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Tudors to Windsors at Bendigo Art Gallery
There is still time to plan an art inspired getaway to Bendigo to see the highly acclaimed exhibition Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits. Featuring more than150 treasures from London's revered National Portrait Gallery, the exhibition includes works never before seen outside England.
Presenting some of the most significant royal portraits, Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits explores five royal dynasties: the Tudors, the Stuarts, the Georgians, the Victorians and the Windsors; shedding light on key figures and important historical moments. Among the many works on view are portraits of King Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I, King George III, Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana and Prince William and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge.
'This exhibition presents an opportunity for an Australian audience to experience works by some of the most significant British artists such as Anthony van Dyck, Joshua Reynolds, Peter Lely, Annie Liebovitz, and Cecil Beaton; as well as provide context to the history of Australian British settlement," said Karen
Quinlan, Director of Bendigo Art Gallery.
With the popularity of the English monarchy at an all time high, now is the time to explore the rich tapestry of the history and royal portraiture, while also exploring the historic region of Bendigo.
Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits is on now at the Bendigo Art Gallery until 14 July 2019. Book your art inspired getaway here.
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Mr. Sanjay Kar Chowdhury, Chair, IEEE Kolkata section
Prof. (Dr.) Iti Saha Misra, Vice-Chair, IEEE Kolkata section, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Prof. (Dr.) B.N.Basu, Ex-Emeritus Professor, IIT-BHU
Prof. (Dr.) Suparna Kar Chowdhury, Professor, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Prof. (Dr.) C. T. Bhunia, Ex-Director, NIT , Arunachal Pradesh
Prof. (Dr.) Sipra Das Bit, Professor, IIEST, Shibpur
Prof. (Dr.) Jaya Sil, Professor, IIEST, Shibpur
Prof. (Dr.) S.R. Bhadra Chowdhury, Professor, IIEST, Shibpur
Prof. (Dr.) D. K. Sarkar, Professor, Department of Applied Sciences, University of Quebec Chicoutimi , Canada
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Dr. Dipankar Chatterjee, Principal Scientist, CMERI, Durgapur
Prof. (Dr.) Atanu Kundu, Secretary IEEE Kolkata Section
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Dr. Partha Bhattacharjee, Chief Scientist, CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur
Prof. (Dr.) Biswajit Ghosh, Former Professor of School of Energy Studies, Jadavpur University, India.
Prof. (Dr.) Shubhabrata Datta, Research Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai
Prof. (Dr.) Asok De,Ex Director NIT Patna,Professor Delhi Technical University.
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Prof. (Dr.) Bhaskar Gupta, Professor ETCE, Jadavpur University
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Prof. (Dr.) Susanta Parui, Professor, IIEST, Shibpur
Prof. Sugata Munshi, Professor EE, Jadavpur University
Dr. Amit Banerjee, NUS, Scientist ER, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Prof.(Dr.) Santi. P. Maity, Professor, IIEST, Shibpur
Prof.(Dr.) Ella Hassanien, Professor of Computers & Information Technology, Cairo University, Egypt
Prof. (Dr.) Paramartha Dutta, Professor, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan
Prof. (Dr.) Debasish De, Professor, MAKAUT, Kolkata
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Prof. (Dr.) Bubu Bhuyan, Associate Professor, NEHU, Shillong
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Prof. (Dr.) Sayantan Sengupta, Assistant professor NIT, Durgapur
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Prof.(Dr.) Piyali Basak, Director, School of Bio-science and Engineering, Jadavpur University
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Prof. (Dr.) Vishal Sharma, Research Assistant Professor, Soonchunhyang University, The Republic of Korea
Prof. (Dr.) Brojo Kishore Mishra, Professor, Department of CSE GIET University, Bhubaneswar
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Prof. (Dr.) Imon Mukherjee, Faculty Coordinator & Faculty in-Charge, Academics, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kalyani, India
Prof. (Dr.) Ahmed A. Elngar, Assistant professor, Faculty of Computers and Information, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Salah Salem Str., Egypt
Prof.(Dr.) Koushik Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Burdwan University
Dr. Deepak Gupta, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Prof (Dr.) Vishal Jain, Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM),New Delhi
Prof (Dr.) Hussain Mahdi, Electronics Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
Prof (Dr.) Rajiv Pandey, Amity Institute of Information Technology, Lucknow
Mr. Tarun Bhattacharjee, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur
Prof. (Dr.) P. Pal Roy, Director BCREC, Former Director CSIR-CMERI & COEFM Ludhiana
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Prof. Saindhab Chattoraj, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur
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37-yr. Man Hooked
By New Republic Liberia On Dec 21, 2022
-For Counterfeiting
MONROVIA-A 37-year-old man has been sent to South Beach for counterfeiting several thousand Liberian dollars.
Henry Simpson was on yesterday, forwarded to the Monrovia City Court following an investigation by the Liberia National police.
Arrested on December 9, 2022 in the Soul Clinic Community, Simpson had been charged with multiple offenses ranging from counterfeiting, economic sabotage, and money laundering.
The crime counterfeiting, economic sabotage, and money laundering which is in violation of 15.70 and 15.80 of the revised Law of Liberia (LNP).
According to our judicial correspondent, the City Court Judge's action was triggered by an investigation conducted by the Liberia National Police.
Defendant Simpson was arrested on December 9, in the Soul Clinic Community for being in possession of Four hundred and Fifty-four thousand Liberian Dollars.
A charge sheet from the LNP said during its preliminary investigation defendant Simpson, admitted to receiving the package of counterfeit from his friend in Dubai who earlier promised him (defendant) to send the sum of twenty-five thousand United States dollars for his (defendant) keep-up since he had just returned from South Korea and things were not fine with him.
Simpson was arrested in possession of the sum of four hundred, fifty-four thousand Liberian dollars which was retrieved by state security who arrested the situation.
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Year in Review: Southern California 2021 Images in the News
By Maggie More	• Published December 27, 2021 • Updated on January 1, 2022 at 12:29 pm
It's been a long 2021, and on Friday, it's drawing to a close.
Before we greet 2022 and whatever it brings our way, here's a look back at some of the biggest local stories around Southern California from this past year.
Baseball Hall of Fame player and manager, Tommy Lasorda, poses during a 1980 Los Angeles, California, photo portrait session at Dodger Stadium. Lasorda managed the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1976 to 1996. He died on Jan. 7, 2021.(Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)
A mural depicting Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna by artist Mr Brainwash is seen in Los Angeles. Jan. 26, 2021 marks the one year anniversary of the tragic helicopter crash which led to the death of nine people, including Bryant and his daughter Gianna. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)
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In this handout image provided by NASA, members of NASA's Perseverance rover team react in mission control after receiving confirmation the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, , February 18, 2021 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life.
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LA County Sheriff's officers investigate an accident involving golfer Tiger Woods along Hawthorne Blvd. in Rancho Palos Verdes, Feb. 23, 2021. Woods made his triumphant return to golf in December 2021, after a long road to recovery after the accident.
Dr. Tomas Aragon, State Public Health Officer and California Department of Public Health Director, takes part in a vaccination event at the RingCentral Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, March 11, 2021 -- the one year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a pandemic -- to highlight the then-new, one-dose Janssen COVID-19 vaccine by Johnson & Johnson. The event was part of the state's efforts to increase vaccine acceptance among groups that are less likely to be vaccinated. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)
People attend a "Stop Asian Hate" candlelight vigil in a city park of Alhambra, Los Angeles County, California on March 20, 2021. Eight people, six of whom were Asian and two of whom were white, were killed in three shooting incidents in the Atlanta area by a suspect earlier that week. (Photo by Xinhua via Getty) (Xinhua/xinhua via Getty Images)
The Los Angeles Dodgers lineup in front of socially distanced filled stadium before the game against the Washington Nationals during the 2021 MLB season home opening game at Dodger Stadium on April 09, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
In an aerial view, the San Gabriel River and the exposed lakebed of the San Gabriel Reservoir are seen in the third week of spring as another year of drought develops throughout the West, on April 8, 2021 in the San Gabriel Mountains near Azusa, California. Precipitation was extremely low in Los Angeles County during the winter of 2021, with no measurable rain recorded in downtown Los Angeles during the month of February, which is the height of the rainy season. As native vegetation grew drier and more flammable each month, fire officials expected another devastating season of massive wildfires. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
Park visitors got emotional inside Disneyland as the theme park reopened for the first time in more than a year on Friday, April 30, 2021. The reopening of Disneyland, which was shut down in March of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "is a monumental day for Anaheim," city spokesman Mike Lyster said. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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A year after COVID-19 put ceremonies for the class of 2020 on hold, USC 2020 and 2021 graduates prepared for a pandemic-adjusted, but in-person, commencement. The school held multiple, smaller ceremonies from May 14 to May 20, 2021.
Leos Family
Aiden Leos, pictured in this undated photo provided by his family, was killed in a road rage car-to-car shooting on the 55 Freeway on May 21, 2021. His death set off community-wide mourning and outrage, with local businesses donating thousands of dollars in reward money for information leading to the killers. Two suspects were arrested and charged in the death of the 6-year-old boy.
A security camera captured a devoted dog mom's wild standoff with a protective mama bear in the back yard of a San Gabriel Valley home over Memorial Day weekend, 2021. Fearing for her dogs' safety, a teen girl joined the fray after hearing frantic barks. The encounter went viral online.
Gov. Gavin Newsom selects 15 vaccinated Californians to receive $50,000, on Friday, June 4, 2021, as part of the state's "Vax for the Win" vaccination incentive program.
Illegal fireworks that were seized in South LA exploded during transport on June 30, 2021. The containment truck used to contain the explosives was overloaded, and could not contain the force of the blast, which bomb squad technicians vastly underestimated when loading the vehicle. The explosion shattered windows, sent debris throughout the neighborhood, and displaced some residents for months.
AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
A sign advises shoppers to wear masks outside of a store Monday, July 19, 2021, in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles. Los Angeles County reinstated an indoor mask mandate due to rising COVID-19 cases, just a few weeks after California lifted most pandemic restrictions. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
OnScene
Cows are seen in a Pico Rivera neighborhood Tuesday June 23, 2021, after breaking free from a slaughterhouse and making an escape attempt. Only one cow managed to escape slaughter, and found a new home at Southland Farm Sanctuary.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris pose for photographs with the 2020 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the East Room of the White House on July 02, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Dodgers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays to win the championship series at the end of an abbreviated season due to the coronavirus. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Team USA gold medalists pose on the podium after winning the Women's Gold Medal match between Spain and the United States on day fifteen of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Tatsumi Water Polo Centre on Aug. 7, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. A grand total of 63 of Team USA's 113 medals at the Tokyo Olympics were won by athletes with ties to Southern California.
Hundreds of people joined a hike Sunday Aug. 29, 2021 in memory of Lance Corporal Kareem Nikoui, a 2019 Norco High School graduate. Nikoui was one of 13 service members killed while helping people evacuate Afghanistan when the Taliban took over Kabul, ending the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli
Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses a crowd in Sacramento, Calif., on Tuesday night, Sept. 14, 2021. Newsom defeated an attempt to oust him from office in a recall election, overcoming Republican criticism of COVID-19 restrictions that shuttered schools and businesses.
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Randy Duncan leaves flowers in support of the Bruce Family and George Floyd at Bruce's Beach on April 20, 2021 in Manhattan Beach, California. – The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to return a valuable parcel of land to the descendants of a Black couple, Willa and Charles Bruce, who once operated a beach resort before it and additional land owned by Black families was taken via eminent domain in the 1920s only to sit vacant for decades. A county lifeguard training center is operated on the parcel of land once owned by the Bruce family. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 03: Oil is washed up on Huntington State Beach after a 126,000-gallon oil spill from an offshore oil platform on October 3, 2021 in Huntington Beach, California. The spill forced the closure of the popular Great Pacific Airshow with authorities urging people to avoid beaches in the vicinity. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
An LAPD photo reveals a Jack Skellington balloon that may have been the explanation behind an ongoing mystery near LAX. Multiple pilots reported seeing a mysterious "jetpack man" in the skies over Los Angeles, starting in 2020 and with the most recent sighting in July 2021. NBC4's I-Team uncovered what may have been the cause.
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Supporters of the "Free Britney" movement rally in support of musician Britney Spears outside the Stanley Mosk courthouse in Los Angeles, California, Nov. 12, 2021. – A Los Angeles judge on Friday formally approved the process of ending the controversial guardianship that has controlled Spears' life for the past 13 years.
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A person wearing a face covering walks past a white flag memorial installation outside Griffith Observatory honoring the Los Angeles County residents who have died from COVID-19 on Nov. 18, 2021, in Los Angeles, California.
Read it and weep: Gas prices at some SoCal stations were even higher than the statewide, record-high prices per gallon in mid-November.
A shattered glass door is pictured after robberies in Burbank early Friday Dec. 3, 2021. Locations all around Southern California were hit by burglaries and smash-and-grab robberies towards the end of the year, in a sudden crime spike.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 03: People who arrived on international flights wait to be tested on the first day of a new rapid COVID-19 testing site for arriving international passengers at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on December 3, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. The free voluntary tests are being offered to arriving passengers in the Tom Bradley International Terminal by the Los Angeles County Department of Health after the county confirmed its first case of the Omicron variant December 2. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
NewsChopper4 Alpha captures crews removing the iconic Staples Center lettering and logos from the outside of the stadium on Dec. 6, to make way for its new identity as the Crypto.com Arena.
Mexican singer Vicente Fernandez performs at AmericanAirlines Arena on October 10, 2010 in Miami, Florida. The icon, El Rey, died on Dec. 12. (Photo by Olivia Salazar/WireImage)
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8/7/10: HuffPost again devalues the Holocaust (Part 2)
Continued from Part 1: 8/7/10: HuffPost again devalues the Holocaust: Writer stereotypes Jews, insinuates gay marriage opponents are Nazis
Is this the first time HuffPost has made such a hideously bad decision regarding editorial writers and Jewish affairs? Uh, no.
Here are four examples of editorial decisions HuffPost has made in the past that reflect its willingness to tolerate that for which it claims it has no tolerance:
Holocaust refugees = militant Islamists? Apparently to HuffPost, YES.
On June 7, 2010, HuffPost disguised another editorial screed as a "news" article --- this time, from a well-known anti-Israel propagandist --- who compared the terrorists who ambushed the IDF on the "Flotilla of Terror" to... Holocaust survivors. Excerpt:
ON THE high seas, outside territorial waters, the ship was stopped by the navy. The commandos stormed it. Hundreds of people on the deck resisted, the soldiers used force. Some of the passengers were killed, scores injured. The ship was brought into harbor, the passengers were taken off by force. The world saw them walking on the quay, men and women, young and old, all of them worn out, one after another, each being marched between two soldiers...
The ship was called "Exodus 1947". It left France in the hope of breaking the British blockade, which was imposed to prevent ships loaded with Holocaust survivors from reaching the shores of Palestine. If it had been allowed to reach the country, the illegal immigrants would have come ashore and the British would have sent them to detention camps in Cyprus, as they had done before. Nobody would have taken any notice of the episode for more than two days.
HuffPo Writer: At Least Hitler Meant Well (Via Little Green Footballs)
At the Huffington Post, your one-stop shop for leftist vitriol and deranged hatred, former Washington Post sportswriter and Seinfeld co-producer Peter Mehlman says the Bush administration is far worse than the world's worst fascist dictators. At least the dictators meant well.
Oh, and by the way --- HuffPost has allowed Mehlman to remain one of its official bloggers .
HuffPost blogger depicts Sen. Lieberman in blackface
On August 2, 2006, in the leadup to the mid-term elections, HuffPost published an article by one of its official resident bloggers, Jane Hamsher, entitled:
"On the Ground with Lamont/Lieberman"
HuffPost also decided to publish the picture that Hamsher included of Sen. Lieberman --- in blackface:
(If you're unfamiliar with the incredible racist insult that "blackface" represents, learn more here)
Oh, and by the way --- HuffPost has allowed Hamsher to remain one of its official bloggers.
Official HuffPost blogger Roseanne Barr dresses up as Hitler, puts "Jews" in oven
On July 30, 2009, in addition to many other conservative blogs, NewsBusters revealed excerpts of a recent photoshoot that HuffPost blogger (and notorious anti-Israel propagandist) Roseanne Barr did with "Heeb" magazine --- in which she dressed up as Hitler, and eats burnt "Jew people cookies" out of an oven:
Oh, and by the way --- HuffPost has allowed Barr to remain one of its official bloggers
Conclusion: This incident goes way beyond irresponsibility --- and in the context of all preceding ones, dances on the line of anti-Semitism
In Beyond chutzpah: Arianna Huffington objects to PolitiFact claiming she tells "half-truths," HUFF-WATCH exposed why Arianna Huffington's recent meltdown over the "fact-checking" she requested of her statements on ABC's "This Week" backfired on her. Specifically, we documented the fact rather than merely stating "half-truths," as PolitiFact alleged, HuffPost has a long history of publishing outright falsehoods and egregiously misleading statements in its headlines.
But even that expose' doesn't quite cover how deceptive, how untruthful, and how offensive "Rabbi" Michael Lerner's screed actually is.
No one --- except the radical Islamists that HuffPost habitually protects and shills for --- is advocating throwing gays (and Jews) into furnaces, as was done in Nazi Germany.
No one --- except the most extreme religious minorities --- is advocating persecuting gays, or denying them their Constitutional rights.
For HuffPost to not only decide to publish such such an inflammatory allegation, but to disguise it as a "news" item, and position it so prominently on its front page, reeks of something awful.
Is it anti-Semitism, though?
If this were an isolated incident, probably not. But given HuffPost's long history of applying an anti-Semitic, anti-Israel bias to its "news" coverage and comment moderation, and of inciting and tolerating anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hatred, we find it difficult to attribute its actions in this regard as anything but a murky extension of its pathological war against Jews. See:
What's especially disturbing about this particular episode, though, is the fact that HuffPost enabled a man who calls himself a "rabbi" to prove the validity of Godwin's Law.
Why this is so important; how to make your voice known to HuffPost
This all would not be so troubling if it weren't for the fact that HuffPost is now the #1 most-read blog in the world, and a top ten U.S. "news" site. Which has access to presidential news conferences --- and in at least one instance, was given preferential treatment. All of which it has achieved, at least in part, because of its repeated claims that it is a "nonpartisan" source of "news," that seeks "to debunk the left-right way of thinking," and "to ferret out the truth, consequences be damned."
Regardless of one's feelings on its qualities or deficiencies, HuffPost is clearly having an impact on public perceptions of important issues --- and it is now making a major push to increase its readership outside the US.
If you're as concerned as we are about HuffPost's blatant, pathological anti-Israel bias, and would like to make your voice known to its management (politely, please), here's how.
Posted by HuffWatcher1 at 9:03 AM
Labels: Anti-Semitism, False/Misleading headlines


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Originally Posted by GraniteStater
Tulsa is much too far south to be part of the Midwest, I'm not sure why the locals there consider themselves to be part of the region- other than not being very familiar with how the vast majority of the Midwest is really like.
This comment is borderline offensive. As if Tulsans "don't get out much".
If you really want to divvy up the regions according to state lines, sure. I could see Oklahoma going in any of three different regions. But take it from a guy who grew up there: the entire northeast quadrant of Oklahoma is culturally indistinguishable from eastern Kansas. It seems a little counter-intuitive, but southern Missouri is actually more southern than northern Oklahoma. I think this is because of the Ozark Mountains, but also because of completely different settlement patterns that helped define the culture of those areas.
Ivory Lee Spurlock
Location: 78745
I would say the 100th meridian is a solid dividing line between the agrarian areas of the Midwest from the semi-arid ranching areas of the West that are occasionally mixed in with irrigation agriculture. Central and western Nebraska are certainly more like the West than the Midwest, whilst eastern Nebraska is solidly Midwest.
Ding ding ding !!! We have a winner. That's how it is in Texas. Things start to look more "western" around 100 degree longitude , at least stereoptypical Western when judged by the standards the old Westerns and cowboy movies and TV shows that showed us what the West looks like.
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elkotronics
Location: Alamogordo, NM
That describes it well. It's a town firmly in the transition zone. South of town the influences get stronger though. Not until you get down to around Salem, then it becomes more dominantly southern overall. Rolla overall I would say has slightly more Midwestern influences than southern ones. Maybe like 40-45 percent southern and 55-60 percent Midwestern.
Places like Rolla/St. James are a good example of a transition zone city for Missouri, and Carbondale is a good example of a transition zone city for IL.
Rolla was our landing point to the Midwest. It is mellow, has a great exercise place in it called The Centre, and is small with not much pretentiousness. It has a Sonic, at least one McDonald's, a JC Penney (at least it had one), a good small park, some good walking areas downtown and a branch of the U of Missouri that teaches engineering and mining. I think back fondly of it - not to mention a good vet near Wal*Mart. Helped us take care of our ailing Abbey, our 10 year old Pomeranian would died of CHF. That event broke my heart in two.
Buried her in Missouri Conservation Society land SW of St. Louis. She loved Daddy (me) with all of her heart. While I studied my Respiratory Therapy textbooks she would lie at my feet throughout the night. So adorable and so loyal.
GraniteStater
Location: Floyd County, IN
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Originally Posted by rwiksell
Well, I'm also quite familiar with Tulsa as my mother's parents lived there for many years and a sibling of mine graduated from the local university there. Neither my grandparents, parents, or any of their friends ever considered Tulsa to be part of the Midwest region. The default is "Native America." Tulsa is a hybrid of the South-Central Plains, at the periphery of the Greater Ozarks Region, and has some influences from the Southwest and Southeast US. Tulsa received a greater infusion of wealth during the early to mid 20th century due to the energy extraction economy, and had more people migrate there from the eastern US during that time period. That "old money" influence is now more diluted with time, but still visible in certain areas of the city- hence a bit of "Midwest" influence. If anything, I would say the metro area is becoming more southern with time due to surrounding counties demographics and migration patterns.
MOforthewin
I'd consider it a hybrid southern, sorta like what Joplin is. I would not consider Tulsa as southern as Branson or Poplar Bluff for example. Granted Branson and Poplar Bluff have no Midwestern influences though.
Are you saying your family considered themselves, not Midwesterners, but part of "Native America"? I thought that was just a marketing slogan for license plates and tourism brochures. Unless your family is actually Native American by blood, it's bothersome to think that this is how they identified themselves.
I would say Tulsa has more southern influence than Oklahoma city.
No, that is the default slogan of the state. None of our family or our friends considered Tulsa to be the Midwest at all. It is a hybrid of the South-Central Plains, Southeast US, and Upland South.
It is much more aligned with the southern US overall.
I agree. I think it's a bit too far west to be heavily influenced by the southeast. I consider it similar to Joplin as it's a hybrid type city with influences from the south, Ozarks, and plains/midwest since it's so close to Kansas.
citychik
Location: Midcoast Maine
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The US Census Bureau considers these states as comprising the Midwestern region:
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Wikipedia says that the Census Bureau had previously called them the North Central states, officially.
Below is another map that shows how the Census Bureau breaks down all the regions. They've designated four major ones -- Northeast, South, Midwest, and West -- each with their own sub-regions. For example, the Mid-Atlantic is part of the Northeast (and yet I recall a thread where people were arguing that Pennsylvania is part of the Midwest). This map has Maryland and Delaware as Southern Atlantic, but I always tended to think of them as Mid-Atlantic.
The odd thing is they've divided the West into Pacific and Mountain, but did not label the Southwest. Nor does the map have a label for the Plains states, and I've never heard anyone talk about any "East South Central" states!:
Although an editor has made a note asking for a citation on this statement, here's an interesting tidbit from Wikipedia and I wonder how accurate it is: "Traditional definitions of the Midwest include the Northwest Ordinance Old Northwest states and many states that were part of the Louisiana Purchase. The states of the Old Northwest are also known as Great Lakes states and are east-north central in the United States. The Ohio River runs along the southeastern section while the Mississippi River runs north to south near the center. Many of the Louisiana Purchase states in the west-north central United States, are also known as Great Plains states, where the Missouri River is a major waterway joining with the Mississippi. The Midwest lies north of the 36°30′ parallel that the 1820 Missouri Compromise established as the dividing line between future slave and non-slave states."
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A Spectrum of Capabilities in FTIR Microspectroscopy
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) has long been a valuable tool to facilitate confirmation of molecular structure through analysis of spectra in comparison to reference spectra
July4th,2019
Frederick William Herschel (1738–1822) composed 24 symphonies. He also discovered Uranus, the first planet ever detected with equipment more powerful than human eyesight, although he assumed all celestial bodies to be populated, including the interior of the Sun. His dedication to the study of reflected light spurred prodigious innovations in astral telescopes and laid bare the raw power of Newton's mathematical laws governing prismatic dispersion. Herschel inferred infrared (IR) radiation from his observations of temperature changes in samples subjected to sunlight outside the visible spectrum. He concluded that the absorption of IR energy was proportional to the temperature change observed as a sample moved through different wavelengths. As luck would have it, molecular vibrations occur at the frequencies that correspond to IR wavelengths. When radiant energy matches the energy of a particular vibration caused by stretching and bending along chemical bonds, the resulting spectrum is equivalent to a molecular fingerprint. The field of spectroscopy emerged from these relationships, and systems that were later adopted widely among chemists and technicians as quality control tools have their origins in bedrock observations and theories regarding the nature of electromagnetic radiation and hence the fundamental properties of space and time. The special theory of relativity, for example, relies upon the Lorentz factor, a mathematical caveat to accommodate the result of the Michelson– Morley experiment. In this seminal experiment, measurements of reflected light split by a silvered mirror in a device called a Michelson interferometer unexpectedly negated the fin-de-siècle scientific dogma that Earth moved through a luminous ether that influenced the speed of light.
Herschel's son John developed the first IR images, and IR spectra were soon used to characterize chemical compounds. However, the technology was initially limited to using dispersive techniques, in which radiation of known individual frequencies is used to bombard targets, and spectra are collected wavelength by wavelength. Dispersive spectroscopy is still frequently used, for instance, to characterize spectra obtained via X-ray backscatter that results as a by-product of other techniques, such as electron microscopy. Like so many other leaps forward, the propulsive force of wartime annihilation helped catalyze improvements in IR spectroscopy. In World War II, some missile guidance systems used diffraction of IR radiation through crystallized salts; similar strategies were then adapted in miniature to facilitate the first commercial spectroscopy devices. Incorporation of the Michelson interferometer vastly increased throughput by enabling simultaneous bombardment with a range of frequencies via a constantly moving mirror to create a variable time delay. The result, an interferogram, must then be reconstituted into corresponding absorption spectra using Fourier transform analysis to plot transmittance against wavenumber.
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) has long been a valuable tool to facilitate confirmation of molecular structure through analysis of spectra in comparison to reference spectra. It is frequently used to identify contaminants in organic chemistry synthesis and pharmaceutical production chains. FTIR has several advantages over dispersive techniques, including the ability to obtain more comprehensive spectra and to do so more quickly. Additionally, the energy imparted to the sample via continuous reflection, rather than stepwise grated dispersion, allows for higher sensitivity and therefore a greater signal-to-noise ratio. Intrinsically, the diffraction limit of IR radiation defines the resolution of molecular analysis; addition of various microscopy platforms to FTIR equipment has enabled transcendence of previous limits and allowed, at minimum, higherorder applications such as surface mapping of conformational changes during drug-target binding. Consequently, FTIR has moved from being a quality control tool to a powerful analytical and predictive tool.
Beyond quality control: applications in nanomaterials and medicine
One field in which FTIR has made great inroads is the production and analysis of nanomaterials. The word "nanomaterials" usually elicits a vague and static concept of something very small. However, a partial list of nanomaterial classes includes quantum dots, nanospheres, nanolenses, nanorods, nanofibers, nanocubes, nanosheets, and nano-onions. Each of these has a distinctive topographical footprint in zero to three dimensions within and beyond nano-space. Researchers can use FTIR microspectroscopy to characterize properties and irregularities both of nanomaterials and of macromaterials at the nanoscale level. Consequently, they can make structure– function relationship predictions and strategize improvements. For instance, in computer engineering, detailed information about nanomaterial structure can guide efforts to improve highcapacity storage and high-resolution imaging. In medicine, FTIR microscopy can be used at the nanoscale to improve targeting specificity or lower toxicity in drug delivery systems.
Constantly evolving FTIR platforms adapted to novel microscopic lenses, computational algorithms, and precision technologies, such as quantum cascade laser imaging, have the potential to demolish established ceilings in the speed and accuracy of medical diagnostics. False-negative and -positive histopathology results from subjective analysis of stained biopsies could conceivably be eliminated by objective FTIRbased digital standards. Cancer prognoses and treatments could acquire greater accuracy through quantitative FTIR-based mapping of tumor boundaries and real-time intracellular analysis of drug-target interactions. Label-free detection of cell-surface disease markers without addition of fluorophores and chemical surrogates that can confound analysis promises to streamline and optimize clinical diagnostics. Moreover, FTIR can potentially define novel disease markers by sorting and analyzing individual extracellular vesicles according to their distinct biochemical and optical properties.
User-friendly FTIR microscopy
The origins of FTIR in observations, calculations, and theorems by great minds concerned with the nature and origin of the universe begs the question of whether a garden-variety scientist can obtain and analyze data without first obtaining at least an extra doctoral degree. Commercially, providers have optimized automation and software interfaces within FTIR microscopy equipment to be used with minimal training. A decreased footprint also makes it easier to bring the technology into individual laboratories. Bruker offers the LUMOS as an entry-level model with a broad range of capabilities for particle identification, chemical composition analysis, and measurements of defects and contaminants. Its HYPERION series is more suitable for dedicated materials R&D labs or core facilities, with major upgrades in frequency detection range and objectives arranged to accommodate different types of samples. Analogously, Thermo Nicolet FTIR devices, which run the gamut in capability and resolution from the iN5 to the Continuμm, are configured for straightforward quality control studies. With the products available, there is a spectrum of capabilities in FTIR microspectroscopy.
For additional resources on FTIR, including useful articles and a list of manufacturers, visit www.labmanager.com/ftir
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