Rui Costa (Movistar) goes after Frank Schleck (Image credit: Sirotti) Image 20 of 27 Mikel Nieve (Euskaltel - Euskadi) and John Gadret (AG2R) (Image credit: Sirotti) Image 21 of 27 Defending champion Levi Leipheimer drives the chase group (Image credit: Sirotti) Image 22 of 27 Tom Danielson (Garmin-Barracuda) leads the chase of Cost and Schleck (Image credit: Sirotti) Image 23 of 27 Valverde follows Roche and Danielson (Image credit: Sirotti) Image 24 of 27 Roman Kreuziger (Pro Team Astana) (Image credit: Sirotti) Image 25 of 27 Rui Costa (Movistar) wins stage 2 of the Tour de Suisse (Image credit: Sirotti) Image 26 of 27 Rui Costa (Movistar) wins stage 2 of the Tour de Suisse (Image credit: Sirotti) Image 27 of 27 Rui Costa (Movistar) timed his lateattack perfectly to win in Verbier ahead of Frank Schleck (Image credit: Bettini Photo)

Rui Costa (Movistar) delivered a master class in timing to win stage 2 of the Tour de Suisse with an attack on the final slopes up to Verbier. The Portuguese rider attacked inside the final two kilometres of the climb, reeling in Frank Schleck (RadioShack-Nissan) who had attacked with six kilometres to go. After making the catch inside the final 200 meters Schleck had little energy for the sprint and was forced to settle for second. Mikel Nieve (Euskaltel) finished third.

Costa’s win shifted him into the race’s overall lead after stage 1 winner Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) sat up with 12 kilometres to go.

Unlike the Dauphine, a race that this year shied away from a mountain


top finish, the Tour de Suisse made no bones about including such stage conclusions, with a climb to Verbier featuring on the second stage.

Alessandro Bazzana (Team Type 1 – Sanofi) and Ryan Anderson (Spidertech powered by C10) were the early breakaway and it took a concerted effort from a number of teams, including a clearly motivated RadioShack, to bring them in check.

The pair were brought to check inside the final 30 kilometres as rain began to fall and the final climb loomed over the GC pretenders. On the early slopes RadioShack began unsettling a number of riders. As expected, Peter Sagan and his sprint rivals were quickly eliminated as Linus Gerdemann, Jakob Fuglsang and Maxime Monfort set the pace.

With 6 kilometres to go and the leading group alreadythinned to less than 40 riders, Schleck attacked. Within one kilometre the climber had established a 22 second buffer as Lampre struggled to mount a significant chase for Damiano Cunego.

John Gadret (AG2R) in his pink overshoes became frustrated, flying from the struggling bunch in a bid to match and catch Schleck but all his move proved to do was drop Robert Gesink (Rabobank).

Tom Danielson (Garmin-Barracuda) took off and found himself alone, rather than initiating a serious attack, but he briefly persisted as the race went under the 2km to go banner. His move was the catalyst for Costa, who closed the gap and quickly dismantled Schleck’s lead.

The Portuguese rider, the only cyclist allocated Olympic funding for 2012, and winner of a stage in last year’s Tour ,caught the


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With the 70th anniversary of a Palestinian Arab leader’s sabotage of a plan to rescue Jewish children from Europe coming up next month, Israeli scholar Edy Cohen spoke exclusively to JNS.org about his current research on the role of Nazi and Axis propaganda in the Middle East. Cohen, 41, is on the staff of the Israel State Archives.

During the Holocaust years, Haj Amin el-Husseini, better known as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, lived in Berlin, where he recorded pro-Nazi radio broadcasts that were beamed to the Arab world and recruited Bosnian Muslims to join an all-Muslim unit of the SS. Seventy years ago, on May 13, 1943, Husseini caught wind of a plan


analyzed by Haganah intelligence in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Some of the leaflets found by Cohen feature stark headlines such as “Kill the Jews and the British!” Some were printed on the back of facsimile British pounds or American dollars, so that when they were dropped by German planes over Arab regions of Palestine, they looked like money and immediately attracted attention.

According to Cohen, some of the Arabic-language Nazi propaganda promised that those who attacked Jews would be rewarded by being given “the most beautiful of the Jewish girls”the Berlin Broadcasts in Arabic most attentively, particularly in town and village coffee shops where large crowds gather for the purpose.” The report stated that the “uneducated classes are undoubtedly being influenced” by the Nazi propaganda.

In 1945, the activists known as the Bergson Group successfully lobbied the government of Yugoslavia to indict the Mufti as a war criminal, because of atrocities committed against Allied soldiers and civilians by members of the Bosnian Muslim SS unit, known as “Handschar,” that he helped create. The Yugoslavs never took steps to extradite him, however.

Husseini fled Berlin during the final days of the war but was briefly detained by the French authorities and placed under house arrest in a Paris villa. In response to Arab pressure, the French permitted the Mufti to


stage a faux escape, and he found haven in Cairo. Later he moved to Beirut, where he passed away in 1974.

Earlier this year, Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas stirred controversy when, in a PA television broadcast, he listed the Mufti’s name among a number of “martyrs and heroes” who have died while fighting Jews or Israelis.

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip-- The worst violence between Israel and the Gaza Strip in nearly a year entered its second day on Saturday, as Israeli aircraft killed 15 militants, according to Palestinian health officials. Militants responded by firing nearly 100 rockets, seriously wounding an Israeli civilian.

The airstrikes and rocket attacks could drag the volatile area into broader conflict especially if a large number of civilians are killed on either side.

On Saturday, the low whooshing noise of militants firing rockets from border areas toward Israel was palpably heard inside Gaza City. Israeli drones hovered in the skies above. Tens of thousands of Palestinian mourners marched through the streets in funeral processions. They carried slain militants in coffins, their bodies too torn up to be wrapped in cloth, as Muslimtradition dictates. Masked militants sprayed machine gun fire above the mourners' heads in angry grief.

"Revenge, revenge!" chanted the crowds.

On Israel's southern border areas, residents were told to stay home and refrain from holding large outdoor events on Saturday.

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The flare-up began Friday with a strike on militant commander Zuhair al-Qaissi, whom Israel said was planning an attack from the nearby Egyptian Sinai peninsula into the Jewish state. He was the leader of the Popular Resistance Committees, a small group best known for the 2006 abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit. Schalit was freed last year in exchange for over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.

It was the highest profile killing Israel has undertaken against militants in the coastal strip in


several months.

Gaza militants then unleashed a barrage of rockets toward Israel's southern border communities. One rocket seriously wounded an Israeli civilian and sent families scattering into bomb shelters.

So far, militants have fired 92 rockets. The military said its air defense systems intercepted some 25 rockets before they landed.

In comparison, Palestinian militants fired some 50 rockets toward Israel in the three months preceding the flare up, a military spokesman said. He spoke anonymously in line with military regulations.

Egypt, which has helped arrange truces in the past, said Saturday it was trying to cobble together a cease-fire but hope seemed distant.

Palestinian militants said they would press on, accusing Israel of shattering the months of relative calm in the area.

"(We) won't give this occupation a free truce while our leaders andheroes are being killed," said Abu Mujahid, spokesman for al-Qaissi's group.

Gaza's Hamas rulers condemned the Israeli strike but, pointedly, their militants did not fire rockets at Israel. Instead, they quietly allowed other Palestinian militants to unleash salvos.

In previous flare-ups, Hamas has used such a strategy to allow Palestinian militants to burn off their anger, with an eye toward the exchange of strikes eventually quieting down.

Hamas hasn't been eager to participate in rocket barrages since Israel conducted a punishing three-week war against the militant group that ended in 2009. The air and ground assault killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians and militants, and destroyed much of Hamas' infrastructure.

Since then, Hamas has sought to shore up its Gaza rule and amass a better weapons arsenal.

Still, Israel's military said it Hamas, as


the territory's ruler, would "bear the consequences" for any attacks that initiated from Gaza.

Tit-for-tat strikes between Israel and Palestinians are a routine occurrence along the Gaza border. But a flare-up of this intensity has been rare since the 2009 war.

In August, there was flare up when Israel assassinated al-Qaissi's predecessor, Kamal al-Nairab.

But this is the deadliest since April, when 11 Palestinians were killed, including four civilians. In April's flare up, the Israeli strikes came after Palestinian militants fired a rocket that hit a school bus, injuring the driver and badly wounding a 16-year-old boy.

This current round of fighting could spiral out of control if Palestinian militants manage to kill Israeli civilians, prompting a fiercer Israeli response.

Likewise, if an Israeli strike kills Palestinians, or another senior militant member, Hamasmay feel forced to join the fray, opening a broader front against Israel.

The Palestinian militants were killed in eight airstrikes overnight and on Saturday morning, said

Gaza health spokesman Adham Abu Salmia. He said some 20 more civilians were wounded by flying shrapnel from the exploding missiles, some of which targeted militants deep in civilian areas of the crowded territory. Another civilian was critically injured when Israeli forces opened fire during the funeral of one of the militants.

The most recent airstrike targeted two Palestinian militants on a motorbike in the border town of Bani Suheila in southeast Gaza, Abu Salmia said.

The flare-up began midmorning Friday, when an Israeli airstrike tore apart al-Qaissi's blue sedan and killed his son-in-law, Mahmoud Hanini, also a PRC commander. Another low-ranking Gaza militant also


died.

Some of the militants subsequently killed in Israeli strikes were planning to fire rockets, said Palestinian militant spokespeople. Other militants were targeted, but it wasn't immediately clear why.

The military said al-Qaissi was plotting an infiltration attack into Israel similar to the raid from Egypt's Sinai peninsula that they claim he orchestrated in August, which killed eight Israelis and injured 40 more.

The militant group has never taken responsibility for the attack.

The PRC is responsible for dozens of deadly attacks against Israelis and its members frequently fire rockets into Israel.

Israel often targets Gaza militants it says are preparing attacks, but tensions have been relatively calm in recent months with Israel mostly targeting smuggling tunnels from Egypt.Miss Sue Herman Is Married to Dentist

Miss Sue Ellen Herman, daughter of Mrs. Theodore Herman of New York and the late Mr. Herman, was married here yesterday afternoon to Dr. Charles D. Randolph, an instructor of pedodontics at the New York University School of Dentistry.

The bridegroom's parents are Mrs. Peter Randolph of New York and the late Mr. Randolph, a design engineer.

The bride's uncle, Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein per formed the ceremony in the East Penthouse of the New York Hilton.

Jonathan Herman escorted his sister, who had Miss Margo Lee as her maid of honor. George Wolk served as his nephew's best man.

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Pac-12 affirms USC’s disciplinary actions for Metu

SAN FRANCISCO – The Pac-12 Conference has reviewed and accepted the disciplinary actions taken by USC regarding men’s basketball student-athlete Chimezie Metu, Commissioner Larry Scott announced today. The University has suspended Metu for a half-game and removed him from team captaincy as a result of unsportsmanlike conduct during Sunday’s game versus Washington State. With 5:43 remaining the first half, Metu was assessed a flagrant 2 personal foul and immediately ejected.

Metu will be suspended during the first half of the Trojans’ upcoming contest at California on Thursday, Jan. 4.

In a letter, Metu apologized to Carter Skaggs, WSU coach Ernie Kent and the Cougar basketball family, as well as to his USC teammates and fans and his family. He acknowledged his inappropriate action,reduction of $819,388 from the 1975 biennial legislative appropriation. This reduction entailed a cutback in vocational programs. After consideration of various alternatives, the Board decided to eliminate the Aviation Technology Program (Program) because it had the highest cost per student of all the programs offered at the Center and because it would affect fewer students (approximately 30 to 45 students) than a cut in many other programs.
In June of 1977, the Board notified those sixteen students at the Center who had already successfully completed one year of *331 the integrated two-year program, that they would be unable to complete the second year of training because the program was being discontinued. The students thereafter filed suit alleging breach of the State's implied contract to provide a two-year, six-quarter course


and in then awarding damages.
The students also included arguments throughout their brief which were based on contentions that the "premature termination" of the Program violated their constitutional right to due process, the State's duty to deal fairly and in good faith with its citizens, and the State's express contract to provide a two-year integrated program. The liability and damages imposed by the District Court and appealed by the State, however, were based only on the determination that the State breached an implied contract. The students did not contend by way of cross-appeal that the District Court erred in failing to base its judgment on these other constitutional and express contract theories. We therefore will not consider the potential merits and effect of these other theories on the issuesby the state as a six quarter program, extending to two years.
Before making their decision to enroll in the aviation technology program, the students received a brochure describing it and the Missoula Technical Center's catalogue of course offerings. After enrolling, they received a detailed outline of the program, including two full years of classes. The brochures and outlines plainly contained full representation by the state that the program was being offered for six quarters and would not be terminated. The students relied on these documents, and on various statements from their instructors throughout the first year in enrolling in the course and continuing in the course.
The plaintiffs first brought this case in the federal court, and the decision in favor of the plaintiffs in that court was appealed


CHISINAU, March 1. /TASS/. Moldova’s President Igor Dodon has initiated creation of a social platform on national reconciliation in an attempt to find a peaceful solution to the Transnistria crisis, he said in an address to the nation in the run-up to the 25th anniversary of the conflict, commemorated on March 2.

The spring and summer of 1992 were marred with armed clashes on the Dniester River, when hundreds of people died and the lives of thousands more were ruined, Dodon said in the statement.

"The atmosphere of creativity and trust was destroyed in Moldovan society to be replaced with fear and mutual resentment," the president said. "As a result of those events, our country’s population has been thrown back in its development and the entire generation has grown upNEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday said the July 31 deadline for publication of the final Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) will not be altered under any circumstance and asked the state NRC coordinator, the Election Commission and the Assam government to make staff arrangements so that general elections and NRC finalisation could go on simultaneously.A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice R F Nariman requested solicitor general Tushar Mehta to arrange a meeting between state NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela, secretary to the EC and the chief secretary of Assam and finalise within a week a plan of action for seamless deployment of government staff for both election duty and NRC work.Hajela informed the court that of the 40 lakh people left out of


Parish Centre

The Parish Centre is situated to the rear of St. Andrew’s Church in Church Lane, Shottery, close to Anne Hathaway’s Cottage. There is a car park for approximately 50 cars, with wheelchair access to the Centre.

The Centre, which was opened in March 1997, comprises the following:

Welcome Area (Promenade) Area:
For safety reasons this area must be kept clear at all times, and must not, therefore, be set up with chairs and tables.

Toilets:
Male, Female and Disabled. There are also baby changing facilities.

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This guest post from Courtney Pepe first appeared on Daily Genius. Two years ago, my school obtained a grant from the Sphero Robotics company that brought 10 Sphero Robots to our school. At first, we used them in math and science. However,


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Metrics excluded (ex) sequentially include natural forest loss (NFL), natural habitat conversion (HBC), marine captures (MC), fertilizer use (FER), water pollution (WTP), threatened species (THR), and carbon emissions (CO2). Boldface cells indicate which countries appearedThe present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of New Guinea Impatiens plant, botanically known as Impatiens hawkeri and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Duemagor’.
The new Impatiens plant is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Rheinberg, Germany. The objective of the breeding program is to create new vigorous and uniform New Guinea Impatiens plants with large attractive flowers.
The new Impatiens plant originated from a cross-pollination made by the Inventor in July, 2007 in Rheinberg, Germany of a proprietary selection of Impatiens hawkeri identified as code number F-019-1807, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent with a proprietary selection of Impatiens hawkeri identified as code number F-016-001, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The new Impatiens plant


was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single flowering plant from within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in a controlled greenhouse environment in Rheinberg, Germany in May, 2012.
Asexual reproduction of the new Impatiens plant by terminal cuttings in a controlled greenhouse environment in Rheinberg, Germany since May, 2012 has shown that the unique features of this new Impatiens plant are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.ceremony at the site where American and Russian troops converged at theRiver 70 years ago, shortly before the allied victory over Nazi Germany and the Japanese.

On July 28, 1943, in one of his famous fireside chats, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt told his fellow citizens: “The world has never seen greater devotion, determination and self-sacrifice than have been displayed by the Russian people and their armies this country of ours should always be glad to be a good neighbor and a sincere friend in the world of the future.”

What has stymied this sincere wish of the 32nd president?

There is some validity to each of the possible explanations, making it all the more important to understand how these two completely different countries, at the most difficult moment in the


11 Clear Signs That The U.S. Economy Is Headed Into The Toilet

The vast majority of the talking heads on television are still speaking of the current economic collapse as if it is a temporary “recession” that will soon be over. So far, the vast majority of the American people seem to believe this as well, although for many Americans there is a very deep gnawing in the pit of their stomachs that is telling them that there is something very, very wrong this time around. The truth is that the foundations of the U.S. economy have been destroyed by an orgy of government, corporate and individual debt that has gone on for decades. It was the greatest party in the history of the world, but now the partyComparative Psychologist Studies Honeybees

Charles Abramson grew up in an environment that was ripe for inspiring a career in the field of comparative psychology. Raised near 78th and Broadway in New York City, his neighborhood was a classic melting pot of families from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic while he was born to an immigrant Italian-Catholic mother and Jewish father. Comparing similarities and differences became an innate ability he turned into an award-winning career, which has taken him all over the globe and attracted millions of dollars in grant money.

And yet, he does have his detractors. A student-produced bumper sticker reads, “I’d rather have my eyes poked out than take a class from Dr. Abramson.” He proudly displays the sticker outside his office in North Murray Hall, and


adaptive strategies for solving problems.

This international collaboration is typical of Abramson’s philosophy and broad interests, which have taken him across the globe to countries as diverse as Turkey, Greece, Italy, Japan, Russia, Slovenia, Venezuela, and Brazil, where he met his wife, Zeyna. He has come a long way, both literally and figuratively, from his modest upbringing in New York.

“No one from my childhood would have thought I would do this,” Abramson says. “I feel like I’ve won the lottery.”

With the help of nearly $7 million dollars in career grant money, Abramson has collected a treasure trove of research in comparative psychology, creating groundbreaking work on bees, an online History of Psychology museum and an exhaustive biography about early 20th-century African-American psychologist Charles Henry Turner. He also co-authored ait’s only good students,” he says. “I remember being told you can only meet someone halfway, but I realized you can only meet them 49 percent because the student has to give that 1 percent to build on.”

The approach clearly worked for Abramson, who earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1978. He remained at BU to secure a master’s degree in experimental psychology and a doctorate in physiological psychology (while concurrently conducting graduate work at the University of Hawaii). In 1986, he went to work at the SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn, New York, and then landed at Oklahoma State University in 1993.

OSU offered Abramson the opportunity to whet his interdisciplinary whistle. Not only could he pursue his projects in comparative psychology, which he notes was


“a dying field,” but he could flex his mental muscles in other areas such as zoology and entomology.

Awards and recognition swiftly followed his move to Stillwater. He is a four-time OSU Department of Psychology Teacher of the Year winner and four-time Oklahoma Psychological Society Outstanding Psychology Teacher. He has also collected all three Regents awards (Distinguished Teaching Award,1997; Distinguished Professor, 2007; Distinguished Research Award, 2008). In 2014, he was appointed to the Lawrence L. Boger Endowed Professorship in the School of International Studies at OSU.

Piles of other awards and achievements decorate his résumé, but the one feat for which he is most proud primarily benefits OSU students. In 2013, Abramson and his colleagues, headed by Dr. Perry Gethner, realized a hard-earned dream of bringing a Phi Beta KappaNSF-PIRE grant, and earned an extension on a National Science Foundation – Research Experience for Undergraduates grant with the University of Central Oklahoma’s Dr. John Barthell, but he is also collaborating on an NSF National Robotics Initiative grant with OSU’s Dr. Girish Chowdhary and Dr. Christopher Crick and Texas A&M’s Dr. Prabhakar Pagilla to develop better interactions between humans and robotic trainers.

In 2015, Abramson was on the move with research taking him to Brazil, Russia, Chile and Columbia. Abramson traveled to Brazil to lay the groundwork for a course on International Environmental Sociology, which will be offered by the Sociology Department for two months during the summer of 2016. Professors Beth Caniglia, Duane Gill and Tammy Mix will teach the course.

“It will be the first OSU Arts and


Sciences travel course to be offered in Brazil and continues the relationship between OSU and the Federal Institute of Paraiba (IFPB),” Abramson says. “As part of the agreement, IFPB sent two teams to the Mercury Robotics Competition hosted by Dr. Carl Latino and the electrical engineering department. One of the teams earned second place honors and all the Brazilian students enjoyed touring OSU and meeting fellow students.”

In March 2015, Abramson was off to Moscow with his internationalbased spring break class “Explorations in the History of Psychology,” hosted by Moscow State University of Design and Technology. During the trip, students had the opportunity to explore universities, interact with Russian psychology students and faculty, and visit sites of cultural and historical significance.

The months of April and May in 2015 wereOne of the biggest stories of the year was Gov. Scott Walker's victory in the June recall election. He celebrated afterward at the Waukesha County Exposition Center in Waukesha.

DISAPPOINTMENTS: As a former educator of 38 years, and a current tutor of first-graders, the events in Connecticut, Colorado, New York and elsewhere sadden and sicken me like everyone in the nation and the world. They make me even more certain that we need to do something about guns. However, I'm inclined to think that an equally relevant issue is the total inability of the elected members of our Congress to do anything at all to solve the problems of our nation. I keep reading and hearing that we all like our congressman, but dislike Congress. I like the word


the Democrats won't concede on anything that deals with reducing the debt and our ever-expanding entitlements from cell phone giveaways to Social Security checks still going out to the deceased. A bigger government is not the answer.

Terrance P. Buck,

Town of Menasha

NICE SURPRISE: Without a doubt, the biggest story of 2012 (and the last quarter of 2011) was the 2012 presidential election. The miracle of the 47 percenters! The Republicans started debating last September, and it all finished in November of this year. It was the biggest story because despite the billions of dollars spent to win this election by the Republicans, the little people (the 47 percenters and others) decided the outcome without the benefit of large donors. It was a miracle. I personally had waved the whiteflag of surrender last May and was truly surprised when the Democrats won.

Bob Randa,

Town of Menasha

MIXED MESSAGE: Wisconsin is a conundrum. It re-elected a socialist president, defeated a socialist union recall of a Republican governor, then sent a new socialist Democrat to the Senate. How can you make sense of that? The whole election process has been one story after another this year in Wisconsin. I think they have all been big - mostly big mistakes.

Charlene Johnson,

Appleton

PARTY POLITICS: The biggest story of 2012 is the re-election of President Barack Obama, even though it was predictable and not in a sense "news." It is big in that it will greatly affect the country's future in the selection of Supreme Court justices and other federal judges during the next four


years. Big in the affect on social policies for years to come. Big in the disrespect of the public by both major parties in the use of misinformation to mislead, thereby lowering the ethics of society in general. Big in maybe making the Republican Party aware of parts of its platform that alienated even traditional Republicans, and in its inability to nominate a potentially electable candidate. Big in that the 2020 Decade in Review reporters will marvel at the Republican stratagists inability to unseat Obama in 2012 based on the results of his first four years.

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DISAPPOINTMENTS: As a former educator of 38 years, and a current tutor of first-graders, the events in Connecticut, Colorado, New YorkShe's not glamorous. While Kristen might be considered beautiful by universal standards, she's not hot in the bombshell, high-maintenance, stereotypical Tinseltown way. One guy watched a clip of her, shrugged, and said, "She's real." The lesson? Guys like girls who are genuine. That's What He Said: The Truth About Make-up: A Guy's Take

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Nigerian male has a woman bossing him from 9 – 5pm on a daily basis.

According to Karl Kraus, a liberated woman is like a fish that has fought its way ashore. According to statistics, most women once they breathe the air of liberation, they begin to control, intimidate, manipulate and dominate any male that comes near their turf. The war of the sexes is real in the female universe. If the theatre of war is limited to the confines of offices, things would not have been the way they are now. But the war is spilling through to the romantic paradise of bedrooms where the man feels threatened and intimidated by bottom power of a different kind.

Therefore, in an island where women are over-empowered, men become sissy andUK. Equality with men on all levels has come to represent European culture which has not lead to happiness in marriages. European culture is laden with emotional insecurity and moral ambiguity and there is nowhere these twin devils are more damaging than among the Nigerian family who assimilated this culture and threw their own culture out of the window. Marriages have been destroyed through male insecurity in the home. Separation happens daily among Nigerians because of western value that promotes women above men in most marriages. Instead of respect and obedience for men, the Western culture is forcefully promoting equality, empowerment and partnership in Nigerian homes to the chagrin of Nigerian men who are brought up and bred with different set of marriage values from those of their


host. This value conundrum is widening by the day. This clash of culture is eroding the respect that a man deserves and the delicate structure of his ego is being systematically destroyed.

Trouble almost always begins when a woman lands a job and begins to contribute to the domestic demands of the family make up. The marriage is threatened almost immediately the couple begins to share water, light, heating and grocery bills. The arrangement may suit the owners of the culture but to a Nigeria it is an indirect way to hijack power from the man to the woman. After all, a man is supposed to provide for his family to maintain dominance, respect and obedience but once that power is taken away by other arrangement, the family isfleeing from controlling, domineering and manipulating wives who are determined to enforce the rules at home. On the other hand, Nigerian women are consolidating their power base by using their kids, The Police, accommodation and other safety net thrown at them to intimidate and send their husbands away from home. In some forced arrangement, Nigerian men are made to bear sexless marriage, sleep on the couch and play the obedient Abraham where the lady of the house rewards with the carrot or chastises with a stick.

The percentage of Nigerian women without husband is becoming a worry and concern among pastors and marriage counsellors. Nigerian women prefer their jobs, their children and their homes to their husbands. The banalisation of marriage due to control and domination by Nigerian women


Alumnus inducted into Ohio State at Lima Hall of Fame

Dr. G. Gilbert Cloyd, retired Chief Technology Officer of Procter & Gamble and former chair of the Ohio State University Board of Trustees, was inducted into The Ohio State University at Lima Hall of Fame on May 1.

To be considered for the Ohio State Lima Hall of Fame, a candidate must have attended Ohio State Lima at least one quarter, earned an Ohio State degree, and exhibit leadership in their professions and the community.

Dr. Cloyd first attended Ohio State, beginning with the Lima campus, and received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 1969. Following graduation, he entered a private veterinary practice in Chicago. He returned to Ohio State for some graduate work in Veterinary Pathology in 1971. Heentered a private practice in Cincinnati in 1972 and began consulting work in toxicology, including work with P&G.

He joined P&G full-time at their Miami Valley Innovation Center in 1974 in their Corporate Professional and Regulatory Services Division. From 1974-1978 he was responsible for the Clinical Pathology lab and toxicology programs for Product Safety. From 1978 until 1984 he continued responsibilities for Product and Environmental Safety in the Packaged Soap and Detergent Division and Corporate organization.

In 1984 he moved to Norwich, New York, and assumed responsibilities for Research & Development in their Pharmaceuticals business. He moved into General Management in 1989, and in 1991 was appointed Vice President, assuming overall responsibility for their Global Pharmaceuticals business.

In 1997, he assumed responsibilities as Vice President for Research & Development in Asia


for P&G. He held that position until 2000, living in Kobe, Japan.

He returned to Cincinnati in 2000 and assumed the position of Chief Technology Officer. In that capacity, he had overall functional responsibility for P&G's global Research & Development organization. This global organization numbers about 9,000 employees in 27 technical centers around the globe. The range of research involves chemistry, engineering, materials science, medicine, veterinary medicine, dentistry, biology including biotechnology, mathematics, robotics, nutrition and electronics.

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About the College of Veterinary Medicine at Ohio State

Founded in 1885, The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine is ranked fifth in the nation and includes more than 1,000 faculty, staff and students in the Departments of Veterinary Biosciences, Veterinary Clinical Sciences, and Veterinary Preventive Medicine. The Veterinary MedicalAn investigation may have found evidence a top State Department aide to Hillary Clinton took advantage of government employment rules with potential conflicts of interest and overpayments.

In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said an inspector general probe suggested Huma Abedin leveraged her State Department job to benefit her two other employers at the time: the Clinton Foundation and a consulting firm called Teneo Strategies.

Teneo Strategies was founded by a longtime aide to Bill Clinton, Douglas Band, and boasted the former president as a paid board member when it first launched in 2011.

Abedin allegedly sent or received more than 7,000 emails on her government account that involved Band, the letter said.

As an example of the potential


conflicts of interest at play, Grassley cited an email exchange in which Band pressed Abedin to encourage her State Department boss, Hillary Clinton, to facilitate a White House appointment for one of his clients.

Judith Rodin, the Teneo client in question, was then president of the Rockefeller Foundation, "which donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation, a fact which Mr. Band allegedly noted in his email to Ms. Abedin," the letter said.

"[E]mail evidence allegedly suggests that Ms. Abedin and Ms. Mills shared a desire to find a way to ensure the Department paid for Ms. Abedin's travel to and from New York," the letter continued.

Grassley called into question a $33,000 payment Abedin received from the State Department for leave she hadn't used.

The Iowa Republican highlighted multipleallegations received by the Judiciary Committee that indicated Abedin had indeed taken leave during her time as a government employee, casting doubt on whether Abedin should have received $33,000 in taxpayer money.

Abedin worked as a full-time staffer to Hillary Clinton from January 2009 until June 2012, at which point she was given a "special government employee" designation and soon took on roles at the Clinton Foundation and Teneo.

That designation is designed to allow individuals who fill "an unmet government need for rare or unique expertise" to retain their private-sector positions while receiving compensation from the government.

But Abedin has drawn fire for the SGE arrangement that gave her heavy influence over Hillary Clinton's schedule and travel while allowing her to serve as a senior adviser at Teneo.

Critics have said


the personnel rule was quietly bent to permit Abedin to collect her government paycheck while wielding her influence to the benefit of her other employers.

For example, Hillary Clinton jetted to Ireland with Abedin at her side for her last official trip as secretary, during which she attended an event hosted by a major Clinton Foundation donor that had been promoted by Teneo.

The State Department's inspector general began looking into the issue of Abedin's SGE designation in 2013, Grassley indicated in a letter to Abedin Thursday.

"The Committee has learned of allegations that, during your simultaneous employment by the Department of State, Teneo, and the Clinton Foundation, you were solicited for and delivered favors for preferred individuals," Grassley wrote to Abedin.

Abedin was reportedly among several key aides to Hillary Clintongovernments may choose to conduct redistricting for political reasons. The most infamous case in recent times was the 2003 re-redistricting in Texas, where Democratic state legislators fled the state to prevent a mid-decade congressional redistricting.

Apportionment

Balancing District Populations

When districts have unequal populations, this is known as

In the 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court made two landmark rulings,

These rulings and many others effectively nullified state practices of apportioning their state legislative seats among their counties or towns; for example, providing every county one seat and apportioning the remainder among the larger population counties (ironically, a process similar to the apportionment of congressional seats to the states). Many states amended their constitutions to revise their redistricting processes, so that the federal courts would not nullify this section of their state constitution.

How Often


Can a State Redistrict?

In 2003, the nation was captivated by a group of Democratic Texas state legislators who fled the state to prevent Republicans from gerrymandering the state's congressional districts. At stake was Democratic-favored redistricting plan adopted by a court for the 2002 congressional elections, adopted after the state legislature failed to enact a redistricting plan. Eventually, Democrats relented and returned to Texas and Republicans were able to put their map in place. Democrats later challenged the legality of drawing districts mid-decade, without a new census prompting the necessity of drawing new districts.

The Supreme Court ruled in

How Do We Do Redistricting? of the U.S. Constitution states, "The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof;vote.

Bipartisan commissions have an equal number of partisan members and either adopt a redistricting plan on a majority vote or select a tie-breaking commissioner by a majority vote.

Nonpartisan commissions in Arizona and California are composed of non-politicians who have gone through a vetting process. There are an equal number of partisan members, with tie-breaking members who are either not registered with a political party or registered with a minor party.

Redistricting is the process of redrawing legislative districts.If you live in the United States, you live in a district. All representatives to the U.S. House of Representatives, state legislatures, and many local offices are elected from districts.The quality of your representation - the policies that government enact - is affected by district boundaries. Which political party is likely to


one candidate to represent their district. In multi-member districts, voters can elect two or more candidates.Most United States governments tend to use single-member districts for legislative offices. In 1967, the federal government passed a law requiring that congressional districts be single member . Single-member districts are not required by the U.S. Constitution, and they were not necessarily used in the past . Many states and localities also use single-member districts.Some states have multi-member state legislative districts and some local governments use multi-member districts for local offices. There are different flavors of multi-member elections. If all the members are selected at-large , then voters vote separately for candidates to each office. For example, if two members are elected from a district, then voters would cast a vote for thecandidates seeking the first seat and vote separately for candidates to the second seat. Some states use bloc voting , where voters receive a number of votes equal to the number of offices to fill, all the candidates run against each other, and voters can vote for as many candidates as they have votes. Some localities may use uncommon - to the United States - proportional representation methods to elect multiple candidates from the same district. The up-shot of multi-member districts is that a legislature may have 60 seats, but if all members are elected from two-member districts, there may be only 30 districts. Some states like Maryland and New Hampshire even allow the number of members elected from each district to vary.Redistricting is the redrawing of legislative


the purpose of apportioning U.S. House of Representatives seats among the states. Each state is given a number of seats roughly equal to their population, with every state guaranteed at least one seat. Since the number of U.S. House seats is fixed at 435, a new apportionment results in some states gaining congressional seats and some states losing congressional seats. Since all states today have single-member congressional districts, changing the number of seats a state has forces a state to redraw their districts.When districts have unequal populations, this is known as malapportionment . For example, persons living in a district with 1,000 persons would have ten times more representation than a district with 10,000 persons.In the 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court made two landmark rulings, Wesberry v. Sandersand Reynolds v. Sims , requiring congressional and state legislative districts to be redrawn in a timely manner following the census so that their populations would be roughly equal. Some states had failed to draw new districts for as many as sixty years, which had provided slow growing rural areas with more representation than fast growing urban areas. At the time of the so-called reapportionment revolution, balancing district populations was predicted to shift government policies towards those favored by urban interests and even to limit gerrymandering.These rulings and many others effectively nullified state practices of apportioning their state legislative seats among their counties or towns; for example, providing every county one seat and apportioning the remainder among the larger population counties (ironically, a process similar to the apportionment


of congressional seats to the states). Many states amended their constitutions to revise their redistricting processes, so that the federal courts would not nullify this section of their state constitution.In 2003, the nation was captivated by a group of Democratic Texas state legislators who fled the state to prevent Republicans from gerrymandering the state's congressional districts. At stake was Democratic-favored redistricting plan adopted by a court for the 2002 congressional elections, adopted after the state legislature failed to enact a redistricting plan. Eventually, Democrats relented and returned to Texas and Republicans were able to put their map in place. Democrats later challenged the legality of drawing districts mid-decade, without a new census prompting the necessity of drawing new districts.The Supreme Court ruled in LULAC v Perry that thereClick on the car to download the 972K MPEG movie showing why this car ended up at the body shop. (Note: The object was small, so it was slowed by the atmosphere to "terminal velocity," where gravity counterbalances air friction.)

One point of agreement
What with the Shoemaker-Levy crackup on Jupiter, and the growing awareness that an asteroid whacked the dinos, it's clear that something must be done about whirling space junk. The current searches focus on asteroids at least one kilometer across. The reason for this focus, says astronomer John Lewis, is that "civilization might not be able to survive a 2-kilometer impact.

Morrison, who directed a 1992 survey of asteroid hazards for NASA, says "The actual risk of having your tombstone say 'killed by an asteroid' are at least


“He was unable to move the pillow. He said that the pillow was a rectangle and was heavy. It had something zipped inside which made the pillow heavy,” according to court documents cited by the newspaper. The boy, who was 5 at the time, said that he told his mother about the incident a year or two ago, but that he never told anyone else because he was “afraid that he would get in trouble.”

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The mother, however, told the prosecutor that this was the first time her young son had told her the story.

Sanders was watching the children one Saturday in December 2015 in their home in Watauga, Tex., near Fort Worth, while the children’s mother was at an art show, police said.

When she got home about 8:30p.m., Sanders and his son were in the living room. Ellie was in the bedroom.

Shortly after, police said, Ellie’s brother went to check on her.

“He tried to wake her up, and she wouldn’t wake up,” Watauga Police Sgt. Jason Babcock told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram last year. “He went in there and told [his parents] that she was sleeping and wouldn’t wake up.”

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Sanders went to the bedroom and started screaming for his wife to call 911, saying the toddler was not breathing, according to court documents. When police arrived, Sanders was attempting to perform CPR on the child.

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Ellie was rushed to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Investigators had suspected at the time that Sanders had earlier pressed his hands over his daughter’s nose and mouth until she


Jason Plumhoff and Armada FC agree to part ways after one season

Armada FC Communications | Feb. 7, 2017

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Armada FC has announced the signings of defender Aaron Pitchkolan and forward Jonathan Glenn, while the club parts ways with midfielder Jason Plumhoff.

"Bringing in two players of this quality is a credit to everyone involved,” said Head Coach Mark Lowry. “Both Aaron and Jonathan fit perfectly in with our style of play and we can't wait to get on the training field with them."

Pitchkolan, 33, has been very active during his first six seasons in the NASL. Pitchkolan has played in a total of 144 games, tied for the most among any NASL player in league history, starting 135 of those matches. He has recorded 12,041minutes, netting 10 goals and tallying four assists since 2011, and has played a mix of central defense and midfield throughout his career.

The new Armada FC addition arrives in Jacksonville after spending the last four seasons with the Minnesota United FC. The 6-foot-2-inch Colorado native signed with the team in 2013 and was named captain of the Loons in all four seasons, playing both midfield and defense. Pitchkolan started 85 matches in 94 appearances and played 7,720 minutes during his time with Minnesota United. He recorded five goals and four assists in four seasons, and was named to the NASL Best XI in 2013. Pitchkolan also grabbed NASL Team of the Week honors four times during his time with the Loons.

“Aaron possess great leadership qualities and we as


a staff will rely on him to help build the team environment within the club culture,” said Armada FC Technical Director Nathan Walter.

The defender had a six-year stint in the MLS before coming to the NASL. Pitchkolan played five seasons for FC Dallas where he scored five goals in 68 appearances. He played during his first two seasons with the club before transitioning to central defense where he became a key component to FC Dallas’ backline. Pitchkolan was traded to the San Jose Earthquakes where he played his final MLS season.

Glenn, 29, will make his NASL debut with the Armada FC during the upcoming season. The Trinidad and Tobago native spent the last three seasons playing in the Úrvalsdeild, an Icelandic soccer league, where he was a standoutplayer in 2014 for ÍBV. Glenn scored 12 goals in 20 matches, second-most in the league, and received the Golden Boot and Player of the Year awards from his club.

“Jonathan adds high level experience and is the profile forward we have been looking for,” said Walter.

The Trinidad and Tobago native is no stranger to the Jacksonville area. Glenn played two seasons for the Jacksonville United, now the Jacksonville Armada U-23 team, from 2012 to 2013. In 2012 he was named to the Sunshine Conference All-Conference team. Glenn also played for the Trinidad and Tobago national team in 2014 where he helped the team reach the finals of the Caribbean Cup.

Armada FC also announced today Plumhoff and the club have mutually agreed to part ways after one season. The


A teenager has been arrested for creating a cryptocurrency stealing malware used in stealing MonaCoin, world’s first Japanese cryptocurrency.

Just days after the biggest hack in the history of cryptocurrency business in which Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck was hacked and 58 billion Yen of the virtual currency “NEM (Nemu)” ($534 million – €429 million) was stolen from its digital wallets authorities are cracking down on hackers and cybercriminals involved in anything related to illegal activities against cryptocurrencies.

On January 30th, 2018, Japanese police arrested a 17-year-old boy for developing a malware that steals “private key” passwords required for users to access or transfer cryptocurrency through their online wallets.

The teenager who is a third-year high school student from Kaizuka city, Osaka Prefecture was arrested by Aichi Prefectural Police. According to local(MONA) is a decentralized, open-source cryptocurrency launched in January 2014 in Japan. It is also classified as the world’s first Japanese cryptocurrency and currently, one MonaCoin is equivalent to almost $4 and 434 Yen.

This is not the first time when a Japanese teenager has been arrested for creating a malware. In June 2017, a 14-year-old was arrested for creating ransomware software that would attack computers and lock their data to demand ransom. In September 2017, a 13-year-old Japanese kid was arrested for selling malware designed for targeting smartphone including iPhone.

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against both his predecessor and the man who became his successor. George Osborne will take a simpler path to No 10.

But if it’s breathtaking, eye-watering campaign chutzpah you’re after – then look to Scotland. In this May’s elections the SNP plans to be the insurgency against its own incumbency. The party will travel the country carrying an anti-austerity message of convenience in utter repudiation of its eight-year-long vapour trail in government of doing so little to support the poor.

Until May last year, I represented one of the richest constituencies in Scotland. It was next door to the area I grew up in. The two constituencies were separated by a single open field but divided by a nine-year gap in life expectancy. Every big city has these contrasts of117 071 discloses a device for keeping a drawer closed, in which a tilt part movable between two end positions is provided. The tilt part is acted upon by a helical spring and is urged thereby into a respective end position after overcoming a dead center position. The tilt part is secured to a side wall of the furniture body. The drawer has on the side wall an entrainer peg which is retracted in the end region of the travel of the drawer into a notch in the tilt part. Then, the entrainer peg presses the tilt part beyond the dead center position, whereupon the tilt part itself disengages from the entrainer peg and thus pulls the drawer backwards.
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book that was published. Still, anonymous texts were always a bit slippery. The most comprehensive record of such books in English is the Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature, first conceived in the 1850s and published in 1882. The book was meant to be “a reference book gathering information about known authors of anonymous works,” as Leah Orr, an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, writes in a recent article on the “dangers” of using the book. It turned out to be an enormous undertaking: its original editor and his successor both died before it was published.

To create the dictionary, its editors relied on information from librarians, bibliographers, and sympathetic researchers who sent in tips and references. But the task they had set themselves32 U.S. 627
7 Pet. 627
8 L.Ed. 808
Ex parte JUAN MADRAZZO.
January Term, 1833

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Mr. White presented a libel, in the admiralty, against the state of Georgia, claiming relief, by the aid of this court, in favor of the libellant, a subject of his Catholic majesty the king of Spain, domiciled in the city of Havana.

2
The right of the libellant to maintain this proceeding against the state of Georgia Mr. White stated, depended on the construction the court would give to the eleventh amendment of the constitution of the United States, which declares, that 'the judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or in equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state; or by


of merchandise, his property, to trade there, exclusively on Spanish account, for a cargo of slaves, to be conveyed to the said city, there to be disposed of for his sole account, property and risk. On the coast of Africa, the vessel took on board, purchased with the said merchandise, one hundred and twelve slaves, and on her return-voyage towards Havana, about the first of October 1817, she was captured by a piratical or insurgent cruiser, under the commission of one Aury, or some other revolutionary flag of the revolted colonies of Spain, not then recognised as an independent government, nor in any manner authorized to act as a belligerent power, by the laws or consent of nations. The capturing vessel was called the Successor, commanded by oneMoore, an American citizen, and was fitted out at Baltimore, and in the river Severn, in the state of Maryland, for the purpose of carrying on hostilities against the property and subjects of the king of Spain, with whom the United States then were and still are at peace; wherefore, the said capture of the vessel was illegal, piratical and felonious.

4
The Isabelita and her cargo were carried by the Successor into the port of Fernandina, in the island of Amelia, at that time a colony of Spain, but usurped by the pretended patriots or revolutionists affecting the rights of sovereignty, and a separate station as a revolted independent government, but in truth composed of a band of adventurers, chiefly American citizens, united principally by the hope of plunder,


and not acknowledged as an independent government for any civil or national purpose. There, the Isabelita and her cargo were condemned as lawful prize to the illegally commissioned piratical vessel, the Successor, by a tribunal pretending to exercise admiralty jurisdiction, under the usurped and assumed government of the place.

5
The vessel was afterwards restored to the libellant by a decree of the district court of the United States for the district of South Carolina, exercising jurisdiction as a court of admiralty, upon a libel filed for restitution on behalf of the libellant; the proceedings in that case were invoked and referred to. The slaves, the cargo of the Isabelita, were sold under the illegal decree pronounced at Fernandina, and by one William Bowen, the purchaser, were conveyed to theCreek nation, where, at a place called 'the United States Agency,' within the limits of the said nation, they were, to the number of ninety-five, seized and taken possession of by an officer of the United States, and brought within the limits and district of Georgia. These ninety-five slaves were subsequently delivered over to the government of the state of Georgia, on pretence that they had been illegally imported or introduced into the United States, contrary to an act of congress, and in compliance with an act of the assembly of the state of Georgia to carry the same into effect. A part of the slaves were sold by the government of Georgia, or its officers or agents, without any form of trial or judgment, as directed by


the said act of assembly; and the proceeds thereof, to the amount of $40,000, paid into the treasury of the state of Georgia. The residue of the slaves, twenty-seven or thirty in number, remained in the possession of the state or its officers, or had been converted to or disposed of by the state, for its own use; or wrongfully delivered to some persons not entitled to the same, and contrary to the will of the libellant. The slaves, or the proceeds of those sold, could not rightfully become the property of the state of Georgia, by virtue of the piractical capture, seizure or cendemnation, or by the unlawful acts of the pretended purchaser of the same; but the same remained the property of the libellant.

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The libel furtherstated, that the governor of the state of Georgia, on the 20th of May 1820, on the pretence that the said negroes had been illegally transported to the Creek nation, and unlawfully imported into the United States from some foreign place, with intent to hold them to service and labor, filed a libel in the district court of the United States for the district of Georgia, alleging the unlawful importation, and that a demand of them had been made by the society for the colonization of free people of color in Africa; which the governor alleged he was desirous of complying with, if authorized to do so by a decree of the court. No specification was made of the number of the slaves, and no mention was made


of the illegal seizure and sale of the slaves, in the information, or of the payment of the $40,000 into the treasury of the state of Georgia.

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The libel further stated, that William Bowen, who had purchased the slaves, the cargo of the Isabelita, put in a claim for the whole of the said slaves, on the 7th November 1820; alleging that they were his property, and were not intended to be introduced into the United States, but had been carried into the Creek nation for safety, with the intention to remove them to West Florida, a colony of Spain; the truth of which allegation the libellant admitted. The libellant, hearing of the proceedings in the district court of Georgia, filed a libel claiming the slaves; and the districtcourt dismissed the claim of William Bowen and of the libellant, and decreed in favor of the governor of Georgia. That decree, on appeal to the circuit court of the United States was reversed; the claims of the state of Georgia and of William Bowen were dismissed; and that court decreed that the said slaves should be restored to the libellant, Juan Madrazzo, together with the proceeds of them, sold and paid into the treasury of the state of Georgia. From this decree, the governor of Georgia, on behalf of the state, appealed to this court.

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From the district court of the United States of Georgia, a warrant of arrest, upon the libel of this libellant was issued; but the execution being prevented or evaded by the government and


officers of the state of Georgia, the same was never served. A monition was also issued, and served on the governor and treasurer of the state of Georgia.

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The libel proceeded to state the proceedings in the circuit court of the sixth circuit, in which it was ordered, that it should be held a sufficient execution of the warrant, if the governor of Georgia should sign an acknowledgment that the slaves were held by him, subject to the jurisdiction of the court; upon which, on the 15th of May 1823, John Clark, the governor of Georgia, signed a paper, filed in the court on the 24th December 1823, by which he acknowledged, that the governor of Georgia held the negroes levied on by virtue of sundry executions by thesheriff of Baldwin county, 'subject to the order of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Georgia, after the claim of the said sheriff, or prior thereto, if the claim in the circuit court shall be adjudged to have priority of the proceeding in the state court.'

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The libel stated, that the executions referred to had been levied on the slaves, as the property of William Bowen and the proceedings in the case showed that the same did not belong to him. That the libellant relied on the stipulation entered into by the governor of Georgia, by which the jurisdiction of the circuit court of the United States was admitted; and he proceeded to prosecute his appeal in the circuit court, in which no exception


to its jurisdiction in the case was suggested or moved. In the circuit court, the rights of the libellant were established; the illegal outfit of the Successor was fully proved; and every other matter shown, to entitle him, as a Spanish subject, to the restitution of his plundered property. From the decree of the circuit court, appeals were entered to the supreme court of the United States.

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The libel then stated the proceedings in the cases in the supreme court, of January term 1828, as the same are reported in 1 Pet. 110, &c., and complained that the jurisdiction of the supreme court, in the case, was denied by the governor of Georgia, on behalf of the state, in direct violation of the stipulation entered into by him, consentingto, and acknowledging the said jurisdiction; by which the said court were prevented proceeding to give a decree or judgment in the case. That by reason of the proceedings aforesaid, and of other acts of the state of Georgia, her officers and agents, which the libel alleged to have been tortious, and by the sale and dispersion of the slaves, the libellant was prevented seizing or identifying his property; he was without remedy or redress, unless this court will cause the state of Georgia to do him right in the premises.

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Wherefore, the libellant prayed the court to award admiralty process against the state of Georgia, to be issued and served as the court might direct, citing the said state of Georgia, as well as all others concerned, to


Roger Waters And The Wall Return To Houston May 1

Now that the Halloween season is officially over, all of you rock nerds can throw this show on your Christmas wish list. Former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters is bringing his big-budget concert production of the band's concept album The Wall back to Houston and the Toyota Center on May 1 for the first date of his upcoming 36-date tour of North America. Waters and his wall were previously here in Houston last November for a gripping performance also at the arena downtown.

The concerts got rave reviews across the globe, with Waters and his team constructing a state-of-the-art wall onstage in front of the audience as his double album of disillusionment and rock excess unfolded before us. Back inSinger Chaka Khan’s voice is a bit weary after a day of interviews about her upcoming role as the grand marshal of the Rose Parade,. but her enthusiasm is strong for the role she’ll play in the iconic New Year’s Day parade this year.

Her sense of humor is hanging in there too, as she laughs about her initial misconception of exactly what a Tournament of Roses parade grand marshal does.

Chaka Khan strikes a pose in front of the Tournament of Roses headquarters in Pasadena on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. (Photo by Nick Agro, Contributing Photographer)

Chaka Khan, left, and Gerald Freeny, President of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association, at the Tournament of Roses headquarters in Pasadena on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. (Photo by Nick Agro, Contributing Photographer)

Gerald Freeny,


President of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association, listens as Chaka Khan addresses the crowd in front of the Tournament of Roses headquarters in Pasadena on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. (Photo by Nick Agro, Contributing Photographer)

Chaka Khan speaks in front of the Tournament of Roses headquarters after she is announced as the grand marshal of the Rose Parade in Pasadena on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. (Photo by Nick Agro, Contributing Photographer)

Chaka Khan is announced as the grand marshal of the Rose Parade at the Tournament of Roses headquarters in Pasadena on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. (Photo by Nick Agro, Contributing Photographer)

Gerald Freeny, President of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association, announces Chaka Khan as the grand marshal of the Rose Parade at the Tournament of Roses headquarters inPasadena on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. (Photo by Nick Agro, Contributing Photographer)

Gerald Freeny, President of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association, is introduced before announcing Chaka Khan as the grand marshal of the Rose Parade at the Tournament of Roses headquarters in Pasadena on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. (Photo by Nick Agro, Contributing Photographer)

Chaka Khan speaks in front of the Tournament of Roses headquarters after she is announced as the grand marshal of the Rose Parade in Pasadena on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. (Photo by Nick Agro, Contributing Photographer)

Chaka Khan is announced as the grand marshal of the Rose Parade at the Tournament of Roses headquarters in Pasadena on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. (Photo by Nick Agro, Contributing Photographer)

Chaka Khan is announced as the grand marshal of the


with me.

“I’ll be singing and dancing with kids,” she says of her Rose Parade performance. “It will be great.”

Peter Larsen has been the Pop Culture Reporter for the Orange County Register since 2004, finally achieving the neat trick of getting paid to report and write about the stuff he's obsessed about pretty much all his life. He regularly covers the Oscars and the Emmys, goes to Comic-Con and Coachella, reviews pop music, and conducts interviews with authors and actors, musicians and directors, a little of this and a whole lot of that. He grew up, in order, in California, Arkansas, Kentucky and Oregon. Graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore. with degrees in English and Communications. Earned a master's degree at the Medill School of Journalismat Northwestern University. Earned his first newspaper paycheck at the Belleville (Ill.) News-Democrat, fled the Midwest for Los Angeles Daily News and finally ended up at the Orange County Register. He's taught one or two classes a semester in the journalism and mass communications department at Cal State Long Beach since 2006. Somehow managed to get a lovely lady to marry him, and with her have two daughters. And a dog named Buddy. Never forget the dog.


A newspaper in West Virginia is defending its decision to publish a reader's racist and homophobic comments, which called for "queers" to be put to death along with "n*ggers, spics, kikes and wops."

WCHS-TV reported on Wednesday that the Lincoln Journal had come under fire for printing a transcript of a reader's voice mail comments in the "Gripe and Gratitudes" section of the paper.

The reader referenced a recent report about how the Lincoln County Board of Education had terminated lesbian teacher Kelli Burns from her job at Guyan Valley Middle School teacher after she accused board officials of forcing students to write complaints that she had tried to "turn them gay."

"We were really glad to hear that School Board is getting rid of them queers," the voice mail said.Bajaj Begins Production of 2-Stroke Direct-Injection Auto Rickshaw

18 May 2007

Bajaj Auto Ltd, India has begun production of autorickshaws—the ubiquitous three-wheel commercial vehicles widely used in India, South East Asia and North Africa—equipped with 2-stroke engines with direct-injection technology from Orbital Corporation.

The new model will initially be released into the local Pune market, with a staged release of the DI vehicles to other identified cities of India.

The positive feedback from our customers was a key part of the DI product confirmation testing. These first customers have enjoyed a 30% fuel economy improvement and experienced significantly improved driving characteristics.

—Rajiv Bajaj, Managing Director

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The earliest stages in the development of the circulatory system of the Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss.
The older literature suggests that the development of the blood vascular system in teleosts differs from that of other vertebrates. The evidence, however, came mostly from studies of salmonid embryos beyond the stages when blood cells had begun to circulate, which overlooked earlier developmental stages. The development of the blood vessels of the rainbow trout are illustrated from the time of the first heartbeat to the stage of eye pigment formation. Unless they can be injected with a dye solution, the earliest vessels to develop remain invisible until blood flow makes them visible. By the time of the first heartbeat stage, the embryo has a dorsal aorta, caudal artery and vein, a fewtransverse vessels, and even the beginning of a vitelline network. One feature peculiar to teleosts is the development of the intermediate cell mass, from which the erythrocytes and a temporary capillary network are formed rather than from the yolk sac. Development of the early posterior cardinal and the subintestinal vein occurs much as in other vertebrates. Previous investigators missed these earliest phases of development because of the difficulty of making them visible. Early formation and transformation of the vascular system of the rainbow trout generally conforms to that seen in vertebrates, except as modified by the temporary presence of the intermediate cell mass and the specialized teleostean yolk mass. With the reduction of the intermediate cell mass, the primary circulatory system for yolk utilization is transformed into a


in."

At the head of the line, Yvonne Daniel, who arrived at 10:30 a.m., took a lesson in Persian from one neighbor in the line and a culinary lecture from another. The three shared bran muffins and cappuccino. "I'm fasting, so to speak," said Daniel.

For Ramin Davarpanah the line was profitable. Paid $40 to stand there from morning till evening by his lawyer, who would replace him, Davarpanah left just as K-Paul's doors swung open at 6 p.m.--he said he had to go to work at the Perfect Hamburger near Chinatown.

Many in the line carried their own wine, Scrabble and cheese. Some were even calorie counting.

Arletha Clay sat quietly engrossed in "The 30 Day Way to a Born-Again Body." "I probably will finish it before I eat," she said,"and I'll start on my diet Monday."

Further down, a young man taught himself to write backwards "to keep myself busy. Da Vinci used to do this and he's my hero," he said.

Peggy LaTour spotted a young man behind her with an empty ice chest. Wanting to fill the void, LaTour and others filled the ice chest with California Chevre (goat cheese), beer and wine, which they then proceeded to empty.

"I missed Christo's fence when it was here," said Steve Weisberg, referring to the conceptual artist's billowing cloth that stretched through many rural communities north of here several years ago. "This is the next big art form."

One woman objected to her friend's medley of Ira Gershwin tunes but then, she added, she was only reading Susan Sontag "and you


The EPA has been busy since we last checked in with the agency. Here are some of the most news worthy items out of the EPA in the last few months, including a final assessment for trichloroethylene and an important new rule for chemical manufacturers on reporting chemical information.

10/17 EPA Marks 25th Anniversary of EPCRA – EPCRA stands for the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act, otherwise known as SARA Title III. It’s part of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 and specifies responsibilities and reporting obligations for facilities with hazardous chemicals. It was enacted following a deadly chemical release in Bhopal, India that killed thousands. Obligations under EPCRA include: Tier1 / Tier II reporting, notifying local and state emergency response agencies of presence of chemicals,The service was Dec. 3 at 11 a.m. at Oak Grove Baptist Church with Rev. Richard Martindale officiating. Burial was in the Oak Grove Baptist Church Cemetery in Pine Hill. O'Bryant Chapel Funeral Home of Thomasville directed.

Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association or to the American Diabetes Association.


juicy names and attributes. Milton talks about him in
Paradise Lost: “BELIAL
came last, than whom a Spirit more lewd Fell not from Heaven, or more
gross to love Vice for it self”. As
ever with the devils in Paradise Lost, he sounds more interesting
than the rather dull angels on the side of good. And here, he's the
dark side of those faintly ridiculous chickens, seeking to snap up the seeds of
the word of God before they grow.

The
alto recitative that follows has some wonderful moments of
tenderness. The theme is stone- some of the seed in the parable falls
on stony ground. The music turns from dry declamation into rich
aria-style singing when lamenting the sad fate of the “Felsenherzen”-
the
people with hearts of stone who “scoff at their own salvation and
are brought down”.

But
the message quickly hardens.The tenor's aria that follows depicts
another part of the original parable, the seeds that fall among
thorns. The score for this is unusually bare, with only a bass line
and vocal part. Various conductors to try to reconstruct a middle
part for another solo instrument. However, I think it works equally
well with a virtuoso improvised keyboard part, as per Helmuth
Rilling's recording. It's full of spikiness, appropriate for those
schädlichenDornen
– tearing, choking thorns . Possibly it would have been Bach
himself at the keyboard, and hence he felt no need to write his own
part out.

And
the soprano gives us the final choice- either we allow our good seed
to be smothered by earthly cares and allow it to lie useless: or we
send it onto the guten
Lande, the
good earth. The glorious final chorus is the depiction of


by Alex Poletti

With all the buzz around the NBA draft, one thing remains certain: the Pelicans have the first overall pick. And with that pick, they will draft a generational talent in Zion Williamson.

The last time New Orleans held the first pick was in 2012, when they selected Anthony Davis out of the University of Kentucky. Davis remains on the team, consistently ranking among the best players in the league. However, Davis has asked for a trade throughout the 2018-2019 season, leading many to wonder what his future holds, especially with Williamson likely coming to the Big Easy.

The official opinion of The Second String is that the Pelicans should build around Zion Williamson for the foreseeable future, shipping off Davis to accrue more draft capital and young players.actual athletic trainer in Aaron Nelson. This is a step up from the trainers who previously worked with injured Pelicans players, all of whom were Saints trainers on their days off.

By then, Zion will surely be unhappy by the time his rookie contract expires, making him the perfect candidate for a trade. His face when the pick was announced already suggests he could want out of Louisiana, with some even thinking he would return to Duke just so he could play for a different team.

Regardless, by the time Zion’s contract is up, management will have done its part in driving him away. With the Pelicans roster still a shitshow and no quality coaches in sight, Zion will certainly request a trade. By then, the ACC Player of the


the effect upon the spine of seating posture and angle of recline when seated. Two typical studies are Posture of the Trunk When Sitting on Forward Reclining Seats, by Bendix and Biering-Sxc3x8rensen, published in Scandinavian Journal of Rehabilitative Medicine, Vol 15 (1983); and The Influence of Different Sitting Positions on Cervical and Lumbar Posture, by Black, McClure and Polansky, published in SPINE, Vol. 21, No. 1 (1996).
Lumbar lordosis is the term commonly used to refer to the forward curve of the lumbar spine. In one study (Lumbar Lordosisxe2x80x94Effects of Sitting and Standing, by Lord, Small, Dinsay and Watkins, published in SPINE, Vol. 22, No. 21 (1997)), lordosis was measured as an angle between various identifiable points within the spine, with xe2x80x9ctotal lordosisxe2x80x9d being measured from the cephalad endplateSkin Blood Flow Occlusion by Bennett, Kavner, Lee and Trainor, published in Arch Physical Medical Rehabilitation, Vol 60 (July, 1979), and Hemorrhoids by Nussain, published in Primary Care, Vol. 26, No. 1 (March, 1999), and include pressure ulcers, decreased blood flow, and aggravation of pre-existing hemorrhoids.
A different, but related problem involving low back pain is frequently experienced by pregnant women. Here, however, the pain may be related to increased lordosis, which can be the result of changes in the center of gravity caused by the added weight of the growing baby in a location that is forward of the body""s normal center of gravity. The added weight requires the mother to adjust her posture to balance and compensate for the added weight. Such adjustment affects both the standing


happens to contribute money to Ron, thinking he can influence Ron in any way, he's wasted his money," Paul spokesman Jesse Benton said. "Ron is going to take the money and try to spread the message of freedom."

"And that's $500 less that this guy has to do whatever it is that he does," Benton added.

Black said he supports Paul's stance on ending the war in Iraq, securing U.S. borders and his opposition to amnesty for illegal immigrants.

"We know that he's not a white nationalist. He says he isn't and we believe him, but on the issues, there's only one choice," Black said Wednesday.

"We like his stand on tight borders and opposition to a police state," Black told The Palm Beach Post earlier.

On his Web site, Black says heTherefore, the only way the federal government could ensure an employer was not violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to ensure that the racial composition of a business's workforce matched the racial composition of a bureaucrat or judge's defined body of potential employees. Thus, bureaucrats began forcing employers to hire by racial quota. Racial quotas have not contributed to racial harmony or advanced the goal of a color-blind society. Instead, these quotas encouraged racial balkanization, and fostered racial strife….”

In 1996 in an article, in the Houston Chronicle, “…Paul, a Republican obstetrician from Surfside, said Wednesday he opposes racism and that his written commentaries about blacks came in the context of "current events and statistical reports of the time." ... Paul, writing in his independent political newsletter


service by which I am employed. I had intended to write a story about the Congressman, and to provide him with the opportunity to distance himself from his extremist supporters, to clarify his position on Israel, and to state his case to the Jewish community. Yet, after three weeks of repeated telephone calls, two chats with his Deputy Communications Director, and several left voicemail messages, I have yet to receive a callback to schedule an interview….

In Tennessee one of Ron Paul’s biggest internet organizers is neo-Nazi leader Will Williams, who is a southern point person for the National Alliance Party, the largest neo-Nazi organization in the US. According to Andrew Walden, author of the American Thinker piece, Williams is in part responsible for the extreme numbers of “meet-up”Mexico and is the author of two western novels, and has several non- fiction books about Tombstone and Wyatt Earp. She is currently counting hits her Pink Flamingo blog and is working on an expose of the anti-immigration movement as well as forming her own publishing company.


three years of ethnographic fieldwork
on male clients in the Chinese sex industry in the port city of Dalian,
in Northeast China. China's sex industry emerged in the wake of
economic reforms. During the Maoist era, prostitutes were sent to labor
camps for reeducation. In 1958, the Chinese Communist Party proudly
declared to the world that prostitution had been eradicated, and this
success was a symbol of China's transformation into a modern nation
(see Hershatter, 1997). Since the economic reforms of 1978, the
state's more lenient stance has opened the way for the reemergence
of nightclubs and other leisure sites. Visitors to these bars are mainly
middle-aged businessmen, male government officials, entrepreneurs, the
nouveau riche, policemen, and foreign investors (see also Uretsky,
2008). Clients can partake of the services offered by the hostesses and
at the same time cement social tiesPresenting men's own
narratives offers invaluable insights into the underlying complexities
of men's perceptions and understandings of health practices (see
also Robertson, 2007, p. 3). In demonstrating the contribution of
ethnography to the study of public health, gender, and sexuality, this
ethnographically contextualized study not only yields rich insights into
men's understanding of health practices, but also provides a unique
perspective on the study of disease transmission grounded in the
everyday lives and worldviews of clients and hostesses.

RESEARCH METHODS

Although surveys and questionnaires can be valuable in acquiring
general information, qualitative methods in ethnographic fieldwork are
far superior in foregrounding people's voices and illuminating
people's lived experiences, stories, and perspectives.

In this research, as illustrated below, a myriad of research
methods was employed to capture voices and accounts of research
subjects. An interpretative approach was utilized to shed light on the
intersection between masculinities


was an ethnographic story
of young, rural women struggling to find meaning, struggling to shape a
modem and autonomous identity, and, ultimately, struggling to survive
within an oppressively patriarchal state system. During this period of
my fieldwork, I was deeply disturbed to find from my colleagues that
many male clients abjured the use of condoms. As a result, many
hostesses suffered from frequent abortions and STDs.

Upon the Institutional Review Board approval, I went back to the
field in the metropolitan city of Dalian in 2004, and conducted
fieldwork off and on for twelve months until 2007, on condom use, sex
work, and HIV/AIDS, among the same population of hostesses and male
clients. The site of Dalian was chosen due to my close relationship with
over two hundred bar hostesses and a hundred clients in the city from my
previous twodiscrepancies in their
words and actions. Daily interactions with the hostesses and clients on
a casual basis throughout a whole year's intensive fieldwork, not
counting the previous two years of intense interaction, exposed me to a
wide array of information and knowledge, either from group gossiping or
through their family members that aided the verification process.

FROM ELITE TO ENTREPRENEURIAL MASCULINITY

The meanings of masculinity evolved throughout Chinese history.
Before the May Fourth Movement in 1919, courtesan house was a site that
produced an elite masculinity of self-control and cool demeanor. Elite
masculinities had to be validated by the courtesans, the arbiters of
their masculinity, as worldly, urbane, knowledgeable, sophisticated, and
refined (Henriot, 2001; Van Gulik, 2003). (5)

Concerns about masculine identity at this secure time of
"culturalism" (Fitzgerald, 1996) have to do with social class.
"Culturalism" entailed a universal superiority that Chinese
people


felt at that time, considering themselves the "Middle
Kingdom"--the center of the world and universal superiority.
Fairbank states that China embraced an attitude of being the large
ethnocentric universe which "remained quite sure of its cultural
superiority even when relatively inferior in military power to fringe
elements of its universe" (Fairbank, 1973, p. 178).

With the Western intrusion into China, Chinese male insecurity was
linked to the perceived decline of China and contributed to the growth
of Chinese nationalism. Elite masculinity was attacked because it was
identified with the elite cultural tradition (Earson, 2002). Nationalism
produced a new model of masculinity. For the first time in Chinese
history, the sexual prowess of Chinese men was not measured internally
as a means to establish social class but came to be measured against the
outside predators whose military prowess identified them as more
sexuallypotent (see Brownell, 2000).

Later on, the Maoist state, with its emphasis on gender equality,
attempted to control men's sexuality by suppressing female
sexuality (Zheng, 2009). (6) In the 1990s, masculinity and marital
stability were seen as dependent on women's enjoyment of sex. This
radical notion that women should enjoy sex was not out of a concern for
the happiness of women, but rather reflected the new competitive
capitalist economic model where men proved themselves through
entrepreneurial activity. Chinese entrepreneurs, instead of taking
offense against the Taiwanese and Japanese businessmen who had taken
Chinese mistresses, simply emulated them and took mistresses themselves
(Brownell, 2000). While young entrepreneurial men recovered their
economic and sexual potency, older retired cadres were faced with
impotence (Brownell, 2000). So devastated was this group, there was an
upsurge in the market for tonics to reinvigorate their sexual life.
Here,


the link between politics, economics, and sexuality is drawn. Men
with economic and political power become sexually potent, whereas men
who have lost such power feel emasculated by the market reforms.

Entrepreneurial masculinity has been analyzed as inextricably
linked to economic and state power (see Brownell, 1999, 2002; Chen,
2002; Connell, 2001; Gilmore, 1990; Louie, 2002; Jankowiak, 2002; Zheng,
2009; Zhong, 2000). (7) Men were judged not by birth status or even
education but by their competitive abilities. The impact of this change
on the relationship between men and women was profound. Because of the
risks and social trust needed in the alliance between entrepreneurs and
officials, the consumption of sex served as an institution for the
preselection test and bonding activities, which ensured social trust
(Zheng, 2006). The most powerful men were identified as those who could
emotionally and physicallycontrol the hostesses, exploit them freely,
and then abandon them. The less powerful men engaged in sex-for-money
transactions with a large number of hostesses. The weakest men were
those who became emotionally involved with the hostesses. Hence, in the
new, fluid urban entrepreneurial environment, men resurrected their lost
masculinity by emulating the economically successful Japanese and
Taiwanese businessmen in the consumption of women. Their subjugation of
women represented the recovery of their manhood in post-Mao China Women
became a testing ground for male entrepreneurial ability. In this
competitive world, men's skill in charming women and keeping them
under control came to define their success (see Zheng, 2009). Hence, in
the new fluid urban entrepreneurial environment, men attempted to rebel
against the Maoist control of their sexuality and resurrect their lost
masculinity by emulating the economically successful Taiwanese
businessmen in the consumption of


women. "Masculinity is related to
state power, nationalist ideology, the free market, and the marriage/sex
markets. The current situation has unleashed an entrepreneurial
masculinity that is apparently proceeding hand in hand with the return
of male privilege and female disadvantage" (Brownell, 2000, p.
230). Their subjugation of women represented the recovery of their
manhood in post-Mao China. (8)

DEFIANCE AGAINST THE STATE AND PURSUIT OF ABSOLUTE SEXUAL PLEASURE

In Red Lights, Zheng (2009) analyzed the clients' metaphoric
use of liang (grain) in their reference to having sex with their wives
as "jiao gong liang" (turning in the grain tax). I detailed
how the history of the hierarchical system of food rationing in colonial
and Maoist Dalian placed the Japanese and Maoist states at the top of
the food chain and the men at the bottom. Meanwhile, men perceived their
masculinity as lostin the alliance of the Maoist state and Chinese
women to liberate women. In the post-Mao era, men's attempts to
recover their lost sexual identity with free-ranging promiscuity in the
karaoke bars were further curtailed by the continued presence of
socialist moralities and state laws. Thus, clients analogized turning in
their jing (semen) to their wives as peasants turned in the grain tax to
the state (Zheng, 2009). The clients/peasants perceived themselves at
the bottom of the hierarchy vis-a-vis the wives/state. The clients
operated on an economy of scarcity where the semen was perceived as
finite. The social stress of a lack of control was expressed in the
bodily symbolism in which they assumed more control over their
"limited" amount of semen. Self-perceived as the managers of
their bodily assets, the clients exercised what I called
"misappropriation;" that is, they allocated


the government used to further repress their
sexuality. These interviews contended that the state's repression
and surveillance of individual private spheres instigated the
clients' resistance through sexual liberation. Such sexual
liberation not only included engaging in illicit sex with hostesses but
also entailed resentment against condom use.

Hyde argues that, in competing with the state family planning
apparatus, the market economy opens the door to new kinds of sexual
practices (Hyde, 2007). Certainly, the market economy has unleashed and
catapulted male clients' sexual revolution. About condom use, Hyde
argues that purchasing condoms in the market, compared with acquiring
condoms from the state, is more discreet and increases privacy, which
helps individuals resist state intrusion into their personal lives as
"everyday practices of resistance" (Hyde, pp. 160, 168). In
this particular aspect, male clients and hostesses in my research told a
different story. Duringinculcating fear of the disease is a strategy the state
uses to curb their free sexual expressions, which threaten the state.
AIDS and condoms represent exactly what they rebel against--control and
regulation of their sexual pleasure. Warning about AIDS and condom use
shackle their sexual pursuits and thwart their absolute enjoyment of
free sex. Their free pursuit of sexual pleasure poses a direct challenge
and menace to the state, and hence constitute the main target of state
control. As Foucault contends, "policing of sex is an important
component in maintaining the unmitigated power of the central
state" (Foucault, 1978, pp. 24-26). If sex can be regulated and
maintained within the confines of marriage, then social stability and
state control is ensured. Thus, it is essential that "the state
knew what was happening with its citizens' sex, and the use they
made


of it, but also that each individual be capable of controlling the
use he made of it" (Foucault, p. 26). Reshaping and disciplining
sex is hence central to the state's desire to maintain and secure
the social fabric.

The post-Mao state has exercised many strategies to negate, to
silence, and to police non-marital sex. The state's obsession with
sex and with controlling it is seen as necessary to achieve what the
state envisions as a harmonious society, in which citizens are obedient
and the state is in control. Paralleling state control with condom use,
clients' sentiment is analogous to the gay community in their
sexual revolution during the early 1980s. When little was known about
AIDS, the gay community in the San Francisco area was unreceptive to
attempts by local government and medical institutions to promote safe
sex or condoms andtaking it as an immutable entity or an unchanging
norm. The concept of masculinity, as the paper illustrates, is
historically evolving. It changes, evolves, and takes on different
meanings and embodiments according to different historical eras. In
China, during the imperial time, elite masculinities were defined as
worldly, urbane, knowledgeable, sophisticated, and refined. In the
1990s, the most powerful men were identified as those who could
emotionally and physically control the women they consume, exploit them
freely, and then abandon them. The less powerful men engaged in
sex-for-money transactions with a large number of women. The weakest men
were those who became emotionally involved with women. In the new, fluid
urban entrepreneurial environment, men attempted to rebel against the
Maoist control of their sexuality and resurrect their lost masculinity
by emulating the economically successful Japanese and Taiwanese
businessmen in the consumption of