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Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM)
Through a transformative educational experience, the DAOM at AOMA will prepare you to expand your practice and advance the field. You will gain effective skills for leadership and teaching, and cultivate expertise within a clinical specialty area. Given the current prevalence of chronic pain within the United States, the psychological, social, and spiritual impact of pain on the lives of those who experience it, and the efficacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for the treatment of chronic pain, the DAOM at AOMA focuses on the care and management of patients with pain and associated psychosocial phenomena in integrative practice settings.
This 74-credit program is conveniently offered in a modular 2-year Executive Format. The total length and duration of either program format depends on the learner's choices regarding the completion of all coursework, clinical training and their research project. The DAOM program must be completed within four years.
- Executive Format: 2-year with 14 week-long intensives, plus completion of the portfolio, externships and research project
Week-long intensive, on-campus learning experiences are coupled with extended periods of independent study. While the majority of the classroom and clinical instruction is delivered on the AOMA campus and affiliated clinical sites, the courses are divided between 14 residency weeks to allow working professionals to continue their practice while enrolled. However, the research project and externships may extend beyond the 2 years necessary for completion of the didactic training and be conducted locally or at another site, nationally or internationally.
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DAOM Educational Goals
The goals of the DAOM program are to:
- Produce advanced clinic practitioners in the clinical specialty of care and management of pain and associated psychosocial phenomena.
- Develop Oriental medical scholarship in the USA by creating advanced clinical specialists who are also researchers, educators, collaborators, and leaders.
- Advance the profession into the health care community by creating collaborative relationships.
- Add to the evidence-base of the medicine through scholarly work.
DAOM Program Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the DAOM program, graduates will be prepared to:
- Integrate Chinese and biomedical concepts in the provision of evidence-based care. (PLO1)
- Employ systems-based practice. (PLO2)
- Conduct research that contributes to the evidence base of the discipline. (PLO3)
- Demonstrate behaviors to fulfill professional, leadership and teaching roles. (PLO4)
- Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning. (PLO5)
DAOM Course Descriptions
Below contains comprehensive listings of the doctoral courses offered at AOMA. The doctoral courses are listed according the divisions of specialty of practice, inquiry, professionalism and leadership, and clinical practice. For each course, course number and name are listed, along with all co- and pre-requisite courses.
SP 6010 Biomedical Mechanisms and Pathophysiology of Pain and Associated Psychosocial Phenomena
DAOM Co-req: SP6011
Term Offered: Spans Summer-Fall terms
This is an advanced course of in-depth study into the foundations of the anatomy, physiology, and embryology that govern and control the development and experience of pain and suffering in the human form. A thorough understanding of systems theory and developmental principles is important to explore the commonality in the development and experience of disease patterns. The embryologic germ layers and their generative capacity to form each organ system will be covered, including: neurologic, dermatologic, musculoskeletal, vascular and lymphatic, gynecologic, and visceral organs. Interwoven into this study, and crucial to clinical care, will be holistic theories of somaticized pain, stress as a modulator, and the psychosocial phenomena that precede, coincide with, and result from pain. Developmental principles will be discussed from both conventional biomedical and Chinese medicine models to foment integration of thought and theory.
SP 6011 Advanced Clinical Assessment in Integrative TCM Practice
DAOM Co-req: SP 6010
Term Offered: Spans Winter and Spring terms (Odd years)
This course builds on the master's physical assessment and biomedical diagnostic courses by expanding on the interpretation of laboratory tests, imaging and physical exams that can be used in an integrative TCM practice setting. Clinical indications for these exams and assessments, including risks and benefits, will be identified in the context of common disorders from an integrative medical perspective. The principles and application of laboratory tests, diagnostic tests and exams will be explored, including diagnostic equipment, diagnostic imaging, functional physical assessments, the Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (McKenzie) approach, and assessment of pain and somatization. Learners will review written diagnostic reports with associated patient cases, distinguish between normal and abnormal findings, and incorporate findings into their objective and subjective assessment of the patient. This course will prepare learners to effectively communicate the findings of advanced clinical and diagnostic assessments with patients as well as other integrative healthcare providers, such as medical, osteopathic, chiropractic and naturopathic doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, physical therapists and other licensed healthcare practitioners.
SP 6012 Principles of Nutritional Medicine
Co/Pre-req: SP6011
Term Offered: Fall terms
This is an advanced course of in-depth study into the principles of nutritional medicine. Building upon the Masters level competencies in medical biology, medical chemistry, psychology, physiology, pathophysiology, and nutrition and dietary courses, learners will explore the identification and treatment of nutritional imbalances. This course will train clinicians to properly utilize nutritional medicine in their clinical practice for prevention and treatment of illnesses as well as to identify pathology associated with nutritional imbalances. Advanced information on functions, deficiency, repletion and toxicity states of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients will be covered. Learners will explore how nutritional medicine, dietary lifestyles, and environmental issues such as modern pollutants, including hybridization and genetically modified organisms (GMOs), influence the human ecopsychosocial environment and epigenetics.
SP 6013 Nutrition and Functional Medicine
Pre-req: SP6011, SP6012
Term Offered: Winter terms
This is an advanced course of in-depth study in patient care utilizing the principles of functional nutrition. This course will explore advanced functional assessment and treatment strategies for various disorders and symptoms of disease including acute and chronic pain conditions, the psychosocial phenomena associated with pain, and other common chronic conditions such as regional and systemic inflammation and autoimmunity, cardio-cerebrovascular disorders, metabolic and dysregulation of hormones and neurotransmitters, and gastro-intestinal disorders and cancer. Advanced clinical approaches for the assessment and treatment of patients with various disorders will be discussed and specific supplement protocols as well as food plans for targeted nutrition will be reviewed.
SP 6020 TCM Classics and Advanced TCM Theory on Pain and Associated Psychosocial Phenomena
Co/Pre-req: SP6010, SP6011
Term Offered: Spans Summer-Fall terms (Odd years)
This advanced foundation in TCM history, theory and classics will explore in-depth acupuncture and herbal theories and strategies,including etiology, pathology, diagnosis, and differentiation, from classics such as the Huang Di Neijing (Yellow Emperor's Internal Classics), the Shang Han Lun (Treatise on Cold Induced Diseases), Jin Gui Yao Lue (Golden Chamber), and Zhen Jiu Da Cheng (The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion), and other ancient classics, as well as additional advancements cultivated throughout the centuries on pain and associated psychosocial phenomena.
SP 6021 Advanced TCM and Modern Treatment Techniques
Co/Pre-req: SP6011
Term Offered: Spans Winter and Spring terms
This advanced inquiry into and practice of techniques for the treatment of pain and related psychosocial phenomena will build on master's competencies in acupuncture, moxibustion, electro- therapies, cupping, Neijing techniques, bleeding, topical applications, TCM herbal applications, physical agents, Asian body work, mind-body therapies and exercises, and diet. Students will practice using and applying various physical medicine agents and manual therapies as treatment interventions, and may include but not limited to, thermal agents, colors, light, and laser therapy, sound such as tuning forks and ultrasound, frequency specific microcurrent, ion pumping cords, electrophoresis, point injections, kinesio taping, McKenzie methods, cranial sacral therapy, visceral manipulation, biofeedback, meditation, and relaxation.
SP 7010 Pain from Musculoskeletal Disorders and Associated Psychosocial Phenomena
Pre-req: SP6010, SP6011
Term Offered: Spans Winter and Spring terms
This course will take an advanced in-depth exploration of pain from acute injuries and trauma, as well as from chronic musculoskeletal and auto-immune disorders, and effective treatment strategies. In addition, the psychosocial impact of chronic pain disorders and disabilities on patients and their families and com- mon coping mechanisms will be explored. The primary focus will be on injury to joints, bones, tendons, ligaments, muscles and myofascial tissues. A secondary focus will include acute injuries to integumentary, neurologic, and vascular systems, and to the viscera. Care and management of pain and mental and emotional health, the mechanisms of various treatment therapies, effective collaborations, and the emerging theories and knowledge about TCM treatments from scientific research will be critically evaluated.
SP7011 Pain from Neurologic, Dermatologic and Sensory Organs and Psychosocial Disorders
Co/Pre-req: SP6010, SP6011
Term Offered: Spans Summer and Fall terms (Even years)
This course is an advanced in-depth exploration of pain that results from neurologic, sensory and integumentary disorders and associated psychosocial phenomena. Disorders covered will include dermatomyositis, herpes zoster, glaucoma, iridocyclitis, sinusitis, otitis, laryngitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, toothache, and herpetic stomatitis, headache and migraine, trigeminal neuralgia, peripheral neuropathy, carpal tunnel syndrome, stroke, shoulder hand syndrome and sciatica. Care and management of pain and mental disorders, the mechanisms of various treatment therapies (including body acupuncture, scalp acupuncture, auricular acupuncture, skin acupuncture, three-edge needle acupuncture, electric acupuncture, moxibustion), and the emerging theories and knowledge about TCM treatments from scientific research will be critically evaluated.
SP 7012 Eco-Psycho-Social Pain
Co/Pre-req: SP6010, SP6011
Term Offered: Spans Summer and Fall terms (Odd years)
This course takes on an advanced in-depth exploration of somatoform disorders, psychosomatic disorders, and somaticized pain that result from psychosocial disorders, and effective treatment strategies. Care and management of pain and mental and emo- tional health, the mechanisms of various treatment therapies, effective collaborations, and the emerging theories and knowledge about TCM treatments from scientific research will be critically evaluated. This course explores the continua of pain disorders that scale between psyche and soma, internal and external and the impact of shock on the various biological systems whether that shock is physical, psychosocial or ecological.
SP 7013 Pain from Oncologic Disorders, Associated Psychosocial Phenomena and Palliative Care
Pre-req: SP6010, SP 6011
Term Offered: Spans Winter and Spring terms (Odd years)
This course will take an in-depth exploration of pain and psychosocial disorders resulting from oncologic disorders, effective treatment strategies, and palliative care. This course will look at pain from malignant neoplastic growth and from biomedical treatment therapies such as surgery, radiation, and pharmaceutical agents, as well as the psychosocial impact of cancer diagnoses and the treatments on patients and their families. Care and management of pain and mental and emotional health, the mechanisms of various treatment therapies, effective collaborations, and the emerging theories and knowledge about TCM treatments from scientific research will be critically evaluated.
SP 7014 Gynecologic and Pelvic Pain and Associated Psychosocial Phenomena
Pre-req: SP6010, SP6011
Term Offered: Spring term (Odd years)
This course will make an advanced inquiry into pain that results from gynecological and other pelvic disorders, and effective treatment strategies. Endometriosis, ovarian cysts, vulvovaginitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, fibroids, cystitis, gastroenteritis, and other pelvic disorders causing pain will be reviewed in detail, as well as the psychosocial impact of acute and chronic pain. Care and management of pain and mental and emotional health, the mechanisms of various treatment therapies, effective collaborations, and the emerging theories and knowledge about TCM treatments from scientific research will be critically evaluated.
SP 7016 Pain from Vascular and Lymphatic and Visceral Disorders and Associated Psychosocial Phenomena
Pre-req: SP6010, SP6011
Term Offered: Winter term (Odd years)
Pain that results from disorders of vascular and lymphatic systems and disorders of viscera in the chest and abdomen will be explored in-depth along with effective treatment strategies. Disorders covered will include peripheral artery disease, aneurysm, renal artery disease, vascular headaches, and disorders causing pain from gastrointestinal-pulmonary, cardiac, hepatic, pancreatic, splenic and renal systems will be covered, as well as the psychosocial impact of acute and chronic visceral, vascular and lymphatic pain. Care and management of pain and mental and emotional health, the mechanisms of various treatment therapies, effective collaborations, and the emerging theories and knowledge about TCM treatments from scientific research will be critically evaluated.
SP 6031 Case Management in Integrative Practice
Co/Pre-req: SP6011
Term Offered: Fall term
This course is designed to deepen concepts of case management from general practice to specialty practice. Focusing on the unique needs of patients and their cultural and individual beliefs regarding their condition as well as about health, illness, and treatment, course content will include case management processes, patient-centered plans of care, recordkeeping, ethical practice, and inquiry skills in the clinical practice arena. In addition, emphasis will be placed on use of collaborative relationships within the health care community to achieve the best possible patient outcomes, clinical skills relevant to the problems and needs of patients experiencing pain and associated psychosocial disorders and further development of knowledge and skill in relation to collaboration, consultation, and scholarly inquiry to support expertise in pain and psychosocial care. Clinical practice begins in the second week of residence in the doctoral program and continues throughout the course of studies to provide direct, immediate application of theory and techniques.
SP 6035 Integrative Practice Management
Pre-req: SP6031
Term Offered: Winter term
This course is designed to build upon general practice management skills by focusing on those specific to the management of a practice in a clinical specialty. Course content includes electronic medical recordkeeping, strategies for creating economic and professional success, and ethical concepts related to practice management pro- cesses and practices. Students will be required to establish professional collaborations within other health care fields pertaining to the specialty to create externship opportunities (MD, DO, DC, PT, PhD, hospitals, university research departments, etc.).
SPI 8010 Internship
0/0/432/18 DAcOM
This course consists of 17 credit hours (408 clock hours) for DAOM students and 18 credit hours (432 clock hours) for DAcOM students of on-site practice at AOMA clinics and collaborative partnerships. The course focuses on the practical application of advanced clinical skills to the problems and needs of patients experiencing pain and associated psychosocial disorders and further development of knowledge and skill in relation to collaboration, consultation, and scholarly inquiry to support expertise in pain and psychosocial care. Clinical practice begins in the second week of residence in the doctoral program and continues throughout the course of studies to provide direct, immediate application of theory and techniques.
SPE 8030 Externship
DAOM Pre-req: SP6031, SP6035
Students will identify their preferred externship sites and present their externship plan for approval. The plan must include a variety of locations, practitioners, and medical modalities in direct connection to the specialty that provides depth and breadth of exposure and collaboration within the community where the student currently practices. Practitioners who provide the learning experience for the candidates must be at a doctoral level or have a terminal degree within their field. Sites may include, but are not limited to, pain management clinics, community clinics, private practices, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, assisted living or nursing homes, and cancer hospitals.
INQ 5011 Paradigms of Inquiry
Term Offered: Spans Summer and Fall terms
This course is used to explore paradigms of inquiry such that the learner is informed of the assumptions underlying their focus. The use of the words paradigm or worldview to describe an approach to defining reality has become commonplace since Kuhn published "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" in 1962. Guba and Lincoln (1994) identify positivism, postpositivism, critical theory and constructivism as the major paradigms that frame research. Questions relative to quantitative and qualitative inquiry are explored within this course. As learners develop their inquiry questions for their research project, they choose a faculty advisor and the literature review section and research abstract of their proposal are approved.
INQ 5012 Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment
Pre-req: INQ5011
Term Offered: Winter term
This course focuses upon the theory and essential statistical methods pertinent to quantitative & qualitative research design. The work is focused from a positivist and post-positivist world view such that the learner understands the cognitive and political implications of each form of inquiry. Each learner will identify the appropriate statistical methods for the research question. For those who are focusing upon qualitative research, this will be additional to their proposal. This class will be used to develop the hypothesis and specific aims and construct the methods section of the proposal, using the appropriate quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods.
INQ 5013 Methods of Inquiry and Research Design
Pre-req: INQ5011, INQ5012
Term Offered: Spring term
Learners weave the previous two courses together into a proposal for the research project. Qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods may be used as appropriate to the inquiry. Strengths and weaknesses of each method are considered in the context of the developing research proposal. The research proposal is completed in this course and the research proposal is submitted for doctoral study committee and institutional review board (IRB) approval.
INQ 8080 Research Project
Co/Pre-req: INQ5011, INQ5012, INQ5013, faculty approval
Term Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring terms
After completing the INQ 5013 course, and obtaining doctoral study committee and IRB approval of the research proposal, learners conduct the research project, working alone or in teams, while overseen by assigned faculty research advisors. Completed research projects must be submitted to the DAOM doctoral study committee for acceptance, presented in a poster session, and written for peer-review publication submission.
PLD 7810 Professionalism, Ethics and Leadership 1
Term Offered: Spans Summer and Fall terms
One leads from the self. This course approaches leadership from the viewpoint of radical constructivism – that we create our realities. Pro- fessionalism and ethics are woven into a framework for understand- ing leadership from the viewpoints of self, other and the collective. These three features are explored in terms of the past, the present and the future. Distinctions between management and leadership are explored as well as power dynamics and culture. This is the first section in a two part series that is designed to develop the practitioner in their role with society, their patient and themselves. The common thread through both sections will include broadening concepts of leadership pertaining to the role of health care professional as leader. Content will include roles and functions of the health care profes- sional as leader, strategies for identifying and assuming the leadership role at various levels, key organizations in AOM and health care, and ethical principles applied to AOM and health care leadership.
PLD 7811 Professionalism, Ethics and Leadership 2
Pre-req: PLD 7810
Term Offered: Spans Winter and Spring terms (Even years)
This course is the second section in a two-part series that is designed to develop practitioners in their role with society, their patients and themselves. It builds upon the content of the first section, Professionalism, Ethics and Leadership I. In this section, the competencies related to self and other in the context of culture and change are explored more deeply. Learners will employ assessment as a tool for transformation at the individual and collective levels. This section focuses on strategic planning and negotiation as an art of transformational leadership.
PLD 6810 Teaching and Learning
Term Offered: Spans Summer and Fall terms (Even years)
The purpose of this course is to provide the knowledge, skills and abilities pertinent to teaching and knowledge transmission. This course focuses upon teaching in the health professions and includes curriculum design, development of instructional objectives, teaching methods and assessment techniques. Additional skills include active learner-based teaching methods, presentation skills, supervising and teaching in clinical settings, educational technology, and patient education.
A key to the number of didactic, practical and clinical hours, and quarter credits contained within each course is listed below each course number. The keys can be read in the following manner:
didactic hours/practical hours/clinical hours/quarter credits.
Credit Hours: Each didactic quarter credit is equivalent to 12 hours of in-class instruction. Each clinical internship quarter credit is equivalent to 24 hours of instruction. Each clinical externship quarter credit is equivalent to 36 hours of instruction. Certain didactic courses may be taken by directed study provided all the criteria outlined in the Student Manual have been met. In the DAcOM program, 12 credits may be earned by directed study under the honors concentration elective track.
Terms Offered: The terms in which a course is typically offered are listed in each course description. It is important to note that course offerings may vary from term to term and may not necessarily adhere to the schedules listed below. Students are encouraged to meet with an academic advisor each term, prior to registration.


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Union Suspends Endorsements, Contributions Over Cuomo Pension Plan
Meeting for the first time since deals were struck on pension reform and new district lines, the state legislature on Monday tried to focus on their new task: agreeing on a budget. But they found that the old issues continue to have repercussions, as a major union suspended all endorsements and contributions over the pension vote.
Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday signed into law a bill to expand the state's DNA data base, a law Cuomo said would make the state "safer."
The DNA bill was passed in all-night session last week. During the marathon session, Cuomo and lawmakers also settled on redistricting lines that largely favor incumbent lawmakers and approved changes in benefits for future state workers, who will have to now contribute more toward their pensions and receive less in return.
Legislators are suffering a backlash from those last two votes from the state's largest public employee union, which said it is suspending all political endorsements and campaign contributions to state legislators because of the deal
Civil Service Employee Association President Danny Donohue said lawmakers put "their own political self interest" ahead of the retirement security of future state workers. He said the union is considering backing primary challengers to key incumbent legislators.
"If they think that we'll forget about this in a month or two, I don't think they understand what they've done," said Donohue, who said Cuomo has "burnt a lot of bridges."
Unions provide key support in the form of staffing phone banks, distributing literature and holding signs at campaign rallies. Cuomo is not up for reelection for two more years, but Senators and Assembly members will face the voters this year.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver chided CSEA for making its decision based on one vote.
"I have no reaction to that," said Silver, who says "support should not come as the result of a vote 'Yes' or a vote 'No' on any particular bill".
Silver said he's now focusing on the state budget. His house has some disagreements with the governor's plan, including Cuomo's desire to award $250 million in school aid on a competitive basis. The speaker and several other key lawmakers think most of that money should go directly to aid poor school districts.
Meanwhile, progressive-leaning groups lobbied lawmakers to raise taxes on corporations in the new budget.
Ron Deutsch, with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, said corporate tax loopholes should be closed, to "adequately provide series to struggling New Yorkers."
The legislature did not seem close to making final decisions on the budget. Conference committees were gathering, but at this meeting of the Higher Education conference committee, little was accomplished, as Assembly Chair Deborah Glick admitted the committee had not yet been told the amount of money it has to allocate.
"We're a little bit at a standstill," Glick said.
Lawmakers have nearly two full working weeks before they have to settle on a new budget. It's due April 1.

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I thought that the looped buttons like the above indicate a Developer's Kit version. Is that correct?
The firmware source code is hosted on github, and the Bluetooth SPP protocol is published. The firmware is based on RTOS, with a binary blob Bluetooth stack licensed from StoneStreetOne. There has been some effort in getting the btstack running on the CC256x-series, and so far things look good. The newest mspgcc also supports 20-bit extended addressing which is needed for the CPU on this watch. It should be possible to run everything on Linux including the JTAG programming since the programming clip emulates the FET device. That is a project in itself, though :-)
The negatives: no schematics, out-of-box binary blob bluetooth, TI CC256x requires special init scripts and no datasheet, IAR or CCS …
The positives: btstack is reported to work, supported by mspgcc and mspdebug tools
Is this programming clip the JTAG clip, or is it the bootloader version?
EDIT: found the answer. The clip is the developer's clip. It emulates the MSP430FET interface. Nice.
Thanks for the good times. Productivity went to nil yesterday, but it was fun. And that rageguy was a nice touch.
Not commenting about the Simon Kit or the placement of the link on the Sparkfun front page, but about the actual Tapitty service itself.
Pricing of the service aside, I would like to see more technical information about the Tapitty project itself (on its own webpages). Unfortunately this is not the case. I am probably not alone in saying that the lack of information is a turn-off for me. How does it do this? What are my requirements? None of this is immediately available. Not a good start to a project with aspirations (that should be obvious from the price of admission …)
No public wish lists :(


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***Commentary*** Medical Marijuana Registration Is Essentially An Invitation For Police To Stop By Your Hale
I truly feel for people like William Peters, 21, and Sarah Biddix, 22, the Kea'au couple who are medical marijuana patients and now accused of commercial promotion of marijuana. John Burnett wrote about them for the Hawaii Tribune-Herald today, Thursday, May 14, 2009.Â
Police say, upon serving a warrant at their home at 16-1414 40th Avenue in Orchidland Estates, they found two "potted mature marijuana plants," five "marijuana seedlings" and 106 "marijuana starters," or "clones."
The Kea'au couple maintains they were within the medical marijuana law, that the "cuttings," or starters, aren't technically plants; police maintain the cuttings are plants. The couple was arrested along with 23-year-old Jason Walther, of Kea'au, when police discovered the plants at their home on Monday, March 30, 2009. Â
"They're making us out to be criminals when we're not," Sarah Biddix told John Burnett. The couple attends Hawaii Community College. Â Sarah Biddix has a medical marijuana certificate signed by Dr. James Berg, of Hawi, and William Peters is apparently in the process of getting his certificate. Â He showed John Burnett a letter from Dr. James Berg stating so.
"We were within the limits of the medical marijuana law," William Peters asserted to John Burnett. The law allows registered patients "three mature plants, four immature plants and one usable ounce of marijuana per mature plant."
The story is very interesting. Â At one point, 52-year-old Mike Ruggles, a friend who was with the couple when John Burnett interviewed them, charged that police did not ask William Peters or Sarah Biddix if they were medical marijuana patients when the warrant was served.
When John Burnett asked him about that, Police Capt. Steven Guillermo said, "I cannot comment on that, but what was presented to the judge when we went for the search warrant, the judge agreed there was enough probable cause to go ahead and issue a search warrant. (The judge) reviews the affidavit which lists all the evidence for probable cause.
"If, for example, they had one plant outside, and they were registered, obviously, that does not meet our probable cause requirements. As part of the requirements for any potential search warrants for marijuana, a check has to be done to verify if somebody is registered, first of all, and if they are, what address it's at."
The last line of John Burnett's story is a quote from Sarah Biddix about the "Peaceful Sky Initiative" that was on the ballot in the last General Election making marijuana the lowest law enforcement priority.
I feel sorry for people like this, I really do. Â It's like they chose door #2 and that was really a trap door leading them into a downward spiral into the criminal justice system. Â I believe that if you seek out a medical marijuana certificate and register with the Department of Public Safety, you are basically giving police an invitation to come visit your house.
A majority of Hawaii County voters might have opted for marijuana to be the lowest law enforcement priority, with the Peaceful Sky Initiative. Â But the fact is, marijuana is still considered a Schedule 1 drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Â As ludicrous as it may sound, the law of the land reads that marijuana is to be considered as dangerous as cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, and LSD. At the end of the day, the federal government supersedes the state and county governments.
Sarah Biddix and William Peters, before they've even had their day in court, feel ostracized by the community for what they believe to be the publicity about their case. They maintain they have been denied the rental of a home and Sarah Biddix an internship because of the publicity. If that is the truth, that is a shame.  People should look into their own medicine cabinets before they judge.  Reserve judgments and "stink eye" for true criminals, like those convicted of a crime and truly dangerous drug users like Ice Heads, child molesters, and murderers. Â
Personally, I have a lot of compassion for the couple. Â I don't know them, but we have read these sort of stories on occasion. Â They are about the registered medical marijuana registrants who are testing the law by having more than the authorized amount of plants and dried marijuana. Â Obviously, starters, or cuttings, or whatever you want to call them, are plants. Â Don't you have cuttings with the intention of having them grow? Â Sorry, I don't buy that one. Â Got to come up with a new defense.
It's unfortunate that we have such an out-of-whack criminal justice system.  Reading these people's stories, you can tell they're not criminals at all.  Yes, they allegedly — let's not forget that word, allegedly — had 106 starters, or cuttings, or whatever, but they shouldn't be in jail for that.  It would be a waste of space for them to be there.  The saddest part of this story, though, is if they are convicted of the felony charges they face, the couple just might have to go to jail.


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US Consumers brace for fast rising food prices
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Thought this article would be of interest ! As many here look at ways to budget, stay on course , and stay up to date on information that can help us make good financial decisions. I read this and thought of plans that I am doing that will combat this for me, new ideas I can come up with and would like to know what you all think. Whenever you get information like this it can be empowering , as knowledge is power.
Now is the time to get out your lists, see what you use the most, what you need to stock up on. Commodities are rising as I put in another post, sugar, cocoa, coffee, and flour to mention a few. The stores usually have those as loss leaders now, so stock up!
I will continue to stock up on staples, as I cook from scratch, stock up on sale items and cut out the grocery store as much as possible. I buy mainly in bulk, garden and have gone to produce auctions. How about you? Ideas or thoughts?
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US Consumers brace for fast rising food prices
American consumers are bracing for more price hikes of their grocery items, as beef, milk, coffee and sugar prices have all increased in the past few months, and food companies and fastfood chains like Kellog Co. and McDonald's Corp. announced plans to pass along some of the added cost to customers.
Retailers have been reluctant to raise prices because consumers choose to be thrifty during the economic doldrums. Americans are more willing to forego spending on luxury brands and may switch stores or brands to get the best value.
Sara Lee Corp., General Mills Inc., and Kraft Foods Inc. have also announced some price hikes on their products. Coffee giant Starbucks said that it would implement increases on its larger and premium drinks, changing its earlier stance to freeze prices.
Supermarket chains Kroger and Safeway also said that will be passing additional costs to customers.
Retailers are being made to pay for costlier supply from outside vendors, which are dealing with burgeoning demand from emerging economies such as China and India.
Grain prices have skyrocketed, driving up the cost of steak, chicken, pasta and bread products. The increase has been exacerbated by droughts in Russia and floods in other parts of the world.
Overall inflation has lagged behind the escalation of food prices. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the consumer price index for all items other than energy and food climbed 0.8 percent through September, and the food index increased 1.4 percent. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that overall food inflation for 2011 would be between 2 and 3 percent.
Amen. Just got back from Kroger. I feel really worked over. No clearance meat/baked goods/disc. today. They've changed to Boars head deli meat at $8.99#plus and carry a very limited amt. of theirs. Then they upped their brand a buck a pound. Sales are now very specific not all of a certain line. Irratating.
Dollar General has great sales this week and takes coupons if you have one.11-04-2010, 03:29 PM #3
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Isn't the cost of lunch meat crazy! I don't buy it often and am just astounded by how much it costs.
I'm very fortunate to have a good job with steady income. Just got notice that costs of health care are skyrocketing this year, Thank you President Obama.
Its so hard to just stay even or try to get ahead with the cost of everything going up.
My taxes went up on my mortgage, my health insurance is going up and I "think" I'm getting a 1.5% raise come January. My little raise, which I am VERY thankful for won't even come close to covering these increases.
As I said, I am very thankful for what I have, I know how to live within and under my means but holy cow, "they" do not make it easy.11-04-2010, 03:36 PM #5
Thanks I have a lot myself though. I just got things like milk,lunchmeat,fruit w/o coupons. I only spent about 60. but I can usually score something. Just paid tuition AND car ins. for 4 so I'm feeling gripey.11-04-2010, 03:39 PM #6
Dh makes good money and we only have the mortgage payments now but 2 teens (well DD's 20) but the costs are highest now. WE have great health care but we seem to use it constantly too.
I just didn't see the great fall sales this year and I looked.11-04-2010, 03:44 PM #7
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If you stock up on sugar, wheat berries, flour, pasta, cocoa, and green coffee beans ( for home roasting) , these can all be stored in 5 gallon food grade plastic ( make sure food grade only), or gallon glass jars. Just a thought.11-04-2010, 03:48 PM #8
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Blah. I was complaining on another board just a few days ago that boneless/skinless chicken breast hasn't gone on sale at Publix ($1.99/lb) in a looong time. I'm actually very glad the new Save A Lot opened down the road. I can actually get milk under $3 a gallon there ($2.47 currently)!! Their canned veggies/beans are .30/can cheaper on average than Publix brand veggies/beans and they still have store bread/buns for .99, whereas Publix is usually $1.09-$1.19. I have a feeling I'll be seeing more of Save A Lot in 2011 for meat, dairy and canned goods. I'm glad I've gotten the hang of couponing this past year though...since it looks like I'll really be needing that skill next year11-04-2010, 03:51 PM #9
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There is one excuse or another every year at this time to up food prices. Sugar going up, der! it's baking season... Like gas in the summer, etc...
I can't go any other way on my food bill, I go the cheapest possible as it is, so will just look for the cheapest priced item..
I'm hoping that one of these days the big corporations would get a bit of common sense (ha-ha!) and realize, if they make their item more affordable, they would actually sell more of it.. Many people have told me over the years "if that was cheaper I'd stock up on it", etc.. I know people that were dedicated to name brand and refused to go generic, well except on a few things, they have all gone generic and to the $ store, which they also said they never would do..11-04-2010, 04:17 PM #10
I have also stocked up on flour during sales and store in freezer, same with butter and shredded cheese (or block cheese you have shredded and ziploced).
I have noticed rises in sugar already.11-04-2010, 06:17 PM #11
I would like the Kroger coupon link, please. Thanks!11-04-2010, 06:23 PM #12
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I try to stay stocked up but it's a million little things. Lunch meat for lunches (still cheaper to pack), coffee (still cheaper than buying out) and the amazing shrinking size containers. We're lucky to live where hunting is possible. I don't know how city dwellers that can't have a garden do it.11-04-2010, 06:33 PM #14
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Pasta is on sale for .70 a box at Meijers this week. You can store this in 5 gallon buckets. I was paying .40 a box this time last year.11-04-2010, 10:58 PM #15
I paid 50 cents a pound for whole wheat pasta last month. The store was running a clearance on it, and I scooped up four 2 pound packages for 99 cents each.
I don't expect our beef prices to go up this year compared to last year, aside from regular inflation. Our farmer only uses corn to "finish" them. Grass is free this year like it was last year.
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Headed to Wyoming for the early goose hunt and it was awesome!! We limited out on geese by about 8:00 then moved to hunt cranes in Idaho. The geese worked great with the decs and we were hammering them right off the grown when the tried to get back up after landing it was a great hunt and there was only one other hunter hunting about 600 yards from us.
The next day we weren't sure how it was going to pan out because we were just going to try the same thing. It was a cloudy day and rained a little but oh man the geese worked the decoys like CRAZY!! It was awesome!! They would circle and circle, swing in and out and finally they would land perfect about every time. It was a great morning we were just a few shirt if our limit but it doesn't matter it was a great way to start off the season
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/// Twitter's 2014 Strategy: The Intersection of Video and Data
Twitter is doubling down on its second-screen pitch. The company has been meeting with agencies and brands since the beginning of the year, showing off its ad product road map in an attempt to counter Facebook's push into video , according to industry sources who met with the social network. Several of these meetings occurred at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. "Twitter is most bullish on video and data, and the intersection of video and data," said one agency executive who was briefed on Twitter's 2014 strategy. Industry insiders signed non-disclosure agreements and could not reveal specifics on Twitter's upcoming ad products. But clearly, Twitter has spent much of the past year touting its symbiotic relationship with TV. Case in point: Twitter has been promoting its ability to harness data and insights from conversations surrounding specific TV shows and then allows brands to reach those viewers. And last year, Twitter bought the social TV analytics firm Bluefin Labs to bolster such TV targeting capabilities. "They have the ability to reach people simultaneously on TV and Twitter," the ad agency executive said. "It's a second-screen option that's not happening elsewhere." Brands are convinced of Twitter's value, and the ad spending reflects their enthusiasm. "Twitter spend will increase this year for a number of reasons, one being their embrace of television," said David Rittenhouse, Ogilvy & Mather's managing director. TV's use of Twitter will evolve beyond the simple adoption of hashtags in prime time, he said. Another agency executive said that some advertisers—particularly tech brands—plan to spend five times as much on Twitter this year compared to last. "If I'm sponsoring [ESPN's] College GameDay, I can actually take my offline [ad copy], upload it into Twitter and serve it to people after they watched the show," the source said. "Advertisers are obsessed with it because they're able to increase awareness. It's an extension of their TV buying, and they're [quintupling] Twitter budgets for it." These are ad dollars that could be going to Facebook, this source said. Indeed, there is a debate in the ad industry about which platform is better for such TV-esque advertising. As Twitter pushes TV this year, Facebook is rolling out its broad autoplay video ad product.
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Recap: Energy Innovation 2013
Over 300 people, including representatives from business, government, academia and numerous advocacy groups, attended ITIF's third annual Energy Innovation Conference on January 29. The event, which is quickly becoming one of the nation's leading energy policy conferences, featured experts in solar, wind, nuclear power and energy storage discussing the government policies and technological innovations that are needed to lower cost, improve performance and expand use. In addition, a keynote address by Michael Schellenberger argued that government policies should focus on innovation and R&D investment as opposed to regulations and subsidies, and used the natural gas revolution as an example of the success of this strategy. The conference concluded with a spirited debate between Ted Nordhaus and Fred Krupp regarding the future course of global climate policy.
Here's a list of all the essential links that recap the conference:
- The Energy Tracker Budget Builder
- The ITIF Photo Album
- Full Video of the Conference, Divided by Panel
- Rob Atkinson's Presentation of "Logic Chain to an Effective Global Clean Energy Economy"
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Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury has said several times that the proliferation of spread-passing offenses makes giving up yards inevitable, so his goal is to force turnovers and limit teams to field goals.
Tech came up with no turnovers Friday, but tough red-zone defense was key to the team's 41-23 victory Friday at SMU.
"At times, we were really stingy," defensive coordinator Matt Wallerstedt said Monday, "especially in the red zone. Our guys were bowing their neck and playing aggressive and not giving up touchdowns."
There were four instances in which SMU had first downs inside the Tech 15-yard line, but came away with three field goals. In the first instance, safety Tre Porter caused a fumble on third down that bounced out of bounds. On the second occasion, linebackers Will Smith and Terrance Bullitt thwarted the Mustangs with back-to-back sacks.
A holding penalty wiped out an SMU touchdown in the third instance. The last came in the final seconds. SMU had first-and-goal from the 5, and cornerback Theirry Nguema tackled a receiver at the 1 as the game ended.
Tech allowed 490 yards, but mostly tackled well.
"I was really kind of surprised, to be honest with you," Wallerstedt said, "because it's a spread game that they presented us, a lot of open space. Our guys did a solid job. We did not have a lot of missed tackles. We were good at the point of contact and we were good running to the ball. So if we did miss, we had a lot of hats."
Wallerstedt said inside linebacker Will Smith and Porter had outstanding games.
The team's three-season high of five sacks also helped. There were times when Tech pass rushers had a free run at SMU quarterback Garrett Gilbert, an indication that Wallerstedt's plan to show multiple looks and calls worked.
"We're going to move our fronts around like we've talked about since we've been here," Wallerstedt said. "Try to cause confusion with the offensive line. Try to cause confusion with protections. Try to cause confusion with the quarterback.
"(With) some of that, there were some guys that came clean. We've just got to do a better job of finishing when we're in the backfield and act like we've been there."


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March 29, 2013 | All Things Digital
Twitter SVP of engineering Chris Fry has joined the board of directors at mobile payments platform Braintree, the company announced on Friday. Braintree provides the backend infrastructure powering a large number of sites, including Fab, Uber, Airbnb and others, and is doing north of $8 billion in payments volume on its platform annually. Fry, who was chosen specifically for his infrastructure background, joins the likes of NEA, Accel Partners, Braintree CEO Bill Ready and Nigel Morris of Capital One on the company's board.
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Film Inspiration: Love
Throughout the years my sisters and I have seen our far share of our parents emotions towards each other. Growing up with divorced parents can be hard on most kids. I think when we were young we really didn't graspt the situation at hand. I remember flashbacks in my head of being at the courthouse and picking which parent to live with.
No child should ever choose which parent they want to live with. It is like a parent picking their favorite child! It just isn't right. I am happy that my sisters and I have grown up to have a strong relationship with our Dad & Mom. I mean yes we always fight and bicker, but I am always happy to have them in my life.
Throughout our childhood we really didn't see our Dad much, it was mostly some monthly visits or he would come to our sporting events. We lived with our Mom and had some serious rough patches. After High School I decided to move to Bethlehem to live with my Dad. At first it was a little awkward but now I feel like we are closer then ever.
Even though our parents aren't together, and holidays absolutley suck for us, we still find the good in things. Love is such an inspirational item. Love has keep my sisters and I together, love has brought us through the rough times.
Jill & Meg found these old film photos of my Mom & Dad when they were happy and in love. They traveled across the world had some amazing outfits and I loved their hair styles!! The smiles on their faces, the body language is so inspirational to me. I know I have love like they have and I hope it lasts.
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I like the protection services of Google.
Dunno about security, my password is always 12345 – is it safe enough?
Btw, this is 3 years old thread…
There is a certain amount of risk with either option – lastpass or just keeping track yourself. I do prefer to store my own – it minimizes the risk. When you store passwords with someone else, you run the risk of someone hacking their system – especially when you have such a high profile target – storing security information for multiple sites for how many users? Ugh! I can't even imagine the damage that hackers could do by cracking into a system like lastpass.
On the other hand, I recently had my Best Buy account hacked where the hackers used my stored payment info to make unauthorized purchases. Needless to say, I closed my BB account and changed EVERY password I had (after I did a full virus/trojan horse, etc. scan).
Feeling better with secure passwords now…..upper/lower case letters, numbers, symbols and at least 10 characters. I just wish Themeforest would allow me to keep my super secret, super secure password and not make me change it – seriously, how secure does a password need to be?
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Btw, this is 3 years old thread…
Yep, but it is always important
I have a Q: If I keep my account signed in (for example: for 2 months). Is it safe?? or I should sign out every time??
ShyDesign saidAs long as no one has any access to your computer ( in real life, of course ), except yourself, it should be perfectly okay.
I have a Q: If I keep my account signed in (for example: for 2 months). Is it safe?? or I should sign out every time??
This tool is useful, btw
And yeah, this thread was created 3 years ago.
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This tool is useful, btw
Any website that asks you to enter your password should be treated with EXTREME precaution.
just want to say this:http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/password_strength.png
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just want to say this: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/password_strength.png
Nice! When you see it like that….it makes you want to change your passwords.


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Making Things Possible
Remap custom-makes equipment to help disabled people live more independent lives
REMAP is an independent charity whose engineers design and make custom, one-off equipment (or modify existing equipment) to improve the quality of life of disabled individuals or their carers when there is nothing otherwise commercially available.
Remap Gloucestershire is part of this national charity. The Gloucestershire Panel, which was established over 35 years ago, is made up of engineers, occupational therapists and other health workers. All the engineers' time is given on a voluntary basis. Most cases are referred by occupational therapists from Social Services and health and community workers within the county.
Any aspect of difficulty that disabled people or their carers encounter in their daily lives is looked at by the REMAP team and a solution designed and built to try to resolve the problem. Each solution, provided free of charge to the client, is specifically designed to address the individual's problem and enables an improvement in their quality of life or provides greater independence.REMAP's unique pieces of special equipment are tailor-made by volunteer experts and given free to the people who need them. Our engineers give their time and energies free, taking the trouble to ensure that each item they make really suits the individual person concerned and does the job it is meant to do. In Gloucestershire we help on average 100 disabled people every year and bring them a better quality of life or new opportunities for them to explore.
If you feel that REMAP can help you or someone you know, please contact us by filling in the Yearbooks.or give us a call. This website is intended to provide a glimpse of the work that we are actively involved in, with the purpose of encouraging more people with disabilities to contact us. To see some of the work we have done in more detail, please view our
For further information call John Fox on 01451 861432 or use the contact us menu above.
This event was held on Wednesday 24th May and was well attended. The Remap stand, located close to the entrance, was prominent. In addition to the banner donated by Marler Haley we displayed a Remap National banner, a video describing our work and made available some leaflets and year books, which disappeared fast.
The event was well attended and Remap made new contacts to help in our charity work. Click Here if you would like to find out more about this event.
For the forthcoming open day, and future use, Marler Haley - supplier of exhibition and banner stands - have donated a free banner in support of Remap Gloucestershire. Why not visit the open day and see what's hidden behind the banner! For details please look at 'Dates for your Diary' in this blog (below).
Each year Remap present an award for the most innovative project from all the local panels. In 2015 Remap Gloucestershire won the award for their Athletes' Throwing Chair, which is still being successfully used by our local athletes at the Prince of Wales stadium in Cheltenham.
This year, we have submitted our 'Dancing Wheelchair' project to enable creative students at the Star College to express their dance skills even if they are confined to a wheelchair. It was based on an original design made and built in the USA, which relied on the client shifting their weight in the chair to control the movement of the chair.
The Star College in Cheltenham asked Remap Gloucestershire to build a similar chair for their students. After much discussion and trials it was decided to have the wheelchair controlled by the client's hand movements, by attaching a motion sensor to the clients wrist. It was felt this would give more opportunity to those students who did not have the ability to adjust their torso position in the wheelchair. It also meant that a special wheelchair did not need to be constructed, as a standard wheelchair could easily be adapted to receive the motion sensor control.
This short video shows a prototype version being used by one of the students at the Star College. Work is still ongoing, using a donated wheelchair to improve the design.
This is just one of the more technical projects undertaken by the Gloucestershire Panel.
Learning Disability 9th Big Health Check and Social Care Open Day
This conference is organised in partnership with Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group, Gloucestershire County Council, Gloucestershire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust, Inclusion Gloucestershire, Active Gloucestershire and 2gether NHS Foundation Trust. This is a follow-up to the one held in May 2016, where over 1000 people attended. An update on progress that has been made and to discuss what we think is important over the coming years. Individuals will be invited to have their say about health services and the changes they want to see.
Prior to the day clinicians from our mental health learning disability and children's services including Physiotherapists, OT's, Speech and Language Therapists, psychologists, nursing staff from the community and acute hospitals are invited to set up a stand or take time out to attend. We will also have in attendance the police, fire and ambulance services public information display vehicles.
REMAP Gloucestershire will have a stand at the conference, where you will be able to talk to our engineers about our work and see some of the projects as hands-on and also in video and photos.
The key themes will be focusing on reducing Health Inequalities, making reasonable adjustments, access to mainstream services, choice and inclusion in supporting people with a learning disability with physical and complex health needs.
Below is a 15 minute summary highlight YouTube link of the last health and social care day in May 2016 which provides a good overview of this fantastic annual event –
https://youtu.be/8a18Cnftjgo - right click on mouse and open hyperlink.
Saturday 3rd June 2017
Tetbury Lions Club Workshop (Dolphins Hall, Tetbury from 10.00 to 16.00)
A one day workshop in Tetbury, facilitated by the Tetbury Lions Club, for organisations providing care in the town and surrounding area aimed at discussing aspirations, challenges and improved networking in a non-threatening atmosphere of co-operation.
REMAP Gloucestershire will be attending and will give us the opportunity to interact with over 30 local organisations that are concerned with care in the community.
During 2016 we progressed 105 referrals and completed 72 of these.
The remaining 15 cases are still being worked on during 2017.
The graph above is dynamic and will be automatically updated as the referrals are completed
In December 2016 our chairman, John Fox was invited to Radio Winchcombe to give an interview about the work done by REMAP in the Gloucestershire area. If you would like to listen to this interview and learn more about the work we do, just click on the start button below, or click on the title above, which will take you to the interview on the Radio Winchcombe website:
REMAP Gloucester wins National Award for helping local disabled athletes
Remap's annual national awards include 7 different categories. We are proud to announce that the 2015 award for Sport, Hobbies and Recreation has been awarded to the throwing frame that was designed and made by Peter Vielvoye from Gloucestershire Remap for the young athletes at Cheltenham Athletics Club.
After the tremendous success of the 2012 Paralympics it was decided to rationalise the seated throwing rules for disabled athletes. This meant that existing seats no longer conformed to the new rules and there was a need for a new design that did.
In 2013, Gloucestershire Remap panel were asked by Cheltenham Athletic Club if they could help. After much consultation and research a new seat design was manufactured for their budding young paralympic athletes. Following the success of our first seat, we have now manufactured and individually tailored seats to suit the needs of 4 of their athletes and two more are 'on the production line'. The picture on the right shows Gareth Picken competing at The English Disability Age Championships in Bedford where he achieved a personal best, attributed by him to his new seat but I am sure he had a big hand in it to. The picture on the left shows Gareth in the middle with two of the other athletes proudly sat on their seats.
Read what Gareth and his father have to say about the throwing seat and Remap Gloucestershire by following this.
REMAP Gloucester panel was formed in 1980
Peter Gearing (a very appropriate name!), who was the panel's chairman for many years until he retired in 1990, explained how the panel was setup as part of our 25th anniversary celebrations in 2005. Peter sadly died shortly after this celebration.
"The Gloucestershire Remap panel was set up at the instigation of Neil McClellon, Director of Social Services at Gloucestershire County Council. Neil had previously been director of Social Services in another county, which had a strong Remap panel. He invited engineers and Occupational Therapists to attend a meeting at Shire Hall in July 1980. 80 people attended the meeting, which elected a steering committee to form a constitution. In September 1980 the panel was formally set up.
David James was elected chairman and David Eady was elected secretary. Because we were a new panel it took some time for the various groups, OTs and Physios to get to know about us. There were three engineers on the panel, and we averaged 4 referrals a month, with an average of 7-8 running at one time....
David James served for 2 years as chairman before retiring. I was elected chairmen and served until 1990."
Peter Gearing (2005)
Today we have over 20 engineers, one Physiotherapist and three Occupational Therapists who regularly attend the panel meeting each month to discuss the case referrals. Each month we have, on average, about 10 new cases to discuss together with about 20 outstanding cases. The referrals can be anything from a simple modification to an existing piece of equipment to a complex new design involving woodwork, metalwork and electronics. With 20 engineers this enables us to call on a wide range of skills and facilities scattered over the entire county.
Note the biscuits on the table, which are donated by one of the panel each month!


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Didier Deschamps's side's hopes of automatic qualification hang by a thread ahead of their latest qualifier
France face a must-win game on Tuesday when they travel to Belarus for their latest World Cup 2014 qualifier.
Les Bleus drew 0-0 with Georgia on Friday and with Spain winning in Finland, they now trail the Group I leaders by three points with just two games left to play.
Goals have been hard to come by for Didier Deschamps' side in recent matches, with France drawing a blank in their last five outings.
The stalemate in Tbilisi underlined their woes in front of goal, with Olivier Giroud and Karim Benzema both guilty of wasting the kind of opportunities that they have been putting away for their club sides.
The 1998 World Cup-winners do at least have the comfort of a five-point gap over third-placed Finland, which should ensure that they claim a play-off spot as a minimum.
An altogether more cohesive France outfit ran out comfortable 3-1 winners when the two nations met last September and les Bleus will still be expected to come out on top against a Belarus side who sit bottom with just one win in six games.


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Prince Releases High Energy "Screwdriver" Single: Listen Here!
It's been a while since Prince hit the scene, but he is officially back and released the new lyric video for his single, "Screwdriver."
On Tuesday (January 22), the "Raspberry Beret" performer's upbeat track hit the web and gave his fans a great dance tune.
"Screwdriver" features strong notes of guitar and kick-drum beats, reminded us all of the Prince we loved and used to know.
Gutarist Donna Grantis, drummer Hannah Ford, and bassist Ida Nielsen all helm the single and makeup the 54-year-old performer's new band.


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Hello, names Mitch from Maryland. Just got my first subaru which i've longed for...well forever. I bought a 2002 wrx.. picked it up for $500 bucks needs some body work. Car was throwing 6 cel codes....WAS... until after I purchased it researched and learned about the GREEN TEST PLUG under the coin tray area. I unplugged the test/ flash plug and now there is only 1 CEL being thrown, which is a o2 sensor code. (I have 2 new o2 senosrs on the way: oem Denso's)
Since buying the car I have invested in a turbosmart kompact plum back BOV due to the fact the previous owner had a cheap ebay BOV that leaked severly... Which is why I had thought the car was not producing boost since then I have found that the turbo is not boosting at allllll ??!? So I will being pulling that off here sometime in the next couple days. I am however worried due to this clanking/clunking noise coming from the turbo/ turbo area. I read that the up-pipe cat can break appart and get sucked into the turbo. I am really hoping that the turbo is not blown or screwed up. I really dont want to have to buy a new turbo for it already. Oh and the engine seems to me to be running great other than it is slow due to no boost
So my questions for ANYONE are:
1. What should I be looking for other than taking the turbo off and inspecting it to fix the no boost problem?
2. If the turbo has sucked up some of the cat is it possible the turbo is still fine ? has anyone had this happen to them and their turbo was fine ?
3. If the turbo is bad and or the internals are messed up is it fixable ?
4. If the turbo is unable to be fixed where can I either find a CHEAP oem replacement used or new.....OR if there are maybe a decent cheap turbo upgrade that will not break the bank completely ( I know any sort of upgraded turbo will cost me hundreds of bucks, what will be the best bang for my buck I would ideally like to spend as least as possible for now.
5. Is it possible that there is no boost due to the o2 sensor being thrown? I figure that wouldn't cause no boost but figured I would ask
Any replies and advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thank You


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Paolo Di Canio feared he could be sacked by Sunderland before taking charge of his first game because of the media circus that surrounded his appointment.
Di Canio's arrival at the Stadium of Light was overshadowed by criticism of his political views.
"For three days after I signed the contract, what happened? I don't have to go through it all again but look what happened," said Di Canio.
"He [Sunderland chairman Ellis Short] might have thought, 'Now I'll sack him straight away' because he was under pressure. Instead he backed me 100 per cent, 1,000 per cent. He supported me in an incredible way."
Sunderland have enjoyed two wins from three games under Di Canio but the 44-year-old former West Ham striker has warned his players not to get complacent ahead of tonight's clash at Aston Villa.
There is one relegation place still available after Reading and Queens Park Rangers' fate was sealed yesterday. Villa are just two points clear of 18th-placed Wigan, while Di Canio's Sunderland are five points clear with four games left to play.
"It's obvious we do have one eye on the future but in this moment I don't want to lose any sort of energy because I know that football can change quickly," said Di Canio.
"I know from when I was a footballer if you get the result you want you can relax a little bit. But to relax a bit is different to going round the city, having a party."
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Apple came out with stupendous quarterly results, sickness but things are not equally rosy for other tech companies, erectile especially for the companies like Acer, which used to get their bread and butter from netbook market. Apparently, iPad's success has hit the netbook market hard and Acer felt the blow in the form of losing 64 percent of its quarterly profit. Well, the company also recently sacrificed its CEO on the altar of tablets.
With a new CEO in the tow, the company is now looking for a new direction and it looks like that it has chosen tablets over netbooks. Reportedly, the company is phasing out its netbook orders and is focusing on tablet production instead. Acer has also set up a separate division for drawing out its tablet strategy.
Acer has already phased out its Aspire One netbooks series with the launch of new Acer Iconia Tab A500. This 10.1 inch tablet comes with Honeycomb version of Android platform. Under the hood, It has NVIDIA's Tegra 2 processor and 1 GB of RAM. Acer Iconia comes with 16 GB of on board storage and is now available via Best Buy for cool $450. Now, with the release of Asus Transformer and Iconia, we are getting to see some sort of sanity in the tablet pricing. Probably, Motorola should have read the rule book before pricing Xoom. However, Iconia is still $50 pricier than Asus's offering, which comes with comparable specs.
Acer is not only looking at the pricing aspect, but is also bringing innovation. The company is reportedly planning to use cutting edge 'Shuriken' displays. The new displays will help in designing tablets with more screen real estate without adding corresponding bulk. Coming from the House of LG, Shuriken is expected to deliver the performance, but performance comes at a price, and in this case, the price is good 50 percent higher than its conventional counterparts. The company is likely to first use the display on experimental basis for the purpose of gauging whether the consumers are willing to pay the premium pricing.


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London : The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has voiced concern over controversial recommendations to remove the cap on undergraduate fees and allow universities to decide what they charge.
MCB warned that the measures may disproportionately hit ethnic minority communities within Britain, of which Muslims are a significant part, due to the higher levels of low income families within the two-million community.
"Despite many promises of protecting the poorest the proposed introduction of a 'variable' fee system will widen the gap between the richer and the poorer students, resulting in a sharp inequality," MCB secretary general Farooq Murad said.
Murad said the consequence would be that low-income students will increasingly cluster around the cheaper universities or indeed be compelled to think twice before enrolling for higher education at all.
"This can effectively create a dangerous form of class segregation within society – one that Britain has fought long and hard to overcome at section of society," he warned.
Business Secretary Vince Cable expressed support for the proposals on Tuesday, even though his Liberal Democrat Party issued an election pledge to oppose any increase in university fees before entering in a coalition government with the Conservatives.
In a statement obtained by IRNA, Murad expressed additional concern at the recommendation to increase interest rates on loans to beyond inflation levels, thereby rendering them profitable rather than in correlation to the standard inflation rate and cash value.
"This may potentially harm the prospects of Muslim students who cannot engage in interest based loans and financial transactions due to the tenets of their faith and may also not be able to fund their education privately," he said.
The MCB secretary general said it was imperative that the government take these factors into consideration as significant sections of the Muslim community are among the most deprived in Britain and therefore projected to be disproportionately hit.
"The alternative may be a society further segregated and a section of the community further alienated," he warned.
The National Union of Students (NUS) has also warned that the proposals were handing a 'blank cheque' to universities. It also claimed that the government would face a rebellion with nearly 30 Liberal Democrat MPs prepared to vote against a fees increase.


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Donald 'Buddy' Edwin Beissenherz, 87, of Wellington, died Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at Shirkey Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Richmond.
Services will be 10 a.m.., Saturday, June 29, at St. Luke Evangelical Church in Wellington. Burial in St. Luke Cemetery. Visitation from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, June 28 at the Walker-Nadler-Fuller Funeral Home. Burial in St. Luke Cemetery with Military Honors.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to St. Luke Evangelical Church in Donald's Memory.
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