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Objective: The authors developed and tested the feasibility and utility of a new direct-observation instrument to assess trainee performance of a medication management session.
Methods: The Psychopharmacotherapy-Structured Clinical Observation (P-SCO) instrument was developed based on multiple sources of expertise and then implemented in 4 university-based outpatient medication management clinics with 7 faculty supervising 17 third-year residents. After each observation by a faculty member of a medication management session, residents received feedback in writing (the completed P-SCO) and verbally in person. Targets were 8 P-SCO observations per academic year per resident (or 0.67 per month) and 16 observations per year completed by each faculty (or 1.3 per month). Qualitative thematic analysis was employed to compare the frequency, specificity, type (reinforcing vs. corrective), and content of comments documented on the P-SCO forms to mid-point and end of rotation global assessments by the same faculty for the same residents in the same rotation.
Results: Faculty completed 2.4 (SD=1.2) P-SCOs per month during the study period. Each resident received 1.1 (SD=0.53) P-SCO observations per month. Faculty and residents completed significantly more observations than targeted (p=0.03 and p=0.003, respectively). Two percent of the P-SCOs had no written comments. Less than 3% of the P-SCO comments were non-specific compared with 43% for the global assessments. Residents received, on average, 3.3 times more total, 2.6 times more reinforcing, and 5.3 times more corrective patient care specific comments on the P-SCO than on the global assessment (p<0.001). For the numerical ratings, residents received an average of 4.2 "exceeds expectations" and 1.7 "below expectations" ratings on P-SCOs compared with 2.6 and 0, respectively, on global assessments (p<0.02).
Conclusion: Faculty can feasibly use the P-SCO instrument in a training clinic. Compared with traditional global assessment, the P-SCO provided much more specific feedback information, a better balance of corrective to re-enforcing comments, and a greater spread of ratings related to competency in pharmacotherapy.
Pharmacotherapy is a central, if not primary, competency for the psychiatrist. National trends suggest that office-based psychiatrists are providing less psychotherapy and more medication management (1). Suboptimal performance in pharmacotherapy can result in decreased clinical response and even substantial harm to patients (2). To our knowledge, no tool that assesses performance in psychopharmacotherapy has been formally developed and validated.
Direct observation has the advantage of assessing performance in vivo (i.e., what trainees do in their professional practice as opposed to controlled-representations of professional practice). As such, it has emerged as a primary method for assessing clinical competency. Direct observation tools possess the common properties of structured observation, specific and timely feedback based on observation, and documentation of the learners' performance immediately after observation (3). Many incorporate checklists while others employ global rating scales. Checklists offer better reliability than traditional, summative global assessment tools and can assess a broad range of clinical competencies (4—7). Similarly, assessment based on direct observation produces a more valid measure of clinic competence than assessment based solely on the case presentation (8).
We developed a novel direct observation instrument to assess trainee performance of a medication management session and to enhance feedback. Goals for the instrument included evidence of content validity, feasibility to implement and sustain in a training clinic, acceptability to users, and utility to trainees and educators (9). In this article, we describe the development and initial implementation of the tool, named the Psychopharmacotherapy-Structured Clinical Observation (P-SCO) tool, and report data on its feasibility and utility.
Checklists are useful to assess any competency that can be broken down into specific behaviors or actions; they can also improve the detection of errors (10, 11). We developed a checklist for pharmacotherapy by defining the essential tasks of the typical medication management appointment. We developed an initial list of tasks by consulting various expert sources, including two standard psychopharmacology textbooks (12, 13), pharmacotherapy-related core competencies identified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (14) and the ACGME's Psychiatry Residency Review Committee (15), and medication management protocols from two major research studies (16—18). Finally, we identified and solicited the opinions of local experts in pharmacotherapy. Feedback was incorporated, and some items were modified, added, or deleted.
Several design features were added to enhance the formative feedback generated by the P-SCO and to capture aspects of clinical care not covered by the checklist. We initially adopted a done/not done checklist scale, but the scale was expanded to a 5-option scale after feedback during the faculty training event indicated the need to assess the quality of what was done and to differentiate between "not done" (when it should have been) and "not applicable" (when it was not necessary). In addition, a section was designated to document reinforcing and corrective feedback. The implementation required that faculty provide the trainee with feedback both in writing (the completed P-SCO itself) and verbally in person immediately following the observation.
We designed the instrument to be used for either formative or summative feedback (i.e., to promote trainee skill acquisition via effective feedback and/or to determine and document competency in pharmacotherapy). In addition, the instrument was created for either "brief" observation, during which only a portion of the patient encounter is observed, or "long" observation, in which the entire patient encounter is observed. See Figure 1 for the P-SCO.
The pilot testing of the P-SCO occurred in four outpatient medication management clinics of a university-based hospital with trainees who were third-year residents. Trainees each spend 12 months in one of the clinics. Each clinic lasts 3.5 hours and includes a 30-minute case conference at the beginning and end, surrounding five 30-minute appointment slots. The four clinics serve a total of 500 patients with a broad range of diagnoses and source of payment. Prior to this intervention, resident performance was assessed at the mid-point and end-of-rotation by conventional, online global assessments. Similar to the P-SCO, these assessments have a section for reinforcing and corrective feedback.
Faculty development consisted of a 30-minute session during which faculty used the P-SCO to assess a video-recorded resident-patient encounter followed by a discussion facilitated by the first author. All seven attendings in the four medication management clinics agreed to participate. Five faculty members received the full training while two received an abbreviated version that did not include simulation with the video-recorded encounter.
During the weekly preclinic case conference, faculty decided which trainees would be observed. After the observation, faculty were instructed to complete the P-SCO form, recording at least one specific reinforcing and one specific corrective comment; provide the feedback verbally to the resident as soon after the visit as possible; and return the completed P-SCO to the clinic director who made a copy for administration purposes and then gave the original form to the trainee.
Because clinical performance is specific to the clinical content of the case, trainee performance with a particular patient is not highly correlated with another and, therefore, inadequate sampling compromises accuracy (19, 20). Thus, the reliability and validity of direct observation assessments improves as the number of observations increase, with most studies suggesting that four to seven observations are necessary to obtain sufficient reliability for formative purposes and eight to 14 for high-stakes determinations (21—23). We set a target for each resident to be observed eight times over the course of the academic year. This required each resident to receive 0.67 P-SCO observations per month and each faculty to perform 1.3 observations per month. This was thought to be frequent enough to provide sufficient reliability, potent enough to affect learning, and doable. These rates became the benchmark for the feasibility of the intervention.
The study had three principal outcomes: the development of the P-SCO instrument itself, its feasibility, and its utility. We defined feasibility as the capacity to implement the P-SCO as intended. In particular, we measured the extent to which the completion rate of the P-SCOs met or exceeded the target of 1.3 per faculty per month and 0.67 per resident per month. We also measured the degree of completion of each form. We defined utility as providing useful feedback on pharmacotherapy competence to the resident. In particular, we compared the qualitative comments produced by the P-SCO and the conventional global assessment, including the number per completed form per resident, the specificity of the comments, and the proportion of comments that were reinforcing or corrective. We also compared both instruments in terms of the spread of ratings generated by each instrument.
A log recorded the date and resident-faculty dyad for each P-SCO performed. A copy of the written feedback given to the resident was retained. Copies of the conventional midpoint and end of rotation global assessments completed by the same faculty on the same trainees were obtained. Each completed form was de-identified. At least two of the authors (of JQY, SL, LT) independently analyzed each completed P-SCO and global assessment by employing a qualitative theme analysis method. The unit of analysis for coding was a discrete comment. We classified each comment as reinforcing, corrective, or unknown/other (24). In addition, we coded the content of each comment. Comments were designated specific or nonspecific (general) depending on whether they were linked to a specific behavior or attribute of the trainee. For comments deemed specific, the items of the P-SCO were used as the initial coding scheme to further characterize the content. When none of the P-SCO items described the content, the raters created a new category. Comments deemed specific were further coded as to whether or not the focus was related to patient care competencies. Results were then compared and differences resolved through discussion. The dataset was reanalyzed using the final coding scheme. The data from the coded assessments were transferred to a spreadsheet. In addition, the numerical grades from each P-SCO and global assessment were entered into a spreadsheet. Institutional review board approval was obtained.
For each faculty and resident, we divided the total number of P-SCOs completed by the number of months participating in the intervention in order to calculate the observation frequency. Data for this calculation came from the observation log. A t test for single samples was performed using the target as the hypothesized mean. In addition, the percentage of faculty and residents meeting or exceeding the target was calculated. Finally, the number of P-SCOs without written comments and the number of checklist items not marked were tabulated as was the frequency that options other than "meet expectations" were chosen.
Data from the qualitative thematic analysis were extracted in order to compare quantity, specificity, and content of the comments generated by the P-SCO and the conventional global assessment, respectively. In addition, the spread of the final ratings were compared. Both scales were anchored around "meets expectations" with one option for exceptional performance—"done extraordinarily well" on the P-SCO and "always exceeds expectations" on the global assessment. The P-SCO had two options for performance that was below "meets expectations"—"not done" and "improvement suggested"—while the global assessment had only one option entitled "below expectations." For purposes of this analysis, the mean number of "done extraordinarily well" versus "exceeds expectations" were compared as was the mean number "not done" or "improvement suggested" versus "below expectations." Because we are most interested in the impact that the P-SCO has on the educational experience of the resident, the unit of analysis was the individual resident. Two-tailed t tests for dependent samples were performed using SPSS (Version 16.0, 2008).
The iterative methods described above produced the P-SCO. See Figure 1 for the 27-item checklist, the rating scale, and the prompt for both reinforcing and corrective written comments.
Faculty completed 91 observations with the P-SCO. Completion rates for faculty and residents were 2.6/month and 1.1/month, respectively. All faculty and residents met or exceeded the targets established for feasibility, and the difference between the actual and target rates were statistically significant (Table 1). These rates translate into 13 completed P-SCOs per resident per academic year. Only two of the completed forms (2.2%) had no written feedback. Of the 27 items on the checklist, an average of 1.9 items (7.0%) per P-SCO were not rated. This includes five forms completed in the context of observing only a part of an interview, resulting in a large number of items not being marked. Finally, raters did use all rating categories on the P-SCO. Each completed P-SCO averaged 1.1 (SD=1.5) "done with suggestions for improvement," 0.8 (SD=1.0) "not done," and 3.1 (SD=1.5) "NA."
Faculty performed 91 observations with the P-SCO and completed 60 global assessments, resulting in a total of 513 comments (5.3 per resident per assessment) and 247 comments (4.0 per resident per assessment), respectively. The ratio of reinforcing to corrective comments was approximately 3:2 for the P-SCO and 4:1 for the global assessments. Three percent of the P-SCO comments were general compared to 43% for the global assessments. Typical general comments were "great job," "good performance," or "truly exceptional." Ninety-five percent of the comments (5.0 per resident per assessment) were specific using the P-SCO compared with 55% (2.2 per resident per assessment) uaing the global assessment. About 30% of the specific comments on the global assessment related to nonpatient care competencies such as contributing to the learning of others in case conference or evidence-based medicine skills. Therefore, 95% of the comments (5.0 per resident per assessment) were patient care specific with the P-SCO while only 40% (1.5 per resident per assessment) were with the global assessment. For patient care-specific comments, the P-SCO delivered over 3.3 times more total, 2.6 times more reinforcing, and 5.3 times more corrective comments compared with the global assessment. The t tests comparing the performance of the two instruments in the above dimensions were all statistically significant and favored the P-SCO (Table 2).
Significant differences also existed in the final ratings that each tool generated. Each P-SCO averaged 4.2 "exceeds expectations" and 1.7 "below expectations" compared with 2.6 and 0 for each global assessment, respectively (p=0.011 and p<0.0001, respectively).
Table 3 presents several comments transcribed from completed P-SCOs which illustrate their specificity and substantiveness.
The qualitative analysis of the comments revealed a number of weaknesses in the checklist itself. Several items were too vague or not defined in behavioral terms (e.g., item 4 "maintains frame"). Some items overlapped and could be combined. For example, item 17 ("updates treatment plan…") and item 18 ("modifies treatment plan for less than expected responders") were used interchangeably. Item 19 ("plan for adherence") and item 20 ("plan for adverse effects") could be combined with item 17 as well. Other items were too restrictive, such as limiting ventilation to feelings related to the illness. Several important tasks were found to be missing, most notably engaging the patient in treatment planning, appropriately seeking consultation, and exploring patient beliefs about illness and treatment.
This study describes the development of the P-SCO, a structured clinical observation tool for pharmacotherapy in psychiatry. The content was derived from an interactive and iterative process that consulted numerous sources of expertise. The tool was designed with features supported by research on competency assessment. The initial testing of this tool met or exceeded the targets set for number of observations per month for faculty and residents alike. Very few checklist items were not used by observers and even fewer P-SCOs had no comments. The P-SCO generated a relatively high volume of specific comments. These results support the feasibility of implementing the P-SCO in a busy training clinic.
Moreover, the comparative analysis suggests that the P-SCO has utility. The completed P-SCO provided a greater number of specific corrective and reinforcing comments compared with the traditional global assessment, especially with regard to patient care competencies. The P-SCO had a higher proportion of corrective comments and dramatically fewer general comments compared with the global assessment. The comments are noteworthy for their specificity, breadth, and substance (Table 3). The global assessment did offer specific comments on competencies not involving direct patient care, such as practice-based learning and participation in case conferences.
Effective feedback is central to learning (10, 11, 25). These initial results suggest that the P-SCO facilitates the three essential aspects of effective formative feedback: direct observation by a faculty member; evaluation of the observed performance relative to a reference standard, in this case the specific essential tasks delineated in the tool; and communication of the perceived performance gaps and strengths to the learner with specificity, timeliness, and focus on modifiable behaviors (8, 25—28). Further, the tool provides written qualitative feedback which has been shown to be helpful (11, 29, 30).
It is not surprising that a structured direct observation tool resulted in more patient care-specific feedback than the midpoint and end of rotation global assessments that are based on recall of a resident's performance over a 6- and 12-month period. But these findings are significant in light of the fact that many training programs rely on the conventional global assessment as a primary method to assess patient care competencies. Direct observation is valued for its validity when it comes to competency assessment. Indeed, many of the comments recorded on the P-SCO require direct observation.
The tool itself has several limitations. While the P-SCO has items related to diagnosis and treatment, it does not probe the clinical reasoning of the trainee in sufficient depth to assess the quality of the clinical decision making. It also does not assess the medical knowledge of the trainee and other competencies such as practice-based learning. As such, the P-SCO is not sufficient to assess the overall competence of a trainee. Additional tools are necessary for these assessment tasks.
This study has several limitations. First, the raters (JQY, LT, SL) were not blind to the study hypotheses and this may have biased the coding toward a positive finding. Second, while we developed the tool through an iterative process that consulted multiple sources of expertise, the tool requires further content validation. Subsequent efforts should survey a wider body of experts and employ quantitative measures of content validity. In addition, other important psychometric properties such as interrater reliability and construct and convergent validity deserve more systematic study in multiple settings. Finally, the impact of this tool on learning and skill acquisition as well as the impact on feedback itself warrants further investigation. While observational aids do improve feedback (31), the feedback actually given by faculty is often less than ideal (32). Training faculty in giving feedback has been shown to be essential and would need to accompany implementation of this tool.
The primary contribution of this study is to describe a process by which a competency assessment tool for pharmacotherapy can be developed and tested in order to demonstrate its feasibility and utility. We plan additional, more rigorous validation of the tool and more systematic study of its impact on learning.
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Paradigm! ALL human life is sacred. Descendants of Anglo-Scot planter/settlers as much as the land dispossessed agrarian Irish peasantry. PhlutiePhan! It's not in the gift of Britain to allow anything for the Irish in Ireland or elsewhere. Democratic liberty is a fundamental human right not in the gift of imperialists, as your Irish ancestors knew painfully too well.
PhlutiePhan. Take a look at the reforms Gerrys party are helping through and then call him or his party socialists.. They don`t even call for a socialist democratic Republic any more and the word socialist has all but dissappeared from their paperwork. Its all about the money now and SF feel right at home when dealing with multinationals who will always suck the wee man dry.
" The loyalist killers had originally stolen the weapon from the British Army" Yeah right, it was "stolen." lol.
Phlutie gives his assurance that Britain worked hard for an independent Ireland.They must have forgotten to tell their terrorist army in Ireland. Your the most ignorant poster on this site phlutie.
As a Catholic Navy vet with service in the Mediterranean, I can assure you that the Brits have worked for some time to allow an independent Irish Republic. The problem has been with the socialists under the tutelage of Gerry Adams. It is all about world socialism (Malachi Martin) and the destruction of the "opiate of the people". It is no coincidence that Hillary is in town. She is not running for U.S. president but for the right to have the entire world as her oyster. She is a radical thespian on the world stage.
Paradigm. Rewriting history of rendering it truthfully ? The point of collusion is rightfully in a league of its own. When the lawmakers become the law breakers ,whats left ?
Remember it was John Hume who pointed out that the PIRA had killed more Catholics than loyalist paramilitaries, army and police combined - so why all this attempt to re-write history? Was Finucane, from a committed PIRA family, more important than the Catholic policeman killed coming out of Mass at the Gran near Enniskillen or the Judges daughter leaving Mass in Belfast?
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Matt is back tomorrow but my email was sent to Mr Rowan
Mr Rowan was gonna invite us separately but at a later date
well that was his response after I emailed him about it.
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Thousands of welfare recipients are required to "work off" their welfare grants and even their food stamps. They are assigned to work in state and local agencies or for non-profits, but are not considered "employees" under the law and are therefore exempt from nearly all workplace rights and benefits.
Background. In 1935, during the Great Depression, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced the nation's first federal welfare program. At that time, 88 percent of welfare recipients received assistance because the father of the family had died. Because the nation had a surplus of workers and a shortage of work, keeping widows at home allowed mothers to care for their children and also kept these women from competing with men in the job market. Public work programs for men, such as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA), were also created to combat unemployment. The welfare program became Aid to Families with Dependent Children, which remained the federal government's primary program for poor mothers and children until 1996.
The 1996 welfare-reform law weakened previously existing safety-net programs: With strict work requirements and time limits tied to receipt of benefits, reform effectively eroded the previously existing social safety net for people unable to work or to find work. While the reforms were intended to incentivize single mothers to find work, they ended up leaving many individuals and families with no safety net to catch them in the event of loss of employment, resulting in a pronounced problem during periods of extended unemployment.
Demographics. "Workfare" is currently a major component of the welfare-to-work programs in New York, California, Ohio, Florida, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Colorado. According to the New York City Human Resource Administration website, more than 12,000 people in New York City are engaged in workfare in October 2010.
Wages and Hours. Each state Work Experience Program (WEP) is different. In New York City, WEP and Community Service program participants receive a cash benefit check. The city says that participants receive the minimum wage, but that figure is calculated by taking the sum of the value of their monthly cash grant, rental assistance and food stamps and dividing it by the hours worked. For many, this amounts to less that $100 every two weeks.
Health and Safety. WEP worksites are not exempt from OSHA, but workfare workers are not entitled to workers' compensation coverage for injuries suffered on the job.
Benefits. WEP participants receive Medicaid. Participants working for the state government or non-profits receive no unemployment benefits, nor do they receive any other work-related benefits such as Social Security payments.
Legal Context. According to a 1997 policy brief published by the US Department of Labor, workfare participants engaged in certain programs are not considered employees. These include those engaged in training programs. Where a public agency is the worksite for the state, if the employee is a workfare participant, the state can include all of the individual's cash assistance as well as any food stamps received as wages for purposes of meeting the minimum wage. Participants may also be required to "work off" the value of their food stamps. (Click here for the full DOL letter that explains welfare recipients are protected under minumum wage and overtime.)
Projected Growth. The state of New York recently reminded all counties and New York City that they can require workfare for people who are receiving food stamps only, potentially exposing another 1.3 million people to the workfare system in New York City alone.
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I am the mother of five children who are all grown. I have been on and off public assistance throughout my adult life. When I got on public assistance, I thought I could get training to be able to get a better paying job. But even though the City's public assistance agency, called the Human Resources Administration, claims they offer training, they do not offer it; you have to fight for every opportunity you get.
Instead, I do workfare, which in New York City is called Work Experience Program, or WEP. This means that in order to receive food stamps and some housing assistance, I have to go to a work assignment three days a week and attend work preparation classes called "Back to Work" two days per week. I get no training, and no chance of a real, paying job at the agency where I am doing WEP. I have done WEP assignments at the Board of Education and the Department of Aging.
My WEP supervisor doesn't pay me, [and] doesn't contribute into my Social Security account or for unemployment benefits. I am not covered by any workplace laws except health and safety laws. They count up my monthly welfare and food stamps grant and count that towards minimum wage for me. I get a check for $75 every two weeks. I am never at a WEP assignment long enough to develop relationships so that people there can be a reference for me for a job.
New York is very aggressive in its treatment of WEP workers. One time I got my assignment mixed up and went to work preparation instead of my WEP assignment, and I was "sanctioned," or punished, for doing so.
Right now, I am not on a WEP assignment because I was hired to work with developmentally disabled people in a group home. But that is an on-call position not a regular nine-to-five job. The position only calls me in occasionally, and I am having trouble making ends meet. My employment history is in child care and in home health care. I expect that I will be dropped from any benefits soon. The goal of the program is not to get people out of poverty, but just to slash the caseload.
Workfare or WEP is required of anyone considered employable whether you have a barrier to employment or not. Over 14,000 people in New York City are doing WEP in 2010. Even though you are expected to look for and find a job, the barriers you have to employment are not addressed. Across the country other welfare systems have used NYC as a model and also force people to do WEP.


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USBDM is a debugger hardware interface for a range of Freescale microcontrollers.
It supports Freescale's Codewarrior software under Windows and Linux.
More recently support for Coldfire and Kinetis with the Codesourcery Tool chain has been added. This includes GDB sprites providing target programming and GDB based debugging. Creating a complete open source development chain using Eclipse is also described.
A set of stand-alone programmer applications are provided. These support programming of RS08, HCS08, HCS12, Coldfire and Kinetis devices.
The software is available for Windows and Linux.
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The righs group also details how it says the Yemeni military's intense aerial bombardment as well as the use of inappropriate battlefield weapons in residential areas further endangered a population already in peril.
"Scores of civilians, including children, were killed," reads the report, "and many more injured as a result of air strikes and artillery and mortar attacks by government forces."
The "toxic mix of fighting and human rights abuses," it states, "meant an estimated 250,000 people from the southern governorates, particularly Abyan, were displaced."
The Yemeni government said it is studying the Amnesty report.
"The Yemeni government will carefully examine the findings," said Mohammed Albasha, the spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy in Washington. "Sanaa continues to welcome the international community's support of the government's efforts to promote and protect human rights."
Albasha added that Yemen's President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi had this past September "established a committee to investigate human rights violations" and that the country had "officially adopted the Paris Principles, which provide guidelines on the protection of children during armed conflict."
While Ansar al-Sharia was ultimately driven out and Yemen's government ended up claiming success, continued instability in the country, a haven for Al-Qaeda, has left many wondering how long will that victory may last.


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on December 6, 2012 @ 8:47 am (Updated: 10:18 am - 12/6/12 )In the State of Washington, weed is officially legal as of today, and a heavy aroma spread from the base of the Space Needle, where a midnight celebration broke out.
But the question is will law-abiding residents, such as myself, really feel free to to boot the gong? Fire up the Sweet Lucy?
Because you see, even though the cops won't arrest you anymore for possession of an ounce or less of pure pot, or 72 ounces or less of marijuana-infused cooking oil, unless you're a medical marijuana patient, there's no legal way right now to get that stuff.
Your rights under Washington's new marijuana laws
If you're caught buying it, selling it, or growing it, you still can get arrested. According to the city attorney, if the police see you passing a joint to a friend, it's still illegal.
Which means rule-bound people like me will not be adding "Everybody Must Get Stoned" to the iPod anytime soon:
In fact, based on my analysis, until the state completes its year-long rulemaking process, the only way to legally get marijuana would be if a drug smuggling plane loses its cargo over my house. Or if I invite a medical marijuana patient to dinner, and inhale his second hand smoke. But I could not touch his brownies. I would have to cook my own, using the perfectly legal 72 ounces of marijuana-infused oil that also happened to land in my yard.
In the meantime we wait, while the feds figure out how to bust the whole state.
If they're smart, they'll legalize and tax it, too.
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The Minaret Jacket is made to lock in the heat without adding too much bulk. Made for protection from the elements, this durable design is outfitted with waterproof fabric and strategically bonded seams. The adjustable hood and hem deliver just the right fit, while plenty of pockets mean all of your essentials have a place that's secure and easy to get to. Vents at the underarms work with Thinsulate™ technology to provide a balanced combination of breathability and insulation in the premium Minaret Jacket.
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This charming bench seat is the perfect place to store toys, books and more! The roomy bench seat has a fanciful fairy seat back, a slow-closing metal safety hinge and a special message: "Wishes for Sparkles and Giggles and Smilies&and Swirlies and Whirlies for sweet little Girlies!" Total height: 26 1/2" Actual box dimensions: 31" L x 13 1/2" W x 11 1/2" H.
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Very good quality. Well designed. Attractive. Good assembly instructions. And great price compared to other products. Granddaughter loved it.
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The fairy wishes bench is everything we hoped it would be...it is sturdy practical for putting toys in and my 4 year old daughter loves it!! The bench has a great precious design that matches our daughters room beautifully! We are very happy with the purchase and I can't think of any negatives..[...]
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I was very impressed by the excellent workmanship of this toy box, it's not often you get quality anymore! It's beautiful, very "girly". Very impressed by the quality of the safety hinge that keeps the lid where you put it, no pinched fingers or injured heads from the cover slamming.
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I'm sure my granddaughter will love it.
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Bought this toy bench for my daughter's 2nd BD. Went together fairly easy. Very well made. Love the storage located underneath the seat. Also, like the fact when the seat is raised to get into the storage area it won't close on her fingers. Such a lovely bench for a girly girl! Love it.
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What's going on with Glenn Beck's ratings?
Looks like his viewers are dropping off like the proverbial flies.
Figures from Nielsen show that the TV host has lost some 795,562 viewers since January.
That's just over one-third of his average audience for April (2.15 million viewers).
Where have they all gone?
Has the Tea Party run out of steam?
Beck is supposed to be one of the Tea Party's great pooh-bahs but the numbers suggest that the Party might be over.
In January, Beck was drawing an average of 2,913,762 viewers but he can't seem to keep his audience.
Wonder why?
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pat52rk | Jun 30, 2010, 04:53 PM EDT
pflynn, ratings are done by an independent company called nielsen , everybody left and right accepts their findings.
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pflynn70 | Jun 18, 2010, 10:42 AM EDT
As with all media bias, who can believe the ratings have fallen?
Beck tell it like it is,the O.B.A.M.A One big ass mistake people just can't believe that "their man" is a phoney,liberal socialist. It never hurts to hear BOTH SIDES< liberals just wnat their side.
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barkway | Jun 16, 2010, 08:52 PM EDT
They must have read his book and figured out that he thinks what he does is "entertainment", that he does it for money & fame, and all his viewers are just his hapless stooges. About time they learned the truth about their fearless leader.
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Binasdad | Apr 23, 2010, 10:15 PM EDT
Like the poor, the uninformed and delusional will always be with us but there is only so much anybody can take of Beck's crazy rantings.
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CitizenWhy | Apr 23, 2010, 04:06 PM EDT
Never fear, there will always be a place in the USA for right wing drama queens pushing aggressive ignorance.
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The Official Online RBS 6 Nations Store is open. The store has everything you need to get behind your team during the RBS 6 Nations, plus the store is now fully stocked with a much wider range of rugby merchandise.
Japan, hosts of the 2019 World Cup, will be Scotland's first opponents on November 9 at a yet to be named venue with the contest to be given full cap honours.
Scotland and Japan last met in a non-cap encounter as part of the former's preparations for their summer tour to Argentina in 2010 with South Africa next up afterwards at Murrayfield.
And a clash with Australia, who Scotland beat 9-6 the last time the two sides met in June last year, again at Murrayfield, concluding their autumn series.
Scotland played New Zealand, South Africa and Tonga during the autumn of 2012 before finishing third in the RBS 6 Nations behind winners Wales and runners-up England.
And Scottish Rugby's Director of Commercial Operations, Communications and Public Affairs, Dominic McKay, said: "We're delighted to be able to confirm our Test matches for this November and are finalising some special season-long ticket packages for our supporters at present.
"This season our cumulative attendance for Murrayfield Test matches was more than 300,000, which speaks volumes both for the depth of support for an improving Scotland team and also for our determination to structure our ticket prices so that we give every family in Scotland the opportunity to watch international rugby in the flesh."


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What the Healthcare Law Means to You
The new federal healthcare law, often referred to as ObamaCare, will impact all Americans with threats of fines and unprecedented federal intervention in regulating the insurance industry, doctors and healthcare professionals, businesses, and even the family. Art Thompson, CEO of The John Birch Society, explains that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the reconciliation bill are just a framework to be filled in as bureaucrats add regulations to the new law. "There's no smoking gun. It's a cocked pistol that'll be fired when the regulations come down," Thompson says, adding that most people "apparently haven't noticed the fact that this is a program to reach down into every home." Here's the impact in brief:
Obama's HHS Concludes His Healthcare Reform Will Increase Costs
The Obama administration's own financial experts have estimated that the recently passed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will increase — rather than cut — overall medical expenses. During presidential campaign, Obama had sold his healthcare reform package as (in the words of his campaign website) providing "lower costs to make our health care system work for people and businesses." But that's not the healthcare package Obama delivered as President.
Dingell: Healthcare Law Will "Control the People"
Democratic Congressman John Dingell of Michigan accidentally let slip a truth about Obama's new healthcare package to a Detroit radio talk-show host, telling the host that the new health-care law will "control the people."
Govt Funds Healthcare "Reform" Push
The push for President Obama's agenda to promote healthcare "reform" is being secretly underwritten by taxpayer dollars. MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, described by the Washington Post's Ezra Klein as "probably been the most aggressive academic economist supporting the reform effort," has been on the U.S. Health and Human Services Department payroll to the tune of $392,600 over the past year.
GOP Looks for Dem. Defectors as Healthcare Bill Punishes 'Generous' States
The New York Times documented that several "progressive" states that have expanded healthcare coverage on their own are not setting up to oppose the Senate version of the healthcare package. The December 27 story noted that the Senate package, passed on Christmas Eve, would force states struggling to balance their budgets to subsidize the expansion of health care coverage in other states that had not expanded health care coverage by state mandates.
Study Finds Obama Is Focusing Upon Wrong Healthcare Waste
A major healthcare study by Thomson-Reuters has concluded that the United States wastes between $600 billion and $850 billion on healthcare annually, a third of all healthcare costs. Perhaps more importantly, the study essentially concluded that President Obama is looking in the wrong directions for eliminating major sources of waste in his reform efforts.
Obama Attacks Healthcare Studies
President Obama used his weekly radio address this weekend to attack two health insurance industry-funded studies that concluded the President's healthcare proposal pending in Congress would increase overall medical costs for individual policyholders by thousands of dollars per year.
Senate Finance Committee Clears Healthcare Bill
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee voted to send a health care "reform" bill to the full Senate by a 14-9 vote October 13. President Obama said the vote was a "critical milestone," but admitted that he was not assured of the bill's passage. "Now is not the time to pat ourselves on the back," Obama said, urging supporters to "dig in and work even harder to get this done."
Baucus Healthcare Plan Would "Break Budget"
Senator Max Baucus introduced the first "deficit neutral" healthcare legislation on September 16, but the bill would increase most people's healthcare premiums and still "break the federal budget" — if you believe President Obama's July 22 prime time address to the American people. Back then, Obama stated: "We also know that with health care inflation on the curve that it's on we are guaranteed to see Medicare and Medicaid basically break the federal budget."
Obama's Healthcare Pitch to Congress
President Obama proved he had nothing new in his political bag of tricks in his healthcare address to Congress on September 9. The most important part of the speech was not that he was retailing the same two specific examples of insurance mendacity he had been using for months, but that he revealed no new means of paying for the budget-busting program.


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Undergraduate Research in Biology
Getting involved in independent research can put a mark of distinction on an undergraduate transcript or record. The Department of Biology offers numerous opportunities for undergraduates to get involved in independent research. Students should have junior status, successfully completed BIO 11 through 14, and have a science GPA of at least 2.8. Contact your Biology Advisor or the Chair of Biology for more details.
Several undergraduate courses offer the opportunity to be involved in one-on one research with faculty.
- Independent Study in Undergraduate Research (Bio 90, 91, 92).
- Introduction to Laboratory Research (Bio 90A)
- Special Topics in Biological Sciences (Bio 190)
Each fully-time faculty member offers opportunities in their specific research area and can serve as a mentor in one of these courses. Check individual faculty web pages for details about specific research interests and projects.
The Department of Biology offers several competitive summer fellowships to undergraduate students wishing to pursue independent research. These fellowships provide a stipend of $3500 to the students for an intensive, ten-week summer research program.
These fellowships may be used in conjunction with course work (i.e. Bio 90, 91 or 190) to extend research activities. Contact the Department of Biology Office (E-mail) for more details.
Qualified undergraduate students have the opportunity to attend and participate in national scientific meetings, presenting their research and representing the Department of Biology and Hofstra University.
On October 14, Hofstra University students, faculty and administrators got together at OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s BioScience Park research facility on the campus of SUNY Farmingdale to celebrate another year of the OSI Hofstra University Summer Science Internship Program.
The program, a model of higher education/corporate partnership and underwritten by OSI, allows Hofstra students, supervised by faculty, to engage in independent research. This year, OSI donated $25,000 to the program. This year's participants tackled a wide range of projects: Andrew Luu, an aspiring cardio-thoracic surgeon, studied and investigated the effect of mouth shape on suction feeding in Amia Calva, a type of fish; Christopher Merguerian, an organic chemistry major, studied the synthesis of furoxans; Tomoki Namakuchi investigated the mechancism of reduction in papilloma; Orli Roth conducted a study using track sets to identify individual mountain lions; and Michael Dennis did genetic research by studying Temperature-Sensitive Sex Determination.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- In response to the budget cuts that took effect March 1, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered a re-evaluation of the underpinnings of the defense strategy that President Barack Obama announced 14 months ago.
Hagel spokesman George Little said Monday that the new defense chief wants to see the results by May 31.
Hagel's predecessor, Leon Panetta, had said repeatedly that if the forced budget cuts took effect the administration would have to redo its defense strategy. Little said Hagel's review will take that 2011 strategy as the "point of departure," and it will examine whether the assumptions underlying it are valid in light of the budget crisis.
The Pentagon faces the deepest cuts in spending in decades and has fewer protectors of the military in Congress.
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Portola faced its toughest football game of the season on Friday, Oct. 19 when the Tigers defeated Maxwell, 27-21.
Maxwell ensured Portola would work at gaining a victory.
Portola scored first when Klint Williams capped a first-quarter drive with a two-yard touchdown run to give the Tigers a 6-0 lead. The extra point was no good.
Maxwell scored before the half ended, and made the extra point, to take a 7-6 lead at the half. It was the first time this season that Portola trailed an opponent at the half.
The Tigers were bound and determined to win and came out fighting in the second half.
Zack Martinez led the Tigers with a total of three touchdowns. In the third quarter Martinez rushed 62 yards for the touchdown. Martinez subsequently ran the ball in for a two-point conversion.
Martinez scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter, one a 53-yard run and the other a 10-yard run.
Maxwell scored twice in the second half but was unable to keep up with the Tigers.
"We had more turnovers in this one game than we've had all season," said Portola's coach, Steve Heskett. "We battled the whole game, though, and still came away with a win against a very good football team while on the road."
Portola's varsity team has a bye this week and will host Chester on Nov. 2.
Colusa 49, Quincy 36
The Quincy Trojans traveled to Colusa on Oct. 19 and came away with a loss. Quincy had high hopes for a victory after its Oct. 12 win against East Nicolaus.
Colusa's offense was too much for Quincy's defense as Colusa scored seven touchdowns.
Quincy's offense fought hard as well, scoring five touchdowns.
David Hannah scored two touchdowns; one receiving and one rushing. Keston Pilgrim ran one touchdown in. Cody McDonald and Matt Beeson both scored touchdowns in addition.
Quincy's homecoming game takes place Friday, Oct. 26, against Williams at 7:30 p.m.
Chester wins by forfiet
A varsity game against Los Molinos was scheduled for Oct. 19, but Los Molinos forfeited. Los Molinos canceled its varsity season this year.
Chester travels to Redding Oct. 26 to take on University Prep.
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SPRING VALLEY — Twenty first-half turnovers turned up costly for the Hall Lady Red Devils Thursday night in a 47-15 loss to the Peoria Christian Lady Chargers.
The Lady Chargers came out in a 2-2-1 full-court press, forcing 10 first-quarter turnovers and scoring the first 14 points of the game. The Lady Red Devils got on the board with moments left in the first quarter by a bucket from junior guard Kaylee Golden.
"Their defense took a tool on us,"said Hall head coach Mike Struna. "They really forced a lot of turnovers which prevented us from scoring."
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