Emily Bruce

The Three Little Lawnmowers is a new and unique adaptation of the classic story of the three little pigs. Children all around the world seem to be drawn to construction, yard, and farm equipment. The three little lawnmowers are innocent and lovable characters who are taunted by the Big Bad Combine. This story will keep you on the edge of your seat as each little lawnmower narrowly escapes the Big Bad Combine, but in the end, it is the little lawnmowers and Mama Tractor who help to make a change in the combine so he is no longer big and bad, but happy and kind.

The Three Little Lawnmowers

Lauren Waite

What was life like a hundred years ago? Evelyn remembers, and she has amazing stories to tell. The 1920s were full of new music and new inventions. Come along for the ride to learn about the Roaring Twenties! Told in rhyming verse, this introduction to a bygone era will encourage curious kids to connect with elderly family and friends, ask questions, and learn about their local and family history.

Evelyn's 1920's

Back in My Day

Peter J. Pecora

David Cherin

Trinidad de Jesus Arguello

Strategic Supervision is a brief, practical guide to the most important aspects of supervisory leadership and personnel management within the social work environment. This is an applications-oriented book aimed at helping practitioners to problem-solve, lead teams and support multi-cultural and other forms of diverse staffing. A hands-on guide, designed for working with employees having performance difficulties and explaining how using a clear, but thorough, performance planning and review process is essential to best practice. It also offers a management tool for working with Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action and other nondiscriminatory practices in hiring and promotion activities.

A Brief Guide for Managing Social Service Organizations

Strategic Supervision

Tazia Cook

Rhiannon Sherrill

Purpose. Binocular vision issues, which can be due to abnormal phorias, cause a variety of visual symptoms including diplopia, decreased depth perception, and asthenopia. The goal of our research was to determine if physical exercise can change an individual’s phoria. Currently, there are no studies to link exercise with a change in a phoria. Methods. Eighteen subjects walked on a treadmill for one mile at a walking pace of 3.5 miles per hour with a 1% incline. The subjects’ phorias were measured with the modified Thorington test at distance and near before walking, immediately after exercise, and twenty minutes post exercise. Phorias measured prior to exercise and post exercise were analyzed using the two-tailed paired ttest. Phorias measured prior to exercise and twenty minutes post exercise were analyzed using a separate two-tailed paired t-test. Results. A significant esophoric shift in the distance phoria measurement was found immediately after walking, but returned to near baseline readings twenty minutes post exercise. Near phoria measurements showed a significant esophoric shift both immediately after walking and continued to become more esophoric twenty minutes post exercise. Conclusion. Physical exercise does cause an esophoric shift in an individual's phoria immediately after exercise at both distance and near. After resting, an individual’s distance phoria will likely shift back towards their original baseline phoria. At near, an individual’s phoria will continue towards an esophoria deviation. However, due to our small sample size, further research using a larger sample size is recommended.

Emily Bruce

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