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I just released a full-featured package manager for ST2 called Package Control, you can check it out at wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control. It allows for discovering, installing, upgrading and removing packages, along with automatic upgrade functionality and some other more minor stuff. I hope this makes it easier for people to try out new plugins and get the most out of ST2. The website has screenshots, simple installation instructions and documentation about usage, so go check it out!
Web Interface
There are over 125 packages available via Package Control (as of January 2012). See wbond.net/sublime_packages/community for a list with some general statistics.
Submitting a Package
All developers are welcome to submit their packages. Please see wbond.net/sublime_packages/packa ... developers for instructions.
Latest Version: 1.4.1Released: 6 Jan, 2012
See the full changelog at wbond.net/sublime_packages/packa ... /changelog.
Currently it is not possible via version control, mostly because I didn't want to rely on a user having the required version control application installed on their machine to install a package. I don't think it would be a terrible idea to add a setting that would allow users to "prefer" to use git or hg for grabbing plugins from GitHub or BitBucket if they have it installed. If you open an issue at github.com/wbond/sublime_package_control/issues I bet we could work out a way that would be really user friendly.
And yeah, I figured after hacking some SFTP functionality for a while that I'd try my hand at making a little money off of it. I've done quite a bit of open source work, but this is my first foray into the commercial world.
ST2 is awesome that it exposes so much for plugins. I enjoyed figuring out all of the different ways that it is possible to hook in to the program.
Much appreciated!
Also it'd be sweet if there were an option like "convert all the crap you downloaded off of github into actual things tracked by this package manager" (maybe come up with a snappier name). Right now I'm going one at a time.
Thanks @adzenith! Right now you can "upgrade" packages you've manually downloaded. I will add a command to automatically upgrade all upgradable packages, which should get you where you want to go.
Sorry, it seemed like overkill to have a repo for 1 file.
yah, no offense taken. Idk, it doesn't seem like there is a great way. I have sublime running on 5 computers of mine now and syncing multiple plugin repos would have sucked.
You could break them all out into their own repos and then make them all submodules of your SublimePlugins repo.
Version 1.0.7 has been rolled out and your ST should automatically upgrade the next time you start it. Changes include:
Installation of packages in a thread to prevent hanging the editor for big packages or slow connections
An activity indicator for all remote operations
Reduced parallelism for GitHub and BitBucket repositories to help prevent URL timeouts
A new Upgrade All Packages command
Some work on making package removal on Windows a little more robust
The Upgrade Package command no longer lists packages that can be reinstalled
Excellent! I was going to ask about this. Thanks!
How do you do that?
I just want to say this is the most awesome thing! Thank you for all your hard work.
Looking forward to a more packages in the list.
Whoa!!!Great plugin that work great and look very polished, thanks for your work.
As I said on Twitter, I bloody love this package - so useful for me! But just so as I'm clear, are all the packages that can be installed grabbed from their repositories or a copy that you have made? Are the versions in the Package Manager always going to be the latest?
Cheers again
This is brilliant and I've already expressed how awesome it is
One thing I do keep experiencing is an error when trying to upgrade SublimeCodeIntel:
Package Control: Error downloading package.
URL error The read operation timed out downloading https://nodeload.github.com/Krounz/SublimeCodeIntel/zipball/mster.
Strange... I ran the upgrade option again and it installed!
Upgrade All Packages will upgrade every package that shows up in the list when you run Upgrade Package. Upgrade Package will show all packages it recognizes the name of, even if you installed them manually or through a vcs. I hope that wasn't too confusing.
It depends on what kind of repository is used. All packages coming from GitHub or BitBucket will always be the latest version, and are always pulled from master, or tip, respectively. For a custom repository JSON file (like at sublime.wbond.net/packages.json) you have to manually update the JSON and package files. I do this so that I can control the version numbers, and what platforms Tortoise is available for.
All of the repositories are pulled on the fly from sublime.wbond.net/repositories.json. This allows for adding a new repository for all users without anyone having to upgrade their version of Package Control. For instance, about 12 hours after I launched Package Control I added the SublimeCodeIntel repository since it seems pretty popular.
With Package Control 1.0.6, I did all requests to GitHub and BitBucket in parallel, and I started noticing that their APIs seems to be rate limiting stuff and causing connections to fail. In 1.0.7 (the latest as of right now) I only run one downloader per domain at a time to help prevent rate limiting issues. It seems like there are fewer issues now, but occasionally I still have seen problems. I think I'll add a setting and feature to retry downloads a few times to help get around the unpredictable nature of the APIs. With the new activity indicator and since everything is threaded, this shouldn't be a big deal performance wise, and will probably be a much nicer user experience.
Ah good point. Submodules probably won't work then
Impressive plugin. Finally an easy way to install plugins. But unfortunately this solution isn't perfect and I need to make a bug report.
The problem is that this plugin is making SublimeText2 build 2101 for Windows7 to crash every-time is downloading from web and I press the ALT key on the keyboard to switch to other application.
Here is the output of the crash report:
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Boston's two mayoral candidates will meet in three live television debates next month to expound on issues critical to the city, their campaigns announced Friday.
The debates between City Councilor John R. Connolly and state Representative Martin J. Walsh will take place on three Tuesdays in October. Formats are still being negotiated and will be announced later, the campaigns said.
"After discussions between our campaigns, we agree that televised debates will provide an important forum for voters to gain the information they need to make an informed decision in November's mayoral election,'' the campaigns said in a joint statement. "In addition, we believe that these debates would offer a broader platform for the many community groups wishing to have their substantive issues discussed during the campaign."
The first debate, set for Oct. 15, will be hosted by WBZ-TV, WBZ-1030 AM, and the Globe. Political analyst Jon Keller of WBZ will moderate along with a yet-to-be-named Globe reporter.
The second debate will be held Oct. 22. It will be sponsored by WGBH-TV and WGBH-Radio. WGBH's Jim Braude and Margery Eagan, both hosts of "Boston Public Radio,'' will serve as moderators.
The final debate is scheduled for Oct. 29, and sponsored by a media consortium that includes WHDH-TV, NECN, WGBH-TV, WCVB-TV, WGBH Radio, WBUR Radio, and Bloomberg Radio. A moderator has not yet been named.
Given the demands on their campaigns before the Nov. 5 election, Connolly and Walsh said they are urging the media consortiums that have organized previous debates to work with community and advocacy groups that organized various forums during the preliminary race to ensure the debates are substantive.Meghan E. Irons can be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @meghanirons.


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Chances are that the crab you have found will not be a problem. Crabs found in heads of SPS corals are usually of the Family Xanthidae. They are typically commensals which sometimes protect the coral from predatory fish or invertebrates. However, all of these crabs should be watched carefully as not all of the Xanthids are harmless - see below. Trapezia sp. (Family Trapeziidae) is usually found in Pocilloporadae while species such as Tetralia and Domecia (Family Xanthidae) are the typical residents of Acroporidae.(Delbeek and Sprung The Reef Aquarium, Vol. II, pg. 324). In the experience of the author and other reefkeepers that the author has conversed with, hairy brown crabs imported in SPS colonies tend to be harmful rather than commensal, while the tan, smooth shelled crabs like the one in the above picture are peaceful, well-behaved residents.


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* New constitution, election took steam out of unrest
* Islamist-led government still in shadow of palace
* Economic, social malaise biggest threat to stability
RABAT, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Unlike other Arab leaders challenged on the streets early last year, King Mohammed VI swiftly reformed Morocco's constitution, held an election and let an Islamist party lead the government.
His response smothered popular ferment, drew plaudits from the West and seemed to set Morocco on a more democratic course, but 20 months on it is unclear how much power has changed hands.
Le Matin, an establishment French-language daily, still devotes its first half dozen pages to the doings of the monarch and his advisers before the elected government gets a mention.
The Islamist prime minister, Abdelillah Benkirane, still has his office in the vast precincts of the royal palace in Rabat.
For now, his Justice and Development Party (PJD), whose success in an October 2011 election brought it into government for the first time, insists political cohabitation is thriving.
``Morocco is an exception in the region,'' Communication Minister Mustafa el-Khalfi told Reuters. ``We have succeeded in developing a third way between revolution and the old system of governance: reforming within stability and unity.''
Under the new constitution, King Mohammed, who bases much of his legitimacy on his Islamic credentials as ``Commander of the Faithful'' and as a descendant of the Prophet Mohammad, keeps control of military, security and religious affairs, while parliament legislates and the government runs the country.
``Key institutions enshrined in the constitution are coming to life,'' said one Western diplomat of the reforms. ``The breadth of debate is changing. People feel part of the process.''
Yet after two decades of stop-go reforms that began under the king's late father Hassan II, not all Moroccans are convinced that the palace has loosened its grip that much.
``The monarchy has a very strong survival instinct,'' said Moroccan historian Maati Monjib. ``The official tactic is divide and rule and it has been systematic for about 400 years.''
After the turmoil of last year's Arab uprisings, the PJD-led government installed in January gained some real clout, he said. But by August the king and his advisers felt bold enough to take back some of their ``traditional, non-constitutional powers''.
The PJD may risk credibility with its Islamist base by taking office and then finding real authority lies elsewhere, as happened to a socialist opposition party in the 1990s.
``They haven't finished a year in power yet, but what they have announced is not encouraging,'' said economist Najib Akesbi. ``They've got stuck to the regime. History is repeating itself.''
Khalfi, who is also government spokesman, retorted that it was normal for incumbent parties to lose some popularity and that the PJD had backed the monarchy even when in opposition.
``We believe in the crucial historical role of the monarchy to defend unity and stability and lead the necessary reforms.''
Any immediate prospect of a mass uprising may have receded, but social and economic tensions smoulder in a country with wide income disparities and what Khalfi called decades of corruption.
He listed Morocco's other problems as unemployment, poverty, health and illiteracy, requiring investment and good governance.
Reliant on fuel and wheat imports, the economy has suffered from Europe's recession, which has hit tourism and transfers from Moroccans working abroad, many in nearby Spain.
Morocco ranks 130 out of 187 countries on the U.N. human development index and 56 percent of adults among its 32 million people are illiterate. Food and fuel subsidies absorb about 54 billion dirhams ($6 billion) a year, or six percent of GDP.
Few dispute that the subsidies are wasteful, benefiting the well-off more than the needy, but removing them is a political hot potato and could prove broadly unpopular - with the poor who are sceptical about promised cash compensation and middle-class people who would have to pay more, as well as businesses that have grown fat on cheap sugar, wheat flour and energy.
Marina Ottoway of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace suggests that the palace may be happy to let the PJD-led government attempt its policy of phasing out the subsidies.
``If problems result from the change, consumer anger and blame would be directed at the government while the palace could get rid of an old problem at little risk to itself,'' she wrote.
Scattered unrest, mostly over economic grievances, erupts often in Morocco. Even judges, not known for street activism, staged a sit-in last month outside the Supreme Court, where about 1,000 demanded more independence for the judiciary.
The mostly secular February 20 Movement, dynamo of the 2011 demonstrations, still exists, but authorities are less tolerant of its protests since a referendum approved the constitutional reforms. Many young activists have retreated to the Internet.
Two significant Islamist tendencies also remain outside the political mainstream, partly for their own reasons.
Ultra-orthodox Salafis, a minority group with a growing appeal in the deprived outskirts of big cities, are debating whether to drop their ideological rejection of politics and emulate their Egyptian counterparts who formed a political party after Hosni Mubarak's overthrow and did well in an election.
Al-Adl wal Ihsan (Justice and Charity) is a formidable broad-based movement which first backed last year's youthful protests, but later withdrew, wary of its secular allies.
Its ageing leader, Sheikh Abdessalam Yassine, has long been a thorn in the royal flesh, refusing to recognise the king's status as Commander of the Faithful, demanding that he ``return what his father stole'' and favouring a republic.
``They are well-organised and well-structured. They can mobilise tens of thousands of people,'' the Western diplomat said of al-Adl wal Ihsan. ``If the economic crisis deepens and social challenges are not addressed, will they step in?''
The king toured Gulf Arab states last month to drum up aid and investment from rulers so worried by the fallout from last year's Arab revolts that they invited distant Morocco and Jordan to join their regional club, the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Mohammed VI, the biggest private stakeholder in Morocco's $95 billion economy, is involved in many sectors of the economy, from telecoms to precious metal mining, banking and cement.
This combination of political power and economic interest compromises Morocco's stated goal of creating a competitive, transparent economic arena, argues Akesbi, the economist.
``This monarchy, which governs, also does business, making every outcome possible - conflicts of interest, abuses of power, nepotism. And that's what we witness every day.''
(Editing by Robin Pomeroy)


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'Vagina' Forum Makes Headway
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Mo Yan-chih
RAISING AWARENESS: The successful debut of Eve Ensler's hit play `Vagina Monologues' has inspired a public discussion on issues of female sexuality
What does the word "vagina" mean to you? Dirty? Shameful? How about charming and beautiful? A forum held yesterday to celebrate the successful debut of an internationally acclaimed play invited people to end violence against women, by loving and respecting a woman's vagina.
Celebrating the successful debut of The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler's award-winning play was performed in theaters and on university campuses last month.
The Garden of Hope Foundation and Zonta International held a forum called "Vagina, Valentine, Violence" yesterday.
Famous TV personalities, women's rights advocates and academics joined together to discuss issues ranging from sexuality, sexual abuse and violence, and to promote "V-Day," a global movement to end violence against women and girls.
Before the forum, pop star Aya performed a passage from the Vagina Monologues entitled "Because he likes to look at it," which was based on an interview with a woman who comes to love her vagina because her boyfriend loves the way her vagina looks.
"I think it is important for women to love their bodies and become more conscious of themselves. Talking about what is traditionally deemed taboo and a dirty part of the female body in a positive way can be a good start," Aya said after reading the excerpt.
Su Tsu-chung, an English professor at the National Chi Nan University, introduced the play to his students and held a performance on campus, and said that students told him the play had raised their consciousness and understanding of women's bodies by talking about something they are usually ashamed of talking about.
Bih Herng-dar, a member of the gender equality education committee under the ministry of education, said that sex has always been a taboo and something parents never know how to talk about with their kids.
"As a result, our boys turn to pornography for sexual education, and so patriarchal thinking -- which objectifies and belittles women -- ?will continue to thrive in society," said Bih, a professor at National Taiwan University.
Lee Kuang-hui, director of the psychiatry department at Peitou Armed Forces Hospital, lauded the play for examining issues of sexuality from the female perspective and called on all men to respect women's bodies.
"The most important work that can be done to prevent violence and sexual abuse is to educate women what to do in order to prevent rape or harassment," Lee said.
"We also need to raise men's awareness and break some deep-seated myths about rape. When women say no to sex, it means no, and men need to learn to control their sexual impulses and instead choose to respect women and their bodies," he said.
Chief Executive Officer of the foundation Chi Hui-jung said the play provides excellent material on sex education.
"In addition to adding more of the Taiwan experience in the Vagina Monologues, I think it would be wonderful to have the "penis monologue," which would allow men to share their stories and also raise their consciousness about their own bodies," Chi said.
The Vagina Monologues is a collection of personal accounts from various women interviewed by Ensler. From the retelling of a rape experience to tips on masturbation, the monologues address serious issues while attacking conventional, often dated, definitions of sexuality.
The play has made a major impact around the world since it was first staged in New York in 1997, and made its debut in Taiwan last month.
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Texas Shale Industry Sparks up RV Park Boom
October 28, 2011 by RVBusiness · 2 Comments
In his younger years, Bruce Sugarek was a welder in the oil fields in South Texas. At 82, he is now retired – well sort of, the Bee County Bee-Picayune reported.
"I am more tired than retired," he said chuckling.
He is among the numerous other residents now providing housing for the workers of the Eagle Ford Shale industry. Throughout this area, small RV parks have popped up in once vacant lots.
In Saturday's Bee-Picayune, five companies listed RV parks with open spots in the area. County Judge David Silva said he has seen these parks sprouting up throughout the county.
"You can't drive between Beeville and anywhere that you won't see RV parks and signs," Silva said. "Some people have them next to their houses and some of them don't. Everybody seems to be getting in on the action."
Ron Fritz, with the county's community affairs department, said that since January, 14 new RV parks have been built. This is up from, well, zero during the past few years.
"This is something new to Bee County," Fritz said. "These things are popping up like mushrooms because of the people working in the Eagle Ford Shale kingdom."
The county first began seeing the influx of people at the first of the year when the Eagle Ford drilling kicked into gear.
"The whole problem was the lack of housing in our area," Fritz said. "Guys were staying all over and driving over here to work in the field."
For some, the opportunity to cash in on the need for housing was too tempting to pass up. Bruce Munoz opened his RV park off U.S. Highway 59 only a few months ago and it's already full.
"I have people still calling me," he said. "I don't have any more spaces open."
That could change though.
"That is why I am thinking about in the future making it bigger," he said. "But that is in the future."
All of his residents are oil field workers but he hopes that when the boom subsides, he will be able to continue operating the park — just with a different clientele.


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|2012-03-01, 23:19
|Link #2641
Otaku Apprentice
|2012-03-02, 04:40
|Link #2642
Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
Wait, Regius has been implied to be a fierce combatant? Where?
And I wouldn't say the TSAB has 'lots' of alternative methods. Really the only effective ones they have right now are the numbers, which are a limited supply.
Ironically, they are researching more alternative methods that would work for mass-supplying the TSAB as a whole rather than just rely on a handful of leftovers from a criminal investigation. Much hated though they are by many readers, the strike weapons in Force are the better long-term mass-supply solution.
|2012-03-02, 04:52
|Link #2643
The Flame Crussader
Join Date: Aug 2009
I guess the TSAB must feel very pressed to find new ways to fight future crime to be willing to take such dangerous bets with the lives of their personel.
|2012-03-02, 06:29
|Link #2644
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: mid-childa
I just found this translation of a part of the first seasons site.
Original text:
変化は、物質の性質や形を変化させ、移動は、物体や、物体を構成する分子を動かすことで物理的な効果を引き 起こし幻惑は、人の心に作用する。
「魔法使い」(魔法少女)たちは、この三つの魔法を組み合わせ、さまざまな調整をした魔法を「 プログラミン グ」することで魔法を作る。
The magic of this world, roughly divided into "Change", "Move", "Daze" three parts.
Change is changing the properties of the material and shape, Move objects, and Daze causing physical effects by moving the molecules that make up the object, acting in accordance with the human mind.
"A mage"(magical girl) make a magic by "programming" the magic combination of the magic of these three, the various adjustments.
Hmm interesting.
|2012-03-02, 06:50
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Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
|2012-03-02, 06:57
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Graphic Designer
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Location: 3 times the passion of normal flamenco
|2012-03-02, 07:57
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Lurker on the threshold
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: France
Age: 41
At the same time i am still wondering what kind of energy source TSAB ship are using, if it's some kind of magical reactor why not link your weapon to them and not rely on your mages for ship to ship combat.
|2012-03-02, 12:21
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The Flame Crussader
Join Date: Aug 2009
Again, from the Q & A thread.
It'll be amusing if Nanoha finds her re-casted normal clothes soiled with cake xD
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|2012-09-20, 21:21
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Zafira's "Stance of Iron Wall" technique, and the "Raging Steel Fang" (normal and Assault versions) techniques it seems to enable...
Just what sort of spell is it?
Einhart has a similar spell in her "Stance of Spin / Spinning Break" technique. When it was first introduced in the manga, Megane Alpine clearly laid out that Einhart's technique caught and returned the shots to the sender intact, rather than simply reflecting the shots, or absorbing and re-using the energy for one's own form of attack.
This suggests that both of those methods are possible alternatives.
Zafira clearly doesn't reflect attacks, since he always using the same bombardment-type beam attack, no matter what sort of projectile was thrown against his Iron Wall. Sometimes he executes a one-two "punch" combo of beams (the "Assault" variation), but I don't know when or why.
Could it be that he is absorbing the energy of the attacks and using them to fuel a bombardment spell?
But if he has a bombardment or shooting magic, why ONLY use it with Iron Wall? He surely has enough energy without always needing to rely on such a trick; Steel Yoke doesn't seem like it could be cheap.
It could be that the bombardment is entirely reliant upon energy gained from an attack, rather than generated by his Linker Core. That is, the bombardment is wholy a part of Stance of Iron Wall's theorized function, and he doesn't actually have the talent (or inclination) to learn regular bombardment attacks apart from such a trick.
Also, what sort of magic would Iron Wall be? A field-type defense, in the same class as Iron Fang Mountain and Panzergeist?
Barriers deflect attacks off-target, and shields rebound force back whence it came... Field-type defenses are less clear in their effects, except that they seem to affect the body more-or-less internally rather than create external constructs.
|2012-09-21, 19:09
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Canada, Sault Ste. Marie
I just want the TSAB to even acknowledge the idea of defensive equipment that's not medieval shields. It's an elephant in the room that it hasn't even been brought up once. If a shield generator wouldn't work, okay, but tell me why.
|2012-09-21, 19:38
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And I presume their spaceships have shields, since they kinda mention that in S1. But those could be magically generated shields.
As far as a more scientifically generated shield, like perhaps Star Trek? I dunno. I kinda think, with the focus on magic instead of more sciency tech, it might not have been something they really developed. In real life terms, shields still remain safely in the science fiction realm, despite the fact that stuff like cold plasma could theoretically dampen energy weapon attacks.
Do the cyborgs generate their own sciency shields? Or were those magic? I can remember at least Cinque putting up a shield. I'm still not entirely clear on the IS and cyborg sciency stuff.
|2012-09-21, 20:30
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And scientifically speaking, it's not exactly a matter of "inverting weapons fire" to create an every shield. That's almost like inverting the anti-matter flow and reversing the polarity of the phaser array; technobabble. Granted, they could use technobabble to come up with one, but it's almost refreshing that they haven't.
And difference materials and fields have different properties, that protect against some things, but not others. For instance, a magnetic field can deflect solar radiation (hence why we on Earth aren't char-broiled). But you can still pass physical objects through it. Cold Plasma, as I said, can theoretically be used to dampen energy weapon attacks, but again, physical weapons pass through unharmed.
Offense, throughout history, has always been stronger than defense. If anything, those would be your reasons why they haven't. Although, granted, it would be nice to hear specifically about their problems in that area. The way the Hucks cut through normal magical shields, and the increasing proliferation of AMF weapons, would seem to indicate that a high priority be placed in that development area.
|2012-09-21, 21:56
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Canada, Sault Ste. Marie
Well, inverse in concept, probably not literally.
And yeah, defense is pretty important against these guys, especially when a good portion of the stuff you're making requires the person using it to get right in their faces.
|2012-09-22, 02:32
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Blazing General
Join Date: May 2006
Location: CA
Age: 32
|2012-09-22, 02:40
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The Flame Crussader
Join Date: Aug 2009
It's still a bit jarring, tough, that years of technological research keeps focusing on mere shields instead of more ffective defensive means.
Guess it have to do with what Kaijo mentioned about specific defenses. The description of the Fortress unit on the NEXT designs was one of a technology marvel able to tank everything ...in practice, such claims were quickly proved wrong ...repeatedly xDU Even with replacement shields and months to develope upgrades and improvements the equipement keeps being destroyed. Signum's gladiator shield was a semi-decent improvement by the fact it was actually able to deflect strikes from Cypha's blades at normal strenght ...but once Cypha decided to stop joking around she destroyed the shield with her bare fingers.
Why shields? why not better enhaced armored gear? Subaru's Sword Breaker is a good example of what i'm referring, sleek design which allows good mobility and is still the most effective AEC-unit to date. The TSAB is naive in trying to keep pushing mages into a battlefield not suitable for them ....EC drivers should be fought by expert pilots on suits of powered armor or something. If they'll insist to risk mage lives unecessarily at least they should give them something better to wear than an outdated barrier jacket/knight clothing.
|2012-09-22, 04:37
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Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
StrikerS is the first show to introduce non-magical stuff, and no surprise Cinque still generates a directional shield. Force also had Signum carry an arm-mounted shield generator.
|2012-09-22, 05:54
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Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
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I assume you're talking about the PSP games, which I haven't played, so many of the things are hard for me (and I assume many others) to talk about.
However, it sounds to me like you're mixing up game mechanics with the series. Which is always a risky thing. For example, in the game you have to charge up to release big attacks, which is not needed in the series.
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While doing genealogy research, we came across information on the Cresco oil well, which was drilled in the late 1800s. Could you tell us a date of the drilling? We're having a hard time finding the information.
While doing genealogy research, we came across information on the Cresco oil well, which was drilled in the late 1800s. Could you tell us a date of the drilling? We're having a hard time finding the information.
W.A., Little Rock, Ark.
Although information about the Cresco oil well is limited, a brief about the drilling published in the Stroudsburg Daily Times on March 23, 1895, revealed that the workers had drilled halfway to the proposed depth of 2,500 feet and that the digging was "progressing favorably."
On the humorous side, the brief's writer editorialized a bit on the quick pace the drillers had set: "Perhaps they think of taking a hand in the Chinese and Japanese war by a short-cut or underground passage. If that is their intentions we hope they will strike oil before they hit China."
When my grandfather was young (1930s), there was a famous travel writer who died in a boating accident. According to my grandfather, the man's death was the talk of the time. Grandpa doesn't remember clearly the events leading up to the writer's death or his name. Could you help?
A.E., Stroudsburg
The author may be Richard Halliburton, an intrepid adventurer who once swam the length of the Panama Canal.
Halliburton shared his many travels in his books such as "The Famous Adventures of Richard Halliburton."
In 1939, he attempted to sail in a Chinese junk across the Pacific Ocean from China to San Francisco. The feat proved to be his last. He was never seen again and later declared legally dead.
Every year I'm visited by a number of chipmunks. I like to think the same ones come back every year. Do you know how long chipmunks live?
D.S., Stroudsburg
The average lifespan of chipmunks in captivity — where the critters are safe from predators — is six years, with a maximum of eight years. When living in the wild, such as your visitors, their lifespan is reduced to two to three years.
Is Sally Starr still alive? I loved her horses.
F.B., Pike County
Dressed in a western outfit complete with gun and holsters, cowgirl Sally Starr hosted "Popeye Theater," an afternoon children's program that aired from the 1950s to 1971 on the Philadelphia station WFIL-TV.
During her career, Starr made many public appearances with her horses Pal, Silver, Cane and Rusty.
Starr died in January at age 90. Read of her death in the Pocono Record at bit.ly/14TJ5RI.
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Guest Rooms with Personality
Like any spare room, a guest bedroom runs the risk of becoming a dumping ground for things that haven't found their place. Or, if you look at the issue from a different angle, guest bedrooms can be showrooms for unique and personal objects. The key is to make it all work together.
The rooms above all have one stand-out element that helps to unify a collection of eclectic objects. In Photo #1, it's a folding screen that doubles as a headboard. In Photo #6, it's a striking paint color.
There's also a very personal sense of style that runs through these rooms. Because guest rooms are usually small and serve a limited use, they offer the chance to experiment with your decor. If you're working on your own guest room, consider a paint color that you've been hesitant to try or add some bedding that diverges a little from your usual tastes. Whatever your style, don't be afraid to mix it up.
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Based on the The Jay Asher novel "13 Reasons Why" (also spelled Th1rteen R3asons Why). The novel, a bestseller released in 2007, is described as follows: "Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker--his classmate and crush--who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list. Through Hannah and Clay's dual narratives, debut author Jay Asher weaves an intricate and heartrending story of confusion and desperation that will deeply affect teen readers."


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2006-12-28 / Opinion
A new resolve needed for New Year's resolutions
Every New Year's Eve millions of Americans make New Year's resolutions. Whether the resolution is to get out of debt, to spend more time with loved ones, or to quit smoking, these resolutions have one thing in common: they are goals to make our lives better.
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"Dante's conversations with his mentor Virgil and the doomed shades are by turns assertive and abashed, irritated and pitying and inquisitive, and Anthony Esolen's new translation renders them so sensitively that they seem to take place in the same room with us. It follows Dante through all his spectacular range, commanding where he is commanding, wrestling, as he does, with the density and darkness in language and in the soul. This Inferno gives us Dante's vivid drama and his verbal inventiveness. It is living writing." —James Richardson, Princeton University
"Professor Esolen's translation of Dante's Inferno is the best one I have seen, for two reasons. His decision to use unrhymed blank verse allows him to come nearly as close to the meaning of the original as any prose reading could do, and allows him also to avoid the harrowing sacrifices that the demand for rhyme imposes on any translator. And his endnotes and other additions provoke answers to almost any question that could arise about the work." —A. Kent Hieatt, professor emeritus, University of Western Ontario
"Esolen's brilliant translation captures the power and the spirit of a poem that does not easily give up its secrets. The notes and appendices provide exactly the kind of help that most readers will need." —Robert Royal, president, Faith and Reason Institute
From the Hardcover edition.


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On the magnificent coastal drive from Cape Town to Cape Point is Hout Bay and Mariner's Wharf, the first harbourfront emporium in Africa and the Southern Hemisphere (34°02'49.70 S 18°20'53.60 E).
Conceptualised and built by Hout Bay's own Stanley Dorman, it continues to grow under his, wife Pam's, and sons Garth and Anton's watchful eyes.
Its restaurants, shops and markets exude a maritime ambience as is nowhere else to be found.
Mariner's Wharf is a wonderful place, a place where the famous and locals, jetsetters and tourists rub shoulders with venerable fishing captains and old salts.
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Clinton gets accountability report on Benghazi attacks
By Andrew Quinn, WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday received an official review of the September attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, setting the stage for testimony on an incident that prompted a political furor and sharp questions about security at U.S. diplomatic facilities overseas.
The State Department said Clinton – who is convalescing after suffering a concussion last week – received the report from the Accountability Review Board formed to probe the attack which killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
"The ARB has completed its work. Its report has gone to the secretary this morning. She now has it," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.
The committee has been meeting in private and State Department officials have declined to discuss almost all specifics of the Benghazi attack pending its reports.
The findings are expected to cover questions on whether enough attention was given to potential threats and how Washington responded to security requests from U.S. diplomats in Libya.
A determination that top State Department officials turned down those requests, as Republican congressional investigators allege, could refuel criticism of the officials – and possibly even end the careers of some of them.
Clinton had been expected to testify to Congress on December 20 on the report's results, but is under doctors' orders to remain at home this week.
Deputy Secretary William Burns and Deputy Secretary Thomas Nides will testify in her stead at Thursday's open hearings of the Senate and House foreign affairs committees, Nuland said.
Prior to that, the Accountability Review Board's two leaders – retired Ambassador Thomas Pickering and retired chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen – will testify in closed door hearings of the two committees on Wednesday, she said.
The political uproar over the September 11 Benghazi attack has already claimed one victim.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, widely tipped as a front-runner to replace Clinton when she steps down as secretary of state early next year, last week withdrew her name from consideration, saying she wished to avoid a potentially disruptive Senate confirmation process.
Republican lawmakers had blasted Rice for televised comments she made in the aftermath of the attack in which she said preliminary information suggested the assault was the result of protests over an anti-Muslim video made in California rather than a premeditated strike.
Rice has said she was relying on talking points drawn up by U.S. intelligence officials.
Nuland said the final report could contain both classified and unclassified sections, and that only the latter would be made publicly available.
Central questions raised include why the ambassador was in such an unstable part of Libya on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and the Pentagon.
The five-person independent board usually includes retired ambassadors, a former CIA officer and a member of the private sector. It has the power to issue subpoenas, and members are required to have appropriate security clearances to review classified information.
Nuland said that Clinton – who intends to step down toward the end of January when President Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term – was "on the mend" following her concussion, which occurred when she fell as a result of dehydration due to a stomach virus.
She added that Clinton remained open to discussing the attack with lawmakers herself next month.
"She looks forward to continuing to engage with them in January and she will be open to whatever they consider appropriate in that regard," Nuland said.
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Blueprint: Photography In Printmaking
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Printmaking has always been driven by technologies developed outside of fine art practice for commercial or industrial uses. Artists are attracted to innovative techniques and continue to use technologies made obsolete by industry. Fine art printmaking has become an ever-expanding field of multi-media approaches to original printmaking, embracing new digital technologies whilst maintaining traditional techniques of woodcut, etching and screenprinting.
The exhibiting artists include members of the Glasgow Print Studio selected to demonstrate the diversity of photographic imagery and technology in contemporary printmaking alongside invited artists including Andy Warhol, Eduardo Paolozzi, Damien Hirst and Richard Hamilton.


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Uncompromising off-road optimisation makes this style stand out – perfect for all ambitious riders who are dynamically on the move with the GS on any terrain.
This becomes apparent upon first glance, because even the standard equipment captivates this style with numerous well thought out and functional details. And combined with the diverse range of off-road accessories, the GS becomes an off-road machine which can be stopped by nothing.
The sportiest standard GS of all times.
Functionally speaking, the new R 1200 GS Rallye underscores its claim to be the sportiest GS with numerous refined details. These include the Rallye seat, which features perfect ergonomic shaping for maximum freedom of movement while still offering excellent seating comfort – for two if necessary.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Stephen Cummins of St. Gregory's (Okla.) has been named the NAIA Men's Soccer National Offensive Player of the Week and Brock Vorwald of St. Gregory's has been selected as the NAIA Men's Soccer National Defensive Player of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Cummins and Vorwald were chosen for their performances during the week of Nov. 4 – 10 and were selected out of a pool of conference, independent, and unaffiliated grouping award winners.
Cummins, a senior forward from Portmarnock, Ireland, propelled the Cavaliers to two crucial victories this week. The senior scored two goals and added an assist in St. Gregory's 4-2 win over John Brown (Ark.)—a victory that punched the Cavaliers' ticket into the Sooner Athletic Conference (SAC) Tournament. Then—in the first round of SAC Tournament play—Cummins scored the lone goal, on a free kick in the 84th minute, as the 8-7-1 Cavaliers upset then-No. 12 Wayland Baptist (Texas), which held a 13-2-2 record heading into the contest. On the season, Cummins leads the Cavaliers in nearly every offensive category including: goals (17), assists (6), points (40), shots on goal (40) and shots (70). Nationally, he ranks among the NAIA leaders in total game winning goals (5th, 6), game winning goals per game (8th, .33), total goals (13th, 17), goals per game (16th, .94), total points (18th, 40), points per game (19th, 2.22), shots on goal per game (31st, 2.22) and shots per game (3.89).
Vorwald, a senior goaltender from Norman, Okla., anchored the Cavalier defense in wins over John Brown and Wayland Baptist, allowing just two goals on the week. The senior recorded two saves as St. Gregory's defeated John Brown, 4-2, in the final game of the regular-season, securing a place in the SAC Tournament. Against Wayland Baptist in the first round of SAC Tournament play, Vorwald made six saves, blanking the Pioneers offense that averaged 2.44 goals per game and had been shut out just once during the regular-season. In doing so, he earned his sixth shutout of the season, a career high. On the year, Vorwald has allowed just 1.04 goals per game, good for 37th in the NAIA. For his career, he has accumulated 261 saves, 21 wins and 12 shutouts while playing 4758 minutes in goal for the Cavaliers.
With their selections this week, Cummins and Vorwald become the first teammates to sweep the Men's Soccer Player of the Week honors since Paul Islas and Steven Waite of former-member Fresno Pacific (Calif.) on Oct. 11, 2011. Riding the nationally-recognized performances of Cummins and Vorwald, St. Gregory's stands on the precipice of an unlikely Men's Soccer National Championship Opening Round berth.
After sitting at 7-7-1 on Nov. 4, as the potential first-team out of the SAC Tournament, the Cavaliers have strung together wins against John Brown, 4-2, to clinch a berth to the SAC Tournament; then-No. 12 Wayland Baptist, 1-0, to advance to the SAC Tournament semifinals; and then-receiving votes Texas Wesleyan, 1-0, to advance to the SAC Tournament championship game. On Thursday, the Cavaliers will face off against SAC regular-season champion Science & Arts (Okla.) with the SAC Tournament Championship and an automatic bid to the NAIA Men's Soccer National Championship Opening Round on the line.
For a complete listing of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
For the complete player of the week calendar, click here.
Offensive Nominees: Rafael Ramos, Columbia (Mo.); Caio Lima, St. Andrews (N.C.); Dakota Shelton, La Sierra (Calif.); Kemar Prince, Corban (Ore.); Paddy Hoepp, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Tyrone Martin, Indiana Wesleyan; Mario Soto, Concordia (Calif.); Alan Craig, Midland (Neb.); Alberto Linan Gomez, Missouri Valley; Jonty Loukes, Point Park (Pa.); Luiz Filho, Rio Grande (Ohio); Charlie MacInnes, St. Ambrose (Iowa); Aldony Mendez, Aquinas (Mich.).
Defensive Nominees: Robert Buttvin, William Woods (Mo.); Leandro Custodio, St. Andrews (N.C.); Roberto Rodriguez, La Sierra (Calif.); Erik Carrazco, Northwest Christian (Ore.); Zach Chambers, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Dylan Bronkema, Indiana Wesleyan; Kevin Kiser, Biola (Calif.); Alex Guyer, Hastings (Neb.); Josh Wells, Missouri Valley; Ian Hamilton, Cumberland (Tenn.); Ross Alexander, Grand View (Iowa); Thomas Cooke, Jamestown (N.D.); Marcel Schmid, Madonna (Mich.).
2013 Men's Soccer Composite Award Winners (Defensive, Offensive)
Week 1 (September 10): Alex Nelson, Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.), Oliver Gore, Rocky Mountain (Mont.)
Week 2 (September 17): Jose Garofalo, Robert Morris (Ill.), Ricardo Valsien, Central Methodist (Mo.)
Week 3 (September 24): Tyler McIntosh, Mid-America Christian (Okla.), Josh Guerrero, Northwest (Wash.)
Week 4 (October 1): Jordan Farr, Corban (Ore.), Luiz Filho, Rio Grande (Ohio)
Week 5 (October 8): Lewis Wilcox, Midland (Neb.), Josip Druzijanic, Mount Mercy (Iowa)
Week 6 (October 15): Bryan Byars, Science & Arts (Okla.), Nicklas Petersson, Embry-Riddle (Fla.)
Week 7 (October 22): Alex Guyer, Hastings (Neb.), Jason Walcutt, Saint Francis (Ind.)
Week 8 (October 29): Aurelien Norest, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.), Joseph Webster, Shawnee State (Ohio)
Week 9 (November 5): Jordan Farr, Corban (Ore.), Alan Harwell, Auburn Montgomery (Ala.)
Week 10 (November 12): Brock Vorwald, St. Gregory's (Okla.), Stephen Cummins, St. Gregory's (Okla.)


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Jack Nowak of the agency's Monticello office said Monday that installation of some guardrails and restroom facilities in a parking area near Mill Creek is all that remains to be done.
Reconstruction of 4.7 miles on the road began last summer and caused delays for motorists in some areas. Travelers had to use the Sand Flats Road rather than La Sal Loop Road to reach some recreation areas.
The entire loop road should be open this winter, said Seth Wallace, U.S. Forest Service engineer for the Manti-La Sal National Forest office in Price.
The work included resurfacing the asphalt road, stabilizing slopes along the roadway, repairing and replacing culverts, construction of fill-slope retaining walls, and construction of a small parking area near the Mill Creek Bridge.
Total cost of the project was $6 million, including about $1 million for engineering, according to the Federal Highway Administration.
Project manager Chris Longley of the FHA, which did all the design work, said funding covered three of four sections on the road that needed repair. The fourth section – paving rehabilitation, widening, and drainage improvements from Ken's Lake Road to Pack Creek Road – was not done due to lack of money.
Longley said it's not known whether funding for that project, from milepost 2.0 to 5.3, will be available in 2013.
Improvements that were made include:
• Mill Creek from milepost 12.6 to 13.3, construction of a parking lot for use by climbers and renovation of the road caused by runoff.
• Miner's Basin from milepost 21.1 to 23.1, erosion and severe damage to the pavement resulting from the 2008 Porcupine Ranch fire.
• Gateway Road intersection from milepost 25.8 to 27.8, improvement of badly worn pavement.
The loop route begins at the junction with U.S. 191 six miles south of Moab and proceeds east and north 36.4 miles to the junction with state Route 128 in Castle Valley. The road is primarily on federal land within the Manti-La Sal National Forest in Grand and San Juan counties.


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By Malene Birger is an award-winning clothing line that trades in distinguished exclusivity and brings simple elegance to every aspect of its conceptions. Designer Malene Birger's regal creations have earned international acclaim and a royal audience: Princess Marie and Denmark has been spotted at her shows. Fashion icons Kate Moss and Claudia Schiffer also count themselves as fans of the designer's defiant luxury.


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Review Essay
From Parameters, Summer 2004, pp. 141-48.
The War on Terrorism: The Big Picture
Today, we lack metrics to
know if we are winning or losing the global
war on terror. Are we capturing, killing, or deterring and dissuading
more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are
recruiting, training, and deploying against us?
Does the US
need to fashion a broad, integrated plan to stop the next
generation of terrorists? The US is putting relatively little effort into a
long-range plan, but we are putting a great deal of effort into trying to stop
terrorists. The cost-benefit ratio is against us! Our cost is billions against
the terrorists costs of millions. . . . Is our current situation such that the
harder we work, the behinder we get?1
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
Such are the big-picture questions for the War on Terror, the kind that should have shaped Pentagon strategy from the start. Unfortunately, they apparently werent asked by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld until 16 October 2003, in a private memo that he issued to his top staff. While the media focused on his admission of a long, hard slog in Iraq, contrary to the rosy predictions made earlier, the true surprise was that Secretary Rumsfeld questioned even whether we are winning or losing the Global War on Terror. He described how his office had yet to enact a bold, measurable, or even systematic plan to win the War on Terror, despite being two years and two ground wars into the fight. In short, what Rumsfelds memo admitted was a shocking absence of strategic thinking.
One hopes that the 12-step programs are right, and that admitting ones errors is the first step to solving them.
Since the 9/11 attacks, the United States has expended an immense amount of blood and treasure in the pursuit of security for its citizens and punishment upon those who would do them harm. Yet while the US military has successfully overturned vile regimes in both Afghanistan and Iraq, Secretary Rumsfelds internal memo disclosed his frank assessment that we appear little closer to resolving the actual challenge that drives us, eradicating the group that carried out the 9/11 attacks and preventing any repeats. While the United States and its allies have seized a portion of al Qaeda lieutenants and assets, the organization remains vibrant, its senior
leadership largely intact, its popularity greater than ever, its ability to recruit unbroken, and its ideology and funds spreading across a global network present in places ranging from Algeria and Belgium to Indonesia and Iraq. Of greatest concern, its potential to strike at American citizens and interests both at home and abroad continues. After the Madrid bombings, some worry that its capabilities may even be growing.2
At a broader level, the United States and the wider Islamic world stand at a point of historic and dangerous crisis.3 Perhaps most illustrative of the problem is that what America describes as the war on terrorism has now become broadly interpreted as a war on Islam by much of the worlds Muslim community. Relations between the worlds dominant state power and the worlds community of over 1.4 billion Muslim believers stand at question, with potential terrible consequences. More than some lost popularity contest, the deepening divide between the United States and the worlds Muslim states and communities is a critical impediment to success on a breadth of vital issues, ranging from running down terrorist groups, their leaders, and supporters, to the expansion of human development and freedom, whose absence steers the next generation of recruits to radicalism.
In sum, our concern is not just with the Iraqi militants or al Qaeda terrorism of today, but also a long-term issue of grand strategy. The United States may well stand on the brink of an emerging fault line, or Clash of Civilizations as Samuel Huntington warned, that could shape global politics for decades to come.4 Many strategic thinkers liken the situation to a long-term conflict, akin to the Cold War, much of it taking part in the realm of ideas, but still with a decided security threat.5 If this is the case, then from the Rumsfeld memo it appears that our leadership is circa 1946 in its strategic thinking, still struggling to master the most basic of questions, who and what we face and in what manner to respond over the long term.
Five recent books wrestle with different aspects of these important dilemmas. They nicely illustrate the varied viewpoints and perspectives that cover the challenges of terrorism and relations between the United States and the Islamic world. The importance of such analytic debates should not be understated. The current debate over what is the appropriate grand strategy or paradigm for the war on terrorism could be just as critical as the arguments during and immediately after World War II over communism and the Soviet threat, which shaped the next 40 years of US grand strategy in the Cold War. Sharp diagnoses like George Kennans Mr X. article will lead to robust strategies and sound programs, such as the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.6 In turn, weak analysis and political posturing will generate miscalculations and failures, in the same way that McCarthyism and the misdiagnosis of the Red Menace rolled the Soviet Union, Red China, and third world nationalism into one monolithic and inseparable threat (unraveled only after Vietnam, with Nixons trip to China).
Princeton University Historian Bernard Lewis has been among the most influential thinkers in shaping the Bush Administrations post-9/11 polices so far, having advised both the Pentagon and Vice President Cheney on how to think about the Islamic world. Lewiss book The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror is a quick, post-9/11 follow-up to his acclaimed survey, What Went Wrong? While his new book breaks little new ground in either analysis or research, it does provide an easy-to-read general introduction to Lewiss line of argument.
Lewis finds the historical roots of the current crisis to lie in a uniquely Muslim rage, sketching the hostility from the advent of the religion to its global spread over the last 13 centuries. In the current incarnation of this rage, Lewis argues, America serves as the Islamic worlds archenemy, replacing Europe as the incarnation of Western greed and imperialism. The United States, with its values and policies, represents all that it is wrong in a modern world seen as unfair to Islamfrom unequal status in wealth, power, and success, to US support for the rule of tyrants in a region left behind by both development and democratization. Lewiss thesis describes Islam as a doctrine that rejects modernity, in lieu of a more sacred past, and is thus placed in a continual clash with the Judeo-Christian West. It is a simple, succinct, and thus seductive line of argument.
The book has serious flaws, though, and not just because it is really only an extended essay. Lewiss analysis is surprisingly ahistoric for a historian, glossing over entire centuries and deep complexities. In a sweeping survey, he jumps from the Crusades to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as if they were one pre-established continuum, with minimal stops in-between. He arrives at this deterministic viewpoint rather quickly, without establishing the underpinnings. Indeed, he accepts the radicals claims of being motivated solely by the events and wrongs of past centuries without question. (One is reminded of the 1990s ethnic cleansers in the Balkans, such as Milosevic now in the Hague, who pointed to centuries-past grievances as their justification, when they were clearly motivated by more current and often worldly interests.) In making a fairly monolithic analysis of Islam, Lewiss one-size-fits-all approach risks misdiagnosis and clearly misses the wide diversity and great debates within the Islamic world. For example, he often uses Arab and Muslim interchangeably, overlooking the differing paths that Islam has taken in places like India and Indonesia, where more Muslims than there are in the entire Arab world live under democracy, as well as the differences within the Arab world, where one has both regressive autocracies in the large states and emerging democracies in the small states. Recognizing these intra-Islamic world differences, and taking action to support those in the moderate camp and those who support our values, could be critical to developing a more nuanced and successful policy. Finally, the book suffers from the fatal flaw of much in the field, spending all of its energy in analyzing the problems, but offering little in the way of solutions. Indeed, perhaps it is best for Lewis that the book ends far too abruptly. Lewiss pre-war predictions about the potential of the Iraqi opposition being capable of taking over and forming [a] government, clearly were wrong.
Like Lewiss book, a new book by the noted liberal thinker Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism, primarily avoids the present day in lieu of engaging the ideas involved in the war on terrorism. Most of his argument takes place on the theoretical plane, including through the works of writers and philosophers from other contexts like Sartre and Glucksmann.
Bermans ultimate conclusion is that our present enemy is actually an old one in new clothing, arguing that the plagues of the 20th century are actually still with us. This latest spate of terrorism, Berman finds, springs from the same sources as Fascism did in the last century (in contrast to those thinkers such as Francis Fukuyama who heralded the triumph of liberal democracy in the Cold War as the
end of history). These same totalitarian ideologies have been planted in fertile ground in the Middle East. Berman argues that, like Fascism, the ideology of al Qaeda and radical Islam is driven by a fear and hate of liberal ideals of tolerance. These groups reject the hideous schizophrenia of the West that attempts to divide the state from religion and promotes individual freedom. Also reminiscent of Fascist writings, the groups texts emphasize death as a purifying event.
Thus, Berman finds that the war on terrorism must be fought in same way as Fascism was defeated, by beating back the radicals both on the battlefields and on the level of ideas. His ultimate hope is that, unlike the liberals of the 1930s who rationalized the politics of the Nazi Germany, the liberals of today will face up to the threat of terrorism. His equal concern, though, is that in confronting terrorism, we do not destroy the very foundations of our liberal world along the way. This is an important recommendation in a time of declining privacy, expanding police powers, arbitrary detentions, and media spinning.
Bermans book is thus an interesting read with a valuable point of view. But like Lewiss, it attempts to cover too much ground with little grounding and offers too few tangible solutions. Bermans greatest contribution, though, is an engaging and all-too-rare exploration of the works of Sayyid Qutb. Qutb is the Egyptian teacher who became the major philosopher for the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 60s. His writings form the ideological foundation for most Islamist terror groups today. Qutbs work Maalim fil-tareeq (Sign-Posts on the Road) was reputed to be almost as prevalent as the Quran in the Afghan training camps. Berman thus offers a useful analysis, with the benefit akin to how military officers and intelligence analysts read Lenin and Mao during the Cold War in an attempt to get into the heads of communists and guerillas.
Richard Chasdis Tapestry of Terror: A Portrait of Middle East Terrorism, 1994-1999 is the prototypical book for all that is right and wrong with academia these days. It provides a wealth of data and novel analysis, but packages it in a form that is almost inaccessible to general readers. Given the incredibly important and engaging topic, Chasdis work is too often difficult to read and overly reliant on dry and sometimes distant quantitative analysis. Make no mistake, this is a book solely for experts, but valuable nonetheless.
Building from his prior research work on Middle East terror, Chasdi lays out a program that explores the victims, motivations, and methods of terrorist attacks in the Middle East, and then connects them with the responses. His study finds that economic backwaters, both at the state and provincial level, as well as instances of failed modernization and unequal development, can lead to the formation and proliferation of terrorist groups. An absence of capable political institutions, as well as an inability to deal with minorities in an effective manner, can drive terrorist activity as well. In a sense, what Chasdis numbers are telling us is that failed and failing states, as well as the lack of human development, do matter for terrorism. This is a key fault-line in the field, so Chasdis evidence is important.
So while such quantitative analysis is often dry, it can reveal many interesting findings that are often ignored by policymakers and intelligence analysts. One example is the often cyclical pattern of terrorist incidents. The research also finds that across a distinct set of case groups, a counterterrorism strategy that is only
heavily repressive tends to backfire. These include the use of high-level assassinations as a sole means to cripple an organization. Instead of hamstringing the organization, the research shows that it usually ends up producing splinter groups that are even more actively violent and harder to defeat. It is a finding that the Israeli government can unfortunately now attest to, and one that US intelligence analysts worry is coming true with the evolution of al Qaeda from a centralized global structure to a more decentralized, regional-based network. Chasdi also makes an interesting foray into the situational factors that lead to spin-off groups to emerge from terrorist groups. In many cases, these organizations are far more dangerous than the original core, but trace their lineage to catalyzing events that might have been foreseen or even avoided.
The final two books under review here are by far the best. The first is Walter Laqueurs No End To War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century. This is both an essential resource to understanding terrorism, as well as a capstone to Laqueurs distinguished career. Laqueur is one of the foremost experts on terrorism, researching and writing on the issue for the last several decades, long before anyone even conceived that terrorism would be an issue of such import. He is thus able to make the historic connections and grounded analysis that others lack.
In a breakdown of the many forms and causes of terrorism, Laqueur looks at groups as varied as the turn of the 20th century Russian revolutionaries, who pioneered terrorism as propaganda by deed, and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, who pioneered the current wave of suicide bombing and other tactics. In doing so, he goes a long way toward dispelling the prevailing conventional wisdom that terrorism, and its suicide bombing variant, are of a uniquely Muslim or Arab origin. He also clearly establishes both the continuity of terrorism as a phenomenon and the important differences between the anarchists and radicals of the European intelligentsia of the 19th century, the nationalist liberation movements of the mid-20th century, and the more recent radical religious terror groups. Laqueur is also to be commended for the extensive bibliography at the end, providing essentially the entire library of terrorist studies for analysts and researchers starting off in the field.
Laqueurs emphasis is on the multiple causes of terrorism (religious radicalism, political repressions, and even individual and group psychology). This can leave the reader frustrated at times, however. Terrorism, like poverty, war, or even the weather, does indeed have multiple causes, but that does not mean that it cannot be answered or appropriate responses made.
The books closing points may be the most important. Laqueur finds that modernity, rather than just democracy as often expressed, is the most important force in defeating the present wave of global terrorism. Modernity involves more than improved material conditions; it also entails a transformation in beliefs and philosophies. While Laqueur believes that this shift is ultimately inevitable, the challenge for the modern world is that it is still in a race with religious fanatics to see who can influence the general population more in the interim. Unfortunately, the forces of modernity seem to be falling behind right now, with potentially catastrophic results. Perhaps most bracing is Laqueurs pessimistic conclusion that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) will be used at some point by terrorists in this continued conflict.
The strategic question that Laqueur presents, then, is twofold: The United States and its allies, including those contending within the Islamic world, must find a way to jointly support the forces of modernity both in the material and ideological realms, while diminishing the power of radicals, including preventing them from getting their hands on WMD. This entails both support for comprehensive political, economic, social, legal, and educational reform, as well as a continued focus on pursuing terrorists and those who would arm them. In weighing these needs against the Rumsfeld memo, it appears that we are doing too little of the former and have lost focus on the latter.
Finally, by far the most interesting and useful of the five books reviewed here is Jessica Sterns Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill. An incredibly fascinating read, it follows Sterns journeys as she seeks to understand what impels organizations and individuals to use religion as a means to organize for violent purposes. The book is filled with remarkable anecdotes that will grab the reader, from her dining with a militant Identity Christian in his trailer park home to conversing with young Muslim boys being trained in radical madrassas on the Pakistani-Afghan border. As in Laqueurs work, her meetings with radicalized mullahs, ministers, and rabbis, who have all created organizations wedded to the concept that God has instructed them to cleanse society through killing, goes a long way toward dispelling the idea that any one religion is predisposed to violence. Stern is to be congratulated for doing what too few dare to these days, actually confronting the issue she writes about.
The ultimate finding of Terror in the Name of God is that in this increasingly networked but still distant world, the most vulnerable in populations are particularly at risk to succumbing to the sway of a charismatic leader or a deeply believed and holistic ideology. These range from the abject poor to those who are dispossessed or disconnected in some way (such as the Muslim middle-class youth, with no job prospects in broken authoritarian states, who make up the al Qaeda middle management). At the core of the religious radicals doctrine is the creation of an us vs. them view of the world. A complication for these groups is that their recruiting must target the excluded and humiliated of society to be effective (as those who are content have no reason to make the sacrifice of joining), but at the same time must establish its concurrent superiority to those who are presently on top. This usually leads to the religious doctrine of avenging, where violence is described as a godly way to purify the world.
Sterns best analysis is in her look at the multiple structures and organizations of radical groups. Like militaries, radical groups also contend with mission creep, as what were originally religiously motivated organizations evolve over time. Activity in the groups becomes a vocation, and both leaders and middle-managers can begin to be motivated by worldlyincluding economicrewards, a key point to target. Most highly organized but leader-dependent are the traditional commander-cadre groups. However, we also have seen the creation of networked groups, which have multiple, lightly connected nodes, working under the same ideology, but not dependent on each other. The latest are lone wolf operators, who are inspired by a distant leadership or ideology to carry out their own operations, but not linked in any formal or easily traceable manner. As Timothy McVeigh or John Mohammed show, just because they are individuals does not mean they do not wield a devastating power
to terrorize. Stern finds that al Qaedas particular talent has been its adeptness at welding each structure into a fairly cohesive threat to the United States, spread across multiple levels and regions. Stern also worries (as does Laqueur) of the strange new alliances that this networking can facilitate. One surprising finding is the startling levels of support for al Qaeda among other radical groups, such as Neo-Nazi and radical Identity Christian groups, who celebrated al Qaeda and its 9/11 attacks for the attempt to strike a perceived shared foe. The potential of these links being activated makes the concept of achieving homeland security through racial profiling even more ineffective than it already has been.
Sterns book is notable in offering a number of policy prescriptions. She finds that key aspects of defeating such groups are to take away the power of the leaders recruiting and justificatory tools. This means targeting root causes like the lack of human development, political repression, and simmering conflicts like Israel-Palestine and Kashmir; helping to support failing states and post-conflict zones that serve as havens and recruiting grounds for their foot-soldiers; sowing confusion and dissent within the groups and their supporters (one of the weaker arguments, as the nuances required would appear to be beyond limited US intelligence capabilities); and providing alternatives to the problem of the often well-intended charitable assistance which such groups often warp, both to draw in members and to present a positive face to their supporters. For example, many of the radical madrassa schools that Rumsfelds memo mentioned thrive not because of their terror links, but because they fill an educational need in impoverished areas of Pakistan and other Muslim states. An appropriate response would be to shut down funding going toward these radicalized schools while also creating an active local alternative through the steering of funds toward more moderate ones, as well as bolstering the failing public education system in such areas, which forces poor parents to send their children to these schools in the first place.
In sum, the American military has carried out a dazzling array of actions in the last few years, but the Rumsfeld memo and the five books reviewed here concur that its civilian leadership still has a series of complex and demanding decisions to make in constructing a long-term approach toward defeating terrorism.
The writers agree sensibly that we must locate our policies on the side of change, not the failing status quo. An important realization, though, is that the needed transformation is not solely about short-term tactics or changing regimes through invasion. The realm of ideas is just as important as the material, so we must identify the United States with the positive ideas, supporting prosperity and opposing repression. There is a glaring need for the United States to articulate an overarching strategy toward terrorism that matches ends, means, and discernible measures. Part and parcel of this is not the issuance of more policy statements that are simply collections of tactics, but to establish a grand strategy toward the Islamic world that will shape our often disparate policies. The side-effect of building a cohesive, positive vision is that it will provide an agenda for our allies and friends to side with, as well as a program to contend with the competing visions, such as those emanating from radical Islamist and other illiberal forces described with such worry by the writers.
In turn, the military must also begin to face the long-term challenge ahead of it in protecting American interests and security. But this needed transformation is
not just about precision strikes and gigabytes. Rather, a military structure that has yet to enact the sort of crash course in Arabic and other Muslim cultures and languages for its soldiers and intelligence analysts (as compared to the buildup of Slavic skills across the force in the early Cold War), continues to stretch forces thin and deploy them into roles that they were not prepared for (such as having artillery and armor troops conduct counterterrorism raids in urban zones), and has a public affairs strategy toward the Islamic world that can at best be likened to an ostrich with its head in the sand (reportedly, CENTCOMs Public Affairs shop during the height of the Iraq war did not even have an Arabic speaker on its staff), has not fully adjusted to the changing strategic environment.
History ultimately judges wars not just by their immediate effects, but also by their legacy. World War I is usually judged as a failure not because of the lack of success on the battlefield, but by its failure to leave much positive in its wake. World War II by comparison is viewed as an ultimate success, because it heralded a new liberal world order. History now stands poised to judge usand Mr. Rumsfelds memoby the legacy that we are prepared to leave in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond.
1. Donald Rumsfeld, memo, 16 October 2003, http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/dod/rumsfeld-d20031016sdmemo.htm.
2. For a further analysis of al Qaedas health, see the authoritative guide to global military affairs, The International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance, 2003-04.
3. For example, in a survey of Muslim countries, only four percent in Saudi Arabia have a favorable opinion of the United States, six percent in Morocco and Jordan, 13 percent in Egypt, and so on. Similar patterns hold across the rest of the Muslim world, from Indonesia to Pakistan. In turn, a growing percentage of Americans are increasingly suspicious of Muslims and Islamic countries. For example, the number of Americans who fear that Islam encourages violence has doubled in just the last year. Pew Global Attitudes Project, Views of a Changing World, June 2003; John Zogby, Zogby International, America as Seen through Arab Eyes: Polling the Arab World after September 11th, March 2003; The Pew Research Center for the People and The Press, The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Religion and Politics: Contention and Consensus, 24 July 2003, http://www.pewtrust.org.
4. Samuel Huntington, Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998).
5. Eliot A. Cohen, World War IV, The Wall Street Journal, 20 November 2001; James Woolsey, At War for Freedom, The Guardian, 20 July 2003.
6. Mr. X, The Sources of Soviet Conduct, Foreign Affairs, 25 (July 1947).
Berman, Paul. Terror and Liberalism. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003.
Chasdi, Richard. Tapestry of Terror: A Portrait of Middle East Terrorism, 1994-1999. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2002.
Laqueur, Walter. No End To War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Continuum, 2003.
Lewis, Bernard. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror. New York: Random House, 2003.
Stern, Jessica. Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
The Reviewer: Dr. Peter Warren Singer is National Security Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and Director of the Brookings Project on US Policy Towards the Islamic World. He has a Ph.D. in Security Studies from Harvard University. His book Corporate Warriors (Cornell Univ. Press, 2003) is the first overall survey of the privatized military industry. Dr. Singer has served as a commentator for ABC, BBC, CNN, Fox, and al Jazeera. He also served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Balkans Task Force.
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