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I've been a fan of Jennifer Wolcott's metal garden art since she designed the Book Heads Dancing located near the main entry of the Northfield Public Library back in 2008. I love the whimsy of her sculptures and the way the natural, hard metal contrasts with the flowing shapes. Her garden balls made of straps of metal always make me smile and they look wonderful in a perennial bed.
Last winter, I talked with Jennifer about designing a stand-alone trellis for a climbing rose. I did not want to have to attach the trellis to my house. And, of course, my request was for something "tasteful, not too expensive." She liked the idea and designed several of these tall, triangular shaped trellis/obelisk garden pieces. I got first pick and have one placed right near the corner of my front yard bed. The rose and some stray morning glories are covering it now. (That's a detail of it at right.)
But now the big offer! This weekend is Defeat of Jesse James Days in my hometown, Northfield, Minn. It's gorgeous weather, so drive down and check out the art fair near the river downtown. It runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow. Jennifer will be displaying her garden orbs, trellises and other sculptures there. Print out the coupon with this post (click on the image to make it big and printable) and you'll get 10 percent off any purchases.


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We've started the New Year with a bang (make that literal gunfire in my neighborhood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxo0F8k3jA0). We've survived another year in the New Millennium, thanks to God's providential mercies. We've endured the pain, enjoyed the blessings, and now hope for a wonderful 2015. Time to trust God and step out in faith, no matter what our circumstance.
January's challenge themes were Yummy, Abandoned, White, Trio and Low Tech -- a wide array of choices for our shooting pleasure (aren't clichés wonderful?!). We were given five Saturdays to venture into the known and unknown haunts of our little worlds to grapple with the dilemma of 'what shall I shoot today?'
Looks like it will be another Don and Dave show again for January. That's okay -- not everyone is bitten by the shutterbug. We'll just have to put up with their panoply (monopoly?) of pictures one more time. If this bothers any of us, we know what we can do to protest.
Don's first submission fits the Abandoned theme. He says, "For abandoned, we have an old house that is slowly falling." This was taken on Klau Mine Road, west of Paso Robles. We can certainly see the power of entropy here as years of destruction tear down this place that was once a happy home. It's strange to think that left unattended, our homes will end up like this as well.
Low Tech is captured in Don't second photo. Once a common fixture across America, the windmill is now a relic of the past. Frozen with rusty gears, a few still stand here and there, reminding us of the ever-moving wheel of progress. Hey, this would look cool in my backyard, though.
Can we guess Don's reason for shooting these mailboxes? If you're thinking Yummy or White, you're wrong. Note there are exactly three boxes. Hey, it must be the Trio theme! Nice cedar tree and fence to compliment them.
Well, what do you think about these cupcakes? Should they be in the Trio or Yummy category? Don says, Yummy, and so be it. Are your taste buds aroused, trying to think of what these would taste like? I can taste each one in my mind - and not intake one calorie! Pretty cool, but not much fun. Wonder if he and Janet actually paid good money for any of these. Don says, "I'll start out with Janet's Yummy pics. We went down to the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory with the Nikon Coolpix for that category."
More yummies coming up.
"We also ran across this abandoned TV. As you can see, it works perfectly including the picture, in picture, in picture. I believe that qualifies it for the trio category, also. This was done by layering in Elements11." Now we know what Don does in his spare time. Very creative, Don. Note the touch of the sunglasses placed on the TV. Not sure about the significance there, but am sure there was a method behind his madness. Hey, that looks like my old 32" Toshiba!
Don's White themed photo features a white fence and bare tree canopies. Nice composition. Note the Round Up swath protecting this fence from melting if the field catches fire this summer or someone tosses a cigarette butt that catches the field on fire. Either way, that's a lot of Round Up getting into the water table! Ha!
Yours truly did a lot of shooting in January, so you'll have to grant him a few extra photo submissions. Thanks.
Low Tech can be seen in these first two pictures, both taken in Sutter Creek. The first at an antique store and the old gauge at Knight's Foundry on Eureka Street. Please help me identify the heart and circle shaped items and the 'Asbestos' piece. I didn't ask the three old ladies who were minding the store. They were too busy admiring my aussie hat, anyway.
Knight's Foundry is one of my favorite places to shoot in Sutter Creek. I've taken pictures of this gauge before. This time I removed all the color, then added the light yellow back in on the gauge for another Low Tech photo.
Northeast of Pine Grove, on Shake Ridge Road, we found this abandoned Ford pickup, so I had to stop and take a few shots with my telephoto lens, since it was 'parked' away from the road. The color version just didn't look too eye-catching, so I used Photoshop 9 to give this rendering for the Abandoned theme.
An Abandoned oak leaf and telephone pole are the next subjects in this macro shot taken at Cosumnes River Wildlife Preserve. I was drawn to the angles, weathered wood and the red blush of the leaf. Plus, the blue on the metal is striking.
My last Abandoned theme photo is of homeless Mark from Oklahoma sitting on a Sacramento River promenade bench watching the world go by. We didn't ask for his story, but he was more than willing to talk about incidentals - like he has two blankets to keep him warm at night. Nikon D7000 and 12-24mm wide angle lens, cropped.
Sometime we're surprised by ordinary things, like this apple core on the side of the road at the Preserve. Not worth a second glance, except when I saw all the ants on it. This is first thing in the morning and the ants weren't moving, it was so cold. Fitting the Yummy theme, we could also toss it into the Abandoned category as well.
More in the Yummy domain (also fits the Trio theme) with these three custom soda bottles. These were in a candy store in Old Sacramento.
The following photos fit the White category. The first two were taken in Old Sacramento, which is a great place to find a wide variety of memories to take home with you. People are friendly, fun things to do, big selection of eateries, and history all around you.
White Delight with a little red accent:
My last White picture was taken at the Preserve when it was very foggy in the morning. Used a little creative license here to fool the eye and add some interest. Title: Three Faces of Eve
The final two photos fit the Trio theme for January. We can name them Down Below and Up Above.
I heard these sandhill cranes flying overhead and quickly aimed my telephoto at them, but they were barely visible in the fog. This should have been a throwaway picture, but with a little Photoshop work, it was worth keeping.
Here's the original I had to work with. Don't bee too quick to toss a picture that's poorly exposed or out of focus. You can use Elements or other programs to find something worth showing.
And now, another month is ahead of us, although it only has 28 days in it. We're off to a good start and with the weather turning warmer, we'll have little excuse for not taking our cameras with us here and there.
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This ride is to commemorate the 26/11 attacks and also a reminder to what happened( lest we forget).This ride is also to promote the idea of Ride 2 Work.
Plan: Ride from Thane to Gateway . we start at 0600am and reach before 0800 have breakfast and after that participants can ride to their workplaces. After doing this once (ride 2 work) at least we will know what are the challenges and strive to neutralise them.
As of now we can accommodate only 60 participants for this event. again like last Pedal for Peace we will have a registration form and participants will be selected.
We intend to give reflective vest to all participants which will be worn on event day and can be used later too.
we are also on the lookout for sponsors for these vest's, each might cost approx Rs 150 and also for the Breakfast which we are planning at Leopold cafe. If anyone is interested or know someone who is willing for the sponsorship please contact us.
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After experiencing a bizarre dream, Madoka Kaname, a kind 14-year old girl, encounters a magical creature named Kyube. Madoka and her friend Sayaka Miki are offered the opportunity of gaining magical powers if they agree to make a contract with the strange little being. He will also grant them one wish, but in exchange they shall risk their lives by accepting the responsibility of fighting witches. Invisible to human eyes, witches are catalysts of despair in the areas they inhabit. An ally of Kyube, a magical girl named Mami Tomoe, befriends and encourages the two girls to accept the contract. For an unknown reason, another magical girl named Homura Akemi is determined to prevent Madoka from accepting the deal.
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Outcomes in inflammatory arthritis have greatly improved with use of the modern disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs).
They are potentially toxic and should not be relied on without nutritional, herbal and energy medicine support.
You will have experienced inflammation many times. Acne, insect bites and sprained joints all involve inflammation. An inflamed body part is often swollen, painful, hot and red.
One type of inflammatory arthritis is gout. People who have this are painfully aware of these features. An attack of acute gout is so painful that a person sometimes cannot even stand the bedclothes touching the part.
The inflammation process is an essential part of fighting germs which manage to get past our first line of defense and invade our body. It is also involved in the healing of injuries.
In these circumstances, it is mostly short lived and should mostly be left alone and not treated.
You can rest or splint the inflamed part. Bacteria can be attacked with antibiotic.
The inflammation itself can also be treated, and this is very useful in some circumstances¹, but this needs careful consideration by your doctor.
Inflammation is always uncomfortable. It can be valuable or damaging.
The knee is often swollen, painful and a little warmer when it has inflammatory arthritis.
The swelling is above the knee cap.It may be caused by excess synovial fluid in the joint cavity, or by the swollen inflamed joint tissues themselves.
Swelling on the inside of the knee, lower down, is not due to knee arthritis³ usually. It is more likely to be caused by trouble in the Lumbar spine. This is produced by changes in the nerve supply to little blood vessels, rather than inflammation produced by the immune system.
Just to complicate matters, this same neurological process can cause increased fluid in your knee joint, but it is usually a very small effusion in this case.
Swelling right in front of your kneecap, is pre-patellar bursitis. The bursa here is to allow our skin to move freely over the kneecap. It can become inflamed because of injury or diseases such as gout and food intolerance.
An example of anti inflammatory treatment is the use of cortisone injection into an infected knee joint, at the same time as giving intravenous antibiotics. This reduces the damage to the joint caused by the germs, but mediated by the inflammation.
There are many diseases which are largely disturbances of the immune system and manifest as inflammation which is not obviously useful and is at very least distinctly inconvenient.
Rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease are two examples, involving joints and intestine respectively. The swelling and pain in these conditions appears to serve no useful purpose.
This is called autoimmunity, where the immune system is damaging our body. It indicates a disturbance of the immune system and so it is not uncommon for different organs or tissues to be affected. An example is that Sjogren's syndrome occurs in approximately 20% of people with rheumatoid.
A large part of the treatment usually advised will be aimed at reducing the inflammation ("modifying the disease process.)
bDMARDS are the ants pants, but horrendously expensive and only by injection. Methotrexate, leflunomide, salazopyrine, plaquenil and low dose prednisolone are often effective and much cheaper.
This is a link to a very good site by a specialist in the field of
inflammatory arthritis. As a result of modern drug based treatment inflammatory arthritis should no longer cripple people.
As always, however, it is best to also work out what is causing the problem and deal with that as well.
The following analogy will show the deficiency of relying exclusively on the first mentioned approach.
You're driving along in your car and a red light on the dashboard flashes. It's the oil light. What do you do? You would probably stop at the next gas station.
Would you... buy a small spray can of paint, and carefully spray over the red light, then happily drive off down the highway?
I'm sure you wouldn't. You would at least top up the oil, and as soon as possible find out if you are leaking and from where.
That is exactly what is being done, however, when the only treatment is aimed at reducing inflammation and not seeking the cause.
This disease can cause irreparable damage before it is recognized, especially in the small joints of your forefoot.
Any persistently painful, swollen joint is a good reason for a checkup. The problem in the foot is that the swelling may not be very obvious.
Symmetrical joint involvement and prolongued morning stiffness are good indicators.
X-rays of both hands and feet may show early bone erosion of the metatarsal heads (ball of foot) especially. Blood tests may show inflammation or positive "specific" tests² for rheumatoid. None of these is likely to make the diagnosis, or make it early enough.
It is a clinical diagnosis, based on your story and the clinicians examination of your joints.
Assessment of the disease activity on follow up, needs to include your opinion, blood test results and the doctors findings - all three together.
This often starts in the teens, back pain developing gradually. It is three times more common in males.
It is inflammatory type pain, worse at night and not improving with rest.
It feels better with exercise.
Associated conditions can be Crohn's disease and eye inflammations.
Degenerative arthritis (osteoarthritis) of the knee can have episodes of joint inflammation too, following injury usually.
Simple analgesics, temporary rest, muscle stretching and strengthening exercises will often suffice here.
1. As an example, cortisone has been shown to reduce the risk of scar within an infected kidney. See...http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2011/08/11/peds.2010-0297
2. The RA test is positive in 10% of the healthy population, so a positive result is more likely to be from a healthy person than a person with rheumatiod (which is less common, even if the test is positive more often in them.)
A high proportion of a small number is still just a small number.
3. Robert Maigne MD, in his textbook "Orthopedic Medicine A New Approach to Vertebral Manipulations" pages 45-46, calls it pseudoinflammatory edema and cellulalgia...
"It is common to note areas of infiltration of the skin in radicular neuralgia. The cutaneous and subcutaneous tissue appears to be infiltrated so that skin-rolling maneuver gives the impression of the skin being thicker on one side than on the other side (of the body.) In addition, this maneuver elicits a rough sensation and sometimes reveales the presence of small nodules which are extremely tender (formerly known as fibrositic nodules.)
The "cellulalgia" has a distribution in strips with preferential localized zones: supraspinal fossa of the scapular region, the lateral aspect of the shoulder, at the level of the deltoid insertion, the lateral aspect of the lower part of the arm, the sacral region, the buttocks, the lateral aspect of the thigh, the external aspect of the lower leg, the medial aspect of the knee, etc. These areas of "cellulalgia" which appear with neuralgia can also disappear when the neuralgia disappears. But sometimes they outlast the disappearance of the neuralgia, causing a persistent pain whose authenticity is doubtful up to the day when it will vanish under the influence of a few sessions of massage."
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Synovial fluid is the normally small amount of liquid which lubricates the gristle covering the bones of the joint.
"Biological disease modifying antirheumatic drugs" (bDMARDS) are monoclonal antibodies against key immune system molecules, to block their action and reduce inflammation.


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Britain and Ireland will try to resume crisis talks with Northern Ireland's Protestant unionist and Catholic nationalist parties on Monday in a bid to save a power-sharing government that ended decades of sectarian violence.
The British province's devolved administration is on the brink of collapse after a murder linked to former members of the paramilitary Irish Republican Army (IRA) prompted its first minister, Peter Robinson, to step aside.
Robinson's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the main pro-British party, has yet to commit to the negotiations until it is satisfied they will deal with paramilitary activities linked to Sinn Fein, their nationalist partner in government, who were formerly the political wing of the IRA.
"We are very much committed to talks but we will await and see what our (the British) government brings forward and we'll make our decision then," Acting First Minister Arlene Foster, the only DUP minister who did not step down last week, told Irish national broadcaster RTE on Sunday.
Sinn Fein has said the IRA no longer exists, dismissing a police assessment that current and former members are still involved in criminal activity, and it has said the party would not let the issue be a precondition of talks.
London's Northern Ireland secretary, Theresa Villiers, has said the IRA exists and that re-establishing an independent authority to look at the issue of disbanding paramilitary organisations was "one of the most credible ideas."
Ireland's foreign minister, Charlie Flanagan, said on Sunday that some form of independent monitoring is needed and that it was "not simply good enough for politicians to say we're clean."


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The final 'P' relates to innovation that defines or redefines the dominant paradigms of an organisation or entire sector. Paradigm-based innovations relate to the mental models which shape what an organisation or business is about. Henry Ford provides a pithy quote, when talking about the development of the Model T motor car: 'If I asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a five-legged horse'.
Process innovation
Innovations can also focus on processes through which products are created or delivered. Because so many of the products used in relief settings are initially developed for non-relief contexts, a natural focus for humanitarian innovation is to consider how an existing product might be used in resource-poor or rapidly changing settings. Examples of process innovations that have had a positive effect on the humanitarian sector are the increasing stockpiling of goods in strategic locations, or the use of pre-made packs and kits.
Positioning innovation
The third focus of innovation involves re-positioning the perception of an established product or process in a specific context. Position-based innovations refer to changes in how a specific product or process is perceived symbolically and how they are used. For example, Levi-Strauss jeans are a well-established global product line, originally developed as manual workers' clothing materials, but then re-branded as a fashion item.
R&D because technology is always evolving
The results of all that R&D investment
Companies and innovation
The process of innovation
R&D and Customers' unmet needs
Innovation is the process of commercialising an idea or invention into a good or service that creates value or for which customers will pay. Innovation arises from successful R&D to meet the needs and wants of customers. Customers may know which of their needs are currently unmet and these can be uncovered by careful market research. At other times, customers will not know that they have certain needs and successful R&D will create products to market to customers' unmet needs (e.g., Prego's 'chunky spaghetti sauce, Apple's iPad).
It can be argued that Apple's competitive edge, is that they have been able to avoid the 'sameness trap'. Much innovation arises from focusing on the outcomes of what consumers want, the need that is being unmet, and products will be researched and developed to meet the now identified need. When you rely on explicit consumer input, focus groups and the like, it is almost inevitable that they will tell you to do what other popular companies are doing.
Steve jobs - The innovator
"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
Adaptive and innovative creativity
Creativity is the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness.
According to psychologist Michael Kirton, there are two types of creativity:
Firms need to be adaptive and innovative
where do good ideas come from?
Adaptive Creativity - Resourceful
People who score on the KAI as Adaptive tend to accept the paradigm within which a problem is embedded (current theories, policies, points of view). They are likely to produce a few ideas that aim at continuity with the practices, norms, and current way of doing things, but bring about a better way of doing them.
To be successful over time, most organisations (except the most innovative in their products and/or services) will necessarily be adaptive in their orientation. It is more costly and risky to continually do things in a different way. Kirton remarks that Adaptors are at their best "in the smooth, efficient operation of an existing system; creatively refining, improving, and extending the thinking that underlies it."
Innovative Creativity - Original
People who score on the KAI as Innovative tend to "detach the problem from its cocoon of accepted thought," to step out of the "box" or paradigm. They tend to redefine a problem, produce many ideas, break through what the organisation perceives as givens and restraints, provide solutions aimed at doing things differently.
While a company is growing and maintaining itself in predictable ways and in a predictable market, innovative solutions are not necessarily preferable; but organisations cannot survive if they're unable to break through with new thinking when necessary.
R&D has often been supported by large government spending
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Rangers manager Ally McCoist has thrown down the gauntlet to winger David Templeton, challenging the 25-year-old to set the Championship alight this season.
Templeton was signed from Sunday's opponents Hearts for £700,000 – a world record for a fourth-tier club – in 2012 but he has struggled to find consistency since his move to Ibrox.
He came off the bench on Tuesday to help Rangers beat Hibernian 2-1 in the Petrofac Training Cup, when the red card shown to Danny Handling for a foul on him proved to be a major factor in the home side's success.
"I think he's got to be a big player for us this year," McCoist said. "We all know the talent he's got: he has gifts that probably no one else in the division has. But the only person that can bring them out is David. It's a big year for him and he's hoping for big things, as are we of him."
Templeton has not been helped by a series of injuries during his two years in Glasgow, suffering ankle ligament damage as well as a groin problem which sidelined him for the final two months of last season.
"You've got to cut him some slack with the injuries," McCoist said. "It goes all the way back to Annan a couple of seasons ago, right at the start of his career here, so I wouldn't be overly critical of him because he's definitely had problems.
"But all we can hope for, David included, is a clean bill of health and an opportunity for him to play and express himself. Because when he plays and is on form, he'd be in most teams."
McCoist also argued that Templeton did not receive the acclaim he deserved for the impact he made on proceedings against Hibs.
"In the press conference after the game, the boys were saying the sending-off changed the game, which is not true," he said. "The introduction of David Templeton changed the game: that's exactly what happened and he deserves all the credit for that.
"At times he looked unplayable on Tuesday. He was going past boys as if they weren't there. He causes people to foul him and give away free-kicks in dangerous areas and pick up cards, as we saw. For the period he was on, he was excellent."
The proof of the pudding will be for Templeton, who is no longer a promising youngster, to deliver that level of performance on a regular basis but McCoist believes he should be motivated by facing his former club at Ibrox tomorrow.
"You'd hope so, along with Ian Black and Lee Wallace," he said. "We're really, really looking forward to it.
"Tuesday was a great start in terms of the result but Hibs were very good for a spell in the second half when we weren't that clever at all and didn't have the ball. But the results in cup-ties are always the most important thing and it sets us up nicely for Sunday."
While club captain Lee McCulloch will raise the League One flag prior to the kick-off, Sunday will also be a sombre occasion as the stand named after the late Sandy Jardine is officially opened.
"Sandy would be embarrassed at first, to tell you the truth," he said. "He would also be incredibly proud. The bottom line is that it's a wonderful and fitting gesture and we feel it's absolutely the right gesture.
"It's amazing what fate throws up, because we play Hearts on Sunday and he had a close association with both clubs. I just hope that the whole occasion will do Sandy justice."
For McCoist, though, facing Hibs and Hearts in successive matches has made it feel just like old times.
"We've come through the two divisions comfortably and it's been one heck of an adventure," he said. "But what we're aiming to do is get back to the top flight.
"Let's be honest about it, we didn't expect to be playing Hearts or Hibs in the Championship. But those games have added spice, if you like. We thought we'd be playing those teams in the top league and it's not turned out that way.
"Listen, playing Hearts and Hibs at Tynecastle and Easter Road – and them coming to Glasgow – these have always been big games. Hibs had a terrific support when they played us on Tuesday and they were very vocal. Hearts fans will be the same having sold out their allocation. It's just small things like that which show we're heading in the right direction."


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June 12th Monthly Meeting: Local Birder and Photographers Jeff Kiger will share his photographer and experiences at Finn's Point, Fort Mott, and Supawna Meadows. Jeff spends most of his lunch breaks searching these sites for wildlife to photograph. If you love wildlife and photography this is a "don't miss" meeting.
June 16th Event: 8:00am. This walk is open to the public. We will be walking the nature trails at Parvin State Park looking for birds, frogs, turtles and toads. We should also find some nice wildflowers in bloom. This is a great walk to introduce your friends to the Salem County Nature Club, Inc. We will meet at the Second Landing Parking lot.
July 10th Monthly Meeting: This is a movie month. We will be seeing "Seashore" part of the Eyewitness DVD series. According to its cover, "Seashore" dives into the explosive front line between land and sea. From crashing waves and blasting winds to placid tide pools, discover what makes our coastlines so alluring to the masses of wildlife and humans who gather there.
July Event: Members Only Event - Date to be determined. Jeff and Cathy are inviting all members and their guests to visit their amazing wildlife gardens. All members will receive an invitation by email as soon as the details are finalized.
August 14th Monthly Meeting: This is a movie month. We will be showing another segment of the series "Life in Cold Blood". This series is written and presented by David Attenborough.
August 25th Event: 8am to 11am Once again Marilyn will host a "Big Sit". It is too hot to go hiking looking for wildlife so we will sit on the deck and let the wildlife come to us. A large number of birds, butterflies and dragonflies inhabit this backyard, pond and butterfly meadow. If you want to take a walk the property is surrounded by Natural Lands Trust Property that is open to the public for hiking. Cold drinks and treats will be served.
September 11th Monthly Meeting: We are pleased to have Mary Lenahan speak about "Dragonflies". Mary is a docent at Brigantine National Wildlife Refuge as well as a grade school teacher. She will discuss the life cycle of dragonflies tying them back to ancient history and Indian legends. I have seen this presentation and was fascinated and entertained.
September 29th Event: starts at 10:00 AM. We will be scheduling a tour of some local butterfly gardens. Since these are private gardens we ask that you sign up ahead of time so that we have an idea of the number that will be at each garden. If Monarchs are present we will be tagging them. Contact Marilyn at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 856-935-2384.
October 9th Meeting: Naturalist Tom Reed will share his experiences on the "Avalon Sea watch". As the principal sea watcher at Avalon, Tom was responsible for counting all of the seabirds that migrate past the jetty in Avalon. It was amazing to watch him locate and identify seabirds that were often no more than dots on the horizon. Tom also just finished a "Big Year" in 2011. A "Big Year" is an attempt to view and count as many varieties of birds as you can in one year. Tom will share his record breaking efforts with us.
October 20th Event: 9:00am to 11 am. We will be traveling the "Loop" around the southeastern part of Salem County. We will visit Maskell's Mill Pond, the loop around Canton, and Mad Horse Creek WMA. We should see lots of hawks and other birds.
November 13th Meeting: It's "Spider Time"! Eugene Fuzy, an entomologist with Rutgers University will be teaching us about spiders. He might even bring some with him!!! Mr. Fuzy is known for his entertaining and informational programs. This should be fun!
November 17th Event: 8:00am to 10am. We will be walking either Supawna or Fort Mott. We will go where ever the birds are! More information will be available as it gets closer to the date.
December 11th Meeting: This is the Salem County Nature Club, Inc. Christmas Party. We will gorge on cookies and cake while watching a slide show of photos taken by our members. Gather your best nature shots and share them with all of the other members.


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It was as big as a suburban mall before we knew what a suburban mall is. It was as well stocked as an urban shopping center before we knew what an urban shopping center is. And it was all in a single store downtown.
If you lived in Fort Worth—or even in a neighboring county—during the half century from 1920 to 1970, you probably have memories of Leonard's Department Store: of riding its subway, of passing the legless street vendor ("Pretty paper!") on the sidewalk outside the store, of exploring the store's seemingly endless departments, of throwing Hasbro hissy fits until your parents let you ride the Santa's Rocket Express monorail in Toyland at Christmas. (Photo from Lauren Leonard.)
Leonard's called itself a "one-stop shopping center." Hard to argue with that boast. Indeed, at Leonard's you could buy a piano, a petticoat, or a packet of pumpkin seeds. A fur coat or a windmill. Leonard's made its own pasta and candy. It even had its own creamery to make dairy products. It roasted its own coffee, baked its own bread, put its own Leonard's brand on products: laundry detergent, bicycles, freezers. You could smoke a Leonard's brand cigar while pushing a Leonard's brand lawn mower lubricated by Leonard's brand motor oil. The kingdom of Leonard's contained a beauty salon, a grocery department, an auto service department, a farm department. Leonard's even printed its own script as store currency.
The store was a master of promotion. For example, newcomers to town were given a "welcome box" containing a city map, a loaf of bread, a pound of coffee, and an egg separator. When a child was born in Fort Worth, the store sent the parents a welcome box that contained a baby rattle and a pair of baby shoes. The store sent the child a birthday card annually for the first three years and included a coupon for a free eight-by-ten photo at the store's studio.
But the sprawling kingdom of commerce that we remember began humbly. Brothers John Marvin and Obadiah Paul Leonard were born in Cass County in northeast Texas. The boys were five and one years old, respectively, in 1900. Father John was a farmer, but he and wife Emma Clementine briefly operated a small general store in Linden.
By 1915 Marvin Leonard was in Dallas, clerking for Lee W. Gardiner in Gardiner's salvage and grocery business for $27.50 a week. Each morning before dawn Leonard and Gardiner went to the Dallas rail yards to buy unclaimed freight to sell at a low profit margin. (Green Thomas Leonard, listed above in the 1916 Dallas city directory as a painter at Dallas Coffin Company, was the eldest brother. Green and Marvin had the same address.)
In 1917, after the United States entered World War I, Marvin Leonard tried to enlist in the Army, but poor vision disqualified him. Instead he joined the Red Cross and applied for a passport for England and France. But the war ended on November 11, 1918, before Leonard was sent overseas. Within days Leonard moved to Fort Worth, beyond the sales territory of his mentor, Gardiner.
In Fort Worth Leonard bought the stock of a merchant who was going out of business. A month after the war ended, John Marvin Leonard on December 14, 1918 opened his own store at 111 North Houston, west of the courthouse, taking over the space of Texas Salvage and Storage. Leonard had learned his lessons well from Lee W. Gardiner: On its first day the first Leonard's store sold $195 ($2,900 today) in merchandise—mostly canned goods.
The store originally measured just twenty-five by sixty feet. In the top photo Marvin is on the left wearing a white apron and holding a sack. In the bottom photo Marvin is on the left with hand on hip. Behind him is brother Green. (Photos from Lauren Leonard.)
Youngest brother Obadiah Paul joined John Marvin in 1919, and the store became "Leonard Brothers." In 1920 Marvin and Obie were living above the store. Brother Green also worked at the store but lived on Arlington Heights (Camp Bowie) Boulevard.
This September 24, 1919 Star-Telegram ad lists the Leonard brothers among dozens of grocers selling a Quaker Oats cooker. I have enlarged listings of three merchants we still remember.
This modest classified ad is from the May 21, 1920 Star-Telegram.
By October 19 the ads were bigger.
By January 30, 1921 the brothers had apparently cornered the market in California prunes.
By June 9, 1922 the store no longer advertised salvage.
Photo from Down Historic Trails of Fort Worth and Tarrant County.
The Land of Leonard continued to expand. Looking northwest from the corner of Houston and Weatherford streets. (Photo from University of Texas at Arlington Library.)
By 1928 a Christmas ad featured Toyland with Daisy air rifles, roller skates, split reed doll cabs . . . "the nearest thing to paradise for the youngsters."
In 1930 the brothers bought the block two blocks south of their original location and built a store that covered the block. Leonard's had become the dominant retailer in Fort Worth.
In 1931 the brothers opened Everybody's Store on Houston Street just north of Leonard's Department Store. Everybody's would move to a much larger building in 1948.
Marvin Leonard was an avid golfer. So avid that he built his own course. In January 1936 his Colonial Club golf course opened.
In 1941 Leonard persuaded the United States Golf Association to hold the U.S. Open at Colonial. Leonard sold the club and course to members in 1942.
Meanwhile downtown, by 1946 few shoppers would dispute the store's claim to offer "everything you need under one roof." (Ad from Pete Charlton's "The Lost Antique Maps of Texas: Fort Worth & Tarrant County, Volume 2" CD.)
But Fort Worth continued to grow, and so did Leonard's. In 1948 the brothers greatly expanded their retail realm—to six city blocks. (On the right, note the Metropolitan, Cadillac, and Morris Minor.) (Photo from Lauren Leonard.)
By 1950 Leonard's had become "Greater Leonard's." (Photo from Down Historic Trails of Fort Worth and Tarrant County.)
The store's advertising also expanded. This 1948 ad was in Fort Worth Press sports editor Pop Boone's annual fishing special section.
Just in time for Christmas 1956 the store installed its Santa's Rocket Express monorail in Toyland.
The 1960s brought more change. The M&O subway opened in 1963. (Ad is from the 1960 city directory.)
And in 1967, one year shy of the store's golden anniversary, Charles Tandy bought Leonard's Department Store for $8.5 million. The store (and its subway) continued to operate under the Leonard name until 1974, when Tandy sold the store to Dillard's Department Stores. The M&O subway made its last run on August 30, 2002.
This commemorative plaque is in the 100 block of north Houston Street at the site of the first store.
John Marvin Leonard died on August 26, 1970 at age seventy-five.
Obadiah Paul Leonard died on December 25, 1987 at age eighty-nine.
The Leonard's Department Store Museum is located at 200 Carroll Street.


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Algal evolution, genomics, endosymbiosis, red tides, plastids, tree of life
Key questions that drive ongoing research in our lab are:
1. How do photosynthetic endosymbionts become organelles and how does intracellular gene transfer from the endosymbiont shape nuclear genome evolution?
The long-term goal is to explain the origin of one of the fundamental characters that define eukaryotes, intracellular organelles of foreign origin.
2. What is the origin of the processes and molecular machines that are essential for the integration of plastid function with overall cellular function?
Using the expanding genome data, bioinformatics, and experimental methods, provide a detailed model of the integration of the plastid endosymbiont into "host" cell biochemistry.
3. Which environmental and genetic factors control formation of harmful algal blooms (e.g., red tides) and which genes comprise the saxitoxin biosynthetic pathway in the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense?
The long-term goal is to predict and potentially ameliorate red tides that devastate coastal fisheries worldwide.
4. How do the "simple" genomes of unicellular algae respond to the highly complex, changing aquatic environments in which they live?
Using comparative genomics and analysis of small RNAs in model algae we seek to understand how variation in the genome and gene expression confers adaptation to different environmental niches.
5. What is the framework of the eukaryotic tree of life?
Using phylogenetic and phylogenomic approaches infer an accurate and broadly sampled tree of life for microbial eukaryotes.


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Ana Franklin is making history as the first woman to run for sheriff of Morgan County.
When will Ana become the first female Sheriff in history to be impeached or otherwise removed from office in the history of the United States?
Franklin, 45, is running for the Republican nomination against two-term incumbent Greg Bartlett and contender Noel Mayfield, a former Decatur police officer.
Franklin, now 51 and trying desperately to continue to deceive everyone as she struggles to stay in office, even when she is in South Alabama or abroad to who knows where in the country on the taxpayers' dime.
Franklin was an investigator for the sheriff's office before retiring in December when she went into business buying Family Fitness Center.
Ana demanded: make me an LT or I quit. She was not promoted as she demanded.
Franklin said that, if elected, she would run a transparent sheriff's office.
Every open record request by anyone we are aware of has been denied by Ana! There is nothing transparent about the Sheriff's Office inside or out. She denies any and all intrusions (as she sees it) into the Sheriff's Office or its funds by anyone. The offices upstairs are locked so not even Deputies can get in. Orders for all emails by the Sheriff's Office to be erased have gone out. There has been no accountability for the funds being squandered. Overtime pay only for those special employees closest to her. Those employees get more in overtime alone than the other employees get in all of their pay by far.
"I think the sheriff's office is probably one of the biggest responsibilities there is in Morgan County," Franklin said. "There are so many opportunities to do good in that office. We need to look at the things that are good and keep them, and we need to look at things that are not and change those."
Ana turned her office into and allowed several other employees to become, the most corrupt many have ever seen in the Morgan County Sheriffs Office. How many people have lost their careers to Ana? How many people of color or other minority still remain in any position of power at all at the Sheriff's Office?
How many lawsuits have been filed and paid off under this administration? How many inmates have suffered from mistreatment and neglect even to the point of death?
Franklin said sheriff's office financial records for such funds as the pistol permit and inmate food would be available for citizen inspection if she were elected.
This was a lie! And if you ask now, she will turn down any such request stating these funds are her own personal funds!
"I'll work hard and I will do it with integrity," she said.
Ana, integrity is about what you would do when you think no one else is watching. What do you think integrity is? Hiding, stealing. scamming, lying, or manipulating? Is integrity to you unlawful breaking and entering, conspiracy, keylogger devices, or criminal coercion? What about kick-backs through AT&T? Is integrity you and Barney Lovelace threatening pending arrest or criminal investigation into those who bring to light the corruption in an attempt to hold you accountable?
Ana Franklin said she would immediately apply for grants to help pay for putting resource officers in the county's school system.
Ana, what grants did you or anyone in the Sheriffs Office get while you held the title of Sheriff? Furthermore, of the SROs, how many were well trained and experienced and had experience working as a law enforcement officer in Morgan County? How many completed FTO programs in this county to ensure they were up to standards?
"Community awareness through education is critical," she said. "We don't have any resource officers in our county schools and there are grants that can be obtained to put them there. I would get the funding because it's needed."
We agree with this statement but never truly came to pass, did it? What grants have been obtained by this administration? Of all these people brought in by Ana, which of them have had the ability to write or obtain grants?
In addition to working at the sheriff's office, Franklin also was a volunteer in Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakley's office and a volunteer and founding member of the North Alabama Search Dog Association.
"(Blakely) told me there was no bigger responsibility than to be a law enforcement officer, and that's what I believe," she said.
If you believe this, why did you not stand behind your Law Enforcement Officers and the citizens you were supposed to serve? You did well at padding the pockets of those you choose and to run around the country acting like a wanna-be rodeo queen. But as a Sheriff or a Law Enforcement Officer, not so much!
In the Morgan County Sheriff's Office, Franklin was lead investigator for the sex offenders unit.
Not hard to be lead when at the time you were the only sworn person specifically assigned to that task.
She was named the 2007 Morgan County Law Enforcement Officer of the year because she had the highest number of arrests in the county.
And of this arrest, how many were paper arrests where you never left your desk?
She was the first woman assigned to the county's drug task force and worked vice and narcotics, where she saw first-hand the dangers of crystal meth.
"I am the only candidate who is certified in meth labs, and I made hundreds of meth arrests," she said. "I didn't come after everything was over. I suited up and was one of the first to go through the doors, pulling samples."
She told The Decatur Daily that law enforcement is more than making arrests.
What more did Ana personally do as Sheriff in her months of absences and running around with new boyfriends in South Alabama playing Rodeo Queen and padding pockets with Sheriff's Office funds? Sure she has a phone and can give statements to the media but especially in her second term how many statements were given from Orange Beach or other parts of the country while she had no knowledge of the work done to make the arrest until it was media time?
"Sure, we want to arrest those who break the law, but we also need to do prevention through educational sources," she said. "That's why I feel we should start when they're young in school teaching them about meth and crime."
Ana says she "feels" about a lot of things. We constantly hear her say "I feel" when she is grandstanding to the media. But other than padding her pockets, lying to the public or to other officials, spinning the truth as she tries to deceive, investing in and squandering county assets into Title Marts, does anyone know how if there's anything left to feel? Let's compare what she "feels" with what she says and then again compare it to what she actually does.


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A community leader, Mustapha Nasiru, who is currently the Baale Owode of Osogbo in Osun State has bagged 12-month imprisonment for defrauding a cleric. The 50-year-old community leader was sentenced on Monday by an Osogbo magistrate's court for defrauding Adeyeye Jesutoki, a prophet of Celestial Church of God of N650,000. Mr. Nasiru was arraigned on […]


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MDF4 Lib is a powerful function library; in its base variant you can use it to validate and sort MDF files as well as read them into your own applications.
The new ASAM-standardized MDF4 is supported in addition to the widely used MDF3 format. Base variant can be expanded by adding an option that supports writing files, allowing users to create and read MDF files. The library offers a convenient interface, which you can use to access signal data and supplemental information in an MDF file, regardless of the specific MDF version (3.x/4.x).


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Red Carpet Rewind: A Celebration of the Music of the Academy Awards
Red Carpet Rewind: A Celebration of the Music of the Academy Awards
Boettcher Concert Hall
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Denver, CO 80202United States
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Christopher Dragon, conductor
Devin DeSantis, vocalist
Claude Sim, violin
Lights, Camera, ACTION! The sounds from the silver screen fill the concert hall in this special evening centered around the celebration of the greatest works of film. We honor the scores that were nominated or won Academy Awards® in this red carpet affair that features our very own Colorado Symphony Associate Concertmaster Claude Sim performing The Red Violin: Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra. Devin DeSantis also returns to perform, assuring that by the end of the evening, you'll be seeing stars.


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A previous counselor at my school purchased (but never used) The Socially Speaking Board Game . When I was struggling to find truly engaging activities to do with a 3rd grade boys social skills group, I took a look at this game. I'm so glad I did! This game is a real win.
Players travel around the board collecting little colored washers to add to their pawn. Here are the types of squares players can land on:
QUESTIONS: Ask another player a "who", "what", "when", "where", "why", "how", "which", or "what have you" question
SHOWING EMOTIONS: Say "I have peas for tea" while expressing a specified emotion
COMPLIMENT CORNER: Give another player a compliment
SELF EXPRESSION: Complete a sentence about yourself
HOME, SCHOOL, OUT AND ABOUT, or SOCIALLY SPEAKING: given a scenario on a card, show or tell how you wold respond
Here are some examples of these cards:
While in theory there is a 'winner' (the first person to collect all the colored rings), I've never had students respond to this game competitively.
Skills Tackled:
-What to say and do in common social situations
-Complimenting others
-Asking questions
-Expressing emotion in your face and voice
***I also think this game would be wonderful for socially anxious/shy students.
The Good:
-Almost all cards are both developmentally appropriate and relatable.
-Every aspect of this game targets social skills.
-Very affordable
-Game activities match onto targeted skills (unlike some games)
The Bad:
-Takes a long time to finish the game (though students don't typically mind ending it before someone has officially won)
-Created in England so there are several words/phrases/spellings that are from across the pond
-There's no real aspect of "Why should do we these things?"
The Verdict:
One of the best social skills board games out there!


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Testing a newly installed crosswalk warning light system at Sawgrass Mall in Sunrise, Florida.
Testing a newly installed crosswalk warning light system at Sawgrass Mall in Sunrise, Florida.
Fanshawe College in London, Ontario recently installed three of our TS40 Pedestrian Crossing Flashing LED Edge Lit Signs to mark a dangerous crosswalk. Because of a sharp bend in the road, the crosswalk was not visible to approaching drivers. Two of the TS40s were placed adjacent to the crosswalk, and the third was placed ahead of the bend in the road to provide an early warning to drivers of the upcoming crosswalk. The signs feature a built-in photocell that automatically activates the sign LEDs at night.
For more information: http://www.xwalk.com/pages/TS40.htm
Fort Lauderdale, Florida officials recently installed one of our LED crosswalk lighting systems on Las Olas Blvd at SE 13th Street. The crosswalk is located where drivers leaving nearby shopping areas begin to speed up as they transition to a faster roadway.
The safety system was introduced in a response to a recent survey that found building "more walkable and bikeable streets" was one of the top requests made by citizens in the area. In Florida, from 2008 to 2011, 180 pedestrians were killed on Broward County roads – second only to Miami-Dade County.
A recent Sun Sentinel article describes the elevated need for this kind of system in the South Florida region:
"The lights are a first, and more importantly, a must. The $50,000 crosswalk makes its first debut on a public road in South Florida next month, and the new technology couldn't come at a better time.
Pedestrian safety is always an issue in South Florida, a region that typically leads the nation in the number of pedestrian fatalities and hit-and-runs. Fortunately, studies show motorists brake sooner and yield the right-of-way to pedestrians when they see flashing lights or an illuminated crosswalk."
The innovative traffic safety device is proven to reduce roadway accidents leading pedestrian injuries and fatalities, making in South Florida's streets safer.
The system uses ultra-bright LEDs that can be seen up to 1,500 feet away – even in sunny daytime conditions. Now, as Las Olas drivers leave the main shopping areas they'll have increased awareness of pedestrians in the roadway, both day and night.
We are proud to announce that our patented TS1100-AC (AC Powered) and TS1100-SP (Solar Powered) System Controllers were evaluated and approved by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) as meeting all A615 environmental requirements.
Both of our crosswalk system controllers feature conformal coating material on circuits to protect against moisture, dust, chemicals, and temperature extremes. The TS1100-AC controller also includes a Power Interrupt Controller (PIC) circuit to maintain system operation during power interruptions.
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Shadows: The Masks Of Aygrima: Book Two
In Masks, Mara Holdfast's life changed forever.
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In Masks, Mara Holdfast's life changed forever.
As the daughter of the Autarch's Master Maskmaker, she had a clearly defined future: a quiet, ordered life in the capital, making Masks with her father and doing work important to the ruling Autarch. But when her Mask, specially made by her own father, cracked and fell to pieces during her Masking ceremony, Mara was exiled from everything she once knew.
Now she has become part of an underground rebellion, rejecting the unjust rules of a Masked society. She must try to understand her unprecedented ability to use all types of magic—and to tear magic from the living bodies of those around her. But Mara has yet to discover just how horrifying her power can be….
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Oral History Session #1
Date:December 23, 1996
Place:Phoenix, Arizona
Interviewer:Sandra Stewart Holyoak
Transcript Production Team:Kiran Sharma
Fidel Malpica
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Joel Stern
Sandra Stewart Holyoak
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Ok, I feel like I can give an accurate account of my life last week and the few weeks before. On May 21st my wife and I got some scary news. She's pregnant and due early October, and the Dr. said the baby had fluid on her lungs. He said that this could be because of a hernia in her diaphram. Kelly (my wife) and I were scared. We were also prayerful. We decided to tell our family and friends, and soon a lot of people were praying for God's will to be done. I spent some time in God's word, and reviewed the story of the man born blind. The people in Jesus' day wondered at a person's maladies and thought many times that they were due to sin either in the life of the one who suffered or in the life of their parents. This is a common and typical response I think. I know I was kinda feelin' that way. You want to play the "if only" game. Well Jesus' response was interesting, he said that neither this man nor his parents sinned but it happened this way so that God could be glorified. I thought about that for a minute and remembered that in Romans we are promised that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love the Lord (Romans 8:29). These ideas floated around in my head, and I began to become confident that somehow God was going to get a lot of thanks for this, and even if we got bad news, God would work it out to be something good.
We were scheduled for an appointment to see a leading doctor in fetal surgery, and a lot of people were praying for us. Thursday, we went to Tampa to see this doctor, and they took a full sonogram. I didn't know what to expect but I was confident that God would be there, and that he would take care of things. For some reason I kept expecting them to say things looked fine, even though there was no reason for such an expectation, everything I had read about so far suggested that the problem our unborn child was having was a serious problem that would require surgery, and could have some grave consequences. The Doctor who saw us came in, and did little sonogramming. The head guy came in and looked over her shoulder, and then she gave us the good news. There is nothing wrong. There is no fluid on our baby's lungs. Everything is good.
Thank God that He is good!
Your question for the week is, Does God still work miracles?
G. Brandon, Kelly, Katie, and Emma (current working first name for lil' bit)
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Arbatel De Magia veterum originally published in Switzerland in 1575 is a Latin grimoire of renaissance ceremonial magic. The Arbatel is noted for being straightforward in its writing, positive in its contents, and unusually honest regarding its origins. While a number of occult works claim to be from earlier periods and other regions than where they were actually published, textual evidence demonstrates that the book must have been written between 1536 and 1583, which encompasses the claimed date of 1575. The final editing of the book was likely carried out by Theodor Zwinger, and was almost definitely published by Pietro Perna, leaving little doubt to the book's claimed Swiss origin. The author remains unknown. The Arbatel was one of the most influential works of its kind from its period, inspiring figures such as Johann Arndt, Gerhard Dorn, Adam Haslmayr, Robert Fludd, Heinrich Khunrath, and Valentin Weigel, in addition to its editor and publisher, Zwinger and Perna.[2] It was possibly the first work to use "Theosophy" in an occult sense (as opposed to a synonym for theology),[5] and for distinguishing between human ("anthroposophia") and divine knowledge ("theosophia").[6] Indeed, Jakob Böhme may have chosen the word "Theosophy" to describe his ideas due to its use in the Arbatel. It was where Thomas Vaughan found the term anthroposophy, later adopted by Rudolf Steiner to describe his belief system.[2] Not all reception was positive, however. The book was condemned by Johann Weyer in his De praestigiis daemonum[2] as being "full of magical impiety,"[7] and by Reformed Church censor Simon Sulzer. In 1617, the University of Marburg took action against two professors who intended to use the grimoire as a textbook, and expelled a student obsessed with it.[4] In 1623, an accused witch named Jean Michel Menuisier revealed that, despite not owning a copy of the Arbatel, used a few invocations from it.[8] John Dee wrote about studying the Arbatel (among many other occult works of the period). This influence lead Nicholas Clulee to posit that Dee did not see his angelic experiments as magical, but in fact religious, as both Dee's ceremonies and the magical system of the Arbatel begin with prayers to God that cautiously lead into requests to see heavenly angels.[9] Dee also recorded calling upon at least the Arbatel's solar Olympian spirit Och.[10] Swedish mystic Johannes Bureus credited the work for his interest in Kabbalah.[6] Elements of the Arbatel appear in a number of versions of the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses.[11] Ebenezer Sibly and Frederick Hockley incorporated a number of elements from Robert Turner's translation of the Arbatel into their own magical works, including The Clavic or Key to the Magic of Solomon and The Complete Book of Magic Science,[12] [13] the latter of which was one of many later sources for the Grimoire of Turiel.[13] A copy of the work was listed in the catalogue for the San Francisco Mercantile Library in 1854. Although access to it would have been restricted, its presence indicates that it played a role in American folk beliefs. In 1898, Arthur Edward Waite undertook the first historical study of grimoires as a genre, detailing the Arbatel as one of many important works. A copy of a German translation appeared in the Berlin publishing company Herman Barsdorf Verlag's Magische Werke in 1921. Occultist Stephen Skinner claims that the isopsephy of the names of the Olympian Spirits, as well as the names ending in "AL" instead of "el," were responsible for inspiring Aleister Crowley's Liber AL vel Legis, although Skinner admits that the influence may not have been conscious. The book contains links to the original source manuscripts in PDF format. While over 100MB in size, and some in Latin, they may prove valuable to some readers.
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or MGT 498 Leadership Intership
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Students may choose one of three options. Option 1 is designed for those students who are interested in career application upon graduation. Option 2 is designed for those students who are interested in enrolling in a graduate program in Business at a later date. Option 3 is designed for students interested in learning about leadership in an interdisciplinary context.
Some of the courses have prerequisites. However, it is likely that those prerequisites can also be used to complete a student's major cognates or general education requirements.
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