Barnesville Buggy Days Celebration
Buggy Days has its roots in may Southern US traditions. At first glance, it appears much as at typical fall county fair that many rural towns or counties put on. However, Buggy Days is much more than a county fair. Its a time in which the people of Barnesville, GA, USA celebrate their local heritage; being that their town at one time was the Buggy Capital of the South during the Buggy Making hay day.
Events and Attractions
* Old Fashion Games
* Buggy Days Road Race
* Greased Pig Chase
* Greased Poll climb
* Fireworks
* Arts & Crafts
* Buggy Days Parade
Old Fashion Games
It is unconfirmed whether or not the town still puts on the Old Fashion Games on one night during the week of Buggy Days. In times past, the town split up and competed as communities against each other in nontraditional games. The Redbone Community always made a good show and did very well being made up of hearty country folk. Games consists of water melon toss, the slippery football catch and the water melon seed spitting contest among other things. The location of the games was usually at Summers Field the former site of the LCCHS Fighting Trojans Football Team, right off of College Dr, very close to Gordon College.
Buggy Days Road Race
The Buggy Days Road Race is held the Saturday morning of Buggy Days. There are several events of them being:
* 10 K run
* 5 K run
* 1 mile run
Often times there is a walking event too.
Greased Pig Chase
Saturday night of Buggy Days is the favorite of many as it is the night in which the townsfolk gather to participate in the Greased Pig Chase. As the event proceeds, there are several rounds in which a different pig is used for each round. Rounds take place based on the age groups of participants. To the Chagrin of groups like PETA, live pigs are greased up and let loose on an open field to be chased and hunted by 50 or more people at a time. In the past, this open field has been Summers Field. In the long past, the site of the event was by the old city pool, which has long since been filled in, located across College Dr. from Summers' Field.
Participants line up on a line. Participants must be of the same age group. This is hard to enforce and at times older kids sneak in and participate with younger age groups. A pig is placed 25 to 40 yards away from the line of participants. A referee blows a whistle or shoots a gun signifying the start of the game. The participants chase the pig until it is caught. Almost always, the game ends with a pile of people on top of the pig. The winner is the one who has the most possession of the pig; usually at the bottom of the pile.
There are several strategies that one can use to catch the pig. The main one being not to run with the herd. This can be compared to someone playing half back in football or middle field in soccer.
Years ago, adults were allowed to participate in this event. After a few times of intoxicated participants getting a little rowdy, the event was limited to children only.
Greased Poll Climb
A side event of Buggy Days is the Greased Poll Climb. This event is usually on going while something else is happening like the Greased Pig Chase. To prepare for this event a normal sized telephone poll is placed in the ground. This poll is then coated with a greasy substance. A some of money is placed at the top, usually a $100 bill. Participants take turns climbing the poll to try to reach the money. The winner is the person who successfully removes the money from the top of the poll.
To participate, one must buy a ticket of participation. As you can imagine, depending on the price of the ticket, much revenue can be collected off setting the price of the cash prize on top of the poll.
Fireworks
The Fireworks show is almost always done the Saturday night of Buggy Days, after The Greased Pig chase. The show lasts somewhere around 15 minutes. Before the Fireworks show, townsfolk scramble to secure the best viewing area. Many of the parking lots around Gordon College are the best and favorite viewing spots of the locals.
Arts & Crafts
All day Saturday and Sunday people wonder through downtown Barnesville checking out various booths of arts and craft vendors. These vendors come from all over Georgia and other states to setup booths the Friday night of Buggy Days, preparing to sell their goods through the weekend. Typical merchandise being sold are candles, wooden toys, funnel cakes, hamburgers, paintings as well as belt buckles and leather goods.
Buggy Days Parade
At 2:00 pm on the Saturday of Buggy Days, the Buggy Days parade begins. The parade is made up of High School marching bands from Barnesville and surrounding towns, cheer leaders, beauty queens, clowns, Shriners, Free Masons, folks driving antique cars, folks driving junky cars, politicians, lots and lots of horses and pretty much anybody else who would like to get in it. There is always a Parade Grand Martial who starts the parade. The Grand Martial most often is a favored, good citizen of the Barnesville/Lamar county community.
During the parade, friends and families congregate on the side of the parade route to watch. Children like the parade because of candy being tossed. A common complaint of the parade is the loud noises created by the participants from horns blowing to the piles manure left behind by the horses.
Parade Route The Buggy Days Parade is a march from Summers' Field, up College Drive heading into town. The Parade route continues left, at the Post Office onto Forsyth St. Another left is made in the main section of downtown Barnesville on to Main St. The route follows Main St, on out of the downtown area ending close to Summers' Field.
Buggy Days has its roots in may Southern US traditions. At first glance, it appears much as at typical fall county fair that many rural towns or counties put on. However, Buggy Days is much more than a county fair. Its a time in which the people of Barnesville, GA, USA celebrate their local heritage; being that their town at one time was the Buggy Capital of the South during the Buggy Making hay day.
Events and Attractions
* Old Fashion Games
* Buggy Days Road Race
* Greased Pig Chase
* Greased Poll climb
* Fireworks
* Arts & Crafts
* Buggy Days Parade
Old Fashion Games
It is unconfirmed whether or not the town still puts on the Old Fashion Games on one night during the week of Buggy Days. In times past, the town split up and competed as communities against each other in nontraditional games. The Redbone Community always made a good show and did very well being made up of hearty country folk. Games consists of water melon toss, the slippery football catch and the water melon seed spitting contest among other things. The location of the games was usually at Summers Field the former site of the LCCHS Fighting Trojans Football Team, right off of College Dr, very close to Gordon College.
Buggy Days Road Race
The Buggy Days Road Race is held the Saturday morning of Buggy Days. There are several events of them being:
* 10 K run
* 5 K run
* 1 mile run
Often times there is a walking event too.
Greased Pig Chase
Saturday night of Buggy Days is the favorite of many as it is the night in which the townsfolk gather to participate in the Greased Pig Chase. As the event proceeds, there are several rounds in which a different pig is used for each round. Rounds take place based on the age groups of participants. To the Chagrin of groups like PETA, live pigs are greased up and let loose on an open field to be chased and hunted by 50 or more people at a time. In the past, this open field has been Summers Field. In the long past, the site of the event was by the old city pool, which has long since been filled in, located across College Dr. from Summers' Field.
Participants line up on a line. Participants must be of the same age group. This is hard to enforce and at times older kids sneak in and participate with younger age groups. A pig is placed 25 to 40 yards away from the line of participants. A referee blows a whistle or shoots a gun signifying the start of the game. The participants chase the pig until it is caught. Almost always, the game ends with a pile of people on top of the pig. The winner is the one who has the most possession of the pig; usually at the bottom of the pile.
There are several strategies that one can use to catch the pig. The main one being not to run with the herd. This can be compared to someone playing half back in football or middle field in soccer.
Years ago, adults were allowed to participate in this event. After a few times of intoxicated participants getting a little rowdy, the event was limited to children only.
Greased Poll Climb
A side event of Buggy Days is the Greased Poll Climb. This event is usually on going while something else is happening like the Greased Pig Chase. To prepare for this event a normal sized telephone poll is placed in the ground. This poll is then coated with a greasy substance. A some of money is placed at the top, usually a $100 bill. Participants take turns climbing the poll to try to reach the money. The winner is the person who successfully removes the money from the top of the poll.
To participate, one must buy a ticket of participation. As you can imagine, depending on the price of the ticket, much revenue can be collected off setting the price of the cash prize on top of the poll.
Fireworks
The Fireworks show is almost always done the Saturday night of Buggy Days, after The Greased Pig chase. The show lasts somewhere around 15 minutes. Before the Fireworks show, townsfolk scramble to secure the best viewing area. Many of the parking lots around Gordon College are the best and favorite viewing spots of the locals.
Arts & Crafts
All day Saturday and Sunday people wonder through downtown Barnesville checking out various booths of arts and craft vendors. These vendors come from all over Georgia and other states to setup booths the Friday night of Buggy Days, preparing to sell their goods through the weekend. Typical merchandise being sold are candles, wooden toys, funnel cakes, hamburgers, paintings as well as belt buckles and leather goods.
Buggy Days Parade
At 2:00 pm on the Saturday of Buggy Days, the Buggy Days parade begins. The parade is made up of High School marching bands from Barnesville and surrounding towns, cheer leaders, beauty queens, clowns, Shriners, Free Masons, folks driving antique cars, folks driving junky cars, politicians, lots and lots of horses and pretty much anybody else who would like to get in it. There is always a Parade Grand Martial who starts the parade. The Grand Martial most often is a favored, good citizen of the Barnesville/Lamar county community.
During the parade, friends and families congregate on the side of the parade route to watch. Children like the parade because of candy being tossed. A common complaint of the parade is the loud noises created by the participants from horns blowing to the piles manure left behind by the horses.
Parade Route The Buggy Days Parade is a march from Summers' Field, up College Drive heading into town. The Parade route continues left, at the Post Office onto Forsyth St. Another left is made in the main section of downtown Barnesville on to Main St. The route follows Main St, on out of the downtown area ending close to Summers' Field.
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Reiman played high school soccer for Yorktown High School in Yorktown, New York for one year, as a freshman, before playing exclusively with the New York State Olympic Development Program and the Yorktown Spirit. A five year starter for the US Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program (ODP) Region I team, Reiman was selected as a 2003 Adidas ESP All-Star, 2002 ODP Inter-Regional All-Star, and 2002 ODP National Finalist. Reiman was also a seven-year captain for Yorktown Spirit club team, which was a four-time Eastern New York State Cup champs and a six-time state finalist. He then transferred to Michigan State after helping Maryland win the NCAA title in 2005. Reiman's transfer was due in part to Maryland's addition of Robbie Rogers, another left-footed midfielder who was ranked as the number one recruit in the country, who left Maryland after one season to play professionally in the Netherlands and now plays in MLS for the Columbus Crew. In the summer of 2006, Reiman started for the Westchester Flames of the USL Premier Development League.
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Reiman played high school soccer for Yorktown High School in Yorktown, New York for one year, as a freshman, before playing exclusively with the New York State Olympic Development Program and the Yorktown Spirit. A five year starter for the US Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program (ODP) Region I team, Reiman was selected as a 2003 Adidas ESP All-Star, 2002 ODP Inter-Regional All-Star, and 2002 ODP National Finalist. Reiman was also a seven-year captain for Yorktown Spirit club team, which was a four-time Eastern New York State Cup champs and a six-time state finalist. He then transferred to Michigan State after helping Maryland win the NCAA title in 2005. Reiman's transfer was due in part to Maryland's addition of Robbie Rogers, another left-footed midfielder who was ranked as the number one recruit in the country, who left Maryland after one season to play professionally in the Netherlands and now plays in MLS for the Columbus Crew. In the summer of 2006, Reiman started for the Westchester Flames of the USL Premier Development League.
Reiman started on attack midfield in his two seasons at Michigan State, and tied for the team lead with four assists as a junior and was a second-team all-Big Ten selection as a senior, finishing with a goal and five assists. He was initially expected to be a member of the reserve squad, but turned in an impressive performance at training camp and was named to the 28 man roster.
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Ejscript is based on the standardized version of Javascript known as ECMAScript Edition 3 (ECMA-262-3) and the emerging ECMAScript Edition 4 (ES4) standard, but it is an enhanced implementation of the language. It is currently at version 0.9.2 and is still pre-release and some features are not fully implemented. See the project announcement on the official mailing list. Ejscript, is free and open source software.
ECMAScript 4 is an emerging standard. Implementation status for various implementations can be tracked in a Google Spreadsheet. Preliminary specifications are at the ECMAScript Web Site.
Ejscript Features
Ejscript is full implementation of the emerging ECMAScript 4 standard and has the following features:
Product Components
*Ejscript Optimizing Compiler (ec)
*Ejscript Shell Interpreter (ejs)
*Ejscript Module Manager (ejsmod)
*Ejscript Virtual Machine (ejsvm)
*Symbolic assembler listing generator
*Eclipse based debugger (not yet released)
*Full Documentation
*Samples
*Source code
Language Features
*Complete ECMAScript 4.X implementation
*Classes, Objects, Interfaces
*Optional type annotation
*Namespaces, iterators
*Strict and standard mode
*Compilation unit control via modules
*Enhanced compatibility mode to fix common JavaScript issues
Embeddable and Configurable
*Configure program to tailor builds from source code
*Build configuration settings available to script programs
*Conditional compilation for scripts
*Support for ROM based programs and XIP
Virtual Machine
*High performance Virtual Machine supporting direct threading
*Generational garbage collector
*Slab based object allocation for very fast object creation
*Very compact, high level byte code designed for data intensive applications
Development Tools
*HTML documentation generation
*Symbolic assembler listings
*Command shell interpreter
*Stand-alone optimizing compiler
*Eclipse based IDE and debugger (Not yet released)
Modularity
*Compiler generates module files with automatic module dependency handling
*Ability to load script and binary modules at run-time
System Library
*Core types: Array, Boolean, ByteArray, Date, Error, Function, Iterator, Namespace, Null, Number, Object, String, Type and Void
*XML (supporting E4X)
*HTTP and SSL
*Sockets
*Streams, BinaryStream, StringStream, TextStream
*Events and Listeners
*Timers
*File System, File I/O
*Streams, BinaryStream, TextStream, StringStream
*Logging
*Timers
*Application context
*System context and information
*Garbage Collector control
*Database (SQLite). Supports ORM mapping to JavaScript objects.
*Embedded Server Pages. MVC web framework
Standards
*ECMA 262
*ECMA 357
*ECMAScript 4.X
*HTTP/1.1
Performance
*Code size ~200K
Ejscript is based on the standardized version of Javascript known as ECMAScript Edition 3 (ECMA-262-3) and the emerging ECMAScript Edition 4 (ES4) standard, but it is an enhanced implementation of the language. It is currently at version 0.9.2 and is still pre-release and some features are not fully implemented. See the project announcement on the official mailing list. Ejscript, is free and open source software.
ECMAScript 4 is an emerging standard. Implementation status for various implementations can be tracked in a Google Spreadsheet. Preliminary specifications are at the ECMAScript Web Site.
Ejscript Features
Ejscript is full implementation of the emerging ECMAScript 4 standard and has the following features:
Product Components
*Ejscript Optimizing Compiler (ec)
*Ejscript Shell Interpreter (ejs)
*Ejscript Module Manager (ejsmod)
*Ejscript Virtual Machine (ejsvm)
*Symbolic assembler listing generator
*Eclipse based debugger (not yet released)
*Full Documentation
*Samples
*Source code
Language Features
*Complete ECMAScript 4.X implementation
*Classes, Objects, Interfaces
*Optional type annotation
*Namespaces, iterators
*Strict and standard mode
*Compilation unit control via modules
*Enhanced compatibility mode to fix common JavaScript issues
Embeddable and Configurable
*Configure program to tailor builds from source code
*Build configuration settings available to script programs
*Conditional compilation for scripts
*Support for ROM based programs and XIP
Virtual Machine
*High performance Virtual Machine supporting direct threading
*Generational garbage collector
*Slab based object allocation for very fast object creation
*Very compact, high level byte code designed for data intensive applications
Development Tools
*HTML documentation generation
*Symbolic assembler listings
*Command shell interpreter
*Stand-alone optimizing compiler
*Eclipse based IDE and debugger (Not yet released)
Modularity
*Compiler generates module files with automatic module dependency handling
*Ability to load script and binary modules at run-time
System Library
*Core types: Array, Boolean, ByteArray, Date, Error, Function, Iterator, Namespace, Null, Number, Object, String, Type and Void
*XML (supporting E4X)
*HTTP and SSL
*Sockets
*Streams, BinaryStream, StringStream, TextStream
*Events and Listeners
*Timers
*File System, File I/O
*Streams, BinaryStream, TextStream, StringStream
*Logging
*Timers
*Application context
*System context and information
*Garbage Collector control
*Database (SQLite). Supports ORM mapping to JavaScript objects.
*Embedded Server Pages. MVC web framework
Standards
*ECMA 262
*ECMA 357
*ECMAScript 4.X
*HTTP/1.1
Performance
*Code size ~200K
Linguist, Writer, Researcher, Theorist, Translatologist, Educationist and Scholar of Urdu language, Literature, Education, Informatics and Literacy. Dr. Attash Durrani did his Ph.D. in Urdu Terminology in 1991 from University Oriental College,University of the Punjab. He is Project Director, Center of Excellence for Urdu Informatics in National Language Authority,Islamabad, Pakistan. His major contributions include development of Urdu Terminology, Pakistani Urdu, Urdu Research, Urdu Code Plate, Urdu Keyboard, Collation Order of Urdu, and Transliteration of Urdu for Computers, Urdu Localization /Translation for Microsoft Windows/Office, Pak Nastaleeq Font and now Urdu Data Base ,OCR and Machine Translation in progress. He is also Head of Bureau of Translation, Dictionaries Terminologies at the National Language Authority Pakistan. He had been editor of different journals: Kitab, Maloomat, Sayyarah Digest, Urdu Nama, Taleem-i-Musalsal, Akhbar-e-Urdu,etc.
His famous publications(125 books, 250 papers) are in the fields of Urdu Language and Literature,Pakistani Urdu, Urdu Informatics, Dictionaries and Terminologies, Bibliographies and Encyclopedias etc.
He has also been involved in teaching Official & Business Urdu,research and other subjects such as Philosophy and Psychology of Education at Allama Iqbal Open University,Islamabad , Institute of Education and Research , Punjab University, Lahore and Rawalpindi College of Education,Rawalpindi.
Dr. Durrani is also responsible for Curriculum Development in Urdu , Literacy, Informatics ; Development of Urdu Literacy Primers for Punjab & NWFP Govts. as UNESCO and GTZ expert and Revision of Training Material for Ministry of Education, Islamabad. He is Localization Guru of Pakistan; consultant for different national and international organizations like UNESCO, ESRA, ADB, Microsoft, GTZ , Inksoft etc.; and moderator for Microsoft localization project LIP.
Ghost Characters Theory for Unicode is on his credit for Arabic Alphabet and Fonts.A thesis on his contributions for M. Phil. studies is written and submitted in the University of Peshawar, Pakistan.
His famous publications(125 books, 250 papers) are in the fields of Urdu Language and Literature,Pakistani Urdu, Urdu Informatics, Dictionaries and Terminologies, Bibliographies and Encyclopedias etc.
He has also been involved in teaching Official & Business Urdu,research and other subjects such as Philosophy and Psychology of Education at Allama Iqbal Open University,Islamabad , Institute of Education and Research , Punjab University, Lahore and Rawalpindi College of Education,Rawalpindi.
Dr. Durrani is also responsible for Curriculum Development in Urdu , Literacy, Informatics ; Development of Urdu Literacy Primers for Punjab & NWFP Govts. as UNESCO and GTZ expert and Revision of Training Material for Ministry of Education, Islamabad. He is Localization Guru of Pakistan; consultant for different national and international organizations like UNESCO, ESRA, ADB, Microsoft, GTZ , Inksoft etc.; and moderator for Microsoft localization project LIP.
Ghost Characters Theory for Unicode is on his credit for Arabic Alphabet and Fonts.A thesis on his contributions for M. Phil. studies is written and submitted in the University of Peshawar, Pakistan.