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Why had I come from Berkeley? What did I want to actually know? And - centrally to my work - what had I been up to in the nearly two decades since my family had moved away? Our second, routine topic of conversation, however, was always me as a researcher. вЂњYou hear all the things that used to be here.вЂќ

вЂњThat's what you get when you talk to people in Henry,вЂќ said a retired teacher, now in her 60s. These were bittersweet conversations I heard fond remembrances but also lament and pessimism. I met my interlocutors sometimes in their own homes, but also down at the bar, coffee shop, office, restaurant, Rotary meeting, grocery store, library and town swimming pool. I would repeat this intentional trip down memory lane more than 20 times during a two-week visit that summer to this community of just 2200 people nestled in the sparse riparian woodlands and sprawling farmlands of central Illinois. This became something of a game: What else has changed? What else isn't there anymore? Often as not, such conversation would linger on a business, institution or family that had packed up, sometimes to be replaced, sometimes only to leave behind another empty storefront or homestead.

We went over schools, churches, families that everyone knows, shops that everyone patronizes and so on. While a Midwestern rainstorm poured down outside, our conversation dwelled on everyday life in Henry and the region. He, his wife and I were into the second pot of coffee of a three-hour discussion around their dining table in Henry, a small farm town in central Illinois. вЂњA lot of suicides, a lot of divorces вЂ¦ It's like being castrated to be laid off like that.вЂќ

That was a big kick in the head,вЂќ said a former Caterpillar employee during an interview in June 2017. The loss of these solid paychecks only contributed to the sense of collective devastation in a region already in the grips of a national farm crisis. The spate of layoffs in the вЂ80s reverberated through rural central Illinois communities, where wages drawn from blue- and white-collar industrial jobs had served as a pillar of economic stability propping up agricultural incomes. The company blamed a global recession and high interest rates for the job cuts that, by then, had totaled 17,500. Visit for more information and to download.In May 1982, news broke that heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar would lay off another 8000 workers, mostly in Illinois ( UPI, 1982).

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The Merlin Bird ID app with the new Sound ID feature is available for free on iOS and Android devices. WATCH: Scientists Determine How Many Wild Birds Populate the Planet andвЂ¦ It's a Lot 'It helps everyone solve the mystery birds they're hearing around them, and the technology that powers Merlin sound identification can also be used for research and conservation, opening up new possibilities for the way scientists can monitor, study, and protect birds.' 'The Merlin app really unlocks a whole new world of sound,' Cornell Lab's Jessie Barry, whose team led the project, said in a news release. After you record sounds, you can select a species and see the spot in the recording where its song or call occurred. 'Having this incredibly robust bird dataset-and feeding that into faster and more powerful machine-learning tools-enables Merlin to ID birds by sound now, when doing so seemed like a daunting challenge just a few years ago.'Д«ut wait, there's more! Merlin can identify individual bird sounds even when multiple birds are singing at the same time. 'Thousands of sound recordings train Merlin to recognize each bird species, and more than a billion bird observations in eBird tell Merlin which birds are likely to be present at a particular place and time,' Drew Weber, Merlin project coordinator, said in a news release.

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