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Have you ever considered learning computer programming? Chances are you haven't. Computer programming is something everyone can do, but most people don't realize how easy and rewarding it is. Computer programming is often viewed as something reserved for a "computer person." However, anyone can become a "computer person."
The uses of computer programming skills are numerous and very rewarding. Calculator programming is probably the most immediately useful of these. Most high school students have a programmable calculator such as the TI-84. A program written for a calculator can do anything a human can do with the calculator, so instead of solving tedious formulas manually, a simple program can compute them for you in seconds. This both speeds up and simplifies math and science homework. A short explanation on programming the calculator can usually be found in the user's manual, which is often available online. Batch programs, the PC equivalent of calculator programs, can automate tasks that a PC user would normally do manually. The Macintosh version of this is a language called Applescript. A new programmer might also learn HTML, an easy-to-learn text formatting language that has uses ranging from adding some color to school reports and projects, to the design of Web pages. Another language, Java, is a comprehensive language that makes processing data simple. It allows a programmer to easily create full-fledged professional applications.
Computer programming is an important skill to have, but many people are intimidated by the thought of trying to learn it. When most people think of computer programming, they picture indecipherable lines of numbers or cryptic phrases that look vaguely like English words. They think it takes a lot of learning to do a little programming and that it's difficult. However, saying computer programming is difficult when you don't know any computer languages is like saying addition is difficult when you don't know what a plus sign is. The easiest part of computer programming is, in fact, learning computer languages.
Computer languages are designed to be easy to learn. They aren't like traditional languages; they do not have a seemingly endless list of vocabulary and grammatical rules; instead, the rules of computer programming are concise and simple. Computer languages are structured very logically, and they don't include any of the grammatical irregularities that make learning spoken languages so difficult. And unlike learning spoken languages, it is not necessary to have someone teach you, though it is helpful. Libraries and websites are full of books and tutorials that guide you through every step of learning a language. A quick Google search will turn up plenty of these tutorials. If you do want a programming teacher, find out if your school offers any classes. The Williamsville schools, for example, offer classes at both the introductory and AP levels.
The most rewarding part of computer programming is being able to do something with what you learn. With some school subjects, the learning is all theoretical, with the application of knowledge in the future. Programming skills, however, have a variety of applications at every ability level. Even the most basic programming knowledge is enough to create useful programs or simple games. Computer programming provides the perfect outlet for creativity: It costs nothing to implement designs (except for the cost of the computer, of course), so your imagination is the only limit to what you can do. Just like the pride that comes with finishing a poem or piece of artwork, there is a feeling of accomplishment that comes with successfully running a program for the first time.
Computer science is, like computers themselves, very versatile. Unlike some pursuits, computer programming is useful at every ability level.


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But he can count on at least one cheering section inside Hollywood's Kodak Theatre, where he'll be taking the stage with fellow host Anne Hathaway.
"Grandmother is coming to the Oscars," Franco, 32, tells Access Hollywood. "The whole family is coming to the Oscars. That's one of the nice things about being the host is you get to invite a bunch of people, so they are all coming."
Franco's grandmother might even attempt to steal the spotlight, Franco adds. After all, she's already an Internet celebrity of sorts after her strongly worded Christmas video urging people see her grandson's movie 127 Hours.
"Grandma is coming and she might just be on camera," Franco says. "She can't wait for it either ... Every day she counts the number of hits that she gets on Funny or Die. I think we're up to 400,000. She gives me updates."
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Common Stock June 2015
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The June 2015 issue of Common Stock is now available to members online, containing a full report of the 2015 Competition, plus all the usual miscellany of music, history, discussion and news of events.
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A Piper's Head Re-appears
A welcome update to this ongoing tale.
We are delighted to report that the piper's head has been found and plans are being re-invigorated to restore this unique item of Scottish cultre to its former glory.
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Tail Toddle
An early setting of the tune, but one of the finest - David Young's Tail Toddle from the Duke of Perth MS 1734
Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame
Hamish Moore, immediate past Chairman of LBPS, was recently inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame. You can read about his achievement HERE
Calling all lapsed smallpipers!
Do you have a set of smallpipes, currently unused, gathering dust under a bed or in an attic?
Would you be willing to make these available, on loan, hire or sale, to an aspiring beginner in our music?
New Beginners' smallpipes class - Edinburgh
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For anyone interested in learning to play scottish smallpipes, the Edinburgh based Scots Music Group is offering a class for beginners. Taught by Ben Miller the class will begin on Wednesday 10th September, at Boroughmuir High School, between 7.00 and 9.00 pm and run for 12 weeks.
Jim Buchanan
We are very sorry to announce the death of Jim Buchanan, who died after a brief illness on August 1st. Jim served tirelessly on the LBPS Committee for many years, both as secretary and Chairman. He attended nearly all the Society's events and was much loved by all who met him; his warmth, geniality, wit and enthusiasm were infectious. He was happily married to Ann and was enormously proud of their three daughters and their grand children. He will be sadly missed.
At Last- The New Music Competition winners
It's taken rather a long while, for various reasons, but here are performances of the winning tunes in last year's Anniversary New Music Competition
1st The Jedburgh Ba' Game; Gary West
2nd The Gin-Drinker's Dream; Paul Roberts
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LBPS Annual Competition 2014 Results
Saturday, April 19th 2014
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- 1999
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- 2001
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The summer before her final year of high school, Knightley takes a brief hiatus to film Bend It Like Beckham, a boisterous cross-cultural comedy about an Anglo-Indian teenage girl who idolizes soccer star David Beckham. Knightley plays the main character's soccer-playing, tomboy, best friend. "Everything's changed for me since Beckham," Knightley says to PEOPLE. "It's been rather mad, but lovely."
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Knightley meets Irish model Jamie Dornan at a photo shoot in Manhattan, and the two start dating. The actress declines to comment on her relationship with Dornan but tells PEOPLE, "I think it's important to make time for the people in your life who you love and who love you back."
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Knightley stars in PBS' Doctor Zhivago, which requires a nude scene. "Nudity frightens me, but I will do it if I think it's necessary – or when it makes me giggle," she tells In Style. The same month, her third studio film Love Actually premieres.
- 2004
She's A Fighter
In King Arthur, Knightley plays Guinevere as a tough warrior in blue war paint. She undergoes three months of working out to build muscle and learns archery, horseback riding and sword fighting. "The Celts would've been fighting naked and painted blue, but there was no way I was going to do that," Knightley tells PEOPLE. "You don't want to see boobs bumping up and down on a battlefield. It would be distracting."
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Knightley and boyfriend Jamie Dornan decide to call it quits. Dornan later tells Britain's Mail on Sunday, "The man is meant to be the alpha in the relationship on the money and power front, and clearly I was not."
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Though she is rumored to be dating Australian deejay Kaz James, Knightley tells PEOPLE, "I've never met him. Never!" At least she takes their reported breakup in stride. "Apparently he has dumped me now," she says. "It's the easiest breakup I've ever been through." A month later, she takes on the role of Domino Harvey, a model turned bounty hunter, in the film Domino.
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LEWISTON – As a little boy, the Rev. James J. Maher used to travel to Niagara University from New Jersey to drop off his big brother for the start of the semester.
Now, decades later, Maher is coming back, but this time as the next president of Niagara.
Maher, 52, executive vice president for mission and student services at St. John's University, was announced Wednesday as the 26th president of Niagara and successor to the Rev. Joseph L. Levesque, who is stepping down at the end of the semester.
The transition will take place Aug. 1.
"I remember coming here as a little boy when the Buffalo Bills used to train here, back where the fitness center is right now," Maher said Wednesday.
"It sort of planted the seed that this is really a special place," he said. "In this life – in the priesthood and the Vincentian life – you can be taken in a number of different venues, but I happen to think maybe it's God's hand that I ended up back here."
Maher was introduced to the campus Wednesday in the Castellani Art Museum. He said he will lay out his vision for Niagara eventually but first wants the chance to hear from the university community.
"Father Levesque has done a wonderful job as president for 13 years, so I'm really coming into a situation where the university is in very good shape," he said. "There's a great administrative team. There's wonderful faculty. We have great academic programs."
Part of his job, he said, will be to build on those academics and tell the story of Niagara to the rest of the world to attract faculty and students.
"There's no greater gift than being able to work with young people and help them grow and develop and actualize their potential and make a contribution in the world," Maher said. "That's what's really most rewarding about this work, and that's what's most exciting to me as president."
Niagara – which announced Levesque's resignation in January – wasted no time in naming a successor and didn't have to look very far.
Maher has spent nearly three years as a member of the university's board of trustees.
"We have a bunch of talented young Vincentians on our board," said Jeffrey Holzschuh, chairman of Niagara's board of trustees. "It's clearly a way for our trustees and others to evaluate the talents of these individuals."
In fact, the board actually began a presidential succession plan more than a year ago and discussed the characteristics it wanted in a new president, Holzschuh said. When it became clear that having another Vincentian leader was a priority, Maher rose to the top of the list of candidates, he said.
Holzschuh cited Maher's leadership, energy, management skills and focus on students.
"We are extremely confident that this man will continue to move Niagara forward, building upon the strong foundation laid by Father Levesque," Holzschuh said.
Maher is a native of Maywood, N.J. His brother, the Rev. John Maher, is a 1976 Niagara graduate and worked on campus in several capacities from 2005 to 2011.
Maher, meanwhile, graduated from St. John's in 1984, but lived on Niagara's auxiliary campus for a year in the mid-1980s as a member of the Vincentian Service Corps.
He received his master of divinity degree in 1989 and a master's degree in theology in 1990 from Mary Immaculate Seminary in Northampton, Pa., where he was ordained to the priesthood May 26, 1990.
In 2004, Maher was granted a doctorate of ministry by Immaculate Conception Seminary and Graduate School of Theology.
Maher began his career at St. John's in 1990. During his tenure, Maher has served as campus minister to the athletics department; vice president of university ministry; and vice president of student affairs. He was appointed executive vice president for mission and student services in 2011.
"Following Father Levesque is not an easy thing to do, and I think Jim could do it," said Robert Mangione, provost at St. John's.
Maher – who taught at St. John's, as well – is a scholar who cares about delivering quality academic programs and respects the faculty perspective, Mangione said.
Not only does he have a strong character, but he shows a tremendous empathy for others, Mangione added.
"You're getting a great president," Mangione said. "I'm just so happy for him – but I'm really going to miss him."
Levesque will step down as president at the end of the current academic year but will remain on campus with the title of president emeritus.
Maher and Levesque have known each other for more than 20 years, and Maher said he looks forward to seeking out Levesque's advice and wisdom.
Maher said he will finish up at St. John's in June, then rest up for a few weeks so he can hit the ground running when he starts at Niagara.
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It's been a strange couple of days for Angus T. Jones.
One day after a video of the Two and a Half Men actor calling his show "filth" and urging viewers to stop watching went viral, Jones, 19, issued an apology.
"Without qualification, I am grateful to and have the highest regard and respect for all of the wonderful people on Two and a Half Men whom I have worked and over the past ten years who have become an extension of my family," Jones said in a statement Tuesday night.
"Chuck Lorre, Peter Roth and many others at Warner Bros. and CBS are responsible for what has been one of the most significant experiences in my life to date," he continues in the statement.
He adds: "I thank them for the opportunity they have given and continue to give me and the help and guidance I have and expect to continue to receive from them."
In his video interview on a religious website, Jones proclaims: "I'm on Two and a Half Men and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it … I'm not okay with what I'm learning [about] what the Bible says and being on that television show. You go all or nothing."
In Tuesday's statement, Jones thanks the cast and crew for their "support, guidance and love over the years. I grew up around them … I will never forget how much positive impact they have had on my life."
"I apologize if my remarks reflect me showing indifference to and disrespect of my colleagues and a lack of appreciation of the extraordinary opportunity of which I have been blessed," Jones concludes. "I never intended that."
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Now that the federal government has decided to sue him for fraud, Lance Armstrong plans to argue that the case against him is too old to pursue and that he never submitted a false claim to the government, according to a person close to Armstrong�s defense team.
The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, also told USA Today Sports on Monday that Armstrong�s legal team will argue that the government knew or should have known about doping on the U.S. Postal Service cycling team � but did nothing to stop it.
�We will say there was enough information (about doping on the USPS team) to put you (the government) on notice, and you should have filed a false claim before,� the person in Armstrong�s camp says.
The strategy shows the tightrope of technicalities that Armstrong will seek to walk after the U.S. Justice Department announced Friday that it has joined a civil fraud case against Armstrong under the False Claims Act.
Armstrong vigorously denied doping for more than a decade before finally confessing last month on national television. But the government�s case against him will not be about whether he cheated. Instead, it is likely to come down to legal issues such as the six-year statute of limitations and the legal definition of a false claim.
Another key question likely to be argued early: What did the USPS know and when did it know it?
�The law is that if the government knew of the fraud, you can�t prosecute someone for fraud,� said Tony Anikeeff, an attorney who specializes in similar cases for the firm Williams Mullen. �(The government�s argument) will be that he denied it vociferously for years and kept them in the dark.�
Anikeeff, who is not involved in the case, said a big early hurdle for the government will be the statute of limitations.
The lawsuit was first filed in 2010 by another confessed cycling cheat, Floyd Landis, Armstrong�s former USPS teammate. It argues that Armstrong and his associates defrauded the government through their doping scheme on the USPS team. Because Armstrong and others used banned drugs and blood transfusions to boost themselves on the bike, the lawsuit argues they violated their USPS sponsorship contracts and that the government should get its money back.
USPS paid $31 million to sponsor Armstrong�s team from 2001 to 2004. Under the False Claims Act, Landis can seek to recover triple that amount for the government � possibly more than $90 million, with Landis getting at least 25 percent as the whistleblower who brought the case to the government�s attention.
Armstrong�s attorneys will argue that the whole case should be thrown out because of the six-year statute of limitations, which started when Landis filed the case in 2010. At best, they will say the six-year statute bars all but one year of the USPS sponsorship from the lawsuit � 2004. In response, Anikeeff said the government is expected to argue that the fraud was concealed and that the six-year rule shouldn�t apply.
That�s why Armstrong�s legal team will argue the USPS knew or should have known about the doping issues long ago.
The person close to Armstrong�s defense said that as doping allegations swirled around the USPS team, the USPS didn�t investigate or file for a false claim but instead offered to hire a public-relations firm to boost its image.
If proven, this could hurt the government�s case.
Another issue the person said Armstrong�s team will argue is the definition of a false claim itself. The person said Armstrong never entered into a contract with the USPS or the government, so he could not have submitted a false claim to them. The USPS contracts instead were with Tailwind Sports, the management company of Armstrong�s cycling team. Tailwind also never certified that its riders wouldn�t or didn�t dope, the person said.
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PyCon is more than where Donglegate began. This year, PyCon boasted a record number of talks delivered by women. As always, they provided a generous financial aid program promoted by many diversity-minded groups.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
An inclusive developer conference in March for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language, PyCon 2013 was home to free workshops for children 7+ to learn Python from Katie Cunningham and Barbara Shaurette, a feminist hacker lounge hosted by the Ada Initiative, a huge PyLadies lunch and many booths in the expo area for the groups like PyLadies and CodeChix. These booths were not exclusive – in the span of half an hour, I watched several men purchase PyLadies shirts and get more information about the initiative.


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Hockey Canada posted a five-question discussion with Red Wings VP and Team Canada executive director Steve Yzerman about his takes on Team Canada's 2010 Olympic team:
February 28, Hockey Canada: Q: How does the pressure on you differ being executive director for Vancouver in 2010 as opposed to being a player in Salt Lake City in 2002? Jennifer Fong - Burnaby, BC
SY: I don't think the pressure is any different. I had certain expectations a player, to win gold, to play my part, do my role well and help the team succeed. It's the same thing in a management role. The goal is to the same, to win a gold medal. I will try to do my role well and contribute to us getting there. So really, nothing changes for me.
Q: There will undoubtedly be a lot of pressure on the men's team to win gold in Vancouver. Considering that fact, how much weight will you and your staff give to "intangible" qualities like leadership, the ability to thrive under pressure, and big game experience when picking players for the team? Meaghan Scanlon - Vancouver, BC
SY: I will put a lot of importance on those qualities, but I don't know if I can measure exactly how much weight. The more times a player has been in pressure situations, and has done well, the better. And that would definitely help that player at an event like the Olympics. Whether they have gotten that experience at the junior level, the Olympic level or the playoffs, we will definitely put a lot of importance on those kinds of things. That being said, we are in a bit of a transition period, with lots of Canadian players with Olympic experience getting older, and a lot of young talented players in the NHL now. So I think we need to look to achieve a balance there.
Q: What are some of the ways in which the players will bond as a team before the first puck drops? Brant Finley - Belleville, ON
SY: We will have an orientation camp in August in Calgary, where we will bring players in for three or four days. We have a lot we want to get accomplished then. And one thing is for the guys to get to know each other. Get them to spend time together at the rink and away from the rink, to get to know each other. We don't have much time in Vancouver, with us getting in a day and a half before our first game. So, particularly for the younger players, we want them to walk into the dressing room in Vancouver and know guys and feel comfortable. So that August camp will be really important, as it will really be the only time that we have for the players get to know each other before the competition.
Q: Aside from Team Canada's quest for gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics, what example should Team Canada extend to the nation's youth to continue its tradition of excellence in hockey, especially in view of today's world of socio-economic problems? Ron Friesen - Ottawa, ON
SY: Well, first of all, we want to win a gold medal. The whole country wants to. But I appreciate that there is a way to conduct yourself in this type of situation. I expect our players and staff to represent the country with pride, class and good sportsmanship. We are on a big stage and part of the whole Canadian team. Our young minor hockey players in Canada, who emulate NHL players, are going to watch every move we make, as I did when I was growing up. So I think it is very important that, win or lose, we conduct ourselves with class and good sportsmanship. I think this is very important for us to remember.
Q: Playing on home ice is usually considered an advantage. But could the added pressure of playing at home actually hurt Team Canada in Vancouver? Patricia MacDonald - Dominion, NS
SY: I think playing at home is always an advantage. The one thing that you can come up against, is that everything comes up so strong at the start - so much adrenalin - that you can expend a lot of energy at the beginning of a game and maybe run out of energy in the third period. It will be very important to manage that energy and that emotion early on. That's where experience comes in. We will have players who have played at home, or in North America, at a World Juniors, a world championship, or during the NHL playoffs. We want to use that energy to spur us on but make sure at the same time that we are not burned out at the end of games.


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CARROLLTON - Carroll County Commissioner Jeffrey Ohler says the $800 million natural gas electric generation plant planned for a 77-acre site north of the village is going to bring new jobs, tax revenue and discretionary income to the community.
But before any of that can happen, he said the commission is going to have to figure out how to cover the up-front costs of water and sewer extensions to the property - a problem he said they don't really mind tackling, given the upside for the county and its residents.
"It's really not a downside, but it's one of things we'll have to work on in conjunction with this project," Ohler said. "We need to get water and sewer out to the facility, which will be located two or three miles outside Carrollton. We're working on that now, we're in the process of collaborating with the village to provide water and sewer. And from a county standpoint, we have to figure out how to pay for it (over the short-term). We know long-term it will be supported."
Carroll County Energy announced Tuesday it plans to build a 700 megawatt plant capable of powering 700,000 homes on the property, part of a 233-acre farm roughly a half-mile east of state Route 9 and 2.5 miles north of Carrollton. The site is adjacent to Carroll County Community Improvement Corp. land designated for industrial and commercial development.
The company says the project will create 25 to 30 good-paying, full-time jobs as well as up to 500 construction jobs over a two- to three-year period.
The generating equipment will be powered strictly by natural gas.
"With Ohio's electricity needs continuing to grow and some 5,800 megawatts of conventional coal-fired power plants scheduled for retirement by the end of 2015 in Ohio, Carroll County Energy will help fill our generation needs with clean American natural gas," project manager Jonathan Winslow said in a news release announcing the venture. "This facility can be aptly described as 'efficient generation from a small footprint."
According to Carroll County Energy officials, the plant will use state-of-the-art natural gas and steam turbine technology developed by GE Energy in a configuration referred to as "combined cycle," which maximizes energy efficiency by allowing the plant to capture waste heat to generate additional electricity. It will produce 50 percent of the carbon dioxide and less than 10 percent of the sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide that a conventional coal-fired power plant would produce to generate the same electricity, and air-cooled condensers will minimize water consumption and wastewater discharge.
Winslow said they're in the process of completing the required environmental studies and obtaining permits. He said they'll schedule several open houses in the coming months to answer questions people in the community might have.
"There are still a lot of things we need to do," Ohler said. "But, fortunately, we have the time to do them. It's going to take them a long time to build the facility and it's going to take us time to get the infrastructure to them. It's going to take collaboration between the village and county. ... We've got one shot at this and we've got to deliver; not everybody gets the opportunity to have this type of facility in their county."
Ohler said the plant "certainly would be a great boost" to a budget-conscious school system.
"If you have a company putting up a major facility, that's going to drive real estate taxes up," he said. "They haven't had a school levy passed in 27 years ... so it's going to provide them with more income, that additional revenue will certainly pay huge dividends to the school. We can't speculate on an amount, but we hope it will be substantial."
He figures Carroll County was the logical site choice, given that they're "at the epicenter of the oil and gas business in Ohio," so major gas collection and electric transmission lines are already in place.
"They say one job created in a community typically generates another six or seven times that in spinoff, by people spending money," Ohler said. "That's exciting."


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Durango might be very welcoming to tourists, but wildlife scientists and city officials are collaborating to keep out unwanted guests of another kind.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is reimbursing the city of Durango for the $135,000 cost of 760 bear-resistant trash containers. The state�s goal is to fund as many as a thousand resistant containers in time for the bears� emergence next spring.
Scientists want to test the hypothesis that reducing bears� access to human food will reduce conflicts between bears and people, which have been escalating for years as urban development encroaches into bear country.
Durango, of course, is located in the heart of a bear habitat, which makes it a �perfect place� for the study, said Heather Johnson, a researcher for Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
A study at Yosemite National Park showed that bear-proofing significantly reduced bear-human conflicts, but the effectiveness of bear-resistant containers have not yet been studied in an urban setting, Johnson said.
Another recent study found that bear-awareness education has not been very effective in getting people to reduce the availability of garbage and other types of bear bait, Johnson said.
Common mistakes include keeping pet food outside or not taking down bird feeders in the summer, said Joe Lewandowski, a spokesman for Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
Bears have a powerful sense of smell, Lewandowski said. They can sniff out pizza boxes in the trash and even old french fries buried under the car seat.
A bear recently got into 14 cars in the town of Snowmass, Lewandowski said.
Lewandowski urged people not to take out trash until it�s time for pickup. Wrapping discarded food in a plastic grocery bag is also a good idea, he said.
Wildlife officers hate having to put down a bear, Lewandowski said.
�They�re magnificent creatures,� he said.
Some people wonder why bears are not removed to the wilderness as an alternative to being put down, but Lewandowski said there are no longer any places where they won�t get into trouble again.
�Fifty years ago, that might have worked,� he said, but the state has become too developed.
Foraging for human food is becoming ingrained among bears as cubs learn from the example of mama bear, Lewandowski said.
�It�s becoming a generational thing,� he said.
Because it�s difficult to change bear behavior, it might be easier to change human behavior, he said.
For the garbage-can study, Durango will be divided into four zones. An area with the bear-resistant containers and an area without the containers will be on both sides of the river.
The two areas with the bear containers will have about 500 containers each. The containers are a mix of 64 and 95 gallon containers.
The two areas without the bear-resistant containers are the study�s �control areas� so researchers can make comparisons and account for variables.
The borders of these areas are still being determined. The study is expected to take two years to account for different factors that can vary from year to year.
Because of the dry conditions, officials had expected more bear activity this summer, but gratefully only one bear has had to be put down, Lewandowski said.
The bear-resistant containers have special latches for an especially tight seal. The latches have a pin which require an opposable thumb to open.
City Councilor Sweetie Marbury can attest to their effectiveness.
She saw a bear come into her neighborhood and try to get into a bear-resistant container.
The bear knocked over the container and left claw marks, but could not get it open.
�The container held,� Marbury said. �So the bear left the neighborhood.�
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald
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Residents can drop off unwanted prescription drugs
April 26, 2013
With the growing trend of the illegal use of prescription drugs, local officials are encouraging area residents to be part of the solution and participate in National Prescription Take Back Day from......
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When the drug drop-off program was first implemented some time ago, it was supposed to offer a no-questions-asked alternative for disposing unwanted or unused medications, especially antibiotics, heart/BP medications, pain medications, etc., without releasing them into the water treatment system or the area river and creeks. I can't find any reference of that in today's article of the SG. Instead, all of the area police departments and the DEA are expressing faux concern for the "innocents" digging through their home medicine cabinets. I think they're really nosing around the drop-off centers...for what, the off chance they or their canine partners might nab an honest citizen who's trying to do the right thing by discarding a few outdated Vicodins or Fentanyl patches? If you want to participate in this program, my advice is to first dump all of those unwanted drugs into a sandwich baggie and discard the containers at a recycle bin.
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on February 22, 2013 - 12:01 AM
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What a strange line it is. It comes very close to the beginning of Tuesday's premiere of "Golden Boy" on CBS. (On at 10 p.m. for two weeks in the "Vegas" time slot. Then it moves to Fridays.)
To explain the weirdness of the line delivered by Chi McBride, you have to explain the premise of the series. Which is that a guy named Walter Clark (Theo James) becomes the youngest police commissioner in the history of New York City. He's explaining how he got that way to a New York Times reporter played by Richard Kind.
It seems that seven years earlier, he'd reacted heroically during a street shootout – killed a couple bad guys and saved a hostage held closely by one of them. Then he saved his own wounded partner.
On a wave of worshipful publicity, the police commissioner at the time told uniformed officer Clark that he'd get a detective's gold shield and the pick of any department on the force.
Young Clark chose homicide – not major cases as everyone else advised, but homicide. Cr�me de la cr�me. The pampered and spoiled kid's new department captain, of course, pairs the wildly ambitious new kid not with the hot shot of homicide but the wily old veteran just a couple years from retirement, a huge black bear of a man played by that memorable TV sourpuss Chi McBride (fondly remembered as the long-suffering school principal of David E. Kelley's "Boston Public").
The kid has much to learn for all his native ability, and the ursine and peevish old vet is just the right guy to teach him.
On their first day together, the old guy sarcastically holds the squad car door open for the new young detective with the direct pipeline to the commissioner's office. The kid makes a move to get in the car. The old guy closes the door right in his face.
He says, "What am I, Morgan Freeman? Open your own damn door."
Obviously, if you think about it the reference is to Freeman's chauffeur role in "Driving Miss Daisy," but using that one role to emblematize Freeman's whole extraordinary career is almost bafflingly nasty. We're talking about an actor who partnered with Brad Pitt in "Se7en" and Clint Eastwood in "Unforgiven," an actor who played God in a Jim Carrey comedy and Tim Robbins' pal in "The Shawshank Redemption."
We're talking about a fellow who won the American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award that had been previously won by the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles and John Ford. (All right, Freeman was a wee bit of a ringer for that one, but the transparency of the gesture didn't make it a bad one. )
Those awards are, to a shocking degree, all about who can sell big tickets to fancy-schmancy Hollywoodians, and in such a long and distinguished career, they obviously felt that Freeman had been such a popular man on so many film sets that he'd sell a lot of tickets.)
So why is this new TV show making gratuitous nasty cracks about an actor that misrepresent his entire career? Cracks that you have to think about a little to even decipher? And why is it coming out of the mouth of an actor as good as Chi McBride?
There could well be some behind-the-camera factor we don't know. But then, it also fits in with what the show is about – a new, ridiculously pampered fair-haired boy blasting his way into one police department division with an explosion of good publicity and all the jealousy and departmental nastiness his onset unleashes.
"Golden Boy," to be frank, is a bad TV show with a great subject – workplace jealousy, nastiness and hard feelings. I've only seen two episodes of it thus far, and I've got to say the basic idea is a strong one: what happens when a talented young hero so believes in his own publicity that he upsets all the touchy egos and feelings of his brand new co-workers, especially the hotshot only a couple years older who had gotten used to being the division's fair-haired boy? (You can, by the way, watch the entire pilot on CBS.com if you don't want to wait until Tuesday.)
Yeah. Sure. You can make a TV series out of that, especially a cop show.
But it really needs to be as well-written as it is well-acted.
It's not. Not even close. I'll say this – of the two episodes of the show I've seen, the second is by far the better one, and you really can't understand what makes it so unless you watch the pilot on Tuesday (or online).
It's a pedagogical romance, that ancient old form wherein the experienced old guy imparts all of his hard-won wisdom to the avid and needy young novice (See Virgil and Dante in "The Divine Comedy" if you want to get fancy. Or Falstaff and Prince Hal in "Henry IV, Part One.")
The creator of the show is Nicholas Wootton, a fellow with some nice credits ("NYPD Blue") and others not-so-nice or promising for this kind of show (he was the executive producer of "Chuck").
It's all in the writers. And you simply can't predict in advance what will result.
If you just looked at the credits for Robert Doherty in IMDB and Wikipedia, you wouldn't be much impressed by all of its generic fantasy. Nothing in his past life prepares you for the creative leap he took creating "Elementary" and casting Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu as Sherlock Holmes and Watson. Where on earth do flashes of invention like that come from? Lord only knows, but it characterizes the whole series thus far.
A whole TV series about workplace tensions among nasty, envious cops, full of backstabbings, maneuverings and naked hostilities, could have made "Golden Boy" something to see.
What I've seen so far is no such thing. It's going to take patience and dedication to sit down and watch that third episode.
What I still don't know yet – and probably won't until we get closer to the show's premiere April 4 – is whether I'll be able to watch more than one episode of the upcoming series "Hannibal," in which the mind of Thomas Harris – the most malevolently influential in all of American pop culture – comes to us completely unmediated and weekly in a TV series about (no kidding) Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter and his tormented FBI captor and advisee Will Graham.
They first appeared in Harris' exceptional book "Red Dragon," which was made by Michael Mann into the extraordinary film "Manhunter" and then, once again, in the film "Red Dragon" by Bret Ratner. What happened when Jonathan Demme and Anthony Hopkins got on the case in the adaptation of Harris' novel "The Silence of the Lamb" is, of course, crucial to the popular imagination of our time.
We've seen so many TV series so obviously in thrall and imitation of Harris' imagination that to some it might seem long overdue to make one directly out of his most famous character.
To others of us, it seems like one of the most truly awful ideas we've encountered in a long while.
Hannibal Lecter? WEEKLY? On an NBC series? Say what?
Could exploitation get more naked than that?
The series creator is Bryan Fuller, who previously gave us "Pushing Daisies" and, yes, that tragically short-lived little wonderment whose setting was just a few miles away, "Wonderfalls."
Turning Hannibal Lecter into a weekly banality amid a prime-time smorgasbord so full of copycats (the latest is Kevin Williamson's dandy weekly nightmare "The Following") seems, sight unseen, like one of the crummier TV ideas in a long time, even for a network with a recent history of clumsiness as rich as NBC's.
But hey, its creator was once smart enough to give us "Wonderfalls."
You never know what truly good writers can do on TV until you watch.
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Madisonville Community College maintains three campuses and several auxilliary locations to serve our community.
The North Campus is MCC's primary campus location. It consists of five buildings - the John H. Gray building, the Joe C. Davis Science and Technology Building, the Learning Resource Center, the Glema Mahr Center for the Arts, and the Brown Badgett, Sr. Energy and Advanced Technology Building. The following is a breakdown of what is housed in each building.
View a map of the North Campus
(Building directory by floor found on the next tab.)
The Health Sciences Campus' location next to Madisonville's Trover Clinic and Regional Medical Center makes it an ideal home for MCC's Nursing and Allied Health Programs. The Health Sciences Campus is composed of two buildings: the Hatley Building and the Allied Health Building.
The Allied Health Building houses...
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Approximately one quarter of the students who enroll at Madisonville Community College come from Muhlenberg County. The Muhlenberg Campus provides a convenient way for these students to complete their general education core. Once students have completed the general education core, they may transition into one of many academic programs. Courses are convenient for students with day, evening, and online offerings. Test proctoring services are also available through the MCC Proctor Center.
Learn more about the Muhlenberg Campus
The ACE2 and Assessment Center Location is the primary location of the Adult Centers for Educational Excellence (ACE2) program. ACE2 is the adult education program of Madisonville Community College and is administered through the Office of Community and Economic Development.
Madisonville Community College offers a limited schedule of credit and non-credit classes in Crittenden County at the Crittenden County Ed Tech Center. The center is operated by the Crittenden County Economic Development Corporation located at 200 Industrial Drive in Marion. The telephone number at the Ed Tech Center is (270) 965-9294 or toll free at (877) 965-9244.
College credit courses include general education courses in English, math, and history. In addition, the college offers the skilled nurse assistant course that leads to a certificate and prepares students for the state certified nurse assistant test. The course is also required for other nursing credentials. The college also offers basic mining courses to prepare students for employment in the coal mines or for the mining program at MCC. For a list of courses in Crittenden County, students can consult the college's on-line schedule and use the location filter to list only classes offered in Crittenden County.
MCC's Workforce Solutions also cooperates with the Crittenden County Ed Tech Center to schedule non-credit continuing education opportunities throughout the year on a variety of topics.
The Adult Centers for Educational Excellence (ACE2) program maintains a location in Madisonville's Parkway Plaza Mall. This location provides a convenient and non-intimidating location for adult learners to begin their higher education experience.
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on October 26, 2012 - 10:49 PM
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With Halloween right around the corner, police said several University at Buffalo students were having a special treat of candy-flavored marijuana when they got spooked by a raid Thursday.
Alexander J. Zito was throwing a party for the students at his Delaware Avenue apartment when Buffalo narcotics detectives arrived to discover chocolate-flavored marijuana, hard candy containing marijuana, 640 "Jolly Lolly" marijuana lollipops and 5 pounds of regular marijuana, authorities said.
The students were described as extremely high when the raid occurred at about 4 p.m. in Zito's sixth-floor apartment on the 600 block of Delaware, where $13,000 in cash was also seized, according to Narcotics Detective Sgt. Timothy Mulhern.
Zito, 26, allegedly arranges to obtain the marijuana on trips to California under the guise that it is for medicinal purposes and then has it shipped here through the U.S. Postal Service. Medical marijuana in California is legal under state law, but that is not the case in New York.
As police searched his apartment, Zito informed them he was a UB graduate seeking to return to the university and earn a master's degree, detectives said.
"One of the students was so high we thought he was going to pass out," Mulhern said.
Though Zito claimed to be unemployed for two or three years, he apparently was prospering. Police found records indicating his rent was paid six months in advance and the furniture in his residence was brand new. Business cards, Mulhern said, also were found stating Zito was the proprietor of a medical marijuana shop in San Diego.
An Internet advertisement for Jolly Lolly lollipops by another vendor of medical marijuana described candy versions of pot as a less-than-noticeable way to consume pot.
"These lollipops and lozenges make sweet and discreet medicating easy! Comes in multiple flavors and styles … the equivalent of 2 grams dried bud."
But different forms of marijuana were not the only thing Zito had, police said. Hashish and crack cocaine also were found at his residence. He was charged with felony possession of marijuana and cocaine.
Conducting the investigation into Zito and carrying out the search-warrant authorized raid were Detectives Carmen Clark, Mark Locicero, Deborah Mulhern, Kevin Biggs, Anthony LaPiana and Leo McGrath, along with assistance from K-9 Officer Dennis Kessler and his dog "Duke."
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on December 5, 2012 - 8:56 PM
FRANKLINVILLE – A Little Valley man was charged by state police with driving drunk after he was stopped for a traffic infraction on state Route 242 about 2:05 a.m. Tuesday.
Levi J. Brown, 35, registered a blood-alcohol reading of 0.17 percent, more than twice the legal limit, troopers said.
Brown, who has had a felony DWI conviction within the last 10 years, was charged with driving while intoxicated and ordered to report to Town Court later this month.


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A Kiawah Island resident shot his wife to death, then killed himself because he was concerned about her quality of life if he died from his medical condition, according to the Charleston County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies were dispatched to 78 Forestay Court shortly after 7 a.m. Wednesday after a 911 call concerning a murder-suicide, Maj. Jim Brady said.
They entered through the unlocked front door and found the husband and wife lying in separate beds next to each other, according to the incident report.
Each had a single gunshot wound to the head. A revolver was lying on the man's chest.
The Charleston County Coroner's Office has not released their names.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The cost of providing security to a long list of Republican governors, including S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley, who visited Tampa for the Republican National Convention, drove up the price that Florida taxpayers shelled out last year for security details.
A new report released Monday shows that the state spent more than $2.64 million on security for Florida Gov. Rick Scott and important visitors to the state.
That's the highest amount spent by the state on security in the last eight years and a 6 percent jump over the previous year. The report by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement covers spending from July 2012 to June 2013.
Other frequent visitors who received security details were Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and the governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Visitors to the state last year also included President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and other high-ranking elected officials from around the country.
The biggest share of costs — $2.2 million — was spent on agents to provide around-the-clock security for Scott, as well as security for first lady Ann Scott. This total also includes travel costs for security details. While security costs were relatively flat for the Republican governor, the amount spent on the first lady went up by more than $70,000 in the last year.
Besides the convention, FDLE provided security for six other trips by Haley, including two personal trips to the Sunshine State in late December and in March.
"I appreciate the fact that if we go to another state, they make sure we have security," Haley said.
Jindal had security provided on four different trips.
Florida agrees to provide security to visiting officials because other states foot the bill when Gov. Scott visits them.
"What they choose to expense their security at, versus what we expense ours at, you know, may be different," Haley said. "What I will tell you is that if any governor comes to South Carolina, we're going to make sure they have security."
That would include Haley's re-election campaign announcement on Monday in Greenville, which Jindal, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Texas Gov. Rick Perry are scheduled to attend.
"We will be utilizing our resources and personnel for the event and do not anticipate any outside expenses," said SLED spokesman Thom Berry. " The governors of the states that will be attending travel with their own security details. We will provide assistance to them while they are in South Carolina."
Florida also spent nearly $426,000 on more than 90 security details for visiting politicians, including Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his running mate, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan. A large share of that cost, however, came from security provided during the weeklong convention.
The state spent nearly $1,500 on a trip by President Obama in September 2012 and nearly $553 on a visit by Biden. The state also spent money on two visits by Romney and Ryan.
The new report also shows the state paid more than $7,000 to provide security for Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi during the convention and two other times.
Schuyler Kropf and Robert Behre of The Post and Courier contributed to this story. Follow Gary Fineout on Twitter at http://twitter.com/fineout.


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That night, less than a month after the pop star's first forced hospitalization, her father Jamie Spears "barged into the house, lunged at me with fists balled, and chased me around the kitchen island," her former pal Sam Lutfi testified Wednesday.
That night and the following morning are the central focus of Lutfi's battery lawsuit against Jamie and his libel suit against Lynne Spears, for which he's seeking unspecified damages. He's also suing Britney for hundreds of thousands of dollars in alleged unpaid fees as her manager.
"He was spitting, shouting and angry, saying I'd better leave Britney alone or he'd beat the hell out of me," Lutfi said of Jamie.
Jamie was ejected by Britney's security but allegedly returned the next morning. "He came in, started yelling at me, accusing me that I was abusing his wife [Lynne], cornered me in the kitchen, punched me in the [chest] and threatened to kill me," Lutfi said.
Earlier in the trial, Jamie's attorney Leon Gladstone admitted his client "touched" Lutfi to get his attention but denied that he struck him, saying that wresting control of his daughter from Lutfi "was a battle for life and death."
Death ThreatsLutfi broke down several times on the stand Wednesday as he testified about how Lynne Spears's 2008 book, which described him as a "Svengali" and said he drugged the singer, resulted in a "huge spike in death threats, mainly from Britney's fans."
The threats left him "depressed, anxious and suicidal," he said.
Under cross examination, Gladstone dredged up Lutfi's checkered past, telling jurors about four restraining orders against him, stretching from 2004 to 2010, only one of which involved the Spears family.
Gladstone read from the allegations of three separate men, including a former neighbor and a former roommate, all of whom accused Lufti of harassing them and sometimes their families, mostly via phone calls and texts. One man alleged that Lutfi hacked into his Facebook, Gmail and Twitter accounts and sent abusive messages to his family.
On the stand, Lutfi denied those claims.
Under further cross examination, Britney's attorney, Joel Boxer, pointed out numerous inconsistencies in Lutfi's statements about when he became the singer's manager.
Jamie and Lynne Spears are both expected to testify in the coming days. The trial is expected to last two more weeks.


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Ooops! Drop test pits Apple iPhone 5 against Samsung Galaxy S4
0. phoneArena 27 Apr 2013, 06:24 posted on
Can you handle watching what some might consider the top two smartphones in the world getting dropped to the ground in slow motion, with each impact and bounce hideously felt in the pit of your stomach? Check out the Samsung Galaxy S4 as it takes on the Apple iPhone 5 in a drop test; which flagship best handles a meeting with the ground...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. chistoefurpuffer (Posts: 140; Member since: 11 Mar 2013)
While I must admit I was disappointed at the results, it's still faired better than the HTC One, fact it's screen can be fixed at home.
Another thing though, it was Gorilla Glass 3. Come on now!
While I still love the s4, that's just a bit disappointing.
6. osmaankhaan (unregistered)
But keep in mind there's almost 20 grams deference in weight in both the phones
8. tashreef (Posts: 476; Member since: 24 Nov 2012)
then try Lumia 920.. its heavy.... its tough
17. haseebzahid (Posts: 1853; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)
yes lol they bash its 180Grams and yet it never gets scratched look at this puny SGS4 weights like 130g or 140g meh broken in third drop
105. Emily1985 (Posts: 127; Member since: 08 Nov 2012)
Nokia Lumia 920 Drop Test
Nokia Lumia 920 Destruction: What Does It Take?
144. akki20892 (Posts: 3901; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
hey men don't wake up that monster for this test........it will break the floor.
85. amats69 (Posts: 1432; Member since: 12 Nov 2012)
LMAO! so where are the Durable cheap Plastic and the Gorilla glass 3?LMAO! eat that sammy fanboys!
122. HDShatter (Posts: 1021; Member since: 17 Jan 2013)
Any phone dropped face down will crack. Samsung is actually the only company fixing this by switching to flexible screens with plastic.
135. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
Samsung is not the first and the only one who have flexible screen technology and maybe LG will be the first company who release flexible screen on the market.
So please stop you stupidity once for all!!!
158. chistoefurpuffer (Posts: 140; Member since: 11 Mar 2013)
Oh god you really need to calm down, clearly something has brainwashed you. I mean, I'm the second video, of course the screen cracked, it was dropped on its face. Go take your crap HTC and go under your rock.
159. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
are you talking about this video???
If you do you are totaly wrong dude.. what i mean is the video from androidauthority (Iphone vs S3) drop test
In that video you will see Iphone 5 fell on the front side with the same high (about 5 ft 6) just like S4
but Iphone still survived from that drop test
Let me tell you my mobile phone history Nokia, Sony Ericsson(not Sony), LG, Motorola, blackberry, and Samsung,
Until this day i never touch any HTC or Apple devices literally!!
Open your mind, and stop become closed minded fanboy
175. Galax3 (Posts: 19; Member since: 04 May 2012)
There were 2 dents on the front and back of the iPhone and no iPhone photo details for this test. He almost said the back got hit first. Hmmmm.....
185. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
Just pause or slow it down the video you will see that Iphone 5 got hit Front corner first
160. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
162. belovedson (Posts: 988; Member since: 30 Nov 2010)
who cares about test drops. i have seen plenty of broken screen iphones and sgs3 screens.
flexible plastic should remedy that problem.
also the sgs4 suffered a broken outter screen. the amoled is fine
171. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
its premium device not some ''CHINESE PLASTIC TOY'' so people really care with build quality
S3/S4 is not Premium and not Durable either but why it have premium price point.
What happen with samsung fanboy you complain about Iphone and other metal phone get scratches and dents,
Now you said is fine to have plastic toy (S4) with cracked screen.
Its so funny hahahha.....
161. belovedson (Posts: 988; Member since: 30 Nov 2010)
lg either stole or bought out the tech im sure. either way i dont care who comes out first. whoever it is will pioneer something great
173. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
you sounds like closed minded fanboy who doesn't know anything before you talk a lot just do some reasearch.
When you say something you must have prove
193. thelukewarm (Posts: 18; Member since: 18 Dec 2012)
it's made of plastic because of his huge octa-core processor, do you know how match is that? like 4 times bigger than the iP5, keep it in mind dude...
195. amats69 (Posts: 1432; Member since: 12 Nov 2012)
what is the connection of that "huge" octacore processor on this drop test?.ROFLOL..and does the "octa-core" processor of S4 helps the phone on this drop test?its not a valid excuse kid.go to your mommy and ask her to tell you a fairytale! Lol
22. lovenyc8 (Posts: 164; Member since: 13 Mar 2013)
Samsung s4 sucks its very laggy i saw it in the store they need to fix touch-wiz and now the screen breaks great Samsung. it broke damn fast and people where talking about the htc one at least the htc one took many drops to break not like samsung s4 it was damn easy to break.
163. wumberpeb (Posts: 453; Member since: 14 Mar 2011)
There is zero... ZERO lag in the S4. I highly doubt you tried one out or " saw" it in the store. I activated 4 at my Sprint store today, no lag. Nice try
Certainly not enough of an upgrade over an S3, but certainly if you have an S2
188. ebubekir26 (Posts: 318; Member since: 21 Dec 2012)
another idiot...
everybody tries the S4 in stores,, they open apps and don't close it
who knows how many apps are running in the background..that will obviously cause lag/
and i'm very surprised how many Samsung haters there are in PhoneArena
198. donfem (Posts: 646; Member since: 30 Mar 2011)
welcome to iphonearena
189. microsoftnokiawin (Posts: 1178; Member since: 30 Mar 2012)
i ain't no sammy fanboy but boy you're exaggerating too much
26. AmitMajumder (Posts: 178; Member since: 21 May 2012)
My only question to you guys who are saying S4's crap and lumia tough: What are you going to use your smartphone for? Use it to build a building or something like that?
You buy a premium smartphone worth a lot then take good care of it and it will last long!!! Put it into some cases or anything like that if you are too scared!!!
34. tashreef (Posts: 476; Member since: 24 Nov 2012)
once in a while every one drops their phone... no matter how good you take care of it....
So just assume ... I bought an GS 4 today and i dropped it accidentally.. and what if the result is like in the test .. then what ...? you want me to buy another one ... paying $800 ....
"better safe than sorry"
93. SoulEater1667 (Posts: 23; Member since: 18 Apr 2013)
As AmitMajuder said if you give 800$ for a phone either if is s4 or one or g or iphone 5, you definetly should buy a case ora bumper.That way rhe riscs to broke your phone is much much lower.
As the video show when s4 felt on it's edge the screen craked because the margins are not the strongest but if you have something soft like ruber it will absorb a part of damage and the phone will be safe.
199. donfem (Posts: 646; Member since: 30 Mar 2011)
So, what's your point? Will you spend "$800" and not buy a case? Or the fact that you paid $800 for your device means it is "breakproof"?
40. tashreef (Posts: 476; Member since: 24 Nov 2012)
You said premium ? Samsung ? ROFLOL.....
37. bojan (Posts: 188; Member since: 06 Oct 2012)
Samsung makes everything cheap even parts. Samsung uses plastics for GS4 not b-c of its advantages over metal, they want to save money and make even more profits.Why GS4 is so much more expensive than One? B-c of extra SD slot?
I think people are foolish to pay more for GS4 than HTC One.
49. umadden (banned) (Posts: 90; Member since: 14 Apr 2013)
plastic > cheap recycled soda can aluminum
70. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
not all aluminium is the same they have different processes
for example HTC One S use not one but two advanced processes to create the metal shell of the One S. The micro arc oxidation uses 10,000V of electricity to turn the aluminum surface into ceramic, which is said to be five times stronger than aerospace aluminum or stainless steel. That creates the
black finish of the phone. The second option is a more traditional anodized aluminum.
Check this it the comparison between Iphone 5 material ''Aluminium'' and Samung S4 material ''polycarbonate'' :
so yes aluminium looks and feels more premium than polycarbonate on S4 and the problem is not on the display but on samsung bad construction because other plastic device will survive when they droped on the side first even without GG3 display
premium and durability is 2 different things.
S4 is premium device but its not looks and feels premium, and absolutly not durable anough
164. belovedson (Posts: 988; Member since: 30 Nov 2010)
you one owners are halarious.
the tech behind samsung is superior to one.
amoled > tft.. nuff said most of the money goes to the screen and amoled owns tft and i think it owns lcd in terms of deep blacks.
oh if your not a fan of amoled
samsung pls or lg ips totally owns anything short of modern plasma
samsung can build quality outter shells like your precious one. however i dont consider aluminum quality material so i hope samsung uses another material
176. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
wow samsung fanboy is always off topic
hah Superior Iphone uses Ips (TFT)the colour is more natural than amoled, and more power efficient too.
don't believe me just check displaymate detail comparisson
between iphone 5 vs S4.
Even Compare to low resolution and low ppi Iphone screen Amoled not superior they are on par at best
eat that !!!
Aluminium that five times stronger than aerospace aluminum or about 3 times stronger than stainless steel And also scratch resistant too,
Its high quality and premium material.
Clueless fanboy like you will never accept the truth.
That samsung quality is sucks
186. CanYouSeeTheLight (Posts: 1116; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)
You are indeed narrow minded, HTC also uses IPS on their phones, plus an actual zero gap display which on my One X is much closer to the surface than any other phone i have seen and that includes the iPhone 5. HTC and Apple are both considered the best when it comes to display calibration.
187. amats69 (Posts: 1432; Member since: 12 Nov 2012)
HTC One with TFT? I think you should need to do some research
71. arsenaljimenez (Posts: 178; Member since: 03 May 2012)
It actually hit on the screen which is why it cracked. Of course the iphone wont break if it hit on the back. Stupid test
they should do test where they drop it flat on the screen
THat would be a fair test
102. jaymulli (Posts: 20; Member since: 09 Apr 2013)
But it didnt land on the screen it landed on the side of the phone on the corner, just like the iPhone did 3 times, the s4 landed on its back the first 2 tests which means i could have possibly cracked way before it did.
Plastic may be durable but when it isnt used correctly like the s4 it isnt good enough there is too much flex leaving the glass exposed, this is what happend when you want tiny bezels
99. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
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Turns out there is very little difference between GG2 and GG3.
148. akki20892 (Posts: 3901; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
one thing i have notice is that, anything with Nokia become tougher and stronger.
Example: Gorilla Glass 2 on others smartphones break easily, but with NL920 it's tougher and stronger.
100. ama3654 (Posts: 295; Member since: 27 Nov 2012)
Here is a better test
125. HDShatter (Posts: 1021; Member since: 17 Jan 2013)
Hey a non biased test that actually drops them fair! Gorrila Glass is a scam, if the manufacturer cared they would use sapphire glass.
139. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
don't blame GG3 because corning never said GG is unbreakable
they just said its durable.
Just blame Samsung for bad quality product
138. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
better in what to show GG3 is not strong anough???
The drop test only from 4 ft high.
Androidauthority test is legit to know how durable S4 compare to Iphone 5 because this day android (open) and apple (closed) are arc enemy.
And if you complain about the way S4 fell just check Iphone 5 vs S3 drop test video even Iphone survive from 5 ft 9 drop test
150. MEeee (Posts: 352; Member since: 19 Oct 2011)
You mean the video below.
You are too deep into Apple. Pull out of it.
157. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
i think you the one who too deep into Samsung but i can understand that maybe samsung paid you or you just closed minded fanboy
the video that i mean is from Androidauthority not appleauthority
and about those water damage test i think its so funny, with nanocoating every devices will survive from water damage, its invisible to the naked eye so for people who doesn't know about nanocoating they will be easy to believe
if Iphone really water resistant Apple will showing it off, just like sony with XPZ.
Not showing on youtube by someone paid by apple or just another die hard fanboys
165. belovedson (Posts: 988; Member since: 30 Nov 2010)
yudi you sure sound familiar. however, it's easier to make out what your trying to say.
we can gather you read up on the headlines that litter tech sites as much as we do. we understand nano-coating is awesome. but nano coating helps the surfaces of devices, when ports are exposed no nano coating can prevent water from gathering in those areas.
sony is pretty much done and so they are resorting to having to listen to people who give a dang.
all those years sony resisted to listening to its buying audience....when we said no to minidisks, weird rams, weird apps, weird and stupid charging and closed devices.
sony please go away. focus on the ps4. pleaseeee
168. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
you are totally blind dude....
You friend ''samsung fanboy'' showing me a vidoe of Iphone vs S3.
In that video you will see water drop test Iphone survived while S3 died.
And I'm telling him (your beloved samsung fanboy), i'm not believing that Iphone have water resistant feature.
Because if Iphone is water proof the Apple it self will showing it to us.
Not someone on youtube.
Sooo Stupid gooo away or just closed your mouth..... Okay!!
136. amiroo (Posts: 269; Member since: 03 Sep 2012)
S4 pretty good disappointed me..
One is much better in build quality ..
I prefer one over s4 every moment..
Plastic always looser and I so hope next galaxy will have aluminium. Body with much btter design.
good luck.
196. Leo_MC (Posts: 1476; Member since: 02 Dec 2011)
You must have a laboratory at home...
Dexter, it's you?
2. osmaankhaan (unregistered)
Blame gorilla glass 3 for that...
44. dickwyn (Posts: 621; Member since: 07 May 2012)
i think its the problem with the overall build because gorilla glass 3 is proven to be very durable. take the lumia 920 for example its using gorilla glass 2 but its one of the toughest displays out there
145. akki20892 (Posts: 3901; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
not it's not because gorilla glass 2 is on s3 and others smartphone but it's break, but on NL920 never break.....because anything is with Nokia it become tougher.
3. wendygarett (unregistered)
This guy need to be fired :(
btw, excellent galaxy s4
13. tashreef (Posts: 476; Member since: 24 Nov 2012)
how come GS 4 is excellent?
it shattered that's why ? LOL
15. wendygarett (unregistered)
Of course, that guy is paid by Apple for sure...
science proof that plastic is durable than metal and that's a fact... You guy just brainwashed by this manipulated drop test video...
18. kclgphilsbsa (Posts: 765; Member since: 21 Jan 2013)
Cmon wendy the plastc ddnt cracked its d gorilla glass 3.
19. haseebzahid (Posts: 1853; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)
lol "Android Authority" he said. and he droped Apple all three times on edges and SGS4 once on edge and it didnt survvied once so much for Samsung crap as always and L920 wins again
21. tashreef (Posts: 476; Member since: 24 Nov 2012)
oh really?... that guy was from "AndroidAuthority" not from Appleinsider ... stop this nonsense... Accept the fact...


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