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United for Peace of Pierce County - COMMENTARY: American exceptionalism means not having to admit US killed hundreds of thousands
COMMENTARY: American exceptionalism means not having to admit US killed hundreds of thousands
Written by Hank Berger
Loving your country means never having to say you're sorry for what it does, or even knowing about it. -- That seems to be one of the corollaries of American exceptionalism, John Glaser said last week.[1] -- While studies have irrefutably demonstrated that the number of Iraqis who died because of the Iraq invasion is certainly in the many hundreds of thousands, polls show most Americans put the number at around 10,000....
NEW STUDY ON IRAQ DEATH COUNT 50 TIMES HIGHER THAN AMERICANS THINK
By John Glaser
http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/10/15/new-study-on-iraq-death-count-50-times-higher-than-americans-think/ (see original for many links)
Part of American Exceptionalism is never having to admit when your government kills hundreds of thousands of people.
A new study says the U.S. invasion and subsequent war in Iraq killed an estimated 460,800, higher than most of the estimates frequently cited in the mainstream media, but lower than the controversial 2006 Lancet study that estimated between 400,000 and 655,000 excess deaths.
The authors of the study, which was published in PLOS Medicine, detail a more rigorous methodology than has ever been employed for previous Iraq War mortality estimates.
But even this may be an undercount. John Tirman, Executive Director at the MIT Center for International Studies and author of The Deaths of Others, told me in an email that the new study's estimate of deaths of displaced people, approximately 56,000, is "likely to be more like 100,000 or even greater, but it's almost impossible to say without more research -- i.e., a survey among the displaced."
Whatever the exact number, what's certain is that it continues to grow. According to the International Crisis Group, the violence in Iraq is "as acute and explosive as ever." And as Antiwar.com's own Kelley Vlahos wrote recently, Iraqis are dying in "numbers not seen since the bloody days of 2008."
Unfortunately, Americans dramatically under-estimate how many Iraqis died as a result of their former president's war of choice.
"While even the most conservative estimates of mortality in Iraq," Al Jazeera America reports, "have reached six figures, polling in the U.S. and U.K. have shown public perception to be that the civilian death toll from the war is in the neighborhood of 10,000."
That is an embarrassment of enormous magnitude. But one is careful not to be surprised. Back in 2011, a University of Maryland poll found that 38 percent of Americans still believe the U.S. had "found clear evidence in Iraq that Saddam Hussein was working closely with the al-Qaeda terrorist organization."
So not only do Americans refuse to accept the reality of why the U.S. attacked Iraq, but they resist the facts about the consequences of the war. The notion that we went to war on false pretenses and that it directly led to the deaths of about 500,000 people is too much to bear for flag-waving Americans.
If their ignorance weren't so offensive, it might be excusable. The reality is that a group of people that the American electorate twice empowered at the voting booths made decisions to act criminally and killed hundreds of thousands of people needlessly by attacking and occupying a country that posed no threat to us. They get away with this mass murder, in part, because of the mass ignorance of Americans.
A death count statistic can never truly depict the unimaginable suffering caused by the U.S. in Iraq. But the 10,000 civilians America believes were killed by the war is not an acceptable representation of the ~500,000 Iraqis that actually died and the millions that had their lives torn apart.
I shudder to think how many Americans know that more than 6,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in 2013, two years after the U.S. withdrawal.


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Q: SQL Server 2008 R2 backup plan not deleting files older than X days set in maintenance plan We have a database maintenance plan set to do a full backup of all user databases nightly.  The backups are set to expire after seven days and they are backed up to disk with the file extension "bak".
Problem is that the job is not deleting any backup sets older than seven days (same goes for the job that backs up the transaction log).
All the databases being backed up have their recovery models set to "Full".
SQL Server Agent is logging on as Local System and "SYSTEM" has full rights to the folders where these backups are bieng saved.
The jobs are not reporting any errors when they are manually run and there are no errors in the log files.
If I create a test maintenance plan to delete text files in a directory and run the generated T-SQL, the command completes successfully but the text file in the directory does not get removed.
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 0,N'D:\TEST',N'.txt'

I know it's a rights issue but everything looks okay on our end.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.

A: This is just a shot, but I've been bitten by including a "." in the file extension box when creating maintenance plans.  Check to see if you have ".bak" instead of "bak".

A: As I understand you delete them in Maintenance plan using special Maintenance Cleanup Task .. or via "Execute T-SQL Statement Task"? Although it should not matter.
By looking at your SQL statement I think it could be the file extension: it should be without dot, just extension on it's own.
I doubt it is a permission issue as you are able to create backups in first place. But check if SQLServerMSSQLUser$... group has full access -- that is how I have on all "backup" locations (these permissions should be set up automatically if you set that folder as default backup destination during initial setup).

AFAIK xp_delete_file is undocumented and I have found no references in SQL Books to it. Apparently SQL Server checks what file it is before deleting it -- it works with own files only (to prevent wrong usage/security, I guess). Here are the format and parameters:
EXECUTE master.sys.xp_delete_file
0, -- FileTypeSelected (0 = FileBackup, 1 = FileReport)
N'D:\SQLbackups\', -- folder path (trailing slash)
N'bak', -- file extension which needs to be deleted (no dot)
N'2011-06-15T15:10:04', -- date prior which to delete
1 -- subfolder flag (1 = include files in first subfolder level, 0 = not)

By looking at your example SQL statement I see quite a few differences:

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*In first parameter you have 0 (File Backups) but attempting to delete Text file

*File extension should exclude dot

*You should provide expiry date (files older than that will be deleted)

Link: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard/archive/2009/03/11/xp-delete-file.aspx

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Colombian president returns to the Hill
Posted on Sep 25, 2012 in Alumni News, Campus News, and News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos with KU soccer players Ingrid Vidal and Liana Salazar, who are from Colombia.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says his time at the University of Kansas helped shape his worldview and set in motion his political career.
Santos returned to campus Monday to receive the Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. About 500 people attended his appearance at the Dole Institute of Politics, where director Bill Lacy asked him questions about his career and KU experiences.
"It was here that the seed was put, and it has been growing for the past 40 years," he said, according to this story in the Lawrence Journal-World.
Santos was the first sitting head of state to visit the Dole Institute.
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LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Election officials across five Indian states Tuesday began counting votes in crucial provincial elections that are being seen as a test of strength for the country's ruling Congress party.
The most critical results are expected from the country's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. Rahul Gandhi, touted as Congress' next prime ministerial candidate, has campaigned there relentlessly for months to oust the government of Mayawati and her Bahujan Samaj Party, which represents dalits, the country's lowest caste.
Poor numbers could seriously handicap the national government in the last two years of its term and be an indicator of how the party will fare in the next federal polls. They would also deal a blow to Gandhi's credibility as a serious national leader.
He is a member of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has dominated Indian politics for the most part since independence from Britain in 1947. His mother is Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born Congress party president; his father, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, was assassinated in 1991. The family is not related to independence leader Mohandas Gandhi.
The other states that will elect new governments are northern Punjab and Uttarakhand, the insurgency-wracked northeastern state of Manipur, and coastal Goa state. Manipur and Goa are ruled by the Congress party, while Punjab and Uttarakhand are ruled by opposition parties.
Results are expected to start trickling in around 10:30 a.m. local time (0430 GMT).
The massive elections in the five states were spread out across seven phases, from early February to March 3 and saw a high voter turnout, with at least 60 percent of the electorate voting in each state.


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Halifax Initiative
Washington consensus
Is IMF choosing the right boss?
The candidates being considered for International Monetary Fund's new boss do not inspire much hope for an institution in need of credibility. Much of the media's focus has been on the nationality of the candidates rather than on which capabilities are needed to address the IMF's major challenges: shifting to a more flexible policy orientation and adapting to a changed global economy.
Read more about Is IMF choosing the right boss?
The Millennium Development Goals
Definitely NOT the G8 MAIN PAGE
CLICK TO LISTEN to Definitely NOT the G8 - MDG Podcast
Download to your IPod at http://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/dntg8/id378699606
PRODUCTION NOTES:
General acknowledgements
MDG specific acknowledgements
Funders and contributors
Full MDG script (word doc)
Final script May 22, 2010; release date June 18, 2010.
DNTG8 - MDGs.mp3
HI Resource Types:
DNTG8
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International Financial Institutions:
Bretton Woods Institutions
Multilateral Organizations:
Group of Twenty
Government of Canada:
Finance Canada
Canadian International Development Agency
Thematic Issue:
IFI policies and positions
Government of Canada policies and positions
Development Finance:
Bretton Woods II
Domestic resource mobilization
Financial architecture
Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
Millennium development
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Bridge to South Korea: Global civil society meeting on the G20
Bridge to South Korea
Held in Toronto, on Monday and Tuesday, June 21-22, 2010, just ahead of the G8 Summit in Huntsville and the G20 Summit in Toronto, this meeting was intended as a strategy session for civil society organizations, platforms and networks from many G20 countries (and beyond) to discuss diverse perspectives on both the G20 as an institution and priorities with respect to its agenda.
As the outcome of an initial G20 strategy meeting in Washington DC in April of 2010 among various groups, the intention of this broader meeting of national, regional and international networks was three-fold:
To develop a greater understanding of the key issues on the G20 agenda as well as alternative agendas seeking to influence the G20;
To strengthen and solidify strategic connections among G20 and non-G20 countries in the lead up to the South Korean and French G20 meetings and strengthen the capacities of networks to develop their own analysis and strategies for confronting the G20;
To develop concrete ideas and proposals for collaboration with South Korean colleagues for the November Summit.
Final concept note - Bridge to South Korea: Global G20 Meeting
Final concept note - en Español
Final agenda
Participant's list
Peter Chowla - G20 and public finance policy
Aniket Bhushan - G20 and private finance policy
Calendar of events (including events in South Korea)
Final Report | Rapport final
Final Report - en Español
Mapping of national groups and priorities
Key contacts and focal points working on G20 issues
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Fifteen years is enough - March 2010
What's changed in the international financial system and its institutions, what hasn't and what needs to
Back in 1995, the G7 met in Halifax during a "time of change and opportunity." The meeting took place in a context of mounting deficits and debt crises in countries in the South; in the wake of economic collapse in Mexico; and amid strong global criticism from civil society, the media and governments about the World Bank and International Monetary Fund's (IMF) austere neo-liberal structural adjustment policies.
A lot has changed since then, partly in response to the Halifax G7 Summit and subsequent G7 and G8 meetings. Too many of these improvements, however, exist only on paper. Beyond the surface, the neo-liberal, market-oriented bias that guides the Bank and Fund's agenda and thinking has not altered.
The 2010 G8 Summit in Toronto in 2010 takes place during another "time of change and opportunity." The financial crisis has spurred many civil society organizations (CSOs) to insist on far-reaching changes to the global financial system and its institutions. Clearly, as this publication will illustrate, 15 years of refusing to deal with the manifest shortcomings of the global economic system is enough.
Read more about Fifteen years is enough - March 2010
Policy Paper: What's missing in the response to the global financial crisis? - January 2010
Rethinking the international financial system during a time of crisis
On October 19 and 20, 2009, the Halifax Initiative held a conference, co-hosted by The North South Institute, the University of Ottawa and the School of International Development and Global Studies (SIDGS), entitled "What's Missing in the Response to the Global Financial Crisis?" The meeting brought together experts from a range of backgrounds to analyze the challenges facing the global economy, discuss the ways in which the international community has responded to the current financial crisis, and identify shortcomings in these responses.
Read more about Policy Paper: What's missing in the response to the global financial crisis? - January 2010
Definitely NOT the G8
In June 2010, the Halifax Initiative launched the first in a series of radio documentary -type podcasts under the rubric of "Definitely NOT the G8" just ahead of the 2010 Group of Eight (G8) and Twenty (G20) meetings in Huntsville and Toronto, Canada on June 25-27 2010.
The podcasts have three goals:
to raise awareness in Canada about progressive social, economic and environmental justice issues in the international development and finance arena that are often missing from, or disregarded in, official discussions and the mainstream media;
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Gerry Barr
Close and summing up
Gerry Barr, President-CEO, Canadian Council for International Co-operation
and Chair, Make Poverty History Canada
Barr.mp3
Regional Development Banks
Paris Club
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Transparency and disclosure
IFI accountability
IFI governance
Domestic legislation
IFI reform
HIPC initiative
ECA Reform
EDC reform
EDC regulation
Asian financial crisis
Capital flight and financial regulation
HIPC
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Q&A Session
Perspectives on proposals for change - Rethinking the global financial system
Questions and answers and discussion
QandA_5.mp3
Farming crisis
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Rethinking global development finance – perspectives from the Canadian government
John Davies, Director and IDA Deputy, International Finance and Development Division, Finance Canada
Davies.mp3
Canadian Executive Director
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Amar Bhattacharya
Rethinking the global financial architecture –perspectives from the Inter-Governmental Group of 24
Amar Bhattacharya, Director, Inter-Governmental Group of 24
Bhattacharya.mp3
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History and Key Achievements
Volunteering at HI
Other - G8, G20 and UN
Canada, the Bank and Fund
Structural adjustment programs in Canada
Mining map
Key IFI Contacts
Current and past events
Conference: What's missing in the response to the global financial crisis?
Tax Justice Resources
Statements and submissions


The ASPPA Benefits Council (ABC) of North Florida is a small group. We currently have approximately 25 active members. Despite our size, our membership includes representatives from a broad range of professionals, including accountants, TPAs, attorneys, investment advisors, consultants, actuaries and benefit analysts. If you reside in the North Florida area, we hope you will consider joining us. When we get together, we frequently find ourselves involved in interesting conversations that reflect a wide variety of topics and viewpoints, and new members are always warmly welcomed.
We generally meet quarterly in Jacksonville, FL, to enjoy a meal and a presentation on a timely topic. Over the past year we have enjoyed presentations from well known speakers, including S. Derrin Watson, J.D., SunGard, on the proper approach to correcting the most common plan mistakes; Robert M. Kaplan, CPC, QPA, ING, who provided an update on the 2009 ASPPA Annual Conference; Tim Hollinger, Principal Financial Group, with a presentation aimed at providing an understanding of the evolution and regulation of not for profit retirement plans; and Brian H. Graff, Esq., APM, ASPPA, with an eagerly anticipated Washington Update.
ASPPA members qualify for two hours of continuing professional education credit for attending our luncheon events. For more information about the ABC of North Florida, including membership registration and upcoming events, please contact Beverly Hudson.


ACAAP Recognition Awards are designed to publicly acknowledge individuals and organizations for their extraordinary commitment to Catholic school, parish, and institutional philanthropy. Whether board members, advancement or admission professionals, corporations or foundations, recipients of these awards have set the standard for service and dedication. They bring prestige and honor to the Catholic institutions they support and inspire others by example.
During the awards ceremony at ACAAP of New England's Spring 2019 Conference the following ACAAP Recognition Award winners were honored for their extraordinary commitment to Catholic school, parish, and institutional philanthropy. These individuals are an inspiration to us all!
Nominations for ACAAP Recognition Awards can be submitted using the online form around December and are due prior to February. There are eight different award categories recognizing different ways people can express their dedication.
The Outstanding Volunteer Service Award.
Thank you to all those who submitted nominations!


The former general counsel of an International Brotherhood of Teamsters local for employees of the New York State Thruway Authority has been sentenced to two-and-two-thirds to eight years in prison for stealing funds from the union by falsifying expenses for professional education and legal reference materials, prosecutors announced Aug. 9 (People v. Clor, N.Y. Sup. Ct., No. 5866-11, sentencing 8/8/12).
Kevin Clor, was sentenced by Justice Carol Berkman of state Supreme Court for New York County, who also ordered him to pay $161,680 in restitution.
In June, Clor pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree grand larceny, 16 counts of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, and 16 counts of first-degree falsifying business records.
Clor was general counsel of the New York State Thruway Employees Local 72, an IBT local, from January 2001 to April 2011. The union represents some 2,500 thruway toll collectors, grounds workers, janitors, painters, and carpenters.
Working from a home office in Buffalo, N.Y., Clor was entitled to reimbursement for legitimate and necessary business expenses incurred on behalf of the union and required travel, prosecutors said.
But from January 2006 to May 2011, they charged, he stole approximately $184,000 from the union by submitting approximately 150 forged receipts for reimbursement. Approximately $127,976 was paid to the defendant from the union's Welfare Fund, and approximately $56,004 was paid from its general account, they said.
Among the false receipts that Clor submitted for reimbursement were several for continuing legal education (CLE) classes that he never attended or were never offered, and legal materials that he never purchased, prosecutors said.
The false expenses, they charged, included $30,000 in CLE classes given by the International Foundation, an accredited CLE provider, as well as more than $48,000 in CLE classes listed as having been given by the Education Certification Department of the state Civil Service Department.
But the Civil Service Department does not operate such an agency and the address listed on the receipts is not a valid department address, prosecutors charged.
The false expenses also included more than $23,000 in CLE classes at the Nichols School, which is a private middle and high school near Clor's home in Buffalo that offers no CLE classes, prosecutors said. The only expense that Clor appears to have incurred at the school was the rental of its ice rink on two occasions, they said.
Clor also claimed more than $22,000 for numerous legal reference materials from the publisher Thomson Reuters, but the receipts had the wrong corporate name of the company and included the names of alleged sales representatives who are not employees there, prosecutors said. Some of the books Clor claimed to have purchased were not published by Thomson Reuters, they added.
A review of dozens of cases involving theft by lawyers, doctors, and public officials, he said, showed lesser sentences for crimes involving greater amounts of money and longer periods of time.
Clor takes responsibility for his actions, but "the sentence was not proportionate to his conduct," Saland told BNA.


How To: Delete a friend on Facebook By Sean Conaty; 3/29/10 6:35 PM . Gadget Hacks. First add a person as a friend by sending him a request. 1. Open your Facebook account, select friends. Now in the option search for people, give my name and press enter. Now a list is displayed, select add as friend and send a request. Deleting the person whom from your friends list 2. Select friends, type �... I�m getting a spam message from one person in facebook and I want to remove that spam user from my facebook account. I tried, but I don�t know how delete that facebook friend so started searching for the problem in Google and I found the answer for the question how to remove facebook friend.
You will be prompted with a pop-up box that would say, 'Remove Friend' and 'Cancel'. If you are sure of your decision, you can remove the person from your list. If you are sure of your decision, you can remove the person from your list.
Facebook is an extremely popular online social networking site that people use for social interactions. You are able to make new friends and stay in contact with old ones as well.


Just how much TV is too much TV? Apparently we haven't figured that out yet as we set a new record for scripted shows in 2016.
Yes… that is exactly how opened this post last year.
The FX network has been tracking how many scripted shows air each year on broadcast, basic cable, premium cable and OTT (think Netflix). The number has been expanding rapidly beginning in 2011, and has now hit a staggering 455.
Clearly the OTTs are adding the most shows while other outlets are cutting back as they replace with other forms of programming. And that makes sense in this crowded landscape. It could also explain why we're seeing so many reboots happening as the networks need a way to stand out.


Yes, vegetables that even your toddler could grow! These plant varieties have been chosen for their ease of germination, fast growth habits and general 'likeability'* and so cater to little people with short attention spans. At the end of the day, the kids will eat! *Likeability is gauged by how often children eat the food, rather than hide them under their fork or feed it to the dog.


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First Drive: 2020 Mazda CX-30
Not too big, not too small — just right
By: Jim Kenzie	December 14, 2019
THE PROS & CONS
What's Good: Attractive styling; intelligently-designed, beautifully-finished interior; excellent handling.
What's Bad: Could be quicker, although it's comparable to the competition; taller, slightly heavier than it needs to be.
SAN DIEGO, CALIF. — Hearing some of Mazda's engineers talking about their new compact SUV the CX-30, you sometimes catch a whiff of them wishing they didn't really have to build it.
More so perhaps than most car companies, the people who work for Mazda tend to be "car guys," and I mean that in a gender-neutral sense. Many of them are racers in their spare time.
They know that while the CX-30 shares many of its components with the brilliant Mazda3 compact sedan and hatchback, most customers want a vehicle that is taller, hence less safe, due to its higher centre of gravity; is less economical because it's heavier; doesn't handle or ride as well for both of those reasons; and costs more.
But the customer is always right, even when he's wrong. And if Mazda customers want a vehicle to fit into the tiny gap between the CX-3 and CX-5, now they have it.
It is on sale now, with prices ranging from $23,950 for the entry-level GX with front-wheel drive to $33,850 for the loaded GT four-wheel drive.
You might well think that CX-30 is an odd name for this vehicle. Why not CX-4 to be consistent with its sister ships?
It seems there is a Mazda sold in China with that designation that has nothing in common with this one.
So, what's the problem? North Americans don't care about what happens in the Chinese car market, and they don't care about what happens in ours.
I never got a really solid answer from Mazda, except that the Chinese did not want to share the name.
So, CX-30 it is.
Sandra Lemaitre, director of public relations and corporate affairs for Mazda Canada, noted that while Canadians love the CX-3, their main complaint was: not enough room inside.
Yet, they didn't want a vehicle that was significantly larger.
"Rightsized" is the term she uses to describe the CX-30.
From a styling perspective, any SUV is effectively a two-box car — one box for engine, another box for people and stuff. What can the stylists do to make any of them stand out?
Ken Saward, director of automotive design for Mazda North American Operations, said the company's design philosophy (called "kodo," a Japanese word meaning "soul of motion") is intended to make cars look like works of art, with a handmade finish to them.
The CX-30's sloped roofline gives a graceful profile, perhaps at the expense of a couple of litres of cargo capacity. But who ever loads their truck right to the ceiling?
It certainly holds more than the CX-3, and has a much wider opening for loading all that stuff.
The most intriguing aspect of the styling is what they've done with the body sides. Subtle contours replace what are usually flat panels, giving them three dimensionality and yielding some interesting reflections that change as the light strikes them at different angles.
I've tried to capture this in the photos; I hope you can see what I mean.
The interiors reflect Mazda's push to move their products upmarket, with materials that look and feel a step or two above the norm for this class.
Special attention has been placed on designing seats that keep the body as upright as possible, which is the least stressful way to sit while operating a vehicle.
Matt Valbuena, an engineer who works on interior controls, talked about the three types of distraction a driver faces:
• cognitive (thinking about something other than driving)
• visual (looking at something other than the road)
• manual (having to find a control to operate it)
The solution would be to place all controls within easy reach of the driver.
"Where else might you put them?" you might well ask.
With the myriad functions in today's cars, this is increasingly difficult to do.
So, Mazda has eschewed touch screens you need to look at to operate (visual or manual distraction) and focused on tactile controls — buttons to push, levers to slide, knobs to rotate. You can operate them without staring at them, and can keep your attention where belongs — on the road as you're hurtling along at a buck-thirty.
I know this sounds like a radical concept, but somebody's got to do it.
There is some logic and consistency in the various gestures, although, like all such systems, it may take drivers some time to get fully acclimated.
Dave Coleman, a former car journalist who is one of the sharpest minds in the business, spoke about the suspension. I wish I had ten times the space so I could do his presentation justice.
He described how our bodies move when we walk — our heads actually bob up and down about five centimetres, but we don't really notice.
He showed a video of a passenger's head as a car went over a bump. You would think a softer suspension would give a better ride, but in fact it makes the head bob up and down more than those five cm, which feels uncomfortable to us.
What they discovered felt the best was a relatively soft tire side wall to absorb the initial shock, and firmer bushings to reduce ancillary motions in the suspension.
The four-wheel drive system is also pretty smart. It operates proactively, rather than reactively. For example, when launching from rest it will activate the four-wheel drive system automatically to ensure a smooth getaway.
Should the car detect a situation where extra grip might be required, such as cold exterior temperature and the wipers are on, it will assume the road might be wet and slippery, and the four-wheel drive kicks in before the wheels start to spin. Clever stuff.
In the four-wheel drive models, Mazda's equally clever G-Vectoring Control (GVC) automatically cuts power ever so slightly when the car is steered into a corner to transfer weight to the front to assist in turn-in response.
Once into the corner the system resets the torque, which transfers load to the rear to maintain stability through the corner.
Newly added to the system — hence, GVC Plus — is braking control, which automatically adds a slight braking input to the outside tires when exiting a corner to help pull the car straight again. The plan is to reduce steering wheel angle to maintain a stable posture.
Four-wheel drive is standard on the range-topping GT models, and a $2,000 hit on GX and GS trim levels. I can't imagine many customers in Canada not checking this box.
Powertrain-wise, the CX-30 is effectively the Mazda3, with the same choice of 155 horsepower 2.0-litre or 186 horsepower 2.5-litre four-cylinder engines depending on trim level, and a six-speed automatic transmission across the board.
Our test mounts were the upper echelon models, all with four-wheel drive and the 2.5-litre engine.
The drive route was one of my favourites — east from San Diego to Julian, then generally north and a bit east through the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument along the two-lane twisty blacktop of song and legend into Palm Desert.
Of course, they had pickup trucks all along the route, presumably in radio contact so they could pull out just in front of us when we were having too much fun.
And yes, this is me saying we had fun driving an SUV in the mountains.
True, it would have been more fun without the extra 54 kilograms of weight, and if the car was that little bit lower, but I think I've made my point about SUVs.
We were going through elevations in the low thousands of metres; altitude thins the air and reduces available oxygen, hence reduces power, and at times the engine felt a wee bit stressed.
But it is responsive and decently quiet. The transmission shifts well.
The old saying about any sufficiently advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic applies to the GVC-Plus system. It is seamless in operation; you cannot tell that it is working. The car just feels naturally very stable even in quick corners — yes, we were occasionally able to dodge those movable chicane trucks.
As I have said before with this system, it makes you feel like a better driver than you probably are.
The seats were comfortable, and left us refreshed after our brisk drive. There's enough room in the back for two reasonably friendly adults.
The sound systems are excellent, thanks in no small part to how well the car is insulated from external noise.
Have I already mentioned that I wish you'd buy a Mazda3 instead of one of these? Oh, I have? Sorry.
If I can't convince you of that, and you are bound and determined to buy a compact SUV, the Mazda CX-30 just has to be on your shopping list.
Jim Kenzie is a Toronto-based writer and a freelance contributor for the Star.
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The Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutes Educators has elected a University of Texas at Arlington assistant vice provost to the board.
Maria Martinez-Cosio, UTA assistant vice provost, will serve a three-year term on the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutes Educators board.
Maria Martinez-Cosio, a UTA assistant vice provost for faculty development and an associate professor in the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs, will serve a three-year term starting this month. It will be announced at the National Conference in Chicago later this month.
The University of Texas at Arlington became a Hispanic Serving Institution in 2014 when it met U.S. Department of Education requirements. HSI is a status that makes it eligible for federal grants supporting and strengthening institutions with large numbers of Hispanic students. A school must have a Hispanic population of at least 25 percent full-time undergraduate enrollment to qualify for the designation. At the time, UTA was the highest-profile public research university in North Texas to receive the designation and one of about 300 nationally.
Martinez-Cosio said she is elated to serve on the national board.
Martinez-Cosio, who was one of just four North Texas women honored by Ford Motor Company with a Mujeres Legendarias Award recently, leads a 2015 U.S. Department of Education grant that aims to enhance services and increase graduation and retention rates among lower-income and Hispanic students. The five-year, $2.62 million grant established the UTA IDEAS Center, which stands for Innovation, Diversity, Excellence, Access and Success.
The IDEAS Center is located in UTA's Central Library and offers access to support services for students in transition, particularly transfer students, veterans and those from underserved populations. The grant also provides funding for professional development of faculty members, exposing them to innovative methods of teaching to help them build connections with first-generation students.


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All about Guardian Caspian
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This wolf's journey begins in the womb. His mother was a beautiful fae, prized by many of the wolves in the pack, coveted and fought over. Many wolves lost fur, blood, and flesh to be with her, to breed her heritage. But only one wolf caught her eye. His name was Vladimir. He was the Beta's first born son and best fighter in the litter. The fae watched their practices, their fighting. She enjoyed every bit of it, watching the excitement of it all. But the male was shy, which was unique for his family. The Beta's young were all feisty, ready to take what was theirs, to kill before asking, and to act as they ran the pack. The fae was the daughter of the Alpha, and her father wished for her to breed and become mates with Vladimir's younger brother, Mordan. Mordan was a great fighter and he was stunning. His coat was not black as night, but a more russet color like his mother before him. Vladimir had an onyx coat. In the dark of night, he would be almost invisible to the eye.
When mating season had come, the fae fought off many males by herself. Vladimir was still very shy, afraid to approach her. It was not until she came to him within the dead of night. She crawled into his chamber, allowing him to have her completely. Weeks passed and the great Alpha of the pack grew ill. Other members of the pack started to die off and so the Beta male became Alpha male. With his first decree, the wolves were forced to move from their lands, in search of something better, running form this illness that was taking lives left and right. When they finally found a suitable home, they made camp. Only now Vladimir was very close and protective of his fae. He was honored and given the rank of Beta, told he would be next rule. Eventually the fae gave birth to four pups. Caspian was one of these.
As time passed and the four began to grow- it became evident the Teren would be the one to claim the alpha spot when the time came. He was the largest and the strongest- the most dominant and the best at voicing his ideas and plans. And they were nearly always good ones. Caspian didn't mind too much, he was a little disappointed as being alpha had been a dream of his but he was happy for his brother and he knew that the midnight pelted male would do a much better job at leading their pack then he ever would. Teren was just a born alpha. Or so he thought.
Caspian never ended up with a mate- even if he had a crush on a beautiful white wolf who went by the name Acacia. Of course she never payed much attention to the large brute and this saddened him. Of course it wasn't that no females fancied Caspian- he mated a couple of times during the mating seasons but never did he actually take on a proper mate and Caspian was handsome with his unique pelt colors and silvery hues but the only female he would ever want by his side was Acacia but the female died- and maybe it was lucky that she died from a sickness by her mate's side because only months later did Teren catch his mate with another male and everything changed. Caspian had once again felt envy but covered it with happiness for his brother when Teren got his love as his mate- of course he would, he was the alpha. At least despite ranking up, Teren did not leave out his brothers and Caspian would always scold himself for envying the midnight pelted wolf. Out of the four Caspian probably had the softest heart, was the most gullible even if he was the second or third most dominant in the litter. However after the sickness claimed Acacia's life he changed.
Nothing seemed beautiful anymore, life had no purpose, everything was pointless. Losing your one true love even if they were never yours was harder then imaginable. He had been certain that he would eventually manage to claim her heart but he had failed and it drove him crazy. He turned cold and emotionless, harsh and bitter. His only soft spot would be displayed for his brothers and no one else- they were the only ones left alive that he cared about. Even when Teren changed, Caspian did not feel much disgust but instead only admiration for his brother. He was right, mates were pointless and stupid- Acacia destroyed him and even though he'd done everything for her she had not even glanced at him before leaving him alone and depressed. When Teren announced the killing of the female's, Caspian was ruthless and took many lives before the day was finished. They could all join Acacia if all the wanted to do was break hearts.
As Teren changed the ways of the lands, Caspian didn't mind much even if he could tell that it was bothering his other brothers. He murdered Teren's fae's without hesitation even if he had no interest in mating with them even when the mating season was at its highest. It was all pretty simple until a group of wolves were sent to retrieve a prized fae from another pack. She was quite beautiful and Caspian sat watching indifferently as she did the usual- begged to be let go, wasn't, Teren finished with her and the other's had their turn, Caspian wouldn't before returning to his den to sleep. However months later when she gave birth and Teren took an instant interest in one of the males and as the male grew this interest turned to admiration and favoritism. Many got annoyed at this especially Caspian and his siblings. They had imagined Teren giving the high rank to one of them but instead it was obvious that Teren wanted to give it to this Azrael. Caspian seemed the most effected by it and when his other brothers split up and left- deciding that there was nothing left for them here. Caspian stayed in a desperate maddened hope that his brother would notice him instead however the black wolf's attention was always on Azrael.
When the wolf disappeared Caspian should have been relieved but he wasn't. After the male's betrayal Teren grew even worse and every day more and more that got in his way ended up dead. After a while Caspian finally realized that there was nothing here left for Teren to lead and therefore there wouldn't be anything for him either, after watching the departing back of his brother, Caspian felt a pang of pity however it was then covered by something else. He had believed Teren would be the perfect alpha and had sat back and let his brother lead and what had it done? Destroyed this pack? Would he have made a better alpha after all?
Days turned to weeks which turned to months and Caspian remained a loner. He met a small band of wolves- all exiles from a battle going on between two packs a while off. They were confused and disorganized and Caspian's life almost ended at the jaws of one but they were impressed with his skill and size as he managed to slay one and injured three. The rest didn't attack. Panting Caspian had looked up, only bleeding from his ears and his right shoulder and feeling pride and superiority claim him. What he been doing hiding in Teren's shadow for the past years? This was the real him. The wolves wanted revenge on their old packmates and steadily the scraggly gang of exiles grew into a small pack- a small army. Caspian's army. The packs they were targeting were weakened from fighting amongst themselves and were was easy to destroy- gaining more members for his pack during this. However he had one strict rule. No females. Yet unlike Teren they did not kill or steal and rape females either, no, there was just...no females. It was females that destroyed their last pack and he wouldn't let them destroy this one. If they were running low on wolves they would steal male pups and apprentice's from neighboring packs and it all worked out quite well. However one night a fire claimed the lives of nearly all of his pack and those that lived scattered. Depressed and angry, Caspian wandered alone for some time before hearing word of a new leader of this Erenyx. A new leader who went by the name Teren.
With a sly grin the wolf headed in the directions given to him- he had unfinished business with his brother.
Mate :
He loved once. Never again.
Pups :
None and he never wishes for any either.
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Q: How can I check if the browser supports iframe sandboxing? I have some user-generated HTML and CSS. I think I should show the user sanitized HTML with no CSS or JS if the browser doesn't support the sandbox property on iframes, which is what's stopping JS from running and CSS from selecting part of my page.
So how can I check if the sandbox attribute is supported?

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Managing a Motorola Wireless Modem Password
Wireless fidelity, other wise known as Wi-Fi, has become a great tool in helping people connect to the Internet without the use of wires. Not only that, but with Wi-Fi, people can connect to the Internet anywhere in the world, be it a coffee shop in France or a local library in South Dakota.
Wireless cable modems are a great way of combining the components of both a cable modem and that of a wireless router into a single unit, allowing for a reduction of clutter as you only have one box to worry about. But with all things Internet, there are also dangers in the use of Wi-Fi, namely with security.
In this article, we'll look at a particular make of a wireless modem - that of Motorola - and go over how to manage your Motorola wireless modem password to help secure your home or office network.
With a wireless cable modem, you essentially are working with both a router and a modem at the same, cutting out some of the set up in a home or business wireless network. Because of the growth in popularity, it is extremely important that you maintain a secure network for every computer that you plan to give access to.
The reason to protect your network is due to the increase of online or cyber crimes. Unsecured networks allow for anyone in range to use the connection, which means that they also have access to any files or documents that you may have shared on the network or your computer. This can result in someone obtaining personal information about you, especially if you keep financial documents on your hard drive.
The best way to secure your wireless cable modem is to put a password on it. As with wireless routers, wireless modems can be set up to make sure that they are protected from being used by anyone but the person who is using it. Placing a password on the modem - and thus the network - will prohibit those people, such as hackers, from gaining access to your files and documents by using your network and Internet connection.
When you are able to connect to the network, bring up a browser window and type https://192.168.10.1, 192.168.100.1, or 192.168.0.1 (depending on the model) which is the IP address for your Motorola wireless modem. This address will also be included in the user manual for your device.
The above address will take you to your wireless modem's homepage, where a pop up box will appear, asking for the username and password. If this is the first time setting up your wireless modem - as mentioned above - the default answers are 'admin' or 'motorola'. Again, this information is also in your user manual.
Once you have gained access, you should first find the Admin tab or link on the page. This will allow you to set the username and password for your device.
After you have changed the default password, find the Security tab or link to change the security access. There are two different types of security you can use - WEP or WPA. It is recommended that you use the WPA standard as it is more secure than that of WEP.
Within the Network tab, you will be able to change the name of your network. You should change the name from whatever default may be listed in order to find your network and allow for those you allow to use the network.
Using the steps above, you will be able to not only set up your Motorola wireless modem, but manage it as well. Whenever you need to make changes - like the password - you can enter in the modem's website for further configuration.
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Our research is focussed on the involvement of end-users across a number of areas in order to ensure that research products are useful, effective and meaningful. We use a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies both on-site and in the "real world".
ACE-LP: Augmenting Communication using Environmental Data to drive Language Prediction
The ACE-LP Project brings together research expertise in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) (University of Dundee), Intelligent Interactive Systems (University of Cambridge), and Computer Vision and Image Processing (University of Dundee) to develop a predictive AAC system that will address these prohibitively slow communication rates by introducing the use of multimodal sensor data to inform state of the art language prediction.
Contact: Annalu Waller, email: a.waller@dundee.ac.uk
Funder: EPSRC, RCUK
Partners: Aria NLG, Capability Scotland, Communication Matters, Edesix, National Museum Scotland, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Scope, Smartbox, Tobii DynaVox
Project website: ace-lp.ac.uk
Tap and Talk
The Tap and Talk project supports adults with aphasia through group sessions and drop-in sessions with the use of iPads and other touchscreen devices (Android tablets and mobile smart phones). These devices can help when communicating by giving access to images, speech output of written text and communication programs such email and web browsers.
Contact: Rolf Black, email: r.black@dundee.ac.uk
Funder: SCVO
Partners: NHS Tayside, Speakability
Project website: aac.dundee.ac.uk/tap-and-talk
Stories at the Dentists
The Stories at the Dentists study aims to develop a computer based communication system to support people with intellectual disabilities to understand dental procedures with the aim of reducing anxiety for both patients and clinicians, and to enable patients to be more involved in the decision making process.
Funder: EPSRC, RCUK Digital Economy, Research in the Wild
Partners: NHS Tayside, Capability Scotland
Project website: aac.dundee.ac.uk/satd
It's-not-one-thing (in1t)
It's-not-one-thing is an interdisciplinary project centred around the use of iPad technology for users with Aphasia. This project is twofold, firstly seeking to improve rehabilitation and foster independence through use of i-Pad technology. Secondly, this project aims to co-create print resources to develop independent learning. The aim of 'It's-not-one-thing', is to increase accessibility for those excluded to technology, in this instance those individuals who have aphasia, a communication impairment as a result of brain injury, e.g. stroke.
Funder: CHSS
Partners: NHS Tayside, DJCAD
Outer Space Inner Space (OSIS)
Outer Space Inner Space (OSIS) aims to bring an interdisciplinary group of researchers together with one of Dundee's iconic landmarks, The Mills Observatory – the only remaining public observatory outside Greenwich, in order to develop an adaptable space and activities under the theme of "Ways of Seeing" the invisible universe.
Funder: Welcome Trust
Partners: Leisure and Culture Dundee, GRE at the School of Life Sciences
Project website: aac.dundee.ac.uk/osis
PhonicStick
The PhonicStick project is looking into the possibility to access and blend letter sounds (Phonics) through a joystick device. It allows the blending of short words and can so support literacy learning through playing with sounds without the need to learn graphical representations of the sounds, be it symbols or letter.
Funder: Capability Scotland
Partners: Capability Scotland, University of Uppsala, Dundee City Council
Project website: aac.dundee.ac.uk/phonicstick
How was School today…?
"How was School today…?" (HwSt), an award winning research project, looked into the feasibility of using sensor data and data-to-text technology to support personal narrative of non-speaking children who use AAC.
Being able to tell stories about ourselves is a central part of the human experience and of social interaction. Most people do this naturally, for example while chatting with family members over the dinner table. But telling stories about oneself can be a real struggle for people with complex communication needs (CCN). Relying on using Speech Generating Devices, their interaction can be restricted in speed and vocabulary which can be a frustrating experience when it comes to spontaneous social conversation.
Funder: RCUK/EPSRC Digital Economy
Partners: Capability Scotland, DynaVox
Project website: https://aac.dundee.ac.uk/how-was-school-today/
iSCAN
PhD Project, Ha Trinh
The iSCAN project aimed to explore a new type of communication system, which enables the users to access a limited set of spoken phonemes (i.e. speech sounds). By combining sequences of phonemes, novel words and messages can be generated without knowledge of orthographic spelling. Rate enhancement techniques, including phoneme prediction and phoneme-based word prediction, have been developed and incorporated into iSCAN to facilitate phoneme entry and word creation processes.
Funder: SICSA, School of Computing (University of Dundee)
Partners: University of Edinburgh, University of St Andrews
PhD Project, Suzanne Prior
The CHAMPION research used technology to improve communication between adult patients with moderate to profound communication impairment and hospital staff. This was achieved through the development and evaluation of an electronic multimedia patient profile to provide hospital staff with accessible information about patients with moderate to profound communication impairments. This profile included multimedia information (such as videos, audio and text) about the 'person behind the patient', their medical narratives and individual care needs.
Partners: Capability Scotland
The CHRONICLES project aims to work with adults with severe speech and physical impairment (SSPI), their support staff, families and friends to harness existing research technology to support them in formulating, editing and telling their own narratives. Adults with SSPI are involved in providing requirements for the system and will actively participate in designing the system functionality and interface. The system allows the user to embellish or restructure narratives during interactive conversation and to maintain access to narrative over the lifespan of individuals.
Funder: EPSRC Digital Economy
ECHOES2
ECHOES2 is a technology-enhanced learning environment where 5-to-7-year-old children on the Autism Spectrum and their typically developing peers can explore and improve social and communicative skills through interacting and collaborating with virtual characters (agents) and digital objects. ECHOES2 provides developmentally appropriate goals and methods of intervention that are meaningful to the individual child, and prioritises communicative skills such as joint attention.
Funder: ESRC/EPSRC
Partners: London Knowledge Lab, Heriot Watt University, University of Edinburgh, Birkbeck College, University of Birmingham, University of Wales Institute, University of Strathclyde, University of Sussex
Project website: https://www.echoes2.org/
Sharing in Autism Spectrum Conditions
PhD Project, Rachel Menzies
This research aims to develop a tool to assist children with Autism Spectrum Conditions in learning about and exploring sharing skills. Conducted within the Echoes project, the tool was designed with input from practitioners and children, both with and without Autism Spectrum Conditions. The evaluation of the tool also makes use of practitioner input following participatory research methodologies.
Funder: ESRC
Partners: University of Edinburgh
The STANDUP project created software which encourages children with certain communication difficulties to experiment with words. It contains dictionaries and information about words, plus simple rules about the structure of jokes, primarily puns. the software was tested on children with and without language limitations. STANDUP builds on earlier research at the university of Edinburgh that produced one of the first joke-creating computer programs called JAPE, which can produce simple riddles such as "what do you get when you cross a monkey and a peach? An ape-ricot".
A follow-up project created a kiosk version and an online version of STANDUP. The kiosk was based at the Glasgow Science Centre and the Aberdeen Science centre for some time but has now been retired. The online version still works at joking.abdn.ac.uk. Or follow the Joking Computer on Twitter @jokingcomputer
Funder: EPSRC
Partners: Capability Scotland, University of Edinburgh, University of Aberdeen
Project website: abdn.ac.uk/ncs/departments/computing-science/standup-315.php and joking.abdn.ac.uk/


This afternoon Ive made three handles for new jigs.
Looks like comfortable handle and hopefully will be in a safe position on the new jigs also .
Let me try tem to see how they "handle"; nice work!
Only good comments for such nice and smooth-looking handles. Comfort, this is the way to go.
These are first class jig handles. Nice work.
I would like to get a handle on a lot of things … oops wrong forum!
Those handles are really nice work.
I understand about protection for the "front of the hand" because at times my knuckles really get a workout.
What do plan to mount them on?
Digger, nice design. I have used a similar pattern on some of my jigs. I like a little more curve in the top of the hand hole. A branch with a fork also works.
Very fine Jack. That is a really gr8 handle design for any jig and such.


Learn more about Elephants than you ever have before. Get to see and touch these gentle giants. Feed and play with orphaned baby elephants. Get a chance watch the mahouts bathe them and maybe even help out. This is an experience that takes you closer to Elephants.
The Kandy Cultural Show gives an opportunity to experience some of the traditions of Sri Lanka. Enjoy this hourlong extravaganza as some of the most popular art forms of the island take to the stage. Get wowed by fire dancers and sword dancers. Watch the colorful Kandyan dancers take to the air to the thrumming primal beat of the drums.
Ramboda Ella is the 11th highest waterfall in Sri Lanka and located by the Pussellawa. Ramboda falls consists of three sections. You will get a good view of the middle section from the A5 highway, just above the bridge. This is very small in size with compared to other parts. You can get a far view of the top part from the main road, but not the complete view of the fall. You need to climb up to see the top part of the Ramboda falls and there is a pathway just before the bridge. You may find the climbing bit difficult, but you will be compensated with the great view of the top fall and the surrounding.
After a busy couple of days visiting religious temples and enjoying a good safari in Yala, spend a day leisurely at the beach.