How to save battery life on your iPhone and iPad by tweaking Notification Center settings

iPhone and iPad battery life is a precious commodity we just can't seem to get enough of. All of our social networks, email accounts, texts, and other apps want to send us notifications, which in turn, consumes more battery life. Sometimes tweaking settings in Notification Center can actually save quite a bit of battery life.

Here's what we recommend trying:

1. Launch the Settings app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad.
2. Tap on Notifications.
3. FInd an app that frequently sends you notifications and tap on its name.
4. Scroll down towards the bottom and you'll see an option for View in Lock Screen.
5. Turn this option to Off for any apps that aren't important to be displayed on your Lock Screen.

By doing this, you'll still receive push notifications and you'll hear the tones, your screen just will not light up and they won't filter into your actual Lock Screen area. Upon unlocking your iPhone or iPad, checking Notification Center will still show them, they just won't appear in the Lock Screen portion. Basically, your screen doesn't light up every time you receive a notification from these apps any longer when the View on Lock Screen option is turned off. Less screen use equals better battery life. By doing this myself, I gained about an extra 15 to 25% battery life per day.

I've found this to be useful on apps I still want to know I'm receiving notifications for but don't necessarily need them on my Lock Screen such as Twitter and Facebook. I've also only get email notifications set up for VIP when it comes to the Lock Screen.

Try it out and let us know if you're getting better battery life!

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Wing walker, pilot die in crash at Ohio air show

Flames erupt from a plane after it crashed at the Vectren Air Show at the airport in Dayton, Ohio. The crash killed the pilot and stunt walker on the plane instantly, authorities said. (AP Photo/Dayton Daily News, Ty Greenlees)

Flames erupt from a plane after it crashed at the Vectren Air Show at the airport in Dayton, Ohio. The crash killed the pilot and stunt walker on the plane instantly, authorities said. (AP Photo/Dayton Daily News, Ty Greenlees)

This photo provided provided WHIO TV shows a plane after it crashed Saturday, June 22, 2013, at the Vectren Air Show near Dayton, Ohio. There was no immediate word on the fate of the pilot, wing walker or anyone else aboard the plane. No one on the ground was hurt. (AP Photo/WHIO-TV)

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CINCINNATI (AP) ? A plane carrying a wing walker crashed at an air show and exploded into flames Saturday, killing the pilot and stunt walker, authorities said.

The crash of the 450 HP Stearman happened at around 12:45 p.m. at the Vectren Air Show near Dayton in front of thousands of horrified spectators. No one else was hurt.

A video posted on WHIO-TV shows the plane turn upside-down as the performer sits on top of the wing. The plane then tilts and crashes to the ground, erupting into flames as spectators screamed.

Ian Hoyt, an aviation photographer and licensed pilot from Findlay, was at the show with his girlfriend. He told The Associated Press he was taking photos as the plane passed by and had just raised his camera to take another shot.

"Then I realized they were too low and too slow. And before I knew it, they hit the ground," he said.

He couldn't tell exactly what happened, but it appeared that the plane stalled and didn't have enough air speed, he said. He credited the pilot for steering clear of spectators and potentially saving lives.

"Had he drifted more, I don't know what would have happened," Hoyt said. He said he had been excited to see the show because he'd never seen the scheduled performer ? wing walker Jane Wicker ? in action.

On the video, the announcer narrates as the plane glides through the sky and rolls over while the stuntwoman perches on a wing.

"Now she's still on that far side. Keep an eye on Jane. Keep an eye on Charlie. Watch this! Jane Wicker, sitting on top of the world," the announcer said, right before the plane makes a quick turn and nosedive.

Federal records show that biplane was registered to Wicker, who lived in Loudon, Va. A man who answered the phone at a number listed for Wicker on her website said he had no comment and hung up.

One of the pilots listed on Wicker's website was named Charlie Schwenker. A post on Jane Wicker Airshows' Facebook page announced the deaths of Wicker and Schwenker and asked for prayers for their families.

A message left at a phone listing for Charles Schwenker in Oakton, Va., wasn't immediately returned.

Dayton International Airport spokeswoman Linda Hughes and Ohio State Highway Patrol Lt. Anne Ralston confirmed that a pilot and stunt walker had died but declined to give their names. The air show also declined to release their identities.

The show was canceled for the rest of the day, but organizers said events would resume Sunday and follow the previous schedule and normal operations. The National Transportation Safety Board said it is investigating the crash.

Another spectator, Shawn Warwick of New Knoxville, told the Dayton Daily News that he was watching the flight through binoculars.

"I noticed it was upside-down really close to the ground. She was sitting on the bottom of the plane," he said. "I saw it just go right into the ground and explode."

Than Tran, of Fairfield, said he could see a look of concern on the wing walker's face just before the plane went down.

"She looked very scared," he said. "Then the airplane crashed on the ground. After that, it was terrible, man ... very terrible."

Wicker's website says she responded to a classified ad from the Flying Circus Airshow in Bealeton, Va., in 1990, for a wing-walking position, thinking it would be fun. She was a contract employee who worked as a Federal Aviation Administration budget analyst, the FAA said.

She told WDTN-TV in an interview this week that her signature move was hanging underneath the plane's wing by her feet and sitting on the bottom of the airplane while it's upside-down.

"I'm never nervous or scared because I know if I do everything as I usually do, everything's going to be just fine," she told the station.

Wicker wrote on her website that she had never had any close calls.

"What you see us do out there is after an enormous amount of practice and fine tuning, not to mention the airplane goes through microscopic care. It is a managed risk and that is what keeps us alive," she wrote.

In 2011, wing walker Todd Green fell 200 feet to his death at an air show in Michigan while performing a stunt in which he grabbed the skid of a helicopter.

In 2007, veteran stunt pilot Jim LeRoy was killed at the Dayton show when his biplane slammed into the runway while performing loop-to-loops and caught fire.

Organizers were presenting a trimmed-down show and expected smaller crowds at Dayton after the Air Force Thunderbirds and other military participants pulled out this year because of federal budget cuts.

The air show, one of the country's oldest, usually draws around 70,000 people and has a $3.2 million impact on the local economy. Without military aircraft and support, the show expected attendance to be off 30 percent or more.

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Thomas reported from Philadelphia. Associated Press writers Kerry Lester in Chicago and Randy Pennell in Philadelphia contributed to this report.

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Online:

Raw video of crash: http://bit.ly/11Vf7JA

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Changes in cell shape may lead to metastasis, not the other way around

June 21, 2013 ? A crucial step toward skin cancer may be changes in the genes that control cell shape, report a team of scientists from The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, the Institute of Cancer Research, London, and Harvard Medical School in an upcoming issue of Nature Cell Biology (now online).

Using automated high content screening and sophisticated computational modeling, the researchers' screening and analysis of tens of millions of genetically manipulated cells helped them identify more than a dozen genes that influence cell shape. Their work could lead to a better understanding of how cells become metastatic and, eventually, pinpoint new gene therapy targets for cancer treatment.

"We found that by altering the way the cells are grown to better mimic conditions in a living organism, gene expression could have a profound impact on cell shape," said Zheng Yin, the paper's lead author and a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Systems Medicine and Bioengineering of The Methodist Hospital Research Institute (TMHRI). "This matters because many cancer biologists believe metastasis depends in part on the ability of cells to take on different shapes to escape their confines and spread to healthy tissue. We developed a method of identifying and analyzing the shapes of fruit fly cells, then validated and expanded the discoveries in mammal cancer cells.."

The scientists began their study in fruit fly immune cells called hemocytes. Under normal conditions, each hemocyte was found to take on just one of five distinct shapes about 98 percent of the time. In contrast to conventional wisdom, other shapes and "intermediate" forms were rare, suggesting genes that control cell shape behave more like light switches than teakettles coming to a slow boil. Genetic manipulation of these cells in a lab setting supported that view as well.

Next the group examined human and mouse melanoma cells, which also take on a variety of forms. The researchers identified seven genes that cause cells to take on an especially rounded form, or else an elongated form. One of these genes, PTEN, had a particularly strong impact. When turned off, virtually all cells became elongated or large and rounded, two shapes that can help cancerous cells escape confinement, travel blood vessels, and infiltrate healthy tissues. This information about PTEN is new, even though the gene was previously known to scientists as a tumor suppressor.

"By increasing the frequency of rounded and elongated cells this would provide metastatic cells with a survival advantage that is otherwise not gained by adopting only a single shape, or being highly plastic," said TMHRI Department of Systems Medicine and Bioengineering Chair Stephen T.C. Wong, Ph.D., P.E., who with Institute of Cancer Research, London, Fellow Chris Bakal, Ph.D., are the corresponding authors who oversaw the research.

Bakal added, "The cells have to become rounded to travel through the bloodstream or invade soft tissues such as the brain, but they take on an elongated shape to travel through harder tissues like bone. But until now, we knew hardly anything about how the cells assume either of these shapes and how they switch between the two."

Yin said he hopes data from the study will be useful to cell and developmental biologists who are interested in how and why many different kinds of animal cells change their shapes.

"I believe this dataset has great potential," he said. "We still saw three distinct shapes other than rounded and elongated, and a handful of cell populations enriched with intermediate shapes -- a lot of possibilities for hypothesis generation."

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_health/~3/MZnLMdSRuDo/130621141658.htm

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Bigbrain: An ultra-high resolution 3-D roadmap of the human brain

June 20, 2013 ? A landmark three-dimensional (3-D) digital reconstruction of a complete human brain, called the BigBrain, now for the first time shows the brain anatomy in microscopic detail -- at a spatial resolution of 20 microns, smaller than the size of one fine strand of hair -- exceeding that of existing reference brains presently in the public domain. The new tool is made freely available to the broader scientific community to advance the field of neuroscience.

Researchers from Germany and Canada, who collaborated on the ultra-high resolution brain model, present their work in the 21 June issue of the journal Science.

"The authors pushed the limits of current technology," said Science's senior editor Peter Stern about the international scientific effort. "Such spatial resolution exceeds that of presently available reference brains by a factor of 50 in each of the three spatial dimensions."

The sophisticated modern image processing methods reveal an unprecedented look at the very fine details of the human brain's microstructure, or cellular level. The anatomical tool will allow for three-dimensional cytoarchitectonic mapping of the human brain and serve as an atlas for small cellular circuit data, or single layers or sublayers of the cerebral cortex, explained the researchers.

Until recently, reference brains did not probe further than the macroscopic, or visible, components of the brain. Now, the BigBrain provides a resolution much finer than the typical 1 mm resolution from MRI studies.

The project "has been a tour-de-force to assemble images of over 7,400 individual histological sections, each with its own distortions, rips and tears, into a coherent 3-D volume," said senior author Dr. Alan Evans, a professor at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. "This dataset allows for the first time a 3-D exploration of human cytoarchitectural anatomy."

Thin sections of a 65-year-old human female brain, which was embedded in paraffin wax, were cut with a special large-scale tool called a microtome. Then, the 20-micrometer thick histological sections were mounted on slides, stained to detect cell structures and finally digitized with a high-resolution flatbed scanner so researchers could reconstruct the high-resolution 3-D brain model. It took approximately 1,000 hours to collect the data. The resulting images reveal differences in the laminar pattern between brain areas.

The new reference brain, which is part of the European Human Brain Project, serves as a powerful tool to facilitate neuroscience research and "redefines traditional maps from the beginning of the 20th century," explained lead author Dr. Katrin Amunts from the Research Centre J?lich and director of the Cecile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research at the Heinrich Heine University D?sseldorf in Germany. "The famous cytoarchitectural atlases of the early 1900's were simplified drawings of a brain and were based on pure visual analysis of cellular organization patterns," added Dr. Amunts.

Because of the sheer volume of this dataset, the researchers say that there will be a push by those who want to use it to develop new and valuable tools for visualization, data management and analysis.

"We plan to repeat this process in a sample of brains so that we can quantify cytoarchitectural variability," said Dr. Evans. "We will also integrate this dataset with high-resolution maps of white matter connectivity in post-mortem brains. This will allow us to explore the relationship between cortical microanatomy and fiber connectivity," said Dr. Amunts.

"We are planning to integrate our receptor data of the human brain in the reference frame provided by the BigBrain," continued senior co-author Dr. Karl Zilles, who is senior professor of the J?lich Aachen Research Alliance and former director of the Cecile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research at the Heinrich Heine University D?sseldorf in Germany. "We will also transfer high-resolution maps of quantitative data on the regional and laminar distribution of native receptor complexes to the BigBrain. This will allow us to explore the relationship between cortical microanatomy and key molecules of neurotransmission."

The fine-grained anatomical resolution will allow scientists to gain insights into the neurobiological basis of cognition, language, emotions and other processes, according to the study. The researchers also stated that they plan to extract measurements of cortical thickness to gain insights into understanding aging and neurodegenerative disorders; create cortical thickness maps to compare data from in vivo imaging; integrate gene expression data from the Allen Institute; and generate a brain model with a resolution of 1 micron to capture details of single cell morphology.

Public access of the BigBrain dataset will be provided through the CBRAIN Portal with free registration, stated the researchers.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_health/~3/lbH_-Te5gmQ/130620142928.htm

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Batavia Downs announces support for new gaming legislation | The ...

Press release:

Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation (WROTBC), owner/operator of Batavia Downs has pledged its support of the Upstate New York Gaming Economic Development Act and the referendum that will be put to the citizens of New York State in November.

?This legislation keeps Batavia Downs Gaming as a vital partner to state and local governments,? said Michael Kane, president and CEO of WROTBC and Batavia Downs Gaming. ?This act will allow us to continue providing good paying jobs and generating significant funding for schools and our municipalities. Governor Cuomo and the legislature recognize the significant contributions made by racetrack casinos in Western New York to state education funding and job creation.?

Source: http://thebatavian.com/howard-owens/batavia-downs-announces-support-new-gaming-legislation/38088

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EU rejects IMF criticism on handling Greek crisis

BERLIN (AP) ? Two of the main institutions in charge of managing Europe's debt crisis have clashed over whether mistakes were made in the handling of Greece's debt woes.

The European Commission, executive arm of the 27-country European Union, Thursday firmly rejected a report from the International Monetary Fund on the Greek bailout, adding that it "fundamentally disagrees" with some of its findings.

The EU Commission, the IMF and the European Central Bank form the so-called troika of creditors that manages the bailouts for several countries in the 17-nation eurozone.

The IMF said in its report Wednesday there had been "notable failures" in the way Greece's 240 billion euro ($310 billion) bailout was handled, admitting that it had underestimated how much austerity measures would worsen the country's economic plight. Greece is now in its sixth consecutive year of recession and unemployment has risen to 27 percent.

The IMF said one of the setbacks in the bailout process over the past three years was that debt restructuring followed the bailout with a long two-year lag and in the interim, private investors were paid off in full with bailout funds while other lenders took losses in the restructuring.

On Thursday, a spokesman for the Commission hit back. Simon O'Connor told reporters that if Greece's debt had been restructured before the country was granted its first bailout in 2010, there would have been "devastating consequences" that would have destabilized the rest of the euro countries.

"We fundamentally disagree," O'Connor said.

"The report ignores the interconnected nature of the euro area member states. A private-sector debt restructuring would have certainly risked systemic contagion," he added.

Greece has been locked out of international bond markets since early 2010, when investors became worried about its excessive public debt levels. Many feared the country would have to leave the group of 17 EU countries using the euro currency.

The debt burden was eventually restructured last year, once eurozone leaders felt confident that such a step wouldn't cause excessive turmoil in financial markets. Restructuring debt involves paying investors less than what they are owed. There were concerns that such a move made any earlier could have made investors worry about bond investments across the rest of the region.

The public dispute over the Greek deal highlighted how the three troika partners are increasingly at odds over key issues. Several EU policymakers, for example, have recently hinted that the bloc should be able to handle future financial emergencies without the IMF's involvement.

The IMF itself in the report also stated there is a "need to find ways to streamline the troika process in the future."

The IMF's spokesman Gerry Rice, however, sought to appease the dispute again Thursday, telling reporters in Washington "the troika has worked well and the troika is working well."

Still, the Commission also strongly rejected the IMF report's claim that Greece has not been aggressive enough in pursuing growth-enhancing structural reforms ? such as making the labor market more flexible ? that were demanded from the Greek government in return for its bailout.

"This is plainly wrong and unfounded," insisted O'Connor, the spokesman for the EU's top economic official, Olli Rehn.

Greece had to push through deeply unpopular austerity measures including income cuts, tax increases and overhauls to its bloated public sector in return for the bailout loans.

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said he did not want to evaluate the IMF report's merits and that the only thing of importance for him was "to achieve our targets, get it over with."

"In other words, get out of the crisis as soon as possible and this will certainly be a success for Greece. I believe it will also be a success for Europe as well," Samaras told reporters during a visit to Helsinki, Finland. "When we finish the job I think then we will be able to review the whole process, appreciate the strong and weak points."

O'Connor acknowledged that designing and implementing the bailout for Greece was "a learning process," but insisted that the troika acted unanimously and that its approach is now bearing fruit.

"Today the reform program is on track and there are growing signs of stabilization and increasing confidence in Greece," he said.

In its analysis, the IMF also acknowledged that ? when faced with the threat of an implosion of the eurozone that would have sent shivers through the world economy ? one of the preconditions for granting the emergency loans was not met ? that there was a high probability the Greek government would be able to fully repay its debt burden on time.

Analysts say that Greece's debt burden ? which is set to rise to 175 percent of its annual output this year ? is still unsustainable, and its official creditors from the eurozone will have to forgive some of their loans to the country in the coming years.

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Matti Huuhtanen in Helsinki and Marjorie Olster in Washington contributed reporting.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/eu-rejects-imf-criticism-handling-greek-crisis-111421179.html

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