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When David Zimmerman first broke into the hockey coaching ranks more than 25 years ago by guiding Pee Wee teams in Minot and Grand Forks, his goal was simple. Help the team go far. In the end, however, hockey is sending the Devils Lake High School head coach far.
When David Zimmerman first broke into the hockey coaching ranks more than 25 years ago by guiding Pee Wee teams in Minot and Grand Forks, his goal was simple. Help the team go far. In the end, however, hockey is sending the Devils Lake High School head coach far.
Real, real far.
Zimmerman was recently selected as an assistant coach for Team USA at the 2013 World Deaf Ice Hockey Championships in Vantaa, Finland. The event is scheduled for March 30 through April 6 at the Tikkurila Valtti Areena in Vantaa, Finland.
"Anytime you get selected to represent your country in any kind of capacity, it's humbling and special," said Zimmerman, who just completed his fifth season as the Firebirds' head coach. "I am very happy to be selected to the coaching staff."
With Team USA, Zimmerman will be coaching the team's forwards while serving under coach Jeff Sauer. The former University of Wisconsin mentor led the Badgers to a pair of NCAA national championship during his tenure at the school.
A veteran instructor at a summer hockey camp for children in Chicago, Zimmerman is no stranger to the USA Deaf Hockey program. He previously served as an assistant coach in 2009, helping the U.S. team skate to a bronze medal in Winnipeg, and to a gold medal at the Salt Lake City games in 2007.
Getting to the 2013 world championships will be a feat in itself, Zimmerman said. He is scheduled to leave Devils Lake later this week. Initially, the team will travel by train to Albany, New York, on March 27. After practicing for a short time in Albany, the team will board a plane and travel to Vantaa.
Shortly after landing in Finland, the American squad will hit the ice again, facing Canada, defending world champion Finland and Russia in pool play. Team USA will begin its pool play schedule on March 30 with a contest against Canada.
On March 31, Zimmerman and the young U.S, squad will face Finland, and then end pool play on April 2 against Russia.
Following the completion of pool play, the top two teams in the 4-team pool will advance to the championship round. The bottom two teams will move into the bronze round.
Despite having one of the younger teams in the tournament, Zimmerman said he thinks the U.S. team can be competitive.
"We have a very young team. We only have five players with international playing experience, but I do feel we will do well in Vantaa," he said.
The journey to Vantaa will highlight a long career in hockey for Zimmerman. One of five brothers that played hockey while growing up in Minot, he broke into the coaching ranks by taking over Pee Wee and Bantam youth programs.
Zimmerman became connected with the Devils Lake High School program more than a decade ago after responding to an ad in the newspaper seeking an assistant hockey coach.
Scott Privatsky, who at that time was serving as Devils Lake Activities Director and now serves as the school's superintendant, decided to give him a shot. From there, Zimmerman spent two seasons assisting Don Korbl, and then spent six years under Al Henry.
In 2008, he assumed the head coaching duties when Henry decided to retire.
Zimmerman said Devils Lake area hockey fans wanting to know how Team USA does in the world championships can follow the team on the Internet at www.wdihc2013.com


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Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads
The Zodiac Project is Ai Weiwei's first major public sculpture. For this monumental new work, Ai has recreated the famous twelve bronze animal heads that once adorned the Zodiac Fountain in Yuan Ming Yuan, the Old Summer Palace, in Beijing. Cast around 1750, the original heads were looted by Anglo-French troops who took part in the destruction of Yuan Ming Yuan in 1860 during the Second Opium War. The heads remain a potent trigger for Chinese nationalist sentiments. Ai's new work suggests a dialogue about the fate of art objects that exist within dynamic and sometimes volatile cultural and political settings. With his subversive wit, the artist adapts objects from the Chinese material canon going back to antiquity, twisting traditional meanings toward new purposes. Ai's continuous exploration of the historical object finds great resonance with the encyclopedic collection of LACMA, which includes Chinese art from the Neolithic to the Qing Dynasty period.
Ai Weiwei grew up the son of acclaimed poet Ai Qing and spent several years as a child exiled in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. For more than a decade, he lived and worked in New York, returning to China in 1993. He was detained in April, 2011 for close to three months, causing an international outcry. He is currently prohibited from leaving Beijing. He has become an international symbol of the ongoing struggle for freedom of expression and dissent.
Support for this exhibition is provided by Phillips de Pury & Company and Honorable Vicki Reynolds Pepper and Murray Pepper, Sue Tsao, with additional support from Vera Tsai and Anne Wu. Official Global Art Logistics Partner: Crozier Fine Arts.
Image: Installation view, Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, August 20, 2011–February 12, 2012, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, © Ai Weiwei, Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA.
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East and West, Past and Present: Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads
In ancient China one's Zodiac sign was fixed by the position of the planet Jupiter during the year of one's birth (it takes twelve years for Jupiter to orbit the sun). On this level, Ai Weiwei Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads represents a system of measuring time and distinguishing characteristics of the human psyche linked to the heavens above...
Circling Back with Ai Weiwei
As I take the elevator up from the parking garage every morning to go to work, I have enjoyed being greeted by twelve large animal heads for the last six months. Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads will be leaving LACMA at the end of this week on February 12, but the sculptures' connections to the museum's collections will live on. As a decorative arts and design curator working in a department with objects dating to the fifteenth century, I am always looking for the present in past and vice versa. Believe it or not, Ai Weiwei's Zodiac project can beam you back to the eighteenth century in a single bound...


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Last week, The Wall Street Journal published an article on how to deal with the issue of "eve-teasing" - a term that refers to a wide variety of behavior ranging from lewd comments to sexual harassment on Indian streets.
The author, Shikha Dalmia, raised questions about what caused the phenomenon and offered suggestions such as "transforming India's puritanical culture and giving men and women more freedom to forge sexually mature relationships outside of marriage."
Many readers responded to the story both on our website and social media, offering suggestions on what would work to stop the practice of sexual harassment in India. India Real Time presents a roundup of some of the comments from readers:
Joshua Siskin dismissed the idea of having sexual relationships outside marriage as an answer to the problem. "This solves nothing. Moreover, as sex between non-married couples gains legitimacy, the demise of marriage, as we are now seeing in the U.S., is inevitable," Mr. Siskin said on the WSJ website.
Another reader, Andrew Eppink, said, "What's needed is simply a reversion to decent, moral behavior - character - even in the face of extreme pressures resulting from whatever cause. That's always been the solution to our problems."
According to Harry Key, "India needs a complete cultural and sexual revolution. This is not an isolated incident, and I agree that education is paramount," he said on Twitter.
India "also needs parents who teach their sons that harassment is unacceptable," Liz Verkamp said on Twitter.
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Debabrata Sengupta said women too need to stand up against harassment. "There is need for education especially amongst women to counter such unacceptable behavior as eve-teasing," he said. "Schools and colleges need to transform the now timid and accepting Indian women to be aggressive and stand up against eve-teasing and use technology like the now omnipresent mobile phones to capture and publicly post any untoward behavior."
Tom Painter said only the fear of punishment will change behavior. "India does not need a sexual revolution," Mr. Painter said on the WSJ website. "It needs a legal revolution that goes through society at every level to say that sexual harassment is not and will not be tolerated, and upwards to the top of society to say that sexual harassment will be severely prosecuted."
Expressing a similar view, Macrena Sailor said there was an urgent need to "overhaul" India's legal system. "If these men and boys faced certain and swift punishment for their behavior, it would send a very loud and clear message that this behavior is not acceptable and the message would soon get through," she said.
Ms. Sailor suggested empowering women was key. "The best way to civilize Indian males it to give every Indian woman training, a gun and a concealed carry permit. I support empowering women to civilize men in a way they will learn very, very fast how to behave."
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With the business incentives laid out in the recently passed Economic Opportunity Act, now is a better time than ever to develop New Jersey's stagnant offshore wind program, Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-West Deptford) said at a press conference Thursday morning.
The program has moved sluggishly, if at all, since Gov. Chris Christie signed the Offshore Wind Economic Development Act in 2010. At the time, the act was promoted as a commitment to establishing and developing the industry.
"It allowed us to finally tap into the potential of our offshore wind and become a leader in this emergent technology," Sweeney said. "But three years later, almost nothing has come to pass. That is unacceptable."
Tuesday's press conference was held to announce the release of a report by Environment New Jersey, which claims that with a strong state and federal recommitment to the program, New Jersey could reduce its global warming pollution by 825,000 metric tons in the next five years.
Sweeney said that by stalling on the program, the state is missing out on much needed job creation in an emerging green industry.
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Doug O'Malley, director for Environment New Jersey, said that Atlantic City in particular is a "sweet spot for offshore wind" given its location and area wind speed, and should not be a wasted opportunity.
"There's still a chance for the state to become an offshore wind leader and an economic engine," O'Malley said.
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A former hedge fund portfolio manager charged in one of history's biggest insider trading cases is set to appear in a New York federal court.
Mathew Martoma's court date Monday is largely procedural, though there could be some discussion of the $5 million bail set for him last week in Florida. He was arrested there in the New York-based case.
The Manhattan U.S. attorney's office says Martoma connived to get secret, advance results from tests of an Alzheimer's disease drug. Prosecutors say Martoma used the information to make more than $276 million for CR Intrinsic Investors LLC and other funds.
They say it may be the most lucrative U.S. insider trading scheme ever.
Defense lawyer Charles Stillman says Martoma just worked hard and went after public information.


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DELRAY, W.Va. (Oct. 16, 2012) – U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM)continues to invest in its high-speed nationwide network with a new cell site in Delray. The site will provide new U.S. Cellular coverage in Delray and improve coverage along Route 50 going toward Romney. This new cell site is one of more than 150 sites U.S. Cellular has built across the state.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) Marquette guard Todd Mayo has decided to leave the program to pursue a professional basketball career.
Mayo is leaving before his senior season and Steve Wojciechowski's first year as head coach. The guard played three seasons with the Golden Eagles under former coach Buzz Williams, averaging 11.3 points as a junior in 2013-14 and showing a knack for hitting clutch shots off the bench.
The 6-foot-3 Mayo, Milwaukee Bucks guard O.J. Mayo's younger brother, took part in workouts for the first summer session at Marquette, but was not enrolled in the school's second summer session. He left the school in good academic standing, and Wojciechowski wished Mayo well in a statement announcing the guard's departure.


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Which area are you looking for employment in?
Would any English teachers out there be kind enough to share with me a good school they are currently teaching at and is currently looking for more English teachers?
I am wanting to find a fulltime teaching position for 6 months from 1st June 2005.
I have a bachelors degree, TESOL qualification and about 6 months of teaching experience whilst in Australia volunteering as an assistant teacher at a kindergarten. I was also an webdesign/HTML tutor for a yr when I was at university.
Thanks in advance.
Your kindess would be greatly appreciated.
I'm sorry if I have violated the rules of this forum, however networking can be a powerful tool.
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Which area are you looking for employment in?
For a good full time teaching position, pay wise, you might try Taiwan or the Arab Emerites.
If you are not worried about the money, just about anywhere is good, because there mostly isn't a lot of money in English teaching :).
Japan used to be good, but these days a decent full time job over here is becoming a rarity. You could probably still snag a full time job with a scumbag chain eikaiwa, but you could earn more and have a better life just doing private lessons.
If you really aren't worried about money, then you can go and teach on a Pacific Island. They don't pay you, but you can live for free.
Australia and New Zealand are not good, as there are almost no fuilltime jobs and you will most likely end up on a seasonal part-time circuit. Full time TESOL jobs in Australasia don't pay so well as Asia either.
Europe is a beautiful place, but they have plenty of young English speaking ladies to snap up for English classes. Mostly more of a lifestyle than a job.
I don't know about North America, but everyone seems to be rich over there, so that might be a good bet.
I had a friend who taught in South America. He said that while the pay wasn't that great, he could afford to live in a nice house and have a servant. He also told me about being threatened with a knife on the bus and with a gun on another occasion. That was enough to put me off. He married quite a hottie over there, so it isn't without its attractions despite the danger.
I hear from people who have worked there that work in England involves long hours and low pay.
Of course, if you are a career teacher and really work at it, oppotunities will arise, however now is not a great time in the industry. Be aware also, that in some places, like New Zealand, you can be over qualified and they won't give you a job if you are too higher level (they'd have to pay you more, and they don't want that).
I'm wanting to teach kindy or kids upto the age of 9/10. I'm not too worried which type of place/school I teach in, neither is location that great a problem, I've never taught in HK before and I'm quite flexible.
I've worked out for it to be worthwhile, I'll need a starting salary of
$16 000HK per month (not too sure how feasible that is). Accom allowance would be a bonus.
I'm also available for private lessons as well if anyone know of families that are seeking a Chinese that can speak Cantonese who can teach their kids general English. If you know of such families, be greatly appreciated if you can please pass my number to them: 60940807.
Thanks in advance.
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Tbh, if you think " I am wanting" is correct, you really shouldn`t be teaching English at all.
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It's so funny
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More like......scary, if you ask me! but I`m glad you enjoyed it.
I dnt kno how old u r, but 4 u info i fink u ur not very up2date, there is no such thing as proper eng nowadays on da net!!!!!
Correct version: I dnt no how old u r, but 4 ur info I fink u`r not vry up2date, there is no such thing as proper Eng nowadays on da net.Originally Posted by lillie
You need lessons, I`ve got a ten year old boy who would break his ass laughing at your mistakes. Proving you can attempt an sms text, does not qualify you to teach English. And for your information "proper English" is to be found on the net...............but I guess you have to know what it is to realize this.
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I really enjoyed all this conversation.
But I have to agree with Jack, teaching is a very sensible matter, and if you don't want to know your subject deeply and lovingly, its better or to refrain from teaching or, best at all, be willing to learn more each day.
So, please, if you find some incorrect expresions or words or something in my mails, check them and send them back. It will be good for me and for all the people who I work with.
Let's continue enjoying life and teaching!


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Obituary published Nov. 21, 2012 in The Mexico Ledger
Lois Livingston Hawthorne, 87, of Mexico died November 20, 2012 at Audrain Medical Center following a short illness.
Lois was born in Mexico, Mo. on December 20, 1924 to Anna (Williams) and James Nisbet Livingston. Following graduation from Christian College and Washington University in St. Louis, she became a dress designer for Dorsa Dresses in St. Louis. She married Lee Byrnes Hawthorne, Jr. on April 9, 1948. Survivors include Lee Byrnes Hawthorne III (Sally) of Lititz, Pa., James Livingston Hawthorne (Jeanie) of Mexico, and Martha Hawthorne Wolfe (Douglas) of St. Louis, and grandchildren Brian Hawthorne, Julie Hawthorne Padgett, Christopher Hawthorne, Noah Hawthorne, Graham Wolfe and Duncan Wolfe, and two great-grandchildren, Charlie Padgett and Jack Hawthorne.
An active community volunteer, she served as president of the Heart of Missouri Girl Scout Council, the Audrain Medical Center Auxiliary, and McMillan Elementary School Parent Teacher Association. For her lifetime of service to the Girl Scouts, she received the highest honor at their national convention.
An accomplished needlework artist, Lois helped design and create a needlepoint rug celebrating all 50 states for the Missouri Governor's Mansion, and the needlepoint kneelers at Mexico United Methodist Church. In retirement, the Hawthornes enjoyed travel to many countries around the globe.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012 at Arnold Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Kings Daughters Home, 620 W. Boulevard, Mexico, Mo. 65265
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I am able to construct a domain object instance as follows:
This works fine, being autowired correctly and BeanPostProcessors being called on the instance. However, I'd like to have DefaultAdvisorAutoProxyCreator (DAAPC) process the instance as well, as I have a security-related Advisor defined in the context. Debug logging suggests DAAPC never gets called, although it is called for standard container-managed beans created during initialization and implements BeanPostProcessor. I did notice the package note, "autoproxying is not supported for BeanFactory implementations, as post-processing is automatic only for application contexts", which may be related.
Would someone please elaborate on how to get DAAPC to process domain object instances?
Person person = (Person) acbf.autowire(Person.class, AutowireCapableBeanFactory.AUTOWIRE_BY_TYPE, false); Person person2 = (Person) acbf.applyBeanPostProcessorsBeforeInitialization(person, "person"); person2.debug();
Would someone please elaborate on how to get DAAPC to process domain object instances?


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We're excited to share with you all the results of our patient-views-on-diabetes-tech survey, being unveiled at the Summit today. Here's the scoop:
The DiabetesMine 2013 Patient Voices Survey has found that according to patients, the factors that would most improve their quality of life are not being sufficiently met by diabetes technology currently in the market. The survey shows patients attribute this to two factors: one being the technology itself, and the other being limitations on access to the devices.
The DiabetesMine Patient Voices Survey includes data from nearly 800 patients and caregivers active online, and was conducted in the summer of 2013. It was promoted here at the patient news site DiabetesMine.com, and on TuDiabetes, Diabetes Daily and several other diabetes networking sites. Respondents are therefore a self-selected group of the most active and engaged patients and caregivers.
Participants overwhelmingly stated that the most important quality of life (QOL) improvements they seek are, in order of priority:
1. "fewer glucose highs and lows"
2. "feel more in control of my own care"
3. "less daily hassle"
Interestingly, "fewer shots" and "fewer fingerpricks" (often touted by vendors and the mainstream media) rated toward the bottom of a list of seven QOL priorities.
Technology Limitations
Among this group of highly engaged respondents, over 40% reported that they "never" download or view reports of the results from their fingerstick glucose meters, and 60% never do so with their continuous glucose monitors. At the same time, almost 35% said they do use software or mobile apps for diabetes data logging once a month or more.
Respondents indicated that the changes most needed to make diabetes logging data more valuable to patients, in order of priority are:
- programs that spot and highlight trends in the data
- ability to give recommendations for changes in therapy — rather than just storing and displaying raw data
- capability to view and analyze their glucose data, insulin dosing records, food and exercise records and other relevant data all together in one place, and
- guarantee that a doctor or diabetes educator would take the time to review and discuss the data with patients
In addition, survey respondents entered more than 3,200 written comments in response to a number of open-ended questions; a consistent theme was frustration over lack of interoperability and integration (with other devices and with Mac/Apple iOs), and lack of data sharing capabilities.
When asked about overall use of smartphone apps for diabetes purposes, less than one-quarter of these highly wired patients reported using them. Even among those who did, use of diet and food apps ranked first, followed by exercise tracking, and glucose logging apps ranked last, being used by only 19%.
Access Limitations
When asked to rate their biggest frustrations with current diabetes tools, respondents overwhelmingly chose "too expensive" over issues of design or ease of use.
Two-thirds of respondents also stated that access via their insurance is "highly influential" in the diabetes tools they choose to obtain and use.
Emphasis on the financial burden was underscored in a question about use of continuous glucose monitors, powerful devices that have nevertheless been slow to gain mass adoption. When asked to rank the biggest drawbacks of these devices, 45% ranked "out of pocket costs too high" as a bigger issue than other common complaints, including "annoying alarms," "uncomfortable to wear," "too much time investment," and "need easier way to analyze the data."
We also asked patients to rate factors that would likely or very likely motivate them to put extra effort into their diabetes management. The top two choices were "positive feedback from healthcare providers" (i.e. simple positive reinforcement) — followed closely by "incentive programs" (financial rewards, discounts, etc.)
In the comments section, respondents consistently mentioned the desire to:
- "have a diabetes mentor" or "work in a group or team"
- receive positive feedback for their efforts to control glucose levels "regardless of the results," and
- have a system in place that holds patients accountable, while assisting them to make treatment adjustments "in a timely manner"
With the Healthcare Establishment's current emphasis on Patient Compliance/ Medication Adherence, these responses appear to highlight a need to gain better understanding of patients' real-world concerns and motivators.
Patient Perspectives on 'Improved Outcomes'
When asked which outcome measures Insurers should focus on most in determining which diabetes tools to cover, respondents indicated that two factors are of nearly equal importance to the currently used A1C (test of three-month glucose level averages):
- the frequency and severity of diabetes complications, and
- improvements in daily glucose results (i.e. more daily "time in range" — as opposed to A1C, which indicates only an average level over the previous 120 days)
In the extensive comments section, survey participants called for Insurers to broaden their focus beyond the A1C test, which "does not sufficiently reflect the current or long-term well-being of patients with diabetes." Respondents would like to see new measures of "patient satisfaction, better overall health and fewer complications."
To this end, survey participants called for diabetes decision-makers to help them with the following:
- Obtain devices that are comfortable, discreet and accurate
- That can predict glucose highs and lows
- That require less thinking about the daily concerns of diabetes, assist with more time in range, less hypoglycemia
- Move beyond proprietary systems to allow data sharing for a "full picture" of diabetes management, and give patients unrestricted access to their own medical information
- Require less hassle with insurance / billing — both in terms of insurance filing requirements and access to necessary consumable ongoing supplies such as glucose test strips
We have a nifty infographic summing this all up, coming soon. Plus the full report of survey results will be posted on Slideshare shortly.
Our great hope here at 'Mine is that the Powers That Be can use this information to better deliver on the promise of diabetes technology — the topic of today's Summit, of course!


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mnp13 wrote:Thanks everyone. It got another step of worse today... but thankfully HQ is so wonderful and supportive and they are removing it from my hands.
I went through all of the images again, and spent a few more hours working on them so I could give them another 22. They are not images that I think are great (they already had those) but they are acceptable.
Please, do not think that I am not sympathetic to their horrible loss. I can't imagine what it's like to lose a baby, the thought of losing one of my dogs sends me into panic. However, though I hold it together very well at the sessions (I have a total "shut down" switch in my brain), and generally through editing, the final review process is gut wrenching.
Having a family angry with me is just indescribable. They want what I can't give.
What you are doing for these families is amazing. Unfortunately the pain of loss for some I think dont let them see past the fact that they want something you can not provide. I can not imagine what they go through. I know about the shut down thing. My dad would do that when he did all of the photography for the University of Rochester. He was who they had photograph all of the high trauma and abuse cases. Sometimes he would forget to switch back on.


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Lauren Sandler, writing in New York magazine, notes something very interesting and not at all surprising to me. There seems to be a direct correlation between fertility rates and one's political beliefs. The larger the average family size is in a state, the more Republican it is, and vice versa.
Stunningly, the postponement of marriage and parenting — the factors that shrink the birth rate — is the very best predictor of a person's politics in the United States, over even income and education levels, a Belgian demographer named Ron Lesthaeghe has discovered. Larger family size in America correlates to early marriage and childbirth, lower women's employment, and opposition to gay rights — all social factors that lead voters to see red. The converse, according to futurist Joel Kotkin, marks "the rise of post-familialism," overturning the notion that a woman's life requires a wedding dress and at least two kids to dutifully rear. David Brooks devoted a column to this report Friday, and his reaction demonstrates the red blood spilling over our shift to a freer attitude toward life and family choices. "People are not better off when they are given maximum personal freedom to do what they want," Brooks wrote. "They're better off when they are enshrouded in commitments that transcend personal choice — commitments to family, God, craft and country."
Brooks is flagrantly wrong here because he is vastly overgeneralizing. People are not better off in either situation; individuals are better off in different situations because they have different personalities and goals. That's the whole point of all that pursuit of happiness stuff, allowing each person to pursue the life that makes them happy, which is not necessarily the life that would make someone else happy.This is exactly why it's a good thing that women have more choices and opportunities today. A few decades ago, they were stuck in the life that society chose for them — you got married by a certain age (much earlier than today), you had as many kids as your husband demanded, and you lived your life within those tight restrictions. And that's perfectly fine, for those who want it. The problem is, there was really no way for someone who didn't want it to build a different kind of life for themselves.
Amanda Marcotte picks up on Sandler's article:
Higher fertility in red states, for instance, is the product of the societal pressure on women there to marry young, have more children, and put less of their energy into developing careers. In blue states, on the other hand, women tend to limit their family size and have kids later in life. Lesthaeghe clearly believes that ideology precedes family size in this equation. Liberals care less about traditional roles for women and traditional authority, which in turn gives blue state women room to focus on their careers rather than marrying young or having big families.
But don't buy the conservative hype linking ideology to family stability. Red states have higher incidences of teen births and divorce, after all…
And all for the same reason. When women have fewer choices and are pushed into early marriage and early and frequent childbearing, the results are obvious and predictable.


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Religions need books because they don't have gods.
Seriously, you guys are the meanest people I have ever met. I hope you are happy and feel really good about yourself.
1. The Pre-Socratic Era of Greek Philosophy.Basically the idea that people can grasp physical reality is buried forever as impossible. http://olivianus.thekingsparlor.com/epistemology-and-metaphysics/the-pre-socratic-failure-to-construct-a-corporeal-reality-by-drake-shelton
Before the time of Thales Greek philosophy was dominated by the drunken Homeric religion of Zeus, Hades, Apollo and the pantheon of vice stricken gods and goddesses of the ancient world. Accompanying this pantheon were the mystery cults involving strange blood rituals, trances, self-flagellation, and the eating of raw flesh.
4. The bloodbath that Darwin's theory of Natural Selection turned into with the Atheist and/or Communist Massacres of the 20th Century. As a side note: I am not saying that the Nazi party was an utter atheism; it was the kind of atheism that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy (Which was the real undergirding force of the Nazi movement) relishes in and profits greatly from.
"We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check our sympathy, if so urged by hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with a certain and great present evil. Hence we must bear without complaining the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind; but there appears to be at least one check in steady action, namely the weaker and inferior members of society not marrying so freely as the sound; and this check might be indefinitely increased, though this is more to be hoped for than expected, by the weak in body or mind refraining from marriage."
My turn, God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins pp 272 - 278 handles the traditional Stalin/Hitler accusation.
Are you, by any chance, attempting to prove that we atheists are bad? Good luck with that. That too with a god who is one of the most genocidal in the world.
Just as a single example, you seem to have missed the fact that it is Martin Luther (Germany) and his contemporary Ulrich Zwingli (Switzerland) who actually started the Protestant Reformation.
John Calvin was eight years old when Martin Luther began writing his ninety-five theses. I don't deny that Calvin was an integral part of the Reformation, but to act like the Protestant movements outside of Scotland somehow don't matter is silly.
How do you have knowledge of all these things when you can't even be sure that the streets are wet?
Quote from: HAL on March 12, 2012, 08:52:16 AMHow do you have knowledge of all these things when you can't even be sure that the streets are wet? You guys have a definition of knowledge that is different from mine so your question is equivocal.
HA!blood rituals? "Take this, all of you, and drink from it: this is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant. It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven. Do this in memory of me."
trances? glossolalia, trances, stigmata, etcself-flagellation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellation#Christianity
eating raw flesh? "Take this, all of you, and eat it: this is my body which will be given up for you."
It speaks so dirisively of things which are part an parcel of xianity. Curious. It is almost as if the author were a complete idiot.
Quote from: HAL on March 12, 2012, 08:52:16 AMHow do you have knowledge of all these things when you can't even be sure that the streets are wet? You guys have a definition of knowledge that is different from mine so your question is equivocal.
jaimehlers First, those links were items that i wrote, so i'm not borrowing except for the video which is absolutely fascinating.
You are being belligerent. The Scottish reformation is a unique part of the Protestant Movement.
When did I say they didn't matter. The topic of this thread is periods atheists are ignorant of and you are proving the accusation true. And what about the Church of England, which also predated the Calvinist church? That was again part of the Protestant movement.
You completely ignored what was before you. typical.
Darwin himself in no way espoused the ideas of Social Darwinism"
"This is incorrect, as I showed above. "
"communism as practiced in Russia (and now, China) was no more an application of Darwin's theory of natural selection than a notorious poisoner would be practicing medicine"
"The fact that they used atheism as an excuse for their tyranny is no more convincing than the fact that religion was used as an excuse for other tyrants."
"Nietzsche was not an atheist...Atheism is simply the non-belief in gods"
"Since the Roman Catholic Church and its hierarchy were and are in no way atheistic"
"My personal view is that he had religious beliefs, but subsumed them into his ambition"
"yet he gives no proof of this."
"Furthermore, Phelps claims here that the Jesuits are involved in some lengthy conspiracy, again without real proof to back it up."
Hey Olivianus,Doesn't WWGHA deserve a link now on your website under the Atheist section after all this?C'mon!http://olivianus.thekingsparlor.com/home
Olivianus,Why do you believe the things you speak of historically actually happened? How do you know they did?


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15 Hours Of Free Flapjacks At IHOP February 28
National Pancake Day Returns To Benefit Children's Miracle Network Hospitals
February 16, 2012 // Franchising.com //
What: For the seventh consecutive year, IHOP restaurants nationwide will offer each guest a free short stack of its famous buttermilk pancakes on National Pancake Day in an effort to raise awareness and funds for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.
Why: For every short stack of buttermilk pancakes served on National Pancake Day, IHOP guests are invited to make a voluntary donation to Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Donations made at IHOPs in the San Jose area will benefit the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals' program at Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland. IHOP hopes to raise $2.7 million this year, with a goal to bring the total amount of funds raised to more than $10 million. To find a local IHOP or to donate online, visit www.ihoppancakeday.com.
When: TUESDAY, February 28, 2012, 7 a.m. – 10 p.m. (15 full hours)
Where: Participating IHOP restaurants in the San Jose area.
National Pancake Day Fun Facts:
- IHOP served four million free pancakes on National Pancake Day 2011 and pancake lovers donated more than $2.5 million to children's charities, exceeding the fundraising goal of $2.3 million.
- All of the free pancakes served on National Pancake Day 2011 would create a stack nearly 16 miles high.
- Since the inception of National Pancake Day in 2006, IHOP has raised nearly $8 million and given away more than 14 million pancakes to support charities in the communities in which it operates.
- National Pancake Day 2011 was IHOP's largest one-day event in the company's 53-year history.
About IHOP
For 53 years, the IHOP family restaurant chain has served its world famous pancakes and a wide variety of breakfast, lunch and dinner items that are loved by people of all ages. IHOP offers its guests an affordable, everyday dining experience with warm and friendly service. As of September 30, 2011, there were 1,532 IHOPs in 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Under the licensed name IHOP at HOME® consumers can also enjoy a line of premium breakfast products available at leading retailers. IHOP restaurants are franchised and operated by Glendale, Calif.-based International House of Pancakes, LLC and its affiliates. International House of Pancakes, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of DineEquity, Inc. (NYSE: DIN).
Editors Note: Pancake Day is a tradition that dates back several centuries to when the English prepped for fasting during Lent. Strict rules prohibited the eating of all dairy products during Lent, so pancakes were made to use up the supply of eggs, milk, butter and other dairy products…hence the name Pancake Tuesday, or Shrove Tuesday. In 2012, IHOP's National Pancake Day will be celebrated a week later, as the popular annual campaign has evolved into a month-long celebration that takes place during the month of February. It will culminate with the free flapjack giveaway on February 28.


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Alcoa and Century Aluminum Gets Analyst Coverage: Is 2013 a Turnaround Year for Aluminum?
Jan 23, 2013, 08:00 ET
LONDON, January 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Basic Materials sector may not have the glamour of tech sector and internet stocks, but it is ideally suited for low volatile, fundamentally driven investment. The sector is inextricably linked to overall economy and acts as a proxy for broad economic trends. StockCall analysts have completed two technical analysis for companies Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) and Century Aluminum Company (NASDAQ: CENX). Sign up to access these free reports at http://www.stockcall.com/registration
Aluminum stocks are expected to fare relatively better in 2013 as Alcoa Inc. expects global demand to grow by 7%, up from 6% growth rate it achieved in 2012. Aluminum sector will also benefit from stabilizing auto sector, which is among the biggest revenue generator for the sector. Similarly, improvement in the economy will also lead to growth in the aviation sector, another major customer segment for aluminum companies. The sector is steadily moving towards improvement as the other sectors grow strong with the improvement in economy. Uptick in Housing and construction segment will also boost the prospects for the companies like Century Aluminum Co. Register now and download the free report on Century Aluminum at http://www.StockCall.com/CENX012313.pdf
Alcoa Up on Strong Quarterly Numbers
Alcoa Inc. [Free Technical Report on AA] [1]continued its track record of meeting or exceeding consensus estimates for its quarterly numbers. The company kicked off the earning season by reporting $5.9 billion in revenue, beating estimates for revenue at $5.6 billion. Alcoa also approved quarterly dividend of 3 cents per share, offering 1.3% dividend yield at current market price. While the stock offered negative capital return in 2012, it has done fairly well so far in the current year. The company boasts of a strong balance sheet and a healthy cash position since it generated $933 million in cash flow from operations, up by $670 million from the previous quarter.
Alcoa currently offers good entry point. The company is expected to grow its EPS by over 26% and its bottom-line is likely to benefit from recovering prices for aluminum. However, at the very same time, it should also be kept in mind that the company's revenue for its latest reported quarter actually 2% lower than the comparative quarter of the last year. Alcoa, despite its leadership position in the sector, pays one of the lowest dividend among its peers. It has also been slashing its dividends in the recent past. So, if you are looking for an income stock, it would be better to go elsewhere. However, Alcoa can be good bet in the medium- to long-run.
Century Aluminum Looking to Break Loss Streak
With $791 million market capitalization, Century Aluminum is one of the relatively smaller players in the sector. The fact that it lost about half of its market value in the past 24 months is not very helpful either. The stock also provided negative return in 2012, largely in-line with the overall trend among the aluminum stocks. But it also means that it has attractive Price to Book ratio as it has considerably higher valued assets on its Balance Sheet.
Century Aluminum had reported its third quarter revenue at $304.6 million, beating consensus estimate of $297.7 million. As the company is fundamentally strong, any recovery in aluminum demand and pricing in 2013 is expected to have positive impact on the stock.
- Alcoa Inc. Technical Analysis [ http://www.StockCall.com/AlcoaInc012313.pdf ]
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Foam in Cell Culture - (Jan/05/2012 )
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask and maybe this is too easy for any of you but I couldn't find the explanation anywhere else.
When I culture my cell using LB Broth and induced with IPTG, shaking at 37 degree Celcius overnight, sometimes there will have foams formed on top of the broth. Anyone could explain why is that so? And will it affect the protein production?
Thank you.
You might be better off in the microbiology subforum. However, as a guess I would say that your bugs are producing something which is capable of forming bubbles when agitated. It may be that what you are seeing is actually your protein being produced and the agitation of the cultures is causing it to form a foam. E.coli do tend to form some sort of mucous like secretion, if you look at your cultures closely you will see that they are not homogenous, but seem to form string like structures (can't really describe it, and I don't have any cultures on hand to take a photo), which I suspect is the mucous like stuff.


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American Indian Activism after 1945
Bradley Shreve
American Indian activism after 1945 was as much a part of the larger, global decolonization movement rooted in centuries of imperialism as it was a direct response to the ethos of civic nationalism and integration that had gained momentum in the United States following World War II. This ethos manifested itself in the disastrous federal policies of termination and relocation, which sought to end federal services to recognized Indian tribes and encourage Native people to leave reservations for cities. In response, tribal leaders from throughout Indian Country formed the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) in 1944 to litigate and lobby for the collective well-being of Native peoples. The NCAI was the first intertribal organization to embrace the concepts of sovereignty, treaty rights, and cultural preservation—principles that continue to guide Native activists today. As American Indian activism grew increasingly militant in the late 1960s and 1970s, civil disobedience, demonstrations, and takeovers became the preferred tactics of "Red Power" organizations such as the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC), the Indians of All Tribes, and the American Indian Movement (AIM). At the same time, others established more focused efforts that employed less confrontational methods. For example, the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) served as a legal apparatus that represented Native nations, using the courts to protect treaty rights and expand sovereignty; the Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT) sought to secure greater returns on the mineral wealth found on tribal lands; and the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) brought Native educators together to work for greater self-determination and culturally rooted curricula in Indian schools. While the more militant of these organizations and efforts have withered, those that have exploited established channels have grown and flourished. Such efforts will no doubt continue into the unforeseeable future so long as the state of Native nations remains uncertain.
Carlos Montezuma and the Emergence of American Indian Activism
Maurice Crandall
Carlos Montezuma was one of the most influential Indians of his day and a prominent leader among the Red Progressives of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born to Yavapai parents in central Arizona, he was kidnapped by O'odham (Pima) raiders at a young age, and sold soon after into the Indian slave trade that for centuries had engulfed the US-Mexico borderlands. Educated primarily at public schools in Illinois, Montezuma eventually went on to be the first Native American graduate of the University of Illinois (1884) and one of the first Native American doctors (Chicago Medical College, 1889). Montezuma was a lifelong friend of Richard Henry Pratt, the founder of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and he firmly believed in the importance of Indian education. He insisted that educated Indians like himself must serve as examples of what Indians were capable of achieving if given the opportunities. He became deeply involved in the pan-Indian reform movements of the day and was one of the founding members of the Society of American Indians. Montezuma had a rocky relationship with the group, however, because many in the organization found his calls for the immediate abolition of the Indian Bureau and an end to the reservation system difficult to accept. From 1916 to 1922, he published his own journal, Wassaja, in which he relentlessly assailed the Indian Bureau, the reservations, and anyone who stood in the way of Indian "progress." But Montezuma's most important work was as an advocate for his own people, the Yavapais of Fort McDowell, Arizona, and other Arizona Indian groups. He spent the final decade of his life working to protect their water, land, and culture, and eventually returned to his Arizona homelands to die, in 1923. Although he was largely forgotten by historians and scholars in the decades after his death, Carlos Montezuma is now correctly remembered as one of the most important figures in Native American history during the Progressive Era.
Christian Missions to American Indians
Carol L. Higham
Comparing Catholic and Protestant missionaries in North America can be a herculean task. It means comparing many religious groups, at least five governments, and hundreds of groups of Indians. But missions to the Indians played important roles in social, cultural, and political changes for Indians, Europeans, and Americans from the very beginning of contact in the 1500s to the present. By comparing Catholic and Protestant missions to the Indians, this article provides a better understanding of the relationship between these movements and their functions in the history of borders and frontiers, including how the missions changed both European and Indian cultures.
The Creek Confederacy
Andrew Frank
The Creek Confederacy was a loose coalition of ethnically and linguistically diverse Native American towns that slowly coalesced as a political entity in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Its towns existed in Georgia, Alabama, and northern Florida, and for most of its preremoval history, these towns operated as autonomous entities. Several Creek leaders tried to consolidate power and create a more centralized polity, but these attempts at nation building largely failed. Instead, a fragile and informal confederacy connected the towns together for various cultural rituals as well as for purposes of diplomacy and trade. Disputes over centralization, as well as a host of other connected issues, ultimately led to the Creek War of 1813–1814. In the 1830s, the United States forced most members of the Creek Confederacy to vacate their eastern lands and relocate their nation to Indian Territory. Today, their western descendants are known as the Muskogee (Creek) Nation. Those who remained in the east include members of the federally recognized Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Poarch Band of Creek Indians who live in Alabama.
Epidemics in Indian Country
David S. Jones
Few developments in human history match the demographic consequences of the arrival of Europeans in the Americas. Between 1500 and 1900 the human populations of the Americas were traBnsformed. Countless American Indians died as Europeans established themselves, and imported Africans as slaves, in the Americas. Much of the mortality came from epidemics that swept through Indian country. The historical record is full of dramatic stories of smallpox, measles, influenza, and acute contagious diseases striking American Indian communities, causing untold suffering and facilitating European conquest. Some scholars have gone so far as to invoke the irresistible power of natural selection to explain what happened. They argue that the long isolation of Native Americans from other human populations left them uniquely susceptible to the Eurasian pathogens that accompanied European explorers and settlers; nothing could have been done to prevent the inevitable decimation of American Indians. The reality, however, is more complex. Scientists have not found convincing evidence that American Indians had a genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases. Meanwhile, it is clear that the conditions of life before and after colonization could have left Indians vulnerable to a host of diseases. Many American populations had been struggling to subsist, with declining populations, before Europeans arrived; the chaos, warfare, and demoralization that accompanied colonization made things worse. Seen from this perspective, the devastating mortality was not the result of the forces of evolution and natural selection but rather stemmed from social, economic, and political forces at work during encounter and colonization. Getting the story correct is essential. American Indians in the United States, and indigenous populations worldwide, still suffer dire health inequalities. Although smallpox is gone and many of the old infections are well controlled, new diseases have risen to prominence, especially heart disease, diabetes, cancer, substance abuse, and mental illness. The stories we tell about the history of epidemics in Indian country influence the policies we pursue to alleviate them today.
Federal Indian Law
N. Bruce Duthu
United States law recognizes American Indian tribes as distinct political bodies with powers of self-government. Their status as sovereign entities predates the formation of the United States and they are enumerated in the U.S. Constitution as among the subjects (along with foreign nations and the several states) with whom Congress may engage in formal relations. And yet, despite this long-standing recognition, federal Indian law remains curiously ambivalent, even conflicted, about the legal and political status of Indian tribes within the U.S. constitutional structure. On the one hand, tribes are recognized as sovereign bodies with powers of self-government within their lands. On the other, long-standing precedents of the Supreme Court maintain that Congress possesses plenary power over Indian tribes, with authority to modify or even eliminate their powers of self-government. These two propositions are in tension with one another and are at the root of the challenges faced by political leaders and academics alike in trying to understand and accommodate the tribal rights to self-government. The body of laws that make up the field of federal Indian law include select provisions of the U.S. Constitution (notably the so-called Indian Commerce Clause), treaties between the United States and various Indian tribes, congressional statutes, executive orders, regulations, and a complex and rich body of court decisions dating back to the nation's formative years. The noted legal scholar Felix Cohen brought much-needed coherence and order to this legal landscape in the 1940s when he led a team of scholars within the Office of the Solicitor in the Department of the Interior to produce a handbook on federal Indian law. The revised edition of Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law is still regarded as the seminal treatise in the field. Critically, however, this rich body of law only hints at the real story in federal Indian law. The laws themselves serve as historical and moral markers in the ongoing clash between indigenous and nonindigenous societies and cultures still seeking to establish systems of peaceful coexistence in shared territories. It is a story about the limits of legal pluralism and the willingness of a dominant society and nation to acknowledge and honor its promises to the first inhabitants and first sovereigns.
Fur Trades
Carolyn Podruchny and Stacy Nation-Knapper
From the 15th century to the present, the trade in animal fur has been an economic venture with far-reaching consequences for both North Americans and Europeans (in which North Americans of European descent are included). One of the earliest forms of exchange between Europeans and North Americans, the trade in fur was about the garment business, global and local politics, social and cultural interaction, hunting, ecology, colonialism, gendered labor, kinship networks, and religion. European fashion, specifically the desire for hats that marked male status, was a primary driver for the global fur-trade economy until the late 19th century, while European desires for marten, fox, and other luxury furs to make and trim clothing comprised a secondary part of the trade. Other animal hides including deer and bison provided sturdy leather from which belts for the machines of the early Industrial Era were cut. European cloth, especially cotton and wool, became central to the trade for Indigenous peoples who sought materials that were lighter and dried faster than skin clothing. The multiple perspectives on the fur trade included the European men and indigenous men and women actually conducting the trade; the indigenous male and female trappers; European trappers; the European men and women producing trade goods; indigenous "middlemen" (men and women) who were conducting their own fur trade to benefit from European trade companies; laborers hauling the furs and trade goods; all those who built, managed, and sustained trading posts located along waterways and trails across North America; and those Europeans who manufactured and purchased the products made of fur and the trade goods desired by Indigenous peoples. As early as the 17th century, European empires used fur-trade monopolies to establish colonies in North America and later fur trading companies brought imperial trading systems inland, while Indigenous peoples drew Europeans into their own patterns of trade and power. By the 19th century, the fur trade had covered most of the continent and the networks of business, alliances, and families, and the founding of new communities led to new peoples, including the Métis, who were descended from the mixing of European and Indigenous peoples. Trading territories, monopolies, and alliances with Indigenous peoples shaped how European concepts of statehood played out in the making of European-descended nation-states, and the development of treaties with Indigenous peoples. The fur trade flourished in northern climes until well into the 20th century, after which time economic development, resource exploitation, changes in fashion, and politics in North America and Europe limited its scope and scale. Many Indigenous people continue today to hunt and trap animals and have fought in courts for Indigenous rights to resources, land, and sovereignty.
Genocide and American Indian History
Jeffrey Ostler
The issue of genocide and American Indian history has been contentious. Many writers see the massive depopulation of the indigenous population of the Americas after 1492 as a clear-cut case of the genocide. Other writers, however, contend that European and U.S. actions toward Indians were deplorable but were rarely if ever genocidal. To a significant extent, disagreements about the pervasiveness of genocide in the history of the post-Columbian Western Hemisphere, in general, and U.S. history, in particular, pivot on definitions of genocide. Conservative definitions emphasize intentional actions and policies of governments that result in very large population losses, usually from direct killing. More liberal definitions call for less stringent criteria for intent, focusing more on outcomes. They do not necessarily require direct sanction by state authorities; rather, they identify societal forces and actors. They also allow for several intersecting forces of destruction, including dispossession and disease. Because debates about genocide easily devolve into quarrels about definitions, an open-ended approach to the question of genocide that explores several phases and events provides the possibility of moving beyond the present stalemate. However one resolves the question of genocide in American Indian history, it is important to recognize that European and U.S. settler colonial projects unleashed massively destructive forces on Native peoples and communities. These include violence resulting directly from settler expansion, intertribal violence (frequently aggravated by colonial intrusions), enslavement, disease, alcohol, loss of land and resources, forced removals, and assaults on tribal religion, culture, and language. The configuration and impact of these forces varied considerably in different times and places according to the goals of particular colonial projects and the capacities of colonial societies and institutions to pursue them. The capacity of Native people and communities to directly resist, blunt, or evade colonial invasions proved equally important.
Ideas of Race in Early America
Sean P. Harvey
"Race," as a concept denoting a fundamental division of humanity and usually encompassing cultural as well as physical traits, was crucial in early America. It provided the foundation for the colonization of Native land, the enslavement of American Indians and Africans, and a common identity among socially unequal and ethnically diverse Europeans. Longstanding ideas and prejudices merged with aims to control land and labor, a dynamic reinforced by ongoing observation and theorization of non-European peoples. Although before colonization, neither American Indians, nor Africans, nor Europeans considered themselves unified "races," Europeans endowed racial distinctions with legal force and philosophical and scientific legitimacy, while Natives appropriated categories of "red" and "Indian," and slaves and freed people embraced those of "African" and "colored," to imagine more expansive identities and mobilize more successful resistance to Euro-American societies. The origin, scope, and significance of "racial" difference were questions of considerable transatlantic debate in the age of Enlightenment and they acquired particular political importance in the newly independent United States.
Since the beginning of European exploration in the 15th century, voyagers called attention to the peoples they encountered, but European, American Indian, and African "races" did not exist before colonization of the so-called New World. Categories of "Christian" and "heathen" were initially most prominent, though observations also encompassed appearance, gender roles, strength, material culture, subsistence, and language. As economic interests deepened and colonies grew more powerful, classifications distinguished Europeans from "Negroes" or "Indians," but at no point in the history of early America was there a consensus that "race" denoted bodily traits only. Rather, it was a heterogeneous compound of physical, intellectual, and moral characteristics passed on from one generation to another. While Europeans assigned blackness and African descent priority in codifying slavery, skin color was secondary to broad dismissals of the value of "savage" societies, beliefs, and behaviors in providing a legal foundation for dispossession.
"Race" originally denoted a lineage, such as a noble family or a domesticated breed, and concerns over purity of blood persisted as 18th-century Europeans applied the term—which dodged the controversial issue of whether different human groups constituted "varieties" or "species"—to describe a roughly continental distribution of peoples. Drawing upon the frameworks of scripture, natural and moral philosophy, and natural history, scholars endlessly debated whether different races shared a common ancestry, whether traits were fixed or susceptible to environmentally produced change, and whether languages or the body provided the best means to trace descent. Racial theorization boomed in the U.S. early republic, as some citizens found dispossession and slavery incompatible with natural-rights ideals, while others reconciled any potential contradictions through assurances that "race" was rooted in nature.
Indian Removals
John P. Bowes
Indian removals as a topic primarily encompasses the relocation of Native American tribes from American-claimed states and territories east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the Mississippi River in the first half of the 19th century. The bill passed by Congress in May 1830 referred to as the Indian Removal Act is the legislative expression of the ideology upon which federal and state governments acted to accomplish the dispossession and relocation of tens of thousands of Native American peoples during that time. Through both treaty negotiations and coercion, federal officials used the authority of removal policies to obtain land cessions and resettle eastern Indians in what is known in the early 21st century as Kansas and Oklahoma. These actions, in conjunction with non-Indian population growth and western migration, made it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for any tribes to remain on their eastern lands. The Cherokee Trail of Tears, which entailed the forced removal of approximately fourteen thousand men, women, and children from Georgia starting in the summer of 1838 until the spring of 1839, remains the most well-known illustration of this policy and its impact. Yet the comprehensive histories of removals encompass the forced relocations of tens of thousands of indigenous men, women, and children from throughout the Southeast as well as the Old Northwest from the 1810s into the 1850s.
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