First Collection Records of \u3ci\u3eHippodamia Variegata\u3c/i\u3e (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Minnesota Corn and Soybean

The coccinellid Hippodamia variegata (Goeze) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) is a relatively recent addition to the North American coccinellid fauna. This species was first reported in 1984 near Montreal, Quebec (Gordon 1987). Since then, its range has expanded beyond northeastern North America with the newest records in the midwestern United States, including Michigan (Gardiner and Parson 2005), Ohio (Pavuk et al. 2007), Wisconsin (Williams and Young 2009), and most recently South Dakota (Hesler and Lundgren 2011). Here we provide the first records of H. variegata in Minnesota. In addition, our records further define the movement pattern of this beetle across the Midwest by documenting its presence in the gap between Wisconsin and South Dakota

The Geography of the Psalms

This, however, is an entirely wrong conception. And it is the first object of this paper to show that the O. T. people by no means possessed such a limited knowledge of geography, but, on the contrary, were acquainted with a surprisingly large part of the known world. We shall not avail ourselves of all the different places and peoples mentioned in the various books of the O .T., but we shall rather confine ourselves to one book of the O.T. Scripture, and that is not even historical, much less geographical, but a devotional book, the hymnal and prayer book of the Israelites, which certainly does not aim to give us geographical information: THE PSALTER. Our second purpose is to demonstrate that the Psalms, considered merely from a geographical point of view, suit the time in which they claim to have been composed, and that their geographical data are incompatible, as far as they are criteria of age, with the time of the Maccabees, to which many critics ascribe most or the psalms

Political Contacts or the Hebrews with Assyria and Babylonia

Olmstead believes Hezekiah realized that Egypt was indeed a broken reed and decided to make his peace with the Assyrian king and therefore sent the above-mentioned tribute to Sennacherib after his return to Nineveh. But is it probable that Hezekiah would pay such a heavy tribute after the Assyrian monarch had been so completely crushed, had evacuated Palestine, and wae now in far-away Nineveh

The Old Testament Prophets, and Their Symbolical Actions

From the earliest times on men have believed that God speaks directly to and through man

An exploration of engagement in the contemporary workplace

This design investigation is based upon the observation that the lack of social, physical, and personal engagement in a building contributes to problems in the contemporary built environment. The vehicle for exploration is the speculative office building because it presently manifests a significant lack of engagement. The building as an entity, the corporate suite within the building, and the individual unit will be reconsidered