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Last Tuesday, I went with my dad to watch the Citadel play West Virginia University in basketball. They were playing at the Charleston Civic Center, so it was only about a 90-minute drive.

When we went into the Civic Center, Dad saw that they were giving away posters of the basketball team. We were already in line to enter the arena when he discovered this, and I was reluctant to exit the line. Nevertheless, we went over to pick up a poster. While we were there, there were free raffle tickets to enter a drawing for an unknown prize. Dad and I both filled out one, mostly out of habit. We never actually expected anything out of it…

About half way through the first quarter, the announcer plugs United Bank (West Virginia’s Bank) and then goes on to say, “The United Bank lucky fan of the Game is Christian Martine of Daniels. You’ve won two tickets to the Ohio State vs. West Virginia game. See a representative from United Bank behind section 212 to claim your prize…”

Now, for the first few seconds, I really didn’t respond. It took a confirmation from my dad for me to realize that I was the winner. Once it set in, I jumped up and rushed over to claim the tickets. This will definitely be a game I’ll always remember. Beating out 13,000 other fans was definitely odds I never expected.

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Football Players

• Nick Akers
• Kaleb Farmer
• David Harvey
• Willy Lilly
• Taylor Modley
• Will Ort
• Nick Palchesko
• Michael Pinardo
• Josh Weeks
• Nathan Wilburn
• Michael Midgley, Manager
• Josh Vance, Manager

Band

• Terri Belcher
• Amna Khan
• Kayla Massie
• David Osborne
• John Osborne
• Emily Perdue
• Matt Pitts
• Nick Pritchard
• Megan Richmond
• Matt Stevens

Cheerleaders

• Madison Bowles
• Sarah Griffith
• Brittany Lilly

One of my favorite things to do with my cell phone, is to show my friends how it can shut down my computer. Better yet, set up on their computer, this is a cool trick to make others think that you have super powers.

You will need Microsoft Outlook configured with a POP3 E-Mail service (e.g. Yahoo, Google), a text to E-Mail service (e.g. Kwiry), and, obviously, a cell phone that can text. None of the steps are very complicated. It should take around 15 minutes for everything to be up and working.

1. Create a shutdown.bat file. Open Notepad and type c:\windows\system32\shutdown -s -f -t 00. Then, save it to your C drive for easy reference.
2. Set up a Kwiry account. This services forwards any text messages it receives from you to your cell phone.
3. Set up a rule in Outlook that will tell the computer to shutdown the computer. Go to Tools > Rules and Alerts. Then click, New Rule. Select “Start from a blank rule” and make sure it’s set to “Check messages when they arrive” and click Next. On the next page, check the box that says “with specific words in the subject line”. At the bottom of the window, click on the “specific words” link and it will allow you to enter the subject line that you want it to look for. Any message sent from Kwiry begins with “your kwiry -”. To make things simple, type “your kwiry – shutdown.” Click Add and OK. Then click Next. On the next page, select “start an application.” Click on the application link and find the shutdown.bat file on your C drive. In the browse box, change the search parameters from Applications (.exe.) to all file types. Then click Next and Finish.
4. Send a text message saying “shutdown” to Kwiry (59479). As soon as your Outlook E-Mail inbox refreshes and your message comes through, you computer will open the shutdown.bat file and begin to close your computer.

For a helpful video, visit Instructables.

I love this tutorial, because it truly shows the capabilities of today’s technology. Set up correctly, I can control my computer solely with my cell phone. Enjoy!