Parks and Rec Annual Fishing Carnival is June 1 | The Botetourt View

Last year?s children?s Big Fish winner McKenzie Baker with her trout.

Parks and Recreation annual children?s fishing carnival is June 1. The annual event features fishing as well as outdoor related activities, food and prizes. Bring a fishing pole!

Botetourt Children?s Fishing Carnival ? June 1 from 9am to 1pm at the Buchanan Carnival Grounds.

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ViewSonic PJD6543w

The ViewSonic PJD6543w provides an appealing combination of basic features: WXGA resolution, easy portability; good brightness for its weight; a good set of connection choices including LAN connectivity, and 3D readiness among them. Data image quality is solid if unspectacular, and video is good enough for typical business or classroom use.

The ViewSonic PJD6543w offers native WXGA (1,280 by 800) resolution, at a 16:10 widescreen aspect ratio. It is fairly bright at a rated 3,000 lumens, a tad brighter than the Editors' Choice Epson PowerLite 93+'s 2,600 lumens. As perception of brightness is logarithmic (it takes a lot more than doubling a projector's rated brightness to make it appear twice as bright), the difference between it and the Epson might be hard to detect.

Connectivity
The PJD6543w has a good set of ports for a portable data projector, 2 VGA-in ports (which double as component video) and 1 VGA-out port for a monitor; audio-in and audio-out jacks; S-video; an RCA composite video jack; a mini-USB port for remote mouse control; and an HDMI port. It's also networkable, with an Ethernet port. It comes with Crestron LAN control software, allowing the projector to be remotely controlled and managed from a PC. (Crestron supports remote control of multiple projectors.)

The projector measures 3.7 by 11.6 by 8.0 inches (HWD) and weighs 4.6 pounds, which makes it highly portable, though it lacks a carrying case. The lens has both zoom (albeit a modest 1.1x) and focus wheels, both large and easy to manipulate, and I had no trouble bringing the projector to a good focus.

Testing
I tested the projector from about 8 feet away from the screen. Our test image, measuring about 60 inches diagonally, stood up well to the addition of ambient light.

In our data image testing using the DisplayMate suite, image quality proved suitable for typical business and classroom presentations. Colors were somewhat muted, some white areas showed a slight yellow tint, actual yellows looked a bit mustardy, and I noticed some green tinting in grays. None of these issues should be a problem unless your presentations require exacting color. There was a little bit of pixel jitter when I tested over a VGA connection; switching to HDMI eliminated it, but otherwise had little effect on image quality. In our text testing, text was blurred at the smallest white-on-black size and fuzzy at the next smallest size; black-on-white text was readable down to the smallest size.

I noticed traces of the rainbow effect in images that tend to bring it out. People sensitive to the effect, a common phenomenon in single-chip DLP projectors, may see little red-green-blue flashes in still or moving images, most often in bright areas against dark backgrounds. The effect was mild enough in data images that it shouldn't be a problem, even to people who are sensitive to it.

The rainbow effect was more pronounced in video, and would likely be distracting to people sensitive to it (and in a classroom or business situation, there's no way of knowing how sensitive to it your audience is). Thus, with this projector you're probably best sticking to short video clips as part of a presentation.

Audio from the PJD6543w's single two-watt speaker was of decent volume, suitable for a small to mid-sized conference room or classroom.

As a DLP projector, the PJD6543w provides 3D readiness using the DLP-Link system, although you need to get your own active-shutter DLP-Link glasses. The Editors' Choice Epson PowerLite W16 3D WXGA 3LCD Projector is also 3D-ready, a rarity among LCD projectors. It matches the PJD6543w's rated brightness, and has slightly better data image quality and significantly better (and rainbow free) video quality, though it lacks LAN connectivity.

The Editors' Choice Epson PowerLite 93+ ($549 direct, 4 stars) provides superb data and video image quality and loud audio. However, the ViewSonic PJD6543w has its own selling points: it's more portable, has higher (WXGA, to the 93+'s XGA) resolution, and it is brighter than the 93+ as well. They both offer LAN connectivity.

The ViewSonic PJD6543w's WXGA resolution is a plus in showing presentations that include intricate or detailed graphics, though the projector's overall data image quality proved mediocre in our testing. Otherwise, its mix of features, including light weight, decent brightness, long lamp life, a good range of connectivity choices including Ethernet, and 3D readiness, should prove appealing to many businesspeople and teachers.

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Probe into Conn. train crash giving way to cleanup

Emergency personnel work at the scene where two Metro North commuter trains collided, Friday, May 17, 2013 near Fairfield, Conn. Bill Kaempffer, a spokesman for Bridgeport public safety, told The Associated Press approximately 49 people were injured, including four with serious injuries. About 250 people were on board the two trains, he said. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Christian Abraham) MANDATORY CREDIT: CONNECTICUT POST, CHRISTIAN ABRAHAM

Emergency personnel work at the scene where two Metro North commuter trains collided, Friday, May 17, 2013 near Fairfield, Conn. Bill Kaempffer, a spokesman for Bridgeport public safety, told The Associated Press approximately 49 people were injured, including four with serious injuries. About 250 people were on board the two trains, he said. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Christian Abraham) MANDATORY CREDIT: CONNECTICUT POST, CHRISTIAN ABRAHAM

Emergency workers arrive the scene of a train collision, Friday, may 17, 2013 in Fairfield, Conn. A New York-area commuter railroad says two trains have collided in Connecticut. The railroad says the accident involved a New York-bound train leaving New Haven. It derailed and hit a westbound train near Fairfield, Conn. Some cars on the second train also derailed. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Christian Abraham) MANDATORY CREDIT

Injured passengers are removed from the scene of a train collision, Friday, May 17, 2013 in Fairfield, Conn. Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, injuring about 50 people, authorities said. There were no reports of fatalities. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Christian Abraham) MANDATORY CREDIT

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Metro-North Railroad officials tour the scene of the train derailment, Saturday, May 18, 2013 in Bridgeport, Conn. Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in Connecticut, saying Saturday it's fortunate that no one was killed and that there weren't even more injuries. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Christian Abraham) MANDATORY CREDIT

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) ? Investigators will look closely at a broken section of rail to see if it is connected to the commuter train derailment and collision outside New York City that left dozens injured, as the focus begins to shift toward cleanup and rebuilding ahead of challenging times for travelers and commuters along the Northeast Corridor.

A member of the National Transportation and Safety Board said Saturday that a fractured section of rail is of substantial interest to investigators and a portion of the track will be sent to a lab for analysis. Officials also said Saturday the incident was not the result of foul play.

It's not clear if the accident caused the fracture or if the rail was broken before the crash, the NTSB's Earl Weener said. He emphasized the investigation was in its early stages and said he won't speculate on the cause of the derailment. Data recorders on board are expected to provide the speed of the Metro-North trains at the time of the crash and other information, he said.

Seventy-two people were sent to the hospital Friday evening after a Metro-North train heading east from New York City derailed and was hit by a train heading west from New Haven. Most have been discharged.

Officials earlier described devastating damage and said it was fortunate no one was killed.

"I feel that we are fortunate that even more injuries were not the result of this very tragic and unfortunate accident," said U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who visited several patients in the hospital.

The crash damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the Northeast. The crash also caused Amtrak to suspend service between New York and Boston.

Blumenthal called the damage "absolutely staggering,"

Attention is slowly shifting to the cleanup, restoration ? and the upcoming work week.

Metro-North said train service will remain suspended between South Norwalk and New Haven until further notice. Railroad officials said rebuilding the two tracks and restoring train service "will take well into next week."

NTSB investigators arrived Saturday and are expected to be on site for seven to 10 days. They'll look at the brakes and performance of the trains, the condition of the tracks, crew performance and train signal information, among other things.

When the NTSB concludes the on-site phase of its investigation, Metro-North will begin to remove the damaged rail cars and remaining debris. The process requires specialized, heavy equipment that was expected to be in place Sunday, officials said. Only after the damaged train cars have been removed can Metro-North begin the work of rebuilding the damaged tracks and overhead wires.

"It is a significant undertaking that could take days to complete," MTA said in a statement.

The NTSB has allowed Metro-North to begin removing some of the track and wire from the scene.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said commuters should make plans for alternative travel through the area and urged them to consult the state Department of Transportation website for information.

Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch said the disruption caused by the crash could cost the region's economy millions of dollars.

About 700 people were on board the Metro-North trains when one heading east from New York City's Grand Central Terminal to New Haven derailed at about 6:10 p.m. just outside Bridgeport, transit and Bridgeport officials said. Passengers described a chaotic, terrifying scene of crunching metal and flying bodies.

A spokeswoman for St. Vincent Medical Center said late Saturday that 46 people from the crash were treated there, with six of them admitted. All were in stable condition, she said.

A Bridgeport Hospital spokesman said 26 people from the crash were treated there, with three of them admitted. One was in critical condition and two were in stable condition, he said. The other 23 were released.

The MTA operates the Metro-North Railroad, the second-largest commuter railroad in the nation. The Metro-North main lines ? the Hudson, Harlem, and New Haven ? run northward from New York City's Grand Central Terminal into suburban New York and Connecticut.

The last significant train collision involving Metro-North occurred in 1988 when a train engineer was killed in Mount Vernon, N.Y., when one train empty of passengers rear-ended another, railroad officials said.

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Associated Press writers Michael Melia in Hartford, Conn., Susan Haigh in Fairfield, Conn., and Verena Dobnik in New York City contributed to this report.

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Mindful exercise and mental health | OUPblog

By Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS

There is currently extensive use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) ? also known as integrative or mind-body medicine ? in the United States to sustain well-being in both aging baby boomers and in children and adolescents. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) defines CAM therapies as ?a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not generally considered part of conventional medicine,? with ?conventional? medicine being defined as the approaches used by clinicians in the routine daily practice of Western or allopathic medicine that are within the currently accepted standard of care.

The most recent comprehensive assessment of CAM use in the United States found that roughly 40% of US adults had used at least one CAM therapy within the past year. In addition, Americans make more visits to CAM providers each year than to primary care physicians and spend at least as much money on out-of-pocket expenses for CAM services as they do for all conventional physician services combined. Patients with mental disorders turn to CAM for relief of symptoms of anxiety, mood, insomnia, impaired cognition, and perceived stress. The most commonly used CAM techniques include prayer for health and the use of multivitamin supplementation. Given widespread use of CAM services among patients, there is an urgent need for greater awareness and familiarity with its applications and outcomes.

As baby boomers age and increase use of CAM, mental health professionals require a working knowledge of CAM techniques intended to address late life mood disorders. An estimated 33-88% of older adults will use CAM therapies, including those with late-life depression and bipolar disorder. CAM treatments of mood and anxiety disorders include acupuncture, deep breathing exercises, massage therapy, meditation, naturopathy, and yoga.

Complementary and alternative medicine encompasses a number of techniques collectively known as mindful exercise (e.g. yoga, Qigong, and Tai Chi), or meditation. This ?physical exercise executed with a profound inwardly directed contemplative focus? is increasingly utilized for improving psychological well-being. In general, mindful physical exercise contains the following key elements:

1. a non-competitive, non-judgmental meditative component,
2. mental focus on muscular movement and movement awareness combined with a low to moderate level of muscular activity,
3. centered breathing,
4. a focus on anatomic alignment (i.e., spine, trunk, and pelvis) and proper physical form,
5. energy centric awareness of individual flow of intrinsic body energy, otherwise known as prana, life force, qi, or Kundalini.

Mindful exercise has been shown to provide an immediate source of relaxation and mental quiescence. Scientific evidence has shown that medical conditions such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance, depression, and anxiety disorders respond favorably to mindful exercises.

There is a growing database of the physiological effects of mindful exercise and meditation. Tai Chi and Qi Gong have been shown to promote relaxation and decrease sympathetic output, and to benefit anxiety, depression, blood pressure, and recovery from immune-mediated diseases. Tai Chi and Qi Gong have been shown to improve immune function and vaccine-response. These practices have also been shown to increase blood levels of endorphins and baroreflex sensitivity, and to reduce levels of inflammatory markers (CRP), adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH), and cortisol, implicating the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis as a mediator of stress and anxiety reduction. Brain wave or electroencephalopathy (EEG) studies of participants undergoing Tai Chi and Qi Gong exercise have found increased frontal EEG alpha, beta, and theta wave activity, suggesting increased relaxation and attentiveness. These changes have not been found in aerobic exercise controls.

Yogic meditation (Kirtan Kriya) for stressed family dementia caregivers resulted in lower levels of depressive symptoms, and improvements in mental health and cognitive functioning. Participants in the yogic meditation group showed a 43% improvement in telomerase activity after 12 minutes of daily practice for 8 weeks, compared with 3.7% in relaxation music control participants. This suggests that brief daily meditation practices can benefit stress-induced cellular aging. Kirtan Kriya reversed the pattern of increased NF-?B-related transcription of pro-inflammatory cytokines, and decreased IRF1-related transcription of innate antiviral response genes in distressed dementia caregivers. This reinforces the relationship between stress reduction and beneficial immune response. In the same study, nine caregivers received brain FDG-PET scans at baseline and post-intervention. When comparing the regional cerebral metabolism between groups, significant differences over time were found in different patterns of regional cerebral metabolism suggesting brain-fitness effect different from passive relaxation.

Studies of meditation also report decreased sympathetic nervous activity and increased parasympathetic activity associated with decreased heart rate and blood pressure, decreased respiratory rate, and decreased oxygen metabolism. Functional neuroimaging studies have been able to corroborate these subjective experiences by demonstrating the up-regulation in brain regions of internalized attention and emotion processing with meditation.

In a recent systematic review of neurobiological and clinical features of mindfulness meditations, Chiesa and Serretti (2010) provided evidence on the neurobiological changes related to Mindfulness Meditation (MM) practice in psychiatric disorders. Meditation practices that focus on concentration of an object or mantra seem to elicit the activation of fronto-parietal networks of internalized attention; meditation techniques that focus on breathing may elicit additional activation of paralimbic regions of insula and anterior cingulate; and meditation techniques that focus on emotion may elicit fronto-limbic activation. Future studies will be needed to disentangle the brain activation patterns related to different meditation traditions.

Given the noninvasive nature of mindful exercise and meditation, these exercises are an appropriate option for consumers and clinicians, particularly for conditions that have been examined in controlled studies. Significant evidence supports the assertion that Tai Chi and Qi Gong and yoga and meditation can improve physical and mental health, and quality of life. Ethical considerations should be taken into account when practicing or recommending spiritual interventions by healthcare professionals to respect patients? beliefs in choosing mind-body interventions.

Dr. Helen Lavretsky is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, a geriatric psychiatrist with the research interest in geriatric depression and caregiver stress, as well as complementary and alternative medicine and mind-body approaches to treatment and prevention of disorders in older adults. She is co-editor of Late-Life Mood Disorders with Martha Sajatovic and Charles Reynolds. She is a recipient of the two Career Development awards from NIMH and other prestigious research awards. Her current research include clinical and translational studies of geriatric depression and caregiver stress, as well as complementary and alternative interventions for stress reduction in older adults.

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Upstarts: New Action Sports Video Platform ishbowl Challenges ...

By Kailee Bradstreet
Fri, May 17 2013 3:30 am | Comments

San Diego Entrepreneur Zack Parker On The Next Generation Of Action Sports Video Viewing

Upon arriving at ishbowl, the site immediately looks for clues about what sports you're most interested in.

San Diego?entrepreneur ?Zack Parker and long-time friend Josh Pritchard have stumbled onto something that they hope changes the way the action sports industry consumes media?specifically video content. Their new platform, ishbowl.com, uses Youtube and Vimeo?s application programming interfaces (APIs) to pull in content from those sites, and then filters it through the lens of an action sports enthusiast, sorting out the less than stellar clips and showcasing the freshest and highest quality videos from multiple sites across the web.

Zack Parker, founder of ?ishwbowl

?Our core hypothesis with ishBowl is that there doesn?t need to be a way to produce more content, but there needs to be a way to sift through and find the best and most relevant content that is out there,? says Parker. ?Our functionality is similar to Instagram or Twitter, except we are not a platform for creating new content, we just aggregate it. People can follow their favorite athletes, brands, and filmers, and then ishBowl delivers a customized video feed based on their preferences.?

Clearly, ishBowl?s main focus is on simplicity. With online video viewership skyrocketing by 50% year-over-year during the past two years, Parker and Pritchard feel certain that the future of action sports media lies in video. ??The platform could?ve included news, events, photos, blogs, reports, stores, etc., but we just wanted to focus on videos,? he says. ?Today?s kids are growing up with the ability to watch videos everywhere. It only makes sense that video viewership will only increase from here.?

Parker recently shared with us the story of ishbowl?s development, it?s lofty goals to hit more than 20 million impressions per month in the next year, and where he sees the future of the platform headed.

How did you come up with the concept for ishbowl? How long did the process take and what were some things you learned about developing this type of platform?

A year and a half ago a high school friend of mine, Josh Pritchard (early Facebook engineer in charge of Facebook?s monetization strategy), approached me to work on a new project with him. My friends and I were finding that we needed to go to five different sites/blogs to get our fix of action sports videos. Sometimes you show up to a site/blog and nothing new had been posted. We brainstormed ideas and I began looking into the action sports video market. I noticed that the action sports video market was increasingly becoming fragmented across blogs, media sites, and brand websites. I reached out to a couple of my best friends who worked in the industry to ask for feedback, Taylor Paul, Editor-in-Chief of Surfing Magazine, and Nick Greeninger, president of The Republic athlete management. They agreed that there could be value in a consolidated platform for action sports videos, so I decided to move forward with the project. Josh Pritchard put up the seed capital to recruit a team and get a product to market.

The development of the platform has been going on for about a year now, and there has been a steep learning curve. The most important thing that ishBowl has done is work directly with brands, athletes, and agents to develop a product that was valuable for all of the stakeholders within the industry.

Secondly, not every new startup is the next Facebook or the next Instagram. ishBowl has several informal advisors and one of them used to be the Vice President of MTV. He suggested that ishBowl focus on our business model sooner rather than later. His words of wisdom made us think that there were some outside of the box ways for us to use our existing platform to make money without relying on the traditional Silicon Valley model of ?get big and then figure out how to make money later?. This is some of the most influential advice that ishBowl has received in our early stages.?

Lastly, our team always says, ?in every revolution there are revolutionaries.? The hardest part about building a company is finding a team of highly talented people (revolutionaries) to work with. Recruiting is harder than you think. Recruiting is really time consuming. Recruiting the right people is incredibly rewarding. ishBowl is fortunate enough to have the brightest technical developer (Asa Denton) and the most creative designer/developer (Shane Heath) that I have ever been around. It makes going to work much more fun when you know that you can literally build anything in the world and have it look good.

What was your experience/background before launching ishbowl?

Previously, I started a non-profit, Walu International, as an MBA project that was aimed at improving the hygiene and sanitary conditions in the coastal communities of Papua New Guinea. The people in Papua New Guinea have no running water and no toilets so they are forced to poop on the beach without adequate handwashing facilities. Our initial investor for ishBowl, Josh Pritchard, was a big donor to Walu International and had donated to our ?Give A Crap? campaign (nominated for a top 25 awareness campaign by a charity in the USA). The idea behind ?Give A Crap? was that for every time somebody pooped here in the USA they would then give $.25 or $.50 to help others in Papua New Guinea get access to the same services that we have here in the states (toilets and handwashing stations).?We had a lot of support from the surf industry behind Walu International.

Are you still heading things up with Walu International?

Walu International is still making progress over in Lido village, Papua New Guinea. I have built a group of volunteers that have completely taken over the overseas operations. Now, Cynthia Runyon is in charge of all activities that take place overseas. She has over 20 years of international development experience so we are fortunate to have her on board. I continue to oversee everything, but my role is much more limited now that I have a solid team in place.

How do you hope to improve the platform as it grows and gains momentum? What is your goal as far as number of videos available, number of views, etc?

Currently, ishBowl has over 43,000 videos. The main improvements will focus on the distribution of this video content. Currently, ishBowl has a website and a mobile site. ishBowl will be building out mobile apps (iOS and Android) in the coming months, as well as rolling out a retail strategy that will stream up-to-date and relevant video content directly to retailers from the brands that are sold in their stores.

ishBowl expects to reach 20 million impressions per month in a year by executing on our web, mobile and retail strategies. We have just begun promoting the site in February, so we have an opportunity to get to ?hockey stick growth? with a few more distribution channels in place.

How does the video ranking system work and why is that an important element to the platform?

In a matter of minutes, ishBowl makes it really easy for an athlete to create video profile for themselves. Athletes have told us, ?this is so easy, now I have a place to showcase my online video presence.? These athletes may have never uploaded a single video to the internet, but ishbowl can aggregate all of their videos to create their profile. ishBowl is all about helping out the brands, athletes, and agents that help us out. If guys produce sick content and also want to help ishBowl promote the platform, then they get priority. From there, ishBowl has created an algorithm that promotes whoever is ?trending? at the time based on followers and video views. It has worked out really well so far. At the end of the day, it is ultimately up to the viewer to decide who or what they want to follow, then they?ll get a customized video feed based on their preferences.

ishBowl has quite a few influencers involved with the project including, but not limited to:

Brands ? Rip Curl, Quiksilver, Sanuk, Kustom Footwear, Reef, O?Neill

Athletes ? Balaram Stack, Luke Davis, Nat Young, Torrey Meister, Peter Mel, Dillon Perillo, Josh Kerr, Chippa Wilson, Charles Reid, Christian Haller, Danny Davis, Luke Mitrani, Jack Mitrani, Greg Bretz, Greg Watts (MTB), Tyler McCaul (MTB)

Agents ? Nick Greeninger from The Republic, Greg Fernandez from Mosaic Sports Management, Robert Reynolds from Crush Sports, Jayson Hotell from Friday Management Group, John Oda from Icon Athlete Management

What is the feedback from brands and athletes who are already on board with ishbowl?

It is usually things like, ?Wow, you guys have made this so easy for us to showcase our online video presence? or ?How does something like this not already exist?? ishBowl has developed a technology that helps athletes aggregate all of their video content from the web and put it together in one location. ishBowl has also developed a technology to manage athletes content (for team managers, social media managers, and agents) to get notifications every single time their athlete is mentioned in videos around the web. It makes it much simpler for them to promote the video content of their athletes.?

What is their commitment to the platform in order for their videos to be included in the loop??

ishBowl is already pulling content in from the best content creators, so they are already on the platform. However, when people promote ishBowl out to their own social networks, then we make their presence known on the platform. Once a new user creates an account, ishBowl autofollows 20 people based on the sports they like. ishBowl makes sure that those that promote us are in the ?autofollow program.? For the athletes and brands, it is kind of like being ?Tom? from Myspace. People automatically follow you.

For those that haven?t yet promoted ishBowl, they still have a presence on the site. The technical team has built a technology to automatically pull in content from the top content creators from around the world. For example, as soon as Mick Fanning posts a video to his Vimeo account, the technology automatically pulls it into the ishBowl platform. It makes it really simple for content creators with Youtube or Vimeo accounts.

Why do you think this type of video platform was needed in the market today, and what do you think is the future of video viewing?

Everything needs to be accessible and at your fingertips in a matter of seconds, or you don?t stand a chance. With the fragmentation that we saw in the action sports video market, we saw a huge opportunity to provide something better and faster than anything else out there. Simple design and less clutter. Consistently, we have seen new action sports websites come out, but none of them have been customized to how people have been consuming content over the past 7-8 years. ishBowl wants to change the game. We have taken a lot of our early stage strategy from our first investor from Facebook. At Facebook, they focused on the user experience first ? because if you can?t nail that, then you will never get big enough to where your revenue streams will even matter.

We will eventually be on all devices (laptop, PC, Android, iOS, Roku, Apple TV, etc.).?

What are your thoughts on the overall state of the action sports industry?

Things have changed and will always be changing. Currently, there is such a large emphasis being place on social media and video views in the action sports industry that ishBowl wanted to really nail the video view component (I?m pretty sure that Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have a pretty good hold on social media for now). Change is natural. Change is good. Our underlying goal with ishBowl is to drive the progression of action sports through video. Making high quality content easily accessible from any device is only going to push the progression of the sports. A kid in Brazil can watch a P-Rod video from his phone, a kid in Japan can watch a new Julian Wilson clip while shopping in stores, or you could sit back and watch a stream of Burton videos on your plasma while on the couch. Wherever it is, videos should get you psyched to go do something. That is why our tag line is, ?Let?s see it.?

The reason why action sports is even as big as it is today, is because entrepreneurs over the course of the last 30+ years have made it big. Without innovation, the industry will stagnate. We are just trying to be influential contributors to the community as a whole.

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NYC's Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot on borough hopping with Google Maps and the Macintosh II

Every week, a new and interesting human being tackles our decidedly geeky take on the Proustian Q&A. This is the Engadget Questionnaire.

This week's edition of our regular session on inquiry chats with the nation's first Chief Digital Officer, Rachel Haot. NYC's CDO discusses navigating the five boroughs with Google Maps and her filtered photo obsession. Head on past the jump for the full set of responses.

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iOS 6 approved for use on American military networks

The Defense Department has officially given the thumbs up to Apple devices running iOS 6 -- paving the way for iPhones and iPads to become standard issue around the Pentagon. The move was hardly shocking. In fact, the Wall Street Journal had it on good authority weeks ago that the DoD was planning to give iOS its seal of approval. With Samsung devices running the Knox security suite and BlackBerry 10 already trickling into the hands of Pentagon employees, the decision sets the stage for a three-way bout for military market supremacy. And we're sure the government drones can't pick sides fast enough. After all, who wants to live under the tyranny of BlackBerry 7 any longer than necessary?

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IHeart Organizing: Reader Space: Giddy for the Garage!

Now that spring has sprung, our garage needs love and attention.? I avoid it all winter long since I find it far too cold to clean, but oddly find joy in sprucing it up when it gets warm outside.

So Kathryn's newly organized garage couldn't have come at a better time.? Talk about the inspirational push one needs to take back their garage!

Kathryn said something that really hit home to me.... "People make a huge investment in the vehicles they drive, yet park them outside to store inexpensive 'things' inside of the garage."? So true right?? Why do we do that?? Time to take back our parking spots and protect those investments!

I had to know more details about this incredibly organized space.? Oh, and did I mention, Kathryn is a mom of five?? Kudos to her for giving her family a great place to store all of the goodies for work and lots and lots of play!

What is the main function of the space?

"First and foremost, we like to park our two vehicles in the garage! It seems silly to park a $30,000+ investment outside and store significantly less than that in the garage. The garage space is hardworking, as it stores our tools, cleaning equipment, craft supplies, sporting equipment and ladders/chairs. Besides the kitchen, it's the most-used space in our home since every project begins in the garage!"

Do you have any superstar tips for keeping it organized?

"Involve your kids! We have five children and even if I was Wonder Woman, there's no way I could clean up after them all the time. About one-third of what's stored in the garage is theirs and we're teaching them how to be good stewards of those things. If a ball gets ruined because it was left out in the rain, they quickly learn to put it up the next time!?Periodically, do a quick clean-out of unused, broken or unnecessary items. We usually do ours in the spring and fall before and after Texas hits triple digits! It reminds us of what needs to be used, recycled or thrown out. Austin has a great paint recycling program that we utilized when we recycled more than 20 gallons of old paint cans. Be honest with yourself. Why are you really keeping something? The space had become a dumping ground for every random thing we owned. Think up; think vertical. In every instance, we employed both and we now have our garage floor back."

What items did you find were essential in organizing the space, and why?

"Pegboard, plastic bins and hooks of all shapes and sizes. We creatively used pegboard and hooks for shoe storage and bicycle helmets. I love it because it's inexpensive and versatile. The hooks are used throughout the garage - on the wall for ladders/chairs and as part of a hanging system for gym bags and hats. Of course, the clear plastic bins keep dust out, but allow us to see what's inside."

What did you do to go the extra mile and "Make it Pretty"?

"In an effort to honor my husband's request and not make it a "sissy garage," I used fun labels in key spaces and painted the cabinets. I used label templates from BHG and they got the stamp of approval from my better half. By laminating them and affixing to boxes with velcro, it gives us the ability to switch them out when our needs change (hat tip to Jen for that idea!). The paint labeling project was fun, too. I used Jen's paint organization idea, making labels for the touch-up jars and for our bigger paint cans we kept on hand, using simple round labels from the office store. While it's a space that's primarily used by the man of the house, I wanted it to be a space in which we were all a part of creating."

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What items did you DIY to stay on a budget?

"The cabinets, countertop and shelving weren't cheap, but we made them affordable by leveling, installing and painting it all ourselves. We found the countertop on clearance and we purchased the shelving on sale. Every little bit helps. I made all the labels, we got creative with plastic bins we shopped from our house and used pegboard in place of expensive bins. I even made a "honey-do" bucket that contains the supplies needed and a laminated checklist of all the projects on the list. It was an added bonus to get the refrigerator from a former neighbor who was moving and couldn't take it with him!"

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How has this project impacted your life for the better?

"Every time I drive into the garage, I smile. That has to be worth it right there! The kids were a big part of cleaning out the space, helping us sort through things and they've taken real ownership in keeping it that way. It's made projects go so much smoother because we know where things are stored."

So so great right?? I am a believer that the garage is an extension of the home, yet often times it is one of the most neglected.? I am guilty of that myself, but seeing this space being used and loved by Kathryn's family, really gives me the push to take back our outdoor space.

There is so much to heart about this garage, here are a few of my favs:

• Kudos to Kathryn for getting her kids involved in the process.? I am a believer that kids take more pride in maintaining systems when they understand the organizing process.
• I appreciate her ability to be ruthless and only keep what they use and need, purging is a great feeling!
• Love the pegboard system.? It's inexpensive, and really utilizes wall space.? It keeps everything on display so things are quick to find, and simple to return.
• I have never thought to hang shoes on pegboard, but I have to say, it's quite genius!? Peg board shoe rack!??
• The walls are lined with different organization tools and systems based on the supplies being stored.? Brooms, ladders and fishing poles all have a home up off of the ground.
• Hanging bikes from the ceiling is another great space saving tip.? We do this too, and it's been working wonders for years.
• I adore that they installed cabinets and counters to give themselves a solid place to build, craft and project.? They took it a step further by painting the cabinets white, which really brightens up the garage.? They also added a sink and now they have a place for cleaning paint brushes and other dirty kid messes, saving their kitchen sink for dishes.
• Labels make everything better right?? They are so pretty, even in a garage!? Love them.? And bonus points for laminating them, the garage is a dusty dirty place, laminating her labels will ensure they will be around for years to come.
• What's not to love about that paint storage?? Gets me every. single. time.

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Now it's your turn.? What are you loving about this super fantastic space?? Anyone else taking their garage back after a long winter?

You can find more details and photos about Kathryn's entire garage project on her blog here.



ATTENTION!!??Want to be featured in a Reader Space edition?? Have an awesome organizing story to share?? I am looking for projects that have made a positive impact to your life.? Please submit your story and photos?here?and I would heart to feature them right here, on the blog!!??Photos should be high resolution and unedited.? Please include a description of the project, including any costs, inspiration, and how it has changed your life and routine for the better!? Oh, and no worries my friends, we will NEVER judge "before" pictures because that just wouldn't be nice!? Only love goes on at this blog!

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Eazy-E and Ol' Dirty Bastard Holograms: Coming to Hip-Hop Festival!

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Engineered biomaterial could improve success of medical implants

May 14, 2013 ? It's a familiar scenario -- a patient receives a medical implant and days later, the body attacks the artificial valve or device, causing complications to an already compromised system.

Expensive, state-of-the-art medical devices and surgeries often are thwarted by the body's natural response to attack something in the tissue that appears foreign. Now, University of Washington engineers have demonstrated in mice a way to prevent this sort of response. Their findings were published online this week in the journal Nature Biotechnology.

The UW researchers created a synthetic substance that fully resists the body's natural attack response to foreign objects. Medical devices such as artificial heart valves, prostheses and breast implants could be coated with this polymer to prevent the body from rejecting an implanted object.

"It has applications for so many different medical implants, because we literally put hundreds of devices into the body," said Buddy Ratner, co-author and a UW professor of bioengineering and of chemical engineering. "We couldn't achieve this level of excellence in healing before we had this synthetic hydrogel."

The body's biological response to implanted devices -- medical technologies that often cost millions to develop -- has frustrated experts for years. After an implant, the body usually creates a protein wall around the medical device, cutting it off from the rest of the body. Scientists call this barrier a collagen capsule. Collagen is a protein that's naturally found in our bodies, particularly in connective tissues such as tendons and ligaments.

If a device such as an artificial valve or an electrode sensor is blocked off from the rest of the body, it usually fails to work. Physicians and scientists have tried to minimize this, but they haven't been able to eliminate it, Ratner said.

Ratner's collaborator and co-author Shaoyi Jiang, a UW professor of chemical engineering, and his team implanted the polymer substance into the bodies of mice. The substance is known as a hydrogel, a flexible biomedical material swollen with water. It's made from a polymer that has both a positive and negative charge, which serves to deflect all proteins from sticking to its surface. Scientists have found that proteins appearing on the surface of a medical implant are the first signs that a larger collagen wall will form.

After three months, Jiang and his team found that collagen was loosely and evenly distributed in the tissue around the polymer, suggesting that the mice bodies didn't even detect the polymer's presence.

For humans, the first three weeks after an implant are the most critical, because by then the body will show signs of isolating the implant by building a collagen wall. If this hasn't happened in the first several weeks, it's likely the body won't default to an attack response toward the object.

"Scientists have tried many materials, and with no exception, this is the first non-porous, synthetic substance demonstrating that no collagen capsule forms, which could have positive implications for implantable materials, tissue scaffolds and medical devices," Jiang said.

UW researchers and others have worked for nearly 20 years to find a way to help the body accept implants. In 1996, the National Science Foundation-funded UW Engineered Biomaterials (UWEB) research center opened at the UW, with Ratner serving as director. Since that time, researchers have been trying to make a material that is invisible to the body's immune response and could eliminate the body's negative reaction to medical implants.

Now, nearly two decades years later, engineers have found the "perfect" substance, Ratner said.

"This hydrogel is not just pretty good, it's exceptional," he said.

The UW researchers plan to test this in humans, likely by working with manufacturers to coat an implantable device with the polymer, then measure its ability to ward off protein build-up.

The research was funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, UWEB and the UW Department of Chemical Engineering.

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Crews dismantle coaster wrecked by Sandy

May 13 (Reuters) - Leading money winners on the 2013 PGATour on Monday (U.S. unless stated): 1. Tiger Woods $5,849,600 2. Brandt Snedeker $3,388,064 3. Kevin Streelman $2,572,989 4. Billy Horschel $2,567,891 5. Matt Kuchar $2,493,387 6. Phil Mickelson $2,220,280 7. Adam Scott (Australia) $2,207,683 8. D.A. Points $2,019,702 9. Steve Stricker $1,977,140 10. Graeme McDowell $1,910,654 11. Jason Day $1,802,797 12. Webb Simpson $1,759,015 13. Dustin Johnson $1,748,907 14. Hunter Mahan $1,682,939 15. Charles Howell III $1,561,988 16. Russell Henley $1,546,638 17. Martin Laird $1,531,950 18. ...

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Solar panels as inexpensive as paint?

May 13, 2013 ? Most Americans want the U.S. to place more emphasis on developing solar power, recent polls suggest. A major impediment, however, is the cost to manufacture, install and maintain solar panels. Simply put, most people and businesses cannot afford to place them on their rooftops.

Fortunately, that is changing because researchers such as Qiaoqiang Gan, University at Buffalo assistant professor of electrical engineering, are helping develop a new generation of photovoltaic cells that produce more power and cost less to manufacture than what's available today.

One of the more promising efforts, which Gan is working on, involves the use of plasmonic-enhanced organic photovoltaic materials. These devices don't match traditional solar cells in terms of energy production but they are less expensive and -- because they are made (or processed) in liquid form -- can be applied to a greater variety of surfaces.

Gan detailed the progress of plasmonic-enhanced organic photovoltaic materials in the May 7 edition of the journal Advanced Materials. Co-authors include Filbert J. Bartoli, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Lehigh University, and Zakya Kafafi of the National Science Foundation.

Currently, solar power is produced with either thick polycrystalline silicon wafers or thin-film solar cells made up of inorganic materials such as amorphous silicon or cadmium telluride. Both are expensive to manufacture, Gan said.

His research involves thin-film solar cells, too, but unlike what's on the market he is using organic materials such as polymers and small molecules that are carbon-based and less expensive.

"Compared with their inorganic counterparts, organic photovoltaics can be fabricated over large areas on rigid or flexible substrates potentially becoming as inexpensive as paint," Gan said.

The reference to paint does not include a price point but rather the idea that photovoltaic cells could one day be applied to surfaces as easily as paint is to walls, he said.

There are drawbacks to organic photovoltaic cells. They have to be thin due to their relatively poor electronic conductive properties. Because they are thin and, thus, without sufficient material to absorb light, it limits their optical absorption and leads to insufficient power conversion efficiency.

Their power conversion efficiency needs to be 10 percent or more to compete in the market, Gan said.

To achieve that benchmark, Gan and other researchers are incorporating metal nanoparticles and/or patterned plasmonic nanostructures into organic photovoltaic cells. Plasmons are electromagnetic waves and free electrons that can be used to oscillate back and forth across the interface of metals and semiconductors.

Recent material studies suggest they are succeeding, he said. Gan and the paper's co-authors argue that, because of these breakthroughs, there should be a renewed focus on how nanomaterials and plasmonic strategies can create more efficient and affordable thin-film organic solar cells.

Gan is continuing his research by collaborating with several researchers at UB including: Alexander N. Cartwright, professor of electrical engineering and biomedical engineering and UB vice president for research and economic development; Mark T. Swihart, UB professor of chemical and biological engineering and director of the university's Strategic Strength in Integrated Nanostructured Systems; and Hao Zeng, associate professor of physics.

Gan is a member of UB's electrical engineering optics and photonics research group, which includes Cartwright, professors Edward Furlani and Pao-Lo Liu, and Natalia Litchinitser, associate professor.

The group carries out research in nanphotonics, biophotonics, hybrid inorganic/organic materials and devices, nonlinear and fiber optics, metamaterials, nanoplasmonics, optofluidics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), biomedical microelectromechanical systems (BioMEMs), biosensing and quantum information processing.

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School bus overturns in Ky.; students hurt

SMITHLAND, Ky. (AP) ? A bus carrying a high school girls softball team overturned Friday in far-western Kentucky, injuring several students.

Kentucky State Police say the school bus was carrying the Union County High School girls' softball team and had 28 people on board when the accident occurred on U.S. 60 just before 5 p.m. CDT, in Livingston County, along the Ohio River.

The bus ran off the right shoulder, then swerved to the other side of the road, rotating 180 degrees before rolling on to its side, State Police Trooper Richie Wright said Friday night.

Wright said 25 of those on board were taken to local hospitals with non-life threatening injuries. One patient was airlifted from the scene, but it was not due to serious injuries, Wright said.

"When you have 25 injured, that takes a lot of resources from a lot of counties," Wright said. "By the time they had that many patients, they needed the helicopter to take one to the hospital."

Officials expressed relief that more of those on board weren't seriously injured.

"Boy, they really dodged the bullet on this one," Kentucky Transportation Cabinet official Keith Todd said.

Wright said he was unsure if a bend in the road near the crash scene caused the bus to go off the shoulder. Some passengers had to be extricated from the bus with emergency mechanical cutting tools. Four of the passengers on the bus were adults and the rest were students, Wright said.

Police were diverting traffic several miles from the scene on US 60. State police were planning to do an accident reconstruction before reopening the road to traffic Friday night.

The bus was on its way to Smithland for an evening softball game, and overturned about three miles from the city near the Illinois border. The Union County team was scheduled to play Livingston Central High School at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, according to its schedule on the school's website. The team's roster lists 15 players and five coaches.

Injured people from the scene were being taken to two Paducah hospitals and Livingston County Hospital, Wright said.

Emergency responders from three surrounding counties were called to the scene.

The crash happened to occur just a few days before the 25th anniversary of one of the deadliest school bus crashes in U.S. history, which happened near Carrolton, Ky., on May 14, 1988. Twenty-seven people, including many children, died in that fiery crash after a bus was struck by a drunk driver on Interstate 71.

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Cruise ship couple overboard: Hunt for missing passengers (+video)

Cruise ship couple overboard: Two passengers on a Carnival cruise ship fell overboard off the coast of Australia. Surveillance camera footage shows a 30-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman going overboard.

By Staff,?Associated Press / May 9, 2013

Authorities were conducting an air and marine search Thursday off Australia's east coast for two cruise passengers who were believed to have fallen overboard the night before.

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The couple, Australian citizens from New South Wales state, were discovered missing Thursday morning after the Carnival Spirit docked at Sydney's Circular Quay, at the end of a 10-day journey, said New South Wales Police Superintendent Mark Hutchings.

He said surveillance camera footage showed that the couple ? a 30-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman whose names have not been released ? fell from the ship's mid deck Wednesday night, when the ship was about 120 kilometers (65 nautical miles) off the coast of Forster, a city 300 kilometers (185 miles) north of Sydney.

"This is a tragic event at the moment, but we're holding out hope we might be able to find these people alive," Hutchings told reporters.

Investigators were having the video enhanced in a bid to determine whether the couple had jumped or had fallen by accident, Hutchings said.

The ship has around 600 surveillance cameras that are constantly monitored, although no one reported seeing the fall at the time.

No life preservers were missing from the ship, Hutchings said. A missing life preserver might have indicated that one of the missing passengers had attempted a rescue.

Jo Meehan, spokeswoman for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is coordinating the search, said an airplane, a helicopter and police boats were searching a 1,000-square-kilometer (300-square-nautical mile) area of sea.

The couple and seven of their family and friends were among 2,680 passengers on a South Pacific cruise. The ship's last stop was Mare Island in New Caledonia, which it left on Monday, bound for Sydney. The couple were discovered missing as passengers disembarked, said Peter Taylor, spokesman for the ship's operator, Carnival Cruise Lines.

"The guests in question were traveling with family and friends, and initial reports indicate that the couple was last seen onboard the vessel last night," Taylor said in a statement.

"The ship immediately initiated standard missing person procedures, including a full search of the vessel, as per protocol," he said.

Police said in a statement there were alerted about two hours after the ship docked.

Carnival Cruise Lines is a subsidiary of Miami-based Carnival Corp., the world's largest cruise operator.

Carnival Corp. has been plagued by a series of high-profile problems in recent years. Last year, the Costa Concordia ran aground off the coast of Italy, killing 32 people. Also last year, the Costa Allegra caught fire and lost power in the Indian Ocean, leaving passengers without working toilets, running water or air conditioning for three days. Costa is a division of Carnival Corp.

In February, passengers aboard the Carnival Triumph spent five days without power in the Gulf of Mexico after an engine-room fire disabled the vessel. Those on board complained of squalid conditions, including overflowing toilets and food shortages.

Carnival Corp.'s representative in the South Pacific region, Ann Sherry, is chief executive of Carnival Australia, which represents 80 percent of cruise lines in the region.

She told an Australian parliamentary inquiry into cruise?ship safety in February that only two passengers had disappeared overboard from cruise?ships in the South Pacific since she took her job more than five years earlier.

She said both disappearances had been fully investigated by authorities and there had been no suspicious circumstances in either case.

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Britain, U.S., Australia hunt for tax evaders yielding leads

By William James and Patrick Temple-West

LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A joint effort by Britain, the United States and Australia to track down people who conceal wealth in offshore tax structures has helped identify more than 100 individuals, the UK's tax authority said on Thursday.

"The message is simple: if you evade tax, we're coming after you," said Britain's Finance Minister George Osborne.

After a string of high-profile multinational companies were shown to be paying little or no tax in the UK, Britain has been pushing the European Union and other major economies to clamp down on tax evasion and avoidance.

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) said it had teamed up with Australian and U.S. authorities to help speed up analysis of 400 gigabytes of data they have obtained.

Michael Danilack, a deputy U.S. Internal Revenue Service commissioner said the United States was willing to share this information with other countries.

UK and U.S. officials declined to identify the source of the information.

"This data is another weapon in HMRC's arsenal," Britain's Osborne said.

The data may overlap with data leaked to The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the watchdog group said on Thursday.

In April, the ICIJ and media partners began reporting on alleged tax evasion cases stemming from 260 gigabytes of information, including cash transfers and incorporation dates.

"The files illustrate how offshore financial secrecy has spread aggressively around the globe, allowing the wealthy to avoid taxes," the ICIJ said in a statement.

Britain's HMRC said some of those identified as a result of the three-country collaboration were already under investigation for tax evasion, and more than 200 other accountants, lawyers and advisers face scrutiny over their roles in setting up offshore tax structures.

Early results from the project with the U.S. IRS and the Australian Tax Office highlighted the use of trusts and companies in territories such as Singapore, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and the Cook Islands.

(Reporting by William James in London and Patrick Temple-West in Washington; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh, Toni Reinhold)

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Raw live results: May 6, 2013

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12 Worst Android Annoyances and How to Fix Them

Android may be the most popular mobile platform on the planet, but it's not without flaws. Android phones and tablets frequently suffer from mediocre battery life, performance that slows down over time, embarrassing?notification?noises and and a host of other irritants. The good news is that, because Google's operating system is so flexible, there's a solution to just about any problem. These are the 12 worst Android annoyances and solutions for each.

Your Phone Slows Down Over Time

When you brought your Android phone home from the store, it felt blazing fast. Now, it takes a long time just to return to the home screen from your email inbox. If the phone makes you wait five seconds to open the browser again, you may test out the Gorilla glass display with a hammer.

Fortunately, you don't need to sit there and stare at the screen waiting for something to happen, nor do you need to replace your handset. By clearing your app cache, trying a new launcher and following a few other steps, you can bring your sluggish smartphone back to life.

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Your Phone Makes Embarrassing Noises

Whether you're trying to sleep or in the middle of a job interview, your Android phone always makes noise at the most inappropriate time. Not a fan of incessant chimes or hearing your phone scream "Droid" like some kind of killer robot? It's easy to teach your device some manners.

You can go into each individual app and try to disable its notification sounds, but no matter how many you turn off, there's always one more service ready to come out of nowhere and make noise when you least expect it. The solution is not disable Android notifications piece by piece, but to choose a slient audio file as your default sound.

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Can't Get Rid of Crapware

From shopping apps like Amazon to carrier-specific services like Sprint TV and VZ Navigator, most Android phones come from the factory festooned with apps you don't need. A lot of these apps run in the background even if you never use them and, even worse, they can't be uninstalled under normal circumstances. Fortunately, you can disable these preloaded parasites in the settings menu, putting them in a deep freeze.

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Short Battery Life

In an ideal world, you'd be able to surf the web, check email and play 3D games on your phone all day long without running out of juice. In the real world, most Android phones can't make it through an entire day of intense use and some need a charge by the afternoon.

However, if you're willing to make a few trade-offs, such as lowering the brightness level, disabling background data and turning off GPS, you can get more endurance without buying an extra battery or portable charger. If you're not afraid to void your warranty, you can save a ton of juice by undervolting your Nexus 4, Samsung Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note II or other phone.

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You Can't Tell How Much Juice You Have Left

If you knew you had just 40 percent of your battery life left at 3 pm, you might change your settings and behavior to make it through the rest of the day. Unfortunately, most Android phones just show you a tiny green or blue icon in the upper left corner of the screen, which looks less and less full throughout the day but doesn't provide a precise number to let you know how much juice you have left.

By installing a third-party app such as Elvison's Battery widget from the Google Play Store, you can make the exact battery level visible at all times.

More: How to Show Battery Life as a Percentage on Your Android Phone

Your Interface Looks Ugly

When you bought your phone, you thought the icons, menus and desktop looked ok, but now every time you stare at it, you want to vomit. Sure, you can change the wallpaper, but that's just putting lipstick on a pig. Fortunately, you don't need to replace your phone or go through a risky rooting process to make its UI look a lot better.

Third-party Android launchers such as LauncherPro, Go Launcher Ex and Lightning Launcher Home can replace your old fashioned home screen and app menu with beautiful new themes, complete with transition effects and even custom menus or gesture support. Some launchers can even make your system speedier.

More: How to Install an Android Launcher

Other Android Phones Have Better Features

The ten commandments say not to covet your neighbor's wife or house, but they don't tell you not to lust after his Android phone's features. If you wish your phone had a floating browser window like QSlide on the LG Optimus G Pro, a video player that appears on top of your apps like Pop-up Play on the Samsung Galaxy S4 or an automation service like the Droid RAZR M's Smart Actions, there are apps that can perform all those functions.

Search the Google Play store for "floating apps" to find programs such as Floating Browser Flux and Super Video that run in draggable, resizable windows. Also, look for automation apps like Tasker that program your phone to do different things based on your calendar, location or other conditions. You can even configure the app so your phone doesn't ring whenever it sees a meeting on your calendar.

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The Share Menu Has Too Many Options

One of Android's best features is its universal share menu, which lists every app you can share to, from Facebook to your Gmail account. Unfortunately, a lot of apps that you would never share to such as Bluetooth transfer or Backup Assistant end up higher on the menu than ones you use every day like Twitter.

Third-party app Andmade Share replace's Android's share menu with a custom list you can reorder or remove items from. So if you share to Pinterest more than Google Plus, you can rank that social network first.

More: How to Edit the Share Menu in Android

The Lock Screen Slows You Down

It may have an attractive weather widget, shortcuts to your favorite apps or even social updates, but for most, the Android lock screen is little more than an attractive speed bump that gets in the way every time you wake your phone. If you want to hit the power button and go immediately back to whatever you were doing when your phone went to sleep, simply change the screen lock setting in the Android security menu.

More: How to Disable the Lock Screen in Android

Your Phone Uses the Wrong Apps to Open Links or Files

Sometimes it seems like your phone has a mind of its own. You tap on a link and it opens a screen in the IMDB app when you wanted to view it in your browser. You want to edit a Word document in QuickOffice but it opens in the viewer-only version of Documents to Go.

Like Windows, Android associates file types with specific apps to open them, but the mobile OS goes even further by associating links to certain domans with apps. For example, you can have the Newegg app launch when you tap on a link that goes to www.newegg.com. If you don't like the app that opens a particular file type, simply navigate to the app settings menu, select the program you want to unassociate and tap Clear defaults. The next time you try to open that file type, you'll be prompted to choose a new default app.

More: How to Change Default Apps in Android

The Virtual Keyboard Sucks

Typing with your Android phone's default on-screen keyboard can be an exercise in frustration. You keep hitting the wrong keys, you have to change modes every time you need to type a number and the predictive text never guesses the word you're typing. Even worse, the keyboard is so ugly that you wish you could type without looking.

If you don't like your phone or tablet's default keyboard, Android makes it easy to install a better third-party alternative. Searching through the Google Play store, you can find over a dozen keyboards that offer superior predictive text, dedicated number rows and custom skins. You can even get different keyboard layouts and resizable keyboards.

More: 5 Best Keyboard Apps for Android

You Have an Outdated Version of Android

Android's latest iteration is Jelly Bean (version 4.2), but your phone is still rocking a very stale Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) or maybe even Gingerbread (2.3). In other words, you're missing out on such key features as the Google Now voice assistant, detailed notifications and support for all of today's modern apps. You can pray that some day your carrier or manufacturer will take pity on you and deliver an over-the-air OS update or you can take matters into your own hands by rooting your device and installing a custom ROM.

Rooting one's Android device is not for the faint of heart. The process involves a series of complicated steps which, if followed incorrectly, could turn your phone or tablet into a brick that won't be covered under your warranty. However, if you're willing to take the risk, you can find rooting instructions for your specific device at sites like the unlockr or xda developers forums. With a rooted phone, you can not only update the operating system, but also run apps that provide otherwise unavailable capabilities such as video screen capture or overclocking.

More: 10 Best Apps for Rooted Phones

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