Less than one-tenth of the federal budget was spent on children in 2008, $295 billion out of a total of $2,983 billion in outlays. Well over a third of the federal budget (38 percent) was allocated to the elderly and disabled for the non-child portions of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The children's share of the tax expenditure budget was also less than 10 percent.
This third annual Kids' Share report examines expenditures on children during a time federal budgets are undergoing much change. Our estimate of how much of the federal budget was directed toward children in 2008 is based on detailed budget data released in May 2009 and captures the effects of early responses to the recession. The effects of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 do not appear in the 2008 expenditures but do figure prominently in the expenditure projections included in the final section of the report.
After an initial section explaining the methodology involved in estimating children's expenditures across more than 100 federal programs and tax provisions, the report presents findings in four areas: expenditures in 2008, historic trends across the budget, historic trends within children's expenditures, and projections through 2019.
Federal budget outlays totaled $2.98 trillion in 2008, of which less than 10 percent ($295 billion) was devoted to children. In addition to outlays from a range of federal programs and refundable tax credits, there was an additional $73 billion in reductions in tax liabilities for families with children. With these tax expenditures, which represent less than 10 percent of the total tax expenditure budget, federal expenditures on children totaled $368 billion in 2008.
Six large programs accounted for more than three-fifths (62 percent) of all expenditures on children in 2008. Three of these programs – the child tax credit, Medicaid, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly the Food Stamp program – had higher expenditures in 2008 than in previous years as a result of early responses to the recession. Expenditures under the child tax credit, for example, included a one-time tax payment of $300 per child as part of the tax rebates in the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008.
While our focus is federal expenditures, this year's report adds an important glimpse into the broader picture, which includes state and local expenditures. In 2004, federal spending represented about one-third of total public investments on children. State and local spending data are not yet available for 2008, but they may represent a smaller share of the total, given fiscal pressures on state and local budgets in times of recession.
while domestic spending has increased. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid have increased fourfold from 1960, from 2.0 to 8.0 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) (these spending estimates exclude Social Security and Medicaid spending on children to avoid doublecounting). Outlays on children also have grown, more than doubling between 1960 and 1980 (from 0.6 to 1.4 percent of GDP) and increasing more gradually since then, rising to 2.1 percent of GDP in 2008. While outlays on children have increased in dollars and as a percentage of GDP, children are receiving a smaller share of the domestic federal budget, as shown in a comprehensive analysis that includes children's tax expenditures as well as outlays. Under this measure, the children's share of domestic federal spending – spending that excludes defense and international affairs and adds children's tax expenditures – has actually shrunk over time, from 20 percent in 1960 to 15 percent in 2008. That is, the children's share of the budget has shrunk by almost a quarter. In contrast, spending on the non-child portions of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid has more than doubled, rising from 22 to 47 percent of domestic spending.
During the 1960s and early 1970s, federal programs serving children and families expanded considerably. Since 1975, however, spending on programs benefitting children has risen only moderately as a percentage of GDP, and that growth is solely due to growth in Medicaid spending and tax credits. Most of the significant increases in spending on children in the past 30 years have occurred in taxes, including the expansion of the earned income tax credit in 1993 and the enactment of the child tax credit in 1997.
Over the past half-century, spending on children has gradually shifted from providing cash payment to parents to providing in-kind benefits and services to children and families. Some of the decline in cash payments to parents has been offset by an increase in refundable tax credits. Another long-term trend is a shift toward spending on programs that are means tested – that is, targeted to low-income families. Finally, there has been a long-term decline in the value of the dependent exemption, particularly between 1960 and 1985, followed by increases in the earned income tax credit and child tax credit.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) included substantial increases in spending on children, including increases in Medicaid, education, SNAP (food stamps), the child tax credit, and TANF, as well as smaller programs such as Head Start and child care assistance. As a result, spending on children will rise to a record high of 2.2 percent of GDP in 2009. However, there were even larger infusions of government funds for transportation, infrastructure, energy, and the bailout of banks and other institutions, so total government outlays are projected to increase to 27.4 percent of GDP, the highest level since World War II. As a percentage of total federal outlays, spending on children is actually projected to decline, from 9.9 to 8.2 percent of total outlays.
As the ARRA provisions expire, we project that spending on children will shrink over the next decade, falling to 1.9 percent of GDP by 2019, if current policies continue unchanged. In contrast to the projected decline in spending on children, spending on the elderly and disabled is projected to rise steadily. Over the next 10 years, the non-child portions of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are expected to increase 2.3 percentage points (from 8.0 to 10.3 percent of GDP). In other words, the increase in spending on these three programs in the absence of reform will exceed total spending on children. There is a growing danger that the escalating costs of these major entitlements, as well as growing interest payments on the national debt, will crowd out spending on children's programs.
These budget projections assume no change in current policies other than the extension of expiring tax provisions. In fact, the new administration and Congress are considering several significant policy and budget changes, including major reform of the nation's health care system, investment of federal resources toward broad-scale education reform, and attention to the nation's long-term fiscal and environmental challenges, all of which could have direct impacts on spending on children over the next decade.
Editor's note: This report is a joint project of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute. A hard copy of the full report is available from First Focus.


The JCI Iowa Outstanding Young Iowan (OYI) Award presented by Aces Iowa recognizes those individuals who have demonstrated a unique impact to the community. This honor is awarded to people aged 21 to 40 who are making an impact in a variety of fields, including business, political, academic achievement and humanitarian efforts. These young active citizens exemplify the spirit of the JCI Mission and provide exemplary service to their communities, serving as honorable young active citizens. This is the highest award given by JCI Iowa to a community individual, not necessarily a member of the Jaycees.
Each year, JCI Iowa accepts nominations from our members and the community. These nominations give our communities the chance to say "thank you" for making the community a better place, to network for future collaborations, and to inspire other communities with incredible ideas. Through an intense judging process, up to three of the nominated individuals will be honored as recipients of the Outstanding Young Iowan award. Those receiving the recognition are truly accomplished in their fields and/or in giving back to their communities. These individuals represent the best of the best and are individuals we should strive to emulate in our everyday actions. Each Honoree has shown a commitment to hope, reminding all Americans that no problem is too difficult when handled with grace, ingenuity, courage, and determination.
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Amanda Mahaffey, our General Manager, is constantly looking for ways to improve the health and performance of customers whether it's in sports or in daily life. A true local, she grew up nearby and participated in cross country and track at Eastside High School. Amanda's degree in Kinesiology from Anderson University and four years of experience as a collegiate runner aids in providing people with the proper advice on injury prevention, sports psychology, rehabilitation of the body, and enhancement of overall performance.
Josh Lee Visi-Clark, our Assistant Manager, has a great sense of humor, but he is all business when it comes to running knowledge. A graduate of Anderson University, Josh uses his degree in Kinesiology and experience as a collegiate runner to ensure that every customer understands what purchases will guarantee optimum health and performance. His hometown is Boynton Beach, Florida, and Josh brings to us knowledge and experience from 3 Cross Tri as well!
Anna Katherine Freeland is our Director of Training Groups. She enjoys helping runners of all abilities set and work toward their running goals. She loves answering running questions and gets very excited come race day. She began running again, after having her two boys, in January of 2004 with the Fleet Feet 10K training group and has since run many half marathons, full marathons and a couple of ultra marathons. She believes that running will facilitate world peace. You'll know when you've met her because you'll leave with a big smile on your face!
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Jane Few is a former teacher that continues to educate our staff and customers with her running knowledge. As our Director of Training & Education, Jane helps train staff and keeps us up-to-date with product. Jane began running in college with her roommate and hasn't stopped running since then! Running keeps a permanent smile on her face! All three of her kids have run cross country for Greenville High School. When she has some free time away from the store, she loves to go sailing....but as soon as she's back on land she's lacing up her shoes for a run!
Clive Gobbett is our senior staff member. Clive is an American import from the beautiful nation of South Africa. An elder in the running world, Clive has completed the Comrades Ultra Marathon in South Africa an amazing eleven times! Cycling and indoor rowing have been Clive's latest choice of exercise. Clive will spend all of the time you desire to ensure a great visit to Fleet Feet Sports.
John Johnson is a part-time worker at Fleet Feet Greenville and is a retired manager of Sears. When not at Fleet Feet, John is probably training for his next marathon. In fact, John has run the Boston Marathon 6 times and has run a marathon in every state! He's out to tackle Canada now! If you have a marathon question, he's the man to ask. He's so busy you may have to catch up with him on one of his 3AM runs. Go John!!
Siobhan Rose-Innes is a great addition to our family. Originally from South Africa, she has recently gained her American citizenship. Siobhan has completed Comrades Ultra Marathon in South Africa twice, and her most recent fitness passion is cycling. She also enjoys indoor rowing. You can hear Siobhan's pleasant accent most weekday mornings at Fleet Feet.
When I'm not at Fleet Feet, you can find me: With my dog.
Kate Dodds is originally from Pennsylvania, where she went to college as well. While at college, Kate broke THREE school records in the 10K, 3K, and the DMR. She leaves behind a cousin, uncle, brother, and grandpa named Angus. Currently, she runs for GTC Elite. She boasts about being able to eat an average of four bananas per day.


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Illegal Immigration Figures in Montana
By Jerry Shaw | Tuesday, 22 September 2015 05:09 PM
The estimated number of illegal immigrants in Montana was about 10,000 in 2010, according to the Pew Research Center. There were fewer than 5,000 illegal immigrants in the state's workforce in 2012, or about 0.4 percent of the state's labor force.
The American Immigration Council reported that data from the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy suggests that unauthorized immigrants in Montana paid some $3.2 million in state and local taxes in 2012. This figure included $1.4 million in property taxes, $977,000 in sales taxes, and $838,000 in personal income taxes.
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Legal status for these unauthorized immigrants would result in a total of some $4.5 million in state and local taxes for Montana, according to the institute, based on increases for sales, personal income and property taxes.
The Perryman Group reported that the absence of unauthorized immigrants from Montana would lead to a loss of $96.3 million in the state's economic activity with a loss of about 720 jobs.
Immigrants play a large role in Montana's education system. During 2013-14, some 1,691 foreign students contributed about $44.7 million in tuition, fees, and living expenses for the state's economy, according to the Association of International Educators. Montana immigrants with college degrees increased by 70.9 percent between 2000 and 2011, according to the Migration Policy Institute.
About 3.9 percent of Montana residents are Latino or Asian, according to the Immigration Policy Center. The Latino population grew from 1.5 percent in 1990 to 3.3 percent, or 33,181 people, in 2013, the U.S. Census Bureau reports. The Asian share accounted for 6,548 people or 0.6 percent in 2013.
Montanans who were foreign born accounted for about 19,692 or 2 percent of the state's population in 2013, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Slightly more than 53 percent of immigrants in Montana were naturalized U.S. citizens in 2013 and were eligible to vote.
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There were 1,061 new immigrant business owners in Montana between 2006 and 2010. A survey of business owners by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2007 found that 1,131 Latino-owned businesses employed 2,436 workers. Around the same time, 646 Asian-owned businesses in Montana employed 1,735 people.
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This party trick has nothing to do with the law, except the laws of physics, but it is a neat trick for those times when you need something to amaze the kids.
Mentos + Pop = Fun Words cannot begin to describe the awesome eruption that is created from adding Mentos candies to a 2-liter bottle of soda. The eruption is enormous… and so is the learning if you consider the chemistry.
A roll or box of Mentos (candy mints) and a 2-liter bottle of diet soda. Either diet or regular soda will work for this experiment, but diet soda is less sticky when you're cleaning it up!
This activity is probably best done outside in the middle of an abandoned field, or better yet, on a huge lawn.
Carefully open the bottle of soda. Position the bottle on the ground so that it will not tip over.
Unwrap the whole roll of Mentos. The goal is to drop all of the Mentos into the bottle of soda at the same time (which is trickier than it looks). One method for doing this is to roll a piece of paper into a tube just big enough to hold the loose Mentos. You'll want to be able to position the tube directly over the mouth of the bottle so that all of the candies drop into the bottle at the same time.
It's just like fireworks on the 4th of July. The spectators erupt, of course, in a chorus of ooohs and ahhhs. Someone yells out, "Do it again" and you do.
Here's the question of the day… Why do Mentos mixed with soda produce this incredible eruption? You should know that there is considerable debate over how and why this works. While we offer the most probable explanations below, we also understand and admit that other explanation could be possible… and we welcome your thoughts.
If you shake the bottle and then open it, the gas is released from the protective hold of the water molecules and escapes with a whoosh, taking some of the soda along with it. What other ways can you cause the gas to escape? Just drop something into a glass of soda and notice how bubbles immediately form on the surface of the object. For example, adding salt to soda causes it to foam up because thousands of little bubbles form on the surface of each grain of salt.
Many scientists, including Lee Marek, claim that the Mentos phenomenon is a physical reaction, not a chemical one. Water molecules strongly attract each other, linking together to form a tight mesh around each bubble of carbon dioxide gas in the soda. In order to form a new bubble, or even to expand a bubble that has already formed, water molecules must push away from each other. It takes extra energy to break this "surface tension." In other words, water "resists" the expansion of bubbles in the soda.
When you drop the Mentos into the soda, the gelatin and gum arabic from the dissolving candy break the surface tension. This disrupts the water mesh, so that it takes less work to expand and form new bubbles. Each Mentos candy has thousands of tiny pits all over the surface. These tiny pits are called nucleation sites – perfect places for carbon dioxide bubbles to form. As soon as the Mentos hit the soda, bubbles form all over the surface of the candy. Couple this with the fact that the Mentos candies are heavy and sink to the bottom of the bottle and you've got a double-whammy. When all this gas is released, it literally pushes all of the liquid up and out of the bottle in an incredible soda blast. You can see a similar effect when cooking potatoes or pasta are lowered into a pot of boiling water. The water will sometimes boil over because organic materials that leach out of the cooking potatoes or pasta disrupt the tight mesh of water molecules at the surface of the water, making it easier for bubbles and foam to form.
Next question… Why should you use diet Coke or diet Pepsi? The simple answer is that diet soda just works better than regular soda. Some people speculate that it has something to do with the artifical sweetner, but the verdict is still out. More importantly, diet soda does not leave a sticky mess to have to clean up. Hey, that's important.
What's the record for the biggest Mentos fountain? My official record is a 18 foot blast that shot up and almost took out a half million dollar, high-definition television camera. You'll find video on-line at www.SteveSpanglerScience.com of some of our favorite eruptions.
On a personal note… I've performed this demonstration well over a thousand times – on television, talk shows, science conventions, teacher associations, for CEO's at huge motivational speaking rallies, for Nobel Prize winners and anyone else who might watch. And the reaction is always the same… that's amazing! My thanks to Lee Marek who originally shared the Mentos idea with me and to the hundreds of teachers and science enthusiasts who continue to share their funny pictures, videos and experiences.
A Chandler Abramson ticket for dems in 2007?
www.Bluegrassreport.org, a blog that focuses on democratic politics in Kentucky has posted a story that suggests Congressman Ben Chandler and Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson had a meeting this week in Washington and discussed the 2007 Governor's race. Under the suggested pairing, Chandler would run as the candidate for Governor with Abramson filling the Lt. Governor's slot.
LawReader User Mickey McGuire of Prestonsburg, (and his dance partner) Jessica Bryant of Louisville were named world champions by the United Country Western Dance Council in January.
AT 57, PRESTONSBURG LAWYER SURPRISES EVEN HIMSELF – It has taken only about a year to perfect this partnership, but it is one in which the duo are so in tune with each other, no words need be spoken.
That's probably a good thing because who wants to share the dance floor with a couple of Chatty Cathys?
Then again, who wants to share the dance floor with a couple of world champs?
That's what happens any time Prestonsburg lawyer Mickey McGuire and Louisville real estate agent Jessica Bryant trip the light fantastic.
Fair warning: Anyone who isn't an equal terpsichorean heavyweight had better sit the next one out.
It took five dances, elaborate costumes and a lot of calluses for the couple to be named World Crystal Champions by the United Country Western Dance Council in January, when they competed against dancers from Europe and England at the international competition outside Stockholm.
Competitors had to perform five to eight individual and different dances, each lasting two minutes.
Judges gave points for each dance, then added then up to decide the winner. Strategies varied according to the strengths of each team. Some dancers tried to rack up the most points by performing all eight dances. Others believed in keeping their dance card to the bare minimum, focusing precious practice time on the smallest number of steps.
Fortunately or not, the McGuire-Bryant team didn't have to worry about a strategy.
"We only met last May," he said, so he and Bryant stuck with the bare minimum of five dances — waltz, cha-cha, swing, nightclub or bolero, and country-western. "We didn't have any more time," he said.
Getting to take the gold home takes more than being able to smile while doing the box step or not hyperventilating during the cha-cha. Judges look for poise, connection between partners, costumes and choreography.
Enduring such a high-pressure contest was not what McGuire had in mind when he got into ballroom dancing 15 years ago. He thought it would just be fun and a better alternative to going home and falling asleep on the couch in front of the TV.
Yet, in a few years, he grew more adventuresome and started making the four-hour round trip to Charleston, W.Va., every Monday night after work to take even more lessons.
It was this teacher, Lorinda Nease, who taught at her Steppin' Out Studio, who saw his latent competitive streak and persuaded him to try out in the newcomer division in a contest in Harrisburg, Pa. McGuire took fourth place.
"After that I was hooked," he said.
Though McGuire might be light on his feet on the dance floor, he's not a lightweight when it comes to training, approaching his workouts as if he were an Olympics-bound athlete.
At least twice a week he heads for the gym for muscle-pummeling endurance sessions. But it's his biweekly yoga class that he thinks gives him the edge at age 57.
Most weekends McGuire heads to Louisville to train with Bryant for four to six hours at a time to perfect their precision. It's at the end of those grueling practice sessions that McGuire feels out of step with his own muscles.
"I'll get out my driver's license to make sure I'm not 80. I knew I was 57 when I walked in here," he said.
As hard as he trained for the championship, McGuire was just as sure the pair wouldn't win after he got a look at the other teams.
"There were couples from Italy and England, and we thought they were awesome, really, really good. We concluded that we were not going to win, thank you very much, judges," he said.
So instead of hanging around the ballroom watching someone else take the prize, he went sightseeing with his two college-age children. That was fine with his partner.
As he walked into his hotel room, he saw what a misstep in judgment he had made. There in his suite's sitting room was a table full of first-place trophies.
And then, McGuire did something no world champion dancer ought to do.
LawReader User Eric Deters besides being a highly experienced trial lawyer in Northern Kentucky, is a two time author of books which will be released this winter at your local bookstore.
He has written a book about the Simon Kenton High School explosion and the state basketball championship. It's titled "Yesterday, When They Were Young.�? We have heard that this is a very interesting tale.
He also has written "Saving Grace�? with Kentucky Enquirer columnist Patrick Crowley. This book is about Sarah Brady fighting off and killing Katie Smith who while faking a pregnancy planned on killing Sarah, who really was pregnant, and cutting out her baby from her womb.
As we recall, Smith had falsely told her friends and family she was pregnant, and lured Sarah Brady to her house on a ruse about some baby gifts belonging to Brady being inadvertently delivered to her. Brady was just about full term with her pregnancy and when attacked wrestled the knife away from Smith and defended herself and her unborn child, and in the process killed her attacker. Sounds like it would make a thrilling movie…we nominate Angelina Jolie for the Brady role.
Congratulations Eric. We can't wait to see your books at Barnes and Noble.
Ann Shake is one of the two candidates for the Supreme Court vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Martin Johnstone. She has announced that she will not seek the interim appointment that will be created when Johnstone steps down sometime before July 1.
The Judicial Nominating Commission will nominate up to three candidates for the vacancy. The Governor will select one of the three nominees to serve until replaced by the winning candidate in this November's election.
Court of Appeals Judge William McAnulty, Jr., who will oppose Shake in the November election, has said that he would accept the appointment by Fletcher if it is offered to him. Shake said that she felt it likely that future cases regarding the Merit System investigation and the Governors indictment for three misdemeanors might appear before the court, and she did not want to give the appearance of being beholden to the Governor. McAnulty said if that occurs he would recuse himself.
It is felt by some that an interim appointment gives the interim Judge a competitive advantage in the general election, but others point out that many interim appointments are not successful at the polls.
Governor Fletcher vetoed a portion of the judicial budget bill that financed the special elections that would be held for an estimated nine vacancies in judicial offices that are expected to exist after July 1. By his veto, the Governor has created a situation where he will be appointing as many as nine new judges. His veto will not effect the regularly scheduled Supreme Court elections this November.
Some court watchers are suggesting that candidates for the nine judicial vacancies that will be filled by the Governor will be tainted by accepting such appointments. The Governor's low poll numbers and pending trial on misdemeanor charges can be expected to become an issue in subsequent elections of any judge who has benefited from accepting an interim appointment.
Lt. Gov. Steve Pence announced today that he was resigning his position as Justice Cabinet Secretary and that he would not run on Gov. Ernie Fletcher's ticket as Lt. Governor in the 2007 gubernatorial race. His resignation will be effective in August.
These are considered the first steps he must take in order to prepare to make a run for the Governor's chair. Until now he has made statements that indicated he would remain on Fletcher's ticket.
Under Ky. election law, the Governor must have a candidate for Lt. Governor to run with him.
Throughout the Merit System investigation Pence has distanced himself from Fletcher, and they have had few public appearances together.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (May 25) – Mount Everest pioneer Sir Edmund Hillary said Wednesday he was shocked that dozens of climbers left a British mountaineer to die during their own attempts on the world's tallest peak.
David Sharp, 34, died apparently of oxygen deficiency while descending from the summit during a solo climb last week.
More than 40 climbers are thought to have seen him as he lay dying, and almost all continued to the summit without offering assistance.
"Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain," Hillary was quoted as saying in an interview with New Zealand Press Association.
New Zealander Mark Inglis, who became the first double amputee to reach the mountain's summit on prosthetic legs, told Television New Zealand that his party stopped during its May 15 summit push and found Sharp close to death.
A member of the party tried to give Sharp oxygen, and sent out a radio distress call before continuing to the summit, he said.
Several parties reported seeing Sharp in varying states of health and working on his oxygen equipment on the day of his death.
Inglis, who was due to arrive back in New Zealand on Thursday, said Sharp had no oxygen when he was found. He said there was virtually no hope that Sharp could have been carried to safety from his position about 1,000 feet short of the 29,035-foot summit, inside the low-oxygen "death zone" of the mountain straddling the Nepal-China border.
His own party was able to render only limited assistance and had to put the safety of its own members first, Inglis said Wednesday.
The temperature was minus 100 at 7 a.m. on the summit, he said.
Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953 became the first mountaineers to reach Everest's summit. Hillary said in an interview published Wednesday in a New Zealand newspaper that some climbers today did not care about the welfare of others.
"There have been a number of occasions when people have been neglected and left to die and I don't regard this as a correct philosophy," he told the Otago Daily Times.
"I think the whole attitude toward climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top," he told the newspaper.
Hillary told New Zealand Press Association he would have abandoned his own pioneering climb to save another's life.
"It was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat, say 'good morning' and pass on by," he said.
Three climbers, from Brazil, Russia and France, died descending Everest in separate expeditions in the past week, a Chinese official said Tuesday.
More than 1,500 climbers have reached the summit of Mount Everest in the last 53 years and some 190 have died trying.
Lawreader comment: Have we become so focused on our immediate objective that we have lost sight of life's mission?
We appreciate the work of judges and acknowledge that most judges are very good in writing decisions. However, every year there are some decisions that are so far off the mark that one is amazed at the reasoning that was (not) applied to that decision. Please send us your nominations and we will post the best ones. Please name the judge and send as much information about the fact situation as possible so we can have our committee evaluate the nominated cases. We will probably not name the judge, but perhaps we can provide an outlet for you to blow off some steam. We prefer to avoid pending cases. Perhaps this might just improve the quality of work being handed down.
We can think of several legal opinions handed down over the years by several judges that are so bad they deserve recognition.
In one case the Circuit Court judge ruled that a specific U.S. Sup. Ct. case stood for the proposition that a search was authorized without a warrant…but the decision said absolutely that the search was prohibited under the 4th. Amendment…the judge had cited the case of J.L. v. Florida and left out the words "we do not find�?…and changed his citation to "we find�?….therefore justifying his reversal of a lower courts suppression ruling of the illegal search.
In another case a District Judge ruled that any peace officer could make a traffic stop in any county in Kentucky..i.e. a Pikeville constable could set up a DUI roadstop on the Watterson Expressway in Louisville..(??) …go figure the reasoning behind that…after about a year this bad decision was finally overruled.
Then there is the errant golf ball ruling where the judge ruled that when a golfer hit an errant shot and the ball left the golf course and caused property damage to a nearby home…that the homeowner was responsible for the damages and the golfer was immune….Theory: The homeowner was negligent for building his home near a golf course.
We also nominate all the decisions of the Court of Appeals that just flat ignore the Administrative Regulations and Statutes applying to the proper operation of the BA machine. They continue to ignore the requirement for manufacturer's instructions to be followed, and that the machine must be shown to be in good operating condition.
The list goes on and on….send us yours…we will either print your name or not…as you request. But we will post the decisions in our HALL OF SHAME.
Quote from a political ad placed by a candidate for U.S. Congress in the 3rd. Dist. Race in Louisville.
This legal memorandum shows how it is done.
process and eligibility requirements involved in issuing non-working SSNs.
Ø Alleges a need for a SSN for tax or similar purposes.
and evidence required to obtain a non-work SSN.
eligible to apply for a non-work SSN.
cannot apply for a social security number for their US citizen children.
regardless of whether the your client has one.
his or her signature on the application for a social security number.
stress that she should keep the card in a safe place and not lose it.
Atlantic Free trade Agreement ("NAFTA").
purposes" in bold letters on the face of the card.
SSN as a prerequisite for driver's licenses and motor vehicle registration.
The New Eminent Domain Law is awaiting the signature of the Governor after passing the House and Senate.
AN ACT relating to eminent domain.
Create a new section of KRS 416.540 to 416.680 to delineate the allowable public uses for eminent domain in the Commonwealth; amend 416.540 relating to eminent domain, to replace the phrase "public purpose" with the phrase "public use".
SFA (1, E. Harris) – Amend to exempt the acquisition of property financed by state road funds or federal highway funds from the public use requirement for eminent domain.
Purpose) PUBLIC USE PUBLIC USEand shall include the right of private persons, corporations or business entities to do so under authority of law.
History: Created 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 140, sec. 2.
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Rookley Country Park, Rookley (Isle of Wight, South East), England- small steeps.
Marky Eastman from isle of wight reported this 36lbs 10oz mirror from Rookley Country Park, Rookley (Isle of Wight, South East) on Monday 20th September 2010 at 8:30 PM.
ccmoore live system (Fresh / frozen boilies).


BCBL – Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language – The Center Gerry Altmann. Representing objects across time: fMRI studies of language-mediated event representation.
Gerry Altmann. Representing objects across time: fMRI studies of language-mediated event representation.
Zer: Representing objects across time: fMRI studies of language-mediated event representation.
Nork: Professor Gerry Altmann. University of York, UK.
Language is often used to describe the changes that occur around us – changes in either state ("I cracked the glass…") or location ("I moved the glass onto the table…"). To fully comprehend such events requires that we represent the 'before' and 'after' states of the object. But how do we represent these mutually exclusive states of a single object at the same time? I shall summarise a series of studies, primarily from fMRI, which show that we do represent such alternative states, and that these alternative states compete with one another in much the same way as alternative interpretations of an ambiguous word might compete. These studies also show that whereas the representations of distinct but similar objects (e.g. a glass and a cup) interfere with one another in proportion to their similarity, representations of the distinct states of the same object interfere in proportion to their dissimilarity. This interference, or competition, manifests in a part of the brain that has been implicated in resolving competition. Furthermore, activity in this area is predicted by the dissimilarity, elsewhere in the brain, between sensorimotor instantiations of the described object's distinct states. I shall end with new data (still too hot to touch) whose interpretation is a first step towards a brain mechanism for distinguishing between object types, tokens, and token-states.


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Vincent Batts: An Open Source Career from KDE to OCI
Containers / Kubernetes / Open Source / Software Development
Dec 27th, 2017 7:59am by Swapnil Bhartiya
Slackware introduced him to the world of open source contributions, he never looked back.
Vincent Batts is a principal software engineer who started his work in Red Hat's Office of the CTO on OpenShift, improving communication between contributors and building partnerships. He's focused now on Red Hat's work with the Open Container Initiative (OCI) but has contributed to many enterprise open source projects throughout his career.
Batts studied engineering at the University of Alabama-Birmingham but took a pause during his stint there, which included working within the IT department of a local banking institution.
"I ultimately did return to school and finished a degree in accounting and international business," said Batts. "By the time I graduated, however, I was already working at my first start-up and ultimately ended up leaning more on my experience in IT versus my educational background."
After his education, Batts started in IT for an online banking institution, where his work primarily focused on systems and connectivity. After that, he went to a startup that provided unified displays for hospitals to have a single-pane-of-glass view of various mainframe-level systems information.
Batts went to work for Akamai, focused on CDN (content delivery networks) and securing the company's backend systems. That's when he joined Red Hat IT, helping to further enhance how Red Hat's products were delivered by the Akamai CDN. That job led him into a role on the OpenShift team.
He has been at Red Hat for five years now. For the last three years, he has been in the Office of the CTO at Red Hat.
While Batts was working with the OpenShift team, he concentrated on helping the communities develop the upstream technology that OpenShift builds on by providing smoother integrations between various projects and development teams.
"I like to think that I'm good at not just working on the technological components of open source, but also in helping to foster conversations between the people actually building the bits," said Batts. "I was often the crux in starting up conversations between Red Hat plus another company, either to build a bridge or to help settle a disagreement. Given how experienced I was becoming in this regard, it made sense to move into this type of role full-time inside the broader Office of Technology."
At Red Hat, his day-to-day activities center around working on the Open Container Initiative (OCI) specifications. A lot of work went into the first release — coordinating with other companies and developers, developing correspondence workflows, helping to draft and finalize documentation, among other things.
First Encounter with Open Source
"When I was in my early teens, my older brother was in an electrical engineering program and brought home a few install CDs for various Linux distributions. The first one that I fired up was SUSE 5.1, which led me on a quest to build my own computer — a 486sx," recalled Batts.
Also included in this trove of CDs was an FTP archive full of various open source repositories. Once Batts discovered that, he was hooked. Just like any other desktop Linux user, Batts kept using various distributions to find something that was comfortable for his tastes. Eventually, he became involved in a local user group in Birmingham, Alabama. But he wasn't involved deeply.
"What eventually did kick-off my more intense work with open source was KDE, or rather my attempt at getting some patches into KDE that addressed some console bugs that I kept hitting," he said.
However, he didn't know how to program at the time, so this was his learning experience/wake up call in that regard. He kept up his involvement with KDE over the years, mostly doing user testing and running edge builds.
One of the core contributors to Slackware moved to Birmingham. After talking to him, Batts learned what community involvement really meant. That's when he started contributing to Ruby and was pulled in as a core team member on Slackware to help with Ruby and KDE. He is still involved with Slackware to this day.
"I owe a deep debt of gratitude to the open source community in general. This involvement is what's helped me learn what I know now and it also helped to launch me into my current career path," said Batts.
In addition to being involved with KDE, Ruby and Slackware in the past, Batts is currently involved with OCI, Golang, Moby and many other container-related communities.
"For the Open Container Initiative, I was involved with Golang very early on as a point person for Fedora and CentOS," he said. "When I started at Red Hat, customers were trying to get various Golang workloads up and running in the previous version of OpenShift (2.0). Containers were in use on OpenShift then, but not in the way that they are now — they were called cartridges and were consumed/created in a different manner. We wanted to find a more unified way to interact with containers outside of cartridges, and it made sense to look at Docker, which was based in Golang."
As a Docker "watcher," Batts was monitoring the project to see how it could be consumed by OpenShift to improve container capabilities, and eventually became involved in various steering committees aimed at pulling Docker into OpenShift v3, now known as Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
"Even after that happened, I kept working with these upstream communities, eventually shifting my focus to OCI, to make sure that our customer needs were heard and so that Red Hat and OpenShift could stay on top of emerging innovation," he said.
He wanted the community to win, with Red Hat to have a hand in that success. He believes that the 1.0 release of the OCI runtime and image specifications are very much a showcase of this "winning."
Bringing Containers Mainstream
The Open Container Initiative may not ever have existed if not for the contentious nature of the container space. Before the coalition came together, the container space was fragmented — while docker was the dominant runtime, it wasn't a true standard, and the volatile nature of the underpinning components made the various communities turbulent, to say the least.
Batts said that OCI wanted to codify the basic pieces of container innovation, specifically the image and the runtime, into true specifications that could then be commoditized for enterprises to actually use.
"No IT shop wants to buy into something innovative only to find that the project dies/changes dramatically and they're left holding the bag. OCI emerged to combat this and bring containers mainstream. I have to say that I think we've succeeded to that end," said Batts.
OCI has grown as a huge project that's populated by many, many IT visionaries, including Red Hat, and shepherded by The Linux Foundation. "It has roughly 40 founding members, with many additions since then. In terms of contributions, they come from all over, from IT vendors to end users, true to the nature of the open source world," said Batts.
Batts has seen both sides of the open source world. He has worked with pure non-commercial projects like KDE and Slackware. At the same time, he has also worked with vendor-driven projects like OCI.
"It's very rare to be able to monetize open source in the first place, but I'm a huge supporter of open source in general, as evidenced by my employer. That said, some of the most toxic components in the open source world come from too much corporate involvement and investment — communities are built, but to achieve very specific ends within a very specific set of criteria," Batts said. "There's a balance that I think can be struck. Companies can fund projects, but they must do so in such a way as to not overly dictate how the project is built organically. That's the beauty of open source and without it, you create something that's not really open source."
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Swapnil is a journalist and writer who has been covering Linux & Open Source for 10 years. He is also a science fiction writer whose stories have been broadcast on Indian radio and published in leading Indian magazines.
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One thing I love discovering when in a new place is the music. Lucky for me- Halifax has an amazing live music scene, which we have explored a little bit, but I can't wait to see more! As I mentioned in the last post, we went to the Summer Sonic festival, which was amazing- such a great atmosphere and amazing musicians (<3 Ben Harper!). But we've also been to a few more casual shows- there are lots of live mic nights and local bands playing which have been really great. Then on Thursday night a friend of ours invited us to come along to a proper concert at a local music hall, by Canadian folk band, Great Lake Swimmers. The lead singer has an amazing voice and they have a wicked banjo player.
So for anyone looking for something relaxing and beautiful, check them out!


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Belarus Court Frees Journalist
A Belarusian court has rescinded the jail sentence of a prominent journalist who was accused of involvement in antigovernment rallies in 2010.
Belarusian Court Frees Independent Journalist
A court in Minsk has released an independent journalist and the wife of an opposition leader, Iryna Khalip, who was accused of organizing protests against the authorities. Belarus says there are no ex-political prisoners under the rule of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. (Reuters)
Belarusian President Begins China Visit
The Belarusian and Chinese sides are expected to sign a joint declaration and more than 20 bilateral agreements, protocols, and contracts.
Make Way For MOOCs: How Free, Online Courses Could Revolutionize Education
What do you call free, internet-based classes taught by professors from top U.S. schools? They're known as "massive open online courses," or "MOOCs." But some are simply calling them an educational revolution.
Belarusian Villagers Cast Out 'Rusalka'
Residents of Vialiki Bor in southern Belarus recently took part in the folk tradition of expelling a "rusalka," or water sprite, from their village in order to ensure a good harvest.
Belarusian Activist Convicted Of Attempting To Contact Spy Agency
An opposition activist in Belarus has been sentenced to 18 months in jail after being convicted of attempting to contact a foreign intelligence service.
The Long Road To Brussels After Croatia
Croatia, which joined the European Union on July 1, is likely to be the last addition for some time. Other Balkan states are likely to follow suit, but it's likely to take at least another decade. As for the EU's neighbors to the east, their journey to membership is rockier still.
Belarusian Vendors To Continue Protests
Vendors at Minsk's Zdanovichy market have announced a plan to protest the jail sentence given to the chairman of the Perspektiva public union over a one-day retailers' strike.
RFE/RL Reporter Released In Minsk
An RFE/RL correspondent in Minsk, who had been detained while covering a one-day strike by the country's entrepreneurs, has been released.
EU Eases Contacts With Belarus
The Council of the European Union has suspended the EU travel ban on Belarusian Foreign Minister Uladzimer Makey "in order to facilitate diplomatic contacts between the EU and Belarus."
Eurasian Deterioration 'Troubling'
Countries in Central Europe and Central Asia are increasingly being ruled by autocratic governments with little regard for democracy, according to the 2013 "Nations In Transit" report by democracy watchdog Freedom House.
Belarus Imposes Third Death Sentence Of 2013
A court in the southeastern Belarusian city of Homel has handed down the country's third death sentence this year.


As an Employer, What Can You Do About Cancer?
As employers, we are called to be compassionate and practical at the same time. CancerBridge is the answer.
For every 1000 workers, 80 employees or immediate family members are diagnosed with cancer each year.
Employers want to provide the best resources to their employees during sensitive periods of health uncertainty. One of the most efficient and useful tools an employer can provide is the connection to a team of experts.
A shocking statistic around cancer treatment is that 1 in 10 diagnoses are wrong. These oversights lead to discomfort on behalf of the patient and cost on behalf of the employer.
Cancer-Related costs are 10% of employer-based health care spending, and rising.
Lost work time and underperformance at work (presenteeism) due to cancer costs employers $100,000 per 1000 workers.
Medical and pharmacy treatments cost about $91,000 per 1000 worker.


Landscape lighting accentuates your outdoor living spaces and shows off your garden and other landscape features at night. It can enhance the appearance of your North Texas area home while also making it safer for you to walk around outside when it's dark out. At Landscape by Design, we provide high-quality landscape lighting services for homeowners in Fort Worth and the surrounding area.
Landscape lighting can be both decorative and practical. These lights can highlight certain features of your yard landscaping, lower your risk of falling while walking around at night, and deter intruders. When you have landscape lights, you'll also be able to sit outside in the evening or at night. Whether you want to enjoy a quiet evening in your yard or entertain guests for nighttime summer gatherings and other parties, landscape lights make this possible. At Landscape by Design, our landscape lighting experts have the right knowledge to make sure that you end up with the perfect lights for your yard.
When you start looking into outdoor lighting for your North Texas home, you'll find that there are several different styles and systems to choose from. Selecting the right ones for your yard can seem like an overwhelming task, but the professionals at Landscape by Design are here to help. With guidance from an outdoor lighting designer, you'll find that it's much easier to narrow down your lighting options and choose the best one for your property.
Having help from an outdoor lighting designer in the Fort Worth area helps to ensure you choose lighting that best suits your home. Our designer can help you navigate the many options that are available for landscape lighting systems, fixtures, and other components. With this kind of help, you'll end up with outdoor lighting that makes your North Texas landscaping even more beautiful.
Outdoor light fixtures come in many varieties, ranging from functional fixtures to ornamental ones. You'll also find fixtures that serve different purposes, such as highlighting paths, illuminating trees, and drawing attention to decorative retaining walls. From floodlights to well lights, we can explain these different kinds of lights to you and help you pick out the ones your property needs.
Some lighting fixtures for landscaping have more aesthetic appeal, while others are designed to be more practical or functional in appearance. Whether you need hardscape lights for walls, path lights for walkways, or spotlights for trees and architectural features, you can depend on the experts at Landscape by Design for help. We'll make sure that you have outdoor fixtures that provide your yard with the lighting it needs.
Exterior lighting for your home in Tarrant County can do more than make your house look its best. These lights can also add more safety to your home and property overall. Outdoor lighting for homes helps keep intruders away and reduces the risk of falling or tripping while you're walking on paths or through your yard at night. Contact the lighting experts at Landscape by Design, and we'll help you choose the perfect exterior lighting for your home.


We all know that India is one of those countries that houses the most hardworking and rigorous workforce in the whole world. And, millions of people becoming a part of the workspace almost every week and the booming financial system of India has made our country to raise its position in the world economy. Nonetheless, the Indian workforce and undoubtedly, the workspace are undergoing certain changes and that are for good. One such change is embracing and adapting to the new work culture. What's that? You might be wondering about it!! It's Co Working Space In Mumbai and other parts of the country.
The typical workforce comprises digital nomads, freelancers, startups, solo entrepreneur and big corporate houses. The fact is, everyone is pretty much accepting the concept of co-working. This idea might be a new platform for India. However, to the world, shared Office Space Rental is already an established and well-recognized business model. So, why do you think Indians are looking forward to co-working? Well, renting a shared office space does not only provide an official space to work in, but it comes along with a long list of advantages. Coworking means a cool and trendy office, independent work life, great work and life balance, networking opportunities, no worries about overhead costs and much more.
Simply put, a Shared Office provides the new age workforce with a curated environment that's much more happening, creative, innovating and most importantly, sustainable in comparison to the monotonous traditional office set-ups.
With a good Co Working Space In Mumbai like WorkLoft, you can choose from a wide range of options. The best thing – you can alter the plan according to your business needs, as and when needed.
Until and unless you meet new people, you cannot open new doors leading to new opportunities. Right? Networking is one of the best ways to move forward and is relevant to almost all spheres of your life. A shared Office Space Rental provides you with an ecosystem where you get to meet people from different professional backgrounds and experiences to share with you.
Commuting everyday to office and then back home is one of the most challenging things to do, especially in regard to Indian transportation, where every means of transportation is plagued with different of issues. Quite obviously, people get tired while commuting to and fro and it can be counter-productive. However, when you choose to go with one of the Co Working Spaces Mumbai, like WorkLoft, you can choose a office nearby your home where you don't need to travel long distances.
Switching from mundane and mechanical official settings is itself very motivating. Most people who belong to the new generation actually get demotivated when they come to an office that looks old and boring. Therefore, a Shared office is a good solution to say goodbye to all that is boring. A coworking space like WorkLoft can instantly lift your mood the moment you enter there.
So, give a kick to your mood and evoke your hidden creativity like never before. Come be a part of WorkLoft, the best shared office space in Mumbai that will take your work to a new dimension. Do share this blog to make it reach out the people who are bored of the traditional offices.


Early next year, seven smartphones from HTC will be upgraded to Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, the company said on Monday.
Since Google officially announced the arrival of the new version of Android, users have been worrying about if and when their smartphones will get the new version of the mobile OS. HTC said it knows how excited its fans are to get their hands on Google's latest version of Android.
The Sensation, Sensation XL, Sensation XE and EVO 3D, as well as U.S. models Rezound, EVO Design 4G and Amaze 4G, will be the first batch of smartphones to be upgraded, according to HTC.
That will leave some HTC smartphone owners happy, but several models are missing from that list. Users whose phones aren't on the list shouldn't worry too much, at least not yet, and instead "stay tuned for more updates on device upgrades, timing and other details about Ice Cream Sandwich," HTC said.
Android 4.0, which has been developed to work equally well on phones and tablets, includes a mixture of improvements and new features.
Google has created a new font optimized for HD displays and eliminated all hardware buttons in favor of adaptable software buttons, as shown on the Galaxy Nexus. Google has also improved the keyboard, made notifications more interactive and created resizable widgets, it said.
Android Beam is one of the new features in Ice Cream Sandwich. It uses NFC (Near-Field Communications) technology to share Web pages, YouTube videos, maps, directions and apps by tapping two phones together.
The last few weeks have been good for HTC. The company reported its highest-ever quarterly revenue and it has become the largest smartphone vendor in the U.S. during the third quarter, and the fourth largest in the world, according to data from market research company Canalys.


For everything Metroid, this will be a thread to discuss Metroid games, Metroid content, etc. I'll try to have daily questions/polls to try to keep this thread running. If you don't know what Metroid is, it's Nintendo's big space franchise of isolation and exploration and you play as the best bountess in the galaxy, Samus Aran.
Why do I like this series?
I guess I like going around exploring the planet to save the world. It feels like a sci-fi Zelda for me and it will be one of my favorite franchises.
What is my favorite Metroid game?
All this and more in the future.
I have only played Zerio Mission and Fusion insofar, but I had so much fun with both games. Out of the two, Fusion was more enjoyable, because the concept of the X was soooo interesting.
I know and the SA-X created so much suspense in the game. Just it's hearing it's footsteps made me shiver as a kid.
its been a huge success so far and a lot of people love it.
This is the only franchise in existence that I own every entry of. Yes, even that one. Favorite Nintendo franchise, getting tired of waiting for a new entry, blah blah blah. The first Metroid Prime is my favorite game ever.
I want a new 2D Metroid game, don't care for the 3D ones.
I honestly think we should get both, but if I had to pick I would take a new 2D Metroid game.
Well it probably will be better than the original, the original Metroid 2 has a lot of faults.
This is the only franchise in existence that I own every entry of. Yes, even that one. Favorite Nintendo franchise, getting tired of waiting for a new entry, blah blah blah.
Which game are you referring to Other M? I don't blame you there was a lot of hype (for me anyway).
Sounds a lot like Sticker Star.
I may not care for the 3D side, but I think we should too (and there was even an article some time ago that supports the chances of this).
They wouldn't possibly consider a Metroid 5 because clearly Nintendo is having trouble to make games on the main timeline. Not as bad as Valve though. And yea the Prime series may all be sequels of each other, but aren't those prequels? I'd enjoy seeing them continue the story from after fusion.
Yeah the Prime trilogy takes place between the first 2 games, iirc. And a direct sequel to Fusion would be awesome since Samus is essentially a fugitive at the end of the game. That could make for a neat story.
I haven't played the series as a whole much but Metroid Prime is my favourite game and Metroid Fusion was pretty amazing.
I should go back to them eventually.
i could be wrong, but im pretty sure about that.
You're wrong. Nothing takes place between Return of Samus and Super Metroid.
I love Metroid, it's my third favorite video game series and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is one of my all-time favorite games. I've played and own every Metroid game except for the two on the DS and I've loved everyone that I've ever played. Fusion, Zero Mission, and Super Metroid are gorgeous 2D games, and Prime, Prime 2, Prime 3 and, to me anyways, Other M are gorgeous 3D games.


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General Election 2017: What the Ludlow candidates said about – the NHS
On Saturday night and throughout Sunday, NHS staff in London worked flat out in the aftermath of yet another awful terrorist attack. Their work is as admirable as it is professional. Yet moral in the NHS is pitifully low and resources are stretched to breaking point. In rural counties like Shropshire, it is proving near impossible to recruit staff while the uncertainty about reorganisation of the service under Future Fit and the Sustainability and Transformation Plan continues.
Before last weekend's attack, Eric Smith on Radio Shropshire asked the Ludlow candidates for their views on the NHS during two live hustings – one in the studio and a second on Events Square. My notes below are from these debates. A third husting took place at St Laurence's Church.
Conservatives, Philip Dunne. Lot of pressure in the NHS due to increased demand, which is a result of the NHS doing its job very well and more people are living longer. The NHS requires more investment of more funding to recruit more doctors and more nurses to share the burden and the pressure from the extra demand. There has been an increase in NHS funding locally and nationally. We are going to put in £8 billion over the course of the parliament. There is no plan to cut 2,000 Shropshire health jobs. Ludlow Community Hospital is not threatened with closure. Older GPs are choosing to retire early. Younger doctors are choosing not to become GPs. Will train an additional 25% doctors starting from next year, helping reduce requirement for EU and non-EU workers. We have made commitment to increase GPs by 5,000 by 2020. Need to train doctors in rural areas. Need to look at way NHS is organised to make pressure appear in right places. For example, in Telford A&E between 25% & 30% who attend could be treated elsewhere. Some could be treated, frankly in a pharmacy. In Shropshire, I think we will be moving towards one A&E trauma centre for blue light ambulances. The people to best decide where this is located are the NHS clinicians. I personally think it should be in Shrewsbury, because of its centrality to transport links and because 10% of the patients coming into A&E are from mid-Wales. Whatever happens through the [Future Fit] review, substantial emergency services will be retained in at the Prince Royal. Because of this long running inability to make a decision, we find it very difficult to recruit consultants to come and work, in A&E in particular, in this county. The risk that we run by continuing to fail to make a decision is that we will not have enough consultants to meet the continually rising safety requirements. Therefore, we risk more services being taken out of county. We need to make a decision, we need to get on with it. It is a ludicrous claim that we are privatising the NHS bit by bit. We have to meet increased demand in different ways and one of those ways is putting more services into local communities. There has been a contraction of beds in Ludlow over the last 30 years, partly because of technical advance. I am of the view that that has gone far enough.
Labour, Julia Buckley. Ludlow has a community hospital which will be under threat from the cuts. Problems with lack of rural bus services for people needing to get to medical services. People who regularly use health services will tell you that theirs is not one of feeling that there is increased spending and doctors. Everybody saw the seeds of crisis this winter, where people were treated on trolleys. This decade has seen to the least funding for the NHS since it was founded. Agree with Philip Dunne that a problem with the NHS is the way it is organised following the Health and Social Care Act, with privatisation taking over the NHS. It's all around profit margins. Money wasted on admin. We would invest an extra £30 billion in the NHS from the income tax of those earning over £80,000 a year and increase corporation tax for large companies. The biggest concern is that central government cuts have been passed on to local health trusts, which will only be funded if they meet those cuts. They need to lose 2,000 staff in the NHS across Shropshire and they will be obliged to close hospitals down. We will immediately stop the cuts. We won't ask hospitals to be like businesses and pay business rates and ground rent. The trust [SaTH] are closing the maternity unit at weekends to build a case for long term closure.
Liberal Democrats, Heather Kidd. There lots of things wrong with the way the health service is organised. The NHS needs major investment. There is a fundamental problem with staffing across the country. Future Fit is probably going to cost us in the region of £5 million, money that could have been put into the front line. The government is meant to be strategic and is meant to guide where these things are going. Nothing is accountable at the present time in the health service. We have lots of different trusts, all with their own sovereignty, all with their own back room services. We have problems recruiting rural GPs, problems recruiting all sorts of people. That is not unique to Shropshire. Ludlow Hospital had a bright future when there was a plan to bring GPs together with the hospital onto a new site [the Eco Park]. The real problem with Ludlow Hospital is that we have several trusts running it that are not coordinated. As wards close, it becomes less viable. When services go out of the county, as has happened with ambulances and mental health, we begin to be the poor relations. The public have lost trust in the way things are run.
Greens, Hilary Wendt. NHS is underfunded, meaning that hospital services aren't adequate, mistakes happen in overstretched systems, staff are placed under intolerable levels of stress, and are forced to make daily compromises. We are the fifth or sixth wealthiest country in the world, yet we spend 26-30% on healthcare than other wealthy countries. It doesn't have to be like this. We could do things differently. We could have properly funded public services returned to public ownership. It is very disappointing that health service visitors are out to tender. Profit does not have a place in dealing with ill health.
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Transpersonell psykologi är en skola inom psykologin som studerar den transcendentala eller andliga aspekten av det mänskliga sinnet. Den transpersonella psykologin grundades officiellt 1969 i Kalifornien då Abraham Maslow, Stanislav Grof och Anthony Sutich gav ut första numret av tidskriften Journal of Transpersonal Psychology (JTP, 1969). JTP beskriver transpersonell psykologi som "studiet av mänsklighetens högsta potential, och erkännandet, förståelsen och insikten av förenande, andliga och transcendenta medvetandetillstånd" (Lajoie and Shapiro, 1992:91). Transpersonell psykologi omfattar andlig självutveckling, höjdpunktupplevelser, mediala upplevelser, systematisk trans (meditation) och studier av paranormala företeelser.

Den transpersonella psykologin har utvecklats främst ur psykoanalys och humanistisk psykologi. Formuleringen av transpersonell psykologi hänvisas ofta till en av Sigmund Freuds elever Roberto Assagioli men även Carl Jung utforskade aspekter av det andliga och kollektiva medvetandet. Roberto Assagioli utarbetade en modell över medvetandets struktur som kan 'tillåta' förekomsten av transpersonella upplevelser. Ken Wilber tog fram en teori över medvetandets utveckling i vilken den transpersonella upplevelsen blir en naturlig del.

Definitioner av transpersonell psykologi
Definitionen som tidskriften Journal of Transpersonal Psychology anger är att "den har utvecklats som ett oberoende verktyg för att studera och tydliggöra kommunikation av transpersonella upplevelser, begrepp och metoder. Den accepterar som sitt område hela skalan av den mänskliga medvetenheten, särskilt de delar som är transpersonella som når genom, över och bortom den mänskliga personligheten. Som ett huvudämne och en orientering i psykologi, utövar det transpersonella perspektivet både objektiva och subjektiva former av kunskap. Den ansluter nutida utbildning, vetenskap och kliniska metoder med personlig, social och andlig förståelse. Den angår och berör full mänsklig utveckling, integrering av psykologisk och andlig erfarenhet och transcenderar självet". D.v.s. det som ger en föraning av det som tycks ligga bortom det mänskliga vetandets gränser och som kan leda till ny förståelse och nya insikter.
Lajoie and Shapiro (1992) utförde en genomgång av fyrtio definitioner av transpersonell psykologi som förekom i litteratur under perioden 1969 till 1991. De upptäckte att fem nyckelteman särskilt framträdde i följande definitioner: medvetandetillstånd, högre eller slutgiltig potential, bortom egot eller personligt själv, transcendens och det andliga. "Dessa fenomen inkluderar orsakerna, verkningarna och korrelaten hos transpersonella upplevelser, såväl som disciplinerna och praktikerna inspirerade av dessa" (Walsh & Vaughan, 1993, s. 203).

Områdets utveckling
Bland de tänkare som skapat förutsättningarna för en plattform för transpersonella studier står följande personer att finna: William James, Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank, Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow och Roberto Assagioli (Cowley & Derezotes, 1994; Miller, 1998; Davis, 2003). Forskning av Vick (1988) låter förstå att den tidigaste förekomsten av termen "transpersonell" kan hittas i föreläsningsanteckningar som William James förberett för en termin på Harvard University 1905-6. En större motivationsfaktor bakom initiativet att etablera denna skola hos psykologin var Abraham Maslows redan publicerade arbete rörande höjdpunktsupplevelser. Maslows arbete växte fram ur 1960-talets humanistiska rörelse, och gradvis blev termen "transpersonell" associerad vid en särskild psykologiskola inom den humanistiska rörelsen.

1969 var Abraham Maslow, Stanislav Grof och Anthony Sutich initiativtagarna bakom publiceringen av det första numret av tidskriften Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, den ledande akademiska tidskriften inom fältet. Detta följdes snart av grundandet av Association for Transpersonal Psychology (ATP) 1972. Tidigare presidenter av föreningen inkluderar Alyce Green, James Fadiman, Frances Vaughan, Arthur Hasting, Daniel Goleman, Robert Fager, Ronald Jue, Jeanne Achterberg och Dwight Judy. På 1980-90-talet utvecklades området av författare så som Jean Houston, Stanislav Grof, Ken Wilber, Michael Washburn. Frances Vaughan, Roger Walsh, Stanley Krippner, Michael Murphy, Charles Tart, David Lukoff, Vasily Nalimov och Stuart Sovatsky. Medan Wilber har ansetts vara en inflytelserik skribent och teoretiker inom området, så har sedan dess disassocierat sig själv från rörelsen till förmån för vad han kallar integral approach.

Dagens transpersonella psykologi omfattar även infallsvinklar på hälsa och samhällsvetenskap. Transpersonella perspektiv appliceras även på sådana skiftande området som psykologi, psykoterapi, antropologi, sociologi, farmakologi, tvärkulturella studier (Scotton, Chinen and Battista, 1996; Davis, 2003) och socialt arbete. (Cowley & Derezotes, 1994) För närvarande är transpersonell psykologi, särskilt jungiansk och arketypisk psykologi, integrerad, åtminstone till en viss omfattning, i många psykologiinstitutioner på amerikanska och europeiska universitet. Tranpersonella terapier är också inkluderade i många terapeutiska praktiker.

Högre lärosäten som har tagit upp rön från transpersonell psykologi inkluderar The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (USA), California Institute of Integral Studies (USA), John F. Kennedy University (USA), Burlington College (USA), Liverpool John Moores University (Storbritannien), University of Northhampton (Storbritannien] och Naropa University (Colorado) Det finns också starka kopplingar mellan det transpersonella och humanistiska perspektivet. Detta är inte förvånande med tanke på att transpersonell psykologi inledningsvis föddes inom den humanistiska psykologin. (Aanstoos, Serlin & Greening, 2000).

Följande grenar anses allmänt vara skolor inom den transpersonella psykologin: jungiansk psykologi, djuppsykologi (omdöpt till arketypisk psykologi av James Hillamn), den andliga psykologin av Robert Sardello (2001) psykosyntes skapat av Roberto Assagioli och teorierna av Abraham Maslow, Stanislav Grof, Timothy Leary, Ken Wilber, Michael Washburn och Charles Tart.

Transpersonell psykologi blandas ofta ihop med parapsykologi beroende på att de har vissa gemensamma drag och den okonventionella forskningsinriktningen inom båda områdena: parapsykologi tenderar dock att fokusera mer på det "synska" och den transpersonella psykologin på det "andliga" (trots relativt grova kategoriseringar är detta fortfarande en användbar distinktion i detta sammanhang). Medan parapsykologin lutar mer åt den traditionella vetenskapliga epistemologin (laboratorieexperiment, statistik, forskning på kognitiva tillstånd, tenderar transpersonell psykologi att vara mer närbesläktad med humaniora och hermeneutiska discipliner (humanism, existentialism, fenomenologi, antropologi), även om den alltid inkluderat moment från experimentell och statistisk forskning.

Transpersonell psykologi blandas ibland ihop med new age. Fastän det transpersonella perspektivet har många överlappande intressen med teorier och tänkarna som är associerade med termen "new age", så är det fortfarande problematiskt att placera transpersonell psykologi inom en sådan ram. Transpersonell psykologi är en akademisk disciplin, inte en religiös eller andlig rörelse och många av områdets ledande författare, bland andra Sovatsky (1998) och Rowan (1993), har pekat på problematiska aspekter av new age-hermeneutik. Associationer mellan transpersonell psykologi och new age har antagligen varit en bidragande orsak till misslyckande med att få transpersonell psykologi att bli mer formellt accepterat inom den professionella lärokroppen, American Psychological Association (APA). Ett signifikant genombrott i den här kontexten var den framgångsrika etableringen av en transpersonell psykologi-sektion inom British Psychological Society (Storbritanniens motsvarighet till APA) 1996, delgrundad av David Fontana, Ingrid Slack och Martin Treacy, "den första sektionen av sitt slag i ett västvetenskapligt samhälle" enligt Fontana (Fontana et. al, 2005, s. 5).

Forskningsområden
Det transpersonella perspektivet inkluderar många forskningsområden. Följande lista är tagen från Scotton, Chinen och Battista (1996) och inkluderar:

 Bidragen från andliga traditioner - Hinduism, Yoga, Buddhism, Shamanism, Kabbalah, Sufism och kristen mysticism - till psykiatri och psykologi.
 Vuxnas och äldres andliga utveckling
 Meditationsforskning och kliniska aspekter av meditation
 Medvetandeforskning
 Psykedelisk psykofarmakologi
 Parapsykologi
 Tvärkulturella studier och antropologi
 Diagnoser av religiösa och andliga problem
 Vård av före detta medlemmar i sekter
 Transpersonell psykoterapi
 Missbruk och återhämtning
 Guidad bildterapi
 Andningsarbete
 Nära-döden-upplevelser (NDU)
 Tidigare liv-terapi
 Ekologisk överlevnad
 Ledarskapsstudier
 Social förändring

Bidrag till det akademiska fältet
Fastän alla modeller av mänsklig utveckling förstås som intellektuella abstraktioner av verkligheten, så har den transpersonella psykologin skapat signifikanta bidrag till förståelsen av mänsklig utveckling och medvetande.
En av avgränsningarna i transpersonell teori är mellan författare som presenterar en tämligen linjär och hierarkisk modell av mänsklig utveckling, såsom Timothy Leary och Ken Wilber, och författare som presenterat en pluralistisk eller icke-linjär modell av mänsklig utveckling så som Michael Washburn och Ralph Metzner.

Timothy Leary, som ursprungligen var en professionell psykolog och psykologiprofessor, bidrog avsevärt till den transpersonella psykologin med formuleringen av sin Eight Circuit Model of Consciousness, beskriven i hans bok Info-Psychology.

Ken Wilbers primära bidrag till fältet är teorin om ett spektrum av medvetande bestående av tre breda kategorier: det förpersonliga eller för-egoiska, det personliga egoiska, och det transpersonella eller trans-egoiska Miller, 1998).
En mer detaljerad version av hans spektrum teori inkluderar nio olika nivåer av utveckling, i vilken nivå 1-3 är förpersonliga nivåer, nivå 4-6 är personliga och nivå 7-9 är transpersonliga (Cowley & Derezotes, 1994).

Wilber har porträtterat medvetandets utveckling som en hierarkisk, stegliknande, konceptuell modell, med högre nivåer överlägsna de lägre nivåerna, och medvetandet framåtskridande genom lägre nivåer till högre nivåer. Varje ny nivå integrerar den föregående nivån samtidigt uppvisande nya egenskaper endast associerade med den högre nivån (Kasprow & Scotton, 1999). Varje nivå inkluderar även en specifik typ av personlighetsstruktur och en möjlig sårbarhet för särskilda patologier tillhörandes den aktuella nivån (Cowley & Derezotes, 1994). Baserat på Wilbers arbeten har transpersonella psykologer också argumenterat i favör till möjliga differentieringar mellan för-rationella psykiatriska problem och autentiska transpersonella problem. Förvirringen mellan dessa två kategorierna sägs leda till vad transpersonell teori kallar "för/trans felslut", misstaget att ta transpersonella tillstånd för att vara för-rationella tillstånd (Cowley & Derezotes, 1994; Lukoff et al., 1998).

I kontrast till Leary och Wilber, så har Ralph Metzner och Michael Washburn presenterat modeller av mänsklig utvecklingen som inte är hierarkiska eller linjära. Metzner är böjd åt en teori som är pluralistisk, och förkastar idén om linjär utveckling. Washburn presenterar en modell som är inspirerad av jungianskt och psykoanalytiskt tänkande, vilken kan karakteriseras som en spiral. Enligt Washburn så uppstår personen ur psykets förmedvetna djup. Senare, i livets första halva, så når utvecklingen stadiet av normal egoisk funktion. I livets senare halva, om utvecklingen går väl, så kan personen ha möjlighet att återvända till, och reintegrera, det primordiala psykets djup. Inom ramarna för Washburns teori kan denna reintegration sägas ta plats i en högre, trans-egoisk nivå. (Kasprow & Scotton, 1999).

Transpersonell psykologi har även fört klinisk uppmärksamhet till en rad psykoreligiösa och psykoandliga problem. Cowley & Derezotes (1994) noterar att transpersonell teori har en förståelse av andlighet som är integral till den mänskliga naturen och är grundläggande aspekt av varandet. Denna förståelse skiljer sig något från den populära föreställningen att andlighet är försanthållande av trossatser, eller mått på kyrkobesökfrekvens; egenskaper som snarare kan ses som indikationer på och resultat av den psykoreligiösa dimensionen. Psykoreligiösa problem har att göra med möjliga psykologiska konsekvenser av en persons involvering med trosdogmer och praktik hos en organiserad religiös institution. Bland dessa problem finns erfarenheter relaterade till byte av kyrkosamfund eller konvertering, intensifikation av religiös tro eller praktisk, tappad tro, och att gå med i eller lämna en nyreligiös rörelse eller sekt.

Psykospirituella problem är erfarenheter av en annan kategori än religiösa problem. Dessa problem har att göra med en persons förhållande till existentiella frågor, eller frågor som transcenderar ordinär vardaglig verklighet. Många av dessa psykologiska problem diskuteras inte av mainstreampsykologin. Bland dessa problem återfinns psykiatriska problem relaterade till förlorad tro, nära-döden-upplevelser, mystiska upplevelser, kundaliniuppvaknande, shamanistisk initiationskris, synskt uppvaknande, föregående liv, besatthetstillstånd, meditationsrelaterade problem, och separation från en andlig ledare. Vissa meditationsrelaterade problem, som exempel, kan ha att göra med det faktum att inkorporerandet av östkontemplativa system till ett västerländsk sammanhang inte alltid varit känslig för den sociokulturella kontext där de dessa växte fram (Turner et al., 1995; Lukoff et al., 1998), en detalj som kan ge västerländska praktiserare avsevärda hermeneutiska (tolkande eller förklarande) problem.

Uttrycket "Spiritual Emergence"  myntades av Stanislav och Christina Grof (1989) för att beskriva ett gradvis utvecklande och framträdande av psykoandliga kategorier i en persons liv. I fall där andligt utvecklande är intensifierad bortom individens kontroll kan det leda till ett andligt krisstilstånd (Spiritual Emergency). Ett andligt kristillstånd kan orsaka avsevärda störningar i psykologisk, social, och arbetslivsfunktion, och många psykoandliga problem beskrivna ovan kan karakteriseras som andliga kristillstånd. (Lukoff et al., 1998).

På grund av psykoreligiösa och psykoandliga problem har den transpersonella gemenskapen skapat ett förslag för ett nytt diagnostiskt kriterium kallat "religiösa eller andliga problem" i början 1990-talet. Denna kategori inkluderades senare i fjärde upplagan av den diagnostiska manualen DSM under kategorin "andra tillstånd som kan kräva klinisk uppmärksamhet". ode V62.89 (American Psychiatric Association, 1994; Lu et al., 1997). Enligt transpersonella teoretiker, så är inkluderandet en del av en större kulturell känslighet hos manualen och kan gynna en ökad förståelse mellan olika områden av psykiatri och religion/andlighet) Turner et al., 1995; Sovatsky, 1998)

Kritik mot den transpersonella psykologin
Kritik mot den transpersonella psykologin har framförts av flera kommentatorer. En av den tidigaste framfördes av den humanistiska psykologen Rollo May, som ifrågasatte de konceptuella grunderna hos transpersonell psykologi (Aanstos, Serling & Greening, 2000). May var särskilt orolig över den bristande nivån av reflektion över människans mörka sida. En liknande kritik framfördes av Alexander (1980) som ansåg att transpersonell psykologi, i ljuset av tänkandet hos William James, representerade en filosofi som misslyckades med att ta hänsyn till ondska. Denna kritik har tagits tillvara hos senare transpersonell teori som har varit mer villig att reflektera över dessa dimensionerna hos det mänskliga varandet (Scotton, Chinen and Battista, 1996; Daniels, 2005). Kritik har också framförts av den kognitiva psykologen och humanisten Albert Ellis (1989) som har ifrågasatt den transpersonella psykologin vetenskapliga status och förbindelse till religion och mystik.

Friedman (2000) har kritiserat den transpersonella psykologin för att vara underutvecklad som vetenskapligt område. Han skiljer vidare mellan transpersonell psykologi som ett vetenskapligt psykologiskt område och det större område hos transpersonella studier, som enligt författaren, kan inkludera en rad ovetenskapliga infallsvinklar. Doktriner eller idéer hos många färgstarka personligheter, som var eller är andliga ledare i västvärlden så som Gurdjieff eller Alice Bailey, assimileras ofta in i den transpersonella psykologins mainstream. Denna utveckling anses i allmänhet skadlig för de transpersonella psykologernas strävan att få en säker och respekterad akademisk status. Dock anser Scotton, Chinen and Battista (1996) att mycket av denna kritik kan tystna om man skiljer mellan forskningsfältet och en populär mainstreamscen utanför detta.

Den kan också argumenteras att många psykologer inte strikt håller sig till traditionella skolor hos psykologin, de flesta psykologer intar en eklektisk infallsvinkel. Detta kan innebära att de listade transpersonella kategorierna anses vara psykologiska standardsubdiscipliner; religiös omvändelse faller inom ramarna för socialpsykologi, alternativa medvetandetillstånd inom fysiologisk psykologi (ett delområde inom psykobiologi) och andligt liv inom religionspsykologin. Transpersonella psykologer håller dock inte med om den infallsvinkel till dessa fenomen som intas av den traditionella psykologin, och hävdar att de transpersonella kategorierna har förkastats som tecken på olika varianter av mental ohälsa eller som en regression till infantila stadier av den psykosomatiska utvecklingen. Alltså, som illustrerat av för/trans-felslutet, har religiösa och andliga upplevelser i det förflutna setts som antingen regressiva eller patologiska och behandlats som sådana.

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But another member is "unavailable to him".
AUSTIN STACK, THE son of murdered prison officer Brian Stack, says that he did not give Gerry Adams the names of two Sinn Féin members he alleges have information about his father's murder.
Brian Stack (48) was a staff member at Portlaoise Prison when he was shot while leaving a boxing match in Dublin in 1983. The father of three died 18 months later from his injuries.
His son, Austin, has claimed that two Sinn Féin members were involved in the attack. He has not stated the source of his information.
Yesterday, Adams said that he had been given two names of Sinn Féin members by Stack, a suggestion Stack rejected.
I am quite clearly stating that at no stage have I ever disclosed the names of those politicians to Gerry Adams. In fact when I first spoke to Gerry Adams in 2013 he asked me if I wanted to disclose to him the names of those responsible and I told him that I would not discuss this with him.
Stack called on Adams and Sinn Féin to now "suspend these two politicians pending an investigation".
Speaking today on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Adams said that he had met with Stack and had spoken to one of the Sinn Féin members.
"I have met with Austin Stack a number of times.
I didn't speak to members of Sinn Féin because it isn't our job to investigate these issues. I spoke to one member and was told they had no interest in meeting with Austin Stack.
He added that "the other person is unavailable to me" and said that the gardaí should be investigating these matters.
Fianna Fáil's justice spokesperson Niall Collins sharply criticised Adams today.
He said it is "unprecedented" that the Sinn Féin leader would know members of his own party who were allegedly involved in Stack's murder.
"Just to say that it's simply a matter for the gardaí, it's just not acceptable, it's just not good enough," Collins said.
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Put everything but the roast into a small saucepot and cook for 20 minutes, or until the sauce is thickened.
Pour the sauce over the roast and bake in the oven for two and a half to three hours (depending on the size of the roast) at 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 degrees Celsius).
Refrigerate the meat overnight, separately from the sauce. Slice it the next day (it's easier to slice when the meat is cold) and reheat together with the sauce.
This sauce is sufficient for at least a 4- and- 1/2-pound (2-kilogram) roast, 2 chickens, or 3.3 – 4 and 1/2 pounds (1 and 1/2 – 2 kilograms) chopped meat.
If you like your meat/chicken, etc., with extra zip, use 3/4 or even one teaspoon cayenne pepper. No matter what, don't leave this out because it balances out the sweetness of the sauce.


Acerola seeds – Is it recommended to buy Acerola seeds or better to start with plant? Is it difficult to grow Acerola from seeds? When the season to sow?
Acerola seeds – it is easy to start by seeds better to start from tree to ensure the fruits, is not hard need moist soil and well-drained soil, burry 2 cm from the top of the seeds, need full sun and start in the early spring.


Former Irish monopoly operator Eircom has given companies wishing to take control of the business two weeks to 'put up or shut up', The Irish Independent reports. The paper writes that the telco is looking to speed up the process of securing financing and reducing the debt levels of its ailing operations, and has set 18 November as a deadline for offers. It is understood a letter was sent out by Bernard Somers and other independent directors appointed to the board of Eircom in September this year. Eircom declined to comment on the developments, but it is understood to have received two formal proposals to date.