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We didn't start too well over here.
I spend the holidays with my family making some trips and staying over at several places and we had a great time.
…all this snow lead to slippery roads causing lots of car accidents (fortunately not mine, yet!), trains and buses not running and inconveniences like frozen water pipes (unfortunately one of mine at the east side of my house where the cold was coming from).
Temperatures are well below -17 Centigrade, at some points in the country to -23. It feels like the North Pole down here in northern Europe. Even the south can't escape the arctic circumstances with snow in Portugal, Madrid and Southern France.
To make things even worse, there's fog and no wind. That means the fog hangs like a blanket on the cold earth surface and integrates with the pollution. That leads to smog alarm. We're advised to stay in and there's a speed limit of 90 km per hour.
On top of that, I lost my Internet connection for almost a week and when I was able to connect, it was as slow as communication through smoke signals in the fog.
Jack Frost got us in his grip!
A great part of the continent disordered and that on top of the economic recession!
But, as always, there were positive things to report!
A beautiful landscape and people had lots and lots of fun skating or ice sailing.
You see, there's always a positive side in all circumstances, even in economic difficult times.
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Good suggestion and thanks for the discount links. A sales funnel is particularly important now that the economy is struggling… many companies will look to implement this rather than go down the branding route in 2009.
Thanks for the discount link. I agree 100% on the marketing funnel. Action follows second and then focus on what you are doing.
Thanks for the heads-up although I can't promise I'll download a copy. But I'll think about it, after all, the discount is valid until the 18th.
And yeah, good luck about the snow. Good thing for me, no snow here. But it's still cold.
This is very insightful. Thanks for sharing. The wealth of knowledge that it so simple to find every day is amazing! I thank you also for the discount which is much appreciated. Every bit helps in this struggling economy and I certainly will consider exploring the Sales Funnel System as it applies to my business. May you prosper in 2009.
In short funnel marketing is an excellent concept and the tools for the job can be found on my forum, and yourself or anyone else is more than welcome to visit and pilfer out that information if you want to, or better yet, register and join with us, in a positive learning environment.


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CU Home : Admin Offices : Public Affairs : Press Releases : 2015 Press Releases : 02-24-15 Watercolor by Cameron's Katherine Liontas-Warren included in exhibition
Watercolor by Cameron's Katherine Liontas-Warren included in exhibition
"Before There Was Something," a watercolor on paper by Cameron University Professor of Art Katherine Liontas-Warren, is included in "The Semi-Arid Landscape," an exhibition featuring works of art in various media that showcase the drama and the beauty of the semi-arid landscape. The exhibition will be on display at the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, Texas from March 6 through April 19.
"In Fine Art, the term 'landscape' describes any painting or drawing in which the principle subject is the portrayal of a scenic view," says Liontas-Warren. "My watercolor landscape is an imaginary scene that represents a form of abstraction, yet my painting is recognizable by both hard geometric and organic shapes within the composition. The use of light and color gives this painting a haunting and dramatic appearance of distant rock formations as they would appear in a semi–arid landscape in the Southwest. The title, Before There Was Something, represents the beauty of a region that remains an inspiration for the artist."
A member of the Cameron faculty since 1984, Liontas-Warren teaches drawing, watercolor and printmaking. She has a Master of Fine Arts from Texas Tech University and a Bachelor of Science from Southern Connecticut University. In November 2014, she was honored with the Governor's Arts in Education Award, recognizing outstanding leadership and service in the arts benefitting youth and/or arts in education. She is also the recipient of Cameron's Bhattacharya Research Excellence Award and has been inducted into the Cameron University Alumni Association's Faculty Hall of Fame. Liontas-Warren has been honored as Artist of the Year by the Paseo Art Association in Oklahoma City and as Artist and Educator of the Year through the Lawton Arts and Humanities Council.
Her work has been exhibited in more than 350 national solo, invitational and juried competitive exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad, and she has received numerous purchase and juried awards. Many of her prints and drawings are in permanent collections in museums and institutions throughout the nation, including the Arkansas Art Center, Museum of Texas Tech University: The Artist Printmaker Research Collection, The Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University, Oklahoma State University, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, University of Colorado, University of North Dakota, Oklahoma Art Institute: Quartz Mountain Lodge, Del Mar College, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Leslie Powell Foundation Art Gallery, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art and Nicolls State University.
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Charlton Athletic boss Chris Powell calls on players to adapt
Charlton Athletic manager Chris Powell has challenged his players to adapt to playing in the Championship.
The Addicks are back in the second tier for the first time since 2008-09 after winning League One last season.
He told BBC London 94.9: "The players have worked ever so hard to put themselves in this position.
"It's now up to every player to quickly adapt to life in the Championship and excel. I want them to show everyone they are worthy of being here."
He added: "It's a great journey for us and a big step after what happened to us.
"This season is about us competing and consolidating and see how we can move forward.
After our exploits and exertions last season we want to do well in the Championship
"We've taken one step [in winning promotion] and we want to take another one this year."
Charlton were knocked out of the Capital One Cup by Leyton Orient this week, and Powell was unimpressed to start the season with a cup tie.
"It's a strange decision to have a cup game [first] and I don't think it should happen," he said.
"You should have a clear week leading up to your first game. We haven't had that.
"We played two hours and now I have to get the boys ready for Saturday."
Charlton open the Championship season away to Birmingham.
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The low-energy light bulb revolutionised lighting and now it's part of your home.
Today, with global warming, and monetary constraints, energy efficient light bulbs are more useful than ever. A low energy light bulb is a great and simple method of saving money. As the name suggests, a low energy light bulb uses significantly less energy than a standard bulb, which helps the environment and saves you money on your monthly bills.
The history of the LED, or light emitting diode, dates back to 1962, and started their life as tiny indicators for control panels and dashboards. This great little invention really has changed effective lighting, but we won't go into the complexities of how they work here!
An LED light bulb has two major benefits over a standard bulb. They're energy efficient, and can operate on a low level of power: great for the environment and great for the electricity bill! They're also very long lasting. This low energy light bulb has been designed to be long lasting and durable, making replacement less frequent.
At O'Brien's Lighting, you'll see a broad selection of attractive fittings designed for LED light bulbs for both indoor and outdoor use. When it comes to the bathroom and kitchen, this low energy light bulb really comes into its own. Shop for some of the most sophisticated lighting solutions today at our online store. Or perhaps you need something a little different for your patio? Come and see our refreshing choice of gorgeous LED light bulb walkover lights, giving your decking an elegant look.
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With its prime location in the epicenter of the Yachting Capital of the world, Boatyard is Fort Lauderdale's premier new waterfront dining destination, offering an upscale, nautical-chic vibe in a sophisticated, laid-back atmosphere.
With an 'Eat Local, Be Coastal' philosophy, the 285-seat restaurant features an eclectic, seafood-centric menu that blends the freshest daily catches from local fisherman with the highest-quality raw bar and shellfish selections and premium cuts of meat, all thoughtfully prepared with locally sourced ingredients for patrons to enjoy inside, outside or dockside.
Vibrant and sophisticated, where marina views abound, Boatyard's 80-seat dockside patio lounge provides a prime view of the Intracoastal and the perfect setting to grab a bite or drinks in the company of friends while enjoying an afternoon or evening watching the boats cruise by.
The establishment offers self-parking and valet onsite, in addition to 120 feet of dockage for vessels up to 75 feet for patrons who prefer to dock-and-dine. Add to that an open kitchen, expansive raw bar cart and private event space for up to 200, and the ultimate waterfrontdining experience is complete.


Islay RNLI volunteer lifeboat crew rescued six people, including two children,whose yacht had run onto a charted rock on an ebb tide at the south end of the Sound of Islay.
Her captain chose to stay on board the heavily listing, 16m sailing boat Anjela.
The all-weather lifeboat Helmut Schroder of Dunlossit 11 was launched 18 minutes past midnight on Tuesday 25 July in a medium wind, fair visibility and a relatively calm sea and reached the yacht 20 minutes later to find that she was listing heavily to port.
It was decided to evacuate all personnel by the lifeboat's smaller Yboat, except for the captain who wished to stay aboard,and take them back to Port Askaig until the tide should turn and rise enough to re-float the yacht.
At about 5.30am she floated off the rock, un-holed,and made her way safely back to Port Askaig escorted by the lifeboat.Afterwards her crew said how impressed they were by the help, care and attention that they had received from the RNLI volunteers.


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Are middle children going extinct?
In The Cut, Adam Sternbergh has a piece called, "The Extinction of the Middle Child They're becoming an American rarity, just when America could use them the most."
This is good for me to read, because I've been asked to include more material about sibling relationships in the next edition of my textbook, The Family, and it's not my expertise. Thinking about sibling relationships is good, but the demography here is off. Sternberg writes:
According to a study by the Pew Research Center in 1976, "the average mother at the end of her childbearing years had given birth to more than three children." Read that again: In the '70s, four kids (or more) was the most common family unit. Back then, 40 percent of mothers between 40 and 44 had four or more children. Twenty-five percent had three kids; 24 percent had two; and 11 percent had one. Today, those numbers have essentially reversed. Nearly two-thirds of women with children now have two or one — i.e., an oldest, a youngest, but no middle.
It is true there are a lot fewer U.S. families with more than two children today than there were in 1976. However, by my reckoning (see below), in the most recent data (2016), 38 percent of mothers age 40-44 who have had any children have had three or more. So, there's a middle child in more than a third of families. And, crucially, that number hasn't dropped in the last 25 years. I'll explain.
The best regular national survey for this is the Current Population Survey's June Fertility Supplement, which is administered to a national sample by the Census Bureau more or less every two years. They ask women, "Altogether how many children have you ever given birth to?" The traditional way to measure total number of children born for a cohort of women is to take the average of that number for women who are ages 40-44. (I would rather do it at ages 45-49, but they didn't always ask it for women over 44.)
This is what you get for the surveys from 1976 to 2016 (remember these are the years the women reached the end of their childbearing years).
You can see how it's a little tricky. First, the biggest changes were over by the 1990s, when the last of the Baby Boom parents reached their forties (their first kids were born 25 years earlier). The biggest changes after that were in the number of women having no children, which rose until 2006 but then fell, possibly as access to fertility treatments improved. (Note in all this we're calling all the children one woman has a "family," but really it's a sibling set; some will be living with other people and some will have died, so it's not a measure of family life in the household sense of family. And it's all based on children women have, so if there are different fathers in these families we wouldn't know it, and if these children have half-siblings with a different mother we wouldn't know it, but that's the way it goes.)
It's hard to see what this means for the prevalence of middle children in the country, because the no-children women aren't relevant. So if your question is, "what proportion of families with children have any middle children?" you would want to do it like this, which excludes the childfree women, and combines all those with three or more:
This shows the big drop in middle-child families that Sternbergh started with, but it puts it in perspective: the change was over by the 1990s, and since then it's been basically flat at 35+ percent. So, things have changed a lot from the days of the Baby Boom, but the same article could have been written, demographically speaking, in 1992. (Note that the drop in total fertility rate since 2008 [see this] hasn't yet shown up in completed fertility since it's among younger women.)
It's not clear whether the unit of analysis should be the family or the child, however. This says 38 percent of women produce middle-child families. But how many children have the experience of being a middle child (defined as a child with at least one older and one younger sibling)? That might make more sense if you're interested, as Sternbergh is, in the effect of middle children on the culture. So just multiplying out the number of children per woman, and counting the number of middle children as the total minus two for all sibships of three or more (I think I did it right), you get this:
(Again, this assumes no one died before their mother turned 44, which did change over this period, especially as violent crime rates among young men fell. You could do something fancy to estimate that.)
So, it looks to me that, for the last 25 years, about 20-25 percent of children have been middle children.
On the other hand, looking in the longer run — much further back than Sternbergh's starting point of 1976 — it's clear that the proportion of children growing up as middle children has declined drastically. One quick and dirty way to show that is in children's living arrangements. The final figure uses Census data (decennial till 2000, then American Community Survey) to show how many children are living as the only child, one of two, a middle child, or as the oldest/youngest in a three-plus family. This is messy because it's just whoever is living together at the moment. So this is answering a question more like, "what proportion of children at any given time are living with an older and a younger sibling?" Here's the trend:
(Note that, thanks to IPUMS.org coding, this does count people as having older siblings if the sibling is older than 18, as long as they're living in the household. But I'm only including kids living in the household of at least one parent.)
Wow! In 1850 half of all U.S. children had an older and a younger sibling in the household with them. Now it's below 20 percent. Still no drop since 1990, but the long-term change is impressive. So if all that personality stuff is true, then that's a big difference between the olden days and nowadays. Definitely going to put this in the book.
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What if you left your kid alone with YouTube
Google Image search for "crazy youtube videos"
YouTube is the educator entertainer that never sleeps. One video leads to the next, literally forever. (YouTube does have a kids channel which is supposed to be a safe space for kids.) They have "YouTube Kids," which was supposed to help reassure parents. But if your kid is at a random computer and just goes to YouTube.com, or clicks on a link and ends up there, they're off down Recommendation Alley.
In response to fears that YouTube was promoting bad things to children, unintentionally or not, and thinking about a possible sociology class exercise, I decided to do an exercise where I start from a Disney princess video and then select from one of the top-10 recommended videos on each page to try to get to things that are bad for children. (In the possibly-vain hope that my experiment wouldn't be contaminated by my own use history, I used an incognito window without logging in to Google.) My goal was Nazi propaganda, and my strategy was to aim for adult stuff, then look out for disturbing, racist, or violent content. As children do.
I gave up after 113 videos, without getting to Nazi stuff. I would love to know — as YouTube surely does — how children really use YouTube when no one's looking. I know from limited experience they click around a lot — covering a lot of videos in a short time — and they don't vet their "content" carefully. So this seems like a plausible browsing session. Anyway, still thinking about how to do something like this, and thought I'd share my notes here:
How fast can I get to Nazi stuff from "Disney kids" using videos from the first 10 recommended? (Spoiler, I couldn't, but still.)
After searching for "Disney kids," I chose this innocent Disney Princess video, and starting clicking on recommendations.
Kids Makeup Disney Princesses Pretend Play with Cleaning Toys & Real Princess Dresses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl-dYcHTAYg
Emily Became a Princess-Real Princess Dresses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euGnK3OGU_A
PRINCESS SCHOOL TEST 🎓 Lilliana Helps Isabella To Cheat! – Princesses In Real Life | Kiddyzuzaa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD-bDjWwtjA
Kaycee and Rachel in Wonderland # 26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuGyvxZb3Y
24 Hours in Box Fort Jail Challenge! 24 Hour Challenge with No LOL Dolls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noJv8tV0FF8
By #6 I've gotten as far as icky
Father & Son PLAY DON'T STEP IN IT! / Avoid The Poo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoNBU6alsjA
Escaping Hello Neighbors Maximum Security Box Fort Prison / Jake and Ty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BPdjI697GU
9 Weird Ways To Sneak Food Into Class / Summer Pranks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99n2OLtIUwY
A reference to a shooter video by #9. This leads into family conflict…
FORTNITE DANCE CHALLENGE !! In Real Life With Ckn Toys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k96FHPngnwU
FORTNITE Dance Challenge! IN REAL LIFE | NINJA KIDZ TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBR0onumDq4
Sister VS Brother Battle! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8AERX2Rolw
Katherine is a Barbie! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK7idnorApQ
How To Remove White Marks From Your Baby Alive! Commercial Style https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOOWYej1KNc
Lalaloopsy school adventure episode 1: bullying! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvJIODxOTeo
Sketch Smell Challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjj8O8rhedU
NEVER HAVE I EVER!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix5_v8uLiuk
Older Siblings vs Younger Siblings!! Sisters Trinity and Madison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqX3nnL2fOE
EXPECTATIONS vs REALITY of Having a Sibling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U88fcNfrKXQ
EXPECTATION vs REALITY OF BEING A PARENT!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SIXQjkf4Y4
Amelia and Avelina beach vacation adventure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m80SpeAncyI
HOTEL HOUSEKEEPER CHASED BY COPS AT RESORT!!! POLICE UNDERCOVER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44bft2AfUWU
A CREEPY STALKER FAN STALKS ME OUTSIDE MY OWN HOUSE *HE HAD MY PHONE NUMBER* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrNLHlL2OEE
Is Nicole a Zombie, Forever? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDouUbA4oME
The Girl Who Collects Cockroaches | My Kid's Obsession https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9W7J7iW39E
QUEEN BABY: Bath Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arSknXl8sko
Power Tool Wins and Fails https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2bAlONGEPw
First real violence by #27. Not that bad, just a skateboard injury, which introduces the people-behaving-badly-in-real-life genre
Skateboarder Crashes into Kid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec4LNeV4CTQ
Lady Yells at Kid on Alpine Slide in Winter Park CO (Fight) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7c82c7ay5s
ex-wife acting out in front of kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toz-JgqhI94
Baby Mama manipulating again (Arizona) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcwFYTN_w7o
CPS NOT WANTING TO GO ON CAMERA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juahHP_xYDc
CPS murdered my family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpIihXia0Yo
CPS Supervisor Calls Parents "White Trash"!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnPmQgekBog
Crazy lady at skate park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zRmrIG3ehk
Crazy lady yells at kids for standing on table https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJkXQvuTG1A
Lady yells at kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C141zVXqrY0
Super mad bus driver and kid trys to escape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0hhaCVP1Uc
BUS DRIVER REFUSES TO LET CHILDREN ON BUS!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDJOmzwBQv4
Bus Driver Kicks Girl Out of Bus.Miles Away from Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvj4Kg6Ll9I
Mean bus driver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSrMgZe5UC0
Creepy little girl brings me to bathroom stall and locks the door https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjyb1IMeEpA
My humps remix (Barbie and crazy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX150oaD2H0
Two girls fighting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNpq1GnCaCc
Two boys and two girls fighting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0czg5hVzld0
This wat happen when a 2nd and 4th grader fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8vn7wEQ_Lk
3rd Grade fight in school https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDAcnde8P3s
Bullying 3rd Grade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6uOT-A3ZaE
WORLD'S MEANEST LITTLE GIRL – IDIOTS ALWAYS ASK #12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V22Xw0y7LsY
Little kids fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h50amm_gXCY
8 vs 10 year old fighting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amovxJrgZx4
8 year old vs 13 year old fighting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNLqypr2Xuc
Trying to get out of the kids-fighting loop, I chose this one, which led to stuff for parents…
Kid Pukes at Dentist after Getting Mold Removed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT6pw58CWKU
10 year old Isabella shouldn't know The 'C' Word #LyttleFight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcIVTZxnTkU
Slap Her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6CDvSDkeAM
Doll test – The effects of racism on children (ENG) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRZPw-9sJtQ
Disturbingly Racist Moments in Cartoons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cftUIdSr_T8
Top 10 Insanely Racist Moments In Disney Movies That You Totally Forgot About https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKWGQyz-oLw
10 Dark Theories About Dead Disney Characters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbfpJ7gZl44
Sausage Party: 10 Important Details You Totally Missed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSiQkslhg7A
15 Moms You Won't Believe Actually Exist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OlmYhaGkGI
Most Inappropriate Children Coloring Book Drawings! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD81kn5L7O0
Bunk'd Stars ★ Before And After https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhm01EsBEkU
Somehow this led to freaky or scary images and general danger…
10 STRONG KIDS That Can Lift More Than You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoG5_LWChVQ
World's Strongest Kids Girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV39CR7v7gA
Remember This Viral Photo Of A Nigerian 'Witch' You Should See Him Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7zN75E7rOg
10 SHOCKING Incidents When Kids Left Alone With Pets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B56hVR8QhoE
10 Times TOYS Got Kids In TROUBLE With Police Officers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-XH7ylO5ls
ILLEGAL and BANNED Fidget Spinners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLG4sL_MF5Q
WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS FIDGET SPINNERS!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZiRxVFdDsw
NAUGHTY BABY DOES SECRET TOY RITUAL AND SUMMONS GHOSTS FROM CARTOON!! || Baby Hands Gameplay Part 15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb0wgPFYAIQ
Creepy texts from babysitter.. | TEXT STORY REACTION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRFccgkGQ9w
No idea why this Trump parody was here but I thought it might lead to more political content. Instead it took me into a video game loop, which I only got out of by going back to bad parenting…
SAVE TRUMP! \ Mr. President https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ClhcQYRqig
Realistic Minecraft – Highschool Girlfriend ❤ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR98shYOpYo
You Can't Say No To Ella! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F66gmHWTks8
CAN PARENTS GUESS WHAT THEIR KID DOES WITH 100 DOLLARS? Ep. # 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVjHOyKQn3M
What would your kid do if they found a gun? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkcfQTavqyk
Kids found home alone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM7a_BppUIE
19 kids found alone in filthy, hot Kentucky home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i-7BbEr9YI
Baby Buried Alive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_1ykYYRcyI
Newborn baby found abandoned near Tampa intersection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDwkUG0qQNI
angry lady yells at kid for no reason… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNv-ToebU8U
Man slaps crying baby in it's mothers arms on Delta airline flight, calls it n-word https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrhZuG3zAGM
Boy Passes After Putting Blue Stain In Carpet. 14 Years Later Mom Floored By Real Meaning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTCaZzsQPMg
Then we're back to freak shows, and from there to child brides, poverty, and then – fake poverty…
she was born with an elephant's trunk, this is what they did to her… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WflgtnSvtMs
Worst Bug Invasions Ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wl7aF4qUyI
Mom Thinks She's Having Twins, But Drs Quickly Learn She's Making History With Rare Delivery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfVdG6crFAg
Child Marriage in Ethiopia's Amhara Region HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYk37j9g300
Mamoni's Story: The Child Bride https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCxcfEOEMoI
The Ugly Face of Beauty: Is Child Labour the Foundation for your Makeup? (RT Documentary) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOpZkstB5jc
The Poorest of the Poor – On the Edge of Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEZSjtpHo44
Fake Homeless People CAUGHT On Camera And EXPOSED! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbYRqSeqJIg
Fake stuff leads to the "what would you do" genre…
White Woman Introduces Asian Fiance To Disapproving Parents | What Would You Do? | WWYD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kom9wMpLIzE
Christian Discrimination for Praying in Public | What Would You Do? | WWYD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4SkVFrQFW4
Foster Care Cruelty | What Would You Do? | WWYD | ABC News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvn91N92VCw
And from there back to suffering children.
Foster Care Support – They Come In The Night – With Nothing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7hICHJOiAI
Annie's Story (Neglect) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lB2iujfv5A
Russian Orphans – Master Thesis Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adPF39ozmMs
Inside AK Orphanage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSy6vc7Jijo
Nigeria Beggar Abandons 3 Babies on Street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyeE1K6yziU
Hungry Kids In Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_Zt_J0UEb4
child survival in Africa | survive a tout prix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrDuVwCSF94
AIDS Orphans in South Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oSR9SM0Se0
Don't know why sassy girl was here, but it got me away from sad orphan stories and back to bad parenting…
Sassy little girl blocks the slide at the zoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ8VPezlOg0
MOST SPOILT BRAT KIDS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BqTmuuzXek
Most Spoiled Kids Compilation 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bexSD2uD3Ms
Kids Who Are Crying For The Most Ridiculous Reasons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzrqyB62IVA
What Would You Do: Mother Uses Harsh Punishments on Son | What Would You Do? | WWYD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpiSeuSU8EE
Bad parenting is related to sappy family stories, like soldier homecomings, which led to family separations…
Soldiers Coming Home || Emotional Compilation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT8j2Vm8PaY
Military Homecoming – Meeting Baby Elijah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIOkrjMrW_I
Babies Behind Bars – Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWaZ34Vmaf4
Mom Puts Baby Girl To Bed. Hours Later Hears Screaming & Realizes Hidden Danger In Her Room https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvg1nSpmdIE
Which led to bad parenting again…
Police officer finds pregnant mom and toddler asleep on sidewalk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cHzrUBtnZg
And finally back to Disney Princesses. Phew!
Moms Dress Like Disney Princesses For Maternity Photos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW15sbLH-Ts
Tagged as children, culture, google, internet, Parenting, technology, youtube
Breaking: In 2017 names, Donald, Alexa, and Mary plummet; Malia booms
Time to update name trends, with the release of the 2017 data files from the Social Security Administration.
My hot take: Mary is back on the skids; Donald is going down, Alexa is over, and Malia shows that the resilience of humanity is not. Here are the details.
In Enduring Bonds I extend the Mary trend back to 1780, using Census data as well as Social Security records (and now is [always] an excellent time to get a review copy and consider it for your classes). The story is the mother of all naming trends, an unparalleled decline in name popularity, reflecting both the decline of conformity as an aesthetic and changes in how people see religion, parenting, and lots of other things. Then, for a couple years — 2013-2015 — it looked like maybe all the attention I gave the fate of Mary had prompted a revival, but now things are looking even bleaker than before, down another 4.3%. Here's an updated version of the chart from the book:
Meanwhile, the decline of The Donald has taken on a new urgency. Although the name has been taking for a long time (its association with unpleasant character didn't start in 2016), but last year's decline was impressive, at -4.3%. Not a cliff, but a solid slide (this one's on a log scale so you can see the detail):
You have to feel for people who named their daughters Alexa, and the Alexas themselves, before Amazon sullied their names. Did they not think of the consequences for these people? In the last year Alexa essentially ended as a (human) name, possibly the worst two-year case in U.S. history of name contamination. [Correction] Another bad year for Alexa. After a 21.3% drop in 2016, another 74% 19.5% last year:
Finally, someone better tell the deplorables to start naming their daughters Ivanka, because in 2017 about nine-times more people are named their daughters Malia (1416) than Ivanka (167). Malia, up 15.4% last year:
On my OSF project I've shared the names data, the Mary code (Stata), and SAS code for making individual name trends. The whole series of posts is under the names tag.
Tagged as amazon, culture, mary, names, Parenting, trump
A step toward civilization (and have more children), Shanghai edition
Over the course of two weeks in China, I saw several versions of signs like this:
"A small step forward, a big step for civilization" (向前一小步, 文明一大步).
This one is posted in the old-town section of Nanxun (now a tourist attraction), naturally, above a urinal.* Invoking civilization may be overblown for the problem of men standing too far away (which didn't seem to be especially extreme, compared to U.S. urinals), but China has a long tradition of using dramatic slogans to call citizens to higher common purpose. Here was one that struck me, in downtown Shanghai:
Every family striving to become a civilized family; everyone involved in its creation (家家争做文明家庭; 人人叁与创建活动).
This is from the Shanghai public health authorities. (No, I don't know Chinese, but I love trying to use a dictionary, and I ask people.) The fascinating thing about that is the composition of the civilized family pictured: father, mother, two grandparents, and two children.
Fertility rates in China are well below replacement level, as they are in other East Asian countries, meaning the average woman will have fewer than two children in her lifetime and the population will eventually shrink (barring immigration). China's total fertility rate nationally is probably at about 1.5. In Shanghai, a metro area with some 20 million people, the norm was already one child per family before the one-child policy was implemented in 1980, and fertility has continued to fall; it most recently clocked in at a shockingly low .88 per woman as of 2008.
Reasons for ultra-low fertility are varied and contested, but likely culprits include expensive housing and education costs for children. It was reported to me informally that about half of children can go to college-track high schools instead of vocational schools, and that is determined by a standardized test administered at the end of middle school. That puts tremendous pressure on parents with middle-class aspirations. Which helps explain the extensive system of expensive supplemental private education, as promoted by this ad I saw in an upscale mall:
School advertisement, Shanghai
The website for this company promises, "Super IQ, Wealth of Creativity, Instant Memory Capacity." How many kids are you going to send to this private program?
One of the five perfect, super-involved parents at the parent-child class is a man, which may or may not seem like a lot. Of the many people taking their kids to school on scooters, I didn't see a lot with more than one child, and the only picture I got was of one piloted by the apparent dad (note also something you don't see here much: schoolboy in pink shirt):
Man taking children to school, Shanghai
This recalls another probable cause of low-low fertility, the gender-stuck family and employment practices that keep women responsible for children and other care work (scooter dads notwithstanding). In conjunction with women outperforming men in college graduation rates these days (as in the U.S.), this indirectly reduces fertility by leading to delayed marriage, and directly reduces fertility by causing parents to decide against a second child.
Grandparent, parent, child, in Hangzhou
The weak system of care hurts on both ends, with people having fewer children because raising them is expensive, and people needing children to take care of old people because public support is lacking. This may be one reason why grandparents can have a positive effect on parents' motivation to have children, as reported by Yingchun Ji and colleagues (including Feinian Chen, who hosted my visit). The fact that it is common for grandparents to provide extensive care for their grandchildren, as Feinian Chen has described (paywall), presumably helps strengthen their pronatal case.
Lots of pictures of grandparents taking care of a single grandchild to choose from. Here's one, from the (awesome) Shanghai Museum:
Grandparent and child, Shanghai
The one-child policy ended in 2016, and couples no longer have to get permission to have a first or second child (but they do for a third or more). This change alone, although a better-late-than-never thing, may not do much to increase birth rates. That is the conclusion from studies of families for whom the policy was relaxed earlier. Sadly, although birth rates were already falling dramatically in the 1970s and the one-child policy was not responsible for the trend, the policy still (in addition to large scale human rights abuses) created many millions of one-child families that will struggle to meet intergenerational care obligations in the absence of adequate public support. (Here's a good brief summary from Wang Feng, Baochang Gu, and Yong Cai.)
This is a challenge for civilization.
The pictures here, and a few hundred more, are on my Flickr site under creative commons license.
* Americans who love the funny translations of signs in China may be in for some disappointment, as the Standardization Administration has announced plans to implement thousands of stock translations in the service sector nationwide.
Tagged as china, demography, fertility, grandparents, Parenting, photos, population, tourism
Births to 40-year-olds are less common but a greater share than in 1960
Never before have such a high proportion of all births been to women over 40 — they are now 2.8% of all births in the US. And yet a 40-year-old woman today is one-third less likely to have a baby than she was in 1947.
From 1960 to 1980, birth rates to women over 40* fell, as the Baby Boom ended and people were having fewer children by stopping earlier. Since 1980 birth rates to women over 40 have almost tripled as people started "starting" their families at later ages, but they're still lower than they were back when total fertility was much higher.
Sources: Birth rates 1940-1969, 1970-2010, 2011, 2012-2013, 2014-2015; 2016; Percent of births 1960-1980, 1980-2008.
Put another way, a child born to a mother over 40 before 1965 was very likely the youngest of several (or many) siblings. Today they are probably the youngest of 2 or an only child. A crude way to show this is to use the Current Population Survey to look at how many children are present in the households of women ages 40-49 who have a child age 0 (the survey doesn't record births as events, but the presence of a child age 0 is pretty close). Here is that trend:
In the 1970s about 60 percent of children age 0 had three or more siblings present, and only 1 in 20 was an only child. Now more than a quarter are the only child present and another 30 percent only have one sibling present. (Note this doesn't show however many siblings no longer live in the household, and I don't know how that might have changed over the years).
This updates an old post that focused on the health consequences of births to older parents. The point from that post remains: there are fewer children (per woman) being born to 40-plus mothers today than there were in the past, it just looks like there are more because they're a larger share of all children.
* Note in demography terms, "over 40" means older than "exact age" 40, so it includes people from the moment they turn 40.
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Tagged as age, demography, fertility, Parenting
Civility in the swelter (Hershey Park edition)
This post combines my love of vacations (context), my habit of taking pictures of people in public places (data)*, and my sociological tendency to invent big conclusions from minor events (theory). As with last year's selfie post , I hope you don't take from this that I don't really love vacations.
With 3.2 million annual visitors, Hershey Park is barely in the top 20 amusement/theme parks in the country. And unlike the top draws, all Disney properties, I reckon Hershey mostly draws a local and regional crowd, which means they're not as rich as the average Disney visitor.
What interests me is the way this lower-middle amusement park creates the context for civility in a very diverse environment, even as racial and ethnic conflagration seems to be breaking out all over.
It's very racially and ethnically diverse, and most of the Whites either aren't rich or they're hiding their wealth well.
Why didn't Charles Murray, in his obnoxious "do you live in a bubble" quiz, which is supposed to test your exposure to and familiarity with working-class White culture (yes, just White culture, though the PBS promoters of the quiz only mentioned that after people complained), ask about amusement parks, where White working class people spend their vacations mingling with — or at least in close proximity with — racial minorities?
Including in the historically-fraught pool.
Some may be merely standing shoulder-to-shoulder with people from different races. But I saw more interracial couples and families than I usually see in my diverse suburb.
Are they just tolerating each other, or are they really getting along? Of course, I'm White and rich and blind to all sorts of things, but I'm not stupid. I have no doubt there were slights and insults and aggressions going on outside of my perception (though I was looking for them). But there were also the kind of casual moments of "us just getting along" that usually go unremarked, like when parents enjoy watching their kids having fun together.
I'm not making an argument about the relative racism apparent across classes. I know your feed today is probably awash in racist stuff coming from all over the social spectrum. I'm more interested in what the social context does to interpersonal interaction. The park is very leveling, economically. The poorest people are obviously excluded, and the richest aren't interested. And then most people buy tickets before they arrive, and it's in a remote place, so there is no one visible who can't get in, no obvious fast lane for rich people (even at the rides, unlike Disney). We all ride the same tram from the parking lot to the gate, so the car interaction is minimized. We go through the same giant line to enter, and then wait in the same lines to ride the same rides and eat the same food once inside.
There are ways to spend more money conspicuously, buying extra crap, but there is less of that than I've seen at Disney or Universal Studios (have you priced a genuine Princess dress lately?). In short, it brings out what a lot of different Americans have in common: overpaying for entertainment, overeating greasy food, and alternately yelling at and loving on their children.
I'm reminded of two things. One is that there is less racial conflict and violence in the U.S. than there was in the past (dating the data trends here is obviously debatable). The level of racism — structurally and interpersonally — is still way too high, of course. But it partly stands out now because we have more casual, positive interaction, than we did in the past. Social movement scholars will tell you that periods of improving relations are ripe for upheaval and unrest, because expectations are raised and subordinate groups are empowered. Don't draw from the level of conscious resistance we see now the conclusion that conditions are worse than ever, because that's not how it works.
Two is that civility can be engineered. In 2002 my friend Jennifer Lee wrote of the "important untold story [of] the mostly quotidian nature of commercial life in neighborhoods like New York's Harlem and West Philadelphia," areas at the time experiencing racial tension erupting in occasional violence around the issue of ethnic turf and racism in retail spaces. This Civility in the City was partly the product of deliberate, conscious effort by store owners and employees to preserve it. The level of interpersonal conflict and expression of animosity is not determined by structural inequalities alone. That deep inequality remains the defining American problem of our time. I don't know how the level of interpersonal conflict plays into our ability to confront and address that inequality — and I'm not saying we should settle for civility over equality — but I'm sure it's somehow relevant.
* This is ethical and legal as long as I'm not trying to harm anyone – millions of people do it every day. If you happen to be in one of these pictures and want me to take them down I will happily oblige. Before you get mad about me using these pictures, close your eyes and think of all the pictures you've seen just this week of strangers who did not consent to have their pictures taken.
Tagged as amusement parks, Parenting, photos, race, racism
November 13, 2015 · 6:00 am
That time when your research is used to justify ripping a baby from the arms of its loving adoptive parents
UPDATE: Judge Johansen has rescinded his order.
Brad Wilcox and Mark Regnerus lost in their attempt to turn the federal courts against marriage equality. The work they did culminated in a paper published under Regnerus's name, and Regnerus is the name most associated with its bogusness, but it was Wilcox who led the effort to raise the money (some of which he kept), helped direct the study, and weaseled it into the journal by serving as a peer reviewer for its publication. (Two subsequent studies reanalyzed the Wilcox/Regnerus data, and thoroughly debunked its results — here and here; you can get the full story by following the links in this post.)
Although they failed in their quest to affect the Supreme Court, their work lives on in the very small, evil minds of anti-gay fanatics around the world, who continuously cite the original paper. One of those men is Judge Scott Johansen, a juvenile court judge in Carbon County, Utah (the state's seventh district), who has cited unspecified "research" to justify his decision to take a one-year-old baby from the home of Beckie Peirce and April Hoagland, a married lesbian couple who are the child's foster parents. With the approval of the baby's biological mother and child welfare authorities — who did the routine thorough investigation and vetting that all adoptive parents (including me) have endured — the two were moving ahead with plans to legally adopt the baby when Johansen, a law graduate of the Mormon Brigham Young University, handed down his decision. The decision is set to take effect next Tuesday (November 17). His decision is not public, but he told the couple his own research showed it was better for children to be raised by a heterosexual couple. We don't need to ask what research he has in mind.
Legal efforts continue, and officials — including the governor of Utah — have asked the judge to reconsider.
If your research was used like this, what would you do?
So, this is the point of all the work Wilcox and Regnerus did. We must assume they wanted exactly this decision, but on a much larger scale; they wanted same-sex couples to be denied the right to adopt children, and children to be denied the right to have married gay and lesbian parents. They would apparently rather see a one-year-old child who has spent three months with a loving family ripped from that family rather than face the fate of having lesbian parents.
If I'm wrong, and I would be especially happy to be wrong in this case, then Wilcox and Regnerus should be the first experts lining up to convince Judge Johansen that he's making a mistake, that the actual well-being of the child, and the civil rights of its parents, should come before slavish devotion to religious dogma. In fact, speaking up right now might actually do some good.
Wilcox has gone out of his way to sing the praises of the "deep normative and religious commitments to marriage and to raising children within marriage" in Utah specifically. But he doesn't comment on this aspect of Utah's holiness — the deep commitment that has led the Mormon church to announce a wretched, hateful policy under which it will not bless or baptize the children of gay and lesbian couples unless they denounce their parents.
Now might be a good time for Wilcox's sham Institute for Family Studies — which has yet to ever use the words "lesbian," "gay," or "homosexual" on its web pages — to break its silence and take a stand for children and family well-being.
I'll be holding my breath.
Tagged as law, national marriage project, Parenting, Regnerus, same-sex, utah


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Japan restarts reactor No 3 at Takahama nuclear plant
Takahama nuclear plant
No.3 reactor
Japan's swimming robot to study damage at Fukushima
Death toll from Japan earthquake rises to nine
Japan nuclear reactor restarts amid protests and fears
Japan court acquits ex-TEPCO bosses over Fukushima disaster
Tokyo 2020 marathon, race walk events rescheduled after Sapporo move
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Only a handful of reactors have come back online, due to public opposition, since the Fukushima disaster in 2011. Tuesday's move comes after court clearance.
Japan's coast guard patrols in front of the No 3 reactor at the nuclear plant in Takahama, Fukui prefecture, some 350 kilometres west of Tokyo on June 6, 2017. (Reuters)
In a small victory for the government's pro-atomic push, a Japanese utility switched on another nuclear reactor on Tuesday, despite strong public opposition after the 2011 Fukushima meltdown.
The restart of the No 3 reactor at the Takahama nuclear plant brings the number of operational atomic reactors in Japan to five, while dozens more remain offline. Located in Fukui prefecture, the plant which is operated by Kansai Electric Power (KEPCO) is some 350 kilometres (215 miles) west of Tokyo.
Fukushima disaster is ongoing, but Takahama Nuke reactor has restarted today. Insane. 3 | - https://t.co/LDOYC4bd0N #Yahoo
— Miki (@Punabay) June 6, 2017
Tuesday's move comes after the utility switched on Takahama's No 4 reactor last month with the court's go-ahead, in spite of complaints from local residents over safety concerns. The court also gave the green light to switch on the No 3 reactor.
Japan shut down all of its atomic reactors after a powerful earthquake in March 2011 spawned a huge tsunami that led to meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
Fukushima became the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986.
Since then, just a handful of reactors have come back online due to public opposition and as legal cases work their way through the courts.
However, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has aggressively promoted nuclear energy, calling it essential to powering the world's third-largest economy.
Much of the public remains wary of nuclear power after the disaster at Fukushima spewed radiation over a large area and forced tens of thousands to leave their homes, with some unlikely to ever return.
Thunderstorms sweep across Australia's bushfire-ravaged east coast


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From the 8th to 21st of December you can donate a 410g can of food at the library to have $3.00 taken off your overdue fines.
All will be donated to local food banks, so make sure the food is suitable for human consumption (so no cat food!) and the cans are not damaged or rusty.
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If you shoot a satellite into space, give it a camera and nothing better to do, it takes really great photos of earth.
Some highlights: Ireland, complete with aqua-coloured plankton blooms, the Hawaiian Islands, and the Great Barrier Reef.


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STEM is essential for our nation's future. But it's not the only discipline that matters
David J. Skorton and Jane Chu
for USA TODAY NETWORK
What is the future of work? From business forums to think tanks to Congress, leaders are grappling with the question of how new technologies are reshaping employment in the 21st century — and how America's institutions of higher education should respond.
Much of the focus, understandably, is on the importance of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. But the public discussion sometimes implies that, in the digital age, only the STEM disciplines are relevant. There is less emphasis on the intrinsic value of the arts and humanities, less understanding of how they, too, can help shape the future of work and, thus, less consideration of the benefits of integrating these disciplines.
Our own professional backgrounds are in medicine and the arts, respectively, so it might be natural to assume that our visions for higher education would diverge. However, both of us believe that the debate is too often framed as a false choice. We agree with Albert Einstein — who was not only a theoretical physicist but also an accomplished violinist — that the arts, sciences and humanities are all "branches from the same tree." They are mutually reinforcing. For that reason, we favor broad educational experiences that integrate the STEM disciplines with the arts and humanities, drawing on and fortifying the connections between them.
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Last week, a new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study bolstered the case for education that integrates these fields, including medicine. In fact, the study committee extended the acronym to include medicine (STEMM). Conducted over the past two years, the study offers compelling evidence that integration has a positive impact on the learning outcomes of students, who carry the benefits far into their careers.
One of the report's key findings is that integration can contribute to the development of critical thinking, communication and collaborative skills that are increasingly in demand. Last month, LinkedIn revealed a significant shortage of workers with these "soft skills" across 100 major U.S. metropolitan markets.
This helps explain why many business leaders — including those at technology companies — are now praising the virtues of integrated education. Similarly, the importance of empathy, ethics and teamwork in the practice of medicine has driven a growing number of medical schools, including Harvard and Yale, to begin integrating the arts and humanities into their curricula.
It might seem counterintuitive, but studying the arts and humanities can also aid students in developing the highly complex, technical understanding that STEMM disciplines often demand. That's because assignments requiring students to use their creativity and imagination often help them internalize the material. In an undergraduate neuroscience class, for example, students who created a short film to represent the process of neurotransmission "significantly outperformed those who learned the concept from more conventional approaches," according to a study described in the new report.
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Importantly, the benefits of integration flow in both directions. As the study explains, integration can provide artists with new tools and perspectives to bring to their work, influencing what they create. This is why the San Francisco Art Institute, for example, requires undergraduates to take a course in either math or science. And at the MIT Media Lab, graduate students are exploring how innovative technologies can enable new forms of storytelling.
Students who receive an integrated education will benefit in the long term. For one thing, the nature of work is constantly evolving, and there is no guarantee that specialized skills that are in demand today will be in demand in the future. At the same time, people's career paths are becoming varied and unpredictable. Today, many people will have not only multiple jobs over the course of their working lives, but also multiple careers. As a result, it is increasingly necessary to be familiar with more than one discipline and, equally important, more than one way of understanding the world.
That, in the end, is the fundamental purpose of the sciences, arts and humanities: to help us understand ourselves and the world around us. And while it's clear that STEMM education is essential, we can't allow the next generation to become defined by their specialized skills at the expense of becoming well-rounded people.
For America's institutions of higher education, the best response to the evolution of work is to ensure that students from all socioeconomic backgrounds have a broad, integrated education. That is the best way to prepare them — and the country — for the challenges of work, life and citizenship ahead.
David Skorton is secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and was chairman of the National Academies study committee. Jane Chu is chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, a sponsor of the National Academies study.


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package com.kanomiya.steward.model.script;

import com.kanomiya.steward.model.assets.Assets;
import com.kanomiya.steward.model.event.Player;

/**
 * @author Kanomiya
 *
 */
public class ScriptFunctionBinder {

	protected Assets assets;
	protected Player player;

	public ScriptFunctionBinder(Assets assets, Player player)
	{
		this.assets = assets;
		this.player = player;
	}

	public void exit()
	{
		System.exit(0); // VELIF
	}

	public char nextChar(char ch)
	{
		return nextChar(ch, 1);
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namespace Phansible\Roles;

class RedisTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    private $role;

    public function setUp()
    {
        $app = $this->getMockBuilder('\Phansible\Application')
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();

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    }

    public function tearDown()
    {
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    {
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Předměstí (německy Vorstadt) je bývalé předměstí v Uherském Brodě ve Zlínském kraji. Pod názvem Uherský Brod Předměstí se do roku 1896 také jednalo o samostatné katastrální území.

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Před hradbami města Uherský Brod se východním a jihovýchodním směrem nacházela předměstská zástavba tvořená dnešními ulicemi Pořádí, Horní Valy, Dolní Valy, Pod Dvorkem, Rybářská a Předbranská. Součástí Předměstí byla rovněž ulice Provazní a Kučerovo náměstí. Od poloviny 18. století bylo Předměstí správně samostatné a nebylo součástí vlastního Uherského Brodu. Po zrušení patrimoniální správy bylo přičleněno k Uherskému Brodu a v následujících desetiletích s ním stavebně splynulo. V roce 1883 byla poblíž Předměstí zprovozněna železniční stanice Uherský Brod, v té době konečná stanice železnice ze Starého Města, která byla v roce 1888 coby Vlárská dráha prodloužena skrze Předměstí dále do Trenčianske Teplé.

Samostatné katastrální území Předměstí bylo zrušeno v roce 1896 a jeho plocha byla přičleněna k uherskobrodskému katastru.

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Powers optimistic about vaccination progress, but urges caution as summer approaches
by Andrew Phillips April 26, 2021 June 13, 2021
People—some masked, some not—stand and walk in downtown Sister Bay on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, in front of Stabbur Beer Garden at Al Johnson's. The Door County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will discuss a county-wide mask mandate. Photo by Solomon Lindenberg.
With almost half of Door County's population fully vaccinated against Covid-19, county Public Health officer Susan Powers said last week that she's optimistic the county will be close to meeting its vaccination goals by early summer.
But she urged residents to have patience and continue practicing Covid-19 safety measures, cautioning that medium and large gatherings still are not safe for anyone and that relaxing safety measures too early could result in another surge of the disease.
Door County has been among the leaders in vaccination speed among all Wisconsin counties. It leads all counties with 58.3 percent of its population (16,129 people) having received at least one dose, according to state data. And it narrowly comes in second, to Bayfield County, when it comes to the percentage of people who have been fully vaccinated. That figure in Door County stands at 45.3 percent, or 12,533 people.
The county's goal, which aligns with the state's goal, is to get 80 percent of its population vaccinated, Powers said. The state Department of Health Services's vaccination data notes that about 20 percent of Wisconsin's population is under age 16 and therefore not currently eligible for any vaccine.
Door County also has seen a relatively high number of Covid-19 cases in recent weeks, including a significant rise in cases during the second half of March. Powers said she wasn't sure what caused that spike.
Powers said the presence of variants of the virus that causes Covid-19 represents a "wild card" in the outlook for the pandemic in coming months. There are five variants that have been identified as being of concern by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, because they seem to spread more easily and quickly.
Three of those variants have been confirmed in Door County, Powers said. She added that she suspects all five are present in the county, noting that not all positive test samples for Covid-19 are further examined to determine whether they contain one of the variants of concern. All five variants of concern have been confirmed in Wisconsin.
Powers said she's heard fatigue from residents and questions about when life can get back to normal.
"We're still in the middle of a pandemic," Powers said. "Right now there's no such thing as a risk-free activity."
It's important that people continue wearing masks, practicing social distancing and following other safety measures as the county works toward its vaccination goals, Powers said.
"My biggest concern at this point is that we're all getting impatient and that people are going to stop doing what we learned at the beginning … and before we can get the majority of the population vaccinated, we're going to have many more cases," she said.
Vaccination efforts move toward next phase
The county's vaccination efforts now are shifting to focus on residents who might have a harder time getting the vaccine or who aren't sure about it, Powers said.
Public Health has seen declining signups for its vaccination clinics in the past two weeks, she said, likely indicating that most people in the county who were highly interested in getting the vaccine have done so.
In the next two weeks, Public Health will transition from the large drive-through vaccination clinics it has been holding to smaller walk-up clinics, Powers said. The new clinics will have longer hours into the evenings, she said.
Public Health also has made efforts to reach northern parts of the county. It has held two clinics on Washington Island and has one planned in Sister Bay this Thursday.
Powers said the emergency services personnel who have staffed the drive-through clinics are shifting back to their regular work with the busy summer season starting. Public Health has hired a dozen limited term employee nurses to staff its clinics, Powers said, some of whom have come out of retirement.
As county health officials work to vaccinate remaining residents, Powers praised the work of the Door County Medical Center and the county's Aging and Disability Resource Center. The Medical Center has begun holding on-site vaccination clinics at some of the county's largest employers.
The ADRC is doing outreach to residents who have barriers to getting to a vaccination clinic, Powers said. For people who need transportation to a clinic, the county's public transit service has secured grant funding to provide free rides, Powers said. Public Health nurses also have begun doing home visits to administer the vaccine to residents who need to stay in their homes.
Public Health officials also are considering how best to get young residents vaccinated, Powers said. That includes discussions about how best to reach 16- and 17-year-olds, she said. Only 23.2 percent of that age group in Door County has received at least one dose of a vaccine thus far, the lowest of any age group.
It also means beginning to think about vaccinating younger children, Powers said. A vaccine for people aged 12 and up is expected to be available in late summer or fall, she said.
There have been a significant number of new cases among young people in the past month, Powers said. Since March 20 in Door County, 29 percent of all new cases were among people ages 0 to 19, the most of any age group. That reflected a similar proportion of cases among young people statewide, Powers said. In Door County, that increase was due in part to an outbreak at a child care center, she said.
The age groups with the second largest percentage of cases in Door County – with 17 perent of all new cases each – were ages 30-39 and 40-49, Powers said, likely reflecting cases among children and their parents.
Summer outlook will depend on Covid activity level
Guidelines for Covid-19 safety this summer will depend on the disease's activity level in the county at that time, as well as the positivity rate among new tests, vaccination percentages and the effects of the virus variants, Powers said.
Right now, she said, it is safe for fully vaccinated people to have small gatherings indoors – without masks – with other fully vaccinated people or people who are not at high risk for severe cases of the disease.
Fully vaccinated people also can travel without quarantining afterward, Powers said. And if a fully vaccinated person is exposed to Covid-19 but does not have symptoms, she said, they do not have to quarantine.
Public Health still recommends against holding any medium- or large-sized gathering, Powers said. That applies even for fully vaccinated people, and even in cases like festivals that are held outside, she said.
Powers said she also encourages people considering holding any kind of event to plan for the possibility that it could need to be canceled, and to set expectations that guests follow Covid-19 safety measures. Public Health offers an event planning guide on its website.
"If we can have some messaging around, 'We want to plan for this to be a safe activity, and this is what we expect,' that's going to help us," Powers said.
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This post follows the post Heroku & WordPress Website Deployment which details how to create and publish a website using WordPress and Heroku. This post details how to secure the connections between the website administrator, the website database, and the website application.
Each application also has a free SSL endpoint for the applicationanme.herokuapp.com domain.The code below will protect your login credentials by setting the SSL domain in the configuration variables for all logged in sessions.
We can also update the "WordPress Address (URL)" setting which is the address where your WordPress core files reside. We will update it to include the https Herkou domain name. This can be updated in the WordPress settings page as shown below.
Alternatively, this can be set int he wp-config.php file by adding the following line of command and then pushing the updated file to Heroku. This also works if you accidentally set the variable to the wrong domain name through the WordPress settings page and got locked out of the dashboard.
Additionally, WordPress connects to the database with the content over an unencrypted channel. This is an issue for cloud based installs like ours where the database and application servers could communicate via unsecure means. It is recommended to download the SSL keys and certificates for ClearDB and install them to secure the database connection.
Go to your Heroku Dashboard and click on your heroku-wp app.
Click on the "ClearDB MySQL Database" add-on.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and download the "ClearDB CA Certificate", "Client Certificate", and "Client Private Key" in the "PEM Format".


There's no question that search engine optimization is as important as it has ever been. If you want to succeed in today's business world, you not only need to have a strong online presence, but you need people to be able to find your online properties to go from being searchers to actual clients and customers. While many people are worried about what a rolling Penguin update from Google is going to mean to them, talented Top SEO Brisbane specialists are very excited about these changes.
There are several good reasons for this. The first is that it makes your SEO very easy to test in relatively real time. A true online optimization specialist is not going to only try one thing and then wait an entire month to see whether or not it worked. It would take an entire year to even test the smallest of changes, and that is simply not acceptable!
Now that Penguin is part of the regular update within a day or two a quality SEO specialist, or even an attentive webmaster can see how any new backlinks from other websites are affecting their ranking in Google's search engine results. This is extremely powerful and allows your professionals to become even better at tracking what works and what doesn't, and how quickly those changes can go into effect.
If a strategy is not working at all, you do not have to wait several months to find that out. On the other side of the equation, if you are getting some exceptional backlinks that are hoping to shoot your website up the rankings you will know about this almost right away. In addition to having the benefit of this almost real-time updating through Google, there was an additional change with this update which is making many webmasters extremely happy.
That change comes in how bad links are penalized. It used to be that the obvious spam backlink or backlinks from private blog networks (PBNs) and other poor sites could get an entire website de-indexed in Google. This not only was counterproductive, but it led to the massive rise of a questionable strategy called negative SEO. This is when a competitor would pay spammers to build spam me backlinks to the websites of all of their competitors, causing every single one of those websites to be penalized.
This doesn't happen anymore. Thanks to the new changes, Google now can simply ignore individual backlinks and refuse to allow them to pass along any authority or ranking juice. This is fantastic because it stops penalizing individual websites or blog posts and tries to nip the potential problem in the bud. It also severely damages negative SEO and other similar underhanded practices.
While this can seem intimidating because of the havoc that the original Google Penguin update caused, this most recent update is the culmination of years of work to finally get the main goal done right.
Web development of any website begins and ends with web design. Your ability to drive traffic to your website has to do with search engine optimization, purchasing targeted traffic, and a variety of other strategies, but whether or not people buy the products that you have for sale depends on how professional your website looks. Even if you are ranked in the top position for hundreds of pages, and your products are well known and sell easily across the web, if people do not trust you when they arrive at your website, you will more than likely miss the sale. Here are the top three web design strategies by Top Web Design Gold Coast that you should use when building your website, the key to successful web development today.
The first thing that you will want to do is build your website on a WordPress platform. This is the easiest platform for not only generating additional pages but also ensuring that your website will get properly indexed.
Second, WordPress also makes it easy to change the appearance of your website by changing the themes that you want to use. Simply uploading a theme, and activating it, takes seconds, and you will suddenly see the entire appearance of your website has changed.
Third, WordPress makes it very simple for people to use their platform, so even if you are a novice, you will be able to start creating your website, and all of the pages on it, by using this free blogging platform.
Trish Riedel (web designer for a Gold Coast, QLD based company) says that the key to making money on the Internet is trust. Although having great products also helps, you'll never make a sale unless your website looks professional. By using a WordPress platform, you can ensure that the appearance of your website looks its absolute best by utilizing proven themes, graphics related to your website, and organizing all of your products in such a way that people can easily find them and purchase them after they arrive.
It's about time for the next generation of the web to come out. This is a great time to learn what you can do to prepare. You will find that the web will be a lot different, and it will be a lot better for everyone.
While there aren't all that many details about Web 3.0 yet, you can be sure that it will be more open and connected. It's going to be a lot of work for people behind the scenes, but they promise that things will be a lot better in the future. Andrew & Trish Riedel added that you should do some searching for Web 3.0 news to see if any new developments come out. There are a lot of technology sites that will talk about things as they are worked on. Machines are soon going to be more intelligent because they'll be able to learn, and that makes the next generation of the web awesome!
Always be on the lookout for ways to implement the new version of the web's standards when they are released. You don't want to just ignore this when it comes out because if you take advantage of these things then your presence online will be quite a bit stronger. It's all about working hard at learning what everything is all about and how to use the technology to make your site better. Pay attention to these things and this won't be so hard for you to deal with in the future.
Now that you know how to prepare for Web 3.0 you can feel comfortable when some changes start happening. This is the best time to start learning about this so that you're able to be on the cutting edge of the technology as it starts to come out.
If you own a business, it has a reputation, whether or not you even realize what it is. Those with an online presence may have some idea of what others are saying about their company. Even if your company is exclusively operated through a local venue, you still need to make certain you have a good reputation. Potential customers will often run searches on businesses before going to them. If the top search results are negative reviews, they will likely skip your store and choose a competitor. This cost you sales.
While there are some steps you can take to improve your online business presence, you should also hire a reputation management specialist. These people are professionals that know how to get results. It will save you considerable time and hassles and ensure that negative content quits showing up in the first pages of search results for your business.
Talk to fellow business people to find out about their experiences with these services. It is a great topic for networking and will give you some ideas regarding which companies to consider and which to avoid. If you are a member in business owner forums, ask there. If you are part of a local group of business owners, bring it up at your next meeting. Make notes if you need to remember certain companies.
You can also do some things to help yourself with handling the online image of your business. Business reputation protection in Gold Coast site an example, joining social media sites and learning how to use them effectively can be a great way to interact with your customers and build positive public relations. There are many articles on the Internet about how to use each one effectively for business advertising.
Listen to feedback from your customers. If they have legitimate complaints, read them carefully before crafting a response. Work hard to bridge animosity they may have toward your business. When customers feel like you have handled their concerns with care, they are more likely to return to your business. Remember to never get into an argument or use abusive language in your business. This will displease other customers as well.
There are many concerns when handling the reputation of your business. By hiring a management service to assist you and taking steps toward improving customer relations, you will be well on your way to making your company stand out from the competition.
If you are trying to optimize your website to rank better in the search engines, you may get confused with the multitude of strategies that people are using today. These are usually divided into on-site and off-site optimization techniques, and implementing them sometimes takes a considerable amount of time. If you would like to use just one technique that will improve your on-site optimization to help you achieve higher ratings, here is one of the best strategies that you can use that works now, and will continue to work in the future.
Whether you have a large authority site or a smaller site that only has a few pages, the organization of your content is of utmost importance. Although the spiders sent by the search engines can go through your website and index the pages that you have, by providing them with a certain type of structure, it can enhance your ability to rank well or better known as web optimization. A silo structure simply means that you are categorizing the content that you place on your website so that it is organized in regard to each particular niche. If you are selling multiple products, each product type should have its own silo or category, allowing the search engine spiders to properly position the pages in the search engines so that you can achieve higher rankings. It's okay to link to other pages throughout your website from these subpages divided by different categories. As long as you have properly categorized all of your content, this will give you an almost instant boost the next time your site spidered.
When you do search engine optimization, and you are focusing on on-site techniques, silo structuring your website is one way to improve your chances of ranking well for your keywords. Hopefully, this strategy will allow you to take a new site, or an existing one, and find your way to the top of the search engine rankings by using the silo structuring technique.
Are you thinking about starting your own website? If so, finding the right platform for your site is key. A good platform can make your site easier for you to use, and can also make it load better for visitors. Here are three platforms many people have had success with.
WordPress started life as a blogging platform; now it's so much more than that. It'll help you put together a professional, fully functional website. Its interface allows you to easily track what visitors are doing, and its widgets help your site to run as smoothly as possible. For example, there are widgets designed to make your page load more quickly or to increase your SEO.
Don't shy away from WordPress just because you're not planning on blogging. There are a number of templates available, and it's a great choice for all kinds of sites.
Squarespace can be pricey, but it's worth the money. It makes building a great looking site incredibly easy, and updating your site can be done very quickly. Even if you're not tech savvy, you should be able to master Squarespace in no time at all.
Squarespace is the ideal platform if you feel like you need a platform that's designed for site building novices. You'll never feel lost with Squarespace. You'll be able to use it to make exactly the kind of site you want to make.
If you want to build a site from scratch, but would appreciate having some framework, Ruby on Rails is a fantastic choice. It's designed to make writing code a breeze. It's definitely not for non-programmers, but this popular program is used by many of the biggest companies out there.
Everyone from Twitter to the Yellow Pages uses Ruby on Rails. If you want to do it all yourself, there's no better platform.
Of course if you don't give a rat's what platform you're new website is to be built on and you're going to give the work to a professional anyway, then choose the best website company you can locate in your area. Why choose local? Because you can eye-ball the designers and developers and have much more control over the finished product. It's called accountability and the tyranny of distance is taken out of the equation.
Just make sure you choose a website designer who knows up-to-date with search engine optimisation strategies because you can build the prettiest website in the world but it means squat if no-one can find you!
When it comes to great website design, here is something that has always held true: the most good-looking designs are not necessarily the most profitable. Thus said, if you're at the designing stages of your website, there are really only two ways to do it: either you make an aesthetically pleasing website or a profitable one.
If you want the former, you should hire a professional web designer and have him design the pages of your website. Or you can buy a professional WordPress them and then customize it. If you choose the latter, you will still need to hire a website designer or buy a premium WordPress theme but with one major difference: you take note of some website design tips that have been proven time and again to boost profitability.
You might be surprised, but eye scan studies have shown that when people look at websites, they actually move their eyes from the upper left to the right. That said, your website header should NOT take up more than 120 pixels of space. Also, your call-to-action should be on the upper fold just below the header or on the left-hand side. But you don't have to take our word for it. Try it right now on your website to prove it to yourself.
If you want your website to rank on Google, the one thing you need to be wary of is the bounce rate. This is simply the amount of time that your visitors spend on your website. The lower your bounce rate, the better your ranking will be because it will show to Google that you are NOT a spam site. One way to lower bounce rates is to pepper your website with relevant infographics. If you don't know how to make one, there are infographics generators out there that you can use.
How Good Are Google Hangouts For Your SEO?
Since social media has become an important part of the online realm, search engines adjusted and started to integrate social signals into their ranking algorithms.
If you have a Google Plus page for your business, you can host Hangouts on Air with up to 15 people you can choose from your Google Plus Circles. The best thing about these Hangouts is that you can choose to stream them live on Google Plus and have them automatically uploaded to your YouTube page. A permanent URL is automatically generated for your hangout, so you can feel free to share it across your other social media channels, be if you want to invite your Facebook friends or Twitter followers in, or embed it into your blog.
How Is This Good for SEO?
By getting a permanent URL, you get one more chance to be found in search engines. They will crawl and index your Hangout page, then, if enough people share it across multiple channels, it may climb up into the SERPs for keywords that are relevant to the discussed topic, so you can get additional organic traffic to your business.
By uploading the Hangout on YouTube, you stand a good chance that people searching for videos on its specific topic find it. This is another excellent way to get more visitors to your web properties. All these visitors make awesome leads because they were already searching for the type of information you provide, so they are qualified to become customers.
Last but not least, Google Plus Hangouts are Google's properties, therefore any SEO professional can expect them to have an influence on the rankings in this search engine.
Since such Hangouts are free, there's no reason why you shouldn't use them as part of your online marketing strategies for your business.
What are the top 5 things that are working in SEO Post Penguin 2.1?
Truth be told, they are the same common-sense that always worked. It's just that a lot of other things don't work any longer, and that is why these are much more important.
A lot of the post-penguin Google search environment is based upon proper attention to your actual site, and not just the backlinks that might be calling attention to your site. However, to complete in any competitive market, some strong backlinks are still needed. Some less competitive terms might be ranked with few backlinks at all.
Onsite SEO refers to the things that you can do on your own website to optimise your results in the SERPs.
Relevant content does matter, and many SEO experts believe that longer articles perform better than shorter ones. Content should link out to other authority sites, and it should also site data from those good sources. Bullet points and subheadings improve readability and may score SEO points as well.
Sprinkle key words and phrases in your content. Just be sure you do not over do it. Make sure you use your most important term in your title, header, and at least one subheading. You can also use variations of the term.
A good user experience may also improve your popularity with Google. First, they may use your site's bounce rate as an SEO factor. Secondly, they do employ manual reviewers, and you might need to impress one of them at some point.
Consider these two main points when coming up with a good offsite SEO strategy.
Of course, links still do matter. It is just important to try to get many links from real websites. You can certainly still use relevant anchor text, but you might be prudent to mix up your linking keywords. Sometimes just use your site's name, a random word like "click here", and even your site's domain name or URL.
Try to avoid links from bad neighborhoods too. It is impossible for a webmaster to control every single incoming link. However, it is important to have more good links than bad ones.
You might also vary the type of links that you have. Some could come from pages on high quality web 2.0 sites. Others might come from other blogs, websites, or even social networking sites. Google seems to favor a variety of link types these days.
It is more challenging to do SEO in this post-penguin world. But the right SEO strategies seem to work amazingly well. Maybe this is because the spate of Panda, Penguin, and Hummingbird updates have done away with a lot of the competition. If you can keep up with this year's update, you can do very well in the search engine rankings.
SEOWebMagic is an SEO and semantic web optimisation expert helping Australian business with online sales conversions.


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Arizona Green Valley copper Mines
This astronaut photograph illustrates three open-pit mines located west-northwest of the town of Green Valley, Arizona. While the mines appear to be close to each other, each exploits a separate porphyry copper deposit.
Green Valley is twenty miles (32 km) south of Tucson and 40 miles (64 km) north of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. Surrounded by copper mines, and near the hiking and birding areas of the Santa Rita Mountains, Green Valley is now an unincorporated retirement community composed of 59 Homeowner Associations.
Copper mines and deposits stretch 20 miles from Green Valley to near Tucson, Arizona. There are just two known original deposits, but one of them got spread out like a fanned deck of cards. From south to north, these mines are Sierrita/Esperanza, Twin Buttes, Mission/Pima, San Xavier, and Saginaw Hill. The deposits were emplaced between 64- and 55 million years ago.
The largest of the mines are the Sierrita Mine owned by Phelps Dodge and the Mission Mine of ASARCO.
The mine pits are recognizable by the concentric lines of benches cut into the pit sides. The benches allow equipment and personnel access to the fresh ore (gray) exposed at the bottom of the excavation. Water may also pool at the bottom of inactive pits, such as in the Twin Buttes Mine at image upper right (black areas). The open pit areas are surrounded by an array of sculpted tailings ponds and mine dump areas; these receive mine waste rock for storage and later leaching for further recovery of metals. The green color of the water in the tailings pond at image right is likely due to the presence of leached metals.
The Asarco-Mission complex (first image in the left) is an active producer of copper and molybdenum (important in making steel and other metal alloys), processing approximately 53,700 tons of ore per day (as of 2008).
The Twin Buttes Mine (first image top right), also a producer of copper and molybdenum, was closed in 1994 but was recently purchased by a new owner (Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold) and may reopen.
The Sierrita Mine at image lower right (also owned by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold) produces copper, molybdenum, and the rare metal rhenium. Rhenium is used to make high-temperature alloys for jet engine parts and in high-octane, lead-free gasoline. This mine can process over 115,000 tons of ore per day (as of 2007).
The current understanding of the geology proposes that the Mission-Pima mine, 7 miles north of Twin Buttes, the San Xavier orebody, and even Saginaw Hill mineralization, some 20 miles north of Twin Buttes, were all originally part of the Twin Buttes deposit. A large, low-angle fault, the San Xavier fault, transported slices of Twin Buttes northward about 28 million years ago. Drilling has confirmed the existence of the fault beneath the Mission-Pima mine.
[by Tzeferis Peter]
Surprising Structure of the Copper Deposits near Green Valley, Arizona
History of mining in Green Valley area


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