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The Battle of Mount Longdon was an engagement of the Falklands War between British and Argentine forces, which took place on the 11/12 June 1982, resulting in a British victory.
The British force consisted of 3 PARA under Lieutenant-Colonel Hew Pike (later a general) with artillery support from six 105 mm light guns of 29 Commando Regiment, Royal Artillery. 2 PARA were in reserve. Naval gunfire support was provided by HMS Avenger's 4.5-in gun. The Argentine force consisted of B Company of the 7th Infantry Regiment (RI 7), as-well as other detachments from other units. The local Argentine commander was Major Carlos Carrizo-Salvadores, the second-in-command of RI 7. The 7th Infantry Regiment, reinforced by two of the Marine Infantry platoons, held Mount Longdon, Wireless Ridge and Cortley Ridge to the east. Marine Sub-Lieutenant (naval rank equivalent to captain) Sergio Dachary had arrived on Mount Longdon in the week preceding the battle, and was on hand to control the Marine-manned heavy machine-guns on Mount Longdon.
Mostly conscripts with a year of training, the young RI 7 soldiers were not going to rout the field easily and most were prepared to stand their ground. They possessed fully automatic FAL rifles which delivered more firepower than the British SLR, FN MAG 7.62mm general purpose machineguns identical to those of the Paras; some fifty of the 7th Regiment were to fight more resolutely than the rest, having been trained on a commando course organized by commando-trained Major Oscar Jaimet, the Operations Officer of the 6th Infantry Regiment (RI 6). Private Jorge Altieri, in an interview after the war told how he trained hard with B Company:
'I was issued with a FAL 7.62 millimetre rifle. Other guys were given FAPs – light machineguns – and others got PAMS [submachineguns]. The main emphasis in shooting was making every bullet count. I was also shown how to use a bazooka, how to make and lay booby-traps, and how to navigate at night, and we went on helicopter drills, night and day attacks and ambushes.The 3rd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, made a desperate march across the hills north of Mount Simon to seize the key piece of high ground above the settlement of Estancia, nicknamed Estancia Farm. The weather conditions were atrocious, with the Paras marching through steep slippery hillocks to the objective. Nick Rose was a private in 6 Platoon under Lieutenant Jonathan Shaw.
The terrain dictated exactly how we advanced. A lot of the time if we were going along on tracks – what few tracks we did go on – we used Indian file, which is staggered file on either side of the track, like a zig zag. But there are great rivers of rock [stone runs] – big white boulders – and you have to cross them and then there's the heather and the gorse and its constantly wet. So the wind chill factor was – I think somebody said minus 40 degrees – and storm force winds and horizontal rain – a nightmare scenario. ... We are horrible, we're miserable as sin, all of us – we're missing home, want a dry fag, warm, dry boots, a cheese and onion sandwich and a bottle of blue top milk. I used to dream of these.3 Para set up a patrol base near Murrell Bridge, two kilometres west of Mount Longdon on 3 June. From there they sent out their specialist patrols from D Company to scout out the Argentine positions on Mount Longdon. An example of a snatch patrol that failed to obtain a prisoner was provided by 3 PARA on the night of 4-5 June 1982. A three-man patrol from D Company consisting of Corporal Jerry Phillips and Privates Richard Absolon and Bill Hayward was sent out to the northern slopes of Mount Longdon. The small party was detailed to penetrate Sub-Lieutenant Juan Baldini's 1st Platoon on the western slopes to secure a prisoner, supported to their rear by a battery of six 105 mm field guns, under cover of which the specialist snipers shot at Baldini while another fired a 66 at one of the 1st Platoon mortar pits under Corporal Óscar Carrizo. The Argentine commanders reacted vigorously, and the sniper team found themselves under prompt and accurate machinegun, artillery and mortar fire. There were no Argentine casualties. One British participant nevertheless claimed to have shot and killed two Argentines and demolished one mortar crew with a 66 mm anti-tank rocket at close range.
On the Argentine side, it was soon realised that the 7th Infantry Regiment Reconnaissance Platoon soldiers on the surrounding Wireless Ridge position were ill equipped to carry out their own patrolling. Thus, the Argentine Commando units, normally used for deep-recce had to take on this role. They were able to do so with some success and in the early hours of 7 June a combined patrol of the 601st Commando Company and 601st National Gendarmerie Special Forces Squadron was seen approaching Murrell Bridge. After several nights in the area Corporals Paul Haddon and Peter Brown and their patrols had just arrived at the bluff on the western bank of the Murrell River which Sergeant Ian Addle's patrol had been using as a base. Within a short space of time a sentry reported moving figures down near the bridge. The Paras opened up and a confused firefight developed in the darkness, with small arms, machinegun, LAW and Energa rifle grenades being exchanged. The Commando patrol under Captain Rubén Figueroa was very aggressive and before dawn had forced the Paras to withdraw, having to leave behind much of their equipment. Only one Argentine NCO was slightly wounded during the counter-ambush. From then on patrols had to be mounted closer to their own line. As the official history of the Parachute Regiment acknowledged:
'They were forced to evacuate their position rapidly, leaving behind their packs and radio, but succeeded in withdrawing without suffering any casualties. The location was checked on the evening of 8 June by another patrol, but there was no sign of the packs or radio, which meant the battalion's radio net could have been compromised.'Nevertheless Colonel Pike and his company commanders on the eve of battle still held the Argentine commanders in low regard and did not expect them to put up much resistance. For this reason the British colonel hoped to surprise them by advancing as close to their forward platoon as possible under cover of darkness, before storming into their trenches with fixed bayonets. The three major objectives – Fly Half, Full Back and Wing Forward – were named after positions in Rugby. B Company would attack through Fly Half and proceed to Full Back, while A Company, followed by C Company if necessary, would do the same on Wireless Ridge.
But morale was still good in the 7th Regiment. Private Fabián Passaro of B Company served on Longdon with the 1st Platoon and remembers life at the time:
Most of us had adjusted to what we'd been landed in, we'd adjusted to the war. But some boys [identified in the book Two Sides Of Hell/Los Dos Lados Del Infierno] were still very depressed and, in many cases, were getting worse all the time. Of course, we were very fed up with wearing the same clothes for so many days, going without a shower, being so cold, eating badly. It was too many things together, quite apart from our natural fear of the war, the shelling and all that. But I think some of us were adapting better than others. There were kids who were very worried; and I tried to buoy them up a bit. 'Don't worry,' I told them. 'Nothing will happen, we're safe here. 'Don't you see they could never get right up here? There's one thousand of us; if they try to climb, we'll see them, we'll shoot the shit out of them.'"When the 3 PARA's B Company (under Major Mike Argue) fixed bayonets to storm the Argentine 1st Platoon positions on Mount Longdon, they found themselves running into a minefield. The British sappers later counted some 1,500 anti-personnel mines sown along the western and northern slopes of Mount Longdon, 'but only two exploded' recalled Corporal Peter Cuxson , 'because the rest were frozen by ice'. 'Otherwise the final battle for Port Stanley would have been an altogether different story,' concludes the NCO who took an Argentine machine-gun position that night.
As dusk set-in, 3 Para moved to their start-lines and, after a brief stop, began to make their four-hour long advance to their objectives. As B Company approached Mount Longdon Corporal Brian Milne stepped on a mine, which after a very silent approach, alerted Sub-Lieutenant Baldini's platoon of conscripts. More than 20 Argentinan soldiers emerged from their tents to lay down fire but most of the platoon was still struggling out of its sleeping bags when Lieutenant Ian Bickerdike's No. 4 Platoon was among them, machinegunning and grenading the helpless Argentines. Corporal Stewart McLaughlin was in the thick of the action, clearing out an Argentine 7.62mm machinegun from the high ground overlooking the western slopes. He mustered his section, ordered them to fix bayonets and then led them up the hill into a hail of machinegun fire.
Lieutenant Jonathan Shaw's No. 6 Platoon, on the right flank of B Company, captured the summit of Fly Half with no fighting. However, they had missed half a dozen of Argentine conscripts of the forward platoon, having grenaded several abandoned bunkers, and they launched a fierce attack on the unsuspecting platoon, resulting in a number of casualties before the area was cleared. For three hours the hand-to-hand combat raged in the 1st Platoon sector, until the Paras drove out the defenders. All around the 1st Platoon position, small groups of soldiers were fighting for their lives. Privates Ben Gough and Dominic Gray managed to crawl undetected up to an Argentine bunker and crouched beside it as Marine conscripts Jorge Inchauspe and Héctor Rolla inside blasted away into the night. In unison the two Paras each pulled the pin out of a grenade and posted it through the firing slit of the bunker. The instant the grenade exploded the two jumped in the bunker and started to bayonet the two Marines. Private Gray killed a Marine by sticking his bayonet through his eye socket. Privates Gough and Grey were mentioned in despatches. Baldini himself appears to have been killed as he fired a machinegun. Corporal Dario Ríos was found lying dead with his platoon commander. Baldini's weapon and boots were removed for the use of the British soldiers. A photo of the dead lieutenant appeared in the original hardback edition of the book Operation Corporate. The Story of the Falklands War, 1982 (Viking Press, 1985) Also killed in the initial fighting was the Argentine forward artillery observation officer, Lieutenant Alberto Ramos whose last message was that his position was surrounded.
Just as it seemed as if the Paras would overwhelm 2nd Lieutenant Enrique Neirotti's 3rd Platoon on the southern half and Staff Sergeant Raúl González's 2nd Platoon on the northern half of the mountain, reinforcements from 2nd Lieutenant Hugo Quiroga's 1st Platoon, 10th Engineer Company on Full Back arrived to help Neirotti and González. Throughout most of the Argentine positions on the saddle of the mountain held, the newly arrived engineers using head-mounted nightsights proving particularly deadly to the Paras.
Private Nick Rose in 6 Platoon resumes the story.
'Pete Grey stood up and went to throw a '42' grenade and he was shot by a sniper in his right forearm. We thought the grenade had gone off. We punched his arm down onto the ground to staunch the bleeding, believing he'd lost half his right forearm and hand, but it was still there and his arm bent at the forearm instead of the elbow – a horrible thing to watch. ...There's 'incoming' everywhere, loads of stuff going down the range and then 'bang' my pal 'Fester' [Tony Greenwood], gets it just above his left eye, only a yard away from me. That was a terrible thing. 'Fester' was such a lovely guy. Then it was 'Baz' Barratt. 'Baz' had gone back to try and get field dressings for Pete Grey and he was coming back 'bang' he got it in the back. This was when we just stalled as a platoon.' (Jon Cooksey, op. cit., p. 66)The battle was going badly for Major Mike Argue. Argentine resistance was trong and well organized. At the centre of the mountain were Marine conscripts Jorge Maciel and Claudio Scaglione in a bunker with a heavy machinegun and Marine conscripts Luis Fernández and Sergio Giuseppetti with night-scope equipped rifles. Lieutenant Bickerdike and a signaller and Sergeant Ian McKay and a number of other men in No. 4 Platoon were attempting to perform reconnaissance on the Marine positions, in doing so, the platoon commander and signaller were wounded. Sergeant McKay realising something needed to be done, decided to attack the Marine heavy machinegun position that was causing so much trouble and so much misery. The assault was met by a hail of fire. The Corporal was seriously wounded, a Private killed and another wounded. Despite these losses Sergeant McKay, with complete disregard for his own safety for which he was to win posthumously the Victoria Cross, continued to charge the enemy position alone. Peter Harclerode who was granted open access to the war diary of the 3rd Battalion, and subsequently wrote PARA! (Arms & Armour Press, 1993), pointed out that McKay and his team cleared several Marine riflemen in position but failed to neutralize the heavy machinegun.
Corporal McLaughlin himself managed to crawl to within grenade-throwing range of the Marine heavy-machinegun team, but despite several efforts with fragmentation grenades and 66 mm LAW rockets, he was unable to silence it.
Major Carrizo-Salvadores on Full Back had remained in touch with the Argentine commanders in Port Stanley:
Around midnight I asked RHQ for infantry reinforcements, and I was given a rifle platoon from Captain Hugo García's C Company. First Lieutenant Raúl Fernando Castañeda gathered the sections of his platoon, hooked around First Sergeant Raúl González's 2nd Platoon that was already fighting and delivered a counterattack [at about 2 am local time]. The Platoon fought with great courage in fierce hand to hand combat and the battle raged for two more hours but gradually the enemy broke contact and withdrew while being engaged by artillery strikes'.It was now the turn of the Argentines to attack. Major Carrizo-Salvadores manoeuvred Castañeda's reinforced platoon to close with 4 and 5 Platoons and meanwhile under the direction of an NCO, part of Castañeda's platoon converged on the British aid post. Colour Sergeant Brian Faulkner, seeing that more than 20 wounded Paras on the western slopes of the mountain were about to fall into the hands of one of the sections of Castañeda's platoon, deployed anyone fit enough to defend the British Regimental Aid Post. "I picked four blokes and got up on this high feature, and as I did so this troop [in fact a reinforced section of fifteen riflemen]of twenty, or thirty Argentines were coming towards us. We just opened fire on them. We don't know how many we killed, but they got what they deserved, because none of them were left standing when we'd finished with them." said Faulkner
Things were so bad that Major Mike Argue's company ceased firing and devoted their full efforts to withdrawing from Fly Half. Peter Harclerode, a noted British historian of the Parachute Regiment, went on record, saying that:
'under covering fire, Nos. 4 and 5 Platoons withdrew, but another man was killed and others wounded in the process. At that point, Lieutenant Colonel Hew Pike and his 'R' Group arrived on the scene and Major Argue briefed him on the situation. Shortly afterwards, Company Sergeant Major Weekes reported that both platoons had pulled back to a safe distance and that all the wounded had been recovered. The dead, however, had to be left where they had fallen. Meanwhile, on the southern slope of the objective, the wounded from No. 6 Platoon were being evacuated while the rest remained under cover of the rocks.The British 3rd Commando Brigade commander, Brigadier Julian Thompson was reported as having said:
"I was on the point of withdrawing my Paras from Mount Longdon. We couldn't believe that these teenagers disguised as soldiers were causing us to suffer many casualties."By the time the 21 survivors of Castañeda's 46-man platoon had worked their way off the mountain, they were utterly exhausted. One of them, Private Leonardo Rondi, was sporting a maroon beret – taken from a dead parachute soldier. Private Rondi, having dodged groups of Paras to deliver messages to Castañeda's section leaders, had found a Para behind a rock (it may have been Sergeant McKay) and took his red beret and SLR which he later gave to the Argentine commanders as trophies. Rondi was awarded the Argentine Nation to the Valour in Combat Medal.
Following the unexpectedly fierce fighting on Fly Half, Major Argue pulled back Nos. 4, and 5 Platoons, and 29 Commando Regiment began pounding the mountain from Mount Kent, after which a left flanking attack was put in. Under heavy fire, the remnants of 4 and 5 Platoons under Lieutenant Mark Cox advanced upon their objective of Full Back, taking some casualties from Casteñeda's platoon as they did so. As he was clearing the Argentine position, Private Grey was injured from a headshot but refused to be evacuated until Major Argue had consolidated his troops properly in their positions on Fly Half. Private Kevin Connery personally dispatched three wounded Argentines in this action. The Paras could not move any further without taking unacceptable losses and so were pulled back to the western end of Mount Longdon, with the orders for Major David Collett's A Company to move through B Company and assault, from the west, the eastern objective of Full Back, a heavily defended position, with covering fire being given from Support Company.
Second Lieutenants John Kearton and Ian Moore mustered their platoons near the western summit and had briefed them on how to deal with the enemy. They soon attacked the position in bitter close-combat, clearing the position of the Argentine defenders with rifle, grenade and bayonet. As A Company was clearing the final positions, Corporal McLaughlin was injured by a Czekalski recoiless rifle round fired from Wireless Ridge. Unfortunately the brave NCO was killed by a mortar bomb fired from RI 7's C Company on Wireless Ridge as he made his way to the aid post. The Argentines rigorously defended Full Back. Although already wounded, Corporal Manuel Medina of Castañeda's platoon took over a recoilless rifle detachment and personally fired along the ridge at Support Company killing three Paras, including Private Peter Heddicker, who took the full force of the 105 mm round, and wounding three others. Major Carrizo-Salvadores abandoned his command bunker on Full Back only when a MILAN missile smashed into some rocks just behind him. In the command bunker Major Collett found 2,000 cigarettes which he gave to the smokers in his company.
The battle and the aftermath that followed lasted twelve-hours and had been costly to both sides. 3 PARA lost seventeen killed during the battle, one Royal Engineer attached to 3 PARA was also killed. Two of the 3 PARA dead – Privates Ian Scrivens and Jason Burt – were only seventeen years old, and Private Neil Grose was killed on his 18th birthday. A total of forty British paratroopers were wounded during the battle. A further four Paras and one REME were killed and seven Paratroopers were wounded in the two-day shelling that followed that was directed from Sub-Lieutenant Marcelo de Marco of the 5th Marines on Tumbledown Mountain. The Argentines suffered 31 dead and 120 wounded, with fifty also being taken prisoner.
Lance-Corporal Vincent Bramley was patrolling the western half of Mount Longdon when he was confronted with the full horror of the night combat. The 3 PARA NCO and keen writer stumbled upon the bodies of five Paratroopers killed by the forward Argentine platoon.
'A few bullets whizzed overhead and smashed into the rocks. A corporal shouted that Tumbledown was firing at us. We ran into a tight gap in the path of all came to an abrupt halt, as it was a dead end. Four or five bodies lay sprawled there, close together. This time they were our own men: the camouflaged Para smocks hit my eyes immediately. CSM [Company-Sergeant-Major] Weekes was standing over them like a guardian, screaming at some of his men to cover the further end of the path and a small crest. The CSM and Sergeant P [Pettinger] exchanged quick words. I wasn't listening; my mind was totally occupied with looking into the crags for the enemy. I turned and looked at our own lads, dead on the ground, mowed down when they tried to rush through this gap. I felt both anger and sadness. The CSM's face showed the strain of having seen most of his company either wounded or shot dead. That night's fighting was written in every line of his face.'
The battle was particularly brutal with little quarter being shown by either side.


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Vawter Hall is named for Charles Erastus Vawter Sr., a member of the board of visitors (1886-1900) and rector of the board for nine years. Vawter was an authority on industrial education and a successful superintendent of a school for orphans, leading the governor to request his help in reorganizing Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Virginia Tech). A member of the State Board of Education, he helped organize Virginia's public schools under the Constitution of 1902.
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On November 11, 2013 the North Vancouver RCMP Detachment participated in the annual Remembrance Day parade. As always there was a great turnout from both young and old.
On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 the world renown RCMP Musical Ride performed at Mohon Park in North Vancouver. Admission to the two shows were by donation, with almost $11,000.00 raised for Cops for Cancer fund raiser. Generous community partners supported the costs of bringing the Ride to our community!
(Former two officers of North Vancouver Detachment, (L-R) Cst. Bethany Williams & Cst. Sarah Brophy)
'Pink Shirt Day' was Wednesday, February 26, 2014. The North Vancouver RCMP once again showed strong support for this most worthwhile cause. In 2007, several Nova Scotia high school teens wore pink shirts in support of a fellow student who was being bullied. Their efforts proved effective and the unique show of solidarity has spread across Canada. The students demonstrated that change can happen and there is strength in numbers.
"Police see all too often the negative effects of bullying in our schools and communities. There is a real need to bring awareness to bullying and the hurt it brings to innocent victims," stated S/Sgt. Glenn Magark of the North Vancouver RCMP. "Be part of the solution – not part of the problem."
On Friday evening, October 12, 2012, a total of $13,780.02 was raised when the North Vancouver community showed up in support of a charity hockey game between the North Vancouver RCMP and the local 'North Van Wolf Pack'. All proceeds went to the COPS for Cancer, Canadian Cancer Society.
Volunteers of the Lower Lonsdale Community Policing Center were shown the North Vancouver RCMP police boat. They were given a patrol of the area the vessel makes.
On Saturday, July, 07, 2012 the North Vancouver RCMP Detachment sponsored a 'Graffiti Wipe-Out' Day. Approximately 60 volunteers showed up to clean up and paint over graffiti on public property. All were given bright orange shirts. Afterwards, participants were invited back to the Detachment for a barbecue. Great effort by all!
On Wednesday, June 06, 2012, the North Vancouver RCMP detachment participated in the 2012, B.C. Special Olympics Torch Relay Run. Over $1200.00 was raised by the detachment in support of the Special Olympics. Officers ran alongside the athletes over to West Vancouver.
The North Vancouver RCMP proudly participated in the celebration of the 100th Lynn Valley Day. This year the event was held on May 26, 2012. The detachment was well represented by S/Sgt. Paul Duffy of the Community Policing Section.
(Volunteer proudly driving Community Policing van in parade.)
(Safety Bear and S/Sgt. Paul Duffy of the Community Policing Section.)


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I'm sure many people are aware that Hugo Schwyzer rubs me the wrong way. I've been biting my tongue about this for a while, considering how many people on the "sex positive" end of things think he's just bloody wonderful. However, since 1) I've grown to have a great dislike for some of the politicking and mutual backscratching between the "sex-positive" blogosphere* and the feminist "big blogs", and blogosphere personality politics in general, and need to get it off of my chest, and 2) since "Hugogate" is topical, why not? More importantly, this brings up issues with the "feminist blogosphere" that are a lot bigger than Hugo Schwyzer.
Of course, the irony is, I'm not one of the people who's quick to write Schwyzer off as a would-be "murderer" or "rapist". I don't know the full stories behind his "suicide pact" or the students he slept with to say for sure that any of this was coerced. On the other hand, if one of these women came forward and said that the actual situation was far worse than Schwyzer makes it out to be, that wouldn't surprise me either. I do know this though – Schwyzer is somebody who's very quick to condemn other men in order to curry favor with women, and if it was another man who had been accused of these things he had done, I think Schwyzer would be out at the head of the mob.
One of Hugo Schwyzer's last missives to The Good Men Project has just gone up. It is basically a blanket denial that feminists engage in bullying tactics. Sorry, but I know otherwise, first hand. While I of course am not going to say that anger on the part of women or feminists isn't often justified, I think it is quite obvious to the outside observer that the feminist blogosphere is in permanent attack mode, and that bullying, both in intra-feminist conflicts and conflicts with non-feminists, is endemic.
My response to his post:
I find it highly ironic that while Hugo is in full denial mode about feminist bullying, in the "feminist blogosphere" he's under full attack by the mob. Check out Feministe or do a Google Blogs search for "Hugo Schwyzer" and you'll see what I mean. So, more than a little bit of denial here.
And while, yes, angry words in the blogosphere rarely add up to physical attack (something that's true in general, not just vis a vis feminists), blogswarming and generalized campaigns against one's reputation can be damaging. And while sometimes some people's reputation deserves to be damaged, you can hardly blame the targets of such attacks for being defensive, merited or not. I've seen plenty of cases where blogswarming campaigns were quite intended to intimidate or silence people, and at least partly succeeded.
I also find it quite rich that this "Words are not fists" post comes just a month after #mencallmethings (an event amplified, predictably, by The Guardian), which consisted of a string of feminist bloggers claiming outright victimization over angry words, often justifiably, but often over angry words that don't amount to nearly the intensity of some of the campaigns these same bloggers dish out on others.


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ESCONDIDO When the ball, struck with surprisingly good pace and accuracy, found the goal — I mean, hole — from 30 yards away, I didn't know whether to pump my fist like Tiger Woods or pull my golf shirt over my head like an Argentine striker and sprint for the flag.
How do you celebrate a totally unexpected birdie in FootGolf?
That was one of the many curiosities on an afternoon last week in the 90 minutes it took to play my first-ever round of a new, fast-growing sport that combines soccer and golf.
A year ago, the Welk Resort introduced nine holes of FootGolf, mostly to its summer resort guests, and now has expanded to all 18 holes on its par-3 Oaks Course. On Sunday, Welk invited the public to play for free, and more than 250 people showed up in the span of eight hours.
World Cup fever no doubt contributed, but there seems a large upside in potential for a sport that gets people kicking in the grass without being whacked in the shins. Scorecards are in, yellow cards out.
"It's an easier version of the game, and it's bringing people out to the golf course," said Josh Karp, Welk's head pro. "Anybody can kick a ball. Hopefully, they will fall in love (with golf) after playing FootGolf."
Golf facilities have been searching for ways to boost participation in golf while also diversifying their revenue streams. Of late, Hackgolf, played with a 15-inch cup, has been one idea, though, for a variety of issues, it has been slow to be embraced by most courses.
FootGolf's momentum started earlier and it's grown much faster. The American FootGolf League, formed in 2011, recognizes more than 160 courses in the country. There is an international governing body, and the AFGL is hoping to stage a U.S. national championship in 2015.
One of the most high-profile proponents of the hybrid is PGA of America President Ted Bishop, whose golf facility, The Legends, in Franklin, Ind., features a FootGolf course. When The Legends held a "FootGolf Day for the Northern Hemisphere" on May 3, Golf Channel and HBO "Real Sports" were there to do features.
"The excitement that FootGolf has caused is exceeding my expectations," Bishop said in May.
Mike Woods would agree. He is the head pro at Sacramento's Haggin Oaks, a venerable, 80-year-old Alister MacKenzie layout where Ben Hogan earned his first professional check.
Early last year, Woods got an email about FootGolf. He laughed and deleted it. Then, having played both golf and soccer in college, Woods reconsidered. He tried it, loved it, and eventually convinced his fellow managers that it might be a viable business option.
The result: This year, Haggin Oaks is projecting as many as 10,000 rounds of FootGolf, likely making it the most successful facility for the sport in the country. Five other courses in Sacramento have joined in, and they're all seeing a growth in leagues and corporate outings, Woods said.
"When we first started this, we saw it as a way to build golf by bringing more non-golfers to the course," Woods said. "What's happened is that it's become clear to us that we're far more pioneering a new sport."


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Chief Richard Uche is the President of Nigerian Employer's Consultative Association, in this interview with Uche Uduma, he talks extensively on the need for government to implement its policies in other to fast track sustainable economic development of the nation.
As the president Nigeria employer's consultative Association what is your assessment of President Jonathan's policies as it affects Nigerian employers?
One may say that it is too early to start seeing the fruits of the government's transformational scheme. But I think what he has done is to set up a frame work for achieving a transformational scheme in terms of the enforcements he has made, the committees he has set up and the works on different aspects of our economy especially the oil and gas sector, I think I would say, judging by what he has already set up, we should be expecting some results that can be better assessed in the next six months or so.
Do you think the present administration's policies are on the right track in ensuring a favorable environment that will allow the private sector to thrive?
The plans are well thought out but it is the execution that is usually the problem. If we execute what we plan to do, we will be successful. But what normally happens is that the plans are laid out but hardly implemented. Take the issue of the 2012 budget for example, there are conflicting information that up to 50 per cent of the budget has not been executed, that is not good enough.
When we set out these things and agree that they are the right direction to go we should go out and implement it. The year is finished again and hardly half of the budget plans has been executed especially capital projects. We cannot get anywhere when this practice continues.
Of recent there has been more Nigerian entrepreneurs preferring to establish their businesses outside Nigeria why is this so, and how big a problem is this to the nation's economic growth?
Yes we have seen migration of employers and industries to neighbouring countries such as Ghana and the likes. In fact capital flight as a matter of fact, is not something that augurs well for the country and they do it due to the insecurity problems and lack of infrastructure. No company can operate in a system where there is such epileptic power supply, bad roads, hardly any training, skills acquisition and the likes. Without these things in place they will go where it is more favourable.
What are the major challenges facing Nigerian employers?
Clearly like I said, infrastructural problems, and by infrastructural problem I mean lack of power to run the manufacturing plants, lack of skilled manpower, good roads and enabling environment. Government should provide the right atmosphere for the industries to flourish.
Enabling atmosphere should include giving a little bit of protection to the local industry. Unbridled importation of goods into this country has killed the thriving small scale industry in this country so we have to put a check on that whether it is on agricultural production or the manufacturing industry.
Talking about indigenous industries, do you think Nigeria is adequately utilizing the abundant natural resources it has been blessed with?
You can tell that this country is not utilising its resources, let's use agriculture for example, we are endowed with a very fertile land but hardly any agricultural productivity is going on any more. We are also endowed with a lot of mineral resources some of which are not being explored and exploited. Everything seems to be oil and gas industry which has not produced employment. What it does is to increase our GDP without simmering down unemployment and ensure development of skills.
From your own point of view do you think Nigerian employers are better off in Jonathan's administration compared to Obasanjo and Yar' Adua's regimes?
I must say all administrations have always received our input but like I said when it comes to incorporating it into their plans and executing them, we have a problem. For instance, last year we mentioned that the amount dedicated to capital projects in the budget is very low. In fact less than 30 per cent of the budget is for capital projects while we are spending 70 per cent of our resources on recurrent expenditure.
This year the budget has made what I consider very minor amendment, maybe three per cent increase for capital budget in this proposed budget. But we expected a more radical move that will cut down recurrent expenditure and increase in capital expenditure. No country has ever developed when it is spending all its money on recurrent expenditure.
What are the critical areas President Jonathan should focus on in his transformation agenda?
Security is number one, the second one is to provide infrastructure. Dilapidated roads do not help goods and services move. Once these enabling environment are in place business will flourish.
So what can you say about Ribadu's report?
Quite frankly I haven't seen the details of the report but it was marred by controversy right from the point of submission, I am surprised that the deputy chairman, Oronsaye is openly disagreeing with the content of the report as the report was being submitted by Ribadu to president Jonathan.
This means there was no consensus there and that there are points that have not been fully debated by the committee, until this is done the credibility of the report will be doubtful. The chairman and the deputy are at loggerheads over the content, this does not speak well for the report.
Most employers are yet to comply with the factory Act or with Employer's Compensation scheme what is NECA doing about this?
NECA has a collaborative scheme with National Social Insurance Trust Fund, that administer the employers compensation scheme and that collaborative effort is to make sure that health safety and employing standards are maintained. So we are really at the fore front of making sure that the regulations of ECS Act are adhered to. We have been encouraging our members to contribute so that health and safety standards are maintained, as well as bring about less industrial injuries and wherever compensations are necessary they will be able to pay it.
What would you say are your major achievements as the NECA president?
Well as you know NECA is an advocacy and membership organisation, we advocate cases for our members. We have been doing this especially during the removal of subsidy. We also represent our members when laws that are not conducive to our business are made.
We also represent our members on various matters that have aggressive implication on them and I have been able to do that in my two years tenure. We make input to the budgets of the federation and also make sure that our members comply with rules.


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A Case for Personas
August 16, 2009 by Brien Applegate
An effective user interface employs an intuitive design to facilitate the target audience. The user experience, however, should be geared towards pleasing an individual.
To investigate the differences between interface design and experience design, let's first consider the iPhone. This slick multimedia device employs a number of revolutionary interaction design mechanisms. Millions of people spanning a broad demographic are able to achieve advanced tasks without ever picking up a user manual. But suppose one user named Sam drops his iPhone a mere 3 feet from the ground, and consequently the screen shatters because it's made of glass. Sam then discovers that Apple Care - an insurance plan that costs 30% of the iPhone price – does not cover this damage. For this individual, the user experience has been greatly diminished, even though millions of other users continue to enjoy their iPhone (they haven't dropped it yet).
But the next day, Sam walks into the Apple Store and buys another iPhone. Sure he's mad that his first one broke so easily and that he wasted money on Apple Care and that he now has a 4 year contract with AT&T. But he really enjoys showing off his iPhone while drinking over-priced coffee in trendy cafes.
The point is that Sam's experience occurs on a level that transcends the user interface. The user experience can be described by how adequately the expectations of an individual user are met and how successfully the goals of that user are accomplished. And this includes everything from the sales pitch to the eventual retirement of the product: the physical interaction, the aesthetics, the support calls, the user manual. Even showing off the product at a local coffee shop.
In a user satisfaction study for the iPhone, 91 percent said they were satisfied with the product even though nearly 100 percent of these users complained about at least one major problem (such as crashing regularly). Users of the device are willing to overlook its many shortcomings because it possesses many desirable attributes as well. It's easy to use, it offers exciting features, and the product is branded extremely well, both aesthetically and commercially. The net result is that it yields a positive user experience.
When a user evaluates his or her level of satisfaction, there are many variables at play. Not only do individual users often have unique goals and expectations, but they also employ different metrics for weighing the desirable attributes of a product or service against the less desirable ones. For the UX designer, these evaluation factors underline the importance of utilizing techniques which seek to produce predictable and desirable effects in a specific person. The persona - an archetype comprised of target audience habits and characteristics - allows us to measure the success of a design from the standpoint of a specific individual.
A UX designer must acknowledge that the average user doesn't exist. Personas empower us to design with the individual user experience in mind without diminishing our ability to leverage generalized information about a target demographic.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa – Iowa City West opened the fourth quarter with an alley-oop dunk to begin the fourth. Junior guard Wyatt Lohaus stood on the right wing, outside the 3-point line, and telegraphed a lob to the left block where Jason Stewart threw it down.
It marked the Tojans' third consecutive two-handed slam.
"Well the last one, Stewart said, 'I almost had one.' So we set up a little lob for him," Iowa City West head coach Steve Bergman said. "We don't normally do that, but that's a play that we'd worked on all year and hadn't run."
Friday, it worked to perfection, just like everything else the Trojans did. Iowa City West (22-0) opened its postseason defense of its Class 4A state title with a 74-30 win over Cedar Rapids Prairie (6-17).
"They seem to be on a mission," Prairie head coach James Moses said. "If they play like tonight, I feel sorry for any of the opponents that they do play."
Up next for Trojans is another Cedar Rapids foe, Jefferson on Tuesday.
When Stewart returned to the floor after his alley-oop the Trojans had 23 field goals on 38 attempts. Shooting 61 percent from the field opened a 41-point lead 11 seconds into the fourth quarter. The efficiency came almost unexpectedly.
Despite being defending champs and semifinalists in 2011, the team entered the tournament with an eight day layoff and an unstructured routine.
"I was very, very uptight about it," Bergman said. "Just the non-routine week, no school; we don't have school until next Wednesday so you know we're really going to depending on our guys showing maturity."
No one displayed more poise than senior Jeremy Morgan. Through three quarters he finished with 21 points and five rebounds to lead West. His four assists matched Lohaus for the team high.
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I followed some very nice instructions on the web:
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Refractory Mortar Help Needed - Please
I am ready to start the dome and cannot get the ingredients I need to make the refractory mortar. No hydrated masonry lime (only granular garden type) is available locally and no 1:1 portland:lime mix can be found.
What I have found is Cement-Lime Type S mix from Holcim which I've determined is 2:1 portland:lime. Two questions. First, can I use this to make my mortar? Second, if I can (hope so!) should I mix it to yield 2:1:1 portland:lime:fireclay (plus the right volume of sand) or 2:1:2 portland:lime:fireclay (plus the right volume of sand)?
I know the mixture is suppose to be 1:1:1 but would it be better to have more portland (the 2:1:1 mix) or a little less lime (the 2:1:2 mix?)
Hopefully one of these approaches will work or I'm stuck.
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I see no reason why it wouldn't work. I would go the route of using less lime.
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Try the second brew (less lime) Portland cement doesn't like high heat so doubling its quantity might be asking for trouble. The extra fireclay could give you shrinkage problems. Try it and see.
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This target, agreed by all governments in the year 2000, was to halve the proportion of people without safe water by 2015. It is fitting that the news came out last week, two days before we celebrated International Women's Day on March 8, and two weeks before World Water Day on March 22: women and girls are disproportionately impacted by the global water and sanitation crises.
Women and girls carry the burden of fetching water on a daily basis. Often, this prevents them from engaging in more productive activities, such as generating an income, caring for family members and doing domestic work. Girls are also called upon to help in the gathering of water. This prevents them from going to school or having time and energy to study. Sexual violence and other attacks are constant threats to women as they seek clean water sources in isolated places.
It's wonderful news that we have reached the MDG target on water. Yet, I propose that we view this not only as a celebration, but as a call to action as well. Here's why.
The MDG targets are global. That means that it is possible to reach them without doing the really hard stuff, such as reaching the people who live in the most remote places or the ones who are members of groups often shunned by society. In addition, the target on halving the proportion of people living without sanitation remains the furthest off track of any MDG target. In fact, at the current pace, this sanitation target won't be met in sub-Saharan Africa for another 200 years.
The poorest and most vulnerable in the world probably weren't celebrating our water-access victory last week. Instead, they may have been sick with diarrhea from unsafe water, watching their children die of water-borne diseases, or waiting until dark to relieve themselves because they didn't want to suffer the indignity of defecating in the open.
However, this is not a story of gloom and doom. That we met the water MDG target means we are learning and doing better. We are taking seriously the life-threatening issue of unsafe drinking water, and we are building capacity in communities around the world to respond to these needs themselves.
It's time to recommit to applying these lessons so we ensure universal access to safe drinking water. Equally importantly, we must redouble our commitment to providing access to sanitation. Without a way to safely and cleanly dispose of human waste, that newly-clean water won't stay clean for long.
This World Water Day, I will be leading a diverse group of advocates to Capitol Hill, where we will spend the day meeting with Members of Congress to tell them about how much more remains to be done before we can safely celebrate the end of the water and sanitation crises. We will also be urging them to pass the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act, a vital piece of legislation that could improve the effectiveness of existing aid for water without spending any money. That would truly be another cause for celebration, especially for the world's poorest women and girls. We're making progress; now it's time to act.


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IF YOU are one of the increasing numbers of people planning to visit the Antarctic, this book might come in handy. Informative and digestible, Surviving Antarctica deals with the realities of living and working on the frozen continent, from keeping warm to the challenge of sleeping in 24-hour sunlight to washing while camping out in the field. Marine biologist David Thomas - veteran of many Antarctic voyages - also describes how full-time residents such as penguins, squid and bacteria deal with the extreme conditions. The book ties in with a superb new exhibition at London's Natural History Museum, "Ice Station Antarctica", which runs until April 2008. Here you can brave freezing temperatures and take a computer-animated sledge journey to hunt for meteorites.
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The exhibit Vestige of a Tree runs through Sept. 1 at the Huntington Museum of Art.
A guided tour of the exhibit and a nature trail walk will take place at 7 p.m. May 28 during the Fourth Tuesday Tour at HMA. Refreshments will be served.
Objects featured in Vestige of a Tree include tools, boxes, items of personal adornment, walking sticks/canes, dolls, furniture, ritual masks, musical instruments, and sculpture. All of the exhibit items began life as a tree, then a piece of wood, then an object, and now a work on exhibit in a museum! All employ wood as the main material, and all have been manipulated by artists and craftsmen for their own use – aesthetic or otherwise.
This exhibit is sponsored by The Katherine & Herman Pugh Exhibitions Endowment; the West Virginia Division of Culture and History; and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
While at the museum also take a new look at Huntington through the amazing camera lens of the late Huntington photographer, Levi Holley Stone.
The Huntington Museum of Art will feature 80 photographs by tone in a new exhibit titled, "The Herald-Dispatch Presents: Looking Back: Huntington through the Lens of Levi Holley Stone."
This exhibit continues through Aug. 18, at HMA.
Emmy Award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker John Witek will lead a Gallery Walk through the exhibit as part of the Fourth Tuesday Tour at 7:15 p.m. June 25. Admission is free.
Witek purchased more than 1,000 negatives by Stone at a local flea market stumbling upon an undiscovered cache of unique images taken by a self-taught photographer with great vision.
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DENVER As the Padres approached the start of the 2009 season, General Manager Kevin Towers had a sinking feeling.
"Last spring, I didn't see any light at the end of the tunnel," Towers said yesterday.
"We had a difficult winter with the loss of (Trevor) Hoffman and the inability to trade Jake (Peavy).
"Looking ahead, Jake was going to be a third of our projected payroll and we didn't have a great read on where we were with some of our younger prospects. There was so much uncertainty."
Six months later, Towers has a completely different view of the Padres.
"We could be the 2010 Giants," Towers said. "I think we have the opportunity to go from 70 wins (a number they reached last night) to above .500 and contending for a playoff spot next season."
Towers offered his assessment last night before Will Venable drove in four runs with a solo homer and a three-run double and Heath Bell picked up his 40th save as the Padres defeated National League wild-card-leading Colorado 6-3 at Coors Field.
The win was the Padres' seventh in 11 games over the last three weeks against San Francisco, Los Angeles and Colorado – the three National League West teams vying for playoff berths.
It also ran the Padres' record to 32-21 since July 28.
"I've really been encouraged by what I've seen over the past seven weeks," Towers said. "We can play with these teams.
"We're probably a lot closer than people think. We've made up a lot of ground."
Partially because there was much ground to be made up.
Heath Bell is the lone remaining member of the bullpen as it was constructed on March 22. Kevin Correia is the lone starter still in the rotation after Opening Day.
During the course of the season, the Padres have brought along 15 rookies, including outfielders Kyle Blanks and Will Venable; shortstop Everth Cabrera and pitchers Luke Gregerson, Mat Latos, Clayton Richard, Wade LeBlanc and Greg Burke.
Perhaps the biggest midseason changes were the trades of Peavy to the White Sox and outfielder Scott Hairston to the A's.
The Padres got seven pitchers in return in the transactions. Five – Richard, Adam Russell, Sean Gallagher, Aaron Poreda and Ryan Webb – are already with the Padres.
"As tough as those trades were to make, we added some arms we like a lot and created a lot of payroll flexibility," Towers said.
Towers believes the roll the Padres are on will carry over into spring training and beyond.
"I don't know if we need to do a lot this winter," said the general manager, whose contract runs through the end of the 2010 season but whose 15-season tenure with the club might be in jeopardy because of the franchise's change in ownership.
"I like the mix we have right now," Towers said. "We're scoring runs a lot of different ways. And we're scoring early. It used to be that we'd have to wait until the fifth or sixth for something to happen.


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Fortenium's Most Anticipated Games At E3 2010
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This was a real surprise at E3. The Kid Icarus Wii project, which had concept art released in 2007 sometime, was speculated to appear at E3 2007 and E3 2008. The project was long forgotten after 2008. Pit would never fly again.
... "Sorry to keep you waiting"
Pit gains his wings again on Kid Icarus: Uprising, though. Probably a bigger surprise than The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, spectators were shown a trailer featuring the protagonist Pit soaring through the air, shooting at enemies, and also the green-haired goddess Palutena instructing Pit about his wings. Pit must once more fight the old antagonist, Medusa.
Welcome back, Pit!
For a long awaited change of pace, players can fly a frigate in a big space battle. Thank you.
Play. Create. Share... to infinity and beyond!
LittleBigPlanet 2 is the obvious sequel to LittleBigPlanet, the game well known for the creation aspects. That game limited the players to platform games, though; the sequel will still feature platform, but also includes many more genres. In addition, Media Molecule was nice and made all of the old levels work with this new game.
Even though Miyamoto performed terribly when playing this game, it's fucking Zelda. Better yet, this game has Wii Motion Plus. Link apparently is also right handed now.
The random collecting and double team play is finally back. With his last big outing being Donkey Kong 64, Donkey Kong has only been seen in spin offs and games using the Donkey Konga Drum. Finally, for as long as fans waited, Retro brought back our brute ape.
A dreary, dark, and explosive game. This time, THE GAME IS SHOWN IN 3D.
(Sony is trying far too hard to push this).
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GLaDOS returns and implies she is testing Chell again (she did say, "Welcome back,"). Whatever the case, the main character again has an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device and has to go through trials to advance, in a continuous attempt to reach the end, where cake will be served. The cake is a lie, in reality. (ZOMFG SPOILER WTF)
Will GLaDOS again turn against the player? Is Chell still the main character? Where is Half-Life 2 Episode 3? We will all find out. At least I hope so.
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Monroe County Assistant District Attorney John Dunn, 35, of Saylorsburg R.D., resigned last week in the wake of his unsuccessful bid to succeed James F. Marsh, district attorney for 16 years.
Dunn, a Democrat, was defeated by Republican E. David Christine Jr., also an assistant in Marsh's office. Christine will take office Jan. 1, 1988.


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Hello Penguins!
First up, we just wanted to say thanks to everyone who sent us questions to help us make this video! You had some great questions for the team.
Believe it or not, making a new Puffle in Club Penguin is quite a complex process! Here's a bit of what the team had to say about the making of the Gold Puffle:
Fun fact: Did you know that we have team names for each of the staff project teams in Club Penguin? For example, the team of staff members working on the Gold Puffle call themselves the "Island Architects". :)
Until next time... Waddle on!
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It's a bit chilly in the UK right now, isn't it? Perfect weather to stay in and have a party with me! I'll be online today at 4pm UK time, on server Snow Flake and I'd love you to join me!
Wait, I forgot to tell you why we're partying! (silly me :P). Well today is the last day of voting for the UK BAFTA Kids Vote 2013! So if you haven't voted yet, now is the last chance to do it! Then you can come and meet me online for high fives all round!
-Club Penguin Team
We're working on a behind-the-scenes video about the making of the Gold Puffle, and we hope to launch it this week! We'd love your help to pick some music for the background. What Club Penguin song would you like to hear in the background?
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Gwinnett will commemorate the 234th anniversary of our nation's independence with fireworks lighting up the evening sky every night this weekend. Here's a look at what's happening, when and where, and the best places to get the best views.
The city of Auburn will host a two-day July Fourth Celebration from 3 to 8 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to dusk Saturday. The event will include music, crafts vendors, inflatables, food and a fireworks display Saturday evening. For more information, call 770-963-4002 or visit www.cityofauburn-ga.org.
Best vantage points: The city of Auburn will shoot off fireworks at a local business, Boise, the building materials distribution center near City Hall. The best spots to see the show are along Fourth Avenue in from of City Hall and the Auburn Police Department. The pavilion at the entrance to Boise could be a prime spot as well.
Stone Mountain Park
Stone Mountain Park will host its 43rd annual Fantastic Fourth Celebration on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with the Lasershow Spectacular showing nightly followed by a fireworks display. For more information, call 770-498-5690 or visit www.stonemountainpark.com"www.stonemountainpark.com.
Best vantage point: The best place to be for a fireworks display at Stone Mountain Park is on Memorial Lawn, the spacious, grassy area at the base of the stone structure where the famous carving is most visible. A $10 parking fee will get you and anyone you can safely fit in your vehicle access to the lawn. Arrive early to ensure finding a spot.
An Independence Day Celebration will be held from 4 to 10 p.m. Saturday at Lillian Webb Community Park in Norcross. The event will include food, face painting, rides and inflatables for kids, live music at 4:30 and at 7:30 and an evening fireworks show at 9:30 p.m. The event is free to attend. For more information, call 770-448-2122 or visit www.aplacetoimagine.com.
Best vantage points: The city of Norcross will shoot off its fireworks display from Cemetery Field off Cemetery Street. Two city parks -- the three-acre Lillian Webb Community Park at the intersection of College Street and Britt Avenue and Thrasher Park just off Thrasher Street at its intersection with Jones Street and Park Drive -- will offer great views for the fireworks display. Space at Lillian Webb Park will likely fill up fast with the other activities going on there so arrive early to secure a spot.
Duluth Celebrates America will begin at 5 p.m. Saturday at Scott Hudgens Park in Duluth. The event will include live music, pony rides, games and inflatables, face painting, train rides and a fireworks display. The event is free to attend. For more information, call 770-476-3434 or visit www.duluthga.net.
Best vantage point: Fireworks will be shot off in an area of Scott Hudgens Park, offering those gathered inside the 40-acre park the best view of the show.
The city of Lawrenceville will hold its sixth annual Prelude to the 4th event downtown Saturday, with the Aurora Theatre and the Lawrenceville Tourism and Trade Association presenting a concert adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" on the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse lawn at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Cast members will be on hand beginning at 5:30 p.m. to greet guests. A fireworks display to a live performance of John Philip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever" will follow the concert. For more information on Prelude to the 4th, call 678-226-2639 or visit www.visitlawrenceville.com.
Best vantage points: The city of Lawrenceville will shoot off its fireworks display from the parking lot behind Sperata, which is located across from the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse. The courthouse lawn will likely be a prime viewing spot as the pre-fireworks concert will be held there as well, but anywhere in downtown Lawrenceville should offer a great view of the display.
Sugar Hill
The city of Sugar Hill will host 2010 Sparks in the Park from 6:30 to midnight Saturday at E. E. Robinson Park. The event will include musical performances at 6:30, 7:15, a performance of the National Anthem at 9:40 and fireworks at 9:45 p.m. An outdoor showing of "Night at the Museum Battle of the Smithsonian" will begin at 10:15. The event is free to attend. For more information, call 770-945-6716
or visit www.cityofsugarhill.com.
Best vantage point: Sugar Hill's annual fireworks display will be shot off in E. E. Robinson Park, where all the activities for the event will be held. The 54-acre park will offer the best views of the display.
Gwinnett Braves
The Gwinnett Braves organization will host the Heroes of the Diamond Red, White and Blue Tour at 7:05 p.m. Saturday at Coolray Field featuring the U.S. Military All-Stars vs. Heroes of the Diamond. A fireworks extravaganza will follow the game. Individual tickets start at $5. For more information, call the Coolray Field Box Office at 678-277-0340 or visit gwinnettbraves.com.
Best vantage points: If you're not planning to be in the stands as the U.S. Military All-Stars take on the Heroes of the Diamond in the Heroes of the Diamond Red, White and Blue Tour, watch the after-game fireworks display from the surrounding area. Fireworks will be shot off from the parking lot behind the berm near the stadium entrance. The best vantage point within the stadium is the section along the third base line and fans will be able to move around the stadium to get the best view.
Mall of Georgia
The Mall of Georgia will host its Fabulous Fourth event beginning with musical performances by The Ron Johnsons from 2 to 9 p.m. Sunday. A fireworks display will begin at dusk followed by an outdoor showing of the film "Transformers." For more information, call 678-482-8788 or visit www.mallofgeorgia.com.
Best vantage points: The Mall of Georgia has a fireworks viewing area set aside for its Fabulous Fourth event near the outdoor movie screen and kid's zone, but anywhere on the rear side of the mall should offer a great view of the display.
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Climate Audit, December 18, 2008
One of the interesting by-products of the GISS screw-up in October was that we learned the names and locations of quite a few Siberian weather stations - that are glaring "hot spots" on temperature anomaly maps. However, most of these places are among the coldest places on earth.
One of them was Verhojansk, about which Anthony Watts had an interesting post last week; it was one of the screwed up NOAA-Hansen sites. It vies for the title of coldest place (in the Northern Hemisphere) with nearby Ojmjakon. (the place where the lowest-ever temperature in the Northern hemisphere was recorded - Verkhoyansk with a record of minus 67.8 degrees Celsius (minus 90 degrees Fahrenheit) and Oymyakon with a minimum of minus 67.7 degrees Celsius (minus 89.9 degrees Fahrenheit).
I've taken to occasionally checking on these sites to see how they're doing and there's something interesting to watch for over the next few days - the sort of thing that might appeal to people who liked following the summer ice melt.
Anyway, in the GHCND history for Ojmjakon, there hasn't been a minus 60 deg C day in December for 15 years and only one in the past 25 years. There has been only one December temperature at Ojmjakon below 62.5 in the GHCND archive (since 1943) - a reading of -62.8 in 1984.
But according to the forecasts here, a low of minus 60 is forecast tonight and minus 63 tomorrow.
(ICECAP NOTE: It reached -60C, -76F on the 20th and 22nd).
The GHCND daily records are maintained consistently up to 2000, but archiving of daily data became very sporadic following the IPCC TAR report. Over the past week, GHCN-D has not managed to record temperatures that were readily available online.
(read and learn more on this at icecap.us)
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U.S. Advances In World Cup Despite 1-0 Loss To Germany
The U.S. men's soccer team has finished second in its World Cup group, after a 1-0 loss to Germany on Thursday. The Americans will advance after Portugal beat Ghana 2-1.
"This is a huge, huge step, and now we can't wait until round of 16," U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann said afterward, according to ESPN. "Everyone said we had no chance. We took the chance and move on. And now we really want to prove a point."
Today's two games in Group G — dubbed by many as this tournament's "Group of Death" — were played concurrently. We followed the action in a live blog, which is now at the bottom of this post.
Update at 1:55 p.m. ET: The Game Is Over — U.S. Goes On To Knockout Stage
The U.S. advances to the round of 16 after its loss to Germany, 1-0, and a 2-1 win by Portugal over Ghana. This will be the U.S. men's second consecutive trip to the knockout round. Their next game comes Tuesday at 4 p.m. ET, when they will most likely face Belgium (whose final Group H game is this afternoon).
The result left American fans ecstatic — and in the mood to sing, as this audio recorded by NPR's Russell Lewis in Recife shows (we'll warn you: the tape includes some profanity from the excited fans toward the end).
Here's our live blog, for a recap of a game that was marred by wet and slippery conditions and was defined by stout defense by both sides.
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