This is beginning to look like a contest that could last for decades. China and Japan are essentially fighting for power, prestige, and the leadership of East Asia.

Fighting Eel has quite a following from Hawaii and abroad, because of its appeal for being youthful, edgy and versatile. The feel of the fabric is awesome.

The 145th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War is April 12 with the fighting at Fort Sumter (in South Carolina). We have the original recruiting posters for the area following that battle.

Nowhere is the erosion of American influence so visible as the place it counts most : emerging Asia.

It is not as if all these problems can be solved with money. It's not that China isn't making progress. The issue is, is it making progress fast enough?

I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.