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The 7 Stupidest Things That Make People Proud
#3. Being Part of a Mob
As for this one, I just don't understand when going along with peer pressure turned into something to be proud of.
Take the Ocean Marketing fiasco. Some idiot PR person responded to a customer with a series of emails alternating between exaggerating his own self-importance and belittling the customer, which is the sort of thing you should only do in a rap. The customer forwarded the emails to Penny Arcade, which published them, causing the whole Internet to yell at the stupid PR guy.
Most of them metaphorically, by typing, but some of the older Internet users may have yelled literally.
Whether too many people yelled at him, whether they yelled at him too harshly, whether they should have left his wife and child out of this, whether he actually has a wife and child or whether he's lying about that, too, are all important questions that I don't really care about. Let's just suppose that all the yelling was totally right and nobody overstepped any bounds.
Even in that case, there is no reason for an individual yeller to have the attitude that she was really brave in yelling at him and standing up for the little guy, and that it is a good deed she should feel proud about. First of all, you just typed a message to some email someone else posted. You weren't exactly running guns for the French Resistance.
Apologies to any readers who actually did run guns for the French Resistance.
Secondly, thousands of people did that. Since these things tend to move by word of mouth, probably all the people in your peer group were doing it. People on your favorite forum or website, or your circle of friends. You're just doing what everyone around you is doing.
If they're doing the right thing, there's nothing to be ashamed of, but it's nothing to be especially proud of, either. It's like hating racism. It's totally right to hate it, but everyone sane hates racism these days, it's not a particularly outstanding virtue to brag about. It doesn't make you a hero, just a normal, decent person. You don't go around telling your friends, "I saw someone say the N-word today and I felt it was wrong!" and expect them to say, "Wow! Good for you!"
"It took some real courage for you not to beat up that woman with Down's syndrome!"
Sometimes doing the right thing is doing what the majority is doing. By all means, you should do it, but it's not hard or brave. If you're the only one doing the right thing, and you're getting flak for it, that's the time you get to feel a little proud of yourself.
#2. Being Old
I'm guilty of this myself. Sometimes I will shake my head condescendingly at kids these days with their Xboxes and 8 GB flash cards and feel the need to let them know that when I was a kid, I had an original Atari system and a computer that saved things on cassette tape.
I wonder if my dad bought it because of this Bill Cosby ad?
Then I catch myself and wonder why I think it is such a badge of honor to have used slow, primitive computing equipment. It's not like I invented the Atari, I just happened to exist as a child at the same time it was sold. I'm basically being proud that my parents happened to have sex 20 years before this kid's parents had sex, which is really more something for my parents to be proud of, if anyone.
You can kind of see that feeling among some people who ask what's so great about Lady Gaga, saying you basically can get the same product (attention-mongerer with weird clothes) with Madonna. Maybe one of them is better or more original than the other one, I don't know. I'm not a music person. But even if she is, there's no reason to be proud that you were alive when Madonna wore cone-shaped bras. Saying she is better is one thing, but acting like it reflects on you somehow is kind of weird. It isn't like you had any control over the year of your birth, unless you are the avatar of a deity, in which case you have better things to brag about than Madonna.
Like that kickin' shade of blue your skin is.
People are the same way about sports. "LeBron, ShmeBron. When I was a kid, a guy named Michael Jordan was playing. Heard of him? Back in my day we had real superstars." Sometimes we drift into phrasing things like this golden era of sports was caused by us existing simultaneously. Like the moment I turned 8, God caused Michael Jordan to enter the NBA draft so I could enjoy basketball. But it's silly to dismiss LeBron's obvious talent just because Michael Jordan's career coincided with your childhood. We should dismiss LeBron's talent for the right reasons -- because he is a jerk.
#1. Not Falling for Something That Nobody Is Falling For
It's 2012, so we're starting to get a lot of annoying people talking about whether the Mayan apocalypse could happen, and even more annoying people seriously debunking the first people.
Usually some gullible person floats the idea that maybe it could happen, and while most people sort of treat him the same way as someone who is wondering how Santa gets to all those houses in one night, there are inevitably a bunch of people who lay out some massive, detailed 10-point rebuttal explaining how the Mayan calendar might be miscalculated, linking evidence from anthropologists and present-day Mayans about what their actual end-of-calendar beliefs are and laying out a step-by-step logical argument based on how our calendar works. Then they wrap it up with something along the lines of, "Bam! Q.E.D., bitch!" as if they just proved Fermat's Last Theorem or the existence of God.
Yeah, I know some guy "proved" it in 1994, but it was 100 pages, who is going to read that?
First of all, these people are not usually very smart. Being proud of demolishing their "arguments" is sort of like being proud of dunking on an infant. It's not really your finest moment.
Secondly, by making a serious argument about what the Mayans really meant, you're basically admitting that the Mayans can tell the future. Because what they say about the end of the world only matters if you agree they know how the world will end. If you don't believe Mayans actually possess magic, there is no reason to argue with people about how their magic works.
If someone is trying to prove to you that their phoenix feather wand would be more powerful than a dragon heartstring wand, are you going to argue about how hard it would be to put a feather inside a wand, or are you going to tell them that Harry Potter is a fictional book series?
This is why shelving books correctly is so important.
So as I've mentioned a few times, a lot of these things aren't bad things at all. Disbelieving Mayan apocalypse theories, hating Twilight and remembering Atari games fondly are all things I recommend. But so is showering regularly, and you don't get a medal for that. If you want to feel proud of yourself, go with the old staples. Do something difficult and extraordinary or help someone out. Earn those "attaboys."
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – If Clemson men's basketball hosts a Senior Night on March 8 when Pittsburgh represents the season's final visitor to Littlejohn Coliseum, only the managers and cheerleaders will be honored.
That's the youth head coach Brad Brownell is equal parts encouraged and challenged by entering his fourth season leading the Tigers, who were projected to finish 14th in the new-look, 15-team ACC standings by the media day voters Wednesday at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in downtown Charlotte.
Only Virginia Tech was tabbed to have more struggles than Clemson (13-18, 5-13 ACC in 2012-13), and while there's some reasons for optimism, Brownell surveys his team from time to time and can tell there's not a single senior on the roster.
"In practices thus far, there are times when there's just not quite as much urgency as there needs to be," Brownell said. "Guys that are older and this is their last year, I think they kind of sometimes see the sand rolling out of the glass a little bit. They're much quicker to make corrections, they're much quicker to get upset."
So far on a summer trip to Italy including four exhibition games, and preseason practices, Brownell's noticing a concerning trend.
"Our guys don't get upset too much," Brownell said. "I feel like I'm the guy who kind of has to do that for them, and make them understand, hey, we can't keep making these kind of mistakes. We have to correct these mistakes quicker. It's a little frustrating. It's a little challenging."
Even in this age of one-and-dones, more than half the league returns at least one senior starter, and every other ACC squad has no less than a walk-on who can stride across the court with his family on Senior Night in a few months.
So Clemson's search for leadership continues, and Brownell is coaxing it out of leading returning scorer K.J. McDaniels and glue guy Rod Hall, both juniors and the team's only players entering their third year in the program along with Brownell.
"I mean, it's part of what you understand when you have a younger team," Brownell said. "They really need to be led by each other to be really, really good. We're still developing that. K.J. and Rod are still kind of developing that. They're not really there, in all honesty.
"(2013 seniors) Devin (Booker) and Milt (Jennings) weren't exactly those kind of leaders. So they haven't really seen it as much since Tanner Smith. It's part of a process. There's a little bit of a time when I feel like they're still young."
Indeed, Brownell hopes there comes a point this season when he doesn't have to rant and scream to get the Tigers' attention, be it in practice or during a first-half timeout.
"It's just more effective when the players do it for themselves. That's when you're at a high level of trust and sacrifice," Brownell said. " When the coaches are doing it, it's part of our job. But when you get past that point, and players start doing it with themselves, that's when your best teams usually happen. The coach then keeps them in the right direction; you coach the Xs-and-Os, you're not dealing with all of the other things. The players can handle some of those other things on their own."
Of course, the bright side of Clemson's roster setup is the potential to keep the entire core around for two full seasons, if it can avoid attrition before 2014-15. Still, this isn't considered a throwaway season.
"We don't talk about rebuilding," Brownell said. "What's natural is you feel like you have more time. If things aren't going all the way fine, well, I got next year. Seniors don't have that. It's, let's get this figured out now. And it becomes the most important thing in your life. When it becomes that part of what you're thinking about all the time, that's when you have your best teams."
The Tigers tasted success in Brownell's first crack at the ACC, finishing tied for fourth and winning a game in the NCAA tournament. So he's not panicking, despite dropping to seventh in 2011-12 and 11th in 2012-13, and now expected to keep falling further from the top with the arrival of Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame.
"I think what we're doing is fine," Brownell said. "The way we played last year, we couldn't score, we couldn't shoot at all, and we were in a lot of games. We took the ACC champion to the last minute, had a great chance to win. Had several close games. We defended at a very high level. So we don't have to drastically change what we're doing, but we have to do it better with guys playing with a lot of confidence."
Brownell recalls that Smith-led tournament team as one that carried itself like a winner. He feels the talent is in place to succeed now, but the mindset has to match the skill set.
"They were very comfortable being in the league, they were very comfortable with their positions and making plays," Brownell said, of the 2010 Tigers. "That part of it was all done. So they played at a very high level. It was just embracing a new system."
"Last year and this year, we're still putting puzzle pieces together to figure it all out."
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Penn State student government officials were among the numerous representatives flanking Gov. Tom Corbett during his announcement Wednesday of a federal antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA.
Despite their presence, leaders from the University Park Undergraduate Association, Black Caucus and Off-Campus Student Union said their respective organizations had yet to adopt any specific stance in regard to the litigation.
"I'm not sure exactly how it's going to play out, since it's going to be left up to the courts," UPUA President Courtney Lennartz said. "I think it's pretty much out of our hands."
The association could vote to adopt a formal resolution in support of the lawsuit when it reconvenes next week, Lennartz said.
"The point of it is that the NCAA has overstepped their boundaries," said Ryan Brown, Black Caucus president and at-large UPUA representative.
"They're punishing current and future students of Penn State" and not the officials named in various lawsuits surrounding the scandal, he said.
Brown said he did not represent the caucus or the student government during the press conference and was instead expressing his own views. The governor's office invited student leaders to stand in support of the lawsuit, Lennartz and Brown said.
In October, the undergraduate association released a statement endorsed by the student Academic Affairs Committee and Faculty Student Senate aimed at stopping the University Faculty Senate from releasing its own statement critical of the NCAA sanctions.
"As students, we wish not to contest the sanctions but rather to accept them and to cooperate with [athletic integrity monitor] George Mitchell throughout their implementation," the letter said. "We feel that our cooperation is a necessary step in the resolution of an extraordinarily sad and extraordinarily difficult time for Penn State. As student members of the Penn State community, we urge the University Faculty Senate to lay the issue of the NCAA sanctions to rest.
"We feel as though we are finally at a point of closure where the process of moving forward can begin."
Morale among the student body and the Penn State community was low when the counterstatement was released, former Academic Affairs Committee Chairman Rick Pooler said.
"We didn't feel as though the faculty senate was the correct venue to combat the sanctions," Pooler said. "We thought there should be actual initiatives ... that changed the university."
Joe Nichisti, Off-Campus Student Union vice president of programming, said his organization did not officially support the lawsuit despite his presence on stage.
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We don't have anyone who can play the physical game he plays.
Helm would be the closest, but Tootoo is more physical and more dangerous to play against than Helm. And Helm is seemingly always hurt now to boot.
If you're looking to bench someone who isn't contributing in their "role", it wouldn't be Tootoo.
And role players are very important to teams. You make them sound pointless in your first sentence. The Wings wouldn't have won any of our Cups without role players.
Not trying to say role players are bad or useless. But honestly if our success lives and dies on Jordin Tootoo's ice time I think we are in much bigger trouble than we realize.


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Its going to be his biggest test, his body has been through so much, it depends whether his knee would hold up. I think he will go to Europeans but will miss Worlds next year.
Dai for me is the only one that can challenge the younger guns like Chan, Hanyu and Fernandez - they are and should be the leading contenders entering Sochi
Plushenko, and If Weir and Lysacek make the team might find themselves from 4th-10th.
BUT sport is sport and anything can happen, I am sure the plushy fans out there will correct me.
I think Plushy will be among the favorites if healthy. Remember, the Olympics are in Russia and Plushys face will be plastered on billboards everywhere. He's a 3 time medalist. So often we see a home advantage in scoring, and there's no way a clean Plushy will be placed behind others if they make errors.
What I find extremely frustrating is how Plushenko can exist within the IJS system for years now and still not understand it?
He insists on front loading his program, leaving nothing to pick up those extra points in the back half of the program. I don't care if he lands 3 quads in the beginning, if the other skaters are smarter and land combos in their later halves, picking up the 10% bonus, he'll still lose. That's one of the main reasons why he lost in Vancouver. Lysacek was SMARTER and back loaded his program. He beat Plushenko on the technical mark, not the component mark.
You'd think after a few competitions like that, he'd get it, but he still insists on throwing his biggest jumps right out of the gate, as if he were still competing under 6.0. Times have changed and if he can't even comprehend the math, he needs to let it go and rest on his laurels.
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The jumping layout is very bad and not IJS friendly and even Weir has moved to 3/5 and joined the mainstream but Plushenko just will not try to do it though at euros earlier this year he was almost at 4/4 but was 5/3. Just a 2 second delay with a lutz and he would have been 4/4. He just stays at 5/3 and there is no budging from it. It was fine at 2012 euros but doubtful will work on a bigger stage. No SP yet so its not clear if he will take that bonus but he really doesn't seem to be big on taking the bonus even though it's more points. Once I read from MIshin that jumping after spinning is a problem but I can't find that interview.
I dont believe a skater designs the layout of his program, he has a coach, a whole team and RF monitoring him every month, if he doesnt do it, it means he cant make through a program with backloading. He is not a headcase a la Oda.
Arthur back loads his programs so I believe Mishin sees a reason for Plushenko not doing it. The lutz 2 secs before the second half was weird at Euros though, I had noticed it too.
If a skater always frontloads his program there are reasons for it. Actually not "reasons" but "reason."
He just doesn't have the stamina to spread the more difficult jumps out. Actually Plush - by his own established high standards - struggled a bit with his easier jumps in the second half of his Vancouver LP.
No doubt, a quad or 3A later in his program might have splatted.
Most likely Mishin and Plush have tried for years to land bigger jumps later in the program in practices - and he just can't do it with enough consistency to try it in competition.
Every skater has strengths and weaknesses and after all these years no reason to change now. IMHO it's amazing he can still do what he does
The bonus is not necessarily a game changer - but what about PCS? Yea, tech not just effects PCS but often determines them.
Jump well enough with no TR - and voila, the CoP will award you with big TR.
Nice to know the new system is so much more "accurate" than the old sytem
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Goo luck Zhenya I will root for my 2 Gods
My Eternal Zhenya and My Prince Hanyu
If he can't keep up with the demands of the sport then he needs to leave on a high note and stop coming back with the attitude "I'm the one to beat, and I'll ALWAYS be the one to beat" because it's just not true.
Please, consider what he has done - again and again.
Whatever I write from time to time - he has earned my highest respect.
I think it would be amazing and SPECTACULAR if Plushy medals in Sochi.
I will certainly be rooting for one of the greatest skaters in history to finish his careeer where it has always been - on the podium.
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He has his cocky attitude but that is just who he is.
I love Plushenko. I've always find him to be inspiring. If he wants to skate at the OG in his home country, just go for it. It would be lovely for him to win another medal (even if not the gold). But it's also good for the overall competition. The others know that they can't take it easy cause Plushenko is around and if there is a slight opportunity to grab the gold he won't waste it. He still seems incredibly focused which I find amazing considering the number of seasons that he's been competing. Just the fact that he still has the motivation to go on is awesome.
I have no problem with someone wanting to keep competing because they love the sport and can't get enough of it (a la Michelle Kwan). But Plushenko just comes off as if he ALWAYS has something to prove and he's not happy unless he's creating turmoil. How he reacted after Vancouver was the WORST kind of conduct and very unbecoming of a champion.


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NIAGARA FALLS – City police were led on a chase after responding to a call of a man with a gun in the 1800 block of Michigan Avenue just after 3 p.m. Tuesday.
Police chased a green Grand Prix for several blocks and said the driver refused to stop, going through several stop signs. At one point, the vehicle stopped and a passenger, Jheryl B. Carter, got out, but the driver and other passengers in the car continued to flee in the vehicle, according to police.
The driver stopped again at 16th Street and Michigan Avenue and he and the other passengers all fled the scene on foot. Police were unable to locate the men and said they found a sawed-off double-barrel shotgun in the car.
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on February 5, 2013 - 1:39 AM
Banners honoring veterans in the Village of Hamburg went up on utility poles along Buffalo Street last year, and the organizer has asked to expand the area for the banners.
But the Village Board wants to keep the banners where they are, Mayor Thomas J. Moses Sr. told a father who wants to put a banner with his son's photograph on it in front of his store.
Sue Jantzi organized the "Hometown Heroes Banners," which have the photo and name of a Hamburg soldier or veteran who served in an active war zone since Sept. 11, 2001.
The village originally designated poles along Buffalo Street from the Village Plaza to Legion Drive, then expanded it along Buffalo to Union Street, Moses recalled Monday night. The village also retrofitted hardware for the banners and installed them.
Jantzi said the banners would be taken down each November and given to each family, and new banners would be erected, although the banners have stayed up through the winter.
The mayor said Jantzi came to the village three weeks ago and wanted to expand the area down Buffalo and Main Street.
"We as a board didn't feel we wanted to go that whole avenue there in the business district, because we have other type of banners that would be possibly put up," he said.
"Is [there] a priority more important than children serving our country?" asked Roger Hancock.
His son is serving in the military, he said, and he wants to put a banner in front of his store, Town and Country, which is on Main Street.
"What will happen then is we won't have any guidelines on where they go," Trustee Mark Colmerauer said. "I respect why you would like to have that. We're just trying to keep some semblance of order of where the banners are going."
The mayor also said the village has had banners for years that have not been displayed, but it would like to erect them on Main Street.
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The village is looking at "form-based" zoning, vs. conventional zoning. Form-based zoning looks at the physical form of an area, and develops standards based on the form and scale of buildings and their surroundings.
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#2. Sandy Duncan's The 5 Minute Workout (1990)
Sandy Duncan was America's Sweetheart back when we still had those. She taught us that Wheat Thins were baked and not fried and explained to the Six Million Dollar Man why Bigfoot was always fucking with him. She was a spritely and theatrical singer and actress who performed Peter Pan on Broadway for so many years that you can't even wear that costume in public anymore without looking like a pussy.
Sandy Duncan has never been described without the word bubbly. She was the perfect choice for a 5-minute workout video because she burns 900 calories every time she smiles. If you feed her an alka seltzer, her body will explode like a seagull and every piece of her will possess the powers and memories of the original Sandy Duncan.
In some kind of cruel spacetime joke, Sandy Duncan's 5 Minute Workout is 60 minutes long. It's brought to you by Wheat Thins and co-hosted by musical choreographer and tanning industry supporter, Kevin Carlisle. He's a fit little man with the white hair and black skin of a picture negative. He and Sandy are obviously very close, and being next to each other for an hour in hot pants leads to an unnerving amount of playful sexual chemistry. I swear Wheat Thins was one lingering touch away from accidentally sponsoring the first celebrity sex tape. They seem like sweet people and dear friends, and there's a solid chance at least one of them is a gay man, but I'm not imagining things. In one scene, Sandy is openly staring at Kevin's pumping basket before clumsily reminding them both that she has a husband. Seriously, watch a couple minutes of this and tell me these two aren't fucking:
Kevin claims the 5 Minute Workout is a routine that can be done anywhere and at any time which is insane because most of it is pelvic thrusts. It's a great way to reassure the person in front of you at the bank that they picked the right outfit today, but there might be a little too much humping for those of us not raised in the theater.
Sandy Duncan is the cheesiest woman I've ever wanted to sleep with. The script for this video is so bad I think it was adapted from a Hitler resurrection spell, and when you see this lovable woman read these horrible cue cards, you will hate yourself for how much you adore her.
#1. Zsa Zsa Gabor's "It's So Simple Darling" (1993)
Zsa Zsa Gabor has starred in over 40 films and has made a guest appearance on every sitcom ever made without exception. Despite this, she's mostly famous for slapping a Beverly Hills cop and boning rich men. We coddle the wealthy today, but back in the '60s and '70s, we forced each of them to marry Zsa Zsa Gabor for a year or two. She's been with so many millionaires that her gynecologist bought a boat with all the watches he found in her birth canal. Of course back then it was called a vaginopithecus africanus.
When she filmed this video, Zsa Zsa Gabor was 76 years old and had the range of motion of a woman being digested by a snake. Corpses get better workouts when the gasses inside them shift. And this would all be normal for an elderly fitness video if there were old people doing it along with her. Instead, she has two gigantic body builders, Francois and Mike. People with good taste in television might recognize Mike as the ridiculous cartoon of a man who went on to become the American Gladiator named Thor and the American Gladiator named Titan. Mike is what sexy firemen use as their calendars.
Mike and Francois can barely contain their shame while Zsa Zsa leads them in girl pushups and 6 ounce barbell pumps. Plus, there's something about a strange foreign woman with muscled henchmen on her flanks that makes me feel like Batman is about to get captured. I'm trying to remember who taught me that lesson ...
Holy shit. And I was right not to trust Zsa Zsa. She cares less about proper form than she does about the number of fox puppies her furrier had to tear apart to make her diaper. She moves like a necromancer made some kind of terrible mistake. Her routine is a combination of barely stirring her body with the violent pumping of her hands. Don't try it at home. Zsa Zsa comes from an era where women really isolated the muscle groups used for harvesting sperm. Ms. Gabor can handjob so hard that she can only get to second base with one of her age peers if his penis has been securely anchor bolted to his pelvis by a certified concrete finisher.
When your workout is mostly leaning on a chair, it gives you some time to chat. And wow, does Zsa Zsa chat. While she performs the coma-like workout, she talks about her ex husbands, sex, the importance of sucking in your stomach during sex and of course how much she's going to sex Mike and Francois. It sounds pretty gross on paper, but you don't get to be Miss Hungary 1936 without having a certain appeal. When she calls Francois over to help her stretch, she is a predator on the hunt and the poor guy is way out of his league. Eight decades old or not, it only takes 8 seconds of flirting before Francois is ready to stick it in.
Zsa Zsa really is from an unrelatable period of antiquity. After a half hour of nonstop chatter about the benefits of senior citizen fitness, there is only one mention of self esteem and none about health. Zsa Zsa Gabor's entire philosophy on life seems to be wrapping your legs around it until it buys you a house. Exercise is only good for two things: making ozzer vomen jealous and fucking zeir husbands. My favorite advice came when she said gently marching in place was "a vonderful vay to strengzen your legs for an unfaisful husband, lover, lawyer, doctor ..." It's a special kind of woman whose main goal in a workout is to be a better lay for her lawyer and doctor. Zsa Zsa Gabor's genitals deserve some kind of lifetime achievement award, and I hope you honor them by watching her fitness video:
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It seems the 26 and 30 jerseys will be on the ice at Sabres training camp this year after all.
With each day that passes, Buffalo General Manager Darcy Regier believes more and more that forward Thomas Vanek and goalie Ryan Miller will be a part of the Sabres' team that enters camp.
Regier met the media Friday between periods of the Sabres' development camp Blue-Gold scrimmage. He answered questions regarding those two stars who appear to be on the block, the Rochester Americans' head coach, Henrik Tallinder, Nathan Gerbe and more.
One thing he did not announce or address, however, appeared on the Sabres' Twitter account at 8:40 p.m.: The team signed its first draft pick, defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen (No. 8 overall), to an entry-level deal.
Ristolainen had made some noise Wednesday, the first day of development camp, when he said he did not think he would play for Rochester but only for Buffalo or his hometown team in Finland. The deal does not guarantee he will play for the Sabres this year, but it does indicate they want him to do so.
"We felt that it was important to get Rasmus under contract quickly so that we could start the development process right away," Regier said in a news release issued by the team Friday evening. "He's a very mature defenseman for his age and will have every chance to compete for a roster spot in training camp."
It appears Miller and Vanek will be around in training camp, too.
"I think that the nature of this business is that as we move through July, lineups get more and more settled and there's less movement," Regier said. "Once training camp starts, things begin to change some again."
Regier also confirmed, however, that he has had discussions with teams interested in trading for Vanek and Miller and he has not begun contract negotiations with either player's agent. Both are slated to become unrestricted free agents in 2014, as is Steve Ott, with whom Regier also said there have been no negotiations.
Regier announced Rochester's head coach will be Chadd Cassidy, who became the Amerks' interim coach in place of Ron Rolston in February.
What about Cassidy impressed Regier?
"His poise, composure, steadiness, his ability to relate to the players, communicate with the players, his understanding of the game," Regier said. "I talked to some of the older players like Matt Ellis. Matt Ellis had only very good things to say about him and how he did in that situation."
The GM said the decision to bring back Tallinder had much to do with the Sabres trading away veterans at the trade deadline, a reference to the departures of Jordan Leopold and Robyn Regehr, and their desire to bring back an experienced blue-liner.
Some had postulated that Buffalo brought Tallinder back to town to aid the struggling Tyler Myers, with whom he paired so well during Myers' Calder Trophy-winning season of 2009-10. Regier said he hopes the addition of the 34-year-old defenseman will help Myers, but that isn't the reason the Sabres acquired Tallinder from the New Jersey Devils.
"We didn't go into this reacquiring Hank, as he's known, specifically for Tyler, but I think it can and could help him," Regier said.
Regier had not talked publicly since the Sabres waived Gerbe on July 3. Regier said the team did not decide to buy out the 5-foot-5 forward's contract until a couple of days before it happened. Gerbe, who had 10 points in 42 games last year, will turn 26 on July 24.
"We didn't have any intentions of buying him out initially, but speaking with his agent over the season, he was concerned about the opportunity he was getting here," Regier said.
"We looked at the opportunity that we were going to be able to provide him and didn't think it was going to be suitable for him and we actually looked at the possibility of sending him to the minors because of the number of forwards we had," but decided a buyout was the better choice.
As for if the Sabres are still considering any NHL free agents, Regier said, "just lightly right now."
The Blue-Gold scrimmage ended in a 6-3 victory for the Blue team. Right wing Nicholas Baptiste had two goals and West Seneca native Alex Lepkowski had a goal and an assist.
"We want this young core of guys to push," Rolston said after the game. "We'll see. I think they've worked hard so far this summer. We want competitiveness in camp and I think we're going to get it."
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Is it racist against white people (and other races) to have black-only scholarships, schools, television channels, etc? Or is it not racist because white people already have so much and these black-only things are there to kind of "level the playing field", so to speak? Do white people have the right to feel they are being discriminated against because of these things? Do white people have their panties all up in a bunch over nothing?
I agree it seems like there are more and more things being introduced that exclude white people and I can see how white people are feeling more discriminated against. I think we don't have a right to be upset about it due to how we have treated Africans and African Americans in the past. It only seems fair to give them a better chance because we have a history of suppressing their livelihood. But is it fair for our generation and future generations of white people to feel discriminated against due to the mistakes of our ancestors?


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Tom Clancy never served in the military, the intelligence community or any other part of the U.S. government. Instead, he wrote stories of submariners fighting the Cold War, infantrymen fighting the drug war, and spies and analysts looking for enemies in dark alleys and satellite photos. In doing so, the best-selling novelist, who died last week, not only captured the imaginations of many readers, he created a literary bridge across the civil-military divide — inspiring many, including us, to join the units and agencies he wrote about so colorfully.
One of us, Erin, grew up in suburban Kansas, where, despite nearby Fort Leavenworth, home of the Army's Combined Arms Center, and Lawrence, the setting of the Cold War shock flick "The Day After," foreign policy and military affairs had little presence. It was hard to compete for attention with Jayhawks basketball. But spy novels did — and "The Hunt for Red October" was the first spy thriller she read in elementary school. Nearly two decades later, she wrote her dissertation on intelligence in irregular warfare, taught operations and counterinsurgency to Marines, and later deployed to Afghanistan as a civilian adviser.
The other, Phil, grew up in West Los Angeles, where you were more likely to meet out-of-work actors than veterans, despite the massive defense and aerospace industry there. But it was hard to resist the pull of the military after hearing Navy stories from Grandpa and Army stories from Dad — and then reading "Red Storm Rising," about a World War III scenario in Central Europe, and "Patriot Games," about global terrorism. Clancy's characters, such as the immortal Jack Ryan, also set forth a career path that seemed perfect: four years in the Marines (or Army, in Phil's case), followed by grad school and a civilian career in national security.
For Gen-Xers like us, Clancy's novels provided our first view of the inner workings of national security: the weapons systems, the sensors, the command structures and the acronyms. (Oh, did Clancy love acronyms!) Of course other books and movies covered similar ground, but none with Clancy's technocratic detail. Clancy's characters included diplomats, soldiers, analysts and civil servants of any number of agencies and varying degrees of loyalty. These were the people — along with the admirals and sonarmen — who influenced and executed foreign policy. Indeed, Clancy's world, especially in the early books, was one of doers. One of the things that distinguishes his thrillers from those by Robert Ludlum, Vince Flynn or Lee Child is the constant juxtaposition of senior-level policy decisions with the highly trained, skillful and more realistic individuals implementing them.
Clancy's novels were also some of the first works to cast the military in a positive light after Vietnam. When "The Hunt for Red October" was published by the U.S. Naval Institute in 1984, that war still dominated the nation's conscience. Clancy's books presented admirable lead characters such as John Clark, a Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran turned CIA clandestine officer, and "Ding" Chavez, an Army infantryman who earns his master's degree while learning to be a spy under Clark's tutelage. Clancy's stories also helped fuel a genre of books and movies like "Top Gun," and the film version of "Red October" helped rehabilitate the military's image in the nation's imagination.
That pop-cultural shift came with a price, however. For all the realism of Clancy's Cold War novels, he described a very technical view of war, of wars made easy. Weapons systems and omniscient intelligence platforms win the day in Jack Ryan's world. This was hardly the bloody mess of nonfiction masterpieces such as Mark Bowden's "Black Hawk Down" and Nathaniel C. Fick's "One Bullet Away." Clancy's take on warfare applied well to the first Gulf War, but less so to the more recent fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Even his characterization of the war on drugs revealed an all-too-easy faith in the military's ability to resolve complex conflicts. "Clear and Present Danger" offered simple solutions: Surgical strikes with smart bombs and gutsy raids by light infantry could incite a battle within the Medellin drug cartel — and thus restrict the flow of drugs to the States. Unfortunately, as U.S. drug policy embraced Clancy's militaristic worldview, we learned that force alone could not win that war and, more broadly, that military options were more difficult than Clancy made them seem. As his later novels became more overtly political and less compelling, Clancy's hunger for military solutions became clear. He lost his appreciation for the diligent analysts and diplomats who made the early books great.
Nonetheless, Clancy's legacy lives on in the generations he introduced to the military. Fewer than 1 percent of Americans serve in uniform; far fewer serve as diplomats, development specialists or intelligence officers. Clancy's stories helped the rest of society understand and imagine this world of national security, and his efforts will be missed by civilians and veterans alike.
Erin Simpson is the chief executive of Caerus Analytics, a strategy and design firm in Arlington, Va. Phillip Carter is a senior fellow and counsel at the Center for a New American Security.


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And, from the list of presenters who will be accompanying this year's host (returning for the fourth time) Hugh Jackman at the June 8 ceremony, few recent Tonys have promised to be so star-studded.
So far, those announced to join Jackman live from the stage at Radio City Music Hall include Kevin Bacon, Matt Bomer, Wayne Brady, Zach Braff, Kenneth Branagh, Patricia Clarkson, Bradley Cooper, Fran Drescher, Clint Eastwood, Emilio Estefan, Gloria Estefan, Vera Farmiga, Will Ferrell, Tony Goldwyn, Anna Gunn, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ethan Hawke, Carole King, Zachary Levi, Lucy Liu, Kate Mara, Tony nominee Audra McDonald, Leighton Meester, Alessandro Nivola, Zachary Quinto, Emmy Rossum and Liev Schreiber.
Eastwood's link to the stage comes from his directing the upcoming screen adaptation of the 2006 Tony winner for best musical, Jersey Boys. (It opens in movie theaters June 20.)
Veteran musician King is currently the subject of this season's show – and best musical nominee – Beautiful.
Other marquee names among the nominees include Bryan Cranston, Tony Shalhoub, Chris O'Dowd and Neil Patrick Harris, who earned his first nomination for best actor in a musical for his role in John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Cranston is in the running for best actor in a play for his portrayal of President Lyndon B. Johnson in Robert Schenkkan's All the Way, while O'Dowd is up for playing Lennie Small in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Shalhoub's best actor nomination is for playing Broadway creative powerhouse Moss Hart in James Lapine's adaptation of Hart's Act One.
The two most-nominated musicals are A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, with 10, and Hedwig, with eight.
For a complete list of Tony nominees, click here.
The Tonys will air live on CBS on Sunday, June 8, at 8 p.m./7 Central.
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quote: Nah I think there are ways around it but our physicists are playing catch-up to get there. The higgs field is totally untapped. :)
quote: The F-22 may well be one of the last dedicated manned fighters we produce.
quote: I firmly believe that we'll break through the barriers of them and not through making humans "stronger." I also don't think we'll make aircraft "gentler" either, to do it. Nothing in our universe is as it seems and once people accept the notion that we are a product of our own reality, they can begin to challenge paradigms and grasp the untouchable. The mentality of "what you see--is" will be knocked down farther than it ever has been. Yeah, it sounds like science fiction mumbo-jumbo because it is and that's where we're headed, it'll just take a while to get there. G-forces are only deadly as long as we are stuck within the confines of our own universal laws and constants.


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7 Images Too Badass To Be Real (That Totally Are)
Some things are so ridiculously awesome that they simply defy belief, and when the logical mind encounters them, it can do naught but shut itself down in numb, slack-jawed shock. These are a few moments in time so incredible that they should rightfully only exist within the pages of comic books, so insane they're more like jump-cuts in Heavy Metal videos, and so badass that they instantly make everything you've done seem worthless by comparison. So settle in, enjoy, and say goodbye to every sense of pride or accomplishment that you've ever had:
#7. The Explosive Man
This appears to be a photograph of a man attacking a van with his tremendously explosive forehead - but is in actuality of Dennis Pinto, a stuntman from North Carolina. Dennis seems to have misunderstood exactly what stuntmen are supposed to do which, ideally, is to simulate incredibly dangerous scenarios while in reality remaining safe and secure, because Pinto's "stunt" here is not actually a photo of a spectacularly destructive failure. This is what was supposed to happen! And that's why Mr. Pinto is easily the hardest motherfucker on earth: The man sees this horrific orgy of flame and steel, this outtake from a Die Hard movie, this screencap from the biggest budget snuff film in history, and thinks "Total success! That went down exactly how I wanted it to."
The plan was to race a motorcycle at 60 MPH into the side of a parked van, which would then explode, sending him flying through the flames and out the other side where he would cushion his landing…with a couple of cardboard boxes. And because Dennis Pinto is apparently the Highlander, he also insisted that he be set on fire before they could even start. This man's typical work day consists of him dying a more catastrophic death than a Batman villain…then getting up and taking a bow. So, next time your job's got you a little down, just think of ol' Dennis Pinto here, and realize that any complaints you might have can only serve to make you look like kind of a pussy in comparison. Really, the only way he could make you look worse is if he was doing like, the Kid 'n Play Shuffle or something while flying through that explosion.
#6. Robotic Hell-Dog Motorcycle
Say hi to Larry, the latest creation from the Mutoid Waste Company in North London. He would say hello back, but unfortunately the only language Larry speaks is Hellfire, and he conjugates his verbs by tearing out the throats of angels. Larry is basically half-motorcycle, half-dog, half-robot and half dragon. If my math is off by a bit here, please forgive me – I'm just little distracted by this magnificent son of a bitch who rides the Houndlike Guardian of Robot Hell to work every morning, while I loudly curse my Kia Optima and seethe in impotent, jealous awe.
If you want the technical specs, Larry the Robot Dog is powered by a Citroen 2CV engine and transmission and, though his front legs are fully functional, his back legs have been replaced by wheels to make him more stable and improve speed. Although, may I be perfectly frank? If your main concern right this moment is understanding the practicalities of Larry's construction, I suggest that you set your priorities straight and use this time to instead find whoever stole all the joy out of your life and kick them in the balls.
#5. The Lightning Guitar
Merce Death, an avant-garde Japanese musician, is seen here playing his latest invention: The Lightning Guitar. Technically speaking, this is just an ordinary electric guitar hooked up to a Tesla coil instead of a traditional amplifier. And it in no way grants Mr. Death the ability to fight crime by firing devastating lightning bolts whenever he plays a particularly bitchin' solo…but you'd never know that from reading the thousands of pages of fan fiction I just wrote.
It makes sense, though: If anybody was going to combine the power of lightning with the inventions of Nicola Tesla and some sweet-ass guitar riffs, of course it would be the Japanese. In retrospect, the seminal 80s metal band Tesla dropped the ball a little here. Oh, and for future reference, Japan: We will totally forgive you for all future anime octopus rape, just as long as you keep pumping out shit like this once in a while.
#4. Thunder Volcano
This is what they call a Dirty Thunderstorm, and it occurs whenever the ash plume from an erupting volcano generates enough static electricity, or whenever you finally hurl Sauron's accursed ring into the fires of Mt. Doom. It is seen here above the Chaiten volcano in Chile. And just…holy shit, look at it:
It's the only thing on earth that gives the Devil nightmares. It's what would happen if natural disasters could bolt together Voltron-style. It's the single, best way that nature can give you the finger. It's like every single AC/DC album cover came to life and punched your eyeballs right in the dick.
Over 4,000 local inhabitants living in the area were forced to flee in the wake of this eruption, which is truly admirable - because personally, I would have been too busy alternately flashing horns at it, holding my lighter aloft, and intermittently soiling myself to do much in the way of successful fleeing.
#3. Nunchuck Baseball
There is a series of viral videos circling the 'net right now, wherein a superimposed Bruce Lee seems to play ping pong, light matches, and just generally lives a normal life - save for using Nunchucks in place of hands. Now, while I have no doubt that this was accurately reflective of a typical day in Mr. Lee's life, these particular videos happen to be fakes. However, apparently somebody forgot to tell that to this martial arts master from Sapporo, Japan, and so he actually does go about his day opening champagne bottles with Nunchucks, playing Nunchuck baseball and presumably making a nice dinner of Nunchuck chicken, with a side of garlic-infused Nunchucked potatos, maybe paired with a precocious little katana Chablis and finishing out the evening with a scintillating Handgrenade Cheesecake.
Seriously, it's like the man just didn't understand the concept of special effects and so was wholly unaware that human beings are not supposed to be able to actually do these things. Just don't be surprised if, in about six months time, you find yourself watching a grainy clip of a small Asian man literally morphing into a Ford Mustang after somebody shows him a pirated copy of Transformers.
#2. Horse-mounted Lion
What the horse is thinking: Oh god! No fucking way is this actually happening! It has to be a nightmare. Wake up, Honeydew, please wake up!
In Chinese zoos, they do things just a bit differently than here in the States. For example, the flow of foot traffic is typically reversed, in place of popcorn and hot dogs you may find more traditional Chinese fare such as fish balls or steamed buns - oh, and also you may notice some of their exhibits mounting the other exhibits and racing them around while roaring, frothing at the mouth and just generally scaring the holy shit out of everybody forever.
What the lion is thinking: LION > HORSE!
In this particular exhibit, an adult lion is trained to climb onto a waiting horse, which then jogs about the ring while the bravest, cruelest, or perhaps the most dangerously suicidal man in all of China provides incentive by cracking his whip at them. Yes, in Chinese zoos there is a man whose sole duty is to make sudden movements and loud noises in order to frighten and aggravate the Horse-mounted Lion Cavalry. A ticket buys you the whole seat, but you'll only need the edge…no seriously, you shouldn't get too comfortable here. You're gonna want all the headstart you can get when they bust out the Flying Motorcycle Bear.
#1. Flying Motorcycle Bear
Oh god, did you think I was kidding? NO! FOR CHRIST'S SAKE RUN, MAN, RUN!
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Whether you are a wild-eyed fanatic or a sports agnostic, you are paying a lot in your monthly bundled cable-TV bill - about 50 percent of the programming costs - for football, baseball, and other live games.
And that price will continue to rise for two basic reasons: The audience for sports is vast and insatiable, and media companies are spending billions more each year for the broadcast rights to keep fans glued to their TVs.
The soaring prices for sports rights are being shouldered by almost everyone who pays a TV bill but falling hard on those who don't care about sports and often don't know how much they are paying for entertainment they aren't watching.


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INWOOD - Brian Thomas had to go a little old school as the new football coach at Musselman.
Applemen football players lifting weights under Thomas' watchful eyes Wednesday had to gut it out after a water-main break in front of the school limited liquid refreshment for the athletes.
It proved an ironic transition for the 28-year-old Thomas as he took over for Denny Price, who led the Applemen for four decades:
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Brian Thomas is the new Head Football Coach for the Applemen. (Journal photo by Ron Agnir)
New Musselman football coach Brian Thomas talks with quarterback Caleb Dembeck during an Applemen home game this past season. (Photo courtesy of Barby Frankenberry)
In with the new, with a little of the old - when water was largely off limits -still sprinkled in on Day 1 of Thomas's tenure.
Thomas, who spent the last six seasons on Price's staff, was approved as the coach by the Berkeley County School Board Tuesday.
Thomas met with the team in the morning and was with them after school.
"This is something I've been workin g towards since Day 1 - my dream," Thomas said. "I remember when I had my first interview with Denny to be an assistant coach, he asked, 'Do you want to be a head coach?" I said, 'Yes.'
"I've known from Day 1. I'm excited to be in this position and have this opportunity."
Price retired as the state's winningest high school football coach. He spent all 40 years in charge of the Applemen and led them to the state Class AAA quarterfinals this past season.
Thomas, who grew in Martinsburg and attended Hedgesville High School, is not ready to proclaim himself Musselman's next 40-year coach, but he realizes that consistency at the top of all levels of football leads to success. He cited the Pittsburgh Steelers as an example. They have had just three head coaches since 1969.
"(Musselman principal) Holly Kleppner asked me that last week," Thomas said. "Man, that seems like a long time. I told her, 'Let's take it one year at a time, get through the first year.'
"I definitely see myself here for a long time."
He views himself as carrying on the success of a program that won three state championships under Price and grew from a Single-A team into its current Class AAA status.
"One of the main goals is to continue what coach Price has built," Thomas said. "He has built a great, great program. It's built on tradition and pride.
"No matter how long I'm here, I'm going to build on that foundation he built and continue the Musselman football tradition."
There might even be a call or two to Price to seek counsel.
"The first thing that comes to mind with all of the talk of Denny being a legend - he is with all his coaching victories -is that to me, he's more of a friend, more of a mentor," Thomas said. "Our families are friends; his wife and my wife are good friends. They've been there in helping me to achieve.
"I don't see it as following a legend but following a friend who has mentored me and put me in a position to fill his spot. That's the way I look at it.
"It's exciting and thankful for everything Denny's done for me throughout the years."
Thomas is a graduate of Ohio Valley University. He and his wife have a 1-year-old son.
"Brian is a great young coach with energy that will bring a lot to the table," Musselman athletic director Steve Campbell said. "He is a great math teacher and a coach.
"He will bridge the tradition for the future of the program and uphold the standards set before him."
Thomas thinks he has a bit of a handle on the administrative aspects of being in charge, because his first duty on Price's staff was to serve as the junior varsity head coach.
"I was kind of thrown in right away, so I had some head coaching responsibilities, albeit on a smaller level," Thomas said.
He wants to be flexible in his offensive and defensive schemes.
"I'm a big believer in getting playmakers the ball on offense," Thomas said, "get playmakers the ball in space and get the ball in their hands.
"The high school level is unique, where it's not like college and you get out and recruit kids to fit a system. You get what you got. One year, you might have six linemen and power backs, so you have a power I. The next year, it might be built more on speed, and so you run more of a spead.
"You have to be flexible. We will build our system to the kids we have."
Thomas is overjoyed to be experiencing his football dream.
"I couldn't ask for a better group of young men to lead. The kids know me, know my personality, know how I am. It'll be different with me. There's always time to have fun and a time to buickle down and take things seriously.
"This group of boys, they like to laugh, have fun, have a good time. When push comes to shove, they really know how to get down and get to work. I couldn't have asked for a better group than what I have.
"I'm very proud to lead them."
Musselman's first game under its new coach will be Aug. 30 against Sherando., Va.


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Griffins are just as banged up as Detroit with injuries but players like Ilari Filppula, Cory Emmerton and Jordan Owens to name a few are still going strong. Should be a good game as Chicago has major beef with Grand Rapids after one of the Griffins enforcers (Greg Amadio) KO'd one of their guys with a devestating (but clean) hit.
Also, if any of you remember Adam Keefe, he's back in Grand Rapids and averaging a fight a game and playing well.
Expected Line Ups: (An educated guess, probably wrong)
Minard - Emmerton - Pare
Owens - Filppula - Johnson
Coetzee - Andersson - Ehrhardt
Rankin - Raedeke - Keefe
Janik - Meech
Kolosov - Pyett
Piché - Amadio
Goalie: Jordan Pearce
Injured: (Jamie Tardif () , Brendan Smith, Brandon Straub, Brian Lashoff) (NHL: Tatar, Mursak, MacDonald)
http://www.redwingslive.net (click the "griffins" tab below the logo) 7PM EST
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Touchscreen phone comparison Q3 - U.S. carriers
More and more customers are turning to their phone for driving directions rather than a separate GPS unit. The Vu, unfortunately, is not compatible with AT&T's navigator service. The iPhone currently only has Google Maps, though Telenav has announced they intend to bring their services to the iPhone. For now though, users cannot get voice-guided navigation on their device.
The Instinct is without a doubt the best mobile GPS experience we've had. Telenav is a wonderful program that goes well beyond simple driving directions by letting the user search for nearby businesses, gas prices, Wi-Fi hotspots, ATMs, and anything from tattoo parlors to dry cleaners. To say it was comprehensive is selling it short. While we wish it could go widescreen, the GPS directions look fantastic on the Instinct's large screen. The coup de grâce is the Instinct's Speech to Action function, which allows the user to open Live Search with their voice, speak to search for a nearby business and with one click be taken to a navigation session.
Rating: Instinct 5, Dare 4, iPhone 2, Vu 1
So it's great that you can watch a movie and download music and get baseball updates on your device, but at the end of the day if it doesn't perform as a phone than you just have a UMPC, and a rather poor one at that. So, how do the four stack up?
We realize reception will vary greatly around the country, but we live in top 15 metro area and tested the phones where all four phones had strong coverage. Using our seasoned test subject, we were told that the Instinct sounded the best, like a "landline" a "10 of 10." The iPhone was close behind at a "9.5," but sounded "a little more hollow." The Dare was "7 or 6, a little distant and garbled at times." Rounding out the four was the Vu, which sounded "a little hollow, the worst of the four. It sounds like a cell phone with lots of hum" in the background, especially during moments of silence.
We had some reception issues with the iPhone. There were several times we were not able to place a call, and it would drop calls from time to time. The signal indicator on the Instinct fluctuated wildly, often jumping from one to six bars, but despite this we never had a problem making or holding a call, and call quality did not suffer.
The iPhone won the battery test at 8:40 of 2G talk time, though that fell short of its claimed 10 hours. The Dare was next, at 6:11 which represents a one third increase over its claimed 4:40. The Vu was third with 5:30 of talk time and the Instinct last at 3:30. However, the Instinct comes with two batteries and a battery only charger, so the phone really never needs to be plugged in.
Rating: Instinct 5, iPhone 4, Dare 3, Vu 2.5
Of course not every feature is going to fall neatly into our previous categories. While the devices aren't exactly going head-to-head here, they are rated on what they bring to the table. If the phones were potential NFL draftees, these would be their intangibles.
First up is a very tangible number: price. The Instinct is the most affordable phone, at just $129. The 8GB iPhone and Dare are $199, and the Vu and 16GB iPhone ring in at $299. As far as value goes, the Instinct is pretty hard to beat.
Despite its low price, the Instinct includes the most accessories in the box. The user gets a 2GB microSD card, 2 batteries and a battery only charger, USB data cable, stereo headphones, leather pouch, stylus and of course the AC adapter. The iPhone includes stereo headphones and the USB cable, which doubles as the AC charger with the included adapter. The Vu gives the user stereo headphones and the AC adapter, and the Dare simply an AC adapter, though at launch Verizon ran a promotion where new activations set up online received a free 8GB microSD card.
The aforementioned Speech to Action on the Instinct is a logical extension of prior speech recognition programs. It is powered by VoiceSignal, which has long allowed you to open programs with your voice. Opening the camera, for instance, wasn't all that useful though. Now the user can open relevant items, such as weather, news, sports, movies and most importantly Live Search, in addition to the standard voice dialing services. For those not familiar with Sprint phones, Live Search is a local business search application which allows the user to search via voice, and utilizes the phone's GPS capabilities to deliver local results.
The Dare and Vu (we seem to be saying this a lot) both feature a more standard voice command program. The iPhone, however, comes up short and does not offer voice command of any sort.
The iPhone's App Store means that developers can finally take advantage of the platform and bring to market games, applications and business tools for users. We wouldn't exactly call it open, Sling will testify to that, but it represents a new direction for the iron-fisted Steve Jobs. The Instinct runs on an open Java/BREW platform, and Sprint has created a Developer Program for it, but we have yet to see anything come of it.
The Dare and Vu are much more clean-cut. As we covered in the interface section the Dare has some nice UI enhancements, but both phones are paper tigers to some degree. Their spec sheets and feature lists look impressive, and to an extent are, but they lack the experience that the iPhone and Instinct give. It's cool to use those devices, and the LGs just don't have "it."
Rating: Instinct 5, Dare 3, Vu 3, iPhone 2.5
174 Comments
1. (unregistered)
whoever wrote this review is an idiot and an apple fan boy how can a phone get a perfect 5 in almost everycatagorey, no phone is perfect especially not the Iphone. WOW can i get an unbiased review please. this is just rediculus cell phone reporting/reviewing.
2. (unregistered)
i have been reading reviews from alot of different sites n everybody has rated the iphone as the best phone out of all touch phones....there is even like 5 youtbe videos that has all the phones ( iphone...instinct...vu...dare...) n all of them says that the iphone is the best...there are only 1 or 2 things that the iphne doesnt have n the things that it does have tops the other phones.....just stop hating and face it...the iphone is the best n no phone can beat it when its hacked
3. (unregistered)
i don like iphone and i don use iphone and i'm a big verizon samsung i760 fan.. but there's one thing i agree.. the iphone is the best touch screen phone out there.. so don be mad at this article #1..
18. (unregistered)
they are not saying it is perfect. they said the top phone in each category would be the standard. that means the top phone got 5 by default. it may have barely beat another phone in a category but it still beat it and got the boost to a 5.
41. (unregistered)
DARE is so much better than the other ones! No questions asked.
54. (unregistered)
i'm not going to get into a fanboy pissing match about the I-phone ruling the world and everything else sucking.... But what i noticed during this review, is when reviewed by itself the Dare was highly reviewed and 95% of the"issues" mentioned in this review were never brought up in the other one I'm not saying the Dare is the best phone in the universe or that the I-phone sucks, it just seems more than a little biased that the Dare is trashed in this review in order to make the I-phone and even the instinct look like much more superior products This lowers my opinion of this site's reviews considerably
95. (unregistered)
and im not saying that the iphone is the best in the world becuase there are some features i world take from the dare the vu n the instinct to make my perfect....to b honest there is no prefect phone it is all in who ownes it.....
103. (unregistered)
I dont think u all read the last page of the review. On a average score rate basis, the instict is the best of the four. Dumbasses learn to read before you start making judgements and all the iphone freaks are stoooopid.lol
107. lessthanzach1 (unregistered)
This review is a wonderful way to market the cruddy INSTINCT. We have the verizon GLYDE by samsung and if that screen is anything like the INSTINCT's then it is indeed no comparison to the lg or iphone touchscreens. This review sucks.
117. (unregistered)
the glyde and instinct use completely different screen technologies. glad you based your opinion of the review off of your ignorance.
151. (unregistered)
Ok, because VZW has a crappy phone from Samsung, then this review sucks. Makes a lot of sense. How about you at least check the Instinct out before you spout idiotic comments. If you did, you would see there's no comparison between the two.
173. soundofclocks (Posts: 1; Member since: 17 Dec 2008)
Actually, the person who wrote this article is an idiot b/c the Dare is the ONLY one of the 4 phones that uses a resistive screen. The iPhone, Instinct, and Vu ALL use capacitive screens. Try using a stylus on any of the phones but a Dare and see if it works.
174. SellPhones82 (Posts: 569; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)
The Instinct comes with a stylus and it works on it...only the iPhone has a capacitive touchscreen of the four phones.
4. (unregistered)
this review is hilarious. this same site gives the iPhone 3G a rating of 8 and the LG Dare a rating of 9 in their individual phone reviews. Yet, when they compare the two, the Dare scores below a 3 out of 5 in most categories??? That doesn't make any sense.
27. (unregistered)
indeed. my thoughts exactly...
36. (unregistered)
Cause the dare sucks
42. (unregistered)
iphone sucks! DARE kicks everyones A@@ BEST PHONE hands down :-)
75. a1016neo (unregistered)
BYE BYE TROLL! STOP POSTING THIS GARBAGE ALL AROUND PHONE ARENA! I will look into a Dare once it gets a proper browser & E-mail, multimedia, 3rd party apps, and exchange support....
98. LessthanZach (Posts: 106; Member since: 29 Apr 2008)
its not a pda you moron, so I suppose you wont be looking into it...
132. (unregistered)
they gave it a 9 out of 10 in their review. That's usually a good score
5. (unregistered)
Why did the iPhone always comes out on top in these sites? It's because all these so called news blogs are AMERICAN websites. They will hype up American junk more than Asian excellence. These stupid Americans lost out in the auto industry with their sub par build quality so now the only thing they have is the iPhone. Apple is the one American company they think will save them from their reputation of mediocrity. It's so sad really.
6. (unregistered)
The iphone was built in California... but manufactured in "el Asian Excellence of China", where nearly all the cheap crap in America comes from. YAY!!!! This site is full of Verizon Wireless fanbois' and Verizon Wireless Employees, iPhone Reigns supreme.
7. (unregistered)
So you are saying that Americans are so inept that they can't even make their own junk? They have to use slave labor? Where do you Americans get your money to buy your horrible Iphones, Starbuck's, Big Macs and gas guzzling SUVs? Can't be from selling your houses. Oh that's right, the credit card companies.
9. (unregistered)
As Jeremy Clarkson said, "California, the land of fake teeth, plastic breasts and plastic houses" "Built in California...but manufactured in..China"
10. (unregistered)
Just another example of American education.
14. motoman117 (Posts: 15; Member since: 22 Jun 2008)
you guys are so pathetic. get over yourselves. the first comment is just a moron. You see, if you were SMART, and you did RESEARCH you would see that American cars actually DONT have sub par quality. but no, all you morons go out and buy your priuses....the hidious, expensive, japenese prius. When guess what, the saturn aura hybrid costs $10,000 less and gets same fuel economy. Saying that this review is biased is just crap. I hate the iphone, have posted it many times, but the fact is, its the best touchscreen phone on the market! Hey man, which would you have picked to win the comparison. Jeez, get real. I hate apple, and the phone is way overhyped, but is still good. Of course, you throw in a touch diamond and Xperia X1...hehe, forget it. What are you anyway, french?
16. (unregistered)
Hey #14 you need to do some research on cars. The prius base price is 3000 less than the aura hybrid, and the prius can get nearly 50mpg in the city, the aura will be lucky if it can get over 30 on the highway. lol always good to have your facts straight before you make a big post like that. Oh and btw im american and i have a japanese car so i must be a moron. Anyway, ill agree that the iphone is prolly still the best touchscreen phone, but that doesnt mean i like it :D
23. (unregistered)
#14 - about the cars ... american cars are way too huge on fuel consumption u cant ever compare it with a european car or a japaneese... america is the most poluting country in the world big cars, big engines, big fuel consumption, low performance i hate american cars... i dont have anything with american people but the cars.......... it makes no sense
31. (unregistered)
ya good luck getting your iphone 3 g to work.... i have 3g service everywhere i go east west north south you get here and there its sad really, i have an ipod touch that has everything an iphone has and it still runs better...
34. (unregistered)
ya number 23 america isnt the most polluted country its asia...i mean they have to shut down half the city over there when the olyimpics are goin so people with asthma can actually compete haha they def didnt do that over here
43. (unregistered)
I am AMERICAN and I have to say that AMERICAN products SUCK big time including iphone!!!
92. (unregistered)
Ummm, #1, actually look at the overall charge, Instinct gets more 5s than iPhone 3G did... I have an iPhone 3g and an Instinct and both does really well. iPhone is definetely the best ATT phone right now (comparing all the touch screen ones), and iPhone is definetely the best multimedia phone in the market right now (compared to all phones from all networks that does video/music), that's a no question about it. If you have still contract with Sprint, Instinct would be the best phone for the network. Dare is probably the best for Verizon but it really falls short even comparing it to Instinct (I had the chance to play with it for more than 5 hours). Before you put down a phone and it's feature, go and really play with it with unbias mentality. I'm no Apple fan but I think iPhone does what it promises to do (even my battery, 3g works better than my Tilt, Blackjack, Razr phones)
126. (unregistered)
The Instinct won this review. It had the best average score of the four.
130. bornlikethis38 (unregistered)
Product quality varies between items and companies not countries. I love my Saturn. I'm not prejudice against foreign cars. Why does poor fuel economy matter so much in the over all quality of the car. American automobile companies choose to make cars with less fuel economy. I'm sure the business have good reasons. Just be patient with them. Fuel economy only becomes an issue when oil prices are high. The thing that does matter between cars would be the reliability, and in my studies they aren't very far apart, Tho foreign cars with the exception of a few companies and some american companies are excellent in reliability. But don't go insulting them. If you have ever taken a business class you should understand to be patient with business.
133. (unregistered)
hey 34, Asia isn't a country.
143. (unregistered)
Everything else that's not U.S. is just another country so get over it :)
163. (unregistered)
"america is the most poluting country in the world" Wow. You're dumb. America has the highest standards in the world for pollution and safety, hence the reason why we don't get a lot of the fancy european and asian cars. They other countries get better feul economy because the cars don't have to carry around so much more weight from safety and emmissions equipment. Why don't you check out the pollution from China or India sometime and then say that America's is still the worst.
168. (unregistered)
I know!!! When is the last time America came up with ANYTHING?? All america has ever brought to the world is airplanes. Autos. Fiat currency. The stock market. Computers. The internet. Rock, jazz and hip hop. Gee...it actually seems like maybe America is actually innovative. So go ahead and continue to bash America with your thinly veiled jealousy. The funny thing is, we buy imports because we can appreciate quality wherever it is from. Pity you can't do the same. And for the record you can bash SUVs Big Macs and Starbucks all you want. They're waning in popularity here and growing everywhere else...wonder what that means??? Perhaps you should let go of your dichotomous thinking and realize that people are the same everywhere. America is a giant social experiment and almost everyone was invited. To hate a people for what leaders do is ignorant and shortsighted...and is this phone forum??? That being said: iPhone is great! Apple is an innovative and great company. The Instinct is a great phone too. I personally like Sprint because the fundamentals of the company are digital consistency. It's built on a strong network. It's just too bad that 1 man took the helm and crashed the plane into the mountain. And got several million dollars doing so. Gary Foresee practically ruined a great company with his megalomaniac ineptitude. Perhaps Dan Hesse will be able to restore the company to its former strength. The Instinct is a step in the right direction. And if anyone on this page knows how to read the Instinct rated highest. And also, condemning Americans for liking our 2 top choices for phones is ridiculous. Try building a network like Japan has on the footprint of America. The telecom industry has done very well considering all of the conditions placed upon them such as 911. Not 9/11, 911.
169. (unregistered)
Its because we like personal space. It's really that simple. If ANY country came out with a car that looked sexy, had power, lots of room, and had good gas mileage we would buy them by the millions.
172. sgdhgsdgc (unregistered)
actually its because we are to lazy to make our own products
8. G. Clooney (unregistered)
Oh my God! Is this a phone head to head comparison? Why there was not a comparison category for sound quality?, signal reception?, Network? battery? Isnt those things the most important thing of a phone? Let me guess, the iphone is the worst of all those categorys so thats why it wasnt put. This comparison is like reviewing mp3 players only in categorys like, UI, internet browsing and video features.
15. (unregistered)
i think the Dare would be rated higher if they compared those categories. Signal Strength is very good. Verizon Wireless (Best). Sound Quality and Battery life, iono.
55. (unregistered)
huh... nice catch, i thought this review was pretty biased before, then i realized they skipped over everything that matters on the phone..being able to use the phone i like the I-phone, it's a cool phone, but this peice must've been sponsored by Apple because the Dare & Instinct got shafted the vu got what it deserved though
93. (unregistered)
if you ever used ATT's 3G phones, you would know that majority of 3G Touchscreen PDF phone's battery sucks, other than the HTC 8525, the Tilt's battery and network quality is worsen than the iPhone 3G. So, if you have been using these equipment for long, you would know iPhone 3G isn't that bad at all... You gotta change your mentality when you are using a better technology. As mentioned, I have the Instinct and the iPhone both are pretty good and if you do look at the final average ratings, Instinct beats iPhone. So there isn't any bias toward iPhone... learn to read people.
136. G. Clooney (unregistered)
The problem with the iphone battery is not battery life, is replacement...
165. (unregistered)
RE: Why there was not a comparison category for ... battery? A: There was a battery life comparison at least for talk time... after all... it is a phone 1st. (Yes, more info such as standby/video/music time would be nice.) B.J.
11. The Administrator (unregistered)
While I do think this review is accurate, I think PhoneArena needs to do a way better job in terms of their reviews. Most of them are incredibly bias, especially towards Nokia and Apple: and this pretty apparent. The phone's individual subscores need work too... like the Dior scores are very inaccurate. My head just shakes with most PhoneArena reviews...
12. (unregistered)
Oh and don't forget the anti-verizon bias. While I'm no verizon fanboy, they are the only carrier that has decent service where I live. I'd buy an iPhone in an instant if it was on Verizon. But yeah, I'll never trust Phone Arenas reviews. I'm just here for cell phone news. :P
17. (unregistered)
You just helped me make up my mind to remove this site from my bookmarks. I have several phone blogs and wanted to clean a few site that were dead weight...thanks
131. (unregistered)
yea this site is so incorrect im not hatting on any phone i think the i phone is cool but i dont like att and dont think it is the best so im with verizon and i on a dare and it is amazing it has way more feature then this site tells u and the music crap is wrong it is only jumble if u just drag and drop it to the memory card on the phone if u use v cast it work like a charm puting it in alphabetical order and every set just right. if there going to do test they need to do them right and explore every aspect of the phone and tell us from there.
13. TNT (unregistered)
I have VZ but Ill admit the iPhone is supreme. Regardless of the missing features (which hasn't stopped millions of people from buying it), it truly has set the standard for any touch screen phone. I wish it were offerd on the network. . .
49. (unregistered)
ha ha it's called DARE!
19. Bornlikethis38 (unregistered)
the dare and vu had better photos than iphone and instinct. iphone has boring user interface because you can't put a photo on the main screen. I guess i just like pretty things, maybe I'm simply a traditional guy that likes his backgrounds to say something about his personality. I like the Dares interface cuz it looks kick as* and new. I can agree with the touch screen section, i had never learned about that technology before. I do think that the person who wrote this article is an apple fan and mostly likely uses an iphone so he uses that on a daily bases resulting in a uncomfortable learning curve for the other three phones. Making him enjoy them much less. just think of the beating a poor windows mobile pro phone would have taken from this apple fan. And to the naive iphone children out there: to say the iphone is the "best" is illogical. Each phone serves as a favorite to another who requires that choice phone meet their perspective needs. iphone has only caught one due to the success of the ipod and the cult pack of Charles Manson like followers. People always want to be liked so they experience what another individual has discovered and together as a unit of strength denounce competitors. be fair and logical. I welcome any response to this comment at: "firstname.lastname@example.com"
20. (unregistered)
I agree completely with you. I just want to see this head to head redone once the Touch diamond comes to VZW.
26. michias (unregistered)
"iphone has boring user interface because you can't put a photo on the main screen" Do you mean as wallpaper? If so you are wrong; you can and it is quite easy to do -- but you have to either take some pics from the iPhone or "sync" them on with iTunes on the computer (a Mac anyway; I imagine you can also with Windows but I haven't tried}.
45. (unregistered)
The Touch Diamond is coming to VZW? As muh as I have Verizon they have the network. WHEN!!?!!?????!!?!!??
76. a1016neo (unregistered)
iphone interface is boring??? The iphone is known for it's superior UI over other phones and sadly nothing is even close with the Ui of the iphone...
115. bornlikethis38 (unregistered)
Dude. I'm talking about the style, not the ease to use it. Actually i hate the way I have to Navigate the software to use it quickly and efficiently. To me any user interface is easy to use. The learning curve is what counts. Spend enough time with any phone and you will be an expert on using it. And everyone today wants there demands met immediately and are not patient enough adjust to a learning curve. They sacrifice the attributes of a phone that can better suite their lifestyle for user ability. and i still stand by the psycho-analysis that most people, especially adolescences and young adults, want what others rave about.
116. bornlikethis38 (unregistered)
I tried doing it on too separate occasions and I couldn't do it. thanks for informing me. I guess I was wrong.
120. bornlikethis38 (unregistered)
Can I just complain about something? iPhone: 9.Limited application store. I have nothin on this one. 8.No haptic feedback. It would be a nice touch but the the more efficient touchscreen technology makes up for it. Even though I have been hearing about a lot of iPhones freezing and the touchscreen malfunctioning. 7. No video recording?! Wow. Video is so much fun to record. Cell phones are supposed to make life fun as well as make calls. 6. Can't stream to a bluetooth stereo headset to listen to music. Music people would really find this useful. 5.No voice dialing. I wouldn't use it, but know a lot of people who use it with nearly every call. Missing this feature is really important. 4.No cut and paste. Now come on! My Samsung Sync lets me cut and paste. This is the kind of feature that is extremely useful for anyone and everyone 3.Can not use as modem. Useful for only a certain type of people. Not important. 2.No multimedia messaging. What!!! On the best multimedia phone ever! I don't believe it! But it's true. I'm use apple fans are irritated because they keep hearing about this fault. This kind of feature is so useful and fun to use. It really is a major dive in usefulness of this phone for most people. Even if I was an apple worshiping extremist this alone would drive me away. And don't go telling me you can just send it in an email because that would be part of data plan. Which so many people just can't afford to tax onto their already high priced plan and 200 dollar phone. But unlimited txting plans are only at 10-25 dollars. Much more economic. 1.Locked. I don't believe in locking a GSM phone with a SIM card. It's unethical and cruel. But its not really a big deal if your happy with AT@T. To view the video I got these from from is top hater choices from is on CNETTV.COM


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CQ Press ranks Logan metro area as safest in the nation
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Logan might have been ranked the safest metro area in the nation yet again, but Police Chief Gary Jensen isn't prepared to take all of the credit.
"I would love to tell you nothing more than what a great police department you have and say we are the sole agency responsible for this number, but it is simply not true," Jensen said.
CQ Press, a publication with ties to Congressional Quarterly, analyzes data submitted regularly to the Federal Bureau of Investigations by police departments all over the country.
Looking specifically at murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft, CQ ranks metropolitan areas in the United States according to the rate of those crimes.
According to data just released, the Logan, Utah-Idaho area, which includes Cache and Franklin counties, is the safest area in the country, with the fewest number of "type 1 crimes," as they are called.
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