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Posted 20 July 2012 - 14:49
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for once I actually agree with you Andrea
No,don't whatever you do try this app it is not safe to do this. And it could stop Windows from working.
You cannot disable the Metro theme in Windows 8 CP or in Windows RP safely and still have Windows work.
If you want the Windows 7 Windows Explorer use Ribbon Disabler from Winaero,which is proven to be safe,here-http://winaero.com/c...comment.news.20
Or Classic Shell here-http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/
Which gives you both the start button and Windows 7 start menu and boots straight to the desktop.
And many other start menu software now does the same thing. It is a safer option than hacking your system. Andrea Borman.
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Posted 22 July 2012 - 03:44
Tihiy wrote-
Yes. This is definitely not for average user yet. I'm sorry if it confuses people.
Andrea Borman asked-
Where did you find this software anyway Tihiy?
Tihiy said-
I made it.
Posted 22 July 2012 - 13:21
I like this hack, maybe desktop manufacturers will see that it can be done know and include it as an option in their desktop range...
Posted 22 July 2012 - 13:44
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Installation: grab c:\windows\explorer.exe and c:\windows\en-us\explorer.exe.mui from windows 7 system or installation CD (with 7-zip). It must be 32-bit version (if it's 64-bit, grab files from SysWOW64 dir). You can use Windows 7 files from same language build or en-US build.
Extract them to directory like "c:\explorer7". Extact attached archive to that directory too. It should look like this:
Launch patchex7.exe. It will patch windows 7 explorer.exe. Then choose "7" to set it as default shell in registry, terminate current explorer.exe and log you off.
After log-on you should see Windows 7 desktop.
To uninstall, launch patchex7.exe again, choose "8" to reset shell to default explorer.exe in registry.


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Wendy wonders "What's your favorite Farm Aid memory?"
I remember meeting Martina McBride- when she had long hair- she was so beautiful and so friendly. I think she was nervous herself. It was the first time she had played Farm Aid – and we were in a big stadium that year. She has continued to support Farm Aid in fact- if you are a FarmYard member you can check out (and buy!) a pair of Martina's pants. She autographed them and donated to Farm Aid.
I remember trying to approach Ringo Starr only to have a few members of the band Kentucky Headhunters cut in front of me. They were so excited to meet their hero. I remember seeing Dwight Yoakum talking to Lyle Lovett. And seeing Neil Young drive right past the green room in his golf cart as he headed for the stage.
At the end of the night I was exhausted and exhilarated. I couldn't believe all the people I met.
So how about you? What's your favorite Farm Aid moment? We really want to hear from you! To encourage you all to speak up, the 5th commentor will win a brand new Farm Aid poster from this year's concert.
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Its been 10 years since my last Farm Aid but Ill never forget it! Columbia S.C Hootie and the Blow Fish in their own home town. The crowd was going nuts. Just when you thought it couldnt get any better John Mellencamp broke down his drum set and tossed it out into the crowd! Cant wait to see what happens this year. Diana Hopkins, Kill Devil Hills N.CReplyDelete
I had the honor of working on the first three shows...beginning in 1984 at Champaign Illinois.ReplyDelete
Preproduction started about a month before the show in a (then) quiet suite at the local hotel. By show week there were about 150 phone lines dangling out of the window, and the room was full of activity.
As I recall, there were some 90 acts at the first show. To say that it was a logistical challenge would be an understatement.
It remains one of my life's peak experiences.
Wait...........Just remembered more of the day.ReplyDelete
they ran out of corn on the cob(in iowa how can you run out of corn???) Hot Iowa day. 5 people crammed into a small audi driving up from davenport.
mellencamp...no shoes on, danceing!
the BEST.....Neil young's PUMP ORGAN!!!!
a day to remember.
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I thought I would add to this blog my experience. Farm Aid really began in a small town in northeastern Missouri in 1984. I was a student running a T-shirt shop at the time. I volunteered to print T-shirts in exchange for a split of the proceeds. John Mellencamp performed with David Soul of Starsky and Hutch fame in attendance. I have yet to see anything on this event and really don't understand why it is not remembered as the very first Farm Aid concert!ReplyDelete

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I didn't know that Hurl could be reflected but that's great to know.
Anyway, the basic strat for all specs it just to avoid the cone attack (move around him when he casts it), interrupt the interruptable thing and use some cd (SBar is enough, in NM) to survive the non-avoidable attack.
The only way you can die on it is if you take a cone attack or fail to interrupt the interruptable thing.
Warrior soloing spreadsheet.
Ittle Dew (Any%): 12:13
Super Meat Boy (Any%): 21:50
2. Burst of Corruption - Can not be interrupted. Use Shield Barrier to minimize damage taken.
3. Hurl Corruption - Can be interrupted and spell reflected. Obviously use spell reflect to end your trial faster.
4. Titanic Smash - Cone of doom appears in front of the Sha. Don't stand in it.
I've killed my Titanic Corruption with zero time on boss at start of fight and interrupting (derp) most of the Hurls. If you're still having trouble get a Flex group going to practice the fight.
Hi guys.
A friend of mine is trying to equipo his warrior, here his armory:
He knows that int shield is kinda shit, but alternative was a 463 blue shield. At least he get a nice chunk of armor and stamina.
Now he finally farmed enough time coins for buying a new trinket.
Should he get tank one (mastery+dodge on use) or dps one (str+haste on proc). Dodge on use is quite nice, since it has quite a nice sinergy with riposte, but str also offer a nice amount of parry, algough haste being quite meh for a prot.
What do you think?
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Only other thing I would advise is dropping shockwave unless you are running CM's for the first time or doing a gimmick fight like lei-shen ball stunning ^^
I'm currently rolling with a Hit/Exp cap > Mastery > dodge/parry build atm, it's working very well for me and I've been favoring mastery for quite a long time now. Since Riposte i have been doing way more damage as any prot warrior would, I'm wondering though; How much would my dps increase by going for a dodge+parry Riposte build? I'm not asking for like a exact number but just an estimate seeing as otherwise i would be needing sim's and so on.
Can't post links since this is my first post, I'm Camisado from the guild <Trolltyg> EU-Stormreaver, we post logs on WoL if anyone wants to check them out.
Thanks for any answers, peace!
Hello , first time poster , been following mmo champs for a long time but never did browse the forums . Im glad i did !! Anyways i did the switch to avoidance and my dps went up alot . I just told my healers to let me know how i was to heal and if it was an issue i can go back . For our guild the extra dps def. helped us out . Where just a casual raiding group but all the extra dps you can get on some fights can make or break a kill or death .
Anyways thanks for all the info and keep it up .
Just curious if people can have a look at what Im doing wrong in these logs, had some serious threat issues with the pala tank on taunt swaps, ended up being really unpleasant for the two of us. Im aware there is a lot of optimization I could be doing, so anything you can help me with would be great. http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/dx221i8k7b2vesli/
On the armory some bits wont be reforged correctly as I share them between my MS dps spec and my prot set. Cheers.
Flawless - Go casual or go home.
Just saw the new SimC 540-2.
The standard APL is totally wrecked again ...
I need someone to check back on what I observed while updating my damage taken spreadsheet. (http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...1#post22475412)
The observation is on damage taken and only affects encounters or situations with low Vengeance.
When low on Vengeance we still have a base absorb value on our barrier. That is because stamina is part of the absorb formula.
If we assume 45k stamina a 20rage barrier will absorb a minimum of 37k damage.absorb = max((attackPower - 2 * strength) * 1.8, stamina * 2.5) * rageMultiplier
In a scenario with 40k Vengeance (200k hits every 1.5seconds) a simple 20rage barrier will convert into 66% damage reduction. That is more damage than a crit block.
Once the Vengeance surpasses the magic mark where the absorb from attackpower becomes stronger than the absorb from stamina it flats out to a minimum reduction of 42% per 20rage barrier (for 62% armor reduction).
If we just look at damage taken one should never block in low Vengeance scenarios. This can effect current LFR and flex modes. You may not reach the magic marks in those modes.
Of course this heaviy depends on your current vengeance and stamina level.
I wrote down some of the magic marks.
Those values are static. For every 5,000 stamina we need 7,000 more Vengeance and collect 4,000 more absorb.Code:stamina vengeance 20rage barrier 35,000 49,000 29,000 40,000 56,000 33,000 45,000 63,000 37,000 50,000 70,000 41,000
But in the end this is basically for the lolz only. If stuff hits for so few damage you can go full dps.
Another more important observation is that the more "armor" you have. The more valuable a barrier will be damage reduction wise.
Block will always reduce a flat percentage of damage taken (of what is left past armor/stance reduction). Absorb reduction is a flat value. The more damage is reduced by armor the more valuable any absorb will be. If you are having a damage reduction by armor of 73.5% a simple 20 rage barrier will be as effective as a crit block when compared at damage taken.
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I provided the SimC team here. I don't necessarily agree with the way they chose to implement some of the items but it is mostly correct. Scanning it quickly, I see a few issues like no mention of glyph of incite buff on the heroic strike line, but maybe that gets added if I actually have the glyph equipped. It should be there as an OR conditional in case you want to import then change glyphs. There is some strangeness regarding the rage conditionals but I believe this is a great improvement over what it used to be. Simming with this will yield far higher DPS numbers than last release with the additional benefit of more closely modeling how we actually play.
Does it need some improvement; yes. Totally wrecked; no.
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I may be dumb but is this a macro you just attach to each rage building ability or is there an addon you need for this just curious what it is
This is what I provided the SimC team, try that instead.
And I see now that what I provided them was wrong (at least as far as Glyph of Incite goes). Anyway, I simmed you using my APL, and you got:Code:# Executed before combat begins. Accepts non-harmful actions only. actions.precombat=flask,type=earth actions.precombat+=/food,type=chun_tian_spring_rolls actions.precombat+=/snapshot_stats actions.precombat+=/stance,choose=defensive actions.precombat+=/battle_shout actions.precombat+=/berserker_rage actions.precombat+=/mogu_power_potion # Executed every time the actor is available. actions=auto_attack actions+=/berserker_rage,if=buff.enrage.down&rage<=rage.max-10 actions+=/shield_wall,if=incoming_damage_2500ms>health.max*0.6 actions+=/last_stand,if=incoming_damage_2500ms>health.max*0.6&buff.shield_wall.down actions+=/run_action_list,name=dps_cds,if=stat.attack_power>health.max*0.20 actions+=/run_action_list,name=normal_rotation actions.normal_rotation=/heroic_strike,if=buff.ultimatum.up actions.normal_rotation+=/shield_slam,if=rage<75 actions.normal_rotation+=/revenge,if=rage<75 actions.normal_rotation+=/battle_shout,if=rage<80 actions.normal_rotation+=/shield_block actions.normal_rotation+=/shield_barrier,if=buff.shield_barrier.down&rage>80 actions.normal_rotation+=/thunder_clap,if=target.debuff.weakened_blows.down actions.normal_rotation+=/demoralizing_shout actions.normal_rotation+=/impending_victory,if=talent.impending_victory.enabled actions.normal_rotation+=/victory_rush,if=!talent.impending_victory.enabled actions.normal_rotation+=/devastate actions.dps_cds=/mogu_power_potion actions.dps_cds+=/avatar,if=talent.avatar.enabled actions.dps_cds+=/bloodbath,if=talent.bloodbath.enabled actions.dps_cds+=/blood_fury,if=talent.bloodbath.enabled actions.dps_cds+=/dragon_roar,if=talent.dragon_roar.enabled actions.dps_cds+=/shattering_throw actions.dps_cds+=/skull_banner actions.dps_cds+=/recklessness actions.dps_cds+=/storm_bolt,if=talent.storm_bolt.enabled actions.dps_cds+=/run_action_list,name=normal_rotation
249K dps, 60.8K dtps, 36.9k TMI
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I'm opening an issue with SimC team now to get this fixed. If the community feels strongly about some changes, let's get them discussed so we can give them the feedback.
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The new simcraft gave me a dps stat rating where haste was the 2nd best stat =0
guys, the sheet is not working, anyone can check it please.


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What makes you think my PC will break? I take very good care of it. If if it were to break, I would fix it. I would also put Windows 7 back on it if I had to.
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Have you heard the news? Turbos are in vogue. Everyone wants them. They make ridiculous heaps of torque. They have that "free energy" thing going for them, too. With such a glowing list of positive attributes, turbos must be the ultimate power adder, right? Not so fast. Whether it's in NMCA, NMRA, ADRL, or PSCA competition, supercharged door slammers don't just give their turbocharged counterparts a run for their money; they often beat them outright. Nothing puts this into perspective better than the impressively long list of national championships won by supercharged cars in high-profile heads-up racing classes over the years. How on earth can superchargers be putting turbos on the trailer? To get some answers on what makes these supercharged freaks run so fast, we went straight to the source and called up Ken Jones of ProCharger. The company's F-series blowers consistently dominate heads-up drag racing classes, so we were eager to find out why. In addition to dissecting the anatomy of some of the most advanced superchargers on the market, we discussed a host of forced-induction theory, ranging from compressor maps to intercooler design to impeller design to the relationship between pressure and flow. So here's the scoop.
F-Series Advantage
ProCharger's F-series superchargers have dominated many heads-up drag racing classes for years, with countless national championships. These blowers feature several design elements that make them outstanding performers. The biggest advantage of these units is our patented friction reduction drive system. That's where the "F" in the F-series blowers comes from. It's basically a bearing within a bearing. We've experimented with blower designs that very closely control bearing speed, and we found that our allowing the bearings to find their own "happy spot" in a bearing-within-a-bearing arrangement worked just as well. When combined with ProCharger's self-contained oiling system and transmission, which dramatically improves load carrying capacity, the result is an extremely efficient supercharger assembly. Supercharger impellers can spin in excess of 70,000 rpm, and are therefore very high-speed devices. Naturally, the oiling needs of a supercharger are much different from that of an engine. Blowers need much lighter weight oil for better lubrication of the bearings and gearset. Furthermore, not only does a self-contained oiling system run cooler, it also prevents cross-contamination. These days we're more concerned with the engine contaminating the supercharger rather than the other way around. There's always a risk of fire whenever an oil line breaks, but you don't have to worry about that with a self-contained supercharger.
Supercharger Efficiency
Superchargers have mechanical and thermal properties that must be taken into account when measuring compressor efficiency. According to Boyle's Gas Law, there is minimum amount of heat that's going to be produced anytime air is compressed. Consequently, if a compressor is capable of achieving 100 percent adiabatic efficiency, it would still heat up the intake charge. The reality is that compressors can't operate at 100 percent efficiency because of the additional heat that's added to the intake charge due to mechanical components like the gear assembly. Most ProChargers operate at 70-80 percent efficiency, which is similar to a turbocharger. Efficiency matters, but where and how a supercharger is mounted matters too. Positive displacement blowers mount to the top of an engine, and since heat rises, they act as heat sinks. That heat gets transferred into the intake charge. Likewise, mounting a centrifugal supercharger in front of the motor, like in a race car, instead of off to the side nets a cooling effect as well. In the lab, we test superchargers by themselves for efficiency using SAE and industrial test standards, but that only tells you part of the story. To truly measure the efficiency of a supercharger as a system, you have to also look at underhood temps, because that heat will get absorbed into the intake charge and peak air temperature is what you have to tune to in order to prevent detonation.


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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, only to be assassinated as the war was coming to an end. Before becoming the first Republican elected to the Presidency, Lincoln was a lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Senate.
As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During his time in office, he contributed to the effort to preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which passed Congress before Lincoln's death and was ratified by the states later in 1865.
Lincoln closely supervised the victorious war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including Ulysses S. Grant. Historians have concluded that he handled the factions of the Republican Party well, bringing leaders of each faction into his cabinet and forcing them to cooperate. Lincoln successfully defused a war scare with the United Kingdom in 1861. Under his leadership, the Union took control of the border slave states at the start of the war. Additionally, he managed his own reelection in the 1864 presidential election.
Opponents of the war (also known as "Copperheads") criticized Lincoln for refusing to compromise on the slavery issue. Conversely, the Radical Republicans, an abolitionist faction of the Republican Party, criticized him for moving too slowly in abolishing slavery. Even with these road blocks, Lincoln successfully rallied public opinion through his rhetoric and speeches; his Gettysburg Address is but one example of this. At the close of the war, Lincoln held a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to speedily reunite the nation through a policy of generous reconciliation. His assassination in 1865 was the first presidential assassination in U.S. history and made him a martyr for the ideal of national unity.
For some time, Thomas Lincoln, Abraham's father, was a respected and relatively affluent citizen of the Kentucky backcountry. He had purchased the Sinking Spring Farm in December 1808 for $200 cash and assumption of a debt. The family belonged to a Hardshell Baptist church, although Abraham himself never joined their church, or any other church for that matter.
In 1816, the Lincoln family was forced to make a new start in Perry County (now in Spencer County), Indiana. He later noted that this move was "partly on account of slavery," and partly because of difficulties with land deeds in Kentucky: Unlike land in the Northwest Territory, Kentucky never had a proper U.S. survey, and farmers often had difficulties proving title to their property.
When Lincoln was nine, his mother, then 34 years old, died of milk sickness. Soon afterwards, his father remarried to Sarah Bush Johnston. Lincoln was affectionate toward his stepmother, whom he would call "Mother" for the rest of his life, but he was distant from his father.
In 1830, after more economic and land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on public land in Macon County, Illinois. The following winter was desolate and especially brutal, and the family considered moving back to Indiana. The following year, when his father relocated the family to a new homestead in Coles County, Illinois, 22-year-old Lincoln struck out on his own, canoeing down the Sangamon River to the village of New Salem in Sangamon County. Later that year, hired by New Salem businessman Denton Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from New Salem to New Orleans via flatboat on the Sangamon, Illinois and Mississippi rivers.
Lincoln's formal education consisted of about 18 months of schooling, but he was largely self-educated and an avid reader. He was also a talented local wrestler and skilled with an axe. Lincoln avoided hunting and fishing because he did not like killing animals, even for food. At 6 foot 4 inches (1.93 m), he was unusually tall, as well as strong.
Lincoln began his political career in 1832, at age 23, with an unsuccessful campaign for the Illinois General Assembly, as a member of the Whig Party. The centerpiece of his platform was the undertaking of navigational improvements on the Sangamon River. He believed that this would attract steamboat traffic, which would allow the sparsely populated, poorer areas along the river to flourish.
He was elected captain of an Illinois militia company drawn from New Salem during the Black Hawk War, and later wrote that he had not had "any such success in life which gave him so much satisfaction.
For several months, Lincoln ran a small store in New Salem. In 1834, he won election to the state legislature, and, after coming across the Commentaries on the Laws of England, began to teach himself law. Admitted to the bar in 1837, he moved to Springfield, Illinois, that same year and began to practice law with John T. Stuart. With a reputation as a formidable adversary during cross-examinations and in his closing arguments, Lincoln became an able and successful lawyer.
He served four successive terms in the Illinois House of Representatives as a representative from Sangamon County, and became a leader of the Illinois Whig party. In 1837, he made his first protest against slavery in the Illinois House, stating that the institution was "founded on both injustice and bad policy. It was also in this same year that Lincoln met Joshua Fry Speed, who would become a close friend.
Lincoln wrote a series of anonymous letters, published in 1842 in the Sangamon Journal, mocking State Auditor and prominent Democrat James Shields. Two years later, Lincoln entered law practice with William Herndon, a fellow Whig. In 1854, both men joined the fledgling Republican Party. Following Lincoln's death, Herndon began collecting stories about Lincoln and published them in Herndon's Lincoln.
The other Lincoln children were born in Springfield, Illinois, and died either during childhood or their teen years. Edward Baker Lincoln was born on March 10, 1846, and died on February 1, 1850, also in Springfield. William "Willie" Wallace Lincoln was born on December 21, 1850, and died on February 20, 1862 in Washington, D.C., during President Lincoln's first term. Thomas "Tad" Lincoln was born on April 4, 1853, and died on July 16, 1871 in Chicago.
Lincoln later damaged his political reputation with a speech in which he declared, "God of Heaven has forgotten to defend the weak and innocent, and permitted the strong band of murderers and demons from hell to kill men, women, and children, and lay waste and pillage the land of the just." Two weeks later, President Polk sent a peace treaty to Congress. While no one in Washington paid any attention to Lincoln, the Democrats orchestrated angry outbursts from across his district, where the war was popular and many had volunteered.
Warned by his law partner, William Herndon, that the damage was mounting and irreparable, Lincoln decided not to run for reelection. His statements were not easily forgotten, and would haunt him during the Civil War. These statements were also held against him when he applied for a position in the new Taylor administration. Instead, Taylor's people offered Lincoln various positions in the remote Oregon Territory, primarily the governorship. Acceptance of this offer would have ended his career in the rapidly growing state of Illinois, so Lincoln declined the position. Returning to Springfield, Lincoln gave up politics for several years and turned his energies to his law practice.
The civil case which won Lincoln fame as a lawyer was the landmark Hurd v. Rock Island Bridge Company. America's expansion west, which Lincoln strongly supported, was seen as an economic threat to the river trade, which ran north-to-south, primarily on the Mississippi river. In 1856 a steamboat collided with a bridge, built by the Rock Island Railroad, between Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa, the first railroad bridge to span the Mississippi. The steamboat owner sued for damages, claiming the bridge was a hazard to navigation. Lincoln argued in court for the railroad and won, removing a costly impediment to western expansion by establishing the right of land routes to bridge waterways.
Possibly the most notable criminal trial of Lincoln's career as a lawyer came in 1858, when he defended William "Duff" Armstrong, who had been charged with murder. The case became famous for Lincoln's use of judicial notice — a rare tactic at that time — to show that an eyewitness had lied on the stand. After the witness testified to having seen the crime by moonlight, Lincoln produced a Farmers' Almanac to show that the moon on that date was at such a low angle that it could not have provided enough illumination to see anything clearly. Based almost entirely on this evidence, Armstrong was acquitted.
Lincoln was involved in more than 5,100 cases in Illinois alone during his 23-year legal career. Though many of these cases involved little more than filing a writ, others were more substantial and quite involved. Lincoln and his partners appeared before the Illinois State Supreme Court more than 400 times.
In the October 16, 1854, "Peoria Speech", Lincoln first stood out among the other free soil orators of the day:
Drawing on remnants of the old Whig, Free Soil, Liberty and Democratic parties, he was instrumental in forming the new Republican Party. In a stirring campaign, the Republicans carried Illinois in 1854 and elected a senator. Lincoln was the obvious choice, but to keep the new party balanced he allowed the election to go to an ex-Democrat Lyman Trumbull. At the Republican convention in 1856, Lincoln placed second in the contest to become the party's candidate for Vice-President.
In 1857-58, Douglas broke with President Buchanan, leading to a fight for control of the Democratic Party. Some eastern Republicans even favored the reelection of Douglas in 1858, since he had led the opposition to the Lecompton Constitution, which would have admitted Kansas as a slave state. Accepting the Republican nomination for Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered his famous speech: "'A house divided against itself cannot stand.'(Mark 3:25) I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. The speech created an evocative image of the danger of disunion caused by the slavery debate, and rallied Republicans across the north.
Lincoln was chosen as the Republican candidate for the 1860 election for several reasons. His expressed views on slavery were seen as more moderate than those of rivals William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase. His "Western" origins also appealed to the newer states: other contenders, especially those with more governmental experience, had acquired enemies within the party and were weak in the critical western states, while Lincoln was perceived as a moderate who could win the West. Most Republicans agreed with Lincoln that the North was the aggrieved party as the Slave Power tightened its grasp on the national government. Throughout the 1850s he denied that there would ever be a civil war, and his supporters repeatedly rejected claims that his election would incite secession. On May 9-10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur. At this convention, Lincoln received his first endorsement to run for the presidency.
Throughout the general election, Lincoln did not campaign or give speeches. This was handled by the state and county Republican organizations, who used the latest techniques to sustain party enthusiasm and thus obtain high turnout. There was little effort to convert non-Republicans, and there was virtually no campaigning in the South except for a few border cities such as St. Louis, Missouri, and Wheeling, Virginia; indeed, the party did not even run a slate in most of the South. In the North, there were thousands of Republican speakers, tons of campaign posters and leaflets, and thousands of newspaper editorials. These focused first on the party platform, and second on Lincoln's life story, making the most of his boyhood poverty, his pioneer background, his native genius, and his rise from obscurity. His nicknames, "Honest Abe" and "the Rail-Splitter," were exploited to the full. The goal was to emphasize the superior power of "free labor," whereby a common farm boy could work his way to the top by his own efforts.
On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party. He was the first Republican president, winning entirely on the strength of his support in the North: he was not even on the ballot in nine states in the South, and won only 2 of 996 counties in the other Southern states. Lincoln gained 1,865,908 votes (39.9% of the total), for 180 electoral votes; Douglas, 1,380,202 (29.5%) for 12 electoral votes; Breckenridge, 848,019 (18.1%) for 72 electoral votes; and Bell, 590,901 (12.5%) for 39 electoral votes. There were fusion tickets in some states, but even if his opponents had combined in every state, Lincoln had a majority vote in all but two of the states in which he won the electoral votes and would still have won the electoral college and the election.
Attempts at compromise, such as the Crittenden Compromise which would have extended the Missouri line of 1820, were discussed. Despite support for the Crittenden Compromise among some Republicans, Lincoln denounced it in private letters, saying "either the Missouri line extended, or... Pop. Sov. would lose us everything we gained in the election; that filibustering for all South of us, and making slave states of it, would follow in spite of us, under either plan", while other Republicans publicly stated it "would amount to a perpetual covenant of war against every people, tribe, and state owning a foot of land between here and Tierra del Fuego [at the far end of South America].
President-elect Lincoln evaded possible assassins in Baltimore, and on February 23, 1861, arrived in disguise in Washington, D.C.
At his inauguration on March 4, 1861, the German American Turners formed Lincoln's bodyguard; and a sizable garrison of federal troops was also present, ready to protect the capital from Confederate invasion and local insurrection. In his First Inaugural Address, Lincoln declared, "I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments," arguing further that the purpose of the United States Constitution was "to form a more perfect union" than the Articles of Confederation which were explicitly perpetual, thus the Constitution too was perpetual. He asked rhetorically that even were the Constitution a simple contract, would it not require the agreement of all parties to rescind it?
Also in his inaugural address, in a final attempt to reunite the states and prevent the looming war, Lincoln supported the pending Corwin Amendment to the Constitution, which had already passed Congress. This amendment, which explicitly protected slavery in those states in which it already existed, had more appeal to the critical border states than to the states that had already declared their separation.
By the time Lincoln took office, the Confederacy was an established fact, and no leaders of the insurrection proposed rejoining the Union on any terms. No compromise was found because a compromise was deemed virtually impossible. Buchanan might have allowed the southern states to secede, and some Republicans recommended that. However, conservative Democratic nationalists, such as Jeremiah S. Black, Joseph Holt, and Edwin M. Stanton had taken control of Buchanan's cabinet around January 1, 1861, and refused to accept secession. Lincoln and nearly every Republican leader adopted this position by March 1861: the Union could not be dismantled. Believing that a peaceful solution was still possible, Lincoln decided to not take any action against the South unless the Unionists themselves were attacked first. This finally happened in April 1861.
Historian Allan Nevins argues that Lincoln made three miscalculations in believing that he could preserve the Union, hold government property, and still avoid war. He "temporarily underrated the gravity of the crisis", overestimated the strength of Unionist sentiment in the South and border states, and misunderstood the conditional support of Unionists in the border states. In connection with Nevins's conclusions, it is interesting to note an incident from this period reported in the memoirs of William Tecumseh Sherman. Then a civilian, Sherman visited Lincoln in the White House during inauguration week, with his brother, Ohio Republican John Sherman. This meeting left the future General Sherman "sadly disappointed" at Lincoln's seeming failure to realize that "the country was sleeping on a volcano" and the South was "'preparing for war.'
The slave states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware did not secede, and Lincoln urgently negotiated with state leaders there, promising not to interfere with slavery. After the fighting started, he had rebel leaders arrested in all the border areas (especially in Maryland) and held in military prisons without trial. Over 18,000 were arrested, though none were executed. One, Clement Vallandigham, was exiled; but all of the remainder were released, usually after two or three months (see: Ex parte Merryman).
Ending slavery was always a primary goal of the Lincoln administration. However, the American public was slow to embrace the idea. In a shrewdly penned letter to Horace Greeley, editor of The New York Tribune, Lincoln masked his goal of ending slavery by making it subservient to the cause of preserving the union:
The Emancipation Proclamation, announced on September 22 and put into effect on January 1, 1863, freed slaves in territories not under Union control. As Union armies advanced south, more slaves were liberated until all of them in Confederate hands (over three million) were freed. Lincoln later said: "I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper." The proclamation made the abolition of slavery in the rebel states an official war goal. Lincoln then threw his energies into passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to permanently abolish slavery throughout the nation.
In September 1862, thirteen northern governors met in Altoona, Pennsylvania, at the Loyal War Governors' Conference to discuss the Proclamation and Union war effort. In the end, the state executives fully supported the president's Proclamation and also suggested the removal of General George B. McClellan as commander of the Union's Army of the Potomac.
For some time, Lincoln continued earlier plans to set up colonies for the newly freed slaves. He commented favorably on colonization in the Emancipation Proclamation, but all attempts at such a massive undertaking failed. As Frederick Douglass observed, Lincoln was, "The first great man that I talked with in the United States freely who in no single instance reminded me of the difference between himself and myself, of the difference of color.
Writing to Lincoln in September 1863, the Governor of Pennsylvania, Andrew Curtin, warned that political sentiments were turning against Lincoln and the war effort:
At the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, beginning with the now-iconic phrase "Four score and seven years ago...", Lincoln referred to the events of the Civil War and described the ceremony at Gettysburg as an opportunity not only to dedicate the grounds of a cemetery, but also to consecrate the living in the struggle to ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth".
Nevertheless, Republicans across the country feared that Lincoln would be defeated. Acknowledging this fear, Lincoln wrote and signed a pledge that, if he should lose the election, he would still defeat the Confederacy before turning over the White House:
Lincoln did not show the pledge to his cabinet, but asked them to sign the sealed envelope.
While the Democratic platform followed the Peace wing of the party and called the war a "failure," their candidate, General George B. McClellan, supported the war and repudiated the platform.
Lincoln provided Grant with new replacements and mobilized his party to support Grant and win local support for the war effort. Sherman's capture of Atlanta in September ended defeatist jitters; the Democratic Party was deeply split, with some leaders and most soldiers openly for Lincoln; the Union party was united and energized, and Lincoln was easily reelected in a landslide. He won all but two states, capturing 212 of 233 electoral votes.
On March 4, 1865, Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address, his favorite of all his speeches. At this time, a victory over the rebels was at hand, slavery was dead, and Lincoln was looking to the future.
The war was a source of constant frustration for the president, and occupied nearly all of his time. He had a contentious relationship with General McClellan, who became general-in-chief of all the Union armies in the wake of the embarrassing Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run and after the retirement of Winfield Scott in late 1861. Despite his inexperience in military affairs, Lincoln wanted to take an active part in determining war strategy. His priorities were twofold: to ensure that Washington, D.C. was well defended; and to conduct an aggressive war effort in the hope of ending the war quickly and appeasing the Northern public and press. McClellan, a youthful West Point graduate and railroad executive called back to active military service, took a more cautious approach. He took several months to plan and execute his Peninsula Campaign, with the objective of capturing Richmond by moving the Army of the Potomac by boat to the peninsula between the James and York Rivers. McClellan's delay irritated Lincoln, as did his insistence that no troops were needed to defend Washington, D.C. Lincoln insisted on holding some of McClellan's troops to defend the capital, a decision McClellan blamed for the ultimate failure of the Peninsula Campaign.
McClellan, a lifelong Democrat who was temperamentally conservative, was relieved as general-in-chief after releasing his Harrison's Landing Letter, where he offered unsolicited political advice to Lincoln urging caution in the war effort. McClellan's letter incensed Radical Republicans, who successfully pressured Lincoln to appoint John Pope, a Republican, as head of the new Army of Virginia. Pope complied with Lincoln's strategic desire to move toward Richmond from the north, thus protecting the capital from attack. But Pope was soundly defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the summer of 1862, forcing the Army of the Potomac to defend Washington for a second time. In response to his failure, Pope was sent to Minnesota to fight the Sioux.
Panicked by Lee's invasion of Maryland, Lincoln restored McClellan to command of all forces around Washington in time for the Battle of Antietam (September 1862). The ensuing Union victory enabled Lincoln to release his Emancipation Proclamation, but he relieved McClellan of his command shortly after the 1862 midterm elections and appointed Republican Ambrose Burnside to head the Army of the Potomac. Burnside had promised to follow through on Lincoln's strategic vision for a strong offensive against Lee and Richmond. After Burnside was stunningly defeated at Fredericksburg, Joseph Hooker was given the command, despite his idle talk about the necessity for a military dictator to win the war and a past history of criticizing his commanders. Hooker was routed by Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville (May 1863), and relieved of command early in the subsequent Gettysburg Campaign replaced by George Meade.
After the Union victory at Gettysburg, Meade's failure to pursue Lee and months of inactivity for the Army of the Potomac persuaded Lincoln to bring in a western general, Ulysses S. Grant. Grant already had a solid string of victories in the Western Theater, including the battles of Vicksburg and Chattanooga. Responding to criticism of Grant, Lincoln was quoted as saying, "I cannot spare this man. He fights." Grant waged his bloody Overland Campaign in 1864 with a strategy of a war of attrition, characterized by high Union losses at battles such as the Wilderness and Cold Harbor, but by proportionately higher Confederate losses. His invasion campaign eventually bottled Lee up in the Siege of Petersburg, so that Grant could take Richmond, and bring the war to a close in the spring of 1865.
Lincoln authorized Grant to target civilians and infrastructure, hoping to destroy the South's morale and weaken its economic ability to continue fighting. This allowed Generals Sherman and Sheridan to destroy farms and towns in the Shenandoah Valley, Georgia, and South Carolina. The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia totaled in excess of $100 million by Sherman's own estimate.
Lincoln had a star-crossed record as a military leader, possessing a keen understanding of strategic points (such as the Mississippi River and the fortress city of Vicksburg) and the importance of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing cities. He had, however, limited success in motivating his commanders to adopt his strategies until late 1863, when he found a man who shared his vision of the war in Ulysses S. Grant. Only then could he insist on using African American troops and relentlessly pursue a series of coordinated offensives in multiple theaters.
Throughout the war, Lincoln showed a keen curiosity with the military campaigns. He spent hours at the War Department telegraph office, reading dispatches from his generals. He visited battle sites frequently, and seemed fascinated by watching scenes of war. During Jubal Anderson Early's raid on Washington, D.C. in 1864, Lincoln had to be told to duck to avoid being shot while observing the battle.
Near the end of the war, Lincoln made an extended visit to Grant's headquarters at City Point, Virginia. This allowed the president to visit Richmond after it was taken by the Union forces and to make a public gesture of sitting at Jefferson Davis's own desk, symbolically saying to the nation that the President of the United States held authority over the entire land. He was greeted at the city as a conquering hero by freed slaves, whose sentiments were epitomized by one admirer's quote, "I know I am free for I have seen the face of Father Abraham and have felt him." When a general asked Lincoln how the defeated Confederates should be treated, Lincoln replied, "Let 'em up easy. Lincoln arrived back in Washington on the evening of April 9, 1865, the day Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. The war was effectively over. The other rebel armies surrendered soon after, and there was no subsequent guerrilla warfare.
Lincoln's rhetoric defined the issues of the war for the nation, the world, and posterity. The Gettysburg Address defied Lincoln's own prediction that "the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here." His second inaugural address is also greatly admired and often quoted.
In recent years, historians have stressed Lincoln's use of and redefinition of republican values. As early as the 1850s, a time when most political rhetoric focused on the sanctity of the Constitution, Lincoln shifted emphasis to the Declaration of Independence as the foundation of American political values — what he called the "sheet anchor" of republicanism. The Declaration's emphasis on freedom and equality for all, rather than the Constitution's tolerance of slavers, shifted the debate. As Diggins concludes regarding the highly influential Cooper Union speech, "Lincoln presented Americans a theory of history that offers a profound contribution to the theory and destiny of republicanism itself. His position gained strength because he highlighted the moral basis of republicanism, rather than its legalisms. Nevertheless, in 1861 Lincoln justified the war in terms of legalisms (the Constitution was a contract, and for one party to get out of a contract all the other parties had to agree), and then in terms of the national duty to guarantee a "republican form of government" in every state. That duty was also the principle underlying federal intervention in Reconstruction.
In his Gettysburg Address Lincoln redefined the American nation, arguing that it was born not in 1789 but in 1776, "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." He declared that the sacrifices of battle had rededicated the nation to the propositions of democracy and equality, "that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." By emphasizing the centrality of the nation, he rebuffed the claims of state sovereignty. While some critics say Lincoln moved too far and too fast, they agree that he dedicated the nation to values that marked "a new founding of the nation.
The Legal Tender Act of 1862 established the United States Note, the first paper currency in United States history. This was done to increase the money supply to pay for fighting the war.
During the war, Lincoln's Treasury Department effectively controlled all cotton trade in the occupied South — the most dramatic incursion of federal controls on the economy.
In 1862, Lincoln sent a senior general, John Pope, to put down the "Sioux Uprising" in Minnesota. Presented with 303 death warrants for convicted Santee Dakota who had massacred innocent farmers, Lincoln affirmed 39 of these for execution (one was later reprieved).
As a child, Lincoln was tall for his age. He reached his adult height of no later than age 21. Friends noticed his arms, legs, hands, and feet were long. Although well muscled as a young adult, he was always thin. Fragmentary evidence says he weighed around 170 pounds before the Presidency, but lost weight while in the White House. Based on Lincoln's unusual physical appearance, Dr. Abraham Gordon proposed in 1962 that Lincoln had Marfan syndrome. Lincoln's unremarkable cardiovascular history and his normal visual acuity have been the chief objections to the theory, and today the diagnosis is considered unlikely. Testing Lincoln's DNA for Marfan syndrome was contemplated in the 1990s, but such a test was not performed.
In 2007, Dr. John Sotos proposed that Lincoln had multiple endocrine neoplasia, type 2B (MEN2B). This theory suggests Lincoln had all the major features of the disease: a marfan-like body shape, large, bumpy lips, constipation, hypotonia, a history compatible with cancer and a family history of the disorder - his sons Eddie, Willie, and Tad, and probably his mother. The "mole" on Lincoln's right cheek, the asymmetry of his face, his large jaw, his drooping eyelid, and "pseudo-depression" are also suggested as manifestations of MEN2B. Lincoln's longevity is the principal challenge to the MEN2B theory, which could be proven by DNA testing.
Originally, John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor and a Confederate spy from Maryland, had formulated a plan to kidnap Lincoln in exchange for the release of Confederate prisoners. After attending an April 11 speech in which Lincoln promoted voting rights for blacks, an incensed Booth changed his plans and determined to assassinate the president. Learning that the President and First Lady would be attending Ford's Theatre, he laid his plans, assigning his co-conspirators to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward.
Without his main bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon, to whom he related his famous dream regarding his own assassination, Lincoln left to attend the play Our American Cousin on April 14, 1865. As a lone bodyguard wandered, and Lincoln sat in his state box (Box 7) in the balcony, Booth crept up behind the President and waited for what he thought would be the funniest line of the play ("You sock-dologizing old man-trap"), hoping the laughter would muffle the noise of the gunshot. When the laughter began, Booth jumped into the box and aimed a single-shot, round-slug 0.44 caliber Henry Deringer at his head, firing at point-blank range. Major Henry Rathbone momentarily grappled with Booth but was cut by Booth's knife. Booth then leapt to the stage and shouted "Sic semper tyrannis!" (Thus always to tyrants) and escaped, despite a broken leg suffered in the leap. A twelve-day manhunt ensued, in which Booth was chased by Federal agents (under the direction of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton). He was eventually cornered in a Virginia barn house and shot, dying of his wounds soon after.
An army surgeon, Doctor Charles Leale, initially assessed Lincoln's wound as mortal. The President was taken across the street from the theater to the Petersen House, where he lay in a coma for nine hours before dying. Several physicians attended Lincoln, including U.S. Army Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes of the Army Medical Museum. Using a probe, Barnes located some fragments of Lincoln's skull and the ball lodged 6 inches (15 cm) inside his brain. Lincoln never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead at 7:22:10 a.m. April 15, 1865. There is some disagreement among historians as to Stanton's words after Lincoln died. All agree that he began "Now he belongs to the..." with some stating he said "ages" while others believe he said "angels." After Lincoln's body was returned to the White House, a brain-only autopsy was performed, and his body was prepared for his lying in repose in the East Room. He was the first president to be assassinated or to lie in state.
The Army Medical Museum, now named the National Museum of Health and Medicine, has retained in its collection several artifacts relating to the assassination. Currently on display are the bullet that was fired from the Philadelphia Deringer pistol, the probe used by Barnes, pieces of Lincoln's skull and hair, and the surgeon's cuff stained with Lincoln's blood. The chair in which Lincoln was shot is on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit, Michigan.
Lincoln's body was carried by train in a grand funeral procession through several states on its way back to Illinois. While much of the nation mourned him as the savior of the United States, Copperheads celebrated the death of a man they considered a tyrant. The Lincoln Tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, is 177 feet (54 m) tall and, by 1874, was surmounted with several bronze statues of Lincoln. To prevent repeated attempts to steal Lincoln's body and hold it for ransom, Robert Todd Lincoln had Lincoln exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick in 1901.
There were few people who strongly or directly influenced Lincoln's moral and intellectual development and perspectives. There was no teacher, mentor, church leader, community leader, or peer that Lincoln would credit in later years as a strong influence on his intellectual development. Lacking a formal education, Lincoln's personal philosophy was shaped by "an amazingly retentive memory and a passion for reading and learning." It was Lincoln's reading, rather than his relationships, that were most influential in shaping his personal beliefs.
Lincoln did, even as a boy, largely reject organized religion, but the Calvinistic "doctrine of necessity" would remain a factor throughout his life. In 1846 Lincoln described the effect of this doctrine as "that the human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control. In April 1864, in justifying his actions in regard to Emancipation, Lincoln wrote, "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.
As Lincoln matured, and especially during his term as president, the idea of a divine will somehow interacting with human affairs more and more influenced his public expressions. On a personal level, the death of his son Willie in February 1862 may have caused Lincoln to look towards religion for answers and solace. After Willie's death, in the summer or early fall of 1862, Lincoln attempted to put on paper his private musings on why, from a divine standpoint, the severity of the war was necessary:
Lincoln's religious skepticism was fueled by his exposure to the ideas of the Lockean Enlightenment and classical liberalism, especially economic liberalism. Consistent with the common practice of the Whig party, Lincoln would often use the Declaration of Independence as the philosophical and moral expression of these two philosophies. In a February 22, 1861 speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia Lincoln said,
He found in the Declaration justification for Whig economic policy and opposition to territorial expansion and the nativist platform of the Know Nothings. In claiming that all men were created free, Lincoln and the Whigs argued that this freedom required economic advancement, expanded education, territory to grow, and the ability of the nation to absorb the growing immigrant population.
It was the Declaration of Independence, rather than the Bible, that Lincoln most relied on in order to oppose any further territorial expansion of slavery. He saw the Declaration as more than a political document. To him, as well as to many abolitionists and other antislavery leaders, it was, foremost, a moral document that had forever determined valuable criteria in shaping the future of the nation.
Lincoln's death made the President a martyr to many. Repeated polls of historians have ranked Lincoln as among the greatest presidents in U.S. history, often appearing in the first position. Among contemporary admirers, Lincoln is usually seen as personifying classical values of honesty and integrity, as well as respect for individual and minority rights, and human freedom in general.
Many American organizations of all purposes and agendas continue to cite his name and image, with interests ranging from the gay rights-supporting Log Cabin Republicans to the insurance corporation Lincoln National Corporation. The Lincoln automobile is also named after him. The ballistic missile submarine Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602) and the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) were named in his honor. Also, the Liberty ship SS Nancy Hanks was named for his mother. During the Spanish Civil War, the American faction of the International Brigades named themselves the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
Lincoln has been memorialized in many city names, notably the capital of Nebraska. Lincoln, Illinois, is the only city to be named for Abraham Lincoln before he became President. Lincoln's name and image appear in numerous places. These include the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Lincoln $5 bill and the Lincoln cent, Lincoln's sculpture on the Mount Rushmore, and the Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield, Illinois. In addition, New Salem, Illinois (a reconstruction of Lincoln's early adult hometown), Ford's Theatre, and Petersen House (where he died) are all preserved as museums. The Lincoln Shrine in Redlands, California, is located behind the A.K. Smiley Public Library. The state nickname for Illinois is Land of Lincoln.
Counties in 18 U.S. states (Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, West Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming) are named after Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln's birthday, February 12, was formerly a national holiday, now commemorated as Presidents' Day. However, it is still observed in Illinois and many other states as a separate legal holiday, Lincoln's Birthday. A dozen states have legal holidays celebrating the third Monday in February as 'Presidents' Day' as a combination Washington-Lincoln Day.
To commemorate his upcoming 200th birthday in February 2009, Congress established the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC) in 2000. Dedicated to renewing American appreciation of Lincoln's legacy, the 15-member commission is made up of lawmakers and scholars and also features an advisory board of over 130 various Lincoln historians and enthusiasts. Located at Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the ALBC is the organizing force behind numerous tributes, programs and cultural events highlighting a two-year celebration scheduled to begin in February 2008 at Lincoln's birthplace: Hodgenville, Kentucky.
Lincoln's birthplace and family home are national historic memorials: the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in Hodgenville, and the Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield, Illinois. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum opened in Springfield in 2005; it is a major tourist attraction, with state-of-the-art exhibits. The Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery is located in Elwood, Illinois.
1856 Republican National Convention (Vice Presidential tally):
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I haven't been able to find it online yet but I will definitely post it when I do because everyone needs to see this fight.


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The 2011 National Barbie doll Collectors Convention is the coolest spot to party in sunny Fort Lauderdale! Since our fave couple is back together, we've got them both in this Spring Break 1961 Barbie and KenGiftset created by designers Matt Sutton and Matt Trujillo. Barbie doll is ready to dance under the stars in a black and white polka dot dress with a soft turquoise sash at her waist. She wears matching blue pumps, a gold and blue necklace, and her auburn hair is tucked into a tidy updo. Ken doll sports a spiffy silver and black jacket, black pants and dress shoes, and hair in a perfect pompadour. This pair is set to celebrate Spring Break in sensational 60's style!
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My Windows 8.1 Mini-Review
After installing the prerequisite update I proceeded to install the Windows 8.1 update via the Store. This proceeded seemingly smoothly but upon booting into Windows for the first time I was greeted with a BSOD, at which point my Windows install was automatically rolled back to the previous version. For what it's worth, this process was all seamless and all my data remained intact so Microsoft deserves some credit for having a robust install procedure. After the release of the .ISO from Microsoft I tried again to update my existing Windows 8 install but encountered the exact same problem. The only solution was to opt for a clean install, at which point everything proceeded smoothly.
First Boot
Booting into Windows 8.1 I was greeted with the Windows betta fish, something that would be nice to see made a permanent inclusion. During setup I was given new options for customisation but I have to admit they were more limited than I was expecting and don't go far enough to providing users with customisation options.
The first issue I encountered with the clean install was that there were no nVidia drivers available through official channels - only via Windows Update. Not being adverse to change I proceeded to update my drivers through Windows Update but encountered a major issue - they didn't include the nVidia Control Panel, meaning I couldn't enable SLI. In the end I had to wait for an installer to be released unofficially, after which everything appeared functional. I had a few issues with stability at the beginning—right-clicking the desktop would sometimes cause the desktop to hang—but that seems to have stopped now. Using an external soundcard I installed the latest drivers from the manufacturer's website and configured them as usual. However, during gaming—and occasionally on the desktop—I experienced dropouts that required me to restart the unit, something which wasn't an issue in Windows 8.
The Start Screen
The new Start Screen is a definite improvement, especially the auto-colouring of desktop tiles - it's such a small detail but it makes such a big difference. The customisation options for the Start Screen have been expanded to include setting a different highlight colour to the background, though in order to see the results of this you can to keep going back and forth between the Start Screen and Charm Bar options. The biggest addition is the ability to use your desktop wallpaper as your background, which provides a greater degree of consistency but is not something I'd want to use on a permanent basis.
Organising multiple tiles has been made through the multi-select functionality and the group naming feature has been brought to the forefront, meaning it is now more likely to be used by your average user. Unsurprisingly this new functionality is not without usability issues, in this case right-clicking a tile will enter edit mode but unselecting it (by either left-clicking or right-clicking the same time) or clicking the empty space won't exit it - an extra click is required. The ability to rearrange groups is still hidden behind the Ctrl-Mousewheel Down command or tiny little '-' sign in the bottom right corner, meaning that most users will end up selecting and dragging multiple apps instead. While these are obviously relatively trivial issues they sour the overall experience.
Below is a comparison between the Start Screen in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.
Windows 8:
Windows 8.1:
Just in case it isn't obvious there is a considerable difference in the size of the tiles. I've made a comparison to highlight the difference:
I think this might be related to monitor scaling, as in Windows 8 it defaulted to 125% scale (which is larger than previous Windows versions) whereas in Windows 8.1 it shows as 'smaller' (it's not shown as a percentage as the scales have changed). If anyone could shed any light on this it would be appreciated.
The Store
The new Store now takes advantage of high resolution displays (in my case 2560x1600), making it a notable improvement over the Windows 8 Store. Previously about a third of the screen was unused, which not only looked terrible but impeded usability. The entire user experience has been redesigned and this is a definite success story. It may take a few moments for users to adjust to the changes but once they have they should find it a much more rewarding experience.
Hot Corners And The Charm Bar
Minor tweaks have been made to the hot corners. As well as the ability to customise their functionality the Charm Bar icons now appear relative to the corner that you trigger it from, meaning that you don't have to move your mouse as far to get to the options. The boundary box has also been extending, meaning that on multi-monitor setups it is no longer as easy for the mouse to disappear onto another monitor. As someone who experienced this issue frequently with Windows 8 it is an improvement that I wholeheartedly welcome.
Hot Corner options:
Included is the option to boot directly to the desktop, another minor addition that makes a big difference.
Below you can see the new Charm Bar, in this case triggered from the bottom-right corner (the icons appear at the top when trigger from the top-right corner).
The modified Charm Bar:
This wasn't intended to be a comprehensive review, so there is a lot of functionality that I haven't mentioned. Overall Windows 8.1 is a step in the right direction but it certainly isn't a magical fix to the problems with Windows 8. It still annoys me that snapping a Metro app leaves the majority of the screen completely blank and that clicking it takes you back to the Start Screen. And now with the variable resizing of Metro apps there's the issue that expanding a Metro app on top of the desktop will resize desktop apps and won't restore them upon close - that is horrible functionality. Hopefully Microsoft will continue to improve functionality and features before the final release.
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The stylish 4-star hotel blends in perfectly with the historical old town of Erfurt. All 141 Comfort and Standard Rooms have WIFI access. The CCH-certified hotel has eight meeting rooms with capacity to hold up 180 people. Relax in the hotel's sauna and historical restaurant. If traveling to Erfurt by car take the A71 or A4 and benefit from secure parking in the hotel's indoor car park. The main train station is 547 yards (500 m) from the hotel.


text: Don't Give Shopping the Cold Shoulder in Iceland…Fashion insider Jenia Molnar certainly has a background in top designer fashion. But Jenia also has the secret talent of being a global black belt for finding the best shopping of every kind wherever her travels take her, Iceland included. Check the distance on a map, consider a trip, but do read… The Ultimate Reykjavik Shopping Guide, with online Icelandic shopping links too!While shopping might not be the first reason you booked a plane ticket to Iceland – perhaps it's to traverse lunar-like volcanic landscapes, be mesmerized by endless waterfalls, soak in steamy geothermal pools or merely renew your charter membership in the Bjork fan club – there is plenty getting and spending to be done here. If the price of a good dinner at Fish Market hasn't eaten up all your kronur, the city center of Reykjavik lets you scratch that shopping itch with fun, elegant and/or quirky clothes and accessories. As an added bonus, the picturesque streets are great for strolling and there is always a coffee bar a few steps ahead to keep energy levels up.Published on August 13, 2009


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Jun 23, 2008
Which set did you motorize?
The four wheels in the back are all driven by two differentials and they can tilt, just like the original version. To place the driving motor, I had to remove the turntable of the the little crane.
Now my question to you is, did you combine any LEGO set with the NXT? Or did you see some nice combinations on the web? Leave a comment here with a link to the robot and I'll start a new thread in the forums if there is enough interest.
6 comments:
- me+lego=good said...
No, but I made one using peices from my NXT, Technic and Bionicle collections.
- Jun 23, 2008, 7:55:00 AM
- NXTMonger said...
Actually, I motorized that set too! I never got around to documenting/posting it though.
- Jun 23, 2008, 8:12:00 AM
- properpropeller said...
i motorized the 8292 very nicely with 1 power functions xl motor and another m motor for steering. i also had to relocate the dumper motor to clear space for the big xl motor
- Jun 23, 2008, 8:30:00 AM
Very cool! I especially like how you got it to be very compact. I actually just bought the Cherry Picker a few days ago. I should try to "NXTisize" that set...
- Jun 24, 2008, 4:29:00 AM
I purchased 8289 Fire Truck last Sunday, built it and now have a more intelligent version next to me with one servo, a Dune Buggy motor, three light sensors (2 NXT 1 RIS), Ultrasonic and RIs touch sensor and the NXT in the cab. Now on to the program...
- Jun 25, 2008, 9:00:00 AM
I installed my NXT and two motors into the set 8146, Nitro Muscle, although this is a Racer set. Nitro Muscle was mostly studless, so it was fairly easy. All I had to do is remove few pieces and add some gears and pins. It runs really well and fast because of the big wheels and nice turning mechanism. I saw other people motorize this set as well.
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The Move to Online State Testing
Online testing in Washington began in spring 2010. The Measurements of Student Progress (MSP) is now offered in grades 3-8 in reading and math, and in grades 5 and 8 in science. The writing portion of the MSP (administered in grades 4 and 7) is still offered only in paper-pencil format.
OSPI is conducting feasibility studies for online testing in high school. A decision to begin online testing in high schools will be made at a later date.
The window for online testing in spring 2013 is April 24 through May 31. Testing is one subject per day. The window is larger for online testing than it is for the paper-pencil format, which is April 24 through May 16. This is so schools can ensure all students will have an opportunity to test in the classroom or the computer lab.
Please check with your school to see if it is participating in online testing.
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MSP Tutorials
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MSP Online Tools Trainings
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Online Rollout Schedule
Online Testing System Requirements
Load Simulation
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Frequently asked questions
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Save the zip file, then extract the file to your desktop to open.
Online Assessment Information Flyer
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