Looking for the essential app statistics behind mobile marketing, user habits, and more? You'll find them all here. We've aggregated 21 must-see mobile marketing statistics into a single list, featuring content from around the industry. Read on for the latest mobile app stats.
Standing out among 89 apps isn't easy. Luckily, push notifications offer a way to get noticed — even if users aren't launching your app on a daily basis.
This stat proves that mobile apps play a big role in the average person's daily entertainment. Media apps, take note (and optimize your engagement with these tips).
The number of apps in the App Store is steadily increasing, which means it's that much harder to stand out from the competition. Retaining engaged users is more important than ever.
The Google Play store presents the same challenge as the App Store. More apps in total means less discoverability for new apps.
Good news for app businesses: Mobile app downloads are still on the rise. Despite the saturation of the App Store, mobile users are still experimenting with new apps.
Yet another sign of the mobile-first (and mobile-only) trend taking the world by storm. While Android has traditionally maintained a market share lead over iOS due to its presence in developing markets, this is the first time the mobile OS has eclipsed Windows, which is still the leading desktop OS. This suggests that mobile traffic as a whole is eclipsing desktop.
These iconic apps are used by the majority of mobile users, and they likely represent much of the time spent on mobile as well. It takes a focused engagement strategy to attract users away from the most popular apps and make them spend time with your app.
Nine apps per day might sound like a lot, but when you consider the proliferation of leading apps as shown above, it's clear that you're still competing with the industry leaders. It's not easy to become one of those nine apps and turn someone into a Daily Active User. Fortunately, app teams can step up their mobile marketing with cross-channel messaging campaigns — the one solution proven to increase retention.
Even though games are the most popular category by number of apps, they're only third when sorted by time spent in app. Messaging and media apps still have the lead when it comes to keeping users active and engaged.
Mobile apps are winning the battle against mobile websites. If your company hasn't developed a mobile app to complement the other platforms you operate on, now's the time to do it.
It's evident that email matters more than ever in our mobile-first world. In addition to ensuring messages are mobile-compatible, it's helpful to design emails from the ground up with mobile in mind. Mobile screens are one of the primary ways that users will consume your content — it's not a secondary consideration.
Desktop searches generally take the lead during the work day, but mobile searches lead in the early mornings and they peak during prime time hours.
The notion that mobile users don't convert is a myth. People are growing more comfortable with mobile purchases, both in apps and on websites. Abandoned shopping carts are still a problem, but desktop websites face this issue as well. Both mobile and desktop businesses can combat abandoned shopping carts with cross-channel messaging campaigns.
Don't give up on dormant users. Even if a person stops using the app regularly, you can still reach them with targeted messaging and give them a reason to return.
Frequent shoppers collect apps from several of their favorite stores, perhaps hoping for discounts and promotions. Reach out with push notifications and emails to encourage sales, then follow up with an integrated in-app experience.
Even if the mobile conversion rate isn't the best thanks to abandoned shopping carts, smartphones still play a role in the shopping process. Maintaining an engaging, optimized retail app will help users browse and research specific products, even if the final conversion happens on another channel.
Users are happy to receive discounts and coupons. Use geolocation targeting to share special offers with brick-and-mortar shoppers.
Good news for marketers planning a geolocation campaign: There's little need to worry about collecting location data from the majority of your userbase. Geolocation is as feasible as any other type of messaging campaign.
Sure enough, data suggests that even when mobile isn't the direct driver of revenue, it still plays a vital role in the purchase flow.
Personalization is integral to everything you do on mobile. Try personalizing coupons to suit a customer's favorite product category.
Notification timing is important. If you manage a retail app, you wouldn't want to send customers a limited-time offer in the middle of the night — they might miss the notification or completely forget about the offer by the time they get up. Send messages at the right time to maximize impact.
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Dan Gill, Daniel Weingarten, Tom Neenan and Helen Duff join host, Dave Holmes for flat Earth conspiracy theories, a dissertation on conkers, and clickbait headlining.
Dan Gill wants to plug Groomzillas and recommends Men on Super Deluxe.
Daniel Weingarten wants to plug his Twitter @dwcomedy and recommends Hard Eight and The Marias.
Tom Neenan wants to plug The Hauntening and recommends The Casebook of Max and Ivan.
Helen Duff wants to plug her website and Holmes and Watson and recommends A Little Life and The Heart on Radiotopia.
And finally, Dave Holmes is on Twitter @DaveHolmes and hosts his live quiz show, The Friday Forty at LA's Meltdown Theatre on the second Friday of every month. Dave would like to recommend The Line of Beauty.


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HomeDiversity, Equity and InclusionProfessor of Politics, Amaney Jamal, Named Dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Professor of Politics, Amaney Jamal, Named Dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
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Amaney Jamal, the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics and director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, has been named dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA). Her appointment is effective September 1, 2021. Jamal serves on the Editorial Board for the American Political Science Review (2020 – 2024). She also served as an APSA Council Member (2016).
Amaney Jamal
Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics and Director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton University
by Emily Aronson, Office of Communications, Princeton University
Amaney Jamal is a longtime Princeton faculty member, whose research and teaching focuses on the Middle East and North Africa, political development and democratization, inequality and economic segregation, Muslim immigration in the United States and Europe, and issues related to gender, race, religion and class.
She has served in numerous leadership roles on campus, including as chair of the Department of Politics Ad-Hoc Committee on Race and Diversity and as a member of the Dean of the Faculty Committee on Diversity. Jamal also directs the Workshop on Arab Political Development and the Bobst-American University of Beirut Collaborative Initiative.
Among her many awards and fellowships, Jamal was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020, received the distinguished Kuwait Prize for the field of economics and social science in 2019, and was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005.
"Amaney Jamal is a brilliant political scientist, a superb University citizen and a leader respected by her peers," President Christopher L. Eisgruber said. "As the Director of the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and throughout her distinguished career, she has produced and supported high quality scholarship that tackles pressing issues in public and international affairs from a variety of perspectives. I am delighted that she has agreed to be our next dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs."
Jamal said it is an "immense honor and privilege" to be selected as SPIA's next dean.
"As dean, I will dedicate my efforts to preserve SPIA's solid and impressive record in attracting and retaining the world's finest faculty. Academic excellence is a core pillar of the school and I will ensure its reinforcement and strengthening during my tenure," she said. "I will also focus my efforts on three primary goals: diversification, internationalization and the augmentation of the school's policy‐making training.
SPIA is a world-class center of advanced training and research in public and international affairs for undergraduate and graduate students. Its graduates include leaders in domestic and international government positions as well as leaders of private, nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations.
"Training the next generation of policy experts is the foundational goal of the school," Jamal said. "This goal requires both a commitment to academic excellence and applied state-of-the-art policy training. To further the mission of SPIA as an institution dedicated to solving the world's problems, I am committed to supporting evidence‐based research, the development of professional and practitioner skills and strategies, the augmentation of domestic and international policy networks, and ensuring that each and every student has the chance to participate in experience‐based policy learning and training opportunities."
Read the full announcement from Princeton University here.
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Eleventh U.S. warship sails through Taiwan Strait since January (update)
USS Antietam (Photo from www.navy.mil)
Taipei, July 25 (CNA) Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense (MND) confirmed that a U.S. military vessel sailed through the Taiwan Strait Thursday, the 11th U.S. vessel to make such transit since the start of this year.
The ship entered the Taiwan Strait from the southwest, heading north Thursday, the MND said in a statement, but did not name the vessel, although Reuters identified it as USS Antietam.
The passage of the U.S. warship through the Taiwan Strait constitutes freedom of navigation, the ministry said, adding that Taiwan's military monitored the transit and there was no "abnormal activity."
The ship's transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific, Reuters said, quoting a statement from the U.S. Pacific Fleet spokesperson Clay Doss.
"The U.S. Navy will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows," the statement read.
The passage of the U.S. military vessel through the waterway separating Taiwan and China marked the sixth such operation this year.
The first one occurred Jan. 24, when the guided missile destroyer USS McCampbell and the USNS Walter S. Diehl made similar passages. USS Stethem and USNS Cesar Chavez transited Feb. 24, followed by the transit of the guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur and the maritime security cutter USS Bertholf March 24.
USS William P. Lawrence and USS Stethem then traversed the Taiwan Strait on April 28, followed by the transit of the destroyer Preble and the Navy oil tanker Walter S. Diehl on May 22.
Beginning this year, U.S. warships have sailed through the Taiwan Strait at least once a month, except in June.
The voyage on Thursday came amid heightened cross-strait tensions and on-going trade disputes between Washington and Beijing.
China on Wednesday released its first defense white paper since 2012. The paper makes clear that the Chinese military will resolutely "oppose and contain Taiwan independence."
Lin Ying-yu (林穎佑), an assistant professor at National Chung Cheng University's Institute of Strategic and International Affairs, told CNA that it should be noted U.S. warships did not conduct any transits through the Taiwan Strait in June, citing MND information.
He said Washington was busy attending foreign-related meetings, like the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, and the meeting between the U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
He said the transit of the USS Antietam through the Taiwan Strait was clearly "directed at China" since the operation coincided with Beijing's release of its defense white paper on Wednesday, which stated that China will not renounce the use of force in resolving cross-strait issues.
However, Lin added that since many U.S. warships have sailed through the Taiwan Strait recently, the passage of the USS Antietam was unlikely to trigger an aggressive response by China.
On the other hand, Lu Li-shih (呂禮詩), a former captain of the ROC Navy corvette Xinjiang told CNA that the difference between the USS Antietam's transit and earlier ones, was that it sailed alone and the previous transits were all in pairs.
Lu said this could indicate the U.S. Seventh Fleet is experiencing a shortage of manpower and military assets due to geo-political matters, including a focus on the South China Sea, North Korea's testing of missiles and China's release of its defense white paper.
He also said that although the U.S. considers the transits of its gray ships through the Taiwan Strait a "passage," China regards them as "close-in reconnaissance operations." This heightens the risks and pressures on the U.S. when only one warship passes through the Taiwan Strait, he added.
(By Matt Yu, Emerson Lim and Chung Yu-chen)
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Nanovic Institute
for European Studies
Conference: From Iberian Kingdoms to Atlantic Empires: Spain, Portugal, and the New World, 1250-1700 (September 17-18)
Time: Fri Sep 17, 2010, All Day
Location: McKenna Hall, University of Notre Dame
To register for this event, visit http://iberiaconference.eventbrite.com. (FREE)
To contact the conference organizers: email Iberia.conference@gmail.com
Download the Call for Papers PDF
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies announces an interdisciplinary, international conference on the history and literature of the Iberian empires from the High Middle Ages through the conquest of the New World. Although many scholars have acknowledged similarities between late-medieval Iberia and its colonies in the New World, few have offered precise answers to the questions that arise from these similarities. What is the relationship, for example, between "inquisition" in a medieval context and in the New World? Is it meaningful to compare minority Muslim communities in fifteenth-century Spain to indigenous peoples in the New World? How were the legal and political instruments of late medieval kings foundational for early modern Europe and Latin America? Featuring faculty and graduate student presenters, this conference encourages new ways of approaching the topic, based on the conviction that medievalists, early modernists, and Latin Americanists can make meaningful contributions to each other's fields.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto, University of Notre Dame
Paul Freedman, Yale University
Michael Gerli, University of Virginia
Sabine MacCormack, University of Notre Dame
Kenneth Mills, University of Toronto
João Paulo Oliveira e Costa, New University of Lisbon
A portion of the proceedings of the conference will be published in a special issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies. The journal is committed to publishing high-quality scholarship in all fields of medieval Iberian studies, including work that addresses Iberia in a transatlantic or Latin American frame. Two editors of the journal, Pablo Pastrana-Pérez of Western Michigan University and Simon Doubleday of Hofstra University, will deliver a presentation about the journal and the future of medieval Iberian studies
On Friday, September 17, the Medieval Institute will host a dinner and reception in honor of Jocelyn Hillgarth, Professor Emeritus of History of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto, in celebration of the acquisition of his personal collection by the Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame. During the conference the library's McDevitt Inquisition collection will be on display and Robin Vose of the University of St. Thomas (Canada) will present new online resources based on the collection."
Olivia Remie Constable, Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval Institute; Professor of History
Felipe Fernández-Armesto, William P. Reynolds Professor of History
Karen Graubart, Associate Professor of History
Sabine MacCormack, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC, Professor of Arts and Letters; Professor of History and Classics
Dayle Seidenspinner-Núñez, Associate Dean for Strategic Planning, Advancement, Infrastructure, and Special Projects; Professor of Spanish
Chair, John Moscatiello, Ph.D. student in History (medieval Spain)
Max Deardorff, Ph.D. student in History (Latin America)
Kathleen Kole, Ph.D. student in History (Latin America)
Víctor Maqque, Ph.D. student in History (Latin America)
Anne McGinness, Ph.D. student in History (Latin America, early modern Portugal)
Margaret Ringe, Ph.D. student in History (medieval Spain)
Bretton Rodriguez, Ph.D. student in Literature (medieval Spanish and English literature)
Additional support provided by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Graduate School, and the Ph.D. in Literature Program at the University of Notre Dame.
Nanovic Forum
Laura Shannon Prize Lecture
Keeley Vatican Lecture
Barrett Family Lecture
Keough School of Global Affairs
1060 Nanovic Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Phone 574-631-5253 Fax 574-631-3569 nanovic@nd.edu


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Mr Nightingales representative called upon us today & handed us an Account showing a net balance claimed by him of £635. 18. 10[.] he stated that the detailed Accounts had been handed to Mr Godwin - he also stated that Mr. Nightingale was not disposed to grant any time for settlement - we think however if you can make him a substantial payment & get your acceptances backed by substantial persons you might get any reasonable time you require - We have an impression that it is a great point with him to have some cash down - You must please take this matter upon yourself as our Clients do not feel justified in advancing any further sums on the property.
George Webb (b. ca 1835), of G. and W. Webb. lawyer [more], and William Webb (b. ca 1851), of G. and W. Webb, lawyer [more].
Probably written by a clerk, although the signature may be by one of the Webbs.
An unidentified representative of Benjamin Ebenezer Nightingale (b. 1838), builder [more]. This relates to the White House, JW's studio house at Tite Street, then recently completed by Nightingale. JW moved into the White House in late July 1878 (see JW to S. Morse #10876, #10873). However, many of his accounts were still outstanding, including those of Nightingale and Edward William Godwin (1833-1886), architect and designer [more] of the house.
This may be account #08929, or a copy of it.
The North Metropolitan Building and Investment Society, which provided JW's mortgage (see #08882, #11896). By c. May 1879, JW's debt to the Society was listed as £1415. 5. 9. (see list of creditors, #11926).


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College athletics used to have a word for shoe companies paying athletes: Cheating. Now, it's legit. | Opinion
On the heels of Adidas' landmark announcement Wednesday that it was launching a name, image and likeness program accessible to all Division I college athletes at Adidas-affiliated schools, Georgia Tech athletics director Todd Stansbury called it "a perfect example of Adidas' forward-thinking approach to college athletes."
And to think, just a few years ago, a lot of folks would have called it something else: A crime.
Remember the FBI investigation into college basketball, which centered in part on Adidas facilitating the recruitment of prospects with illicit payments? As serious as it seemed then, when FBI agents were knocking on doors of college coaches and sweeping through basketball offices, the true legacy of that scandal is how much of a joke it turned out to be.
Aside from sending the already scandal-plagued Louisville program into a tailspin and just recently taking down LSU coach Will Wade, college basketball is basically the same as it ever was. For most of the programs caught up in the investigation, the heavy hand of justice never came.
But four people did get sentenced to jail so the FBI could justify the resources it poured into this investigation. One, Book Richardson, was an assistant coach at Arizona. Two of them, Jim Gatto and Merl Code, were Adidas employees. And then there's Christian Dawkins, a grassroots basketball middleman who thought he was hustling a broken system when, in fact, he was dealing with undercover FBI agents.
As absurd as it is that people went to actual prison for under-the-table payments that have been part of the college sports environment since time immemorial, it looks so much worse today.
What's the difference between what Gatto and Code were doing and the big Adidas announcement that it will pay college athletes at schools it sponsors? In principle, not much other than it's out in the open, taxed and the money will go to the players rather than handlers influencing their decision.
But the biggest thing that's changed is that the NCAA is now allowing it.
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Had the people running college sports figured out years ago that athletes earning money off their name, image and likeness was inevitable, it's hard to imagine the need for the people running Adidas' grassroots division to cut under-the-table deals to help Louisville, Kansas and other top-level Adidas schools land the best players.
Now, it will just be done a different way — through tweets and promotional activities that officially stamp the players as Adidas spokespeople. Which has actually been an unofficial thing for a long time in the basketball grassroots system where — surprise, surprise — many of the elite prospects end up at colleges sponsored by the same shoe company that provided travel expenses and gear for their AAU team.
Some people may not like those connections being as in-your-face as they're now going to be in the shoe company world, but doesn't that feel like a more honest transaction than the constant suspicion surrounding how so many schools end up with top recruits?
MORE:Adidas announces NIL opportunity for college athletes
WHAT'S NEXT:Arizona flying high to Sweet 16, but NCAA dread lurks in background
A lot of the specifics on how Adidas will manage this program are still to be determined, including how much money athletes can make and what they'll have to do to earn it. But of the many supposed game-changers in the quickly evolving NIL environment, this is one that has real potential to shake up the sponsorship business.
Will Nike and Under Armour now be forced to match or exceed what Adidas is doing, or risk more prospects flocking to their top competitor? Will recruitments of certain athletes become proxy wars among big brands, just as they are evolving now with booster collectives?
And ultimately, will the NCAA — which has been so overwhelmed by NIL to the point of not having many enforceable rules at all — respond by trying to limit certain aspects of this?
Either way, athletes are going to be the main beneficiaries, which is how it should be.
If Adidas is true to its announcement Wednesday, the women's tennis player at Georgia Tech is going to have the same opportunity as the men's basketball player at Kansas or the football player at NC State to get a slice of the pie in return for wearing that company's logo.
When longtime shoe company executive Sonny Vaccaro pioneered this practice in the late 1980s and early 1990s to help Nike grow its brand, the idea was to pay top coaches like John Thompson and Jerry Tarkanian in exchange for outfitting their teams with shoes and uniforms. Suddenly, the Nike logo was everywhere when college basketball was played on television.
Over time, that concept morphed into schools making tens of millions of dollars (with coaches still pocketing a lot of it) to partner with shoe companies. The only people who hadn't been cut in on it, at least officially, were the players.
And when the players did get some of the shoe money, it was quote-unquote "scandal."
Now, as the Georgia Tech athletics director said Wednesday, it's just a "forward-thinking approach to college athletics."
And it can't come a moment too soon.


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Klahowya Girls Basketball | Winter Sports Preview
by Mark Krulish
Thursday, December 5, 2019 1:24pm
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Head coach: Chris Koebelin (first season)
2018-2019 record: 6-12 (1-5 Oly 1A)
Key players: Katie Cooper, jr., F; Maile Lueck, sr., G; Ella Koebelin, so., PG.
Outlook: Koebelin takes over the program this year and brings along his daughter, sophomore Ella, who played last season at Vashon Island. The Eagles should have a solid core to build around with the younger Koebelin running the point along with senior guard Maile Lueck and forward Katie Cooper, who brings excellent size and athleticism to her position. The elder Koebelin said he is focused on bringing a winning and mindset to the program and have set the goal to win the league, make it through districts and reach the 1A state tournament in Yakima.
Schedule: Dec. 6, 7 p.m. at Bellevue Christian | Dec. 9, 7 p.m., Central Kitsap | Dec. 11, 5:30 p.m. at Cedar Park Christian | Dec. 13, 7 p.m., Chimacum | Dec. 17, 7 p.m., Port Townsend | Dec. 18, 5:30 p.m. at Forks | Dec. 21, 3 p.m. at Mount Baker | Dec. 30, 7 p.m. Lincoln (Seattle) | Jan. 7, 5:15 p.m., Vashon Island | Jan. 9, 5:15 p.m., Crosspoint | Jan. 10, 7 p.m., North Mason | Jan. 14, 7 p.m. at Bremerton | Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m. at Chimacum | Jan. 20, 6 p.m. at Seattle Lutheran | Jan. 22, 7 p.m. at Port Townsend | Jan. 29, 7 p.m., Forks | Feb. 4, 7 p.m., Chimacum | Feb. 6, 7 p.m., Port Townsend.
Brian Cox, CJ Scott set to guide South Kitsap's basketball programs
White, Brehmer lead the CK boys and Olympic girls in the Battle of Bucklin Hill
North Kitsap second, Kingston fourth at Port Angeles meet
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North Kitsap grabs another big win over Bremerton, 84-55
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Kingston wrestles victory away from Olympic, 77-59
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Athlete of the Week: Leetsah Deam, Kingston girls basketball
The Kingston girls basketball team picked up an emotional victory last week,… Continue reading
Kitsap Athletic Roundtable announces its inductees to the Kitsap Sports Hall of Fame
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Klahowya's Hunter Wallis, North Kitsap's Colton Bower land on all-state teams
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Bremerton captures team title at North Mason Classic
BELFAIR — Bremerton's wrestlers put up a strong showing at this past… Continue reading
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I'm back with the Strategy pattern.
There are common situations when classes differ only in their behavior. For these cases it is a good idea to isolate the algorithms in separate classes in order to have the ability to select different algorithms at runtime.
std::sort algorithm – can receive the Compare concept as param. This will allow the user to define its own sorting mechanism.
Please note that I've removed the null pointer checks and the actual implementation, so the example from above is just a sketch of what the strategy pattern should look like.


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Antipterna diclethra is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae, first described by Edward Meyrick in 1885 as Ocystola diclethra. Lectotypes for both Ocystola diclethra and Machaeretis niphoessa were both collected in greater Sydney, New South Wales.

Meyrick's description

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Oecophorinae
Taxa described in 1885
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick

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MOUNT VERNON — A Mount Vernon man has been arrested on suspicion of lighting a vehicle on fire Friday in the 400 block of Highway 30.
John J. Dietsch, 18, of Mount Vernon, "admitted to setting the vehicle on fire, believing it belonged to someone else," according to a Linn County criminal complaint.
The Mount Vernon Police Department found a small gas can burning next to a man's vehicle, and observed shards of broken glass on the roof and hood of the vehicle, the complaint said.
Dietsch has been charged with second-degree arson, a Class C felony, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.


This vehicle is very well known in Alfa Romeo and rally circles and presents a rare opportunity to purchase a classic car to rally, race or add to your collection. Built to FIA long distance rally regulations with CAMS log book, the vehicle has been extensively strengthened and seam welded. The car is powered by a 2 litre 105 series engine, 4.56 LSD rear axle, custom brake hydraulics, MCA shocks with remote canisters, uprated suspension, custom long distance fuel tank, and CAMS/FIA compliant roll cage. The vehicle has had a recent suspension and brake overhaul and paint refurbishment. It has been fastidiously maintained and prepped for each rally and is ready to compete now, or to enjoy as a classic collectable, that will only continue to appreciate in value. The owner is rationalising his extensive Alfa collection and is reluctantly parting with one of his favourites.
It's 5pm and getting dark quickly, parking the car and gathering camera gear, I cant help notice the roller door of Avanti Spares wide open, a garage bathed in light. Owner and creator of Avanti Spares, Richard Anderson, works away, doing some last minute polishing. The photo shoot tonight is his 1970 Alfa Romeo Giulia Super Rally Car, which he has owned and raced for around 25 years. Like all Alfa Giulia's, they have a simple yet aggressive stance, Richard's rally version however, is more so. With the cars widened fenders, extended wheel arches and smatterings of rally'esk war paint such as Classic Adelaide, Tow stickers and Avanti signage, this little Alfa "is" the business!
Once entering Avanti Spares, your hit visually with everything Alfa. Richard started Avanti Spares back in 1982, an Alfa purist, Richard's keen eye and years of experience (Richard started playing with Alfa's in the 70's) has allowed him to follow his passion in both working and racing the Italian marque. Pride and place in the centre of the workshop the Giulia gleams from the photo shoot rig lights, this car has quite the history and while standing looking at the car, its as if the car wants to tell your a story... The story just has to be told.
"When the late Nick Britten announced the London to Sydney marathon, it had to be an Alfa" Richard says, with a glint in his eye. Although at the time he had no idea what model to run, he knew it had to be an Alfa. After much thought and deliberation assessing the various 105 models, the weapon of choice chosen was the Giulia Super for its 4 doors and lightweight construction. The rules at the time allowed for a larger engine, so Richard and his team prepared the car during 1991 and 1992 in time for the 1993 event.
Richard was attracted to the event by the fact that Service Crews were not allowed, and the opportunity to compete with some of the worlds finest rally drivers. The Giulia Super was out gunned in terms of speed, but more than made up for it in reliability and strength, especially in the Australian stages. There were a few niggles here and there, but in the end the Giulia had proved itself, holding its own with all of the field in the more difficult stages that Australia had to offer.
Finishing 11th outright, with qualifying even as high as 7th along the way, Richard says the only reason for the occasional niggle was due to driver and pit crew fatigue, the incredibly late nights endured, and the resulting occasional mistake is made.
Richard was no stranger to this event, as he had competed previously in an Alfetta. So the Guilia was entered quite quickly only a short time after the London to Sydney Marathon. Papuan Safari roads were quite brutal and ground clearance came through more important than raw horsepower. Again the Giulia Super performed superbly, scoring Richard and his team a win, beating Murray Coote (a four time winner of the event) and previous Australian Rally champion.
Enjoying a good thing, Richard entered again the following year, and again won the event againstmuch faster cars. Richard puts all this down to reliability and strength, a common denominator fromthe London to Sydney effort.
Although not the driver of the event, Richard had friends and colleagues campaign the car in the first 4 years, 1997 through to 2000.
If the 4 years of Classic Adelaide were not enough for the Giulia Super, Richard teamed up with local Holden Dealer Keith Callan, after Richard had received an invitation to the 2000 London to Sydney event. However due to a few off the track moments, event placing did not fair as well as the rally of 1993. "We did have a lot offun!" says Richard, which goes to show what driving an Alfa is really all about.
With a plethora of International competition under its belt, the Giulia Super now enjoys less taxing, but still competitive events such as local gravel rally stages. Just recently, as early as 2015, the Super Giulia has again romped around the hills of Adelaide. Under the reigns of Cameron Wearing, the Guilia Super won outright in the "Early Classic" category. "Something we weren't really expecting" says Richard.
From the outset the car was built to comply with the FIA endurance rules, and now has an extensive CAMS log book as well as a raft of enhancements (see Guilia Super Specs side bar, right). With Richards fastidious and skilled hand, the Guilia Super has now become a fine collectable that can at a moments notice, still enjoy competition. Or sit idle like a heroic soldier with many stories of battles past.
Owned (25 years), prepared and rallied by a well-known enthusiast and Life Member of the Alfa Romeo Owners Club.
This vehicle is very well known in Alfa Romeo and rally circles and presents a rare opportunity to purchase a classic car to rally, race or add to your collection.
strengthened and seam welded. The car is powered by a 2 litre 105 series engine, 4.56 LSD rear axle, custom brake hydraulics, MCA shocks with remote canisters, uprated suspension, custom fuel tank, and CAMS compliant roll cage.
The vehicle has had a recent suspension and brake overhaul and paint refurbishment. It has been fastidiously maintained and prepared for each rally and is ready to compete now, or to enjoy as a classic collectable, that will only continue to appreciate in value.


Our take on the traditional Christmas tree is far from boring! This gorgeous Poinsettia tree seriously screams WOW, even Santa will be baffled as to where he needs to leave the presents.
The perfect touch to your Christmas table or gift for somebody you love.
This gift is approximately 36cm tall and 20cm wide.


The list contains the best, new and most relevant racism movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, interesting, intense, captivating and dramatic films and TV shows about / with racism, society, violence, prejudice, storytelling, african american, justice, redemption, mentor and racial slur plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Biography genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
TOP 10 movies tagged as racism: The Help (2011), Django Unchained (2012), American History X (1998), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), A Time to Kill (1996), This Is England (2006), Made in Britain (1982), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013), Heart of a Lion (2013).
Story: Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.
Story: Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.


The average annual and hourly salaries for civil engineers in the state of Florida are shown in Table 1 and Table 2, respectively. The comparison of the salary statistics of civil engineers amongst Florida cities is shown in Table 3. The salary statistics are based on the national compensation survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2017 and published in April 2018 .
Table 1 shows the average annual salary for civil engineers in Florida in 5 percentile scales. The average annual salary for the 90th percentile (the top 10 percent of the highest paid) is $137,800. The median (50th percentile) annual salary is $80,800. The average annual salary for the bottom 10 percent is $50,440.
Table 3 shows the median annual salary of civil engineers in some Florida cities and metropolitan areas. We note that the median annual salary of civil engineers in state of Florida ranges from $60,120 to $93,820. The highest paying area for civil engineers in Florida is Jacksonville with a median annual salary of $93,820. The second highest paying city/area in Florida State is West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach (mean annual salary $87,190). The lowest paying area is Northwest Florida nonmetropolitan area with a median annual salary of $60,120.


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The Death of Blackbeard
The Noted Pirate's Last Stand
Barbanera (1680-1718) the nickname (Blackbeard) of the cruel Captain Edward Teach.
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Edward "Blackbeard" Teach (1680? - 1718) was a notorious English pirate who was active in the Caribbean and coast of North America from 1716 to 1718. He made a deal with the governor of North Carolina in 1718 and for a time operated out of the many inlets and bays of the Carolina coast. Locals soon tired of his predations, however, and an expedition launched by the Governor of Virginia caught up with him in Ocracoke Inlet. After a furious battle, Blackbeard was killed on November 22, 1718.
Blackbeard the Pirate
Edward Teach fought as a Privateer in Queen Anne's War (1702-1713). When the war ended, Teach, like many of his shipmates, went pirate. In 1716 he joined the crew of Benjamin Hornigold, then one of the most dangerous pirates in the Caribbean. Teach showed promise and was soon given his own command. When Hornigold accepted a pardon in 1717, Teach stepped into his shoes. It was about this time that he became "Blackbeard" and started to intimidate his foes with his demonic appearance. For about a year, he terrorized the Caribbean and the southeastern coast of the present-day USA.
Blackbeard Goes Legit
By mid-1718, Blackbeard was the most feared pirate in the Caribbean and possibly the world. He had a 40 gun flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, and a small fleet captained by loyal subordinates. His fame had become so great that his victims, upon seeing Blackbeard's distinctive flag of a skeleton spearing a heart, usually simply surrendered, trading their cargo for their lives. But Blackbeard tired of the life and intentionally sank his flagship, absconding with the loot and a few of his favorite men. In the summer of 1718, he went to Governor Charles Eden of North Carolina and accepted a pardon.
A Crooked Business
Blackbeard may have wanted to go legit, but it certainly didn't last long. He soon entered into a deal with Eden by which he would continue to raid the seas and the Governor would cover for him. The first thing Eden did for Blackbeard was to officially license his remaining ship, the Adventure, as a war trophy, therefore allowing him to keep it. On another occasion, Blackbeard took a French ship laden with goods including cocoa. After putting the French sailors on another ship, he sailed his prize back, where he declared that he and his men had found it adrift and unmanned: the Governor promptly awarded them salvage rights…and kept a little for himself, too, of course.
Blackbeard's Life
Blackbeard did settle down, to an extent. He married the daughter of a local plantation owner and built a home on Ocracoke Island. He would often go out and drink and carouse with the locals. On one occasion, pirate Captain Charles Vane came seeking Blackbeard, to try and lure him back to the Caribbean, but Blackbeard had a good thing going and politely refused. Vane and his men stayed on Ocracoke for a week and Vane, Teach and their men had a rum-soaked party. According to Captain Charles Johnson, Blackbeard would occasionally let his men have their way with his young wife, but there is no other evidence to support this and it appears to simply be a nasty rumor of the time.
To Catch a Pirate
Local sailors and merchants soon tired of this legendary pirate haunting the inlets of North Carolina. Suspecting that Eden was in cahoots with Blackbeard, they took their complaints to Alexander Spotswood, Governor of neighboring Virginia, who had no love for pirates or for Eden. There were two British war sloops in Virginia at the time: the Pearl and the Lyme. Spotswood made arrangements to hire some 50 sailors and soldiers off of these ships and put a Lieutenant Robert Maynard in charge of the expedition. Since the sloops were too large to chase Blackbeard into shallow inlets, Spotswood also provided two light ships.
Hunt for Blackbeard
The two small ships, the Ranger and the Jane, scouting along the coast for the well-known pirate. Blackbeard's haunts were well known, and it didn't take Maynard too long to find him. Late in the day on November 21, 1718, they sighted Blackbeard off of Ocracoke Island but decided to delay the attack until the next day. Meanwhile, Blackbeard and his men were drinking all night as they entertained a fellow smuggler.
Blackbeard's Final Battle
Fortunately for Maynard, many of Blackbeard's men were ashore. On the morning of the 22nd, the Ranger and the Jane tried to sneak up on the Adventure, but both became stuck on sandbars and Blackbeard and his men couldn't help but notice them. There was a verbal exchange between Maynard and Blackbeard: according to Captain Charles Johnson, Blackbeard said: "Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you." As the Ranger and the Jane came closer, the pirates fired their cannons, killing several sailors and stalling the Ranger. On the Jane, Maynard hid many of his men below decks, disguising his numbers. A lucky shot severed the rope attached to one of the Adventure's sails, making escape impossible for the pirates.
Who Killed Blackbeard?:
The Jane pulled up to the Adventure, and the pirates, thinking they had an advantage, boarded the smaller vessel. The soldiers came out of the hold and Blackbeard and his men found themselves outnumbered. Blackbeard himself was a demon in battle, fighting on despite what was later described as five gun wounds and 20 cuts by sword or cutlass. Blackbeard fought one-on-one with Maynard and was about to kill him when a British sailor gave the pirate a cut on the neck: a second hack severed his head. Blackbeard's men fought on but outnumbered and with their leader gone, they eventually surrendered.
Aftermath of Blackbeard's Death
Blackbeard's head was mounted on the bowsprit of the Adventure, as it was needed for proof that the pirate was dead in order to collect a sizeable bounty. According to local legend, the pirate's decapitated body was thrown into the water, where it swam around the ship several times before sinking. More of Blackbeard's crew, including his boatswain Israel Hands, were captured on land. Thirteen were hanged. Hands avoided the noose by testifying against the rest and because a pardon offer arrived in time to save him. Blackbeard's head was hung from a pole on the Hampton River: the place is now known as Blackbeard's Point. Some locals claim that his ghost haunts the area.
Maynard had found papers on board the Adventure which implicated Eden and the Secretary of the Colony, Tobias Knight, in Blackbeard's crimes. Eden was never charged with anything and Knight was eventually acquitted in spite of the fact that he had stolen goods in his home.
Maynard became very famous because of his defeat of the mighty pirate. He eventually sued his superior officers, who decided to share the bounty money for Blackbeard with all crew members of the Lyme and Pearl, and not only those ones who had actually taken part in the raid.
Blackbeard's death marked his passing from man to legend. In death, he has become far more important than he ever was in life. He has come to symbolize all pirates, which in turn have come to symbolize freedom and adventure. His death is certainly part of his legend: he died on his feet, a pirate to the very last. No discussion of pirates is complete without Blackbeard and his violent end.
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We recently solicited your questions for Hanna Rosin, author of the new book The End of Men (and the Rise of Women). Here now are her replies, which include an explanation of the book's title and possible solutions to the wage gap. Thanks to everyone for playing along, and especially to Rosin for fielding so many of your good questions.
A. This has been the conservative explanation for why boys are having trouble in schools. It was advanced, for example, by Christina Hoff Sommers in her 2000 Atlantic story "The War Against Boys." I think it's a valid but somewhat limited explanation. For one thing, it's not new. Psychologist G. Stanley Hall began promoting this theory in 1908 in his influential essay "Feminization in School and Home." The problem with it is it implies a kind of coordinated conspiracy by women to influence young minds. The truth is that women have taken over teaching because, as has happened often in our economy, once women start to enter a profession the men tend to flee. That's really the men's problem, as I see it, not the women's. It would be fabulous and solve a lot of problems if more men would become teachers. It also has to do with the fact that teaching is one of the rare profession in the U.S. that allows for enough flexibility for a parent to be able to spend a reasonable amount of time with his or her family, both on a weekly basis and on summer vacations. That's the fault of the American workforce, which is so resistant to flexible working and a reasonable amount of vacation time.
I think what has happened in schools has less to do with female teachers favoring their own than the subtle and gradual erosion of an assumption of patriarchal privilege (and sorry for sounding so gender studies!). What I mean by that is girls have always been better at school. In 1908, when the high school movement began encouraging teenagers to graduate from high school, more girls graduated than boys. But what did it really matter that more girls graduated? Opportunities were limited. So teachers naturally turned their attention to the boys. They assumed, in some tacit and largely unacknowledged way, that educational schools were training the future male elite, and girls were just along for kicks. That was generally the feeling even when I was in elementary school in the 1970's. But now that assumption has changed. Female – and male — teachers turn their attention to the girls and hold them up as the gold standard because it does actually matter that girls are better at school. At that age – before they've had children or bumped into any kind of glass ceiling – everyone assumes the horizons for a girl are unlimited. So why not make her the valedictorian?
A. Women's wages have been steadily increasing over the last several decades while men's have, by different measures, either stagnated or declined. But it's true that in most professions women's wages have not caught up. There is still a pay gap. Why? Partly because women work fewer hours than men, partly because women don't negotiate for salaries as much, and partly because of built-in bias that still favors men.
But the pay gap does not tell the whole story. Take the statistic that in much of the country, childless women under 30 have a median income higher than the equivalent men. How can that be true if there's a wage gap? The answer is: there are more women working. So Suzie may make less money than Bob who sits one cubicle over, but there are more total Suzies working than Bobs.
The structural changes in the economy overall favor women. But that doesn't mean all the problems have been solved. The next steps are the hardest: asking ourselves why it is that women take on the greater burden of child care, and why the workforce penalizes them so heavily for it.
My personal preference is not that we solve the pay gap by, say, having women work as many hours as men so they catch up. It's that we solve it by all working fewer hours!
Q. My question drives to taking a deeper look at the traditionally male dominated industrial jobs and what has happened to the requirements to perform in those jobs in the high technology end of the segment.
Machine tool companies on a global scale are at the forefront of a new employment trend and are struggling to find competent, skilled, trained, reliable workers to do the job. They are in the frontline of the severe technical employee shortage.
The minimum requirements for today's high tech jobs are math skills, writing skills, computer skills, statistics, and quality process training. These are the minimum requirements. Germany, Japan, and Korea have a shortage of people across the board and are struggling to fill these kinds of jobs with anyone. The US still has population growth but the people contributing to the growth are lacking the skills and even the aptitude to be able to perform in a quality driven business environment. Then there are the soft skills in project management, time management and team dynamics that turn the competencies into a successful business.
The newest hottest technology out there is 3D printing: printers are used to make machined parts. The computer and engineering skills for employees in this field will be even beyond what is available today.
In childhood, boys on average have a much higher preference to play with tools to make (or break) stuff compared to girls. Education curricula tend not to consider practical application until it's too late and career paths are already determined.
A. What we don't really have in this country is a coherent industrial policy the way they do in, say, Germany. We generally just encourage everyone to prepare for college, instead of training them for specific skills needed by industries. States are starting to address this on their own. In Alabama, for example, where I did my reporting, local governments give high school kids scholarships to attend community college, and the community college works closely with local factories to develop the skills they need. And the state is putting a big emphasis on bringing in high-tech manufacturers. But this is all happening piecemeal and not part of a larger national strategy. The good news: both parties seem pretty concerned about what to do with the people who have been left behind by the manufacturing era, so maybe they will make their way to something more cohesive.
e influences and pressures from the overwhelmingly "conventional" social norm (ex. woman should be caring more about domestic things), which requires tremendous efforts and power. I've always believed that women sacrifice more than men do. Women are always stereotyped as sensible, which are not the fittest attributes for the game rules defined mostly by men.
A. Research backs up what you say. In many lab studies, women are penalized for being too aggressive and straightforward, or even for not being helpful. Researchers at New York University handed out two evaluations describing two different candidates as "stellar" performers in an aeronautics company. The evaluations were identical except one was named "Andrea" and the other "James." Research subjects judged Andrea as less appealing and less deserving of a promotion. They assumed that because she was a woman, she must have done some pretty unpleasant things to get to that position in a male dominated field.
This is all pretty depressing. But there is some good news. Some researchers at Harvard Kennedy school went back to the question last year and tried to figure out how women could get around this problem. The thinking is: we are now in this transitional moment, where so many more women are qualified and poised to move into upper management, but there remains a cultural suspicion of overly dominant women, so how can we get around that? I write in my book about their conclusions. In short, they came up with a few helpful formulas where women could advocate for themselves, but not trigger that backlash. It's annoying, in its tightrope specificity. But it really does work. You'll have to read the book for more specifics!
A. A good point. Women were more heavily impacted by the public sector cuts because more women work in the public sector, especially as teachers. But that doesn't change the long-term trend. Despite the Republican rhetoric, the government has experienced steady growth over the last few decades while manufacturing has experienced steady shrinkage. Women still dominate 12 of the top 15 jobs projected to grow in the coming years.
A. This is an excellent question. Women do tend to get paid less than men. And a lot of the female-dominated industries at the bottom of the economy are not well-paid jobs. But I'm not sure if that's depressed wages overall, for men and women. If anyone out there knows any good studies on this, please send them along.
A. I am generally a believer that a lot of these changes have to do with historical circumstances and not, say, innate qualities. Part of the reason women are adapting is because they've been marginalized, and the marginalized tend to be more flexible and adaptable. I often think about men after World War II, when they came back desperate to reestablish themselves, took advantage of the GI Bill, and raced back into the economy. The mean way to put it is: Patriarchal privilege makes you lazy. But men have hustled before and they surely will again. At least I hope so.
A. Well, you have to be much more precise about your terms. There is no evidence that there are more male "geniuses," because that is a pretty vague term. There is evidence that in certain fields – math, for example, you find mostly men at both far ends of the curve. Hardly any women win top level international math competitions, for example. But that is different than being a "genius" or ending up as the CEO of Coca Cola, or, say, a senator. Those kinds of job require a whole set of skills that have nothing to do with "genius." So Summers's analysis explains something, but only a limited something.
A. It is! My own son is very offended by it, which is why I dedicated the book to him. The title was given to my magazine story by my editor, so originally I had nothing to do with it. But then over time it stuck, and became the recognizable term for this argument I was making. People began to use it as a short hand descriptor, that's an "end of men" kind of character or situation. So I held onto it for the book. It's poetic, memorable, four short words. It's definitely been a blessing and a curse. It does not accurately reflect the nuance that's in between the covers. But I've come to appreciate the fact that people have a strong emotional reaction to the title.
A. This is an excellent point. I think it's because an important part of being a man is being self-reliant, so men rarely, for example, form social movements to defend their rights, something women have done routinely.
an important growing field. The truth is, we are not training enough computer programmers period in this country, men or women. I imagine men will always dominate that field but there is also some evidence that women are discouraged from entering it because it defies social expectations. There have been some nice simple studies showing that women do better on math tests when there is a female proctor giving the exam, for example. Also in a handful of countries – Bulgaria and Romania, I believe – women really excel in math and computer science. So one can create a culture where it is more encouraged.
The good news about the computer science industry is that even though it is male dominated, it has a pretty flexible workplace culture that isn't weighed down by the usual face time, office-bound rules of older industries. I address this all in a book chapter exploring women in Silicon Valley.
Q. Since women have overtaken men in the workplace, when will public policy start to help women more (health care, maternal leave, paternal leave, etc.)? How can we get more women into congress? Kirsten Gillibrand (Senator – NY) had a great interview on The Daily Show about congress, public policy, and women's role in it.
A. I've just been over in Europe, and it makes you weep over the state of our social policy. There, they have moved on from the discussion about paid maternity leave (which we have not begun yet) to the gender neutral discussion about parental leave and child care. The key for women is obvious. On a policy level, more flexible work and parental leave that isn't all focused on mothers. And on a cultural level, allowing men to pick up more of the burden of childcare without that being viewed as emasculating.
I think we are likely to see changes in politics before we will see them in, say, finance. I have no good evidence for that. Just an instinctive sense that when Hillary Clinton ran, we worked out a lot of our base stereotypes about how a woman has to be – should she cry, be tough, bake cookies. I think if she ran again, she would be treated as just another candidate.
A. Hmm. You are asking me to insult my husband here. My husband, who has been gamely taking care of our three children while I've been on book tour. On paper, as a worker, I suppose I have in fact been more plastic. David has been in the same company (with lots of promotions) since before we got married, and I have had dozens of different jobs and job configurations. That said, we do have one of those pretty typical, happy, see-saw marriages I describe, where we take turns working more or less, earning more or less and doing more or less of the childcare. So maybe we'll give him Styrofoam?
Europe might make one weep over the state of the social policy here. But their economy certainly doesn't. And as an employee of a multi-national company I can tell you the two are absolutely connected.
Being an employee of a multinational qualifies you to determine cause and effect relationships between about social policy and economic outcomes?
Hmmm.... qualifies is probably generous. But if 'BF' is observant and intelligent and has noticed the effects of social policy on his multinational corporation in those areas maybe he can contribute too. Especially if he spends too much time on Freakonomics and other econ web sites in his spare time.
"Take the statistic that in much of the country, childless women under 30 have a median income higher than the equivalent men. How can that be true if there's a wage gap? The answer is: there are more women working. So Suzie may make less money than Bob who sits one cubicle over, but there are more total Suzies working than Bobs."
This doesn't make sense. We would expect more women working to result in a lower median income, because the marginal employee earns less than the median.
The real explanation for this is that the median woman has higher education than the median man, and thus earns more.
There are several great reasons where there is a difference BESIDE discrimination. Lets remove all the confounding factors first.
What is more worrisome about this post is that Hannah Rosin seems to proscribe policy changes for these things. Why do we want government involvement here again? If the notion is that women need to be hired for more benefits and higher wages, will that make it easier or harder to for women to get jobs? How about legislation to fix other 'problems?' Should the government be able to dictate how much time husband and wife each spend watching the kids?
In fact, this has been studied extensively and despite all the study we still end up with the nonsensical ".72 for every 1.0 a man earns" rattling.
When even the GAO, in a report often cited by feminists who support these nonsense statistics came to the conclusion that any gender wage gap is due to the decision differences between men and women. Differences in terms of education, experience, and employment choices. In fact, a majority of the wage gap was explained by employment decisions, and another portion of the gap was explained by work patterns. The remaining gap was around 2%.
How this wage gap myth still not only persists, but dominates political discourse is beyond me. At the least it means we need to be teaching people to be more analytical and critical.
Dilbert has covered this territory.
"women are penalized for being too aggressive and straightforward, or even for not being helpful."
I heard an unusual example of this: A female student attended a college that has a Deaf community. She learned a (very) little bit of sign language. After a while, she noticed that one of her Deaf acquaintances was mad at her.
"You're biased against Deaf people," he wrote.
"Well, when you and I go to chemistry class, and there is no interpreter, you just sit there and listen to the lecture yourself, instead of getting up in front of the class and translating it all for me."
I doubt that he made the same complaint against the male students who had equally rudimentary ASL skills.
What will it take for men to both form a social movement regarding their rights, and what will it take for that social movement to be seen as credible to society in general? Currently, bring up "men's rights" in any sort of sociological context will get you laughed at at best, and attacked at worst. Organizations like NOW and SPLC are doing their best to actively fight against father's rights groups and men's rights groups in general.
So, it seems to me that the problem isn't just that men are inexperienced with establishing their own social movements to fight for their rights, but also the fact that anything for men's rights is actively campaigned against by many existing entities.
Also, if I was her son and this book was dedicated to me, I would be between insulted and furious. Did anyone else find that... strange?
"But the pay gap does not tell the whole story. Take the statistic that in much of the country, childless women under 30 have a median income higher than the equivalent men. How can that be true if there's a wage gap? The answer is: there are more women working. So Suzie may make less money than Bob who sits one cubicle over, but there are more total Suzies working than Bobs."
Sara makes more money than Dave due to better education, better paid profession etc.
Suzie makes less money than Bob because too many Suzies work in low paid jobs like retail, childcare and there aren't enough Saras to bring up the median of all Suzies to close the gap.
"How can we get more women engineers/CEOs/governors/etc?" I hate this line of reasoning. It SHOULD be: how can we (or do we) have equal opportunity for these positions?
The latter question allows for natural selection, which any free society should want. It seems that discussions about gender diversity often exclude natural preferences that each gender will have…not MAY HAVE, but WILL HAVE.
'Till the end of time, more men will be more willing to drive trucks for a living than women. More women will prefer to teach kindergarden than men. That is biology. So when it comes to engineering, it could just be (and I would argue that it IS) the case that we will ALWAYS have more men than women.
But there is good news, by the principle of rational maximizers, this just means that society is happier this way. So here's to you Free Choice!


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Dig Dug é um jogo de arcade desenvolvido e lançado pela Namco no Japão em 1982 pelo hardware Namco Galaga. Mais tarde, foi lançado fora do Japão pela Atari, Inc.. Um jogo popular baseado em um conceito simples, foi também lançado como um videogame em muitos consoles.

Objetivo
O objetivo de Dig Dug é eliminar monstros que habitam o subterrâneo inflando-os com uma bomba de ar até que eles explodam, ou deixando cair pedras sobre eles. Existem dois tipos de inimigos no jogo:
Pookas - uma raça de monstros vermelhos redondos que usam óculos de proteção amarelos;
Fygars - uma raça de dragões verdes que podem soprar fogo.

O personagem-jogador é Dig Dug, vestido de branco e azul, e capaz de cavar túneis através de ambientes destrutíveis. Dig Dug é morto se for capturado pelos Pooka ou Fygar, queimado pelo fogo de um Fygar, ou esmagado por uma rocha.

Aparição fora dos arcades
No jogo Pac-Man World, para os consoles PlayStation e Game Boy Advance, o Pooka aparece como um dos amigos de Pac-Man que é raptado por Toc-Man, fazendo uma rápida aparição na introdução com Baby Pac e na última fase do jogo ajudando Pac-Man na luta final contra Toc-Man.

Referência ao Dig Dug na série Stranger Things
Retomando a receita da primeira temporada, onde o seriado baseia-se no RPG Dungeons and Dragons, a segunda temporada do seriado Stranger Things tem como enredo a temática do jogo Dig Dug onde as criaturas do Mundo Invertido, invadem o solo subterrâneo da cidade fictícia de Hawkins através de galerias, proliferando-se e ameaçando derrotar os personagens do seriado e dominar a cidade. Mad Max, garota que tem sua primeira aparição no início da segunda temporada é campeã no Arcade Dig Dug.

Ligações externas

 Dig Dug on mobile at NamcoGames.com
 Dig Dug: Tips and History

 Video from the C64 Version on archive.org
 Dig Dug for PC at Intel AppUp

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Q: How to iterate over numbers in C I've gotta count how many times a certain digit is repeated in each number in a range. For example, in the numbers between 0 and 20, there is only one occurrence of 1 being repeated twice (11). I originally did this by converting the int to a str and iterating over it, but I would like to be able to solve this in an arithmetic way. Any ideas?

A: here is a general solution that you can use , your problem didn't contain much information so I assumed that you want to count the number of repeating of each digit in each number.
so what I did is like hashing where the digits in each number will never cross the value 9 , so they are from 0 to 9 so I made that hash table called arr, so what I did is to come to every single digit in number and increment the position of that digit in arr
for example , number 554 will cause arr[5]++; twice and arr[4]++; only once , simple idea of using hash tables.
and then at the end I iterate over the hash array printing the number of occurrence of each digit in each number.
and here is the code :
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
int main()
{
    int arr[6] = {5555, 12112, 14, -3223, 44, 10001};

    int tempArr[10] = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};

    for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
        int temp1 = arr[i];

        // get the number of occurrences of each digit in each number
        do{
            tempArr[(abs(temp1) % 10)]++;
            temp1 /= 10;
        }while(temp1 != 0);

        // loop over the array to know how many times each digit occurred
        printf("the number of occurrences in number called %d\n", arr[i]);
        for (int j = 0; j < 10; j++) {
            if(tempArr[j] > 1)
                printf("number %d occurred %d times\n", j, tempArr[j]);

            // resetting that position of the array
            tempArr[j] = 0;
        }

    }
    return 0;
}

and here is the output :
the number of occurrences in number called 5555
number 5 occurred 4 times
the number of occurrences in number called 12112
number 1 occurred 3 times
number 2 occurred 2 times
the number of occurrences in number called 14
the number of occurrences in number called -3223
number 2 occurred 2 times
number 3 occurred 2 times
the number of occurrences in number called 44
number 4 occurred 2 times
the number of occurrences in number called 10001
number 0 occurred 3 times
number 1 occurred 2 times

A: You can divide your number multiple times by 10:
int number = 72;
int rest;

while(number)
{
    rest = number % 10;
    printf("%d\n", rest);
    number /= 10;
}

Here rest contains '2' and then '7'

A: Riffing on the answer provided by @Abdo Salm presented only to demonstrate a slightly alternative approach. All credit to Abdo.
EDIT: Going beyond single, arbitrary numbers to generating ascending contiguous sequence of numbers to be evaluated.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <limits.h>

void process( int n, int cnts[] ) {
    // count occurences of each digit (right to left)
    while( n )
        cnts[ abs(n % 10) ]++, n /= 10;
}

void report( int cnts[], int thresh ) {
    char *sep = "";
    for( int j = 0; j < 10; j++ )
        if( cnts[ j ] > thresh )
            printf( "%s%dx%d", sep, cnts[ j ], j ), sep = ", ";

    if( !*sep )
        printf( "no digit occurred multiple times" );

    putchar( '\n' );
}

int main() {
#ifndef PROVE
    int tests[] = {
        0, 11, 121, 5555, 12112, 14,
        -3223, 44, 1223334444,
        INT_MIN, INT_MAX,
    };

    // proof of concept: run through multiple arbitrary test values
    for( int i = 0; i < sizeof tests/sizeof tests[0]; i++ ) {
        // counter for each digit, all init'd to zero
        int cnts[ 10 ];
        memset( cnts, 0, sizeof cnts );

        process( tests[ i ], cnts );

        // report only digits appearing multiple times
        printf( "%11d: ", tests[ i ] );
        report( cnts, 1 );
    }
#else // with "ranges" instead of arbitrary test cases
    int ranges[][2] = {
        {   0,  10, },
        {   0,  22, },
        { 110, 133, },
        { 447, 448, },
    };

    for( int r = 0; r < sizeof ranges/sizeof ranges[0]; r++ ) {
        int metacnts[10];
        memset( metacnts, 0, sizeof metacnts );

        for( int i = ranges[r][0]; i <= ranges[r][1]; i++ ) {
            int cnts[ 10 ];
            memset( cnts, 0, sizeof cnts );

            process( i, cnts );

            for( int j = 0; j < 10; j++ )
                if( cnts[ j ] > 1 )
                    metacnts[ j ]++;
        }

        // report only digits appearing multiple times in numbers between min & max
        printf( "Range %3d-%3d (incl) ", ranges[r][0], ranges[r][1] );
        report( metacnts, 0 );
    }
#endif

    return 0;
}

/*
Output from arbitrary sequence:
          0: no digit occurred multiple times
         11: 2x1
        121: 2x1
       5555: 4x5
      12112: 3x1, 2x2
         14: no digit occurred multiple times
      -3223: 2x2, 2x3
         44: 2x4
 1223334444: 2x2, 3x3, 4x4
-2147483648: 3x4, 2x8
 2147483647: 3x4, 2x7

Output from arbitrary ranges:
Range   0- 10 (incl) no digit occurred multiple times
Range   0- 22 (incl) 1x1, 1x2
Range 110-133 (incl) 12x1, 1x2, 1x3
Range 447-448 (incl) 2x4
*/

A:
how many times a certain digit is repeated in each number in a range.

Pseudo code*1
Get the range: imin, imax  (any int pair where imin <= imax)
Get the digit: digit 0 to 9
Iterate m from imin to imax, inclusive
.... Print m
.... Set digit_count = 0
.... Repeat
.......  Last digit ld of m is abs(m%10).
.......  If ld == digit, increment digit_count.
........ Divide m by 10
.... Until m == 0
.... Print digit_count
Done

*1 As OP did not provide code, seemed best to not provide a code answer.

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