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This essay was inspired by Craig A. Lockard's "Crossing Borders: Disciplines, Cultures, and Histories." It reflects how the author's perspective has changed over a career of university teaching and research in Chinese, Asian, and world history. It describes a comparative approach to the study and teaching of global history.
I am honored to be invited to comment on Craig Lockhard's essay reflecting on his long and distinguished teaching career. He is one of the leading world historians whose work I most admire. Because I both agree with him, and wish to second what he has to say about the need for Americans to better understand the world in which we live, my comments will neither criticize nor challenge what he has written. Instead, I will try to suggest how my own experience over the same four decades led me to similar views through a somewhat different process. Where Lockard speaks of crossing the borders of disciplines and cultures, I like to talk about coming to see comparison as a device for challenging assumptions and asking questions. Toward the end, I will offer some reflections on global history, globalization, and where I think we are now.
While I have met Craig Lockard once or twice at conferences, I know him best through his published work and as a stalwart of the World History Association to which I also belong. What I know about his career is what he reveals in his essay. It appears that our lives have followed somewhat parallel trajectories. We both grew up in California, he in Pasadena; I, a world away (or so I thought) in the Bay Area. He mentions thoughts of being a beach bum; I had aspirations as a water polo player. He was trained in Southeast Asian history; I studied East Asia and China. He spent a career teaching in Wisconsin, I am in my 43rd, and last, year at the University of Minnesota. While these similarities are striking, I should also note some of the differences.
Looking back over the trajectory of my life I think I see two elements, both very personal, that led me eventually in the direction of world history. One grew from the fact that I was the youngest child in my family and in the neighborhood where I grew up. This circumstance introduced me, in my earliest years, to the problem of relative power. Being at the bottom of the pecking order, I developed a strong interest in fairness and the enforcement of the rules, and subsequently to a lifelong identification with the underdog and a penchant for trying to imagine another person's situation. Another, perhaps related, trait was an interest in different ways of life, what we now term the Other. This matured when I was in high school and developed a strong curiosity about world affairs I followed by reading Time magazine. Beyond the international rivalry of the Cold War, my curiosity about other countries and other realities was nurtured at the Guild Theater in Menlo Park, a movie house that specialized in showing foreign films. I went frequently to be transported beyond the conformist confines of 1950s California. The work of Jean Cocteau and Ingmar Bergman, in particular, opened my eyes. After my freshman year in college I spent a summer traveling in Western Europe with a high school classmate who was half French and had many relatives we could visit.
When I entered college at Stanford I still had no interest in China or Asia, nor any thoughts about studying history. Unlike Professor Lockard, I was not smitten with the Chinese paintings in the art gallery. And unlike Professor Lockard, I was too shy to even imagine studying abroad in Austria or Hong Kong as he did. I liked gardening and biology and planned to become a botanist. Despite these interests I was not cut out to be a scientist. When students ask how I got interested in Chinese history I tell them it was through organic chemistry. Two years of chemistry labs thoroughly soured any interest I had in the biological sciences. In my sophomore year I decided to shop around for a new major, one that would allow me to take many electives and search for a new direction. A required freshman course in Western Civilization had sparked my interest in ideas, if not in history as a discipline. But a history major had minimal requirements and offered me the flexibility I needed to explore new possibilities. At first I was assigned an advisor who was a specialist in American history. This was not a promising beginning. When I visited his office I saw on his desk a recently completed article on American jazz. Again unlike Lockard, I had no aptitude for music and thought that it was an utterly frivolous topic. Besides, I had no interest in studying my own society. This is where the experience with organic chemistry came to my aid. I thought I could approach history like the periodic table – placing societies in rows according to their characteristics and then survey them with an eye to comparison and classification. With this idea as a starting point, I opened the course catalog and looked for something on the other side of the world. A course on modern China was offered, and I enrolled. It was my good fortune that the course was taught by Arthur F. Wright, an able scholar and an engaging teacher. I was particularly taken by his description of modern China's crisis of identity brought to a head by a cataclysmic confrontation with Western imperialism in the nineteenth century.
The discovery of Chinese history derailed my plan for a systematic tour of the globe in favor of taking any courses I could find about China or Asia. Eventually I settled into a joint major in History and Philosophy with the thought of pursuing Chinese intellectual history. I wrote junior and senior level seminar papers on Sun Yat-sen and Tan Sitong, heroes of the Chinese search for a new national identity. Unable to read Chinese, I was dependent upon translations into English. Draft copies of the Sources of Chinese Tradition, then in preparation at Columbia University, were especially helpful in giving me insights into the richness of the Chinese thought. I was rather far along in my undergraduate career when China captured my interest and so I avoided studying the language at Stanford. The word was that the instructor was Cantonese and that one might get a distorted version of Mandarin, but the real reason was that I had little confidence in my ability to succeed in what was thought to be a very difficult language. In addition to my linguistic handicap (Scientific German proved to be of limited utility in the approach to modern China) I was woefully ignorant of other disciplines that might have been useful. I never took a course in political science, economics, sociology, or anthropology, just to name the most obvious ones. I did wonder, from time to time, why some of the books I was most anxious to read were in the reading room of the Political Science Department.
Military service provided the route to Chinese language study. (If only space and time permitted I could add many additional comments to what Professor Lockard says about the importance of the military services in developing American expertise in foreign languages and area studies.) When I finished college in 1957 males were still expected to perform military service and could anticipate receiving draft notices when they finished school. I took a proactive approach to this issue and enlisted in the regular army after my twenty-second birthday. My goal was to go to the Army Language School in Monterey, California, which offered the most intensive instruction available anywhere, using all native speakers drilling classes of no more than six or seven students six hours a day, five days a week. To get into to the language school I had to first go through basic training and advanced individual training in a unit that had a quota for the language school. This also meant that after completing eighteen months of language training at Monterey I had to perform two years of service in my unit, a counter-intelligence organization. This service took me to South Korea for a year and provided me with richly rewarding, for a future historian, experiences in observing the overthrow of the Syngman Rhee government, and my first glimpses of Asia during brief visits to Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines and Hong Kong. My military service lasted more than four years, longer than I had been in college and, for that matter, longer than the United States had engaged in the Second World War. It was priceless experience and it confirmed my determination to pursue Chinese studies in graduate school.
From the army I went directly to graduate school. Here again, government action was crucial. In the summer of 1961 the Berlin Wall went up and many of my colleagues were sent to Germany in response to the crisis. I was a likely candidate for shipment overseas since my earlier study of German was on my record. However, because I had already been admitted to graduate school, I was allowed to leave the army a few weeks early to enroll for the fall term. I was able to go to Harvard only because the Congress, in response to the Russian launch of the satellite called Sputnik, had passed the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) that provided money for graduate training in foreign languages and associated studies. A National Defense Foreign Language (NDFL) fellowship supported me through four years of graduate classes. This program, one of the most enlightened acts of national self-interest the federal government has undertaken, was responsible for training many of the faculty who have done research and taught about foreign areas over the last half century. The descendants of NDEA and NDFL today come under Title VI of the Higher Education Act; I am currently the director of a National Resource Center (NRC) and a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship program that carry on this work.
At Harvard I got an MA in a program, in Regional Studies – East Asia, which consisted of language and area studies courses concentrated on China and Japan. At the Ph.D. level, I entered a program called History and Far Eastern Languages. This program was created to spare us from the requirements of the History Department and give us credit for the extensive amount of language training that was required of us: a reading knowledge of French or German (but not both as the History Department demanded), modern Japanese, modern Chinese, and Classical Chinese. Despite the presence of "History" in the title of the program I had very little formal training as a historian and did no formal coursework in associated social sciences. Unlike Professor Lockard's experience at Wisconsin where faculty and graduate students participated in a curriculum that included Southeast Asian history and Comparative World History, at Harvard we were pretty much left to sink or swim on our own with scant direction or advice from the faculty who were desperately trying to get their own research to publication. The overview of East Asia as a region was encapsulated in a dazzling new textbook co-authored by John King Fairbank and Edwin O. Reischauer, the leading Chinese and Japanese historians on the Harvard Faculty. It was a rich survey of the development of a unique and powerful civilization followed by a somewhat more detailed account of how local institutions came under challenge by modernization and the intrusion of the Western powers. The two volumes were structured around the notions of a "great tradition" and its "modern transformation," reflecting some of the academic concepts current at that time. East Asia was home to one of the world's greatest civilizations and currently two of its most dynamic modern nations: Japan an economic dynamo, and China, site of the world's greatest revolution. With effort one could learn about all of this and even begin to understand some of the dynamics.
Graduate seminars were devoted to learning how to find, read and use source materials in the relevant archives. Professor Fairbank's great contribution to this process was to demystify Chinese documents and teach American students how to read them. We were taught the mechanics and left to our own devices in terms of finding topics and writing dissertations. I was not attracted by the kind of East-West diplomatic history that Fairbank had pioneered; I wanted to pursue my inquiry into what I thought of as China's modern identity crisis. Following the end of the imperial system in 1911, Sun Yat-sen and his countrymen had set out to define and create a new Chinese nation in the wake of two and one half centuries of Manchu rule (Qing Dynasty 1644-1911). I started where I had left off as an undergraduate, with the intellectual ferment of the early twentieth century, planning to write about Feng Youlan, China's most prominent philosopher. When I learned that someone at Columbia was already planning to write about Feng, I made a strategic decision to push my project back in time. I decided to study the founding of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the last native Chinese ruling house that had held sway after the era of Mongol rule and before the Manchu conquest. This decision, taken in crisis, has paid great dividends over the years. The U.S. government again came to my aid, supporting two years of language study and research in Taiwan on a Fulbright Fellowship. I had now made the transition from the Defense Department, via the Department of Education, to the State Department. Two years in Taiwan (Americans could not visit mainland China between 1949 and 1971) was my longest and most rewarding residence in Asia. Again, I would like to underscore the importance of the Fulbright program in connecting American academia, students and teachers, with other countries and cultures. The impact of Fulbright initiatives over half a century is incalculable.
The dissertation I wrote was not in the field of intellectual history but concerned the geo-political movement of the capital from Nanjing in central China to Beijing on the northern frontier. I became a specialist in the growing subfield of Ming history, started Ming Studies, a journal for other specialists, became editor of a Ming Studies Research Series, and was elected the first president of the Society for Ming Studies. Last year I was appointed as a visiting member of the Ming Section of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. All this is to say that my search for the Other led to early modern China. I went on the job market as a Chinese historian and wound up at the University of Minnesota where I participated in teaching a general survey course on East Asia, a series of upper division courses on modern China, and a graduate research seminar on late imperial Chinese history. In short, I was an East Asian area specialist, trained and hired to reproduce the kind of specialized training I had received in graduate school.
The institutional environment I encountered at Minnesota was vastly different from the one Craig Lockard experienced at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the "innovative interdisciplinary curriculum" and "problem-centered departments with faculty drawn from several disciplines" that he describes at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. My institutional home, The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, was organized along the lines of disciplinary departments; it had no tradition of area studies (although there was a rich range of offerings on Scandinavia) and few arrangements for interdisciplinary collaboration by faculty. I spent more than thirty years struggling against these arrangements with scant success. I will return to this topic below.
The history department I joined was a conservative, all-white, all-male organization divided into European and American "wings" which managed their own curriculum, graduate training and hiring. The Europeanists were more conservative, both intellectually and socially; the Americanists more liberal. The rest of us – specialists in Latin American, African, and Asian history – were referred to as the "feathers;" our numbers and influence did not suffice to form a coherent wing. We were tolerated as members of exotic species and often spoken of, and to, using stereotyped language, e.g., "inscrutable Orientals." Not only was I studying the radical Other; I was jokingly referred to by my colleagues as a radical Other. It probably did not help that I was the faculty sponsor of a chapter of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) at the height of protests against the Vietnam War.
Strange to say, it was in this Eurocentric History Department that I escaped the parochialism of my own training in East Asian Studies. When I arrived in Minneapolis in 1968 I joined three other Asian historians in the department: one each in South Asian, Chinese, and Japanese history. My South Asian colleague, David Kopf, suggested that we merge our introductory courses and approach the subject matter comparatively, instead of offering three separate surveys of India, China and Japan. Kopf had been trained at the University of Chicago and was stimulated by the recent publication of William McNeill's book The Rise of the West. In that work McNeill began with an overview of the great Eurasian civilizations developing in parallel up to the modern period when the West became ascendant. Wishing to do justice to Asian history, and to counter assumptions of Western superiority, we took our cue from the first part of McNeill's work. The result was a three-quarter-long course comparing the histories of three great civilizations: Middle Eastern, South Asian and East Asian and two zones of interaction, Central Asia and Southeast Asia, from earliest times to the present. Europe, the fourth Eurasian civilization, was implicit in the comparison but left out for practical reasons. The comparison was structured according to the "Three Ps" – Period, Process, and Pattern. The story unfolded through chronological periods in which we took up various topics such as the birth of civilization, universal empires, and world religions, down to Western European domination and the emergence of nationalism. For each topic we wrote an introductory section that discussed "processes" common to that topic. For this purpose we rummaged widely through the literature of the social sciences, cavalierly borrowing concepts and vocabulary wherever they suited our needs, and arguing for months to find formulations that would work for each of our areas. The third P was pattern, an application of the more abstract process to the particularities of each region being compared. It was an enormously stimulating, and demanding, process of discussion and consensus building that after six years produced a two-volume textbook.
More important than the textbook, which came out just as the Vietnam War ended and student interest in Asia declined, was the shift this process brought about in my view of history. Not only did I learn about many times and places that were new to me, I came to see that everything I had previously learned about China and East Asia could meaningfully be viewed comparatively and placed alongside similar phenomena in other parts of the world. I was transformed from an area specialist into a comparativist.
Another step away from parochialism came, surprisingly, from the European wing of my department. James Tracy, a specialist on Erasmus and Dutch history, proposed that those of us in the department, and a handful of others from different disciplines, with interests in the early modern period should come together to form a program that would transcend our regional specializations. The result was the formation, inside the History Department, of the Center for Early Modern History. Thanks to a small endowment the Center was able to invite visiting scholars, mount major research conferences, offer a seminar and support a graduate field, and now a graduate minor, in comparative early modern history. We defined the early modern period as roughly 1350-1750, from the end of the Mongol world empire to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. We agreed to take up topics that were either interactive or comparative on as broad a scale as our resources would allow. The early modern initiative, innovative in the 1980s, anticipated a trend away from parochial and national history to much more open inquiry that has since become widespread in the historical profession.
It remains to say something about my institutional struggles. For three decades I tried by various means to promote area studies to no avail. This included creating an East Asian Studies major, chairing an East Asian Studies Department, participating in a regional Midwest China Center, organizing an East Asian Studies MA program, and even merging a group of area studies major programs within an Institute of International Studies. By the 1990s all of them, the Center, the Department, and the undergraduate programs were gone. A summer intensive language program was established in China in 1980 but it was abandoned by the turn of the century. The MA program limped along for a few more years without support and was terminated in this decade. Four summers I took students to China under two different programs but neither initiative has survived. I can take some credit for transforming the Institute into a new Institute for Global Studies but this was created without a core faculty; it serves as an administrative home for a popular undergraduate major and a collection of programs that fall outside of the departmental structure of the college. My greatest success in broadening undergraduate education at Minnesota came in the 1980s when I proposed a change to the college distribution requirements that obliged all undergraduates to take two courses, in any discipline, about non-Western societies or cultures. For almost a decade this caused a gratifying spurt of enrollments in courses about all corners of the world beyond the NATO countries. Distribution requirements, however, are as much about competition for student credit hours as they are about changing students' understanding of the world. In the next revision of distribution requirements my non-Western culture requirement was replaced by one that specified "international content," in a way that put more emphasis on national governments than culture and values. I have concluded from all of these experiences that the culture of an ESU (enormous state university) can be very difficult to change. I would describe the University of Minnesota culture as one that views expertise as an export commodity. Consequently, we have more than a thousand Chinese student and scholars on our campus, and two of our professional schools offer degrees in China but there is no comparable institutional support for getting American students to China for sustained study.
Again, the most lasting move to expand the curriculum beyond our borders came in the History Department. In 1981 I proposed to my colleagues that we limit our introductory offerings to three survey courses: U.S. History – which already existed – and World History and Western Civilizations, neither of which existed. More specialized surveys, of which we had a dozen or more, would be pushed to the upper division. This idea won acceptance and a group of us spent a year designing a three-quarter overview of world history. Initially, I thought that the Period/Process/Pattern structure that had worked so well before could be modified for world history use but I soon realized that this was unrealistic. World history is vastly more diverse and other solutions were required. We came up with a case study approach, designed to sample three or four areas of the world, without attempting a comprehensive survey. The three parts of the course were assigned differing lengths of time – 5,000 years, 500 years, and 50 years – giving more intensive treatment to the recent past than to the remote past. The themes of livelihood and identity allowed us to talk about both material history and subjective identity issues for any people anywhere and freed us from ties to elites or particular sectors of society. My idea was to stress those topics in the past that still have the most impact on our present. So in the first section, on the long duration of agricultural history, empires and world religions were featured. In the second, the modern energy era, industrialization and nationalism were obvious topics. In the last fifty years, which I think of as the information age, I chose to emphasize human rights and ecology. When our university changed from the quarter system to the semester system in 2000 we divided the course so that the first two parts became a year-long sequence in World History and the third part a single-semester Global History course, cross-listed between History and the Global Studies Program. The courses have been popular and outdraw the Western Civilizations sequence, but not U.S. history.
I have taught in all three parts of our sequence, usually with another faculty member, but in the last fifteen years I have stuck to the last section, the Information age. In 2007 I published a combined text and reader designed just for this course. The way I do it, the course is divided into three parts, each with a paper and an exam. The aim is to get students to grasp some of the realities of other parts of the world and to learn how to ask questions and think comparatively about places and people that are not necessarily directly connected. Films, autobiographies, fiction, and other documents are used to provide vicarious experience of other times and places. I emphasize cases from Africa, Asia and Latin America, in part because our other introductory survey courses are centered on Europe and the United States. In each of the three regions, I focus on a pair of countries, one socialist, one capitalist. The cases I use currently are China and Taiwan in Asia, South Africa and Mozambique in Africa, and Cuba and Guatemala in Latin America. The first third of the course looks at the world through the East-West division of the Cold War. The topic is human rights: students are asked to see how elements of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were differently enforced in capitalist and socialist societies. The second part looks at the North-South division of the world: it focuses on the conditions of labor in socialist and capitalist systems and the movement of labor and jobs across borders in the integrating world economy, both during and after the Cold War. The last third of the course considers the plight of a swollen human population in the post-Cold War era when all are at the mercy of a global market system without sufficient guidance, safeguards or regulatory mechanisms to promote social justice. Students are invited to reflect on the stark contrast between our current understanding of economics, demography, ecology and disease, and our lack of adequate institutions or programs to manage them.
I undertook this project imagining that it would reproduce my earlier experience of comparing Asian civilizations and that a jointly written textbook would result. This did not happen for a number of reasons. Mainly, I think, it was because my colleagues are under too much pressure to get their own research done to commit to a collaborative project. Many of us have participated in textbook projects sponsored by commercial publishers under contracts that required only limited commitments of time. I have continued to think about the project for more than twenty years, and I still hope to produce at least a skeletal outline of my vision; but that is a project that will have to wait until I am retired.
At some point in my engagement in world history, it occurred to me that I had unwittingly returned to my undergraduate project inspired by the periodic table. By going from Chinese and East Asian history, to comparative Asian history, to world history I finally had the opportunity to work my way around the world and gradually fill in the rest of the spaces in the table. If only one could live so long, or remember so much. Indeed, one of the great challenges of world history, one we all confront when we teach it, is that there is so much more than one can ever know. With luck and good notes one can keep ahead of the students, but one can never gain the familiarity or degree of confidence one enjoys in one's area of specialization. Always there is the need to make broad generalizations based on slender reading and the knowledge that one is skating on thin ice. Relative ignorance, however, is not the greatest challenge that world history presents. The greatest need is for a sense of structure, for organizing principles. This is where the contrast between the Western Civilization course with its self-referential, usually celebratory narrative, and the World History course is the greatest. We were not confronted with this problem when we wrote our comparative history of Asian civilizations because we simply assumed that each of the other civilizations of Eurasia could be described with parallel and equally powerful narratives. This assumption helped to discredit and refute Eurocentric notions of Western superiority.
The Western Civ course is usually organized as a narrative of the evolution of a cultural realm or complex. It is easy to be critical of the artificiality of this narrative, the fabrication of a story line that weaves its way through selected elements of the past and leads triumphantly, for the most part, to our own society and places us at the center of world affairs. But the story can be told, critically or uncritically, with a high degree of chronological coherence. Over time there came to be broad agreement about the outlines of the story and even the content with which an educated person in our society should have some familiarity. At Columbia and a number of other colleges, students were actually required to read their way through a small mountain of canonical texts, usually in translation and often excerpted. In world history such approaches are elusive. Some of the earliest world history textbooks were simply Western Civ texts with chapters added on China and India. Non-western peoples were incorporated into the story line when Europeans happened upon them, or conquered them. Later iterations of the world history text became much more balanced; teams of authors wrote in informed and sensitive ways about cultures and peoples of all parts of the world. But now the problem was how to select what was important. Who should be included and who should be left out? Which facts or events were most important? Coverage became so thin that it was impossible to construct a canon of "must read" texts. Publishers, pandering to student intolerance for cognitive overload, resorted to the "boxed excerpt" and lots of pictures. Committees charged with setting curricular standards or devising tests for competency in the field of world history were at sea, and destined to remain so. But the lack of shared values and historical pasts is not the only obstacle to standardizing a world history curriculum. Even the widely common elements of the cultural regions we called "civilizations" were weakened or lost with the advent of the modern nation. Nationalisms fragmented human communities into ever smaller and more parochial units, not just the two hundred nation-states that belong to the United Nations, but many non-state fragments within them as well. Each group is entitled to its own identity, its own story. The overall picture becomes muddled and elusive.
The Western Civ enterprise was animated by the celebration of a subjective cultural identity, an imaginary. World history, as a research field, has responded to the problem of cultural identity by veering toward material history. One can tell the story of humankind by talking about technologies, contact, trade, crops, disease, in ways that crossed borders and spanned continents. But this leads to a rather thin gruel. Material and economic analysis cannot tell us all we want to know. This is the great weakness of Marxism: class contradictions are hardly the most powerful forces in history. People are far more willing to die for religious belief or patriotism, pure imaginaries, than they are to die for better working conditions or class solidarity. The search for comprehensive story lines can be frustrating. The Cold War offered the perspective of socialist and capitalist camps in competition; a post-Cold War version would see a war of civilizations – the West versus China or Islam. As I indicated above, my solution has been to stick with structured comparisons at the case study level, abandoning any effort at comprehensive coverage. But as I have gone down this road I have come to feel that it should be possible to create some kind of a narrative structure or framework for thinking about the entirety of human experience. As noted above, I hope to spell some of this out once I am retired.
The course I teach to two hundred freshmen every fall is about the world in the last fifty years. It is really about globalization and the information revolution. During my lifetime, since I was in college really, the world has been dramatically shrunk by new technologies of transportation and communication. Jet aircraft make is possible to visit other parts of the world within a day or less, increasing and enhancing individual interactions and expanding personal experience. The container has lowered the cost of moving goods in ways that have strengthened networks of manufacture and consumption. But the biggest changes have been in communication. All kinds of information – data, text, speech, images, sound, and music – have been merged into common digitized, electronic units that can be stored, reproduced, or communicated around the world at the speed of light. Global networks of communication and personalized communication devices, their forms and capabilities changing and morphing almost daily, have erased barriers of time and space that formerly separated us. Physical borders still exist, national identities still exist, but they do not regulate our experience in the same way they did in the past. Networks for sharing information -- for work, for entertainment, and for social contact -- are expanding and changing as well. Use of electronic devices replaces the actual with the virtual, transforming the nature of both psychological and social reality.
What do these changes mean for teaching world history? It is hard to say. But things will not stay the same. I will end with just two observations. One is that, increasingly, the local is also the global. We are exposed to more and more cultural, ethnic, and racial difference in an American community or on a college campus than was the case in the past. The other is that foreign travel has changed as well. When I first took students to China there was a palpable excitement about being in a strange place and a curiosity about what could be seen out of the bus window. Twenty years later, students I took to China were wired up, in their own personal spaces, oblivious to the passing scene. It is not enough to cross borders physically; the challenge is to get students to cross borders intellectually as well.
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Brush Up Your Summer Seaplane Skills
By BRIAN ADDIS
It's spring flying season! Well, okay, spring didn't arrive this year. So, it's summer flying season! It's time to think about those things that will keep us safe and happy seaplane users through the season. First on the list: Water temperature. The last reading on my lake registered 49 degrees Fahrenheit. I do not want to go "seaplane dumping" in those water temperatures. Brush off those procedure skills. Remember, the best defense against a "gear down water landing" is a triple check before touchdown; the last check representing your last chance for that landing. Also, check out your floatation devices and survival gear. A good preflight of this equipment should be on your list for the season.
Wind is second on the list. Too much wind, no wind and everything in between deserves respect. Practice a couple glassy water landings with wind so your skills are sharp. Touchdown attitude, descent rate, enough water in front of the airplane and enough room to get out of there—if things don't work out—are the key factors. High wind results in mechanical turbulence. The airport planning engineer spends lots of time and money to insure trees and other obstacles are set back far enough at an airport to minimize mechanical turbulence. Seaplane pilots don't take planning engineers with them. The seaplane pilot's only defense against the effect of mechanical turbulence is situational awareness. Look at the site. Make some predictions based on the wind velocity; be aware and be prepared to react. Several months of great seaplane flying are in your future. Be safe and enjoy the season.
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The value of yen plummets, and the citizens of Japan enter a total state of panic. With C threatening to wipe out Japan completely, the country's future relies on the result of a heated clash between Kimimaro and Mikuni in a deal to end all deals.
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America Was Unprepared for a Drop in Apple Earnings
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- When it comes to forecasting Apple's(AAPL) much-anticipated earnings , the average investor sitting at home incorrectly bet that the tech titan would continue to increase earnings.
Heading into an all-important fiscal first-quarter earnings release, estimates submitted by non-professional investors expected Apple's earnings to rise from a year earlier. That optimism conflicted with Wall Street's consensus estimates of the first profit drop in roughly a decade.
The mismatch between expectations and Apple's actual earnings -- and an over 7% decline in the company's stock below $480 a share -- might be an indication the average investor managing a TD Ameritrade (AMTD) or E-Trade(ETFC) account might not be prepared for earnings to fall at the Cupertino, Calif-based company, after years of enviable growth.
Still, "homebrew" stock analysts once again appear to be stiff competition to the "suits" on Wall Street in forecasting Apple's earnings -- the numbers weren't that far off, all things considered.
In the fiscal first quarter, Apple reported earnings per share (EPS) of $13.81 on revenue of $54.5 billion, indicating a mixed report that missed on the top line but beat expectations on profits. According to analyst forecasts compiled by Thomson Reuters , Apple was expected to earn $13.47 a share on $54.7 billion in revenue.
The headline-grabbing figure from the earnings report is the $13.81 in EPS Apple earned.
Those figures and a fiscal second-quarter earnings guidance of continued margin and growth pressure indicates ordinary investors may be unprepared for a turbulent 2013 for Apple, after years in which the company was the darling of the stock-investing public.
According to hundreds of DIY forecasts submitted to Estimize, investors expected Apple to post a profit of $14.19 a share, a 2%-plus gain on record revenue of $55.3 billion for the quarter. At EarningsWhisper, independent investors pegged Apple's earnings at $14 a share, a 13-cent advance on the launch of the iPhone 5 and a fresh set of iPad and MacBook offerings.
Only WhisperNumber forecasts, which polled nine independent investors, predicted an earnings decline for Apple, albeit less than Wall Street estimates. WhisperNumber forecasts put Apple's earnings at $13.68 a share, about a 1% decline from 2012 earnings per share of $13.87.
Still, ordinary investors deserve credit. The average EPS forecast of $13.96 by Estimize, EarningsWhisper and WhisperNumber came closer to Apple's earnings than the $13.47 average estimate on Wall Street.
It isn't the first time Wall Street has taken a back seat to Main Street when it comes to forecasting Apple's earnings.
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This is George Washington's draft of the Constitution, showing his handwritten notes. The draft was passed on to the Committee of Style to adjust the wording. The final text of the Preamble comes out of this committee's work. Text adapted from "Draft of the U.S. Constitution (August 1787) and Schedule of the Compensation of the Senate of the United States (March 1791)" (January/February 2011)and "George Washington's Printed Draft of the Constitution and Mike Wilkins's Preamble" (May/June 2009) in the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) publication Social Education.
National Archives, Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention
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- Teaching With Documents: Observing Constitution Day
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- A Founding Father in Dissent - Elbridge Gerry Helped Inspire Bill of Rights in His Opposition to the Constitution


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Friday, February 1, 2013
Elbit's Vision Past the Fiscal Cliff
Elbit Systems has carved a niche for itself in the military aviation market through some shrewd acquisitions and joint ventures. But will these specialist skills be enough to take it forward at a similar pace?
Software, sensors and iPads. Raanan Horowitz, president and chief executive officer of Elbit Systems of America (ESA), covers all three in the first five minutes of our conversation during last year's annual Army exposition, AUSA, in Washington, D.C. The way ahead for rotorcraft innovation, he confirms, is the simplification of technology with the integration of systems in a user-friendly way.
Horowitz believes that avionics systems, particularly button driven digital displays, need to adapt to how the civil market has developed products such as the iPad, and how ease of use has led to a large market surge for them.
|Concept for fixed-wing fighter aircraft configuration of Elbit's CockpitNG, which also has a helicopter version.
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As the defense industry in the United States exhales following the government's temporary step-back from the "fiscal cliff" edge, it is more like a few gasps in preparation for what may be yet to come. Although it is the American global corporations that may be better prepared to weather the storm through their diverse market offering, what of those with foreign heritage that become established within the U.S. defense sector with the prime reason of gaining market share?
Horowitz' ESA is one such organization with strong links to the helicopter market, although not exclusively by a good measure. ESA was established in 1980 as a subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd, (listed on the U.S. NASDAQ and Israeli TASE stock exchanges). Elbit has grown into a $1 billion company of which around $300 million derives from its airborne business, of which ESA plays a significant role.
The relationship with Elbit in Israel is governed by the same rules that apply to other companies that can trace a foreign heritage. "If we have an Israeli teammate come over to us, we have to put a visit request in seven days ahead of time stating what we want to talk about. BAE Systems have the same systems," said Robert Waage, ESA's director of business development for Airborne Solutions. There is a legal separation that is designed to provide assurances of sensitive information.
|Panoramic HD large area display from Elbit Systems.
As with the rest of the defense industry, those responsible for the future development of Elbit have been watching developing markets with opportunities identified in South America and Asia; Brazil and India, respectively although there is also promise in others including Australia and Korea (where the company won a $62-million contract last year to upgrade the military's C-130 fleet including its own glass cockpit digital flight displays).
Kelly Dameron is vice president of Airborne Solutions and sees the current challenges over defense budgeting reflecting in the new attitudes to business strategies, particularly the pressure to continue corporate growth: "It is tough to integrate acquisitions. Resources in companies are thinner than before. To survive and flourish, organizations need to be more agile and flexible than ever before and become more generalist to execute opportunities arise."
He comments on the progressive expansion of ESA in Fort Worth. "The company has grown quickly: we learned engineering in the 1980s and business development in the 90s. Without doubt having a partner company in Israel has been of significant benefit to ESA, especially with their military forces operating similar weapons systems, such as the Apache and Cobra helicopters." Both he and Waage independently point to a change of direction not only in ESA's business structure but also how the rest of the industry is viewing them.
"We carved ourselves a place on the block with the Apache IHADSS HMD-EM Tracker and Central Mission Processor. ESA moved from supplier to strategic partner," stated Waage. The M142 integrated helmet and display sight system (IHDSS) has been an integral part of the Boeing Apache's systems since the U.S. Army introduced the attack helicopter in 1984. The IHADSS integrates the flight crew with the aircraft's systems through a monocular eyepiece. By using electro-magnetic tracker technology in conjunction with weapon sensors in the aircraft's nose the flight crew is able to utilize head movements for increased tactical situational awareness (Heads up, eyes out).
Dameron observes that in completing the acquisition from Honeywell for helmet display products, although ESA didn't have a large workforce initially it focused on spreading best practice and blending an understanding of operational requirements with technical development.
Elbit is also ambitious about its day/night degraded visual environment (DVE) solution, JedEyes wide field-of-view helmet system and QuadEye night vision cueing and display (NVCD). Horowitz said that the U.S. Army recently flew with the prototype JedEye helmet: "The Army funded their part and Boeing brought in their helicopter and we gave feedback to both—that is what we like to do." With brownout still an ever-present danger to helicopter aviators, and with aircraft being lost on a regular basis, a solution to the problem is high on the Army's priorities.
Rotary Opportunities
Waage believes that the Armed Aerial Scout (AAS) competition will be a keen one with America Eurocopter pushing hard. "We have the entire cockpit on the EC configuration, and on the MD540F we have the helmet display. But we supply across many of the competitive OEMs."
ESA also has a keen interest in another Army program, one that focuses on the UH-60L Black Hawk cockpit digitization update. "The U.S. Army is looking at a UH-60L cockpit digitization upgrade for part of their fleet. While the eventual aim is to have 800 UH-60 Mike models, the M-like L models will be more digitally equipped aircraft in the field quicker and cut down transition costs in terms of crew training."
What many people don't realize is that a Mike UH-60 is marginally slower than a Lima Black Hawk. While newly designed blades mean the aircraft can carry more, on average it is around 10 knots slower. The Mike-like configuration would probably be slightly faster due to the replacement of analogue systems with digital. A discussion within the ESA team, several ex-military pilots such as Dennis MacIntire, director of business development for Airborne Solutions—an ex CW-5—regarding the merits of getting to the action with more time-on-target, while the Dustoff supporters emphasized the need for speed to get to and extract back to base injured servicemen as quickly as possible.
Last year Boeing's new Apache E (previously Block III) began rolling out to U.S. Army aviation with the promise of a new ESA developed mission processor. The $17.5-million contract over five years will help to future-proof its networking and on-board computing capabilities during the new model's lifecycle. Holding the responsibility for the ongoing upgrade of the nerve center in the middle of arguably the world's most effective and proven attack helicopter is one that all take pride in.
"The Service and Support business unit has also grown to be a major factor in company turnover," adds MacIntire. "Service and Support is one of our shining stars. We take a look at systems abandoned by manufacturers and through reverse engineering we can breathe new life into them." Waage explained the ESA's business outside of the US Defense department. "Commercial Aviation Business Unit runs out of Merrimack, New Hampshire and their primary market driver is the Enhanced Vision Systems for business jets-airline transport platforms allowing them to fly to lower minimum altitudes when approaching to land.
Another area in which Elbit is expanding, highlighted by Horowitz, is that of Homeland Security. It has submitted a significant proposal to the U.S. Border Patrol.
Although the company's involvement in supplying equipment for Israel's own border protection, particularly recently, has attracted international criticism, its lessons learned are fed back into suggested methods and technologies that might adopted on the southern borders of the U.S. "Our proposal to the Border Patrol for a large installation of towers, sensors and command and control and capabilities that will help monitor that border," he said.
"What is the initial cost to put those systems together? It is costly but not cost prohibitive. But what is the cost of operation over many years. That is where I believe we have an advantage due to the operational concepts we have developed and capabilities and I believe we have ways to reduce the long-term operating costs."
In conclusion, Horowitz said that the major challenge facing everyone in defense was to keep research and development (R&D) alive, together with military-industry dialogue that has resulted in the closer cooperation between the two while supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He suggested the danger of pullback in both areas if budget limitations really took hold—something that would be very negative from all sides.


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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is traveling to the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Qatar from January 8-13. At each stop, Secretary Clinton will consult with government officials on a full range of regional and bilateral issues, and emphasize the importance of government-civil society engagement. In addition to these meetings, the Secretary will engage with civil society and community leaders in each country working to help citizens realize shared aspirations for progress. This engagement underscores the U.S. commitment to support civil society and promote partnerships that lead to prosperity for the people of the region.
In Qatar, the Secretary will participate in the Seventh Forum for the Future, a joint initiative of the countries of the Broader Middle East and North Africa region (BMENA) and the industrialized countries of the Group of Eight (G-8). The ministerial event brings together civil society representatives and government officials to discuss and exchange ideas on how to best work together to foster progress and expand opportunities for the people of the region.
While en route to Abu Dhabi, Secretary Clinton briefed the traveling press today. The Secretary said, "...This trip is, in many ways, an important follow-up to one directly related trip and another that is equally significant but less direct. The first, of course, was a trip to Bahrain and the speech that I gave at Manama outlining our security agenda, and the countries I am visiting are all very strong partners in our security efforts, on counterterrorism, on the ongoing challenges posed by Iran, on dealing with the difficulties that we are working through as Iraq emerges into a sovereign, independent country, and so much else.
"At the same time, I gave a speech in Krakow last summer in which I talked about the importance of countries including civil societies, respecting human rights, involving women, empowering their citizens, and we have been very focused on building a system following up on that speech and making clear that civil society in every country needs to be part of our engagement as well as more involved by their governments.
"So in countries that I'm visiting I will be obviously meeting with leaders to continue the security dialogues that we are engaged in to talk through some of the challenges we face, but also reaching out very publicly to civil society and a lot of the activists and the NGOs that have been on the front lines working for change and a particular emphasis -- it will not surprise you -- on women and girls. So we'll be working in every one of the countries on that kind of dual track."
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Nonna's Lemon Ricotta Biscuits
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup plus 1 teaspoon sugar or more as needed for sprinkling
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest (from 2 lemons)
- 1 cup whole-milk ricotta cheese
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/3 cup thinly sliced almonds
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
Line 12 muffin cups with paper liners. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl to blend. Using an electric mixer, beat 1 cup sugar, butter, and lemon zest in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in the ricotta. Beat in the egg, lemon juice, and almond extract. Add the dry ingredients and stir just until blended (the batter will be thick and fluffy).
Divide the batter among the prepared muffin cups. Sprinkle the almonds and then the remaining 1 teaspoon of sugar over the muffins. Bake until the muffins just become pale golden on top, about 20 minutes. Cool slightly. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Recipe courtesy of Giada De Laurentiis
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Fredonia school board hears draft budget
Although there are still several unknowns, the Fre-donia Board of Education recently heard another up-date on the budget from Business Administrator John Forbes.
Forbes said the district still does not know the final figures for employee benefits, central business office costs, the tax cap calculation, BOCES costs, assessed valuation, equalization rates or fund balance.
Although it has been able to reduce more than $1.2 million from its original budget proposal of $30,850,576, the district is still facing increased costs.
Forbes said salaries and benefits will increase 4.65 percent, teachers retirement system contribution in-creased 13.6 percent, and the employee retirement system contribution in-creased 14.2 percent.
Other benefits also increased including unemployment insurance by 73.9 percent and long-term disability insurance by 20 percent for a total increase of $465,263. There were also equipment and BOCES increases noted.
Forbes pointed out the district has also lost $8 million in aid over the last four years.
According to the calculations presented at the meeting, the district has a tax levy limit of 3.36 percent, which equates to just over $15 million. As the budget stood, the budget would need to be cut or fund balance would have to be used to close a gap of $1.2 million.
Superintendent Paul DiFonzo reported on a meeting he had with State Senator Catharine Young and Assemblyman Andy Goodell. He explained how reduction of state aid, gap elimination adjustment, unfunded mandates and the tax cap has hurt districts like Fredonia.
"They know we are facing a shortfall and they know programming is in our sights (to cut). What they can do is reinstate funding," DiFonzo said.
He suggested legislation for a regional high school, repealing the Triborough amendment, reducing special education mandates and foundation aid revisions as ways to help the district. He said the legislators were receptive but they had heard it all before.
The next board of education meeting will be held Tuesday, March 26.
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Jammin' Salmon Burgers
- For Burgers:
- 2 teaspoons freshly chopped parsley leaves
- 1/2 Vidalia onion, diced
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup panko bread crumbs
- 1/2 teaspoon cracked black pepper
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 lemon, zested
- 4 tablespoons Dill Mayonnaise, recipe follows
- 2 (6 1/2-ounce) cans Alaska skinless and boneless pink salmon, drained well
- 2 tablespoons grapeseed oil
- Dill Mayonnaise:
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
- 2 tablespoons freshly chopped dill leaves
- Pinch cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cracked black pepper
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe. For Burgers:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
In medium bowl, combine, parsley, onions, eggs, panko, black pepper, salt, lemon zest and Dill Mayonnaise together. Add drained salmon and mix well together. Make 4 patties and set aside.
In a large skillet on medium, heat 2 tablespoons of grapeseed oil. Place burgers in skillet. Cook over medium heat until browned. Turn and brown other side. Place in oven for 3 to 4 minutes.
Serve on buns with Dill Mayonnaise.
Combine all the ingredients in a small bowl and set aside.
Recipe courtesy of Aaron McCargo Jr.
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Skip to comments.Saudis offer Russia secret oil deal if it drops Syria
Posted on 08/26/2013 9:30:18 PM PDT by CMB_polarization
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They are offering to bribe them with even more artificially inflated oil prices -— for us, I can only presume.
If the US is going to become a net energy exporter, then high oil prices will be good for us too.
Boy things are really complicated over there. TG we've got such a strong and wond....
Sorry I can't say it. Even a sarcasm tag would not make it right.
This is not a good development. Saudis, Russia, and China will all be allies if this happens. Bad on m any levels for the U.S.
Or they could tell Assad and he would probably launch all those missiles intended for Israel at Saudi Arabia.
Russia is definitely interested in controlling more of the oil market, and I have suspected for quite a while they would like SA to be a legitimate target for a big strike on their oilfields.
Logically, the Russians should blow 'em up, as they are completely untrustworthy any other way but dead.
How do you say "Nuts!" in Russian?
Sounds like a threat to me.
The Putin-Bandar meeting was stormy, replete with warnings of a dramatic turn in Syria. Mr Putin was unmoved by the Saudi offer, though western pressure has escalated since then. Our stance on Assad will never change. We believe that the Syrian regime is the best speaker on behalf of the Syrian people, and not those liver eaters, he said, referring to footage showing a Jihadist rebel eating the heart and liver of a Syrian soldier.
Prince Bandar in turn warned that there can be no escape from the military option if Russia declines the olive branch. Events are unfolding exactly as he foretold.
Take it, then take out the royal family.
Russia has a little experience with that.
"Come downstairs, we want to take a picture of the whole family."
"This is not a good development. Saudis, Russia, and China will all be allies if this happens. Bad on m any levels for the U.S."
hey, at least we got israel
Elections have consequences.
They know Obama is weak, and cannot handle the situation.
"If the US is going to become a net energy exporter, then high oil prices will be good for us too."
What do you mean by "us"? lol
"Go ahead Prince, Make My Day!"
Don't worry about it.
The Iranians are deeply in debt to Russia, and Russia must have a route to a Mediterranean seaport for their natural gas and petroleum shipments.
The Saudis are concerned with the increased influence of Shiites throughout the area north of Iraq and extending into Lebanon. These two can probably work out a working deal where both profit.
As for Russia and China — the Middle East is known to historians as the "graveyard of empires".
If we extricate ourselves without sustaining destruction we can count ourselves as lucky.
Bingo. 'Nuff said.
Russia and China will ask for some serious concessions, not just from the Saudis, but from the US and NATO.
Russia will demand removal of US Forces from Europe and a massive disarmament of US nuclear weapons and Missile Defense. China will demand that the US stop arming Taiwan and reign in the Japanese Defense Forces.
My guess is, 0bama retires to Saudi Arabia, China or Russia after he's done sabotaging the United States.
The Saudis could be the greatest national security threat the USA faces
Russia tends to respect alliances, no matter how costly it is.
Also, they have been at war with Sunni islam for centuries and Saudi Arabia is an epicenter. It is a matter of culture, values, probably a racist moment involved but it is how it is. It is mutual from the other side. Russians are extremely non-halal uberinfidels by muslim's books.
Any alliance between SA and Russia is about as realistic as an alliance between Hitler and Stalin in 1942.
No matter how good a bargain is, it is pretty much impossible.
Too much Russian blood on Sunni jihadi hands and vice versa.
Yep. I pretty much only see Russia agreeing to make Saudi Arabia a graveyard, and I have never seen Russia tolerate threats like those alleged in the article.
It might be racist, but you are correct, that is the way they think. Russian media sites refer to Bandar as looking like an ape.
Why would Putin trust them? And why would he throw away the chance to dominate the Meditteranean through Syria? Russian influence is also growing daily in Greece, a country impoverished by EU membership.
High oil prices are bad for everyone in the US.
High oil prices mean higher prices and interest rates for everything.
Even if you own oil, they will tax your "excess profits" away in the name of fairness.
>>>It might be racist, but you are correct, that is the way they think. Russian media sites refer to Bandar as looking like an ape.<<<
To be fair they refer to Obama this way too.
To be fair, so do we.
>>>To be fair, so do we.<<<
Not the media.
I can see Putin and the Sauds telling Assad "We have to allow America to save face. But there will be very few injuries. And, there's a lot in it for you AND for us."
Obama gets his "moment of peace" and everyone is happy.
Or, Putin outsmarts Obama and simply calls him the schoolyard punk that he is and tells him to do whatever the hell he thinks is best for his country.
It's sad that the last two presidents have been made by Putin to look like little girls in bobby sock.
The media is definitely a them, not an us.
So sad we have to get virtually ALL of our somewhat trustworthy news from foreign sources. Just another indicator...
Heh. Like the Russians couldn't take the Saudis' oil if they really wanted to do so.....
gaddafy's gold that french bankers looted from their own repository, stashed in Libya, and gaddafy refused to give it back to them. He hid it. assad haz it.
It's pretty hard for the Saudis replace a warm water port on the Med for Russian war ships
Does Putin want to show the world an example of selling out an ally (unsavory as he might be) for oil? Makes him no better than the USA
Besides the Russians have other ways to achieve dominance over the global oil markets without making a deal with the fickle duplicitous Sauds-
just survive and form a new axis with China, as barry and the eurocrats take the US and Europe to continuing economic and social bankrupcty
If I were Vlad Putin, I would tell them thanks but no thanks!
I guess that hasn't been about the nuts that grow on trees. Rather "Doo-rah-kee" == fools. In the latinised spelling it's "duraki", in Cyrillic script - "дураки".
So by leaking this story to the Russian press Putin does three things:
1. Tells the world that he won't buckle under pressure to drop Assad.
2. Tells the Saudis and everyone else that he can't be threatened.
3. Calls the Chechen rebels Saudi puppets, which will play well at home.
The Russians will eventually (when the bombs start dropping) abandon Assad. Then they'll wield their influence on the jihadis who take over. We'll get nothing out of it.
I put this article down for the dog, and he whizzed on it.
I can't verify it, but I have read that many Russians believe oil is a renewable resource and not a "fossil fuel". I don't know what the actual prevailing opinion is. If that's so, what you said makes a lot of sense. They wouldn't make a deal like this because they know/think they'll always have enough oil.
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A federal appeals court in Oregon will hear arguments in a lawsuit filed by 15 men who say their rights were violated because they are on the U.S. government's no-fly list.
They are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
Portland to order their removal from the list or at least get an
explanation why they were put on it.
The plaintiffs include the imam of a Portland mosque and a
Marine veteran who is the son of a Palestinian immigrant. Others
are outside the country and unable to return.
U.S. District Court Judge Anna Brown ruled last year that her
court does not have jurisdiction over the Transportation Safety
Administration, which administers the no-fly list. The appeals
court will hear the case on Friday.
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text: New Look Men's Hockey Team Opens At MIAC ShowcaseEverybody is going to learn together for the Hamline's men's hockey team. New head coach Doc DelCastillo gets a first chance to see his charges in action Friday when they open the annual MIAC Hockey Showcase against Gustavus Adolphus at Fogerty Arena in Blaine, Minn. Game time is 5:00 p.m. A live stats feed of the game is available by clicking here. Hamline also plays Sunday, October 28 against Concordia at 2:30 p.m. Although DelCastillo got the job in May, he went to work recruiting. So it is that the 2012-13 Pipers' roster is dotted with 14 new faces. Hamline, which has made the MIAC playoffs the last five seasons in a row, was hit harder by graduation than most teams. Among the losses were two of the top goalscorers in school history (Brian Arrigoni, Jordan Van Gilder) and the top goalie for the previous four seasons (beau Christian). Fortunately, some stalwart forwards such as soph Nick Widing (the top returning scorer with nine goals), and juniors Zach Johnson, Cam Stowers and team captain Ryan McElhone return. They will have to provide the leadership as the new forwards -- most of whom come in with excellent credentials from junior programs -- adjust to the rugged pace of the MIAC. The Pipers may have had losses up front but they start the season with seven players who had blue line experience last year. Kirk Olimb has played 62 games the last three seasons. At 6-5, 215, Grant Fahnhorst is a major presence on the blue line and second year player Joe Rubbelke impressed with his steady play in his own end while adding three goals and 14 assists for offense.Troy Hesketh, an Edmonton Oilers draft pick, played 19 games there last season. Widing and Rubbelke were All-MIAC Honorable Mention last year as freshmen. Matt Hemingway, who saw action in six games last year, gets the starting nod against the Gustiies. But he may be challenged for the goaltender job by frosh Nick Heimer, who played junior hockey last season after a career at Rochester Lourdes and Parker Plucinak. "We'll probably be fairly defensive minded this weekend," DelCastillo said. "I'm hoping to play a lot of guys." DelCastillo has been coaching in junior hockey the past three seasons. A former head coach at Alaska-Fairbanks, he has also been an assistant coach at Nebraska-Omaha and St. Cloud State. He has only had his team on the ice for 10 days but he likes what he has seen. "I'm happy with our effort in practice," he said. "The enthusiasm has been excellent. We're excited to get going." His introduction to the MIAC is against a perennially difficult foe. The Gusties won the MIAC postseason playoffs last season and finished with a 17-7-5 overall mark. MIAC Player Of The Year Ross Ring-Jarvi has graduated but there are plenty of bodies back for GAC, including their large goalie, John McLean. "Oh, they'll be tough," DelCastillo said. The Pipers landed in sixth place in the coaches' preseason poll. The complete results can be found by clicking here.


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In my youth, the catch line to a popular song by the Mamas & the Papas was, "If you're goin' to San Francisco, be sure to wear ...
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In my youth, the catch line to a popular song by the Mamas & the Papas was, "If you're goin' to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair." When I was 10, living in New Jersey, shirtless, bell-bottomed and barefoot, a friend and I walked a couple miles to town to get some bubble gum, and heard the song on someone's radio. We didn't feel like walking back up the big hill home, and stopped to rest next to a flower patch. That's when he suggested we put some flowers in our hair and hitchhike, "like real hippies!"
I still remember the ride in the orange VW bug with the purple shag carpet and beads on the mirror, driven by the black guy with the big Afro and round wire-rimmed glasses. He was the first black man I ever talked to.
With a big toothy grin, he asked, "You goin' to San Francisco?" When we got in, he said, "Wish I was in California."
On that short ride, with those few words, I wanted to go to California. And eventually I did, once on my bike, then as a vagabond (hippie?) living out of my car, and finally as a runner, which is the best way of all.


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A few cuts ensure your store-bought pegs will last
Store-bought Shaker pegs can shrink and end up fitting loosely in their holes. To keep pegs from falling out, Club member Frank May of Kansas City, Missouri, uses a wedge to expand the peg�s tenon. This method is often used in furniture construction. First, bore a 3/32-in. hole that�s perpendicular to the grain at the top of the tenon. (The hole prevents the wood from splitting.) Next, cut a kerf from the rear of the tenon to the hole with a band saw or handsaw. Cut a wedge that�s the same width as the tenon and slightly longer than the kerf (assuming the hole is deeper than the tenon is long � see photo). The wedge should be about one-third thicker than the kerf�s width. Finally, insert the point of the wedge into the kerf, apply glue and use a mallet to tap the peg into the hole. It�s best to try this on a few test pieces first.
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Snoop Dogg Calls Kim Kardashian A Straight Ho! NSFW
Snoop Dogg was asked to give advice to Kris Humphries about Kim Kardashian and he did not hold back, calling the reality star a ho.
He quoted from 2Pac and straight said "you can't turn a ho into a housewife. Bitch."
He even talked about Kim's ex's Reggie Bush and Ray J. He said Ray J was the only one to bounce back from Kim.
Warning. The language is kind of spicy. Is Snoop telling the truth about Kim?-DocFB


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I´m thinking of not using all these samples right away....I´ve been shopping for a gongfu set and I feel terrible brewing them in a huge glass pot...I really feel like I am missing something brewing that way. I have some little 50g tins with a good seal they´d probably be ok in until I make up my mind on a set and order it.
I´m only getting 4 infusions or so and there´s not much leaf for the volume of water compared to what the tea wants I think. I´ll save the 3 I haven´t tried yet and just give the other two another round in my current setup.


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Tampa Bay Bucs Update: Running Back Signed; Dropped Passes
Before the Tampa Bay Bucs left for London, they made a roster move. The Bucs signed running back Chad Spann to their practice squad. Meanwhile the Bucs released linebacker Derrell Smith from the practice squad. Spann, a rookie from Northern Illinois, rushed for 2,916 yards and 48 touchdowns in his collegiate career. As a senior, Spann was named MAC Offensive Player of the Year after rushing for 1,388 yards and a school-record 22 touchdowns. A Drop Problem One reason why… Read More »


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This is my go to gaiwan, espeically if I am making tea only for myself. I have to say the porcelain is so thin it takes some getting used to before you realize it is much sturdier than it looks (but I still would not abuse it). The gaiwan being so thin does not hold heat exceptionally well, which is both good for your fingers, and bad if you have a tea that needs a high temperature maintained over a longer time. But it is easy enough to maintain temperature by using a little bowl/dish and pouring a little bit of hot water in it and setting the gaiwan in that (about 1/3 to 1/2 submerged).
This gaiwan is small, but for someone with fairly large hands it is rather easy to use once I played with it for a little bit.


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Watch the TV spot for The American, a Focus Features release.
Watch the TV spot for The American, a Focus Features release.
Dressing George Clooney: Costume Designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb on The American
The costume designer on The American discusses the sartorial style of the movie.
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A slideshow of record covers shot by the director of The American.
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A tasty look at the regional cuisine of Abruzzo, the Italian area in which The American takes place.
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How George Clooney and company brought hope to a stricken region.
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While The American was shot in Abruzzo, many other American productions chose the famous studio outside Rome.
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Our guests may order a glass or a bottle of wine from our extensive collection or Missouri, California, Oregon, Washington and several other states as well as abroad. We actually have quite a bit of the little bit harder stuff as well. Ask Julie to mix up one of her favorite concoctions. Flavored vodkas are the house favorite, and some pretty fine gins and bourbons, including Mark Twain Bourbon.
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- All rooms feature private baths, extra pillows and blankets.
- Televison with a DVD player built in and cable TV, as well.
- All rooms have queen beds, cottages, too. The Dowager House (commonly called Cottage at the Garth) hosts the only king bed on the property.
- Customized amenities: soaps, toothbrushes, shampoo.
- Hair dryer, floss, toothpaste, various samples. Individual heating and air-conditioning controls and ceiling fans.
- Fireplaces in the cottages, and most rooms. The Dowager has 2.
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- We "triple-sheet" with high-quality high thread-count sheets.
- Evening turndown service
- Hypo-allergenic featherbeds in each room. High-quality linens and towels.
- Original antiques in mansion and rooms.
- Some rooms feature Whirlpool tubs.
- One room (Rosewood) features a beautiful original claw-foot tub and marble sink.
- Full breakfast is served between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. each morning. Full, not continental. Let us know in advance of any dietary restrictions.
- Drinks 24/7: Sodas, filtered water, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, hot cider, and also others.
- On-site lighted parking.
- Dinner reservations made for you.