Future of Willow Grove Air Base

The Willow Grove Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base has stopped all military aircraft and is expected to close September 15, 2011. The air base occupies a vast amount of land in Horsham, nearly 892 acres which is 7 percent of our township’s total acreage. It’s no surprise there will be debates and various interests on what to develop the land into. The Horsham Land Reuse Authority (HLRA) currently holds meetings open to the community and has hired a consulting firm, RKG Associates. RKG has a background with redevelopment of military bases and is going to work with the residents in Montgomery and Bucks County. Craig Seymour, the president of RKG Associates, Weston Solutions, and Urban Engineers along with the input from the locals are all involved in the redevelopment process. They started with studies that would predict what is best financially and economically for the surrounding area. Then RKG allowed the public to participate in a survey listing options of possible property use. Some of the options were shopping centers, educational facilities, new employment center, a residential neighborhood, developing a Horsham town center, establishing a civilian airport, and leaving the space vacant. Personally, I would rather not see more shopping centers built simply because they’re not needed. We already have tons of local businesses and malls available to us minutes away from our homes. It is still a matter of time until the final decision is made, meanwhile project directors maintain high hopes despite the challenging obstacles they will face.

http://www.montgomerynews.com/articles/2011/02/08/public_spirit_willow_grove_guide/news/doc4d51a7881e249797070387.txt?viewmode=fullstory
Date Reported: February 8, 2011
Reported By: Thomas Celona

Titanic 3D!!

http://perezhilton.com/2011-05-20-titanic-3d-gets-a-release-date

The very well respected journalist, Perez Hilton, is reporting that Titanic, the Academy Award winning, second highest-grossing film of all time is being re-released...in 3D.

James Cameron, the movie's director has been planning on re-releasing the movie for a while now and finally decided on April 6th 2012 so the release date can coincide with the 100 year anniversary of the Titanic setting sail and sinking.

I for one am excited to see Leonardo DiCaprio in 3 dimensions.

4 South Jersey Schools Close After Buses Burn

Four schools were closed in Burlington County because a fire had destroyed many school buses.

The firefighters came to the scene around 3 a.m., and many school buses were already burnt.

Eleven school buses were burnt, which includes three full- size and eight van-size buses. Four schools were closed, and one school had two hours delay.

Investigators were examining the buses, tried to determine the cause of the fire.

'Roids 7 - Phils 1

'Roids 7 - Phils 1

Last night, I witnessed someone thing that doesn't happen very often in baseball. I got to see a man hit three home runs in one game. A baseball hatrick, if you will. Funny enough, the Phils had a giveaway which was, yep you guessed it, a hat. I was so close to throwing my hat down and to see if anyone would join me, but I held onto it.


40 year old, Jason Giambi was the murderer of baseballs on Thursday night. He was 3-26 this season, batting .115 before he destroyed at the plate. He had two chances to get to four, which is the major league record for home runs in a game by a player, he struck out twice in his final at bats.

What really gets me mad is that Giambi has admitted to using steroids in his playing career. I believe he disgraced the game by doing this. And my opinion on them now is that everyone should do them or no one should do them. In my second theory, if someone were to do them, they should get banned for life. Just my two cents..

In Soviet Russia.. Car Beats You!

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/05/19/nhl-notes-zherdev-allegedly-beats-on-wifes-car

After getting into an argument with his wife, Flyer foward, Nikolay Zherdev allegedly attacked his wife's car after yelling curses and death threats. And what did Mr. Zherdev chose to attack his wife's car with? A metal pole he found on the ground.

This dude needs to get his head straight. Hopefully, he will do that somewhere other than Philly. I was a fan of his and was really excited to hear the Flyers signed him this offseason and I enjoyed watching him play throughout most of the regular season. But, his lazy play started to make me have second thoughts on him. He doesn't care about anyone else but himself and his stats and he doesn't even attempt to play defense. I'm all for having goal scorers and guys who don't try as hard on defense, but thats ONLY if they can register at least 30 goals a year. This guy netted 16 and was benched a bunch of games for his lack of ability to play both ways.

The Rise of E-Books...

Wowee. Though they haven't even been around for four years, Kindle book sales have begun outselling print book sales on Amazon. It's amazing how fast technological advances can spread in popularity and prevalence. While I personally prefer a hard copy of a book for reading, I can appreciate the incredible convenience that Kindles and the like offer. As textbooks are starting to become available in e-book format, as well, I won't be surprised if we start seeing e-readers all over colleges, in little time. More efficient in price, size and weight, these little puppies are bound for successful sales in this information-hungry society.

Chinese student throws shoe at firewall creator. Lolz ensued.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/world/asia/20china.html?_r=1&ref=world

To make a long story short, on Thursday, a Chinese student sneaked into a lecture hall and threw eggs and shoes at Fang Binxing, the man who is responsible for China's strict internet rules and firewall that blocks many internet sites. The student is now a hero to many Chinese people.

I think this is pretty cool. The article says that the Chinese firewall blocks a lot of potentially harmful sites, which is fine, but it also blocks sites like YouTube and Facebook. Fang claims that these sites could bring chaos to China, which is pretty ridiculous if you ask me. Of all the problems in China, it'll be popular internet sites that will bring chaos? Come on.

I also think this is pretty funny. The shoe thrower soon became a trending topic on Twitter in China. Although most of the posts about him were removed by the Chinese government, many of them were praising his actions. One person said “If you, the shoe thrower, get kicked out of school for this, my company will hire you in a minute." That made me lol.