Midwest

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I was talking to an American friend of mine who lives in San Marcos, California (near San Diego) when he mentioned that the Midwestern states are known for its friendly people. He also added that the small towns there are very very safe because everyone in these towns is familiar with the rest of his town’s people. He added that these places are so safe that people usually sleep without unlocking their doors at night!

Is this true? If so, does anyone know of places such as these? In which states do such towns exist?

Now speaking about big cities and their affluent areas, I think safety would be the greatest luxury someone could enjoy; along with cleanliness and friendliness of course.
Yeah! But what about the small towns? Are they "extremely" safe? Or are they as safe as for eample: Palo Alto and Los Altos, California??

The Midwestern United States refers to the north-central states of the United States of America, specifically Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Of these states, I feel ALL are safe but Illinois (Chicago BIG crime area!) I have been to all of them (live in one) and always treated as ‘one of their own’. Very friendly, caring people…and you mention small towns..they are the BEST! Your friend is right! We leave doors unlocked, keys in car, expensive toys and bikes left out..nothing has ever been vandalized or stolen any place I’ve lived or visited. Police even stop unfamiliar cars (out of state plates), just to see their purpose for being there..as small towns ARE the safest places to live. Everyone is treated as an individual and not just a number. Traffic is the best too! NO RUSH HOURS! People from the East and West Coast move here just for that! True, when enough do, I imagine things will change, as they will bring their bad habits with them, but for the last 40+ years, they’re the best way to go! Schools are small, so students get better attention. Safety, cleanliness, friendliness and cost of living are the best! Try it!! You’ll definitely like it!!

Massive fireball or meteor shower reported across Midwestern sky Authorities in several Midwestern states were flooded Wednesday night with reports of a gigantic fireball lighting up the sky, the National Weather Service said.see more at http://newsstorynow.blogspot.com

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I need to know what % of total u.s. crops are produced in the midwestern states. But I only need to chart the top five crops from this region.

Corn – 20%
Soybeans – 20%
Wheat – 40%
Sorghrum – 10%
Barley – 10%

i want to go for the College of Pharmacy, and to be honest, i just don’t have to money to take the prerequisites at a university, so i thought i’d take them at a community college to save on the cost.

i looked at the prerequisites required to get into the college of pharmacy, and mcc seems to have all the classes needed.

however, does midwestern and/or mcc allow students to transfer?

and also, where would i take the PCAT?

Many Schools of Pharmacy do not recognize pre-pharmacy courses taken in a Community College. Others allows it but look down on students applying direct from CC. You need to ask the admissions advisor at Midwestern’s College of Pharmacy for that school’s policy.

Your other hurdle is to pass a high score in the PCAT. CC students seldom score well on the PCAT.

(CNN) — Authorities in several Midwestern states were flooded Wednesday night with reports of a gigantic fireball lighting up the sky, the National Weather Service said.
The fireball was visible for about 15 minutes beginning about 10 p.m., said the National Weather Service in Sullivan, Wisconsin, just west of Milwaukee.
“The fireball was seen over the northern sky, moving from west to east,” said the NWS in the Quad Cities area, which includes parts of Iowa and Illinois.
“Well before it reached the horizon, it broke up into smaller pieces and was lost from sight,” the service said. “Several reports of a prolonged sonic boom were received from areas north of Highway 20, along with shaking of homes, trees and various other objects including wind chimes,” it said.
It said the fireball was seen across parts of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. CNN affiliate WISN-TV said that people in Ohio also saw it.
Video from WISN showed a massive ball of light exploding across the sky. The Doppler Radar from the Quad Cities weather service appeared to capture a portion of the smoke trail from the fireball at just after 10 p.m., the NWS said. It appears as a thin line extending across portions of Grant and Iowa Counties in Wisconsin.
There has been no official determination as to what caused the fireball, the NWS in Sullivan said.
However, it said there is a meteor shower called Gamma Virginids that occurs from April 4 to April 21, with peak activity expected on Wednesday and Thursday.
“A large meteorite could have caused the brilliant fireball that has been reported,” the National Weather Service said.
The NWS in Quad Cities said that it was unknown if any part of a meteorite hit the ground.
According to NASA, a meteor appears when a meteoroid — a particle, chunk of metal or stony matter — enters the Earth’s atmosphere from outer space.
“Air friction heats the meteoroid so that it glows and creates a shining trail of gases and melted meteoroid particles,” it said. “People sometimes call the brightest meteors fireballs.” (NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED) JUST TRYING TO SPREAD THE MEWS. ORIGINAL LINK TO CNN http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/15/midwest.fireball/

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Farm output is extremely sensitive to the weather. In 1988, the Midwestern region of the United States experienced one of the worst droughts ever recorded; corn production fell by 35%, wheat production by more than 10%, and oat and barley production by more than 40%. 1. What do you suppose happened to the prices of these commodities?
The grains are an input into the production of cattle. The higher cost of grain led many ranchers to slaughter their cattle earlier. 2. What do you think happened to the price of beef in the short run? In the intermediate run?
3. Why did the drought in the Midwest lead to increased prices for vegetables and fruits?

1. prices went up
2. prices went up
3. the prices went up to help farmers gain back what they lost from the other crops.

It’s just like stealing something in the mall, when someone steals an item, the rest of the items in the store go up by a small percent, to make up for the lost money.

The fireball that crossed Midwest skies last night may have been a basketball-size meteor from a comet first discovered at the start of the Civil War, according to experts.

David Eicher, editor and chief of Astronomy Magazine, said that while it’s believed the fireball seen Wednesday night was a meteor, that wouldn’t be known for sure until and unless it is found on the ground. Astronomers believe if the object landed, it would have come down in the Great Lakes area. There were no reports that it had been found.

“It was an extraordinarily bright meteor,” said Eicher. “As bright as this thing was, the odds are that it didn’t completely burn up before it hit the ground.”

But he also couldn’t completely rule out that what people saw were pieces of a falling satellite reentering the Earth’s atmosphere as space junk.

He estimated that on impact a burning meteor could have ended up the size of a baseball. The amount of light that the object emitted indicted it was either a large chunk of stone or iron, he said.

Usually, meteorites that cause a streak in the sky tend to be only the size of sand or a pea, Eicher said. This one–assuming it was one–may have come from April’s Lyrid meteorite showers as debris from a comet named Thatcher after the man who first discovered it in 1861.

“It was probably a very large chunk, relatively speaking, of cometary debris that was left in the wake, the trail, of this comet’s orbit,” he said.

While he could not point to the object and definitively say it was a meteor, he said circumstantial evidence points to it–chiefly, that the sighting came during the Lyrid showers, which will reach their peak Saturday.

According to lore, the Thatcher comet was regarded with fear when it was first observed because it came after the raid on Fort Sumter by Confederate troops that started the Civil War.

Reports of meteor sightings about 10 p.m. Wednesday came in to the National Weather Service from wide areas across the Midwest. News outlets from Missouri to Minnesota and east to Michigan reported sightings.

In a statement on its Web site, the National Weather Service office in the Quad Cities said:
“Just after 10 pm CDT Wednesday evening April 14th, a fireball or very bright meteor was observed streaking across the sky. The fireball was seen over the northern sky, moving from west to east.

“Well before it reached the horizon, it broke up into smaller pieces and was lost from sight. The fireball was seen across Northern Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Southern Wisconsin. Several reports of a prolonged sonic boom were received from areas north of Highway 20, along with shaking of homes, trees and various other objects including wind chimes. As of late Wednesday evening, it is unknown whether any portion of this meteorite hit the ground.”

National Weather Service radar in LaCrosse, Wis., showed the object between 6,000 and 12,000 feet, heading from northwest to southeast over Grant and Iowa counties.

(The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences has a series of time lapse photos of the event as seen from Madison; an Iowa sheriff’s department captured video of the flash that’s been posted on YouTube.)

Christine McMorris was in her Woodstock home looking out her kitchen window as she washed dishes and talked with a friend when she noticed a bright light coming from the sky.

“All of a sudden out of the corner of my eye, I saw this huge ball of fire and a huge light,” said McMorris. “I was like what the was that?”

She didn’t believe the light signaled the end of the world because she had seen many shooting stars from her travels to the Western United States. But last night put those to shame.

“They are minuscule compared to this, it was enormous,” she said.

She said as the object traveled closer to the surface, its intensity diminished until she lost sight of it after five to 10 seconds. She said it didn’t have a tail.

“It was truly spectacular,” she said.

Becky Hoffman, who lives on a farm near Dixon, said she and her husband were getting ready for bed when they looked out and saw a “big glow” in the sky. She found it strange because the air was clear of storm clouds. She said she is about an hour and a half from the Wisconsin border and noticed the light north of her home.

“We thought it might’ve been a transformer blowing up in the area,” she said, but she dismissed that thought quickly because she and her husband did not hear any explosions.

She said the object had a reddish-orange glow to it. She didn’t think anything of it until she turned on the radio this morning and heard that it probably was a meteor.

“That’s what it was, I saw it,” said Hoffman. “I thought it was pretty exciting, I just want to know where it ended up at. Did it disintegrate into the skyline or did it actually hit ground?”

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I’m looking for fun or cool places to go. They can be water parks, theme parks (Six Flags), nature parks, or anything else you can think of. Name any place you have been, heard of, or would like to go. They can be for any season but I prefer summer. Places in the midwestern states like Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnessota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin would be best.

Thank you =]

Minnesota-Mall of America, Duluth
Wisconsin-Wisconsin Dells, Door County

I’m from Minnesota, I’ve had one person in my life tell me they noticed an accent – they were from the southwestern USA. Midwesterners seem to deny this, but do you think they have an accent?

Maybe the midwestern accent seems more ambiguous or less pronounced than other accents?

If anything there may not be such thing as a Western accent because most establishments out west are relatively new, with relatively little history, and there’s probably a small majority of people out west who are not from there.

no, there isn’t..