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Christmas Eve 1944: Marines play football on Guadalcanal, fight (and die) on Okinawa
Denver-raised Bus Bergman was among
U.S. Marines who went from
Guadalcanal football to Okinawa valor
By Terry Frei
Denver Post Sports Writer
GRAND JUNCTION – Wearing shorts, T-shirts and boot-like field shoes on Christmas Eve 1944, U.S. Marine lieutenants Walter "Bus" Bergman and George Murphy warmed up with the 29th Regiment's football team on Guadalcanal, the battle-scarred island in the South Pacific.
The tentmates and buddies had been college team captains during their senior seasons – Murphy in 1942 at Notre Dame, Bergman in 1941 at Colorado State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in Fort Collins. They were about to play with and against many other college stars in the Sixth Marine Division's "Football Classic."
Among the military men ringing the field, the frenetic wagering continued. Bergman and Murphy knew that if the 29th lost to the opposing 4th Regiment, many of their friends would have lighter wallets, or have to make good on IOUs.
Not compared to what was ahead.
They knew that if they survived the island fighting in the Pacific theater, they would consider themselves fortunate. For the rest of their lives.
From one year to the next, the "Greatest Generation" dwindles. From one year to the next, Bus Bergman loses more Marine friends.
Bergman has attended many reunions, including those tied to his student-athlete days, and also to his highly successful coaching career in Colorado. But when the men of the Sixth Marine Division Association hold conventions, look one another up in their travels, or open and read Christmas cards with "Semper Fi" under the signatures, the resummoned emotions are powerful. It is as if they again are young, slim and elite fighting men. Marines who served in the same platoons or companies, and were together when comrades fell in the Battle of Okinawa, have the strongest bonds.
"They say certain guys are heroes because they did this and that," Bergman, 83, said recently in his Grand Junction home. "I say the heroes are those guys who never came back. I've thought about that a lot. I think about the 60 or 70 extra years I got on them. I know I was lucky."
Bergman for years didn't volunteer much information about his combat experiences, even to his children – Judy Black of Washington, Walter Jr. of Grand Junction and Jane Norton of Englewood, elected Colorado's lieutenant governor in 2002. His wife, Elinor, also a Denver native, at times is compelled to point out things Bus neglects to mention.
Little things, such as the citation that accompanied his Bronze Star.
Eagles no match for Marines
Raised near the original Elitch Gardens in northwest Denver, Bergman was a three-sport star at Denver's North High School. At Colorado A&M, he earned 10 letters in football, basketball and baseball, and also was student body president.
In February 1942, Bergman and Aggies teammate Red Eastlack drove to Denver to enlist in the Marines. The Marines' preference was for upperclassmen to stay in college long enough to graduate. To publicize the officer training program, the Marine brass had the star athletes "sworn in" a second time at midcourt during halftime of an A&M-Wyoming basketball game. Bergman and Eastlack were playing for the Aggies in Fort Collins, so they toweled off the sweat and raised their right hands.
As he finished his classes, Bergman didn't respond to an eye-popping $140-a-game contract sent by the Philadelphia Eagles. After receiving his degree, he went to boot camp and Officer Candidates School, then joined the 29th Regiment at Camp Lejeune, N.C. By August 1944, he was on Guadalcanal, the island in the Solomon Islands chain taken by U.S. forces in late 1942. There, the 29th Regiment became part of the newly formed Sixth Marine Division.
Bergman, George Murphy and former Boston University tackle Dave Mears were the platoon leaders in D Company of the 29th Regiment's 2nd Battalion. The three lieutenants shared a tent, trained and waited.
"We built our own shower at the back of the tent with a 55-gallon drum," Mears, a retired CPA, said recently from his home in Essex, Mass. "We got a shower head someplace, and we were all set. We were living high!
"Bus was a very easygoing person and very friendly, but when it came to doing his job, he was pretty serious. George was more serious than either of us, though. At the time, he was married and his wife had just had a baby. So he was further ahead than us that way."
Looming over the Marines was the likelihood that they soon would be fighting.
"We didn't know where we were going," Bergman said. "But we knew it was going to be close to the (Japanese) mainland. Football and little things kept us away from all that talk. Plus, we spent a lot of time in that tent censoring the mail."
He laughed.
"Marines had girlfriends all over the world, and they wrote to all of 'em. We had to read it, and we were supposed to cut things out, but nobody really said anything we had to worry about that way."
After several pickup games on Guadalcanal, and many beer-fueled debates among Marines about which regiment had the best players, the "Football Classic" on Christmas Eve was scheduled. Organizers mimeographed rosters and lined up a public-address system, radio announcers, regimental bands and volunteer game officials. The field was the 29th's parade ground, which had as much coral and gravel fragments as dirt, and no grass. It was christened Pritchard Field after Cpl. Thomas Pritchard, a member of a demolition squad killed in a demonstration gone array shortly before the game.
Crowd estimates ranged from 2,500 to 10,000. With no bleachers, Marines scrambled to stake out vantage points.
Maj. Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., the Sixth Division's commander, diplomatically watched the first half on one side of the field, then switched for the second half.
Bergman started in the 29th's backfield, lining up with halfback Bud Seelinger, formerly of Wisconsin; fullback Tony Butkovich, the nation's leading rusher in 1943 at Purdue and the Cleveland Rams' No. 1 draft choice in 1944; and quarterback Frank Callen, from St. Mary's of California. Murphy was one end and player-coach Chuck Behan, formerly of the Detroit Lions, was the other. Behan captained the 29th Regiment squad. The 4th Regiment team captain was Dave Schreiner, a two-time All-American at Wisconsin and winner of the Chicago Tribune's Silver Football as the Big Ten's most valuable player in 1942.
The 4th Regiment's backfield included quarterback Bob Spicer, a sergeant from Leavenworth, Kan., who had played guard at Colorado in 1942.
The game was spirited, violent and inconclusive.
Neither team scored.
The 'Mosquito Bowl'
Spicer intercepted a pass on the last play of the game.
"It was two hands above the waist," Spicer said of the rules last week from his home in Park Ridge, Ill., "but it could be a two-handed jab to the shoulder, guts or knees. It was fun!"
Bergman said, "We hadn't gotten to practice much, and that's why it was a 0-0 game, even with all the talent we had."
John McLaughry, a former Brown University star and ex-New York Giant in the 4th Marines, served as a playing assistant coach and played next to Spicer in the backfield. He and his 4th Regiment teammates wore light green T-shirts and dungarees, a better choice than the 29th's shorts.
"It didn't get out of hand," McLaughry said recently from his home in Providence, R.I. "But it came pretty close."
McLaughry wrote to his parents the day after the game.
"It was really a Lulu, and as rough hitting and hard playing as I've ever seen," he said in the letter. "As you may guess, our knees and elbows took an awful beating due to the rough field with coral stones here and there, even though the 29th did its best to clean them all up. My dungarees were torn to hell in no time, and by the game's end my knees and elbows were a bloody mess."
In the letter, McLaughry said the stars were Dave Schreiner and Bob Herwig, a lineman at California in the mid-1930s. Bergman said Herwig was best-known among the men for being the husband of Katherine Windsor, author of the controversial, banned-in-Boston historical novel, "Forever Amber." Herwig originally was ticketed to be one of the two game officials and was listed as such on the program. He couldn't resist playing.
Sgt. Harold T. Boian, a Marine Corps combat correspondent who later became advertising director for the Denver Post, wrote a dispatch that was distributed by United Press and ran in many newspapers. Because of wartime secrecy, his story began:
"SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC – (Delayed) – (U.P.) – Tropical heat and the lack of equipment failed to stop the leathernecks of the Sixth Marine division when they decided it was football time back home. They arranged the Mosquito Bowl football classic."
Boian listed many of the well-known players in the game. He didn't mention Hank Bauer, who spelled Spicer at quarterback, a blocking position in the single wing. Bauer came to the Marines from East St. Louis (Ill.) High School and would go on to fame as a major-league baseball player, and as a manager.
Survivors don't remember it being called the "Mosquito Bowl" at the time, and that name wasn't used on the program.
Because the game was a tie, all wagers were "pushes."
Bergman and the Sixth Division continued training, then left Guadalcanal for Okinawa, in the Ryukyu Islands, about 400 miles south of Japan.
"I remember that just as we were getting ready to load on our landing craft, one P-38 (fighter plane) flew over us and I felt like I could reach up and touch it," Bergman said. "I've never forgotten that."
Part of a multiservice command operating as a Tenth Army expeditionary force, the Marines went ashore on the western beaches of Okinawa on Easter, April 1, 1945. The landings were unopposed. The Japanese would make their stands elsewhere.
Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill
The 29th Marines first moved up to the northern end of the island, roughly 65 miles long.
"The only men we lost were from mines and booby traps in caves," Bergman said. "We lost our machine gun officer and mortar officer going in one of the caves. But then we came back to the lower third, and that's where all the trouble was."
In the battle for Sugar Loaf Hill, Murphy and Mears both were hit on May 15.
The Tenth Army's official Okinawa combat history, published three years later, said Murphy first ordered "an assault with fixed bayonets" against Japanese forces.
"The Marines reached the top and immediately became involved in a grenade battle with the enemy," the combat historians wrote. "Their supply of 350 grenades was soon exhausted.
"Lieutenant Murphy asked his company commander, Capt. Howard L. Mabie, for permission to withdraw, but Captain Mabie ordered him to hold the hill at all costs. By now the whole forward slope of Sugar Loaf was alive with gray eddies of smoke from mortar blasts, and Murphy ordered a withdrawal on his own initiative. Covering the men as they pulled back down the slope, Murphy was killed by a fragment when he paused to help a wounded Marine."
A Marine correspondent wrote of Murphy's death at the time. That story was carried in many U.S. newspapers in May. It had Murphy making multiple trips to help carry the wounded to an aid station before he was hit as he rested. It added: "Irish George staggered to his feet, aimed over the hill and emptied his pistol in the direction of the enemy. Then he fell dead."
Said Bergman, "One of the men in his platoon told me he pulled out his pistol and unloaded it."
In the battle, 49 of the 60 men in Murphy's platoon were killed or wounded.
Also on May 15, Mears' platoon was approaching Sugar Loaf when he felt a flash of pain.
"They said it was a machine gun, and it was one bullet through my thigh," Mears said.
Mears was evacuated to an airfield that night, then flown to Guam the next day, where he heard of Murphy's death.
"Oh, that one was really bad," he said. "He was just such a terrific guy. That was a real low blow."
Mears paused, then added, "But there were so many of them …"
Suddenly, Bergman was the only tentmate remaining in the battle.
"Then all the outfits got hit pretty hard," Bergman said. "Our company went up with others on the 18th and 19th (of May), took the hill, and stayed there. The Japs were beat up pretty good by then, and we got good tank support.
"By that last night on Sugar Loaf, I was the executive officer. I organized a couple of guys to carry ammunition and stuff to different companies up there that night. We took guys down to the first-aid tent, not so many of the wounded, but several who cracked up from the stress of the whole deal."
In the Bronze Star citation, Maj. Gen. Shepherd said the Coloradan "organized carrying parties and supervised the distribution and delivery (of supplies) to all three companies throughout the night. When time permitted, 1st Lieut. Bergman visited the troops on the line, exposing himself to enemy fire, speaking to many, reassuring and encouraging them during the enemy's intense counterattacks."
U.S. forces held the hill.
Spicer, the former Colorado player in the 4th Regiment, was wounded twice on Okinawa. He suffered a shrapnel wound in the arm, but was back in the battle at the end.
"We were coming north after cleaning up the bottom of the island," he said. "I jumped over a ditch and found a bunch of Japanese soldiers lying there. I guess somebody threw a grenade at me. That's how I lost my eye."
Spicer said that so matter-of-factly. "That's how I lost my eye."
'Part of the game plan'
By July 2, when the campaign was declared over, 12 players in the Football Classic had died on Okinawa.
"It was just part of the game plan," Bergman said, shrugging and summoning a sports analogy for war, reversing the usual practice. "We knew it was going to happen, and it did happen."
After the island was secure, Bergman visited Murphy's grave at the Sixth Marine Division Cemetery.
"It was real tough," Bergman recalled softly. He struggled to say something else, then settled for repeating: "It was real tough."
On that visit, he took a picture of Murphy's white cross and grave. He still has a tiny print.
Murphy never met his daughter, born in July 1944.
Like Murphy, the two team captains in the game, Schreiner and Behan, both died in battle.
The other nine Football Classic players killed in action:
–Tony Butkovich.
–Wisconsin tackle Bob Baumann.
–Michigan center Bob Fowler.
–Lehigh tackle John Hebrank.
–Southern Methodist tackle Hubbard Hinde.
–Marquette halfback Rusty Johnston.
–Wake Forest and Duke halfback Johnny Perry.
–Amherst end Jim Quinn.
–Cornell tackle Ed Van Order.
They were "only" a dozen among 2,938 Marines killed or missing in action on Okinawa. U.S. Army dead and missing numbered 4,675.
Many of the survivors, including Bergman, were ticketed to serve in an invasion of Japan. Bergman was given a "G-2" summary of the Sixth Marine Division's strategy on Okinawa. In the letter on the first page from Maj. Gen. Shepherd, dated Aug. 1, 1945, the Sixth Division's commanding officer declared: "I believe that the lessons learned at so dear a price on (Okinawa) should be published and distributed for the benefit of combat units who will land again on Japanese soil."
New President Harry S. Truman approved the use of atomic bombs against Japan, and they were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early August.
"We were real happy it was going to end the war," Bergman said. "Before that, we knew we were going to go to the mainland."
Instead, the invasion of Japan was unnecessary after the September surrender, and Bergman's unit drew occupation duty in China.
Spicer returned to Boulder, lettered three more seasons for the Buffaloes at guard and was the team captain in 1948. Incredibly, he did it with one eye. After a long career in the banking business, he retired in 1989.
In 1946, Bergman returned to Fort Collins and earned his master's degree. He went into coaching at Fort Lewis College in Durango, then moved to Mesa College in Grand Junction in 1950. He coached the Mesa football and baseball teams, and the baseball team three times was the runner-up in the national junior college tournament – an event Bergman helped Grand Junction land as the annual host. He retired from coaching in 1974, and from the faculty in 1980. He was inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.
Bergman often thinks about his Marine buddies.
About those who survived the war. And about those who didn't.
Bus Bergman died on March 28, 2010 in Grand Junction.
Bob Spicer died in April 2006 in Park Ridge, Ill.
The preceding was adapted material from Third Down and a War to Go research.
My additional stories in conjunction with the Guadalcanal game, about the battle deaths of the following:
Dave Schreiner, Denver Post, Oct. 18, 2006
Chuck Behan, Denver Post, May 31, 2010
Bob Baumann, Denver Post, Nov. 10, 2009
I also wrote a later Nov. 8, 2004, column about Colorado's Bob Spicer. I can't find a link to that story, either.
Also, here are a couple of additional Memorial Day Post columns not tied to the Marines' Guadalcanal game:
—On major league baseball player Elmer Gedeon, May 28, 2012.
— On former CSU star Dude Dent, June 2, 2006
And here's a subsequent piece with more details about Dent's death, May 18, 2009.
And 2013 column on uncle of Rockies owner Dick Monfort making the ultimate sacrifice as a B-17 navigator. He also was Richard Monfort.
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Lincoln allowed two hits and a run in six innings, Andrew McCutchen hit a three-run homer and the Pirates won for the sixth time in seven games with a 4-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday.
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From the Official Press release of the Force Unleashed Video Game:
LucasArts is preparing an unprecedented promotional effort around the launch of The Force Unleashed, encompassing a full line of toys and game-based action figures from Hasbro, as well as a full publishing program from Dark Horse, Del Rey and Palace Press.
Is anyone else a little excited about comic and novel tie in's ? I think these will be great!!!!
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February 14, 2007, 03:13 PM »
I've seen the pics on the home page!
I'm reved to get the game,and especially the figures.I didn't know about the book
I'll get that too while I'm at it!
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February 19, 2007, 07:45 PM »
i just hope this is handled alot better than Shadows was or even the clone wars.
so far we have massive contradictions all across the board:
shadows videogame: Dash Rendar is everywhere you wanna be!
shadows book: this feels alot more like a prequel to ROTJ than a midquel. no complaints there its just really sad that they couldn't have gotten a better author.
shadows comic: Boba Fett's story played out blow by blow(no complants) i just really wish this stuff was in the book. and the art is really so-so. much like all the 90's sw comics the cover is great and the inside looks like some nine year old drew it.
when it comes to the clone wars my beef is really over the way the cartoons and the books overlap and go over each others heads creating a massive mess. no retconing magic can patch this up.
i mean they ran a successful campaign from 02' to 05' and bungled the most important part, connecting to ROTS without error.
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March 7, 2007, 08:49 AM »
This is what I found most interesting about the article:
'Although the game features multiple endings, this novel will be one of the only places where fans will be able to find the official
ending -- the definitive conclusion that will mold the events of the Star Wars galaxy for the future.'
I know that I've read on the boards multiple times that some fans only consider the 6 movies to be 'canon' and that everything else (books, video games, comics, etc) is EU. I personally find it nice that the Official Site discusses a novelization of a video game as something that should be deemed 'canon'. I don't think the debate will ever go away, but I think this gives some fans a little more ammo when discussing topics outside of the movies.
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I don't, and here's why...
The novel and game, as I understand them, are having a heavy-hand from Lucas keeping things "as he wants them". He's sending the books in before his TV show, which he's supposed to be heavily involved in... If he's running the TV show, I'd consider it "canon". As canon as the films are... They say Lucas is writing it, and will have a hand in production and stuff...
And thus he's supposedly heavy handed in the FU media tie-in to keep things as he wants them...
Now, if he's not, to me it just means nothing... Canon is a term that gets thrown around by lots of people but isn't really applicable.
What it could be is that all they're saying is the game will be open-ended and not linear at all to allow for gameplay issues. The book will be set to start and end so it fits with the already established continuity (both canon and just the "official continuity" which is how LFL refers to EU materials), as Lucas wants it to be... Canon? Like I said, it's a word people throw around willy nilly, including SW.com... The powers that be there have said the films are it though for canon, buuuuuuuttttt... Like I said, if Lucas is really helming this multi-media thing and then down the road the TV Series (however many there are), he's obviously wanting it to fit perfectly and not tread on his vision... Especially since FU is supposedly taking place during the time the live-action TV show is to take place.
This is kind of like Lucas and CLone Wars... He didn't personally oversee that project's end and how it lead into Episode 3, and thus it's just part of the "Official Continuity", even though it fits seamlessly with the canon. Lucas just gave them the ideas they could and couldn't go with.
I think if anything this is a slip of the word canon where it's not applicable since LFL's official stance contradicts this... Unless Lucas is running this personally, which I 100% doubt.
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March 8, 2007, 12:51 PM »
And with this bit of news.....
I wonder how that will screw up the book and the figures and everything else that was planned around this title. Don't get me wrong. I think the game should not be rushed and be as good as it can. But to have it slip at least six months from the announced date is not good when you have other media partners releasing products that tie into your game.
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will we know the name of Vader secret apprentice? What coonotation will this name have?
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Some call him....."Tim".
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I read the Force Unleashed Comic Book today... it was alright. I thought the characters were really well done, but the action sequences were a bit lacking. The artwork was extremely awesome... really gave me a Star Wars feel. I felt the story and plot were weak and unoriginal... I won't post anymore, but if someone wants to be spoiled, I'll PM you what I can remember. Alright, I'll do just one spoiler........................................
The Secret Apprentice Dies. If the video games does the same thing, that's pretty weak. Beating the game = your character dying.
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Makes sense to me. They really can't have this guy running around during the OT.
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August 20, 2008, 11:04 PM »
I picked this book up last night at 30% off at Barnes & Noble. I'm going to wait until after I play the game to read it though. I think I'd rather be surprised when the game comes out instead of knowing what's going on before I even begin playing.
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Trying to avoid the spoilers, but I have a good idea I know what you just said...
I can't wait to pop this baby into my PS3... I wish someone would have a cool exclusive.
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Picked up the Force Unleashed Graphic Novel at B&N today... It was alright. It felt way too rushed, and the "romance" between Juno and Starkiller felt very forced. Hopefully the game will be better.
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the Rebel symbol is actually the family crest of Starkiller. huh? seems like the authors of the game book comic whoever just pulled that right out their buttocks and slapped it down into the storyline.
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Just finished the novel, pretty good, though I felt some of the action was forced. I think it would have had a better flow if there had been more in between action. It seemed the Apprentice went to a planet, fought some, then flew someplace else and fought some. I guess that was needed, otherwise why would he need his own pilot, but still seemed rushed and forced. I wasn't looking for filler, just more connecting material between his various missions.
When Juno was thinking about her old squadron mates, she mentioned "Red Stripe", was that a reference to (the future) Baron Fel?
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Lord Leverhulme was more progressive in his choice of sculptures than he was in paintings. Besides the purchase of more traditional works by artists such as John Flaxman, he also became the single most important patron of the 'New Sculpture' movement. This was largely through friendships with artists like Edward Onslow Ford and William Goscombe John.
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Season 31 Episode 8 | 8m 39s
Beatrice Vio has cultivated a passion for fencing since she was five years old. At eleven, she contracted severe meningitis which took her to the brink of death. The doctors gave her an unimaginable choice: keep her limbs and risk death, or amputate all four to ensure survival. She chose life. Now, Vio is a Paralympic champion and the only fencer in the world to compete without arms or legs.
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The Best Way to Blanket a Home in Wi-Fi
A recent Facebook post started me thinking that this was a subject worth covering. Here's the original question:
JR: Computer people, what is the absolute, most amazing and powerful wi-fi extender I can get? My current extender is slow and totally unreliable, needing to be reset frequently. I've read reviews online, but can't seem to come up with an obvious choice.
It's a great question with a few possible answers. First, let's make some assumptions about the environment. Like most folks in this situation, I'm betting that this is a larger house with the router located at one end and that the wi-fi reception on the opposite end is the real problem. Upstairs and downstairs variations are likely not the issue. There could be obstructions in the middle of the house the interfere with the signal. These are typically kitchen related. The refrigerator and stove can really tank a wi-fi signal.
So what's the best way to extend the range of the wi-fi router? There are extenders, but as the question suggests, your mileage may vary. What are the alternatives?
Option 1: Replace the Router
Replacing the main wireless router with an 802.11n or an 802.11ac version could be the ticket. If the original router was 802.11a, 802.11b, or 802.11g, then these newer versions offer greater ranger in most situations. But there's a catch. To take full advantage of that greater range, the wireless adapter that's part of your computer should also be 802.11n or 802.11ac. If it's not, you're not going to get the full range extension. And upgrading the hardware at the computer could be impractical (adding a card of some kind) or impossible (some laptops, and all tablets). At some point, the price becomes an issue and option 1 might not be the best route if you're dealing with legacy hardware.
Also keep in mind that 802.11n and 802.11ac routers drop in performance to match the requirements of the oldest connecting device. This means that, if you have an old device (only 802.11b 22Mb), your super fast 100+Mb wi-fi will down-step the performance of the entire network to accommodate that old device. Some of the latest hardware circumvents this issue by putting the older hardware on a different frequency, but in far too many cases, having an old device on a modern network will cause the entire network to slow down. Worse yet, depending on the router, it might also limit the range of your wi-fi network as it works to accommodate those older specifications. Few people see that coming. It's difficult to anticipate and even more difficult to diagnose, so be aware.
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I read an old post, circa 2010, on the MailChimp blog a little while ago, about their experience using PHP. It struck a chord with me, because the sentiments they shared I've felt myself, and heard echoed many times over the years. [...] Despite its successes, or people's successes with it (a la Facebook, MailChimp, Hailo, Google, and others), it's inferred we should use languages which had their foundations as pure languages; not ones which came to be a language, as PHP evolved into over time.
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How did Southampton do in the window?
Ins and Outs
Players in: Dusan Tadic (FC Twente, £10.9m), Graziano Pelle (Feyenoord, £9m), Ryan Bertrand (Chelsea, loan), Fraser Forster (Celtic, loan), Shane Long (Hull, undisclosed), Florin Gardos (Steaua Bucharest, undisclosed), Toby Alderweireld (Atletico Madrid, loan), Sadio Mane (Red Bull Salzburg, undisclosed).
Players out: Luke Shaw (Manchester United, £25m), Adam Lallana (£25million, Liverpool), Rickie Lambert (Liverpool, £4million), Jonathan Forte (released), Dejan Lovren (Liverpool, undisclosed), Calum Chambers (Arsenal, £16m), Danny Fox (Nottingham Forest, free), Guly do Prado (released), Billy Sharp (Leeds, undisclosed), Saphir Taider (Inter Milan, loan terminated), Jake Sinclair (Hibernian, loan), Gaston Ramirez (Hull, loan), Jos Hooiveld (Norwich, loan).
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Summing up the window
It has become pretty clear over the summer that the exodus has more to do with players' egos and their desire for financial rewards than any so-called "lack of ambition" at the club. Saints have spent heavily to replace the players, and in fact are amongst the biggest spenders in European football in this window as they prepare to rebuild under a clearly ambitious Ronald Koeman.
The Dutchman has set about strengthening every area of the pitch and brought in a mixture of unknown quantities and proven Premier League players and internationals. While the St. Mary's faithful will know what to expect from the likes of Fraser Forster and Shane Long, it's Graziano Pelle and Florin Gardos who could take the division by surprise and La Liga winner Toby Alderweireld is somewhat of a coup. Dusan Tadic has had a fine start to his first ever English campaign, while persuading Morgan Schneiderlin to stay may well prove Koeman to be a genius. Rating: 8/10
Best piece of business?
In Tadic, Saints may have unearthed another gem. Already his creative spark has shone at Anfield and at St. Mary's and he will be key to the club's attacking prowess this season. A ready-made replacement for Adam Lallana, if he can transfer his level of output from the Eredivisie he could well be the bargain of the season, and dare I say it prove to be a more important player to Southampton than his predecessor.
With the price of English players spiraling out of control, to pick up someone like Tadic for just 10 million pounds is almost ridiculous. Tadic is a creator of the highest order and cheaper than British strikers are changing clubs for in the Championship. If anyone might push Tadic as Saints' best business it could be Fraser Forster. The giant keeper looks completely at ease at his new club, not putting a foot wrong thus far.
Worst piece of business?
As much as I don't want to personally single anyone out, many people balked at the price tag when the club brought in Long for 12 million pounds. If anyone has to justify their fee, it will be the Irishman who, although a consistently good performer at this level, has never quite coupled it with a prolific goal return. His ability to hassle defences, though, could prove the perfect foil for Pelle, and the Southampton defenders were deadly serious when they said they were now glad he is on their team.
Inflated transfer prices are what they are, and Long will prove bad business only if he doesn't make the kind of contribution to the team he is expected to. Goals will be an added bonus.
What remaining issues are there?
Saints have worked well to cover all their positions in this window, and the deadline day signings of Toby Alderweireld and Sadio Mane were the final pieces of the jigsaw in the form of a versatile defender and a pacey winger. You could argue that now the squad is stronger than at the end of last season. It certainly appears to run deeper in each position.
The big issue could be goals as there are several unproven players at Premier League level playing up top, while Shane Long is not famed for his prolific tally. This could be an unnecessary worry though with Graziano Pelle having opened his account at West Ham.
Who can help in January?
Although not exactly my cup of tea as a player, the club has clearly been pursuing Andros Townsend. His pace and directness might be welcome, and he is clearly someone Koeman is keeping track of. Right now it would appear that Spurs aren't prepared to sell him, though that might be retaliation for their failure to lure Schneiderlin from St. Mary's. Come January though, if Townsend isn't getting a look at Spurs, he might be knocking on Mr. Pochettino's door asking for directions to Southampton.
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I've always liked Caesar Salad but have been put off in making it because of the effort and length of time to make the dressing. You are in effect making a mayonnaise with all that whipping of eggs and vinegar. Plus the thought of salmonella in the fresh egg makes me reluctant to serve it on the family dinner table. So there you have it - all my excuses. ;) Whether thru health concern, lack of time or just plain laziness I've thought of enough in not doing this from scratch. So you could just imagine how long we've suffered through store-bought Caesar Salad with ready-made croutons and its creamy sauce in a plastic packet [*over-acting mode on*].
Beginner's Caesar's Salad
1 large romaine or cos lettuce - torn or cut into large pieces
1 cooked or grilled chicken breast [optional] - sliced in bite-sized pieces
3 thick slices of crusty bread (ciabatta, baguette, etc) - diced
2 Tbsp olive oil
5 Tbsp mayonnaise
1 Tbsp white wine vinegar or rice wine vinegar
2 anchovies from a tin or bottle
1/4 cup finely grated parmesan cheese
1 garlic clove* - crushed or minced [see Note]
extra shaved or grated parmesan cheese
- Make the croutons:
- Put the diced bread in a non-stick pan. Drizzle the olive oil on it and some salt, making sure that the bread has absorbed all of the oil.
- Fry on medium heat. Turn the bread pieces from time to time. Cook until golden brown.
- Remove from pan and cool completely. *OR*
- Preheat oven to 200C/fan 180C/400F. Place bread pieces onto a baking tray.
- Drizzle the oil and some salt making sure that bread absorbed the oil.
- Bake for about 10 minutes or until golden brown, turning then halfway through.
- Remove from oven and cool completely.
- Make the dressing:
- In a bowl, mash the anchovies well.
- Add in the garlic (if using), mayonnaise, and vinegar. Whisk to combine well.
- Stir in the grated parmesan. It should have the consistency of yoghurt. If it's too thick, whisk in some warm water a little at a time.
- To assemble:
- Just before serving, put in a bowl the lettuce, half of the chicken (if using), and half of the croutons, and drizzle most of the dressing. Toss to mix.
- Scatter on top the rest of the croutons and chicken. Drizzle the rest of the dressing. Serve immediately.
*Note: If a whole garlic in the dressing is too strong, you can just add in a hint of garlicky taste by cutting a whole garlic in half and then rubbing the inside of the bowl and the whisking utensil (fork or small whisk) to be used for making the dressing.
*Variations: Instead of chicken, you can put in crumbled crispy fried bacon or flaked canned tuna.


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After the LA Fitness shootings in Pennsylvania this past summer, some club operators began to think about what their staffs would do in a similar emergency. It's a situation that likely won't ever occur in your facility, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be prepared for it or another emergency situation.
Before I focus specifically on what to do if a gunman comes into your facility, I'd like to say that your best defense for any emergency situation is to plan ahead, practice for emergencies and be familiar with the emergency workers in your area.
Fitness facility owners and operators should invite their fire department, police department and emergency management services department into their facility to become more familiar with your layout and operations. Personnel from these departments can offer tips about how to deal with emergency situations and help you develop a plan. Because each of these groups must practice handling emergency situations during the year, consider offering your facility as a practice location.
Regardless of the emergency situation (gunman, fire, flood, earthquake, tornado, drowning, heart attack, etc.), you should have a crisis plan in place, including an evacuation plan, so employees understand what they should do when any event occurs. And you should practice that plan on a regular basis with your employees.
Your evacuation plan should include designated primary and secondary gathering sites for employees and members outside the club. This will enable you to get a head count and let police or fire personnel know if someone is missing.
Designate one person to be in charge during an emergency situation with one backup person. The person in charge should be the one who communicates with emergency personnel on the scene. Because of the pressure this person will be under, make sure to designate someone who handles pressure well.
Assign duties to your staff for the safety/crisis plan. Make sure you have backup people assigned for each duty in case someone is missing.
Have on hand current blueprints or layouts of all your clubs. These blueprints need to be detailed and contain locations for all utilities, control panels, alarm system locations (and how they work) and all entrances and exits (including roof hatches). In addition, the blueprints should detail how all entrances are secured (locks, padlocks, etc.).
So after figuring out the basics, what should you do in the event that a gunman enters your facility?
First, call 9-1-1 as soon as possible—and don't hang up before the dispatcher does. You should provide the following information to the 9-1-1 dispatcher or on-scene law enforcement personnel:
- Location of the active shooter. For dispatchers, this means providing the street address, business name, shooter's location in the building and place in the building from which you are calling.
- Number of shooters, if more than one.
- Physical description of shooter(s).
- Number and type of weapons held by the shooter. (Type can just be handgun or rifle.)
- Number of potential victims.
Dispatchers will always verify your phone number in case they need to call you back. They also will verify the address as they are checking their computer information. Although this seems to take a lot of time, the average call with questions is less than 25 seconds. The dispatcher may even spell the street name back to you to ensure he or she heard you correctly.
After calling 9-1-1 (if it's possible to do this first), you need to quickly determine the most reasonable way to protect your own life. Customers and clients are likely to follow the lead of employees and managers during an active shooter situation. You typically have three options:
1. Evacuate the building using the preplanned escape route. Leave your belongings behind. Keep your hands visible (which means empty) in case the police are already outside. You don't want them to think you have a weapon in your hands since they won't know who the shooter is.
2. Hide out. If it's not safe to leave the building, find a place to hide away from the active shooter's view. Block the entry to your hiding place and lock the doors—this means you need to know your surroundings.
3. Take Action. As a last resort—and only when your life is in imminent danger—attempt to incapacitate the active shooter. Act with physical aggression and throw items at the shooter.
Once law enforcement arrives on the scene, you need to remember that they have practiced how to handle situations like these and they are setting up to neutralize the shooter quickly, so allow them to do their work. You should do the following:
- Remain calm and follow officers' instructions.
- Immediately raise your hands and spread your fingers.
- Avoid making quick movements toward the officers, such as attempting to hold onto them for safety.
- Avoid pointing, screaming and/or yelling.
- Do not stop to ask officers for help or direction when evacuating. Just proceed in the direction from which officers are entering the premises.
Please also remember that a shooter could be a current or former employee, a member or a stranger. Here are signs to look for in employees or members that might show they are headed for a breakdown:
- Increased use of alcohol and/or illegal drugs.
- Unexplained increase in absenteeism and/or vague physical complaints.
- Increased severe mood swings and noticeably unstable or emotional responses.
- Increasingly talks of problems at home.
- Increase in unsolicited comments about violence, firearms and other dangerous weapons and violent crimes.
By following these steps, you can help keep your staff and members safer in the case of a shooter. But remember that for staff to react as they need to, they must practice these steps on a regular basis (at least once a year). It may seem like a hassle to take time out of your day to do this, but the practice will build confidence and teamwork among your staff members.
Jeff Walker is director of Licking County (OH) Office of Homeland Security, Emergency Management and 911 Services, Newark, OH. He also is Region Five president for the International Association of Emergency Managers, Falls Church, VA. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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