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Cleveland will play a key role in a significant expansion of e-book lending.
The New York Times
The Penguin Group
plans to announce today that it is expanding its e-book lending program to libraries in Los Angeles and Cleveland and surrounding areas though a new distribution partner.
"In a pilot program that will begin this year, Penguin has worked with Baker & Taylor, a distributor of print and digital books, to start e-book lending programs in the Los Angeles County library system, which will reach four million people, and the Cuyahoga County system,"
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Still, pent-up demand may be building as orders are postponed.
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Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has dropped out of the race after a disappointing sixth place finish in the Iowa caucuses.
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ENGLISH, IN (WAVE) – Indiana State Police say a Crawford County deputy sheriff is being treated after he shot himself inside his home.
According to an ISP press release, Deputy Jesse Belcher, 26, was found around 2:30 a.m. Friday after a fellow deputy became concerned about his welfare.
Within the hour before he was found, ISP said Belcher had phoned another deputy. The two talked for a few minutes and Belcher hung up. When the other deputy called Belcher back, he got no answer. Two Crawford County deputies sent to Belcher's home on Benham Mill Road found that he had shot himself in the head with a handgun.
Belcher was taken to University Hospital in Louisville for treatment. His condition has not been released.
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OTTUMWA — The Ottumwa Industrial Park will be greeting guests in a much brighter way soon, thanks to a new sign that will soon be constructed at the park's entrance.
At a special meeting of City Council on Monday night in Council Chambers, councilmembers approved the request to provide $2,500 toward the new sign, which will take the place of the current sign.
As long as the Ottumwa Economics Development Corporation can raise the remaining funds for the sign, it will be installed. The total estimated cost for the deconstruction of the old sign and the building of a new sign is approximately $20,000, all of which will come from OEDC's cash balance.
The sign that will soon be put at the entrance of the industrial park will be rear illuminated, and much more appealing to the eye than the current brick, overgrown landscape that currently resides there.
Other items discussed by councilmembers included approving the purchase of a John Deere Rotary Cutter for the Sewer Maintenance Department, which will be used to cut overgrowth to ensure proper flow. According to Larry Seals, Director of Public Works, the mower is included in the department's budget, and will cost $5,540.99.
Councilmembers also approved the disposing of the alley behind 320 Church St., where South Ottumwa Savings Bank will expand its facility into the space. They also approved the sale of city owned property at 317 East Park Avenue for the price of $58,000.
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Many of us search for peace in this world we live in. Can peace be found in all of the heartache that surrounds us each day? We can!
Ephesians 2:14-18 (KJV) "For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; (15) Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; (16) And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: (17) And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. (18) For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father."
This is not mere doctrine. If you are having a conflict with anybody, this is the way of peace: For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one. Paul starts with a definition of what true peace really is. True peace is oneness. It is not merely the cessation of hostility, the absence of conflict; it means being one. Anything else is superficial and temporary and highly unsatisfactory. You know this to be true. You have made peace on superficial terms and have found it only external. If you merely agree not to fight, it is not peace. And invariably it results in a new outbreak, with all the previous animosity surging to the surface once again. This is why what we call peace among nations never lasts–because it isn't really peace. It isn't oneness at all. It is only a weariness with warfare, an agreement to stop it for awhile until we can all recuperate and rearm. Then it breaks out all over again, because nothing is ever settled.
But here the apostle tells us the secret of peace. The secret of oneness is a Person: he himself is our peace. And when Christ Jesus makes peace–between individuals or between nations–that peace will be a satisfying, permanent, and genuine peace. 'What Paul is saying is that in order to live at peace, you must have peace. The problem with most of us is that we want to start by clearing up only the results of conflict. God never starts there; He starts with the person. He says peace is a Person, and in order for you to live at peace with someone else, you must be at peace with the Person of Christ. If you have His peace, then you can start solving the conflict around you. But you never can do it on any other basis. So the place to start, the origin of peace, is the settling of any problems between you and Jesus Christ.
Many people come to me with various problems involving conflict. Usually they are upset, troubled, discouraged, or angry. They report all the terrible things the other person has done and all the reasons they are justified in being so angry. I listen to it all, and then I say to them, Yes, you've got a problem. But that isn't your only problem. You really have two problems. And the one you haven't mentioned at all is the one you must start with. Then I point out to them that their basic problem is that they don't have any peace themselves. They are upset, angry, and emotionally distraught. And everything they do is colored by that emotional state. And it is impossible to solve the problem until they themselves acquire peace.
But this is the promise of God to Christians: He is our peace. And once their attitude is changed, once their heart is settled, once they have put the matter into the hands of the Lord and they see that He is active in it, that He has a solution, and their own heart is therefore at peace, then they can begin to understand what is happening and can apply some intelligent remedies to the situation that will work out the problem. There is profound psychological insight in the fact that the apostle begins with the declaration that Christ is our peace. He alone can accomplish it.
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Austin, Texas — Merlyn Edith Peters, age 95, of Bussey, passed away Friday, June 28, 2013, at Pella Regional Health Center.
Merlyn was born on Aug. 23, 1917, near Victor, Iowa. She was the youngest of three children born to William and Rosa (Sparrowgrove) Coover. Merlyn attended Conroy Consolidated School and Carson (Iowa Valley) School in Marengo, Iowa. She married Everett (Pete) Peters on Nov. 22, 1935, in Rock Island, Ill. Before moving to Bussey in 1950, Merlyn and Everett lived in many different states, including Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. While living in Kansas, they were blessed with the birth of their daughter, Sherill.
Merlyn enjoyed gardening and working in her yard, word search puzzles, reading, attending country music shows at Rathbun Lake, and spending time with family and friends.
She is survived by her daughter Sherill Spaur and her husband, Teddy (Sonny) of Bussey; three grandchildren: Doug and his wife Marilyn of Bussey, Jeri (Sis) and her husband Garland Ray of Des Moines, and Scott of Chicago, Ill.; six great-grandchildren: Brett, Colton, Kelli, Cody, Nick, and Ashley, and a niece, Greta Jost, of Cedar Rapids. In addition to her husband, Everett, Merlyn was preceded in death by her parents, William and Rosa Coover, sister Laura Hamilton, brother Kenneth Coover, and niece Barbara Dean.
Visitation services were held at the Bussey United Methodist Church on Tuesday, July 2. A graveside funeral service followed at the Liberty Cemetery outside of Bussey with the Rev. Raymond Doser officiating. Memorial contributions may be made directly to the family or to the Bussey Community Library and left in the care of the Sinnott-Pierschbacher Funeral Home, 1904 E. Ave North, Lovilia, Iowa 50150.


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The ability to speak involves a complex brain system that is not fully understood. Parkinson's disease can interfere with the ability to speak. This research is studying the effects of Parkinson's Disease and a form of treatment known as Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) of an areas of the brain, the sub-thalamic nuclei (STB) and the ability to speak to better understand the process and how DBS effects speech.
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Y-12 tops dismantlement goal by 10%
Workers at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant met their FY 2010 target for dismantling nuclear weapons components and exceeded it by nearly 11 percent, according to Steven Wyatt, a spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Earlier this week, the NNSA said that the Pantex Plant, the main assembly/disassembly center for nuclear weapons, exceeded its dismantlement goal by 26 percent. Pantex does the initial dismantlement of warheads before shipping other components -- notably the secondaries -- to Y-12.
The actual number of warhead components dismantled and other details are classified, Wyatt said today in response to questions.
Officials earlier confirmed that the number of dismantled parts at Y-12 in fiscal 2010 would likely be fewer than what was dismantled in FY 2009, although they indicated that was not because of problems. They said that some systems are simply more complicated or require more time to take apart than others.


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Things aren't going so well with my part of the bathroom remodeling.
I really thought removing the wallpaper would be easy.
I got the top layer off without much hassle.
It would have been kind had the bottom layer, with the glue on it, come off as well.
It didn't.
I'm now scraping each inch, several hundred times.
In fact, the only time I am not in the bathroom scraping is when I take time off to write about being in the bathroom scraping.
Yes, I've tried everything there is to aid in this venture. Nothing takes the glue off easily.
I'm beginning to think that all the fumes are starting to affect my mental status.
The songs I sing during this task have gone from songs of joy and happiness, to songs of death and destruction.
Then there is the paint thing. I thought I had all figured out.
I got on a website where you can paint the bathroom online, to see how your color combination looks.
I painted the most beautiful bathroom ever — online, that is.
If there is some kind of reward for picking the worst color of paint in the history of the world, I just won it.
It looked so pretty on the computer.
Just in case, I bought the little sample jars first, and applied them to a few small areas.
The orange I picked turned out to be a dark reddish orange that was despicable.
It looked like I had just axed 30 people to death in my bathroom.
The beige I chose to go with it, according to my wife, "looks like cement."
In addition, the paint didn't cover up the defects underneath.
At this point, my bathroom looks like an abandoned slaughterhouse.
After several days of questioning our mental state for choosing wallpaper, way back when, I see why we did it.
It hid a lot of holes, places where we removed tile, and a couple of bodies.
I think I'm going to start having my meals delivered to the bathroom, and also see if I can hook up my computer in there.
That way, I'll never have to leave my scraping.
Should you see my wife at gas stations a lot, it's because I'm refusing bathroom admittance to anyone.
If all else fails, I have a great idea about purchasing blindfolds for everyone who uses our potty.
That would save me a lot of work, and also keep the CSI agents from showing up, trying to identify all that red stuff on the wall.


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Wednesday, October 24, 2012 —
Who should get a flu shot?
Nearly everyone older than six months. It is especially important for those who are likely to become very ill if they catch it. This includes children younger than two, pregnant women, adults 50 and older, the very overweight, those who live in a care facility and those with chronic medical problems, such as asthma or diabetes.
Can my child get the flu from a flu shot?
No. Some people have soreness in their arm. A few will have body aches, headache or fever that goes away after a day or two.
Does my child need a flu shot if he/she had one last year?
Yes, there are new strains in this year's.
Why can my child still get sick even with the flu shot?
The flu shot only contains certain strains. It cannot cover all strains of flu, nor does it cover the myriad other viruses that make us sick. It usually takes about two weeks for the shot to work, and it keeps about 1/2 to 3/4 of those who get it from getting the flu.
Those who do get the flu after the shot usually have shorter and milder symptoms.
Can my child get the nasal mist instead of the shot?
Yes, if he is healthy and at least two years old. The mist contains live virus and should not be given to anyone who has, or lives with someone who has, a very weakened immune system. It should not be given to pregnant women.
When should I keep my child home from school?
Do keep them home if they have flu-like symptoms. If they have a fever, they should stay home until they have had no fever (without the help of medicines) for 24 hours.
What are flu-like symptoms?
Common ones include fever, headache, cough, runny nose and achiness.
Should I take them to a doctor?
For regular flu symptoms, no. But if they have any chronic medical problems you should take them right away as medicine might shorten its course. After a couple of days of symptoms this medicine probably doesn't help at all. You should also take them if they have any severe symptoms, such as trouble breathing, chest pain, bluish discoloration to the skin or lips, or dehydration.
If I don't take them to a doctor, what can I do?
Give them plenty of fluids. For fever and pain you can give ibuprofen (Motrin) or acetaminophen (Tylenol). Let them get plenty of rest.


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Professor Laurence Brockliss, from the University of Oxford, discusses how ADM 101 has been used by his team over the past ten years, and considers how the newly digitised files will aid their future research. This talk was recorded as part of 'The journeys of discovery: surgeons at sea - ADM 101 Research Symposium'.
Kindertransport: Britain's Rescue Plan
The Wiener Library holds many personal accounts of children evacuated from Nazi Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia between December 1938 and September 1939. Using individual first-hand accounts sourced from The Wiener Library and documents held at The National Archives, this talk gives insights into how Britain dealt with the refugee children who arrived on the Kindertransports and the difficulties they faced.
New Britons: Immigration to the United Kingdom
This talk looks at immigration into Britain from the 16th to the 20th century and the relatively few sources that can be used to trace immigrants entering, and living, in this country. Records discussed can provide vital clues to the overseas origins of denizens or naturalised British citizens, as well as providing insight into their first years in their adopted country.
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This talk takes a look beyond the day-to-day purpose of railway timetables, to consider how they reveal changes in the pace, regularity and frequency of mobility in the 19th century. Dr Tony Wakeford is a historical geographer with research interests in the economic and social influence of 19th century railway development. He is a lecturer in social sciences at the Open University and is also the magazine editor for the Friends of The National Archives.
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Tourists and Booking Clerks- Information for Family Historians in the Thomas Cook Archives
Paul Smith, company archivist of Thomas Cook UK & Ireland, offers a general account of the holdings of the Thomas Cook Archives, with particular reference to records that might prove useful for family historians, such as staff magazines, contracts of employment and passenger lists. The talk also provides a brief history of the Thomas Cook organisation, and explains the importance of its archives for anyone, from academics to film producers, with an interest in the history of travel since the mid-19th century.


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Just OK. Pretty ladies, but the sex was average. It's amateur, so the camera-work was not very good. Some close-ups would have really helped this video.
It's just an OK video. Pretty girls, but they mostly "Squirt", and I prefer a long stream. It's Good, if you are new to pissing videos.
One very cute lady handles a really BIG dildo very easily. And a couple has sex in positions that I haven't seen in a long time (very flexible).
A very good video from Rodney Moore. Annie Body is so good looking. And the other ladies are very cute and very hairy.
A very good video. One of the ladies rides the guy while still giving him a handjob. That was very sexy.
If you enjoy BBW, then this is a good video to watch. 2 of the ladies are very sexy.
Since these are amateurs, it's not the best quality. The people try hard and are very loving, but it's not quite sexy enough.
I really like the girls from the 90s, but the scenes were too short. And there were not enough close-ups. The same girls, but with 2 or 3 scenes each would be great.
A great video with very pretty ladies who happen to be very hairy. The only down side is the girls don't play with themselves enough - they are amateurs, so they are shy. Otherwise, it's a really nice show.
Camera work is poor. The solo girls are not erotic enough with the "toys". Lena Ramon's girl-girl scene is good, but too short.


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CARY — At the kickoff of the first sudden-death overtime period, Alexis Degler of Green Hope had the ball in a deadlocked game that threatened the end of the Falcons undefeated and untied season.
To defend that spotless record, and its ranking as the nations No. 1 girls soccer team, she attacked.
Fourteen seconds later, Degler had weaved through the middle of visiting Millbrooks defense before a give-and-go with teammate Maura McDonnell ended with Degler putting away the game-winner.
Green Hope won 4-3.
After just more than 100 minutes of soccer the last 30 played in conditions that left fans shrieking at all of the near-goals it was the final 14 seconds that decided it.
I dont know a better way to really explain it other than we knew in our hearts that we did not want to lose, Degler said. Ive put in too much work just in the last three years to let this slip so easily.
The third-round playoff match between the Triangles two best teams and two of the best in the country lived up to the billing.
Green Hope hadnt faced this much adversity since last seasons loss in the state championship game.
Alexis Shaffer, last years state player of the year who has signed with Virginia, was nursing a high ankle sprain. Shaffer got her ankle taped with 12 minutes to go in regulation but never played.
Without its No. 1 player, Green Hope trailed at halftime and was heading for overtime for the first time all year.
Weve gotten to the point where we can go up five goals and just kind of relax, but this time we were like You know what? Its not going to come easy this time, Degler said.
The Falcons took a 1-0 lead in the 9th minute on a free kick from Degler, a senior midfielder signed with Ohio State, that found the side netting from 30 yards away.
Green Hope had more chances and perhaps better chances to score than Millbrook in the first half, but the Wildcats were perfect on two free kicks from about 35 yards out.
Senior Rachel Hallman placed the first of her kicks on the head of classmate Jackie Stroud for a 16th-minute goal. Hallman did the same in the 32nd, and freshman Paige Griffiths flicked it in for a 2-1 lead.
They really can place the ball, Green Hope coach Bobby Peterson said. If youre good at it, the keeper is really at your mercy.
Green Hope wasted no time in getting the game back on even terms in the second half. Two minutes into the half, the Falcons Kaylin Lang gathered her own rebound after a ball into the box by Cameron Sigmon set up her first attempt.
There were 38 minutes still to play with the score 2-2, and both teams had their close calls in that time. They headed to overtime instead.
In first 10-minute overtime period, the Falcons had four close calls three saved by Millbrook junior goalkeeper Anna Shelden but were left vulnerable on the counterattack after one of them.
Wildcats junior Colleen Markey got behind the defense and easily slotted the go-ahead goal with 3:20 on the clock.
In the second overtime, Green Hope scored almost immediately.
Kenley Sigmon went direct at the entire Millbrook back line, beating five of them before tucking in the tying goal with 8:48 to play.
I knew their defense was really tired, and I knew we had to score to stay in it, obviously. I just thought, no one else is there, Im going to do it, Sigmon said.
After it had worked well to start the second half and the second overtime period, Degler went at the Wildcats defense once more. With bursts of speed, she took a few touches before laying the ball off to the right for McDonnell.
McDonnell took the ball to the touch line, then crossed it back to find Degler, who had been stonewalled on a similar play earlier in the game by goalkeeper Anna Shelden.
I trust Mo so much ... so I played her the ball and got as open as I possibly could, Degler said.
Millbrook (21-2-1) came from nowhere to prominence last year, ending its playoff run to the same team and on the same field as a year ago.
But with only three seniors who had just one conference win their freshman year on the roster, coach Matt Edwards was left optimistic at how far the program has come.
Im just excited that my team is as connected and strong as (the Falcons) are, said Edwards, in his ninth year. They kept each other up through the highs and lows of the game.
The Wildcats only two losses this season were to the Falcons.
Green Hope (25-0-0) will host Leesville Road on Friday or Saturday in the state quarterfinals.
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It seems as though the military industrial complex has agreed with the Department of Homeland Security and the Centers for Disease Control that zombies are the next big thing.
This past Sunday, it was announced that security firm HALO Corp. will train members of the military, police departments, the medical community and government employees on the inner workings — and how to deal with — a zombie apocalypse, according to media reports.
The annual counter-terrorism summit will use the zombie metaphor as a humorous means of dealing with real-life problems like disease, mass hysteria, riots and panic. The location of the summit will feature zombies harassing troops and first-aid teams cleaning up.
The Military Times, which first broke the story, made sure to point out that zombies are not real. Hmm. I can't help but wonder whether they were told to say that. Especially since the CDC made it a point to state a few months ago that zombies weren't real — during a period of some incredibly bizarre stories that happened right here on American soil.
As I said previously, it's somewhat refreshing to see government "get it" and attempt to use something viral (pun intended) like zombies to actually create interest in a campaign.
The Department of Homeland Security — in somewhat of a tongue-in-cheek announement — reported earlier this month that "the zombies are coming" in an effort to get citizens to prepare for a real disaster.
The CDC — prior to stating that zombies weren't real — had a public campaign using the zombie apocalypse as a background for getting the American people prepared for actual disasters.
Yes, the counter-terrorism summit sounds intriguing. And this from a guy who is vehemently opposed to the military industrial complex. So the PR people and marketing nerds must really be doing their job well. Either that or my affinity for flesh eaters is unhealthy.


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Right now, there are two primaries scheduled in Ohio next year. A group of Democratic elections workers is pleading for state lawmakers to merge next year's two primaries back into a single event. Ohio Public Radio's Karen Kasler reports the situation is still fluid, with a key filing deadline just hours away.
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Is There a Carbon Tax in Your Future?
A carbon tax would be just one more unnecessary burden on U.S. productivity.
The closer the U.S. economy gets to the "fiscal cliff" the more panicked the spending interests appear to be. That's because they know that House Speaker John Boehner and his allies in Congress are standing firm against an increase in income tax rates—which the spenders need only for political reasons—even while being open to increasing revenues to the federal government.
This is an important distinction that doesn't get enough attention, in part because it is counter-intuitive. Higher rates—especially where marginal income tax rates are concerned—often produce lower revenues as economist Art Laffer demonstrated with his eponymous curve. Conversely there are some tax rates that can be cut, the capital gains tax rate springs to mind, where lower rates produce higher revenues—at least in the short term—because they promote increased, taxable economic activity.
[See a collection of political cartoons on the fiscal cliff.]
In any event, the spending interests have it in mind to increase federal spending permanently as a percentage of U.S. gross domestic product, historically between 18 and 19 percent in the postwar period. The White House doesn't have a plan but, for those who do, they anticipate spending will ratchet up to something between one fifth and one quarter of GDP—which is a huge, even historic increase.
The kind of revenue such an increase would require cannot be achieved by raising taxes on "the wealthiest Americans," as President Barack Obama likes to say. It demands a new tax, one imposed on the entire U.S. economy, like a carbon tax.
[See a collection of political cartoons on the budget and deficit.]
As William Gale, of the leftwing Tax Policy Center—a joint project of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute—said recently at a forum sponsored by the centrist American Enterprise Institute, "Higher taxes can and should be part of the long-term fiscal solution." The fiscal outlook, he said, makes that a certainty. The carbon tax, he added, is therefore a good idea—since it accomplishes two goals: economic and environmental. Meaning it raises money and addresses the problems posed by global climate change since it will have an impact on the production of so-called greenhouse gases.
A carbon tax is neat, clean, and largely transparent, making it attractive even to some on the right who are engaged in the search for a unicorn—meaning the magic formula for raising federal revenues through higher tax rates or new taxes that does not damage the U.S. economy. The fallacy of this approach, of course, is that there is no way to shift 5 percent of U.S. economic activity from the private to the public sector without seeing an adverse impact on job creation and economic growth.
[See a collection of political cartoons on the economy.]
Moreover, as even its proponents allow, a carbon tax alone would not raise enough money and, in order to compensate for its regressivity, would require—as a political matter—the creation of a new entitlement program designed to rebate its cost to low income households. Some self-described environmentalists like it because of its environmental benefits but, again, they would not be as significant as some sort of overall cap on greenhouse gas production. Meaning the carbon tax is, from their perspective, merely a weigh station on the road to a more restrictive environmental regime—which will do even more damage to the U.S. economy.
Nonetheless the idea is finding support in surprising quarters, including at the aforementioned American Enterprise Institute which seems to be leading the charge for a carbon tax on the right. Unfortunately they are looking at it in isolation rather than trying to see its impact on the larger economy—the down sides, which are real, as well as the up sides, which are not really all that positive. Higher or new taxes to feed the special interests' appetite for spending are not the way to avoid the fiscal cliff. America will only find its way out of the current mess if Congress and the president pursue policies designed to generate real growth in the economy. They won't be enough to completely close the gap between spending and receipts and it won't permanently fix the problems posed by long-term entitlements like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security but they will create enough room to maneuver to come up with real solutions that can win the support of the American people. A carbon tax, on the other hand, is just one more unnecessary burden on U.S. productivity.


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An Immigration Compromise?
Are guest workers the solution?
The economic crisis seems to have pushed the immigration debate to the wayside--even though lifting restrictions on foreign workers could arguably be a big stimulus in itself. But that doesn't mean that some on Capitol Hill aren't still trying to bridge the gap between people who don't want any kind of "amnesty" and those who want to make legal immigration easier.
The nonprofit group the Krieble Foundation recently promoted its " Red Card Solution" to the immigration issue with an event for members of Congress and their staffers, and they also had a National Press Club event where some members of prominent free-market groups like Freedom Works.
What's the idea?
* The U.S. government authorizes private employment agencies to grant temporary non-immigrant work permits. Foreign workers apply in their own countries for the permits.
* Job applicants are matched to current, unfilled U.S. jobs; temporary, non-immigrant workers fill a specific job for a specific time and may return home when the job ends.
* Permits are in "smart card" biometric data, enabling border authorities to see that temporary workers enter legally for pre-agreed employment and return when the work ends.
* All permit holders must pass criminal background checks in their home-country databases and in U.S. databases.
It's far from a real free market for immigration. But is this a good compromise with the "no amnesty" crowd? I asked advocate of (more) free immigration and blogger Bryan Caplan of George Mason University what he thought. He said that while tying guest workers to specific jobs creates a lot of problems like potential abuse by employers, such a plan would stillI probably be "a big improvement over the status quo."


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Why Christians S**k
Jesus might have harsh words for Christians today. Here's why...and what you can do about it.
BY: Tom Davis
Each Sunday, millions of Christians in America gather to worship the God who commands us to "love our neighbor as ourselves." We belt out praises to the God who tells us that "pure and undefiled religion is caring for widows and orphans in their distress." We kneel in pious prayer before the Almighty God of the universe who describes Himself as loving, gracious, merciful, and generous.
Then, we walk out the back door of the church, step into a world in need, and proceed to withhold the love, grace, and mercy that's extended to us.
We might as well give God the middle finger. Outside of a tiny minority of Christians, we have become a self-centered group of priggish snobs.
In short, we s**k.
Before you pick up a rock and throw it at me, think about this: I could have used other words that aren't as nice as "s**k." Like "white-washed tombs," "brood of vipers," "fools," or the ever ego-inflating, "Get behind me Satan!" Jesus used all of these choice phrases to describe religious leaders and some of his closest of followers.
But calling someone a white-washed tomb just doesn't cut it anymore. "We s**k" is a much better choice for our cultural context. Poverty s**ks. Divorce s**ks. And, unfortunately, some Christians s**k, too.
Here are the facts:
Eighty-five percent of young people outside the church who have had connection to Christians believe present-day Christianity is hypocritical. Inside the church, forty-seven percent of young people believe the same thing.
And why wouldn't they? We're pretty stingy with our money:
- 80 percent of the world's evangelical wealth is in North America.
- Giving by churchgoers was higher during the Great Depression than it is today.
- Christians give an average of $13.31/week to their local church.
- Only 9 percent of "born-again" adults reported tithing in 2004.
And let's take a peek in on our neighbors:
- More than 1 billion people live in absolute poverty.
- 500 million people are at the edge of starvation.
- 200 million children are being exploited as laborers.
- Half of the human beings on the planet live on less than $2/day.
- 1.5 billion people do not have enough money to buy food.
This is information that anyone can collect from the Internet, just as I did. Any reasonable person could make this simple conclusion:Most American Christians do not care about what God says in the Bible
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Union Pacific railroad crews spent Sunday cleaning up a mess southeast of Fairbury, Nebraska after 41 coal cars derailed.
The derailment happened around 1 a.m. Officials with the railroad and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department say no one was injured. Heavy equipment was brought in to clean up the coal and clear the damaged rail cars.
It wasn't immediately known what caused the derailment. The train was headed for St. Louis.


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Blog for those who are interested in Czech genealogy, who have ancestors in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Czech Surnames Statistics
11 comments:
- AnonymousSeptember 9, 2012 at 5:07 PM
Tried it - no hits on my surname.ReplyDelete
Charles Vaclav, Florida USAReplies
You have to use diacritics on that website. Your surname was originally "Václav" for sure.Delete
- AnonymousJune 5, 2013 at 1:22 AM
You have a great blog, thank you for putting all this together.
Would you be willing to answer 2 name questions, please?
1. The oldest written American English spelling of our Czech name (from 1882) is BURIJANEK. What is the likely correct Czech spelling with Diacritics?
2. Any thoughts on the meaning of the name? (family legend suggests is is a diminutive for male sheep (little ram)
Thank you for any help you can give
Shelley BuranekReplies
Hello Shelley, I know the answer comes quite late, but it's here...Delete
1. Most probably Buriánek or Burijánek.
2. The surname is derived from first name Burian. St. John Burian was a saint living in 4th century. He and his brother Paul denied to sacrifice to the Roman god Jupiter and were beheaded in 362 AD.
Thank you for this blog. I have gotten 13 hits on my family's surname, all in the Frydek-Mistek region, where my Great Grandmother was born!ReplyDelete
Is there a way to attempt to contact them? Perhaps an online phone book?
Thanks! I tried this for my great grandfather (Vaclav Kostelak) and found nothing and for my great grandmother (Anna Krizek) and found two Krizeks residing in Praha. I am having a very difficult time finding any information on the last name Kostelak. Any info on this name would be greatly appreciated.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi, try Kostelák and Křížek - copy and past the names with diacritics to the website.Delete
- AnonymousOctober 31, 2013 at 8:18 AM
Thank you for this information. I found many for my maiden name( Bartl) which is of Austrian/German origin, but very few for my great-great- grandmother's surname, Czerwenka.ReplyDeleteReplies
Bartl is my mother's maiden name - where were your Bartls from? For Czerwenka, current form is Červenka.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 8, 2014 at 7:59 PM
Perhaps some of you have already found what you are looking for but I wanted to share a link to an online Czech phone book that I use to find the spelling (including diacritical marks) of Czech surnames:ReplyDelete
All you need to do is type a surname in the 1st box after "CO:" and then click on "Vyhledat." For example, in English our surname is Privratsky. I was looking on the surname statistic map for Privratsky but found nothing. I used the phone book to find the Czech spelling is Přívratský, which works on the statistics map!Replies
Thanks for the tip!Delete


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PESHAWBESTOWN — Baskets have many functions and forms. They hold things, store and transport them.
For historians, ethnologists and anthropologists, they carry the history of a place, its culture and socioeconomic heritage from one era to another.
Northern Michigan's black ash splint baskets, sitting on shelves in local museum exhibits or adorning old cottages and farmhouses, recall more than memories of Odawa and Chippewa in this region. They offer a deeper look into Indian life in Michigan's northwest Lower Peninsula long before Euro-American settlement and after.
For Laura Quackenbush, of Lake Leelanau, learning the history of these baskets made from swamp trees became a journey into Michigan's fur-trading, commercial fishing, lumbering and early summer resort eras of the 1800s. She took side trips, too, into the history of federal Indian treaties, long-term effects of Indian boarding schools on Indian basket making and New Deal programs of the 1930s to rescue Michigan Indian crafts and arts from near extinction.
Her exploration started accidentally in 1985.
Quackenbush had just been hired as curator of the Leelanau Historical Museum, which was moving from Leland's one-time county jail building into the renovated and expanded former library building at the east end of Cedar Street. She had to start exhibits from scratch and was looking for something to heighten awareness and celebrate local history. She decided on Indian arts and crafts and went to Frank Wick, owner of the Windy Knob tourist store between Omena and Northport. He had a personal collection of Indian quill work on birch bark and other crafts. He showed her a black ash basket made by Lucille Miller. Its beauty, detail and workmanship struck her.
A new world opened.
In 1986, the Leelanau Historical Society put out a call to area residents and resorters to bring in baskets, porcupine quill work on birchbark, other bark and grass work known to be made by local Indians. More than 500 were loaned for examination. Non-Indian volunteers working with Odawa volunteers Esther and Louis Koon, Catherine Baldwin, all since deceased, and John Bailey wrote descriptions of the objects to be cataloged.
Esther Koon was a third-generation basket maker, quill worker and the daughter of Susan Miller, a noted Leelanau County basket maker. Koon's husband, Louis, often prepared the splints and handles. Bailey is an Odawa historian from Honor, now retired from the Michigan Department of Commerce.
Several things came out of the inventory. A 1987 exhibit at the museum showcased many pieces in the inventory, and many people donated baskets, quill work and other items to the museum. Planning and fundraising began for a state-of-the art basket collection room with low lighting and sealed glass pane cabinets. The longawaited Anishnabek Basket and Quill Work Room and its permanent exhibit opened in 2005.
In 1990, Quackenbush started a master's degree program with a specialty in anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. She wanted to study black ash split basketry in northwest Lower Michigan because scholars and social scientists had largely ignored Woodland Indians in the Upper Great Lakes. She thought black ash baskets played a significant role in the culture of Odawa and Ojibwa here.
"Today there are few basket makers living," she noted in the introduction of her 163-page thesis, published in 1995. "However, the knowledge, if not the skill, still lives in the minds of many individuals who learned from their parents and grandparents and should be preserved."
Her research took her to other basket collections at Cranbrook, Michigan State University, University of Michigan, Manistee, Mackinac Island, Charlevoix, Petoskey, Harbor Springs and the Dennos Museum Center in Traverse City.
It also led to interviews with living basket makers, Indian elders who learned the ancient craft from parents and grandparents, and tourist store owners.
For Quackenbush, determining the historical significance of Indian baskets begged a research question: "Why were they making them?"
"Sometimes you'll find marks on the bottom of baskets that indicate how much was paid for them — 25 cents or 35 cents," she said. "Why did they have to do it?"
The answer: Survival.
Basket making helped area Indians survive the extreme poverty they found themselves in little more than a generation after Odawa and Ojibwa chiefs signed an 1836 federal treaty that ceded their lands — one-third of the whole state of Michigan — to the United States.
By the late 1800s, northern Michigan pine forests had vanished, fisheries and wildlife were depleted, and many Indian families, for a variety of reasons, had lost or were losing land allotted them in an 1855 treaty.
Basket making, a centuries-old tradition, had become a family "cottage industry," that served the growing number of summer resorts promoted by railroads and shipping companies.
Quackenbush's thesis, "Black Ash Basketry in Northwest Lower Michigan," traces the history of native basket making in northern Michigan through four socioeconomic eras: fur trading, subsistence and commercial fishing, lumbering, and summer resorter/tourist.
Baskets were mostly utilitarian during the fur trading (1615-1836) and subsistence and commercial fishing eras (1830-1870), when Odawa men sold fresh fish to white settlers and salted fish to middlemen for export. Women and children cleaned and preserved the catches.
From 1840-1910, lumbering provided Odawa and Ojibwa men a fall and winter income and work in the woods similar to traditional hunting and trapping occupations. Women and some men also continued traditional ways such as making maple syrup and baskets, which enabled them to earn some cash.
"In the 19th century, selling baskets became one of the few ways in which cash could be earned for Indian families when jobs were scarce and discrimination against Indian workers was common," Quackenbush said.
The region's summer resorter era (1880-1930s) was the heyday of Indian black ash splint baskets here.
"The tourist was a new American personality," she wrote. "They traveled for leisure and entertainment with a desire and means to collect mementos."
Tourists change with time and technology. The invention of the automobile brought the eventual demise of trains, passenger ships and summer resorts. New kinds of containers made of different materials came into use, even by native families.
The removal of Odawa and Ojibwa children from local homes to attend Indian boarding schools as part of federal assimilation policy interrupted the ancient practice of passing on basket-making skills from one generation to another. The federal government tried to revive basket making and other Indian handicrafts in the late 1930s until World War II started. Afterward, many northern Michigan Indians moved to cities for better-paying jobs. Today, only a handful of Michigan Odawa, Ojibwa and Potawatomi still weave black ash baskets, mostly for art markets.
Quackenbush left the Leelanau museum in 2007 and worked a year for the Grand Traverse Band, overseeing the 2009 start-up of Eyaawing Museum in Peshawbestown. Today she is a museum technician for Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. She has not forgotten that day at Windy Knob when she saw Lucille Miller's basket that started it all.
"The detail work was exquisite, even though it was so old," she said. "I was overwhelmed by it. The artistry, family loyalty, the resourcefulness and all the things that seemed to be embodied in it — that's what interested me."


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Three decades ago, a local woman's dream became reality and has flourished into a national organization with seven locations in four states.
Mom's House, with headquarters at 182 Gilbert St. and a day care center at 1325 Franklin St., both in Johnstown, is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
The organization was founded in 1983 by Johnstown resident Peg Luksik, then president of Cambria-Somerset Chapter of Citizens Concerned for Human Life, as an alternative to abortion.
The program, housed in the former St. Michael's convent in Brownstown, provided day care for children of low-income, single, teenage mothers so they could finish their high school education.
At Mom's House, mothers are plugged into a network of supportive services that enable them to complete their education, find jobs and get off welfare.
The program provides safe, secure and free child care to single parents wishing to continue their education.
Mom's House works with 6-week-old infants to preschool children to prepare them for the transition into kindergarten, said Allegra Slick, who has been executive director since 2006.
To receive free help from Mom's House, a parent must be single, a teenager or up to her late 20s, and must be in some type of job training or schooling.
"Mom's House is free because members of the community and local organizations have believed in us for the last 30 years," Slick said.
The biggest change Slick has seen in Mom's House is in the education programs.
"Parents get an education and so does the child," Slick said. "That's been our motto. We help two generations at one time."
The education programs of Mom's House are approved by the state Department of Education and use state early learning standards.
Mom's House received the highest rating, four stars, from the Pennsylvania Keystone Stars Program, which recognizes the continuous quality improvement efforts of early learning programs in Pennsylvania.
"This rates the staff, the facility and our education program," Slick said. "We were the first in Cambria and Somerset counties to get that rating. It was a big feather in our cap.
"We've learned early childhood education is important," she said.
"If they don't have a good foundation, it's hard to build on. Early childhood education is better than making longer days in high school."
Events celebrating 30 years of Mom's House will begin with a luncheon at 11:30 a.m. April 28 at Sunnehanna Country Club, 1000 Sunnehanna Drive, Westmont.
"Our first target will be former and present clients," Slick said.
There will be a silent auction, Pick-A-Petal and door prizes.
Tickets, which are $25, include lunch, beverages and entertainment.
A free Thank You, Community! Carnival will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 22 at Mom's House, 1325 Franklin St.
"We wanted to thank all those who have given us support," Slick said. "We're going to have an open house. We want to showcase how the building has changed. I think we've been here 16 to 17 years."
The celebrations will end with a charity ball for donors and friends of Mom's House at 6 p.m. Nov. 29 at Pasquerilla Conference Center, 301 Napoleon St., downtown Johnstown.
Tickets for the black-tie evening, which are $50, include a buffet dinner, band and entertainment.
"It's a nice way to close the year and show what we've done," Slick said.
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AU SABLE FORKS — Roger Strong, 59, died unexpectedly Friday, May 3, 2013. He was born and raised in Silver Lake N.Y. Roger enjoyed fishing, hunting and spending time with his family. He was employed by NYSDOCS as a master mechanic for the department.
Roger is predeceased by his mother and father, Kenneth and Hazel Strong. He is survived by a large loving family, his wife Laurie; a Son Casey and his wife Tashia of Silver Lake; a daughter Lindsay and her husband Ruperto Moreno of Houston, Texas; his grandchildren, Zoey, Sylvia, Natallia, Keaton, and Lillian. He is also survived by Sherwood Jr. and his wife Kalidonia DuBrey and daughter Isabella of New Hampshire, Neil and his wife Kim DuBrey of Chazy Lake, Greg DuBrey and Lindsay Manor of Chazy Lake, and Marcy DuBrey and daughter Jillian of Malone.
Anyone who knew Roger knew that he loved life. We ask that family and close friends please come and celebrate his life at Roger's residence at 2 p.m. on May 18. Thwaits-Zaumetzer Funeral Home is in care of arrangements.


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One hundred New NY Bridge community meetings and counting, the large one Monday night marked many milestones on the community outreach front.
Spokesperson Brian Conybeare introduced the panel comprising the Tappan Zee Constructors (TZC) team and the numerous ways citizens can now connect with the project: a new video drives you over the bridge-to-be, there's a jobs website, daily office hours, a Community Outreach Manager, and our very own Tarrytown liaison to the project.
David Aukland, of the Tarrytown Planning Board, has been named the "liaison to the Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction project" for our village (pending endorsement of the Board of Trustees on Wednesday, which is expected).
This doesn't mean you will call him when the pile-driving is too loud – you can save that for Conybeare and his office, which will now be open daily at 303 South Broadway on the first floor. Rather, Aukland will be working closely with the design team to help come up with local solutions to unresolved issues like staging areas, worker parking, traffic at the bridge's intersection with Tarrytown, and so on.
Aukland will also serve on the bridge's public transit task force with Mayor Drew Fixell, who is rerunning for Mayor and tasked with the 31 member team to weigh in on mass transit solutions short-, medium- and long-term on and beyond the bridge.
"The public is being brought into the public every step of the way," Conybeare said.
The TZC team includes a Community Outreach/Diversity Manager, Carla Julian, who said she would make herself very accessible to anyone, from citizens concerned about construction issues to local business owners wanting to get in on the action and job seekers.
Those interested in one of the "tons" of job opportunities Conybeare promised were offered a new website to coincide with the New NY bridge project, live now at tappanzeeconstructors.com, along with a list of dates to come (times and venues to be determined, one in Westchester and one in Rockland for each):
- DBE – Feb. 14 and 15 (for the disadvantaged)
- Job fairs – March 6 and 7
- Biz to biz fairs – April 23 and 24
When construction does begin (see a timeline of preconstruction here), it's certainly going to be quite a show.
Part of Aukland's interest is to figure out where/how they can set up a viewing station in the village as people from here and beyond will surely want to watch.
"One of the stars," said Conybeare, will be the so-called "Left Coast Lifter," the largest floating crane in the world, able to lift the equivalent poundage of 12 Statues of Liberty. It will float on four barges and sit quite high on the river. It will make its way here through the Panama Canal and across the Gulf of Mexico on up and just its arrival should be something to behold.
We will watch giant hunks of coming (new bridge) and going (old bridge) move by barge along the river, which promises to alleviate the traffic pressure on a community already pressed like Tarrytown.
Among the many continuing worries villagers have, traffic ranks right up there, as does direct impacts to communities closest to the bridge, like the Quay. Citizens asked if the toll plaza would widen (marginally), and just where exactly would this behemoth rest on land. Many of these exact details have yet to be worked out as the design plan is only partially complete, and the team said they welcome questions as they go.
"We want to empower people with information," said Conybeare, saying the goal was to make this the most transparent mass transit project in history.
Office hours for the Community Outreach Center in Tarrytown at 303 S. Broadway are: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday; Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., starting today.
Phone number is 855-TZ-Bridge. Website: NewNYBridge.com. Click here for a PDF of last night's presentation.
What issues remain unaddressed in your mind as this bridge nears groundbreaking? Tell us in the comments.
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---- — MILLVILLE, Iowa (AP) — On a warm fall afternoon, with the Turkey River lazing by, pampas grass rustling and cicadas buzzing loudly, it's easy to see why folks settled Millville years ago.
The tiny Clayton County town, bordered by U.S. 52 to the east and timbered bluffs to the west, stretches from the river to the north and a county road three-quarters of a mile south.
When the thin strip of valley south of Guttenberg filled with families and businesses in the 1950s and '60s, townsfolk decided to incorporate themselves into a formal municipality. Millville became an official Iowa town in 1967.
Longtime Millville resident Jim Hankes remembers two grocery stores, four gas stations, two taverns, restaurants and a creamery.
"Everyone was happy and got along. We all wanted to live 'in the country,' where it was quiet," said Hankes, who has served as the Millville mayor or on the City Council since the 1970s.
But the Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1636v9t ) Millville today is a ghost of its bustling past with a handful of structures, 21 residents and few operating businesses. So Hankes and his fellow city officials have voted to end their town as an official entity.
They have requested permission from Iowa's City Development Board to unincorporate and are organizing their town's demise. The board will rule on the request, likely in November, and probably will take over paying Millville's bills. The secretary of state must make the final decision on Millville's fate, but if Millville submits its paperwork by year's end, the town will cease to exist, explained Matt Rasmussen, development board administrator.
"With so few people, it's hard to get people to serve as officials, and it's a lot of work for what we get," said City Clerk Jessica Bittner, who also has served on the council.
Mayor Larry Wilson, who has lived in town for seven years, added, "We had a public hearing at my kitchen table, and five or six people showed up. We've been talking about (disbanding) for some time."
Even though parts of the town are regularly swamped by the Turkey River, flooding episodes had nothing to do with the decision to unincorporate, he added, although the most recent flood caused the popular Millville Steakhouse to close.
The town coffers have some surpluses from taxes paid by the dozen property owners and from local-option and road-use taxes. With that money, officials plan to repair several short streets in town and to pay ahead for four years of garbage hauling by a private contractor. What's left will be donated to the public library and public school in Guttenberg, the nearest municipality.
After the paperwork is completed, Bittner will pack up the town's legal and historical documents and haul them to the Clayton County courthouse, where they will be stored in perpetuity. Bittner's husband, Dan, is a Millville native, and their two children were born as town residents.
"It's sad to see that there is not going to be a Millville, but the town will still be here," she said.
The community will become part of rural Clayton County, and it will be governed by county laws and officials.
Hankes said the decision to end Millville is bittersweet.
"It's yes and no. It's too hard to get anyone involved anymore. So many people have moved or died," he said. "But in a few more months, it'll all be over."
Although Millville normally would hold city elections Nov. 5 along with the rest of the state, because the town would cease to exist before anyone could take office in January, elections are moot.
Iowa's countryside is dotted with tiny towns, many of them struggling to survive, but it is relatively rare for the leaders of those entities to decide to formally disband, according to Rasmussen, the development board administrator.
"Since 1992, there have only been four discontinuances. Kent in 2002, Littleport and Athelstan in 2004, and Mount Sterling in 2012," he said. "It's usually very, very small towns with less than 50 residents who decide that the county can provide the same services to them."
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Professor Frank Furedi to question EU tolerance at Brussels School of International Studies lecture.
Sociologist and social commentator Professor Frank Furedi will give a special lecture at the University of Kent's Brussels School of International Studies (BSIS) on Wednesday 7 March.
Titled 'How tolerant is EU tolerance?', the lecture will be based on his recent book On Tolerance: A Defence of Moral Independence (Continuum). The lecture will take place at 1pm in the BSIS centre at Boulevard de la Plaine 5, 1050 Brussels. Journalists are welcome to attend.
In On Tolerance, Professor Furedi argues that despite the democratisation of public life and the expansion of freedom, society is dominated by a culture that not only tolerates but often encourages intolerance.
'Policy makers casually demand "zero-tolerance" and often intolerance is directed at people who refuse to accept the conventional wisdom, he says. Frequently intolerance comes into its own in clashes over cultural values and lifestyles.'
Professor Furedi claims that one source of this problem in the EU is the confusion of tolerance with non-judgmentalism - confusion 'that has fostered a climate that often avoids an open debate on difficult and controversial issues.'
Frank Furedi is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent. During the past decade his research has been oriented towards the way that risk and uncertainty is managed by contemporary culture. He has published widely about controversies surrounding issues such as health, children, food and new technology. His Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age (2004) explores the ascendancy of the therapeutic imagination. It develops the arguments contained in two previous books The Culture of Fear (2003) and Paranoid Parenting (2001).
In recent years, Professor Furedi has been exploring the way that fear has come to dominate public discussions in Western societies. His Politics of Fear: Beyond Left and Right, published in September 2005, explores the crisis of meaning afflicting the West. Invitation To Terror: The Expanding Empire of the Unknown (Continuum Press) was published in 2008. In 2009, he questioned the way society educates children and young people in Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating.
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My guest post for today comes from Phil Fairbanks, who has written extensively about city housing issues, including a recent investigation of vacant housing. I asked Phil about the fallout since his series ran.
As you can probably guess, the response has varied widely, although the large, large majority of the people who contacted me saw the series as eye-opening confirmation of an immense challenge facing the city.
Perhaps the most telling reaction came at a recent Common Council hearing on how the city should use state housing funds. Speaker after speaker called for a more thoughtful and comprehensive approach to rebuilding the city's neighborhoods.
What people want is more than than just demolitions. Yes, there are thousands of houses that need to come down, but what's missing in many neighborhoods is a plan, a vision for what comes next.
There's a growing frustration with City Hall and what many housing advocates see as its inability to deal with a problem as big as vacant housing.
Many also wonder if the Brown administration is truly interested in working with groups that could help. They point to the land banking bill passed by the state legislature and now headed to Gov. David Paterson.
The city, as well as the state Conference of Mayors, claims the bill fails to address their unique problems. They've asked Paterson to veto it.
Meanwhile, more than a dozen groups and individuals, including the University at Buffalo's Regional Institute, have voiced support for the bill.
Tomorrow: Mary Pasciak writes about some of the most outrageous pension abuses she has uncovered.
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