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The World of Airports: No. 2 The Oh-So-Simple Free Bus Tour
February 17, 2013 - Ray Tsuchiyama
Imagine yourself in a strange airport, in transit back to your home town, and you keep looking at your watch, and five hours seems like eternity, and you look around to fight boredom.
With now many West Coast direct flights, Kahului is not really a transit airport.
Until the 1980s Honolulu and Anchorage were mid-Pacific re-fueling airports for many Mainland flights to Tokyo and other Asian destinations, so Honolulu was a stop-over to Asia for many Mainland travelers -- but no longer, with many direct over-flights of our mid-Pacific string of islands (ironically, it is often difficult to find direct flights from Hawai'i to many leading Asian cities, unlike San Francisco or even Vancouver, B.C.). But there are still a few transit passengers at the Honolulu Airport, wandering about the open air areas.
Singapore has developed into a huge hub for travelers from Europe to other Asian cities and beyond to Australia/New Zealand – and for others from Northeast Asia traveling southward to South Asia, like India and westward to the Middle East, including the "haj" or the Muslim religious journey to Mecca and other holy sites (I became well-acquainted with Singapore's Changi Airport during my many trips to Thailand, Australia and India.).
So perhaps this story may not be easily applicable to Kahului's tiny airport with the Starbucks coffee shop and the hot dog stand, but in the context of how to develop tourism in an efficient customer-centric manner, it may strike readers as "it really sounds simple, but it must be amazingly difficult to execute".
At Changi Airport in Singapore, a tiny city-state with a population of 5 million people (or five Hawai'i's), if you indeed have five hours until your flight, you can obtain a quick visa (for citizens from countries with visa upon visit reciprocity) to enter Singapore and can join a two-hour guided tour that runs throughout the day (and evening), sponsored by Changi Airport and Singapore Airlines (that is, it is totally totally free -- so a visitor thinks "I've got 5 hours to kill, why not it's free." The visitor may add "Is there a catch?").
Now, this is a brilliant idea, since almost people with several hours in-transit at a strange,foreign airport would just read a paperback novel or stroll around the shops or read restaurant menus* -- but the Singaporean government targets this "transit" group as potential future tourists and has organized a meticulous system to take these airport travelers around Singapore and back to Changi Airport just in time to board their flights. Of course all travelers are leery leaving the airport and missing their flights –think of the second-by-second precision of: 1. Easy Visa Stamping 2. Easy Luggage Storage 3. Easy "finding" where the bus stop is 4. Friendly Tour Guides with Communication Skills 5. Efficient and Comfortable Bus Ride, on Time, to all the stops, then returns to the Airport exactly on time 6. Easy Re-Entry back into the Airport, Luggage Pick-up, if required 7. Boarding Flight – all within 5 Hours. I hate to say this but imagine a Transit City Tour if you are at New York City's dismal and chaotic Kennedy Airport or even Honolulu Airport.
This Changi Airport transit group can board a bus on a "Heritage Tour" (there are several different tours, including evening "night life" schedules) with a stopover at the Merlion Park (visitors can see the iconic marble lion statue with water flowing out of its mouth), before proceeding to the Colonial District, Central Business District and Chinatown or Little India. The bus ride to Merlion Park offers vistors a "panoramic view of Singapore's cityscape and landmarks like Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Flyer and Gardens by the Bay" (yes, I am quoting from the Web site: you get the idea).
Then the bus takes the captured transit group to the Fountain of Wealth (world's largest fountain) and one of Singapore's icons – the Esplanade. As the Web site extolls: "The tour will bring you through a discovery journey where you will have a glimpse of a unique blend of East and West, tradition and modernity. It will be a splendid way for you to explore the history, culture and lifestyle of multi-racial Singapore while in your transit. . . The Esplanade is Singapore's premier arts destination. With its spiky glass facade which resembles a popular local fruit – the durian, the Esplanade is a striking icon by the waterfront."
After the tour, we can imagine Changi Airport transit visitors, thrilled with their tour, and talking excitedly on their flights departing Singapore about a visit back to Singapore, as well as extolling Singapore's great sights to their families, co-workers, and friends back in London, Sydney, Tokyo or San Francisco.
Ultimately, Hawai'i needs new ideas (simple ones that are very viral are best) to compete with many other tourist destinations promoting themselves for the visitor dollar. In the new age of Social Media/SNS, the best kind of promotion is done not by spending dollars for advertising, but an entire "community" spontaneously writing positive reviews about a new product.
As a recent Hawai'i Business magazine January 2013 cover title said so succinctly: "It's Tourism, Stupid". During the past two decades Hawai'i's (and Maui's) economy has become almost totally dependent on tourism as the economic engine.
Hawai'i Business magazine Top 250 executives exhort Hawai'i as a tourism industry leader (yet we always sense in the back of our minds the fragility of tourism, given the visitor downturn in fall 2013 and the slow agonizing four-year return to "normal" hotel occupancy levels by 2012) – what are the innovations in tourism developed in Hawai'i that could be taught to a country like Singapore, once in the middle of nowhere, an economic backwater up to the 1970s, and now with a thriving diversified economy (high tech, trade, finance, tourism), the winner of the "Top Intelligent Community of the Year" award?
*I recall a Changi Airport sign: "Same Prices As High Street" -- which translated into our English, means that the airport menu prices were not gouging travelers with no other dining options, but rather the same as in downtown Singapore. An interesting ad about how the airport was trying to counter travelers' perceptions about airport restaurants, or "reading our minds".
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There is an injury bug every season, around this same time, to a similar degree. Its strange, almost like clockwork you get to late February and players start dropping like flies. Babcock can only play Fil and Z 20 minutes or so a night, less on back-to-backs, so the team sorely needs Hudler to improve or be replaces and Franzen to play like he is capable of. Neither of these are happening. Cleary is either injured and should grab a seat, or healthy and should grab a seat. White should be playing better and the Wings PP should shoot the puck more, things that can happen with the current lineup.
The guys I was referring to that have stepped up are Z and Fil. Franzen, I'll grant you but I'm talking about the guys that we rely on to be top-end with an injured lineup or not.
TBH, I just think people are getting pissy simply because this team is playing to a level that should be expected with the lineup they're currently icing unfortunately at one of the most crucial times of the regular season.
The most frustrating thing about Injury Season 2012 isn't the players who are out or up, its the players who continue to slack and waste the efforts of the few players we have going. I'd rather see any of Miller, Abdelkader, or Nyquist up with Val and Hank, over someone like Hudler, at least then they would all be skating hard. It might be time to put all of our eggs in two baskets, so to speak. Let the 4th line continue to suck; there's no helping them. Leave the energy line intact and give them second line minutes. Let the third line become the float line, Hudler-Franzen-Cleary. And give Filppula and Zetterberg young skilled help in Nyquist.
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LOCKPORT – The International Joint Commission will hold a public hearing Sunday night in Lockport on a new plan to govern water levels in Lake Ontario.
The plan would produce more frequent fluctuations in water levels, with high water being higher and low water being lower than under the current rules.
Niagara County officials fear that "Plan 2014" would harm lakefront property owners through increased erosion, while lower water might harm boating and sport fishing by making it harder to get boats in and out of harbors such as those at Wilson and Olcott.
"It's the worst of both worlds," said State Sen. George D. Maziarz, R-Newfane, who intends to attend the hearing.
"The (proposed) regulation will not supply the same level of protection to coastal communities," IJC public information officer Frank Bevacqua confirmed.
The IJC tries to regulate water levels by altering flows out of the east end of the lake, past the Moses-Saunders Dam at Massena, into the St. Lawrence River.
"The water level will go up and down under any plan," Bevacqua said. The IJC's ability to control lake levels is limited by the supply of water flowing into the lake, and he said scientists believe the water supply is "trending downward."
Frank Sciremammano, a Rochester Institute of Technology engineering professor who has served on the IJC control board for 18 years, said the plan will harm the south shore of the lake while protecting the Canadian shores, benefiting power generators and bowing to the preferences of environmentalists.
He said the last policy change in 2006 "was pretty biased against the south shore communities and the boating interests. This one is even worse."
Sciremammano said Plan 2014 allows more frequent fluctuations, and the target range between high water and low water will be expanded to seven feet.
County Legislator David E. Godfrey, R-Wilson, said the current range is four feet. Bevacqua said, based on 20th century water supply averages, it's now six feet. "Some of the impact has been exaggerated," he said.
The up-and-down is expected to benefit the health of coastal wetlands. "The environmentalists complain the muskrat population is in jeopardy. They feed on cattails, so you have to flood the cattails," Godfrey said.
"The health of 64,000 acres of coastal wetlands is very significant and is expected to have a major role in the health of the ecosystem," Bevacqua said. "Muskrats are one of the indicators, but it's not an endangered species."
Sciremammano said the up-and-down water may help the wetlands, but the high water schedule also will correspond to periods of high electricity demand.
Thus, he said, the New York Power Authority and Ontario and Quebec hydroelectric plants will be able to produce more power when the price is highest. He estimated they will reap an annual total of $5 million in additional income.
The Rochester professor said Quebec demanded less water level fluctuation in the St. Lawrence to protect its land from erosion, but keeping high water in the lake will produce more damage on the south shore during winter storms with primarily north winds.
Bevacqua said storm compensation is up to the state and federal governments, not the IJC.
Sunday's hearing starts at 6 p.m. in the 4-H Training Center at the Niagara County Fairgrounds, 4487 Lake Ave., Lockport. Registration of speakers starts at 5:30. Godfrey said the number is limited to the first 50 who show up.
The IJC will accept written comments through Aug. 30 before it makes a recommendation to Washington and Ottawa for action.
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The South Shore's first St. Baldrick's event raised more than $66,000 for childhood cancer research and drew 168 "shavees," but organizer Christy Smith doesn't plan to stop there.
Smith hopes to raise at least $50,000 during the 2013 St. Baldrick's, a night where participants shave their heads for the Northern Nevada Children's Cancer Foundation.
Smith's grandson, Bailey Johnson, was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma - a cancer commonly found in infants - in 1999. He was 9 months old at the time. -
"No parent should have to hear those four words, 'Your child has cancer,'" Smith said.
"Because of his situation, I said when he's well I have to help other families hopefully not have to do what we had to do."
Bailey, 14, has been cancer-free for nine years now, but he still suffers from the side effects of the disease and the poisonous chemotherapy. He has a narrowed aorta that prevents him from playing many sports, reduced hearing, and several of his adult teeth won't ever come in.
He'll live with those effects the rest of his life, Smith said.
It's one of the reasons the whole family supports the St. Baldrick's Foundation. The organization's first head-shaving event started 13 years ago in Manhattan at a St. Patrick's Day party. The group raised $104,000 for childhood cancer that year. In 2002, St. Baldrick's events raised the first million.
According to the St. Baldrick's website, more children die of cancer than any other disease in the U.S. One in 300 boys and 1 in 333 girls will have cancer before they turn 20 years old.
This year will be Smith's seventh time going bald - "It's hair. It grows back," she said - while Bailey will shave his head for the eighth year in a row. It's an important statement and show of solidarity, Smith said.
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Eight homes were evacuated in Deltona because of a gas main break Tuesday.
The break was in the area of Deltona Boulevard and East Normandy. The intersection was shut down.
No one was hurt, but as a precaution, several homes were evacuated while authorities work the scene.
"We have evacuated eight homes in order to make the area safe," Dep. Fire Chief Russ Rafferty. "We've tried our best to contain it."
Some construction workers were in the area and authorities said they ruptured the 6 inch natural gas line. The leak was capped two hours after it began.
Rafferty said the fire department created a no-fly zone above the area to eliminate mechanical wind from planes.


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by Corey Geiger, Hoard's Dairyman Managing Editor
"You can't just go out there, feed them and squeeze them," was one of the many great financial one-liners Gary Sipiorski shared with a packed audience at the Great Lakes Regional Dairy Conference in Frankenmuth, Mich., on February 8. "What is your cost of production?" he asked dairy producers noting that we have seen the greatest swings in milk prices in the past six years.
Those producers that have a firm grip on their financials are more likely to turn a profit. Citing dairy farm accounting numbers from Nietzke and Faupel, Sipiorski pointed out that the top one-third of dairy producers cleared $2.40 per hundredweight in 2010 compared to $1.17 for all herds. The spread wasn't as great in 2011: top one-third $4.43 versus $3.41 for all producers. However, in 2012, the gap widened once again.
"Using data for January through September of 2012, the top one-third netted $2.04 per hundredweight while all 66 producers in the Nietzke and Faupel group earned 58 cents per hundredweight," said the Vita Plus dairy development manager.
"Not a big deal?" he asked. "If you have 100 cows that average 24,000 pounds of milk, the top-third earned $48,960 (100 cows @ 24,000 x 2.04)," he told those in the audience. "When looking at all herds, the net profit was $13,920 (100 cows @ 24,000 x 0.58), a difference of $35,040 for every 100 cows."
"There are three ways to pay bills: make more money, reduce expenses or go bankrupt," he said when discussing impacts on the bottom line. "Of course the federal government has one more, print more money."
Our nation's debt continues to rise. "Every American alive owes $50,000 to the U.S. Treasury," said Sipiorski who went on to say that $50,000 figure was just to cover national debt. "We are among the countries that spend 10 to 15 percent over our budgets," he said, explaining that debt levels continue to swell. "If interest rates rise, how will that impact the federal government's debt? What about your farm's debt?" as he then urged dairy producers to review farm financials and then lock in the current low interest rates.
Farming has a great future. The world's population continues to grow.
"In 1964 there were 0.75 acres of tillable land per person in the world . . . today there is 0.22 acres per person," said Sipiorski as he explained that some estimates show even fewer acres per person. "The only way 30 percent more people can be satisfied in the future is an increase in productivity."
"China and Japan are among the countries that don't produce enough food for their populations," he said. "Japan imports 50 percent of their food. Meanwhile, China has 22 percent of the world's population; 7 percent of the tillable land; 3 percent of the fresh water and 36 percent of the rare earth elements," said Sipiorski as he pointed out China holds some of the world's largest reserves of lithium used in cell phone computer batteries. Countries will need to trade products to serve their citizens, that includes food.
There are definitely opportunities for expanded food production. "The business of feeding people will not be handed to U.S. agriculture," he said. "It will have to be earned and competed for."
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The Stetson baseball team will return to action on Thursday night at Melching Field in the first game of a three-game series against Maine.
The first pitch for games on Thursday and Friday is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Saturday's series finale is set for a 2 p.m. start.
Both the Hatters and Black Bears found the going tough on the opening weekend of the season. Stetson dropped two of three games at home to Saint Joseph's while Maine was swept in a four-game series at Auburn.
The teams had similar struggles. Maine hit just .241 in scoring just 12 runs over four games against Auburn with only junior outfielder Collin Gay finding success offensively. Gay was named America East Conference Player of the Week after hitting .444 with a home run and three RBI.
The Black Bears will send sophomore Luke Morrill to the mound on Thursday for his first start. The right-hander made an appearance in relief last weekend against Auburn, allowing a run on three hits over 1.2 innings of work.
Morrill will square off against Hatters' senior right-hander Kurt Schluter (0-1, 7.36). Schluter allowed three runs on eight hits over 3.2 innings in his season debut last week against Saint Joseph's.
Offensively, the Hatters scored just 13 runs in the series against Saint Joseph's. Freshman Patrick Mazeika was the leading hitter in the series for Stetson with four hits and four walks with a pair of runs batted in. Junior Mike Fernland also had a solid weekend with four hits and three RBI.
The Hatters will send sophomore right-hander Josh Powers to the mound on Friday for his second start of the year. He allowed one run on five hits over 5.1 innings of work in a no decision last week.
The Black Bears will counter with junior Tommy Lawrence (0-0, 2.57), who gave the team a solid pitching performance in the season-opener when he worked seven solid innings, allowing just two runs on seven hits in a 3-2 loss to Auburn.
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Former GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said Mark Sanford, like all people, deserves a second chance, but he's backing Curtis Bostic in the 1st Congressional District race.
"Washington needs some fresh faces, some folks who are from the grass roots," Santorum said during an appearance Wednesday with Bostic at a North Charleston auto service store.
Bostic faces the former governor in a Tuesday runoff for the seat formerly held by U.S. Sen. Tim Scott.
With just a few days left to campaign, the candidates blazed different trails across different ends of the district Wednesday. At 7 tonight they will face off at Porter-Gaud School.
Sanford, who holds a lead in the polls, in fundraising and in endorsements, spent the day campaigning in Beaufort County, including a stop at an evening forum that Bostic did not attend.
While in Beaufort, Sanford was endorsed by state Rep. Bill Herbkersman, R-Bluffton, and other Beaufort area leaders. Herbkersman noted that he was elected to the House the same year Sanford was elected governor, "and (I) was always impressed with the way he put taxpayers first and stood on principle."
Hours before Santorum stumped for Bostic, conservative pundit Ann Coulter sent out a tweet supporting Bostic.
Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator whose son attends The Citadel and who might run for president again in 2016, said Bostic was strong on all three areas most valued by conservatives: a strong military, limited government and social and moral issues.
"He's talked about the values of the Lowcountry," Santorum said. "This is a 'Mr. Smith goes to Washington.' "
Bostic, who said he was the underdog in the race, said he carefully chose an auto service center to appear with Santorum. "It's not some fancy place. It's not some polished place," he said. "This is where we live. This is America."
Tuesday's Republican winner will face Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch and Green Party candidate Eugene Platt on May 7.
The 1st District includes parts of Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton and Dorchester counties.
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Republican 1st Congressional District hopefuls Curtis Bostic and Mark Sanford will meet at a forum at 7 tonight at Porter-Gaud School, 300 Albemarle Road in West Ashley.
Tickets cost $10 and are still available at cd1debate.eventbrite.com.
The event will be moderated by David Webb of SiriusXM radio, and portions will be broadcast on Sirius' Patriot Channel 125 between 9 p.m. and midnight.
The forum won't be televised but will be streamed live on Counton2.com.
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5 Reasons 'The Hunger Games' Is Creepier Than You Think
This weekend, The Hunger Games came out: the first in probably about seven films based on the popular trilogy of books. It can't be understated how popular these books and movies are; the movie's opening weekend was massively attended, and the books have been the talk of book nerds for years. And it's kind of unsettling when you realize that all this rapturous attention is getting directed at children dying in arenas.
"Oh look, the children are dying! Let's clap and bray!"
Does anyone else see a problem with that? Isn't that like a question on those tests they give to psychopaths? "How many children have to be killed in an arena before your erection wanes?" What if an entire civilization failed that test? What if that's our civilization? Although I take no pleasure in being the last bastion of morality in the world, as Cracked's only licensed killjoy ...
"Everyone stop having fun immediately! You! Having premarital sex! Knock it off, you guys!"
... someone has to explain why we should not be enjoying these films and books so much. So please, I beg of you, read the information below and pass it on to your friends and intelligent pets. Hopefully you'll find a way to use this advice in your daily lives -- your smug, self-superior, tongue-clucking lives.
#5. Children Have a Right to Life
Let's get this one out of the way first, because it is, to my eye, kind of the obvious issue here. The same way that dogs and mailmen have an innate right to life, children, too, have the right to not be killed for the amusement of the book-reading public.
Because no one ever talks to them, few people know how bloodthirsty librarians are, a trait at least partly attributable to frustration that no one ever talks to them.
An excellent example of this is how, when a child is killed in a non-arena context, we all gasp and say "That's awful!" That is the correct reaction, and if you've done that, please feel good about yourself for a moment. But consider how the inclusion of an arena affects the equation: not at all.
In fact, if the children were deliberately placed inside of the arena (instead of stumbling in there because of some poorly placed signage), that actually makes this worse. Because we are now talking about not only premeditated child enarenament (a rarely used term to describe a violation of a child's right to not be in an arena), but if that arena in fact kills the child -- which seems to be the arena feature that is getting everyone's rocks off -- then we're talking about murder.
You guys know why murder is bad, right? Should I have started there? Sigh ... You know something, screw it. I've got other reasons. Let's move on to ...
#4. It Discriminates Against People Who Don't Have Arenas
OK. Let's say that hypothetically we have some children, and maybe their right to life isn't so great. Maybe the children are wicked or something. But that still doesn't mean it's acceptable to put those children into an arena we have lying around, because poor people don't have arenas and won't have that option open to them.
Obviously, there are limits to this kind of argument. Inequality is always going to be present at some level in our society, and in general we have no problem denying poor people, say, their yachting rights. But we don't deny them voting rights, either. And by that measure, the right to dispose of wicked children has to fall closer to the voting end of the spectrum as a fundamental, inalienable right. Allowing the wealthy to dispose of children in arenas ...
... and denying that same privilege to poor people is grossly unfair. Furthermore, the population balance between rich wicked children and poor wicked children will tip, and the poor wicked children will eventually overrun us all and eat our flesh.
Wait. Is that right? That's how Oliver Twist ended, right? Oliver ate all those people's flesh? Yeah, that sounds right.
#3. The Children Will Haunt the Living Shit Out of Us
When conducting research for this article, for some reason I kept meeting people who live on the fringes of society. Among this population were a sizable number of so-called ghost experts, who all agreed on two points -- that you must pay up front to hire the services of a ghost expert, and that ghosts are more likely to haunt the living if they are killed in an arena. Opinions differed on why this is the case; some say the amphitheater shape of most arenas amplifies the natural energies of the recently deceased, while others state that people who are killed in arenas are just really angry with the living for some reason.
"Why did you cheer my doom? WWHHHHHHHHHHHHY?"
And no matter what you say to a ghost-child, whether it's "Oh, I'm sorry, but you were wicked," or "Oh, sorry, but we cleared $30K at the gate, so, you know," or "Sorry, but your death was siiiiick, so you have that to be proud of," the ghost-child isn't going to give a damn, because your voice is like the sound of a billion angry hornets to him, and all he can do now is hate.


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thank god im alive............ anyone like kylie minogue?
"If you can fool your friends,you can fool your enemies".
Me neither. What kind of music is it? Rock? Country? Poka?
i haven't heard of them. sounds good though "You know what you have to admire? A Catholic hit man who blesses himself just before he strangles someone."-George Carlin
never heard of them
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UNIVERSITY?PARK - Penn State nearly went from a distracted disappointment to a delightful diversion in the span of three days.
But playing again without fifth-year senior point guard Tim Frazier in the final minute, the Nittany Lions dropped a 79-76 Big 10 men's basketball game to the Indiana Hoosiers Saturday afternoon at the Bryce Jordan Center.
Frazier fouled out with 49 seconds to go, down 73-72, and the Nittany Lions never drew even again in a mostly back-and-forth game.
Yogi Ferrell hit two free throws after the foul for a 75-72 Indiana lead.
Penn State (9-8, 0-4) used two deliberate drives by D.J. Newbill to keep pace in Frazier's absence, but he missed a 3-pointer at the end to tie, the Nittany Lions' only shot on their final possession that started with 9 seconds to play.
Both Frazier and Newbill fouled out of Wednesday's 3-point loss to Minnesota, one in which coach Patrick Chambers said the team played "distracted."
Chambers reiterated much of that in a minute-long rant after the first question of Saturday's post-game press conference, which was about Frazier, saying "we're a whiny team now, and it's got to stop."
Chambers said Frazier needs to know better on his fouls and that as a team, allowing 18 offensive rebounds and giving Indiana (11-5, 1-2) 35 free throws is too much.
"I'm not going to complain about the refs, they've got a tough enough job, but we have to play harder without fouling," said Chambers. "They drive, cause contact, and we do the same thing but don't get a call. And we can't complain, because it affects the next shot, rotation, pass. We've got to stop it."
The Hoosiers took the lead for good at 73-72 on an Allen Etherington 3-pointer with 1:22 to play. John Johnson and Frazier missed layups, and Brandon Taylor missed an open 3-pointer before Frazier fouled out.
Newbill finished with 24 points, leading all scorers. Noah Vonleh, who Chambers said he watched in high school while coaching at Boston University, led Indiana with 19.
Chambers opened his press conference by welcoming new football coach James Franklin to Penn State, news that dominated the day ahead of this basketball game. Indiana coach Tom Crean, who knows a thing or two about being a diversion from football (his in-laws Jim and John Harbaugh coached in last year's Super Bowl) gave a different take on Frazier from seeing him over five years and his impressions from Big Ten media day
"He has a tremendous mind for the game," said Crean, who also mentioned his team grew up a bit after rallying from an early 17-4 deficit. "He can see things, and he was doing things with the shot clock where we either had to coach against him or the clock. I'd imagine he has a long career at the next level."
But that all wasn't enough to avoid an 0-4 start in Big Ten play for the Nittany Lions, who visit Michigan on Tuesday. Finding focus will be important before then.
"This is a generational thing, not a basketball thing and it's a constant grind," said Chambers. "We've got to help them become men, but there are helicopter people around them, bulldozer people around t hem, and they don't know how to overcome adversity. The kids got to step up and face the challenge, and I've got to help them break through. They can't look up in the stands, text, weep, tweet, post I'm not saying it's all our issues, but we're close and I've got to take some responsibility."
INDIANA (11-5): Sheehey 3-10 2-2 9, Vonleh 5-9 7-8 19, Williams 3-6 2-4 8, Gordon 2-6 2-2 8, Ferrell 4-13 5-6 15, Mosquera-Perea 0-0 2-2 2, Etherington 1-2 2-2 5, Davis 0-0 0-0 0, Robinson 3-10 3-3 9, Howard 0-2 4-6 4. Totals 21-58 29-35 79.
PENN STATE (9-8): Jack 3-3 0-0 7, Travis 5-9 1-2 13, Newbill 7-16 7-8 24, Thorpe 2-2 0-2 5, Frazier 2-7 6-8 10, Johnson 3-8 2-2 9, Woodward 1-1 0-0 2, Taylor 1-8 2-2 4, Dickerson 0-1 0-0 0, Wisniewski 0-0 2-2 2. Totals 24-55 20-26 76.
Halftime-Penn St. 41-37. 3-Point Goals-Indiana 8-20 (Vonleh 2-2, Gordon 2-5, Ferrell 2-7, Etherington 1-1, Sheehey 1-4, Williams 0-1), Penn St. 8-23 (Newbill 3-6, Travis 2-3, Thorpe 1-1, Jack 1-1, Johnson 1-5, Taylor 0-7). Fouled Out-Frazier, Jack. Rebounds-Indiana 37 (Vonleh 6), Penn St. 32 (Travis 8). Assists-Indiana 13 (Ferrell 7), Penn St. 10 (Jack, Newbill, Thorpe, Travis 2). Total Fouls-Indiana 19, Penn St. 28. Technical-Travis. A-8,079.


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Not all Blue Screens of Death are easy to debug! Sometimes, you need to enable extra checking to help catch a buggy device driver. In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen discuss using Driver Verifier in conjunction with WinDbg to track down a driver which is corrupting kernel mode pool memory.
Debugger commands used:
Make sure you watch Defrag Tools Episode #1 for instructions on how to get the Debugging Tools for Windows and how to set the required environment variables for symbols and source code resolution.
Windows Internals book tools (including NotMyFault)
Forcing a System Crash from the Keyboard
How to generate a complete crash dump file or a kernel crash dump file by using an NMI on a Windows-based system
Driver Verifier Options
[00:09] - What is Driver Verifier?
[01:54] - Using NotMyFault to cause a buffer overflow
[06:04] - Looking at a buffer overflow dump in WinDbg
[08:10] - What is the .trap command? (see: x64 Register Usage)
[12:45] - First dump was inconclusive. Looking at a second buffer overflow dump.
[15:47] - Memory is corrupted, but how to find out who is corrupting it? Driver Verifier!
[16:55] - Launching and configuring Driver Verifier
[20:20] - Verifier enabled, let's crash the system!
[21:25] - What is special pool?
[22:27] - Looking at the memory dump (captured with Verifier enabled)
[25:13] - Forcing a memory dump of a hung system via keyboard
[28:00] - Forcing a memory dump of a hung system via NMI switch
[31:52] - Advanced/custom Driver Verifier settings
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AppVerifier would seem like a good topic for next week
@JohnLudlow: We are covering the basic commands for about 4 weeks and then will be doing Application Verifier. We thought of doing it straight away but decided to do the foundation stuff first.
@windev: Hi Andrew. That makes sense. WinDbg is not a small topic, so it's good that you're covering it in detail
Thanks & keep up the good work
You can use AutoHotkey to remap keyboard keys if you don't have a scroll lock key, or any others for that matter. Helpful if you don't have an external keyboard handy.
Thanks for the serise of videos on WInDbg and Driver Verifier. I am finding them very useful in my day to day work.
I have doubt regarding driver verifier. If I am developing a WDF driver of File System mini filter driver or a NDIS filter drivers; is it sufficient just to add my driver on the driver verifier?
For example, If have a FS mini filter driver (which I want to test); do I need to put fltmgr.sys(or any other related drivers) in Driver Verifier driver list?
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Repercussions of Time Travel in Movies
Time travel is one of the coolest devices used in sci-fi to set up an awesome story. The very idea of being able to travel to another time is fascinating for any number of reasons, and the implications of it have captured the minds of writers, philosophers, and everyday schmucks like you and me. And while numerous movies have been made on the subject, ranging from dark and grim sci-fi to hilarious hot-tub-based comedy, most seem to follow the same basic formula of what happens when you travel through time.
Generally speaking, there are few downsides to traveling forward in time, other than maybe being eaten by a Morlock. Going back in time opens a can of worms in which the worms have been replaced with shit and you open it while you're going over a speed bump so you get shit all over your clothes, maybe even in your mouth. It's pretty gross. You'll see it again and again in movies -- the things you do in the past affect the future/present. But usually it's really straightforward. You go back in time and stop a robot from killing John Connor's mom, you hump John Connor's mom, you become John Connor's dad. That's very simple and direct and in no way deserves to be questioned further. But every so often, you find a movie where the repercussions of traveling through time are way more fucked up than you would have guessed.
#5. Back to the Future
Arguably the best time travel movie of all time, you may question why I would include this film. I'm not making fun of it; we all know it's awesome. It's the reason you care about Michael J. Fox -- no one liked Family Ties and we all know it. Tina Yothers? Fuck off. And it's the reason anyone ever wanted a DeLorean. It's pretty much the perfect '80s movie. However, in terms of the physics and repercussions of time travel, it does serve up a curious dose of what-the-fuckery.
If you recall, Michael J. Fox DeLoreans himself back to 1955, when his parents were destined to meet and bone and produce him and the rest of his family, only his presence screws that whole timeline up and his mom wants to put the hump on him. It's incestuous hilarity at its finest. But as a result of his mother's drop-of-the-hat whorishness, he's jeopardized his entire existence, a fact that is made head-scratchingly apparent by a fading family photo. Or, to put it another way, one erases himself from existence in a process of slow transparency manifested in photography and then finally reality. That's how time travel works here.
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There's long been a paradox in time travel called the grandfather paradox. If you go back in time and kill your own grandfather, effectively stopping yourself from being born, how can you go back in time and kill your own grandfather? This is Back to the Future's way of handling that paradox -- translucent photography. No asking why it would happen, or the simple spontaneous destruction of a no-longer-logical timeline. The universe doesn't implode, or unravel, or produce a series of exponentially more complex and unlikely alternate dimensions to handle the influx of impossibilities presented by the reality of a person unmaking history. Instead you slowly fade away, have an anxiety attack, and introduce a small town to Chuck Berry until your parents agree to pork and then everything is fine.
#4. Click
Making fun of an Adam Sandler movie is a bit like wiping your ass before going to the bathroom, but this is a special circumstance, so please forgive me. In this case, we're concerned with his selfish-oaf opus Click, in which the sinisterly off-putting Christopher Walken offers Sandler a mysterious remote control to make his life easier. Unlike numerous other Sandler films, this one features a love interest who is a hot chick who should be out of Sandler's league, plus a role given to a washed-up icon from Sandler's childhood. I mean just like every other Sandler film. Just like.
Like all light-hearted comedies, this film is about selfishly ignoring those around you and missing out on important life events until your soulless, uncaring demeanor alienates you from everyone who ever cared about you and you die sad and alone. Stop slapping those knees, there's more article to read!
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"Why the hell am I famous? Say no to vaccines!"
Sandler's character gets his eerie time-manipulating powers at Bed, Bath & Beyond. The remote lets him control the universe in much the way you'd control your laserdisc player. Still got one of those? I do. So he uses it to fast forward over the boring shit in his life, or the bad shit, and eventually his entire life gets away from him because he was never there to experience it. At the end he loses everything he had.
How any character with half a brain could get stuck in this terrible situation is the key to even understanding an Adam Sandler movie. Most of us would probably think "Cool!" at first, use it once, realize we had no idea what just happened and would never get that time back, and have an existential panic-fueled crisis. This is time travel that causes you to lose your life in small, digestible bites, over and over, until it becomes uncontrollable. Who would ever do that? What could the possible benefit be of knowingly passing up life events when you have no idea what you might be missing?
I'll tell you what the benefit is -- shtick from Rob Schneider. Is that what you want? Would you travel through time for that? Of course not. No one would.
#3. Planet of the Apes
What a crock of shit we have here. Specifically we're dealing with 2001's Tim Burton abomination and, of course, we only need concern ourselves with the ending of the movie, because holy shit. Holy balls of viscous, semi-solid feces. Start shaking your head now, you'll need it for later.
So in this movie, Mark Wahlberg chases a space monkey. The space monkey travels through this weird rift in space-time, and all the other lab monkeys end up falling through it, too, and the result is a planet inhabited by smart-ass monkeys. And when Wahlberg arrives, in a distant future, it's the Planet of the Apes. Cool enough -- a science experiment goes wrong, we have smart monkeys. I get that. You get that.
Shit happens, there's a model, there's weird sexual tension with a monkey girl, and finally Wahlberg escapes so he can come back to Earth (because this monkey planet 100 percent was not Earth) and found his burger restaurant and make the world a better place. Except, when he goes back in time, to Earth -- so he traveled through space and time to a time and a place where there were never any smart monkeys at all -- he finds the Lincoln Memorial is now a monkey memorial. What? Say it out loud, right now. What?
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"This is some straight up bullshit."
Time travel offers up any number of reasonable paradoxes beyond what we've already mentioned. For instance, if you take an iPhone back to yourself in 1980 and you then invent the iPhone, where did the original iPhone come from? There's also the idea that whatever you think you're doing to influence the past is impossible, because it's actually what already happened in the past and it's not changing anything, it's making everything happen as it already did happen. And then there's fuckin' Monkey Lincoln.
The ending of this film literally makes no sense. If anything, it robs sense from other places to fill the sense void it creates and still gets no closer to making sense on its own. Time travel in this movie basically has no goddamn rules at all. It allows for the proliferation of pan-galactic monkeys and sight gags that have no business in any potential reality or timeline.


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JOHNSTOWN - Juniata Valley jumped out to a 7-4 lead on Southern Fulton at the 6:46 mark of the first quarter on a 3-pointer by Ellie Keller, her only bucket of the contest.
The Indians response to the early deficit was emphatic, direct and left the Hornets with no doubt that they had their work cut out for them.
Southern Fulton closed the first quarter on a 21-0 run, keyed by 10 points from junior point guard Macey Hollenshead, and went on to cruise past a depleted JV squad, 63-30, in PIAA Class A first-round action at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Sports Center on Saturday afternoon.
"That first quarter really set us back," Juniata Valley coach Rachelle Hopsicker said. "We're still really sick - we're fighting sickness. We only had seven practicing this week. We did everything we could. When you're hurting, it's hard to get up and down the court. Our legs definitely ran out on us."
Juniata Valley practiced with just seven players all week due to injuries and a devastating case of the flu bug that caused several players to miss time.
Following the early deficit, the Indians made sure they kept the pressure up - extending their defense and forcing eight first quarter JV turnovers, six of which were on straight possessions in the middle portion of the quarter.
"We just looked different [than District 5 title game]," Southern Fulton coach Terry Bard said. "We looked relaxed and we just came out and played. We're capable of this but we've just been putting too much pressure on ourselves."
Making things even more difficult was Southern's inside presence of Ashley Roman, who netted eight points in addition to ripping down eight rebounds in the game-changing quarter, as Southern Fulton led 25-7 after the first.
"She [Roman] was running up and down the court like there's no tomorrow," Hopsicker said. "She wasn't there the first time we played them earlier this year but I'd see her enough to know what she could do."
While the Southern Fulton defense had the Hornets looking confused and out-of-sorts on offense, the JV defense didn't fare much better as they consistently lost sight of Roman and others near the basket - giving up several easy shots underneath. In addition, they had all kinds of trouble stopping Hollenshead and Taelor Morton on drives to the hoop.
Abbie Zinobile, who sat most of the first half, led the Hornets with 11 points, while Haley Myers tallied 10.
JUNIATA VALLEY (30): Myers 2 6-6 10, Lecrone 0 0-0 0, Keller 1 0-0 3, Zinobile 5 1-2 11, Ammerman 3 0-2 6, Smith 0 0-0 0, Johnson 0 0-0 0, C. Miller 0 0-0 0, A. Miller 0 0-0 0. Totals: 11 7-12 30.
SOUTHERN FULTON (63): Hollenshead 7 3-5 18, T. Morton 5 0-0 12, Wertz 2 2-2 8, Chilcote 1 0-0 2, Roman 9 5-6 23, Strait 0 0-0 0, Spade 0 0-0 0, Mellott 0 0-0 0, Merchant 0 0-0 0, Koontz 0 0-0 0. Totals: 24 10-13 63.
Juniata Valley7 6 11 6-30
Southern Fulton25 14 17 7-63
3-point field goals: Juniata Valley 1 (Keller); Southern Fulton 5 (T. Morton 2, Wertz 2, Hollenshead).
Records: Juniata Valley (17-10); Southern Fulton (24-3).
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I'm raising him well, eh?
I am absolutely thrilled to share some exciting news this week... there's a few things still falling into place so I will mention them as I am allowed.
For today, I can finally announce that I am writing for Real Moms Guide again, this time it's All New! with a beautiful re-launch and new writers. It is a huge blessing to have this job at a much-needed time. I am so thankful to get paid to write about things I love and still be at home with my kids.
So, I have like a TON of posts for you to check out if you'd like. Many gift guides that rock- I hand-picked each item myself; it's all stuff I really do love. I will also be writing weekly about keeping it simple during the holidays (and beyond) and, keeping it real, I of course couldn't help myself and included what I want for Christmas.
I'll have something new up there pretty much every day, so you'll want to check it out for fresh posts. It's good stuff, too. And short & sweet. It won't change anything that goes on in these here parts, and is obviously different content. With my voice.
These are some of my faves:
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You can see all my articles here (I'm "Steph" - there is another writer that will be going by "Stephanie") and I encourage you to check the whole site out & comment and stuff!
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Monday's visit from first-lady hopeful Ann Romney will almost certainly be the most lucrative political fundraiser in the region's history, U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, R-9th District, said Friday.
Romney's planned luncheon at the Blair County Convention Center will likely raise several hundred thousand dollars for husband Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, while drawing party officers and business figures from surrounding counties, Shuster said.
"I'm 99 percent sure this is going to be the largest presidential fundraiser held in the area, in the district," he said in a phone interview. "This is going to be a big deal."
Shuster said Republican business leaders first approached him weeks ago, hopeful that they could secure Ann Romney - or even Mitt Romney - during one of the family's seemingly nonstop campaign trips.
"They came to me and said, 'Do you think we have a shot?' And I said, 'Absolutely,'" Shuster said. "The truth is, we pushed for about six weeks."
The luncheon's estimated 200 guests will include entrepreneurs, doctors and lawyers from throughout the area, Shuster said. Federal election laws limit individual donations to $2,500, but donors will likely be able to contribute to multiple campaign groups.
"They can write checks to [equal] seven, eight, 10 times that amount," Shuster said.
Contributors will travel from at least three surrounding counties, with possible visitors from as far as Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Blair County Republican Chairman A.C. Stickel said Friday.
And while detailed predictions aren't yet available, Shuster said, Ann Romney's visit will likely out-earn similar campaign events that both Shuster and his father, longtime area congressman Bud Shuster, had organized.
Ann Romney's Altoona stop won't be her only one in Pennsylvania: She'll stop in other cities throughout the state's western half, Shuster said.
With campaign-ad spending in Pennsylvania far below that in battlegrounds such as Ohio and North Carolina, the state is serving as something of a bread basket for Romney's and President Barack Obama's presidential campaigns, he said. A recent swing through the Philadelphia area netted millions for Romney's run.
But both Shuster and Stickel dismissed suggestions that Pennsylvania's votes are a lost cause for Romney. Residents will likely see a renewed round of campaigning as the Nov. 6 deadline approaches, the congressman said.
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Ryan Miller is accustomed to pressure. It's built into his job.
The Buffalo Sabres goaltender has played in overtime of an Olympic gold-medal game, his country's hockey pride weighing on his padded shoulders. He's been in playoff elimination games with all of Sabreland focusing on his every move.
The events of this week, however, were unlike any Miller had ever experienced. He and 19 other players were tasked with not only saving this National Hockey League season but also creating an economic system that would allow owners and players to fairly split billions of dollars per year for the next decade – and they had to do it while negotiating against some of the richest and most successful businessmen in the world.
At one point Wednesday, everything was falling apart. The seven NHL representatives, led by Boston Bruins owner and Buffalo native Jeremy Jacobs, were ready to walk out of the talks. Miller knew the season and the reputations of those involved would be at risk, and he wouldn't allow it.
"The owners wanted to leave the room and pull everything we spent a full day on," Miller told The Buffalo News on Friday during an exchange of texts and emails. "I asked them to stay and continue pushing through. I may have been passionate, but there was no disrespect or calling out one owner by name. I have a lot of respect for any owner, because they are a big part of hockey."
His passion play worked. The sides got through Wednesday, which ended with the league making a yes-or-no proposal that the NHL Players' Association was expected to answer Thursday. From there, things were out of the hands of the players and owners, and the decisions returned to the people who are rightfully in charge of them – NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA Executive Director Donald Fehr.
Everything blew up in a way that will lead hockey historians to write books. Instead of getting an answer Thursday night, the league received a counterproposal that accepted offered concessions but requested tweaks to the NHL's three sacred ideals: a limit on contract lengths; a regulation on yearly salary variance; and the absence of additional payments to players in the form of buyouts or escrow limits.
"We made very, very clear what the parameters were that would have gotten a deal done," NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said during his New York news conference. "What we got [Thursday] quite frankly and disappointingly missed the mark in all three respects."
The previously private negotiations exploded in public, with a visibly furious Bettman pulling the league's entire offer at precisely the moment the union was trumpeting the closeness of the parties. The sides spent Friday trying to assess the damage, which is expected to include at least the rest of this month's schedule and possibly the entire 2012-13 season.
"I feel that there will be a season," Sabres defenseman Robyn Regehr said after skating in Northtown Center at Amherst. "I feel that all along there really hasn't been a fair deal on the table that can be cut. I feel the deals that have been proposed are one-sided toward the owners. … I think that all along Gary has taken a very confrontational approach to this. He's got a plan in place, and I believe he's got some sort of date in mind that they can get a shortened season in."
Bettman vehemently denies having a date in mind. "You know what my magic date was? It was Oct. 11 when we should have opened the season with a new collective bargaining agreement," he said. But a drop-dead date is fast approaching anyway. Games are canceled through next Saturday, and more will be axed as soon as today. Bettman said he can't imagine playing fewer than 48 games of what's supposed to be an 82-game season, which leaves the sides with about a month to formulate an agreement.
The lockout-shortened 1994-95 season was 48 games long after a deal was struck Jan. 11. The closer the sides get to that date, the more likely it is the league will cancel its second season in eight years. The 2004-05 campaign was also wiped out by a labor dispute.
"The key for all of us, particularly the owners but everybody with the league and associated with the game, was to have a long-term agreement," Bettman said. "That's what our fans deserve. That's what the game deserves. That's what the players deserve, and that's what all of our business partners deserve."
The lingering question is how to achieve that. On the surface, the sides were not far apart Thursday:
• The NHL wanted a 10-year CBA, with an opt-out clause after eight; the NHLPA proposed an eight-year deal with an option after six.
• The league proposed a five-year limit on contracts, with an exception of seven years for teams that re-sign their own players; the union offered an eight-year limit.
• The NHL wanted salaries to vary no more than 5 percent from year to year; the union proposed that the lowest annual salary of a player's contract be at least 25 percent of his highest salary.
• As the sides transition to a 50-50 revenue split from a system that had the players earning 57 percent, the league would have allowed teams to spend to the previous salary cap ($70.2 million) rather than the proposed $60 million for one year; the union was hoping for contract buyouts, which would have players get paid for an extinguished deal and earn more money with a new one. There seemed to be room to negotiate. But, again, the NHL said this offer was non-negotiable. Why?
"At some point you've given as much, if not more, than you probably should have," Bettman said. "At some point you have to draw a line in the sand and say, 'This is the best we can do.' "
The players' association is devising its next step while striving to retain unity. The players are publicly together, but the 700-plus members are eager to get on the ice, and some may have wanted to accept the NHL's offer. They could follow the lead of the previously locked-out football and basketball players and file a disclaimer of interest, which allows unions in an untenable financial position a chance to dissolve. With no union, the lockout would be declared illegal.
Daly previously said that step would likely force the cancellation of the season. The best option for both sides is to return to negotiating. No meetings are scheduled. As hard as it is to believe, talks could get even more difficult. The sides were in agreement on financial structure, but Bettman said the league's "make whole" proposal – a $300 million payment to the players to fulfill their existing contracts as the revenue split downshifted to 50-50 – has expired. So they again need to negotiate money and contracting rights.
"By limiting years of a contract and variance in the level of salary year to year, the player hurt is any player temporarily caught in between what will become a two-tier salary structure," Miller wrote. "It is true a vast majority of players will never use the right to sign for up to five years. That is not even close to a point in this argument. It is about what money is available to the biggest group in the sport and maintaining NHL hockey as a long-term career option.
"A lot has been said about the stars being greedy. But this is an issue that directly affects my brother [Detroit third-line forward Drew Miller], and I am absolutely thinking about players like him and the good of the game. ... It makes average player careers shorter, so why as a group of players would we accept to accelerate that or create a lever to accelerate that in an agreement that would last 10 years? We don't want to do it."
So for as far as the sides have come since September – they have settled on nine pages worth of issues – they have a long way to go and not a lot of time to get there.
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McVEYTOWN - He wasn't sure he could pull it off when his grandson said he wanted to hang out with Penn State linebacker Gerald Hodges on his ninth birthday, but Gwin Brower made it happen.
Brower said Hodges had been stopping by his family's tailgate for the last two years and his grandson - Eli Pennebaker - enjoyed throwing the football around with Hodges.
"We got to meet him and his family, he is really a nice young man ... over the last two years he became Eli's favorite player," Brower said.
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Penn State linebacker Gerald Hodges, right, suprises 9-year-old Eli Pennebaker Friday on his ninth birthday.
Brower said for about a month all his grandson said he wanted for his birthday was for Hodges to come to church with him and hang out for a bit.
Brower said he tracked down Hodges, who was very agreeable to the idea.
Brower went and picked up Hodges in State College and drove him back to Mifflin County for church on Sunday.
"Eli was totally surprised, he spotted Hodges, shook his hand and gave him a hug," Brower said.
Eli patiently waited after church as Hodges graciously signed autographs and posed for photos with people, Brower said.
Brower said after church they took Hodges to J.P. Edwards in Burnham for lunch and took some more photographs and hung out a while longer before taking him back over the mountain to Penn State.
"It's great to see young men like this take the extra mile and be willing to do those little special things for other people," Brower said.


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"Realllly... why does she drive with no hands?"
"So she can clap (demonstrates a high handed clapping) and tell everyone to BE QUIET AND SIT DOWN!"
Okaaay. Great.
Kinda scary...ReplyDelete
Oh man...that's frightening:(ReplyDelete
Don't over react. Get the other side of the story. Remember it is a kid's eye view and you'd be surprised at what they think they see. Teachers often tell parents that they will believe only half of what kids tell them about what happens at home if the parents will only believe half of what kids tell them happens at school.ReplyDelete
Love this picture!
yeah, that is a little unnerving, but I guess that's how kids see it.
I don't think Steph's post was an overraction at all.
I would have thought and said the same thing.
I agree that kids tend to see things a bit differently, but I'd still had been surprised by that and would ask about it.
Love the picture!
Great picture!
Are there any dents or scratches on the bus?
It's so good to know that our children are in such capable hands, huh?ReplyDelete
Eeeeeek. Did you phone the bus company to ask about this?ReplyDelete
thats a worry!!!!!!!!!!!
maybe she needs a whistle
oh geez. That would freak me out.ReplyDelete
Good thing I'm not a bus driver. I'd be fired immediately.
Love the picture though. So often we see the "getting on the bus" picture - rarely the "getting off" one! Too cute!
As much as I am a reactor instead of a researcher, I agree with the above...maybe she was even at a stoplight.ReplyDelete
Gee. That would sure instill confidence, wouldn't it? :-)ReplyDelete
JUST what a mom wants to hear!!
Jane, Pinks & Blues
EAK - what's up with that?
BTW I LOVE LOVE your new header!!!
I agree with Carolyn! Get the other side of the story...first hand!
Cute picture though!
Uh yeah, not so good. Although I can't say I've never been guilty...although I haven't been carrying a passenger load of 60 small children either...hmmm.ReplyDelete
Yikes! I'd want more details on that one, too!ReplyDelete
Carter, my man!
Ooh, not very reassuring.ReplyDelete
what in the world??????????? out of the mouth of babes! i love it.ReplyDelete
And I bet you can pick up the phone to call the school board and report her with no hands!
There is a bus driver who literally drives 50 mph down my very NARROW one way street and comes to an abrupt halt. It's totally disturbing and I can't catch the name of the school or district on the bus b/c he's going so fast. Do bus drivers realize how precious their cargo is??


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Three years after her 18-year-old son Michael committed suicide, Marie Osmond says she still has moments when she drops to her knees unable to breathe: "You cry until you can't cry, and then you cry some more." But each time this mother of seven other kids (Michael was one of the five adopted by Osmond and her second husband) picks herself up.
Now Osmond, 53, is sharing how she got through her darkest days in a new book, The Key is Love, which was largely inspired by her mother Olive's advice. "Some people don't talk about these things, but we do," she tells PEOPLE's Mia McNiece. "I think it's important. I'm healing every day."
About six months before Michael died, during a "Meet 'n Greet" after my Vegas show, a woman gave me a hug and said, "Oh, Marie. You've been through depression, divorce, kids in rehab . . . What haven't you been through?" I answered, "I haven't lost a child. That would be the worst thing."
On February 26, 2010 the "worst thing" happened. My sweet son left me, his family, and friends by jumping from the balcony of his eighth floor college apartment in Los Angeles. Even as I write this I want to cry out, "Please, don't let this be true."
Exhausted from a non-stop week with shows, I was staying in a hotel room at the Flamingo that night with my daughter Rachael. My cell phone rang around 1:30 a.m. and it was a guard at the gate that leads into my neighborhood. He said, "Someone is here from the coroner's office. They are coming to the Flamingo to see you."
My heart dropped to the floor. I said to Rachael, "It has to be Michael."
"No, Mom, no," she said. "I'll call him." She dialed and redialed. She kept saying, "Pick up, Michael. Be there."
The officer came to the door. He said, "I'm very sorry to inform you that your son Michael committed suicide at 9:25 this evening."
I thought someone had run a knife into my heart.
I adopted Michael a few days after his birth. His birth mother was an unwed teen. Michael was an adventuresome child. It was impossible for anyone in the family to stay upset or angry if he was around. He would come up with hysterical voices and characters. Even as a very little boy, Mike would notice and reach out to those who were marginalized because they were different.
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According to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, one in four Americans will have an alcohol or drug problem at some point in their lives. Ninety percent of adults who are currently addicted started smoking, drinking or using drugs before the age of 18. If that isn't concerning enough, CASA also found that the number of teen illegal drug users in the U.S., which had previously dropped from a high of 3.3 million in 1979 to a low of 1.1 million in 1992, more than doubled to 2.6 million in 2005. Those users make up the 75 percent of all high school students that have used alcohol, tobacco or other drugs, 20 percent of whom are addicted. Only about 10 percent ever fully recover, according to the research.
Matt Blenker is part of that 10 percent.
His addictions began around age 11 when he was in seventh grade at Holland Middle School, but they spawned from things that happened at a much younger age.
When Matt was 4 years old, his brother died.
"After that my parents and family like just kind of went downhill," Matt, 18, said. "There was a lot of fighting and yelling over money. I have two older sisters and when I was around 9 or 10, my one sister packed up and moved to Florida 'cause she couldn't deal with all the fighting anymore."
With only him and his sister Nikki left at home, the problems in the Blenker family escalated. Nikki would go out with her friends often, leaving Matt home to watch the fights between his parents.
"I didn't know what to do," Matt said. "I was so young. I couldn't do anything about it really." His dad ended up leaving, "and I didn't see him for a year or two after that."
With his father gone and his sister coping with the family troubles by being with friends, young Matt was left home alone a lot. He felt helpless watching his mother deal with her own problems.
"I just felt really alone, like I didn't have anyone," Matt said. "I had really good friends at school. We always scored high grades and played sports and stuff … They started noticing something was wrong with me but I never told them what was wrong with me because I didn't want them to know, but I knew word got out because it was such a small town; everybody knew everything that happened."
Matt isolated himself from everyone.
"I just kinda got fed up with everyone asking me what's wrong," he said. "I didn't want to talk to anyone. I shut down and tried to force those friends out of my life."
That's when his grades began to drop; his whole attitude on life changed. Matt just didn't care anymore. He looked for an escape, which he found when he made some new friends. Matt noticed a difference between them and other kids. They seemed "cooler" to him.
"I would hang out in the town with them and go skateboarding," he said. "They would go off and come back and I noticed something was different. Then one day I went with them. I saw they were smoking weed."
They offered some to Matt. Although Matt refused at first, he couldn't help wanting the happiness these kids seemed to have and so he soon gave in to the temptation.
"I wanted to try it," Matt said. "It took away a lot of my problems. I thought I didn't have to deal with it 'cause I was high. I started smoking a lot, like every day. I was only 12."
The biggest instigator in Matt's life was the emptiness he felt because of his family issues. When his mother brought home a new boyfriend, who moved in with his 15-year-old son, Matt, then 13, smoked cigarettes with the other boy. It wasn't long before he offered Matt "something new." Those words began Matt's stint with cocaine.
Of course, a 13-year-old without a job can't afford a cocaine addiction for long.
"I started going into school to find kids with ADHD problems and stuff like that," Matt said. "Everyone always told me Adderall and Ritalin were 'poor man's coke' because it was the same feeling but cheaper … but after awhile I couldn't put up with staying up for days and days."
So with the help of a friend, he moved into his next drug adventure.
"My friend told me he got Lortabs from his mom, so I went to his house and tried it. I felt nothing. I felt completely numb. I loved that feeling," he said. "My friend's mom would call me in the bathroom and she would have Lortabs for me. I thought that was awesome 'cause I was getting high with a parent."
Soon Matt was taking eight or nine Lortabs at a time. When he realized he couldn't take so many, he resolved to switch to something new.
"My friend's dad broke his back and he was getting morphine. So my friend would get that from his mom," Matt said.
All this happened before Matt even began high school. His drug use caused him to fail eighth grade and he had to go to summer school.
Matt said he would go to school and yell profanities at his teachers.
"They would ask me what's wrong and say, 'This isn't you. You're a good kid.' I would never say anything about how I felt 'cause I was just really angry and messed up," Matt said.
Soon his actions in school led to his expulsion and Matt was sent to an alternative school. His lifestyle continued to lead him down a path of destruction which included overdosing on Xanax while at school.
"I remembered I was threatening the paramedics and the police, so they handcuffed me and took me to ECMC," he said. "I went back home, slept for a day and woke up the next day and thought nothing of it."
Matt was expelled again at age 15. He earned his GED diploma and continued his partying lifestyle.
"Everything escalated," he said. "I was doing the opiates and the pills and I was drinking a lot more. I got sick of the friends I had because I thought they were just using me for my money and my drugs."
His answer to this was simple: switch friends.
"My new friends were doing a lot of different drugs," Matt said. "They were going to pharmacies and stealing cough and cold medicine. When I tripped for the first time on cold medicine, I thought I had the world but really I was just high. It made no sense."
Matt didn't realize his lifestyle didn't make much sense until he had a rude awakening after throwing a party. His friend's brother got into a fight that didn't end well.
"My friend's little brother got hit and fell back and hit his head on the concrete," Matt said. "He got Mercy Flighted to ECMC. He was in a coma for three weeks and had a blood clot in his brain. I remember going to see him. He was a great kid, everyone loved him and to see him with all those tubes coming out of his head; it destroyed me. I felt like it was my house, I should have done something."
Matt's guilt perpetuated his drug use. However, he was brought up on charges in connection with the party.
"When I went in front of the judge, he looked at me and said, 'You can either go do your time in jail or you can go to Renaissance House.' Of course I wanted to do rehab," Matt said. "The district attorney didn't feel I should be released, but the judge looked at me and he, like, screamed at me, saying, 'Why should I let you back on the streets? You're burglarizing homes. Why should I even let you go?' I couldn't even answer, but he released me anyway. I went into rehab April 12, 2012. I went in kinda open-minded and willing."
Matt was at Renaissance House, a residential treatment facility in West Seneca for teens addicted to drugs and alcohol, for three months until he had another court date. He was sentenced to a year in prison, and that hit him hard.
"My past came back to get me," Matt said. He tried to explain to the judge "that I was in Renaissance House, trying to better myself but he told me that I made my decisions and I had to sleep with it now."
While in jail, Matt's sentence was reduced to 40 days.
"I was still scared," he said. "I was just tired of everything. Then I learned in Renaissance House that I couldn't be able to help myself until I finally surrendered. I went to church one night and got on my knees and prayed. I fully surrendered. I asked God to help me."
Apparently Matt's prayers were answered.
"I went back in Renaissance House Aug. 20, 2012. I wouldn't be who I am today without that place and Kids Escaping Drugs."
Matt began talking to kids in schools about his story and he graduated from the program Feb. 15. Matt moved to a halfway house and continues to share his story.
Kids Escaping Drugs helped him get accepted and earn a scholarship to Trocaire College, where he will study hospitality management.
Matt's sister Nikki Blenker, 22, looks at this whole story as a learning life experience.
"It made me want to better myself to be a better role model for him and to have a better family life because we didn't really have that," Nikki Blenker said.
Matt and Nikki are close now and see each other almost every weekend. Despite the horrible things Matt has experienced and the distance family troubles and drugs put between them, the siblings have come together to support each other.
Kids Escaping Drugs and the Western New York National Honor Society chapters are teaming up for the 20th annual Walk for Kids from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday at Medaille College, 18 Agassiz Circle. All proceeds from the walk will benefit the Renaissance Campus, which includes three residential buildings where 62 young patients are given the opportunity to learn to rebuild their lives. For information, call 827-9462 or visit www.makeachangewny.org.
Hannah Gordon is a senior at Immaculata Academy.


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Friday morning, social media — and the community — were abuzz with speculation about a new after-school club forming at Elkins High School....
We don't care if you're gay. We just won't tolerate gays attempts to force their PRIVATE lifestyles onto the rest of us. Get over it. THis is UNACCEPTABLE to majority of Americans and other nations worldwide. But liberal media spreads LIES that it's the opposite. I guess Elkins found out eh? Stop listening to liberal media and you'll really see what's real and what's not. Otherwise, enjoy your unreal worldview.
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No; what's dispicable is reaction by liberals to those who trust God and believe immoral acts are STILL immoral. Get over it!
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How very nice. A club for heterosexuals who are 'happy'.
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Before commenting on things about which you are misinformed, or in this case uninformed, do some research. I went to the GSA web page to find out what the club's mission is. I didn't find a magic hat full of tricks anywhere. Also, it is irrelevant that the community values Christianity (separation of church and state). Even if your values are in the majority, and they very well may be, then you could not argue that other values recognized by even one member of the community do not belong in schools. It seems you're assuming that your values are superior and every other value is not only inferior but incorrect. That is quite the assumption. Let's look back many decades, shall we? At one point in time, desegregation was not tolerated. What a shame it would be to look back on this time, many decades from now, and realize how bigoted some were. "There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."-
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Good for Elkins High School. This is a good thing. Ignore the bigots. Must be related to the Westboro Baptist church people. We'll leave it to the ultimate judge to say what is wrong or right, not them. We are ALL God's children and he loves us all. I hope that this club does help with the bullying problem.
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There are no less than three christian oriented clubs at EHS. Idiot.
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Yeah just don't start a club for christians to meet on school property, eh??? But yet they'll allow sinful *********** eh?? Promoting sex in schools...don't individuals get arrested for such things? Yet school personnel can endorse it and it's okay now?? I am not surprised at the response of this. WV makes me proud that they refuse to accept or endorse this. Just ask a politician here and you'll see him/her speechless. They know we won't tolerate it NOR anyone seeking election here that would endorse such corrupteness in our schools.
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Sodomy is called such because it's immoral and an abomination and is called 'sodomy' because God destroyed Sodom and Gommorah over such abominable sexual perversion. Sickening and disgusting and never tolerated by christians nor God!
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This is dispicable to have such an immoral, disgusting club such as this. THIS is nothing but a club to endorse an immoral lifestyle onto our children. I will NEVER be 'tolerant' of IMMORALITY whether the radicals on the left and the radical editor of the Intermountain likes it or not. NO christian will ever tolerate such behavior NOR accept it or teach our own children that it's accepted. God calls it an ABOMINATION and that is that. THere's nothing to discuss. Get over it. Radical immorals on the left think just because they want immoral deeds to be accepted that people will accept it. Well they found out it doesn't work that way. The 'intolerant' ones are those doing the deceiving and lying about what this is truly all about and it's not about 'bullying.' Bullying is just the 'thing' they pulled out of their hat of tricks to deceive you into thinking they aren't 'promoting' devious sexual behaviors onto your children. I told you COMMON CORE was COMMON TRASH. Propaganda for radicals
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Wow, a commentary in the IM that I actually agree with. Doesn't happen everyday. I am proud of Elkins High School for having a Gay Straight Alliance. It is proof that we continue to evolve ethically as humans.
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By your standard, Puremagix, the AfterShock club at EHS shouldn't be there either...they are apparently a devotional club that prays. The Card club should also be disbanded...playing cards has nothing to do with a high school education. The Duct Tape Club is out too. What on earth does duct tape have to do with an education? Out goes the Celtic Arts club, Minecraft, Cooking, NCYC, Responsible Weight Loss Club, SADD/RAZE and the Recycling Club. You, Sir, are a moron.
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Thank you Puremagix for illustrating exactly why our schools DO need clubs like this - anything we can to curb ignorance from people like yourself. I didn't realize God gave you special permission to judge others...wow.
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