Beacons In Brief

This second issue in P/PV's In Brief series focuses on the San Francisco Beacon Initiative and P/PV's recently released evaluation results. The Beacon Initiative established after-school programs in eight public schools in low-income San Francisco neighborhoods. P/PVs 36-month evaluation examined key developmental and academic outcomes. Beacons In Brief summarizes our findings and discusses their implications in the context of larger questions about the after-school field

Environmental Liquid Effluents, A Novel Approach For Treatment Of Industrial Waste Water

Nutrient enrichment or eutrophication of aquatic ecosystems can cause an increase in algae and aquatic plants, loss of component species, and loss of ecosystem function. For these reasons, numerous studies were focused on nitrogen and phosphorus removal from wastewater streams. Most of these studies were based on biological processes and different combinations of anaerobic, aerobic, and anoxic zones such as Bardenpho, A2O, UCT, and their modifications. Hence phosphate recovery from sewage is in synergy with reducing other environmental impacts and making it a long term economic resource. The aim of the novel treatment process is to highlight on studies investigated for the nutrient removal performance using Chorella-vulgaris at different nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations. The effect of ammonia nitrogen and phosphorus concentration on removal of these nutrients from synthetic wastewater by algae Chorella-vulgaris in batch cultivation have been investigated in this study and kinetic coefficients were determined. It is observed that an effluent may contain specific nutrients valuable for recovery and this observation may lead to the idea or understanding of treating an effluent from industrial source as a useful resource instead of the general idea of treating the effluent as waste products, and in the same process losing money in terms of expenses on chemicals and energy. Treatment and discharge of effluents into the receiving streams should not be an issue that will be considered as usual because there are specified standards required by the legislation, in terms of the quality and characteristic of the effluent before it is discharged into the waterways

Jazzfest 1987, April 9, 1987

This is the concert program of the Jazzfest 1987 performance on Thursday, April 9, 1987 at 8:00 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Cagney and Lacey Theme by Bill Conti, arranged by John Berry, Morning Dance by Jay Beckenstein, arranged by John Higgins, Hay Burner by Sammy Nestico, Spain by Chick Corea, arranged by Paul Jennings, Have it Your Way by Krishna Levy, Katarina's First Song by Jamshied Sharifi, Denial by J. Sharifi, Boston Baritone by Hal Crook, Crablegs by Jay Chattaway, Emancipation Blues by Oliver Nelson, The Land of Was by Rule Beasley, Last Exit by Tom Schuman, arranged by John Berry, I Get a Kick out of You by Cole Porter, arranged by McDougall, Nica's Dream by Horace Silver, arranged by Mantooth, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square by Manning Sherwin, with lyrics by Eric Maschwitzm arranged by Gene Puerling and Phil Mattson, Swampwater Blues by Les Hooper, Buffalo Breath by Bob Secor, arranged by Larry Nored, Samantha by Sammy Nestico, Roger's Hard Drivin' Groove by Roger Myers, and Perpetual Commotion by L. Hooper. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Review of Always at War: Organizational Culture in Strategic Air Command, 1946-62 by Melvin G. Deaile

Review of Always at War: Organizational Culture in Strategic Air Command, 1946-62 by Melvin G. Deaile

Survey of the Reduviidae (Heteroptera) of Southern Illinois, Excluding the Phymatinae, With Notes on Biology

A survey of the nonphymatine reduviids of southern Illinois was con­ducted from April 1996 to November 1998. In addition to county distributions, information was collected on times of occurrence of adults and nymphs and associated habitats. These data were supplemented with label information associated with southern Illinois specimens housed in the Southern Illinois University Entomology Collection (SIUEC). Twenty-five species were collected during this survey. An additional six species housed in the SIUEC were collected previously in southern Illinois but not during the survey. Of the 31 species, nine are state records: Ploiaria hirticornis, Rocconota annulicornis, Sinea complexa, Microtornus purcis, Rasahus hamatus, Saica elkinsi, Oncocephalus geniculatus, Pnirontis languida, and Pnirontis modesta

Archaeological Investigations at the Wade (GC-38) and Estes (GC-49) Sites in the Sabine River Basin, Gregg County, Texas

Buddy C. Jones conducted extensive archaeological investigations in the 1950s and 1960s at many sites in the mid-Sabine River basin of East Texas, especially on Caddo sites of various ages in Gregg, Harrison, and Rusk counties. However, that work has not illuminated our understanding of the archaeology of the Caddo Indian peoples that lived along this stretch of the Sabine River as much as it could have, primarily because little of the work completed by Jones was ever published, or the results and findings shared with professional and avocational archaeological colleagues working in the region. The Caddo archaeology of the Gregg County stretch of the Sabine River, in particular, is poorly known by comparison with the archaeological record in the upper Sabine River or to the archaeological studies recently completed downstream in Harrison County at sites such as Pine Tree Mound (41HS15). To begin to develop a better appreciation of the Caddo archaeology in the mid-Sabine River basin, we have made a concerted effort to analyze and document collections obtained by Jones from Caddo sites in Gregg County and the surrounding region. In this article, we discuss the archaeological findings from the Wade and Estes sites discovered and investigated by Jones in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The sites are near each other in the southeastern part of Gregg County. The Wade site is on a landform near the confluence of Peatown Creek and Dutchman Creek, northern-flowing tributaries to the Sabine River. The Estes site is on a large alluvial terrace on the north side of the Sabine River, across from the confluence of Dutchman Creek and the Sabine River This article focuses particularly on the excavations of portions of an ancestral Caddo house structure at the Wade site and the analysis of the substantial decorated sherd assemblages at both the Wade and Estes sites