Kings River Quality Assurance Project Final Report

The Kings River Watershed Partnership non-profit citizens group formed to take local control over water quality issues in the Kings River watershed in Arkansas. One of the first items the group addressed was water quality monitoring of the Kings River and Osage Creek. To this end they formed a water quality monitoring committee that was charged with the development of a water quality monitoring plan. The objectives of the plan they developed are: 1) to characterize both spatial and temporal variability in water quality parameters throughout the watershed during each year, 2) to utilize volunteers to monitor the water quality, and 3) to institute QA/QC procedures that will insure the quality of the data collected and allow its use in development of a Watershed Management plan

Tried Men and True or Union Life in Dixie

A New Unionist Perspective Frequently overlooked in the history of the Confederacy is the significant unionist minority that existed in the upper South. Tennessee initially voted against secession in February, 1861. Only after Abraham Lincoln\u27s call for volunteers after the surrender of...

Bill Hillier, Christopher Alexander and the representation of urban complexity: their concepts of ‘pervasive centrality’ and ‘field of centres’ brought into dialogue

This paper draws attention to what we propose as a shared sensibility towards the life of cities in the work of Christopher Alexander and Bill Hillier. Specifically, it reflects on some similarities in their conceptions of urban centrality, while also acknowledging their very different intellectual trajectories. A consideration is how both men grounded their theoretical and analytical insights in their personal experience of cities. Alexander’s emphasis on detailed multimodal observation and awareness as a source of design understanding is writ large throughout his many publications. The same could hardly be said of Hillier who consistently prioritized the configurational modelling of urban form. Yet those familiar with Hillier’s teaching and design practice know how his analytical understanding drew on a deep knowledge of cities worldwide. For Hillier space syntax models were not simply outputs of a computational process but a stage in his ongoing dialogue with real places. Direct points of contact between Alexander and Hillier are few. Hillier’s engagement with Alexander in Space is the Machine (1996) takes issue with the inductive epistemology in Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964), while Hillier (2009) refers approvingly to Alexander’s critique of the modernist city in ‘A city is not a tree’ (1965). Conversely, in The Nature of Order, Alexander makes brief but positive reference to Hillier and Hanson’s analysis of ‘G’ in The Social Logic of Space (1984). This paper concludes by explaining why the connection of Alexander and Hillier, two of the great urban thinkers of last half-century, is worth developing further

Somewhere - Back There

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Reconceptualizing the Achieving Success Everyday Group Counseling Model to Focus on the Strengths of Black Male Middle School Youth

Scholarship focused on Black male students in school counseling has been intermittent despite being well documented in the larger field of education and other disciplines. In this article, we conducted a systematic review of the school counseling literature that focused on Black male students. We used critical race theory (CRT) to examine the programs and interventions that have been published with Black male participants in school settings within the school counseling literature and examined the role that school counselors took when supporting Black male students’ academic, social emotional, college and career identity development. We reconceptualize the Achieving Success Everyday (ASE) group model (Steen et al., 2014) and call for others to use the ASE group model to combat racism and foster Black excellence

Effectiveness of Aerobic Exercise for Adults with Leukemia

We wanted to look at the most effective interventions for increasing strength and endurance in clients with Leukemia experiencing functional decline

Eddie, My Love

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