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FORT MILL - Gov. Nikki Haley toured the Interstate 77 corridor Monday touting her reputation as a jobs governor while announcing 7,100 new jobs coming to that part of the state.
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The U.S. economy is poised to accelerate after a dismal start to the year even though the job market won't return to full employment until 2017. That was the forecast offered Monday by the International Monetary Fund.
The IMF noted that steady job gains and other data suggest a rebound. Employers have added 200,000-plus jobs for four straight months, and the unemployment rate has fallen to 6.3%.
Yet, the organization foresees the economy growing a modest 2% in 2014, below its previous estimate of 2.7%. That would be nearly identical to the 1.9% growth in 2013.
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Haley kicked off her $800 million day in Richburg, where she announced a tire manufacturing plant to built in Chester County in a deal that's likely to provide a boost at the Port of Charleston.
Giti Tires, a Singapore-based company, said it will bring an estimated 1,700 jobs and a $560 million investment to the area.
In Fort Mill, on the second stop on her jobs tour, Haley said The Lash Group will employ 1,200 initially with a $57.3 million investment, which is expected to reach $90 million when a second facility is added and the workforce eventually doubles, the governor's office said.
The health care consulting business, which is owned by AmerisourceBergen, will move into its new headquarters by March 2016.
At her final stop, Haley announced the creation of 3,000 customer service jobs at LPL Financial, the nation's largest independent broker. When LPL moves its regional headquarters from Charlotte, across the border to Fort Mill, it will eventually employ 3,000 workers. Construction in York County is expected to start next year.
Combined, the three stops marked the largest number of jobs ever announced in a single day in South Carolina, Haley's office said.
Giti Tire stands to make the biggest impact in the Lowcountry, with the export of tires and the import of raw materials.
"A tire company is very complicated. We buy everything from chemicals to steel," said Enki Tan, executive chairman of Giti Tire Group. "So it's a conduit for a lot of services and products. Part of the economy around this area and around the Southeast is going to benefit from our buying the raw materials."
Haley said South Carolina is committed to making it easiest for any company to get their product to the market, when discussing the company's potential impact in the Lowcountry.
"It's the reason why we're trying to work so fast to get the Charleston port expanded," Haley said. "We've got do any and everything possible to make sure we're helping our companies get their product to market as fast as they can."
Haley celebrated Giti's North America expansion by calling South Carolina "the nation's tire capital." The company said it's the 10th-largest tire company in the world. It has a plant in California.
Giti's South Carolina factory will make passenger and light-truck tires for automakers and replacement markets in the new 1.8 million-square-foot plant on the Carolinas I-77 Mega Site.
The company said its decision to invest in Richburg was driven by several factors, including the area's workforce and training opportunities, proximity to major transportation infrastructure and the deep-water port in Charleston, market access to the growing Southeast region.
"In the end, a business-friendly atmosphere was also key," Tan said Monday in Richburg.
One of several incentives for Giti includes a $37.8 million closing fund grant to secure the land and prepare it, because it will require "extensive groundwork," said Bobby Hitt, the state's secretary of commerce.
Jim Newsome, CEO of the State Ports Authority, said Giti Tire would be a new customer for the maritime agency.
"We look forward to handling their import-export needs through the Port of Charleston and continuing to support our state's growing tire industry," Newsome said.
In 2011, the Palmetto State overtook Ohio, home of Goodyear, as the nation's No. 1 tire exporter, which has driven up cargo volume on the Charleston waterfront. That same year it passed North Carolina to become the No. 2 manufacturing state for domestic and overseas tire markets.
The industry continues to grow in South Carolina. Michelin North America recently announced construction of its eighth factory in the state. The 800,000-square-foot facility in Anderson County to make its large-scale "Earthmover" tires that are shipped around the world.
Also, Bridgestone recently built a new 1.5-million-square-foot tire plant in Aiken County, and about six months ago Continental Tires opened the first phase of a $500 million Sumter plant that's expected to employ 1,600 workers by 2021.
Increased quantities of raw materials in-part prompted the SPA to revive its once-dormant cargo-handling operations at Union Pier Terminal in downtown Charleston, where a warehouse on Monday was lined with large stacks of steel coils used in tire manufacturing.
"The automotive cluster, particularly the tire industry, provides significant import-export benefits for the port," Newsome said Monday. "We export off-road tires through our Charleston facilities and handle many of the raw materials and components imported for tire production."
The Associated Press and Tyrone Richardson of The Post and Courier contributed to this report.
Gov. Nikki Haley and Giti Tire Executive Chairman Enki Tan speak with reporters Monday, June 16, 2014 about Giti's expansion in North America, with the construction of a plant in Chester County, South Carolina. The plant is a $560 million investment for the Singapore-based company and will bring about 1,700 jobs to the Upstate. Cynthia Roldan/Staff×
Gov. Nikki Haley called South Carolina the nations tire capital. Manufacturers in the state include a Michelin plant in Spartanburg (above) that makes tires for big trucks. The industrys latest newcomer is Giti Tire of Singapore.×
Gov. Nikki Haley speaks to reporters on Monday about the relocation of the headquarters of Lash Group to Fort Mill. Lash Group plans to hire 1,500 employees and ultimately increase is workforce to up to 2,400. The company's current headquarters are located in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Cynthia Roldan/staff)×
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Conservatory announces lineup
WINCHESTER, Va. - The Shenandoah Conservatory at Shenandoah University has announced its 2012-13 season. All performances will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday; at 2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday; and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
The following will be performed in the Ohrstrom-Bryant Theater:
Thursday, Feb. 28 to Sunday, March 3: "In the Woods."
The following will be performed in the Glaize Studio Theater:
Jan 17-20: "The Spitfire Grill;"
Feb. 14-17: "Henry IV Part 1;"
April 4-7: "Summer & Smoke."
For more information or tickets, call 540-665-4569 or visit www.ConservatoryPerforms.org.
'Clara, Nutcracker Prince' to play
FREDERICK, Md. - The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre and Children's Theatre presents its productions:
To Saturday, Dec. 29: "Clara and the Nutcracker Prince;"
To Saturday, Dec. 29: "Season's Greetings; An Empire Christmas;"
Monday, Dec. 31: New Year's Eve celebration;
Friday, Jan. 11 to Saturday, March 9: "Steel Magnolias;"
Saturday, Jan. 19 to Saturday, March 9: Disney's "Aladdin;"
Friday, March 22 to Saturday, June 1: "9 to 5, The Musical;"
Saturday, April 6 to Sunday, July 28: Disney's "Cinderella."
Shows run every Friday and Saturday evening, with some Sunday evening performances, as well as select Saturday and Sunday matinee performances. For more information, call the box office at 301-662-6600 or visit www.wayoffbroadway.com.
Luhrs Center has shows upcoming
SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. - The Luhrs Center, located on the campus of Shippensburg University, has announced the following lineup:
Saturday, Feb. 9: An Evening with Michael W. Smith;
Saturday, Feb. 16: Popovich Comedy Pet Theater;
Thursday, Feb. 21: An Evening with John Quinones - lecture
Saturday, Feb. 23: An Evening with Olivia Newton Jon
For more information, visit www.luhrscenter.com
The MET announces shows
FREDERICK, Md. - The Maryland Ensemble Theater will present the following productions:
To Sunday, Dec. 30: "It's A Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play;"
Thursday, Feb. 7 to Sunday, March 3: "The Glass Menagerie;"
April 4-28: "Finally Heard, Feminine of an Uncivil War."
For more information or tickets, call the MET Box Office at 301-694-4744.
Wayside Theatre announces slate
MIDDLETOWN, Va. - The Wayside Theatre will present the following performances:
To Sunday: "Glory Bea! A Shenandoah Christmas Story;"
Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, to Saturday, March 17: "Smoke on the Mountain: Homecoming;"
For more information or tickets, call 540-869-1776 or visit www.waysidetheatre.org.
Little Theatre to perform 'Opus'
WINCHESTER, Va. - The Winchester Little Theatre will present the following performances:
Jan. 11-20: "Opus;"
March 8-23: "The Gazebo;"
May 10-25: "You Know I Can't Hear You When The Water's Running."
For more information or tickets, call 540-662-3331 or visit www.wltonline.org.
Old Opera House announces shows
CHARLES TOWN - The Old Opera House will present the following productions:
Friday to Sunday: "The Nutcracker" ballet;
2013 season includes: "Suite Surrender," "Duck Hunter Shoots Angel," "Honus and Me," "Legally Blonde," "Murder Among Friends" and "Shrek."
For more information or tickets, call 304-725-4420 or visit www.oldoperahouse.org.
Apollo announces upcoming events
MARTINSBURG - The Apollo Civic Theatre will present the following productions:
Jan. 18 to 20, 25 to 27: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
March 8 to 10, 15 to 17: "High School Reunion, the Musical"
May 10 to 12, 17 to 19: "Hello Dolly."
Reserve tickets by emailing at email@example.com or by calling the Box Office at 304-263-6766.
The Maryland Theatre shows set
HAGERSTOWN, Md. - The Maryland Theatre, 21 S. Potomac St., has announced the following events:
Sunday: The Hagerstown Municipal Band with the Barbara Ingram Wind Band;
Friday, Feb. 1: Who's Band: The Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute Band;
Saturday, Feb. 2: Chris MacDonald's Memories of Elvis in Concert;
Saturday, Feb. 16 and Sunday, Feb. 17: Maryland Symphony Orchestra MaterWorks III "For the Love of Mozart."
For more information or tickets, call 301-790-3500 or visit www.mdtheatre.org
Weinberg Center for the Arts
FREDERICK, Md. - The Weinberg Center for the Arts, 20 W. Patrick St., has announced the following lineup:
Today: 18th annual Messiah Sing-Along;
For more information or tickets, call 301-600-2828 or visit www.weinbergcenter.org.
Capitol Theatre
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - The Capitol Theatre Centre, 159 S. Main St., announces the following lineup:
Saturday, Feb. 16: "Romance of the Dance;"
Sunday, March 3: The Glenn Miller Orchestra;
Wednesday, April 6: The Diamonds.
For more information or tickets, call 717-263-0202 or visit www.thecapitoltheatre.org.
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Author and consultant on bullying and peer abuse Elizabeth Bennett knows from personal experience what she is talking about.
From age 3, and off and on until she was 31, the 44-year-old suffered abuse, she said in her southern twang in a phone interview from her home in South Carolina.
"I contribute a lot of it too to our society. We've just gotten so mean and so nasty too. It was 27 years and I had to take healing into my own hands, which I did," she said. "It became more subtle as I got older. When you're younger it's pretty much out there, but when you get older it becomes more of a manipulation type thing, more of an exclusion type thing, especially in girls. I just always felt like the odd person out. ... It overwhelmed me. It took me several years to heal and I had to do it on my own. There's nothing in the books right now to heal this."
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The Altoona Regional Health System and other area organizations such as the Home Nursing Agency, the Blair County MH/ID/EI program, Penn State Altoona Health & Wellness Center and the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Blair County are sponsoring a program to help bring about some of that much needed healing.
Bennett, who fought to have the Safe School Climate Act passed in South Carolina in 2006 and is a Nationally Certified Trainer through the evidence-based Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, is the featured speaker at the May is Mental Health Month event taking place Wednesday at the Ramada, Altoona. The featured topic is, "Bullying and Peer Abuse: Start the Healing."
The word bullying minimizes the problem, Bennett said.
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What: May is Mental Health Month event
When: 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday
Where: Ramada, 1 Sheraton Drive, Altoona
Admission: Free
Details: A health fair of area agencies will take place for an hour beginning at 5:30 p.m. Featured speaker Elizabeth Bennett, masters of education, is a national pioneer in advocacy to stop bullying among children and adults; she is an author, consultant and survivor of bullying.
"This is a social abuse. I just feel like if we want people to take it seriously we've got to be serious. And I know people are starting to understand it better now, and starting to take it more seriously, but you know the term bullying is just minimizing it," she said.
"I say look at it this way, pretend like the past 10 or 12 years have not existed with bullying and someone came up to you back at the turn of the millennium and asked you what bullying was, you'd probably say 'school yard stuff' or 'Johnny took Suzy's milk money.' That does not even begin to touch it. I have to keep it real and I call it peer abuse. That's my biggest battle in all of this, getting people to understand that," she said.
Maria Brandt, The Arc of Blair County executive director and a May Is Mental Health Month committee member, said parents have told the The Arc, which works with people with developmental disabilities and their families, about bullying and that their children are suffering at school.
The Arc has advocated for children who were disciplined for having stood up to their bullies, she said.
"So after several of these situations happened, I thought this is something we need to start educating everyone about," Brandt said. "And we did not want to just make it for families. This is for mental health professionals. It is for educators. Because we all want them to hear the message.
"Sometimes inadvertently adults are an accessory to bullying. They don't do enough to stop it. Or they don't realize how hurtful the words can be. So we want to educate everybody, including families and children themselves," she said.
Bennett will address several points, including "adults who have been bullied and are still carrying the scars," Brandt said.
Mark Frederick, committee chairman, said the annual event attempts to deliver educational topics and strives to de-stigmatize mental health.
"This year we chose bullying because it's such a rudimentary core issue of what happens not just in schools as people automatically think, but it does occur everywhere, it does occur even to some degree even in adult lives," he said.
Bennett has seen peer abuse in many places, including church, work and among neighbors, she said.
"It's everywhere. Some of these adults were childhood abusers, childhood bullies and they just didn't outgrow of it. Some did outgrow of it, but some didn't and they brought this along with them into adulthood," she said.
Adults should know better, she said.
"We really, really should. An adult, just don't participate in it. Stay out of the politics. Stay out of the crap. Don't put yourself in there. I mean it's just real simple. And again as adults, I'll just say it, it's pretty pathetic. We should know better, but sometimes we get caught in these cat-and-mouse tricks for one reason or another," she said. "Don't keep quiet about it and don't enable it. ... just subtly take it to a higher office in the workplace or an adult at school."
Survivors of peer abuse can suffer from post traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety and depression, though some survivors went through it without very many problems, she said.
Bullying is continuing to escalate nationally and locally, Frederick said in a press release.
"Whether your child is a victim, a bully, or witnesses it happening to a classmate, all are impacted. Bullying is a huge distraction from learning and that is the reason our children are in school," he said. "Bullying today occurs in many more settings and has far-reaching consequences. Teens have committed suicide after bullying-related videos of them were placed on the internet. It is no longer simply a bully taking the victim's lunch money. Today, bullying is taking lives."
Education on the subject is lacking and more work needs to be done, Bennett said.
She suggests advocates receive training on the subject.
"This is the most important thing to remember: This is not a kid problem, this is an adult problem. Because kids do not have the sophistication to sit down and problem solve. It's not going to happen. Their brains are not developed. They're still learning right from wrong, this and that. Adults must intervene."
Mirror Staff Writer Amanda Gabeletto is at 949-7030.


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The adrenalized singer's band, Green Day, had nearly wrapped a monumental, energy-packed assault on Thursday night – their first arena gig since Armstrong's mental breakdown at last fall's iHeartRadio show in Vegas. Rehab for alcohol and drug addiction soon followed.


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Father's Day musings on my five favorite fathers in books (some with DFW connections)
Fathers in books, like fathers in life, come in many types, each with valuable lessons to share. Here are my favorite dads in literature and why:
1.Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. There are so many reasons to admire this calm, thoughtful, supportive and loving single dad as drawn so brilliantly by Harper Lee in her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, and beautifully reproduced on both the Dallas Children's Theater, Dallas Theater Center and Casa Mañana stages. The challenge is to focus on just a few. Here goes: Atticus is the epitome of showing rather than telling. He shows his children by example the importance of standing up for what is right, even when it costs him popularity in his community. He shows compassion both for those who have wronged him and for those in need, who can only afford to pay him in the crops they raise. He shows his children that he expects them to do the right thing even when others wrong them as well. When his son, Jem, angrily cuts the tops of the flowers of their elderly, angry, racist neighbor who says nasty things about Atticus and others, Atticus not only makes him apologize, he makes Jem read to her several hours every day. That's how Jem learns that one of the reasons for Mrs. Dubose's temper is that she is battling to rid herself of her morpine addiction before she dies. As with Atticus' ongoing kindness to the Radley family, which results in an unexpected blessing for his family, Atticus shows that you can stand up against those who are wrong without judging or demeaning them.
2.Hugo's father in The Invention of Hugo Cabret. I know, we don't see much of Hugo's father in this wonderfully inventive Caldecott winner by Brian Selznick, whom I interviewed most recently last year before his film screened at the Nasher Sculpture Center. But this kind dad, who loved and encouraged his son and taught him the skills he needed to repair the automaton they worked on side by side, gave Hugo the confidence and tools he needed to persevere after his father's death. Also, this is really a story about two remarkable dads — Hugo's biological dad and the dad who eventually adopts him, Georges Méliès, who provides Hugo with the support and love he needs on the rest of his journey to adulthood.
3.Mr. Murry in A Wrinkle in Time. How can you not love a dad who nicknames his daughter, Meg, Megaparsec? Meg's drive to find her father and her belief that her father is out there and has not abandoned her and his family drives Madeleine L'Engle's Newbery Medal-winning tale, which received an electric and inspiring production by Dallas Children's Theater this season. This is a dad who is proud of having a smart daughter and who believes in her strength. His instinct is to protect her, but not at the expense of admiring her and acknowledging that there are things she can do that he cannot.
4.Trixie's dad in Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale. From the sublime to the deliciously ridiculous, this Caldecott Honor winner by Mo Willems shows dad as a pair of legs walking with tiny Trixie. This very human dad's flounders and foibles are very much modeled on Willems' own, as the author/illustrator told me before Dallas' 2010 USA Film Festival's KidFilm Festival. While the dad in the book is far from perfect, in fact he just may have played a role in the loss of the beloved Knuffle Bunny. But he is a father determined to rectify his mistakes and nothing will stop him from getting Knuffle Bunny back. That brings him to the top echelon in my book!
5.Horton in Horton Hatches the Egg. Dr. Seuss' faithful elephant is one of the greatest dads of all time and one, I have to say, whose steadfast faithfulness reminds me the most of my own late dad, Douglas Churnin, who died Nov. 1. Be assured, my hard-working, devoted, loving mom is no Mayzie, a bird who convinces Horton to sit on her egg while she takes a short break. But my dad, like Horton, could never do enough for those he loved and we often joked that if he could have borne the babies for my mom, he would have done it gladly. In Dr. Seuss' story, Horton refuses to leave the nest even when Mayzie does not come back as she says she will, even when he is laughed at by his friends, captured by hunters and put in a traveling circus. He refuses to leave even though as everyone points out to him, it is not even his egg. But when the egg hatches, the baby is an elephant-bird with wings — a beautiful metaphor to the way that loving dads can give their children wings to achieve their dreams. And, well, I can't think of any paraphrasing that improves on Dr. Seuss' own ending: "And it should be, it should be, it SHOULD be like that! Because Horton was faithful! He sat and he sat! He meant what he said/And he said what he meant…/And they sent him home/Happy,/One Hundred per cent!"


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Parkland hospital board ratifies Smith as interim CEO
Parkland Memorial Hospital's governing board met behind closed doors for an hour this morning. Then they emerged and, with little public discussion, unanimously made official what we've already reported: Robert L. "Bob" Smith is the new interim chief executive.
So reports my colleague Sherry Jacobson, who is at the troubled Dallas public hospital now covering what could be a long day of meetings.
Smith, a former Tenet Healthcare executive, will be replacing Dr. Thomas Royer. Royer wasn't present for Smith's introduction and later declined to comment.
After the vote, the seven-member hospital board gave Smith a round of applause. "I've got second thoughts on it," he quipped. "Too late," board member Eddie Reeves responded, drawing laughter from his colleagues.
Also on the agenda today: discussion of Parkland's huge new hiring push — and more closed-door discussion of the patient-safety problems that have put the hospital under a rare form of federal monitoring.
Those problems led to the ouster in December of Dr. Ron Anderson, the hospital's longtime CEO. He is, however, still being paid $303,000 as a part-time "senior adviser."
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The discussion in the Alternative Nationalities thread has started me wondering how different figure skating would be if certain skaters had taken up the option of representing an alternative country.
So, lets travel to a parallel universe
Imagine how different things would have been if Kwan Wing-Shan (i.e. Michelle) and Chan Wai-Kuan (i.e. Patrick) had skated for their ancestral homeland of Hong Kong rather than their countries of birth.
If Michelle Kwan had been skating for Hong Kong when she was being so successful in the late 1990s/early 2000s, would the US have had so many slots in the international Ladies competitions for so long?
Looking back at the World Championship results for the late 1990s, you have to ask: where are the other American Ladies? The answer is that although they are in the top-10, they are not troubling the medalists. It is only around the turn of the Millennium that the other American girls start to edge closer to the podium.
But, if Kwan had been competing for HK, then the US would not have been getting as many slots. Sure, Tara Lipinski winning the Worlds in 1997 would have earned an extra slot or 2, but that might just have turned out to be a temporary thing, especially with Tara retiring in 1998.
So, would the likes of Sarah Hughes and Sasha Cohen have got the chance to compete at Worlds? In my opinion, yes. But the difference is that they would probably have been fighting over a single slot for many years, rather than both getting through on the back of Kwans success.
But for the other American girls that were being sent to Worlds in that period, the chances of getting selected without Kwan would have been zilch. This in turn could have led to those with alternative options jumping ship, such as Nicole Bobek switching to the Czech Republic (via a Czech Mum), or Angela Nikodinov switching to Bulgaria (via Bulgarian parents).
Even going into the post-Kwan era, she is still having an influence on the number of slots the US has. It may be a bit round-about, but consider this:
If Kwan had been skating for Hong Kong when she was being so successful in the late 1990s/early 2000s, would figure skating have become as popular in America as it did?
Many of the promising American skaters coming through at the moment, such as Gracie Gold or Agnes Zawadzki, are of the age that they would have been introduced to figure skating when Kwan was at her peak. So, if Kwan had not been competing for America, would so many American children have been enticed to take up figure skating?
Without an all-American(!) hero like Kwan as inspiration for American children, I would expect that we would be seeing less American skaters coming through now.
Of course, there will always be some children taking up sports whether the country/person they support is being successful in that sport or not. But it is a fact of life that when a particular country is being successful at a particular sport, then more children in that country take up that sport.
Looking at it from the other angle, if Kwan had been competing for HK back then, would we now be seeing lots of skaters from Hong Kong coming through?
I suspect we would. And, the Hong Kong government would be throwing a lot of money into their Federation to try to keep HK at the forefront of figure skating after Kwans retirement. Hence, the standard of skating would be an awful lot higher than what we are currently seeing (in the real world) from HK skaters.
So, when you take everything I have discussed into consideration, it is probably not an exaggeration to say that we are still feeling the Kwan-affect.
Its the same with Patrick Chan. If he had competed for HK instead of his country of birth, it is highly unlikely that Canada would currently have 3 slots in the Mens category. They would probably only have one slot, which would have made it even more competitive to get into the team.
Over the years, Kevin Reynolds has been very inconsistent. Given that Kevin won 4 Continents this year, persevering with him seems like a good decision, as it has earned Canada an extra slot for next year. But, if Canada had only one slot, would they have persevered with Kevin until now, or given up on him years ago? I suspect the latter, but I may be wrong.
Would Rogozine have stayed with Canada, where he would have been fighting over 1 slot, or headed back to Russia, where he would be fighting over 1 of 3 slots? I suppose it all depends on how competitive the Russian team is.
If Guinea had the infrastructure and funding in place, Baldé would have undoubtedly opted to compete with them, as the place in the team would have been guaranteed. But, if not, I think he would have stuck with Canada rather than headed to Russia.
So, basically, the fight over international slots would still have been between Firus and some (or all) out of Reynolds, Rogozine and Baldé. The difference is that there would have been less slots for them to fight over.
Of course, with Patrick still competing, it is too soon to tell the long-term consequences of his success on Canadian skating.
If Chan continues to be as successful as he has been in recent years (regardless of whether or not it is due to help from the judges ), then we may develop a Chan-affect in Canada similar to the Kwan-affect we had in America.
But, good though Patrick is, I have doubts over whether he can stay at the forefront of skating for as long as Michelle did.
At the start of this season, there were many of us (myself included) that thought we were seeing the beginning of the end of Chans spell at the top. It looked like the change in coach had backfired. Luckily for Chan, he came back to form very quickly. But the controversy of the results at this years Worlds will hang over Chan for a long time to come, and I have a feeling that the burden of this weight will start him off on the slippery slope down the order.
I really fear Patrick may not be at the top of the sport for long enough to leave a long-term impression on skating in Canada. I hope I am wrong, though.
But lets not end this part of the discussion on a negative. Patrick is a great skater who has been a great ambassador for Canadian skating. Plus, on top of this, he seems like a really nice guy!
In conclusion, if Michelle had skated for Hong Kong instead of America, it is realistic to imagine that Hong Kong would have become a major force in figure skating. And, if the "Kwan-affect" had started to wane, the arrival of Patrick Chan would probably have refreshed interest.
I think the American Ladies team and the Canadian Mens team should be very grateful that Michelle and Patrick did not opt to compete for Hong Kong!!!
So, that is our first excursion into the figure-skating parallel universe. What are your thoughts on my theory?
Does anybody else want to take us on a trip to explore a different part of the parallel universe? Please feel free to do so!


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"At 4SC, our focus is on the interplay between different modifications that occur on histones," says Bernd Hentsch, Ph.D., CDO at 4SC. Recent years witnessed two major advancements relevant to histone post-translational modifications. In addition to unveiling the contribution of histone deacetylases to regulate additional key players in tumorigenesis, such as p53 and Hsp90, increasing numbers of studies unveiled the complex interplay that exists among different types of histone post-translational modifications.
"It is therefore important to examine not only direct changes, but the activity of a whole group of modulators of the histone code, and methylation will probably represent the next wave of scientific interest," says Dr. Hentsch.
Investigators at 4SC recently revealed a clinical setting where modulating histone acetylation could translate into new and much needed therapeutic applications. One of the acute challenges in oncology is the resistance to therapy that often develops, through a process that involves mutations and, therefore, is not reversible. However, approximately two years ago, an early stage during this process was described and became known as drug tolerance.
"Tolerance, in contrast to resistance, occurs by epigenetic changes, and it can be reversed when cells are treated with histone deacetylatse or histone demethylase inhibitors," explains Dr. Hentsch.
A strategy developed by 4SC scientists is to combine a histone deacetylase inhibitor with an existing therapeutic compound to which the tumor cells are sensitized or re-sensitized.
In a Phase II 4SC-sponsored Shelter clinical trial for hepatocellular carcinoma that enrolled patients after they had developed tumor resistance to sorafenib, the only first-line treatment available, clinicians co-administered the oral pan-histone deacetylase inhibitor resminostat in addition to sorafenib, and reported an overall median eight-month survival—the longest, to date, among second-line therapies for patients with comparable characteristics.
"This puts into perspective the fact that epigenetic alterations can revert drug tolerance to a drug sensitive state, where pre-existing regimens can work again," notes Dr. Hentsch.
Another epigenetic drug that scientists at 4SC are developing, 4SC-202, is currently in Phase I development. "We have shown that 4SC-202 acts on a broad number of Wnt signaling target molecules, and dysregulation in this pathway is important in a number of malignancies," says Daniel Vitt, Ph.D., CSO. Additionally, 4SC-202 inhibits protein deacetylation and arrests the cell cycle in the G2/M phase.
"Resminostat and 4SC-202 interfere with truly important oncogenic characteristics, and it is important to appreciate that even though both are inhibitors of histone deacetylases, they consist of very different chemistries and comprise individual and thus differentiating biological properties. We will, therefore, be able to position these drugs individually in different selected cancers and in different populations," notes Dr. Hentsch.
"The elegance of epigenetic measurements is that they are incredibly simple and very deployable on platforms commonly used in clinical labs and can be performed on blood specimens," says Noel Doheny, CEO at Epigenomics.
Epigenomics has two products, Epi proColon and Epi proLung, available in several European countries, though neither of which is currently available in the U.S. or Canada. Investigators at Epigenomics are in the process of conducting the required clinical trials and seeking regulatory approval in these markets.
Epi proColon, a noninvasive plasma-based test, relies on detecting septin 9 DNA hypermethylation, a sensitive marker for colorectal cancer. "For this product, the pre-market approval submission in the U.S. is in its later stages," reveals Doheny. In the U.S., Epigenomics has licensed its septin 9 methylation technology to Quest Diagnostics, ARUP Laboratories, and Companion Dx. "There are tens of thousands of assays that have already been done by these laboratories on patients in the U.S., and the utilization is very encouraging," says Doheny.
A recent study revealed that this marker shows comparative sensitivities for detecting tumors on the right and left sides of the colon, for which colonoscopy detection rates differ, particularly in the early stages. The test does not require stool samples or invasive procedures. The firm believes that the availability of this test would encourage and facilitate early detection, at a stage when tumors are easier to monitor, treat, and cure.
The second test, Epi proLung, which is based on the detection of the methylated SHOX2 gene and at this time is also marketed exclusively in Europe, addresses one of the challenging aspects of lung cancer—the indeterminate results that are often obtained for cytology specimens. In combination with cytology, the Epi proLung assay can provide an immediate answer, which is crucial during the management of this condition, given the urgency for early therapeutic intervention. Early data has shown that this method may be applied in the future to the blood-based screening of lung cancer.
"We are a virtual business and, as such, all our experimental research is outsourced to external labs," explains Anthony Brown, Ph.D., scientific director at CellCentric.
The main therapeutic area that CellCentric focuses on is cancer. Through a combination of option agreements and consultancies, the company has established contractual relationships with a discovery network comprising over 30 academic laboratories across the world working in the epigenetics field.
Through its access to unpublished and privileged research information from the participating labs, CellCentric has prioritized over 50 unexplored and underexplored epigenetic targets. It is devoting significant efforts on second-generation enzymes, including developing small molecules that target histone-modifying enzymes. "But we have targets all across the epigenetic space; it is the clinical rationale and opportunity that drives our target selection," notes Dr. Brown.
Compounds at various stages of preclinical and clinical development illustrate the promises of recent advances in epigenetics research, and reflect efforts to exploit distinct epigenetic mechanisms. These strides are catalyzing the shift toward newer generations of targets.
As many epigenetic modifications occur early during disease pathogenesis, their modulation is anticipated to provide, in addition to therapeutic compounds, predictive biomarkers and opportunities for prophylactic interventions, forecasting new perspectives for pharmacology and clinical medicine.
"While the field has been around for a while, recent years have seen a renaissance of epigenetics, partly because we realized that genetics cannot explain everything, and also thanks to the remarkable technological advances that enable us to profile and analyze epigenetic changes in a genome-wide and high-throughput setting," says Zdenko Herceg, Ph.D., group leader and head of the section of mechanisms or carcinogenesis at the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
Recent years unveiled the importance of epigenetic modifications in shaping the pathogenesis not only of cancer, but that of other diseases as well, and helped advance ideas for developing more efficient preventive and therapeutic strategies. "The main challenge is to identify the drivers of the functionally important changes and distinguish them from the nonfunctional, passenger ones," says Dr. Herceg.
The therapeutic use of epigenetic markers is an area that has witnessed increasing attention, and it is encouraged by the reversibility of epigenetic modifications and by many pieces of evidence pointing to their early occurrence during disease pathogenesis. "The technological revolution in genomics and epigenomics now allows the development of cost-effective and sensitive assays to detect and measure epigenetic markers and their changes in body fluids," explains Dr. Herceg.
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My current and FINAL Red team.
I just can't start a new one since there are no Link Cables around these days. Requiscat in Pace! :´(
(^ Okay, gotta admit it looks better in COLOR! )
Paradise never lasts...
RebirthCurrent Chapter: That Magic Mountain
Guys if you want to talk about the names move it to the character thread.
On topic:
I don't really care for baby Pokemon, yes their very cute ect...
But its simply because I make my team of just new Pokemon in each gen.
I'd love to see Pokemon based off:
Aye aye
Dumbo octopus
Vampire squid
Glaucus Atlanticus
Shoe bill
And of course the overdue platypus
He could be dual poison type due to the platypus males having a poisonous claw
But that's only males, so maybe a gender split evo?
White2 Friend code: 0519-7592-3571
X Friend code: 0216-1851-5361
My safari: FIRE, slugma,growlith,ninetales
Paradise never lasts...
RebirthCurrent Chapter: That Magic Mountain
I still find this "leak" to be highly unlikely... he refuses to even tell us who he is, then spends 16 pages telling us stuff about the games. Some things would be neat, but others, like the cards legendaries, are cheesy and ridiculous. Plus, to follow in the footsteps of previous games, there should be a third legendary, one which is in the sequel. I hope the chain isn't broken
I'm not on much anymore...
Credits to Sworn Metalhead for the awesome banner!
Credit to Ayra for the profile pic.
ASB squad- http://forums.upnetwork.net/showthre...713#post685713
MALI have claimed Kabutops, destroyer of all! Fear me or perish!
Yeah...I agree,it seems fake.I doubt Pinsir would get an evo after all this time.And the whole bonding system seems unecessary.
My friend code is 2964-9561-7279 and my name is TATI
Seems like I'm the only one to find this Bonding system something like what they would introduce. It would generally not be liked at first, since it's new and you haven't had the time to get used to it yet. Much like every new thing in Pokémon (or even in life) feels bad at first. The change always feels alien and uncomfortable at start.
Anyway, this "Bonding" goes well together with all this time-traveling, and Sylveon, and Team Gear. Many things just seem to work in the author's possible world... be it truthful or fake. Which makes me at least consider that he (or she) really knows something. Kudos to him/her if he/she just winged it all. A great, somewhat believable story, even if it turns out to be fake, IMO.
My current and FINAL Red team.
I just can't start a new one since there are no Link Cables around these days. Requiscat in Pace! :´(
(^ Okay, gotta admit it looks better in COLOR! )
Team Gear doesn't sound right. Messing up stuff in the past. Time Gears in Mystery Dungeon. GameFreak wouldn't do the same concept again.
*Insert Some Cool Image Here*
And I'd fully buy the time gear analogy since I haven't played any other Pokémon games than these main ones.
And why would they release information this early? They didn't, the anonymous guy obviously breaks his/her vow of silence in this one. :P Or, just trolls, as you say.
My current and FINAL Red team.
I just can't start a new one since there are no Link Cables around these days. Requiscat in Pace! :´(
(^ Okay, gotta admit it looks better in COLOR! )
Did I miss something speculation related, 'cause everyone's talking about Team Gear or something...
Audino could use an evolution. It's pretty... useless as it is right now.
Ghosts Rule!Spoiler:- Plans for X/Y:
My guess for Sylveon's type is: Normal.Planned end-game team:
They could actuallly be taken seriously if they didn't put a huge amount of stupid clearly fanmade/fan desired stuff in those "rumors/leaks".
There's no way in hell that stuff he said is true. Whenever Pokemon releases news, it's usually just one or a few things. They wouldn't release information on the whole entire game when it's only the end of February and the games come out in October.
i find the rumor where the guy tells the pokemon that will be revealed in the march corocoro a little more belivable than this new one although it's also probably fake.
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common in england. a burger from a stall (usually outside a pub or club), late at night, that although usually tastes quite disgusting you still eat because you are normally pissed up.
we'll meet up outside. i'm going for a rat burger.
dari rex gash Senin, 23 Juni 2008
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Any of a suite of dodgy meat products purchased from a mobile eatery (e.g. a kebab van owned by a man called Stelios) often found in car parks within close proximity to nightclubs.
I feel dead rough this morning. I think it must be that filthy ratburger I got from "Kebab Ye" on the way home from "Shades" last night.
dari Freddy Ngabwe Selasa, 03 April 2007
A dirty girl who needs to learn how to wash and is morally loose
WOW that Averil smells bad she really is a Rat Burger
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A feeling of extreme competitiveness or anger that temporarily clouds one's judgment.
When that guy cut me off, the red mist washed over and all I could think about was catching him.
Put a bunch of buddies on fast bikes and just watch the red mist rise...
Put a bunch of buddies on fast bikes and just watch the red mist rise...
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to see red mist- a condition certain people get into- usually caused by mental conditions but can be brought on by extreme stress/anger- when one is extremely angry there is stress put on facial muscles. the mark for one losing control of themselves and raging, destroying things/people in their vicinity, is when internal blood vessels in or near the eyes start leaking. the blood can sometimes spill into the inside of the eye, causing the person to see everything through a "red mist", hence the name. at this point, however, the person is so angry that they completely lose control and essentially go insane for a time. the condition naturally causes the person's eyes to turn red, which makes the experience for a bystander go from quite frightening to positively terrifying.
Chris was so enraged at the abuse of his lover that he saw red mist.
by foehammuh March 13, 2010
Military word: when a sniper shoots someone in the head.
red mist is the term for head shot.
red mist is the term for head shot.
Did you see the red mist
by gutterviller December 04, 2011
a phenomenon that occurs in the period following somebodys anger begiining to subside. A persons anger leads to a condition known as 'the blood being up'. At a later point, when the blood settles again, it descends in a fine red mist. the quantity of blood will depend on the number of people whose blood was up. this phenomenon is often confused with the aurora borealis. i.e. on a tuesday night after a championship match the previous sunday, it is most common.
jeez, whats up with Tommy Pat?
Ah, thats just the red mist. things got a bit het up between him and Mikeen Joe earlier.
Ah, thats just the red mist. things got a bit het up between him and Mikeen Joe earlier.
by Dex18 September 08, 2010
Military: What happens when you step on a landmine.
Couple a' gooks infiltrating the perimeter wire turned into red mist...
by Slag Hammer December 28, 2003
When a woman is on her period. She then queef's leaving a Mist or Splatter in the surrounding area.
"I am on period. Don't make me red mist you"
"Dude!, I made this queef last night. I got red mist all on my face."
"Dude!, I made this queef last night. I got red mist all on my face."
by Elmoxe November 23, 2011
when a woman, while on her period, queefs. This ejects a red mist, sometimes onto the face of a sexual partner.
John: How was your time with Sherry last night?
Bob: Amazing! I've never tasted such great red mist before!
Bob: Amazing! I've never tasted such great red mist before!
by Lilgav April 21, 2011


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Every Valentine's Day, instead of flowers and chocolates, Miranda Meza gave her husband, Brandon, the latest "Saw" DVD.
The movies, if you'll remember, featured doe-eyed victims navigating their way through traps that could slice them with glass, crush their limbs like a juicer or burn them alive (Spoiler alert! The traps almost always won.).
Romantic? Well, for the Mezas, yes, much more than you think. The two love their horror. Miranda was born on Oct. 21. So she loves Halloween. Brandon grew up with a father who decorated their Greeley home with the intensity of Jason slicing through promiscuous teenagers. So he loves Halloween, too. Now they're sharing their macabre interest with others at their Torture Institute haunted house. They're even shutting down their auction house through Nov. 2 to haunt their business at 316 18th St., and they're donating the proceeds to charity. So, yes, they're doing it for fun.
"Sometimes it's hard to keep a straight face," said Miranda, who lives in Brighton with Brandon. "I love to watch these people as they walk through the house."
They're offering just one of many Halloween activities going on this weekend and next in the Greeley area, and the Torture Institute isn't the only haunted house in town. It's just (probably) the newest. The Mezas practiced with a few home haunts that they opened to the public before debuting it in their auction house last year. The house doesn't cost much to run, as Brandon learned enough from his father, Jack, to build many of the props and design the rooms himself.
The story's different from last year. Last year's featured clowns who took over a hospital. This year has something to do with a car wreck, some acid and a lot of zombies. The Mezas are resourceful, with an elevator that plays the creepy tune "Tiptoe Through The Tulips," zombies that pop out of closets and barrels of "radioactive" waste pouring over the victims of the car crash. They're even using their old car for the wreck and colorful balloons that are scarier than they should be. Little ones can enjoy it, too, as there's three levels of terror, including a Code Pink that gives the tots a tour without the spooks. Code Red, however, might as well be blood red.
MorbidNights, a longtime haunted house in Greeley now in its third year at the Greeley Mall, features a detailed storyline as well. This year's "Mute Manor" is run by a doctor who got tired of his patients' screams, so he sewed their mouths shut.
"Now he's inviting guests into his house because he's lonely," said Adam Phillips, owner and founder of MorbidNights.
Well, sure. He has no one to talk to.
MorbidNights signed a long-term lease with the Greeley Mall and now has access to their large space all year. The house aims to be the scariest in northern Colorado.
Phillips, who started MorbidNights in 2006 after growing up scaring others in haunting houses until he did his own when he turned 15, relies on a half-dozen dedicated volunteers who meet year-round to conceive the story and swap ideas about the upcoming house.
Phillips also works for the National Guard as a recruiter and hopes to expand into Fort Collins or Denver next year. He will donate a quarter of the proceeds to the Red Cross for flood relief. He may also hold events for special days such as Friday the 13th.
Rather than dream up a scenario, Joe Miller, owner of Miller Farms in Platteville, turned to the even scarier recent floods for inspiration. A swamp monster will haunt his corn maze at night through Halloween. The monster, Miller said, was swept out of its habitat after the storms.
Miller's allowed to have a little fun. He had some trucks underwater. Most of his seasonal business relies on people harvesting fall crops out of his fields, but at night, the haunting begins. He has someone playing the swamp monster, and you never know, Miller said, when it may strike. Miller will donate half of his proceeds to flood victims.
"Our crops didn't suffer because of the storms," Miller said. "but we sure did. We wanted to play this up because it's not really our thing. We didn't want 1,000 high school kids out there. But it'll be fun."
Glen Fritzler's Corn Maize near LaSalle is in its 14th season, and along with the corn maze, which is haunted at night, he offers his usual buffet of attractions, including his zombie paintball shoot, new rides and a pig race. Fritzler aptly called his place a "playground" during a media tour in September.
One scary event in downtown Greeley won't be around this year. The zombie crawl was a bust for the last two years, even if similar events were huge hits in Fort Collins and Denver, mostly because Greeley's Downtown Development Authority held its zombie crawl on cold, even snowy, nights.
The DDA will host zombies, but this year they'll be on bikes. The friendly, healthier zombies can meet for the second annual "Zombie Zoom." Bike riders will meet at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Nottingham Field on the campus of the University of Northern Colorado, then pedal down 10th Avenue to Lincoln Park in downtown Greeley for free cider and hot chocolate. Bike lights are required, and helmets are encouraged: No reason to become a zombie before your time.
The DDA also will host a Trick or Treat Street for the little ones, who can dress in whatever they want, not just zombies, from 4-6 p.m. Friday. The 8th and 9th street plazas will be closed to traffic, but other businesses outside the plaza will be involved as well.
Some places, including a few churches, offer an alternative to Halloween, for those who don't necessarily want their toddler dressed up like Jason with a machete in his head. Wednesday, the day before Halloween, Victory Christian Fellowship, 6101 10th St., will offer a free carnival, with games, inflatables, free nachos and cotton candy and a goodie bag.
"The idea is to provide a safe place for kids to have fun and wear their costumes as an alternative to some of the usual scary Halloween activities," said Elizabeth Virgil, children's pastor for Victory Christian.
Tribe Sidysaan prefers to have a balance. The belly dancing tribe's sixth BellyHallow show is family-friendly. Several in the dancing tribe have little kids who come to the show. But it's also the tribe's favorite holiday, and that means it's not all cute and cuddly. That's not what Halloween is about. BellyHallow's grown from a small event in a coffee shop to being held at the large Moxi Theater in downtown Greeley with a live band.
"We all love the idea of the shifting of the seasons, and maybe the thinning of reality," said Sandy Myers, a longtime leader of the Tribe, "as well as the playful, yet scary and creepy, aspect of it."


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I am here.
At the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel and it is indeed grand. The drive was beautiful, absolutely perfect. (Especially after picking up my fabulous friend Meagan on the way.)
Could I be swayed to love the ride to Grand Rapids more than Chicago? Quite possibly. It's much closer than I thought, and lovely. And way better billboards.
I checked in and hung up my clothes, put my jammies in a drawer, jumped on my all-to-myself bed and turned on Pandora. It is very peaceful here.
In a bit I'll get dressed up and we'll be off to the International Food & Wine Festival.
(In case I forget to mention it, Experience Grand Rapids is treating me to this all-expense paid weekend. You can follow along here & here. I am so thankful for this getaway.)
I heard back at home that everyone is doing just fine. Actually having a blast... what a good day.
This morning Carter was making a peanut butter sandwich to take for sack lunch and Ivy said Carter you taking a jack junch?
It can exist... me loving and being mother and not being there every.single.moment. Well, of course it exists, but, until now I didn't find it very comfortable. I am on my way. I am almost there.


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In all, Hamilton owns more than 1,300 acres of woodlands, open fields and glens overlooking the Oriskany and Mohawk Valleys of Central New York. Included within the grounds are numerous hiking and cross-country ski trails and many unusual varieties of trees and plants. The Hamilton campus was designated as an arboretum in 2004, and the Root Glen, a gift of Mrs. Edward W. Root in 1971, is remembered by all who have strolled its shale paths.
Founded in 1969, the Afro-Latin Cultural Center provides a place of sodality for Black and Latin students. Open to and used by the entire community, the center sponsors discussions, lectures, art shows and similar educational, cultural and social events.
Originally an inn called Lee's Tavern and the home of the Root family, the Alumni Center is one of the oldest buildings on the Hill. Renovated in 1986 and 2002, it is named in honor of Molly and Joseph F. Anderson, Class of 1944, and in memory of Clancy D. Connell, Class of 1912. It houses the offices of Communications and Development.
The Athletic Center provides Hamilton with some of the finest and most modern indoor sports facilities of any small college in the nation. Components of the complex include the following: the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House, completed in 1978 and expanded in 2006 with the addition of the Little Squash Center; the Russell Sage Hockey Rink, one of the first indoor structures of its kind to be built on a college campus, renovated in 1993; the Alumni Gymnasium, dedicated in 1940 and renovated in 1978; the William M. Bristol, Jr. Swimming Pool, dedicated in 1988; and the Charlean and Wayland Blood Fitness and Dance Center, opened in 2006. For more information, see "Athletic Programs and Facilities."
The only building still extant from the Hamilton-Oneida Academy, it was constructed as a boarding house for the academy's students. In 1812 it became the home of Azel Backus, the first president of the College. Since 1958 the house has contained faculty and staff apartments and has also served as a meeting place for various campus and alumni groups. In 1984 it was renovated to include faculty dining rooms.
The Student Activities Village was constructed in 1993 and named for Walter Beinecke, Jr., former chairman of the board of trustees of Kirkland College and a life trustee of Hamilton. The bright yellow buildings link the north and south sides of the campus via Martin's Way, a red-brick path named in honor of J. Martin Carovano, Hamilton's 16th president. The village contains the Mail Center, the Howard Diner and the Fillius Events Barn, as well as lounges where students and faculty members meet informally outside of the classroom.
The gift of Henry Harper Benedict, Class of 1869 and one of the pioneers in the manufacturing and marketing of the typewriter, Benedict Hall, which was erected in 1897, houses faculty offices and classrooms.
Constructed in 1965, the William McLaren Bristol Center is named for the co-founder of Bristol-Myers Co., a member of the Class of 1882. In addition to several administrative offices, the building houses the Mauice Horowitch Career and Life Outcomes Center, meeting rooms and 12 guest rooms.
Originally built in 1812 as the student dining hall, Buttrick Hall is as old as the College itself. In 1834 it became the home of Horatio Buttrick, then superintendent of the Buildings and Grounds Department as well as registrar. Through Oren Root's marriage to a daughter of Horatio Buttrick, the building became the birthplace of Elihu Root, U.S. secretary of state and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. It has served as Hamilton's administrative headquarters since 1926.
Located on the third floor of the Bristol Center, the Maurice Horowitch Career and Life Outcomes Center comprises offices for counselors who provide assistance to students in developing their post-graduate plans.
Designed by architect Philip Hooker and completed in 1827, the Chapel is thought to be the only remaining example of an early three-story church in America. Restored in 1949 as a World War II memorial, it is the most notable landmark on the Hill and the center of the religious life of the College. It is frequently used for public lectures, concerts and assemblies. The third floor of the Chapel was renovated in 1999 and provides office and meeting space for campus chaplaincy.
Constructed in 1889 and rededicated in 1992 in honor and memory of Edgar W. Couper, Class of 1920 and former chancellor of the University of the State of New York, Couper Hall was originally the College YMCA building. It contains classrooms and offices of the Classics Department as well as the Women's Studies program.
Hamilton has two dining halls: the recently renovated Soper Commons, the gift of Alexander Soper, Class of 1867, and his brothers Arthur and James; and McEwen Dining Hall.
Formerly a private residence, the Glen House was refurbished in 2006 as headquarters for the Hamilton Outdoor Leadership Center. It contains equipment rooms for the Bike Co-op, Ski Club and Outing Club, among others, as well as student meeting and social space.
The Thomas Brown Rudd Health Center, named for the College's 13th president, was completed in 1959, and an addition was constructed in 1972. The building houses the Student Health Services and contains fully equipped examination and treatment rooms. The center also houses the College's Counseling and Psychological Services.
The former College library (1914-1972) was renovated and rededicated as Christian A. Johnson Hall in 1982. It houses the language and speech laboratory and the College's media library. It also contains classrooms and faculty offices for the Critical Languages program, East Asian Languages and Literatures, French, German and Russian Languages, Hispanic Studies and Mathematics as well as the Quantitative & Symbolic Reasoning Center.
Opened in 2014, the Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts features large classrooms and an exhibition area as well as studios and workshops for painting, printmaking, sculpture, woodworking, metals and ceramics, photography and other media. The interdisciplinary digital arts suite provides space for video artists to collaborate with musicians, dancers, actors, poets, mathematicians, scientists and others. The 175-seat Romano Theatre, with dressing rooms, a costume shop and support spaces, accommodates a range of productions, while the smaller Barrett Theatre is a laboratory space ideal for senior projects, class projects and guest artists. The center is named in honor of Kevin Kennedy '70, former chairman of the Board of Trustees, and his wife, Karen. Both are collectors of art and longtime supporters of the performing and visual arts at Hamilton.
The oldest building on campus, Kirkland Cottage was constructed in 1792 as the home of Samuel Kirkland, the founder of Hamilton College. In 1925 it was moved from the foot of College Hill to its present site and later restored. The cottage is used by the senior honorary society, Pentagon, for its meetings, and for the matriculation of the first-year class.
Having reopened in 2009 after an extensive renovation and expansion, these connected buildings house departments in the social sciences as well as the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, the Nesbitt-Johnston Writing Center and the Oral Communications Center. Originally constructed in 1968 for Kirkland College, Kirner Building is named in honor of Juvanta H. and Walter R. Kirner, and the adjacent Johnson Building is named for Virgil E. Johnson. The facility features large, flexible classrooms and common areas, and the latest technology. The building earned gold certification from LEED, the nation's preeminent program for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings.
Construction of the Daniel Burke Library was completed in 1972. Named for a member of the Class of 1893 who was for many years chairman of the board of trustees, this facility provides Hamilton with one of the finest small college libraries in the nation. The library is also home to the Multimedia Presentation Center, a state-of-the-art computer and media facility, which opened in 2002.
Located adjacent to the Beinecke Student Activities Village, The Little Pub opened in the spring of 1996. The restored horse stable/carriage barn contains a game room, bar, dance floor, fireplace room and other spaces for informal social gatherings.
Named for Robert Ward McEwen, 14th president of Hamilton College, McEwen Hall houses dining facilities, the Café Opus coffeehouse, a cinema lab, classrooms, music practice rooms and offices for faculty members.
Made possible through a gift from Elihu Root III, Class of 1936, the Observatory houses an 111/4" Maksutov telescope. Several smaller telescopes are also in use. In 1977, a building was constructed next to the observatory to provide work space for students enrolled in astronomy courses. This structure is heated by solar energy and is designed to permit experiments in this field. The observatory is off College Hill Road on Peters Lane, a quarter-mile from the campus.
Hamilton believes the opportunities for educational and personal growth are best served when all students are in residence together. Toward that end, 95 percent of our students live in the 27 residence halls on campus, and first-year students are housed in clusters in nine of those halls. As students grow and develop at the College, they have an opportunity to live more independently in small houses and apartments.
Resident advisors live in each hall, with an average ratio of one resident advisor for every 30 students. Working closely with the Office of Residential Life, resident advisors are responsible for advising students in their areas, developing educational and social programs, limit-setting and administrative responsibilities within their buildings.
The College tries to provide its students with as many different housing options as possible. For example, even though all residence halls are coeducational, some floors are single-sex while others are coed. Dunham, Kirkland and North contain rooms ranging from singles to quads, and Carnegie and South contain doubles and quads. All offer lounges, recreation areas and kitchenettes. Babbitt and Milbank residence halls comprise six-person suites with kitchens and lounges. Keehn, Major, McIntosh, Minor and Root contain singles and doubles, kitchenettes and large lounges. The Bundy residence quadrangle consists of large singles and doubles. The third floor of Major is designated as "the quiet floor," where students abide by a 24-hour-a-day quiet policy. In addition, Root, Kirkland and 100 College Hill Road are designated as "substance free" halls. All residence halls are smoke-free.
Other housing options for primarily juniors and seniors include the Griffin Road and Farmhouse apartments, Wallace Johnson House, Saunders House, Rogers Estate, Ferguson House, Carnegie, Woollcott House, Eells House, and 3994 and 4002 Campus Road.
Given in 1897 by Elihu Root, Class of 1864, in memory of his father, Oren, professor of mathematics, the building was originally the Hall of Science. It now houses classrooms and faculty offices for the departments of Comparative Literature, English and Communication.
Built in 1817 for Theodore Strong, Hamilton's first professor of mathematics, the structure has served as the home of presidents, as well as faculty members of the College. The house was extensively remodeled after being purchased by Elihu Root as a summer home in 1893, and was occupied after 1937 by his daughter, Edith Root Grant, and her husband, Ulysses S. Grant III, grandson of the president. A National Historic Landmark, it was acquired by the College in 1979 and houses offices for the registrar, dean of students and some faculty members.
Designed in 1915 by the renowned architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, the Colonial Revival building was commissioned by Elihu Root, Class of 1864, as a wedding gift for his son, Elihu Jr., Class of 1903. Beginning in the 1950s, the home was occupied by Elihu Jr.'s son Elihu III, Class of 1936, and his wife Molly Bidwell Root. In 2006, the building was dedicated as the headquarters for the Art History Department.
Built in 1928 as home to the Emerson Literary Society, the Sadove Student Center opened in 2010 after a major renovation and expansion. The building houses the Student Activities Office, the College Bookstore, meeting spaces for student organizations, the campus radio station, a cafe and informal gathering areas.
Completed in 1988, the Hans H. Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts houses the Music Department, its classrooms, studios, practice rooms and library. The center also contains the 700-seat Carol Woodhouse Wellin Performance Hall, an appropriate setting for the talents of student artists as well as internationally recognized artists in music and dance who regularly visit Hamilton.
Built in 1917, the Siuda House is home to the offices of Admission and Financial Aid. The building, which originally served as the Sigma Phi fraternity house, was rededicated in 2007 in honor of Joy and Chet '70 Siuda, a College trustee.
Renovated in 2002, the former Chi Psi fraternity house was renamed the Philip Spencer House in honor of the fraternity's founder. It now houses the Business and Human Resources offices.
The Taylor Science Center, the largest building project in the College's history, was completed in 2005 and houses offices and laboratories for Archaeology, Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences, Physics and Psychology. The complex contains a tri-climate greenhouse, auditorium, coffeehouse and more than 100 teaching and research laboratories. Students and professors are supported in their research by a 500 Mhz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer, scanning and transmission electron microscopes, and an X-ray diffractometer and fluorescence spectrometer. The chemistry supercomputer, biology laboratory for bioinformatics research, psychology statistics laboratory, general computing classroom and wireless computer connectivity provide state-of-the-art computing facilities. The Science Center's expansive atrium boasts several environmentally friendly features including a temperature control system that involves geothermal loops and displacement ventilation. In 2011, the building was dedicated in honor of Edward '46 and Virginia Taylor, who established Hamilton's largest financial aid endowment and committed funds for faculty research in the sciences and new arts facilities.
Built in 2000, the Tolles Pavilion was dedicated in 2007 in memory of Patricia and Winton '28 Tolles, a longtime dean of the College. The large multipurpose facility is equipped with satellite television, a data projector, a 16-foot screen, dressing rooms and state-of-the-art sound components. Home to student theatre performances, concerts, comedy shows and banquets, the Tolles Pavilion serves a variety of programming needs.
The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art opened in 2012 as a "teaching laboratory" featuring both an open archive that gives students and professors ready access to the College's collection and a large, flexible gallery space for rotating exhibits. The museum is named in honor of the parents of trustee Keith Wellin '50, who, along with his wife Wendy, provided funds for the College's new arts facilities.


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Oakland 1946!In 1946, there were six general strikes in the United States; since then, there have been none. The Oakland Work Holiday of 1946, as it was called, was an act of solidarity with striking retail clerks at Kahn's and Hastings department stores that rapidly evolved into a remarkable experience of community activism for its more than 100,000 participants. Throughout Oakland, neighbors and strangers refused to show up at their workplaces. Instead, they talked and marched, shared free food, danced in the streets, and came together as working people to demand respect during a crucial moment in U.S. history. The physical site that served as focal point for the work holiday was Latham Square, which stills exists today at the intersection of Broadway and Telegraph in downtown Oakland. Now, nothing much ever happens there – the square is neither thoroughfare nor park, just a triangular piece of sidewalk with a large funny and disused fountain at its peak. Though it's hard to picture today, at one point the large department stores Kahn's and Hastings bordered each side of the square. And from December 2nd through 5th, 1946, the streets around Latham Square were packed with thousands of people protesting for improved working conditions in the East Bay.
On December 5th and December 7th, 2008, a group of local artists, writers, and activists performed a theatrical reenactment of the Oakland General Strike in Latham Square. Oakland 1946! included more than a dozen performers inviting the audience to witness and participate in a performative memorial of this remarkable part of Oakland's past. Worker representatives from ongoing Oakland labor struggles were also present to share their stories with the community and help create a connection between past and present labor issues in Oakland. With 200 spectators present for the Friday evening reenactment and 100 participating in the Sunday matinee, Oakland 1946! began as a street theater play and turned in a rally, with spectators joining in the fun and listening to local workers tell their stories through bullhorns.
Created through a collaborative process by a loose-knit group of writers, activists, actors, historians, Oakland 1946! was created to honor the history of the original Oakland strikers. Those of us who instigated the project hoped that the interactive nature of the performance and the inclusion of present-day issues in the narrative of the play would help take history out of the books and "into the streets," thereby encouraging conversation and action in the community. We wanted people not just to know about this interesting thing that happened a long time ago in this rather mundane traffic intersection, but we also hoped that by experiencing a hint of what it might be like to participate in such an event, spectators would be actively helping us challenge the concept of history as being made up of still, objective facts.
During the performance, the audience was asked to participate in "reenacting" the original event, giving them a personal and action-based investment in and experience of the narrative. An ensemble of volunteers and audience members helped play strikers, and were given picket signs and assisted in participating in activities that occurred during the original strike, such as picketing, dancing, and community outreach. Taking a cue from direct action protests, during the performance the core group of actors serve as "affinity group leaders," with the worker characters leading a small group of audience members in a reenactment of a picket line, the "big boss" character leading a group of "scabs" and strikebreakers in the dramatic conflict, and the trolley driver character leading the "everyday citizens" who joined in the action.
In our research, some important questions remained unanswered. We think it is critical to vocalize these questions, as dynamics of power, race, and gender continue to be a part of the labor movement today.
• How did racism in the East Bay and in the labor movement contribute to the fact that despite the existence of thriving Chinese and African American communities at the time, most of the people in the photos and records of the general strike are white?
• What gender dynamics were at play as the union leaders, who were all men, ended the general strike without a contract for the mainly women retail workers?
• It is important to note that the trolley drivers, who played such an integral role in sparking the general strike, also actively fought against the efforts by African Americans to desegregate their workplace. The first African American trolley driver to be hired in the Key System in the East Bay was in 1951, despite desegregation campains since the 1930's.
In addition, through the experience of creating and performing this show, we (and hopefully the audience) grappled with challenging questions about the very nature of place, history, and social movements:
• How is history created or passed on? Why do some stories last and some fade from collective memory?
• Whose history is told? And by whom, how, and where?
• How does the public perception of a physical place change when the history of that structure/site is revealed?
• How do creative arts express historical and current social movement demands and goals?
• How can creative arts best do work about social movements that is actually able to actively be a part of those same social movements?
These are big questions. We don't claim to answer them, only to be capable of continuing to ask them and look for ways to express our answers. We hope that you, too, will ask them of yourself and your work and your city. Oakland. Think about your city. The next time you walk through a nondescript intersection, ask yourself, "What happened here? Does it matter to me?"
Then tell everyone.
—Manjula Martin and The Oakland 46ers
The original performance blog can be found here.
A local interview discussing process and performance at Artopic.org can be found here.
Aid & Abet (local blog) review can be found here.
TextOakland 1946! Final Script by Manjula Martin
Oakland 1946! Program by Manjula Martin
Oakland 1946! Final Budget by Manjula Martin
Oakland 1946! Press Release by Manjula Martin


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HARPERS FERRY - The National Park Service estimates the whitetail deer population in Harpers Ferry lies between 80 to 260 per square mile.
"Residents were reporting seeing 40 deer at one time," said Laura Clark, master naturalist of the Potomac Valley Chapter.
Clark's research examined the existing conditions of the deer population, and took surveys of residents and the numbers of deer they were seeing. Due to the movement around the town's boundaries and seasonal behavior of the animals, no exact population count was established.
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A deer peers into a camera in Harpers Ferry.
"I also documented our surrounding forested areas to determine what our forest areas look like from the deer, and they are in terrible shape. There's no new tree growth," Clark said.
She also found that 30 percent of the Harpers Ferry deer population had contracted Lyme disease, which is closely associated with deer ticks.
Clark said the whitetail deer population numbers are out of balance for two reasons - there is a large and adequate food supply for the deer, and there are no natural predators in Harpers Ferry.
"In the 1970s you rarely saw deer, and in the '80s and '90s, and by 2012, we saw this huge rebound in the population," Clark said. "Our existing hunting community can't keep up."
Last August, the town of Harpers Ferry, both residents and council members, decided to implement a controlled urban hunt program. Local law enforcement, the Department of Natural Resources and the park service worked together to ensure success of the program.
Between September and December, nine hunters harvested 28 does within the boundaries of Harpers Ferry, excluding the park service land, Clark said.
"We had very qualified and capable individuals, I can't say enough to their skill level and willingness to adhere to our requirements," Joe Anderson, mayor of Harpers Ferry said, adding that Harpers Ferry took the West Virginia State law requirements for a controlled hunt program and added additional requirements to that program.
The Harpers Ferry chief of police was assigned to handle the oversight of the proper function of the program and hunters, who were allowed to conduct an archery hunt from designated treestands only.
"People in the community were routinely seeing herds of deer regularly around town, and deer grazing close by. There was a lot of damage in terms of shrubs eaten too," Anderson said.
Clark said the outcome of the program was considered a success by the town, the DNR and the park service, and the venison was locally processed and given to residents in need.
This year, Clark said she plans to continue to work closely with the park service, which will conduct another camera survey to determine the changes in the deer population during the year. The DNR will help determine the town's hunt needs for next hunting season.
"We will continue to watch over the deer and look at the population. Everybody wants deer in the community, just not so many," Clark said.
- Staff writer Michelle Horst can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 138, or email@example.com.


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After loosing the cracker game Bobby ate the soggy cracker.
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National Signing Day 2011 is off and running and we'll be here all day to bring you all the latest news, signings and reactions as we count down to the end of the 2011 college football recruiting season.
The day has already kicked off with a few major signings as well as the announcement that Jadeveon Clowney, the nation's top overall recruit, will wait until February 14 to make his college decision.
But with so many uncommitted prospects and wavering commitments, the absence of a Clowney announcement shouldn't put a damper on the nonstop action.
Look out for the recruiting landscape to experience some major shifts in the next 12 hours and some serious shuffling at the top of the recruiting rankings.
Who will have the top class this year? Where will the top recruits sign? What shockers and surprises are we bound to hear before this day is done?
You've got questions, we've got answers.
Be sure to check out where all the top 100 recruits are headed.


text: Both the president and Paul Ryan have said that they want to make huge cuts to Medicare as if that act alone would get this country back on its feet. Ryan wants to hurt senior citizens to accomplish this. There is an easy solution to getting this country out of the red zone and still maintain the status quo for seniors: Get out of Afghanistan.


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Chris Gray - A super small file server
- Posted: Jul 29, 2004 at 10:58AM
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The reference board is from a company called ICOP, the board is known as the eBOX II - check out the Channel9 link
here for more information and contact details at ICOP.
- Mike
chrisgray wrote:hehe - yeah I hear ya on the discovery thing -- problem is that we are using the server on our domain where there are like a zillion of people so it was driving me nuts. at home I do exactally what you suggested
A company in th UK called DSL does a CE kit which features the EPOXII as shown in the video. Which comes complete with CE etc...
They called me today and it cost's £435+VAT Approx. (sorry, I wrote down the price in work and er...left it there).
I'll post any more info about this on my blog (www.kryptos.co.uk/blog) if you are intrested.
Hey, it would be nice if we could add images here...or did I miss something?
What are the registry settings, I can't read the entry as I can't see the entire string...
For details on the complete CE.NET Development System, please visit http://www.dsl-ltd.co.uk/products/cenetdev.htm.
We are the UK distributor for ICOP and would be pleased to answer any questions you may have. Please e-mail your questions to us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Hi guys,
Has anybody tried accessing a remote media file shared by a WinCE file server from a WinCE client?
I have 2 CEPCs setup with Windows CE 5.0, BSP: CEPC x86.
I have a media file (chicken.wmv) located in a WinCE server
Media Player pops up the error message:
Cannot open '\\fileserver\media\chicken.wmv'. (0x8007000e)
Here are some scenarios that work fine:
- WinXP client accesses remote media file (chicken.wmv).
- WinCE client accesses remote documents like Word or PDF files.
- WinCE client plays the media file (chicken.wmv) stored in local
directory (\temp).
- WinCE client accesses the remote media file via HTTP
The error only happens when I access a media file in a remote
WinCE file server directory from WinCE client.
I am aware that Media Player uses DirectShow.
Could this be a DirectShow issue when it tries to render a remote
source file?
Has anyone found a solution or a workaround to this issue?
i tried this on WinCE6 ARM emulator.....it worked cool except that DiscoverApp didnt discover my device though i am able to see the device in Vista>Networks
was not in mood to probe into the application as that was not my interest
Never been able to map the network dirve though the CE remote management works good. Keeps asking for password for couple of times and ending as "The parameter is incorrect"
Debug log reads,
HTTPD: request to access script source fails,HSE_URL_FLAGS_SCRIPT_SOURCE for this vroot
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Penn State had a couple of big home games this season to use as a showcase for football recruits.
None of them, though, might mean as much as today and Saturday will to the Nittany Lions.
More than a dozen recruits are scheduled to take official visits to Penn State this weekend. Ten of those are high school seniors that already have announced plans to sign with the Nittany Lions.
"I'm excited," said Adam Breneman, the blue-chip tight end recruit from Cedar Cliff who made an early verbal pledge to the Lions and has remained committed. "It'll be good to hang with all the guys, all the commits. And there'll be a few uncommitted guys up there, some guys that I know pretty well, but we're going to spend a bit more time with those guys.
"Hopefully we'll gain a few more commitments from the weekend."
Quarterback Christian Hackenberg and U.S. Army All-Americans Brendon Mahon and Garrett Sickels will be among those joining Breneman. In fact, the only members of the Lions' current 13 verbal commitments in this class who won't be there are Maryland running back Richie Anderson, Alabama defensive tackle Parker Cothren and Florida defensive back Neiko Robinson.
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Penn State recruit Adam Breneman recently completed a speaking tour to raise awareness about ALS, of which he had a friend afflicted.
His efforts have helped raise more than $100,000 toward the study and treatment of what is most commonly known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease."
Anyone interested in finding out more or making a donation can go to www.catch-the-cure.com.
Robinson was supposed to come up this weekend, but he'll be playing in the state championship instead. Cothren and Anderson already made official visits to Penn State.
Along with the committed contingent will be at least four players still looking for a college destination: former Lion commit Zayd Issah, the linebacker from Central Dauphin, Alabama linebacker Jonathan Walton, Virginia receiver DaeSean Hamilton and Georgia cornerback Deondre Singleton.
"They're all legitimate targets, guys that can come in and fill out the class. There are some pretty talented players there," said Sean Fitz of Lions247.com. "It's going to be a big weekend thanks to all the committed guys coming up, but, if you want to see results, that's where you look, at the uncommitted guys."
Issah actually had committed to Penn State in the middle of the year but called it off after the NCAA announced its scholarship reduction and bowl ban. When the defending Pennsylvania Class AAAA co-player of the year got an offer from childhood favorite Oregon, most wrote off Penn State's chances.
However, in the last couple of months, the Lions seem to have re-emerged as a serious player to land Issah. Fitz thinks the distance to Oregon, although that's where Issah was born, is an advantage for Penn State. Breneman, who has known Issah for a while, is optimistic, too.
"I feel really good about Zayd coming back on board. I think he knows Penn State is where he is meant to be," Breneman said. "I hope he commits really soon."
Hamilton (6-foot, 182 pounds) has about a dozen scholarship offers, including Virginia, Virginia Tech, Michigan State and Miami. Penn State is the biggest offer for Walton (6-1, 227), while Air Force and Marshall are the top colleges pursuing Singleton (6-0, 175).
The visitors will go through a number of meetings with coaches and current players along with getting a chance to see what life is like on campus. The biggest thing, though, might just be getting around potential future teammates and seeing how they bond.
"I think it'll be good for those guys to be around our class and see how cool the guys in our class are and how close we are," Breneman said.
It also will be a big weekend for the Lions in terms of a visit taking place half a country away in Manhattan, Kan. That's where highly touted junior college quarterback Jake Waters is taking his official visit this weekend.
The Wildcats are Penn State's stiffest competition when it comes to Waters, who is from Iowa. Bill O'Brien has shown an interest in bringing in a JUCO quarterback with only true freshman Steven Bench on the current roster at that position. Waters is one of the best and just took his team to a national championship.
"I like where Penn State stands right now with Jake Waters. Bill O'Brien will be out there on the 10th to check in with him and do an in-home visit. But he had a very good visit when he was in for the Indiana game," Fitz said. "He's a good system quarterback. I think he's a guy who can make some throws and make some plays with his legs. He's a smart kid. That's just what the offense would need. And I saw he just got bumped up to a four-star [rating] on 247Sports.com and is one of the top two or three quarterbacks, junior college-wise."
If Waters picks Kansas State, the Lions already have made arrangements for California junior college signal-caller Tyler Ferguson to take an official visit next weekend, Fitz has reported. Waters, who broke Cam Newton's junior college record for completion percentage, also heard from Alabama this week, but the Tide had not offered a scholarship as of Thursday morning.
Even with the sanctions, Penn State has at least five more scholarships available for this recruiting class because Breneman, Anderson and D.C. defensive back Jordan Smith all will be enrolling in January and will count as 2012 players. Waters also would be an early enrollee.
Although Robinson picked Penn State sight unseen, Fitz isn't concerned that he'll decommit on the Lions.
"He wanted to visit for the Ohio State game, but the coaches would rather have him spend a little more time since he hasn't been to Penn State yet," Fitz said. "He likely be coming in in January. I wouldn't panic. The competition right now is Minnesota. I like where Penn State is."
Fitz thinks linebacker and the secondary are the two positions where Penn State would most like to add recruits in the next couple of months. They've also been involved with several running backs, including Philadelphia's David Williams, Clairton receiver Tyler Boyd and defensive tackles like Alabama's Rod Crayton.
"It they can end with a bang, that's really a credit to them, because this is a staff that has not only had to work hard to get players in but to keep players here. I think they've done a heck of a job at that," Fitz said.