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The West Must Support Islamic Moderates to Fight Jihadist Terrorism
Counter-terror expert Boaz Ganor warns that Islamic terrorism is a deadly threat to Islamic moderates as well as the West, and outlines measures to reduce its influence.
Published: Thursday, May 12, 2005
How seriously should we take Islamic terrorism? And how can it be combated? For security expert Boaz Ganor the answer to the first question is very seriously. The answer to the second is a little more complicated but essentially requires weighing terrorists' level of motivation contrasted to their operational capability and going beyond military responses alone to offer educational and social services to the Islamic poor that have been left to the jihadists for decades.
Ganor has plenty of experience in his subject. He is a member of Israel's National Committee for Homeland Security Technologies and founder of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzlia, Israel. He spoke about his new book The Counter Terrorism Puzzle: A Guide for Decision Makers at the UCLA Faculty Center April 28. His visit to the campus was sponsored by the UCLA International Institute's Israel Studies Program.
Boaz Ganor began by cautioning his audience to distinguish between goals and methods. Almost all terrorist groups advocate political goals shared by others. It is the methods by which they pursue the goals that makes them terrorists. Ganor also sought to cut through the common argument that terrorism is a word used to define the violent actions of one's enemies while the same actions by one's friends are called something else. For him, terrorism by definition is "the deliberate use of violence against civilians to achieve political ends." Ganor affirmed that by his definition, insurgent attacks on American soldiers in Iraq or on Israeli soldiers by Palestinian militants are not terrorism, although they are part of a military conflict.
Religious Terrorists Are the Biggest Danger in the World
"I believe that international terrorism, mainly global jihadist terrorism, is maybe the biggest danger opposed to the safety of the world ever," Boaz Ganor declared. If this sounded like hyperbole, Ganor advanced a series of reasons for his belief. "The characteristics of the threat, what it is that makes them so dangerous are, first, the global reach. We are talking about a network that is actually spread all over the world. In the Arab and the Muslim countries, in the Western societies."
The second characteristic of the threat "is that these guys are experienced terrorists. They know exactly what they are doing. They were trained for ten years, most of them, in the trenches of Afghanistan, fighting the second superpower in the world, the USSR. They are the veterans."
The third characteristic of the threat "is that these guys are motivated by the most dangerous and extreme ideology. There have been different kinds of groups all over the world that have used terrorism in modern times. They have been motivated by different grievances: national and racial differences, economic and social grievances, communism, anarchism. I want to argue that when you are motivated by religious grievances, when you are motivated by what you believe is a divine command, God is sending you on your mission, you are much more dangerous than any other kind of terrorist organization."
Not a Clash of Civilizations
Ganor rejected the idea that the world is engaged in a clash of civilizations. "I see this as a war. But not as a war between Islam against the rest of the world. I see this as a war between Islamic radicalism and the rest of the world. It's very important to differentiate between the two because I believe that what we see here is a war of a small, almost marginal, part of the Muslim world against the rest of the world, which includes the vast majority of the Muslims themselves, who are not Islamic radicals."
Boaz Ganor supported this assertion by pointing to the large number of terrorist attacks within Muslim states. "A few days ago, in Egypt. A few months ago, again in Egypt, in Taba. And then a few weeks before that there was a huge attack in Amman, Jordan. And there were attacks in Indonesia, in Saudi Arabia, in Morocco, and in Ankara and Istanbul in Turkey. Most cases were in Islamic states, in Muslim states. So if you would ask me who is the biggest enemy of Al Qaeda and the global jihad, I would tell you that in my view the biggest enemy is not the United States or Israel or any other Western country. The biggest enemy of Al Qaeda and the global jihad in my view is a state like Turkey. Because Turkey represents the situation of holding the stick from both ends, being a Muslim country and practicing Islam and living under the conditions of the Western societies and being modern. That is the ultimate threat to the global jihadists and the Islamic radicals."
Bin Laden's Three-Stage Strategy
Al Qaeda, Ganor said, "has a sophisticated strategy to carry out its goals of spreading its version of Islam all over the world. Bin Laden is not a fool. He knows he cannot conquer the world." Ganor outlined what he felt was Bin Laden's three-stage strategy.
First, he wants "to shake the stability of the Muslim states of Central Asia and the Middle East." These are states that are majority Muslim countries. "You have an active local radical Islamic movement. And what Bin Laden would like to do is to create the circumstances that will make it possible for this Islamic radical movement to gain control in their homeland. That is the whole purpose of the global jihad. Not that they will directly revolt against the Muslim countries but that they will make the circumstances and shake the stability of these countries in order that other, local, Islamic radical movements can gain control there."
The second stage, Ganor continued, would be to weaken the surrounding states: Turkey; the former Islamic republics of the USSR; the western side of China, the Xinjiang area; Indonesia, Malaysia, and the north of Africa.
The third and final stage would be "direct and indirect confrontation with rest of the world and the Western societies."
If this is true, why did Bin Laden attack the United States on 9/11? "Didn't the United States belong to the third stage, not to the first one?" Ganor proposed that it was "because they identified the United States as the main obstacle to achieve the first stage." In support of this view Ganor cited the demands that Al Qaeda and Bin Laden posed to the American government immediately after 9/11. "They mentioned this in video cassettes and public statements. There were two concrete demands for the American people. One was to take your troops out of any Muslim soil. Two was, don't spend your taxpayers' money on what they called corrupted Arab regimes and Israel."
If the American people "were to behave the way the Spanish people did behave after they were attacked," the result, Ganor said, would be a U.S. policy of isolationism. "This would shake the stability of the states of the first stage, of Central Asia and the Middle East. What would Egypt do without the American monetary support? What would Israel do without it? What would Jordan do without it? What would Kuwait do without the American military presence there? They would not be able to give their people the basic services they are used to. The people would be very angry about that, and they would revolt. That was the plan."
Suicide Attacks and Nonconventional Terrorism
Another characteristic of the threat, Ganor said, is the use of the tactic of suicide bombing. "A suicide attack is like a small bomb. The suicide attacker is no more than a platform to carry the explosives. But this platform can think, and therefore this platform can decide exactly where and when to explode in order to commit the maximum damage." In Israel, he pointed out, there have been thousands of attacks in the last five years. "The number of suicide attacks is less than half of one percent of all the incidents. The number killed by suicide attacks is more than fifty percent of the deaths."
The danger posed by any terrorist group, Ganor said, should be measured on two axes: how high their motivation is, and how good their operational capability. Suicide bombers are obviously acting on the highest possible motivation. The groups employing this tactic, he added, have also been seeking or experimenting with chemical weapons and possibly considering still more grim alternatives.
In the case of the jihadist movement, Ganor said, "these guys, I would say bluntly, would not be reluctant, and will use, nonconventional terrorism whenever they would be able to do so. And when I say nonconventional I refer to chemical, biological, radiological, or, god forbid, nuclear."
Ganor cited an interview with Osama Bin Laden by ABC in 1998. "He was asked, 'Would you ever use nonconventional ingredients in your attacks?' The answer was 'Yes. I would regard it as a sin not to use every means that I would have in my hands in order to defend the Muslims from the infidels.'" Ganor also noted an interview his Institute for Counter Terrorism conducted with an active religious jihadist. The jihadist was asked "Would it be right to use nonconventional terrorism knowing that a lot of Muslims would be hurt as an outcome of this?" The answer was yes. Why? "Because we are fighting a defensive war. We defend the Muslims from the infidels."
When the American troops captured the training bases of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan after 9/11, Ganor said, "they found video cassettes that showed that the activists were using chemical poison gas on dogs. So at least the chemical capability was there back then. In the last four years we have had several nonconventional attacks that were operational in Europe and in Jordan." He cited two possible uses of ricin gas, in France and in Britain, and an attempt to launch a cyanide attack in Amman, Jordan, a few months ago.
Is the Jihadist Struggle a Defensive War?
Here Boaz Ganor took up the characterization of jihadism as a defensive war. "Actually people buy this propaganda from Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. You can hear in Europe, and also in the United States, 'Well, they are defending themselves. They defend themselves against American militarism, against military presence of the Americans in the Arab and Muslim countries. They defend themselves against American colonialism, against globalization,' and so on and so forth. I would argue, yes, they defend themselves. It is a defensive war. But it is not defense against American troops, or American militarism. It's a defense against Coca Cola, against McDonald's, against the Internet, against anything that has to do with modernity, which the United States represents in the best way. Because these guys know that the biggest enemy of Islamic radicalism is modernity. The biggest enemy of Islamic radicalism is the Western way of life. And therefore they would like to see to it that [the West] won't be able to educate or change the minds of the Muslim masses by being exposed to modernity and the Western way of life. The world is much more complicated than just calling your troops back home."
More Dangerous than the Soviet Union Was?
Even given this summary of the dangers of jihadism, how can Ganor argue that this movement is more dangerous than the Soviet Union during the cold war? "In the cold war you had two superpowers with hundreds of nuclear warheads facing each other. Surely this was more dangerous than global jihad militias?" The jihadists are the greater danger, he said, "because these guys have a different kind of rational decision-making process." The USSR and the United States, he said, shared enough common assumptions that they could negotiate; or even threaten each other, but keep communication channels open. In contrast, Ganor said, there is no channel of communication or shared goals that permits negotiation between the jihadists and Western secular society.
How Can Jihadist Terror Be Combated?
The most essential requirement of effective protection against radical Islamicists, Boaz Ganor said, is good intelligence. "It is needed to have accurate, up-to-date, good, intimate intelligence in order to fulfill all other missions of counter-terrorist activity."
Given good intelligence, Ganor then distinguished between two types of terrorist organization: a skeletal organization and a popular organization. "A skeletal organization would be like the Red Brigades, Bader Meinhoff, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In a skeletal organization you have a nucleus group of activists, a shell that can hold a few activists, several dozens, a hundred, a bit more. But if you capture or kill all of them you end the problem with this organization. So I don't jump to the conclusion that there is no way to solve the problem of terrorism just by using punitive measures."
Ganor contrasted this with confronting a large popular organization such as Hamas, Hizbullah, or Al Qaeda. "Then I would say it is impossible to deal with them only through operational offensive military activity."
There are two factors analysts should weigh in judging the potential impact of a terrorist group and what tactics to use to combat it, Ganor said. These are motivation and operational capability. The strength of a terrorist organization is the sum of these two elements. As long as motivation has not reached a certain high level, political or religious disagreement will not erupt in terrorist activity. Once motivation reaches a critical point, the members of the group seek out capability: arms, explosives, etc.
When to Expect a Boomerang Effect
"What can we expect from an effective counter-terrorist operation against a terrorist group?" Ganor asked rhetorically. "There will be a decrease in the operational capability of the terrorists so hopefully they will be unable to launch an attack. But I would argue that this would be a short-term influence." As long as the motivation is there, he said, the operational capability will be rebuilt. In fact, "the motivation will be raised immediately after the offensive campaign; that's the boomerang effect."
Ganor said that in his interviews with high Israeli security officials that he found them divided on whether there really is a boomerang effect. He commented:
"The boomerang effect actually exists. I can give you some examples. The first one in 1992. Israel killed the head of Hizbullah, Abbas El Mousawi. As a clear retaliation effect a month after that, Hizbullah launched a suicide attack against the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, killing many Israelis there. That was a clear retaliation, which was not launched before. The capability was there all the time. They could use it if they wanted to, but only after a rise in motivation by killing the head of their organization they retaliated in a way they were reluctant to do beforehand."
The following year, Israel launched air strikes against a Hizbullah training base in the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon in which 100 trainees were killed. In July 1994, "Hizbullah launched the second suicide attack in Buenos Aires, against the Jewish Community House. Clear retaliation."
Another example, Ganor said, was Israel's killing of "The Engineer," Yehiya Ayash, in 1995. "The Engineer was the one person responsible for importing into Israel the suicide attack, and it caused so many casualties in Israel. Less than a month later we had four suicide attacks in a row in one week, which had never happened before. This was a clear retaliation attack."
While some Israeli officials agreed with Ganor that retaliation attacks are part of the terrorist pattern of operation, some others denied it, holding simply that terrorists will attack whenever they find an opening because that is what they do. These officials replied, "When they launch an attack they will say, 'This happened because you attacked me' a week ago or a month ago. This is propaganda. This is psychological warfare."
This group also offered examples, where there had been no retaliatory attacks. "In 1995 somebody -- I'm saying somebody because Israel didn't take responsibility so I don't take responsibility for that -- killed the head of Islamic Jihad in Malta, Fathi Shqaqi. But Islamic Jihad put the responsibility on Israel and they said that they were going to retaliate against Israel. Nothing happened. Why, this school says? Because they couldn't. Not that they didn't want to; they couldn't." Another example Ganor offered was the killing of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the head of Hamas, by Israel in a March 2004 air strike. "And a few weeks after, another head of Hamas, the successor of Yassin, Rantisi. And Hamas was furious. The Palestinians were furious. . . . Nothing happened. Why? Because they couldn't." These Israeli officials concluded that there is no such thing as a boomerang attack.
"Who is right?" Boaz Ganor asked. Both, he replied. For a counter-terror planner, the key, in his view, is to weigh both the level of motivation and effective capability of a terrorist group before taking action. "Prior to launching an offensive activity I can tell you that we can predict whether there will be a retaliation attack or not."
Motivation and Capability: The Difference between Hamas and Hizbullah
In the last two years, Ganor said, "we have had a huge decline in the number of terrorist incidents in Israel. Both the Palestinian terrorist organizations and the Shiite terrorist organization [Hizbullah] launched much less successful terrorist activities against Israel. Now, I would argue that although the outcome was the same, the reasons why we saw this decline are totally different."
For the Palestinian armed groups such as Hamas, he said, the limiting factor in the last two years has been weak operational capability, not their motivation. "Their motivation is as high as could be, more than ever." Israel has succeeded, he said, in restricting these groups' offensive capability through military strikes combined with defensive measures, particularly the construction of the fence separating the West Bank from Israel. He presented a graph showing that while attacks on Israel have mounted steadily since 2000, that casualties peaked in 2002 and declined sharply after that. The great majority of terrorist attacks since then have been failures. "We believe that 85% of the attacks are being thwarted."
Hizbullah in Lebanon "also doesn't launch terrorist attacks against Israel," Ganor said, "but the limiting factor for Hizbullah is motivation." Hizbullah's capability "is enormous." Hizbullah "has thousands of Katyusha rockets that today cover half of Israel from Tel Aviv to the south and north. Hizbullah has organizations and cells that are ready to launch attacks in the West Bank and Gaza. Hizbullah has some sleeper cells within Israel among the Israeli Arabs."
If Hizbullah does not launch daily attacks on Israel, Ganor stated, "it is only for one reason. It doesn't want to." The main restraint on Hizbullah, in his opinion, is pressure from Iran and Syria as well as from the American administration. For Iran and Syria, which have sponsored Hizbullah, "it is not in their interests to see retaliation in the region right now. Syria has a problem with Lebanon. Iran has a problem because right now they have a nuclear capability. None of them would like to be responsible for a deterioration in the region. Therefore they prevent Hizbullah from launching its capability against Israel. So we see how the limiting factor is a different one."
The Ultimate Solution for Terrorism
The ultimate way to curb terrorist activity, Boaz Ganor proposed, is a combination of military repression with a long-term program to change the minds of potential terrorist supporters. First, he said, is repeated frequent offensive activities against the terrorist groups. "But if you do that successfully you should bear in mind that this just buys you time to build a new motivation. Sometimes, unfortunately, we tend to forget that and we are satisfied with the operational success that we have and we say everything is okay. But we turn a blind eye to the real problem."
Ganor judged that both Israel and the United States have had considerable successes in striking blows at the operational capability of terrorist groups, but the two countries "are huge failures in dealing with the motivation of the masses that support these terrorists. Both of them don't do even the first steps that are needed." He cited as an example a recent Israeli operation against tunnels Palestinian militants were digging between the Gaza Strip and Egypt to smuggle weapons and explosives into the Gaza Strip.
"When Israel sent its armed convoy to demolish several Palestinian buildings, because it was an operational need -- the buildings were being used as camouflage to build these tunnels to smuggle weapons -- Israel was criticized from all over the world for doing that, demolishing civilian houses. What I am saying is that when you have an operational need like that, you have to bear in mind what will be the consequences of your operational activity on the minds of the masses and the motivation of the community."
Ganor did not propose to abandon such operations because they stir up opposition and criticism. But, he added, "I would recommend that when you send this convoy, see to it that at the end of the convoy, after the tanks and the armored cars, you have two Brinks armored cars full of money." After the buildings are demolished, "if you find a tunnel under the building, you should send the residents of this building to hell. But if you didn't find a tunnel there, you should compensate the residents of the building three times more, four times more, than the worth of the damage that you caused them. It will not make them Zionists, but it can ameliorate the hatred. It can show the masses that you didn't do it to punish them or to take revenge or to create hatred. It will show a different way of dealing with this phenomenon."
The Jihadist Social Infrastructure
More broadly, Ganor said, the opponents of jihadist terrorism should imitate the educational and welfare institutions that have been a mainstay of the public appeal of the Islamic radical organizations since the late 1970s. "You take a village in Sudan or Egypt, you have a guy there who has three or four wives and fifteen or twenty kids. This is common, not unusual. There is no way in the world that this guy can meet the basic needs of his kids. And I don't refer even to a good education but to one hot meal a day." The governments of the region, he said, are too preoccupied with other problems to offer services to these kinds of overstretched families.
"The local Islamic radical movement opens a mosque in this village. And in the mosque they open a madrasa, a school. And also a welfare center. And they give all these services free of charge. Now this person who has these fifteen kids, he's not an Islamic radical. He's not an activist. He sends his kids there because he gets everything free of charge. And then, after a whole generation, what you see is masses who have been indoctrinated for years with Islamic radicalism. That is what has happened over the last twenty-five years."
Ganor urged the governments of predominantly Muslim nations to found their own educational and welfare institutions. He added that they should not expect quick results. It would take a full generation to have a noticeable effect, just as the jihadist infrastructure had taken.
However, he cautioned the United States and Western nations to leave education in the hands of moderate Muslim institutions and not try to run schools of their own. "There is no way that the United States or Western society can educate Muslims. Only Muslims can educate Muslims. And the nonradical Muslims have to understand that they have to fight. They have to fight this phenomenon, not because the United States and the Western society wants them to. Why? Because they are being regarded as no less infidels than the Americans or the Israelis. Actually they are being regarded as both infidels and traitors by the Islamic radicals. They cannot stand back and believe that it is not their war and that it is a wave that will pass away."
Ganor called on the Muslim states to outlaw the educational and welfare activities of the Islamic radicals and replace them with comparable institutions of the Muslim mainstream. This would require, he said, substantial financial support from the West. Ganor advocated a new Marshall Plan to offer help to the Islamic moderates. They need resources "to be able to close these services that the Islamic radical movements give to the masses and to open different services that do the same thing but without this indoctrination."
The Democratic Dilemma
Boris Ganor closed by touching on an issue that has come to the fore in the United States as well as the Middle East since 9/11: what balance can be struck between the needs of security and the protection of or struggle to achieve democracy and civil and human rights. "We have to acknowledge that there is a contradiction between the two" poles.
"The government in a democratic society, when they face terrorism, they are being pressured by their own people to use the most extreme measures in order to defend the masses." Any government that fails to respond with stern measures after a severe terrorist attack occurs, he said, "is committing political suicide." But if such a government uses every repressive measure at its disposal, "they lose their legitimacy to govern. That is exactly playing into the hands of the terrorists."
The solution, he said, is a careful balance between the extremes. "The American way, and forgive me for saying that I think it was a bad way . . . [has been] jumping from one end to the other end in a very short time. The Americans jumped from guarding very extreme liberal democratic values into the most extreme effective measures of counter-terrorism in one day after 9/11. We see Guantanamo, we see interrogations, we see Abu Ghraib, we see the Patriot law, and so forth."
Ganor contrasted this sudden policy shift to the approach taken by Israel. "Israel had, unfortunately, the experience of dealing with terrorism from day one." In Israel, Ganor commented, the Supreme Court has been intimately involved in reviewing and moderating military and government policies toward terrorist activity. The judges, he said, "were smart enough to give the tools to the security agencies, to the intelligence agencies, to fight terrorism effectively. But they still guarded liberal democratic values and they cut the edge of these measures to find the golden bridge between them." It is only now, he concluded, that the U.S. courts are beginning to weigh in on some of the more extreme measures taken by the Bush administration in its campaign against terrorist groups.


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TOWSON, Md., May 4, 2013 – The James Madison track & field squad finished in a tie for third place in the 2013 Colonial Athletic Association championships with UNCW at 127 points. The Dukes picked up two individual CAA championships and 10 All-CAA honorees.
William & Mary won the conference title with 154.50 points while Delaware took second place with 141.50 points.
Junior Erin Lopresti (Cranberry Township, Pa./Seneca Valley) won the CAA championship in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a personal-best time of 10:55.87, the fifth-best time in JMU history. She earned 10 points for JMU in the final individual event of the meet for the Dukes.
Senior Katie Harman (Clarksville, Md./River Hill) repeated as the 1,500-meter champion with a time of 4:27.19 and knotted 10 points towards the Dukes' team total. Sophomore Kristen Landry (Boonton Township, N.J./Mountain Lakes) finished in seventh place with a time of 4:36.57 for an additional two points. Freshman Kathleen Stewart (Holland, Pa./Council Rock South) was just outside of the scoring range with a ninth-place time of 4:42.31.
Senior Jennifer Monk (Bloomington, Ill./Central Catholic) set a school record with her second-place finish in the heptathlon. Her 4,796 points surpassed the previous record of 4,784 points set in 2008 by Christine Nicewonger as well as her own previous best of 4,555 points. She was just 19 points behind the CAA champion and notched eight team points for JMU. In her first conference heptathlon, sophomore Nicole Gilbert (Hanover, Mass./Hanover) picked up two team points with a personal-best final score of 4,074 points in seventh place, the eighth-best tally in JMU history.
Also picking up eight points for the Dukes was All-CAA freshman Adrienne Alexander (Queens, N.Y./Bishop Loughlin). She placed second in the shot put with a heave of 13.36 meters. Junior Kristen Greene (Colonial Heights, Va./Thomas Dale) took fourth place with a shot of 13.10 meters, earning five team points with her personal-best throw and fourth-best throw in school history.
In the 800-meter run, senior Annie Reiner (Virginia Beach, Va./Ocean Lakes) finished in third place with a time of 2:11.73 to earn All-CAA honors and six team points. Sophomore Morgan Sheaffer (New Bloomfield, Pa./West Perry) finished in fifth place at 2:15.16, a personal best, to tally four team points.
JMU qualified for the Eastern College Athletic Conference championships in the 4x100-meter relay with a fifth-place time of 47.84 seconds. The team was comprised of freshman Justice Seward (Virginia Beach, Va./Ocean Lakes), freshman Rachel Watkins (Frederick, Md./Tuscarora), senior Marissa McDonald (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin East) and junior Ciarra Morris (Richmond, Va./Meadowbrook). Their time earned four team-points for the Dukes.
Sophomore Jasmine Waddell (Mount Royal, N.J./Kingsway Regional) also qualified for the ECACs in the 100-meter hurdles with a personal-best of 14.16 seconds in fourth place. Her time is the fourth best in school history and posted five team points.
In the final heat of the 400-meter dash, Morris placed fourth with a time of 55.76 seconds and sophomore Destiny Simmons (Staunton, Va./Robert E. Lee) placed sixth with a personal-best time of 56.79 seconds. They earned five and three points for JMU, respectively. In the 100-meter finals, Watkins posted a time of 12.17 seconds, a personal best, to notch three team points.
Senior Christianna Moss (Montpelier, Va./Patrick Henry) earned three points with a 40.60-meter distance in the discus throw to take sixth place while senior Whitney Staton (Fredericksburg, Va./Chancellor) earned the same in the triple jump with a top flight of 11.37 meters. It was Staton's first time competing in the triple jump this season.
JMU scoring was rounded out in the 4x400-meter relay when the Dukes notched four points with a fifth-place time of 3:53.77. Senior Maria McDonald (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin East), Waddell, Sheaffer and sophomore Tiel Westbrook (Mechanicsville, Va./Lee-Davis) made up the JMU squad.
Several Dukes will now head to Princeton, N.J., to take on the ECAC Championships. Competition begins on Friday, May 10.
- Jenna Flickinger: 10,000-meter run (2nd place)
- Katie Gorman: 10,000-meter run (3rd place)
- Adrena May: Hammer Throw (2nd place)
- Kristen Greene: Javelin Throw (3rd place)
- Marissa McDonald: Long Jump (3rd place)
- Katie Harman: 1,500-meter run (1st place)
- Jennifer Monk: Heptathlon (2nd place)
- Adrienne Alexander: Shot Put (2nd place)
- Annie Reiner: 800-meter run (3rd place)
- Erin Lopresti: 3,000-meter steeplechase (1st place)


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The expert trails feature step down rollers, wooden berm/wall ride, large dirt berms, ten-foot wooden ladder step down, step up, rollers and a line of nine table-top dirt jumps in rapid succession. The green trails feature dirt berms, banked turns and wooden slat and ladder bridges.
A Bike Access ticket is required to access the Steamboat Bike Park downhill trails, open during gondola operations, as well as utilize the Gondola for bike uplift. The resort will rent top of the line Kona Freeride bikes, as well as freeriding armor and apparel.
Location: Purchase Steamboat Mountain Bike Access at the Steamboat Summer Ticket Office or at the Steamboat Bike Shop. Bike Access is valid all day, weather permitting. Mountain bikers must have a valid Bike Access and must sign a liability release form.
Dates: During Steamboat Gondola operations.
Phone: 970-871-5252
Location: Mountain bike & Cruiser bike rentals are available at the Steamboat Bike Shop in the Sheraton Steamboat Resort Hotel, on the edge of the Promenade at the ski base area.
Hours: Fri 9am-8pm, Sat and Sun 9am-5pm starting June 21, Sat- Wed from 9am-5pm, Thursdays and Fridays 9am-8:00pm starting June 24.
To download a PDF version of the Steamboat Bike Park trail map, click below.
Steamboat's bike network has gained an internationally known reputation. National, Olympic, World and Tour de France champions have all challenged themselves against the technical aspects, elevation and mountain environment of Mt. Werner. More than 50-miles of trails at the Steamboat ski area, routes across town and hundreds more across Routt County await riders of all ability levels and ages.
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When entering Steamboat Resort at any time, with or without a ticket, user agrees to assume and accept any and all risks of injury or death. Bike Park access tickets are available for purchase at the base of Steamboat Resort and are required for all Steamboat Bike Park trails (these trails are designated with the Steamboat Bike Park brand). Bike Park trails are CLOSED before or after lift operating hours.
Hours are: Mon - Sat. 10am - 4pm, Sunday 9:30 - 4pm.
Dates are : June 14 - June 16, Daily June 21 - Aug. 19, Weekends Aug. 24 - Sept. 30 (these hours and dates are subject to change).
All Trails are designated either DOWNHILL, MULTI-USE, UPHILL, or HIKING. Designations are subject to change, so when in doubt check with Resort personnel.
Downhill trails are for downhill biking only, no uphill traffic or hiking permitted. Please respect temporary closures. Lift tickets are required to ride the Bike Park trails. These trails include features designed specifically for downhill bikes. It is suggested that you lower your bike seat if you go on any features. Cross-country type mountain bike equipment is not appropriate for use on downhill trals and is strongly discouraged.
Muli-Use trails are for hiking, biking, and horseback riding in either direction. Please be aware that designated multi-use trails may have this mixed use traffic. Use of downhill bikes is strongly discouraged on multiuse trails.
Uphill trails are for Mountain Bike riding uphill and two-way hiking and horseback riding. Uphill Mountain Bike trails are also two-way for vehicles and equipment, so expect downhill traffic at any time. No Downhill Mountain Biking permitted.
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Watching inmates sleep and fart all night long, with the knowledge that Obama had been reelected, my mind wandered far and wide. One track I went down, Israel, realizing that they are an island now, launches it's attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities. Or possibly Iran, seeing Israel alone in a raft, launches a first strike. Either way, the resultant attacks and retaliation turn the Middle East into glass, destroying the flow of that black gold we and so much of the rest of the world are dependent on and the flow that has the primary effect on the price of that oil. There aren't enough windmills and solar panels and Volts to go around here, and no way to quickly get our wells and refineries up to full bore, due to regulations, taxation, and out of date equipment. That which hits the fan is not evenly distributed, gas becomes double digits per gallon, electricity generated by oil and coal becomes equally out of reach. Massive collapse here, likely in Europe as well.
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At about 11:50 a.m., Nevada Highway Patrol troopers were dispatched to the crash on Sun Valley Boulevard at First Avenue. The bus was stopped on the right portion of the northbound travel lane just north of the intersection at a passenger drop-off and pick-up point. The bus was occupied by the driver and three passengers.
A silver 2008 Honda Civic driven by a 64-year-old Reno woman was traveling eastbound on First Street and was turning left onto Sun Valley Blvd. The driver never saw the stopped bus and struck the back of it with the front of her sedan. No one on the bus was injured and the driver sustained minor injuries. She was transported to a hospital shortly after the collision. There were no other passengers riding in the Honda.
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A person vending in the street. The word "street" includes any public road, highway, avenue, boulevard, alley and lane in Phoenix. For more information, click here. For information on vending on private property, see Mobile Vending. For information on vending on sidewalks, see Sidewalk Vending Downtown.
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Tilford and Vickie Shepherd, of Thorntown, will celebrate 40 years of marriage on Sept. 22, 2013. The Shepherds were married Sept. 22, 1973, at St. Joseph Catholic Church The couple's children are Matt (Amy) Shepherd and Adam (April) Shepherd. Grandchildren are Cassidy, Ethan, Ella and Emily Shepherd. Mr. Shepherd works in field application for Co-Alliance. Mrs. Shepherd is a cook at Thorntown Elementary School. The couple has lived in Boone County all of their lives.
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Steelsmith 60th Jack and Joan (Alford) Steelsmith, of Lebanon, celebrated 60 years of marriage, when their children Tonya Thayer, Greg and Teresa Steelsmith and their families and friends hosted dinner at the Hollyhock Hill Restaurant, Indianapolis.
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David and Donna Boone will celebrate their 50th Wedding Anniversary with family and friends Saturday, March 22, at the Thorntown Christian Church. The couple was married March 22, 1964, at Old Union Church, near Jamestown. David worked at Eli Lilly f
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Jim and Marilyn (Winslow) Small, of Lebanon, will celebrate 50 years of marriage on March 21, 2014. Friends and family are invited to join in celebrating the couple's anniversary at an open house from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 22, at Trinity Luther
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Don and Alice (Breedlove) DeVol, of Lebanon, will celebrate 60 years of marriage this Sunday, March 16, when their children, Betty and Skeet Lollar of Sebring, Fla., and John and Valaree Messenger and Scott and Susie Lollar, all of Lebanon, will host
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Sam and Karen (Milton) Henry, of rural Jamestown, will celebrate 50 years of marriage on Feb. 8, 2014, at a private dinner with their family. The Henrys were married Feb. 8, 1964, at Franklin Road Baptist Church in Indianapolis. They moved their fami
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Max and Ruth (Jeffries) Spear, of Lebanon, will celebrate 70 years of marriage on Jan. 13, 2014. A reception will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12, at the Lebanon Senior Center, 707 S. Lebanon St., to honor the Spears' milestone in life and j
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Dale and Judy Shaffer will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, at the Boone County Senior Center.
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3392 24th St, San Francisco, CA | Directions 9411037.752125 -122.420441
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Neighborhoods: Central East, Mission
Good burger – I made a special trip to San Fran from San Jose to try the burgers at Mega Mouth. My burger was good, the fries were okay, and my milk shake was good. I was impressed with their use of fresh ingredients and the care they took in preparing my food. The service was good, the prices were fine, but the restaurant is small and rather run down. All in all it was a good experience, but it didn?t live up to the hype of being the best burger in town.
Juicy burgers, fresh toppings, thick-cut fries – When I crave a good ol' burger and fries, this is where I go. The burgers are huge and juicy (I usually have mine rare) and the toppings are very fresh. Lots of great choices for sauces (BBQ & pesto recommended) and cheeses. The fries are also good -- thick-cut, hot, and crispy (almost made to order!). The only reason this wouldn't be considered a gourmet burger joint is because of the atmosphere. Occasionally the tables and condiment bottles should be wiped down (they're sorta greasy). But everyone should definitely come here for the food.
there's no place like home – there's nothing like a cooked to order grilled cheeseburger on a fresh wheat bun topped with a nice pesto spread and hot crispy fries..yummmmmmmm! the food was great, the people were great, it will be on my hit list whenever i come home for a visit!
Big juicy burgers, fresh thick-cut fries and a friendly atmosphere have made this place a Mission meat lover's must. – The Scene
Brightly colored sponge-painted walls and big wooden tables and chairs give this Mission eatery a cheerful do-it-yourself look. The staff behind the counter is friendly, and the place has become a fast favorite among a wide variety of neighborhood locals, from play-dating moms and kids to the tattoo-and-goatee crowd.
The Food
The tasty burgers here are cooked medium, so diners should be sure to ask for meat on the rarer side. Buns (plain, whole wheat, French roll or focaccia) come toasted and squirted with choice of mayo, barbecue sauce, pesto, roasted garlic or teriyaki sauce. Thick-cut fries, served with the burgers, have good potato flavor--a better side choice than the bland coleslaw and baked beans. Vegetarians can dive into the good garden burgers or the piled-high Californian sandwich, a pesto-dosed extravaganza of grilled eggplant, red onions, red and green peppers and melted provolone cheese.
my burger – great burgers. the spreads really set this place apart from the others. and the beer. not too many casual places where you can get a great burger and a beer! check it out next time you get a craving.
Best burgers in the world – By far the best burger I've ever had. You have to get the chipotle mayonnaise -- it's absolutely amazing.
The owner is very friendly and always remembers me when I come in.
Big Mouth...... mmmmmmmm – Great burgers with many choices of toppings. Toasted bun, awsome fries, and good service.
Yummy – Yes, friendly service; great food! Excellent tasting meat & yummy mayo spreads.
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During a trip to Milford Friday morning, Senator Chris Murphy spoke with Superintendent Dr. Elizabeth Feser, Police Chief Keith Mello and Mayor Ben Blake about plans for added security in the wake of the elementary school shooting at Sandy Hook.
While will be added to Milford elementary schools, the City is exploring the idea of adding School Resource Officers, officers are specially trained police officers who carry guns and become part of the school's environment, to Foran and Law, as well as to the middle schools.
Murphy asked Chief Mello and Dr. Feser how they would deal with the concern that police officers in schools could "criminalize behavior in schools."
Chief Mello responded by saying that they were creating a program "that fits the needs of Milford."
"There has been a lot of discussion in the past about criminalizing behavior in schools, is that appropriate. I think you've seen the trend go the other way. I know in Milford we have a criminal diversion program," Chief Mello said.
"There are a lot of things that need to be handled within the schools," Chief Mello continued. "And that's a conversation that we'll have."
"I share your concern," Chief Mello told Senator Murphy, "but I think we'll address that in our program appropriately."
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CIO — When you hear the expression "big data," the next word you will often hear is "Hadoop." That's because the underlying technology that has made massive amounts of data accessible is based on the open source Apache Hadoop project.
From the outside looking in, you would rightly assume then that Hadoop is big data and vice versa; that without one the other cannot be. But there is a Hadoop competitor that in many ways is more mature and enterprise-ready: High Performance Computing Cluster.
HPCC Systems is the open source initiative of LexisNexis that has been powering that company's massive $1.5 billion data-as-a-service (DaaS) business since the early 2000s.
Like Hadoop, HPCC Systems is open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license and is free to use. Both likewise leverage commodity hardware and local storage interconnected through IP networks, allowing for parallel data processing and/or querying across the architectures. This is where most of the similarities end, says Flavio Villanustre, vice president of information security and the lead for the HPCC Systems initiative within LexisNexis.
HPCC Systems Older, Wiser Than Hadoop?
HPCC Systems has been in production use for more than 12 years, though the HPCC Systems open source version has been available for only a little more than a year. Hadoop, on the other hand, was originally part of the Nutch project that Google put together to parse and analyze log files and wasn't even its own Apache project until 2006. Since that time, though, it has become the de facto standard for big data projects, far outpacing HPCC Systems's 60 or so enterprise users. Hadoop is also supported by an open source community in the millions and an entire ecosystem of start-ups springing up to take advantage of this leadership position.
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That said, HPCC Systems is a more mature enterprise-ready package that uses a higher-level programming language called enterprise control language (ECL) based on C++, as opposed to Hadoop's Java. This, says Villanustre, gives HPCC Systems advantages in terms of ease of use as well as backup and recovery of production. Speed is enhanced in HPCC Systems because C++ runs natively on top of the operating system, while Java requires a Java virtual machine (JVM) to execute.
HPCC Systems also possesses more mission-critical functionality, says Boris Evelson, vice president and principal analyst for Application Development and Delivery at Forrester Research. Because it's been in use for much longer, HPCC Systems has layers—security, recovery, audit and compliance, for example—that Hadoop lacks. Lose data during a search and it's not gone forever, Evelson says. It can be recovered like a traditional data warehouse such as Teradata.


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Austin >Bars & Clubs > Darwin's Pub
223 E Sixth St, Austin, TX | Directions 7870130.267172 -97.740689
Neighborhoods: Downtown
ummmmm – will if you want a drink it's ok, pricie but everything else sucks
BAD PLACE!!! DONT GO!!!! – I played there with my band and the Manager/Sound Engineer (INCOMPETENT at both), Cut us off in the middle of a song because He IMAGINED different lyrics talking about him, SO he ripped out our amp power chords from the wall, IN MID SONG. He was completely unreasonable and delusional. Every one at the bar gave us their very kind compliments and emptied because of the completely unnecessary and negative environment when this all went down. I will never return there and would recommend that you shouldn't either. THE MANAGER IS OUT OF HIS MIND!!!!!
Worst bar ever with rude people working in – A guy that was cleaning the bathroom at the pub kicked me out of the bar for the rear door just 'cuz I asked if he was going to take long cleaning it!! Unbelievable!! You don't do that to a woman. Then the guys in the main door didn't let me get back to pay my check and get my credit card back. My boyfriend stayed inside the bar all the time without know that I was already outside. Thanks for messed my night up Darwin's Pub.
Worst pub ever with rude people working in – A guy that was cleaning the bathroom at the pub kicked me out of the bar for the rear door just 'cuz I asked if he was going to take long cleaning it!! Unbelievable!! You don't do that to a woman. Then the guys in the main door didn't let me get back to pay my check and get my credit card back. My boyfriend stayed inside the bar all the time without know that I was already outside. Thanks for messed my night up Darwin's Pub.
Avoid the pub and its whacked-out manager – It?s kind of a dive place, but the band was good.
If you don?t mind having the manager screaming profanities at your wife, manhandling you, and attacking you as you leave, then it is a fine place to go.
If you are just wanting to have a drink and a good time and don?t really want to deal with a whacked-out, ?roided-up, whacko screaming profanities, then go elsewhere.
Best Happy Hour Bar – By far the best HH bar on Sixth Street. Bartenders are friendly, outgoing, and relateable, as are most of the regulars. Many people go in to play trivia at the bar, watch the games, and just sit and chat. The food - Meditteranean wraps - is very reasonably priced and very tasty. Darwin's is a good place to stop in for a quick bite and a beer if you are on the way to work or just in town with friends and want a friendly environment while barhopping. Definately a favorite place.
Awesome hang out – Darwin's is a place where you can get good grub,good beer,and you meet the best people in town. The atmosphere is relaxed and the staff makes you feel at home. We have had several happy hour get -togethers and the owner as well as the staff are very attentive and they want to make sure we are having a good time. CJ is the owner with a hot, gorgeous body, plus an awesome cook and I just want to have his baby...and drink some beer!!! Great place to hang out!!
great band coming to Darwin's this Saturday – This isn't a food or drink review but a big recommendation for an upcoming gig at Darwin's. Saturday night, March 15 at 8 pm, a little ole band from Louisville, Kentucky , Marion Square, will be playing. These kids are the real deal! Their music is a great mix of acoustic-based, slightly psychedelic, slightly alt melodies and strong lyrics (by drummer Ian Willmot and guitarist Brian Goodwin), with the tasteful electric lead guitar of Brent Wilkenson and the especially strong vocals of McCall Cruse. While they are hard to define musically, they give a totally enjoyable stage show that appeals to a wide-range of musical tastes. Catch this band so some day you can say "I saw them at Darwin when they were just starting out." You won't be disappointed. Come early for dinner and leave late. If I wasn't in London, England, I would be there.
great bar staff and great owner, seating inside provides great view of bar and tv's... – on occasion, i'd venture into this place and set up shop to drink and stare out the window. then on one of these occasions i met the owner and we chatted a bit. then i chatted w/the bar staff.
all were friendly and great company!
now when i go in there, i feel very welcomed and i must say that this is the only bar where i have no problem staying there the whole evening... usually i like to barhop!
yeah this happens at other bars too i'm sure but i must give props to my fave bar in austin :)
Sixth Street corner bar features outgoing staff and substantial space. – In Short
A vibrant white sign signals the door to this spacious corner spot. Looming in the center is the square bar, capped with four televisions typically tuned to sports. Dark wood accents, crests and a few animal heads contribute to the medieval-like feel. Being situated right alongside the competition encourages stray barhoppers. The daily drink specials, live music three nights a week and few tables are sprinkled throughout make this a popular spot for socializing.
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