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SanDisk Extreme II Review (480GB, 240GB, 120GB)
by Anand Lal Shimpi on June 3, 2013 7:19 PM ESTA few weeks ago I mentioned on twitter that I had a new favorite SSD. This is that SSD, and surprisingly enough, it's made by SanDisk.
The SanDisk part is very unexpected, because until now SanDisk hadn't really put out a very impressive drive. Much like Samsung in the early days of SSDs, SanDisk is best known for its OEM efforts. The U100 and U110 are quite common in Ultrabooks, and more recently even Apple adopted SanDisk as a source for its notebooks. Low power consumption, competitive pricing and solid validation kept SanDisk in the good graces of the OEMs. Unfortunately, SanDisk did little to push the envelope on performance, and definitely did nothing to prioritize IO consistency. Until now.
The previous generation SanDisk Extreme SSD used a SandForce controller, with largely unchanged firmware. This new drive however moves to a much more favorable combination for companies who have their own firmware development team. Like Crucial's M500, the Extreme II uses Marvell's 88SS9187 (codename Monet) controller. SanDisk also rolls its own firmware, a combination we've seen in previous SanDisk SSDs (e.g. the SanDisk Ultra Plus). Rounding out the nearly vertical integration is the use of SanDisk's 19nm eX2 ABL MLC NAND.
This is standard 2-bit-per-cell MLC NAND with a twist: a portion of each MLC NAND die is set to operate in SLC/pseudo-SLC mode. SanDisk calls this its nCache. The nCache is used as a lower latency/higher performance write buffer. In the Ultra Plus, I pointed out that there simply wasn't much NAND allocated to the nCache since it is pulled from the ~7% spare area on the drive. With the Extreme II SanDisk doubled the amount of spare area on the drive, which could impact the size of the nCache.
SanDisk Extreme II Specifications | |||||||||||
Controller | Marvell 88SS9187 | ||||||||||
NAND | SanDisk 19nm eX2 ABL MLC NAND | ||||||||||
Form Factor | 2.5" 7mm | ||||||||||
Sequential Read |
Sequential Write |
4KB Random Read |
4KB Random Write |
Drive Lifetime | 80TB Written | ||||||||||
Warranty | 5 years | ||||||||||
Some small file writes are supposed to be buffered to the nCache, but that didn't seem to improve performance in the case of the Ultra Plus, leading me to doubt its effectiveness. However, SanDisk mentioned the nCache can be used to improve data integrity as well. The indirection/page table is stored in nCache, which SanDisk believes gives it a better chance of maintaining the integrity of that table in the event of sudden power loss (since writes to nCache are quicker than to the MLC portion of the NAND). The Extreme II itself doesn't have any capacitor based power loss data protection.
Don't be too put off by the 80TB of drive writes rating for the drives. The larger drives should carry higher ratings (and they will last longer), but in order to claim a higher endurance SanDisk would have to actually validate to that higher endurance specification. For client drives, we often times see SSD vendors provide a single endurance rating in order to keep validation costs low - despite the fact that larger drives will be able to sustain more writes over the lifetime of the drive. SanDisk offers a 5 year warranty with the Extreme II.
Despite the controller's capabilities (as we've seen with the M500), SanDisk's Extreme II doesn't enable any sort of AES encryption or eDrive support.
With the Extreme II, SanDisk moved to a much larger amount of DRAM per capacity point. Similar to Intel's S3700, SanDisk now uses around 1MB of DRAM per 1GB of NAND capacity. With a flat indirection/page table structure, sufficient DRAM and an increase in spare area, it would appear that SanDisk is trying to improve IO consistency. Let's find out if they have.
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Quizzical - Monday, June 3, 2013 - link
Good stuff, as usual. But at what point do SSD performance numbers cease to matter because they're all so fast that the difference doesn't matter?
Back when there were awful JMicron SSDs that struggled along at 2 IOPS in some cases, the difference was extremely important. More recently, your performance consistency numbers offered a finer grained way to say that some SSDs were flawed.
But are we heading toward a future in which most SSDs do well in any test that you can come up with shows all of the SSDs performing well? Does the difference between 10000 IOPS and 20000 really matter for any consumer use? How about the difference between 300 MB/s and 400 MB/s in sequential transfers? If so, do we declare victory and cease caring about SSD reviews?
If so, then you could claim some part in creating that future, at least if you believe that vendors react to flaws that reviews point out, even if only because they want to avoid negative reviews of their own products.
Or maybe it will be like power supply reviews, where mostly only good ones get sent in for reviews, while bad ones just show up on New Egg and hope that some sucker will buy it, or occasionally get a review when some tech site buys one rather than getting a review sample sent from the manufacturer? -
Tukano - Monday, June 3, 2013 - link
I feel the same way. Almost need an order of magnitude improvement to notice anything different.
My question now is, where are the bottlenecks?
What causes my PC to boot in 30 seconds as opposed to 10?
I don't think I ever use the same amount of throughput as what these SSD's offer
My 2500K @ 4.5GHz doesn't seem to ever get stressed (I didn't notice a huge difference between stock vs OC)
Is it now limited to the connections between devices? i.e. transferring from SSD to RAM to CPU and vice versa? -
talldude2 - Monday, June 3, 2013 - link
Storage is still the bottleneck for performance in most cases. Bandwidth between CPU and DDR3 1600 is 12.8GB/s. The fastest consumer SSDs are still ~25 times slower than that in a best case scenario. Also, you have to take into account all the different latencies associated with any given process (i.e. fetch this from the disk, fetch that from the RAM, do an operation on them, etc.). The reduced latency is really what makes the SSD so much faster than an HDD.
As for the tests - I think that the new 2013 test looks good in that it will show you real world heavy usage data. At this point it looks like the differentiator really is worst case performance - i.e. the drive not getting bogged down under a heavy load. -
whyso - Monday, June 3, 2013 - link
Its twice that If you have two RAM sticks. -
Chapbass - Monday, June 3, 2013 - link
I came in to post that same thing, talldude2. Remember why RAM is around in the first place: Storage is too slow. Even with SSDs, the latency is too high, and the performance isn't fast enough.
Hell, I'm not a programmer, but perhaps more and more things could be coded differently if they knew for certain that 90-95% of customers have a high performance SSD. That changes a lot of the ways that things can be accessed, and perhaps frees up RAM for more important things. I don't know this for a fact, but if the possibility is there you never know.
Either way, back to my original point, until RAM becomes redundant, were not fast enough, IMO. -
FunBunny2 - Monday, June 3, 2013 - link
-- Hell, I'm not a programmer, but perhaps more and more things could be coded differently if they knew for certain that 90-95% of customers have a high performance SSD.
It's called an organic normal form relational schema. Lot's less bytes, lots more performance. But the coder types hate it because it requires so much less coding and so much more thinking (to build it, not use it). -
crimson117 - Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - link
> It's called an organic normal form relational schema
I'm pretty sure you just made that up... or you read "Dr. Codd Was Right" :P -
FunBunny2 - Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - link
When I was an undergraduate, freshman actually, whenever a professor (english, -ology, and such) would assign us to write a paper, we'd all cry out, "how long does it have to be????" One such professor replied, "organic length, as long as it has to be." Not very satisfying, but absolutely correct.
When I was in grad school, a professor mentioned that he'd known one guy who's Ph.D. dissertation (economics, mathy variety) was one page long. An equation and its derivation. Not sure I believe that one, but it makes the point. -
santiagoanders - Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - link
I'm guessing you didn't get a graduate degree in English. "Whose" is possessive while "who's" is a contraction that means "who is." -
FunBunny2 - Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - link
Econometrics. But, whose counting?


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Yaesu, Icom, and Linux
Feb 14th 2014, 23:36 | |
K7RMAJoined: Jan 10th 2013, 23:05Total Topics: 0 Total Posts: 0 |
I run Linux Mint. I'm considering buying a Yaesu FTDX1200 or Icom IC-7410. The manuals for both indicate that they require connection to a Windows pc in order to install USB drivers. Could these USB drivers by installed by running an emulator in Mint, then connecting the radio? Does anyone know if either radio contains other Windows-specific software? In other words, would either radio be dead in the water without an emulator running? My plan is to connect the radio to the Mint pc, then run Linux programs (logging, etc). I've noticed the Ubuntu Hams group and others, but no idea if any compromises must be made in order to get the radio and Linux to play with each other. Thanks and 73, Rob |
Feb 18th 2014, 17:09 | |
K1BBBJoined: May 8th 2013, 22:09Total Topics: 0 Total Posts: 0 |
Rob, I personally cannot comment about either of those radios, but I can comment about Linux. I use Slackware (infact I'm typing this from Slackware right now) on some of my computers, and I've had some success in using wine: http://www.winehq.org/ for various Windows needs. You might be able to run some of your Windows only software from that, without the need to buy a Windows license. Or if you do have Windows on hand, you could also install Virtual Box for free, and run an instance of Windows along side your Linux Mint install. Either way, I'd say you have a decent chance of getting their software working. You might also check the WineHQ website to see if they have any information about the specific software you'd like to install. Hope this helps, -Matthew, KC9ZFI |
Feb 23rd 2014, 19:01 | |
K7RMAJoined: Jan 10th 2013, 23:05Total Topics: 0 Total Posts: 0 |
Thanks Matthew. I do have an old copy of XP, but I'll only load that on a partition as a last resort. Offline discussions with a few knowledgeable gents has confirmed that the radios themselves do NOT run Windows. Manufacturers want users to have Windows so that they will be able to open Windows-enabled zip files of future firmware updates. Otherwise, Windows is unnecessary. But having said that, Yaesu told me directly that they have never tested connecting their radios to any OS other than Windows, so cannot safely recommend any other OS. I'd say it's about time they got off their butts and tried some new operating systems - like the rest of us. |
Feb 24th 2014, 18:54 | |
K1BBBJoined: May 8th 2013, 22:09Total Topics: 0 Total Posts: 0 |
It seems to me that Linux would be a perfect fit for Ham radio, and it's too bad that there doesn't seem to be enough support in the community for it. I was able to program my Baofeng using a Fedora Linux box last year, but it certainly didn't work as easily as a Windows computer. I have nothing against Windows, and use it as well as Mac and Linux; but, it would just be nice to have options. Good luck. Matthew, KC9ZFI |

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Silicone Prosthetics are great, but be a little forewarned that they are a professional style prosthetic and may take a little bit of practice to get right. Unlike latex which works with almost all adhesives and is rather hard to mess up, silicone can be (but doesn't have to be) a little more frustrating. It is the difference between doing a sketch of something and doing an oil painting. The sketch is quick, to the point and you can't really mess up a pencil. Oil painting you need to plan ahead a little bit, make sure your workspace is set up and clean, and that you have all the necessary tools and products nearby.
This may have them start to sound a little scary, but with a few little things you can be ready to have Hollywood style FX at home. First is to know about silicone. We have an article up in our tutorial section (which you can access by clicking here) that gives a brief overview of silicone along with some videos and links. But I will also give a few tips here.
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If his wife does not agree to him being away for more than six months
If the wife does not agree to her husband being away for more than six months, the case should be referred to the qadi (judge) so that he can correspond with her husband and order him to return. If he does not return, then the judge may rule as he sees fit, either divorce or annulment of the marriage. This applies whether the husband is travelling and absent for a reason such as needing money and not being able to find work in his own country, or if there is no excuse, rather it is for love of money, as mentioned in the question.
But the difference between there being an excuse and there being no excuse is that if the husband has an excuse, he is not obliged to return, and he is not sinning if he does not return.
But if he has no excuse, then he must return and he is sinning if he does not return.
In either case the wife has the right to ask for a divorce, so as to ward off harm from herself.
It is not permissible for the husband to keep his wife if she is being harmed. Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"But do not take them back to hurt them"
[al-Baqarah 2:231]
"either take them back in a good manner or part with them in a good manner"
[al-Talaq 65:2]
It says in Kashshaf al-Qina (5/193): If the husband travels and leaves her because of an excuse or need, then her right to a share of his time and intimacy is waived, even if his journey is lengthy, because there is an excuse. … If the traveller does not have an excuse that prevents him from returning and he is absent for more than six months, if she asks him to return then he must do that, because of the report narrated by Abu Hafs with his isnad from Yazeed ibn Aslam who said:
Whilst 'Umar was patrolling Madeenah, he passed by a woman who was saying:
"This night is getting very long and very dark because I do not have my partner to play with.
By Allah, were it not for the fear of Allah and for modesty, then this bed would shake under me."
He asked about her and was told that she was So and so whose husband was absent (in jihad) for the sake of Allah. He sent a woman to stay with her, and he sent for her husband to come back. Then he entered upon Hafsah and said: O my daughter, how long can a woman bear to be away from her husband? She said: Subhan Allah, would one such as you ask one such as me about that? He said: Were it not that I want to make a decision concerning the Muslims I would not have asked you. She said: Five months or six months. So he set a time limit for the people on their campaigns of six months: they would march for a month, then stay there for four months, then take another month for the journey back.
He has to come back if he does not have an excuse, such as travelling to seek knowledge or he is on an obligatory campaign or obligatory Hajj, or he is seeking necessary provision, in which case he is not obliged to return, because the one who has an excuse is excused as a result of that. The judge may write to him telling him to return, but if he refuses to return with no excuse after the judge has written to him, then the judge may annul his marriage, because he has failed to do a duty that is required of him and his wife has been harmed by that. End quote.
In al-Mawsoo'ah al-Fiqhiyyah (29/63) it says: If the husband is absent from his wife for any length of time with no excuse, she has the right to ask for a separation from him, but if it is for an excuse then she does not have the right to do that. [This is the Hanbali view].
The Malikis are of the view that if the man is absent from his wife for a while, she has the right to ask for a separation from him, whether this journey is for a valid reason or not, because her right to intimacy is binding. End quote.
Ash-Shaykh Ibn Jibreen (may Allah preserve him) was asked: I am a young man living abroad and I am married, praise be to Allah, but the country in which I am working only allows a few employees to bring their wives. What is the Islamic ruling on that, as the job is only for a year or fourteen months to be precise?
He replied: Some of the Sahabah set a limit for a husband's absence at four months, and others set it at half a year, but that applies when a wife has asked her husband to come back. If he has been away for half a year and she asks him to come back and he is able to, then he must come back. If he refuses then she has the right to refer the matter to the qadi (judge) and have the marriage annulled. But if she allows her husband to stay, even if it is for a long time, and more than one or two years, then there is nothing wrong with that because it is her right that she has waived, so she cannot demand an annulment so long as she has agreed to his being away and so long as her provision, clothing and other needs are assured. And Allah is the Source of strength. End quote from Fatawa Islamiyyah (3/212).
Ash-Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him) was asked about a man who was married and had children from his wife. He says: I travelled from my homeland to improve my situation and I was absent for nearly three years. Please note that I never stopped sending money and was in constant touch with my wife. Does she have any rights in sharee'ah and what are they? Is there any sin on me for that?
He (may Allah have mercy on him) replied: I say that the wife's right over her husband is that he may enjoy intimacy with her and she with him, as is usually the case. If he stays away from her to seek a living with her consent, and she is in a safe place where there is no fear that anything will happen to her, then there is nothing wrong with that, because the right is hers but if she agrees to waive it and she is completely safe and secure, then there is nothing wrong with his being away for three years or more or less. But if she asks him to come back then the matter should be referred to the judges to rule as they see fit in accordance with the laws of Allah, may He be glorified and exalted. End quote from Fatawa Noor 'ala al-Darb.
To sum up: If the husband is away from his wife for more than six months, if his wife agrees to that and he has left her in a safe place, there is no problem. If she did not agree to that then she may refer her case to the sharee'ah judges to determine whether her husband has a sound excuse or he has to return or the marriage may be annulled.
The husband should understand the effect that his absence will have on his wife and children, and he should put their interests and care before acquiring wealth, if he can find sufficient income in his own country, for nothing can compensate for the calamity of losing one's religious commitment; no wealth or luxury can make up for that. How many families have seen their young men and girls become corrupted because of their father's absence. We ask Allah to keep us safe and sound.
Hence we advise you to fear Allah and take care of your wife and children. And do what you can to find some money that will enable you to return and settle in your country, or bring them to join you, for the wife has rights and the children have rights, and tomorrow you will be answerable before Allah for this flock.
We ask Allah to help and guide us and you.
And Allah knows best.


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After a year of use Carroll University in Waukesha, WI is seeing success with its implementation of Jenzabar's Retention Management Solution (RMS), a combination of software and professional services that allows institutions of higher education to target at-risk students and increase retention rates. The university's goal in using Jenzabar RMS was to incorporate a process to better profile at-risk students and implement a retention structure to improve the success of students. The new program has enabled the institution to determine factors that help predict student attrition, identify at-risk students, and develop effective intervention strategies by leveraging data from its student information system.
"Jenzabar's retention management technology helps Carroll identify students who are most at-risk of leaving, allowing our staff to proactively intervene before it's too late," said Jim Wiseman, vice president of enrollment. "The system benefits the university greatly since the ultimate goal is to get students to graduation. At the end of the school year the freshman-to-sophomore retention we're seeing has exceeded all of our expectations."
Jenzabar RMS uses a mathematical model derived from historical retention data and applies it to current freshman data to predict the persistence of an individual student. A dashboard enables Carroll's director of student success to identify the factors that are triggering an at-risk status and use this information to develop a personalized retention plan for each student. This system allows the university to track changes in student attrition, gather reports from a Web-based alert system available campus-wide, and customize strategies for each student at risk.
The challenges of student retention are surfacing on many institutions' strategic plans. According to a recent survey, the percentage of college freshmen in the United States who return to the same college for their second year of school is declining. A total of 66 percent of first-year college students returned to the same institution for their second year of college in the 2007--2008 academic year, the lowest percentage since 1989.
The survey, conducted by the not-for-profit organization ACT and including responses from 2,500 colleges and universities across the country, also showed that in spite of the attention paid to college student retention, just 47 percent of campuses have established an improvement goal for retention of students from the first to second year. Only 33 percent of campuses have established a goal for improved degree completion.
About the Author
Dian Schaffhauser is a former senior contributing editor for 1105 Media's education publications THE Journal, Campus Technology and Spaces4Learning.


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When it comes to change, you either get on board or get left behind. No one knows this more than MING. Flipping the script is second nature to this New Yorker. In a city with an ever-changing soundscape, MING remains versatile and adept: essentially a way of life for the producer, songwriter, remixer, DJ, and musician.
In the mid-90s, he was one-half of the pioneering electronic duo MING+FS. Playing guitar, bass, keyboard, and turntables, MING toured the world and gave international audiences an introduction to electronic music, opening up for acts like Sting, RUN-DMC, and Moby.
Over the last decade, MING has pulled the studio more into focus, while still keeping a hand in the touring life. He remixed singles for a star-studded lineup including Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Ellie Goulding, and Black Eyed Peas. His original tracks climbed the charts, scoring four Top 40 trap remixes on Beatport. Collaborations on singles like "Disintegration" from Le Castle Vania for deadmau5's Mau5trap label and "King Kong" for Steve Aoki's Dim Mak Records staked claim on dancefloors worldwide. MING received a Grammy nomination in 2014 for the remix of Crossfingers' "Falling Out" (featuring Danny Losito).
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MING continues to break through: MING Presents Warmth, which will solely focus on house music, can be heard on Dash Radio, the Main Stage channel of dl.fm, and Future.fm and his mixes now appear on Music Choice, America's premier music and video on demand provider. Each month, listeners will hear new releases and remixes on the Hood Famous Music label, plus club dates updated on the regular.


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Bark Architects designed the Marcus Beach House, located on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia.
Project description
The Marcus Beach house celebrates a natural, coastal setting providing its occupants with an inextricable relationship to the landscape and sensitive surrounding environment. The dwelling explores lightness, filtering natural breezes, layers of transparency and integrating indoor / outdoor spaces within dynamic patterns of light and shadow, being a simple frame to enable a contemporary sustainable lifestyle to unfold.
Whilst feeling like a 'beach house' sited 250 meters away from Marcus Beach, the basic 'pavilion' plan was sketched out in the sand during an early site visit: a simple diagram of two pavilions placed either side of a venerable 100 year old Morton Bay Ash that takes centre stage to the scale, proportions and life of the house around it. The pavilions sit lightly on the site and are linked by a transparent bridge in an arrangement that opens all the spaces to the light, breeze and garden views of the north. The garden is protected by a perimeter wall wrapped in endemic vines providing an acoustic 'green' buffer to a nearby busy road.
On approach from the street, the sloping terrain naturally guides an axial timber boardwalk under a simple timber pergola structure arriving in the courtyard opposite the Morton Bay Ash. The main pavilion to the west accommodates living spaces focused around a double height deck space overlooking the swimming pool and northern garden. The Master Bedroom suite is accessed via a polycarbonate clad stair tower that is by day a contemplative space and by night, a lantern. The Morton Bay Ash casts shadows onto the polycarbonate further animating the edges of the courtyard and bringing the landscape inside the house. The recent additions of a study 'pop out,' enclosed passage link below the bridge, Laundry and Powder room further animate the edges of the courtyard space whilst responding to the needs of its new occupants.
The house is open and light and possesses simple sustainable design principles to passively defend the occupants from the elements. Windows and doors are strategically positioned to capture the prevailing breezes whilst roof overhangs are generous protecting the house from direct summer sunlight. Air conditioning has not been installed in the Marcus Beach House nor is it desired. Artificial lighting is kept to a minimum due to the generous amount and position of glazing, particularly facing north. The roof over the Master Bedroom pavilion rises to the north providing a band of high level, operable, clerestory glazing capturing daylight and allowing any warm air to escape, setting up an effective 'stack effect' natural cooling process.
The connection between the deck and living spaces is dynamic and direct. As the heart of the house, the covered double height outdoor room is actively used all year round as dappled sunlight is filtered through a timber batten screen hung below the roof structure. Indoor and outdoor realms are connected through an interlocking series of alcoves and nooks like a low edge deck seat and reading nook pop-out located off the stair landing. The courtyard and Morton Bay Ash are a focal point in which almost all rooms within the dwelling enjoy a connection.
Architecture: Bark Architects
Builder: Murray Wall
Structural Engineer: Meecham Engineers
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Tomorrow is Wear Your Old Band T-shirt to Work Day
Now in its ninth year, Wear Your Old Band T-Shirt To Work Day was the creation of BBC6's Steve Lamacq, who says: "T-Shirt Day was originally aimed at finding an excuse for music fans to unearth one of their old band t-shirts and wear it to work for a day - a bit like a badge of honour - which we thought might be fun because there are so many stories surrounding these shirts.
"What's been brilliant, though, has been seeing the terrific array of band names being paraded on the day - old and new groups, some of them quite obscure. And sure enough, they all have a tale behind them.
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Lamacq is right. Practically no piece of clothing says as much about its wearer than a band t-shirt.
That said, the one unspoken rule, lest you incur the wrath of the hardcore, is that you should actually really like the band whose name is emblazoned across your chest. After all, nothing says "wannabe" more than an "iconic" Spice Girls t-shirt, right?
To celebrate Wear Your Old Band T-shirt To Work Day, we've picked the 10 of the most iconic band t-shirts ever.
Everyone will have their own peculiar favourite, of course, but here are some of ours and the stories behind them…


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Applications open for 2013 Gordon M. Conable Conference Scholarship
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CHICAGO- The Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) has opened applications for
the 2013 Gordon M. Conable Conference Scholarship, which will enable a library school student or new professional to attend ALA's
2013 Annual Conference, held June 27-July 2 in Chicago, Ill.
The goal of the Gordon M. Conable Conference Scholarship is to advance two principles that Conable held dear: intellectual freedom and mentorship.
The scholarship provides for conference registration, transportation, housing for six nights and six days per diem. In return, the recipient will be expected to attend various FTRF and other intellectual freedom meetings and events at the conference, consult
with a mentor/board member and present a report about their experiences. The recipient also will receive a one-year FTRF membership and will be invited, although
not required, to provide daily updates about his or her experience on the Freedom to Read Foundation blog.
The deadline for submitting an application for the 2013 Conable Scholarship is Friday, April 5; the award will be announced in late April.
Who is eligible: Students currently enrolled in an ALA-accredited library and information studies degree program or an AASL-recognized
master's programs in school librarianship and new professionals (those who are three or fewer years removed from receiving a library school degree) are eligible to receive the Conable Scholarship. Those interested must submit an application that includes
two references and an essay detailing their interest in intellectual freedom issues. Applicants also are required to attach a résumé. If the recipient is already registered for ALA's Annual Conference, he or she will have the conference fee refunded.
To apply for the Conable Conference Scholarship, visit www.ftrf.org/?Conable_Scholarship.
For more information, please contact Jonathan Kelley at (800) 545-2433, ext. 4226 or [log in to unmask].
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One of our key objectives when we started conceptualising the new themes was their ability to be immediately recognisable as Ubuntu, even if represented as a small screenshot. As easily recognised as when it used to be brown – but not that brown… the incarnation that we initially launched was a bold new statement: a little unrefined maybe, but a good starting block on which to build.
And so the evolution continues…
A lot has been learnt in the last year and we are now in the process of making constant tweaks and improvements. I have been working extensively with Andrea Cimitan (creator of the Murrine theme engine) over the last couple of months to improve and accelerate our workflow. It's been fantastic having his extensive knowledge, ideas and fresh perspective to fine tune across the board.
There are far too many refinements to mention, but below are a few of note:
Removal of the beige/brown/cream tints to windows and buttons – it was rather intense and the buttons in particular felt too dark and claustrophobic. The whole interface has a lighter, refined and more precise approach.
Orange selection colour – far more obvious, contrasts well against both light and dark backgrounds. The orange selection is replaced with grey on deselected windows so as not to detract focus. The colour is still being tweaking to provide something that is comfortably useable and compliments/reflects the visual identity successfully.
The indicator menus now have an indented tab that doesn't detract from the actual selection and a subtle internal gradient – far closer to the original designs.
Window buttons have been refined, bringing a more subtle/less pronounced satin treatment and more obvious states.
The taskbar has been redesigned to properly reflect the menubar.
Buttons now have an internal highlight and subtle glow.
Button selection is now a 2px external line glow.
The appearance of progress bars, scrubbers, checkboxes and radio buttons has been vastly improved and have received an added level of detail – they now feel far more homogenous (as if hewn from the same material set) and more in keeping with the original design.
A lot of work has gone into the scrollbar, to make it feel more light weight and integrated into the window and again to reflect better the appearance of other widgets (progress bars for example).
Try it out for yourself
As yet only the Ambiance theme is in a fit state for testing. Radiance now shares far more closely – so shouldn't be far behind. I hope you can appreciate the differences as much as I can 🙂
The Ambiance Maverick Beta is available here: http://people.ubuntu.com/~stefanor/light-themes/
Thanks to Stefano Rivera for assisting with the packaging – much appreciated.
It seems that the dark version of the theme has been leaked. This is still very much a work in progress and *at this stage* is not necessarily intended as a full theme but to be used by certain application environments that would benefit from a darker UI, for example: image/photo manipulation and video editing.
One more thing!
We'll be wanting to support Ambiance and Radiance with a shiny new icon theme within the next year. I have a few ideas and am intending to put out a brief for submissions shortly. We're looking for something truly special and would very much like some of the innovation from the community to shine through – to be the icing on the cake to our desktop identity.


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Hello, my name is Carolyn Hansen and my book 21 Days To Healthy Eating has been designed to help you restructure your approach to food so that you can quickly begin to experience the health benefits of eating clean unprocessed foods.
At the same time, adjusting your approach to eating is pointless unless you can easily maintain the new habits indefinitely. So the program outlined in 21 Days To Healthy Eating emphasizes a "one meal at a time" approach that makes the day-to-day decision to eat for health something that is easy to stick with for the long haul.
If you have tried one diet after another, only to end up where you started, with no real modification to your eating habits, then you will be pleasantly surprised at the approach adopted here, where real changes can be implemented in a 21 day course that can be carried out entirely at your own pace.
I want to take a moment before I tell you what 21 Days To Healthy Eating is about to impress upon you what it is not. I feel I need to do this because one of the main goals for the book is to teach you how to burn fat more efficiently by modifying the type, quantity, and eating frequency of the food you consume. So, regardless of what else it might be said to be, the book IS a fat loss instrument.
Because of this I think it is necessary to point out that there are a great many bogus weight loss sites online today, but this is not one of them. It is unfortunate, but these sites make it really difficult for the consumer to form an objective judgement about what is realistic and what is not when it comes to expectations about what a weight loss product can do for them.
The problem is so rampant that the Federal Trade Commission dedicates time and resources to alerting the public on what to look out for with these sites. They even have a highly detailed and useful downloadable PDF document entitled Red Flag Bogus Weight Loss Claims that I encourage you to check out. In a nutshell, be on the lookout for sites that claim you can easily reduce your body weight by more than about a pound a day, and keep it off for good, without embarking on a strenuous physical activity program and cutting calories from your diet.
By the way, you will find no such claims on this page. I can help you to lose weight, and the only thing I rely on to get the job done is my knowledge of how the human body responds to nutrition.
My feeling is that the majority of these bogus weight loss sites are very likely run by people who have never seen the inside of a gym, let alone spent any real time trying to figure out what works when it comes to trying to lose weight effectively. Well, I am of a different cut entirely.
Now that I have impressed upon you the idea that 21 Days To Healthy Eating is not a "get thin overnight" type product, but is based on practical healthy eating practices, let me fill you in on what the book IS about…
If you take a quick look below at the cover of my book you will see a parody of the war we fight with junk food every day. In all seriousness, though, it IS a war, the scope of which is growing every day to affect not only our health, but the health of our children – one in three of whom born after the year 2000 will experience some form of diabetes in their lifetime.
My goal is not to entirely remove the junk food from your diet, but to downsize it significantly, and for good. This is a realistic goal, and I will show you how to make those cravings for foods with "empty calories" vanish almost entirely.
This approach to healthy eating is right for anyone who wants to win the war against junk food without having to engage in endless and ego-deflating battles with their food.
Eating, of course, is a preoccupation with many of us. That would be OK if it was not for the fact that what we put into our bodies is one of the two most important factors that determine how our health progresses as we age. The other main factor, of course, is physical activity.
One of the biggest problems each of us faces daily is that it has become incredibly easy to sideline physical activity in favor of sitting in front of a monitor of one type or another during our waking hours. We are no longer required to expend energy to be socially productive. I am using a monitor to help write this page, you are using one to read it. At the same time, gaining access to food in HUGE quantities has never been easier. The trouble is, these two developments work against our basic biology and set us up for a lifetime struggle with body weight issues.
We become self conscious of the way we look (and quite frankly we really ought to be self conscious) but instead of addressing the problem the correct way, by adding exercise to our day, and being careful about what we eat, we put off doing the simple things that can turn it all around for us and help get our lives back on track. Well, I have dedicated my life to solving problems like this for other people, and now I want to help you achieve some of the results that they have.
The truth is that it matters not whether you have already developed health problems because of poor dietary habits, or you are merely looking to ward off health problems that you suspect might be lingering on the horizon. If you begin addressing the issue of what it is that you need to do to ensure that you are eating for health, rather than for mere pleasure and necessity, you are going to see some real benefits in the way that you feel. Not just in the short term, but for the rest of your life.
Healthy eating is not something to be practiced only by the "health nuts" who want to get back to nature. It is something we should all be practicing because it is going to improve the quality of our lives, and add years to its length.
Besides all that, healthy eating is just plain enjoyable. When you discover how to eat for health, you discover how to eat all the food you could want WITHOUT the guilt that affects so many of us and puts a real damper on our ability to enjoy life.
If the thought of enjoying your next meal fills you with dread because of the very real possibility that you will overeat, you can now relax, because I am going to show you how to once again begin appreciating food to the fullest extent, but without sacrificing your health to do it.
Very few people appreciate that the almost uncontrollable desire to eat beyond the point that would have past generations feeling full is something that we have programmed into our modern lifestyle. We have traded away the quality of nutrition in our food for ease of access.
Every time we reach for another box or can of processed food we are making an invisible trade – exchanging a little of our prospect for long term health for the short term convenience of being able to quickly and almost effortlessly put a meal in front of us.
Your body is being robbed daily of the nutrition that it needs to function at its peak, and the result is rebellion – biological cravings for more food that result in overeating. To get overeating under control, so that you can maintain a healthy body weight, it is absolutely essential that you discover for yourself the truth about what it is that you are eating.
To be content to purchase your food today from a supermarket without this knowledge is equivalent to saying that you have faith in large foods companies to place your health interests above their profit line, so that they can continue to serve you long and well.
If that were true we would not be looking today at an epidemic of obesity and food-related chronic health issues, the scale of which threatens to undermine not only our future well-being as individuals, but as a society equipped to handle disease on an epic scale.
The reality is that only YOU have the power to ensure your longevity and quality of life. If someone were to come to me and say they had decided to become a doctor I would be shocked if they told me they were planning to do it without going to medical school first.
By the same token, if someone were to tell me that they are hoping to live a long and healthy life, but they are planning to do it while paying NO ATTENTION to the quality of the food they are consuming, then I would be shocked by their willingness to allow their ignorance of the role of nutrition in their life to shave perhaps 10 years off its span.
In 21 Days To Healthy Eating you will find recipes to guide you in the kitchen and in the supermarket. You will learn which foods to embrace, and which to avoid. But more importantly, you will understand the reasons behind the decision to put one food type into your trolley, and leave others on the shelf. In the war with junk food, you are a combatant, whether you know it or not, as are all the members of your family. It is time for all of us to equip ourselves with the knowledge we need to fight that war.
With 21 Days To Healthy Eating on your shelf you will be ready to fight those battles, and claim daily victories that stack up not only as extra days that leave you feeling energized and vibrant, but which add to your lifespan. I want you to experience the same satisfaction and well-being that I enjoy everyday, in large part due to simple decisions I make each time I sit down to eat.
I have written before on the topic of healthy eating, but never to the detailed extent found in this book. All of the truly important facts about this subject have been distilled and presented in a format that will make it easy for you to get started on what might otherwise be a fairly challenging process. Afterall, you have probably learned a lifetime's worth of bad eating habits that can be difficult to break. But break them you will, by the time you have finished reading 21 Days To Healthy Eating and begun putting the ideas into practice.
In addition to the 21 day plan of attack, the content has been broken into 12 sections as follows:
OK, so now you have a pretty good idea of what my 21 Days To Healthy Eating approach
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Global digital currency exchanges are exploring ways to set up in India, following in the footsteps of market leader Binance, industry sources told Reuters, while the government in New Delhi dithers over introducing a law that could ban cryptocurrencies.
Opponents of the potential ban say it would stifle the economic power of a tech-savvy, young nation of 1.35 billion people. There is no official data, but industry analysts reckon there are 15 million crypto investors in India holding over $1.37 billion.
According to four sources, who declined to be identified as they were not authorised to comment on private discussions, US-based Kraken, Hong Kong-based Bitfinex and rival KuCoin are actively scouting the market, which analysts say would only get bigger if it was given a free rein.
Cryptocurrency crime drops in 2020 but 'DeFi' breaches rise
"These companies have already begun talks to understand the Indian market and the entry points better," said one source directly involved with an exchange that had begun due diligence for an Indian firm it was considering acquiring.
The other two exchanges, he said, were in the initial stages of deciding whether to enter India and weighing their options, which effectively come down to a choice between setting up a subsidiary or buying an Indian firm, as Binance, the world's biggest exchange, did two years ago.
Bitfinex declined to comment while Kraken and KuCoin did not respond to an email seeking comment.
All three exchanges are ranked in the world's top ten by data platform CoinMarketCap, based on their traffic, liquidity and trustworthiness of their reported trading volumes.
"The Indian market is huge and it is only starting to grow, if there was more policy certainty by now Indian consumers would have been spoilt for choice in terms of exchanges because everyone wants to be here," said Kumar Gaurav, founder of digital bank Cashaa.
Proponents of cryptocurrencies say they would be the most cost-efficient way for Indians abroad to remit funds home.
But authorities worry that rich people and criminals could hide their wealth in the digital world, and speculative flows of funds through digital channels, ungoverned by India's strict exchange controls, could destabilise the financial system.
Hitherto, India has had no rules specifically for cryptocurrency exchanges wishing to set up in the country. Instead, they could register themselves as tech companies to obtain a relatively easy entry path.
In 2019, Binance acquired WazirX, an Indian cryptocurrency startup that has allowed users to buy and sell crypto with rupees on the Binance Fiat Gateway.
US-based exchange, Coinbase, has announced plans for a back-office in India.
India to launch its own cryptocurrency
But with the regulatory environment for cryptocurrencies taking a turn for worse globally, Indian authorities are exercising greater scrutiny.
In China, authorities have forbidden banks and online payment companies from providing services related to cryptocurrency transactions.
And the Indian government was set to present a bill to parliament by March that proposed a ban on cryptocurrencies, making trading and holding them illegal. But the government has held it back, and conflicting statements since have fueled uncertainty over the bill's fate.
Meantime, major Indian banks have begun to sever ties with cryptocurrency exchanges and traders, amid the Reserve Bank of India's concerns about the financial stability risks posed by the volatile asset.
The RBI is looking at launching its own digital currency, but Governor Shaktikanta Das in February described those plans as a "work in progress".
For all the uncertainty over what India will end up doing, some digital currency exchanges clearly reckon it would be better to gain entry rather than miss out.
"It's clear that the rewards outweigh the perceived risks, which is luring these global firms to the Indian market," said Darshan Bathija, chief executive officer of Vauld, a foreign crypto exchange with a presence in India.
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These bases are useful for any game that does not require individually based figures but instead works with regimental or unit bases. Just a few of that games these are useful for are Kings of War, Hail Caesar, Pike & Shot, Black Powder, and there are many more.
These bases are meant for normal sized infantry that would be on 20x20mm bases.
These bases have are 3mm thick and have a small notch in the leading edge to help visualize the center of the base regardless of the placement of the models on the base. This is important for several games that use regimental bases.
These bases are sold individually.
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That Google has recently updated its search quality guidelines is a huge change in the online marketing landscape that many businesspeople do not properly take into account. Although the initial upgrade was made in November, 2015, the updated version was slightly improved at the end of March.
The four major changes that took place between November and March 28 are reflected in the updated version of the quality updates. Here we will go through all of those changes in general.
Supplementary Content Is Now Less Emphasized
If you are trying to bolster your online presence using supplementary content instead of optimizing your main content, you will now have a more difficult time registering within the Google search rankings. This may de-emphasize blogs and other ancillary content slightly, to give less of an edge to people with more time to put large amounts of content on the Internet without a real emphasis on precision quality. This also helps truly original content creators compete against people with more content that is mostly syndicated from other sources.
Local Content, or "Visit in Person," Content Is Prioritized
Localization has been renamed "visit in person." The emphasis on localized content and keywords continues to increase. Google definitely enjoys when a business gets its local audience pumped up to patronize it. If you are looking for organic national and international exposure, bolstering your exposure in your local area is definitely one of the best ways to get it.
Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness
The EAT acronym of "expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness" has been emphasized more as well. Google continues to be a search engine that rewards older websites that consistently provide expert content. No matter how good your new website is, you will likely not achieve the search ranking that you deserve for at least six months, which enables Google to properly vet your site for consistency.
Authority is also incredibly important. Choosing the right keywords so that you can build and maintain your niche without stepping on the toes of competitors is extremely important. If your site is more authoritative to your viewers, then you will rise in the rankings much more quickly than any other kind of site.
Trustworthiness is the final letter in this acronym. Trustworthiness expands from small details such as spelling every word on your website correctly to improving the bounce rate so that Google can see that people view your content in long stretches.
The Continued Rise of Mobile
Finally, Google is definitely following the money when it comes to mobile commerce. If you do not have a responsive website, then your entire web presence will be punished. The newest iteration of the Google search quality documentation has plenty of examples to look for if you are trying to build a mobile website that will work in Google search results.
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Pink Strapless Satin Long Prom Dress, Beautiful A-Line Evening Dress
Pink Strapless Satin Long Prom Dress, Beautiful A-Line Evening Dress
Refund Policy
Refund Policy
When you will receive your dress, if something makes you unhappy, You must let me know about it in 7 DAYS after you receive your package and let's talk and understand what is the issue.
********Return Guide*********
1. Contact us within 7 days after you receive the items.
2. Provide us with photos of the dress, to show evidence of damage or bad quality, this also applies for the size, or incorrect style and color etc.
3. Return shipping charges will be the buyer's responsibility. It is buyer's responsibility to pay for the shipping fee of sending back and exchange.
4. Item must be returned in 7-15 days upon delivery date. Please provide us the tracking number as soon as possible when you send the dress.The returned item must be in perfect condition (as new), you can try the dress on, but be sure not to stretch it or make any dirty marks, otherwise we will refuse the return. We only accept products in their original condition, and we cannot process any products that are returned without our approval. If you wish to return any or all parts of your order, you will need to contact customer service at Contact Us to
get the return address. Any returns without our approval can not get any refunds or exchanges.
5. Please fold the dress inside out. The tracking number of the returned item must be provided together with the reference code issued.
6. All the return item(s) will go through inspections. We will process the refund when we confirm that the product has the problems you mentioned. Once the refund has been processed by us, it usually takes 3-7 business days for the funds to be credited to your account, depending on your bank or payment service.
Note: As all items (including standard size) are made-to-order, we cannot afford to accept the 'buy-many-keep-one' purchase. This is not part of our return policy.
If the color you receive is not the color you ordered, you are eligible for a full refund.
Color difference:
We try our best to get the color shown in the photos to be true to the original although color representation can vary per individual computer monitors as the brightness setting on your monitor may affect how the color is shown. The color difference is unable to be 100% avoided, if you worried, you are always welcome to request the fabric sample.
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A few things to remember about custom dresses:
Custom dresses are made specifically to the measurements you provide (bust, waist, hips, height, and hollow-to-floor). That means no one else will be able to wear that dress once it's made. Because of this, we are unable to accept any returns on custom dresses. Nevertheless, we shall discuss with you methods that may be helpful.
1. Unpaid order will not be processed. If you do not need it, please simply ignore it.
2. Order canceled within 48 hours after the order is paid: you will get a full refund consisting of the item price and the full shipping cost.
3. Order canceled within 72 hours after the order is paid: you will get a partial refund consisting of 90% of the item price and the full shipping cost.
4. Cancellation within 73 to 96 hours after the order is paid: you will get a partial refund consisting of 80% of the item price and the full shipping cost.
5. Orders cannot be cancelled after 120 hours of payment.
Once your order has been shipped, it can no longer be canceled.
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If you have any questions concerning our return policy, please email: email@example.com or contact us, and we will reply to you in 24 hours.
Item Descriptions:
Fabric: Satin
Silhouette: A-Line
Back Style: Lace-up
Hemline: Floor Length
Lining: Fully Lined
Built-In Bra: Yes
Color: Pink
Product Number: GTR161
Custom made:
Besides stand size 2-16, we still offer free custom size, please provide the following information in the order notes when you checkout:
Shoulder to shoulder: ______
Bust: ______
Waist: ______
Hips: ______
Shoulder to knee( for knee length dress only): ______
Hollow to floor( with shoes on): ______
Height: ______
Delivery Times = Tailoring Time + Shipping Time
Tailoring Time: 15 to 18 days
Shipping Time: 5 to 7 days
If you need rush order service, please click on: Rush My Order
Any questions about the item, please feel free to contact us via our email email@example.com
Custom Color
Custom Color
Please check the Color Cards, when ordering, you can find a message box in the shopping cart, leave your custom color, we can see this information, you can also contact us, I will assist you to choose correct fabric and most accurate color tone.


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This story was co-published with The Daily Beast
U.S. Army Private First Class Lawrence S. Gordon — killed in Normandy in 1944, then mistakenly buried as a German soldier — will soon be going home to his family.
But don't thank the American military for this belated return. The Pentagon declined to act on his case, despite exhaustive research by civilian investigators that pointed to the location of his remains.
Instead, Gordon's family and advocates used the same evidence to persuade French and German officials to exhume Gordon and identify him through DNA testing. That's right: the relatives of this U.S. soldier, who fought against the Germans, are relying on Germany to bring him back home.
Gordon's case is another example of breakdowns in the American system for finding and identifying tens of thousands of missing service members from past conflicts. More than 9,400 troops are buried as "unknowns" in American cemeteries around the world. Yet, as ProPublica and NPR recently reported, the Joint Prisoners of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command (J-PAC) rarely disinters any of those men to try to use DNA to identify them. On average, just 4 percent of such cases move forward.
Several U.S. and international news outlets have written about Gordon's case, but ProPublica obtained a previously undisclosed J-PAC memo from April 2013 that, for the first time, reveals the agency's rationale for turning aside his family's entreaties. One J-PAC historian advised "extreme caution" on the case, saying that making an identification would require a "monumental" amount of research about thousands of Americans and Germans killed in roughly the same area.
A Pentagon review ordered by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel of how the military is managing its mission to find and identify MIAs concludes next month.
Gordon's family benefited from a fluke of circumstance: Gordon was in a German cemetery in France, not an American one, allowing his case to advance without the U.S. military's participation.
Jed Henry, a filmmaker from Wisconsin whose grandfather served in Gordon's unit, took up Gordon's case in 2011. Henry scoured records, witness statements and various archives and pieced together evidence about Gordon's whereabouts.
Gordon's family knew only that he was killed in Normandy when a German shell hit his armored car in August 1944. Gordon's bloody wallet was sent home to his mother in Canada. (Gordon had Canadian citizenship, but he was born to American parents and decided to enlist in the U.S. Army.)
Henry found paperwork revealing the Army had recovered the destroyed vehicle and two badly burned, unidentifiable bodies. They were buried as American unknowns.
After the war ended, the Army dug up both sets of remains, finding they wore German clothing. Using fingerprints, one was identified as U.S. Army Pvt. James Bowman, who had been in the turret of the car next to Gordon.
It was impossible to use fingerprints to identify the other set of remains. The bones were given a number, X-356, for lack of a name. Because of the German clothing, they were turned over to the Germans, who interred them in a crypt in France.
That evidence was enough to persuade the French and German governments to exhume the remains last fall and test for DNA, but not the Pentagon.
"Why is that we had enough evidence to convince the French and the Germans but not the Americans?" Henry asked. "Why is the burden of proof in America so much higher? It's ludicrous."
The April 2013 internal J-PAC memo argued that the evidence was too thin to eliminate the thousands of other men who died in the area during that time, concluding "that the association between [Gordon] and this set of remains was possible but improbable." J-PAC historian Jeffery Johnson questioned whether it was even within the agency's authority or responsibility to try to identify Gordon because he was a Canadian citizen.
Another J-PAC official told Henry in an email that the case didn't meet the criteria for disinterment set by Pentagon policy. In practice, J-PAC's scientific director, Tom Holland, has broad leeway to interpret that criteria and he has set an extraordinarily high standard that has led to the 96 percent rejection rate. J-PAC did only one World War II disinterment in 2013 and none in 2012.
So the critical tests on the remains were performed by France's National Forensic Science Institute, which found that DNA from a molar matched that of Gordon's nephews, according to a letter from the French prosecutor overseeing the matter.
Dirk H. Backen, the Brigadier General of the German Defense Attaché, sent a personal letter to Gordon's namesake and nephew, Lawrence R. Gordon, after learning of the test results, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
"Eventually, justice has won. My congratulations for showing such honorable commitment, patriotism, faith and courage to walk that long path for your uncle," Backen wrote. "He will come home and that is what counts. He fell in a battle against my countrymen, but he did this under a just cause: To liberate Europe from fascism and to restore peace, freedom and humanity. His sacrifice was not in vain."
There will be a ceremony on June 10 in France to turn Gordon's remains over to his family. For the flight across the Atlantic, representatives of the Canadian, German and French military will escort Gordon, Henry said. It's unclear if the American military will be there, he added.
The remains will go next to the University of Wisconsin for an anthropologist and odontologist to inspect. The lab there will also test the DNA to confirm the French results. The family has invited J-PAC to observe the process but has opted not to give the remains to the agency to examine independently.
The family won't wait on the U.S. government to proceed with burying Gordon in Saskatchewan on Aug. 13, the 70th anniversary of his death, Henry said.
The Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office said in a statement that "we strongly believe that Pfc. Gordon will receive full military benefits and honors suitable to the honorable service and sacrifice that he made for all of our Countries during the Second World War."
Gordon's family and advocates are frustrated the U.S. military is just now stepping up to be involved.
J-PAC's "mission statement says to achieve the fullest possible accounting of soldiers," Henry said. "They're never going to get everybody, but they can certainly do a hell of a lot better than what they're doing."
For more on this story, see Megan McCloskey and NPR's original investigation into the U.S. military's failure to identify the remains of its missing service men and women or learn how you can help find an MIA.


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Daniel Kuehn, "A Thought on Minsky and Rothbard that Would Probably Make neither Happy," Facts and Other Stubborn Things, May 29, 2013.While both were concerned with the destabilising role of endogenous credit money, I remain sceptical about the attempts to link them.
Jonathan Finegold Catalán, "Minsky v. Mises–Hayek," Economic Thought, 30 May, 2013.
The Austrian business cycle theory is an equilibrium theory whose concern is with (alleged) real distortions in the capital goods sector of the economy caused by the deviation of the bank rate of interest from the imaginary unique Wicksellian natural rate of interest. The theory also requires unrealistic assumptions about the nature of capital. First, it is doubtful whether most capital goods can be usefully categorised into clear higher and lower "orders" at all, and, secondly, heterogeneous capital can also have a significant degree of durability and substitutability. A capital structure in a capitalist economy where we find some important degree of adaptability, versatility and durability in the nature of capital goods means that the "bust" phase of the Austrian business cycle theory is a grossly unrealistic and unconvincing explanation of any real world contraction.
Furthermore, the ABCT is dependent on a tendency to equilibrium by which the bank rate will return to the imaginary natural rate of interest, and thus clear the real capital goods markets. All these things are simply worthless equilibrium theorising, irrelevant to the real world.
But what is even worse is that the ABCT has little concern with financial crises or asset bubbles, the real world economic phenomena associated with credit booms in poorly regulated financial systems.
In contrast, Minsky's theory takes account of both financial crises and asset bubbles, and is the superior theory without any doubt. Despite some influence from Schumpeter's equilibrium theories, Minsky's financial instability hypothesis does not really require general equilibrium assumptions or effects.
Karen I. Vaughn identified the major failing of modern Austrian theory in this respect:
"Mises never discusses the possibility of systematic speculative error except in the context of his trade cycle theory, in which speculators-investors are misled by improper monetary signals emanating from a fractional reserve banking. Yet if the future cannot be predicted, or as Shackle would say, if the future is created out of the actions of the past, why is it not least conceivably possible for speculative activity to be on net incorrect at least some of the time? Certainly, we have the empirical evidence of speculative bubbles that are endogenous to markets as an example of market instability. One would think that the extent and potential limiting factors that affect such endogenous instabilities would be of great importance for fully understanding market orders, yet it is an issue surprisingly missing in the Austrian literature. Hence, although, we can appreciate the force of Mises' argument as far as it goes, it seems that a crucial part of the case for the effective functioning of a market economy is missing." (Vaughn. 1994: 87–88).Finally, I find Jonathan Finegold Catalán statement here to be priceless:
"From what I understand, Minsky's position is that credit cycles are self-feeding, as continuing credit expansion is needed to maximize profit. Greater credit expansion implies falling lending standards, in turn increasing the risk of banks' loan portfolio. From a macro perspective, the greater the credit expansion, the greater the risk of a financial shock. The banking system cannot self-regulate, because there's no incentive to do so, and therefore the government needs to regulate the industry in a way to achieve an optimal amount of risk.What? Is there really "little evidence that banks disregarded risk" in the most recent housing market bubble?
I don't find the theory, at least framed in that way, very convincing. First, it's not clear why growing risk (e.g. a growing probability of loss) doesn't act as an incentive to restrict a loan portfolio. Second, empirically, there is little evidence that banks disregarded risk.
I can only conclude that the liar's loans and NINJA (no income, no job or assets) loans slipped his mind.
As for "growing risk (e.g. a growing probability of loss)" acting as "an incentive to restrict a loan portfolio" one wonders why we have numerous financial crises in history in which banks loaded up on bad assets or pumped out loans to speculators without much interest in restricting their loan portfolios. Australia's property bubble in the 1880s immediately comes to mind.
Vaughn, K. I. 1994. Austrian Economics in America: The Migration of a Tradition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.


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The detuned stab in Tiësto's Dance 4 Life gives the track that extra bit of grit and really cuts through the mix. We're going to show you how to recreate the sound in LinPlug's Albino 3, a demo of which can be downloaded here.
Step 1: The dirty synth stab from Tiësto's Dance 4 Life might sound as if it's a product of common-or-garden subtractive synthesis, but in actual fact, it requires you to get your hands dirty with some frequency modulation trickery. Fire up Albino 3 so that we can get started.
Step 2: Albino's demo version doesn't come with an initialised patch, so open it in your host and click the Load Patch button. You need to load up the Z_initial preset.fxp patch, which can be downloaded by right-clicking here.
Step 3: If you're using the full version of Albino, you'll find the Z_initial preset patch in the Diverse Sounds folder. Start by setting the first oscillator's waveform to a square wave, then turn on the second oscillator and set it to Analogue mode.
Step 4: Set the second oscillator's wave shape to a square too. Check out the right-hand side of Oscillator 1's panel - you'll see a list of destinations for the oscillator's output. Select the FM one, which causes Oscillator 1 to modulate the frequency of Oscillator 2.
Step 5: We now have a sawtooth-like sound, but with a little detuning, we can get something much more interesting. Set Oscillator 1's Cent value to +50, and Oscillator 2's to -50. This gives us a basic Dance 4 Life stab.
Step 6: For the final touches, turn Oscillator 2's Sub Osc up about half way, and activate a Compressor in the first effect slot. Use this to make the stab as loud and nasty as possible.