With the digital deadline looming most people are forking out for the latest in cutting edge TV sets.
But not antique enthusiast Richard Howard who is sticking with a set he bought 51 years ago.
Instead of buying a fancy new TV he’s keeping the 1957 flame walnut encased set and has had it converted to receive digital channels.
His father bought the set when he was aged eight and the television has been a cherished feature in the family home ever since.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A Jefferson County Jail inmate has quite a tale to tell about how he got there. The nude man claimed to be Jesus Christ and George Bush when sheriff’s deputies shot him with a stun gun after he ignored their commands.
A motorist spotted the 30-year-old standing nude in the middle of Alabama 79 early Friday morning and called police.
The man struggled with police and was shot with a Taser four times before they subdued him and put him in handcuffs and leg irons.
He told the deputies he was Jesus Christ and George Bush and could break the handcuffs.
Police say he appeared to be intoxicated. The man was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
Barack Obama does a chin-up before a campaign rally at the University of Missoula’s Dahlberg Arena in Missoula, Montana.
Two of Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s children said Thursday they were tired of seeing their father’s image used to sell everything from T-shirts to vodka, calling the growth of the revolutionary as a global super-brand “embarrassing.”
Aleida Guevara, the eldest of Guevara’s four children by his second wife, Cuban revolutionary Aleida March, said the commercialization of her father’s image contributed to tension between rich and poor in some countries.
“Something that bothers me now is the appropriation of the figure of Che that has been used to make enemies from different classes. It’s embarrassing,” she wrote during an Internet forum sponsored by Cuba’s government ahead of what would have been her father’s 80th birthday on June 14.
Born to a well-to-do family in Argentina in 1928, Guevara helped Fidel Castro overthrow Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959. But he was executed in 1967 while trying to foment a similar revolution in Bolivia.
He has since become a pop icon, considered a symbol of rebellion even 40 years after his death, thanks to an iconic 1960 portrait by Cuban photographer Alberto Korda. Variations of the image, featuring Guevara with a defiant stare and starred beret, can now be found the world over, on T-shirts, posters, coffee mugs and refrigerator magnets.