lewis Pond and a different route coming back. The strange thing is that so many trees were still full but yes, looked frazzled or "cooked" as you have stated. We saw a lot of areas that looked like they had "potential" but Phil thought it was too late. I try to remain optimistic.
Will be doing Connecticut and the Berkshires the remaining weekends in October and perhaps down to the CT shoreline early November unless rain and wind dictate otherwise.
I'll be in Middlebury starting Friday for four days, not sure what that side of the state will have to offer, but I was wondering if anyone has been on the Lincoln back roads????
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Discouraging reports for sure. Drove into Albany, NY tonight, some areas of the Empire State still very green, but look promising. Will drive up through Vermont tomorrow on our way to Littleton NH, will let you know what we find. Sure hope the best foliage we see on this trip doesn't end up being in the state of OHIO!!!!!
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Hi Janice! Have a super time with your family! You must be very happy to finally see them. Sorry about the foliage here, it is so opposite of last season, it's hard to fathom. But trees are resilient and next year will be another autumn to look forward to. I had so many outdoor activities on the schedule this year, more than ever really, that I am actually having the time of my life up here. The weather has been outstanding for outdoor enthusiasts. Every day when I get home, I sit out on the inn deck and soak in the sun, knowing winter is not far behind. This is better than rain for sure and I would not have been able to do all my fun events. For that I am grateful! There is so much to do in Vermont and having a backup plan to leaf-peeping is a life saver. All in all, I'm just happy to be up here on vacation and am enjoying each and every day immensely! Have a great trip!!!! Sorry I missed you this year, maybe 2018!
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Hi CT! Yep, just happy to be here! We will be here till the 17th so we'll see what unfolds. My daughter and grandkids are very excited to see their husband and Dad today for the first time in a month. It's been quite the journey traveling across this beautiful country of ours with four littles. Plus getting to visit with another son and his family in Illinois. Lucky for us we get to look forward to many visits in the future! I've always wanted a vacation home in New England and now I have one!
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Nude lipstick can be hard to pull off, I'm cool toned and rather pale so they tend to make me look washed out. Becca offer a good selection of 4 nude lip colours (Gisella, Estella,Laelia and Yasmina) within their sheer tint lip colour range. The two I have are Gisella (peachy/caramel pinky nude) and Yasmina (mauve/beige nude)they feel very creamy and comfortable on, pigmentation is good for a sheer lipstick, they don't last long but that seems to be the case for most brands range of sheer lipsticks. Of the two Gisella is probably the safer option as Yasmina is probably best for those cool toned and I could see it pulling a bit too brown on some so ymmv with that one.
The Becca website tends to do at least one 20% off a year so its worth checking makeup boards/blogs for codes as if they give a code for the American site this applies to UK site as well.
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Jon Daniels Named President of Baseball Operations/GM
Daniels and George will continue to oversee day-to-day operations under CEO Nolan Ryan
Arlington, Texas - The Texas Rangers announced today the promotions of General Manager Jon Daniels to President of Baseball Operations/General Manager and the promotion of Chief Operating Officer Rick George to President of Business Operations.
Daniels and George will continue to oversee day-to-day operations under CEO Nolan Ryan
Arlington, Texas - The Texas Rangers announced today the promotions of General Manager Jon Daniels to President of Baseball Operations/General Manager and the promotion of Chief Operating Officer Rick George to President of Business Operations.
In their respective roles, Daniels and George will continue to oversee the day-to-day baseball and business operations of the Rangers organization under the leadership of Chief Executive Officer Nolan Ryan.
"Under Nolan Ryan's leadership over the last five years, the Rangers organization has made enormous strides both on and off the field," said Rangers Co-Chairman Ray Davis and Bob Simpson. "On the baseball side, Nolan has helped Jon Daniels develop into one of the game's top executives. Off the field, Rick George has worked with Nolan to find new ways to drive growth and to make sure our fan experience is among the best in baseball. These promotions not only reflect the day to day responsibility Nolan has assigned to Jon and Rick, but also the terrific job they have done. We are fortunate to have such an experienced and talented leadership team, led by Nolan, that puts our fans first and is committed to winning."
"I am proud of what we have accomplished as an organization over the last several years," said Ryan. "That has been due in large part to the efforts of a lot of talented and dedicated individuals who work in all areas of the ballclub. I want to congratulate Jon and Rick on their promotions as the organization moves forward with a tremendous group of employees to achieve an even greater level of excellence in 2013 and in the years to come. "
Daniels is in his eighth season overseeing the Rangers baseball operation after being appointed General Manager in October 2005. This is his 12th overall season with the organization. His tenure has seen a complete overhaul of the Rangers farm system and the development of an organizational philosophy based on strong scouting and player development. Texas has advanced to the postseason in three consecutive seasons for the first time in franchise history, including back-to-back American League pennants in 2010 and 2011. The Rangers were also selected as the 2012 Topps Organization of the Year.
George joined the Texas organization as Chief Operating Officer in October 2010 and oversees all revenue-generating and team business areas in that role including ticket sales, corporate partnerships, ballpark operations, and communications. The Rangers have established franchise records for home attendance and sponsorship revenues in each of the last two seasons. In 2012, Texas finished third among the 30 major league clubs for both overall home attendance at 3,460,280 and average home attendance of 42.720 while setting another club mark with 38 sellouts at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.
Baseball's all-time strikeout leader and a first ballot Hall of Famer, Ryan rejoined the Rangers as team President in February 2008 and added the title of Chief Executive Officer in March 2011.


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Miscellaneous ~ Site Updates, Discord, Etc# Posted on April 4th, 2018 04:20 PM by Gideon ZhiHi everyone,
There´s an awful lot to talk about, an awful lot that´s happened in the last few years that the site has been silent. Some of that´s personal and isn´t really appropriate for this feed, but there´s a ton of news on a bunch of different projects that needs to get shared, and a number of pages on the site are a little creaky with age as well. So for the next little while I´ll be posting updates on Mondays and on Thursdays with project news, with site infrastructure updates as they occur.
For today, you´ll note that I´ve removed the "wanted" link from the hotbar; the information in it was old and misleading, it was an extremely manual process to keep it up to date, and in general it is no longer needed. I´ve replaced it with an invite link to the Aeon Genesis discord. The rules are basically the same as the forum rules.
Of particular note is that several years ago I set up a task and bug tracker, and I´ve grown to greatly appreciate tickets in the system for keeping track of what needs to be done on a given project. The task lists aren´t exhaustive (in particular, one game only has two tasks: "translate the script" and "insert the script") but more get added as projects mature. Additionally, any updates to tickets on public projects are echoed to a channel on the discord. Consider the site to be big-picture news, while the ticket feed is much more fine-grain. You won´t see individual bug fix updates on the website, but if you´re interested in following the day-to-day, the discord is the way to go.
More soon!
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Progress ~ Ladystalker Update Ladystalker - The Apocalypse Engine
# Posted on April 2nd, 2018 12:36 PM by Gideon ZhiToday on "things I haven´t talked about in a while", I want to highlight Ladystalker. Some progress has been made in formatting strings for line length, and most (but not all) of the interfaces have been hacked. I´ve also hacked the scrolling introduction. The work is currently imperfect (see "Lad" instead of "Lady" below) and probably two thirds or more of the game still remains to be checked for both line length and context. For a variety of reasons Ladystalker isn´t a priority at the moment, but I did want to drop a note to say progress is being made, if slowly, and that it hasn´t been forgotten about.
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Release ~ Last Fighter Twin and Great Battle 5 v1.20 The Great Battle 2 - Last Fighter Twin, The Great Battle 5
# Posted on March 29th, 2018 12:51 PM by Gideon ZhiHi everyone, just dropping a quick note to say that Last Fighter Twin and The Great Battle 5 are up to v1.20. I´ve fixed an issue in LFT that caused the game to reset before the full ending could be displayed. TGB5´s title screen now works correctly if you hit start to skip the animation, and I´ve fixed the status bar palette (but made the font uglier in the process, an unfortunate but necessary tradeoff.) Enjoy!
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Progress ~ Super Robot Wars Gaiden in Beta Super Robot Wars Gaiden
# Posted on March 28th, 2018 11:08 PM by Gideon ZhiHi everyone, I´m just dropping a note here to say that SRW Gaiden: Masoukishin/The Elemental Lords is currently being playtested. The screenshots on the project page were old, so I´ve replaced the lot of them with 21 fresh new snaps. I´m extremely pleased with how it looks, and even though it won´t be conveyed in screenshots I´m also exremely pleased with how it sounds, as we´ve got music persistence working in the game! The patch will be provided as an optional extra when release happens, and barring any major disasters that should be sometime in the next few months.
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Release ~ Updates to Great Battle 2-5, now v1.10 The Great Battle 2 - Last Fighter Twin, The Great Battle 3, The Great Battle 4, The Great Battle 5
# Posted on March 13th, 2018 04:36 PM by Gideon ZhiHi everyone,
Last Fighter Twin, Great Battle 3, Great Battle 4, and Great Battle 5 have all had their patches updated. LFT´s update re-adds the cursor to the title screen and translates the 2P character select screen. GB3´s update fixes shops when playing with two players. GB4´s update fixes an AI bug that makes some fights harder than they should be. GB5´s update fixes a timing issue that caused only half of the title screen to render on hardware and more-accurate emulators.
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Major Release ~ The Great Battle 1-5 in Celebration of AGTP´s 19th The Great Battle, The Great Battle 2 - Last Fighter Twin, The Great Battle 3, The Great Battle 4, The Great Battle 5
# Posted on March 7th, 2018 07:12 AM by Gideon ZhiOn this day it´s been 19 years since AGTP first opened its doors on PCPages, and we have five releases to celebrate!
A couple of months ago I was talking with TheMajinZenki and a few other folks about the English release of Super Robot Wars OG: The Moon Dwellers, and thinking that it might be nice for folks to have a little context for some of the more esoteric pulls from Banpresto´s back catalog. We got it in our heads that it´d be a fun idea to do all five primary entries in Banpresto´s old The Great Battle series, giving people a glimpse into the history of Fighter Roar, Compatible Kaiser, Dark Brain, and the rest, and we figured that since they were relatively small games individually that it wouldn´t be all that tough to do. The job wasn´t without challenges, but here we have it!
I´ll be posting further updates about the states of various projects tomorrow, but for now I want to give these five games the spotlight. Enjoy!
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Release ~ Treasure of the Rudras v2.1 Treasure of the Rudras
# Posted on June 12th, 2015 06:50 PM by Gideon ZhiToday I´m launching version 2.1b of the Treasure of the Rudras translation. The primary fix here is essentially invisible, but it was brought to my attention recently-ish that when a character casts a spell in combat their strength and agility buffs get altered due to the expanded spell/mantra names. This fixes that and the cursor bug noted in the readme, but it´s only been briefly tested. I´m pretty sure it´s bug free as it´s a fairly small change, but I won´t be confident until more people have played it, so please give it a spin. You can find it in the Extras section of the game´s project page for now.
There are a few other issues minor issues in the game: a mantra hint or two don´t resolve to what they´re supposed to, one person tells you to go in one particular direction when the destination he´s sending you to is in the other, "agility" is rendered as "dexterity" in mantra descriptions, stuff like that. I don´t have an exhaustive list so please report anything like this you find so I can add it to an eventual version 2.2 update. Thanks!
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Major Release ~ Dark Half released Dark Half
# Posted on May 24th, 2015 05:52 PM by Gideon ZhiLong has been the wait for a completed Dark Half translation, we´ve pulled it off! Dark Half is one of the games that first intrigued me when I started romhacking, and I consider it a privilege to have been able to give it the treatment it deserves. It´s a unique game with an interesting plot and some unusual gameplay mechanics, and it´s (hopefully) bug free! Enjoy!
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Progress ~ Dark Half enters beta Dark Half
# Posted on May 11th, 2015 10:24 PM by Gideon ZhiJust dropping a quick note to say that Dark Half has entered the beta test phase. The screenshots on the project page are a little out-of-date; they´re pre-edit and I´ve since added a drop shadow. There´ll be new snaps up before the release, which I´m predicting will be some time this month.
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Announcement ~ Resurrection of Dark Half Dark Half
# Posted on February 21st, 2015 11:32 AM by Gideon ZhiThose of you who follow me on Twitter have known about this for a while, but today I´m making it official: Dark Half is now an Aeon Genesis translation. This is actually a semi-continuation of the work done by SirYoink on the game over the last fifteen years or so; while I´ve completely redone the hacking, the script translation is (roughly) the same and was done by the same person, Eien ni Hen. And yes, the script translation is both done and well-written, so no need for a lengthy editing process.
Dark Half is an interesting beast. On a hacking difficulty scale from 1 to 10 I´d probably rate it about a 6 or 7. The graphics compression is kind of weird and nasty, requiring a creative workaround, and the script has a lot of complicated flow-control embedded in it. That said it isn´t anything I haven´t dealt with before, and it´s handled. The remaining issues will hopefully be fairly simple; they have been so far. The game gets more and more stable every day. It´s not going to be ready next week, but I´m cautiously optimistic that it´ll be done before summer.
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Mysterious 'Sandy Island' Found On Google 'Does Not Exist' Insist Scientists After Pacific Voyage
Huffington Post UK | By Michael Rundle Posted: 22/11/2012 15:17 GMT Updated: 22/11/2012 15:52 GMT
'Sandy Island'
A large Pacific island that appears on Google Maps has been declared "not to exist" by a team of Australian scientists who spent 25 days at sea looking for it.
The mysterious 'Sandy Island' appears on Google as well as iOS Maps, Bing and other online services.
It has been in 'existence' on maps for at least 10 years, according to the BBC. The Times Atlas of the World lists the island as 'Sable Island'.
From the maps it is a large, long island virtually alone in the Coral Sea, in the Southern Pacific, east of Australia and near the French-governed New Caledonia.
But the island has long been shrouded in rumour, partly because it appears as nothing but a black shadow in Google's satellite view.
Recently scientists from the University of Sydney went looking for it on the new Marine National Facility research vessel Southern Surveyor.
"We wanted to check it out because the navigation charts on board the ship showed a water depth of 1,400m in that area," Dr Maria Seton told the AFP news agency.
After more than three weeks they found nothing except deep ocean - and now have declared it probably doesn't exist.
That's despite the fact that the island appears on the ship's navigation equipment.
If it did exist where it is supposed to, the island would be located in French territorial waters.
"How did it find its way onto the maps? We just don't know, but we plan to follow up and find out," Dr Seton said.
Australia's Hydrographic Service speculates that human error may be responsible, and the mistake has simply been repeated on maps ever since.
Mike Prince, the director of charting services for the Australian Hydrographic Service, told WAToday.com that the world coastline database incorporated individual reports that often had errors.
"We take anything off that database with a pinch of salt," he said.
It is also thought the island may appear as a form of "digital watermark", so that map makers can tell if their work has been copied elsewhere.
In a statement Google said "the world is a constantly changing place" and they would review their data.
Still, the web turned up at least one other explanation:
"The island could be stuck in a time loop and only visible sometimes," said a user of AboveTopSecret.com.
"It could be there when the boat came by but a magnetic disturbance could cause the island to "not exist".
"In other words, the inhabitants of the island could be stuck in a different "time" and thus invisible to our "time" except when the dimensions converge (probably due to attacks on its magnetic field due to solar activity).
"I don't know, I just asked my 6 year old nephew what he though about an invisible island and thats what he told me."
Mysterious 'Sandy Island' Found On Google 'Does Not Exist' Insist Scientists After Pacific Voyage


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Wellington's 'Cake Tin' - Roadside Stories
A Manatū Taonga audio guide to Wellington's stadium
Check out the Ministry for Culture and Heritage's audio guide to Westpac Stadium in the Video tab.
Wellington's Westpac Stadium – known affectionately as the 'Cake Tin' – opened in 1999 to replace the former rugby venue of Athletic Park. Rugby was first played at Athletic Park in 1896, and it was the site of some memorable games, including two All Black tests against France in hurricane-strength winds. The new stadium boasts a less exposed, more central position, and seating for more than 34,000.
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Wellington region: sport and leisure
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Randall Kent Cline, Junction City, Dec. 29, speeding, $203.
Paul Brian Edwards, Dallas, Dec. 30, speeding, $173.
Gary R. Hail, Richland Hills, Texas, Dec. 20, speeding, $143.
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Hans E. Neudecker, Hillsboro, Dec. 9, speeding, $143.
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Install JProbe 22.214.171.124.
For details, see the JProbe documentation.
Configure GlassFish Server using the Administration Console:
Select the GlassFish Server component and the JVM Settings tab. Then select the Profiler tab.
Edit the following fields before selecting Save and restarting the server:
Profiler Name – jprobe
Profiler Enabled – true
Classpath – (leave blank)
JVM Option – For each of these options, select Add, type the option in the Value field, then check its box
If any of the configuration options are missing or incorrect, the profiler might experience problems that affect the performance of the GlassFish Server.
When the server starts up with this configuration, you can attach the profiler.
Set the following environment variable:
See Step 6 for instructions on how to create the JPL file.
Start the server.
Launch the jpprofiler and attach to Remote Session. The default port is 4444.
Create the JPL file using the JProbe Launch Pad. Here are the required settings:
Select Server Side for the type of application.
On the Program tab, provide the following details:
Target Server – other-server
Server home Directory – as-install
Server class File – com.sun.enterprise.server.J2EERunner
Working Directory – as-install
Classpath – as-install/lib/appserv-rt.jar
Source File Path – source-code-dir (in case you want to get the line level details)
Server class arguments – (optional)
Main Package – com.sun.enterprise.server
You must also set VM, Attach, and Coverage tabs appropriately. For further details, see the JProbe documentation. After you have created the JPL file, use this an input to JPROBE_ARGS_0.


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NFL combine: Foss HS alum Scott Crichton has personal motivations as he showcases himself
Scott Crichton, who went to Foss High School and Oregon State, is motivated to support his family after an illustrious career with the Beavers.
Seattle Times staff reporter
INDIANAPOLIS — The proverbial chip on the shoulder that Scott Crichton used to carry around isn't as heavy as the weight of responsibility he now feels for his family.
There was a time when the graduate of Foss High School was driven primarily to prove wrong those who doubted he could play big-time college football, such as the coaches at the University of Washington, who didn't offer him a scholarship.
He instead went to Oregon State, one of the few Pac-12 offers he received, where he quickly became a standout defensive lineman in the league, earning all-conference honors each of the past two years.
After his junior season in 2013, having already recorded 22.5 sacks to rank third all-time in Oregon State history, he declared for the NFL draft.
Like the rest of the record 98 underclassmen who declared, Crichton feels he's ready for the rigors of the NFL.
He also, though, figured it was time to begin supporting his family.
As he met with media at the NFL combine Sunday, Crichton talked frankly about his family.
His mother, Malama, works two jobs while his father, Lucky, continues to make $10 an hour employed at a warehouse despite walking with an artificial leg, having had his leg amputated a few years ago.
"I did it for my family,'' Crichton said of deciding to leave early, explaining that he didn't bother to get a draft estimate from the NFL once he knew he had to get on with making a living. "I love my family. I've taken this responsibility to take care of them. My mom works two jobs, and my dad is disabled and still works a job, too.
"They are getting old, and I want them to retire and just stop working. I just did this for my family. I was going to come back to college. But just to see my family struggle — we didn't have much growing up and to see my family struggle, I wasn't OK with that. So I had to do something. And this is one of the greatest opportunities for me to take care of my family.''
An opportunity he hopes to only enhance with a good showing at the combine.
How much impact the combine has on any player's draft stock is a matter of constant debate — and hard usually to definitively prove. But Crichton, who measured in at 6 feet 3, 273 pounds, is regarded as one player for whom a good performance could make a difference.
Rob Rang, a draft analyst for CBSSports.com and NFLDraftScout.com, said Crichton has a reputation for being a player whose performance outshines his athleticism.
"Frankly, he's a better football player than he is going to test as an athlete,'' Rang said. "So if he works out really well here, he is going to turn some heads, because what you see on tape is a guy who is technically sound and plays with his hair on fire, but isn't necessarily an explosive athlete. So he can do some things to help his cause.''
Crichton recorded 24 reps in the 225-pound bench press Sunday and will take part in other on-field workouts Monday.
While some regard Crichton as more of a mid-round draftee, Rang said he thinks Crichton could move into the second round depending on how he works out, and that regardless "he is a guy who is going to be successful in the NFL.''
That's an assessment few might have seen coming four years ago, when many questioned whether he was good enough to play in the Pac-12, including UW coach Steve Sarkisian and his staff.
Crichton has often said he grew up a UW fan and wanted to go there. But the Huskies, after evaluating him, decided not to offer him a scholarship, something Sarkisian later said was simply "a mistake.''
Crichton said he never did talk to Sarkisian about not getting more attention from Washington — he said he hasn't talked to him since attending a Junior Day at UW. But Sunday, he said the Husky assistants he met were "great guys. Unfortunately, I didn't get an offer.''
His Husky snub once led Crichton to say "I hate U-dub."
His college days in the past, though, Crichton has mellowed on that stance, saying Sunday "that situation" isn't a prime motivator for him.
Instead, his driving force now is even more personal.
"It would just mean so much to me (to be able to use NFL money to support his parents) because my parents have taken care of me since day one," he said. "To do this for them it's just, I don't know, I can't put it into words."
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In a previous column, I explained why I think it would be desirable for the United States to adopt a value-added tax. In a nutshell, I think it's impossible to cut spending enough to forestall a fiscal crisis, that taxes will eventually be raised a lot, that it would be economically debilitating to raise income tax rates as high as would be necessary to get the necessary revenue, and that a broad-based consumption tax such as a VAT would be much less damaging to the economy than very large budget deficits.
Today I want to look at some of the arguments against my view. Some are serious, but many are not; they're just straw men created solely to obfuscate the issue. I will try to deal with them in order of seriousness, from least to most.
We must repeal the 16th Amendment first in order to avoid having both a VAT and an income tax. Columnist George Will made this the centerpiece of his case against the VAT in a recent column. It's a silly argument because, contrary to popular belief, Congress was not prohibited from taxing incomes prior to the 16th Amendment. As historian David Levenstam explains in the libertarian magazine Reason, the Supreme Court struck down an income tax enacted in 1894 on narrow grounds and did not find the taxation of incomes to be unconstitutional.
While it is reasonable to say that it might be a bad idea to tax both consumption and incomes, repealing the 16th Amendment would provide no guarantee against this happening. We would not only have to get rid of that amendment, but enact another one that clearly, unambiguously prohibits--immune from court challenge--the federal government from taxing incomes. This is impossible, if only because the definition of income is so elastic.
The VAT is a hidden tax. This is also a silly argument. The VAT is no more hidden than any other tax. Ask yourself, do you really know what the sales tax rate is in your state or the property tax rate in your community or even what your effective federal income tax rate was last year? (Guess and then check; more than likely you overestimated all of them quite a lot.). According to polls, most people have no idea. The chances are far better that those who pay the VAT in other countries can tell you precisely what the rate is because it covers such a wide array of goods and services and is the same throughout the country.
Even if the VAT were an especially hidden tax, is there any reason to believe that hidden taxes are more easily increased than more visible taxes? Indeed, there is none. Economist Casey Mulligan, a VAT opponent, recently looked for evidence and could find none. He concluded that "tax visibility is empirically unrelated to the amount of taxation and government spending."
The VAT is too complicated and will be riddled with exemptions. This is a weak argument because all taxes are complicated. They're complicated because people don't like paying them, which then requires governments to continually plug new loopholes and evasion tactics that people are always discovering, and because Congress is continually meddling with the tax code to buy votes and redress legitimate grievances.
While a VAT would indeed be tricky to implement, once in place it is not especially complicated, certainly no more than the retail sales taxes that exist in almost every state. One reason I support a VAT is because so many other countries have one that we could learn from their experience and avoid making our VAT unnecessarily complicated.
The VAT is inflationary. While it is true that imposition of a VAT will more than likely raise the price level by about the amount of the tax, this is not what economists normally think of as inflation. That would be a continuing rise in the price level year after year resulting primarily from excessive money creation by the central bank. Any rise in prices resulting from imposition of a VAT would be a one-time event that would have no effect on the general trend of inflation.
The VAT is a money machine. This is probably the biggest problem most conservatives have with the VAT. In their minds, its primary virtue--the ability to raise large amounts of revenue at low deadweight cost (the output lost to taxation over and above the tax itself)--is also its primary vice. If taxes are insufficiently burdensome, conservatives reckon, then they will be too easy to raise. To keep taxes low, they believe we should raise them in the most painful and burdensome manner possible.
In response, I would make three points. First, we will only enact a VAT if we really, really need a lot of new revenue; i.e., a money machine. If by some miracle Congress enacts massive spending cuts that significantly reduce benefits for the largest, most politically powerful and fastest-growing voting bloc in the country--the elderly--thus preventing the need for higher taxes to avoid a financial crisis, then there is no need to consider a VAT. But that's not going to happen except in a libertarian fantasy world.
Second, it's not true that VATs always rise once implemented. Of the 29 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development with a VAT--the U.S. is the only country without one--four have never increased their VAT rates and seven others have reduced theirs over time. The average VAT rate in the OECD is actually lower today than it was in 1984: 17.61% today vs. 17.79% then.
Third, it is critical to differentiate between those countries enacting VATs before the great inflation of the 1970s and those not initiating one until after. The first group did raise their VAT rates a lot by piggybacking on inflation. But in the era of relative price stability since the 1980s, there is little evidence that the VAT is a money machine. In the 17 countries enacting VATs since 1977 the average rate increase is less than a percentage point.
The VAT is regressive, taking more out of the pockets of the poor. This is probably the strongest argument against the VAT. Since the poor consume a higher percentage of their income than the well-to-do, they are necessarily going to pay more VAT as a percentage of their income than the well-to-do. There just isn't any getting around that fact, and it is something that would have to be addressed if we were to adopt a VAT.
That said, one important benefit of a VAT insofar as those with low incomes is concerned is that they would be contributing something to the general cost of government. Everyone benefits from things like national defense, and everyone ought to pay something for it. But as it is, 47% of those filing federal income tax returns have either a zero or negative tax liability; that is, they pay nothing but still get a tax "refund."
When this fact is brought up, liberals always point to all the payroll taxes low-income workers pay. But they never note that the negative income tax liability many of them have comes from something called the Earned Income Tax Credit, which was established precisely for the purpose of indirectly offsetting the payroll tax for such people. Furthermore, the payroll tax does not support the government's general operations; it funds specific benefit programs, Social Security and Medicare, from which the vast majority of beneficiaries get back far more than they ever pay in.
The odd thing is that conservatives are the ones most likely to complain that the poor aren't pulling their weight, yet they fail to see that a VAT is probably the only way of getting them to help finance the general cost of government. It's extremely unrealistic to think we are ever going to impose income taxes on very many of those now paying nothing.
Of course, there are any number of other reasons why people oppose a federal VAT. One key constituency is state governments, which view consumption as a tax base that belongs exclusively to them. But they could easily piggyback on a federal VAT, which would also be able to tax things like Internet and mail order sales that the states have great difficulty collecting sales taxes on.
Lastly, it goes without saying that we would never impose a VAT until well after the economy has returned to reasonable health. And it also goes without saying that a VAT would have a heavy economic cost even if that cost would be far less than that from an equivalent income tax rate increase. But, as noted earlier, a VAT is never going to be seriously considered unless the need is overwhelming. That will be when large deficits are imposing costs on the American people that are even worse in the form of inflation, high interest rates and economic instability.
If, as former Vice President Dick Cheney used to say, deficits don't matter, then we have nothing to worry about. But anyone who believes that deficits have economic costs has to accept that at some point those costs may be greater than the cost of raising taxes to reduce them if, as I believe, spending will never be cut enough to keep deficits from rising to economically disastrous levels.
Bruce Bartlett is a former Treasury Department economist and the author of Reaganomics: Supply-Side Economics in Action and The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward. He writes a weekly column for Forbes.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Dead at Age 58
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has passed away at the age of 58!
The controversial political leader lost his two year long battle with cancer in a military hospital in Venezuela on Tuesday (March 5).
Vice President Nicolás Maduro just announced the news and said that he was on the way to the hospital where Hugo was being treated when "we received the hardest and most tragic information that we could transmit to our people."
Hugo had not been seen nor heard from since releasing some proof-of-life photos on February 15.


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I am happy that my life has meaning and a direction that I chose from the very beginning, which is that of the Algerian peoples struggle against colonialism and oppression by foreigners. . . . I cannot express my happiness to be in the maquis better than by briefly taking stock of my positive experiences: First, I became aware of the superiority of our organization although I already knew that our struggle needed fighters and leaders. I understood that our army encompasses everything and assigns everybody the appropriate role and gives them the necessary responsibilities.... Secondly and equally importantly, I understood that the enormous apparatus that our leaders have rapidly set up rests on solid and proven foundations such as the confidence, devotion, participation and even heroism of our civilian population.
Interview, Djamila Bouhired
By the eve of the revolution, Algerian demands for even limited political and civil rights had been repeatedly rebuffed by the French colonial regime and the nearly one million European settlers in the country. The only possible solution was armed conflict, which broke out on All Saints Day, November 1954. Thus began one of Africas cruelest anticolonial warsan immense human tragedy that endured for eight long years, one whose consequences are still felt today in Algeria and France.
Since the rebels were vastly outnumbered by the French army and had little in the way of military equipment or supplies, the fighting was mainly in the form of guerrilla operations in rural areas. Depending upon where they livedcity or villageand their level of education, Algerian women participated in the struggle in three capacities. Rural women either joined the Army of National Liberation or provided food, provisions, and havens for the guerrillas; about 80% of the women who actively participated resided in the countryside. In cities, they joined the FLN (National Liberation Front) or served in support capacities. As Marnia Lazregs research shows, the urban women who participated in the nationalist struggle were often young, middle-class graduates of French lycées, for example, Djamila Boupacha and Djamila Bouhired. They were particularly important during the Battle of Algiers which took place in 1957 and was later immortalized by Italian film maker, Gillo Pontecorvo, in his 1965 film, La bataille dAlger. French-educated women, who had never worn the traditional veil, adopted it as a military strategy in order to carry bombs, money, or messages from one zone of Algiers to another without being detected. A number of women were captured by the French police or army, imprisoned, and subjected to horrible torture as was Djamila Boupacha, who was raped with a broken wine bottle. Louisette Ighilahriz, who joined the FLN after her father was seized by colonial authorities, was imprisoned and tortured in Algiers notorious Barbarossa prison in 1957. Djamila Bouhired, who was recruited in 1956 for the FLN by her older brother, also became a cause célèbre after her arrest in 1957 for carrying a bomb. These women were eventually released due to international pressures from human rights groups and French intellectualsbut only after terrible suffering.
Despite the enormous risks, what did participation mean for women at the time? The words of one Algerian woman who fought with the maquis reflects the experience of many.
What impact did the national liberation struggle have upon the lives of women once the treaty of peace was signed with France? During the fury of the war, Frantz Fanon had predicted that a new social order would emerge from the dreadful carnage in Algeriabut he was wrong. Rather, the urgent human need for social order and the problem of appropriate cultural models for Algerian Muslim women arose after 1962. In an effort to assert political authority and cultural authenticity as well as restore their masculinity so badly bruised by colonial rule, male nationalist leaders proved notoriously resistant to demands for female emancipation once they assumed power. After 1962, the independent Algerian government registered nearly 11,000 women as war veterans, but this figure greatly undervalued the actual number of women who actively contributed to the war effort.
How do these women who once fought for freedom from colonial rule view their situation at the present time? Today Djamila Bouhired, now a grandmother, still militates. However, her battle is of a different sortshe is actively involved in feminist protests advocating immediate improvements in the legal, political, and social status of Algerias women. The fact that womens rights are more restricted and less secure than in Tunisia raises questions about women, gender, colonial violence, and nationalism. In Tunisia, independence was achieved in 1956 with relatively little upheaval, while unspeakable violence, bloodshed, and social chaos reigned for years in Algeria. Herein lies one of the greatest paradoxes of colonialism and nationalist strugglesa paradox which women and gender studies can help resolve. The greater the institutionalized violence and the violation of basic rights under an imperial or colonial system of rule, the less likely it is that far-reaching, permanent changes in womens status, condition, and lives will occur. Indeed, women can lose precious, hard-won rights that they had secured earlier due to invasion or imperial interventionsas events in U.S.-occupied Iraq prove today in 2005.
Source: Lazreg, Marnia. The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question. New York: Routledge Press, 1994, 123.


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