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Facing cancer, Lindsay dives into record 8th term as legislative leader
On Jan. 2, Bill Lindsay was unanimously re-elected to a record eighth term as presiding officer of the Suffolk County Legislature, as his wife and children looked on. Colleagues showered the Holbrook Democrat with such high praise that Lindsay joked his head would get so big, "I won't get out of the room."
Later that afternoon, Lindsay drove to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan for the results of his latest CT scan in a yearlong battle with mesothelioma, a rare lung cancer. Months of chemotherapy last year, plus the removal of his right lung, hadn't worked: the disease returned, doctors told him.
"And so we went from an extreme high to an extreme low," Lindsay said later, sitting in his Hauppauge office.
Last week marked another turning point: Lindsay was admitted to an experimental treatment trial at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland.
Big issues on the table
As he enters his final year in office because of county term limits, Lindsay, 67, is facing his health challenge while trying to hold together the legislature's 13-member majority coalition of Democrats and minor-party allies. Big issues are on the table, including the stalled sale of the county's John J. Foley Skilled Nursing Facility in Yaphank and a budget deficit of $100 million or more.
He says he will remain as presiding officer as long as he is physically able.
"I'm committed to fight this disease with everything I have and to be here as long as I'm capable," Lindsay said. "If I get to a point where I don't think I'm doing the job properly, I will step down. There's no ands, ifs or buts."
Lindsay, a former electrician and labor leader, already is spending less time at the legislature's "horseshoe" than he would prefer.
When lawmakers debated and passed a bill to increase monitoring of convicted sex offenders this month, Lindsay was undergoing evaluation for the NIH treatment trials. He had to skip County Executive Steve Bellone's state of the county address last week, in which Bellone described him as "indisputably, the best presiding officer in the history of this county."
Lindsay said that his new treatment plan, which will unfold over the next two months, gives him a chance to return, full-time, by late spring. Deputy Presiding Officer Wayne Horsley (D-Babylon) will lead the legislature in the meantime.
"Reality is, even when he's gone, he's always in the background," Horsley said. "I've always had a guiding hand."
A lifelong Long Islander raised in Glen Cove, Lindsay became an electrical apprentice at 14. He spent years in the electrical trade on construction sites for local hospitals, colleges and factories, and suspects that's where he was exposed to the asbestos that led to mesothelioma.
He said it was "ironic," since as a longtime official with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 25 in Hauppauge, he developed programs to determine whether his members had encountered asbestos on their worksites.
"You try to protect your members from this disease, and then you end up getting the damn disease," he said.
Lindsay was IBEW's business manager when he joined the legislature in March 2001. Then-Presiding Officer Paul Tonna, a Republican, described him as a "seasoned veteran when he started."
"When he makes a commitment he keeps it," Tonna said. "I'm amazed at how well he's led that body, especially now, with how he's suffering. He's kept his priorities as he tries to survive."
Levy a critic
Lindsay hasn't been immune to criticism -- most of it from former County Executive Steve Levy, a Democrat turned Republican who fought him on ethics reform and efforts to close the nursing home. Levy criticized Lindsay for his move to block Foley's closure in 2011 while spending savings it would have created. But Lindsay says Levy avoided compromise, even keeping a scoreboard in his office of his legislative vetoes later overridden: "I tried to stay to issues. If a policy didn't make sense, we were going to overturn your veto. It was nothing personal."
Michael Dawidziak, a Bohemia political consultant who works mostly with Republicans, said Lindsay's leadership was impressive in light of the battles with Levy and the legislature's previous infighting. "They traditionally fought with the county executive and with each other," he said. "For Bill to have the kind of run he's had, being a calming force, is miraculous."
In 12 years, Lindsay said he's never faced a tougher vote than one in 2011 to sell the nursing home to a private operator, who later backed out: "That was one that kept me up."
But that vote, and one last year that again OK'd the sale of the facility to a new buyer, pales with his cancer fight. Recovering from chemotherapy, Lindsay recalled "fatigue like you wouldn't believe. You never wanted to wake up."
By summer, he had immersed himself again in county issues, despite being out of the office. Lindsay said he played a crucial role in crafting the county's new eight-year contract with Suffolk police officers, and recalled meeting with Bellone.
"I called them 'pajama meetings,' " Lindsay said. "Steve would call up and my wife would say, 'Come over. He's on the couch, in his PJs, but he'll be happy to talk.' "
Bellone noted the presiding officer's "fighting spirit. To be able to continue while he's dealing with this, shows just what kind of character he has, and dedication."
Lindsay returned to the legislature last August, declaring himself cancer free. His pupil, Horsley, was at his side.
"He allows everyone to speak their piece, and often times he may come in with the last word, but he doesn't try to bully people into agreeing with his direction," Horsley said. "He lets you go in your direction. Usually at the end of the day, you find out he's right."


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Augustana Theatre Set to Go 'Into the Woods' Nov. 17-21
The Augustana Theatre and Music Departments will present the Tony Award-winning Into the Woods at the on-campus Edith Mortenson Center Theatre Nov. 17-21.
An ambivalent Cinderella? A blood-thirsty Little Red Ridinghood? A Prince Charming with a roving eye? A Witch, who raps? They're all among the cockeyed characters in James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim's fractured fairy tale. When a Baker and his wife learn they've been cursed with childlessness by the Witch next door, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell. Along the way, they swindle, lie and steal from Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack (yes, the one who climbed the beanstalk). Everyone's wishes are granted at the end of Act One, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later, with disastrous results. Into the Woods asks the question: "Do we really want all of our wishes fulfilled?"
Into the Woods won several Tony awards in 1987 including Best Score and Best Book.
Tickets are available online at www.augietickets.com and are $12 for adults and $8 for seniors. Admission is free to students with valid Augustana ID.
Performances are in the on-campus Edith Mortenson Center Theatre Nov.17-20 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 20-21 at 2:30 p.m. The performance on Thursday, Nov. 18, will be interpreted for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Into the Woods is directed by Dan Workman and includes the following student-castmembers: Callie Berg (Northwood, N.D.); Martha Stai (Inwood, Iowa); Rachel Hoogendoorn (Sioux Falls, S.D.); Glynnis Kunkle (North Mankato, Minn.); Shelly Hubbling (Saint Paul, Minn.); Katharine Demke (Bismarck, N.D.); Kayla Straub (Ashland, Mo.); Maren Engle (Owasso, Okla.); Katie Foiles (Brookings, S.D.); Leah Hilsabeck (Milford, Iowa); Ali Hoffman (Sioux Falls, S.D.); Katelyn Kenney (Box Elder, S.D.); Keanna Casanova Dyce (Sioux Falls, S.D.); Mariya Swella (Yucca Valley, Calif.); Grant Hooyer (Sioux Falls, S.D.); Nate Hults (Glenco, Minn.); Adam Jorde (Cando, N.D.); Josh Thies (Sioux Falls, S.D.); Ben Winkler (Cottage Grove, Minn.); Jared Mitchel (Welch, Minn.); Matt Hugen (Sioux City, Iowa); Bryan Okerlund (Sauk Centre, Minn.,); and Matt Cook (Adrian, Minn.).
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Australian Copyright Reform Goes Into Reverse: 'Fair Use' Out, 'Three Strikes' In
from the what-a-waste dept
Techdirt first wrote about Australia's plans to reform copyright back in August 2012. In April 2013, we passed on the news that the final report was likely to include a fair use provision. The final report was released just a couple of weeks ago, and did indeed recommend the introduction of a fair use exception to Australian copyright law. However, something happened during this long process: Australia held a general election, leading to a change in government. The new Attorney General, George Brandis, lost no time in making his views known, saying that:
he "remains to be persuaded" that Australia needs a fair use clause in its copyright law.
That's politician-speak for "I'm throwing the Australian Law Reform Commission's amazingly professional, diligent and balanced 478-page report based on evidence drawn from 109 consultations and 870 submissions into the rubbish bin, and replacing it with dogma-based policy based on my own blinkered views."
Some of those were on display in a radio interview Brandis gave this week on the subject of Internet piracy. It starts off badly:
The fact is that people don't have a right to download pirate copies of songs or movies or television programs because the people who make those programs or other items have a right of property in them. The way artists earn their living is through royalties and that's the way they are remunerated for what they do.
It's one of the ways, but certainly not the only one, as Techdirt's "The Sky Is Rising" report explained. The interview gets worse:
To pirate a video or a song without paying the fee for it through iTunes, and so on, is an act of theft, it's pure and simple.
Brandis continues parroting the copyright industry by saying:
The ISPs, in my view, do need to take some responsibility for this because they provide the facility which enables this to happen.
That's even though the Australian courts decided in the iiNet case it was simply not reasonable to require ISPs to pass judgment on those accused of unauthorized sharing. Unfortunately, given his powerful position in the new Australian government, what Brandis says matters, because he can turn his wrong-headed ideas into wrong-headed laws. The Guardian has a report of a speech he made a couple of weeks ago in which he made it pretty clear what he planned on the copyright front:
"The government will be considering possible mechanisms to provide a legal incentive for an internet service provider to co-operate with copyright owners in preventing infringement on their systems and networks," Brandis told the copyright forum. "This may include looking carefully at the merits of a scheme whereby ISPs are required to issue graduated warnings to consumers who are using websites to facilitate piracy."
It's a familiar threat: come up with totally "voluntary" co-operation schemes or we'll impose them on you using our exquisitely painful "legal incentives". But what's really striking here is that not only is Brandis regurgitating bad ideas that haven't worked anywhere, he's doing this in preference to building on the great ideas that were presented to him by people who knew what they were talking about, and who cared deeply about Australia's digital future. When it comes to making copyright fit for the 21st century and promoting the online economy, it seems that the country's new government is determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
He said his preference would be for the industry to police itself, rather than have the government impose potentially burdensome regulations.
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Dick Harrell 1969 Chevy COPO Camaro - 40th Anniversary Special Report The Local Legend
Everyone In The Chicago Area Knew This 1969 Dick Harrell COPO Camaro.
In the late 1960s, a cottage industry had developed within the automotive dealer network to build and market high-performance street/strip cars. Among Chevrolet dealers, some of the most prominent were Gibb, Berger, Baldwin/Motion, and Yenko. Dealers like these were converting Novas, Chevelles, and especially Camaros from 396ci to 427ci engines, and designing accessory packages around this engine swap. In 1969, Chevrolet facilitated sales of these ultra-high-performance cars by building a series of low-production offerings designated by the acronym "COPO," which was short for Central Office Production Order, followed by a series number.
COPO 9561One of these COPO offerings was tagged "9561," and was developed by Chevrolet Engineering for Yenko Chevrolet. COPO 9561 supplied a 425hp/427ci L72 engine in place of the 375hp/396 L78 engine. The L72 received a four-bolt main block, forged steel crank, mechanical camshaft, single-point aluminum distributor, and 11:1 forged aluminum pistons. A Holley 780-cfm carburetor with vacuum secondaries was mounted on an aluminum intake with an open element air cleaner with a chrome lid. The valve covers were also chromed.
Also part of the COPO 9561 package was the ZL2 cowl induction steel hood, and a heavy-duty four-core radiator. The F41 high-performance suspension was fitted with heavy-duty multi-leaf rear springs, heavy-duty shocks, and a 4.10:1 ring and pinion gearing in a 12-bolt housing. Mandatory options with COPO 9561 were power front disc brakes, and either a four-speed manual gearbox or Turbo 400 automatic transmission. COPO 9561 was available to any Chevrolet dealer by special order, and cost $489.75, with the obligatory power front disc brakes ($64.25) and transmission choice ($195.40) adding $749.40 to the Camaro's $2,727.00 window sticker.
The Dick Harrell ConnectionIn 1967, Dick Harrell, a prominent Chevrolet drag racer and tuner (known to his fans as "Mr. Chevrolet"), had opened his own shop in the Kansas City area and established a successful business building high-performance Chevrolets, not only for customers, but also for dealers like Yenko. In early 1969, Harrell ordered four 9561 Camaros, all with automatic transmissions, from Bill Allen Chevrolet in Kansas City, with the idea of offering his own version of the 427 Camaro, much like other tuners and dealers were doing across the country. The colors Harrell chose for the four COPO Camaros were Glacier Blue, Frost Green, Rallye Green, and Cortez Silver.
Dave Libby worked for Harrell and remembers the four COPO Camaros that were ordered by Dick Harrell Performance Center. "They were done sometime in early to mid spring of 1969," Libby said. "We did some minor modifications to the distributor and carburetor and gave the engine a thorough tune-up. According to Dave, Harrell's shop could legally modify the engine since "we were a small manufacturer and had an exemption." The L72 was making 450 horsepower when the Dick Harrell badge was affixed to the left-hand valve cover.
Harrell had built an excellent reputation in the Midwest, and his Performance Center was always crowded with customers. To give potential buyers an idea of how well a Harrell 427 Camaro performed, the Glacier Blue car was kept as a demonstrator. Harrell sold the Cortez Silver Camaro to Bill Jacobs Chevrolet in Joliet, Illinois. Randy Krnac of Plainfield, Illinois, wandered into the Jacobs dealership and lusted over the gleaming silver Camaro sitting alongside the Impalas and Chevelles. "I remember the salesman, his name was Swede Lindstrom," Randy said. "I happened to be in the showroom and saw the Camaro and liked it. I was 20 and had never heard of Dick Harrell. Swede explained to me that it was kinda like a Yenko, but was built in Kansas City."
Randy put a deposit on the Camaro and went home. He told some of his buddies about the car, and he took them back to the dealer to show it to them. "There were four guys sitting in my car, right in the showroom. I had Swede lock the car up since they couldn't get it out of the showroom till Monday."
The Harrell Camaro wasn't cheap; the bottom line on the window sticker read $5,071.05. The MSRP was $4,430.95, which included Camaro's base price and the COPO 9561 and Dick Harrell packages. The list of options was brief: Tach ($68), AM radio ($61.10), Spoiler Equipment ($48), Special 7x15 Sprint mags ($185), Hi Performance traction tires ($175), and Special Exhaust system ($28).
Like any gearhead back then, Randy yanked the performance-choking emissions equipment off the 427 when he got the car home. He did some minor engine tweaks, and with the stock 4.10 gears, he'd run the car at U.S. 30 and Oswego dragstrips, turning a best time of 14 flat at 140 mph. Randy also did some street racing in Plainfield and nearby Aurora. "I had my share of tickets," he laughed.
While he was at the 1970 Indy Nationals, Randy spotted a chopped Riviera sporting a supercharger and towing a funny car. "I thought that was so cool," Randy said. "I decided that I had to have one of them."
Randy returned home and began working on bolting a GMC 6-71 blower to the 427 in his Harrell Camaro. "I took off the cowl induction hood," Randy said, "and put it away. I installed a regular Camaro hood. I put in lower-compression pistons and changed the valves and valve springs. A friend of mine fabricated all the parts needed to mate the 6-71 blower to a big-block street engine. I used a pair of Holley 660s. Later on, I slipped in a Crane roller cam. That cam made the engine bark like a dog!"
Randy never had the chance to run the blown Harrell Camaro on the track. "I put a set of 4.88 gears in it," Randy said, "and took it to U.S. 30. I was sitting in the staging lanes when I was called to the tower. When I got up there, I was told I wouldn't be able to run. They said their insurance for supercharged streetcars was cancelled, so I never got to run with the supercharger."
Eventually, the huffer came off, and Randy sold the Camaro in 1974 to his brother-in-law's cousin in neighboring Big Rock. In the course of a couple years, the Camaro passed through several local hands, all within the local farming community, where it was street raced, never wrecked, and always stored indoors for the winter months. It was sold again in 1978, and once more in 1982 to Jim Thurow. Jim kept the Harrell Camaro for 24 years until he passed away. That's when Rod Bushnell of nearby Naperville, Illinois, entered the picture.
Second Time AroundRod purchased the Harrell Camaro from the estate with just 36,000 miles on the clock. Buying the car had extra meaning from Rod. "I rode in this car in 1978 when I was 8 years old," Rod said. "It's a local legend. For a car that was always driven and raced hard, it was in remarkably good shape."
Rod contacted each of the owners and got as much information as he could about the car's history. His big surprise was when he talked to Randy, who had found the original window sticker that he had tucked away years earlier in a dresser drawer and gave it to Rod. "Valerie Harrell was also a great help in gathering information about the car from her dad's records," Rod said.
To handle the restoration, Rod commissioned Perfection Autosport in Grafton, Wisconsin. The car was stripped and the body placed on a rotisserie. "The body panels were all original and in good overall condition," Rod said. "We were able to use the original metal, bumpers, trim and the same badges that Dick Harrell had installed on the car himself in 1969."
Steve Grafton in Butler, Wisconsin, did the rebuild on the vintage 427. He gave it a clean-up bore, and matched it to the stock crank to get 433 total cubes, and then balanced the assembly. Most of the internals are stock components; however, Steve chose a set of 11.25:1 Speed-Pro pistons to give the big Chevy some extra bite. To put some extra twist in the venerable Rat, Steve installed an Iskendarian .530-inch lift mechanical stick with ?-inch Crane pushrods. The iron heads were modified for 2.25-inch intake valves and 1.88-inch exhausts, and then port-matched with the intake manifold.
The remainder of the restoration brought the Camaro back to its original form as it rolled out of Harrell's Performance Center in 1969. Having the opportunity to trace the car's lineage back to the first owner has given Rod a sense of the Harrell Camaro's legacy and how it touched so many people in the community. "This car never left a 15-square mile farming community," Rod said. "Over the years, two of its owners parked the Harrell Camaro in the same student parking lot at Hinckley-Big Rock High School. Can you image this big 427 Camaro in a tiny farm town? Car guys in ten surrounding towns feared this car!"
There's a sense of continuity here; a thread that connects six young men, the heartland of America, and a very unique car together. And while the young men have aged and the farms have given way to suburbia, the car remains as it did in 1969-a thundering testament to the handiwork of Dick Harrell. "It was a car they'd go out and drag race on a Saturday night," Rod said. "Everyone called it the 'Dickie Harrell Camaro,' and they still remember the car today. It was built to go down the track. There were no frills; it just went fast."


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Calling All Lexington Medical Center Babies!
Were you born at Lexington Medical Center? Were your children born there? If so, the hospital wants to see your baby photos!
Since opening in 1971, Lexington Medical Center has delivered more than 100,000 babies. In fact, the hospital delivers more babies each year than any other hospital in the Midlands and is consistently recognized as one of the best maternity hospitals in South Carolina.
Early next year, Lexington Medical Center will open a new, 545,000-square-foot patient care tower that's the largest hospital expansion in South Carolina history. The tower will be the home of a new maternity unit and nursery. To celebrate Lexington Medical Center's legacy of welcoming thousands of bundles of joy into the world, the hospital is collecting photos of babies born there throughout the years. The photos will be placed in a photo mosaic that will be revealed at the grand opening of the new tower.
The new Labor and Delivery unit will be an outstanding place for expectant families. It will have a dedicated area for patients who come to the hospital in labor or those who need temporary evaluation. The tower includes six antepartum rooms for patients who may need extensive long-term monitoring, a completely dedicated Mother/Baby unit for postpartum patients, a Level 2 Special Care Nursery and a Newborn Nursery.
A cornerstone will be the 20-bed Special Care Nursery. The hospital's tiniest patients will have a private rooms, which is a new model of care for Lexington Medical Center. Research has shown that private rooms for special care infants provide more bonding opportunities for mothers and their babies, offer a safe environment for education, lead to better outcomes for babies' growth and lower infection rates.
In addition to women and children's services, six floors of Lexington Medical Center's new patient car tower will accommodate medical, critical care and surgical patients, including eight new operating rooms.
Lexington Medical Center's physician network includes nearly 40 OB/GYNs and certified nurse midwives who will deliver babies in the new patient care tower.
Patients can upload their photos of babies born at Lexington Medical Center by visiting LexMed.com/BirthDay. The hospital requests newborn photos of children 12 months or younger.
Lexington Medical Center is getting ready to welcome thousands more babies in the future and looks forward to our community joining in the celebration.


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To make the biscuits, heat the oven to 170C/Gas 3.
With an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Beat in the egg yolk.
Roll out finely on a lightly floured bench (best done under a sheet of clingfilm) and cut into 6cm or 8cm rounds with a plain or fluted biscuit-cutter.


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My camera arrived home last week and I immediately broke in the new lens by (what else?) taking pictures of the dogs:
Shortly after the camera returned the dogs and I went hiking. Here are my favorite pictures (and video) from that trip:
Have you ever tried to pose a dog in front of a waterfall? It's quite amusing ("Sit. Stay. Look pretty. Good girl. No, stay. Don't look at the waterfall. Good girl. Stay there. Look at me. Good girl").
The entire photo/video set is here.
I have been on a sock knitting kick for months now and lately I've stopped being monogamous and have been spreading my sock love around. (I guess you could say I'm a sock knitting hussy.)
These three pairs of socks are being knit from yarn that I dyed:
This pair is from a sock blank I received in a swap:
I am test knitting this pattern for the designer (isn't it fantastic?):
I also have a blanket freshly on the needles:
I was absolutely overwhelmed and a little gobsmacked at the comments and emails that encouraged me to continue with my photo-a-day project. Thank you so much for your kind words and the inspiration to continue. I really appreciate it and you almost talked me into continuing the project. However, I have decided not to continue the project.
I enjoyed taking a lot of photos and I did learn a lot in the short time that I took a picture every day. However, the bottom line is that the commitment the project required ended up sucking a lot of fun out of both blogging and photography. I had many days where I happily snapped a ton of pictures. But, I also had more than a few days where I absolutely didn't feel like taking a single picture and did not enjoy the process at all.
The project did teach me something, though. Before the project I always had pictures I wanted to toss up on the blog, but I felt like if I posted a picture I needed to do a whole blog post about it and sometimes I just don't feel like talking (seriously). This project taught me that I can just post a picture and people will find it interesting.
So, moving forward I will sometimes do a 'proper' blog post and sometimes I'll just post pictures that I've taken.
But, before we move forward, I'm going to look back for a moment. I went through all of my photos of the day and these are my favorites:


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On Sunday night, around 7pm, I found myself with nothing to do and it was highly unnerving. With so much going on it didn't seem right to just be relaxing on my bed waiting for the final of The Apprentice to start. I moaned to Danny that we should be doing something and he gave me the obligatory eyeball roll that I have become quite good at ignoring. Persisting in my mission to find something to do I opened up my notebook to start writing a list only to find that the list was already written and there really was nothing more to add to it.
My world started tumbling down around my ears. This is crazy, I can't go on like this. Just sitting here, feeling impotent, knowing that we have so much to organise, so much to do. There MUST be something.
"Of course there is Ms Rotbart", says my conscience "for a start you could go downstairs and start backing up the hard drive on your computer which you've been meaning to do for about a month; oh, and there's always the laundry".
Isn't it odd that somehow those kind of jobs don't seem very relevant? The hygiene factor – the stuff that, no matter what is going on in your life, still needs to get done; those are the jobs you never want to do. So much so that in my world of lists, buying and website development, these jobs don't even exist as things that need to be done. This is the world of the non-jobs. Jobs that only achieve something for a short time until they need to be done again, or jobs that don't contribute to the bigger scheme of things but need to be done anyway.
Don't think that I haven't realised that it's precisely those jobs which are going to be my bread and butter come April next year, yet in my head that is somehow different as we'll be getting paid to do those things. I have no doubt that our own laundry, and our own chores will get relegated to the bottom of the pile over and over again as more 'worthwhile' stuff takes precedence.
Jobs that don't directly relate to the business don't seem to count. They seem irrelevant and pointless and I *stamps foot*, *screws up face* don't want to do them. For that reason they never appear on a list and I certainly don't want to be reminded of them by my ever-present conscience.
I've become almost blind to the relatively large computer on the floor of my parents dining room, waiting there patiently for me to back it up. The words 'it'll get done at the weekend' seem to trip off my tongue when I'm asked about any one of these non-jobs and, bar the odd mumble from my conscience, I seem to be quite capable of letting Danny get on with the laundry without the remotest twinge of guilt.
Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year… all these days mean that I cannot do exactly what I want to do when I want to do it. People are on holiday, companies close down, everyone seems to have the plague and I'm just sitting around waiting for chaos to ensue in January. Unfortunately all that's on my plate at the moment are these non-jobs which means, at some point, I'll just have to get on with them.
I can almost see my mother calculating the list of jobs she's going to remind me I need to do while reading this blog. There's no getting away from it now; I've detailed my procrastination in black and white and it's open season.


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Here are some videos to warm you up in the cold frigid weather.
St Louis Lock-In Pinata Video
Seen on: Urban Velo
The St Louis Bike Polo Lock-In was this past weekend, featuring another level of 24 hour indoor polo party mayhem. This was my third trip to this one of a kind event, and it gets better every time even if this year the sleep deprivation got the best of me and I found myself curled up in the back of a rental Kia at 4 am. This is video of the 4th annual pinata smashing that happens around 1 am, giving but a taste of the party. Until next year kids.
InRoads Trailer
Seen on: Urban Velo
InRoads is a short documentary about the handmade bike culture in the Denver/Boulder area. The full film will premiere on February 23rd in Denver. Visit their site for more updates.
InRoads (Trailer) from Tyler H. Boyd on Vimeo.
State Bicycle Co. Team Issue Helmet by Lazer
Seen on: Urban Velo
Now that's a good lookin' helmet. Manufactured by Lazer, the State Bicycle Co. team issue helmet weighs in at 290 grams with 16 vents and they still manage to slap a good lookin' logo on that thing. I've worn a Lazer helmet before and am glad to say it fit my weirdly small adult head just fine, while working for normal sized heads all the same.
You can buy the helmet for $69.99 on the State site.
Are YOU Cyclist?
Seen on: Urban Velo
Here's an amusing video made by the shop Bike n Hike out of Portland. I get the feeling they're going the Portlandia route on this one (a stereotype feedback loop?), but hey, it's more amusing than the bike shop commercials in my neck of the woods.
BMX MONDAY-20Twenty Matt Roe Malaga Edit by Richard Forne
Seen on: Bike Jerks
Crashes 2012
Seen on: coolbikevideos.com


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NCBA Statement on OIE Classification of U.S. as "Negligible" Risk for BSE
WASHINGTON (Feb. 20, 2013) — National Cattlemen's Beef Association President-Elect Bob McCan, a cattleman from Victoria, Texas, made the following statement about notification received today from the Scientific Commission for the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) recommending that the United States' risk classification for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) be upgraded to negligible risk:
"This announcement by OIE's Scientific Commission is great news for U.S. cattle producers. The U.S. beef industry has worked with government officials and scientists to implement multiple interlocking safeguards to prevent BSE from taking hold in our country. The most important of these safeguards is the removal of specified risk materials – or the parts of an animal that could contain the BSE agent should an animal have the disease – from all animals presented for slaughter in the United States. Being classified as negligible risk for BSE by the OIE is proof that these safeguards are working and protecting the public and animal health against BSE.
"The safety of our cattle and our beef is the top priority for American beef producers. Recognition by OIE that our cattle and our beef are of the highest and safest quality is important in promoting U.S. beef in our growing export markets. We applaud USDA for working with the international scientific community and industry leaders on this issue."
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Livescribe smartpens aren't just pens.
They're "multimodal computers," according to CEO Jim Marggraff. And with the launch of Livescribe's Connect service, his multimodal computers get an array of useful new ways to send and share notes and information.
Livescribe Connect is available today as an update to the Livescribe Desktop application and as an app for Echo and Pulse smartpens, including a new 2-GB Echo model also launching today.
Previously, notes written on Livescribe's dot paper could be exported as "pencasts" – PDFs or as audio files – through Livescribe Desktop. With Connect, users can share pages as an interactive pencast PDF that anyone can access (not just those with Livescribe Desktop installed, which was necessary for viewing traditional pencasts). Anyone with Adobe Reader 10 or higher can view a pencast PDF, which syncs words written on the page with recorded audio and you can play it, much like a video recording.
Connect lets you share written notes with a number of digital services and destinations (referred to as Connectors), including Google Docs, Facebook, Evernote, mobile devices, e-mail and your desktop.
"With Livescribe Connect, it is easy to make your handwritten notes and spoken information digital, searchable, shareable and accessible any time, anywhere with a simple tap of your smartpen," Marggraff says in the press release.
And according to a recent report from Outsell, a research and advisory firm, the ability to easily share notes is key in a smartpen – 75 percent of respondents that digitize notes end up sharing them with others or reusing them in documents or presentations.
The Livescribe Echo, Livescribe's latest pen model, was originally introduced in the summer of 2010 with 4-GB and 8-GB models. In October, Livescribe teamed up with Evernote, the cloud-based digital note-storing service, for an additional way to share and access handwritten notes.
Livescribe was founded in 2007 and began turning heads with the introduction of its Pulse smartpen in 2008. They'll be shipping their millionth smartpen sometime this year.
To send a handwritten page using Connect, you draw a short line and begin writing a one- or two-word shortcut above it, like "Facebook," and the smarten recognizes the shortcut name and instructs you to tap the pages you'd like to include. A double tap (which sometimes had trouble being recognized) completes the function, but notes aren't actually sent out until the next time your smartpen is docked.
Current pen models have no Wi-Fi or Bluetooth capabilities; they rely on a USB connection to transfer data. Marggraff said that in the future, the company plans to produce wireless smartpen models.
So, if you still need a notebook to access your smartpen's data, why not just bring your laptop to your lecture or meeting and type up notes?
Most people – that is, 87 percent of business professionals – still prefer taking notes by hand, according to research from Forrester. And a couple of different studies proved that students who bring their notebooks to class aren't using them for in-class note-taking so much as instant messaging and browsing "distractive" websites (I'm looking at you Reddit).
Using a pen and paper continues to be a good way to keep track of information, and the added benefit of synced audio that smartpen models such as Livescribe's provide means that you can pick and choose what to write, using keywords that can help you jump to a specific point in the audio recording. No more need to manically jot down everything scrawled on a blackboard.
Ned May, Vice President and Lead Analyst for Outsell, a research and advisory firm, says that Livescribe's audio-syncing capabilities are what separates it from other smartpen manufacturers, and that there's "no other solution that's better" at the present time. May believes "the smartpen market is on the cusp of taking off" based on Outsell's examination of the current smartpen landscape.
I've had a chance to check out Livescribe Connect for the past few days, and it works quite well. The main caveat is that data isn't sent as you write, it's sent the next time your pen is docked. But you can add shortcuts and personalize it using the desktop program, and the pen itself recognizes those changes quickly and rarely misinterprets them.
If you primarily take notes in darkened lecture halls or write super speedily, the pen (I was using the new 2-GB model) may have trouble picking up all of your pen strokes.
Livescribe Connect is available in two flavors, Premium and Basic. Connect Premium grants you access to all available Connectors and is free for 4-GB and 8-GB Echo owners. Owners of 2-GB Echo and Pulse smartpens have free access to Connect Basic, which provides sharing capabilities for everything except e-mail and Google Docs, but can pay $15 to upgrade to Connect Premium through Livescribe's online store. The 2-GB Echo smartpen runs $100.


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By COLLEEN LEDDY
Sixteen months ago, I purchased a cell phone with a QWERTY keypad. The phone I was replacing had the ability to text, but I never used that function with its archaic telephone keypad layout.
The new phone came "free" when my kids added me to their plan. I didn't especially want a keypad because I wasn't really planning to ever text.
But, the phone was purple and I really like the color purple so I figured, what the heck. If I ever needed to text, it would have the capability to do so.
I tested it first and knew I was selecting a phone with a tiny tiny keypad unsuitable for my fat, fat fingers. Still, the pretty purple persuaded me. It outweighed the paltry and piddly space to push letters and numbers.
Sixteen months later, even though I don't do all that much texting, my purple cell phone now regularly says, "! Message box full: You will not be able to send or receive messages until you delete some messages. Clean up now?"
"Clean up" involves selecting an option to delete all messages one month, two weeks, one week, or one day old or messages with attachments.
I am incapable of wantonly deleting messages in this manner. I have to read through them individually to make sure I don't delete messages such as this random Dec. 15 one from David: "Your fly is open and you forgot your bra."
Or the one Rosie sent when her family was on their way to visit her friend Sarah in Philadelphia earlier this month:
"Caro is my baby—at the airport making friends with another 16 month old girl and pulling up the girl's shirt to poke her belly button...and unVelcroing her shoes. And is giving her hugs."
Rosie at that age wasn't quite as forward with the belly button poking, but she was known to hug fellow toddlers in airports so vigorously she'd lose her balance and they'd both fall down in a heap.
And then there are moments I want to preserve such as this one captured in a text sent to David when I was in Miami earlier this month after Ben and Sarah's baby was born three months premature.
"Ben bent over and looked inside at the top of Ry's incubator. When I asked what he was doing he said he was just checking out the view from Ryland's perspective."
And David responded, "That's my boy. I like that."
When Maddie found an opportunity online to join a three-person crew (with an older Australian lawyer and a 22-year-old guy from Argentina) sailing on a 34-foot yacht for two to four weeks from the Gold Coast of Australia to the Whitsunday Islands, I was worried that she would do it, and especially worried when she e-mailed me that David seemed to be in favor of it.
Still in Miami and very on edge because of Ryland's progress, I texted him this fiery message:
"Maddie says you seem to be into the idea of her going sailing with two unknown men on a small boat in an ocean in the winter in a foreign country with no escape route...really?"
He replied that he told her he could never convince me that it would be all right. And that maybe she could find a day or weekend cruise in Byron Bay and that he hoped she didn't come home disappointed.
I want her to have great experiences but at this point, I don't care if she comes home disappointed that she didn't learn to surf and sail. I just hope she comes home alive and well.
Looking back over these texts while trying to delete them, I'm reminded what a crazy stressful time early July was. I'm always on edge when my kids are flying, but Rosie's trip was nothing compared to Maddie's surf and sail plan. But even that pales in comparison to Ben's baby Ryland, a beautiful little miracle fighting to thrive.
"I can only imagine the worst during these long periods of silence," David complained in a text the day Ryland had his first transfusion and I couldn't talk on the phone without crying because I was so worried about him. And I couldn't send texts until I had deleted messages. Plus there was the issue of my fat fingers...sending texts is not an easy thing.
David had sent a series of irrelevant texts that night hoping to get my attention and elicit a response. I seem to have deleted all but this one, "Maybe I'll score some crack tonight."
No way can I clean up that message.


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From the Gilder Leherman Institute of American History, "The Emancipation Proclamation: Bill of Lading or Ticket to Freedom?" by Allen C. Guelzo
Of all the speeches, letters, and state papers he had written, Abraham Lincoln believed that the greatest of them was his Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863. With one document of only 713 words, Lincoln declared over three million slaves in the rebel states of the Confederacy to be "thenceforward and forever free" and took the country a long step to the final abolition of slavery. Lincoln was confident "that the name which is connected with this act will never be forgotten," and that the Proclamation would prove to be "the central act of my administration, and the great event of the nineteenth century."
Despite that confidence, the Emancipation Proclamation remains a document shrouded in misunderstanding, and it is not too much to say that today it is probably Lincoln's least-admired presidential paper. That misunderstanding clusters around three nagging questions:
Why did Lincoln take so long? If Lincoln was as anti-slavery as he claimed to be ("I am naturally anti-slavery," he told Albert Hodges and Thomas Bramlette in 1864. "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel."), why didn't Lincoln decree emancipation in 1861, when the Civil War began, rather than waiting until 1863? "How come it took him two whole years to free the slaves?" asked the suspicious black militant Julius Lester. "His pen was sitting on his desk the whole time."
Emancipation Proclamation Map
Why is it so incomplete? The Proclamation limited emancipation to the "states or parts of states" still in rebellion, and did not include the border states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, where slavery was legal but where the state governments had stayed loyal to the Union. Nor did it include large portions of the Confederacy in Virginia and Louisiana, then securely occupied by federal troops. On the surface, this looks ridiculous. In the border states, where Lincoln actually had Union soldiers on the ground who could compel the emancipation of slaves, he did nothing, but in the Confederate states, where he no longer had such power, he proclaimed an emancipation that no one could enforce. As the London Times smirked, "Where he has no power Mr. Lincoln will set the negroes free; where he retains power he will consider them as slaves."
Why is it so bland? Surely, the author of the Second Inaugural and the Gettysburg Address could make an Emancipation Proclamation the occasion for the most stirring and sublime prose in American political history. Instead, the Emancipation Proclamation is written in the flat legal language of whereas and therefore and military necessity. As historian Richard Hofstadter said, "The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, had all the moral grandeur of a bill of lading."
Taken together, what these questions hint at is that Lincoln issued the Proclamation at best reluctantly and at worst insincerely. In reality, the questioners add, Lincoln's only real concern in waging the Civil War was the restoration of the Union and making the American economy safe for whites, not freedom and equality for blacks. Beyond its propaganda value for the Union war effort, the Proclamation did nothing, and was intended to do nothing.
The three questions that cast doubt on Lincoln's good intentions are not cheap shots. By the time Hofstadter wrote off the Proclamation in 1948, American blacks had gained little from the Emancipation Proclamation beyond the bare fact of emancipation itself. Jim Crow ruled the South, and Brown v. Board of Education was still six years in the future. So if it was legitimate to wonder what good emancipation had achieved at that point, it was legitimate to wonder whether the Proclamation that decreed it was somehow flawed.
But it is always risky to assume from historical results what the actual historical intentions were, and even riskier to jump to conclusions that certain intentions were calculating, rather than straightforward. And in the case of the Emancipation Proclamation, what the questioners lack is a grip on the actual circumstances—legal, political, and military—that surrounded Lincoln and the Proclamation.
Take, for starters, the complaint about the long delay between the start of the Civil War in 1861 and the issue date of the Proclamation in 1863. The fact is that Lincoln was already drafting emancipation plans as early as November 1861, but because these are not emancipation proclamations, we routinely fail to see them as part of the long ramp that Lincoln was traveling toward the Proclamation. In the fall of 1861, Lincoln composed an experimental emancipation plan for the state of Delaware (one of those four border states). Under Lincoln's proposal, the Delaware legislature would pass a bill, immediately freeing all Delaware slaves over the age of thirty-five and gradually freeing all others when they reached that age; in return, Congress would pay the state of Delaware just over $700,000 in United States bonds, which would then be used by the Delaware legislature to finance compensation for Delaware slave owners who would lose their slave "property" to emancipation. Under an optional accelerated timetable, slavery in Delaware could have been extinguished as early as 1872.
A buy-out is not as dramatic as a proclamation, but the end result would have been the same, and Lincoln had good reason for thinking that this plan was, in fact, the best way to make the extinction of slavery legally permanent. After all, American slavery was the creation of state, not federal, enactments, and in this era before the Fourteenth Amendment and the "incorporation" doctrine, a constitutional firewall separated the state and federal governments. Good lawyer that he was, Lincoln had no reason to believe that proclamations, presidential or otherwise, would penetrate that wall. If anything, a presidential emancipation decree would be followed by a procession of slave owners into the federal courts the next morning, complaining of unconstitutional interference by the president in state matters. Considering that the federal court system had been stocked for sixty years with pro-Southern judicial appointees, and that the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Roger B. Taney, was the man who had written the decision in Dred Scott, barring the federal government from interfering in slaveholding in the federal territories, there was no reason to suppose that the courts wouldn't use such cases as the means for hammering a stake through the heart of emancipation for good and for all.
But if Lincoln could use the financial leverage of the federal government to entice slave-state legislatures into doing the work of emancipation voluntarily, then the same firewall that tied his hands on the federal side would also tie the hands of the federal courts. Successful emancipation must, as Lincoln wrote to Horace Greeley in 1862, have "three main features, gradual, compensation, and [the] vote of the people," or at least the voluntary action of their legislatures. It would cost money, to be sure, but a lot less money than a civil war was costing.
Not only was the legislative option unquestionably legal, but it had a certain momentum of its own that might hasten the end of the war. Since every slave state that took the bait of compensated emancipation diminished the territory in which slavery was legal, the existing number of slaves would be forced into a smaller and smaller area, driving the supply up as the demand decreased, since there would be fewer markets to sell slaves to. As demand dropped, so would price, and the process of emancipation, which looked so slow on paper, would accelerate as slave owners rushed to accept compensation before their slaves lost all value whatsoever. As one of Lincoln's political friends wrote, "It seemed to him that gradual emancipation and governmental compensation" would bring slavery "to an end."
The problem was that the border states stopped their ears and refused all cooperation. The Delaware legislature stalled over the emancipation proposal, and the congressional delegations of the other border states rejected federally financed emancipation with contempt. By the spring of 1862, the only place in which compensated emancipation had actually worked was the District of Columbia, and that was only because the federal government had (as it still does) direct legislative jurisdiction over the District.
To Lincoln's annoyance, the border states' truculence nudged Congress into trying its own hand at emancipation in the form of the First Confiscation Act (passed on August 6, 1861), which permitted the seizure of slaves, as "property," by the federal military if it found them working for the Confederate forces. This was followed, in July 1862, by a Second Confiscation Act, which upped the ante by granting freedom to the slaves of any slave owner in active rebellion against the United States (whether or not those slaves were actually employed in war-related service). The law also tempted two of Lincoln's generals to dabble in even more direct schemes for emancipation. Lincoln's headstrong commander in Missouri, John Charles Fremont, issued an emancipation edict for Missouri on August 31, 1861, and Major General David Hunter did the same in the occupied coastal district of South Carolina in May 1862.
However, neither the Confiscation Acts nor the military proclamations had much to recommend them, and this was because of the weak legal materials from which these rival emancipation plans had been created. The Confiscation Acts were modeled on the law of prize, treating slaves as similar to the cargo that a warship was entitled to capture from an enemy ship on the high seas—cargo that the ship could have a prize court sell. And Fremont's proclamation justified itself as an act of martial law. But would any of these emancipations survive a court challenge?
The law of prize might work very well when the captured cargoes of ships belonged to the citizens of enemy nations, but confiscating enemy property on land was another matter entirely, and confiscating the property of one's own citizens, even in cases of treason, ran afoul of the Constitution's ban on bills of attainder. Similarly, martial law proclamations might look strong and forceful, but martial law was a tricky and mostly unexplored part of American jurisprudence in 1862. At most, martial law was understood to be only temporary, and to cover only the immediate field of a military commander's needs—not (as Fremont's and Hunter's edicts implied) whole states. Similarly, it was not assumed that martial law could make permanent alterations in the legal status of property taken for military use. (A farm seized for use as a military camp did not permanently become federal property; once an army moved on; the farm remained the farmer's property and would not be, so to speak, "emancipated.") So Lincoln revoked the Fremont and Hunter proclamations, relieved Fremont from command, and did little to enforce the Confiscation Acts.
Lincoln's notion of gradual, voluntary, and compensated emancipation avoided these problems because it bribed slaveholding states, through the promise of compensation, to begin emancipating slaves through their own statutes, and that got the whole process beyond the reach of the federal courts. It mattered little that a legislature might balk the first time that an emancipation plan was proposed. Drawing on his own personal experience as a state legislator back in Illinois, Lincoln knew that he only had to await the next round of state legislative elections in the fall of 1862 and 1863, at which point the financial bait might well overcome border-state resistance. But that would have required time. In the summer of 1862, time was what Lincoln ran short of, and that was largely the result of his armies and of his other generals, chief among which was Major General George B. McClellan.
Between March and July of 1862, the Union military effort, which had begun the war with such flourishes and promises, floundered into near-catastrophe. This was partly due to a string of unexpected Confederate military successes in mid-1862, and partly from the increasingly obvious fact that the upper echelons of the federal army's officer corps, led by McClellan, were politically hostile to both Lincoln and emancipation, and were dragging their heels in prosecuting the war. McClellan, like the leaders in the border states, made it clear that any movements toward emancipation would get no support from the Army, and might even generate outright resistance. In July 1862, when Lincoln came down to visit McClellan at his headquarters at Harrison's Landing on the James River, McClellan served him a political ultimatum: Do nothing about slavery or the Army will no longer fight for you.
No one has been certain whether McClellan was threatening a military intervention of some sort or simply announcing that, like the border states, the federal military would do nothing to assist any emancipation plan that Lincoln had in mind. Either way, coming from an American soldier to his commander in chief, it was an ominous declaration, and Lincoln was "grieved with what he had witnessed" at Harrison's Landing. If emancipation was to become a federal policy, it would have to be implemented without delay, either as a forthright rebuke to McClellan (on the order of Harry Truman's riposte to Douglas MacArthur) or as a preemptive political strike before McClellan and the Army could extort some sort of cease-fire or negotiated settlement with the Confederacy. It was time, Lincoln remarked, to stop waging war "with elder stalk squirts, charged with rose water." From that point on, he would not leave "any available means unapplied." Two days after returning from Harrison's Landing, Lincoln told two members of his Cabinet to look for a decisive change in emancipation policy. Ten days later, he introduced the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation at a cabinet meeting.
So, far from having done nothing for twenty months about emancipation, Lincoln had been trying to get to emancipation from the start; resorting to a proclamation was only a change in tactics, not a tardy beginning.
But why, once Lincoln did decide to reach for the "proclamation option," did he take the border states and the occupied districts of the Confederacy off the table? It's easy to conclude that he excluded the border and the occupation zones because he didn't want to face the responsibility for actually implementing emancipation there. But there is a much simpler answer, and once again, it grew out of the legal and constitutional situation Lincoln was facing. No matter how much Lincoln might have wanted to emancipate the slaves in the border states, the fact was that the border states were not in rebellion. They had broken no laws and committed no act of resistance to the authority of the United States, and so long as that was the case, Lincoln had no more authority as president to emancipate slaves in those states than he did to fix prices on tomatoes. If he had any authority to proclaim emancipation anywhere, it would be only by virtue of his constitutional designation as commander in chief, and only in situations of military exigency in which he could demonstrate that such freeing served a military purpose. And that could only be in places where the rebels were still in power—not the border.
On the upside, the title of "commander in chief" gave Lincoln much broader scope for action than a mere declaration of martial law, on the model of Fremont or Hunter; on the downside, one legal slip could have brought a cascade of litigation down on his head. And if the federal courts had ever been allowed to get involved with emancipation, and decided as they had in Dred Scott, the cause of emancipation might have been set back to the dimmest possible future.
Understanding the legal technicalities surrounding emancipation also helps in answering the third question, about the flaccid language of the Proclamation. To give Richard Hofstadter his due, the Proclamation really does have all the luster of a legal brief. Try this excerpt, and see if your eyes don't glaze over:
Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander in Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned . . . order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
But what Hofstadter and the many historians who have quoted him about the Proclamation having all the grandeur of a bill of lading have missed is that the Proclamation is a legal brief. Yes, it has none of the rolling rhetorical power of the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural, but they were not legal documents, and they changed the legal status of no one. (All that the Gettysburg Address did, in literal terms, was dedicate a cemetery). The Proclamation, even with all its qualifications and reservations, seized the single most important, numerous, and profitable capital assets in the American economy in the nineteenth century, directed the recruitment of those "assets" into federal service, and shielded the whole process from court interference by invoking the language of military necessity.
It has been easy, long after the press of the legal and judicial restraints that surrounded Lincoln as president has evaporated, to start with the fact of emancipation and wonder why Lincoln did not do better or act more swiftly than he did. The real challenge is to understand with what ease Lincoln might have done nothing at all. And once we have that understanding, we can marvel at the real risks he actually took. And even if the Proclamation sounded as unheroic as a bill of lading, it was still a bill that itemized the destinies of four million human beings, bound through blood and fire for the port of American freedom. (source: Gilder Leherman Institute of American History)
Allen Guelzo: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo.


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Roland Bello
We love it whenever an inexpensive cut of meat is coaxed into a glorious showstopper, and this pork masterpiece is perhaps the best example we can think of. Even the sight of it is delightful, as it glazes over with a sheen in shades of rose and amber. The garlicky adobo—that's the marinade, not the commercial powder—is pushed into slits in the meat to penetrate to the deepest layers; the outer layer, rubbed on the roast, forms a sticky crust of irresistible caramelization; and the skin becomes a rich, crunchy chicharrón, the last pieces of which everyone will surely fight over.
- Yield
- Makes 8 servings
- Active Time
- 30 min
- Total Time
- 1 day
- 1 head garlic, cloves peeled
- 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon kosher salt, divided
- 1 1/2 tablespoons dried oregano
- 2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 (7- to 7 1/2-pound) bone-in pork shoulder with skin
- Accompaniment: lime wedges
- Mash garlic to a paste with 2 tablespoons kosher salt using a mortar and pestle or side of a large heavy knife, then stir in oregano, vinegar, lemon juice, and 1 tablespoon pepper.
- Pat pork dry. Using a small sharp knife, cut a wide pocket at large end of roast to separate skin from fat, leaving skin attached at sides and stopping before roast narrows to bone.
- Make 1-inch-deep slits in pork under skin and on all meaty sides, twisting knife slightly to widen openings, then push some of garlic mixture into slits with your fingers. Rub any remaining garlic mixture over roast (not skin). Wipe skin clean, then rub with remaining teaspoon kosher salt (to help it crisp). Transfer pork to a glass or ceramic shallow dish and marinate, covered and chilled, at least 8 hours.
- Put pork, skin side up, in a flameproof roasting pan, discarding marinade, and bring to room temperature, about 1 hour.
- Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle.
- Cover pork with parchment paper and then tightly with foil and roast 2 1/2 hours. Discard foil and parchment, then add 1/2 cup water to pan and roast, uncovered, adding more water when liquid in pan evaporates (check about every half hour), until skin is browned and crisp and meat is fork-tender, 2 to 2 1/2 hours more. Transfer to a cutting board or platter, reserving juices in pan, and let stand 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, pour pan juices through a sieve into a fat separator or bowl and discard fat. Add 3/4 cup water to roasting pan and deglaze by boiling over medium-high heat (straddle 2 burners if necessary), scraping up brown bits, 1 minute, then add to pan juices along with enough water to bring total to 1 1/2 cups.
- Cut skin off roast pork. (If skin is not crisp, roast in a shallow baking pan in a 475°F oven until crisp, about 10 minutes.) Cut skin into serving pieces. Pull meat from roast in pieces using a fork. Serve meat with pan juices and pork skin.
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- Ada
- G2F implements an Ada 95 binding to a subset of the low-level MagickCore library.
- Use MagickWand to convert, compose, and edit images from the C language. There is also the low-level MagickCore library for wizard-level developers.
- Ch
- ChMagick is a Ch binding to the MagickCore and MagickWand API. Ch is an embeddable C/C++ interpreter for cross-platform scripting.
- Use ImageMagickObject to convert, compose, and edit images from a Windows COM+ compatible component.
- Magick++ provides an object-oriented C++ interface to ImageMagick. See A Gentle Introduction to Magick++ for an introductory tutorial to Magick++. We include the source if you want to correct, enhance, or expand the tutorial.
- GoImagick is a set of Go bindings to ImageMagick's MagickWand and MagickCore C APIs.
- Java
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- Julia
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- Neko
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- Use Magick.NET to convert, compose, and edit images from Windows .NET.
- ImageMagickApp is a .NET application written in C# that utilizes the ImageMagick command line to allow conversion of multiple image formats to different formats.
- Pascal
- PascalMagick a Pascal binding for the MagickWand API and also the low-level MagickCore library. It works with Free Pascal / Lazarus and Delphi.
- Perl
- Use PerlMagick to convert, compose, and edit images from the Perl language.
- MagickWand for PHP a native PHP-extension to the ImageMagick MagickWand API.
- IMagick is a native PHP extension to create and modify images using the ImageMagick API. Documentation for the extension is available here.
- phMagick is a wrapper class for ImageMagick, wrapping the most common web image manipulation actions in easy to use functions, but allowing full access to ImageMagick's power by issuing system calls to it's command-line programs.
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- MiniMagick is a Ruby wrapper for ImageMagick command line. MiniMagick gives you convenient access to all the command line options ImageMagick supports.
- QuickMagick is a gem for easily accessing ImageMagick command line tools from Ruby programs.
- Rust
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- Tcl/Tk
- TclMagick a native Tcl-extension to the ImageMagick MagickWand API.
- RemoteMagick is an XML-RPC web service that creates image thumbnails.


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Just wanted to know what everyone thought about this for our Pre-K schedule. We have been doing something like this since the end of August and it takes us about 1-1 1/2 hrs to do all this. I was going to do a Main theme each month and have mini themes each week (Month theme: Fall/Thanksgiving, mini themes: apples& pumpkins, thanksgiving, leaves, etc.)
Story Time (T)
Calendar/Weather Time
Song Time
Bible Story Time
Bible Story worksheet/coloring page (M, W)
Bible Story Craft (F)
1-2 letter worksheets (M, T, W, F)
Song Time
1-2 number worksheets (M, W, Th, F)
Alphabet Flashcards (T)
Number Flashcards (Th)
Song Time
1-2 Opposites worksheets (T)
1-2 Shape/Color worksheets (Th)
Activity or Craft Time
Educational Game Time (computer, hand held, file folder)
Educational DVD Time (W, F)
What do you think about this for Pre-K schedule?
Preschool readiness skills (birth to age 5) and the common developmental concerns of young children.
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To be honest, it doesn't sound like something that I would feel comfortable with. It seems heavy on the age-inappropriate work (flash cards, worksheets, rote memorization...) and not enough discovery or play based work - games, activities, etc. Littles thrive when they have more than one sense involved in their learning experiences, or when it's all integrated. Writing and sitting so much isn't an age appropriate skill yet.
"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
- M. Montessori
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- M. Montessori
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We are way more relaxed than that and tend to stay away from flashcards, etc. during the younger ages. BUT, if the schedule is working for both you and your child, I think it's fine. Just make your daughter is enjoying it, and make sure you don't burn yourself out.
I would make sure you are getting enough "discovery" play time too. However, I think flashcards/worksheets can play a role also. Just don't overdo it or they will burn out. I think the best learning experiences are when they don't even realize they're learning. I think your monthly/mini theme idea is really good.
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Bakewell cheesecake
This almond and cherry baked cheesecake is a heavenly marriage of two amazing desserts
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal740
- fat51g
- saturates27g
- carbs57g
- sugars37g
- fibre1g
- protein13g
- salt0.9g
- 200g/7oz almond biscuits
Almondarr-mund or al-mund
Sweet almonds have a subtle fragrance that lends itself well to baking and also works well with…
- 100g toasted flaked almond
- ½ tsp almond extract
Almondarr-mund or al-mund
Sweet almonds have a subtle fragrance that lends itself well to baking and also works well with…
- 100g butter, melted
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 3 x 300g packs full-fat soft cheese
- 250g caster sugar
- 4 tbsp plain flour
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 large eggs
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition packed with protein and a…
- 200ml tub soured cream
- just over half a 300g jar cherry jam
One of the delights of the summer, cherries are much loved for their succulent texture, flavour…
- icing sugar and cream, to serve
Fresh unpasteurised milk quickly separates and the fat rises to the top. This fat layer is then…
Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Line the base and sides of a 23cm springform tin with baking parchment. Bash the biscuits and 75g of the flaked almonds to crumbs – try double-bagging in food bags and crushing with a rolling pin. Mix with the almond extract and melted butter, then press into the base of the prepared tin and bake for 10 mins. Set aside to cool while you make the filling.
In your largest bowl, whisk the cheese with an electric whisk until creamy. Add the sugar and whisk to combine. Whisk in the flour, then the vanilla, the eggs, one at a time, and finally the soured cream.
Dollop spoonfuls of mixture into the tin, dotting in tbsps of jam as you go. Smooth the top as gently as you can.
Carefully place tin on the middle shelf of the oven and bake for 10 mins. Scatter with remaining almonds. Decrease oven to 110C/90C fan/gas ¼ and bake for a further 35 mins. Turn off the oven, keep the door closed and leave cheesecake to cool for 1 hr. Open oven door and leave it ajar for another hour (you can use your oven gloves to wedge it open). Cool for a third hour at room temp, then cover and chill overnight.
Remove from the tin and carefully peel off the parchment. Dust with icing sugar and serve with cream.


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- "Are we gonna stop for ice cream?"
- ― Wade Hebert
Wade Hebert is a character in the Grand Theft Auto series, appearing as a main character in Grand Theft Auto V.
He is a friend of Trevor Philips and Ron Jakowski, as well as the cousin of Floyd.
What is known of Wade is that he met Trevor in 2012, one year before the events of Grand Theft Auto V took place. While Wade was on his way to "the gathering" (a reference to The Gathering of the Juggalos) with Daisy Bell, Kush-Chronic (a reference to Kama-Chronic) and several others, they stopped at Sandy Shores to buy some drugs. This is where he met Trevor Philips, who continued to look after him once his friends had "abandoned him". Wade recalls it as "weird", as his friends drove to a quarry with Trevor, but were later nowhere to be found.
Events of GTA V
Wade is first seen alongside Ron trying to calm down Johnny Klebitz after Trevor had sexual intercourse with Johnny's girlfriend Ashley Butler, which ended with Trevor killing Johnny and starting a war between him and The Lost MC; Wade joins Trevor in his attacks against the gang.
Wade is later asked by Trevor to search for Michael Townley, who Wade locates in Los Santos, after several failed attempts and threats from Trevor, under the name "Michael De Santa". They move into the apartment of Wade's cousin, Floyd, much to Floyd's dismay. Wade also assists Trevor in scouting a port for a heist.
After an incident in Floyd's apartment, which results in the deaths of both Floyd and his girlfriend, Debra, Trevor, in an attempt to stop Wade from discovering their deaths, claims that Floyd and Debra have "disappeared", just like Wade's old friends, before taking over the Vanilla Unicorn strip club and ordering two strippers to attend to Wade. Wade remains with them even after the main storyline, and even has dialogue with him claiming that each time that he tries to leave, the strippers give him another dance.
Described by his artwork as an "intellectual", Wade is believed to be mentally challenged, due to his speech and dialogue. He is loyal to Trevor and will follow his every order, although this might done out of fear as Trevor often intimidates him. Part of this behavior comes from the fact that he has an inherently innocent, with an almost childlike mindset and considers Trevor to be a good person, believing everything he says, even when he is obviously lying.
Wade is a Caucasian male of average size. He has brown hair styled into dreadlocks, tied back. Wade wears a black and red Fatal Incursion undershirt on a white t-shirt, and baggy, blue jeans with brown sandals and white socks. He has a brown bracer on his right wrist and a watch on his left.
Wade often paints his face white and black, suggesting he may be a Juggalo. He also wears eyelet earrings in his stretched ears, which seem to be around an inch and has several tattoos on his body, most notably on his hands.
Mission appearances
- Mr. Philips
- Nervous Ron
- Friends Reunited
- Scouting the Port
- Cargobob (Voice)
- The Merryweather Heist
- Hang Ten
- Wade can be killed at the end of the game inside the Vanilla Unicorn, however he will respawn the next time the player visits the club.
- The player technically plays as Wade while Trevor is deciding the plan of the Merryweather Heist, since Trevor asks Wade which plan they will take to which the player has the choice. Also note that the plan is observed from Wade's eyes (or at least from where he was standing).


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MINNEAPOLIS — Jon Lester was in a good mood as he sat at his interview station in a grand ballroom of the downtown Hyatt Hotel on Monday afternoon. The Red Sox southpaw was barely bothered while, a few yards to his left, dozens of cameramen and reporters elbowed each other for access to Derek Jeter's table.
If not for a few Boston scribes asking about his impending free agency, Lester might have gone unnoticed during the mandatory media session for baseball's All-Stars.
Lester's contract status is going to be the big story in Boston baseball for the next few months. He is the ultimate commodity: a 30-year-old power pitcher who has won two World Series, never misses a start, has demonstrated he can perform in a tough market, and is having his best overall season (9-7, 2.65 ERA, 29 walks, 134 strikeouts in 129 innings).
Lester's price goes up every day and there's little doubt that the increasingly desperate Yankees are going to be leading a conga line of wealthy teams willing to pay Lester more than double Boston's opening offer (four years, $70 million) from last spring.
Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino moved the needle on this story a little bit last week when he acknowledged the low-ball starting offer, but he expressed some surprise that Lester's camp stopped talking so quickly.
"It ended on Opening Day,'' explained Lester. "We had a meeting and the deadline was Opening Day. Opening Day came and went and we didn't have anything done.''
Did he think the Red Sox were serious when they made their offer?
"Yeah," he said. "They want me here. Obviously, my representation has had a lot of talks with them. I think that feeling is still mutual on both sides. I would hope.''
When he spoke at the Boston Baseball Writers' dinner in January, Lester acknowledged he wants to stay in Boston and spoke of giving the Sox a hometown discount. Does he feel like the ballclub exploited those remarks?
"I don't know if 'exploited' is the right word,'' he answered. "But they're businessmen. They didn't get to own the Boston Red Sox by being stupid with money. I think they took a shot. Larry and [general manager] Ben [Cherington] and the collective group put that offer out there and that's what they wanted to start at.
"We've had plenty of talks after that as far as moving money, moving years, but never got to another offer. The Opening Day came and went and [we] put it on the back burner for a while.''
Is it hard not to get angry at the Sox' spring strategy?
"No, I don't think you can,'' said Lester. "I get it. I told John [Henry] and the ownership that to their face. This is business and you guys have a business to run and I have a business to run. I have to run myself. I think you have to try to put your feelings aside in this and if it does offend you, you need to go, 'Hey, we have to talk about this.'
"I've had those talks. There's things that have come up through the year that Ben hasn't liked. That's what I keep telling everybody. The conversation's amicable. It's not like we said, 'screw you,' or they said, 'screw you,' and we slammed the door. I've had four, five, maybe six conversations with Ben over the last couple of months.
"I don't want this to be a distraction to the team,'' he added. "This is nothing against ownership or my friends or anyone, but we know it's going to get out. Whatever we talk about it's going to get out and it's going to become a distraction and that last thing we need in last place is that kind of distraction. I don't want Jackie Bradley Jr. to have to answer questions about my contract. That's the last thing that I need and that we need right now.''
So, it still could get done this year?
"Yeah, everybody's hopeful about everything,'' Lester answered. "The right time will come when we can sit down and talk about it, whether it's tomorrow or in four months. This is where I want to be. Let's say the year ends tomorrow and I go to free agency. It doesn't mean I don't still want to be a Red Sox. It doesn't change anything. Now they just have more competition.''
Swell. But having gone this far, and pitched this well, it seems ill-advised for Lester not to discover what 29 other teams think he's worth.
"I look at it this way: This is where I want to be," he said. "When it comes down to it, the first day [of free agency] I hope Boston is the first team that calls me and I don't have to worry about it.
"I'm playing right now for the Red Sox and I want to play for them for the rest of my career . . . It's all I've known. I don't like the unknown."
Jon Lester is not Jacoby Ellsbury, who wouldn't say he wanted to play the rest of his career in Boston. Lester is a guy who doesn't like change. He wants to stay. Cherington and manager John Farrell clearly want him to stay. Lester has handled this awkward situation magically. He looks good and classy.
The Sox ownership? Not so great at this moment.
Letting Ellsbury go was easy. The Sox were world champs and they were not going to get into a stupid Yankee-type contract.
It's different now.
This time, the Sox have a player who wants to stay. They are in last place. And they charge the highest prices in baseball.
How could they explain not competing with other teams for Jon Lester's services?
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The Friday evening reception kicked off the popular conference. Participants and public were treated to a video welcome by Sherwood Park Mayor Ms. Roxanne Barr, greetings from Horse Racing Alberta, and a picture/music montage by the sponsor, the Alberta Trail Riding Association. The conference is an opportunity for people from all horse breeds and disciplines to meet new friends, network, and get up to date on everything equine. The variety of sponsor booths, speaker topics, and the diversity in the people attending the conference gave everyone a chance to exchange ideas, satisfy their curiosity or learn new ideas about old topics.
The conference presentations ranged from the development of new and cutting edge veterinary advancements and products, to the age old question about when to deworm your horse. Horse welfare was a popular subject, and there were some lively discussions about marketing, farriery, horses used for therapy, and when to make the painful decision to euthanize.
The 40 sponsor booths included Breed and Riding Associations, Equine Health and Veterinary Medicine, Post-Secondary Education and Training, Feed, Tack and Supplies, Publications and Equine Facilities. There really was something for everyone!


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How should a physics student study mathematics?
If some-one wants to do research in string theory for example, Would the Nakahara Topology, geometry and physics book and other geometry and topology books geared at physicists be sufficient for that purpose, or should one read abstract math textbooks e.g. Spivak Differential geometry. What about real analysis and functional analysis (not just the introductory functional analysis chapter that's present in quantum mechanics textbooks)?