A Need for ID
It's not hard to understand the need for security, and ID management has become increasingly more important in the government sector
- By Tim Cawsey
- May 01, 2006
THE articles and conferences abound, the national press talks about it, even grandma has heard about it -- identity theft is a mainstream concept. Whereas the all encompassing phrase has become a bit clichéd, it just goes to show that proving who we are along with safeguarding a person or organization?s assets has become a hot topic.
In the post-9/11 society, it's not hard to understand why security and, more specifically, ID management have become increasingly important. The drivers for its uptake have proved to be numerous, varied and often industry-specific. However, the overriding goal within many companies, federal agencies and other organizations is ensuring that only authorized personnel gain access to their buildings and IT networks.
A More Secure ID Badge
For many years, proving your identity has been done through some form of ID badge, and the latest programs are no different, it's just that the badge has got a whole lot smarter.
Smart cards resemble plastic credit cards and are embedded with a computer chip that permits an exchange of data with another system. The card can store identity credentials such as passwords, encryption keys, digital photos and even biometric information. As the chip governs access to PCs and networks, the system requires double authentication for access through something you have -- the card -- and something you know -- the PIN. In addition to network access, smart cards can be used for physical access to buildings and offices, making it possible to track where a person goes based on clearances through security checkpoints.
The ability to merge network and building security on a single device has made smart cards the de facto credential for identity management solutions for the storage and processing of user credentials and authentication to secure networks, applications, Web servers, e-mail communications and Internet transactions. They combine the privacy, integrity and authentication functionalities provided by cryptographic algorithms with the simplicity, portability and convenience of the card form-factor.
What's Driving Identification
The biggest single driver for identity management and smart ID adoption in the United States is the government. A large part of this is linked to a Bush administration's mandate known as the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12). Issued on Aug. 27, 2004, HSPD-12 is a mandate to all federal executive departments and agencies to issue "secure and reliable forms of identification" to its employees and contractors. The initiative is part of a broader effort to keep terrorists, criminals and other unauthorized people from getting into federal buildings or hacking into computer systems. Beyond the HSPD-12 mandate, other less-mature programs, such as Registered Traveler, First Responder and Real ID, are ensuring that the government is highly active in the identity space.
However, the government is far from the only mover in protecting its assets through better management of identities. Many commercial enterprises are looking for ways to better protect their IT assets, restrict access to buildings and do away with weak passwords. Fortune 100 companies, such as Boeing and IBM, have deployed companywide smart employees' IDs, while the healthcare industry has seen deployments driven by HIPAA. Pharmaceutical companies, such as Pfizer, have turned to the technology as a response to the SAFE initiative.
In general, the move is towards stronger authentication, and the smart card provides the means to get there. Moreover, it has become considerably easier to integrate smart cards into the Windows® environment used in most organizations, and at the recent RSA show in San Jose, Bill Gates claimed that passwords should become a thing of the past to be replaced by multi-factor authentication using a smart card-like device.
The Government Push
The government has a long history in secure IDs, and outside the GSM cell phone industry, it has been responsible for some of the biggest deployments of smart cards in the country. In fact, federal chief information officers cite information technology security and privacy as their most important and daunting issue, according to a recent survey of CIOs across departments and agencies by the IT Association of America.
Independent from the HSPD-12 directive, the Department of Defense's Common Access Card (CAC) program and the Department of Transportation's Transportation Workers Identity Credential (TWIC) project both demonstrate improved security through smart card-based identity credential solutions.
DOD's CAC program is its biggest rollout to date with more than 4 million smart badges for military personnel and contractors since 2000. This card is used primarily for secure IT access with users inserting the card into a reader attached to the PC, which reads the microprocessor chip in order to authenticate the user with a PIN or biometry.
The TWIC program is established by the Transportation Security Administration to improve security at seaports, airports, rail, pipeline, trucking and mass transit facilities by creating a nationwide credential that will prevent unauthorized people from gaining access to secure areas.
To date, most ID initiatives, such as CAC and TWIC, have been agency specific, using non-interoperable technology. Therefore, one of the objectives of the HSPD-12 mandate is to not only enhance security, but also to create inter-agency interoperability.
The HSPD-12 Opportunity
At the front end of the government's solution is an interoperable multi-application smart card that will support a wide range of government and agency-specific services. The goal is that each federal employee will carry a single smart card, which they will use for multiple purposes -- identification, network and building access, travel, small purchases and other financial and administrative purposes.
Although no one has been able to put a total figure on the size of the population to be covered by the HSPD-12 mandate, everyone concurs that it is massive. In the first instance, it will be rolled out to all federal employees, which is more than 8 million people to equip. When contractors and other initiatives, such as First Responder, are added into the equation, this figure could easily double. Beyond this, the general consensus is that this de facto standard may be picked up by not only state and local government, but also industries that have close dealings with government, creating a huge potential market.
A critical element of HSPD-12 is the development of the security standards which each agency needs to comply. Thus, in response to HSPD-12, standardization agencies including National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 201, which specifies security and interoperability requirements of the solution. The FIPS 201 specifications do not just encompass the card itself, but the whole solution needed to manage the user's credentials throughout their employment and the card's lifecycle. This includes many complex elements such as user enrollment, data capturing, card issuance and management. Needless to say, this is putting pressure on the deploying agencies, as well as the vendors expected to deliver the products required by the roll-out deadline of October.
Although analysts concur that the opportunity is large in scale, so are the interoperability challenges. As a result, any potential delay can be put down to the sheer quantity of products that need to be certified, the integration with legacy systems and the late publication of the biometric part of the standard. However, the government has put great emphasis on this initiative and better identification for their employees, which is why even if it is delayed, it will surely be rolled out sooner rather than later.
Beyond the Federal Space
So far, there is no unique standard for ID management, but many good solutions are out there and private enterprise has not been slow in adopting them. Some of the early adopters were those who frequently dealt with the government and therefore wanted a way of providing better security. An example of this is Boeing. This compounds the belief that HSPD-12 will start to spill over into these sorts of industries as soon as the interoperable standard reaches its critical mass.
However, the issue is not restricted to these sectors and has grown in importance as macro-environmental issues, such as terrorism and company infiltration, put pressure on organizations to safeguard their buildings and IT systems. What used to be an issue for security and IT departments has now become something that is leveling the boardroom because a vulnerable enterprise network also is an acute business risk.
Beyond the global security drive, companies also are finding other benefits of a smart ID program in terms of reduced paperwork, fewer costs related to password management and increased privacy. Two such industries that are already taking advantage of these benefits are pharmaceutical and healthcare.
Smart Healthcare in Dever
Similar to most large hospitals in the United States, Denver Health has several hundred workstations in strategic locations throughout its many facilities.
The system allows doctors, nurses and other staff to quickly and conveniently access patient records. However, residents at the hospital no longer log onto the computer network with a standard username and password. Instead, to electronically access patient data, they insert their personal smart card into a card reader attached to a workstation, and enter a PIN. A digital certificate on the card authenticates an employee to the network and launches the applications they are authorized to access. When the user pulls the card out of the reader, the system automatically logs them off the network.
In addition to enhancing security and efficiency, Denver Health uses smart cards to comply with the pending patient privacy requirements imposed by HIPAA.
According to David Boone, Denver Health's IT services manager, smart cards were the most secure and efficient means of meeting HIPAA requirements of patient privacy. But Denver Health also envisioned that smart cards could help them improve other aspects of its IT infrastructure to make everyday activities more efficient for their staff.
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When Pfizer, the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company wanted to implement a secure electronic system for digital signatures and employee network access, it too turned to a smart card-based solution.
Pfizer's initial incentive to deploy smart card technology was to create a platform for digital signatures. The pharmaceutical industry is highly regulated and there was a need to provide a consistent and an industry-wide method for managing and using digital signatures as an alternative to wet ones. In order to drive this initiative, Pfizer and several other pharmaceutical companies joined forces to promote the development of an industry standard, known as SAFE, for performing secure and non-repudiate transactions on the Web.
With one single smart badge, Pfizer employees can securely and conveniently gain access to buildings and offices, as well as log onto corporate networks and applications, and electronically sign e-mails and documents.
Roughly estimated, every digital signature used for regulatory and non-regulatory transactions eliminates the costs of approximately $125 required per wet signature -- a significant saving for any organization.
The Relentless Drive for Increased Security
All in all, the evident need for stronger protection of physical and logical assets within private and federal organizations continues to drive the identity management market forward. The risks and consequences associated with neglecting IT infrastructure security are simply too big, which explains why companies are investing accordingly.
In particular, the government's spending linked to the HSPD-12 initiative is generating excitement and large investments. Furthermore, smart cards continue to experience a boost in the corporate enterprise community. A recent Frost & Sullivan report showed 100-percent awareness among those interviewed, an extraordinary figure considering that only a few years ago most companies had never heard of smart cards. Only time will tell if HSPD-12 becomes the over riding standard beyond the federal space, but one thing is for sure, IT and building security has reached boardroom-level importance.


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Montag and Pratt on Celebrity Big Brother: The cast could have killed us in our sleep.
Well, well: If it isn’t Montag and Pratt garnering some much needed publicity this morning. The infamous duo of Montag and Pratt — that is, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt — are making headlines today, thanks to their train wreck of a performance on England’s Celebrity Big Brother. Montag and Pratt came in second on Big Brother and the pair are wasting no time talking to the media about their horrifying experience.
It seems Heidi and Spencer were somehow living in fear of the other Big Brother roommates and were terrified some cast mates might murder them while they slept in their camera-ridden bedrooms. Montag and Pratt talked to the Daily Star and couldn’t wait to gush about their terrifying cast members.
Said Pratt, “We didn’t sleep much at all. I always had one eye open. We were watching them thinking they were going to try and kill us in our sleep. We were constantly nervous something might happen. Every time we saw any of them near knives we left the kitchen straight away. Some of them would itch their own face with a butcher’s knife — it was mentally insane. If they’ll hold knives by their own faces I didn’t know what they were capable of.”
Pratt continued with wife Montag: “They (Big Brother producers) brought us in to be ‘Speidi’ and stir it all up. I feel like a cartoon character. My talent for some odd reason, is being an a**hole.”
While we don’t necessarily agree being a fame-mongering husband with questionable taste is a talent, it does seem Pratt has found a niche that seems to extends his 15 minutes of fame. Remember, Pratt and Montag first came to light from MTV’s The Hills — way back in 2006.
Watch Montag and Pratt on Celebrity Big Brother (UK) below:


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Nature tends to bloom better in places far away from people. The best example of this is seen in a abandoned fishing village, where the fisherman have all moved to mainland and the nature is occupying the houses they left behind. Goqui Island is located in Shengsi, a 400 island archipelago at the mouth of Yangtze river in China.
Out of 400, only 18 of the islands are inhabitable. The largest one, Sijiao Island is a five-hour ferry ride away and it is a very touristy point, that offers sea baths to tourists. This area is commonly known for fishing, where it attracts over 100,000 fisherman every winter.
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This is the second time I have used 99 designs to help develop a branded identity for a church - 7 years apart, and for churches in different states! I'm amazed at how each time the designers were able to find and develop on themes about our identity and mission, things for which we were clueless about until we saw their ideas, and everyone said, "Oh yeah, that is totally this place!" Really powerful service, a good logo provides a church confidence in who they are, especially long established churches who already have a well respected "brand" in their communities. No such thing as a church that is too small for this, by the way, especially for the cost. I can't recommend this enough for churches as we move beyond just putting a small listing in the newspaper and begin to share our story through new media channels.
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The main theme for both the tv spots is the reunion of the Loser's club after they have become adults and after 27 years, it will be their first confrontation with Pennywise the Clown
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Studying abroad is the best thing I have ever done in my life. I got on a plane for the very first time back in May, and it was to travel to another country– who would have thought! Greece was a fantastic option to choose for studying abroad. This location and school were perfect for me.
I attended Deree- the American College of Greece located in Agia Paraskevi, Greece. Deree is an amazing college with very personable professors; both of my professors were so kind and willing to help if I needed it. Being able to live in a very local area was one aspect of my study abroad that I enjoyed the most. I was able to see just what typical life in Greece was like. One of my favorite places in Agia Paraskevi was Erurido, a coffee shop with the best vanilla latte! Big Spoon was another favorite. It is a restaurant where I would go to do a lot of my homework and enjoy some great food; they had the best breakfast burrito!
The Greek islands are a big attraction to Greece, so I took advantage of my time there and visited seven different islands. I visited Aegina, Agistri, Hydra, Spetses, Naxos, Paros, and Santorini. I took some day trips and some overnight trips to these islands. We took ferries to get to and from the islands; this was a fun new experience for me!
Public transportation was also new to me. Using public transportation to go everywhere was something I had to learn and ended up enjoying it. We often had to wake up at 5 AM just to get somewhere by 8 AM because that is how public transportation works, but I was in Greece, so it was worth it!
AIFS was the program provider that I used to make my trip happen. I think that using a program provider was a much better option than going solo and doing everything on my own. They were super helpful and were able to assist me in multiple ways. For example, while I was abroad, I needed to go to the doctor; AIFS helped me get reimbursed for all my appointments and medicine fees.
The best part of going through a provider was having a program director in person in Greece with us! Her name is Alice– she was very nice and always ready to help! She took our group of students out several times to different places. She took us out to eat a few times to get to try traditional Greek food; she also took us to the Acropolis and the Acropolis museum. She took us on a tour of downtown Athens and watched the sunset in a beautiful area. Through AIFS, we also took several excursions that included visiting Mycenae and Nafplion, and we also went to the Temple of Poseidon. Going through a program is something I am thankful for since most of the other students did not have this opportunity.
Considering I do not think I would be back in Europe in a very long time, my friends and I booked a short weekend trip to Italy. While in Italy, we visited Milan and Venice! We took a gondola ride through the canals of Venice and ate plenty of pasta while in Italy.
Some of my favorite memories are getting to pet all the cats that roam the streets, bike riding in Spetses, cliff jumping in Santorini, and attending the Greek Wedding Show! Looking back, I am very fortunate to be able to study abroad while in college. This was the great experience of my life, and it made me very excited to travel the world some more!
Scarlett Bell (BS Management and Entrepreneurship) spent Summer 2022 studying abroad in Athens, Greece through AIFS. Scarlett had the following to say about studying abroad, “Studying abroad might seem scary at first, but you realize it is SO worth it the minute your plane lands!”
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Bill Greer (a trustee of the New Netherland Institute) will talk about painting a portrait of New Netherland in a work of fiction, using his novel The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan: A Novel of New Amsterdam and the life of Peter Stuyvesant, Director general of the New Netherland colony. The event will take place on November 19th at the Hagaman Historical Society, Pawling Hall, 86 Pawling Street, in Hagaman (Montgomery County), NY at 7 pm.
A book-release party for the reprint of the classic Adirondack history “Mostly Spruce and Hemlock” will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 at the Goff-Nelson Memorial Library, 41 Lake St., in Tupper Lake. The party will feature brief comments from library officials, Tupper Lake Free Press Publisher Dan McClelland, index author Carol Payment Poole, and publisher Andy Flynn. Refreshments will be served, and historical exhibits will be on display throughout the library.
“We see this party as a celebration of Tupper Lake’s heritage,” said Goff-Nelson Memorial Library Manager Linda Auclair. “Louis Simmons gave this community a huge gift in 1976 with ‘Mostly Spruce and Hemlock’ and the library is proud to give the same gift to even more people with a reprinting of this classic volume of Adirondack history.”
In June 1976, Tupper Lake Free Press Editor Louis J. Simmons released the first comprehensive volume of Tupper Lake history in “Mostly Spruce and Hemlock” at a book release party at the Goff-Nelson Memorial Library. It was a fitting location; the research room – the Grace Simmons Memorial Room – was named in honor of Louis’ first wife, a longtime Tupper Lake librarian. Louis Simmons used a lot of photographs from the library’s collection for his book.
At 461 pages and more than 140 photos, “Mostly Spruce and Hemlock” was an instant best-seller in the Tip Top Town and was sold out in less than two years. People have been searching for copies of the book for more than 30 years. Only 2,000 copies of the original were printed.
Simmons used more than four decades of experience at the editorial helm of the Tupper Lake Free Press to write “Mostly Spruce and Hemlock.” A 1926 graduate of the Tupper Lake High School and 1930 graduate of Syracuse University, he was hired as the Tupper Lake Free Press editor in 1932. He retired as full-time editor in 1979 and continued writing and editing until his death on April 4, 1995. He was also the Tupper Lake historian for many years.
“Mostly Spruce and Hemlock” details the early days of life in the village of Tupper Lake and the town of Altamont (the name of the town was changed to Tupper Lake in 2004). Histories are offered on the logging industry, railroading, churches, schools, hotels, Sunmount DDSO and businesses such as the Oval Wood Dish Corporation.
The new “Mostly Spruce and Hemlock” includes all of the original text and photos, but there will be some major differences. It is a paperback book, instead of hardcover, and the cover was redesigned. The original book did not include an index; however, the 2009 version has an index, which was written by author and Tupper Lake native Carol Payment Poole. Tupper Lake Free Press Publisher Dan McClelland wrote a new foreword. And the book is dedicated to Simmons and “Tupper Lakers everywhere.”
The reprinting is a joint project between Hungry Bear Publishing and the Goff-Nelson Memorial Library, which received permission to reprint “Mostly Spruce and Hemlock” as a fund-raiser. The library will receive all the author’s royalties plus a retail percentage for copies it sells directly to the public.
Presale orders for “Mostly Spruce and Hemlock” were taken between March and October 2009; anyone who prepaid for a book may pick it up at the library at the book-release party on Nov. 19. Prepaid orders to be shipped will be sent out as soon as the books arrive. No more orders will be taken until Nov. 19; anyone may purchase a copy at the party or during library hours anytime afterward. The books will also be for sale at various locations throughout the Tri-Lakes beginning the week of Thanksgiving. A print run of 2,000 was ordered for the Second Edition.
Based in Saranac Lake, Hungry Bear Publishing is home of the five-volume “Adirondack Attic” book series (Adirondack history) and the Meet the Town Community guide series. The company is owned and operated by Tupper Lake native Andy Flynn, who personally produced and edited the Second Edition of “Mostly Spruce and Hemlock,” and his wife, Dawn, originally from Bloomingdale.
For more information about the new “Mostly Spruce and Hemlock,” call the Goff-Nelson Memorial Library at (518) 359-9421.
Stretching over four miles through the center of the West Bronx, the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, known simply as the Grand Concourse, has served as a silent witness to the changing face of the Bronx, and New York City, for a century. To coincide with the Concourse’s centennial, New York Times editor Constance Rosenblum has written a book, Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx that brings to life this historic street.
Designed by a French engineer in the late nineteenth century to echo the elegance and grandeur of the Champs Elysées in Paris, the Concourse was nearly twenty years in the making (it celebrated its centennial in November). Over that century it has truly been a boulevard of dreams for various upwardly mobile immigrant and ethnic groups, yet it has also seen the darker side of the American dream.
Constance Rosenblum unearths the history of the street and its neighborhoods through a series of life stories and historical vignettes. The story of the creation and transformation of the Grand Concourse is the story of New York—and America—writ large, and Rosenblum examines the Grand Concourse from its earliest days to the blighted 1960s and 1970s right up to the current period of renewal. Illustrated with historical photographs, the vivid world of the Grand Concourse comes alive—from Yankee Stadium to the unparalleled collection of Art Deco apartments to the palatial Loew’s Paradise movie theater.
The publishers call it “An enthralling story of the creation of an iconic street, an examination of the forces that transformed it, and a moving portrait of those who called it home, Boulevard of Dreams is a must read for anyone interested in the rich history of New York and the twentieth-century American city.”
Cultural historian and journalist David Freeland has published his latest book,Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure, a rediscovery of the historic remnants of New York City’s leisure culture, including bier gartens in the Bowery, music publishers on Tin Pan Alley, jazz clubs in Harlem, and other locations throughout the city that remain partially intact, but obscured by the city’s development.
From the lights that never go out on Broadway to its 24-hour subway system, New York City isn’t called “the city that never sleeps” for nothing. Both native New Yorkers and tourists have played hard in Gotham for centuries, lindy hopping in 1930s Harlem, voguing in 1980s Chelsea, and refueling at all-night diners and bars. The island is packed with places of leisure and entertainment, but Manhattan’s infamously fast pace of change means that many of these beautifully constructed and incredibly ornate buildings have disappeared, and with them a rich and ribald history.
David Freeland serves as a guide to uncover the skeletons of New York’s lost monuments to its nightlife. With an eye for architectural detail, Freeland opens doors, climbs onto rooftops, and gazes down alleyways to reveal several of the remaining hidden gems of Manhattan’s nineteenth- and twentieth-century entertainment industry.
From the lights that never go out on Broadway to its 24-hour subway system, New York City isn’t called “the city that never sleeps” for nothing. Both native New Yorkers and tourists have played hard in Gotham for centuries, lindy hopping in 1930s Harlem, voguing in 1980s Chelsea, and refueling at all-night diners and bars. The slim island at the mouth of the Hudson River is packed with places of leisure and entertainment, but Manhattan’s infamously fast pace of change means that many of these beautifully constructed and incredibly ornate buildings have disappeared, and with them a rich and ribald history.
Yet with David Freeland as a guide, it’s possible to uncover skeletons of New York’s lost monuments to its nightlife. With a keen eye for architectural detail, Freeland opens doors, climbs onto rooftops, and gazes down alleyways to reveal several of the remaining hidden gems of Manhattan’s nineteenth- and twentieth-century entertainment industry.
From the Atlantic Garden German beer hall in present-day Chinatown to the city’s first motion picture studio—Union Square’s American Mutoscope and Biograph Company—to the Lincoln Theater in Harlem, Freeland situates each building within its historical and social context, bringing to life an old New York that took its diversions seriously.
Freeland reminds us that the buildings that serve as architectural guideposts to yesteryear’s recreations cannot be re-created—once destroyed they are gone forever. With condominiums and big box stores spreading over city blocks like wildfires, more and more of the Big Apple’s legendary houses of mirth are being lost.
Cornell University Press has announced the publication of The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America in which Jaap Jacobs offers a comprehensive history of Holland’s colony along the Hudson River, from the first trading voyages in the 1610s to 1674, when the Dutch ceded the colony to the English. The book is available in paperback here.
About The Colony of New Netherland
The Dutch involvement in North America started after Henry Hudson, sailing under a Dutch flag in 1609, traveled up the river that would later bear his name. The Dutch control of the region was short-lived, but had profound effects on the Hudson Valley region. In The Colony of New Netherland, Jaap Jacobs offers a comprehensive history of the Dutch colony on the Hudson from the first trading voyages in the 1610s to 1674, when the Dutch ceded the colony to the English.
As Jacobs shows, New Netherland offers a distinctive example of economic colonization and in its social and religious profile represents a noteworthy divergence from the English colonization in North America. Centered around New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan, the colony extended north to present-day Schenectady, New York, east to central Connecticut, and south to the border shared by Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, leaving an indelible imprint on the culture, political geography, and language of the early modern mid-Atlantic region. Dutch colonists’ vivid accounts of the land and people of the area shaped European perceptions of this bountiful land; their own activities had a lasting effect on land use and the flora and fauna of New York State, in particular, as well as on relations with the Native people with whom they traded.
Sure to become readers’ first reference to this crucial phase of American early colonial history, The Colony of New Netherland is a multifaceted and detailed depiction of life in the colony, from exploration and settlement through governance, trade, and agriculture. Jacobs gives a keen sense of the built environment and social relations of the Dutch colonists and closely examines the influence of the church and the social system adapted from that of the Dutch Republic. Although Jacobs focuses his narrative on the realities of quotidian existence in the colony, he considers that way of life in the broader context of the Dutch Atlantic and in comparison to other European settlements in North America.
About the Author
Jaap Jacobs (Ph.D. Leiden University), an independent scholar and writer, has been Visiting Professor of Early American History at Ohio University and Quinn Foundation Senior Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and Quinn Foundation Visiting Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University.
Praise for The Colony of New Netherland
“Jaap Jacobs’s The Colony of New Netherland is rich, deep, layered, and authoritative. It puts its subject in its proper place both in American and in Dutch history. For anyone with an interest in the Dutch presence in North America, it is essential.”–Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World
“The Colony of New Netherland is the definitive modern study of the early Dutch experience in North America. Jacobs offers many important new insights derived from scrupulous research in Dutch-language sources and situates the story of New Netherland in a truly Atlantic context. This book marks a crucial step in the process of diversifying our understanding of early North American history.”–Jon Parmenter, Cornell University, author of The Edge of the Woods: Iroquoia, 1534-1701
“Jaap Jacobs has read virtually everything about New Netherland, primary and secondary, in Dutch and English, and produced a model synthesis of social, political, and economic history for a colonial experience that has far too long been terra incognita. Jacobs is particularly strong in his ability to take a genuinely transatlantic perspective, detailing the many struggles within the Dutch West India Company over whether its North American interest was to be a colony of trade or a colony of settlement (or, indeed, a colony at all) as well as the efforts of the motley lot of a few thousand Europeans to recreate something resembling a society in New Amsterdam, Fort Orange, and points adjacent.”–Daniel K. Richter, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of History and the Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, author of The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Coloni!
“The unique character of New Netherland has eluded many chroniclers of early America, but Jaap Jacob’s first-rate scholarship and thoughtful analysis demonstrate how well he understands the intricacies and intrigues that marked the Dutch settlement. His book is a captivating treasure hunt for lovers of New York history and an essential, illuminating guide to an oft-neglected corner of our shared American past.”–Elizabeth L. Bradley, author of Knickerbocker
“The Colony of New Netherland will convince specialists and students alike of the pivotal role played by the Dutch West India Company colony in seventeenth-century America.”–Joyce D. Goodfriend, author of Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730.
Shirley W. Dunn, who has published two books about the Mohicans (The Mohicans and Their Land 1609-1730 and The Mohican World, 1680-1750) and has one in press, will speak on October 22nd at the Smithsonian Institution’s Heye Museum in Manhattan (a branch of the Museum of the American Indian) beginning at 6:00 pm. Her topic will be the Mohicans and the Dutch, and the she will deal with contributions of the Mohican Indians to Dutch settlement and to the Colony of Rensselaerswijck. The talk is free and open to the public.
Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor of Law at New York Law School, Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark, and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard University, has been selected as the winner of the 2009 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. Gordon-Reed won for her book, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton and Company). The prize is
awarded by Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
The award is named for Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), the slave who escaped bondage to emerge as one of the great American abolitionists, reformers, writers, and orators of the 19th century.
In addition to Gordon-Reed, the other finalists for the prize were Thavolia Glymph for Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge University Press) and Jacqueline Jones for Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf Publishers). The $25,000 annual award is the most generous history prize in the field. The prize will be presented to Gordon-Reed at a dinner in New York City in February 2010.
This year’s finalists were selected from a field of over fifty entries by a jury of scholars that included Robert Bonner (Dartmouth College), Rita Roberts (Scripps College), and Pier Larson (Johns Hopkins University). The winner was selected by a review committee of representatives from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and Yale University.
“In Annette Gordon Reed’s The Hemingses of Monticello, an enslaved Virginia family is delivered — but not disassociated — from Thomas Jefferson’s well-known sexual liaison with Sally Hemings,” says Bonner, the 2009 Douglass Prize Jury Chair and Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College. “The book judiciously blends the best of recent slavery scholarship with shrewd commentary on the legal structure of Chesapeake society before and after the American Revolution. Its meticulous account of the mid-eighteenth century intertwining of the black Hemingses and white Wayles families sheds new light on Jefferson’s subsequent conjoining with a young female slave who was already his kin by marriage. By exploring those dynamic commitments and evasions that shaped Monticello routines, the path-breaking book provides a testament to the complexity of human relationships within slave societies and to the haphazard possibilities for both intimacy and betrayal.”
The Frederick Douglass Book Prize was established in 1999 to stimulate scholarship in the field of slavery and abolition by honoring outstanding books. Previous winners were Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan in 1999; David Eltis, 2000; David Blight, 2001; Robert Harms and John Stauffer, 2002; James F. Brooks and Seymour Drescher, 2003; Jean Fagan Yellin, 2004; Laurent Dubois, 2005; Rebecca J. Scott, 2006; Christopher Leslie Brown, 2007; and Stephanie E. Smallwood, 2008.
A new book, Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City, by Michelle and James Nevius offers 182 short chapters that tell the story of the city from Henry Hudson’s voyage of discovery in 1609 to the present-day rebuilding of the World Trade Center site. At the back, fourteen self-guided tours allow you to use the chapters to create your own explorations of the city.
This fast-paced narrative history unfolds in mini-chapters designed to guide you to obscure and prominent historic places throughout the city. The supplemental maps and step-by-step directions make using the book to explore the city in a new way easy and accessible. The book is broken down into several parts that include New Amsterdam, the Revolutionary Era, and the Birth of New Republic; The Great Port, 1805-1835; The Growth of the Immigrant City, 1836-1865; The City in Transition, 1866-1897; The New Beautiful City, 1898-1919; Boom and Bust, 1920-1945; and the City Since World War Two.
The layout makes reading the book as a traditional history possible and brings to life the city’s fascinating and dramatic past for locals, tourists, and anyone eager to better know the stories and places of New York City history. Also check out the authors’ blog.
Organized in 1849 as a non-sectarian cemetery Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn (it actually borders Brooklyn and Queens) and covers 225 acres and is the resting place of over a half million people. This remarkable cemetery of rolling hills and gently sloping meadows features several thousand trees and flowering shrubs in a park like setting and is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is also the subject of an outstanding new book, Green Oasis in Brooklyn: The Evergreens Cemetery 1849-2008 by noted historian John Rousmaniere.
This oversize book filled with unique and picturesque photographs by Ken Druse, traces the history of the Evergreens Cemetery beginning with the land on which the cemetery was founded, and it’s design by some of the most acclaimed architects of their time, Alexander Jackson Davis and Andrew Jackson Downing. It also shows how the forces that shaped the history of New York – population growth, immigration and growing wealth – also shaped the Evergreens. Among the monuments of fascinating characters buried there are those of Brooklyn’s Eastern District Fire Department (site of a statue memorializing a fireman who died in the Brooklyn Theatre Fire of 1876), Chinese American plots, the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Memorial, Stranger’s mound (pauper’s graves), the graves of more then 500 entertainers, the 20th Regiment of U.S. Colored Troops plot, Yusef Hawkins (the 16-year-old African American youth who was shot to death in 1989 in Bensonhurst sparking racial tensions), Max Weber, Anthony Comstock, and literally thousands of other notable people.
Take a listen to NPR’s recent tour of The Evergreens here.
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“Penguin Classics On Air” is an online radio series devoted to the discussion and exploration of some of Penguin Classics’ more than 1400 titles from many eras, cultures and regions of the world. The program is hosted by Penguin Classics Editorial Director Elda Rotor and features in-depth conversations on new, timely and rediscovered classics between Elda Rotor or Classics editor John Siciliano and scholars, translators, or experts of a specific Penguin Classic.
The show wraps up with Associate Publisher Stephen Morrison offering a sampling of the Classic by reading the first pages from one of the works discussed. In addition, each episode of “Penguin Classics On Air” features a review by Alan Walker, Senior Director of Academic Marketing, on one of the Classics he’s recently read, as he fulfills his mission to read one Penguin Classic by an author per letter of the alphabet from A to Z.
As a sample of the goods, take a look at The Birth of Knickerbocker: Washington Irving’s A History of New York. Elda Rotor interviews Betsy Bradley, the introducer and editor of Washington Irving’s A History of New York , Irving’s popular first book is an early nineteenth century satirical novel of colonial New Amsterdam. It follows the fictional historian Diedrich Knickerbocker as he narrates the development of New York cultural life—from the creation of the doughnut to the creation of Wall Street. Alan Walker introduces listeners to The Emigrants by Gilbert Imlay and Stephen Morrison offers up the opening to Washington Irving’s beloved story “Rip Van Winkle.” in his segment, “First Pages.”

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Oral Care During Pregnancy
The medical evidence states that the pregnant women who have dental issues especially gum problems do give pre-mature birth to a baby. With proper research, the dentists and medical experts say that the gum diseases affect the increased biological fluids that triggers the labor pain. If the gum disease worsens during the pregnancy period then the baby will eventually be of low weight and might have some complications as well. Therefore, before planning on getting pregnant, women must visit dentists right away.
During the period of pregnancy, women realizes the reaction in their gums that starts to bleed at times due to the growing disease in there. Women will eventually experience this by the second month of pregnancy and this gets severe by the eight months. The gums react very adversely during this period due to the increased hormone levels.
You need to follow certain tips to ensure that gum disease does not strike you at the time of pregnancy. Having a good oral hygiene can also help you suppress this condition. So, make sure you brush and floss regularly to prevent gum disease condition. Visit your dentists regularly to ensure that the germs are eradicated from your mouth and gums.
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Fire and Ice is a new restaurant in Birmingham, Ala., and some friends and I checked it out a couple nights ago. It’s in Five Points in the building where a Gap was several years ago — and it sure doesn’t look like the place where we used to buy blue jeans. Fire and Ice is a sort of do-it-yourself stir fry/grill restaurant. You don’t cook it yourself, but you create your own bowl of ingredients from a well-stocked buffet and then take it to a huge round grill where cooks sizzle your creation to perfection. That’s the “Fire” part. The “Ice” part is the bar, which is decorated in cool shades of blue to contrast with the red decor of the food part. Here’s how it works: When the waitress seats you, you get a complimentary bowl of chips and salsa and you order drinks while she explains the process and even takes you on a tour. The buffet has a salad bar with the usual items and then a section with ingredients for your entree, although you can mix and match. The entree bar has a wider variety of vegetables such as bok choy and sweet potatoes — some cooked and some not cooked — along with uncooked meats such as scallops, salmon, shrimp, BBQ chicken and tenderloin plus tofu. You can do your salad first and then go back for your entree, which you build in a bowl as high as you wish. Of course, we five experienced moms sort of cringed at the thought of adding raw meat to a pile of vegetables and letting it set for a few minutes, but our waitress assured us it would be OK, and of course it was. The really fun part, though, is figuring our your sauce. There are about 1o or 12 to choose from, with flavors such as Cajun, Asian and Southwestern. I really liked the Roasted Garlic with Honey and then a pineapple-ginger one. You can stick with one or mix some together. So you put your sauce in little cups and take your bowl of ingredients plus your sauce over to the grill, where the cooks deftly arrange your ingredients in a line, do their magic, add your sauce and in a few minutes you’ve got a hot and yummy personalized stir fry. You can take your drinks to the grill while you watch and go back as often as you like. It was lots of fun, but it can be a little intimidating if you feel pressured by the thought that a good meal is up to your own skill at combining ingredients. After all, relying on somebody else’s expertise is one of the reasons we go out to eat. But there are no bad choices, and the sauce redeems all. If you’re uneasy at first, start out small with only a few ingredients — although if it’s crowded and there’s a line at the grill, this approach might slow down your evening. And if you don’t want a stir fry at all, do a hamburger or veggie burger at the grill and get a big basket of fries to go with. Yum! The salad/entree bar is $15.95 for dinner and $9.9 for lunch. There are also appetizers and a dessert, including a fondue for more do-it-yourself eating, but these are extra. As long as you’ve got folks along who are willing to try something new, this is a great place. It’s also good for families like mine, where everybody likes different things. According to the Web site, http://www.fire-ice.com/, Fire and Ice is a chain that started in 1997 in Cambridge, Mass., and now is all over the world. It’s fun and different, so try it.
Didn’t we have fun!!!!!!!
Yes it was tons of fun to try this new dining experience! Your description Cathy would make me want to go there if I hadn’t already.
Sounds like I really missed out. Hmpf.
Well, one of the best parts was going there with my dear friends — and, of course, it would be even better going there with my dear husband. Thanks, everybody, for the kind words. I’ve got lots more to post about our Birmingham adventures, as you can imagine, so stay tuned!

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Correlation and path coefficient analysis for agronomical traits in sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] under shallow saline soil condition in arid region
Genetic variability and interrelationships of characters in 224 genotypes of sorghum were studied during kharif-2013, revealed highly significant genotypic differences for all the characters among the accessions. All the characters had higher genotypic and phenotypic coefficient of variation which is indicative that character expression in this sorghum population was genetic and can be exploited in breeding programme. High heritability coupled with high genetic advance was observed for fresh weight per plant, leaf area, plant height and dry weight per plant indicating that these characters are controlled by additive gene action and phenotypic selection for these characters will be effective. Fresh weight per plant was positively correlated with days to flowering, number of leaves per plant, leaf area, panicle length, dry weight per plant, grain yield per plant and 1000 seed weight. The path coefficient analysis indicated positive and significant correlation as well as high or moderate direct effects of dry weight per plant, panicle length, number of leaves per plant, plant height, grain yield per plant and 1000 seed weight on fresh weight per plant.
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Skateboarding has become an increasingly popular sport and lifestyle around the world. With its growing popularity, it's no surprise that the skateboarding industry is booming. According to Grandview Research, the global skateboarding market is expected to reach $2.4 billion by 2025. The number of skateboarders worldwide is estimated to be around 50 million with 77% preferring small shops over chain stores for their purchases. In addition, 59.2% of board sales in the US are from specialty skate shops while there are about 3,500 parks across America dedicated solely to skating activities alone.
The average age of a skater ranges between 12-17 years old and 79% identify as male whereas 21% identify as female according to Statista’s survey results on gender distribution among skaters in 2019/2020 season . Furthermore ,there are more than 500 brands globally catering towards this demographic along with a projected worth of $2.48 billion for Skateboard shoe markets by 2027 according to Intelligent Market Reports . Element Skateboards was identified as top selling brand in 2020 followed closely behind other major players such as Converse Adidas Nike Puma Supra Footwear etc.. Additionally ,the hardware market was valued at 807$ Million USD during same year which further highlights potential growth opportunities within this sector .
Asia Pacific region has been identified as fastest growing region due 6th most popular sport status achieved recently amongst Americans (according Finances Online )and 11 million people practicing regularly all over globe (Olympics) respectively .. California being home nearly half off all retail outlets present throughout United States also adds up into overall success story associated with current state off affairs related too Skating Industry Statistics Worldwide .
Skateboarding Industry Statistics Overview
77% of skateboarders prefer to shop at small skate shops rather than chain stores.
This statistic is a testament to the loyalty of skateboarders to small skate shops. It speaks to the strength of the skateboarding community and the importance of supporting local businesses. It also highlights the potential for small skate shops to thrive in the skateboarding industry, despite the presence of larger chain stores. This statistic is an important reminder of the power of the skateboarding community and the importance of supporting small businesses.
59.2% of board sales in the US are from specialty skate shops.
This statistic is a testament to the strength of the skateboarding industry in the US. It shows that specialty skate shops are a major source of board sales, indicating that skateboarding is a popular and profitable activity. This statistic is an important indicator of the health of the skateboarding industry and provides insight into the current state of the market.
The United States has about 3,500 skate parks.
This statistic is a testament to the popularity of skateboarding in the United States. With 3,500 skate parks, it's clear that skateboarding is a beloved pastime for many Americans. This statistic speaks to the size and scope of the skateboarding industry, and the potential for growth in the future.
The average age of a skateboarder is 12-17 years old.
This statistic is a key indicator of the skateboarding industry's target demographic. Knowing the average age of skateboarders helps companies understand who they should be marketing to and what products they should be producing. It also helps them understand the trends and preferences of their target audience, allowing them to better tailor their products and services to meet their needs.
79% of skateboarders are male, while 21% are female.
This statistic is a powerful indicator of the gender disparity in the skateboarding industry. It highlights the fact that the majority of skateboarders are male, while female skateboarders are significantly underrepresented. This is an important issue to address, as it can have a major impact on the industry's growth and success. By recognizing this gender gap, skateboarding companies can take steps to create a more inclusive and diverse environment for all skateboarders.
The skateboard shoe market is expected to be worth $2.48 billion by 2027.
This statistic is a testament to the immense potential of the skateboarding industry. It shows that the skateboard shoe market is projected to experience significant growth in the coming years, indicating that skateboarding is becoming increasingly popular and profitable. This is an encouraging sign for those involved in the skateboarding industry, as it suggests that the industry is likely to continue to expand and thrive in the future.
The top-selling skateboard brand in 2020 was Element Skateboards.
This statistic is a testament to the success of Element Skateboards in the skateboarding industry in 2020. It highlights the brand's ability to capture the attention of skateboarders and become the top-selling skateboard brand of the year. This statistic is an important indicator of the skateboarding industry's current trends and provides insight into the preferences of skateboarders.
Asia Pacific is projected to be the fastest-growing region in the skateboard market from 2019-2025.
This statistic is a testament to the potential of the skateboard market in the Asia Pacific region. It highlights the immense growth opportunities that exist in the region, and serves as a reminder of the importance of the Asia Pacific region in the skateboarding industry. It also serves as a reminder of the importance of investing in the skateboarding industry in the Asia Pacific region, as it is projected to be the fastest-growing region in the skateboard market.
The number of skaters in the U.S. was approximately 6.7 million in 2019.
This statistic is a key indicator of the size of the skateboarding industry in the United States. It provides insight into the number of people who are actively participating in the sport, and the potential for growth in the industry. It also serves as a benchmark for the success of skateboarding-related businesses, as well as the potential for new products and services to be developed. Ultimately, this statistic is an important piece of information for anyone interested in the skateboarding industry.
Street skateboarding is the most popular discipline, with 63% of participants.
This statistic is a telling indication of the skateboarding industry's current state. It reveals that street skateboarding is the most popular discipline among skateboarders, with a majority of participants engaging in it. This statistic is important for understanding the skateboarding industry's current trends and preferences, and can be used to inform decisions about marketing, product development, and other aspects of the industry.
The skateboarding industry is responsible for employing over 20,000 people.
This statistic is a testament to the impact skateboarding has had on the economy. It shows that the skateboarding industry is a major employer, providing jobs to thousands of people. This is a powerful indicator of the industry's success and its importance to the global economy.
50% of skateboard deck sales are from online retailers.
This statistic is a telling indication of the changing landscape of the skateboarding industry. It shows that online retailers are becoming increasingly popular among skateboarders, suggesting that the industry is shifting to a more digital-focused approach. This could have a significant impact on the way skateboarding is marketed and sold, and could be a key factor in the industry's future success.
Skateboarding is practiced regularly by 11 million people globally.
This statistic is a testament to the immense popularity of skateboarding, highlighting the sheer number of people who engage in the activity on a regular basis. It serves as a reminder of the immense potential of the skateboarding industry, and the potential for growth and development that it holds.
California is home to nearly half of all skate shops in the United States.
This statistic is a testament to the immense popularity of skateboarding in California. It speaks to the thriving skateboarding culture in the state, and the fact that it is home to nearly half of all skate shops in the United States is a clear indication of the industry's success. This statistic is a powerful reminder of the impact skateboarding has had on the state and the nation as a whole.
The skateboarding industry is a rapidly growing market with no signs of slowing down. The global skateboarding market is expected to reach $2.4 billion by 2025, and the number of skateboarders worldwide is estimated to be around 50 million. Skateboarders prefer small shops over chain stores for their purchases, as 77% shop at specialty stores while 59.2% purchase from them in the US alone.
There are 3,500 parks across America and 12-17 year olds make up most of its participants - 79% being male and 21% female respectively. Over 500 brands exist globally with shoes making up an additional $2.48 billion dollar sector projected by 2027; Element Skateboards was 2020's top seller in this regard while hardware made up another $807 million that same year according to Apex Market Reports' research findings on Global Skateboard Industry Market Research Report . Asia Pacific has been identified as having the fastest growth rate between 2019-2025 due to 6+ million skaters residing there currently; it also happens that California houses nearly half all American retailers selling these products online or otherwise (50%).
Electric boards have seen a 909 CAGR since 2018 when they were valued at just under 1 billion dollars but now stand at 2 point 7 six which could potentially double if trends continue into 2026 like predicted by Bulk Delegate’s report on electric skateboards marketshare analysis.. All things considered, it appears safe to say that skating will remain popular among youth culture for years come given how much money continues pouring into its infrastructure development both domestically & abroad.
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If sufficient of them switched in red states in a close race, it could deny Mr Trump success in the electoral college. It is simple to forget that Mr Trump loses elections.
The reason Mr Trump projects so hard versus the trustworthiness of the ballot box is that he understands the tally box can defeat him.
We will make America safe once again. And we will make America great again,” he told the CPAC audience.
Don’t question that he will. If anything, remarkable actions versus him by the Justice Department, in this case tied to categorized information Trump apparently took with him from the White House, according to an NBC source familiar with what happened, is only likely to grease those ambitions even more.
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Any worry he has of losing has certainly been displaced by a more severe one: doing time. Trump must pine for the Justice Department’s guard from prosecution that the presidential seal manages.
He would practically surely be out on bail, still running for the presidency and claiming that the decision would be reversed on appeal.
We ignore them at our hazard doing so indicates losing valuable time both reminding Americans of the “clear and present threat” to our Constitution that he positions and getting ready for how finest to defeat him. Amongst those arguing Trump will not run once again was Michael Cohen. Trump’s previous attorney who knows the man as well as anybody stated in November: “His delicate ego can not stand to be thought about a two-time loser.” Cohen’s observation appeared practical then.
In current weeks, we’ve witnessed an avalanche of evidence from the House committee investigating the occasions of Jan. 6 about Trump’s prospective criminality leading up to and on that eventful day.
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And in February, the National Archives requested that the Justice Department take a look at whether Trump’s handling of White House records broke federal law. Any worry he has of losing has actually certainly been displaced by a more severe one: doing time. Trump must crave the Justice Department’s guard from prosecution that the presidential seal pays for.
And once the presidency is won, are your people going to enforce the rules versus you? As for Cohen’s assertion that Trump would surrender his reliability if he lost a second time, where’s the proof that his fans would disbelieve his unavoidable claim that he actually won?
Provided all these elements, whatever legal jeopardy he might remain in, anticipate a Trump announcement not long after the midterms saying he means to be the very first president to have ever had an election stolen and lived to win four years later on.
Exists a Democrat who can take on Biden? (Alex Samuels, politics press reporter): I do not think so, Sarah, especially if Trump is the candidate. If Trump announces that he’s running for a 2nd term, I believe: 1) Biden will run again, and 2) there will not be a damaging primary to take him down.
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Bernie Sanders stepping up to the plate and bring in a good share of the vote, but in 2024, I don’t believe he ‘d bother, or be effective. More like frenemies., senior elections analyst): That’s a good point, Alex, about Democrats likely not desiring to get involved in an unpleasant primary.
If Trump looms large, that might motivate higher Democratic unity. Regardless, however, it’s extremely difficult to take on an incumbent president in a main no incumbent has actually ever lost renomination in the modern-day presidential primary period.
Yeah, and the incumbent presidents who have faced serious renomination battles (e. g., former President Jimmy Carter) lost their subsequent basic election. No Democrat will wish to be blamed for tanking Biden’s chances against Trump. Another problem: I know polls show that Democrats mostly don’t want Biden to run again, however celebration elites aren’t acting that method.
Carolyn Maloney said she didn’t believe Biden would run again in 2024. Her main challengers jumped all over her, and she had to ask forgiveness!.?.!! To me, that’s the indication of a party united behind their leader. (It’s almost Trump-like!) Yeah, I do not see anybody running if Biden makes good on his stated objective to run again.


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Queuing up for visa may be a thing of past
These are some of the services that visa facilitator VFS Global aims to introduce to make pre-travel formalities easier and faster for customers, its CEO Zubin Karkaria told ET in a recent interview.
VFS, founded in Mumbai and headquartered in London, is the world's biggest visa facilitator. It operates 1,514 application centres in 120 countries, representing 45 governments. It represents India in 10 countries with 33 visa application centres.
Karkaria said the company is in talks with governments to make visa procedures more technologically relevant, "while ensuring security and complete data protection". "So there is a match between efficiency, customer service and security," he added.
For instance, the company is in the final stages of testing a mobile app for visa application to the UAE for passengers of Emirates. It has also created applications which it plans to present to the governments in the Schengen area (area comprising countries in Europe that have abolished passport or any other type of border control) such as Belgium and Switzerland. The app, however, won't be able to collect biometric—usually fingerprint—details that are required by countries like the US and the UK for visa application procedures.
Starting October, Indians travelling to any of the 26 Schengen countries will also have to undergo biometric scans as part of the application procedure. In such a process, the details are matched at the destination airport, once the passenger lands.
The "mobile biometrics", apart from collecting filled forms and samples from the applicant's house, also entails VFS employees setting up camps in towns. Interested applicants can come with documents and get their fingerprints scanned. The details are sent in real-time to visa centres where they are processed.
VFS had, at the behest of the UK government, set up such a camp in Goa in 2013.
Experts say that with the Modi government giving a push to the tourism sector, positive macroeconomic scenario and growing demand for foreign travel, more passengers are likely to travel overseas.
Last year, VFS handled 3.21 million outbound visa applications from India, up 30% on year.
According to Karkaria, VFS is also working with the Municipal Corporation of Mumbai to facilitate bill payments for health services, licences, maintenance and water works. It is also working with the government of Orissa for providing building plan approvals for real estate developers.
In India, VFS operates 29 citizen service centres. It has 3,200 employees of which 1,550 are in India.


Tiny galaxies had big influence on early universe
By Science News Staff, 14:43 PM June 20, 2014
Guest post by Christopher Crockett
When it comes to galaxies, the little guys do a lot of the work. Dwarf galaxies, amorphous blobs of only tens of millions of stars, were cranking out nearly a third of the new stars in the universe from about 8 billion to 10 billion years ago, according to new research posted June 17 on arXiv.org.
Previous research into star formation in the early universe has typically been biased toward massive galaxies because they’re brighter. The new observations with the...
Source URL: https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/tiny-galaxies-had-big-influence-early-universe


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Your Father on the Train of Ghosts
C. Waldrep and John Gallaher
Rochester, NY: BOA Editions Ltd.
G.C. Waldrep is one of my favorite contemporary poets and his 2008 book Disclamor is to me a masterwork in short form of geographical and political observation alike. Taking grand inspiration from his personal experiences in walking around the abandoned Cold War defensive batteries and bunkers of Marin County, California, Waldrep considered the complex meanings of these former measures to ensure American security in an age where security concerns once again is at an apex. Cold War history is of keen interest to me anyways, but Waldrep in this book drew together bits of history that might only lure in a military history nerd like myself under normal circumstances yet somehow, via careful craft and expansive knowledge, spins from them tales as much about the internal workings of society and personality as about coastal fortifications. Thus, when BOA Editions sent me Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, for review the first thing I noticed about this fairly thick volume was that Waldrep was one of its authors, and that was plenty to raise my interest. Next though, I learned exactly what I had in my hands: the unique fruit of the labor of two poets—Waldrep and John Gallaher, an equally esteemed American poet—working in tandem to produce poems via email. That is, these two men are not just co-authors of a book, a collection, but of each poem it contains and they wrote these works via sending words and phrases back and forth electronically.
This writing concept is apt for our internet age and may even seem innovative but also perhaps a bit more appropriate for an undergraduate course than the efforts of two leading contemporary poets, yet like any literature the proof of the pudding must be in the eating, not in the size of the kitchen, the name of the chef, or anything else. What may at first seem like an exercise quickly reveals itself to be a serious working modality in the able hands of Gallaher and Waldrep. A line such as “After the fire, November was a surgeon’s voice” in the poem “Night Autopsy” carries all the allure you’d expect when you encounter it halfway through the poem but also stills you in the reality of poetry that writes of our modern day lives, our contemporary situation so mediated by technology including the very internet magic and email speediness that helped facilitate this poem. Though “Night Autopsy” is held together by the twine of the current, the real, I cannot help but feel though there’s something very film noir, very much historical, very romantic and yet no-nonsense about it, too.
In the titular poem, the images are exacting and pointed, moving the father himself onto the “train of ghosts” and into a world of ample metaphor and images fitting for an aged man who can recall much of a varied and violent century:
Maybe he’s watching the hot-air balloons
that have just appeared
all over the sky, ribbed like airborne hearts
of the giants Jack killed.
In the stories, Jack has no father.
This would explain a lot, you are thinking
as the train begins to pull away.
This is a twentieth-century man: there are wars, and there are trains, airplanes, all manner of vehicles fit for fast travel. Hot-air ballons, those festive fanfares of romance with little real function in contemporary aviation aside from providing newlyweds a lovely view of the countryside or serving as the backgrounds of health insurance ads: They seem fit for just the watching of or the watching from, little more. We are, however, no longer in the twentieth-century and this train itself seems to leave with little fanfare.
Knowing where Waldrep comes from—both in terms of his acute geography and his literary eye—is helpful in approaching this collection. I know much less of Gallaher, but knowing Waldrep I am able in many places to discern his voice in the poems and by subtraction, isolate Gallaher as the other voice remaining. Gallaher seems to share Waldrep’s way of seeing, he seems adept at finding the nuanced motifs of varied trips to other nations, flights afar, and most of all the violence of war. There is here a sense of exoticism but never for its own sake or for the plain sake of artifice. In some places war is even mentioned without being described in enough detail to pinpoint it, but there’s something about the typology of vague Cold War references and general tenor of voice that makes me think of the Vietnam War above all else. Part of this is seeing that what matters—in the dialog between the two poets—arises the necessary facets of dialog between men in general, and comrades in arms certainly come to mind. We also source the voices of men—these two men, other men, the unspoken “father”—at various stations of life: we can hear the voice of the college-aged kid or the young enlisted man beside the words of men well into middle-age.
The age of the authors, or better posited, their collective awareness of age and history, furthers their output markedly. A young man doesn’t write a poem such as “Elegy for the Manhattan Project” or “Trade Deficit”. If a young man were to, he’d be a young fellow with a very old heart. The aforementioned “Night Autopsy” in title and content, part and parcel, is exceptionally masterful. We—most of us who are not pathologists, anyhow—know post-mortems via television crime dramas which have in recent years made much more use of the medical examiner it seems. The reality though of the job is not as alluring as television makes it and the autopsy as a thing, as an odd chore but routine matter for a select few doctors, is oft outweighed by its power as a metaphor. Here, the metaphoric reach of this task is put to best of purposes though. What of the most literally interrogation of the dead in the heart of the night? What if the medical examiner is running behind and must work into the wee hours of the morning? What if we’re in plague times and the corpses are becoming commonplace?
“Candling the Bodies” is another poem on the theme of stewardship of the dead. The language of it, whether by intention of the authors or happenstance, suggests to me the mortuary affairs complex at Dover Air Force Base where war dead arrive to be prepared for their military funerals:
So our job at the hangar
was to hold each of the bodies
up to a bright light, to see
if there were any other
Day in, day out
we sifted the bodies
from their crates of sawdust.
This is not how, I would think, the work is done at Dover, nor are “other bodies” sought out within the corpses. Dr. William St. Clair Symmers, the great pathologist and writer of medical miscellany, might well appreciate this poem but again the role of metaphor is forged right on top of close reality. As soon as we connect a “hangar” and “bodies” in reading this, how can we not think of corpses—and the war dead at that? However, for all we know—and really, all the poem ever tells—the “bodies” may not even be human. Perhaps there is a corpus at work here, not a corpse; perhaps the bodies are animal and the work veterinary; perhaps they are the spent shells of a warplane, a bird of prey? In any case, as with “Night Autopsy” we get more terse, glaring, yet fully unresolved intersections of life and death.
When I first sat down with this book, I will admit I wondered how well the innovative concept of shared writing of poetry via email would work out and I even feared the Waldrep I’d come to so greatly respect would be washed of his distinct voice in a tandem effort. I had no reason to worry, as it turns out, because Gallaher and Waldrep develop on these pages an uncanny, consummate, ability to write cohesive poems that while united in tenor retain each man’s own voice and come together like a fabric made by an ultra-lux fashion house. Not simply an experiment, this book is ample in length and very serious in tone—encompassing in quality and scope. I highly recommend it as one of the most diverse, unique, and engrossing poetry books of the past couple years and I hope for more work of this approach by Waldrep and Gallaher.

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" Hayes Jones is no longer with us."
"You mean he died?"
"The Olympics have always been a shining dream for me, unreal and mystical, where everything takes on deep meaning. So at JFK, when we got on that funny container bus that took us out to the aircraft, Steve and I were giddy, saying, 'This is the slowest plane I've ever been on,' but I was thinking, 'Here's where the fantasy begins.' Then I looked around and it was nothing special, just a bunch of guys I knew. Coming in to Oslo, I got ready for the magic to hit me. But it was only rain."
Johnson provided his own magic, as at breakfast, mixing the contents of two bowls. "Ah, oatmeal and applesauce. Gives you the strength of a thousand butterflies."
Before we emerged from Nymphenburg, Clayton and the iridescent Hill, who had pushed the early pace, dropped behind. Usami and Foster took the lead. Once out on pavement again, Frank cruised through the front group, now down to eight, observing runners closely. With 17 miles to go, as we ran beneath maples lining a murky canal, he surged ahead.
Nobody went with him. It was hot, and it seemed he had spurted too sharply. He would pay for his extravagance later. So as he moved away we each sought our most economic rhythm, and the pack split up. I ran for a mile with Gaston Roelants of Belgium, whose shoes were bound to his feet with yards of tape to prevent friction and blisters. He slowed with a side ache.
I caught Jack Foster and tried to cajole him into running the slightest increment faster. He looked at me stonily. Then a rejuvenated Clayton pounded by and I took up with him. Along a smooth stretch of road our shadows preceded us. Clayton's was full of movement, his arms clawing high across his chest, his head bobbing. I looked over. His tongue rolled in and out of his mouth.


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So in my last blog I discussed the issue of slavery in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. I mentioned the ground breaking case Lord Mansfield ruled over regarding the slave James Somerset. Another important case he ruled over was the Zong case. The Zong was a ship bound for Jamaica in 1781 when 133 slaves were thrown overbroad. It seemed they were worth more in an insurance claim under British law. However, the insurers brought as legal case against the ships’ owners. This was murder after all. Lord Mansfield heard the case. When abolitionist Granville Sharp found out, he tried to have the ship’s captain tried for murder. Lord Mansfield ordered a re-trail, but the trail never took place. The massacre was shocking and disgusting to the public; it was a turning point in the campaign to end slavery.
One other important matter was that of Francis Barber who became the heir to Samual Johnson. Barber died on 13th January 1801 and was buried in Stafford. He started his life as a slave in Jamaica and was brought to England by Samual Johnson until Johnson died in 1784. He left Barber £70 pounds a year (that’s like £9,000 now !) which he opened a drapers shop with and married a local women. A very unusual outcome for salve indeed. One of the happier endings, but I don’t think it takes away from the dreadful practice that was slavery.
The following video is a great source of information about his life.
Read more in the following book;
Bundock, Michael. The Fortune of Francis barber. The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir. Yale University Press. 2015
I will be discussing Frederick Douglas in another post…..

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