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Dr. Andrew Scobell
(formerly)Research Professor of National Security Affairs
Area(s) of Expertise: Asian political and military affairs, especially China and Korea; democratization; comparative communism and post-communism; civil-military relations; strategic culture.
Dr. Andrew Scobell is Senior Political Scientist at RAND's Washington, DC, office. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of International Affairs at the George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service and Director of the China Certificate Program at Texas A&M University located in College Station, TX. From 1999 until 2007, he was an Associate Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College, both located in Carlisle, PA. Dr. Scobell is the author of China's Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March (Cambridge University Press, 2003), he co-authored China's Search for Security with Andrew J. Nathan, (Columbia University Press, forthcoming, 2012), he has written more than a dozen monographs and reports, as well as several dozen journal articles and book chapters. He has also edited or co-edited 12 volumes on various aspects of security in the Asia-Pacific region. He is a co-editor with Mr. Kamphausen and Dr. Lai of The PLA at Home and Abroad: Assessing the Operational Capabilities of China's Military (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, June 2010). Dr. Scobell holds a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.
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SSI books and monographs by Dr. Andrew Scobell
Chinese Lessons from Other Peoples' Wars
November 17, 2011
Edited by Dr. Andrew Scobell, Dr. David Lai, Mr. Roy Kamphausen.
The 2010 People's Liberation Army (PLA) conference focused on the lessons learned by the PLA from the military actions and experiences of non-Chinese armed forces over the past 30 years, which the PLA can apply to its own strategic planning.
The PLA at Home and Abroad: Assessing the Operational Capabilities of China's Military
July 06, 2010
Edited by Mr. Roy Kamphausen, Dr. David Lai, Dr. Andrew Scobell.
In 2009, the People's Republic of China, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, and the PLA Air Force celebrated their 60th anniversaries. Behind China's economic development, the PLA parades, and the spectacular celebration fireworks, the world clearly saw an ambitious China edging its way to the center stage of international economic, political, and military affairs. However, a few other major events in the last 2 years came just in time to remind the Chinese leaders, and the world as well, that China still faced a challenging future.
Beyond the Strait: PLA Missions other than Taiwan
April 30, 2009
Edited by Mr. Roy Kamphausen, Dr. David Lai, Dr. Andrew Scobell.
On September 26, 2008, over 70 leading experts from academia, government, the military and policy thinktanks assembled at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, to look beyond the Chinese People's Liberation Army's (PLA) primary focus on Taiwan and to the evolving new roles of the PLA. The conference could not have been timelier, given the PLA's active involvement in events during 2008, including earthquake relief, counterterrorism, humanitarian assistance, space activities, and blue water naval operations.
The "People" in the PLA: Recruitment, Training, and Education in China's Military
September 17, 2008
Edited by Mr. Roy Kamphausen, Dr. Andrew Scobell, Mr. Travis Tanner.
On September 28, 2007, under the joint leadership of the U.S. Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute and NBR's Pyle Center for Northeast Asian Studies, approximately 70 leading experts on the People's Liberation Army (PLA) convened at Carlisle Barracks, PA, for a 2-day discussion on the Chinese military's human infrastructure. Presentations and discussions focused on identifying trends in PLA recruitment, education, training, personnel management, and demographics.
Projecting Pyongyang: The Future of North Korea's Kim Jong Il Regime
March 24, 2008
Authored by Dr. Andrew Scobell.
The author explores the future of the regime of Kim Jong Il, constructs a number of scenarios, and then identifies the most plausible one.
Right Sizing the People's Liberation Army: Exploring the Contours of China's Military
September 04, 2007
Edited by Dr. Andrew Scobell, Mr. Roy Kamphausen.
This volume addresses how the leadership of China and the PLA view what size of PLA best meets China's requirements. Among other things, this analytical process makes important new contributions on the question of PLA transparency, long an issue among PLA watchers.
North Korea's Military Threat: Pyongyang's Conventional Forces, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Ballistic Missiles
April 27, 2007
Authored by Dr. Andrew Scobell, Captain USN John M Sanford.
Although North Korea remains an economic basket case that cannot feed and clothe its own people, it nevertheless possesses one of the world's largest armed forces. Whether measured in terms of the total number of personnel in uniform, numbers of special operations soldiers, the size of its submarine fleet, quantity of ballistic missiles in its arsenal, or its substantial Weapons of Mass Destruction programs, Pyongyang is a major military power. North Korea's latest act to demonstrate its might was the nuclear test on October 9, 2006.
Shaping China's Security Environment: The Role of the People's Liberation Army
October 18, 2006
Edited by Dr. Andrew Scobell, Dr. Larry M. Wortzel.
This volume addresses the role of the Chinese military in shaping its country's security environment.
Kim Jong Il and North Korea: The Leader and the System
March 01, 2006
Authored by Dr. Andrew Scobell.
North Korea is both a paradox and an enigma because on one hand, it appears to be a very powerful state—possessing the world's fourth largest armed forces, a sizeable arsenal of ballistic missiles, and a worrying nuclear program—but on the other, it is an economic basket case in terms of agricultural output, industrial production, and foreign trade exports.
Chinese National Security: Decisionmaking Under Stress
October 01, 2005
Edited by Dr. Andrew Scobell, Dr. Larry M. Wortzel.
If there is one constant in expert analyses of the history of modern China, it is the characterization of a country perpetually in the throes of crises. While China at the mid-point of the Twenty-first Century's first decade is arguably the most secure and stable it has been in more than a century, crises continue to emerge with apparent frequency. Consequently, the study of China's behavior in conditions of tension and stress is of considerable importance to policy makers and analysts around the world.
North Korea's Strategic Intentions
July 01, 2005
Authored by Dr. Andrew Scobell.
North Korea poses a key challenge to the global community of states. Sometimes viewed as primarily a nuclear or proliferation challenge, Pyongyang actually presents the United States and other countries with multiple problems. As the 2005 National Defense Strategy of the United States notes, these challenges include "traditional, irregular, and catastrophic." While each dimension of these threat capabilities are fairly clear and, with the exception of the third, readily documented, North Korea's intentions are a much more controversial subject upon which specialists reach widely disparate conclusions.
Civil-Military Change in China: Elites, Institutes, and Ideas After the 16th Party Congress
September 01, 2004
Edited by Dr. Andrew Scobell, Dr. Larry M. Wortzel.
In November 2002, the Chinese Communist Party held its 16th Congress and formally initiated a sweeping turnover of senior leaders in both the Party and the People's Liberation Army (PLA). The meeting heralded not merely a new set of personalities in positions of political and military power, but also the emergence of a new generation of leaders. Who are these individuals, and what does their rise mean for the future of China and its military?
China and North Korea: From Comrades-In-Arms to Allies at Arm's Length
March 01, 2004
Authored by Dr. Andrew Scobell.
Since the ongoing nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula, which emerged in October 2002, the United States and other countries have pinned high hopes on Chinese efforts to moderate and reason with North Korea. Yet, as the author points out, it would be unrealistic to raise one's expectations over what China might accomplish vis-à-vis North Korea.
The Lessons of History: The Chinese people's Liberation Army at 75
July 01, 2003
Edited by Ms. Laurie Burkitt, Dr. Andrew Scobell, Dr. Larry M. Wortzel.
With the armed forces of the People's Republic of China (PLA) celebrating its 75th anniversary on August 1, 2002, it only seemed appropriate and timely to take stock of the world's largest military. The PLA has officially been in existence for three-quarters of a century, and its history is one filled with turmoil and warfare.
Recalibrating the U.S.-Republic of Korea Alliance
May 01, 2003
Edited by COL Donald W. Boose, Jr., Ms. Balbina Y. Hwang, Dr. Patrick Morgan, USMC, Dr. Andrew Scobell.
On October 18-20, 2001, the 16th Annual Conference of the Council on U.S.-Korean Security Studies was held in Washington, DC. U.S. commitments had not been shifted or weakened; the U.S. ability to militarily uphold its commitments had not been affected; and the solidarity of the ROK-U.S. alliance again had been demonstrated through South Korea's strong support for the war on terrorism.
Strategic Effects of Conflict with Iraq: Australia and New Zealand
March 01, 2003
Authored by Dr. Andrew Scobell.
The author has been asked to analyze four issues: the position that key states in their region are taking on U.S. military action against Iraq; the role of America in the region after the war with Iraq; the nature of security partnerships in the region after the war with Iraq; and the effect that war with Iraq will have on the war on terrorism in the region.
China's Growing Military Power: Perspectives on Security, Ballistic Missiles, and Conventional Capabilities
September 01, 2002
Edited by Dr. Andrew Scobell, Dr. Larry M. Wortzel.
The nine chapters in this volume, all written by leading experts, cover a diverse set of important topics: East Asian perspectives on China's security ambitions, the status of the Chinese ballistic missile program and regional reactions to U.S. missile defense initiatives, and China's ever-improving conventional military capabilities.
China and Strategic Culture
May 01, 2002
Authored by Dr. Andrew Scobell.
The author examines the impact of strategic culture on 21st century China. He contends that the People's Republic of China's security policies and its tendency to use military force are influenced by their understandings of the strategic cultures of other states. Gaining a fuller appreciation for how Chinese strategists view the U.S. and Japan will better enable us to assess regional and global security issues.
The Costs of Conflict: The Impact on China of a Future War
October 01, 2001
Edited by Dr. Andrew Scobell.
Will economic development enhance China s comprehensive national power and thus contribute to some of China s more unhealthy goals, such as dominating the South China Seas, seizing Taiwan by force, or grabbing the Senkaku Islands from Japan? Is the China-Taiwan economic dynamic strong enough to offset military adventurism?
U.S. Army and the Asia-Pacific
April 01, 2001
Authored by Dr. Andrew Scobell.
The author highlights the significant and ongoing contribution of the U.S. Army in deterring war, executing smaller-scale contingencies, and shaping the security environment. He advocates a robust, pro- active Army presence for the foreseeable future. Such a presence will ensure the promotion and protection of U.S. national interests in the region.
The Asia-Pacific in the U.S. National Security Calculus for a New Millennium
December 01, 2000
Authored by Dr. Andrew Scobell, Dr. Larry M. Wortzel.
The authors of this monograph survey the challenges to U.S. national security that confront this diverse and dynamic region, highlighting the particularly volatile situation that continues on the Korean peninsula.
Chinese Army Building in the Era of Jiang Zemin
July 01, 2000
Authored by Dr. Andrew Scobell.
What are the national security and national military goals of China s leaders? What strategies are Chinese leaders considering in pursuit of these goals? What is the likelihood that these goals will be attained?
SSI articles, editorial, and briefs by Dr. Andrew Scobell
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Publisher: Ellora's Cave
Genre: Historical Romance
Heat Rating: 4
When her fiancé trades her for an heirloom ring to a dashing highwayman who holds up their coach on a desolate country road, Sophia Astley is hurt and shocked. However, it soon becomes strikingly apparent to Sophia that she is the true gem Bad Jack sought. Intrigued, she willingly submits to every tantalizing taboo he metes out to her.
Dressed as a masked highwayman, Jack Badcock, Earl of Stafford, thinks he is acting out the fantasies of a woman he knows only through lurid letters. As Jack tames her with blindfolds, sensual spankings and an array of torrid toys, she plays her role as the abducted, submissive virgin convincingly—too convincingly. By the time Jack uncovers his fantasy lover's true identity, it's far, far too late.
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Sophia Astley was about to start a life with a man that she was certain wasn't going to be what she craved. Wanting a more physical engagement, Sophia wanted Ralph Crichton, Duke of Wisbech, to show more emotion. Ralph didn't know what had gotten into his wife-to-be Sophia, but he will refuse to let her become a harlot and embarrass him.
Jack Badcock was a man with a past. People talked about all the escapades of his youth, and to tell the truth, they didn't lie about him. Dressed as a highwayman, Jack kidnapped Sophia thinking that she was another woman. Even though he told himself she was who he thought, things didn't add up. Taken into the woods to a cottage, he taught Sophia everything she craved. The sex was rough and Sophia enjoyed every minute of the spankings especially. For a maiden she wasn't shy; however she was apprehensive about some of the things he asked, or better yet demanded of her. It was the best two days of captivity she could dream of.
Sophia knew what was expected of her even though she knew marriage to Ralph wasn't what she wanted or craved, it was her duty. Jack wasn't willing to give up his agreement for marriage, but he wanted Sophia to be his mistress and on her wedding day a second kidnapping occurred. Sophia, by her wedding day, was willing to agree to anything that Jack wanted to get out of this arranged marriage.
Sexual tension builds between the two lovers but the danger outside their cabin still exists, and until they both were attacked and almost killed did Jack realize that nothing was worse than losing Sophia. Sophia realized that whatever Jack offered was enough just to be together.
This story contains intense sex scenes with several toys in play. Exotic sex scenes were performed that had you holding your breath and thinking that maybe you were missing something. Love, sex, and danger are a great mix in this story.
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Joining its bigger brothers—the Stylus Feel, Solo, Pocket and Duo—the Bamboo Stylus Mini is just 1.85 inches long and comes attached to a handy little dummy mini-jack plug so you don't lose it. Or at least, not straight away at any rate.
Despite looking a bit like your child's Crayola, it's actually brass plated and comes with replaceable nibs, which come in firm or soft flavors. It also comes in a range of rather vile colors—take your pick from conservative black or white, or more revolting green, blue, pink or red—and will set you back $20. Bank on spending rather more than that in total, though, given how many you'll invariably lose down the back of the sofa. [Wacom via Engadget]


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Birthdate: Oct. 17, 1994
Status: Academy U-18
Birthplace: Houston, TX, USA
High School: Fort Bend Bush, 2013
OUTLOOK: Quick, creative, explosive attacking player who has progressed up from the Junior Academy to the competitive teams.
2011 EUROVOETBAL: Regular attacking weapon for U-17 squad that competed in prestigious Eurovoetbal Tournament in the Netherlands ... Appeared in five of six games, making one start ... Had a goal and an assist in 5-0 pre-tournament friendly win vs. Groningen regional team on 6/5.
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2009-10 USSF: Did not play first game with U-16 squad until April but tied for team lead with five goals in only 701 minutes … Provided more than one-third of team's offense over final 12 games, playing in all 12 and making eight starts … Made USSF Development Academy debut on 4/10 in 2-0 loss at Solar … Scored first ever USSF goal when he netted opener in 5-3 loss vs. Andromeda on 4/25 … Caught fire at Spring Showcase in Sarasota, Fla., scoring four goals in final two games … Netted twice off of Isaiah Noreiga assists in 3-1 win vs. Virginia Rush on 5/29 … Scored two more goals in 5-2 rout of Richmond Strikers on 5/31 to finish season in style.
OTHER ACADEMY: 2010: Played final 25 minutes of 0-0 tie vs. U.S. U-17 national team on 5/22 at Robertson Stadium ... 2009: Part of the Dynamo U-16 squad that traveled to El Salvador in July-August to play two games against the El Salvador national team and two games against Dynamo Academy partner FESA.
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Phones 4u has continued to play an important role in Windows Phone's UK strategy by running with exclusives, as well as stocking many smartphones on the platform. The retailer has been with Microsoft through the good and the bad times thus far and it's promising to see that support continue.
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I was wondering how many concurrent research projects a typical math researcher works on at a given time. I ask because I currently have the oppertunity to start a second project on something I'm fairly familiar with (background reading-wise). One of the main reasons I'm considering taking in a second project is because the first one is going rather slowly (I've hit a roadblock which is potentially insurmountable). If you do work on multiple projects, do you tend to jump between them the moment you get stuck or do you dedicate your full attention to one of them, for say, a week? What's your secret to staying productive?
Just to be specific, let's limit "projects" to writing (contributing to) papers you intend to publish in the near future. As well, "working on" should be interpreted as dedicating a sizable chunk of your time to researching the problem at hand. I do not wish to count projects that you put aside for more than a few weeks until you have an inspiration.
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VoIP to get boost from mobile-phone sales
The In-Stat report provides revenue, unit and average-selling price forecasts through 2008 for several chip-market segments.
VoIP chip revenue will rise from $137.6 million in 2003 to $938.4 million in 2008 thanks to dual-mode cellular/VoIP handsets, In-Stat said.
"While stationary VoIP deployments have been the first to gain traction in the market, mobile VoIP actually represents the greater market opportunity for VoIP silicon and equipment vendors," said Sam Lucero, In-Stat analyst.
Similar to how handset manufacturers integrated camera functions in their products, virtually all cell phones will come integrated with Wi-Fi functions by 2008, In-Stat said.
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SLO police detective pleads not guilty to bribery
A San Luis Obispo police detective pleaded not guilty this week to a drug-related bribery charge.
Cory Pierce, 39, was arrested by FBI agents in February and charged with one count of bribery. He is accused of taking cash and narcotics from two witnesses while working on a multi-agency task force. In turn, Pierce provided the witnesses — a couple, who cooperated with authorities — with drugs for their own use, along with fake drugs to sell to dealers, according to the FBI.
Pierce was hired by the San Luis Obispo Police Department in September 2006, serving on the special enforcement unit before joining the narcotics unit.
After his arrest, he was placed on paid administrative leave.
A trial date for Pierce was set for May 10 at the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.


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Sean Butterfield has been on faculty at the University of Idaho as a Lecturer of Trumpet since 2010. He is also principal trumpet with the Steamboat Symphony Orchestra, principal trumpet with the Idaho Bach Festival, 2nd trumpet with the Oregon East Symphony, and is a founding member of the Northwest Brass—a brass quartet featuring faculty members from universities throughout the Northwest. Sean has been invited to perform two pieces on the New Works Recital at the International Trumpet Guild Conference in May 2014.
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Dr. Butterfield completed a Master of Music (2005) at Western Michigan University, where his teachers were Scott Thornburg and Steven Jones. Born and raised in the mountains of Colorado, he studied with Terry Sawchuk at the University of Colorado-Boulder and received a Bachelor of Music with highest honors (2003) with an emphasis in jazz. His primary mentors also include Eric Berlin and Christopher Still.
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Distinguished scholars: Top row, from left, Sitnikova, Ciaranello, Lawson, Mainero and Rigotti; bottom row, from left, Wargo, Claflin and Oral
Designed to sustain productivity of women scientists at the MGH who are balancing their research careers with the responsibilities of raising a family, the Claflin Distinguished Scholar Awards annually are presented to junior faculty members at the MGH. Since its establishment in 1997, more than 75 women have received two years of funding through the competitive awards program, which is sponsored and administered by the Executive Committee on Research and promoted by the Office for Women's Careers.
The awards are named for Honorary Trustee Jane D. Claflin, a longtime champion of women at the MGH. The 2011 winners – Andrea Ciaranello, MD, MPH, of the Infectious Disease Unit; Elizabeth A. Lawson, MD, MMSc, of the Neuroendocrine Unit; Caterina Mainero, MD, PhD, of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging; Ebru Oral, PhD, of the Orthopædics Biomechanics and Biomaterials Laboratory; Tatiana Sitnikova, PhD, of Psychiatric Neuroimaging; and Jennifer Wargo, MD, of Surgical Oncology – were celebrated at a June 23 luncheon in the Thier Conference Room. Nancy Rigotti, MD, director of the Office for Women's Careers, provided opening remarks, and three of the recipients gave presentations about their research. After the presentations, former awardees – a number of whom are now well-funded independent investigators – spoke about how important the awards have been to their careers.
Says Lawson, one of the current recipients, "The Claflin Award comes at a critical time for me as I start a newly funded K23 Award in the area of the neuroendocrine regulation of appetite while raising two small children at home. With the Claflin funding, I can hire a research coordinator to support this research so I will be able to reach my professional goals without compromising my family responsibilities."
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Middlesex County District Attorney's Office spokeswoman MaryBeth Long told The Associated Press on Monday her office would not reveal details of its investigation or say whether there's new information, but said investigators would follow up if the bombing probe provides any new clues into the slaying.
On September 12, 2011, three men were found in a Waltham apartment with their necks slit and their bodies reportedly covered with marijuana.
One of the victims, 25-year-old Brendan Mess, was a boxer and friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26-year-old bombing suspect who was pronounced dead on Friday after a shootout with police.
His younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was arrested on Friday and on Monday was charged with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction.
Mess' brother, Dylan, told AP on Saturday he and his brother both knew Tsarnaev, but declined to talk about him.
And Charles Paquette, the owner of the Waltham house where the bodies were found and where Brendan Mess was a tenant, said he met some of Mess' boxer friends but does not know if Tamerlan Tsarnaev was among them.


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Several Septembers ago, Eric Rose and Jonathan Cutler were prowling the suds-dappled floor of Denver's Great American Beer Festival. Amid the piney IPAs and espresso-black imperial stouts, Rose, the owner and head brewer of Goleta, California's Hollister Brewing Company, stumbled upon the pale-yellow Gose Speziell Weizen, hailing from Minneapolis' Herkimer Pub & Brewery.
At first blush, little distinguished Herkimer's elixir from similarly hued brews. Yet a single sip revealed a unique tartness. What was that appetizing, tongue-enveloping flavor? Salt? Yes, that's the signature ingredient of sour gose (pronounced gose-uh), an ancient German wheat beer seasoned with coriander. Though Rose liked Herkimer's gose, he thought it could be even more sour. He and Cutler, the head brewer at Chicago's Piece Brewery & Pizzeria and a German-beer specialist, bounced ideas back and forth, settling on a traditional lactic fermentation—a tricky technique, given bacteria's unpredictability. "Everybody said good luck with that," laughs Rose, 35, who received guidance from a local microbiologist.
He brewed his gose with a few fistfuls of coriander, less than a pound of salt (a teensy amount for 10 barrels of beer) and a smattering of aged hops for balance, then pitched in souring Lactobacillus bacteria and, later, hefeweizen yeast. Upon sampling, "it was sour from start to finish—the acid was the show," Rose says of his distinctly lemony brew. Since he doubted customers would drink it straight, he offered his creation—dubbed Tiny Bubbles—alongside cherry and raspberry syrups. But Tiny Bubbles required no sweet touch. "The salt brought everything together," Rose says of his beer, which won over drinkers at his brewpub and judges at the 2010 GABF, where it nabbed a silver medal. "It's like salt on a steak," Rose says. "It leaves a really interesting flavor that brings you back over and over again."
In recent years, the sour brews classically found in Belgium have bewitched American brewers, who employ wild yeasts and bacteria to create the tart ales. Now brewers are taking a shine to Germany's sour-beer tradition. First the acidic, low-alcohol Berliner weisse was all the rage. Now salty, lip-puckering gose is making the leap from history books to the bar.
You'll find this quirky quaff at Indianapolis's Brugge Brasserie, which makes Bad Kitty, and the Draught House Pub & Brewery in Austin, Texas, which serves Sunshade Gose as a summer seasonal (sunshade—Sonnenschirm—is gose's German nickname). New Hampshire's Portsmouth Brewery offers a gose trio, including a winter-warming imperial version, while Portland, Oregon's Cascade Brewing creates a unique gose for each season. Fellow Portlandite Upright Brewing instead releases its gose as an early spring seasonal. "It's different, exciting and can still be aggressive," says owner and head brewer Alex Ganum, 31. "Gose has an edge to it that appeals to people."
Salty for Centuries
Putting salt in beer may seem sacrilegious, but for centuries the seasoning has been key to this strange, singular German beverage. Like the Berliner weisse, gose is one of northern Germany's traditional top-fermenting wheat beers. While both are sour, gose diverges by incorporating salt and coriander, a spice typically found in the Belgian witbier. Though some historians speculate that gose is related to Belgium's gueuze—a blend of aged lambics—Gose originated in Goslar, a mining town in northwestern Germany and takes its name from the river Gose, which courses through the city.
Sharp, twangy gose proved popular and by the 1700s had caught on in Leipzig, located about 100 miles east, where it became a local favorite. Leipzig brewers also began manufacturing gose, and as recently as 1900 there were reportedly more than 80 licensed gosenschenke—that is, gose tavern—where one could get a glass of the salty stuff, which was sometimes served with a cumin-flavored liqueur. "You see that with many of the old north-Germany beer styles," explains beer historian Ronald Pattinson, 54, the author of Porter! and Brown Beer. "They drank them with spirits because the beers weren't very alcoholic."
Despite currying local favor, "gose was never the majority of beer drank in Leipzig," Pattinson continues. "The amount of gose produced was quite limited," likely because few people had mastered its tricky production. From its late-19th-century peak gose gradually declined, as a lager craze swept Germany, wiping out small-scale breweries specializing in top-fermenting beer. Gose survived until World War II dealt it a deadly blow. Across Germany during that era, beer production temporarily ceased. When smoke and rubble were cleared, Leipzig found itself in Communist German Democratic Republic. In 1945, the last remaining gose brewery was confiscated and closed. Leipzig's Friedrich Wurzler Brauerei revived gose in 1949, but when the owner died in 1966, so did gose.
The style lay dormant till the 1980s, when bar owner Lothar Goldhahn decided to restore Leipzig's Ohne Bedenken, once one of the city's most famous gosenschenke. To fill taps, he contracted breweries to craft gose. "It had been 20 years since people had gose, so he had people who drank gose try it," Pattinson says. It passed muster. After a rocky period where production ceased again, "there are more breweries making gose in Germany than any time since World War II," Pattinson says. "It's a remarkable comeback." He counts at least four gose-producing German breweries, including Brauhaus Hartmannsdorf, makers of the laser-tart Goedecke Döllnitzer Ritterguts Gose, and Gasthaus & Gosebrauerei Bayrischer Bahnhof, located in Leipzig's historic train station.
"It's refreshing and highly complex," says Matthias Neidhart, 54, the president of B. United International importers, of Banhof's Leipziger Gose, which may soon be complemented by an amber märzen and a strong bock version. "You have the banana-y esters from the yeast and lactic character from the bacteria and a dry, salty finish that's not overpowering." When B. United began importing the gose around 2003, drinkers met the beer with a blank stare. But thanks to the surging interest in sour, "when you tell people about the lactic acid, salt and coriander, their curiosity level goes up tremendously," says Neidhart. "It's almost like a session beer in that you can easily have a second or third. It's so refreshing."
We've Got Styles
Creativity is a hallmark of American craft brewing. Untethered from tradition, brewers use time-honored beer styles as a springboard to innovation. Naturally, gose is getting the offbeat treatment, but necessity is the mother of brewers' tasty inventions. Regarding gose, "there aren't any brewing records before the 1800s," Pattinson says, noting that World War II destroyed numerous documents. "Even going back 200 years is difficult." This creates a quandary when crafting a beer born centuries earlier.
"Whenever you're playing around with an ancient style, you have no idea what the flavor should exactly be, so we're making a guess," says Tod Mott, 53, the head brewer at Portsmouth Brewery. Last year, he got bit by the gose bug after being approached by assistant brewer Tyler Jones. He was smitten with making a salty brew because "his grandfather would put salt in any beer," Mott says, laughing.
Originally, gose was soured via spontaneous fermentation, due to bacteria
like Lactobacillus. (Later, lactic acid was likely added instead.) Since Mott never messes with wild yeasts and bacteria, he opted for a sour mash method. After mixing the grain with water and boiling it to create wort—the sugary broth that becomes beer—Mott topped the mixture with raw wheat, sealed the brewing vessel and pumped in CO2 to form an anaerobic environment. The grain's natural bacteria munched the sugars and created acidity. After boiling the sour blend to arrest the critters' appetite, Mott added hefeweizen yeast to contribute flavors of bananas and cloves. The easy-drinking result was "just beautiful," Mott says of the gose, which "flew out of the pub like crazy. Customers loved it," as well as his ensuing dark dunkel gose and imperial-strength gose.
Instead of sour mashing, Upright's Ganum takes a different tack to gose, which he was first introduced to at a homebrew competition. "My friend was like, 'You gotta try this,' " Ganum recalls of the gose, which was, interestingly, soured with lemon juice. "The salt changes the finish and makes it more appetizing. It makes you want to drink more of it." Intrigued by the style's flavor and low alcohol content—gose is traditionally less than 5 percent ABV—Ganum brewed his own version in fall 2009. He used a French saison yeast, then fermented it at cooler temperatures to impart a hefeweizen-like character. Cautious about overdoing it with the lactic acid and salt, he initially used too little of each. He added more salt and lactic acid, then more still. The result was bright and acidic, offering notes of lemon and earth paired with a drying, quenching close. "That's probably the seasonal beer that's had the most requests. I always get, 'When are you going to brew the gose again?' " Ganum says of the early spring specialty.
Spring is just one inspiration for Ron Gansberg, 54, head brewer at Portland, Oregon's Cascade Brewing. Gansberg is renowned for crafting complex, painstakingly blended tart brews, so it follows that when he began dabbling in gose, he went all out. Using the traditional lactic-fermentation technique (the same one employed by Hollister's Rose), Gansberg crafts a distinct gose for each season. "One of the beauties of the style is that it's open to interpretation," Gansberg says of his beers, sometimes released simultaneously as the "four goses of the apocalypse."
For autumn, Gansberg adds orange peel, nutmeg and cinnamon instead of the traditional coriander. The stronger holiday version is spiced with cranberry, hibiscus flower and orange peel, while spring's release is flavored with chamomile, lemon peel and lavender. The golden summer gose is the most traditional take, and it's Gansberg's preferred drink when temperatures soar. "When it's hot outside, you can get a glass of gose down in a few guzzles, and then it's back to work," he says. "That little bit of salt creates an electrolytic response. It's refreshing and rejuvenating."
Besides its quenching character, Gansberg sees another benefit to offering gose. Compared to his other sour brews, "gose is much more accessible because its acid level is much lower. We like to start people off with gose and transition them to the harder stuff," Gansberg says, laughing. "Gose is a gateway sour beer."
Of a Certain Age
American brewers may be offering quirky spins on this classic German quaff, but in certain regards they're following tradition. According to Pattinson, old-guard gose brewers delivered barrels of still-fermenting suds to gosenschenke while the beer was still frenetically active. The barrels were cellared till fermentation slowed, whereupon proprietors transferred the gose into long-necked bottles, plugged them with yeast and let the beer condition for at least one week, and no more than three. "Customers would prefer a certain age of gose," says Pattinson, who warns of the hazards of this finicky method. "If there was exceptionally hot weather, a pub could have an entire cellar of gose go bad. The trick was serving gose at the right degree of maturity."
Cascade's Gansberg also likes to experiment with aging. "When goses age, they stay really crisp. You might get some honey malt flavors coming through," he says. "Acids are like hops: Initially they're like a raging mountain, very sharp and angular. Over time, goses tend to erode and soften." In fact, he recently sampled a gose he'd brewed in 2009 and found it to be excellent.
Hollister's Rose is also a fan of maturation. "It gives it a round, full flavor," he says, adding that a cellared version of Tiny Bubbles "tasted like a carbonated lemonade." Still, for Rose, nothing beats the aggressively tart, full-on pucker of fresh Tiny Bubbles. In fact, he's so eager to see other brewers serve lactic-sour gose that he's given his recipe to a half dozen breweries, including Utah's Squatters Pubs and Beers and Southern California's Alpine Beer.
"I'm happy to share it with anyone," he says, offering another advantage to brewing gose. "It's an easy way for a brewery to get into the sour-beer game," which is a time- and labor-intensive process. "You can do a sour beer in three or four weeks." With more breweries crafting gose, Cascade's Gansberg sees the revived style's potential as a table beer, something to sip alongside food. For the first time in more than a century, "drinking gose could be an everyday event," Gansberg says.


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Revisiting Verdun's battlefields
As the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I approaches, a new book assesses the heavy toll exacted by the Battle of Verdun
Ninety-eight years ago, on Feb. 21, 1916, the German army launched an attack on a small amphitheater of hilly land in northeastern France. A ring of historic forts stood on the land, and German leaders believed the French would defend the forts so fiercely, the Germans would be able to "bleed the French army white" and turn the tide of the First World War to their advantage.
Ten brutal months later, the Battle of Verdun lurched to an end — or almost to an end; remnants of the fighting wouldn't cease until World War I ended, two years later — with a very different conclusion than the Germans had expected. The French troops had held their position. And the cost of the battle had been enormously high on both sides: The French lost 160,000 men; the Germans, 140,000.
Verdun was World War I combat at its worst — "very impersonal and very, very industrial," says Paul Jankowski, the Raymond Ginger Professor of History, who has written a new book titled "Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War" (Oxford University Press, 2014).
"Most of the killing done was done long-range, by artillery fire in the form of huge shells, and some poison gas," he says. "You never saw who was shooting at you. This was not your gallant encounter of yore."
Men dug themselves into trenches to survive (soil offered the best protection against shellfire, Jankowski says). Occasionally, the armies initiated closer-range attacks involving rifles, grenades or flamethrowers. But machine guns proved themselves to be incredibly effective defensive weapons at Verdun. "With just a small number of machine guns, you could basically shut down any movement," says Jankowski.
The continuous shelling left soldiers stunned, exhausted. French commanders rotated their soldiers off the front lines for a rest at the rear every few weeks. German soldiers weren't as lucky, and their morale plummeted.
Yet neither side saw any mutinies at Verdun. "Somehow the men carried on," Jankowski says, "because to do anything else would have been an act of betrayal — of family, of country, of their unit."
Could such a prolonged, grisly encounter happen today? In most parts of the world, the short answer is no, Jankowski says. In America, for instance, "a few hundred casualties are enough to produce indignation and alarm."
But, he adds, Verdun-like clashes did happen in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war, which, like World War I, was a war of attrition fought with artillery and chemical weapons.
Jankowski's "Verdun," published in America this month, was released in France late last year, attracting much media attention there. German and Italian editions are already in the works.
The military lessons of Verdun have plenty of relevance today, the author says. "German leaders started the battle without really knowing what the goal was. There was no real strategic objective. That's a very, very important lesson."
Likewise, Verdun commanders didn't know when to say "No more." "Once the Germans saw their attack wasn't going anywhere, they ought to have called it off," Jankowski says. "And I'm not sure it was all that important for the French to defend the area so tenaciously.
"It all became such a terrible waste."
Paul Jankowski will be interviewed about "Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War" on WBUR-FM's "Radio Boston" on Tuesday, Feb. 25, at 3 p.m.
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Emerging Markets Morning Roundup: South Africa Gold Miners Shore Up Cash For Long Strike
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Strikes against gold mining companies can begin as early as this weekend in South Africa.
The country's four largest gold producers are boosting cash balance in preparation for what would be the first industrywide strike since 2011. They seem unwilling to meet the labor union's terms. Bloomberg reports:
Entry-level underground workers earn 5,000 rand a month before housing allowances and bonuses. The National Union of Mineworkers, which represents 64 percent of employees, wants this to rise to 8,000 rand and on Aug. 21 got permission from a mediator to strike. [Barron's: this is up to 60% pay raise!]
CEOs have been less willing to negotiate this year, according to NUM. Their companies, engaged in wage talks through the Chamber of Mines, are considering locking out workers should their final offer not be accepted. The chamber's offer on Aug. 27 was for a 6.5 percent raise in each of the next two years for entry-level employees. [Barron's: OK, the discrepancy is too big!]
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Anglo American Plc. (AAUKY)'s new CEO Mark Cutifani said about 50% of the country's gold and platinum operations are operating at a loss and "you will see shafts in platinum and gold close if the wage hike goes badly."
Gold mining companies have begun to divest their South African assets. My colleague Devon Maylie at the Journal explains:
Some mining companies have already begun to sell assets in South Africa and redirect spending elsewhere. Gold producer Gold Fields Ltd. (GFI.JO, GFI) last year sold all but one gold mine in South Africa. Harmony Gold Mining Co. (HAR.JO, HMY)is directing more of its exploration money to Papua New Guinea than to South Africa.
More labor tension: Anglo American Platinum (AGPPY) will fire 3,300 workers at its South African mines to revive profitability. Platinum companies in South Africa are trying to cut costs. About 45% of Anglo American's business is in South Africa, where unemployment is over 25%.
South African gold mining shares pared back some of the losses yesterday. Sibanye Gold (SBGL) gained 6%, Gold Fields (GFI) gained 1.9%, AngloGold (AU) gained 0.3%. But Harmony Gold (HMY) lost 1.1% yesterday.
India passed landmark legislation requiring more compensation for landowners whose property is acquired for industry or infrastructure construction. Critics say this will make industry development in India even more difficult. This is the second piece of legislation described to aid the poor, after the food subsidy bill was passed on Monday. S&P BSE SENSEX Index lost 0.6%.
Indian rupee is the most volatile currency in the world right now.
China is not deterred by political turmoil and violence in the Middle East. China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (SNP), or Sinopec, will pay $3.1 billion for a 33% stake in U.S.-based Apache Corp. (APA)'s Egyptian oil and gas business. Apache has been reducing its stake in Egypt, down from 25% in 2010 to 15% in the second quarter. Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index gained 0.06%. Sinopec's Hong Kong listed shares lost 1.8%. Hong Kong Hang Seng Index lost 0.04%.
The rally in Indonesian rupiah yesterday turned out temporary. Bank Indonesia's interest rate hike and other measures can't stop the rupiah from sliding. The rupiah lost 2.4% today. Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index gained 1.7%.
Indonesia and Malaysia, the world's top palm oil producers, are trying to speed up biodiesel programs to reduce their oversupply of the world's most used cooking oil, as palm oil price falls to a three-year low. FTSE Bursa Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Composite Index gained 1%.
Philippines Stock Exchange PSEi Index gained 2.2%. Stock Exchange of Thailand SET Index gained 0.03%.
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Clifford Owens: Anthology
November 13, 2011–May 7, 2012
his first exhibition at a New York
museum, Clifford Owens (American, b. 1971)
presents a new project Anthology,
which is comprised of photography, video, and live performance.
Anthology features performances scores—written or graphical instructions for actions—that Owens solicited from a multigenerational group of African-American artists. Twenty-six major artists have contributed scores, nearly all of whom composed new works specifically for Owens and his project.
Owens has long known that African-American performance art has been under-recognized and that its history remains largely unwritten. Rather than producing scholarly research on the topic, Owens has created an unprecedented compendium of African-American performance that is both highly personal and historical in nature.
During the summer of 2011, Owens had studio space at MoMA PS1 and made use of the entire building to enact the performance scores, which range from vague commands to highly choreographed movements and actions. On a weekly basis, Owens performed in various locations including the basement boiler room, rooftop, and attic. Through Owens' subjective reading of each score, he underscores the mutability and elastic nature of the sets of instructions. The resulting photographs, videos, and objects will be presented in the exhibition. The artist will also perform selected scores live throughout the course of the show.
Anthology scores have been contributed by artists including Derrick Adams, Terry Adkins, Sanford Biggers, Aisha Cousins, Sherman Fleming, Coco Fusco, Charles Gaines, Malik Gaines, Rico Gatson, Rashawn Griffin, Lyle Ashton Harris, Maren Hassinger, Steffani Jemison, Jennie C. Jones, Nsenga A. Knight, Glenn Ligon, Dave McKenzie, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O'Grady, Benjamin Patterson, William Pope.L, Jacolby Satterwhite, Xaviera Simmons, Shinique Smith, Kara Walker, and Saya Woolfalk.
Installation view of Clifford Owens: Anthology at MoMA PS1, 2011. Copyright 2011 MoMA PS1; photo: Matthew Septimus.
Installation view of Clifford Owens: Anthology at MoMA PS1, 2011. Copyright 2011 MoMA PS1; photo: Matthew Septimus.
Clifford Owens: Anthology is organized by Christopher Y. Lew, Assistant
Curator of MoMA PS1.
The exhibition is made possible by MoMA's Wallis Annenberg Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art through the Annenberg Foundation.
Additional funding is provided by The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art and by Bernard Lumpkin and Carmine Boccuzzi.
Images, slideshow: 1) Clifford Owens. Anthology (Nsenga Knight) (detail). 2011. Performance still. Courtesy On Stellar Rays. 2) Clifford Owens. Anthology (Dave McKenzie) (detail). 2011. Performance still. Courtesy On Stellar Rays. 3) Clifford Owens. Anthology (Senga Nengudi) (detail). 2011. Performance still. Courtesy On Stellar Rays.


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Tumblr, a blogging platform investors valued at $800 million, has a lot of promise.
It turned on its first true monetization efforts earlier this year and generated $13 million in a matter of months. Its two ad placements, Spotlight (promoted accounts) and Radar (editor-promoted content), generate 120 million impressions per day.
But the company has raised $126 million to date and it plans to burn about $40 million next year, so it has an aggressive revenue goal of $100 million in 2013.
Forbes' Jeff Bercovici profiled Karp and calls this a "make or break" year for Tumblr, during which it must prove three things:
- David Karp is the right person to lead Tumblr. Investors support Karp and aren't pushing him out, but they aren't against bringing in another executive either. The company may still hunt for a Sheryl Sandberg-type executive to replace John Maloney.
- Its hockey stick growth will continue. Tumblr's traffic has doubled since it raised $85 million last year, and it now has 18 billion monthly page views.
- It can become profitable.
One person who knows the pains of the media industry well is Nick Denton. The Gawker CEO and founder bootstrapped his company to 560 million pageviews and 35 million monthly uniques. He wishes Karp luck on what he's sure will be a tough road ahead.
"I really like David, but he's got a brutal year ahead," Denton tells Bercovici. "The pressure on Internet media companies to deliver revenues is going way, way up."
Gartner analyst Brian Blau agrees.
"The road is littered with dead companies that made the wrong move at the wrong time, the MySpaces of the world," Blau tells Forbes. "They've got to be really careful."


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ANTIWAR.COM - August 27, 2008
by Ran HaCohen
Meron Benvenisti in an excellent article mentions the "success of the propaganda campaign known as 'negotiations with the Palestinians,' which convinces many that the status quo is temporary." There's indeed no better way to describe the ongoing talks between the two politicians living on borrowed time – Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas – than as a pastime orchestrated by the Bush administration. In the past, peace talks were supposed to lead to a peace agreement, which would in turn lead to peace; now, not even that little is assumed. What the negotiations are expected to yield is at best a "shelf agreement" to be implemented at some vague point in the future, or not. No one believes such an agreement can be reached, as agreed, by the end of this year, but even the shelf doesn't really care.
But the show must go on. Last week the papers announced a great leap forward: Olmert's Israel has submitted a detailed proposal for the final status. In true negotiations, one could have said: Now we know what Israel wants. This is not the case, since everybody knows Prime Minister Olmert is no longer relevant. So what's the value of the proposal? We don't really know what Israel wants, but at least we can see what Israel is willing to say.
This is an important issue in Israeli political discourse. During the last one-and-a-half decades, this has been a central point of controversy between the Zionist left and the radical left. Any honest person has to admit that nothing changed on the ground, at least not for the better: the occupation, supposed to be ending since 1993, has been worsening all the time, with the illegal Israeli settlements growing like a fatal tumor. The radical left sees this as evidence that Israel has no intention to end the occupation. The Zionist left, however, has another argument: "Listen to the way they talk." West Bank and Gaza realities are indeed worse than ever, but, claims the Zionist left, now even the Israeli mainstream openly talks about a Palestinian state, and words will inevitably become deeds – if we just support those good guys who keep entrenching the occupation while saying they want to end it (Rabin, Peres, Barak, etc. – even Sharon, who was wise enough to join the club).
The New, Generous Offer
So let's see what official Israel is ready to say – not do – these days. The final-status proposal, according to Ha'aretz, includes the following points:
Now this doesn't sound all too attractive, not even as a "shelf agreement." Jerusalem is a core issue that hasn't even been dealt with. Furthermore, as Ha'aretz explains, "Olmert's proposal for a land swap introduces a new stage in the arrangement: Israel would immediately receive the settlement blocs, but the land to be transferred to the Palestinians and the free passage between Gaza and the West Bank would only be delivered after the PA retakes control of the Gaza Strip" (emphasis mine). The chances that the PA ever retakes control of the Gaza Strip are perhaps lower than that of Hamas taking control of the West Bank, but this only makes the proposal more attractive for Israel: we take the goods now, but we pay only after the Messiah comes.
Ha'aretz chooses to include an inevitable propaganda item in the otherwise informative report: "Over the past few months, Olmert has approved construction of thousands of housing units in these settlement blocs, mostly around Jerusalem, and some are intended for the voluntary evacuees." As always, Israel is breaching international law and is building more houses in the illegal settlements – but it is doing so with only one thing in mind: peace. For sure, the best way to end the occupation is to build thousands of new Israeli houses in occupied land. Their construction is (yet more) evidence of Israel's deep commitment to peace.
Why This Eternal Pessimism?
But still, one may argue, still. Of course Olmert's proposal will never be implemented. Of course it's incomplete, dubious, and definitely not generous. But still: Israel is ready to pledge openly its commitment to the idea a Palestinian state on 93 percent of the West Bank, plus a 5.5 percent land swap. Doesn't it mean that Israel finally admits the occupation's days are numbered? Even one MK for the right-wing Likud Party consequently accused Kadima of advancing the worldview of the Zionist left: "Any [left-wing] Meretz faction member could have signed on to Olmert's proposal." Is there any better evidence for a good proposal than the attacks from the right wing?
"Security Arrangements"
Not quite. As the report in Ha'aretz very briefly mentions, "Israel also presented the Palestinians with a detailed model of new security arrangements under the proposed agreement." At first, no details were given. Why spoil the peace party with small technical details? The initial report only mentioned a demand that the Palestinian state be demilitarized and without an army, a demand that the Palestinians accept, more or less. But obviously, the next day the Palestinians were reported to have rejected Olmert's proposal as "unserious," in full accordance with the Israeli misconception about the alleged "Palestinian rejectionism" from 1947 to this day.
One had to wait a couple of weeks to find out what those unnamed "security arrangements" really meant. Tuesday, Ha'aretzreported that "the Palestinians oppose any Israeli military presence in the territory of a future Palestinian state." Once again, then, those unreasonable Palestinian demands: why must they insist on an independent state without an Israeli army presence?! Surely they know that Israeli soldiers are cute 18-year-old kids who never do any harm. But that's not the end of it: the report also states that "For its part, Israel would like to supervise border crossings, maintain a limited deployment in the Jordan Valley, continue overflights of the Palestinian territory, maintain early warning stations on mountain ridges, and hold emergency response units in Palestinian areas."
Oh, so that's what Israel means by a "two-state solution": An "independent" "Palestinian" "state" with Israeli supervision on its borders crossings, full of Israeli soldiers, Israeli jets, Israeli military stations – and, of course, Israel's right to send even more soldiers into it in "times of emergency." Shall we – to expose Israel's true face – suggest mutuality? How about Palestinian control on Israel's border crossings, a Palestinian military presence along Israel's Mediterranean coast, Palestinian jets free to fly over Tel Aviv and Dimona, Palestinian military stations in Haifa and Ramat Yishay, and Palestinian emergency response units in Israeli areas? Obviously, such "security arrangements" are completely incompatible with a sovereign, independent state.
The Israeli proposal – as its "security arrangements" reveal – proves once again that Israel is no partner for peace. On the ground, all that Israel seeks is time to expand the settlements and strangle Palestinian society, hoping the "Palestinian problem" will eventually disappear. On the discourse level, however, things are just as bad. Despite the false contrary impression cultivated by the Israeli propaganda machine, Israel clearly rejects the notion of an independent Palestinian state, other than a Bantustan under total Israeli control. If you wonder why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains unresolved, this is the simple answer: the two-state solution, proposed by the UN 60 years ago and endorsed by the Palestinians 20 years ago, is still unacceptable to Israel's military and political leadership.


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What a strange show last night! Did anyone really stand out last night? Maybe James but I really am not into Heavy Metal. I didn't think Hayley was the worst, but not her best performance. I hope Randy's comment about Karaoke doesn't hurt her chances. I did notice that when Scotty sang the background color was red (Some people feel that red lighting is the Kiss of Death!) Also the background singers for me were off by a beat and it made his performance seem off.. I'm not sure they helped Haley either. Paul has figured out that if he is hyper/smiling that the judges will love his performance and he adds to it with the costumes. I hope he goes tonight but I fear it will be someone else.Who do I see in the bottom 3? Casey, Jacob perhaps and hopefully I'm wrong, Haley. Who do I want to see there? Paul with Jacob and Casey, Paul leaving.
I think Paul's time is up.
Stefano, Hayley and Paul will be our BOTTOM 3. Paul and Hayley will be the BOTTOM 2. Paul will be going home.Just a guess. I don't think Hayley will be heading home. Some of the female votes might have went to her. And of course most might have went to Lauren and maybe a little to Stefano.
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