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When Abraham Lincoln was elected president on Nov. 6, 1860, most Americans had only a vague idea of what he looked like. Engravings of his likeness had been published in various newspapers around the country, mostly in the North, but some of these illustrations purposely distorted his facial features (the modern version of airbrushing) or simply failed to render accurately his less-than-handsome countenance. In 1856, an Illinois editor, who saw Lincoln in person as he gave a speech, remarked that the politician was "crooked-legged, stoop-shouldered … [with] anything but a handsome face."
Lincoln was aware of his homeliness. One popular story, which might be apocryphal, claimed that a political opponent called Lincoln "two-faced" during a public debate. Without missing a beat, Lincoln replied to the crowd: "I leave it to you. If I had another face, do you think I'd be wearing this one?" For those who knew him well, however, they found Lincoln's expressions to be soft and kind, despite a look of melancholy and sadness that never seemed to fade from his eyes. The poet Walt Whitman believed that Lincoln's face was "so awful ugly it becomes beautiful."
In this slide show — which features photographs of the man from the time of his election in 1860 until the spring of 1861, a period during which the secession crisis divided the United States in two and the Civil War began with the surrender of Fort Sumter — you may judge for yourself how Lincoln looked as he ascended to the presidency and took on the burden of a nation divided against itself. In many instances, these photographs became the first accurate images the American public saw of the man who would either restore the Union or let it perish forever.
Glenn W. LaFantasie is the Richard Frockt Family Professor of Civil War History at Western Kentucky University. He is working on a book about Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.
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The talk in the bars and restaurants of Mylor harbour in Cornwall normally revolves around nothing more sinister than fishing, weather and the state of the tides. Yesterday it was of black magic and murder.
Police had interviewed 200 people overnight in the seaside town, a popular stopping off point for cruising yachts en route to France. They were questioned over the death of a parish councillor, 56-year-old Peter Solheim, whose body was found by fishermen 13 miles away, off Black Head on the Lizard Peninsula, two weeks ago.
His small white dinghy, Izzwizz, its key still in the ignition, was spotted adrift in Mylor harbour by the day before his body was found. The coastguard said he could not have fallen from his boat and drifted to Black Head on the natural tides, drift or currents.
Initial suspicions that he drowned have been discarded after unexplained injuries were found during a post-mortem examination. And yesterday one of the officers leading the inquiry said he was examining links with the occult.
Detective Sergeant John Trott, of Devon and Cornwall Police, said: "His interest in the occult has been made known to us. It is a line of inquiry that we are now pursuing. His injuries are still unexplained, but at this stage we are unable to go into more detail as it could be crucial to the investigation."
Mr Solheim, who was divorced and had three children, joined a Druid sect in St Merryn, Cornwall, several years ago. A school friend, John Bastin, said he had become increasingly interested in the supernatural after the flooding of his mother's home four years ago.
"The old clapper bridge over the river Budock was replaced by a proper road bridge next to his mother's house," Mr Bastin said. "He was convinced that the flooding, it happened twice, was due to the spirits of the river. He thought they had been upset by moving the old bridge and were punishing him. This is what got him interested in the council. To get the bridge changed back."
One member of the Druids, who wished to remain anonymous, said Mr Solheim's interests had become too extreme for the group and they parted ways at around the time of the floodings. "It became clear that he wanted to go into areas that everyone else felt uncomfortable with," the Druid said.
"He started to get involved with Satanism and liked to go off and perform rituals on his own. He was always making knives and swords, and he showed them to us. We all became really worried about him.
"Once he tried to perform black-magic spells on two other people, and that really upset them. I don't know what his rituals involved, but he would always do them on his own. Eventually, he stopped coming to gatherings."
Ed Prynn, the Arch-Druid of Cornwall, said his behaviour alarmed other members. "He was a good guy and he loved the pagan way of life, but he seemed to want to go his own way, and the others didn't want to go that way. He went off on his own to do pagan worship, but it's really meant to be a shared experience."
Mr Solheim, who lived part of the time at Carnkie, near Helston, was described by friends yesterday as a committed environmentalist and strong Cornish nationalist. He had developed an interest in antique guns and built up a collection despite being unemployed after suffering an industrial accident at his job at a printworks.
Police said they were working on a dozen positive leads they had received during the overnight operation to interview Mylor's residents. One line of inquiry is that he was going to meet a man called Charlie on the day before his body was discovered.
Detective Inspector Neil Best, who is leading the inquiry, said the two men were to meet to take Charlie's larger boat to sea, possibly to France. He said Mr Solheim had towed his dinghy behind a green Citroën to Mylor harbour, with his partner Margaret. She left him with the boat and drove home. "Charlie could be very significant to this investigation because he may have been the last person to see Mr Solheim alive," Det Insp Neil Best, said.
The Falmouth Coastguard has drawn up computer simulations of prevailing winds and tides on 16 and 17 June, when Mr Solheim was last seen. The coastguard says his body could not have travelled south to Black Head unassisted but would most likely have drifted towards France.
Photographs of the dead man and his partner have been displayed around the harbour, home to the world's last sea-going oyster fleet, to jog people's memories. Yacht owners have also been questioned. "We are open-minded about motive," Det Insp Best said. "There are a number of things about his background that are interesting."
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A few weeks ago, there were fears that the referendum on electoral reform would come and go without anyone except the cognoscenti on either side really noticing. Such was the apparent public apathy towards a change in the voting system. No one can say that now. The Liberal Democrat grandee, Lord Ashdown, weighed into the debate yesterday, to accuse Conservative opponents of the alternative vote of "scare-mongering" to secure victory for a No vote. And he accused the Chancellor, George Osborne, of resorting to "cynical smears".
Within hours, the Conservative leader, David Cameron, had piped up in defence of Mr Osborne, saying he had been right to speak about the way the Yes campaign was funded, but calling for a reasonable argument on both sides. The impression was left of Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne playing "good cop, bad cop" in their efforts to persuade voters to keep the first-past-the-post system.
After all the heat generated over the past week, the arguments for AV, presented in The Independent today by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, seem cool, calm and collected. Mr Miliband focuses on the capacity that a switch to AV would have to improve the public perception of politics, foster the engagement of voters and make politicians more accountable. He also rejects utterly the spurious arguments of the No campaign, that AV would somehow benefit extremist parties.
But Mr Miliband also makes another point, which is at root a call for grown-up politics. First-past-the-post, he argues, entrenches a way of doing things that encourages parties to go into elections professing hatred for each other. Under AV, he says, candidates will need to be more honest about points of agreement.
Now there should be no mystery about why Mr Miliband is talking up the virtues of cross-party consensus and a new style of politics. This is a broad hint that he intends to play a long game, looking to a time when he, rather than Mr Cameron, might be the party leader in a position to make that "big, open and comprehensive offer" to the Liberal Democrats. His decision to share a platform today with the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, who only last week cemented his claim to be his party's senior in-house dissident – by attacking Mr Cameron's speech on immigration – demonstrates how concerned Mr Miliband is to keep channels of communications open.
This was the indirect message. But the direct and immediate message reflects Mr Miliband's fear that the referendum campaign is being fought increasingly along party lines. This is not a danger that was identified early on. It was assumed then that, with Conservative and Labour MPs both split on AV and each fielding forceful advocates on either side, the referendum campaign would be fought on the issue of electoral reform and on that alone.
As the No campaign has upped the rhetoric, however, it seems to be becoming more closely identified with the Conservative Party, just as the Liberal Democrats are, as a party, identified with AV. This, Mr Miliband argues, poses the risk that some on the right might vote No in the referendum mainly as a protest against the Conservatives' coalition with the Liberal Democrats, while some on the left might also vote No to "punish" Nick Clegg for his perceived sins: helping the Conservatives into power and his U-turn on university tuition fees.
Mr Miliband is right to point to this danger, which is heightened by the fact that many areas are holding council elections on the same day. It means that the Yes campaign must not only hammer home the merits of its arguments, but underline the distinction between an election and this referendum – a once-in-a-generation chance to change our electoral system for the better.
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thanks i just got this phone off craigslist, so i'm not the original owner did you go through vzw for a replacement or did you go through HTC?
I went through VZW but since your not the original owner ya couldn't do that. Ya may wanna look into having the speaker replaced by a cell phone repair place maybe? Sent from my ADR6300 using DroidForums
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Following its immediate post-Xmas tablet traffic report, ad network Chitika has released new data showing the relative positions of the various tablet makers in North America. The iPad has lost roughly three points since a year ago, but it remains dominant.
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His speech is expected to call for a lift in New Zealand's export performance and hit out at New Zealand's volatile exchange rate as the major stumbling block.
The Reserve Bank uses interest rates to curb consumer demand when inflation threatens to breach the 0-3 per cent target agreed to with the Government under a policy targets agreement.
There has been rare accord between National and Labour on the Reserve Bank's inflation-busting role for two decades.
But there has been mounting criticism that the Reserve Bank Act is too narrowly focused and hurting both exporters and householders after years of record high interest rates to keep inflation under control.
A select committee inquiry into monetary policy two years ago heard criticism from groups, including leading economists, that the focus on inflation had caused a vicious cycle of "unintended and undesirable consequences".
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- David vs. Goliath, Jack and the bean stalk. You've heard of the fairy tales. The story of a tiny person taking down a giant.
In basketball, the underdog is known as Cinderella. The Phelps Lady Knights certianly hope the glass slipper will fit come Thursday night.
Phelps will face last year's Sectional Champion Newman Catholic in the D-5 sectional semifinal on Thursday in Antigo.
Phelps knocked off the #1 seed Marion in last weekend's regional final. It was just their second regional final title. The last one was in 2006.
Add to it, the school has only 32 kids enrolled. Just 16 girls - with 10 playing on the basketball team.
It's easy to see how the town of Phelps is sky high for their team.
Stormy Schreiber, a senior for Phelps says, "That (a Regional Championship) was our goal. When we accomplished that last Saturday, it was undescribable."
Thursday night's game in Antigo tips off at 7pm. Phelps has never made to the state tournament. In fact, they have not even reached a sectional final. Now they are just 2 games away from a trip to state.
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- A standoff between police and a man in Hudson has ended with the man taken into custody.
Hudson Police Chief Marty Jensen says a man with a "known history of violence" was arrested shortly before 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
Police were initially called to the house at 3 a.m. Jensen says the man had trashed his ex-girlfriend's home and phone, but she was able to get to a friend's house and call police.
The woman told police there was a handgun in the house. Roughly eight nearby homes were evacuated as police and the SWAT team tried to get the man to come outside.
Jensen says no shots were fired, but authorities used tear gas and other chemicals during the standoff.
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- More than 2 million Toyota, Chrysler and Honda vehicles are being recalled for a second fix for faulty air bags that may inadvertently inflate while the car is running.
The recall includes some Acura MDX, Dodge Viper, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Honda Odyssey, Pontiac Vibe, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Avalon models made from 2002 to 2004.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says all the vehicles covered in Saturday's announcement had already been under a recall for the faulty air bags, but the carmakers' original attempts to fix the defects only worked about 85 percent of the time.
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- A winter storm warning will go into effect in the Milwaukee area and far southern Wisconsin on Saturday night �" and the National Weather Service says as much as 10 inches of snow could fall in Kenosha County by early Monday.
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Blowing and drifting snow is expected and winds could gust to over 30 mph, making travel dangerous.
Other parts of the state, including Sheboygan, Dodge, and Waukesha counties, will be under a winter weather advisory starting Saturday night. Snow accumulations could reach 4 to 7 inches.
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University of Wisconsin students track coyotes, foxes
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- A team of students from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is conducting research on foxes and coyotes in hopes of learning how the animals and humans can peacefully coexist.
Forest and wildlife associate professor David Drake and his students are humanely trapping the animals, running tests, then fitting them with tracking devices. The goal is to learn about traveling patterns, diseases the animals might have, and how they interact with other animals and humans.
Drake says foxes and coyotes are moving into areas where people are living. And if that continues, and the animals lose their fear of humans, they could become aggressive in extreme cases.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says residents should stay a safe distance from foxes or coyotes, and shouldn't feed them.
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Game time is primetime for the biggest advertisements of the year, many of which market alcohol with ads targeting teens.
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Europe's debt crisis could tip the world economy into recession and a bigger firewall is urgently needed to keep the damage from spreading, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.
The IMF chopped its estimate for 2012 global growth to 3.3 per cent from 4 per cent just three months ago and warned it could drop as low as 1.3 per cent if Europe lets the crisis fester for much longer. For 2013, it predicted growth of 3.9 per cent.
"The epicenter of the danger is Europe but the rest of the world is increasingly affected," IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard said at a news conference. "There is an even greater danger, namely that the European crisis intensifies, and in this case the world could be plunged into another recession.
"With the right set of measures, the worst can definitively be avoided and the recovery can be put back on track," he said. "These measures can be taken, need to be taken, and need to be taken urgently."
The IMF called for swift action from the 17-nation euro zone, which it said would likely see its economy contract this year by 0.5 per cent.
"The most immediate policy challenge is to restore confidence and put an end to the crisis in the euro area by supporting growth while sustaining adjustment, containing deleveraging, and providing more liquidity and monetary accommodation," it said in its latest World Economic Outlook report.
Blanchard and other top IMF officials emphasised repeatedly that Europe needs to bolster its rescue funds to win market confidence and lower yields on sovereign bonds so that countries like Italy and Spain can borrow at affordable rates.
Talks between private bond holders and the Greek government have foundered, raising the risk Athens could face a messy default that would touch off a deeper crisis. IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde warned on Monday that a failure to erect a larger wall against financial contagion could lead to a "1930s moment".
Jose Vinals, director of the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets Department, said it was important to both increase the size of the Europe's current 500 billion euro ($804 billion) rescue fund and its flexibility.
In addition to helping countries it should be able to take direct stakes in troubled banks "to break the link between national sovereign risk and national banks", he said.
The IMF maintained its 1.8 per cent growth forecast for the United States in 2012, but said a pick up in spending could be offset if the turmoil in Europe grew.
It also cut its projection for Japan to 1.7 per cent from September's 2.3 per cent and urged Tokyo to be more ambitious in reducing its debt and implementing a consumer tax.
Economic activity in advanced economies would expand by 1.5 per cent on average in 2012 and 2013, too sluggish to make a major dent in high unemployment rates, the Fund said.
Emerging nations are also feeling the pinch.
The IMF projected growth in emerging economies to slow to 5.4 per cent this year, down from 6.2 per cent last year and well below the 6.1 per cent forecast in September, and it called on them to focus policies on lifting growth.
It cut China's growth figure to 8.2 per cent for 2012, down from 9.0 per cent. Chinese growth should rebound to 8.8 per cent in 2013, it added.
For fast-growing emerging Asia as a whole, the IMF reduced its growth outlook for 2012 to 7.3 per cent from 8 per cent.
Elsewhere, the IMF said growth in the Middle East and North Africa should accelerate, driven mainly by a recovery in Libya after a nine-month civil war ended with the capture and killing of leader Muammar Gaddafi in October.
Global oil prices are likely to ease slightly in 2012 despite slowing world growth, the IMF said, adding that its baseline oil price projection was broadly unchanged since September when it forecast US$100 a barrel.
Non-oil commodity prices are set to fall by 14 per cent this year, the IMF said, adding that risks to prices are to the downside for most commodities.
In Africa, the effects of the global slowdown is likely to be limited to South Africa, with the region as a whole expanding by around 5.5 per cent this year, second fastest after Asia.
The largest impact of the slowdown would likely be felt in central and eastern Europe, which has strong trade links with the euro zone economies, the IMF said. It revised down its estimate for the region to 1.1 per cent in 2012 from a previous forecast of 2.7 per cent. Growth should edged up to 2.4 per cent next year, the IMF added.
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If you live in a remote area and need a specialist doctor, chances are there won't be one close by. But can a network of hi-tech terminals and online medics make the connection? Matilda Battersby reports.
Thursday 31 May 2012
A good bedside manner is as important in a doctor as their impressive medical qualifications. A gentle voice, pleasing manner and soothing presence are all elements that help patients feel reassured.
But can a doctor have a good bedside manner if they are not actually at your bedside? That's what a pioneering new stroke service in Cumbria and Lancashire aims to find out. It allows expert stroke consultations to take place when doctors are not in the hospital.
Stroke consultants might be having dinner, watching television, gardening on a Sunday or asleep in bed. That is, until they receive a call from hospital notifying them that a patient needs attention. Then, they spring into action at a speed The Flying Doctors team could only marvel at, and examine their patient an average of 15 minutes later.
The service gives patients access to top stroke specialists 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How? It's simple. Doctors are now doing what many of us do at work or via Skype: they are appearing via webcam at the patient's bedside.
Using telecommunications systems in this way seems (like plenty of bright ideas) rather obvious – but it's the result of years of work. After a highly critical report into national stroke services in England published by the National Audit Office in 2005, the Cumbria and Lancashire NHS Trust organised a clinical advisory group to devise the best care for stroke patients in line with the Government's 2007 National Stroke Strategy.
A stroke occurs when the blood supply to the brain is cut off. This can happen for two reasons: a clot or a haemorrhage. Clots cause 80 per cent of all strokes so doctors need to quickly establish if a patient is eligible for thrombolysis, known in non-medical terms as "clot-busting" medication.
Timing is crucial in this situation as there is a four-and-a-half hour window in which a patient will respond to clot treatments. Beyond this there can be irreparable damage to a patient's brain and victims can end up needing round-the-clock medical care for the rest of their lives. Strokes are the third-largest cause of death in England and the single largest cause of adult disability.
Other NHS Trusts with limited stroke services elect dedicated hospitals to which patients with suspected strokes are sent. But geography made this impossible in Cumbria and Lancashire. Journey times from remote areas would be too long and patients would have deteriorated by the time they were examined. They were forced to think more creatively.
"We came up with a system based around wherever the consultant happened to be because there are not enough specialists in our area to give thrombolysis treatment at local hospitals," says Kathy Blacker, director of the Cumbria and Lancashire Cardiac and Stroke Network. "A couple of the hospitals had 9am to 5pm stroke service units but others had no capability at all. We needed to provide a 24/7 service and knew we couldn't centralise because of the geography."
After three years of discussions, Cumbria and Lancashire launched Telestroke in July 2011. It brings 16 stroke physicians across eight hospitals to patients on screen via a specialist Virgin Media Business telecommunications network.
Similar systems exist in other parts of the country – the Scottish Centre of Telehealth (SCT) has been running since 2006. Other countries, too, are keen on the technology, which doctors in Barcelona use for HIV consultations. There are similar schemes being set up in Africa, too.
So far in Lancashire 24 patients' lives have been saved, 40 more this year have recovered with no symptoms or disabilities and 30 fewer patients require full-time care, according to the latest estimates.
Strokes cost the NHS and economy in Britain £7bn a year. But the Cumbria and Lancashire model has saved the NHS Trust more than £8m so far, according to estimates. The bulk of the expenditure saved would have gone on long-term care for those left without means to look after themselves.
Clinical staff worried initially that patients wouldn't like Telestroke. But they've conducted satisfaction surveys and of the 250 to receive Telestroke consultations only one has responded negatively.
"Everything has changed so quickly in terms of smartphones and interactive engagement," Blacker says. "Patients are unfazed by it."
The patient's view
Howard Thomas, 70, a retired insurance broker, was the very first patient to use the Telestroke service after he had a stroke on 31 July 2011:
"I had been staying at a campsite in Cumbria with my wife. I felt fine when I went to bed but woke up the next morning around 11am to go to the loo and I didn't make it. I was all over the place. My wife phoned 999 and the ambulance took me to Kendal Hospital.
"It was a Sunday so no stroke specialists were there but I was seen by a consultant via Telestroke. Less than 24 hours later I recognised and spoke to my son and my wife. I've never heard of anyone getting over a stroke as quickly as I have.
"The lady I'd seen on the Telestroke came in to see me on the Monday and I recognised her. I couldn't recollect seeing her on screen but I knew she was a familiar face straight away."
The doctor's view
Dr Mark O'Donnell, Stroke Consultant at Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and clinical lead for the Lancashire & Cumbria Cardiac and Stroke network:
"We are at home and get a call. After a brief discussion with the referring doctor we decide whether or not to proceed with the Telestroke consultation. Some discussions resolve the difficulty and in some cases it's apparent that nothing can be done.
"We dial into the teleconferencing technology from our home PCs. It takes a matter of minutes.
"I think all of us on the scheme had a little bit of anxiety to start off with about the impersonal nature of the technology.
"The system has gone down on a couple of occasions. Both times it was a problem with the internet connection. There is a 24-hour helpline but under such circumstances you just have to wait. Thankfully it is rare."
How it works
1. Patients visit A&E with stroke symptoms and are wheeled into cubicles which contain Telestroke screens
2. Doctors at the hospital telephone the stroke specialist on call
3. The stroke specialist dials into the Telestroke technology and communicates directly with the patient via webcam
4. The specialist can look at brain scans using the Telestroke technology
5. A patient and their family can ask questions of the consultant
6. The stroke specialist might prescribe thrombolysis treatment which will be administered by hospital staff
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