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Published: Friday, September 9, 2011, 12:01 a.m.
The Game of My Life: Seattle Seahawks
Paul Skansi: The big catch
Paul Skansi runs after a catch in a game for the Seahawks. Herald file photo |
This is the fourth of 22 chapters in "The Game of My Life," a series about former Seattle Seahawks and the games they remember most. For a look at the rest of the series, jump to the end of this story.
aving spent much of his adolescence on fishing boats, alongside his father and older brother, Paul Skansi grew up knowing what it's like to dream of the big catch. The Gig Harbor native planned on carrying on the family tradition of becoming a commercial fisherman.But even after Paul Skansi found another calling, his destiny was essentially the same. Skansi, a local football star who went on to play at the University of Washington and eventually for the nearby city's NFL team, made one of the biggest catches in Seahawks history. Even more than 25 years later, the memory still lingered in the minds of longtime fans.
Paul Skansi, the most improbable of heroes, will always have a place in the hearts of Seahawks fans who remember the big catch.
Paul Skansi came from a family so modest that few of the Skansis bothered to dream of things like college degrees or national notoriety. Paul's father, Nick Skansi Sr., was a fisherman by trade, earning his living by purse seining in Alaska with brother Tony.Nick Sr. got into gill-netting after starting a family of his own and eventually included his two eldest sons, John and Paul, in the business. The Skansis would go on ventures on the West Pass, outside of Gig Harbor, where the father taught his two oldest sons -- Nick Jr. was too young to join in -- the trade.
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Other than the occasional fishing trip, Paul Skansi rarely traveled, not even if it was the 45-minute drive from the waterfront community of Gig Harbor to the big city of Seattle. Unless the Skansis needed to go to Ballard to pick up equipment for their fishing boat, Paul wasn't much interested in visiting the big city. The only other times he visited Seattle were when his Peninsula High School football team went to the Kingdome to play in the state playoffs in 1977 and '78.
A natural athlete who loved basketball and soccer, Paul Skansi didn't even start playing football until his junior year of high school – and that was only because older brother John was on the team. Paul Skansi joined the junior varsity football team as a starting safety but played just one game during that junior season.
"I didn't have a clue as to what to do," Skansi recalled years later. "It was the first organized football I'd ever played. I put my pads on wrong, had my helmet so loose that you could twist it around my neck. I didn't have a clue."
Apparently, Skansi was a quick learner. He had two interceptions and several tackles in his gridiron debut, earning a quick call-up to the varsity. Playing exclusively on defense, Paul Skansi helped lead Peninsula High to the state championship game. Peninsula's Seahawks lost 57-30 to Burlington at the Kingdome, but Skansi came away from the season believing he might have found a new passion.
Paul Skansi takes a hit in a game for the Seahawks. Herald file photo |
"At that time, none of my siblings or parents had graduated from college, so that wasn't something that was stressed in my family," Skansi recalled. "And my parents couldn't afford to send me to college, so if not for the scholarship, I wouldn't have gone."
During that senior season, Skansi helped Peninsula go 12-0 on the way to another appearance at the Kingdome for the 1978 state championship game. Peninsula was playing a Pullman team that had plenty of offensive firepower of its own. The two teams found themselves in a shootout.
Early in the fourth quarter, Pullman drove down the field and scored a touchdown to take a 34-28 lead. The emotional tide seemed to favor Pullman's Greyhounds. But Skansi took the ensuing kickoff at the Peninsula 11-yard line and scampered 89 yards for the longest return touchdown in Washington state championship history. The extra point gave the Seahawks a 35-34 lead, and that's just how the game ended.
State title in hand, Skansi began pondering his next move. Part of him wanted to stay in Gig Harbor and work on the family boat. Another part of him wanted to follow Hunt, his high school quarterback, to UPS, an NCAA Division II school in nearby Tacoma.
And then there was the University of Washington, which played in the prestigious Pac-10 Conference and offered the remote possibility of an NFL future. But the UW was in Seattle, and Skansi was a small-town guy.
"I was pretty sheltered," Skansi admitted years later.
In the end, Skansi decided to go to the big school in Seattle because he wanted to see how he stacked up against the best competition. While he fully expected to redshirt as a freshman, a myriad of injuries at the receiver position forced Skansi onto the field early in his college career. By the fifth game of his freshman season, he was in the starting lineup. In the 1979 Sun Bowl, Skansi caught the game-winning touchdown pass in a 14-7 victory over Texas and was named game MVP. By the end of his career at the UW, Skansi was a four-year starter and the school's all-time leading receiver.
Paul Skansi plays in a game for the Seahawks. Herald file photo |
He went back to Gig Harbor and worked out, hoping for another chance. Several teams brought him in for tryouts during the 1984 season, but mostly they were looking for players to come to camp the following summer.
"I wanted to wait and see if something broke," he recalled, "and it did."
In the ninth week of the 1984 season, the nearby Seahawks called and offered Skansi a tryout. Seattle return man Paul Johns had suffered a career-ending spinal injury, so the Seahawks were looking for someone who could return kicks and see a few snaps at receiver. Skansi tried out, and was signed the following day. He played in just seven games that season, but caught seven passes and didn't fumble a single punt. The Seahawks liked him so much that they brought him back in 1985.
Skansi eventually played eight seasons with the Seahawks, catching 163 passes along the way. There is no debate about which of those catches was the most memorable. On a list of the most exciting plays in Seahawks history, Skansi's game-winner against Kansas City in 1990 ranks near the top.
The Seahawks overcame an NFL-record seven sacks from Kansas City linebacker Derrick Thomas and ended a 10-year winless streak at Arrowhead Stadium on a last-second touchdown. While quarterback Dave Krieg did most of the work by escaping Thomas's eighth sack and heaving the ball into the end zone, it was Skansi who made the winning catch.
The big catch, no gill net required.
Seahawks vs. Kansas City Chiefs
Nov. 11, 1990
As told by Paul Skansi
Heading into Sunday, it was just a game we felt we needed to win. We hadn't won in Kansas City for a long time – since 1980. My whole career, we hadn't won in Kansas City. So we were like: Let's just get a win here because it's a tough place to play.
Obviously, we weren't doing very well as an offense early in the game. Derrick Thomas was having a field day. We'd move the ball, get into their territory, then he would end momentum with another sack. He had seven sacks, an NFL record, and most of them came from the right side where tackle Ron Mattes lined up. Our linemen and backs were trying to figure out a way to help Mattes. We tried to help out with a second blocker on Thomas, with a running back or an extra tight end, but it didn't help. The guy was just on fire that day.
We just kept trying to get something going. Our defense played great to keep us in the game. That helped us keep believing. When your defense is playing well, you can always come into the huddle and say: 'We're one score away.' And we were the whole game. We were always in striking distance, and it came down to that final drive. Dave Krieg, he was one of those never-say-die, never-quit players, and he got us in position to win in the end.
We were within six points, at 16-10, when we drove into Chiefs territory late in the game. With four seconds left, we had the ball at the 25-yard line and one more shot. Dave had just completed back-to-back passes to John L. Williams and Tommy Kane to put us in position for one last, desperation throw. He had spiked the ball to stop the clock, and we knew this was our last chance.I remember the play vividly. We were in a four-receiver package. I was in the slot, inside, on the left side of center. Steve Largent was in the same position on the right side. That's how we always lined up in that formation. All four receivers ran vertical routes, and it was one of those plays, the last play of the game, so you just throw it up and hope for the best. We spread the field, and they played a zone coverage. Their free safety was inching toward Steve's side. Derrick Thomas broke through again, and it looked like he had another sack. But somehow, Dave ducked him and threw it. He ducked under, rolled out, and threw it up. The safety was so sure that Steve would get the ball that he left the middle of the field open.
Paul Skansi plays in a game for the Seahawks. Herald file photo
There really wasn't any first option on the play in terms of who to throw the ball. The first option was to get it into the end zone; that was it. We had to get the ball into the end zone if we wanted a chance to win the game. Dave didn't have much of a read because of Derrick Thomas getting there so fast. He did a great job of getting rid of the ball. Dave, he made the whole play. He ducked, avoided Derrick Thomas and made the throw. All I had to do was catch it. That was the easy part.
Because he had to scramble around a little bit, it took longer than it usually would. I had enough time to stop, turn and see the ball coming. I also had time to jump for the ball, which helped me shield off the defensive player. It seems like it's in the air forever when you see it like that. When a defense is playing zone, you really feel like they're going to converge as soon as the ball arrives, so you just hope the ball gets there quickly – before they do.
When the ball is coming at you in that situation, you don't really have time to think about anything. You don't think about dropping it. You just try to do what you normally would and concentrate on catching the ball.
It was so loud in there, and then when I caught the ball, it went totally silent. That was pretty cool. The whole scene was amazing. The whole magnitude of it: we hadn't won in Kansas City in 10 years, and the way we won the game. I hadn't scored a whole lot of touchdowns in my pro career, but I know that was the only time I ever spiked the ball. I'm not the kind of guy who's normally very emotional. I'm pretty even-keel, not one to show emotion. But I did that day.
It was the first time in my career where, with no time on the clock and the game on the line, I caught the winning touchdown. I had one while playing college football at Washington, just before halftime. And I had one earlier in my Seattle career where I scored late in a game that we went on to win. But nothing of that magnitude. It's a moment that everyone remembers – still to this day. Every once in awhile, especially with older Seahawks fans, we'll get to talking and it always comes back to that play. I'll never forget it.
espite being on the receiving end of one of the most talked-about plays in franchise history, Skansi didn't stick around long enough to make many more memories for his hometown team. The following year, in 1991, he was released -- five weeks into the regular season.The Seahawks were on a road trip for a game against the Cincinnati Bengals when coach Chuck Knox pulled Skansi aside after a Saturday walk-through practice. Knox told Skansi that he was not going to play in the game so that the team could add depth at another position. Skansi would be released, Knox said, but the plan was to re-sign him a day or two later.
"It didn't really sink in until I got back to the hotel and I talked about it with my roommate, Jeff Kemp," Skansi recalled in 2008. "I said: 'You think they'll let me ride back (to Seattle) on the plane?'
"They did. But they wouldn't let me watch the game from the sideline. I had to watch it from the press box. It was weird."
Skansi showed up for a team meeting later that week and was told he had not been re-signed. His career with the hometown Seahawks had come to an unceremonious end.
Without any opportunities to continue playing in the NFL, Skansi went north of the border and joined the Canadian Football League in the summer of 1992. He hurt his hamstring at training camp but was cleared to continue playing. The injury never fully healed, and midway through the season, Skansi's hamstring finally tore. Doctors found the tendon raveled up inside the leg and performed an operation to repair it. Rather than sit out six weeks and try to come back, Skansi retired at the age of 32.
"I had a good, long career and decided to hang it up," he recalled in 2008, 16 years after playing in his final game.
Paul Skansi walks the field during a game for the Seahawks. Herald file photo |
With two young daughters, Skansi decided he wasn't cut out for the vagabond coaching life that often forces families to move every few years. When the San Diego Chargers offered a job in their scouting department in 2000, Skansi jumped at the opportunity.
Eleven years later, Skansi is still working for the Chargers but living back in his home state. With wife Stephanie and daughters Taylor and Madison, Skansi has a home in Poulsbo, Wash., with a busy travel schedule that requires him to watch college prospects throughout the country. He is part of a scouting staff that has helped build one of the best teams in the entire NFL.
In Skansi's spare time, he occasionally goes back to his roots. Fishing has remained a part of his life, even if it's no longer a way to make money. Skansi often goes crabbing or shrimping near his in-laws' cabin in Hood Canal. When he goes up to the San Juan Islands for an annual golf tournament, he'll reminisce with old friend Mike Galligan about their fishing days. But they never pick up a pole.
While the other Skansi men spent their lives trying to make the big catch on a fishing boat, Paul Skansi made his on the gridiron.
"You never know where I would be if I took a different path," he said in 2008. "Nothing happens by chance; I really believe that.
"God has a plan. It's neat to think about it: if I didn't get a scholarship, where would I be now? If I had gone to UPS, would I have gotten drafted? If I stayed in Pittsburgh, would my career have gone differently?
"I believe nothing happens by chance. It's dictated by the opportunities you have and what you do with that opportunity. It's worked out great."
Saturday in Chapter 5 of "The Game of My Life," Kenny Easley recalls his love for the game, and tells why he doesn't regret the punishment his body endured.
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Comedian Katt Williams was a veritable firebrand every time he took the stage. His quick wit, manic energy, flamboyant outfits, and unapologetic insights on urban culture earned him comparisons to com...
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Katt Williams: The Pimp Chronicles Pt. 1 | 2006 2005 - 2006 | Actor | n/a | 20067 |
Katt Williams: It's Pimpin' Pimpin' | 2008 2007 - 2008 | Actor | n/a | 20087 |
Katt Williams: Kattpacalypse | 2011 2010 - 2011 | Actor | n/a | 20117 |
The Obama Effect | 2012 | Actor | n/a | 20127 |
My Wife and Kids | 2004 1999 - 2004 | Actor | Bobbie Shaw | 20047 |
The Tracy Morgan Show | 2003 2002 - 2003 | Actor | Freddie | 20037 |
Girlfriends | 2007 1999 - 2007 | Actor | Rick Beatty | 20077 |
The Boondocks | 2012 2004 - 2012 | Voice | n/a | 20126 |
Nick Cannon Presents Wild 'n' Out | 2012 2003 - 2012 | Actor | n/a | 20127 |
Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore | 2010 | Actor | Voice of Seamus | 20107 |
Scary Movie 5 | 2013 | Actor | Blaine Fulda | 20137 |
First Sunday | 2008 | Actor | Rickey | 20087 |
NYPD Blue | 2004 1992 - 2004 | Actor | Martel Cates | 20047 |
Nick Cannon Presents: Short Circuitz | 2006 2005 - 2006 | Actor | n/a | 20067 |
Shaq and Cedric The Entertainer's All-Star Comedy Jam | 2008 2007 - 2008 | Actor | n/a | 20087 |
Norbit | 2007 | Actor | Lord Have Mercy | 20077 |
Friday After Next | 2002 | Actor | Money Mike | 20027 |
The Perfect Holiday | 2007 | Actor | Delicious | 20077 |
The Comedy Central Roast Of Flavor Flav | 2006 2005 - 2006 | Host | Roast Master | 20065 |
Lonely Street | 2013 | Actor | Rodent | 20137 |
Eddie Murphy: The Making of Delirious | 2006 2005 - 2006 | Actor | n/a | 20067 |
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BET Awards '07 | 2006 2005 - 2006 | Actor | n/a | 20067 |
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Moved to Los Angeles, CA; began performing stand-up at clubs such as The Improv and The Comedy Store |
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Received scholarship to The National Science Academy in Dayton, OH; reportedly turned down scholarship by purposefully failing a math exam |
Starred in HBO comedy special "Katt Williams: The Pimp Chronicles Pt. 1"; also made executive producing debut |
Performed to sold-out crowd in Washington, D.C. for "Katt Williams Pimpadelic" |
Voiced Seamus the clumsy pigeon in "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore" |
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Returned for sequel "Pimp Chronicles Pt. 2" (HBO) |
Appeared opposite Eddie Murphy in "Norbit" and the spoof "Epic Movie" |
Katt Micah Williams was born on Sept. 2, 1973 in Cincinnati, OH. As a child, Williams loved to read - so much so that his parents banned him from the pastime as punishment when he misbehaved. Academic achievement played a big part in the strict household. At 12, Williams won numerous science competitions which landed him a full scholarship to The National Science Academy in Dayton. However, upon learning about his scholarship, Williams failed a math test on purpose so he would be disqualified from the program - a move the future comic later attributed to simply being a smart alecky kid. To express his creative side, Williams turned to comedy - collecting jokes and combining them with music. He had his first taste of stand-up comedy when he pretended to be one of the performers at a club the then-underage Williams was trying to crash. Without any prior experience and a prepared set, he did a ballsy five-minute improv to an enthusiastic crowd and never looked back.
Williams moved to Los Angeles in 1999 and began refining his brash, street-wise comedic style at the Laugh Factory, The Improv, The Comedy Store, and The Icehouse. Williams gained an even bigger following when he was given his own stage at The Hollywood Park Casino. In the summer of 2001, he received Cedric the Entertainer's Anheiser-Busch "Best Los Angeles Comic Award," a sign that Williams had arrived. He began appearing in several feature films; most notably the comedy "Friday After Next," the third installment in the "Friday" series that starred rapper-turned-actor Ice Cube. In it, he played Money Mike, the neighborhood pimp who is short in stature but has a flashy, hard-to-miss wardrobe. Williams also starred opposite Eddie Murphy in the comedic misfire, "Norbit," as retired pimp, Lord Have Mercy.
By the mid-2000s, Williams was a fixture in many stand-up comedy specials and on hit TV series like "BET's Comicview," "Def Comedy Jam," and "Comic Relief 2006." Williams' edgy take on life, combined with his loud personality, drew sold-out crowds at his live and taped performances, including the top-rated HBO special, "Katt Williams: The Pimp Chronicles Pt. 1," its sequel "Pimp Chronicles Pt. 2," and "Katt Williams: It's Pimpin' Pimpin'," featuring hip-hop stars Snoop Dogg, Da Brat, Lil' Jon and more. Continuing to build his CV, he guest starred on a number of sitcoms like "The Tracy Morgan Show" (NBC, 2003-04), "My Wife and Kids" (ABC, 2001-05) starring Damon Wayans and Tisha Campbell-Martin, and provided the voice of "A Pimp Named Slickback" on the animated series "The Boondocks" (Adult Swim, 2005- ). Williams was also the breakout star of MTV's highly-rated show "Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out," (2005-07), in which a team of comedians led by host Cannon and a guest celebrity competed in a series of comedy improv games.
Williams' star continued to rise, but life in the fast lane was not all fun and games for the comic. In 2008, he was ousted as the host of the "BET Hip-Hop Awards," which he had previously hosted for the past two years. The comedian claimed he canceled at the last minute because he lost a break-dancing contest to rapper T-Pain (who eventually hosted the event), but insiders claimed that Williams was relieved of his hosting duties after he engaged in an angry face-off with one of the show's producers. Rumors circulated that Williams was very demanding during rehearsals - berating one of the female members of the production team and refusing to come back to set until she apologized. He did not receive the apology, and in a rare show of solidarity against talent, the network executives fully backed up the producer. Williams was also briefly jailed in November 2008 after New York police officers - who pulled over the comedian for driving without a license plate - discovered three guns in his car. The weapons charges were dropped in July 2009 because prosecutors could not prove their case. Immediately following his arrest, Williams checked into a psychiatric facility in South Carolina after he was reportedly seen trying to check into a local motel wearing only a bathrobe and towel around his head, and behaving erratically. His reps immediately released a statement that Williams' grueling touring schedule had left him extremely fatigued, and that he was under a doctor's care.
By late 2008, Williams appeared to have gotten his career back on track. He was one of the voiceover performers on the animated film "Bigg Snoop Dogg Presents: Tha Adventures of the Blue Carpet Treatment" (2008). His 2009 "Katt Williams Pimpadelic" show entertained a sold-out crowd in Washington, D.C. He also gave comedienne and friend Kathy Griffin advice on how to entertainment a predominantly African-American crowd at the Apollo Theater on Bravo's reality show "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List" (2005- ). However, Williams found himself in trouble with the law again in 2009 when he was accused of breaking into a record producer's house in Georgia. The producer set the record straight, telling police that Williams was actually a guest at his home. In 2010, he provided the voice of one of the characters in the film "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore;" perhaps a move toward a more grounded, peaceful existence and career reformation for the sometimes troubled star.
But the peace failed to last very long when Williams was arrested in November 2010 for allegedly stealing $3,500 in coins and jewelry from a home while working on a film in Georgia. Though released the following day on bond, he was later charged with burglary and criminal trespass. A little more than six months later, he was arrested in Los Angeles on a count of felony intimidation of a witness when he participated in the assault of a truck driver. Three women allegedly assaulted the driver while Williams blocked his escape with his SUV. Williams was released the same day on $50,000, though the motive for the assault and his participation remained unclear. In November 2012, Williams faced legal problems once again, this time in the form of a $5 million lawsuit filed by a former assistant who alleged that he hit them with a closed fist. Not even a week later, he was arrested in Oakland, CA on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly beating a man with a bottle aboard his tour bus. Following two aborted performances later that month, Williams was arrested in Seattle, WA in December 2012 for an altercation in a bar and again in Dunnigan, CA on a felony warrant for his alleged involvement in a police chase that resulted in nearly hitting five bystanders two weeks prior. Just when his luck could not get any worse, Williams was arrested in late December 2012 for allegedly endangering his four children - who were subsequently placed in protective custody - and again in January 2013 for failure to appear in regards to his police chase two months prior.
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Williams was arrested once again on Dec. 2, 2012 after allegedly threatening people with a pool cue at a bar in Seattle, WA. A judge issued a warrant for his arrest for failure to show up to his arraignment on Dec. 12, 2012 (on assault, harassment, and obstruction charges) stemming from the bar fight. |
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"Our guys said we'd be well advised to have some bowl that we can drive to," Bowlsby said.
The Music City Bowl's current agreements are with the SEC and Atlantic Coast Conference.
The addition of West Virginia to the Big 12 last year has in part led the conference to turn its attention to the talent-rich southeast part of the country, especially Florida.
The Big 12's current bowl lineup includes: the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio; the Holiday Bowl in San Diego; Meineke Car Care Bowl in Houston; the Pinstripe Bowl in New York; the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl in Tempe, Ariz.; and the Cotton Bowl in Arlington, Texas.
Bowlsby said the conference expects to often have its champion in the final four when the playoff starts, plus send another highly rated team to one of the four other marquee bowl games. The Cotton Bowl is expected to be part of the playoff bowl rotation.
The Big 12 is unlikely to keep its affiliation with the Yankee Stadium game and there has been speculation the Holiday Bowl could switch to a Big Ten affiliation with that conference interested in playing more postseason games in California.
"We've had a 16-year partnership with the Big 12 and it's been a great relationship," Holiday Bowl executive director Bruce Binkowski said. "We are right now looking at all of our options moving forward. There's interest in the Big Ten, interest in the Big 12. We're looking at all options to make this the best bowl game that we can."
The top Florida games beyond the Orange Bowl - the Outback Bowl in Tampa and the Capital One Bowl in Orlando - have SEC-Big Ten matchups. Orlando also hosts the Russell Athletic Bowl earlier in the bowl season. That has tie-ins with the Big East and the ACC.
While the SEC seems likely to keep its flag planted in Florida, and the Big Ten isn't about to vacate the Sunshine State altogether, there could be a spot for the Big 12.
Bowlsby wasn't about to speculate.
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Welcome to the fourth part of the article series on how to maximize the performance of your website. This time I will show you how you can minimize the number of HTTP requests to your server by setting appropriate cache headers so that the browser does not request the file time and again while a visitor is browsing your site.
5. Caching And Expiration
Most of the people think that if a browser has downloaded a file like an image or CSS file from the server it has stored it in the cache directory on the local harddisk and will retrieve it from there without sending a new request to the server every time it is embedded in an HTML page.
However this is simply not true. Modern browsers just like Firefox or Internet Explorer 7 will most of the time send an "If-Modified-Since" request to the server to find out if the file has been updated on the server. This is good because your browser can use the file from the cache if it has not changed on the server without downloading the file again.
Well, this still is an HTTP request that is sent to your server. Just think about how often you change images, CSS and JavaScript files on your server. Every 2 minutes?
Most of the time your answer to that question will simply be "No." although this makes sense for some specific files like images from a webcam that may be updated every few seconds.
Cache Headers
This is the HTTP response header sent to your browser when you access this blog:
Let's examine the different headers in detail:
Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
This tells your browser that the file has already expired so that the browser should retrieve from the server again next time it is requested.
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0 Pragma: no-cache
These headers tell the browser that it must not cache the file and always has to revalidate if the file on the server has been updated.
Last-Modified: Sun, 10 May 2009 18:06:04 GMT
When looking at the headers of static files like images you will often see a header like this which is the file modification time.
Time To Optimize
So now let's optimize the header settings for some of our files. This optimization assumes that you are using the Apache web server. If you do not have root level access to your web server you cannot use this optimization as described here, regretfully. There are other ways which I am planning to write about in a later post.
First of all you need access to your webserver configuration. You need to add the Expires module ("mod_expires") to your Apache configuration file httpd.conf like this where all the other lines beginning with LoadModule are located at the beginning of the file:
LoadModule expires_module modules/mod_expires.so
This will load the Expires module into your Apache web server. Now you need to add the following lines to your VirtualHost configuration – the VirtualHost given is only an example – just add the <IfModule>…</OfModule> block to your existing VirtualHost block for the domain you wish to speed up.
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80> ServerName example.com DocumentRoot /srv/www/example.com/htdocs CustomLog /logs/example.com.access_log combined <IfModule expires_module> <Location /flvplayer.swf> ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 day" </Location> <Location /img> ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 hours" </Location> </IfModule> </VirtualHost>
This example code assumes that you want all of the files in the /img directory to be cached on the client side for two hours and the file /flvplayer.swf to be cached for one day. You can add as many <Location> blocks as you wish. There are several options available you can look up on the Apache website.
By using this method Apache will add the appropriate HTTP headers automatically.
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You can also set expiration and caching headers automatically in your PHP files. By default as PHP is a language where the code is interpreted at runtime PHP sends an Expires header with a date long gone. Here is some example code:
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$cacheTime = 60*60; // 1 hour
header("Expires: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s", gmmktime() + $cacheTime)." GMT");
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Never set the last two headers if the page you are using it on contains user-specific data. This means: if you offer a login on your homepage don't add the last two lines as this may result in proxies between your server and the visitor's PC storing this data so that another person who is using the same proxy might see confidential data belonging to the other user – "public" says it all in the code above. In all other cases you can normally safely use the code as shown above. Just modify the cache time to suit your needs.
How To Find The Perfect Cache Time Value
You should resist the temptation to set the expiration for all of your files to one day or anything more than a few hours. Just imagine you have an image on your website which shows a product with the price next to it. If you change the price when the user returns to your website several hours later (which may depend on your business) he will not be able to see the updated price because the original file has not yet expired in his browser's cache.
I suggest using several different values depending on how often specific content changes. Your company logo for example is unlikely to change every day (unless you are Google, of course) so you may set a high value here. Just remember that you can (OK, should be able to) change the value on your server at any time so if you are planning to update some images you may as well lower the value a few days or hours before the change is scheduled to happen.
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I know there's a product review section but since (to my knowledge) this hasn't hit the market yet, I was wondering what you thought about it (specifically the now infamous "Dendrobium"). And do you think we'll start seeing Dendrobium more and more in thermogenic supplements?
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I was under the impression that there were several different alkaloids (at least according to DS and their Craze product). But it does make you wonder why they would include B-Phenylethylamine HCL with the Dendrobium extract since B-Phenylethylamine is (allegedly) one of its' alkaloids. Maybe I'm off a bit, but it seems like something doesn't jive with this whole formula. Recent studies have shown Dendrobium contains several naturally occuring alkaloids. The problem is none of those alkaloids are PEA's.
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I am pissed at DS--- they keep refusing to acknowledge to those of us who have used both versions of craze and noted major differences between the OG and new formula... Perhaps Dendrobium Extract is a red herring. Looks like Gaspari may have fallen for it.
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There is now a Chinese company offering a dendrobium ''extract'' containing the same compounds found in Craze's ''extract'' + 2 extra compounds.
Dunno if those 2 compounds have any stimulant or MAOI properties though. I also wonder if they reverse-engineered the OG version or if it's just a marketing tool (look we found out and now offer the original extract).
I bet they're more than happy to provide you [a fake] one. They claim it contains nobilonine and 6-hydroxydendrobine in addition to the compounds found in Craze's ''extract''.
That's what's being claimed by several analytical laboratories indeed:isnt it true that dendrobrium does not typically contain phenethylamines in any quantity?
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I want to get a feel for what other fans would think about a potential hire at Auburn. I don't care about off the field type stuff. Just purely on how you thing the coaches would do in the SEC against your team and other in conference. Basically tell me why this or that hire would concern you or you just love because you think it's a bad fit. Keep the opinions of if we could or if we should hire out of it. Just purely on how you think it would affect you guys. So the list would be:
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Jimbo, Jeff, and Mora Jr. have the ability to establish Auburn into a consistent powerhouse. These coaches know how to run an organization as well as produce on the field. I think Malzahn, Petrino, and Fedora will offer more of the same which is much like a roller coaster. With Kirby you simply do not know. He has the pedigree, but you never know how that will transition. Plus, I don't think AU is patient enough.
I think you have to ask yourself the question, do you want to win now or do you want to establish a history of winning? In my personal opinion, if I were the AD at Auburn I would be talking with Pat Fitzgerald from Northwestern. He runs a top notch program, and his teams always overachieve. If he were to surround himself with a solid DC and few excellent SEC tested recruiters he would develop a program at AU that fans could be proud of.
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I tend to agree with this list.
Not sure why, but I'm not sold on Patterson. What's he doing that Fran didn't do or wouldn't have done at TCU. I think he's fools gold.
Malzhan would be interesting to see what would happen, but I just don't see him as a big time HC at a major University.
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Gus Malzahn- very meh (please God let AU hire him) Jimbo Fisher- pretty meh Bobby Petrino- good hire but I agree with Luciano about losing his edge Jeff Fisher- homerun but the notion of a 16 year NFL coach making 7 mill a year going to a college job is so asinine I can't even begin to wrap my head around it Kirby Smart- would piss me off Fedora-so so Mora Jr- homerun (I was high on him the second UCLA hired him. He wouldn't put up with Dye/Lowder/etc's BS so I think he would either finally rid AU of all those guys or not make it long) Gary Patterson- really good hire
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Thanks but a FYI type thing... Lowder doesn't have much to do with all of this anymore. He's not on the BOTs anymore and isn't the president of the bank. I'm sure he is involved somewhat but there are other BOTs that have way more power than him now. Dye was never and will never be on the same level as how Lowder was. We do have incompetent leaders still though. Just neither one of those.
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Originally Posted by LindenCy If he leaves there is no buyout is there? There should be a clause about Chizik leaving early and some sort of early termination penalty.
Originally Posted by MNclone I have a hard time seeing why so many fans are so outraged by this. Are you serious? Fans are outraged because donation levels were raised, ticket prices were raised, and we just gave out the biggest contract in our school's history and we didn't get **** for it. If he leaves, we just got pushed back again.
I had heard this from a local source a few hours ago and called a friend in the Auburn athletic department. She was gone for the day when this was all going on but was about 97% sure Chizik was going to get hired.
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Originally Posted by LindenCy If he leaves there is no buyout is there? Most of the time, the program hiring the coach away from another program has to pay to buy the coach out of his current contract. Hopefully Pollard built in a hefty buyout so that we can get SOMETHING out of this.....because it certainly wasn't a pile of wins.
Originally Posted by HandSanitizer So we have until 2014 before we can expect an average 7 win season? If Chiz goes.....I can understand why he did it, but I hope he lands flat on his face. (7 win season which is termination at Auburn) and we go to the Alamo bowl with a Tim Brewster type prototype... All that being said I still hope he stays. I don't think you know what you are saying here. We have no interest in a coach like Brewster. The guy is not a good coach, just a shameless self promoter. He won't be leaving Minnesota to take on a bigger gig. He will be fired in the next two years.
Originally Posted by MNclone I have a hard time seeing why so many fans are so outraged by this. Outraged, no. Upset, lied to, used yes.
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Screw him. He apparently didn't mean anything he ever said about rebuilding the program and staying here to see us grow. I honestly thought that if we started winning games, he would be gone rather quickly. I didn't see him leaving this quickly, especially to Auburn, with a 5-19 record.
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I'm mad too...but everyone would be a fool not to take the job.
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If this is true, I'm done with ISU for a while. This athletic department is a run-away train heading for an open ravine. As far as Chizik goes, if this is true then he is worthless. How can a man preach integrity and leave a program in such horrible shape the second another school comes calling.
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Originally Posted by jakemcilroy I'm mad too...but everyone would be a fool not to take the job. If he's as good as advertised, there would be future opportunties once he'daccomplished some things at ISU. Now he is just a man without honor.
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The Sri Lanka Champion of Champions Surf Contest saw two new champions, some great weather and perfect conditions. UK Pro Surf Tour Champion Alan Stokes from Newquay and Welsh Champion Beth Mason showed stunning form in 3 to 4 ft conditions to take the top spots on the podium at one of the year's most prestigious contests. Organised by the UK Pro Surf Association (UKPSA), the event saw one of the largest ever entries with over 50 contestants travelling from all over the world to bid for this major title at Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka..
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The all Welsh Women on Women final, was a fight to the end. With Beth Mason winning the Sri Lankan Champion of Champions Women's division by only a 0.77 lead, leaving Gwen Spurlock to pick up a very close 2nd place. The local division also saw some great surfing and all the equipment that was used for the competition was kindly donated to them by the sponsors. Throughout the contest training had been given to the locals in judging and other aspects of contest management, and they hope this gift will allow them to run their own contests raising what is already a high standard of surfing in the area.
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This year's Champion Alan Stokes, commented, "I am ecstatic to have won this event, after coming 2nd last year and in previous years, it feels likes it has been a long time coming. It has been really nice to have an event with great waves and a really cool atmosphere. Reubin and I came here three weeks before the event and we both finished in 1st and 2nd so it feels like the training has paid off."
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Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf
Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf | |
Birth name | Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf |
Born | Penzing (Vienna), Austrian Empire |
November 11, 1852
Died | 25 August 1925 Bad Mergentheim, Germany |
(aged 72)
Allegiance | Austria-Hungary |
Service/branch | Army |
Years of service | 1871–1918 |
Rank | Feldmarschall |
Battles/wars | First World War |
Count Franz Xaver Joseph Conrad von Hötzendorf German: Franz Xaver Josef Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf (11 November 1852 – 25 August 1925), sometimes spelt Hoetzendorf, was an Austrian officer and Chief of the General Staff of the armed forces of the Austro-Hungarian Army and Navy during the 1914 July Crisis that led to the outbreak of World War I.[Note 1]
Conrad was born in Penzing, a suburb of Vienna, to an Austrian officers' family. His great-grandfather Franz Anton Conrad (1738-1827) had received the nobiliary particle von Hötzendorf as a predicate in 1815, referring to the surname of his first wife who descended from the Bavarian Upper Palatinate region. His father Franz Xaver Conrad (1793–1878) was a retired colonel of Hussars, originally from south Moravia, who had fought in the Battle of Leipzig and took part in the suppression of the Vienna Uprising of 1848, whereby he was severely wounded.
Conrad married Wilhelmine le Beau (1860–1905) in 1886, with whom he had four sons. He would later marry Virginia von Reininghaus in 1915, against the wishes of his children.
Military career[edit]
Conrad joined the cadet corps of the Hainburg garrison and was educated at the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt, where he developed a strong interest in natural science, especially in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. In 1871, at age 19 he received a commission as lieutenant in a Jäger battalion.[1] After graduating from the Kriegsschule military academy in 1876, he transferred to the General Staff Corps of the Austro-Hungarian Army.[2]
In 1878–1879, upon the Treaty of Berlin, these duties brought him to the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sanjak of Novi Pazar, when those Ottoman provinces were assigned to the military administration of Austria-Hungary. He was also a member of the staff in the rank of a Captain (Hauptmann) during the 1882 insurrection in the Austrian Kingdom of Dalmatia. In 1886 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the 11th Infanftry Division at Lemberg, where he showed great ability in reforming field exercise. Elevated to the rank of a Major, in the fall of 1888, he began a new appointment as a professor of military tactics in the Kriegsschule in Vienna,[1] a position he prepared for by touring the battlefields of the Franco-Prussian War. Conrad proved to be a good teacher quite popular among his students.[3]
Return to command and Chief of Staff[edit]
In 1892 he requested transfer back to command and took charge of the 93rd Infantry Regiment at Olmütz. From 1895 he commanded the 1st Infantry Regiment Kaiser at Kraków and from 1899 the 55th Infantry Brigade in Trieste, promoted to a Major general.[2] After acting against a major Italian uprising in the city in 1902, he was made Field Marshal lieutenant and took command of the 8th Infantry Division at Innsbruck in 1903.[2]
By the time of his appointment as Chief of Staff for the Armed Might of Austria-Hungary at the suggestion of the heir to the throne (Thronfolger), Archduke Franz Ferdinand in November 1906, Conrad had established a reputation as a teacher and writer. Like other Austro-Hungarian officers of his generation, he had little direct combat experience,[3] but had studied and written extensively about theory and tactics. His published works on infantry tactics sold well and were printed in multiple editions.[4] He was a tireless campaigner for modernization of the armed forces.
Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria vested Conrad with the noble rank of a Freiherr in 1910. His differences with Foreign Minister Count Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, who several times objected Conrad's suggestion of a preventive war against Italy, over the Bosnian crisis led to his dismissal in 1911, under the pretext of an affair with his later wife Virgina Reininghaus. Nevertheless, after Aehrenthal had resigned and died the next year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand urged for Conrad's re-appointment, which took place during the Balkan Wars in December 1912.
First World War[edit]
Up to the July Crisis upon the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Conrad was one of the main proponents of a preemptive strike against the Kingdom of Serbia in response. However, he was aware that the Austro-Hungarian armed forces were not prepared for an immediate attack, and now asked for delay. Emperor Franz Joseph as well as Foreign Minister Count Leopold Berchtold hesitated and left the decision on war to the German allies. Even after Chef de Cabinet Count Alexander Hoyos returned from Berlin with carte blanche, it took Berchtold until 23 July to issue a 48-hours-ultimatum to Serbia. Conrad declared the point of no return was reached and the army's return to peace no longer possible.
Upon the Emperor's declaration of war, Conrad moved against Serbia, but had to deal with a massive incursion of Imperial Russian troops into the Austrian Kingdom of Galicia. He had obviously underestimated Russian manpower, but with the support of the German Army he was able to repulse the invading troops, to conquer large parts of Serbia, Montenegro and Romania and to stabilise the Italian front. He pushed the new Foreign Minister Stephan Burián von Rajecz for the annexation of the occupied lands and continuously intrigued against the Hungarian prime minister István Tisza as well as against the Austrian minister president Count Karl von Stürgkh, whom he considered a fool, though to no avail. On the other hand, the relations with the German Supreme Army Command (OHL) worsened due to the uneasy relationship between Conrad and General Erich von Falkenhayn.
Following the accession of Emperor Charles I of Austria to the throne in November 1916, Conrad was elevated to the rank of field marshal, one of only three men in Austria-Hungary to hold that rank at the time.[5] While still the heir-apparent, Charles had reported to Emperor Franz Josef that the "mismanagement" in the army's high command could not be cleared out until Conrad was replaced, but admitted that finding someone to take his role would not be easy.[5] Yet under the new emperor, Conrad's powers were gradually eroded. In December, the commander-in-chief Archduke Friedrich of Austria-Teschen was removed from office, which the new emperor assumed himself. Charles took operational control of all combat units in the army and navy and on 1 March 1917 officially dismissed Conrad, who then requested retirement. The emperor personally asked him to remain on active duty, and when Conrad accepted, he was placed in command of the South Tyrolean Army Group.[6]
In the late spring of 1918, the failure of the Austro-Hungarian offensives against the Italians, with costly and bloody assaults led by both Conrad and Boroević, brought condemnation upon the imperial leadership.[7] Further complicating Conrad's image was his identification with those in the government intent on continuing the war.[5] In this atmosphere, Conrad, described as a "broken man", was dismissed on July 15, perhaps in an effort to deflect further criticism.[8] At the same time he was promoted from Freiherr to the noble rank of a Graf (Count) and received the honorific post of a Guard colonel.
After the war, Conrad denied any personal guilt for the outbreak and the results of the war and blamed the Imperial court and politicians for it. Embittered and sickened, he died on 25 August 1925, while taking a cure in Bad Mergentheim, Germany.
When he was buried at Hietzing Cemetery in Vienna on 2 September 1925, more than 100,000 mourners participated in observances. After long discussions, his Ehrengrab (grave of honor) was changed into a historical grave in 2012.
Policy, politics, and theory[edit]
In military matters, Conrad emphasized the importance of aggressive, well-trained infantry and the strategic and tactical offensive.[2] He often proposed unrealistically grandiose plans, disregarding the realities of terrain and climate. The plans that he drew up frequently underestimated the power of the enemy and the potential of quick-firing artillery forces.
His mistakes led to the disastrous first year of war that crippled Austro-Hungarian military capabilities. For example, in the 1914 Serbian Campaign, led by General Oskar Potiorek, the Serbian Army despite the enormous Austro-Hungarian manpower advantage proved far more effective than Conrad had expected. Undefeated in all major battles, it finally enforced a full-scale retreat of Potiorek's troops by the end of the year. Also the first Austro-Hungarian offensives against Russia were remarkable for their lack of effect, culminating in the lost Battle of Galicia and the disastrous Siege of Przemyśl combined with massive human cost. Conrad blamed the German allies, who had driven out the Russian Army from East Prussia in the Battle of Tannenberg, for the lack of military support. The most disastrous defeat came in 1916, in the Russian Brusilov Offensive, one of the most lethal battles in world history, whereby the Austro-Hungarian forces under Conrad's command lost more than 600,000 men, and were never again capable of mounting an offensive without German help. Most of Austria's victories were possible only in cooperation with the German OHL command, on which the Austro-Hungarian army became increasingly dependent.
On the other hand, the historian Cyril Falls argues that Conrad was probably the best strategist of the war and that his plans were brilliant in conception. The German generals in the east based most of their successful offensive operations on Conrad's plans.[9] To his admirers he was a "military genius"; one such admirer was the Soviet general and theorist Boris Shaposhnikov in his book Mozg Armii, in which Conrad was presented as a model for a good Chief of the General Staff. On the other hand, "Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf never admitted his share of responsibility for the onset of the First World War or the defeat of Austria-Hungary... he claimed to have been "just a military expert" with no voice in the key decisions".[10]
Conrad was something of a Social Darwinist, and believed a battle between German and Slavic civilization was inevitable. The power of the Magyar elite within Austria-Hungary troubled him, as he believed it weakened and diluted what he saw as an essentially German-Austrian empire. He also worried about Italian ambitions in the Balkans. However, his greatest ambition was for a pre-emptive war against Serbia in order to neutralize the threat that he believed they posed, and at the same time change the political balance within the Dual Monarchy against the Magyars by incorporating more Slavs in a third Yugoslavian component under Austrian control, denying the principle of self-determination. According to Hew Strachan, "Conrad von Hötzendorf first proposed preventive war against Serbia in 1906, and he did so again in 1908-9, in 1912-13, in October 1913, and May 1914: between 1 January 1913 and 1 January 1914 he proposed a Serbian war twenty-five times".[11] When the moment came, Conrad was not able to carry the desired preemptive strike, making a world war inevitable.
For decades, the reputation of the Austro-Hungarian Army and Conrad as one of the greatest military commanders in modern history was a matter of national pride among patriotic circles in post-war Austria—though his policies and tactics had already been criticized by contemporaries like Karl Kraus, who in his satirical drama The Last Days of Mankind portrayed him as a vain poser (I 2). Not until the 1960s, in the course of the renewed controversy over the causes of World War I, the evaluation of his role shifted from hagiography towards a widespread perception as a warmonger and imperialist. Nevertheless, up to today several streets in Austria are named after him.
Conrad's guard uniform and some of his personal belongings are on display at the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna. In 1938 the Wehrmacht barracks of the 1st Mountain Division in Oberammergau, Bavaria were named Conrad-von-Hötzendorf-Kaserne; it is today operated by the Bundeswehr and site of the NATO School. The medical service centre of the Austrian Armed Forces in Innsbruck is named after Field Marshal Conrad. In the Austrian cities of Graz and Berndorf streets were named Conrad-von-Hötzendorf-Straße.
Conrad has a prominent role in Dennis Wheatley's historical adventure The Second Seal (1950). He also appeared as Major Hötzendorfer in various episodes of the East German Mosaik comic book.
Decorations and awards[edit]
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Italian Wikipedia.
- Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa
- Military Merit Cross, 1st class with war decoration (8 December 1914)
- Gold Military Merit Medal ("Signum Laudis")
- War Medal
- Medal for 35 years of military service for officers
- Bronze Medal for the 50th year of the reign of Franz Joseph
- Knight of the Order of Merit of the Prussian Crown
- Pour le Mérite with Oak Leaves (Prussia) (26 January 1917)
- Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of Max Joseph (Bavaria, 21 July 1915)
- Commander 2nd Class of the Military Order of St. Henry (Saxony)
- ^ the proper family name is Conrad.
Regarding personal names: Graf is a title, translated as Count, not a first or middle name. The female form is Gräfin.
From April 1919 Conrad's official name was Franz Conrad-Hötzendorf, since the Republic of Austria abolished nobility for its citizens by law.
- ^ a b "Hoetzendorf, Baron Franz Conrad von". Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921.
- ^ a b c d Rothenburg 1976, p. 143.
- ^ a b Sondhaus 2000, p. 37.
- ^ Rothenburg 1976, p. 43.
- ^ a b c Rothenburg 1976, p. 202.
- ^ Rothenburg 1976, pp. 202–203.
- ^ Rothenburg 1976, pp. 213–214.
- ^ Rothenburg 1976, p. 214.
- ^ Falls, Cyril: The Great War, Putnam, New York 1959, p. 36.
- ^ Sondhaus 2000, p. 244.
- ^ Strachan, Hew. The First World War: Volume 1: To Arms. Oxford, 2001.
- Rothenburg, G. E. (1976). The Army of Francis Joseph (Eurospan 1998 ed.). West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press. ISBN 0-91119-841-5.
- Sondhaus, L (2000). Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf. Architect of the apocalypse. Boston: Humanity Press. ISBN 0-391-04097-9.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Franz Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf. |
- "Franz Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf". Austro-Hungarian Army. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
- "Franz Conrad Graf von Hötzendorf". Austrian Commanders. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
- Moritz Auffenberg-Komarow (1922). "Conrad von Hötzendorf, Count". Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.).
- 1852 births
- 1925 deaths
- People from Penzing (Vienna)
- Austrian Field Marshals
- Austro-Hungarian Army officers
- Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I
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- Austrian people of Moravian-German descent
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- Grand Crosses of the Military Order of Max Joseph
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