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Obstructed sleep apnea in children occurs when your child experiences brief pauses in their breathing pattern that last from a few seconds to minutes, resulting in your child feeling tired and sleepy the next day.
There are several types of apnea in children:
- Obstructive sleep apnea: This is the most common type of apnea and is usually caused by a blockage of the airway due to enlarged tonsils and adenoidal tissue near the nasal passages.
- Central sleep apnea: This happens when the part of the brain that controls breathing doesn't start or maintain the breathing process properly. Common in very premature infants.
- Mixed sleep apnea: A combination of central and obstructive apnea, mixed apnea is usually a sign of an immature breathing pattern and may occur when a child is awake or asleep.
A sleep medicine expert can help get to the bottom of your child's sleep issues with an overnight sleep test called polysomnography, which will measure your child's quality, quantity and breathing patterns during sleep.
Depending on the results from your child's sleep study, treatments for apnea may include:
- medications: to relieve nasal congestion and allergies
- increased activity and better nutrition: recommended for overweight children
- continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP): a nasal and/or mouth mask that forces air to send oxygenated air into the air passages and lungs
- surgery: to remove large tonsils and adenoids that make it difficult to breath
From Nemours' KidsHealth
- Enlarged Adenoids
- Apnea of Prematurity
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea
- What Causes Night Terrors?
- Should I Be Worried About My Child's Nightmares?
- Naps
- Sleep and Your 1- to 2-Year-Old
- Sleep and Your Preschooler
- Sleep and Newborns
- Sleep and Your 1- to 3-Month-Old
- Sleep and Your 4- to 7-Month-Old
- Sleep and Your 8- to 12-Month-Old
- Bruxism (Teeth Grinding or Clenching)
- Nightmares
- Night Terrors
- All About Sleep
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Storm delivers sloppy mix of snow, ice and rainBy MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 26. 2012 11:17PM
Storm at a glanceSnow totals: 10 to 14 inches for most of New Hampshire. Higher accumulations possible in mountains, with less snow expected in southern New Hampshire and Connecticut River Valley.
Storm warning: In effect through 4 a.m. Friday. Heaviest snow 3 a.m. to 3 p.m. today.
Temperatures: In the 20s, higher at the coast.
Winds: 15 to 25 mph; gusts up to 40 mph. Visibility a half-mile or less.
High tide: Splash-over and beach erosion expected with high tide at mid-morning.
Mixed: Changeover to mixed precipitation, then rain today in southern New Hampshire and Seacoast.
Source: National Weather Service.
A storm bearing down on New Hampshire today could bring as much as 18 inches of powder to some areas of northern New Hampshire, or as little as three inches of slush to southern New Hampshire cities and the Seacoast.
The biggest urban areas of the state - Manchester and Nashua - could see snow convert to mixed precipitation at the end of today's morning commute. Manchester expects four to eight inches of snow before the changeover, said Manchester Public Works Director Kevin Sheppard, citing the city's weather service provider, HomeTown Forecast Service.
Sleet, freezing rain, rain and freezing drizzle are all possible during the day, Sheppard said. Then tonight, the precipitation could change back to snow and add an inch or two.
"(Thursday) will not be a fun day. This is one of those storms where we will have to prepare for the worst," he said.
Snow is expected to be heavy for most of the state, with somewhat smaller accumulations in Coos County, said Weather Service meteorologist Andy Pohl.
The heaviest snowfalls will be between 3 a.m. and 3 p.m. today.
Accuweather.com predicts three to six inches in Manchester and Portsmouth, with northern communities such as Conway and Berlin getting six to 10 inches. But the National Weather Service said Manchester could receive six to 10 inches, and some areas of northern Carroll County could pile up more than 18 inches of fluffy snow.
"Some models pull in warmer air and have a changeover to rain," said National Weather Service meteorologist Chris Kimble. "But Laconia, Conway, we're not even considering a changeover. There's a chance in Concord, but we're not thinking there will be."
The cities of Manchester and Concord issued a parking ban on city streets. The Manchester ban went into effect at 10 p.m. Wednesday; violators will have to pay $110 to retrieve their car from the impound lot next to Derryfield Park.
Power companies put crews on standby and said they had arranged for help from third parties if necessary. The Seacoast could face the worst in power disruptions. Winds are expected to be strongest there, with gusts up to 40 mph, and the snow is expected to be wetter.
"Wetter, stickier snow can have a greater impact on the system compared to the drier, fluffier stuff," Unitil Media Relations Manager Alec O'Meara said. His company, which counts 45,000 customers in the Seacoast region, said Wednesday it had secured agreements with third-party crews to help restore power.
The National Weather Service said its winter storm warning started at 10 p.m. Wednesday and will extend to 4 a.m. Friday.
At Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, many flights from the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic were delayed and canceled as of Wednesday night.
U.S. Airways announced Tuesday that it was waiving its $150 ticket change fee Wednesday and today for travelers flying into or out of many airports, including Manchester and Portland.
Manchester's Sheppard said every snowplow route involves both main arteries and side streets. The arteries are a priority, but drivers are told to keep all streets passable.
"We will keep the streets open as much as possible," Sheppard said.
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Music grad wins international competition
Above, ECU music graduate Mary-Jean O'Doherty competes to win an international voice competition in Paris.
ECU associate professor of voice John Kramar in the School of Music reported that 2005 graduate Mary-Jean O'Doherty (bachelor of music in voice and flute performance major) won first prize in the Paris Opera Awards Competition, an international voice competition.
She performed arias from Delibes' Lakmé and Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos.
O'Doherty has recently sung the title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in Prague, and participated in Opera Theatre of Saint Louis' Young Artist Program. She is now understudying the title role in Berg's Lulu for the Welsh National Opera.
Read more about O'Doherty and see more video at http://www.paris-opera-awards.fr/parisoperraawards-9480.html.


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Jeffrey Wright's first long-term TV stint -- playing underworld figure Dr. Valentin Narcisse on "Boardwalk Empire" -- went well enough that the celebrated actor will be returning to the show for its fifth season, though we'll be finding his character in a much different place than when we first met him.
Wright will be joining The Envelope for a live Web chat on Tuesday at 10 a.m. PDT, and we'll be talking about Narcisse suffering what the actor calls a "real spiritual assassination" in the finale of this past season, being forced to become an informant for J. Edgar Hoover.
We'll also probably mix in a "Hunger Games" question or two, as Wright will be returning for the two-part "Mockingjay" conclusion to the mammoth series. Wright's character, electronics expert Beetee Latier, survived the 75th Hunger Games -- barely. Before accepting the part, Wright -- who had appeared in the James Bond movies "Casino Royale" and "Quantum of Solace" -- had to be convinced by his agent that the "Hunger Games" was actually bigger than Bond. We're guessing he just might have a fuller idea of the series' scope now.
And we're happy to pass along your questions too. Just tweet them to #asklatimes. See you Tuesday.


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12.11.13Evonik Industries is significantly expanding its global isophorone (IP) and isophorone diamine (IPD) capacities by funding an investment of more than €100 million in Shanghai, China. The new production plants will be completed in the first quarter of 2014 and will increase the total capacities of IP and IPD significantly. "We're investing in China, because we are committed to the growth region Asia. As a world leader in isophorone-based products, we will continue to further consolidate and expand our position in this chemistry," said Ulrich Küsthardt, president of Evonik's Coating and Additives Business Unit. With the Group's expansion strategy it aims to support the growth ambitions of key customers in Asia and around the world. Proximity to consumers in this growing market will translate into improved local service, shorter lead times, and faster responses to changes in demand. "Our aim in building the plants in Shanghai- at the company's existing multi-user site-is to supply our Asian customers with the same high-quality products they are used to from our plants in Europe and the USA, now from a plant in the region," said Gerd Brand, senior vice president and head of Crosslinkers Business Line.
Evonik is a global leader in isophorone chemistry with production facilities in Herne, Marl (Germany), Mobile, Alabama (U.S.) and Antwerp (Belgium). Its products are marketed under the brand names of Vestamin, Vestanat, Vestagon and Vestasol.


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Do Allergic Reactions Depend on the Allergen?
I am curious as to why my body reacts differently to allergies. For example, sometimes my eyes are itchy or I have nasal symptoms and other times my asthma acts up. Does it depend on the allergen?
It can depend on the allergen, the exposure route and duration of exposure. All allergens can cause upper or lower respiratory symptoms in sensitized individuals. You should see an allergist/immunologist for further evaluation and treatment.
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DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 6 June 2011 —The Library of the University of Alicante, in Spain, has selected WorldCat Local as its new discovery service. The library's administration plans to deliver the enhanced discovery experience with its extensive range of available content from more than 800 million electronic, digital and physical items to its users, through the WorldCat Local central index later this year.
The library was interested in achieving higher usage of its many electronic resources. "We have a large investment in our electronic collection," said José Maria García Avilés, associate director of the library. "These electronic resources can be used more if we make them easier to find and easier to use. This is why we needed an advanced discovery tool."
For the Alicante University Library, OCLC quality and reliability were important factors in choosing WorldCat Local. "For us it is essential to work with a party we know and trust. With OCLC and the local support we receive from their Spanish distributor doc6, we have that guarantee. In addition, we found the combination of the discovery service with integrated link resolution and a knowledge base, and when you look at the pricing, it is an extremely attractive proposition," says Mr García Avilés.
The library has about 500,000 records in its catalogue. They will be loaded into WorldCat as part of the implementation of WorldCat Local. About 35,000 staff and students at the University of Alicante will then be able to access many different types of materials (including digital objects, electronic materials, databases, journals, music, video, audio, e-books, theses and print) via one unified search field in one single search result. From there, the electronic articles and open-access content will be available by simply clicking through from that list, right up to the full text ('View now').
"In our special collections we have radio recordings from the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime. That's a good example of files that will be easily accessible in this way," explains Mr. García Avilés.
Another highlight of WorldCat Local available to the Alicante University Library is the easy branding of the interface. The university's students and researchers can benefit from social media features, the evaluative content and the mobile interface for smartphones on various platforms.
About the University of Alicante
The University of Alicante was established in 1979 in Spain, but its roots date back to 1545 when the University of Orihuela started, the first university in Alicante. The library serves about 31,000 students and 2,400 research staff with its 150 library employees. The university has eight locations, seven of which include a library branch..
About OCLC
Founded in 1967, OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing library costs. More than 72,000 libraries in 170 countries have used OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, preserve and manage library materials. Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they need it. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the world's largest online database for discovery of library resources. Search WorldCat on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org.
OCLC, WorldCat and WorldCat.org are trademarks/service marks of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Third-party product, service and business names are trademarks/service marks of their respective owners.
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The Seminary does not prescribe a specific pre-theological course. It is expected that previous education and experience have prepared the applicant in oral and written communication skills, to think clearly, to enter into his or her spiritual and cultural heritage, and to understand the world in which he or she lives. The Seminary concurs with the judgment of the Association of Theological Schools that a normal pattern of pre-seminary education will include most of the following subjects:
- English language and literature
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Birthday presents are a fun way to show the people in your life that you love them. Whether they are turning five or fifty, we have a selection of personalized birthday gifts that will make them glow just like the candles on their cake.
For one of the youngest members of your family and friend group, think soft, smooth, and sweet. Encourage their sense of play with a superhero romper? Saving the world doesn't have an age limit, after all! A girl's first birthday present should be as lovable as she is, so give her a personalized stuffed animal or personalized Stuffie that's perfect for hugging and tea parties. For a boy's birthday gift, give him a plush sport ball to get him ready for the field or court?but only when he's old enough!
Looking for 21st birthday ideas? Surprise them with the perfect birthday present for their dorm: a beer pong set! For the birthday present for the classy 20something, consider giving her a set of rocking cocktail glasses. However, Birthday present ideas for this birthday don't have to be alcohol-centered. Remind them of simpler times. Cookies and other treats also make good birthday gifts for young adults.
We also have many birthday gifts ideas for your friend or family member turning 50. Photo collages or memory books can remind them of their adventures throughout the years. A cocktail hour package to ring in the new decade in style or an assortment of truffles to remind them of how sweet the years have been will be great 50th birthday gifts for women. As for some 50th birthday gift ideas for men, consider getting him a wooden catchall for all of his important belongings or some treats!
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By Tori Jones, Courtesy of The Talon
Oklahoma Christian University's ethics team took fifth place out of 32 teams from across the nation in the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Competition Feb. 27 in Jacksonville, Fla.
The ethics team debated on topics such as in-vitro fertilization, outsourcing surrogate mothers, the morality of FBI involvement in potential cases of terrorist coercion, and the use of off-label prescriptions with anti-psychotic drugs.
The top eight teams from the round-robin matches advanced to the quarterfinals, where it is win or go home.
The Eagles, who defeated the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University on their way to winning the state championship in October, squared off against the University of Montana in their quarterfinal match. Montana, the eventual national champions, won by a two-point margin.
Sophomore Gabriel Gasiorowski is a first-time ethics team member. He said, going into the competition, the team put in the hours poring over cases.
"We discuss questions based off a series of cases that we receive before the case," Gasiorowski said. "We don't know the questions or which case until we get to each match, and so we must be well prepared for the dimensions of each case."
According to Jeff Simmons, an associate professor of business and the team's faculty sponsor, the team practiced every Tuesday and Thursday for about two hours.
"Unfortunately, the only time we could find to meet on Thursday was at 6:00 a.m.," Simmons said. "At first, we discuss the moral issues involved with each case and the possible viewpoints one could take towards the ethical dilemma presented in the case. In subsequent meetings, we practice by actually presenting and debating our arguments amongst ourselves."
Additionally, the team works on other debate skills – such as being able to present your argument in one minute, 30-second and 10-second intervals.
Personal bias made going on the offensive challenging, according to junior Jasper Bawcom.
"One of the things the judges look at in the competition is your ability to poke holes in the other team's arguments, and this was sometimes difficult to do – especially in situations where you agreed with the other team," Bawcom said.
Gasiorowski admitted that the biases made even establishing the team's position on a case more of a process.
"We must be cohesive as a team of three people all with different ideas," Gasiorowski said. "There is a lot of real debate and discussion on these cases in each of our practices when we are searching for our team's position."
Simmons said that the team had some tough competitors, including the University of Montana, the University of Nebraska and the University of Oklahoma.
"We are developing quite the rivalry with OU," Simmons said. "In the past two years, we have beat their team four times and lost three."
The most challenging opponents, in Gasiorowski's opinion, were St. Petersburg College and the University of Nebraska.
"Both matches were extremely close point-wise," Gasiorowski said. "While we won against St. Petersburg and unfortunately lost against Nebraska, both were very well fought on both sides."
According to Simmons, there are usually 15 cases that a team has to prepare for the national championship. Most other teams have five members that assign and divide the cases amongst the team members so that they have case experts.
"Instead, I have every member involved in every case by making each one responsible for addressing the dilemma through the perspective of a specific moral philosophy, such as deontology, utilitarianism or Aristotelian ethics," Simmons said. "This way we are assured of not having some of our stronger presenters idle during the match simply because their case wasn't discussed."
Bawcom didn't know what to expect going into the competition, but he is content with the squad's performance.
"I think we did well, especially considering that it was the first time on the team for each of us," Bawcom said. "Hopefully next year we can do even better."
According to Simmons, the next step for the ethics team is getting some much-needed rest. After that, he is pushing to add some strong new members who have an interest in moral philosophy and/or debate.
"I already have a few students on the radar but am always willing to consider more," Simmons said. "We'll take the summer off but hit the road running next fall, holding tryouts at the start of the semester."


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SOURCE: Equity News Circuit
November 29, 2012 08:15 ET
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NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Nov 29, 2012) - The Bedford Report has released new equity reports today. As a leading provider of free in depth reports and timely market updates, Bedford is an essential resource for hundreds of thousands of investors across the country.
AVG Technologies NV (NYSE: AVG) provides internet and mobile security to approximately 143 million active users. Shares of the company spiked Wednesday after reporting it has signed internet search and advertising services agreement with Google.
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (May 7, 2010) - Unable to maintain the record-setting pace it set in the first round, the ETSU women's golf team dropped from a tie for sixth to 12th on the team leaderboard Friday during second round play in the NCAA East Regional hosted by East Carolina at the Ironwood Country Club.
While the 48th-ranked Buccaneers got off to a slow start, the team rallied on the back nine to keep alive their hopes for a berth in the NCAA Championships later this month. The Bucs, who still finished ahead of teams such as No. 9 Wake Forest, are just eight strokes out of eighth place, which is critical because the top eight teams advance to the championships.
"We had a rough start today," said ETSU head coach Stefanie Shelton. "But the girls battled back with even par on the back nine. I'm proud of their fight, and we are ready for the chance to compete tomorrow. We have one day left and one more chance to play great and advance."
While No. 3 Duke leads at 8-under 568 as a team, the Bucs are in 12th at 13-over 589 and eight strokes back of eighth-place Florida. Individually, ETSU sophomore Nina Muehl (Vienna, Austria) held the first round lead after her record round of 8-under 64 on Thursday, but followed that effort with a 4-over 76 on Friday. Muehl is still currently tied for fifth and just one stroke back of a quartet of players who are tied for the lead.
Muehl was not the only ETSU player to post a 76, as seniors Laura Jansone (Jurmala, Latvia) and Sinead O'Sullivan (Galway, Ireland), and sophomore Mayte Vizcarrondo (Cadiz, Spain) also carded the same 4-over-par score.
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hey I tried to edit a post in the guy that suicided thread and it just keeps asking me for my log in then when i log in it says Post edited
i try to edit again and same thing happens.
yeh i've found the same thing for a few days now
I've got a guess as to what it might be, it'll probably get fixed monday
that only happens if you're using qgl. if you're on the ausgamers site, it edits fine.
yer, qgl is borken.
ive sent several outraged emails to krudd.
why doesn't Qgl forum work as it should?
I don't understand...
Only broken s*** I've had is my avatar and they acknowledge it but can't do anything to fix, I ditched QGL ages ago and just use Ausgamers now.
I just started watching Ancient ALiens for the first time on History channel and that guy is awesome.
is that the one where they found oldass rocks that can only be cut by diamond tipped blades, perfectly cut and square?
yep, c***'s f***ed
yeah i have been having the same issue. when i try to edit a post i get asked to login then redirected back to the page.
it's a plot to make everyone move to ausgamers
edit: testing editing from somewhere other than ausgamers. will it work?
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i cant post in qgl at all. you used to be cool.
guys, if you keep critising ausgamers you will get this thread locked and yourself (supposedly) banned to think about the "needlessly offensive comment(s)" that you are posting.
yeh man you tell em greazy
ausgamers forum is ok with the "qgl theme". Recently though that damn post "feature" has returned, where posts don't show up right away :(
i dont like all the different sections on ausgamers.
i prefer one nice easy to read forum, like qgl.
it is cool to pop over to ausgamers though and ninja edit, or just even normal edit if you miss your 10 minute window on the qgls.
i dont like all the different sections on ausgamers.
you can go into the general section and it lists all the threads like on qgl.
i dont like all the different sections on ausgamers.Yeh, General Chat is identical to the QGL one.
If you're having this problem try logging out of AF AND AG, log into AG, then log into AF.
i dont like all the different sections on ausgamers.
I made the switch a while ago also.
Wasnt really that much of a struggle.
I can't post at all from home, and that's where I'm at my best, so you guys are missing out.
I'm not seeing any post from you trog, are you sure you posted?
edit: have you guys having problems tried logging out and logging back in as I suggested above?
I think we just got the QGL equivalent of...:
PS: If this works, then yes, I've tried turning it off and on again. Err. I mean logging out and logging back in.
People having problems editing, before posting to say you're having problems please confirm you've done the following:
1) logged out of AusForums
2) logged out of AusGamers (if you're logged in there as well)
3) logged back in
yer, after i did my 5 days of bandom (for no real reason) i was poasting on the qgls, and my posts would go through, post limiter was activated, but nothing would appear.
so logged out of qgl and logged back in and my posts did appear.
i just added it to the list of things im outraged about and moved on.
just use ausgamers "general chats" forums already you Luddites.
Aye, the quicker everyone moves over to ausgamers forums, the quicker the qgl interface can be mothballed.
Having two front end UIs likely means double the work involved in exposing any new features so it's more likely that new stuff goes into the too hard basket.
theres an ausgamers interface?
can you just fix the HTTPS auto link which has been broken everywhere since forever?
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"Arrested Development" costume designer Katie Sparks, whose efforts on the first two seasons of the Fox sitcom earned her a 2006 nomination from the Costume Designers Guild of America, was tapped by series creator Mitchell Hurwitz to work on the new streaming-to-Netflix season that will be released May 26. She recently spoke about her work on the original series and the challenges posed by revisiting — and re-dressing — the quirky Bluth family after a seven-year hiatus. And, for the first time, she explained how she found a perfect pair of denim cutoffs for the "never nude" Tobias Fünke.
How did you approach dressing the "Arrested Development" cast at the outset?
Mitch gave me pretty free range to explore things, which was really great. For the pilot, I remember him talking to me about the characters — which I like because my [costume] design is very character-driven. I like to ask: What kind of car would they drive? Where in L.A. would they live? What kind of people do they hang out with?
Were there any specific costume design requests?
When Mitch was talking about Michael Cera [who plays George Michael Bluth] for the pilot, he said, "I want him to wear Reyn Spooner shirts, the ones from the '70s" ... I did some research and ended up buying a ton of them from a vintage store. Mitch used to wear them when he was in high school, so there are parts of him in [each of] these characters.
Tell me about family matriarch Lucille Bluth. Is her look inspired by a real person?
I have a mother-in-law who is a real doll. She's a Southern belle who lives on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. And when she comes to California, the thing she hates the most is that kids don't dress properly. First thing in the morning she's got her lipstick on, her jewelry — everything.
So it's a little bit her but more exaggerated and self-involved. I saw Lucille [played by Jessica Walter] as the kind of woman who is always pulled together and doesn't even think about it — one of those women who lunch, golf and raise the kids.
What was the biggest challenge in revisiting these characters and their wardrobes after so long?
Basically we had nothing. And since there are flashbacks to things like the final scene [of the final episode] on the boat, we had to duplicate some very specific pieces. Portia de Rossi's dress in that scene, for example, was this pretty royal blue dress with these little bugle beads that I'd bought at Barneys or some place. We had to remake that. And Alia Shawkat's dress in the same scene.
Were there any other specific pieces that had to be duplicated?
In the first couple of seasons, Gob Bluth [played by Will Arnett] wears this vintage black satin robe from the '50s that I'd found at a thrift store or a flea market. … We looked at some costume houses and couldn't find it, so we put the scene up on the screen, looked at the fabric, made a pattern and had a duplicate robe made.
Where did you shop — for both the original run and for the new episodes — to dress the dysfunctional family from Orange County?
Well, the stores have all changed. Nordstrom was always the go-to conservative store. Now they're trying to be hip so now you go to Brooks Bros. for that. I went to all the different malls in Long Beach and Costa Mesa. I also went to Barneys and Saks and Neiman. I would also go to thrift stores and flea markets looking for unusual things.
What other changes have you noticed?
After I finished working on the second season ... I didn't set foot on another set until coming back to the same show seven years later. When I came back, everybody had their nose buried in an iPhone. It was like a time warp because I hadn't seen the progression. The technology has made my job easier — if I send someone out shopping, they can send me back photos of different options — but it's also made it trickier because everybody expects things faster.
The biggest difference for me is that it's easier now to get multiples of things. Before, I might have been able to get two shirts at Barneys and they could call a store in New York and maybe have one sent overnight, but now I can just order six at a time and they'll be here the next day. It's like Christmas! That was an amazing change.
The most iconic piece of apparel in the original series run has to be Tobias' "never nude" denim cutoffs. Where did you find those?
Mitch said, "Let's do some cutoffs for Tobias" [played by David Cross] and — I've never told anyone this — I was in Neiman Marcus and saw these cutoffs in the women's section. They were just low enough to cover everything, but they were short-short and had a little fringe. I thought: 'Oh, my God — these are hysterical!' They were $150, and I felt like an idiot for buying them ... I wish I could remember the exact brand, but they were definitely designer — Givenchy or something. But they were so perfect because they were cut for women and came so high up they looked like underwear.
So that's how he ended up wearing women's cutoff jeans from Neiman Marcus.


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Hey everyone! I have commented to Crunchyroll forum posts before but I don't think I have ever started a thread here! So. here goes!
I wanted to address something that have been wondering about for a while. How many older anime fans are there on this site? Whenever I look at the posts in the forums, I see a lot of younger people. It's nice to know that anime is becoming popular among the younger demographics. I have been an anime fan since adolescence. I grew up watching Sailor Moon, DBZ, Gundam Wing, etc. Sometimes I feel like of out of place commenting in the forums because of my age. Yes, I'm 29 years old and by mst people's standards I am too old to be watching anime. Anime is a passion of mine and I don't forsee myself giving it up in the near future.
I love this site and the people on it seem like really cool people. I just don't want to feel so lame when I post on the forums. I don't want people thinking "wow, she shouldn't even be on this site. She's ancient." I know it's an exaggeration but I do feel out of place here at times.
Any older anime fans want to chime in? Do you feel like "the old one out" at times?
They show anime in nursing homes? Well that's interesting
jk btw
I'm twisted... doorknob.
I don't post all that much (in my opinion), but I've never thus far gotten any sort of reaction to indicate "you're too old to be here," or anything like that. Indeed, who's even to say one is somehow too old to be here or watching anime? On what grounds can one base such a statement?
While the CR population definitely skews young, I've seen some 40-somethings, 50-somethings, and assuming people aren't all just lying about their age, even a few 60-somethings and older. Myself, I've only been interested in anime for a few years (3 or so?). A lot of the posts don't interest me, and/or are so far removed from my personal or recent experience (e.g. stuff about highschool travails and anxieties) that I feel I've nothing of value to contribute to those topics, and so I don't. When I do post, I'll just post my sincere thoughts, and not worry so much about being considered lame. To much of the CR crowd, I really am just plain old, O-L-D, old. No way to hide it. No reason to hide it. However, I'd like to think my age has given me some measure of wisdom, experience, and perspective, and so I try to share that when I can, if I think I can be of help to anyone. Anyone reading can take it or leave it, as they wish.
Maybe I do feel like "the old one out" at times... I'm only 21. I think I could still watch Japanese Cartoons, anime, till whatever age. It's changing for me quite a bit. It may be an age thing. I'm getting more picky with content. I think the older I get the more complex the plot has to be or at certain age of audience appropriate for me to continue watching anime.
I don't think anyone is too old to watch animations. Still surprises me that someone of your age could still be watching anime.
You are definitely not too old for anime or commenting on this forum.
I know when I'm your age I will still be watching anime for sure, and I think most of the younger crowd here feel the same way.
You rang?
I belong to a little posse of old farts on here, too.
Overseas until the end of August.
Sometimes I feel like the "old one out" when it comes to a lot of the topics here on Crunchryoll, but most of the time I just post in topics that are about specific anime or manga rather than the million "what would you do if your bf/gf asked you to have sex?" topics.
It's nice to find people my own age that like anime though, or at least those who have been into it for awhile, we tend to have watched the same things when we started off. First two anime I ever saw were Tenchi Muyo and Gundam Wing, both on cartoon network lol. I really enjoy anime and doesn't see myself stopping anytime soon really... been watching for 12 or so years I think, why stop now?
So far behind on anime... need to catch up
I'am suddenly feeling not 18 anymore... but not yet ready for a walking stick
Searching a demoness from hell or goddess from heaven...
I have found that their are quite a few "older" people on CR in fact I find that the majority of premium members are part of the older generation its just that that select group isn't exactly active on the forms unfortunately. On the forms you see a lot of children but when CR use to do that insta chat when you watched a show, none of them where under 18 or 19 the average was 21-30 years of age (ruffly). you just don't see them because their not as active on the forms but their here
If you are 29 you are certainly not ancient on this site. I tend to hang out in the Forum Games section since I have more opportunity to be silly or whimsical. I used to be serious a few years ago but as the brain cells regress and go rigid into epic fail mode I tend to specialize on single-tasking (tagging forum posts with rim-shot humor) instead on multi-tasking on the Extended Discussion section (oh, dig out the dictionary, philosophy manuals, history handed down from the ancients written in blood as telepathed via interplanentary dieties, etc., etc.). Intellectually disingenuous....a little, but it's more fun.
Welcome aboard! You should still possess that sense of immortality under-30 somethings have. Enjoy that. Those days for you are numbered. LOL.
And yes, my age posted is my real age, not pretend.
MYTH: the universal language. Always question AUTHORITY.
49 y.o. personal injury attorney, las vegas, nv.
I turned 50 this year.
I started watching anime when I was still in elementary school, when all that you could find was stuff like Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion and Princess Knight. Later on it was Captain Harlock. I didn't know that it was anime at that time -- I thought it was "French animation" because most of these shows were on the CBC French channel. I couldn't understand the language and I got my sister to give me the gist of it most of the time, but it didn't stop me from watching it. As I got older, I got out of it (only kids watched cartoons) and then got back into it when my daughter started watching anime on TV. At that point I said to heck with it because I loved the genre and life is too short to be in denial.
I have anime posters in my cube at work, I watch a lot of anime and read a lot of manga (time permitting), I go to conventions and I cosplay (age appropriate - no high school students or magical girls). I also post on the forums if I see a post that interests me and I feel that I can make a positive contribution by posting.
I'm extremely thankful when I come across older anime fans because sometimes feel like I'm the only one out there. All in all, enjoy your hobby and don't feel ashamed about being an older anime fan. Remember that in 10 - 15 years from now those youngsters will be in our shoes.
29 too old for anime? You've got to be kidding me! Listen up, kiddies. I'm waaay older than 29, and have been watching anime since before the bulk of you were born. I saw Akira in the theater and witnessed the discovery of "japanimation" here in the US. Same goes for Ghost in the Shell and all that followed. I had a friend bring me manga back from Japan in the early 80's. I even collected chogokin back in the day (if you don't know what that is, Google it). Granted, I'm an artist by trade (graphic designer and illustrator), so I've always had an interest in all things animation and comics (yes, I still read comics).
I've never posted to forums on this site because, yes, it's mostly young people. But as far as being a fan and watcher of anime - absolutely!
Yes, alot of anime itself seems to be geared towards a younger audience, but the artistry (and alot of the artists, frankly) is very highly developed and mature. In fact, I would say that animation and comic artists only get really good when they have significant experience. This is the same for comic artists here in the States. The really great artists are always significantly older than the bulk of their audience. I've never met an artist who considered himself too old to create comics or animation, so how could anyone possibly be too old to enjoy them. In fact, I would say that myself and my fellow older otaku are the ones that have a true understanding of the artistic subtleties going on in anime and manga.
So, kids, use your appreciation of anime as a gateway to a larger understanding of art and world culture. By being drawn to anime, you have shown an affinity towards things artistic.Run with it.
One word, NO! I like anime so I don't care what anyone thinks about it
my first anime way Ronnin Warrior's at age 12 I think and at age 17 I was buying
dragon ball Z VHS tapes...it was $15.95 every two episodes, but I bought every single one. Pretty expensive for a 17 year old working at blockbuster's.
good bye
43 myself Robotech was the first anime style show I watched. I don't find any ageism here on crunchy, but I dont talk anime with my friends they dont really get it.


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"This do in remembrance of me." 1 Corinthians 11:24
Suggested Further Reading: Luke 22:14-20
Our Saviour was wiser than all our teachers, and his remembrancers are true and real aids to memory. His love tokens have an unmistakable language, and they sweetly win our attention. Behold the whole mystery of the Lord's table. It is bread and wine which are lively emblems of the body and blood of Jesus. The power to excite remembrance consists in the appeal thus made to the senses. Here the eye, the hand, the mouth find joyful work. The bread is tasted, and entering within, works upon the sense of taste, which is one of the most powerful. The wine is sipped—the act is palpable; we know that we are drinking, and thus the senses, which are usually clogs to the soul, become wings to lift the mind in contemplation. Again, much of the influence of this ordinance is found in its simplicity. How beautifully simple the ceremony is—bread broken and wine poured out. There is no calling that thing a chalice, that thing a paten, and that a host. Here is nothing to burden the memory—here is the simple bread and wine. He must have no memory at all who cannot remember that he has eaten bread, and that he has been drinking wine. Note again, the deep relevance of these signs—how full they are of meaning. Bread broken—so was your Saviour broken. Bread to be eaten—so his flesh is meat indeed. Wine poured out, the pressed juice of the grape—so was your Saviour crushed under the foot of divine justice: his blood is your sweetest wine. Wine to cheer your heart—so does the blood of Jesus. Wine to strengthen and invigorate you—so does the blood of the mighty sacrifice.
For meditation: We forget him when we absent ourselves from his table without good cause; we forget him when we attend the Communion Service as an optional add-on. "Remember Jesus Christ" (2 Timothy 2:8).
Sermon no. 2
1 October (Preached 7 January 1855)


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Bulldogs Host Lyndon At 7 p.m.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Even though the Bulldogs didn't have to travel far for their first two games, it will be nice to be back in the friendly confines of the John J. Lee Amphitheater. Yale plays its home opener on Thursday against Lyndon. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m.
The Bulldogs are coming off a hard fought 68-62 loss at Quinnipiac on Tuesday night. Reggie Willhite paced Yale with 18 points despite being limited to 23 minutes because of foul trouble. Willhite's presence, though, may have been missed more on the defensive end where he is firmly established as the team's stopper. His offensive output in the first two games has been one of the pleasant surprises so far. Against Central Connecticut in the opener, he matched his career high with 21 points. In the two games, he is averaging 19.5 points and shooting 57.1 percent from the field. Greg Mangano, who led the Ivy League in rebounding last year, has picked up where he left off. He has reached double figures in both of the first two games and is averaging 11.5 rebounds. Mangano, who was named the Ivy League Player of the Week on Monday, scored 23 points in the win over Central Connecticut but was held to five against Quinnipiac. Austin Morgan (10.0 ppg.) also is averaging double figures in scoring.
The Hornets (0-1) dropped their season-opener in heartbreaking fashion. Ryan Mickiewicz's three-point buzzer-beater provided the margin of victory as Western New England slipped by Lyndon 68-67 on Tuesday night. Lyndon finished with a 12-15 overall record last year and reached the championship game of the North Atlantic Conference Tournament. Jason Gray is the Hornets' leading returning scorer. He averaged 10.2 points and 6.1 rebounds last year. Joe Krupinski is in his fourth season as head coach of the Hornets.
Yale and Lyndon are playing for the first time.
Greg Mangano was a part of the 12-player roster that represented the United States in the 2011 World University Games in August in Shenzhen, China. In six games during the tournament, Mangano averaged 3.2 points and 3.2 rebounds. His five blocks were second on the team, and he also contributed four steals. His top performance came against Mexico when he scored eight points and grabbed eight rebounds. He added seven points, three rebounds and two blocks in the win over Finland. The team was coached by Purdue's Matt Painter. Joining Mangano on the Team USA roster were: Tim Abromaitis (Notre Dame); Marcus Denmon (Missouri); Ashton Gibbs (Pittsburgh); Draymond Green (Michigan State); JaMychal Green (Alabama); Scoop Jardine (Syracuse); John Jenkins (Vanderbilt); Orlando Johnson (UC Santa Barbara); Trevor Mbakwe (Minnesota); Ray McCallum (Detroit Mercy); and Darius Miller (Kentucky).
Jeremiah Kreisberg played for Israel at the Under-20 European Championships in July in in Sarajevo, Bosnia. He appeared in six games (he missed the last two games with a minor injury) and averaged 12.3 points and 5.7 rebounds, while averaging nearly 30 minutes per game. He led the team in rebounding and was second in scoring. Kreisberg headed to Tel-Aviv in June, spent three weeks training with the Israel team and took part in the team's preparation tour through Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.
Yale got a bit of a head start on the 2011-12 season. The Bulldogs spent 10 days in China last May and played four games, winning three, including a victory over a Chinese professional team. The trip allowed the Bulldogs to bond as a team and work on some things for the upcoming season.
Mangano and Kreisberg weren't the only players to have interesting off seasons. Austin Morgan spent two months in Mauritius, an island nation off southeast coast of Africa, as an Eli-Africa fellow. He helped run an after school program for local children, teaching a class on health and fitness. Sam Martin was in Washington, D.C., interning for Senator Jack Reed of his home state of Rhode Island. Freshman Armani Cotton founded DOSA (Division One Student Athlete) Basketball Clinic. After gaining approval from the NCAA and the Ivy League, Cotton ran two week-long clinics in New York City and three in Lake Naomi, Pa. Cotton created the program in an attempt to deflate the idea that being valedictorian and a star athlete are mutually exclusive. DOSA focuses on the values of hard work and discipline as well as basketball IQ and Division I skills in order to challenge campers intellectually and physically.
Reggie Willhite trained with former Duke stars Christian Laettner and Grant Hill earlier this fall. Willhite's father heard an interview with Laettner on the radio. Laettner mentioned he was looking for some Division I players on the East Coast to train. Willhite's father reached out to Laettner, who agreed to train Willhite. Reggie spent two weekends working out with Laettner and Hill. Hill's father is legendary Yale football player Calvin Hill.
Yale was picked second, along with Princeton, by the select panel of 17 Ivy media representatives who voted in the official Ivy League preseason media poll. The Bulldogs received one first-place vote and 103 points. Harvard is the league favorite with 16 first-place votes and 135 points. Princeton also had 103 points followed by Penn (90), Brown (62), Cornell (52), Columbia (50) and Dartmouth (17).
Lindy's selected Greg Mangano as its preseason Ivy League Player of the Year. The publication also named Mangano the league's Best Rebounder, Best Defender and Best NBA Prospect. Mangano also was named preseason All-Ivy by Athlon Sports, Rivals.com and Rush The Court.
The John J. Lee Amphitheater, the home of Yale Basketball, was featured in ESPN The Magazine's College Basketball preview issue. The title of the feature is Grand Stands, the game marches on, but a dwindling number of college basketball cathedrals can still take us back to when it all began.
The Palestra in Philadelphia, Butler's Hinkle Fieldhouse and Fordham's Rose Hill Gymnasium were the only other venues selected.
"To walk through these gates and settle into these seats is to remember the game's roots," wrote LaRue Cook. "Because sometimes sports aren't about results – they're about beauty and style and being connected to something bigger than the game."
Lee Amphitheater sits inside historic Payne Whitney Gym, which was constructed in 1931 under the direction of John Russell Pope. Yale's first basketball game was played there on Dec. 18, 1932, and it has been the home of the Bulldogs ever since.
James Jones, now in his 13th season, is the dean of Ivy League coaches. His 158 overall wins are the 11th most in Ivy history and his 91 Ivy wins are the sixth most. Jones has guided Yale to success not seen in New Haven in 40 years. In 2001-02, Jones led the Bulldogs to their first Ivy League title since 1962-63 and the first postseason tournament victory in the 107-year history of Yale basketball. Five assistant coaches who worked under Jones have gone on to become head coaches - Isaiah Cavaco (Oberlin), Mark Sembrowich (Academy of Arts University), Mark Gilbride (Clarkson), Ted Hotaling (New Haven) and Rob Senderoff (Kent State).Jones served as an assistant coach to Villanova's Jay Wright for the 2007 USA Basketball Men's Pan American Games Team.
Joe Vancisin, Yale's all-time winningest men's basketball coach, will be inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on Nov. 20. Vancisin guided the Bulldogs for 19 seasons and won three Ivy League titles.
Vancisin, who will enter as a contributor, joins players Ralph Sampson, James Worthy, Cazzie Russell and Chris Mullin, coaches Bob Knight and Eddie Sutton and fellow contributor Eddie Einhorn in the induction class of 2011.
Vancisin took over at Yale in 1956-57 and promptly led the Bulldogs to the first official Ivy League title. Yale then lost to North Carolina 90-74 in the NCAA Tournament at Madison Square Garden. The Bulldogs returned to the NCAA Tournament in 1961-62, dropping a heartbreaking 92-82 decision to a Wake Forest team that went on to advance to the Final Four. Yale shared the Ivy title in 1962-63 but fell to Princeton in a playoff game.
Vancisin, who had a 206-242 record as the Bulldogs' head coach, left Yale in 1975 to become the NABC's executive director for 17 years before his retirement in 1992.
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Our wilderness is under an unprecedented attack from Trump and anti-conservationists in Congress. Help us fight back.
Credit: Jim Rose. View of Cedar Roughs Wilderness from across nearby Pope Canyon.
This week, Yahoo! named five of our American treasures on a "Nation's Worst National Parks" list ...
For decades, the Forest Service has disregarded its legal responsibility to manage snowmobiles sustainably. In 2013, a federal court ruled that the Forest Service was violating an executive order on off-road vehicle management and ordered the agency to fix this violation.
Three new measures (S. Amendment 132, S.228, and H.R.330) could gut the Antiquities Act, which has been used on a bipartisan basis by presidents to protect natural and historic landmarks for over a century.
The measure failed to reach the 60-vote threshold required for inclusion thanks to a bipartisan effort, as both Republican and Democratic senators opposed it.
By Abbey Dufoe
The first three years of my life were spent in a hiking carrier.
Oxford University Press (OUP) has recently come under fire for omissions from their Junior Dictionary aimed at seven-year-olds.
There is a certain richness found southern Nevada's Mojave Desert; a flavor that draws you deeper into the awe-inspiring salt flats, meandering canyons and expansive valleys that define the region.
The Gloria Barron Wilderness Society Scholarship was founded by Tom Barron in honor of his mother, a conservationist and teacher, with the goal of encouraging visionary American conservationists at a crucial point
Show the Trump administration Americans don't support plans to destroy this epic wildland.


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FARMINGTON — The Farmington 500 Boys & Girls Sports Hall of Fame will induct its sixth class on Saturday in the Burtman-Rondeau Auditorium at Henry Wilson Memorial School.
Five contributors and four athletes will be honored, and the Thayer family will receive the Dr. William H. Ellison Award.
Saturday's dinner is sold out. The ceremony starts at 6 p.m.
The honored contributors are Dave Vachon, Cheryl Peabody, Jim Black, Dave Hagar and Reggie Charette. The athletes are Marshall Gibbs, Casey Howard, Tim Mucher and Steve Mosher.
Vachon has volunteered for many years in Farmington with the 500 and the Farmington High School Boosters Club. He started girls youth softball in town in the early 1970s. He will join his wife, Gloria, who was inducted in 2002.
Peabody was a successful high school girls basketball and volleyball coach, who led the resurgence of the girls hoop program in the late 1980s. During one stretch in the late '80s, the Tigers went 52-2 during the regular season. Under Peabody, Farmington advanced to the 1989 Class M championship game, losing to Mascoma in overtime. She also coached volleyball, starting a tradition that has now swelled to 26 consecutive tournament appearances.
Black, a Farmington native, was involved with the 500 Club for 20 years, serving as president for much of that time. During his tenure, the 500 fixed existing ball field fences, built the current clubhouse on Summer Street and went on to host numerous youth baseball and adult softball tournaments.
Hagar was a baseball man and spent nearly 20 years coaching that sport at every level from youth up to high school. He was an invaluable assistant coach fro the 1991 Farmington High team, which won the school's first Class M title that year. He also served as the 500's vice president for 10 years and at the end of his run was a field maintenance expert.
Charette, a 1982 Farmington High grad, quietly served as a youth boys basketball coach for the 500 for 27 winters — always with the red team. He served as the program's director during his last six years.
Gibbs was a outstanding two-sport athlete at Farmington High, from where he graduate in 1951. An exceptional baseball and basketball player, Gibbs averaged 15 point per game during his senior hoop season. In 1950 for the baseball team, he won five games as a pitcher, allowing two earned runs in 32.1 innings with 35 strikeouts.
The last three athletes to be inducted — Howard, Mucher and Mosher — were all teammates on Farmington's 1984 undefeated Class M state championship boys basketball team, one of two state championship teams coached by Hall of Famer Mike Lee.
Howard, a 1984 grad, was a two-time team MVP and Class M first-team all-state pick. He averaged 17.7 points a game as a senior with an average of 11.2 rebounds per game. He ended his career with 1,138 career points and 799 career rebounds.
Mucher, a 1985 grad, was a two time Class M all-state pick, who later starred for three seasons on the Plymouth State men's basketball team where he scored 1,058 career points in three seasons. The Panthers went 20-7 in his final year (1988-89), the school's first 20-win season,
Mosher graduated in 1986 and was a four-time Class M all-state pick (twice named to the first team). He scored 1,385 career points, second all-time at Farmington, and later played baseball and basketball at Becker Junior College. He served as a captain for both sports as a senior.
The Thayer family has generously supported Farmington sports and the 500 Club for decades. Dating back to when Jim and Beulah Thayer owned Farmington National Bank, the duo sponsored everything from youth sports to local tournaments to sports banquets.
The 500 HOF will also pay tribute to the youth baseball teams from the club's inaugural year of 1952.
Farmington HOF to induct nine
FARMINGTON — The Farmington 500 Boys & Girls Sports Hall of Fame will induct its sixth class on Saturday in the Burtman-Rondeau Auditorium at Henry Wilson Memorial School.


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Why Madison Presidential Listening Tour: Graduate School
President's Journal —
Graduate School, Nov. 13, 2012
Graduate programs are among our best-kept secrets
As part of the "Why Madison?" Presidential Listening Tour, I met today with the administrators and staff of our Graduate School. Clearly, one of our best-kept secrets at JMU is our small but top-quality collection of graduate and doctoral programs. Eleven of our graduate programs are listed among the best in the nation. Many of them have grown out of the signature strengths of our undergraduate program. These top-notch programs show JMU's philosophy and commitment to quality: We are not adding programs just for the sake of growing, but we are selective and responsive to the needs of the marketplace. The importance of our graduate programs will increase in the future, as it is estimated that 2.5 million jobs will require a graduate degree. In the new knowledge economy, as Dean Linn put it, the graduate degree is becoming the new bachelor's degree.
Support from admissions to commencement
At JMU, the Graduate School centralizes the administrative and support functions for the academic programs, serving as the front door to programs that are dispersed throughout the colleges. These folks support students and programs and coordinate processes from admissions to commencement. The quality of support this very lean unit provides is laudatory. Among the functions are coordinating the budget, the graduate admissions process, recruiting and marketing, student support, graduate assistantships, supporting format compliance for theses and dissertations, commencement and all-around cheerleading for students, faculty and programs.
Human touch exemplifies JMU's welcoming community
It is clear that this unit does all it can to help students and faculty, squeaking support out of its budget for faculty and graduate students to travel and present at research conferences, right down to putting notations on registrar records in real time so students can land jobs earlier. This exemplifies JMU's hallmark human touch that results in students' leaving JMU with a good feeling.
Our leanness is double-edged—a strength and a liability
One of the challenges we must face is that the Graduate School has such a very lean staff to accomplish all of these functions. I heard that if someone is out—for an illness, for instance—something vital is in danger of being left undone. This group is talking about how in the near-term to implement cross-training, further increasing its near-military efficiency use of resources and all-hands-on-deck cohesion. As champions for the coordinators of the graduate programs in the colleges, the Graduate School administrators have raised another important point: Many of our graduate program directors are coordinating and also teaching four courses, a full workload. JMU on the whole is lean, and this is another example.
Talking about the role of graduate and doctoral programs in the life of JMU
Our graduate and doctoral programs have been quietly growing in quantity and stature, and I agree the time is upon us to explore the presence and role of these programs in the life of JMU. Issues like these are ones that I had hoped would emerge from the "Why Madison?" Listening Tour. These programs certainly are deserving of more recognition, and these conversations will help us determine how best to tell the whole Madison story. The tour was designed for us to explore as a community where we have been as an institution and to identify the strengths we want to preserve and build upon as we chart our future through the work of the Madison Future Commission.
Determining how we best describe Madison
One of the struggles I have been having is determining how best to talk about James Madison University. We have many qualities of a small liberal arts college and many opportunities associated with a research-intensive university. Technically, we are a comprehensive university. Yet outside of higher education, no one knows what that means. When we look at our peers in our classification, many look nothing like us. So where does our future lie? I don't want us to struggle to become another U.Va. or a Virginia Tech, or even to emulate a Swarthmore, the small liberal arts institution where I went to college. I want us to recognize and follow our natural trajectory and become the best James Madison University that we can be.
Establishing JMU as the national model of the Engaged University
It will be important to find a way to talk about ourselves meaningfully and intentionally. Even with our recent growth, we are still a place where close faculty-student interaction, teaching and community service, for instance, play a critical role in our educational culture. As we consider whether to add new graduate programs, how does that affect our conversation? This issue is part of the central "Why Madison?" question we are asking: Who are we and how do we become the best JMU we can be? In terms of enrollment, we are a predominantly undergraduate university. And yet we have graduate and doctoral programs that are among the tops in the country. How do we communicate that totality in a way that is clear and inspiring? I have begun talking about James Madison University in new terms: We have the opportunity to establish JMU as the national model of the Engaged University. I believe it has the potential to describe all of our signature strengths, leave room for a bright and inspiring future and include the entire Madison Experience—from our outreach to young children, through our undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs to lifelong learning.
Engaging with ideas and with the world
I thought it was so interesting that these Graduate School administrators and staff members described what they do as preparing students to make a difference. It's clear that we are preparing our graduate and doctoral students, as we are our undergraduates, to go out and work in the community and to be involved practitioners. They create knowledge that makes a practical difference in people's lives. We don't prepare them to "play with test tubes," as I heard it described, but to work with people—to be engaged and productive. That fits in perfectly with the notion of the Engaged University. It is the opposite of the isolated ivory tower. Our university engages with ideas and with the world. Our Ph.D.s will engage and make a difference in people's lives.
Talking meaningfully about the entire Madison Experience
I was pleased to hear that in January the Graduate School will be making a presentation about JMU's graduate and doctoral programs to the Board of Visitors. Giving the board a deeper understanding of these programs will be quite helpful to all of us in the university community as we talk about the entire Madison Experience. The notion of a JMU research center is beginning to blossom, and it is emanating from several different colleges and programs, including the Graduate School. Yet another example of JMU's signature collaborational approach, this kind of endeavor might prove to be a vehicle that allows us to integrate and then talk about the entire Madison Experience. I look forward to hearing more about this idea.
Bringing more visibility to our graduate and doctoral programs
Part of the challenge of bringing more visibility to the programs of the Graduate School is in ramping up our communications. It would be nice to have a Viewbook for the Graduate School. I would like to see an annual report that we can use in many venues. Overall, I have noticed that JMU has a small amount of printed publications and digital communications compared to other universities. Perhaps that is part of being so lean and efficient. And yet, we are losing out if we don't talk about ourselves and toot our own horn, both internally and externally. We should be sharing news of research awards, for instance. There is so much involvement of our faculty and graduate and undergraduate students in the local community who are providing the kind of services that society needs. On the graduate level that means audiology services for an aging society who will benefit; public administration students who are partnering with local agencies; and an assessment program that shows a sometimes skeptical public how organizations can prove they are doing what they say they are doing. As Dean Linn put it, JMU is producing the people who have the skills to accomplish the kinds of efforts society is saying it wants. These are great things.
Preparing for a shift from master's-level to doctoral-level
One of the concerns we will be talking about is the effect of future growth of our doctoral programs. For some time we have been rocketing along at the top of our category as a master's-level university. As the number of doctoral degrees that we confer increases, we will begin to be compared to other doctoral-level universities, and that group of universities is quite different. We must be prepared for how we will be regarded among that cohort. We will need to lay the groundwork in communications so that our alumni and donors are ready and so that our prospective students understand the special strengths that we have to offer. We will want to define ourselves and lead the way. Again, that is why we are having these "Why Madison?" conversations. These are the kinds of issues that I want to make sure the Madison Future Commission is discussing. I appreciate the thoughtfulness and perspective of the Graduate School administrators and staff.
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Queen of 3rd Place
Anyone have definite plans? So far I'm booked for:
Phoenix RNR - Jan 17 (fun run)
LA - March 21 (goal race)
Kona - June 27 (hope to survive the heat and humidity/excuse to go to Hawaii).
Looking for something in the fall, was considering Marine Corps - thought is was in October for some reason.
Ex runner
Prince of Fatness
Wineglass caught my eye, well actually just the name.
I fly.
Bring it on.
Marathon Maniac #991 Half Fanatic #58 Double Agent #22 It's a perfect day and I feel great!
Registered for first marathon (OMG!) - May 1, 2010 - Illinois Marathon in Campaign IL.
Did the half last year and loved it! Course is fast and flat - perfect for a marathon newbie like me.
Hawt and sexy
I'm touching your pants.
this VTU thing
I feel strongly that this could be your year.
Speed my steps along your path, according to your will.
I feel strongly that this could be your year.
Yeah - 'mona - your log is just WOW - you're a machine!!
Adding Las Vegas RNR in December, that makes four this year - more than enough...
"If you have the fire, run..." -John Climacus
So far I just have the pig in May... but I'll probably run Vermont and maybe Ocean Drive... all in the spring. As for the fall, I'm not sure yet.
I'm running the Flying Pig for the first time this year! Have you ran this race before?
Yeah - 'mona - your log is just WOW - you're a machine!!
Adding Las Vegas RNR in December, that makes four this year - more than enough...
Ran RNR LV last December....get ready for a good time!!
I ran a Fat Ass 50k at the end of January.
Right now I'm considering running the new Exeter Marathon the weekend of Boston since I'll already be most of hte way there anyway. I'm also considering running the Pineland Farms 50k again, although I might opt for the barefoot 5k and 25k races instead.
I'd like to run a fast marathon this Autumn, but I've no plans at this point since I'm not sure what my situation will be in terms of free time/finances/etc.
Run to Win25 Marathons, 17 Ultras, 16 States (Full List)


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Pseudopod 338: Beware The Jabberwock, My Son
by Dixon Chance
"Beware The Jabberwock, My Son" was first published *way back* in 1991 in a tiny little photocopied horror zine out of Seattle called FEAR BOOK. The print run was 150. It was the author's first attempt at trying to write horror for a living, and the results paid so little ($15) that he stayed away from genre fiction for the next twenty years. But now we have podcasts and the world looks much brighter! If anyone remembers actually reading this story in print from back then, the author would like you to contact him. This is what Facebook is for.
Dixon Chance is the pen name of David Ellis Dickerson, a humorist and regular contributor to This American Life, who also hosts the webseries "Greeting Card Emergency" on YouTube. He currently lives in Tucson, but is technically a vagabond.
Your reader this week – Kevin Hayes – has a demo reel you can view at his website (linked under his name), including the short "South of the City", is directly involved with the Confluence conventions (see here and here for important news about Confluence 2014) and, while you're at it, check out Raw Dog Screaming Press as well.
"Richard stayed frozen. This is nonsense, he thought. Am I afraid of a funny noise? Of nonsense? He formed a determined smile and decided to recite Humpty-Dumpty's poem to himself. Maybe that would help him relax, fighting nonsense with nonsense. "_I sent a message to the fish/ I told them, 'This is what I wish—'_" he said softly.
He had nerved himself up enough to go two steps when he heard the next sound. It was like a lady's fan—one made of cellophane—being opened. Or a breeze being…folded?
The sound (_whiffle_) came again, and this time it definitely came from the mirror. Definitely. He could imagine its long, snaky neck pouring out of the mirror frame, those two pale unblinking eyes peering around his bedroom as it flew
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The P4 Goes Mainstream with DDR
Pentium 4: Where are we now
The Pentium 4 has had a difficult first year. Paired exclusively with RDRAM and positioned as a high-end consumer platform, the P4 has been plagued with a confusing performance profile, excessive platform cost premiums and a soft market for high-end consumer PCs. Initially, consumers were startled with the realization that slower speed processors were able to handily outperform the P4 on many popular benchmarks. In addition the P4 has suffered from the "Osborn" effect, resulting from Intel's early disclosure of Northwood, an upcoming P4 package type change, and promises of speeds soon to exceed 2GHz. This cast much of the market into a prolonged 'wait-and-see' mode regarding the P4.
Despite its slow start, Intel is preparing an aggressive top-to-bottom strategy for the Pentium4 to be unveiled in the coming months. Intel is banking on a combination of aggressive P4 price cuts and higher clock speeds to accelerate the demise of the Pentium III and move the P4 into higher volume market segments.
But perhaps the most confusing aspect of Intel's strategy is the absence of a mainstream DDR platform solution. During the last 10 months have potential P4 buyers been holding their breath for the availability of a PC133 platform? It does not seem so. Rather, it seems that the market window for PC133 in new high-end systems is nearly closed. Since 1999, DDR has been recognized as the memory of choice for fast graphics accelerators, and has been available for high-end Athlon and P3 systems since the beginning of this year. Now at virtual price parity with PC133, DDR seems ready to wear the mainstream crown.
While the 850+RDRAM appears to overshoot the market, the 845+PC133 seems to undershoot it. This awkward balance has been seen before in Intel's product mix (in 1999) when it offered the unpopular 820+RDRAM platform for the high end and offered the 810+PC100 for the low end. Lacking a mainstream PC133 chip set solution, Intel lost 40% of its chip set market share to VIA within one year. VIA then leveraged its new high volume platform infrastructure to aid AMD to gain huge market share against Intel during the year 2000.
Fast forward to 2001… Now it seems that history may repeat itself, and Intel may again fail to satisfy mainstream market requirements in this pivotal window of opportunity for the P4. But VIA is brashly stepping up to the plate once more, intending to hit another home run early in the game with a new DDR chip set for the Pentium4.
Enter the P4X266
VIA's new P4X266 chipset successfully leverages its popular north bridge design used for Athlon and P3 processors. With a familiar feature set and upgraded memory controller, the P4X266 should deliver the right price performance mix to allow the Pentium 4 to move into higher volume market segments.
Looking forward, we expect the release of the P4M266 later this year, a pin-compatible DDR north bridge with an integrated S3 graphics controller. This will further extend the reach of the P4 into low cost markets.
VIA chip set strategy for the P4 has the potential of making a strong impact on the growth of the P4 in the mainstream beginning this year. It would seem wise for Intel to enthusiastically endorse VIA's strategy and support for the P4.
Performance Comparisons
Intel's 850 is equipped with dual 16-bit RDRAM channels providing 3.2 GB per second, matching the 400 MHz, 64-bit wide FSB of the Pentium 4. VIA's P4X266 pairs Intel's FSB with 266MHz DDR which delivers 2.1 GB/sec of bandwidth. While the market has eagerly anticipated a P4+DDR platform, some have wondered what effect DDR's lower memory bandwidth would have on application benchmarks. After extensive testing, we are quite pleased with the performance of the P4X266, and we believe that the market will not be disappointed either. As VIA has emerged to challenge the incumbent 850 platform, we will first focus on benchmarks contrasting these two platforms. In addition, we will offer some synthetic test results for the Intel 845 PC133 platform. The test configurations for all three systems are shown below.
P4X266 vs. 850: Application Benchmarks
SysMark 2000
Sysmark 2000 is the most comprehensive application benchmark around, and it is still the easiest to interpret. It comprises 12 application workloads and allows a detailed comparison of individual runtimes. It provides us with a foundation for evaluating the impact of DDR on the Pentium 4. The bar chart below displays run time in seconds for each application test, with a shorter bar indicating a faster completion time.
The performance variations between the two platforms are barely perceptible in this graph, as they would be in a typical application setting. The table below reveals a more detailed comparison based on the best-case run time results for each of the applications. In 7 out of 12 applications (including Bryce and Windows Media Encoder), DDR delivers a superior performance (2-4%). But Photoshop stands out as one exception wherein RDRAM demonstrates an 11% performance advantage. Overall, the average performance delta between the platforms is only 0.2%, favoring the 850.
Business / Content Creation Winstone
Business Winstone and Content Creation Winstone measure the performance of popular Windows applications using a series of scripted activities. The benchmark script requires that all applications be open simultaneously in order to allow task switching between them. In this respect, Winstone mimics the task switching behavior that is common among sophisticated users.
Under these benchmark loads the latency advantage of DDR can be observed again. Even though the Content Creation benchmark includes a Adobe Photoshop 5.5 script, the overall performance balance favors DDR. This might suggest that that the Sysmark Photoshop test results are not totally conclusive, or that task switching and other loads favor DDR sufficiently to shift the balance in favor of DDR.
View Perf
Viewperf is a respected MCAD style benchmark which measures 3D rendering performance across multiple platforms and operating systems. The benchmark is known to be very CPU and DRAM centric due to a significant amount of cache thrashing which requires the CPU to access large amounts of floating point data from main memory. In this benchmark, we observe that the 850 + RDRAM platform edges the VIA P4X66 platform by an average of 5.6% in the suite of 6 tests.
Quake3 & VGL Mark
Although the 850 + Rambus solution performs well in professional 3D benchmarks, the Pentium 4 has had somewhat limited penetration into the enthusiast community due to its restrictive ties to expensive Rambus memory. The VIA P4X266 will provide the Pentium 4 with a platform that can finally allow the P4 to move confidently into this space without compromising performance. While Athlon has become a strong favorite in this space, many enthusiasts may find a 2GHz processor difficult to resist, especially when combined with low-cost DDR SDRAM.
The results for the Quake3a and VGL Mark show the 850 and P4X266 virtually neck and neck in gaming performance.
Note: We have seen some scores from other sources reporting lower numbers for DDR on Quake3. Our configuration uses two banks of CL2 DDR to enable interleaving. We have seen lower scores when configured with a single bank of CL2.5 DDR. We believe that performance sensitive gaming enthusiasts will prefer the faster configuration that we used in our testing. The results below are completely reproducible.
3DMark 2001
The 3Dmark game scripts are also capable of demonstrating performance variations based on different DRAM types. But when comparing RDRAM vs. DDR we saw nearly identical performance levels – with DDR edging out RDRAM by a tiny margin of 0.2%.
With this we are convinced that even the gamer enthusiast will not be able to observe a performance loss when comparing the 850 to a performance tuned P4X266 DDR platform.
Sphinx 3 Speech Recognition Benchmark
Spinx-III is a large vocabulary, speaker independent, fully continuous speech recognition system based on the Hidden Markov Model algorithm. It was developed at the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department (www.speech.cs.cmu.edu). It is designed to be good enough to use over the phone without any user or software training, and is proven to be more accurate than humans at transcribing large volumes of random speech (statistically proven in accuracy tests for generating television closed caption text streams). In many respects this is what people dream of when they imagine speech recognition, but the problem is that performance is completely bound by DRAM performance (as seen below).
This powerful application simulation benchmark must traverse a language database of approximately 18.5 MB while simultaneously performing roughly 95.8 million multiplications per minute of speech. The output of this test corresponds to execution time, so a lower score in this test indicates better performance. A benchmark score of 1.0 or lower indicates that the system is capable of real-time performance.
This most challenging DRAM performance benchmark also favors the VIA DDR platform over RDRAM by about 3%.
Synthetic benchmarks are often able to facilitate a more precise CPU and DRAM performance evaluation. We have run the P4X266 and the 850 through a few of the popular synthetic benchmarks to further evaluate the performance impact of DDR on a Pentium 4 platform.
During our P4X266 evaluation, we also received an 845 motherboard for a short time and were able to run it through the same set of synthetic benchmarks. We cannot help but observe that the market's expectations for the 845 are extremely low. After only a few public reviews of this platform, it is broadly seen as imbalanced and inadequate.
While PC133 has won the DRAM popularity contest since 1999, it has already been surpassed by DDR memory which is now on its own evolutionary path to higher clock speeds and higher performance levels. The benchmark results for the 845 are tabulated below with those for the 850 and P4X266.
CLI Bench
CLI Bench is a synthetic benchmark which tests a combination of single and multithreaded floating point functions. For this test we performed single threaded tests and tests using 4 threads. The results for all tests were averaged for each platform configuration and tabulated below. We have created two charts, each showing the VIA platform compared to the 850 and 845.
The P4X266 demonstrates a consistent but modest performance advantage against both the 850 and 845 platforms (generally 1-10%). The Memory Throughput numbers are perhaps the most interesting on this graph. While we might have expected the 850 to show a slight performance advantage over the P4X266, it does not. The P4X266 does however show a 40% memory throughput advantage over the 845 as anticipated.
WinTune executes a series of read, write and copy functions to evaluate many aspects of DRAM performance. The reports generated by WinTune allows us to learn a bit more by breaking down the read, write and copy performance in separate figures. The results show a remarkable advantage for Rambus particularly on Writes and Copies. VIA's DDR platform however enjoys a positive 7.4% performance advantage in Reads.
This data is worth interpreting. These figures help us to understand why the 850 and P4X266 are in a virtual dead heat on application benchmarks. Under normal application loads, CPU performance is impacted most by Read performance. Writes often do not fall into the critical performance path. But one notable exception is Photoshop which has a higher proportion of memory write or copy traffic than most applications. This can give RDRAM a performance edge under some unique circumstances (such as Photoshop).
Latency2.exe shows the latency of accessing data blocks of various size. This benchmark essentially measures the latency in ticks or clock cycles to access differing sizes of memory ranging from 1 KB up to 4096 KB. We have eliminated the smaller array sets, as they are able to fit easily inside the CPU's cache and show no appreciable difference between platforms.
As in most latency sensitive benchmarks, DDR holds an edge over the highly serialized Rambus memory. As anticipated, this chart demonstrates a moderate 0 to 3% latency performance advantage over Rambus. The 845 in contrast with the 850 does not fare as well against the P4X266 with an over 60% performance hit.
In this case as in many others, memory benchmarks (even those that focus on latency) must test a combination of bandwidth and latency. When bandwidth performance is completely inadequate (as in the case of the 845) the apparent latency of memory also seems to be negatively impacted. However, we know that the device latency of SDR is nearly identical to DDR when evaluated at the component level.
Benchmark Summary
In the ceaseless debate over DRAM types, these benchmark scores only provide part of the answer. It is abundantly clear that the broader market responds to price first and performance second. Considering the well-known cost advantages of DDR, the benchmark results make it very clear that DDR SDRAM is a balanced and natural choice for the P4 processor. We believe that OEMs and consumers will respond positively to the price and performance profile that the P4X266 offers for the Pentium 4 platform.
The Intel 845 chip set on the other hand is an unfulfilling alternative.
After numerous positive public reviews of VIA's P4X266, the market's suspicions are being proven true, and the word is traveling fast. DDR offers an ideal price/performance balance for the P4. And since DDR has already reached effective price-parity with PC133 (especially OEM pricing), there is no longer any reason to wait for DDR, or to tolerate any PC133 induced performance loss.
In light of these clear observations, we doubt that the 845 + PC133 will succeed in energizing consumers – rather it will confuse them. Instead of strengthening the P4, it will further devaluate the P4 processor in the eyes of potential buyers and force many PC buyers to once again reconsider their options.
"Legal" Marketing
Intel's recent legal maneuvering may indicate its desire to thwart the successful entrance of the P4X266 into the market. This warrants a few closing observations.
Internally, Intel cannot help but be divided on this issue. The CPU division has already observed VIA's profound positive impact on Pentium III sales by reducing platform cost and expanding user and OEM options. The P4 is in desperate need of exactly this type of energy boost. While other third party DDR chipsets are on the horizon, none carry the weight of a player with nearly 50% market share.
It seems foolish for Intel to threaten retribution to its customers that wish to promote an outstanding P4+DDR platform solution that is in strong potential demand. Forcing the 845 on the market will not gain back lost market share. Intel will only succeed in diverting its customers' enthusiasm.
We feel that if Intel were to lose popularly demanded DDR support for the P4 in the critical Fall and Christmas selling season of 2001, it only stands to lose market share to AMD. Intel has shot itself in the foot before and AMD has the market share to prove it. We hope for their own sake however that Intel will clarify its enthusiastic support for alternate DDR platforms that enhance its competitive position, such as the P4X266.
By: Bert McComas & Greg Fawson, Inquest Inc.Copyright © 2001 CST, Inc. All Rights Reserved


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Tuesday, December 28, 2004
TRAXDATA Launches RS-MMC
and miniSD PRO
The new Traxdata RS-MMC and Traxdata miniSD PRO are highly integrated flash memory cards based on innovations in semiconductor technology. These cards are specifically designed to meet the performance, capacity, ruggedness, and size demanded from newly emerging audio and video consumer electronic devices.
Traxdata RS-MMC? and Traxdata miniSD? PRO are based on an advanced interface that enables excellent data transfer performances. The new Traxdata miniSD? PRO provides reading speeds up to 10MB per second and writing speeds up to 8MB per second. In addition it provides cryptographic security to protect copyrighted data. Traxdata RS-MMC? and Traxdata miniSD? PRO also feature low power consumption. Both cards are non-volatile, which means that they do not require power to retain the data stored. They are solid-state devices, so they have no moving parts to skip or fail.
These convenient and removable flash memory cards of such small dimensions are a perfect choice of storage medium for portable devices such as digital cameras, MP3 Walkman, PDA?s, Smart Phones or any other applications that require high mobility and high reliability.
Both series, Traxdata RS-MMC? and Traxdata miniSD? PRO, will be soon available in capacities of 128MB, 256MB and 512 MB. Prices will vary depending on storage capacity.
Traxdata RS-MMC features
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CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — A shooting on the campus of a university outside of Philadelphia does not appear to be a random act of violence, officials said Tuesday as the search for the gunman continued.
A 19-year-old student sitting in a vehicle in the parking lot of Widener University's athletic center was approached by the gunman and shortly before 9 p.m. Monday, police said. Arriving officers found the victim lying on the ground outside the vehicle with wounds in his head and left shoulder, police said.
The student, who called 911 to report the shooting, was listed in critical but stable condition at Crozer-Chester Medical Center after surgery, a hospital spokesman said.
Dan Hanson, a spokesman for the university, said Tuesday that "all indications are this was not a random act of violence." He said the student's name wasn't being released at the request of his family.
Widener asked students to remain inside until 6 a.m. as police continue searching for the suspect, but the university said that the campus had been secured by police.
Classes were held as usual Tuesday morning but some later classes were canceled due to the winter storm moving through the region, Hanson said.
Chester Police Chief Joseph Bail told WPVI-TV there is a strong police presence at the private, co-ed university located 14 miles south of Philadelphia.
"Any shooting provokes fear, but the security here is top notch," Bail said. "We have a strong police presence. They just need to be careful."
Chester police were reviewing surveillance footage and were using K-9 units to track the suspect, who they believe fled into a residential neighborhood adjacent to the athletic complex, on the edge of the campus. Investigators asked anyone with information about the case to call police.
Police told reporters they found one shell casing at the scene and believe the shooter used a revolver.
The university also has three other campuses in Harrisburg, Exton and Wilmington, Del.