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12739 230th Avenue, Big Rapids 49307
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- Status
- Sold
- Address
- 12739 230th Avenue
- City
- Big Rapids
- Zip
- 49307
- County
- Mecosta
- Township
- Big Rapids Twp
- Total Finished SqFt
- 1,820
- Above Grade SqFt
- 1,820
- Garage Desc.
- 2
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- Well
- Sewer
- Septic System
- Year Built
- 2006
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- 6X12 1st Floor
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- Vinyl
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This was one of my most favorite side dishes growing up. We had Jello every Sunday dinner, and I loved when my Mom made this one. It is SO creamy and is perfect on a summer day with the strawberries!
Serves: 10
6 hrPrep Time
4 minCook Time
6 hr, 4 Total Time
- 1 large package Cook and Serve vanilla pudding (4.6 ounces)
- 1 large package strawberry jell-o (6 ounces)
- 4 cups water
- 1 16 oz Cool-Whip (lite or fat-free is fine)
- 1/2 bag mini marshmallows
- 2 cups of strawberries, chopped
- 3-4 bananas, sliced (Optional, put in before serving so they don't turn brown in the fridge)
- Mix together pudding, Jell-o, and water over medium heat until it boils.
- Remove from heat and pour into a large mixing bowl. Cover with plastic wrap.
- Refrigerate until mixture has thickened (overnight or for about 6 hours). Beat until creamy with a hand mixer.
- Fold in Cool Whip, marshmallows, and fruit. Chill about an hour before serving.
Supplies Needed for this Recipe:
Looking for other Jello side dishes? These are some of my favorites!
Orange Fluff
Strawberries and Cream
Rainbow Jello Cups
Jello Lemon Bars
5 Minute Jello Salad

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By Gordon S. Barrass, CMGJanuary 28, 2010
When the red flag came down over the Kremlin on 25 December 1991, few people were aware just how great a contribution NATO had made to ending the Cold War. NATOAca,!a,,cs 60th anniversary is a particularly good time good time to look back and try to understand what really happened. Thanks to material that has become available since the end of the Cold War Aca,!" from once Aca,!"secret archives, memoirs, and interviews Aca,!" we can now see far more clearly what NATO and the Warsaw Pact were trying to do.
After the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the spectre of nuclear war haunted the Cold War adversaries. During the last two decades of the period, they put enormous effort into trying to ensure that if a war did break out in Europe, for whatever reason, it would not go nuclear. This honorable intention sparked the greatest renaissance of military thinking in the 20th century. High-quality intelligence, in both sense of the word, shaped the actions of the two sides, and each was often quick to adopt the innovations of the other.
The rivalry between NATO and the Warsaw Pact was not only intense and dramatic, but absorbed a huge amount of the energy of their military commanders and political leaders. As Diego Ruiz-Palmer, one of the most astute observers of this era, remarked, Aca,!A"No other war has been so thoroughly planned and well prepared, yet never fought.Aca,!A? This, however, was not simply a military affair. Both sides were engaged in what was, in effect, a psychological struggle for the Aca,!A"mastery of Europe.Aca,!A? Not surprisingly, relation were at times fraught with tension and the stakes exceptionally high.
Preventing Nuclear War
In many respects, the story begins in 1967 when NATO made it clear that it not only wished to see dAfAtente in Europe, but was also changing its strategy. In the event of a conventional Soviet attack, it would not immediately unleash a massive retaliation with tactical nuclear weapons, but instead pursue a policy of flexible response. This eased one of MoscowAca,!a,,cs deepest fears Aca,!" that the outbreak of any conflict in Europe would automatically result in NATO using nuclear weapons and that, in turn, would almost certainly unleash a global nuclear war.
Moscow quickly signalled that it was taking NATOAca,!a,,cs new strategy seriously. Its Dnieper miliA,A!tary exercise in February 1968 began with Soviet forces fighting for a week before resorting to the use of nuclear weaponsAca,!"this was a first. Preventing NATO from using its some 7,000 nuclear weapons posed a major challenge for the Warsaw Pact. Under NATOAca,!a,,cs new strategy of Aca,!A"flexible response,Aca,!A? its armies would try to hold the frontline close to the Inner-German Border, while its aircraft, which accounted for half of NATOAca,!a,,cs conventional fireA,A!power, remorselessly pounded the attackers.
Over the next few years, while the United States became bogged down in Vietnam and NATO was in a lamentable state, the Soviet Union rapidly increased the firepower and mobility of Warsaw Pact forces in Central Europe. The Soviet air forces in the forward areas, meanwhile, began to acquire large numbers of new aircraftAca,!"some designed to provide close support for ground troops, others to pin down NATO aircraft at their bases and destroy their nuclear storage and other military sites. In 1974, Marshal Viktor Kulikov, the chief of the General Staff, announced with satisfaction that Soviet forces were now Aca,!A"abreast of contemporary requirements.Aca,!A?
That same year, with the Vietnam War now over, the renaissance in American thinking about strategy in Europe got underway. James Schlesinger, the then-recently appointed Secretary of Defense, set out to revitalize the alliance. Schlesinger worked closely with General Alexander Haig, the new supreme allied commander in Europe, and Andrew Marshall, one of RANDAca,!a,,cs wisest and most creative thinkers, whom he had brought into the Pentagon to head the new Office of Net Assessment.
Marshall was tasked with coming up with imagiA,A!native suggestions on how to strengthen NATO and put the Soviets on the defensive. He invested heavily in research by consultants, scholars, and the military themselves. Before long, Marshall was helping to forge new ideas into an intellectual offensive that focused on how NATO could win with conventional weapons.
Given the likely scale of the Soviet offensive, NATO had to win the initial battle. Aca,!A"From the beginning,Aca,!A? Marshall said, Aca,!A"we knew that would require new weapons, but I also firmly believed they could only be effective if combined with a new doctrine, based on a careful study of how Soviet forces would fight.Aca,!A?4
Aca,!A"We began to look more closely than others had previously done at the way Soviet forces did things, and why they did them that way,Aca,!A? Marshall explained. Aca,!A"We not only monitored exercises, but studied training manuals and models or matrixes that the general staff used to assess the balance of forces. It was clear that Soviet commanders feared that if subordinates were not pushed, there would be inertia. The battle plans, therefore, had to be built around creating mass and momentum. To facilitate this, they relied heavily on standardized procedures.Aca,!A?5 NATO would have to exploit the weaknesses inherent in such a regimented approach to warfare to win the initial battle.
General David Jones, the commander of the AmerA,A!ican Air Force in Europe, was quick to realize that he now needed to concentrate on breaking up Soviet forces close to the front line, not just the reinforceA,A!ments moving up from the rear. This would require the Air Force to work more closely with the Army.
In 1975, the Air Force opened its Aca,!A"Red FlagAca,!A? training school in Nevada. With the help of a Soviet pilot who had defected with the latest Soviet interceptor and Israelis who had fought both Soviet and Soviet-trained pilots over the Middle East, a mini-Soviet air force was established with Soviet aircraft captured by the Israelis.6
Within a few years, the Army had a similar instiA,A!tution in the desert of California, where a Aca,!A"Red DiviA,A!sion,Aca,!A? equipped with captured and replica Soviet tanks, fought like Russians. American units that trained against them always lost. They were relieved to learn that Reds won in large part because they had fought more battles together than had any of the teams that took them on. Practice made perfect.
General William DePuy, who headed the U.S. ArmyAca,!a,,cs Training and Doctrine Command, took this work further by revolutionizing tactics and training further in 1976 which effected the biggest change in U.S. Army doctrine since World War II. Instead of confronting Soviet forces in Europe with well-prepared static defense, the army would henceforth pursue Aca,!A"active defense,Aca,!A? which meant that they could counterattack with ground troops well beyond their own front line.7
At this time, some old German officers explained first to the British, then to the Americans, that during World War II, they had treated the whole Eastern Front as one huge theater of military operations.8 This was the only region in which their army and their air force had worked closely together. The British and the Americans began to ponder how NATO could exploit this idea.
A Revolution in Military Affairs
In parallel with this new thinking about how to fight the Russians, a technological revolution was also taking place in military affairs.
One of the first ground breaking studies commisA,A!sioned by Marshall was The Comparison of Soviet and U.S. Weapons. The study showed that new Soviet equipment was as good as or better than that which the Americans were producing exceptAca,!"and this was a big exceptionAca,!"in the field of electronics.9 The message was clear. NATO could only regain the advantage by exploiting advanced technology.
At this time, in 1974, the Defense Nuclear Agency and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency sponsored a study that showed that the revolution taking place in the accuracy of weapons would soon make it possible to use conA,A!ventional substitutes for nuclear weapons. Within a year, work had started on a completely new range of heat-seeking and terminally guided weapons that were together called Aca,!A"assault-breaker.Aca,!A? At MarshallAca,!a,,cs urging, the Defense Intelligence Agency began to work out how these weapons might be used to best effect.10
A Aca,!A"revolution in military affairsAca,!A? was underway, and Moscow knew it. On 14 December 1975, Yuri Andropov, the head of the KGB, warned the Soviet Politburo that such new weapons could dramatiA,A!cally increase NATOAca,!a,,cs ability to thwart any Soviet conventional attack.11
This created a serious problem because, by the early 1970s, Soviet leaders had lost their faith in the utility of nuclear weapons. According to Vitaly Tsygichko, a scientific analyst working in the MinisA,A!try of Defense, top Soviet generals Aca,!A"understood and believed that the use of [tactical] nuclear weapons by either side would be catastrophic.Aca,!A?12 By 1975, and probably earlier, the Soviet General Staff had already received an Aca,!A"instructionAca,!A? from the leaderA,A!ship that Soviet forces were never to be the first to use nuclear weapons. There was now even greater pressure on the Soviet military to be able to overA,A!whelm NATO with conventional forces before it could Aca,!A"go nuclear.Aca,!A?13
OgarkovAca,!a,,cs Response
Moscow had a surprise in store for NATO. In 1975, the Soviet Union began testing its new SS-20 mobile missile, which had three MIRV warheads. According to General Andrian Danilevich, this Aca,!A"was a breakthrough, unlike anything the Americans had. We were immediately able to hold all of Europe hostage.Aca,!A?14 This was no exaggeration: the SS-20 could attack targets anywhere in Europe from deep within Soviet territory; some 400 of them would be deployed over the next few years.
As this new nuclear Aca,!A"umbrellaAca,!A? was being put in place, Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, the new chief of the General Staff, was tasked with developA,A!ing a credible strategy for defeating NATO with conventional forces alone, which could transform the psychological balance of power in Europe by making the West Europeans doubt that the United States would be able to protect them.
General Danilevich, probably the most talented Soviet strategist of the Cold War era, did the bulk of the work. The results were later encapsulated into a three-volume, top secret Aca,!A"directiveAca,!A? on The Strategy of Deep Operations (Global and Theater) that would guide Soviet military operations in time of war. The key innovation was the concept of fightA,A!ing an integrated air and land battle over a vastly greater area than ever before.
A few people in Washington soon had a good idea of this new strategy, thanks mainly to Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, a Polish officer working on the war plans of the Warsaw Pact, and a CIA agent. The scale of OgarkovAca,!a,,cs vision stunned those who saw KuklinskiAca,!a,,cs intelligence. It gave them a sense of shock and awe long before that term entered common parlance.
The central concept was a high-speed offensive launched from under the cover of military exercises in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. SimultaneA,A!ously, 2,000 aircraft would attack all of NATOAca,!a,,cs nuclear weapons facilities and seek to pin down NATO aircraft for 48 hours. This latter task was gaining importance because NATO aircraft were soon expected to be carrying Aca,!A"assault breakerAca,!A? munitions that would be far more effective than conventional bombs against Soviet armored forces. Meanwhile, a massive offensive, involving two million troops, would begin along a front stretching from northern Norway to eastern Turkey.
To suppress NATO defenses, strengthened with nearly 50,000 modern antitank guided missiles, Soviet forces would subject them to an unprecA,A!edented artillery and aerial bombardment. The term for it in Russian suggested that it would be of nuclear intensity.
Aca,!A"This new strategy aimed to give the Soviet Union more options than NATO,Aca,!A? Phillip Petersen, one of the leading experts on Soviet strategy in the Defense Intelligence Agency, later observed. Aca,!A"Ogarkov,Aca,!A? he said, Aca,!A"knew that many in NATO doubted that their political leaders would agree quickly to use nuclear weapons. A key aim, therefore, was to fight the war in such a way as to delay NATO taking the decision to use nuclear weapons until it was too late for them to be able to influence the outcome of the war.Aca,!A?15
Testing OgarkovAca,!a,,cs Strategy
In September 1981, on the plains of the western Soviet Union, General Ogarkov gave NATO a glimpse of his new strategy in Zapad-Aca,!a,,c81, probA,A!ably the largest armored Soviet military exercise since 1945. Aca,!A"We monitored this exercise intently,Aca,!A? recalled Diego Ruiz-Palmer, who worked with Andy Marshall at the time. Aca,!A"Ogarkov,Aca,!A? he pointed out, Aca,!A"showed that over the past three years he had studied closely the ways in which the AmericansAca,!a,,c Aca,!Eoeassault breakerAca,!a,,c would work and what action could be taken to minimize their impact.Aca,!A?16
A key element in OgarkovAca,!a,,cs strategy was the new fast moving armored Aca,!A"operational maneuver groups,Aca,!A? or OMGs.17 Mobile artillery and engineers with river-crossing equipment accompanied them to facilitate their advance, with fighter-bombers and attack helicopters providing added firepower. To reduce their vulnerability, they could spread themselves thinly until they were about to attack, while at the same time being accompanied by large numbers of mobile surface-to-air missiles to protect them from NATO air attacks.
The main task of these OMGs was to penetrate deep into West Germany to disrupt the command and control of NATO forces and to seize the remaining nuclear stores, airfields, and key logistic points. SpeA,A!cial Forces airlifted behind NATO lines would help them in these tasks. Other OMGs would encircle the main NATO units, but do so much faster than Soviet forces could have done in the seventies. The intent was for Soviet forces to reach the Channel in less than 20 daysAca,!"and without using nuclear weapons.
Compared with NATO, Soviet conventional forces had never looked so good, especially in the carefully edited Soviet propaganda film that folA,A!lowed. Publicly, Soviet leaders began proclaiming that they had perfected the structure and methods of their forces to the point where they could win a European war with conventional weapons alone.
Much needed to be done, however, before the Soviet forces could realize OgarkovAca,!a,,cs concept in full. Aca,!A"Experienced observers knew,Aca,!A? Ruiz-Palmer points out, Aca,!A"that every part of these maneuvers had been carefully rehearsed and choreographed. Nearly all those taking part were officers and NCOs, not ordinary soldiers. This was not how it would be in a military operation; it was military propaganda at its best.Aca,!A?18
The Initial American Response
However, NATO was not willing to let the matter rest. At the close of 1981, just three months after Zapad-81, General Bernard Rogers, the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe of the day, received a personal and top-secret briefing at his headquarters at Mons in Belgium. His briefers were the two DIA analysts who were most knowledgeable about OgarA,A!kovAca,!a,,cs plans. When they had finished, Rogers reportA,A!edly told them, Aca,!A"For the first time in my career, I really feel that I am getting inside the mind of my adversary.Aca,!A?19 General Rogers was quick to realize that NATO had much to learn from Ogarkov.
While NATO was getting its act together, OgarA,A!kovAca,!a,,cs was running into trouble. At almost the same time that General Rogers received his briefing, MarA,A!shal Dmitri Ustinov, the Soviet minister of defense, was telling his Warsaw Pact colleagues that the balance of power between NATO and the Warsaw Pact was Aca,!A"at the moment not in our favor.Aca,!A?20 His statement reflected a sudden and marked decline in Soviet confidence.
One major factor certainly was the rise of the Solidarity Movement, led by Lech Walesa, in Poland. Even after the imposition of martial law on 13 December 1981, Poland could not be considered a reliable ally. And to make matters worse, when Moscow learned that Kuklinski had defected to the Americans, Ogarkov had to face the unpleasant fact that his new war plans were no longer secret.
Transforming the Battle
Marshal UstinovAca,!a,,cs change of outlook is also likely to have stemmed from a full assessment of the new Aca,!A"revolution in military affairsAca,!A?Aca,!"a revolution in which the Americans were pushing the competiA,A!tion beyond Soviet reachAca,!"from electronics into the realm of micro-electronics.21
Soviet military intelligence would not have had great difficulty in obtaining copies of brochures that American defense contractors were using to persuade the military that the second generation of Aca,!A"assault-breakerAca,!A? weapons would be far more effective than the first.
These brochures, which contained a lot of hype, drew heavily on a film produced in 1979 that showed aircraft dropping Aca,!A"bombletsAca,!A? whose heat-seeking sensors enabled them to home-in on tanks with devasA,A!tating effect. The film, however, was a cleverly edited version of the first test of the new weapons a year earlier. Each of the Aca,!A"bombletsAca,!A? was hand-made and had cost a fortune. They were strung on wires across a canyon directly above lines of tanks that were not moving. But they did work. And Soviet military intelA,A!ligence probably also knew that the Americans were testing helicopters that could identify moving objects up to 40 kilometers (km) behind the front line.22
In addition, within two years they expected the Americans to bring into service cruise missiles with a range of 2,500 km that could destroy hardened targets which were previously only vulnerable to a nuclear attack. This would expose the whole terriA,A!tory of the Warsaw Pact to a speedy conventional attack from the outbreak of hostilities.
While Soviet military intelligence seems to have grossly overestimated the pace at which NATO would deploy the new Aca,!A"assault-breakerAca,!A? muniA,A!tions, it was not a bad error to makeAca,!"its main message was that the Soviet Union faced a challenge that it could not match.
By the end of 1982, Marshal Ustinov was referring rather coyly to Aca,!A"unsolved problems and difficultiesAca,!A? in the development of the Soviet economy.23 There was now little prosA,A!pect of Ogarkov acquiring the extremely costly weapons he needed if he was going to winAca,!"the accurate missiles with conventional warheads that could close NATO airfields and destroy its nuclear facilities and the high-performance aircraft that would give the Soviets air superiority from the outset of the war.
Three months later, President Reagan jabbed a very raw Soviet nerve. On 23 March 1983, he launched his Strategic Defense Initiative (more popularly known as Aca,!A"Star WarsAca,!A?). He called on scientists to render nuclear missiles Aca,!A"impotent and obsoleteAca,!A? by developing an impenetrable network of ground and space-based systems that could destroy missiles in flight.24 Many in the United States were skeptical about the feasibility of this initiative, but Soviet leaders feared it might succeed. They were really shaken by the strategic implicaA,A!tions of the arms race moving into space.
Shortly after ReaganAca,!a,,cs announcement, a telling insight into Soviet weakness arose during a converA,A!sation Marshal Ogarkov had with a former AmeriA,A!can arms controller. Ogarkov told the American, Aca,!A"In America, small children play with computersAca,!A|For reasons you know well, we cannot make computA,A!ers widely available in our society. We will never catch up with you in modern arms, until we have an economic revolution. And the question is whether we can have an economic revolution without a political revolution.Aca,!A?25
Worse was yet to come. In September 1983, Soviet air defense forces shot down a South Korean airliner that had strayed into Soviet airspace. MosA,A!cowAca,!a,,cs strident defense of its action reduced the conA,A!siderable opposition in Europe to NATO deploying Pershing II and cruise missiles to counterbalance the Soviet SS-20s. This was very bad news for Moscow as the Soviets feared that the Pershing IIs could reach Moscow in less than 10 minutes, which would not give the Soviet leadership time to retaliA,A!ate; similarly, Soviet radar would have considerable difficulty detecting the terrain-hugging cruise misA,A!siles. The first missiles arrived in Western Europe in November 1983.26
At the operational level NATO was beginning to turn the tables on the Soviets. By the early 1980s, the U.S. Army in Europe had moved from the doctrine of Aca,!A"active defenseAca,!A? to that of the Aca,!A"air-land battle,Aca,!A? which involved the close coordination of ground and air forces. Meanwhile, General Nigel Bagnall, a distinguished military historian, returned to Germany to command the British Corps. Bagnall firmly believed that the weak could defeat the strong and he devoted much time to showing those under his command how this could be done.27
In his efforts to find a way to thwart a Soviet offensive, Bagnall received highly valuable help from an unexpected quarter. Colonel Ghulam DastaA,A!gir Wardak had studied at the Voroshilov General Staff Academy in Moscow in the mid-1970s, where he had secretly taken detailed lecture notes in an obscure Afghan script. After the Soviet invasion of his country, Colonel Wardak came into contact with the Americans in Pakistan. His notes were of great value to NATO, but most important, Wardak had been trained as a Soviet officer, thought like a Soviet officer, and fought like one.
In 1983, General Bagnall invited Wardak to comA,A!mand a full Soviet army in a war game that he was holding at his headquarters.28 To British amazement, Wardak immediately threw a full division in an almost suicidal attack on their heavily defended front line. The British responded by committing their reserves. While they were pinned down, other divisions under WardakAca,!a,,cs command swept through the weaker Belgian forces to the south and those of the Dutch to the north, thereby not only encircling the whole of the British force, but that of the Germans as well.
For Bagnall, the pain of seeing his commanders humiliated by an Afghan on the plains of Germany was more than offset by the new insight that he had gained into Soviet thinking. Indeed, this experience reinforced BagnallAca,!a,,cs conviction that to defeat a highly coordinated Soviet offensive, NATO not only needed a well-coordinated defense, but also the ability to launch powerful counteroffensives.29 On taking comA,A!mand of the Northern Army Group in 1983, Bagnall worked closely with similarly minded senior German and French officers to develop a highly innovative and flexible approach to thwarting a Soviet offensive.
NATOAca,!a,,cs self-confidence continued to grow as the Americans showed that in just 10 days they would be able to fly in five extra divisions to join up with their equipment which would be waiting and ready for them in Europe.30 This represented a formidable addition to NATOAca,!a,,cs capability.
The Turning PointAca,!"1985
On becoming the Soviet leader in March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev pushed forward the fresh approach to East-West relations that he had first sigA,A!naled during his famous talks with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in London in December 1984. He wanted, he said, to see both sidesAca,!a,,c nuclear and conventional arsenals sharply pruned back.
Within the Politburo, there was growing awareA,A!ness of the countryAca,!a,,cs economic problems. As Marshal Akhromeyev later put it, Aca,!A"The Soviet Union could not continue the confrontation with the United States and NATO after 1985. The economic resources for such a policy had been practically exhausted.Aca,!A?31
This was one reason why Gorbachev had been delighted. Shortly before his death in December 1984, Marshal Ustinov, the minister of defense, had demoted Marshal Ogarkov. Gorbachev detested Marshal Ogarkov, mainly for wanting to pour even more money into revamping Soviet conventional forces in readiness for a war that Gorbachev was determined they would never fight.32
In Western capitals, however, there was considA,A!erable suspicion over GorbachevAca,!a,,cs real intentions. NATO pressed ahead with its plans to strengthen the alliance. One of the great enhancements came about in 1985, when NATO adopted the doctrine of follow-on forces attack.33 For the first time, the supreme allied commander, Europe, could coordinate conventional attacks across East Germany and deep into Poland.
The transformation that had taken place in NATOAca,!a,,cs Northern Army Group had greatly increased the ability to mount such attacks. Since Bagnall had taken command of it in 1983, the British, Dutch, Belgian, German and American forces in the group had trained to fight as one army that could exploit its superior flexibility, concentration of force, and abilA,A!ity to surprise. Bagnall kept telling his commanders not to follow his orders, but to use their initiative.34
Follow-on forces attack and BagnallAca,!a,,cs approach to fighting the Soviets were both closely tied to the gathering momentum of NATOAca,!a,,cs Aca,!A"revolution in military affairs.Aca,!A? This provided an intellectual framework to adapt the latest American technology to the realities of the European battlefield. The key task was to break the offensive by Soviet armored forces and close down the airfields from which air support originated.
One NATO aircraft could destroy up to 100 more targets with the new types of Aca,!A"assault breakerAca,!A? weapons than with previous conventional muniA,A!tions.34 Even so, efficient targeting remained essenA,A!tial as the initial Warsaw Pact attack alone could involve up to 40,000 tanks, armored personnel carriers, and artillery systems.
Ted Warner, a defense expert who rose later to be assistant secretary of defense for strategy, emphasized, Aca,!A"One of the greatest innovations was what we called the Aca,!Eoerecce-strike.Aca,!a,,cAca,!A?35 NATO was now developing a surveillance aircraft, the J-STAR, which could identify targets on the ground up to 250 kms away. Once the J-Star or other aircraft had identified a target, high-powered computers could then locate aircraft already in the air that had the right munitions and were near the target and then flash them the coordinates for the attack.
For the first time, the Americans were moving toward gaining the upper handAca,!"not in defense, but in attack.
Keeping Up the Pressure
At the Reykjavik summit in November 1986, Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev had similar views on the need for deep arms cuts in nuclear missiles. Deadlock ensued, however, when Reagan would not agree to link the cuts to tight restrictions on developA,A!ing weaponry for the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Aca,!A"Star Wars,Aca,!A? as it was more widely known.
Despite this setback, Gorbachev still felt the need to find a way forward.36 In early 1987, he decided to break the ice and agreed to the negotiation of a separate treaty on intermediate-range nuclear forces without any preconditions about restraints on the Strategic Defense Initiative.
GorbachevAca,!a,,cs willingness to eliminate the SS-20 missiles symbolized his rejection of OgarkovAca,!a,,cs strategy. After all, the SS-20 had made OgarkovAca,!a,,cs strategy possible in the first place, and then threatA,A!ened Soviet security by provoking NATO to deploy Pershing II and cruise missiles.
On 28 May 1987, Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German, flew a Cessna light aircraft 1,000 kilometers across the Soviet Union and landed it right in Red Square, close to GorbachevAca,!a,,cs office in the KremA,A!linAca,!"without anyone trying to stop him. That same day, at their meeting in East Berlin, the leaders of the Warsaw Pact called for reductions in conventional armed forces and armaments to a level that would preclude surprise attacks and Aca,!A"offensive operations in general.Aca,!A?37 Gorbachev quickly took advantage of the Rust incident to sack the minister of defense and many senior officers, thus making it easier for him to push forward the reform of Soviet strategy in Europe.
Despite these signs of flexibility from Moscow, General Rogers set out in the autumn of 1987 to undermine Soviet confidence by staging the largA,A!est and most innovative exercises that NATO had ever held. In northern Germany, General BagnallAca,!a,,cs concept of using large armored reserves to launch a counterblow against a Soviet breakthrough was tested in exercise Certain Strike, which involved nearly 80,000 men, 35,000 flown in from the United States.38 For the first time, all of these forces, from five different countries, were under the commander of NATOAca,!a,,cs Northern Army Group, not their respecA,A!tive national commanders.
France contributed 20,000 troops to a similar exercise in southern Germany, called Bold SparA,A!row. This was the largest-ever French contingent to deploy to Germany in support of NATOAca,!"and it was the first time that FranceAca,!a,,cs new Force dAca,!a,,cAction Rapide had crossed the Rhine.
Following the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty at the Washington Summit in December 1987, there was considerable euphoria in the West. Not only were many people claimA,A!ing that the Cold War was virtually over, but a growing number of politicians were calling for a Aca,!A"peace dividendAca,!A? based on immediate, unilateral cuts in Western defense expenditure, with the savA,A!ings redirected to deal with urgent economic and social issues.39
This prospect alarmed several Western leaders and their military advisers, who pointed out that the Warsaw Pact buildup was continuing and the Warsaw Pact had a massive preponderance of conA,A!ventional forces in Europe. Terminating NATOAca,!a,,cs own long-planned buildup, in which it had invested a huge amount of money and political capital, would leave the alliance at a grave disadvantage if the Soviet Union rejected GorbachevAca,!a,,cs approach and relations became confrontational once more. NATO was also keen to see deep cuts in Soviet forces in Eastern Europe so that these countries would have a better chance of regaining their freedom.
With military expenditure continuing to rise, Gorbachev told his colleagues in February 1988, Aca,!A"ItAca,!a,,cs clear now that without substantially cutting military expenditures, we cannot solve the probA,A!lems of perestroika.Aca,!A?40 The crucial question that Gorbachev had to address urgently was how big he wanted the cuts to beAca,!"and whether he thought the military would accept them.
Within months of Bold Sparrow, secret Soviet military journals ran articles warning that new technology was threatening tanks with obsolesA,A!cence. The Soviet minister of defense, Marshal Dmitri Yazov, compounded the depression of his colleagues when he lamented that the West had developed electronic warfare capabilities that the Soviet Union simply could not match. This was probably a reference to reports from an American agent, working for both the East Germans and the Soviets, that the United States could now insert false messages into the Warsaw Pact communiA,A!cations networksAca,!"which could have disastrous consequences in time of war.
In the spring of 1988, the Warsaw Pact staged its first large-scale exercise that was purely defensive, followed by a limited three-week counteroffensive that halted after NATO forces had been expelled from Eastern Europe. Aca,!A"This period,Aca,!A? Marshal Akhromeyev said, Aca,!A"would have provided leaders on both sides with ample time to terminate the war.Aca,!A?41
Shortly after taking command of all NATO forces on the central front, General Hans-Henning von Sandrart issued the first Aca,!A"Operational Guidance for the Central Region.Aca,!A?42 This document pulled together the main elements of the new, dynamic strategy. NATO once again drove home the mesA,A!sage about its growing prowess. That autumn NATO conducted Reforger 88, the biggest single exercise it had ever held, involving over 120,000 men. In this exercise, NATO tested both its new ideas and equipment.
NATO leaders felt they had finally gained the upper hand. They had admired Ogarkov for thinkA,A!ing big and coordinating his operations across a huge theater of military operations; now they had shown that they could not only respond in a simiA,A!lar way, but had the ability to defeat forces much larger than their own. As Diego Ruiz-Palmer once graphically put it, Aca,!A"In military terms, this was the public execution of Marshal Ogarkov outside NATO headquarters.Aca,!A?43
Wanting Rapid Progress
Although work was progressing well on the StraA,A!tegic Arms Reductions Treaty, it was clear that the Senate would not be willing to ratify the treaty until major cuts had been agreed on conventional forces in Europe, negotiations on which were to resume in Vienna in March 1989. Gorbachev did not object to this because as part of his efforts to build a new relationship with Western Europe, he also wanted such an accord. Just as important, deep cuts in conA,A!ventional forces would free up more resources for the Soviet economy than cuts in strategic nuclear missiles would.44
In his historic address at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, in 1946, Winston Churchill spoke of the Iron Curtain that had cut Europe in half. When Gorbachev gave his first speech to the United Nations, in December 1988, he wanted to show that he was now lifting that curtain.
In his speech, Gorbachev first emphasized the importance of the global interests of humanity, then went on to make the dramatic announcement that, over the next two years, Soviet forces would be cut by 500,000 men, and six of its armored divisions in Eastern Europe would be disbanded.45 Moscow, he assured his listeners, was not going to use force against Eastern Europe or anywhere. Gorbachev received a standing ovation.
As Anatoly Chernayev, his foreign affairs adviser, later told me, Aca,!A"Gorbachev wanted to cause a sensaA,A!tionAca,!"and he did.Aca,!A? He also caught the American establishment off-guard, though Secretary of State Shultz later recalled feeling that Aca,!A"if anybody declared the end of the Cold War, [Gorbachev] did in that speech: It was over.Aca,!A?46
Few Western leaders went so far as Shultz, publicly or privately, but most accepted that Gorbachev was moving briskly in addressing some of the remaining contentious issues of the Cold War. The large, unilateral cuts he had announced in Soviet conventional forces would put NATO and the Warsaw Pact on an equal footing.
The immediate gain was that when the negoA,A!tiations reducing conventional forces in Europe resumed in Vienna in March 1989, there was now hope of a real breakthrough. For the first time, the Soviet Union was likely to table credible figures on the number of its troops and the equipment it would have in Europe once the announced unilateral cuts had been implemented. That would provide a realistic basis on which the two sides could discuss deep and rapid cuts.
Within a year, the Berlin Wall came down, and the long-dreamed-for unification of Germany soon became a reality. When the treaty on conventional forces was signed in Paris on 19 November 1990, Soviet Minister of Defense Marshal Yazov could not contain his fury. He ranted to his colleagues, Aca,!A"This treaty means we have lost World War III without a shot being fired.Aca,!A?47 GorbachevAca,!a,,cs critics were gaining popular support and in just over a year, he would be gone.
Although there is no doubt in my mind that Gorbachev wanted to cut nuclear and conventional forces, I do not believe that they would ever have been so deep or come so quickly had NATO not pursued the well-thought-out strategy that I have just outlined. Moreover, NATOAca,!a,,cs strategy, I submit, made a crucial contribution towards unifying Germany, freeing Eastern Europe, and ending the Cold War.
Reflecting on the Cold War after it was over, a senior Soviet military intelligence officer said, Aca,!A"The Americans beat us not because they had more tanks, but because they had more think tanks.Aca,!A?48 There was more to it than that, but he was right to underline the power of careful thought, especially in matters of strategy.


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Around the courts through a week of women's tennis in Montreal.
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MONTREAL – an uneventful warmup – for a change! Other than a late court change which had the fans scrambling a bit.
Video: Venus Williams warms up at Rogers Cup
MONTREAL – She warmed it up slowly, but Venus Williams did end up cranking some serves at a respectable pace during her warmup Thursday for her match against Madison Keys.
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The bi-annual dog guilt trip was a little behind schedule this season. I think the fish that wouldn't die, the constant restocking of snails (the last one escaped and we found his decomposed body in the lego box) and the adopted class tadpole (which the fish ate while we were out of town) bought me a little more time. But it was bound to happen and we had the same conversation we always have, them telling me I'm denying them of their childhood, me telling them I don't need another mouth to feed and more poop to clean and and then deflecting all other inquiries to Jason. Yes, I know the look on their faces would be priceless if I got them a dog, but I get that same look from Jayden every time I tell him we can have ramen for dinner, so I still don't see what's in it for me. But I definately got some serious mom points when I told them they could keep this frog and lizard that they found stranded in the pool. They spent the day creating habitats, catching bugs, narrowing down names and giving the lizard rides on the trike and remote control truck. And then if you give a mouse a cookie...they decided to scrape up every last penny and buy like a terrarium or something. Jayden spent the entire day on petsmart.com and walmart.com pricing out lizards and tanks. The next day I took them to PetSmart with a get-a-lizard-and-go mentality, but it's never that easy. Of course not. The $7.99 green anole lizard turned into a $60 tank, lid, heat lamp, bulbs and food investment. Two hours and like twenty pet choices later they are the proud owners of hamsters. Chinese dwarf hamsters none the less. It was a good choice, they are over the moon about them and once again it proved that I don't have to get a dog to be a good mom. Buuuuuut if they are this excited about hamsters, can you even imagine the excitement over a dog...? Better go buy more ramen.
all this love and then they dispose of them in the backyard like yesterday's trash the minute they get the hamsters. He really was a sweet and tame little lizard. Jayden would sit with him on his shoulder while watching tv and it never tried to escape. When he did let it go in the backyard it just hung out on the back porch for like 15 minutes. I kinda got attached to the little fella and would slip him a bug or two and lettuce leaves when no one was looking. I was sad to see him go.


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The new megaservers will eliminate the old rulesets and replace them with one PvP and one PvE server per region (North America and Europe). The region lock will still apply, however. The team will also be putting specific chat channels (such as roleplay or French) to offset this elimination of old rulesets.
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Mobridge-Pollock takes second at Region 3A golf tournament
By Jay Davis
The Lady Tigers could not keep up with the favorites, but played well enough for a comfortable second-place finish at the Region 3A Golf Tournament at Lakeview Golf Course in Mitchell on Tuesday.
"It was fun to bring home hardware," said coach Jason Weisbeck.
Parkston dominated the meet with a team score of 359. Along with Sydney Bormann taking medalist honors and Sydney Weber taking second, all five Parkston players earned top 10 finishes.
The Lady Tigers earned three top 10 finishes and just missed a fourth for a team score of 401. The Bridge City girls finished 28 strokes ahead of third-place Winner.
Chesly Hoffman led Mobridge-Pollock with a 92 and a third-place finish.
"It as nice to see Chelsy play more in line with her potential," said Weisbeck.
Miranda Eisemann shot 99 for seventh place. Aundrea Kramer shot 103 and took ninth. Emily Dale just missed the top 10 with an 11th-place 107. With the team qualifying, Cayla Hintz will get her first state meet experience. Hintz shot 142 and finished in 29th place.
Bormann dominated the course and the field to win the region title with an 80. Weber finished seven strokes back at 87.
Brigitte Byrd of Chamberlain in fifth and Liz Jankauskas of Winner in the eighth were the only players outside Parkston and Mobridge-Pollock to earn top 10 finishes.
Tatum Mendoza of Cheyenne-Eagle Butte will play at state after taking 18th with a 115.
The Lady Tigers and the rest of the field will tee off on Monday and Tuesday at the Girls State A Golf Tournament. This year's tourney is being played at Spearfish Canyon Country Club.
"I sure hope we can have all the girls clicking on Monday and Tuesday," said Weisbeck. "Spearfish is a nice course and they all have the potential to score well there. It would be fun to bring home some more hardware."
Region 3A Golf Tournament
Qualifying Team Scores: Parkston 359, Mobridge-Pollock 401, Winner 429
State Qualifiers: 1. Sydney Bormann, Parkston, 39-41-80; 2. Sydney Weber, Parkston, 43-44-87; 3. Chelsy Hoffman, Mobridge-Pollock, 47-45-92; 4. Sierra Stands, Parkston, 49-45-94; 5. Brigitte Byrd, Chamberlain, 47-48-95; 6. Jayden Bormann, Parkston, 45-53-98; 7. Miranda Eisemann, Mobridge-Pollock, 51-48-99; 8. Liz Jankauskas, Winner, 53-48-101; 9. Aundrea Kramer, Mobridge-Pollock, 53-50-103; 10. Tiana Kruse, Parkston, 52-52-104;
11. Emily Dale, Mobridge-Pollock, 56-51-107; 12. Natalie Gronlund, Winner, 52-55-107; 13. Kennede Mathis, Winner, 54-54-108; 14. Brett Story, Chamberlain, 54-55-109; 15. Kathleen Juffer, Wagner, 51-58-109; 16. Darien Quick Bear, St. Francis Indian, 50-61-111; 17. Ronae Klein, Winner, 56-56-112; 18. Tatum Mendoza, Cheyenne-Eagle Butte, 54-61-115; 19. Megan Zephier, Wagner, 59-57-116; 20. Katie LaPointe, Todd County, 58-60-118; 21. Kesley Espinoza, St. Francis Indian, 61-61-122.


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William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (15th March 1779 - 21st January 1841) was a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He and his cabinet were the first of many to be executed in the Terror of London in 1843. Lamb was elected to Parliament in 1806 as a member of the Whig party. Lamb served as Irish Secretary in the government. Lamb became Lord Melbourne when his father died.
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After Lord Grey resigned as Prime Minister in July 1834, the King was forced to appoint another Whig to replace him. Melbourne was the man most likely to be both acceptable to the King and hold the Whig party together. Melbourne hesitated after receiving from Grey the letter from the King requesting him to visit him to discuss the formation of a government. Melbourne thought he would not enjoy the extra work that accompanied the office but he did not want to let his friends and party down. He had a Peaceful but scandalous time in office until 1840 when the Queen, who he had been mentoring, was assassinated.. Later thet day in a speech to parliament he designated Edward Oxford `Public Enemy Number 1` and gave police permision to shoot the man on sight.
Little did Lamb know that was only the beginning of his problems the Public of the south didn't like the new King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover and started to rebel against his rule. the rebels are soon crushed by the local malitia. After Enests coronation in York the people of southern England are angry at Parliament for letting this happen some people in the cities of London and Manchester take up arms and form the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). The PLA riots are soon crushed by forces of the Army.
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Once you have decided to make a written offer on a home, it is wise to hire a certified home inspector in order to examine the home for any major defects. For instance, a home inspector will check major systems in the home, including electrical, heating and cooling, and plumbing, as well as structural issues in the roof, floors, walls, etc. If you choose not to hire an inspector, you will essentially be purchasing the home "as-is", and any problems or defects with the home that you discover after the real estate transaction is final will become your responsibility. Therefore, the advantage of hiring a home inspector is that you will have the opportunity to address any defects prior to purchasing the home, whether it be through a decrease in purchase price to account for necessary repairs, or by choosing not to purchase the home altogether. In many cases, a purchase contract is written with a specific clause that allows you to withdraw from the contract if a major defect is discovered, and you are unable to resolve the issue with the seller to your satisfaction.
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It is standard procedure to obtain title insurance when purchasing a home. A title insurance company will examine the historical title and ownership of the property, and attempt to identify any problems that could adversely affect you taking title of the property. Plus, title insurance protects you in the event that another claim of ownership is made to the property, and/or if you have to defend your title to the property in court.
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If you took out a mortgage loan in order to purchase your home, your financing agreement with your lender will require you to maintain homeowner's insurance on your home at all times. In many cases, your insurance payment will be a part of your mortgage payment, as it is paid by your lender through your escrow account. Letting your homeowner's insurance policy lapse may constitute a default on your financing agreement, which may cause you to ultimately lose your home.
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|2006-10-10, 03:49
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Since when this thread became manga spoilers goddamit .... No manga warning in the title ..
What the hell anime viewers gonna read if all your posts hidden in spoilers from manga???
put a title warning so we anime viewers dont have to bother clicking the freaking thread ...
|2006-10-10, 03:55
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and i'm not saying hitsu's the weakest, only that we can't say for sure that he's not, like we can say for sure that byakuya is not the weakest. i mean first of all gin and tousen shouldn't be considered as they're traitors and for all we know they could have become much more powerful vaizards. second gin and hitsu had but one brief encounter, it wasn't even a bankai vs bankai fight. third tousen lost to kenpachi, but there's no direct comparison between hitsu and kenpachi's powers
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no, that's not my reasoning, i'm just saying it's uncertain. the question goes back to you: have you seen byakuya showing disrespect to anyone who he knows has powers out of his league, say, yamamoto, or during the brief fight against hollow ichigo?
p.s. we are here to discuss bleach, you have your opinions and i have mine, that's all fine and dandy. but if you want to have anymore personal insults, then i'm telling you to FUCK OFF.
|2006-10-10, 13:41
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Where It was stated that Hitsugaya is Inexperienced?
So given your inability to answer this, I will answer it for you:
NO, it was never stated that Hitsugaya is inexperienced, this is just yoru assumption, that could be either right or wrong.
Experience has a lot to do with strength when you need to have an Idea of someone strength when they are not Characters as Important as the principals, and then, Kubo could care less about that and Have Aizen Beating Yamamato.
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|2009-05-19, 17:26
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|2009-05-19, 17:30
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There's so many cooly designed characters in Bleach, some have even interesting backstory that or personality that might lead us to be more interested, but we never get to that point because Kubo exploits the most popular ones so much. There might be a flashback of Hitsugaya having a wood for the first time.
|2009-05-19, 17:30
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If he wants, I will gladly protect him from crazy Hitsugaya fans, just kill him already
|2009-05-19, 17:33
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I would gladly learn more about Gin, Shunsui, Ukitake, Yamamoto, espada, Soi Fon, Hisagi, Iba and most importantly... Komamura! I still want to know why he looks the way he does!
|2009-05-19, 17:43
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That's a brilliant thought. Why do we bother with bringing reality to Bleach or even logic when there's a furry in there. There is a person that has a fox head. There is ONE person that has animal features. Not a new species that is disciminanted in SS or something, but one individum. We all know that Urahara was suppose to be the first one to create huge lab in SS (the one from Bounto Arc sounds ridiculous after 100years ago storyline - like Kubo didn't know that Urahara was the one that change 12 division), so unless Urahara (or Mayuri) made Komamura, there's no way for him to even exist, unless he's some black blind guy's part of imagination uncounciously freed to walk in spiritual world.
|2009-05-19, 17:49
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Lol in that case they all are on drugs
I think the real master behind hypnose is Komamura himslef
But really... he IS the only one And he was hiding his face!
|2009-05-20, 05:04
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So here is my spiel on Hitsugaya Toushirou probably the most hated captain there is atm...
1. I dont watch the anime so Im not really going to catch so called filler eps or whatnot that may or may not feature more Hitsugaya.
2. I dont pay attention to polls or the ramblings of Hitsugaya fan girls or deidcated websites or whatever about him.
3. Ive only seen the first Bleach movie but Im tempted to Hitsugaya's movie just to see how bad it must be for people to rage just at the mention of his name.
One possibly notable flaw about him is perhaps the amount of screen/panel time he gets. However if objectively considered, the screen time he gets is not nearly as horrid or pathetic as so many people make it seem to be.
One thing that I can see irk people is his jobber status or as I mentioned before The Worf Effect (from Tvtropes - type in Bleach and see all the tropes listed for it) Kubo puts him through. But again I dont see how hes ever had a super hax power up that many people mention.
So yea maybe he has a bit too much screen time... but the screentime he does have doesnt really bother me at all...
|2009-05-20, 05:35
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and i was talking about his ice-mirage and his new falling comet attack
but i don't have a problem with hitsugaya other than how kubo keeps trying to make his current fight with halibel super dramatic
|2009-05-20, 07:14
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People have to consider that his rate of growth (as in skills) is exceptionally fast. In less time than Kira, Renji and Hinamori entered and trained in the academy, graduated to one of the 13 squads and rose to VC level - Hitsugaya became a Shinigami from scratch reaching Captain class and unlocking his Bankai. More interestingly he also is apparently one of the more well-rounded Captains...not skimping on any of the Shinigami aspects but having a firm and admirable grasp on ALL of them. Now that was just his back story.
Against his battle with an Arrancar Hitsugaya noticeable flaw was his bankai stamina. Against Luppi he managed to lose his ice petals and show regenerative capabilities, therefore eliminating or at the very least significantly improving on his bankai stamina. He also seemed to improve on his defense showing his wings can take on a little more punishment.
Wow would you look at that...the tactical captain who reflected on his weakness with his first Arrancar encounter improved his abilities accordingly. Logical, yes or no?
Now against Halibel, what did Hitsugaya find out fighting number 6? While his bankai can take a considerable attack and recover given time, being sucker punched is still not pleasant in the time to learn your opponents attacks. So how about trying not to be a target in the first place...hmm...wait how about a decoy!? Ice Mirage anyone?
So lets see, during his screentime hes improved his stamina, his defense, his evasion and his elemental attacks. For an all-rounder who learns exceptionally fast is that so hard to grasp? I can understand the, "pulling stuff out of his ass statement" if a fight loving, power emphasis, bankai user like Ikkaku pulls some kind of clone skill...I mean wtf right?
Also his Ice-Mirage and Ice-Cage require casting time so it cant even be considered broken. As for his from the heavens attack...idk...i'll have to see it first, but again if you look at all the attacks they all relate to the environment changing to his advantage or letting it build up from it.
Its stated from the beginning with his shikai introduction that his Zanpakutou is known to be able to affect the surrounding environment, all his upgrades still follow a common theme laid out at the very beginning.
Byakuya Kuchiki showed he had at least 4 levels of his bankai and how much longer would he have trained using it...?
Hitsugaya is still a kid, probably a brat to many...but his bankai is nowhere near capped and I dont see the sin in him improving it.
So yea...
|2009-05-20, 07:45
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Age: 26
Not against who is 10 times stronger!
Was it some other espada, same Lupi, I wouldn't mind.
But what irritates even more is the fact that he is placed against enemy who gives him advantage(Water VS Ice)... why others can't get such bonus?
For example Soi Fon on the other hand is put at the biggest disadvantage ever! If it was at least half of dissadvantage, it would be fine but not 100% dissadvantage!
If Soi Fon won't pull any tricks then those 2 fights will be really fucked up
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Window & Conservatory Specialist
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Replace existing door and frame with UPVC. Needs a cat flap inserting as well. Cat flat will...
Window & Conservatory Specialist
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Window & Conservatory Specialist
Added 08/08/2014
Unsold lead, updated details: Spelling mistake. I meant glass door which needs plastic.panel...
Window & Conservatory Specialist
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The external glass on my double glazed upstairs side window has shattered, I don't know why...
Window & Conservatory Specialist
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Condensation in double glazing
Window & Conservatory Specialist
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As a single lady I was extremely worried about having my fascias and soffits replacing with no recommendation from friends. I needn't have worried, the sales manager reassured me throughout, the job completed fully to my satisfaction wouldn't hesitate to recommend.
Darren provided a very competitive quote & excellent service, I would use his services again and have no hesitation recommending him to other people
An excellent job. Thanks to Carl and team.
CIVICON have dealt the project with an excellent commitment and professionalism. We are highly satisfied with their work. CIVICON have demonstrated a great attitude with customer orientation and customer satisfaction.
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