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–Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
In "Orlando," Sarah Ruhl's alternately blithely passionate and playfully satirical adaptation of the gender-flipping 1928 Virginia Woolf novel (a quasi-autobiographical take on her lover, Vita Sackville-West), such transformation is of the essence. It also is what drives every element of director Jessica Thebus' fleet, fluid, luminous, exquisitely imagined, impeccably realized production for Court Theatre in which the radiantly handsome/beautiful Amy J. Carle gives a fiercely intelligent, physically bold, altogether stellar performance in the marathon title role.
–Ada Grey, Chicago's up-and-coming 6-year-old theatre reviewer
People who would like this play are people who would like a long amount of kissing, and people that like boys and girls would like this play. You should expect nakedness. You should expect some funniness and some sadness. I laughed twenty five times out loud. When they did Othello, I felt very moved. And when Sasha left I felt very very sorry for Orlando. This play is more hilarious than sad though. ... You should go see this because it is a very good adaptation of Orlando.
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If this is love there is something highly ridiculous about it." Sarah Ruhl's stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic love letter of imaginative fiction, "Orlando" is most assuredly a laughing matter. In this artsy but bewitching fantasia, time and identity play the greatest pranks.


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Last night, Dr. Edith Mitchell of Thomas Jefferson University Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia, PA, updated colorectal cancer patients on the latest research and treatment news in an online webinar. Dr. Mitchell highlighted the most important news for colon and rectal cancer patients to come from the 2011 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium held in San Francisco last month. She answer such questions as… "Can doctors determine the chances that my cancer may return?" "Can my doctors determine if I need chemotherapy?" "Does Avastin or Erbitux benefit my stage III cancer treatment?" "Are there any promising new treatments on the horizon?"
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By Shelley Munro On Jun 2 2011, 9:00 am
As I write this post, half my mind is on packing my bag to head off on holiday. The last couple of months have been full on for me. I've written, sold and gone through edits on three different projects and, during the last month, I've had my husband underfoot as he recovers from a severed tendon in one of the fingers on his right hand.
I'm tired. My brain is sluggish, and it's definitely time for a break from writing.
These days we're all busy. If we don't multi-task people look at us as if we're not normal. We focus on work and family activities and don't take time out for ourselves. The result is stress, which isn't good for anyone.
Hubby and I are heading off on a ten day Pacific cruise. Quite frankly I don't care if it rains every day because it will be a real treat being able to read to my heart's content and have someone make my bed for me every morning. I'll be able to snooze when I want and won't have to worry about food shopping or what to cook for dinner. The most difficult decision I'll need to deal with is what sort of cocktail to choose at the bar. Ah, yes! I can feel the stress starting to melt right now.
Of course, a vacation isn't the only way to take time out. All we need to do is step out of routine and do something a little different. Go for a leisurely walk in a park. Go to the movies with your sweetie. Take a class or start a new hobby. Play tourist in your own town or city. Have a massage or go on a picnic. The possibilities are endless and needn't be expensive.
What are your favorite ways to recharge your batteries?
Shelley Munro lives in New Zealand and writes hot and spicy romance for Samhain Publishing. Her recent release, Seeking Kokopelli is available in both print and ebook formats. Her next release, Lone Wolf is due out on 23 Aug. You can visit Shelley and learn more about her books at www.shelleymunro.com
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I think you are not alone..I'm feeling like my battery is starting to run low as well. I do hope you have a fantastic time away..Look forward to seeing your pictures when you get back.
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Tonight's contest between NHC rival Carroll and the Bellmont Squaws will begin at approximately 6 p.m. with the JV contest. Pre-game coverage will begin around 6:20 and the match's broadcast will start roughly two minutes before the opening varsity serve.
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BRENTWOOD, TN — Eastern Illinois sophomore Marah Bradbury nabbed her third career Ohio Valley Conference 'Setter of the Week' award this week as she helped lead Panther volleyball to runner-up team honors at the KSU Golden Flashes Classic last weekend.
The Decatur native dished out a season-high 53 assists and hit .833 (5-of-6, with zero errors) in EIU's four-set victory over Binghamton, as Eastern also swept Midwest foe Illinois-Chicago before falling to host Kent State in the championship match.
FORT WAYNE—Fremont and Bellmont dominated the action in the annual girls Blackhawk Christian Cross Country Invitational Tuesday with the Eagles sweeping spots two through six to win the event with just 20 points in a six-team field.
The coveted top position, however, went to Bellmont's Bailey Beery who had no problems in going on cruise control to win by 2:11 over Fremont's Makenna Cade (18:49 to 21:00).
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BLUFFTON — Adams Central tennis finished off their regular season sweep of all sectional opponents they may face at Norwell on October 2 when they handed the Bluffton Tigers a 5-0 beating on Monday night on the road.
Andy Oliver had the match of the night against Bluffton's Aaron Sturgeon defeating the number three singles player in three sets 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 2-6.
Congratulations to this week's top three Pigskin Pickers for getting the least amount wrong for week three of the contest, Lori McGill, Darlene Sheets, and Michael McGill. The tie-breaker score was 47 points this week with the ties settled in the standings by the closest guesses.
BLUFFTON — For the second year in a row, Bellmont has put girls golf on the radar in Indiana advancing to regionals with a third place finish Saturday at Timberridge Golf Course.
The Squaws took the bronze medal with a team score of 368 qualifying as the last team to advance with Homestead winning the sectional outright with a score of 359 and Canterbury taking second at 365.
"We all played great and the girls should be very proud!" exclaimed BHS coach Andy Heim after the sectional finish.
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OJ Simpson was found innocent, the Oklahoma City bombing devastated the country, and the DVD was announced.
What local Adams County buffs may remember to be just as significant, however, was the last time that Bellmont defeated Homestead on the gridiron.
On a rainy, slippery field at Worthman Stadium, the Bellmont Braves pulled out an unlikely upset of the juggernaut Homestead Spartans in overtime, 14-13, a feat that had not occurred in 17 years of football.
Tonight the Braves welcome Homestead to Worthman Stadium with a kick-off of around 7 p.m. The webcast of tonight's game will begin with a pre-game show around 6:40 p.m.
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NEW HAVEN — The Squaws put up a sweep against the fiesty New Haven Bulldogs on the road Thursday night winning 25-15, 25-13, 15-15.
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OpenGL veteran Eskil Steenberg in his latest blog explains the architecture and optimization strategies used for his upcoming non-photorealistic game LOVE. By using some radical OpenGL optimizations the engine is able to render beautiful images of dynamic environments at high frame rates and high resolution on inexpensive hardware. For screen shots and video visit this page.
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Any advice on the best way of organising images and graphs for a PhD student?
I'm interested to learn what strategies people use for organizing images, graphs and diagrams over the course of a long research project. I find that I spend a fair amount of time reformatting images for various purposes, such as documents, presentations and posters.
At the moment I am writing a paper using Latex, so I want all my graphs to be .eps and a certain size. But I can't figure out what the best font/image size to use is, or line-weight. Do people use a personal 'style guide' for each case? Are there any standards out there?
I am creating my images from Matlab, R, ArcGIS and Excel.
I'd like to develop a good strategy now so that I can use the diagrams and graphs I have now in a few years time.
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Are there any standards out there?
Look through a few of the papers in your field. That should give you a good idea of what most people are doing.
There are big advantages to using something like R, because if you need to change an image later, it's just a matter of editing a line or two in your code and re-generating the image.
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Some journals address these issues in the "Instructions for authors" section of their website.
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First rule: stop using Excel to produce graphs and tables, if at all possible. It's not a completely horrible data organization tool, but it sucks hard for producing graphs for publication. Personally, instead of Excel, I use SigmaPlot, but there are lots of other options too. R can do everything Excel can graphically. Stick with a toolchain that works for you and that you know.
Secondly, read the instructions for authors of the journals that you will publish in.
Thirdly, go to the university library and get the thesis instructions.
Two & three together will tell you the basic requirements. The rest is personal choice, and this is where it gets interesting.
Attend as many presentations and read as many papers in the field as you can. As you do so, ask yourself, does this view of the data work well? Am I confused by it? How much do I need to think about it before I get it? Is it too detailed and busy? Is it too simple (note that this is almost never the case)?
Read a book or two on data presentation. The classic reference is
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, but all of his books are worth a read. Your university library should have copies.
Lastly, you need to experiment! Try different presentations out, show them to your fellow students, post-docs and supervisor. Get comments, evolve to what works best.
Keep in mind that this is a process, not an end goal. Your presentation style will evolve through your career, but striving for clarity, comprehensibility and aesthetic sensibility has always served me well.
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(btw, the other big timesaver for thesis and paperwriting is proper reference management. You
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5th year PhD student here, writing the last bits of my thesis (yay!). I know my "workflow" is not so much of a "flow" as it is a "rube-goldberg machine" but I will try to summarize.
-I use excel, Origin, and MatLab (although MatLab the least of the three) for most of my plotting. My research also involves a lot of pictures and spectra so it is not all charts & graphs.
-I mainly export plots as .ps from Origin or MatLab and prettify them in Adobe Illustrator. I find that the output from these programs is sub-par for publication, and rather than spending a ton of time fudging with the formats in the program itself, I will just output it and make the lines bolder, the data points larger, or edit the fonts. In Illustrator I have sort of a standardized set of edits: Arial font for all axis & plot labels and my font size guideline is "big enough to read easily", pt 1 lines for axes, pt 0.5 lines for errorbars, pt 0.75 lines for outline of data points (if an open circle, etc), and here I can also group the data points so I can edit them together. It is kind of a pain if I need to go back and change something, but not any more of a pain than re-doing the plot in MatLab and re-exporting as a .eps file. Illustrator will also output as a .eps file. This varies from journal to journal, as pizzazz suggested, so it may be helpful to look there. Also talk to your advisor, he/she may have very specific suggestions on figure formatting, I know mine does.
-Another advantage of Illustrator is if you have several plots that are just a variation on X (several exponential decays of similar datasets, for example) you can just make a big array of all of the plots and have one giant figure instead of like 8 small ones.
-The advantage to having the figures in Illustrator is that I also make posters in Illustrator, and can export figures as .tif for PowerPoint, etc. Illustrator is super super handy for posters.
-As far as organization goes, uh, what is that? But when I'm writing a paper or making a poster I will have a separate folder for that poster/paper and each figure will be an Illustrator file named 01.t2_decay_exponential.ai and so on. Of course, you can always go back and change the file name if the figure number changes, but it helps me remember which figure goes where.
-My guess is that the journal will re-size all of your figures depending on space considerations, so the only reason you would need to worry about having them a uniform size would be for your thesis. However, we don't write papers in LaTeX so I don't know much about how journals that publish LaTeX formatted papers will reformat what you've written.
memail me if you have any more questions or would like to see a paper from our group.
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I keep a lab notebook in an HTML page. Every figure I ever generate goes in this lab notebook. Almost all of these I have generated in R, where I use a function that takes the current plot, saves it to my lab notebook directory as a PNG, regenerates it as a PDF, and saves that, and regenerates it as a high-resolution PNG with large fonts, for use in future presentations. It also generates HTML that links to all of the above images, and loads it into an open emacs window for easy pasting into the lab notebook.
So when I want to make a presentation, I skim through the lab notebook, and save copies of the files that were already generated for presentation use. This eliminates issues in trying to remember what a file is called because I just look at the images, and click on the link to get the file (they are all placed in a single directory per day, such as 2009/0716/myfigure.png.
I have some code that automatically lists the time, date, directory, and last command in the footer of every figure, which makes it easy to figure out what I did to create the plot at the time. I can go back through the .Rhistory file in this directory and get the necessary stuff to recreate the figure years later, when I am trying to create a publication. Each journal is going to have different ideas of how a figure should be made, unfortunately, so you can't necessarily do this stuff in advance. Therefore being able to reproduce or change the figures later is key. It works best if you create functions that create your plots and save them in separate files (backtracking through .Rhistory is really a stopgap measure when you forget to do that).
I use Sweave to integrate R plots into my LaTeX documents. I would say getting started with it is not for the faint of heart, but once you're comfortable with it, it makes it as easy to change the figures or even the data that go into your LaTeX document as it is to change the typography. Resubmit to another journal? No problem. Import into your thesis? No problem.
My only regret is that I don't have time to post the code for all this right now.
Big R tip: do not use the legacy graphics functions such as plot(). Use lattice functions such as xyplot() instead (lattice is included in R). There is a slight learning curve but it is well worth it. It is much easier to get complex publication-quality graphics out of lattice than out of legacy graphics. It is pretty easy to customize things like font size through lattice as well. I almost never find the need to do manual tweaking in Illustrator. Automation is key, as you don't want to repeat the tweaking when you have a new dataset. And you will. It's amazing how many things you think you will only need to do once that you end up having to do repeatedly.
The system I used as a PhD student was to print them out and paste them on the wall. When I ran out of space, I started stapling similar-looking graphs together.
It looked like this.
While in some ways it was very efficient, allowing an instant visual inspection of all of my results, I do not recommend this system.
As I said, each journal will have a different idea of what to do here. But for presentations and posters the key is to make your text big. There are conflicting guidelines on how big to make them that you can find all over the internet. One sans serif font will do well for everything. Honestly, I use the lowest common denominator here, Helvetica, since it's far less likely that it will clash with any of the unknown places where my images will end up.
For colors, you should really check out the
palettes, which have been extensively tested in any number of ways. They were initially designed for cartography (and it looks like you'll be doing a little of that), but I also use them for scatter plots, or anything else really (check out the RColorBrewer package). Default color schemes in scientific plotting software are usually pretty awful and make me cringe. The default scheme in Excel is even worse. Get into the habit of never using Excel to make plots. You
produce good-looking, efficient, elegant plots with Excel but it is way, way too hard, and requires too much hand-tuning of each one.
I'd recommend the following books on visualization techniques:
The visual display of quantitative information
, Edward Tufte (and his other books are great too)
Visualizing data
, William S. Cleveland
Lattice: multivariate data visualization with R
, Deepayan Sarkar
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There are big advantages to using something like R, because if you need to change an image later, it's just a matter of editing a line or two in your code and re-generating the image.
This is an excellent suggestion.
In fact, for many of the plots in my thesis I had full-blown Makefiles that went from raw data files to cleaned-up ones via perl, then gnuplot scripts from a different perl script and finally plots from the data and command files. Oh, and of course evertyhing was kept under version control using svn.
Since you are already using latex, I highly recommend gnuplot with the epslatex terminal: It generates a minimal eps file with the lines in your plot and a tex file with all the labels. This makes it automatically consistent with your latex document, even if you make (minor) changes in things like fonts.
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grouse is pretty on the ball here.
I would only add that this depends on field, but be wary of fussing with them too much. Good enough is good enough, and a journal will likely ask you to change them anyway after a piece is accepted. In most cases, "the best" font size or line width doesn't matter. What matters is only "Is it legible in the intended environment?"
LaTeX: save copies of the figures as pdf as well; the workflow through pdflatex can be easier than latex->ps->pdf, and some packages seem to work more cleanly through pdflatex than latex.
Image size shouldn't be really important for latex. You can always just resize with a [width=0.6\textwidth].
the only reason you would need to worry about having them a uniform size would be for your thesis
If your committee is sane, they're not going to give a crap about changes in figure size so long as everything fits within the margins for the Dreaded Ruler Lady.
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Oh, and of course evertyhing was kept under version control using svn.
Yes, version control! Separation of data and code. An essential thing to do if you don't want to be totally lost.
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In a recent issue of
, I noticed a range of graphs, ranging from pixelly Excel output to professional work that had been formatted by the magazine's designers. Take from this what you will - there may be standards that I don't know about, but it seems that you're safe picking what looks good to you.
I have written a couple of short papers in LaTeX, and I used Adobe Illustrator to edit my .eps files for consistency. It's then easy to pick a font and create your own system of text sizes and line weights to use in everything. You can copy and paste directly from Excel into Illustrator, which is really nice.
Computer Modern
is the default typeface used by LaTeX. I find it quite elegant, but others think it's ugly. The Wikipedia page has links to ttf and Opentype versions of Computer Modern. That might be a good choice to use in your images.
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"Get vector graphics output from hand-editable script files", "use a Makefile to make it easy to regenerate them all at once", and "use version control" were the first three things I wanted to say, and it looks like I've been beaten to all of them. I hope I'm at least the first one to mention "those many script files can be refactored to put common elements (like style choices) into a few header files" and "if you forget to refactor something, you can still change it in a hundred figures at once with perl or your other favorite regexp parser".
My thesis included about 50 graphs, and when I realized (for just one of many examples) that the font size came out too small, it was a godsend to be able to quickly change three lines in one Octave file.
Depending on what you're plotting, you may be able to go even further. Many of my graphs were parametric studies, and the number of samples I took of each parameter kept changing, and it certainly saved a lot of work to automate that sort of plot regeneration too. I picked a saturation and value, then the graphing scripts would check how many parameters were in the latest data set and automatically calculate equispaced hues for the different graph lines. Cool idea, but in hindsight I'm not 100% happy that one of my thesis chapters appears to be full of rainbows.
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Thank you all for your suggestions. I am trying not to use excel (or similar) for graph making anymore, and this will definitely encourage me to resist.
At the moment, I am trying to invest a lot of time in understanding how to use scripts for this type of work, as much of what I do requires graphical output. I'm definitely at the limit of my knowledge, but the suggestions people are making are useful and will guide me on what to try.
One suggestion I don't understand, is version control. Do you mean just structuring your folders by date, or is there a better way of doing this. I have programmed, but not a huge amount, and only on small projects so I never used version control.
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Version control is very much a personal taste issue.
I've been using the system you describe for more than 25 years without any loss or confusion of data, and I deal with lots of data. My sort criteria are by project, then by publication, then by date. Working data sets for me include word files, .Rhistory, worksheets (in .xls and .cvs forms), pdf scans of field and lab notebooks, pictures, GIS and arcview data, etc.... I find that careful directory structure and file name management is all I need.
You can use automated systems built for programming like svn and cousins. I've always found that to be too much of as hassle, but YMMV. This can work fine at the personal level, but only really works if you get buy-in from your coauthors and research team as well.
Speaking of which, if you work in anything touching a Chem, Tox or even Bio lab these days, you're going to learn much more than you want to about LIMS. These database systems are increasingly in the government or private sectors. LIMS usually have some sort of version management, but only for the data and sample documents. Quality systems in these labs will also require some document control for certain types of documents: SOPs, Forms and Methods, usually.
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One suggestion I don't understand, is version control. Do you mean just structuring your folders by date, or is there a better way of doing this.
Perhaps the easiest way to think about version control for a beginner is to look at your favorite Wikipedia page, and click on the "history" tab. Every change that was made to the page is stored in the history, and you can compare (or 'diff') those changes, or roll back to a previous version.
This is awesome for code, and works very well for text too, assuming that you keep it in some non-binary format. (plain text, a html or wiki page, NOT ms word). This is better than just using dated folders for many reasons:
a) you don't have the clutter of many different folders all over. It also saves space, since the VCS will only save the changes, not a complete copy of each iteration of the file
b) you get history and a log of changes for each document, so if you screw something up, it's easy to roll back to a previous version without fumbling around trying to figure out which folder it's in
c) If you end up working on a project with someone else, you'll be able to both edit documents concurrently and intelligently merge the changes later.
One easy way to get a very basic form of version control for your notebook or documents is to use something like Google Docs. For more control and local hosting, it's really quite easy to set up your own wiki, either on some webspace, your computer, or even on a USB flash drive. When you really get into it, you'll want to look into a true version control system like git or subversion.
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New Hampshire Fish and Game officials reported accidents took place in Grafton and Lempster, while a Manchester man was killed while snowmobiling with his son in Auburn and an Errol man was killed Sunday afternoon in Pittsburg.
Keith Ryan, 41, of Manchester was pronounced dead Saturday afternoon at Elliot Hospital after the snowmobile he was operating near Lake Massabesic hit a rock and accelerated, throwing him onto nearby rocks. His son, who was a passenger, was also thrown from the snowmobile and injured. He was transported to Elliot Hospital as well, suffering from a concussion, and a fractured hip and femur, according to Fish and Game officials. No further information on his condition was available Sunday night.
Christine Papciak of Auburn was walking her dog nearby when she heard screaming and crying at the accident scene.
"There were two guys that were out ice fishing, and they came running and offered jackets," said Papchiak. "I saw the victim's girlfriend performing CPR on him, and I could see the boy off to the side under a blanket. The man's two daughters were hysterical, saying they didn't want their dad to die. I offered to take them to my car and wait with them while Krista, the man's girlfriend, stayed with the man. They wanted to call their mom, so they used my phone."
As EMTs transported Ryan and his son to the Elliot, Papchiak gave Krista and the two daughters a ride to the hospital.
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Papchiak later went back to the scene of the accident and retrieved jackets, boots and Krista's keys. She took them back to the family at the Elliot.
"I found out it was a fatal accident," said Papchiak. "The boy was in surgery then, and I didn't hear anything more."
Papchiak, who leaves near the lake, said she couldn't recall any similar accidents at that location.
On Sunday, John Allen, 63, of Errol died as a result of injuries sustained in a snowmobile crash in Pittsburg.
Fish and Game officers said at 2 p.m. Sunday emergency personnel were called to the scene of the single-vehicle crash on Trail 138, near River Road in Pittsburg. The operator, Allen, was found unresponsive against some trees approximately 15 feet from the trail.
Resuscitation efforts were initiated, and Allen was transported from the scene by rescue sled, with CPR in progress. Allen succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead later that afternoon. Authorities said excessive speed appears to have been the primary factor in the accident.
Two other snowmobile accidents occurred Saturday as well.
At 1:46 p.m. Saturday, Fish and Game officers responded to a report of a snowmobile accident in Lempster. The accident occurred on Trail No. 393, approximately a half mile from the intersection with Mountain Road.
Responding officers reported that a group of five friends from Connecticut were snowmobiling in the area, traveling north on Trail 393, also known as the Bean Mountain trail. Reports indicate that the passenger's seat on a 2007 Ski-Doo GTX snowmobile, operated by Arthur Raczkowski, 40, of Connecticut, disconnected from the rest of the machine, causing a passenger, Adam Zakrzewski, 33, also of Connecticut, to fall backwards off the snowmobile.
Zakrzewski struck the ground, causing injuries requiring him to be airlifted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon. No further information on his condition was available Sunday night.
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Also on Saturday, at 2:50 p.m., Robert Hughes Jr., 49, of Framingham, Mass., suffered left shoulder and leg injuries while riding a snowmobile on Kilton Pond in Grafton. Fish and Game officials said Hughes was operating the snowmobile when he failed to negotiate a turn on the pond, causing it to roll over. Witnesses to the accident called 911, and Hughes was transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center with minor injuries.
Fish and Game officials said the cause of the accident was not alcohol-related, but did say speed and inexperience of the rider appear to be contributing factors.
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This morning, as I tinkered with slides for a talk that I'm giving at the ALA Annual Meeting on Google Scholar and Libraries, a recent statistic on our Scholar Library Links program caught my eye. In fact, it made me exclaim "Holy moly!" out loud, much to my cubemates' amusement. I was amazed to see that Library Links -- a program that we launched just over two years ago to facilitate the connection between Scholar search results and libraries' electronic journal collections -- is now more than 1,200 libraries strong.
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"I think I'm going to go online," said Cheryl, logging in to Facebook from her hospital bed. She soon reconsidered, however. "I don't know what to write: 'Hey I almost died last night. What's up with you guys?'" Months later, Cheryl died from Hodgkin's lymphoma. Her partner Kelli Dunham still cherishes funny memories like this one. "She was kind of a smart ass," Dunham tells Mashable. The two represent a phenomenon occurring the world over: Facebook after death.
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There's been so much in print about how Daddy 41's people are back in the saddle, I was terrified when I saw a photo of Dan Quayle among the pack.
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On Monday the Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times and Marine Corps Times will run a joint editorial calling for the resignation or removal of the defense secretary: "Rumsfeld has lost credibility with the uniformed leadership, with the troops, with Congress and with the public at large. His strategy has failed, and his ability to lead is compromised. And although the blame for our failures in Iraq rests with the secretary, it will be the troops who bear its brunt."
Kyle Snyder fled to Canada when the Army threatened to send him back to Iraq, where he says he had been made to perform duties for which he was not trained. Snyder's lawyer says the Army had agreed to discharge his client if he came home but now intends to return him to his original unit.
From Wired News: "Some of the web's more popular "milblogs"—blogs maintained by present or former active duty military personnel—are going quiet following a renewed push by U.S. military officials to scan sites for security risks."
House Majority Leader John Boehner had some warm words for the embattled defense secretary on Sunday: "I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best thing that's happened to the Pentagon in 25 years." The remark prompted Democrats to renew their call to oust the enabling majority in Congress.
Tucker Carlson says he understands the Pentagon's lies to the Tillman family because, as he puts it: "Telling the truth is really hard."
Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV expressed concern Thursday over the failure of the military's new Baghdad strategy to curb mounting levels of violence in the city: "In Baghdad alone, we've seen a 22% increase in attacks during the first three weeks of Ramadan, as compared to the three weeks preceding Ramadan."
A coroner has ruled the fatal shooting of an already wounded British journalist by U.S. troops to be an "unlawful act." Though it refused to take part in the inquest, the Pentagon defended the shooting: "We have always gone to extreme measures to avoid civilian casualties and collateral damage."
A high-ranking active duty general has endorsed Bob Woodward's characterization of criticisms the general made of the Bush administration, referring to the Iraq war as a "debacle" and saying: "The Joint Chiefs have been systematically emasculated by Rumsfeld."
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The man who gave the world the Pentagon Papers delivers an impassioned plea to a new generation of activists to heed the lessons of Nixon and even Hitler when taking stock of the Bush administration's nuclear ambitions.
Legislation put forward by the Bush administration this week would legalize the same torture techniques recently banned by the Army. By selectively interpreting the Geneva Conventions, the legislation would allow CIA operatives and even the Army, should it decide to revert to previous rules, to conduct interrogations using unsavory methods.
Civilian casualties in Iraq rose by 50% during the last three months, according to a report released by the Pentagon. The report on security and stability in Iraq examined the sectarian violence that grips the country, saying ?Conditions that could lead to civil war exist in Iraq? but that the fighting does not meet the ?strict? definition of a civil war.
More roadside bombs were planted in July than in any other month during the Iraq war, indicating a sharp rise in violence as the country moves toward all-out civil war. According to data obtained by The New York Times, 2,625 devices either exploded or were discovered in July, compared with 1,454 in January.
The Pentagon has ordered up a series of studies to examine the military's failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, reports the Boston Globe. According to one of the authors, the findings (scheduled for this fall) "won't be pretty."
In their new book "Without Precedent," 9/11 Commission Chairmen Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton discuss their frustration with the Pentagon and FAA, whose misstatements almost led to an investigation into possible deception.
Long suspected and ultimately confirmed news from the AP: "The Sept. 11 commission was so frustrated with repeated misstatements by the Pentagon and FAA about their response to the 2001 terror attacks that it considered an investigation into possible deception, the panel's chairmen say in a new book."
How do you begin to unravel the conspiracy theories and mysteries surrounding the U.S. Air Force's response on 9/11? Get your hands on over 30 hours of never-before-released NORAD tapes. Vanity Fair's Michael Bronner did just that, and pieces together a picture of the "chaotic military history of that day—and the Pentagon's apparent attempt to cover it up." Complete with audio clips. (h/t bb.net)
From the BBC
The Pentagon has grown concerned as more and more service members send personal combat videos—some set to music—to websites such as Youtube and Myspace. The military has no official policy on the practice, but rumors abound of behind-the-scenes pressure to limit the flow of footage out of Iraq.
The Department of Defense monitored e-mails from college students who were planning protests against the Iraq war and against the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The Pentagon apparently started digging after receiving tips through a website used for soliciting anti-terror tips from civilians and military personnel. (Link - reg req'd)
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Supposed Internet experts, working off $7 million in public money, reported to the Pentagon and to Congress that terrorists are retooling American video games for use as recruitment tools. Problem is, it wasn't the terrorists who did the retooling; it was American fans—something a 10-year-old could have discovered by using Google…(more)
The U.S. military said it would revise an official medical document that classified homosexuality as a disorder alongside mental retardation, impulse control disorders and personality disorders.
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A Pentagon document still lists homosexuality as a mental defect akin to retardation and impulse control disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned the position.
Bowing to a Freedom of Information request, the U.S. government has released a video of what is apparently (thanks, reader Lorenzo) American Airlines Flight 77 slamming into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. The group that made the FOIA request did so to dispel conspiracy theories.
The exiled Iraqi who provided faulty intelligence on Iraqi WMDs to the Pentagon and the N.Y. Times is acting as a broker between the U.S. and Iran, according to Raw Story.
The presidential spokesman won't say at what point the president learned of a Pentagon report which concluded that Iraqi weapons trailers discovered after the invasion were not—as Bush later claimed—WMD factories.
No wonder McClellan won't answer. This could amount to proof positive that Bush outright lied about WMD.
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The animal rights organization has obtained video footage of pigs being stunned with Taser guns as part of a Pentagon nonlethal weapons testing program. (This video is not for the queasy.)
From washingtonpost.com
The retired commander, who was leading key forces in Iraq just a year ago, told CNN: "It speaks volumes that guys like me are speaking out from retirement about the leadership climate in the Department of Defense."
The more that administration leaders play games with definitions of democracy and weasel wording about torture, the less they can be believed about anything. So if they someday tell the truth, no one will believe them.
I do like the idea of supporting democracy ... and think we should try it—especially here in the U.S. of A.
From Crooks and Liars
Stephen Colbert continues to gain ground on Jon Stewart with his blistering satires of U.S. policy. This time he riffs on a new name that the Pentagon is using for the war on terror.
With the Pentagon's inspector general suggesting criminal negligence in the killing of former NFL star and Army Ranger Pat Tillman, it is time to demand congressional hearings into the way the Bush administration cynically spun the story to serve its political purposes at the expense of the truth.
From indybay.org
Colleges and universities that accept federal money must allow military recruiters on campus, even in the face of the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gay people. John Roberts wrote the 8-0 opinion.
CBS via ThinkProgress
Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), a decorated Marine and critic of the Iraq war, says Bush's military leaders have no credibility when it comes to their pronouncements about progress in Iraq.
The prominent opposition of Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) to Bush's Dubai Ports deal may have earned him some punishment from the White House: The Pentagon isn't providing him a plane for his planned delegation to Iraq.
The military contractor will get reimbursed for nearly all its disputed costs in connection with a $2.41-billion no-bid contract to deliver supplies to Iraq, despite the Pentagon's findings that more than $250 million of that was "potentially excessive or unjustified."
The Iraqi army now has ZERO battalions capable of fighting the insurgency without U.S. support. (The one battle-worthy battalion that the White House was so proud of has been downgraded.)
Two years before the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, the Navy's general counsel warned the Pentagon that its wink-and-nod policies on torture would invite abuse, reports The New Yorker.
From Tom Toles / Washington Post
All six Joint Chiefs of Staff write a very rare letter to the editor of the Washington Post, protesting an editorial cartoon by Tom Toles, which they say demeans wounded American soldiers. | story (Broken by AMERICAblog)Well, despite the fact that Toles has a valid satirical point to make about the Pentagon's overextension of troops in the field, we have to wonder: With the insurgency gaining strength every day, and reconstruction efforts crippled by high-level incompetency, this cartoon is what's upsetting our nation's military leadership?
From gwu.edu
A Georgetown think tank secures the release of a secret 2003 Rumsfeld-approved "road map" for psychological warfare abroad. | postAccording to the document, our government takes no responsibility for propaganda that boomerangs and returns home—as long as the U.S. public isn't "targeted."
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, dock those Swift Boats! It's not a liberal Democratic senator making the charge. It's a retired Army officer working for the Pentagon. | story
This official U.S. assessment is much darker than what the Pentagon is peddling to the public. It was drawn up for contractors bidding on rehab projects. | storyCall us cynical, but why exactly are they getting different intel than the rest of us?
The same Pentagon contractor that paid Iraqi newspapers to print pro-U.S. stories written by American soldiers masquerading as indepenent journalists has also been "compensating Sunni religious scholars in Iraq in return for assistance with its propaganda work," according to the New York Times.
The slate headed by Ahmed Chalabi, a man the Pentagon once packaged as the George Washington of Iraq, may not get a single seat in the new Iraqi legislature.
"There is no U.S. footprint" is the proud boast of one of the Pentagon's propaganda contractors, and it prompts the questions: Why not? What are they ashamed of? One thing is that most of us in this democracy did not know we were paying for this vast official propaganda operation until we read it in Jeff Gerth's excellent investigative piece in The New York Times. A truly free press is our most valuable export, and its reputation should not be undermined by the Bushies' addiction to government propaganda.
Now that the Pentagon has admitted to subverting the fragile efforts to build democracy in Iraq, will Congress begin an investigation of how this happened? The first question should be who in the Pentagon decided that he or she had the right to put words in the mouth of the Prophet Muhammad.
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ATHENS (AP) -- Georgia Libertarians are pushing for a change in state gun laws and have urged members to show up on the University of Georgia campus wearing empty holsters.
The Athens Banner-Herald reports the state Libertarian Party called for supporters to wear their holsters Friday in advance of their state convention in Athens this weekend.
Libertarians want state lawmakers to change laws banning the carrying of concealed guns in most public places, including college campuses. Brian Underwood of UGA's Young Americans for Liberty says Americans' right to bear arms shouldn't stop when a gun owner enters public property.
UGA Police Chief Jimmy Williamson says Georgia's campuses are safer without more people carrying guns.
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The news of former Atlanta Falcons CB Dunta Robinson signing a three-year deal with the Chiefs started the conversation on whether he'd be the No. 2 CB or mix in at safety. Some have said his contract isn't "starter money" which is making others wonder if he's destined for another position, like safety.
But what kind of player is he? What are his strengths? Weaknesses? Below is a break down of what I saw from Robinson after reviewing his games against the Chiefs, Broncos, Redskins, Panthers and Lions from last season.
The Kansas City Chiefs were linked to free agent cornerback Sean Smith early in the negotiation period leading up to the start of the new league year, but it looks like they will have to turn their attention in another direction. The Chiefs are interested in adding another cornerback to the roster despite adding Dunta Robinson to the mix and the team could be looking to a former Andy Reid player for their answers.
Smith will likely spark a bidding war as the top free agent corner on the market, which would take him out of the Chiefs price range, according to Yahoo! Sports.
Luckily for the Chiefs, former first-round picks Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, Antoine Cason and Mike Jenkins are all available and could be had for a discount price. The most interesting option for the Chiefs would be Rodgers-Cromartie who came to the Eagles under Andy Reid in the trade that sent Kevin Kolb to Arizona.
Well, these new guys sure know how to keep us guessing.
When you think they're going to zig, they zag. For weeks, reports were coming out about unproductive contract negotiations with the Chiefs' unsigned stars and our new GM's affinity for the "draft-and-develop" and "best-player-available" approaches. When the new regime traded our 2nd rounder (and more) for QB Alex Smith, it seemed cemented that LT Brandon Albert would be allowed to walk, Bowe would be tagged and denied a long-term deal for another year and the Chiefs would draft the best tackle available.
Then, the team locked up all three of the team's most important free agents – including Albert – in a day. Chiefs nation rejoiced. This made the offensive linemen a secondary need moving forward and freed our hands to do whatever we pleased in the draft. Then, just as suddenly, the team cut our second-best lineman at the opposite tackle spot.
When we last left you the Chiefs had yet to sign Dwayne Bowe, Brandon Albert, Dustin Colquitt, or Dunta Robinson, release Eric Winston, or restructure Tyson Jackson's contract. All of those things have now happened.
John Dorsey and Andy Reid have not been fooling around when it comes to making decisions about who is on the roster and what should be done with them. They've hit home runs on the Bowe, Albert, Colquitt and Jackson signings while causing a controversy with Robinson and Winston – especially Winston. But no one is going to deny that it is clear that the Chiefs front office have a plan and they are going to see it through. And the word "rebuilding" does not appear to have a place in their plan.
Available names of note: Chase Daniel and Jason Campbell.
Kansas City has already made its move for a quarterback, making the trade for Alex Smith a two weeks before the beginning of free agency. The move is a good one, at least for this year, given what is available in free agency and the draft. There is no one available who would be able to lead the Chiefs to very many wins let alone playoff spot. So at least from a short term perspective, the Chiefs were better served paying the hefty price for Smith.
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