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SAINT LEO, Fla. - 10 Lions scored en route to a 19-8 rout over Coker College on Sunday afternoon at University Field, marking a special Senior Day celebration for five Saint Leo men's lacrosse players. With the win, the Lions climb to 7-5 on the season, while Coker drops to an overall record of 2-11.
Seniors Mark Benoit, Patrick Berry, Steven McDonald, Alex Monteferrante, and Cory Weindel stepped out onto University Field for their final regular season home game of their 2012 campaign, helping the Lions to close out the afternoon on a high note.
Matt Obermeyer and George Proechel led the game in goals with five apiece, with Proechel taking on an assist for a game-high six points on the day. Behind the 10-goal outing from the duo, Tom Horn, Ryan Burke, Chris Caiazza, Ray Ferrara, Robert Figueroa, Robert Hutchinson, Alex Raucci, and Monteferrante scored one goal each.
Horn led the team in assists with two, followed by Burke, Proechel, and Sean Connolly with one apiece.
The Cobras saw a four goal performance from Keith LaClair, while John Bretton led the team in points with a hat trick and three assists.
In goal for the Lions Berry set aside five shots in 45 minutes of play, allowing only five goals. Joe May stepped in cage for the fourth quarter, making three saves while yielding four shots.
Coker racked up a total of 15 saves on the afternoon after facing 50 shots and 33 shots on frame from the Lions. Josh Masciarelli earned nine saves, while Christian Steven set aside six in the final 15 minutes of action.
The Lions opened up to a 2-0 lead with two quick goals from Proechel and Obermeyer in the first minute of the game. But a goal from LaClair cut the Cobra's deficit in half a minute later. Saint Leo bit back, scoring three unanswered goals, including two from Obermeyer, to close out the first quarter with a 5-1 lead.
The second stanza saw Saint Leo outscore their opponent 5-2, setting the score at 10-3 at the half. The Lions dominated the third period, finding the back of the cage on seven shots while holding the Cobras to just two goals, to enter into the final quarter with a comfortable 17-5 advantage.
Coker muscled through the final period and outscored the Lions 4-1, but Saint Leo had secured the victory in the second quarter with a game-winning goal from Proechel with 5:12 to go before halftime.
Saint Leo dominated the shot count, 50-29, and placed 33 shots on frame to the Cobra's 18. Robert Hutchinson led the Green and Gold in faceoffs, winning 14-of-19 and helping the Lions win 20-of-31 on the afternoon. Hutchinson led the team in ground balls with nine, matching a career best, while Beau Besancenez and Figueroa picked up six each.
The Lions were successful on 21-of-27 clear attempts, and were 1-for-2 on man-up opportunities while a staunch man-down defense held the Cobras to just one goal on three man-up situations. Saint Leo caused 12 turnovers on the day, led by Sean Connolly with four, while Besancenez and Steven McDonald earned two each.
The Saint Leo men's lacrosse team returns to action on Saturday, April 7, when they square off against Deep South Conference rival Florida Southern in the final game of the regular season. The DSC showdown will have post-season implications, as it determines who will host the first round of the conference tournament on April 10. For the latest news, updates, and information on the men's lacrosse team, visit saintleolions.com.


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Buena Vista was the breakout music doc of the decade and a story that ran and ran (and then ran a bit more) as a small, Cohiba-puffing corner of the musical world opened its borders to millions of new fans. It was the brainchild of Cuban guitarist Juan de Marcos González and Ry Cooder, an American guitarist and film scorer with a passion for roots and blues, who reunited Cuba's venerable musical posse and turned them into Central America's answer to the Blues Brothers. The 1997 album led to Wim Wenders' 1999 documentary which led to a whole lot of love from the Rubén González, Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo, et al. Without them, it's hard to imagine a Searching For Sugarman or even an Anvil! The Story Of Anvil. Back to the menu
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While films like Swing Kids and even The Mask paid tribute to the swing jazz revival, it was this Jon Favreau/Vince Vaughn breakthrough that really nailed the '60s revival vibe that ran through mid-'90s Los Angeles. Indeed, it was in large part due to Swingers that the neo-swing movement hit the mainstream, catapulting as it did bands like the scene-leading Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (who contribute tracks and appear in the movie) into the spotlight. The soundtrack isn't all Lindy Hops and wingtips, however, as it also features an eclectic arrangement of funk, smooth jazz and country. Dean Martin's You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You, meanwhile, makes up the film's heart and soul, while Bobby Darin's I'm Beginning To See The Light marks its optimistic sign-off. Back to the menu
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Cameron Crowe's none-more-grunge slacker romance demanded a none-more-grunge slacker soundtrack. The album rounds up usual Seattle suspects Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Mudhoney, but also imports talent from further afield, like The Screaming Trees (Ellensburg), The Smashing Pumpkins (Chicago), and The Replacements' Paul Westerberg (Minneapolis). Pearl Jammers Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament make up Matt Dillon's band Citizen Dick in the film, and while there's no Dick on the soundtrack, there's a rare outing for Pearl Jam's first incarnation, Mother Love Bone. The album went hit the Top 10 of the Billboard chart. Andrew Wood would've liked it there. Back to the menu
Reservoir Dogs
Composer: Various Artists
Sure, the suits looked cool and the dialogue was sparky and, hey, everyone loves a Mexican stand-off, but music was essential to Tarantino's Hollywood calling card, a big part of what made him stand apart from the rock or synch-themed crime dramas that preceded him. Tarantino's debut – and many of his subsequent efforts – was built around the coolest riffs of the most obscure '60s, '70s and '80s tunes he could find, just as his filming style often resurrects obscure stars, shooting angles and approaches. It's surely one of the most-played soundtracks ever; one every self-respecting student displays prominently and many '90s DJs reportedly built their playlists around. It's a hugely influential selection that changed how we approach soundtracks just as Tarantino's visual and storytelling style changed filming. Back to the menu
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It's remembered for Born Slippy [see sidebar], but Danny Boyle's counter-culture classic is a veritable Wurlitzer of acid house, Britpop and iconic rock. If it had been a house party, it would have found Iggy Pop and Debbie Harry rubbing shoulders with Jarvis Cocker and Damon Albarn, the pumping electronica of Leftfield, Underworld and John Digweed's Bedrock pissing off the neighbours, and Underworld's Karl Hyde barking his lunatic poetry in a kitchen full of ravers. Like the film, it didn't so much capture the zeitgeist as frog-march it down Princes Street at the point of a bayonet – not for nothing did it become a staple in four million CD collections and spawn a sequel. One day, the film may follow suit. Back to the menu
Crimson Tide
Composer: Hans Zimmer
In 1995, just after the release of submarine thriller Crimson Tide, Hans Zimmer described his creative process thus: "I wake up around noon, light a cigarette, get a cup of coffee, sit in the bathtub for an hour and daydream. Good tunes come when you're not thinking about it." More composers might want to adopt the Bathtub Technique, as it certainly works for Zimmer. There's nothing too radical about his score for Tony Scott's Cold War actioner — there are male voices chanting in Russian, bombastic motifs and a lot of tense, propulsive synth — but it's massively effective. Putting Zimmer squarely on Hollywood's action-movie sonar, over the next few years he was to score Broken Arrow, The Rock and The Peacemaker. Back to the menu
Dead Man
Composer: Neil Young
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OCZ Announces SandForce Based PCIe RevoDrive SSDby Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2010 10:33 AM EST
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zdw - Monday, May 31, 2010 - linkThat connector in the middle of the board and the mounting holes makes it look like they could stack a daughterboard with additional controllers and flash onto this unit. Reply
devene - Monday, May 31, 2010 - linkpci-e x4 is still mostly used in servers... And that connector in the middle of the board is probably used for flashing the firmware. Reply
Samus - Monday, May 31, 2010 - linkno, i agree with zdw, it indeed appears to be a daughter-board interface. why would they have such a wide mounting area for a firmware update board and who would you need a firmware update board in the first place? it's PCIe, plug it in and the firmware update tool will find the device id, much like it would search the SATA channels. it is doubtful its a diagnostics port. however, if it isn't an expansion interface, it might not exist on the final product, either. Reply
ratbert1 - Monday, May 31, 2010 - linkI am thinking connector for battery/supercapacitor memory failsafe. Reply
johnsonx - Monday, May 31, 2010 - linkwhy would it need that? it's a FLASH drive. Reply
PedroDaGr8 - Monday, May 31, 2010 - linkI think he is correct. It is a battery port. If your remember anything about the sandforce drives one of their main features is that they cache more data to prevent excessive writing to the drive and get around some of the problems that were had in the past.
Here is a quote taken from a blurb about a missing supercap in a consumer sandforce OCZ drive:
"...Its only enough for a short burst, but it's enough to get the job done. This is important on SSDs more so than HDDs in enterprise. On an HDD when write caching is turned off, the last write command is lost, but the rest of your data is secure. On standard SSDs because of the nature of Flash and Flash management it is not typically possible to guarantee data integrity on sudden power loss..." Reply
bwj - Monday, May 31, 2010 - linkIt makes no sense to use a 60-pin connector for a supercap. Reply
mindless1 - Monday, May 31, 2010 - linkExactly, it is definitely not "only" a battery or supercap connector. Definitely a data bus with that many pins.
A battery or supercap connector would just be unused solder pads or holes, or a standard low cost SIP connector already soldered on. Reply
bwj - Monday, May 31, 2010 - linkWhy would you need a 60-pin interface for a battery? It is almost certainly an expansion port for daughtercard. See also the Fusion-io ioDrive Duo. Reply
pkoi - Monday, May 31, 2010 - linkpci-e 4x being for server ? any 16x will do,
almost all board have multiple pci-e slot or Have a look at old EP45-DQ6 Reply
leexgx - Monday, May 31, 2010 - linkwhats more likely its for is so an second bank of flash as there is 4 screw holes there to hold an second bank of flash, making it into an 4x raid card for flash the slot most likely is connected to the intel raid chip Reply
Slash3 - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkCountdown to the RevoDrive Pro, now with double the capacity and performance! Reply
Mr Perfect - Monday, May 31, 2010 - linkWhat is it all the cool kids are saying nowadays? Oh, right. U MAD BRO? Reply
DesktopMan - Monday, May 31, 2010 - linkWhere are these speed estimates from? SF1200 could very well be limited by SATA 3gbps, so two of them in raid 0 might give you better than 2x the performance of a single controller in current SSDs.
They could implement trim as a OS driver if they wanted to. No idea if they do. Reply
yyrkoon - Monday, May 31, 2010 - linkI think you're a bit confused. Reply
ekv - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkDesktopMan, you appear to be confusing SATA with PCIe. PCIe 4x ought to yield, correct me if I'm wrong, 2GB/s bandwidth. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCIe]
One thing in the article that bugs me is "Obviously you lose TRIM support". I assume RAID 0 is responsible for this, but why? Are all SSD RAID drives incapable of TRIM? Is there a work-around? Reply
DEVAST8 - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkTRIM is still NOT possible with SSD's in RAID. Garbage Collection would be the alternative but I do not believe garbage collection works with the Sandforce controllers. Reply
bwj - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkNo garbage collection? I don't know where you people get these ideas. ALL SSDs have garbage collection, otherwise it would NOT BE POSSIBLE to have an SSD without the TRIM command. Reply
beginner99 - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkNo I think he might be right. SATA-II only has about 300 Mbyte/s compared to 2 GB/s for pcie x4 if wiki is correct on this. Therefore if SF-1200 is limited by SATA-II, this drive could be more than twice as fast.
Let's assume 1 SF-1200 could read at 400 Mbyte/s. On SATA-II this will be something close to 300 minus overhead. (which it is)
On pice x4 it's not bandwith limited so you could get 800 Mbyte/s. hypothetical.
Are there any downsides to pice drives? (beside losing trim in this one) Reply
xeopherith - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkThe downside would be that your using your PCIe Bus :)
If you already have other things like maybe two graphics cards in Crossfire or even just one graphics card, you don't want to max out your bus.
Ultimately I think it would be fine but just keep in mind that for example your PCI bus only has 133mb/s transfer rate no matter how many PCI SATA controllers you install into it. They all share that bus. Reply
softdrinkviking - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkalso, i think you can't use it to boot from,
or at least PCIe SSDs couldn't do that the last time i checked. Reply
Per Hansson - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkThere is a 32pin EEPROM in the upper left of the card, so it is most likely bootable
Also right above both of the SandForce controller sits a quite large rectangular white thing maked "X1 and X2" on the PCB, I'll take a guess those are x-caps
And lastly there are many unpopulated headers on the board, for example J3 and J5 between the SandForce controllers, can most likely be used for diagnostics and firmware flashing (disaster recovery)
There are also many contacts points named "TP" this is most likely a development board with extra stuff for diagnostics
The firmware is probably flashed to the card via the PCIe bridge of course, like you do with any other RAID controller
And the big connector in the middle with 4 holes surrounding it is most likely for capacity expansion via a daugtherboard Reply
e_sandrs - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkI think there is confusion between PCI and PCIe going on. Old PCI shared a single bus for all traffic, PCIe has dedicated lanes for each slot back to the southbridge (or such).
Also, "raw" PCIe SSDs cannot be booted, but this SSD and any other with RAID functionality can be a boot device -- it's just a RAID card as far as the system is concerned, it doesn't care what is beyond the Intel RAID controller. Reply
DesktopMan - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkThere are a whole lot more pci express lanes on some controllers than most people need though. Even graphics cards only lose a small percentage of performance running at 8x 2.0 instead of 16x 2.0 so even if you used some of those lanes (iirc you have to go from 16 to 8) it would be fine.
Yes, I ment what I said about Sata II. If the current gen SSDs are bandwidth limited the actual performance (at least read performance) of SF1200 might be higher than we are currently seeing, this this card having a potantial to be faster than 2x of current SSDs.
As for trim, I'm not sure there even is such a thing as trim for pci express devices. Without looking into the driver model of these cards I see no reason for the driver not to allow trim messages to pass down though, by telling the OS that yes, this is a drive that supports trim. After all, this is not a software raid device that is detected as two drives in the OS so the problems with raid 0 with two SSDs don't really apply here. Just issues with trim + pci express in general. Reply
bwj - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkTRIM, obviously, is a feature of SATA. If this thing doesn't look like a SATA disk then TRIM is beside the point. Reply
Simen1 - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkHow can they possibly reduce the price of a drive with 80-90% by adding a Raid chip?
Does Anand mean 10-20% _MORE_ then a single drive? Reply
overzealot - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkEither it's been updated, or that's exactly what he said. Reply
Ninjahedge - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkThe way the screw holes are mounted behind the center port there it looks like it is designed to hold something heavy and mounted towards that end. Expansion sounds right, but it may be a diagnostic port as well.
Who knows if this will stay when it comes to popular distribution or if this was the tinker-toy of the developers...... Reply
Out of Box Experience - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - link
If the daughter card has 2 additional SSD's and a supercap to prevent data loss during power outage, then the ability to plug 4 such cards into my motherboard would make an excellent boot drive with read speeds around 4.4 GB/sec in Raid (16 SSD's X 275 MB/sec read per SSD average)
So far so good! If I am then booting up in, for example 0.63 seconds but want to shave a few more milliseconds from my boot time, I don't think I can push the buttons on my stopwatch fast enough to verify if my Boot Tweeks are working or not
Serious Gamers really need to be ready to play by the time they release the power button on their computer after all
Wink Wink
I just hope Intel has a 16 core CPU to handle the overhead by the time I can afford these and 2 Dual GPU Fermi Cards Reply
newrigel - Saturday, June 19, 2010 - linkWhen are these coming to the US? Reply
newrigel - Sunday, June 20, 2010 - linkMac?? Reply
somedude1234 - Monday, June 21, 2010 - linkI'm a bit late on the comment, but...
The SF-1200 is a SATA-II to flash controller chip. You're still fundamentally limited by the SATA-II interface. Whatever RAID controller they put on the card, it still talks to the two SF-1200's via SATA-II.
PCI-e 1.1 x 4 gives you 1000 MBps in each direction, which is more than enough for two SATA-II interfaces, which can provide at most 600 MBps.
The Fusion-IO cards use a purpose-built PCI-e to flash controller, which eliminates the SATA speed bottleneck but also substantially increases costs. By pairing a COTS flash controller with a COTS RAID controller, OCZ is able to offer a PCI-e SSD at a much lower price point, but at the expense of performance.
This is a cool development, as it brings moderate-performance PCI-e SSD's at a much more accessible price point. Reply


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GOLFERS will be clubbing together to help fund part of a new wheelchair for a 17-year-old with cerebral palsy.
The parents of Jamie Lee Jordan have raised money to buy a powered wheelchair, but now need to raise a further £1,000 for a seating system that will allow him to use the device.
A fundraising 'golfathon' will take place at Colne Golf Club on Easter Sunday. Jamie's mum, Anita, works at the Skipton Old Road venue.
Anita, 46, and Jamie's dad Andy, 47, who live in the Brunshaw area of Burnley, have already raised £12,000 for the wheelchair.
Anita said: "At the moment we have to lift the seating from one chair to the other, and it is very heavy and difficult to do.
"Being able to use this chair all the time would give Jamie such independence to be able to do stuff on his own.
We desperately want him to be able to do things on his own and to get on with his life.
"Physically he can't do anything for himself but mentally he is very bright and he knows what is going on."
Jamie has two brothers, Luke and Ross.
Anita said: "Luke plays for Blackburn Rovers academy and Jamie loves going to watch his brother play, he is so proud of him.
"Jamie also loves being around people, he is very sociable and popular, and he is a big Coronation Street fan as well."
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An Update to Kingston SSDNow V300: A Switch to Slower Micron NANDby Kristian Vättö on 3/3/2014 12:30 PM EST
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Anonymous Blowhard - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkSurprised it took this long for AT to do a piece on this. I've been steering people away from the Kingstons for awhile unless they're on a serious fire sale.
Still faster than a conventional HDD for certain, but it's like buying a V8 and being given the V6. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkI wanted to get official word from Kingston instead of going by what is posted in the forums, hence it took longer. Reply
Anonymous Blowhard - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkFair enough. Don't want to expose yourself to potential legal issues by reporting "hearsay" ... even if it's highly confirmed hearsay. Reply
timon_comment - Thursday, March 13, 2014 - linkExcepting DDR memory, do not purchase Kingston brand's any other else what.
Kingston is a Taiwanese Co, operation is by the Taiwanese, not a very good reputation at them, fully unlike US or EU or Japan major companies, also not as good as the Korean major companies
Firstly sells you several qualified samples, and then next is sneaky shoddy, some of the Asia companies accustom so. Reply
apudapus - Thursday, March 13, 2014 - linkPlease, don't generalize an entire nation. A lot of US storage companies work with Taiwanese companies to get the job done, a lot of SSD engineers are Taiwanese. Source: I work for a US storage company that's acquired plenty of other storage companies, I've been working on SSDs for 4 years. Reply
Ez8004 - Sunday, May 04, 2014 - linkTimon, you are just stupid. Kingston is an American company based in California! So going by your logic, don't buy American products because they are obviously shoddy. Reply
mindless1 - Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - linkKingston has also been known to switch SDRAM/DDR suppliers so the buyer couldn't assume that if they bought the same part # at a different time or from a different source, that they would receive an identical product. Granted it's of less concern since DDR either meets the spec'd timings and frequency as a primary and mandatory feature, or it doesn't. Reply
it_progress - Wednesday, August 06, 2014 - linktimon, Kingston is an American company. I suggested you to wiki it if you know how to use internet. Reply
Daniel Egger - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkThat's sort of a dumb comparison... There're plenty V6es that are better than some V8es. Reply
mapesdhs - Monday, March 03, 2014 - link
Ach who cares. :D The point A.B. was trying to make was obvious enough. Last thing
we need on a tech forum is an argument about car engines. ;)
Re the NAND change, one of these days I hope someone sues a vendor for doing
this sort of thing. So the sequential read speed drops by more than half, almost down
to SATA1 speed, and Kingston doesn't see a need to tell anyone? It's very bad
practice. An old Vertex2 would leave the newer V300 in the dust (having typed
that, I figured it sensible to do a quck test just ran AS-SSD on my ancient 3.5"
Vertex2, it gives 254MB/sec seq. read, 113MB/sec seq. write, 18MB/sec 4K
read and 77MB/sec 4K write, so I was right, better than the newer V300).
I find some modern SSDs very disappointing. They're often little better than the best
SATA2 models from several years ago (do people actually buy the SanDisk Pulse?
I'd rather use an old Vertex3), or they've cut corners in other ways, eg. the M500
(terrible write speed; it's only advantage is cost). More money for the vendors, but
prices for a mainstream model haven't dropped for consumers for ages (avg. cost
of a decent 240GB/256GB has only now matched the low they reached in Jan/13).
Ian. Reply
jabber - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkBut when 99% of folks are just used to that old 2005 4200rpm 120GB HDD that pushes 50MBps there are plenty who will think that Pulse SSD heavenly. Reply
psiboy - Sunday, August 02, 2015 - linkThat's called Fraud! Criminal charges would be laid here in Australia! Reply
Subyman - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkDid they update the packaging? The previous V300 shows "up to 450MB/s" on the box. Obviously, that is no longer possible. Reply
hojnikb - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkWell, they are using compression, so under certain scenarios (like highly compressable data) this drive will perform indentical to older one.
So yeah, this is a dick move Kingston.. Reply
Flunk - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkBased on the wording you could write "up to 1,000,000MB/s" and still be legal. "up to" is the weasellyest wording in the industry. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkKingston uses ATTO for the marketing benchmarks and there is no slowdown since it's all compressible data. Reply
hojnikb - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkExactly my point. They could stick the lowest grade flash in there and it wouldn't change the score in atto.
Atleast they could use micron's sync flash. Reply
mapesdhs - Monday, March 03, 2014 - link
Indeed, Atto is a poor test of an SSD. Using AS-SSD, a 60GB Vertex2E
is half the speed of a 240GB Vertex2 for sequential write, about 43%
slower for seq. read, etc., yet Atto gives almost identical results for both
models. It's no wonder vendor marketing people use Atto for their PR.
Ian. Reply
wicketr - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkImagine buying a new laptop, and instead of getting that Intel i5 processor you expected to be in it, the laptop manufacturer swapped it out with some cheapo AMD Opteron to save them money. This is pretty close to the same thing.
You can't knowingly release a product that is >50% slower than advertised speeds and not suffer severe consequences. Reply
whitehat2k9 - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkI'd like to see a laptop with an AMD Opteron in it... Reply
leexgx - Thursday, April 02, 2015 - linknice when you don't get what you see on the box and it ends up been better
had one where it was a dual core N2830 ATOM based spec on the box but it was a Quad core N2940 ATOM in the laptop (even the spec label that is typically stuck on the laptop stated it was a N2830 when it in fact had a factory installed N2940) Reply
smunter6 - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkDisappointing that they are doing this without transparency, but at least this has resulted in some lower price points for the ssd market. Recent sales on Newegg had the 120GB for $66 and the 240GB for $125. Reply
RaistlinZ - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkI'm willing to bet prices have been falling on their drives in recent weeks because of the negative publicity they've been getting around tech forums like Anand, [H] and others. I'm sure sales have fallen, hence the drastic discounts lately.
They have every right to change NAND, they just need to be up front about it and put accurate specs on their product accordingly. They basically made the switch and hoped no one would notice, which is stupid. How many enthusiasts buy SSDs and never do a performance test on them?
Dirty pool, Kingston. Dirty pool indeed. Reply
hojnikb - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkWill anandtech cover the new sandforce updete ? (5.2.5)
Apperently TRIM issue is finally fixed (atleast acording to adata website). Reply
DanNeely - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkThis is appalling, when the swap is a 10 or 20% difference I'm annoyed but can at least understand the marketdroids claiming it's not a big deal because no-one will be able to tell the difference in real world use and that creating a new model for a "tiny" change would add confusion of it's own. This is nearly a 3x spread in performance, which is huge.
Kingston's earned itself an indefinite stay on my Do Not Buy list. Reply
MartinT - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkI've just bought a V300 last week, it's the other very slow version with firmware 521A.
I'll return it, Kingston should have known better than to sneek this by. Shameful. Reply
gamoniac - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkI have had a few Kingston SSDs - the KC100 and some V series. The latter were value SSDs. I had some performance issue with their V200 series (replaced with V+200 after complaints) but in general were still on the fence about Kingston in general.
Not after this shady incident though. Shame. Reply
Dentons - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkIt's underhanded and devious. From Kingston, it isn't surprising.
With Samsung or Micron offering quality products at equivalent prices, there's no reason to go with such dishonest vendors. Reply
optimus1883 - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkI almost pulled the trigger on this last night, saw it was on sale for $66. Thanks for putting this out there, I will definitely spend $5 more to get something better. Reply
ruthan - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkI will not ever buy their product. Reply
Gunbuster - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkI bought one of these a couple weeks ago. Sadly I knew of the issue but still bought it because it was the cheapest 128GB SSD at Microcenter. (Replacing a bad spindle laptop drive on my sisters HP so anything was better than that)
Still super shady of Kingston. Reply
Daniel Egger - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkI've been a big Kingston fan so far. But my V200 is still out (for 6 weeks now) for its second replacement after some nasty sudden drive corruption after a few hundred hours of very slight use each.
This story is yet another reason never to buy Kingston again... Reply
yannigr - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkI just removed Kingston from my future options. Any other companies doing that? Reply
hojnikb - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkOCZ used to do that in the Vertex2 days..
And there were reports of some lesser known ssds to be using fake flash that underperformed. Reply
Sunburn74 - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkYou can't sell an inferior product at the same price as your superior product whilst using the same names for both. Reply
ThortonBe - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkI was considering getting a Kingston, but thank god I didn't. I'll definitely be sure to avoid the brand in the future. Reply
tygrus - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkSounds more like a V150 not V300 and far less than any improved V305. You can imagine if a car manufacturer swapped the V8 out of the sports car and put in a 4cyl and used the same model name and didn't replace the 400HP badge on the back. Reply
DigitalFreak - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkThe only thing I've ever bought from Kingston was server RAM, and it turned out to be sh@#. Doesn't surprise me that they're pulling these shenanigans. Reply
sausagefingers - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkThanks for this article I was one of the numerous emails and I really appreciate it. Reply
Jeffrey Bosboom - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkSo, are you going to update your review with a disclaimer explaining that what's being sold now is different from what you tested? Reply
sausagefingers - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkI think updating the original article with a link to this one is a good plan. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkDone! Reply
Communism - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkNever Purchase an SSD that isn't from a NAND manufacturer.
Never Purchase DRAM that isn't from a DRAM manufacturer. Reply
Bob Todd - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkYour RAM all has SK Hynix, Micron/Elpida, or Samsung on the packaging? Reply
DanNeely - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkI assume he's using all Crucial ram (Crucial is Micron's house brand). Reply
Bob Todd - Monday, March 03, 2014 - linkThanks for posting this. I purchased one 120GB model on sale recently for $70 (that went on sale again for $65). I went back and read old reviews before purchasing, including the one from Anandtech, and naturally it looked like a good drive for that price. Time to bug customer support for a return while it is still unopened. The only other Kingston SSDs I have are a trio of HyperX 3K drives for family members, and so far those had been solid (I only paid $65 on Black Friday two years ago). The good experience with those drives actually cemented the V300 purchase, and now Kingston is off the list indefinitely. Reply
Bob Todd - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkProps to Newegg for letting me return this junker. Just a note for anyone who has bought these on sale recently and hasn't opened the packaging, the firmware is listed on the bottom right corner of the Kingston sticker on the face of the drive. E.g. "521ABBF0" has the 521 firmware. So it's easy to tell which version you got without potentially killing your ability to return the thing. Reply
alaba - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkI wonder if we're going to see another OEM go out of business. I'm sure even if they start producing the best SSDs out there, this scandal will keep sales way down. Just like OCZ. Reply
alaba - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkOf course, I'm not saying OCZ's later SSDs were the best but they definitely improved but it was too little, too late. Reply
axiommods - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkThe second this story broke the kingston v300 drives were on sale for $59.99 on Amazon and every other outlet. I got an inscreen ad on youtube.com showing me the drive advertised for dirt cheap on Amazon. It was not a targeted ad either. I never searched for SSD drives. The only thing I did was read this article. Unless , youtube ad generators searched my browser history. That could be it. But I didnt search for kingston V300 SSD. Either way, since they're outed....expect more price drops Reply
lokhor - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkI have one of these drives and was pretty shocked to hear about. Thank god mine has the 505 firmware. Never going to buy Kingston again though. Reply
HisDivineOrder - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkThey knew that if they changed the model number and offered subpar performance, any gain they got from using lower cost NAND would have been offset by the pricing they'd have had to use.
This way, they made tons of money off saps before they figured out what had happened.
Kingston just joined OCZ on my "No way, no how" list.
Congrats! Reply
psychobriggsy - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkUgh, I bought one of these just a week ago with the express aim of it actually speeding up my system over the spinning HD it previously had. Shame I've chucked the packaging away. I'll have to check the firmware to see which one I have.
Changing the performance characteristics of a product so drastically with a revision is just not on, it's really bad practice, it's dishonest and it is deceptive trading.
Maybe they've only done this in territories with poor customer protections in place. Would be interesting if people complained and they had to replace all the affected products. Retailers will be unhappy too - they didn't know Kingston have shat all over their own products, and now they'll be getting complaints and returns as awareness of the issue grows. Reply
jabber - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkIf they keep dropping in price I'll buy them. I always feel its not the raw MBps that counts but the access times. As long as they are still an order of magnitude higher in seek than a HDD thats fine with me. Plus they are cheap! More than handy for fast testing drives and swapouts. Reply
Storage Gal - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkIs there a reason that the benchmarking was done with incompressable data? My understanding is that "compression" is a main feature of the Sandforce Controller used on this SSD? Does using compressable data change the performance numbers? Reply
Paris Kitty - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkThank you for publishing this valuable information.
I knew absolutely nothing about this NAND scandal and purchased Kingston SV300 at Amazon France last November. Luckily, the version I received (520A) was made with Toshiba NAND.
I gathered more information on net and found out that those shipped with Firmware 505/520 are OK, but 506/521 are not. I checked the product page at Amazon France but there are only a few complains from buyers about speed of the product without much explanation. I posted the information I found to caution other Amazon buyers.
What Kingston did may not be illegal but ethically very incorrect. I took a vow never to touch their product again, especially after I read this comment at Amazon USA: http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digital-Adapter-SV3...
Kingston hid this fact by using solvent on the original labeling of the memory chips, then printed their own logo on top. Kingston does not manufacture any memory themselves. When SSD was shipped out for review it used quality Toshiba 19nm NAND but Kingston used solvent on chips labels and printed their own. This was odd, but the reason for it soon became obvious. After only a few months they switched to inferior quality chips with the same Kingston label. <unquote> Reply
reality4321 - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkThe only question people should be asking is 'does the drive perform to published specifications'?? That is all that matters. So, you got free cheese with your burger for a while...well, that cheese went away but its still the burger , as described.
People are so fast to trash companies without using logic. If it performs to spec, that is all you should get. Reply
Bob Todd - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkUm...no, just no. That's like saying that if Intel sampled 4770K processors, then silently replaced the cores with a version that could score the same in 1 benchmark but delivered 1/2 to 1/3 the performance in a bunch of other real world scenarios nobody should care. The asynchronous NAND versions of these drives have far lower sequential write performance for non-compressible data than a friggin' mechanical hard drive. The write speed is on par with an external 5400rpm mechanical drive over USB3. Kingston is taking this one on the chin, and they deserve every second of it. They can switch NAND all they want, just do the right thing and change the product name/SKU. Reply
Korsi - Friday, March 14, 2014 - link480GB 420ABBFO made in Taiwan okey.
Slow 4k write but test wasn't even close to optimal. It is system disk win 8.1 and a lot of programs running, including utorrent.
atm it looks like the problem is with 120 and 240GB v300 drives.
Kingston is making it's last grasp for money and trying to unload their SSD inventory and then file their SSD line for bankruptcy. Can't make any other sense on the fact that they are knowingly lying to their customers and thus losing a lot of future customers.
It is easy to break the companys imago but it takes years to build it back. Reply
compdoc - Wednesday, April 02, 2014 - linkOn 3/22/2014 I purchased a Kingston SSDNow V300 Series SV300S37A/240G, and it benchmarks at 520 reads and 380 writes on a low cost A8-6600K system. Cost me $110 at newegg, so I'm very happy with it. Just old inventory? I'd love to hear what other owners are seeing. Reply
hojnikb - Friday, April 04, 2014 - linkTry as-ssd or crystaldiskmark random data and report back :) Reply
apothec - Friday, May 09, 2014 - linkI read this article, but i decided to buy a V300 240gb anyway. Mainly because of the price (150$ in my country) and i though i might get lucky with the firmware. I thought wrong. FW 521 has in ASssd and CrystalMark about 160-185 read and 190-240 write. In Atto is great, 400-550. But almost all ssds perform like that in atto so i dont take it as a real benchmark.
Now i wait to return the product because im the 10days waranty when i can return it no questions asked. Il go with the Samsung Evo 250gb or Adata's sx900 256gb. Still thinking which one suits me best (tlc vs mlc).
Kingston ssd, no more for me. Just sticking to ram. Even the Crucial m500 has more speed than That v300 new FW. An its cheaper! Reply
kugo2006 - Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - linkSo if you did get the 506 or 521 firmware version, is there a [relatively easy] way to downgrade to the 505 or 520? Or perhaps upgrade to a newer version? Reply
GraveNoX - Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - link5 months ago I got 120gb drive with 506 fw and I paid $130 for it so imagine how SAD I am. I have gigabit home connection and I get 30 MB/s at max with V300 and 110 MB/s at max with 2TB HDD, but wait, I got faster boot time!!! This crap ssd should not be sold. Reply
Colorado_Al - Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - linkHere is Kingston's Official response to my query:
Kingston said:
I can certainly understand your concern but it's important to understand why this is. Crystal Disk and AS SSD uses incompressed data during its testing. The data cannot be compressed further so much without the write speed being affected. Because both of these benchmarks use fully incompressible data they are nowhere near a real world workload for typical desktop-notebook computing. ATTO disk benchmark uses uncompressed data. So the Sandforce drives can perform its compression and thus the increased speed of this drive is reflected in the benchmark. It is also the program used by our engineering staff to document the speed ratings for the these drives during testing. Unfortunately CDM gives a different lower score with these Asynchronous NAND but does not mean the drives are subpar in any way, form or fashion. Just different testing methods used by these benchmarking software. If CDM tested the same as ATTO using uncompressed data there would be no problem. Reply
GarthBock - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkI have seen this posted in other forums last year including one where a Kingston rep denied there were performance issues and denied they were screwing their customers. Reply
the_law - Wednesday, October 08, 2014 - linkI just got one of these drives before reading all about this. To add insult to injury, my drive appears to have been used. There are clear scratches around one of the screw holes. This despite it coming sealed in its package. Reply
Encho - Saturday, February 14, 2015 - linkKristian, is there any update? I trusted this darned brand and bought it a some days ago, haven't received the units, but I suspect it will be the slower type. Reply
JohnnyFingers - Monday, March 30, 2015 - linkI think maybe synchronous VS asynchronous NAND longevity is a more serious issue too?? Reply
ahmadhanif - Sunday, April 26, 2015 - linkHi i recently bought this SSD but a 480 GB variant, unfortunately read about this nand switch later, can u please tell me does this nand switch performance lag also present in the 480 GB variant of kingston ssdnow v300? please do reply as your reply will definitely help to request a return ASAP. Reply


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High-yield bonds are bonds issued by companies that do not carry investment-grade credit ratings. These companies often have higher-than-average levels of debt, suggesting that they are at greater risk of defaulting on their obligations to bondholders. To reward investors for taking that risk, companies pay higher rates of interest on their bonds. In late August, for example, when intermediate-term corporate bonds from investment-grade companies were yielding about 2.4 percent, high-yield bonds were offering about 7 percent.
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A mature marketplace
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Tobacco control advocates have cautiously welcomed the inception of a nicotine free cigarette in the United States, but say it highlights the inconsistent way in which we treat tobacco products.
Director the VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Dr Ron Borland and the Executive Director of Quit Victoria, Mr Todd Harper said if nicotine was removed, cigarettes were unlikely to be addictive and smokers would be unlikely to use them.
The nicotine in tobacco is the main chemical that makes smoking addictive.
'This means it is in effect a product designed to help smokers quit,' Dr Borland said.
'We suspect the reason it is being promoted as a cigarette, not a cessation aid is that in the USA, as in Australia, cessation aids are subject to quite rigorous testing, while tobacco products, which kill 50 Australians every day, face none,' he said.
Because this product contains lots of cancer-causing chemicals, it would never be allowed on the market as a cessation aid under current regulations.
Mr Harper said it said it highlighted the need for comprehensive regulation of the tobacco industry in Australia.
Such regulation needs to be designed to advance public health, something that is almost non-existent for tobacco products.
'It is ironical, it should be easier to get cessation aids on the market than new varieties of cigarettes,' he said.
'Regulation of tobacco products should cover the use of additives and the marketing claims of the tobacco industry.'
For example, the industry has been irresponsible in its marketing of 'light,' 'ultra light' and 'mild' despite research highlighting they are not an accurate description of the amount of nicotine or tar inhaled by smokers.
'There is no such thing as a safe cigarette - any act of burning plant materials creates carcinogens and inhaling the smoke, involves risk, and when you do this for many years, permanent harm is almost inevitable.'
Dr Borland said from what we know at present, there was no reason to be overly concerned about nicotine-free cigarettes, and some reasons for cautiously welcoming them.
However he said doubted the product would establish a viable market share in Australia unless it was used as a quitting aid.
'It may have some short term novelty value, but is unlikely to be come a major seller. Perhaps, unless the government insisted that all cigarettes be made with the same technology,' Dr Borland said.
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Popular local tenor Sebastiano Cipolla is to star in a spring concert organised by Devizes-based White Horse Opera next month.
Mr Cipolla, a clarinet and saxophone teacher at Dauntsey's School in West Lavington, has appeared in several White Horse shows over the years and will sing Neapolitan favourites at the concert at the town hall on Saturday, March 29, at 7.30pm.
The concert is entitled All Around the World and Chrissie Higgs will sing Dido's Lament, Barbara Gompels will reprise the Doll's Song from The Tales of Hoffman and Paula Boyagis perform the Habanera from Bizet's Carmen.
The White Horse Opera chorus will sing selections from Wagner's Tannhauser.
Tickets, £8. are on sale at Devizes Books.


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Easter Holiday events
Cadbury Easter Egg Trails at National Trust properties.
Once again Cadbury and the National Trust are joining forces to bring chocolate-flavoured egg-citement to the Easter holiday at a beautiful place near you. This year the theme is "discovery", so children are invited to become a Cadbury Eggsplorers as they follow a trail to win themselves a chocolate egghead prize. Each trail is unique to its location so young Eggsplorers will be finding out about each special place as they take part in the trails. Nearby are Ashridge Estate (18 to 21 April); Coombe Hill (18 to 21 April); Cliveden (18 to 21 April); Hughenden Manor (5 to 22 April) and Waddesdon Manor (18 to 21 April). Find out more at www.eastereggtrail.com
5 to 22 April, Various time and properties.
Pedal to Paddle at Chesham Moor Swimming Pool
Get on your bike and cycle to the Chesham Moor Swimming Pool over the Easter weekend from 5 to 21 April, and get a half price swim voucher that can be redeemed against your next swim. The perfect excuse for some fun and active family time. This scheme is part of Buckinghamshire County Council's Pedal to Paddle initiative.
5 April until 21 April, Chesham Moor Gym & Swim, Moor Road, Chesham.
Wildlife on the Move - see more from the train.
A unique opportunity to see, listen and learn about local wildlife from experienced Chilterns Conservation Board volunteer guides onboard the heritage diesel train. The route follows the escarpment of the Chiltern Hills with lovely views gradually opening out to Whiteleaf Cross in the distance - see Red Kites, perhaps local deer, and much more. Trains depart Chinnor station at 10.30am, 12, 1.30 and 3pm. These trips are ideal for families and you can make unlimited trips on the same day: something unique to see on every trip. No advance booking required - simply turn up, purchase your tickets and enjoy the journey. Free car parking, cafe and a souvenir shop at Chinnor station. See www.chinnorrailway.co.uk for details. Call 01844 353535.
5 April, 10.30am, Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway, Station Road, Chinnor.
Discover Dahl's archives.
For 10+ years: A behind-the-scenes look at our archive store which houses Roald Dahl's manuscripts and letters, with Collections manager and archivist, Rachel White. Free for museum visitors. Call 01494 892192.
5 April, 12.30pm, 1.30pm, 2.30pm, The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, 81-83 High Street, Great Missenden.
Tennis open day.
Come and enjoy free coaching. Test your skills on a speed machine or just have a game. Find out about our facilities and other activities and special offers on membership. Coaching is for all ages:
2 to 2.40pm for four to 10 year olds; 2.40 to 3.10pm for 10 to 17 year olds and 3.10 to 4pm for adults. Come and play or experience the speed machine. Call 01494 718457. Tickets free.
5 April, 2pm, Widmer End Tennis Club, Grange Road, Widmer End.
Sunday Service - relaxing on the Steam Train.
Just your very own relaxing and indulgent Sunday - meandering along on the heritage railway on your doorstep. The route follows the escarpment of the Chiltern Hills with lovely views gradually opening out to Whiteleaf Cross in the distance - see Red Kites, perhaps deer, and other wildlife. Trains depart Chinnor station at 11am, 12.15pm (diesel train), 1.30, 3 and 4.30pm. No advance booking required - simply turn up, purchase your tickets and enjoy the journey. Fares: Adults £11, Seniors 60+yrs £10, children 3-15yrs £6, families one adult and two children £20 / two adults and two childre £28. See www.chinnorrailway.co.uk for details.
6 April, 11am, Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway, Station Road, Chinnor.
Events at The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden:
Hello Your Majester.
For all ages: join in the colouring activity to celebrate English Tourism week. Create a postcard showing the historic moment when the BFG meets the Queen as she pops her head out of her Buckingham Palace window. 6 April, 11am.
Fizzwinkling Flowers.
For 6+ year olds: create your own diddly daffodil or twitch-tickling tissue paper tulip to celebrate spring. £2 per participant, in addition to museum entry. 8 April 2014.10:30am,
Revolting Rhymes with James Carter
For 5+ years: come for a chuckle with poet and wild guitarist James Carter. Hear such mischievous poems as 'How to turn your teacher purple' and 'is your teacher an alien?' and write your very own revolting rhyme. £3 each in addition to musuem entry. 8 April, 12:30 and 2pm.
Buzzwangling Egg Boxes.
For 6+ years: decorate a buzzwangling box in which to hide your precious Easter eggs. £2 per participant in addition to Museum entry. 9 April, 10.30am.
Mark Lowery talks pants.
For 9+ years: we are delighted to welcome back Mark Lowery, shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2013 for his buzzwangling book, Pants are Everything. Expect lots of laughter and irreverent silliness - and find out how to tell good stories, too. £3 extra. 9 April, 12:30 and 2.30pm.
Twit Mugs.
For 6+ years: decorate a ceramic mug with Mrs Twit's latest tricks and take it home to fill with delumptious or disgusterous drinks. £3 per participant, in addition to Museum entry. 10 April, 11am, 1pm and 3pm.
Call 01494 892192 for more details.
Bledlow Ridge Tennis Club Open Day.
Not played tennis since you left school? Looking for a team to play competitive league tennis? Or just need to improve your fitness or have a knock-up in friendly surroundings? Then try out the newly re-surfaced courts and join in the fun and games at Bledlow Ridge Tennis Club's free open day. Players and non players of all standards and ages are welcome and there will be fun competitions for all the family held throughout the day. How fast is your serve? Test it out against our speed serve gun. Free coaching for juniors. There will be a BBQ and other refreshments available. Free racquet loan is available for rusty returners who don't have their own. Call 01494 481739 for more details.
6 April, 11am, Bledlow Ridge Tennis Club, Chinnor Road, Bledlow Ridge.
Stagecoach Easter Workshops!
This three day workshop will allow children to create a show called Movie Medley. Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to come along and learn how to sing, dance and act, all while making new friends. Call 01494 533203 for more details.
8 to 10 April, 10am, Marlow Church of England Primary School, Sandygate Road, Marlow.
The The Producers
Performed by the Chesham Musical Theatre. With a ridiculous and often farcical character list, including 'Bavarian Peasants', 'Tapping Brown-Shirts', 'Showgirls' 'Storm Trooper' and a troupe of dancing grannies (complete with zimmer frames) - it is bound to be a blast. Call 01494 582900 or go to www.elgiva.com.
9 to 12 April, The Elgiva, Chesham.
The Elgiva Easter Project
The Elgiva's annual Easter drama workshops always prove very popular, where children from the ages 8 to 18 spend a week, singing, dancing and acting and putting together a final evening performance to showcase everything they have worked so hard on during the week. The performance takes place at 7pm on 17 April and tickets cost £4. Not only do the children learn from professional West End actors and choreographer (Lee Bright and Irene Moss) in the safe surroundings of a professional theatre but as important it's about having fun, meeting new friends and learning to work as a team. Fee: £110 per child (£100 for siblings). From 01494 582900 or go to www.elgiva.com.
13 to 17 April, 10am to 4pm, The Elgiva, Chesham.
A Springtime Festival
Norden Farm Centre for the Arts presents the festival for children and families. Lots of fun and creative things to do this Easter holiday. All activities last 1 hour and are less than £4 per person. Some of the activities are especially for families - they actively encourage mums, dads, guardians and extended family to take part. Children are not supervised between activities. Call 01628 788997 or go to www.nordenfarm.org.
18 to 19 April, Norden Farm, Maidenhead.
Walking Works business launch
Healthy walking expert and entrepreneur, Sarah Liveing (53) from Gerrards Cross, is launching a new initiative Walking Works as part of a drive to get businesses to encourage their employees to walk and get fit which has been designed to benefit both the employers and employees. The launch event is open to all local and regional businesses who want to prioritise the health and wellness of their employees through regular walking and good health. The event will comprise a presentation about the benefits of walking for businesses, networking opportunities and delicious and healthy canapés will be served. There will also be a raffle for the charity JDRF. Call 07785 541841 for more details. Tickets: free.
4 April, 12pm, The Crowne Plaza Marlow, Fieldhouse Lane, Marlow.
Fairs and sales
Planning ahead fair
Our planning ahead fair will give you a chance to ask the questions you may have about all aspects of death and dying. Come and find out about different types of funeral services, finding the right celebrant, or sources of support through bereavement. There will be guidance about the legal aspects of making a will, arranging legacies, and end of life care. Thinking ahead and making plans for that final goodbye won't make the event happen any sooner. But it will help to make sure friends and families are not left in the dark when the day eventually comes. Call 01494 872158 for more details or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
4 to 5 April, 2pm, GreenAcres Chiltern Woodland Burial Park, Potkiln Lane, Jordans, Beaconsfield.
Spring jumble sale
The Penn and Tylers Green Scouts is holding their Spring Jumble Sale. Why not come along and find yourself a bargain. There is always a load of good quality jumble on sale.
5 April, 1pm, Tylers Green Village Hall.
Grand Tabletop Sale.
Lots of new items. Browse; plants, clothes, books, music, films, coffee and home-made cakes. All welcome- come and grab a bargain. Call 01494 562080 for more details.
5 April, 10am, St Dunstan's Church Hall, Wakeman Road Car Park, Off Cores End Road, Bourne End.
Scout Jumble Sale.
The Penn and Tylers Green Scouts are holding their spring jumble sale. Why not come along and bag a bargain. We always have loads of good quality jumble for sale.
5 April, 1pm, Tylers Green Village Hall, Church Road, Tylers Green.
RSPCA South Bucks Grand Jumble Sale.
Clothes, toys, books, bric a brac, linen, shoes, handbags. There is something for everyone. Come along and join in this worthwhile fundraising event to help animals in your area. Refreshments and home made cakes
Admission 50p. Call 01494 722627.
5 April, 2pm, St Georges Scout Hut, White Lion Road, Little Chalfont.
Around the world in 80 minutes
An evening of music, old and new, from around the globe with the Galliard Band and guests. The Galliard Band is made up of up to a dozen experienced recorder players who play a range of recorders, from Contrabass to Sopranino. They have played at churches, lunch clubs and charity events in Herts, Bucks, Berks and Oxfordshire. Recorders are not just instruments for primary school children. Go to www.thegalliardband.co.uk. Tickets: £6 adults; £3 concessions or £15 per family (two adults and any children) to include light refreshments available from: Liz Thorpe (01844 351565), Jane Honeyball (01844 351096). All profits to Chinnor Methodist church's Building Fund.
4 April, 7pm, Chinnor Methodist Church, behind 62 Station Road, Chinnor, Princes Risborough.
Hazel O'Connor
Coinciding with the the 2014 release of the new album Here She Comes and the publication of Hazel's acclaimed autobiography Breaking Glass Barefoot award-winning singer songwriter Hazel O'Connor is back.
Expect a soulful introspective dip into Hazel's stunning portfolio, the old, the new and stories from along the way. Tickets £15 from www.arts4every1.com or £17.50 on the door.
5 April, 7.30 pm, Arts4Every1, Desborough Road, High Wycombe.
Wycombe Orpheus Male Voice Choir and the Wooburn Singers
Get the Summer of Sound for Scannappeal, simultaneously underway in Amersham and Wycombe respectively. For further details or to request the Summer of Sound leaflet, please visit www.scannappeal.org.uk/events, or call 01494 734 161.
5 April
The Bisham Concert Band
There will be music from film and TV. Tickets are £10 from Terrie Perry 07946 589508, to include light refreshments and there will be a raffle and a quiz. Go to www.bishamconcertband.org.uk.
5 April, 7.30pm, Community Centre, Stratton Road, Princes Risborough.
Marlow Town Band Charity Concert.
The Marlow Town Band present a 'Famous Classics' charity concert in partnership with The Maidenhead Salvation Army Songsters in aid of Alzheimers Dementia Support. Call 07950 690775 for more details. Tickets: £8.
5 April, 7.30pm, The Shelley Theatre, Court Garden Leisure Complex, Pound Lane, Marlow.
Addicted to the 80s - Missenden Abbey live tribute night.
Love 80s music? Time warp to our tribute night featuring the live four piece band 'Addicted to 80s' bringing you all those classic hits from the neon decade. Two live sets - fancy dress optional - 80s themed food available. Call 01494 866811. Tickets: £12.50 in advance - £15 on the door.
5 April, 7.30pm, Missenden Abbey, Missenden Abbey, London Road, Great Missenden.
60s Disco
Come and join Bourne End Twinning Association for a 60s disco. Tickets at £13 include supper and licensed bar will be available. Phone 01628 520065 for tickets.
5 April, 7.30pm, Flackwell Heath Community Centre, Straight Bit, Flackwell Heath.
'Springtime Celebration' - Bucks Symphonic Wind Ensemble concert.
Join the Bucks Symphonic Wind Ensemble for an evening of wonderful music to celebrate springtime. Under the baton of Duncan Stubbs, the concert will feature a varied programme of wind band favourites, including works by Philip Sparke, Nigel Hess and Martin Ellerby among others. Tickets can be bought in advance from High Wycombe Tourist Information Centre (Tel: 01494 421892) or ordered by phone and then picked up on the door. Alternatively you can buy tickets on the night if still available. Tickets: adults £12, concessions £10, under 12s £5.
5 April, 7.30pm, JK Theatre, Godstowe School, Shrubbery Road, High Wycombe.
A Special Saturday Night of Live Music with Johnny Wheeler
Plenty of free parking and a great selection of drinks at reasonable prices. Johnny offers a real mixture of styles and tempos to suit every taste. Call 01895 836328 for more details. Tickets: free admission.
5 April, 8pmDenham Garden Village Lounge Bar, Denham Green Lane, Denham.
The Jim Barton Big Band.
A star studded big band is coming to Marlow Jazz Club. This swinging 16 piece, London based, Jim Barton Band includes many top names, and will have the added bonus of vocalist Paul Wood. A very special event - do not miss it. Call 01628 486571 for more details. Tickets: £8.
8 April, 8.30pm, Marlow Jazz Club at the Royal British Legion, Station Approach, Marlow.
Discover Your Creative Talent.
This day of discovering your creative self is based on the work of Julia Cameron and can be useful as either a stand alone experience or alongside 'The Artist's Way' 12 week course. The day will be spent working to uncover the thoughts and beliefs that are preventing your creative flow. This can benefit anyone who wants more creativity in their life. Ranging from existing artists who feel they are holding themselves back or experiencing artists/writers block; to those who long to express some creativity but believe that this is something other people do, and that they just don't have what it takes. It can also help you to be more creative in your decision making. Essentially, it is for anyone who feels they are not expressing their full potential. Call 07787 242442 for more details.
5 April, 9.30am, Lane End Conference Centre, Church Road.Lane End.
Free networking event .
The next expert speaker is Ceri-Jane Hackling of award winning Cerub PR, who will be telling you how to impress the press and gain more column inches for your business. The right publicity can help you raise your profile and give your company kudos and credibility. Attendees will learn how to promote their products and services effectively through press releases, find out how to pitch to their target media and how to take advantage of press opportunities. Book by emailing email@example.com.
8 April, 6pm, Chiltern Hills Academy, Chartridge Lane, Chesham.
Being a Lazy Gardener.
The Marlow and District Horticultural Society is hosting a talk by Chris Banbury on how to be a lazy gardener. Sometimes we all wish gardening could be this way. Everyone is welcome. Call 01628 486206 for more details. Tickets: £2 non members, £1 members.
8 April, 8pm, Liston Hall, Liston Road, Marlow.
Letters Home
Ian Waller looks at the role of the Army Postal Services in World War I, and also talks about official wartime photography and the involvement in the war of volunteer corps, including the Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs), who provided field nursing services. Non-members welcome; a small donation is appreciated.
8 April, 7.15 for 7.45pm, Buckinghamshire Family History Society, Community Centre, Wakeman Road, Bourne End, SL8 5SX
TVT&D Finance and Accountancy Information Day.
Are you keen to make a difference to your career and get ahead of the rest? Individuals and businesses are invited to find out more about Thames Valley Training & Development's career-enhancing range of courses and qualifications at a special Finance & Accountancy Information Day. Call 01494 603060 to find out more and make an appointment. Tickets: free.
10 April, 3pm, The Gateway, Bucks New University, Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe.
Spring Talk: Dressing the 18th-Century Woman
Enjoying the Great British Sewing Bee? Love all things 18th-century and fashionable? Originally training as a modern dress maker and pattern cutter, speaker Ian Chipperfield takes you on a romp through fashionable Georgian attire. Ian loves 18th-century clothing and has spent years working through museum collections creating replica gowns using traditional techniques. Situated in a thoroughly 18th-century room, the fabulous State Music Room at Stowe, you will be taken back in time and enjoy a fascinating evening delving underneath petticoats to find out what was going on under all those layers. Drinks on arrival in the Georgian Marble Saloon. Tickets: £15, include wine and canapés on arrival. Pre-booking is essential. Go to www.stowehouse.org
13 April, 7.30pm, Stowe House.
Lent Lunch.
A simple Lent Lunch. Open to everyone with proceeds of donations going to Iain Rennie Hospice at Home. Call 01494 437791. Tickets: donations welcomed for Iain Rennie Hospice at Home.
5 April, 12pm, Downley Methodist Church Hall, Moor Lane, Downley.
Equestrian Car boot Sale for The British Horse Society.
The British Horse Society Equestrian Car Boot Sale. Sellers 11am; buyers from 12 until 4pm. Pitches £6 per car. Sell or buy all types of equestrian tack, clothes, rugs etc. Light refreshments available. Call 07770 776932 for more details.
6 April, 11am, M.A.R.E.S, High Street.Amersham.
A Coffee Morning
In aid of Stokenchurch Community Bus. There will be refreshments, Easter treats, bring and buy, home-made cakes, books, bric-a-brac, nearly new clothes and a raffle.
7 April, 10 to 11.45am, Longburrow Hall, Park Lane, Stokenchurch.
Charity Fashion Show.
Proceeds to be split between the Motor Neurone Disease Association and the Florence Nightingale Hospice. Clothes supplied by The Edinburgh Woollen Mill. Various stalls, including jewellery, handbags, cakes, books etc and a grand raffle. Tickets include a glass of wine and nibbles. Refreshments prepared by The Windmill WI. Call 01844345452. Tickets: £5.
9 April, 7pm, Lacey Green Millennium Hall, Main Road, Lacey Green.
Pilates class.
Pilates class, all levels welcome. Call to book on 07713632367. Tickets: £ 8 per class. Email firstname.lastname@example.com.
9 April (every Wednesday) 6.30 and 7.30pm, Sands Village Hall, Lane End Road, High Wycombe.
Weekly Hash (Run).
High Wycombe Hash House Harriers - drinkers with a running problem - meet every Tuesday at a local pub (normally within a 10-mile radius of HW town centre) and go for a run, seeking out a trail that has been previously laid by one of their number. Anyone regardless of how fit you are (or aren't). They all end up back at the pub for a post-run drink. Find out more at www.hwh3.co.uk. Tickets: £1, free the first firstname.lastname@example.com.
8 April, 7.45pm, The Yew Tree, Frieth.
Jesus Christ Superstar
Theatre Royal Windsor are thrilled to welcome back Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead Theatre Company with their amateur production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's sensational musical. Inspired by the political and personal struggles between Judas and Jesus, this spectacular musical follows the last week of Jesus' life, beginning with the preparations for his arrival in Jerusalem and ending with his crucifixion. Featuring numerous catchy tunes in many different styles, from the upbeat Everything's Alright and Hosanna, Mary Magdalene's soulful love song I Don't Know How To Love Him, the comedy number King Herod's Song to the renowned title song Superstar this emotional and stirring musical continues to move audiences forty years on.
8 to 12 April, 7.30pm with Thurs and Sat matinees at 2.30pm, Windsor Theatre Royal.
High Wycombe Scout & Guide Gang Show.
Gang shows have a rich history, from their London show beginnings in 1932 under the direction of Ralph Reader to shows of today which combine new and original material, popular music and dance with old Gang Show traditions. This gang consists of 100+ local members of the Scout and Guide Associations who produce, manage and perform the entire show. Each year they support a local charity and this year it is The Group With No Name- an adult social group for young adults with autism/aspergers who are part of South Bucks National Autistic Society. Call 0844 4435727. Tickets: Wed to Sat matinee £8/£6; Sat evening £9. .
9 until 12 April, 7.30pm, Lancaster Arts Centre, Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe.
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
A magical adventure through Narnia. Tickets: £10 adults/ £5 concessions.
10 until 12 April, 7pm, Princes Risborough School, Merton Road, Princes Risborough.
On the radar
Last of the Duty Free.
Last of the Duty Free reunites Keith Barron, Gwen Taylor and Neil Stacy to play-out the next hilarious installment in a series which regularly pulled in TV audiences of over twelve million viewers. When working class David and Amy met upper-middle class Robert and Linda whilst holidaying at the San Remo in Spain, their differences were immediately apparent. But, opposites were proven to attract, and a most unlikely romance developed, with hilarious consequences. And now they are back: David more lustful, Amy more cynical, Robert more dangerous, Linda more romantic than ever. For more details go to www.theatreroyalwindsor.co.uk or call 01753 853 888.
15 to 26 April , 8pm, and Thu at 2.30pm and Sat at 4.45pm, Windsor Theatre Royal, Thames Street, Windsor.
Hansel and Gretel
The show stars Margi Clarke as the Wicked Stepmother. Liverpool actress Margi has had a long career in TV and film, but is probably best known for her role as Tyrone Dobbs' hard-up mum Jackie in Coronation Street. The show also stars JezO as Hansel. JezO has been on CBBC shows like The Slammer and appeared at the Kenton Theatre recently with his father in the magician double act show WOW! This Show is Magic Jessica Hathaway (Milkshake Tour) and Tom Beard (RH Good news, BBC3) will also join Margi Clarke and JezO on stage to play Gretel and the wandering and wondering Minstrel. A fun and light-hearted family show, based on the classic nineteenth century Brothers Grimm fairytale, Hansel and Gretel. For tickets go to www.kentontheatre.co.uk or call 01491 575698.
17 April, 11am and 2.30pm, The Kenton Theatre, Henley.
Sir Simon Rattle & Sol Gabetta.
Picturehouse Entertainment presents the Easter Festival 2014 (Osterfestspiele 2014) with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle (Conductor) and Star Guest Sol Gabetta (Cello). For many years it was considered standard to maintain a low profile within the classical music scene. The emphatic composers who constantly allowed their emotions to erupt had a very difficult time. However, this has changed over the years, and Edward Elgar's warm and melodically charged Cello Concerto - long considered to be behind the times - once again sounds modern and fresh. Sol Gabetta recently released a highly praised recording of the work and on Easter Sunday 2014 the cellist will make her début with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Programme includes György Ligeti; Richard Wagner; Edward Elgar and Igor Stravinsky. Tickets are £15 from 01494 582900 or go to www.elgiva.com.
20 April, 5pm, The Elgiva, Chesham
Wycombe Arts Festival.
Focused in and around High Wycombe and Marlow in the South of Buckinghamshire within the Chiltern Hills, the festival offers a wide range of the arts, both amateur and professional. Their aim is to embrace and engage all members of the community. Go to www.wycombeartsfestival.org for more details.
26 April to 1 June, Various times and locations around south Bucks.
Gordon Fergus-Thompson.
The pianist's award winning interpretations of French impressionist and Russian romantic piano music have been much acclaimed throughout the European press. He has appeared in all the major halls in London and Paris and has given over two hundred broadcast recitals on BBC Radio 3. The programme includes Chopin 2 Nocturnes Op.55; SchumannFantasie Op.17; Debussy Estampes; Faure Ballade Op. 19 and Liszt Fantasy and Fugue on the name BACH. Tickets are £15 (£13 concessions) from 01628 788997 or go to www.nordenfarm.org.
27 April, 7.30pm, Norden Farm, Maidenhead.
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
Matthew Bourne's powerful and original interpretation of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Tickets £25 to £40 from 01494 512000 or go to www.wycombeswan.co.uk.
13 to 17 May, 7.30pm, with Thu and Sat matinee at 2.30pm, Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe


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THE OTHER PLACE Will Complete Extended Run 3/3
Manhattan Theatre Club's acclaimed production of The Other Place, the new play by Sharr White, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello begins the final performances of its extended engagement at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). The limited engagement will play its final performance next Sunday, March 3. On that date, the show will have played 34 previews and 61 regular performances.
THE OTHER PLACE stars Laurie Metcalf ("Roseanne," November), Bill Pullman ("1600 Penn;" The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?), Zoe Perry (Broadway debut), and John Schiappa (Assassins, Take Me Out).
Three-time Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Laurie Metcalf stars in MTC's Broadway-premiere production of The Other Place, a riveting new thriller by fast-rising playwright Sharr White and directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello (Other Desert Cities, Wicked, Love! Valour! Compassion!).
Metcalf gives a "dazzling, must-be-seen performance" (Variety) as Juliana Smithton, a successful neurologist whose life seems to be coming unhinged. Her husband (Bill Pullman) has filed for divorce, her daughter (Zoe Perry) has eloped with a much older man (John Schiappa) and her own health is in jeopardy. But in this brilliantly crafted work, nothing is as it seems. Piece by piece, a mystery unfolds as fact blurs with fiction, past collides with present and the elusive truth about Juliana boils to the surface.
THE OTHER PLACE had its world premiere at MCC Theater (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors; Blake West, Executive Director), opening on March 28, 2011 where it extended due to popular demand. The Other Place was nominated for two Outer Critics Circle Awards, a Drama League Award, and three Lucille Lortel Awards. Metcalf won an Obie Award and a Lucille Lortel Award for her performance in the production.
The creative team for the production includes Eugene Lee & Edward Pierce (scenic design), David Zinn (costume design), Justin Townsend (lighting design), Fitz Patton (original music & sound design), William Cusick (projection design), Caparelliotis Casting (casting), and Telsey + Company (casting).