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Devilskin - Interview: Devilskin
16 Dec 2014 // An interview by RYAN KERSHAW
Hi guys and gal – well done on your Live at the Powerstation DVD and CD release. Some amazing bands have played that stage from Fear Factory to Marilyn Manson and now Devilskin! We'll start with a pretty obvious question – how was it!?
Paul: We had an awesome night and were all fully aware of the amazing artists that that played on that stage. It was pretty exciting to be in such good company! The crowd was off the hook and really gave it their all as is evident on the live DVD!
The band has done extremely well since you last spoke to Muzic.net.nz - a no.1 album, gold certification, sold out N.Z tour, live album release… but you have also worked bloody hard for it, which is good to know for those of us that are also musicians. Now you have a tour coming up starting in late December; apart from a successful tour, what are on your Christmas wish lists?
Paul: I think we'd all like to throw our jobs in and get overseas with the band asap. Apart from that, the usual... socks and undies.
Your Surrender Summer tour starts late December with support from These Four Walls. What are some other NZ bands that you like?
Paul: There's so many.... Team Kill, Earthshield, Suede Arcade, 8 Foot Sativa, Fire At Will, In Dread Response, The Nod, Magic Eye, Slipping Tongue, Bulletbelt and my favourite World War Four!
Speaking of other NZ bands – Nail, I first discovered your previous band Chuganaut when I was in the Battle of the Bands that you were in, in 2003. I remember going to New Plymouth a couple of times and would get a weird vibe at that corner bar but would go down the stairs and love it when you guys were cranking. Do you still keep in touch with the other members?
We had some pretty crazy nights down there and have some very fond memories. We always looked forward to the New Plymouth crowd, their so hospitable down there, as they still are now. It's become like a second home crowd for Devilskin now. I still see the other guys in my old band and are all still good friends.
I think you captured the energy in the solo really well for fade – it's not always easy to do with solos in the studio. How do you approach writing… do you write your solos around an idea, or improvise, or a combination…?
Thanks, I had a set idea for that solo for a while and stuck to my guns on it rather than deviating. It's very easy to have an idea with solos and get side tracked and ending up nothing like what you had originally planned. Not that that's a bad thing, sometimes they can work out better. But in this case it was based around an idea.
Jennie, Slipping Tongue was your previous band. Many musicians reading this interview will be changing bands or in multiple bands… what are the differences between being in Slipping Tongue and being in Devilskin. How do you operate differently?
Well I'm a bit older and wiser now and I feel my time with Slipping Tongue was a bit of a learning curb, I found out the highs and lows of being in a young band trying to make it big. With Devilskin you have Paul and Nail who have been doing the band thing for years so I seem them as red bearded yodas. We know what is and what isn't going to work for us. We sit down and discuss situations rather than taking chances
Your vocals are respected not just from fans but also the other band members (that's always a good thing!). Who are some of your influences (singers) that Muzic.net.nz readers can check out, and do you warm up before shows?
My influences vocally would be Mike Patton, Freddie Mercury, Ronnie James Dio, Cedric Bixler Zavala, Claudio Sanchez and Jeff Buckley just to name a few! I do warm up before shows, I never use to but now it is part of my routine of getting ready. I tend to do a bit of core exercises (sit ups, planks etc) as well as warming up the voice. :)
I love some of the changes in the tune of the vocals. It's awesome in Fade when it goes from "just another one" and then goes higher for the "to fade" part of the lyric. Do you just sing what you feel and that it's usually the early tune of the singing that sticks, or do you craft it? How do you usually go about writing the vocal parts?
I do a bit of both, I'm always thinking of where and when I want the vocals to be powerful, sometimes I may have a vocal part sorted then I change it around a bit. If you listen to the original recording of fade the there is no note held on at the end. I started extended the note on stage so decided to put it in the new recording. Paul also helps out bit with melodies.
Paul – Nice to see it happening for you man, it's been a long time coming and I think all of the band deserves the awesome support that it's getting throughout NZ. It can be a fickle industry, even here in NZ – what are the things that Devilskin has done to get the industry listening? There's that saying in the industry that if you are making enough noise the industry will listen but I don't believe that is always the case and I'm pretty sure you have seen a lot of good talent go to waste over the years. What three things can artists do to try and get that side of their music progressing – the side that's not on stage but dealing with the business issues, and is it important to try and know a little about how things work in the music business, not just on stage?
Paul: Yes it's a tough industry and we've all seem some fantastic bands go by the wayside. You really have to back yourself if you want to get anywhere in this game. First and foremost Devilskin has always taken our songwriting very seriously and coupled this with a really staunch work ethic, and enticing. We gig a lot and we're not afraid to get in peoples faces and show them how seriously we take our band and our music. We'd dress up the stage to make it look exciting and enticing. We like to spend time talking to the people who come to the shows.
Have you noticed a change in peoples attitude towards you since your music and videos have done so well, who perhaps may have not given you respect before, and do you think it is easy to become pessimistic about that with success? Or do you not give a shit and don't think about it… or is it like with music, a mix of both perspectives and you just focus on the good and try and be aware of the fake?
Paul: Yes it's easy to spot the fakes and there's always a few in any industry. I certainly got some interesting emails and friend requests from some 'industry' folk (who had ignored me for years) after our album smashed the charts "I've always believed in you Paul!" haha but really I prefer to focus on positive things and positive people.
What venues have you not performed at on this tour Paul?
Paul: Plenty this tour is only 7 or 8 dates our last was 20.
Nic, kudos on your drumming career so far man. Playing at BDO at 13 is pretty wicked and your playing is tight. The toms at the start of Fade are cool too, rather than just starting on the beat with the other instruments. Who are some NZ drummers that you respect that we can look up?
Thanks very much! I vividly remember a young drummer named Dylan Elise performing for my school in 2007 (I would've been about 11-12 at the time). He played Moby Dick and my mind was blown; so that was one of the first New Zealand drummers that really made an impact on me. Since then I've met and seen a large number of drummers absolutely kill it. Tom Larkin, Joe Brownless, and especially Sam Sheppard and Corey Friedlander. All talented and amazing guys, definitely worthy of a search, you would've definitely heard of who they have played for/with.
Although not so much of an issue at the moment, you have balanced being in an active gigging band with school. How have you balanced the two physically but also mentally – school can be tricky after playing a good live show. The realities are a bit different but I'm guessing you have done well with knowing the importance of both. There are lots of students in that situation – what would your advice be for them?
Balancing school with the band was always going to be tricky, especially in my last year of high school (2013) as Head Boy. School has always been important to me - and I believe it should be to everyone, to some degree - so I was determined to see it through to the end. It was all about compromise on both parts; I couldn't take too many Thursdays and Fridays off school but I couldn't just say 'No' to every show that came up on a school day. It was hugely draining physically and mentally but it was also incredibly rewarding in both areas. My advice to anyone else in this situation is to just go with your gut; I stayed in school because I wanted to finish. Some students simply don't have that same desire. Also, let people support you! I would've lost my marbles long ago if I didn't have my family and friends supporting me every step of the way.
Okay to the band: Time for a couple of questions from fans. Amber Wolf asks: "Why do you find it appropriate to do black face in your videos?"
Paul: Hi Amber, we did it to add a visual stimulus to the video to add an artistic contrast and get peoples attention, nothing sinister...
Jase Backhouse's question is: "How did the cover of Aimee Allen's Revolution come about?
A good friend played it to us, it was obvious it had a lot of potential and suited our sound. We contacted Aimee and she gave it her blessing. I rewrote the lyrics to make it a bit more personalised and keep the message positive in it. It obviously worked as it's really gone off for us.
A question from Haley Torpey: Do you plan on playing a show in Awhitu in the near future?
Hiya Haley, I wasn't aware there was a venue there, if there is, give us some details!
Along with a great live show, you have other things which help spread the word of Devilskin like merch and a street team, and you also work with sponsors. Would advice would you have for other musicians in terms of sorting out the 'non-playing' side of things?
Think outside the square, Every band needs support from their friends, family and as many outside parties/businesses as much as possible.
What can fans expect from this tour?
Paul: A high energy, no-holds-barred night of sublime Kiwi talent and the party of the year!
Any words to the fans before you tear a new hole in Aotearoa?
Paul: I'd like to thank the people that have bought our albums/DVDs and come to the shows. To see people singing all the words to the songs is a really special feeling I think all of us regard as very precious."
About Devilskin
Devilskin is a four-piece band from Hamilton which formed in June 2010. They have guts, class, kudos and confidence. The sum total of a determined and accomplished group of musicians who know what they want, the music is organic, dynamic and real.
The band features the spectacular Jennie Skulander on lead vocals. Her powerful and compelling voice and alluring stage presence sets her apart from any vocalist New Zealand has put up so far. With an unerring gift for melody, Jennie's incredible voice sweeps from whisper to roar, rips with power, drips with melody and captivates with sincerity.
Jennie previously fronted Rotorua band Slipping Tongue garnering a swathe of fans with their videos, EPs and album. Slipping Tongue also impressed many when they opened for Coheed & Cambria in 2008.
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Meal Plan After a Holiday - Baby Doodah!
How was your Thanksgiving? Did you get totally derailed, or do you feel pretty good about the choices you made? Either way, there's no need to beat yourself up, having a healthy relationship with food won't occur until you accept yourself. So, if you overate, accept that you did and then use today to make your meal plan for the week, shop and then prep your food. Don't let a few bad days catapult into a bad month.
I actually just posted about how you can focus on celebrating the holidays NOT the food. Check it out for more details on how I'm conquering my bad relationship with food.
I had a pretty fantastic Thanksgiving! It was quiet and very stress-free. My in-laws typically hold Thanksgiving and with everyone there it can get overwhelming, but this year my mother-in-law decided to just have us, and it was perfect. We were able to talk and Emmett was able to be goofy without worrying about disrupting people (he's definitely a 2 year old, he's loud and busy and nothing will change that, nor do I want to).
My father-in-law wasn't feeling well on Thanksgiving, but since we were there for a few days, he was able to spend some time with Emmett on Friday and then on Saturday morning before we hit the road.
We had a nice time, but I'm ready to get back to our normal routine. We grocery shopped last night so we don't need to worry about it today, and then we can use today to get caught up on laundry (of which there is TONS), and other cleaning that needs to be done. OH, and we'll probably watch lots of TV to relax!!
I am absolutely LOVING my menu this week!! Yummy in my tummy!!
I've been finding that we've been repeating a lot of meals lately, sometimes that bothers me and sometimes it doesn't. Right now, I'm okay with it. Something about the cooler weather makes me want comfort food. There aren't a whole lot of healthy comfort food options, so I'll take the ones that we've found and RUN with it.
How did your Thanksgiving eating go? Are you working on getting back on track this week, too?
What's on your menu? I'm always looking for new meal ideas.
I'm linking up with Laura from Mommy, Run Fast! and Jill from jillconyers.com.
You always want to enjoy yourself!! Food shouldn't bring guilt or stress!!! Thanks for visiting!


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The legacy of Mohamad Chatah — and his tragic assassination
December 30, 2013 Kevin Lees	1 Comment
Mohamad Chatah, a leader of the 'March 14' coalition in Lebanon and former ambassador to the United States, was killed in a Beirut car bomb blast on Friday in perhaps the most chilling political assassination in Lebanon since former prime minister Rafic Hariri was killed in 2005.
Just a couple of hours before his death, Chatah tweeted the following message out to the world:
#Hezbollah is pressing hard to be granted similar powers in security & foreign policy matters that Syria exercised in Lebanon for 15 yrs.
— Mohamad B Chatah (@mohamad_chatah) December 27, 2013
It's a macabre epitaph for a man who spent his career pulling his country away from the impact of both Sunni and Shiite militants in favor of a vision of a modern, moderate and prosperous Lebanon. Chatah, who was born in Tripoli, the Sunni-dominant city in Lebanon's north, was a top advisor to Hariri, and other relatively anti-Assad prime ministers, including Rafic Hariri's his son Saad and Fouad Siniora. An economist who worked at the International Monetary Fund between the 1980s and 2005, Chatah served as Lebanon's ambassador to the United States between 1997 and 2000. After Hariri's assassination in 2005, Chatah returned to Lebanon, where he served as a vice-governor of Lebanon's central bank and, from 2008 to 2009, its finance minister.
Since the 2005 assassination, Lebanese politics has been polarized between the 'March 14' coalition (comprised of moderate Sunnis and Maronite Christians) that opposed the role Syria played in internal Lebanese affairs and the 'March 8' coalition (comprised of mostly Shiite Lebanese, Greek Orthodox, other Sunnis and a minority of militant Maronites) that were more pro-Syria. Druze political leaders, the most prominent of which is Walid Jumblatt, are often play the determining role in which coalition holds power. As Syria has descended into civil war, however, the two coalitions have taken increasingly strong positions over Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. Even as most of Lebanon's political elite have strained to keep their country from being sucked into Syria's violence, the 'March 8' coalition is much more sympathetic to Assad and the 'March 14' coalition much less so.
Chatah was certainly among the most vocal opponents of both Assad and of Hezbollah (حزب الله), the Shiite militia and political group that is now openly and notoriously working to support the Alwaite (a Shi'a sect) Assad regime and has ties to the Islamic Republic of Iran, whose leadership is also Shiite. Sunni Salafists from Lebanon are also fighting openly and notoriously on behalf of chiefly Sunni anti-Assad rebels. Just last week, Chatah wrote an open letter to Iran's new president Hassan Rowhani to help reduce Hezbollah's role in Syria in the hopes of stabilizing Lebanon. It's hard not to see Chatah's death as a direct message from Assad supporters to the 'March 14' coalition.
Chatah was buried earlier today amid anti-Hezbollah chants, and Saad Hariri blamed Hezbollah directly on Friday:
"Those who assassinated Mohammad Shatah are the ones who assassinated Rafik Hariri; they are the ones who want to assassinate Lebanon," the former prime minister said.
"The suspects are those who are running away from international justice and refuse to appear in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon; they are the ones opening the window of evil and chaos to Lebanon and the Lebanese and are drawing regional fires," he added…. "Anger exists and we are heartbroken and we will remain heartbroken. But wisdom is needed so that we can build the Lebanon we dream of," he added.
Though Lebanon hasn't descended into outright war, sectarian tensions are rising:
In May 2012, Lebanese army forces killed the prominent Sunni cleric Sheikh Ahmad Abdel-Wahid at a checkpoint in northern Lebanon, provoking protests and further deaths in Tripoli and Beirut.
In June 2012, at least 15 people were killed in clashes in Tripoli, and renewed fighting between Sunni and Alawites in Tripoli killed another 12 people in August. Tripoli remains one of the most tense flashpoints in the spillover from the Syrian war — another 15 people were killed in November 2012, and 31 were killed in May 2013.
An October 2012 car bomb in Beirut killed eight people, including major general Wissam Hasan, a top intelligence and security official.
In June 2013, violent fighting broke out and killed over 50 people in Saida (Sidon), Lebanon's third-largest city, Hariri's home city and a Sunni stronghold on the Lebanese coast south of Beirut.
In July 2013, a car bomb in south Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, injured 53 people, and a Hezbollah convoy was attacked a week later near the Syrian border.
In August 2013, a double attack on two Sunni mosques in Tripoli killed nearly four dozen, and later that month, a car bomb in a Shiite neighborhood in Beirut killed at least two dozen.
On November 19, a suicide bombing in front of the Iranian embassy in Beirut killed an additional 23 people.
Lebanese and United Nations officials are still trying to get to the bottom of the Hariri assassination, but it's widely believed that Syrian forces close to Assad were responsible, and the ensuing uproar led to the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon after nearly 30 years of occupation that began during Lebanon's own brutal 15 year-long civil war. Hezbollah has denied responsibility for Friday's blast, but it was an unmistakable warning from pro-Assad forces. It came just three weeks before a special tribunal in The Hague was set to begin the trial of several Hezbollah members in relation to Hariri's assassination, and Friday's attack took place in Beirut's new city center, a neighborhood that Hariri worked to rebuild following Lebanon's civil war.
Chatah's assassination came in the backdrop of tense negotiations between the Hezbollah-dominated 'March 8' coalition and the Hariri-led 'March 14' coalition to form a new government that can thereupon agree on a new election law. Since the previous June 2009 elections, Saad Hariri led a 'March 14' government until June 2011, and Najib Mikati led a subsequent 'March 8' government until March, when he resigned. Since then, prime minister-designate Tammam Salam, who is close to both camps, has been working to form a government, a difficult task that the Chatah killing will make even harder.
Even when US and other Western governments are backing away from an increasingly fragmented Sunni opposition in Syria, thereby giving Assad a stronger hold on Syria than ever, sectarian tensions loom ominously over its neighbors in Lebanon and Iraq. A wider sectarian conflagration in the Levant from Beirut to Baghdad in 2014 could make the horrors of the Syrian civil war in 2013 seem like a wan prelude to something much worse.
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New Jersey school so overcrowded that students have to stand in class
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CeFaan Kim reports on the overcrowded elementary school in Palisades Park, New Jersey.
PALISADES PARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- An elementary school in New Jersey is so overcrowded that some students have to stand in class.
It's not every day and not in every class, but the situation at Lindbergh Elementary School has forced kids to race to those classes where students outnumber seats.
Parents are frustrated and the school superintendent admits it's a problem.
"We all come in, all running because there's like 40 of us and we all want to get a seat," 6th-grader Valerie Ramirez said.
Ramirez isn't describing track and field -- she's describing the mad dash for seats for her weekly computer class.
"Sometimes some of us steal each other's seats and there's like conflicts, and then some kids are standing, some kids are standing by the radiator," she said.
Ramirez says a student has to use that radiator as a desk. Four others are left standing with no desk at all, she said.
Parents say overcrowding is a school-wide issue that has been a problem for years.
Camila Reynoso, a 6th-grader, says the seat shortage also happens about once a week for exams.
"When we take math tests, some people usually don't finish," Reynoso said. "So some people do come and take people's spots and then you have to wait to 2:45 for dismissal."
The underlying issue, according to parents, is that families from outside the district are flooding the school.
And they blame the district for what they call a loose application process that they say allows kids from the outside into the school.
"We pay taxes here, we live here, we want everybody to be treated equal," parent Neris Papoteis said.
But the school superintendent says it has a residency officer enforcing these complaints.
When brought to their attention, the officer will verify if a family suspected of living outside the district does in fact live at the address provided.
"We have flexible seating. In science and computer labs they can stand if they choose to, but every child has a seat. Every student must prove residency," the superintendent said in a statement.
Of course, students say they're not standing by choice.
"They should do something about it, that's not right," parent Awilda Reynoso said.
As far as the overcrowding issue, the superintendent says the Board of Education tried to address the issue by a voter referendum last fall to expand the number of schools. But voters denied it.
The BOE will try a referendum again soon.
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Set the butter out to come to room temperature. You want it softened but still cool to the touch.
Place the oven rack in the middle of the oven and preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Generously butter and dust with flour 2 loaf pans or 1 large Bundt pan. Tap out excess flour.
In a measuring cup with a pour spout, whisk the eggs. Set aside.
In a separate measuring cup, combine the milk and vanilla. Set aside.
Zest the lemons then juice them. Set aside.
In a bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and shortening until smooth and creamy. Add the sugar and mix at medium-high speed for 5 – 8 minutes until the mixture is fluffy and almost white in color. Scrape the bowl and beater as necessary. Reduce the speed to low and, with the mixer running, gradually add the eggs in a steady stream. This could take up to a minute. Increase the speed to medium and mix for another minute.
Add 1/3 of the dry ingredients to the batter and mix until combined. Add half the milk/vanilla mixture and combine. Repeat. End with the last 1/3 of the dry ingredients and mix just until well combined.
Add the lemon juice and zest and mix until combined.
Transfer the batter to the prepared pan(s) and smooth the top with a rubber spatula. Bake until golden brown and a tester inserted comes out clean, about 70 – 80 minutes (check loaf pans after 60 minutes).
Move pan to a wire rack and let it cool for about 10 minutes. Invert the cake onto the wire rack and cool completely.
This lemon pound cake doesn't require a glaze, but if you want glaze simply combine 2 cups powdered sugar with enough lemon juice (about 1 1/2 to 2 tablespoons) until you get a good consistency.


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Q: JLabel not displaying image after choosing from jFileChooser in java netbeans IDE 8.02 I am using NetBeans IDE 8.0.2 to create my project application. I have created my application's signup page using multiple panels in CardLayout. For users to upload their image I created a JLabel and added mouseClicked event to it which displays JFileChooser but the image chosen is not displayed in the label (even though the image path is stored). Please check the following code.
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Jaipur celebrated 72nd Republic Day geared up in lights, CM hoisted flag at Badi Chaupar
January 27, 2021 January 27, 2021 AyushiLeave a Comment on Jaipur celebrated 72nd Republic Day geared up in lights, CM hoisted flag at Badi Chaupar
On the 72nd eve of Republic Day, all the government buildings, museums of Jaipur, were seen illuminated with colorful lights. Crowd gathered to see the lights and captured the mesmerising decoration.
Albert Hall Museum was lit with saffron, green, and white lights representing the tricolor flag. This made people passing through Ram Niwas Bagh stop by and do the photography. Residents of Jaipur came to see lights on all government buildings, museums. Everyone was seen busy capturing the scene with a camera in their mobile phone.
Janpath was also seen decorated with tricolor hoisted on its dome. Along with this, the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, Amar Jawan Jyoti, Statue Circle, Ambedkar Circle and all the adjoining government buildings (High Court, Secretariat, Accountant General, Vidyut Bhavan, Housing Board) were decorated with colorful lights and flowers. Similarly, attractive lighting was done at JDA, Gandhi Circle, Sawai Mansingh Circle on JLN Marg.
Pravin Agarwal, one of the visitors who was doing photography with the family, said that this time the light on Republic Day reminded us of Diwali lighting. During Diwali, we could not go to see the lights due to the Corona period and a fear of Corona infection. Corona figures were also increasing steadily. But now after nine months, the corona figure in Jaipur has also come down and the vaccine has also started. So, we are enjoying watching the decorations done in the city without fear. It is a light of hope for us to end Corona.
The state-level function was held at SMS Stadium Jaipur
According to an official of the department, on Republic day, there were performances of folk artists, police and military bands as well as other cultural programs. As per the schedule, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot hoisted the tricolor at his residence. He will participate in the Republic Day program at the state Congress headquarters, Badi Chaupar. He then attended a state-level function at the SMS Stadium.
Along with this, protocols were followed in view of coronavirus infection. Thermal screening was done on arrival of visitors and guests at the venue. The seating arrangement was also done according to social distancing and it was mandatory to apply masks, he added.
With regular arrangements in Republic Day celebrations, the security system was also strengthened. Extensive security arrangements were made across the state. All the Inspector General of Range Police, District Superintendents of Police and other senior officers were asked to be vigilant. Additional police forces were also deployed as per requirement.
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It's official: VA-11 Hall-A is heading to Switch. Sukeban Games announced today that it's game will be released on Nintendo's console in early 2019.
VA-11 Hall-A seemed to be destined for Switch after a designer and artist at Sukeban indicated that it was happening. However, this is the first time we're hearing about it officially.
Continue on below for details about VA-11 Hall-A, as well as a console trailer.
VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.
In this world, corporations reign supreme, all human life is infected with nanomachines designed to oppress them, and the terrifying White Knights ensure that everyone obeys the laws.
But, this is not about those people.
You are a bartender at VA-11 HALL-A, affectionately nicknamed "Valhalla." Although it is just a small bar downtown, it attracts the most fascinating people this side of dystopia. Keep your clients lubricated and you will be made privy to the most interesting stories.
Learn about daily life in the cyberpunk dystopia of Glitch City.
A branching storyline where your decisions do not depend on traditional choices, but through the drinks you prepare.
Visuals inspired by old Japanese adventure games for the PC-98, with a modern touch for an otherworldly experience.
Get to know your clients, their tastes, and prepare the drink that will change their lives.


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New York City is a place where individuals from every corner of the Earth come to live out their dreams and build better lives. That diversity is our city's greatest strength. It is critical that our leaders in city government reflect what is best about New York City, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it is essential to ensuring the fears, hopes, dreams, and problems of all New Yorkers are heard and understood by those with power.
Born into a Cuban and Puerto-Rican family and elected as the first Latino Vice President of the 20,000-member strong New York City Carpenters Union, I believe it is vital we fill the vacuum of high-ranking Latino leaders in city government by choosing City Councilman Francisco Moya as the next Speaker of the New York City Council.
As a Latino leader of a union, I know how important it is to elevate all voices to leadership roles.
I started my career in the NYC Carpenters Union as a member of Local 157, the largest local union in the country, which covers parts of the Bronx and Manhattan. One of my major priorities was, and still is, protecting hundreds of non-union workers who are from Latino and Hispanic communities by organizing them into the union where they can begin building safe and stable careers for themselves. That includes good jobs with great pay and benefits.
The brothers and sisters I organized was able to do a 180-turn in life and live the American Dream that people from around the world come to NYC for. Rather than continuing to work on dangerous non-union construction sites where their diversity wasn't valued and they were paid subpar wages with no benefits, they sought out a more rewarding path.
I speak from experience. Before I joined the union, I had a long career as nonunion construction employee. I didn't understand how transformative a union job could be for me. I also didn't see someone who looked like me rising up in the ranks either. I couldn't have been more wrong. After 15 years as a rank-and-file member building up our iconic skyline, I played an integral role in the creation of a new local for the next generation of concrete workers – Local 212. Before long, I was elected president and I have continued to excel.
With close to 20 years of experience in this industry, I have seen firsthand the struggles of minorities in nonunion construction. It is more important than ever to ensure that we create more opportunities for our Latino brothers and sisters. That is my primary focus now that I am serving as Vice President of the NYC District Council of Carpenters. It's with this experience that I will help to uplift Latino and Hispanic workers and leaders, just as I have been uplifted myself.
For years, Francisco Moya has served in the City Council representing the 21st district in Queens—which is comprised of Corona, Jackson Heights, and East Elmhurst—one of the most diverse parts of our city. He has shown experience and grit, standing up to special interests in his time in the City Council, as well as his time in the New York State Assembly. As a native New Yorker, he understands what our communities need.
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I am proud that my union endorsed him for New York City Council Speaker, and I look forward to working with him to ensure that we continue to foster viable pathways for Latino and Hispanic brothers and sisters to climb, lead, and prosper.
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Hill District leaders say a new development pact may transform their neighborhood -- and the city itself
A momentary silence descends inside Exclusive Cutz as barber Master PeeWee kills the razor's power. But the quiet doesn't last long: Loretta Harris, who has just been getting her eyebrows trimmed in the second-floor Centre Avenue barbershop, has some sharp words for the new Pittsburgh Penguins arena being built a few blocks away.
"They ain't doing nothing but selling us empty promises," says Harris, sitting in the lone barber's chair.
Harris and her barber have heard about the community-benefits agreement (CBA) signed by the team and local leaders in August. They've heard promises about new jobs and resources for Hill District residents. But they aren't buying it -- yet.
"They're just 'saying'," PeeWee says. "You can say you'll give us a job, but are you going to give us a shot?"
Such skepticism isn't surprising coming from the Hill, where residents still remember the devastation caused by the Civic Arena's construction nearly 50 years ago. They haven't forgotten the 8,000 people displaced or the 400 businesses removed. They say it'll take much more than a 17-page legal document to convince them that the new arena will be any better for them than the first one was.
"They screwed us once before!" exclaims Harris, 56. "They took my street when I was a baby on my mother's arm, and they never gave us anything back."
This time will be different, officials promise. And many want to believe. "You've got to believe there's some hope," says 46-year-old Anthony Ballard, who sells hot dogs, lemonade and ice balls out of a trailer at the corner of Wylie and Soho. "Because if you don't have vision, you'll perish."
"It's just something where we have to wait and see," agrees 82-year-old Harry Williams, sitting on the sidewalk along Wylie Avenue on a sunny September day.
Anthony Ballard sells hot dogs and lemonade from a trailer at the corner of Wylie and Soho in the Hill District.
There's reason for optimism: The CBA is promising a neighborhood grocery store -- something residents have long desired -- and it could produce jobs as well. If it delivers, it may change not just the Hill's future, but the way the entire city approaches development. While the fear is that a CBA will be just another in a long line of broken promises, the hope is that it will, at long last, do something to help the barber on Centre, the hot-dog vendor on Wylie.
Because as Williams says, "We've been waiting a long time for the Hill to come back."
"Urban renewal" decimated Pittsburgh's Lower Hill District in the early 1960s. Much of the housing wiped out by the arena was badly dilapidated, but in getting rid of the blight, city officials also swept away famed jazz clubs and other black cultural institutions. Even the buildings still remaining from those days, like the New Granada theater on Centre Avenue, are little more than empty shells.
In order to make sure history wouldn't repeat itself, the neighborhood formed the One Hill Coalition in the summer of 2007.
Often, when development is planned for an area, resident concerns are expressed by a neighborhood organization that represents the community in talks with the developer. But the Hill has many such groups, which have sometimes worked at cross-purposes. So once planning for the new arena got underway, community leaders created an ad-hoc coalition made up of dozens of organizations. Groups such as the environmentalist Sierra Club, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Hill House Association, a nonprofit neighborhood organization, all joined the Hill District's fight.
The coalition, which called itself One Hill, modeled its fight after economic-justice movements that have taken place around the nation.
The city of Los Angeles is credited with the first CBA in 2001. When leaders there proposed to expand the Staples Center into a larger sports-and-entertainment district, activists fought for a CBA that delivered 2,500 living-wage jobs and a job-training program. Since then, more than a dozen CBAs have been established in cities such as New York, Milwaukee and San Diego.
At the heart of the CBA concept is the idea that involving the entire community allows for a "broad program of solutions," says Gabe Morgan, director of SEIU Local 3, which represents 9,000 service-sector workers.
Creating One Hill "was the single most important thing" the Hill District did, says Morgan, who helped lead negotiations with the Penguins. "What we were able to accomplish was based on the strength of that."
"We had to get all our partners on board; it was a broad process," One Hill chairman Carl Redwood told City Paper shortly after the organization's creation. "It's not a closed room with a few people; [otherwise], we won't have all the support that we need. Our issue is to make sure the folks Downtown understand that we speak with one voice."
It wasn't easy. For one thing, the Penguins had already signed a 30-year lease for the new arena with local and state officials in March 2007, months before One Hill was formed. Once the lease was signed, the community lost a lot of leverage. And relations between One Hill and the Penguins were rocky from the outset, marked by distrust.
Although Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato and the Penguins signed a letter promising "to work in good faith" on a CBA, the letter also pledged that the project would not be "delayed or disadvantaged" by discussion of the agreement.
Community leaders saw that as an attempt to weaken their position: "We don't trust them," Redwood told CP at the time. So when the Penguins pushed arena plans through the planning commission, whose approval the team needed, One Hill members were there hoisting signs and shouting disapproval. When the Penguins backed away from the negotiations around the time they made their Stanley Cup playoff run, the coalition threatened to protest the games -- a move that could have meant bad PR for both sides.
But eventually, the two sides settled on a deal. On Aug. 19, team officials, politicians and community members joined for a signing ceremony at the Hill's Freedom Corner -- the spot where black leaders tried to halt redevelopment a half-century ago.
One Hill lead negotiator Even Frazier, center, cheers on coalition members speaking at a planning commission public hearing.
At the ceremony, Onorato described negotiations as "sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes angry." On many occasions, he said, all parties "questioned that [the CBA] would ever get done."
Here's what the coalition won:
A pledge from the Penguins to offer jobs ranging from $12-30 per hour, plus benefits.
A "First Source" job center, which will train Hill residents for, and give them first dibs on, those jobs -- and on jobs created by a development officials hope will take place on 28 acres nearby.
$2 million ($1 million contributed by the Penguins, and the rest by the city's Urban Redevelopment Authority) for a grocery store. Two grocery-story chains have expressed interest in Centre Avenue locations.
A state tax-credit program that could provide up to $6 million over the next 12 years for neighborhood support, including youth services and drug-and-alcohol programs.
The creation of a nine-member steering committee which will allow community members to help determine how to develop the 28 acres nearby.
One Hill didn't get everything it asked for. It had, for example, sought a community-controlled economic-improvement fund, toward which some coalition members wanted the Penguins to contribute $10 million. Instead, the team contributed just one-tenth of that to the grocery store. That prompted criticism from people like Cliff Christian, a Hill District business owner who participated in CBA negotiations for months. "I was appalled at how they let the Penguins off the hook," he told CP in May. "The agreement sucks."
But from day one, says One Hill lead negotiator Evan Frazier, "There was great resistance" to the fund. If the coalition didn't compromise, he says, One Hill risked getting nothing at all.
And the agreement had come a long way since January, when Onorato and Ravenstahl proposed an agreement of their own. That three-page proposal pledged that the Penguins would provide "opportunities for Hill District youth to participate in sports [and] attend Penguins games," but few other specifics. It expressed "support" for a grocery store, for example, and stated that employers "will be encouraged" to hire from the community.
Officials weren't trying to gloss over the Hill's concerns, says Onorato spokesperson Kevin Evanto. Both the mayor and county executive wanted to help undo the destruction caused by the Civic Arena, Evanto says, which was why they came to the negotiating table in the first place. But One Hill issued a scorching response to the proposed agreement -- literally. Coalition members burned a copy in front of TV cameras.
As ominous as that gesture seemed, it may have helped light a fire under the negotiations. As Frazier says, "Since January, we've made significant strides."
Looking back, says Onorato, "The only difference [between our proposal in January and the CBA] is that maybe there was some more detail added to it. ... [O]bviously some people that had to sign it thought that they needed more meat."
Indeed, the final version of the agreement provides very specific steps for fulfilling the promises Onorato and Ravenstahl made in January. The previous proposal merely "encouraged" developers to hire from the Hill; the CBA, by contrast, spells out the funding required for a job center, which will receive $300,000 from the city and county in its first two years.
"It's a landmark agreement," says Kathleen Mulligan-Hansel, director of research and communications for the Partnership for Working Families, a national organization that has worked on CBAs with the Hill District and community groups across the country. "I don't think anyone can look at it and not be impressed."
The most critical provision, she says, is the First Source center, which Frazier expects the Hill House Association to have up and running by early 2009. Mulligan-Hansel says the center is "a really good foundation for making sure not only that local residents have first crack at the jobs ... but also that there will be a process for training residents."
And the jobs won't be minimum-wage positions, either. The SEIU's Morgan says the agreement requires that jobs created in and around the new arena pay union-standard wages. For example, arena janitors will earn roughly $12-15 per hour, while construction workers employed on the site will make about $25-30 per hour. With plans for the 28 acres near the arena still being drafted, it's hard to know how many jobs that will be, but Morgan expects anywhere from 300 to 1,000 new jobs to be created from the entire development.
The Penguins are already showing good faith, he says: According to Morgan, the Penguins recently notified One Hill that they are seeking candidates for an information-technology and public-relations position.
One Hill Chairman Carl Redwood addresses the media.
But while the agreement pledges opportunities, it stops short of guaranteeing actual jobs. That isn't lost on skeptics like Loretta Harris.
According to Harris, many Hill District residents have criminal records, hurting their employment prospects. Without a quota written into the contract, Harris worries the Penguins "probably said, 'Just agree to it, and their records will stop them. Would you sign up to give [Hill residents] jobs knowing we've got two, three strikes against us?"
According to Penguins' senior consultant Ron Porter, the Penguins have to be as careful as any employer about who they hire. "If people have a record of violence, for instance, we have to be prudent about bringing those people in," he says.
Porter declined to say if residents could be denied jobs for non-violent crimes. Each crime should be analyzed individually, he says. But he adds that "it's in everyone's interest to create processes that will allow people who are currently unemployable to become employable."
Frazier says the coalition never pushed for a quota system. Instead, he says, the job center's purpose is to show Hill residents where jobs are, and provide training so residents can fill them.
And Mulligan-Hansel says that's the most effective approach. A study conducted by the Partnership for Working Families, she says, concluded that "just doing a quota system on its own is unlikely to produce a lot of results." The ideal system, she says, would consist of both a quota and a First Source training/placement process, "but if I had to pick one or the other, I would always pick the process." Quotas can't provide job training, and Mulligan-Hansel says they can "handcuff" employers. But a hiring and training process helps communities offer "the best possible candidates that [businesses] can't turn down."
Some are already trumpeting One Hill's CBA as a model for others to follow. Pittsburgh City Councilor Bill Peduto, for example, says the city "should embrace them." In fact, he'd like to require a CBA process whenever a development uses large taxpayer subsidies or requires a master plan.
"It's not progressive to be a city that fights against CBAs," Peduto says.
And there is at least some reason to think CBAs produce more benefits than more traditional means of negotiation.
In 2006, when Don Barden proposed building the Majestic Star casino for the North Side, community leaders didn't form a new ad-hoc coalition. Instead Barden followed a more familiar process of working with groups that already existed. He sought the backing of the Northside Leadership Conference (NSLC), a nonprofit community-development corporation composed of 15 North Side organizations.
NSLC Executive Director Mark Fatla says his community group never endorsed Barden's casino plans. Instead, it told Barden that if he made binding pledges on jobs and investments, the group would tell state gambling regulators that "we were comfortable that we could work with him."
After roughly four months, the NSLC got its agreement, and Barden got his license. And even though Barden later gave up control of the casino, its new majority owner, Chicago billionaire Neil Bluhm, ratified the NSLC's deal on Sept. 15.
Much like One Hill's 17-page agreement, the NSLC's three-page pact includes financial commitments to the neighborhood. The casino pledges to provide $3 million for various projects, including housing development and business-district revitalization -- specifically along East Ohio Street, Western Avenue and Upper Federal Street.
But in some ways, the North Side pact is less specific. According to the NSLC deal, the developer "shall provide a hiring preference for its open-employment positions to residents of the North Side." One Hill's agreement, by contrast, spells out exactly how that "preference" is to be shown: It pledges that "[F]or the first week following the notification of the [job center] of the job opening, hiring will only be of applicants that are Hill District residents."
And while One Hill's CBA provides at least $300,000 in establishing its job center with the help of the Penguins and government officials, the NSLC agreement has no job-center requirement at all. Instead, it states that the "NSLC shall ... supply workforce-development services to the Casino ... as well as coordinate training services through the Community College of Allegheny County or similar service providers."
But Fatla hails as "historic" one provision of his agreement. "If future problems arise with respect to Casino impact [on] surrounding North Side neighborhoods," it states, the casino will "cooperate with NSLC to enact further programs to remedy such problems." The agreement does not define "sufficient funding," or specify how to determine whether a casino is responsible for a problem. ("We can't look down the road and know everything that might happen," Fatla says.) But if a spike in prostitution can be attributed to the casino, say, the pact requires the casino to "provide sufficient funding to implement ... programs" necessary to address it.
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, left, and County Executive Dan Onorato say the North Side doesn't need a CBA.
What's more, leaders in both the North Side and the Hill say that if promises are broken, their agreements give them the ability to take the developer to court.
"We wouldn't have negotiated it if we didn't think it was enforceable," says Fatla, a practicing attorney.
Similarly, "We're completely comfortable going to court with this agreement," says lawyer Mike Healey, who helped One Hill draft the CBA. "We were careful early on to draft legally enforceable language."
But state Rep. Jake Wheatley, who represents both the Hill and portions of the North Side, says the real question isn't whether there's an agreement to fight over, but "Do you have the capacity [to fight]?" And that question may be especially hard for One Hill, with its patchwork coalition, to answer.
Wheatley himself has long been skeptical of the involvement of unions in the Hill's CBA process. There is a long history of distrust between blacks and trade unions. On projects like the original Civic Arena, after all, construction workers were almost exclusively white, even when the residents displaced by the project were black. Wheatley wonders whether the SEIU is looking to bolster its membership, and whether it will jump ship once that happens. If they leave, he cautions, One Hill might not have the resources for a lengthy court battle.
"One of my major struggles in this [CBA] conversation is, how much of an outside influence are unions who have ... a certain need that they want?" Wheatley says. "Let's see how long they stay at this table to make sure this community benefits."
The SEIU's Morgan says the union can't help but stand by the agreement. "Unions have been involved [because] their members live in the Hill," he says. "Our members have a direct stake." But he stops short of guaranteeing financial support: Any monetary commitment to One Hill would have to be supported by union membership. "The union is open to doing whatever it can to help One Hill," Morgan says. But, he adds, "I don't have an open checkbook."
In any case, while having promises on paper is important, "The implementation is a critical component," says Frazier. The nine-member steering committee in charge of determining how the Hill District's 28 acres around the arena are developed could determine whether the CBA succeeds or not, and it's too soon to tell how well the committee will function.
Four committee members will be chosen from the One Hill Coalition; the other five will be held by elected officials representing the district: Ravenstahl, Onorato, as well as city Councilor Tonya Payne, state Sen. Jim Ferlo and Wheatley. No decision can be made by the committee if there are more than two dissenting votes.
Frazier says he'd have preferred to have coalition members, rather than elected officials, make up the majority. But he notes that the two-dissenting-vote maximum should prevent One Hill from being steamrolled. "What the supermajority does is force more conversation, as opposed to, 'Here's the vote -- it's gone,'" he says. "[T]here are checks and balances within the process."
Of course, the supermajority cuts both ways: It's unlikely that One Hill could do much to defy the political establishment, either. Onorato and Ravenstahl are political allies; Ferlo sits on the Urban Redevelopment Authority board; and Payne, who usually votes with Ravenstahl on council, has accused Penguins critics of "extortion."
Wheatley, meanwhile, could be a wild card: He has denounced the Penguins, but he has also criticized One Hill. It got only "chump change" from the team, he says -- and when asked whether he could work with the group, would say only, "That's going to be seen."
Even assuming the One Hill coalition voted as a bloc -- a big assumption -- it's hard to imagine the community peeling away the three elected officials they'd need on a position Ravenstahl and Onorato didn't support. What would be more likely is gridlock, with neither side able to muster seven out of nine votes needed for a divisive issue.
And time would not be on the community's side. The CBA makes clear that if a master plan for the district isn't approved by Feb. 19 of next year, the Penguins can proceed without the board's approval. In a serious dispute, the Penguins could get their way simply by waiting the community out.
Frazier, though, is upbeat. "Will people have different perspectives? Clearly," he says. "It's something that the steering team will have to work through."
In the meantime, though, calls for a CBA are already echoing elsewhere in the city.
One Hill members protest arena development plans at a planning commission meeting.
Earlier this summer, the city's Stadium Authority -- which controls the land between PNC Park and Heinz Field -- sold developer Continental Real Estate two plots of land along the city's North Shore, one for a hotel and the other for an entertainment complex. Continental bought the hotel plot for roughly $8 per square foot. In contrast, another would-be hotel developer, William Kratsa, paid nearly $76 a square foot for a parcel of land just a few blocks away.
For members of Northside United -- an alliance of unions and neighborhood groups similar to the One Hill Coalition -- that is reason enough for another CBA. (The group also cites $4 million in tax subsidies Continental is seeking for its entertainment complex.). The group wants Continental to promise living-wage jobs for North Siders, along with funding for youth-training and home-improvement programs. But so far, says Rev. Michael Glass, Northside United's co-chair, Continental "basically said that they weren't going to do any of [those] things."
Neither Frank Kass, Continental's chairman, nor Barry Ford, who directs development in Pittsburgh, returned phone calls for comment. But Kass made his feelings clear at an Aug. 6 Stadium Authority hearing on the land transfer. Before a crowd of roughly 40, Kass held up a copy of the Northside United blueprint and exclaimed, "I don't understand any of this! All we're doing is building a hotel."
Having been rebuffed by the developer, Northside United is trying to garner support from the mayor and county executive. "They have a unique opportunity to ... show the rest of the city and county that they are, in fact, servants of the electorate," Glass says.
But earlier this summer, Glass says, Ravenstahl told him "he had no plans of seeing another CBA in the city of Pittsburgh. Period." Since that meeting, Glass says North Side residents have sent roughly 100 letters to the mayor and county executive, pleading for their support, and have received no response.
Ravenstahl's office did not respond to a half-dozen phone and e-mail requests for an interview. But for his part, Onorato says flatly, "You don't need a CBA on the North Side. It's too early to tell" if the Hill's CBA will be successful. "Maybe we got it wrong. ... Let's slow it down until we see how [the Hill CBA] works."
In the meantime, he says, residents should follow the Don Barden model of working with established groups: "I don't think we need to be doing community-benefits agreements everywhere." Especially since they may scare developers off, he cautions: "We don't know ... and that's why I say slow [the CBA movement] up."
"I don't think [CBAs] are going to scare anyone away at all. ... That's ridiculous," counters Glass. And the problem with the NSLC's dealings with Barden, he says, is that they take place "behind closed doors. ... Everyone in the neighborhood should have the right to say, 'Here are my concerns. Here's what's affecting my neighborhood. And here's what I would like to see done.'"
Fatla, of the NSLC, says his group did hold public meetings over three months, inviting public input. And the agreement was voted on by the conference's 15 member organizations. "It was an open, democratic process," he says. "Could you find people that didn't know [about it]? Absolutely. We can't expect to reach every individual."
Fatla says he doesn't "begrudge" Northside United's efforts. In fact, he says he encourages the coalition to get more for the community: "We never said that the Leadership Conference's process is the only process." But he worries that Northside United's approach is needlessly antagonistic. The group has staged protests at public meetings, stormed Continental's Pittsburgh headquarters in Homestead and, most recently, filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Stadium Authority's land transfer to the hotel developer.
"At the end of the day," says Fatla, "we best serve our neighborhoods by having working relationships with these institutions. ... The goal is not to beat up or embarrass the other side -- the goal is to let the other side know that you could beat them up or embarrass them."
Something else may prevent Pittsburgh neighborhoods from repeating the Hill District's success: Few have been such notorious examples of redevelopment's failure. The historic resentment over the Civic Arena gave Hill residents additional clout, and it helped bring officials like Onorato to the table. Rightly or wrongly, the political stakes may be lower in areas where failed developments were less conspicuous.
That has some lifelong North Siders frustrated. Glass lived in Manchester back when the Route 65 extension was built in the 1960s. "My family ... had to move so that ... people from Beaver County could get into the city," he says. Thanks to that project -- and the construction of I-279 elsewhere in the area -- "I literally watched the community fall down around me," Glass says.
So just as the new arena hopes to reverse the mistakes inflicted on the Hill, Glass hopes developers like Continental will do the same with projects on the North Side and elsewhere.
"We're not trying to put a gun to their heads and saying, 'Give us billions of dollars,'" Glass says. "We're saying, 'What do you think makes sense for you to show that you're interested in the welfare of the people of the city?'"
(Adam Fleming contributed reporting to this story.)
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Q: Get type of inherited instantiated template Is it possible to obtain the type of an instantiated template from a variable?
struct A { enum E {A_, B, C}; };
struct B { enum E {X, Y, Z}; };

class BaseClass {};
template <typename T> class TemplateClass : public BaseClass {};

class AChild : public TemplateClass<A> {};
class BChild : public TemplateClass<B> {};

template <typename T>
class WorkerClass
{
  static void do_stuff(const BaseClass& a) {}
};

int main(void)
{
  AChild a;
  //need to call WorkerClass<A::E>::do_stuff(a)
}

A: You may do:
template <typename T>
void foo(TemplateClass<T>& c)
{
    WorkerClass<typename T::E>::do(c)
}

and then
foo(a);

Other traditional way is to add the type in template class:
template <typename T> class TemplateClass : public BaseClass
{
    using type = T;
};

so you can do
WorkerClass<AChild::type::E>::do(a);

A:
Is it possible to obtain the type of an instantiated template from a variable?

Yes.

*

*Update the class template to provide the type that was used to instantiate it.
template <typename T> struct TemplateClass : public BaseClass
{
   using type = T;
};

*Use decltype(A) to use the type of A.

Here's an updated version of your posted code that compiles and builds for me using g++ 5.4.0.
struct A {enum E{AA, AB, AC}; };
struct B {enum E{BX, BY, BZ}; };

class BaseClass {};

template <typename T> struct TemplateClass : public BaseClass
{
   using type = T;
};

class AChild : public TemplateClass<A> {};
class BChild : public TemplateClass<B> {};

template <typename T>
struct WorkerClass
{
  static void dostuff(const BaseClass& a) {};
};

int main(void)
{
  AChild a;
  using type = decltype(a)::type;
  WorkerClass<type::E>::dostuff(a);
}

A: C++ has RTTI (Run Time Type Identification). Maybe you want to use std::dynamic_cast for this.
dynamic_cast(elem) tries to get an object of type T from elem

*

*If T is of type pointer, it returns a pointer to the object, or 0 (if
the pointed object is not of type T)

*If T is of type reference, it returns a reference to the object, or
throws an std::bad_cast exception

A: Adding to @Jarod42 's answer, you may also write a type trait instead, in C++11:
template <typename T>
T& GetEnumOfImpl(TemplateClass<T>&);

template <typename T>
using GetEnumOf = typename std::decay_t<decltype(GetEnumOfImpl(std::declval<T&>()))>::E;

...

AChild a;
WorkerClass<GetEnumOf<AChild>>::do_stuff(a);


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Zeng, Hong
About the translator: Dr. Hong Zeng is Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature at Carleton College. She earned her first Ph.D. from the Department of English at Beijing Foreign Studies University, and her second Ph.D. in Chinese Language and Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
An English translation of Poems of the contemporary Chinese poet Hai Zi
Hai Zi, originally named Cha Haisheng, had published a large amount of outstanding poetry from 1984-1989 and was regarding as one of the major contemporary Chinese poets. In March 1989, he committed suicide by laying himself on a railroad track at Beijing Shan Hai Guan at the age of 25. Hai Zi's poetry seems to be anachronism. China has been through a great change, and the traditional countryside is disappearing with the large migration of peasants from villages to cities. Economic reform and consumerism are fast developing. Hai Zi's nostalgia for the vanishing agricultural culture makes him an anachronism. His poetry still lives on the traditional Chinese agricultural landscape and mindscape, and the 19th century European idea of divine inspiration; that the genesis of poetry is analogous to the genesis of the universe; poetry comes from a divine spark; the poet is no less than a god, and his limited human body consumes itself to feed that divine essence in him. In his poems we may find Nietzsche's idea of Zagreus; the descent of the world from a mythical oneness and the throes of individuation; Hölderlin's same idea of cosmic descent and departing gods.
Deconstructive Reading of Chinese Natural Philosophy in Literature and the Arts: Taoism and Zen Buddhism
This work is a deconstructive reading of the prevalent views on Chinese natural philosophy (Taoism and Zen Buddhism) and its impact on Chinese literature and arts (classical Chinese poetry, painting, novels; modern Chinese and American poetry, and contemporary Chinese film), especially its impact on Chinese poetry. The serene, holistic vision of Chinese natural philosophy has been so deep rooted and rarely challenged that it has become a myth. Since Taoism and Zen Buddhism have been major influences on classical Chinese arts and poetry, which in turn influence modern Chinese and American poetry, the myth is perpetuated in views held about all these art forms, and is reflected in the rarely disputed aesthetic characteristics pertaining to these creations: non-human centered perception, the loss of individual self in cosmic Self, an aesthetic attitude of silence, tranquility, emptiness and passivity, and unification of Chinese pictographic characters and Chinese language with the real-life world. It is also believed that temporality implicit in these poems conforms to the natural flux of the universe, and subjective time is rarely found in them.
The author's deconstruction is unfolded through three interrelated aspects: time, subject and language. The deconstruction posits: a double, conflicting sense of temporality rather than a unified time consciousness characterizes Chinese natural philosophy, poetry and other art forms under its influence. The subject (self), instead of being a uniform one, which is at once absent and omnipresent as indicated by the syntax of classical Chinese poetry, is often divided against itself. As to language, instead of being a transparent language reflecting the real-life world unimpeded by human intellect, is often a plural text where linguistic characteristics are double-edged.
In other words, this work is a rethinking of Chinese natural philosophy and poetry under its impact: how their serene, holistic vision is undercut by intrinsic contradictions that are only partly redeemed by aesthetic means, which have their pitfalls that end in suffering as well as in celebration, thus aligns itself with tragic tradition, a mode always denied to the understanding of Chinese natural philosophy.
In this work, the author explored how the hidden ruptures in time, self and language latent in Chinese natural philosophy and classical Chinese poetry open up abysmal chasm in a well-known contemporary Chinese poet, Gu Cheng. The concluding chapter examines the affinity of Chinese natural philosophy and Western tradition of tragedy as a troubled passage from dualism to monism, in which sacrifice is involved, and the vision of integration is achieved at the cost of self-laceration.
The Bear and other Poems
The Bear and Other Poems is the author's first book of creative poetry, in Chinese and English bilingual versions.


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