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The incident underscored for me the degree to which video games lag behind in reflecting the real and complicated diversity of the world in which we live. Video games have come a long way since Pong — game franchises like Bioshock, Assassin’s Creed and Gears of War tell epic stories with rich, fully realized characters, taking risks with narrative and form that would be impossible in less interactive modes of expression. And yet the primary characters in each, and in the vast bulk of other PC and console games, are white men of a certain age while women and people of color are relegated to the virtual sidelines.
In fact, despite the questionable taste and authenticity of its visuals, Street Fighter II was actually a revolutionary step for video game inclusion. It was, after all, one of the first games in which players had the option of taking on a female persona (one who’s still among the few video game women with a character design built on an athlete’s body type, rather than a stripper’s). And it was also the first game to feature a wide range of playable characters, each with distinct nationalities, ethnicities and backstories.

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It was a very funny episode where Chelsea played by Jennifer Bini Taylor proved she has earned a spot on the show because of her humorous dynamic with Charlie.On the other hand Chelsea’s father and his Navy can pack their things and leave because they are starting to be very cliche and their gay jokes are beginning to get unoriginal.Here are few quotes we really loved:
-Charlie: I’m gonna hate this movie.
-Alan: How do you know?
-Charlie: Because it has subtitles. The only good subtitles are for Nazis, drug lords and space aliens. Oh and kung fu.
-Charlie: I can’t believe she’s already dating.
-Alan: You’re kidding right? The day after she moved out you ran off to Vegas to marry a stripper.
-Charlie: We grieve in different ways. Besides, the stripper was already married so no harm, no foul.

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But then the whole Combat Zone was a rodeo. It ran roughly from Tremont to Washington and from Boylston down to Kneeland, extending west onto Stuart Street. The area was infamous for its strip clubs, peep shows, dirty bookstores, booze, drugs, and violence.
The ladies were, in the street parlance of the time, “on the stroll.’’ They would swarm like silverfish near Good Time Charlie’s, a bar on the block that poured men into the night. The women would be there in daylight too, their ranks thinned, working hard for the money.
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The names are gone but not forgotten – places like the Naked i, the Two O’Clock Club, the Pilgrim Theatre, the Intermission Lounge, and the Pussycat Lounge. Strip clubs festooned their front windows with 8-by-10 pictures of their performers, their breasts barely covered by pasties.

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There’s a recurring deadness here, a sense of defeat or resignation. Nearly all the people either stare back at the camera or look off into space. Berndt’s “The Combat Zone, Washington St., Boston, 1968’’ is emblematic. The slight reflection from the plate-glass window reminds us of the barrier between the woman sitting in the coffee shop and the rest of the world. Her out-to-there false eyelashes further contribute to the effect. There’s no real in between in the Zone, little or no sense of human connection. That’s as it should be. The Zone was a place of extremes. Almost all the pictures are big, and properly so. Demure and delicate are not operative words here for either form or content.
We see strippers, hookers, johns, various persons of indeterminate purpose (but they sure don’t seem to be up to any good). Almost no one is identified by other than a first name. One of the exceptions is Angier’s “Mr. and Mrs. Steve Mills, Pilgrim Theater.’’ Very Diane Arbus, it shows a baggy-pants comic in his 80s with his young wife, who looks like Sarah Vowell in a prom dress. Maybe they would have been better off not being identified.

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The granite façade of the Arcade next door is another example of memory confronting invention. The original granite front of 1860 has been carefully restored. But its windows are now lined with LED lights, which can be programmed to create a multistory image that will seem to be lurking just behind the rows of windows. The LEDs should turn out to be a lively 21st-century riff on the jazzy neon of the past.
To anyone who’s been around Boston for a while, the Paramount Center seems like a miracle. I can remember when a developer owned the theater and proposed to plant a new office tower on top of it. I can remember, too, when Emerson planned to abandon Boston and build a new campus on a vacant site in faraway Lawrence.
Instead, Emerson has remained to become a powerful force for Boston. No activity works better than a mass of college students for reviving a decayed urban area. Students are energetic, they’re out and about, and they’re not scared of the dark. By moving into this and other buildings of what was once Boston’s Combat Zone, a district of dealers, strippers, and hookers, Emerson has performed a great benevolence.

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Maybe I’ve been sent to cover too many accidents that were bad enough for the pedestrian or crash victim to lose a shoe that gets left for police to use in a reconstruction of events or just gets forgotten but nonetheless marks the spot of a tragic event.
I don’t think that’s the case with either of these shoe sites, but both just get me wondering what happened. What would cause a person to dump or lose a shoe at this time of year and not go back to retrieve it?
I suppose there are much bigger things to worry about. Teen stealing cars in Ashland and other towns… Mendon strip club proposal back in the news… a bereaved brother in Milford making threats against the family of a man injured in the crash that killed his sister.

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TurnipWhile I’ve got space above the fold:Hey Mitt ! Go back to destroying companies, and leave the States alone, you freakin terrorist.Love,Massachusetts
alverantSo we shouldn’t tell the truth about people with guns because why? I mean if they’re law abiding people it shouldn’t matter if they have a rifle or not right? Unless conservatives think law abiding only applies to the laws they feel like following at that moment.
Hey Mitt!
Just figured I’d let you know, I don’t have a RIFLE but I got a NUKE! It’d probably be best if you watch what you say about me, I’m kinda unstable and my mother is a stripper and my dad is a male prostitute for your wife and I’ve kind of had it with OBSTUCTIONIST REPUBLICANS for the rest of my days…

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Eco-Green® Floor Finish Stripper & Emulsifier targets public works professionals who need to remove floor sealers without toxic solvents
Online PR News – 02-March-2010 – WOBURN, MA U.S.A. – March 2, 2010 – Daimer Industries® Inc., a North American supplier of green cleaners for public sector cleaning professionals worldwide, shipped Eco-Green® Floor Finish Stripper & Emulsifier, a solvent-free solution that strips floor finishes without harming floor surfaces or the environment.
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Floor Finish Stripper & Emulsifier is a new addition to the Eco Green line of green cleaners for floor care. The formulation emulsifies floor finishes and sealers without noxious fumes. The green cleaning chemicals are based on green chemicals that biodegradable readily in as little as thirty days, according to laboratory tests. The green cleaners in this floor stripper earned zero ratings in the NFPA diamond of hazards.

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KEYWORD>Two women arrested on several drug chargesHEAD>030210PUBDATE>newsSECTION>4PRIORITY>SUBPRIORITY>joe.johnson@onlineathens.comPUBNAME> Officers arrested two women on drug charges early Sunday near a strip club across the street from a private modeling service that Athens-Clarke police called a brothel after raiding it last month.DIGEST>
Two women arrested on several drug charges
By Joe Johnson – joe.johnson@onlineathens.com Published Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Officers arrested two women on drug charges early Sunday near a strip club across the street from a private modeling service that Athens-Clarke police called a brothel after raiding it last month.
Police charged both women with drug possession and one of them also was booked on a trademark forgery charge after officers found nine counterfeit designer purses, including fake Gucci and Chanel bags, in her car’s trunk.
Police didn’t know Monday if the women had a connection to Chelsea’s Gentleman’s Club, 1051 Baxter St., but one of the women mentioned she’d been in Chelsea’s earlier, according to police.

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NO-GO FOR JOE: Bulls forward Joe Alexander, recently acquired from Milwaukee, expected to be in the Chicago lineup against the Pacers this past week after Joakim Noah, Jerome James and Lindsey Hunter all sat out of the game. However, someone reportedly copied the inactive list from the game before, and Noah was left active.
BIG TROUBLE FOR BIG AL: Timberwolves center Al Jefferson was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with a DWI after his blood-alcohol level was determined to be above Minnesota’s legal limit of 0.08. Big Al was pulled over at 4 a.m. after driving 16 mph above the speed limit, changing lanes without signaling and drifting to the left.
CHARGES AGAINST ROBERTSON: Former four-time NBA All-Star Alvin Robertson is facing charges of sexual assault of a child and sex trafficking; authorities said he and six others kidnapped a 14-year-old girl, forcing her into prostitution and dancing at a strip club. He was also sentenced in 2002 to three years in prison for violating probation in regards to a rape accusation.

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