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What is Parvovirus?IntroductionParvovirus is a viral disease of dogs. It affects puppies much more frequently than it affects adult dogs. The virus likes to grow in rapidly dividing cells. The intestinal lining has the biggest concentration of rapidly dividing cells in a puppy's body. The virus attacks and kills these cells, causing diarrhea (often bloody), depression and suppression of white blood cells -- which come from another group of rapidly dividing cells. In very young puppies it can infect the heart muscle and lead to "sudden" death. Parvovirus Vaccination
Parvovirus is probably the most common viral illness of dogs at the present time.
It is much more common in puppies than it is in adult dogs. It can be very hard to
successfully vaccinate a puppy for this disease because the antibody protection the
puppy acquires from its mother can interfere with vaccination. Many vets recommend
vaccinating puppies every three to four weeks for this virus starting at 6 weeks of
age and continuing until they are at least 16 weeks of age and preferably 20 weeks of age.
It is possible that this vaccine confers lifelong immunity once it does work but most
veterinarians continue to recommend yearly vaccination for it. It seems prudent to
at least get the vaccination at one year of age. Since it is combined with the other
vaccines it is often easier just to give it yearly with them.
Everything about Parvo What are the symptoms of Parvo?"Parvo" is a virus that attacks the lining of the digestive system. It causes dogs and puppies to not be able to absorb nutrients or liquids. Puppies are especially prone to it because they have an immature immune system. When dogs and puppies contract parvo, they often have diarrhea, vomiting and lethargy. Usually they stop eating and develop a bloody, foul-smelling, liquid stool. Symptoms usually begin with a high fever, lethargy, depression, and loss of appetite. Secondary symptoms appear as severe gastrointestinal distress, such as vomiting and bloody diarrhea. In many cases, dehydration, shock, and death follow. Parvovirus is characterized by severe, bloody diarrhea and vomiting, high fever and lethargy. The diarrhea is particularly foul smelling and is sometimes yellow in color. Parvo can also attack a dog's heart causing congestive heart failure. This complication can occur months or years after an apparent recovery from the intestinal form of the disease. Puppies who survive parvo infection usually remain somewhat un-healthy and weak for life. How is Parvo transmitted?Canine parvovirus is carried by dogs. Adult dogs may be infected carriers without showing any clinical signs. Dogs with the typical diarrhea that parvovirus causes shed the virus as well. It can last a long time in the environment, perhaps as long as 9 months or longer. Generally, it takes 7-10 days from the time of exposure for dogs and puppies to start showing symptoms and to test positive for parvo. Parvo is highly contagious to unprotected dogs, and the virus can remain infectious in ground contaminated with fecal material for five months or more if conditions are favorable. Extremely hardy, most disinfectants cannot kill the virus, however chlorine bleach is the most effective and inexpensive agent that works, and is commonly used by veterinarians. The ease with which infection with Parvo can occur in any unvaccinated dog must be stressed. The virus is extremely hardy in the environment. Withstanding wide temperature fluctuations and most cleaning agents. Parvo can be brought home to your dog on shoes, hands and even car tires. It can live for many months outside the animal. Any areas that are thought to be contaminated with parvo should be thoroughly washed with chlorine bleach diluted 1 ounce per quart of water. Dogs and puppies can contract parvo even if they never leave their yards. Parvo virus, despite what you might hear, is NOT an airborne virus. It is excreted in the feces of infected dogs, and if someone -- human, dog, bird, etc. -- steps in (or otherwise comes in contact with) the excrement, the possibility for contamination is great. Some people speculate that birds invading a dog's food dish can deposit the parvovirus there. If you think you may have come in contact with parvovirus, a strong solution of bleach and water does kill the virus, so you can wash your shoes and clothes, even your hands with it, to reduce the risk of infecting your dog. Rest assured that parvovirus is specific to dogs alone and cannot be transmitted to humans or other pets of a different species, such as cats. Does Tamiflu work to Treat Parvo? - YES IT DOES! If your vet does not agree, find another vet!
Tamiflu: Oseltamivir is one of two commercially available sources of a neuraminidase
inhibitor that has been used successfully in treating infectious parvoenteritis.
Neuraminidase: An enzyme that is produced by both bacteria and viruses. It is
considered a virulence factor in viral and bacterial infections that require neuraminidase
to remove biological barriers that protect the host.
How is Parvo treated?Without intense treatment, the victims of parvo die of dehydration. The traditional treatment generally consists of IV or sub-cutaneous fluids and antibiotics. There is no cure. One view held by Veterinarians can only treat the symptoms palliatively, and try to keep the dog alive by preventing dehydration and loss of proteins. I personally believe that using Tamilflu drastically improves the puppies chances for survival; (explanation given above). I have personally seen puppies recover in one day! As there is no cure for any virus, treatment for parvo is mostly that of supporting the different systems in the body during the course of the disease. This includes giving fluids, regulating electrolyte levels, controlling body temperature and giving blood transfusions when necessary. Dogs who have survived parvo can get it again. In the case of some puppies, a puppy testing negative for Parvo one day could succumb to the virus within a matter of days. It strikes fast and without mercy. Dr. Cathy Priddle has warned that sulfa drugs have been known to cause dehydration in dogs, suggesting that animals infected with parvovirus should not be given sulfa drugs.
You may also consult a homeopathic or naturopathic veterinarian for alternative
Parvo treatments. There are some natural and homeopathic treatments for Parvo on the
retail market. Amber Technology offers Parvaid, an all natural herbal formula that the
manufacturer claims has helped some animals overcome Parvo.
Your Veterinarian Clinic has the Parvo virus!All veterinarian offices/clinics contain the Parvo virus. Where do people bring Parvo positive puppies? To the vet! Just consider the following: Customers bring in puppies infected with the Parvo virus. The virus is likely on the customers hands, clothing, shoes, and all over the puppy and its fur. Now consider all of the surfaces that the customer comes in contact with: the door knob, the floor, the light switch, pen, a credit card machine, and the chairs in the waiting room, etc. The virus remains intact for months. Does the vet really sterilize every possible surface from the parking lot to the examination rooms? There is no way to avoid the spread of this disease between customers. The vet patient prior to you might have been a Parvo puppy. All vets will claim: "There is no Parvo Here!". They cannot realistically make that claim... Please be careful. Will my dog die if he gets Parvo?This is a very serious disease. Some puppies infected with parvovirus will die despite prompt and adequate treatment. While no extremely accurate statistics are available, a good guess is probably that 80% of puppies treated for parvovirus will live. Without treatment, probably 80% or more of the infected puppies would die. Due to the high death rate, parvovirus gets a lot of free publicity. Many people just assume that any case of diarrhea in a dog is from parvovirus. This is not true. There are a lot of other diseases and disorders that lead to diarrhea. If you have a puppy, don't take any chances. Have your puppy examined by your vet if diarrhea is a factor in any disease. It is better to be safe than to be sorry. If your dog becomes infected with parvovirus, he has about a 50-50 chance of survival. If he makes it through the first three to four days, he will usually make a rapid recovery, and be back on his feet within a week. It is vital, however, that he receives supportive therapy immediately. It must be stressed that this is not a bad case of doggy flu; without medical treatment, most puppies die. How do I prevent the spread of Parvo?The surest way to avoid parvo infection in your dog is to adhere to the recommended vaccination schedule which begins when puppies are 6-8 weeks of age. Puppies should not be allowed to socialize with other dogs or frequent areas where other dogs have been until 2 weeks after they have had their last vaccination. Immunization for parvo is usually included in your dog's distemper vaccine. This shot gives protection against several potentially fatal canine diseases all at the same time. If your pet becomes infected, please keep in mind that dogs with parvo shed the virus in their feces and are extremely contagious to other dogs. Follow these recommendations to help prevent the spread of this disease.
What If I've got Parvo in my home?If you have had parvo in your home, use a strong bleach/water solution to kill it. Soak the yard with it -- better to kill the grass than your next dog! Be careful using it on carpets and fabrics, though. Parvo can live up to 6 months or so in your home or yard. Before you bring home another dog, be sure it has a strong immunity to parvo. You can have a veterinarian draw blood and run a titre to find out how well your prospective dog will fare in a parvo-infected environment. Adult dogs generally have a higher resistance than puppies do, but they need to be kept current on their vaccines. If in doubt, have your vet do the titre. |
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Fundraiser For Local Billings Cancer Patient This Weekend!
A multi-family Garage / Bake / Jewelry Sale and BBQ is scheduled for Friday May 17th and Saturday May 18th here in Billings to raise money for local cancer patient Brent Carranco. The event is schedule for 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM both Friday and Saturday. The fundraiser will be happening at 2233 Interlachen Dr. So when you're out and about this weekend, make it a point to come out and see what's for sale to support a great cause!
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Where: 2233 Interlachen Dr Billings, Montana
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If you've ever made a cocktail, chances are you've heard of simple syrup. The name "simple" couldn't be more accurate, because making it requires only two ingredients—sugar and water. It's basically a liquefied form of sugar. When water and sugar are heated together, the granulated sugar dissolves, creating a syrup that can be added smoothly into beverages. Plain simple syrup is great to have on hand, and it's a main ingredient in many cocktail recipes. Recently, my friend Ashley told me about infusing simple syrups with fresh herbs to add flavor (Ashley also helped me with my vodka infusion blog). I love anything to do with fresh herbs, so I asked her to try making some in the kitchen with me. This post is the result of our crazy herbal syrup experiment!
Infusing simple syrups is a great way to add a sweet herbal essence to drinks and recipes. Herb-infused syrups can be used for sweetening cocktails, adding flavor to tea, or even drizzling over a bowl of fresh fruit. Since they can be made with just 3 ingredients – water, sugar and fresh herbs – chances are you have everything you need right in your kitchen. Simple syrups are bottled and sold in stores, but it's much easier and cheaper to make them yourself. And why not? Simple syrup is taken to a new level by infusing it; the fresh herbs add a sophisticated flavor and essence. There's something really fun about making a drink from scratch, especially when you use an herb infused simple syrup as your sweetener. It will give your cocktails a lovely scent and fresh flavor that your guests will absolutely love.
Not a drinker? Never fear! Herbal simple syrups can also add a touch of sophistication to alcohol-free beverages. When you're hosting a party, some of your guests may not want to drink a cocktail. Add infused herbal syrups to sparkling water, tea, soda, or juice to create a special "mocktail" that anybody can enjoy… even kids!
I've shared the step-by-step process of infusing simple syrup below. It only takes about 35 minutes. Once you're done, you can bottle your infused syrup, label it, and keep it in the refrigerator for future use. Or, you can give it as a crafty homemade gift to somebody you love. These syrups would make an excellent addition to a Michloach Manot basket. Soon I'll be sharing some cocktail recipes that feature these herb infused simple syrups. Stay tuned!
Recipe Ideas for Herb Infused Simple Syrups
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How to Make Herb Infused Simple Syrups
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup sugar
Herbal Flavor Options
- Choose 1 herb per batch of Simple Syrup:
- 5 fresh basil sprigs (5-7 inches long), about 1.5 oz.
- 4 fresh rosemary sprigs (5-7 inches long), about .5 oz.
- 1 handful fresh mint sprigs, about 1.5 oz.
- 6 fresh thyme sprigs (3-4 inches long), about .5 oz.
- 8 bay leaves
- Carefully rinse your herbs clean. You will use one type of herb for each batch of simple syrup. Here, I am making three batches - basil, rosemary, and mint.
- Bring water to a boil. Add the sugar and whisk into the boiling water. Continue whisking till sugar is dissolved.
- Add herb of choice to the syrup. Let it boil for 60 seconds.Remove from heat and let the herbs steep for about 30 minutes as the syrup cools. Use a slotted spoon to remove the herbs from the syrup.
- Pour the cooled syrup through a fine mesh strainer or multiple layers of cheesecloth into a glass bottle or jar.
- Close the bottle and put a tag on it so you don't forget which flavor syrup you've made.
- Store herb infused simple syrup in the refrigerator. Add to your favorite drinks for a sophisticated, herbal essence and added sweetness.


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Channeling the 'offensive mind-set' in cybersecurity
Some say defense of critical networks should be grounded in the rules of war.
To protect critical networks and national security, the House and Senate are weighing cyber defense legislation and the Obama administration is considering regulations requiring information sharing between government agencies and private businesses. But who should be in charge -- even inside the Pentagon -- remains a big question in all this dithering.
The answer depends on how you look at cybersecurity: in terms of offense or defense, military or law enforcement. Also, how do you look at cyber strategically, tactically and operationally in the Pentagon, at the Homeland Security Department, FBI, Federal Reserve, and in the civilian realm at places like JP Morgan Chase, Dominion Power and Washington Gas?
"You have to have an offensive mind-set to better focus on defense," retired Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright said during a recent appearance at the U.S. Naval Institute. "DoD is in the business of offense. [Yet] we're still trying to protect everyone's computer."
Cartwright said when he was vice commander at U.S. Strategic Command in 2004, the emphasis was on cyber, electromagnetic pulse and directed energy weapons rather than creating a unified cyber command, which was established in 2010. The thinking was clear enough. These weapons expanded the tools available to the president if diplomacy failed.
The Defense Department's use of these weapons constituted the "away game," not the "home game," in which law enforcement and other government agencies, as well as businesses, protected themselves against hackers.
But who should govern the use of cyber weapons?
In a recent speech to the Business Executives for National Security in New York, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said using cyber capabilities offensively must be grounded in the laws of war. The department, he added, is bolstering its defenses, working on new capabilities and "acting aggressively to get ahead of the problem" with foreign actors such as China, Russia and Iran.
"Everybody sees cyber as the Internet . . . about who is stealing intellectual capital, of denying your Web page, or whatever it is," said Cartwright, who holds the Harold Brown chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. While this was not the focus of Strategic Command, he added, "it may be where we end up going."
Cybersecurity is a tough sell for the military services and the defense industry. Cartwright pointed out that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, for example, has no defense against cyberattack. "Any aperture [taking in information] is a potential target," he said, not just civilian infrastructure, and strike fighters have plenty of apertures.
Lt. Gen. Rhett Hernandez, the first to head the Army's Cyberspace Command, has been preaching cyber gospel to operational commanders ever since his organization was stood up two years ago. His mantra: "Think in a two-domain sense -- land and cyber." Commanders don't reflexively use that approach in planning their next mission.
One operational leader who has bought into the Army's cyber gospel is Lt. Gen. Donald Campbell, who just relinquished command of III Corps at Fort Hood, Texas. He insists it is a commander's job to understand cyber capabilities on the battlefield. "You can't throw it to the staff," he said at the Association of the United States Army's annual meeting in October, explaining how he employed cyber defenses during a major training exercise this year focusing on the oil rich Caspian Sea region of Central Asia.
During the exercise, Campbell said, "our ability to see ourselves" was critical as the battle changed quickly and the opposing force attempted to disrupt command, control and communications networks. "The network is a weapons system," he added.
Campbell also employed social media to explain to civilians in the area what the allies were doing, although he admitted "it was hard to measure" the effect.
Campbell said in his new position as leader of U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army, Germany he will insist commanders participate in cyber training scenarios at Hohenfels Training Area and Graefenwhoer in Bavaria as they now do at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., and the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, La.
But in the switch from active defense to offense in cyber space, another big question for service leaders is: How do we know we are successful? And not all agree on what's the right approach.
"It really comes down to what are those reactions that make sense that we can do defensively -- analogous to the missile shoot-down," Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and Cyber Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee this spring. But the rules of engagement for cyber warfare haven't been updated since 2005.
"If you are to go after a computer in foreign space or some other thing . . . that would now take, I think, the president and the [Defense] secretary to step in and start making decisions, versus us taking that on," Alexander added. "And I think that's probably where we'll end up, and that makes a lot of sense from my perspective."
On the battlefield, the question of who should make those decisions is not so easily answered. There, it's often the soldier getting shot at who knows best when to fire back.
John Grady, retired director of communications for the Association of the United States Army, writes about defense and national security.


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Music guide named best venues, albums, shows and festivals of the year
UpstateLIVE recently released its staff and reporter picks for best venues, albums, shows and festivals in a five-part series on its website, www.upstatelive.com. Artpark was named one of the year's "Best Large Venues," and shares the honor with such names as the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, The Molson Amphitheater in Toronto and Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
UpstateLIVE is a free music guide distributed across New York with an accompanying online music blog featuring concert news, reviews and interviews.
Seventeen concerts were presented in the Artpark Outdoor Amphitheater in addition to eight theater shows and concerts produced in the Mainstage Theater during Artpark's 40th anniversary season (May-August).
Artpark President George Osborne said, "It is an honor to be recognized by UpstateLIVE and included among such outstanding venues. We look forward to continuing to improve the venue and to bring more and better acts to Artpark each summer."
To view the "Best Venues" article online, click here.
Artpark & Company Inc. operates the Earl W. Brydges Artpark for the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation under a license agreement.


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Having just returned from Mobile and with the NFL Draft fresh on my mind, I noticed that CNNSI.com's Don Banks went back and conducted a re-draft of last year's first round. With the Chiefs' No. 1 overall selection, Banks grabbed Sheldon Richardson in place of Central Michigan T Eric Fisher.
"Fisher looked lost at right tackle early in the season and really didn't start playing with much consistency and command of his position until the final weeks of the schedule," wrote Banks. "But Richardson was a disruptive and productive force from Day 1 for the Jets, and he excelled at stuffing the run, while also proving he could regularly find his way into the backfield. Richardson, who got my vote for the league's Defensive Rookie of the Year, even turned into a useful Jumbo fullback late in the year and scored a pair of goal-line situation touchdowns."
Back in December, Jets head coach Rex Ryan also threw his support behind Richardson for Defensive ROY.
"He's got that relentless motor and for a defensive tackle and being as productive as he is, it doesn't show necessarily in the sack total," he said. He's got 3.5 or something," said the Jets HC. "He's had maybe 28 hits on the quarterback or something like that. And then the way he's played screen games, his tackles are probably amongst the leaders in the league for defensive linemen. So I think with that, and the tape doesn't lie."
The 6'2", 294-pound Richardson, who amassed 116 tackles and six sacks in two seasons at Missouri, finished second on the Jets with 11 tackles for loss and third in tackles (101) and QB hurries (32). The confident lineman told ESPNNewYork.com in December that he would go at the top of the draft if it was done all over.
"Probably No. 1, most likely," Richardson said of where he'd go in a redraft. "Kansas City? Yeah. I went into the draft thinking I'd be the No. 1 pick. I had a shot." Banks had his shot and with hindsight, he fired it at Richardson. With the Jets No. 9 and No. 13 selections, Banks went with CB Desmond Truant (Atlanta Falcons) and Purdue DT Kawaan Short (Carolina Panthers).


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My son loves math and adding marshmallows into the mix pretty much made this activity one of the highlights of our snow storm fun last week. You don't have to add the contact paper but by adding it becomes reusable and I was able to quickly make the activity more challenging when my original problems were too simple. If marshmallows are not something you want to use as a manipulative try buttons, packing peanuts or cotton balls.
- Gather your materials. You will need 3 full sheets of construction paper ( backing, cups and strips of hot chocolate), a washable marker, double stick tape, a bunch of mini marshmallows, a white crayon for the steam, scissors, a tray or cookie sheet to keep it all together and a barely damp baby wipe for erasing the marker. I like dollar store cookie sheets because they keep the manipulatives in one place and I can attach the contact paper on top .
- Start by drawing a mug and cutting it out. I then used it as a template for 4 more.
- Tape the mugs down, add a strip of brown to suggest hot chocolate and add some stem with a white crayon.
- Cover with contact paper. Don't you hate it when you make a ridge in the contact paper, the stuff is too costly to just redo it too. I dream of one day having a laminator….
- Using a washable marker write numbers or basic equations. I started with the ones above but as you will see had to change it to offer more of a challenge. That's the beauty of the write and wipe surface.
- Add some marshmallows in a bowl and your little learner.
- I quickly changed 3+1 into 3-1 and the 5 into a 5+3 to test the waters.
- Magic of manipulatives- not a problem. Finding just the right level of challenge is a bit of trial and error. My son didn't think he could do 9-1 but he did. That is the perfect zone when they feel unsure of success but are willing to take a chance and take on the challenge. That is when new connections are being made. This stuff excited me beyond words.
- This is such a great activity because you can wipe it clean and customize it to your needs 2 months from now or right away for another learner.


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The report notes that in EY there is considerable IoT experience based on the completion of more than 500 engagements. HFS also cited EY for a technology-agnostic focus, which gives EY clients ultimate flexibility in choosing a provider with which to collaborate, and based on EY client feedback, for speed-to-insights for operationalizing data analytics quickly and cost effectively.
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July 9, 2007 Request to Amend Accountability Plan – Oregon – NCLB Policy Letters to States
July 9, 2007
The Honorable Susan Castillo
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Oregon Department of Education
255 Capitol Street NE
Public Service Building
Salem, Oregon 97310
Dear Superintendent Castillo:
I am writing in response to Oregon's request to amend its State accountability plan under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). Following our discussions with your staff, the changes are now included in an amended State accountability plan that Oregon submitted to the Department on July 6, 2007. I am pleased to fully approve Oregon's amended plan, which we will post on the Department's website. A summary of the amendments submitted for 2006-07 is enclosed with this letter. As you know, any further requests to amend the Oregon accountability plan must be submitted to the Department for review and approval as required by section 1111(f)(2) of Title I.
Please also be aware that approval of Oregon's accountability plan for Title I, including the amendments approved above, does not indicate that the plan complies with Federal civil rights requirements, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and requirements under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
I am confident that Oregon will continue to hold schools and school districts accountable for the achievement of all students. I wish you well in your school improvement efforts. If you need any additional assistance in implementing the standards, assessment and accountability provisions of NCLB, please do not hesitate to contact Patrick Rooney (email@example.com) or David Harmon (email@example.com).
Kerri L. Briggs, Ph.D.
cc: Governor Ted Kulongoski
Patrick Burke
Doug Kosty
Tony Alpert
Amendments to the Oregon Accountability Plan
The following is a summary of the State's amendment requests. Please refer to the Department's website (www.ed.govhttps://www2.ed.gov/admins/lead/account/stateplans03/index.html) for the complete Oregon accountability plan.
Acceptable amendments
The following amendments are aligned with the statute and regulations.
General workbook clean-up (Elements 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 5.1, 5.3, 5.5, 6.1, and 8.1)
Revision: Oregon clarified the workbook in several instances, making non-substantive edits in order reflect current assessment practice in the State.
Including students who take a higher-grade assessment in adequate yearly progress (AYP) determinations (Elements 1.2 and 10.1)
Revision: Oregon will allow students to "target up" to take a higher-grade assessment when the teacher determines that the student has received the higher-grade content. This issue is most significant for mathematics and students enrolled in 8th grade who are taking the high-school assessments, but also affects a small percentage of students in all other grades. No single test score will be used to determine adequate yearly progress in more than one year.
Timely AYP determinations (Element 1.4)
Revision: Oregon will make late adequate yearly progress (AYP) determinations following the start of the 2007-08 school year. Preliminary determinations will be made by August 28. Consistent with the steps required for other States that have requested to delay AYP determinations, Oregon will hold all schools and districts in their current AYP status for the start of the 2007-08 school year and continue to apply NCLB consequences, as applicable. In addition, the State should take the following steps:
- Schools currently identified for improvement will begin offering services before the beginning of the school year.
- Schools that begin offering services will not stop offering services if final AYP determinations indicate that the school is no longer identified for improvement.
- Schools that might be identified as in need of improvement for the first time for the 2007-08 school year will provide information to parents alerting them to the fact that public school choice might be offered if the schools is identified as in need of improvement.
- For schools identified as in need of improvement for the first time for the 2007-08 school year, districts and schools should begin offering public school choice as soon as preliminary results are available.
Including students with disabilities (Element 5.3)
Revision: Oregon clarified that the Extended Career and Life Role Assessment (CLRAS) is no longer available for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities.
Including limited English proficient students (Element 5.4)
Revision: Oregon clarifies its workbook to include several features of the Department's September 2006 regulations related to limited English proficient (LEP) students:
- The LEP subgroup will include former LEP students in the LEP subgroup for two additional years when determining AYP.
- A newly arrived LEP student enrolling for the first time in a school in the United States after the first school day in May of the prior school year will be exempted from taking the reading/language arts assessment and the results of the reading/language arts (if taken) and mathematics assessments will not be included in AYP determinations. Because Oregon tests its students multiple times throughout the year, with the final assessment window occurring in April, this clarification will ensure that each newly arrived LEP student is only exempted from one full administration of the State reading/language arts test.
- The results of the native language assessments offered by the State from students who do not meet eligibility criteria will be considered a modified test administration and the student will be counted as non-participants in AYP determinations.
Safe Harbor calculations (Element 9.2)
Revision: Due to the resetting of achievement standards for the 2006 07 school year in March 2007, Oregon will recalculate the achievement scores in 2005 06 using these new achievement standards in order to calculate Safe Harbor.
Including students without a valid assessment as non-participants (Element 10.1)
Revision: Oregon clarified that any of the following categories of students will be counted as non-participants:
- Students who take the CLRAS, the life-skills assessment formerly used as the alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities in Oregon.
- Students who take assessments administered with modifications.
- Students assessed below the student's enrolled grade.
- Students with too few responses to yield a valid score.
- Students not enrolled in grade 9 or 10 who elect to take the high school assessment (scores from which may be banked for future AYP determinations) must take the State assessment corresponding to the student's grade level in order to be counted as a participant.
Unacceptable amendments
The following amendments do not comply with the statute or regulations. Therefore, they may not be included in Oregon's accountability plan.
Use of the other academic indicator (Elements 7.1 and 7.2)
The Department cannot approve Oregon's proposal that the State's other academic indicators not be used to further identify schools as in need of improvement. Section 1111(b)(2)(C) of the ESEA defines "adequate yearly progress" as including graduation rates for public secondary school students and at least one other academic indicator, as determined by the State, for all public elementary school students. Section 1111(b)(2)(C)(vii) provides the opportunity for States to develop additional academic indicators at the State's discretion. Section 1116(b)(1)(A) notes that, "a local educational agency shall identify for school improvement any elementary school or secondary school served under this part that fails, for 2 consecutive years, to make adequate yearly progress as defined in the State's plan under section 1111(b)(2)." While the Department has determined that this definition requires schools to be identified for improvement after it fails to make AYP for two consecutive years in the same subject (including the other State-defined other academic indicator or participation rate), the statute does not allow States to not identify schools for improvement that have failed to meet the State target for the other academic indicator for two consecutive year. Please note that section 1111(2)(D)(ii), which states that, States "may use [the other academic indicators] to identify additional schools for school improvement or in need of corrective action or restructuring," is referring to the additional academic indicators permitted in section 1111(2)(C)(vii) and not the required use of graduation rates and the elementary school indicator noted in section 1111(2)(C)(vi).


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NEW YORK (AP) — A&E is scrapping plans for an eight-part documentary series about the Ku Klux Klan after finding out that some participants of the hate group were paid for their work on it.
The network said Saturday it was dropping "Escaping the KKK: A Documentary Series Exposing Hate in America" a day after discovering that "nominal" cash payments were given by third-party producers.
"While we stand behind the intent of the series and the seriousness of the content, these payments are a direct violation of A&E's policies and practices for a documentary," the network said in statement.
"Escaping the KKK" was to follow people trying to extract themselves from the racist and anti-Semitic hate group. The network had promised that no payments would be made.
"We had previously provided assurances to the public and to our core partners — including the Anti-Defamation League and Color of Change — that no payment was made to hate group members, and we believed that to be the case at the time," the network said. "We have now decided not to move forward with airing this project."
The project triggered wide criticism as soon as it was announced earlier this month. The network, which originally titled the series "Generation KKK," changed the name and enlisted civil rights groups to collaborate on in-show educational content after getting heat for allowing the KKK's hate speech to be aired.
In the opening scene of a trailer for the now-scrapped series, the Imperial Wizard of the North Mississippi White Knights is shown giving his young children red Klansman hoods and said he hopes his daughter becomes the first woman Imperial Wizard.
"Our goal with this series has always been to expose and combat racism and hatred in all its forms," A&E said. "A&E takes the authenticity of its documentary programming and the subject of racism, hatred and violence very seriously."
While U.S. newspapers, magazines and television news divisions do not generally pay subjects for their interviews, some documentary filmmakers do, though the practice is frowned upon.
Errol Morris, the Oscar-winning filmmaker, triggered a debate over the issue in 2008 when he acknowledged that during the making of his film "Standard Operating Procedure," soldiers who were convicted of tormenting inmates at Abu Ghraib in Iraq were paid for their time.
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This picture shows what a transit of Venus might look like. The big black dot near the bottom is Venus. The yellow arrows show how Venus will move during the transit in 2004.
This illustration is original Windows to the Universe artwork created by Randy Russell. The image of the Sun is courtesy SOHO (ESA & NASA); information on the apparent size and path of Venus courtesy Fred Espenak, NASA's GSFC.


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I know that there have been broken or weak SSL implementations. Do browsers actually have decent standards for what they'll accept and display "the padlock"?
Furthermore, are there any practical attacks from an eavesdropper perspective against a fully modern SSL connection?
Should the padlock make me feel warm and fuzzy?


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3 pita breads, split horizontally in half
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Prick the eggplants all over with a fork and rub the eggplants with 2 teaspoons of the oil. Place the eggplants on the hot grill and cook for 8 minutes, or until charred all over.
Meanwhile, place the garlic cloves on a sheet of foil and drizzle with 2 teaspoons of the olive oil. Fold in the edges of the foil to form a packet.
Place the grilled eggplants and the pouch of garlic on a baking sheet and bake for 45 minutes, or until the garlic is tender and golden, and the eggplants are very tender.
Remove the eggplants and garlic from the oven, and set aside to cool. Reduce the oven temperature to 375°F.
Remove and discard the skin from the eggplants and garlic. Cut the eggplants in half lengthwise and remove the seeds. Chop the eggplant pulp and garlic to form a coarse puree, and place in a large bowl. Stir in the tahini, parsley, lemon juice, and remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Cut each pita half into wedges and arrange the wedges evenly over 2 large baking sheets. Brush the pita wedges with the olive oil, and sprinkle with the parsley and with salt and pepper to taste.
Bake for 12 minutes, or until the pita wedges are crisp and golden. Let the chips cool, and serve with the eggplant dip.


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Lunar Prospector Will Crash Into the Moon!
News story originally written on July 26, 1999
One of NASA's satellites is going to crash into the Moon, on purpose! Scientists are going to send Lunar Prospector into the Moon to find water on the surface. When it crashes, scientists hope a cloud of water will form. But don't worry, it won't break the Moon apart!
The crash will be on July 31, 1999. Lunar Prospector will fly into a huge crater near the south pole of the Moon. Some scientists think that instead of water, the crater is made of cement.
The cloud will be too small for you to see. Only people looking through really strong telescopes will see it.


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Isn't he just beyond cute?!!! When he was 13 months old, he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. His mom & dad have to give him shots of 2 different kinds of insulin daily and check his blood sugar every 2-3 hours 24/7. His beautiful mom {my sis-in-law} is riding in the Tour de Cure, put on by the American Diabetes Association.
Last year, more than 38,000 cyclists in 78 Tour events raised nearly $16 million to support the mission of the ADA: to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.
If you're interested, you can make a donation here. It's for a good cause & a cute little guy!


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I woke up this morning to huge flakes of fluffy white snow drifting and dancing past my windows.
It was yet another day of school closings and unplowed streets causing delays for everyone in Connecticut.
But then the sun came out...
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Item #: SCP-068
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-068 is to be kept away from any metals in an electrically-resistant box, preferably made of polytetrafluoroethylene (teflon) and rubber. Said box is to be stored in security locker 26 at Site 11. Key is kept with Dr. █████. Any requests for testing are to be redirected to him.
Description: SCP-068 is a wire stick figure, 9.8 cm tall, made of an unknown metal. The figure is composed of a single wire looping back to the center. The wire itself appears to have been bent numerous times in multiple places.
When an electric current is introduced to SCP-068, it becomes animate, moving about on its own. SCP-068's "joints" are where a normal human being's would be. Once activated, SCP-068 begins to search for any metallic material. Once metal has been found, SCP-068 will begin to knead it and pull a thin strip of metal off. SCP-068 will then construct another figure similar to itself. The newly-created figure will begin to knead the remaining metal alongside the original, creating new figures, which in turn, produce more replicas.
SCP-068 will move onto its next stage after one of two requirements are met. The first is when there are no more metals in range with enough mass to produce another figure, the other is when an upper limit of 102 replicas are created. When either of these events occur, all figures will converge at one location and begin forming themselves into as big a figure as possible. With a maximum of 102 "mini-figures", the resulting figure reaches two meters in height. SCP-068 situates itself in the intersection of the torso, arms and head. Gamma, beta, and theta waves begin emanating from SCP-068 after this union. SCP-068 will then begin to search for metals again attempting to create more figures, only scaled up to whatever size 068 is currently at. These replicas do not emanate brain waves like 068 does. If 068 is not at the maximum size limit after this, it will continue to create and add more figures to itself until the limit is reached.
Once it has reached the second stage and there are no metals available from which to construct figures, SCP-068 returns to its dormant state after 4 minutes and 32 seconds of activity. Material surrounding the original figure must be melted away in order to retrieve 068.
SCP-068 is capable of kneading and manipulating any metal presented to it, regardless of properties. It also appears to be impervious to any attempts to damage or destroy it. Copies of SCP-068, however, have the same properties and vulnerabilities as whatever metal they were constructed from.
SCP-068 can detect metals hidden from view through an as-of-yet-unknown process. While 068 will not attempt to reach metals that are too difficult to get to, it will tear through anything that is soft enough for its limbs to penetrate. What it considers "soft enough" changes depending on what 068 is shaped from at the time.
Addendum 068-a: A proposal has been made to use SCP-068 to dispose of dangerous metal-based SCPs.
Addendum 068-b: Please see attached document 068-a
Document #068-a: The proposal to use 068 for disposal of dangerous metal-based SCPs has been denied. Seeing as how many, if not all, of our dangerous metal-based SCP's are also invincible, the only thing we would have is a bunch of invulnerable wire figures running about. Honestly, who even thought this up?
-Dr. █████


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Revenge porn is one of those things that sounds as if it must be illegal but actually isn't. It's the term of art for publishing sexual photos of someone without his or her — usually her — permission, often after a breakup.
Consider Holly Jacobs, founder of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, who exchanged intimate pictures with a boyfriend while in graduate school. When the relationship ended he started posting them online. She sought help from law enforcement, but the police said she didn't have a case because she was over 18 when the pictures were taken, and they were her ex-boyfriend's property.
So far only two states have restricted this humiliating, reputation-killing practice. In 2004, New Jersey adopted an invasion-of-privacy law aimed at voyeurs, which also prohibits the dissemination of sexual recordings or pictures without consent. This month, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill making revenge porn a misdemeanor punishable with up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. But it contains a large loophole: it applies only if the individual who distributed the pictures was also the photographer.
California's law does not cover situations where someone took a self-portrait and shared it with a partner, who then uploaded it to the Internet. The Cyber Civil Rights Initiative has estimated that 80 percent of revenge-porn images were recorded by the victim.
California's law, though inadequate, has at least brought attention to the problem, and other states are considering action. New York Assemblyman Edward Braunstein, a Democrat, and State Senator Joseph Griffo, a Republican, recently announced revenge porn legislation that would make non-consensual disclosure of sexually explicit images a Class A misdemeanor. It would include pictures taken by victims.
Neither current nor proposed state laws are likely to have an effect on the Web sites that make the explicit images available to the prurient public, because they can claim protection under the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 of that statute has been interpreted by courts to shield sites that host third-party content from liability, unless that content, like child pornography, violates federal law. (Or unless sites cross the line from aggregators to co-creators of the material in question.)
It is not clear how many people have been affected by revenge porn — activists rely on self-reporting — but Ms. Jacobs has said that over 1,000 victims have reached out to her since she started speaking out on this issue. And a tour through a site like Private Voyeur reveals a depressingly large cache of photographs.
Going through a breakup is bad enough; going through a breakup and finding out that your ex is a horrible person is worse. Although lawmakers can't do much to help their constituents with these difficulties, they can work to provide recourse for when exes seek revenge through un-consensual pornography.


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I had come to Colombia to write – or at least I had hoped. But on my third day, I was sitting in the bar of the Santa Clara Sofitel hotel sipping mojitos spiked with lulo juice, one of the many exotic fruits found here, and all I could write about in my notebook was that I had nothing to write about. A friend of a friend who works at this hotel found me a guy here who takes care of a toucan. But that wasn't the story I was hoping to write.
It was nearly a whim that brought me here, booking a ticket on the new JFK-to-Cartagena route on JetBlue. It was almost a personal anomaly for me but I had no itinerary and I did little research. What did I know about this part of the world? I knew that singer Shakira and actress Sofia Vergara were from near here. Perhaps on some level I pathetically half expected (or hoped?) all the women to look like Ms. Vergara, whose physical appearance reminds me of a woman I still wish I was dating. I was wrong. I also thought I could maybe kickstart a book idea I had after visiting Bolivia a few years ago – a book about the coca leaf. But like Sofia Vergara lookalikes, there's no coca leaf culture in Cartagena like there is in Bolivia or the southern parts of Colombia. Two stereotypes down, several more to go.I thought I'd be an old-school journalist (or just a journalist) and come here and sniff out a story, come upon something unique and interesting that would lead me to smoky clubs, inside the cars of strangers going god knows where, or to parts of town I would have never stumbled upon. So I strolled the streets of this handsome seaside colonial town. I was unprepared for the bold sun and, as a result, my face turned a severe red by the second day, prompting locals to call out "Rojo!" as I walked by. I was a different kind of gringo here – the dumb kind – opting to wear jeans instead of shorts and a black button-down shirt instead a light T-shirt, because where I come from only the tourists wear shorts.
I went to the Convent Santa Cruz de la Popa, to the fortress, and I walked the walls around the old town. I talked to restaurant owners and chefs, all of whom reminded me how much safer it is here now, which was great but reminded me that I needed to find a fresher angle, one that didn't involve the travel publication clichés in the headline, "The New Cartagena" or, my favorite, "Cartagena Reborn," as if somehow an entire city was reborn and we barely knew about it.
One day I took a boat out to one of the Rosario Islands. As I was traipsing off the boat, I was immediately accosted by options: scuba diving, mountain biking, a trip to an aquarium – all potential stories. But as I scanned the tourists relaxing on the beach next to the teal-colored sea, I had a realization: maybe I just need a vacation. Travel writers need a vacation, too, and, when I thought about it, I'd pretty much been doing tourist stuff all along. I haven't traveled anywhere without an assignment in maybe a decade and perhaps the subconscious voices in my head were telling me to relax a bit.
Instead of the options that were presented to me on the island, I put my notebook away and I planted myself under a palapa. I ordered a mojito and pulled out the Joan Didion book in my bag and began reading.


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America is about to get another harsh lesson in easy money.
And you can credit it once again to Uncle Sam's meddling with longstanding lending rules.
Remember how political pressure from Congress and the White House to make it easier for more Americans to buy homes triggered the Great Rescission that we are still trying to shake off?
Not only did federal edicts to relax lending standards put marginal buyers into homes that a good number lacked the discipline or the income to manage the monthly mortgage payments but it also encouraged others with healthier income to gobble up more house than their wallet could handle. It also opened the floodgates for people to use mortgages on their homes to leverage all sorts of purchases ranging from new cars to expensive vacations to day-to-day expenses.
At the same time, it allowed unscrupulous lenders to pile more debt on borrowers that weren't qualified so they could line their own pockets. Meanwhile, everyone from new home builders to those selling their own homes were handed market dynamics that helped drive up the price of everything including their profits as demand outstripped supply thanks to the number of buyers created by easy loans.
It took a good 10 years from the start of the housing boom financed by easy money for the house of cards to start collapsing.
Keep that in mind now that easy money via student loans is coming home to roost.
Here are the facts:
• Between 2003 and 2013, student loan debt quadrupled going from $250 million to $1.08 trillion.
• While the percentage of credit card, mortgage and auto debt that is 90 days plus delinquent has dropped significantly since the peak of the recession in 2009, student loan delinquencies have skyrocketed 33 percent.
• The earning expectations of college graduates have declined in recent years. That despite the cost of college and loan debt rising significantly.
• Audits of loans programs show students are taking more and more money out in loans to cover "living expenses." A study of colleges in Minnesota by Capella Education Co. revealed in some masters program where costs for an education totaled about $18,800 in tuition, books and fees the typical gradate left school with $30,200 in student loans.
That means day-to-day living expenses for college students whether it is buying pizza, rent, purchasing music, the latest fashion styles or whatever is being financed long-term, along with the cost of education. Since students rarely have the means to start paying down student loans beyond the minimum payment, that means an $8 pizza could end up costing them almost $40 by the time the loan is paid off. It is no different than what many people were doing with equity home loans and credit cards. There is one big difference: Student loans trump all other debt including mortgages and credit cards. It is not easily discharged through bankruptcy court.
So why does this matter to you?
Housing, we have found, is a major economic driving force. It tanks and we all are hurt financially in one way or another.
The National Association of Realtors did a study that revealed 20 percent of first-time buyers had difficulty coming up with a down payment. Of those, 54 percent attributed it to their precarious financial situation due to student loans.
Higher student loan debt and lower post college wages mean less and less college graduates can afford to buy a home.
The Washington Post last month profiled college grads who were working in full-time jobs with good incomes who were stunned that their student loan debt precluded them from buying a home.
One such grad was 26-year-old Stephanie McCloskey. The administrative assistant had the income to buy a home in a Washington suburb but her debt loan was too high thanks to $30,000 in student loans that saddled her with a $500 a month minimum payment.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York as well as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau among others have warned that the growing student debt load of the past 10 years may become a major drag on housing.
The easy money meant a steadily growing stream of people could go to college using loans that they used upwards of 20 percent for living expenses instead of relying on other sources of income such as multiple part-time jobs.
The real benefactors of such money policies are colleges. With an ever-growing supply of students, higher education is the last bastion of 20th century commerce in America. Higher education has not had to reconfigure its basic way of doing business to stay afloat amid changing economic realities. Free flowing money means no pressure to streamline administrative overhead, improve product delivery, or be more competitive on pricing.
Of course those in academia like to argue there's is a calling and not a business. However, the fact no one with a full-time position in the upper levels of higher education, whether it is management or "top producers," has exactly taken a vow of poverty undermines their argument that colleges should be exempt from the same market forces that shape the rest of the country.
Making this all the more ironic is how some of the most expensive education institutions in this country supply their administrators with free housing and subsidize homes for some of their top-tier professors.
As such, they don't have to worry about the nuances of debt load when it comes to securing shelter.
This column is the opinion of Dennis Wyatt and does not necessarily represent the opinion of The Journal or Morris Newspaper Corp. of CA. He can be contacted at email@example.com or 209-249-3519.


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"Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas. They interact with each other and with other mental forces in the same brain, in neighboring brains, and thanks to global communication, in far distant, foreign brains." ~ Roger Sperry
Just as clinging to a single idea can be dangerous, having many can be a really good thing. It's not great because you have many ideas, but because those many ideas are not isolated and can improve the others. This is true in your own head and when you're brainstorming with others. A lot of people tend to cling to ideas as their property and are afraid of losing them, but sharing could be the very best thing.
Ideas Cause Ideas | Swissmiss
You can follow Adam Dachis, the author of this post, on Twitter and Facebook. Twitter's the best way to contact him, too.


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The causes of the Pilgrimage of Grace have remained difficult to pin down for many years. The Pilgrimage of Grace was essentially specific to Yorkshire. What would have caused many thousands of people to rise up in Yorkshire to cause a rebellion that clearly rattled the government of Henry VIII?
While much has been written about the Pilgrimage of Grace, it has proved difficult to specifically pin down why so many people rallied to the cause. The document presented to the Duke of Norfolk at Doncaster – the '24 Articles' – should give many clues as the demands should have been directly linked to the grievances of the rebels. However, the document was produced by a select group of nobles. No 'commoner' was present, nor invited to attend, and as they constituted the vast bulk of the rebels, their beliefs are seemingly excluded from these articles. Some of the articles are specific to religion, others to political issues. While these articles give a clear indication of what a select group wanted, they cannot be assumed to be what the 'commoner' wanted.
Certain rumours are known to have been very common in Yorkshire immediately prior to the rebellion taking hold. One was that Henry was about to order all parish churches to hand over their silver to the government and that they would be replaced with tin ones. There is no evidence that the government of Henry contemplated this but the rumour spread with due speed. Another rumour that spread was that a tax was going to be placed on 'rites of passage' – baptism, marriage and burial. This would have made financially pressed families feel even more financially vulnerable if brought in. A final rumour that was popular at this time was that the poorer classes were to be forbidden to eat certain types of food.
While these rumours seem nonsense now, they were believed in the mid-1530's and with good reason. Many believed that Henry wanted to keep the 'commoners' in their place; many believed that Henry was so short of money that he would resort to anything to get a new source of cash. Whereas there are religious aspects to these rumours, they also overlap into social and economic issues that dominated lives of the 'commoner'. It is doubtful if you could have separated all three at the time.
There can be little doubt that religious changes were a main reason for the Pilgrimage of Grace. Robert Aske would not have chosen the title for his followers if the protest had not had a religious input. The Reformation had affected over 100 small monasteries in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Many of these monasteries had worked with their local communities in both educational and medical aspects of day-to-day life and the projected loss of these were, at a local level, potentially very negative. There can be little doubt that some pilgrims were also angered at the thought of the Pope's position being eroded by the introduction of new reforms. Basic religious beliefs had been held since childhood and any attempt to change them must have seemed very threatening.
There is little doubt that some of the rebels also had economic grievances and used the Pilgrimage of Grace to vent their anger. Rent increases seem to have been the primary reason for the anger of some of the 'commoners'. However, historians who have researched the rebellion tend to play down just how widespread this anger was and point to the fact that rent increases would have been common throughout the country but that the Pilgrimage was limited to the north.
Those nobles who joined the rebellion (as opposed to being forced into it) seem to have done so because they believed that their traditional 'feudal' rights were being eroded and replaced with more modern methods that, in their opinion, undermined the power that they believed was theirs by right. The blame for this erosion of local power was put on Thomas Cromwell who wanted to see an expansion of central government's power within the localities. It was this perceived policy of central intervention that angered the nobility in the north.
With so many people involved in the Pilgrimage, it is almost certain that individuals or small groups had their own reasons for joining. However, any record of what their grievances were has been lost to history. The belief that the Pilgrimage of Grace was primarily a rebellion led by aggrieved nobles backed by 'commoners' who, in the main, had serious concerns about the direction of religious reforms seems to be the best accepted cause. This was shown in the 24 Articles presented to Norfolk a Doncaster. If the rebellion was solely based on religious grievances, then the articles would have been purely about religion – similar to Luther's 95 Theses. However, as the articles contained statements that were political/social, it is safe to conclude that the causes of the Pilgrimage of Grace were a combination of these.


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For a few weeks now we have been replying to almost every single question that is asked in the Mozilla support forums. That is up from about 50% last year and it shows the dedication of our community. Also over the last few month we have made a number of changes to SUMO to reduce the flow of simple questions that have answers in the KB already. That has been quite succesful, not only are we getting really hard questions now, but they are solved at a higher rate than before too.
The challenge now is that we have to ask for more information before we can solve an issue. Repeating those questions is quite tiring, so we decided to build a tool to help out our community and gather all the important questions to ask in one place.
We had actually planned to work on it later this year, but one of our great community members, Tobbi, saw an opportunity and offered to try his hand on it.
The result went online a few days ago, and is amazing. Sign into SUMO, and check it out for yourself:
- Chose a question
- Click on the response tool (the magic hat symbol)
- Select an answer or a request for specific information
- Customize as necessary and send!
Over time this tool will hopefully gather all the shared wisdom of our community and help us solve issues in as few steps as possible.
Interview with the developer, Tobias Markus.
This is not the first time a community member has been helpful in the development of Kitsune, the software that powers SUMO, but it's the first major feature. We'd love to see much more of this, and I asked Tobbi for an interview to ask him how he got involved for anyone who wants to follow in his footsteps.
Tobbi, you have been a SUMO community member for quite a long time. Where did you start and how was your SUMO journey so far?
It was late 2008 when I started contributing to SUMO. My portal to the SUMO world was the Firefox LiveChat, which I joined as I really liked the personal touch that the chat had. Later on, I found out that there was a German localization group for SUMO articles, so I started translating articles into German and helped reaching the goal of then 100% localization coverage. I even gave forum support, although I preferred LiveChat because it was more personal than the forums.
How did you get the idea to help with the development of SUMO?
The idea for development started when I was working on a Firefox add-on together with Propeng. We implemented various features for the old forums to make them more contributor-friendly and add some tools that aimed at making life for contributors easier. However, due to the amount of unfinished code and the switch to Kitsune, the project was stalled. That's when we decided to split the big project into smaller chunks to make them compatible again with the new forums. One of these smaller projects was the Knowledge Base article autocomplete that was landed a few months ago. I think it was Rosana who suggested integrating the Knowledge Base autocomplete into the Firefox support website directly. That's when I started contributing to the development of SUMO.
Did you get any help with your project?
The SUMO team and other contributors really helped me a lot. At first I was posting an early draft to the contributors forum to gather suggestions from other contributors and the team. The feedback I got was huge. I spent the next couple of weeks reacting on it and making a lot of improvements to the code to enable things like instant preview, edit mode, and even flags that can limit certain responses to certain groups of contributors. The SUMOdev team also answered some implementation questions.
Once this was done, the next thing was to make the experience perfect for contributors. I brainstormed a lot with Bram [the SUMO UX designer] about best practices in order to get a good user experience design and spent some more weeks making the necessary changes.
The fourth step was a final code review by Ricky Rosario. That went smoothly as well, the necessary changes I had to do were minimal and most of them were about simple code style fixes. Once these were fixed, the code was ready to land.
The final step was to create the canned responses. I asked the community again to get back to me with some frequently used responses and the amount of responses I got was overwhelming. I chose around 10 of the most frequently used ones (based on my own judgement) and rewrote them a little. Kadir then helped me put each response in its own article and create a main article for the category structure that has links to all the individual responses.
What is your advise for people who want to get involved with SUMO development?
Drop by in #sumodev on irc.mozilla.org and say hello. The SUMOdev people answered any questions I had so that canned responses could become a success. Also, there is good documentation available online about setting up a local copy of SUMO. So, if you have a great feature in mind for the support website and want to start developing, give it a go!
Tobi, thank you for this interview, and in the name of the SUMO community: thanks for making everyone's live so much easier!


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Tuner design, mass, and material have an effect on tone.
Tuner design, mass, and material have an effect on tone. Replacing the stock tuners on this guitar with a set of low-mass locking tuners with brass cams yielded more highs and better sustain.
Playing a guitar that easily slips out of tune is like taking a flight with a lot of turbulence. Whether you're a player or an audience member listening to poor tuning, or a passenger on the bumpy flight, the dissonance and turbulence can greatly interfere with your ability to enjoy the respective experience. In the sonic hierarchy, tuning is king and several of the elements that affect your tuning also affect your tone. Most tuning problems I've encountered are related to the string nut.
I've had the best luck, both tonally and tuning-wise, with nuts that are cut out of bone. Of all the materials I've experimented with, bone provides the most lively sound and feel, and is easy to mold and manipulate. If you have a guitar with a cheap plastic nut, upgrading to a bone nut will provide a significant sonic improvement. Plastic has a tendency to produce a "doinky" sound and muffled feeling. In the '80s, solid brass string nuts were a popular choice among guitarists. Brass nuts have a pleasant brightness in their tonality, but I've found the material to be difficult to work with when setting the height of the string slots. Now, let's address some issues associated with those string slots.
If you ever hear clicking and pinging sounds as you crank the tuning peg, chances are there is a burr or some foreign material in the slot that prohibits the string from moving smoothly. You can remedy this issue by lightly running an appropriately sized file through the slot. Also, string trees can cause tuning slippage and pinging sounds if they are bent out of shape.
Another classic fix to temporarily improve tuning involves applying a small amount of pencil lead in the string slots. Generally, this tactic is more successful on bone nuts than it is on plastic nuts. The lead acts as a dry lubrication for the string to easily glide over the nut slot. I asked my friend John LeVan, of LeVan's Guitar Services in Nashville, about his thoughts on the old pencil lead trick and he told me that pencil lead is also useful to apply where the string rests on the bridge saddles.
When you install a new set of strings, you'll want to make a quick checkup in a couple of areas. First, ever wonder what those little screws on your tuning pegs do? Not only do they change how easily the tuning peg turns, but they also ensure that the peg will not drift on its own. Check the screws and gently but securely tighten them to a uniform tension.
If you have locking tuners, make sure the cam collars are securely tightened. These collars play a big role in making sure the whole tuning mechanism doesn't move around. Some people think that little things like the cam material don't make a difference to the sound or feel of a guitar, but I disagree. I replaced the stock tuners on my PRS SE Custom Semi-Hollow with a set of low-mass PRS locking tuners with brass cams. The swap boosted the overall high end, added some glimmer and sparkle to the guitar's sustain, and improved tuning.
Installing a quality string is also vital to well-tempered tuning and excellent tone. I know the lure of saving money by purchasing $2 packs of economy strings is appealing, but you can end up paying for it in bad tuning and shorter string life. Using strings from a reputable manufacturer pays off in the long run.
When it comes to installing your string of choice, there are several schools of thought on winding techniques, but they agree on two things: You want to keep the winds tightly grouped together on the post and you want to avoid string-on-string overlaps. When installed properly, a string should look like a Slinky toy that's in a resting position. Personally, I like to put three to four winds on the post because I get a little more snarl and rumble out of the string that I don't get with fewer winds.
After you stretch your strings, always tune up to pitch whenever you tune. If a note is reading sharp on your tuner, make sure you dip below your desired pitch first and then raise the string back into the note. This will ensure that the tension is properly distributed and the string will be less subject to slippage.
If you're interested in the system that'll end all of your tuning problems for good, check out the EverTune bridge. It's certainly one of the most revolutionary products in the history of the electric guitar. I don't even take a tuner when I take a guitar with an EverTune to a show or session. (For more technical details, check out the company's videos on evertune.com. But before you do, be fair warned that you're going to have a hard time not shelling out the dough for one of these bridges once you see it in action.)
When I flip through the pages of PG, I'm always impressed by how many options we have as players to manipulate our guitar's tone with different pickups, amps, pedals, and countless other components. We can swap and modify a wide range of parts, but the fact is, all of that is in vain if your guitar is out of tune. I encourage you to take the time to extensively research all the ways you can stabilize your instrument's tuning so that unwanted dissonance won't create any turbulence at your next gig.