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AIKEN, S.C. Most people in South Carolina didn't vote for Barack Obama and didn't want any part of his stimulus cash, and folks in a particularly poor, hard-hit swath near the Georgia line were no exception. Until the money showed up.
About $1.6 billion was used to create 3,100 temporary jobs in a rural corner of the state cleaning up the Savannah River Site, which already employed about 9,000 and churned out radioactive metals for the nation's nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.
"I am convinced it's what kept Aiken's economy stronger than most communities during these poor economic times," said David Jamison, president of the chamber of commerce in that solidly Republican city just north of the nuclear facility. "I think it has worked exactly like the way Washington had in mind. ... I see it every single day."
Indeed, opposition to the president and the stimulus were fierce in traditionally conservative South Carolina, which Republican John McCain carried in the 2008 presidential election. GOP Gov. Mark Sanford led angry residents in the charge to keep stimulus money for education out of the state, saying it would ultimately leave the economy in worse shape when the money dries up next year.
So far, though, that chunk of the $787 billion appears to be doing what the president promised: keep unemployment rates already among the highest in the nation from skyrocketing and give residents some hope that they could fight their way through the worst economic decline since the Great Depression.
The recession has wiped out 8.2 million U.S. jobs, making competition for openings fierce. On average, there are five or six unemployed people competing for each opening, according to government data.
That image is sharp in South Carolina, where unemployment in February was 12.5 percent, the fourth-highest in the country. Near Savannah River, Allendale County had the state's second-highest jobless rate at 22.4 percent. Two other nearby counties, Barnwell and Bamberg, were 19.9 percent and 17.7 percent in February.
The new hires came from a broad area including parts of South Carolina and Georgia, and unemployment rates have continued to creep upward even since the positions were filled. It was unlikely the jobs would strongly impact rates in any single county, but Obama has said the recession would have been worse without the stimulus and jobs like those at Savannah River.
The cost? Around $500,000 per job - but that money covers overhead and other costs at the site.
Thousands of applicants flocked to job fairs and waited hours in the hot sun for a chance to speak with Savannah River recruiters. To one of those new employees, it wasn't just a job opportunity - it was a saving grace.
Bob McClearen worked at Savannah River for 18 years until he was laid off in 1997, working on company presentations and business development. McClearen then struggled for more than a decade to make ends meet, opening a shipping store with his brother-in-law until that business closed last year because of the recession.


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1652 6PENCE Oak Tree Sixpence MS63 PCGS. Noe-22, R.5. ...
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1652 Oak Tree Sixpence, Noe-22, MS631652 6PENCE Oak Tree Sixpence MS63 PCGS. Noe-22, R.5. Oak Tree sixpence are scarce in any grade, but they are virtually impossible to find in Uncirculated condition. This Mint State 63 example is the finest specimen certified by PCGS (7/10). Heritage has auctioned only about two dozen Oak Tree sixpence, most of which fall in the Fine to Extremely Fine grade range, and we have never before offered a Mint State piece. The present coin was described by Michael Hodder as "on par with Hain's best and nicer than almost every other one seen." Few Oak Tree sixpences even approach the quality of this piece, and it may be years before even a dedicated collector will have the chance to purchase such an outstanding specimen.
Extremely Rare in Mint Condition
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There are six known die marriages for the Oak Tree sixpence. Noe-22 is identified by the corrected S on the obverse and the wide W, large L, and ANO on the reverse. The obverse die was first used to strike Noe-20, then recut and used to strike Noe-21. The first S in MASATHVSETS, however, was re-engraved backward, and after the die was corrected it was subsequently used to strike Noe-22. The reverse was used for Noe-20 through 22 and was later married with a Pine Tree sixpence obverse to strike Noe-32. It is likely that Noe-22 was the final variety struck in the Oak Tree sixpence series.
Massachusetts shillings appear to have been struck in far greater quantities than the lower denomination pieces based on the number of survivors and known die varieties. The Oak Tree sixpence were probably struck on an as-needed basis. Depositors would have preferred to receive shillings out of convenience. If necessary, a shilling could be cut in half to make a sixpence. Cutting coins to make change was a common practice in the Colonial period and lessened the need for small denominations. It is therefore no surprise that so few sixpence, threepence, and twopence were minted.
The Noe-22 is particularly interesting because it marks the transition from the Oak Tree type to the Pine Tree type. It is unclear what caused the Mint to change the design, but many researchers believe that the transition was gradual. However, unlike the Noe-14 Oak Tree shilling that strongly resembles a Pine Tree, the Noe-22 Oak Tree sixpence is significantly dissimilar from any Pine Tree sixpence.
This piece is a stunning Oak Tree sixpence. Medium gray patina covers both sides with charcoal accents around the devices. This coin is generally well centered on an oval-shaped planchet. It is just a bit off center from 8 to 9 o'clock on the obverse and the corresponding area of the reverse. Bright mint luster radiates from the surfaces of this carefully preserved specimen. Two small planchet depressions to the right of the VI are barely worthy of mention. The strike is exceptionally sharp. An obvious horizontal bend through the center is simply a result of the rocker press used to strike the coins.
Noe-22 is an important transitional variety and this coin is a fantastic representative. Few collectors can claim ownership of a Mint State Oak Tree sixpence, and this piece is among the choicest representatives. In our sale of many spectacular Colonial coins this specimen is one of the highlights and represents a rare opportunity for a serious collector. Listed on page 37 of the 2011 Guide Book. (PCGS# 19)
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I sympathize with you since I went through the same deal you are going through before I bought my 8x10. I found everything inexpensive was too big a compromise for me in one way or another. I ended up buying a used Wehman for $1,500.00. To pay for the 8x10 camera, lenses, film holders, etc. I had to sell my 2 Contax 35mm cameras with 5 Zeiss lenses which I had owned since the 1980's plus my Mamiya RZ67 and 3 lens kit.
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There is a great deal of anxiety in all segments of the marine industry about the impact of marine parks, particularly the wide-ranging East Coast Marine Protected Areas. Charter boat and fishing charter vessels are often ignored by the media when it comes to comment about the potential impact of marine parks on their businesses.
Fishing charter businesses are committed to a sustainable industry.
They occupy the waters between commercial fishing operations and recreational fishers, relying on the occasional and the avid angler for their trade, which can run hot and cold depending on the season or the conditions.
One charter boat operator on the Gold Coast has been in business for 12 years, plying the sea from Point Lookout to the NSW border.
He states that charter fishing operators are very committed to the principles of conservation, but against the current incarnation of 'banning access to great areas'.
'We have a massive investment in our businesses with the cost of boats, equipment, registration, marketing and crew. We need the industry to be sustainable to ensure our future, as well as the marine ecosystem.'
According to this owner/operator, who chose not to be named, 'the issue of marine parks is complicated'.
'I am against them in their current form, but would support a ban on fishing in certain, suitable places. We need to treat the sea as a nursery and resource, not abuse it. On a local basis, we should have areas that are known fishing grounds closed for a year, say 10 to 20 square nautical miles, and then reopen them. They replenish quickly and there are plenty of other fishing grounds we can go to.'
He also emphasises that fishing charter boats are in the unique position of being out on the water most days and have the ability to choose where they fish and limit their catches. 'For example, if we catch one Teraglin for each person onboard, we won't catch any more. We'll move to another place and catch amberjack, or mackerel, again one for each person. We are very conscious of diversity.'
Col McKenzie is executive director of The Association of Marine Park Tourism Operators Pty Ltd (AMPTO), the peak industry body for marine tourism within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
AMPTO has the charter to cover any marine park nationally, but its members essentially come from the Great Barrier Reef and Moreton Bay Marine Park areas.
McKenzie says many of the 110 members are very worried about being locked out of huge tracts of sea around the Reef and beyond.
'As I see it the key to it is to make them multiple use zones. If the government stated they would spend $10m policing marine parks and managing them, there might be justification for it. But they are not. GBRMPA is underfunded as it is. How is the government going to maintain and monitor larger marine parks?
'Why would you triple the area when the only real problems in this area are illegal fishing and outfall pollution. Recreational fishing is miniscule and I can't see there's any environmental impact, diving is on a 'look don't take' basis, and then charters are small in numbers over a massive area.
'If there are to be commercial fishing reduction, the government needs to ensure compensation for those fishermen. The government ended up spending $250m on compensating for the Representative Areas Plan on the GBR. So, buy their licenses out. There are quite a few commercial fishermen who have already indicated they would be happy to hand them in.'
According to McKenzie, there's also a case for national pride. 'Here you have the Pew Foundation, a US organisation, telling us how to manage our backyard. Law abiding people are being restricted and the law breakers are having more of an open season.'
He says that all anglers and tourism operators would agree 'Do we need biodiversity protection? Absolutely. But we need to protect them on paper and not ignore them. Marine Zones that are untended indicate to our neighbours to come and have a fish.'
McKenzie advises industry and interested recreational anglers to pay attention to the next round of public consultations coming up in a few months' time when people will get their say.
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MIT Research Scientist Christopher Carr on challenges of distant journeys, components of cosmic radiation, and harnessing engineered organisms
Which particles within cosmic radiation is dangerious during travels to other planets? How can tardigrades help develop systems for future space missons? Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Christopher Carr describes properties of habitable spacecraft of future.
It's not outside the realm of possibility and because B. subtilis can also go into a spore state you might envision maybe a card or some other collection of you know different spores of these engineered organisms and when you wanted to make something in particular, could be a drug but you can imagine that synthetic biology could also play a role in your life support system or maybe in combination with a food growth or some other crop production or some other feature that you might want to have as part of your Mars mission.
There's a big problem with synthetic biology systems in that right now we're really at the infancy of the field, it's becoming easier to do the engineering of a genome but we also need ways to analyze these systems and you might be able to build a reporter like fluorescence for example or some other reporter but you might also want to monitor at a more fundamental level. In that you might want to know if the genetics are stable and so we're building an instrument to go search for life on Mars based on the idea that life on Mars, if it in fact exists, could be related to life on Earth so we're building a small RNA and DNA sequencer and the idea there is if we had a device like that, say with human explorers or on a robotic mission, it can be used to monitor a synthetic biology system.
One of the things that we did was to take a number of different components and expose them to analog of space radiation and we expose them to neutrons at the MIT nuclear reactor, in particular we didn't use the reactor itself we used a californium source and to provide a neutron exposure that would be commensurate with a mission to Mars. Neutrons not being one of the primary components in radiation but is a very common secondary. Then we also used components of space radiation like protons which you can get both from Solar radiation as well as galactic cosmic radiation and so we exposed our reagents to protons. We also exposed reagents to heavy ions like iron and oxygen down at Brookhaven National Lab.


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Selena Gomez has some bad news for fans of her popular TV series "Wizards of Waverly Place." The Disney star reveals that when she heads back to set to the next season of the show — it will be her last. Gomez told MTV News she was sad to be saying goodbye. But when we caught up with her as she promoted another project, "Ramona and Beezus," due in theaters July 23, she also had plenty to be excited about.
"Unfortunately, I'm doing my last season of my show, which I'm really heartbroken about," the actress told us. "That's gonna be a terrible time for me. I'm gonna do a movie for my show, which I'll be excited to end it with, and then a tour."
But fans shouldn't be too broken up about the show ending. The teen star has lots in the works. In addition to the planned "Wizards" movie, she recently wrapped on the movie "Monte Carlo," whose cast includes Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester. And Gomez is excited about releasing her next album, the follow-up to Kiss & Tell, which should be out later this year.
"The title so far of my album, I mean, I'm hoping it will stick is A Year Without Rain," Gomez said. "It's basically one of my favorite songs on the record," she said. "It's kind of got a more feel-good dance beat and feel. I love it. It's different, kind of shows my growth of my music." She added, "I think if anything the lyrics are powerful, in a way,"
Gomez even has a favorite tune already. "There's the song called 'Intuition' that's one of my favorites. The message is basically every decision that you regret or second-guess, [just] do it [anyway]. I love that message so much."
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This Saturday, February 16, at 8p.m. (ET/PT), get ready as Jerry Trainor steps into his first starring role in Nickelodeon's brand-new half-hour comedy starring the iCarly alum, WENDELL & VINNIE.
Wendell & Vinnie follows Vinnie Bassett (Trainor), proprietor of a pop culture memorabilia store who only takes breaks to read comic books and play video games. His bachelor life comes to a halt when he assumes guardianship of his incredibly intelligent and mature nephew, Wendell (Buddy Handleson, Shake It Up). They soon find that 12-year-old Wendell may be just the parent Vinnie needs. The series also stars Nicole Sullivan (MadTV, Rita Rocks) as Vinnie's sister, Wilma and Haley Strode (Gangster Squad) as Taryn, Vinnie's next door neighbor.
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Old English weard "a guarding, a watchman, a sentry," from West Germanic *wardo (cf. Old Saxon ward, Old Norse vörðr, Old High German wart). Used for administrative districts (at first in the sense of guardianship) from late 14c.; of hospital divisions from 1749. Meaning "minor under control of a guardian" is from early 15c. Ward-heeler is 1890, from heeler "loafer, one on the lookout for shady work" (1870s).
Old English weardian "to keep guard," from Proto-Germanic *wardojan- (cf. Old Saxon wardon, Old Norse varða "to guard," Old Frisian wardia, Middle Dutch waerden "to take care of," Old High German warten "to guard, look out for, expect," German warten "to wait, wait on, nurse, tend"), from *wardo- (see ward (n.)). French garder, Italian guardare, Spanish guardar are Germanic loan-words. Meaning "to parry, to fend off" (now usually with off) is recorded from 1570s. Related: Warded; warding.
adverbial suffix expressing direction, Old English -weard "toward," literally "turned toward," sometimes -weardes, with genitive singular ending of neuter adjectives, from Proto-Germanic *warth (cf. Old Saxon, Old Frisian -ward, Old Norse -verðr), variant of PIE *wert- "to turn, wind," from root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus). The original notion is of "turned toward."
ward (wôrd)
A room in a hospital usually holding six or more patients.
A division in a hospital for the care of a particular group of patients.
a prison (Gen. 40:3, 4); a watch-station (Isa. 21:8); a guard (Neh. 13:30).


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Introduction and Specifications
Today Micron lifted the review embargo on their new M600 SSD lineup. We covered their press launch a couple of weeks ago, but as a recap, the headline new feature is the new Dynamic Write Acceleration feature. As this is a new (and untested) feature that completely changes the way an SSD must be tested, we will be diving deep on this one later in this article. For the moment, let's dispose with the formalities.
Here are the samples we received for testing:
It's worth noting that since all M600 models use 16nm 128Gbit dies, packaging is expected to have a negligible impact on performance. This means the 256GB MSATA sample should perform equally to its 2.5" SATA counterpart. The same goes for comparisons against M.2 form factor units. More detail is present in the specs below:
Highlights from the above specs are the increased write speeds (no doubt thanks to Dynamic Write Acceleration) and improved endurance figures. For reference, the prior gen Micron models were rated at 72TB (mostly regardless of capacity), so seeing figures upwards of 400TB indicates Micron's confidence in their 16nm process.
Sorry to disappoint here, but the M600 is an OEM targeted drive, meaning its 'packaging' will likely be the computer it comes installed in. If you manage to find it through a reseller, it will likely come in OEM-style brown/white box packaging.
We have been evaluating these samples for just under a week and have logged *many* hours on them, so let's get to it!
Son of Voyager, Corsair's second wireless HDD enclosure
Subject: Storage | September 25, 2014 - 06:36 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: corsair, Voyager Air 2, wireless hdd
The Corsair Voyager Air 2 is the second iteration of wireless drive, this years model coming with a 1TB drive, a totally redesigned shell and a $20 drop in price. Legit Reviews warns that while the price drop is appreciated it no longer comes with the charging kit which will cost you extra. It supports USB 3.0 and 802.11 b/g/n transfers as well as Internet passthrough, keep in mind that WiFi is disabled once the USB plug is connected. The overall speeds were in line with what was expected and the battery life is impressive for 720p streaming, though 1080p streaming drains it much more quickly. See the Voyager in action right here.
"Last year we took a look at Corsair's first wireless hard drive, called Voyager Air, which was a very sleek and impressive unit that we really liked. Today, we're going to take a look at the more recently revamped version, conveniently called Voyager Air 2. We'll take a look and see what this drive all has to offer and if there is anything new brought to the table."
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- RAIDON Runner GR2660 SSD/HDD RAID Enclosure @ Kitguru
- Silicon Power Stream S03 2TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Review @ NikKTech
- QNAP TS-251 High Performance NAS for SOHO and Home Users Review @ Madshrimps
- Team Group Micro SDHC UHS-1 U3 32GB Review @ Madshrimps
- SanDisk Ultra II 240GB SSD Review @ Legit Reviews
- Corsair Force LX 256GB @ eTeknix
- Kingston SM2280S3 M.2 SATA 120 GiB SSD Review @ Hardware Secrets
- Kingston SM2280S3 M.2 SATA SSD @ The SSD Review
Tech Report's SSD Endurance Test Is Down to Two
Subject: General Tech, Storage | September 21, 2014 - 08:41 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: ssd, Samsung, kingston hyper x, kingston, endurance, corsair neutron gtx, corsair, 840 pro
Many drives have died over the last year and a bit. The Tech Report has been torturing SSDs with writes until they drop. Before a full petabyte of data was written, three of the six drives kicked the bucket. They are now at 1500TB of total writes and one of the three survivors, the 240GB Corsair Neutron GTX, dropped out. This was a bit surprising as it was reporting fairly high health when it entered "the petabyte club" aside from a dip in read speeds.
The two remaining drives are the Samsung 840 Pro (256GB) and Kingston HyperX 3K (240GB).
Two stand, one fell (Image Credit: Tech Report)
Between those two, the Samsung 840 Pro is given the nod as the Kingston drive lived through uncorrectable errors; meanwhile, the Samsung has yet to report any true errors (only reallocations). Since the test considers a failure to be a whole drive failure, though, the lashings will persist until the final drive gives out (or until Scott Wasson gives up in a glorious sledgehammer apocalypse -- could you imagine if one of them lasted a decade? :3).
Of course, with just one unit from each model, it is difficult to faithfully compare brands with this marathon. While each lasted a ridiculously long time, the worst of the bunch putting up with a whole 2800 full-drive writes, it would not be fair to determine an average lifespan for a given model with one data point each. It is good to suggest that your SSD probably did not die from a defrag run -- but it is still a complete waste of your time and you should never do it.
Investigating the issue
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We have updated this story with temperature effects on the read speed of old data. Additional info on page 3.
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New quote from Samsung:
"We acknowledge the recent issue associated with the Samsung 840 EVO SSDs and are qualifying a firmware update to address the issue. While this issue only affects a small subset of all 840 EVO users, we regret any inconvenience experienced by our customers. A firmware update that resolves the issue will be available on the Samsung SSD website soon. We appreciate our customer's support and patience as we work diligently to resolve this issue."
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The firmware update and performance restoration tool has been tested. Results are found here.
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Over the past week or two, there have been growing rumblings from owners of Samsung 840 and 840 EVO SSDs. A few reports scattered across internet forums gradually snowballed into lengthy threads as more and more people took a longer look at their own TLC-based Samsung SSD's performance. I've spent the past week following these threads, and the past few days evaluating this issue on the 840 and 840 EVO samples we have here at PC Perspective. This post is meant to inform you of our current 'best guess' as to just what is happening with these drives, and just what you should do about it.
The issue at hand is an apparent slow down in the reading of 'stale' data on TLC-based Samsung SSDs. Allow me to demonstrate:
You might have seen what looks like similar issues before, but after much research and testing, I can say with some confidence that this is a completely different and unique issue. The old X25-M bug was the result of random writes to the drive over time, but the above result is from a drive that only ever saw a single large file write to a clean drive. The above drive was the very same 500GB 840 EVO sample used in our prior review. It did just fine in that review, and at afterwards I needed a quick temporary place to put a HDD image file and just happened to grab that EVO. The file was written to the drive in December of 2013, and if it wasn't already apparent from the above HDTach pass, it was 442GB in size. This brings on some questions:
- If random writes (i.e. flash fragmentation) are not causing the slow down, then what is?
- How long does it take for this slow down to manifest after a file is written?
Micron's M600 SSD, SLC in the front MLC in the back
Subject: Storage | September 18, 2014 - 07:10 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: micron, M600, SLC. MLC, DWA
Micron's M600 SSD has a new trick up its sleeve, called dynamic write acceleration which is somewhat similar to the HDDs with an NAND cache to accelerate the speed frequently accessed data can be read but with a brand new trick. In this case SLC NAND acts as the cache for MLC NAND but it does so dynamically, the NAND can switch from SLC to MLC and back depending on the amount of usage. There is a cost, the SLC storage capacity is 50% lower than MLC so the larger the cache the lower the total amount of storage is available. As well the endurance rating is also higher than previous drives, not because of better NAND but because of new trim techniques being used. This is not yet a retail product so The Tech Report does not have benchmarks but this goes to show you there are plenty more tricks we can teach SSDs.
"Micron's new M600 SSD can flip its NAND cells between SLC and MLC modes on the fly, enabling a dynamic write cache that scales with the drive's unused capacity. We've outlined how this dynamic write acceleration is supposed to impact performance, power consumption, and endurance."
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- Adata's Premier SP610 @ The Tech Report
- A SCORCHIO fatboy SSD: Samsung SSD850 PRO 3D V-NAND @ The Register
- Silicon Power Blaze B06 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review @ NikKTech
- SanDisk Ultra II SSD Review (240GB) - TLC Memory becomes Mainstream @ The SSD Review
- Thecus N2310 2-bay NAS @ Kitguru
- QNAP TS-451 @ techPowerUp
- Kingston HyperX FURY 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review @ OCC
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging
It seems a lot of folks have been incorporating Silicon Motion's SM2246EN controller into their product lines. We first reviewed the Angelbird SSD wrk, but only in a 512GB capacity. We then reviewed a pair of Corsair Force LX's (256GB and 512GB). ADATA has joined the club with their new Premier SP610 product line, and today we are going to take a look at all available capacities of this new model:
It's fortunate that ADATA was able to sample us a full capacity spread, as this will let us evaluate all shipping SSD capacites that exist for the Silicon Motion SM2246EN controller.
Micron launches M600 SATA SSD with innovative SLC/MLC Dynamic Write Acceleration
Subject: Storage, Shows and Expos | September 16, 2014 - 02:29 PM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: ssd, slc, sata, mlc, micron, M600, crucial
You may already be familiar with the Micron Crucial M550 line of SSDs (if not, familiarize yourself with our full capacity roundup here). Today Micron is pushing their tech further by releasing a new M600 line. The M600's are the first full lineup from Micron to use their 16nm flash (previously only in their MX100 line). Aside from the die shrink, Micron has addressed the glaring issue we noted in our M550 review - that issue being the sharp falloff in write speeds in lower capacities of that line. Their solution is rather innovative, to say the least.
Recall the Samsung 840 EVO's 'TurboWrite' cache, which gave that drive a burst of write speed during short sustained write periods. The 840 EVO accomplished this by each TLC die having a small SLC section of flash memory. All data written passed through this cache, and once full (a few GB, varying with drive capacity), write speed slowed to TLC levels until the host system stopped writing for long enough for the SSD to flush the cached data from SLC to TLC.
The Micron M600 SSD in 2.5" SATA, MSATA, and M.2 form factors.
Micron flips the 'typical' concept of caching methods on its head. It does employ two different types of flash writing (SLC and MLC), but the first big difference is that the SLC is not really cache at all - not in the traditional sense, at least. The M600 controller, coupled with some changes made to Micron's 16nm flash, is able to dynamically change the mode of each flash memory die *on the fly*. For example, the M600 can place most of the individual 16GB (MLC) dies into SLC mode when the SSD is empty. This halves the capacity of each die, but with the added benefit of much faster and more power efficient writes. This means the M600 would really perform more like an SLC-only SSD so long as it was kept less than half full.
As you fill the SSD towards (and beyond) half capacity, the controller incrementally clears the SLC-written data, moving that data onto dies configured to MLC mode. Once empty, the SLC die is switched over to MLC mode, effectively clearing more flash area for the increasing amount of user data to be stored on the SSD. This process repeats over time as the drive is filled, meaning you will see less SLC area available for accelerated writing (see chart above). Writing to the SLC area is also advantageous in mobile devices, as those writes not only occur more quickly, they consume less power in the process:
For those worst case / power user scenarios, here is a graph of what a sustained sequential write to the entire drive area would look like:
Realize this is not typical usage, but if it happened, you would see SLC speeds for the first ~45% of the drive, followed by MLC speeds for another 10%. After the 65% point, the drive is forced to initiate the process of clearing SLC and flipping dies over to MLC, doing so while the host write is still in progress, and therefore resulting in the relatively slow write speed (~50 MB/sec) seen above. Realize that in normal use (i.e. not filling the entire drive at full speed in one go), garbage collection would be able to rearrange data in the background during idle time, meaning write speeds should be near full SLC speed for the majority of the time. Even with the SSD nearly full, there should be at least a few GB of SLC-mode flash available for short bursts of SLC speed writes.
This caching has enabled some increased specs over the prior generation models:
Note the differences in write speeds, particularly in the lower capacity models. The 128GB M550 was limited to 190MB/sec, while the M600 can write at 400MB/sec in SLC mode (which is where it should sit most of the time).
We'll be testing the M600 shortly and will come back with a full evaluation of the SSD as a whole and more specifically how it handles this new tech under real usage scenarios.
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IDF 2014 Storage Roundup - RAM and NVMe and IOPS! Oh my!
Subject: Storage, Shows and Expos | September 16, 2014 - 12:49 PM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: ram, NVMe, IOPS, idf 2014, idf, ddr4, DDR
The Intel Developer Forum was last week, and there were many things to be seen for sure. Mixed in with all of the wearable and miniature technology news, there was a sprinkling of storage goodness. Kicking off the show, we saw new cold storage announcements from both HGST and Western Digital, but that was about it for HDD news, as the growing trend these days is with solid state storage technologies. I'll start with RAM:
First up was ADATA, who were showing off 64GB DDR3 (!) DIMMs:
Next up were various manufacturers pushing DDR4 technology quite far. First was SK Hynix's TSV 128GB DIMMs (covered in much greater depth last week):
Next up is Kingston, who were showing a server chassis equipped with 256GB of DDR4:
If you look closer at the stats, you'll note there is more RAM in this system than flash:
Next up is IDT, who were showing off their LRDIMM technology:
This technology adds special data buffers to the DIMM modules, enabling significantly higher amounts of installed RAM into a single system, with a 1-2 step de-rating of clock speeds as you take capacities to the far extremes. The above server has 768GB of DDR4 installed and running!:
Moving onto flash memory type stuff, Scott covered Intel's new 40 Gbit Ethernet technology last week. At IDF, Intel had a demo showing off some of the potential of these new faster links:
This demo used a custom network stack that allowed a P3700 in a local system to be matched in IOPS by an identical P3700 *being accessed over the network*. Both local and networked storage turned in the same 450k IOPS, with the remote link adding only 8ms of latency. Here's a close-up of one of the SFF-8639 (2.5" PCIe 3.0 x4) SSDs and the 40 Gbit network card above it (low speed fans were installed in these demo systems to keep some air flowing across the cards):
Stepping up the IOPS a bit further, Microsoft was showing off the capabilities of their 'Inbox AHCI driver', shown here driving a pair of P3700's at a total of 1.5 million IOPS:
...for those who want to get their hands on this 'Inbox driver', guess what? You already have it! "Inbox" is Microsoft's way of saying the driver is 'in the box', meaning it comes with Windows 8. Bear in bind you may get better performance with manufacturer specific drivers, but it's still a decent showing for a default driver.
Now for even more IOPS:
Yes, you are reading that correctly. That screen is showing a system running over 11 million IOPS. Think it's RAM? Wrong. This is flash memory pulling those numbers. Remember the 2.5" P3700 from a few pics back? How about 24 of them:
The above photo shows three 2U systems (bottom), which are all connected to a single 2U flash memory chassis (top). The top chassis supports three submodules, each with eight SFF-8639 SSDs. The system, assembled by Newisys, demonstrates just how much high speed flash you can fit within an 8U space. The main reason for connecting three systems to one flash chassis is because it takes those three systems to process the full IOPS capability of 24 low latency NVMe SSDs (that's 96 total lanes of PCIe 3.0!)!
So there you have it, IDF storage tech in a nutshell. More to come as we follow these emerging technologies to their maturity.
Apotop S3C SSD, Silicon Motion's new controller for less than $0.50/GB
Subject: Storage | September 12, 2014 - 05:30 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: SM2246EN, S3C, mlc, Apotop
The Apotop S3C SSD uses the same controller as the Angelbird drive Al reviewed recently. It uses synchronous MLC NAND with the 4 channel present on the Silicon Motion controller and is able to provide more than the specified 490 MB/s read and 275 MB/s write in some benchmarks. It can often read faster than the wrk SSD but the writes cannot always keep up though it is not something likely to be noticeable in real usage scenarios. The MSRP is very attractive with the 512GB model expected to be released at $200. Silicon Motion is likely to start appearing in a lot more SSDs in the near future with this mix of price and performance. Read the full review at Kitguru.
"The new Apotop S3C SSD features the Silicon Motion 2246EN controller which we first reviewed in the Angelbird 512GB wrk SSD back in August this year. The controller impressed us, so we have already high hopes for the Apotop S3C."
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- PNY XLR8 120 GiB SSD Review @ Hardware Secrets
- Plextor M6 Pro 256GB @ Kitguru
- Plextor M6 PRO 256GB @ eTeknix
- We lift the lid on Intel's Pro 2500 SSD. Shock, horror: It doesn't use its own NAND chips @ The Register
- HGST Ultrastar He6 6TB SAS HDD Review @ NikKTech
- TB (2.5-inch) Hard Drives @ SPCR
- SPYRUS WorkSafe Pro WTG Secure Flash Drive @ The SSD Review
- Synology DiskStaion DS115j @ Legion Hardware
- QNAP TurboNAS TS-451 NAS Server Review @ NikKTech
- Icy Box FlexCage MB973SP 2B Trayless 3-in-2 SATA Backplane @ Kitguru
- Thermaltake BlacX Urban Wi-Fi Edition HDD Docking Station Review @ TechwareLabs
- Angelbird SSD2go Pocket External SSD @ The SSD Review
SanDisk Launches 512GB SDXC Card for $799.99
Subject: General Tech, Storage | September 12, 2014 - 04:08 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: sandisk, sdxc, sdhc, sd card, 512GB
Assuming your camera, card reader, or other device fully conforms to the SDXC standard, Sandisk has developed a half-terabyte (512GB) memory card. Beyond being gigantic, it can be read at up to 95 MB/s and written at up to 90 MB/s, which should be enough to stream 4K video. Sandisk claims that it is temperature proof, shock proof, water proof, and x-ray proof. It also comes with a lifetime warranty and "RescuePRO Deluxe" recovery software but, honestly, I expect people would just use PhotoRec or something.
It should be noted that the SDXC standard covers memory cards up to 2TB so it will probably not be too long before we see another standard get ratified. What is next? SDUC? SDYC? SDALLTHEC? Blah! This is why IEEE assigns names sequentially.
The SanDisk Extreme PRO UHS-I SDHC/SDXC 512GB memory card should be available now, although I cannot yet find them online, for $799.99 MSRP.
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Local educator Joel Gonzales inspires his students
CORPUS CHRISTI - Teacher uses his clothes to inspire his students. "I must set an example for my students in various aspects of life. I believe teachers should be examples not only in the way they conduct themselves but in the way they present themselves as well," said the 2007 CCISD Teacher of the Year. He inspires fifth graders with a lot of color and plenty of fun. He has more than 300 ties in his collection and said the kids are always eager to find out what he'll wear next.
The craziest fashion item I ever bought was: a bright orange shirt. I loved the color so much that I went and bought two more.
The worst fashion advice I ever received was: To perm my hair. It took two attempts to get my hair to accept the curl.
I'll never throw out my: Levi jeans until they are no longer wearable. They are just too comfortable, no matter how many holes and tears they have.
Fashion advice I'd give my best friend: Wear what is comfortable and functional.
I have an impressive collection of: neckties. I have about 300 ties. I am always looking for Save the Children, Jerry Garcia and thematic ties.
Three words to describe my wardrobe: Eclectic, comfortable and bright.
My prized possession is: A Father's Day tie with my daughter's picture on it.
The best way to organize your closet: Is to clean it out every six months of things you do not use regularly.
The only thing I dislike about shopping is: That my wife has more closet space than I do.
The biggest fashion faux pas: Showing more skin than you need to.
I enjoy dressing for: My classroom of students. I want to demonstrate how a professional should dress.
One of my best accessories: A gold bracelet my Nana gave me.
A must-have fashion staple: Socks that match a shirt or tie.
One of my shopping quirks: Is that things that I buy must be at least 50 percent off.
My favorite color to wear: Black or red.
I love shopping with: My daughter. She always tells me the truth about whether a piece of clothing looks good or bad on me.
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The agenda around gender in Autism
"When I got my diagnosis, I was told that being a woman with Autism was really rare. Most people on the Autism spectrum were boys. They lacked empathy, they did't understand nonverbal cues, they couldn't hold conversations, they were kind of flawed geniuses and liked maths and physics. Oh, and they all liked trains apparently, or trams and buses if they were a bit atypical. Of all these attributes, none of them involved people with Asperger's being girls. Girls on the spectrum were – according to psychiatric wisdom – an anomaly. So I was an anomaly amongst anomalies and nobody knew anything about how to make my life better. "
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I am an Autistic woman. I was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome in 1994, a time when few people outside of a select group of mental health professionals knew anything about the more 'Aspie' part of the Autism spectrum.
When I got my diagnosis, I was told that being a woman with Autism was really rare. Most people on the Autism spectrum were boys. They lacked empathy, they did't understand nonverbal cues, they couldn't hold conversations, they were kind of flawed geniuses and liked maths and physics. Oh, and they all liked trains apparently, or trams and buses if they were a bit atypical. Of all these attributes, none of them involved people with Asperger's being girls. Girls on the spectrum were – according to psychiatric wisdom – an anomaly. So I was an anomaly amongst anomalies and nobody knew anything about how to make my life better. I didn't take…
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Aspergirls and Emotions – why she is always misunderstood as being cold and aloof
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It is a common misconception that Aspergirls do not feel any emotions. I dispute that myth completely and utterly. Aspergirls are actually the most sensitive, loving and caring creatures ever to walk this planet. So how is it that we constantly get so badly misconstrued as being cold, aloof, stand-offish and heartless?
Firstly, we struggle to express ourselves, particularly verbally. We may have a raging torrent of sadness inside us when we see someone hurting. We may have hearts filled with joy when we see someone overwhelmed with happiness. We may feel irrational anger when someone we care about is wronged. But can we put any of that into words? Can we boot. As a result, we are seen as heartless, emotionless and as though we feel we are above everything else, when really we are shouting our feelings deep inside our heart – it is just that other people…
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This is a very interesting read.
Originally posted on Pandaemonium:
Gregory Hollin is a researcher at Nottingham University's Institute for Science and Society whose work explores changing perceptions of autism, both scientific and cultural. He recently wrote a superb essay for the anthropology website Somatosphere which looked at the relationship between the rise of autism as a cultural phenomenon and changing scientific conceptions of human nature and of the 'social', and at how these changes have led to the view of 'the social hole in autism' as 'a window to the soul'. My thanks to Greg, and to Somatosphere, for allowing me to republishing the essay on Pandaemonium.
Gregory Hollin
Autism, sociality and human nature
There are, I believe, a few reasons to suppose that autism is a particularly fascinating area to be studying at the moment. What are those reasons? Firstly, prevalence rates of autism have soared in recent decades, from 1:2,500 in 1978 to around…
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4 Clues You Are A Woman With Asperger's
What clues did you have?
Originally posted on Thought Catalog:
Ninety percent of Asperger diagnoses are for boys. Not because girls don't have Asperger's, but because it's so much harder to identify in girls that they go largely undiagnosed. I didn't know I have Asperger's until my son was diagnosed.
Asperger's is a developmental disorder–often associated with Silicon Valley as the "Geek Syndrome"–that's almost impossible to self-identify because central to the dysfunction is very poor social skills. But poor social skills means that you are missing social cues which means that you don't know you're missing social cues. Everyone in the room wants you to shut up and you don't know it.
More importantly, people with Asperger's often never gain the soft skills so important for workplace success. Aspergers comes with a high risk of depression, homeslessness and suicide. So identifying it in girls is important.
People can identify boys with Asperger's because it's…
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In my last post, I said that I think researchers have overlooked Asperger's syndrome in females, and that's the biggest problem I have with the "extreme male brain" theory of autism. I'm not the only one that thinks so. Recently I read a very interesting article online from the British Sunday paper The Observer:
Doctors are 'failing to spot Asperger's in girls'by Amelia Hill, April 12, 2009.
The article quotes Dr. Judith Gould, director of the UK's National Autistic Society. In 1979, she and Lorna Wing co-wrote a paper that helped to begin the process of defining Asperger's and the autism spectrum. The British government is forming a strategy on dealing with autism, and Gould is pushing for an effort to pay attention to girls on the spectrum.
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The 63% of inside dome hight is often mentioned as a critical dimention, yet I have not picked up any guidelines with regards to the top arch shape of the door opening. Some merely have a level angle iron and others build an arch of an arc which does not seem to be of a set specification.
From my view as absolute novice it seems strange that the 63 would be critical but the shape not. What am I missing please?
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I don"t think you are missing anything Dolf. The 63 % thing is a rule of thumb. Not every WFO is so precisely built that differences of doorway shape alone are a determining factor as to efficiency of internal air/gas flow. Some WFOs being squatty and low some taller and more conical, some interiors are rough and some smooth, some footprints elliptical, some round, some square with round corners, etc etc. Each factor contributes either positively or negatively to the overall performance of the air/gas flow within the WFO.
Bottom line being that given many decades (millenia) and hundreds (thousands) of WFOs constructed the ratio of building the height of the door at or near 63 % of the interior height of the dome has consistantly produced the best odds of the WFO working as hoped. As to shape of the door I would think that is is simply one of the many factors involved. I would suspect the actual area of the doorway as compared to the volume of the interior might be more critical in the performance than door shape, yet I have no proof beyond that suspicion.
Design is an art as well as well as a science. And luck plays a part too.
Not such a cut and dry answer as you had hoped for, I'm guessing.
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The truth is never simple :-)
Thanks for the logical answer Wiley. I guess idiots like me are "over aware" of the limitations to our WFO skills, so we perhaps over analyse in places to try to limit the tolerance of error to the unavoidables only.
Cruel truth is also that even if you give me a "perfect" oven now, I will be likely to stuff up for a while till I got the knack, so I guess I will also just have to learn the ropes of the outcome of my building efforts :-)
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INdeed :-)
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NHL: Cherry backs P.K. Subban for Canada on Coach's Corner
On this week's Coach's Corner, Don Cherry hits on P.K. Subban's Olympic hopes, what's causing dirty hits and Alex Steen's goal non-celebrations.
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How Coach's Corner with Don Cherry, the Christmas edition, played out Saturday night:
A red velvet suit with a yellow rose, nicely accented yellow tie — he looked good.
This one started off with a view of a squeaky toy beaver, and a pic of Cherry for the 25th season of his Rock 'em Sock 'em videos … Cherry pointed out Leafs coach Randy Carlyle telling Jonathan Bernier he'd start the second period for the Leafs; Cherry says Carlyle did it the right way, pulling James Reimer after the period ended … Cherry summarizes his thoughts on those who doubt whether P.K. Subban should make Canada's Olympic squad: "what are they, nuts?" … he also re-embraces his long-time argument about taking the centre red line away and clamping down on obstruction, noting that it's allowed forwards to come in "like kamikazes" and nail defencemen. He shows Tom Wilson's hit on Brayden Schenn as an example — point taken … he hits on the feel-good story of the moment, Martin Jones' incredible run as a rookie goalie in Los Angeles, noting that veteran D-men Matt Greene and Willie Mitchell have helped Jones along the way … next, Cherry lauds former Leaf Alex Steen, who has 24 goals with the Blues, for not showboating after scoring … lastly, Cherry shows a pic of a young boy sleeping next to his hockey stick; it was apparently shown to him by the guy who fixes his cars — nice touch there.
"That's Canada at its best," in reference to the little guy sleeping. Can't argue with that.
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B+ ... Liked everything Cherry had to say. Don't agree on Subban, but it was all hockey and Canadian culture, and that's when Cherry is at his best.
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BackgroundNintendo's sixth home console finally delivers high definition graphics while expanding the boundaries of typical gaming like its predecessor, the Wii, did back in 2006. It features a new touchscreen controller that can play in tandem with the Wii controllers which are still supported by the Wii U.
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- Size: Approximately 1.8 inches tall, 6.8 inches wide and 10.5 inches long.
New Controller: Approximately 5.3 inches high, 0.9 inches deep (not including buttons and other projections) and 9.0 inches long. The new controller incorporates a 6.2-inch, 16:9 touch screen and traditional button controls, including two analog Circle Pads. This combination removes the traditional barriers between games, players and the TV by creating a second window into the video game world. The rechargeable controller includes a Power button, Home button, +Control Pad, A/B/X/Y buttons, L/R buttons and ZL/ZR buttons. It includes a built-in accelerometer and gyroscope, rumble feature, camera, a microphone, stereo speakers, a sensor strip and a stylus.
- Other Controls: Up to four Wii Remote (or Wii Remote Plus) controllers can be connected at once. The new console supports all Wii controllers and input devices, including the Nunchuk controller, Classic Controller, Classic Controller Pro and Wii Balance Board.
- Media: A single self-loading media bay will play 12-centimeter proprietary high-density optical discs for the new console, as well as 12-centimeter Wii optical discs.
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Inspired by the cool buildups I've seen of this Jimmy Flintstone body I was inspired to build my own version, but I wanted to set it apart from all the other vintage hot rod styled builds, so here's mine.
I drew inspiration from Barris update of the Chrisman Bros Model A salt flats car. I just loved the color scheme and details he added, so that's how I built mine. Colors are Tamiya Pearl White and Transparent Orange. Rear wheels are from the AMT Boyd Coddington '57 Chevy and the fronts are from the Revell Roth Outlaw. Side pipes are from the AMT Black Force and front suspension is part scratchbuilt, part AMT Prowler snap kit. Thanks for looking, sorry about the dark pics, didn't realize how dark they were till now. I'll have to take some new ones.
3rd completion of last week, XM-2006(Barris Tribute)
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that is really nice! I like it
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I like the looks of that build. Colors are great together.


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Having a learning disability doesn't mean you can't learn. But you'll need some help and you'll need to work extra hard. If you have a learning disability, such as dyslexia or dyscalculia (serious trouble with math), remember that you are not slow or dumb.
Learning disabilities happen because of the way a person's brain takes in and processes information. As a result, people learn differently. The trick will be figuring out how you learn best.
There are people who know how to do just that. Your parents and teachers can help you and they can find you a learning specialist or a school psychologist. These professionals can help figure out what a kid's learning problem is — and come up with ideas for how to make it better.
Learning disabilities aren't contagious, but they can be genetic. That means they can be passed down in families through the genes, like many other traits we get from our parents and grandparents. Someone with a learning disability probably has other family members who have had some learning troubles, too.
Kids with learning problems are sometimes surprised to find out that one of their parents had similar troubles when he or she was in school. But kids today have an advantage over their parents. Learning experts now know a lot more about the brain and how learning works — and it's easier for kids to get the help they need.
Dyslexia (say: dis-lek-see-uh) is a learning disability that means a kid has a lot of trouble reading and writing. Kids who have trouble with math may have dyscalculia (say: dis-kal-kyoo-lee-uh). And people who have trouble forming letters when they write may have dysgraphia (say: dis-graf-ee-uh). Other kids may have language disorders, meaning they have trouble understanding language and understanding what they read.
It can be confusing, though. What qualifies as "trouble" enough to be diagnosed as a learning disability? Reading, doing math, and writing letters may be tough for lots of kids at first. But when those early troubles don't fade away, and it's really difficult to make any progress, it's possible the kid has a learning disability.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is sometimes thought of as a learning disability but it's not usually considered one. Why? Because most kids with ADHD can learn in school without special assistance, even though they may be easily distracted or have trouble sitting still in class.
Although ADHD itself isn't a learning disability, researchers believe kids with ADHD may be more likely to have learning disabilities.
It's very hard for a kid to know if he or she has a learning disability. But kids don't have to figure all this out on their own. What a kid needs to do is tell someone. Start with your teacher and your mom or dad.
Even if you feel a little shy about it, tell them what kinds of problems you're having in school. Maybe you read a chapter for homework and then can't remember anything you read. Or in class, maybe everyone else seems to follow along easily, but you get stuck and don't know what page everyone is on. You might open your book to do an assignment and have no idea where to start.
Kids with a learning disability might also answer "yes" to many of these questions:
But even if you say "yes" to some of these questions, you won't know for sure until you visit a school psychologist or a learning specialist. They can give you some tests to spot any learning problems you might have. They'll also be able to identify what your strengths are — in other words, what you're good at! Once a psychologist or learning specialist figures out what your learning problem is, you both can start working on solutions.
A kid might work with a tutor or specialist or even go to a special class. But often, kids with learning disabilities can continue in their regular classrooms and there's no reason they can't do normal stuff, like participate in school activities and sports.
Though some kids might feel shy about having a learning disability, it can be a relief to finally know what the problem is. Then, the kid doesn't have to feel as worried and upset about school — because he or she is learning how to learn in new ways. The psychologist or learning specialist might even give you a learning plan — then you can see what the strategy is for helping you learn. They can even offer help with organizational skills. If you're not organized, it's hard to get any schoolwork done.
Finding out you have a learning disability can be upsetting. You might feel different from everyone else. But the truth is that learning disabilities are pretty common. And if your learning specialist or psychologist has figured out which one you're facing, you're on the right track. Now, you can start getting the help you need to do better in school.
But for this special help to really work, you'll need to practice the new skills you're learning. It may take a lot of effort every day. That can be a challenge, but you can do it. Soon, you'll enjoy the results of all your hard work: more fun and success at school!
It worked for Paige. Read what she had to say:
Reviewed by: David V. Sheslow, PhD
Date reviewed: November 2011
Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses and treatment, consult your doctor.
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