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Julien's Auctions has announced Music Icons 2013, an exceptional auction event featuring a rare VOX guitar played by two legendary Beatles, John Lennon and George Harrison.
Beverly Hills, CA (March 21, 2013) -- Julien's Auctions, the world's premier music and entertainment memorabilia auction house, has announced Music Icons 2013, an exceptional auction event featuring a rare VOX guitar played by two legendary Beatles, John Lennon and George Harrison. The one-day auction to take place at Hard Rock Cafe New York in Time Square will also feature an extraordinary collection of music memorabilia including items from the Beatles, Elvis Presley, the King of Pop Michael Jackson, Bette Midler, David Cassidy, David Bowie, The Grateful Dead, Madonna, Jimi Hendrix and much more.
The rare offering of a VOX guitar played by both John Lennon and George Harrison is what rock n' roll legends are made of. The striking custom guitar built by Mike Bennett and Dickey Denney was gifted to "Magic Alex" Mardas by John Lennon in 1967. Harrison played the guitar while practicing "I am the Walrus" during The Magical Mystery Tour and by Lennon while recording a video session for "Hello, Goodbye." The spectacular piece of Beatles history is estimated to bring $200,000-300,000 and offers collectors a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own one of the rarest pieces of Beatles memorabilia ever to be offered. The John Lennon/George Harrison played Beatles guitar will be on display at The Museum of Style Icons in Newbridge Silverware in County Kildare, Ireland from April 16th – May 8th.
A custom made prototype guitar made in 1966 and played by both John Lennon and George Harrison. The guitar was built by Mike Bennett with electronics by Dick Denney of Vox guitars. Harrison can be seen rehearsing with the guitar on "I Am the Walrus" during the "Magical Mystery Tour" (September 18-24, 1967). Lennon can be seen playing it as part of the promotional video for "Hello, Goodbye" but it is not seen in the final version of the video that was released. Lennon gifted the guitar to "Magic Alex" Mardas. A plaque affixed to the back of the guitar reads "To Magic Alex/ Alexi thank you/ for been [sic] a friend/ 2-5-1967 John." According to Madras the date refers to his 25th birthday earlier that year and not the date the guitar was given to him./// The guitar body has a unique scroll design, marked "Vox Custom" on headstock. 24 fret rosewood fingerboard with rectangular inlays, mahogany hollow body, single f-hole. Electronics include: six push buttons for: Treble, bass, top boost, mid boost, fuzz and repeat; Mid boost selector control; rotary controls for Repeat speed, fuzz sustain, and volume battery; and selector switch. Neck plate with serial number 71597 believed to have been added later. This guitar was not originally designed as part of the Vox Kensington line but it has become known as such. /// The guitar has an intriguing place in Beatles history. There is the fractured relationship between the Beatles and Madras. The difference in Bennett and Denney's memories on whether there were one or two guitars built. Also the disappearance and reappearance of the guitar give it an aura of unusual mystery in Beatles lore./// The guitar is discussed by Andy Babiuk in his book "Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's instruments, from Stage to Studio" and seen in "Beat Instrumental" November 1967 which shows an image of George Harrison playing the guitar on page 24 and is included with this lot. ///LITERATURE "Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments, From Stage to Studio" by Andy Babiuk (San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2002)
Other Beatles memorabilia to be offered will include rare signed items, collectibles and novelty memorabilia including a Beatles first and a second state "Butcher" album (Estimate: $4000-6000 and $10,000-20,000), slicks, printers proofs and designs for alternate Yesterday and Today album cover artwork and images from the photo session that produced the infamous "Butcher" album cover.
A signed copy of The Beatles Please Please Me album (Estimate: $30,000-50,000) and a copy of Lennon's In His Own Write (Estimate: $20,000-30,000) both signed by all four Beatles are also among the highlights.
"It's extraordinary when you have the opportunity to offer such an amazing piece of music history as the VOX guitar played by both George Harrison and John Lennon," said Martin Nolan, Executive Director of Julien's Auctions. "From Here Comes the Sun to Hello Goodbye, this guitar is truly one of the most historical pieces of music memorabilia Julien's Auctions has ever had the pleasure of offering."
Also to be offered are items from "The King" himself, Elvis Presley. During Presley's life, he was often noted as a generous friend and entertainer. It was often that Presley would give items to fans as well as friends, including jewelry. Offered for sale is a star ring with the "E" initial given to Charlie Hodge by Elvis, who teased Hodge that he should be the "star" of the show (Estimate: $4000-6000) and a Tissot wristwatch given to the former Sheriff and Mayor of Memphis, Roy Nixon (Estimate: $6000-8000). Bill Belew, under Presley's direction, created a patriotic Eagle emblazoned cape for Presley's Aloha from Hawaii televised concert. The floor-length cape was too heavy for stage use and dragged Elvis to the ground when he tried it on. This piece of music history is highlighted in the Music Icons auction and estimated at $120,000-140.000. Other Elvis Presley memorabilia includes a Bill Belew sample belt signed by Elvis as approval on the back (Estimate: $40,000-60,000), a Hammond organ which was housed in his Graceland bedroom (Estimate $14,000-16,000) and a Hagstrom guitar from his Bel Air home (Estimate: $40,000-60,000).
Additional highlights include six trademark jumpsuits from heartthrob David Cassidy, a collection of master rock n' roll artist Rick Griffin's artwork which has become synonymous with The Grateful Dead including a working sketch of Griffin's logo for the documentary Grateful Dead: So Far (Estimate: $200-400), an oversized painting of Griffin's design used to celebrate the Dead's 25th anniversary (Estimate $5,000-7,000) and the cover art concept drawing for the book Conversations With the Dead (Estimate: $2,000-3,000), stage worn costumes from the Divine Miss M, Bette Midler, including a shocking pink hand painted costume from her Miss Millennium Tour (Estimate: $800-1,200) and a 2011 Hulaween ensemble (Estimate: $1,000-2,000) and a platinum record award for Midler's incomparable "Wind Beneath My Wings" (Estimate: $500-700).
Items given to fans from The King of Pop, Michael Jackson including a signed pillow thrown from a Paris hotel window (Estimate: $2000-4000), a stage worn hat gifted to a fan backstage (Estimate: $4000-6000), and a signed "Beat It" style jacket given to a good Samaritan after a trip to Neverland (Estimate $8000-10,000) will also be offered. A Michael Jackson jacket worn for a meeting with Nelson Mandela in 1999 (Estimate: $4000-6000) and a Michael Jackson jacket and vest purchased while the mega-star was in Oman in 2006, as well as a selection of signed, gifted and worn items along with photographs and other memorabilia round out the sale of iconic music memorabilia in a collection of over 450 items.
Music Icons 2013 will also include memorabilia and personal effects from David Bowie, Madonna, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan and many other legendary musicians offering collectors and fans from around the world one of the most significant opportunities to own a piece of music history ever offered.
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It's a whole new world. As we mark our 84th year of publishing, and my 15th year as publisher, we are re-launching our publication into the 21st century as we put a new focus on multi-media engagement with our readers.
Since affiliating with the Real Times Media family of communications companies, we are building our capacity to enhance our publication and our digital platform, as well as begin a new series of special events and editions that will bring our readers and advertisers together in new ways.
In addition to changing the format from a broadsheet to a tabular design, we will aggressively engage Atlanta's influencers and community leaders through signature events such as a Women of Excellence, Men of Excellence, Pastor's Salute, and Pancakes & Politics. The innovative Pancakes & Politics is an issues forum series that engages attendees on hot topics facing the community. It is scheduled to begin early in 2013.
Our changes are anchored by the development of a robust digital engagement platform, including a redesigned website, supported by a social media outreach program to promote more interactivity. We hope to leverage our 84-year-history, the explosive changes in digital and social media and the explosive growth of the Atlanta community to shape our next 84 years. We are excited about bringing this multi-dimensional approach to Atlanta in unprecedented ways to increase our connection to the community and establish a strong foothold for the next generation of readers and internet users. Alexis Scott, publisher

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Startups are often in a rush: bigger, better, faster. I see it all the time: businesses striving to scale, to accelerate the growth of their business as quickly as possible — consequences be damned! Scaling is certainly a goal for businesses at some point, but scaling as soon as possible isn't the answer. Scaling will require your company to use more resources. If you're not prepared, scaling too quickly can be dangerous — leading to failure instead of success.
If you haven't yet found a viable business model that will allow you to acquire customers at a lower cost than the lifetime value of that customer, you simply are not ready to scale. But you can ready your company by focusing on your finances first. Consider the following suggestions to help you to refocus your company development in a thoughtful and calculated way:
- Understand how growth will impact your cash burn. Your burn rate is simply how much capital you go through every month. Staying on top of your burn rate is essential all the time, and, perhaps, even more so when you're considering scaling. When you scale, your cash burn will be amplified. Any issues you have with your working capital requirements will be magnified exponentially. So keep a close watch on your cash-flow statement and a tight rein on your expenses. Bootstrap as much as possible to keep your business lean.
- Hire only as needed. When you scale, you will need to expand your staff to support your acceleration. But before you scale, it's a good practice to get into the habit of only hiring when absolutely necessary. Hiring is a significant cost — not only payroll, but the costs of recruiting, training, retention, etc. To cut costs, outsource as much as possible, especially non-core functions like accounting, finance, and human resources.
- Create milestones for your company. Identify target milestones, create a realistic timeline, and then manage your cash to those milestones. In some cases, this may mean that you need to raise the cash to match and support these milestones. If you've already raised cash or are bootstrapping, you'll need to reduce your burn rate so you can achieve the milestone before your cash is gone. Once your milestones are set, don't let them slip. Your main focus must be executing to these milestones.
- Get systems in place. Before scaling, make sure you have a solid infrastructure for managing financial processes. How will you manage billing and invoicing on a larger scale? Or, the bigger potential headache of payment collection? If your customer base and earned revenue are still small, that's when you need to find and establish successful systems and processes.
- Plan for cash-flow positive. If you have revenue, create a plan to help you understand how and when you'll be able to get cash-flow positive. Scaling requires an increase in cash flow. You need to be prepared to match this with earned revenue.
If you think you're ready to scale, you may be right. But before you press on that gas pedal, ask yourself: are you sure you have a viable business model, your processes are repeatable, and the market is ready? Once you scale, you'll be entrenched much more deeply in your processes and making changes will be much more difficult. So take these early days to establish your company model and processes, and gain an understanding of — and control over — your finances, before rushing to scale.


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South Asian Nations Should Work To Alleviate Poverty: PM Sheikh Hasina
Premier Sheikh Hasina on Monday stated that South Asian nations should work to eradicate the threat of poverty, hunger and illiteracy, as well as for the health of the population within the region. She made this statement while newly appointed Pakistan High Commissioner for Bangladesh Imran Ahmed Siddiqui made an opportune visit to her in her office at Ganabhaban residence in the city. Following the meeting, the Prime Minister's press secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed reporters. The prime minister stated that the fundamental principal of Bangladesh's foreign policy as outlined by the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman", is "Friendship to all, no malice to anyone". At the time of the meeting, the The High Commissioner Imran Ahmed Siddiqui said Pakistan is eager to build relations with Bangladesh. The high commissioner was presented with an unofficial copy Pakistan Premier Minister Imran Khan's message to the Pakistani prime m


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I hope you know more stuff today than you did yesterday, because today's podcast I love is going to grab your mind and take it on a journey through The Night Air.
This incredible podcast comes to us from Radio National in Australia, and they describe it as "an audio adventure in which ideas, sounds and music are remixed around a new theme each week." They also call it "a listening experience" which would seem super pretentious to me if I didn't already listen to it and agree fully with that description. The best way I can think to describe it is "the lovechild of Joe Frank and This American Life, babysat by William S. Burroughs."
I discovered The Night Air pretty much by accident, just grabbing things that looked interesting from the Podcast directory in iTunes...
Imagine that it's July 2005, and you're sipping on an Anchor Steam next to the pool at the Mirage in Las Vegas. You've just busted out of your first World Series of Poker, but you're staying in town for a few days to play in another event. This is what you see when you look around:
Half of the pool area is populated by beautiful twenty-something girls in tiny bikinis that make me wonder why they bothered to put anything on in the first place. The other half is populated with middle-aged men and their unfortunate wives who may as well be wearing housecoats. Throw in a few frat guys unsuccessfully trying to put the moves on the aforementioned beauties, and it makes for great people watching.
You remember that you have this new Podcast on your iPod, so you lay back on a lounge chair, and listen to Islands. For the next 40 minutes or so, Las Vegas vanishes as you go on a journey: "Whether caught in the crosshairs of an exact latitude and longitude or existing somewhere in a faraway place of the mind, islands seem always on the horizon of fantasy. Tonight we venture to and fro' seeking, as Captain Cook once said 'a convenient situation' where we might trade commodities and replenish our stocks for journeys new. Way off the coast of Prosaic we fetch up on the shores of Speculation Island."
I was utterly and completely captivated. I didn't even realize that my beer had gotten warm, so after quickly correcting that egregious error, I played another episode, Holes: "Is there such a thing as a bottomless hole? Do they go on forever? Do some holes have a will of their own, durable, transient, and just waiting to stave you in? This Night Air is full of holes: architecture, the body and reminiscence. We fathom a suite of works about emotional absence and gutted structures; and finally see what's at the centre of a donut."
Each show combined interviews with music and soundscapes to create something unique and remarkable. I was hooked, and I've made countless commutes endurable by leaving my body on the train and letting my mind go wherever The Night Air takes me.
Unlike all the other podcasts I've featured this week, The Night Air truly must be experienced to be appreciated. I could tell you about it until I used up all my English, and it would still be inadequate. The audio archive doesn't go as deep as it once did, so you can't listen to Islands or Holes right now, but I wil direct you to a recent episode called Once Upon A Time. "Are you ready? Then I'll begin: Once upon a time there were fairytales, stories, fables and myths ... distorted and passed down from generation to generation—some you remember and some you think you remember. This show re-tells many of them—as well as the art of telling the stories themselves—which lived on, and on, and on, sometimes happily, sometimes not but, of course, always ever after."
I hope that week's brief guide to some podcasts that I love has been informative and useful to you. I enjoyed writing these entries, so I made a new category here called Things I Love, which I plan to use for sharing…wait for it…things that I love, like board and video games, movies, beers, blogs, and other, um, things that I love in the weeks and months to come. If enough people are into it, I may even do a week of reader requests.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A spending bill that funds the U.S. government for the rest of the budget year passed the Senate on Tuesday despite complaints about nearly $8 billion in what critics called "pork-barrel" projects.
The Senate passes a bill to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year.
Senators voted 62-35 to cut off debate on the $410 billion measure and passed it on a voice vote immediately afterward.
The omnibus spending bill includes more than 8,000 congressional "earmarks," which total almost $8 billion. The earmarks have caused critics to question President Obama's pledge to end wasteful spending, but Obama administration officials said the bill is a holdover from the previous Congress.
"It is in America's best interest to close the book on the last administration and let the new one hit the ground running," said Sen. Daniel Inouye, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. See where the money is going »
But Sen. John McCain, a longtime critic of congressional spending and Obama's Republican opponent in the 2008 election, said the vote shows "business as usual" remained the order of the day.
"If the president were serious about his pledge for change, he would veto this bill. He won't," McCain said.
The bill funds the U.S. government through September, when the 2008 budget year ends. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, postponed the vote last week because he wasn't sure supporters had the 60 votes needed to break a potential GOP filibuster.
Republican critics, led by House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, have urged Obama to veto the bill because of the earmarks, targeted spending provisions inserted by Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
The measure passed the House of Representatives last week.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday called the bill a "missed opportunity."
"In the midst of a serious economic downturn, the Senate had a chance to show it can impose the same kind of restraint on itself that millions of Americans are being forced to impose on themselves at the moment. ... If the president is looking for a first bill to veto, this is it," he said.
McConnell has requested 36 "solo" earmarks -- those without cosponsors -- totaling $51 million in the bill, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense.
The group said five senators have not requested any earmarks: Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma; Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina; Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin; John McCain, R-Arizona; and Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri.
Some other senators have not requested any solo earmarks, but they have jointly requested funds with other lawmakers.
Lawmakers on Monday night defeated an amendment from McCain that would have stripped the bill of most of its earmarks.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president is planning to unveil new guidelines Wednesday aimed at cutting down on the number of earmarks that make their way into future appropriations bills.
Gibbs said Obama may sign the spending bill into law behind closed doors rather than make a public show of it. He said the president will lay out the new guidelines on earmarks as a not-so-subtle threat that he could veto future spending bills that do not comply with his objectives.
"Although it's not perfect, the president will sign the legislation but demonstrate for all involved rules moving forward that he thinks can make this process work a little bit better," Gibbs said.
Gibbs added that "over the course of the president's tenure in Washington, dozens of those bills will come to his desk" and Obama wants to make clear "that there will be some new rules of the road" for lawmakers to follow.
Top Democrats, including House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland, have suggested lawmakers do not appreciate being dictated to on an issue that is a Congressional prerogative.
Given the sensitivity of the issue with fellow Democrats, senior White House aides were reluctant Tuesday evening to preview any of the new rules the president will lay out for lawmakers. Aides would not specify whether the president would make public remarks about the new guidelines or release a written statement.
CNN's Ed Henry, Sandra Endo, Ed Hornick, Kristi Keck and Brianna Keilar contributed to this report.
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Coltsville's Big Mo May Really Be Here
East Armory: A new roof and facade help move great project forward
Hartford Courant Editorial
July 30, 2012
When Sam Colt put a blue onion dome on his factory in the mid-19th century, it was to make an impression on travelers passing on the Connecticut River. The factory is about to make a good impression again, this time on passengers by car.
The massive metal roof of the East Armory, the brick and brownstone building under the dome that adjoins I-91, is being replaced for the first time in more than a century, reports The Courant's Ken Gosselin. The work is about 50 percent completed. New windows will follow as part of a renovation of the building's facade.
The roofing work will allow tenants to move into the building, another major step in the adaptive reuse of what was once the world's largest private armory. The tenant will be two school programs run by the Capitol Region Education Council, which already has a major presence in the Colt complex. Another major tenant is headed for the South Armory. That building also has 50 apartments, with 79 more on the way.
It has been a step-at-a-time struggle for more than 15 years; the project has gone through several developers. But now the stars appear aligned to complete this great project.
The city and state are enthusiastically behind it. The state's congressional delegation, spearheaded by Rep. John Larson, has a bill to make the complex a National Historic Park, an effort that has the support of U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The current developer, the tax-credit-investing arm of oil-giant Chevron, has the resources to finish the job.
This could be a major step forward for Hartford, a magnet for tourists, scholars, residents, artists, small business owners and others. The complex is on a rail line and near the river, opening lots of transportation and recreation possibilities. It could extend downtown to the south, spurring more development. So keep your fingers crossed.
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EFCC Loses Bid To Seize Patience Jonathan's $8.4m
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday rejected an application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission seeking to seize the funds in 15 bank accounts linked to Mrs. Patience Jonathan.
The funds, which the EFCC sought to seize include a total of $8,435,788.84 and over N7.35bn.
Justice Mojisola Olatoregun rejected the ex parte application filed by the EFCC for the seizure of the funds, saying the funds were already subject to litigation before two other judges.


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Autism and anorexia have wildly different public faces. The stereotype of an autistic person is a little boy obsessed with trains or a brilliant coder with no social life, while the eating disorder victim is typically pictured as a driven young woman or girl, whose whole world revolves around presenting a carefully drawn picture of thinness and social perfection.
While stereotypes never capture the whole story, underlying both conditions is a rigid obsessiveness that appears within the first few years of life, as well as difficulties reading and responding appropriately to social signals. Not to mention, two of the major triggers for anorexia are a profound sense of alienation and sensitivity to social ranking, according to Dr. Janet Treasure, professor of psychiatry and director of the eating disorders unit at King's College in London.
Evidence that oxytocin, a brain chemical also known as the "love hormone," can help autistic people pay more attention to social cues and make socializing less stressful prompted Treasure to explore what effect it would have on anorexia. Now, three new studies of the hormone—best known for its role in bonding lovers to each other and parents to their children—suggest that it may indeed be a viable treatment for anorexia, which currently has no effective pharmacological medication and relies for the most part on therapy.
In the first study, published in Psychoneuroendocrinology, when anorexic women were given placebo and asked to look at images of food or pictures of various body parts or shapes that were either thin, fat, or not associated with weight (like eyes), they paid much closer attention to food pictures and to the fatter body shape images than the healthy control group. But when they were given intranasal oxytocin, they showed less interest in the food and shape-related pictures, making their reactions more like those of the healthy women. Moreover, the more autistic traits the women with anorexia had—for instance, a preference for repetition and sameness, strong interests, and difficulty reading people—the more effective oxytocin was at normalizing their responses.
In a second study, published in PLOS ONE, oxytocin was found to decrease the attention anorexic women paid to disgusted faces, while increasing vigilance to angry ones. "Disgust is very much a signal of not being 'in with the in crowd,'" says Treasure. "I think people with anorexia do feel those putdowns and social ranking [very intensely]." And when it comes to rage, "anorexic patients suppress anger a lot," says Treasure, "and yet, inside, they have a lot of anger and frustration."
Dr. Eric Hollander, Director of the Autism and Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Program at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, who was not associated with the study, agrees that people with anorexia often find anger unacceptable or even toxic in themselves and others. Consequently, he says, "they develop these habits where they [react to] those emotions both through restriction of food and feelings of low self worth."
Environmental exposures and experiences can affect which genes for oxytocin receptors are expressed and therefore, influence behavior. So in a third study Treasure and her colleagues looked at how anorexia affects the expression of these genes. What they discovered was that women with anorexia did have some specific variations in the expression of oxytocin receptor genes, which might reduce levels of the hormone and cause a deficiency. These changes were linked with the severity of their disorder. It's unclear, however, whether these alterations predispose women to anorexia or whether they are caused by starvation, which is known to affect gene expression.
The new studies "suggest that within anorexia, there's a dimension related to autistic-like behavior," says Dr. Hollander. Researchers like Treasure have previously suggested that anorexia might, at least in some cases, be a form of autism seen more commonly in girls. A girl with a rigid desire for sameness and an obsessive bent might be more likely to focus her interest on food restriction in a culture that prizes thinness in girls, while a boy with those same tendencies might develop more typically autistic obsessions. And some research has found that the same genes can influence risk for both conditions.
MORE: A Genetic Link Between Anorexia and Autism?
Aside from the intriguing link between autism and anorexia, all three studies point to a new direction for anorexia research that focuses on treating its underlying biology, rather than changing psychological factors. "It needs to be much more brain directed," says Treasure. "Talk therapy can only do so much."
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My friend Thane Rosenbaum is an expert on the thirst for vengeance. He just wrote an entire book about it: "Payback: The Case for Revenge."
The Fordham law professor said he gets why people in Massachusetts seem to want nothing to do with having Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the suspected Marathon bomber, buried anywhere in our midst.
"There's a difference between an ordinary crime and an atrocity," he said. "Someone went to the hardware store and picked out nails and bolts and ball bearings for the purpose of dismembering children. They knew the purpose was not just to kill but to dismember. The atrocious deserve very different treatment. They deserve to be ostracized and banished from the community."
There is hardly any precedent for the near-unanimous community opposition to his burial within their borders. For days now, his body has languished in a Worcester funeral home, as the funeral director, cemetery directors, and elected officials debate his fate.
In the aftermath of serious crime, the public usually shows little interest in where criminals go to rest. But the Marathon bombing — its pain so raw — is different. Opinion seems to be broadly sympathetic to the officials and cemetery directors who have pointedly refused to accept his remains. It has created the spectacle of a body in a Worcester funeral home, ready for burial with nowhere to go.
It isn't as though there aren't truly awful criminals already buried in Massachusetts soil. Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler, confessed to 12 murders during a crime wave that ranks among the most famous and heinous in American history. Yet he is interred at Puritan Lawn Memorial Park in Peabody. His lawyer, F. Lee Bailey, told me he doesn't recall any controversy about burying DeSalvo.
Peter Stefan, director of the Graham Putney & Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester, maintains that burying Tsarnaev is a matter of civility. Governor Deval Patrick chimed in, arguing that his burial was a "family matter," albeit one his family needs to soon settle.
Clearly the public disagrees. Arguments vary from moral revulsion to hesitation over creating a gathering place for people who somehow conclude he deserves sympathy.
Meanwhile, those who want him buried immediately fret that the longer this goes on, the greater the chance of transforming a cold-blooded killer into some kind of martyr.
What does it mean to bury someone, anyway? Is it simply a resting place that even the most demonic are entitled to as a human right? Or is a burial place a form of community, in which some are simply not fit to be neighbors?
"Who would want to be buried in a cemetery with Hitler or bin Laden?" Rosenbaum asks rhetorically. "There's nothing civilized about saying he deserves to be buried with people who lived more moral lives. The idea is to honor the dead, not to desecrate the dead. Bostonians are not ready to move on."
Perhaps the ideal outcome would be to bury Tsarnaev in his native Kyrgyzstan. Stefan has stated that his mother would like his body sent to Russia, though there doesn't seem to be any plan for accomplishing that. Tsarnaev's Uncle Ruslan, who has claimed the body, wants him buried in Cambridge
He has to be buried, but I can understand the feelings of those who resist doing it here. I want this criminal's burial to stop drawing attention from the tragedy he wrought. This is a distraction from our mourning.
What might fit the bill is a pauper's grave at a prison, where he could be interred, but out of the public view. It may be as close to justice as Tamerlan Tsarnaev is going to get.
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EMP: Airhole Facemasks Expands American Sales Rep Team
Airhole Facemasks Expands American Sales Rep Team
Two New Territories Added for Midwest and Southern California
VANCOUVER, BC January 9, 2013 – Airhole Facemasks expands the US sales team with the addition of sales representatives Steve Wikner in the Midwest and Carter Katz in Southern California.
"We're hyped to add Steve and Carter to our roster of reps in the US" says Sales Manager Joel Giddings. "Carter is a long time friend of the Airhole crew, so it was a perfect fit to get him back on the program and we welcome Steve as a new member of our family!"
NRI, the leading 3PL warehousing and shipping company in Canada and already Airhole's partner in the USA, will continue to provide logistics and warehousing. Customer service, sales, and marketing will be handled from Airhole's head office in Vancouver, B.C.
The sales representatives for Airhole Facemasks are:
Pacific Northwest (WA, OR, ID, MT)
Topher Laws
Northern California (CA, NV)
Nikki Sternin
Southern California (CA, NV, AZ)
Carter Katz
Rockies (CO, UT)
Brad Gobdel
Midwest (IL, IN, IO, KS, MI, MN, MS, NB, ND, OH, SD, WI)
Steve Wikner
New England (VT, NH, ME, CT, MA, RI)
Ken Akey
Mid Atlantic (NY, NJ, DE, MD, PA)
J Nuzzo
South East (FL, GA, AL, SC, NC, TN, VA, W.VA)
Chris Hardin
Airhole Facemasks will be exhibiting at the SIA Show in Denver, Colorado and by appointment at showrooms and rep shows across the USA.
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The Fran implementation has gone quite stale and is unlikely to work any longer. For a successor, see Reactive and FieldTrip. I'm still interested in purely functional interactive graphics, and I believe there's still lots of room for innovative work/play in the area. If you're interested in collaborative research & implementation on this topic, please contact me.
Fran is a Haskell library (or "embedded language") for interactive animations with 2D and 3D graphics and sound. It runs under Windows 95/98 and Windows NT under Hugs 98.
Here is a tutorial article on Composing Reactive Animations. (The animated GIFs total 2Mb. Please be patient. You might want to download the zip file and view it locally.) See here for a few other related publications.
See news for details on changes from one version to another, and links to zip files for all released versions.
See here for some publications on Fran. Also, check out Pan, an image synthesis and manipulation language. Roughly speaking, it does for 2D space what Fran does for time.
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FONA International Inc. has promoted TJ Widuch to the role of executive vice president and Robert Sobel to the role as vice president, research, quality and innovation.
Widuch, who began his career with FONA as its fourth employee in 1987 and was most recently vice president of the company's business units, has held positions in purchasing, customer service, operations, sales and management. He first implemented the company's business unit structure and in addition to his current roles leading the company's regulatory and grain operations, Widuch plays a key role in FONA's international growth and expansion.
Sobel, who began his career in the flavor industry at FONA in 1999 and was most recently a director of technology and innovation at the company, has launched encapsulation and taste modification platforms for the company. He has also been the chair of FONA's flavor university program since 2006, helping develop course curriculum and shape the direction of courses.
Also, FONA has added two new hires. It named Ibrahima Faye as a certified flavorist, beverage. Faye has 12 years of experience specializing in emulsions, citrus flavors, and development of Ready-To-Drink (RTD) beverages.
FONA also appointed Josh Vernoski to the role of regulatory affairs manager. Vernoski works on improving the company's raw material regulation programs, providing leadership for regulatory infrastructure and internal processes, and serving FONA's customers through the regulatory department. Prior to joining FONA, Vernoski spent five years in scientific and regulatory affairs at a large consumer goods company working closely with flavor as an ingredient as well as overall supply chain management.


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"For fundamental experimental and theoretical research on correlated many-electron states in low dimensional systems."
Background:Dr. MacDonald received his B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish Nova Scotia in 1973. He continued his studies in Physics, receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1978. He joined the research staff of the Ottawa laboratory of the National Research Council of Canada in 1981 after a period of postdoctoral research at the same institution. In 1987 he came to the United States and was a member of the faculty of Indiana University until 2000. Since 2000 he has been a Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. MacDonald has been a visiting researcher at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich, Max Plank Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and the California Institute of Technology.
Dr. MacDonalds research has mainly been concerned with the influence of interactions on the electronic properties of condensed matter. His early work was on density-functional-theory and included applications to metallic magnetism and the development of relativistic generalizations of the Hohenberg-Kohn-Sham scheme. He began work on the quantum Hall effect while in Zurich in 1982. Among other activities, he has contributed to theories of the edge state state physics of integer and fractional quantum Hall systems, to theories of the collective excitations of incompressible states, and to the theory of spontaneous inter-layer coherence in bilayer quantum Hall systems.. Recently Dr. MacDonalds research has focused on spintronics, including contributions to the theory of magnetic semiconductors, the spin Hall effect, and the influence transport currents on magnetic order parameters.
Dr. MacDonald is a Fellow of the APS and a past recipient of the Herzberg Medal.
James Langer (Chair), Paul Chu (12/06), Myriam Sarachik ('05 Recipient)(12/06), M. Christina Marchetti (V. Chair)(12/07), Mark Eriksson (12/07)


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Indiana State Police identified the suspected driver as Manuel Orrego-Savala, 37, an undocumented immigrant who is a Guatemalan citizen. Police said he gave them an alias at the scene — Alex Cabrera Gonsales — and attempted to flee on foot. Orrego-Savala was taken to the Marion County Jail, accused of driving without a license and on suspicion of intoxicated driving. He was briefly in court on Tuesday for an "advisement of rights" appearance ahead of his initial hearing, which will be held on Wednesday in Marion County Circuit Court.When Ortega-Savala appeared before the judge he was assisted by an interpreter. He questioned why he was in court, as he claimed he wasn't driving the car in the fatal crash that killed the two men, according to the court clerk. Orrego-Savala does not currently have an attorney, but one will be appointed before Wednesday morning's initial hearing.Jackson, 26, was a linebacker with the Indianapolis Colts and was a passenger in the ride-share vehicle. Jeffrey Monroe, 54, of Avon, Indiana, was the ride-share driver who also was killed in the crash around 4 a.m. Sunday.Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay will pay for the funerals of Jackson and Monroe, a team spokesperson confirmed to CNN.
Trump tweets on crash
President Donald Trump referenced Orrego-Savala's immigration status in a tweet Tuesday morning, saying it was "disgraceful that a person illegally in our country" killed Jackson. He also called on Democrats to "get tough on the Border, and with illegal immigration, FAST!"Indiana State Police said Monday they are working with the prosecutor's office to file criminal charges in Orrego-Savala's case.Orrego-Savala was deported in 2007 and 2009, according to ICE. He had entered the US illegally in July 2004 and he was convicted of driving under the influence in Redwood City, California, in 2005, ICE said."Additionally, he has many other misdemeanor criminal convictions and arrests in California and Indiana," the statement from ICE said.As part of his call for tighter immigration policy, Trump has repeatedly highlighted suspected crimes in which the suspect is an undocumented immigrant. On the campaign trail, he spoke often about the 2015 killing of Kate Steinle, a 32-year-old in San Francisco, allegedly by a man who had been deported five times previously. The man, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, was found not guilty of murder in the case.Vice President Mike Pence, the former governor of Indiana, tweeted about Jackson's death Monday, describing it as "a senseless & avoidable tragedy."
Fatal crash details
Before the crash on Sunday morning, Monroe had pulled his 2018 Lincoln to the side of Interstate 70 in Indianapolis because Jackson had become ill, according to state police. Monroe was believed to have stepped out of the car to help Jackson, police said. Both men were standing outside the car when a black Ford F-150 pickup truck drove onto the emergency shoulder and struck them and the back of the car. One of the men was thrown into the center lane. A state trooper spotted the wreckage and as he slowed to stop for the crash, he struck the body in the center lane, officials said.Both men were pronounced dead at the scene by the Marion County coroner's office. Police said Orrego-Savala was the driver of the F-150. ICE said it has placed an immigration detainer on Orrego-Savala at the Marion County Jail.A man listed as Alex Cabrera Gonsales — the alias officials say Orrego-Savala used — was arrested in March 2017 in Whitestown, Indiana, after a driving infraction, according to a Whitestown Police report. Whitestown Police confirmed that Cabrera Gonsales and Orrego-Savala are the same person.After being pulled over for failing to stop at a stop sign, he told police he did not have a driver's license but had a Mexico ID card, according to the police report. Cabrera Gonsales was arrested and accused of operating a vehicle while never receiving a license, and was handcuffed and taken to Boone County Jail for further processing.Scott Rolston of Whitestown Police said the department generally would not communicate with ICE for a typical traffic stop."After an arrest, a suspect would be brought to the Boone County Jail, where they would be fingerprinted, processed, and if ICE were to be engaged it would be at that part of the process," Rolston said.Cabrera Gonsales pleaded guilty to operating a vehicle while never receiving a license, which is a misdemeanor, according to documents provided by CNN affiliate WISH-TV. He was sentenced to two days in the Boone County Jail and was released after one day served, according to the court documents.Jackson was from Atlanta but made a home for himself with the Colts. The inside linebacker started eight games in 2016 for the Colts but did not play this past season due to an injury."Edwin was loved by all in the Colts organization," the team said. "We admired his outgoing personality, competitive spirit and hardworking mentality. He was well-respected among all with whom he crossed paths, and he will be greatly missed in our locker room and throughout our entire organization."Jackson was an undrafted free agent out of Georgia Southern in 2015. The team's head football coach, Chad Lunsford, said in a statement that Jackson represented "how a young man should live his life. He earned everything that he was given and left this world way too soon."
CNN's Chuck Johnston, Ann Roche, Athena Jones and Janet DiGiacomo contributed to this report.
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Bulls Charge Ahead
FOX Business: The Power to Prosper
The markets moved sharply higher, extending a two-day winning streak that has sent major market averages climbing more than 1%.
Today's Markets
As of 3:40 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 63.9 points, or 0.52%, to 12,233, the S&P 500 climbed 6 points, or 0.46%, to 1,316 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 10.6 points, or 0.37%, to 2,747. The FOX 50 was up 3.6 points to 925.
Optimistic corporate news, coupled with fresh data suggesting the labor market continued improve, lifted stocks.
Enterprise-software-giant Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) and consulting-firm Accenture (NASDAQ:ACN) reported better-than-expected earnings after the bell Thursday.
The broad markets shrugged off disappointing results from Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) that sent shares of the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone plunging more than 11%.
The U.S. economy expanded at an annualized rate of 3.1% in the fourth quarter of 2011, a faster pace than the Commerce Department initially estimated. Wall Street had been expecting a gain of 3%.
The report on Gross Domestic Product is a lagging indicator that doesn't take into account the effects of soaring energy prices in the first quarter of 2011.
"While consumer and business spending were both strong in the last quarter of 2010, they have already shown some signs of weakness," wrote Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, in a research note.
"This weakness may persist for a while, due to the 'double shock' of higher gasoline prices and supply-chain interruptions caused by" the disaster in Japan.
Also on the economic front, consumer sentiment dropped to its lowest level in a year, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters and the University of Michigan. Surging food and energy prices led to most of the weakness, according to the report.
Consumers' one-year inflation expectations were steady at an elevated 4.6%. Economists have been keeping a close eye on inflation expectations after the Federal Reserve has embarked on a highly expansionary, but potentially inflationary, monetary policy regime.
If expectations for future prices, and therefore the price of living, dramatically increase there is a possibility that consumers will request higher wages. Oftentimes when inflation finds its way into the wage rate, it becomes difficult to fight.
Energy prices have gyrated in recent sessions as traders eye the situation in North Africa and the Middle East.
A combination of NATO and American forces continued slamming Muammar al-Qaddafi's military in Libya. The coalition started bombing Qaddafi's forces over the weekend after the U.N. Security Council gave the go-ahead to protect civilians from violence.
Unrest continued in several oil-producing Middle Eastern countries on Friday. Syrian security forces cracked down on protests, killing at least twenty, according to a report by Al Jazeera, citing witnesses on the ground.
In Yemen, President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, agreed to step down as long as power could be transferred to "clean hands," sources told FOX News. However, thousands still marched in rallies opposing Saleh.
Sporadic protests in Bahrain's "Day of Rage" were quickly quashed by an enormous presence of pro-government forces.
Light, sweet crude edged lower by 20 cents, or 0.19%, to $105.40, but surged 3.5% as traders mulled increased risk of supply disruptions in the Mideast and North Africa. Consumers paid $3.56 for a gallon of regular gas on average nationwide, up from $3.19 last month and $2.81 last year.
In the foreign exchange markets, the euro edged 0.64% lower against the U.S. dollar and the greenback gained 0.34% against a basket of world currencies. Currencies have been particularly volatile in recent sessions as traders mull the impact of sovereign debt fears across the Eurozone, particularly in Portugal, where a bailout seems likely, according to analysts.
Gold traded lower $8.70, or 0.61%, at $1426 a troy ounce.
Corporate News
Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY) garnered approval for Yervoy, which was found to extend the life of patients with melanoma, a deadly type of skin cancer.
Ford (NYSE:F) told dealers to halt orders of cars in "tuxedo black" and three shades of red amid shortages of pigment from Japan.
Eastman Kodak (NYSE:EK) soared more than 10% after the company's Chief Executive Officer said the company could stand to gain $1 billion if it wins a patent claim against Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM).
Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad 2 goes on sale in 25 global markets today.
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) pushed back the release of the source code of its Android Honeycomb operating system, as it works to optimize the software.
Foreign Markets
Global shares drifted between positive and negative territory Friday.
The English FTSE 100 rose 0.34% to 5,900, the French CAC 40 climbed 0.09% to 3,972 and the German DAX was higher by 0.18% to 6,946.
In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei soared 1% to 9,536 and the Chinese Hang Seng jumped 1.1% to 23,159.


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D'ya know what that means? It means I am now free to work on the 1940 Census indexing project when it starts in just 12 days. Knowing myself, as I do, I knew that the indexing would become my distraction to procrastinate from working on my tax return. I knew I would inevitably end up doing my taxes April 16 & 17 (deadline is April 17 this year) and sweating it out. Never a good way to do things. This is much better. Now I can index to my heart's content and not worry about running up to the tax filing deadline. :-) So, I'm in!
I am looking forward to finding some of my family members in the 1940 Census. I don't anticipate learning anything all that earth shattering but there are few questions I'd like answers to and I think the census just might help me out.
I have another genealogy project in process. It's the one I identified as my New Year's Resolution... to transcribe some of the audio recordings I have of my mom. I struggled with this one from the beginning. The transcription work was T E D I O U S to say the least. It was very time consuming and I felt like I would never get it done. Then, after a great suggestion from some of my Google+ friends, I borrowed a foot pedal from my dear friend and that has made all the difference. I wouldn't exactly say I'm zooming through it now but the project is moving along at a reasonable pace and I hope to finish with the recordings in the next month or so.
I haven't been doing a lot of genealogy research lately but I do occasionally do an online look-up here and there hoping to find and fill in some holes in the family tree. I haven't had a lot of success but then I haven't put in a great deal of effort either. The weather here in Michigan has been soooo nice for the last week or so that I've found it hard to sit at my desk to work on my taxes, write a blog post, or do transcription. In fact, the sun is shining and it's in the 70s right now. I think I'll head outside and take Kaj for a walk and enjoy this lovely day.


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Wind-energy company sets sights on Oregon coast
Reluctant fishermen on the southern Oregon coast agreed after six months to support Seattle-based Principle Power's plans for a 30-megawatt wind energy flotilla off the waters of Coos Bay, The Coos Bay World reported (http://bit.ly/11ajuR5 ).
Nick Edwards, a representative of the fishermen's Southern Oregon Ocean Resource Coalition, said support was hard to come by.
"It's better to work with these people and be part of the process," Edwards said. "It's still not going to make a bunch of people happy.
The company plans to anchor its proposed wind farm beyond the three-mile limit, outside of state jurisdiction and under federal law. The wind energy platforms would be anchored in about 1,000 feet of water.
The company received a $4 million grant from the Department of Energy in March. The initial grant could expand to as much as $47 million. The port has named the endeavor Project Effectuate.
Kevin Bannister, Principle Power's vice president of business and government affairs, said the project is one of seven wind technology demonstrations selected by the Energy Department.
Of the seven, Principle's is the only West Coast proposal. The agency plans to narrow the list to three projects after the initial planning and test phase.
A liquefied natural gas terminal planned for the North Spit of Coos Bay would provide some cost-saving infrastructure for the project.
"This project happens on almost exactly the same timeline as Jordan Cove," Bannister said.
Bannister said the wind project would benefit from infrastructure provided by Jordan Cove Energy Project. But the company could move forward without the LNG terminal.
"Plan A is Jordan Cove," Bannister said. "Plan B is not so good. Plan B is harder."


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text: I've made a bugfix release of the hledger-web package, to fix build problems. hledger-web 0.15.1: * web: add missing Hledger.Web.Options to cabal file * web: tighten up dependencies to reduce build problems And here's another new dependency I forgot to mention: flot, the js charting library. The rest of this mail is a repeat of yesterday's announcement, since that one seriously confused google groups, gmane, and perhaps your mailreader (pro tip: don't re-edit old announcements with Mail.app's cmd-shift-d. :) -Simon Date: 2011/9/1 Subject: ANN: hledger 0.15 I'm pleased to announce hledger 0.15! This release includes work by Trygve Laugstøl, Dmitry Astapov, Clint Adams, Johann Klähn and myself. hledger is a library and set of user tools for working with financial data (or anything that can be tracked in a double-entry accounting ledger.) It is a haskell port and friendly fork of John Wiegley's Ledger. hledger provides command-line, curses and web interfaces, and aims to be a reliable, practical tool for daily use. Given a plain text file describing transactions of money or any other commodity, it will print the chart of accounts, account balances, or just the transactions you're interested in. It can also help you record new transactions, or convert CSV data from your bank. Home: http://hledger.org IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#ledger Install: cabal update; cabal install hledger [hledger-web hledger-vty hledger-chart hledger-interest] Platform-specific binaries, which are time-consuming to make and support, are now provided on request to financial donors - a great way to give back and help pay hosting costs! Best, -Simon Release notes for 0.15: * hledger's options are now modal, providing better help (using cmdargs) * hledger now lists and runs any hledger-* add-ons found in the user's path * case insensitivity of filter patterns has been fixed * parsing: `alias`/`end aliases` directives, for renaming accounts, are supported, like ledger's but a bit more powerful; also an `--alias` option for renaming on the fly * parsing: the `account` directive now preserves posting type (normal/virtual/balanced virtual) * parsing: the `pop` directive is supported as an alias for `end tag`, like ledger * parsing: `P` (historical price) directives can contain a (ignored) numeric time zone, like ledger * parsing: the leading `!` in directives is now optional and deprecated, like ledger * parsing: entries with a negative amount in the first posting now infer the correct balancing amount * parsing: bad date checking is more accurate * balance: collapsing of boring accounts to one line can be disabled with `--no-elide` * balance: fix a wrong precision regression from last release * convert: standard input can be converted * convert: an alternate rules file can be specified with `--rules` * convert: `account2-field` can be used when the CSV file specifies both accounts * convert: `description-field` can have a custom format and combine multiple CSV fields * convert: `in-field` and `out-field` support CSV files that use two amount columns * convert: don't fail when there's no default journal file * web: the web interface has been overhauled/cleaned up * web: account register views are now transaction-based, like gnucash etc., and show accurate historical balances when possible * web: simple balance charts are displayed (using flot) * web: more expressive and consistent search patterns, using a new matching engine * web: add form uses currently focussed account as default, redirects to itself, formats status messages better * web: sidebar now shows empty/boring accounts too * web: now uses warp and a newer yesod * api simplifications * importable Hledger, Hledger.Web, Hledger.Vty and Hledger.Chart modules * the basic reports are now provided by hledger-lib for easier reuse * new api use examples: `equity.hs`, `uniquify.hs` * some old base 3 support has been dropped * the old -s flag has been dropped Stats: Release contributors: Simon Michael, Trygve Laugstøl, Dmitry Astapov, Clint Adams, Johann Klähn 132 days, 314 commits, 18 end-user features and 6 end-user bugfixes since last release. 210 unit & functional tests and 55% unit test coverage (hledger, hledger-lib packages). 7642 lines of code (all packages).


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Throughout our 60 years of ministry, we've been blessed by an array of artists and speakers who, through their talents, demonstrate a passion for releasing children from poverty. In fact, many sponsors first hear about our ministry through an artist or speaker.
I was poking around the ministry archives again when I stumbled upon a commercial recording from a famous ministry spokesperson.
I had NO idea this person was a spokesperson for Compassion so I was thrilled I was when I heard her voice.
Can you think of who this famous woman could be? I'll give you three hints:
- She is considered one of the greatest women in country music
- She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- She was the wife of Roy Rogers
I know, I know, the third hint gave it away!
Yes, Dale Evans recorded a series of commercials for us in the 1970s when our offices were still located in Chicago. Here it is:
Isn't that fantastic?! I can't help but wonder how many children were sponsored due to that 14-second clip.
How about you? Did a Compassion artist or speaker introduce you to our ministry? If so, who was it?


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The Truth About Keiko's Death
On March 1st on Larry King Live, Thad Lacinak, who spent 30 years at Sea World and worked as head trainer, made the statement that Keiko died of starvation in the wild after losing more than 1000 lbs.
This statement is incorrect.
My staff and I were directly involved with Keiko and turned his care in Norway over to the Humane Society-U.S. Keiko had crossed 1,000 miles of open ocean from Iceland to Norway, feeding himself, and was not underweight at any time after his rehabilitation in Oregon. The only weight loss for Keiko was when he was in Mexico City and before his long recovery in Oregon.
Keiko died of a pneumonia-like virus, not starvation.
The issue of returning captive orcas to the wild is complex and the chances of success probably vary from orca to orca. But in any such attempt, the expense will be enormous and the process may be agonizing for both caretakers and the orca unless it is quickly accepted by a pod.
At a time when we are all looking closely at the issue of what might be the proper and humane next step for captive orcas, it is important that we all be aware of the truth about their condition in captivity. The release of Keiko was a unique and pioneering effort and we can draw valuable lessons from it.
For more information please:
- watch my video statement on Captive Orcas & the Trainer Killed at Sea World
- read Keiko's Timeline
- read my statement on releasing Captive Orcas
Warm regards,
Photo: Keiko. Courtesy Ocean Futures Society
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Police say a man who broke into Taylor Swift's beachfront mansion in Rhode Island took his shoes off because he wanted to be polite.
Westerly police who responded to the home just after 5 p.m. Friday found 26-year-old Richard Joseph McEwan inside.
Police Chief Shawn Lacey tells The Westerly Sun the Milford, New Jersey man wasn't wearing shoes. When asked why, he said he was always taught to take his shoes off when entering someone's home to be polite.
He's charged with breaking and entering and willful trespassing. Online court records did not list a defense attorney.
Lacey says his officers have had to deal with several suspicious people at the singer's home, but this is the first time he remembers someone making it inside.
He says no one was home.


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Ko Matariki e ārau ana | The gathering of Matariki | Sydney
Wed 5 June
Professor Rangi Matamua will share his detailed knowledge about Matariki and highlight connections between cultural knowledge and science.
Manawa maie te putanga o Matariki
Manawa maie te ariki o te rangi
Manawa maie te Mātahi o te tau
Hail the rise of Matariki
Hail the lord of the sky
Hail the New Year
In the past two decades Matariki has become a nationwide phenomenon, with numerous events occurring each winter to celebrate the predawn rising of this star cluster. Our modern observation of Matariki is helping to embed this celebration within the consciousness of the general public, and it is becoming part of our wider Aotearoa identity.
Professor Rangi Matamua is Associate Dean Postgraduate at the Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Waikato. He is also a leading expert on Maori astronomy, and as the author of the bestselling book, 'Matariki the Star of the Year' he travels extensively throughout the country and internationally speaking about Matariki.
Rangi will give a two hour lecture that will include images, video and animations and detailed knowledge about Matariki, sharing his knowledge and highlighting connections between cultural knowledge and science.
Royal Society Te Apārangi together with the Marsden Fund Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden are delighted to be supporting the Ko Matariki e ārau ana | The gathering of Matariki in Aotearoa and Australia.
Royal Society Te Apārangi
Building 23, Room G 30 (Lecture Theatre 4) Bankstown Campus Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW
6:00pm Wed 5 June, 2019 - 8:00pm Wed 5 June, 2019


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Why you can trust TechRadar
While other manufacturers tend to put higher pixel count sensors in their new cameras, Pentax has made an unusual move and put a larger sensor in the latest addition to its Q series of compact system cameras (CSCs). Whereas the Pentax Q10 has a 12-million-pixel, 1/2.3-inch CMOS sensor, the new Pentax Q7 has a 12-million-pixel, 1/1.7-inch CMOS sensor.
A 1/2.3-inch sensor typically measures 7.66 × 6.17mm, but a 1/1.7-inch sensor is usually around 9.5 × 7.6mm. Increasing the size of the sensor while keeping the pixel count the same should ensure improved image quality, at least at the centre of the frame, because larger photo sites gather more light, generate less noise and have a greater dynamic range.
However, the Pentax Q7 has exactly the same mount as the Pentax Q10 and accepts the same lenses, so it is possible that the corners and edges of images captured by the Pentax Q7 are softer and have more chromatic aberration and darkening.
According to Pentax UK's Stephen Sanderson, the original Pentax Q design and its compatible lenses were built with this change in mind, so image quality should be improved across the frame. We will only know for sure once we have tested a full production sample.
Another consequence of having a larger sensor is that when lenses are mounted on the Pentax Q7 the angle of view is slightly wider than when they are mounted on the Pentax Q10. The Pentax Q10 has a focal length magnification factor of 5.5x, while the Pentax Q7 magnifies the focal length by 4.6x.
The widest lens currently available for the Q series is the 3.2mm f/5.6 fisheye lens. On the Pentax Q10 this produces images comparable with a 17.5mm lens on a 35mm camera, and on the Pentax Q7 it's 16.5mm.
Meanwhile, the 5-15mm standard zoom lens, which on the Pentax Q10 is equivalent to a 27.5-83mm lens, becomes the equivalent of a 23-69mm optic on the Pentax Q7.
In addition to changing the size of the sensor in the Q7, Pentax has changed the filter over it and, following the current vogue, there is no anti-aliasing filter. This should enable the camera to produce sharper images, with more detail - albeit with the increased risk of moiré patterning.
There's still a dust reduction mechanism that makes the infrared filter vibrate to reduce the need to clone out dust marks from images captured by the Pentax Q7.
Like the Pentax Q10, the Pentax Q7 is designed for use by novices as well as enthusiast photographers, and consequently it has the usual program, shutter priority, aperture priority and manual exposure modes, in addition to an automatic option and 21 scene modes.
The combination of the new sensor and the Q Engine has enabled Pentax to give the Q7 a maximum sensitivity setting of ISO 12,800. The start-up time has also been improved, and it now takes approximately one second to boot up.
Pentax also claims to have improved the focusing accuracy in low light situations.
As before with the Pentax Q10, the Pentax Q7 as a Shake Reduction (SR) system, but this has now been upgraded to enable you to shoot handheld images at up to three stops slower shutter speed than normal.
The Pentax Q7 is capable of recording raw and JPEG files, and there are 11 Custom Image options - namely Bright, Natural, Portrait, Landscape, Vibrant, Radiant, Muted, Bleach Bypass, Reversal Film, Monochrome and Cross Processing - to give JPEG files a particular look.
There's also a number of digital filter effects, including Toy Camera, High Contrast, Shading, Slim, HDR, Invert Colour, Extract Colour, Watercolour, Posterization and Fisheye.
Having a slightly larger sensor than the Pentax Q10 should mean that it is easier to control depth of field with the Pentax Q7, but it still has the Bokeh control first introduced with the original Q. When this mode is selected the camera applies additional blur to out of focus areas to simulate the effect of having a wide aperture and a large sensor.
Other headline features of the Pentax Q7 include a maximum continuous shooting speed of 5fps, Eye-Fi SD card compatibility, a three-image HDR mode, a multiple-exposure mode, remote control receptors on the front and back panels and a digital level that indicates when the horizon is correctly aligned.
Build quality and handling
The Pentax Q7 is small and neat, and feels nicely made - although as before, there's no sealing against dust or moisture. It is constructed from engineering plastic, but still feels pretty durable, and the narrow finger-grip provides good purchase.
The pop-up flash, however, still seems a little flimsy.
There's no getting away from the fact that those with large hands will find the Pentax Q7 a little on the fiddly side, but the controls are sensibly arranged on the whole, and the dials enable you to make quick adjustments.
A dial on the top of the camera gives you access to the exposure modes, Bokeh control and video mode, enabling you to make rapid changes. Those who want to shoot snippets of video here and there, however, may find it frustrating that recording can't just be started from any exposure mode with a press of a button.
A dial on the front of the camera provides access to one of five functions, including the focus method, Focus Peaking and the ND filter. You can set the different functions that the dial controls via the main menu.
Within easy reach of the thumb is a scrolling dial which controls different functions, depending on what exposure mode you're in at the time. So, for instance, when shooting in aperture priority, you use it to alter aperture. When in fully manual mode, you can switch between aperture and shutter speed by pressing the exposure compensation button.
There's also a traditional four-way navigational pad on the back of the camera. From here you can directly access some of the key settings you'll probably want to change frequently, such as sensitivity (ISO) and white balance.
Changing the autofocus point is a relatively easy process, despite the fact that the Q7 doesn't have a touchscreen. All you need to do is press the OK button in the centre of the navigational pad, and then use the directional keys to move aorund to the point you require. A touchscreen would have made this process quicker, but with only 49 points clustered around the centre of the frame, it's not too slow a process.
To access other settings that you might want to change fairly often, you can press an info button on the rear of the camera which brings up a sort of quick menu which contains settings such as metering, file format and aspect ratio. The settings contained within this menu can't be changed though, which is a shame if you find yourself not using any of them.
A final button which deserves a mention is the green button just above the navigational pad. This is a quick way to reset certain settings – for instance if you are altering exposure compensation, a quick tap of the green button will reset it +/- O, saving you have to scroll though the whole range.
One particularly useful feature of the Q7 is that it will show you how an image is going to look when you make changes to certain settings, by displaying whichever photo you took last as if it had used that setting. It's a handy way to quickly tell if the setting you're choosing is correct, perhaps even more so when switching between different colour spaces or digital filters.
When focus peaking is activated and you're using manual focus, then white highlights will be shown on screen to indicate when focus has been reached. It's a helpful feature and makes it easier to focus correctly, but it would have been nice if different colours could have been selected as it's not always easy to see white highlights if you're photographing something pale or quite bright.
Despite the camera's small size, it still has a full sized SD card slot, unlike the micro SD slots of other small compact system cameras such as the Samsung NX Mini or the Nikon J4. This is good news if you already have a slew of SD cards in your arsenal.
Like the Pentax K-50 introduced at the same time, the Pentax Q7 is available by special order in one of 20 different body colours, with a further choice of different grip colours. So if you want a pink and blue, orange and lime, green and lilac or blue and brown camera, you're in luck.
The standard colours in the UK, however, are black, silver and yellow, with matching kit lenses. The standard prime lens is also available in the same 20 colours as the Pentax Q7 body. The price of the Pentax Q7 and the new Q lens is yet to be confirmed.


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Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman, politician and philanthropist. Since 2002, he has been the Mayor of New York City and, with a net worth of $18.1 billion in 2011, he is also the 13th-richest person in the United States. He is the founder and eighty-eight percent owner of Bloomberg L.P., a financial news and information services media company. A lifelong Democrat before seeking elective office, Bloomberg switched his registration in 2001 and ran for mayor as a Republican, winning the election that year and a second term in 2005. Bloomberg left the Republican Party over policy and philosophical disagreements with national party leadership in 2007 and ran for his third term in 2009 as an independent candidate on the Republican ballot line. He was frequently mentioned as a possible independent candidate for the 2008 presidential election, which fueled further speculation when he left the Republican Party. There was also speculation that he would run as a vice-presidential candidate. Bloomberg did not, however, seek the presidency nor was he selected as a running mate by any of the presidential candidates. In the fall of 2008, Bloomberg successfully campaigned for an amendment to New York City's term-limits law, in order to allow him to run for a third term in 2009. Bloomberg won the election on November 3, 2009. |


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DEAR ABBY: In response to the letter from "Family First in Florida" (Nov. 3), it's no wonder her son and daughter-in-law want some peace and quiet when their new baby arrives. Grandma-to-be appears controlling, entitled and someone who will be more of an endurance test than a helping presence. They are right to set kind, yet firm, boundaries with her.
I wanted privacy during and after childbirth, and I'm grateful my mom and MIL respected our wishes. I needed time to establish a nursing routine, heal and get to know my baby before I was ready to host overnight guests.
My kids' grandmas both have strong, loving relationships with their grandkids, so please remind "Family First" she's not missing out on anything. She'll still get to be a doting granny, but for now she should back off and remember the arrival of the child is not about her. -- EXPERIENCED MOM IN OMAHA
DEAR MOM: I'm pleased everything worked out well for you. That woman's letter hit a nerve with my readers. A sampling of their comments:
DEAR ABBY: I had the same vision of being there when my grandkids were born. However, my kids have not involved me the way I imagined.
"Family First's" son is putting his family first, as he should. He and his wife have chosen what they feel will make the smoothest, least-stressful launch for their new family, and he is protecting that plan. If she doesn't respect her son's right to make that decision, she risks jeopardizing her future relationship with him, his wife and the grandkids.
The essence of a mother's love is sacrifice. It's time to put aside her dreams and help her son fulfill his. -- SUZIE IN OLYMPIA, WASH.
DEAR ABBY: The new parents are greatly misinformed about the importance of having grandparents around just before and immediately after the birth of a new baby. It helps to have a family member in the waiting room to update other family and well-wishers so Dad can devote full attention to the new mom and baby.
My mother was a godsend, taking care of everything while we bonded with our child. She did the cooking, the chores, and gave us needed breaks during the day so we were able to tolerate night feedings. When our second child arrived, she helped with our older one.
Childbirth is difficult. I don't think this new mom realizes she won't be able to do it all. -- SHANA IN LOUISIANA
DEAR ABBY: Has "Family First" considered that her daughter-in-law's mother may be coming? Unfair as it may seem, in cultures around the world, the role of the paternal grandmother is far different than that of the maternal grandmother. -- KNOWS FOR SURE IN KENYA
DEAR ABBY: My son and DIL told everyone, including the other grandparents, who live near them, they wanted no visitors for at least six weeks. That sad grandma needs to brush up on her Skype and Facetime skills so she can see them frequently on her computer and phone. We do this with our kids.
In the first year, the baby learned our voices and saw our faces often. When we met again, it was like we'd always been there. -- COMPUTER GRANNY
DEAR ABBY: While she isn't invited to be there for the birth of her first grandchild, I'm sure her son and DIL will be begging her to come for the next one. After a week of no sleep, they are going to wish they had told her yes this time! -- GRANNY IN ILLINOIS
DEAR ABBY: When I declined my mother-in-law's offer to help out when my son was born, she paid to have a catering service deliver daily three-course dinners for two weeks so I wouldn't have to cook. It was the best gift I ever received, and I love her for it! -- LISA IN NORTH CAROLINA


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This picture explains the ideas of "atomic mass" and "atomic number". The carbon atom (14C) nucleus on the top has 6 protons plus 8 neutrons. It has an atomic number of 6 (the number of protons).
Its atomic mass is 14 (the number of protons plus neutrons). Tritium (3H), an isotope of hydrogen, is shown on the bottom. It has 1 proton plus 2 neutrons in its nucleus. Tritium has an atomic number of 1 and an atomic mass of 3.
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Piece of children's book reflects the loss in Oklahoma town
(CNN) -- The lone, tattered page from a decimated children's book sat quietly amid the rest of the rubble. But the words spoke volumes about the pain and nostalgia in the city of Moore:
"I remember my old house,
Its rooms so bright and wide.
Its halls will echo for all time,
With the laughter heard inside."
Mark Toney found the battered page while volunteering with LifeChurch.TV.
"It more than likely came from a house that had been demolished," said fellow volunteer Jared Bowie, who was with Toney at the time. "Then I thought about how many houses were full of laughter and memories."
At least 12,000 homes were damaged or demolished from Monday's abysmal tornado, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett said. The twister killed 24 people, including 10 children, and injured 353 in central Oklahoma.
With everyone missing now accounted for, the daunting road to recovery is underway.
Throngs of volunteers have come to Moore to help. Each has a poignant tale about the breadth of the human condition.
Juan Olivo started searching for survivors as soon as the storm passed. He documented the search on video.
"Is there anybody here?!" he bellowed as he walked past heaps of debris.
In the distance, deep under a mound of shredded lumber, a man's voice replied: "Here!"
Olivo and other volunteers raced to the wreckage.
"We're gonna get you out!" Olivo told the man.
He later told CNN's iReport he was stunned at the discovery.
"The odds of me filming and capturing this man cry out for help is one (in a) million, and I'm happy he is alive," Olivo said.
Demands for storm shelters
Of the 10 children killed by the tornado, seven were inside Plaza Towers Elementary School. The twister crushed the school and reduced it to pieces.
Kyle Davis, 8, was one of the victims.
"I am angry to an extent. I know the schools did what they thought they could do but with us living in Oklahoma, tornado shelters should be in every school," Kyle's mother, Mikki Dixon Davis, told CNN's Kyung Lah.
Her daughter, who was also at Plaza Towers when the storm struck, survived.
"There should be a place that if this ever happened again during school that kids can get to a safe place," Davis said. "That we don't have to sit there and go through rubble ... and may not ever find what we're looking for."
Moore Mayor Glenn Lewis said he would push for a law requiring storm shelters or safe rooms in new homes.
"What we will do is get the stakeholders here in the city ... and we'll discuss what we think we need to have," Lewis said.
"Anybody that lives in any tornado area should have (a storm shelter), but it's just the matter of cost."
Custom homebuilder Mike Barnett said an above-ground shelter runs $8,000 to $10,000; a small basement would cost $15,000 to $20,000; and a concrete cellar built during new-house construction would cost as little as $2,200.
Looking ahead
On top of the human toll and grief, the cost of the tornado's destruction is astronomical.
Insurance claims from the area are likely to exceed $2 billion, said Kelly Collins, a representative of the Oklahoma Insurance Department.
But the Federal Emergency Management Agency is in "good shape" to support the recovery in Oklahoma and other disaster zones, such as New Jersey and New York after Hurricane Sandy, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate said.
"We got full allocation last year with the Sandy supplemental funds," Fugate said. "We are looking to continue the response here as well as the previous disasters."
But "if we have another hurricane, we may need more money."
As Moore continues its arduous recovery, Bowie pondered the page from the children's book. It shows a charming yellow house set atop lush green landscape.
He said it doesn't just allude to the joy now lost after the storm.
"It reminds me of the laughter and memories yet to come in the new houses that will be built," he said. "The memories are truly found in the heart, not the house."
CNN's Christina Zdanowicz, David Williams and Tom Watkins contributed to this report.


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My wife asked me to write the foreword to her first book. Here's what I wrote:
The Road Less Taken
"But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." Matthew 7:14 (NIV)
This is the story of the road less taken.
Are you being herded along the highway of conventional wisdom, jostled by every whim and worry? Are you marching lockstep with hordes of unhappy people to destinations unknown? Are you starting to question where you are going? Why you are going there? And how come everyone seems so miserable along the way?
Then push your way to the edge of the crowd. You may have a bit of a struggle because everyone is packed in so tightly. You may step on some toes. You may get some angry looks as you squeeze by. You may even hear a few harsh words muttered in your direction. Just apologize and keep moving.
Once you break free of the masses, look down the little knoll into the meadow below. Can you see the narrow trail of pushed-down grass cutting through the field of green? Let your eyes follow it until it disappears into the golden wood. Now look at the forest. See the trees as they sway gently in the breeze. Notice the glint of sunshine in the distance, perhaps from a hidden lake, and the little wisp of smoke rising as though from a single chimney.
Turn back around and look at the crowd. Most of the people are expressionless, sullenly tramping along. Some are angry, shoving and elbowing their way forward along the giant conveyor belt that reaches to the horizon. Here and there you see an occasional smile. Your previous companions have moved on and are disappearing into the distance.
Now you face a decision. Do you rejoin the crowd or follow that little grassy trail to see where it leads?
This book is a letter home from someone who took the little grassy trail.
It has been my privilege to hold the author's hand and walk side by side with her along that trail for the past twenty-two years. Nothing you read here is hypothetical. It is all very real. She has lived out daily every single bit of advice she gives. Although it is packed with scientific studies and Scripture references, her book is as much a journal as anything else: a very personal answer to the question, how do you make it all work?
In fact, this book is just the first of a three-part series answering that very question. Each installment is written in the spirit of Titus 2:3-5, which tells older women to encourage younger women to "love their husbands, love their children, and to be workers at home." The series gives a detailed description of what each of these three imperatives looks like in a modern context. This first book deals with successful husband-wife relationships. The second book addresses meaningful parent-child relationships. And the third gives practical advice on managing a home.
When you read these books, you will be challenged to step outside your comfort zone. You will be asked to be more than what you are, maybe more than what you think you can be. As you follow some of the advice, you may find yourself frustrated, skeptical, and possibly a little afraid. From time to time, you may even look back over your shoulder, across the meadow, at the slowly marching crowd and wonder if you made the right decision.
Fear not. What awaits you at the end of the trail is well worth it. I've been there. I know.


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How black wallpaper can save your Android battery
Most people know the display is one of the most battery-hungry elements of any smartphone, but what they don't know is that the wallpaper they choose – yes, wallpaper – can make a significant difference to battery life. A pure black or generally dark-colored wallpaper or background can actually save power over a lighter one. It just depends on the type of screen you have.
First off, we need to share a bit of display technology information. In the smartphone market, the majority of displays are either AMOLED or LCD. I won't go into too much detail, but if you want to know more (and which one is better for what), you can check out our Smartphone screens explained article. If you just want the black wallpaper, skip ahead to the bottom of the article.
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- LCD screens, how do they work?
- AMOLED sceens and true black
- How to save battery on LCD and AMOLED
- Extra battery life tips for AMOLED screens
- Get a black wallpaper now
Display tech explained: LCD
LCD stands for Liquid Crystal Display and it's the same kind of technology you'll find in your televisions, monitors and so on. As the name suggests, Liquid Crystal Displays are actually crystals, and as such, they don't emit light of their own but rather transmit light from a light source behind them.
This means that even if you're looking at black on your smartphone or tablet screen, it is actually black lit up from behind. Therefore, LCDs don't really display 'true' black. The LG G7 THinQ has an LCD display, as does the HTC U11 Plus, Huawei Mate 10, and Sony Xperia XZ2.
LCDs are also quite power hungry, because every pixel needs to be illuminated whenever the screen is in use.
Display tech explained: AMOLED and OLED
AMOLED stands for Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode and it is also used for televisions screens but more notably, for smartphones. OLED displays are similar, but do not use an Active Matrix.
Samsung displays, for example, are usually AMOLED: the Galaxy S10, Galaxy Note9, Galaxy S9 for example, all use an AMOLED display, as does the Google Pixel 3.
The screen is made up of organic material that actually produces light when a current is passed through it – electroluminescence. AMOLED displays are easier on your battery because every pixel is not always lit up. They also show 'true' blacks because there is no back-lighting.
Battery life: AMOLED vs LCD
You can probably see where this is going: if you have an AMOLED display then you can save some battery life by using black wallpapers, or generally darker wallpapers and themes.
Our friends at XDA Developers did a little experiment and figured out that you can save about 6 percent battery life per hour at 20 percent brightness by using a black wallpaper on an AMOLED display, and about 8 percent per hour at full brightness.
These results are based on an always-on screen, but the basic theory holds up even if the figures are not exactly set in stone. Another tester using a different method came up with a general 18 percent saving over the course of a day.
What about LCD battery saving wallpaper, I hear you ask? Sorry, LCDs rely on back-lighting, so there's nothing you can do to save battery there.
The only thing you can do is set your device to Battery Saver mode and try not to turn your screen on all the time. Keep your display brightness as low as possible and your screen timeout nice and short.
The good news is you can have the brightest colored wallpaper and themes imaginable and it won't make a difference to your battery. Just think about that when you look at the gloomy screens of AMOLED owners clinging to their extended battery life (just don't stray too far from a charger while you gloat).
Other battery life tips for AMOLED screens
There are other things AMOLED owners can do to maximize their battery life, such as setting as many app themes to be as dark as possible.
If you can change the appearance of a bunch of apps you use frequently, you can save even more battery life. After all, we spend more time in apps than on our home screens. You can also set your text and email preferences to have a black background and use white text, depending on your device and chosen apps.
The easiest way to figure it out for yourself is to fully charge your device as is and wait until it's almost totally dead and look at how much of your battery was used by the display. Just go into Settings and look for Battery, usually in the Device Settings/Device Maintenance section.
Make a note of the percentage your display has used up, then while recharging your phone, switch to a black wallpaper and repeat the cycle to see the difference.
Give me black wallpaper now!
To download a straight black wallpaper for your smartphone background, hit the link here, and don't forget to change your app themes to be as dark as possible to enhance the battery-saving effects.
You can also set a darker system-wide theme for your device, change your screen timeout setting to be as short as possible, enable power saving mode, turn off auto-brightness and see how great the battery savings are.
Of course, your battery is used by more than just display, so results will be dependent on your phone usage habits, processor and other variables, but the savings will still be worthwhile.
Did these black wallpaper tips save you some battery life? Do you have any other tips for conserving battery life? Share them with us in the comments!