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Simon Veness asks whether Tiger Woods' recurring injury problems spell the end of his career
Is Tiger Woods' latest back problem the beginning of the end of his career? Simon Veness ponders.
By Simon Veness
Last Updated: 20/03/14 10:39am
All those questions - and many more - resounded around my corner of Florida on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning after it was announced Woods is missing the tournament he practically owns - this week's Arnold Palmer Invitational - because of ongoing back spasms.
The loss of the world No.1 from the event before a ball has been struck is a major blow to what was shaping up as a pivotal event in the season. More importantly, it is a Major blow to Tiger himself.
Since the young Eldrick Tont 'Tiger' Woods first burst on to the scene as a golfing supernova in 1995, he has never failed to appear at the Masters.
On his debut 19 years ago, he won the gold medal as the Low Amateur, and, while he missed the cut the following year, still as an amateur, in his first appearance as a pro in 1997, he swept to a stunning 12-shot victory over Tom Kite with a record score of 270 (18 under par) and a legend wasn't so much born as shot into the stratosphere.
Ever since, Woods has revelled in the magnolia-strewn fields of Augusta, winning another three titles and always being in contention, even in the lean years since his last Major victory in 2008.
He has never missed the cut since he turned pro and his 2012 finish of 40th is far away his lowest. Since he last won there in 2005, he has seven finishes in the top six. To all intents and purposes (even more than his record-equalling eight wins at the spiffy Bay Hill Club & Lodge), the Masters is HIS tournament.
It is the event he most lives for, most thrives on - and will be most missed from if the current 'spasms' are more serious than he continues to let on.
We now know that they are, at the very least, borderline acute. Tiger has only ever failed to play his favourite non-Major event once before, during his brief self-imposed exile at the start of 2010. He loves Arnie and would never miss the great man's popular event unless he had very good reason.
And not being able to swing a golf club properly seems like a pretty powerful reason this week, especially as it absolutely begs the even bigger question, if not now, when?
The 14-time Major winner (and we have been writing that phrase for almost six years now, as further proof of the march of Father Time) was last seen grimacing and wincing around the Blue Monster at Doral, when he shot a record-high (for him) of 78 in the final round almost two weeks ago.
As grimacing and wincing goes, it was close to the fabled '11', a level beyond which golfers should most definitely not still be swinging a club but which has become all too common for Tiger, the greatest player of the past 17 years, yet one who seems just as likely to be reduced to a shambling wreck on any given week rather than the all-conquering champion of Bay Hill, and beyond.
His back problems have become headline material after he fell to his knees following a shot from the fairway on the back nine at The Barclays last year, a moment that drew audible gasps from the gallery but also a million shutter snaps from the massed ranks of the photographers.
Ever since, Tiger's on-off back problems have been as much the story as his finishes, and his general health is very often the first, second and third question on the media agenda, in part because his responses to questions about "his baulky back" are largely anodyne fare.
It is just a question of "spasms," or "a little stiff from a soft hotel bed" (cue lots of guffaws from the media), or even "just following the protocols" (the latter in reply to a question of whether he'd had an MRI).
Throw in last year's elbow injury and an Achilles problem in 2012, and Woods is not so much a prime-time athlete as a walking medical chart, a doctor's example of how a body breaks down under relentless repetitive strain.
However, few people outside his inner circle REALLY know the full severity of the problem and Woods himself certainly isn't about to enlighten us, hence the all-encompassing focus on this latest back-related withdrawal.
Tiger is still only 38, not usually a worrying age for a golfer, if a little past the prime for Major winners of 34. However, the average age of the last 14 champions of any of the Big Four is just 28, an increasingly ominous stat for the Bay Hill Dominator.
Of the current crop, only Phil Mickelson and Ernie Els have grabbed a Major at 38 or older, Phil at last year's Open Championship, shortly after he turned 43, as well as the 2010 Masters when he was 39, while Ernie was 42 when he claimed the 2012 Open crown.
Just as importantly, only THREE golfers have won five majors after the age of 35 - Jack Nicklaus, Sam Snead and Ben Hogan - and all three hail from an era of far less stress and strain, fewer tournaments (and competitors), and no back spasms.
And, unless you are from the Planet Tharg, you will know Woods still needs another five Big Ones to top the Golden Bear's record haul of 18.
That has been his sole motivation for the past six years. Sure, he loves being world No.1, but that is not his incentive for turning up on the practice range day after day, adding hours in the weights room and putting his increasingly tortured body through the kind of strains that would exhaust a 28-year-old, let alone someone 10 years their senior.
And this is no ordinary body, remember. Major knee surgery in 2008 put him out for the rest of that year after his epic US Open win while his ongoing "spasms" are clearly more than a passing concern.
In truth, we could be looking at the last real days of a sporting phenomenon, a golfing colossus. As I said at the start, if two weeks' rest is not enough, how much WILL it take to get Tiger back in the hunt? Because it is not just a question of feeling better and then turning up.
His form this year has been wretched, the worst start to any year since he turned pro, and the Masters is not renowned for being a stress-free zone, either mentally or physically. Sure, Woods has competed before with scant preparation (in 2010), and still been a competitive factor, finishing fourth.
But he is now four years further on, with lord knows how many more "spasms" under the bridge. He will clearly make every effort to get himself physically able to tee off at Augusta on April 10, but I doubt if even he can say what kind of effort he will be able to put out - and whether it will be sustainable in the long term.
Backs are funny things. It doesn't take a lot to incapacitate the strongest, and ongoing lumbar concerns have spelled the end of many notable sporting careers, even in golf. Today, we have to wonder if Tiger is facing the beginning of the end of his big-time career.
No Woods does, of course, mean we will have a new champion of the Palmer Invitational for the first time in three years, and there will be plenty of other choice morsels to enjoy around Arnie's Acres, a stunning 7,419-yard par 72 course where the biffers and big-hitters tend to thrive but which also requires a surgeon's touch around the greens.
The course set-up is much admired and draws a big chunk of the world's best, including reigning Masters champ Adam Scott, the in-form Henrik Stenson and current US sensation Patrick Reed, he of the three wins in his last 14 tournaments and "I think of myself as top 5" material, that has also grabbed a few headlines in the past two weeks.
The Invitational is also the 'home' event for several familiar names, notably the current US Open champ Justin Rose, 2010 US Open winner Graeme McDowell and Ryder Cup hero Ian Poulter, all of whom will be able to sleep in their own beds each night (and not take a chance on those risky 'soft' hotel mattresses).
Lee Westwood will be hoping to put together a few good rounds and halt his current world rankings plummet (36 and falling - his worst since 2007) while Welshman Jamie Donaldson can show why he is currently a major European form horse with two top 10 finishes on the US tour already this year and a firm grip on one of the nine automatic Ryder Cup selections for Gleneagles in September.
The weather forecast is set fair - temperatures should be around 28C, with only a minor chance of rain on Saturday - and Arnie himself has been in rare fine form in the lead-up to the event, headlining ticket commercials with a video of him with nail-clippers in hand pruning one of the fairways.
"Got you, you son of a gun!" he chirrups as he cuts down an errant strand of grass, totally belying his 84 years of age but underlining his legend as one of America's most beloved sporting figures.
Sadly, Old Father Time may also be saying that to Tiger Woods this week.


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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa- Flocks of geese that made a mess around the city of Cedar Rapids' new riverfront amphitheater last summer will meet their match this spring. The city is about to deploy a small group of remote controlled devices that will chase the geese away from the inviting grass.
Goose droppings plagued the grassy portions of the new McGrath Amphitheatre even before it opened officially last fall. The flocks threatened to create a constant clean up mess for parks workers anytime an event was scheduled. But over the winter, with the help of volunteers, parks workers plotted their revenue.
Tuesday morning, city leaders invited the media to meet a device called "FIDO." That stands for Fowl Intercept & Dispersal Officer. Tongue in cheek aside, FIDO is really a remote-controlled device made of lightweight orange-colored foam with a model aircraft engine and pontoons with wheels. It's about the size of a small dog and can chase geese away from areas on either water, snow, ice or grass using a battery-powered engine and propeller.
The Quiet Flyers, a group that promotes radio-controlled aircraft flying, worked with city park staff over the winter to put together six devices to use in trying to get geese to move away from certain areas. Once the weather warms up, parks employees with the remote controlled in hand, will chase the geese away from the amphitheater grounds at least once a day. The devices will also be used to get geese to leave golf courses and other inappropriate locations. City officials say it's important to move the geese soon because they will soon be looking for nesting areas and will be harder to remove.
The FIDOs don't harm the geese, but the noise, movement and color seem to bother the animals who fly away to quieter areas. Workers maneuver the devices much like a sheep dog in a back and forth pattern to herd the animals.
Daniel Gibbins, Cedar Rapids Parks Superintendent, said commercial versions of the goose chasers cost between $3,000 and $4,000. The ones constructed with city staff and volunteers probably contain parts worth about $600 apiece. The city has conducted a few experiments and found the mechanical devices do convince geese to move elsewhere. Parks workers couldn't demonstrate the devices Tuesday due to high winds and no geese near the amphitheater. But city staffers believe the system will work and keep the geese off the amphitheater grass.
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Dolphins Sign OL Daryn Colledge
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French President Francois Hollande, right, meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, second from left, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday July 6, 2012.(AP Photo/Pool/Remy de la Mauviniere)
PARIS: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday she had held "productive" talks in Paris with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas as all sides seek a way to kick-start moribund Middle East peace talks.
During the "candid and productive meeting," Clinton said they "discussed how to build on his exchange of letters" with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"I underscored that the United States remains absolutely committed to the goal of a comprehensive peace in the Middle East based on two states with two peoples based on peace and security," Clinton told reporters.
She met Abbas on the sidelines of a Friends of Syria meeting hosted in the French capital, where more than 100 nations and organisations came together to step up pressure on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
"At a time of upheaval across the region we cannot lose sight of the critical importance of resolving this issue," Clinton said.
The talks were the first face-to-face meeting between Abbas and Clinton since September 2011, when they met in New York as the Palestinians submitted their bid to join the United Nations as a full member.
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said Abbas had explained to Clinton that "the absence of any political perspective" was causing tensions among the Palestinians.
He asked Clinton, who is expected in Israel in mid-July, to press for the release of Palestinian prisoners, especially those held since before the 1993 Oslo Accords, Erakat told AFP by telephone from Paris.
The Clinton-Abbas encounter came as peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians remain on deep freeze, with the last direct negotiations grinding to a halt in late September 2010 over the issue of Jewish settlement construction.
The Palestinians have said they will not return to negotiations without a new Israeli freeze on settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem.
They also want Israel to accept the lines that existed before the 1967 Six-Day War as the basis for negotiations on future borders, and they are seeking the release of 123 Palestinians held by Israel since before the 1993 autonomy accords.
Abbas says Israel previously agreed to release those prisoners but has not fulfilled its commitment.
Last month, he said he would be willing to sit down with Netanyahu if the prisoners were released "for a session of dialogue, but that doesn't mean negotiations."
There are also renewed tensions amid a Palestinian call for an international probe into the death of former PLO leader Yasser Arafat after a report showed he may have been poisoned.
Abbas, who succeeded Arafat, has endorsed exhuming his body from its mausoleum at the Palestinian presidency headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah for forensic testing.
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Golden State Warriors To Begin Wearing Jerseys With Sleeves
It's 2013 and it's time for that new shit. The Golden State Warriors are leading the way by unveiling new jerseys with sleeves. That's right, motherfuckin' sleeves on the motherfuckin' jerseys.
And the results? They look too fire. Adidas has successfully crafted an amazing looking hybrid jersey with sleeves that don't look awkward.
Adidas VP Lawrence Norman had this to say about the innovative change:
"It was the right moment, the right team. Even more important, the right city. When you launch something as innovative as this — that will change the way the players look on the court and the way the fans support the team forever — why not launch it in the most innovative part of the United States?"
The new jerseys are actually 26 percent lighter than the ones today which is a major selling point for the product. They absorb moisture from sweat and the sleeves are made with stretch fabric that wraps 360 degrees around the shoulder to ensure full range of motion for players when they shoot.
We could be witnessing the next step in the evolution of NBA uniforms similar to when players upgraded from their booty shorts in the 70's. Tune in to the Warriors and Spurs game on February 22 to get the first look at these jerseys in action.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.comments2014-12-09T10:56:44.176-07:00Demarcated LandscapesDemarcated Landscapeshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-9003979453373231842014-10-21T04:58:09.717-06:002014-10-21T04:58:09.717-06:00Such hypocrisy!Why is the author not at all upset ...Such hypocrisy!Why is the author not at all upset about the "Horrible Deaths" the Livestock met at the hands of the BLM, but completely meticulous and gruesome in his description of the way cattle are raised, and handled for slaughter? Pushing a Political Agenda I say, actual concern for the animal a distant second!Lee email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-39112578077823123612014-02-19T09:51:43.727-07:002014-02-19T09:51:43.727-07:00And people that believe cleverly worded polls...th...And people that believe cleverly worded polls...they have got to be the WORST. Oh, wait...Mark email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-51865782629339785032014-01-11T14:33:22.031-07:002014-01-11T14:33:22.031-07:00olsen is s a psycho. he needs psyc counseling. he ...olsen is s a psycho. he needs psyc counseling. he needs to be in jail. firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-60973848371518412392013-12-12T19:33:55.852-07:002013-12-12T19:33:55.852-07:00What a tangled web.What a tangled email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-37971178973260205942013-05-03T10:49:05.249-06:002013-05-03T10:49:05.249-06:00Isn't it funny how whether the goal is "r...Isn't it funny how whether the goal is "restoration" or just plain old greed the result is always the same? (Big decks of logs waiting to be trucked out of the woods.)email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-14080457647953819412013-04-29T13:13:40.872-06:002013-04-29T13:13:40.872-06:00One of the Wildlife Service employees "walked...One of the Wildlife Service employees "walked up to the front of his truck and picked up his rifle and pointed it at me and said I had no business being there," Dassow said in the telephone interview.

Wow. Just wow. How is this allowed to go on. I hope she hauled his butt into court.

Ida firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-79256647581008855612013-04-05T15:21:55.418-06:002013-04-05T15:21:55.418-06:00Don't most people with "real" jobs g...Don't most people with "real" jobs get fired for being full of s*** ?!firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-56475829273719809592013-02-22T09:17:45.738-07:002013-02-22T09:17:45.738-07:00perhaps too cynical. [Us? Cynical?] If we've ...perhaps too cynical. [Us? Cynical?]

If we've become cynical over the years, it's because there's good reason. (See the controversy over DNR employees allegedly giving out GPS collar coordinates to hunters in WI)

But this is good email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-67817928950664218942013-02-21T10:36:41.361-07:002013-02-21T10:36:41.361-07:00DmL, We LOVE you for sharing this. The bill doe...DmL,
 We LOVE you for sharing this. The bill does prohibit USDA wildlife services from using traps and poisons. It is a statewide prohibition. (with some limited exceptions similar to what other trap ban states have.)
 but the work has just begun!Mary Katherine email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-31013211637163683792013-02-06T17:51:36.784-07:002013-02-06T17:51:36.784-07:00It's so frustrating that our President just do...It's so frustrating that our President just doesn't get it.

Connecting children with nature really isn't the primary objective of the DOI - what about their parents, aren't American parents responsible for anything their kids do anymore? Keeping nature available for kids to connect with firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-83494889646107565202012-12-29T14:28:07.314-07:002012-12-29T14:28:07.314-07:00The number one thing to think of is kids. Not ever...The number one thing to think of is kids. Not everyone agrees about what's best to do for the environment; I certainly don't fit in with the usual "Inconvenient Truth" crowd. The one thing, though, that both the old woman in Sweden and the most hard-line ideologue can see eye-to-eye about is that doing good deeds for the future is not a personal problem, but something that falls into another person's lap. Thinking of loved ones, as this story demonstrates, will give anyone pause despite their most hard-boiled email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-35070516652356420782012-12-26T16:41:46.684-07:002012-12-26T16:41:46.684-07:00Unknown... My family likes to hunt coyotes in the...Unknown...
 My family likes to hunt coyotes in the winter, But what this man is doing is very cruel and heartless. I would like to put him on a trap where he couldn't get away and turn a couple of aggressive dogs out on him and let him know what it feels like to be tortured.
 firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-84476982749492070182012-12-11T00:18:04.123-07:002012-12-11T00:18:04.123-07:00I think the comment above is illustrative of what ...I think the comment above is illustrative of what the true source of the cause is. There are no amount of materialistic fixes in the form of Scientific innovations and bogus green technologies for correcting anything. The biggest question is, "How can you heal human debased attitudes ?"

Over here in Göteborg, Sweden my wife's daughter was talking to an older Swedish woman in her late 60s about this very subject and what her grandchildren would inherit. The woman's reply was, "What the hell do I care what happens in 15 years, I'll be dead and that's their problem"

You see the real problem is a spiritual one. By that I mean qualities which make up a person's personality which for the most part are not physical, but unseen. Qualities of a personality like Love, kindness, peace, humility, etc, etc, etc. Such qualities make for better neighbours, parents, husbands, wives, employees, leaders, etc etc etc. But we don't live in a world like that. Until those questions are dealt with, Green Solutions ring hollow.Timelesshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-24369589412909692962012-12-10T20:32:18.696-07:002012-12-10T20:32:18.696-07:00To heck with the children- and the animals- how is...To heck with the children- and the animals- how is global warming going to affect MY FIRST WORLD WINTER RECREATIONAL PURSUITS??

(Per the recent campaigns to warn skiers that global warming poses risks to their shredding!) firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-54756600505144248342012-11-11T05:16:28.813-07:002012-11-11T05:16:28.813-07:00The correct email address is rodney.f.krischke@aph...The correct email address is firstname.lastname@example.com://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-86127057887970201972012-11-07T16:49:31.513-07:002012-11-07T16:49:31.513-07:00This is barbaric and cruel. He should be jailed an...This is barbaric and cruel. He should be jailed and never allowed to own or come in contact with any animals firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-74409238628501353782012-11-07T13:19:32.394-07:002012-11-07T13:19:32.394-07:00son of a bitchson of a firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-36524441049272771092012-11-06T12:08:58.834-07:002012-11-06T12:08:58.834-07:00I have also found many of these websites temporai...I have also found many of these websites temporairly shut down, which is aggrevating, these people are cowards who hide, and show disrepct by doing this. Isn't it there jobs to hear our opinions and feelings on such matters?
No living thing deserves to die such a cruel tortorus death, and he should be punished to the fullest extreme of the law, and never be allowed around any animals ever email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-42315080483077412022012-11-03T18:31:12.911-06:002012-11-03T18:31:12.911-06:00I guess I always thought gov't agencies hired ...I guess I always thought gov't agencies hired professional people like scientists, biologists to work with our wildlife and not professional hit men, psychos and contract killers to get the job done. Boy was I wrong. If Olson loses his job with the USDA, I'm sure they can find a place for him in a slaughterhouse. Poor animals. :(firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-70841181225407218852012-11-02T16:15:50.907-06:002012-11-02T16:15:50.907-06:00"It is you who is not human to even put those..."It is you who is not human to even put those two in the same sentence. A fetus is a living human being, and to compare it to the killing of an animal is, to say the least, the basest of attitudes."
Newsflash: Human beings are part of the animal kingdom. It is only for our own convenience, and to rationalize our wanton cruelty towards other species, that we place ourselves "above" animals. (When's the last time you saw a coyote set a trap and then rip an animal to shreds when it couldn't escape, just for "fun"?) Fetuses also don't feel pain, and I don't understand what your point is anyway - that if you care about stopping abortions you are not allowed to care about anything else, such as reducing the suffering of animals? You're an firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-27386156926071115612012-11-02T15:00:47.908-06:002012-11-02T15:00:47.908-06:00Keep trying Joe, maybe you can convince yourself t...Keep trying Joe, maybe you can convince yourself that " both abortions and euthanizing an animal are medical procedures designed to be done with minimal risk and discomfort and maximal respect for living", It is you who is not human to even put those two in the same sentence. A fetus is a living human being, and to compare it to the killing of an animal is, to say the least, the basest of attitudes. School yourself on humanity before you try to school the commenter for stating the firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-70734389574173598792012-11-02T14:31:32.002-06:002012-11-02T14:31:32.002-06:00This is absolutely horrendous! How can someone cal...This is absolutely horrendous!
How can someone call themselve human and do this?

I'm appalled... disgusted and frankly pissed off.

Look at the coyote, so scared and fighting for it's life... not a chance to get away...

If the thing was such a nuisance and they needed to get rid of them, just SHOOT it!
I hate to see animals killed but, jeez... I'd much rather see it shot than tortured to death.

Put that guy in a trap... let hungry coyotes tear HIS ass apart!

What a bunch of BS!

-Chris mytrailtailshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-951106981087264392012-11-01T17:55:50.201-06:002012-11-01T17:55:50.201-06:00Andrew, The USDA has been monitoring the blog li...Andrew,

The USDA has been monitoring the blog like Mr. Olson's dogs monitor his coyote traps. From D.C. to Ft. Collins, these folks have been checking in regularly for comments and updates. Today, we even wrote an open plea for them to respond with an action plan for addressing this behavior among one of their own.

So far, silence.

Keep calling, emailing, and asking for answers. U.S. taxpayers support their work; we should be able to get answers when something like this happens.

Thank you for trying. Keep at it.

- firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-1973727989701999262012-11-01T17:00:54.619-06:002012-11-01T17:00:54.619-06:00Has there been any follow up on this? I tried to e...Has there been any follow up on this? I tried to email the head of wildlife services at the listed address but the email bounce.

Andrew Simpsonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32645613.post-44052444217925526322012-11-01T06:50:08.826-06:002012-11-01T06:50:08.826-06:00Disillusioned Liberal: A: Don't derail: the d...Disillusioned Liberal:

A: Don't derail: the debate here is about the appropriateness of this man's actions in deliberately killing coyotes in an unnecessarily cruel way.

B.) Don't use false equivalencies. We aren't "okay" with abortions, we respect the right of women to control their bodies, in the same way we respect an individual's right to decide that an animal they care for should be put down. But both abortions and euthanizing an animal are medical procedures designed to be done with minimal risk and discomfort and maximal respect for living, conscious beings: I assure you that everyone here would have trouble with either abortion or euthanization by dog attack.

C.) The debate about the necessity of culling predator populations and the balance between business profitability and biodiversity is one that should be made scientifically. But there is not now, and never will be a debate about whether culling activities should include cruelty for the kicks of those humans involved. This is wrong, on its face, and without consideration of any other activity or circumstance. This is wrong. Joehttp://email@example.com


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Habitat for Humanity garage sale May 17
Date posted: April 30, 2013
SHERIDAN — Habitat for Humanity of the Eastern Bighorns is holding a garage sale May 17.
Goods to be sold are being collected. Kitchen items, clothing and yard tools are especially being sought.
Call 672-3848 by May 14 to schedule a pick-up of the items you wish to donate.
The garage sale will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 135 Crescent Drive.
All proceeds will benefit the home being built for the Herbert family.
For more information call Nancy Marcheese at 672-3848.
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Hello to all! My name is Alex Kuettel and I am a senor here at the U of M. I am a marketing major and this will be my last semester! Considering this is will be read by others to get to know me the following will contain all true facts about me, some of which you might not be able to handle! Just kidding! I would describe myself as a "run of the mill" type of guy. I like sports, fishing and hunting. Well I like sports but I have never gotten into the latter. I golf and Frisbee golf during the warmer part of the year and play basketball inside during the winter. My family has a cabin in northwestern Wisconsin and I really enjoy going up there to relax. I am looking forward to this class and getting to know everyone!
By Eamonn McLain
I was drawn to this piece because it immediately gave me a very relaxed feeling. This sculpture was constructed out a very old looking wood that was stained to look dark. The wood really added to the relaxed feeling because it reminded me of an ancient forest. At the top of the structure sat polish rocks that not only looked nice but also reflected the light off the water making it dance on the wood backing. This sculpture may have looked like nice decoration you might find in a backyard but I felt it was more than that. This piece was much more personal than a backyard waterfall kit at Target. The sculpture encompassed the perfect balance of the three main elements that it was comprised of. The wood, water and rocks seemed to be in harmony with one another and if it wasn't located in art gallery you would believe that this could've been created by nature not man.
Woodcut Prints ("The Land of Diorama" & "Island of Agriculture"
By Josh K Winkler
I chose to critique the thesis project of Josh K Winkler. His work was focused around a collection of "woodcut" prints. These prints look very unique because of the seldom-used method he chose to use. His prints were also accompanied by a story detailing the background of the pictures. I really liked that he provided background to his pictures because the pictures were so familiar looking it was nice to find out where they came from. I decided to focus this critique on two of his prints, The Land of Diorama and Island of Agriculture. The Land of Diorama is a picture of large-scale fish at a tourist attraction. I was immediately was drawn to this because I remember seeing these fish as a child. All the fish are native of the Midwest and the main attraction in this picture is the giant Muskie. This was the only print by Winkler that doesn't feature really obvious man made intervention on nature. However his background on this piece does present a message along those lines. He was showing how man has conquered the once wild lakes, rivers and streams of this area. He also talked about how the landscaped area surrounding the model fish required watering the grass, which makes you think about how man has impacted wildlife. The other painting by Winkler I really liked was entitled "Island of Agriculture." This print provided a much more in-your-face view of man's intervention in nature. The viewpoint of this picture is on top of a cliff, overlooking a bay and other waterways. This view should make one feel at ease with this beautiful vantage point but this print doesn't anything but make you feel at ease. There is garbage in the foreground of the picture and large power lines running's through the background. The once scenic bat is littered with boats and different types of ugly industrial machinery. I thought this print provided a vivid look into how quickly a scenic bay can be turned into an industrial nightmare!
The Hurt Locker
After seeing previews of this movie I really had little to no desire to see it. However after rave reviews from friends and seeing the a copy of the film appear on Easter morning I decided I would give the academy award winner a viewing. One of the elements that I wasn't looking forward to in this movie was the amount of emotional energy it would take out of me. I like comedies and movies that make you think but the cinematography in this movie was really impressive. When the charters were in a hostel situation in the movie you as a viewer felt you were there. The environment in which the movie takes place gave the director a lot of good opportunities for unique shots and she took full advantage of that! When the main character was out in the open in many of the scenes and you got to experience his vulnerability through the directors creativity. Every slow step the actor took in his massive body armor made you feel uneasy because there were civilians all around watching from different vantage points. What also made the action scenes so personal was the fact there was really only three soldiers handling the situation. You got to know each individual soldier and were just hoping everything would go smoothly. It would be hard for someone to view this movie and not be on the edge of their seat, so I think the director was extremely successful in terms of cinematography.
The three-minute egg segment I chose to write about focused on the work of three different artists. The first artist is named Irve Dell and he is a sculptor. In this scene they focused on his work using toys as pieces of his sculpture. I like how he draws meaning from his kids toys and other objects around him, like his father's prosthesis leg. The next artist was Kurt Hunter. He is a marionette artist who was working with paper in this segment. I thought it was pretty amazing the story he could tell with just paper and string. The last artist in this three minuet egg was Liz Schachterle. She was a very talented actor that used different media in her routine. In this three-minute egg she has a screen on her head that projects pictures that relate to her stories. She also uses puppets in her productions which add to her free-sprit personality.


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A lobby has faulted the government for failing to adequately investigate "a spate of organised gang attacks on Western villages" during and after the March 4, 2013 general election.
In a report 'We Were Sent to Kill You: Gang Attacks in Western Kenya and the Government's Failed Response' released on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch said the state must conduct fresh investigations into the attacks and prosecute those culpable for carrying out or supporting the attacks.
In the 33-page report, the lobby said the research conducted in Busia and Bungoma counties showed that residents were attacked by a gang of armed youth from March to July 2013.
During the attacks, 10 people were killed in nine villages and more than 150 people were injured.
The attackers are alleged to have used pangas, clubs and axes.
In May 2013, businessman Timothy Nyongesa was killed in Bungoma town prompting residents to protest and march to the Bungoma South police headquarters.
Leaflets had earlier been distributed to residents of Mashambani and Wings estates in Bungoma town saying they will be "visited at night".
Some politicians were suspected of organising the attacks.
After the attacks, Bungoma Senator Moses Wetang'ula's younger brother, Fred, was grilled by CID officers and ordered to be reporting daily to the police station while former Bumula MP Bifwoli Wakoli was also grilled.
The two were however not charged in a court.
Police sources then indicated that they were investigating the existence of Kabuchai Defence Force under the command of an individual known in underground circles only as "General".
"Police utterly failed to effectively investigate the violence in the two counties. They did not collect critical evidence, and completely ignored evidence that gangs carried out these crimes during and after the 2013 elections with support from political figures," the report reads.
It says the government should expedite reforms in the police service including bolstering its investigative capacity.
The report recommends that the government must provide the police service with adequate resources to deal with gang activity and political violence.
Human Rights Watch said they interviewed 87 people, including victims, government officials, police officers, politicians, witnesses and activists.
Their investigations found out that the attacks "appeared to have been organised" as noted in one of the incidences where the "attackers demanded money and mobile phone handsets from victims without stealing anything from them".


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The larger sense of the word refers to a huge movement in art, literature, music, poetry, photography, and other areas (even overlapping into religion), which (arguably) culminated in the 19th century.
Catholic cultural historian Christopher Dawson, notes that the religious roots of Romanticism are actually quite deep:
"[T]he religious element in Romanticism, whether Catholic or non-Catholic, goes much deeper than the superficial aesthetic appeal. It has its roots in the fundamental principles of the movement, which differed not merely aesthetically but also metaphysically and psychologically from those of both seventeenth-century Classicism and eighteenth-century Rationalism."
( Religion and the Romantic Movement, The Tablet, 1937)
G. K. Chesterton noted how romanticism was promulgated through fairy-tales:
"Fairy-tales are as normal as milk or bread. Civilisation changes; but fairy-tales never change . . . its spirit is the spirit of folk-lore; and folk-lore is, in strict translation, the German for common-sense. Fiction and modern fantasy . . . can be described in one phrase. Their philosophy means ordinary things as seen by extraordinary people. The fairy-tale means extraordinary things seen by ordinary people. The fairy-tale is full of mental health . . . Fairy-tales are the oldest and gravest and most universal kind of human literature . . . the fairy-tales are much more of a picture of the permanent life of the great mass of mankind than most realistic fiction."
(From "Education by Fairy Tales," The Illustrated London News, 2 December 1905)
J.R.R. Tolkien hits the nail on the head, in his seminal essay, On Fairy Stories:
"The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous 'turn' (for there is no true end to any fairy-tale): this joy, which is one of the things which fairy-stories can produce supremely well, is not essentially 'escapist', nor 'fugitive'. In its fairy-tale -- or otherworld -- setting, it is a sudden or miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur. It does not deny the existence of dyscatastrophe, of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance; it denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat and in so far is evangelium, giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.
"It is the mark of a good fairy-story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the 'turn' comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art, and having a peculiar quality . . .
"In such stories when the sudden 'turn' comes we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart's desire, that for a moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through . . . in the 'eucatastrophe' we see in a brief vision that the answer may be greater -- it may be a far-off gleam or echo of evangelium in the real world. The use of this word gives a hint of my epilogue . . ."
(From C.S. Lewis, editor, Essays Presented to Charles Williams, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans,
1966; originally Oxford University Press, 1947)
C. S. Lewis, in writing about myths in general and his "master", George MacDonald, stated:
"It begins to look as if there were an art, or a gift, which criticism has largely ignored. It may even be one of the greatest arts; for it produces works which give us (at the first meeting) as much delight and (on prolonged acquaintance) as much wisdom and strength as the works of the greatest poets. It is in some ways more akin to music than to poetry -- or at least to most poetry. It goes beyond the expression of things we have already felt. It arouses in us sensations we have never had before, never anticipated having, as though we had broken out of our normal mode of consciousness and 'possessed joys not promised to our birth'. It gets under our skin, hits us at a level deeper than our thoughts or even our passions, troubles oldest certainties till all questions are re-opened, and in general shocks us more fully awake than we are for most of our lives. It was in this mythopoeic art that Macdonald excelled . . .
". . . I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself. Hence his Christ-like union of tenderness and severity. Nowhere else outside the New Testament have I found terror and comfort so intertwined . . ."
(From George Macdonald: An Anthology, edited by C.S. Lewis, New York: Macmillan, 1947,
Preface, 14, 16-22)
For much more reflection along these lines, see my compilation-paper: The Relationship of Romanticism to Christianity and Catholicism in Particular.
Lewis, in fact, first became a theist when he was talking with his good friend J.R.R. Tolkien, who explained to him that Christianity was a myth, but that it was a true myth. This realization came as a thunderbolt to Lewis, who was already deeply immersed in mythology, Romanticism, and the music of Richard Wagner (particularly the Ring).
Lewis had become enchanted with Romanticism in large part due to Wagner and Norse mythology. He recounts in his autobiography:
"Wagnerian records (principally from the Ring, but also from Lohengrin and Parsifal) became the chief drain on my pocket money . . . "Music" was one thing, "Wagnerian music" quite another, and there was no common measure between them; it was not a new pleasure but a new kind of pleasure, if indeed "pleasure" is the right word, rather than trouble, ecstasy, astonishment, "a conflict of sensations without name."
". . . You will misunderstand everything unless you realize that, at the time, Asgard and the Valkyries seemed to me incomparably more important than anything else in my experience . . . More shockingly, they seemed much more important than my steadily growing doubts about Christianity . . . If the Northernness seemed then a bigger thing than my religion, that may partly have been because my attitude toward it contained elements which my religion ought to have contained and did not. It was not itself a new religion, for it contained no trace of belief and imposed no duties. Yet . . . there was in it something very like adoration, some kind of quite disinterested self-abandonment to an object which securely claimed this by simply being the object it was . . . Sometimes I can almost think that I was sent back to the false gods there to acquire some capacity for worship against the day when the true God should recall me to Himself . . .
"Secondly, this imaginative Renaissance almost at once produced a new appreciation of external nature . . . I was always involuntarily looking for scenes that might belong to the Wagnerian world . . . But soon . . . nature ceased to be a mere reminder of the books, became herself the medium of the real joy. I do not say she ceased to be a reminder. All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still "about to be."
(Surprised by Joy, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1955, 72-73, 75-78)
Lewis's experience was very similar to my own. He loved mythology; he loved Wagner and nature (he was an avowed "Autumn fanatic" as I am, too); he had an extended atheistic period in his life (I toyed with the occult in my religiously-nominal childhood and teen years -- though I was never an atheist). Lewis -- my favorite writer, if that is not evident by now -- combined love of mythology and fantasy and imagination with rigorous logical thought (as I seek very much to do in my own apologetics). I was a nature mystic searching for something more. I have written about this period of my life:
"In my own vague, ethereal, only half-conscious Romanticism -- before I was educated enough to be able to understand, let alone articulate, Christian doctrines and dogmas -- I subconsciously sought out religious experiences or intimations which transported me into "religious," "mystical," "supernatural," "fantastic" realms. Romantic orchestral music (above all, Wagner) served this "secondary" function for me. Nature was another such medium. I found everything there symbolic and parabolic. The forest wilderness, for example, represented the "other," the unattainable, the transcendent, the fairy-tale environment.
". . . I didn't know how many other people possessed these feelings. Nor was I likely to inquire. I was happy to find out that my wife Judy felt much the same way (she loves Wagner, too), as did C.S. Lewis . . . Alas, at that time I had no inkling of the fact that what has been called the "mythopoeic imagination" is deeply, profoundly Christian and substantially identical with the "medieval worldview." Malcolm Muggeridge wrote about this symbolism in an article entitled "Nature is a Parable" (after a phrase from Newman):
'Everything that happens to us or in connection with us, all the happenings in the world, great and small, the whole exterior phenomenon of nature and of life - all that amounts to God speaking to us, sending out messages in code, and faith is the key whereby we may decipher them. It sounds very simple, but it's somehow difficult to convey exactly . . . Nature is speaking to us. It is a parable of life itself, a revelation of fearful symmetry . . .'
(National Review, December 24, 1982, 1608)
I wrote further:
"I was experiencing God and Christianity on an unconscious level, by means of nature, fantasy, myth, and music. Christianity is the fulfillment of all this longing. C.S. Lewis often makes the argument throughout his works that such intense, painfully powerful yearnings within us are grounded in the fact that we were made for heaven. The fleeting pangs of nostalgia, melancholy, vivid dreams, idealism, the Quest, paradise, (deja vu?), etc. which so infect us are thus explained as having an origin in ontological, spiritual, divinely-ordained reality.
". . . Perhaps also we retain a consciousness of the Garden of Eden and the pristine, luminescent, perfect, unfallen paradisal earth, which reappears in frustratingly short-lived instances of the painful Nostalgia or sehnsucht which Lewis describes so marvelously."
For much more along these lines (and my "pre-conversion to evangelical Christianity" story), see: Romanticism, Wagner, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, and Me.
C.S. Lewis developed a "theology of longing for heaven" which provides, I think, a fruitful avenue for further thought and reflection. Peter Kreeft has written much on this, and I would very much like to explore it further. Lewis writes:
"It was a sensation, of course, of desire; but desire for what? . . . Before I knew what I desired, the desire itself was gone, the whole glimpse withdrawn, the world turned commonplace again, or only stirred by a longing for the longing that had just ceased. It had taken only a moment of time; and in a certain sense everything else that had ever happened to me was insignificant in comparison. The second glimpse came through Squirrel Nutkin; through it only, though I loved all the Beatrix Potter books . . . it administered the shock, it was a trouble. It troubled me with what I can only describe as the Idea of Autumn. It sounds fantastic to say that one can be enamored of a season, but that is something like what happened; and as before, the experience was one of intense desire. And one went back to the book, not to gratify the desire (that was impossible - how can one possess Autumn?) but to reawake it. And in this experience also there was the same surprise and the same sense of incalculable importance. It was something quite different from ordinary life and even from ordinary pleasure; something, as they would now say, 'in another dimension' . . . [it was] an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy . . . anyone who has experienced it will want it again . . . I doubt whether anyone who has tasted it would ever, if both were in his power, exchange it for all the pleasures in the world."
(Surprised by Joy, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1955, 16-18)
For more on this aspect of sehnsucht, see:
C. S. Lewis and the Romantic Poets on Longing, Sehnsucht, and Joy.
I explore these areas of theology and Romantic speculation in the above-three papers, and on my web page: Romantic and Imaginative Theology (which includes a section on J.R.R. Tolkien).
See also my very popular C.S. Lewis Web Page, which is regularly recommended by the evangelical magazine Christianity Today to its readers who want to pursue studies of Lewis, and is perhaps the 2nd or 3rd most-extensive Lewis links page on the Internet.


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You can Google to find original digital river download links for Windows 7, you can then use the Windows 7 boot-able USB maker to make a boot-able USB and install Windows again.
But the problem is - How do i do a clean install when they didn't provide a Win7 disc (& i'm not interested in Windows 8 before anyone mentions it).
Posted 18 December 2012 - 20:37
It's a shame you don't seem interested in Windows 8, since its ability to wipe clean without the need to format or re-configure anything is so dramatically far ahead of anything Windows 7 can possibly be made capable of. Alas, too many people have convinced themselves that the desktop was 'abandoned' in Windows 8, and therefore has no added functionality over Windows 7. Their loss, I guess.
Posted 18 December 2012 - 20:39
Should i make a separate thread regarding burning the .iso to DVD then? I've asked a few times but nobody seems to know.
Posted 18 December 2012 - 20:40
For those of you saying do a clean install -
would any of you install ANY of the Lenovo software shown in post #1, or would you ONLY install the drivers for the hardware & leave it at that?
Use this offical MS software to make a boot-able USB/CD Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool
I downloaded the .iso linked
Just tried burning it to DVD & got the attached error message. Any idea why?
Posted 18 December 2012 - 20:51
I'm confused - i posted a screenshot of the error, but you're asking what the error is..??
Depends on what the error is. You can use ImgBurn to burn it like I do for any of my optical discs, but without the specific error no idea why it won't do it. As Windows built in burner can definitely do .ISO burns.
Posted 18 December 2012 - 20:53
I'm confused - i posted a screenshot of the error, but you're asking what the error is..??
WawasTariq - thanks.
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Hang on a second.....
The last time i did something like this was in the days of WinXP when OEM & retail were a factor, but somewhere in this thread it says that no longer happens.
I have a Win7 Pro 32bit & 64bit DVD i used to install Win7 on my PC - key is locked to my PC.
Could i just use this very DVD to do a clean install?? And use the key on the laptop with the DVD? Instead of struggling with this .iso not burning?
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Posted 18 December 2012 - 21:33
Yeah i've just created the recovery CD & DVDs & tested them out - they worked - they put the laptop back to its original state.
Just a bit of a lightbulb moment - i remember that being said about the keys a few posts back & it didn't hit me at the time that i could probably use my current WinXP Pro DVD.


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Oktoberfest Party 2013
New England Venture Capital Association
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Event Details
Last year's Oktoberfest Party was such a spectacular, sell-out event that we've decided to do it again!
Join the NEVCA and Bessemer Venture Partners for an Oktoberfest celebration on October 16th. We will be celebrating the traditional German festival in true fashion sporting steins and more! Prepare for a night of camaraderie, lederhosen, and good spirits as Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs come together under one roof and enjoy an evening of olde fashioned Bavarian celebration.
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Bessemer Venture Partners
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013 from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
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Its mission is to help ideas that matter become local businesses that benefit entrepreneurs, investors, and the world. To do so it advances the collective interests of member firms in keeping the region competitive, championing emerging and proven venture-backed companies, maintaining strong connections to local universities and talent, and supporting the region's thriving startup community.


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1 can of paint
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1 ruler with with cm or inch
1 dremel drill
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1 piece of 40 grit sandpaper
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1 saw
1 permanent marker
2 nails
2 screws with washers
1 screwdriver
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Step 2: Mark and cut.
First start by measuring the size of the wood. Then you need to mark with a pencil two pieces. The firs piece or piece A should measure 8 cm by 8 cm ( or 3" by 3"). And then mark the size of the piece B, 14 cm by 8 cm ( 6" by 3").You can use the permanent marker if you wish if the pencil doesn't leave a good enough mark. As you can see, piece A looks like a square, and piece B looks like a rectangle. It is crucial that both pieces have the EXACT SAME WIDTH. Anyway, this is a good time to mention that you're probably going to need a clamp; but, most people don't have one, so you can just hold the wood with your hand. Next, take a saw, pretend you're in Saw III, and start cutting the wood pieces (good luck!!!).


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Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Downtown
1200 hectare urban infill development for the old airport district in the central core of Jeddah
Transect Zone(s): T6 core.
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2013 U.S. Naval History Conference: On Scene Report
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The U.S. Naval Institute's 2013 annual history conference, "Past, Present, and Future of Human Space Flight" at Alumni Hall on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Academy opened with the morning keynote presented by astronaut and retired Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford.
Stafford, a veteran of the Gemini and Apollo programs and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, opened his remarks by expressing his pleasure at returning to his alma mater. "I'll be talking fast today because there's a lot of history to cover," he said. Stafford explained that the launch of Sputnik 1 in October 1957 had a galvanizing political effect in the United States that led to a push across the country to boost science, technical, and math (STEM) education, and inspired Senator Lyndon Johnson to push for a manned space program. Stafford summarized the subsequent creation of the Mercury program, explaining that the Mercury spacecraft suffered from limitations largely imposed by the limited size of the available launch vehicles. For example, while astronauts were able to change the Mercury spacecraft's attitude, they were not able to affect its vector — a factor that would play a significant role in the design of the subsequent two-person Gemini spacecraft.
When Yuri Gagarin made mankind's first manned space flight on April 12, 1961, it spurred the United States to respond by launching Alan Shepard on a suborbital flight President Kennedy to make his famous speech before Congress a month later in which he called for a man to be landed on the moon and safely returned to Earth. "I'm glad he used the words, 'safely returned,'" Stafford quipped. A little-known fact about the speech was that Kennedy had already informed, and secured the support of, key Congressional leaders prior to the speech. "So while the speech came as a surprise to many of those in Congress, to the power brokers, the deal was already done," said Stafford. "This is a lesson in political history."
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A History of the Navy in 100 Objects
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A project about stories also has its own story, and this series is no exception. In 2010, Midshipman (now Ensign) Chris O'Keefe, Naval Academy Class of 2012, conceptualized the series after listening to the BBC's own podcast series about the history of the world. Since then, he and cameraman / editor Matt McMahon have filmed dozens of interviews and conducted research into the 100 objects presented in this series. Volunteers provided assistance and support in various ways, from Midshipmen helping with the early research, to the staff of the United States Naval Institute with technical support, and of course the assistance of the staffs of both the Naval Academy Museum and the Nimitz Special Collections and Archives. The series helps link the tangible items located at the Naval Academy with the ethereal figures of the past, and in doing so tells the wonderfully fascinating history of our Navy.
Ensign O'Keefe has started publishing these videos, which we'll be posting here as well. Naturally, his first video is about John Paul Jones.
Often when telling a story, its best to start at the beginning. In our case, although the United States Navy didn't begin with John Paul Jones, he is nevertheless considered the Father of the American Navy. Born in England, he cut his teeth as a sailor in merchant fleets, before coming to the United States. When war broke out, he joined the fight on the side of the upstart colonies, and won fame for his daring raid on English soil and his victories over British ships. After the war, he accepted a position as an admiral in the Russian navy. After a short time, he returned to Paris in poor health, and died shortly after in 1792. In the tumultuous days of the French Revolution, Jones' grave was lost and it wasn't until 1905 that it was rediscovered. After discovery, and with great ceremony, his remains were transported across the Atlantic. After several years were finally interred in the crypt underneath the iconic Naval Academy Chapel, where they remain today. This is the story of Jones in life, and in death.
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Captain James E. Wise, Jr.: 1930-2013
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The U.S. Naval Institute and the military history and literary world lost a great man in July, Captain Jim Wise. He was 82.
After graduating from Northwestern University, he became a naval aviator in 1953 and served as an intelligence officer, going on to command various naval intelligence units until he retired in 1975. He later held several senior executive posts in private-sector companies. Following that, he began to dabble in writing.
Jim was working on Stars in Blue, a book he was writing about celebrities in the U.S. Navy with Annie Rehill, when the phone rang at home one day. His wife answered, and the caller said he was Paul Newman. "Oh, sure it is," she said, and handed the phone to Jim. Turns out it was, indeed, the multi-Oscar winner, a Navy veteran who called to tell Jim he found a photo of himself on the deck of a ship he served in.
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Review of Lessons From the Hanoi Hilton
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Review by CAPT Richard A. Stratton, USN
It is almost as if the authors were there beside Jim Stockdale while he was in the Maison Centrale (Hanoi Hilton). There are a few figures in each generation that rise above the norm to show the way by word and deed – who walk the walk as well as talk the talk. CAG (Carrier Air Group Commander) Stockdale was one of the rare few you would see at Thermopylae, Rorke's Drift, Omaha Beach or Amarageddon leading the charge or holding the line.
This work would have been enriched by including as an appendix CAG's remarks to his Air Wing prior to his shoot-down:
"Commander Jim Stockdale was the archetypal air wing commander. He commanded Carrier Air Wing 16 during the 1965 cruise, and set the stage for the air wing's accomplishments during Rolling Thunder. Stockdale took command of the air wing in April 1965, after commanding VF-51, a fighter squadron on the USS Ticonderoga. As the Ticonderoga was already on station in the Tonkin Gulf, Stockdale had a wealth of experience concerning operations in Vietnam. He had been airborne as the on-scene-commander during the Tonkin Gulf Incident. He also took part in several of the reprisal raids in the rapidly escalating air war. These experiences made him uniquely suited for command of the Oriskany's air wing as she departed for her first Vietnam War cruise.
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Benjamin "BJ" Armstrong, editor of our just-published 21st Century Mahan, is the 2013 recipient of the Navy League's Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement, a highly prestigious award for an officer at the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
The Alfred Thayer Mahan Award is named for the famous naval theorist who, through his writing, provided vital stimulus and guidance to those who share in the defense of the nation. Presented since 1957, this award for literary achievement is awarded to a Navy officer, Marine Corps officer, enlisted service member, or civilian who has made a notable literary contribution that has advanced the knowledge of the importance of sea power in the United States. BJ follows in the footsteps of many notable Naval Institute authors…including ADM James G. Stavridis, USN, CAPT Henry (Jerry) H. Hendrix, USN, CAPT Edward L. Beach Jr., USN, VADM William P. Mack, USN, LtGen Victor Krulak, USMC, Dr. Jack Sweetman, LCDR Thomas J. Cutler, USN, Dr. John T. Mason Jr., Paul Stillwell, Col Joseph H. Alexander, USMC (Ret.), BGen Edwin H. Simmons, USMC (Ret.), Col John G. Miller, USMC (Ret.), and ADM James L. Holloway III, USN to name just a few.
LCDR "BJ" Armstrong is a Mahan enthusiast, for whom the award is named, and has published numerous posts about him in The Proceedings, Naval History Magazine, and on the USNI blog. He is also a recipient of the Naval HIstory and Heritage Command's Samuel Eliot Morison Supplemental Scholarship, named after Rear Adm. Samuel Eliot Morison, USNR, an eminent naval and maritime historian and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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WWATMD: Mahan in Memoriam
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The new Naval Institute Press book "21st Century Mahan: Sound Military Conclusions for the Modern Era" was released over the weekend. It is available at our bookstore, as well as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Ebook editions will soon be available. But why should readers care "What would Alfred Thayer Mahan Do?" Over the last century a few folks have made some suggestions.
"Captain Mahan has done more than write a new book upon naval history. He has even done more than write the best book that has ever been written upon naval history, though he has done that likewise; for he has written a book which, to use a somewhat objectionable phrase, may be regarded as founding a new school of naval historical writing. … His books are not only remarkable because of the philosophic standpoint from which they are written, because of his grasp of the subject and familiarity with all the facts bearing upon it, great and small; but they are remarkable also for the beauty of their style and the skill with which he has subordinated the lesser to the main points of interest." – Theodore Roosevelt.
"There is no doubt that Mahan laid the foundation for a theoretical understanding of navies as well as contributed to the rise of the U.S. Navy to great power status." – John Hattendorf
"After his death in 1914 he gained renewed stature as the high priest of American navalism, whose strategic writings were its holy writ." – Russell Weigley
"No other single person has so directly and profoundly influenced the theory of sea power and naval strategy as Alfred Thayer Mahan." – Margaret Sprout
"It remains to be seen whether readers exist with the mind and will to accept [Mahan's] guidance on what necessarily is an arduous intellectual and moral voyage into the realms of war and politics." – Jon Sumida
"He asked his Navy and his nation some very difficult and pertinent questions, questions still relevant, questions each generation must ask and answer anew: What exactly is the nature of America's 'national interests'? How shall the U.S. Navy best be used as an 'instrument of national policy'? What is the proper relationship between a nation's sea power and its diplomatic objectives? What are the 'moral' dimensions of the employment of military force? How shall the U.S. ships and fleets be best armed, supplied, and deployed? How much navy is enough navy?" – Robert Seager II
As an introduction to Alfred Thayer Mahan, before you start reading "21st Century Mahan: Sound Military Conclusions for the Modern Era", here at USNI Blog we offer the obituary and "In Memoriam" article published in Proceedings in January, 1915.
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From our Archive: Alfred Thayer Mahan in Memoriam
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To very few has it been given so to influence the current of men's thoughts as vitally to affect human development and even to shape the course of history itself. The dominance of the Aristotelian philosophy in the intellectual world of Europe endured for twenty centuries until .displaced by Bacon's Novum Organum. In more recent times, the Social Contract of Jean Jacques Rousseau is admitted to have played no small part among the determining causes of the French Revolution. Without a Treitschke, Pan-Germanism would have remained a vague aspiration indulged in by a restricted circle of German thinkers. It is needless to multiply instances in which the ideas of one man have directed the current of events; the fact itself is too widely accepted to require demonstration. Among the number of those who have swayed their fellows, opened their eyes to a wider vision, pointed out the hazards in their path and the channel leading through those hazards to national or individual safety beyond, sober judgment must include that member of our own profession who, after an honorable career during which he shed a luster upon the American Navy of which all Americans are proud, none so much so as his brother officers, has recently departed from our midst leaving behind him a stainless record and a place unfilled and unfillable. It were well could we look for a second Mahan with his vast knowledge and accurate logic, but candor forbids us to expect. We are only permitted to hope-and in how many doubts that hope is shrouded-that as time goes on another may arise endowed with like passion for truth, like ability and the like gift of making clear and obvious what all have gazed upon without seeing.
Three natures were combined in this exceptional personality. First of all was the Christian gentleman, devout and earnest, giving daily, practical, outward expression to an inward conviction at once sincere and fundamental. His belief in Christ's mission and in the world to come as revealed in Holy Writ was without shadow or question. Things earthly and material might not be what they seemed. Errare est humanum. Even so well poised a mind as his might be mistaken in its findings, but no possible chance of going astray existed or could exist in complete reliance on the promises of his Lord and Master to all those who truly follow Him. And follow Him Mahan did loyally throughout his years from youth to age. His abiding sense of duty, the keynote of his character, forbade a merely perfunctory compliance with ecclesiastical requirements and forced him to take active part in the management of the religious communities to which, from time to time and in various places, he belonged and to represent them at annual conventions of the Protestant Episcopal Church. For many years he was connected with its Board of Missions and with the Church Institute for Seamen. During a shorter period he was a member of the Church Institute and of the Church Mission for Help. All his charitable interests lay in the church through which alone, to the extent of his means, he sought to aid his fellow men. This devotion to his church was the manifestation of a faith which controlled every thought and every act of his life. All his serious undertakings, all his important letters even, were preceded by an appeal for Divine guidance. It is impossible to understand Mahan unless this mental attitude is recognized in its full power. Those ignorant of this side of his character may read his little book, "The Harvest Within," and in the reading find profit to their own souls.
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In his recent editorial in the Washington Post, Naval Academy professor Dr. Bruce Fleming asserts that leadership is the "snake oil" for today's military and that organizations — civilian and military alike — are infatuated with it as the antidote to all organizations' problems. He has a point. Leadership training as the single answer rings hollow. As he also suggests, teaching leadership may be a futile exercise. But he is wrong to say that "there's no proof [leadership] has any benefit at all — or for that matter, even exists."
On the contrary, good leadership and the powerful culture that it engenders can make the difference between a solvent company and a profitable one. Jim Collins' Good to Great book research found virtually all the companies that outperformed their industry peers in the marketplace for sustained periods of time had what Collins called "Level Five" leaders, executives who exhibit a rare combination of deep personal humility and intense resolve.
In a military organization, leadership can make the difference between life and death. Forty years ago, 591 prisoners of war returned home alive from North Vietnam after the longest period of wartime incarceration in our nation's history. They remained unified in their resistance to their captors and unified in their adherence to a mission: Return with Honor. To this day, they have one of the lowest rates of PTSD of any group of combat veterans: a lifetime average of 4%. And their leaders, especially Vice Adm. James Stockdale, made the unquestionable difference.
Texas Rep. Sam Johnson, a former POW, recalls one hot summer night in 1967 when he shared a cell with Stockdale, the senior ranking officer of the group. They were trying to communicate with recent "shoot-downs," other aviators whose planes had been recently shot down. As Mr. Johnson describes it, "They were scared, for good reason. We wanted to talk to them and make them know that there were other Americans around." The communications system was the POWs' lifeblood, but the risks for using it were high. When possible, the POWs assigned at least one man the task of "clearing," or alerting other POWs of a guard's impending approach.
"Jim would get on the floor and 'clear' and I'd get up on the concrete bunk and talk to [a new guy] down the back side out of the window. We happened to be on the back of the jail. We would tell him essentially how the cow eats the cabbage [how the things worked in the prison system] and, that 'you're going to be all right.'"
On this particular night, they were finally caught. "The guard and an officer came charging down the hall. Jim barely got up before the door opened. I'm standing there and the door pops open and here's this little North Vietnamese guy wearing Air Force 2nd Lieutenant bars. Turns out he was a camp commander. He wasn't a lieutenant – he was masquerading as one. Jim hauled off and decked him right there. Just knocked him down. And, I thought, '…We're in deep serious now.' And we were."
Punishment was immediate and harsh. Mr. Johnson spent 72 days in leg stocks in a small cell with the windows boarded up. He quietly notes, "Jim got the worst punishment."
Why did Stockdale intentionally assault the camp commander by punching him in the face? An irrational outburst of anger or violence was completely out of character for this Stanford-educated philosopher. He was noted around the camp for his towering intellect, not his emotional volatility.
Mr. Johnson pauses for a long moment before answering that question, choosing his words deliberately. "Frankly, I think he was protecting me. You know, that's a characteristic of leadership."
Stockdale exhibited several noteworthy characteristics of a great leader that day. He stayed focused on the POWs' agreed-upon mission, he chose his battle carefully and — without fear of personal consequences — he sacrificed himself to protect those under him. He asked nothing of his followers that he would not first deliver himself. When pain was on the agenda, Stockdale didn't delegate. He led.
Peter Fretwell and Taylor Baldwin Kiland are the co-authors of the new book, Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton: Six Characteristics of High-Performance Teams.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the homecoming of our Vietnam POWs, a group of men who still rank as the longest-held group of POWs in our nation's history. Most of the men are still alive and well, enjoying their second chance at freedom. But their leader, Vice Adm. James Bond Stockdale, is not. He died in 2005. On this Memorial Day, it is fitting to remember this man who left a legacy of unparalleled leadership. The key to his success was in his leadership philosophy.
As Stockdale floated slowly down to certain capture and imprisonment by the North Vietnamese enemy after his plane was shot down, he recalled the wisdom of the Greek philosopher Epictetus: "I remembered the basic truth of subjective consciousness as the ability to distinguish what is in my power from that which is not…I knew that self-discipline would provide the balance I would need in the contest of high stakes."
When he arrived at the Hanoi Hilton, the infamous prison where the majority of the POWs were held, Stockdale entered a world in which many POWs had already shown selflessness and commitment to each other. As the senior ranking officer, Stockdale was anointed their leader, responsible for governing their conduct and keeping the group of men unified in their resistance.
He knew the Code of Conduct, the rules that govern the behavior of American prisoners of war. But, he also knew these guidelines wouldn't be enough. And so he dug into his bag of memories from his studies of Epictetus and remembered some of the teachings: "Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view they take of them"; "Do not be concerned with things which are beyond your power"; and "Demand not that events should happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen and you will go on well."
In other words, you don't get to choose your plight. You do get to choose how you react to it.
He and the POWs were faced with a Hobson's choice. They learned quickly that they would all eventually break under enough torture and thus violate the Code of Conduct and risk military disgrace. If they resisted, they would be tortured until they submitted—for information that had no intelligence value and that was certainly not worth their life or a limb. So, Stockdale made the difficult decision that laid a foundation for a self-sustaining organization. He instructed the POWs to resist their captors to the best of their ability. If they reached their breaking point, they should fall back on deceit and distortion—giving false, misleading or ludicrous information. Finally, Stockdale insisted that the POWs force their captors to start over at each interrogation session. This innovation allowed for failure in the moment without failure in the mission.
These strategies and tactics conformed to the Code of Conduct where they could. When necessary, Stockdale created a new path by giving each POW the responsibility of deciding how to resist. Collectively, under these new guidelines, the POWs set a goal of giving every man a chance to achieve their group mission: Return with Honor.
This act earned the POWs' respect. Stockdale, after all, shared their pain (literally) and understood the seemingly impossible predicament these men faced. Effective resistance couldn't be centered on Herculean displays of pain tolerance or arbitrary goal lines. Instead, Stockdale made commitment, persistence, and unity the driving objective. Stockdale was, by virtue of his rank, the man in the corner cell—the boss. But decisions like these made him their leader.
Taylor Baldwin Kiland and Peter Fretwell are the co-authors of the new book, Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton: Six Characteristics of High-Performance Teams.
Meetup at EAST 2013
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The U.S. Naval Institute is having a meetup in Virginia Beach during EAST 2013!
Come talk with members and non-members alike about issues for the sea services. Special guests include Eric Wertheim, VADM William Crowder, USN (Ret.), VADM Thomas Kilcline, USN (Ret.), and VADM Peter H. Daly, USN (Ret.) the CEO of the U.S. Naval Institute.
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Tuesday, May 14 2013 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Keagan's Bar
Virginia Beach Town Center
244 Market Street
Virginia Beach, VA 23462
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Back when Wrath of the Lich King first released, At and I took off an extra day or two from work like the good geeks we are and had a LAN party for leveling goodness and another excuse to play WoW for absurd amounts of time. This entails both a goodly quantity of booze and what we refer to as "oven food." We offer up such delicacies as taquitos, tater skins, cheese sticks and pizza rolls.
And that right there is why we don't have more than a few LAN parties a year. They're hedonistic dives into pits of slothfulness and grease. And liquor.
Anyhow, that first time we made our way through Howling Fjord, we came upon a certain quest at the most inopportune time. We were in Skorn and we were eating pizza rolls.
We became rather queasy, and I don't think it was only the alcohol talking. Since then, it's become a joke between At and myself. We get to Skorn and I say, "Mmm, pizza rolls." He makes adorable choking noises and we refrain from eating pizza rolls for a few more months. And it is in the spirit of wishing to save others from eating such unhealthy food, that I present this first lesson in cooking with Alas – the perfect appetizer for your next LAN party:
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