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Upton homers in Arizona return as Braves cruise
Outfielder and fellow former D-back Johnson finish triple shy of cycle
PHOENIX -- Justin Upton has chosen to take the high road whenever asked about the frustration he felt as the D-backs consistently discussed the possibility of trading him over the past few years. But when given the opportunity to remind his former team of what they lost, he allowed his bat to speak much louder than his words.
Within most discussions surrounding the trade that sent Upton to Atlanta in January, Chris Johnson is often a forgotten figure. But Johnson also took advantage of his chance to show D-backs fans why Braves fans have celebrated this trade through the season's first six weeks.
Upton and Johnson both hit two-run home runs and each finished a triple shy of the cycle while enjoying a successful homecoming and helping the Braves snap a three-game losing streak with Monday night's 10-1 win over the D-backs at Chase Field.
"I wasn't here too long," said Johnson, whose stint in Arizona consisted of last season's final two months. "Tonight was the Justin show."
While Johnson highlighted his three-hit performance with a decisive two-run home run off D-backs starter Wade Miley in the fifth inning, this night certainly belonged to Upton, who heard a mixture of boos and cheers before his first at-bat and then celebrated his highly anticipated homecoming with his ninth career four-hit performance.
"I have a feeling when he heard a couple of boos, it was kind of on his mind," B.J. Upton said of his younger brother. "But I didn't say anything to him. I just let him go out and be himself. That's what you got."
Upton put an exclamation mark on his return when he absolutely crushed Miley's 2-0 changeup and sent it over the tall center-field wall in the four-run sixth inning. The impressive shot, which increased his Major League-leading home run total to 13, came immediately after his older brother had been hit in the left shoulder with a fastball.
"He plays hard, he played hard when he was here, that was never an issue," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "It looks like he flattened his bat out a little bit, it's really quick right now."
Instead of saying he was exacting revenge on Miley or sending a message to Kevin Towers, the Arizona general manager who had included him in numerous trade talks over the past few years, the often mild-mannered Braves outfielder simply said he was happy to end his season-long homerless streak at 46 at-bats.
"I've been searching for that swing throughout the month of May," Upton said. "To square one up and for it to carry for me was nice."
Although Upton had hit .196 in his previous 16 games, his impressive return was not necessarily surprising. There has been some sense that he would release the frustrations that had built over the past couple of years once he had a chance to play against his former team.
"I think that's your natural instinct," B.J. Upton said. "He never brought it up to me. But I know him and I know it was in the back of his head."
Johnson exited April with a .369 batting average and then went hitless in his first 17 at-bats this month before beginning his three-hit performance with a third-inning single. His decisive home run came after the fifth inning began with Evan Gattis reaching on a throwing error committed by Martin Prado, the centerpiece of the package the Braves provided in exchange for Upton and Johnson.
Prado recorded two of the eight hits Mike Minor surrendered as he limited the D-backs to one run in 6 2/3 innings. But the beloved former Brave was also victimized by the strong defensive effort the Braves provided in support of Minor, who has compiled a 2.40 ERA in his last 23 starts.
B.J. Upton made a tremendous throw to the plate that retired Prado as he attempted to tag and score on Wil Nieves' flyout in the fourth inning. Andrelton Simmons got into the act when his pinpoint relay throw to the plate denied Cody Ross' attempt to score from first on Prado's double in the sixth inning.
"It was a fun night," Justin Upton said. "We've been fighting for wins the whole road trip. To come out here and put together some hits and get a win is a nice feeling."
After totaling four runs while losing the final three games of this past weekend's four-game set in San Francisco, the Braves began this three-game series by showing the offense's potential. Dan Uggla snapped a 0-for-14 skid with an eighth-inning double, and Brian McCann hit his third home run in his past four games.
But all of these offensive contributions were overshadowed by the message Upton delivered in his return to Arizona.
"He's a really, really good player," Johnson said. "Any night like this is kind of what you expect from him every night. When he doesn't do it, you're like, 'What happened?' He's a special player."
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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PALM COAST, Fla. - An 18-year-old Palm Coast woman was arrested Thursday evening on a charge of aggravated battery on a person older than 65 following a disagreement with her grandmother, deputies said.
Mary Lee, 80, told deputies that around 5:30 p.m., her granddaughter, Jestina Lee, pushed her outside a shed in the backyard of Mary Lee's home, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.
The grandmother said that when the incident occurred, she had walked outside to see what the teen was doing in the shed. She told deputies that when she questioned Jestina Lee, the younger woman pushed her in the chest area with both hands, causing the elder Lee to fall backwards over a chair and onto the ground, investigators said. She declined medical attention and filed the complaint, deputies said.
The teen left the scene when she was alerted that deputies were responding, according to the Sheriff's Office. She was arrested about four hours later when she returned to the home.
The teen was booked into the Flagler County Detention Facility, where she was being held Friday on $1,000 bond.
"It is unfortunate that this situation escalated to the point that deputies were needed, but it is fortunate there were no serious injuries that resulted from this apparent family disagreement," Sheriff Jim Manfre said.
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text: I never knew Major Cappelli. As a high school student in Guam I wore a POW bracelet for almost two years from 1969-1971 with his name on it. I always wondered what happened to him and wanted to learn more about him. Later in life I visited the wall and found his name. I have shown my children his name and talked about the war and the bracelet I wore. Now I see a lot more about his life. We are both Roman Catholics. It is sad for me to see that he lived for six years after being shot down. Thanks for providing this information. I will continue to pray for him and his family. Mark Armstrong, Bismarck, North Dakota.


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A man suspected of killing two unemployment-office workers and seriously wounding a third in a New Zealand town has been charged with murder.
John Tully was arrested on Monday evening following a seven-hour manhunt that kept a South Island town on edge.
Tully made his first court appearance on Tuesday on two charges of murder and one of attempted murder. He did not enter a plea and remained in custody.
Last month he told the Ashburton Guardian that he had previously worked in Australian mines, had returned to his hometown and had ended up living in a tent after being unable to secure government-assisted accommodation.
Police spokeswoman Lisa-Marie Brooks said a police dog unit apprehended Tully, 48, near a lake following an extensive manhunt in the town of Ashburton.
She said Tully was being treated for minor dog-bite injuries and police were still searching for the weapon used in the shootings.
Earlier, police urged residents to remain inside their homes as they searched an area near the town's river and stormed a house that turned out to be empty.
Tully had been interviewed in recent weeks by the local newspaper about his struggles finding somewhere to live and had also written to lawmakers.
The incident began about 10 am on Monday when police said a man entered a Work and Income New Zealand office and started shooting.
A witness said the man was wearing a black balaclava and shot at two women, according to the Ashburton Guardian newspaper. Other witnesses told the paper the man was carrying a shotgun that may have been sawed down and fled on a bicycle.
Ministry of Social Development Chief Executive Brendan Boyle said all three victims worked for the agency.
"We are all devastated by the deaths of two of our colleagues in the shocking attack," Boyle said in a statement, adding "our thoughts and prayers" are also with the third victim who was being treated at an area hospital.
Winston Peters, leader of the New Zealand First party, said in a statement that Tully had emailed his political party on August 14 about the difficulty of finding a house to live in.
"We replied immediately and also followed up," Peters said. "However, the emails kept bouncing back."
Ashburton Mayor Angus McKay said the town was very community-minded and the tragedy would affect many lives: "It just hits home real hard," he said, according to The New Zealand Herald newspaper.
Ashburton is home to about 18,000 people and is 90 kilometres southwest of Christchurch.


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The Cathay Theater, also known simply as the Cathay, is a distinctive movie theater in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, located on Vinewood Boulevard in Temple, Los Santos.
Sporting an oriental architectural design, the theater is based on the real life Grauman's Chinese Theater; the "Cathay" name itself is an alternate, lesser known term that refers to China as a country.
The theater plays a prominent role during "Management Issues", when the player, on orders from OG Loc, is required to kidnap Alan Crawford as he leaves an award ceremony at the theater, and kill him.
The theater is one of the many theaters in the state showing the film "Mullholiday and Dulaly" during the events of the game, however, the player cannot enter the theater nor watch the film.
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- Oriental Theater, the Grand Theft Auto V equivalent.


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Eagles soar to second straight title
Published: Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, April 19, 2013 at 12:18 a.m.
In only their second year playing girls lacrosse in the Florida High School Athletic Association, the Oak Hall Eagles have certainly made a mark.
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On Thursday, on its field, Oak Hall ran over Buchholz 17-5 to capture its second straight District 5 championship. And leading the charge was Madison O'Leary.
Daughter of UF lacrosse coach Amanda O'Leary, who was cheering in the stands, Madison, the two-time Gainesville Sun Player of the Year, scored six goals (three in each half) with two assists.
Besides O'Leary, there were six other Eagle scorers, with senior Molly Muldoon with three goals, Kaitlyn Morse with two, seventh-grader Mason Yonge with two and freshman Avery Katz with a pair as well.
Ashley Cohrs and seventh-grader Emma Johnson also each had a goal for Oak Hall (11-5), which advances to the state playoffs.
"It's awesome," said Eagles coach Gigi Roark. "Our first year we could not play in the district tournament because we were a club team and weren't an official varsity team. So the last two years, we have been a FHSAA team and played in two district tournaments and won them both. It has been very exciting."
So has O'Leary's play.
Buchholz tied the match at 1-1 early, but Oak Hall went on a 7-0 run, opening it with three goals within 90 seconds, to lead and never look back. If O'Leary wasn't scoring, she was playing great defense, bringing the ball up the field and running the offense.
"Oak Hall is a really good team, and until Maddy graduates, they are are going to stay a good team," said Buchholz coach Lynn Millinoff. "She is very hard to shut down, and if we do, she can still feed to other players on the team."
Ahead 9-2 at the half, O'Leary scored back-to-back goals early in the second, about 30 seconds apart, for a 11-2 lead.
The Bobcats were led by Claire Murphy's two goals. Emma Kirk, Claire Riley and Savannah King also scored for Buchholz (8-8).
"Buchholz, you have to give them a lot of credit," Roark said. "They came out so aggressive, and I thought they were really passing well. Our team rose to the occasion tonight. We played well defensively on attack. We were success in controlling their transition. They had some opportunities early and we made some adjustments.
"You are not going to shut down Maddy. She is just an exceptional player. She is going to be a star."
The Eagles, who will likely get a bye in the regional quarterfinals on Tuesday like they did a year ago, should play next Friday in the regional semifinals. But who they will play and where it will be won't be cleared up until the first-round matches are complete.
A year ago, Oak Hall fell in the regional semifinals at St. Augustine Matanzas (12-10 in overtime).
"To come out and compete like this in our first three years is a tremendous accomplishment," said Madison O'Leary. "It was a team effort, you can't do that (scoring six goals) without everyone else coming out and competing.
"When other people aren't threats, it's hard to get the ball, but with everyone out there being a threat, they really have to honor everyone and play everyone equally because they can't just hone in on one person when everyone is clearly a threat. We had multiple people scoring tonight."
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The No.17-ranked Saint Leo women's tennis team (11-4) won for the sixth time in the last seven matches as they toppled the University of Indianapolis (6-5), 7-2, Saturday afternoon from the Saint Leo Tennis Center in non-region action.
Adding to their overall win total, the Lions collected a doubles sweep of the Greyhounds before taking wins at the first four singles spots.
Finishing doubles in order, the Lions saw a tremendous effort out of their top flight tandem as the No.8-ranked pair of Laura Kemkes and Emily Singleton dusted Alena Perez-Majul and Maggie Ashby, 8-0.
After solidifying wins at two and three doubles, the Lions used a dominating performance out their top four singles players to solidify the win. Singleton, ranked 40th in the country, shutout her opponent in straight sets, 6-0, 6-0.
"Overall, the women played a good match today," said Head Coach James Bryce. "I was happy to have Laura (Kemkes) back for doubles, while our number three team stepped up and played excellent today. In singles, we handled ourselves very well at one through four. Overall it's been a successful week."
The women will return to action on Wednesday, March 21, when they host non-region opponent West Virginia St. First server is set for 3 p.m. from the Saint Leo Tennis Center.
For more on the nationally-ranked women's tennis squad, visit SaintLeoLions.com.


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Palais Theatre
November 30
SYNTHESISERS. Shrieking sheets of them cut with drum samples of industrial violence. That's enough common ground for a rock double feature to fly in the prevailing winds of nostalgia.
Those very 1980s synapse triggers aside, there was no connecting the dots between Devo's ironic futurism and Simple Minds' brooding bombast. The Church's opening set of muscular rock mysticism was a third parallel universe but hey, we came for hits not thematic continuity.
On those terms Simple Minds won. Love Song came early, Waterfront followed, Don't You Forget about Me stopped the show just as eardrums warped to bursting. On they thundered anyway.
Their staging was a flawless flashback to MTV glories, singer Jim Kerr throwing his trademark crouching and side-skipping silhouettes against a blinding forest of smoke. The intensity of the drama hooked fans into an ecstatic dance: up in elation at every familiar riff, patiently re-seated for newer songs rendered meaningless in the maelstrom.
Devo fared better in the fraught act of juggling classic memories and ongoing relevance. Their pop-art video backdrop made sense of modern consumer commentaries Don't Shoot (I'm a Man), Fresh and What We Do.
Their robotic set pieces and zany costume changes (flower pot hats, $45) meant more humour and variety than the headliners' single-gear shock-and-awe spectacle. But with Girl You Want and Whip It easily stealing the set, and their monochordal techno version of Satisfaction sounding like an old joke best forgotten, it was impossible to conclude their future is now.


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HOUSTON - Sketches of two men who robbed a pizza deliveryman at knifepoint were released Wednesday.
The Domino's delivery driver said he was dropping off an order at the Falls of Clear Lake Apartments along Nasa Parkway at around 11 p.m. on May 24. The apartment unit he was sent to, however, was vacant. Detectives said thieves called in a fake order to lure the victim to the apartment complex.
First, the driver said he tried to knock on the apartment door but no one answered. All of a sudden, he said, two men wearing masks jumped out of the bushes.
"They told me, 'If you move, I will kill you.' I said, 'Sir, take whatever you want,'" the driver said.
He said one of the men put a knife to the side of his throat while the other grabbed his wallet, cellphone, tips and the pizza he was carrying.
"I am scared, especially at night time when I see suspicious people," he said.
Despite being afraid for his life, he said he has no choice but to keep working.
"I am married, my wife -- she don't work," he said. "I have two kids and they're in school and I pay everything in my house."
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Rosalie (Brown) Ciummei, professor emerita of physical education, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, March 13th after a brief and courageous battle with cancer. Professor Ciummei had been a member of the Wheaton faculty and chair of the Physical Education Department.She joined the Wheaton faculty in 1962, retiring in 1996.
Visiting hours will be held on Saturday, March 17th from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm at the Norton Memorial Funeral Home, 19 Clapp Street, Norton, MA. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to the Scleroderma Federation/N.E. Chapter, 462 Boston Avenue, Suite 1-1, Topsfield, MA 01983-1239. www.scleroderma.org.


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There's so much going on in Talk and the comments week to week that we almost can't keep up. If you're in the same boat, here's a small selection of topics and responses that have piqued our interest this week.
Food Jokes Anyone
"Q: What do you call a nosy pepper?
A: Jalapeño business!"—lux_lisbon
Hardest Kitchenware to Clean?
"I'm still on my bitch box about the guy blowing up stuff in the microwave. These days it's oatmeal. Yes, I have vented covers that I keep on top at hands reach. But, nooooo."— boobird
Culinary Vocabulary: How many M's in Mmmm!
"It depends on how long you intend on saying it."— Meat guy
Daily Slice: The Frankford Taco at Pizza Brain, Philadelphia
"that looks pretty disgusting. i didn't think the marriage of pizza and ice cream would ever be so desperate for divorce."—dynosaurus
election cooking ideas?
"Make sure you use a convection oven: cooking with hot air."— Lorenzo
Food-related Movie Moments
"the poor title character in Pieces Of April trying to cook her first thanksgiving dinner with a busted oven and thinking you mash potatoes before you cook them..." — tea-and-syncope
Best new way to open your favorite wine! The La Flute Corkscrew
"@boobird I'm from Canada. I am always chilled!"—thearrogantchef


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Kolkata, Nov 3 (IANS) The Kolkata Police have demanded a seven-time higher amount than on previous occasions from the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) for providing security during the India-West Indies Test match at the Eden Gardens, beginning Nov 6.
The CAB has termed the demand "too exorbitant".
The CAB, which paid Rs.5 lakh when it organised a Test match here last year, has been asked to shell out Rs.35 lakh by the police, which argued that additional arrangements, including more manpower deployment, have to be made in view of the frenzy around Sachin Tendulkar - playing his 199th and penultimate Test match of his career.
With Eden expected to witness a full house during the game, and a lot of events planned around Tendulkar's swangsong match at the venue and other areas in the city, the police have argued they would have to make maximum use of the resources at their disposal to maintain peace.
"During earlier Test matches, we used to pay Rs.5 lakh to the police. Now, they want Rs.35 lakh, which is too exorbitant," said a CAB official.
He said the CAB was not a profit-making organisation, and devoted solely to the development of the game in West Bengal.
"This is an international match we are hosting. It involves the country's prestige. So, the police needs to take all these into account before making such demands," he said.
Asked whether they have held talks with the police top brass, he said: "Actually, we are so busy in organising the match and finalising the plethora of felicitation programmes for Tendulkar, we did not find time for that."
"We will discuss the issue once the match is over. We believe we can arrive at a just amount through dialogue. We also understand we cannot stick to the figure of Rs.5 lakh. There is high inflation, and the security arrangements also have to be more elaborate this time," he added.


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Trying to save money in a depressed economy, our company ran into an example of how some cost-saving measures don't always help the budget.
After having the same Internet and phone service provider for over a decade, including moves to three different offices, we decided to change to a lower-cost provider.
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This particular provider mainly offered consumer services but made a great sales pitch about being good for small businesses. The price was right, the service and support were right (or so we were led to believe), and we liked what we found in the research.
We would have to cut back on some services, which we had anticipated anyway. For instance, we would no longer have 100 direct phone numbers -- not much of a compromise since we have far fewer employees than that and were never able to achieve the large growth that our optimistic CEO had when he signed the contract originally. Our new CEO was a bit more practical.
What we didn't realize was just how much our services were going to be cut back.
The IT person put in charge of the project, "Steve," did a good job of planning and organizing the change. He had done his homework and was more than ready on the scheduled day. He expected the process to take about 2 hours and had warned everyone well ahead of time. He was careful to do everything so that there would be no interruption of our normal work in most of our sites -- the only exception was that at one site we would be without phones or email for a couple of hours while the change was made.
The big day arrived, and everything went according to plan -- except for one thing. For some reason, we couldn't get email from outside the company. We could send it just fine, but not receive it. Steve checked everything, and he checked it again and again -- for four days. He talked to the service provider support line enough times that he could almost recite back to them their standard "script" for service calls. However, there was still no incoming email.
Finally, he figured out the problem: The service provider didn't want us to get any spam, so they blocked the port that allows incoming email. It worked fabulously. We definitely didn't get any spam or any other email either.
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Even better, when Steve called the service provider's support and asked them to fix it, they said that kind of thing requires a more experienced support person with whom you have to schedule an appointment at least 24 hours in advance, not including weekends.
It took Steve about five minutes to temporarily switch back to the old provider (whose contract didn't end until the last of the month), and email flooded our inboxes.
When we finally did get a technician on the phone who knew what he was doing, he and Steve fixed the problem and got us up and running in a few minutes. It turned out to be a setting in our router that the new provider's technicians had checked and said was OK, but wasn't. We made the mistake of taking their word for it and didn't examine it close enough to see the problem.
A small business is still a business and requires business-class support, not hearing, "Sorry your company is severely handicapped, we'll schedule an appointment with our only guy who has a clue. How does next week sound?" Just the cost of spending so much time trying to figure out and fix the problem and the extra time spent communicating in ways other than email was probably more than we will ever save by changing to the "lower cost" service provider.
In these days of stretched resources, it takes only one such incident to show just how thinly spread out they truly are.
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The body of a man was discovered by a dog walker in a field in Melksham last Thursday.
The man in his 40s, who is from the Beanacre area, was discovered shortly before 7pm on land behind Beanacre Road, by a woman walking her dog. The fields behind the street are a popular spot for dog walkers.
A neighbour said: "I had heard the police were there but I wasn't around at the time. You hear about these things happening but you wouldn't expect anything like that around here.
"I was really sad to hear what had happened, it's a tragedy for the family."
Police and ambulance crews attended, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
His death is not being treated as suspicious, and no further police inquiries have been made.


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JMicron JMF667H Reference Design (128GB & 256GB) Reviewby Kristian Vättö on 5/29/2014 9:00 AM EST
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hojnikb - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkThey should support TLC aswell.
Couple TLC flash with a cheap and decent controller and you have a cheap and still reasonably performing drive.
I'm really surprised how far jmicron came over the last few years. Reply
Death666Angel - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkIs anyone but Samsung getting SSD grade TLC at this time though? Reply
Laststop311 - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkSamsung has that unique position they can integrate the design of all the different parts of an ssd all under Samsung. The controller, dram, nand, firmware. This allowed samsung to quickly transition to TLC nand. This really makes the 1TB evo drive the best 2.5" drive for value/performance ratio. Samsung has the best performing m2 drive too the xp941. Reply
hojnikb - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkAlso, is anantech gonan review the new SMI based drives ? Reply
hojnikb - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - link*gonna* ... damn no edit option Reply
rpg1966 - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - link* "going to" Reply
Kristian Vättö - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkYes. I have Corsair's Force LX and ADATA's SP620 but they'll have to until I come back from Computex. Reply
hojnikb - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkGreat !
Looking foward to your review. Reply
romrunning - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkCan we also see a review for the Samsung XS1715 and the SMART Optimus Ultra SSDs? Reply
vonWolfhausen - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkAgreed. I have a PNY optima 240gb that I picked up for $90 (the discount actually came through). The SMI controller in it is legit. 500read/300write with low power consumption (micron 20nm sync MLC). Im curious about the performance consistancy, seems ok Reply
mflood - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkLooks like a great product for last year. This might help JMicron capture some of the OEM market - maybe even some budget enthusiast SSDs. What JMicron didn't do was swoop in with a M2 x4 PCIExpress controller. I'm done with 6Gbps SATA. Reply
romrunning - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkAhhhh.... JMicron - like a phoenix from the ashes. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...
Oh well, someone has to be at the bottom of the barrel. Reply
romrunning - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkI guess their selling point would be that they're cheaper than the Crucial M500. So if pricing is all-important to you (and why are you buying a SSD if price is all-important), then they would be a contender. Reply
The_Assimilator - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkPlease stop insulting barrels. Reply
moridinga - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - link"The JMF667H is not perfect and there are a couple of things I would like to see. The first one is support for TCG Opal 2.0 and IEEE-1667 encryption standards."
IEEE-1667 is not an encryption standard. Perhaps you meant IEEE-1619 Reply
Kristian Vättö - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkNope. IEEE-1667 is for storage devices, at least the version I'm looking at.
http://www.ieee1667.com/download/informational-doc... Reply
moridinga - Friday, May 30, 2014 - linkYes, it is authentication and discovery for storage devices (particularly removable/portable ones). It says nothing about encryption. Reply
Gigaplex - Saturday, May 31, 2014 - linkIEEE-1667 is a requirement for Microsofts Bitlocker eDrive, which is encryption. Reply
KAlmquist - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkContrary to the history given in the introduction, it was with the the Indilinx "barefoot" controller that was the game changer. Once Indrilinx entered the market, SSD's based on the J-Micron controller could only be sold to consumers who didn't understand what they were buying. The name J-Micron became toxic because if you wanted to advise somebody on buying an SSD, your first and last words would be, "whatever you do, don't buy and SSD with a J-Micron controller."
In contrast, Sandforce's first generation controller was an incremental improvement over what came before it. There's nothing wrong with that, but the term "game changer" doesn't apply. Reply
HisDivineOrder - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkSeems like that early history explanation really misses the point that Indilinx was the first real competition to Intel back then.
Sandforce came along and was the first company to put Intel down. But Indilinx was the first company that convinced people they could live with non-Intel SSD's and not... be JMicron'ed. Reply
Bindibadgi - Friday, May 30, 2014 - linkI'm genuinely wondering if the photos are artistically filtered or simply just that bad?? Reply
hp79 - Friday, May 30, 2014 - linkI think it's being artistically shot that way. I don't like it either. Photos from AMD article looks fine.
Nice article though. Good to see another contender in SSD market, back from the hall of shame.
It's going to be tough though. After sticking a Samsung 840 Pro 256GB in my desktop, and getting a rMBP13 laptop which has proprietary crazy fast SSD, I'm no longer in the market. But if I were to buy another SSD, it'll be whoever is cheapest (after rebates and coupons) with reasonable performance. And it should be a 7mm height so it also fits modern ultra thin laptops, not stupid 9.5mm with no reason. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Friday, May 30, 2014 - linkBetter now? I was in a hurry last night as the deadline was approaching way too quickly, so the quality suffered as a result. Bear in mind that we all work from our homes, so the camera equipment and lighting differs greatly from review to review. Reply
MrPoletski - Friday, May 30, 2014 - linkFor the love of god, why is it that on every SSD review here, every time I look at the performance consistancy graphs it is always for 4KB random write QD32?
3 separate tabbed graphs, all saying 4KB random write QD32 - yet clearly only one of them is, the others being perhaps 4kb reads, or 4kb writes QD 1 or 2.
It's this way every time I read an SSD review on anandtech, has nobody noticed this and fixed it yet or what? Reply
MrPoletski - Friday, May 30, 2014 - linkhaha, this time there was an explanation in the article. Ok. IGNORE ME LOL. Reply
milli - Friday, May 30, 2014 - link'Micron's roadmaps showed that a SATA 6Gbps JMF66x series was planned for the second half of 2010, which made sense given that Intel was integrating SATA 6Gbps to their 6-series chipsets in early 2011. But for some reason, the JMF66x never made it to the market on time.'
I don't think that's entirely true.
The Kingston SSDNow V200 used a JMicron JMF661 or JMF662 controller. That product launched towards the end of 2011 with great difficulties. The controller wasn't broken but the firmware was. It took Kingston six months to release a firmware that fixed the problems. Before that firmware the drive was utterly unusable (paused up to 5 seconds sometimes). After the firmware update it became usable and speed was then as advertised.
You can read about it here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/solid-state-drives...
This was very weird because the JMF618 found in some Kingston drives, worked very well (as found in Anand's reviews).
As for the JMF667H, I've used two Transcend SSD340 256GB drives. I suppose they are using the old firmware but performance is okay. Using those systems feels more or less like a system with a M500. Nothing earth shattering. Reply
go4aBetterPC - Friday, May 30, 2014 - linkWhile nice, I think JMicron is late to the market by about 1 to 2 years. For example the Micron M500 is already on the market. I would just use a another controller such as Marvell. Competitors are announcing and eventually releasing PCIe controllers. Intel has been slow to invigorate the PC market. Perhaps they are too distracted by all their Broadwell yield delays. And some key providers like Micron are trying to make their own controllers or already do in the case of Samsung, but already have relatively low cost SSD drives on the market. Perhaps JMicron should look for a buyer. The SSD market is highly competitive and there are lots of players and interest. I am hoping laptop manufacturers get their act together and start offering more ssd drives as a option. I have decided to not buy many laptops since they don't offer a 128gb or 256gb ssd drive. To me, this is the main way to invigorate the market. Too many companies wait for new Intel processors rather than take control of their own destiny. A $500 laptop that now costs $650 with a ssd would get good reviews and probably would gather a lot of sales. Reply
Shiitaki - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkI just recently picked up a Samsung Evo for school for virtualizing a cluster of computers. I ended up going with the Samsung for 3 reasons. One, consistently high performance, it's the 1TB version. Two, single manufacturer of the whole item, they don't source parts from 'whomever is cheaper'. I'm thinking of Kingston here. There are plenty of reviews of the drive, Samsung is proud of it, so plenty of reviews available.
I looked at the Optima, a pair of them in fact. But I could only find one review, and I also didn't want to buy something where the review sample is superior to what they are selling to the consumer. While it was cheaper, I didn't have faith that PNY wouldn't do what Kingston has been caught doing.
The importance of your website to the consumer is huge. I'd like to express my appreciation for Anandtech.com's constant diligence. If I can't find a review on something with measurements, I won't buy it. Reply


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Teeth? What teeth?
Oh, right, those: The distinctive smile that people have harped on ever since she first appeared as a secretary on season four of AMC's hit series Mad Men. The teeth that people felt so free to criticize online that her Facebook bio says simply, "This is actually me, so please try not to say mean things. Thanks!" The ones that enough people, three seasons later, still search for to make "Jessica Paré teeth" the first suggested option when you type her name into Google. And the same ones that, mid-brunch—a kale salad, no croutons—on a cool winter day in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, the thirty-three-year-old actress unfurls in a wide smile before asking the question we've all asked after consuming any leafy green vegetable: Is there anything in my teeth?
There isn't, just as Paré suspects. "You can't get a lot of shit stuck in these teeth," she says. She's right. Those teeth are a flosser's dream—standing straight, close but not touching, like coworkers forced into a company photograph. They're also just teeth. Effective and normal, highlighted simply because she chose not to dump twenty grand into having the exact same mouth as every other actor. Those teeth are not Mike Tyson's face tattoo. They are forgettable.
A child of two actors, Paré (and her teeth) grew up with theatrics—and a taste for mischief that she acknowledges could forever have scarred her brother, who to this day probably hesitates before buying a pet. (Turns out parrots can't die of loneliness.) When she wasn't teasing him, Paré and her brother were teasing her parents. Once, after reading about the death of his mime teacher, her dad made the mistake of mentioning that this mime had retired. As she did back then, Paré jumps up from the table to demonstrate what a retired mime might do—like pretend to read the paper and pretend to golf. It's quite charming, and it draws a few confused stares from the people around us.
That was her goal—drawing stares, and maybe making some money from it—when the actress moved from her native Montreal to Los Angeles in 2004 for a role on a WB series about a future president and his brother, Jack & Bobby. The show lasted only one season, which posed more than a financial problem for Paré: As a Canadian, she needed a new visa. To get one, she needed an employer willing to sponsor her, which meant she could go only for the really big parts. Not the easiest way to set yourself up for success.
"I really struggled," she says. She applied for a green card to solve the sponsorship problem, but "what was supposed to take three months took nine. I couldn't work or travel, and any momentum that I had gained from Jack & Bobby just dissipated." Frustrated, Paré eventually auditioned to be a secretary on Mad Men. "I was ready to move back to my parents' place, ready to get a job at my friend's bar back home and just pack it in," she says. "I had nothing left to lose. I went into the audition thinking, This is it. If you don't like it, that's fine. Nobody else has."
They liked it. Paré got the role—which she expected to entail a four-episode arc and what appeared to be a clear-cut ending: Her character would have sex with Don Draper, the kiss of death on a show with a main character who goes through women like tissues. Some of the show's crew members even said goodbye when they found out. But instead of being cast aside, that lowly secretary became the next Mrs. Draper. And then, just as sudden as her character's engagement, Paré found herself a fan favorite when her slinky rendition of "Zou Bisou Bisou" became as instantly iconic as Marilyn Monroe's birthday song to JFK. When season seven starts April 13, it's safe to say Paré will still be around. And that her teeth will be clear of any debris.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The San Francisco Giants said they had to move on after Melky Cabrera's 50-game suspension for a positive drug test. They've done just that, regaining the NL West lead and improving to 5-2 since his punishment was announced last week.
Solid pitching by Madison Bumgarner, Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain, along with hot-hitting from Angel Pagan on the current road trip has allowed the Giants to extend their division lead to 2 1/2 games.
They beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-4 on Wednesday night for their first three-game sweep at Dodger Stadium in five years. The Giants arrived in Los Angeles trailing the Dodgers by a half-game and they leave with their largest lead in a month.
''We have a lot of talent here and these guys stepped it up,'' manager Bruce Bochy said. ''You hate to lose one of your best players, but it's how you deal with it and those guys have. You have no choice. These guys have done a great job of putting it behind them.''
Cain pitched seven strong innings following strong outings by Bumgarner and Lincecum, and Joaquin Arias homered and drove in a career-high five runs to give the Giants their first sweep in Los Angeles since April 24-26, 2007.
''It put a little pressure on you because you want to keep everything going on your end,'' said Cain (13-5), who allowed one run and seven hits, struck out five and walked none to win his third in a row.
The Giants avenged a three-game sweep by the Dodgers in San Francisco last month that created a virtual tie atop the division. Now the Giants are ahead by their biggest margin since a 2 1/2-game lead on July 25.
''It was one of those series where it just didn't seem like anything went our way,'' Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said.
Chris Capuano (11-9) gave up three runs in the first inning before settling down and retiring 13 straight. But he became unhinged to start the sixth, giving up three consecutive hits. An RBI single by Pablo Sandoval chased Capuano. The left-hander allowed six runs and six hits in five-plus innings, struck out two and walked none.
''Madison got it started for them and really shut us down and didn't give us much air at all,'' Capuano said. ''We took it to them earlier in the year there and they kind of returned the favor.''
Arias hit a two-run homer in the first, giving the Giants a 3-0 lead after Sandoval's sacrifice fly. Those two struck again in the sixth, Sandoval with an RBI single and Arias with a run-scoring double. Shawn Tolleson gave up a bases-loaded walk that scored Sandoval and extended the Giants' lead to 6-0.
''We came here with the mindset we needed to win,'' Sandoval said. ''It's a lot of games coming up so we need to keep fighting.''
The Dodgers' first run came on Hanley Ramirez's RBI single in the sixth.
Arias' two-run RBI double off Jamey Wright in the seventh made it 8-1.
''I'm very proud of what I did because everyone goes out there every day and tries to produce,'' Arias said through a translator. ''As soon as I signed, it was my goal to make the team and stay here. I expect a lot of myself.''
The Dodgers rallied with three runs in the eighth to trail 8-4. Matt Kemp hit a run-scoring ground-rule double against Clay Hensley and Luis Cruz hit a two-run single with the bases loaded off Santiago Casilla before A.J. Ellis hit into an inning-ending double play.
Giants left fielder Justin Christian ran full speed toward the left field corner and robbed Juan Rivera of extra bases with a diving catch on the warning track in the seventh with a runner on first base.
''What a catch he made,'' Bochy said.
Christian had his sore left wrist wrapped after the game, and he said he hoped he could play on Thursday when the Giants open a four-game series at home against Atlanta.
Ethier was 0 for 18 before ending the drought in the sixth with a ground-rule double that was misjudged by right fielder Hunter Pence. It gave Ethier six straight seasons with 30 or more doubles, setting a Dodgers franchise record.
NOTES: Ethier played with a blister on the palm of his right hand. ... Giants C Buster Posey was scratched from the lineup because of tightness in his right hamstring. He's day to day. Posey left after his final at-bat in the seventh inning on Tuesday night after increasing discomfort. ... Giants RHP Brad Penny will join Class-A San Jose on Thursday as he continues his rehab from right shoulder problems, which landed him on the disabled list on Aug. 14. ... Mattingly flip-flopped his starting pitchers for weekend games against the Miami Marlins. LHP Clayton Kershaw will move up a day to start Saturday, while RHP Aaron Harang moves back a day to pitch on Sunday. ... Giants closer Brian Wilson will resume throwing in October as he rehabs from the Tommy John surgery he had on April 19.


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Corn futures seemed to suffer from pragmatic selling Tuesday. Monday's monthly USDA WASDE report was seen as bullish for corn. CBOT futures reacted well to the news, but ended yesterday and today rather weakly. The nearby contracts are still trading above short-term moving average support, but pragmatic traders appeared to sell actively in response to the surprisingly weak reaction to the bullish news. March corn closed 1.5 cents lower at $4.415/bushel Tuesday, while May dipped 1.5 to $4.4725.
Firming cash prices reportedly boosted the soy complex Tuesday. Soybean and meal futures seemed headed substantially lower in early trading, especially after the bearish results of Monday's WASDE report truncated what had looked like a bullish breakout on the charts. Nevertheless, early reports of surprising cash strength apparently triggered a fresh reversal by late morning. March soybeans climbed 9.25 cents to $13.3475/bushel at Tuesday's close, while March soyoil rose 0.12 cents to 38.85 cents/pound, and March soymeal bounced $5.2 to $449.2/ton.
Wheat continued building on recent gains. The wheat markets posted varying gains Tuesday, due in part to the supportive nature of the WASDE data. The nearby Kansas City and Minneapolis contracts have also broken out above technical resistance, whereas Chicago prices struggled at comparable points. Concerns about Canadian transport problems boosted the Minneapolis market, while KC traders were worried about southern Plains dryness. March CBOT wheat futures advanced 5.5 cents to $5.9025/bushel at their Tuesday settlement, while March KCBT wheat futures gained 2.75 cents to $6.655, and March MWE futures surged 9.75 to $6.6125.
Talk of rising packer bids sent cattle futures higher. The cattle market began the week rather poorly, which probably reflected the negative influence of flat-to-weak wholesale prices. But packer buyers reportedly raised their bids for southern Plains cattle this morning, thereby spurring strong buying in the CME pit. April cattle futures leapt 1.00 cent to 141.17 cents/pound as Tuesday's pit session ended, while August climbed 0.75 cents to 131.02. Meanwhile, March feeder cattle jumped 0.87 cents to 168.77 cents/pound, and May soared 0.82 to 170.35.
Hog futures sagged in Tuesday trading. The cash hog and wholesale pork markets again appeared to fall short of bullish expectations Monday, thereby undermining futures priced at substantial premiums to spot values. That seemed to be the case again today, as indicated by the general CME swine decline. April hogs sank 0.57 cents to 94.17 cents/pound as pit trading ended Tuesday, while June tumbled 0.75 to 104.67.


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The boy was visiting a government building in Hezhang County with his grandmother Sunday when he decided to stick his head between the columns and soon realized he couldn't get it out, ITV News reported.
A team of firefighters had to use hydraulic pliers to widen the gap in the stone balustrade and free him, according to The Independent.
The boy was unhurt and was tearfully reunited with his grandmother standing nearby.


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Huru provides girls in Kenya with vital sanitary products so they can attend class all month long.
-Diana Denza
Let's face it: many of us aren't too fond of our periods. The bloating, cramping, and intense chocolate cravings that go with the weeklong flow… not so fun. But did you ever miss up to five days of school per month because you were too embarrassed to leave your home in "pads" created from germ-ridden materials picked out of the trash?
Well, according to a 2010 Oxford University study, this is a regular occurrence for girls in rural Kenya who haven't ever used the pads we throw into our carts without a second thought during that time of the month. And the consequences are serious for these young women in need.
"Using unhygienic materials carries a risk of infection; this is especially relevant since girls are generally not using clean materials," Lorna Macleod, the executive director of Huru International, told us. "Instead, they use cast-off materials, which are generally unclean, and include bits of mattress, scraps of old cloth, and even compacted cow dung. Alongside the health risks, many of the girls cite the fact that substitute materials carry a risk of humiliation, which forces them to stay home even when using them. This is because the materials are generally just placed in the underwear unsecured and can easily fall out."
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But the issue runs deeper than girls not having the resources to purchase these products: many of them are completely unaware of what a period is, which sounds utterly shocking to us, but commonplace in a society where Macleod reports that programs for girls will see merely two cents out of every dollar given to development initiatives.
"Many of the girls have described their first period as a wholly unexpected and terrifying experience," Macleod explained. "They didn't know what to expect, or what was happening, because nobody had ever told them. One reason for this is that menstruation remains a taboo topic in many areas. Also, a large number of the girls with whom Huru works are one- or two-parent orphans, and those who live with their fathers or relatives are often too embarrassed to ask questions about menstruation."
According to Macleod, Huru's kits have already created astronomical changes: not only are girls who received them 95% more likely to attend school every day, but 85% of girls also improve academically as a result of being noticed and valued.
Besides holding an array of feminine products, each package contains crucial informational pamphlets about HIV/AIDS –which continue to be scant, especially in rural areas.
"Quality HIV education is among the most direct and effective prevention tools there is," Macleod said. "Even where girls are receiving school-based education, reinforcement is essential. There's a good deal of regional variation, as well, as HIV education is generally weakest in rural areas."
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Women's golf tied for 15th at NCAAs
Published: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 11:00 p.m.
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ATHENS, Ga. — Competing in its 24th NCAA Championship all-time, the No. 9 Florida women's golf team completed its first round of play at the 2013 NCAA Championships at the UGA Golf Course with an 11-over (299) to be in a tie for 15th-place heading into the second round.
"It's not the most typical start we wanted," Florida head coach Emily Bastel said. "Mia (Piccio) and Camill (Hedberg) did play well today, but it was tough finding birdies out there today and I thought they did a good job of staying patient. We'll just need a little bit of help tomorrow from the rest of the team and show the depth that we have. In team golf, you need everybody to come ready to play, especially in the national championship and that's what we'll be looking for tomorrow."
Only seven birdies found their way onto Gator scorecards as the hilly Georgia golf course didn't yield many birdies for all teams. Former champions, San Jose State and Southern California lead the way after day one with a four-under (284), while SJSU also holds on to the individual leader, Regan De Guzman, who shot a five-under (67), a career-best to lead by two strokes. Along with the Spartans, only three other teams compiled an even par or better team score after the tournament's first day.
Trying to carry over momentum from her top-ten finish at the NCAA Central Regional, senior Mia Piccio brought in one of the most consistent rounds of the day. Piccio pared 11-straight holes before bogeying the par four, second hole and, for a time, was steady in the top-20 at even par. The senior ended up getting her first birdie on the par four, sixth hole, but scored a bogey on the next hole to drop back to one-over where she finished up to be in a tie for 33rd individually.
Also in a tie for 33rd is sophomore Camilla Hedberg, who carded the best Gator round on Tuesday along with Piccio. Looking to make a statement in only her second NCAA Championship of her collegiate career, Hedberg had a more up-and-down day with four bogeys and three birdies. The Spaniard was two-under after seven holes and in the mix of the top-five, but suffered a bogey right before the turn and then bogeyed two of her first three holes of her second nine.
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A sentencing hearing has been delayed for a former Winnipeg hospital employee who stole nearly $1.5 million over a 10-year period to fuel a serious gambling addiction.
Michelle Cadger was set to learn her fate this week, but lawyers have requested an adjournment until next Thursday. She remains free on bail but faces the possibility of a lengthy prison sentence.
Cadger, 47, pleaded guilty earlier this year to fraud over $5,000. The case came to light in 2010 when internal concerns prompted the Misericordia Hospital to hire an external auditing firm that confirmed a massive amount of money missing from a hospital bank machine. Cadger has since been fired from the job she had worked at since 1980.
The provincial government has filed documents in Court of Queen's Bench in an attempt to have Cadger's assets and bank accounts frozen while the case remains before the courts. They also want $25,000 cash she has paid to a local law firm put in trust, alleging the money is proceeds of crime. The government has also filed a civil lawsuit seeking unspecified financial damages.
According to affidavits, Cadger spent nearly $400,000 of stolen money on slot machines since 2008. She also used funds to take nine friends on a trip to Hawaii and purchase a new car, which has now been impounded.
Cadger worked as an accounts receivable clerk in the hospital's finance department and had nearly exclusive access to large amounts of money used to fill the ATM. She used her position to repeatedly remove money from the cash float used to fill the bank machine, the court documents state.
A new finance director at the hospital noticed irregularities, triggering the internal review and subsequent investigation. The ATM was operated by the Misericordia until the fraud was discovered, at which time the hospital transferred operation to an outside company.


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From the fields of forensics and microbiology to nuclear physics and meteorology, in When Science Goes Wrong LeVay shares twelve true essays illustrating a variety of ways in which the scientific process can go awry. Failures, disasters and other negative outcomes of science can result not only from bad luck, but from causes including failure to follow appropriate procedures and heed warnings, ethical breaches, quick pressure to obtain results, and even fraud. Often, as LeVay notes, the greatest opportunity for notable mishaps occurs when science serves human ends. LeVay shares these examples:
- To counteract the onslaught of Parkinson's disease, a patient undergoes cutting-edge brain surgery using fetal transplants, and is later found to have hair and cartilage growing inside his brain.
- In 1999, NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft is lost due to an error in calculation, only months after the agency adopts a policy of "Faster, Better, Cheaper."
- Britain's Bracknell weather forecasting team predicts two possible outcomes for a potentially violent system, but is pressured into releasing a 'milder' forecast. The BBC's top weatherman reports there is "no hurricane", while later the storm hits, devastating southeast England.
- Ignoring signals of an imminent eruption, scientists decide to lead a party to hike into the crater of a dormant volcano in Columbia, causing injury and death.
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Kids having braces is a common thing these days, so why are they still being bullied? We spoke to Jill M. Emanuele, Ph.D., from the Anxiety and Mood Disorders Center at the Child Mind Institute to find out why and how we can help build kids' self-esteem.
Kids can choose different colored bands for their braces to show off their personality.
I think it's the way that braces are different. In our society, particularly in that age group, how people look really relates directly to their popularity. And a good chunk of kids want to be popular. Their self-consciousness comes from the fear of whether they will be popular because now there's something making them look different. I think that some kids take advantage of this by pointing out these differences and bullying those children with braces.
A lot of people get braces and want to hide them—a fact that our culture has embraced and has come up with invisible options such as Invisalign. We want kids to be proud and show their braces off. We want them to put it right out there and say, "Yep, I have braces. I'm proud of them. They are going to make my teeth healthy and look great." There is a website (girlswithbraces.co) where there are pictures of girls with big smiles showing off their braces. Their approach is having braces is a positive thing rather than hiding in fear.
If a kid gets braces and approaches it with fear and wants to hide, other kids pick up on that fear and that's where a lot of the teasing really comes in and it really erodes their self-esteem.
Parents are always looking for different ways to boost self-esteem. Modeling for your child is the number-one way. How you view the situation is predictive of how they will view the situation. Saying, Yeah, you look ugly or You are going to be different, and you have to hide this because kids are going to make fun of you—let's do something different with your hair is not the approach you should take. The correct approach is to really model self-acceptance (You have crooked teeth, it's who you are right now.), and for the child to really be able to say, I have crooked teeth right now, and perhaps I'll get braces down the road to fix them.
Another thing would be to listen to your child to really hear her fears and concerns and reflect back on what you're hearing—really sitting down with her and having a conversation rather than dancing around it. Parents sometimes rely on techniques such as judging, criticizing, and nagging when they get frustrated or are tired of fighting with their kids. These techniques don't work. Listen and pay attention to your child but also make sure you provide appropriate structure that she needs to feel safe.
Try to build up and highlight your child's strengths and praise her for them—not just for her looks. A lot of parents and people in society praise kids, especially girls, for their looks. The goal is to find attributes to praise other than looks. Praise talent, intellectual ability, sense of humor, or sports ability to produce well-rounded children who don't rely on one thing to have their self-esteem based on.
What really promotes bullying is when no one speaks up, when no one says anything. So we are always teaching and encouraging children to speak up and talk about. We want the kids who are being bullied to talk to an adult try to get help from parents and the school and learn how to speak to the bully and say I'm okay with who I am and I don't know why you're making fun of me—learn how to stand up for themselves.
Sometimes children aren't able to do that and they need assistance from others, so the purpose of speaking to a parent is to figure out how they can handle the situation on their own. Parents may even want to get involved, tell the school what's going on, and assist their child in getting assistance. It's the school's responsibility to provide education on bullying and teach children to stand up for each other. When the bully told by many different kids "Don't make fun of or pick on that kid," the bully pretty much stops.
Jill M. Emanuele, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist at the Anxiety and Mood Disorders Center for the Child Mind Institute.
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"The choices you make, from the food you eat to the music you listen to, can make powerful societal change," says Robert Egger, Founder and President of DC Central Kitchen. Scores of food and music enthusiasts gathered at the infamous 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. to affirm this idea on Sunday afternoon, enjoying tasty bites, live music and sunshine while making a difference in their community at Soundbites.
Now in its third year, Soundbites is DC Central Kitchen's annual street fair-style food and music celebration to bring awareness to its cause. Since its founding in 1989, DC Central Kitchen has provided over 25 million meals to low-income and at-risk community members. In addition, the Kitchen offers culinary job training program for unemployed men and women who want to replace homelessness, addiction and incarceration with new careers and changed lives. And that's just the beginning: celebrating everything the DC Central Kitchen does is what Soundbites is all about.
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Saint Leo, Fla. (October 2, 2006) - The Saint Leo volleyball team will host three matches at the Marion Bowman Activities Center this Saturday after adding one match to its schedule and welcoming Kutztown and the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez to face each other as part of a volleyball triple-header.
Kutztown and Mayaguez will open the play with a match at 1:00 p.m. The homestanding Lions will then be featured in the final two matches of the day, as they will face Mayaguez at 3:00 p.m. and then take on Kutztown at 7:00 p.m.
Saint Leo has won eight of its last nine matches and will host top-ranked Tampa on Wednesday before traveling south to play Lynn University on Friday night (7:00 p.m.). Both of the midweek games will be broadcast live on the Saint Leo Athletics Audiocast Network. Click the Stretch Internet "Listen Live" logo for complete schedule information and "Listen" links.


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Something exciting is happening this week, and I'd like to pass the proverbial "mic" to an NSVRC colleague whose passion for WEAAD is contagious! Oh, but first - let me fill you in, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day or WEAAD is an awesome campaign that proudly declares: My World...Your World...Our World – Free of Elder Abuse.
If there's anything that SAAM blog isn't shy about, it's highlighting great campaigns that intersect with our goal of creating social change toward a future free of sexual violence. To prevent elder abuse it is vital that we share a message about the value of older adults, bolstering these voices and declaring that #eldersmatter. All ages can join the chorus, and we want you to get involved! Read on to learn more, and stay tuned to NSVRC blogs and social networks all week long to promote WEAAD and resources to end elder abuse. We also invite you to join us for the Elders Matter: The Two Cents Tweet up! Tweet with us all week long and be sure to represent WEAAD on Friday, June 15th! Without further aduei...
Guest Post: Why WEAAD?
When's the last time you rolled your eyes? Was it because there was another day, week, month devoted to a topic you had only tangential interest in? I mean by this point in your life you've had ribbons of every color, days of remembrance of every stripe and have been to more walks, rallies and meetings than are easy to recount. Fact is if you care you can get sucked dry leaving you with little interest in summoning the energy for one more campaign at all.
Thing is, I've got another one to add to your list. It's just a day but we'd love to see you care about this year round. It's not talk like a pirate day, it's not national yo-yo day (sorry you missed it) and it's not national curmudgeon day (the internet is awesome) it's instead World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD).
So why are we asking you do dig down deep and place June 15th on your calendar? In part it's because #eldersmatter and we want to hear your stories. It's also in part because sexual assault in particular can bring about devastating injuries to adults in later life and we need to be focused not just on prevention but also intervention. I think the biggest reason I'm bringing this to your attention is because if we can care about porpoises we should also care about the folks who shaped our society, nurtured our families, protected our shores and built the foundation that even allows this blog to exist. I like pirates, am passable with a yo-yo and I'm clearly a curmudgeon. I get that you're busy too. I just hope that in your busyness you recognize the people who not only came before and paved the way but also work side by side with you today to end sexual assault 24/7/365
-Benje (Future staff blogger at More than Meets the Eye)
Benje Douglas is the Project Manager for the Lifespan Project at the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. He provides training, resources, and assistance on all aspects of responding to sexual violence throughout life stages. This year's topic focus is sexual violence in later life. Request additional information and resources by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.


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DETROIT - The Detroit Lions will open the 2013 season Sept. 8 playing host to the Minnesota Vikings.
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I went to the DC event to see COB speak. I wanted to hear his plans, see if he had anything worthwhile to say. I wasn't surprised when he had little more to say than the same empty promises and lies. But the setting was more important than the speech. The new DC Ideal Org looks great! But the way the ceremony was done was not. I have literature claiming there would be 5000 Scientologists there. I came to help make that number. There was not near that many. Certainly fewer than 1000. But we were still numerous enough we should have had an open ceremony to show the world who we are and what we are and that we still have strength. But COB chose instead to hide us behind ugly white tarps surrounding the event. What a farce! And all because a handful of masked idiots outside.
COB gives his speech while he and the rest of us cower behind a crudely erected wall! What kind of message does that send? Anyone coming by from outside would see this enormous wall around the building and it would only highlight the masked idiots outside. Instead of seeing their pitiful small band of suppressives next to a throng of Scientologists, the world saw a group of suppressives keeping us penned in a makeshift barrier. What a joke we must look like to the world. This is why COB must GO! This is why David Miscavige, yes I will use his name, needs to step down or be pulled down. LRH would not have had us cowering behind sheets because of a few SPs. This is why I am writing this blog.
As for the so called Anonymous, they came closer than should have been allowed and made enough noise to be heard at times over the crowd. Their jeers became increasingly loud after the speech by COB. I just wanted to go out there and turn a hose pipe on them.
In my next article, I will explain how I would deal with Anonymous and I also will be announcing I have found others of the same mind as myself. I am not the only one who wants COB removed and new leadership installed. More later.


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Carmen Caputo's Power Shack Gym really is one of the best garage gyms out there. This is the second Atomic Athletic Bomb Proof Bulletin based on his place. It is a true unattached pole barn type 2-car + size garage, that is exclusively a gym. Carmen and his buddies completely finished it off, with heat. I can really appreciate that right now, as it's -5 F as I write this.
The photo shows The Power Shack accessory corner, highlighted by the peg board. Hanging on the bottom are real antique Whitely spring type strand pulling units, with all the original Whitely accessory parts. He has them set up with 1-5 springs, just like a pro-style dumbbell or kettlebell rack. You also see an original cloth webbing York head harness and York wrist roller, together with some home made loading pins.
Carmen and I had a great talk about the wrist rollers. We are both really into the wrist roller movement and concept. Carmen actually has two of those originals, but he stripped the paint off the one shown in the picture and poly coated it. I also have an original red painted one that I will show in a wrist roller article that is coming down the pike. Carmen's wrist roller advice is to, "...put a longer rope on your wrist roller, when it comes time to replace it. If you have a longer rope, you will find a way to use it. It's the basic simple details that the old strength guys were into, and that made all the difference. The longer rope is murder on your hands. Once you unroll it, you have to roll it back up before you can put it away."
In the floor rack you can see a variety of bars. He has an original Gaspari Bar, a 6 foot standard barbell, a 6 foot Olympic bar, a regular Olympic curl bar, an Olympic Super Curl Bar and an Olympic Hammer Curl Bar. He also has quite a pile of standard size plates.
Rounding out the collection is a Power Twister, an Iron Man Super Gripper and a variety of rubber rings. The left wall also shows his framed original York Powerlifting Chart #2 (Bench Press). The other wall has his lat machine attachments (like the triceps rope), with the lat machine in the foreground. That padding is not the original naugahyde, but that cool late-60s glitter black that you may have seen on boat or motorcycle seats. He has re-upholstered everything in to match.
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If they cannot differentiate reality from fantasy, I think the obsessions are the least of your worries.
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- Otaku Girls Expose Their Most Depraved Places:
Chicks just happened to land more sex appeal than the male sex. If society deemed men more visually enchanting they'd inherit the role of a promiscuous mistress. However popular belief states and has convinced fragile minds that girls are somehow segregated from the idea of even being human and just by doing the human thing and playing by life's rules. My closing statements are all people are catty whores that sell out for attention, nor is anyone up for persecution. We don't make statements to …
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*funny thing is most of these anime girls otakus love aren't even otakus but in fact are an imitation of women with non-otaku personalities. The only difference with anime girls is they have super powers…so why is this debate even taking place? I doubt anyone would interrogate Kuroi Mato or Hatsune Miku to find out if she's a legitimate otaku. Otakus like anime because the artists have captured the positive traits in real people, and have effectively expressed an admiration of these …
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Stereotypes…stereotypes. Humanity is humanity. Just like guys girls conform to the media and the roles they think they fit in. It is like stating tiny infants are born with an intention to be some evil genius when humanity fails to understand that everything is learned.There are man whores but no one really pays attention to them. It's all about the boobs and soft features, and if it wasn't, guys would be in the hot seat. A human being alone by itself is genetically flawed. No, not a flaw.. …
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Nice read, I have only one comment "Judgemental pricks like the guys on here" Welcome to Sancom, 90% of people here are pricks.
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Taylor I never once said you 'can't get girls' and I have contributed more to he conversation than you, who has a superiority complex the size of the sun and whose ego alone could probably provide power for some third world villages for a good year or so ago. My argument with you is that you are judging all women in existence by the handful you have dated, despite only dating a very specific kind of woman. It would be like me judging all men from my experience with male republicans, or surfer …
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(UPDATED COVERAGE, 3:35 p.m.) The U.S. Department of Agriculture has allocated more than $100 million for two specialty crop programs.
In a conference call Oct. 1, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $55 million in Specialty Crop Block Grant funding and $46 million for new and continuing specialty crop research.
The $55 million in proposed block grant funding will be distributed among 748 initiatives, Vilsack said. They include programs benefiting farmers' markets, farm-to-school initiatives, new growers, good agricultural practices readiness, sustainability efforts and other initiatives.
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The course is being offered during fall semester by FAU's School of Public Administration at the Boca Raton campus.
Program coordinator Richard Mangan says national publicity surrounding the recent George Zimmerman trial in central Florida helped spur the creation of the course. It's being offered as an elective.
Florida's self-defense law generally removed a person's duty to retreat if possible in the face of danger. It was the first of its kind in the nation when passed in 2005. Now, about two dozen states have similar laws.
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lkley's Siân Morgan, pictured, returned to her home county last weekend to compete at the British Universities Swimming Championships in Sheffield.
This was her first competition representing Edinburgh University where she is studying Chemistry. Siân finished on the podium with bronze medals in the 800m freestyle with a time of 8.48 and in the 200m butterfly with a personal best time of 2.13.
She just missed a medal by 6 hundredths of a second in the 400m freestyle to claim fourth position. Siân also swam the fly leg in the medley relay that came second and she lead off in the freestyle relay that came fourth.
Overall Edinburgh University came in third position behind the powerhouses of British University swimming, Loughborough and Bath.
Siân thoroughly enjoyed the Championships and said, 'It was a great weekend, I loved swimming out for the University of Edinburgh and it was amazing to be a part of such a team!'