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Wake up, Legends and Leaders, there's football going on. The Big Ten has had a rough go of it through the first three weeks of the season, with GameDay even taking shots at the conference by saying Minnesota and Northwestern were the 'class of the Big Ten,' and Week 4 isn't doing our smashmouth midwestern almost alcoholics any favors.
Here are some things that are going on:
- Wisconsin lost Montee Ball for the rest of the Badgers' game against UTEP to a head injury.
- Central Michigan is leading 20-14 over Iowa, and Chippewas' quarterback Ryan Radcliff is 13-15 so far.
- Ohio State has its hands full with UAB, with the Blazers blocking a Buckeyes' punt for a touchdown. tOSU is leading now, 21-12, as it certainly doesn't hurt when a team like UAB puts just 10 men on the field, like this:
Hey, there's still plenty of time for the Big Ten to turn it around today. If you can dream it, you can believe it. If you believe it, you can achieve it.
(h/t @bubbaprog)
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Big Red II
Cray and Indiana University announced this week that IU will be getting a new supercomputer to replace its current system -- Big Red. And guess what it's going to be called? Yep, it'll be Big Red II.
According to the info distributed, Big Red II will be a next-generation Cray XK, capable of one petaflops, and reportedly will become "the fastest university-owned supercomputer in the nation." (Presumably, that means it'll be slightly ahead of the University of Tennessee-owned Kraken, which is based at ORNL).
"Big Red II will be developed and deployed through a joint effort between Cray and IU to provide an innovative supercomputer that advances research particularly in areas related to big data," the announcement said. "The system will combine the longstanding leadership of Cray supercomputers and IU-developed technology for movement, management and analysis of massive data sets. The university plans to install the new system in its state-of-the-art data center in spring 2013."


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Reforming Kids
There are smarter, more effective and less expensive ways to reform misbehaving juveniles.
Rahm Emmanuel's dictum to "never let a crisis go to waste" may sound like a daunting challenge, writes our colleague Feather O'Connor Houstoun at Management Insights.
However, she argues, there is one reform custom made for these challenging times: juvenile justice reform. READ MORE.
Management Insights is published here on Governing.com in collaboration with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. The column is moderated by Stephen Goldsmith, a Professor of Government at Harvard Kennedy School (on leave), and deputy mayor of operations for the City of New York.
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Name: Michael St. Peter
Age: 18
School: senior at
Achievement: St. Peter has sung in the internationally acclaimed Chicago Children's Choir since 2005, is a regular featured soloist with the group, and has toured the country and the globe through the group's many performances.
Key to Awesomeness: Josephine Lee, president and artistic director for the Chicago Children's Choir, still remembers when she first met Michael St. Peter, as a sixth-grader.
"He was this bright light," remembers Lee, who has led the award-winning choir for the past 14 years. "He exuded so much talent and positive energy, and he was so focused, even as a young child."
St. Peter was accepted into the Concert Choir, the top performance group, as a boy soprano, because his voice hadn't changed yet. But even at such a young age, St. Peter came to Lee with an impressive résumé, having performed with the Children's Opera Theatre from fouth to sixth grade, appearing in productions of "Tosca" and "Midsummer Night's Dream."
Now, St. Peter is a senior at York High School, and is rounding out his seventh and final year in the choir. In addition to a rigorous rehearsal schedule, the month of December brings a dizzying list of performances, including a sold-out audience at Elmhurst's last weekend, a mid-morning live performance on ABC7's "Windy Ci y Live," and the choir's annual holiday concert, Songs of the Season, at the Harris Theatre on Dec. 11, where St. Peter will be a featured soloist in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy.
"The (Chicago Children's) Choir was founded out of the Civil Rights Movement to bring children of different races together through music," says St. Peter. "That's their mission."
He says that being in the choir has opened his eyes to new cultures, races and religions.
"I owe the diversity of my friends to Chicago Children's Choir," he says, describing the group of friends he's made through the choir as "tight-knit."
Founded in 1956, the choir now serves almost 3,000 children from ages 8 to 18 through after-school programs and neighborhood choirs.
The Concert Choir is the top performing ensemble in the organization, and through it, St. Peter has enjoyed the opportunity to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show in a performance with Susan Boyle, as well as in a performance with Beyoncé. He has traveled all over the United States with the choir, in addition to trips to South America and Prague. In 2008, St. Peter sang during a historic tour to the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.
Lee, a Chicago native, said the tour held a special importance to her since her father was born in North Korea and her mother in South Korea.
"We were the first civilians allowed in the demilitarized zone in this area that had never been opened to the public," says Lee.
When the choir arrived, Korean newspapers and TV stations covered the tour heavily.
"It was great. Michael was able to be part of that," she says. "We sang a Chicago Motown Medley with all these amazing American pieces and people went wild. It was like if the Beatles came back."
St. Peter will take one more international tour—to Italy—before he has to leave the choir family he's been part of for so many years.
"I've learned a lot about musical work ethic and a lot of self-discipline," he says. "It's helped me grow up and has been a really good outlet … and it's mostly because of the directors, Josephine and Judy (Hanson, director of choral programs).
"This child is one of those very rare finds," says Lee. "He can do the classics brilliantly, as well as the pop music. He's just a very well rounded musician and a team player, and I think he's going to be very successful."
As St. Peter applies for colleges and universities, he is looking forward to the next stage in his life and career. He's not sure where he'll be attending yet, but he knows without a doubt that he wants to major in vocal performance and become an opera singer.
"It was an easy choice," he says. "I've just always been singing. If it's something you love … then you might as well go for it."


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A final Advent post from Jason Wood
This will be my last post in this series, as Advent draws to a close and Christmas Eve approaches. It's been fun to share some of my favorite music for this season, and I appreciate the chance to do so. The Rorate caeli returns for the fourth Sunday of Advent as the Introit, this time with a new plainchant in mode 1.


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|Dear Sir
|New-York. 23d. November. 1785.
'Tis my duty to write you as well as my inclination—The first point I will not urge further than to assure you I am full sensible of it, as I know you are an enemy to useless words: The latter point, Sir, let me beg to be indulged in. I wish my Correspondance could be of benefit to you and I am willing to think it may perhaps at some time or other. Should it afford you any degree of satisfaction, the reflection that you are countenancing & instructing one just coming upon the busy stage of life I am sure will be an addition in my favor. On this sentiment I build, Sir, & feel heartily disposed to thank you in advance. Je me trouve dans la politique. This disposition, Sir, I have mentioned to you more than once, & I find it grows upon me. The air of my native Country has inspired me with more zeal than ever in her behalf. I long to be one of her Champions—But I am yet a weak one you'll say—True Sir—but you must assist me & I shall be strong.
Boston. 3d. December. 1785.
At the above period I was called away to embark for Providence; and now am happy in having it in my power to finish my from my father's house. I need not say how willingly the doors were set open to receive us after so long an absence. Parternal Sensibility you are no Stranger to, and suffice it to say, on the other side, that the feelings of the Child perfectly accorded with those of the Parent's—To Mrs: Adams I must refer you for the particulars of our friends; if you are curious to know them—
Shall I tell you some news, Sir? I mean what is news to me; tho' perhaps it may not be so to you—While at NYork I was much with Mr. Geary, which I am indebted to your letter for with Mr. King & several other Members of Congress, Mr. King has lately written you, and I desired him to continue the Correspondance; because you have often complained of being in the dark, as to what was going forward here, & as he is a man the most capable of giving you substantial information of any one I know. He has a great respect and esteem for you, & in his turn is in the highest estimation of any young man in America—His talents are universally acknowledged to be very great: he is deeply versed in the laws & politics of his Country, & withal is highly ambitious—He is nevertheless a staunch Republican—He assured me that your fears were groundless, as to their being French & Anti-french, English & Anti-English parties in Congress—that on the contrary there was no foreign influence whatever known there—but that the present Members were unanimously decided on the true interest & dignity of the U: States, and are men of perfectly independantCharacters—Why your original Commission to G: B: was revoked he did not tell me; but I found there was very strong opposition made to your late one. The Southern States, who you know ever regarded the Northern with a jealous eye, cried out violently against you. Give us one, said they, whom we know—who is acquainted with us & our interest—that we may rely on him— Accordingly Mr. Chancellor Livingston & Governor Rutledge were made Competitors with you & Colo. Smith was joined to them, that, in case the Principals fell, he might be a reserve—So it happened; for as soon as you were appointed, they in a manner insisted on his being appointed, and his being strongly recommended by General Washington, who chose to have all his family provided for, facilitated the measure—From this circumstance you will know how to view the appointment.
I found the People of NYork highly insensed against England, for their retaining the Posts: so it is thro'out; but particularly there. Yet 'tis universally that this ill-natured policy will tend yet more to strengthen the union of the States. I found the Southern Members to be warm & high for Navigation-Acts & reciprocal restrictions. Colo: Greyson, fm. Maryland, told me his State was about adopting our Navigation Act.—New-Hampshire has done it already; and Rhode Island & New-Jersey have empowered Congress fully to regulate their Commerce—The Southern States do not incline that Congress should have the regulation of Trade & Commerce in their power—The balle: between them & us, they say is against them, and therefore they wish to have the staff in their own hands—I hinted to Colo: Greyson that probably G: Britain, by way of Proclamation, might throw out some advantage to the Southern States; but he assured me that any such attempts to seperate them from us would be universally treated with contempt.—Upon the whole, Sir, I am inclined to hope that the Commerce of the U: States will soon be on a respectable footing, as I rely on our not being wanting in our usual perseverance & joint exertion. I understand that among the first resolves of Congress will be a Recommendation to the States to join in a general Navigation Act, & to encourage all necessary manufactures among ourselves; as I am told there have been many petitions fm several parts to their respective Legislatures to be encouraged—Our State has granted a bounty upon Oyl—£5:4: & 3: Pds: pr ton on the 3. superior Qualities, which, by making a saving voyage, may tend to encourage the fishery—How the Contract with France goes on I dont know: the prices I hear do not suit, nor the being obliged to take french manufactures in return—While at NYork I was told, by a Gentleman who came fm Falmouth in the English Packet, that Mr: Willm. Roach of Nantucket was surveying that harbor in order to establish there the fishery: that he had contracted with Government to employ a great number of Seamen & vessells and that great incouragement had been given him. But all this you are in the way of knowing better than I can tell you—
No wonder, Sir, you had not heard of the arrival of Mr. Lambe anywhere in Europe; since he was seen, so lately as the middle of October, in New-London—Why he remained so long on this side the water seems unaccountable, unless we take into consideration the Character he bears, which is that of an idle, drunken, ignorant man. Pardon me, Sir, speaking so disrespectfully of one wm: Congress have appointed their Minister; but, as it appears to be a party matter & as his Conduct has been so very blameable, I feel admissible what I say—
Thus much for general news. Our own State matters you will have fm better hands than mine. Our Governor is much respected & the Government is pretty well established: they have been long employed during the last Cession about a Valuation, in order to know our proportion of debt, & are now adjourned to February—Trade is very dull here—& we have frequent failures—Our Navigation Act many dislike, as it has carried much of our trade to other States—It has been altered in regard to foreign vessells. We have priviledges in several European States—I mean up the Mediterranean, but by our late Act we denied them the same with us—Now we go on the footing of reciprocity.—
Do you remember, Sir, being addressed by Dr. Holyoke , as President of our Medical Society, respecting a Correspondance with the one at Paris? You established one; but lately it has been stopped; & they have not even recd. their Journal de Medicine which was to have been sent out to them regularly. Can you give the Society any information on this head? Dr: Appleton wished me to mention this to you—
Since my return I have waited on Mr. S: Adams—He is staunch & plain in his principles: is striving hard against innovations & change of manners & politics—but striving against a strong Current he labors & can but just keep his ground—
Enclosed you have an account of our Whale fishery at Nantucket & elsewhere—as also the resolve of Congress, receiving and acknowledging Mr. Temple—so have only room to say I am, with every sentiment of esteem & respect, / Yr. much obliged, humble: servt:


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The first major official blog entry in the run-up to Warlords of Draenor was posted this evening, and if you were looking for specifics on race and class changes, you probably started reaching for the condolence booze not long after you finished reading.
But then you saw what Chadd "Celestalon" Nervig was doing over on his Twitter feed immediately following the blog's appearance. And you put the bottle back in the cabinet.
Below is each of the directly rogue-related post-blog tweets from Celestalon or PvP chief Brian Holinka, who also fielded questions for a while tonight. (I'm leaving out stuff on changes to racial bonus and general crowd-control changes for now, though they have obvious ramifications for rogue spells. You can read an excellent runthrough of all the tweets over at Wowhead.) I'll try to follow up with a more fleshed-out post tomorrow or over the weekend, but sadly I cannot promise I'll be able to!
On Tricks of the Trade
.@Sparkuggz Yes, Tricks of the Trade no longer increases damage. Yay!—
(@Celestalon) February 28, 2014
.@llewstevens @Sparkuggz Oh, yes. Tricks is free.—
(@Celestalon) February 28, 2014
@mmaubrey7 @llewstevens @Sparkuggz Indeed. We expect it to be used for helping pick up new adds, that sort of thing.—
(@Celestalon) February 28, 2014
On Preparation
.@ChritznL We're exploring an idea where Preparation becomes a passive. Details still being worked out.—
(@Celestalon) February 28, 2014
On Subterfuge
.@ChritznL @Venaliter Subterfuge no longer leaves the rogue in stealth but provides the rogue access to stealth abilities.—
Holinka (@holinka) February 28, 2014
On DPS Cooldowns
@Tanned_ Killing Spree and Adrenaline Rush for Combat, Vendetta for Assassination, Shadow Dance for Subtlety. Plus talents.—
(@Celestalon) February 28, 2014
.@ChritznL @Tanned_ Yes, Shadow Blades lost the roll of which Rogue cooldown to cut.—
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Nick Catone vs. Costantinos Philippou
I wish there were more positive intangibles in this fight but it doesn't look to be the case. Will Catone's 14-month layoff be worse than Philippou's short notice and UFC jitters? I'm not sure. While Philippou comes from a good local camp in Matt Serra and Ray Longo, he's likely only here because of his locality. In fact, Philippou has never competed outside of New Jersey and this will be his first fight outside of Atlantic City's 'Ring of Combat' promotion.
It's hard not to go with Catone in this fight. Ring rust will be an issue with his layoff, but I don't expect him to have a tough reacclimation. He's been here before. Catone's decision loss to Mark Munoz is looking better by the day and he has the reps in the cage. I think Catone finally gets his first stoppage victory in the UFC.


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Are you confused by advanced baseball statistics? Want to argue about them? Want to know more about a specific metric or the rationale behind it? Go ahead and discuss in this fanpost, I'll answer any questions you have, and I'm sure other people will pipe in as well.
Uhh...this needs to be 75 words long.
I subscribe to OPS as a quick and dirty, but it favors high SLG guys who don't walk nearly enough, like Alfonso Soriano. I'm not saying he isn't good, but he really, really isn't a leadoff hitter, just based on low OBP.
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Possibly the most important keynote conference speech for future humanity was delivered between 9am and 9.40am local eastern time on 24 January 2008 by Emeritus Professor Kennedy Shortridge. The event was 'The Bangkok International Conference on Avian Influenza 2008' (http://researchsea.com/html/calendar.php/eid/1553/cid/3/research/) and where the title of this world important speech was 'Confronting pandemic influenza : Just don't let it start' - http://www.thewif.org.uk/home/shortridge_thailand_2008.pdf . Professor Shortridge was the first person who determined that the human version of bird flu had jumped from human to human. Indeed he was the world leader in bird flu viruses and had spent all his life addressing these killer viruses. At the same convention there were the usual world-class scientists in the field and probably the greatest minds on the subject. It was also exactly 90 years to the year when the Spanish Flu emerged, the greatest human killer of all time and where statisticians have in modern times upped the number killed to 100 million humans from 50 million due to poor medical reporting in 1918 - http://www.bookmarksmagazine.com/book-review/great-influenza/john-m-barry
One would have thought that this world changing address that did not rely upon the vast sale of drugs (according to Forbes in 2012 the 'five' largest pharmaceutical companies have an annual turnover of US$770 BILLION and why the drug companies are so powerful) would have made world news but where it did not. Indeed as Professor Shortridge's strategy had stopped the pandemic breaking out of
So why is this?
It appears that because Professor Shortridge's speech was so mind changing and a threat to the pharmaceutical industry in how it addressed and stopped global pandemics that the giant pharmaceuticals behind closed doors had one way or the other to kill it off – indeed if a human-to-human killer virus was not there lurking in the background and threatening to emerge there would be no need for a vaccine. In this respect there would also not be the tens of billions of dollars in constant year-in, year-out sales in bird flu vaccines (Tamiflu et al) and that clearly could not happen. Indeed this strategy would kill it off for them and a major golden egg that provides them with vast profits year after year. But why it has to be asked when it was the only strategy that had worked and prevented the deaths of millions in
So what did big Pharma do to stop this strategy emerging that saved the lives of millions in
Indeed, when the article came out it gave major misleading information so that the damaging factor was of the very highest value for big Pharma's financial interests. In this respect and due to this, the major global sponsors would not fund professor Shortridge's strategy of a 'Source' strategy' that would never let it happen in the first place - the only one that has the propensity to save humanity from its greatest killer ever in the future. For by doing what they did, Big Pharma and Nature Magazine have condemned humankind to untold deaths in the years to come and all on the altar of greed and vast profits for the very few as usual. The only irony is that many or all of the loved ones of those running big Pharma and Nature Magazine will perish as well when it comes as it will…eventually.
But dealing with specifics within the Nature article it stated that Nobel Laureate Professor Robert Huber, a vice-president of the Foundation (he still is), had never heard of the Foundation. Robert would not because
But what was the genesis of all this? About nine months earlier the Foundation took to task a certain Dr. Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus (who also gave a keynote speech at the international conference in Bangkok it came to pass in support of pharmaceutical vaccines - http://afludiary.blogspot.co.uk/2007/10/bangkok-international-conference-on.html) as he had stated on a US pharmaceutical company's website that he was the first person who had determined that human-to-human bird flu had arrived. This was a total lie as Professor Shortridge had determined this and was awarded Asia's equivalent of the Nobel Prize, the Prince Mahidol Award, for this ground-breaking feat and work in
Indeed in the
Over time therefore, things came together and where the reasoning for the damning article became clear. As
Film Documentary - 'The Corporation : The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888wVY5hzw
Indeed if the Shortridge strategy took hold, they would lose hundreds of billions over the years to come as pharmaceuticals relied upon the myth that vaccines will always save us and where according to the time scales involved with producing a vaccine for the 2009 Swine Flu pandemic, they certainly will not and will always come too late. In this respect when analysis is undertaken with what happened with the Spanish Flu, most will be dead come the next time around and where a vaccine for the Swine Flu was not ready for manufacture until 7 months 1 week after the first confirmed death through the killer virus. Indeed in the first 6-months of the Spanish Flu which took up to 100 million lives and the biggest killer ever in human history, most were dead within this 6 month period, and some 1 month 1 week before a vaccine was ready for even manufacturing in 2009. If timescales are needed please visit - http://foolscrow.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/return-to-nuremberg-big-pharma-must-answer-for-crimes-against-humanity/
When it comes, as Margaret Chan (D-G of the WHO) has said many times it is not a matter of time but when, it will devastate global economics and make the financial meltdown look like a mere storm in a teacup. Indeed little known but true according to historical economic evidence from the time, the Spanish Flu nearly crippled the world. The next equivalent will certainly do so as through rapid transit systems today, the pandemic will spread like wildfire and have the greatest devastating impact ever on the whole of humanity, including the financial system.
The world has therefore got to get to terms with this and where we simply have to stop this madness of believing in a vaccine cure (let it happen and then try to cure it IF WE CAN) and adopt tomorrow the proactive strategy of NEVER LETTING IT HAPPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE (the Shortridge Strategy) – that prevention is better than cure and which has always been the preeminent statement in the medical profession. Unfortunately it appears that the pharmaceutical industry has even corrupted this philosophy for their own ends?
This is a warning to Humanity.
Dr David Hill
Chief Executive
World Innovation Foundation
As a POSTSCRIPT
Q. What's the quickest way to make bird flu go away?
A. Simply to 'Never let it happen in the first place' - http://www.thewif.org.uk/home/shortridge_thailand_2008.pdf
The problem with the present global system of addressing a future Avian Flu Pandemic and where it will come eventually as night follows day, is that it is totally reliant upon a 'curative' strategy; let it happen and then 'TRY' and cure it...the reactive strategy. What we have forgotten is the age old saying that 'prevention is better than cure'.
The reason why this strategy has not been undertaken is that the powerful drug giants (pharmaceuticals were a $770 billion industry last year and growing) are not in the market for cures per se but 'treatments'...
Reinforcing this fact visit the following concerning Prostrate Cancer and why there are no cures but treatments -
That is what the strategy of drug companies is, as if they cured things then there would be no need for their drugs. Therefore they will never kill the fatted calf and the reason why Tamiflu et al are treatments, not cures.
It is no wonder therefore that they killed off the only strategy through Nature Magazine that stopped the human-to-human killer virus in it tracks in
Hong Kong in 1997.
To know how devastating the Spanish Flu was the World Innovation Foundation would recommend that people look at the Video 'INFLUENZA 1918' by American Experience. Note that the Foundation receives no financial reward for recommending this video but states it in the hope that public opinion will do something before the next equivalent of the Spanish Flu is with us all.
It is no wonder therefore that they killed off the only strategy through Nature Magazine that stopped the human-to-human killer virus in it tracks in
To know how devastating the Spanish Flu was the World Innovation Foundation would recommend that people look at the Video 'INFLUENZA 1918' by American Experience. Note that the Foundation receives no financial reward for recommending this video but states it in the hope that public opinion will do something before the next equivalent of the Spanish Flu is with us all.


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Fashion Sense
Here's an interesting story.
Bullitt Central High School, Shephersdville, Kentucky. Two students are allowed to violate the schools strict dress code. Why? Because the school decides that the federal government's protection of religious garments supercede their local dress code, allowing the two girls to wear Muslim hijab headscarves.
Some white kid decides that this is a grave injustice (teachers scolded him when he wore the wrong kind of shirt to school), so he protests by wearing "a T-shirt with the words 'FBI' and 'Firm Believer In Christ' on it." Not surprisingly, the school told the kid that it was unappropriate. His mother then took him out of school (although it's possible that this was partially due to other conflicts with the administration), and the boy and his mother began protesting outside the school.
After several days, boy and mom were joined by the Klan.
As the Ku Klux Klan is known for their, decades of attacks against non-white people, it would be easy to see this as an attack on two Muslim girls. But nothing could be further from the truth. You see, the Klan is just ultra-sensitive garment discrimination, due to the mockery that their own garb receives in public. Therefore these daring, costumed rednecks decided to fight like lily-white tigers alongside the white boy and his white mother.
Boy and mother then say that things "went too far", and that they had never wanted the Klan to get involved. Fucking whatever.
Utterly bizarre, isn't it? Two girls who just want to wear headscarves and go to school inspire such anger in one boy that he lashes out against his school, and such hate in the local bigots that they show up in their Klan robes and wave Confederate flags.
I was very pleased to see that the school's students seemed to back the Muslim students, launching counterprotests against the KKK and posted messages of tolerance on their school marquee.
I liked this bit:
[Student Cayce Deaver] said that when she participated in a counterprotest last week with other students, she spoke with protesters standing with [boy and mom] and told them that federal law protected the Muslim students' cultural dress.
"They said I didn't understand because I didn't have white pride," Cayce said.
"I said, 'I have American pride.' "
There's an awful lot wrong with America, but Cayce and her pals are part of what's right with it.
[via Orcinus]
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Are you kiding me? You think this was an anti-muslim protest? Hell, I would have reacted the same way if I saw that a minority group was being allowed to flaunt their religion while everyone else was restricted from doing so. And I'm a hardcore agnostic. I don't have any strong religious beliefs, so my frustration would be because once again, one group was getting preferential treatment over others.
It doesn't matter that they were minorities, this kind of behavior is shameful no matter who is involved. And if you can't see that, than you are part of the problem.
Yes, it's regretful that the Klan decided to get involved, but I doubt that was at the behest of the parent and child protestors. Even if it was that doesn't change the fact that this was a disgraceful course of action for the school to take.
Comment by Rob — February 12, 2005 @ 11:45 pm
How the fuck were those girls 'flaunting their religion?' Is any Christian student forbidden from wearing a crucifix? Or are Jewish students forbidden from wearing yarmulkes? The bullshit hypocracy of some people is just sad, and the idea that Christian Americans are being deprived of their rights is beyond lame. Anytime the US wants to join the 21st century won't be soon enough.
Comment by jr — February 13, 2005 @ 9:54 pm
Well, France has bee grappling with this for
the past year or two. Head scarves are forbidden,
as is the overt wearing of religious-themed
jewelry (such items can be worn under clothing.
France pretty much took an across-the-board
approach. No one gets favored, and everyone gets
pissed off.
Comment by Grace Nearing — February 14, 2005 @ 4:44 pm
Grace, can Jewish students hide their yarmulkes under their clothing? Or Muslim students hide their veils? Isn't it the height of hypocracy to ban such overt symbols of Non-Christian faith, while allowing Christians to skirt the ban by wearing a crucifix under a sweater? Where is the parity here? No one gets favored? Not the way I see it.
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McCall hails "wonderful effort" as Saracens secure top-spot in Premiership (From Times Series)
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Saracens have secured top spot in the Premiership with a 44-20 win over Worcester at Allianz Park on Saturday
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Saracens secured top spot in the Premiership on Saturday by beating Worcester 44-20 in their penultimate league fixture of the season.
Director rugby Mark McCall labelled the achievement a "wonderful effort" after watching the Men in Black break the record for the most points secured in a Premiership season with a game to go.
"To win 19 games out of 21 in a season, and to score 85 points is a great achievement," McCall told Saracens' site.
"When we started we wanted to be a really consistent club and there's evidence that we are getting there. It's been a wonderful effort by everyone. You've got be proud about some things, so to have finished top of the tree again is a good thing. We've got more wins than last year, scored double the amount of tries probably, so it shows a real sign of progress.
Sarries were comfortably the better side as they crushed Worcester at Allianz Park, with a hat-trick of tries from Jackson Wray the headline in a comprehensive victory.
David Strettle opened the scoring by crossing the line after four minutes, with Chris Ashton running in two more tries for McCall's side.
Alex Goode missed just one conversion, adding two penalties to his personal points haul.
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On Sunday, my wife and I were at the Crossainterie in Paris at the 6th arrondissement. One minute I'm eating a creamed doughnut and drinking espresso when my wife suddenly says to me adamently "Rajon Rondo just walked in". I shrug her off because why the hell would Rondo be in Paris, right? My wife then looks at me square in the eye, grabs my arm and says, "Rajon Rondo is here, turn around now and go talk to him!". I turn around and see Rajon walk right up to the pastry counter. He looked like a kid in a candy store looking at all the delectable treats.
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I say "Rondo, my wife and I are huge Celtics fans, great to see you in Paris!". Rondo shakes my hand and says hi to me and my wife and immediately starts asking us questions about the food. "What's good here?" asks Rondo.
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I could tell Rondo wasn't interested in "shop talk" but was more interested in getting his "Croissant on" and talking about food and Parisian culture because Rondo immediately asks me, "Do you speak French?". "En peu" says my wife. Rajon goes on to say that his fiancé speaks better than he since she had four years of French.
Anyways, after a few exchanges back and forth, he wishes us "Safe Travels" back to Boston. We as well were leaving the next day. We then watched Rondo order one of each type of Croissant and walk away with his fiancé.
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Matthias Höchsmann, Björn Voss, Robert Giegerich, "Pure Multiple RNA Secondary Structure Alignments: A Progressive Profile Approach," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 53-62, January-March, 2004.
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The Nickel-Hoarding Billionaire
by Al Doyle ………
Imagine being very wealthy – possibly a billionaire according to some accounts. If a person had that kind of capital, what coins would they buy?
At a minimum, some rolls of $20 Libertys and Saint-Gaudens would make a nice stash for a high roller. If rare coins are sought, anything from U.S. Mint issues of the 1790s to condition census rare dates in various series are definitely a possibility.
What if the wealthy numismatist was interested in nickels? The 1913 Liberty 5-cent piece that recently sold at auction for $3,172,500 is definitely the kind of trophy that attracts big bidders. Dallas-based hedge fund manager Kyle Bass has a serious interest in nickels, but he takes a dramatically different approach than what might be expected.
Bass could easily afford coins in the six-figure and up range, but (for now) he is targeting much more mundane pieces. The contrarian investor sunk exactly $1 million into U.S. coins, but his purchase didn't require numismatic expertise or third-party grading. That's because Bass purchsed 20 million common-date Jeffersons at face value.
Why would a guy who deals in big numbers and sophisticated investing strategies bother with lowly nickels?
At the time of the mega-purchase of 20 million circulated nickels in 2011, the coins contained 6.8 cents apiece in metallic value per planchet. Nickel and copper have dropped since that time, and the current melt price is just under face value according to the Coinflation web site. Since Bass paid face value for his nickel hoard, there was no downside risk.
Obtaining such a vast amount of 5-cent pieces obviously requires more than ordering the coins through normal channels such as armored car companies. This multi-ton request had to be filled by the Federal Reserve. When the Fed asked Bass why he wanted a cool million in Jeffersons, he calmly replied "I like nickels."
The purchase involved deeper motives than what might be perceived as an eccentric act. Bass made his reputation on successfully betting against heavily indebted nations such as Greece and Ireland as well as the large pool of subprime mortgages in America. That naturally led Bass to invest in gold and platinum through his Hayman Capital hedge fund as well as with his own money. Since Bass has no fear in going against conventional thinking, the world's largest nickel hoard wasn't a huge stretch for him.
When famed author Michael Lewis interviewed Bass for his best-selling book Boomerang, Bass pulled a large gold bar out of his desk.
"We've bought a lot of this stuff," Bass told a startled Lewis. In Bass' case, he was talking about the real thing. No futures, no contracts, no "paper gold".
"Not gold futures. You need physical gold," Bass declared to Lewis. When the author asked Bass what investment advice he would offer to his mother, the reply was a blunt "Guns and gold."
Want to invest like one of the most successful hedge fund managers of the 21st century? You might not be able to afford gold, but anyone who buys firearms, ammo and nickels at face value will be doing a dead-on Kyle Bass impersonation.
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This seems like nothing more than a publicity stunt. A 1 million dollar investment for a billionaire is hardly worth his time unless he is doing it to make a statement. He won't see a meaningful return that will impact his overall well being. For a small time investor, making a return that is meaningful is possible though. However, I think it will be many years before it could happen.
No, I don't think it was just a public stunt. Rich people or poor, both hoard their own, of course on different levels. Bass bought a $1 million in nickels. So what? There is no risk. He can always take a $200 block / box to pay someone… weighs about 16 pounds though. And the investment is also relatively secure since it takes a lot of labor to empty his vault. I know, I had 3000$ worth of nickles and that was a back breaker to get them out of my basement. It's just good common sense these days to run your money past the "Banco de la Matrazza" (Bank of the Mattress). Rich or poor? The poor can easily at least stash a 200$ block full of rolled nickels. Even pennies (pre 1983)are a good common sense stash (although much more back breaking labor is required to move your stash). It's the poor man's stash. And if the rich are getting into it, what does that tell you?
$200 in nickels weighs approx. 44 pounds. a nickel is 5 grams. 20 nickels (a dollar) is 100 grams. a hundred dollars worth of nickels is 10 kilograms, approx. 22 pounds.
i'm just a thousandaire, but i hoard nickels too. there's no downside risk, and when inflation comes, your nickels will hold their value when your paper dollars fail. i recommend large sections of pvc pipe stuffed with rolls of nickels and stuffed in turn into thick shrubbery on your land until the melt value is at least 3x parity, which won't be long if the fed keeps jacking up the money supply.
While I agree that a million isn't a lot for a billionaire to part with (being 1/1,000 of a billion…) I don't believe it was about garnering a return on investment but rather the preservation of wealth.
He is betting on the Fed doing the same thing to nickels as it did to dimes and quarters after 1964. If you bought $1M in dimes in 1963, they would be worth over $16M now. If any person could get 7% gains every year for 40 years… you'd be a legend.
Just think of how much less copper and nickel will be on the planet in the next 25 years. Our species is consuming natural resources exponentially with no end in sight.
"Just think of how much less copper and nickel will be on the planet in the next 25 years." – Josh
My guess is 100% +/- 0.00000000001% from meteorites and rockets.
Correct. If you sold those 1963 coins in 1980 when Silver was $50 might have been easiest and greatest 16-year return on investment ever. At some point copper and nickel will soar. Might be in 10 years or 25. Start a collection for your newborn and see how much It's worth in 18 years. of course the mint's days of making copper nickels are numbered. it costs about 10 cents to produce a 5 cent coin. even Uncle Sam knows it can't keep that up. don't know why more aren't hoarding, but I'm glad they aren't. makes my teller much more likely to give me my weekly quota.
You need to remeber that $16M today probably can't even buy what $1M could back in 1963. As a results, I'd say this hypotheitcal character LOST a little purchasing power. He's have relatively effectively hedged against inflation though.
Well, I'd take him seriously about the nickels if he hadn't added the guns thing. If he's so rich, why isn't he smart?
Jason, now that is not a very smart thing to say about the gun stash. Any smart and enabled person stashes gold,silver, guns and ammo, and….. " F O O D " (either in physical form or in agricultural land with water. No matter how poor or rich, anything of that kind is better than nothing. You need to think about the basic preservation. Food, Water, Shelter, Clothing, Heat, trading/bartering, and production of some kind of a product that you can consume and trade. Prioritize!
Regarding your gun comment, I take it you are anti gun, anti second amendment and totally pro anarchy and pro Adolf Obama. Guns are a political agenda these days. In Argentina, I read, people are starting to hoard cars as a hedge against inflation…. How 'stupid' is that? Well, I guess anything is better than nothing, all according to anyone's level of desperation. Rethink your anti gun comment.
How much have you got?????
Ole Jim, if you mean me…one more question? Much of what?
You "take" a lot from my 7 words, "if he hadn't added the guns thing." And then, you run on about eleven things that were not in the article. From those points, I take it you're a gun nut, a screwball, a crank, a fascist himself who likes to call Obama by a fascist name but gets all confused about that. Or was that fair of me to "take it?" Hey, Thomas, we we were talking, I think, about a billionaire saving nickels. A billionaire could very well hire a small army with their guns to protect him. Do these comments or yours sound like a desperate man…especially when you are apparently psychopathically worried about "Food, Water, Shelter, Clothing, Heat, trading/bartering, and production of some kind of product." I have prioritized and I'm quite secure, thank you. How long have you been out of work?
Let me see if this makes sense. I am a Billionaire and I decide to invest in nickels. Since I have the means I buy a bizzioion of them and sit on them. How much space does a Million nickels or pennies take up. Smart investment. Nickel 5.0 > 6.8= 36% profit. Not bad for a day's work. How about the penny .01 > .02 = 100%(82 & before). That's even better. But the 64 dollar question is how to get the zinc or copper from the nickel or penny. Easy melt it down and bingo you have a new house in Malibu or a penthouse in the Upper East Side. Screech to a halt when the Federal Agents arrive at your door with a warrant for your arrest because you broke a federal law prohibiting melting of the penny & nickel. Now you get fined and possibly a vacation in prison. Total ROI a loss! The only way to melt is if the FED decides to eliminate the nickel or penny from circulation.
In simple terms. A very foolish move.
think out of the box, Tony. How can you proof what's inside of your metal bar when you melt your coins? A nickel or a penny is stamped. Everybody knows how much nickel and copper content (and zinc) each coin may have. If you melt it (besides the illegality if melted before you legally can), then nobody knows what you have for sure until they throw it into their furnace. I would advise against melting, especially while the nickel and the penny is a legal tender currency of the USA, but even after, don't melt your stash. What if you have a very rare valuable coin and you melt it?…. just a thought against melting your stash.
the prohibition of melting nickels is relatively recent. when a hoard of nickels is melted down into cupronickel ingots, the date marks on the nickels disappear. i don't have the means to melt nickels myself, but i bet kyle bass does.
Actually, JC, you would only need $7.60 to purchase what $1.00 would have purchased in 1963, so in effect,one would have doubled their money over and above inflation…
The only loss of real "purchasing power" comes when you're at the checkout counter, the price label said $12.79 for a twelve-pack, and the checkout person rings it up as $18.50. All else is hypothetical, including this scenario.
Look – Kyle isn't always right on his calls, he's missed a huge move in the equity markets. Lets not forget he was born with a gold spoon in his mouth. I do like his contrairian calls on investments. However the long gold call is not the right side of the trade. The nickel story is cute ; its probably some sort of 'melt' play and his trying to prove a point-my guess. Cheers.
I'm doing same thing on small scale. Get about $20/week in nickels in anticipation of selling then for melt value in say 18 years. Melt value was 7.3 cents per nickel not long ago. I think somewhere in next 20 years it will be at least 15 to 20 cents if not much higher. Quarters and dimes appreciated about 40 times between 1965 and 1980. Won't be long before nickel is no longer made of copper and nickel. At some point law will be changed and you will be able to sell nickels for melt value. Government will make a killing selling nickels but will also have to let me and you do same thing. Think silver coins post '65. Exact same thing will happen. I don't see how you have much to lose from converting dollar bills to nickels and a whole lot you may gain if copper soars in price one day. Everybody will start doing this when mint announces they are discontinuing copper nickel. Might as well start before the masses when you know all nickels are made of copper.
and it's great exercise to drag those $100 dollar blocks around with 2000 nickels inside. Plus, if you want to commit suicide, one bar around your neck will keep you under water just fine. Plus, while not 100 % burglar proof, you make your burglar at least work for his money. Each $100 block weighs around 16 lbs. And you have legal tender currency at home, as good as cash, it is cash…. And nickels are more likely accepted than pennies when you buy a big ticket item. If you are short on cash, you can always lean on your nickel boxes!
forgot one more benefit: Fire proof? Depending on your house fire, you stand a better chance preserving some value as with paper cash. At least the insurance inspector will more likely be able to see some melt residue of your stash than with paper…
each $100 block weighs approx. 22 pounds (calculation upthread).
If only "Your comment is waiting moderation" meant, "We're checking to see if you're really as stupid as you sound."
While I expect metals prices to rise in the future, possibly the best reason to hold nickels rather than paper federal reserve notes is to protect yourself from the government "zero-lop."
Zimbabwe's last zero lop was FIVE zeros. If you were there during that time, and had $1 million Zimbabwe dollars in your bank account, you awoke the next morning to find that your bank balance was now $10 in terms of the newly issued currency.
However, no country in history that did a zero lop EVER messed with the coinage. A nickel in the old currency was still a nickel in terms of the new post-zero-lop currency.
In terms of increasing purchasing power, that five zero-lop would have INCREASED the purchasing power of each nickel by a factor of 100,000. In effect, each nickel would be worth $5,000 in terms of the old currency.
The Kyle Bass $1 million investment in nickels would exactly protect his $1 billion net worth with only a THREE digit zero lop. A FIVE digit zero lop would actually INCREASE the purchasing power of his $1 billion by 100 times.
Some people may believe that hyperinflation cannot happen in America. The truth is that nobody knows what the future holds. Kyle Bass has protected himself with an insurance policy that cost him nothing.
I am more interested in how many war nickels or other rare nickels are in that million dollar hoard.


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I know that after the loss to Kansas State, and especially after the dismal performance against Stanford at home, we're all looking for answers. I don't propose to have these answers, but I can offer perhaps a different perspective on some of our issues. This summer, I was living & working on-campus while taking my final classes for my degree. Because of this, I ran into the football team a lot during meal times - going to and from the dining halls, and inside of them. Here are three things I've noticed:
1) One thing that I constantly found myself thinking was how much they were goofing off. As a proud Bruin, I was disgusted to see them sauntering out of the dining hall, slapping food out of each others' hands, and leaving it on the ground. They were loud, and just generally unaware (or worse - just didn't care) that there were other people in the dining hall trying to eat. Definitely didn't represent UCLA well (around other students and conference guests), in my mind at least.
2) The other thing I noticed in the dining halls is how poorly the players were eating. Granted, they work out far more than I do, and can eat pretty much anything, but I was regularly surprised to see their trays loaded with pizza, burgers, soda, pasta, and ice cream. This may not be a huge issue, but in thinking about just how out of shape they seemed compared to Stanford, I can't help but wonder if there's something to it.
3) This is the killer. My friend posted it on her Twitter, and I was furious when I saw it. It's a Facebook video posted by Malcolm Jones, so I'm not sure who all will be able to view it: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150253221210084
I couldn't figure out how to rip the video and upload to YouTube, but here's a rundown of it if you can't view it (and hopefully somebody else can view it to corroborate my interpretation). The team is doing some kind of pregame (probably the day before) walk-on of the field at Kansas State, and Malcolm Jones is "mock" interviewing various players. He asks them what they think about the field, the stadium, etc. One phrase that is repeated at least twice is referring to Kansas City as the "World of Suck". There's also a point where he asks CRN what he thinks of the stadium, and CRN's response is "Oh, it's amazing. Great place for victory!" They just generally mock the stadium (and, in my eyes, the team). Which of course, doesn't end so well for them.
To me at least, these things paint a disturbing picture. Taken together, they give me the sense of a team that is just goofing around, and not taking things seriously. A team that doesn't live up to the four letters they wear.
I hope I'm wrong. I hope these are just coincidences that don't have any real bearing on our team. I hope Kansas State was just a matter of too little too late. I hope Stanford was just a perfect storm of bad luck, and I hope we have nothing but good luck coming our way.
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This is most likely the last album released by Swedish grindcore legends, Nasum. It's the audio from their concert in Osaka, Japan recorded during their last tour of that country in 2004 before the death of singer/guitarist Mieszko Talarczyk. Also included on the cd is a video of the song "scoop".
I've found that many live recordings lack a quality mix to the point of being a muddied-up mess, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that the sound mix on this recording was actually very good. The vocals and instruments are blended together very well without any one of them being overpowering.
The most amazing aspect of this recording is the prowess of the musicians. As a long time fan of Nasum, I'm quite used to their brutally fast music. What's amazing is that they were apparently even faster live. They fly through 16 songs with a staggering velocity comparable to the speed needed to escape the earth's gravitational pull, and deliver that music with a crushing force equal to a nuclear bomb. This album is the musical equivalent to smoking four hits of meth and then taking a Ferrari Enzo for a drive into a brick wall while wearing lead soled boots. It's really fast and damn near explosive.
If you're looking at this album, then you're probably already a fan of Nasum and you don't need my puny review to convince you to buy it. But if you're one of those people who just can't commit to anything without assurances from others, then you have mine. It's the last album by what might be the greatest grindcore band in the world. Buy it!


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Apple Makes the Ultimate Google Phone
In a period of major organizational changes at Google, now is the perfect time to reflect on what drives them as a company and what they ultimately are aside from the creators of Chrome, Android, and your favorite search engine. A lot of discussion has been flying around lately about Google's intentions for the future: everything from applause for taking steps in the right direction, to accusations of abandoning some of their loyal fanbase with decisions like the death of Reader and an increasing focus on iOS apps.
The well-wishers of Google are to be commended for seeing the bigger picture and understanding what is best for Google as a company, and for users of its services. Those that cry doom for the tech giant are looking at the company with too narrow of a view. First and foremost, Google is about data -- it always has been and always will be. Secondly, Google is about making money from that data through as many different channels as possible. Everything else is a side product of those two overarching goals mixed with the passion of some of the most creative and dedicated people in this sector, and that includes Android. Google's own mobile operating system is nothing more than the means to an end.
"Google is raising the bar for quality and polish among apps available from the App Store."
So what are people throwing a fit about? Google apps on iOS. Google has had a stake in Apple's ecosystem since it's very inception, but now more than ever the company is pushing to bring additional services and their corresponding apps to iOS. More importantly, Google is raising the bar for quality and polish among apps available from the App Store. Some may even argue that the apps Google is making available now are actually better than their Apple equivalents (i.e. Maps) or their previously OS-integrated selves (i.e. YouTube). However, dedicated Android users are offended that Google is taking away what they believe to be advantages and exclusives of the Android OS.
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Given that Google is all about gathering data and finding ways to use it, they can't possibly ignore the huge chunk of people that use iOS devices. They have recently ramped up their efforts in regards to software on that platform and it shows. A year ago, most Google apps on iOS were just fancy browser skins. Whether they intended to or not, they have ended up making some apps more polished on iOS than their Android counterparts. My how the times have changed. In some cases, the Android apps still have their iOS equivalents beaten in number of features, but it would appear Google is just getting started. They're serious about iOS now. Regardless of what you believe, I'm here to make a case: the Apple iPhone is the best Google phone on the market today, and Apple doesn't even know it.
There are a few catches that come along with that statement, the most important of which is that in order to have the best possible Google experience on an iPhone, it should be jailbroken. The nice part is, it doesn't need to be. The average person can just use Google apps on stock iOS and never know they're missing anything. However, I still encourage jailbreaking if you're a power user. There are a number of reasons for this, but most importantly it is because jailbreaking is necessary to unleash the full potential of the core services and apps that Google makes available to you on iOS... but also because in order for the iPhone to truly best it's Android-powered competition it needs features and abilities that Apple has not yet seen fit to bestow upon it.
"The average person can just use Google apps on stock iOS and never know they're missing anything."
The core services I'm referring to are Chrome, Gmail, and to some extent Search. These apps, particularly Chrome, function better and more smoothly with access to Apple's Nitro javascript engine in iOS, which is only possible through the use of a jailbreak tweak known as Nitrous. Without access to Nitro, they are crippled right from the starting block for anyone who intends to use them as replacements for the default iOS apps. By giving them all the resources built into the OS, you're allowing them to function with the speed and capabilities that Google intended (or at least as close as possible). Other tweaks besides Nitrous are necessary for a genuine Android-beating experience, however.
In order to have a truly Google-centric experience on iOS, it's necessary to use additional tweaks to make Google's apps your defaults (presumably something you would want to do anyway). Once you've done this, it's like the Apple apps were never there to begin with. The change of defaults and unlocking Nitro for use by Google's apps would allow you to be Google user who happens to own an iPhone with little to no compromise in your use of Google's services compared to Android. This will be especially true if the rumors of Google Now coming to iOS prove to be correct.
Getting Google software set up and optimized is only half the case for favoring iOS over Android as a window to land of Google. There are so many more things you can do with a jailbroken iOS device, much in the way you can do with a rooted Android device. Since you have the opportunity to do anything you want, adding powerful yet simple features like notification center quick toggles and more advanced system tools. I have gone so far as to craft what I believe is the closest thing you'll get to an integrated Google experience on the iPhone while simultaneously adding features and making changes to iOS's appearance that just feel natural. Google themselves have inspired me to craft my vision of the ultimate Google phone… who would have thought it would be made by Apple?
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The iPhone taking top honors as a Google phone has as much to with hardware as it does software, though. Those two elements are blended rather seamlessly on an iOS device because Apple designs both the hardware and software and has complete control over the end experience. This results in iOS having an almost unnatural fluidity to it that is able to be achieved even on subpar hardware. Deeply integrating Google's services into this pleasantly simple and smooth OS is why I feel that iOS is the best way to experience them. But the experience is about more than just the beautiful marriage of Apple and Google software, it's also about the phone itself. One of the reasons iPhone owners cite when asked why they enjoy their devices is the build quality and overall feel of phone. Debates about screen size aside, no one can call the sleek industrial look of recent iPhones "ugly", not even the Apple haters. Beyond aesthetics, the phone just feels good in your hand and the switches and buttons all have a crispness that's hard to match.
For me, a jailbroken iPhone 5 is the best Google experience there is when looked at from all angles. It ticks every box on my list:
-An operating system that got it right from the start and has been polished and bolstered over the years into the smoothest mobile interface available today
-Unmatched capability from Google's own apps
-Apple's own App Store for everything Google can't do for me
-Build quality and good looks that are nearly unequalled in the Android world
Maybe an iPhone isn't the right Google phone for everyone, but for me and for many other people, Apple has built the phone that Google's services deserve to run on. Not everybody wants to be committed to Android to use their favorite parts of Google. Much like the Macbook Air running Microsoft's latest might be the best Windows ultrabook, a jailbroken iPhone might just be the best way to live with Google.