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  1. May 2023
    1. I began hearing disparagingremarks about immigrants and I observed the confusion, exasperation, and frustration ofthe long-time residents of Pelican Rapids, including my relatives.

      Like I said, molst of my relatives share that view and I think its really important to understand where they are coming from and why those thoughts are being provoked. I think that the UberLiberal view of people like my relatives only serves to label us as comfy 'city slickers' even more and perpetuates the animosity between us.

    2. On the one hand, citizens,politicians and community groups in small towns across Minnesota bemoan the loss ofvitality due to depopulation and “brain-drain” (or human capital flight). On the otherhand, rural communities often respond to the population growth resulting fromimmigration with suspicion and prejudice, suggesting that immigrants are takingadvantage of Minnesota’s liberal welfare system and pushing whites out of job

      In my this is the view that the majority of them have, a lot of my family work on farms in southwest Minnesota that they don't even own. The growing workforce for farms like these are majority immigrants and a lot of my family sees this as a threat to them, considering that they dont own the land that they are farming or working on.

    1. “jobs requiring high-skill workers arebecoming a crucial part of the rural economy–accounting for nearly 60% of today’s ruraljobs,

      these "high-skill" jobs are also becoming more and more basic in rural areas as the education lev el of rural areas also declines.

    2. . While rural jobs several decades ago were mostly on thefarm, our rural population today must have transportation to jobs that are located in thenext town, the next county, or beyond.

      Often in rural areas, there is a lot of need for transportation as the jobs that are commonly associated with rural areas are usually in the workforce and blue-collar. People with disabilities or those who are not able to work in the labor area will need transportation to areas that offer jobs for them.

    3. we observe that the urbanization of the Minnesota countryside outside theMinneapolis-St. Paul commuting field during the past three decades is associated with a steadytransformation of local populations and the local economies that support them.

      for most of Minnesota its like this because the centers of business for corporations are rarely located in the areas which they are manufactured/farmed/etc. Its most often that the business centers are in urban areas not in rural.

    4. These terms originated in academic sociology

      The terms are also rapidly changing as settlements and townships merge and grow into. "urban" areas over time.

    5. People seem to like spreading out, many(probably most) preferring low-density living over high density,

      In minneapolis for instance living low-density is more expensive, you see higher price ranges when you move farther out from the center of the city towards the burbs.

  2. Jan 2020
    1. Chemically, europium’s reactions are similar to calcium. It is used in some superconductor alloys and in television screens, where it produces the red color.

      europium has been popularly used for the red flash and light in smart phones.

    1. Europium is used in the printing of euro banknotes. It glows red under UV light, and forgeries can be detected by the lack of this red glow.

      When they scan a bill they are looking for the europium flash.

    2. In 1901, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay carried out a painstaking sequence of crystallisations of samarium magnesium nitrate, and separated yet another new element: europium.