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College Admissions Expert Elizabeth Levine: ACT vs. SAT
What is the difference between the ACT and the SAT?
I frequently get asked the question, how does the ACT exam differ from the SAT? Before I review their basic differences, it used to be that the SAT dominated in the number of students who took this exam over the number that took the ACT. For the first time this past season ACT test takers have out numbered those that have taken the SAT.
I would say, with little exception, colleges will take the scores from either the SAT or the ACT with writing. Given the news about the SAT making the essay optional beginning in 2016, the writing portion of the ACT being required by some colleges may change over time. Checking each individual college's requirements is what anyone should do to ensure they are in full compliance with what the college needs to evaluate your application.
How do the tests differ? I've outlined below the primary differences below:
+ A content-based exam/subject based exam. You will have to had learned some things in school to potentially do well on this exam. This exam rewards those who have mastered the curriculum
+ Less coach-able and more study based. You can study for the ACT from the subject matter you were taught in high school in addition to other tools that facilitate increased subject knowledge
+ Limited dependence on vocabulary and more emphasis on achievement, which favors students with more limited English proficiency
+ ACT subjects include English, Math, Reading, Science Reasoning and an optional writing section
+ A problem-solving exam. This means that you may do well on the SAT if you're a good test taker and can solve problems given new information
+ More coach-able in the short term. Problem solving strategies are necessary in the multiple choice format
+ This exam favors students who are more problem solvers and potentially academic underachievers
+ SAT subjects include Critical Reading, Math and Writing, which becomes optional Spring 2016
It will be interesting to see, beginning in 2016 with the new SAT, how the above differences will change. Now that the new SAT will no longer penalize you for selecting an incorrect answer, vocabulary that is more commonly used and the essay being optional, the two exams may become more similar than they are today.
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How did you get started in the software development field?
In the mid-eighties, the automation of the Integrated Circuit design process was in its infancy. As a newly graduated engineer at TRW's LSI Products Division, I became involved in evaluating and recommending the use of software for logic and circuit design. I then became the Product Marketing engineer in charge of Electronic Design Automation for AMCC, a semiconductor start-up company where I eventually became vice president of Systems Interface Products. In the mid-nineties, I was tapped to run marketing for a division of Synopsis, now the industry's electronic design tool leader. I later co-founded Tensilica, a Silicon Valley-based software and semiconductor intellectual property supplier. I became Reaction Design's chief executive officer in 2005.
How did the company get started?
Reaction Design was founded in 1995 by Dr. David H. Klipstein, former senior vice president of Technology and Marketing at Biosym Technologies (now Accelrys). Initially, the company focused on contract and services work in chemical and materials processing. In 1997, the Department of Energy (DOE), which was looking to commercialize work done with government funds, selected Reaction Design to be the exclusive developer and distributor of a suite of analytical software modeling tools called Chemkin.
Chemkin was originally developed at Sandia National Laboratories and used to predict behaviors and byproducts of combustion in a number of applications. It is now widely recognized as the de facto industry standard for chemical kinetics simulation and is the core of Reaction Design's product portfolio.
What market does your company serve?
Reaction Design develops software and chemical mechanisms to support the transportation, power and materials industries. Our customer base includes major automotive, truck, aircraft, rocket vehicles as well as power generation with gas turbines, boilers, burners and incinerators.
Petroleum and alternative fuels producers also use our software and expertise to design fuels while materials manufacturers developing electronic chips, glass coatings, and other processes involving chemical vapor deposition or atomic layer deposition use them to improve their production quality and reduce the use of expensive chemical reagents. The world's largest gas turbine manufacturer for aircraft and power generation uses [our] software to develop new low emissions designs with reduced developmental cost and improved time-to-market.
Is most of your company's work in making petroleum fuel uses more efficient and with fewer emissions?
Combustion is a core competency and primary focus at Reaction Design. We are involved in helping our customers improve efficiency, lower emissions and increase fuel flexibility of both petroleum and alternative, carbon-neutral biofuels.
Can a company use Chemkin to determine whether a biomass-based fuel would work in a conventional vehicle engine and then help measure its emissions? Please explain. Is that what the FreedomCar project is about?
Automotive engine and fuel companies can use the combination of Chemkin, Chemkin-CFD, and the validated fuel models developed in the DOE's project to determine how well different biomass-based fuels and fuel blends will work in conventional engines or in new engine designs. The detailed chemical kinetics modeling approach allows determination through simulation of ignition timing and emissions that will result from different modes of operation with different fuels. It can also be used to determine knocking behavior, and to manage tradeoffs between these different design issues. The FreedomCar project has been focused on developing validated fuel models specifically for biodiesel fuels.
The Model Fuels Consortium is almost 4 years old. How many members does it have and what has it accomplished so far?
The Model Fuels Consortium has reached 17 members. We've developed master detailed chemical mechanisms and associated mechanism reduction tools to help transportation industry companies design better engines and fuels.
What are some of your company's challenges in the present economy?
The challenge for Reaction Design, and in fact for industry as a whole, is to recognize that the current situation is only a temporary one and that the important issues surrounding our carbon-based economy must still be tackled. The sooner, the better.
Who do you consider your competitors?
We have a very unique combination of individuals with specialized skills in our company and as such, we don't find many direct competitors in the market.
Is your modeling software expensive and how long before users can expect a return on their investment?
The cost per seat of software is many orders of magnitude less than the cost of field failures or even the costs of product testing. A typical return on investment for our customers is directly proportional to how many tests we can help them eliminate with better predictability of key product characteristics over the entire range of expected operating conditions.
I have seen references to Chemkin being shelved for a few years before the company formed—was this a case of the technology being ahead of a developed market? In what ways do you still partner with Sandia National Laboratory?
The technology was developed under a DOE contract in conjunction with the development of rocket engines. In the late '80s, early '90s, it was still an expert tool, with a fairly narrow focus. In the early to mid-'90s scientists at Sandia broadened its applicability with some work in the microelectronics materials space. Since transferring the responsibility for further development of Chemkin to Reaction Design in the late '90s, collaboration with Sandia has continued on both a formal and informal basis.
Have you completed the NASA-funded project to develop jet fuel models? Do you know if NASA will make the models available to industry?
Yes, we have completed the project and as a result have some well validated alternative and conventional jet-fuel models that should be very useful in exploring fuel effects on combustion and emissions behavior. We plan to submit an article for publication in a peer-reviewed scientific journal that describes the results in detail, pending NASA's approval. Our expectation and understanding is that NASA intends for these models to be publicly available.
I'm interested in your University program. How is the participation in that area? Do you consider your software modeling products as an industry standard?
Reaction Design continues a strong collaboration with many academic institutions. We have over 500 academic licensees worldwide. Chemkin has become an important educational tool in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering and chemistry curricula. We also provide a variety of expert training in areas of combustion.
Reaction Design is the exclusive developer and distributor of Chemkin and http://www.reactiondesign.com/products/open/chemkin-pro.html Chemkin-PRO software, the de facto standard for modeling and simulating gas phase and surface chemistry. It is the most widely cited and validated kinetics software today.
Where do you see your company in the next five years?
Today, Reaction Design's world-class engineers, chemists and programmers have expertise that spans multi-scale engineering from the molecule to the power plant and from the internal combustion engine cylinder to the chemical vapor deposition machine in a solar cell manufacturing plant. [The company] serves more than 400 customers in the commercial and government markets and its unique academic licensing program engages hundreds of university researchers and students each year.
Reaction Design will continue to be at the forefront of efforts to re-fashion our carbon-based economy. With our combination of unique skills, we will lead in the understanding and analysis of the combustion and materials processes upon which we all depend. Our tools and expertise will help our customers develop innovative products and approaches that address the important global challenges we face.
Company statistics: Privately held, San Diego headquarters, with offices in Japan and Germany. Size: 30 employees Customers: Fortune 500 companies, with a focus on electronics material processing, automotive engine design and electric power generator design. Mission: To "empower transportation manufacturers and energy companies to achieve their clean technology goals with a comprehensive and easy-to-use set of software simulation tools, chemical models and expert consulting services." Primary products: Chemkin software enables the simulation of complex chemical reactions. It helps engineers and scientists "visualize" the effects of chemistry inherent in their products and predict important parameters like ignition delay, engine stability and pollutant emissions.
Energico is a system-design simulation tool specifically developed for gas turbine, industrial boiler and furnace manufacturers. It works with Chemkin-PRO to allow a straight-forward and efficient means of simulating the combustion process, operating parameters and pollutant byproduct emissions on the designer computer. It can save significant amounts of development and testing time when compared to traditional physical prototype testing approaches. In the news: Dec. 2008 -- Connect, a San Diego technology accelerator, named Reaction Design's Energico, a software application for design of low-emission engines for power generators and vehicles, as one of 2008's most innovative new products.
Sept. 2009 – Reaction Design is named a finalist in the Clean Technology category of TechAmercia's (formally AeA) 15th annual San Diego High Tech Awards.

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A San Rafael teenager charged with a drive-by shooting in Mill Valley and a $200,000 car theft in San Francisco was granted a four-month trial delay Friday.
Max Wade, 18, was scheduled to begin trial in May, but his lawyer said he needed more time to digest 15,000 pages of new material released recently by the district attorney's office. The material is a summary of 44 gigabytes of data investigators took from Wade's cellphone.
Defense attorney Charles Dresow said he has only been able to read 4,000 pages of material so far. The electronic data include "pictures, videos, emails, social media downloads, web browser data, call logs, and various forms of electronic chats," he said.
Dresow said some of the electronic files could not be opened by either him or the prosecution, and investigators are trying to get the hard drive repaired.
"Due to the nature of the information contained on the hard drive counsel needs to review the entire contents before trial," Dresow wrote in a motion for a trial delay.
Judge Kelly Simmons agreed to push the trial until September.
Wade remains in custody in lieu of $2 million bail.
Wade was arrested last year after an investigation by the Marin County Sheriff's Office. Authorities allege that he tried to kill a teenage couple in a drive-by shooting last April because the girl had rejected him romantically.
After investigators identified Wade as the suspect and placed him under surveillance, they tailed him to a storage facility in Richmond. They arrested him there, searched the storage locker and seized weapons, ammunition, fake IDs for three states, radio-jamming equipment, a replica police uniform and a stolen $200,000 yellow Lamborghini.
The car, which belonged to restaurateur and TV chef Guy Fieri, was stolen from a San Francisco dealership in 2011 after the thief rappelled from a high window to the showroom floor, authorities said.
Wade, who spent part of his childhood in Tiburon, has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder, vehicle theft, burglary and other crimes. Although the alleged crimes occurred before he turned 18, he was charged as an adult.
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We hear so much these days about agile enterprises and agility in software, but what does that mean? An agile enterprise responds quickly to unexpected opportunities, buys companies and spins some off. It changes the product line to accommodate surprise trends, and can change its business processes almost overnight. While the spirit may be agile, the constraining element is invariably the underlying IT infrastructure's ballast. The word "ballast" is defined as a heavy material used to enhance stability. That was definitely important in the late 1990s and early 2000s when companies needed to consolidate their disperse infrastructures and applications. The integration architectures that are prevalent today came from that era, but the ballast has outlived its usefulness. Organizations simply cannot be responsive when changes in the integration infrastructure are measured in months and years rather than minutes and days.
How are these companies going to keep up with competitors that were invented after the Internet grew up? They must be able to leverage their proven experience and valuable existing applications on a new playing field, and the way to do it is to replace the ballast with Agile Integration Software [AIS].
Stone Bond Technologies, LP has identified the following 10 elements that can help you identify an AIS. Some of these points will be found in special-purpose platforms such as standards-based B2B like EDI, limited scope integration around a particular endpoint like SAP, or SOA platforms. Remember, though, that we are looking for enterprise-level software that suits more than 90 percent of the integration needs of the enterprise, and allows it to keep up with and even outrun the youthful new competitors. You will find that all 10 of these characteristics must be present and working together, in order to deliver the agility your organization needs to be competitive.
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Endocrine Society Calls for Medicare Coverage of DXA Bone Density Testing to Be Extended to Men With Testosterone Deficiency
New Society Position Statement Endorsed by National Osteoporosis Foundation
Chevy Chase, Md. -- Hypogonadism, also known as testosterone deficiency, affects 4-5 million men in the United States placing them at risk for developing osteoporosis. Despite the clear association of testosterone deficiency with low bone density and osteoporosis, Medicare does not provide coverage for bone density testing for these individuals. To address this concern, today The Endocrine Society issued a Position Statement, endorsed by the National Osteoporosis Foundation, calling for Medicare coverage of bone density testing to be extended to this at-risk population.
Bone mineral density, measured by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), is an excellent predictor of the risk of fractures in both men and women. Nationally, Medicare currently provides coverage for DXA scans in men only when an individual has been previously diagnosed with osteoporosis, osteopenia or has had a vertebral bone fracture. This means that most men found to have osteoporosis are diagnosed only after a hip or spine fracture has already occurred.
"The lack of Medicare coverage for DXA scans in men with hypogonadism results in underdiagnosis and undertreatment of osteoporosis, resulting in significant morbidity, mortality,and cost to society," said Robert Vigersky, MD, president of The Endocrine Society. "The Endocrine Society recommends widening the scope of Medicare coverage to include bone density scans for men with testosterone deficiency."
In the United States, 2 million osteoporotic fractures occur each year; 29 percent of these occur in men. Men also account for more than 80,000 hip fractures in the United States each year. In 2005, osteoporosis-related fractures in men were responsible for an estimated $4.3 billion in health care costs. By 2025, experts predict that these costs will rise to approximately $6.3 billion.
There are a variety of conditions which cause hypogonadism, including tumors of the hypothalamus or pituitary gland, inflammatory or infectious diseases which affect the testes and even normal aging. Medications can also cause testosterone deficiency.
"The benefits of extending Medicare coverage of bone density testing in hypogonadal men should be more than enough incentive to change policy," said Vigersky. "Extended coverage can help prevent painful osteoporatic fractures and help reduce the high costs associated with those fractures."


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – No. 7 Florida State (28-6, 11-5 ACC) opened the weekend with an impressive 16-2 victory over Duke (21-15, 8-8 ACC) Friday evening in front of 4,775 on Mike Martin Field inside Dick Howser Stadium.
With the victory, the Seminoles have now won eight straight over the Blue Devils and 27 of their last 30 games in the series.
"Luke Weaver pitched an outstanding ball game, we had some very, very good at-bats and we scored a lot of runs; it's a credit to our guys and the at-bats that they had," said head coach Mike Martin. "I am just very proud of the way they came out and played tonight."
Five Seminoles registered multiple hits on Friday night including four players with three hits each. Brett Knief, Jose Brizuela and John Sansone all tied a career-high with three hits, while Marcus Davis joined the group with three hits in the win. DJ Stewart was 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored as Florida State finished the game out hitting Duke 16-8.
"We have got to have everybody in the line-up contributing," added Martin. "It was nice to see that show-up tonight. We had a very productive game but we know tomorrow that it could be just literally turned around. But I liked the way our guys got after it tonight; let's hope we can play well tomorrow."
Knief was a home run shy of hitting for the cycle collecting a single in the first, double in the third and his first triple of the season in the seventh. The junior right fielder finished the evening with two runs scored and two RBI. Davis registered a pair of singles and unloaded on his team leading sixth home run of the season in the sixth. The Cincinnati, Ohio native drove in three and scored twice. Sansone drove in a career-high four runs and scored twice, while recording a pair of doubles and a single.
"It definitely helped my confidence," said Sansone on having a productive night at the plate. "I just hope to keep it rolling for tomorrow."
Luke Weaver received all the run support he would need following the Seminoles' two-run first as the sophomore right hander tied a career-high with 7.0 innings of work to improve to 4-0 on the year. Weaver gave up just one run on six hits as he struck out six and did not walk a batter for the third time in seven starts this year.
"It was great," said Weaver on getting the early run support. "You know you have to go out there and attack the zone early; just let them hit it and try not to strike everybody out and just pitch your game."
The DeLand, Fla., native faced the minimum in an inning five times on Friday including the final four innings that he worked. He gave up a single in the fifth and sixth innings only to see the runners retired as the Seminoles turned two inning ending double plays.
Duke's Trent Swart (4-2) suffered the loss as he gave up a season-high nine runs, eight earned, on 10 hits as he walked three and struck out three. Swart, who entered Friday night's game posting shutouts in back-to-back starts against Boston College and Georgia Tech, lasted just 4.1 innings in game one.
Jeff Kremer paced the Blue Devil offense with three hits in the loss.
Florida State ran out to an early 2-0 lead off Swart with two runs in the bottom of the first. Knief and Stewart led off with back-to-back singles with Knief scoring two batters later on an RBI single up the middle off the bat of Davis. With runners at the corners, the Seminoles attempted a double steal. Duke catcher Reed Anthes threw to second to get Davis with Stewart taking home for the second run of the inning.
Duke answered right back in the top of the second when Chris Marconcini hit a solo shot over the fence in right to cut the Seminole deficit to 2-1. The home run came off a 2-2 pitch from Weaver and was his team leading eighth round tripper of the season. It also marked the first home run allowed by Weaver this year.
The Blue Devils threatened with consecutive two-out singles in the top of the third to put runners at the corners, but Weaver got out of the jam by getting Jordan Betts looking at a called third strike.
The Seminoles extended their lead to 10-1 scoring four runs in each of the fourth and fifth innings. FSU loaded the bases with one-out off Swart when Jameis Winston was hit by a pitch to lead off the fourth, Brizuela singled through the right side and John Nogowski drew a walk. Sansone came through with a two-run single to left, Knief followed with a sac-fly to left and Stewart finished off the run scoring inning with an RBI single up the middle.
In the fifth, Florida State registered an RBI single from Brizuela and a two-run single from Nogowski. The fourth run of the inning, scored by Nogowski, came on a pair of throwing errors after Knief flew out to right.
Davis gave the Seminoles a 12-1 advantage with one swing of the bat in the sixth. The junior left fielder took a 1-0 pitch from Duke reliever Sarkis Ohanian over the fence in right for a two-run shot. Stephen McGee, who scored on the play, led off the inning with a walk.
FSU added two more runs in the seventh to push its lead to 14-1. Sansone led off the inning with a double off the fence in right center and scored a batter later on a triple down the line in right by Knief. Seth Miller brought home Knief on an RBI groundout to short.
Duke plated a run in the eighth off FSU reliever Kyle Bird as Jeff Kremer singled home pinch hitter Angelo La Bruna. Bird finished his 1.0 inning of relief allowing the one run on two hits as he struck out two.
The Seminoles closed the book on the scoring Friday night with two more runs in the bottom of the eighth for the winning margin. Winston and JJ Gould reached on a walk and hit-by-pitch, respectively to start the inning against Kenny Koplove. Both would come around to score on Sansone's two-run double down the line in left.
Dylan Silva wrapped up the victory on Friday working a scoreless ninth inning. The freshman southpaw faced four batters walking one.
Florida State and Duke are back at it Saturday, April 13 with a doubleheader beginning at 4:00 p.m. on Mike Martin Field inside Dick Howser Stadium. The second game will start 45 minutes after the completion of game one.
Both games will be streamed live over the internet on Seminoles.com All-Access. Fans can also listen to both games on the All-Access player and locally on 100.7 FM. As always, Seminole fans can follow the Noles on twitter @FSU_Baseball and remember to like the Seminoles on Facebook (www.facebook.com/FSUBaseball). Live stats for the game will be available via gametracker.


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New Zealand is home to some of the most beautiful sights in the world. From the rolling hills in Matamata to the breathtaking mountains in both the north and south islands. Something very unique to New Zealand are glaciers that feed into breathtaking rain forests.
Two of the most famous glaciers to visit are Fox Glacier and Franz Josef Glacier. There are a number of experiences that are available on both glaciers for visitors of all activity levels.
Fox Glacier
Fox Glacier is located on the west coast of the South Island. Home to gorgeous ice caves and arches, Fox Glacier was named after one of New Zealand's Prime Ministers. If you want to visit this incredible glacier, there are multiple ways to see it which cater to both active and leisurely travelers. You can go ice hiking, see its spectacular areal views from a scenic flight or get-right-on-it during the glacier face walk.
Fox Heli Hike
The fly-in, fly-out heli hike combines the excitement of walking on the Fox Glacier with the thrill of helicopter flights. By flying in you are able to access and explore a part of the glacier where its forces work hardest and often create spectacular ice caves and arches.
Fox Face Walk
This is an informative and leisurely trip to the dynamic face of the glacier. It is here that the Fox River emerges from the ice and where ice collapses are often heard and seen.
Franz Josef Glacier
Franz Josef is visited by adventure seekers from all over the world. This glacier welcomes 250,000 visitors every year and is a must-see for adrenaline seeking adventurers. The Glacier has different activities for all travelers, so you don't want to miss out!
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A do-it yourself sunroom
Properly designed, it can capture the suns warmth year-round
Adding a sunroom to a home is an excellent investment and will often increase the resale value of your home by more than its cost. It's also a great recreational area for children. If it gets a little chilly during winter, they won't mind.
A properly designed and located sunroom can capture enough free solar heat to stay warm most of the year and help heat the rest of your home during the spring and fall. Make it large enough, and you can have a small container garden in one corner for fresh green salads and herbs year-round.
Most but not all sunrooms you see are contractor installed. The contractors buy the long aluminum extrusions (20 feet or more) and cut them to size. Some sunroom manufacturers will also sell the components to homeowners in precut kit sizes. Do an Internet search and contact sunroom manufacturers to see whether they sell their products directly in kit form.
With some of these sunroom kits, you just have to build the base for the sunroom and assemble the components. Some frames are lightweight enough to be built over a wood deck. Often you will find it less expensive to purchase the glass or plastic windowpanes locally. SunPorch (www.sunporch.com) offers an efficient kit with removable windows to convert to a screened room.
If you are a do-it-yourselfer, you should be able to build an efficient sunroom from scratch. Find a good location on your home that has southern exposure. This provides the most passive solar heating during winter. If you design and build one yourself, to get the most sun, it needn't be rectangular. An irregular shape may get better sun exposure.
Before you begin to construct the two-by-four lumber framing, visit local home centers and building-supply outlets. They often have custom-size high-efficiency windows that a homeowner or builder ended up not buying, and you can purchase these at quite a discount. Once you have your windows, design the rest of the sunroom framing to fit them.
Except in cold northern climates, you should have a solid roof on the sunroom, or it will likely overheat during the summer. Installing roof vents or a venting skylight helps, but shading may also be needed. This increases the costs. Designs incorporating slanted glass will work for moderate climates. In warm climates, always install vertical glass.
For the best comfort and efficiency, add thermal mass to the sunroom. This reduces overheating and helps it hold heat when the sun goes down. A brick-paver floor and a concrete-block kneewall are effective mass. Use planters with heavy clay pots. Add an exhaust vent through the house wall to force hot air indoors on sunny winter days.
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okay, maybe i'll share with dad since he's going bike riding too.
Friday, September 23, 2011
okay, maybe i'll share with dad since he's going bike riding too.
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51 comments:
mmmm i want some pumpkin pie! and meanwhile i keep talking about the starbucks pumpkin spice latte but STILL haven't had it yet!!ReplyDelete
You look great! Love your smile :)ReplyDelete
Happy weekend!
your shoes are to DIE for!ReplyDelete
so really, how many blowfish shoes do you have?! you're so cute!
fall has too many delish things to number.ReplyDelete
let's the lovin' begin!
You are just so darn cute. Not sure if you've read any of these before but here are some of my favorite books:ReplyDelete
Ted Dekker - Circle Trilogy
Ted Dekker - Blink
Francine Rivers - all of her books but if I'd pick one it'd be Redeeming Love
Francis Chan - Crazy Love
David Wilkerson - The Cross and the Switchblade
I hope those help. I want a pumpkin roll now. I just prefer pumpkin roll to pumpkin pie.
Love this outfit - and that necklace is great!ReplyDelete
i love your outfit. and can i tell you that i just discovered that my city has a charming charlie's like a month ago? i guess it's been there like a year! accessory heaven!ReplyDelete
i always look forward to pumpkin pie around the holidays. yum. my other pie for the holidays = pecan pie. this is a new love for me and i tried to bake one last year without success. i didn't realize they were kinda hard to bake. have a great weekend & enjoy that pie!ReplyDelete
you look gorgeous in this outfit. Watching Xfactor as I type and I loved Paul coming out and hugging that girl!ReplyDelete
Lurve ya.
- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2011 at 10:26 PM
Cute outfit and it looks so comfy but put together. Also now I'm craving pumpkin pie!ReplyDelete
I adore that cardigan! So cute!ReplyDelete
And yes, books and bike riding are my two loves. Have an awesome weekend!
very pretty!ReplyDelete
I love how happy you look in these pictures. Has anyone ever told you that you look a little like Demi Lovato?ReplyDelete
Belly B :)
Love your shoes!!! Hey, Im from SC aswell!!!!!ReplyDelete
Oh, it sounds like you have an awesome weekend planned. I ordered Divergent from the library, so I'll be sure to let you know what I think!ReplyDelete
I love Fall!! So happy it's the first official day of Fall!!!!ReplyDelete
We actually kicked Fall off last night. Hubby had a really hard day at work so to cheer him up I got him in the kitchen with me {he enjoys cooking and baking} and we made mini apple and cherry pies! We had lots of fun making silly pie tops and we made 12 in all!
They are soooo delicious! I have lots of pumpkin making plans myself too! Our last grocery trip was this HUGE haul of pumpkin and baking supplies for all the goodies :D
Enjoy you pumpkin pie and bike ride!!!!
I know!! I have been craving pumpkin pie like crazy since I baked that pumpkin bread last week!! I saw a recipe on Pumpkin Pie smoothie (I think it was on A Beautiful Mess) That I may have to try out really realllllly soon!! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 23, 2011 at 7:34 AM
Love the outfitReplyDelete
Cute shoes!ReplyDelete
Shasie of Live Life in Style
I love the X Factor and Simon! my favorite was the first night and that lady Stacy who sang "Natural Woman" absolutely beautifully.ReplyDelete
Cute cover! I love hove how your pictures are always playful and fun and natural and not "I'm trying to be a Urban Outfitter Model." I seriously mean that as a compliment. I can't read some peoples blogs because of their poses/seriousness/face in their fashion posts!
Mmm pie. I am an apple gal myself. Enjoy your bike ride and your pie!! love your shoes, btw.ReplyDelete
Cute! CUTE CUTE! love the boyfriend jeans ;)ReplyDelete
Hmm a good box.. Have you read the "Uglie" series? They are good. So is the "Hourglass door" :)
Have fun at the book sale ;)
I really like the necklace and that pink cardigan is adorable.ReplyDelete
XO Teresa
YOU are adorable :)ReplyDelete
Mmmm pumpkin pie! I've been craving that too. I can't wait till we get it at work!ReplyDelete
Those shoes are soooo cute!! <3ReplyDelete
i have a pumpkin pie in the fridge just WAITING to be eaten. it's calling me, ha!ReplyDelete
Have fun this weekend! Can I come by for some pie? :) xoxoReplyDelete
haha, totally cracking up at this post!ReplyDelete
i have seen the commercials for the x factor... but havent actually seen it
happy night!
!!!! I am SO excited with the X-Factor. Especially excited because of Simon (as you well know). I didn't see the second episode though, I was so bummmmed. I laughed so hard when those two 'emo' girls did this weird number where one was sort of singing and the other one was running around screaming like a possessed child. Simon was like "so. one of you sang and the other swallowed poison." He's just always spot on. Arh and so so sexy I think I blush a little when I see him. On TV duh.ReplyDelete
Anyway you look absolutely flawless as always. Believe it or not I've never tried pumpkin pie and I'm always curious what it tastes like! You need to give me the recipe (unless it's some family secret or something) I really want to TRY making one haha.
ps: I always go bike-riding with my dad on weekends!
Happy first day of autumn to you too girl!!
I haven't watched the X Factor yet - but I heard it was pretty good! Thoughts?!ReplyDelete
Adore those shoes, seriously. They are perfff xo
Yay, for fall and pumpkin pie! Enjoy your weekend lovely, & I'm loving your adorable jeans look here, that necklace is such a nice touch, and loveee those shoes. xo veronikaReplyDelete
sat on the couch with my daughter watching the xfactor too! loved that 42 year old mom...she brought me to tears!ReplyDelete
have a great weekend!
btw...love the shoes ; )
you are gorgeous! bookmarking your blog :) xoReplyDelete
oh my gosh. i just found your blog and i am IN LOVE. you are so cute! newest follower! can't wait to see more, chick. :)ReplyDelete
love, rach.
Bike riding and pumpkin pie sound great to me-- we actually had a bit of misty cool today, so maybe the weather has changed =)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 24, 2011 at 7:45 PM
I love how care-free your outfits always are. You're such a beautiful girl :)ReplyDelete
oooo enjoy the pumpkin pie for me, that sounds ammaaaazing!ReplyDelete
Yay, happy first day of autumn! You look adorable greeting the new season too--I love the pink jacket! And what is it about reading a really good book that puts so much pressure on the next book to be just as good?! I'm the same way.ReplyDelete
hehe you're gorgeous! those heels look so comfy and i love the colour of that cardigan!ReplyDelete
xo zebra and meerkat
Hi, your blog is amazing!ReplyDelete
I really love the shots :)
Check out mine!
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2011 at 12:38 PM
You look so cute! :)ReplyDelete
Pumpkin pie sounds so good!
I watched X-Factor too with my momma. It was okay. It wasn't that good though. I like American Idol better. I wish Simon Cowell just stayed there haha.
XoXo, Bree
Tweet me: Viva_La_Breee
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2011 at 1:16 PM
Dude I love those shoes!!ReplyDelete
Love that outfit- and your hair as always xoxo I hope you find a great book! I so know the feeling. Love you!! :)ReplyDelete
saw your tweet about getting the ingredients for pumpkin pie! yummm! one of my favs for thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
miss you! :)
Yup, I'm totally itching for a pumpkin ANYTHING right about now...maybe to grab a goody on lunch :)ReplyDelete
Aw, you look so cute and mm I could go for some pumpkin pie as well! I think I'm making banana maple cupcakes on Friday though!ReplyDelete
pumpkin pie is my favorite! hope you enjoyed your weekend! :)ReplyDelete
I love your hair!ReplyDelete
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Hello new friend (: I'm so excited to be part of a new circle of creative, wonderful women!!! I LOVE your blog!! and this outfit? oh yes..I dig it... can't wait to read more!ReplyDelete
I just finished reading Clockwork Angel and am now reading The Maze Runner. Once I finish, I will read Divergent but I am really craving for a book that will have me engorged with the storyline and relationships like in Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games and Mortal Instruments. If you find a book like those ones, let me know...ReplyDelete
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Do you seek personal satisfaction, advancement opportunities, work/life balance and unlimited earning potential? Bankers Life is recruiting driven and outgoing insurance sales/sales management professionals to meet the needs of our rapidly growing market!
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WASHINGTON – Larry Echo Hawk, the leading Native American voice in the Obama administration, is stepping down to fulfill a calling to join the leadership of the Church of Latter-day Saints.
Echo Hawk's plans were announced by the church and confirmed by the Department of the Interior on March 31. He had served since 2009 early on in the Obama administration as Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, overseeing all Native-related issues at the agency.
Echo Hawk, 63, is being appointed to the Quorum of the Seventy, according to the church. That is the Mormon Church's third-highest governing body.
Obama administration officials were quick to praise the Pawnee Nation citizen for his service to the country and to American Indians.
"Having known and worked with Larry for many years, I congratulate and support him as he embarks on this next leg of his journey within the Church of Latter-day Saints," said Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. "I will work closely with Larry to ensure there is a smooth transition when he moves on to this new opportunity, so that we may carry forward the extraordinary progress we have made toward fulfilling President Obama's vision for empowering Indian nations."
Salazar added that Echo Hawk's leadership has helped open "a new chapter in our nation-to-nation relationships with American Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments, accelerated the restoration of tribal homelands, improved safety in tribal communities, resolved century-old water disputes, invested in education, and reached many more milestones that are helping Indian nations pursue the future of their choosing."
Echo Hawk has long served in U.S. politics, having been elected Idaho attorney general in 1990. He unsuccessfully ran in 1994 for Idaho governor as a Democrat. Later, he became a Brigham Young University law professor for 14 years before being asked by President Barack Obama to lead Indian affairs.
Echo Hawk previously said it was a difficult personal decision to join the federal government, given its negative treatment of American Indians throughout history, but he vowed to be an "agent for change."
"How do you reverse 200 years of struggles?" Echo Hawk asked in a 2009 speech. "It's not going to be easy."
In recent times, Echo Hawk has been increasingly vocal about his Mormon religion from within the Obama administration, writing in a collective book published earlier this year that it had given him focus, and that he saw strong connections between his faith and Native identity.
"It seemed to me that the Book of Mormon was about my Pawnee Indian ancestors," Echo Hawk wrote in the book Why I'm a Mormon, edited by Joseph A. Cannon, which includes the testimonies of 53 influential members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "The Book of Mormon talks about the Lamanites, a people who would be scattered, smitten and nearly destroyed. But in the end they would be blessed if they followed the Savior.
"That is exactly what I saw in my own family's history," Echo Hawk continued. "When I read the Book of Mormon, it gave me very positive feelings about who I am, knowledge that Heavenly Father had something for me to accomplish in life, and instruction in how I could be an instrument in His hands in serving the needs of other people."
Echo Hawk will become the first American Indian General Authority in the Mormon Church since George P. Lee, a Navajo Nation citizen, who was called to the leadership by then-LDS Church President Spencer W. Kimball. Lee was later excommunicated for "apostasy" and "conduct unbecoming a member of the church," according to church history.
LDS leaders have praised Echo Hawk's move, saying that said his new role shows that the religion is open to Democrats.
"[Echo Hawk's appointment] helps to obliterate the old myth that you can't be a good Democrat and a member of the LDS Church," Jim Dabakis, Utah Democratic Party chairman, was quoted as saying in the Salt Lake Tribune. "It was never true.
"Only 9 percent of LDS people [in the state] self-identify as Democrats," Dabakis added. "One of our objectives is to reach out to LDS people and say we are the party of values, and we want your values."
In a presidential election year when Echo Hawk's old boss, Obama, will likely square off against GOP frontrunner and popular Mormon Church member Mitt Romney, the politics of the situation will likely take on an added dimension.


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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — South Sudan's top U.N. aid official on Saturday hailed a new peace deal and called for food aid to flow to counter the risk of mass hunger. A military spokesman said a cease-fire would take hold, but wary skepticism remained: This is the conflict's second peace deal.
The truce signed by President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar late Friday in neighboring Ethiopia calls for a cessation of hostilities within 24 hours and unhindered humanitarian access.
Though it is the second peace deal of the nearly five-month conflict, the two leaders did not attend talks that forged the first cease-fire in January. This time they stood face to face, a hopeful sign one week after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Kiir in South Sudan's capital and spoke to Machar by phone. Days later U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew in, adding to the pressure.
The warfare has thrown an extremely poor country up against the edges of severe hunger. A new analysis released Saturday by the World Food Program, Save the Children and South Sudan government found food needs deepening to "alarming" levels in areas isolated by conflict, particularly several counties in Unity state, where up to 75 percent of people face severe hunger.
The fighting, which has often pitted Kiir's ethnic Dinka against Machar's ethnic Nuer, has killed thousands of people, often in what a new U.N. report this week said were gross violations of human rights "on a massive scale." More than 1.3 million people have fled their homes, and aid officials fear that mass hunger will set in later this year.
"Big news from Addis," Toby Lanzer, the top U.N. aid official in South Sudan said on Twitter on Saturday. "Calling on both parties to facilitate deliveries of emergency relief to people in need now: open roads for truck convoys & rivers for barges."
Asked by The Associated Press if there is any evidence that the parties will open up aid access, Lanzer replied: "It's a better result than many would have expected."
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton welcomed the agreement.
"This is a potential breakthrough if it is swiftly implemented. South Sudan is in a race against time," she said in a statement. "A humanitarian calamity beckons."
John Prendergast, the co-founder of the Washington-based Enough Project, which does advocacy work in eastern and central Africa, said, "We will know very quickly whether the parties are serious, as they are right now poised to attack each other in a number of volatile locations on the front lines of the war.
"It is crucial to deploy the regional civilian protection force and cease-fire monitors to ensure some measure of compliance," he added. "If this falls apart, the fighting will enter an even bloodier phase as the stakes continue to increase."
Cecilia Millan of Oxfam said it remains to be seen whether civilians will have enough faith in the deal to to return home and plant crops.
Asked if Kiir's military would hold up its side of the cease-fire deal, the South Sudan military spokesman, Col. Philip Aguer, responded "definitely." He said the new deal has a better chance of holding since Machar signed it himself. But he acknowledged violence could return if rebels, perhaps if there are some Machar can't control, continue attacks.
"There can still be a problem if they don't listen and don't stop attacking, then definitely the government forces will have to defend themselves," Aguer said.
International pressure had been growing for at least a brief cease-fire to alleviate hunger fears. Lanzer included in his tweet the phrase "May Month of Tranquility" as a Twitter hashtag. Aid officials say if residents don't immediately return home and plant crops before seasonal rains arrive in force in June, then the country risks mass hunger and perhaps famine.
The World Food Program says 3.2 million people need food assistance. WFP says it has a funding shortfall of $261 million.
"A hunger catastrophe can still be avoided, but humanitarian agencies must be allowed to reach tens of thousands of people in need before it's too late," said Mike Sackett of the WFP in South Sudan. "It is absolutely critical to stop fighting and other obstacles that prevent life-saving aid deliveries."
Kiir and Machar agreed to establish a "transitional government of national unity" that will lead to new elections, said a statement by the regional bloc IGAD, which brokered the talks. The two also agreed to meet again in a month, while IGAD leads talks on the terms of the transition.
South Sudan is a largely Christian and animist nation that broke off from the Muslim-dominated Sudan after a 2011 referendum.


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North Korean Study Confirms It: People Will Share, Whatever The Risks
from the fact-of-life dept
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how the ever-increasing storage capacity of portable hard drives made it unlikely that the sharing of music could ever be stopped. That was a somewhat theoretical piece based on general trends in technology; but here's some supporting data from a rather unusual source: North Korea (aka the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" - DPRK).
It comes in the form of an extensive study entitled "A Quiet Opening: North Koreans in a Changing Media Environment" (pdf). It's long but really worth reading for the insights it gives into a world that has been almost entirely hidden from the West for half a century. Rather surprisingly, it shows the impact that the physical sharing of pirated materials from South Korea and elsewhere is having on the once isolated nation. As TorrentFreak puts it:
With Internet unavailable to all but a tiny percentage of the elite, citizens of North Korea are obtaining their information through other means, notably file-sharing devices such as DVDs, MP3 and MP4 players, and USB drives.
The vast majority of those music and video players are owned by young people:
"About 70-80 percent of people that have MP3/4 players are young people," a 44-year-old male who left DPRK in 2010 reports. "When you do a crackdown of MP3/4 players among high school and university students, you see that 100 percent of them have South Korean music."
That's significant because the penalties for anyone caught with forbidden music and videos are severe: months or even years in a North Korean prison camp. TorrentFreak makes the obvious connection:
despite the massive risks, young people in the DPRK are apparently prepared to defy the regime by consuming unauthorized media anyway, something they have in common with the US youth who share files in the face of $150,000 statutory damages.
That explains why the copyright industries' current approach to enforcement isn't working, and -- more importantly -- why it will never work, no matter how harsh the penalties become. Whatever the risks, people will carry on sharing.
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Put down those artistically filtered torches and pitchforks: Instagram is dialing back its unpopular terms of service update.
After Instagram users began exporting their photos and deleting their accounts en masse, the photo-sharing service on Tuesday wrote a blog post to clarify the terms of service changes that sparked fury on the Internet the past two days.
At issue were concerns over whether Instagram would sell your photos to be used in advertisements without your permission or compensation, as the policy seemed to indicate. High-profile Instagram users, including photographers and bloggers, had threatened to abandon the site--if they hadn't left already.
In a post titled, "Thank you, and we're listening," Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom said "legal documents are easy to misinterpret."
"Our intention in updating the terms was to communicate that we'd like to experiment with innovative advertising that feels appropriate on Instagram," Systrom said. "Instead it was interpreted by many that we were going to sell your photos to others without any compensation. This is not true and it is our mistake that this language is confusing. To be clear: it is not our intention to sell your photos."
Systrom added that the company is updating the policy's language to clarify the confusion. Instagram is also removing the section about incorporating users' photos into ads, because "we do not have plans for anything like this," he said.
Systrom also walked back any claim over photo ownership on the company's behalf. He said listening to user feedback was one reason why the policy changes weren't scheduled to go into effect until January 16.
It's too soon to tell exactly how many users deleted their accounts, but now-former users responded to Instagram's post and tweets with apathy: "Damage done. Moving on..." replied Twitter user @AirlineFlyer.
"Listening to the sounds of people deleting their accounts? What's that sound like?" @EricWilborn tweeted.
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Hess: Four Gets Not To Forgetby Jim Amidon • August 24, 2013 Share:
In his first official function as the 16th President of Wabash College, Gregory Hess challenged the students in the Class of 2017 to make the most of their four years on campus and leave the College a better place. He then used the bell that Caleb Mills rang to call the first men to class 180 years ago to "ring in" the freshmen to the grand, tradition-rich experience that is Wabash College.
On a warm afternoon, President Hess welcomed 245 freshman students and their families into the Wabash community.
"Class of 2017, we have a lot in common — more than you think," the President said. "Just like you, I am new to Wabash College, though I have a 55-day head start on you. You are the first class to join me at Wabash and I will never forget you. As the 9th century Arab classical poet Abu Tammam wrote, ''Mal-Hubbo illa Lil Habeebi Al-Awwali — There is no love like the first love.' You will be more equal than all other equals in my eyes. We will be brothers."
The President's 245 brothers come from 23 states and eight foreign countries. A whopping 40 percent of the students were referred to Wabash by alumni, and 30 are either the sons or brothers of Wabash men. Together they earned more than $3.5 million in scholarships.
The President's advice for the freshmen came in four simple suggestions: Get to Work, Get Involved, Get to Bed, and Get Help.
"College courses are hard, though certainly not impossible," he said. "Among other things, you are here to work. Make that the priority… Life gives us no sufficient conditions for success. Hard work is really the only necessary condition."
He said that while hiding in their rooms might serve them well around midterms and finals, he urged the students to make friends who enjoy similar passions and discover all the College offers.
About getting to bed, the President said, "Every sad college story has the same first sentence: 'It was late at night.' I do not recommend that first sentence for a short story or for the story you will write about yourself here at Wabash. When people around you start making bad decisions late at night, stop what you are doing and go to bed. Decisions look a lot different in the morning light. I recommend you use that as your guiding light."
Finally, he urged the students not to go it alone. "If you need help with your school work, or in looking for an internship, or with your health, or with your state of well being, it is incumbent upon you to get some help. There are people here, no matter the problem, who can help you. It is an important sign of maturity and wisdom to get help when you need it. No man is an island. Get help when you need it."
Senior Associate Dean of Admissions Walter Blake introduced the Class of 2017 to one another when he highlighted some of the class superlatives. The class includes:
29 men who attended Boys State
14 men who are Eagle Scouts
61 men who were involved in high school government
149 men who were involved in the fine arts
Several high school mascots
A member of USA Triathlon
An internationally touring a cappella singer
A Black Belt instructor for Tae Kwon Do
And a young man whose profitable YouTube Channel has accumulated more than four million views
"Class of 2017, you will live together, learn together, play together and grow together, and, four short years from now, you will be rung out together," Mr. Blake said. And then, in keeping with his role as recruiter extraordinaire, he said, "My final charge to the Class of 2017 is this: if any of you has a smart younger brother, male cousin or neighbor, or even a paperboy, you are hereby charged to submit his name and contact information to the Admissions Office by the end of your first day of classes."
Blake ceremonially turned the Class of 2017 over to Dean of Students Mike Raters '85, who served as master of ceremonies.
In accepting the class, Dean Raters said, "At the heart of our work is the mission of the College. While you are all successful in your own right, we will all push you to give more, work harder, strive higher, go further than you may think you can right now. And we will all be there to support you, push you, educate you — in the classroom and out — to think more critically, act more responsibly, lead more effectively, and live more humanely than you have to this point in your life. This is good, hard, labor — student-centered work that you will find we will perform with passion and energy."
Greg Estell, Class of 1985 and the President of the National Association of Wabash Men, brought greetings from the alumni body and gave the new students a sense of the tradition they inherit as Wabash men.
"Your professors will be challenging, just like they were with my class," Estell said. "Your coaches on the field and directors on the stage will do the same. They will teach you, push you, demand more than you think you can produce, and help you when you fail… And it won't be just members of the Wabash teaching brigade who help you. Your fellow students will do the same. You will discover how to learn from and teach your peers; how to lead and how to follow, with the intellect and guts to know when to do each. These are critical skills for your success after college."
Estell reeled off the names of a half-dozen of his classmates from the Class of 1985 who are making a difference in the world — from Jim Davlin (treasurer of General Motors) to Mike Raters (Dean of Students at Wabash) and including Wabash professors Michael Abbott and Scott Himsel.
"Many alums, like me, look back on their Wabash experience and recognize it as a fundamental turning point in our lives," said Estell. "We are grateful not just for the education we received, but the relationships that shape our lives and make us better men. So much of that stems from the College living and breathing its motto: Scientiae et Virtuti — knowledge and guts. [Wabash men have] the courage to use that knowledge, ask tough questions, and dare to lead, to succeed, even in the face of failure. And that's how this little college in a small town in western Indiana changes lives, gentlemen. The lives changed will be yours – if you dare. And you, in turn, will change the world."
President Hess ended the ceremony just as the last five presidents have — using the very same bell that Caleb Mills used to ring in the first class of students 180 years ago — and issuing a charge to the men in the Class of 2017: "I challenge you to live up to our high expectations set forth in our mission and Gentleman's Rule…. Welcome to the Brotherhood."
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Best Android apps for analyzing and improving battery life
We've gone over some tips for improving the battery life on your Android device before, but sometimes you might just need to analyze your battery to see exactly what's causing a problem before you can fix it. Here are a handful of apps that do an excellent job of analyzing your app and battery usage for you.
Battery Drain Analyzer is a sophisticated app that tracks your battery and power usage behind-the-scenes to give you an idea of what's using the most juice. Think of it as Android's built-in battery usage app on steroids; it offers tons of statistics and numbers that should satisfy even the most demanding power user.
As the name implies, the app will analyze app and power usage and let you know which apps are draining the most power, or if it's even an app that's causing battery drain. The Analyzer screen shows what percentage of app drain is caused by what system activity, whether that's your screen, applications, phone idling, WiFi or Bluetooth radios, etc. Below that, it shows which applications are consuming the most battery, including the infamous Android OS battery drain, rated by percentages. If Facebook is using 65% of the battery drain caused by apps, for example, you've got a pretty good idea of what's causing your power usage.
Aside from the basic analyzing, the app also offers a handful of numbers and graphs that can be extremely helpful. There are several graphs that show a history of your battery life, like how long your battery lasted every day for the past two weeks. For example, you can see that you managed to go 30 hours on a single charge on Wednesday but only 20 on Thursday, so whatever you were doing on Wednesday was easy on your battery. Information like that is extremely handy for adjusting your usage habits to maximize battery life.
Another really great feature is the battery life estimation the app will display. It takes into account your usage habits and the current running apps and active radios and gives you a rough estimate of how long your battery will last and how quickly it's discharging. This can be handy to see if your battery is going to last you until the end of the day or if you're going to need to find a wall outlet in the next few hours. It also offers profile switching which will control certain radios, like Bluetooth or WiFi or cell radios, and application syncing depending on which profile is selected. A day profile may sync less often but keep Bluetooth on for connecting to a headset, for example, to conserve battery.
Overall, it's an excellent, fully-featured app that's great for any power-user's toolbox.
Battery Doctor is a helpful battery analyzer and extender that also has a few tricks in its toolbox that you won't find in other apps. On the surface, it offers a very clean interface for checking out your battery life. It gives a rough estimate for how much battery life left you have left in your current charge based on your usage habits at the time, but it goes a step further by showing how much potential battery life you can save by turning off specific radios or application syncing. Turning off that Bluetooth radio that you aren't using might squeeze an extra hour out of your current charge, for example. It can also estimate how much battery life you'll get if you start doing things like playing games or streaming music. If you're stuck at work for an extra few hours, this is a great tool for managing what you need to turn off to make your battery last for the rest of the day.
The really great part of Battery Doctor is the actual Doctor part of the application. It acts as a personal battery adviser by giving you tips on when to charge your battery for maximum battery life and what apps and hardware functions you can disable to extend your charge. Disabling haptic feedback, for example, gives a little more juice than you think it would.
Not only does it offer tips for extending your battery life, but the Battery Doctor even charges your phone in a more intelligent way to maximize your battery life. It enables a special three-step battery charging phase whenever you plug your phone in that's designed to make your battery last as long as possible in between charges. The app starts off your charging with a fast charge to get it up to about 90%, then goes into a cycle charge phase. The cycle charge will charge the battery to 100%, discharge to 90%, and repeat a few times. At that point, it trickle charges (a slow charge designed to maximize battery life) back to 100% before alerting you to be unplugged. It gives you a heads up in the app how long it's going to take before the charge finishes, too. It's a great feature that you're not going to find in any other app, and definitely worth trying out.
A major culprit of battery drain that can be hard to track down is wakelock. There are two types of wakelock. Partial wakelock is essentially when an application keeps your device from going into a deep sleep when your screen is off, which can cause abnormally high battery drain. Ideally, you want your device to hit a deep sleep state soon after the screen turns off to get the most out of your battery life, but sometimes apps that are poorly written or syncing too often can mess that up. Full wakelock is when an application keeps the screen awake (and consuming battery) past the point when your device would normally automatically turn the screen off, such as some music playing apps or alarm clock apps. Wakelock Detector is an application that's designed specifically to help you identify a wakelock problem.
Wakelock Detector shows a list of all applications on your device that are causing some types of wakelock since your last reboot. It shows screens that will tell you how long an application has kept your device awake, sorted by which apps have caused the most wakelock, as well as how many times each app has woken your device out of deep sleep. A single wakelock for 10 seconds in an hour wouldn't be as bad as 10 wakelocks for 10 seconds in an hour, for instance. At a glance, this information can help you track down an app that may be syncing information too often, which could cause your wakelock issues.
Of course, it wouldn't really be a great Android app without some really technical features, and Wakelock Detector has plenty of detailed system information if you really want to start digging into battery analyzing. You can do things like look at your apps based on their current application state, such as running or suspended, show CPU and screen wakelocks, sort your apps by name, wakelock time, running state, or view "Wakeup Triggers" on your device that cause higher amounts of wakelock. If you think wakelock is the problem behind your poor battery life, Wakelock Detector should be on the top of your list for apps to try out.
Qualcomm's Battery Guru app is a little more limiting because it only supports devices running a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, but considering that a large chunk of Android devices do use some type of Qualcomm chip, it's definitely worth a recommendation. The Battery Guru app sits in the background of your device and intelligently learns how you use it, then makes some adjustments to apps and radios to maximize your battery life. It sounds more complicated than it really is, but it does provide results.
Basically, if the Battery Guru sees that your Facebook app is syncing every hour even though you only open it every 6 hours, it can slow down Facebook's syncing intervals to keep it from waking up your device and consuming data and battery. If it knows you always connect to your work WiFi around noon every day, it can automatically turn on your WiFi around that time, then turn it off when you normally leave from work. All of these intelligent management features make it easier for you to set the app up once so you can enjoy the battery savings without too much extra effort.
The Battery Guru doesn't offer too much in the way of battery analyzing, but for the casual user, it's enough. It shows potential battery savings based on toned-down app syncing as well as intelligent radio management, and it easily displays most of your app's refresh settings on one screen. You can easily scroll through the list and see which apps are syncing often and which ones are only syncing when you need them, which can help you find an app that you might not want to sync as often. If you just bought a new (US) Galaxy S 4 or HTC One, the Battery Guru is 100% compatible with those new phones, so it's definitely worth a spin.
Battery apps are a dime a dozen in the Play Store, but these apps stand out for a handful of reasons when it comes to analyzing and managing your battery life. Did we miss any of your favorites? Let us know in the comments.
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