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Leave No Trace in Colorado National Parks
Even if you live by the phrase "take only photos; leave only footprints" when you're outdoors, it still might seem counterintuitive to pack out food scraps and toilet paper.
Wildland Trekking founders explain why they teach their travelers to reduce their impact while exploring national parks.
Even if you live by the phrase "take only photos; leave only footprints" when you're outdoors, it still might seem counterintuitive to pack out food scraps rather than leaving them to decompose or be eaten by animals.
But packing out your trash—regardless of what it is—is a vital Leave No Trace principle, and it's important to practice Leave No Trace the best you can whenever you're adventuring in our national parks.
Seven Principles of Leave No Trace
The seven principles of Leave No Trace were written by the National Forest Service in the 1970s to help people understand how to best interact with the environment when they're outside. They basically boil down to making as little impact as possible.
- Plan ahead and prepare.
- Travel and camp on durable surfaces.
- Dispose of waste properly.
- Leave what you find.
- Minimize campfire impacts.
- Respect wildlife.
- Be considerate of other visitors.
"One of the core philosophies is to be considerate of other people's experiences around you while you're there and after you've left," says Steve Cundy, co-founder of adventure tour company Wildland Trekking, which makes a point to teach its customers about Leave No Trace principles on every trip. "You need to make sure you take appropriate action to make sure that happens."
Practicing Leave No Trace
Wildland Trekking runs hiking and backpacking trips in national parks throughout the country and world. Its national park destinations include Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Great Smoky, Rocky, Yosemite, Olympic, Zion and Bryce. Because their customers are often first-time backpackers, Wildland Trekking guides give an overview of the practices at the beginning of each trip and then reinforce each one out in the field. Sometimes, it takes a few reminders. Not everyone understands right off the bat that you can't toss food scraps on the trail. Even though they're biodegradable, they could pose a hazard to wildlife and the ecosystem.
"Some guests might even see it as a little bit silly sometimes," Cundy says. "They might not understand why you can't throw a little bit of food in a creek… [but] it shows a respect for the national parks and the environment as a whole, and we try to instill that respect for the land in all of our guests."
Going to the Bathroom in the Backcountry
Backcountry bathroom etiquette in particular is something that's easier to learn when you're out on the trail than it is to memorize when you're reading about it online. So when Wildland Trekking brings customers out on backpacking trips, they'll make sure everyone understands how to bury their waste properly (at least 6 to 8 inches deep, and 200 feet from water, camp, and trails), and that they pack out toilet paper. They camp on durable surfaces to protect fragile ecosystems, and avoid burning food scraps, which can attract wildlife.
If you're not familiar with Leave No Trace principles, start by reviewing the full list at lnt.org/learn/seven-principles-overview.
Perhaps the most important rule is the first one, "plan ahead and prepare," co-owner Seth Quigg says. If you plan thoroughly from the outset, you won't run into issues where you don't have a permit to camp, or you get to camp too late and end up stomping over fragile ground in the dark. And if you prepare for whatever might come your way, you can often avoid emergency situations that can be destructive to the environment.
No matter how prepared you are, though, it's always important to be ready for the unexpected, too.
Next time you head out into the backcountry, consider going a step further than leaving no trace of your own. Bring a separate trash bag and look around your campsite or lunch spot for wrappers and other trash previous hikers left behind. Pack out as much as you can. The wildlife, and the next set of hikers, will thank you for it.
Ready to go on nature-friendly guided hike in your favorite park? Wildland Trekking offers hiking and backpacking tours at national parks in the U.S. as well as internationally. Learn more at www.wildlandtrekking.com.


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W.H. delays Obamacare deadline
The Obama administration has extended the deadline for signing up for health care coverage until midnight Tuesday.
In the latest high-profile delay in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the White House quietly decided to give people more time to register for health care plans that would begin on Jan. 1. The previous deadline was midnight Monday.
"Anticipating high demand and the fact that consumers may be enrolling from multiple time zones, we have taken steps to make sure that those who select a plan through tomorrow will get coverage for Jan 1," Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services spokeswoman Julie Bataille said in a statement Monday.
( Understanding Obamacare: POLITICO's guide to the ACA)
An administration official added that, "We have programmed our systems to support Jan. 1 coverage for those who attempt to complete their enrollment through the end of the day tomorrow proactively recognizing that we need to be prepared to handle heavy online traffic or other technical issues."
The one-day delay came amid a huge increase in traffic on HealthCare.gov. As of 2 p.m. EST, about 850,000 visitors had gone to the website — five times more than the traffic last Monday, according to Bataille. The site saw more than 1.2 million visitors over the weekend.
The enrollment portal held up despite the surge, but consumers did get put into the "virtual waiting room" queue when volume hit about 600,000 users just before 11 a.m. The overall error rate for that traffic averaged less then 0.4 percent, she said.
The new deadline announced Monday applies to coverage starting in January, but people have until March 31 to apply for health coverage that starts later in 2014.
The Washington Post first reported the one-day delay. That was followed by a series of contradictory statements from the administration, which compared the extension to allowing people in line on Election Day to vote after the polls closed.
Despite the extension, the administration maintains that people shouldn't wait until Christmas Eve to do last-minute health plan shopping.
( PHOTOS: 25 unforgettable Obamacare quotes)
"You should not wait until tomorrow. If you are aiming to get coverage Jan. 1, you should try to sign up today," an official said.
President Barack Obama did not wait until the last minute. He signed up for a bronze plan over the weekend, the White House said. However, it was a symbolic move as the president receives health care through the military.
Some states followed suit, allowing enrollment to go through Dec 24, or even later. But others stuck with the Monday night deadline. The changes and variations could add to the widespread confusion and misunderstandings that have shown up in public opinion polling about the health law.
Insurance companies said they would try to assist consumers in responding to the latest deadline change.
"Health plans will continue to do everything they can to help consumers through the enrollment process and mitigate potential confusion or disruption caused by all of these last-minute changes to the rules and deadlines," said Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans.
Dec. 23 was supposed to be the first hard deadline for the Affordable Care Act since the disastrous Oct. 1 debut of HealthCare.gov. It was also the most significant stress test for the website itself since Nov. 30, the date the administration promised to have online enrollment working smoothly for the "vast majority" of Americans. By Dec. 1, it had largely met that goal.
( Also on POLITICO: Obamacare fight erupts in deep-blue Maryland)
Enrollment figures for December, a critical barometer of public response, are not expected until January. But Obama said last week that more than 1 million people were now signed up for coverage in the new health insurance exchanges. And that didn't count this last minute rush.
The White House wants a strong finish in December after two months of website woes, slow enrollment and widespread accusations that the president lied when he pledged that Americans would be able to keep health plans they liked under Obamacare.
The White House says that fewer than a half-million people whose plans had been canceled were still looking for replacement coverage as of late last week, but the political fallout from the cancellations has been damaging. Poll numbers for both the president and the health law dropped this fall.
A CNN/ORC International poll, released Monday, found Obamacare's approval rating at its lowest point since the summer of 2011 — 35 percent, down from 40 percent last month. And a new Gallup poll, also out Monday, reported that more Americans see the law as the president's biggest failure — 36 percent — than his greatest achievement — 22 percent.
While the administration outlines its narrative of new coverage options and a higher performing enrollment system, opponents say Obamacare is crumbling just days before the new benefits start. As further proof that it's not ready for prime time, they point to what until Monday was the latest regulatory delay: the administration's announcement late last week that people who had health plans canceled in 2013 can get an exemption from the individual mandate in 2014.
Consumers who sign up before the deadline will have until Jan. 10 to pay most insurers, under an agreement between the White House and the industry. Coverage would still start retroactively on Jan. 1.
The Obama administration had always expected enrollment spikes around this first coverage milestone and again just before March 31. But the surge this week could be even bigger considering the website was largely inoperable for the first two months of the six-month enrollment period.
The administration had asked insurance companies to bend the deadlines for getting coverage and paying for it. Both were moved back more than a week — from Dec. 15 to Dec. 23 for applying and from Dec. 31 to Jan. 10 for paying. The shifting calendar has confused some consumers and has insurers worrying that people will think they're enrolled when they're not.
HealthCare.gov is serving as the enrollment portal in 36 states. In the other 14 states plus District of Columbia, which are running their own exchanges, the performance of the websites has varied, and the deadlines differ.
New York and Massachusetts, for instance, are giving people until Tuesday night. California, Washington state and the District of Columbia haven't officially changed the date but promised flexibility — and Jan 1 coverage — for people who started but couldn't complete their applications by the 11:59 p.m. Monday deadline.
Brett Norman and Natalie Villacorta contributed to this report.

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LANSING — Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG) has announced the development of a breakthrough pathogen detection and identification technology that provides next day, DNA-specific test results for seven pathogenic E. coli strains. The technology could be adapted to target almost any bacterium of concern in almost any food sample type.
Neogen's new NeoSEEK™ pathogen DNA detection method for E. coli strains is the first food safety laboratory technology developed through the close collaboration of Neogen's food safety research group and the company's GeneSeek research team. Acquired by Neogen in April 2010, GeneSeek is considered the leading commercial agricultural genetics laboratory in the United States.
"The NeoSEEK food safety technology is exactly the type of technology we envisioned developing when we acquired GeneSeek," said James Herbert, Neogen's chairman and CEO.
"GeneSeek has been very successful in employing DNA genotyping technology for animal applications. Food safety applications are natural extensions of that technology. As recent worldwide food recalls have clearly shown, regulators and the food industry need a rapid, DNA-definitive test for bacterial pathogens. NeoSEEK provides that DNA-definitive test result."
Initially, Neogen will provide next-day results from enriched samples through its GeneSeek laboratory facilities for seven E. coli strains — O26, O45, O103, O111, O121, O145, and O157. Like the better known and widely regulated E. coli O157:H7 strain, these other six E. coli strains are known food safety concerns, and produce Shiga toxins, which are well known to cause severe illness.
The NeoSEEK technology uses mass spectrometry-based multiplexing to develop a "DNA bar code" for bacteria in a food sample, and then compares those results with the known genetic makeup of the target E. coli strains to identify and differentiate the target strains.
NeoSEEK assays a total of 71 independent genetic markers to detect and identify, which provides actionable results much sooner than conventional cultural methods. The extreme sensitivity of the method allows a limit of detection far more sensitive than existing rapid methods for the pathogens.
The technology is expandable and customizable to include any bacteria for which a genetic profile can be developed, whether they be dangerous foodborne pathogens, or spoilage microorganisms that present food quality and shelf-life concerns.
Neogen Corporation develops and markets products dedicated to food and animal safety.
The company's Food Safety Division markets dehydrated culture media, and diagnostic test kits to detect foodborne bacteria, natural toxins, genetic modifications, food allergens, drug residues, plant diseases and sanitation concerns. Neogen's Animal Safety Division manufactures and distributes a variety of animal healthcare products, including diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, veterinary instruments, wound care and disinfectants.


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2015 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon First Drive
GM Returns To The Midsize Market
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They are two of the most anticipated new trucks of the year, and they are finally here. We recently had the opportunity to get behind the wheel of the 2015 Chevrolet Colorado and 2015 GMC Canyon, and all we have to say is GM has hit it out of the park once again.
The original Colorado and Canyon were introduced in 2004 as a replacement for the outgoing S-10 platform and lived on until 2012. GM's truck lineup was left void of a midsize offering for three years, during which Ford and Ram both exited the game as well, leaving only the Nissan Frontier and Toyota Tacoma to fill the space.
With their eyes set on the future, while learning from the past, GM set out to build a class-leading midsize pickup yet again. Starting from the ground up, the Colorado and Canyon are brand-new vehicles and carry many of the features that their older 1/2- and 3/4-ton brethren have been known for, such as a fully boxed frame, fuel efficient engines, and extremely quite and comfortable cabin space. Recently, GM invited us out to San Diego, California, to drive their new baby and handed us keys to practically every different shape, size, and color offered.
From the outside, the Colorado and Canyon appear different, thanks to their distinct front clip, however under the skin they are mechanically identical. We bring that up to preface the fact that both trucks drive the same, so we won't be differentiating between the two. The first thing that we picked up on once behind the wheel was how small the truck felt. On paper they aren't much different than a previous generation 1/2-ton, but driving them we noticed that they have the maneuverability of a much smaller pickup. Power and responsiveness was great from both available engines. The V-6 has enough power to tackle any task or load you might throw at it, and the four-cylinder was a real treat to drive, never once leaving us wishing for more in normal, unloaded, city, and highway driving.
Inside the cabin, we found ourselves staring at the same style of instrument panel and center stack as the larger fullsize trucks. Both trucks come loaded with tons of available technology, including an available 8-inch touchscreen display, Bluetooth, Siri Eyes Free, 4G LTE WiFi, OnStar, and lane departure warning, just to name a few. Interior appointments range from simple cloth seats in the base model, up to the rich leather you would expect to find in a Cadillac. Interior space is great and doesn't by any means feel cramped. That is, of course, unless you're a fullsize adult attempting to sit in the back of the extended cab, then things get a bit tight.
Speaking of space, the trucks are available with two cab and two bed options. There's an extended cab and Crew Cab, along with 5 foot 2 inch and 6 foot 2 inch beds. Extended cab models are only available with the 6-foot 2-inch box, while Crew Cab models get either. Each of the beds are equipped to accept GM's new GearOn accessory system and feature two-tier loading, four permanent tie-down locations, 13 additional adjustable cargo tie-down locations, and utility rack stanchions. The EZ Lift and Lower tailgate is both lockable and removable; a factory spray-in bedliner is optional; and the CornerStep rear bumper makes getting into the cargo box a breeze.
Overall, we are extremely pleased with the new '15 Colorado and Canyon. Our time with the trucks was quick but quality. We were never once left looking for or wanting more. The trucks met or beat our expectations time and time again. These are the trucks that the midsize buyer has been waiting for, and we can't wait to spend time in one again in the future.
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Ropes/Oleander Directions
Ocean Drive runs from downtown Corpus Christi all around that side of the bay. Oleander, or Cole Park (the official name), is the first one you'll hit. There's an amphitheater and large kids play area. It's just south of the Holiday Inn Emerald Beach. A little further down Ocean Drive and you'll come to Ropes. There are signs, but you have to look or you'll miss it.


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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's opposition leaders signed a deal Friday with the president and European and Russian mediators for early elections and a new government in hopes of ending a deadly political crisis.
It could be a breakthrough in a months-long crisis over Ukraine's future and identity that worsened sharply this week and left scores dead in the worst violence in Ukraine's history as an independent nation.
A key question is whether the thousands of protesters camped out in Kiev will heed it. The leader of a radical group that has been a driver of violent clashes with police, Pravy Sektor, said Friday he doesn't believe President Viktor Yanukovych will honor the deal and "the national revolution will continue," according to the Interfax news agency.
The agreement says presidential elections will be held no later than December, instead of March 2015 as scheduled, according to a copy provided by the German government.
It says Ukrainian authorities will restore within 48 hours a previous constitution that limits presidential powers, then name a coalition government within 10 days.
It also says the government will not impose a state of emergency and both sides will refrain from violence. It says opposition protesters should hand over any weapons and withdraw from buildings they have occupied and protest camps around the country.
The signing came hours after Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych made concessions under pressure from European mediators.
Some protesters said talk of early elections in December is not soon enough — they want him out of the presidency immediately.
European foreign ministers had stayed up all night in Kiev trying to negotiate an end to the standoff, prompted when the president aborted a pact with the European Union in November in favor of close ties with Russia instead.
An EU official in Brussels said that if an agreement is signed, Russia and the EU would act as observers to ensure that it is implemented.
The U.S., Russia and European Union are deeply concerned about the future of Ukraine, a nation of 46 million that has divided loyalties between Russia and the West. Shots were heard again Friday near the protesters' camp in Kiev, a day after the deadliest violence in Ukraine's post-Soviet history. It is unclear who was targeted and whether anyone was hurt or injured in Friday's incident.
Protesters across the country are upset over corruption in Ukraine, the lack of democratic rights and the country's ailing economy, which just barely avoided bankruptcy with the first disbursement of a $15 billion bailout promised by Russia.
The violence is making Ukraine's economic troubles worse. Ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Ukraine's debt rating Friday, saying the country will likely default if there are no significant improvements in the political crisis, which it does not expect.


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Average temperatures
Extreme minima
The lowest temperatures in Australia have been recorded in the Snowy Mountains, where Charlotte Pass (elevation 1,760 metres) recorded -23.0 degrees C on 18 June 1994 (table 1.11). Outside the Snowy Mountains, the lowest extreme minima on the Australian mainland are found above 500 metres elevation in the tablelands and ranges of New South Wales, eastern Victoria and southern Queensland. Many stations in this region have recorded -10 degrees C or lower, including -14.6 degrees C at Gudgenby and -14.5 degrees C at Woolbrook. Temperatures below -10 degrees C have also been recorded in central Tasmania. At lower elevations, most inland places south of the tropics have extreme minima between -3 and -7 degrees C, and such low temperatures have also occurred in favoured locations within a few kilometres of southern and eastern coasts, such as Sale (-5.6 degrees C), Bega (-8.1 degrees C), Grove (-7.5 degrees C) and Taree (-5.0°C).
In the tropics, extreme minima below 0 degrees C have been recorded at many places away from the coast, as far north as Herberton (-5.0 degrees C). Some locations near tropical coasts, such as Mackay (-0.8 degrees C), Townsville (0.1 degrees C) and Kalumburu (0.3 degrees C) have also recorded temperatures near 0 degrees C. In contrast, some exposed near-coastal locations, such as Darwin, have never fallen below 10 degrees C, and Thursday Island, in the Torres Strait, has an extreme minimum of 16.1 degrees C.
Heat waves
Periods with a number of successive days having a temperature higher than 40 degrees C are relatively common in summer over parts of Australia. With the exception of the north-west coast of Western Australia, however, most coastal areas rarely experience more than three successive days of such conditions. The frequency increases inland, and periods of up to 10 successive days have been recorded at many inland stations. This figure increases to more than 20 days in parts of western Queensland and north-west Western Australia. The central part of the Northern Territory and the Marble Bar-Nullagine area of Western Australia have recorded the most prolonged heat waves. Marble Bar is the only known station in the world where temperatures of more than 37.8 degrees C (100 degrees F) have been recorded on as many as 161 consecutive days (30 October 1923 to 7 April 1924).
Heat waves are experienced in the coastal areas from time to time. During 11-14 January 1939, for example, a severe heat wave affected south-eastern Australia: Melbourne had a record of 45.6 degrees C on the 13th and Sydney a record of 45.3 degrees C on the 14th. This heatwave also set record high temperatures in many other centres in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
The Kimberley district of Western Australia is the consistently hottest part of Australia in terms of annual average maximum temperature. Wyndham, for example, has an annual average maximum of 35.6 degrees C.


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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from the Text of Tonson's Correct Edition of 1711. A New Edition, with Notes and the Life of the Author, in Three Volumes, by Thomas Newton, ...
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Adam Angel arms beast began behold better bring brought cause cloud coming created creatures darkness death deep delight descend desire divine dwell earth eternal evil eyes fair faith fall Father fear field fire fruit glory Gods ground hand happy hast hath head heard heart Heav'n heav'nly Hell hill hope human king knowledge late leave length less lest light live looks lost mankind Mean meet Michael Milton mind morn nature night once pain Paradise peace perhaps pow'r race reason reply'd rest return'd rise Satan seat seed seek seem'd sense Serpent side sight soon spake Spirit stand stars stood sweet taste thee thence things thou thou hast thought throne till tree virtue voice wide wings
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Page 208 - Henceforth, I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 104 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 150 - And straight conjunction with this sex. For either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake ; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain, Through her perverseness, but shall see her gain'd By a far worse, or, if she love, withheld By parents ; or his happiest choice too late Shall meet, already link'd and wedlock-bound To a fell adversary, his hate or shame: Which infinite calamity shall cause To human life, and household peace confound.
Page 2 - Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms ; And for the testimony of truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than violence ; for this was all thy care To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds Judged thee perverse...
Page 72 - Thy words, Creator bounteous and benign Giver of all things fair, but fairest this Of all thy gifts, nor enviest. I now see Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, myself Before me. Woman is her name, of man Extracted ; for this cause he shall forego Father and mother, and to his wife adhere ; And they shall be one flesh, one heart, one soul.
Page 167 - With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world, to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?
Page 150 - My only strength and stay: forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist ? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace...
Page 209 - And all the rule, one empire; only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance ; add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loth To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.
Page 112 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs; and Nature gave a second groan; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
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The UK International Center (UKIC) leads internationalization efforts at the University of Kentucky. The work of the UKIC is supported by International Advisory Council, a group of globally-engaged faculty and administrators representing each of the University's 16 colleges, plus other key academic units.
"I truly believe that what universities are about: the production of knowledge- research and scholarship- cannot be contained by national borders... We are in a business that is by nature international." - Dr. Sue Roberts, Associate Provost for Internationalization.


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The precise analysis of GNSS observation data is based upon a variety of metadata from different sources, including station and satellite metadata. A high evaluation quality must be ensured by the consistency and integrity of this metadata.
The station and satellite metadata are currently maintained in ASCII based files that make the extraction of key information used for the data evaluation difficult. To get rid of the restrictions caused by the file based metadata management, the Operational Data Center (ODC) group of the GFZ developed a Sensor Meta Information System (semisys) for the central, format independent and validated storage of station and satellite metadata based upon client/server technology (PHP, jQuery) and an object-relational database (PostgreSQL).
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The design features a dove of peace with an olive branch. You could add a Christmas message with our TrueType stitching fonts.
This product is a PDF file for you to download and print the instructions for hand-stitching the design. For information about buying cards and thread see the tutorials section.
The design comes with a numbered diagram, a pricking pattern, and step-by-step instructions for hand-stitching your greetings cards.
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NYU's Institute of Human Development and Social Change has received a $4 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to train students to conduct research in a range of areas in the field.
New York University's Institute of Human Development and Social Change (IHDSC) has received a $4 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to train students to conduct research in a range of areas in the field.
"Education is a cornerstone to a nation's well-being—from spurring economic growth through an effectively trained workforce to serving as a gateway to pursue the American dream," says Pamela Morris, director of IHDSC and a professor of applied psychology in NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. "Therefore, it is vital to understand which policies and practices are most effective in educating our students.
"To do so, we must train the next generation of researchers so they are prepared to undertake the rigorous, interdisciplinary research necessary to evaluate what is working in the classroom and what is not, and how families and communities can additionally support student learning."
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education.
The five-year grant will support students in IES's Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training (IES-PIRT) program, an interdisciplinary fellowship program designed to train students of diverse backgrounds to become outstanding researchers in the educational sciences. This current phase of the IES-PIRT will be housed at a select number of universities across the country, including: NYU, Stanford, Northwestern, the University of Virginia, and the University of Chicago.
Under the grant, NYU will offer doctoral students two- or three-year training fellowships that annually include tuition and benefits, $30,000 stipends, and a research fund. These students will participate in an interdisciplinary core curriculum focused on quantitative training and data science as well as the development of expertise in the following areas: enhancing outcomes beyond test scores and understanding the impact of policy influences on education--key areas for the next generation of research in education sciences.
Fellows will receive additional training through seminars, workshops, and mentored research apprenticeships with NYU faculty. They will also participate in practice/policy internships to learn how to apply practice, policy, and research skills to one or more areas of education science, understand and analyze sets of roles and processes within education practice/policy organizations, and integrate theory and research with education practice/policy toward new directions for education science. Partnerships with the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, MDRC and American Institutes for Research, and the New York City Department of Education will expand opportunities for doctoral training in this program.
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The IES-PIRT program is administered by the Institute of Human Development and Social Change (IHDSC). The Institute brings together faculty members from across multiple units within New York University, including the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, Human Development, The Wagner School of Public Service, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. For more, please visit: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/ihdsc/iespirt.


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Trial by Fire on the Trails of Okinawa
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Initiating first-time trail runners
Last weekend our running group, WOOT (Women on Okinawan Trails) met for our Saturday morning trail run. Joining us were three ladies completely new to trail running. I always take it for granted that runners new to the trails will love running them just as much as we do, and as such I often neglect to tell them that experiences on the trails sometimes require a bit of grit and fortitude. Such was the case last weekend.
Starting out from an empty parking lot, we headed south on a busy main road, just a few hundred meters before making our turn towards the trail entrance. The trails were slick from previous days of rain and it wasn't too long before I demonstrated how to do a butt-slide with quick standup-recovery.
Heading on upwards, the terrain was rather technical, with jagged rocks jutting out and slick, slimy green moss to contend with. At one point, we ran over a short ridgeline so narrow that a slip of the foot would have meant a dangerous slide down one of the slopes on either side.
But onward and upward we went, slowly, carefully, and as always, doing what we do best—chatting and laughing. At the time, it didn't occur to me that some of the new ladies might not be having as much fun as the rest of us were.
Another mile or so of climbing and we made it to the top. A lookout point stands atop the summit, treating visitors to a spectacular view of the East China Sea to the west and the Pacific Ocean to the east. For a few minutes we stood around admiring the view, and then, not wanting to miss the opportunity for a group shot, we smiled and posed for the camera.
All smiles aside though, some of our ladies must have disturbed a wasp nest, because four of them had been stung, including two of the new runners—one on the back of the head and one on the lips. Jokingly, I told her that she not only got to go trail running for free, but she also got a free "collagen shot"—a workout and beauty treatment all in one.
While we laugh about initiating our new ladies with tough trail runs (and they laugh with us too, after the fact), I wonder if a kinder way to introduce them to trail running would be to invite them first on much easier runs. Am I wrong to assume that runners new to the trails will enjoy running them as much as we do?
To alleviate my concerns, I later sent personal messages to each of the new ladies, asking for honest feedback, fully expecting to hear reservations about returning to the trails.
Instead, here were some of the comments I received:
- "I went out that morning with no expectations … and I left feeling empowered … and already planning my next trail run. It was refreshing, challenging, exhilarating and fun!" –Tracy Wysocki
- "It wasn't really what I expected, it was so much more and so much better. I plan on going to as many trail runs as I can." –Rosie Morlang
- "My first trail run was just AWESOME!!!" –Takako Sakugawa
In their responses, each hinted at a common desire—something a little more fun and adventurous than pavement running. While I accept that not everyone is going to immediately fall in love with the trails, I am going to believe that probably the majority will.
If these three ladies are representative of the type of first-time trail runners we can expect to see turning up on Saturday mornings, then I suspect I should probably only worry if our runs are not tough enough!
Jannine Myers lives in Okinawa, Japan, where she works as a running coach, weight management consultant and freelance writer. She blogs at www.gotheextramilewithwoot.blogspot.com.


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Doc. 155.-atrocities at Bull Run, Va.
The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the Present War made the following report in the United States Senate, on the thirtieth of April: On the first day of April the Senate of the United States. adopted the following resolution, which was referred to the Committee on the Conduct of the War: Resolved, That the Select Committee on the Conduct of the War be directed to collect the evidence with regard to the barbarous treatment by the rebels, at Manassas, of the remains of officers and soldiers of the United States killed in battle there; and that the said select committee also inquire into the fact whether the Indian savages have been employed by the rebels, in their military service, against the Government of the United States, and how such warfare has been conducted by said savages. In pursuance of the instructions contained in this resolution, your committee have the honor to report that they examined a number of witnesses, whose testimony is herewith submitted. Mr. Nathaniel F. Parker, who was captured at Falling Waters, Va., testifies that he was kept in close confinement, denied exercise, and with a number of others, huddled up in a room; that their food, generally scant, was always bad, and sometimes nauseous; that the wounded had neither [532] medical attention nor humane treatment, and that many of these latter died from sheer neglect; that five of the prisoners were shot by the sentries outside, and that he saw one man, Tibbitts, of the New-York Twenty-seventh regiment, shot as he was passing his window, on the eighth of November, and that he died of the wound on the twelfth. The perpetrator of this foul murder was subsequently promoted by the rebel government. Dr. J. M. Homiston, surgeon of the Fourteenth New-York or Brooklyn regiment, captured at Bull Run, testifies that when he solicited permission to remain on the field and to attend to wounded men, some of whom were in a helpless and painful condition, and suffering for water, he was brutally refused. They offered him neither water nor anything in the shape of food. He and his companions stood in the streets of Manassas, surrounded by a threatening and boisterous crowd, and were afterward thrust into an old building, and left, without sustenance or covering, to sleep on the bare floor. It was only when faint and without food for twenty-four hours, that some cold bacon was grudgingly given to them. When, at last, they were permitted to go to the relief of our wounded, the secession surgeon would not allow them to perform operations, but intrusted the wounded to his young assistants, "some of them with no more knowledge of what they attempted to do than an apothecary's clerk." And further, "that these inexperienced surgeons performed operations upon our men in a most horrible manner, some of them were absolutely frightful." "When," he adds, "I asked Doctor Darby to allow me to amputate the leg of Corporal Prescott, of our regiment, and said that the man must die if it were not done, he told me that I should be allowed to do it." While Dr. Homiston was waiting, he says a secessionist came through the room and said: "They are operating upon one of the Yankee's legs up-stairs." "I went up and found that they had cut off Prescott's leg. The assistants were pulling on the flesh at each side, trying to get flap enough to cover the bone. They had sawed off the bone without leaving any of the flesh to form the flaps to cover it; and with all the force they could use they could not get flap enough to cover the bone. They were then obliged to saw off about an inch more of the bone, and even then, when they came to put in the sutures (the stitches) they could not approximate the edges within less than an inch and a half of each other; of course, as soon as there was any swelling, the stitches tore out and the bone stuck through again. Dr. Swalm tried afterward to remedy it by performing another operation, but Prescott had become so debilitated that he did not survive." Corporal Prescott was a young man of high position, and had received a very liberal education. The same witness describes the sufferings of the wounded after the battle as inconceivably horrible; with bad food, no covering, no water. They were lying upon the floor as thickly as they could be laid. "There was not a particle of light in the house to enable us to move among them." Deaf to all his appeals, they continued to refuse water to these suffering men, and he was only enabled to procure it by setting cups under the eaves to catch the rain that was falling, and in this way he spent the night, catching the water and conveying it to the wounded to drink. As there was no light, he was obliged to crawl on his hands and knees to avoid stepping on their wounded limbs: and, he adds: "It is not a wonder that next morning we found that several had died during the night." The young surgeons, who seemed to delight in hacking and butchering these brave defenders of our country's flag, were not, it would seem, permitted to perform any operations upon the rebel wounded. "Some of our wounded," says this witness, "were left lying upon the battle-field until Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. When brought in, their wounds were completely alive with larvae deposited there by the flies, having lain out through all the rain-storm of Monday, and the hot, sultry sunshine of Tuesday." The dead lay upon the field unburied for five days; and this included men not only of his own, the Fourteenth regiment, but of other regiments. This witness testifies that the rebel dead were carried off and interred decently. In answer to a question whether the confederates themselves were not also destitute of medicine, he replied: "They could not have been, for they took all ours, even to our surgical instruments." He received none of the attention from the surgeons on the other side, "which," to use his own language, "I should have shown to them had our position been reversed." The testimony of William F. Swalm, Assistant Surgeon of the Fourteenth New-York regiment, who was taken prisoner at Sudley's Church, confirms the statement of Dr. Homiston in regard to the brutal operations on Corporal Prescott. He also states that after he himself had been removed to Richmond, when seated one day with his feet on the window-sill, the sentry outside called to him to take them in, and on looking out he saw the sentry with his musket cocked and pointed at him, and withdrew in time to save his life. He gives evidence of the careless, heartless, and cruel manner in which the surgeons operated upon our men. Previous to leaving for Richmond, and ten or twelve days after the battle, he saw some of the Union soldiers unburied on the field, and entirely naked. Walking around were a great many women, gloating over the horrid sight. The case of Dr. Ferguson, of one of the New-York regiments, is mentioned by Dr. Swalm. "When getting into his ambulance to look after his own wounded he was fired upon by the rebels. When he told them who he was, they said they would take a parting shot at him, which they did, wounding him in the leg. He had his boots on, and his spurs on his boots, and as they drove along his spurs would catch in the tail-board of the ambulance, causing him to shriek with agony." An officer rode up, and, placing [533] his pistol to his head, threatened to shoot him if he continued to scream. This was on Sunday, the day of the battle. One of the most important witnesses was Gen. James B. Ricketts, well known in Washington and throughout the country, lately promoted for his daring and self-sacrificing courage. After having been wounded in the battle of Bull Run, he was captured, and as he lay helpless on his back, a party of rebels passing him cried out: "Knock out his brains, the d — d Yankee." He met Gen. Beauregard, an old acquaintance, only a year his senior at the United States Military Academy, where both were educated. He had met the rebel General in the South a number of times. By this head of the rebel army, on the day after the battle, he was told that his (Gen. Ricketts's) treatment would depend upon the treatment extended to the rebel privateers. His first lieutenant, Ramsey, who was killed, was stripped of every article of his clothing but his socks, and left naked on the field. He testified that those of our wounded who died in Richmond were buried in the negro burying-ground among the negroes, and were put into the earth in the most unfeeling manner. The statement of other witnesses as to how the prisoners were treated is fully confirmed by Gen. Ricketts. He himself, while in prison, subsisted mainly upon what he purchased with his own money, the money brought to him by his wife. "We had," he says, "what they called bacon soup — soup made of boiled bacon, the bacon being a little rancid — which you could not possibly eat; and that for a man whose system was being drained by a wound is no diet at all." In reply to a question whether he had heard anything about our prisoners being shot by the rebel sentries, he answered: "Yes, a number of our men were shot. In one instance two were shot; one was killed and the other wounded, by a man who rested his gun on the window-sill while he capped it." Gen. Ricketts, in reference to his having been held as one of the hostages for the privateers, states: "I considered it bad treatment to be selected as a hostage for a privateer, when I was so lame that I could not walk, and while my wounds were still open and unhealed. At this time Gen. Winder came to see me. He had been an officer in my regiment; I had known him for twenty-odd years. It was on the ninth of November that he came to see me. He saw that my wounds were still unhealed; he saw my condition; but that very day he received an order to select hostages for the privateers, and notwithstanding he knew my condition, the next day, Sunday, the tenth of November, I was selected as one of the hostages." "I heard," he continues, " of a great many of our prisoners who had been bayoneted and shot. I saw three of them--two that had been bayoneted, and one of them shot. One was named Louis Francis, of the New-York Fourteenth. He had received fourteen bayonet wounds--one through his privates — and he had one wound very much like mine, on the knee, in consequence of which his leg was amputated after twelve weeks had passed; and I would state here that in regard to his case, when it was determined to amputate his leg, I heard Dr. Peachy, the rebel surgeon, remark to one of his young assistants, 'I won't be greedy; you may do it;' and the young man did it. I saw a number in my room, many of whom had been badly amputated. The flaps over the stump were drawn too tight, and some of the bones protruded. A man by the name of Prescott (the same referred to in the testimony of Surgeon Homiston) was amputated twice, and was then, I think, moved to Richmond before the taps were healed. Prescott died under this treatment. I heard a rebel doctor on the steps below my room say, 'that he wished he could take out the hearts of the d — d Yankees as easily as he could take off their legs.' Some of the Southern gentlemen treated me very handsomely. Wade Hampton, who was opposed to my battery, came to see me and behaved like a generous enemy." It appears, as a part of the history of this rebellion, that Gen. Ricketts was visited by his wife, who, having first heard that he was killed in battle, afterwards that he was alive but wounded, travelled under great difficulties to Manassas to see her husband. He says: "She had almost to fight her way through, but succeeded finally in reaching me on the fourth day after the battle. There were eight persons in the Lewis House, at Manassas, in the room where I lay, and my wife, for two weeks, slept in that room, on the floor by my side, without a bed. When we got to Richmond there were six of us in a room, among them Col. Wilcox, who remained with us until he was taken to Charleston. There we were all in one room. There was no door to it. It was much as it would be here if you should take off the doors of this committee-room, and then fill the passage with wounded soldiers. In the hot summer months the stench from their wounds, and from the utensils they used, was fearful. There was no privacy at all, because there being no door, the room could not be closed. We were there as a, common show. Col. Wilcox and myself were objects of interest, and were gazed upon as if we were a couple of savages. The people would come in there and say all sorts of things to us and about us, until I was obliged to tell them that I was a prisoner, and had nothing to say. On our way to Richmond, when we reached Gordonsville, many women crowded around the cars, and asked my wife if she cooked, if she washed, how she got there. Finally, Mrs. Ricketts appealed to the officer in charge, and told him that it was not the intention that we should be subjected to this treatment, and if it was continued she would make it known to the authorities. General Johnson took my wife's carriage and horses at Manassas, kept them, and has them yet for aught I know. When I got to Richmond, I spoke to several gentlemen about this, and so did Mrs. Ricketts. They said, of course, the carriage and horses should be returned; but they never were. There is one debt," says this gallant [534] soldier, "that I desire very much to pay, and nothing troubles me so much now as the fact that my wounds prevent me from entering upon active service at once." The case of Louis Francis, who was terribly wounded and maltreated, and lost a leg, is referred to by Gen. Ricketts; but the testimony of Francis himself is startling. He was a private in the New-York Fourteenth regiment. He says:
I was attacked by two rebel soldiers, and wounded in the right knee with the bayonet. As I lay on the sod they kept bayoneting me until I received fourteen wounds. One then left me, the other remaining over me, when a Union soldier coming up, shot him in the breast, and he fell dead. I lay on the ground till ten o'clock next day. I was then removed in a wagon to a building; my wounds examined and partially dressed. On the Saturday following we were carried to Manassas, and from there to the general hospital at Richmond. My leg having partially mortified, I consented that it should be amputated, which operation was performed by a young man. I insisted that they should allow Dr. Swalm to be present, for I wanted one Union man there if I died under the operation. The stitches and the band slipped from neglect, and the bone protruded; and about two weeks after, another operation was performed, at which time another piece of the thigh-bone was sawed off. Six weeks after the amputation, and before it healed, I was removed to the tobacco-factory.Two operations were subsequently performed on Francis--one at Fortress Monroe and one at Brooklyn, N. Y.--after his release from captivity. Revolting as these disclosures are, it was when the committee came to examine witnesses in reference to the treatment of our heroic dead that the fiendish spirit of the rebel leaders was most prominently exhibited. Daniel Bixby, Jr., of Washington, testifies that he went out in company with G. A. Smart, of Cambridge, Mass., who went to search for the body of his brother, who fell at Blackburn's Ford in the action of the eighteenth of July. They found the grave. The clothes were identified as those of his brother on account of some peculiarity in the make, for they had been made by his mother; and, in order to identify them, other clothes made by her were taken, that they might compare them. "We found no head in the grave, and no bones of any kind — nothing but the clothes and portions of the flesh. We found the remains of three other bodies all together. The clothes were there; some flesh was left, but no bones." The witness also states that Mrs. Pierce Butler, who lives near the place, said that she had seen the rebels boiling portions of the bodies of our dead in order to obtain their bones as relics. They cold not wait for them to decay. She said that she had seen drumsticks made of "Yankee shinbones," as they called them. Mrs. Butler also stated that she had seen a skull that one of the New-Orleans artillery had, which, he said, he was going to send home and have mounted, and that he intended to drink a brandy-punch out of it the day he was married. Frederick Scholes, of the city of Brooklyn, N. Y., testified that he proceeded to the battle-field of Bull Run, on the fourth of this month, (April,) to find the place where he supposed his brother's body was buried. Mr. Scholes, who is a man of unquestioned character, by his testimony fully confirms the statements of other witnesses. He met a free negro, named Simon or Simons, who stated that it was a common thing for the rebel soldiers to exhibit the bones of the Yankees. "I found," he says, "in the bushes in the neighborhood, a part of a Zouave uniform, with the sleeve sticking out of the grave, and a portion of the pantaloons. Attempting to pull it up, I saw the two ends of the grave were still unopened, but the middle had been prised up, pulling up the extremities of the uniform at some places, the sleeves of the shirt in another, and a portion of the pantaloons." Dr. Swalm (one of the surgeons, whose testimony has already been referred to) pointed out the trenches where the secessionists had buried their own dead, and, on examination, it appeared that their remains had not been disturbed at all. Mr. Scholes met a free negro, named Hampton, who resided near the place, and when he told him the manner in which these bodies had been dug up, he said he knew it had been done, and added that the rebels had commenced digging bodies two or three days after they were buried, for the purpose, at first, of obtaining the buttons off their uniforms, and that afterwards they disinterred them to get their bones. He said they had taken rails and pushed the ends down in the centre under the middle of the bodies, and prised them up. "The information of the negroes of Benjamin Franklin Lewis corroborated fully the statement of this man Hampton. They said that a good many of the bodies had been stripped naked on the field before they were buried, and that some were buried naked. I went to Mr. Lewis's house and spoke to him of the manner in which these bodies had been disinterred. He admitted that it was infamous, and condemned principally the Louisiana Tigers, of Gen. Wheat's division. He admitted that our wounded had been very badly treated." In confirmation of the testimony of Dr. Swalm and Dr. Homiston, this witness avers that Mr. Lewis mentioned a number of instances of men who had been murdered by bad surgical treatment. Mr. Lewis was afraid that a pestilence would break out in consequence of the dead being left unburied, and stated that he had gone and warned the neighborhood and had the dead buried, sending his own men to assist in doing so.
On Sunday morning, (yesterday,) I went out in search of my brother's grave. We found the trench, and dug for the bodies below. They were eighteen inches to two feet below the surface, and had been hustled in in any way. In one end of the trench we found, not more than two or three inches below the surface, the thigh-bone of a man [535] which had evidently been dug up after the burial. At the other end of the trench, we found the shin-bone of a man which had been struck by a musket-ball and split. The bodies at the ends had been prised up. While digging there a party of soldiers came along and showed us a part of a shin-bone five or six inches long, which had the end sawed off. They said they had found it, among many other pieces, in one of the cabins the rebel had deserted. From the appearance of it, pieces had been sawed off to make finger-rings. As soon as the negroes noticed this they said that the rebels had had rings made of the bones of our dead, and that they had them for sale in their camps. When Dr. Swalm saw the bone he said it was a part of the shin-bone of a man. The soldiers represented that there were lots of these bones scattered through the rebel huts sawed into rings, etc.Mr. Lewis and his negroes all spoke of Col. James Cameron's body, and knew that "it had been stripped, and also where it had been buried." Mr. Scholes, in answer to a question of one of the committee, described the different treatment extended to the Union soldiers and the rebel dead. The latter had little headboards placed at the head of their respective graves and marked; none of them had the appearance of having been disturbed. The evidence of that distinguished and patriotic citizen, Hon. William Sprague, Governor of the State of Rhode Island, confirms and fortifies some of the most revolting statements of former witnesses. His object in visiting the battle-field was to recover the bodies of Col. Slocum and Major Ballou, of the Rhode Island regiment. He took out with him several of his own men to identify the graves. On reaching the place he states that: "We commenced digging for the bodies of Col. Slocum and Major Ballou at the spot pointed out to us by these men who had been in the action. While digging, some negro women came up and asked whom we were looking for, and at the same time said that 'Col. Slogun' had been dug up by the rebels, by some men of a Georgia regiment, his head cut off, and his body taken to a ravine thirty or forty yards below, and there burned. We stopped digging and went to the spot designated, where we found coals, and ashes, and bones, mingled together. A little distance from there we found a shirt (still buttoned at the neck) and a blanket with large quantities of hair upon it, everything indicating the burning of a body there. We returned and dug down at the spot indicated as the grave of Major Ballou, but found no body there; but at the place pointed out as the grave where Col. Slocum was buried, we found a box, which, upon being raised and opened, was found to contain the body of Col. Slocum. The soldiers who had buried the two bodies were satisfied that the grave which had been opened, the body taken out, beheaded, and burned, was that of Major Ballou, because it was not in the spot where Col. Slocum was buried, but rather to the right of it. They at once said that the rebels had made a mistake, and had taken the body of Major Ballou for that of Col. Slocum. The shirt found near the place where the body was burned I recognised as one belonging to Major Ballou, as I had been very intimate with him. We gathered up the ashes containing the portion of his remains that were left, and put them in a coffin, together with his shirt and the blanket with the hair left upon it. After we had done this we went to that portion of the field where the battle had first commenced, and began to dig for the remains of Captain Tower. We brought a soldier with us to designate the place where he was buried. He had been wounded in the battle, and had seen from the window of the house where the Captain was interred. On opening the ditch or trench, we found it filled with soldiers, all buried with their faces downward. On taking up some four or five, we discovered the remains of Captain Tower, mingled with those of the men. We took them, placed them in a coffin, and brought them home." In reply to a question of a member of the committee, as to whether he was satisfied that they were buried intentionally with their faces downward, Gov. Sprague's answer was, "Undoubtedly! Beyond all controversy!" and that "it was done as a mark of indignity." In answer to another question, as to what their object could have been, especially in regard to the body of Col. Slocum, he replied: "Sheer brutality, and nothing else. They did it on account of his courage and chivalry, in forcing his regiment, fearlessly and bravely, upon them. He destroyed about one half of that Georgia regiment, which was made up of their best citizens." When the inquiry was put, whether he thought these barbarities were committed by that regiment, he responded: "By that same regiment, as I was told." While their own dead were buried with marble head and foot-stones, and names upon them, ours were buried, as I have stated, "in trenches." This eminent witness concludes his testimony as follows: "I have published an order to my Second regiment, to which these officers were attached, that I shall not be satisfied with what they shall do unless they give an account of one rebel killed for each of their own number." The members of your committee might content themselves by leaving this testimony to the Senate and the people without a word of comment; but when the enemies of a just and generous Government are attempting to excite the sympathy of disloyal men in our own country, and to solicit the aid of foreign governments by the grossest misrepresentations of the objects of the war and. of the conduct of the officers and soldiers of the Republic, this, the most startling evidence of their insincerity and inhumanity, deserves some notice at our hands. History will be examined in vain for a parallel to this rebellion against a good government. Long prepared for by ambitious men, who were made doubly confident of success by the aid and [536] counsel of former administrations, and by the belief that their plans were unobserved by a magnanimous people, they precipitated the war at a moment when the general Administration had just been changed, under circumstances of astounding perfidy. Without a single reasonable ground of complaint, and in the face of repeated manifestations of moderation and peace on the part of the President and his friends, they took up arms and declared that they would never surrender until their rebellion had been recognised, or the institutions established by our fathers had been destroyed. The people of the loyal States, at last convinced that they could preserve their liberties only by an appeal to the God of battles, rushed to the standard of the Republic in response to the call of the Chief Magistrate. Every step of this monstrous treason has been marked by violence and crime. No transgression has been too great and no wrong too startling for its leaders. They disregarded the sanctity of the oaths they had taken to support the Constitution; they repudiated all their obligations to the people of the free States; they deceived and betrayed their own fellow-citizens, and crowded their armies with forced levies; they drove from their midst all who would not yield to their despotism, or filled their prisons with men who would not enlist under their flag. They have now crowned the rebellion by the perpetration of deeds scarcely known even to savage warfare. The investigations of your committee have established this fact beyond controversy. The witnesses called before us were men of undoubted veracity and character. Some of them occupy high positions in the army, and others high positions in civil life. Differing in political sentiments, their evidence presents a remarkable concurrence of opinion and of judgment. Our fellow-countrymen, heretofore sufficiently impressed by the generosity and forbearance of the Government of the United States, and the barbarous character of the crusade against it, will be shocked by the statements of these unimpeached and unimpeachable witnesses, and foreign nations must, with one accord, however they have hesitated heretofore, consign to lasting odium the authors of crimes which, in all their details, exceed the worst excesses of the Sepoys of India. Inhumanity to the living has been the leading trait of the rebel leaders, but it was reserved for your committee to disclose, as a concerted system, their insults to the wounded, and their mutilation and desecration of the gallant dead. Our soldiers taken prisoners in honorable battle have been subjected to the most shameful treatment. All the considerations that inspire chivalric emotions and generous consideration for brave men have been disregarded. It is almost beyond belief that the men fighting in such a cause as ours, and sustained by a Government which in the midst of violence and treachery has given repeated evidences of its indulgence, should have been subjected to treatment never before resorted to by one foreign nation in a conflict with another. All the courtesies of professional and civil life seem to have been discarded. Gen. Beauregard himself, who, on a very recent occasion, boasted that he had been controlled by humane feelings, after the battle of Bull Run coolly proposed to hold Gen. Ricketts as a hostage for one of the murderous privateers, and the rebel surgeons disdained intercourse and communication with our own surgeons, taken in honorable battle. The outrages upon the dead will revive the recollections of the cruelties to which savage tribes subject their prisoners. They were buried in many cases naked, with their faces downward. They were left to decay in the open air, their bones carried off as trophies sometimes, as the testimony proves, to be used as personal adornments, and one witness deliberately avers that the head of one of our most gallant officers was cut off by a secessionist, to be turned into a drinking-cup on the occasion of his marriage. Monstrous as this revelation may appear to be, your committee have been informed that during the last two weeks the skull of a Union soldier has been exhibited in the office of the Sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives, which had been converted to such a purpose, and which had been found on the person of one of the rebel prisoners taken in a recent conflict. The testimony of Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island, is most interesting. It confirms the worst reports against the rebel soldiers, and conclusively proves that the body of one of the bravest officers in the volunteer service was burned. He does not hesitate to add that this hyena desecration of the honored corpse was because the rebels believed it to be the body of Col. Slocum, against whom they were infuriated for having displayed so much courage and chivalry in forcing his regiment fearlessly and bravely upon them. These disclosures, establishing, as they incontestably do, the consistent inhumanity of the rebel leaders, will be read with sorrow and indignation by the people of the loyal States. They should inspire these people to renewed exertions to protect our country from the restoration to power of such men. They should, and we believe they will, arouse the disgust and horror of foreign nations against this unholy rebellion. Let it be ours to furnish, nevertheless, a continued contrast to such barbarities and crimes. Let us persevere in the good work of maintaining the authority of the Constitution, and of refusing to imitate the monstrous practices we have been called upon to investigate. Your committee beg to say, in conclusion, that they have not yet been enabled to gather testimony in regard to the additional inquiry suggested by the resolution of the Senate, whether Indian savages have been employed by the rebels in military service against the Government of the United States, and how such warfare has been conducted by the said savages, but that they have taken the proper steps to attend to this important duty.


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BINNEY, STEPHEN, merchant, politician, shipbuilder, businessman; b. 24 March 1805 at Halifax, N.S., seventh child of Hibbert Newton Binney and Lucy Creighton; m. on 15 Oct. 1828 Emily Pryor, daughter of a Halifax merchant, and had a large family; d. 17 Jan. 1872 at Moncton, N.B.
Stephen Binney's father was collector of impost and excise at Halifax, and Stephen soon became a well-known figure in the business life of the city. When the first civic elections were held on 15 May 1841, Binney was elected a councillor; the councillors subsequently chose him as the city's mayor. Offended by the minor role assigned to him at a reception in September 1841 for a French prince, Binney clashed with the lieutenant governor, Lord Falkland [Lucius Bentinck Cary*]. The resulting clamour had not died down when a new crisis arose. The citizens of Halifax heard the news of the birth of a son to Queen Victoria early in December 1841. Binney immediately proposed that, since he planned to visit England on private business, he, as mayor, should lay at the foot of the throne a congratulatory address from the council and citizens. This should have been presented through the lieutenant governor, but the council, after consulting Falkland, allowed Binney to carry the address to England. Binney sailed on 3 Jan. 1842; in March his leave of absence expired and another councillor, Edward Kenny*, was appointed to complete his term.
When Binney returned to North America and decided to leave Halifax is not known, but on 20 Nov. 1843 he purchased for £600 half an acre of land with a wharf and shipyard in Lewisville, one mile northeast of "The Bend" (now Moncton), where his home, luxurious for the day, still stands. As well as being active in shipbuilding, Binney owned a wholesale business in lumber, flour, and feed. He was largely responsible for the establishment of St George's Anglican parish, of which he and Bliss Botsford*, a noted lawyer and politician, became first wardens in 1852. Binney also took an active interest in railways; he, Edward Barron Chandler, and Amos Edwin Botsford* were delegates at the Portland railway convention in 1850, and Binney backed those who wanted the Intercolonial Railway to pass through Moncton.
Stephen Binney, scion of a prominent Nova Scotia family, was unsuccessful as the first mayor of Halifax, but later made a valuable contribution to the religious, cultural, and mercantile life of his adopted community.
St Paul's Church (Halifax, N.S.), Baptismal register, 1791–1816. Westmorland County Registry Office (Dorchester, N.B.), libro V, 297. Canada, Sessional papers, III (1870), pt.5, no.13, app.C, 27–28. Moncton Daily Times (special edition for the diamond jubilee of confederation), 15 June 1937, 12–13, 20, 39. W. C. Borrett, East coast port and other tales told under the old town clock (Halifax, 1944), 81–88. C. A. Pincombe, "The history of Monckton Township (ca. 1700–1875)," unpublished ma thesis, University of New Brunswick, 1969, 157, 161, 167. S. T. Spicer, Masters of sail: the era of square-rigged vessels in the Maritime provinces (Toronto, 1968), 97. F. E. Crowell, "Binney family," Yarmouth Herald, 25 July 1933.
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Vancouver Canucks president and general manager Michael D. Gillis announced today that the Canucks have named Travis Green head coach of the Utica Comets, the Canucks' American Hockey League affiliate.
"We are very pleased to have Travis Green join our organization," said Gillis. "Travis brings a wealth of hockey knowledge and a winning pedigree to the role. His experience as a player and immediate success as a head coach, guiding Portland to a WHL championship this past year, are tremendous assets to lead and develop our players and prospects in Utica."
Green, 42, most recently served as the assistant general manager and interim head coach of the 2012-13 WHL champion and Memorial Cup runner-up Portland Winterhawks. As head coach, he helped Portland to a record of 37-8-2 in the regular season, earning the Scotty Munroe Trophy as the WHL's top regular-season team. He led the Winterhawks to a league championship before falling in the final game of the Memorial Cup to Halifax.
Prior to serving as interim head coach, Green served as assistant coach and assistant GM for the Winterhawks from 2008 through 2012-13. As assistant coach, Green helped the Winterhawks to a record of 160-99-8-7 and three consecutive league finals appearances, making the playoffs all but one season behind the bench.
Prior to joining the Winterhawks coaching staff, the Castlegar, B.C., native played 970 games over 14 seasons in the NHL with the N.Y. Islanders, Anaheim, Phoenix, Toronto and Boston. Originally drafted in 1989, Green played 164 games over his first three professioanl seasons in the AHL with the Capital District Islanders.


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ParTech, Inc., a subsidiary of PAR Technology Corporation, announced that CKE Restaurants has selected the new PAR EverServ 7700 POS for its Carl's Jr. and Hardee's restaurants.
After a rigorous testing and certification process by CKE, the EverServ 7700 terminal is now approved and certified for all Carl's Jr. and Hardee's corporate-owned and franchised locations.
"The EverServ 7700's innovative design with centralized port connectivity and easy access to major components will simplify the service of the terminal and maximize our uptime," says Tom Lindblom, vice president of IT and chief technology officer, CKE Restaurants.
"The modular design of the EverServ 7700 will enable our restaurants to upgrade key components as needs change (CPU, memory, touch screen, disk drives, and customer displays), which will maximize the life of the POS terminals and the return on our technology investment," he adds. "We also like the sleek new design and small footprint of the PAR terminal, which complements the image of our newly remodeled stores."
Jeff Chasney, executive vice president of strategic planning and chief information officer for CKE, says, "During our 10-year relationship, PAR has consistently delivered highly durable and reliable POS hardware and responsive.
"We have done extensive lab testing and certification of the new EverServ 7700 terminal, including deployments at four pilot sites, and the performance has been outstanding," Chasney continues. "We are confident that the innovative design of the EverServ 7700 will provide our franchisees the best combination of durability, performance, scalability, and serviceability that will result in the lowest total cost of ownership."
The totally redesigned PAR EverServ 7000 Series POS hardware is built with the same rugged durability PAR is known for and a sleek design that delivers the performance hospitality and retail operators demand.
CKE selected the EverServ 7700 model with an Intel i5 processor and POSReady 7 operating system to deliver optimal performance and extend the life span of the terminal by not limiting future applications.
The EverServ 7700 was designed to be backward compatible with many previous models of printers and cash drawers, which will enable CKE to use its existing peripherals to reduce the total cost of ownership.
"CKE has been a great customer for many years, and we are excited to build upon this relationship," says Tim Votaw, senior vice president of sales and marketing, ParTech. "The EverServ 7700 terminal is a great fit for companies like CKE that make strategic technology decisions that deliver optimal performance today and protect their investment for the long term."
The POS rollout at CKE corporate locations commenced in mid-December with 409 stores completed by January 31, 2013.
The remaining locations are being installed, and the rollout will be completed by the end of June 2013. PAR is staging, delivering, installing, and disposing of existing terminals for the CKE POS project, and will continue to provide maintenance services for the CKE restaurants.


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Friday, June 10, 2005
Chicken Breakfast Sausage
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon olive oil, divided
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
1/4 cup shredded sweet apples
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
1/2 tablespoon chopped fresh sage
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 pound ground chicken breast
In a small skillet, heat 2 teaspoons oil over medium-high heat. Add onion and apple - saute 3 minutes. Add garlic and cook 30 seconds. Remove and cool completely.
In a medium bowl, stir together apple mixture, thyme, sage, salt, pepper and chicken until combined. Evenly divide mixture into 12 portions and shape each into a patty. Wet your hands if this mixture starts to stick.
In a large skillet, heat 1 teaspoon oil over medium heat. Add 6 chicken patties and cook 3 minutes on each side or until done. Repeat with remaining 1 teaspoon oil and 6 patties.
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This sounds so awesome!! Thanks for sharing and welcome to the East Coast! and the country!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8/06/2006 11:47:00 PM
That sounds like a keeper!ReplyDelete
I feel I have been a bad blog-friend, as I have not said a word about your big move East. You have been busy with so many creative changes, and I am pleased how much of it spills over into your blog.
My sincere best (and belated) wishes to you and yours.
TC - Thanks for the welcome! Now, lets hope the hot weather stays away =PReplyDelete
Andrea - It's been an interesting ride - but we are slowly settling in!
- Anonymous10/25/2007 02:46:00 AM
This recipe is awesome! Thanks :)ReplyDelete
Alaina - Glad you like it!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1/07/2008 11:28:00 AM
Absolutely beautiful! These look delectable and I want to try them all!ReplyDelete
I would love to make this but I am wondering how you grind the chicken breasts. Do you take one and cut it into pieces and put it in the food processor? How fine do you grind it?ReplyDelete
Thanks, I am looking forward to trying this.
Tamara - I usually chunk up a pound or so of the chicken and pulse it just long enough for a coarse grind. Don't process too long or you will end up with paste!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/22/2009 06:34:00 PM
Just found this recipe - so amazing! I used to eat Applegate farms chicken and sage sausages but the quality fluctuated too much and I have been looking for an alternative. These are fantastic - thank you so much for posting your recipes to the web!ReplyDelete
Anon - Glad you gave it a chance! I make this so often.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12/17/2009 10:45:00 AM
I have been making chicken sausage for a while, I found if you add some chicken thighs to the breast meat ,it is more like pork sausage and is moister.ReplyDelete


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It sounds like the plot to a science fiction story, but new scientific research hypothesizes that "advanced dinosaurs" may have evolved on other planets in the universe.
According to Dr. Ronald Breslow, the advanced versions of T. rex and other dinosaurs would likely be monstrous creatures with the intelligence and cunning of humans.
"We would be better off not meeting them," Breslow concludes in a study that appears in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
In his report, Breslow discusses the age-old mystery of why the building blocks of terrestrial amino acids (which make up proteins), sugars, and the genetic materials DNA and RNA exist mainly in one orientation or shape.
There are two possible orientations, left and right, which mirror each other in the same way as hands. This is known as "chirality." In order for life to arise, proteins, for example, must contain only one chiral form of amino acids, left or right.
With the exception of a few bacteria, amino acids in all life on Earth have the left-handed orientation. Most sugars have a right-handed orientation. So how did that so-called homochirality, the predominance of one chiral form, happen?
Breslow describes evidence supporting the idea that the unusual amino acids carried to a lifeless Earth by meteorites about 4 billion years ago set the pattern for normal amino acids with the L-geometry, the kind in terrestrial proteins, and how those could lead to D-sugars of the kind in DNA.
"Of course showing that it could have happened this way is not the same as showing that it did," Breslow acknowledges.
"[Yet], an implication from this work is that elsewhere in the universe there could be life forms based on D-amino acids and L-sugars. Such life forms could well be advanced versions of dinosaurs, if mammals did not have the good fortune to have the dinosaurs wiped out by an asteroidal collision, as on Earth. We would be better off not meeting them."
As every self respecting Trekkie knows, the fictional crew of USS Voyager actually did meet a pair of saurian scientists while navigating the Delta Quadrant in the Distant Origin episode.
After analyzing human DNA samples, the saurian scientists - along with Voyager's EMH - concluded that their species (Voth) was an evolved dinosaur from a species that left Earth more than 65 million years earlier.
Unfortunately, the so-called "distant origin" theory is considered heresy as it threatens the traditions and ideology of the proud Voth, who believe they originated in the Delta Quadrant. The scientists are forced to retract their theory after the Voth threatens to imprison the Voyager crew in a detention colony. The Voth's true heritage remains a secret, but for how long?


text: GMOD Summer School 11-13 July, 2008 National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) Durham, North Carolina, USA The first GMOD Summer School (http://gmod.org/GMOD_Summer_School) will be held July 11-13, 2008 at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), in Durham, North Carolina, USA. GMOD is a collection of interoperable open source software components for managing genomic data. GMOD components are used in diverse contexts, with both emerging and established model organisms. The course will provide an overview of GMOD and cover these popular components in detail: * Chado - a modular and extensible database schema * Apollo - genome annotation editor * GBrowse - genome viewer * CMap - comparative map viewer * Community Annotation System - GMOD's most popular components in a single system This is a 2 1/2 day hands-on workshop aimed at teaching new GMOD users how to get up and running with popular GMOD components. There will also be a concurrent 1 day session aimed at principal investigators that will give decision makers an overview of what GMOD can do, how the project operates, and what level of resources are needed to use GMOD. The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent, http://nescent.org) has joined the GMOD project with the goal of lowering the barrier to entry for research communities focused on emerging model organisms. The GMOD Summer School is a part of this effort. NESCent is also extending GMOD components, particularly Chado, to better support comparative and evolutionary data. If you are interested in attending the GMOD Summer School please submit a Statement of Interest before April 15, 2008. The course is free but enrollment is limited. For application information and a tentative program see: http://gmod.org/GMOD_Summer_School Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, or requests. Thanks, Dave Clements GMOD Help Desk help from gmod.org ------------------------ NESCent offers various courses and workshops, as well as funding post-doctoral and sabbatical positions, working groups and other meetings. For more information about research and training opportunities at NESCent, visit our website at www.nescent.org. Sign up for our quarterly electronic newsletter at http://www.nescent.org/about/contact.php to automatically receive information about events at NESCent.


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The North American Handbuilt Bicycle Show (NAHBS) is always an exciting place to view bicycles. Builders are challenged to push form and function to new heights, exploring ideas new and old to make the best bicycles possible. This year's show in Denver, CO was ripe with new wheel dimensions including 650b mountain bikes, over a dozen fatbikes (26x4.0"+) in every frame material imaginable, and the new 29x3.0" size pioneered by the Surly Krampus. Titanium frames were plentiful and bamboo frames had a strong presence. Even the custom carbon market seems to be growing.
More bikes featured disc brakes this year, including touring, rando and city bikes. One beautiful lugged steel rando bike mated Campy 11-speed equipment to new TRP cable-actuated hydraulic disc brakes. Many bikes were wearing lightweight luggage in the modern bikepacking style, including a Cielo (Chris King) touring frame with luggage made by Tanner in Portland, OR of domestic canvas and leather, attached to the frame without racks. Such a refined statement may help persuade some riders into lightweight touring.
It is always interesting to see how Velo Orange products are used in the wild. How about Ultegra brifters on a VO Porteur handlebar, attached to a bike with a carbon fork? That's not what Chris had in mind when he designed those bars, I'm sure. What about 650b Diagonale rims with a SRAM XX carbon crankset and a classic aluminum chainguard? Of course, there were more traditional pairings as well, mating lugged steel to shiny alloy cranks, fenders, and racks. Take a look.
Geekhouse bikes are a mash-up of modern function and retro styling, and sometimes retro function with modern styling They featured several VO parts including 650b Diagonale rims on their pink Brentwood porteur bike, which paired an aluminum chaingaurd and a 1x10 SRAM XX drivetrain. A similar purple city bike spent some time at the Brooks booth, displaying a VO stem and rear constructeur rack with Brooks luggage.
Jon Littleford's Expedition Touring bike spared no detail for the long haul, including a rust-coat with a clear coat finish and expedition-grade racks with stainless coverings to minimize abrasion from pannier hooks. Dynamo lighting and internal wiring connected to a vintage Cat-Eye tail light and a modern headlight. A Grand Cru headset and VO bar tape were prominent up front, while a VO touring hub made the rear end shine. I asked Jon to display the features of this hub. He shifted onto the smallest cog, lay the chain on the chainrest and unhooked the brake, removed the wheel, and after removing the QR skewer, he quickly removed the entire cassette along with the oversize aluminum axle. This process would have been no more difficult along the roadside, and within seconds, one could replace a spoke on the drive side of the wheel, which is usually obscured behind the cogset. Additionally, the freehub pawls are exposed for cleaning or lubing, and sealed cartridge bearings can be removed and replaced without tools. Reassembly is just as smooth. During this process-- no more than a minute-- I held the bike upright on the table while snapping photos.
This fast city bike featured a steel frame and a carbon fork, and was built with a VO fluted double crank, Grand Cru headset and a VO Porteur handlebar with Ultegra brifters neatly attached.
This young builder from Tokyo brought a nice rando frame to the show, unpainted, to show his tidy brazing. His bike featured a 50.4 VO double crank, and a Cinelli aero bottom bracket shell.
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Curtis machines exquisite hubs inspired by vintage styles, but with modern guts. Several wheels were built with VO rims. Most of his wheels were built with Ghilsallo wood rims from Wheel Fanatyk.
This classic road bike uses vintage bits and VO elkhide bar covering. From a distance, this looks much like a few VO Rando frames I have seen. Chris Bishop builds bikes in Baltimore, MD, one of the nearest framebuilders to VO headquarters.
Note: Many framebuilders remove manufacturer decals for shows like this, so it was a challenge to verify the identity of metal fenders, which adorned bikes in abundance. None are pictured here but most likely, some were from VO.


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Physics could be behind the secrets of crop-circle artists
In this month's edition of Physics World, Richard Taylor, director of the Materials Science Institute at the University of Oregon, takes a serious, objective look at a topic that critics might claim is beyond scientific understanding crop circles.
As the global crop-circle phenomenon grows alongside advances in science and technology, Taylor notes how physics and the arts are coming together to produce more impressive and spectacular crop-circle patterns that still manage to maintain their mystery.
Today's crop-circle designs are more complex than ever, with some featuring up to 2000 different shapes. Mathematical analysis has revealed the use of constructions lines, invisible to the eye, that are used to design the patterns, although exactly how crop circles are created remains an open question.
According to Taylor, physics could potentially hold the answer, with crop-circle artists possibly using the Global Positioning System (GPS) as well as lasers and microwaves to create their patterns, dispensing with the rope, planks of wood and bar stools that have traditionally been used.
Microwaves, Taylor suggests, could be used to make crop stalks fall over and cool in a horizontal position a technique that could explain the speed and efficiency of the artists and the incredible detail that some crop circles exhibit.
Indeed, one research team claims to be able to reproduce the intricate damage inflicted on crops using a handheld magnetron, readily available from microwave ovens, and a 12 V battery.
As Taylor writes, "Crop-circle artists are not going to give up their secrets easily. This summer, unknown artists will venture into the countryside close to your homes and carry out their craft, safe in the knowledge that they are continuing the legacy of the most science-oriented art movement in history."
Matin Durrani, Editor of Physics World, says, "It may seem odd for a physicist such as Taylor to be studying crop circles, but then he is merely trying to act like any good scientist examining the evidence for the design and construction of crop circles without getting carried away by the side-show of UFOs, hoaxes and aliens."
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It is with deep sorrow that I inform you about the untimely death of Dr. Charles (Bob) Schuster, a much admired and respected member of our scientific community and past NIDA Director.
Bob's prodigious career includes seminal contributions that will continue to illuminate the path of future generations of behavioral pharmacologists and neuroscientists. His achievements would be too many to list. But he was a true visionary, well ahead of his time, who saw the potential of addiction immunotherapies, for example, almost three decades before other researchers would finally commit resources in what is now a rapidly maturing and promising treatment strategy. He left us not only a plethora of discoveries and achievements from which to draw inspiration, but also the memory of a gentle and generous man who was able to make a difference in the lives of millions through the work that he so much loved.
Bob received his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1962, after being mentored by Professor Joseph V. Brady at the University of Maryland. After holding numerous and prestigious faculty positions, he founded the University of Chicago's Drug Abuse Research Center. From 1986 to 1992, he served as the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a position from which he oversaw the development of grant and contract programs to fund research into the etiology, prevention and treatment of drug abuse, and its medical and social consequences. In 2000, he became Director of the Addiction Research Institute at Wayne State University, a position he held until his premature death. He is a past President of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence and a Nathan B. Eddy Award recipient. Bob has been a prolific writer, having authored or co-authored over 200 scientific journal articles, as well as numerous book chapters and several books.
Please join me in expressing our deepest sympathy to Bob's vast circle of loved ones, our appreciation and gratitude for the wisdom and knowledge he has bequeathed us, and the certainty that he will be sorely missed.
Nora D. Volkow, M.D.