It does not matter any longer whether his rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is indicted (though she ought to be, and President Barack Obama may soon find it useful to rid his party of any obstacles to his long-term control rather than protecting the Clintons).
Once thought too radical to be a serious candidate, Sanders is now one of the few left.
It is becoming apparent that Donald Trump is, ironically, the most electable of the Republican candidates–at least when Clinton is the presumptive opponent.
The reason the GOP establishment is gravitating towards him is not that it likes him, but rather that it sees him as a winner. Corporate America is also starting to see Trump as the favorite. On Wednesday, David Cush, CEO of California-based Virgin America, openly predicted Trump would beat Hillary.
None of the other Republicans has yet proven to have the tactical instincts, the chutzpah, or the sheer determination to win that Trump has shown.
On Thursday he did the unthinkable, and followed through on a threat to skip the last debate before the Iowa caucuses–a risky gamble that paid off when his closest rival, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), had to spend two hours fending off attacks from also-rans. And by bringing up the Clinton scandals no other Republican would touch, Trump has neutralized Bill Clinton as a factor. He is as responsible as anyone for the Sanders surge.
Yet Trump's aggressive tactics would fail against Sanders–just as they are failing for Hillary Clinton, who is about to lose both in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Sanders is a clumsy politician. He nearly conceded the race when he foolishly gave Clinton a pass on her email scandal.
And yet his guileless approach is the key to his appeal. He is authentically radical, unlike Clinton–or Obama. His quaint, naïve radicalism invites empathy rather than contempt.
Sanders is also taking advantage of the fact that Americans no longer know what socialism is, a generation after the end of the Cold War. Few remember what F.A. Hayek explained in the last century–that "democratic" socialism is an oxymoron, because the state cannot micromanage our economic affairs without ending freedom as we know it.
Young Americans are particularly ignorant about socialism–not only because they have no personal memories of it, but because they have been educated to see it as a noble idea that failed because of political mistakes and outside pressure.
A new study of college syllabi shows that Karl Marx's "The Communist Manifesto" is one of the top three texts assigned to American college students, and that Marx is the most assigned author in U.S. economics classes.
So Bernie Sanders can tell the CNN audience at this week's Democratic town hall that "democratic socialism" is the "right to economic security," without talking about confiscatory taxes; that "democratic socialism" is what they have in Europe, while ignoring Europe's ongoing fiscal crisis; that "democratic socialism" just means "creating a government that works for all of us, not just a handful of people on the top," as a room full of grownups applauds.
They trust Sanders, because he was right about the Iraq War. They forget that he was wrong about the Cold War. But would that really matter to them today? They voted for Obama, hoping–knowing–he believed much the same.
The good news is that Trump and Sanders are both taking this election where it needs to go–to the urgent concerns of middle America. The bad news is that Sanders may be immune to Trump's attacks.
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Q: How to properly squash commits using SourceTree? We're using Git as our source control system, and I like to commit my code on a regular basis. This does mean that when I'm ready to push to the shared repo I've created quite a few nonsense commits that I'd like to squash away before pushing.
Using SourceTree that should be a simple thing, but I keep running into issues where not all selected commits are being squashed together. Let me show some images of what I do using a sample repo with some checkins:

I click the first checking and choose to 'rebase children interactively'

A pop will appear with all the checkins:

On this popup I click the 'fifth' checkin and hit the squash with previous 3 times until the screen looks like this:

All's fine you'd think, but then when hitting the 'ok' button, this is what I end up with:

Why oh why does it not include the 'Second' commit in the end result? Judging by the looks of the popup you'd think this is included as well. I can do the same thing again to get the second in there, but I just can't fathom why it works this way or how to squash them all in one go.
Any help would be appreciated.

A: It was a bug in SourceTree, see this bug report. According to the bug history, it was closed as fixed in May 2021.

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Summary: Questions of Compliance (French)
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Last September, Portland Business Journal announced Restaurant Unlimited Corp. would close three of its restaurants, including the Pearl District's Palomino and Stanford's at RiverPlace, of which they did. But something interesting happened with the third: Kincaid's Fish, Chop & Steak House, located in downtown's Embassy Suites, never closed.
But it's about to change — hands that is. Kincaid's is going local with a brand new Portland-based owner who will change the name to Portland Prime and give the space with a complete remodel, charcuterie bar, new menu and chef. The new Portland Prime is scheduled to open in late August. Developing...
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Lyman and I delayed starting our three day bike ride from Brooklyn to the eastern tip of Long Island because of weather: rainy, with temperatures in the thirties. We finally started Monday morning east of Brooklyn's Prospect Park, with a prediction that the weather would clear by noon. A mix of drizzle and snow pelted us as we slogged through heavy traffic in the bike lane up Bedford Avenue, turning towards Queens in Williamsburg. Trucks would park in the bike lane every couple of blocks, and we would have to swerve out into the melee. It was a genuine good time.
Lyman sums up the three day trip: Riding through the diverse neighborhoods beginning with Prospect Park transitioning through Chinese, Korean, Jewish, various Hispanic and what have you 'hoods in Queens onto Long Island and ending in waspish Hamptons was interesting and intimate on a bicycle. We borrowed a sink in a Chinese tire shop. The grinning ear to ear mechanic did not speak any English. We were aliens gliding on small bikes.
We ate at the counters and engaged conversation easily with bartenders and local patrons. The Italians with those amazing heavy accents. And the women, their fashion sense so exuberant. Leather pants, high heels, painted nails out to there, huge hair and ear rings.
That first day passing through Queens, we crossed Flushing Meadows to check out the site of the 1964 World's Fair, also where Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones chased aliens in Men in Black.
Chinese neighborhoods in Queens go on for miles and miles. In Bayside, near the border between New York City and Nassau County, we stopped for a late lunch at an Italian restaurant, where the neighborhood was transitioning from Asian to Italian. Most of the employees and customers looked Italian. A sixty something gentlemen entered and sat by himself at the bar. At the suggestion of the bartender, he ordered seafood salad. One by one, several men in the restaurant came and greeted him like they knew him, but as someone who was owed respect, often with a kiss on the cheek. It was like something we had seen in the movies.
Cycling further that day, we transitioned from city to suburbia. We stuck to the North Shore, as the car traffic that a cyclist avoids is almost always safer in high income areas, where big houses sit on quiet streets. That evening in Roslyn NY, we sat at the bar of a very expensive steakhouse, and ordered low cost appetizers. The bartender struck me as a true professional.
Over the next day and a half, what I can only call suburbia went on and on. We transitioned from the wealthy neighborhoods of the North Shore to more conventional middle class tract housing. Late the afternoon of the second day, we were sixty miles by car from Manhattan, and still really had not seen much undeveloped land;' the sprawl continued. We stopped for a beer at an Irish bar in a strip mall near tattoo parlors and motorcyle shops. I spoke briefly to these women. All three were originally from Brooklyn, but say they hardly ever go back there now. They spoke of all the crime in Brooklyn. (photo by Lyman)
It was not until midway through day three that we started to see sumptuous "second homes", interspersed, finally, with farmland and open space. I did not know that "The Hamptons" refers to a series of towns at the end of the south fork of Long Island; Westhampton, Southampton, Bridgehampton, East Hampton, etc. As soon as towns started having "Hampton" in their names, we started seeing these large houses, not even necessarily on the beach. Yes, the deer is fake.
We had a great ride along the beach on the barrier island by Quogue "Village". In the off season, it was desolate and beautiful. Lots of big ocean front summer houses. This one would have made Tony Soprano proud.
Southampton is a beautiful colonial town completely inundated with money. Realtor ads in the windows downtown seriously offered oceanfront estates for over two hundred million dollars. This spread, by the water downtown, is practically modest for this area. And I guess most people do not even live here, these are just vacation homes! We need higher taxes.
Down East: Rocky Mount, Tarboro, and Wilson NC 3/22-23/2014
Posted: April 13, 2014 in Eastern North Carolina trips
If I had bothered to tell anyone where I was going for two days, the mostly likely response from friends in Chapel Hill would have been: "Why would you want to go THERE?" But the weather was beautiful and the terrain was flat. I drove the hour and a half to Rocky Mount on a Friday morning, parked the Ford Focus, pulled out the bike, and started riding.
Both Rocky Mount and Wilson sometimes feel like what I imagine Flint, Michigan to be like. There are abandoned factories everywhere. Downtown Rocky Mount at 1:00 PM on Friday does not look very busy. It looks like an Edward Hopper painting, except this is not the middle of the night.
Thirty miles away in Wilson, the "downtown" (meaning anywhere in the traditionally built city) feels almost as abandoned. The government there is indeed trying to stir things up. They are building a park around the works of local whirligig artist Vollis Simpson who had just died.
Wilson also tried to institute high speed internet as a way of attracting business. They were being somewhat successful, so the state legislature worked its Time Warner magic, and put a stop to the program.
I looked very hard, and could not find one "normal" restaurant in Wilson, one that served drinks and dinner, at any price, except in what I consider the burbs. I cycled back to the hotel after dinner in the dark, to the also suburban Hampton Inn.
But these cities of Rocky Mount and Wilson are not really dying. At the same time they are being abandoned, new housing is still being built further out, sprouting from the fields like a new crop of tobacco. American slash and burn urbanism. The sign says "No City Taxes."
In their defense, Rocky Mount and Wilson grew and prospered and provided jobs because of local businesses, mostly in manufacturing, tobacco, and banking. On the other hand Tarboro, twenty miles east of Rocky Mount, gives off a different vibe. It is one of the most beautiful towns in North Carolina. One gets the feeling that not much has changed in two hundred years, both for good and for bad. Tarboro is lovely and a little unsettling at the same time. The newspaper is called the Daily Southerner.


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Pamela in Her Exalted Condition follows the heroine of Richardson's hugely popular first novel into married life. In the process, he explores both the experience of women beyond the stage of courtship and provides a fascinating insight into the social and cultural life of the mid eighteenth century. The first ever scholarly edition of the novel, this volume features a critically edited text, general and textual introductions, full annotations and textual apparatus. Appendices describe all the editions published in Richardson's lifetime as well as early nineteenth-century editions. The original illustrations from the popular octavo edition of 1742 and Richardson's index are reproduced. The publication of this novel in the Cambridge edition allows the sequel to Pamela to take its rightful place in the critical study of Richardson's development as a novelist.
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The more organized your cleaning products are, the faster you clean. This means you have more time for work and play. It can save you money too! These three simple steps will help you organize your cleaners and keep them organized.
Step One: Baskets in each room.
Buy or find a cleaning basket for each room. Depending on the room you might consider a plastic tote with handles, a cardboard box, a basket or a tote bag. Consider also labeling the basket so it is always returned to the correct room. Keep the totes nearby.
For example, you might keep your kitchen cleaning supplies tote under your kitchen sink. You might keep you bathroom tote in your linen closet. Old buckets and milk crates work well for cleaning supplies too. You don't have to buy new.
Keep the cleaning products and the tools together. In your kitchen that might include a dry rag, a scrubber, and a toothbrush for the tile grout. When everything is kept together it's easy to clean a room quickly.
You don't need to buy a different product for each task. For example, your kitchen surface cleaner can clean your bathroom surfaces too. Instead of buying ten different surface cleaners, you can buy in bulk. Buy extra storage containers or spray bottles. You can then use the same cleaner in different rooms without spending a fortune on packaging. Additionally, by using reusable bottles and buying in bulk, you're reducing the amount of packaging that goes into landfills.
Many natural cleaning products are available in bulk. Taking this extra step means you eliminate harmful chemicals from your home's air. You also help improve the environment by ensuring fewer toxins enter the air, water and soil.
You can absolutely buy natural cleaning products in bulk. However, you can also make your own cleaning products. You can prepare them in large batches and use them in most rooms in your home. For example, a home made all purpose cleaner can be made from vinegar, borax, water, dish detergent and a few drops of your favorite essential oil.
If you're making your own cleaners or buying in bulk and using additional spray bottles be sure to label each bottle. You can use a simple sharpie marker or a label maker – the choice is yours.
Organizing your cleaners takes just a few minutes and it'll save time each time you clean. It also helps family members take responsibility for some of the cleaning. And buying in bulk or making your own saves money too. Grab a few totes, buy in bulk, simplify and label. It's that easy!


We're a little under two weeks away until the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and to make the wait until launch just a bit easier, Nintendo has recently released a new series of gameplay videos for the fighting game.
Nintendo is referring to this new series of videos as "Chain Smashing" due to the way in which each of them functions. As of now, three videos have been released in total and they each showcase many of the characters of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate getting beaten up across a variety of different stages. Each video is 30 seconds long and they're pretty fun to watch just due to the hectic nature of seeing fighter after fighter get blasted to a new location so quickly.
In other Super Smash Bros. Ultimate news, it was recently revealed that the game as the highest pre-sales of any Nintendo game in history. Oh, and I was also able to play a few hours of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for myself a couple weeks back. If you haven't checked out my hands-on impressions of all of the game's new characters, you can read them right here.
All three of the videos that Nintendo has released so far can be found at the bottom of the page. If you weren't already counting down the days until release, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate arrives on Switch on December 7. If you still haven't pre-ordered a copy of the game for yourself just yet, you can still do so over on Amazon.


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Can Airlines Immediately Ban You From Flying After An Incident Of Misconduct? If Yes, For How Long?
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On September 8, 2017 Ashok Gajapathi Raju, thethen Civil Aviation Minister, inducted a 'No Fly list' in Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) (Section 3, Series M, Part Vl on "Handling of Unruly Passengers") to safeguard the security of crew members and passengers in flight from unruly passengers.
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Para 3.1 of Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) defines unruly passenger as 'A passenger who fails to respect the rules of conduct at an airport or on board an aircraft or to follow the instructions of the airport staff or crew members and thereby disturbs the good order and discipline at an airport or on board the aircraft.'
No Flying List was inducted in Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) following misbehaviour by Shiv Shena MP Ravindra Gaikwad who misbehaved with the Air India crew in March, 2017. Many more incidents of this type have happened in the past, following which airlines requested Ashok Gajapathi Raju, the then Civil Aviation Minister, to take some actions against such unchecked behaviour.
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What is the 'No Fly List'?
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) revised relevant sections of the Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) (Section 3, Series M, Part Vl on "Handling of Unruly Passengers") in accordance with the provisions of the 1963 Tokyo Convention. In Para 4.9 of CAR, it is mentioned that if a passenger is found smoking, taking drugs, not obeying instructions of the pilot-in-command or endangering the safety of an aircraft or persons therein, then that passenger could be arrested on arrival at destination, or at any other airport where the aircraft commander may choose to land.
Para 4.10 of (CAR) categorizes unruly behaviour on-board the aircraft into the following categories:
Level 1 – If any passenger verbally causes inconvenience, such as physical gestures, verbal harassment, unruly inebriation etc., to any crew member or passengers, then that passenger will be debarred for flying up to 3 months. [Para 4.10 (a) of Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR)]
Level 2 – If any passenger by physical means causes inconvenience, such as pushing, kicking, hitting, grabbing or inappropriate touching or sexual harassment etc., to any crew member or passengers, then that passenger will be debarred for flying up to 6 months. [Para 4.10 (b) of Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR)]
Level 3 - If any passenger's behaviour is life threatening, such as damage to aircraft operating systems, physical violence such as choking, eye gouging, murderous assault, attempted or actual breach of the flight crew compartment etc., against any crew member or passenger, then for such life-threatening behaviour debarment would be for a minimum of 2 years. [Para 4.10 (c) of Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR)]
Para 7 of Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) describes passengers who are a threat to national security. Such a passenger is barred till such time that the person is perceived to be national security risk by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
The objective of the list is "to ensure safety and check unruly and disruptive behavior on aircraft."
Procedure for including any passenger in the No-fly list
A No-fly list essentially begins with a passenger causing verbal, physical or life-threatening unruliness. When any passenger engages in such behaviour then the pilot-in-commander files a complaint. Following which an internal committee is formed which has to decide whether the allegations raised are true or not, and also specify the duration of the ban, in accordance with para 8.1 of Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR). The committee has to arrive at a decision within 30 days, after filing of the complaint. As per para 6.3 of Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR), during the 30 days period, the passenger may be prohibited from boarding flights operated by the airline that filed the report. If the committee does not make a decision within 30 days, the case against the passenger is automatically dropped, as per para6.4 of Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR).
A passenger on the list is prohibited from flying on any aircraft operated by the airline that placed them on the list for the duration of their ban. Other airlines may choose to deny service to the passenger but are not compelled to do so. A banned passenger has the right to appeal their ban within 60 days of passage of a committee decision. Appeals are reviewed by a panel set up by the Ministry of Civil Aviation. If the panel upholds the decision, the passenger may seek further redress through the High Court.
Structure of Internal Committee
Para 6.1 of the Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) describes that an Internal Committee is constituted by following:
Retired District & Session Judge as Chairman.
A representative from a different scheduled Airline as Member.
Representative from a passengers' association or consumer association or retired officer of Consumer Dispute Redressal Forum as Member.
Para 5 of Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) lays stress on training of members of the crew of the plane to tackle any imminent unruly passenger.
This rule was first applied on October 30, 2017, on Birju Kishore Salla, a jeweller, on a Jet Airways Mumbai-Delhi flight who had left a note in the lavatory, warning that there were hijackers and explosives on board. The flight had to make an emergency landing. For the hoax, the businessman became the first person to be put on the no-fly list and also to be charged under the new Anti-Hijacking Act, 2016. A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court awarded him life imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 5 crores.
No-Fly List has been in news nowadays because popular airline carrier IndiGo on January 28, 2020 late night suspended stand up Comedian Kunal Kamra from flying for heckling Republic TV Channel journalist Arnab Goswami while he was onboard the flight, for six months. Later, for the same reason Air India, SpiceJet and Go Air also suspended him till the further notice. Airlines' decisions were censured by many, all over India.
Later, theDirectorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in a statement on Wednesday (January 29, 2020) clarified that the action taken by the airlines is in complete consonance with Civil Aviation Requirements (CAR) Section-3, Series M Part VI on handling of unruly passengers.
"Now the matter is to be referred to the internal committee as prescribed in para 6.1 of the said CAR (Civil Aviation Requirements)," the DGCA added.
Now the question that arises, since the matter is still pending before the Internal committee, is that, how can IndiGo impose a ban for six months on Kamra when as per Para 6.3 of Civil Aviation Requirements (CAR) maximum permissible ban of only 30 days is allowed until the Internal Committee submits its report, after which a final maximum ban of 3 months is allowed. Also, as per Para 6.3 of Civil Aviation Requirements (CAR) only IndiGo can impose a ban, not other airlines which have not been directly aggrieved by the mischievous behavior, when the matter is pending before the committee. Only after the committee arrives at the verdict are the other airlines allowed to follow suit in banning the guilty from flying. Even after the passage of a decision, a flying ban by other airlines is absolutely optional and not mandatory.
Author – Satwik Sharma
Attorney General Grants Consent to Initiate Criminal Contempt Against Comedian Kunal Kamra, says 'It is Time People Understand That Attacking Supreme Court Unjustifiably Will Attract Punishment
Legal Insiders Nov 17, 2020 Pavitra Shetty ( Editor: Ekta Joshi ) 4 Shares
Attorney General KK Venugopal granted consent for initiation of contempt proceedings against stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra for his tweets criticizing the Supreme Court. KK Venugopal in his letter to one of the applicants who had sought the consent of the top law officer for initiation of contempt proceedings against Kunal Kamra said, "I am in receipt of your request for consent to initiate proceedings by way of criminal contempt against Kunal Kamra. I have gone through each one of the...
'Don't Intend to Retract My Tweets or Apologize', Kunal Kamra Responds to AG's Consent for Initiating Contempt Proceedings Against Him
Crime, Police And Law Nov 17, 2020 Twinkle Agarwal ( Editor: Ekta Joshi ) 7 Shares
Kunal Kamra, a stand-up comedian twitted on social media about the Supreme Court, its judges, and the attorney general. He addressed Supreme Court as "The Supreme joke of the country" because of its granting interim bail to Arnab Goswami. He also posted a picture wherein it was shown that the Supreme Court is dressed in saffron colour with a flag of BJP which indicated that the court is not independent but is the court of some ruling party.Because of these tweets, a number of letter...
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Delhi High Court Questioned DGCA For Ban Imposed...
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Demografia
A população registada nos censos foi:

Cronologia
 1520, 29 de março - Celorico de Basto recebe foral, dado pelo rei D. Manuel, localizando-se a sede do concelho em Arnóia, no lugar do Castelo
 1719, 21 de abril - mudança da sede do concelho para Britelo, no lugar do Freixieiro, ficando esta conhecida como Vila Nova do Freixieiro, hoje Celorico de Basto

Património
 Castelo de Arnoia ou Castelo dos Mouros ou Castelo de Moreira
 Pelourinho de Castelo (Lugar do Castelo)
 Convento de Arnoia, incluindo no seu conjunto a Igreja, o cruzeiro, a fonte-oratório, os moinhos, a casa da tulha e anexos agrícolas

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DII has set out the current evidence and lay the foundations for empowering families to nurture healthy eating habits among the children of the world. Discover now the DII document.
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DENVER, Colo., Feb. 25 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Can't get everyone together at the same time? Trying to juggle schedules to organize a family reunion? Help is on the way. Vacation Never Ends, LLC announces the launch of a new web site that brings together family and friends for easy trip and event planning.
Founded by Shawna Barnhart and Jay Wopschall, Travel Group Planner(TM) (www.TravelGroupPlanner.com), was born out of necessity. They created a tool to help them plan their own group trips. Shawna and Jay frequently travel with friends and family and discovered a need for a tool to make their trip-planning efforts more efficient.
Planning a trip with the use of Travel Group Planner is as easy as 1-2-3. Communication happens through one site and groups of any size can benefit.
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survivor runs strong not good cosmetically but starts right up- shifts good 6 speed ready to ride great bike this bike has no title it is a trial bike off road P.S. this bike is a TWO STROKE must have pre mix gas 20-1 ratio the bike has small dent on side of gas tank good first bike!!


This kite was purchased by Hans-Peter Böhme in 1996 at Sotheby`s Cody auction. The form of the wings was previously unknown to me. This is a good piece of kite even though nearly 90 years old.
The spars are made entirely from bamboo. The sails were mostly in good condition considering the age, and were very tight. The design of the spar pockets is very specific.
This is not intended to be a plan from which to build a kite, but rather a design description.
Important: All measurements on the diagrams are excluding seams and describe the situation after sewing all parts together. You have to add 2 cm to the upper and lower edges of the side and central panels, which are drawn separately. If you want to build the kite, it would be best to perform a sanity-check on all measurements. The following drawings describe the completed kite.
The white vertical parts on the wings are the places for the spar pockets. The bamboo spars in the main wings are slightly curved by air pressure (BÄNDER FÜR ABSPANNUNG = loops for supporting lines of the wing).
This is the left front side panel, referenced to fig. 5. The other side panels are mirror images. The reinforcing piece 7.5 × 14.0 behind the hole for the diagonal spars is located on the inside of the sail.
The measurements include the hem; this panel is sewn along the 0.5 cm seam to the upper and lower panels.
The diagonal front spars are 260 cm long, the diagonal back spars are 200 cm long. The longerons are 190 cm long.
The supporting lines for the wings are drawn as dashed lines. Each line goes from the tips of the outer sail spars to the lower wing tip on that side.
The diagonal spars are fixed on the lower end with tape loops on the wing tips, on the top end the spars were fixed with hemp cord.
Unlike other Cody kites, the side panels are not parallel.
The semi-circular marks are the places for the longeron pockets. The pockets for the sail spars are sewn to the outside of the wings; the sleeve pockets for the longerons are sewn between upper- and side-panel. All sleeve pockets are made from 4 cm cotton tape.
The sail consist of very fine cotton and is very stiff (age ? impregnation ?). The edge binding tapes are also made from very tight cotton. The spars are bamboo and the rigging lines are made of hemp (2 mm).
All parts of the sails are hemmed before sewing together. You therefore have to sew hem to hem and not sail to sail. On each side of the edge bindings you have to add 10cm to get additional loops for the spars.
Fig. 11. Lower wing tip with pocket. The pocket here is drawn before sewing for clarity.
A = Wing: trapezium with base line 58 cm, 22 cm height and an upper side of 9 cm.
G = reinforcing trapezium with base line 16 cm, height 4 cm and upperside 9cm.
Base line of (A)is sewn to (C).
The upperside and 2 cm along both sides to the base line is sewn to (F).
Spreader pocket and pocket loops are one unit. Before you have sew the reinforcement trapezium (G) in the center of baseline.
The tape (D) is aligned and sewn together with (B) in a wedge shape so that the pocket is 14cm wide at the start, narrowing to 9cm after the fold. The binding tapes overlap each other by 1cm. The two halves are sewn together in the centre for 5cm after the fold, the remaining 11cm stays open to make the loop.
It is best to draw the sewing lines for the spar pockets on the wing. They are sewn along the 9cm line of the wing. On the bottom side, the spar pocket is compressed as it is 16cm wide instead of 9cm. This causes a sort of funnel at the opening of the spar pocket.
Lastly, the edging tape is sewn on. It is important that it overlaps 10-12cm at the beginning and the end. Then, after the other parts of the sail have been sewn together a loop can be sewn around the longeron, which will reduce the strain on the sail.
IMPORTANT: Edging tape must also be sewn round the loop, and the remaining loop pieces folded (not shown in the drawing) so that the pressure from the spars is spread evenly over the sail area.
A = Wing. Trapezium with base line 58cm, 22cm high and top edge parallel to the base, 9cm wide.
B = Pocket sleeve tape rectangle 6.6 × 17cm.
C = Edge binding tape 4cm sewn to 2cm: length 60cm.
D = Binding tape 5cm wide, about 80cm in length.
F = Edge binding tape 3cm wide, sewn to 1.5cm, 15cm long.
G = Reinforcing rectangle 24 x 12.5cm.
The hole for the spars is an ellipse measuring 6 × 8.5cm.
Fig. 15. Half of the front upper sail (the other half is a mirror image).
D = Pockets for sail spars: edge binding tape 4cm wide and 96cm long.
The pockets for the sail spars are closed at the tip by the edge binding tape which runs round them, and they are sewn on the top side of the wing.
The sewn edges of the pockets change in width. From the right the width of the hole is 9cm, over the fold 10cm, over the first spar pocket 7cm, over the second spar pocket 6.5cm and the loop 9cm again. Because of this the spar lies closer to the sail spars.
Here I was at a bit of a loss. The principle is simple: all the spars consist of two pieces notched to about 5cm in depth at their ends, bound together with hemp string and placed in loops. Tension is created in the panels by adjusting the different sized struts against each other. The front and rear panels are 62cm apart.
It is noticeable that the whole of the underside of the kite (sail and struts) is much more rigid than the upper side.
You need eight sail spars, six for the front wing and two in the centre of the back wing. All sail spars are cut from bamboo, 2cm wide and 0.5 cm high. On one side, all the spars are given a 5mm semicircular notch where the line is fixed. The line (2mm hemp) is sewn through the pocket ends using a thick needle. All the pockets for the spars are sewn up on the outer edge as you look from the middle of the kite. The pockets themselves are made from a 4cm-wide cotton band and are always on the outer edge of the wing (see Fig.10).
All that follows now is pure speculation. The diagonal spars were not included (maybe lost fifty years ago). The diagonal front spars have to be at least 260 cm long, better 10 cm more. The diagonal back spars have to be at least 2000 cm long and here again better 10 cm more. A circumference of 2cm for the bamboo spars seemed quite enough for the tension. Each end (as for the longerons) is notched and bound. The spars are hung underneath in loops and on the top stretched with a line. Whether or not the two spars were bound together in the middle, I can only guess.
The outer sail spar of the main wing (see Fig. 5: points A und B) is tied on both sides to the tip of the lower small wing (see Fig. 6: point C) with two 120cm long anchor lines. The anchor lines consist of 2mm strong hemp line. At points A and B on the wing, 6cm long bands are sewn as loops. At point C the anchor lines are passed through the spar pocket with a thick needle. See Fig. 10.
Between the front and rear panels these are stretched along the struts. Beside this are 10cm long bands, some sewn on, some made up from overlapping edge bindings. The gap between the front and rear panels is 62cm overall.
The bridle line is again made from 2mm hemp line. The disposition of the bridle lines is unusual even for a Cody kite; one bridle line joins both front end points of the lower longeron and another joins the front points of the rear panel to the same spot. At least the bridle points are the same as in the well-known Cody War Kite (see also Fig. 6). Cody then knotted the two lines together with a simple loop so that all the bridle legs ran together to one point.
The front bridle legs are each 84cm long, the rear legs must have been between 137.5cm and 142cm. It is no longer possible to say exactly; both rear legs are torn, and through stretching are both of different lengths. As in all Cody models which closely resemble the original, the bridle legs are unusually short for the size of the kite.


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Beyond the Racist Chant: The Facts About Black Inequality
by Oklahoma Watch March 10, 2015 October 28, 2019
Predominantly black northeast Oklahoma City is plagued by abandoned and vacant homes such as this one. Credit: Shawntal Brown / Oklahoma Watch
Recent controversy over a racist chant at a University of Oklahoma fraternity focused attention on the state's race relations. But the numbers beneath the headlines perhaps cast a longer shadow.
Video: OU Campus Reaction
By almost every metric, blacks struggle in most of the quality-of-life factors in the state. Oklahoma is first in the nation, per capita, for blacks to die at the hands of police officers among states reporting. Blacks are about half as likely to own a home, are more likely to go to prison, less likely to go to college and less likely to graduate.
This chart shows Oklahoma's racial demographics, and can serve as a point of comparison for the following charts.
Blacks in Oklahoma are more likely to be the victims of a crime or charged with a crime when compared with other racial groups in Oklahoma.
This has created a stressful dynamic where some in the black community want to see better policing to keep their neighborhoods safe, but they also feel unfairly targeted by police, which breeds mistrust.
Family breakdown, socioeconomic challenges within urban schools and higher rates of school punishment are intertwined with higher juvenile arrest rates of black students for violation of zero-tolerance policies. This helps create the so-called "school-to-prison pipeline" by pushing students out of school.
In this chart: the racial breakdown of those who are incarcerated, on parole or on probation.
This chart shows the racial breakdown of juveniles arrested in 2013.
Even as some states shift to lighter punishments or legalization for marijuana possession, black Oklahomans are disproportionately charged with possessing the drug. From 2013:
This chart shows the racial, ethnic and religious breakdown of hate crime victims in 2013.
This chart shows the racial breakdown of Oklahoma homicide victims in 2013, and those charged with committing homicide.
Poverty plays a large role in lower quality-of-life measurements for blacks and other minorities in Oklahoma.
This is reflected in lower homeownership rates and higher poverty rates and unemployment rates.
This can lead to the degradation of certain neighborhoods, which then require huge investments for recovery even as a city is concentrating many resources elsewhere. Northeast Oklahoma City, which has a large black population, continues to suffer from blight and deterioration, and some residents express resentment of the investments made downtown. City leaders have taken recent steps to try to revitalize parts of the area.
This chart shows Oklahoma's unemployment rates by race in 2013.
The percentage of Oklahoma homeowners within each race:
The percentages of Oklahoma families in poverty by race.
Minorities are underrepresented in Oklahoma's flagship universities: the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University.
Both schools also draw in a relatively small number of students from the state's largest school districts, which have the most minority students: Oklahoma City and Tulsa public schools.
Both universities also struggle to retain and graduate minority students compared with white students.
OU's and OSU's struggles are not unique. Universities across the nation struggle with retention and graduation rates for minority students. Some experts say the problem reflects the underachievement of minority and low-income students in grade school — the achievement gap.
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The fall enrollment by race at the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University:
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The Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) has become the best evaluative measure of motor function designed for quantifying change in the gross motor abilities of children with cerebral palsy. The new version of the scoring programme has now been released, and includes two abbreviated methods of estimating GMFM-66 scores using the GMFM-66-Item sets and the GMFM-66-Basal & Ceiling.
The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the publisher.
Dianne J Russell, Peter L Rosenbaum, Marilyn Wright, Lisa M Avery, Niina Kolehmainen, Mary Lane, Doreen Bartlett and Laura Brunton have asserted their rights under the Canadian Copyright Act to be identified as the authors of this work.
8. APPLICATIONS OF THE GMFM: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED AND WHERE CAN WE GO NEXT?
As we noted in the Preface to the First Edition of the Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM-66 & GMFM-88) User's Manual (Russell et al. 2002), the work we reported owed a considerable debt of gratitude to many people (named in the acknowledgements to that First Edition). This is equally true as we complete this Second Edition. We particularly want to recognize the many insightful colleagues, supportive friends, thoughtful critics, and users from all over the world who have communicated with us about the GMFM. It has been their (your!) observations and questions to us over the past decade that have kept us honest in considering how to improve the measure and to make it as accessible as possible for clinical and research colleagues everywhere.
This updated version of the User's Manual describes both our own further development and applications of the measure and the work of colleagues who have kindly shared their experiences with us and with you. Thus, for example, there are reports here about two shorter approaches to administering and scoring the GMFM-66, the Item Set approach by Russell et al. (2010), and the Basal & Ceiling approach of Brunton and Bartlett (2011). A paper in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology by Avery et al. (2013) contrasted the 'performance' of these shorter versions against the full GMFM-66 using a common data set, and the findings are reported in detail in Chapter 5 of this book, with the kind permission of Mac Keith Press.
We try wherever possible to share our ideas, experience and opinions when asked, and hope that people can benefit from both our experience and from the lessons we have learned during this long and fascinating journey. Any changes to the measure need to be considered carefully and should always undergo rigorous reliability and validity studies to determine whether the measurement properties remain intact. We have briefly updated what we have learned about the use of the GMFM-88 and GMFM-66 from the literature; however, we encourage readers to do their own critical evaluation of the research as evidence is continually emerging.
One major change that we trust will represent a significant improvement is the creation of the Gross Motor Ability Estimator-2 (GMAE-2) data management and scoring program. The original GMAE was developed to provide GMFM users with an easy method to enter and score assessment data from either the 88- or 66-item version of the measure. It worked well in the early years after the manual was published. However, as computer software became more sophisticated many of the newer systems could no longer read the old GMAE. Efforts to keep up with technology by developing patches proved challenging and eventually we recognized that this was a losing proposition.
The solution we have arrived at, that we hope will work in the long term, was to redevelop the program as GMAE-2. Doing things this way will allow us to make adjustments to the program relatively easily, and hopefully to keep up with developments in computing software so that people using the program will not experience the frustrations we know have happened for reasons beyond our control. The new GMAE-2 will allow users to (1) download score sheets for the GMFM-88, GMFM-66, GMFM-66-IS (Item Sets) and GMFM-66-B&C (Basal & Ceiling); (2) enter and calculate scores for the GMFM-88 and the GMFM-66 using several formats including GMFM-66-IS and GMFM-66-B&C items; (3) import data from the original GMAE program; and (4) plot a child's GMFM-66 assessment on the centile curves appropriate for the child's GMFCS-E & R levels. It is important to have the manual in addition to the software to ensure that users are knowledgeable about which version of the GMFM to use and how to administer, score and interpret the measure.
This second edition has been a long time in development. We hope that it will provide interesting information for all readers, and be a useful improvement for long-time users. For people new to the GMFM, we trust that the ideas in this book will be accessible and applicable to your work. As always, the authors are interested in hearing from those who have ideas for us, or questions or concerns.
The GMAE-2 can be downloaded from the CanChild website (http://motorgrowth.canchild.ca/en/GMFM/gmae.asp. The score sheets for the GMFM-88, GMFM-66, GMFM-66-IS (item sets) and the GMFM-66-B&C (Basal & Ceiling) can be downloaded from http://motorgrowth.canchild.ca/en/GMFM/gmfmscoresheets.asp.
After a great deal of work by many people, a paper describing the validation of the Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) was published in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology in June 1989. The first edition of the GMFM manual was published by the authors in 1990 and subsequently revised in 1993 to include improved administration and scoring guidelines along with updated information on research done with the GMFM. At the time of the second edition of the manual we identified that future work would be aimed at applying a relatively new methodology for constructing measures, called Rasch analysis, to determine its usefulness for the GMFM. Rasch analysis promised many advantages that would improve the scaling and interpretation of the GMFM provided the assumptions of the Rasch model could be met.
This new manual reflects the work done to improve the original 88-item GMFM which for purposes of clarity we will refer to in this manual as the GMFM-88. This has been accomplished by (1) reducing the number of items to 66; (2) converting the ordinal scale to a scale with interval properties; (3) determining the hierarchical structure of the items, making it possible to create an item map which illustrates how difficult each item is for children with cerebral palsy relative to the other items; and (4) developing a computer program to score the GMFM-66.
Many decisions needed to be made when applying the Rasch methodology to the GMFM. There were sometimes trade-offs between clinical feasibility and rigorous methodology. With the GMFM being used widely as an outcome measure for many intervention trials, we felt that the over-riding decision was always to make the GMFM the most rigorous measure possible for research purposes. This led us to decide against a table of scores in the manual but rather to apply a more precise scoring system using a computer program. We recognized that this might limit the clinical applicability of the GMFM-66 for some people, but would ultimately provide more accurate information about changes in gross motor function in children with cerebral palsy. In the light of these decisions, we have tried to maintain or increase the clinical usefulness as much as possible but have left the original 88-item version for those who prefer it or have difficulty accessing the scoring program.
The first Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) manual was in fact the third (and we hope much improved) version of work that had been ongoing since the late 1980s. The original manual was prepared in 1990 and a second edition of that manual appeared in 1993. In both versions of the manual we acknowledged people whose efforts had contributed to the work. These people included, of course, the authors of the original publication describing the GMFM (Carolyn Gowland, Susan Hardy, Nancy Plews, Heather McGavin, David Cadman and Sheila Jarvis). We wish to thank Kate O'Connor Steel who shared with us her Motor Control Assessment where many of the items for the GMFM originated. In addition, we recognized clinical colleagues and a number of students and support staff who had participated in the creation of the work then available. They number too many to cite individually, but we are very grateful that they supported our early efforts to create a new clinical assessment tool.
A number of McMaster University faculty colleagues provided signal input into the early conception of the GMFM through either conceptual or technical support. They include Drs Charlie Goldsmith, Gordon Guyatt, David Streiner and Christal Woodward, all acknowledged experts in clinical epidemiology and measurement development. Each gave freely of their time and ideas as the GMFM took shape in the mid-1980s. The recent Rasch analysis work would not have been possible without the statistical and methodological expertise of Drs Stephen Walter and Parminder Raina, who spent many meetings poring over Rasch outputs and discussing issues as we worked our way through this relatively new approach to measurement. Dr Bob Palisano provided invaluable advice and feedback on many aspects of this work, as did Dr Steve Hanna.
A project to create and validate a clinical measure requires the efforts of literally dozens of dedicated clinical colleagues who toil in the trenches to collect the raw data that are shaped by the research team. These people—mainly clinical physiotherapists in the Children's Treatment Centres associated with the Ontario Association of Children's Rehabilitation Services (OACRS)—have participated in the Ontario Motor Growth Curve study since 1996. Between them they have done over 3000 GMFMs that provided the basic materials for the work reported here! They participated in the GMFM training program and tolerated repeated reassessments of their reliability with patience and enthusiasm. We are forever in their debt, because this work could clearly not have been done without them. We also recognise that clinical research is an 'add-on' for many OACRS centres, and thank the Executive Directors for their partnership in research ventures like this one.
CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research has been supported since 1989 by the Health System-Linked Research Units program of the Research Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Work such as that reported here would be difficult if not impossible without the continuing support of this program, for which we are most grateful. The research data collection activities of the therapists were made possible through the generous grant support of both the Medical Research Council of Canada (now the Canadian Institutes of Health Research) and the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at NIH (grant R01-HD-34947). Barbara Galuppi coordinated all aspects of this multi-site 5-year study with admirable skill and efficiency, and in this way has made an enormous contribution to all the work of our research group. Of course were it not for the unique contribution of time and effort of hundreds of children with cerebral palsy (CP) and their families, completing questionnaires and permitting videotaping of their activities, this work would have been impossible.
Colleagues from around the world have participated in GMFM training workshops and helped us in our work through a combination of perceptive suggestions, insightful questions, the use of the GMFM in their clinical and research efforts, and generous sharing of their experiences and often their data. At the risk of missing some people, we wish to recognize in particular Kristie Bjornson at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Centre, Seattle and Marjolijn Ketelaar at Utrecht University. Dr Suzann Campbell at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Dr Steve Haley of Boston University were very helpful in the early phases of our project, sharing perspectives from their Rasch analysis experiences with the Test of Infant Motor Performance (TIMP) and the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI), respectively. The work reported here, thus, has a truly international flavour, and we appreciate the support of these friends.
Having created a Gross Motor Ability Estimator (GMAE) computer program to score the GMFM-66, we wished to assess whether the program could be applied and interpreted by clinical therapists outside of a research environment. We are indebted to the many therapists in OACRS programmes who helped to pilot test the several versions of the program as we worked to make it accessible. Drs Doreen Bartlett, Lisa Rivard, Marilyn Wright and Virginia Wright were particularly helpful in offering insightful feedback, which we have used to improve the program.
Thanks to Eric Bosch and Graham Passmore for their programming expertise in turning our GMFM training videotapes into the interactive GMFM CD-ROM teaching tool that is now available for self-training in the use of the GMFM.
We wish finally to acknowledge the encouragement and help we receive every day from our colleagues at CanChild, who have tolerated our apparently endless efforts to complete this work, perhaps to the neglect of other responsibilities! Particular thanks go to Betsy Spencer, Pat Abernathy and Kamal Mangat who have been unofficial members of the Motor Measures Group, and whose behind-the-scenes contributions we know better than most people.
At the end of the day, of course, with all the help and support we have received from people named and unnamed, any shortcomings in this work are the responsibilities of the authors.
For this second edition of the manual we would like to thank Mary Lane, who wrote the original administration and scoring guidelines for the previous edition, for her continued support and sage advice.
Justin Turco-Gwozdowski is a software engineer who, as a recent university graduate, took on the programming of the new GMAE as a volunteer experience. His patience in addressing each programming challenge is much appreciated!
Special thanks to Bob Palisano and Virginia Wright for their thoughtful comments on Chapter 8.
A great many therapists helped Justin and the authors by pilot testing successive versions of the GMAE-2 and provided feedback to help improve it. We are indebted to them for their thoughtful feedback.
Finally, our CanChild colleagues and our families have put up with the time demands that have distracted us from other work and responsibilities! We cannot thank them enough.
The Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) is a clinical assessment tool developed to evaluate motor function, and change in the function over time, in children and youth with cerebral palsy (CP). All contents, materials and scoring programs provided in this text [Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM-66 and GMFM-88) User's Manual 2nd Edition] are provided 'as is' without warranty of any kind. McMaster University and the publisher make no warranties, express or implied, that any of the contents or materials provided in this book are free of error, or are consistent with any particular standard of merchantability, or that they will meet people's requirements for any particular application. The authors and publisher disclaim all liability for direct, incidental or consequential damages resulting from your use of this book.
The Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) is a clinical measure designed and validated to evaluate changes in the gross motor function in children with cerebral palsy (CP).
There are two versions of the GMFM: the original 88-item measure (GMFM-88) and the 66-item measure (GMFM-66). These items are administered in the same way—the difference between the two versions simply concerns which of the items (from the full pool of 88 possible items) are included in GMFM-66.
There are three methods of administering the GMFM to obtain a GMFM-66 score. All three methods require the Gross Motor Ability Estimator (GMAE-2) scoring software to convert the item data into a GMFM-66 score. Administration methods include the following: (1) GMFM-66: administer all 66 items; (2) GMFM-66-Item Sets (GMFM-66-IS): use a scoring algorithm to identify a subset of items to administer; and (3) GMFM-66 Basal & Ceiling (GMFM-66-B&C): use a basal/ceiling approach to identify a subset of items.
Items on the GMFM-88 span aspects of what the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health refers to as gross motor 'activity', ranging from activities such as lying and rolling to walking, running and jumping skills. The GMFM-66 consists of a subset of the 88 items that has been shown to be unidimensional.
Which version of the GMFM should I use?
The GMFM version you should use depends upon the purpose of the assessment and the population. The GMFM-88 could be used when you want a detailed description of a child's current motor abilities, for which more items may be useful. This version might be the best choice for children with CP who are very young (functioning primarily in prone and supine) or are functioning in the Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) Level V. The GMFM-88 must be used if the child tested is wearing shoes or orthoses or using a mobility aid. This is the most suitable version (with appropriate validation) for children who may have motor difficulties resulting from other motor impairments (e.g. Down syndrome and acquired brain injury [ABI]).
The GMFM-66 provides a GMFM score for children with CP by using fewer items. Because it was based specifically and exclusively on patterns of motor development observed in a large population of children with CP, and because the items are weighted according to difficulty (given the interval properties of the GMFM-66), it is a more valid measure to assess changes over time in children with CP. It is not recommended to be used for children other than those with CP, as the item weights are likely to vary by population.
If there is a need for a briefer method to obtain a GMFM-66 score, then either the GMFM-66-IS or the GMFM-66-B&C approach can be used. However, the GMFM-66-IS is preferred over the GMFM-66-B&C for children with unilateral CP when assessing changes. These brief methods are discussed in detail in Chapter 5.
Whatever version one chooses to administer, the same version should be applied consistently over time to a particular child. It is strongly recommended not to alternate between methods, as this may increase the variability in scores and make the detection of 'real' change more difficult.
How is the GMFM administered?
The GMFM requires the child to demonstrate various gross motor skills, as outlined in the GMFM administration and scoring guidelines in Chapter 6.
Prior to administering the GMFM, it is important to know which administration method is being used and to ensure that the appropriate score sheets, administration and scoring guidelines, and equipment are available.
Who is the GMFM appropriate for?
While the measure was designed and validated for children with CP, there is evidence that the GMFM-88 version of the measure is also valid for use with children with Down syndrome and ABI.
Because the GMFM samples motor skills that are typical of normal developmental milestones, it may be useful to assess current motor activities for children other than for those with whom it has been validated; however, because the detailed measurement properties of the GMFM have not been established with other populations than children with CP, Down syndrome or ABI, the reliability and validity of the GMFM-88 should be established prior to using it with other groups of children.
The original GMFM validation sample included children from 5 months to 16 years old. The GMFM would be appropriate for children whose motor skills were at or below those of a 5-year-old child without any motor disability.
How is the GMFM scored?
There is a common 4-point scoring system for each item in the GMFM. Specific descriptors for each item are detailed in the administration and scoring guidelines for the GMFM-66 and GMFM-88 (see Chapter 6). The item scoring is the same for the GMFM-88 and GMFM-66. It is not recommended to report changes in individual item scores as these are not as reliable as total scores.
The GMFM-88 item scores can be summed to calculate raw and percent scores for each of the five GMFM dimensions and a total GMFM-88 score. The five dimensions are A: Lying and Rolling; B: Sitting; C: Crawling and Kneeling; D: Standing; and E: Walking, Running and Jumping. Goal total scores have been used to target goal areas and may be useful when assessing children when the GMFM-66 is not appropriate (e.g. assessing children using aids/orthoses). However, with the development of the GMFM-66, the need for goal areas is no longer necessary for children with CP who are tested barefoot.
The GMFM-66 requires a user-friendly computer program (called the Gross Motor Ability Estimator [GMAE]) to enter individual item scores and convert them to an interval-level total score. The original GMAE program was updated in 2013 with the GMAE-2 scoring software available for downloading from the CanChild website (www.motorgrowth.canchild.ca/en/GMFM/gmae.asp). This URL will also give the user access to all the required score sheets, the GMFCS and the GMFCS Expanded and Revised version.
New features of GMAE-2 allow the user to import data from the original GMAE software, download score sheets, and enter and calculate scores for the GMFM-88, GMFM-66, GMFM-66-IS and GMFM-66-B&C. It is also possible to plot GMFM-66 scores on centile curves by the GMFCS level and export data to csv files.
Administering the GMFM-88 may take 45 to 60 minutes for someone familiar with the measure, depending on the skill of the assessor, the ability level of the child, and the child's level of cooperation and understanding.
The GMFM-66 takes less time to administer, as there are fewer items. The GMFM-66-IS and the GMFM-66-B&C take on an average 20 to 30 minutes to administer.
Where should it be administered?
The GMFM should be administered in an environment that is comfortable for the child and is large enough to hold the necessary equipment and allow the child to move freely (e.g. one item requires the child to run 4.5m [15ft] and return). The floor should be a smooth, firm surface.
Because the GMFM was designed to measure changes over time, it is important to keep the environment and assessment conditions as consistent as possible for each successive assessment of the same child.
What equipment is needed to administer the GMFM?
The equipment required is described in detail Chapter 6. Most of what is needed is standard equipment in a physiotherapy gym (e.g. mat, bench, toys). Access to stairs (with at least five steps) is also necessary.
What qualifications are required to administer and score the GMFM?
The GMFM was designed for use by pediatric therapists who are familiar with assessing motor skills in children.
Users should familiarize themselves with the GMFM guidelines and score sheet before assessing children. It may be helpful to practise on several children with and without motor disabilities prior to using it for clinical assessments.
It is recommended that users assess their reliability with the GMFM prior to using it.


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Julia Gershun of Ukraine is Top Model of the World 2017
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The splendid finale of Top Model of the World 2017 concluded with the crowning of Julia Gershun of Ukraine as the winner. The finale was held on 14th July 2017, and Julia bested 40 other contestants to clinch the coveted title.
20 year old Julia Gershun is a professional model, actress and TV Host. Ballett, Chess, Gymnastics, Tennis Golf are some of her hobbies. Julia speaks fluent English, Russian, Ukranian and French. At the same pageant, Maria Camila Medrano of San Andres was titled as the first runner-up, and Norhely Bracamontes of Mexico was adjudged as the second runner-up.
In order to announcing the winner and the runners-up, Alexia Waluk of Poland was awarded the title of Queen of Europe, and Arbnora Muja of Kosovo was titled as Miss Globe. The following contestants made it to the Top 6 finalists -
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By Mike Cooper
WESTERN KENTUCKY - A local county Judge Executive has declared a war on carp to address an out of control problem.
Lyon County Judge Executive Wade White has started the project in hopes to bring attention to Kentucky and Tennessee waters of the Tennessee River, Cumberland River, Lake Barkley, and Kentucky Lake, specifically pointing out the problem with silver and big head carp.
White told West Kentucky Star that the issue is now to the point that the fishing and tourism industries are in jeopardy. This is due to the fish eating small plankton and they have become so over populated, that other, smaller fish are left with little or no food. The fish can grow to over 100 pounds, and due to their jumping, many times they jump into boats and damage equipment.
He said that it is hurting the bass fishing in the area, and also making it much harder to attract fishing tournaments. He added that local marinas are also feeling the problem.
White said that while the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency have good plans, they are much too small to be able to deal with this problem. As a result, the War on Carp has an approach to go beyond what these state agencies can do.
The approach has two parts. First is to ask Congress for $50 million over the next 5 years, and second, a foundation has been set up that will accept private donations. The foundation is carpharvestfund.com and anyone can give any amount.
The funds will be used to help commercial fishermen to be able to harvest the fish much quicker. White stated that the commercial fisherman have not been shown enough respect and while now they receive approximately 17 cents per pound, they need 25 to 30 cents per pound in order to be able to accomplish getting the fish out in a timely fashion. The funds will also be used to help the commercial fishermen with nets, ice, and transportation of the fish from the bank to the market. He indicated that if a fisherman has 2,000 pounds of fish, it will take 2,000 pounds of ice to properly transport the fish to market.
White also said that a sound barrier will be tested at Barkley Dam later this year, and if it is successful in keeping the carp from entering the locks, five of these barriers will be purchased for other dams with funds from this project.
Congressman James Comer will conduct an official Congressional Field Briefing dealing with the problem on Friday, July 27th at 2:00 pm. The briefing will be held at the Lyon Convention Center, located at 309 Lee S. Jones Park Drive in Eddyville. Judge Executive White encourages everyone to show their support by attending this hearing. Also, support can be shown by writing a letter. To have a support letter entered into the official hearing record, direct it to Congressman Comer with full name and address, explaining the reasons for the support of the project, and send it via e-mail to waroncarp@gmail.com, or via US Mail to Wade White, Lyon County Judge Executive, Post Office Box 598-Eddyville, KY 42038. Judge White says the deadline to submit a letter of support is July 23rd.
Senator Mitch McConnell is also supporting this project. McConnell successfully secured a provision in the Senate Interior Appropriations bill to combat the spread of Asian carp in both Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley. He said that the economic impact to Western Kentucky of the fishing industry is estimated at $1.2 billion, and it is important to protect this because it is of vital interest to the area.
War on Carp has a Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/waroncarp/, and will have a website operational in a few weeks. That website will be www.waroncarp.com. Judge Executive White encourages everyone to help with this project by sending letters of support, attending the Congressional Field Briefing in Eddyville on July 27th, and, if possible, making donations of any size to the foundation, carpharvestfund.com. He stresses that the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers and reservoirs are inundated with Asian carp and the problem must be dealt with now.
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Name: Pedro S.
You can find some people who have recipes for asian carp on youtube. It looks tasty. Why not make lemonade from lemons?
Name: B S.
I have had Asian carp. No one told me what is was but it tasted like crappie. I nearly threw up when I was told what it was, but it is actually good if fixed properly.
Name: Rational G.
They are good to eat. Start feeding them to our prison population.
Name: J A.
I need to sign up for some of that 50 million, i need a four wheel drive, a boat, and at least one or two days a week. I get the vehicle and boat up front the first year and then a decent salary after that with benefits.
Name: charles t.
As A commercial fisherman I can tell you that this war should have been started 20 years ago.
Name: David L.
When you think about how many of these fish commercial fishermen and sportsmen take out of the lakes and aren't making a dent in the population, it makes me think they should be nicknamed water rabbits.
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Jesus told them a parable: "Look at the fig tree and all the trees. When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near. In the same way, when you see these things happening, you know that God's kingdom is near. I assure you that this generation won't pass away until everything has happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will certainly not pass away."
Sometimes it is hard to know just how close we are to something. Tracking a package, a flight, or a phone's location can often tell us where something is, but not always exactly when it will come to us. Unexpected things can happen that interrupt the path, delay the arrival, or change the destination altogether.
Jesus tells his hearers in the gospel according to Luke that trees are kind of like trackers. Just like trees track how soon summer will arrive, so too, Jesus says, things will happen to show that something else is changing too. Particularly, Jesus says that we can track the coming of the Kingdom of God by things we see.
We can't get email notifications, text updates, or follow a dot on a map to tell us how close God's Kingdom is to us today. However, we can believe that God's Kingdom is coming to us and is near. Look out for God. God's Kingdom, a Kingdom of love, may be closer than you think.
God of Grace, thank you that you, by the Spirit, are on the move in the world. Open my eyes that I might see you all around me today. In Jesus' name, amen.


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Interview with Sandra Byrd about London Confidential series
Today I have Sandra Byrd here with an interview! But before we get started, here's information on the latest books in her London Confidential series for teen girls!
London Confidential is a new series for young girls. In the series, British fashion, friendships, and guys collide as an all-American teen girl learns to love life and live out her faith. The series follows Savvy's entertaining attempts to fit in during her first year at a new school in a new country.
Don't Kiss Him Goodbye
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Now established in her quirky British village, Savvy works hard to get an article with her own byline published in the school newspaper. When an attractive and mysterious boy asks her for help with his school work, Savvy is slowly pulled into his circle and soon finds out that the wrong set of friends—boys and girls—can influence her own behavior. Following her own advice to cut ties with a charming bad boy would mean abandoning her dearest wishes, and it just doesn't seem as wrong as it feels. Is it? Read on for surprise twists throughout the book!
Flirting With Disaster
In a shocking turn of events, all writers for the Wexburg Academy Times will cast their votes for next year's editor—and it looks like Savvy's vote will be the tie breaker! She must choose between a nasty-girl-turned-nice, with a sudden interest in letting Savvy get what she wants, and the prickly Hazelle, who promises nothing at all. Savvy then finds herself wrapped up in a new, seemingly innocent but potentially dangerous activity. It's all at risk in this book: her position on the paper, the boy she likes, the ministry she wants to go well. At a critical moment, Savvy must figure out how to rely on God rather than luck and to overcome temptation before it is too late.
Interview with Sandra:
Tell us about your series and novels.
LONDON CONFIDENTIAL is a new Tween/Teen series where British fashion, friendships, and guys collide, and where an all-American girl learns to love life and live out her Christian faith.
The series is called London Confidential and is published by Tyndale House Publishers. Book 1 – Asking for Trouble – and Book 2 – Through Thick and Thin – both released on April 1st. Books 3 and 4, Don't Kiss Him Goodbye and Flirting With Disaster, released on September 1st.
After earning her first rejection at the age of thirteen, bestselling author Sandra Byrd went on to publish more than three dozen books including her widely-acclaimed adult fiction debut, Let Them Eat Cake and its sequels, Bon Appétit and Pièce de Résistance. Her new series, releasing this month, is a tween/teen fiction series, London Confidential.
A former textbook acquisitions editor, Sandra is also an accomplished non-fiction writer and author. Her articles have appeared in numerous publications such as Radiant, Focus on the Family's Clubhouse Magazine, Christian Parenting Today, Today's Christian Woman, Pockets, Decision, and Guideposts. During the past eight years Sandra has mentored hundreds of students through the Christian Writer's Guild.
Please tell us a bit more about the first book in the series, Asking for Trouble.
A nub of doubt rose inside me—the kind that popped up, unwelcome, anytime I tried to rationalize something that wasn't exactly true or right. This time I swallowed it back. I lived in London now. It was time to take matters into my own hands.
When her family moves to London, 15-year-old Savvy Smith has to make her way in a new school and in a new country. She just knows the school newspaper is the right place for her, but she doesn't have the required experience. Can she come up with a way to prove herself and nab the one available position on the newspaper staff at Wexburg Academy?
Along the way, Savvy finds out a lot about herself, her family, and her God and in the process she learns to love life and live out her faith.
Which character in your novel most interested you while you wrote? Why?
Oh, Definitely Savvy. It's her story and I wanted to follow it, and her, and she what kind of trouble she got herself into and how she got out of it. I identified with her, and I think most girls will, too.
Why will readers enjoy your novel?
Because we can all relate to not fitting in and because London Confidential is, I hope, fun to read. I wanted to provide a happy, hopeful read and not a heavily issues-driven series.
If you were the casting director for the film version of your novel, who would play your lead roles?
Hmm. How about Emma Roberts for Savvy, Emma Watson for Penny, possibly America Ferrara for Hazel. The guys are much harder. Blonde and British? Curly brown hair and British? Maybe we'll have to go on a talent hunt!
What subject matter or era have you not yet published about (but would love to)?
I am currently writing a series for adults set in Tudor England, called Ladies in Waiting. I have been a lady waiting to write about this time period, waiting for a long time, so I am pinching myself, if you'll excuse the cliché, that it's finally happening!
Where else can readers find you or your writing online?
My website is www.sandrabyrd.com. I'm also on Facebook and have author pages on Amazon, Shelfari, LibraryThing, GoodReads, and BooksChristian.com.


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I'm getting smart, sophisticated questions from those of you who have been doing these meditation exercises. I suspect by now you can figure out for yourself that I've been vague in my answers to each of you because the real value is that you're asking the deep psychological and spiritual questions you are. You're the ultimate teacher. I'm just the guide that helps you find and then hear your true self.
Let's start this week with the simple question: why do you want to change? When your friends and family already love you, why do you want to become someone else? What if you change into someone the people who love you have more difficulty with? Why isn't that a concern to you? Some of these relationships are extremely valuable to you.
You want to change because you feel like your identity is a potentially beautiful home to live within, but it needs a lot of repairs and renovations. You have trouble relaxing in your space because of two things: 1) You have some changes you have to make to better-suit the work you're currently doing, or 2) You want changes because you don't want someone to drop over mid-renovation and think that's really how you live, even if it's accurate.
If you want to renovate yourself, you're misunderstanding. A suicide is like bulldozing the house, but even anxiousness is like constantly moving around the house making minor adjustments while you watch out the windows to make sure no one sees you naked.
The question is, who are these people showing up to judge you? And why are you worried about a door to door salesman's view almost as much as a good friend's? Doesn't that seem curious? Unless it was your new boss or in-laws, why over-worry about what a stranger first thought of you?
Today's meditation needs you to really slow down and give this some deeper thought. Choose three people you've met/know. Make one someone who doesn't really know you well, another who knows you maybe only through work or school, and then there's the really close people who already approve of you. What is the actual difference in how you feel about each of these groups? Could it be tolerance?
Ask yourself this: who is this new person that you need them to like you? Don't stop the meditation until you have an answer that's deeper than because it's nice to be liked. This is about you, not people in general. Then ask who the "co-worker" is and answer the same question; who is that person to you? And finally, who are your loved ones? What is it that separates them from the other two groups, even though you might spend a lot of time with them too?
This isn't a distraction from your day. This is us studying what your day even is. If you're not going to do this, then pretty much everything else you're going to do is just going to lead you back to a lesson like this. You only have one thing to do in life, and it isn't to become perfect. It's to accept yourself, and right now that probably seems more unattainable than perfection!
Do the exercises. Find your three people. If after some meditation your answers seem unfocused or uncertain that's fine. The answers aren't where the value is, it's in sincerity of the questioning. These aren't check-boxes. This answer isn't for me, it's for you. These are sacred answers. None of them on their own are useful. But collectively, as many of you are starting to sense, they somehow add up in a strange and mysterious way. The good news is, that strange way is really the path back to your true self.
These are getting deeper and more important. Collectively they're even bigger than the sum of their parts. These are tiny amounts of your life. But they're definitely worth it. And you're definitely worth it. Have a great day.
You're right, you're flawed. You don't have a bunch of the downsides you think you do, but you do have some. Or, if you're like some of us, you either can't comprehend a lot of social choices; or you do but they feel inauthentic, which makes us appear even more flawed. I say appear because when we say we're flawed; according to who?
Whether it happens in your mind or someone else's, ephemeral opinions and beliefs about you should not be seen as being the same thing as the real you. Those are spectres in your mind. They are created in your theatre of thoughts and only you see your stories. Other people see theirs. So even if you're happy with the way you live, you can be sure others won't be.
Just like every religious person has a different idea of their religion, and just as a soldier, a politician and a bureaucrat will have somewhat different ideas about what it means to represent their nation, every person you meet and lots you'll never meet will each have their own opinion of you and it will have far more to do with them than you.
That's what society is: a big criss-cross intersection of all of our cooperative and conflicting ideas and beliefs. That is the landscape you navigate every day as an ego. That is the mess that things like traffic laws and communications protocols and democracy all try to loosely corral.
It isn't possible for you to manage all of those varying personalities in their varying moods going through various things in their life. They'll hide how they really feel, they'll lie, they'll unintentionally mislead you or you'll just plain misunderstand them; but the more you try to understand it all the more complex it will all become. Thoughts beget thoughts.
You don't have to get everyone to understand you and you don't have to understand the universe you just have to understand yourself, and how you–like everyone–has thoughts about things but those thoughts are not those actual things. You can call rain bad but without it you'd die, so clearly it's not actually all bad, but you can paint it that way for yourself inside your own head; just like people can paint you and just like you routinely paint them.
Free yourself from caring about something meaningless. If they're your boss and their opinion has some impact on you that you can't control, then you can't control that anyway so you're better to not care about the opinion and be your usual self.
It's like the friend of mine who rhetorically argued with every caller on a call-in radio show he had playing in his car. He said I should be upset too but I told him it didn't look either enjoyable or productive. I asked him if he agreed that on every issue as big as the one being discussed, if most people would have their own opinion. He agreed. He also agreed that every opinion from crazy to crazy would be included. So I asked him, if he knew that, why he was surprised to hear them call in? Why was he angry? Why wasn't he just going; oh it's that guy.


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