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a canadian furniture store owner woke up one morning and smelled the coffee.
he realized his company has truck routes that could help recycle wasteful plastic in a way that could provide jobs for people with disabilities.
garnet trucks making deliveries to his store in, new brunswick, usually return to the halifax, nova scotia, warehouse empty. but now, hauling used to a recycler.
he’s arranged to have the dartmouth adult services center break open the discarded cups, turn the leftover coffee grounds into compost, and recycle the plastic shells.
the center provides jobs for adults with intellectual disabilities and its director says the recycling project helps to improve their work skills.
k-cup single serving plastic pods of coffee have become extremely popular, but they produce a surprising amount of waste. been estimated that if you were to line up all the discarded in a single year, circle the earth 10 times. recycling them is labor intensive, but a perfect job for centers like the one in dartmouth to undertake.
“there is absolutely nothing that great about this project,” the director, cathy deagle-gammon, told cbc news.
check out the surprising products being made from coffee grounds
because wheaton sells and inside his furniture stores, he wants to recycle as many cups as he can, saying it is the responsible thing to do. to promote the program he is offering a worth of coffee products for every 24 brought into his store.
if the idea works on this one route, wheaton wants to expand it to his other stores and maybe one day use it a recycling model for all of canada.
(watch the video and read more at cbc news) photo: cbc video
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ə kəˈneɪdiən ˈfərnɪʧər stɔr ˈoʊnər woʊk əp wən ˈmɔrnɪŋ ənd smɛld ðə ˈkɔfi. hi ˈriəˌlaɪzd hɪz ˈkəmpəˌni həz trək rʊts ðət kʊd hɛlp riˈsaɪkəl ˈweɪstfəl ˈplæstɪk ɪn ə weɪ ðət kʊd prəˈvaɪd ʤɑbz fər ˈpipəl wɪθ dɪsəˈbɪlɪtiz. ˈgɑrnət trəks ˈmeɪkɪŋ dɪˈlɪvəriz tɪ hɪz stɔr ɪn, nu ˈbrənzwɪk, ˈjuʒəwəli rɪˈtərn tɪ ðə ˈhælɪˌfæks, ˈnoʊvə ˈskoʊʃə, ˈwɛˌrhaʊs ˈɛmti. bət naʊ, ˈhɔlɪŋ juzd tɪ ə riˈsaɪklər. əreɪnʤd tɪ hæv ðə ˈdɑrtməθ ˈædəlt ˈsərvɪsɪz ˈsɛnər breɪk ˈoʊpən ðə dɪˈskɑrdɪd kəps, tərn ðə ˈlɛfˌtoʊvər ˈkɔfi graʊnz ˈɪntu ˈkɑmpoʊst, ənd riˈsaɪkəl ðə ˈplæstɪk ʃɛlz. ðə ˈsɛnər prəˈvaɪdz ʤɑbz fər ˈædəlts wɪθ ˌɪnəˈlɛkʧuəl dɪsəˈbɪlɪtiz ənd ɪts dɪˈrɛktər sɪz ðə riˈsaɪkəlɪŋ ˈprɑʤɛkt hɛlps tɪ ˌɪmˈpruv ðɛr wərk skɪlz. ˈsɪŋgəl ˈsərvɪŋ ˈplæstɪk pɑdz əv ˈkɔfi hæv bɪˈkəm ɪkˈstrimli ˈpɑpjələr, bət ðeɪ ˈproʊdus ə səˈpraɪzɪŋ əˈmaʊnt əv weɪst. bɪn ˈɛstəˌmeɪtɪd ðət ɪf ju wər tɪ laɪn əp ɔl ðə dɪˈskɑrdɪd ɪn ə ˈsɪŋgəl jɪr, ˈsərkəl ðə ərθ 10 taɪmz. riˈsaɪkəlɪŋ ðɛm ɪz ˈleɪbər ˌɪnˈtɛnsɪv, bət ə ˈpərˌfɪkt ʤɑb fər ˈsɛnərz laɪk ðə wən ɪn ˈdɑrtməθ tɪ ˈəndərˌteɪk. ɪz ˌæbsəˈlutli ˈnəθɪŋ ðət greɪt əˈbaʊt ðɪs project,”*,” ðə dɪˈrɛktər, ˈkæθi deagle-gammon*, toʊld ˈsiˌbiˈsi nuz. ʧɛk aʊt ðə səˈpraɪzɪŋ ˈprɑdəkts biɪŋ meɪd frəm ˈkɔfi graʊnz bɪˈkəz ˈwitən sɛlz ənd ˌɪnˈsaɪd hɪz ˈfərnɪʧər stɔrz, hi wɔnts tɪ riˈsaɪkəl ɛz ˈmɛni kəps ɛz hi kən, seɪɪŋ ɪt ɪz ðə riˈspɑnsəbəl θɪŋ tɪ du. tɪ prəˈmoʊt ðə ˈproʊˌgræm hi ɪz ˈɔfərɪŋ ə wərθ əv ˈkɔfi ˈprɑdəkts fər ˈɛvəri 24 brɔt ˈɪntu hɪz stɔr. ɪf ðə aɪˈdiə wərks ɔn ðɪs wən rut, ˈwitən wɔnts tɪ ɪkˈspænd ɪt tɪ hɪz ˈəðər stɔrz ənd ˈmeɪbi wən deɪ juz ɪt ə riˈsaɪkəlɪŋ ˈmɑdəl fər ɔl əv ˈkænədə. (wɔʧ ðə ˈvɪdioʊ ənd rɛd mɔr æt ˈsiˌbiˈsi nuz) ˈfoʊˌtoʊ: ˈsiˌbiˈsi ˈvɪdioʊ riˈsaɪkəl ðɪs ˈstɔri! ʃɛr ɪt bɪˈloʊ..
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listen to this article:
you get one chance to make a fantastic first impression. just one. itself particularly known for its first impressions, and themes in general are notoriously difficult to get rolling.
sure, easy to install and upload a theme. but what happens next? why not make this first impression blow the user away, offering a simple, intuitive, and clever interface to help them get started?
introducing merlin
merlin (github) is my stab at addressing the tedious and exhausting theme setup and process. it makes installing a new theme, its recommended, settings, widgets, and demo content, an exciting and gratifying user experience.
a while back, david baker created a clever setup wizard class (github), inspired by the welcome wizard. while a solid move in the right direction, i wanted to build an wizard that was even more refined. so i did.
here’s a really short demo video i drew up to showcase the merlin experience:
and while i originally developed merlin as a to exclusively include in my own theme catalog, i soon pivoted and committed to building the class to be easily deployed within most themes.
how does merlin work?
i’m building merlin to be added directly into theme files. once added, you need to include the class, the file and then your own demo content files (content, widgets & data).
the configuration file makes it easy to customize any text string throughout merlin, as well as set the class directory and demo content locations.
and if you have included in your theme, merlin will “just work” with it, pulling the recommended right into the wizard.
i’m also working in support for software licensing, which i use to power my own shop, so that users can activate their license key during the phase.
so why did i build merlin?
there are a few currently available, such as one click demo import (ocdi), which import content well, but leave the user experience with quite a bit of room for improvement.
even with an compatible theme, the user is required to install (likely using activation), navigate to the admin page, and then run the importer.
but wait, backtrack to. now another process added to the mix. the user needs to perform a install and activation process to get any other recommended ready to go. sure, makes the process of downloading, installing, and activating simple-ish, but it has a convoluted approach that is not particularly user friendly. and not forget, any custom post type not installed will not be imported.
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now, if your theme is not compatible with (or any other importer), then the process is compounded extensively. locating xml files, installing and running the importer,, and widget, and then setting the home and blog pages.
that’s not easy for any user, not just beginners.
when will merlin be available?
i’m working on the finishing touches, software licensing support and a few odds and ends, but shooting for the end of august. be reaching out about beta testing merlin as well, so if interested click here to subscribe.
edit: the beta is up on github!
in closing
merlin is my stab at dramatically improving the theme experience. really excited about how easy merlin (github) makes installing and setting up themes really “next-level.”
hit me up on twitter, or email me directly if you have any questions!
also published on medium.
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ˈlɪsən tɪ ðɪs ˈɑrtɪkəl: ju gɪt wən ʧæns tɪ meɪk ə fænˈtæstɪk fərst ˌɪmˈprɛʃən. ʤɪst wən. ˌɪtˈsɛlf ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli noʊn fər ɪts fərst ˌɪmˈprɛʃənz, ənd θimz ɪn ˈʤɛnərəl ər noʊˈtɔriəsli ˈdɪfəkəlt tɪ gɪt ˈroʊlɪŋ. ʃʊr, ˈizi tɪ ˌɪnˈstɔl ənd ˈəˌploʊd ə θim. bət wət ˈhæpənz nɛkst? waɪ nɑt meɪk ðɪs fərst ˌɪmˈprɛʃən bloʊ ðə ˈjuzər əˈweɪ, ˈɔfərɪŋ ə ˈsɪmpəl, ˌɪnˈtuətɪv, ənd ˈklɛvər ˈɪnərˌfeɪs tɪ hɛlp ðɛm gɪt ˈstɑrtɪd? ˌɪntrəˈdusɪŋ ˈmərlɪn ˈmərlɪn (github*) ɪz maɪ stæb æt æˈdrɛsɪŋ ðə ˈtidiəs ənd ɪgˈzɔstɪŋ θim ˈsɛˌtəp ənd ˈprɔˌsɛs. ɪt meɪks ˌɪnˈstɔlɪŋ ə nu θim, ɪts ˌrɛkəˈmɛndɪd, ˈsɛtɪŋz, ˈwɪʤɪts, ənd ˈdɛmoʊ ˈkɑntɛnt, ən ɪkˈsaɪtɪŋ ənd ˈgrætəˌfaɪɪŋ ˈjuzər ɪkˈspɪriəns. ə waɪl bæk, ˈdeɪvɪd ˈbeɪkər kriˈeɪtɪd ə ˈklɛvər ˈsɛˌtəp ˈwɪzərd klæs (github*), ˌɪnˈspaɪərd baɪ ðə ˈwɛlkəm ˈwɪzərd. waɪl ə ˈsɑləd muv ɪn ðə raɪt dɪˈrɛkʃɪn, aɪ ˈwɔntɪd tɪ bɪld ən ˈwɪzərd ðət wɑz ˈivɪn mɔr rɪˈfaɪnd. soʊ aɪ dɪd. ə ˈrɪli ʃɔrt ˈdɛmoʊ ˈvɪdioʊ aɪ dru əp tɪ ˈʃoʊˌkeɪs ðə ˈmərlɪn ɪkˈspɪriəns: ənd waɪl aɪ ərˈɪʤənəli dɪˈvɛləpt ˈmərlɪn ɛz ə tɪ ɪkˈsklusɪvli ˌɪnˈklud ɪn maɪ oʊn θim ˈkætəlɔg, aɪ sun ˈpɪvətɪd ənd kəˈmɪtɪd tɪ ˈbɪldɪŋ ðə klæs tɪ bi ˈizəli dɪˈplɔɪd wɪˈθɪn moʊst θimz. haʊ dɪz ˈmərlɪn wərk? ˈbɪldɪŋ ˈmərlɪn tɪ bi ˈædɪd dɪˈrɛkli ˈɪntu θim faɪlz. wəns ˈædɪd, ju nid tɪ ˌɪnˈklud ðə klæs, ðə faɪl ənd ðɛn jʊr oʊn ˈdɛmoʊ ˈkɑntɛnt faɪlz (ˈkɑntɛnt, ˈwɪʤɪts ˈdætə). ðə kənˌfɪgjərˈeɪʃən faɪl meɪks ɪt ˈizi tɪ ˈkəstəˌmaɪz ˈɛni tɛkst strɪŋ θruaʊt ˈmərlɪn, ɛz wɛl ɛz sɛt ðə klæs dɪˈrɛktəri ənd ˈdɛmoʊ ˈkɑntɛnt loʊˈkeɪʃənz. ənd ɪf ju hæv ˌɪnˈkludɪd ɪn jʊr θim, ˈmərlɪn wɪl work”*” wɪθ ɪt, ˈpʊlɪŋ ðə ˌrɛkəˈmɛndɪd raɪt ˈɪntu ðə ˈwɪzərd. ˈɔlsoʊ ˈwərkɪŋ ɪn səˈpɔrt fər ˈsɔfˌwɛr ˈlaɪsənsɪŋ, wɪʧ aɪ juz tɪ paʊər maɪ oʊn ʃɑp, soʊ ðət ˈjuzərz kən ˈæktəˌveɪt ðɛr ˈlaɪsəns ki ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə feɪz. soʊ waɪ dɪd aɪ bɪld ˈmərlɪn? ðɛr ər ə fju ˈkərəntli əˈveɪləbəl, səʧ ɛz wən klɪk ˈdɛmoʊ ˌɪmˈpɔrt (ocdi*), wɪʧ ˌɪmˈpɔrt ˈkɑntɛnt wɛl, bət liv ðə ˈjuzər ɪkˈspɪriəns wɪθ kwaɪt ə bɪt əv rum fər ˌɪmˈpruvmənt. ˈivɪn wɪθ ən kəmˈpætəbəl θim, ðə ˈjuzər ɪz rikˈwaɪərd tɪ ˌɪnˈstɔl (ˈlaɪkli ˈjuzɪŋ ˌæktəˈveɪʃən), ˈnævəˌgeɪt tɪ ðə ˈædmɪn peɪʤ, ənd ðɛn rən ðə ˌɪmˈpɔrtər. bət weɪt, ˈbækˌtræk tɪ. naʊ əˈnəðər ˈprɔˌsɛs ˈædɪd tɪ ðə mɪks. ðə ˈjuzər nidz tɪ pərˈfɔrm ə ˌɪnˈstɔl ənd ˌæktəˈveɪʃən ˈprɔˌsɛs tɪ gɪt ˈɛni ˈəðər ˌrɛkəˈmɛndɪd ˈrɛdi tɪ goʊ. ʃʊr, meɪks ðə ˈprɔˌsɛs əv ˈdaʊnˌloʊdɪŋ, ˌɪnˈstɔlɪŋ, ənd ˈæktəˌveɪtɪŋ simple-ish*, bət ɪt həz ə ˈkɑnvəˌlutəd əˈproʊʧ ðət ɪz nɑt ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli ˈjuzər ˈfrɛndli. ənd nɑt fərˈgɛt, ˈɛni ˈkəstəm poʊst taɪp nɑt ˌɪnˈstɔld wɪl nɑt bi ˌɪmˈpɔrtɪd. ləv maɪ θim? əm ˈjuzɪŋ ðə ˈteɪbər θim. æd jʊr iˈmeɪl ˈæˌdrɛs bɪˈloʊ ənd aɪl sɛnd ju ə 10 ˈkuˌpɔn fər ðə θim. naʊ, ɪf jʊr θim ɪz nɑt kəmˈpætəbəl wɪθ (ər ˈɛni ˈəðər ˌɪmˈpɔrtər), ðɛn ðə ˈprɔˌsɛs ɪz kəmˈpaʊndɪd ɪkˈstɛnsɪvli. ˈloʊˌkeɪtɪŋ ˌɛkˌsɛˈmɛl faɪlz, ˌɪnˈstɔlɪŋ ənd ˈrənɪŋ ðə ˌɪmˈpɔrtər,, ənd ˈwɪʤɪt, ənd ðɛn ˈsɛtɪŋ ðə hoʊm ənd blɔg ˈpeɪʤɪz. nɑt ˈizi fər ˈɛni ˈjuzər, nɑt ʤɪst bɪˈgɪnərz. wɪn wɪl ˈmərlɪn bi əˈveɪləbəl? ˈwərkɪŋ ɔn ðə ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ ˈtəʧɪz, ˈsɔfˌwɛr ˈlaɪsənsɪŋ səˈpɔrt ənd ə fju ɑdz ənd ɛndz, bət ˈʃutɪŋ fər ðə ɛnd əv ˈɔgəst. bi ˈriʧɪŋ aʊt əˈbaʊt ˈbeɪtə ˈtɛstɪŋ ˈmərlɪn ɛz wɛl, soʊ ɪf ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪd klɪk hir tɪ səbˈskraɪb. ˈɛdət: ðə ˈbeɪtə ɪz əp ɔn github*! ɪn ˈkloʊzɪŋ ˈmərlɪn ɪz maɪ stæb æt drəˈmætɪkəli ˌɪmˈpruvɪŋ ðə θim ɪkˈspɪriəns. ˈrɪli ɪkˈsaɪtɪd əˈbaʊt haʊ ˈizi ˈmərlɪn (github*) meɪks ˌɪnˈstɔlɪŋ ənd ˈsɛtɪŋ əp θimz ˈrɪli ““next-level.”*.” hɪt mi əp ɔn tˈwɪtər, ər iˈmeɪl mi dɪˈrɛkli ɪf ju hæv ˈɛni kˈwɛsʧənz! ˈɔlsoʊ ˈpəblɪʃt ɔn ˈmidiəm.
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what is markdown?
it’s a plain text format for writing structured documents, based on conventions from email and usenet.
learn markdown in 60 seconds
who created markdown?
it was developed in 2004 by john gruber, who wrote the first converter in perl, and it soon became widely used in websites. by 2014 there were dozens of in many languages.
why is needed?
john canonical description of syntax does not specify the syntax unambiguously.
in the absence of a spec, early consulted the original code to resolve these ambiguities. but was quite buggy, and gave manifestly bad results in many cases, so it was not a satisfactory replacement for a spec. was last updated december 17 th , 2004.
because there is no unambiguous spec, have diverged considerably over the last 10 years. as a result, users are often surprised to find that a document that renders one way on one system (say, a wiki) renders differently on another (say, converting to using pandoc). to make matters worse, because nothing in markdown counts as a “syntax error,” the divergence often discovered right away.
there’s no standard test suite for markdown; is the closest thing we have. the only way to resolve markdown ambiguities and inconsistencies is babelmark, which compares the output of 20+ of markdown against each other to see if a consensus emerges.
we propose a standard, unambiguous syntax specification for markdown, along with a suite of comprehensive tests to validate markdown against this specification. we believe this is necessary, even essential, for the future of markdown.
that’s what we call.
who are you?
we’re a group of markdown fans who either work at companies with industrial scale deployments of markdown, have written markdown parsers, have extensive experience supporting markdown with end users or all of the above.
john macfarlane ,
, david greenspan ,
, marti ,@github.com
,@github.com neil williams ,
, benjamin der ,
, jeff atwood,
how can i help?
exercise our reference, or find a community implementation in your preferred environment or language. provide feedback!
if a implementation does not already exist in your preferred environment or language, try implementing your own parser. one of our major goals is to strongly specify markdown, and to eliminate the many old inconsistencies and ambiguities that made using markdown so difficult. did we succeed?
where can i find it?
the specification.
reference implementation and validation test suite on.
public discussion area and mailing list via discourse.
quick reference card and interactive tutorial for learning markdown.
live testing tool powered by the reference implementation.
when is the spec final?
the current version of the spec is complete, and quite robust after a year of public feedback but not quite final.
with your help, we plan to announce a finalized spec and test suite in 2018.
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wət ɪz ˈmɑrkˌdaʊn? ə pleɪn tɛkst ˈfɔrˌmæt fər ˈraɪtɪŋ ˈstrəkʧərd ˈdɑkjəmənts, beɪst ɔn kənˈvɛnʃənz frəm iˈmeɪl ənd ˈjuzˌnɛt. lərn ˈmɑrkˌdaʊn ɪn 60 ˈsɛkəndz hu kriˈeɪtɪd ˈmɑrkˌdaʊn? ɪt wɑz dɪˈvɛləpt ɪn 2004 baɪ ʤɑn ˈgrubər, hu roʊt ðə fərst kənˈvərtər ɪn pərl, ənd ɪt sun bɪˈkeɪm ˈwaɪdli juzd ɪn ˈwɛbˌsaɪts. baɪ 2014 ðɛr wər ˈdəzənz əv ɪn ˈmɛni ˈlæŋgwɪʤɪz. waɪ ɪz ˈnidɪd? ʤɑn kəˈnɑnəkəl dɪˈskrɪpʃən əv ˈsɪnˌtæks dɪz nɑt ˈspɛsəˌfaɪ ðə ˈsɪnˌtæks ənæmˈbɪgjuəsli. ɪn ðə ˈæbsəns əv ə spɛk, ˈərli kənˈsəltɪd ðə ərˈɪʤənəl koʊd tɪ riˈzɑlv ðiz æmbəˈgjuətiz. bət wɑz kwaɪt ˈbəgi, ənd geɪv ˈmænəfɛstli bæd rɪˈzəlts ɪn ˈmɛni ˈkeɪsɪz, soʊ ɪt wɑz nɑt ə ˌsætɪsˈfæktəri rɪˈpleɪsmənt fər ə spɛk. wɑz læst ˈəpˌdeɪtɪd dɪˈsɛmbər 17 ˈtiˈeɪʧ 2004 bɪˈkəz ðɛr ɪz noʊ ˌənæmˈbɪgjəwəs spɛk, hæv daɪˈvərʤd kənˈsɪdərəbli ˈoʊvər ðə læst 10 jɪrz. ɛz ə rɪˈzəlt, ˈjuzərz ər ˈɔfən səˈpraɪzd tɪ faɪnd ðət ə ˈdɑkjəmɛnt ðət ˈrɛndərz wən weɪ ɔn wən ˈsɪstəm (seɪ, ə ˈwɪˌki) ˈrɛndərz ˈdɪfərˈɛntli ɔn əˈnəðər (seɪ, kənˈvərtɪŋ tɪ ˈjuzɪŋ pandoc*). tɪ meɪk ˈmætərz wərs, bɪˈkəz ˈnəθɪŋ ɪn ˈmɑrkˌdaʊn kaʊnts ɛz ə error,”*,” ðə dɪˈvərʤəns ˈɔfən dɪˈskəvərd raɪt əˈweɪ. noʊ ˈstændərd tɛst swit fər ˈmɑrkˌdaʊn; ɪz ðə ˈkloʊsəst θɪŋ wi hæv. ðə ˈoʊnli weɪ tɪ riˈzɑlv ˈmɑrkˌdaʊn æmbəˈgjuətiz ənd ˌɪŋˈkɑnsɪˌstɛnsiz ɪz babelmark*, wɪʧ kəmˈpɛrz ðə ˈaʊtˌpʊt əv 20 əv ˈmɑrkˌdaʊn əˈgɛnst iʧ ˈəðər tɪ si ɪf ə kənˈsɛnsəs ˈimərʤɪz. wi prəˈpoʊz ə ˈstændərd, ˌənæmˈbɪgjəwəs ˈsɪnˌtæks ˌspɛsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən fər ˈmɑrkˌdaʊn, əˈlɔŋ wɪθ ə swit əv ˌkɑmpriˈhɛnsɪv tɛsts tɪ ˈvælədeɪt ˈmɑrkˌdaʊn əˈgɛnst ðɪs ˌspɛsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən. wi bɪˈliv ðɪs ɪz ˈnɛsəˌsɛri, ˈivɪn ɛˈsɛnʃəl, fər ðə fˈjuʧər əv ˈmɑrkˌdaʊn. wət wi kɔl. hu ər ju? ə grup əv ˈmɑrkˌdaʊn fænz hu ˈiðər wərk æt ˈkəmpəˌniz wɪθ ˌɪnˈdəstriəl skeɪl dɪˈplɔɪmənts əv ˈmɑrkˌdaʊn, hæv ˈrɪtən ˈmɑrkˌdaʊn ˈpɑrsərz, hæv ɪkˈstɛnsɪv ɪkˈspɪriəns səˈpɔrtɪŋ ˈmɑrkˌdaʊn wɪθ ɛnd ˈjuzərz ər ɔl əv ðə əˈbəv. ʤɑn məkˈfɑrlən ˈdeɪvɪd ˈgrinˌspæn ˈmɑrti nil ˈwɪljəmz ˈbɛnʤəmən dər ʤɛf ˈætˌwʊd, haʊ kən aɪ hɛlp? ˈɛksərˌsaɪz ɑr ˈrɛfərəns, ər faɪnd ə kəmˈjunɪti ˌɪmpləmɛnˈteɪʃən ɪn jʊr prɪˈfərd ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt ər ˈlæŋgwɪʤ. prəˈvaɪd ˈfidˌbæk! ɪf ə ˌɪmpləmɛnˈteɪʃən dɪz nɑt ɔˈrɛdi ɪgˈzɪst ɪn jʊr prɪˈfərd ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt ər ˈlæŋgwɪʤ, traɪ ˈɪmpləˌmɛnɪŋ jʊr oʊn ˈpɑrsər. wən əv ɑr ˈmeɪʤər goʊlz ɪz tɪ ˈstrɔŋli ˈspɛsəˌfaɪ ˈmɑrkˌdaʊn, ənd tɪ ɪˈlɪməˌneɪt ðə ˈmɛni oʊld ˌɪŋˈkɑnsɪˌstɛnsiz ənd æmbəˈgjuətiz ðət meɪd ˈjuzɪŋ ˈmɑrkˌdaʊn soʊ ˈdɪfəkəlt. dɪd wi səkˈsid? wɛr kən aɪ faɪnd ɪt? ðə ˌspɛsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən. ˈrɛfərəns ˌɪmpləmɛnˈteɪʃən ənd ˌvæləˈdeɪʃən tɛst swit ɔn. ˈpəblɪk dɪˈskəʃən ˈɛriə ənd ˈmeɪlɪŋ lɪst ˈviə ˈdɪskɔrs. kwɪk ˈrɛfərəns kɑrd ənd ˌɪnərˈæktɪv tuˈtɔriəl fər ˈlərnɪŋ ˈmɑrkˌdaʊn. lɪv ˈtɛstɪŋ tul paʊərd baɪ ðə ˈrɛfərəns ˌɪmpləmɛnˈteɪʃən. wɪn ɪz ðə spɛk ˈfaɪnəl? ðə ˈkɑrənt ˈvərʒən əv ðə spɛk ɪz kəmˈplit, ənd kwaɪt roʊˈbəst ˈæftər ə jɪr əv ˈpəblɪk ˈfidˌbæk bət nɑt kwaɪt ˈfaɪnəl. wɪθ jʊr hɛlp, wi plæn tɪ əˈnaʊns ə ˈfaɪnəˌlaɪzd spɛk ənd tɛst swit ɪn 2018
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the assault is alleged to have happened during canada day fireworks near two years ago.
david alan lessor is being accused of one count of sexual assault and one count of sexual touching of an girl.
at the start of his trial he told the judge he wanted to make a statement about alleged injustices at the lower court level.
the judge told him she was there to hear the evidence and that he is innocent until proven guilty, that he had the right to remain silent and that he may make a statement after the case goes in.
the case goes back to july 1, 2014, when the young girl and her mom, neither of whom can be identified, went to see the canada day fireworks.
they were at acadia beach, west of spanish banks, when they struck up a conversation with lessor.
the girl, now 10-years-old, testified in b.c. supreme court from behind a white screen.
video of her police statement was played in court as lesser took notes.
she told the judge that lessor lifted her skirt exposing her bathing suit while her mom had gone up to the van.
at another point when her mom was away, she said the accused reached between her legs and touched her vaginal area on top of her swimsuit.
she said she told her mom he had touched her and that she was uncomfortable.
but they stayed on the beach with the accused, and even gave him a ride afterwards.
“and the allegation is sexual assault towards a minor, which pleaded not guilty to because i believe guilty and of these serious allegations,” lessor told global news.
“and the reason why is because of the state of my mental health and the state that the family ministry left me in.”
“as my doctor says, i was, been suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder, excessive anxiety.”
the mom testified that this is the worst thing a parent could do. she react to what her daughter said and it took some time before she called.
she will be cross examined thursday.
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ðə əˈsɔlt ɪz əˈlɛʤd tɪ hæv ˈhæpənd ˈdʊrɪŋ ˈkænədə deɪ ˈfaɪrˌwərks nɪr tu jɪrz əˈgoʊ. ˈdeɪvɪd ˈælən ˈlɛsər ɪz biɪŋ əˈkjuzd əv wən kaʊnt əv ˈsɛkʃuəl əˈsɔlt ənd wən kaʊnt əv ˈsɛkʃuəl ˈtəʧɪŋ əv ən gərl. æt ðə stɑrt əv hɪz traɪəl hi toʊld ðə ʤəʤ hi ˈwɔntɪd tɪ meɪk ə ˈsteɪtmənt əˈbaʊt əˈlɛʤd ˌɪnˈʤəstəsɪz æt ðə loʊər kɔrt ˈlɛvəl. ðə ʤəʤ toʊld ɪm ʃi wɑz ðɛr tɪ hir ðə ˈɛvədəns ənd ðət hi ɪz ˈɪnəsənt ənˈtɪl ˈpruvən ˈgɪlti, ðət hi hæd ðə raɪt tɪ rɪˈmeɪn ˈsaɪlənt ənd ðət hi meɪ meɪk ə ˈsteɪtmənt ˈæftər ðə keɪs goʊz ɪn. ðə keɪs goʊz bæk tɪ ˌʤuˈlaɪ 1 2014 wɪn ðə jəŋ gərl ənd hər mɑm, ˈniðər əv hum kən bi aɪˈdɛntəˌfaɪd, wɛnt tɪ si ðə ˈkænədə deɪ ˈfaɪrˌwərks. ðeɪ wər æt əˈkeɪdiə biʧ, wɛst əv ˈspænɪʃ bæŋks, wɪn ðeɪ strək əp ə ˌkɑnvərˈseɪʃən wɪθ ˈlɛsər. ðə gərl, naʊ 10-years-old*, ˈtɛstɪˌfaɪd ɪn b.c*. səˈprim kɔrt frəm bɪˈhaɪnd ə waɪt skrin. ˈvɪdioʊ əv hər pəˈlis ˈsteɪtmənt wɑz pleɪd ɪn kɔrt ɛz ˈlɛsər tʊk noʊts. ʃi toʊld ðə ʤəʤ ðət ˈlɛsər ˈlɪftɪd hər skərt ɪkˈspoʊzɪŋ hər ˈbeɪðɪŋ sut waɪl hər mɑm hæd gɔn əp tɪ ðə væn. æt əˈnəðər pɔɪnt wɪn hər mɑm wɑz əˈweɪ, ʃi sɛd ðə əˈkjuzd riʧt bɪtˈwin hər lɛgz ənd təʧt hər vəˈʤaɪnəl ˈɛriə ɔn tɔp əv hər sˈwɪmˌsut. ʃi sɛd ʃi toʊld hər mɑm hi hæd təʧt hər ənd ðət ʃi wɑz ənˈkəmfərtəbəl. bət ðeɪ steɪd ɔn ðə biʧ wɪθ ðə əˈkjuzd, ənd ˈivɪn geɪv ɪm ə raɪd ˈæftərwərdz. ðə ˌæləˈgeɪʃən ɪz ˈsɛkʃuəl əˈsɔlt təˈwɔrdz ə ˈmaɪnər, wɪʧ ˈplidɪd nɑt ˈgɪlti tɪ bɪˈkəz aɪ bɪˈliv ˈgɪlti ənd əv ðiz ˈsɪriəs allegations,”*,” ˈlɛsər toʊld ˈgloʊbəl nuz. ðə ˈrizən waɪ ɪz bɪˈkəz əv ðə steɪt əv maɪ ˈmɛntəl hɛlθ ənd ðə steɪt ðət ðə ˈfæməli ˈmɪnɪstri lɛft mi in.”*.” maɪ ˈdɔktər sɪz, aɪ wɑz, bɪn ˈsəfərɪŋ frəm səˈvɪr ˌpoʊstrɔˈmætɪk strɛs dɪˈsɔrdər, ɪkˈsɛsɪv anxiety.”*.” ðə mɑm ˈtɛstɪˌfaɪd ðət ðɪs ɪz ðə wərst θɪŋ ə ˈpɛrənt kʊd du. ʃi riækt tɪ wət hər ˈdɔtər sɛd ənd ɪt tʊk səm taɪm ˌbiˈfɔr ʃi kɔld ʃi wɪl bi krɔs ɪgˈzæmənd ˈθərzˌdeɪ.
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1. isaac van great lion tamer”
from his humble origins as an assistant at a menagerie called the zoological institute of new york, the flamboyant isaac van grew into the most famous lion tamer of the century. his act was renowned for its extreme daring. after entering the cage clad in ancient roman garb, van would taunt his collection of lions, tigers and leopards and force them to stand on his shoulders and let him ride on their backs. he would also act out scenes from the bible by introducing a lamb and a young child into the mix and having them sit alongside his big cats as though they were its own cubs. for his big finish, the great tamer would soak his arm or his head in blood and thrust it between a gaping jaws. most of van’s tricks were achieved through sheer subdued his animals by beating them with whips and they won him widespread acclaim in the united states and europe. his most famous admirer was the british queen victoria, who attended his london show seven times in 1839 and later commissioned a painting of him reclining with his cats.
2. dan king of american clowns”
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dan name well known today, but in the century he was a world famous performer who counted the likes of mark twain and president zachary taylor as acquaintances and admirers. the new york native first stepped into the spotlight in the with a clowning act that mixed physical comedy and trick riding with homespun and musical numbers. audiences ate it up, and he was soon raking in $1,000 a week as the star and owner of his own traveling circus. part of appeal lay in his ability to mix topical humor and political satire with feats of strength and other traditional circus stunts. he was one of abraham most outspoken critics during the civil war, and he later launched a short-lived bid for the presidency in 1868. popularity waned in the years before he finally hung up his clown shoes in the 1890s, but since been hailed as one of the fathers of the modern circus.
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3. annie peerless lady wing-shot”
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phoebe anne moses first honed her rifle skills while hunting wild game during her childhood in ohio. after marrying vaudeville performer frank butler in the 1870s, she took the name “annie oakley” and toured with circuses as a professional sharpshooter. by the 1880s, the young had joined the frontier extravaganza “buffalo wild west” and become its highest paid performer. her arsenal of tricks including hitting the edge of a playing card from 30 paces, snuffing out a candle with a bullet, blasting targets while riding a bike and even shooting a lit cigarette from her lips. crowds were entranced by superhuman marksmanship and folksy personality, and she eventually spent some three decades touring the world with the wild west and other shows. before retiring in 1913, she performed for the likes of queen victoria, kaiser wilhelm and thomas edison, who once filmed one of her shooting exhibitions with a newly invented camera.
4. jules daring young man on the flying trapeze”
photo of the french acrobat jules léotard, 1865. (credit: images)
french-born acrobat jules leotard is remembered as the first man in history to attempt a flying trapeze act. the son of a gymnasium owner, he first practiced the stunt over his swimming pool before unveiling it in 1859 at the cirque napoleon in paris. he later took his act to london, where he captivated audiences by somersaulting between five different with only a pile of old mattresses to break his fall. deeds made him into something of a sensation during the 1860s, but his career was tragically cut short after he died of disease at the age of 28. by then, the intrepid had already been immortalized in the popular song “the daring young man on the flying trapeze.” he also became the namesake for the “leotard,” the snug, garment that he had designed to show off his physique during performances.
5. human projectile”
rosa maria richter, billed as ‘”zazel,” at the start of her act at royal aquarium, 1877. (credit: hulton images)
in 1877, the first recorded human cannonball took flight when teenaged acrobat rosa known by her stage name “zazel”—was shot into the air at the royal aquarium in london. the “cannon” that sent her airborne was invented by tightrope walker william leonard hunt and consisted of coiled springs attached to a foot platform. when the springs propelled out of the barrel and into a waiting safety net, a worker would set off a gunpowder charge to recreate the look and sound of a cannon shot. word of’s stunt quickly spread, and it long before crowds of up to people were gathering to watch her soar over their heads. the young daredevil later toured with p.t. circus in the united states, but her luck finally ran out in 1891, when she overshot the net during a performance in new mexico. while survived, a broken back forced her to retire from the circus for good.
6. charles great blondin”
charles blondin crossing niagara falls on a tightrope. (credit: william images)
french daredevil charles blondin made his first circus appearance as a young boy, when he performed somersaults and wire dancing under the name “the little wonder.” he was a skilled acrobat and once leapt over two lines of soldiers holding fixed he was most famous for his exploits as a tightrope walker. in june 1859, a blondin made history when he strung a hemp rope between the american and canadian sides of niagara falls and strolled across the chasm, pausing along the way to enjoy a few from a bottle of wine. he later repeated the stunt on multiple occasions, each time with a new and seemingly suicidal twist. he conquered the falls on stilts, with a sack over his head, wearing chains, pushing a wheelbarrow and even while carrying his terrified manager on his back. most famous of all was the time he crossed with a cooking stove and stopped halfway to prepare an while balancing on a rope suspended some 160 feet above the water. “the great blondin” would later make a fortune displaying his high wire heroics across the united states, europe, asia and australia. he became world famous, so much so that several and imitators used his name to get publicity for their own tightrope stunts.
7. may greatest rider”
may wirth and her horse, circa 1920. (credit: via getty images)
trick riding and equestrian stunts were a fixture under the big top from its early days in the century, but few riders ever became as famous as australia native may wirth. born into a circus family in 1894, she got her start as a child and contortionist before hopping on horseback at age 10. she later joined barnum and circus in america, where she dazzled audiences with an act that combined acrobatics with expert riding. wirth could perform a forward flip on horseback from a kneeling first woman to do perfected a trick where she did somersaults from one moving horse to another. the dainty, rider also showed off her physical strength by leaping from the ground onto the back of a galloping stallion, sometimes while blindfolded and wearing heavy baskets on her feet. good looks and daring stunts won her legions of admirers and frequent mentions in the gossip pages of newspapers. by the time she finally retired in 1937, she had spent 25 years as one of the top female performers.
8. lillian queen of aerial gymnasts”
lillian leitzel (credit: bild via getty images)
during the golden age of the circus in the early century, no star shone brighter than that of lillian leitzel. she captivated audiences with an act that consisted of acrobatic tricks and poses performed while hanging from roman rings suspended 50 feet above the without a safety net below. for her grand finale, she would grasp the ring with one hand and flip head over heels so rapidly that her arm would dislocate and then snap back into place with each turn. the spellbinding routine made leitzel into an international diva. she was voted “the most beautiful and attractive woman in all the world” by american soldiers during world war i, and she became the first ringling brothers and barnum and bailey star to receive a private train car while on tour. leitzel continued her physically demanding act well into her 30s, but her career ended in tragedy in 1931, when a piece of metal on her rigging snapped during a performance in copenhagen and sent her plummeting to the floor. she died from her injuries just two days later.
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1 ˈaɪzɪk væn greɪt laɪən tamer”*” frəm hɪz ˈhəmbəl ˈɔrəʤɪnz ɛz ən əˈsɪstənt æt ə məˈnæʤəri kɔld ðə ˌzuˈlɑʤɪkəl ˈɪnstɪˌtut əv nu jɔrk, ðə flæmˈbɔɪənt ˈaɪzɪk væn gru ˈɪntu ðə moʊst ˈfeɪməs laɪən ˈteɪmər əv ðə ˈsɛnʧəri. hɪz ækt wɑz rɪˈnaʊnd fər ɪts ɪkˈstrim ˈdɛrɪŋ. ˈæftər ˈɛnərɪŋ ðə keɪʤ klæd ɪn ˈeɪnʧənt ˈroʊmən gɑrb, væn wʊd tɔnt hɪz kəˈlɛkʃən əv laɪənz, ˈtaɪgərz ənd ˈlɛpərdz ənd fɔrs ðɛm tɪ stænd ɔn hɪz ˈʃoʊldərz ənd lɛt ɪm raɪd ɔn ðɛr bæks. hi wʊd ˈɔlsoʊ ækt aʊt sinz frəm ðə ˈbaɪbəl baɪ ˌɪntrəˈdusɪŋ ə læm ənd ə jəŋ ʧaɪld ˈɪntu ðə mɪks ənd ˈhævɪŋ ðɛm sɪt əˈlɔŋˈsaɪd hɪz bɪg kæts ɛz ðoʊ ðeɪ wər ɪts oʊn kəbz. fər hɪz bɪg ˈfɪnɪʃ, ðə greɪt ˈteɪmər wʊd soʊk hɪz ɑrm ər hɪz hɛd ɪn bləd ənd θrəst ɪt bɪtˈwin ə ˈgeɪpɪŋ ʤɔz. moʊst əv væn trɪks wər əˈʧivd θru ʃɪr səbˈdud hɪz ˈænəməlz baɪ ˈbitɪŋ ðɛm wɪθ wɪps ənd ðeɪ wən ɪm ˈwaɪdˈsprɛd əˈkleɪm ɪn ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts ənd ˈjʊrəp. hɪz moʊst ˈfeɪməs ædˈmaɪrər wɑz ðə ˈbrɪtɪʃ kwin vɪkˈtɔriə, hu əˈtɛndəd hɪz ˈləndən ʃoʊ ˈsɛvən taɪmz ɪn 1839 ənd ˈleɪtər kəˈmɪʃənd ə ˈpeɪnɪŋ əv ɪm rɪˈklaɪnɪŋ wɪθ hɪz kæts. 2 dæn kɪŋ əv əˈmɛrɪkən clowns”*” æd fər dæn ˈsərkəs. ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt θæŋks fər ˈwɑʧɪŋ! ˈvɪzɪt ˈwɛbˌsaɪt ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt θæŋks fər ˈwɑʧɪŋ! ˈvɪzɪt ˈwɛbˌsaɪt dæn neɪm wɛl noʊn təˈdeɪ, bət ɪn ðə ˈsɛnʧəri hi wɑz ə wərld ˈfeɪməs pərˈfɔrmər hu ˈkaʊntɪd ðə laɪks əv mɑrk tweɪn ənd ˈprɛzɪdənt ˈzækəri ˈteɪlər ɛz əkˈweɪntənsɪz ənd ədˈmaɪrərz. ðə nu jɔrk ˈneɪtɪv fərst stɛpt ˈɪntu ðə ˈspɑˌtlaɪt ɪn ðə wɪθ ə ˈklaʊnɪŋ ækt ðət mɪkst ˈfɪzɪkəl ˈkɑmədi ənd trɪk ˈraɪdɪŋ wɪθ ˈhoʊmˌspən ənd mˈjuzɪkəl ˈnəmbərz. ˈɔdiənsəz eɪt ɪt əp, ənd hi wɑz sun ˈreɪkɪŋ ɪn ə wik ɛz ðə stɑr ənd ˈoʊnər əv hɪz oʊn ˈtrævəlɪŋ ˈsərkəs. pɑrt əv əˈpil leɪ ɪn hɪz əˈbɪləˌti tɪ mɪks ˈtɑpɪkəl ˈhjumər ənd pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈsæˌtaɪər wɪθ fits əv strɛŋθ ənd ˈəðər trəˈdɪʃənəl ˈsərkəs stənts. hi wɑz wən əv ˈeɪbrəˌhæm moʊst ˈaʊtˈspoʊkən ˈkrɪtɪks ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈsɪvəl wɔr, ənd hi ˈleɪtər lɔnʧt ə ˌʃɔrˈtlɪvd bɪd fər ðə ˈprɛzɪdənsi ɪn 1868 ˌpɑpjəˈlɛrəti weɪnd ɪn ðə jɪrz ˌbiˈfɔr hi ˈfaɪnəli həŋ əp hɪz klaʊn ʃuz ɪn ðə 1890s*, bət sɪns bɪn heɪld ɛz wən əv ðə ˈfɑðərz əv ðə ˈmɑdərn ˈsərkəs. ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt θæŋks fər ˈwɑʧɪŋ! ˈvɪzɪt ˈwɛbˌsaɪt 3 ˈæni ˈpɪrlɪs ˈleɪdi wing-shot”*” ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt fər ˈbəfəˌloʊ waɪld wɛst ʃoʊ, ˈfiʧərɪŋ ˈæni ˈoʊkli. (ˈkrɛdɪt: ˈɪmɪʤɪz). ˈfibi æn ˈmoʊzɪs fərst hoʊnd hər ˈraɪfəl skɪlz waɪl ˈhəntɪŋ waɪld geɪm ˈdʊrɪŋ hər ˈʧaɪlˌdhʊd ɪn oʊˈhaɪoʊ. ˈæftər ˈmɛriɪŋ ˈvɑdvɪl pərˈfɔrmər fræŋk ˈbətlər ɪn ðə 1870s*, ʃi tʊk ðə neɪm oakley”*” ənd tʊrd wɪθ ˈsərkəsəz ɛz ə prəˈfɛʃənəl ˈʃɑrpˌʃutər. baɪ ðə 1880s*, ðə jəŋ hæd ʤɔɪnd ðə frənˈtɪr ɛkˌstrævəˈgænzə waɪld west”*” ənd bɪˈkəm ɪts haɪəst peɪd pərˈfɔrmər. hər ˈɑrsənəl əv trɪks ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈhɪtɪŋ ðə ɛʤ əv ə pleɪɪŋ kɑrd frəm 30 ˈpeɪsɪz, sˈnəfɪŋ aʊt ə ˈkændəl wɪθ ə ˈbʊlət, ˈblæstɪŋ ˈtɑrgəts waɪl ˈraɪdɪŋ ə baɪk ənd ˈivɪn ˈʃutɪŋ ə lɪt ˌsɪgəˈrɛt frəm hər lɪps. kraʊdz wər ɪnˈtrænst baɪ ˌsupərˈhjumən ˈmɑrksmənʃɪp ənd ˈfoʊksi ˌpərsəˈnælɪti, ənd ʃi ɪˈvɛnʧəwəli spɛnt səm θri ˈdɛkeɪdz ˈtʊrɪŋ ðə wərld wɪθ ðə waɪld wɛst ənd ˈəðər ʃoʊz. ˌbiˈfɔr rɪˈtaɪrɪŋ ɪn 1913 ʃi pərˈfɔrmd fər ðə laɪks əv kwin vɪkˈtɔriə, ˈkaɪzər ˈwɪˌlhɛlm ənd ˈtɑməs ˈɛdɪsən, hu wəns fɪlmd wən əv hər ˈʃutɪŋ ˌɛksəˈbɪʃənz wɪθ ə ˈnuli ˌɪnˈvɛntɪd ˈkæmərə. 4 ʤulz ˈdɛrɪŋ jəŋ mæn ɔn ðə flaɪɪŋ trapeze”*” ˈfoʊˌtoʊ əv ðə frɛnʧ ˈækrəˌbæt ʤulz léotard*, 1865 (ˈkrɛdɪt: ˈɪmɪʤɪz) ˈækrəˌbæt ʤulz ˈliəˌtɑrd ɪz rɪˈmɛmbərd ɛz ðə fərst mæn ɪn ˈhɪstəri tɪ əˈtɛmpt ə flaɪɪŋ trəˈpiz ækt. ðə sən əv ə ʤɪmˈneɪziəm ˈoʊnər, hi fərst ˈpræktɪst ðə stənt ˈoʊvər hɪz sˈwɪmɪŋ pul ˌbiˈfɔr ənˈveɪlɪŋ ɪt ɪn 1859 æt ðə sərk nəˈpoʊljən ɪn ˈpɛrɪs. hi ˈleɪtər tʊk hɪz ækt tɪ ˈləndən, wɛr hi ˈkæptɪˌveɪtɪd ˈɔdiənsəz baɪ ˈsəmərˌsɔltɪŋ bɪtˈwin faɪv ˈdɪfərənt wɪθ ˈoʊnli ə paɪl əv oʊld ˈmætrəsɪz tɪ breɪk hɪz fɔl. didz meɪd ɪm ˈɪntu ˈsəmθɪŋ əv ə sɛnˈseɪʃən ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə 1860s*, bət hɪz kərɪr wɑz ˈtræʤɪkli kət ʃɔrt ˈæftər hi daɪd əv dɪˈziz æt ðə eɪʤ əv 28 baɪ ðɛn, ðə ˌɪnˈtrɛpəd hæd ɔˈrɛdi bɪn ˌɪˈmɔrtəlaɪzd ɪn ðə ˈpɑpjələr sɔŋ ˈdɛrɪŋ jəŋ mæn ɔn ðə flaɪɪŋ trapeze.”*.” hi ˈɔlsoʊ bɪˈkeɪm ðə ˈneɪmˌseɪk fər ðə ““leotard,”*,” ðə snəg, ˈgɑrmənt ðət hi hæd dɪˈzaɪnd tɪ ʃoʊ ɔf hɪz fəˈzik ˈdʊrɪŋ pərˈfɔrmənsɪz. 5 ˈjumən projectile”*” ˈroʊzə mərˈiə ˈrɪktər, bɪld ɛz ‘”‘”zazel,”*,” æt ðə stɑrt əv hər ækt æt rɔɪəl əkˈwɛriəm, 1877 (ˈkrɛdɪt: ˈhəltən ˈɪmɪʤɪz) ɪn 1877 ðə fərst rɪˈkɔrdɪd ˈjumən ˈkænənˌbɔl tʊk flaɪt wɪn ˈtiˌneɪʤd ˈækrəˌbæt ˈroʊzə noʊn baɪ hər steɪʤ neɪm ʃɑt ˈɪntu ðə ɛr æt ðə rɔɪəl əkˈwɛriəm ɪn ˈləndən. ðə ““cannon”*” ðət sɛnt hər ˈɛrˌbɔrn wɑz ˌɪnˈvɛntɪd baɪ ˈtaɪˌtroʊp ˈwɔkər ˈwɪljəm ˈlɛnərd hənt ənd kənˈsɪstɪd əv kɔɪld spərɪŋz əˈtæʧt tɪ ə fʊt ˈplætˌfɔrm. wɪn ðə spərɪŋz prəˈpɛld aʊt əv ðə ˈbɛrəl ənd ˈɪntu ə ˈweɪtɪŋ ˈseɪfti nɛt, ə ˈwərkər wʊd sɛt ɔf ə ˈgənˌpaʊdər ʧɑrʤ tɪ ˈrɛkriˌeɪt ðə lʊk ənd saʊnd əv ə ˈkænən ʃɑt. wərd əv stənt kˈwɪkli sprɛd, ənd ɪt lɔŋ ˌbiˈfɔr kraʊdz əv əp tɪ ˈpipəl wər ˈgæðərɪŋ tɪ wɔʧ hər sɔr ˈoʊvər ðɛr hɛdz. ðə jəŋ ˈdɛrˌdɛvəl ˈleɪtər tʊrd wɪθ p.t*. ˈsərkəs ɪn ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts, bət hər lək ˈfaɪnəli ræn aʊt ɪn 1891 wɪn ʃi ˈoʊvərˌʃɑt ðə nɛt ˈdʊrɪŋ ə pərˈfɔrməns ɪn nu ˈmɛksəˌkoʊ. waɪl sərˈvaɪvd, ə ˈbroʊkən bæk fɔrst hər tɪ ˌriˈtaɪər frəm ðə ˈsərkəs fər gʊd. 6 ˈʧɑrəlz greɪt blondin”*” ˈʧɑrəlz ˈblɑndɪn ˈkrɔsɪŋ naɪˈægrə fɔlz ɔn ə ˈtaɪˌtroʊp. (ˈkrɛdɪt: ˈwɪljəm ˈɪmɪʤɪz) frɛnʧ ˈdɛrˌdɛvəl ˈʧɑrəlz ˈblɑndɪn meɪd hɪz fərst ˈsərkəs əˈpɪrəns ɛz ə jəŋ bɔɪ, wɪn hi pərˈfɔrmd ˈsəmərˌsɔlts ənd waɪər ˈdænsɪŋ ˈəndər ðə neɪm ˈlɪtəl wonder.”*.” hi wɑz ə skɪld ˈækrəˌbæt ənd wəns lɛpt ˈoʊvər tu laɪnz əv ˈsoʊlʤərz ˈhoʊldɪŋ fɪkst hi wɑz moʊst ˈfeɪməs fər hɪz ˈɛkˌsplɔɪts ɛz ə ˈtaɪˌtroʊp ˈwɔkər. ɪn ʤun 1859 ə ˈblɑndɪn meɪd ˈhɪstəri wɪn hi strəŋ ə hɛmp roʊp bɪtˈwin ðə əˈmɛrɪkən ənd kəˈneɪdiən saɪdz əv naɪˈægrə fɔlz ənd stroʊld əˈkrɔs ðə ˈkæzəm, ˈpɔzɪŋ əˈlɔŋ ðə weɪ tɪ ˌɛnˈʤɔɪ ə fju frəm ə ˈbɑtəl əv waɪn. hi ˈleɪtər rɪˈpitɪd ðə stənt ɔn ˈməltəpəl ɔˈkeɪʒənz, iʧ taɪm wɪθ ə nu ənd ˈsimɪŋli ˌsuəˈsaɪdəl twɪst. hi ˈkɑŋkərd ðə fɔlz ɔn stɪlts, wɪθ ə sæk ˈoʊvər hɪz hɛd, ˈwɛrɪŋ ʧeɪnz, ˈpʊʃɪŋ ə ˈwilˌbɛroʊ ənd ˈivɪn waɪl ˈkɛriɪŋ hɪz ˈtɛrəˌfaɪd ˈmænɪʤər ɔn hɪz bæk. moʊst ˈfeɪməs əv ɔl wɑz ðə taɪm hi krɔst wɪθ ə ˈkʊkɪŋ stoʊv ənd stɑpt ˈhæfˈweɪ tɪ priˈpɛr ən waɪl ˈbælənsɪŋ ɔn ə roʊp səˈspɛndɪd səm 160 fit əˈbəv ðə ˈwɔtər. greɪt blondin”*” wʊd ˈleɪtər meɪk ə ˈfɔrʧən dɪˈspleɪɪŋ hɪz haɪ waɪər hɪˈroʊɪks əˈkrɔs ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts, ˈjʊrəp, ˈeɪʒə ənd ɔˈstreɪljə. hi bɪˈkeɪm wərld ˈfeɪməs, soʊ məʧ soʊ ðət ˈsɛvərəl ənd ˈɪmɪˌteɪtərz juzd hɪz neɪm tɪ gɪt pəˈblɪsɪti fər ðɛr oʊn ˈtaɪˌtroʊp stənts. 7 meɪ ˈgreɪtəst rider”*” meɪ wərθ ənd hər hɔrs, ˈsərkə 1920 (ˈkrɛdɪt: ˈviə ˈgɛti ˈɪmɪʤɪz) trɪk ˈraɪdɪŋ ənd ɪkˈwɛstriən stənts wər ə ˈfɪksʧər ˈəndər ðə bɪg tɔp frəm ɪts ˈərli deɪz ɪn ðə ˈsɛnʧəri, bət fju ˈraɪdərz ˈɛvər bɪˈkeɪm ɛz ˈfeɪməs ɛz ɔˈstreɪljə ˈneɪtɪv meɪ wərθ. bɔrn ˈɪntu ə ˈsərkəs ˈfæməli ɪn 1894 ʃi gɑt hər stɑrt ɛz ə ʧaɪld ənd kənˈtɔrʃənəst ˌbiˈfɔr ˈhɑpɪŋ ɔn ˈhɔrsˌbæk æt eɪʤ 10 ʃi ˈleɪtər ʤɔɪnd ˈbɑrnəm ənd ˈsərkəs ɪn əˈmɛrɪkə, wɛr ʃi ˈdæzəld ˈɔdiənsəz wɪθ ən ækt ðət kəmˈbaɪnd ˌækrəˈbætɪks wɪθ ˈɛkspərt ˈraɪdɪŋ. wərθ kʊd pərˈfɔrm ə ˈfɔrwərd flɪp ɔn ˈhɔrsˌbæk frəm ə ˈnilɪŋ fərst ˈwʊmən tɪ du pərˈfɛktəd ə trɪk wɛr ʃi dɪd ˈsəmərˌsɔlts frəm wən ˈmuvɪŋ hɔrs tɪ əˈnəðər. ðə ˈdeɪnti, ˈraɪdər ˈɔlsoʊ ʃoʊd ɔf hər ˈfɪzɪkəl strɛŋθ baɪ ˈlipɪŋ frəm ðə graʊnd ˈɔntu ðə bæk əv ə ˈgæləpɪŋ ˈstæljən, ˈsəmˌtaɪmz waɪl ˈblaɪndˌfoʊldɪd ənd ˈwɛrɪŋ ˈhɛvi ˈbæskəts ɔn hər fit. gʊd lʊks ənd ˈdɛrɪŋ stənts wən hər ˈliʤənz əv ədˈmaɪrərz ənd ˈfrikˌwɛnt ˈmɛnʃənz ɪn ðə ˈgɑsəp ˈpeɪʤɪz əv ˈnuzˌpeɪpərz. baɪ ðə taɪm ʃi ˈfaɪnəli rɪˈtaɪrd ɪn 1937 ʃi hæd spɛnt 25 jɪrz ɛz wən əv ðə tɔp ˈfiˌmeɪl pərˈfɔrmərz. 8 ˈlɪliən kwin əv ˈɛriəl gymnasts”*” ˈlɪliən ˈlaɪtzəl (ˈkrɛdɪt: bɪld ˈviə ˈgɛti ˈɪmɪʤɪz) ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈgoʊldən eɪʤ əv ðə ˈsərkəs ɪn ðə ˈərli ˈsɛnʧəri, noʊ stɑr ʃoʊn ˈbraɪtər ðən ðət əv ˈlɪliən ˈlaɪtzəl. ʃi ˈkæptɪˌveɪtɪd ˈɔdiənsəz wɪθ ən ækt ðət kənˈsɪstɪd əv ˌækrəˈbætɪk trɪks ənd ˈpoʊzɪz pərˈfɔrmd waɪl ˈhæŋɪŋ frəm ˈroʊmən rɪŋz səˈspɛndɪd 50 fit əˈbəv ðə wɪˈθaʊt ə ˈseɪfti nɛt bɪˈloʊ. fər hər grænd fəˈnæli, ʃi wʊd græsp ðə rɪŋ wɪθ wən hænd ənd flɪp hɛd ˈoʊvər hilz soʊ ˈræpədli ðət hər ɑrm wʊd ˈdɪsloʊkeɪt ənd ðɛn snæp bæk ˈɪntu pleɪs wɪθ iʧ tərn. ðə ˈspɛlˌbaɪndɪŋ ruˈtin meɪd ˈlaɪtzəl ˈɪntu ən ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl ˈdivə. ʃi wɑz ˈvoʊtɪd moʊst ˈbjutəfəl ənd əˈtræktɪv ˈwʊmən ɪn ɔl ðə world”*” baɪ əˈmɛrɪkən ˈsoʊlʤərz ˈdʊrɪŋ wərld wɔr aɪ, ənd ʃi bɪˈkeɪm ðə fərst ˈrɪŋlɪŋ ˈbrəðərz ənd ˈbɑrnəm ənd ˈbeɪli stɑr tɪ rɪˈsiv ə ˈpraɪvət treɪn kɑr waɪl ɔn tʊr. ˈlaɪtzəl kənˈtɪnjud hər ˈfɪzɪkəli dɪˈmændɪŋ ækt wɛl ˈɪntu hər 30s*, bət hər kərɪr ˈɛndɪd ɪn ˈtræʤədi ɪn 1931 wɪn ə pis əv ˈmɛtəl ɔn hər ˈrɪgɪŋ snæpt ˈdʊrɪŋ ə pərˈfɔrməns ɪn ˈkoʊpənˌhɑgən ənd sɛnt hər ˈpləmətɪŋ tɪ ðə flɔr. ʃi daɪd frəm hər ˈɪnʤəriz ʤɪst tu deɪz ˈleɪtər.
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today we bring you the final installment of our in-depth, interview with “hannibal” don mancini, which took place prior to the recent cancellation by nbc. sadly, “hannibal” had been on the edge for renewal since its debut, but after it returned for season 3 to dire ratings, this is indeed “the last supper.”
the network will still air all the remaining episodes of the current season, which is running on thursdays at 10 p.m., so make sure you tune in and, if so inclined, express your opinion about the show on social media to help #savehannibal.
now, back to don… in this final portion of our interview (catch up on parts 1 and 2 here if you missed them), mancini told us about how sex and death go for hannibal lecter mikkelsen) and will graham (hugh dancy).
dread central: going on between hannibal and will? a lot of subtext.
don mancini: totally. and their relationship is sensual because world is so sensual. but there are times that physical with one another. hannibal caresses hair. and when he touches face lovingly [in season 2] before gutting him, just… well, as a gay man i find it pretty fucking titillating. i know there are others, gay and straight, who pick up on that and feel similarly. but sure it goes over other heads!
dc: which is hard to imagine. i mean, to me pretty obvious.
dm: well, you know, some people are just not [that sophisticated]. i mean, these characters are not having sex. not that overt. but they love each other. definitely something going on between them. and i think that part of so interesting about the show is that relationship but also the riddle of humanity. i know bryan is very fond of thinking of hannibal as the devil, literally the devil and this fallen angel. and that is a really interesting perspective through which to view the character. but i also think hannibal is so complicated. i mean, he does these horrible things, and yet, you care about him. i think why the show i mean, why i love it. something that bryan has really amplified with the show. it became there increasingly in the books, and from silence of the lambs and then hannibal thomas harris was sort of making hannibal an increasingly likable character.
in red dragon, he was kind of more simply a sadist, i think. and in silence of the lambs, he was so fascinated by clarice innocence and her civility, you know, because hannibal is so offended by the rude. but that got underlined in the book hannibal, that ethos to “i prefer to eat the rude.” that was something that thomas harris created in the book hannibal, and bryan fuller has run with that.
in the show seen that hannibal is lonely. the show has explored hannibal wants to have a friend. and done episodes that were specifically about that. i loved in the first season he has that patient franklyn froideveux, who is really kind of into hannibal and wants to be his friend. and hannibal is like, “well, not appropriate,” and winds up killing him.
but in that same episode, when with his own therapist, we see this other side of hannibal; and she asks him, “do you want a friend?” and because he sees in will this possibility because will has this ability. hannibal knows that will has this door in him that if he could just nudge it open, will could embrace this darkness that hannibal knows will has in him and that they could just connect in a way that never been able to with anyone before. and so really fascinating, and disturbing, but it makes you kind of feel bad for hannibal because lonely, basically. i think that that loneliness and that need for connection that hannibal has that makes him such an interesting character rather than just being a serial killer who loves to fuck with people. not that simple.
dc: mikkelsen is so great. and very, very different from how anthony hopkins portrayed him.
dm: another innovation that bryan fuller brought to it was he made him sexy and young. anthony hopkins and brian cox were both amazing as the character, but they were middle-aged men by the time they played him. that was a real innovation just to make him fuckable, frankly. i think that adds this whole other dimension to the show as well.
dc: we know attracted to will for whatever reason, but what about the inverse of that?
dm: in seasons 1 and 2, they very deliberately contrasted will. but to see then the evolution of costume and hair… where hannibal has the impeccable suits and the ties and the perfectly folded pocket handkerchiefs. and will is a flannel and t-shirt guy. but late in season 2, when will finally got out of jail and he shows up at office and knocks on the door i know if you noticed, but wearing a shirt. and his hair is combed in a new way because influence on him was starting to be felt in these tangible ways.
dc: the show really follow the books to the letter, right?
dm: i say too much, but interesting now to see all of these characters in this whole new world, in europe and italy, mostly in florence. basically, in the, or what bryan always has referred to as being a of dj’s, we take different pieces of the mythology and mix it all together and come up with new stuff. which is, as a fan, what always loved about watching it. bryan always takes into account our knowledge of the mythology and then throws these twists, which i always loved. just something that i find particularly interesting because as a creator of a franchise and someone made a lot of sequels myself, something that i have some experience with. having to serve up something the same, but new. and just an interesting challenge, and i think something that bryan does really well.
so, his original plan was that season 3 was just going to be the european manhunt. and the basis of it was going to be the novel hannibal. but he then decided that he thought it would give everything a much faster narrative thrust if he just did the first half of season 3 as the hannibal book and then the latter half as red dragon, which is what doing, because we all know that hannibal is destined to be caught and destined to be behind bars. and of course, bryan and all the marketing materials have already let this slip. everyone knows that the red dragon is coming later in the season. so, we skip ahead in episode skip ahead three years. and been behind bars for three years. and then we get into the red dragon stuff, but again, in ways that are new. not merely what seen. new stuff mixed up with it.
dc: how do the directors factor in? i mean, on a movie set the director is the guy. but not on a tv show, and especially one like this which has so much mythology.
dm: in television the is really god, in a way that whereas in features the director is god. and certainly very much the case on “hannibal,” although i know that bryan hires these guys for specific reason because very talented and bryan knows that going to bring their own stuff to it. vincenzo natali did some very specific stuff with a love scene, for example, in the visuals.
there are directors assigned, like the writers. and i knew that [the first episode mancini wrote] was vincenzo natali, and second episode] was guillermo navarro. i have any interaction with vincenzo, and generally, the writers. i think generally true on tv in general, you know; when a writer in the trenches in the room, you always have interaction with the directors. for i was up in toronto for the prep and was able to attend a couple of the meetings and got to meet guillermo, who was really nice.
i have very much interaction [during the shooting] other than being able to attend these meetings for. for example, and this giving anything away because bryan has already talked about it in interviews has this big sex scene in it, which was really fun to write, and then really interesting to see bryan rewrite and then to see how vincenzo natali shot it because it really is beautiful and amazing. it was one of the things i was really excited about getting to write and just to see the process through which it got refined. first of all, on that one,, i shared credit with both steve lightfoot and bryan fuller. so to see it get refined by both of those writers and then to see how vincenzo visualized it, really amazing. incredible. and so i know that bryan challenged vincenzo to surpass himself with this love scene that is in. and i think he really did. i mean, really cool.
dc: okay, last question. a silly one! vs. hannibal death-match… win?
dm: i think hannibal would probably make short work of. is many things, but i know how smart he is. you know, one of the things that was in, and through much of season 3 is the character mason. we saw him in season 2, and he comes back. i particularly enjoyed writing him. i mean, i love writing for all the characters, but mason is one i had particular fun with. and in retrospect i wondered, ‘is it because kind of like in a certain way?’ and i even thought, in the movie hannibal, gary oldman looked- to me and a couple of critics even mentioned this that he looked sort of like because of his facial deformity. but like in the sense that kind of impish and like the spoiled child that we know is going to have what he wants no matter what. he throws tantrums and stuff. so, i wondered if that accounted for my affinity for mason, just because he was the most-like character in “hannibal.”
well, we certainly have an affinity for “hannibal” as a whole and wait to see what cooked up for us in his episodes (“dolce”) and (“…and the woman clothed with the sun”). in the meantime we have episode, “contorno,” on thursday to tickle our taste buds.
big thanks to don for taking the time to chat with us!
“hannibal” episode “contorno” (7/2/15; pm)
the search for hannibal intensifies jack crawford (laurence fishburne) and inspector (guest star fortunato cerlino) search for clues that will lead them closer to hannibal mikkelsen) location in florence, but the promise of riches offered by mason (guest star joe anderson) threatens to corrupt’s quest for redemption.
meanwhile, will graham (hugh dancy) and (tao okamoto) travel to florence, both on a mission to find hannibal but at odds over the desired outcome. elsewhere, as alana bloom (caroline dhavernas) continues to work with mason, she grows concerned for the safety of all involved. gillian anderson also stars, and mia maestro guest stars.
for more info be sure to visit “hannibal” on nbc.com, “like” “hannibal” on facebook, and follow “hannibal” on twitter.
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təˈdeɪ wi brɪŋ ju ðə ˈfaɪnəl ˌɪnˈstɔlmənt əv ɑr in-depth*, ˈɪntərvˌju wɪθ ““hannibal”*” dɑn mɑnˈʧini, wɪʧ tʊk pleɪs praɪər tɪ ðə ˈrisənt ˌkænsəˈleɪʃən baɪ ˈɛnˌbiˈsi. ˈsædli, ““hannibal”*” hæd bɪn ɔn ðə ɛʤ fər rɪˈnuəl sɪns ɪts ˈdeɪbju, bət ˈæftər ɪt rɪˈtərnd fər ˈsizən 3 tɪ daɪər ˈreɪtɪŋz, ðɪs ɪz ˌɪnˈdid læst supper.”*.” ðə ˈnɛtˌwərk wɪl stɪl ɛr ɔl ðə rɪˈmeɪnɪŋ ˈɛpɪˌsoʊdz əv ðə ˈkɑrənt ˈsizən, wɪʧ ɪz ˈrənɪŋ ɔn ˈθərzdiz æt 10 p.m*., soʊ meɪk ʃʊr ju tun ɪn ənd, ɪf soʊ ˌɪnˈklaɪnd, ɪkˈsprɛs jʊr əˈpɪnjən əˈbaʊt ðə ʃoʊ ɔn ˈsoʊʃəl ˈmidiə tɪ hɛlp #savehannibal*. naʊ, bæk tɪ don…*… ɪn ðɪs ˈfaɪnəl ˈpɔrʃən əv ɑr ˈɪntərvˌju (kæʧ əp ɔn pɑrts 1 ənd 2 hir ɪf ju mɪst ðɛm), mɑnˈʧini toʊld ˈjuˈɛs əˈbaʊt haʊ sɛks ənd dɛθ goʊ fər ˈhænɪbəl ˈlɛktər mɪˈkɛlsən) ənd wɪl græm (ju ˈdænsi). drɛd ˈsɛntrəl: goʊɪŋ ɔn bɪtˈwin ˈhænɪbəl ənd wɪl? ə lɔt əv ˈsəbˌtɛkst. dɑn mɑnˈʧini: ˈtoʊtəli. ənd ðɛr riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp ɪz ˈsɛnʃəwəl bɪˈkəz wərld ɪz soʊ ˈsɛnʃəwəl. bət ðɛr ər taɪmz ðət ˈfɪzɪkəl wɪθ wən əˈnəðər. ˈhænɪbəl kərˈɛsɪz hɛr. ənd wɪn hi ˈtəʧɪz feɪs ˈləvɪŋli [ɪn ˈsizən 2 ˌbiˈfɔr ˈgətɪŋ ɪm, just…*… wɛl, ɛz ə geɪ mæn aɪ faɪnd ɪt ˈprɪti ˈfəkɪŋ ˈtɪtəˌleɪtɪŋ. aɪ noʊ ðɛr ər ˈəðərz, geɪ ənd streɪt, hu pɪk əp ɔn ðət ənd fil ˈsɪmələrli. bət ʃʊr ɪt goʊz ˈoʊvər ˈəðər hɛdz! ˌdiˈsi: wɪʧ ɪz hɑrd tɪ ˌɪˈmæʤən. aɪ min, tɪ mi ˈprɪti ˈɑbviəs. dm*: wɛl, ju noʊ, səm ˈpipəl ər ʤɪst nɑt [ðət səˈfɪstɪˌkeɪtəd]. aɪ min, ðiz ˈkɛrɪktərz ər nɑt ˈhævɪŋ sɛks. nɑt ðət ˈoʊvərt. bət ðeɪ ləv iʧ ˈəðər. ˈdɛfənətli ˈsəmθɪŋ goʊɪŋ ɔn bɪtˈwin ðɛm. ənd aɪ θɪŋk ðət pɑrt əv soʊ ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ əˈbaʊt ðə ʃoʊ ɪz ðət riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp bət ˈɔlsoʊ ðə ˈrɪdəl əv juˈmænɪti. aɪ noʊ braɪən ɪz ˈvɛri fɑnd əv ˈθɪŋkɪŋ əv ˈhænɪbəl ɛz ðə ˈdɛvəl, ˈlɪtərəli ðə ˈdɛvəl ənd ðɪs ˈfɑlən ˈeɪnʤəl. ənd ðət ɪz ə ˈrɪli ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ pərˈspɛktɪv θru wɪʧ tɪ vju ðə ˈkɛrɪktər. bət aɪ ˈɔlsoʊ θɪŋk ˈhænɪbəl ɪz soʊ ˈkɑmpləˌkeɪtəd. aɪ min, hi dɪz ðiz ˈhɔrəbəl θɪŋz, ənd jɛt, ju kɛr əˈbaʊt ɪm. aɪ θɪŋk waɪ ðə ʃoʊ aɪ min, waɪ aɪ ləv ɪt. ˈsəmθɪŋ ðət braɪən həz ˈrɪli ˈæmpləˌfaɪd wɪθ ðə ʃoʊ. ɪt bɪˈkeɪm ðɛr ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋgli ɪn ðə bʊks, ənd frəm ˈsaɪləns əv ðə læmz ənd ðɛn ˈhænɪbəl ˈtɑməs ˈhɛrɪs wɑz sɔrt əv ˈmeɪkɪŋ ˈhænɪbəl ən ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋgli ˈlaɪkəbəl ˈkɛrɪktər. ɪn rɛd ˈdrægən, hi wɑz kaɪnd əv mɔr ˈsɪmpli ə ˈseɪdəst, aɪ θɪŋk. ənd ɪn ˈsaɪləns əv ðə læmz, hi wɑz soʊ ˈfæsəˌneɪtɪd baɪ klərˈis ˈɪnəsəns ənd hər səˈvɪləti, ju noʊ, bɪˈkəz ˈhænɪbəl ɪz soʊ əˈfɛndɪd baɪ ðə rud. bət ðət gɑt ˈəndərˌlaɪnd ɪn ðə bʊk ˈhænɪbəl, ðət ˈiθɑs tɪ prɪˈfər tɪ it ðə rude.”*.” ðət wɑz ˈsəmθɪŋ ðət ˈtɑməs ˈhɛrɪs kriˈeɪtɪd ɪn ðə bʊk ˈhænɪbəl, ənd braɪən ˈfʊlər həz rən wɪθ ðət. ɪn ðə ʃoʊ sin ðət ˈhænɪbəl ɪz ˈloʊnli. ðə ʃoʊ həz ɪkˈsplɔrd ˈhænɪbəl wɔnts tɪ hæv ə frɛnd. ənd dən ˈɛpɪˌsoʊdz ðət wər spəˈsɪfɪkli əˈbaʊt ðət. aɪ ləvd ɪn ðə fərst ˈsizən hi həz ðət ˈpeɪʃənt ˈfræŋklɪn froideveux*, hu ɪz ˈrɪli kaɪnd əv ˈɪntu ˈhænɪbəl ənd wɔnts tɪ bi hɪz frɛnd. ənd ˈhænɪbəl ɪz laɪk, ““well*, nɑt appropriate,”*,” ənd wɪndz əp ˈkɪlɪŋ ɪm. bət ɪn ðət seɪm ˈɛpɪˌsoʊd, wɪn wɪθ hɪz oʊn ˈθɛrəpɪst, wi si ðɪs ˈəðər saɪd əv ˈhænɪbəl; ənd ʃi æsks ɪm, ju wɔnt ə friend?”*?” ənd bɪˈkəz hi siz ɪn wɪl ðɪs ˌpɑsəˈbɪləˌti bɪˈkəz wɪl həz ðɪs əˈbɪləˌti. ˈhænɪbəl noʊz ðət wɪl həz ðɪs dɔr ɪn ɪm ðət ɪf hi kʊd ʤɪst nəʤ ɪt ˈoʊpən, wɪl kʊd ɪmˈbreɪs ðɪs ˈdɑrknəs ðət ˈhænɪbəl noʊz wɪl həz ɪn ɪm ənd ðət ðeɪ kʊd ʤɪst kəˈnɛkt ɪn ə weɪ ðət ˈnɛvər bɪn ˈeɪbəl tɪ wɪθ ˈɛniˌwən ˌbiˈfɔr. ənd soʊ ˈrɪli ˈfæsəˌneɪtɪŋ, ənd dɪˈstərbɪŋ, bət ɪt meɪks ju kaɪnd əv fil bæd fər ˈhænɪbəl bɪˈkəz ˈloʊnli, ˈbeɪsɪkli. aɪ θɪŋk ðət ðət ˈloʊnlinəs ənd ðət nid fər kəˈnɛkʃən ðət ˈhænɪbəl həz ðət meɪks ɪm səʧ ən ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ ˈkɛrɪktər ˈrəðər ðən ʤɪst biɪŋ ə ˈsɪˌriəl ˈkɪlər hu ləvz tɪ fək wɪθ ˈpipəl. nɑt ðət ˈsɪmpəl. ˌdiˈsi: mɪˈkɛlsən ɪz soʊ greɪt. ənd ˈvɛri, ˈvɛri ˈdɪfərənt frəm haʊ ˈænθɔˌni ˈhɑpkɪnz pɔrˈtreɪd ɪm. dm*: əˈnəðər ˌɪnəˈveɪʃən ðət braɪən ˈfʊlər brɔt tɪ ɪt wɑz hi meɪd ɪm ˈsɛksi ənd jəŋ. ˈænθɔˌni ˈhɑpkɪnz ənd braɪən kɑks wər boʊθ əˈmeɪzɪŋ ɛz ðə ˈkɛrɪktər, bət ðeɪ wər ˈmɪdəˌleɪgd mɛn baɪ ðə taɪm ðeɪ pleɪd ɪm. ðət wɑz ə ril ˌɪnəˈveɪʃən ʤɪst tɪ meɪk ɪm fuckable*, ˈfræŋkli. aɪ θɪŋk ðət ædz ðɪs hoʊl ˈəðər dɪˈmɛnʃən tɪ ðə ʃoʊ ɛz wɛl. ˌdiˈsi: wi noʊ əˈtræktəd tɪ wɪl fər ˌwəˈtɛvər ˈrizən, bət wət əˈbaʊt ðə ˌɪnˈvərs əv ðət? dm*: ɪn ˈsizənz 1 ənd 2 ðeɪ ˈvɛri dɪˈlɪbərətli kənˈtræstəd wɪl. bət tɪ si ðɛn ðə ˌɛvəˈluʃən əv ˈkɑstum ənd hair…*… wɛr ˈhænɪbəl həz ðə ˌɪmˈpɛkəbəl suts ənd ðə taɪz ənd ðə ˈpərfəktli ˈfoʊldɪd ˈpɑkət ˈhæŋkərʧəfs. ənd wɪl ɪz ə ˈflænəl ənd ˈtiˌsərt gaɪ. bət leɪt ɪn ˈsizən 2 wɪn wɪl ˈfaɪnəli gɑt aʊt əv ʤeɪl ənd hi ʃoʊz əp æt ˈɔfəs ənd nɑks ɔn ðə dɔr aɪ noʊ ɪf ju ˈnoʊtɪst, bət ˈwɛrɪŋ ə ʃərt. ənd hɪz hɛr ɪz koʊmd ɪn ə nu weɪ bɪˈkəz ˈɪnfluəns ɔn ɪm wɑz ˈstɑrtɪŋ tɪ bi fɛlt ɪn ðiz ˈtænʤəbəl weɪz. ˌdiˈsi: ðə ʃoʊ ˈrɪli ˈfɑloʊ ðə bʊks tɪ ðə ˈlɛtər, raɪt? dm*: aɪ seɪ tu məʧ, bət ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ naʊ tɪ si ɔl əv ðiz ˈkɛrɪktərz ɪn ðɪs hoʊl nu wərld, ɪn ˈjʊrəp ənd ˈɪtəli, ˈmoʊstli ɪn ˈflɔrəns. ˈbeɪsɪkli, ɪn ðə, ər wət braɪən ˈɔlˌweɪz həz rɪˈfərd tɪ ɛz biɪŋ ə əv dj’s*, wi teɪk ˈdɪfərənt ˈpisɪz əv ðə məˈθɑləˌʤi ənd mɪks ɪt ɔl təˈgɛðər ənd kəm əp wɪθ nu stəf. wɪʧ ɪz, ɛz ə fæn, wət ˈɔlˌweɪz ləvd əˈbaʊt ˈwɑʧɪŋ ɪt. braɪən ˈɔlˌweɪz teɪks ˈɪntu əˈkaʊnt ɑr ˈnɑlɪʤ əv ðə məˈθɑləˌʤi ənd ðɛn θroʊz ðiz twɪsts, wɪʧ aɪ ˈɔlˌweɪz ləvd. ʤɪst ˈsəmθɪŋ ðət aɪ faɪnd ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ bɪˈkəz ɛz ə kriˈeɪtər əv ə ˈfrænˌʧaɪz ənd ˈsəmˌwən meɪd ə lɔt əv ˈsikwəlz ˌmaɪˈsɛlf, ˈsəmθɪŋ ðət aɪ hæv səm ɪkˈspɪriəns wɪθ. ˈhævɪŋ tɪ sərv əp ˈsəmθɪŋ ðə seɪm, bət nu. ənd ʤɪst ən ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ ˈʧælənʤ, ənd aɪ θɪŋk ˈsəmθɪŋ ðət braɪən dɪz ˈrɪli wɛl. soʊ, hɪz ərˈɪʤənəl plæn wɑz ðət ˈsizən 3 wɑz ʤɪst goʊɪŋ tɪ bi ðə ˌjʊrəˈpiən ˈmænˌhənt. ənd ðə ˈbeɪsɪs əv ɪt wɑz goʊɪŋ tɪ bi ðə ˈnɑvəl ˈhænɪbəl. bət hi ðɛn ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd ðət hi θɔt ɪt wʊd gɪv ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ ə məʧ ˈfæstər ˈnɛrətɪv θrəst ɪf hi ʤɪst dɪd ðə fərst hæf əv ˈsizən 3 ɛz ðə ˈhænɪbəl bʊk ənd ðɛn ðə ˈlætər hæf ɛz rɛd ˈdrægən, wɪʧ ɪz wət duɪŋ, bɪˈkəz wi ɔl noʊ ðət ˈhænɪbəl ɪz ˈdɛstɪnd tɪ bi kɔt ənd ˈdɛstɪnd tɪ bi bɪˈhaɪnd bɑrz. ənd əv kɔrs, braɪən ənd ɔl ðə ˈmɑrkətɪŋ məˈtɪriəlz hæv ɔˈrɛdi lɛt ðɪs slɪp. ˈɛvriˌwən noʊz ðət ðə rɛd ˈdrægən ɪz ˈkəmɪŋ ˈleɪtər ɪn ðə ˈsizən. soʊ, wi skɪp əˈhɛd ɪn ˈɛpɪˌsoʊd skɪp əˈhɛd θri jɪrz. ənd bɪn bɪˈhaɪnd bɑrz fər θri jɪrz. ənd ðɛn wi gɪt ˈɪntu ðə rɛd ˈdrægən stəf, bət əˈgɛn, ɪn weɪz ðət ər nu. nɑt ˈmɪrli wət sin. nu stəf mɪkst əp wɪθ ɪt. ˌdiˈsi: haʊ du ðə dɪˈrɛktərz ˈfæktər ɪn? aɪ min, ɔn ə ˈmuvi sɛt ðə dɪˈrɛktər ɪz ðə gaɪ. bət nɑt ɔn ə ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən ʃoʊ, ənd əˈspɛʃəli wən laɪk ðɪs wɪʧ həz soʊ məʧ məˈθɑləˌʤi. dm*: ɪn ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən ðə ɪz ˈrɪli gɑd, ɪn ə weɪ ðət wɛˈræz ɪn ˈfiʧərz ðə dɪˈrɛktər ɪz gɑd. ənd ˈsərtənli ˈvɛri məʧ ðə keɪs ɔn ““hannibal,”*,” ˌɔlˈðoʊ aɪ noʊ ðət braɪən haɪərz ðiz gaɪz fər spɪˈsɪfɪk ˈrizən bɪˈkəz ˈvɛri ˈtæləntɪd ənd braɪən noʊz ðət goʊɪŋ tɪ brɪŋ ðɛr oʊn stəf tɪ ɪt. vɪnˈsɛnzoʊ nɑˈtɑli dɪd səm ˈvɛri spɪˈsɪfɪk stəf wɪθ ə ləv sin, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ɪn ðə ˈvɪʒwəlz. ðɛr ər dɪˈrɛktərz əˈsaɪnd, laɪk ðə ˈraɪtərz. ənd aɪ nu ðət [ðə fərst ˈɛpɪˌsoʊd mɑnˈʧini roʊt] wɑz vɪnˈsɛnzoʊ nɑˈtɑli, ənd ˈsɛkənd ˈɛpɪˌsoʊd] wɑz gwɪˈljɛrmoʊ nəˈvɑroʊ. aɪ hæv ˈɛni ˌɪnərˈækʃən wɪθ vɪnˈsɛnzoʊ, ənd ˈʤɛnərəli, ðə ˈraɪtərz. aɪ θɪŋk ˈʤɛnərəli tru ɔn ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən ɪn ˈʤɛnərəl, ju noʊ; wɪn ə ˈraɪtər ɪn ðə ˈtrɛnʧɪz ɪn ðə rum, ju ˈɔlˌweɪz hæv ˌɪnərˈækʃən wɪθ ðə dɪˈrɛktərz. fər aɪ wɑz əp ɪn tərˈɑntoʊ fər ðə prɛp ənd wɑz ˈeɪbəl tɪ əˈtɛnd ə ˈkəpəl əv ðə ˈmitɪŋz ənd gɑt tɪ mit gwɪˈljɛrmoʊ, hu wɑz ˈrɪli nis. aɪ hæv ˈvɛri məʧ ˌɪnərˈækʃən [ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈʃutɪŋ] ˈəðər ðən biɪŋ ˈeɪbəl tɪ əˈtɛnd ðiz ˈmitɪŋz fər fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ənd ðɪs ˈgɪvɪŋ ˈɛniˌθɪŋ əˈweɪ bɪˈkəz braɪən həz ɔˈrɛdi tɔkt əˈbaʊt ɪt ɪn ˈɪntərvˌjuz həz ðɪs bɪg sɛks sin ɪn ɪt, wɪʧ wɑz ˈrɪli fən tɪ raɪt, ənd ðɛn ˈrɪli ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ tɪ si braɪən ˈriˌraɪt ənd ðɛn tɪ si haʊ vɪnˈsɛnzoʊ nɑˈtɑli ʃɑt ɪt bɪˈkəz ɪt ˈrɪli ɪz ˈbjutəfəl ənd əˈmeɪzɪŋ. ɪt wɑz wən əv ðə θɪŋz aɪ wɑz ˈrɪli ɪkˈsaɪtɪd əˈbaʊt ˈgɪtɪŋ tɪ raɪt ənd ʤɪst tɪ si ðə ˈprɔˌsɛs θru wɪʧ ɪt gɑt rɪˈfaɪnd. fərst əv ɔl, ɔn ðət wən, aɪ ʃɛrd ˈkrɛdɪt wɪθ boʊθ stiv ˈlaɪtˌfʊt ənd braɪən ˈfʊlər. soʊ tɪ si ɪt gɪt rɪˈfaɪnd baɪ boʊθ əv ðoʊz ˈraɪtərz ənd ðɛn tɪ si haʊ vɪnˈsɛnzoʊ ˈvɪʒwəˌlaɪzd ɪt, ˈrɪli əˈmeɪzɪŋ. ˌɪnˈkrɛdəbəl. ənd soʊ aɪ noʊ ðət braɪən ˈʧælənʤd vɪnˈsɛnzoʊ tɪ sərˈpæs hɪmˈsɛlf wɪθ ðɪs ləv sin ðət ɪz ɪn ənd aɪ θɪŋk hi ˈrɪli dɪd. aɪ min, ˈrɪli kul. ˌdiˈsi: ˌoʊˈkeɪ, læst kˈwɛʃən. ə ˈsɪli wən! ˈvərsəz. ˈhænɪbəl death-match…*… wɪn? dm*: aɪ θɪŋk ˈhænɪbəl wʊd ˈprɑbəˌbli meɪk ʃɔrt wərk əv. ɪz ˈmɛni θɪŋz, bət aɪ noʊ haʊ smɑrt hi ɪz. ju noʊ, wən əv ðə θɪŋz ðət wɑz ɪn ənd θru məʧ əv ˈsizən 3 ɪz ðə ˈkɛrɪktər ˈmeɪsən. wi sɔ ɪm ɪn ˈsizən 2 ənd hi kəmz bæk. aɪ ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli ˌɛnˈʤɔɪd ˈraɪtɪŋ ɪm. aɪ min, aɪ ləv ˈraɪtɪŋ fər ɔl ðə ˈkɛrɪktərz, bət ˈmeɪsən ɪz wən aɪ hæd ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr fən wɪθ. ənd ɪn ˈrɛtrəˌspɛkt aɪ ˈwəndərd, ɪt bɪˈkəz kaɪnd əv laɪk ɪn ə ˈsərtən way?’*?’ ənd aɪ ˈivɪn θɔt, ɪn ðə ˈmuvi ˈhænɪbəl, ˈgɛri ˈoʊldmən lʊkt- tɪ mi ənd ə ˈkəpəl əv ˈkrɪtɪks ˈivɪn ˈmɛnʃənd ðɪs ðət hi lʊkt sɔrt əv laɪk bɪˈkəz əv hɪz ˈfeɪʃəl dɪˈfɔrməti. bət laɪk ɪn ðə sɛns ðət kaɪnd əv ˈɪmpɪʃ ənd laɪk ðə spɔɪld ʧaɪld ðət wi noʊ ɪz goʊɪŋ tɪ hæv wət hi wɔnts noʊ ˈmætər wət. hi θroʊz ˈtæntrəmz ənd stəf. soʊ, aɪ ˈwəndərd ɪf ðət əˈkaʊntɪd fər maɪ əˈfɪnɪti fər ˈmeɪsən, ʤɪst bɪˈkəz hi wɑz ðə moʊst ˈkɛrɪktər ɪn ““hannibal.”*.” wɛl, wi ˈsərtənli hæv ən əˈfɪnɪti fər ““hannibal”*” ɛz ə hoʊl ənd weɪt tɪ si wət kʊkt əp fər ˈjuˈɛs ɪn hɪz ˈɛpɪˌsoʊdz (““dolce”*”) ənd ðə ˈwʊmən kloʊðd wɪθ ðə sun”*”). ɪn ðə ˈminˌtaɪm wi hæv ˈɛpɪˌsoʊd ““contorno,”*,” ɔn ˈθərzˌdeɪ tɪ ˈtɪkəl ɑr teɪst bədz. bɪg θæŋks tɪ dɑn fər ˈteɪkɪŋ ðə taɪm tɪ ʧæt wɪθ ˈjuˈɛs! ““hannibal”*” ˈɛpɪˌsoʊd ““contorno”*” piɛm) ðə sərʧ fər ˈhænɪbəl ˌɪnˈtɛnsɪˌfaɪz ʤæk ˈkrɔfərd (ˈlɔrəns ˈfɪʃbərn) ənd ˌɪnˈspɛktər (gɛst stɑr fɔrʧuˈnɑtoʊ cerlino*) sərʧ fər kluz ðət wɪl lɛd ðɛm ˈkloʊzər tɪ ˈhænɪbəl mɪˈkɛlsən) loʊˈkeɪʃən ɪn ˈflɔrəns, bət ðə ˈprɑməs əv ˈrɪʧɪz ˈɔfərd baɪ ˈmeɪsən (gɛst stɑr ʤoʊ ˈændərsən) θˈrɛtənz tɪ kərəpt kwɛst fər rɪˈdɛmʃən. ˈminˌwaɪl, wɪl græm (ju ˈdænsi) ənd (taʊ ˌoʊkəˈmoʊtoʊ) ˈtrævəl tɪ ˈflɔrəns, boʊθ ɔn ə ˈmɪʃən tɪ faɪnd ˈhænɪbəl bət æt ɑdz ˈoʊvər ðə dɪˈzaɪərd ˈaʊtˌkəm. ˈɛlsˌwɛr, ɛz ɑˈlænə blum (ˈkɛrəˌlaɪn dhavernas*) kənˈtɪnjuz tɪ wərk wɪθ ˈmeɪsən, ʃi groʊz kənˈsərnd fər ðə ˈseɪfti əv ɔl ˌɪnˈvɑlvd. ˈʤɪliən ˈændərsən ˈɔlsoʊ stɑrz, ənd ˈmiə ˈmaɪstroʊ gɛst stɑrz. fər mɔr ˈɪnfoʊ bi ʃʊr tɪ ˈvɪzɪt ““hannibal”*” ɔn nbc.com*, ““like”*” ““hannibal”*” ɔn ˈfeɪsˌbʊk, ənd ˈfɑloʊ ““hannibal”*” ɔn tˈwɪtər.
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when it comes to the power rankings, there's seattle, and then there's everyone else.
i know i've talked about it before, but there's a common misconception about the chargers this year, one i think stems from the period of time the chargers were oscillating between wins and losses. see, there's this perception that the chargers are very inconsistent this year. in fact, however, they're one of the, if not the most consistent team this year.
"how can this be?" you ask? well, it's all about match-ups. the chargers have a had a offense, ranking in the of nearly all theective ratings sites in offense all season long. they've had an average special teams, so that's been a non-factor. bringing the team down has been their defense. how bad is the defense? remember the disastrous 2010 chargers special teams? yeah, they're that bad. the defense is worse (23.6%) than the offense is good (22.0%).
so how does a team with a offense and a historically bad defense seem so inconsistent? it's all about match-ups. the chargers have won 5 games this year. 4 of those 5 wins have come against teams with defenses ranked in the according to football outsiders (20th, 25th, and 29th). as soon as they played teams with average or better defenses and a competent offense, they lose. (i can't explain the oakland loss, however.)
this is a very consistent team, let's put all this inconsistency talk behind us, k?
notable quotes
the team with the best chance to finish with an all-time worst rating is now san diego, although the chargers' defense did improve a little bit this week. - football outsiders
even after a shaky showing versus cincinnati, philip rivers remains within striking distance of drew brees' record for completion percentage -- rivers sits at an even 70 percent; brees finished at. of course, brees' saints also hung 547 points on the board that season (2011). the chargers are on pace for just 372. - sports illustrated
dropping four of their last five, the chargers fall two spots but find themselves still just on the outside edge of the wild card race. with three home games to come, all is not lost. - pro football focus
division averages
division week 14 average week 13 average difference west -0.3452 west -0.2738 south -0.0119 north -0.1548 east east north -0.0596 south
stock rising
team week 13 average week 14 average difference mia bal min
stock falling
team week 13 average week 14 average difference -3.762 -2.284 no -2.017 ari -1.639 -1.479
teams just don't move as much as they used to in the early weeks of the season.
subjective average
subjective seahawks 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 broncos 2 3 3 2 4 4 2 2 2 2 2 panthers 3 2 5 4 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 patriots 4 4 2 5 3 3 4 4 4 3 3 saints 5 5 4 3 6 5 5 6 5 5 4 -2.568 6 7 8 6 5 7 7 5 7 6 6 chiefs 7 8 6 7 9 8 6 9 6 7 7 -0.940 bengals 8 6 7 8 8 6 8 7 8 8 8 -0.205 eagles 10 9 10 11 7 10 13 12 10 10 10 colts 9 11 9 12 12 12 11 11 9 9 11 lions 12 10 12 9 13 13 10 8 11 11 9 cowboys 11 12 11 10 10 9 12 14 13 12 13 cardinals 13 13 13 13 14 11 9 10 12 13 12 -2.758 ravens 14 14 14 14 11 14 16 13 14 14 14 dolphins 17 15 16 16 15 19 14 15 15 15 17 bears 15 20 17 15 18 18 15 18 16 16 15 -1.553 chargers 16 17 15 18 20 16 18 16 17 17 18 -1.258 steelers 18 16 21 19 19 21 20 20 19 18 19 -1.258 giants 22 18 20 17 16 22 21 17 20 20 20 rams 20 21 22 20 17 17 22 19 18 19 21 -1.553 packers 19 24 19 21 23 15 17 30 21 21 16 -3.879 titans 21 19 18 22 21 20 19 21 22 22 22 -1.219 jets 23 22 23 24 30 23 23 28 23 23 23 -1.258 bills 24 25 30 23 27 24 26 27 24 24 24 -0.940 vikings 28 23 25 25 22 27 27 24 28 25 28 raiders 25 27 24 26 29 29 25 23 25 28 27 buccaneers 26 26 28 27 24 28 28 25 26 26 25 -1.023 browns 27 31 27 28 28 26 24 22 27 27 26 -1.469 jaguars 31 30 26 31 25 25 30 31 29 29 30 falcons 29 28 29 29 26 30 31 26 30 30 29 redskins 30 29 31 30 31 31 29 29 31 31 31 -1.856 texans 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32
observations:
i'm sure if seattle could have moved up even more, they would have. instead, they'll have to settle for being the unanimous for another week.
beating the chiefs again was far less impressive for denver than it was the first time around.
another loss, another slip in the rankings for the chiefs.
chargers, steelers and jets all fell the same amount this week; neat.
bears and rams fell the same amount as well.
subjective standard deviation
subjective texans 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 seahawks 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 broncos 2 3 3 2 4 4 2 2 2 2 2 -0.333 bengals 8 6 7 8 8 6 8 7 8 8 8 -0.047 patriots 4 4 2 5 3 3 4 4 4 3 3 -0.017 saints 5 5 4 3 6 5 5 6 5 5 4 redskins 30 29 31 30 31 31 29 29 31 31 31 6 7 8 6 5 7 7 5 7 6 6 chiefs 7 8 6 7 9 8 6 9 6 7 7 panthers 3 2 5 4 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 ravens 14 14 14 14 11 14 16 13 14 14 14 -0.928 colts 9 11 9 12 12 12 11 11 9 9 11 buccaneers 26 26 28 27 24 28 28 25 26 26 25 -0.353 chargers 16 17 15 18 20 16 18 16 17 17 18 -0.207 dolphins 17 15 16 16 15 19 14 15 15 15 17 -1.129 titans 21 19 18 22 21 20 19 21 22 22 22 -0.015 steelers 18 16 21 19 19 21 20 20 19 18 19 -0.851 cowboys 11 12 11 10 10 9 12 14 13 12 13 cardinals 13 13 13 13 14 11 9 10 12 13 12 eagles 10 9 10 11 7 10 13 12 10 10 10 -0.034 falcons 29 28 29 29 26 30 31 26 30 30 29 lions 12 10 12 9 13 13 10 8 11 11 9 -0.459 bears 15 20 17 15 18 18 15 18 16 16 15 rams 20 21 22 20 17 17 22 19 18 19 21 -0.711 raiders 25 27 24 26 29 29 25 23 25 28 27 bills 24 25 30 23 27 24 26 27 24 24 24 giants 22 18 20 17 16 22 21 17 20 20 20 vikings 28 23 25 25 22 27 27 24 28 25 28 browns 27 31 27 28 28 26 24 22 27 27 26 jaguars 31 30 26 31 25 25 30 31 29 29 30 jets 23 22 23 24 30 23 23 28 23 23 23 packers 19 24 19 21 23 15 17 30 21 21 16
observations:
another week, another consensus at the top and bottom of the lists.
more than half of the teams saw their standard deviation go up this week, so teams are moving and not consistently.
when it comes to "inconsistency" in the rankings, there's green bay, then there's everyone else.
chargers actually in the of the league in ranking consistency.
objective average
objective seahawks 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 panthers 3 9 2 3 2 1 2 2 3 2 broncos 2 3 3 2 5 3 3 8 2 3 -0.067 saints 4 2 5 5 6 8 5 3 5 5 -1.467 6 6 4 4 11 5 4 6 4 4 patriots 5 10 6 8 4 9 7 7 7 6 -0.678 bengals 7 4 10 9 3 6 9 5 12 8 chiefs 8 22 15 6 7 7 6 4 6 7 -0.022 cardinals 11 8 7 7 10 11 8 13 9 9 -0.522 eagles 9 5 8 13 8 10 14 10 11 13 colts 15 18 11 11 9 12 11 14 8 10 -0.122 lions 13 7 17 15 17 4 13 9 15 12 cowboys 14 23 9 10 16 18 12 16 10 11 -2.011 dolphins 17 12 13 14 14 17 15 17 16 14 rams 12 29 12 12 18 16 10 19 13 15 -0.378 bears 10 14 23 20 19 14 19 11 20 17 -0.589 titans 22 21 21 18 13 13 17 12 18 19 chargers 18 16 18 16 15 20 16 21 17 18 -1.389 ravens 23 25 20 17 22 15 18 15 19 16 packers 21 11 26 23 21 21 20 18 21 20 -3.644 steelers 16 17 19 21 26 22 22 20 22 22 -1.700 giants 25 15 16 19 20 26 25 28 14 21 buccaneers 19 28 14 22 12 24 21 23 23 24 bills 20 19 28 24 32 19 24 22 29 23 -1.111 falcons 24 24 22 25 29 31 23 29 25 25 vikings 26 26 25 27 23 30 28 30 26 26 raiders 31 31 29 26 25 25 26 27 24 28 redskins 28 27 30 29 24 23 30 26 28 30 -0.278 browns 29 13 31 30 30 28 29 25 32 29 -1.489 texans 30 20 32 28 31 27 27 24 31 31 jets 27 30 27 32 28 29 31 31 30 27 -3.311 jaguars 32 32 24 31 27 32 32 32 27 32
observations:
again, the seahawks are firmly planted at the top of rankings.
carolina is now the team in theective lists, passing the broncos.
despite beating the chiefs, denver dropped.
chargers dropped more than the bengals climbed.
jets in free-fall. at this rate they'll be the worst team in the league by next week.
objective standard deviation
objective seahawks 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 -0.656 saints 4 2 5 5 6 8 5 3 5 5 dolphins 17 12 13 14 14 17 15 17 16 14 -0.709 patriots 5 10 6 8 4 9 7 7 7 6 -0.112 broncos 2 3 3 2 5 3 3 8 2 3 jets 27 30 27 32 28 29 31 31 30 27 -2.122 chargers 18 16 18 16 15 20 16 21 17 18 -1.444 cardinals 11 8 7 7 10 11 8 13 9 9 vikings 26 26 25 27 23 30 28 30 26 26 6 6 4 4 11 5 4 6 4 4 panthers 3 9 2 3 2 1 2 2 3 2 -0.420 raiders 31 31 29 26 25 25 26 27 24 28 -0.171 redskins 28 27 30 29 24 23 30 26 28 30 eagles 9 5 8 13 8 10 14 10 11 13 -0.410 bengals 7 4 10 9 3 6 9 5 12 8 -0.641 steelers 16 17 19 21 26 22 22 20 22 22 -0.184 falcons 24 24 22 25 29 31 23 29 25 25 jaguars 32 32 24 31 27 32 32 32 27 32 colts 15 18 11 11 9 12 11 14 8 10 -1.419 ravens 23 25 20 17 22 15 18 15 19 16 -1.131 titans 22 21 21 18 13 13 17 12 18 19 -0.016 texans 30 20 32 28 31 27 27 24 31 31 -0.194 packers 21 11 26 23 21 21 20 18 21 20 -1.722 bears 10 14 23 20 19 14 19 11 20 17 lions 13 7 17 15 17 4 13 9 15 12 cowboys 14 23 9 10 16 18 12 16 10 11 -0.226 bills 20 19 28 24 32 19 24 22 29 23 buccaneers 19 28 14 22 12 24 21 23 23 24 giants 25 15 16 19 20 26 25 28 14 21 -0.267 browns 29 13 31 30 30 28 29 25 32 29 chiefs 8 22 15 6 7 7 6 4 6 7 rams 12 29 12 12 18 16 10 19 13 15 -0.608
observations:
the consistency ranking here is much more linear than theective list was.
more than half the teams saw their standard deviation go down.
chargers are once again one of the more teams.
overall average
subj vs seahawks broncos panthers saints -2.017 patriots -0.029 bengals chiefs -0.480 eagles cardinals -1.639 colts lions cowboys -0.862 dolphins ravens bears -1.071 chargers -1.323 rams -0.965 titans -0.199 steelers -1.478 giants packers -3.762 buccaneers36 -0.344 bills -1.025 vikings jets -2.284 raiders browns -1.479 falcons redskins -1.067 jaguars texans
observations:
the broncos are nearly two full spots behind the seahawks.
jacksonville is finally out of the cellar!
despite being the unanimous choice in theective list, the texans saw their overall ranking climb.
vikings and jets just passed each other, going opposite directions.
giants quietly climbing back up the board.
overall standard deviation
subj vs seahawks -0.450 saints broncos chargers -0.842 dolphins -0.960 panthers -0.084 bengals -0.342 eagles -0.196 vikings patriots cardinals raiders redskins colts -0.678 steelers -0.333 jaguars falcons bears titans lions texans bills cowboys jets ravens -0.239 giants chiefs packers -0.252 browns buccaneers rams -0.153
observations:
not really much more to add here ...
difference in averages
subj vs ravens jets patriots cowboys steelers giants chiefs -0.918 lions -1.777 colts jaguars vikings raiders -0.177 browns broncos chargers seahawks -0.344 bears -0.964 saints -0.018 -1.101 eagles -0.082 bengals -0.155 -0.683 packers -0.346 -0.235 panthers -0.373 -0.206 dolphins -0.918 -0.964 bills -1.273 redskins -2.773 -1.578 cardinals -2.791 -2.235 falcons -3.118 titans -3.236 -2.041 texans -3.900 -1.011 rams -4.036 -1.175 buccaneers -5.273 -1.356
observations:
oh, baltimore. we so desperately want you to be good!
a team from new york is overrated? say it ain't so!
12 teams have their rankings within 1 spot of each other. that's pretty good (chargers are in that group).
chicago gets the crown this week of "closest to the pin"
11 of 16 teams are some varying degree of "over-ranked".
tampa bay continues to be the favorite whipping boy of the nfl.
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wɪn ɪt kəmz tɪ ðə paʊər ˈræŋkɪŋz, ðɛrz siˈætəl, ənd ðɛn ðɛrz ˈɛvriˌwən ɛls. aɪ noʊ aɪv tɔkt əˈbaʊt ɪt ˌbiˈfɔr, bət ðɛrz ə ˈkɑmən mɪskənˈsɛpʃən əˈbaʊt ðə ˈʧɑrʤərz ðɪs jɪr, wən aɪ θɪŋk stɛmz frəm ðə ˈpɪriəd əv taɪm ðə ˈʧɑrʤərz wər ˈɑsəˌleɪtɪŋ bɪtˈwin wɪnz ənd ˈlɔsɪz. si, ðɛrz ðɪs pərˈsɛpʃən ðət ðə ˈʧɑrʤərz ər ˈvɛri ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənt ðɪs jɪr. ɪn fækt, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ðɛr wən əv ðə, ɪf nɑt ðə moʊst kənˈsɪstənt tim ðɪs jɪr. "haʊ kən ðɪs bi?" ju æsk? wɛl, ɪts ɔl əˈbaʊt match-ups*. ðə ˈʧɑrʤərz hæv ə hæd ə əˈfɛns, ˈræŋkɪŋ ɪn ðə əv ˈnɪrli ɔl ðə əˈbʤɛktɪv ˈreɪtɪŋz saɪts ɪn əˈfɛns ɔl ˈsizən lɔŋ. ðeɪv hæd ən ˈævərɪʤ ˈspɛʃəl timz, soʊ ðæts bɪn ə non-factor*. ˈbrɪŋɪŋ ðə tim daʊn həz bɪn ðɛr dɪˈfɛns. haʊ bæd ɪz ðə dɪˈfɛns? rɪˈmɛmbər ðə dɪˈzæstrəs 2010 ˈʧɑrʤərz ˈspɛʃəl timz? jæ, ðɛr ðət bæd. ðə dɪˈfɛns ɪz wərs ðən ðə əˈfɛns ɪz gʊd soʊ haʊ dɪz ə tim wɪθ ə əˈfɛns ənd ə hɪˈstɔrɪkəli bæd dɪˈfɛns sim soʊ ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənt? ɪts ɔl əˈbaʊt match-ups*. ðə ˈʧɑrʤərz hæv wən 5 geɪmz ðɪs jɪr. 4 əv ðoʊz 5 wɪnz hæv kəm əˈgɛnst timz wɪθ dɪˈfɛnsɪz ræŋkt ɪn ðə əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ˈfʊtˌbɔl aʊtˈsaɪdərz 20th*, 25th*, ənd 29th*). ɛz sun ɛz ðeɪ pleɪd timz wɪθ ˈævərɪʤ ər ˈbɛtər dɪˈfɛnsɪz ənd ə ˈkɑmpətɪnt əˈfɛns, ðeɪ luz. (aɪ kænt ɪkˈspleɪn ðə ˈoʊklənd lɔs, ˌhaʊˈɛvər.) ðɪs ɪz ə ˈvɛri kənˈsɪstənt tim, lɛts pʊt ɔl ðɪs ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənsi tɔk bɪˈhaɪnd ˈjuˈɛs, keɪ? ˈnoʊtəbəl kwoʊts ðə tim wɪθ ðə bɛst ʧæns tɪ ˈfɪnɪʃ wɪθ ən ˌɔlˈtaɪm wərst ˈreɪtɪŋ ɪz naʊ sæn diˈeɪgoʊ, ˌɔlˈðoʊ ðə ˈʧɑrʤərz' dɪˈfɛns dɪd ˌɪmˈpruv ə ˈlɪtəl bɪt ðɪs wik. ˈfʊtˌbɔl aʊtˈsaɪdərz ˈivɪn ˈæftər ə ˈʃeɪki ʃoʊɪŋ ˈvərsəz ˌsɪnsəˈnæti, ˈfɪlɪp ˈrɪvərz rɪˈmeɪnz wɪˈθɪn ˈstraɪkɪŋ ˈdɪstəns əv dru briz' ˈrɛkərd fər kəmˈpliʃən pərˈsɛnɪʤ ˈrɪvərz sɪts æt ən ˈivɪn 70 pərˈsɛnt; briz ˈfɪnɪʃt æt əv kɔrs, briz' seɪnts ˈɔlsoʊ həŋ 547 pɔɪnts ɔn ðə bɔrd ðət ˈsizən 2011 ðə ˈʧɑrʤərz ər ɔn peɪs fər ʤɪst 372 spɔrts ˈɪləˌstreɪtɪd ˈdrɑpɪŋ fɔr əv ðɛr læst faɪv, ðə ˈʧɑrʤərz fɔl tu spɑts bət faɪnd ðɛmˈsɛlvz stɪl ʤɪst ɔn ðə ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ɛʤ əv ðə waɪld kɑrd reɪs. wɪθ θri hoʊm geɪmz tɪ kəm, ɔl ɪz nɑt lɔst. proʊ ˈfʊtˌbɔl ˈfoʊkɪs dɪˈvɪʒən ˈævrɪʤɪz dɪˈvɪʒən wik 14 ˈævərɪʤ wik 13 ˈævərɪʤ ˈdɪfərəns wɛst wɛst saʊθ nɔrθ ist ist nɔrθ saʊθ stɑk ˈraɪzɪŋ tim wik 13 ˈævərɪʤ wik 14 ˈævərɪʤ ˈdɪfərəns ˈmiə bæl mɪn stɑk ˈfɑlɪŋ tim wik 13 ˈævərɪʤ wik 14 ˈævərɪʤ ˈdɪfərəns noʊ ˈɑri timz ʤɪst doʊnt muv ɛz məʧ ɛz ðeɪ juzd tɪ ɪn ðə ˈərli wiks əv ðə ˈsizən. səˈbʤɛktɪv ˈævərɪʤ səˈbʤɛktɪv ˈsiˌhɔks 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ˈbrɑŋkoʊz 2 3 3 2 4 4 2 2 2 2 2 ˈpænθərz 3 2 5 4 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 ˈpeɪtriəts 4 4 2 5 3 3 4 4 4 3 3 seɪnts 5 5 4 3 6 5 5 6 5 5 4 6 7 8 6 5 7 7 5 7 6 6 ʧifs 7 8 6 7 9 8 6 9 6 7 7 ˈbɛŋgəlz 8 6 7 8 8 6 8 7 8 8 8 ˈigəlz 10 9 10 11 7 10 13 12 10 10 10 koʊlts 9 11 9 12 12 12 11 11 9 9 11 laɪənz 12 10 12 9 13 13 10 8 11 11 9 ˈkaʊˌbɔɪz 11 12 11 10 10 9 12 14 13 12 13 ˈkɑrdɪnəlz 13 13 13 13 14 11 9 10 12 13 12 ˈreɪvənz 14 14 14 14 11 14 16 13 14 14 14 ˈdɑlfənz 17 15 16 16 15 19 14 15 15 15 17 bɛrz 15 20 17 15 18 18 15 18 16 16 15 ˈʧɑrʤərz 16 17 15 18 20 16 18 16 17 17 18 ˈstilərz 18 16 21 19 19 21 20 20 19 18 19 ʤaɪənts 22 18 20 17 16 22 21 17 20 20 20 ræmz 20 21 22 20 17 17 22 19 18 19 21 ˈpækərz 19 24 19 21 23 15 17 30 21 21 16 ˈtaɪtənz 21 19 18 22 21 20 19 21 22 22 22 ʤɛts 23 22 23 24 30 23 23 28 23 23 23 bɪlz 24 25 30 23 27 24 26 27 24 24 24 ˈvaɪkɪŋz 28 23 25 25 22 27 27 24 28 25 28 ˈreɪdərz 25 27 24 26 29 29 25 23 25 28 27 ˌbəkəˈnirz 26 26 28 27 24 28 28 25 26 26 25 braʊnz 27 31 27 28 28 26 24 22 27 27 26 ˈʤægˌwɑrz 31 30 26 31 25 25 30 31 29 29 30 ˈfælkənz 29 28 29 29 26 30 31 26 30 30 29 ˈrɛdˌskɪnz 30 29 31 30 31 31 29 29 31 31 31 ˈtɛksənz 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 ˌɑbzərˈveɪʃənz: əm ʃʊr ɪf siˈætəl kʊd hæv muvd əp ˈivɪn mɔr, ðeɪ wʊd hæv. ˌɪnˈstɛd, ðɛl hæv tɪ ˈsɛtəl fər biɪŋ ðə juˈnænəməs fər əˈnəðər wik. ˈbitɪŋ ðə ʧifs əˈgɛn wɑz fɑr lɛs ˌɪmˈprɛsɪv fər ˈdɛnvər ðən ɪt wɑz ðə fərst taɪm əraʊnd. əˈnəðər lɔs, əˈnəðər slɪp ɪn ðə ˈræŋkɪŋz fər ðə ʧifs. ˈʧɑrʤərz, ˈstilərz ənd ʤɛts ɔl fɛl ðə seɪm əˈmaʊnt ðɪs wik; nit. bɛrz ənd ræmz fɛl ðə seɪm əˈmaʊnt ɛz wɛl. səˈbʤɛktɪv ˈstændərd ˌdiviˈeɪʃən səˈbʤɛktɪv ˈtɛksənz 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 ˈsiˌhɔks 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ˈbrɑŋkoʊz 2 3 3 2 4 4 2 2 2 2 2 ˈbɛŋgəlz 8 6 7 8 8 6 8 7 8 8 8 ˈpeɪtriəts 4 4 2 5 3 3 4 4 4 3 3 seɪnts 5 5 4 3 6 5 5 6 5 5 4 ˈrɛdˌskɪnz 30 29 31 30 31 31 29 29 31 31 31 6 7 8 6 5 7 7 5 7 6 6 ʧifs 7 8 6 7 9 8 6 9 6 7 7 ˈpænθərz 3 2 5 4 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 ˈreɪvənz 14 14 14 14 11 14 16 13 14 14 14 koʊlts 9 11 9 12 12 12 11 11 9 9 11 ˌbəkəˈnirz 26 26 28 27 24 28 28 25 26 26 25 ˈʧɑrʤərz 16 17 15 18 20 16 18 16 17 17 18 ˈdɑlfənz 17 15 16 16 15 19 14 15 15 15 17 ˈtaɪtənz 21 19 18 22 21 20 19 21 22 22 22 ˈstilərz 18 16 21 19 19 21 20 20 19 18 19 ˈkaʊˌbɔɪz 11 12 11 10 10 9 12 14 13 12 13 ˈkɑrdɪnəlz 13 13 13 13 14 11 9 10 12 13 12 ˈigəlz 10 9 10 11 7 10 13 12 10 10 10 ˈfælkənz 29 28 29 29 26 30 31 26 30 30 29 laɪənz 12 10 12 9 13 13 10 8 11 11 9 bɛrz 15 20 17 15 18 18 15 18 16 16 15 ræmz 20 21 22 20 17 17 22 19 18 19 21 ˈreɪdərz 25 27 24 26 29 29 25 23 25 28 27 bɪlz 24 25 30 23 27 24 26 27 24 24 24 ʤaɪənts 22 18 20 17 16 22 21 17 20 20 20 ˈvaɪkɪŋz 28 23 25 25 22 27 27 24 28 25 28 braʊnz 27 31 27 28 28 26 24 22 27 27 26 ˈʤægˌwɑrz 31 30 26 31 25 25 30 31 29 29 30 ʤɛts 23 22 23 24 30 23 23 28 23 23 23 ˈpækərz 19 24 19 21 23 15 17 30 21 21 16 ˌɑbzərˈveɪʃənz: əˈnəðər wik, əˈnəðər kənˈsɛnsəs æt ðə tɔp ənd ˈbɑtəm əv ðə lɪsts. mɔr ðən hæf əv ðə timz sɔ ðɛr ˈstændərd ˌdiviˈeɪʃən goʊ əp ðɪs wik, soʊ timz ər ˈmuvɪŋ ənd nɑt kənˈsɪstəntli. wɪn ɪt kəmz tɪ "ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənsi" ɪn ðə ˈræŋkɪŋz, ðɛrz grin beɪ, ðɛn ðɛrz ˈɛvriˌwən ɛls. ˈʧɑrʤərz ˈæˌkʧuəli ɪn ðə əv ðə lig ɪn ˈræŋkɪŋ kənˈsɪstənsi. əˈbʤɛktɪv ˈævərɪʤ əˈbʤɛktɪv ˈsiˌhɔks 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 ˈpænθərz 3 9 2 3 2 1 2 2 3 2 ˈbrɑŋkoʊz 2 3 3 2 5 3 3 8 2 3 seɪnts 4 2 5 5 6 8 5 3 5 5 6 6 4 4 11 5 4 6 4 4 ˈpeɪtriəts 5 10 6 8 4 9 7 7 7 6 ˈbɛŋgəlz 7 4 10 9 3 6 9 5 12 8 ʧifs 8 22 15 6 7 7 6 4 6 7 ˈkɑrdɪnəlz 11 8 7 7 10 11 8 13 9 9 ˈigəlz 9 5 8 13 8 10 14 10 11 13 koʊlts 15 18 11 11 9 12 11 14 8 10 laɪənz 13 7 17 15 17 4 13 9 15 12 ˈkaʊˌbɔɪz 14 23 9 10 16 18 12 16 10 11 ˈdɑlfənz 17 12 13 14 14 17 15 17 16 14 ræmz 12 29 12 12 18 16 10 19 13 15 bɛrz 10 14 23 20 19 14 19 11 20 17 ˈtaɪtənz 22 21 21 18 13 13 17 12 18 19 ˈʧɑrʤərz 18 16 18 16 15 20 16 21 17 18 ˈreɪvənz 23 25 20 17 22 15 18 15 19 16 ˈpækərz 21 11 26 23 21 21 20 18 21 20 ˈstilərz 16 17 19 21 26 22 22 20 22 22 ʤaɪənts 25 15 16 19 20 26 25 28 14 21 ˌbəkəˈnirz 19 28 14 22 12 24 21 23 23 24 bɪlz 20 19 28 24 32 19 24 22 29 23 ˈfælkənz 24 24 22 25 29 31 23 29 25 25 ˈvaɪkɪŋz 26 26 25 27 23 30 28 30 26 26 ˈreɪdərz 31 31 29 26 25 25 26 27 24 28 ˈrɛdˌskɪnz 28 27 30 29 24 23 30 26 28 30 braʊnz 29 13 31 30 30 28 29 25 32 29 ˈtɛksənz 30 20 32 28 31 27 27 24 31 31 ʤɛts 27 30 27 32 28 29 31 31 30 27 ˈʤægˌwɑrz 32 32 24 31 27 32 32 32 27 32 ˌɑbzərˈveɪʃənz: əˈgɛn, ðə ˈsiˌhɔks ər ˈfərmli ˈplænɪd æt ðə tɔp əv ˈræŋkɪŋz. ˌkɛrəˈlaɪnə ɪz naʊ ðə tim ɪn ðə əˈbʤɛktɪv lɪsts, ˈpæsɪŋ ðə ˈbrɑŋkoʊz. dɪˈspaɪt ˈbitɪŋ ðə ʧifs, ˈdɛnvər drɑpt. ˈʧɑrʤərz drɑpt mɔr ðən ðə ˈbɛŋgəlz klaɪmd. ʤɛts ɪn free-fall*. æt ðɪs reɪt ðɛl bi ðə wərst tim ɪn ðə lig baɪ nɛkst wik. əˈbʤɛktɪv ˈstændərd ˌdiviˈeɪʃən əˈbʤɛktɪv ˈsiˌhɔks 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 seɪnts 4 2 5 5 6 8 5 3 5 5 ˈdɑlfənz 17 12 13 14 14 17 15 17 16 14 ˈpeɪtriəts 5 10 6 8 4 9 7 7 7 6 ˈbrɑŋkoʊz 2 3 3 2 5 3 3 8 2 3 ʤɛts 27 30 27 32 28 29 31 31 30 27 ˈʧɑrʤərz 18 16 18 16 15 20 16 21 17 18 ˈkɑrdɪnəlz 11 8 7 7 10 11 8 13 9 9 ˈvaɪkɪŋz 26 26 25 27 23 30 28 30 26 26 6 6 4 4 11 5 4 6 4 4 ˈpænθərz 3 9 2 3 2 1 2 2 3 2 ˈreɪdərz 31 31 29 26 25 25 26 27 24 28 ˈrɛdˌskɪnz 28 27 30 29 24 23 30 26 28 30 ˈigəlz 9 5 8 13 8 10 14 10 11 13 ˈbɛŋgəlz 7 4 10 9 3 6 9 5 12 8 ˈstilərz 16 17 19 21 26 22 22 20 22 22 ˈfælkənz 24 24 22 25 29 31 23 29 25 25 ˈʤægˌwɑrz 32 32 24 31 27 32 32 32 27 32 koʊlts 15 18 11 11 9 12 11 14 8 10 ˈreɪvənz 23 25 20 17 22 15 18 15 19 16 ˈtaɪtənz 22 21 21 18 13 13 17 12 18 19 ˈtɛksənz 30 20 32 28 31 27 27 24 31 31 ˈpækərz 21 11 26 23 21 21 20 18 21 20 bɛrz 10 14 23 20 19 14 19 11 20 17 laɪənz 13 7 17 15 17 4 13 9 15 12 ˈkaʊˌbɔɪz 14 23 9 10 16 18 12 16 10 11 bɪlz 20 19 28 24 32 19 24 22 29 23 ˌbəkəˈnirz 19 28 14 22 12 24 21 23 23 24 ʤaɪənts 25 15 16 19 20 26 25 28 14 21 braʊnz 29 13 31 30 30 28 29 25 32 29 ʧifs 8 22 15 6 7 7 6 4 6 7 ræmz 12 29 12 12 18 16 10 19 13 15 ˌɑbzərˈveɪʃənz: ðə kənˈsɪstənsi ˈræŋkɪŋ hir ɪz məʧ mɔr ˈlɪniər ðən ðə səˈbʤɛktɪv lɪst wɑz. mɔr ðən hæf ðə timz sɔ ðɛr ˈstændərd ˌdiviˈeɪʃən goʊ daʊn. ˈʧɑrʤərz ər wəns əˈgɛn wən əv ðə mɔr timz. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ˈævərɪʤ ˈvərsəz ˈsiˌhɔks ˈbrɑŋkoʊz ˈpænθərz seɪnts ˈpeɪtriəts ˈbɛŋgəlz ʧifs ˈigəlz ˈkɑrdɪnəlz koʊlts laɪənz ˈkaʊˌbɔɪz ˈdɑlfənz ˈreɪvənz bɛrz ˈʧɑrʤərz ræmz ˈtaɪtənz ˈstilərz ʤaɪənts ˈpækərz ˌbəkəˈnirz bɪlz ˈvaɪkɪŋz ʤɛts ˈreɪdərz braʊnz ˈfælkənz ˈrɛdˌskɪnz ˈʤægˌwɑrz ˈtɛksənz ˌɑbzərˈveɪʃənz: ðə ˈbrɑŋkoʊz ər ˈnɪrli tu fʊl spɑts bɪˈhaɪnd ðə ˈsiˌhɔks. ˈʤæksənˌvɪl ɪz ˈfaɪnəli aʊt əv ðə ˈsɛlər! dɪˈspaɪt biɪŋ ðə juˈnænəməs ʧɔɪs ɪn ðə səˈbʤɛktɪv lɪst, ðə ˈtɛksənz sɔ ðɛr ˈoʊvərˌɔl ˈræŋkɪŋ klaɪm. ˈvaɪkɪŋz ənd ʤɛts ʤɪst pæst iʧ ˈəðər, goʊɪŋ ˈɑpəzɪt dɪˈrɛkʃɪnz. ʤaɪənts kˈwaɪətli ˈklaɪmɪŋ bæk əp ðə bɔrd. ˈoʊvərˌɔl ˈstændərd ˌdiviˈeɪʃən ˈvərsəz ˈsiˌhɔks seɪnts ˈbrɑŋkoʊz ˈʧɑrʤərz ˈdɑlfənz ˈpænθərz ˈbɛŋgəlz ˈigəlz ˈvaɪkɪŋz ˈpeɪtriəts ˈkɑrdɪnəlz ˈreɪdərz ˈrɛdˌskɪnz koʊlts ˈstilərz ˈʤægˌwɑrz ˈfælkənz bɛrz ˈtaɪtənz laɪənz ˈtɛksənz bɪlz ˈkaʊˌbɔɪz ʤɛts ˈreɪvənz ʤaɪənts ʧifs ˈpækərz braʊnz ˌbəkəˈnirz ræmz ˌɑbzərˈveɪʃənz: nɑt ˈrɪli məʧ mɔr tɪ æd hir ˈdɪfərəns ɪn ˈævrɪʤɪz ˈvərsəz ˈreɪvənz ʤɛts ˈpeɪtriəts ˈkaʊˌbɔɪz ˈstilərz ʤaɪənts ʧifs laɪənz koʊlts ˈʤægˌwɑrz ˈvaɪkɪŋz ˈreɪdərz braʊnz ˈbrɑŋkoʊz ˈʧɑrʤərz ˈsiˌhɔks bɛrz seɪnts ˈigəlz ˈbɛŋgəlz ˈpækərz ˈpænθərz ˈdɑlfənz bɪlz ˈrɛdˌskɪnz ˈkɑrdɪnəlz ˈfælkənz ˈtaɪtənz ˈtɛksənz ræmz ˌbəkəˈnirz ˌɑbzərˈveɪʃənz: oʊ, ˈbɔltəˌmɔr. wi soʊ ˈdɛspərətli wɔnt ju tɪ bi gʊd! ə tim frəm nu jɔrk ɪz ˌoʊvərˈreɪtɪd? seɪ ɪt eɪnt soʊ! 12 timz hæv ðɛr ˈræŋkɪŋz wɪˈθɪn 1 spɑt əv iʧ ˈəðər. ðæts ˈprɪti gʊd (ˈʧɑrʤərz ər ɪn ðət grup). ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊ gɪts ðə kraʊn ðɪs wik əv "ˈkloʊsəst tɪ ðə pɪn" 11 əv 16 timz ər səm ˈvɛriɪŋ dɪˈgri əv "over-ranked*". ˈtæmpə beɪ kənˈtɪnjuz tɪ bi ðə ˈfeɪvərɪt ˈwɪpɪŋ bɔɪ əv ðə ˈɛˌnɛˈfɛl. ˈsɔrsəz
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larry pratt of gun owners of america has repeatedly extolled the virtues of politicians having a “healthy fear” of being shot because such fears are a way to make sure that they “behave” and support gun rights.
in yet another appearance alongside extremist commentator stan solomon on october 28, pratt credited court rulings striking down washington, d.c., gun laws for a drop in homicides in the city while deriding proponents of such laws as “criminals’ friends” who “hate self-defense.”
solomon, however, said that politicians who support gun restrictions “really are the criminals, forget the friend,” and the two agreed [then] that “thugs in government” are worse than violent criminals.
“it’s hard to get rid of these politicians,” pratt said, to which solomon responded by suggesting that politicians who support gun laws should be shot, telling pratt, “that’s why we need to have guns, you know what, more than one politician has been dispatched while doing a dance trying to avoid certain, shall we say, metal jackets.”
pratt replied: “may their number increase.”
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ˈlɛri præt əv gən ˈoʊnərz əv əˈmɛrɪkə həz rɪˈpitɪdli ɪkˈstoʊld ðə ˈvərʧuz əv ˌpɑləˈtɪʃənz ˈhævɪŋ ə fear”*” əv biɪŋ ʃɑt bɪˈkəz səʧ fɪrz ər ə weɪ tɪ meɪk ʃʊr ðət ðeɪ ““behave”*” ənd səˈpɔrt gən raɪts. ɪn jɛt əˈnəðər əˈpɪrəns əˈlɔŋˈsaɪd ɪkˈstrimɪst ˈkɑmənˌteɪtər stæn ˈsɑləmən ɔn ɑkˈtoʊbər 28 præt ˈkrɛdɪtɪd kɔrt ˈrulɪŋz ˈstraɪkɪŋ daʊn ˈwɔʃɪŋtən, d.c*., gən lɔz fər ə drɔp ɪn ˈhɑməˌsaɪdz ɪn ðə ˈsɪti waɪl dɪˈraɪdɪŋ prəˈpoʊnənts əv səʧ lɔz ɛz ““criminals’*’ friends”*” hu self-defense.”*.” ˈsɑləmən, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, sɛd ðət ˌpɑləˈtɪʃənz hu səˈpɔrt gən riˈstrɪkʃənz ər ðə ˈkrɪmənəlz, fərˈgɛt ðə friend,”*,” ənd ðə tu əˈgrid [ðɛn] ðət ɪn government”*” ər wərs ðən ˈvaɪələnt ˈkrɪmənəlz. hɑrd tɪ gɪt rɪd əv ðiz politicians,”*,” præt sɛd, tɪ wɪʧ ˈsɑləmən rɪˈspɑndɪd baɪ səˈʤɛstɪŋ ðət ˌpɑləˈtɪʃənz hu səˈpɔrt gən lɔz ʃʊd bi ʃɑt, ˈtɛlɪŋ præt, waɪ wi nid tɪ hæv gənz, ju noʊ wət, mɔr ðən wən ˌpɑləˈtɪʃən həz bɪn dɪˈspæʧt waɪl duɪŋ ə dæns traɪɪŋ tɪ əˈvɔɪd ˈsərtən, ʃæl wi seɪ, ˈmɛtəl jackets.”*.” præt rɪˈplaɪd: ðɛr ˈnəmbər increase.”*.”
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dollar or less days return dec. 7 & 8, 2013
participating downtown museums and attractions offer admission for just $1 or less.
baltimore museum of industry
1415 key highway
saturday & sunday - $1
saturday, december 7, to 2pm- shop local craft vendors for the perfect holiday gifts.
christmas village in baltimore
inner shore park
saturday & sunday, $1
11am-8pm both days
www.baltimore-christmas.com
geppi’s entertainment museum
301 w camden street
saturday & sunday - $1
www.geppismuseum.com
historic ships in baltimore
pier 1 301 e. pratt street
saturday $ sunday, $1
uss constellation, uss torsk, tancy, lightship chesapeake - $1 per ship.
the jewish museum of maryland
15 light street
sunday only, $1
www.jewishmuseummd.org
lexington market
400 w. lexington street
saturday & sunday, free
www.lexingtonmarket.com
maryland science center
601 light street
saturday & sunday - $1
does not include imax theater or mummies of the world exhibit.
national aquarium baltimore
501 e. pratt street
saturday & sunday - $1
dollar days tickets must be purchased at the window on the day of the special offer. because of extremely high demand, tickets are not sold in advance or online. arrive early to purchase your ticket before they sell out. timed entry will be in effect for these days. dollar days cannot be combined with any other offer. the national aquarium will be open for normal business hours.
port discovery
35 market place
sunday only, $1
12-5pm. expect long lines and dress appropriately as the line extends outside.
reginald f. lewis museum
830 east pratt street
rflewismuseum.org
saturday & sunday, $1
saturday: enjoy ornament making and youth filmmakers. sunday: filmmaker byron hurt examines soul food.
sports legends museum
301 w camden street
sunday only, $1
www.baberuthmuseum.org
top of the world observation level
world trade center, floor
401 e. pratt street
saturday,-2pm - $1
sunday, - $1
cash only. under 3 is free.
www.viewbaltimore.org
parking panda deal for dollar days
downtown partnership of baltimore has with parking panda, the nationwide leader in online parking reservations, to
offer official parking passes for downtown dollar or less days at lots and garages near participating attractions. to
view real-time parking availability and purchase parking, simply visit parking panda to purchase downtown baltimore
parking passes.
upon purchasing, your electronic parking pass can either be printed at home or presented from any at
your selected parking location. parking spaces will be set aside at each location for each customer on
event days, so parking passes are 100% guaranteed reserved on the day of your event, even if the lot otherwise fills
up!
use promo code “dpob” for 10% off your first parking reservation. you can also earn $5 in credits for sharing parking panda with your friends. every time one of your friends makes their first reservation with your discount code, you will get another $5 in credits!
for a list of all the fun events taking place in downtown during the holidays, visit
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ˈdɔlər ər lɛs deɪz rɪˈtərn dɛk. 7 8 2013 pɑrˈtɪsəˌpeɪtɪŋ ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn mˈjuziəmz ənd əˈtrækʃənz ˈɔfər ədˈmɪʃən fər ʤɪst 1 ər lɛs. ˈbɔltəˌmɔr mˈjuziəm əv ˈɪndəstri 1415 ki ˈhaɪˌweɪ ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ ˈsənˌdi 1 ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ, dɪˈsɛmbər 7 tɪ 2pm*- ʃɑp ˈloʊkəl kræft ˈvɛndərz fər ðə ˈpərˌfɪkt ˈhɑlɪˌdeɪ gɪfts. ˈkrɪsməs ˈvɪlɪʤ ɪn ˈbɔltəˌmɔr ˈɪnər ʃɔr pɑrk ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ ˈsənˌdi, 1 boʊθ deɪz ˌɛnərˈteɪnmənt mˈjuziəm 301 ˈdəbəlju ˈkæmdən strit ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ ˈsənˌdi 1 hɪˈstɔrɪk ʃɪps ɪn ˈbɔltəˌmɔr pɪr 1 301 i. præt strit ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ ˈsənˌdi, 1 ˈjuˈɛˈsɛs ˌkɑnstəˈleɪʃən, ˈjuˈɛˈsɛs torsk*, tancy*, ˈlaɪtˌʃɪp ˈʧɛsəˌpik 1 pər ʃɪp. ðə ʤuɪʃ mˈjuziəm əv ˈmɛrələnd 15 laɪt strit ˈsənˌdi ˈoʊnli, 1 ˈlɛksɪŋtən ˈmɑrkɪt 400 ˈdəbəlju. ˈlɛksɪŋtən strit ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ ˈsənˌdi, fri ˈmɛrələnd saɪəns ˈsɛnər 601 laɪt strit ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ ˈsənˌdi 1 dɪz nɑt ˌɪnˈklud ˈaɪˌmæks ˈθieɪtər ər ˈməmiz əv ðə wərld ɪgˈzɪbɪt. ˈnæʃənəl əkˈwɛriəm ˈbɔltəˌmɔr 501 i. præt strit ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ ˈsənˌdi 1 ˈdɔlər deɪz ˈtɪkɪts məst bi ˈpərʧəst æt ðə ˈwɪndoʊ ɔn ðə deɪ əv ðə ˈspɛʃəl ˈɔfər. bɪˈkəz əv ɪkˈstrimli haɪ dɪˈmænd, ˈtɪkɪts ər nɑt soʊld ɪn ədˈvæns ər ˈɔnˌlaɪn. əraɪv ˈərli tɪ ˈpərʧəs jʊr ˈtɪkɪt ˌbiˈfɔr ðeɪ sɛl aʊt. taɪmd ˈɛntri wɪl bi ɪn ˈifɛkt fər ðiz deɪz. ˈdɔlər deɪz ˈkænɑt bi kəmˈbaɪnd wɪθ ˈɛni ˈəðər ˈɔfər. ðə ˈnæʃənəl əkˈwɛriəm wɪl bi ˈoʊpən fər ˈnɔrməl ˈbɪznɪs aʊərz. pɔrt ˌdɪˈskəvri 35 ˈmɑrkɪt pleɪs ˈsənˌdi ˈoʊnli, 1 12-5pm*. ɪkˈspɛkt lɔŋ laɪnz ənd drɛs əˈproʊpriɪtli ɛz ðə laɪn ɪkˈstɛndz ˈaʊtˈsaɪd. ˈrɛʤənəld ɛf. luɪs mˈjuziəm 830 ist præt strit ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ ˈsənˌdi, 1 ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ: ˌɛnˈʤɔɪ ˈɔrnəmənt ˈmeɪkɪŋ ənd juθ ˈfɪlˌmeɪkərz. ˈsənˌdi: ˈfɪlˌmeɪkər ˈbaɪrən hərt ɪgˈzæmənz soʊl fud. spɔrts ˈlɛʤəndz mˈjuziəm 301 ˈdəbəlju ˈkæmdən strit ˈsənˌdi ˈoʊnli, 1 tɔp əv ðə wərld ˌɑbzərˈveɪʃən ˈlɛvəl wərld treɪd ˈsɛnər, flɔr 401 i. præt strit ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ, 1 ˈsənˌdi, 1 kæʃ ˈoʊnli. ˈəndər 3 ɪz fri. ˈpɑrkɪŋ ˈpændə dil fər ˈdɔlər deɪz ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn ˈpɑrtnərˌʃɪp əv ˈbɔltəˌmɔr həz wɪθ ˈpɑrkɪŋ ˈpændə, ðə ˈneɪʃənˈwaɪd ˈlidər ɪn ˈɔnˌlaɪn ˈpɑrkɪŋ ˌrɛzərˈveɪʃənz, tɪ ˈɔfər əˈfɪʃəl ˈpɑrkɪŋ ˈpæsɪz fər ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn ˈdɔlər ər lɛs deɪz æt lɑts ənd gərˈɑʒɪz nɪr pɑrˈtɪsəˌpeɪtɪŋ əˈtrækʃənz. tɪ vju ˈrilˌtaɪm ˈpɑrkɪŋ əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪti ənd ˈpərʧəs ˈpɑrkɪŋ, ˈsɪmpli ˈvɪzɪt ˈpɑrkɪŋ ˈpændə tɪ ˈpərʧəs ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn ˈbɔltəˌmɔr ˈpɑrkɪŋ ˈpæsɪz. əˈpɑn ˈpərʧəsɪŋ, jʊr ˌɪˌlɛkˈtrɑnɪk ˈpɑrkɪŋ pæs kən ˈiðər bi ˈprɪnɪd æt hoʊm ər pərˈzɛnəd frəm ˈɛni æt jʊr səˈlɛktɪd ˈpɑrkɪŋ loʊˈkeɪʃən. ˈpɑrkɪŋ ˈspeɪsɪz wɪl bi sɛt əˈsaɪd æt iʧ loʊˈkeɪʃən fər iʧ ˈkəstəmər ɔn ɪˈvɛnt deɪz, soʊ ˈpɑrkɪŋ ˈpæsɪz ər 100 ˌgɛrənˈtid rɪˈzərvd ɔn ðə deɪ əv jʊr ɪˈvɛnt, ˈivɪn ɪf ðə lɔt ˈəðərˌwaɪz fɪlz əp! juz ˈproʊˌmoʊ koʊd ““dpob”*” fər 10 ɔf jʊr fərst ˈpɑrkɪŋ ˌrɛzərˈveɪʃən. ju kən ˈɔlsoʊ ərn 5 ɪn ˈkrɛdɪts fər ˈʃɛrɪŋ ˈpɑrkɪŋ ˈpændə wɪθ jʊr frɛndz. ˈɛvəri taɪm wən əv jʊr frɛndz meɪks ðɛr fərst ˌrɛzərˈveɪʃən wɪθ jʊr ˈdɪskaʊnt koʊd, ju wɪl gɪt əˈnəðər 5 ɪn ˈkrɛdɪts! fər ə lɪst əv ɔl ðə fən ɪˈvɛnts ˈteɪkɪŋ pleɪs ɪn ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈhɑləˌdeɪz, ˈvɪzɪt
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this is a "real" ratchet and clank game.
the last two ratchet and clank titles were hardly worth calling entries in the ratchet and clank franchise because they lacked any sort of meaningful mechanics. fortunately, this game is true to form and it a genuine ratchet and clank game - there is a meaningful, although painfully short and stripped down single player campaign (no online multiplayer).
the positives - this game looks absolutely fantastic on the, this is best work artistically on this console. the weapons are fantastic, some are of past classics whereas others are brand new - to the "ironically named peacemaker" to the "zircon family", the weapons are fun and easy to use. to that point, excluding the jet boots, the controls are fantastic. there is mild exploration, and there is good reward for finding everything because there are powerful, powerful weapons to be unlocked. arena combat returns, some item collection missions return (huge open area where you look for things), and there is a challenge mode as in previous titles. there is also a difficulty setting, which is nice (easy, medium, hard).
unfortunately, however, there are some problems with this game that don't bring it to the caliber of "crack in time". first, flying between planets is not the really cool "oh, wow, you're flying your ship in space" that was introduced in "crack in time", rather, it is a meaningless "move your ship icon to the planet you want to go to". i was sorely disappointed. level design is mostly okay, except for one particular level: in certain situations on planet doors would be open allowing me to explore regions i shouldn't, doors would be closed when they should be open preventing me from exploring regions, and it was difficult to figure out how to past areas on that particular world. also, diversity is limited. there are no grind boot challenge, no vehicle piloting - it is get your gun and fire (and there is little to no strategy for weapon selection either).
the price tag is what you get: a quickly made extremely short romp that is entertaining enough to have a second play through. the game comes with a download code for a previous ratchet and clank title - that isn't a half bad game makes up for what i feel is the high price point for this game (this should really be a $15.00 title, not a $30.00 title). the game is fun, but the fun is short lived.
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ðɪs ɪz ə "ril" ˈræʧət ənd klæŋk geɪm. ðə læst tu ˈræʧət ənd klæŋk ˈtaɪtəlz wər ˈhɑrdli wərθ ˈkɔlɪŋ ˈɛntriz ɪn ðə ˈræʧət ənd klæŋk ˈfrænˌʧaɪz bɪˈkəz ðeɪ lækt ˈɛni sɔrt əv ˈminɪŋfəl məˈkænɪks. ˈfɔrʧənətli, ðɪs geɪm ɪz tru tɪ fɔrm ənd ɪt ə ˈʤɛnjuˌaɪn ˈræʧət ənd klæŋk geɪm ðɛr ɪz ə ˈminɪŋfəl, ˌɔlˈðoʊ ˈpeɪnfəli ʃɔrt ənd strɪpt daʊn ˈsɪŋgəl pleɪər kæmˈpeɪn (noʊ ˈɔnˌlaɪn ˈməltiˌpleɪər). ðə ˈpɑzətɪvz ðɪs geɪm lʊks ˌæbsəˈlutli fænˈtæstɪk ɔn ðə ðɪs ɪz bɛst wərk ɑrˈtɪstɪkli ɔn ðɪs ˈkɑnsoʊl. ðə ˈwɛpənz ər fænˈtæstɪk, səm ər əv pæst ˈklæsɪks wɛˈræz ˈəðərz ər brænd nu tɪ ðə "aɪˈrɑnɪkli neɪmd ˈpisˌmeɪkər" tɪ ðə "ˈzərkən ˈfæməli", ðə ˈwɛpənz ər fən ənd ˈizi tɪ juz. tɪ ðət pɔɪnt, ɪkˈskludɪŋ ðə ʤɛt buts, ðə kənˈtroʊlz ər fænˈtæstɪk. ðɛr ɪz maɪld ˌɛksplərˈeɪʃən, ənd ðɛr ɪz gʊd rɪˈwɔrd fər ˈfaɪndɪŋ ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ bɪˈkəz ðɛr ər ˈpaʊərfəl, ˈpaʊərfəl ˈwɛpənz tɪ bi ənˈlɑkt. ərˈinə ˈkɑmbæt rɪˈtərnz, səm ˈaɪtəm kəˈlɛkʃən ˈmɪʃənz rɪˈtərn (juʤ ˈoʊpən ˈɛriə wɛr ju lʊk fər θɪŋz), ənd ðɛr ɪz ə ˈʧælənʤ moʊd ɛz ɪn ˈpriviəs ˈtaɪtəlz. ðɛr ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ ə ˈdɪfɪˌkəlti ˈsɛtɪŋ, wɪʧ ɪz nis (ˈizi, ˈmidiəm, hɑrd). ənˈfɔrʧənətli, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ðɛr ər səm ˈprɑbləmz wɪθ ðɪs geɪm ðət doʊnt brɪŋ ɪt tɪ ðə ˈkæləbər əv "kræk ɪn taɪm". fərst, flaɪɪŋ bɪtˈwin ˈplænəts ɪz nɑt ðə ˈrɪli kul "oʊ, waʊ, jʊr flaɪɪŋ jʊr ʃɪp ɪn speɪs" ðət wɑz ˌɪntrəˈdust ɪn "kræk ɪn taɪm", ˈrəðər, ɪt ɪz ə ˈminɪŋləs "muv jʊr ʃɪp ˈaɪkɑn tɪ ðə ˈplænət ju wɔnt tɪ goʊ tɪ". aɪ wɑz ˈsɔrli ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd. ˈlɛvəl dɪˈzaɪn ɪz ˈmoʊstli ˌoʊˈkeɪ, ɪkˈsɛpt fər wən ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr ˈlɛvəl: ɪn ˈsərtən ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃənz ɔn ˈplænət dɔrz wʊd bi ˈoʊpən əˈlaʊɪŋ mi tɪ ɪkˈsplɔr ˈriʤənz aɪ ˈʃʊdənt, dɔrz wʊd bi kloʊzd wɪn ðeɪ ʃʊd bi ˈoʊpən prɪˈvɛnɪŋ mi frəm ɪkˈsplɔrɪŋ ˈriʤənz, ənd ɪt wɑz ˈdɪfəkəlt tɪ ˈfɪgjər aʊt haʊ tɪ pæst ˈɛriəz ɔn ðət ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr wərld. ˈɔlsoʊ, dɪˈvərsɪti ɪz ˈlɪmɪtɪd. ðɛr ər noʊ graɪnd but ˈʧælənʤ, noʊ ˈviɪkəl ˈpaɪlətɪŋ ɪt ɪz gɪt jʊr gən ənd faɪər (ənd ðɛr ɪz ˈlɪtəl tɪ noʊ ˈstrætəʤi fər ˈwɛpən səˈlɛkʃən ˈiðər). ðə praɪs tæg ɪz wət ju gɪt: ə kˈwɪkli meɪd ɪkˈstrimli ʃɔrt rɑmp ðət ɪz ˌɛnərˈteɪnɪŋ ɪˈnəf tɪ hæv ə ˈsɛkənd pleɪ θru. ðə geɪm kəmz wɪθ ə ˈdaʊnˌloʊd koʊd fər ə ˈpriviəs ˈræʧət ənd klæŋk ˈtaɪtəl ðət ˈɪzənt ə hæf bæd geɪm meɪks əp fər wət aɪ fil ɪz ðə haɪ praɪs pɔɪnt fər ðɪs geɪm (ðɪs ʃʊd ˈrɪli bi ə ˈtaɪtəl, nɑt ə ˈtaɪtəl). ðə geɪm ɪz fən, bət ðə fən ɪz ʃɔrt lɪvd.
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san jose firefighter eric diaz does not want to talk about the video he shot five years ago when he worked for a private ambulance company under contract to santa clara county. in it, he and his partner can be seen cruising for dates when they should be working.
even though it was recorded years ago, the dvd is now a major issue in a child custody case. it is also raising new questions for those who oversee emergency services in santa clara county.
at the time the video was made, diaz was on the job as an for american medical response. but on a busy saturday night, he was also on the prowl. if the dvd is an accurate depiction of their shift, diaz and his partner spend the vast majority of their time trying to pick up women. diaz used a video camera to document his finds.
diaz and his partner stop women on the street, shout at them from the ambulance and try to get them to take off their clothes. even though the ambulance crew is on the clock, there appears to be plenty of time for socializing.
when a group of young women ask for a picture, diaz obliges them. but when diaz loads the back of the ambulance with women, his partner gets worried.
mike: "eric, bro, you know what, i don't want to do this today."
eric: "for real?"
mike: "we're going to get in big trouble, dude."
eric: "alright, sorry."
mike: "there's just too many, man."
still, diaz keeps going. he was 27 years old the night the video was made, and he never got tired of looking for a date, even at 3 a.m. at a jack in the box.
the showed the video to brian smart, program director for college, one of the major paramedic schools in the south bay. he says diaz acted so unprofessionally, it is difficult to watch.
"patients call 911 because they're at their worst moment in their lives and they need us to be at our best and if we're delaying responding to someone, that's potentially going to have a negative outcome," smart said.
a spokesperson for the santa clara county agency that oversees ambulance service says that it isis a personnel issue for the independent contractor, amr. they would only get involved if response times were being affected.
ambulance crews are judged by their response times -- seconds count. on the video, diaz is chatting up yet another woman when a call comes over the radio, but he takes the time to close the deal.
officials for the ambulance company declined to be interviewed for this story, but issued a statement that reads in part, "the actions of the individuals only violated amr policies, but also the trust of the citizens we serve. their behavior was unacceptable and in no way representative of the hundreds of men and women who honorably and faithfully serve this community every day."
but the ambulance company cannot do anything about diaz because he now works for the san jose fire department. san jose fire now has a copy of the video. they will not say where they got it and they will not comment directly because it is a personnel issue, but they want to get a message out.
"the trust and confidence of this community is very important to the fire department and we're continuing to do everything that we can to uphold that privilege," captain chuck rangel said.
there are several sexually explicit scenes on the dvd, one when diaz was on the job, others when he was off.
the dvd is part of a child custody case. diaz and his former girlfriend have also filed for restraining orders against each other. the matter will be decided in court next week.
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sæn ˌhoʊˈzeɪ ˈfaɪrˌfaɪtər ˈɛrɪk diɑz dɪz nɑt wɔnt tɪ tɔk əˈbaʊt ðə ˈvɪdioʊ hi ʃɑt faɪv jɪrz əˈgoʊ wɪn hi wərkt fər ə ˈpraɪvət ˈæmbjələns ˈkəmpəˌni ˈəndər ˈkɑnˌtrækt tɪ ˈsænə ˈklɛrə ˈkaʊnti. ɪn ɪt, hi ənd hɪz ˈpɑrtnər kən bi sin ˈkruzɪŋ fər deɪts wɪn ðeɪ ʃʊd bi ˈwərkɪŋ. ˈivɪn ðoʊ ɪt wɑz rɪˈkɔrdɪd jɪrz əˈgoʊ, ðə ˌdiˌviˈdi ɪz naʊ ə ˈmeɪʤər ˈɪʃu ɪn ə ʧaɪld ˈkəstədi keɪs. ɪt ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ ˈreɪzɪŋ nu kˈwɛsʧənz fər ðoʊz hu ˈoʊvərˌsi ˈimərʤənsi ˈsərvɪsɪz ɪn ˈsænə ˈklɛrə ˈkaʊnti. æt ðə taɪm ðə ˈvɪdioʊ wɑz meɪd, diɑz wɑz ɔn ðə ʤɑb ɛz ən fər əˈmɛrɪkən ˈmɛdɪkəl rɪˈspɑns. bət ɔn ə ˈbɪzi ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ naɪt, hi wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ ɔn ðə praʊl. ɪf ðə ˌdiˌviˈdi ɪz ən ˈækjərət dɪˈpɪkʃən əv ðɛr ʃɪft, diɑz ənd hɪz ˈpɑrtnər spɛnd ðə væst məˈʤɔrəti əv ðɛr taɪm traɪɪŋ tɪ pɪk əp ˈwɪmən. diɑz juzd ə ˈvɪdioʊ ˈkæmərə tɪ ˈdɑkjəmɛnt hɪz faɪndz. diɑz ənd hɪz ˈpɑrtnər stɑp ˈwɪmən ɔn ðə strit, ʃaʊt æt ðɛm frəm ðə ˈæmbjələns ənd traɪ tɪ gɪt ðɛm tɪ teɪk ɔf ðɛr kloʊðz. ˈivɪn ðoʊ ðə ˈæmbjələns kru ɪz ɔn ðə klɑk, ðɛr əˈpɪrz tɪ bi ˈplɛnti əv taɪm fər ˈsoʊʃəˌlaɪzɪŋ. wɪn ə grup əv jəŋ ˈwɪmən æsk fər ə ˈpɪkʧər, diɑz əˈblaɪʤɪz ðɛm. bət wɪn diɑz loʊdz ðə bæk əv ðə ˈæmbjələns wɪθ ˈwɪmən, hɪz ˈpɑrtnər gɪts ˈwərid. maɪk: "ˈɛrɪk, broʊ, ju noʊ wət, aɪ doʊnt wɔnt tɪ du ðɪs təˈdeɪ." ˈɛrɪk: "fər ril?" maɪk: "wɪr goʊɪŋ tɪ gɪt ɪn bɪg ˈtrəbəl, dud." ˈɛrɪk: "ˌɔˈlraɪt, ˈsɑri." maɪk: "ðɛrz ʤɪst tu ˈmɛni, mæn." stɪl, diɑz kips goʊɪŋ. hi wɑz 27 jɪrz oʊld ðə naɪt ðə ˈvɪdioʊ wɑz meɪd, ənd hi ˈnɛvər gɑt taɪərd əv ˈlʊkɪŋ fər ə deɪt, ˈivɪn æt 3 a.m*. æt ə ʤæk ɪn ðə bɑks. ðə ʃoʊd ðə ˈvɪdioʊ tɪ braɪən smɑrt, ˈproʊˌgræm dɪˈrɛktər fər ˈkɑlɪʤ, wən əv ðə ˈmeɪʤər ˌpɛrəˈmɛdɪk skulz ɪn ðə saʊθ beɪ. hi sɪz diɑz ˈæktɪd soʊ unprofessionally*, ɪt ɪz ˈdɪfəkəlt tɪ wɔʧ. "ˈpeɪʃənz kɔl 911 bɪˈkəz ðɛr æt ðɛr wərst ˈmoʊmənt ɪn ðɛr lɪvz ənd ðeɪ nid ˈjuˈɛs tɪ bi æt ɑr bɛst ənd ɪf wɪr dɪˈleɪɪŋ rɪˈspɑndɪŋ tɪ ˈsəmˌwən, ðæts pəˈtɛnʃəli goʊɪŋ tɪ hæv ə ˈnɛgətɪv ˈaʊtˌkəm," smɑrt sɛd. ə ˈspoʊkspərsən fər ðə ˈsænə ˈklɛrə ˈkaʊnti ˈeɪʤənsi ðət ˈoʊvərˌsiz ˈæmbjələns ˈsərvɪs sɪz ðət ɪt ˈaɪsəs ə ˌpərsəˈnɛl ˈɪʃu fər ðə ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənt ˈkɑnˌtræktər, ˈɑmər. ðeɪ wʊd ˈoʊnli gɪt ˌɪnˈvɑlvd ɪf rɪˈspɑns taɪmz wər biɪŋ əˈfɛktɪd. ˈæmbjələns kruz ər ʤəʤd baɪ ðɛr rɪˈspɑns taɪmz ˈsɛkəndz kaʊnt. ɔn ðə ˈvɪdioʊ, diɑz ɪz ˈʧætɪŋ əp jɛt əˈnəðər ˈwʊmən wɪn ə kɔl kəmz ˈoʊvər ðə ˈreɪdiˌoʊ, bət hi teɪks ðə taɪm tɪ kloʊz ðə dil. əˈfɪʃəlz fər ðə ˈæmbjələns ˈkəmpəˌni dɪˈklaɪnd tɪ bi ˈɪntərvˌjud fər ðɪs ˈstɔri, bət ˈɪʃud ə ˈsteɪtmənt ðət ridz ɪn pɑrt, "ðə ˈækʃənz əv ðə ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəlz ˈoʊnli ˈvaɪəleɪtɪd ˈɑmər ˈpɑləsiz, bət ˈɔlsoʊ ðə trəst əv ðə ˈsɪtɪzənz wi sərv. ðɛr bɪˈheɪvjər wɑz ˌənækˈsɛptəbəl ənd ɪn noʊ weɪ ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnətɪv əv ðə ˈhənərdz əv mɛn ənd ˈwɪmən hu ˈɑnərəbli ənd ˈfeɪθfəli sərv ðɪs kəmˈjunɪti ˈɛvəri deɪ." bət ðə ˈæmbjələns ˈkəmpəˌni ˈkænɑt du ˈɛniˌθɪŋ əˈbaʊt diɑz bɪˈkəz hi naʊ wərks fər ðə sæn ˌhoʊˈzeɪ faɪər dɪˈpɑrtmənt. sæn ˌhoʊˈzeɪ faɪər naʊ həz ə ˈkɑpi əv ðə ˈvɪdioʊ. ðeɪ wɪl nɑt seɪ wɛr ðeɪ gɑt ɪt ənd ðeɪ wɪl nɑt ˈkɑmɛnt dɪˈrɛkli bɪˈkəz ɪt ɪz ə ˌpərsəˈnɛl ˈɪʃu, bət ðeɪ wɔnt tɪ gɪt ə ˈmɛsɪʤ aʊt. "ðə trəst ənd ˈkɑnfədɛns əv ðɪs kəmˈjunɪti ɪz ˈvɛri ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt tɪ ðə faɪər dɪˈpɑrtmənt ənd wɪr kənˈtɪnjuɪŋ tɪ du ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ ðət wi kən tɪ əˈphoʊld ðət ˈprɪvɪlɪʤ," ˈkæptən ʧək ˈrænˈʤɛl sɛd. ðɛr ər ˈsɛvərəl ˈsɛkʃuəli ɪkˈsplɪsət sinz ɔn ðə ˌdiˌviˈdi, wən wɪn diɑz wɑz ɔn ðə ʤɑb, ˈəðərz wɪn hi wɑz ɔf. ðə ˌdiˌviˈdi ɪz pɑrt əv ə ʧaɪld ˈkəstədi keɪs. diɑz ənd hɪz ˈfɔrmər ˈgərlˌfrɛnd hæv ˈɔlsoʊ faɪld fər riˈstreɪnɪŋ ˈɔrdərz əˈgɛnst iʧ ˈəðər. ðə ˈmætər wɪl bi ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd ɪn kɔrt nɛkst wik.
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late last night my boyfriend got called into work which left me to my own devices, which is not always a good thing but last night it was!
i decided to make a treat so that hopefully we would get to relax together for at least part of the weekend. as my cheesecake was such a hit at our dinner party last weekend i wanted to make it again but as our friends are away in the this weekend it did not seem worth making a large cheesecake for the 2 of us. so this weekend i have been inventive and have made white chocolate cheesecake cups, mini for us to enjoy. they are a great idea if you do not have the right equipment to make the triple chocolate cheesecake that i shared with you before or if you are looking for small individual treats to enjoy.
this is how i made them;
ingredients
100g of chocolate
20g of butter
200g of cream cheese
1 heaped of icing sugar
200g of white chocolate
method
ground the chocolate until fine melt the butter and allow to cool slightly mix the butter and ground biscuits into a bowl and squeeze together with the back of a wooden spoon tip into 4 individual cups or dishes push down gently in a flat even surface, do not compact it too tightly as it will be hard to eat mix the cream cheese and icing sugar together gently (this does not take long) melt of the white chocolate in a glass bowl add the cream cheese dollop by dollop into the chocolate, continually stirring until you get an evenly coloured mixture poor on top of the biscuit base then smooth and flatten chill for 1 hour when it has cooled melt of the white chocolate in a glass bowl pour on top of the cheesecake and move the tin around to spread the topping evenly chill until the chocolate topping is set before serving grate the remaining of white chocolate and sprinkle evenly over the top
as you can see they look really great and they taste delicious too, once you have this cheesecake recipe you can adapt it and enjoy how you like. i think this may be the last time i will be making them for a while after calculating the calorie content as the ‘diet starts on monday’.
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leɪt læst naɪt maɪ ˈbɔɪˌfrɛnd gɑt kɔld ˈɪntu wərk wɪʧ lɛft mi tɪ maɪ oʊn dɪˈvaɪsɪz, wɪʧ ɪz nɑt ˈɔlˌweɪz ə gʊd θɪŋ bət læst naɪt ɪt wɑz! aɪ ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd tɪ meɪk ə trit soʊ ðət ˈhoʊpfəli wi wʊd gɪt tɪ rɪˈlæks təˈgɛðər fər æt list pɑrt əv ðə ˈwiˌkɪnd. ɛz maɪ ˈʧizˌkeɪk wɑz səʧ ə hɪt æt ɑr ˈdɪnər ˈpɑrti læst ˈwiˌkɪnd aɪ ˈwɔntɪd tɪ meɪk ɪt əˈgɛn bət ɛz ɑr frɛndz ər əˈweɪ ɪn ðə ðɪs ˈwiˌkɪnd ɪt dɪd nɑt sim wərθ ˈmeɪkɪŋ ə lɑrʤ ˈʧizˌkeɪk fər ðə 2 əv ˈjuˈɛs. soʊ ðɪs ˈwiˌkɪnd aɪ hæv bɪn ˌɪnˈvɛntɪv ənd hæv meɪd waɪt ˈʧɔklət ˈʧizˌkeɪk kəps, ˈmɪni fər ˈjuˈɛs tɪ ˌɛnˈʤɔɪ. ðeɪ ər ə greɪt aɪˈdiə ɪf ju du nɑt hæv ðə raɪt ɪkˈwɪpmənt tɪ meɪk ðə ˈtrɪpəl ˈʧɔklət ˈʧizˌkeɪk ðət aɪ ʃɛrd wɪθ ju ˌbiˈfɔr ər ɪf ju ər ˈlʊkɪŋ fər smɔl ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl trits tɪ ˌɛnˈʤɔɪ. ðɪs ɪz haʊ aɪ meɪd ðɛm; ˌɪnˈgridiənts əv ˈʧɔklət əv ˈbətər əv krim ʧiz 1 hipt əv ˈaɪsɪŋ ˈʃʊgər əv waɪt ˈʧɔklət ˈmɛθəd graʊnd ðə ˈʧɔklət ənˈtɪl faɪn mɛlt ðə ˈbətər ənd əˈlaʊ tɪ kul sˈlaɪtli mɪks ðə ˈbətər ənd graʊnd ˈbɪskəts ˈɪntu ə boʊl ənd skwiz təˈgɛðər wɪθ ðə bæk əv ə ˈwʊdən spun tɪp ˈɪntu 4 ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl kəps ər ˈdɪʃɪz pʊʃ daʊn ˈʤɛntli ɪn ə flæt ˈivɪn ˈsərfəs, du nɑt ˈkɑmpækt ɪt tu ˈtaɪtli ɛz ɪt wɪl bi hɑrd tɪ it mɪks ðə krim ʧiz ənd ˈaɪsɪŋ ˈʃʊgər təˈgɛðər ˈʤɛntli (ðɪs dɪz nɑt teɪk lɔŋ) mɛlt əv ðə waɪt ˈʧɔklət ɪn ə glæs boʊl æd ðə krim ʧiz ˈdɑləp baɪ ˈdɑləp ˈɪntu ðə ˈʧɔklət, kənˈtɪnjuəli stərɪŋ ənˈtɪl ju gɪt ən ˈivənli ˈkələrd ˈmɪksʧər pur ɔn tɔp əv ðə ˈbɪskət beɪs ðɛn smuð ənd ˈflætən ʧɪl fər 1 aʊər wɪn ɪt həz kuld mɛlt əv ðə waɪt ˈʧɔklət ɪn ə glæs boʊl pɔr ɔn tɔp əv ðə ˈʧizˌkeɪk ənd muv ðə tɪn əraʊnd tɪ sprɛd ðə ˈtɑpɪŋ ˈivənli ʧɪl ənˈtɪl ðə ˈʧɔklət ˈtɑpɪŋ ɪz sɛt ˌbiˈfɔr ˈsərvɪŋ greɪt ðə rɪˈmeɪnɪŋ əv waɪt ˈʧɔklət ənd ˈsprɪŋkəl ˈivənli ˈoʊvər ðə tɔp ɛz ju kən si ðeɪ lʊk ˈrɪli greɪt ənd ðeɪ teɪst dɪˈlɪʃəs tu, wəns ju hæv ðɪs ˈʧizˌkeɪk ˈrɛsəpi ju kən əˈdæpt ɪt ənd ˌɛnˈʤɔɪ haʊ ju laɪk. aɪ θɪŋk ðɪs meɪ bi ðə læst taɪm aɪ wɪl bi ˈmeɪkɪŋ ðɛm fər ə waɪl ˈæftər ˈkælkjəˌleɪtɪŋ ðə ˈkælɔˌri ˈkɑntɛnt ɛz ðə stɑrts ɔn monday’*’. ˈædvərˌtaɪzmənts
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wow cafe & in st. bernard parish, la, has decided to take a stand against the kneel.
owner brook songy posted on facebook page that the restaurant would not be airing saints vs. panthers game. in her post, she cited the decision to kneel as the reasoning.
“i apologize to all of our guests but we will not be viewing the saints game today in house. some of our local players chose to sit during the national anthem, which will not be supported or praised at wow. again, we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. thank you,” wrote.
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her decision sparked a wave of backlash and praise on social media.
one person offended by the choice wrote on facebook, “you fail to understand the real issue. it's not about the military or the flags. don't you think these very men have military members in their families that they honor and respect. shame on you for avoiding the real issues. you will never get my business.”
while another felt the eatery should not be participating either way, “wow and you have the right to do so but as a restaurant you shouldn't be making political statements people pay you to eat and watch sports not be subjected to your political opinions.”
though there were many supporters.
one wrote on facebook, “no apologies needed very disappointed in the new orleans saints that you would take part in sitting down for the national anthem you are totally disrespectful.”
another said, “we chose to no longer spend our money on anything related to the nfl again, ever. however, we will be frequenting your restaurant. bravo.”
following the responses the restaurant received, issued a follow-up statement through wow cafe, defending her decisions to not display the game.
“i stand behind my decision and i want to make this clear, the sole reason that i air the game is because i feel the players disrespected the national anthem and that is something i hold dear to my heart. how i was raised, i have family members who served our great country in the military and i was taught to respect the national anthem, the flag, the military and people in general,” she said.
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a spokesman for, ray sutherlin, said it was not her intention to “start a firestorm, she simply did what she felt was right.”
the spokesman furthered defended the franchise owner, saying “the players exercised their right not to stand for the national anthem and she exercised her right not to air the game because of their actions. the freedom goes both ways.”
“we ever all agree on these sensitive topics and i understand that,” said before concluding, “i strongly believe in the support of our country, our flag, the military, the national anthem and i always will.”
anastasiadis is not the only restaurant owner choosing not to show the game. restaurant in new york has reportedly also refused to show nfl games because of the kneeling controversy.
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waʊ kəˈfeɪ ɪn st*. ˈbərnərd ˈpɛrɪʃ, lɑ, həz ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd tɪ teɪk ə stænd əˈgɛnst ðə nil. ˈoʊnər brʊk ˈsɑnʤi ˈpoʊstɪd ɔn ˈfeɪsˌbʊk peɪʤ ðət ðə ˈrɛˌstrɑnt wʊd nɑt bi ˈɛrɪŋ seɪnts ˈvərsəz. ˈpænθərz geɪm. ɪn hər poʊst, ʃi ˈsaɪtɪd ðə dɪˈsɪʒən tɪ nil ɛz ðə ˈrizənɪŋ. əˈpɑləˌʤaɪz tɪ ɔl əv ɑr gɛsts bət wi wɪl nɑt bi vjuɪŋ ðə seɪnts geɪm təˈdeɪ ɪn haʊs. səm əv ɑr ˈloʊkəl pleɪərz ʧoʊz tɪ sɪt ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈnæʃənəl ˈænθəm, wɪʧ wɪl nɑt bi səˈpɔrtɪd ər preɪzd æt waʊ. əˈgɛn, wi əˈpɑləˌʤaɪz fər ˈɛni ˌɪnkənˈvinjəns ðɪs meɪ kɔz. θæŋk you,”*,” roʊt. kəˈneɪdiən ˈʧɪkən ˈkrɔsɪz ðə roʊd ˈdeɪli tɪ gɪt tɪ ˈdoʊˌnət ʃɑp hər dɪˈsɪʒən spɑrkt ə weɪv əv ˈbæˌklæʃ ənd preɪz ɔn ˈsoʊʃəl ˈmidiə. wən ˈpərsən əˈfɛndɪd baɪ ðə ʧɔɪs roʊt ɔn ˈfeɪsˌbʊk, feɪl tɪ ˌəndərˈstænd ðə ril ˈɪʃu. ɪts nɑt əˈbaʊt ðə ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ər ðə flægz. doʊnt ju θɪŋk ðiz ˈvɛri mɛn hæv ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˈmɛmbərz ɪn ðɛr ˈfæməliz ðət ðeɪ ˈɑnər ənd rɪˈspɛkt. ʃeɪm ɔn ju fər əˈvɔɪdɪŋ ðə ril ˈɪʃuz. ju wɪl ˈnɛvər gɪt maɪ business.”*.” waɪl əˈnəðər fɛlt ðə ˈitəri ʃʊd nɑt bi pɑrˈtɪsəˌpeɪtɪŋ ˈiðər weɪ, ənd ju hæv ðə raɪt tɪ du soʊ bət ɛz ə ˈrɛˌstrɑnt ju ˈʃʊdənt bi ˈmeɪkɪŋ pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈsteɪtmənts ˈpipəl peɪ ju tɪ it ənd wɔʧ spɔrts nɑt bi səˈbʤɛktɪd tɪ jʊr pəˈlɪtɪkəl opinions.”*.” ðoʊ ðɛr wər ˈmɛni səˈpɔrtərz. wən roʊt ɔn ˈfeɪsˌbʊk, əˈpɑləˌʤiz ˈnidɪd ˈvɛri ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd ɪn ðə nu ˌɔˈrlinz seɪnts ðət ju wʊd teɪk pɑrt ɪn ˈsɪtɪŋ daʊn fər ðə ˈnæʃənəl ˈænθəm ju ər ˈtoʊtəli disrespectful.”*.” əˈnəðər sɛd, ʧoʊz tɪ noʊ ˈlɔŋgər spɛnd ɑr ˈməni ɔn ˈɛniˌθɪŋ rɪˈleɪtɪd tɪ ðə ˈɛˌnɛˈfɛl əˈgɛn, ˈɛvər. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, wi wɪl bi ˈfrikˌwɛntɪŋ jʊr ˈrɛˌstrɑnt. bravo.”*.” ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ðə rɪˈspɑnsɪz ðə ˈrɛˌstrɑnt rɪˈsivd, ˈɪʃud ə ˈfɑloʊˌəp ˈsteɪtmənt θru waʊ kəˈfeɪ, dɪˈfɛndɪŋ hər dɪˈsɪʒənz tɪ nɑt dɪˈspleɪ ðə geɪm. stænd bɪˈhaɪnd maɪ dɪˈsɪʒən ənd aɪ wɔnt tɪ meɪk ðɪs klɪr, ðə soʊl ˈrizən ðət aɪ ɛr ðə geɪm ɪz bɪˈkəz aɪ fil ðə pleɪərz ˌdɪsrɪˈspɛktɪd ðə ˈnæʃənəl ˈænθəm ənd ðət ɪz ˈsəmθɪŋ aɪ hoʊld dɪr tɪ maɪ hɑrt. haʊ aɪ wɑz reɪzd, aɪ hæv ˈfæməli ˈmɛmbərz hu sərvd ɑr greɪt ˈkəntri ɪn ðə ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ənd aɪ wɑz tɔt tɪ rɪˈspɛkt ðə ˈnæʃənəl ˈænθəm, ðə flæg, ðə ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ənd ˈpipəl ɪn general,”*,” ʃi sɛd. ˈfɑloʊ ˈjuˈɛs ɔn ˈfeɪsˌbʊk fər mɔr fɑks ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl nuz ə ˈspoʊksmən fər, reɪ ˈsəθərlɪn, sɛd ɪt wɑz nɑt hər ˌɪnˈtɛnʧən tɪ ə ˈfaɪrˌstɔrm, ʃi ˈsɪmpli dɪd wət ʃi fɛlt wɑz right.”*.” ðə ˈspoʊksmən ˈfərðərd dɪˈfɛndɪd ðə ˈfrænˌʧaɪz ˈoʊnər, seɪɪŋ pleɪərz ˈɛksərˌsaɪzd ðɛr raɪt nɑt tɪ stænd fər ðə ˈnæʃənəl ˈænθəm ənd ʃi ˈɛksərˌsaɪzd hər raɪt nɑt tɪ ɛr ðə geɪm bɪˈkəz əv ðɛr ˈækʃənz. ðə ˈfridəm goʊz boʊθ ways.”*.” ˈɛvər ɔl əˈgri ɔn ðiz ˈsɛnsɪtɪv ˈtɑpɪks ənd aɪ ˌəndərˈstænd that,”*,” sɛd ˌbiˈfɔr kənˈkludɪŋ, ˈstrɔŋli bɪˈliv ɪn ðə səˈpɔrt əv ɑr ˈkəntri, ɑr flæg, ðə ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri, ðə ˈnæʃənəl ˈænθəm ənd aɪ ˈɔlˌweɪz will.”*.” ɪz nɑt ðə ˈoʊnli ˈrɛˌstrɑnt ˈoʊnər ˈʧuzɪŋ nɑt tɪ ʃoʊ ðə geɪm. ˈrɛˌstrɑnt ɪn nu jɔrk həz rɪˈpɔrtədli ˈɔlsoʊ rɪfˈjuzd tɪ ʃoʊ ˈɛˌnɛˈfɛl geɪmz bɪˈkəz əv ðə ˈnilɪŋ ˈkɑntrəˌvərsi.
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former ukraine striker has joined the national team's coaching staff ahead of euro 2016, replacing assistant coach zavarov.
shevchenko is ukraine's record scorer with 48 goals in 111 games and won the ballon d'or in 2004 at ac milan. he retired after euro 2012 which ukraine with poland.
the football federation of ukraine (ffu) decided not to extend assistant coach contract, head coach said while presenting to the press.
former ukraine striker has joined the national team's coaching staff
shevchenko's playing career: dynamo kiev: milan: chelsea: milan (loan): dynamo kiev: ukraine
'we made our choice in favour of who will be working with the ukraine's coaching stuff,' told reporters.
shevchenko was approached by the to take over as head coach in november 2012 but declined the offer because he did not have the required coaching qualifications.
that obstacle was removed in march 2015 when, who also played for dynamo kiev and chelsea as well as milan at club level, completed a programme for a pro licence.
the said it was both an honour and responsibility for him.
'after almost four years on vacation, i am coming back to big football, as a coach,' the former ukraine captain said. 'i worked with great coaches like valery lobanovskyi, carlo ancelotti, jose and got a huge experience.
'coaching courses helped me to shape up my ideas and determine my own vision of football. hope, this will help me in the future.'
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ˈfɔrmər juˈkreɪn ˈstraɪkər həz ʤɔɪnd ðə ˈnæʃənəl timz ˈkoʊʧɪŋ stæf əˈhɛd əv ˈjʊrə 2016 rɪˈpleɪsɪŋ əˈsɪstənt koʊʧ zavarov*. ɪz juˈkreɪnz ˈrɛkərd ˈskɔrər wɪθ 48 goʊlz ɪn 111 geɪmz ənd wən ðə ˈbælən dɔr ɪn 2004 æt ˈeɪˈsi ˈmaɪˌlæn. hi rɪˈtaɪrd ˈæftər ˈjʊrə 2012 wɪʧ juˈkreɪn wɪθ ˈpoʊlənd. ðə ˈfʊtˌbɔl ˌfɛdərˈeɪʃən əv juˈkreɪn (ffu*) ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd nɑt tɪ ɪkˈstɛnd əˈsɪstənt koʊʧ ˈkɑnˌtrækt, hɛd koʊʧ sɛd waɪl prɪˈzɛntɪŋ tɪ ðə prɛs. ˈfɔrmər juˈkreɪn ˈstraɪkər həz ʤɔɪnd ðə ˈnæʃənəl timz ˈkoʊʧɪŋ stæf pleɪɪŋ kərɪr ˈdaɪnəˌmoʊ kiɛv ˈmaɪˌlæn ˈʧɛlsi ˈmaɪˌlæn (loʊn) ˈdaɪnəˌmoʊ kiɛv juˈkreɪn 'wi meɪd ɑr ʧɔɪs ɪn ˈfeɪvər əv hu wɪl bi ˈwərkɪŋ wɪθ ðə juˈkreɪnz ˈkoʊʧɪŋ stəf,' toʊld rɪˈpɔrtərz. wɑz əˈproʊʧt baɪ ðə tɪ teɪk ˈoʊvər ɛz hɛd koʊʧ ɪn noʊˈvɛmbər 2012 bət dɪˈklaɪnd ðə ˈɔfər bɪˈkəz hi dɪd nɑt hæv ðə rikˈwaɪərd ˈkoʊʧɪŋ kˌwɑləfəˈkeɪʃənz. ðət ˈɑbstəkəl wɑz riˈmuvd ɪn mɑrʧ 2015 wɪn, hu ˈɔlsoʊ pleɪd fər ˈdaɪnəˌmoʊ kiɛv ənd ˈʧɛlsi ɛz wɛl ɛz ˈmaɪˌlæn æt kləb ˈlɛvəl, kəmˈplitɪd ə ˈproʊˌgræm fər ə proʊ ˈlaɪsəns. ðə sɛd ɪt wɑz boʊθ ən ˈɑnər ənd riˌspɑnsəˈbɪləti fər ɪm. 'ˈæftər ˈɔlˌmoʊst fɔr jɪrz ɔn veɪˈkeɪʃən, aɪ æm ˈkəmɪŋ bæk tɪ bɪg ˈfʊtˌbɔl, ɛz ə koʊʧ,' ðə ˈfɔrmər juˈkreɪn ˈkæptən sɛd. 'aɪ wərkt wɪθ greɪt ˈkoʊʧɪz laɪk ˈvæləri lobanovskyi*, ˈkɑrloʊ ancelotti*, ˌhoʊˈzeɪ ənd gɑt ə juʤ ɪkˈspɪriəns. 'ˈkoʊʧɪŋ ˈkɔrsɪz hɛlpt mi tɪ ʃeɪp əp maɪ aɪˈdiəz ənd dɪˈtərmən maɪ oʊn ˈvɪʒən əv ˈfʊtˌbɔl. hoʊp, ðɪs wɪl hɛlp mi ɪn ðə fˈjuʧər.'
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laurent tapie, managing director of groupe bernard tapie, full “white knight” investor, stated in an interview friday that though there is “still a long way to go” before the deal actually closes they are hopeful the site could as early as january 2012.
the statement comes soon after the announcement that groupe bernard tapie had entered into an agreement to buy full tilt poker. the deal would involve repaying all players in full, but is conditional upon several factors including “a favorable resolution with the united states department of justice.”
“we have shown that we have the funds necessary to repay player debts. we want to find ways where we have to put in all the money and will be talking to the us department of justice next week,” said tapie.
he also confirmed that the brand would not change. “[changing the brand] is not in question. a well-known brand and the technology is widely recognized as being possibly the best in the industry.” however, he states that the management will change.
one lingering question mark is a difficulty in bernard tapie obtaining a license, due to indiscretions in his past. in 1997, tapie served six months in prison for fixing a soccer match. he was also convicted of fraud when he lied to authorities about a luxury yacht.
full license was suspended by the gaming commission yesterday, a move full tilt was quick to condemn, saying such a move would make a sale “more difficult.”
however, the said that there remained a possibility to reinstate the license, provided there a change of ownership.
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ˈlɔrənt ˈtæpi, ˈmænəʤɪŋ dɪˈrɛktər əv grup ˈbərnərd ˈtæpi, fʊl knight”*” ˌɪnˈvɛstər, ˈsteɪtɪd ɪn ən ˈɪntərvˌju ˈfraɪˌdeɪ ðət ðoʊ ðɛr ɪz ə lɔŋ weɪ tɪ go”*” ˌbiˈfɔr ðə dil ˈæˌkʧuəli ˈkloʊzɪz ðeɪ ər ˈhoʊpfəl ðə saɪt kʊd ɛz ˈərli ɛz ˈʤænjuˌɛri 2012 ðə ˈsteɪtmənt kəmz sun ˈæftər ðə əˈnaʊnsmɛnt ðət grup ˈbərnərd ˈtæpi hæd ˈɛnərd ˈɪntu ən əˈgrimənt tɪ baɪ fʊl tɪlt ˈpoʊkər. ðə dil wʊd ˌɪnˈvɑlv riˈpeɪɪŋ ɔl pleɪərz ɪn fʊl, bət ɪz kənˈdɪʃənəl əˈpɑn ˈsɛvərəl ˈfæktərz ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈfeɪvərəbəl ˌrɛzəˈluʃən wɪθ ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts dɪˈpɑrtmənt əv justice.”*.” hæv ʃoʊn ðət wi hæv ðə fəndz ˈnɛsəˌsɛri tɪ riˈpeɪ pleɪər dɛts. wi wɔnt tɪ faɪnd weɪz wɛr wi hæv tɪ pʊt ɪn ɔl ðə ˈməni ənd wɪl bi ˈtɔkɪŋ tɪ ðə ˈjuˈɛs dɪˈpɑrtmənt əv ˈʤəstɪs nɛkst week,”*,” sɛd ˈtæpi. hi ˈɔlsoʊ kənˈfərmd ðət ðə brænd wʊd nɑt ʧeɪnʤ. ðə brænd] ɪz nɑt ɪn kˈwɛʃən. ə ˈwɛlˈnoʊn brænd ənd ðə tɛkˈnɑləʤi ɪz ˈwaɪdli ˈrɛkəgˌnaɪzd ɛz biɪŋ ˈpɑsəbli ðə bɛst ɪn ðə industry.”*.” ˌhaʊˈɛvər, hi steɪts ðət ðə ˈmænɪʤmənt wɪl ʧeɪnʤ. wən ˈlɪŋgərɪŋ kˈwɛʃən mɑrk ɪz ə ˈdɪfɪˌkəlti ɪn ˈbərnərd ˈtæpi əbˈteɪnɪŋ ə ˈlaɪsəns, du tɪ ˌɪndɪˈskrɛʃənz ɪn hɪz pæst. ɪn 1997 ˈtæpi sərvd sɪks mənθs ɪn ˈprɪzən fər ˈfɪksɪŋ ə ˈsɑkər mæʧ. hi wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ kənˈvɪktəd əv frɔd wɪn hi laɪd tɪ əˈθɔrətiz əˈbaʊt ə ˈləgʒəri jɑt. fʊl ˈlaɪsəns wɑz səˈspɛndɪd baɪ ðə ˈgeɪmɪŋ kəˈmɪʃən ˈjɛstərˌdeɪ, ə muv fʊl tɪlt wɑz kwɪk tɪ kənˈdɛm, seɪɪŋ səʧ ə muv wʊd meɪk ə seɪl difficult.”*.” ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ðə sɛd ðət ðɛr rɪˈmeɪnd ə ˌpɑsəˈbɪləˌti tɪ ˌriɪnˈsteɪt ðə ˈlaɪsəns, prəˈvaɪdɪd ðɛr ə ʧeɪnʤ əv ˈoʊnərˌʃɪp.
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mixes /
tracks:
rick astley - "never gonna give you up" (acapella)
nine inch nails - "the hand that feeds" (tweaked instrumental via garageband)
description:
in preparing to see the final live show of thee inch nails "lights in the sky 2008" at planet hollywood in las vegas, i decided to whip up a mix for the road. little did i know how evil that mix would turn out...
as is typical, i usually find out about internet albums" after they already come out, thereby missing the chance to contribute. recently, thanks to a leaked acapella, there was an entire album devoted to mr astley, called rickrawked. after checking the album out, then scouring the net, i found the acapella.
i was shocked that no one on the album came up with this combination. then again, mixinge inch nails with rick astley is not something that would come to a normal mind.
oh...did i mention? i made a music video to go along with this! :)
and for those of you who have been to my site before, yes i know i already used the instrumental once already. in fact, that (with the temptations) went through a tweaking, and is now back online!
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ˈmɪksɪz træks: rɪk ˈæstli "ˈnɛvər ˈgɑnə gɪv ju əp" (acapella*) naɪn ɪnʧ neɪlz "ðə hænd ðət fidz" (twikt ˌɪnstrəˈmɛnəl ˈviə garageband*) dɪˈskrɪpʃən: ɪn pərˈpɛrɪŋ tɪ si ðə ˈfaɪnəl lɪv ʃoʊ əv ðə naɪn ɪnʧ neɪlz "laɪts ɪn ðə skaɪ 2008 æt ˈplænət ˈhɑliˌwʊd ɪn ˈɛˈleɪˈɛs ˈveɪgəs, aɪ ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd tɪ wɪp əp ə mɪks fər ðə roʊd. ˈlɪtəl dɪd aɪ noʊ haʊ ˈivəl ðət mɪks wʊd tərn aʊt... ɛz ɪz ˈtɪpɪkəl, aɪ ˈjuʒəwəli faɪnd aʊt əˈbaʊt ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈælbəmz" ˈæftər ðeɪ ɔˈrɛdi kəm aʊt, ˈðɛrˈbaɪ ˈmɪsɪŋ ðə ʧæns tɪ kənˈtrɪbjut. ˈrisəntli, θæŋks tɪ ə likt acapella*, ðɛr wɑz ən ɪnˈtaɪər ˈælbəm dɪˈvoʊtɪd tɪ ˈmɪstər ˈæstli, kɔld rickrawked*. ˈæftər ˈʧɛkɪŋ ðə ˈælbəm aʊt, ðɛn skaʊərɪŋ ðə nɛt, aɪ faʊnd ðə acapella*. aɪ wɑz ʃɑkt ðət noʊ wən ɔn ðə ˈælbəm keɪm əp wɪθ ðɪs ˌkɑmbəˈneɪʃən. ðɛn əˈgɛn, ˈmɪksɪŋ naɪn ɪnʧ neɪlz wɪθ rɪk ˈæstli ɪz nɑt ˈsəmθɪŋ ðət wʊd kəm tɪ ə ˈnɔrməl maɪnd. aɪ ˈmɛnʃən? aɪ meɪd ə mˈjuzɪk ˈvɪdioʊ tɪ goʊ əˈlɔŋ wɪθ ðɪs! ənd fər ðoʊz əv ju hu hæv bɪn tɪ maɪ saɪt ˌbiˈfɔr, jɛs aɪ noʊ aɪ ɔˈrɛdi juzd ðə ˌɪnstrəˈmɛnəl wəns ɔˈrɛdi. ɪn fækt, ðət (wɪθ ðə tɛmˈteɪʃənz) wɛnt θru ə tˈwikɪŋ, ənd ɪz naʊ bæk ˈɔnˌlaɪn!
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clare daly tells a district court judge is ‘causing huge problems with regard to the administration of justice’ rté news (@rtenews) october 26, 2016
last night.
during a debate on the judicial appointments commission bill 2016, independents 4 change clare daly recalled her day in naas district court yesterday.
her appearance in court followed a bench warrant being issued by judge desmond for her arrest on october 13 after she left the court before her case was called.
grab a tay.
clare daly: “i am absolutely delighted that the bill has been tabled. people often correctly give out about politicians but at least we have to go before them once in a blue moon and there is some element of accountability and right to recall whereas the judiciary is completely and utterly a law unto itself. it is great that so many judges perform so well but we are stuck with those who do not. while i am glad fianna introduced the bill, the measures will only go some way to improving the quality of the judges we end up with.”
“the idea that somebody could be in such a position of power because of political connections rather than merit and so on is absolutely reprehensible and i welcome the measures in this regard. however, we need to put the spotlight on this issue. substantial reform in this area is critical. the lack of training and regulation of judges is a huge problem. when they behave irrationally, nothing can be done. the idea of justice not only being done but being seen to be done cannot happen in our state while the judiciary is in the manner it is currently.”
“i would like tell to story and i assure the chair that the story, even though it involves a court case, will not go into details of the case in front of the judge but it is a graphic example of what i am talking about. it is incredibly fresh in my mind because it happened today and it involved me and a judge in naas district court. the history of this case is that i was summonsed to appear before naas district court on a driving offence. i allegedly drove at a speed of 59 in a 50 zone. three weeks ago, i was called in respect of the case. the case was not listed for a hearing on that date; it was to be the first mention in court.”
“when i arrived in court, the case was no. 188 on the list and the judge is well known in the area, for whatever reason, for not starting judicial proceedings on time. even though the court is scheduled to begin at 10.30am, he regularly appears much later than that. there is also a tradition of cases being religiously taken in order. in every court sitting i have ever attended as an observer, defendant or plaintiff, the judge normally goes through the list, dispenses with the cases in which a court date is being sought and keeps back the cases that are due for hearing in order to efficiently administer justice and ensure the management of the time of all the people who end up in the court on the day, including those who take time off work to attend because they have been summonsed as witnesses or defendants, solicitors, gardaí, prison officers and so on.”
“my case was listed as no. 188 out of 188. the judge proceeded with the cases for the morning. i watched what was happening in them and then i instructed a solicitor on this minor driving matter and left the court at lunchtime. later that day, i attended an committee meeting and i was not to know that the judge having reached case no.
acting chairman (deputy catherine connolly): is the deputy relating this to the bill?
daly: i am. it relates to the fact that judges are not subject to any accountability whatsoever and to the huge costs the state can incur because of their irrational behaviour. when the judge was finishing up for the day, he had reached case no. 175 but decided to jump to the end of the list and call case no. 188. he called the solicitor before the court and asked him where was his client, even though i had instructed the solicitor, and what reason i had for not being there.
“the reason was i had been there in the morning and had watched how this judge had dealt with cases. i witnessed cases being called for which people did not turn up on similar charges or did not have a solicitor. no bench warrants or any other proceedings were dealt with. a judgment was simply given in those cases.”
“judges are an incredibly powerful position. i respect our court system and i respect the fact that judges have discretion but that discretion has to be exercised proportionately and rationally and when it is not, there has be some body in place to call them to account. the judge could accuse me, without any recourse on my part, of disrespecting the court.”
“by doing that and issuing a bench warrant in those circumstances when i clearly was not a risk of absconding the case not even listed for a hearing and he dealt with other cases earlier without issuing a bench warrant against those who were not there or who did not have a solicitor the consequence of his action was that an garda síochána, which was an innocent victim, was subject to massive negative publicity that it had orchestrated this.”
“a sergeant had to leave his post in newbridge, drive in a squad car to swords and spend the day there vacating the order at enormous expense to the state. i had to return to naas district court today to listen to the same judge lecturing me about disrespecting his court without giving me an opportunity to say anything about his irrational decision.”
“our laws provide that nobody can do anything about that judge but he is causing huge problems with regard to the administration of justice given the inefficiency of the court in his district. this needs to be radically reformed. i am glad that fianna opted to introduce the bill today because it is long overdue. this is only one aspect of judicial oversight and we need to go further.”
“i acknowledge a judicial council is included in the programme but some outrageous decisions and behaviour are taking place in our courts. in fairness, the presidents of the district court, circuit court and so on can do nothing about it. that cannot be allowed to continue.
“judges have been appointed to areas or even communities in which they worked as a solicitor and this has led to conflicts of interest. they presided over cases involving people they formerly represented and proceeded to hear the cases, which is completely wrong.
“the option of challenging judges through a judicial review is not sufficient because one is putting oneself in a position of massive expense and accusing a judge of bias, which people do not want to do.”
“other members have made points about some inconsistent decisions which have been made with far more awful consequences than mine. i wanted to use my case as an example of the utterly ludicrous behaviour of some of the people we have entrusted to manage our courts but no one can do anything about it.”
“the saddest point about the case i referred to is that the judge in question is the sitting judge in naas district court. this means he can stay there for as long as he likes. from looking at him today, he has a few years left in him. the court could have him for about 12 more years.”
“the expense to the state of having 100 gardaí, solicitors and people tied up every day while he operates his court place, like i described, is utterly ludicrous and in radical need of change. i support this bill as a first step in that process.”
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klɛr ˈdeɪli tɛlz ə ˈdɪstrɪkt kɔrt ʤəʤ ɪz juʤ ˈprɑbləmz wɪθ rɪˈgɑrd tɪ ðə ædˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən əv justice’*’ rté*é nuz (@rtenews*) ɑkˈtoʊbər 26 2016 læst naɪt. ˈdʊrɪŋ ə dəˈbeɪt ɔn ðə ʤuˈdɪʃəl əˈpɔɪntmənts kəˈmɪʃən bɪl 2016 ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənts 4 ʧeɪnʤ klɛr ˈdeɪli rɪˈkɔld hər deɪ ɪn nɑz ˈdɪstrɪkt kɔrt ˈjɛstərˌdeɪ. hər əˈpɪrəns ɪn kɔrt ˈfɑloʊd ə bɛnʧ ˈwɔrənt biɪŋ ˈɪʃud baɪ ʤəʤ ˈdɛzmənd fər hər ərˈɛst ɔn ɑkˈtoʊbər 13 ˈæftər ʃi lɛft ðə kɔrt ˌbiˈfɔr hər keɪs wɑz kɔld. græb ə teɪ. klɛr ˈdeɪli: æm ˌæbsəˈlutli dɪˈlaɪtɪd ðət ðə bɪl həz bɪn ˈteɪbəld. ˈpipəl ˈɔfən kərˈɛktli gɪv aʊt əˈbaʊt ˌpɑləˈtɪʃənz bət æt list wi hæv tɪ goʊ ˌbiˈfɔr ðɛm wəns ɪn ə blu mun ənd ðɛr ɪz səm ˈɛləmənt əv əˈkaʊntəˌbɪlɪti ənd raɪt tɪ ˈriˌkɔl wɛˈræz ðə ʤuˈdɪʃiˌɛri ɪz kəmˈplitli ənd ˈətərli ə lɔ ˈəntu ˌɪtˈsɛlf. ɪt ɪz greɪt ðət soʊ ˈmɛni ˈʤəʤɪz pərˈfɔrm soʊ wɛl bət wi ər stək wɪθ ðoʊz hu du nɑt. waɪl aɪ æm glæd fiˈænə ˌɪntrəˈdust ðə bɪl, ðə ˈmɛʒərz wɪl ˈoʊnli goʊ səm weɪ tɪ ˌɪmˈpruvɪŋ ðə kˈwɑləti əv ðə ˈʤəʤɪz wi ɛnd əp with.”*.” aɪˈdiə ðət ˈsəmˌbɑdi kʊd bi ɪn səʧ ə pəˈzɪʃən əv paʊər bɪˈkəz əv pəˈlɪtɪkəl kəˈnɛkʃənz ˈrəðər ðən ˈmɛrət ənd soʊ ɔn ɪz ˌæbsəˈlutli ˌrɛprɪˈhɛnsəbəl ənd aɪ ˈwɛlkəm ðə ˈmɛʒərz ɪn ðɪs rɪˈgɑrd. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, wi nid tɪ pʊt ðə ˈspɑˌtlaɪt ɔn ðɪs ˈɪʃu. səbˈstænʃəl rɪˈfɔrm ɪn ðɪs ˈɛriə ɪz ˈkrɪtɪkəl. ðə læk əv ˈtreɪnɪŋ ənd ˌrɛgjəˈleɪʃən əv ˈʤəʤɪz ɪz ə juʤ ˈprɑbləm. wɪn ðeɪ bɪˈheɪv ˌɪˈræʃənəli, ˈnəθɪŋ kən bi dən. ðə aɪˈdiə əv ˈʤəstɪs nɑt ˈoʊnli biɪŋ dən bət biɪŋ sin tɪ bi dən ˈkænɑt ˈhæpən ɪn ɑr steɪt waɪl ðə ʤuˈdɪʃiˌɛri ɪz ɪn ðə ˈmænər ɪt ɪz currently.”*.” wʊd laɪk tɛl tɪ ˈstɔri ənd aɪ əˈʃʊr ðə ʧɛr ðət ðə ˈstɔri, ˈivɪn ðoʊ ɪt ˌɪnˈvɑlvz ə kɔrt keɪs, wɪl nɑt goʊ ˈɪntu ˈditeɪlz əv ðə keɪs ɪn frənt əv ðə ʤəʤ bət ɪt ɪz ə ˈgræfɪk ɪgˈzæmpəl əv wət aɪ æm ˈtɔkɪŋ əˈbaʊt. ɪt ɪz ˌɪnˈkrɛdəbli frɛʃ ɪn maɪ maɪnd bɪˈkəz ɪt ˈhæpənd təˈdeɪ ənd ɪt ˌɪnˈvɑlvd mi ənd ə ʤəʤ ɪn nɑz ˈdɪstrɪkt kɔrt. ðə ˈhɪstəri əv ðɪs keɪs ɪz ðət aɪ wɑz ˈsəmənzd tɪ əˈpɪr ˌbiˈfɔr nɑz ˈdɪstrɪkt kɔrt ɔn ə ˈdraɪvɪŋ offence*. aɪ əˈlɛʤədli droʊv æt ə spid əv 59 ɪn ə 50 zoʊn. θri wiks əˈgoʊ, aɪ wɑz kɔld ɪn rɪˈspɛkt əv ðə keɪs. ðə keɪs wɑz nɑt ˈlɪstɪd fər ə ˈhirɪŋ ɔn ðət deɪt; ɪt wɑz tɪ bi ðə fərst ˈmɛnʃən ɪn court.”*.” aɪ əraɪvd ɪn kɔrt, ðə keɪs wɑz noʊ. 188 ɔn ðə lɪst ənd ðə ʤəʤ ɪz wɛl noʊn ɪn ðə ˈɛriə, fər ˌwəˈtɛvər ˈrizən, fər nɑt ˈstɑrtɪŋ ʤuˈdɪʃəl prəˈsidɪŋz ɔn taɪm. ˈivɪn ðoʊ ðə kɔrt ɪz ˈskɛʤʊld tɪ bɪˈgɪn æt 10.30am*, hi ˈrɛgjələrli əˈpɪrz məʧ ˈleɪtər ðən ðət. ðɛr ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ ə trəˈdɪʃən əv ˈkeɪsɪz biɪŋ rɪˈlɪʤəsli ˈteɪkən ɪn ˈɔrdər. ɪn ˈɛvəri kɔrt ˈsɪtɪŋ aɪ hæv ˈɛvər əˈtɛndəd ɛz ən əbˈzərvər, dɪˈfɛndənt ər ˈpleɪnəf, ðə ʤəʤ ˈnɔrməli goʊz θru ðə lɪst, dɪˈspɛnsɪz wɪθ ðə ˈkeɪsɪz ɪn wɪʧ ə kɔrt deɪt ɪz biɪŋ sɔt ənd kips bæk ðə ˈkeɪsɪz ðət ər du fər ˈhirɪŋ ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ ɪˈfɪʃəntli ədˈmɪnɪstər ˈʤəstɪs ənd ɪnˈʃʊr ðə ˈmænɪʤmənt əv ðə taɪm əv ɔl ðə ˈpipəl hu ɛnd əp ɪn ðə kɔrt ɔn ðə deɪ, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ðoʊz hu teɪk taɪm ɔf wərk tɪ əˈtɛnd bɪˈkəz ðeɪ hæv bɪn ˈsəmənzd ɛz ˈwɪtnəsɪz ər dɪˈfɛndənts, səˈlɪsətərz, gardaí*í, ˈprɪzən ˈɔfɪsərz ənd soʊ on.”*.” keɪs wɑz ˈlɪstɪd ɛz noʊ. 188 aʊt əv 188 ðə ʤəʤ prəˈsidəd wɪθ ðə ˈkeɪsɪz fər ðə ˈmɔrnɪŋ. aɪ wɔʧt wət wɑz ˈhæpənɪŋ ɪn ðɛm ənd ðɛn aɪ ˌɪnˈstrəktɪd ə səˈlɪsətər ɔn ðɪs ˈmaɪnər ˈdraɪvɪŋ ˈmætər ənd lɛft ðə kɔrt æt ˈlənʧˌtaɪm. ˈleɪtər ðət deɪ, aɪ əˈtɛndəd ən kəˈmɪti ˈmitɪŋ ənd aɪ wɑz nɑt tɪ noʊ ðət ðə ʤəʤ ˈhævɪŋ riʧt keɪs noʊ. ˈæktɪŋ ˈʧɛrmən (ˈdɛpjəti ˈkæθərɪn ˈkɔnəli): ɪz ðə ˈdɛpjəti rɪˈleɪtɪŋ ðɪs tɪ ðə bɪl? ˈdeɪli: aɪ æm. ɪt rɪˈleɪts tɪ ðə fækt ðət ˈʤəʤɪz ər nɑt ˈsəbʤɪkt tɪ ˈɛni əˈkaʊntəˌbɪlɪti ˌwətsoʊˈɛvər ənd tɪ ðə juʤ kɔsts ðə steɪt kən ˌɪnˈkər bɪˈkəz əv ðɛr ˌɪˈræʃənəl bɪˈheɪvjər. wɪn ðə ʤəʤ wɑz ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ əp fər ðə deɪ, hi hæd riʧt keɪs noʊ. 175 bət ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd tɪ ʤəmp tɪ ðə ɛnd əv ðə lɪst ənd kɔl keɪs noʊ. 188 hi kɔld ðə səˈlɪsətər ˌbiˈfɔr ðə kɔrt ənd æst ɪm wɛr wɑz hɪz klaɪənt, ˈivɪn ðoʊ aɪ hæd ˌɪnˈstrəktɪd ðə səˈlɪsətər, ənd wət ˈrizən aɪ hæd fər nɑt biɪŋ ðɛr. ˈrizən wɑz aɪ hæd bɪn ðɛr ɪn ðə ˈmɔrnɪŋ ənd hæd wɔʧt haʊ ðɪs ʤəʤ hæd dɛlt wɪθ ˈkeɪsɪz. aɪ ˈwɪtnəst ˈkeɪsɪz biɪŋ kɔld fər wɪʧ ˈpipəl dɪd nɑt tərn əp ɔn ˈsɪmələr ˈʧɑrʤɪz ər dɪd nɑt hæv ə səˈlɪsətər. noʊ bɛnʧ ˈwɔrənts ər ˈɛni ˈəðər prəˈsidɪŋz wər dɛlt wɪθ. ə ˈʤəʤmənt wɑz ˈsɪmpli ˈgɪvɪn ɪn ðoʊz cases.”*.” ər ən ˌɪnˈkrɛdəbli ˈpaʊərfəl pəˈzɪʃən. aɪ rɪˈspɛkt ɑr kɔrt ˈsɪstəm ənd aɪ rɪˈspɛkt ðə fækt ðət ˈʤəʤɪz hæv dɪˈskrɛʃən bət ðət dɪˈskrɛʃən həz tɪ bi ˈɛksərˌsaɪzd prəˈpɔrʃənətli ənd ˈræʃənəli ənd wɪn ɪt ɪz nɑt, ðɛr həz bi səm ˈbɑdi ɪn pleɪs tɪ kɔl ðɛm tɪ əˈkaʊnt. ðə ʤəʤ kʊd əˈkjuz mi, wɪˈθaʊt ˈɛni ˈrikɔrs ɔn maɪ pɑrt, əv ˌdɪsrɪˈspɛktɪŋ ðə court.”*.” duɪŋ ðət ənd ˈɪʃuɪŋ ə bɛnʧ ˈwɔrənt ɪn ðoʊz ˈsərkəmˌstænsɪz wɪn aɪ ˈklɪrli wɑz nɑt ə rɪsk əv æbˈskɑndɪŋ ðə keɪs nɑt ˈivɪn ˈlɪstɪd fər ə ˈhirɪŋ ənd hi dɛlt wɪθ ˈəðər ˈkeɪsɪz ˈərliər wɪˈθaʊt ˈɪʃuɪŋ ə bɛnʧ ˈwɔrənt əˈgɛnst ðoʊz hu wər nɑt ðɛr ər hu dɪd nɑt hæv ə səˈlɪsətər ðə ˈkɑnsəkwəns əv hɪz ˈækʃən wɑz ðət ən ˈgɑrdə síochána*, wɪʧ wɑz ən ˈɪnəsənt ˈvɪktɪm, wɑz ˈsəbʤɪkt tɪ ˈmæsɪv ˈnɛgətɪv pəˈblɪsɪti ðət ɪt hæd ˈɔrkɪˌstreɪtɪd this.”*.” ˈsɑrʤənt hæd tɪ liv hɪz poʊst ɪn ˈnuˌbrɪʤ, draɪv ɪn ə skwɑd kɑr tɪ sɔrdz ənd spɛnd ðə deɪ ðɛr ˈveɪkeɪtɪŋ ðə ˈɔrdər æt ɪˈnɔrmɪs ɪkˈspɛns tɪ ðə steɪt. aɪ hæd tɪ rɪˈtərn tɪ nɑz ˈdɪstrɪkt kɔrt təˈdeɪ tɪ ˈlɪsən tɪ ðə seɪm ʤəʤ ˈlɛkʧərɪŋ mi əˈbaʊt ˌdɪsrɪˈspɛktɪŋ hɪz kɔrt wɪˈθaʊt ˈgɪvɪŋ mi ən ˌɑpərˈtunəti tɪ seɪ ˈɛniˌθɪŋ əˈbaʊt hɪz ˌɪˈræʃənəl decision.”*.” lɔz prəˈvaɪd ðət ˈnoʊˌbɑˌdi kən du ˈɛniˌθɪŋ əˈbaʊt ðət ʤəʤ bət hi ɪz ˈkɔzɪŋ juʤ ˈprɑbləmz wɪθ rɪˈgɑrd tɪ ðə ædˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən əv ˈʤəstɪs ˈgɪvɪn ðə ˌɪnɪˈfɪʃənsi əv ðə kɔrt ɪn hɪz ˈdɪstrɪkt. ðɪs nidz tɪ bi ˈrædɪkli rɪˈfɔrmd. aɪ æm glæd ðət fiˈænə ˈɑptɪd tɪ ˌɪntrəˈdus ðə bɪl təˈdeɪ bɪˈkəz ɪt ɪz lɔŋ ˈoʊvərˈdu. ðɪs ɪz ˈoʊnli wən ˈæˌspɛkt əv ʤuˈdɪʃəl ˈoʊvərˌsaɪt ənd wi nid tɪ goʊ further.”*.” ækˈnɑlɪʤ ə ʤuˈdɪʃəl ˈkaʊnsəl ɪz ˌɪnˈkludɪd ɪn ðə ˈproʊˌgræm bət səm aʊˈtreɪʤəs dɪˈsɪʒənz ənd bɪˈheɪvjər ər ˈteɪkɪŋ pleɪs ɪn ɑr kɔrts. ɪn ˈfɛrnəs, ðə ˈprɛzɪˌdɛnts əv ðə ˈdɪstrɪkt kɔrt, ˈsərkət kɔrt ənd soʊ ɔn kən du ˈnəθɪŋ əˈbaʊt ɪt. ðət ˈkænɑt bi əˈlaʊd tɪ kənˈtɪnju. hæv bɪn əˈpɔɪntɪd tɪ ˈɛriəz ər ˈivɪn kəmˈjunɪtiz ɪn wɪʧ ðeɪ wərkt ɛz ə səˈlɪsətər ənd ðɪs həz lɛd tɪ ˈkɑnflɪkts əv ˈɪntəˌrɛst. ðeɪ prɪˈzaɪdɪd ˈoʊvər ˈkeɪsɪz ˌɪnˈvɑlvɪŋ ˈpipəl ðeɪ ˈfɔrmərli ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnɪd ənd prəˈsidəd tɪ hir ðə ˈkeɪsɪz, wɪʧ ɪz kəmˈplitli rɔŋ. ˈɔpʃən əv ˈʧælənʤɪŋ ˈʤəʤɪz θru ə ʤuˈdɪʃəl ˌrivˈju ɪz nɑt səˈfɪʃənt bɪˈkəz wən ɪz ˈpʊtɪŋ ˌwənˈsɛlf ɪn ə pəˈzɪʃən əv ˈmæsɪv ɪkˈspɛns ənd əˈkjuzɪŋ ə ʤəʤ əv baɪəs, wɪʧ ˈpipəl du nɑt wɔnt tɪ do.”*.” ˈmɛmbərz hæv meɪd pɔɪnts əˈbaʊt səm ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənt dɪˈsɪʒənz wɪʧ hæv bɪn meɪd wɪθ fɑr mɔr ˈɔfəl ˈkɑnsəkˌwɛnsəz ðən maɪn. aɪ ˈwɔntɪd tɪ juz maɪ keɪs ɛz ən ɪgˈzæmpəl əv ðə ˈətərli ˈludəkrəs bɪˈheɪvjər əv səm əv ðə ˈpipəl wi hæv ɛnˈtrəstɪd tɪ ˈmænɪʤ ɑr kɔrts bət noʊ wən kən du ˈɛniˌθɪŋ əˈbaʊt it.”*.” ˈsædəst pɔɪnt əˈbaʊt ðə keɪs aɪ rɪˈfərd tɪ ɪz ðət ðə ʤəʤ ɪn kˈwɛʃən ɪz ðə ˈsɪtɪŋ ʤəʤ ɪn nɑz ˈdɪstrɪkt kɔrt. ðɪs minz hi kən steɪ ðɛr fər ɛz lɔŋ ɛz hi laɪks. frəm ˈlʊkɪŋ æt ɪm təˈdeɪ, hi həz ə fju jɪrz lɛft ɪn ɪm. ðə kɔrt kʊd hæv ɪm fər əˈbaʊt 12 mɔr years.”*.” ɪkˈspɛns tɪ ðə steɪt əv ˈhævɪŋ 100 gardaí*í, səˈlɪsətərz ənd ˈpipəl taɪd əp ˈɛvəri deɪ waɪl hi ˈɑpərˌeɪts hɪz kɔrt pleɪs, laɪk aɪ dɪˈskraɪbd, ɪz ˈətərli ˈludəkrəs ənd ɪn ˈrædɪkəl nid əv ʧeɪnʤ. aɪ səˈpɔrt ðɪs bɪl ɛz ə fərst stɛp ɪn ðət process.”*.” ˈtrænˌskrɪpt: ˈvɪdioʊ:
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"60 minutes" was trashed all over twitter on sunday night for a story on the which critics dubbed obsequious at best.
the piece was fronted by reporter john miller, who had to tell viewers this at the top of the segment: "full disclosure: i once worked in the office of the director of national intelligence, where i saw firsthand how secretly the operates." miller is also likely set to leave cbs soon to work for the nypd.
miller also said that the agreed to speak to "60 minutes" because it believes it has "not told its story well." it certainly found a comfortable place to do that on cbs news. the segment consisted mostly of officials dismissing concerns that their surveillance has gotten out of hand and showing off their gadgetry to the cbs cameras. there were no advocates or civil libertarians interviewed for the piece.
the last words in the segment came from chief keith alexander: "this is precisely the time that we should not step back from the tools that we've given our analysts to detect these types of attacks."
watch the video:
in a video, producer ira rosen said that the had "allowed" itself to be perceived as a "villain."
in his own interview, miller said the forces have had their chance, and that he wanted to hear what alexander had to say.
"our job this time was to take the hardest questions we could find and ask them, ‘what’s the answer to it,’ and then spend a couple of minutes listening," he said.
the criticism came hard and fast:
wow, the 60 minutes piece about the was just embarrassing. kudos to the communications staff. you guys should get a raise. ryan (@ryanlizza) december 16, 2013
if you thought the lara logan debacle was new low for @60minutes, watch last night's whitewash. not a single skeptical voice. (@timkarr) december 16, 2013
that 60 minutes propaganda piece was a new low for us journalism glenn greenwald (@ggreenwald) december 16, 2013
60 minutes: from terrible journalism to national security state stenography, in just a few weeks. (@emptywheel) december 15, 2013
cbs both promoted john miller as "ultimate insider" and asked him if he was worried about being seen as an insider. jay rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) december 16, 2013
surprised by john miller's 60 minutes puff piece? don't be. his cia 'exclusive' basically the same peter hart (@peterfhart) december 16, 2013
wonder if will also use 60 minutes to unveil its "special drone delivery" program. dave (@ditzkoff) december 16, 2013
oy, @60minutes--still waiting for a tough question, follow-up for general alexander... amy davidson sorkin (@tnycloseread) december 16, 2013
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60 ˈmɪnəts" wɑz træʃt ɔl ˈoʊvər tˈwɪtər ɔn ˈsənˌdi naɪt fər ə ˈstɔri ɔn ðə wɪʧ ˈkrɪtɪks dəbd əbˈsikwiəs æt bɛst. ðə pis wɑz ˈfrəntɪd baɪ rɪˈpɔrtər ʤɑn ˈmɪlər, hu hæd tɪ tɛl vjuərz ðɪs æt ðə tɔp əv ðə ˌsɛgˈmɛnt: "fʊl dɪˈskloʊʒər: aɪ wəns wərkt ɪn ðə ˈɔfəs əv ðə dɪˈrɛktər əv ˈnæʃənəl ˌɪnˈtɛləʤəns, wɛr aɪ sɔ ˈfərsthænd haʊ ˈsikrɪtli ðə ˈɑpərˌeɪts." ˈmɪlər ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ ˈlaɪkli sɛt tɪ liv ˈsiˌbiˌɛs sun tɪ wərk fər ðə ˌɛnˈwaɪˌpiˌdi. ˈmɪlər ˈɔlsoʊ sɛd ðət ðə əˈgrid tɪ spik tɪ 60 ˈmɪnəts" bɪˈkəz ɪt bɪˈlivz ɪt həz "nɑt toʊld ɪts ˈstɔri wɛl." ɪt ˈsərtənli faʊnd ə ˈkəmfərtəbəl pleɪs tɪ du ðət ɔn ˈsiˌbiˌɛs nuz. ðə ˌsɛgˈmɛnt kənˈsɪstɪd ˈmoʊstli əv əˈfɪʃəlz dɪsˈmɪsɪŋ kənˈsərnz ðət ðɛr sərˈveɪləns həz ˈgɔtən aʊt əv hænd ənd ʃoʊɪŋ ɔf ðɛr ˈgæʤətri tɪ ðə ˈsiˌbiˌɛs ˈkæmərəz. ðɛr wər noʊ ˈædvəˌkeɪts ər ˈsɪvəl ˌlɪbərˈtɛˌriənz ˈɪntərvˌjud fər ðə pis. ðə læst wərdz ɪn ðə ˌsɛgˈmɛnt keɪm frəm ʧif kiθ ˌælɪgˈzændər: "ðɪs ɪz prɪˈsaɪsli ðə taɪm ðət wi ʃʊd nɑt stɛp bæk frəm ðə tulz ðət wiv ˈgɪvɪn ɑr ˈænəlɪsts tɪ dɪˈtɛkt ðiz taɪps əv əˈtæks." wɔʧ ðə ˈvɪdioʊ: ɪn ə ˈvɪdioʊ, prəˈdusər ˌaɪˌɑˈreɪ ˈroʊzən sɛd ðət ðə hæd "əˈlaʊd" ˌɪtˈsɛlf tɪ bi pərˈsivd ɛz ə "ˈvɪlən." ɪn hɪz oʊn ˈɪntərvˌju, ˈmɪlər sɛd ðə ˈfɔrsɪz hæv hæd ðɛr ʧæns, ənd ðət hi ˈwɔntɪd tɪ hir wət ˌælɪgˈzændər hæd tɪ seɪ. "ɑr ʤɑb ðɪs taɪm wɑz tɪ teɪk ðə ˈhɑrdəst kˈwɛsʧənz wi kʊd faɪnd ənd æsk ðɛm, ðə ˈænsər tɪ it,’*,’ ənd ðɛn spɛnd ə ˈkəpəl əv ˈmɪnəts ˈlɪsənɪŋ," hi sɛd. ðə ˈkrɪtɪˌsɪzəm keɪm hɑrd ənd fæst: waʊ, ðə 60 ˈmɪnəts pis əˈbaʊt ðə wɑz ʤɪst ɪmˈbɛrəsɪŋ. ˈkudoʊs tɪ ðə kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz stæf. ju gaɪz ʃʊd gɪt ə reɪz. raɪən (@ryanlizza*) dɪˈsɛmbər 16 2013 ɪf ju θɔt ðə ˈlɑrə ˈloʊgən dəˈbɑkəl wɑz nu loʊ fər 60minutes*, wɔʧ læst naɪts ˈwaɪtˌwɑʃ. nɑt ə ˈsɪŋgəl ˈskɛptɪkəl vɔɪs. (@timkarr*) dɪˈsɛmbər 16 2013 ðət 60 ˈmɪnəts ˌprɑpəˈgændə pis wɑz ə nu loʊ fər ˈjuˈɛs ˈʤərnəˌlɪzəm glɛn ˈgrinˌwɔld (@ggreenwald*) dɪˈsɛmbər 16 2013 60 ˈmɪnəts: frəm ˈtɛrəbəl ˈʤərnəˌlɪzəm tɪ ˈnæʃənəl sɪˈkjʊrəti steɪt stenography*, ɪn ʤɪst ə fju wiks. (@emptywheel*) dɪˈsɛmbər 15 2013 ˈsiˌbiˌɛs boʊθ prəˈmoʊtəd ʤɑn ˈmɪlər ɛz "ˈəltəmət ˌɪnˈsaɪdər" ənd æst ɪm ɪf hi wɑz ˈwərid əˈbaʊt biɪŋ sin ɛz ən ˌɪnˈsaɪdər. ʤeɪ ˈroʊzən (@jayrosen_nyu*) dɪˈsɛmbər 16 2013 səˈpraɪzd baɪ ʤɑn ˈmɪlərz 60 ˈmɪnəts pəf pis? doʊnt bi. hɪz siaɪeɪ 'ɪkˈsklusɪv' ˈbeɪsɪkli ðə seɪm ˈpitər hɑrt (@peterfhart*) dɪˈsɛmbər 16 2013 ˈwəndər ɪf wɪl ˈɔlsoʊ juz 60 ˈmɪnəts tɪ ənˈveɪl ɪts "ˈspɛʃəl droʊn dɪˈlɪvəri" ˈproʊˌgræm. deɪv (@ditzkoff*) dɪˈsɛmbər 16 2013 ɔɪ, ˈweɪtɪŋ fər ə təf kˈwɛʃən, ˈfɑloʊˌəp fər ˈʤɛnərəl ˌælɪgˈzændər... ˈeɪmi ˈdeɪvɪdsən ˈsɔrkɪn (@tnycloseread*) dɪˈsɛmbər 16 2013
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yes, i am jason zimmerman, creator of this statistics data, and yes that is my website. i also did some for prime and legend of zelda: wind as you can see, and well, to be honest after a certain point, i continued doing this i am bored and have no humans to play with where i smores, who's busy so i won't bother him), and still have a tiny tad bit over matches in vs. mode, and easily over 1000 hrs. total in this game (at very very least 90% of my matches are on those lv. 9 suck] and gets boring). also, it's not really a webpage, it's my homepage, and the sad part is, almost everyone in my school thinks that i'm a nerd that has no life. i wish someone would actually like video games (a few do, but not nearly like i do) and want to play if they're good), but with me, i doubt that will happen. maybe i'm talking to soon, as according to some poll here the average ago of the people here are approx. years old, and since i'm only, i guess it'll be better in high i'm going to for the time on sept. 4), but i don't think i'll get this lucky. anyway, i'm getting off subject, and so to answer the question of how i did this, it's like this...
it's an extremely long process, so i'm just gonna try and explain it in short and simple form. i draw the short speed aerial forward a, at 5 frames btw) and find the speed of short moves by doing them a zillion times so i can see (by drawing to remember it) the speed of it. for moves that are very close in speed, but not exactly, i do them right next to each other, and if they hit at the same time, they have the same frame-speed, and if not, i find the speed of the unknown move by comparing it the the other move. i do this by (if the other unknown move speed is slower) the slower move and then the very very instant after that i pause the game. that way only the first frame of the move will be done. then i it. if they then hit at the same time, then they're only 1 frame apart. then i know that since shadow scratch is 5 frames, the other speed must be 6 frames. i then made "the frames you remember that extremely old i have at least 1 move of every frame speed. i can then compare them to other know if it's fast enough or not by using blocking and stuff like that) to find their frame speeds.
for example, i found stopping speed while running by using various characters use just for the sake of someone so i can try and explain my quickly) to compare their speeds. if blocked, then it's not fast the block starts the exact frame after a move ends, and starts right away afterwords.) simply put,(and c. falcon's) down kick hits at 19 frames. when i dashed with i dashed towards and then instantly paused the game. i then released the analog stop the dash) and then held down to do's down smash for the instant the games. then, i very very quickly hold block with right after id the very quickly, so the move wouldn't hit and wouldn't yet come to a complete stop.) when you do a dash and stop and then block, you still have to go through the animation of stopping before you're goes up, which i found out after much testing. anyway, after holding block, if's attack hit the shield, then's stopping speed would be less than that 19 a block comes after the attack). if it hit, that means that it comes at either 19 frames or that last frame you're not blocking and it still obviously counts as one of the frames of the move.) well, in this case, it hit's shield. that means that it is not 19 frames. i then did the same process with forward frames, unlike his down smash which is 20 frames), and it hit, so that means, that since i tested's 19 frame move and it's not that, and they got hit on 18 frame forward smash, then the stopping speed of is 18 frames. i did this test multiple least 5, but mostly an average of like 20). this is one of the easier less complicated tests, and i really don't feel like explaining the longer ones, because i'd be typing for endless hours and you probably won't understand it anyway. i hope this helped you understand how(or, one of the many ways) i test frame speed.
btw, when i feel like posting be soon, but i just got back from wildwood after sleeping a whopping like hrs. before rushing out of the hotel towards home), i will post my throwing power all throws by measuring the lowest damage of their "crowd-screaming" damages, if you know what i'm talking about, and it you don't, it's basically the lowest damage in which an opponent needs to have for the crowd to cheer louder after usually being thrown a certain distance. however, unlike normal attacks in which the possible falling speed] affect the damage the damages occur, grabs have the same screaming percentages for all forward throw, because of the shadow balls which are not considered by the game to be part of the throw, at least not for this.)
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jɛs, aɪ æm ˈʤeɪsən ˈzɪmərmən, kriˈeɪtər əv ðɪs stəˈtɪstɪks ˈdætə, ənd jɛs ðət ɪz maɪ ˈwɛbˌsaɪt. aɪ ˈɔlsoʊ dɪd səm fər praɪm ənd ˈlɛʤənd əv ˈzɛldə: wɪnd ɛz ju kən si, ənd wɛl, tɪ bi ˈɑnəst ˈæftər ə ˈsərtən pɔɪnt, aɪ kənˈtɪnjud duɪŋ ðɪs aɪ æm bɔrd ənd hæv noʊ ˈjumənz tɪ pleɪ wɪθ wɛr aɪ smores*, huz ˈbɪzi soʊ aɪ woʊnt ˈbɑðər ɪm), ənd stɪl hæv ə ˈtaɪni tæd bɪt ˈoʊvər ˈmæʧɪz ɪn ˈvərsəz. moʊd, ənd ˈizəli ˈoʊvər 1000 hrs*. ˈtoʊtəl ɪn ðɪs geɪm (æt ˈvɛri ˈvɛri list 90 əv maɪ ˈmæʧɪz ər ɔn ðoʊz lv*. 9 sək] ənd gɪts ˈbɔrɪŋ). ˈɔlsoʊ, ɪts nɑt ˈrɪli ə webpage*, ɪts maɪ homepage*, ənd ðə sæd pɑrt ɪz, ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˈɛvriˌwən ɪn maɪ skul θɪŋks ðət əm ə nərd ðət həz noʊ laɪf. aɪ wɪʃ ˈsəmˌwən wʊd ˈæˌkʧuəli laɪk ˈvɪdioʊ geɪmz (ə fju du, bət nɑt ˈnɪrli laɪk aɪ du) ənd wɔnt tɪ pleɪ ɪf ðɛr gʊd), bət wɪθ mi, aɪ daʊt ðət wɪl ˈhæpən. ˈmeɪbi əm ˈtɔkɪŋ tɪ sun, ɛz əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ səm poʊl hir ðə ˈævərɪʤ əˈgoʊ əv ðə ˈpipəl hir ər approx*. jɪrz oʊld, ənd sɪns əm ˈoʊnli aɪ gɛs ˈɪtəl bi ˈbɛtər ɪn haɪ əm goʊɪŋ tɪ fər ðə taɪm ɔn sɛpt. 4 bət aɪ doʊnt θɪŋk aɪl gɪt ðɪs ˈləki. ˈɛniˌweɪ, əm ˈgɪtɪŋ ɔf ˈsəbʤɪkt, ənd soʊ tɪ ˈænsər ðə kˈwɛʃən əv haʊ aɪ dɪd ðɪs, ɪts laɪk ðɪs... ɪts ən ɪkˈstrimli lɔŋ ˈprɔˌsɛs, soʊ əm ʤɪst ˈgɑnə traɪ ənd ɪkˈspleɪn ɪt ɪn ʃɔrt ənd ˈsɪmpəl fɔrm. aɪ drɔ ðə ʃɔrt spid ˈɛriəl ˈfɔrwərd ə, æt 5 freɪmz btw*) ənd faɪnd ðə spid əv ʃɔrt muvz baɪ duɪŋ ðɛm ə ˈzɪljən taɪmz soʊ aɪ kən si (baɪ drɔɪŋ tɪ rɪˈmɛmbər ɪt) ðə spid əv ɪt. fər muvz ðət ər ˈvɛri kloʊz ɪn spid, bət nɑt ɪgˈzæktli, aɪ du ðɛm raɪt nɛkst tɪ iʧ ˈəðər, ənd ɪf ðeɪ hɪt æt ðə seɪm taɪm, ðeɪ hæv ðə seɪm frame-speed*, ənd ɪf nɑt, aɪ faɪnd ðə spid əv ðə ənˈnoʊn muv baɪ kəmˈpɛrɪŋ ɪt ðə ðə ˈəðər muv. aɪ du ðɪs baɪ (ɪf ðə ˈəðər ənˈnoʊn muv spid ɪz sloʊər) ðə sloʊər muv ənd ðɛn ðə ˈvɛri ˈvɛri ˈɪnstənt ˈæftər ðət aɪ pɔz ðə geɪm. ðət weɪ ˈoʊnli ðə fərst freɪm əv ðə muv wɪl bi dən. ðɛn aɪ ɪt. ɪf ðeɪ ðɛn hɪt æt ðə seɪm taɪm, ðɛn ðɛr ˈoʊnli 1 freɪm əˈpɑrt. ðɛn aɪ noʊ ðət sɪns ˈʃæˌdoʊ skræʧ ɪz 5 freɪmz, ðə ˈəðər spid məst bi 6 freɪmz. aɪ ðɛn meɪd "ðə freɪmz ju rɪˈmɛmbər ðət ɪkˈstrimli oʊld aɪ hæv æt list 1 muv əv ˈɛvəri freɪm spid. aɪ kən ðɛn kəmˈpɛr ðɛm tɪ ˈəðər noʊ ɪf ɪts fæst ɪˈnəf ər nɑt baɪ ˈjuzɪŋ ˈblɑkɪŋ ənd stəf laɪk ðət) tɪ faɪnd ðɛr freɪm spidz. fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, aɪ faʊnd ˈstɑpɪŋ spid waɪl ˈrənɪŋ baɪ ˈjuzɪŋ ˈvɛriəs ˈkɛrɪktərz juz ʤɪst fər ðə seɪk əv ˈsəmˌwən soʊ aɪ kən traɪ ənd ɪkˈspleɪn maɪ kˈwɪkli) tɪ kəmˈpɛr ðɛr spidz. ɪf blɑkt, ðɛn ɪts nɑt fæst ðə blɑk stɑrts ðə ɪgˈzækt freɪm ˈæftər ə muv ɛndz, ənd stɑrts raɪt əˈweɪ afterwords*.) ˈsɪmpli pʊt, si. falcon's*) daʊn kɪk hɪts æt 19 freɪmz. wɪn aɪ dæʃt wɪθ aɪ dæʃt təˈwɔrdz ənd ðɛn ˈɪnstəntli pɔzd ðə geɪm. aɪ ðɛn riˈlist ðə ˈænəˌlɔg stɑp ðə dæʃ) ənd ðɛn hɛld daʊn tɪ du daʊn smæʃ fər ðə ˈɪnstənt ðə geɪm unpauses*. ðɛn, aɪ ˈvɛri ˈvɛri kˈwɪkli hoʊld blɑk wɪθ raɪt ˈæftər aɪ ðə ˈvɛri kˈwɪkli, soʊ ðə muv ˈwʊdənt hɪt ənd ˈwʊdənt jɛt kəm tɪ ə kəmˈplit stɑp.) wɪn ju du ə dæʃ ənd stɑp ənd ðɛn blɑk, ju stɪl hæv tɪ goʊ θru ðə ˌænəˈmeɪʃən əv ˈstɑpɪŋ ˌbiˈfɔr jʊr goʊz əp, wɪʧ aɪ faʊnd aʊt ˈæftər məʧ ˈtɛstɪŋ. ˈɛniˌweɪ, ˈæftər ˈhoʊldɪŋ blɑk, ɪf əˈtæk hɪt ðə ʃild, ðɛn ˈstɑpɪŋ spid wʊd bi lɛs ðən ðət 19 ə blɑk kəmz ˈæftər ðə əˈtæk). ɪf ɪt hɪt, ðət minz ðət ɪt kəmz æt ˈiðər 19 freɪmz ər ðət læst freɪm jʊr nɑt ˈblɑkɪŋ ənd ɪt stɪl ˈɑbviəsli kaʊnts ɛz wən əv ðə freɪmz əv ðə muv.) wɛl, ɪn ðɪs keɪs, ɪt hɪt ʃild. ðət minz ðət ɪt ɪz nɑt 19 freɪmz. aɪ ðɛn dɪd ðə seɪm ˈprɔˌsɛs wɪθ ˈfɔrwərd freɪmz, ənˈlaɪk hɪz daʊn smæʃ wɪʧ ɪz 20 freɪmz), ənd ɪt hɪt, soʊ ðət minz, ðət sɪns aɪ ˈtɛstɪd 19 freɪm muv ənd ɪts nɑt ðət, ənd ðeɪ gɑt hɪt ɔn 18 freɪm ˈfɔrwərd smæʃ, ðɛn ðə ˈstɑpɪŋ spid əv ɪz 18 freɪmz. aɪ dɪd ðɪs tɛst ˈməltəpəl list 5 bət ˈmoʊstli ən ˈævərɪʤ əv laɪk 20 ðɪs ɪz wən əv ðə ˈiziər lɛs ˈkɑmpləˌkeɪtəd tɛsts, ənd aɪ ˈrɪli doʊnt fil laɪk ɪkˈspleɪnɪŋ ðə ˈlɔŋgər wənz, bɪˈkəz aɪd bi ˈtaɪpɪŋ fər ˈɛndləs aʊərz ənd ju ˈprɑbəˌbli woʊnt ˌəndərˈstænd ɪt ˈɛniˌweɪ. aɪ hoʊp ðɪs hɛlpt ju ˌəndərˈstænd how(or*, wən əv ðə ˈmɛni weɪz) aɪ tɛst freɪm spid. btw*, wɪn aɪ fil laɪk ˈpoʊstɪŋ bi sun, bət aɪ ʤɪst gɑt bæk frəm ˈwaɪldˌwʊd ˈæftər sˈlipɪŋ ə ˈwɑpɪŋ laɪk hrs*. ˌbiˈfɔr ˈrəʃɪŋ aʊt əv ðə hoʊˈtɛl təˈwɔrdz hoʊm), aɪ wɪl poʊst maɪ θroʊɪŋ paʊər ɔl θroʊz baɪ ˈmɛʒərɪŋ ðə loʊəst ˈdæmɪʤ əv ðɛr "crowd-screaming*" ˈdæmɪʤɪz, ɪf ju noʊ wət əm ˈtɔkɪŋ əˈbaʊt, ənd ɪt ju doʊnt, ɪts ˈbeɪsɪkli ðə loʊəst ˈdæmɪʤ ɪn wɪʧ ən əˈpoʊnənt nidz tɪ hæv fər ðə kraʊd tɪ ʧɪr ˈlaʊdər ˈæftər ˈjuʒəwəli biɪŋ θroʊn ə ˈsərtən ˈdɪstəns. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ənˈlaɪk ˈnɔrməl əˈtæks ɪn wɪʧ ðə ˈpɑsəbəl ˈfɑlɪŋ spid] əˈfɛkt ðə ˈdæmɪʤ ðə ˈdæmɪʤɪz əˈkər, græbz hæv ðə seɪm ˈskrimɪŋ pərˈsɛnɪʤɪz fər ɔl ˈfɔrwərd θroʊ, bɪˈkəz əv ðə ˈʃæˌdoʊ bɔlz wɪʧ ər nɑt kənˈsɪdərd baɪ ðə geɪm tɪ bi pɑrt əv ðə θroʊ, æt list nɑt fər ðɪs.)
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if funded, buck will be available on pc, mac, linux, and xbo!
in this game you play as buck, a motorcycle garage mechanic who decides to leave everything behind to find the truth behind the disappearance of a girl. buck struggles to adjust himself to a world he doesn't fully understand. traverse the wasteland while fighting and talking your way though junkyards, mountain passes, ghost towns and survivor outposts. as the game progresses, buck gradually pieces together the reasons that brought this world, and its rugged inhabitants, to their knees...
it's hard to describe the immense impact that buck has had on our lives. we've been working on the game for over three years now, spending thousands of dollars from our own pockets to get the game up to its current status. you can try the current build for buck to see for yourself how our passion for this project has taken us this far and how, with your support, we can make buck the best game it can be. we have poured our heart and soul into building the basic mechanics and gameplay features for the game, and we now need your help so that we can secure the funds needed for the final push to complete buck.
we have several reward tiers to thank you for your support. depending on the reward tier you select, you will receive wallpapers, digital copies of buck, the soundtrack and the art book, a limited edition physical copy of buck on disc, signed items, access to the alpha and beta versions of buck and more! check the reward tiers on the right or the images below to see what you can get for backing buck!
as you can see above, we've budgeted for the funds that, with your support, will help us finish the development of buck. there are fees to cover, taxes, marketing costs, the cost of creating the rewards you as our backers will be receiving, but the largest chunk of it all will be going to completing the game thanks to your support!
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ɪf ˈfəndɪd, bək wɪl bi əˈveɪləbəl ɔn ˈpiˈsi, mæk, ˈlɪnəks, ənd xbo*! ɪn ðɪs geɪm ju pleɪ ɛz bək, ə ˈmoʊtərˌsaɪkəl gərɑʒ mɪˈkænɪk hu ˌdɪˈsaɪdz tɪ liv ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ bɪˈhaɪnd tɪ faɪnd ðə truθ bɪˈhaɪnd ðə ˌdɪsəˈpɪrəns əv ə gərl. bək ˈstrəgəlz tɪ əˈʤəst hɪmˈsɛlf tɪ ə wərld hi ˈdəzənt ˈfʊli ˌəndərˈstænd. ˈtrævərs ðə ˈweɪˌstlænd waɪl ˈfaɪtɪŋ ənd ˈtɔkɪŋ jʊr weɪ ðoʊ ˈʤəŋˌkjɑrdz, ˈmaʊntən ˈpæsɪz, goʊst taʊnz ənd sərˈvaɪvər ˈaʊtˌpoʊsts. ɛz ðə geɪm ˈprɑˌgrɛsəz, bək ˈgræʤuəli ˈpisɪz təˈgɛðər ðə ˈrizənz ðət brɔt ðɪs wərld, ənd ɪts ˈrəgəd ˌɪnˈhæbɪtənts, tɪ ðɛr niz... ɪts hɑrd tɪ dɪˈskraɪb ðə ˌɪˈmɛns ˌɪmˈpækt ðət bək həz hæd ɔn ɑr lɪvz. wiv bɪn ˈwərkɪŋ ɔn ðə geɪm fər ˈoʊvər θri jɪrz naʊ, ˈspɛndɪŋ ˈθaʊzənz əv ˈdɔlərz frəm ɑr oʊn ˈpɑkəts tɪ gɪt ðə geɪm əp tɪ ɪts ˈkɑrənt ˈstætəs. ju kən traɪ ðə ˈkɑrənt bɪld fər bək tɪ si fər ˈjɔrsɛlf haʊ ɑr ˈpæʃən fər ðɪs ˈprɑʤɛkt həz ˈteɪkən ˈjuˈɛs ðɪs fɑr ənd haʊ, wɪθ jʊr səˈpɔrt, wi kən meɪk bək ðə bɛst geɪm ɪt kən bi. wi hæv pɔrd ɑr hɑrt ənd soʊl ˈɪntu ˈbɪldɪŋ ðə ˈbeɪsɪk məˈkænɪks ənd ˈgeɪmˌpleɪ ˈfiʧərz fər ðə geɪm, ənd wi naʊ nid jʊr hɛlp soʊ ðət wi kən sɪˈkjʊr ðə fəndz ˈnidɪd fər ðə ˈfaɪnəl pʊʃ tɪ kəmˈplit bək. wi hæv ˈsɛvərəl rɪˈwɔrd tirz tɪ θæŋk ju fər jʊr səˈpɔrt. dɪˈpɛndɪŋ ɔn ðə rɪˈwɔrd tir ju səˈlɛkt, ju wɪl rɪˈsiv ˈwɔlˌpeɪpərz, ˈdɪʤɪtəl ˈkɑpiz əv bək, ðə ˈsaʊnˌtræk ənd ðə ɑrt bʊk, ə ˈlɪmɪtɪd ɪˈdɪʃən ˈfɪzɪkəl ˈkɑpi əv bək ɔn dɪsk, saɪnd ˈaɪtəmz, ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ðə ˈælfə ənd ˈbeɪtə ˈvərʒənz əv bək ənd mɔr! ʧɛk ðə rɪˈwɔrd tirz ɔn ðə raɪt ər ðə ˈɪmɪʤɪz bɪˈloʊ tɪ si wət ju kən gɪt fər ˈbækɪŋ bək! ɛz ju kən si əˈbəv, wiv ˈbəʤɪtɪd fər ðə fəndz ðət, wɪθ jʊr səˈpɔrt, wɪl hɛlp ˈjuˈɛs ˈfɪnɪʃ ðə dɪˈvɛləpmənt əv bək. ðɛr ər fiz tɪ ˈkəvər, ˈtæksɪz, ˈmɑrkətɪŋ kɔsts, ðə kɔst əv kriˈeɪtɪŋ ðə rɪˈwɔrdz ju ɛz ɑr ˈbækərz wɪl bi rɪˈsivɪŋ, bət ðə ˈlɑrʤəst ʧəŋk əv ɪt ɔl wɪl bi goʊɪŋ tɪ kəmˈplitɪŋ ðə geɪm θæŋks tɪ jʊr səˈpɔrt!
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gay marriage takes centre stage at the constitutional convention this weekend, where it will be decided whether to recommend that it be put to a referendum. christian daly tells us why he thinks it is time ireland legislates for same-sex marriage. he writes:
a couple of days before her birth it was all panic stations. will she take to me? what if i look after her correctly? am i suited for this? but then never forget a certain moment on the day of her birth when she woke and began to cry. i picked her up and held her in my arms and she suddenly stopped and fell back to sleep. it was from that moment the realisation hit me and all those fearful thoughts left my mind. i became sedated with a warm feeling and the notion that everything is going to be okay.
being a father
i’ve been a father for nearly nine years now. all the ‘firsts’ are my fondest memories the nappies, the late night feeds, teething, the first steps, potty training, tying her shoe laces, her first day of school, her first stage performance in the olympia with the national performing arts school, the list is endless and still ongoing.
her fondest memories are of all the foreign holidays we have taken together, but there is not a night going to sleep where she want her back scratched or a story told. the way i approach fathering is by constant commitment, love and devotion. the combination of all of these approaches have nurtured my little baby into a healthy, smart and caring young girl.
did i mention i am gay and have a fiancée? we have been in a committed relationship for the past five years.
being engaged
he loves her like she is his, and she him, like he is hers. so where is the threat? there are thousands of children all over the world without a home or parent and i am sure not one of them would reject the opportunity of being the subject of a good, solid life in the surroundings of people who love them. it matter whether the parent is male or female. i believe that it is down to what a parent tells a child, and the approach they take on matters, for example, such as a different race, or a different accent being spoken in her school.
these are questions she has asked the obvious “why” to, and my response has always been simple and truthful: “everyone is equal, people may look or sound different than others, but if you care about somebody you wont even let the thought enter your mind.” she completely agrees with me and understands it.
being adopted
being unable to conceive a child is not a ground for annulment. i will add here that i am adopted, and my adoption has not had the slightest effect on my life all i know is i was raised in a loving and caring family my entire life, which has been my guidance on giving such love and devotion to my daughter. to have a child is not a sole requirement of marriage and the catholic church agrees with this.
times change and we must adapt with them. the time for marriage equality is now upon us. when the question “why are you getting married?” is put to any couple, gay or straight, the same answer is given: “because we love each other.” my fiancé and i do, and we are fortunate enough to have a child in our relationship that can benefit from the limitless amount of love and affection that she so requires, and that what a marriage and parenting is based on love and affection?
christian daly is currently completing his ba degree in film and television at the national film school (iadt). the constitutional convention is debating marriage equality this weekend. for more information on marriage equality can be found here.
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geɪ ˈmɛrɪʤ teɪks ˈsɛntər steɪʤ æt ðə ˌkɑnstəˈtuʃənəl kənˈvɛnʃən ðɪs ˈwiˌkɪnd, wɛr ɪt wɪl bi ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd ˈwɛðər tɪ ˌrɛkəˈmɛnd ðət ɪt bi pʊt tɪ ə ˌrɛfərˈɛndəm. ˈkrɪsʧɪn ˈdeɪli tɛlz ˈjuˈɛs waɪ hi θɪŋks ɪt ɪz taɪm ˈaɪərlənd ˈlɛʤɪsˌleɪts fər ˌseɪmˈsɛks ˈmɛrɪʤ. hi raɪts: ə ˈkəpəl əv deɪz ˌbiˈfɔr hər bərθ ɪt wɑz ɔl ˈpænɪk ˈsteɪʃənz. wɪl ʃi teɪk tɪ mi? wət ɪf aɪ lʊk ˈæftər hər kərˈɛktli? æm aɪ ˈsutɪd fər ðɪs? bət ðɛn ˈnɛvər fərˈgɛt ə ˈsərtən ˈmoʊmənt ɔn ðə deɪ əv hər bərθ wɪn ʃi woʊk ənd bɪˈgæn tɪ kraɪ. aɪ pɪkt hər əp ənd hɛld hər ɪn maɪ ɑrmz ənd ʃi ˈsədənli stɑpt ənd fɛl bæk tɪ slip. ɪt wɑz frəm ðət ˈmoʊmənt ðə ˈriləˈzeɪʃən hɪt mi ənd ɔl ðoʊz ˈfɪrfəl θɔts lɛft maɪ maɪnd. aɪ bɪˈkeɪm sɪˈdeɪtɪd wɪθ ə wɔrm ˈfilɪŋ ənd ðə ˈnoʊʃən ðət ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ ɪz goʊɪŋ tɪ bi ˌoʊˈkeɪ. biɪŋ ə ˈfɑðər bɪn ə ˈfɑðər fər ˈnɪrli naɪn jɪrz naʊ. ɔl ðə ‘‘firsts’*’ ər maɪ ˈfɑndəst ˈmɛməriz ðə nappies*, ðə leɪt naɪt fidz, ˈtiðɪŋ, ðə fərst stɛps, ˈpɑti ˈtreɪnɪŋ, taɪɪŋ hər ʃu ˈleɪsɪz, hər fərst deɪ əv skul, hər fərst steɪʤ pərˈfɔrməns ɪn ðə oʊˈlɪmpiə wɪθ ðə ˈnæʃənəl pərˈfɔrmɪŋ ɑrts skul, ðə lɪst ɪz ˈɛndləs ənd stɪl ˈɔnˌgoʊɪŋ. hər ˈfɑndəst ˈmɛməriz ər əv ɔl ðə ˈfɔrən ˈhɑləˌdeɪz wi hæv ˈteɪkən təˈgɛðər, bət ðɛr ɪz nɑt ə naɪt goʊɪŋ tɪ slip wɛr ʃi wɔnt hər bæk skræʧt ər ə ˈstɔri toʊld. ðə weɪ aɪ əˈproʊʧ ˈfɑðərɪŋ ɪz baɪ ˈkɑnstənt kəˈmɪtmənt, ləv ənd dɪˈvoʊʃən. ðə ˌkɑmbəˈneɪʃən əv ɔl əv ðiz əˈproʊʧɪz hæv ˈnərʧərd maɪ ˈlɪtəl ˈbeɪbi ˈɪntu ə ˈhɛlθi, smɑrt ənd ˈkɛrɪŋ jəŋ gərl. dɪd aɪ ˈmɛnʃən aɪ æm geɪ ənd hæv ə fiancée*? wi hæv bɪn ɪn ə kəˈmɪtɪd riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp fər ðə pæst faɪv jɪrz. biɪŋ ɪnˈgeɪʤd hi ləvz hər laɪk ʃi ɪz hɪz, ənd ʃi ɪm, laɪk hi ɪz hərz. soʊ wɛr ɪz ðə θrɛt? ðɛr ər ˈθaʊzənz əv ˈʧɪldrən ɔl ˈoʊvər ðə wərld wɪˈθaʊt ə hoʊm ər ˈpɛrənt ənd aɪ æm ʃʊr nɑt wən əv ðɛm wʊd ˈriʤɛkt ðə ˌɑpərˈtunəti əv biɪŋ ðə ˈsəbʤɪkt əv ə gʊd, ˈsɑləd laɪf ɪn ðə sərˈaʊndɪŋz əv ˈpipəl hu ləv ðɛm. ɪt ˈmætər ˈwɛðər ðə ˈpɛrənt ɪz meɪl ər ˈfiˌmeɪl. aɪ bɪˈliv ðət ɪt ɪz daʊn tɪ wət ə ˈpɛrənt tɛlz ə ʧaɪld, ənd ðə əˈproʊʧ ðeɪ teɪk ɔn ˈmætərz, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, səʧ ɛz ə ˈdɪfərənt reɪs, ər ə ˈdɪfərənt ˈækˌsɛnt biɪŋ ˈspoʊkən ɪn hər skul. ðiz ər kˈwɛsʧənz ʃi həz æst ðə ˈɑbviəs ““why”*” tɪ, ənd maɪ rɪˈspɑns həz ˈɔlˌweɪz bɪn ˈsɪmpəl ənd ˈtruθfəl: ɪz ˈikwəl, ˈpipəl meɪ lʊk ər saʊnd ˈdɪfərənt ðən ˈəðərz, bət ɪf ju kɛr əˈbaʊt ˈsəmˌbɑdi ju woʊnt ˈivɪn lɛt ðə θɔt ˈɛnər jʊr mind.”*.” ʃi kəmˈplitli əˈgriz wɪθ mi ənd ˌəndərˈstændz ɪt. biɪŋ əˈdɑptəd biɪŋ əˈneɪbəl tɪ kənˈsiv ə ʧaɪld ɪz nɑt ə graʊnd fər ˈænəlmənt. aɪ wɪl æd hir ðət aɪ æm əˈdɑptəd, ənd maɪ əˈdɑpʃən həz nɑt hæd ðə sˈlaɪtəst ˈifɛkt ɔn maɪ laɪf ɔl aɪ noʊ ɪz aɪ wɑz reɪzd ɪn ə ˈləvɪŋ ənd ˈkɛrɪŋ ˈfæməli maɪ ɪnˈtaɪər laɪf, wɪʧ həz bɪn maɪ ˈgaɪdəns ɔn ˈgɪvɪŋ səʧ ləv ənd dɪˈvoʊʃən tɪ maɪ ˈdɔtər. tɪ hæv ə ʧaɪld ɪz nɑt ə soʊl rɪkˈwaɪrmənt əv ˈmɛrɪʤ ənd ðə ˈkæθlɪk ʧərʧ əˈgriz wɪθ ðɪs. taɪmz ʧeɪnʤ ənd wi məst əˈdæpt wɪθ ðɛm. ðə taɪm fər ˈmɛrɪʤ ɪkˈwɑləti ɪz naʊ əˈpɑn ˈjuˈɛs. wɪn ðə kˈwɛʃən ər ju ˈgɪtɪŋ married?”*?” ɪz pʊt tɪ ˈɛni ˈkəpəl, geɪ ər streɪt, ðə seɪm ˈænsər ɪz ˈgɪvɪn: wi ləv iʧ other.”*.” maɪ fiancé*é ənd aɪ du, ənd wi ər ˈfɔrʧənət ɪˈnəf tɪ hæv ə ʧaɪld ɪn ɑr riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp ðət kən ˈbɛnəfɪt frəm ðə ˈlɪmətləs əˈmaʊnt əv ləv ənd əˈfɛkʃən ðət ʃi soʊ rikˈwaɪərz, ənd ðət wət ə ˈmɛrɪʤ ənd ˈpɛrəntɪŋ ɪz beɪst ɔn ləv ənd əˈfɛkʃən? ˈkrɪsʧɪn ˈdeɪli ɪz ˈkərəntli kəmˈplitɪŋ hɪz ˌbiˈeɪ dɪˈgri ɪn fɪlm ənd ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən æt ðə ˈnæʃənəl fɪlm skul (iadt*). ðə ˌkɑnstəˈtuʃənəl kənˈvɛnʃən ɪz dəˈbeɪtɪŋ ˈmɛrɪʤ ɪkˈwɑləti ðɪs ˈwiˌkɪnd. fər mɔr ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən ɔn ˈmɛrɪʤ ɪkˈwɑləti kən bi faʊnd hir.
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new evidence suggests noah's sons rode flying dinosaurs creation science breaking news for years, creation scientists have disputed how noah was able to quickly collect millions of indigenous animals from remote, inaccessible regions of the world for a ride in his ark. new evidence from an archeological find in china supports the long held christian belief that noah's sons rode giant flying dinosaurs to transport duck billed from australia, and penguins and polar bears from the antarctic, to name a few. "those must have been some mighty big flying dinosaurs," says pastor deacon fred. "imagine the look on noah's face when his sons flew in for a landing with a pair of hippos strapped to the back of one of them things! glory to god!" "the lord is just amazing," says creation scientist, dr. jonathan edwards. "whenever atheist scientists make a new find, they think it will hack away at our christian beliefs. they must get pretty peeved at how sneaky our lord is, because whenever they unearth something, it only provides more support for the historical accuracy of the holy bible and these flying dinosaurs they keep finding are no exception!" dr. edwards explains that it would have been impossible for noah's sons to travel to the four corners of the earth to areas that were previously inaccessible on foot. "noah and his sons had to collect two of every single creature on the face of the planet," he says. "we're talking about a big haul here. at first we just attributed it to what creation scientists call, the holy finger snapping theory. that's where god snaps his fingers and just makes it so." edwards points out that creation scientists are still unanimous in attributing the fact that noah was able to load 100 million plus animals onto a 450 foot ark "in the day" (genesis) to the finger snapping theory. in the case of how the animals were collected from remote regions of the world in the first place however, recent archeological finds indicate that noah's sons were able to tame giant flying dinosaurs and in turn, load them up with food supplies and hitch rides for long trips around the world to china, south america, australia, greenland, and the north pole. creation scientists estimate that since the earth is only years old, human beings were living among dinosaurs and had plenty of time to tame them. "i would have loved to have been around to see cain and abel rolling around in the grass outside the garden of eden playing with the pet raptors their father, adam, gave them for their birthdays," says pastor deacon fred. "what a glorious time that must have been!" through tithing donations from landover baptist church members, the center for creation research was able to secure several fossilized remains of flying dinosaurs valued at over $14 million. the remains will be studied exhaustively for evidence of the leather harnessing used to secure noah's sons for their long transcontinental journeys.
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nu ˈɛvədəns səˈʤɛsts noʊəz sənz roʊd flaɪɪŋ ˈdaɪnəˌsɔrz kriˈeɪʃən saɪəns ˈbreɪkɪŋ nuz fər jɪrz, kriˈeɪʃən ˈsaɪəntɪsts hæv dɪˈspjutɪd haʊ noʊə wɑz ˈeɪbəl tɪ kˈwɪkli kəˈlɛkt ˈmɪljənz əv ˌɪnˈdɪʤənəs ˈænəməlz frəm rɪˈmoʊt, ˌɪnəkˈsɛsəbəl ˈriʤənz əv ðə wərld fər ə raɪd ɪn hɪz ɑrk. nu ˈɛvədəns frəm ən ˌɑrkiəˈlɑʤɪkəl faɪnd ɪn ˈʧaɪnə səˈpɔrts ðə lɔŋ hɛld ˈkrɪsʧɪn bɪˈlif ðət noʊəz sənz roʊd ʤaɪənt flaɪɪŋ ˈdaɪnəˌsɔrz tɪ ˈtrænspɔrt dək bɪld frəm ɔˈstreɪljə, ənd ˈpɛŋgwənz ənd ˈpoʊlər bɛrz frəm ðə æˈnɑrtɪk, tɪ neɪm ə fju. "ðoʊz məst hæv bɪn səm ˈmaɪti bɪg flaɪɪŋ ˈdaɪnəˌsɔrz," sɪz ˈpæstər ˈdikən frɛd. "ˌɪˈmæʤən ðə lʊk ɔn noʊəz feɪs wɪn hɪz sənz flu ɪn fər ə ˈlændɪŋ wɪθ ə pɛr əv ˈhɪpoʊz stræpt tɪ ðə bæk əv wən əv ðɛm θɪŋz! ˈglɔri tɪ gɑd!" "ðə lɔrd ɪz ʤɪst əˈmeɪzɪŋ," sɪz kriˈeɪʃən ˈsaɪəntɪst, ˈdɑktər. ˈʤɑnəθən ˈɛdwərdz. "wɛˈnɛvər ˈeɪθiəst ˈsaɪəntɪsts meɪk ə nu faɪnd, ðeɪ θɪŋk ɪt wɪl hæk əˈweɪ æt ɑr ˈkrɪsʧɪn bɪˈlifs. ðeɪ məst gɪt ˈprɪti pivd æt haʊ sˈniki ɑr lɔrd ɪz, bɪˈkəz wɛˈnɛvər ðeɪ əˈnərθ ˈsəmθɪŋ, ɪt ˈoʊnli prəˈvaɪdz mɔr səˈpɔrt fər ðə hɪˈstɔrɪkəl ˈækjərəsi əv ðə ˈhoʊli ˈbaɪbəl ənd ðiz flaɪɪŋ ˈdaɪnəˌsɔrz ðeɪ kip ˈfaɪndɪŋ ər noʊ ɪkˈsɛpʃən!" ˈdɑktər. ˈɛdwərdz ɪkˈspleɪnz ðət ɪt wʊd hæv bɪn ˌɪmˈpɑsəbəl fər noʊəz sənz tɪ ˈtrævəl tɪ ðə fɔr ˈkɔrnərz əv ðə ərθ tɪ ˈɛriəz ðət wər ˈpriviəsli ˌɪnəkˈsɛsəbəl ɔn fʊt. "noʊə ənd hɪz sənz hæd tɪ kəˈlɛkt tu əv ˈɛvəri ˈsɪŋgəl ˈkriʧər ɔn ðə feɪs əv ðə ˈplænət," hi sɪz. "wɪr ˈtɔkɪŋ əˈbaʊt ə bɪg hɔl hir. æt fərst wi ʤɪst əˈtrɪbjətəd ɪt tɪ wət kriˈeɪʃən ˈsaɪəntɪsts kɔl, ðə ˈhoʊli ˈfɪŋgər sˈnæpɪŋ ˈθɪri. ðæts wɛr gɑd snæps hɪz ˈfɪŋgərz ənd ʤɪst meɪks ɪt soʊ." ˈɛdwərdz pɔɪnts aʊt ðət kriˈeɪʃən ˈsaɪəntɪsts ər stɪl juˈnænəməs ɪn əˈtrɪbjətɪŋ ðə fækt ðət noʊə wɑz ˈeɪbəl tɪ loʊd 100 ˈmɪljən pləs ˈænəməlz ˈɔntu ə 450 fʊt ɑrk "ɪn ðə deɪ" (ˈʤɛnəsəs tɪ ðə ˈfɪŋgər sˈnæpɪŋ ˈθɪri. ɪn ðə keɪs əv haʊ ðə ˈænəməlz wər kəˈlɛktəd frəm rɪˈmoʊt ˈriʤənz əv ðə wərld ɪn ðə fərst pleɪs ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ˈrisənt ˌɑrkiəˈlɑʤɪkəl faɪndz ˈɪndəˌkeɪt ðət noʊəz sənz wər ˈeɪbəl tɪ teɪm ʤaɪənt flaɪɪŋ ˈdaɪnəˌsɔrz ənd ɪn tərn, loʊd ðɛm əp wɪθ fud səˈplaɪz ənd hɪʧ raɪdz fər lɔŋ trɪps əraʊnd ðə wərld tɪ ˈʧaɪnə, saʊθ əˈmɛrɪkə, ɔˈstreɪljə, ˈgrinˌlænd, ənd ðə nɔrθ poʊl. kriˈeɪʃən ˈsaɪəntɪsts ˈɛstəˌmeɪt ðət sɪns ðə ərθ ɪz ˈoʊnli jɪrz oʊld, ˈjumən biɪŋz wər ˈlɪvɪŋ əˈməŋ ˈdaɪnəˌsɔrz ənd hæd ˈplɛnti əv taɪm tɪ teɪm ðɛm. "aɪ wʊd hæv ləvd tɪ hæv bɪn əraʊnd tɪ si keɪn ənd ˈeɪbəl ˈroʊlɪŋ əraʊnd ɪn ðə græs ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ðə ˈgɑrdən əv ˈidən pleɪɪŋ wɪθ ðə pɛt ˈræptərz ðɛr ˈfɑðər, ˈædəm, geɪv ðɛm fər ðɛr ˈbərθˌdeɪz," sɪz ˈpæstər ˈdikən frɛd. "wət ə ˈglɔriəs taɪm ðət məst hæv bɪn!" θru ˈtaɪðɪŋ doʊˈneɪʃənz frəm ˈlænˌdoʊvər ˈbæptɪst ʧərʧ ˈmɛmbərz, ðə ˈsɛnər fər kriˈeɪʃən ˈrisərʧ wɑz ˈeɪbəl tɪ sɪˈkjʊr ˈsɛvərəl ˈfɑsəˌlaɪzd rɪˈmeɪnz əv flaɪɪŋ ˈdaɪnəˌsɔrz ˈvæljud æt ˈoʊvər 14 ˈmɪljən. ðə rɪˈmeɪnz wɪl bi ˈstədid ɪgˈzɑstɪvli fər ˈɛvədəns əv ðə ˈlɛðər ˈhɑrnəsɪŋ juzd tɪ sɪˈkjʊr noʊəz sənz fər ðɛr lɔŋ ˌtrænzˌkɑnɪˈnɛnəl ˈʤərniz. ˈkɑpiˌraɪt ˈɛlˈtiˈdi. ɔl raɪts rɪˈzərvd. tərmz əv ˈsərvɪs ðə ˈlænˌdoʊvər ˈbæptɪst ˈwɛbˌsaɪt ɪz nɑt ˌɪnˈtɛndɪd tɪ bi vjud baɪ ˈɛniˌwən ˈəndər 18
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while launches in the us from time to time, its main focus remains its home country, south korea, where the company is always behind samsung and in terms of market it did in 2013, when it released the vega iron android to compete with galaxy, now is seemingly preparing the launch on another high-end handset, this time to take on the rumored galaxy according to korea, the upcoming is called vega iron 2, obviously being the successor to last model. intends to launch it in april, when the galaxy is also expected to be released. reportedly, the new vega iron 2 will have a metal body and a fingerprint scanner. is already using the latter feature on some of its android original vega iron (pictured above) came with a display, so the vega iron 2 will probably have a screen. it remains to be seen if jumps on the quad (1600 x 2560 pixels) bandwagon - it might do it, since believed that the samsung galaxy will have a quad vega iron 2 should be launched by via all three major korean carriers. there is no word on international availability so far.source: (translated)
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waɪl ˈlɔnʧɪz ɪn ðə ˈjuˈɛs frəm taɪm tɪ taɪm, ɪts meɪn ˈfoʊkɪs rɪˈmeɪnz ɪts hoʊm ˈkəntri, saʊθ ˌkɔˈriə, wɛr ðə ˈkəmpəˌni ɪz ˈɔlˌweɪz bɪˈhaɪnd ˈsæmˌsəŋ ənd ɪn tərmz əv ˈmɑrkɪt ɪt dɪd ɪn 2013 wɪn ɪt riˈlist ðə ˈveɪgə aɪərn ˈænˌdrɔɪd tɪ kəmˈpit wɪθ ˈgæləksi naʊ ɪz ˈsimɪŋli pərˈpɛrɪŋ ðə lɔnʧ ɔn əˈnəðər haɪɛnd ˈhændˌsɛt, ðɪs taɪm tɪ teɪk ɔn ðə ˈrumərd ˈgæləksi əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ˌkɔˈriə, ðə ˈəpˌkəmɪŋ ɪz kɔld ˈveɪgə aɪərn 2 ˈɑbviəsli biɪŋ ðə səkˈsɛsər tɪ læst ˈmɑdəl. ˌɪnˈtɛndz tɪ lɔnʧ ɪt ɪn ˈeɪprəl, wɪn ðə ˈgæləksi ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ ɪkˈspɛktɪd tɪ bi riˈlist. rɪˈpɔrtədli, ðə nu ˈveɪgə aɪərn 2 wɪl hæv ə ˈmɛtəl ˈbɑdi ənd ə ˈfɪŋgərˌprɪnt ˈskænər. ɪz ɔˈrɛdi ˈjuzɪŋ ðə ˈlætər ˈfiʧər ɔn səm əv ɪts ˈænˌdrɔɪd ərˈɪʤənəl ˈveɪgə aɪərn (ˈpɪkʧərd əˈbəv) keɪm wɪθ ə dɪˈspleɪ, soʊ ðə ˈveɪgə aɪərn 2 wɪl ˈprɑbəˌbli hæv ə skrin. ɪt rɪˈmeɪnz tɪ bi sin ɪf ʤəmps ɔn ðə kwɑd 1600 ɛks 2560 ˈpɪksəlz) ˈbændˌwægən ɪt maɪt du ɪt, sɪns bɪˈlivd ðət ðə ˈsæmˌsəŋ ˈgæləksi wɪl hæv ə kwɑd ˈveɪgə aɪərn 2 ʃʊd bi lɔnʧt baɪ ˈviə ɔl θri ˈmeɪʤər ˌkɔˈriən ˈkɛriərz. ðɛr ɪz noʊ wərd ɔn ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪti soʊ far.source*: (trænzˈleɪtəd)
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benjamin lewis salomon (september 1, 1914 july 7, 1944) was a united states army dentist during world war, assigned as a surgeon. when the japanese started overrunning his hospital, he stood a action in which he had no hope of personal survival, allowing the safe evacuation of the wounded, killing as many as 98 enemy troops before being killed himself during the battle of saipan. in 2002, salomon posthumously received the medal of honor. he is one of only three dental officers to have received the medal, the others being alexander gordon lyle and weedon]
biography [ edit ]
salomon was born into a jewish family in milwaukee, wisconsin on september 1, 1914. he was an eagle scout, one of nine who were awarded the medal of] he graduated from high school and attended marquette university, before transferring to the university of southern california, where he completed his undergraduate degree. he graduated from the dental school in 1937 and began a dental practice.
in 1940, he was drafted into the u.s. army and began his military service as an infantry private, qualifying expert in rifle and pistol. in 1942, he was notified that he would become an officer in the army dental corps and was commissioned a first lieutenant. in august 14, 1942, the infantry regt. commanding officer declared him the unit's "best all around soldier". in may 1943, he was serving as the regimental dental officer of the infantry regiment, infantry division. he was promoted to the rank of captain in]
in june 1944, salomon saw his first combat going ashore on saipan with the infantry. with little dental work to do during active combat, salomon volunteered to replace the surgeon, who had been wounded. as the battalion advanced, casualties were high. on july 7, salomon's aid station was set up only 50 yards behind the forward foxhole line. fighting was heavy and a major japanese assault soon overran the perimeter, then the aid station. salomon was able to kill the enemy that entered the hospital tent and ordered the wounded to be evacuated, while he stayed to cover their]
when an army team returned to the site days later, salomon's body was found slumped over a machine gun, with the bodies of 98 enemy troops piled up in front of his position. his body had 76 bullet wounds and many bayonet wounds, up to 24 of which may have been received while he was still]
medal of honor recognition [ edit ]
capt. edmund g. love, the division historian, was a part of the team that found salomon's body. at the request of brig. gen. ogden j. ross, the assistant commander of the division, love gathered eyewitness accounts and prepared a recommendation for the medal of honor for salomon.
the recommendation was returned by maj. gen. george w. griner, the commanding general of the division. officially, griner declined to approve the award because salomon was “in the medical service and wore a red cross brassard upon his arm. under the rules of the geneva convention, to which the united states subscribes, no medical officer can bear arms against the] however, the guideline for awarding the medal of honor to medical non-combatants states that one may not receive the medal of honor for actions in an “offensive”. more recent interpretations of the convention, as well as the us laws of land] allow use of personal weapons (i.e., rifles and pistols) in self-defense or in defense of patients and staff, as long as the medical soldier does not wear the red cross. part of the problem in salomon's citation was that a machine gun is considered a “crew-served”, not an individual weapon.
prior to salomon, only two jewish americans had been awarded medals of honor during world war, and none for korea, though some (like salomon) have been decorated years later, including pfc. leonard m. kravitz (uncle and namesake of the pop star lenny kravitz) and corporal rubin, who was awarded the medal of honor in]
in 1951, love again resubmitted the recommendation through the office of the chief of military history. the recommendation was returned without action with another reason: the time limit for submitting world war awards had passed. in 1969, another medal of honor recommendation was submitted by lt. gen. hal b. jennings, the surgeon general of the united states army. in 1970, stanley r. resor, secretary of the army, recommended approval and forwarded the recommendation to the secretary of defense. the recommendation was returned without action.
in 1998, the recommendation was by dr. robert west dental school) through congressman brad] with the support of maj. gen. patrick d. sculley, new chief of the army dental] finally, on may 1, 2002, president george w. bush presented salomon's medal of honor to dr.] west then presented the medal to sculley for permanent placement in the army medical department museum in san antonio,] a replica of salomon's medal of honor is displayed at the dental] the army medical department, at this point, was supportive.
medal of honor citation [ edit ]
captain ben l. salomon
united states army
for conspicuous gallantry and at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty:
captain ben l. salomon was serving at saipan, in the marianas islands on july 7, 1944, as the surgeon for the battalion, infantry regiment, infantry division. the and battalions were attacked by an overwhelming force estimated between and japanese soldiers. it was one of the largest attacks attempted in the pacific theater during world war. although both units fought furiously, the enemy soon penetrated the battalions’ combined perimeter and inflicted overwhelming casualties. in the first minutes of the attack, approximately 30 wounded soldiers walked, crawled, or were carried into captain aid station, and the small tent soon filled with wounded men. as the perimeter began to be overrun, it became increasingly difficult for captain salomon to work on the wounded. he then saw a japanese soldier one of the wounded soldiers lying near the tent. firing from a squatting position, captain salomon quickly killed the enemy soldier. then, as he turned his attention back to the wounded, two more japanese soldiers appeared in the front entrance of the tent. as these enemy soldiers were killed, four more crawled under the tent walls. rushing them, captain salomon kicked the knife out of the hand of one, shot another, and a third. captain salomon the fourth enemy soldier in the stomach and a wounded comrade then shot and killed the enemy soldier. realizing the gravity of the situation, captain salomon ordered the wounded to make their way as best they could back to the regimental aid station, while he attempted to hold off the enemy until they were clear. captain salomon then grabbed a rifle from one of the wounded and rushed out of the tent. after four men were killed while manning a machine gun, captain salomon took control of it. when his body was later found, 98 dead enemy soldiers were piled in front of his position. captain extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the united states army.
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ˈbɛnʤəmən luɪs ˈsæləmən (sɛpˈtɛmbər 1 1914 ˌʤuˈlaɪ 7 1944 wɑz ə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts ˈɑrmi ˈdɛntɪst ˈdʊrɪŋ wərld wɔr, əˈsaɪnd ɛz ə ˈsərʤɪn. wɪn ðə ˌʤæpəˈniz ˈstɑrtɪd ˈoʊvərˌrənɪŋ hɪz ˈhɑˌspɪtəl, hi stʊd ə ˈækʃən ɪn wɪʧ hi hæd noʊ hoʊp əv ˈpərsɪnəl sərˈvaɪvəl, əˈlaʊɪŋ ðə seɪf ɪˌvækjəˈweɪʃən əv ðə ˈwundɪd, ˈkɪlɪŋ ɛz ˈmɛni ɛz 98 ˈɛnəmi trups ˌbiˈfɔr biɪŋ kɪld hɪmˈsɛlf ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈbætəl əv ˈseɪpən. ɪn 2002 ˈsæləmən ˈpɑsʧʊməsli rɪˈsivd ðə ˈmɛdəl əv ˈɑnər. hi ɪz wən əv ˈoʊnli θri ˈdɛntəl ˈɔfɪsərz tɪ hæv rɪˈsivd ðə ˈmɛdəl, ðə ˈəðərz biɪŋ ˌælɪgˈzændər ˈgɔrdən laɪl ənd ˈwidən baɪˈɑgrəfi ˈɛdət ˈsæləmən wɑz bɔrn ˈɪntu ə ʤuɪʃ ˈfæməli ɪn mɪlˈwɔki, wɪˈskɑnsən ɔn sɛpˈtɛmbər 1 1914 hi wɑz ən ˈigəl skaʊt, wən əv naɪn hu wər əˈwɔrdɪd ðə ˈmɛdəl əv hi ˈgræʤəˌweɪtɪd frəm haɪ skul ənd əˈtɛndəd mɑrˈkɛt ˌjunəˈvərsəti, ˌbiˈfɔr trænsˈfərɪŋ tɪ ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv ˈsəðərn ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə, wɛr hi kəmˈplitɪd hɪz ˌəndərˈgræʤəwət dɪˈgri. hi ˈgræʤəˌweɪtɪd frəm ðə ˈdɛntəl skul ɪn 1937 ənd bɪˈgæn ə ˈdɛntəl ˈpræktɪs. ɪn 1940 hi wɑz ˈdræftɪd ˈɪntu ðə juz. ˈɑrmi ənd bɪˈgæn hɪz ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˈsərvɪs ɛz ən ˈɪnfəntri ˈpraɪvət, kˈwɑləˌfaɪɪŋ ˈɛkspərt ɪn ˈraɪfəl ənd ˈpɪstəl. ɪn 1942 hi wɑz ˈnoʊtəˌfaɪd ðət hi wʊd bɪˈkəm ən ˈɔfɪsər ɪn ðə ˈɑrmi ˈdɛntəl kɔrz ənd wɑz kəˈmɪʃənd ə fərst luˈtɛnənt. ɪn ˈɔgəst 14 1942 ðə ˈɪnfəntri regt*. kəˈmændɪŋ ˈɔfɪsər dɪˈklɛrd ɪm ðə ˈjunɪts "bɛst ɔl əraʊnd ˈsoʊlʤər". ɪn meɪ 1943 hi wɑz ˈsərvɪŋ ɛz ðə ˌrɛʤəˈmɛntəl ˈdɛntəl ˈɔfɪsər əv ðə ˈɪnfəntri ˈrɛʤəmənt, ˈɪnfəntri dɪˈvɪʒən. hi wɑz prəˈmoʊtəd tɪ ðə ræŋk əv ˈkæptən ɪn ɪn ʤun 1944 ˈsæləmən sɔ hɪz fərst ˈkɑmbæt goʊɪŋ əˈʃɔr ɔn ˈseɪpən wɪθ ðə ˈɪnfəntri. wɪθ ˈlɪtəl ˈdɛntəl wərk tɪ du ˈdʊrɪŋ ˈæktɪv ˈkɑmbæt, ˈsæləmən ˌvɑlənˈtɪrd tɪ ˌriˈpleɪs ðə ˈsərʤɪn, hu hæd bɪn ˈwundɪd. ɛz ðə bəˈtæljən ədˈvænst, ˈkæʒəwəltiz wər haɪ. ɔn ˌʤuˈlaɪ 7 ˈsæləmənz eɪd ˈsteɪʃən wɑz sɛt əp ˈoʊnli 50 jɑrdz bɪˈhaɪnd ðə ˈfɔrwərd ˈfɑksˌhoʊl laɪn. ˈfaɪtɪŋ wɑz ˈhɛvi ənd ə ˈmeɪʤər ˌʤæpəˈniz əˈsɔlt sun ˈoʊvərˈræn ðə pərˈɪmətər, ðɛn ðə eɪd ˈsteɪʃən. ˈsæləmən wɑz ˈeɪbəl tɪ kɪl ðə ˈɛnəmi ðət ˈɛnərd ðə ˈhɑˌspɪtəl tɛnt ənd ˈɔrdərd ðə ˈwundɪd tɪ bi ɪˈvækjəˌweɪtɪd, waɪl hi steɪd tɪ ˈkəvər ðɛr wɪn ən ˈɑrmi tim rɪˈtərnd tɪ ðə saɪt deɪz ˈleɪtər, ˈsæləmənz ˈbɑdi wɑz faʊnd sləmpt ˈoʊvər ə məˈʃin gən, wɪθ ðə ˈbɑdiz əv 98 ˈɛnəmi trups paɪld əp ɪn frənt əv hɪz pəˈzɪʃən. hɪz ˈbɑdi hæd 76 ˈbʊlət wundz ənd ˈmɛni ˈbeɪəˌnɛt wundz, əp tɪ 24 əv wɪʧ meɪ hæv bɪn rɪˈsivd waɪl hi wɑz stɪl ˈmɛdəl əv ˈɑnər ˌrɛkɪgˈnɪʃən ˈɛdət capt*. ˈɛdmənd ʤi. ləv, ðə dɪˈvɪʒən hɪˈstɔriən, wɑz ə pɑrt əv ðə tim ðət faʊnd ˈsæləmənz ˈbɑdi. æt ðə rɪkˈwɛst əv brɪg. ʤɛn. ˈɑgdən ʤeɪ. rɔs, ðə əˈsɪstənt kəˈmændər əv ðə dɪˈvɪʒən, ləv ˈgæðərd ˈaɪˈwɪtnəs əˈkaʊnts ənd priˈpɛrd ə ˌrɛkəmənˈdeɪʃən fər ðə ˈmɛdəl əv ˈɑnər fər ˈsæləmən. ðə ˌrɛkəmənˈdeɪʃən wɑz rɪˈtərnd baɪ mæʤ. ʤɛn. ʤɔrʤ ˈdəbəlju. ˈgraɪnər, ðə kəˈmændɪŋ ˈʤɛnərəl əv ðə dɪˈvɪʒən. əˈfɪʃəli, ˈgraɪnər dɪˈklaɪnd tɪ əˈpruv ðə əˈwɔrd bɪˈkəz ˈsæləmən wɑz ðə ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈsərvɪs ənd wɔr ə rɛd krɔs ˈbræsərd əˈpɑn hɪz ɑrm. ˈəndər ðə rulz əv ðə ʤəˈnivə kənˈvɛnʃən, tɪ wɪʧ ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts səbˈskraɪbz, noʊ ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈɔfɪsər kən bɛr ɑrmz əˈgɛnst ðə ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ðə ˈgaɪˌdlaɪn fər əˈwɔrdɪŋ ðə ˈmɛdəl əv ˈɑnər tɪ ˈmɛdɪkəl ˌnɑnkəmˈbætənts steɪts ðət wən meɪ nɑt rɪˈsiv ðə ˈmɛdəl əv ˈɑnər fər ˈækʃənz ɪn ən ““offensive”*”. mɔr ˈrisənt ˌɪnˌtərprɪˈteɪʃənz əv ðə kənˈvɛnʃən, ɛz wɛl ɛz ðə ˈjuˈɛs lɔz əv lænd əˈlaʊ juz əv ˈpərsɪnəl ˈwɛpənz (i.e*., ˈraɪfəlz ənd ˈpɪstəlz) ɪn ˌsɛlfdɪˈfɛns ər ɪn dɪˈfɛns əv ˈpeɪʃənz ənd stæf, ɛz lɔŋ ɛz ðə ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈsoʊlʤər dɪz nɑt wɛr ðə rɛd krɔs. pɑrt əv ðə ˈprɑbləm ɪn ˈsæləmənz saɪˈteɪʃən wɑz ðət ə məˈʃin gən ɪz kənˈsɪdərd ə ““crew-served”*”, nɑt ən ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl ˈwɛpən. praɪər tɪ ˈsæləmən, ˈoʊnli tu ʤuɪʃ əˈmɛrɪkənz hæd bɪn əˈwɔrdɪd ˈmɛdəlz əv ˈɑnər ˈdʊrɪŋ wərld wɔr, ənd nən fər ˌkɔˈriə, ðoʊ səm (laɪk ˈsæləmən) hæv bɪn ˈdɛkərˌeɪtɪd jɪrz ˈleɪtər, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ pfc*. ˈlɛnərd ɛm. ˈkrævɪts (ˈəŋkəl ənd ˈneɪmˌseɪk əv ðə pɑp stɑr ˈlɛni ˈkrævɪts) ənd ˈkɔrpərəl ˈrubɪn, hu wɑz əˈwɔrdɪd ðə ˈmɛdəl əv ˈɑnər ɪn ɪn 1951 ləv əˈgɛn ˌrisəbˈmɪtɪd ðə ˌrɛkəmənˈdeɪʃən θru ðə ˈɔfəs əv ðə ʧif əv ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˈhɪstəri. ðə ˌrɛkəmənˈdeɪʃən wɑz rɪˈtərnd wɪˈθaʊt ˈækʃən wɪθ əˈnəðər ˈrizən: ðə taɪm ˈlɪmət fər səbˈmɪtɪŋ wərld wɔr əˈwɔrdz hæd pæst. ɪn 1969 əˈnəðər ˈmɛdəl əv ˈɑnər ˌrɛkəmənˈdeɪʃən wɑz səbˈmɪtəd baɪ lt*. ʤɛn. hæl bi. ˈʤɛnɪŋz, ðə ˈsərʤɪn ˈʤɛnərəl əv ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts ˈɑrmi. ɪn 1970 ˈstænli ɑr. resor*, ˈsɛkrəˌtɛri əv ðə ˈɑrmi, ˌrɛkəˈmɛndɪd əˈpruvəl ənd ˈfɔrwərdɪd ðə ˌrɛkəmənˈdeɪʃən tɪ ðə ˈsɛkrəˌtɛri əv dɪˈfɛns. ðə ˌrɛkəmənˈdeɪʃən wɑz rɪˈtərnd wɪˈθaʊt ˈækʃən. ɪn 1998 ðə ˌrɛkəmənˈdeɪʃən wɑz baɪ ˈdɑktər. ˈrɑbərt wɛst ˈdɛntəl skul) θru ˈkɑŋgrəsmən bræd wɪθ ðə səˈpɔrt əv mæʤ. ʤɛn. ˈpætrɪk di. ˈskəli, nu ʧif əv ðə ˈɑrmi ˈdɛntəl ˈfaɪnəli, ɔn meɪ 1 2002 ˈprɛzɪdənt ʤɔrʤ ˈdəbəlju. bʊʃ pərˈzɛnəd ˈsæləmənz ˈmɛdəl əv ˈɑnər tɪ ˈdɑktər. wɛst ðɛn pərˈzɛnəd ðə ˈmɛdəl tɪ ˈskəli fər ˈpərmɑˌnɛnt ˈpleɪsmənt ɪn ðə ˈɑrmi ˈmɛdɪkəl dɪˈpɑrtmənt mˈjuziəm ɪn sæn ænˈtoʊnioʊ, ə ˈrɛplɪkə əv ˈsæləmənz ˈmɛdəl əv ˈɑnər ɪz dɪˈspleɪd æt ðə ˈdɛntəl ðə ˈɑrmi ˈmɛdɪkəl dɪˈpɑrtmənt, æt ðɪs pɔɪnt, wɑz səˈpɔrtɪv. ˈmɛdəl əv ˈɑnər saɪˈteɪʃən ˈɛdət ˈkæptən bɛn ɛl. ˈsæləmən juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts ˈɑrmi fər kənˈspɪkjuəs ˈgæləntri ənd æt ðə rɪsk əv hɪz laɪf əˈbəv ənd bɪɔnd ðə kɔl əv ˈduti: ˈkæptən bɛn ɛl. ˈsæləmən wɑz ˈsərvɪŋ æt ˈseɪpən, ɪn ðə ˌmɑriˈænəs ˈaɪləndz ɔn ˌʤuˈlaɪ 7 1944 ɛz ðə ˈsərʤɪn fər ðə bəˈtæljən, ˈɪnfəntri ˈrɛʤəmənt, ˈɪnfəntri dɪˈvɪʒən. ðə ənd bəˈtæljənz wər əˈtækt baɪ ən ˌoʊvərˈwɛlmɪŋ fɔrs ˈɛstəˌmeɪtɪd bɪtˈwin ənd ˌʤæpəˈniz ˈsoʊlʤərz. ɪt wɑz wən əv ðə ˈlɑrʤəst əˈtæks əˈtɛmptəd ɪn ðə pəˈsɪfɪk ˈθieɪtər ˈdʊrɪŋ wərld wɔr. ˌɔlˈðoʊ boʊθ ˈjunɪts fɔt fˈjʊriəsli, ðə ˈɛnəmi sun ˈpɛnəˌtreɪtɪd ðə battalions’*’ kəmˈbaɪnd pərˈɪmətər ənd ˌɪnˈflɪktɪd ˌoʊvərˈwɛlmɪŋ ˈkæʒəwəltiz. ɪn ðə fərst ˈmɪnəts əv ðə əˈtæk, əˈprɑksəmətli 30 ˈwundɪd ˈsoʊlʤərz wɔkt, krɔld, ər wər ˈkɛrid ˈɪntu ˈkæptən eɪd ˈsteɪʃən, ənd ðə smɔl tɛnt sun fɪld wɪθ ˈwundɪd mɛn. ɛz ðə pərˈɪmətər bɪˈgæn tɪ bi ˈoʊvərˌrən, ɪt bɪˈkeɪm ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋgli ˈdɪfəkəlt fər ˈkæptən ˈsæləmən tɪ wərk ɔn ðə ˈwundɪd. hi ðɛn sɔ ə ˌʤæpəˈniz ˈsoʊlʤər wən əv ðə ˈwundɪd ˈsoʊlʤərz laɪɪŋ nɪr ðə tɛnt. ˈfaɪərrɪŋ frəm ə skˈwɑtɪŋ pəˈzɪʃən, ˈkæptən ˈsæləmən kˈwɪkli kɪld ðə ˈɛnəmi ˈsoʊlʤər. ðɛn, ɛz hi tərnd hɪz əˈtɛnʃən bæk tɪ ðə ˈwundɪd, tu mɔr ˌʤæpəˈniz ˈsoʊlʤərz əˈpɪrd ɪn ðə frənt ˈɛntrəns əv ðə tɛnt. ɛz ðiz ˈɛnəmi ˈsoʊlʤərz wər kɪld, fɔr mɔr krɔld ˈəndər ðə tɛnt wɔlz. ˈrəʃɪŋ ðɛm, ˈkæptən ˈsæləmən kɪkt ðə naɪf aʊt əv ðə hænd əv wən, ʃɑt əˈnəðər, ənd ə θərd. ˈkæptən ˈsæləmən ðə fɔrθ ˈɛnəmi ˈsoʊlʤər ɪn ðə ˈstəmək ənd ə ˈwundɪd ˈkɑmˌræd ðɛn ʃɑt ənd kɪld ðə ˈɛnəmi ˈsoʊlʤər. ˈriəˌlaɪzɪŋ ðə ˈgrævɪti əv ðə ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃən, ˈkæptən ˈsæləmən ˈɔrdərd ðə ˈwundɪd tɪ meɪk ðɛr weɪ ɛz bɛst ðeɪ kʊd bæk tɪ ðə ˌrɛʤəˈmɛntəl eɪd ˈsteɪʃən, waɪl hi əˈtɛmptəd tɪ hoʊld ɔf ðə ˈɛnəmi ənˈtɪl ðeɪ wər klɪr. ˈkæptən ˈsæləmən ðɛn græbd ə ˈraɪfəl frəm wən əv ðə ˈwundɪd ənd rəʃt aʊt əv ðə tɛnt. ˈæftər fɔr mɛn wər kɪld waɪl ˈmænɪŋ ə məˈʃin gən, ˈkæptən ˈsæləmən tʊk kənˈtroʊl əv ɪt. wɪn hɪz ˈbɑdi wɑz ˈleɪtər faʊnd, 98 dɛd ˈɛnəmi ˈsoʊlʤərz wər paɪld ɪn frənt əv hɪz pəˈzɪʃən. ˈkæptən ˌɛkstrəˈɔrdəˌnɛri ˈhɛroʊˌɪzəm ənd dɪˈvoʊʃən tɪ ˈduti ər ɪn ˈkipɪŋ wɪθ ðə haɪəst trəˈdɪʃənz əv ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˈsərvɪs ənd rɪˈflɛkt greɪt ˈkrɛdɪt əˈpɑn hɪmˈsɛlf, hɪz ˈjunɪt, ənd ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts ˈɑrmi. əˈwɔrdz ˈɛdət si ˈɔlsoʊ ˈɛdət ˈrɛfərənsɪz ˈɛdət "bɛn ɛl. ˈsæləmən, rɪˈsɪpiənt". kənˈgrɛʃənəl ˈmɛdəl əv ˈɑnər soʊˈsaɪɪti
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parents of students in the oakland unified school district will on wednesday evening protest what they believe is financial mismanagement on the part of district officials. pete reports.
parents of students in the oakland unified school district will on wednesday evening protest what they believe is financial mismanagement on the part of district officials.
the group will gather in frank ogawa plaza from p.m. to 7 p.m. to express its frustration at budget cuts that are in the pipeline.
the school district has already made cuts this year to its discretionary spending budget and frozen hiring mid-year. officials revealed in march, however, that those steps enough to balance the budget.
the district is facing a $30 million shortfall, former superintendent wilson said in january.
parents to protest oakland unified school district's proposed budget cuts
parents of students in the oakland unified school district will on wednesday evening protest what they believe is financial mismanagement on the part of district officials. pete reports. (published wednesday, april 12, 2017)
monalisa trevino, the mother of a fourth-grader, says classrooms are already feeling the effects of the current cuts.
like her, other unhappy parents plan also to speak at a school board meeting.
check back for updates.
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ˈpɛrənts əv ˈstudənts ɪn ðə ˈoʊklənd ˈjunəˌfaɪd skul ˈdɪstrɪkt wɪl ɔn ˈwɛnzˌdeɪ ˈivnɪŋ ˈproʊˌtɛst wət ðeɪ bɪˈliv ɪz ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl mɪsˈmænɪʤmənt ɔn ðə pɑrt əv ˈdɪstrɪkt əˈfɪʃəlz. pit rɪˈpɔrts. ˈpɛrənts əv ˈstudənts ɪn ðə ˈoʊklənd ˈjunəˌfaɪd skul ˈdɪstrɪkt wɪl ɔn ˈwɛnzˌdeɪ ˈivnɪŋ ˈproʊˌtɛst wət ðeɪ bɪˈliv ɪz ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl mɪsˈmænɪʤmənt ɔn ðə pɑrt əv ˈdɪstrɪkt əˈfɪʃəlz. ðə grup wɪl ˈgæðər ɪn fræŋk ˌoʊˈgɑˌwɑ ˈplɑzə frəm p.m*. tɪ 7 p.m*. tɪ ɪkˈsprɛs ɪts frəˈstreɪʃən æt ˈbəʤɪt kəts ðət ər ɪn ðə ˈpaɪˌplaɪn. ðə skul ˈdɪstrɪkt həz ɔˈrɛdi meɪd kəts ðɪs jɪr tɪ ɪts dɪˈskrɛʃəˌnɛri ˈspɛndɪŋ ˈbəʤɪt ənd ˈfroʊzən ˈhaɪrɪŋ mid-year*. əˈfɪʃəlz rɪˈvild ɪn mɑrʧ, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ðət ðoʊz stɛps ɪˈnəf tɪ ˈbæləns ðə ˈbəʤɪt. ðə ˈdɪstrɪkt ɪz ˈfeɪsɪŋ ə 30 ˈmɪljən ˈʃɔrtˌfɔl, ˈfɔrmər ˌsupərɪnˈtɛndənt ˈwɪlsən sɛd ɪn ˈʤænjuˌɛri. ˈpɛrənts tɪ ˈproʊˌtɛst ˈoʊklənd ˈjunəˌfaɪd skul ˈdɪstrɪkts prəˈpoʊzd ˈbəʤɪt kəts ˈpɛrənts əv ˈstudənts ɪn ðə ˈoʊklənd ˈjunəˌfaɪd skul ˈdɪstrɪkt wɪl ɔn ˈwɛnzˌdeɪ ˈivnɪŋ ˈproʊˌtɛst wət ðeɪ bɪˈliv ɪz ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl mɪsˈmænɪʤmənt ɔn ðə pɑrt əv ˈdɪstrɪkt əˈfɪʃəlz. pit rɪˈpɔrts. (ˈpəblɪʃt ˈwɛnzˌdeɪ, ˈeɪprəl 12 2017 trəˈvinoʊ, ðə ˈməðər əv ə fourth-grader*, sɪz ˈklæsˌrumz ər ɔˈrɛdi ˈfilɪŋ ðə ˈifɛkts əv ðə ˈkɑrənt kəts. laɪk hər, ˈəðər ənˈhæpi ˈpɛrənts plæn ˈɔlsoʊ tɪ spik æt ə skul bɔrd ˈmitɪŋ. ʧɛk bæk fər ˈəpˌdeɪts.
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some of the brands that have pulled their ads. the scandal caused stock to be downgraded yesterday
global brands including volkswagen, toyota and tesco last night joined the more than 250 companies that have suspended advertising deals with google as the internet giant apologised for failing to crack down on extremism.
itv, and heinz also pulled advertising from youtube, video platform, after an investigation by the times found the companies promoted on videos posted by hate preachers, rape apologists and homophobic extremists banned from entering britain.
a growing number of brands have blocked google or youtube advertising since the revelations last week. they include marks & spencer, lloyds bank,, l’oréal, rbs, the bbc, channel 4 and mcdonald’s, as well as the british government. google does not disclose youtube revenues, but the accounts are thought to be worth more than…
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səm əv ðə brændz ðət hæv pʊld ðɛr ædz. ðə ˈskændəl kɔzd stɑk tɪ bi ˈdaʊnˈgreɪdəd ˈjɛstərˌdeɪ ˈgloʊbəl brændz ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈvoʊlksˌwægən, toʊˈjoʊtə ənd ˈtɛskoʊ læst naɪt ʤɔɪnd ðə mɔr ðən 250 ˈkəmpəˌniz ðət hæv səˈspɛndɪd ˈædvərˌtaɪzɪŋ dilz wɪθ ˈgugəl ɛz ðə ˈɪntərˌnɛt ʤaɪənt əˈpɑləˌʤaɪzd fər ˈfeɪlɪŋ tɪ kræk daʊn ɔn ˌɪkˈstrɛmɪzəm. itv*, ənd haɪnz ˈɔlsoʊ pʊld ˈædvərˌtaɪzɪŋ frəm ˈjuˌtub, ˈvɪdioʊ ˈplætˌfɔrm, ˈæftər ən ˌɪnˌvɛstəˈgeɪʃən baɪ ðə taɪmz faʊnd ðə ˈkəmpəˌniz prəˈmoʊtəd ɔn ˈvɪdioʊz ˈpoʊstɪd baɪ heɪt ˈpriʧərz, reɪp əˈpɑləʤɪsts ənd ˌhoʊməˈfoʊbɪk ɪkˈstriməsts bænd frəm ˈɛnərɪŋ ˈbrɪtən. ə groʊɪŋ ˈnəmbər əv brændz hæv blɑkt ˈgugəl ər ˈjuˌtub ˈædvərˌtaɪzɪŋ sɪns ðə ˌrɛvəˈleɪʃənz læst wik. ðeɪ ˌɪnˈklud mɑrks ˈspɛnsər, lɔɪdz bæŋk, l’oréal*, rbs*, ðə ˌbibiˈsi, ˈʧænəl 4 ənd mcdonald’s*, ɛz wɛl ɛz ðə ˈbrɪtɪʃ ˈgəvərnmənt. ˈgugəl dɪz nɑt dɪˈskloʊz ˈjuˌtub ˈrɛvəˌnuz, bət ðə əˈkaʊnts ər θɔt tɪ bi wərθ mɔr than…*…
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the leads of the time we were not in love took a break from filming and came together for an afternoon press conference for the drama on june 23rd. the event was held at the building in district.
the fashion color scheme was black and white. ha ji won and yoon sang wore black while lee jin and choo soo hyun were in white. so, i guess opposites attract, then.
ha ji won was noticeably in good spirits even before she and her stepped through the doors of the venue, and it seem like she dropped her smile at any time during the conference, so, there really was no bad shot of her. in fact, there were millions from which to choose! to me, she seemed to beam the most when interacting with her leading man, lee jin, who it up a bit for the cameras. the chemistry between these two is killing me! and the way he was looking at her is making me ship so hard that i even care if this drama ends up being crap but still hoping it, so, thinking positive things only!
meanwhile, more stills of ha ji oh ha na were released earlier. ha ji won is truly a chameleon. it seems her range as an actress is being pushed through the role of oh ha na as she transforms herself physically and as she turns on several different expressions, including aegyo.
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ðə lidz əv ðə taɪm wi wər nɑt ɪn ləv tʊk ə breɪk frəm ˈfɪlmɪŋ ənd keɪm təˈgɛðər fər ən ˌæftərˈnun prɛs ˈkɑnfərəns fər ðə ˈdrɑmə ɔn ʤun 23rd*. ðə ɪˈvɛnt wɑz hɛld æt ðə ˈbɪldɪŋ ɪn ˈdɪstrɪkt. ðə ˈfæʃən ˈkələr skim wɑz blæk ənd waɪt. hɑ ʤi wən ənd jun sæŋ wɔr blæk waɪl li ʤɪn ənd ʧu su hjən wər ɪn waɪt. soʊ, aɪ gɛs ˈɑpəzɪts əˈtrækt, ðɛn. hɑ ʤi wən wɑz ˈnoʊtɪsəbli ɪn gʊd ˈspɪrɪts ˈivɪn ˌbiˈfɔr ʃi ənd hər stɛpt θru ðə dɔrz əv ðə ˈvɛnju, ənd ɪt sim laɪk ʃi drɑpt hər smaɪl æt ˈɛni taɪm ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈkɑnfərəns, soʊ, ðɛr ˈrɪli wɑz noʊ bæd ʃɑt əv hər. ɪn fækt, ðɛr wər ˈmɪljənz frəm wɪʧ tɪ ʧuz! tɪ mi, ʃi simd tɪ bim ðə moʊst wɪn ˌɪnərˈæktɪŋ wɪθ hər ˈlidɪŋ mæn, li ʤɪn, hu ɪt əp ə bɪt fər ðə ˈkæmərəz. ðə ˈkɛmɪstri bɪtˈwin ðiz tu ɪz ˈkɪlɪŋ mi! ənd ðə weɪ hi wɑz ˈlʊkɪŋ æt hər ɪz ˈmeɪkɪŋ mi ʃɪp soʊ hɑrd ðət aɪ ˈivɪn kɛr ɪf ðɪs ˈdrɑmə ɛndz əp biɪŋ kræp bət stɪl ˈhoʊpɪŋ ɪt, soʊ, ˈθɪŋkɪŋ ˈpɑzətɪv θɪŋz ˈoʊnli! ˈminˌwaɪl, mɔr stɪlz əv hɑ ʤi oʊ hɑ nɑ wər riˈlist ˈərliər. hɑ ʤi wən ɪz ˈtruli ə kəˈmiliən. ɪt simz hər reɪnʤ ɛz ən ˈæktrəs ɪz biɪŋ pʊʃt θru ðə roʊl əv oʊ hɑ nɑ ɛz ʃi trænsˈfɔrmz hərˈsɛlf ˈfɪzɪkəli ənd ɛz ʃi tərnz ɔn ˈsɛvərəl ˈdɪfərənt ɪkˈsprɛʃənz, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ aegyo*. ˈsɔrsəz ˈkrɛdɪt ɛz tægd
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author:no bugs” hare follow: job title: sarcastic architect hobbies: thinking aloud, arguing with managers, annoying hrs,
calling a spade a spade, keeping tongue in cheek
[rabbit_ddmog 6(d) frombeta” volume ii”]
after spent quite a lot of time discussing boring things such as deterministic logic and finite automata, we can go ahead and finally draw the architecture diagram for our game client. yahoo!
however, as the very last delay before that glorious and diagram, we need to define one term that use in this section. definetight loop” as aninfinite loop which goes over and over without delays, and is regardless of any in other words, tight loop is bound to eat cycles (and lots of them) regardless of doing any useful work.
and now really ready for the diagram .
queues-and-fsms (qnfsm) architecture: generic diagram
fig. shows a diagram which describes ageneric” architecture. it is admittedly more complicated than many of you will want or need to use; on the other hand, it represents quite a generic case, and many can be obtained right out of it by simple joining some of its elements.
let’s name this architecture aqueues-and-fsms architecture” for obvious reasons, orqnfsm” in short. of course, is (by far) not the only possible architecture, and even not the most popular one, but its variations have been seen to produce games with extremely good reliability, extremely good decoupling between parts, and very good maintainability. on the minus side, i can list only a bit of development overhead due to exchange mechanism, but from my experience it is more than covered with better separation between different parts and defined interfaces, which leads to the development even in the (and is even more important in the to avoid spaghetti code). throw in the ability ofreplay debug” andreplay-based post-mortem” in production, and it becomes a solution for lots of real-world and problems.
in short an extremely strong advocate of this architecture (and its variations described below), and know of any practical cases when it is not the best thing you can do. while it might look at the first glance, it pays off in the medium- and 2
i hope that the diagram on fig should be more or less self-explanatory, but i will elaborate on a few points which might not be too obvious:
each of is a as described inevent-driven programming and finite state machines” section above while being is not a strict requirement, implementing your this way will make your debugging and post-mortem much much much easier.
all the exchange between different is. heremessage” is a close cousin of a network packet; in other words it is just a bunch of bytes according to some convention between sending thread and receiving thread. there can be different ways how to pass these messages around; examples include explicit message posting, or implementing calls instead for the messages between game logic thread and thread, format should be along the lines oflogic-to-graphics”, described inlogic-to-graphics layer” section above. in short: it should be all about logical changes in the game world, along the lines ofnpc is currently moving along the path defined by the set of points} with speed v” (with coordinates being game world coordinates, not screen coordinates), orplayer at seat #n is in the process of showing his cards to the opponents”. 3
each thread has an associated queue, which is able to accept messages, and provides a way to wait on it as long as is the queue is empty
the architecture isshare-nothing”. it means that there is no data shared between threads, and the only way to exchange data between threads, is via queues andshare-nothing” means no thread synchronization problems (there is no need for, critical sections, etc. etc. outside of your queues). this is a really good thing™, as trying to handle thread synchronization with any frequently changeable logic (such as the one within at least some of the) inevitably leads to lots and lots of problems (see, for example,]) of course, implementation of the queues still needs to use synchronization, but this is one-time effort and it has been done many times before, so it is not likely to cause too much trouble; see chapter [[todo]] for further details on queues in c++ as a nice side effect, it means that whenever you want it, you can deploy your threads into different processes without changing any code within your (merely by switching to an implementation of the queue). in particular, it can make answering very annoying questions such aswho’s guilty for the memory corruption” much more easily
queues of game logic thread and communications thread, are rather unusual. waiting not only for usual messages, but also for some other stuff (namely input messages for game logic thread, and network packets for the communications thread). in most cases, at least one of these two particular queues will be supported by your platform for those platforms which support such queues you can always use (once again, the specifics will be discussed in chapter [[todo]]), and have an additional thread which will get user input data (or call select()), and then feed the data into as a yet another message. this will create a strict functional equivalent (a.k.a.compliant implementation”) of two specific queues mentioned above
all the threads on the diagram (with one possible exception being thread, see below) are not tight-looped, and unless there is something in their respective queue they just wait on the queue until some kind of message comes in (or select() event happens) whileno-tight-loops” is not a strict requirement for the, wasting cycles in tight loops without really good reason is rarely a good idea, and might hurt quite a few of your players (those with weaker rigs). thread is a potentially special case, and may use tight loop, seegame loop” subsection below for details to handle delays in thread, queues should allow to post some kind oftimer message” to the own thread even without tight loops it is possible to write your in analmost-tight-loop” manner that is closely resembling real-world real-time control systems (and classical game loop too), but without overhead. see more on it in [[todo!! add subsection on it tofsm” section]] section above.
tight-looped, and unless there is something in their respective queue they just wait on the queue until some kind of message comes in (or select() event happens)
migration from classical game
if coming from development, you may find this whole diagram confusing; this maybe especially true for between game logic and. the idea here is to have 95% of your existing3d engine as you know it”, with all the stuff, as a part ofanimation&rendering”. you will just need to cut off game decision logic (which will go to the, and maybe partially duplicated to game logic too for prediction purposes), and logic (which will go into game logic). all the stuff should stay within (even game logic should know absolutely nothing about meshes and triangles).
“if your existing engine is too complicated to fit into, it is ok to keep it as long as it looks 'just as an' from the your existing engine is too complicated to fit into, it is ok to keep it as long as it looksjust as an” from the outside (i.e. all the communications with go via messages or calls, expressed in terms of layer). for details on using for engines, seeon additional threads and” section below. note that depending on specifics of your existing rendering engine, you may need to resort to option c; while option c provide you with goodies for your rendering engine (sorry, my supply of magic powder is quite limited), you will still be able to enjoy all the benefits (such as replay debugging and production post-mortem) for the other parts of your client.
it is worth noting that game logic, despite its name, can often be more or less rudimentary, and (unless prediction is used) mostly performs two functions: (a) parsing network messages and translating them into the commands of layer, (b) handing. however, if prediction is used, game logic can become much more elaborated.
interaction examples in world: vs
let’s consider three typical interaction examples after migration from game to an diagram shown above.
mmofps interaction example (shooting). consider anfps example when player a presses a button to shoot with a laser gun, and game logic needs to perform a to see where it hits and what else happens. in, all this usually happens within a engine. for an, it is more complicated:
step 1. button press goes to our authoritative server as a message
step 2. authoritative server receives message, performs a, and calculates where the shot hits.
step 3. our authoritative server expresseswhere it hits” in terms such asplayer b got hit right between his eyes” 4 and sends it as a message to the client (actually, to all the clients).
and sends it as a message to the client (actually, to all the clients). step 4. this message is received by game logic, and translated into the commands of layer (still without meshes and triangles, for example,show laser ray from my gun to the point b”, andshow laser hit right between the eyes of player b”), which commands are sent (as messages) to.
step 5. can finally render the whole
while the process is rather complicated, most of the steps are inherently inevitable for an; the only thing which you could theoretically save compared to the procedure described above, is merging step 4 and step 5 together (by merging game logic and together), but i advise against it as such merging would introduce too much coupling which will hit you in the long run. doing such different things as parsing network messages and rendering within one tightly coupled module is rarely a good idea, and it becomes even worse if there is a chance that you will ever want to use some other (for example, a newer one, or the one for a different platform).
ragdoll physics in computer physics engines, physics is a type of procedural animation that is often used as a replacement for traditional static death animations in video games and animated films.— wikipediammorpg interaction example (ragdoll). in a typicalrpg example, when an is hit for time and dies as a result, physics is activated. in a typical game, once again, the whole thing is usually performed within engine. and once again, for a the whole thing will be more complicated:
step 1. button press (the one which will cause death) goes to authoritative server
step 2. server checks attack radius, calculates chances to hit, finds that the hit is successful, decreases health, and find that is dead
step 3. server performs simulation in the world. however, it need to (neither it really can) send it to clients as a complete animation. instead, the server can usually send to the client only a movement ofcenter of gravity” of in question (calculated as a result of simulation). this movement ofcenter of gravity” is sent to the client (either as a single message with the whole animation or as a series of messages withcurrent position” each) as an interesting side-effect: as the whole thing is quite simple, there may be no real need to calculate the whole limb movement, and it may suffice to calculate just a simple parabolic movement of thecenter of gravity”, which may save you quite a bit of resources (both and memory-wise) on the server side (!)
step 4. game logic receives the message withcenter of gravity” movement and translates it into commands. this necessarily need to be trivial; in particular, it may happen that game logic stores larger part of the game world than. in this latter case, game logic may want to check if this specific animation is within the scope of the current world of.
step 5. performs some simulation (it can be pretty much the same simulation which has already been made on the server side, or something completely different). if simulation is the same, then the process of simulation on the will be quite close to the one on the; however, if there are any discrepancies due to determinism simulation will correct coordinates so thatcenter of gravity” is adjusted to the position sent by server. in case of behaviour between client and server, the movement of the limbs on the client and the server may be different, but for a typical it matter (what is really important is where the eventually lands here or over the edge of the cliff, but this is guaranteed to be the same for all the clients ascenter of gravity” comes from the server side).
ui interaction example. in a typicalrpg game, a very common task is to show object properties when the object is currently under cursor. for the diagram above, it should be performed as follows:
step 1. game logic sends a request to the:what is the object id at screen coordinates (x,y)?” (where (x,y) are cursor coordinates)
step 2. processes this (trivial) request and returns object id back
step 3. game logic finds object properties by id, translates them into text, and instructs to display object properties in hud
while this may seem as an overkill, the overhead (both in terms of time and run time) is negligible, and good old rule ofthe more cleanly separated parts you have the easy is further development is” will more than compensate for the complexities of such separation.
fsms and their respective states
the diagram on fig. shows four different; while they all derive from our described above, each of them is different, has a different function, and stores a different state. take a closer look at each of them.
game logic
game logic is the one which makes most of decisions about your game world. more strictly, these are not exactly decisions about the game world in general (this one is maintained by our authoritative server), but about copy of the game world. in some cases it can be almost-trivial, in some cases (especially when prediction is involved) it can be very elaborated.
“game logic is likely to keep a copy of the game world from the game server, as a part of it's any case, game logic is likely to keep a copy of the game world (or of relevant portion of the game world) from the game server, as a part of state. this copy has normally nothing to do with meshes, and describes things in terms such asthere is a pc standing at position (x,y) in the game world coordinates, facing nnw”, orthere are cards as and on the table”.
game logic & graphics
probably the most closely related to game logic is one. most of the interaction between the two goes in the direction from game logic to, using layer commands as messages. game logic should instruct to construct a portion of its own game copy as a scene, and to update it as its own copy of the game world changes.
in addition, game logic is going to handle (but not render), such as huds, and various (including the leading to purchases, social stuff, etc.); this handling should be implemented in a very manner, via sending messages to engine. these messages, as usual, should be expressed in very terms, such asshow health at, orshow the dialog described by resource”.
to handle, game logic may send a message to, requesting information such aswhat object (or dialog element) is at screen position” (once again, the whole translation between screen coordinates into world objects is made on the side, keeping game logic free of such information); on receiving reply, game logic may decide to update hud, or to do whatever-else-is-necessary.
other messages coming from to game logic, such asnotify me when the bullet hits the”, may be necessary for the prediction purposes (see chapter [[todo]] for further discussion). on the other hand, it is very important to understand that these messages are by design, and that their results can be easily overridden by the server.
“having these two separate will ensure much cleaner separation, facilitating code in the medium- to.as you can see, there can be quite a few interactions between game logic and. still, while it may be tempting to combine game logic with, i would advise against it at least for the games with many platforms to be supported, and for the games with undefined life span; having these two separate (as shown on fig) will ensure much cleaner separation, facilitating code in the medium- to. on the other hand, having these two running within the same thread is a very different story, is generally ok and can be done even on a basis; seevariations” section below.
game logic: miscellaneous
there are two other things which need to be mentioned with regards to game logic:
you must keep your game logic truly platform-independent. while all the other may be (and separation between along the lines described above, facilitates development it becomes necessary), you should make all the possible effort to keep your game logic the same across all your platforms. the reason for it has already been mentioned before, and it is all about game logic being the most volatile of all your code; it changes so often that you be able to keep several code bases reasonably in sync.
while all the other may be (and separation between along the lines described above, facilitates development it becomes necessary), you should make all the possible effort to keep your game logic the same across all your platforms. the reason for it has already been mentioned before, and it is all about game logic being the most volatile of all your code; it changes so often that you be able to keep several code bases reasonably in sync. if by any chance your game logic is that-consuming that one single core cope with it in most cases it can be addressed without giving up the goodies of-based system, seeadditional threads and” section below.
animation&rendering
animation&rendering is more or less similar to the rendering part of your usual game engine. if your game is a one, then in the diagram above,
it is which keeps and cares about all the meshes, textures, and animations; as a big fat rule of thumb, nobody else in the system (including game logic) should know about them.
at the heart of the there is a more or less traditional game loop.
game loop
most of games are based on a so-called game loop. classical game loop looks more or less as follows (see, for example, [gameprogrammingpatterns.gameloop]):
while(true) { process_input(); update(); render(); }
usually, game loop wait for input, but rather polls input and goes ahead regardless of the input being present. this is pretty close to what is often done in real-time control systems.
for our diagram on fig above, within our thread we can easily have something very similar to a traditional game loop (with a substantial part of it going within our). our thread can be built as follows:
animation&rendering thread (outside of) checks if there is anything in its queue; unlike other threads, it may proceed even if there is nothing in the queue
it passes (or some kind of null if there was nothing) to, alongside with any information
within the’s process_event(), we can still have process_input(), update() and render(), however: there is no loop within; instead, as discussed above, the game loop is a part of larger threadall the decision-making is moved at least to the game logic, with most of the decisions actually being made by our authoritative serverprocess_input(), instead of processing user input, processes instructions coming from game logic update() updates only scene to be rendered, and not the game representation of the game world; all the decision-making is moved at least to the game logic, with most of the decisions actually being made by our authoritative server render() works exactly as it worked for a game
after processes input (or lack thereof) and returns, thread may conclude game loop as it sees fit (in particular, it can be done in any classical game loop manner mentioned below)
then, thread goes back to the very beginning (back to checking if there is anything in its queue), which completes the infinite game loop.
all the usual variations of game loop can be used within the thread including such things as with delay at the end if there is time left until the next frame, tight loop (in this case a parameter such as needs to be fed to the to keep it deterministic), and tight loop. any further improvements (such as using vsync) can be added on top. i want to elaborate further here, and refer for further discussion of game loops and time steps to two excellent sources: [gafferongames.fixyourtimestep] and [gameprogrammingpatterns.gameloop].
one variation of the game loop that is not discussed there, is a simple thing which you would use for your usual windows programming (and without any tight loops); in this case animation under windows can be done via and drawing via something like bitblt(). while usually woefully inadequate for any serious games, it has been seen to work very well for social- and ones.
“the best thing about our architecture is that the architecture as such doesn't really depend on time step choices; you can even make different time step choices for different platforms and still keep the rest of your code intacthowever, the best thing about our architecture is that the architecture as such really depend on time step choices; you can even make different time step choices for different platforms and still keep the rest of your code (beyond thread) intact, though may need to be somewhat different depending on the vs
animation&rendering: running from game logic thread
for some games platforms it might be beneficial to run within the same thread as game logic. in particular, if your game is a social game running on windows, there may be no real need to use two separate cores for game logic and, and the whole thing will be quite ok running within one single thread. in this case, have one thread, one queue, but two, with thread code outside of the deciding which of the incoming message belongs to.
however, even in this case i still urge you to keep it as two separate with a very clean interface between them. first, nobody knows which platform you will need to port your game next year, and second, clean interfaces at the right places tend to save lots of trouble in the long run.
communications
another, which is for yourg, is communications. the idea here is to keep all the logic in one place. this may include very different things, from plain socket handling to such things as, connection quality monitoring, encryption logic if applicable, etc. etc. also of concepts such as generic publisher/subscriber, generic state synchronization, etc. (see chapter [[todo]] for further details) also belong here.
“for most of (if not 'all') the platforms, the code of communications can be kept the most of (if notall”) the platforms, the code of communications can be kept the same, with the only things being called from within the, being your own wrappers around sockets (for c/c++ berkeley sockets). your own wrappers are just in case if some other platform will have some peculiar ideas about sockets, or to make your system use something like in a straightforward manner. they are also necessary to implementcall interception” on your (seeimplementing logic: code via intercepting calls” section above), allowing you toreplay test” and post-mortem of your communications.
the diagram of fig. shows an implementation of the communications that uses socket calls. for it is perfectly feasible to keep the code of communications exactly the same, but to deploy it in a different manner, simulating sockets via two additional threads (one to handle reading and another to handle writing), with these additional threads communicating with the main communications thread via queues (using communication existing queue, and one new queue per new
one more thing to keep in mind with regards to berkeley sockets, is that getaddrinfo() function (as well as older gethostbyname() function) used for resolution, is inherently blocking, with many platforms having no counterpart. however, for the client side in most cases it is a unless you decide to run your communications within the same thread as your game logic. in the latter case, calling a function with a potential to block for minutes, can easily freeze not only your game (which is more or less expected in case of connectivity problems), but also game (which is not acceptable regardless of network connectivity). to avoid this effect, you can always introduce yet another thread (with its own queue) with the only thing for this thread to do, being to call getaddrinfo() when requested, and to send result back as a message, when the call is
communications: running from game logic thread
for communications, running it from game logic thread might be possible. one reason against doing it, would be if your communications are encrypted, and your game logic is computationally-intensive.
and again, as with, even if you run two from one single thread, it is much better to keep them separate. one additional reason to keep things separate (with this reason being specific to communications) is that communications (or at least large parts of it) is likely to be used on the too.
sound
sound handles, well, sound. in a sense, it is somewhat similar to, but for sound. its interface (and as always with, interfaces are implemented over messages) needs to be implemented as a kind oflogic-to-sound layer”. thislogic-to-sound layer” should be conceptually similar tologic-to-graphics layer” with commands going from the game logic expressed in terms ofplay this sound at volume coming from position within the game world”.
sound: running from game logic thread
for sound running it from the same thread as game logic makes sense quite often. on the other hand, on some platforms sounds (while being in a sense that they return before the sound ends) may cause substantial delays, effectively blocking while the sound function finds and the file header etc.; while this is still obviously shorter than waiting until the sound ends, it might be not short enough depending on your game. therefore, keeping sound in a separate thread may be useful for fast-paced games.
“once again even if you decide to run two from the same thread do yourself a favour and keep the once again even if you decide to run two from the same thread do yourself a favour and keep the separate; some months down the road be very happy that you kept your interfaces clean and different modules nicely
other
while not shown on the diagram on fig, there can be other within your client. for example, these may run in their own threads, but other variations are also possible.
one practical example of such a (which was implemented in practice) wasupdate” which handled online download of while making sure that the gameplay delays were within acceptable margins (see more on client updates in general and in chapter [[todo]]).
in general, any kind of entity which performs tasks on the, can be implemented as an additional. while i know of practical examples of extra other thanupdate” described above, it mean that your specific game any, so keep your eyes open.
on additional threads and
if your game is very-intensive, and either your game logic thread, or thread become overloaded beyond capabilities of one single core, you might need to introduce an additional thread or five into the picture. this is especially likely for if your game uses serious graphics. while complexities threading model of graphics engines are well beyond the scope of this book, i will try to provide a few hints for those just starting to venture there.
as usually with, if not careful, things can easily become ugly, so in this case:
iirc for if i recall correctly urban dictionary n ) advantage over one 12 ) than to try getting more and more cores working on unnecessary stuff.
) advantage over one ) than to try getting more and more cores working on unnecessary stuff. from this point on, to the best of my knowledge you have about options: option a. the first option is to split the whole thing into several running within several threads, dedicating one thread per one specific task. in rendering world, this is known assystem-on-a-thread”, and was used by halo engine (in halo, they copy the whole game state between threads[gdc.destiny], which is equivalent to having a queue, so this is a very direct analogy of our). option b. the second option is tooff-load” some of the processing to a different thread, with this new thread being just as all the other threads on fig; in other words, it should have an input queue and a within. this is known astask-based” [gdc.taskbasedmt]. in this case, after doing its (very isolated) part of the job a.k.a.task”, the thread may report back to the whichever-thread-has-requested-its-services. this option is really good for several reasons, from keeping all the-based goodies (such asreplay testing” and post-mortem) for all parts of your client, to encouraging model with very few context switches (known ascoarse-grained parallelism”), and context switches are damn expensive on alls. 13 the way howtask off-loading” is done, depends on the implementation. in some, we may use pipelines (similar to those described in [gdc.destiny]) to enable dynamic task balancing, which allows to optimize core utilization on different platforms. note that in pureoption b”, we still have model, so each of the has own exclusive state. on the other hand, for serious rendering engines, due to the sheer size of the game state, pureshared-nothing” approach might be not too feasible. option. the point wheretask-off-loading-with-an-immutable-shared-state” emerges. it improves 14 over a basic option b by allowing for a-controlled use of a shared state namely, sharing is allowed only when the shared state is guaranteed to be immutable. it means that, in a limited departure from our model, in addition to queues in our, we may have a shared state. however, to avoid those nasty problems, we must guarantee that while there is more than one thread which can be accessing the shared state, the shared state is (though it may change outside ofshared” windows). at the moment, it is unclear to me whether destiny engine (as described in [gdc.destiny]) uses option (with an immutable game state shared between threads duringvisibility” andextract” phases) while it looks likely, it is not 100% clear. in any case,h option b and option can be described more or less in terms of (and most importantlyh eliminate all the and inefficient tinkering with etc. within your logic). from the point of view of determinism, option is equivalent to option b, provided that we consider that as one of our inputs (as it is immutable, it is indistinguishable from an input, though delivered in a somewhat different way); while such a game sharing would effectively preclude from applying in production (as recording the whole game state on each frame would be too expensive), determinism can still be used for regression testing etc. option c. to throw awayreplay debug” and post-mortem benefits for this specific, and to implement it using (i.e. using traditional synchronization stuff such as, semaphores, or forbid memory fences etc. etc.). if you need option c for your game logic think twice, and then twice more. only these cases), when you need to choose option c. and even in these cases, you might be able to stay away from handling thread synchronization, see chapter [[todo]] for some hints in this direction. also, if you need option c for your game logic think twice, and then twice more. as game logic is the one which changes a damn lot, with option c this has all the chances of becoming unmanageable (see, for example,]). it is that bad, that if you run into this situation, i would seriously think whether the game logic requirements are feasible to implement (and maintain) at all. on the positive side, it should be noted that even in such an unfortunate case you should be losing-related benefits (such asreplay testing” and post-mortem) only for the which rewriting into option c; all the other will still remain deterministic (and therefore, easily testable). in any case, your should look as a normal from the outside. in other words, implementation should be just this implementation detail of this particular, and should not affect the rest of your code. this is useful for two reasons. first, it things and creates a clean interface, and second, it allows you to change implementation (or add another one, for example, for a different platform) without rewriting the whole thing.
on
one question which may arise for architectures and fast-paced games, is about introduced by those additional queues (we do want to show the data to the user as fast as possible). my experience shows then speaking about additional of the order of microseconds. probably it can be lowered further into range by using less trivial queues, but this not 100% sure of because of relatively expensive allocations usually involved in marshalling/unmarshalling; for further details on implementing queues in c++, please refer to chapter [[todo]]. as this-microsecond delay is at least 3 orders of magnitude smaller than delay of sec or so, i am arguing that nobody will ever notice the difference, even for or games; fors where the absolutely best we can hope for is makes it even less relevant.
in short i think this additional-microsecond delay can possibly have any effect which is visible to end-user.
variations
the diagram on fig shows each of the running within own thread. on the other hand, as noted above, each of the can be run in the same thread as game logic. in the extreme case it results in the system where all the are running within single thread with a corresponding diagram shown on fig:
each and every of on fig is exactly the same as an on fig; moreover, logically, these two diagrams are exactly equivalent (andrecording” from one can bereplayed” on another one). the only difference on fig is that using the same thread (and the same queue) to run all our. here is just a very dumb, which looks at the field (set by whoever-sent-the-message) and routes the message accordingly.
this kind of threading could be quite practical, for example, for a casino or a social game. however, not all the platforms allow to wait for the select() in the main graphics loop, so you may need to resort to the one on fig:
here sockets thread is very simple and contain any substantial logic; all it does is just pushing to the socket, and pushing to the queue of the main thread; all the actual processing will be performed there, within communications.
another alternative is shown on fig:
both fig and fig will work for a social or game on
on the other end of the spectrum, lie such as the one shown on fig:
here,, and communications run in their own processes. this approach might be useful during testing (in general, you may even run on different computers if you prefer this kind of interactive debugging). however, for production it is better to avoid such configurations, as interfaces may help writers.
overall, an exact thread (and even process) configuration you will deploy is not that important and may easily be (or even, as infor the time being, decided to separate this to a separate process to debug it on respective machines”). what really matters is that
as long as keeping your development model-based, you can deploy it in any way you like without any changes to your.
in practice, this property has been observed to provide quite a bit of help in the long run. while this effect has significantly more benefits on the (and will be discussed in chapter [[todo]]), it has been seen to aid development too; for example, different configurations for different platforms do provide quite a bit of help. in addition, configurations have been observed to help a bit during testing.
on code bases for different platforms
as it was noted above, you must keep your game logic the same for all the platforms (i.e. as a single code base). otherwise, given the frequent changes to game logic, of your code bases will most likely start to fall behind, to the point of being completely useless.
but what about other? do you need to keep them as a single code base? the answer here is quite obvious:
while the architecture shown above allows you to make, it makes perfect sense to keep them the same as long as possible
“if your game is graphics-intensive, there can be really good reasons to have your different for different example, if your game is graphics-intensive, there can be really good reasons to have your different for different platforms; for example, you may want to use on some platforms, and on some other platforms (granted, it will be quite a chunk of work to implementh of them, but at least it is possible with the architecture above, and it becomes a potentially viable business choice, especially as version and version can be developed in parallel).
on the other hand, chances that you will need the communications, are much even if writing in c/c++, usable of berkeley sockets exist on most (if not on all) platforms of interest. moreover, the behavior of sockets on different platforms is quite close from game point of view (at least with regards to those things which we are able to affect).
so, while all such choices are obviously specific to your specific game, statistically you should have much more than communications .
qnfsm architecture summary
queues-and-fsms architecture shown on fig (as well as its variations on fig-fig) is quite an interesting beast. in particular, while it does ensure a clean separation between parts in our case), it tends to go against commonly used patterns of components or even usual libraries. the key difference here is that components are essentially based on blocking, so after you called a20, blocked until you get a reply. with-based architecture from fig-v.6, even if requesting something from another, you still can (and usually should) process events coming while waiting for the reply. see in particular [[todo!! add subsection on to]] section above.
“most of developers agree that-based programming is beneficial in the medium- to.from my experience, while developers usually see this kind of-based programming as somewhat more cumbersome than usual programming, most of them agree that it is beneficial in the medium- to. this is also supported by experiences of people writing in, which has almost exactly the same approach to (except for certain’s goodies, see alsorelation to” section below). as advantages of architecture, we can list the following:
very good separation between different modules in our case). and theirs tend to be isolated very nicely (sometimes even a bit too nicely, but this is just another side of thesomewhat more cumbersome” negative listed above).
“replay testing“ and post-mortem analysis. seestrictly-deterministic logic: benefits” section above.
very good performance. while usually it is not that important for, it certainly hurt either. the point here is that with such an architecture, context switches are kept to the absolute minimum, and each thread is working without any pauses (and without any overhead associated with these pauses) as long as it has something to do. on the flip side, it provide inherent capabilities to scale (so scaling needs to be introduced separately, see chapter [[todo]]), but at least it is substantially better than having some state under the, and trying to lock this from different threads to perform something useful.
we will discuss more details on this architecture as applicable to the, in chapter [[todo]], where its performance benefits become significantly more important.
relation to actor
actor model the actor model in computer science is a mathematical model of concurrent computation that treats 'actors' as the universal of concurrent computation: in response to a message that it receives, an actor can make local decisions, create more actors, send more messages, and determine how to respond to the next message received.— wikipedianb: this subsection is entirely optional, feel free to skip it if theory is of no interest to you
from theoretical point of view architecture can be seen as a system which is pretty close to so-calledactor model” (that is, until option c fromadditional threads and” is used), with’s deterministic being actor’s ‘actors’. however, there is a significant difference between the two, at least perceptionally. traditionally, actor is considered as a way to ensure concurrent calculations; that is, the calculation which is considered is originally apure” calculation, with all the parameters known in advance. with games, the situation is very different because we know everything in advance (by definition). this has quite a few implications.
most importantly, determinism (lack of which is often considered a problem for actor when speaking about calculations) is not possible for in other words, games (more generally, any distributed interactive system which produces results substantially dependent on timing; dependency on timing can be either absolute, likewhether the player pressed the button before, or relative such aswhether player a pressed the button before player b”) are inherently when taken as a whole. on the other hand, each of the/actors can be made completely deterministic, and this is what i am arguing for in this book.
in other words while is indeed a close cousin of actor, quite a few of the analysis made for type of tasks, is not exactly applicable to inherently systems such as games, so take it with a big pinch of salt.
relation to and actors
akka is... simplifying the construction of concurrent and distributed applications on the jvm.... emphasizes, with inspiration drawn from.— wikipediaon the other hand, if looking at (more specifically, at ! and receive operators), or at’s actors, we will see that is pretty much the same there are no shared states, everything goes via message passing, et caetera, et caetera, et caetera.
the only significant difference is that for i am arguing for determinism (which is not guaranteed in/akka, at least not withoutcall interception”; on the other hand, you can write deterministic actors in or the same way as in, it is just an additional restriction you need to keep in mind and enforce). other than that, and some of those practical goodies in (such as with all the associated benefits), is extremely close to’s (as well as to’s actors which were inspired by) from point of view.
erlang is a, concurrent, programming language and system.— wikipediawhich can be roughly translated into the following observation:
to have a good model, it is not strictly necessary to program in or to use
bottom line for chapter v
phew, it was a long chapter. on the other hand, managed to provide a (and 20’000-word) view on my favoriteg architecture. to summarize and my recommendations in this regard:
think about your graphics, in particular whether you want to use or whether you dual graphics (such as+3d); this is one of the most important questions for your game client; 23 moreover, is not always the best choice, and there are quite a few games out there which have rudimentary graphics if your game is anfps or anrpg, most likely you do need, but even for anrts the answer can be not that obvious
moreover, is not always the best choice, and there are quite a few games out there which have rudimentary graphics write your code in a deterministic manner, it helps, and helps a lot usually, c++ is quite a good candidate, but you need to have pretty good developers to work with it
write your code in a deterministic manner (as described instrictly-deterministic logic” andevent-driven programming and finite state machines” sections), it helps, and helps a lot this is not the only viable architecture, so you may be able to get away without it, but at the very least you should consider it and understand why you prefer an alternative one the code written this way magically becomes a deterministic, which has lots of useful implications keep all your perfectly self-contained, in ashare-nothing” model. it will help in quite a few places down the road. feel free to run multiple in a single thread if you think that your game current platform is a good fit, but keep those separate; it can really save your bacon a few months later. keep one single code base for game logic. for other, you may make different for different platforms, but do it only if it becomes really necessary.
[[to be continued…
this concludes beta chapter 6(d) from the upcoming bookdevelopment and deployment of massively multiplayer games (from social games tofps, with social games in between)”. stay tuned for beta chapter 9(a),server-side. naive and classical deployment architectures.]]
acknowledgement
cartoons by sergey from animation graphics, prague.
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ˈɔθər: bugs”*” hɛr ˈfɑloʊ: ʤɑb ˈtaɪtəl: sɑrˈkæstɪk ˈɑrkəˌtɛkt ˈhɑbiz: ˈθɪŋkɪŋ əˈlaʊd, ˈɑrgjuɪŋ wɪθ ˈmænɪʤərz, əˈnɔɪɪŋ hrs*, ˈkɔlɪŋ ə speɪd ə speɪd, ˈkipɪŋ təŋ ɪn ʧik 6(d*) frəm ““beta”*” ˈvɑljum ii”*”] ˈæftər spɛnt kwaɪt ə lɔt əv taɪm dɪˈskəsɪŋ ˈbɔrɪŋ θɪŋz səʧ ɛz dɪˌtərməˈnɪstɪk ˈlɑʤɪk ənd ˈfaɪˌnaɪt ɔˈtɑmətə, wi kən goʊ əˈhɛd ənd ˈfaɪnəli drɔ ðə ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər ˈdaɪəˌgræm fər ɑr geɪm klaɪənt. ˈjɑˌhu! ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ɛz ðə ˈvɛri læst dɪˈleɪ ˌbiˈfɔr ðət ˈglɔriəs ənd ˈdaɪəˌgræm, wi nid tɪ dɪˈfaɪn wən tərm ðət juz ɪn ðɪs ˈsɛkʃən. dɪˈfaɪn loop”*” ɛz ən lup wɪʧ goʊz ˈoʊvər ənd ˈoʊvər wɪˈθaʊt dɪˈleɪz, ənd ɪz rəˈgɑrdləs əv ˈɛni ɪn ˈəðər wərdz, taɪt lup ɪz baʊnd tɪ it ˈsaɪkəlz (ənd lɑts əv ðɛm) rəˈgɑrdləs əv duɪŋ ˈɛni ˈjusfəl wərk. ənd naʊ ˈrɪli ˈrɛdi fər ðə ˈdaɪəˌgræm (qnfsm*) ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər: ʤəˈnɛrɪk ˈdaɪəˌgræm fɪg. ʃoʊz ə ˈdaɪəˌgræm wɪʧ dɪˈskraɪbz ə ““generic”*” ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər. ɪt ɪz ædˈmɪtɪdli mɔr ˈkɑmpləˌkeɪtəd ðən ˈmɛni əv ju wɪl wɔnt ər nid tɪ juz; ɔn ðə ˈəðər hænd, ɪt ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnts kwaɪt ə ʤəˈnɛrɪk keɪs, ənd ˈmɛni kən bi əbˈteɪnd raɪt aʊt əv ɪt baɪ ˈsɪmpəl ˈʤɔɪnɪŋ səm əv ɪts ˈɛləmənts. neɪm ðɪs ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər ə architecture”*” fər ˈɑbviəs ˈrizənz, ər ““qnfsm”*” ɪn ʃɔrt. əv kɔrs, ɪz (baɪ fɑr) nɑt ðə ˈoʊnli ˈpɑsəbəl ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər, ənd ˈivɪn nɑt ðə moʊst ˈpɑpjələr wən, bət ɪts ˌvɛriˈeɪʃənz hæv bɪn sin tɪ ˈproʊdus geɪmz wɪθ ɪkˈstrimli gʊd riˌlaɪəˈbɪləti, ɪkˈstrimli gʊd diˈkəplɪŋ bɪtˈwin pɑrts, ənd ˈvɛri gʊd maintainability*. ɔn ðə ˈmaɪnəs saɪd, aɪ kən lɪst ˈoʊnli ə bɪt əv dɪˈvɛləpmənt ˈoʊvərˈhɛd du tɪ ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ ˈmɛkəˌnɪzəm, bət frəm maɪ ɪkˈspɪriəns ɪt ɪz mɔr ðən ˈkəvərd wɪθ ˈbɛtər ˌsɛpərˈeɪʃən bɪtˈwin ˈdɪfərənt pɑrts ənd dɪˈfaɪnd ˈɪnərˌfeɪsɪz, wɪʧ lidz tɪ ðə dɪˈvɛləpmənt ˈivɪn ɪn ðə (ənd ɪz ˈivɪn mɔr ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt ɪn ðə tɪ əˈvɔɪd spəˈgɛti koʊd). θroʊ ɪn ðə əˈbɪləˌti əv debug”*” ənd post-mortem”*” ɪn pərˈdəkʃən, ənd ɪt bɪˈkəmz ə səˈluʃən fər lɑts əv ˈrilˌwərld ənd ˈprɑbləmz. ɪn ʃɔrt ən ɪkˈstrimli strɔŋ ˈædvəˌkeɪt əv ðɪs ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər (ənd ɪts ˌvɛriˈeɪʃənz dɪˈskraɪbd bɪˈloʊ), ənd noʊ əv ˈɛni ˈpræktɪkəl ˈkeɪsɪz wɪn ɪt ɪz nɑt ðə bɛst θɪŋ ju kən du. waɪl ɪt maɪt lʊk æt ðə fərst glæns, ɪt peɪz ɔf ɪn ðə ˈmidiəm- ənd 2 aɪ hoʊp ðət ðə ˈdaɪəˌgræm ɔn fɪg ʃʊd bi mɔr ər lɛs self-explanatory*, bət aɪ wɪl ɪˈlæbərˌeɪt ɔn ə fju pɔɪnts wɪʧ maɪt nɑt bi tu ˈɑbviəs: iʧ əv ɪz ə ɛz dɪˈskraɪbd ɪn ˈproʊˌgræmɪŋ ənd ˈfaɪˌnaɪt steɪt machines”*” ˈsɛkʃən əˈbəv waɪl biɪŋ ɪz nɑt ə strɪkt rɪkˈwaɪrmənt, ˈɪmpləˌmɛnɪŋ jʊr ðɪs weɪ wɪl meɪk jʊr diˈbəgɪŋ ənd poʊstˈmɔrtɛm məʧ məʧ məʧ ˈiziər. ɔl ðə ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ bɪtˈwin ˈdɪfərənt ɪz. hir ““message”*” ɪz ə kloʊz ˈkəzən əv ə ˈnɛtˌwərk ˈpækɪt; ɪn ˈəðər wərdz ɪt ɪz ʤɪst ə bənʧ əv baɪts əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ səm kənˈvɛnʃən bɪtˈwin ˈsɛndɪŋ θrɛd ənd rɪˈsivɪŋ θrɛd. ðɛr kən bi ˈdɪfərənt weɪz haʊ tɪ pæs ðiz ˈmɛsɪʤɪz əraʊnd; ɪgˈzæmpəlz ˌɪnˈklud ɪkˈsplɪsət ˈmɛsɪʤ ˈpoʊstɪŋ, ər ˈɪmpləˌmɛnɪŋ kɔlz ˌɪnˈstɛd fər ðə ˈmɛsɪʤɪz bɪtˈwin geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk θrɛd ənd θrɛd, ˈfɔrˌmæt ʃʊd bi əˈlɔŋ ðə laɪnz əv api”*”, dɪˈskraɪbd ɪn layer”*” ˈsɛkʃən əˈbəv. ɪn ʃɔrt: ɪt ʃʊd bi ɔl əˈbaʊt ˈlɑʤɪkəl ˈʧeɪnʤɪz ɪn ðə geɪm wərld, əˈlɔŋ ðə laɪnz əv ɪz ˈkərəntli ˈmuvɪŋ əˈlɔŋ ðə pæθ dɪˈfaɪnd baɪ ðə sɛt əv pɔɪnts wɪθ spid v”*” (wɪθ koʊˈɔrdəˌneɪts biɪŋ geɪm wərld koʊˈɔrdəˌneɪts, nɑt skrin koʊˈɔrdəˌneɪts), ər æt sit #ɛn ɪz ɪn ðə ˈprɔˌsɛs əv ʃoʊɪŋ hɪz kɑrdz tɪ ðə opponents”*”. 3 iʧ θrɛd həz ən əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪtəd kju, wɪʧ ɪz ˈeɪbəl tɪ əkˈsɛpt ˈmɛsɪʤɪz, ənd prəˈvaɪdz ə weɪ tɪ weɪt ɔn ɪt ɛz lɔŋ ɛz ɪz ðə kju ɪz ˈɛmti ðə ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər ɪz ““share-nothing”*”. ɪt minz ðət ðɛr ɪz noʊ ˈdætə ʃɛrd bɪtˈwin θrɛdz, ənd ðə ˈoʊnli weɪ tɪ ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ ˈdætə bɪtˈwin θrɛdz, ɪz ˈviə kjuz ənd ““share-nothing”*” minz noʊ θrɛd ˌsɪŋkrənəˈzeɪʃən ˈprɑbləmz (ðɛr ɪz noʊ nid fər, ˈkrɪtɪkəl ˈsɛkʃənz, ˌɛtˈsɛtərə. ˌɛtˈsɛtərə. ˈaʊtˈsaɪd əv jʊr kjuz). ðɪs ɪz ə ˈrɪli gʊd thing™*™, ɛz traɪɪŋ tɪ ˈhændəl θrɛd ˌsɪŋkrənəˈzeɪʃən wɪθ ˈɛni ˈfrikwɛntli ˈʧeɪnʤəbəl ˈlɑʤɪk (səʧ ɛz ðə wən wɪˈθɪn æt list səm əv ðə) ˌɪˈnɛvətəbli lidz tɪ lɑts ənd lɑts əv ˈprɑbləmz (si, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, əv kɔrs, ˌɪmpləmɛnˈteɪʃən əv ðə kjuz stɪl nidz tɪ juz ˌsɪŋkrənəˈzeɪʃən, bət ðɪs ɪz ˈwəˌtaɪm ˈɛfərt ənd ɪt həz bɪn dən ˈmɛni taɪmz ˌbiˈfɔr, soʊ ɪt ɪz nɑt ˈlaɪkli tɪ kɔz tu məʧ ˈtrəbəl; si ˈʧæptər [[ˌtuˈdu]] fər ˈfərðər ˈditeɪlz ɔn kjuz ɪn si++ ɛz ə nis saɪd ˈifɛkt, ɪt minz ðət wɛˈnɛvər ju wɔnt ɪt, ju kən dɪˈplɔɪ jʊr θrɛdz ˈɪntu ˈdɪfərənt ˈprɑsɛsəz wɪˈθaʊt ˈʧeɪnʤɪŋ ˈɛni koʊd wɪˈθɪn jʊr (ˈmɪrli baɪ sˈwɪʧɪŋ tɪ ən ˌɪmpləmɛnˈteɪʃən əv ðə kju). ɪn ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr, ɪt kən meɪk ˈænsərɪŋ ˈvɛri əˈnɔɪɪŋ kˈwɛsʧənz səʧ ɛz ˈgɪlti fər ðə ˈmɛməri corruption”*” məʧ mɔr ˈizəli kjuz əv geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk θrɛd ənd kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz θrɛd, ər ˈrəðər ənˈjuˌʒuəl. ˈweɪtɪŋ nɑt ˈoʊnli fər ˈjuʒəwəl ˈmɛsɪʤɪz, bət ˈɔlsoʊ fər səm ˈəðər stəf (ˈneɪmli ˈɪnˌpʊt ˈmɛsɪʤɪz fər geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk θrɛd, ənd ˈnɛtˌwərk ˈpækɪts fər ðə kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz θrɛd). ɪn moʊst ˈkeɪsɪz, æt list wən əv ðiz tu ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr kjuz wɪl bi səˈpɔrtɪd baɪ jʊr ˈplætˌfɔrm fər ðoʊz ˈplætˌfɔrmz wɪʧ səˈpɔrt səʧ kjuz ju kən ˈɔlˌweɪz juz (wəns əˈgɛn, ðə spɪˈsɪfɪks wɪl bi dɪˈskəst ɪn ˈʧæptər [[ˌtuˈdu]]), ənd hæv ən əˈdɪʃənəl θrɛd wɪʧ wɪl gɪt ˈjuzər ˈɪnˌpʊt ˈdætə (ər kɔl səˈlɛkt()), ənd ðɛn fid ðə ˈdætə ˈɪntu ɛz ə jɛt əˈnəðər ˈmɛsɪʤ. ðɪs wɪl kriˈeɪt ə strɪkt ˈfəŋkʃənəl ɪkˈwɪvələnt (a.k.a*. implementation”*”) əv tu spɪˈsɪfɪk kjuz ˈmɛnʃənd əˈbəv ɔl ðə θrɛdz ɔn ðə ˈdaɪəˌgræm (wɪθ wən ˈpɑsəbəl ɪkˈsɛpʃən biɪŋ θrɛd, si bɪˈloʊ) ər nɑt tight-looped*, ənd ənˈlɛs ðɛr ɪz ˈsəmθɪŋ ɪn ðɛr rɪˈspɛktɪv kju ðeɪ ʤɪst weɪt ɔn ðə kju ənˈtɪl səm kaɪnd əv ˈmɛsɪʤ kəmz ɪn (ər səˈlɛkt() ɪˈvɛnt ˈhæpənz) waɪl ““no-tight-loops”*” ɪz nɑt ə strɪkt rɪkˈwaɪrmənt fər ðə, ˈweɪstɪŋ ˈsaɪkəlz ɪn taɪt lups wɪˈθaʊt ˈrɪli gʊd ˈrizən ɪz ˈrɛrli ə gʊd aɪˈdiə, ənd maɪt hərt kwaɪt ə fju əv jʊr pleɪərz (ðoʊz wɪθ ˈwikər rɪgz). θrɛd ɪz ə pəˈtɛnʃəli ˈspɛʃəl keɪs, ənd meɪ juz taɪt lup, si loop”*” ˈsəbsɛkʃən bɪˈloʊ fər ˈditeɪlz tɪ ˈhændəl dɪˈleɪz ɪn θrɛd, kjuz ʃʊd əˈlaʊ tɪ poʊst səm kaɪnd əv message”*” tɪ ðə oʊn θrɛd ˈivɪn wɪˈθaʊt taɪt lups ɪt ɪz ˈpɑsəbəl tɪ raɪt jʊr ɪn ən ““almost-tight-loop”*” ˈmænər ðət ɪz ˈkloʊsli rɪˈzɛmbəlɪŋ ˈrilˌwərld ˈrilˌtaɪm kənˈtroʊl ˈsɪstəmz (ənd ˈklæsɪkəl geɪm lup tu), bət wɪˈθaʊt ˈoʊvərˈhɛd. si mɔr ɔn ɪt ɪn [[ˌtuˈdu!! æd ˈsəbsɛkʃən ɔn ɪt tɪ ““fsm”*” ˈsɛkʃən]] ˈsɛkʃən əˈbəv. tight-looped*, ənd ənˈlɛs ðɛr ɪz ˈsəmθɪŋ ɪn ðɛr rɪˈspɛktɪv kju ðeɪ ʤɪst weɪt ɔn ðə kju ənˈtɪl səm kaɪnd əv ˈmɛsɪʤ kəmz ɪn (ər səˈlɛkt() ɪˈvɛnt ˈhæpənz) maɪˈgreɪʃən frəm ˈklæsɪkəl geɪm ɪf ˈkəmɪŋ frəm dɪˈvɛləpmənt, ju meɪ faɪnd ðɪs hoʊl ˈdaɪəˌgræm kənfˈjuzɪŋ; ðɪs ˈmeɪbi əˈspɛʃəli tru fər bɪtˈwin geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ənd. ðə aɪˈdiə hir ɪz tɪ hæv 95 əv jʊr ɪgˈzɪstɪŋ ˈɪnʤən ɛz ju noʊ it”*”, wɪθ ɔl ðə stəf, ɛz ə pɑrt əv fsm”*”. ju wɪl ʤɪst nid tɪ kət ɔf geɪm dɪˈsɪʒən ˈlɑʤɪk (wɪʧ wɪl goʊ tɪ ðə, ənd ˈmeɪbi ˈpɑrʃəli ˈduplɪˌkeɪtɪd tɪ geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk tu fər priˈdɪkʃən ˈpərpəsɪz), ənd ˈlɑʤɪk (wɪʧ wɪl goʊ ˈɪntu geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk). ɔl ðə stəf ʃʊd steɪ wɪˈθɪn (ˈivɪn geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ʃʊd noʊ ˌæbsəˈlutli ˈnəθɪŋ əˈbaʊt ˈmɛʃɪz ənd ˈtraɪˌæŋgəlz). jʊr ɪgˈzɪstɪŋ ˈɪnʤən ɪz tu ˈkɑmpləˌkeɪtəd tɪ fɪt ˈɪntu, ɪt ɪz ˈoʊˈkeɪ tɪ kip ɪt ɛz lɔŋ ɛz ɪt lʊks 'ʤɪst ɛz ən' frəm ðə jʊr ɪgˈzɪstɪŋ ˈɪnʤən ɪz tu ˈkɑmpləˌkeɪtəd tɪ fɪt ˈɪntu, ɪt ɪz ˈoʊˈkeɪ tɪ kip ɪt ɛz lɔŋ ɛz ɪt lʊks ɛz ən fsm”*” frəm ðə ˈaʊtˈsaɪd (i.e*. ɔl ðə kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz wɪθ goʊ ˈviə ˈmɛsɪʤɪz ər kɔlz, ɪkˈsprɛst ɪn tərmz əv leɪər). fər ˈditeɪlz ɔn ˈjuzɪŋ fər ˈɛnʤənz, si əˈdɪʃənəl θrɛdz ənd multithreading”*” ˈsɛkʃən bɪˈloʊ. noʊt ðət dɪˈpɛndɪŋ ɔn spɪˈsɪfɪks əv jʊr ɪgˈzɪstɪŋ ˈrɛndərɪŋ ˈɪnʤən, ju meɪ nid tɪ rɪˈzɔrt tɪ ˈɔpʃən si; waɪl ˈɔpʃən si prəˈvaɪd ju wɪθ ˈgʊdiz fər jʊr ˈrɛndərɪŋ ˈɪnʤən (ˈsɑri, maɪ səˈplaɪ əv ˈmæʤɪk ˈpaʊdər ɪz kwaɪt ˈlɪmɪtɪd), ju wɪl stɪl bi ˈeɪbəl tɪ ˌɛnˈʤɔɪ ɔl ðə ˈbɛnəfɪts (səʧ ɛz riˈpleɪ diˈbəgɪŋ ənd pərˈdəkʃən poʊstˈmɔrtɛm) fər ðə ˈəðər pɑrts əv jʊr klaɪənt. ɪt ɪz wərθ ˈnoʊtɪŋ ðət geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk, dɪˈspaɪt ɪts neɪm, kən ˈɔfən bi mɔr ər lɛs ˌrudəˈmɛntəri, ənd (ənˈlɛs priˈdɪkʃən ɪz juzd) ˈmoʊstli pərˈfɔrmz tu ˈfəŋkʃənz: (ə) ˈpɑrsɪŋ ˈnɛtˌwərk ˈmɛsɪʤɪz ənd ˈtrænsˌleɪtɪŋ ðɛm ˈɪntu ðə kəˈmændz əv leɪər, (bi) ˈhændɪŋ. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ɪf priˈdɪkʃən ɪz juzd, geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk kən bɪˈkəm məʧ mɔr ɪˈlæbəreɪtəd. ˌɪnərˈækʃən ɪgˈzæmpəlz ɪn wərld: ˈvərsəz kənˈsɪdər θri ˈtɪpɪkəl ˌɪnərˈækʃən ɪgˈzæmpəlz ˈæftər maɪˈgreɪʃən frəm geɪm tɪ ən ˈdaɪəˌgræm ʃoʊn əˈbəv. ˌɪnərˈækʃən ɪgˈzæmpəl (ˈʃutɪŋ). kənˈsɪdər ən ɪgˈzæmpəl wɪn pleɪər ə ˈprɛsɪz ə ˈbətən tɪ ʃut wɪθ ə ˈleɪzər gən, ənd geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk nidz tɪ pərˈfɔrm ə tɪ si wɛr ɪt hɪts ənd wət ɛls ˈhæpənz. ɪn, ɔl ðɪs ˈjuʒəwəli ˈhæpənz wɪˈθɪn ə ˈɪnʤən. fər ən, ɪt ɪz mɔr ˈkɑmpləˌkeɪtəd: stɛp 1 ˈbətən prɛs goʊz tɪ ɑr əˈθɔrəˌteɪtɪv ˈsərvər ɛz ə ˈmɛsɪʤ stɛp 2 əˈθɔrəˌteɪtɪv ˈsərvər rɪˈsivz ˈmɛsɪʤ, pərˈfɔrmz ə, ənd ˈkælkjəˌleɪts wɛr ðə ʃɑt hɪts. stɛp 3 ɑr əˈθɔrəˌteɪtɪv ˈsərvər ɪkˈsprɛsɪz ɪt hits”*” ɪn tərmz səʧ ɛz bi gɑt hɪt raɪt bɪtˈwin hɪz eyes”*” 4 ənd sɛndz ɪt ɛz ə ˈmɛsɪʤ tɪ ðə klaɪənt (ˈæˌkʧuəli, tɪ ɔl ðə klaɪənts). ənd sɛndz ɪt ɛz ə ˈmɛsɪʤ tɪ ðə klaɪənt (ˈæˌkʧuəli, tɪ ɔl ðə klaɪənts). stɛp 4 ðɪs ˈmɛsɪʤ ɪz rɪˈsivd baɪ geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk, ənd trænzˈleɪtəd ˈɪntu ðə kəˈmændz əv leɪər (stɪl wɪˈθaʊt ˈmɛʃɪz ənd ˈtraɪˌæŋgəlz, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ˈleɪzər reɪ frəm maɪ gən tɪ ðə pɔɪnt b”*”, ənd ˈleɪzər hɪt raɪt bɪtˈwin ðə aɪz əv pleɪər b”*”), wɪʧ kəˈmændz ər sɛnt (ɛz ˈmɛsɪʤɪz) tɪ. stɛp 5 kən ˈfaɪnəli ˈrɛndər ðə hoʊl waɪl ðə ˈprɔˌsɛs ɪz ˈrəðər ˈkɑmpləˌkeɪtəd, moʊst əv ðə stɛps ər ˌɪnˈhɛrəntli ˌɪˈnɛvətəbəl fər ən; ðə ˈoʊnli θɪŋ wɪʧ ju kʊd ˌθiərˈɛtɪkəli seɪv kəmˈpɛrd tɪ ðə prəˈsiʤər dɪˈskraɪbd əˈbəv, ɪz ˈmərʤɪŋ stɛp 4 ənd stɛp 5 təˈgɛðər (baɪ ˈmərʤɪŋ geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ənd təˈgɛðər), bət aɪ ədˈvaɪz əˈgɛnst ɪt ɛz səʧ ˈmərʤɪŋ wʊd ˌɪntrəˈdus tu məʧ ˈkəplɪŋ wɪʧ wɪl hɪt ju ɪn ðə lɔŋ rən. duɪŋ səʧ ˈdɪfərənt θɪŋz ɛz ˈpɑrsɪŋ ˈnɛtˌwərk ˈmɛsɪʤɪz ənd ˈrɛndərɪŋ wɪˈθɪn wən ˈtaɪtli ˈkəpəld ˈmɑʤul ɪz ˈrɛrli ə gʊd aɪˈdiə, ənd ɪt bɪˈkəmz ˈivɪn wərs ɪf ðɛr ɪz ə ʧæns ðət ju wɪl ˈɛvər wɔnt tɪ juz səm ˈəðər (fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ə nuər wən, ər ðə wən fər ə ˈdɪfərənt ˈplætˌfɔrm). ˈfɪzɪks ɪn kəmˈpjutər ˈfɪzɪks ˈɛnʤənz, ˈfɪzɪks ɪz ə taɪp əv prəˈsiʤərəl ˌænəˈmeɪʃən ðət ɪz ˈɔfən juzd ɛz ə rɪˈpleɪsmənt fər trəˈdɪʃənəl ˈstætɪk dɛθ ˌænəˈmeɪʃənz ɪn ˈvɪdioʊ geɪmz ənd ˈænəˌmeɪtɪd films.—*.— ˈwɪkiˌpiˌdiə ˌɪnərˈækʃən ɪgˈzæmpəl (ragdoll*). ɪn ə ˈtɪpɪkəl ɪgˈzæmpəl, wɪn ən ɪz hɪt fər taɪm ənd daɪz ɛz ə rɪˈzəlt, ˈfɪzɪks ɪz ˈæktɪˌveɪtɪd. ɪn ə ˈtɪpɪkəl geɪm, wəns əˈgɛn, ðə hoʊl θɪŋ ɪz ˈjuʒəwəli pərˈfɔrmd wɪˈθɪn ˈɪnʤən. ənd wəns əˈgɛn, fər ə ðə hoʊl θɪŋ wɪl bi mɔr ˈkɑmpləˌkeɪtəd: stɛp 1 ˈbətən prɛs (ðə wən wɪʧ wɪl kɔz dɛθ) goʊz tɪ əˈθɔrəˌteɪtɪv ˈsərvər stɛp 2 ˈsərvər ʧɛks əˈtæk ˈreɪdiəs, ˈkælkjəˌleɪts ˈʧænsɪz tɪ hɪt, faɪndz ðət ðə hɪt ɪz səkˈsɛsfəl, ˈdiˌkrisɪz hɛlθ, ənd faɪnd ðət ɪz dɛd stɛp 3 ˈsərvər pərˈfɔrmz ˌsɪmjəˈleɪʃən ɪn ðə wərld. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ɪt nid tɪ (ˈniðər ɪt ˈrɪli kən) sɛnd ɪt tɪ klaɪənts ɛz ə kəmˈplit ˌænəˈmeɪʃən. ˌɪnˈstɛd, ðə ˈsərvər kən ˈjuʒəwəli sɛnd tɪ ðə klaɪənt ˈoʊnli ə ˈmuvmənt əv əv gravity”*” əv ɪn kˈwɛʃən (ˈkælkjəˌleɪtɪd ɛz ə rɪˈzəlt əv ˌsɪmjəˈleɪʃən). ðɪs ˈmuvmənt əv əv gravity”*” ɪz sɛnt tɪ ðə klaɪənt (ˈiðər ɛz ə ˈsɪŋgəl ˈmɛsɪʤ wɪθ ðə hoʊl ˌænəˈmeɪʃən ər ɛz ə ˈsɪriz əv ˈmɛsɪʤɪz wɪθ position”*” iʧ) ɛz ən ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ side-effect*: ɛz ðə hoʊl θɪŋ ɪz kwaɪt ˈsɪmpəl, ðɛr meɪ bi noʊ ril nid tɪ ˈkælkjəˌleɪt ðə hoʊl lɪm ˈmuvmənt, ənd ɪt meɪ səˈfaɪs tɪ ˈkælkjəˌleɪt ʤɪst ə ˈsɪmpəl ˌpɛrəˈbɑlɪk ˈmuvmənt əv ðə əv gravity”*”, wɪʧ meɪ seɪv ju kwaɪt ə bɪt əv ˈrisɔrsɪz (boʊθ ənd memory-wise*) ɔn ðə ˈsərvər saɪd stɛp 4 geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk rɪˈsivz ðə ˈmɛsɪʤ wɪθ əv gravity”*” ˈmuvmənt ənd ˈtrænsˌleɪts ɪt ˈɪntu kəˈmændz. ðɪs ˌnɛsəˈsɛrəli nid tɪ bi ˈtrɪviəl; ɪn ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr, ɪt meɪ ˈhæpən ðət geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk stɔrz ˈlɑrʤər pɑrt əv ðə geɪm wərld ðən. ɪn ðɪs ˈlætər keɪs, geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk meɪ wɔnt tɪ ʧɛk ɪf ðɪs spɪˈsɪfɪk ˌænəˈmeɪʃən ɪz wɪˈθɪn ðə skoʊp əv ðə ˈkɑrənt wərld əv. stɛp 5 pərˈfɔrmz səm ˌsɪmjəˈleɪʃən (ɪt kən bi ˈprɪti məʧ ðə seɪm ˌsɪmjəˈleɪʃən wɪʧ həz ɔˈrɛdi bɪn meɪd ɔn ðə ˈsərvər saɪd, ər ˈsəmθɪŋ kəmˈplitli ˈdɪfərənt). ɪf ˌsɪmjəˈleɪʃən ɪz ðə seɪm, ðɛn ðə ˈprɔˌsɛs əv ˌsɪmjəˈleɪʃən ɔn ðə wɪl bi kwaɪt kloʊz tɪ ðə wən ɔn ðə; ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ɪf ðɛr ər ˈɛni dɪˈskrɛpənsiz du tɪ dɪˈtərməˌnɪzəm ˌsɪmjəˈleɪʃən wɪl kərˈɛkt koʊˈɔrdəˌneɪts soʊ ðət əv gravity”*” ɪz əˈʤəstɪd tɪ ðə pəˈzɪʃən sɛnt baɪ ˈsərvər. ɪn keɪs əv bɪˈheɪvjər bɪtˈwin klaɪənt ənd ˈsərvər, ðə ˈmuvmənt əv ðə lɪmz ɔn ðə klaɪənt ənd ðə ˈsərvər meɪ bi ˈdɪfərənt, bət fər ə ˈtɪpɪkəl ɪt ˈmætər (wət ɪz ˈrɪli ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt ɪz wɛr ðə ɪˈvɛnʧəwəli lændz hir ər ˈoʊvər ðə ɛʤ əv ðə klɪf, bət ðɪs ɪz ˌgɛrənˈtid tɪ bi ðə seɪm fər ɔl ðə klaɪənts ɛz əv gravity”*” kəmz frəm ðə ˈsərvər saɪd). ˌɪnərˈækʃən ɪgˈzæmpəl. ɪn ə ˈtɪpɪkəl geɪm, ə ˈvɛri ˈkɑmən tæsk ɪz tɪ ʃoʊ ˈɑbʤɛkt ˈprɑpərtiz wɪn ðə ˈɑbʤɛkt ɪz ˈkərəntli ˈəndər ˈkərsər. fər ðə ˈdaɪəˌgræm əˈbəv, ɪt ʃʊd bi pərˈfɔrmd ɛz ˈfɑloʊz: stɛp 1 geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk sɛndz ə rɪkˈwɛst tɪ ðə: ɪz ðə ˈɑbʤɛkt ˈaɪˈdi æt skrin koʊˈɔrdəˌneɪts (x,y)?”*)?” (wɛr (x,y*) ər ˈkərsər koʊˈɔrdəˌneɪts) stɛp 2 ˈprɑsɛsəz ðɪs (ˈtrɪviəl) rɪkˈwɛst ənd rɪˈtərnz ˈɑbʤɛkt ˈaɪˈdi bæk stɛp 3 geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk faɪndz ˈɑbʤɛkt ˈprɑpərtiz baɪ ˈaɪˈdi, ˈtrænsˌleɪts ðɛm ˈɪntu tɛkst, ənd ˌɪnˈstrəkts tɪ dɪˈspleɪ ˈɑbʤɛkt ˈprɑpərtiz ɪn həd waɪl ðɪs meɪ sim ɛz ən ˈoʊvərˌkɪl, ðə ˈoʊvərˈhɛd (boʊθ ɪn tərmz əv taɪm ənd rən taɪm) ɪz ˈnɛglɪʤəbəl, ənd gʊd oʊld rul əv mɔr ˈklinli ˈsɛpərˌeɪtɪd pɑrts ju hæv ðə ˈizi ɪz ˈfərðər dɪˈvɛləpmənt is”*” wɪl mɔr ðən ˈkɑmpənˌseɪt fər ðə kəmˈplɛksɪtiz əv səʧ ˌsɛpərˈeɪʃən. ənd ðɛr rɪˈspɛktɪv steɪts ðə ˈdaɪəˌgræm ɔn fɪg. ʃoʊz fɔr ˈdɪfərənt; waɪl ðeɪ ɔl dəraɪv frəm ɑr dɪˈskraɪbd əˈbəv, iʧ əv ðɛm ɪz ˈdɪfərənt, həz ə ˈdɪfərənt ˈfəŋkʃən, ənd stɔrz ə ˈdɪfərənt steɪt. teɪk ə ˈkloʊzər lʊk æt iʧ əv ðɛm. geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ɪz ðə wən wɪʧ meɪks moʊst əv dɪˈsɪʒənz əˈbaʊt jʊr geɪm wərld. mɔr ˈstrɪktli, ðiz ər nɑt ɪgˈzæktli dɪˈsɪʒənz əˈbaʊt ðə geɪm wərld ɪn ˈʤɛnərəl (ðɪs wən ɪz meɪnˈteɪnd baɪ ɑr əˈθɔrəˌteɪtɪv ˈsərvər), bət əˈbaʊt ˈkɑpi əv ðə geɪm wərld. ɪn səm ˈkeɪsɪz ɪt kən bi almost-trivial*, ɪn səm ˈkeɪsɪz (əˈspɛʃəli wɪn priˈdɪkʃən ɪz ˌɪnˈvɑlvd) ɪt kən bi ˈvɛri ɪˈlæbəreɪtəd. ˈlɑʤɪk ɪz ˈlaɪkli tɪ kip ə ˈkɑpi əv ðə geɪm wərld frəm ðə geɪm ˈsərvər, ɛz ə pɑrt əv ɪts ˈɛni keɪs, geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ɪz ˈlaɪkli tɪ kip ə ˈkɑpi əv ðə geɪm wərld (ər əv ˈrɛləvənt ˈpɔrʃən əv ðə geɪm wərld) frəm ðə geɪm ˈsərvər, ɛz ə pɑrt əv steɪt. ðɪs ˈkɑpi həz ˈnɔrməli ˈnəθɪŋ tɪ du wɪθ ˈmɛʃɪz, ənd dɪˈskraɪbz θɪŋz ɪn tərmz səʧ ɛz ɪz ə ˈpiˈsi ˈstændɪŋ æt pəˈzɪʃən (x,y*) ɪn ðə geɪm wərld koʊˈɔrdəˌneɪts, ˈfeɪsɪŋ nnw”*”, ər ər kɑrdz ɛz ənd ɔn ðə table”*”. geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ˈgræfɪks ˈprɑbəˌbli ðə moʊst ˈkloʊsli rɪˈleɪtɪd tɪ geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ɪz wən. moʊst əv ðə ˌɪnərˈækʃən bɪtˈwin ðə tu goʊz ɪn ðə dɪˈrɛkʃɪn frəm geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk tɪ, ˈjuzɪŋ leɪər kəˈmændz ɛz ˈmɛsɪʤɪz. geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ʃʊd ˌɪnˈstrəkt tɪ ˈkɑnstrəkt ə ˈpɔrʃən əv ɪts oʊn geɪm ˈkɑpi ɛz ə sin, ənd tɪ ˈəpˌdeɪt ɪt ɛz ɪts oʊn ˈkɑpi əv ðə geɪm wərld ˈʧeɪnʤɪz. ɪn əˈdɪʃən, geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ɪz goʊɪŋ tɪ ˈhændəl (bət nɑt ˈrɛndər), səʧ ɛz huds*, ənd ˈvɛriəs (ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ðə ˈlidɪŋ tɪ ˈpərʧəsɪz, ˈsoʊʃəl stəf, ˌɛtˈsɛtərə.); ðɪs ˈhændəlɪŋ ʃʊd bi ˈɪmpləˌmɛnəd ɪn ə ˈvɛri ˈmænər, ˈviə ˈsɛndɪŋ ˈmɛsɪʤɪz tɪ ˈɪnʤən. ðiz ˈmɛsɪʤɪz, ɛz ˈjuʒəwəl, ʃʊd bi ɪkˈsprɛst ɪn ˈvɛri tərmz, səʧ ɛz hɛlθ æt ər ðə ˈdaɪəlɔg dɪˈskraɪbd baɪ resource”*”. tɪ ˈhændəl, geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk meɪ sɛnd ə ˈmɛsɪʤ tɪ, rɪkˈwɛstɪŋ ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən səʧ ɛz ˈɑbʤɛkt (ər ˈdaɪəlɔg ˈɛləmənt) ɪz æt skrin position”*” (wəns əˈgɛn, ðə hoʊl trænzˈleɪʃən bɪtˈwin skrin koʊˈɔrdəˌneɪts ˈɪntu wərld ˈɑbʤɛkts ɪz meɪd ɔn ðə saɪd, ˈkipɪŋ geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk fri əv səʧ ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən); ɔn rɪˈsivɪŋ rɪˈplaɪ, geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk meɪ ˌdɪˈsaɪd tɪ ˈəpˌdeɪt həd, ər tɪ du whatever-else-is-necessary*. ˈəðər ˈmɛsɪʤɪz ˈkəmɪŋ frəm tɪ geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk, səʧ ɛz mi wɪn ðə ˈbʊlət hɪts ðə npc”*”, meɪ bi ˈnɛsəˌsɛri fər ðə priˈdɪkʃən ˈpərpəsɪz (si ˈʧæptər [[ˌtuˈdu]] fər ˈfərðər dɪˈskəʃən). ɔn ðə ˈəðər hænd, ɪt ɪz ˈvɛri ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt tɪ ˌəndərˈstænd ðət ðiz ˈmɛsɪʤɪz ər baɪ dɪˈzaɪn, ənd ðət ðɛr rɪˈzəlts kən bi ˈizəli ˈoʊvərˈrɪdən baɪ ðə ˈsərvər. ðiz tu ˈsɛpərˌeɪt wɪl ɪnˈʃʊr məʧ ˈklinər ˌsɛpərˈeɪʃən, fəˈsɪləˌteɪtɪŋ koʊd ɪn ðə ˈmidiəm- tɪ ju kən si, ðɛr kən bi kwaɪt ə fju ˌɪnərˈækʃənz bɪtˈwin geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ənd. stɪl, waɪl ɪt meɪ bi ˈtɛmptɪŋ tɪ ˈkɑmbaɪn geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk wɪθ, aɪ wʊd ədˈvaɪz əˈgɛnst ɪt æt list fər ðə geɪmz wɪθ ˈmɛni ˈplætˌfɔrmz tɪ bi səˈpɔrtɪd, ənd fər ðə geɪmz wɪθ ˌəndɪˈfaɪnd laɪf spæn; ˈhævɪŋ ðiz tu ˈsɛpərˌeɪt (ɛz ʃoʊn ɔn fɪg wɪl ɪnˈʃʊr məʧ ˈklinər ˌsɛpərˈeɪʃən, fəˈsɪləˌteɪtɪŋ koʊd ɪn ðə ˈmidiəm- tɪ. ɔn ðə ˈəðər hænd, ˈhævɪŋ ðiz tu ˈrənɪŋ wɪˈθɪn ðə seɪm θrɛd ɪz ə ˈvɛri ˈdɪfərənt ˈstɔri, ɪz ˈʤɛnərəli ˈoʊˈkeɪ ənd kən bi dən ˈivɪn ɔn ə ˈbeɪsɪs; si ““variations”*” ˈsɛkʃən bɪˈloʊ. geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk: ˌmɪsəˈleɪniəs ðɛr ər tu ˈəðər θɪŋz wɪʧ nid tɪ bi ˈmɛnʃənd wɪθ rɪˈgɑrdz tɪ geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk: ju məst kip jʊr geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ˈtruli platform-independent*. waɪl ɔl ðə ˈəðər meɪ bi (ənd ˌsɛpərˈeɪʃən bɪtˈwin əˈlɔŋ ðə laɪnz dɪˈskraɪbd əˈbəv, fəˈsɪləˌteɪts dɪˈvɛləpmənt ɪt bɪˈkəmz ˈnɛsəˌsɛri), ju ʃʊd meɪk ɔl ðə ˈpɑsəbəl ˈɛfərt tɪ kip jʊr geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ðə seɪm əˈkrɔs ɔl jʊr ˈplætˌfɔrmz. ðə ˈrizən fər ɪt həz ɔˈrɛdi bɪn ˈmɛnʃənd ˌbiˈfɔr, ənd ɪt ɪz ɔl əˈbaʊt geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk biɪŋ ðə moʊst ˈvɑlətəl əv ɔl jʊr koʊd; ɪt ˈʧeɪnʤɪz soʊ ˈɔfən ðət ju bi ˈeɪbəl tɪ kip ˈsɛvərəl koʊd ˈbeɪsɪz ˈrizənəbli ɪn sɪŋk. waɪl ɔl ðə ˈəðər meɪ bi (ənd ˌsɛpərˈeɪʃən bɪtˈwin əˈlɔŋ ðə laɪnz dɪˈskraɪbd əˈbəv, fəˈsɪləˌteɪts dɪˈvɛləpmənt ɪt bɪˈkəmz ˈnɛsəˌsɛri), ju ʃʊd meɪk ɔl ðə ˈpɑsəbəl ˈɛfərt tɪ kip jʊr geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ðə seɪm əˈkrɔs ɔl jʊr ˈplætˌfɔrmz. ðə ˈrizən fər ɪt həz ɔˈrɛdi bɪn ˈmɛnʃənd ˌbiˈfɔr, ənd ɪt ɪz ɔl əˈbaʊt geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk biɪŋ ðə moʊst ˈvɑlətəl əv ɔl jʊr koʊd; ɪt ˈʧeɪnʤɪz soʊ ˈɔfən ðət ju bi ˈeɪbəl tɪ kip ˈsɛvərəl koʊd ˈbeɪsɪz ˈrizənəbli ɪn sɪŋk. ɪf baɪ ˈɛni ʧæns jʊr geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ɪz ðət ðət wən ˈsɪŋgəl kɔr koʊp wɪθ ɪt ɪn moʊst ˈkeɪsɪz ɪt kən bi əˈdrɛst wɪˈθaʊt ˈgɪvɪŋ əp ðə ˈgʊdiz əv ˈsɪstəm, si θrɛdz ənd multi-threading”*” ˈsɛkʃən bɪˈloʊ. ɪz mɔr ər lɛs ˈsɪmələr tɪ ðə ˈrɛndərɪŋ pɑrt əv jʊr ˈjuʒəwəl geɪm ˈɪnʤən. ɪf jʊr geɪm ɪz ə wən, ðɛn ɪn ðə ˈdaɪəˌgræm əˈbəv, ɪt ɪz wɪʧ kips ənd kɛrz əˈbaʊt ɔl ðə ˈmɛʃɪz, ˈtɛksʧərz, ənd ˌænəˈmeɪʃənz; ɛz ə bɪg fæt rul əv θəm, ˈnoʊˌbɑˌdi ɛls ɪn ðə ˈsɪstəm (ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk) ʃʊd noʊ əˈbaʊt ðɛm. æt ðə hɑrt əv ðə ðɛr ɪz ə mɔr ər lɛs trəˈdɪʃənəl geɪm lup. geɪm lup moʊst əv geɪmz ər beɪst ɔn ə ˈsoʊˈkɔld geɪm lup. ˈklæsɪkəl geɪm lup lʊks mɔr ər lɛs ɛz ˈfɑloʊz (si, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, [gameprogrammingpatterns.gameloop*]): while(true*) process_input*(); ˈəpˌdeɪt(); ˈrɛndər(); ˈjuʒəwəli, geɪm lup weɪt fər ˈɪnˌpʊt, bət ˈrəðər poʊlz ˈɪnˌpʊt ənd goʊz əˈhɛd rəˈgɑrdləs əv ðə ˈɪnˌpʊt biɪŋ ˈprɛzənt. ðɪs ɪz ˈprɪti kloʊz tɪ wət ɪz ˈɔfən dən ɪn ˈrilˌtaɪm kənˈtroʊl ˈsɪstəmz. fər ɑr ˈdaɪəˌgræm ɔn fɪg əˈbəv, wɪˈθɪn ɑr θrɛd wi kən ˈizəli hæv ˈsəmθɪŋ ˈvɛri ˈsɪmələr tɪ ə trəˈdɪʃənəl geɪm lup (wɪθ ə səbˈstænʃəl pɑrt əv ɪt goʊɪŋ wɪˈθɪn ɑr). ɑr θrɛd kən bi bɪlt ɛz ˈfɑloʊz: θrɛd (ˈaʊtˈsaɪd əv) ʧɛks ɪf ðɛr ɪz ˈɛniˌθɪŋ ɪn ɪts kju; ənˈlaɪk ˈəðər θrɛdz, ɪt meɪ pərˈsid ˈivɪn ɪf ðɛr ɪz ˈnəθɪŋ ɪn ðə kju ɪt ˈpæsɪz (ər səm kaɪnd əv nəl ɪf ðɛr wɑz ˈnəθɪŋ) tɪ, əˈlɔŋˈsaɪd wɪθ ˈɛni ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən wɪˈθɪn ðə process_event*(), wi kən stɪl hæv process_input*(), ˈəpˌdeɪt() ənd ˈrɛndər(), ˌhaʊˈɛvər: ðɛr ɪz noʊ lup wɪˈθɪn; ˌɪnˈstɛd, ɛz dɪˈskəst əˈbəv, ðə geɪm lup ɪz ə pɑrt əv ˈlɑrʤər θrɛd ðə dɪˈsɪʒənˌmeɪkɪŋ ɪz muvd æt list tɪ ðə geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk, wɪθ moʊst əv ðə dɪˈsɪʒənz ˈæˌkʧuəli biɪŋ meɪd baɪ ɑr əˈθɔrəˌteɪtɪv serverprocess_input*(), ˌɪnˈstɛd əv ˈprɑsɛsɪŋ ˈjuzər ˈɪnˌpʊt, ˈprɑsɛsəz ˌɪnˈstrəkʃənz ˈkəmɪŋ frəm geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ˈəpˌdeɪt() ˈəpˌdeɪts ˈoʊnli sin tɪ bi ˈrɛndərd, ənd nɑt ðə geɪm ˌrɛprəzɛnˈteɪʃən əv ðə geɪm wərld; ɔl ðə dɪˈsɪʒənˌmeɪkɪŋ ɪz muvd æt list tɪ ðə geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk, wɪθ moʊst əv ðə dɪˈsɪʒənz ˈæˌkʧuəli biɪŋ meɪd baɪ ɑr əˈθɔrəˌteɪtɪv ˈsərvər ˈrɛndər() wərks ɪgˈzæktli ɛz ɪt wərkt fər ə geɪm ˈæftər ˈprɑsɛsəz ˈɪnˌpʊt (ər læk ˌðɛˈrəv) ənd rɪˈtərnz, θrɛd meɪ kənˈklud geɪm lup ɛz ɪt siz fɪt (ɪn ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr, ɪt kən bi dən ɪn ˈɛni ˈklæsɪkəl geɪm lup ˈmænər ˈmɛnʃənd bɪˈloʊ) ðɛn, θrɛd goʊz bæk tɪ ðə ˈvɛri bɪˈgɪnɪŋ (bæk tɪ ˈʧɛkɪŋ ɪf ðɛr ɪz ˈɛniˌθɪŋ ɪn ɪts kju), wɪʧ kəmˈplits ðə ˈɪnfənət geɪm lup. ɔl ðə ˈjuʒəwəl ˌvɛriˈeɪʃənz əv geɪm lup kən bi juzd wɪˈθɪn ðə θrɛd ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ səʧ θɪŋz ɛz wɪθ dɪˈleɪ æt ðə ɛnd ɪf ðɛr ɪz taɪm lɛft ənˈtɪl ðə nɛkst freɪm, taɪt lup (ɪn ðɪs keɪs ə pərˈæmətər səʧ ɛz nidz tɪ bi fɛd tɪ ðə tɪ kip ɪt dɪˌtərməˈnɪstɪk), ənd taɪt lup. ˈɛni ˈfərðər ˌɪmˈpruvmənts (səʧ ɛz ˈjuzɪŋ vsync*) kən bi ˈædɪd ɔn tɔp. aɪ wɔnt tɪ ɪˈlæbərˌeɪt ˈfərðər hir, ənd rɪˈfər fər ˈfərðər dɪˈskəʃən əv geɪm lups ənd taɪm stɛps tɪ tu ˈɛksələnt ˈsɔrsəz: [gafferongames.fixyourtimestep*] ənd [gameprogrammingpatterns.gameloop*]. wən ˌvɛriˈeɪʃən əv ðə geɪm lup ðət ɪz nɑt dɪˈskəst ðɛr, ɪz ə ˈsɪmpəl θɪŋ wɪʧ ju wʊd juz fər jʊr ˈjuʒəwəl ˈwɪndoʊz ˈproʊˌgræmɪŋ (ənd wɪˈθaʊt ˈɛni taɪt lups); ɪn ðɪs keɪs ˌænəˈmeɪʃən ˈəndər ˈwɪndoʊz kən bi dən ˈviə ənd drɔɪŋ ˈviə ˈsəmθɪŋ laɪk bitblt*(). waɪl ˈjuʒəwəli ˈwoʊfəli ˌɪˈnædəkˌweɪt fər ˈɛni ˈsɪriəs geɪmz, ɪt həz bɪn sin tɪ wərk ˈvɛri wɛl fər ˈsoʊʃəl- ənd wənz. bɛst θɪŋ əˈbaʊt ɑr ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər ɪz ðət ðə ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər ɛz səʧ ˈdəzənt ˈrɪli dɪˈpɛnd ɔn taɪm stɛp ˈʧɔɪsɪz; ju kən ˈivɪn meɪk ˈdɪfərənt taɪm stɛp ˈʧɔɪsɪz fər ˈdɪfərənt ˈplætˌfɔrmz ənd stɪl kip ðə rɛst əv jʊr koʊd intacthowever*, ðə bɛst θɪŋ əˈbaʊt ɑr ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər ɪz ðət ðə ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər ɛz səʧ ˈrɪli dɪˈpɛnd ɔn taɪm stɛp ˈʧɔɪsɪz; ju kən ˈivɪn meɪk ˈdɪfərənt taɪm stɛp ˈʧɔɪsɪz fər ˈdɪfərənt ˈplætˌfɔrmz ənd stɪl kip ðə rɛst əv jʊr koʊd (bɪɔnd θrɛd) ˌɪnˈtækt, ðoʊ meɪ nid tɪ bi ˈsəmˈwət ˈdɪfərənt dɪˈpɛndɪŋ ɔn ðə ˈvərsəz: ˈrənɪŋ frəm geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk θrɛd fər səm geɪmz ˈplætˌfɔrmz ɪt maɪt bi ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃəl tɪ rən wɪˈθɪn ðə seɪm θrɛd ɛz geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk. ɪn ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr, ɪf jʊr geɪm ɪz ə ˈsoʊʃəl geɪm ˈrənɪŋ ɔn ˈwɪndoʊz, ðɛr meɪ bi noʊ ril nid tɪ juz tu ˈsɛpərˌeɪt kɔrz fər geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ənd, ənd ðə hoʊl θɪŋ wɪl bi kwaɪt ˈoʊˈkeɪ ˈrənɪŋ wɪˈθɪn wən ˈsɪŋgəl θrɛd. ɪn ðɪs keɪs, hæv wən θrɛd, wən kju, bət tu, wɪθ θrɛd koʊd ˈaʊtˈsaɪd əv ðə ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪŋ wɪʧ əv ðə ˈɪnˌkəmɪŋ ˈmɛsɪʤ bɪˈlɔŋz tɪ. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ˈivɪn ɪn ðɪs keɪs aɪ stɪl ərʤ ju tɪ kip ɪt ɛz tu ˈsɛpərˌeɪt wɪθ ə ˈvɛri klin ˈɪnərˌfeɪs bɪtˈwin ðɛm. fərst, ˈnoʊˌbɑˌdi noʊz wɪʧ ˈplætˌfɔrm ju wɪl nid tɪ pɔrt jʊr geɪm nɛkst jɪr, ənd ˈsɛkənd, klin ˈɪnərˌfeɪsɪz æt ðə raɪt ˈpleɪsɪz tɛnd tɪ seɪv lɑts əv ˈtrəbəl ɪn ðə lɔŋ rən. kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz əˈnəðər, wɪʧ ɪz fər jʊr, ɪz kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz. ðə aɪˈdiə hir ɪz tɪ kip ɔl ðə ˈlɑʤɪk ɪn wən pleɪs. ðɪs meɪ ˌɪnˈklud ˈvɛri ˈdɪfərənt θɪŋz, frəm pleɪn ˈsɑkət ˈhændəlɪŋ tɪ səʧ θɪŋz ɛz kəˈnɛkʃən kˈwɑləti ˈmɑnətərɪŋ, ɛnˈkrɪpʃən ˈlɑʤɪk ɪf ˈæpləkəbəl, ˌɛtˈsɛtərə. ˌɛtˈsɛtərə. ˈɔlsoʊ əv ˈkɑnsɛpts səʧ ɛz ʤəˈnɛrɪk publisher/subscriber*, ʤəˈnɛrɪk steɪt ˌsɪŋkrənəˈzeɪʃən, ˌɛtˈsɛtərə. (si ˈʧæptər [[ˌtuˈdu]] fər ˈfərðər ˈditeɪlz) ˈɔlsoʊ bɪˈlɔŋ hir. moʊst əv (ɪf nɑt 'ɔl') ðə ˈplætˌfɔrmz, ðə koʊd əv kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz kən bi kɛpt ðə moʊst əv (ɪf nɑt ““all”*”) ðə ˈplætˌfɔrmz, ðə koʊd əv kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz kən bi kɛpt ðə seɪm, wɪθ ðə ˈoʊnli θɪŋz biɪŋ kɔld frəm wɪˈθɪn ðə, biɪŋ jʊr oʊn ˈræpərz əraʊnd ˈsɑkəts (fər c/c*++ ˈbərkli ˈsɑkəts). jʊr oʊn ˈræpərz ər ʤɪst ɪn keɪs ɪf səm ˈəðər ˈplætˌfɔrm wɪl hæv səm pɪˈkjuljər aɪˈdiəz əˈbaʊt ˈsɑkəts, ər tɪ meɪk jʊr ˈsɪstəm juz ˈsəmθɪŋ laɪk ɪn ə ˈstreɪtˈfɔrwərd ˈmænər. ðeɪ ər ˈɔlsoʊ ˈnɛsəˌsɛri tɪ ˈɪmpləmənt interception”*” ɔn jʊr (si ˈlɑʤɪk: koʊd ˈviə ˌɪnərˈsɛptɪŋ calls”*” ˈsɛkʃən əˈbəv), əˈlaʊɪŋ ju tɪ test”*” ənd poʊstˈmɔrtɛm əv jʊr kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz. ðə ˈdaɪəˌgræm əv fɪg. ʃoʊz ən ˌɪmpləmɛnˈteɪʃən əv ðə kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz ðət ˈjuzɪz ˈsɑkət kɔlz. fər ɪt ɪz ˈpərfəktli ˈfizəbəl tɪ kip ðə koʊd əv kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz ɪgˈzæktli ðə seɪm, bət tɪ dɪˈplɔɪ ɪt ɪn ə ˈdɪfərənt ˈmænər, ˈsɪmjəˌleɪtɪŋ ˈsɑkəts ˈviə tu əˈdɪʃənəl θrɛdz (wən tɪ ˈhændəl ˈrɛdɪŋ ənd əˈnəðər tɪ ˈhændəl ˈraɪtɪŋ), wɪθ ðiz əˈdɪʃənəl θrɛdz kəmˈjunəˌkeɪtɪŋ wɪθ ðə meɪn kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz θrɛd ˈviə kjuz (ˈjuzɪŋ kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃən ɪgˈzɪstɪŋ kju, ənd wən nu kju pər nu wən mɔr θɪŋ tɪ kip ɪn maɪnd wɪθ rɪˈgɑrdz tɪ ˈbərkli ˈsɑkəts, ɪz ðət getaddrinfo*() ˈfəŋkʃən (ɛz wɛl ɛz ˈoʊldər gethostbyname*() ˈfəŋkʃən) juzd fər ˌrɛzəˈluʃən, ɪz ˌɪnˈhɛrəntli ˈblɑkɪŋ, wɪθ ˈmɛni ˈplætˌfɔrmz ˈhævɪŋ noʊ ˈkaʊntərˌpɑrt. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, fər ðə klaɪənt saɪd ɪn moʊst ˈkeɪsɪz ɪt ɪz ə ənˈlɛs ju ˌdɪˈsaɪd tɪ rən jʊr kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz wɪˈθɪn ðə seɪm θrɛd ɛz jʊr geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk. ɪn ðə ˈlætər keɪs, ˈkɔlɪŋ ə ˈfəŋkʃən wɪθ ə pəˈtɛnʃəl tɪ blɑk fər ˈmɪnəts, kən ˈizəli friz nɑt ˈoʊnli jʊr geɪm (wɪʧ ɪz mɔr ər lɛs ɪkˈspɛktɪd ɪn keɪs əv kənɛkˈtɪvɪti ˈprɑbləmz), bət ˈɔlsoʊ geɪm (wɪʧ ɪz nɑt əkˈsɛptəbəl rəˈgɑrdləs əv ˈnɛtˌwərk kənɛkˈtɪvɪti). tɪ əˈvɔɪd ðɪs ˈifɛkt, ju kən ˈɔlˌweɪz ˌɪntrəˈdus jɛt əˈnəðər θrɛd (wɪθ ɪts oʊn kju) wɪθ ðə ˈoʊnli θɪŋ fər ðɪs θrɛd tɪ du, biɪŋ tɪ kɔl getaddrinfo*() wɪn rɪkˈwɛstɪd, ənd tɪ sɛnd rɪˈzəlt bæk ɛz ə ˈmɛsɪʤ, wɪn ðə kɔl ɪz kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz: ˈrənɪŋ frəm geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk θrɛd fər kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz, ˈrənɪŋ ɪt frəm geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk θrɛd maɪt bi ˈpɑsəbəl. wən ˈrizən əˈgɛnst duɪŋ ɪt, wʊd bi ɪf jʊr kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz ər ɪnˈkrɪptɪd, ənd jʊr geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ɪz computationally-intensive*. ənd əˈgɛn, ɛz wɪθ, ˈivɪn ɪf ju rən tu frəm wən ˈsɪŋgəl θrɛd, ɪt ɪz məʧ ˈbɛtər tɪ kip ðɛm ˈsɛpərˌeɪt. wən əˈdɪʃənəl ˈrizən tɪ kip θɪŋz ˈsɛpərˌeɪt (wɪθ ðɪs ˈrizən biɪŋ spɪˈsɪfɪk tɪ kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz) ɪz ðət kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz (ər æt list lɑrʤ pɑrts əv ɪt) ɪz ˈlaɪkli tɪ bi juzd ɔn ðə tu. saʊnd saʊnd ˈhændəlz, wɛl, saʊnd. ɪn ə sɛns, ɪt ɪz ˈsəmˈwət ˈsɪmələr tɪ, bət fər saʊnd. ɪts ˈɪnərˌfeɪs (ənd ɛz ˈɔlˌweɪz wɪθ, ˈɪnərˌfeɪsɪz ər ˈɪmpləˌmɛnəd ˈoʊvər ˈmɛsɪʤɪz) nidz tɪ bi ˈɪmpləˌmɛnəd ɛz ə kaɪnd əv layer”*”. ðɪs layer”*” ʃʊd bi kənˈsɛpʧuəli ˈsɪmələr tɪ layer”*” wɪθ kəˈmændz goʊɪŋ frəm ðə geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ɪkˈsprɛst ɪn tərmz əv ðɪs saʊnd æt ˈvɑljum ˈkəmɪŋ frəm pəˈzɪʃən wɪˈθɪn ðə geɪm world”*”. saʊnd: ˈrənɪŋ frəm geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk θrɛd fər saʊnd ˈrənɪŋ ɪt frəm ðə seɪm θrɛd ɛz geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk meɪks sɛns kwaɪt ˈɔfən. ɔn ðə ˈəðər hænd, ɔn səm ˈplætˌfɔrmz saʊnd (waɪl biɪŋ ɪn ə sɛns ðət ðeɪ rɪˈtərn ˌbiˈfɔr ðə saʊnd ɛndz) meɪ kɔz səbˈstænʃəl dɪˈleɪz, ˈifɛktɪvli ˈblɑkɪŋ waɪl ðə saʊnd ˈfəŋkʃən faɪndz ənd ðə faɪl ˈhɛdər ˌɛtˈsɛtərə.; waɪl ðɪs ɪz stɪl ˈɑbviəsli ˈʃɔrtər ðən ˈweɪtɪŋ ənˈtɪl ðə saʊnd ɛndz, ɪt maɪt bi nɑt ʃɔrt ɪˈnəf dɪˈpɛndɪŋ ɔn jʊr geɪm. ˈðɛrˌfɔr, ˈkipɪŋ saʊnd ɪn ə ˈsɛpərˌeɪt θrɛd meɪ bi ˈjusfəl fər ˌfæstˈpeɪst geɪmz. əˈgɛn ˈivɪn ɪf ju ˌdɪˈsaɪd tɪ rən tu frəm ðə seɪm θrɛd du ˈjɔrsɛlf ə ˈfeɪvər ənd kip ðə wəns əˈgɛn ˈivɪn ɪf ju ˌdɪˈsaɪd tɪ rən tu frəm ðə seɪm θrɛd du ˈjɔrsɛlf ə ˈfeɪvər ənd kip ðə ˈsɛpərˌeɪt; səm mənθs daʊn ðə roʊd bi ˈvɛri ˈhæpi ðət ju kɛpt jʊr ˈɪnərˌfeɪsɪz klin ənd ˈdɪfərənt ˈmɑʤulz ˈnaɪsli ˈəðər waɪl nɑt ʃoʊn ɔn ðə ˈdaɪəˌgræm ɔn fɪg ðɛr kən bi ˈəðər wɪˈθɪn jʊr klaɪənt. fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ðiz meɪ rən ɪn ðɛr oʊn θrɛdz, bət ˈəðər ˌvɛriˈeɪʃənz ər ˈɔlsoʊ ˈpɑsəbəl. wən ˈpræktɪkəl ɪgˈzæmpəl əv səʧ ə (wɪʧ wɑz ˈɪmpləˌmɛnəd ɪn ˈpræktɪs) wɑz fsm”*” wɪʧ ˈhændəld ˈɔnˌlaɪn ˈdaʊnˌloʊd əv waɪl ˈmeɪkɪŋ ʃʊr ðət ðə ˈgeɪmˌpleɪ dɪˈleɪz wər wɪˈθɪn əkˈsɛptəbəl ˈmɑrʤənz (si mɔr ɔn klaɪənt ˈəpˌdeɪts ɪn ˈʤɛnərəl ənd ɪn ˈʧæptər [[ˌtuˈdu]]). ɪn ˈʤɛnərəl, ˈɛni kaɪnd əv ˈɛntɪti wɪʧ pərˈfɔrmz tæsks ɔn ðə, kən bi ˈɪmpləˌmɛnəd ɛz ən əˈdɪʃənəl. waɪl aɪ noʊ əv ˈpræktɪkəl ɪgˈzæmpəlz əv ˈɛkstrə ˈəðər ðən fsm”*” dɪˈskraɪbd əˈbəv, ɪt min ðət jʊr spɪˈsɪfɪk geɪm ˈɛni, soʊ kip jʊr aɪz ˈoʊpən. ɔn əˈdɪʃənəl θrɛdz ənd ɪf jʊr geɪm ɪz ˈvɛri cpu-intensive*, ənd ˈiðər jʊr geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk θrɛd, ər θrɛd bɪˈkəm ˈoʊvərˌloʊdɪd bɪɔnd ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlətiz əv wən ˈsɪŋgəl kɔr, ju maɪt nid tɪ ˌɪntrəˈdus ən əˈdɪʃənəl θrɛd ər faɪv ˈɪntu ðə ˈpɪkʧər. ðɪs ɪz əˈspɛʃəli ˈlaɪkli fər ɪf jʊr geɪm ˈjuzɪz ˈsɪriəs ˈgræfɪks. waɪl kəmˈplɛksɪtiz θˈrɛdɪŋ ˈmɑdəl əv ˈgræfɪks ˈɛnʤənz ər wɛl bɪɔnd ðə skoʊp əv ðɪs bʊk, aɪ wɪl traɪ tɪ prəˈvaɪd ə fju hɪnts fər ðoʊz ʤɪst ˈstɑrtɪŋ tɪ ˈvɛnʧər ðɛr. ɛz ˈjuʒəwəli wɪθ, ɪf nɑt ˈkɛrfəl, θɪŋz kən ˈizəli bɪˈkəm ˈəgli, soʊ ɪn ðɪs keɪs: fər ɪf aɪ ˈriˌkɔl kərˈɛktli ˈərbən ˈdɪkʃəˌnɛri ɛn ædˈvæntɪʤ ˈoʊvər wən 12 ðən tɪ traɪ ˈgɪtɪŋ mɔr ənd mɔr kɔrz ˈwərkɪŋ ɔn ənˈnɛsəˌsɛri stəf. ædˈvæntɪʤ ˈoʊvər wən ðən tɪ traɪ ˈgɪtɪŋ mɔr ənd mɔr kɔrz ˈwərkɪŋ ɔn ənˈnɛsəˌsɛri stəf. frəm ðɪs pɔɪnt ɔn, tɪ ðə bɛst əv maɪ ˈnɑlɪʤ ju hæv əˈbaʊt ˈɔpʃənz: ˈɔpʃən ə. ðə fərst ˈɔpʃən ɪz tɪ splɪt ðə hoʊl θɪŋ ˈɪntu ˈsɛvərəl ˈrənɪŋ wɪˈθɪn ˈsɛvərəl θrɛdz, ˈdɛdɪˌkeɪtɪŋ wən θrɛd pər wən spɪˈsɪfɪk tæsk. ɪn ˈrɛndərɪŋ wərld, ðɪs ɪz noʊn ɛz ““system-on-a-thread”*”, ənd wɑz juzd baɪ ˈheɪloʊ ˈɪnʤən (ɪn ˈheɪloʊ, ðeɪ ˈkɑpi ðə hoʊl geɪm steɪt bɪtˈwin threads[gdc.destiny*], wɪʧ ɪz ɪkˈwɪvələnt tɪ ˈhævɪŋ ə kju, soʊ ðɪs ɪz ə ˈvɛri dɪˈrɛkt əˈnæləʤi əv ɑr). ˈɔpʃən bi. ðə ˈsɛkənd ˈɔpʃən ɪz tɪ ““off-load”*” səm əv ðə ˈprɑsɛsɪŋ tɪ ə ˈdɪfərənt θrɛd, wɪθ ðɪs nu θrɛd biɪŋ ʤɪst ɛz ɔl ðə ˈəðər θrɛdz ɔn fɪg ɪn ˈəðər wərdz, ɪt ʃʊd hæv ən ˈɪnˌpʊt kju ənd ə wɪˈθɪn. ðɪs ɪz noʊn ɛz multithreading”*” [gdc.taskbasedmt*]. ɪn ðɪs keɪs, ˈæftər duɪŋ ɪts (ˈvɛri ˈaɪsəˌleɪtɪd) pɑrt əv ðə ʤɑb a.k.a*. ““task”*”, ðə θrɛd meɪ rɪˈpɔrt bæk tɪ ðə whichever-thread-has-requested-its-services*. ðɪs ˈɔpʃən ɪz ˈrɪli gʊd fər ˈsɛvərəl ˈrizənz, frəm ˈkipɪŋ ɔl ðə ˈgʊdiz (səʧ ɛz testing”*” ənd poʊstˈmɔrtɛm) fər ɔl pɑrts əv jʊr klaɪənt, tɪ ɪnˈkərəʤɪŋ ˈmɑdəl wɪθ ˈvɛri fju ˈkɑntɛkst sˈwɪʧɪz (noʊn ɛz parallelism”*”), ənd ˈkɑntɛkst sˈwɪʧɪz ər dæm ɪkˈspɛnsɪv ɔn ɔl cpus*. 13 ðə weɪ haʊ off-loading”*” ɪz dən, dɪˈpɛndz ɔn ðə ˌɪmpləmɛnˈteɪʃən. ɪn səm, wi meɪ juz ˈpaɪˌplaɪnz (ˈsɪmələr tɪ ðoʊz dɪˈskraɪbd ɪn [gdc.destiny*]) tɪ ɪˈneɪbəl daɪˈnæmɪk tæsk ˈbælənsɪŋ, wɪʧ əˈlaʊz tɪ ˈɑptɪˌmaɪz kɔr ˌjutələˈzeɪʃən ɔn ˈdɪfərənt ˈplætˌfɔrmz. noʊt ðət ɪn pjʊr b”*”, wi stɪl hæv ˈmɑdəl, soʊ iʧ əv ðə həz oʊn ɪkˈsklusɪv steɪt. ɔn ðə ˈəðər hænd, fər ˈsɪriəs ˈrɛndərɪŋ ˈɛnʤənz, du tɪ ðə ʃɪr saɪz əv ðə geɪm steɪt, pjʊr ““shared-nothing”*” əˈproʊʧ maɪt bi nɑt tu ˈfizəbəl. ˈɔpʃən ðə pɔɪnt wɛr ““task-off-loading-with-an-immutable-shared-state”*” ˈimərʤɪz. ɪt ˌɪmˈpruvz 14 ˈoʊvər ə ˈbeɪsɪk ˈɔpʃən bi baɪ əˈlaʊɪŋ fər ə juz əv ə ʃɛrd steɪt ˈneɪmli, ˈʃɛrɪŋ ɪz əˈlaʊd ˈoʊnli wɪn ðə ʃɛrd steɪt ɪz ˌgɛrənˈtid tɪ bi ˌɪmˈjutəbəl. ɪt minz ðət, ɪn ə ˈlɪmɪtɪd dɪˈpɑrʧər frəm ɑr ˈmɑdəl, ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ kjuz ɪn ɑr, wi meɪ hæv ə ʃɛrd steɪt. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, tɪ əˈvɔɪd ðoʊz ˈnæsti ˈprɑbləmz, wi məst ˌgɛrənˈti ðət waɪl ðɛr ɪz mɔr ðən wən θrɛd wɪʧ kən bi ˈækˌsɛsɪŋ ðə ʃɛrd steɪt, ðə ʃɛrd steɪt ɪz (ðoʊ ɪt meɪ ʧeɪnʤ ˈaʊtˈsaɪd əv ““shared”*” ˈwɪndoʊz). æt ðə ˈmoʊmənt, ɪt ɪz ənˈklɪr tɪ mi ˈwɛðər ˈdɛstəni ˈɪnʤən (ɛz dɪˈskraɪbd ɪn [gdc.destiny*]) ˈjuzɪz ˈɔpʃən (wɪθ ən ˌɪmˈjutəbəl geɪm steɪt ʃɛrd bɪtˈwin θrɛdz ˈdʊrɪŋ ““visibility”*” ənd ““extract”*” ˈfeɪzɪz) waɪl ɪt lʊks ˈlaɪkli, ɪt ɪz nɑt 100 klɪr. ɪn ˈɛni keɪs, boʊθ ˈɔpʃən bi ənd ˈɔpʃən kən bi dɪˈskraɪbd mɔr ər lɛs ɪn tərmz əv (ənd moʊst ˌɪmˈpɔrtəntli boʊθ ɪˈlɪməˌneɪt ɔl ðə ənd ˌɪnɪˈfɪʃənt ˈtɪŋkərɪŋ wɪθ ˌɛtˈsɛtərə. wɪˈθɪn jʊr ˈlɑʤɪk). frəm ðə pɔɪnt əv vju əv dɪˈtərməˌnɪzəm, ˈɔpʃən ɪz ɪkˈwɪvələnt tɪ ˈɔpʃən bi, prəˈvaɪdɪd ðət wi kənˈsɪdər ðət ɛz wən əv ɑr ˈɪnˌpʊts (ɛz ɪt ɪz ˌɪmˈjutəbəl, ɪt ɪz ˌɪndɪˈstɪŋgwɪʃəbəl frəm ən ˈɪnˌpʊt, ðoʊ dɪˈlɪvərd ɪn ə ˈsəmˈwət ˈdɪfərənt weɪ); waɪl səʧ ə geɪm ˈʃɛrɪŋ wʊd ˈifɛktɪvli prɪˈklud frəm əˈplaɪɪŋ ɪn pərˈdəkʃən (ɛz rɪˈkɔrdɪŋ ðə hoʊl geɪm steɪt ɔn iʧ freɪm wʊd bi tu ɪkˈspɛnsɪv), dɪˈtərməˌnɪzəm kən stɪl bi juzd fər rəˈgrɛʃən ˈtɛstɪŋ ˌɛtˈsɛtərə. ˈɔpʃən si. tɪ θroʊ əˈweɪ debug”*” ənd poʊstˈmɔrtɛm ˈbɛnəfɪts fər ðɪs spɪˈsɪfɪk, ənd tɪ ˈɪmpləmənt ɪt ˈjuzɪŋ (i.e*. ˈjuzɪŋ trəˈdɪʃənəl ˌsɪŋkrənəˈzeɪʃən stəf səʧ ɛz, semaphores*, ər fərˈbɪd ˈmɛməri ˈfɛnsɪz ˌɛtˈsɛtərə. ˌɛtˈsɛtərə.). ɪf ju nid ˈɔpʃən si fər jʊr geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk θɪŋk twaɪs, ənd ðɛn twaɪs mɔr. ˈoʊnli ðiz ˈkeɪsɪz), wɪn ju nid tɪ ʧuz ˈɔpʃən si. ənd ˈivɪn ɪn ðiz ˈkeɪsɪz, ju maɪt bi ˈeɪbəl tɪ steɪ əˈweɪ frəm ˈhændəlɪŋ θrɛd ˌsɪŋkrənəˈzeɪʃən, si ˈʧæptər [[ˌtuˈdu]] fər səm hɪnts ɪn ðɪs dɪˈrɛkʃɪn. ˈɔlsoʊ, ɪf ju nid ˈɔpʃən si fər jʊr geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk θɪŋk twaɪs, ənd ðɛn twaɪs mɔr. ɛz geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ɪz ðə wən wɪʧ ˈʧeɪnʤɪz ə dæm lɔt, wɪθ ˈɔpʃən si ðɪs həz ɔl ðə ˈʧænsɪz əv bɪˈkəmɪŋ ənˈmænɪʤəbəl (si, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ɪt ɪz ðət bæd, ðət ɪf ju rən ˈɪntu ðɪs ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃən, aɪ wʊd ˈsɪriəsli θɪŋk ˈwɛðər ðə geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk rɪkˈwaɪrmənts ər ˈfizəbəl tɪ ˈɪmpləmənt (ənd meɪnˈteɪn) æt ɔl. ɔn ðə ˈpɑzətɪv saɪd, ɪt ʃʊd bi ˈnoʊtɪd ðət ˈivɪn ɪn səʧ ən ənˈfɔrʧənət keɪs ju ʃʊd bi ˈluzɪŋ ˈbɛnəfɪts (səʧ ɛz testing”*” ənd poʊstˈmɔrtɛm) ˈoʊnli fər ðə wɪʧ riˈraɪtɪŋ ˈɪntu ˈɔpʃən si; ɔl ðə ˈəðər wɪl stɪl rɪˈmeɪn dɪˌtərməˈnɪstɪk (ənd ˈðɛrˌfɔr, ˈizəli testable*). ɪn ˈɛni keɪs, jʊr ʃʊd lʊk ɛz ə ˈnɔrməl frəm ðə ˈaʊtˈsaɪd. ɪn ˈəðər wərdz, ˌɪmpləmɛnˈteɪʃən ʃʊd bi ʤɪst ðɪs ˌɪmpləmɛnˈteɪʃən ˈditeɪl əv ðɪs ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr, ənd ʃʊd nɑt əˈfɛkt ðə rɛst əv jʊr koʊd. ðɪs ɪz ˈjusfəl fər tu ˈrizənz. fərst, ɪt θɪŋz ənd kriˈeɪts ə klin ˈɪnərˌfeɪs, ənd ˈsɛkənd, ɪt əˈlaʊz ju tɪ ʧeɪnʤ ˌɪmpləmɛnˈteɪʃən (ər æd əˈnəðər wən, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, fər ə ˈdɪfərənt ˈplætˌfɔrm) wɪˈθaʊt riˈraɪtɪŋ ðə hoʊl θɪŋ. ɔn wən kˈwɛʃən wɪʧ meɪ əraɪz fər ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧərz ənd ˌfæstˈpeɪst geɪmz, ɪz əˈbaʊt ˌɪntrəˈdust baɪ ðoʊz əˈdɪʃənəl kjuz (wi du wɔnt tɪ ʃoʊ ðə ˈdætə tɪ ðə ˈjuzər ɛz fæst ɛz ˈpɑsəbəl). maɪ ɪkˈspɪriəns ʃoʊz ðɛn ˈspikɪŋ əˈbaʊt əˈdɪʃənəl əv ðə ˈɔrdər əv microseconds*. ˈprɑbəˌbli ɪt kən bi loʊərd ˈfərðər ˈɪntu reɪnʤ baɪ ˈjuzɪŋ lɛs ˈtrɪviəl kjuz, bət ðɪs nɑt 100 ʃʊr əv bɪˈkəz əv ˈrɛlətɪvli ɪkˈspɛnsɪv ˌæləˈkeɪʃənz ˈjuʒəwəli ˌɪnˈvɑlvd ɪn marshalling/unmarshalling*; fər ˈfərðər ˈditeɪlz ɔn ˈɪmpləˌmɛnɪŋ kjuz ɪn si++, pliz rɪˈfər tɪ ˈʧæptər [[ˌtuˈdu]]. ɛz ðɪs dɪˈleɪ ɪz æt list 3 ˈɔrdərz əv ˈmægnəˌtud sˈmɔlər ðən dɪˈleɪ əv sɛk ər soʊ, aɪ æm ˈɑrgjuɪŋ ðət ˈnoʊˌbɑˌdi wɪl ˈɛvər ˈnoʊtɪs ðə ˈdɪfərəns, ˈivɪn fər ər geɪmz; fər wɛr ðə ˌæbsəˈlutli bɛst wi kən hoʊp fər ɪz meɪks ɪt ˈivɪn lɛs ˈrɛləvənt. ɪn ʃɔrt aɪ θɪŋk ðɪs əˈdɪʃənəl dɪˈleɪ kən ˈpɑsəbli hæv ˈɛni ˈifɛkt wɪʧ ɪz ˈvɪzəbəl tɪ end-user*. ˌvɛriˈeɪʃənz ðə ˈdaɪəˌgræm ɔn fɪg ʃoʊz iʧ əv ðə ˈrənɪŋ wɪˈθɪn oʊn θrɛd. ɔn ðə ˈəðər hænd, ɛz ˈnoʊtɪd əˈbəv, iʧ əv ðə kən bi rən ɪn ðə seɪm θrɛd ɛz geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk. ɪn ðə ɪkˈstrim keɪs ɪt rɪˈzəlts ɪn ðə ˈsɪstəm wɛr ɔl ðə ər ˈrənɪŋ wɪˈθɪn ˈsɪŋgəl θrɛd wɪθ ə ˌkɔrəˈspɑndɪŋ ˈdaɪəˌgræm ʃoʊn ɔn fɪg iʧ ənd ˈɛvəri əv ɔn fɪg ɪz ɪgˈzæktli ðə seɪm ɛz ən ɔn fɪg mɔˈroʊvər, ˈlɑʤɪkli, ðiz tu ˈdaɪəˌgræmz ər ɪgˈzæktli ɪkˈwɪvələnt (ənd ““recording”*” frəm wən kən bi ““replayed”*” ɔn əˈnəðər wən). ðə ˈoʊnli ˈdɪfərəns ɔn fɪg ɪz ðət ˈjuzɪŋ ðə seɪm θrɛd (ənd ðə seɪm kju) tɪ rən ɔl ɑr. hir ɪz ʤɪst ə ˈvɛri dəm, wɪʧ lʊks æt ðə fild (sɛt baɪ whoever-sent-the-message*) ənd rʊts ðə ˈmɛsɪʤ əˈkɔrdɪŋli. ðɪs kaɪnd əv θˈrɛdɪŋ kʊd bi kwaɪt ˈpræktɪkəl, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, fər ə kəˈsinoʊ ər ə ˈsoʊʃəl geɪm. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, nɑt ɔl ðə ˈplætˌfɔrmz əˈlaʊ tɪ weɪt fər ðə səˈlɛkt() ɪn ðə meɪn ˈgræfɪks lup, soʊ ju meɪ nid tɪ rɪˈzɔrt tɪ ðə wən ɔn fɪg hir ˈsɑkəts θrɛd ɪz ˈvɛri ˈsɪmpəl ənd kənˈteɪn ˈɛni səbˈstænʃəl ˈlɑʤɪk; ɔl ɪt dɪz ɪz ʤɪst ˈpʊʃɪŋ tɪ ðə ˈsɑkət, ənd ˈpʊʃɪŋ tɪ ðə kju əv ðə meɪn θrɛd; ɔl ðə ˈækʧəwəl ˈprɑsɛsɪŋ wɪl bi pərˈfɔrmd ðɛr, wɪˈθɪn kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz. əˈnəðər ɔlˈtərnətɪv ɪz ʃoʊn ɔn fɪg boʊθ fɪg ənd fɪg wɪl wərk fər ə ˈsoʊʃəl ər geɪm ɔn ɔn ðə ˈəðər ɛnd əv ðə ˈspɛktrəm, laɪ səʧ ɛz ðə wən ʃoʊn ɔn fɪg hir,, ənd kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz rən ɪn ðɛr oʊn ˈprɑsɛsəz. ðɪs əˈproʊʧ maɪt bi ˈjusfəl ˈdʊrɪŋ ˈtɛstɪŋ (ɪn ˈʤɛnərəl, ju meɪ ˈivɪn rən ɔn ˈdɪfərənt kəmˈpjutərz ɪf ju prɪˈfər ðɪs kaɪnd əv ˌɪnərˈæktɪv diˈbəgɪŋ). ˌhaʊˈɛvər, fər pərˈdəkʃən ɪt ɪz ˈbɛtər tɪ əˈvɔɪd səʧ kənˌfɪgjərˈeɪʃənz, ɛz ˈɪnərˌfeɪsɪz meɪ hɛlp ˈraɪtərz. ˈoʊvərˌɔl, ən ɪgˈzækt θrɛd (ənd ˈivɪn ˈprɔˌsɛs) kənˌfɪgjərˈeɪʃən ju wɪl dɪˈplɔɪ ɪz nɑt ðət ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt ənd meɪ ˈizəli bi (ər ˈivɪn, ɛz ɪn ðə taɪm biɪŋ, ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd tɪ ˈsɛpərˌeɪt ðɪs tɪ ə ˈsɛpərˌeɪt ˈprɔˌsɛs tɪ diˈbəg ɪt ɔn rɪˈspɛktɪv machines”*”). wət ˈrɪli ˈmætərz ɪz ðət ɛz lɔŋ ɛz ˈkipɪŋ jʊr dɪˈvɛləpmənt ˈmɑdəl, ju kən dɪˈplɔɪ ɪt ɪn ˈɛni weɪ ju laɪk wɪˈθaʊt ˈɛni ˈʧeɪnʤɪz tɪ jʊr. ɪn ˈpræktɪs, ðɪs ˈprɑpərti həz bɪn əbˈzərvd tɪ prəˈvaɪd kwaɪt ə bɪt əv hɛlp ɪn ðə lɔŋ rən. waɪl ðɪs ˈifɛkt həz sɪgˈnɪfɪkəntli mɔr ˈbɛnəfɪts ɔn ðə (ənd wɪl bi dɪˈskəst ɪn ˈʧæptər [[ˌtuˈdu]]), ɪt həz bɪn sin tɪ eɪd dɪˈvɛləpmənt tu; fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ˈdɪfərənt kənˌfɪgjərˈeɪʃənz fər ˈdɪfərənt ˈplætˌfɔrmz du prəˈvaɪd kwaɪt ə bɪt əv hɛlp. ɪn əˈdɪʃən, kənˌfɪgjərˈeɪʃənz hæv bɪn əbˈzərvd tɪ hɛlp ə bɪt ˈdʊrɪŋ ˈtɛstɪŋ. ɔn koʊd ˈbeɪsɪz fər ˈdɪfərənt ˈplætˌfɔrmz ɛz ɪt wɑz ˈnoʊtɪd əˈbəv, ju məst kip jʊr geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk ðə seɪm fər ɔl ðə ˈplætˌfɔrmz (i.e*. ɛz ə ˈsɪŋgəl koʊd beɪs). ˈəðərˌwaɪz, ˈgɪvɪn ðə ˈfrikˌwɛnt ˈʧeɪnʤɪz tɪ geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk, əv jʊr koʊd ˈbeɪsɪz wɪl moʊst ˈlaɪkli stɑrt tɪ fɔl bɪˈhaɪnd, tɪ ðə pɔɪnt əv biɪŋ kəmˈplitli ˈjusləs. bət wət əˈbaʊt ˈəðər? du ju nid tɪ kip ðɛm ɛz ə ˈsɪŋgəl koʊd beɪs? ðə ˈænsər hir ɪz kwaɪt ˈɑbviəs: waɪl ðə ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər ʃoʊn əˈbəv əˈlaʊz ju tɪ meɪk, ɪt meɪks ˈpərˌfɪkt sɛns tɪ kip ðɛm ðə seɪm ɛz lɔŋ ɛz ˈpɑsəbəl jʊr geɪm ɪz graphics-intensive*, ðɛr kən bi ˈrɪli gʊd ˈrizənz tɪ hæv jʊr ˈdɪfərənt fər ˈdɪfərənt ɪgˈzæmpəl, ɪf jʊr geɪm ɪz graphics-intensive*, ðɛr kən bi ˈrɪli gʊd ˈrizənz tɪ hæv jʊr ˈdɪfərənt fər ˈdɪfərənt ˈplætˌfɔrmz; fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ju meɪ wɔnt tɪ juz ɔn səm ˈplætˌfɔrmz, ənd ɔn səm ˈəðər ˈplætˌfɔrmz (ˈgrænɪd, ɪt wɪl bi kwaɪt ə ʧəŋk əv wərk tɪ ˈɪmpləmənt boʊθ əv ðɛm, bət æt list ɪt ɪz ˈpɑsəbəl wɪθ ðə ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər əˈbəv, ənd ɪt bɪˈkəmz ə pəˈtɛnʃəli ˈvaɪəbəl ˈbɪznɪs ʧɔɪs, əˈspɛʃəli ɛz ˈvərʒən ənd ˈvərʒən kən bi dɪˈvɛləpt ɪn ˈpɛrəˌlɛl). ɔn ðə ˈəðər hænd, ˈʧænsɪz ðət ju wɪl nid ðə kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz, ər məʧ ˈivɪn ɪf ˈraɪtɪŋ ɪn c/c*++, ˈjuzəbəl əv ˈbərkli ˈsɑkəts ɪgˈzɪst ɔn moʊst (ɪf nɑt ɔn ɔl) ˈplætˌfɔrmz əv ˈɪntəˌrɛst. mɔˈroʊvər, ðə bɪˈheɪvjər əv ˈsɑkəts ɔn ˈdɪfərənt ˈplætˌfɔrmz ɪz kwaɪt kloʊz frəm geɪm pɔɪnt əv vju (æt list wɪθ rɪˈgɑrdz tɪ ðoʊz θɪŋz wɪʧ wi ər ˈeɪbəl tɪ əˈfɛkt). soʊ, waɪl ɔl səʧ ˈʧɔɪsɪz ər ˈɑbviəsli spɪˈsɪfɪk tɪ jʊr spɪˈsɪfɪk geɪm, stəˈtɪstɪkəli ju ʃʊd hæv məʧ mɔr ðən kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər ˈsəməri ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər ʃoʊn ɔn fɪg (ɛz wɛl ɛz ɪts ˌvɛriˈeɪʃənz ɔn fɪg ɪz kwaɪt ən ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ bist. ɪn ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr, waɪl ɪt dɪz ɪnˈʃʊr ə klin ˌsɛpərˈeɪʃən bɪtˈwin pɑrts ɪn ɑr keɪs), ɪt tɛndz tɪ goʊ əˈgɛnst ˈkɑmənli juzd ˈpætərnz əv kəmˈpoʊnənts ər ˈivɪn ˈjuʒəwəl ˈlaɪbrɛˌriz. ðə ki ˈdɪfərəns hir ɪz ðət kəmˈpoʊnənts ər ɛˈsɛnʃəli beɪst ɔn ˈblɑkɪŋ, soʊ ˈæftər ju kɔld ə blɑkt ənˈtɪl ju gɪt ə rɪˈplaɪ. wɪθ ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər frəm fɪg ˈivɪn ɪf rɪkˈwɛstɪŋ ˈsəmθɪŋ frəm əˈnəðər, ju stɪl kən (ənd ˈjuʒəwəli ʃʊd) ˈprɔˌsɛs ɪˈvɛnts ˈkəmɪŋ waɪl ˈweɪtɪŋ fər ðə rɪˈplaɪ. si ɪn ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr [[ˌtuˈdu!! æd ˈsəbsɛkʃən ɔn tɪ]] ˈsɛkʃən əˈbəv. əv dɪˈvɛləpərz əˈgri ðət ˈproʊˌgræmɪŋ ɪz ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃəl ɪn ðə ˈmidiəm- tɪ maɪ ɪkˈspɪriəns, waɪl dɪˈvɛləpərz ˈjuʒəwəli si ðɪs kaɪnd əv ˈproʊˌgræmɪŋ ɛz ˈsəmˈwət mɔr ˈkəmbərsəm ðən ˈjuʒəwəl ˈproʊˌgræmɪŋ, moʊst əv ðɛm əˈgri ðət ɪt ɪz ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃəl ɪn ðə ˈmidiəm- tɪ. ðɪs ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ səˈpɔrtɪd baɪ ɪkˈspɪriənsɪz əv ˈpipəl ˈraɪtɪŋ ɪn, wɪʧ həz ˈɔlˌmoʊst ɪgˈzæktli ðə seɪm əˈproʊʧ tɪ (ɪkˈsɛpt fər ˈsərtən ˈgʊdiz, si ˈɔlsoʊ tɪ erlang”*” ˈsɛkʃən bɪˈloʊ). ɛz ædˈvæntɪʤɪz əv ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər, wi kən lɪst ðə ˈfɑloʊɪŋ: ˈvɛri gʊd ˌsɛpərˈeɪʃən bɪtˈwin ˈdɪfərənt ˈmɑʤulz ɪn ɑr keɪs). ənd ðɛr tɛnd tɪ bi ˈaɪsəˌleɪtɪd ˈvɛri ˈnaɪsli (ˈsəmˌtaɪmz ˈivɪn ə bɪt tu ˈnaɪsli, bət ðɪs ɪz ʤɪst əˈnəðər saɪd əv ðə mɔr cumbersome”*” ˈnɛgətɪv ˈlɪstɪd əˈbəv). testing“*“ ənd poʊstˈmɔrtɛm æˈnælɪsɪs. si ˈlɑʤɪk: benefits”*” ˈsɛkʃən əˈbəv. ˈvɛri gʊd pərˈfɔrməns. waɪl ˈjuʒəwəli ɪt ɪz nɑt ðət ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt fər, ɪt ˈsərtənli hərt ˈiðər. ðə pɔɪnt hir ɪz ðət wɪθ səʧ ən ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər, ˈkɑntɛkst sˈwɪʧɪz ər kɛpt tɪ ðə ˈæbsəˌlut ˈmɪnəməm, ənd iʧ θrɛd ɪz ˈwərkɪŋ wɪˈθaʊt ˈɛni ˈpɔzɪz (ənd wɪˈθaʊt ˈɛni ˈoʊvərˈhɛd əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪtəd wɪθ ðiz ˈpɔzɪz) ɛz lɔŋ ɛz ɪt həz ˈsəmθɪŋ tɪ du. ɔn ðə flɪp saɪd, ɪt prəˈvaɪd ˌɪnˈhɛrənt ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlətiz tɪ skeɪl (soʊ ˈskeɪlɪŋ nidz tɪ bi ˌɪntrəˈdust ˈsɛpərətli, si ˈʧæptər [[ˌtuˈdu]]), bət æt list ɪt ɪz səbˈstænʃəli ˈbɛtər ðən ˈhævɪŋ səm steɪt ˈəndər ðə, ənd traɪɪŋ tɪ lɑk ðɪs frəm ˈdɪfərənt θrɛdz tɪ pərˈfɔrm ˈsəmθɪŋ ˈjusfəl. wi wɪl dɪˈskəs mɔr ˈditeɪlz ɔn ðɪs ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər ɛz ˈæpləkəbəl tɪ ðə, ɪn ˈʧæptər [[ˌtuˈdu]], wɛr ɪts pərˈfɔrməns ˈbɛnəfɪts bɪˈkəm sɪgˈnɪfɪkəntli mɔr ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt. riˈleɪʃən tɪ ˈæktər ˈæktər ˈmɑdəl ðə ˈæktər ˈmɑdəl ɪn kəmˈpjutər saɪəns ɪz ə ˌmæθəˈmætɪkəl ˈmɑdəl əv kənˈkərənt ˌkɑmpjəˈteɪʃən ðət trits 'ˈæktərz' ɛz ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəl əv kənˈkərənt ˌkɑmpjəˈteɪʃən: ɪn rɪˈspɑns tɪ ə ˈmɛsɪʤ ðət ɪt rɪˈsivz, ən ˈæktər kən meɪk ˈloʊkəl dɪˈsɪʒənz, kriˈeɪt mɔr ˈæktərz, sɛnd mɔr ˈmɛsɪʤɪz, ənd dɪˈtərmən haʊ tɪ rɪˈspɑnd tɪ ðə nɛkst ˈmɛsɪʤ received.—*.— ˈwɪkiˌpiˌdiə ——nb*: ðɪs ˈsəbsɛkʃən ɪz ɪnˈtaɪərli ˈɔpʃənəl, fil fri tɪ skɪp ɪt ɪf ˈθɪri ɪz əv noʊ ˈɪntəˌrɛst tɪ ju frəm ˌθiərˈɛtɪkəl pɔɪnt əv vju ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər kən bi sin ɛz ə ˈsɪstəm wɪʧ ɪz ˈprɪti kloʊz tɪ ˈsoʊˈkɔld model”*” (ðət ɪz, ənˈtɪl ˈɔpʃən si frəm θrɛdz ənd multithreading”*” ɪz juzd), wɪθ dɪˌtərməˈnɪstɪk biɪŋ ˈæktər ‘‘actors’*’. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ðɛr ɪz ə sɪgˈnɪfɪkənt ˈdɪfərəns bɪtˈwin ðə tu, æt list perceptionally*. trəˈdɪʃənəli, ˈæktər ɪz kənˈsɪdərd ɛz ə weɪ tɪ ɪnˈʃʊr kənˈkərənt ˌkælkjəˈleɪʃənz; ðət ɪz, ðə ˌkælkjəˈleɪʃən wɪʧ ɪz kənˈsɪdərd ɪz ərˈɪʤənəli ə ““pure”*” ˌkælkjəˈleɪʃən, wɪθ ɔl ðə pərˈæmətərz noʊn ɪn ədˈvæns. wɪθ geɪmz, ðə ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃən ɪz ˈvɛri ˈdɪfərənt bɪˈkəz wi noʊ ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ ɪn ədˈvæns (baɪ ˌdɛfəˈnɪʃən). ðɪs həz kwaɪt ə fju ˌɪmpləˈkeɪʃənz. moʊst ˌɪmˈpɔrtəntli, dɪˈtərməˌnɪzəm (læk əv wɪʧ ɪz ˈɔfən kənˈsɪdərd ə ˈprɑbləm fər ˈæktər wɪn ˈspikɪŋ əˈbaʊt ˌkælkjəˈleɪʃənz) ɪz nɑt ˈpɑsəbəl fər ɪn ˈəðər wərdz, geɪmz (mɔr ˈʤɛnərəli, ˈɛni dɪˈstrɪbjətəd ˌɪnərˈæktɪv ˈsɪstəm wɪʧ prəˈdusɪz rɪˈzəlts səbˈstænʃəli dɪˈpɛndənt ɔn ˈtaɪmɪŋ; dɪˈpɛndənsi ɔn ˈtaɪmɪŋ kən bi ˈiðər ˈæbsəˌlut, laɪk ðə pleɪər prɛst ðə ˈbətən ˌbiˈfɔr ər ˈrɛlətɪv səʧ ɛz pleɪər ə prɛst ðə ˈbətən ˌbiˈfɔr pleɪər b”*”) ər ˌɪnˈhɛrəntli wɪn ˈteɪkən ɛz ə hoʊl. ɔn ðə ˈəðər hænd, iʧ əv ðə kən bi meɪd kəmˈplitli dɪˌtərməˈnɪstɪk, ənd ðɪs ɪz wət aɪ æm ˈɑrgjuɪŋ fər ɪn ðɪs bʊk. ɪn ˈəðər wərdz waɪl ɪz ˌɪnˈdid ə kloʊz ˈkəzən əv ˈæktər, kwaɪt ə fju əv ðə æˈnælɪsɪs meɪd fər taɪp əv tæsks, ɪz nɑt ɪgˈzæktli ˈæpləkəbəl tɪ ˌɪnˈhɛrəntli ˈsɪstəmz səʧ ɛz geɪmz, soʊ teɪk ɪt wɪθ ə bɪg pɪnʧ əv sɔlt. riˈleɪʃən tɪ ənd ˈæktərz ɪz... ˈsɪmpləˌfaɪɪŋ ðə kənˈstrəkʃən əv kənˈkərənt ənd dɪˈstrɪbjətəd ˌæpləˈkeɪʃənz ɔn ðə jvm*.... ˈɛmfəˌsaɪzɪz, wɪθ ˌɪnspərˈeɪʃən drɔn frəm erlang.—*.— ˈwɪkiˌpiˌdiə ðə ˈəðər hænd, ɪf ˈlʊkɪŋ æt (mɔr spəˈsɪfɪkli, æt ənd rɪˈsiv ˈɔpərˌeɪtərz), ər æt ˈæktərz, wi wɪl si ðət ɪz ˈprɪti məʧ ðə seɪm ðɛr ər noʊ ʃɛrd steɪts, ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ goʊz ˈviə ˈmɛsɪʤ ˈpæsɪŋ, ɛt caetera*, ɛt caetera*, ɛt caetera*. ðə ˈoʊnli sɪgˈnɪfɪkənt ˈdɪfərəns ɪz ðət fər aɪ æm ˈɑrgjuɪŋ fər dɪˈtərməˌnɪzəm (wɪʧ ɪz nɑt ˌgɛrənˈtid ɪn erlang/akka*, æt list nɑt wɪˈθaʊt interception”*”; ɔn ðə ˈəðər hænd, ju kən raɪt dɪˌtərməˈnɪstɪk ˈæktərz ɪn ər ðə seɪm weɪ ɛz ɪn, ɪt ɪz ʤɪst ən əˈdɪʃənəl riˈstrɪkʃən ju nid tɪ kip ɪn maɪnd ənd ɛnˈfɔrs). ˈəðər ðən ðət, ənd səm əv ðoʊz ˈpræktɪkəl ˈgʊdiz ɪn (səʧ ɛz wɪθ ɔl ðə əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪtəd ˈbɛnəfɪts), ɪz ɪkˈstrimli kloʊz tɪ (ɛz wɛl ɛz tɪ ˈæktərz wɪʧ wər ˌɪnˈspaɪərd baɪ) frəm pɔɪnt əv vju. ɪz ə, kənˈkərənt, ˈproʊˌgræmɪŋ ˈlæŋgwɪʤ ənd system.—*.— ˈwɪkiˌpiˌdiə kən bi ˈrəfli trænzˈleɪtəd ˈɪntu ðə ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ˌɑbzərˈveɪʃən: tɪ hæv ə gʊd ˈmɑdəl, ɪt ɪz nɑt ˈstrɪktli ˈnɛsəˌsɛri tɪ ˈproʊˌgræm ɪn ər tɪ juz ˈbɑtəm laɪn fər ˈʧæptər vi fju, ɪt wɑz ə lɔŋ ˈʧæptər. ɔn ðə ˈəðər hænd, ˈmænɪʤd tɪ prəˈvaɪd ə (ənd 20’000-word*) vju ɔn maɪ ˈfeɪvərɪt ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər. tɪ ˈsəmərˌaɪz ənd maɪ ˌrɛkəmənˈdeɪʃənz ɪn ðɪs rɪˈgɑrd: θɪŋk əˈbaʊt jʊr ˈgræfɪks, ɪn ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr ˈwɛðər ju wɔnt tɪ juz ər ˈwɛðər ju duəl ˈgræfɪks (səʧ ɛz 2d+3d*); ðɪs ɪz wən əv ðə moʊst ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt kˈwɛsʧənz fər jʊr geɪm klaɪənt; 23 mɔˈroʊvər, ɪz nɑt ˈɔlˌweɪz ðə bɛst ʧɔɪs, ənd ðɛr ər kwaɪt ə fju geɪmz aʊt ðɛr wɪʧ hæv ˌrudəˈmɛntəri ˈgræfɪks ɪf jʊr geɪm ɪz ən ər ən, moʊst ˈlaɪkli ju du nid, bət ˈivɪn fər ən ðə ˈænsər kən bi nɑt ðət ˈɑbviəs mɔˈroʊvər, ɪz nɑt ˈɔlˌweɪz ðə bɛst ʧɔɪs, ənd ðɛr ər kwaɪt ə fju geɪmz aʊt ðɛr wɪʧ hæv ˌrudəˈmɛntəri ˈgræfɪks raɪt jʊr koʊd ɪn ə dɪˌtərməˈnɪstɪk ˈmænər, ɪt hɛlps, ənd hɛlps ə lɔt ˈjuʒəwəli, si++ ɪz kwaɪt ə gʊd ˈkænədɪt, bət ju nid tɪ hæv ˈprɪti gʊd dɪˈvɛləpərz tɪ wərk wɪθ ɪt raɪt jʊr koʊd ɪn ə dɪˌtərməˈnɪstɪk ˈmænər (ɛz dɪˈskraɪbd ɪn logic”*” ənd ˈproʊˌgræmɪŋ ənd ˈfaɪˌnaɪt steɪt machines”*” ˈsɛkʃənz), ɪt hɛlps, ənd hɛlps ə lɔt ðɪs ɪz nɑt ðə ˈoʊnli ˈvaɪəbəl ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧər, soʊ ju meɪ bi ˈeɪbəl tɪ gɪt əˈweɪ wɪˈθaʊt ɪt, bət æt ðə ˈvɛri list ju ʃʊd kənˈsɪdər ɪt ənd ˌəndərˈstænd waɪ ju prɪˈfər ən ɔlˈtərnətɪv wən ðə koʊd ˈrɪtən ðɪs weɪ ˈmæʤɪkəli bɪˈkəmz ə dɪˌtərməˈnɪstɪk, wɪʧ həz lɑts əv ˈjusfəl ˌɪmpləˈkeɪʃənz kip ɔl jʊr ˈpərfəktli ˈsɛlfkənˈteɪnd, ɪn ə ““share-nothing”*” ˈmɑdəl. ɪt wɪl hɛlp ɪn kwaɪt ə fju ˈpleɪsɪz daʊn ðə roʊd. fil fri tɪ rən ˈməltəpəl ɪn ə ˈsɪŋgəl θrɛd ɪf ju θɪŋk ðət jʊr geɪm ˈkɑrənt ˈplætˌfɔrm ɪz ə gʊd fɪt, bət kip ðoʊz ˈsɛpərˌeɪt; ɪt kən ˈrɪli seɪv jʊr ˈbeɪkən ə fju mənθs ˈleɪtər. kip wən ˈsɪŋgəl koʊd beɪs fər geɪm ˈlɑʤɪk. fər ˈəðər, ju meɪ meɪk ˈdɪfərənt fər ˈdɪfərənt ˈplætˌfɔrmz, bət du ɪt ˈoʊnli ɪf ɪt bɪˈkəmz ˈrɪli ˈnɛsəˌsɛri. [[tɪ bi continued…*… ðɪs kənˈkludz ˈbeɪtə ˈʧæptər 6(d*) frəm ðə ˈəpˌkəmɪŋ bʊk ənd dɪˈplɔɪmənt əv ˈmæsɪvli ˈməltiˌpleɪər geɪmz (frəm ˈsoʊʃəl geɪmz tɪ, wɪθ ˈsoʊʃəl geɪmz ɪn between)”*)”. steɪ tund fər ˈbeɪtə ˈʧæptər 9(a*), ““server-side*. naɪiv ənd ˈklæsɪkəl dɪˈplɔɪmənt ˈɑrkəˌtɛkʧərz.]] ækˈnɑlɪʤmənt kɑrˈtunz baɪ ˈsɛrʤi frəm ˌænəˈmeɪʃən ˈgræfɪks, prɑg.
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the kingdom of saudi arabia (ksa) has signed an $1 billion agreement with south korea to build a 300 reactor. the smart reactor has a design that uses integral steam generators and advanced safety features.
the reactor will have a 60 year design life and a three-year refueling cycle it will be used to generate electricity and to power reverse osmosis desalinization plants at coastal sites. the reactor will generate 100 of electrical power for these applications.
design characteristics of smart contributing to the safety enhancement are features such as the integral configuration of the reactor coolant system and improved natural circulation capability. the reactor passed a safety review by the south korean nuclear regulatory agency in 2012.
the agreement is between the king abdullah city for atomic and renewable energy (ka-care) and the korea atomic energy research institute (kaeri). it is likely the sought out the south korean technology due to that success in building four 1400s for the united arab emirates.
the agreement represents’s first investment in nuclear energy after earlier this year postponing for at least eight years the start of a massive program to build 16 full size reactors at three sites. the initial announcement of that plan set off a feeding frenzy among world reactor vendors only to have their hopes dashed when the energy ministry realized that it have the workforce, supply chain, or regulatory infrastructure to roll out such a huge program. the ministry said with little explanatory details it was pushing back start of the program by eight years, but these seem to be the most practical reasons for that decision.
uae nuclear reactor pours first concrete
the official start of construction of the fourth south korean supplied 1400 type reactor being built for the united arab emirates took place at the site on the persian gulf coast. the emirates nuclear energy corporation (enec) received a go ahead from the nuclear regulatory agency for units 3 & 4 this time last year. unit 3 has been under construction since then. unit 4 is expected to be completed and enter revenue service by 2020.
more than people are working on all four reactors under construction at the site. the $20 billion deal, announced in 2009, is managed by the korea electric power corp. unit 1 was started in july 2012, unit 2 in may 2013, and unit 3 in september 2014. (table courtesy of world nuclear association)
according to when all four units are in operation they will supply about 25% of the electricity and avoid the emission of 12 million tonnes of greenhouse gases.
the plants will also free up oil and especially natural gas supplies for export. electricity from the reactors will also be used to ramp up a finished goods aluminum industry. aluminum smelters require significant supplies of reliable electrical power to transform raw bauxite ore into finished aluminum products.
according to english language business news media, the has announced plans to build a $3 billion facility for this purpose to begin operations in 2017. emirates global aluminium plans to spend the money to build the united arab emirates’ first alumina refinery in abu dhabi, chief executive abdulla said.
“we are building the refinery to secure our own important materials,” said, adding that the refinery would produce 2 million of alumina annually in an initial phase and an additional 2 million tonnes in a second phase.
the first of four nuclear reactors being built in the is expected to come online in.
jordan in negotiations with investors for two
the government of jordan is seeking investors for equity shares in the 51% it will need to finance in the two $5 billion apiece supplier nuclear reactors to be built in that country.
according to the world nuclear association, the site for the two new reactors is in province, about south east of amman. in april 2014 an expert team from the international atomic energy agency (iaea) visited the region to evaluate studies on the proposed site, which is some 70 from the cooling water source at samra, and well away (100) from a fault line.
in october 2013 the jordanian atomic energy organization announced that will contribute% of the $10 billion cost, with the jordan nuclear power co (jnpc) being responsible for the controlling%. the plant will be provided on a (boo) basis. will supply all the fuel and take back the used fuel.
wna reports that in september 2014 signed a project development agreement with rusatom. the objective is to sign a final construction contract within two years. the jordanian government has said it does not intend to make a final investment decision until late in 2015 or sometime in 2016. a construction contract is still expected in 2016. target date for operation of the first unit is 2024.
critics of the plan say that the jordanian plan is missing the needed investment in the regional power grid to wheel the power to customers. some have said jordan would be better off investing in small modular reactors with a power range of to accommodate the existing power line infrastructure. the jordanian parliament has raised objections to the plan saying that the government has not been transparent with the legislature in explaining its dealings with the russian export agencies.
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ðə ˈkɪŋdəm əv ˈsɔdi əˈreɪbiə (ksa*) həz saɪnd ən 1 ˈbɪljən əˈgrimənt wɪθ saʊθ ˌkɔˈriə tɪ bɪld ə 300 riˈæktər. ðə smɑrt riˈæktər həz ə dɪˈzaɪn ðət ˈjuzɪz ˈɪnəgrəl stim ˈʤɛnərˌeɪtərz ənd ədˈvænst ˈseɪfti ˈfiʧərz. ðə riˈæktər wɪl hæv ə 60 jɪr dɪˈzaɪn laɪf ənd ə θˈriˌjɪr rifˈjuəlɪŋ ˈsaɪkəl ɪt wɪl bi juzd tɪ ˈʤɛnərˌeɪt ɪˌlɛkˈtrɪsəti ənd tɪ paʊər rɪˈvərs ˌɔzˈmoʊsɪs diˌseɪlɪnəˈzeɪʃən plænts æt ˈkoʊstəl saɪts. ðə riˈæktər wɪl ˈʤɛnərˌeɪt 100 əv ɪˈlɛktrɪkəl paʊər fər ðiz ˌæpləˈkeɪʃənz. dɪˈzaɪn ˌkɛrɪktərˈɪstɪks əv smɑrt kənˈtrɪbjutɪŋ tɪ ðə ˈseɪfti ɛnˈhænsmənt ər ˈfiʧərz səʧ ɛz ðə ˈɪnəgrəl kənˌfɪgjərˈeɪʃən əv ðə riˈæktər ˈkulənt ˈsɪstəm ənd ˌɪmˈpruvd ˈnæʧərəl ˈsərkjəˌleɪʃən ˌkeɪpəˈbɪləti. ðə riˈæktər pæst ə ˈseɪfti ˌrivˈju baɪ ðə saʊθ ˌkɔˈriən ˈnukliər ˈrɛgjələˌtɔri ˈeɪʤənsi ɪn 2012 ðə əˈgrimənt ɪz bɪtˈwin ðə kɪŋ ˌæbˈdələ ˈsɪti fər əˈtɑmɪk ənd riˈnuəbəl ˈɛnərʤi (ka-care*) ənd ðə ˌkɔˈriə əˈtɑmɪk ˈɛnərʤi ˈrisərʧ ˈɪnstɪˌtut (kaeri*). ɪt ɪz ˈlaɪkli ðə sɔt aʊt ðə saʊθ ˌkɔˈriən tɛkˈnɑləʤi du tɪ ðət səkˈsɛs ɪn ˈbɪldɪŋ fɔr 1400 fər ðə juˈnaɪtɪd ˈærəb ˈɛmərˌeɪts. ðə əˈgrimənt ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnts fərst ˌɪnˈvɛstmənt ɪn ˈnukliər ˈɛnərʤi ˈæftər ˈərliər ðɪs jɪr poʊstˈpoʊnɪŋ fər æt list eɪt jɪrz ðə stɑrt əv ə ˈmæsɪv ˈproʊˌgræm tɪ bɪld 16 fʊl saɪz riˈæktərz æt θri saɪts. ðə ˌɪˈnɪʃəl əˈnaʊnsmɛnt əv ðət plæn sɛt ɔf ə ˈfidɪŋ ˈfrɛnzi əˈməŋ wərld riˈæktər ˈvɛndərz ˈoʊnli tɪ hæv ðɛr hoʊps dæʃt wɪn ðə ˈɛnərʤi ˈmɪnɪstri ˈriəˌlaɪzd ðət ɪt hæv ðə ˈwərkˌfɔrs, səˈplaɪ ʧeɪn, ər ˈrɛgjələˌtɔri ˌɪnfrəˈstrəkʧər tɪ roʊl aʊt səʧ ə juʤ ˈproʊˌgræm. ðə ˈmɪnɪstri sɛd wɪθ ˈlɪtəl ɪkˈsplænəˌtɔri ˈditeɪlz ɪt wɑz ˈpʊʃɪŋ bæk stɑrt əv ðə ˈproʊˌgræm baɪ eɪt jɪrz, bət ðiz sim tɪ bi ðə moʊst ˈpræktɪkəl ˈrizənz fər ðət dɪˈsɪʒən. ˈnukliər riˈæktər pɔrz fərst ˈkɑnkrit ðə əˈfɪʃəl stɑrt əv kənˈstrəkʃən əv ðə fɔrθ saʊθ ˌkɔˈriən səˈplaɪd 1400 taɪp riˈæktər biɪŋ bɪlt fər ðə juˈnaɪtɪd ˈærəb ˈɛmərˌeɪts tʊk pleɪs æt ðə saɪt ɔn ðə ˈpərʒən gəlf koʊst. ðə ˈɛmərˌeɪts ˈnukliər ˈɛnərʤi ˌkɔrpərˈeɪʃən (enec*) rɪˈsivd ə goʊ əˈhɛd frəm ðə ˈnukliər ˈrɛgjələˌtɔri ˈeɪʤənsi fər ˈjunɪts 3 4 ðɪs taɪm læst jɪr. ˈjunɪt 3 həz bɪn ˈəndər kənˈstrəkʃən sɪns ðɛn. ˈjunɪt 4 ɪz ɪkˈspɛktɪd tɪ bi kəmˈplitɪd ənd ˈɛnər ˈrɛvəˌnu ˈsərvɪs baɪ 2020 mɔr ðən ˈpipəl ər ˈwərkɪŋ ɔn ɔl fɔr riˈæktərz ˈəndər kənˈstrəkʃən æt ðə saɪt. ðə 20 ˈbɪljən dil, əˈnaʊnst ɪn 2009 ɪz ˈmænɪʤd baɪ ðə ˌkɔˈriə ɪˈlɛktrɪk paʊər ˈkɔrpərˈeɪʃən. ˈjunɪt 1 wɑz ˈstɑrtɪd ɪn ˌʤuˈlaɪ 2012 ˈjunɪt 2 ɪn meɪ 2013 ənd ˈjunɪt 3 ɪn sɛpˈtɛmbər 2014 (ˈteɪbəl ˈkərtəsi əv wərld ˈnukliər əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən) əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ wɪn ɔl fɔr ˈjunɪts ər ɪn ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən ðeɪ wɪl səˈplaɪ əˈbaʊt 25 əv ðə ɪˌlɛkˈtrɪsəti ənd əˈvɔɪd ðə ɪˈmɪʃən əv 12 ˈmɪljən tənz əv ˈgrinˌhaʊs ˈgæsɪz. ðə plænts wɪl ˈɔlsoʊ fri əp ɔɪl ənd əˈspɛʃəli ˈnæʧərəl gæs səˈplaɪz fər ˈɛkspɔrt. ɪˌlɛkˈtrɪsəti frəm ðə riˈæktərz wɪl ˈɔlsoʊ bi juzd tɪ ræmp əp ə ˈfɪnɪʃt gʊdz əˈlumənəm ˈɪndəstri. əˈlumənəm sˈmɛltərz ˌrikˈwaɪər sɪgˈnɪfɪkənt səˈplaɪz əv rɪˈlaɪəbəl ɪˈlɛktrɪkəl paʊər tɪ ˈtrænsfɔrm rɑ ˈbɔksaɪt ɔr ˈɪntu ˈfɪnɪʃt əˈlumənəm ˈprɑdəkts. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ˈɪŋlɪʃ ˈlæŋgwɪʤ ˈbɪznɪs nuz ˈmidiə, ðə həz əˈnaʊnst plænz tɪ bɪld ə 3 ˈbɪljən fəˈsɪlɪti fər ðɪs ˈpərpəs tɪ bɪˈgɪn ˌɑpərˈeɪʃənz ɪn 2017 ˈɛmərˌeɪts ˈgloʊbəl ˌæˈljumɪnəm plænz tɪ spɛnd ðə ˈməni tɪ bɪld ðə juˈnaɪtɪd ˈærəb emirates’*’ fərst əˈlumənə rɪˈfaɪnəri ɪn ˈæbu ˈdɑbi, ʧif ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv ɑbˈdulə sɛd. ər ˈbɪldɪŋ ðə rɪˈfaɪnəri tɪ sɪˈkjʊr ɑr oʊn ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt materials,”*,” sɛd, ˈædɪŋ ðət ðə rɪˈfaɪnəri wʊd ˈproʊdus 2 ˈmɪljən əv əˈlumənə ˈænjuəli ɪn ən ˌɪˈnɪʃəl feɪz ənd ən əˈdɪʃənəl 2 ˈmɪljən tənz ɪn ə ˈsɛkənd feɪz. ðə fərst əv fɔr ˈnukliər riˈæktərz biɪŋ bɪlt ɪn ðə ɪz ɪkˈspɛktɪd tɪ kəm ˈɔnˌlaɪn ɪn ˈʤɔrdən ɪn nɪˌgoʊʃiˈeɪʃənz wɪθ ˌɪnˈvɛstərz fər tu ðə ˈgəvərnmənt əv ˈʤɔrdən ɪz ˈsikɪŋ ˌɪnˈvɛstərz fər ˈɛkwəti ʃɛrz ɪn ðə 51 ɪt wɪl nid tɪ ˈfaɪˌnæns ɪn ðə tu 5 ˈbɪljən əˈpis səˈplaɪər ˈnukliər riˈæktərz tɪ bi bɪlt ɪn ðət ˈkəntri. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ðə wərld ˈnukliər əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən, ðə saɪt fər ðə tu nu riˈæktərz ɪz ɪn ˈprɑvɪns, əˈbaʊt saʊθ ist əv ˈæmən. ɪn ˈeɪprəl 2014 ən ˈɛkspərt tim frəm ðə ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl əˈtɑmɪk ˈɛnərʤi ˈeɪʤənsi (iaea*) ˈvɪzɪtɪd ðə ˈriʤən tɪ ɪˈvæljuˌeɪt ˈstədiz ɔn ðə prəˈpoʊzd saɪt, wɪʧ ɪz səm 70 frəm ðə ˈkulɪŋ ˈwɔtər sɔrs æt ˈsæmrə, ənd wɛl əˈweɪ 100) frəm ə fɔlt laɪn. ɪn ɑkˈtoʊbər 2013 ðə ˌʤɔrˈdeɪniən əˈtɑmɪk ˈɛnərʤi ˌɔrgənəˈzeɪʃən əˈnaʊnst ðət wɪl kənˈtrɪbjut əv ðə 10 ˈbɪljən kɔst, wɪθ ðə ˈʤɔrdən ˈnukliər paʊər koʊ (jnpc*) biɪŋ riˈspɑnsəbəl fər ðə kənˈtroʊlɪŋ ðə plænt wɪl bi prəˈvaɪdɪd ɔn ə (bu) ˈbeɪsɪs. wɪl səˈplaɪ ɔl ðə fjuəl ənd teɪk bæk ðə juzd fjuəl. rɪˈpɔrts ðət ɪn sɛpˈtɛmbər 2014 saɪnd ə ˈprɑʤɛkt dɪˈvɛləpmənt əˈgrimənt wɪθ rusatom*. ðə əˈbʤɛktɪv ɪz tɪ saɪn ə ˈfaɪnəl kənˈstrəkʃən ˈkɑnˌtrækt wɪˈθɪn tu jɪrz. ðə ˌʤɔrˈdeɪniən ˈgəvərnmənt həz sɛd ɪt dɪz nɑt ˌɪnˈtɛnd tɪ meɪk ə ˈfaɪnəl ˌɪnˈvɛstmənt dɪˈsɪʒən ənˈtɪl leɪt ɪn 2015 ər ˈsəmˌtaɪm ɪn 2016 ə kənˈstrəkʃən ˈkɑnˌtrækt ɪz stɪl ɪkˈspɛktɪd ɪn 2016 ˈtərgət deɪt fər ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən əv ðə fərst ˈjunɪt ɪz 2024 ˈkrɪtɪks əv ðə plæn seɪ ðət ðə ˌʤɔrˈdeɪniən plæn ɪz ˈmɪsɪŋ ðə ˈnidɪd ˌɪnˈvɛstmənt ɪn ðə ˈriʤənəl paʊər grɪd tɪ wil ðə paʊər tɪ ˈkəstəmərz. səm hæv sɛd ˈʤɔrdən wʊd bi ˈbɛtər ɔf ˌɪnˈvɛstɪŋ ɪn smɔl ˈmɑʤələr riˈæktərz wɪθ ə paʊər reɪnʤ əv tɪ əˈkɑməˌdeɪt ðə ɪgˈzɪstɪŋ paʊər laɪn ˌɪnfrəˈstrəkʧər. ðə ˌʤɔrˈdeɪniən ˈpɑrləmɛnt həz reɪzd əˈbʤɛkʃənz tɪ ðə plæn seɪɪŋ ðət ðə ˈgəvərnmənt həz nɑt bɪn trænˈspɛrənt wɪθ ðə ˈlɛʤəsˌleɪʧər ɪn ɪkˈspleɪnɪŋ ɪts ˈdilɪŋz wɪθ ðə ˈrəʃən ˈɛkspɔrt ˈeɪʤənsiz.
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a study of english people with an average age of 65 found that the people with the greatest wellbeing were 30% less likely to die during the average eight and a half year follow-up period than those with the least wellbeing.
the study, published in the lancet as part of a special series on ageing, was conducted by researchers from, princeton university and stony brook university. it used questionnaire answers to measure a type of wellbeing called wellbeing', which relates to your sense of control, feeling that what you do is worthwhile, and your sense of purpose in life. people were divided into four categories based on their answers, ranked from highest wellbeing to lowest wellbeing.
the results were adjusted for age, sex, status, physical health, depression, smoking, physical activity and alcohol intake, to rule out as many factors as possible that could influence both health and wellbeing. for example, terminal illnesses could reduce both wellbeing and life expectancy.
over the next eight and a half years, 9% of people in the highest wellbeing category had died, compared with 29% in the lowest category. once all the other factors had been taken into account, people with the highest wellbeing were 30% less likely to die over the study period, living on average two years longer than those in the lowest wellbeing group.
"we have previously found that happiness is associated with a lower risk of death," says professor andrew steptoe, director of the institute of epidemiology and health care, who led the study. "these analyses show that the and sense of purpose that older people have in their lives are also related to survival. we cannot be sure that higher wellbeing necessarily causes lower risk of death, since the relationship may not be causal. but the findings raise the intriguing possibility that increasing wellbeing could help to improve physical health. there are several biological mechanisms that may link wellbeing to improved health, for example through hormonal changes or reduced blood pressure. further research is now needed to see if such changes might contribute to the links between wellbeing and life expectancy in older people."
as part of the lancet paper, the researchers also examined data on wellbeing', a measure of life satisfaction, and 'hedonic wellbeing', related to feelings of happiness, sadness, anger, stress and pain. international data from the gallup world poll confirmed that in english speaking countries, life satisfaction dips around middle age and rises in older age, but the pattern varied across the world.
in the former soviet union and eastern european countries, older residents reported very low rankings of life satisfaction compared with younger residents in those regions. this same pattern is seen in latin america and caribbean countries, though life satisfaction does not decrease as sharply as in the eastern european countries. and in africa, life satisfaction is very low at all ages.
"economic theory can predict a dip in wellbeing among the middle age in, countries," says professor angus deaton of princeton university. "this is the period at which wage rates typically peak and is the best time to work and earn the most, even at the expense of present well-being, so as to have increased wealth and well-being later in life. what is interesting is that this pattern is not universal. other regions, like the former soviet union, have been affected by the collapse of communism and other systems. such events have affected the elderly who have lost a system that, however imperfect, gave meaning to their lives, and, in some cases, their pensions and health care."
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ə ˈstədi əv ˈɪŋlɪʃ ˈpipəl wɪθ ən ˈævərɪʤ eɪʤ əv 65 faʊnd ðət ðə ˈpipəl wɪθ ðə ˈgreɪtəst ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ wər 30 lɛs ˈlaɪkli tɪ daɪ ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈævərɪʤ eɪt ənd ə hæf jɪr ˈfɑloʊˌəp ˈpɪriəd ðən ðoʊz wɪθ ðə list ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ. ðə ˈstədi, ˈpəblɪʃt ɪn ðə ˈlænsət ɛz pɑrt əv ə ˈspɛʃəl ˈsɪriz ɔn ageing*, wɑz kənˈdəktəd baɪ ˈrisərʧərz frəm, ˈprɪnstən ˌjunəˈvərsəti ənd ˈstoʊni brʊk ˌjunəˈvərsəti. ɪt juzd kˌwɛsʧəˈnɛr ˈænsərz tɪ ˈmɛʒər ə taɪp əv ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ kɔld ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ', wɪʧ rɪˈleɪts tɪ jʊr sɛns əv kənˈtroʊl, ˈfilɪŋ ðət wət ju du ɪz ˈwərθˈwaɪl, ənd jʊr sɛns əv ˈpərpəs ɪn laɪf. ˈpipəl wər dɪˈvaɪdɪd ˈɪntu fɔr ˈkætəˌgɔriz beɪst ɔn ðɛr ˈænsərz, ræŋkt frəm haɪəst ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ tɪ loʊəst ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ. ðə rɪˈzəlts wər əˈʤəstɪd fər eɪʤ, sɛks, ˈstætəs, ˈfɪzɪkəl hɛlθ, dɪˈprɛʃən, sˈmoʊkɪŋ, ˈfɪzɪkəl ækˈtɪvɪti ənd ˈælkəˌhɑl ˈɪnˌteɪk, tɪ rul aʊt ɛz ˈmɛni ˈfæktərz ɛz ˈpɑsəbəl ðət kʊd ˈɪnfluəns boʊθ hɛlθ ənd ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ. fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ˈtərmənəl ˈɪlnəsɪz kʊd rɪˈdus boʊθ ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ ənd laɪf ɪkˈspɛktənsi. ˈoʊvər ðə nɛkst eɪt ənd ə hæf jɪrz, 9 əv ˈpipəl ɪn ðə haɪəst ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ ˈkætəˌgɔri hæd daɪd, kəmˈpɛrd wɪθ 29 ɪn ðə loʊəst ˈkætəˌgɔri. wəns ɔl ðə ˈəðər ˈfæktərz hæd bɪn ˈteɪkən ˈɪntu əˈkaʊnt, ˈpipəl wɪθ ðə haɪəst ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ wər 30 lɛs ˈlaɪkli tɪ daɪ ˈoʊvər ðə ˈstədi ˈpɪriəd, ˈlɪvɪŋ ɔn ˈævərɪʤ tu jɪrz ˈlɔŋgər ðən ðoʊz ɪn ðə loʊəst ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ grup. "wi hæv ˈpriviəsli faʊnd ðət ˈhæpinəs ɪz əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪtəd wɪθ ə loʊər rɪsk əv dɛθ," sɪz prəˈfɛsər ˈændru ˈstɛpˌtoʊ, dɪˈrɛktər əv ðə ˈɪnstɪˌtut əv ˌɛpəˌdɛmiˈɑləʤi ənd hɛlθ kɛr, hu lɛd ðə ˈstədi. "ðiz æˈnælɪˌsiz ʃoʊ ðət ðə ənd sɛns əv ˈpərpəs ðət ˈoʊldər ˈpipəl hæv ɪn ðɛr lɪvz ər ˈɔlsoʊ rɪˈleɪtɪd tɪ sərˈvaɪvəl. wi ˈkænɑt bi ʃʊr ðət haɪər ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ ˌnɛsəˈsɛrəli ˈkɔzɪz loʊər rɪsk əv dɛθ, sɪns ðə riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp meɪ nɑt bi ˈkɔzəl. bət ðə ˈfaɪndɪŋz reɪz ðə ˌɪnˈtrigɪŋ ˌpɑsəˈbɪləˌti ðət ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋ ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ kʊd hɛlp tɪ ˌɪmˈpruv ˈfɪzɪkəl hɛlθ. ðɛr ər ˈsɛvərəl ˌbaɪəˈlɑʤɪkəl ˈmɛkəˌnɪzəmz ðət meɪ lɪŋk ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ tɪ ˌɪmˈpruvd hɛlθ, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl θru ˈhɔrˌmoʊnəl ˈʧeɪnʤɪz ər rɪˈdust bləd ˈprɛʃər. ˈfərðər ˈrisərʧ ɪz naʊ ˈnidɪd tɪ si ɪf səʧ ˈʧeɪnʤɪz maɪt kənˈtrɪbjut tɪ ðə lɪŋks bɪtˈwin ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ ənd laɪf ɪkˈspɛktənsi ɪn ˈoʊldər ˈpipəl." ɛz pɑrt əv ðə ˈlænsət ˈpeɪpər, ðə ˈrisərʧərz ˈɔlsoʊ ɪgˈzæmənd ˈdætə ɔn ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ', ə ˈmɛʒər əv laɪf ˌsætɪsˈfækʃən, ənd 'həˈdɑnɪk ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ', rɪˈleɪtɪd tɪ ˈfilɪŋz əv ˈhæpinəs, ˈsædnəs, ˈæŋgər, strɛs ənd peɪn. ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl ˈdætə frəm ðə ˈgæləp wərld poʊl kənˈfərmd ðət ɪn ˈɪŋlɪʃ ˈspikɪŋ ˈkəntriz, laɪf ˌsætɪsˈfækʃən dɪps əraʊnd ˈmɪdəl eɪʤ ənd ˈraɪzɪz ɪn ˈoʊldər eɪʤ, bət ðə ˈpætərn ˈvɛrid əˈkrɔs ðə wərld. ɪn ðə ˈfɔrmər ˈsoʊviˌɛt ˈjunjən ənd ˈistərn ˌjʊrəˈpiən ˈkəntriz, ˈoʊldər ˈrɛzɪdənts ˌriˈpɔrtəd ˈvɛri loʊ ˈræŋkɪŋz əv laɪf ˌsætɪsˈfækʃən kəmˈpɛrd wɪθ ˈjəŋgər ˈrɛzɪdənts ɪn ðoʊz ˈriʤənz. ðɪs seɪm ˈpætərn ɪz sin ɪn ˈlætən əˈmɛrɪkə ənd ˌkɛrɪˈbiən ˈkəntriz, ðoʊ laɪf ˌsætɪsˈfækʃən dɪz nɑt ˈdiˌkris ɛz ˈʃɑrpli ɛz ɪn ðə ˈistərn ˌjʊrəˈpiən ˈkəntriz. ənd ɪn ˈæfrɪkɑ, laɪf ˌsætɪsˈfækʃən ɪz ˈvɛri loʊ æt ɔl ˈeɪʤɪz. "ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪk ˈθɪri kən prɪˈdɪkt ə dɪp ɪn ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ əˈməŋ ðə ˈmɪdəl eɪʤ ɪn, ˈkəntriz," sɪz prəˈfɛsər ˈæŋgəs ˈditən əv ˈprɪnstən ˌjunəˈvərsəti. "ðɪs ɪz ðə ˈpɪriəd æt wɪʧ weɪʤ reɪts ˈtɪpɪkəli pik ənd ɪz ðə bɛst taɪm tɪ wərk ənd ərn ðə moʊst, ˈivɪn æt ðə ɪkˈspɛns əv ˈprɛzənt ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ, soʊ ɛz tɪ hæv ˌɪnˈkrist wɛlθ ənd ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ ˈleɪtər ɪn laɪf. wət ɪz ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ ɪz ðət ðɪs ˈpætərn ɪz nɑt ˌjunəˈvərsəl. ˈəðər ˈriʤənz, laɪk ðə ˈfɔrmər ˈsoʊviˌɛt ˈjunjən, hæv bɪn əˈfɛktɪd baɪ ðə kəˈlæps əv ˈkɑmjəˌnɪzəm ənd ˈəðər ˈsɪstəmz. səʧ ɪˈvɛnts hæv əˈfɛktɪd ðə ˈɛldərli hu hæv lɔst ə ˈsɪstəm ðət, ˌhaʊˈɛvər ˌɪmˈpərfɪkt, geɪv ˈminɪŋ tɪ ðɛr lɪvz, ənd, ɪn səm ˈkeɪsɪz, ðɛr ˈpɛnʃənz ənd hɛlθ kɛr."
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rio de janeiro (ap) heavyweight victory over levit in a widely criticized decision is likely to be a catalyst for change during the international boxing association's next evaluation of its judging.
aiba executive board member tom told the associated press on tuesday that while he wouldn't offer a personal opinion on the decision, he expects the sport's judging criteria to evolve before the 2020 olympics.
"every fight will be analyzed, some with a stronger eye than others," said.
tishchenko won heavyweight gold monday night even though the russian backed up and appeared to struggle throughout his bout with the smothering levit, a relentless kazakh power with a thrilling style.
all three judges favored, drawing gasps and boos from the loudly crowd in rio. the fans booed the decision and jeered as he accepted his gold medal.
while outlined the reasons why the three randomly selected judges from ireland, colombia and algeria likely scored the bout for under the current scoring criteria, the veteran boxing coach and executive also made it clear had taken note of the worldwide reaction to the result.
"we're not through with our changes," said. "we're going to continuously improve the sport of boxing, and over the next four years, i think you will see things that are going to make it clearer for everyone to understand what our criteria is, and to be able to more clearly define the boxer who wins."
virgets' interview with the ap was's only public comment tuesday on the decision, which outraged boxing figures and vocal fans on social media. irish bookmaker paddy power even agreed to pay bettors as if levit had won.
in examining victory through the lens of's four main judging criteria, described why the judges likely arrived at a decision that didn't reward superior aggression and power.
"obviously, our judges, they were pretty consistent in the scoring," he said. "they obviously followed this. now is that the best way? we'll evaluate and get better."
virgets felt threw more scoring blows to the proper target areas and did more quality punching on the inside, which he claimed is easier to see when watching from the judges' seats at ringside. he claimed many of big, exciting punches "didn't count" because they landed "across the side of the head" and weren't proper scoring blows.
virgets also said levit initiated "the majority of the infringement of the rules during the bout," including holding and head contact. levit repeatedly got inside on, smothering the towering russian before he could even throw a punch.
"so those combined, obviously in the judges' mind, it was more important than the physical dominance that (levit) was showing through infringement woes and lack of quality blows," said.
but also said levit clearly trounced in the judging criteria of competitiveness, the most visible area to fans.
"no doubt about it, the kazakh boxer showed he wanted to win more than the russian boxer," said.
the heavyweight result was even more dismaying to fans because has made significant changes over the past olympic cycle to make its sport more exciting. the governing body removed headgear from the male boxers and moved from a scoring system to a professional-style, system. both changes have been well received in rio.
the first nine days of the olympics had been remarkably quiet for, which never holds a major tournament without a number of outraged losing fighters claiming they were robbed of a clear victory in their bouts.
but victory was the biggest in a string of potentially infuriating decisions as the tournament hits bigger fights this week.
irish world champion michael conlan ripped off his vest and made obscene gestures at the ringside judges after his loss to russia's vladimir on tuesday. he later denounced as corrupt and claimed judges had been paid off by russia, which had several fighters eliminated in close decisions earlier in the tournament.
u.s. light welterweight gary russell's decision loss to was also booed by the rio crowd, but none of the reactions compared to the outrage after awkward, defensive victory over the ferocious levit.
"(after) 213 bouts, everyone felt pretty good about everything," said. "this was one of those bouts that just by the nature of the of the kazakh boxer, it made it more difficult for a decision to be made. and we have to figure out, how much weight do you put to one criteria over another?"
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ˈrioʊ də ʤəˈnɛˌroʊ (ˌeɪˈpi) ˈhɛviˌweɪt ˈvɪktəri ˈoʊvər ˈlɛvɪt ɪn ə ˈwaɪdli ˈkrɪtəˌsaɪzd dɪˈsɪʒən ɪz ˈlaɪkli tɪ bi ə ˈkætəˌlɪst fər ʧeɪnʤ ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl ˈbɑksɪŋ əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃənz nɛkst ɪˌvæljuˈeɪʃən əv ɪts ˈʤəʤɪŋ. ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv bɔrd ˈmɛmbər tɑm toʊld ðə əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪtəd prɛs ɔn ˈtuzˌdeɪ ðət waɪl hi ˈwʊdənt ˈɔfər ə ˈpərsɪnəl əˈpɪnjən ɔn ðə dɪˈsɪʒən, hi ɪkˈspɛkts ðə spɔrts ˈʤəʤɪŋ kraɪˈtɪriə tɪ ɪˈvɑlv ˌbiˈfɔr ðə 2020 oʊˈlɪmpɪks. "ˈɛvəri faɪt wɪl bi ˈænəˌlaɪzd, səm wɪθ ə ˈstrɔŋgər aɪ ðən ˈəðərz," sɛd. wən ˈhɛviˌweɪt goʊld ˈmənˌdeɪ naɪt ˈivɪn ðoʊ ðə ˈrəʃən bækt əp ənd əˈpɪrd tɪ ˈstrəgəl θruaʊt hɪz baʊt wɪθ ðə sˈməðərɪŋ ˈlɛvɪt, ə rɪˈlɛntlɪs ˈkæzæk paʊər wɪθ ə θˈrɪlɪŋ staɪl. ɔl θri ˈʤəʤɪz ˈfeɪvərd drɔɪŋ gæsps ənd buz frəm ðə ˈlaʊdli kraʊd ɪn ˈrioʊ. ðə fænz bud ðə dɪˈsɪʒən ənd ʤɪrd ɛz hi ækˈsɛptɪd hɪz goʊld ˈmɛdəl. waɪl ˈaʊˌtlaɪnd ðə ˈrizənz waɪ ðə θri ˈrændəmli səˈlɛktɪd ˈʤəʤɪz frəm ˈaɪərlənd, kəˈləmbiə ənd æˈlʤɪriə ˈlaɪkli skɔrd ðə baʊt fər ˈəndər ðə ˈkɑrənt ˈskɔrɪŋ kraɪˈtɪriə, ðə ˈvɛtərən ˈbɑksɪŋ koʊʧ ənd ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv ˈɔlsoʊ meɪd ɪt klɪr hæd ˈteɪkən noʊt əv ðə ˈwərldˈwaɪd riˈækʃən tɪ ðə rɪˈzəlt. "wɪr nɑt θru wɪθ ɑr ˈʧeɪnʤɪz," sɛd. "wɪr goʊɪŋ tɪ kənˈtɪnjuəsli ˌɪmˈpruv ðə spɔrt əv ˈbɑksɪŋ, ənd ˈoʊvər ðə nɛkst fɔr jɪrz, aɪ θɪŋk ju wɪl si θɪŋz ðət ər goʊɪŋ tɪ meɪk ɪt ˈklɪrər fər ˈɛvriˌwən tɪ ˌəndərˈstænd wət ɑr kraɪˈtɪriə ɪz, ənd tɪ bi ˈeɪbəl tɪ mɔr ˈklɪrli dɪˈfaɪn ðə ˈbɑksər hu wɪnz."' ˈɪntərvˌju wɪθ ðə ˌeɪˈpi wɑz ˈoʊnli ˈpəblɪk ˈkɑmɛnt ˈtuzˌdeɪ ɔn ðə dɪˈsɪʒən, wɪʧ ˈaʊˌtreɪʤd ˈbɑksɪŋ ˈfɪgjərz ənd ˈvoʊkəl fænz ɔn ˈsoʊʃəl ˈmidiə. ˈaɪrɪʃ ˈbʊkmeɪkər ˈpædi paʊər ˈivɪn əˈgrid tɪ peɪ ˈbɛtərz ɛz ɪf ˈlɛvɪt hæd wən. ɪn ɪgˈzæmɪnɪŋ ˈvɪktəri θru ðə lɛnz əv fɔr meɪn ˈʤəʤɪŋ kraɪˈtɪriə, dɪˈskraɪbd waɪ ðə ˈʤəʤɪz ˈlaɪkli əraɪvd æt ə dɪˈsɪʒən ðət ˈdɪdənt rɪˈwɔrd suˈpɪriər əˈgrɛʃən ənd paʊər. "ˈɑbviəsli, ɑr ˈʤəʤɪz, ðeɪ wər ˈprɪti kənˈsɪstənt ɪn ðə ˈskɔrɪŋ," hi sɛd. "ðeɪ ˈɑbviəsli ˈfɑloʊd ðɪs. naʊ ɪz ðət ðə bɛst weɪ? wɪl ɪˈvæljuˌeɪt ənd gɪt ˈbɛtər." fɛlt θru mɔr ˈskɔrɪŋ bloʊz tɪ ðə ˈprɑpər ˈtərgət ˈɛriəz ənd dɪd mɔr kˈwɑləti ˈpənʧɪŋ ɔn ðə ˌɪnˈsaɪd, wɪʧ hi kleɪmd ɪz ˈiziər tɪ si wɪn ˈwɑʧɪŋ frəm ðə ˈʤəʤɪz' sits æt ˈrɪŋˌsaɪd. hi kleɪmd ˈmɛni əv bɪg, ɪkˈsaɪtɪŋ ˈpənʧɪz "ˈdɪdənt kaʊnt" bɪˈkəz ðeɪ ˈlændɪd "əˈkrɔs ðə saɪd əv ðə hɛd" ənd wərənt ˈprɑpər ˈskɔrɪŋ bloʊz. ˈɔlsoʊ sɛd ˈlɛvɪt ˌɪˈnɪʃiˌeɪtɪd "ðə məˈʤɔrəti əv ðə ˌɪnˈfrɪnʤmənt əv ðə rulz ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə baʊt," ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈhoʊldɪŋ ənd hɛd ˈkɑnˌtækt. ˈlɛvɪt rɪˈpitɪdli gɑt ˌɪnˈsaɪd ɔn, sˈməðərɪŋ ðə ˈtaʊrɪŋ ˈrəʃən ˌbiˈfɔr hi kʊd ˈivɪn θroʊ ə pənʧ. "soʊ ðoʊz kəmˈbaɪnd, ˈɑbviəsli ɪn ðə ˈʤəʤɪz' maɪnd, ɪt wɑz mɔr ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt ðən ðə ˈfɪzɪkəl ˈdɑmənəns ðət (ˈlɛvɪt) wɑz ʃoʊɪŋ θru ˌɪnˈfrɪnʤmənt woʊz ənd læk əv kˈwɑləti bloʊz," sɛd. bət ˈɔlsoʊ sɛd ˈlɛvɪt ˈklɪrli traʊnst ɪn ðə ˈʤəʤɪŋ kraɪˈtɪriə əv kəmˈpɛtɪtɪvnɪs, ðə moʊst ˈvɪzəbəl ˈɛriə tɪ fænz. "noʊ daʊt əˈbaʊt ɪt, ðə ˈkæzæk ˈbɑksər ʃoʊd hi ˈwɔntɪd tɪ wɪn mɔr ðən ðə ˈrəʃən ˈbɑksər," sɛd. ðə ˈhɛviˌweɪt rɪˈzəlt wɑz ˈivɪn mɔr dɪsˈmeɪɪŋ tɪ fænz bɪˈkəz həz meɪd sɪgˈnɪfɪkənt ˈʧeɪnʤɪz ˈoʊvər ðə pæst oʊˈlɪmpɪk ˈsaɪkəl tɪ meɪk ɪts spɔrt mɔr ɪkˈsaɪtɪŋ. ðə ˈgəvərnɪŋ ˈbɑdi riˈmuvd ˈhɛdˌgɪr frəm ðə meɪl ˈbɑksərz ənd muvd frəm ə ˈskɔrɪŋ ˈsɪstəm tɪ ə professional-style*, ˈsɪstəm. boʊθ ˈʧeɪnʤɪz hæv bɪn wɛl rɪˈsivd ɪn ˈrioʊ. ðə fərst naɪn deɪz əv ðə oʊˈlɪmpɪks hæd bɪn rɪˈmɑrkəbli kwaɪət fər, wɪʧ ˈnɛvər hoʊldz ə ˈmeɪʤər ˈtʊrnəmənt wɪˈθaʊt ə ˈnəmbər əv ˈaʊˌtreɪʤd ˈluzɪŋ ˈfaɪtərz ˈkleɪmɪŋ ðeɪ wər rɑbd əv ə klɪr ˈvɪktəri ɪn ðɛr baʊts. bət ˈvɪktəri wɑz ðə ˈbɪgəst ɪn ə strɪŋ əv pəˈtɛnʃəli ˌɪnfˈjʊriˌeɪtɪŋ dɪˈsɪʒənz ɛz ðə ˈtʊrnəmənt hɪts ˈbɪgər faɪts ðɪs wik. ˈaɪrɪʃ wərld ˈʧæmpiən ˈmaɪkəl ˈkɑnlən rɪpt ɔf hɪz vɛst ənd meɪd əbˈsin ˈʤɛsʧərz æt ðə ˈrɪŋˌsaɪd ˈʤəʤɪz ˈæftər hɪz lɔs tɪ ˈrəʃəz vˈlædəmɪr ɔn ˈtuzˌdeɪ. hi ˈleɪtər dɪˈnaʊnst ɛz kərəpt ənd kleɪmd ˈʤəʤɪz hæd bɪn peɪd ɔf baɪ ˈrəʃə, wɪʧ hæd ˈsɛvərəl ˈfaɪtərz ɪˈlɪməˌneɪtɪd ɪn kloʊz dɪˈsɪʒənz ˈərliər ɪn ðə ˈtʊrnəmənt. juz. laɪt ˈwɛltərˌweɪt ˈgɛri ˈrəsəlz dɪˈsɪʒən lɔs tɪ wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ bud baɪ ðə ˈrioʊ kraʊd, bət nən əv ðə riˈækʃənz kəmˈpɛrd tɪ ðə ˈaʊˌtreɪʤ ˈæftər ˈɔkwərd, dɪˈfɛnsɪv ˈvɪktəri ˈoʊvər ðə fərˈoʊʃəs ˈlɛvɪt. "(ˈæftər) 213 baʊts, ˈɛvriˌwən fɛlt ˈprɪti gʊd əˈbaʊt ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ," sɛd. "ðɪs wɑz wən əv ðoʊz baʊts ðət ʤɪst baɪ ðə ˈneɪʧər əv ðə əv ðə ˈkæzæk ˈbɑksər, ɪt meɪd ɪt mɔr ˈdɪfəkəlt fər ə dɪˈsɪʒən tɪ bi meɪd. ənd wi hæv tɪ ˈfɪgjər aʊt, haʊ məʧ weɪt du ju pʊt tɪ wən kraɪˈtɪriə ˈoʊvər əˈnəðər?" ˈfɑloʊ grɛg ˈbiʧəm ɔn tˈwɪtər:
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forth's stacks
"the" stack and the return stack standard forth has two built-in stacks, the data stack, and the return stack. the data stack is so important that it is simply called "the" stack, unless you have to distinguish it from some other stack. i will assume that you are familiar with it, and will not discuss it further. when a word is invoked, the inner interpreter puts the next address on the return stack. when the word is completed the top item on the return stack is popped into a register called ip (instruction pointer), and execution continues from there. most that run on intel machines use the register for ip. since the return stack is actually used only on invocation and completion, , it is available as a kind of in between. one common use for the return stack is to store do ... loop parameters. anything added to the return stack during the execution of a word must be removed before the word ends, and the same is true for a loop. words that affect the return stack do ( -- ) pushes the loop index and loop limit onto the return stack. ?do ( -- ) similar to do. the difference is seen when equals. with do, there will be iterations on a machine, whereas with ?do there will be none. the advantage of do is that it is much speedier on many machines. loop ( -- ) increments the loop index by 1 and tests against the upper limit. if the loop index is equal to the limit, discard the loop parameters and continue execution immediately following the loop. otherwise continue execution at the beginning of the loop. +loop ( n -- ) same, but increments the loop index by n. exit, as above, if the index has crossed the boundary between the loop limit minus 1 and the loop; otherwise continue.
i ( -- n) returns the current value of the loop index, provided the return stack is "clean," that is, nothing has been added to it by the program. j ( -- n) when do loops are nested, returns the current value of the outer loop index, provided that the return stack is clean. leave ( -- ) exits from the loop at once, discarding the loop count and loop limit from the return stack. if the return stack is not clean, watch out! if you are lucky, your program will hang up. in early, leave the counter equal to the limit, forcing exit the next time loop or +loop is executed. andi demand immediate exit from the loop. >r ( n --) store top of parameter stack on return stack. pronounced "to r." r> ( -- n) reverse of >r. pronounced "from r." r@ ( -- n) or r ( -- n) copy top of return stack onto parameter stack. "r fetch." r@ is forth 83 andi standard. some older use r.
a stack is not an array in some, for example,, the data stack and return stacks are located entirely in ram and can be handled as arrays. in others, this is not so; for instance, many gain speed by keeping the top element of the stack in a register. for this reason, ani standard program cannot make any assumptions about where the stacks are located or how they are implemented. pick ( .... n -- .... x) is available to copy the nth stack item onto the top of the stack. software stacks software stacks are sometimes called "pseudostacks." actually, they are genuine stacks, and i prefer the term "software stack" or "lifo", which stands for "last in first out." that name is taken from the language of finance, where it is used to describe a method of accounting for inventory. i have implemented as a kind of specialized array with a pointer. pushing a quantity onto a software stack removes it from the parameter stack, stores it in the array, and bumps the pointer; popping does the reverse. a program can have any number of. if only one is needed the code can be simplified. in my implementation, there is protection against but not against overflow. glossary lifo ( n -- ) ( -- adr) during compilation, create a lifo (software stack) with n cells. on execution, return the address of the stack. push ( n lifo -- ) push number onto lifo. pop ( lifo -- n ) pop number from lifo. ( lifo -- ) clear lifo. ( lifo -- ) create parameters for a ?do loop that will scan every item currently in lifo. the intended use is: ( lifo ) ?do -- cell +loop code meets for an forth standard program. home updated: june 18, 1996 \ software stacks (see text for documentation) : lifo ( n -- ) ( -- adr) create here cell+ , cells allot does> ; : push ( n lifo -- ) swap over @ ! cell swap +! ; : pop ( lifo -- x ) cell negate over +! @ swap over >= abort"] " @ ; : ( lifo -- ) cell+ swap ! ; : ( lifo -- ) @ swap cell+ ;
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forth's* stæks "ðə" stæk ənd ðə rɪˈtərn stæk ˈstændərd fɔrθ həz tu ˈbɪlˌtɪn stæks, ðə ˈdætə stæk, ənd ðə rɪˈtərn stæk. ðə ˈdætə stæk ɪz soʊ ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt ðət ɪt ɪz ˈsɪmpli kɔld "ðə" stæk, ənˈlɛs ju hæv tɪ dɪˈstɪŋgwɪʃ ɪt frəm səm ˈəðər stæk. aɪ wɪl əˈsum ðət ju ər fəˈmɪljər wɪθ ɪt, ənd wɪl nɑt dɪˈskəs ɪt ˈfərðər. wɪn ə wərd ɪz ˌɪnˈvoʊkt, ðə ˈɪnər ˌɪnˈtərprətər pʊts ðə nɛkst ˈæˌdrɛs ɔn ðə rɪˈtərn stæk. wɪn ðə wərd ɪz kəmˈplitɪd ðə tɔp ˈaɪtəm ɔn ðə rɪˈtərn stæk ɪz pɑpt ˈɪntu ə ˈrɛʤɪstər kɔld ˌaɪˌpi (ˌɪnˈstrəkʃən ˈpɔɪntər), ənd ˌɛksəˈkjuʃən kənˈtɪnjuz frəm ðɛr. moʊst ðət rən ɔn ˌɪnˈtɛl məˈʃinz juz ðə ˈrɛʤɪstər fər ˌaɪˌpi. sɪns ðə rɪˈtərn stæk ɪz ˈæˌkʧuəli juzd ˈoʊnli ɔn ˌɪnvəˈkeɪʃən ənd kəmˈpliʃən, ɪt ɪz əˈveɪləbəl ɛz ə kaɪnd əv ɪn bɪtˈwin. wən ˈkɑmən juz fər ðə rɪˈtərn stæk ɪz tɪ stɔr du lup pərˈæmətərz. ˈɛniˌθɪŋ ˈædɪd tɪ ðə rɪˈtərn stæk ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˌɛksəˈkjuʃən əv ə wərd məst bi riˈmuvd ˌbiˈfɔr ðə wərd ɛndz, ənd ðə seɪm ɪz tru fər ə lup. wərdz ðət əˈfɛkt ðə rɪˈtərn stæk du ˈpʊʃɪz ðə lup ˈɪndɛks ənd lup ˈlɪmət ˈɔntu ðə rɪˈtərn stæk. ?du ˈsɪmələr tɪ du. ðə ˈdɪfərəns ɪz sin wɪn ˈikwəlz wɪθ du, ðɛr wɪl bi ˌɪtəˈreɪʃənz ɔn ə məˈʃin, wɛˈræz wɪθ ?du ðɛr wɪl bi nən. ðə ædˈvæntɪʤ əv du ɪz ðət ɪt ɪz məʧ ˈspidiər ɔn ˈmɛni məˈʃinz. lup ˈɪŋkrəˌmɛnts ðə lup ˈɪndɛks baɪ 1 ənd tɛsts əˈgɛnst ðə ˈəpər ˈlɪmət. ɪf ðə lup ˈɪndɛks ɪz ˈikwəl tɪ ðə ˈlɪmət, dɪˈskɑrd ðə lup pərˈæmətərz ənd kənˈtɪnju ˌɛksəˈkjuʃən ˌɪˈmiˌdiətli ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ðə lup. ˈəðərˌwaɪz kənˈtɪnju ˌɛksəˈkjuʃən æt ðə bɪˈgɪnɪŋ əv ðə lup. +lup ɛn seɪm, bət ˈɪŋkrəˌmɛnts ðə lup ˈɪndɛks baɪ ɛn. ˈɛksət, ɛz əˈbəv, ɪf ðə ˈɪndɛks həz krɔst ðə ˈbaʊndəri bɪtˈwin ðə lup ˈlɪmət ˈmaɪnəs 1 ənd ðə lup; ˈəðərˌwaɪz kənˈtɪnju. aɪ ɛn) rɪˈtərnz ðə ˈkɑrənt ˈvælju əv ðə lup ˈɪndɛks, prəˈvaɪdɪd ðə rɪˈtərn stæk ɪz "klin," ðət ɪz, ˈnəθɪŋ həz bɪn ˈædɪd tɪ ɪt baɪ ðə ˈproʊˌgræm. ʤeɪ ɛn) wɪn du lups ər ˈnɛstɪd, rɪˈtərnz ðə ˈkɑrənt ˈvælju əv ðə ˈaʊtər lup ˈɪndɛks, prəˈvaɪdɪd ðət ðə rɪˈtərn stæk ɪz klin. liv ˈɛksəts frəm ðə lup æt wəns, dɪˈskɑrdɪŋ ðə lup kaʊnt ənd lup ˈlɪmət frəm ðə rɪˈtərn stæk. ɪf ðə rɪˈtərn stæk ɪz nɑt klin, wɔʧ aʊt! ɪf ju ər ˈləki, jʊr ˈproʊˌgræm wɪl hæŋ əp. ɪn ˈərli, liv ðə ˈkaʊntər ˈikwəl tɪ ðə ˈlɪmət, ˈfɔrsɪŋ ˈɛksət ðə nɛkst taɪm lup ər +lup ɪz ˈɛksəˌkjutɪd. ənd ˌænˈsi dɪˈmænd ˌɪˈmiˌdiət ˈɛksət frəm ðə lup. >ɑr ɛn stɔr tɔp əv pərˈæmətər stæk ɔn rɪˈtərn stæk. prəˈnaʊnst "tɪ ɑr." ɑr> ɛn) rɪˈvərs əv >ɑr. prəˈnaʊnst "frəm ɑr." ɑr@ ɛn) ər ɑr ɛn) ˈkɑpi tɔp əv rɪˈtərn stæk ˈɔntu pərˈæmətər stæk. "ɑr fɛʧ." ɑr@ ɪz fɔrθ 83 ənd ˌænˈsi ˈstændərd. səm ˈoʊldər juz ɑr. ə stæk ɪz nɑt ən əreɪ ɪn səm, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ðə ˈdætə stæk ənd rɪˈtərn stæks ər ˈloʊˌkeɪtəd ɪnˈtaɪərli ɪn ræm ənd kən bi ˈhændəld ɛz əreɪz. ɪn ˈəðərz, ðɪs ɪz nɑt soʊ; fər ˈɪnstəns, ˈmɛni geɪn spid baɪ ˈkipɪŋ ðə tɔp ˈɛləmənt əv ðə stæk ɪn ə ˈrɛʤɪstər. fər ðɪs ˈrizən, ən ˌænˈsi ˈstændərd ˈproʊˌgræm ˈkænɑt meɪk ˈɛni əˈsəmpʃənz əˈbaʊt wɛr ðə stæks ər ˈloʊˌkeɪtəd ər haʊ ðeɪ ər ˈɪmpləˌmɛnəd. pɪk ɛn ɛks) ɪz əˈveɪləbəl tɪ ˈkɑpi ðə ɛnθ stæk ˈaɪtəm ˈɔntu ðə tɔp əv ðə stæk. ˈsɔfˌwɛr stæks ˈsɔfˌwɛr stæks ər ˈsəmˌtaɪmz kɔld "pseudostacks*." ˈæˌkʧuəli, ðeɪ ər ˈʤɛnjuˌaɪn stæks, ənd aɪ prɪˈfər ðə tərm "ˈsɔfˌwɛr stæk" ər "ˈlifoʊ", wɪʧ stændz fər "læst ɪn fərst aʊt." ðət neɪm ɪz ˈteɪkən frəm ðə ˈlæŋgwɪʤ əv ˈfaɪˌnæns, wɛr ɪt ɪz juzd tɪ dɪˈskraɪb ə ˈmɛθəd əv əˈkaʊnɪŋ fər ˌɪnvənˈtɔri. aɪ hæv ˈɪmpləˌmɛnəd ɛz ə kaɪnd əv ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪzd əreɪ wɪθ ə ˈpɔɪntər. ˈpʊʃɪŋ ə kˈwɑntəti ˈɔntu ə ˈsɔfˌwɛr stæk riˈmuvz ɪt frəm ðə pərˈæmətər stæk, stɔrz ɪt ɪn ðə əreɪ, ənd bəmps ðə ˈpɔɪntər; ˈpɑpɪŋ dɪz ðə rɪˈvərs. ə ˈproʊˌgræm kən hæv ˈɛni ˈnəmbər əv. ɪf ˈoʊnli wən ɪz ˈnidɪd ðə koʊd kən bi ˈsɪmpləˌfaɪd. ɪn maɪ ˌɪmpləmɛnˈteɪʃən, ðɛr ɪz prəˈtɛkʃən əˈgɛnst bət nɑt əˈgɛnst ˌoʊvərˈfloʊ. ˈglɔsəri ˈlifoʊ ɛn adr*) ˈdʊrɪŋ ˌkɑmpəˈleɪʃən, kriˈeɪt ə ˈlifoʊ (ˈsɔfˌwɛr stæk) wɪθ ɛn sɛlz. ɔn ˌɛksəˈkjuʃən, rɪˈtərn ðə ˈæˌdrɛs əv ðə stæk. pʊʃ ɛn ˈlifoʊ pʊʃ ˈnəmbər ˈɔntu ˈlifoʊ. pɑp ˈlifoʊ ɛn pɑp ˈnəmbər frəm ˈlifoʊ. ˈlifoʊ klɪr ˈlifoʊ. ˈlifoʊ kriˈeɪt pərˈæmətərz fər ə ?du lup ðət wɪl skæn ˈɛvəri ˈaɪtəm ˈkərəntli ɪn ˈlifoʊ. ðə ˌɪnˈtɛndɪd juz ɪz: ˈlifoʊ ?du sɛl +lup koʊd mits fər ən fɔrθ ˈstændərd ˈproʊˌgræm. hoʊm ˈəpˌdeɪtɪd: ʤun 18 1996 ˈsɔfˌwɛr stæks (si tɛkst fər ˌdɑkjəmɛnˈteɪʃən) ˈlifoʊ ɛn adr*) kriˈeɪt hir sɛl+ sɛlz əˈlɑt dɪz> pʊʃ ɛn ˈlifoʊ swɑp ˈoʊvər sɛl swɑp pɑp ˈlifoʊ ɛks sɛl nɪˈgeɪt ˈoʊvər swɑp ˈoʊvər əˈbɔrt"] ˈlifoʊ sɛl+ swɑp ˈlifoʊ swɑp sɛl+
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moon and photographs
facts about moon jellyfish
moon jellyfish are recognizable by the pattern on the top of the jelly fish created by its gonads which are visible through the transparent bell.
they are single sex organisms being either male or female.
they consist mainly of water.
their food is plankton, including small shrimps, fish eggs and other floating larvae.
they are found across the world and have a wide range of temperature tolerance from 6 to 31 °c.
they feed on plankton and grow up to 40 centimeters in width.
the adult and larvae of have or stinging cells to capture prey and also to protect themselves from predators.
the animal lacks any respiratory, excretory, and circulatory systems.
respiration occurs by diffusion across the cell wall of the organism.
as the oxygen rate in the ambient water drops so the jelly drops its rate of respiration.
they have a nerve net within the structure that is responsible for controlling contractions in the coronal muscle in the bell that allow it to swim.
the moon jelly has centers, which allow it to control the of the coronal muscle.
they swim horizontally and tend to stay near the surface.
the adult has a has an umbrella margin membrane and tentacles that are attached to the bottom of the membrane.
a wide variety of predators eat the moon jelly, ranging from fishes, turtles and birds.
they probably live for about six months in the wild but in captivity under ideal conditions can live for several years.
the eggs are fertilized in the female when she floating sperm given out by a male.
the eggs develop into larvae that free float until they anchor onto a substrate.
the larvae grow into an organism that resembles an anemone which splits up into organisms that grow into the adult.
photos
videos
see the moon jellyfish in action:
aquariums
moon jellyfish are mainly kept in large commercial aquariums, but as the knowledge base on these jellyfish has expanded it has become possible to keep them in a home aquarium. it is a fairly complex technical task and depending on the ambient temperature of the specific residence, a water chiller will almost certainly be needed to keep the temperature within their preferred range. a good filtration system and carefully designed water flow are necessary. a well lit tank full of moon jellies can make a very attractive addition to a home.
moon jellyfish blooms
occasionally when conditions are right moon jellyfish congregate in large numbers, a so called bloom. one of these blooms can be seen in the video below which was filmed in dar es salaam , tanzania.
moon jellyfish classification
domain:
kingdom:
phylum: cnidaria.
class:
order: semaestomeae,
family:
genus:
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mun ənd ˈfoʊtəˌgræfs fækts əˈbaʊt mun ˈʤɛliˌfɪʃ mun ˈʤɛliˌfɪʃ ər ˌrɛkəgˈnaɪzəbəl baɪ ðə ˈpætərn ɔn ðə tɔp əv ðə ˈʤɛli fɪʃ kriˈeɪtɪd baɪ ɪts ˈgoʊnædz wɪʧ ər ˈvɪzəbəl θru ðə trænˈspɛrənt bɛl. ðeɪ ər ˈsɪŋgəl sɛks ˈɔrgəˌnɪzəmz biɪŋ ˈiðər meɪl ər ˈfiˌmeɪl. ðeɪ kənˈsɪst ˈmeɪnli əv ˈwɔtər. ðɛr fud ɪz ˈplæŋktən, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ smɔl shrimps*, fɪʃ ɛgz ənd ˈəðər ˈfloʊtɪŋ ˈlɑrvi. ðeɪ ər faʊnd əˈkrɔs ðə wərld ənd hæv ə waɪd reɪnʤ əv ˈtɛmpərəʧər ˈtɑlərəns frəm 6 tɪ 31 °°c*. ðeɪ fid ɔn ˈplæŋktən ənd groʊ əp tɪ 40 ˈsɛntəˌmitərz ɪn wɪdθ. ðə ˈædəlt ənd ˈlɑrvi əv hæv ər ˈstɪŋɪŋ sɛlz tɪ ˈkæpʧər preɪ ənd ˈɔlsoʊ tɪ prəˈtɛkt ðɛmˈsɛlvz frəm ˈprɛdətərz. ðə ˈænəməl læks ˈɛni ˈrɛspərəˌtɔri, ˈɛkskrəˌtɔri, ənd ˈsərkjələˌtɔri ˈsɪstəmz. ˌrɛspərˈeɪʃən əˈkərz baɪ dɪfˈjuʒən əˈkrɔs ðə sɛl wɔl əv ðə ˈɔrgəˌnɪzəm. ɛz ðə ˈɑksɪʤən reɪt ɪn ðə ˈæmbiənt ˈwɔtər drɑps soʊ ðə ˈʤɛli drɑps ɪts reɪt əv ˌrɛspərˈeɪʃən. ðeɪ hæv ə nərv nɛt wɪˈθɪn ðə ˈstrəkʧər ðət ɪz riˈspɑnsəbəl fər kənˈtroʊlɪŋ kənˈtrækʃənz ɪn ðə kərˈoʊnəl ˈməsəl ɪn ðə bɛl ðət əˈlaʊ ɪt tɪ swɪm. ðə mun ˈʤɛli həz ˈsɛnərz, wɪʧ əˈlaʊ ɪt tɪ kənˈtroʊl ðə əv ðə kərˈoʊnəl ˈməsəl. ðeɪ swɪm ˌhɔrɪˈzɑntəli ənd tɛnd tɪ steɪ nɪr ðə ˈsərfəs. ðə ˈædəlt həz ə həz ən ˈəmˌbrɛlə ˈmɑrʤən ˈmɛmˌbreɪn ənd ˈtɛntəkəlz ðət ər əˈtæʧt tɪ ðə ˈbɑtəm əv ðə ˈmɛmˌbreɪn. ə waɪd vərˈaɪəti əv ˈprɛdətərz it ðə mun ˈʤɛli, ˈreɪnʤɪŋ frəm ˈfɪʃɪz, ˈtərtəlz ənd bərdz. ðeɪ ˈprɑbəˌbli lɪv fər əˈbaʊt sɪks mənθs ɪn ðə waɪld bət ɪn kæpˈtɪvəti ˈəndər aɪˈdil kənˈdɪʃənz kən lɪv fər ˈsɛvərəl jɪrz. ðə ɛgz ər ˈfərtəˌlaɪzd ɪn ðə ˈfiˌmeɪl wɪn ʃi ˈfloʊtɪŋ spərm ˈgɪvɪn aʊt baɪ ə meɪl. ðə ɛgz dɪˈvɛləp ˈɪntu ˈlɑrvi ðət fri floʊt ənˈtɪl ðeɪ ˈæŋkər ˈɔntu ə ˈsəbˌstreɪt. ðə ˈlɑrvi groʊ ˈɪntu ən ˈɔrgəˌnɪzəm ðət rɪˈzɛmbəlz ən ˈænɪˌmoʊn wɪʧ splɪts əp ˈɪntu ˈɔrgəˌnɪzəmz ðət groʊ ˈɪntu ðə ˈædəlt. ˈfoʊˌtoʊz ˈvɪdioʊz si ðə mun ˈʤɛliˌfɪʃ ɪn ˈækʃən: əkˈwɛriəmz mun ˈʤɛliˌfɪʃ ər ˈmeɪnli kɛpt ɪn lɑrʤ kəˈmərʃəl əkˈwɛriəmz, bət ɛz ðə ˈnɑlɪʤ beɪs ɔn ðiz ˈʤɛliˌfɪʃ həz ɪkˈspændɪd ɪt həz bɪˈkəm ˈpɑsəbəl tɪ kip ðɛm ɪn ə hoʊm əkˈwɛriəm. ɪt ɪz ə ˈfɛrli ˈkɑmplɛks ˈtɛknɪkəl tæsk ənd dɪˈpɛndɪŋ ɔn ðə ˈæmbiənt ˈtɛmpərəʧər əv ðə spɪˈsɪfɪk ˈrɛzɪdəns, ə ˈwɔtər ˈʧɪlər wɪl ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˈsərtənli bi ˈnidɪd tɪ kip ðə ˈtɛmpərəʧər wɪˈθɪn ðɛr prɪˈfərd reɪnʤ. ə gʊd fɪlˈtreɪʃən ˈsɪstəm ənd ˈkɛrfəli dɪˈzaɪnd ˈwɔtər floʊ ər ˈnɛsəˌsɛri. ə wɛl lɪt tæŋk fʊl əv mun ˈʤɛliz kən meɪk ə ˈvɛri əˈtræktɪv əˈdɪʃən tɪ ə hoʊm. mun ˈʤɛliˌfɪʃ blumz ɔˈkeɪʒənəˌli wɪn kənˈdɪʃənz ər raɪt mun ˈʤɛliˌfɪʃ ˈkɑŋgrəˌgeɪt ɪn lɑrʤ ˈnəmbərz, ə soʊ kɔld blum. wən əv ðiz blumz kən bi sin ɪn ðə ˈvɪdioʊ bɪˈloʊ wɪʧ wɑz fɪlmd ɪn dɑr ɛs səˈlɑm ˌtænˈzeɪnjə. mun ˈʤɛliˌfɪʃ ˌklæsəfəˈkeɪʃən doʊˈmeɪn: ˈkɪŋdəm: ˈfaɪləm: cnidaria*. klæs: ˈɔrdər: semaestomeae*, ˈfæməli: ˈʤinəs:
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be prepared for controversy. photo: saul images
“who the hell wants to speak about politics when in front of the boy scouts?” president trump asked the people gathered in glen jean, west virginia, on monday for the boy scout jamboree.
the answer is president trump. the event, which occurs every four years, was attended by about boys, ages 12 to 18, but trump treated it like a raucous campaign rally. during a rambling, speech, he playfully threatened a member of his cabinet about getting the votes to repeal, recounted his election win in great detail, and attacked president obama.
a post on the blog had warned troops to be “courteous” and refrain from chanting phrases like “lock her up” as they are “considered divisive by many members of our audience, and may cause unnecessary friction between individuals and units.” that did not prevent the audience from applauding partisan attacks and even booing when he mentioned hillary clinton.
it seems the president had prepared a speech about letting “your scouting oath guide your path,” but his trademark asides and non sequiturs dominated the address. here are weird comments to his largely underage audience.
1. trump starts off by marveling at the size of the crowd and attacking the press.
“boy, you have a lot of people here. the press will say about 200 people. [laughter.] it looks like about people. you set a record today. [applause.] you set a record. a great honor, believe me. tonight we put aside all of the policy fights in washington, d.c. been hearing about that with the fake news and all of that. [applause.] going to put that aside. and instead going to talk about success, about how all of you amazing young scouts can achieve your dreams i said, who the hell wants to speak about politics when in front of the boy scouts, right?”
2. trump calls our capital a “cesspool.”
“you know, i go to washington and i see all these politicians, and i see the swamp. and not a good place. in fact, today, i said we ought to change it from the word swamp to the word cesspool, or perhaps, to the word sewer. but not good. not good.” [applause.]
3. trump boasts that ten members of his cabinet were boy scouts, then threatens to fire one of them.
“secretary tom price is also here. today dr. price still lives the scout oath, helping to keep millions of americans strong and healthy as our secretary of health and human services. and doing a great job. and hopefully, going to get the votes tomorrow to start our path toward killing this horrible thing known as really hurting us, folks.”
[applause. crowd chants “usa! usa! usa!”]
“he better get them. he better get them. oh, he better otherwise, say ‘tom, fired!’ get somebody. [applause.] he better get senator capito to vote for it. you got to get the other senators to vote for it. time. after seven years of saying repeal and replace, we have a chance to now do it. they better do it. hopefully do it.”
4. trump says we need more “loyalty,” explain what referring to.
“as the scout law says: ‘a scout is trustworthy, loyal’ we could use some more loyalty, i will tell you that.”
5. trump marvels at the size of the crowd and attacks the “fake media” for refusing to show it (though cnn aired the speech).
“i’m waving to people back there so small i even see them. man, this is a lot of people. turn those cameras back there, please. that is so incredible. by the way, what do you think the chances are that this incredible, massive crowd, is going to be shown on television tonight? one percent or zero? [applause.] the fake media will say: president trump and you know what this is president trump spoke before a small crowd of boy scouts today. some that is some crowd. [applause.] fake media. fake news. thank you.”
6. trump attacks his predecessor for failing to address the boy scouts (obama sent a video message in 2010).
[audience chants, “we love trump! we love trump! we love trump!”]
“by the way, just a question, did president obama ever come to a jamboree?”
[audience shouts, “no!”]
“and be back. be back. the answer is no, but be back.”
7. trump tells a long, meandering story about the real-estate developer william levitt and alludes to “interesting” activities he engaged in on his yacht.
“[levitt] he sold his company for a tremendous amount of money. at the time especially this was a long time ago [he] sold his company for a tremendous amount of money. and he went out and bought a big yacht, and he had a very interesting life. i go on any more than that because boy scouts, so not going to tell you what he did.”
[audience boos.]
“should i tell you? should i tell you?”
[audience shouts, “yes!”]
“oh, boy scouts, but you know life. you know life. so look at you. who would think this is the boy scouts, right?”
“so, he had a very, very interesting life, and the company that bought his company was a big conglomerate” [trump explains that years later levitt bought his company back.]
“he so badly wanted it, he got bored with this life of yachts and sailing and all of the things he did in the south of france and other places. you get bored, right? you know, truthfully, workers. get bored, too. believe me. of course, having a few good years like that so bad.”
8. trump recalls meeting levitt at a hot new york party.
“in the end he failed, and he failed badly. lost all of his money. he went personally bankrupt, and he was now much older. and i saw him at a cocktail party, and it was very sad because the hottest people in new york were at this party. it was the party of steve ross who was one of the great people he came up and discovered really founded time warner and he was a great guy.”
“he had a lot of successful people at the party. and i was doing well so i got invited to the party. i was very young, and i go in but in the real-estate business and i see 100 people, some of whom i recognize and big in the entertainment business”
[trump recognizes levitt.] “so i went over and talked to him, and i said, mr. levitt, ‘i’m donald trump.’ he said ‘i know.’”
9. trump tells the boys the lesson to take from life is not to lose “momentum” but if you do, okay, too.
“but tell you, it was very sad, and i never forgot that moment. and i thought about it, and exactly true. he lost his momentum. meaning, he took this period of time off long years and then when he got back, he have the same momentum. in life, i always tell this to people, you have to know whether or not you continue to have the momentum, and if you have it okay. because going to go on and going to learn and going to do things that are great. but you have to know about the word momentum.”
10. trump recalls his victory on november 8, and attacks the “dishonest people” for doubting that he could win.
“now with that, i have to tell you our economy is doing great. our stock market has picked up since the election november 8. do we remember that date? [applause.] was that a beautiful date? [applause.] what a date. do you remember that famous night on television, november 8, where they said these dishonest people where they said there is no path to victory for donald trump? they forgot about the forgotten people. by the way, not forgetting about the forgotten people anymore. going crazy trying to figure it out. but i told them, far too late. far too late.”
“but do you remember that incredible night with the maps and the republicans are red and the democrats are blue, and that map was so red, it was unbelievable, and they know what to say?” [applause.]
11. trump goes through his victories state by state and criticizes hillary clinton.
and you know we have a tremendous disadvantage in the electoral college popular vote is much easier. because new york, california, illinois you have to practically run the east coast. and we did. we won florida. we won south carolina. we won north carolina. we won pennsylvania. [applause.] we won and won. so when they said there is no way to victory, there is no way to 270, i went to maine four times because one vote, and we won. but we won one vote. i went there because i kept hearing at 269. but then wisconsin came in. many, many years michigan came in. and we worked hard there. my opponent work hard there because she was told”
[audience boos.]
12. trump thanks his audience which again, consisted largely of children for voting for him in november.
“[clinton] was told she was going to win michigan, and i said, well, wait a minute, the car industry is moving to mexico. why is she going to move there. why are they allowing it to move? and by the way, do you see those car industry do you see happening, how coming back to michigan? coming back to ohio. starting to peel back in.” [applause.]
“and we go to wisconsin now, wisconsin been won in many, many years by a republican. but we go to wisconsin, and we had tremendous crowds. and leave these massive crowds. say, why are we going to lose this state? the polls also fake news. fake polls. but the polls are saying but we won wisconsin.” [applause.]
“so i have to tell you what we did, in all fairness, this is an unbelievable tribute to you and all of the other millions and millions of people that came out and voted for make america great again.”
[audience chants “usa! usa! usa!”]
13. trump makes a false claim about the latest jobs reports, and updates the kids on his plan.
“we had the best jobs report in 16 years. the stock market on a daily basis is hitting an all-time high. going to be bringing back very soon trillions of dollars from companies that get their money back into this country, and that money is going to be used to help rebuild america.”
14. trump assures the scouts, out of nowhere, that they can finally say “merry christmas” again.
“in the scout oath, you pledge on your honor to do your best and to do your duty to god and your country. [applause.] and by the way, under the trump administration, be saying ‘merry christmas’ again when you go shopping. believe me. merry christmas. [applause.] been downplaying that little, beautiful phrase. going to be saying ‘merry christmas’ again, folks.” [applause.]
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bi priˈpɛrd fər ˈkɑntrəˌvərsi. ˈfoʊˌtoʊ: sɔl ˈɪmɪʤɪz ðə hɛl wɔnts tɪ spik əˈbaʊt ˈpɑləˌtɪks wɪn ɪn frənt əv ðə bɔɪ scouts?”*?” ˈprɛzɪdənt trəmp æst ðə ˈpipəl ˈgæðərd ɪn glɛn ʤin, wɛst vərˈʤɪnjə, ɔn ˈmənˌdeɪ fər ðə bɔɪ skaʊt jamboree*. ðə ˈænsər ɪz ˈprɛzɪdənt trəmp. ðə ɪˈvɛnt, wɪʧ əˈkərz ˈɛvəri fɔr jɪrz, wɑz əˈtɛndəd baɪ əˈbaʊt bɔɪz, ˈeɪʤɪz 12 tɪ 18 bət trəmp ˈtritɪd ɪt laɪk ə ˈrɔkəs kæmˈpeɪn ˈræli. ˈdʊrɪŋ ə ˈræmbəlɪŋ, spiʧ, hi ˈpleɪfəli θˈrɛtənd ə ˈmɛmbər əv hɪz ˈkæbənət əˈbaʊt ˈgɪtɪŋ ðə voʊts tɪ rɪˈpil, ˌriˈkaʊntɪd hɪz ɪˈlɛkʃən wɪn ɪn greɪt ˈditeɪl, ənd əˈtækt ˈprɛzɪdənt ˌoʊˈbɑmə. ə poʊst ɔn ðə blɔg hæd wɔrnd trups tɪ bi ““courteous”*” ənd rɪˈfreɪn frəm ˈʧæntɪŋ ˈfreɪzɪz laɪk hər up”*” ɛz ðeɪ ər dɪˈvaɪsɪv baɪ ˈmɛni ˈmɛmbərz əv ɑr ˈɔdiəns, ənd meɪ kɔz ənˈnɛsəˌsɛri ˈfrɪkʃən bɪtˈwin ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəlz ənd units.”*.” ðət dɪd nɑt prɪˈvɛnt ðə ˈɔdiəns frəm əˈplɔdɪŋ ˈpɑrtəzən əˈtæks ənd ˈivɪn buɪŋ wɪn hi ˈmɛnʃənd ˈhɪləri ˈklɪntən. ɪt simz ðə ˈprɛzɪdənt hæd priˈpɛrd ə spiʧ əˈbaʊt ˈlɛtɪŋ ˈskaʊtɪŋ oʊθ gaɪd jʊr path,”*,” bət hɪz ˈtreɪdˌmɑrk əˈsaɪdz ənd nɑn ˈsɛkwɪtərz ˈdɑməˌneɪtəd ðə ˈæˌdrɛs. hir ər wɪrd ˈkɑmɛnts tɪ hɪz ˈlɑrʤli ˈəndərɪʤ ˈɔdiəns. 1 trəmp stɑrts ɔf baɪ ˈmɑrvəlɪŋ æt ðə saɪz əv ðə kraʊd ənd əˈtækɪŋ ðə prɛs. ““boy*, ju hæv ə lɔt əv ˈpipəl hir. ðə prɛs wɪl seɪ əˈbaʊt 200 ˈpipəl. [ˈlæftər.] ɪt lʊks laɪk əˈbaʊt ˈpipəl. ju sɛt ə ˈrɛkərd təˈdeɪ. [əˈplɔz.] ju sɛt ə ˈrɛkərd. ə greɪt ˈɑnər, bɪˈliv mi. təˈnaɪt wi pʊt əˈsaɪd ɔl əv ðə ˈpɑləsi faɪts ɪn ˈwɔʃɪŋtən, d.c*. bɪn ˈhirɪŋ əˈbaʊt ðət wɪθ ðə feɪk nuz ənd ɔl əv ðət. [əˈplɔz.] goʊɪŋ tɪ pʊt ðət əˈsaɪd. ənd ˌɪnˈstɛd goʊɪŋ tɪ tɔk əˈbaʊt səkˈsɛs, əˈbaʊt haʊ ɔl əv ju əˈmeɪzɪŋ jəŋ skaʊts kən əˈʧiv jʊr drimz aɪ sɛd, hu ðə hɛl wɔnts tɪ spik əˈbaʊt ˈpɑləˌtɪks wɪn ɪn frənt əv ðə bɔɪ skaʊts, right?”*?” 2 trəmp kɔlz ɑr ˈkæpɪtəl ə ““cesspool.”*.” noʊ, aɪ goʊ tɪ ˈwɔʃɪŋtən ənd aɪ si ɔl ðiz ˌpɑləˈtɪʃənz, ənd aɪ si ðə swɔmp. ənd nɑt ə gʊd pleɪs. ɪn fækt, təˈdeɪ, aɪ sɛd wi ɔt tɪ ʧeɪnʤ ɪt frəm ðə wərd swɔmp tɪ ðə wərd ˈsɛˌspul, ər pərˈhæps, tɪ ðə wərd suər. bət nɑt gʊd. nɑt good.”*.” [əˈplɔz.] 3 trəmp boʊsts ðət tɛn ˈmɛmbərz əv hɪz ˈkæbənət wər bɔɪ skaʊts, ðɛn θˈrɛtənz tɪ faɪər wən əv ðɛm. tɑm praɪs ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ hir. təˈdeɪ ˈdɑktər. praɪs stɪl lɪvz ðə skaʊt oʊθ, ˈhɛlpɪŋ tɪ kip ˈmɪljənz əv əˈmɛrɪkənz strɔŋ ənd ˈhɛlθi ɛz ɑr ˈsɛkrəˌtɛri əv hɛlθ ənd ˈjumən ˈsərvɪsɪz. ənd duɪŋ ə greɪt ʤɑb. ənd ˈhoʊpfəli, goʊɪŋ tɪ gɪt ðə voʊts təˈmɑˌroʊ tɪ stɑrt ɑr pæθ təˈwɔrd ˈkɪlɪŋ ðɪs ˈhɔrəbəl θɪŋ noʊn ɛz ˈrɪli ˈhərtɪŋ ˈjuˈɛs, folks.”*.” [əˈplɔz. kraʊd ʧænts ““usa*! ˈjuˈɛˈseɪ! usa!”*!”] ˈbɛtər gɪt ðɛm. hi ˈbɛtər gɪt ðɛm. oʊ, hi ˈbɛtər ˈəðərˌwaɪz, seɪ ‘‘tom*, fired!’*!’ gɪt ˈsəmˌbɑdi. [əˈplɔz.] hi ˈbɛtər gɪt ˈsɛnətər kɑˈpitoʊ tɪ voʊt fər ɪt. ju gɑt tɪ gɪt ðə ˈəðər ˈsɛnətərz tɪ voʊt fər ɪt. taɪm. ˈæftər ˈsɛvən jɪrz əv seɪɪŋ rɪˈpil ənd ˌriˈpleɪs, wi hæv ə ʧæns tɪ naʊ du ɪt. ðeɪ ˈbɛtər du ɪt. ˈhoʊpfəli du it.”*.” 4 trəmp sɪz wi nid mɔr ““loyalty,”*,” ɪkˈspleɪn wət rɪˈfərɪŋ tɪ. ðə skaʊt lɔ sɪz: skaʊt ɪz ˈtrəstˌwərði, loyal’*’ wi kʊd juz səm mɔr ˈlɔɪəlti, aɪ wɪl tɛl ju that.”*.” 5 trəmp ˈmɑrvəlz æt ðə saɪz əv ðə kraʊd ənd əˈtæks ðə media”*” fər rɪfˈjuzɪŋ tɪ ʃoʊ ɪt (ðoʊ ˈsiˈɛˈnɛn ɛrd ðə spiʧ). ˈweɪvɪŋ tɪ ˈpipəl bæk ðɛr soʊ smɔl aɪ ˈivɪn si ðɛm. mæn, ðɪs ɪz ə lɔt əv ˈpipəl. tərn ðoʊz ˈkæmərəz bæk ðɛr, pliz. ðət ɪz soʊ ˌɪnˈkrɛdəbəl. baɪ ðə weɪ, wət du ju θɪŋk ðə ˈʧænsɪz ər ðət ðɪs ˌɪnˈkrɛdəbəl, ˈmæsɪv kraʊd, ɪz goʊɪŋ tɪ bi ʃoʊn ɔn ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən təˈnaɪt? wən pərˈsɛnt ər ˈziroʊ? [əˈplɔz.] ðə feɪk ˈmidiə wɪl seɪ: ˈprɛzɪdənt trəmp ənd ju noʊ wət ðɪs ɪz ˈprɛzɪdənt trəmp spoʊk ˌbiˈfɔr ə smɔl kraʊd əv bɔɪ skaʊts təˈdeɪ. səm ðət ɪz səm kraʊd. [əˈplɔz.] feɪk ˈmidiə. feɪk nuz. θæŋk you.”*.” 6 trəmp əˈtæks hɪz ˈprɛdəˌsɛsər fər ˈfeɪlɪŋ tɪ ˈæˌdrɛs ðə bɔɪ skaʊts (ˌoʊˈbɑmə sɛnt ə ˈvɪdioʊ ˈmɛsɪʤ ɪn 2010 [ˈɔdiəns ʧænts, ləv trəmp! wi ləv trəmp! wi ləv trump!”*!”] ðə weɪ, ʤɪst ə kˈwɛʃən, dɪd ˈprɛzɪdənt ˌoʊˈbɑmə ˈɛvər kəm tɪ ə jamboree?”*?” [ˈɔdiəns ʃaʊts, ““no!”*!”] bi bæk. bi bæk. ðə ˈænsər ɪz noʊ, bət bi back.”*.” 7 trəmp tɛlz ə lɔŋ, miˈændərɪŋ ˈstɔri əˈbaʊt ðə ˈrilɪˌsteɪt dɪˈvɛləpər ˈwɪljəm ˈlɛvɪt ənd əˈludz tɪ ““interesting”*” ækˈtɪvɪtiz hi ɪnˈgeɪʤd ɪn ɔn hɪz jɑt. “[“[levitt*] hi soʊld hɪz ˈkəmpəˌni fər ə trɪˈmɛndəs əˈmaʊnt əv ˈməni. æt ðə taɪm əˈspɛʃəli ðɪs wɑz ə lɔŋ taɪm əˈgoʊ [hi] soʊld hɪz ˈkəmpəˌni fər ə trɪˈmɛndəs əˈmaʊnt əv ˈməni. ənd hi wɛnt aʊt ənd bɔt ə bɪg jɑt, ənd hi hæd ə ˈvɛri ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ laɪf. aɪ goʊ ɔn ˈɛni mɔr ðən ðət bɪˈkəz bɔɪ skaʊts, soʊ nɑt goʊɪŋ tɪ tɛl ju wət hi did.”*.” [ˈɔdiəns buz.] aɪ tɛl ju? ʃʊd aɪ tɛl you?”*?” [ˈɔdiəns ʃaʊts, ““yes!”*!”] ““oh*, bɔɪ skaʊts, bət ju noʊ laɪf. ju noʊ laɪf. soʊ lʊk æt ju. hu wʊd θɪŋk ðɪs ɪz ðə bɔɪ skaʊts, right?”*?”, hi hæd ə ˈvɛri, ˈvɛri ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ laɪf, ənd ðə ˈkəmpəˌni ðət bɔt hɪz ˈkəmpəˌni wɑz ə bɪg kənˈglɑmərət [trəmp ɪkˈspleɪnz ðət jɪrz ˈleɪtər ˈlɛvɪt bɔt hɪz ˈkəmpəˌni bæk.] soʊ ˈbædli ˈwɔntɪd ɪt, hi gɑt bɔrd wɪθ ðɪs laɪf əv jɑts ənd ˈseɪlɪŋ ənd ɔl əv ðə θɪŋz hi dɪd ɪn ðə saʊθ əv fræns ənd ˈəðər ˈpleɪsɪz. ju gɪt bɔrd, raɪt? ju noʊ, ˈtruθfəli, ˈwərkərz. gɪt bɔrd, tu. bɪˈliv mi. əv kɔrs, ˈhævɪŋ ə fju gʊd jɪrz laɪk ðət soʊ bad.”*.” 8 trəmp ˈriˌkɔlz ˈmitɪŋ ˈlɛvɪt æt ə hɑt nu jɔrk ˈpɑrti. ðə ɛnd hi feɪld, ənd hi feɪld ˈbædli. lɔst ɔl əv hɪz ˈməni. hi wɛnt ˈpərsənəli ˈbæŋkrəpt, ənd hi wɑz naʊ məʧ ˈoʊldər. ənd aɪ sɔ ɪm æt ə ˈkɑkˌteɪl ˈpɑrti, ənd ɪt wɑz ˈvɛri sæd bɪˈkəz ðə ˈhɑtəst ˈpipəl ɪn nu jɔrk wər æt ðɪs ˈpɑrti. ɪt wɑz ðə ˈpɑrti əv stiv rɔs hu wɑz wən əv ðə greɪt ˈpipəl hi keɪm əp ənd dɪˈskəvərd ˈrɪli ˈfaʊndɪd taɪm ˈwɔrnər ənd hi wɑz ə greɪt guy.”*.” hæd ə lɔt əv səkˈsɛsfəl ˈpipəl æt ðə ˈpɑrti. ənd aɪ wɑz duɪŋ wɛl soʊ aɪ gɑt ˌɪnˈvaɪtɪd tɪ ðə ˈpɑrti. aɪ wɑz ˈvɛri jəŋ, ənd aɪ goʊ ɪn bət ɪn ðə ˈrilɪˌsteɪt ˈbɪznɪs ənd aɪ si 100 ˈpipəl, səm əv hum aɪ ˈrɛkəgˌnaɪz ənd bɪg ɪn ðə ˌɛnərˈteɪnmənt ˈbɪznɪs [trəmp ˈrɛkəgˌnaɪzɪz ˈlɛvɪt.] aɪ wɛnt ˈoʊvər ənd tɔkt tɪ ɪm, ənd aɪ sɛd, ˈmɪstər. ˈlɛvɪt, ˈdɑnəld trump.’*.’ hi sɛd know.’”*.’” 9 trəmp tɛlz ðə bɔɪz ðə ˈlɛsən tɪ teɪk frəm laɪf ɪz nɑt tɪ luz ““momentum”*” bət ɪf ju du, ˌoʊˈkeɪ, tu. tɛl ju, ɪt wɑz ˈvɛri sæd, ənd aɪ ˈnɛvər fərˈgɑt ðət ˈmoʊmənt. ənd aɪ θɔt əˈbaʊt ɪt, ənd ɪgˈzæktli tru. hi lɔst hɪz moʊˈmɛntəm. ˈminɪŋ, hi tʊk ðɪs ˈpɪriəd əv taɪm ɔf lɔŋ jɪrz ənd ðɛn wɪn hi gɑt bæk, hi hæv ðə seɪm moʊˈmɛntəm. ɪn laɪf, aɪ ˈɔlˌweɪz tɛl ðɪs tɪ ˈpipəl, ju hæv tɪ noʊ ˈwɛðər ər nɑt ju kənˈtɪnju tɪ hæv ðə moʊˈmɛntəm, ənd ɪf ju hæv ɪt ˌoʊˈkeɪ. bɪˈkəz goʊɪŋ tɪ goʊ ɔn ənd goʊɪŋ tɪ lərn ənd goʊɪŋ tɪ du θɪŋz ðət ər greɪt. bət ju hæv tɪ noʊ əˈbaʊt ðə wərd momentum.”*.” 10 trəmp ˈriˌkɔlz hɪz ˈvɪktəri ɔn noʊˈvɛmbər 8 ənd əˈtæks ðə people”*” fər ˈdaʊtɪŋ ðət hi kʊd wɪn. wɪθ ðət, aɪ hæv tɪ tɛl ju ɑr ɪˈkɑnəmi ɪz duɪŋ greɪt. ɑr stɑk ˈmɑrkɪt həz pɪkt əp sɪns ðə ɪˈlɛkʃən noʊˈvɛmbər 8 du wi rɪˈmɛmbər ðət deɪt? [əˈplɔz.] wɑz ðət ə ˈbjutəfəl deɪt? [əˈplɔz.] wət ə deɪt. du ju rɪˈmɛmbər ðət ˈfeɪməs naɪt ɔn ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən, noʊˈvɛmbər 8 wɛr ðeɪ sɛd ðiz dɪˈsɑnəst ˈpipəl wɛr ðeɪ sɛd ðɛr ɪz noʊ pæθ tɪ ˈvɪktəri fər ˈdɑnəld trəmp? ðeɪ fərˈgɑt əˈbaʊt ðə fərˈgɑtən ˈpipəl. baɪ ðə weɪ, nɑt fərˈgɛtɪŋ əˈbaʊt ðə fərˈgɑtən ˈpipəl ˌɛniˈmɔr. goʊɪŋ ˈkreɪzi traɪɪŋ tɪ ˈfɪgjər ɪt aʊt. bət aɪ toʊld ðɛm, fɑr tu leɪt. fɑr tu late.”*.” du ju rɪˈmɛmbər ðət ˌɪnˈkrɛdəbəl naɪt wɪθ ðə mæps ənd ðə rɪˈpəblɪkənz ər rɛd ənd ðə ˈdɛməˌkræts ər blu, ənd ðət mæp wɑz soʊ rɛd, ɪt wɑz ˌənbəˈlivəbəl, ənd ðeɪ noʊ wət tɪ say?”*?” [əˈplɔz.] 11 trəmp goʊz θru hɪz ˈvɪktəriz steɪt baɪ steɪt ənd ˈkrɪtɪˌsaɪzɪz ˈhɪləri ˈklɪntən. ənd ju noʊ wi hæv ə trɪˈmɛndəs ˌdɪsədˈvænɪʤ ɪn ðə ɪˈlɛktərəl ˈkɑlɪʤ ˈpɑpjələr voʊt ɪz məʧ ˈiziər. bɪˈkəz nu jɔrk, ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə, ˌɪləˈnɔɪz ju hæv tɪ ˈpræktɪkəli rən ðə ist koʊst. ənd wi dɪd. wi wən ˈflɔrɪdə. wi wən saʊθ ˌkɛrəˈlaɪnə. wi wən nɔrθ ˌkɛrəˈlaɪnə. wi wən ˌpɛnsəlˈveɪnjə. [əˈplɔz.] wi wən ənd wən. soʊ wɪn ðeɪ sɛd ðɛr ɪz noʊ weɪ tɪ ˈvɪktəri, ðɛr ɪz noʊ weɪ tɪ 270 aɪ wɛnt tɪ meɪn fɔr taɪmz bɪˈkəz wən voʊt, ənd wi wən. bət wi wən wən voʊt. aɪ wɛnt ðɛr bɪˈkəz aɪ kɛpt ˈhirɪŋ æt 269 bət ðɛn wɪˈskɑnsən keɪm ɪn. ˈmɛni, ˈmɛni jɪrz ˈmɪʃɪgən keɪm ɪn. ənd wi wərkt hɑrd ðɛr. maɪ əˈpoʊnənt wərk hɑrd ðɛr bɪˈkəz ʃi wɑz toʊld [ˈɔdiəns buz.] 12 trəmp θæŋks hɪz ˈɔdiəns wɪʧ əˈgɛn, kənˈsɪstɪd ˈlɑrʤli əv ˈʧɪldrən fər ˈvoʊtɪŋ fər ɪm ɪn noʊˈvɛmbər. “[“[clinton*] wɑz toʊld ʃi wɑz goʊɪŋ tɪ wɪn ˈmɪʃɪgən, ənd aɪ sɛd, wɛl, weɪt ə ˈmɪnət, ðə kɑr ˈɪndəstri ɪz ˈmuvɪŋ tɪ ˈmɛksəˌkoʊ. waɪ ɪz ʃi goʊɪŋ tɪ muv ðɛr. waɪ ər ðeɪ əˈlaʊɪŋ ɪt tɪ muv? ənd baɪ ðə weɪ, du ju si ðoʊz kɑr ˈɪndəstri du ju si ˈhæpənɪŋ, haʊ ˈkəmɪŋ bæk tɪ ˈmɪʃɪgən? ˈkəmɪŋ bæk tɪ oʊˈhaɪoʊ. ˈstɑrtɪŋ tɪ pil bæk in.”*.” [əˈplɔz.] wi goʊ tɪ wɪˈskɑnsən naʊ, wɪˈskɑnsən bɪn wən ɪn ˈmɛni, ˈmɛni jɪrz baɪ ə rɪˈpəblɪkən. bət wi goʊ tɪ wɪˈskɑnsən, ənd wi hæd trɪˈmɛndəs kraʊdz. ənd liv ðiz ˈmæsɪv kraʊdz. seɪ, waɪ ər wi goʊɪŋ tɪ luz ðɪs steɪt? ðə poʊlz ˈɔlsoʊ feɪk nuz. feɪk poʊlz. bət ðə poʊlz ər seɪɪŋ bət wi wən wisconsin.”*.” [əˈplɔz.] aɪ hæv tɪ tɛl ju wət wi dɪd, ɪn ɔl ˈfɛrnəs, ðɪs ɪz ən ˌənbəˈlivəbəl ˈtrɪbjut tɪ ju ənd ɔl əv ðə ˈəðər ˈmɪljənz ənd ˈmɪljənz əv ˈpipəl ðət keɪm aʊt ənd ˈvoʊtɪd fər meɪk əˈmɛrɪkə greɪt again.”*.” [ˈɔdiəns ʧænts ““usa*! ˈjuˈɛˈseɪ! usa!”*!”] 13 trəmp meɪks ə fɔls kleɪm əˈbaʊt ðə ˈleɪtəst ʤɑbz rɪˈpɔrts, ənd ˈəpˌdeɪts ðə kɪdz ɔn hɪz plæn. hæd ðə bɛst ʤɑbz rɪˈpɔrt ɪn 16 jɪrz. ðə stɑk ˈmɑrkɪt ɔn ə ˈdeɪli ˈbeɪsɪs ɪz ˈhɪtɪŋ ən ˌɔlˈtaɪm haɪ. goʊɪŋ tɪ bi ˈbrɪŋɪŋ bæk ˈvɛri sun ˈtrɪljənz əv ˈdɔlərz frəm ˈkəmpəˌniz ðət gɪt ðɛr ˈməni bæk ˈɪntu ðɪs ˈkəntri, ənd ðət ˈməni ɪz goʊɪŋ tɪ bi juzd tɪ hɛlp riˈbɪld america.”*.” 14 trəmp əˈʃʊrz ðə skaʊts, aʊt əv ˈnoʊˌwɛr, ðət ðeɪ kən ˈfaɪnəli seɪ christmas”*” əˈgɛn. ðə skaʊt oʊθ, ju plɛʤ ɔn jʊr ˈɑnər tɪ du jʊr bɛst ənd tɪ du jʊr ˈduti tɪ gɑd ənd jʊr ˈkəntri. [əˈplɔz.] ənd baɪ ðə weɪ, ˈəndər ðə trəmp ædˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən, bi seɪɪŋ christmas’*’ əˈgɛn wɪn ju goʊ ˈʃɑpɪŋ. bɪˈliv mi. ˈmɛri ˈkrɪsməs. [əˈplɔz.] bɪn ˈdaʊnˌpleɪɪŋ ðət ˈlɪtəl, ˈbjutəfəl freɪz. goʊɪŋ tɪ bi seɪɪŋ christmas’*’ əˈgɛn, folks.”*.” [əˈplɔz.]
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all presidential candidates face a core problem. to win their nomination in an age of growing polarization they have to adopt base-pleasing, policy positions. but to win a general election and actually govern they have to adopt majority positions.
how can one person do both?
nobody had figured this out until, brilliantly, hillary clinton. she is campaigning on a series of positions that she transparently does not believe in. say what she needs to say now to become bernie sanders in a pantsuit (wait, bernie sanders already wears a pantsuit!). then, nomination in hand and white house won, she will, it appears, transparently flip back and embrace whatever other positions she believe in that will help her succeed in her new role.
in other words, one of the causes of polarized gridlock and political dysfunction is that we have too many politicians with ideological convictions. clinton seems to be this problem.
her most impressive concerns trade, the partnership. when she announced her opposition to judy woodruff on the “pbs newshour” she was performing a of the sort that leaves gymnasts gaping and applauding. as cnn pointed out, praised the deal 45 separate times, at one point calling it “the gold standard in trade agreements.”
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ɔl ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ˈkænədɪts feɪs ə kɔr ˈprɑbləm. tɪ wɪn ðɛr ˌnɑməˈneɪʃən ɪn ən eɪʤ əv groʊɪŋ ˌpoʊlərɪˈzeɪʃən ðeɪ hæv tɪ əˈdɑpt base-pleasing*, ˈpɑləsi pəˈzɪʃənz. bət tɪ wɪn ə ˈʤɛnərəl ɪˈlɛkʃən ənd ˈæˌkʧuəli ˈgəvərn ðeɪ hæv tɪ əˈdɑpt məˈʤɔrəti pəˈzɪʃənz. haʊ kən wən ˈpərsən du boʊθ? ˈnoʊˌbɑˌdi hæd ˈfɪgjərd ðɪs aʊt ənˈtɪl, ˈbrɪljəntli, ˈhɪləri ˈklɪntən. ʃi ɪz kæmˈpeɪnɪŋ ɔn ə ˈsɪriz əv pəˈzɪʃənz ðət ʃi trænˈspɛrəntli dɪz nɑt bɪˈliv ɪn. seɪ wət ʃi nidz tɪ seɪ naʊ tɪ bɪˈkəm ˈbərni ˈsændərz ɪn ə ˈpæntˌsut (weɪt, ˈbərni ˈsændərz ɔˈrɛdi wɛrz ə ˈpæntˌsut!). ðɛn, ˌnɑməˈneɪʃən ɪn hænd ənd waɪt haʊs wən, ʃi wɪl, ɪt əˈpɪrz, trænˈspɛrəntli flɪp bæk ənd ɪmˈbreɪs ˌwəˈtɛvər ˈəðər pəˈzɪʃənz ʃi bɪˈliv ɪn ðət wɪl hɛlp hər səkˈsid ɪn hər nu roʊl. ɪn ˈəðər wərdz, wən əv ðə ˈkɔzɪz əv ˈpoʊlərˌaɪzd ˈgrɪˌdlɑk ənd pəˈlɪtɪkəl dɪsˈfəŋkʃən ɪz ðət wi hæv tu ˈmɛni ˌpɑləˈtɪʃənz wɪθ ˌaɪdiəˈlɑʤɪkəl kənˈvɪkʃənz. ˈklɪntən simz tɪ bi ðɪs ˈprɑbləm. hər moʊst ˌɪmˈprɛsɪv kənˈsərnz treɪd, ðə ˈpɑrtnərˌʃɪp. wɪn ʃi əˈnaʊnst hər ˌɑpəˈzɪʃən tɪ ˈʤudi ˈwʊdrəf ɔn ðə newshour”*” ʃi wɑz pərˈfɔrmɪŋ ə əv ðə sɔrt ðət livz ˈʤɪmnæsts ˈgeɪpɪŋ ənd əˈplɔdɪŋ. ɛz ˈsiˈɛˈnɛn ˈpɔɪntɪd aʊt, preɪzd ðə dil 45 ˈsɛpərˌeɪt taɪmz, æt wən pɔɪnt ˈkɔlɪŋ ɪt goʊld ˈstændərd ɪn treɪd agreements.”*.”
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we're hackers, and we are good-looking. we are the 1%.
bandit
the bandit is aimed at absolute beginners. it will teach the basics needed to be able to play others. if you notice something essential is missing or have ideas for new levels, please let us know!
note for beginners
this game, like most other games, is in levels. you start at level 0 and try tobeat” orfinish” it. finishing a level results in information on how to start the next level. the pages on this website forlevel <x>” contain information on how to start level x from the previous level. e.g. the page for level 1 has information on how to gain access from level 0 to level 1. all levels in this game have a page on this website, and they are all linked to from the on the left of this page.
you will encounter many situations in which you have no idea what you are supposed to do. panic! give up! the purpose of this game is for you to learn the basics. part of learning the basics, is reading a lot of new information.
there are several things you can try when you are unsure how to continue:
first, if you know a command, but know how to use it, try the manual (man page) by entering man <command> (without the quotes). e.g. if you know about thels” command, type: man ls. theman” command also has a manual, try it. press q to quit the man command.
(man page) by entering (without the quotes). e.g. if you know about thels” command, type: man ls. theman” command also has a manual, try it. press q to quit the man command. second, if there is no man page, the command might be a shell built-in . in that case use the help <x> command. e.g. help cd
. in that case use the command. e.g. help cd also, your favorite is your friend. learn how to use it! i recommend google.
is your friend. learn how to use it! i recommend google. lastly, if you are still stuck, you can join us on
you’re ready to start! begin with level 0, linked at the left of this page. good luck!
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wɪr ˈhækərz, ənd wi ər ˈgʊˌdlʊkɪŋ. wi ər ðə 1 ˈbændət ðə ˈbændət ɪz eɪmd æt ˈæbsəˌlut bɪˈgɪnərz. ɪt wɪl tiʧ ðə ˈbeɪsɪks ˈnidɪd tɪ bi ˈeɪbəl tɪ pleɪ ˈəðər wargames*. ɪf ju ˈnoʊtɪs ˈsəmθɪŋ ɛˈsɛnʃəl ɪz ˈmɪsɪŋ ər hæv aɪˈdiəz fər nu ˈlɛvəlz, pliz lɛt ˈjuˈɛs noʊ! noʊt fər bɪˈgɪnərz ðɪs geɪm, laɪk moʊst ˈəðər geɪmz, ɪz ɪn ˈlɛvəlz. ju stɑrt æt ˈlɛvəl 0 ənd traɪ tɪ ““beat”*” ər ““finish”*” ɪt. ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ ə ˈlɛvəl rɪˈzəlts ɪn ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən ɔn haʊ tɪ stɑrt ðə nɛkst ˈlɛvəl. ðə ˈpeɪʤɪz ɔn ðɪs ˈwɛbˌsaɪt fər <x>”*>” kənˈteɪn ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən ɔn haʊ tɪ stɑrt ˈlɛvəl ɛks frəm ðə ˈpriviəs ˈlɛvəl. e.g*. ðə peɪʤ fər ˈlɛvəl 1 həz ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən ɔn haʊ tɪ geɪn ˈækˌsɛs frəm ˈlɛvəl 0 tɪ ˈlɛvəl 1 ɔl ˈlɛvəlz ɪn ðɪs geɪm hæv ə peɪʤ ɔn ðɪs ˈwɛbˌsaɪt, ənd ðeɪ ər ɔl lɪŋkt tɪ frəm ðə ɔn ðə lɛft əv ðɪs peɪʤ. ju wɪl ɪnˈkaʊnər ˈmɛni ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃənz ɪn wɪʧ ju hæv noʊ aɪˈdiə wət ju ər səˈpoʊzd tɪ du. ˈpænɪk! gɪv əp! ðə ˈpərpəs əv ðɪs geɪm ɪz fər ju tɪ lərn ðə ˈbeɪsɪks. pɑrt əv ˈlərnɪŋ ðə ˈbeɪsɪks, ɪz ˈrɛdɪŋ ə lɔt əv nu ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən. ðɛr ər ˈsɛvərəl θɪŋz ju kən traɪ wɪn ju ər ənˈʃʊr haʊ tɪ kənˈtɪnju: fərst, ɪf ju noʊ ə kəˈmænd, bət noʊ haʊ tɪ juz ɪt, traɪ ðə ˈmænjuəl (mæn peɪʤ) baɪ ˈɛnərɪŋ mæn <kəˈmænd> (wɪˈθaʊt ðə kwoʊts). e.g*. ɪf ju noʊ əˈbaʊt ðə ““ls”*” kəˈmænd, taɪp: mæn ˈɛˈlɛs. ðə ““man”*” kəˈmænd ˈɔlsoʊ həz ə ˈmænjuəl, traɪ ɪt. prɛs kju tɪ kwɪt ðə mæn kəˈmænd. (mæn peɪʤ) baɪ ˈɛnərɪŋ (wɪˈθaʊt ðə kwoʊts). e.g*. ɪf ju noʊ əˈbaʊt ðə ““ls”*” kəˈmænd, taɪp: mæn ˈɛˈlɛs. ðə ““man”*” kəˈmænd ˈɔlsoʊ həz ə ˈmænjuəl, traɪ ɪt. prɛs kju tɪ kwɪt ðə mæn kəˈmænd. ˈsɛkənd, ɪf ðɛr ɪz noʊ mæn peɪʤ, ðə kəˈmænd maɪt bi ə ʃɛl ˈbɪlˌtɪn ɪn ðət keɪs juz ðə hɛlp <ɛks> kəˈmænd. e.g*. hɛlp ˈsiˈdi ɪn ðət keɪs juz ðə kəˈmænd. e.g*. hɛlp ˈsiˈdi ˈɔlsoʊ, jʊr ˈfeɪvərɪt ɪz jʊr frɛnd. lərn haʊ tɪ juz ɪt! aɪ ˌrɛkəˈmɛnd ˈgugəl. ɪz jʊr frɛnd. lərn haʊ tɪ juz ɪt! aɪ ˌrɛkəˈmɛnd ˈgugəl. ˈlæstli, ɪf ju ər stɪl stək, ju kən ʤɔɪn ˈjuˈɛs ɔn ˈrɛdi tɪ stɑrt! bɪˈgɪn wɪθ ˈlɛvəl 0 lɪŋkt æt ðə lɛft əv ðɪs peɪʤ. gʊd lək!
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breaking: dreamworks’ ghost in the shell has been taken off the disney release schedule and will now be released by paramount pictures, who is also the film which is based on the japanese sci-fi franchise. the film, which stars the lucy team of scarlett johansson and asbæk, will keep its march 31, 2017 release date. the film moves from disney after steven spielberg left the disney fold and went to universal. rupert sanders (snow white and the huntsman) is directing the story about female special ops cyborg (johansson) who leads a fictional organization called public security section 9 for robotics. the unit is devoted to stopping the most dangerous criminals and extremists, led by the laughing man who will stop at nothing to destroy’s advancements in cyber technology.
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ˈbreɪkɪŋ: dreamworks’*’ goʊst ɪn ðə ʃɛl həz bɪn ˈteɪkən ɔf ðə ˈdɪzni riˈlis ˈskɛʤʊl ənd wɪl naʊ bi riˈlist baɪ ˈpɛrəˌmaʊnt ˈpɪkʧərz, hu ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ ðə fɪlm wɪʧ ɪz beɪst ɔn ðə ˌʤæpəˈniz ˌsaɪˈfaɪ ˈfrænˌʧaɪz. ðə fɪlm, wɪʧ stɑrz ðə ˈlusi tim əv ˈskɑrlɪt ˌʤoʊˈhɑnsən ənd asbæk*, wɪl kip ɪts mɑrʧ 31 2017 riˈlis deɪt. ðə fɪlm muvz frəm ˈdɪzni ˈæftər ˈstivən ˈspilbərg lɛft ðə ˈdɪzni foʊld ənd wɛnt tɪ ˌjunəˈvərsəl. ˈrupərt ˈsændərz (snoʊ waɪt ənd ðə ˈhəntsmən) ɪz dɪˈrɛktɪŋ ðə ˈstɔri əˈbaʊt ˈfiˌmeɪl ˈspɛʃəl ɑps ˈsaɪbɔrg (ˌʤoʊˈhɑnsən) hu lidz ə ˈfɪkʃənəl ˌɔrgənəˈzeɪʃən kɔld ˈpəblɪk sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈsɛkʃən 9 fər ˌroʊˈbɑtɪks. ðə ˈjunɪt ɪz dɪˈvoʊtɪd tɪ ˈstɑpɪŋ ðə moʊst ˈdeɪnʤərəs ˈkrɪmənəlz ənd ɪkˈstriməsts, lɛd baɪ ðə ˈlæfɪŋ mæn hu wɪl stɑp æt ˈnəθɪŋ tɪ dɪˈstrɔɪ ədˈvænsmənts ɪn ˈsaɪbər tɛkˈnɑləʤi.
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in this photo distributed on tuesday by the north korean government, north korean leader kim jong un is shown visiting his military forces. photo: korea news press .
but concrete progress is less certain. pyongyang is expert at rapidly escalating and tensions, and the next cycle could begin as early as next week, when american forces begin annual joint exercises with south korea.
north turnaround also does little to address the trump challenge: stopping the quest for an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reliably delivering a nuclear warhead to the u.s. mainland.
pyongyang’s exact motivations for dialing down tensions are as opaque and subject to debate as its motivation for having threatened guam in the first place. in addition to concerns about further escalation, they appear to have been influenced by announcement monday that it would enforce new trade sanctions and diplomatic statements by senior u.s. officials.
officials in china, japan, south korea and many other nations had been alarmed last week when mr. trump threatened to unleash “fire and fury” in response to threats from north korea, and declared that u.s. military solutions were “locked and loaded.”
in many ways, north announcement on tuesday that it would hold threats to surround guam with an “enveloping fire” of ballistic missiles follows a familiar pattern in playbook.
beachgoers enjoy beach park in tamuning, guam on tuesday. north korea threatened an attack near the american territory before backing down this week. photo: justin images .
two years ago, during another august standoff, north korea issued a ultimatum to south korea to switch off loudspeakers blaring propaganda critical of north korean leader kim jong un across the demilitarized zone that separates the two countries, following the explosion of a land mine there that maimed two south korean soldiers. north korea threatened to use force to stop the broadcasts.
south korea ignored the deadline, and days later, north korea expressed regret for the land mine, dismissed several senior officials and put relations back on what it called a “track of reconciliation and trust.” south korea shut off its loudspeakers
in march last year, also during korea military exercises, pyongyang threatened to attack presidential palace unless it received an apology from then south korean president park geun-hye. no apology was forthcoming, and the threat never materialized.
north threat to guam was consistent with its record of using strategic brinkmanship to compensate for its relative weakness, said yang xiyu, a former chinese diplomat who has taken part in multilateral talks on north nuclear program.
“they try to create a situation where north korea and the u.s. are at the brink of war and if you want to save the whole world, then you have to return to negotiations,” he said.
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however, mr. yang said this time came faster than expected. he gave some of the credit for north apparent reversal to rapid implementation on monday of new united nations sanctions banning north korean exports of goods including coal, iron, lead and seafood.
“the significance is that if china can stop major imports like these, then it can do something further too,” he said.
china has resisted u.s. pressure to take bolder measures, such as cutting oil exports to pyongyang, fearing that might cause the regime to collapse, trigger a flood of refugees into northeastern china and bring u.s. forces closer to its border.
china almost certainly sent messages to the north koreans in the past few days warning them against firing missiles toward guam, said dennis wilder, a former senior china analyst at the central intelligence agency.
“kim [jong un] has to worry that the newly imposed u.n. sanctions will be combined with unannounced unilateral sanctions from beijing on such commodities as jet and diesel fuel,” mr. wilder said.
beijing also appeared to indicate displeasure with pyongyang by proceeding with a visit to china this week by gen. joe dunford, the chairman of the u.s. joint chiefs of staff, he added.
gen. dunford signed an agreement with his chinese counterpart on tuesday to formalize and increase the level of communication between the u.s. and chinese militaries. on wednesday, gen. dunford is due to visit northern theater command, which oversees chinese forces on the north korean border, according to chinese and u.s. military officials.
on a visit to seoul before arriving in beijing on tuesday, gen. dunford said the u.s. military was supporting efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the north korean crisis, even as it prepared other options.
his comments echoed remarks from other senior administration officials, including defense secretary jim mattis and secretary of state rex , who in recent days have sought to moderate mr. threats toward north korea.
some longtime north korea watchers say that north korea had likely never intended to launch four missiles toward guam. the leadership in pyongyang may also have been encouraged that, while president trump raised the rhetorical temperature last week , the u.s. refrained from taking any actions that would signal more of a war footing.
north korea was particularly sensitive about the dispatching of bombers from the u.s. air force base on guam, the initial stated impetus for the most recent threat, said euan graham, director of the international security program at the lowy institute for international policy, an australian think tank. the u.s. conducted any further since the threat against guam.
mr. tough talk could also have spooked the north koreans into fearing that the regime was truly in danger of unleashing a war against the u.s., said grant newsham, a senior research fellow at the japan forum for strategic studies in tokyo.
“maybe north korea felt that they had pushed it a little too far, at least for now,” said mr. newsham, a retired u.s. marine colonel. “now got a president who is certainly a different kind of president, and when kim starts talking big, trump says ‘i see you and raise you one.’
but any lull in tensions could prove ephemeral.
“i think taken the threat off the table,” said adam mount, senior fellow with the center for american progress think tank in washington.
the statement now appears to tie a guam launch to the coming military exercises, mr. mount said.
much could depend on whether the u.s. sends major assets, such as aircraft carriers, to participate, or stages drills.
ahead of those exercises, gen. vincent brooks, the top american military commander in south korea, on monday played down questions about whether the u.s. was planning to deploy more “strategic assets” to the korean peninsula. the phrase “strategic assets” typically refers to nuclear weapons, stealth bombers or aircraft of which tend to trigger complaints from pyongyang.
—lucy in hagatna, guam contributed to this article.
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ɪn ðɪs ˈfoʊˌtoʊ dɪˈstrɪbjətəd ɔn ˈtuzˌdeɪ baɪ ðə nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriən ˈgəvərnmənt, nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriən ˈlidər kɪm ʤɔŋ ˈjuˈɛn ɪz ʃoʊn ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ hɪz ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˈfɔrsɪz. ˈfoʊˌtoʊ: ˌkɔˈriə nuz prɛs bət ˈkɑnkrit ˈprɑˌgrɛs ɪz lɛs ˈsərtən. ˈpjɔŋˈjæŋ ɪz ˈɛkspərt æt ˈræpədli ˈɛskəˌleɪtɪŋ ənd ˈtɛnʧənz, ənd ðə nɛkst ˈsaɪkəl kʊd bɪˈgɪn ɛz ˈərli ɛz nɛkst wik, wɪn əˈmɛrɪkən ˈfɔrsɪz bɪˈgɪn ˈænjuəl ʤɔɪnt ˈɛksərˌsaɪzɪz wɪθ saʊθ ˌkɔˈriə. nɔrθ ˈtərnərˌaʊnd ˈɔlsoʊ dɪz ˈlɪtəl tɪ ˈæˌdrɛs ðə trəmp ˈʧælənʤ: ˈstɑpɪŋ ðə kwɛst fər ən ˌɪntərˌkɑntəˈnɛntəl bəˈlɪstɪk ˈmɪsəl ˈkeɪpəbəl əv rɪˈlaɪəbli dɪˈlɪvərɪŋ ə ˈnukliər ˈwɔˌrhɛd tɪ ðə juz. ˈmeɪnˌlænd. ɪgˈzækt ˌmoʊtəˈveɪʃənz fər ˈdaɪəlɪŋ daʊn ˈtɛnʧənz ər ɛz oʊˈpeɪk ənd ˈsəbʤɪkt tɪ dəˈbeɪt ɛz ɪts ˌmoʊtəˈveɪʃən fər ˈhævɪŋ θˈrɛtənd gwɑm ɪn ðə fərst pleɪs. ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ kənˈsərnz əˈbaʊt ˈfərðər ˌɛskəˈleɪʃən, ðeɪ əˈpɪr tɪ hæv bɪn ˈɪnfluənst baɪ əˈnaʊnsmɛnt ˈmənˌdeɪ ðət ɪt wʊd ɛnˈfɔrs nu treɪd ˈsæŋkʃənz ənd ˌdɪpləˈmætɪk ˈsteɪtmənts baɪ ˈsinjər juz. əˈfɪʃəlz. əˈfɪʃəlz ɪn ˈʧaɪnə, ʤəˈpæn, saʊθ ˌkɔˈriə ənd ˈmɛni ˈəðər ˈneɪʃənz hæd bɪn əˈlɑrmd læst wik wɪn ˈmɪstər. trəmp θˈrɛtənd tɪ ənˈliʃ ənd fury”*” ɪn rɪˈspɑns tɪ θrɛts frəm nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriə, ənd dɪˈklɛrd ðət juz. ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri səˈluʃənz wər ənd loaded.”*.” ɪn ˈmɛni weɪz, nɔrθ əˈnaʊnsmɛnt ɔn ˈtuzˌdeɪ ðət ɪt wʊd hoʊld θrɛts tɪ səraʊnd gwɑm wɪθ ən fire”*” əv bəˈlɪstɪk ˈmɪsəlz ˈfɑloʊz ə fəˈmɪljər ˈpætərn ɪn ˈpleɪbʊk. ˌɛnˈʤɔɪ biʧ pɑrk ɪn tamuning*, gwɑm ɔn ˈtuzˌdeɪ. nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriə θˈrɛtənd ən əˈtæk nɪr ðə əˈmɛrɪkən ˈtɛrɪˌtɔri ˌbiˈfɔr ˈbækɪŋ daʊn ðɪs wik. ˈfoʊˌtoʊ: ˈʤəstɪn ˈɪmɪʤɪz tu jɪrz əˈgoʊ, ˈdʊrɪŋ əˈnəðər ˈɔgəst ˈstænˌdɔf, nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriə ˈɪʃud ə ˌəltəˈmeɪtəm tɪ saʊθ ˌkɔˈriə tɪ swɪʧ ɔf ˈlaʊdˌspikərz ˈblɛrɪŋ ˌprɑpəˈgændə ˈkrɪtɪkəl əv nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriən ˈlidər kɪm ʤɔŋ ˈjuˈɛn əˈkrɔs ðə diˈmɪlətərˌaɪzd zoʊn ðət ˈsɛpərˌeɪts ðə tu ˈkəntriz, ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ðə ɪkˈsploʊʒən əv ə lænd maɪn ðɛr ðət meɪmd tu saʊθ ˌkɔˈriən ˈsoʊlʤərz. nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriə θˈrɛtənd tɪ juz fɔrs tɪ stɑp ðə ˈbrɔdˌkæsts. saʊθ ˌkɔˈriə ˌɪgˈnɔrd ðə ˈdɛˌdlaɪn, ənd deɪz ˈleɪtər, nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriə ɪkˈsprɛst rɪˈgrɛt fər ðə lænd maɪn, dɪsˈmɪst ˈsɛvərəl ˈsinjər əˈfɪʃəlz ənd pʊt riˈleɪʃənz bæk ɔn wət ɪt kɔld ə əv ˌrɛkənˌsɪliˈeɪʃən ənd trust.”*.” saʊθ ˌkɔˈriə ʃət ɔf ɪts ˈlaʊdˌspikərz ɪn mɑrʧ læst jɪr, ˈɔlsoʊ ˈdʊrɪŋ ˌkɔˈriə ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˈɛksərˌsaɪzɪz, ˈpjɔŋˈjæŋ θˈrɛtənd tɪ əˈtæk ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ˈpæləs ənˈlɛs ɪt rɪˈsivd ən əˈpɑləˌʤi frəm ðɛn saʊθ ˌkɔˈriən ˈprɛzɪdənt pɑrk geun-hye*. noʊ əˈpɑləˌʤi wɑz ˈfɔrθˈkəmɪŋ, ənd ðə θrɛt ˈnɛvər məˈtɪriəˌlaɪzd. nɔrθ θrɛt tɪ gwɑm wɑz kənˈsɪstənt wɪθ ɪts ˈrɛkərd əv ˈjuzɪŋ strəˈtiʤɪk ˈbrɪŋkmənˌʃɪp tɪ ˈkɑmpənˌseɪt fər ɪts ˈrɛlətɪv ˈwiknəs, sɛd jæŋ xiyu*, ə ˈfɔrmər ʧaɪˈniz ˈdɪpləˌmæt hu həz ˈteɪkən pɑrt ɪn ˌməltɪˈlætərəl tɔks ɔn nɔrθ ˈnukliər ˈproʊˌgræm. traɪ tɪ kriˈeɪt ə ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃən wɛr nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriə ənd ðə juz. ər æt ðə brɪŋk əv wɔr ənd ɪf ju wɔnt tɪ seɪv ðə hoʊl wərld, ðɛn ju hæv tɪ rɪˈtərn tɪ negotiations,”*,” hi sɛd. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ˈmɪstər. jæŋ sɛd ðɪs taɪm keɪm ˈfæstər ðən ɪkˈspɛktɪd. hi geɪv səm əv ðə ˈkrɛdɪt fər nɔrθ əˈpɛrənt rɪˈvərsəl tɪ ˈræpɪd ˌɪmpləmɛnˈteɪʃən ɔn ˈmənˌdeɪ əv nu juˈnaɪtɪd ˈneɪʃənz ˈsæŋkʃənz ˈbænɪŋ nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriən ˈɛkspɔrts əv gʊdz ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ koʊl, aɪərn, lɛd ənd ˈsiˌfud. sɪgˈnɪfɪkəns ɪz ðət ɪf ˈʧaɪnə kən stɑp ˈmeɪʤər ˌɪmˈpɔrts laɪk ðiz, ðɛn ɪt kən du ˈsəmθɪŋ ˈfərðər too,”*,” hi sɛd. ˈʧaɪnə həz rɪˈzɪstɪd juz. ˈprɛʃər tɪ teɪk ˈboʊldər ˈmɛʒərz, səʧ ɛz ˈkətɪŋ ɔɪl ˈɛkspɔrts tɪ ˈpjɔŋˈjæŋ, ˈfɪrɪŋ ðət maɪt kɔz ðə rəˈʒim tɪ kəˈlæps, ˈtrɪgər ə fləd əv ˈrɛfˌjuʤiz ˈɪntu ˌnɔrˈθistərn ˈʧaɪnə ənd brɪŋ juz. ˈfɔrsɪz ˈkloʊzər tɪ ɪts ˈbɔrdər. ˈʧaɪnə ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˈsərtənli sɛnt ˈmɛsɪʤɪz tɪ ðə nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriənz ɪn ðə pæst fju deɪz ˈwɔrnɪŋ ðɛm əˈgɛnst ˈfaɪərrɪŋ ˈmɪsəlz təˈwɔrd gwɑm, sɛd ˈdɛnɪs ˈwaɪldər, ə ˈfɔrmər ˈsinjər ˈʧaɪnə ˈænəlɪst æt ðə ˈsɛntrəl ˌɪnˈtɛləʤəns ˈeɪʤənsi. [ʤɔŋ ˈjuˈɛn] həz tɪ ˈwəri ðət ðə ˈnuli ˌɪmˈpoʊzd u.n*. ˈsæŋkʃənz wɪl bi kəmˈbaɪnd wɪθ ˌənəˈnaʊnst ˌjunəˈlætərəl ˈsæŋkʃənz frəm ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ ɔn səʧ kəˈmɑdətiz ɛz ʤɛt ənd ˈdizəl fuel,”*,” ˈmɪstər. ˈwaɪldər sɛd. ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ ˈɔlsoʊ əˈpɪrd tɪ ˈɪndəˌkeɪt dɪˈsplɛʒər wɪθ ˈpjɔŋˈjæŋ baɪ prəˈsidɪŋ wɪθ ə ˈvɪzɪt tɪ ˈʧaɪnə ðɪs wik baɪ ʤɛn. ʤoʊ ˈdənfərd, ðə ˈʧɛrmən əv ðə juz. ʤɔɪnt ʧifs əv stæf, hi ˈædɪd. ʤɛn. ˈdənfərd saɪnd ən əˈgrimənt wɪθ hɪz ʧaɪˈniz ˈkaʊntərˌpɑrt ɔn ˈtuzˌdeɪ tɪ ˈfɔrməˌlaɪz ənd ˌɪnˈkris ðə ˈlɛvəl əv kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃən bɪtˈwin ðə juz. ənd ʧaɪˈniz ˈmɪləˌtɛriz. ɔn ˈwɛnzˌdeɪ, ʤɛn. ˈdənfərd ɪz du tɪ ˈvɪzɪt ˈnɔrðərn ˈθieɪtər kəˈmænd, wɪʧ ˈoʊvərˌsiz ʧaɪˈniz ˈfɔrsɪz ɔn ðə nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriən ˈbɔrdər, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ʧaɪˈniz ənd juz. ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri əˈfɪʃəlz. ɔn ə ˈvɪzɪt tɪ soʊl ˌbiˈfɔr ərˈaɪvɪŋ ɪn ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ ɔn ˈtuzˌdeɪ, ʤɛn. ˈdənfərd sɛd ðə juz. ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri wɑz səˈpɔrtɪŋ ˈɛfərts tɪ faɪnd ə ˌdɪpləˈmætɪk səˈluʃən tɪ ðə nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriən ˈkraɪsəs, ˈivɪn ɛz ɪt priˈpɛrd ˈəðər ˈɔpʃənz. hɪz ˈkɑmɛnts ˈɛkoʊd rɪˈmɑrks frəm ˈəðər ˈsinjər ædˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən əˈfɪʃəlz, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ dɪˈfɛns ˈsɛkrəˌtɛri ʤɪm ˈmætɪs ənd ˈsɛkrəˌtɛri əv steɪt rɛks hu ɪn ˈrisənt deɪz hæv sɔt tɪ ˈmɑdərˌeɪt ˈmɪstər. θrɛts təˈwɔrd nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriə. səm ˈlɔŋˌtaɪm nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriə ˈwɑʧərz seɪ ðət nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriə hæd ˈlaɪkli ˈnɛvər ˌɪnˈtɛndɪd tɪ lɔnʧ fɔr ˈmɪsəlz təˈwɔrd gwɑm. ðə ˈlidərˌʃɪp ɪn ˈpjɔŋˈjæŋ meɪ ˈɔlsoʊ hæv bɪn ɪnˈkərəʤd ðət, waɪl ˈprɛzɪdənt trəmp reɪzd ðə rɪˈtɔrɪkəl ˈtɛmpərəʧər læst wik ðə juz. rɪˈfreɪnd frəm ˈteɪkɪŋ ˈɛni ˈækʃənz ðət wʊd ˈsɪgnəl mɔr əv ə wɔr ˈfʊtɪŋ. nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriə wɑz ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli ˈsɛnsɪtɪv əˈbaʊt ðə dɪˈspæʧɪŋ əv ˈbɑmərz frəm ðə juz. ɛr fɔrs beɪs ɔn gwɑm, ðə ˌɪˈnɪʃəl ˈsteɪtɪd ˈɪmpətəs fər ðə moʊst ˈrisənt θrɛt, sɛd juən græm, dɪˈrɛktər əv ðə ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈproʊˌgræm æt ðə loʊi ˈɪnstɪˌtut fər ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl ˈpɑləsi, ən ɔˈstreɪljən θɪŋk tæŋk. ðə juz. kənˈdəktəd ˈɛni ˈfərðər sɪns ðə θrɛt əˈgɛnst gwɑm. ˈmɪstər. təf tɔk kʊd ˈɔlsoʊ hæv spukt ðə nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriənz ˈɪntu ˈfɪrɪŋ ðət ðə rəˈʒim wɑz ˈtruli ɪn ˈdeɪnʤər əv ənˈliʃɪŋ ə wɔr əˈgɛnst ðə juz., sɛd grænt ˈnuʃəm, ə ˈsinjər ˈrisərʧ ˈfɛloʊ æt ðə ʤəˈpæn ˈfɔrəm fər strəˈtiʤɪk ˈstədiz ɪn ˈtoʊkiˌoʊ. nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriə fɛlt ðət ðeɪ hæd pʊʃt ɪt ə ˈlɪtəl tu fɑr, æt list fər now,”*,” sɛd ˈmɪstər. ˈnuʃəm, ə rɪˈtaɪrd juz. mərˈin ˈkərnəl. gɑt ə ˈprɛzɪdənt hu ɪz ˈsərtənli ə ˈdɪfərənt kaɪnd əv ˈprɛzɪdənt, ənd wɪn kɪm stɑrts ˈtɔkɪŋ bɪg, trəmp sɪz si ju ənd reɪz ju one.’*.’ bət ˈɛni ləl ɪn ˈtɛnʧənz kʊd pruv ɪˈfɛmərəl. θɪŋk ˈteɪkən ðə θrɛt ɔf ðə table,”*,” sɛd ˈædəm maʊnt, ˈsinjər ˈfɛloʊ wɪθ ðə ˈsɛnər fər əˈmɛrɪkən ˈprɑˌgrɛs θɪŋk tæŋk ɪn ˈwɔʃɪŋtən. ðə ˈsteɪtmənt naʊ əˈpɪrz tɪ taɪ ə gwɑm lɔnʧ tɪ ðə ˈkəmɪŋ ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˈɛksərˌsaɪzɪz, ˈmɪstər. maʊnt sɛd. məʧ kʊd dɪˈpɛnd ɔn ˈwɛðər ðə juz. sɛndz ˈmeɪʤər ˈæˌsɛts, səʧ ɛz ˈɛrˌkræft ˈkɛriərz, tɪ pɑrˈtɪsəˌpeɪt, ər ˈsteɪʤɪz drɪlz. əˈhɛd əv ðoʊz ˈɛksərˌsaɪzɪz, ʤɛn. ˈvɪnsɪnt brʊks, ðə tɔp əˈmɛrɪkən ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri kəˈmændər ɪn saʊθ ˌkɔˈriə, ɔn ˈmənˌdeɪ pleɪd daʊn kˈwɛsʧənz əˈbaʊt ˈwɛðər ðə juz. wɑz ˈplænɪŋ tɪ dɪˈplɔɪ mɔr assets”*” tɪ ðə ˌkɔˈriən pəˈnɪnsələ. ðə freɪz assets”*” ˈtɪpɪkəli rɪˈfərz tɪ ˈnukliər ˈwɛpənz, stɛlθ ˈbɑmərz ər ˈɛrˌkræft əv wɪʧ tɛnd tɪ ˈtrɪgər kəmˈpleɪnts frəm ˈpjɔŋˈjæŋ. ɪn hagatna*, gwɑm kənˈtrɪbjutɪd tɪ ðɪs ˈɑrtɪkəl.
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do academic journals favor authors who share their institutional affiliation? to answer this question we examine citation counts, as a proxy for paper quality, for articles published in four leading international relations journals during the years. we compare citation counts for articles written by “in-group members” (authors affiliated with the publishing institution) versus “out-group members” (authors not affiliated with that institution). articles written by authors received 18% to 49% fewer web of science citations when published in their home journal (international security or world politics) vs. an unaffiliated journal, compared to authors. these results are mainly driven by authors who received their from harvard or mit. the findings show evidence of a bias within some journals towards publishing papers by faculty from their home institution, at the expense of paper quality.
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du ˌækəˈdɛmɪk ˈʤərnəlz ˈfeɪvər ˈɔθərz hu ʃɛr ðɛr ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃənəl əˌfɪliˈeɪʃən? tɪ ˈænsər ðɪs kˈwɛʃən wi ɪgˈzæmɪn saɪˈteɪʃən kaʊnts, ɛz ə ˈprɑksi fər ˈpeɪpər kˈwɑləti, fər ˈɑrtɪkəlz ˈpəblɪʃt ɪn fɔr ˈlidɪŋ ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl riˈleɪʃənz ˈʤərnəlz ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə jɪrz wi kəmˈpɛr saɪˈteɪʃən kaʊnts fər ˈɑrtɪkəlz ˈrɪtən baɪ members”*” (ˈɔθərz əˈfɪliˌeɪtɪd wɪθ ðə ˈpəblɪʃɪŋ ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃən) ˈvərsəz members”*” (ˈɔθərz nɑt əˈfɪliˌeɪtɪd wɪθ ðət ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃən). ˈɑrtɪkəlz ˈrɪtən baɪ ˈɔθərz rɪˈsivd 18 tɪ 49 fjuər wɛb əv saɪəns saɪˈteɪʃənz wɪn ˈpəblɪʃt ɪn ðɛr hoʊm ˈʤərnəl (ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl sɪˈkjʊrəti ər wərld ˈpɑləˌtɪks) ˈvərsəz. ən ənəˈfɪliˌeɪtɪd ˈʤərnəl, kəmˈpɛrd tɪ ˈɔθərz. ðiz rɪˈzəlts ər ˈmeɪnli ˈdrɪvən baɪ ˈɔθərz hu rɪˈsivd ðɛr frəm ˈhɑrvərd ər ˈɛˈmaɪˈti. ðə ˈfaɪndɪŋz ʃoʊ ˈɛvədəns əv ə baɪəs wɪˈθɪn səm ˈʤərnəlz təˈwɔrdz ˈpəblɪʃɪŋ ˈpeɪpərz baɪ ˈfækəlti frəm ðɛr hoʊm ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃən, æt ðə ɪkˈspɛns əv ˈpeɪpər kˈwɑləti.
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china lashes out at us after claims beijing is deploying ‘covert agents’
china has lashed out at the united states for its “uncooperative” attitude and suggested it is becoming a haven for chinese criminals, after washington accused beijing of deploying “covert agents” on american soil in a bid to snare fugitives wanted as part of president xi war on corruption.
with just weeks to go until xi makes his first state visit to the us, american officials have reportedly demanded beijing stop sending undercover chinese law enforcement agents there to take part in what beijing calls “operation fox hunt”.
the campaign to bring fugitives back to china is a key element of high-profile offensive against corruption in the ruling communist party.
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china is understood to have handed lists of targets to countries including the us, australia, france, canada and the uk.
however, there is “escalating anger” in washington over the “strong-arm tactics” including intimidation and threats allegedly being used by chinese agents to bring fugitives home, the new york times reported on sunday.
us officials said they had solid evidence the agents were not in the us “on acknowledged government business” and were likely coming into the country on tourist or business visas.
the issue has added to tensions between the two countries ahead of xi trip to the us in september.
already this year, the countries have locked horns over issues including the alleged hacking of millions of us government personnel files and artificial island building campaign in the south china sea.
among those whose return beijing is demanding is ling wancheng, a rich and businessman who had reportedly been living in california. brother a former presidential called ling was arrested and expelled from the communist party last month and his whereabouts are currently unknown.
china’s media reacted angrily to us claims that its agents were operating outside the law.
“the ‘chinese secret agents’ are nothing but a fantasy,” the global times, a tabloid, complained in an editorial on tuesday. “the chinese police officers set foot on the us soil by legal means and they take actions that are fair and square.
“the us government is becoming more uncooperative with china in its endeavors [and] the us media falsely accused china of using operation fox hunt to deploy secret agents on us soil,” added the newspaper, whose stridently nationalist views sometimes reflect those of the central government.
“the us is providing shelter to those on the run. we have reason to suspect that the us wants to divert attention and regain the moral high ground.”
xinhua, official news wire, said us attempts “to force law enforcement staff to leave the country obviously reveals that washington lacks sincerity”.
“the united states, as a country that often stresses the rule of law, should clarify the issue and by no means become a safe haven for chinese criminal suspects,” it added.
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in a story, the china daily cited a source in ministry of public security who admitted its agents had travelled abroad in an attempt to “persuade” suspects “to come back to confess their crimes”. however, the source insisted such agents were strict about doing so on “official visas”.
the global times’ editorial claimed that apart from the us, “no other countries have issued complaints about the operation or conspired tales of ‘secret agents’ to hinder the process”.
however, officials from other countries targeted by operation fox hunt, while publicly supportive of the campaign, privately express deep unease at its modus operandi.
some worry about the tactics being used by xi teams and suspect some targets are the victims of political vendettas rather than genuine corruption investigations.
others believe beijing is exaggerating the scale of its “fox hunt” in an attempt to convince the chinese public that it is winning the war on corruption.
“in principle, foreign governments will say: ‘yes, of course we will support clamping down on corruption because it does impact on foreign interests in china.’ but in practice i am sure that they will have lots of questions about the methods being used and the people being pursued,” said kerry brown, the director of the china studies centre at the university of sydney and a former british diplomat in china.
“if they are aware that there is a political agenda and there probably is in most of these cases then they have to be very, very careful.”
during a visit last year to the beijing headquarters of agency, brown said officials had talked about the “innovative investigative methods” being used by its agents.
“part of that is making up the rules as you go along, part of it is ends justifying means and part of it is making sure that you have always got the upper hand and you are concealing your intentions. a lot of smoke and mirrors stuff.”
brown said beijing boasting that it was sending agents abroad was most likely intended to impress chinese citizens but it had not played well with foreign governments.
“china certainly like foreign agents operating on chinese territory, so why on earth should the rest of the world embrace chinese foreign agents operating on their territory?” he said.
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ˈʧaɪnə ˈlæʃɪz aʊt æt ˈjuˈɛs ˈæftər kleɪmz ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ ɪz dɪˈplɔɪɪŋ agents’*’ ˈʧaɪnə həz læʃt aʊt æt ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts fər ɪts ““uncooperative”*” ˈætəˌtud ənd səˈʤɛstɪd ɪt ɪz bɪˈkəmɪŋ ə ˈheɪvən fər ʧaɪˈniz ˈkrɪmənəlz, ˈæftər ˈwɔʃɪŋtən əˈkjuzd ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ əv dɪˈplɔɪɪŋ agents”*” ɔn əˈmɛrɪkən sɔɪl ɪn ə bɪd tɪ snɛr fˈjuʤɪtɪvz ˈwɔntɪd ɛz pɑrt əv ˈprɛzɪdənt ʃi wɔr ɔn kərˈəpʃən. wɪθ ʤɪst wiks tɪ goʊ ənˈtɪl ʃi meɪks hɪz fərst steɪt ˈvɪzɪt tɪ ðə ˈjuˈɛs, əˈmɛrɪkən əˈfɪʃəlz hæv rɪˈpɔrtədli dɪˈmændɪd ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ stɑp ˈsɛndɪŋ ˌəndərˈkəvər ʧaɪˈniz lɔ ɛnˈfɔrsmənt ˈeɪʤənts ðɛr tɪ teɪk pɑrt ɪn wət ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ kɔlz fɑks hunt”*”. ðə kæmˈpeɪn tɪ brɪŋ fˈjuʤɪtɪvz bæk tɪ ˈʧaɪnə ɪz ə ki ˈɛləmənt əv ˌhaɪˈproʊfaɪl əˈfɛnsɪv əˈgɛnst kərˈəpʃən ɪn ðə ˈrulɪŋ ˈkɑmjənəst ˈpɑrti. ˈpɑlətˌbjʊroʊ, ˈɑrmi, kəˈsinoʊz: kərˈəpʃən ˈkrækˌdaʊn sprɛdz rɛd mɔr ˈʧaɪnə ɪz ˌəndərˈstʊd tɪ hæv ˈhændɪd lɪsts əv ˈtɑrgəts tɪ ˈkəntriz ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ðə ˈjuˈɛs, ɔˈstreɪljə, fræns, ˈkænədə ənd ðə uk*. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ðɛr ɪz anger”*” ɪn ˈwɔʃɪŋtən ˈoʊvər ðə tactics”*” ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˌɪnˌtɪmɪˈdeɪʃən ənd θrɛts əˈlɛʤədli biɪŋ juzd baɪ ʧaɪˈniz ˈeɪʤənts tɪ brɪŋ fˈjuʤɪtɪvz hoʊm, ðə nu jɔrk taɪmz ˌriˈpɔrtəd ɔn ˈsənˌdi. ˈjuˈɛs əˈfɪʃəlz sɛd ðeɪ hæd ˈsɑləd ˈɛvədəns ðə ˈeɪʤənts wər nɑt ɪn ðə ˈjuˈɛs ækˈnɑlɪʤd ˈgəvərnmənt business”*” ənd wər ˈlaɪkli ˈkəmɪŋ ˈɪntu ðə ˈkəntri ɔn ˈtʊrɪst ər ˈbɪznɪs ˈvizəz. ðə ˈɪʃu həz ˈædɪd tɪ ˈtɛnʧənz bɪtˈwin ðə tu ˈkəntriz əˈhɛd əv ʃi trɪp tɪ ðə ˈjuˈɛs ɪn sɛpˈtɛmbər. ɔˈrɛdi ðɪs jɪr, ðə ˈkəntriz hæv lɑkt hɔrnz ˈoʊvər ˈɪʃuz ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ðə əˈlɛʤd ˈhækɪŋ əv ˈmɪljənz əv ˈjuˈɛs ˈgəvərnmənt ˌpərsəˈnɛl faɪlz ənd ˌɑrtəˈfɪʃəl ˈaɪlənd ˈbɪldɪŋ kæmˈpeɪn ɪn ðə saʊθ ˈʧaɪnə si. əˈməŋ ðoʊz huz rɪˈtərn ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ ɪz dɪˈmændɪŋ ɪz lɪŋ wancheng*, ə rɪʧ ənd ˈbɪznɪsˌmæn hu hæd rɪˈpɔrtədli bɪn ˈlɪvɪŋ ɪn ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə. ˈbrəðər ə ˈfɔrmər ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl kɔld lɪŋ wɑz ərˈɛstɪd ənd ɪkˈspɛld frəm ðə ˈkɑmjənəst ˈpɑrti læst mənθ ənd hɪz ˈwɛrəˌbaʊts ər ˈkərəntli ənˈnoʊn. ˈmidiə riˈæktɪd ˈæŋgrəli tɪ ˈjuˈɛs kleɪmz ðət ɪts ˈeɪʤənts wər ˈɔpərˌeɪtɪŋ ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ðə lɔ. ˈsikrɪt agents’*’ ər ˈnəθɪŋ bət ə fantasy,”*,” ðə ˈgloʊbəl taɪmz, ə ˈtæblɔɪd, kəmˈpleɪnd ɪn ən ˌɛdəˈtɔriəl ɔn ˈtuzˌdeɪ. ʧaɪˈniz pəˈlis ˈɔfɪsərz sɛt fʊt ɔn ðə ˈjuˈɛs sɔɪl baɪ ˈligəl minz ənd ðeɪ teɪk ˈækʃənz ðət ər fɛr ənd skwɛr. ˈjuˈɛs ˈgəvərnmənt ɪz bɪˈkəmɪŋ mɔr ənkoʊˈɑpərətɪv wɪθ ˈʧaɪnə ɪn ɪts ɪnˈdɛvərz [ənd] ðə ˈjuˈɛs ˈmidiə ˈfɔlsli əˈkjuzd ˈʧaɪnə əv ˈjuzɪŋ ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən fɑks hənt tɪ dɪˈplɔɪ ˈsikrɪt ˈeɪʤənts ɔn ˈjuˈɛs soil,”*,” ˈædɪd ðə ˈnuzˌpeɪpər, huz ˈstraɪdəntli ˈnæʃənəlɪst vjuz ˈsəmˌtaɪmz rɪˈflɛkt ðoʊz əv ðə ˈsɛntrəl ˈgəvərnmənt. ˈjuˈɛs ɪz prəˈvaɪdɪŋ ˈʃɛltər tɪ ðoʊz ɔn ðə rən. wi hæv ˈrizən tɪ ˈsəˌspɛkt ðət ðə ˈjuˈɛs wɔnts tɪ dɪˈvərt əˈtɛnʃən ənd rɪˈgeɪn ðə ˈmɔrəl haɪ ground.”*.” ˈzɪnhjuə, əˈfɪʃəl nuz waɪər, sɛd ˈjuˈɛs əˈtɛmpts fɔrs lɔ ɛnˈfɔrsmənt stæf tɪ liv ðə ˈkəntri ˈɑbviəsli rɪˈvilz ðət ˈwɔʃɪŋtən læks sincerity”*”. juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts, ɛz ə ˈkəntri ðət ˈɔfən ˈstrɛsɪz ðə rul əv lɔ, ʃʊd ˈklɛrəˌfaɪ ðə ˈɪʃu ənd baɪ noʊ minz bɪˈkəm ə seɪf ˈheɪvən fər ʧaɪˈniz ˈkrɪmənəl suspects,”*,” ɪt ˈædɪd. ʧaɪˈniz hæk əv ˈjuˈɛs ˈnæʃənəl sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈditeɪlz rɪˈvild deɪz ˈæftər ˈrəʃən hæk rɛd mɔr ɪn ə ˈstɔri, ðə ˈʧaɪnə ˈdeɪli ˈsaɪtɪd ə sɔrs ɪn ˈmɪnɪstri əv ˈpəblɪk sɪˈkjʊrəti hu ədˈmɪtəd ɪts ˈeɪʤənts hæd ˈtrævəld əˈbrɔd ɪn ən əˈtɛmpt tɪ ““persuade”*” ˈsəˌspɛkts kəm bæk tɪ kənˈfɛs ðɛr crimes”*”. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ðə sɔrs ˌɪnˈsɪstɪd səʧ ˈeɪʤənts wər strɪkt əˈbaʊt duɪŋ soʊ ɔn visas”*”. ðə ˈgloʊbəl times’*’ ˌɛdəˈtɔriəl kleɪmd ðət əˈpɑrt frəm ðə ˈjuˈɛs, ˈəðər ˈkəntriz hæv ˈɪʃud kəmˈpleɪnts əˈbaʊt ðə ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən ər kənˈspaɪərd teɪlz əv agents’*’ tɪ ˈhɪndər ðə process”*”. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, əˈfɪʃəlz frəm ˈəðər ˈkəntriz ˈtɑrgətɪd baɪ ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən fɑks hənt, waɪl ˈpəblɪkli səˈpɔrtɪv əv ðə kæmˈpeɪn, ˈpraɪvətli ɪkˈsprɛs dip əˈniz æt ɪts ˈmoʊdəs ˌɑpərˈɛndaɪ. səm ˈwəri əˈbaʊt ðə ˈtæktɪks biɪŋ juzd baɪ ʃi timz ənd ˈsəˌspɛkt səm ˈtɑrgəts ər ðə ˈvɪktɪmz əv pəˈlɪtɪkəl vɛnˈdɛtəz ˈrəðər ðən ˈʤɛnjuˌaɪn kərˈəpʃən ˌɪnˌvɛstəˈgeɪʃənz. ˈəðərz bɪˈliv ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ ɪz ɪgˈzæʤərˌeɪtɪŋ ðə skeɪl əv ɪts hunt”*” ɪn ən əˈtɛmpt tɪ kənˈvɪns ðə ʧaɪˈniz ˈpəblɪk ðət ɪt ɪz ˈwɪnɪŋ ðə wɔr ɔn kərˈəpʃən. ˈprɪnsəpəl, ˈfɔrən ˈgəvərnmənts wɪl seɪ: ‘‘yes*, əv kɔrs wi wɪl səˈpɔrt ˈklæmpɪŋ daʊn ɔn kərˈəpʃən bɪˈkəz ɪt dɪz ˌɪmˈpækt ɔn ˈfɔrən ˈɪntərɪsts ɪn china.’*.’ bət ɪn ˈpræktɪs aɪ æm ʃʊr ðət ðeɪ wɪl hæv lɑts əv kˈwɛsʧənz əˈbaʊt ðə ˈmɛθədz biɪŋ juzd ənd ðə ˈpipəl biɪŋ pursued,”*,” sɛd ˈkɛri braʊn, ðə dɪˈrɛktər əv ðə ˈʧaɪnə ˈstədiz ˈsɛntər æt ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv ˈsɪdni ənd ə ˈfɔrmər ˈbrɪtɪʃ ˈdɪpləˌmæt ɪn ˈʧaɪnə. ðeɪ ər əˈwɛr ðət ðɛr ɪz ə pəˈlɪtɪkəl əˈʤɛndə ənd ðɛr ˈprɑbəˌbli ɪz ɪn moʊst əv ðiz ˈkeɪsɪz ðɛn ðeɪ hæv tɪ bi ˈvɛri, ˈvɛri careful.”*.” ˈdʊrɪŋ ə ˈvɪzɪt læst jɪr tɪ ðə ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ ˈhɛdˌkɔrtərz əv ˈeɪʤənsi, braʊn sɛd əˈfɪʃəlz hæd tɔkt əˈbaʊt ðə ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪtɪv methods”*” biɪŋ juzd baɪ ɪts ˈeɪʤənts. əv ðət ɪz ˈmeɪkɪŋ əp ðə rulz ɛz ju goʊ əˈlɔŋ, pɑrt əv ɪt ɪz ɛndz ˈʤəstəˌfaɪɪŋ minz ənd pɑrt əv ɪt ɪz ˈmeɪkɪŋ ʃʊr ðət ju hæv ˈɔlˌweɪz gɑt ðə ˈəpər hænd ənd ju ər kənˈsilɪŋ jʊr ˌɪnˈtɛnʧənz. ə lɔt əv smoʊk ənd ˈmɪrərz stuff.”*.” braʊn sɛd ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ ˈboʊstɪŋ ðət ɪt wɑz ˈsɛndɪŋ ˈeɪʤənts əˈbrɔd wɑz moʊst ˈlaɪkli ˌɪnˈtɛndɪd tɪ ˌɪmˈprɛs ʧaɪˈniz ˈsɪtɪzənz bət ɪt hæd nɑt pleɪd wɛl wɪθ ˈfɔrən ˈgəvərnmənts. ˈsərtənli laɪk ˈfɔrən ˈeɪʤənts ˈɔpərˌeɪtɪŋ ɔn ʧaɪˈniz ˈtɛrɪˌtɔri, soʊ waɪ ɔn ərθ ʃʊd ðə rɛst əv ðə wərld ɪmˈbreɪs ʧaɪˈniz ˈfɔrən ˈeɪʤənts ˈɔpərˌeɪtɪŋ ɔn ðɛr territory?”*?” hi sɛd.
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which will be the first rave back inside the l.a. memorial coliseum??
massive news for all those in southern california, just in general! we have our first hero in power: future mayor of los angeles eric garcetti. mr. garcetti was posed the question on (“ask me anything”) last night: “would he allow music festivals to happen in la again, especially at the coliseum. huge festivals like electric daisy carnival bring in a huge inflow of cash to the city and surrounding neighborhoods…” eric responded to the question in no uncertain or waffling terms, “yes! i want some signature festivals here in la, the music capital of the world. if you like electronic music, then l.a. is where the scene is at.” loaded, extremely concrete words coming from the future incumbent. however if you follow the future mayor at all, his statement come as a surprise. eric previously held a fundraiser at a massive club (avalon hollywood) with steve aoki himself’ing the event. how progressive can you get? yes, electronic music have our new champion in the political world: eric garcetti.
what a breath of fresh air this is to those who have faced early shutdowns of electronic music events in the socal area as of late, and especially after’s run in l.a. ended after the unfortunate illegal entry and death on the premises of an underage girl which forced’s departure from the city of angels. then the city watched the festivals’ epic explosion to a celebration in 2011 along with its relocation to las vegas motor speedway via a contract. after missing out on that massive moneymaker (speaking from a political point of view, of eric understands the genre and what it is about, unlike some media personalities williams*cough*), it makes you wonder what kind of massive raves eric has in mind for the “signature festivals” in the near future!
whats your bet on the first rave to hit the coliseum next?!
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wɪʧ wɪl bi ðə fərst reɪv bæk ˌɪnˈsaɪd ðə l.a*. məˈmɔriəl ˌkɑləˈsiəm?? ˈmæsɪv nuz fər ɔl ðoʊz ɪn ˈsəðərn ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə, ʤɪst ɪn ˈʤɛnərəl! wi hæv ɑr fərst ˈhɪroʊ ɪn paʊər: fˈjuʧər meɪər əv lɔs ˈænʤəlɪs ˈɛrɪk ˌgɑˈrʧɛti. ˈmɪstər. ˌgɑˈrʧɛti wɑz poʊzd ðə kˈwɛʃən ɔn mi anything”*”) læst naɪt: hi əˈlaʊ mˈjuzɪk ˈfɛstɪvəlz tɪ ˈhæpən ɪn lɑ əˈgɛn, əˈspɛʃəli æt ðə ˌkɑləˈsiəm. juʤ ˈfɛstɪvəlz laɪk ɪˈlɛktrɪk ˈdeɪzi ˈkɑrnəvəl brɪŋ ɪn ə juʤ ˈɪnˌfloʊ əv kæʃ tɪ ðə ˈsɪti ənd sərˈaʊndɪŋ neighborhoods…”*…” ˈɛrɪk rɪˈspɑndɪd tɪ ðə kˈwɛʃən ɪn noʊ ənˈsərtən ər ˈwɑflɪŋ tərmz, ““yes*! aɪ wɔnt səm ˈsɪgnəʧər ˈfɛstɪvəlz hir ɪn lɑ, ðə mˈjuzɪk ˈkæpɪtəl əv ðə wərld. ɪf ju laɪk ˌɪˌlɛkˈtrɑnɪk mˈjuzɪk, ðɛn l.a*. ɪz wɛr ðə sin ɪz at.”*.” ˈloʊdɪd, ɪkˈstrimli ˈkɑnkrit wərdz ˈkəmɪŋ frəm ðə fˈjuʧər ˌɪnˈkəmbənt. ˌhaʊˈɛvər ɪf ju ˈfɑloʊ ðə fˈjuʧər meɪər æt ɔl, hɪz ˈsteɪtmənt kəm ɛz ə səˈpraɪz. ˈɛrɪk ˈpriviəsli hɛld ə ˈfənˌdreɪzər æt ə ˈmæsɪv kləb (ˈævəˌlɑn ˈhɑliˌwʊd) wɪθ stiv eɪˈoʊki hɪmˈsɛlf ðə ɪˈvɛnt. haʊ prəˈgrɛsɪv kən ju gɪt? jɛs, ˌɪˌlɛkˈtrɑnɪk mˈjuzɪk hæv ɑr nu ˈʧæmpiən ɪn ðə pəˈlɪtɪkəl wərld: ˈɛrɪk ˌgɑˈrʧɛti. wət ə brɛθ əv frɛʃ ɛr ðɪs ɪz tɪ ðoʊz hu hæv feɪst ˈərli ˈʃətˌdaʊnz əv ˌɪˌlɛkˈtrɑnɪk mˈjuzɪk ɪˈvɛnts ɪn ðə ˈsoʊkəl ˈɛriə ɛz əv leɪt, ənd əˈspɛʃəli ˈæftər rən ɪn l.a*. ˈɛndɪd ˈæftər ðə ənˈfɔrʧənət ˌɪˈligəl ˈɛntri ənd dɛθ ɔn ðə ˈprɛməsəz əv ən ˈəndərɪʤ gərl wɪʧ fɔrst dɪˈpɑrʧər frəm ðə ˈsɪti əv ˈeɪnʤəlz. ðɛn ðə ˈsɪti wɔʧt ðə festivals’*’ ˈɛpɪk ɪkˈsploʊʒən tɪ ə ˌsɛləˈbreɪʃən ɪn 2011 əˈlɔŋ wɪθ ɪts ˌriˈloʊˈkeɪʃən tɪ ˈɛˈleɪˈɛs ˈveɪgəs ˈmoʊtər ˈspidˌweɪ ˈviə ə ˈkɑnˌtrækt. ˈæftər ˈmɪsɪŋ aʊt ɔn ðət ˈmæsɪv ˈməniˌmeɪkər (ˈspikɪŋ frəm ə pəˈlɪtɪkəl pɔɪnt əv vju, əv ˈɛrɪk ˌəndərˈstændz ðə ˈʒɑnrə ənd wət ɪt ɪz əˈbaʊt, ənˈlaɪk səm ˈmidiə ˌpərsəˈnælɪtiz williams*cough**), ɪt meɪks ju ˈwəndər wət kaɪnd əv ˈmæsɪv reɪvz ˈɛrɪk həz ɪn maɪnd fər ðə festivals”*” ɪn ðə nɪr fˈjuʧər! wəts jʊr bɛt ɔn ðə fərst reɪv tɪ hɪt ðə ˌkɑləˈsiəm nɛkst?!
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image copyright pa image caption seema malhotra is among critics of jeremy to have resigned from the shadow cabinet
a labour claim that her office was entered without her permission does not amount to a possible breach of commons rules, says speaker john.
seema malhotra had complained to mr that aides to leader jeremy and shadow chancellor john mcdonnell gained entry".
mr said this did not suggest any breach ofs' parliamentary privilege.
ms malhotra said she "regretted the distress" caused on both sides but said the episode "should not have happened".
mr mcdonnell has called on her to apologise.
the shadow chancellor said at the time of ms complaint that his office manager thought the premises were no longer occupied, and he accused mr's critics of picking on members of staff.
privacy and confidentiality
he said the member of staff, who was worried about losing her job, had apologised to ms team and that he had not been told about the incident before the formal complaint was lodged.
ms malhotra, who resigned as shadow chief secretary to the treasury last month in protest at mr's leadership, had complained about two officials - one working for mr and another who works for mr mcdonnell.
image copyright house of commons image caption a copy of john's letter to seema malhotra released by the office
she said there had been access to her office "on more than one occasion", which she claimed had interfered with her ability to her role as an in terms of compromising privacy and confidentiality.
the wrote to mr calling for an official commons investigation, saying her staff had felt "harassed, intimidated and insecure".
replying to her request, the speaker said: "having taken advice, i am satisfied that there is nothing in your letter or in the information subsequently elicited by the deputy at arms which would justify regarding these events as a possible breach."
'without my knowledge'
reacting to the news, mr mcdonnell said: "it's only right and fair that seema now apologises for the stress she has caused to my staff over the last few days.
"as i said on the andrew marr show on sunday the labour party needs to unite and actions like this which are only being used to try to undermine jeremy's leadership must stop."
ms malhotra said she recognised the speaker did not have "sufficient evidence" to determine whether the rules on parliamentary privilege - under whichs are guaranteed certain immunities and rights to enable them to perform their duties - had been broken.
but she said there remained a number of "unanswered questions" about who was allowed entry intos' offices.
"i welcome the speaker's statement that 'nobody should enter a member of parliament's office or the office of their staff, locked or unlocked, without their permission'. this vindicates my view that what happened should not have happened.
"my staff have been distressed by what has happened. i regret the distress that has been caused on both sides. but i come back to what this is all about: our office was entered without our knowledge and without my permission.
"and the speaker has ruled today that should not happen."
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ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkɑpiˌraɪt pɑ ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkæpʃən ˈsimɑ ˌmæˈlhɑtrə ɪz əˈməŋ ˈkrɪtɪks əv ˈʤɛrəˌmi tɪ hæv rɪˈzaɪnd frəm ðə ˈʃæˌdoʊ ˈkæbənət ə ˈleɪbər kleɪm ðət hər ˈɔfəs wɑz ˈɛnərd wɪˈθaʊt hər pərˈmɪʃən dɪz nɑt əˈmaʊnt tɪ ə ˈpɑsəbəl briʧ əv ˈkɑmənz rulz, sɪz ˈspikər ʤɑn. ˈsimɑ ˌmæˈlhɑtrə hæd kəmˈpleɪnd tɪ ˈmɪstər ðət eɪdz tɪ ˈlidər ˈʤɛrəˌmi ənd ˈʃæˌdoʊ ˈʧænsələr ʤɑn məkˈdɑnəl geɪnd ˈɛntri". ˈmɪstər sɛd ðɪs dɪd nɑt səˈʤɛst ˈɛni briʧ əv' ˌpɑrləˈmɛntəri ˈprɪvɪlɪʤ. mɪz ˌmæˈlhɑtrə sɛd ʃi "rɪˈgrɛtɪd ðə dɪˈstrɛs" kɔzd ɔn boʊθ saɪdz bət sɛd ðə ˈɛpɪˌsoʊd "ʃʊd nɑt hæv ˈhæpənd". ˈmɪstər məkˈdɑnəl həz kɔld ɔn hər tɪ əˈpɑləˌʤaɪz. ðə ˈʃæˌdoʊ ˈʧænsələr sɛd æt ðə taɪm əv mɪz kəmˈpleɪnt ðət hɪz ˈɔfəs ˈmænɪʤər θɔt ðə ˈprɛməsəz wər noʊ ˈlɔŋgər ˈɑkjəˌpaɪd, ənd hi əˈkjuzd ˈmɪstər ˈkrɪtɪks əv ˈpɪkɪŋ ɔn ˈmɛmbərz əv stæf. ˈpraɪvəsi ənd ˌkɑnfəˌdɛnʃiˈæləti hi sɛd ðə ˈmɛmbər əv stæf, hu wɑz ˈwərid əˈbaʊt ˈluzɪŋ hər ʤɑb, hæd əˈpɑləˌʤaɪzd tɪ mɪz tim ənd ðət hi hæd nɑt bɪn toʊld əˈbaʊt ðə ˈɪnsədənt ˌbiˈfɔr ðə ˈfɔrməl kəmˈpleɪnt wɑz lɑʤd. mɪz ˌmæˈlhɑtrə, hu rɪˈzaɪnd ɛz ˈʃæˌdoʊ ʧif ˈsɛkrəˌtɛri tɪ ðə ˈtrɛʒəri læst mənθ ɪn ˈproʊˌtɛst æt ˈmɪstər ˈlidərˌʃɪp, hæd kəmˈpleɪnd əˈbaʊt tu əˈfɪʃəlz wən ˈwərkɪŋ fər ˈmɪstər ənd əˈnəðər hu wərks fər ˈmɪstər məkˈdɑnəl. ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkɑpiˌraɪt haʊs əv ˈkɑmənz ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkæpʃən ə ˈkɑpi əv ʤɑn ˈlɛtər tɪ ˈsimɑ ˌmæˈlhɑtrə riˈlist baɪ ðə ˈɔfəs ʃi sɛd ðɛr hæd bɪn ˈækˌsɛs tɪ hər ˈɔfəs "ɔn mɔr ðən wən əˈkeɪʒən", wɪʧ ʃi kleɪmd hæd ˌɪnərˈfɪrd wɪθ hər əˈbɪləˌti tɪ hər roʊl ɛz ən ɪn tərmz əv ˈkɑmprəˌmaɪzɪŋ ˈpraɪvəsi ənd ˌkɑnfəˌdɛnʃiˈæləti. ðə roʊt tɪ ˈmɪstər ˈkɔlɪŋ fər ən əˈfɪʃəl ˈkɑmənz ˌɪnˌvɛstəˈgeɪʃən, seɪɪŋ hər stæf hæd fɛlt "həræst, ˌɪnˈtɪmɪˌdeɪtɪd ənd ˈɪnsəkjər". rɪˈplaɪɪŋ tɪ hər rɪkˈwɛst, ðə ˈspikər sɛd: "ˈhævɪŋ ˈteɪkən ədˈvaɪs, aɪ æm ˈsætɪsˌfaɪd ðət ðɛr ɪz ˈnəθɪŋ ɪn jʊr ˈlɛtər ər ɪn ðə ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən ˈsəbsəkwəntli ɪˈlɪsɪtɪd baɪ ðə ˈdɛpjəti æt ɑrmz wɪʧ wʊd ˈʤəstəˌfaɪ rɪˈgɑrdɪŋ ðiz ɪˈvɛnts ɛz ə ˈpɑsəbəl briʧ." 'wɪˈθaʊt maɪ ˈnɑlɪʤ' riˈæktɪŋ tɪ ðə nuz, ˈmɪstər məkˈdɑnəl sɛd: "ɪts ˈoʊnli raɪt ənd fɛr ðət ˈsimɑ naʊ əˈpɑləˌʤaɪzɪz fər ðə strɛs ʃi həz kɔzd tɪ maɪ stæf ˈoʊvər ðə læst fju deɪz. "ɛz aɪ sɛd ɔn ðə ˈændru mɑr ʃoʊ ɔn ˈsənˌdi ðə ˈleɪbər ˈpɑrti nidz tɪ ˈjuˌnaɪt ənd ˈækʃənz laɪk ðɪs wɪʧ ər ˈoʊnli biɪŋ juzd tɪ traɪ tɪ ˈəndərˌmaɪn ˈʤɛrəˌmi ˈlidərˌʃɪp məst stɑp." mɪz ˌmæˈlhɑtrə sɛd ʃi ˈrɛkəgˌnaɪzd ðə ˈspikər dɪd nɑt hæv "səˈfɪʃənt ˈɛvədəns" tɪ dɪˈtərmən ˈwɛðər ðə rulz ɔn ˌpɑrləˈmɛntəri ˈprɪvɪlɪʤ ˈəndər wɪʧ ər ˌgɛrənˈtid ˈsərtən ˌɪmˈjunɪtiz ənd raɪts tɪ ɪˈneɪbəl ðɛm tɪ pərˈfɔrm ðɛr ˈdutiz hæd bɪn ˈbroʊkən. bət ʃi sɛd ðɛr rɪˈmeɪnd ə ˈnəmbər əv "ˌəˈnænsərd kˈwɛsʧənz" əˈbaʊt hu wɑz əˈlaʊd ˈɛntri ˈɪntu' ˈɔfəsɪz. "aɪ ˈwɛlkəm ðə ˈspikərz ˈsteɪtmənt ðət 'ˈnoʊˌbɑˌdi ʃʊd ˈɛnər ə ˈmɛmbər əv ˈpɑrləmɛnts ˈɔfəs ər ðə ˈɔfəs əv ðɛr stæf, lɑkt ər ənˈlɑkt, wɪˈθaʊt ðɛr pərˈmɪʃən'. ðɪs ˈvɪndɪˌkeɪts maɪ vju ðət wət ˈhæpənd ʃʊd nɑt hæv ˈhæpənd. "maɪ stæf hæv bɪn dɪˈstrɛst baɪ wət həz ˈhæpənd. aɪ rɪˈgrɛt ðə dɪˈstrɛs ðət həz bɪn kɔzd ɔn boʊθ saɪdz. bət aɪ kəm bæk tɪ wət ðɪs ɪz ɔl əˈbaʊt: ɑr ˈɔfəs wɑz ˈɛnərd wɪˈθaʊt ɑr ˈnɑlɪʤ ənd wɪˈθaʊt maɪ pərˈmɪʃən. "ənd ðə ˈspikər həz ruld təˈdeɪ ðət ʃʊd nɑt ˈhæpən."
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essaouira is a port city located hours away from marrakech, morocco. it is the perfect day trip as a colorful small city with an unique vibe. on the way to from marrakech you can spot the famous goats who stand on tree. if you have not seen pictures before, look the goats up right now!
as you walk along the port of head on up the citadel for the best views over the port and city. behind the citadel you find fishermen with their catch of the day for sale. we also found a small pop up restaurant that had the freshest fish around with more food in the meal than we could handle.
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the best way to experience is by walking through the historic walled city of the port. with its relaxed feel, there is no rush to explore the colorful stores around every corner. take your time talking with the local artisans and find the most interesting gifts for yourself or family back at home.
we hope that these pictures have inspired you to start planning your next trip to morocco. if you have any questions, comments or just want to let us know which photo is your favorite please let us know in the comments below.
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essaouira* ɪz ə pɔrt ˈsɪti ˈloʊˌkeɪtəd aʊərz əˈweɪ frəm ˈmærəˌkɛʃ, mərˈɑkoʊ. ɪt ɪz ðə ˈpərˌfɪkt deɪ trɪp ɛz ə ˈkələrfəl smɔl ˈsɪti wɪθ ən juˈnik vaɪb. ɔn ðə weɪ tɪ frəm ˈmærəˌkɛʃ ju kən spɑt ðə ˈfeɪməs goʊts hu stænd ɔn tri. ɪf ju hæv nɑt sin ˈpɪkʧərz ˌbiˈfɔr, lʊk ðə goʊts əp raɪt naʊ! ɛz ju wɔk əˈlɔŋ ðə pɔrt əv hɛd ɔn əp ðə ˈsɪtəˌdɛl fər ðə bɛst vjuz ˈoʊvər ðə pɔrt ənd ˈsɪti. bɪˈhaɪnd ðə ˈsɪtəˌdɛl ju faɪnd ˈfɪʃərmɪn wɪθ ðɛr kæʧ əv ðə deɪ fər seɪl. wi ˈɔlsoʊ faʊnd ə smɔl pɑp əp ˈrɛˌstrɑnt ðət hæd ðə ˈfrɛʃəst fɪʃ əraʊnd wɪθ mɔr fud ɪn ðə mil ðən wi kʊd ˈhændəl. ˈfɑloʊ əˈlɔŋ ɔn wɪθ ɑr kəmˈplit ˈdeɪli aɪˈtɪnərˌɛri wɪθ mɔr bɪˈhaɪnd ðə sinz ˈfoʊˌtoʊz ənd ˈvɪdioʊz ɔn ɑr əˈkaʊnt. ðə bɛst weɪ tɪ ɪkˈspɪriəns ɪz baɪ ˈwɔkɪŋ θru ðə hɪˈstɔrɪk wɔld ˈsɪti əv ðə pɔrt. wɪθ ɪts rɪˈlækst fil, ðɛr ɪz noʊ rəʃ tɪ ɪkˈsplɔr ðə ˈkələrfəl stɔrz əraʊnd ˈɛvəri ˈkɔrnər. teɪk jʊr taɪm ˈtɔkɪŋ wɪθ ðə ˈloʊkəl ˈɑrtəzənz ənd faɪnd ðə moʊst ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ gɪfts fər ˈjɔrsɛlf ər ˈfæməli bæk æt hoʊm. wi hoʊp ðət ðiz ˈpɪkʧərz hæv ˌɪnˈspaɪərd ju tɪ stɑrt ˈplænɪŋ jʊr nɛkst trɪp tɪ mərˈɑkoʊ. ɪf ju hæv ˈɛni kˈwɛsʧənz, ˈkɑmɛnts ər ʤɪst wɔnt tɪ lɛt ˈjuˈɛs noʊ wɪʧ ˈfoʊˌtoʊ ɪz jʊr ˈfeɪvərɪt pliz lɛt ˈjuˈɛs noʊ ɪn ðə ˈkɑmɛnts bɪˈloʊ. ˈfɑloʊ əˈlɔŋ ɔn wɪθ ɑr kəmˈplit ˈdeɪli aɪˈtɪnərˌɛri wɪθ mɔr bɪˈhaɪnd ðə sinz ˈfoʊˌtoʊz ənd ˈvɪdioʊz ɔn ɑr əˈkaʊnt.
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homeland security secretary john kelly visited san diego on friday and used part of his time here to accompany immigration agents on predawn arrests and inspected one of the numerous tunnels mexican smugglers have constructed under the u.s. border fence. he also met with federal border security agencies and local law enforcement officials.
kelly, a retired marine corps general who once led the u.s. southern command, now leads the department that houses the key border security agencies customs and border protection, the border patrol, and immigration and customs enforcement.
in remarks to local officials and news reporters, kelly addressed the trump travel ban, the effectiveness of border barriers and ice immigration arrests this week.
in a meeting in a conference room at the san port of entry with state, local and federal law enforcement officials, he said he had met with similar groups this week in texas and arizona and was “trying to get my hands around and better understand the border communities.”
kelly said he also received feedback from officials on the proposed border wall. he talked tough on the issue of sanctuary cities and the refusal by many local law enforcement agencies not to cooperate with federal immigration work.
san diego police chief shelley zimmerman asked for a definition of a sanctuary city, according to a pool report of the meeting. “i have no clue,” kelly responded.
hayne / san diego with cars entering the united states from mexico as his backdrop, homeland security secretary john kelly spoke about immigration issues at a news conference friday at the san port of entry. with cars entering the united states from mexico as his backdrop, homeland security secretary john kelly spoke about immigration issues at a news conference friday at the san port of entry. (hayne / san diego)
zimmerman’s boss, mayor kevin faulconer, has insisted san diego is not a sanctuary city and does work with immigration authorities. but not clear if the level of cooperation provided will satisfy president donald trump. no city in san diego county calls itself a sanctuary city.
“it’s inconceivable to me that people who are sworn to protect their communities would not want someone, anyone to remove criminals from their communities and send them somewhere else,” kelly said. ”i’m stunned when people say, well, not going to cooperate with you even in the event of convicted criminals.
“i understand that every community is different. you are all under different pressures. it would be hard for me to justify giving grant money to cooperate with removal operations and you were not able to help us with that.”
kelly said, however, that the federal government will “work with you and will make no draconian moves until i fully understand what a given locale might be doing or not doing.”
historically, local police assist in federal immigration arrests, contending unauthorized immigrants would be less likely to cooperate with police efforts if they were afraid of being turned over to immigration.
at his news conference, kelly also addressed the executive order trump issued that banned entry into the country of people from seven predominantly muslim nations and refugees for a limited time. the u.s. circuit court of appeals on thursday upheld a restraining order issued by a lower court judge in washington state that halted enforcement of the ban.
kelly said the order was a “pause” on people from those countries entering the u.s. because information from those nations on individuals entering the country were either unreliable or nonexistent. “the vetting process from citizens of those countries are, at best, loose,” he said.
he acknowledged he was worried about the stay preventing enforcement of the order. “i am concerned that we are unable to vet those folks who are coming here in a more meaningful way,” kelly said.
also, on friday, mexican authorities reported the discovery of another tunnel, though it did not reach the u.s. asked about that discovery in light of the goal of the trump administration to build a wall along the entire southwest border, kelly said it was a sign of how effective the barrier that has been built so far is.
“i would argue the fact they (drug cartels) are spending huge amounts of money to tunnel underneath the wall tells you they get through it,” he said. “that tells me the barrier, and the people who patrol it, are very effective today.”
his visit came on a day swirling with rumors and reports of increased immigration enforcement sweeps in southern california and other areas of the country.
in san diego, there were reports of sweeps in vista that ice denied. in a statement, the agency said that “rumors currently being circulated, primarily on social media, claiming the agency is conducting widespread traffic stops throughout northern san diego county are completely baseless.”
in addressing the reports, kelly said, “the people who ice apprehended are people who are here illegally and then some.”
he said he got an look at ice enforcement friday before 6 a.m.
“i went out this morning on two what they call knock and talks,” he said. that is when officers go to homes of suspects, knock on their doors and ask for consent to enter.
“went to one house, knocked on the door, and took a particularly bad individual, a male into custody,” kelly said. a visit to a second home yielded two more arrests, he said.
“ice is executing the law,” he said.
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ˈhoʊmˌlænd sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈsɛkrəˌtɛri ʤɑn ˈkɛli ˈvɪzɪtɪd sæn diˈeɪgoʊ ɔn ˈfraɪˌdeɪ ənd juzd pɑrt əv hɪz taɪm hir tɪ əˈkəmpəni ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən ˈeɪʤənts ɔn priˈdɔn ərˈɛsts ənd ˌɪnˈspɛktɪd wən əv ðə ˈnumərəs ˈtənəlz ˈmɛksəkən sˈməgələrz hæv kənˈstrəktɪd ˈəndər ðə juz. ˈbɔrdər fɛns. hi ˈɔlsoʊ mɛt wɪθ ˈfɛdərəl ˈbɔrdər sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈeɪʤənsiz ənd ˈloʊkəl lɔ ɛnˈfɔrsmənt əˈfɪʃəlz. ˈkɛli, ə rɪˈtaɪrd mərˈin kɔrz ˈʤɛnərəl hu wəns lɛd ðə juz. ˈsəðərn kəˈmænd, naʊ lidz ðə dɪˈpɑrtmənt ðət ˈhaʊsɪz ðə ki ˈbɔrdər sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈeɪʤənsiz ˈkəstəmz ənd ˈbɔrdər prəˈtɛkʃən, ðə ˈbɔrdər pəˈtroʊl, ənd ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən ənd ˈkəstəmz ɛnˈfɔrsmənt. ɪn rɪˈmɑrks tɪ ˈloʊkəl əˈfɪʃəlz ənd nuz rɪˈpɔrtərz, ˈkɛli əˈdrɛst ðə trəmp ˈtrævəl bæn, ðə ˈifɛktɪvnəs əv ˈbɔrdər ˈbɛriərz ənd aɪs ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən ərˈɛsts ðɪs wik. ɪn ə ˈmitɪŋ ɪn ə ˈkɑnfərəns rum æt ðə sæn pɔrt əv ˈɛntri wɪθ steɪt, ˈloʊkəl ənd ˈfɛdərəl lɔ ɛnˈfɔrsmənt əˈfɪʃəlz, hi sɛd hi hæd mɛt wɪθ ˈsɪmələr grups ðɪs wik ɪn ˈtɛksəs ənd ˌɛrɪˈzoʊnə ənd wɑz tɪ gɪt maɪ hænz əraʊnd ənd ˈbɛtər ˌəndərˈstænd ðə ˈbɔrdər communities.”*.” ˈkɛli sɛd hi ˈɔlsoʊ rɪˈsivd ˈfidˌbæk frəm əˈfɪʃəlz ɔn ðə prəˈpoʊzd ˈbɔrdər wɔl. hi tɔkt təf ɔn ðə ˈɪʃu əv ˈsæŋkʧuˌɛri ˈsɪtiz ənd ðə rɪfˈjuzəl baɪ ˈmɛni ˈloʊkəl lɔ ɛnˈfɔrsmənt ˈeɪʤənsiz nɑt tɪ kˈwɑpərˌeɪt wɪθ ˈfɛdərəl ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən wərk. sæn diˈeɪgoʊ pəˈlis ʧif ˈʃɛli ˈzɪmərmən æst fər ə ˌdɛfəˈnɪʃən əv ə ˈsæŋkʧuˌɛri ˈsɪti, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ə pul rɪˈpɔrt əv ðə ˈmitɪŋ. hæv noʊ clue,”*,” ˈkɛli rɪˈspɑndɪd. heɪn sæn diˈeɪgoʊ wɪθ kɑz ˈɛnərɪŋ ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts frəm ˈmɛksəˌkoʊ ɛz hɪz ˈbækˌdrɑp, ˈhoʊmˌlænd sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈsɛkrəˌtɛri ʤɑn ˈkɛli spoʊk əˈbaʊt ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən ˈɪʃuz æt ə nuz ˈkɑnfərəns ˈfraɪˌdeɪ æt ðə sæn pɔrt əv ˈɛntri. wɪθ kɑz ˈɛnərɪŋ ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts frəm ˈmɛksəˌkoʊ ɛz hɪz ˈbækˌdrɑp, ˈhoʊmˌlænd sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈsɛkrəˌtɛri ʤɑn ˈkɛli spoʊk əˈbaʊt ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən ˈɪʃuz æt ə nuz ˈkɑnfərəns ˈfraɪˌdeɪ æt ðə sæn pɔrt əv ˈɛntri. (heɪn sæn diˈeɪgoʊ) bɔs, meɪər ˈkɛvɪn ˈfɔlkənər, həz ˌɪnˈsɪstɪd sæn diˈeɪgoʊ ɪz nɑt ə ˈsæŋkʧuˌɛri ˈsɪti ənd dɪz wərk wɪθ ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən əˈθɔrətiz. bət nɑt klɪr ɪf ðə ˈlɛvəl əv kˌwɔpərˈeɪʃən prəˈvaɪdɪd wɪl ˈsætɪsˌfaɪ ˈprɛzɪdənt ˈdɑnəld trəmp. noʊ ˈsɪti ɪn sæn diˈeɪgoʊ ˈkaʊnti kɔlz ˌɪtˈsɛlf ə ˈsæŋkʧuˌɛri ˈsɪti. ˌɪnkənˈsivəbəl tɪ mi ðət ˈpipəl hu ər swɔrn tɪ prəˈtɛkt ðɛr kəmˈjunɪtiz wʊd nɑt wɔnt ˈsəmˌwən, ˈɛniˌwən tɪ riˈmuv ˈkrɪmənəlz frəm ðɛr kəmˈjunɪtiz ənd sɛnd ðɛm ˈsəmˌwɛr else,”*,” ˈkɛli sɛd. stənd wɪn ˈpipəl seɪ, wɛl, nɑt goʊɪŋ tɪ kˈwɑpərˌeɪt wɪθ ju ˈivɪn ɪn ðə ɪˈvɛnt əv kənˈvɪktəd ˈkrɪmənəlz. ˌəndərˈstænd ðət ˈɛvəri kəmˈjunɪti ɪz ˈdɪfərənt. ju ər ɔl ˈəndər ˈdɪfərənt ˈprɛʃərz. ɪt wʊd bi hɑrd fər mi tɪ ˈʤəstəˌfaɪ ˈgɪvɪŋ grænt ˈməni tɪ kˈwɑpərˌeɪt wɪθ rɪˈmuvəl ˌɑpərˈeɪʃənz ənd ju wər nɑt ˈeɪbəl tɪ hɛlp ˈjuˈɛs wɪθ that.”*.” ˈkɛli sɛd, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ðət ðə ˈfɛdərəl ˈgəvərnmənt wɪl wɪθ ju ənd wɪl meɪk noʊ drəˈkoʊniən muvz ənˈtɪl aɪ ˈfʊli ˌəndərˈstænd wət ə ˈgɪvɪn loʊˈkæl maɪt bi duɪŋ ər nɑt doing.”*.” hɪˈstɔrɪkəli, ˈloʊkəl pəˈlis əˈsɪst ɪn ˈfɛdərəl ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən ərˈɛsts, kənˈtɛndɪŋ əˈnɔθərˌaɪzd ˈɪməgrənts wʊd bi lɛs ˈlaɪkli tɪ kˈwɑpərˌeɪt wɪθ pəˈlis ˈɛfərts ɪf ðeɪ wər əˈfreɪd əv biɪŋ tərnd ˈoʊvər tɪ ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən. æt hɪz nuz ˈkɑnfərəns, ˈkɛli ˈɔlsoʊ əˈdrɛst ðə ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv ˈɔrdər trəmp ˈɪʃud ðət bænd ˈɛntri ˈɪntu ðə ˈkəntri əv ˈpipəl frəm ˈsɛvən ˌprɪˈdɑmənənˌtli ˈməzlɪm ˈneɪʃənz ənd ˈrɛfˌjuʤiz fər ə ˈlɪmɪtɪd taɪm. ðə juz. ˈsərkət kɔrt əv əˈpilz ɔn ˈθərzˌdeɪ əˈphɛld ə riˈstreɪnɪŋ ˈɔrdər ˈɪʃud baɪ ə loʊər kɔrt ʤəʤ ɪn ˈwɔʃɪŋtən steɪt ðət ˈhɔltɪd ɛnˈfɔrsmənt əv ðə bæn. ˈkɛli sɛd ðə ˈɔrdər wɑz ə ““pause”*” ɔn ˈpipəl frəm ðoʊz ˈkəntriz ˈɛnərɪŋ ðə juz. bɪˈkəz ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən frəm ðoʊz ˈneɪʃənz ɔn ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəlz ˈɛnərɪŋ ðə ˈkəntri wər ˈiðər ˌənrɪˈlaɪəbəl ər ˌnɑnəgˈzɪstənt. ˈvɛtɪŋ ˈprɔˌsɛs frəm ˈsɪtɪzənz əv ðoʊz ˈkəntriz ər, æt bɛst, loose,”*,” hi sɛd. hi ækˈnɑlɪʤd hi wɑz ˈwərid əˈbaʊt ðə steɪ prɪˈvɛnɪŋ ɛnˈfɔrsmənt əv ðə ˈɔrdər. æm kənˈsərnd ðət wi ər əˈneɪbəl tɪ vɛt ðoʊz foʊks hu ər ˈkəmɪŋ hir ɪn ə mɔr ˈminɪŋfəl way,”*,” ˈkɛli sɛd. ˈɔlsoʊ, ɔn ˈfraɪˌdeɪ, ˈmɛksəkən əˈθɔrətiz ˌriˈpɔrtəd ðə ˌdɪˈskəvri əv əˈnəðər ˈtənəl, ðoʊ ɪt dɪd nɑt riʧ ðə juz. æst əˈbaʊt ðət ˌdɪˈskəvri ɪn laɪt əv ðə goʊl əv ðə trəmp ædˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən tɪ bɪld ə wɔl əˈlɔŋ ðə ɪnˈtaɪər ˌsaʊθˈwɛst ˈbɔrdər, ˈkɛli sɛd ɪt wɑz ə saɪn əv haʊ ˈifɛktɪv ðə ˈbɛriər ðət həz bɪn bɪlt soʊ fɑr ɪz. wʊd ˈɑrgju ðə fækt ðeɪ (drəg kɑrˈtɛlz) ər ˈspɛndɪŋ juʤ əˈmaʊnts əv ˈməni tɪ ˈtənəl ˌəndərˈniθ ðə wɔl tɛlz ju ðeɪ gɪt θru it,”*,” hi sɛd. tɛlz mi ðə ˈbɛriər, ənd ðə ˈpipəl hu pəˈtroʊl ɪt, ər ˈvɛri ˈifɛktɪv today.”*.” hɪz ˈvɪzɪt keɪm ɔn ə deɪ sˈwərlɪŋ wɪθ ˈrumərz ənd rɪˈpɔrts əv ˌɪnˈkrist ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən ɛnˈfɔrsmənt swips ɪn ˈsəðərn ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə ənd ˈəðər ˈɛriəz əv ðə ˈkəntri. ɪn sæn diˈeɪgoʊ, ðɛr wər rɪˈpɔrts əv swips ɪn ˈvɪstə ðət aɪs dɪˈnaɪd. ɪn ə ˈsteɪtmənt, ðə ˈeɪʤənsi sɛd ðət ˈkərəntli biɪŋ ˈsərkjəˌleɪtɪd, praɪˈmɛrəli ɔn ˈsoʊʃəl ˈmidiə, ˈkleɪmɪŋ ðə ˈeɪʤənsi ɪz kənˈdəktɪŋ ˈwaɪdˈsprɛd ˈtræfɪk stɑps θruaʊt ˈnɔrðərn sæn diˈeɪgoʊ ˈkaʊnti ər kəmˈplitli baseless.”*.” ɪn æˈdrɛsɪŋ ðə rɪˈpɔrts, ˈkɛli sɛd, ˈpipəl hu aɪs ˌæprɪˈhɛndəd ər ˈpipəl hu ər hir ˌɪˈligəli ənd ðɛn some.”*.” hi sɛd hi gɑt ən lʊk æt aɪs ɛnˈfɔrsmənt ˈfraɪˌdeɪ ˌbiˈfɔr 6 a.m*. wɛnt aʊt ðɪs ˈmɔrnɪŋ ɔn tu wət ðeɪ kɔl nɑk ənd talks,”*,” hi sɛd. ðət ɪz wɪn ˈɔfɪsərz goʊ tɪ hoʊmz əv ˈsəˌspɛkts, nɑk ɔn ðɛr dɔrz ənd æsk fər kənˈsɛnt tɪ ˈɛnər. tɪ wən haʊs, nɑkt ɔn ðə dɔr, ənd tʊk ə ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli bæd ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl, ə meɪl ˈɪntu custody,”*,” ˈkɛli sɛd. ə ˈvɪzɪt tɪ ə ˈsɛkənd hoʊm ˈjildɪd tu mɔr ərˈɛsts, hi sɛd. ɪz ˈɛksəˌkjutɪŋ ðə law,”*,” hi sɛd. tˈwɪtər:
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a surge in withdrawn papers is highlighting weaknesses in the system for handling them.
this week, some freshly published research articles will pour into the web of science, thomson reuters' vast online database of scientific publications. almost all of these papers will stay there forever, a fixed contribution to the research literature. but 200 or so will eventually be flagged with a note of alteration such as a correction. and a handful maybe five or six will one day receive science's ultimate punishment: retraction, the official declaration that a paper is so flawed that it must be withdrawn from the literature.
it is reassuring that are so rare, for behind at least half of them lies some shocking tale of scientific misconduct plagiarism, altered images or faked data and the other half are admissions of embarrassing mistakes. but retraction notices are increasing rapidly. in the early 2000s, only about 30 retraction notices appeared annually. this year, the web of science is on track to index more than 400 (see 'rise of the') even though the total number of papers published has risen by only 44% over the past decade.
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perhaps surprisingly, scientists and editors broadly welcome the trend. "i don't think there's any doubt that we're detecting more fraud, and that systems are more responsive to misconduct. it's become more acceptable for journals to step in," says nicholas, a research ethicist at the university of michigan in ann arbor. but as become more commonplace, stresses that have always existed in the system are starting to show more vividly.
when the committee on publication ethics (cope) surveyed editors' attitudes to retraction two years ago, it found huge inconsistencies in policies and practices between journals, says elizabeth wager, a medical writer in princes risborough, uk, who is chair of cope. that survey led to retraction guidelines that cope published in 2009. but it's still the case, says wager, that "editors often have to be pushed to retract".
other frustrations include opaque retraction notices that don't explain why a paper has been withdrawn, a tendency for authors to keep citing retracted papers long after they've been (see 'withdrawn papers live on') and the fact that many scientists hear 'retraction' and immediately think 'misconduct' a stigma that may keep researchers from coming forward to admit honest errors.
perfection may be too much to expect from any system that has to deal with human error in all its messiness. as one journal editor told wager, each retraction is "painfully unique".
but as more hit the headlines, some researchers are calling for ways to improve their handling. suggested reforms include better systems for linking papers to their retraction notices or revisions, more responsibility on the part of journal editors and, most of all, greater transparency and clarity about mistakes in research.
the reasons behind the rise in are still unclear. "i don't think that there is suddenly a boom in the production of fraudulent or erroneous work," says john, a professor of health policy at stanford university school of medicine in california, who has spent much of his career tracking how medical science produces flawed results.
in surveys, around% of scientists admit to having fabricated, falsified or modified data or results at least once (d. fanelli one 4,; 2009). but over the past decade, retraction notices for published papers have increased from% of the total to only about%. and, says, that subset of papers is "the tip of the iceberg" too small and fragmentary for any useful conclusions to be drawn about the overall rates of sloppiness or misconduct.
instead, it is more probable that the growth in has come from an increased awareness of research misconduct, says. that's thanks in part to the setting up of regulatory bodies such as the us office of research integrity in the department of health and human services. these ensure greater accountability for the research institutions, which, along with researchers, are responsible for detecting mistakes.
the growth also owes a lot to the emergence of software for easily detecting plagiarism and image manipulation, combined with the greater number of readers that the internet brings to research papers. in the future, wider use of such software could cause the rate of retraction notices to dip as fast as it spiked, simply because more of the problematic papers will be screened out before they reach publication. on the other hand, editors' newfound comfort with talking about retraction may lead to notices coming at an even greater rate.
"norms are changing all the time," says steven shafer, of the journal anesthesia & analgesia, who has participated in two major misconduct investigations one of which involved 11 journals and led to the retraction of some 90 papers.
it's none of your damn business!
but willingness to talk about is hardly universal. "there are a lot of publishers and a lot of journal editors who really don't want people to know about what's going on at their publications," says new york writer ivan, executive editor at reuters health. in august 2010, the blog retraction watch with adam marcus, managing editor at anesthesiology news. since its launch, says, the site has logged million page views and has covered more than 200.
in one memorable post, the reporters describe ringing up one editor, l. henry edmunds at the annals of thoracic surgery, to ask about a paper withdrawn from his journal (see). "it's none of your damn business!" he told them. edmunds did not respond to nature 's request to talk for this article.
the posts on retraction watch show how wildly inconsistent practices are from one journal to the next. notices range from informative and transparent to deeply obscure. a typically unhelpful example of the genre would be: "this article has been withdrawn at the request of the authors in order to eliminate incorrect information." argues that such obscurity leads readers to assume misconduct, as scientists making an honest retraction would, presumably, try to explain what was at fault.
to drummond rennie, deputy editor of the journal of the american medical association, there are two obvious reasons for obscure retraction notices: "fear and work."
the fear factor, says wager, is because publishers are very frightened of being sued. "they are incredibly about publishing anything that could be defamatory," she says.
'work' refers to the phenomenal effort required to sort through authorship disputes, concerns about human or animal subjects, accusations of data fabrication and all the other ways a paper can go wrong. "it takes dozens or hundreds of hours of work to get to the bottom of what's going on and really understand it," says shafer. because most journal editors are scientists or physicians working on a voluntary basis, he says, that effort comes out of their research and clinical time.
but the effort has to be made, says. "if you don't have enough time to do a reasonable job of ensuring the integrity of your journal, do you deserve to be in business as a journal publisher?" he asks. and marcus have taken a similar stance. this summer, for example, retraction watch criticized the journal of neuroscience for a pair of identical retraction notices it published on 8 june: "at the request of the authors, the following manuscript has been retracted."
but the journal's, neuroscientist john of harvard medical school in boston, massachusetts, argues that such obscurity is often the most responsible course to take. "my feeling is that there are far fewer than there should be," says, who adds that he has conducted 79 ethics investigations in more than 3 years at the journal 1 every weeks. but "authors are reluctant to retract papers", he says, "and anything we put up in the way of a barrier or disincentive is a bad thing. if authors are happier posting without extra information, i'd rather see that retraction go through than provide any discouragement."
at the heart of these arguments, says, lie shifting norms of how responsible journal editors should be for the integrity of the research process. in the past, he says, "they felt that institutions and scientists ought to do it". more and more journal editors today are starting to embrace the gatekeeper role. but even now, shafer points out, they have only limited authority to challenge institutions that are refusing to cooperate. "i have had institutions, where i felt there was very clear misconduct, come back and tell me there was none," shafer says. "and i have had a us institution tell me that they would look into allegations of misconduct only if i agreed to keep the results confidential."
the blame game
discussions on retraction watch make it clear that many scientists would like to separate two aspects of retraction that seem to have become tangled together: cleaning up the literature, and signalling misconduct. after all, many are straightforward and honourable. in july, for example, derek stein, a physicist at brown university in providence, rhode island, retracted a paper in physical review letters on dna in channels when he found that a key part of the analysis had been performed incorrectly. his thoroughness and speed the retraction came just four months after publication were singled out for praise on retraction watch.
but because almost all of the that hit the headlines are dramatic examples of misconduct, many researchers assume that any retraction indicates that something shady has occurred. and that stigma may dissuade honest scientists from doing the right thing. one american researcher who talked to nature about his own retraction said he hoped that his decision would be seen as a badge of honour. but, even years later and with his career established, he still did not want nature to use his name or give any details of the case.
there is no general agreement about how to reduce this stigma. rennie suggests reserving the retraction mechanism exclusively for misconduct, but that would require the creation of a new term for withdrawals owing to honest mistakes. at the other extreme, thomas decoursey, a biologist at rush university medical center in chicago, argues for retraction of any paper that publishes results that are not reproducible. "it does not matter whether the error was due to outright fraud, honest mistakes or reasons that simply cannot be determined," he says.
a better vocabulary for talking about is needed, says one acknowledging that are just as often due to mistakes as to misconduct. also useful would be a database for classifying. "the risk for the research community is that if it doesn't take these problems more seriously, then the public journalists, outsiders will come in and start to poke at them," he points out.
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the only solution comes back to transparency. "if journals told readers why a paper was retracted, it wouldn't matter if one journal retracted papers for misconduct while another retracted for almost anything," says zen faulkes, a biologist at the university of american in edinburg, texas.
oransky agrees. "i think that what we're advocating is part of a much larger phenomenon in public life and on the web right now," he says. "what scientists should be doing is saying, 'in the course of what we do are errors, and among us are also people that commit misconduct or fraud. look how small that number is! and here's what we're doing to root that out.'"
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ˈpəblɪʃt ˈɔnˌlaɪn 5 ɑkˈtoʊbər 2011 ˈneɪʧər 478 2011 nuz ˈfiʧər ə sərʤ ɪn wɪθˈdrɔn ˈpeɪpərz ɪz ˈhaɪˌlaɪtɪŋ ˈwiknəsɪz ɪn ðə ˈsɪstəm fər ˈhændəlɪŋ ðɛm. ðɪs wik, səm ˈfrɛʃli ˈpəblɪʃt ˈrisərʧ ˈɑrtɪkəlz wɪl pɔr ˈɪntu ðə wɛb əv saɪəns, ˈtɑmsən ˈrɔɪtərz' væst ˈɔnˌlaɪn ˈdætəˌbeɪs əv ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk ˌpəblɪˈkeɪʃənz. ˈɔlˌmoʊst ɔl əv ðiz ˈpeɪpərz wɪl steɪ ðɛr fərˈɛvər, ə fɪkst ˌkɑntrəˈbjuʃən tɪ ðə ˈrisərʧ ˈlɪtərəʧər. bət 200 ər soʊ wɪl ɪˈvɛnʧəwəli bi flægd wɪθ ə noʊt əv ˌɔltərˈeɪʃən səʧ ɛz ə kərˈɛkʃən. ənd ə ˈhændˌfʊl ˈmeɪbi faɪv ər sɪks wɪl wən deɪ rɪˈsiv ˈsaɪənsɪz ˈəltəmət ˈpənɪʃmənt: riˈtrækʃən, ðə əˈfɪʃəl ˌdɛklərˈeɪʃən ðət ə ˈpeɪpər ɪz soʊ flɔd ðət ɪt məst bi wɪθˈdrɔn frəm ðə ˈlɪtərəʧər. ɪt ɪz ˌriəˈʃʊrɪŋ ðət ər soʊ rɛr, fər bɪˈhaɪnd æt list hæf əv ðɛm laɪz səm ˈʃɑkɪŋ teɪl əv ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk mɪˈskɑndəkt ˈpleɪʤərˌɪzəm, ˈɔltərd ˈɪmɪʤɪz ər feɪkt ˈdætə ənd ðə ˈəðər hæf ər ədˈmɪʃənz əv ɪmˈbɛrəsɪŋ mɪˈsteɪks. bət riˈtrækʃən ˈnoʊtɪsɪz ər ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋ ˈræpədli. ɪn ðə ˈərli 2000s*, ˈoʊnli əˈbaʊt 30 riˈtrækʃən ˈnoʊtɪsɪz əˈpɪrd ˈænjuəli. ðɪs jɪr, ðə wɛb əv saɪəns ɪz ɔn træk tɪ ˈɪndɛks mɔr ðən 400 (si 'raɪz əv ðə') ˈivɪn ðoʊ ðə ˈtoʊtəl ˈnəmbər əv ˈpeɪpərz ˈpəblɪʃt həz ˈrɪzən baɪ ˈoʊnli 44 ˈoʊvər ðə pæst ˈdɛkeɪd. klɪk fər ˈlɑrʤər ˈɪmɪʤ. pərˈhæps səˈpraɪzɪŋli, ˈsaɪəntɪsts ənd ˈɛdɪtərz ˈbrɔdli ˈwɛlkəm ðə trɛnd. "aɪ doʊnt θɪŋk ðɛrz ˈɛni daʊt ðət wɪr dɪˈtɛktɪŋ mɔr frɔd, ənd ðət ˈsɪstəmz ər mɔr rɪˈspɑnsɪv tɪ mɪˈskɑndəkt. ɪts bɪˈkəm mɔr əkˈsɛptəbəl fər ˈʤərnəlz tɪ stɛp ɪn," sɪz ˈnɪkələs, ə ˈrisərʧ ˈɛθɪsɪst æt ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv ˈmɪʃɪgən ɪn æn ˈɑrbər. bət ɛz bɪˈkəm mɔr ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs, ˈstrɛsɪz ðət hæv ˈɔlˌweɪz ɪgˈzɪstəd ɪn ðə ˈsɪstəm ər ˈstɑrtɪŋ tɪ ʃoʊ mɔr ˈvɪvədli. wɪn ðə kəˈmɪti ɔn ˌpəblɪˈkeɪʃən ˈɛθɪks (koʊp) ˈsərˌveɪd ˈɛdɪtərz' ˈætəˌtudz tɪ riˈtrækʃən tu jɪrz əˈgoʊ, ɪt faʊnd juʤ ˌɪŋˈkɑnsɪˌstɛnsiz ɪn ˈpɑləsiz ənd ˈpræktɪsɪz bɪtˈwin ˈʤərnəlz, sɪz ɪˈlɪzəbɪθ ˈweɪʤər, ə ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈraɪtər ɪn ˈprɪnsɪz risborough*, uk*, hu ɪz ʧɛr əv koʊp. ðət ˈsərˌveɪ lɛd tɪ riˈtrækʃən ˈgaɪˌdlaɪnz ðət koʊp ˈpəblɪʃt ɪn 2009 bət ɪts stɪl ðə keɪs, sɪz ˈweɪʤər, ðət "ˈɛdɪtərz ˈɔfən hæv tɪ bi pʊʃt tɪ riˈtrækt". ˈəðər frəˈstreɪʃənz ˌɪnˈklud oʊˈpeɪk riˈtrækʃən ˈnoʊtɪsɪz ðət doʊnt ɪkˈspleɪn waɪ ə ˈpeɪpər həz bɪn wɪθˈdrɔn, ə ˈtɛndənsi fər ˈɔθərz tɪ kip ˈsaɪtɪŋ riˈtræktəd ˈpeɪpərz lɔŋ ˈæftər ðeɪv bɪn (si 'wɪθˈdrɔn ˈpeɪpərz lɪv ɔn') ənd ðə fækt ðət ˈmɛni ˈsaɪəntɪsts hir 'riˈtrækʃən' ənd ˌɪˈmiˌdiətli θɪŋk 'mɪˈskɑndəkt' ə ˈstɪgmə ðət meɪ kip ˈrisərʧərz frəm ˈkəmɪŋ ˈfɔrwərd tɪ ədˈmɪt ˈɑnəst ˈɛrərz. pərˈfɛkʃən meɪ bi tu məʧ tɪ ɪkˈspɛkt frəm ˈɛni ˈsɪstəm ðət həz tɪ dil wɪθ ˈjumən ˈɛrər ɪn ɔl ɪts messiness*. ɛz wən ˈʤərnəl ˈɛdɪtər toʊld ˈweɪʤər, iʧ riˈtrækʃən ɪz "ˈpeɪnfəli juˈnik". bət ɛz mɔr hɪt ðə ˈhɛˌdlaɪnz, səm ˈrisərʧərz ər ˈkɔlɪŋ fər weɪz tɪ ˌɪmˈpruv ðɛr ˈhændəlɪŋ. səˈʤɛstɪd rɪˈfɔrmz ˌɪnˈklud ˈbɛtər ˈsɪstəmz fər ˈlɪŋkɪŋ ˈpeɪpərz tɪ ðɛr riˈtrækʃən ˈnoʊtɪsɪz ər riˈvɪʒənz, mɔr riˌspɑnsəˈbɪləti ɔn ðə pɑrt əv ˈʤərnəl ˈɛdɪtərz ənd, moʊst əv ɔl, ˈgreɪtər trænˈspɛrənsi ənd ˈklɛrɪti əˈbaʊt mɪˈsteɪks ɪn ˈrisərʧ. ðə ˈrizənz bɪˈhaɪnd ðə raɪz ɪn ər stɪl ənˈklɪr. "aɪ doʊnt θɪŋk ðət ðɛr ɪz ˈsədənli ə bum ɪn ðə pərˈdəkʃən əv ˈfrɔʤələnt ər ɛˈroʊniəs wərk," sɪz ʤɑn, ə prəˈfɛsər əv hɛlθ ˈpɑləsi æt ˈstænfərd ˌjunəˈvərsəti skul əv ˈmɛdəsən ɪn ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə, hu həz spɛnt məʧ əv hɪz kərɪr ˈtrækɪŋ haʊ ˈmɛdɪkəl saɪəns prəˈdusɪz flɔd rɪˈzəlts. ɪn ˈsərˌveɪz, əraʊnd əv ˈsaɪəntɪsts ədˈmɪt tɪ ˈhævɪŋ ˈfæbrɪˌkeɪtɪd, ˈfɔlsəˌfaɪd ər ˈmɑdəˌfaɪd ˈdætə ər rɪˈzəlts æt list wəns (di. fəˈnɛli wən 4 2009 bət ˈoʊvər ðə pæst ˈdɛkeɪd, riˈtrækʃən ˈnoʊtɪsɪz fər ˈpəblɪʃt ˈpeɪpərz hæv ˌɪnˈkrist frəm əv ðə ˈtoʊtəl tɪ ˈoʊnli əˈbaʊt ənd, sɪz, ðət ˈsəbˌsɛt əv ˈpeɪpərz ɪz "ðə tɪp əv ðə ˈaɪsbərg" tu smɔl ənd ˈfrægmənˌtɛri fər ˈɛni ˈjusfəl kənˈkluʒənz tɪ bi drɔn əˈbaʊt ðə ˈoʊvərˌɔl reɪts əv sˈlɑpinəs ər mɪˈskɑndəkt. ˌɪnˈstɛd, ɪt ɪz mɔr ˈprɑbəbəl ðət ðə groʊθ ɪn həz kəm frəm ən ˌɪnˈkrist əˈwɛrnəs əv ˈrisərʧ mɪˈskɑndəkt, sɪz. ðæts θæŋks ɪn pɑrt tɪ ðə ˈsɛtɪŋ əp əv ˈrɛgjələˌtɔri ˈbɑdiz səʧ ɛz ðə ˈjuˈɛs ˈɔfəs əv ˈrisərʧ ˌɪnˈtɛgrəti ɪn ðə dɪˈpɑrtmənt əv hɛlθ ənd ˈjumən ˈsərvɪsɪz. ðiz ɪnˈʃʊr ˈgreɪtər əˈkaʊntəˌbɪlɪti fər ðə ˈrisərʧ ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃənz, wɪʧ, əˈlɔŋ wɪθ ˈrisərʧərz, ər riˈspɑnsəbəl fər dɪˈtɛktɪŋ mɪˈsteɪks. ðə groʊθ ˈɔlsoʊ oʊz ə lɔt tɪ ðə ˈimərʤəns əv ˈsɔfˌwɛr fər ˈizəli dɪˈtɛktɪŋ ˈpleɪʤərˌɪzəm ənd ˈɪmɪʤ məˌnɪpjəˈleɪʃən, kəmˈbaɪnd wɪθ ðə ˈgreɪtər ˈnəmbər əv ˈridərz ðət ðə ˈɪntərˌnɛt brɪŋz tɪ ˈrisərʧ ˈpeɪpərz. ɪn ðə fˈjuʧər, ˈwaɪdər juz əv səʧ ˈsɔfˌwɛr kʊd kɔz ðə reɪt əv riˈtrækʃən ˈnoʊtɪsɪz tɪ dɪp ɛz fæst ɛz ɪt spaɪkt, ˈsɪmpli bɪˈkəz mɔr əv ðə ˌprɑbləˈmætɪk ˈpeɪpərz wɪl bi skrind aʊt ˌbiˈfɔr ðeɪ riʧ ˌpəblɪˈkeɪʃən. ɔn ðə ˈəðər hænd, ˈɛdɪtərz' ˈnuˈfaʊnd ˈkəmfərt wɪθ ˈtɔkɪŋ əˈbaʊt riˈtrækʃən meɪ lɛd tɪ ˈnoʊtɪsɪz ˈkəmɪŋ æt ən ˈivɪn ˈgreɪtər reɪt. "nɔrmz ər ˈʧeɪnʤɪŋ ɔl ðə taɪm," sɪz ˈstivən ˈʃeɪfər, əv ðə ˈʤərnəl ˌænɪsˈθiˌʒiə analgesia*, hu həz pɑrˈtɪsəˌpeɪtɪd ɪn tu ˈmeɪʤər mɪˈskɑndəkt ˌɪnˌvɛstəˈgeɪʃənz wən əv wɪʧ ˌɪnˈvɑlvd 11 ˈʤərnəlz ənd lɛd tɪ ðə riˈtrækʃən əv səm 90 ˈpeɪpərz. ɪts nən əv jʊr dæm ˈbɪznɪs! bət ˈwɪlɪŋnəs tɪ tɔk əˈbaʊt ɪz ˈhɑrdli ˌjunəˈvərsəl. "ðɛr ər ə lɔt əv ˈpəblɪʃərz ənd ə lɔt əv ˈʤərnəl ˈɛdɪtərz hu ˈrɪli doʊnt wɔnt ˈpipəl tɪ noʊ əˈbaʊt wəts goʊɪŋ ɔn æt ðɛr ˌpəblɪˈkeɪʃənz," sɪz nu jɔrk ˈraɪtər ˈaɪvən, ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv ˈɛdɪtər æt ˈrɔɪtərz hɛlθ. ɪn ˈɔgəst 2010 ðə blɔg riˈtrækʃən wɔʧ wɪθ ˈædəm ˈmɑrkəs, ˈmænəʤɪŋ ˈɛdɪtər æt ˌænəsθiziˈɑləʤi nuz. sɪns ɪts lɔnʧ, sɪz, ðə saɪt həz lɔgd ˈmɪljən peɪʤ vjuz ənd həz ˈkəvərd mɔr ðən 200. ɪn wən ˈmɛmərəbəl poʊst, ðə rɪˈpɔrtərz dɪˈskraɪb ˈrɪŋɪŋ əp wən ˈɛdɪtər, ɛl. ˈhɛnri ˈɛdməndz æt ðə ˈænəlz əv θɔˈræsɪk ˈsərʤəri, tɪ æsk əˈbaʊt ə ˈpeɪpər wɪθˈdrɔn frəm hɪz ˈʤərnəl (si "ɪts nən əv jʊr dæm ˈbɪznɪs!" hi toʊld ðɛm. ˈɛdməndz dɪd nɑt rɪˈspɑnd tɪ ˈneɪʧər 'ɛs rɪkˈwɛst tɪ tɔk fər ðɪs ˈɑrtɪkəl. ðə poʊsts ɔn riˈtrækʃən wɔʧ ʃoʊ haʊ ˈwaɪldli ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənt ˈpræktɪsɪz ər frəm wən ˈʤərnəl tɪ ðə nɛkst. ˈnoʊtɪsɪz reɪnʤ frəm ˌɪnˈfɔrmətɪv ənd trænˈspɛrənt tɪ ˈdipli əbˈskjʊr. ə ˈtɪpɪkəli ənˈhɛlpfəl ɪgˈzæmpəl əv ðə ˈʒɑnrə wʊd bi: "ðɪs ˈɑrtɪkəl həz bɪn wɪθˈdrɔn æt ðə rɪkˈwɛst əv ðə ˈɔθərz ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ ɪˈlɪməˌneɪt ˌɪnkərˈɛkt ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən." ˈɑrgjuz ðət səʧ əbˈskjʊrəti lidz ˈridərz tɪ əˈsum mɪˈskɑndəkt, ɛz ˈsaɪəntɪsts ˈmeɪkɪŋ ən ˈɑnəst riˈtrækʃən wʊd, prɪˈzuməbli, traɪ tɪ ɪkˈspleɪn wət wɑz æt fɔlt. tɪ ˈdrəmənd ˈrɛni, ˈdɛpjəti ˈɛdɪtər əv ðə ˈʤərnəl əv ðə əˈmɛrɪkən ˈmɛdɪkəl əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən, ðɛr ər tu ˈɑbviəs ˈrizənz fər əbˈskjʊr riˈtrækʃən ˈnoʊtɪsɪz: "fɪr ənd wərk." ðə fɪr ˈfæktər, sɪz ˈweɪʤər, ɪz bɪˈkəz ˈpəblɪʃərz ər ˈvɛri ˈfraɪtənd əv biɪŋ sud. "ðeɪ ər ˌɪnˈkrɛdəbli əˈbaʊt ˈpəblɪʃɪŋ ˈɛniˌθɪŋ ðət kʊd bi dɪˈfæməˌtɔri," ʃi sɪz. 'wərk' rɪˈfərz tɪ ðə fəˈnɑmənəl ˈɛfərt rikˈwaɪərd tɪ sɔrt θru ˈɔθərˌʃɪp dɪˈspjuts, kənˈsərnz əˈbaʊt ˈjumən ər ˈænəməl ˈsəbʤɪkts, ˌækjəˈzeɪʃənz əv ˈdætə ˌfæbrɪˈkeɪʃən ənd ɔl ðə ˈəðər weɪz ə ˈpeɪpər kən goʊ rɔŋ. "ɪt teɪks ˈdəzənz ər ˈhənərdz əv aʊərz əv wərk tɪ gɪt tɪ ðə ˈbɑtəm əv wəts goʊɪŋ ɔn ənd ˈrɪli ˌəndərˈstænd ɪt," sɪz ˈʃeɪfər. bɪˈkəz moʊst ˈʤərnəl ˈɛdɪtərz ər ˈsaɪəntɪsts ər fɪˈzɪʃənz ˈwərkɪŋ ɔn ə ˈvɑləntɛri ˈbeɪsɪs, hi sɪz, ðət ˈɛfərt kəmz aʊt əv ðɛr ˈrisərʧ ənd ˈklɪnɪkəl taɪm. bət ðə ˈɛfərt həz tɪ bi meɪd, sɪz. "ɪf ju doʊnt hæv ɪˈnəf taɪm tɪ du ə ˈrizənəbəl ʤɑb əv ɪnˈʃʊrɪŋ ðə ˌɪnˈtɛgrəti əv jʊr ˈʤərnəl, du ju dɪˈzərv tɪ bi ɪn ˈbɪznɪs ɛz ə ˈʤərnəl ˈpəblɪʃər?" hi æsks. ənd ˈmɑrkəs hæv ˈteɪkən ə ˈsɪmələr stæns. ðɪs ˈsəmər, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, riˈtrækʃən wɔʧ ˈkrɪtəˌsaɪzd ðə ˈʤərnəl əv nˈjʊroʊˌsaɪəns fər ə pɛr əv aɪˈdɛntɪkəl riˈtrækʃən ˈnoʊtɪsɪz ɪt ˈpəblɪʃt ɔn 8 ʤun: "æt ðə rɪkˈwɛst əv ðə ˈɔθərz, ðə ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ˈmænjəˌskrɪpt həz bɪn riˈtræktəd." bət ðə ˈʤərnəlz, nˈjʊroʊˌsaɪənɪst ʤɑn əv ˈhɑrvərd ˈmɛdɪkəl skul ɪn ˈbɔstən, ˌmæsəˈʧusəts, ˈɑrgjuz ðət səʧ əbˈskjʊrəti ɪz ˈɔfən ðə moʊst riˈspɑnsəbəl kɔrs tɪ teɪk. "maɪ ˈfilɪŋ ɪz ðət ðɛr ər fɑr fjuər ðən ðɛr ʃʊd bi," sɪz, hu ædz ðət hi həz kənˈdəktəd 79 ˈɛθɪks ˌɪnˌvɛstəˈgeɪʃənz ɪn mɔr ðən 3 jɪrz æt ðə ˈʤərnəl 1 ˈɛvəri wiks. bət "ˈɔθərz ər rɪˈləktənt tɪ riˈtrækt ˈpeɪpərz", hi sɪz, "ənd ˈɛniˌθɪŋ wi pʊt əp ɪn ðə weɪ əv ə ˈbɛriər ər ˌdɪsɪnˈsɛntɪv ɪz ə bæd θɪŋ. ɪf ˈɔθərz ər ˈhæpiər ˈpoʊstɪŋ wɪˈθaʊt ˈɛkstrə ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən, aɪd ˈrəðər si ðət riˈtrækʃən goʊ θru ðən prəˈvaɪd ˈɛni dɪˈskərɪʤmənt." æt ðə hɑrt əv ðiz ˈɑrgjəmənts, sɪz, laɪ ˈʃɪftɪŋ nɔrmz əv haʊ riˈspɑnsəbəl ˈʤərnəl ˈɛdɪtərz ʃʊd bi fər ðə ˌɪnˈtɛgrəti əv ðə ˈrisərʧ ˈprɔˌsɛs. ɪn ðə pæst, hi sɪz, "ðeɪ fɛlt ðət ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃənz ənd ˈsaɪəntɪsts ɔt tɪ du ɪt". mɔr ənd mɔr ˈʤərnəl ˈɛdɪtərz təˈdeɪ ər ˈstɑrtɪŋ tɪ ɪmˈbreɪs ðə ˈgeɪtˌkipər roʊl. bət ˈivɪn naʊ, ˈʃeɪfər pɔɪnts aʊt, ðeɪ hæv ˈoʊnli ˈlɪmɪtɪd əˈθɔrəti tɪ ˈʧælənʤ ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃənz ðət ər rɪfˈjuzɪŋ tɪ kˈwɑpərˌeɪt. "aɪ hæv hæd ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃənz, wɛr aɪ fɛlt ðɛr wɑz ˈvɛri klɪr mɪˈskɑndəkt, kəm bæk ənd tɛl mi ðɛr wɑz nən," ˈʃeɪfər sɪz. "ənd aɪ hæv hæd ə ˈjuˈɛs ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃən tɛl mi ðət ðeɪ wʊd lʊk ˈɪntu ˌæləˈgeɪʃənz əv mɪˈskɑndəkt ˈoʊnli ɪf aɪ əˈgrid tɪ kip ðə rɪˈzəlts ˌkɑnfəˈdɛnʃəl." ðə bleɪm geɪm dɪˈskəʃənz ɔn riˈtrækʃən wɔʧ meɪk ɪt klɪr ðət ˈmɛni ˈsaɪəntɪsts wʊd laɪk tɪ ˈsɛpərˌeɪt tu ˈæˌspɛkts əv riˈtrækʃən ðət sim tɪ hæv bɪˈkəm ˈtæŋgəld təˈgɛðər: ˈklinɪŋ əp ðə ˈlɪtərəʧər, ənd ˈsɪgnəlɪŋ mɪˈskɑndəkt. ˈæftər ɔl, ˈmɛni ər ˈstreɪtˈfɔrwərd ənd ˈɑnərəbəl. ɪn ˌʤuˈlaɪ, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ˈdɛrɪk staɪn, ə ˈfɪzɪsɪst æt braʊn ˌjunəˈvərsəti ɪn ˈprɑvədəns, roʊd ˈaɪlənd, riˈtræktəd ə ˈpeɪpər ɪn ˈfɪzɪkəl ˌrivˈju ˈlɛtərz ɔn ˈdiˌɛˈneɪ ɪn ˈʧænəlz wɪn hi faʊnd ðət ə ki pɑrt əv ðə æˈnælɪsɪs hæd bɪn pərˈfɔrmd ˌɪnkərˈɛktli. hɪz ˈθəroʊnəs ənd spid ðə riˈtrækʃən keɪm ʤɪst fɔr mənθs ˈæftər ˌpəblɪˈkeɪʃən wər ˈsɪŋgəld aʊt fər preɪz ɔn riˈtrækʃən wɔʧ. bət bɪˈkəz ˈɔlˌmoʊst ɔl əv ðə ðət hɪt ðə ˈhɛˌdlaɪnz ər drəˈmætɪk ɪgˈzæmpəlz əv mɪˈskɑndəkt, ˈmɛni ˈrisərʧərz əˈsum ðət ˈɛni riˈtrækʃən ˈɪndɪˌkeɪts ðət ˈsəmθɪŋ ˈʃeɪdi həz əˈkərd. ənd ðət ˈstɪgmə meɪ dɪsˈweɪd ˈɑnəst ˈsaɪəntɪsts frəm duɪŋ ðə raɪt θɪŋ. wən əˈmɛrɪkən ˈrisərʧər hu tɔkt tɪ ˈneɪʧər əˈbaʊt hɪz oʊn riˈtrækʃən sɛd hi hoʊpt ðət hɪz dɪˈsɪʒən wʊd bi sin ɛz ə bæʤ əv ˈɑnər. bət, ˈivɪn jɪrz ˈleɪtər ənd wɪθ hɪz kərɪr ɪˈstæblɪʃt, hi stɪl dɪd nɑt wɔnt ˈneɪʧər tɪ juz hɪz neɪm ər gɪv ˈɛni ˈditeɪlz əv ðə keɪs. ðɛr ɪz noʊ ˈʤɛnərəl əˈgrimənt əˈbaʊt haʊ tɪ rɪˈdus ðɪs ˈstɪgmə. ˈrɛni səˈʤɛsts rɪˈzərvɪŋ ðə riˈtrækʃən ˈmɛkəˌnɪzəm ɪkˈsklusɪvli fər mɪˈskɑndəkt, bət ðət wʊd ˌrikˈwaɪər ðə kriˈeɪʃən əv ə nu tərm fər wɪθˈdrɔəlz oʊɪŋ tɪ ˈɑnəst mɪˈsteɪks. æt ðə ˈəðər ɪkˈstrim, ˈtɑməs ˈdɛkɔrsi, ə baɪˈɑləʤɪst æt rəʃ ˌjunəˈvərsəti ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈsɛnər ɪn ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊ, ˈɑrgjuz fər riˈtrækʃən əv ˈɛni ˈpeɪpər ðət ˈpəblɪʃɪz rɪˈzəlts ðət ər nɑt reproducible*. "ɪt dɪz nɑt ˈmætər ˈwɛðər ðə ˈɛrər wɑz du tɪ ˈaʊˈtraɪt frɔd, ˈɑnəst mɪˈsteɪks ər ˈrizənz ðət ˈsɪmpli ˈkænɑt bi dɪˈtərmənd," hi sɪz. ə ˈbɛtər voʊˈkæbjəˌlɛri fər ˈtɔkɪŋ əˈbaʊt ɪz ˈnidɪd, sɪz wən ækˈnɑlɪʤɪŋ ðət ər ʤɪst ɛz ˈɔfən du tɪ mɪˈsteɪks ɛz tɪ mɪˈskɑndəkt. ˈɔlsoʊ ˈjusfəl wʊd bi ə ˈdætəˌbeɪs fər ˈklæsəˌfaɪɪŋ. "ðə rɪsk fər ðə ˈrisərʧ kəmˈjunɪti ɪz ðət ɪf ɪt ˈdəzənt teɪk ðiz ˈprɑbləmz mɔr ˈsɪriəsli, ðɛn ðə ˈpəblɪk ˈʤərnəlɪsts, aʊtˈsaɪdərz wɪl kəm ɪn ənd stɑrt tɪ poʊk æt ðɛm," hi pɔɪnts aʊt. ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt ðə ˈoʊnli səˈluʃən kəmz bæk tɪ trænˈspɛrənsi. "ɪf ˈʤərnəlz toʊld ˈridərz waɪ ə ˈpeɪpər wɑz riˈtræktəd, ɪt ˈwʊdənt ˈmætər ɪf wən ˈʤərnəl riˈtræktəd ˈpeɪpərz fər mɪˈskɑndəkt waɪl əˈnəðər riˈtræktəd fər ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˈɛniˌθɪŋ," sɪz zɛn faulkes*, ə baɪˈɑləʤɪst æt ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv əˈmɛrɪkən ɪn edinburg*, ˈtɛksəs. əˈgriz. "aɪ θɪŋk ðət wət wɪr ˈædvəˌkeɪtɪŋ ɪz pɑrt əv ə məʧ ˈlɑrʤər fəˈnɑməˌnɑn ɪn ˈpəblɪk laɪf ənd ɔn ðə wɛb raɪt naʊ," hi sɪz. "wət ˈsaɪəntɪsts ʃʊd bi duɪŋ ɪz seɪɪŋ, 'ɪn ðə kɔrs əv wət wi du ər ˈɛrərz, ənd əˈməŋ ˈjuˈɛs ər ˈɔlsoʊ ˈpipəl ðət kəˈmɪt mɪˈskɑndəkt ər frɔd. lʊk haʊ smɔl ðət ˈnəmbər ɪz! ənd hɪrz wət wɪr duɪŋ tɪ rut ðət aʊt.'"
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after the holy knights stage a coup and kill her father, princess elizabeth sets out to find the seven deadly sins, an outlaw band of tough knights.
1. the seven deadly sins a princess finds a former knight at a pub and joins a quest to reunite his group of cavaliers in order to overthrow tyrants and restore the kingdom.
2. the sword of the holy knight when plants his sword in the center of the town and stops the village from making ale, only can remove it, making him town savior.
3. the sin in the sleeping forest, hawk and elizabeth travel to the daunting forest of white dreams, where goes to dangerous extremes to obtain information.
4. a little girl's dream diane joins the mission to free ban from the baste dungeon, but the group is assailed by an enemy set on crushing the whole town and the deadly sins.
5. even if you should die tries to seize the sword from elizabeth and; the sound of a mysterious bell drives the group to fight each other.
6. the poem of beginnings elizabeth and must fight holy knights and ruin to proceed to the dungeon. an omen of disaster on its way to britannia.
7. a touching reunion ban, and company have finally reunited. seeking a clue to the location of the sin of sloth, they head to the capital of the dead.
8. the fearsome pursuer king and ban have a final showdown; holy knight battles, diane and elizabeth; ban remembers elaine and the fountain of youth.
9. dark pulse elaine finally persuades king to rescue and the others. back in the capital, malcontent starts to stir among some of the holy knights.
10. the fighting festival upon learning the fighting festival's grand prize, gideon,, ban and king decide to participate, as do holy knights and.
11. feelings in the final match of the festival's first round, ban reflects on the first time he met. veronica and search for elizabeth.
12. canon during the last match of the festival, the venue breaks out in pandemonium when a group of holy knights attacks. what have they come for?
13. the angel of destruction enclosed inside the goddess amber, breaks free and reappears. not his true self, he begins attacking his allies as well as his enemies.
14. a reader of books and his pals begin a new search for the remaining seven deadly sins. the holy knight dispatches assassins to crush the armor giant.
15. unholy knight just as the attack overtakes the armor giant, appears, taking unexpected action. elizabeth learns of's past and the existence of liz.
16. the legends, provoked elizabeth's words convince to fight, and it becomes clear who stole his consciousness. hendrickson begins to resurrect the demon clan.
17. the first sacrifice when elizabeth is kidnapped,, ban and launch an attack on the capital. meanwhile, king arthur of camelot confronts hendrickson.
18. even if it costs me my life diane has a brush with death while protecting zeal. and are forced into a struggle against formidable magical powers.
19. the fairy king waits in vain king recalls how he met diane 700 years ago and the sad event that occurred between him and. what promise did these once good friends make?
20. the courage charm in order to take elizabeth back, teams up with arthur to fight a fierce battle against hendrickson and.
21. the looming threat appearance crushes ambitions, and is reunited with elizabeth. ban learns he must kill someone in order to resurrect elaine.
22. what i can do for you loses elizabeth again. ban confronts the person he must kill in order to save elaine. diane and company battle against the new generation.
23. despair descends pursued by the seven deadly sins, hendrickson makes two finds that give him the ultimate demon power.
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ˈæftər ðə ˈhoʊli naɪts steɪʤ ə ku ənd kɪl hər ˈfɑðər, ˈprɪnsɛs ɪˈlɪzəbɪθ sɛts aʊt tɪ faɪnd ðə ˈsɛvən ˈdɛdli sɪnz, ən ˈaʊˌtlɔ bænd əv təf naɪts. 1 ðə ˈsɛvən ˈdɛdli sɪnz ə ˈprɪnsɛs faɪndz ə ˈfɔrmər naɪt æt ə pəb ənd ʤɔɪnz ə kwɛst tɪ ˌriuˈnaɪt hɪz grup əv ˌkævəˈlɪrz ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ ˈoʊvərθˌroʊ ˈtaɪrənts ənd rɪˈstɔr ðə ˈkɪŋdəm. 2 ðə sɔrd əv ðə ˈhoʊli naɪt wɪn plænts hɪz sɔrd ɪn ðə ˈsɛnər əv ðə taʊn ənd stɑps ðə ˈvɪlɪʤ frəm ˈmeɪkɪŋ eɪl, ˈoʊnli kən riˈmuv ɪt, ˈmeɪkɪŋ ɪm taʊn ˈseɪvjər. 3 ðə sɪn ɪn ðə sˈlipɪŋ ˈfɔrɪst, hɔk ənd ɪˈlɪzəbɪθ ˈtrævəl tɪ ðə ˈdɔntɪŋ ˈfɔrɪst əv waɪt drimz, wɛr goʊz tɪ ˈdeɪnʤərəs ɪkˈstrimz tɪ əbˈteɪn ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən. 4 ə ˈlɪtəl gərlz drim daɪæn ʤɔɪnz ðə ˈmɪʃən tɪ fri bæn frəm ðə beɪst ˈdənʤən, bət ðə grup ɪz əˈseɪld baɪ ən ˈɛnəmi sɛt ɔn ˈkrəʃɪŋ ðə hoʊl taʊn ənd ðə ˈdɛdli sɪnz. 5 ˈivɪn ɪf ju ʃʊd daɪ traɪz tɪ siz ðə sɔrd frəm ɪˈlɪzəbɪθ ənd; ðə saʊnd əv ə mɪˈstɪriəs bɛl draɪvz ðə grup tɪ faɪt iʧ ˈəðər. 6 ðə poʊəm əv bɪˈgɪnɪŋz ɪˈlɪzəbɪθ ənd məst faɪt ˈhoʊli naɪts ənd ruɪn tɪ pərˈsid tɪ ðə ˈdənʤən. ən ˈoʊmən əv dɪˈzæstər ɔn ɪts weɪ tɪ brɪˈtæniə. 7 ə ˈtəʧɪŋ riˈunjən bæn, ənd ˈkəmpəˌni hæv ˈfaɪnəli ˌriuˈnaɪtɪd. ˈsikɪŋ ə klu tɪ ðə loʊˈkeɪʃən əv ðə sɪn əv sloʊθ, ðeɪ hɛd tɪ ðə ˈkæpɪtəl əv ðə dɛd. 8 ðə ˈfɪrsəm pərˈsuər kɪŋ ənd bæn hæv ə ˈfaɪnəl ˈʃoʊˌdaʊn; ˈhoʊli naɪt ˈbætəlz, daɪæn ənd ɪˈlɪzəbɪθ; bæn rɪˈmɛmbərz ˌiˈleɪn ənd ðə ˈfaʊntən əv juθ. 9 dɑrk pəls ˌiˈleɪn ˈfaɪnəli pərsˈweɪdz kɪŋ tɪ ˈrɛskju ənd ðə ˈəðərz. bæk ɪn ðə ˈkæpɪtəl, ˌmælkənˈtɛnt stɑrts tɪ stər əˈməŋ səm əv ðə ˈhoʊli naɪts. 10 ðə ˈfaɪtɪŋ ˈfɛstɪvəl əˈpɑn ˈlərnɪŋ ðə ˈfaɪtɪŋ ˈfɛstɪvəlz grænd praɪz, ˈgɪdiən,, bæn ənd kɪŋ ˌdɪˈsaɪd tɪ pɑrˈtɪsəˌpeɪt, ɛz du ˈhoʊli naɪts ənd. 11 ˈfilɪŋz ɪn ðə ˈfaɪnəl mæʧ əv ðə ˈfɛstɪvəlz fərst raʊnd, bæn rɪˈflɛkts ɔn ðə fərst taɪm hi mɛt. vərˈɑnɪkə ənd sərʧ fər ɪˈlɪzəbɪθ. 12 ˈkænən ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə læst mæʧ əv ðə ˈfɛstɪvəl, ðə ˈvɛnju breɪks aʊt ɪn ˌpændɪˈmoʊniəm wɪn ə grup əv ˈhoʊli naɪts əˈtæks. wət hæv ðeɪ kəm fər? 13 ðə ˈeɪnʤəl əv dɪˈstrəkʃən ɪnˈkloʊzd ˌɪnˈsaɪd ðə ˈgɑdəs ˈæmbər, breɪks fri ənd ˌriəˈpɪrz. nɑt hɪz tru sɛlf, hi bɪˈgɪnz əˈtækɪŋ hɪz ˈælaɪz ɛz wɛl ɛz hɪz ˈɛnəmiz. 14 ə ˈridər əv bʊks ənd hɪz pælz bɪˈgɪn ə nu sərʧ fər ðə rɪˈmeɪnɪŋ ˈsɛvən ˈdɛdli sɪnz. ðə ˈhoʊli naɪt dɪˈspæʧɪz əˈsæsənz tɪ krəʃ ðə ˈɑrmər ʤaɪənt. 15 ənˈhoʊli naɪt ʤɪst ɛz ðə əˈtæk ˈoʊvərˌteɪks ðə ˈɑrmər ʤaɪənt, əˈpɪrz, ˈteɪkɪŋ ˌənɪkˈspɛktɪd ˈækʃən. ɪˈlɪzəbɪθ lərnz əv pæst ənd ðə ɪgˈzɪstəns əv lɪz. 16 ðə ˈlɛʤəndz, prəˈvoʊkt ɪˈlɪzəbəθs wərdz kənˈvɪns tɪ faɪt, ənd ɪt bɪˈkəmz klɪr hu stoʊl hɪz ˈkɑnʃəsnəs. ˈhɛndrɪksən bɪˈgɪnz tɪ ˌrɛzərˈɛkt ðə ˈdimən klæn. 17 ðə fərst ˈsækrəˌfaɪs wɪn ɪˈlɪzəbɪθ ɪz ˈkɪdˌnæpt,, bæn ənd lɔnʧ ən əˈtæk ɔn ðə ˈkæpɪtəl. ˈminˌwaɪl, kɪŋ ˈɑrθər əv ˈkæməˌlɑt kənˈfrənts ˈhɛndrɪksən. 18 ˈivɪn ɪf ɪt kɔsts mi maɪ laɪf daɪæn həz ə brəʃ wɪθ dɛθ waɪl prəˈtɛktɪŋ zil. ənd ər fɔrst ˈɪntu ə ˈstrəgəl əˈgɛnst ˌfɔrˈmɪdəbəl ˈmæʤɪkəl paʊərz. 19 ðə ˈfɛri kɪŋ weɪts ɪn veɪn kɪŋ ˈriˌkɔlz haʊ hi mɛt daɪæn 700 jɪrz əˈgoʊ ənd ðə sæd ɪˈvɛnt ðət əˈkərd bɪtˈwin ɪm ənd. wət ˈprɑməs dɪd ðiz wəns gʊd frɛndz meɪk? 20 ðə kərɪʤ ʧɑrm ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ teɪk ɪˈlɪzəbɪθ bæk, timz əp wɪθ ˈɑrθər tɪ faɪt ə fɪrs ˈbætəl əˈgɛnst ˈhɛndrɪksən ənd. 21 ðə ˈlumɪŋ θrɛt əˈpɪrəns ˈkrəʃɪz æmˈbɪʃənz, ənd ɪz ˌriuˈnaɪtɪd wɪθ ɪˈlɪzəbɪθ. bæn lərnz hi məst kɪl ˈsəmˌwən ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ ˌrɛzərˈɛkt ˌiˈleɪn. 22 wət aɪ kən du fər ju ˈluzɪz ɪˈlɪzəbɪθ əˈgɛn. bæn kənˈfrənts ðə ˈpərsən hi məst kɪl ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ seɪv ˌiˈleɪn. daɪæn ənd ˈkəmpəˌni ˈbætəl əˈgɛnst ðə nu ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən. 23 dɪˈspɛr dɪˈsɛndz pərˈsud baɪ ðə ˈsɛvən ˈdɛdli sɪnz, ˈhɛndrɪksən meɪks tu faɪndz ðət gɪv ɪm ðə ˈəltəmət ˈdimən paʊər.
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more than 400 young people from across the country will descend on capitol hill tuesday to hear how sen. ted cruz, r-texas, actress ashley judd and other lawmakers will address issues relating to the so-called millennial generation.
"we wanted to send a strong message that bipartisanship for is not reserved for the centrists or for the moderates ... [it] also includes those on the far left and the far right," steven, president of the millennial action project, said in a phone interview. "and it also reflects the strength of this movement to bring unlikely partners together in service of future generations."
the millennial action project is hosting the congressional summit on next generation leadership, along with nexus, a network of young philanthropists, and children uniting nations, a nonprofit in los angeles. the hundreds of students, philanthropists, and entrepreneurs will pack into the capitol visitor center's congressional auditorium tuesday morning for the first half of the summit. they will discuss issues related to the media, human trafficking and forming youth movements. the morning will also include a question and answer session with cruz, who will likely be asked about similar issues as well as immigration, education and climate change.
"sen. ted cruz, although being a symbol in the national media for conflict, has sponsored bipartisan legislation with [sen. kirsten gillibrand, d-n.y.] on military sexual assault issues," noted. "the core value that this generation can bring is pragmatism. if there are good ideas that sen. cruz or others are bringing, we ought to bring them to the table."
olikara also said some may view cruz as a surprising choice for a summit focused on forging bipartisan bonds, but bringing people from all sides of the political spectrum together was one of the summit's goals.
“i think most people would think sen. ted cruz is the last speaker expect at our conference and that is exactly the point," said. "that we can bring such an ideologically disparate group to the table.”
cruz will not be the only lawmaker addressing the tuesday. reps. john delaney, d-md., and todd young, r-ind., will discuss partnerships. congressional future caucus co-chairs, reps. gabbard, d-hawaii, and aaron schock, r-ill., will discuss "congress and the millennial generation."
after lunch, roughly 200 of the participants will remain on the hill to participate in breakout sessions in the cannon and longworth house office buildings. the sessions will be focused on issues including social impact investing, human trafficking, gun safety, women in philanthropy, energy policy and education reform. rep. carolyn b. maloney, d-n.y., will participate in a discussion titled end slavery now: bridging the divide between government and civil society.
after the breakout sessions, participants will come together to learn the results of giving tuesday , a global philanthropy day. then judd, who at one time was mentioned as a 2014 opponent against senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, r-ky., will address the participants about women's role as future leaders.
"what conference has everyone from sen. ted cruz to the actress ashley judd coming to speak?" asked. "i just think unique and speaks to the strength of our work.”
related: congressional future caucus promotes 'giving tuesday' roll call results map: results and district profiles for every seat get breaking news alerts and more from roll call in your or on your iphone.
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mɔr ðən 400 jəŋ ˈpipəl frəm əˈkrɔs ðə ˈkəntri wɪl dɪˈsɛnd ɔn ˈkæpɪtəl hɪl ˈtuzˌdeɪ tɪ hir haʊ sɛn. tɛd kruz, r-texas*, ˈæktrəs ˈæʃli ʤəd ənd ˈəðər ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz wɪl ˈæˌdrɛs ˈɪʃuz rɪˈleɪtɪŋ tɪ ðə ˈsoʊˈkɔld mɪˈlɛniəl ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən. "wi ˈwɔntɪd tɪ sɛnd ə strɔŋ ˈmɛsɪʤ ðət baɪˈpɑrtəzənˌʃɪp fər ɪz nɑt rɪˈzərvd fər ðə ˈsɛntrɪsts ər fər ðə ˈmɑdərˌeɪts [ɪt] ˈɔlsoʊ ˌɪnˈkludz ðoʊz ɔn ðə fɑr lɛft ənd ðə fɑr raɪt," ˈstivən, ˈprɛzɪdənt əv ðə mɪˈlɛniəl ˈækʃən ˈprɑʤɛkt, sɛd ɪn ə foʊn ˈɪntərvˌju. "ənd ɪt ˈɔlsoʊ rɪˈflɛkts ðə strɛŋθ əv ðɪs ˈmuvmənt tɪ brɪŋ ənˈlaɪkli ˈpɑrtnərz təˈgɛðər ɪn ˈsərvɪs əv fˈjuʧər ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃənz." ðə mɪˈlɛniəl ˈækʃən ˈprɑʤɛkt ɪz ˈhoʊstɪŋ ðə kənˈgrɛʃənəl ˈsəmɪt ɔn nɛkst ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən ˈlidərˌʃɪp, əˈlɔŋ wɪθ ˈnɛksəs, ə ˈnɛtˌwərk əv jəŋ fɪˈlænθrəpɪsts, ənd ˈʧɪldrən juˈnaɪtɪŋ ˈneɪʃənz, ə nɑnˈprɑfət ɪn lɔs ˈænʤəlɪs. ðə ˈhənərdz əv ˈstudənts, fɪˈlænθrəpɪsts, ənd ˌɑntrəprəˈnərz wɪl pæk ˈɪntu ðə ˈkæpɪtəl ˈvɪzɪtər ˈsɛnərz kənˈgrɛʃənəl ˌɔdəˈtɔriəm ˈtuzˌdeɪ ˈmɔrnɪŋ fər ðə fərst hæf əv ðə ˈsəmɪt. ðeɪ wɪl dɪˈskəs ˈɪʃuz rɪˈleɪtɪd tɪ ðə ˈmidiə, ˈjumən ˈtræfɪkɪŋ ənd ˈfɔrmɪŋ juθ ˈmuvmənts. ðə ˈmɔrnɪŋ wɪl ˈɔlsoʊ ˌɪnˈklud ə kˈwɛʃən ənd ˈænsər ˈsɛʃən wɪθ kruz, hu wɪl ˈlaɪkli bi æst əˈbaʊt ˈsɪmələr ˈɪʃuz ɛz wɛl ɛz ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən, ˌɛʤəˈkeɪʃən ənd ˈklaɪmɪt ʧeɪnʤ. "sɛn. tɛd kruz, ˌɔlˈðoʊ biɪŋ ə ˈsɪmbəl ɪn ðə ˈnæʃənəl ˈmidiə fər ˈkɑnflɪkt, həz ˈspɑnsərd baɪˈpɑrtɪzən ˌlɛʤəsˈleɪʃən wɪθ [sɛn. ˈkərstən gillibrand*, d-n.y*.] ɔn ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˈsɛkʃuəl əˈsɔlt ˈɪʃuz," ˈnoʊtɪd. "ðə kɔr ˈvælju ðət ðɪs ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən kən brɪŋ ɪz ˈprægməˌtɪzəm. ɪf ðɛr ər gʊd aɪˈdiəz ðət sɛn. kruz ər ˈəðərz ər ˈbrɪŋɪŋ, wi ɔt tɪ brɪŋ ðɛm tɪ ðə ˈteɪbəl." ˈɔlsoʊ sɛd səm meɪ vju kruz ɛz ə səˈpraɪzɪŋ ʧɔɪs fər ə ˈsəmɪt ˈfoʊkɪst ɔn ˈfɔrʤɪŋ baɪˈpɑrtɪzən bɑndz, bət ˈbrɪŋɪŋ ˈpipəl frəm ɔl saɪdz əv ðə pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈspɛktrəm təˈgɛðər wɑz wən əv ðə ˈsəməts goʊlz. θɪŋk moʊst ˈpipəl wʊd θɪŋk sɛn. tɛd kruz ɪz ðə læst ˈspikər ɪkˈspɛkt æt ɑr ˈkɑnfərəns ənd ðət ɪz ɪgˈzæktli ðə pɔɪnt," sɛd. "ðət wi kən brɪŋ səʧ ən ˌaɪdiəˈlɑʤɪkli ˈdɪspərɪt grup tɪ ðə table.”*.” kruz wɪl nɑt bi ðə ˈoʊnli ˈlɔˌmeɪkər æˈdrɛsɪŋ ðə ˈtuzˌdeɪ. rɛps. ʤɑn dəˈleɪni, d-md*., ənd tɑd jəŋ, r-ind*., wɪl dɪˈskəs ˈpɑrtnərˌʃɪps. kənˈgrɛʃənəl fˈjuʧər ˈkɔkəs co-chairs*, rɛps. gəˈbɑrd, d-hawaii*, ənd ˈɛrən ʃɑk, r-ill*., wɪl dɪˈskəs "ˈkɑŋgrəs ənd ðə mɪˈlɛniəl ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən." ˈæftər lənʧ, ˈrəfli 200 əv ðə pɑrˈtɪsəpənts wɪl rɪˈmeɪn ɔn ðə hɪl tɪ pɑrˈtɪsəˌpeɪt ɪn ˈbreɪˌkaʊt ˈsɛʃənz ɪn ðə ˈkænən ənd ˈlɔŋˌwərθ haʊs ˈɔfəs ˈbɪldɪŋz. ðə ˈsɛʃənz wɪl bi ˈfoʊkɪst ɔn ˈɪʃuz ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈsoʊʃəl ˌɪmˈpækt ˌɪnˈvɛstɪŋ, ˈjumən ˈtræfɪkɪŋ, gən ˈseɪfti, ˈwɪmən ɪn fɪˈlænθrəpi, ˈɛnərʤi ˈpɑləsi ənd ˌɛʤəˈkeɪʃən rɪˈfɔrm. rɛpriˈzɛtətɪv. ˈkɛrəlɪn bi. məˈloʊni, d-n.y*., wɪl pɑrˈtɪsəˌpeɪt ɪn ə dɪˈskəʃən ˈtaɪtəld ɛnd sˈleɪvəri naʊ: ˈbrɪʤɪŋ ðə dɪˈvaɪd bɪtˈwin ˈgəvərnmənt ənd ˈsɪvəl soʊˈsaɪɪti. ˈæftər ðə ˈbreɪˌkaʊt ˈsɛʃənz, pɑrˈtɪsəpənts wɪl kəm təˈgɛðər tɪ lərn ðə rɪˈzəlts əv ˈgɪvɪŋ ˈtuzˌdeɪ ə ˈgloʊbəl fɪˈlænθrəpi deɪ. ðɛn ʤəd, hu æt wən taɪm wɑz ˈmɛnʃənd ɛz ə 2014 əˈpoʊnənt əˈgɛnst ˈsɛnɪt məˈnɔrəti ˈlidər mɪʧ məˈkɑnəl, r-ky*., wɪl ˈæˌdrɛs ðə pɑrˈtɪsəpənts əˈbaʊt ˈwɪmənz roʊl ɛz fˈjuʧər ˈlidərz. "wət ˈkɑnfərəns həz ˈɛvriˌwən frəm sɛn. tɛd kruz tɪ ðə ˈæktrəs ˈæʃli ʤəd ˈkəmɪŋ tɪ spik?" æst. "aɪ ʤɪst θɪŋk juˈnik ənd spiks tɪ ðə strɛŋθ əv ɑr work.”*.” rɪˈleɪtɪd: kənˈgrɛʃənəl fˈjuʧər ˈkɔkəs prəˈmoʊts 'ˈgɪvɪŋ ˈtuzˌdeɪ' roʊl kɔl rɪˈzəlts mæp: rɪˈzəlts ənd ˈdɪstrɪkt ˈproʊˌfaɪlz fər ˈɛvəri sit gɪt ˈbreɪkɪŋ nuz əˈlərts ənd mɔr frəm roʊl kɔl ɪn jʊr ər ɔn jʊr ˈaɪˌfoʊn.
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update: ice issues statement on report about ‘massive’ plan to round up illegal aliens
ice is denying an exclusive report by nbc news, which stated the department was planning “operation mega,” a nationwide effort to round up illegal aliens.
ice statement regarding reported enforcement planning: "no coordinated nationwide operation planned at this time." joshua dov caplan (@joshdcaplan) september 8, 2017
“while we generally do not comment on future potential law enforcement actions, operational plans are subject to change based on a variety of factors. due to the current weather situation in florida and other potentially impacted areas, along with the ongoing recovery in texas, u.s. immigration and customs enforcement (ice) had already reviewed all upcoming operations and has adjusted accordingly. there is currently no coordination nationwide operation planned at the time. the priority in the affected areas should remain focused on and the safety and security of our communities, ice fugitive operations teams will continue to target and arrest criminal aliens an other individuals who are in violation of our immigration laws, in areas of the country, as part of routine operations.”
original report below.
donald trump made a promise to his supporters on the day he announced his candidacy for president of the united states. the time to enforce laws is long over due and he vowed to not only uphold them, but bolster them. in an exclusive report, nbc news reveals the department of homeland security is planning a massive round up of illegal aliens.
“the largest operation of its kind in the history of ice.”
the largest in u.s. history!
nbc news reports:
president donald department of homeland security is planning nationwide raids to target undocumented immigrants later this month, according to three law enforcement officials and an internal document that described the plan as “the largest operation of its kind in the history of ice,” an acronym for u.s. immigration and customs enforcement. the raids, scheduled over five days beginning sept. 17, are being called “operation mega,” according to the document, a memo circulated in august. it is not unusual for ice operations to target immigrants by the hundreds or even low thousands. the target number may be partially driven by an effort to reach a deportation goal at the end of the fiscal year, which ends sept. 30, one of the officials said. operation mega is still in the planning stage and its details may change or it may even be cancelled, the officials said, especially as the agency resources toward rescue operations in florida ahead of the looming hurricane irma. if carried out, it would come on the heels of controversial decision to end the deferred action for childhood arrivals program, known as daca, that allows some immigrants who were brought into the united states as children to stay.
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ˈəpˌdeɪt: aɪs ˈɪʃuz ˈsteɪtmənt ɔn rɪˈpɔrt əˈbaʊt ‘‘massive’*’ plæn tɪ raʊnd əp ˌɪˈligəl ˈeɪliənz aɪs ɪz dɪˈnaɪɪŋ ən ɪkˈsklusɪv rɪˈpɔrt baɪ ˈɛnˌbiˈsi nuz, wɪʧ ˈsteɪtɪd ðə dɪˈpɑrtmənt wɑz ˈplænɪŋ mega,”*,” ə ˈneɪʃənˈwaɪd ˈɛfərt tɪ raʊnd əp ˌɪˈligəl ˈeɪliənz. aɪs ˈsteɪtmənt rɪˈgɑrdɪŋ ˌriˈpɔrtəd ɛnˈfɔrsmənt ˈplænɪŋ: "noʊ koʊˈɔrdəneɪtɪd ˈneɪʃənˈwaɪd ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən plænd æt ðɪs taɪm." ˈʤɑˌʃuə dɑv ˈkæplən (@joshdcaplan*) sɛpˈtɛmbər 8 2017 wi ˈʤɛnərəli du nɑt ˈkɑmɛnt ɔn fˈjuʧər pəˈtɛnʃəl lɔ ɛnˈfɔrsmənt ˈækʃənz, ˌɑpərˈeɪʃənəl plænz ər ˈsəbʤɪkt tɪ ʧeɪnʤ beɪst ɔn ə vərˈaɪəti əv ˈfæktərz. du tɪ ðə ˈkɑrənt ˈwɛðər ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃən ɪn ˈflɔrɪdə ənd ˈəðər pəˈtɛnʃəli ˌɪmˈpæktɪd ˈɛriəz, əˈlɔŋ wɪθ ðə ˈɔnˌgoʊɪŋ rɪˈkəvəri ɪn ˈtɛksəs, juz. ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən ənd ˈkəstəmz ɛnˈfɔrsmənt (aɪs) hæd ɔˈrɛdi rivˈjud ɔl ˈəpˌkəmɪŋ ˌɑpərˈeɪʃənz ənd həz əˈʤəstɪd əˈkɔrdɪŋli. ðɛr ɪz ˈkərəntli noʊ koʊˌɔrdəˈneɪʃən ˈneɪʃənˈwaɪd ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən plænd æt ðə taɪm. ðə praɪˈɔrəti ɪn ðə əˈfɛktɪd ˈɛriəz ʃʊd rɪˈmeɪn ˈfoʊkɪst ɔn ənd ðə ˈseɪfti ənd sɪˈkjʊrəti əv ɑr kəmˈjunɪtiz, aɪs fˈjuʤɪtɪv ˌɑpərˈeɪʃənz timz wɪl kənˈtɪnju tɪ ˈtərgət ənd ərˈɛst ˈkrɪmənəl ˈeɪliənz ən ˈəðər ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəlz hu ər ɪn vaɪəˈleɪʃən əv ɑr ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən lɔz, ɪn ˈɛriəz əv ðə ˈkəntri, ɛz pɑrt əv ruˈtin operations.”*.” ərˈɪʤənəl rɪˈpɔrt bɪˈloʊ. ˈdɑnəld trəmp meɪd ə ˈprɑməs tɪ hɪz səˈpɔrtərz ɔn ðə deɪ hi əˈnaʊnst hɪz ˈkændɪdəsi fər ˈprɛzɪdənt əv ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts. ðə taɪm tɪ ɛnˈfɔrs lɔz ɪz lɔŋ ˈoʊvər du ənd hi vaʊd tɪ nɑt ˈoʊnli əˈphoʊld ðɛm, bət ˈboʊlstər ðɛm. ɪn ən ɪkˈsklusɪv rɪˈpɔrt, ˈɛnˌbiˈsi nuz rɪˈvilz ðə dɪˈpɑrtmənt əv ˈhoʊmˌlænd sɪˈkjʊrəti ɪz ˈplænɪŋ ə ˈmæsɪv raʊnd əp əv ˌɪˈligəl ˈeɪliənz. ˈlɑrʤəst ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən əv ɪts kaɪnd ɪn ðə ˈhɪstəri əv ice.”*.” ðə ˈlɑrʤəst ɪn juz. ˈhɪstəri! ˈɛnˌbiˈsi nuz rɪˈpɔrts: ˈprɛzɪdənt ˈdɑnəld dɪˈpɑrtmənt əv ˈhoʊmˌlænd sɪˈkjʊrəti ɪz ˈplænɪŋ ˈneɪʃənˈwaɪd reɪdz tɪ ˈtərgət ənˈdɑkjəmɛnɪd ˈɪməgrənts ˈleɪtər ðɪs mənθ, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ θri lɔ ɛnˈfɔrsmənt əˈfɪʃəlz ənd ən ˌɪnˈtərnəl ˈdɑkjəmɛnt ðət dɪˈskraɪbd ðə plæn ɛz ˈlɑrʤəst ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən əv ɪts kaɪnd ɪn ðə ˈhɪstəri əv ice,”*,” ən ˈækrənɪm fər juz. ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən ənd ˈkəstəmz ɛnˈfɔrsmənt. ðə reɪdz, ˈskɛʤʊld ˈoʊvər faɪv deɪz bɪˈgɪnɪŋ sɛpt. 17 ər biɪŋ kɔld mega,”*,” əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ðə ˈdɑkjəmɛnt, ə ˈmɛˌmoʊ ˈsərkjəˌleɪtɪd ɪn ˈɔgəst. ɪt ɪz nɑt ənˈjuˌʒuəl fər aɪs ˌɑpərˈeɪʃənz tɪ ˈtərgət ˈɪməgrənts baɪ ðə ˈhənərdz ər ˈivɪn loʊ ˈθaʊzənz. ðə ˈtərgət ˈnəmbər meɪ bi ˈpɑrʃəli ˈdrɪvən baɪ ən ˈɛfərt tɪ riʧ ə ˌdipɔrˈteɪʃən goʊl æt ðə ɛnd əv ðə ˈfɪskəl jɪr, wɪʧ ɛndz sɛpt. 30 wən əv ðə əˈfɪʃəlz sɛd. ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən ˈmɛgə ɪz stɪl ɪn ðə ˈplænɪŋ steɪʤ ənd ɪts ˈditeɪlz meɪ ʧeɪnʤ ər ɪt meɪ ˈivɪn bi ˈkænsəld, ðə əˈfɪʃəlz sɛd, əˈspɛʃəli ɛz ðə ˈeɪʤənsi ˈrisɔrsɪz təˈwɔrd ˈrɛskju ˌɑpərˈeɪʃənz ɪn ˈflɔrɪdə əˈhɛd əv ðə ˈlumɪŋ ˈhərəˌkeɪnz ˈərmə. ɪf ˈkɛrid aʊt, ɪt wʊd kəm ɔn ðə hilz əv ˌkɑntrəˈvərʃəl dɪˈsɪʒən tɪ ɛnd ðə dɪˈfərd ˈækʃən fər ˈʧaɪlˌdhʊd ərˈaɪvəlz ˈproʊˌgræm, noʊn ɛz daca*, ðət əˈlaʊz səm ˈɪməgrənts hu wər brɔt ˈɪntu ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts ɛz ˈʧɪldrən tɪ steɪ.
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google's open-source program manager has launched an entertaining rant against firms offering mobile security software, accusing them of selling worthless software and of being "charlatans and scammers".
chris dibona, open-source programs manager, argues that neither based on android nor apple's ios need protection. anyone telling you different is a salesman, he said.
"virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you protection software for android, rim, and, ios," dibona said on google+. "they are charlatans and scammers. if you work for a company selling virus protection for android, rim or ios, you should be ashamed of yourself."
he argues that are inherently more secure than pcs, while admitting mobile malware is not mythical but rather that it has rarely if ever caused much of a problem.
"no major cell phone has a 'virus' problem in the traditional sense that windows and some mac machines have seen," he said. "there have been some little things, but they haven't gotten very far due to the user models and the nature of the underlying kernels."
"no linux desktop has a real virus problem," he added.
it seems a report from juniper networks last week noting "exponential growth" in android malware, blamed on the looser controls in the android market than those applied by apple, provoked the google guru's outburst. dibona doesn't call out any of the mobile security charlatans he castigates so strongly by name but there's no shortage of candidates.
many firms have branched out into offering security software for android, including commercial products from lab, and symantec. lookout mobile and offer basic protection software at no charge to consumers. some security firms, lookout and intego, offer more basic security packages for ios but without bundled protection, which is not supported by ios. windows mobile is covered by the likes of and others. hardened blackberry devices exist but we've never come across a firm offering blackberry security software as a product as yet. viruses targeting blackberry remain unknown.
security firms said dibona has misunderstood both the threat and the capabilities of their products. lab said that are migrating towards android as the platform increases in popularity. the main problem is trojans, malicious applications that pose as something useful to a user, rather than virus. reckons one trojan - - has already infected infected users.
mikko hypponen,'s chief research officer, tweeted, "what [chris dibona] is missing is that these tools do much more than just antivirus: antitheft. remote lock. backup. parental control. web filter."
talk of exponential malware growth is justified but needs to be put into context, that the huge rise is coming from a base of almost nothing and that the raw figures remain trivial compared to the windows virus plague. specialist mobile security firm lookout, for example, estimates mobile malware instances have more than doubled to nearly over the last four months alone. windows malware estimates routinely exceed 5 million and above.
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google's* ˈoʊpənˌsɔrs ˈproʊˌgræm ˈmænɪʤər həz lɔnʧt ən ˌɛnərˈteɪnɪŋ rænt əˈgɛnst fərmz ˈɔfərɪŋ ˈmoʊbəl sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈsɔfˌwɛr, əˈkjuzɪŋ ðɛm əv ˈsɛlɪŋ ˈwərθləs ˈsɔfˌwɛr ənd əv biɪŋ "ˈʃɑrlətənz ənd ˈskæmərz". krɪs dɪˈboʊnɑ, ˈoʊpənˌsɔrs ˈproʊˌgræmz ˈmænɪʤər, ˈɑrgjuz ðət ˈniðər beɪst ɔn ˈænˌdrɔɪd nɔr ˈæpəlz ˈioʊs nid prəˈtɛkʃən. ˈɛniˌwən ˈtɛlɪŋ ju ˈdɪfərənt ɪz ə ˈseɪlzmən, hi sɛd. "ˈvaɪrəs ˈkəmpəˌniz ər pleɪɪŋ ɔn jʊr fɪrz tɪ traɪ tɪ sɛl ju prəˈtɛkʃən ˈsɔfˌwɛr fər ˈænˌdrɔɪd, rɪm, ənd, ˈioʊs," dɪˈboʊnɑ sɛd ɔn ˈgugəl+. "ðeɪ ər ˈʃɑrlətənz ənd ˈskæmərz. ɪf ju wərk fər ə ˈkəmpəˌni ˈsɛlɪŋ ˈvaɪrəs prəˈtɛkʃən fər ˈænˌdrɔɪd, rɪm ər ˈioʊs, ju ʃʊd bi əˈʃeɪmd əv ˈjɔrsɛlf." hi ˈɑrgjuz ðət ər ˌɪnˈhɛrəntli mɔr sɪˈkjʊr ðən ˈpiˈsiz, waɪl ədˈmɪtɪŋ ˈmoʊbəl ˈmælˌwɛr ɪz nɑt ˈmɪθɪkəl bət ˈrəðər ðət ɪt həz ˈrɛrli ɪf ˈɛvər kɔzd məʧ əv ə ˈprɑbləm. "noʊ ˈmeɪʤər sɛl foʊn həz ə 'ˈvaɪrəs' ˈprɑbləm ɪn ðə trəˈdɪʃənəl sɛns ðət ˈwɪndoʊz ənd səm mæk məˈʃinz hæv sin," hi sɛd. "ðɛr hæv bɪn səm ˈlɪtəl θɪŋz, bət ðeɪ ˈhævənt ˈgɔtən ˈvɛri fɑr du tɪ ðə ˈjuzər ˈmɑdəlz ənd ðə ˈneɪʧər əv ðə ˌəndərˈlaɪɪŋ ˈkərnəlz." "noʊ ˈlɪnəks ˈdɛskˌtɑp həz ə ril ˈvaɪrəs ˈprɑbləm," hi ˈædɪd. ɪt simz ə rɪˈpɔrt frəm ˈʤunəpər ˈnɛtˌwərks læst wik ˈnoʊtɪŋ "ˌɛkspoʊˈnɛnʃəl groʊθ" ɪn ˈænˌdrɔɪd ˈmælˌwɛr, bleɪmd ɔn ðə ˈlusər kənˈtroʊlz ɪn ðə ˈænˌdrɔɪd ˈmɑrkɪt ðən ðoʊz əˈplaɪd baɪ ˈæpəl, prəˈvoʊkt ðə ˈgugəl ˈguˌruz ˈaʊtˌbərst. dɪˈboʊnɑ ˈdəzənt kɔl aʊt ˈɛni əv ðə ˈmoʊbəl sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈʃɑrlətənz hi ˈkæstəˌgeɪts soʊ ˈstrɔŋli baɪ neɪm bət ðɛrz noʊ ˈʃɔrtɪʤ əv ˈkænədɪts. ˈmɛni fərmz hæv brænʧt aʊt ˈɪntu ˈɔfərɪŋ sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈsɔfˌwɛr fər ˈænˌdrɔɪd, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ kəˈmərʃəl ˈprɑdəkts frəm læb, ənd sɪˈmænˌtɛk. ˈlʊˌkaʊt ˈmoʊbəl ənd ˈɔfər ˈbeɪsɪk prəˈtɛkʃən ˈsɔfˌwɛr æt noʊ ʧɑrʤ tɪ kənˈsumərz. səm sɪˈkjʊrəti fərmz, ˈlʊˌkaʊt ənd intego*, ˈɔfər mɔr ˈbeɪsɪk sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈpækɪʤɪz fər ˈioʊs bət wɪˈθaʊt ˈbəndəld prəˈtɛkʃən, wɪʧ ɪz nɑt səˈpɔrtɪd baɪ ˈioʊs. ˈwɪndoʊz ˈmoʊbəl ɪz ˈkəvərd baɪ ðə laɪks əv ənd ˈəðərz. ˈhɑrdənd ˈblækˌbɛri dɪˈvaɪsɪz ɪgˈzɪst bət wiv ˈnɛvər kəm əˈkrɔs ə fərm ˈɔfərɪŋ ˈblækˌbɛri sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈsɔfˌwɛr ɛz ə ˈprɑdəkt ɛz jɛt. ˈvaɪrəsɪz ˈtɑrgətɪŋ ˈblækˌbɛri rɪˈmeɪn ənˈnoʊn. sɪˈkjʊrəti fərmz sɛd dɪˈboʊnɑ həz ˌmɪsəndərˈstʊd boʊθ ðə θrɛt ənd ðə ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlətiz əv ðɛr ˈprɑdəkts. læb sɛd ðət ər ˈmaɪˌgreɪtɪŋ təˈwɔrdz ˈænˌdrɔɪd ɛz ðə ˈplætˌfɔrm ˌɪnˈkrisɪz ɪn ˌpɑpjəˈlɛrəti. ðə meɪn ˈprɑbləm ɪz ˈtroʊʤənz, məˈlɪʃəs ˌæpləˈkeɪʃənz ðət poʊz ɛz ˈsəmθɪŋ ˈjusfəl tɪ ə ˈjuzər, ˈrəðər ðən ˈvaɪrəs. ˈrɛkənz wən ˈtroʊʤən həz ɔˈrɛdi ˌɪnˈfɛktɪd ˌɪnˈfɛktɪd ˈjuzərz. hypponen*, ʧif ˈrisərʧ ˈɔfɪsər, tweeted*, "wət [krɪs dɪˈboʊnɑ] ɪz ˈmɪsɪŋ ɪz ðət ðiz tulz du məʧ mɔr ðən ʤɪst antivirus*: ˌænˌtiˈθɛft. rɪˈmoʊt lɑk. ˈbæˌkəp. pərˈɛntəl kənˈtroʊl. wɛb ˈfɪltər." tɔk əv ˌɛkspoʊˈnɛnʃəl ˈmælˌwɛr groʊθ ɪz ˈʤəstəˌfaɪd bət nidz tɪ bi pʊt ˈɪntu ˈkɑntɛkst, ðət ðə juʤ raɪz ɪz ˈkəmɪŋ frəm ə beɪs əv ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˈnəθɪŋ ənd ðət ðə rɑ ˈfɪgjərz rɪˈmeɪn ˈtrɪviəl kəmˈpɛrd tɪ ðə ˈwɪndoʊz ˈvaɪrəs pleɪg. ˈspɛʃəlɪst ˈmoʊbəl sɪˈkjʊrəti fərm ˈlʊˌkaʊt, fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ˈɛstəˌmeɪts ˈmoʊbəl ˈmælˌwɛr ˈɪnstənsɪz hæv mɔr ðən ˈdəbəld tɪ ˈnɪrli ˈoʊvər ðə læst fɔr mənθs əˈloʊn. ˈwɪndoʊz ˈmælˌwɛr ˈɛstəˌmeɪts ruˈtinli ɪkˈsid 5 ˈmɪljən ənd əˈbəv.
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an application from a citizen helped national highway authority of india to detect overcharging of toll on a bangalore toll plaza resulting in recovery of.
the applicant pa burge, in his application, stated that he wants to know the reasons for which the user fee was being charged at 20 and 40 whereas it should have been 15 and 35 respectively. soon after his application landed in the offices, a surprise check was carried out user fee plaza which showed the commuters were indeed charged extra. "the respondent stated that the issue of imposing penalty for excess collection toll fee by toll collecting agency has been taken up with headquarters and an amount of has been recovered for the same. the excess amount of toll fee collected by the agency has also been refunded to by the toll collecting agency," information commissioner noted in his order.
he said the fact that the application made the officials of the to investigate into the matter and to stop the excess collection of user fee from passengers, is commendable. "this not only led to the recovery of the amount of along with interest to the but notice boards came up on all toll booths, displaying that the excess user fee of 5 can be collected by the passengers, after producing proof of identification and excess fee charged," he said.
azad said the commission, therefore, appreciates the fact that the complainant has raised a very pertinent and an important issue involving public interest through his application, which has been promptly by the public authority.
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ən ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən frəm ə ˈsɪtɪzən hɛlpt ˈnæʃənəl ˈhaɪˌweɪ əˈθɔrəti əv ˈɪndiə tɪ dɪˈtɛkt ˌoʊvərˈʧɑrʤɪŋ əv toʊl ɔn ə ˈbæŋgəˌlɔr toʊl ˈplɑzə rɪˈzəltɪŋ ɪn rɪˈkəvəri əv. ðə ˈæplɪkənt pɑ bərg, ɪn hɪz ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən, ˈsteɪtɪd ðət hi wɔnts tɪ noʊ ðə ˈrizənz fər wɪʧ ðə ˈjuzər fi wɑz biɪŋ ʧɑrʤd æt 20 ənd 40 wɛˈræz ɪt ʃʊd hæv bɪn 15 ənd 35 rɪˈspɛktɪvli. sun ˈæftər hɪz ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən ˈlændɪd ɪn ðə ˈɔfəsɪz, ə səˈpraɪz ʧɛk wɑz ˈkɛrid aʊt ˈjuzər fi ˈplɑzə wɪʧ ʃoʊd ðə kəmˈjutərz wər ˌɪnˈdid ʧɑrʤd ˈɛkstrə. "ðə rɪˈspɑndənt ˈsteɪtɪd ðət ðə ˈɪʃu əv ˌɪmˈpoʊzɪŋ ˈpɛnəlti fər ˈɛkˌsɛs kəˈlɛkʃən toʊl fi baɪ toʊl kəˈlɛktɪŋ ˈeɪʤənsi həz bɪn ˈteɪkən əp wɪθ ˈhɛdˌkɔrtərz ənd ən əˈmaʊnt əv həz bɪn rɪˈkəvərd fər ðə seɪm. ðə ˈɛkˌsɛs əˈmaʊnt əv toʊl fi kəˈlɛktəd baɪ ðə ˈeɪʤənsi həz ˈɔlsoʊ bɪn rɪˈfəndɪd tɪ baɪ ðə toʊl kəˈlɛktɪŋ ˈeɪʤənsi," ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən kəˈmɪʃənər ˈnoʊtɪd ɪn hɪz ˈɔrdər. hi sɛd ðə fækt ðət ðə ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən meɪd ðə əˈfɪʃəlz əv ðə tɪ ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪt ˈɪntu ðə ˈmætər ənd tɪ stɑp ðə ˈɛkˌsɛs kəˈlɛkʃən əv ˈjuzər fi frəm ˈpæsənʤərz, ɪz kəˈmɛndəbəl. "ðɪs nɑt ˈoʊnli lɛd tɪ ðə rɪˈkəvəri əv ðə əˈmaʊnt əv əˈlɔŋ wɪθ ˈɪntəˌrɛst tɪ ðə bət ˈnoʊtɪs bɔrdz keɪm əp ɔn ɔl toʊl buθs, dɪˈspleɪɪŋ ðət ðə ˈɛkˌsɛs ˈjuzər fi əv 5 kən bi kəˈlɛktəd baɪ ðə ˈpæsənʤərz, ˈæftər prəˈdusɪŋ pruf əv aɪˌdɛntəfəˈkeɪʃən ənd ˈɛkˌsɛs fi ʧɑrʤd," hi sɛd. sɛd ðə kəˈmɪʃən, ˈðɛrˌfɔr, əˈpriʃiˌeɪts ðə fækt ðət ðə kəmˈpleɪnənt həz reɪzd ə ˈvɛri ˈpərtɪnɪnt ənd ən ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt ˈɪʃu ˌɪnˈvɑlvɪŋ ˈpəblɪk ˈɪntəˌrɛst θru hɪz ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən, wɪʧ həz bɪn ˈprɑmptli baɪ ðə ˈpəblɪk əˈθɔrəti.
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homes left vacant in slump mar neighborhoods
enlarge this image toggle caption ted robbins, npr ted robbins, npr
a vacant home in a decent neighborhood used to be a rarity.
but in cities around the country, homeowners and investors unable to afford the homes they bought are abandoning their properties, marring the neighborhoods they leave behind.
in phoenix, once one of the nation's hottest markets, tens of thousands of homes are vacant. the bulk of the homes were owned by investors who hoped to profit from booming housing prices.
keevin simpson bought a home in north phoenix last year hoping to fix it up and sell it at a big profit. he spent $40,000 gutting the house, putting in new walls, ceilings and appliances. but he's now putting it on the market for less than he'd planned. his home is competing with a record homes for sale in the phoenix area. of those, nearly 40 percent are vacant. foreclosures, which are not on the market, are not included in those vacancies.
simpson hired donna butera, a home "stager" who fills vacant homes with furniture to make them looked but not too.
"the basics are no kids, no pets, no laundry, no dishes. that's the perfect house," butera says. "everybody has those items, or most people do, but when you're house hunting for that brief experience they don't exist."
butera herself an investor with six homes for sale says there is fear in the market because of the crisis in lending, combined with falling home prices.
"what you have now is a house that's worth $270,000 that you paid $350,000 for and your loan is due ... nobody is going to pay that," she says. "and that's where you're getting into this problem with foreclosure. you cannot sell it."
when they are forced into foreclosure, butera says some owners trash their homes before they are repossessed.
"they are selling everything inside their kitchen cabinets, their toilets, their ac units ... and it's hurting the neighborhood," butera said. "the house now looks like a crack house it's missing all its windows."
jay butler, director of realty studies at arizona state university, says many homes could be saved if owners would just talk to their lenders assuming their lender is still in business.
"the homeowner is embarrassed," butler said. "they can't make the payments. maybe they don't want to tell their spouse or others in the family that they can't do it, so they simply walk away from the home."
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hoʊmz lɛft ˈveɪkənt ɪn sləmp mɑr ˈneɪbərˌhʊdz ˌɛnˈlɑrʤ ðɪs ˈɪmɪʤ ˈtɑgəl ˈkæpʃən tɛd ˈrɑbɪnz, ˈɛnˈpiˈɑr tɛd ˈrɑbɪnz, ˈɛnˈpiˈɑr ə ˈveɪkənt hoʊm ɪn ə ˈdisənt ˈneɪbərˌhʊd juzd tɪ bi ə ˈrɛrɪti. bət ɪn ˈsɪtiz əraʊnd ðə ˈkəntri, ˈhoʊˌmoʊnərz ənd ˌɪnˈvɛstərz əˈneɪbəl tɪ əˈfɔrd ðə hoʊmz ðeɪ bɔt ər əˈbændənɪŋ ðɛr ˈprɑpərtiz, ˈmɑrɪŋ ðə ˈneɪbərˌhʊdz ðeɪ liv bɪˈhaɪnd. ɪn ˈfinɪks, wəns wən əv ðə ˈneɪʃənz ˈhɑtəst ˈmɑrkɪts, tɛnz əv ˈθaʊzənz əv hoʊmz ər ˈveɪkənt. ðə bəlk əv ðə hoʊmz wər oʊnd baɪ ˌɪnˈvɛstərz hu hoʊpt tɪ ˈprɑfɪt frəm ˈbumɪŋ ˈhaʊzɪŋ ˈpraɪsɪz. ˈsɪmpsən bɔt ə hoʊm ɪn nɔrθ ˈfinɪks læst jɪr ˈhoʊpɪŋ tɪ fɪks ɪt əp ənd sɛl ɪt æt ə bɪg ˈprɑfɪt. hi spɛnt ˈgətɪŋ ðə haʊs, ˈpʊtɪŋ ɪn nu wɔlz, ˈsilɪŋz ənd əˈplaɪənsɪz. bət hiz naʊ ˈpʊtɪŋ ɪt ɔn ðə ˈmɑrkɪt fər lɛs ðən hid plænd. hɪz hoʊm ɪz kəmˈpitɪŋ wɪθ ə ˈrɛkərd hoʊmz fər seɪl ɪn ðə ˈfinɪks ˈɛriə. əv ðoʊz, ˈnɪrli 40 pərˈsɛnt ər ˈveɪkənt. fɔrˈkloʊʒərz, wɪʧ ər nɑt ɔn ðə ˈmɑrkɪt, ər nɑt ˌɪnˈkludɪd ɪn ðoʊz ˈveɪkənsiz. ˈsɪmpsən haɪərd ˈdɑnə buˈtɛrə, ə hoʊm "ˈsteɪʤər" hu fɪlz ˈveɪkənt hoʊmz wɪθ ˈfərnɪʧər tɪ meɪk ðɛm lʊkt bət nɑt tu. "ðə ˈbeɪsɪks ər noʊ kɪdz, noʊ pɛts, noʊ ˈlɔndri, noʊ ˈdɪʃɪz. ðæts ðə ˈpərˌfɪkt haʊs," buˈtɛrə sɪz. "ˈɛvriˌbɑdi həz ðoʊz ˈaɪtəmz, ər moʊst ˈpipəl du, bət wɪn jʊr haʊs ˈhəntɪŋ fər ðət brif ɪkˈspɪriəns ðeɪ doʊnt ɪgˈzɪst." buˈtɛrə hərˈsɛlf ən ˌɪnˈvɛstər wɪθ sɪks hoʊmz fər seɪl sɪz ðɛr ɪz fɪr ɪn ðə ˈmɑrkɪt bɪˈkəz əv ðə ˈkraɪsəs ɪn ˈlɛndɪŋ, kəmˈbaɪnd wɪθ ˈfɑlɪŋ hoʊm ˈpraɪsɪz. "wət ju hæv naʊ ɪz ə haʊs ðæts wərθ ðət ju peɪd fər ənd jʊr loʊn ɪz du ˈnoʊˌbɑˌdi ɪz goʊɪŋ tɪ peɪ ðət," ʃi sɪz. "ənd ðæts wɛr jʊr ˈgɪtɪŋ ˈɪntu ðɪs ˈprɑbləm wɪθ fɔrˈkloʊʒər. ju ˈkænɑt sɛl ɪt." wɪn ðeɪ ər fɔrst ˈɪntu fɔrˈkloʊʒər, buˈtɛrə sɪz səm ˈoʊnərz træʃ ðɛr hoʊmz ˌbiˈfɔr ðeɪ ər ˌripəˈzɛst. "ðeɪ ər ˈsɛlɪŋ ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ ˌɪnˈsaɪd ðɛr ˈkɪʧən ˈkæbənəts, ðɛr ˈtɔɪləts, ðɛr ˈeɪˈsi ˈjunɪts ənd ɪts ˈhərtɪŋ ðə ˈneɪbərˌhʊd," buˈtɛrə sɛd. "ðə haʊs naʊ lʊks laɪk ə kræk haʊs ɪts ˈmɪsɪŋ ɔl ɪts ˈwɪndoʊz." ʤeɪ ˈbətlər, dɪˈrɛktər əv ˈriəlˌti ˈstədiz æt ˌɛrɪˈzoʊnə steɪt ˌjunəˈvərsəti, sɪz ˈmɛni hoʊmz kʊd bi seɪvd ɪf ˈoʊnərz wʊd ʤɪst tɔk tɪ ðɛr ˈlɛndərz əˈsumɪŋ ðɛr ˈlɛndər ɪz stɪl ɪn ˈbɪznɪs. "ðə ˈhoʊˌmoʊnər ɪz ɪmˈbɛrəst," ˈbətlər sɛd. "ðeɪ kænt meɪk ðə ˈpeɪmənts. ˈmeɪbi ðeɪ doʊnt wɔnt tɪ tɛl ðɛr spaʊs ər ˈəðərz ɪn ðə ˈfæməli ðət ðeɪ kænt du ɪt, soʊ ðeɪ ˈsɪmpli wɔk əˈweɪ frəm ðə hoʊm."
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author's notes: sorry for the really long wait everyone :) i have edited this story, so there should be much fewer typos. i've also written the last 2 parts (chapter 4 part 4 and epilogue.) these parts have a lot of in them, but it only makes sense if you remember this story. since it's been a long time since you've read it, i suggest skimming through it, or better yet, reading it over, before reading the new parts.
updated on:, the scenes with the biggest changes are fight and & conversation.
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thank you all for reading, and for your reviews. happy reading!
prologue
the throne room of was brightly lit by the magical chandeliers. gown had gathered most of the floor guardians and for two reasons. one was to hear about and commend them on their progress. and the other…
"the.. are. very. great. full. for. the. gifts. bestowed. on. them. by-sama," wrapped up his report.
according to him the 3 crafted by the dwarfs were given to zenberu,, and shiryusu. leaving the other in awe of the craftsmanship and of their lord generosity.
"very good. the armor will protect from harm..." an image of the albino with many albino children flashed in's mind. deserved a reward for being our guide to the dwarfs, and getting the armor as the leader of the is also good."
"you have done an excellent job!" commended while nodding his head. "i know you have requested armor and weapons for the in the past. now that we have the dwarf working for us, your will be amongst the first to receive rune crafted equipment."
"your. servant. is. most. great. full."
"now,. i understand your visit to the capital had gone quite well as well?"
"yes,-sama!" replied, turning to face. "with the help of eight fingers, we were able to prop up a worthless human, to create a third faction in the kingdom. princess renner is also proving to be a useful puppet. although, if she can open the box she was given, she might even be worth welcoming as a servant of the great tomb of nazzarick."
i still don't know what and plan for this princess is. but is letting someone so smart near me a good idea? suzuki thought full of worry. his skull face betrayed no emotion, of course.
"i'll leave it to you then!" said as he waved his hand gracefully. the many hours spent practicing such movements in front of the mirror had begun to pay off, as he was able to execute such a move with a regal appearance befit of a true ruler.
"i will do my best to please-sama," replied, blushing a little as she bowed.
purging his mind of any thoughts about the reason for her blushing, he looked at, the only one who hasn't yet given a report.
"demiurge, can you share your progress in the holy kingdom with the other guardians?"
"as you command," replied with a bow. "my preparation in the holy kingdom is complete. we can move forward with the plan to use a."
while was wondering why would require a, spoke.
"doppelganger? i thought the plan was to use to throw the holy kingdom into despair, forcing them to ask the sorcerer kingdom for help. much like we did in the kingdom's capital."
thankful that not all of his subordinates possessed genius level intelligence awaited reply.
"kuku," laughed. "do you really think someone as unfathomable as-sama, the leader of all the supreme beings would play the same hand twice?"
"what is he talking about?!" thought suzuki as he felt his none existent stomach ache. "wasn't that exactly the plan?" thankful for his emotional suppression and even more for his skull face, he listened on.
"do you really know our master so little?-sama is a truly unimaginable being, whose plans go far beyond what any of us can comprehend." said smiling.
shalltear had a puzzled look on her face, as did the other guardians except for, who nodded approvingly during speech.
"but.. wasn't the holy kingdom.. the next step in our... conquest?" asked mare, in his panicky voice.
"please. explain. it. to. this. ungrateful. one." said while looking at. eyes were on him too, eager to learn about his incomparable plan.
"explain what?! i know just as much as you!" suzuki wanted to scream. naturally, he did not do that, having anticipated this turn of events. in fact, the other reason for gathering all the guardians was to avoid being alone with and while discussing the plans for the future.
"what was it that happened the last time." thought about his last meeting with. it was after the dwarfs allied with them. in a conversation with, he got distracted and said something out loud at the most unfortunate time. "ten thousand years" was it? he tried to play it off as a joke, but it was obvious didn't take it as such.
"it seems had seen through my plans once again," said with a chuckle.
"not at all-sama. i could never have imagined how far your plans go. if it wasn't for the light you shone, i would still be in complete darkness as to your true plans," replied, bowing to.
"what are you talking about?" thought. "why does he always make things so difficult for me?" truly suzuki was full of regrets. in the beginning, he could have easily told and that they need to tell him their plans in order not to interfere with his brilliant schemes. however, he didn't do that. doing so now would make them both feel like they've failed, that he could not trust them and that they needed his supervision. it could also reflect badly on his own image as an ruler since the guardians were convinced that already knew their plans.
ainz sighed, and used a new variation of his usual escape tool: "it seems that not all the guardians are as perceptive as you are. do explain to them our plans for the holy kingdom," he told.
after bowing to, began.
"like you, i thought-sama's goal was to conquer the world and rule it as a supreme being should. however, i began to doubt it after observing-sama's deeds in the empire and the kingdom. world conquest seemed too simple of a goal for the leader of the supreme beings. and then in a recent conversation with-sama, he confirmed it. years!" proclaimed loudly.
"10,000 years! that's how far ahead our master had predicted the future of the sorcerer kingdom."
the throne room went silent before words of awe and admiration filled the air. wings had opened and closed from excitement and her body shuddered.
"i told him it was a joke, didn't i?" thought desperately, his none existent stomach churning. "why did he have to bring it up here? now everyone thinks it's true too."
"it is as says," stated betraying none of his emotions. still, even with his body and face, pulling off such a thing took most of his energy. "please proceed."
"yes,-sama! it finally made sense. if all-sama wanted was to conquer the world, he would need but to give a command to the legions of which have been created. they would overrun and conquer everything in their way. and allow us to observe anyone who could stop them, such as the party responsible for mind controlling. we could then gather information on any such entities and eliminate them."
"however, such a plan is short-sighted. it would bring immediate results but would cause many problems in the long term. on the other hand,-sama's plan sacrifices some immediate results for the long-term advantages. his actions in the empire and the kingdom had allowed me to peek at his true plans. although i could never fully comprehend them."
"what the hell is he talking about?" wondered. "all i did in empire was duel the arena lord. and while recruiting and reclaiming capital was a good achievement, i don't think that's what is speaking of."
"i still don't understand," said, looking like a student who just can't grasp the lesson.
"me too," added aura, "doesn't-sama want to conquer the world?"
"there is a difference between doing so, and doing so in a way that will result in sorcerer kingdom reigning supreme for years." said. all eyes were on her as she continued.
"from our research into this world's history we know that every two hundred years or so, powerful beings appear in this world. similar to how had been transported here. by all accounts, those beings might be on the same level as us."
there was a commotion in the throne room as gasps of surprise and exclamations of protest were heard.
"naturally, no one can challenge the might of!" exclaimed, her wings opening and closing in excitement. "but if we use force to conquer this world, its inhabitants would be chomping at the bit to join forces with anyone who'll oppose us. be it some newly transferred beings, or those already in this world."
understanding dawned on all of the guardians.
"i see.-sama seeks to conquer the world in a way that would make the sorcerer kingdom not an enemy, but a hero to the people of this world. preventing them from allying with our enemies in the future and even helping us find any of the ones already here," said.
"indeed. if you look at-sama's accomplishments it's clear that he has been pursuing this goal from the start. carne village,, empire, the kingdom, even his reorganization of the guild. he had not simply achieved victory over them by force, but inspired the kind of admiration and worship that such a supreme being deserves."
"however, there are still obstacles some fools just don't know their place," said, a scowl on his face. "that fool, of the empire. it seems he had given up on opposing us openly but is still looking for a way out"
"which bring us to the holy kingdom. we will use this country to make the legend of gown, making him a hero to the people of this world. while flushing out those who oppose us and inspiring even greater loyalty
from those loyal to the sorcerer kingdom."
"demiurge has explained my goals quite well. now that you know of my true plans, i hope you will work hard to fulfill them"
all of the guardians bowed to acknowledge their master's words.
"still your intelligence knows no limits-sama. to think that you have already predicted this course of action back when you've created pandora's actor," threw cold water on who had begun to relax.
"what?!" suzuki thought, thankful for his skull face which could not betray any emotions. "why is he mentioning pandora's actor now? i truly don't understand his plans"
"you give me too much credit, it is just a coincidence."
"i should be safe saying this, right?" suzuki wondered.
"still, the whole plan would be impossible if it wasn't for pandora's actor's ability. as the only one in proficient enough to fully resemble anyone, could it truly be a coincidence since he is the one being created by-sama?" asked with a smile.
"how should i answer him? i am not even sure what he needs pandora's actor for, or why he's such a key to the plan." agonized for a few seconds, before going with what he thought was his safest option.
"i had considered several possibilities at the time. although, even i cannot see so far into the future. now, explain our exact plan of action for the holy kingdom so that everyone present here can understand it" ordered.
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ˈɔθərz noʊts: ˈsɑri fər ðə ˈrɪli lɔŋ weɪt ˈɛvriˌwən aɪ hæv ˈɛdɪtɪd ðɪs ˈstɔri, soʊ ðɛr ʃʊd bi məʧ fjuər typos*. aɪv ˈɔlsoʊ ˈrɪtən ðə læst 2 pɑrts (ˈʧæptər 4 pɑrt 4 ənd ˌɛpɪˈlɔg.) ðiz pɑrts hæv ə lɔt əv ɪn ðɛm, bət ɪt ˈoʊnli meɪks sɛns ɪf ju rɪˈmɛmbər ðɪs ˈstɔri. sɪns ɪts bɪn ə lɔŋ taɪm sɪns juv rɛd ɪt, aɪ səˈʤɛst ˈskɪmɪŋ θru ɪt, ər ˈbɛtər jɛt, ˈrɛdɪŋ ɪt ˈoʊvər, ˌbiˈfɔr ˈrɛdɪŋ ðə nu pɑrts. ˈəpˌdeɪtɪd ɔn: ðə sinz wɪθ ðə ˈbɪgəst ˈʧeɪnʤɪz ər faɪt ənd ˌkɑnvərˈseɪʃən. ʧɛk aʊt maɪ ˈproʊˌfaɪl fər mɔr nuz əˈbaʊt ðɪs ənd ˈəpˌkəmɪŋ ˈfɑloʊ əp θæŋk ju ɔl fər ˈrɛdɪŋ, ənd fər jʊr rəvˈjuz. ˈhæpi ˈrɛdɪŋ! ˈproʊlɑg ðə θroʊn rum əv wɑz ˈbraɪtli lɪt baɪ ðə ˈmæʤɪkəl ˌʃændəˈlɪz. gaʊn hæd ˈgæðərd moʊst əv ðə flɔr ˈgɑrdiənz ənd fər tu ˈrizənz. wən wɑz tɪ hir əˈbaʊt ənd kəˈmɛnd ðɛm ɔn ðɛr ˈprɑˌgrɛs. ənd ðə other…*… "ðə.. ər. ˈvɛri. greɪt. fʊl. fər. ðə. gɪfts. bɪˈstoʊd. ɔn. ðɛm. baɪ," ræpt əp hɪz rɪˈpɔrt. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ɪm ðə 3 ˈkræftɪd baɪ ðə dwɔrfs wər ˈgɪvɪn tɪ zenberu*,, ənd shiryusu*. ˈlivɪŋ ðə ˈəðər ɪn ɔ əv ðə ˈkræftsmənˌʃɪp ənd əv ðɛr lɔrd ˌʤɛnərˈɑsəti. "ˈvɛri gʊd. ðə ˈɑrmər wɪl prəˈtɛkt frəm hɑrm..." ən ˈɪmɪʤ əv ðə ælˈbaɪˌnoʊ wɪθ ˈmɛni ælˈbaɪˌnoʊ ˈʧɪldrən flæʃt ɪn maɪnd. dɪˈzərvd ə rɪˈwɔrd fər biɪŋ ɑr gaɪd tɪ ðə dwɔrfs, ənd ˈgɪtɪŋ ðə ˈɑrmər ɛz ðə ˈlidər əv ðə ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ gʊd." "ju hæv dən ən ˈɛksələnt ʤɑb!" kəˈmɛndɪd waɪl ˈnɑdɪŋ hɪz hɛd. "aɪ noʊ ju hæv rɪkˈwɛstɪd ˈɑrmər ənd ˈwɛpənz fər ðə ɪn ðə pæst. naʊ ðət wi hæv ðə dwɔrf ˈwərkɪŋ fər ˈjuˈɛs, jʊr wɪl bi əˈməŋst ðə fərst tɪ rɪˈsiv run ˈkræftɪd ɪkˈwɪpmənt." "jʊr. ˈsərvənt. ɪz. moʊst. greɪt. fʊl." "naʊ,. aɪ ˌəndərˈstænd jʊr ˈvɪzɪt tɪ ðə ˈkæpɪtəl hæd gɔn kwaɪt wɛl ɛz wɛl?" "jɛs,!" rɪˈplaɪd, ˈtərnɪŋ tɪ feɪs. "wɪθ ðə hɛlp əv eɪt ˈfɪŋgərz, wi wər ˈeɪbəl tɪ prɑp əp ə ˈwərθləs ˈjumən, tɪ kriˈeɪt ə θərd ˈfækʃən ɪn ðə ˈkɪŋdəm. ˈprɪnsɛs ˈrɛnər ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ ˈpruvɪŋ tɪ bi ə ˈjusfəl ˈpəpɪt. ˌɔlˈðoʊ, ɪf ʃi kən ˈoʊpən ðə bɑks ʃi wɑz ˈgɪvɪn, ʃi maɪt ˈivɪn bi wərθ ˈwɛlkəmɪŋ ɛz ə ˈsərvənt əv ðə greɪt tum əv nazzarick*." aɪ stɪl doʊnt noʊ wət ənd plæn fər ðɪs ˈprɪnsɛs ɪz. bət ɪz ˈlɛtɪŋ ˈsəmˌwən soʊ smɑrt nɪr mi ə gʊd aɪˈdiə? səˈzuki θɔt fʊl əv ˈwəri. hɪz skəl feɪs bɪˈtreɪd noʊ ˈiˌmoʊʃən, əv kɔrs. "aɪl liv ɪt tɪ ju ðɛn!" sɛd ɛz hi weɪvd hɪz hænd ˈgreɪsfəli. ðə ˈmɛni aʊərz spɛnt ˈpræktɪsɪŋ səʧ ˈmuvmənts ɪn frənt əv ðə ˈmɪrər hæd ˈbeɪgən tɪ peɪ ɔf, ɛz hi wɑz ˈeɪbəl tɪ ˈɛksəˌkjut səʧ ə muv wɪθ ə ˈrigəl əˈpɪrəns bɪˈfɪt əv ə tru ˈrulər. "aɪ wɪl du maɪ bɛst tɪ pliz," rɪˈplaɪd, ˈbləʃɪŋ ə ˈlɪtəl ɛz ʃi boʊd. ˈpərʤɪŋ hɪz maɪnd əv ˈɛni θɔts əˈbaʊt ðə ˈrizən fər hər ˈbləʃɪŋ, hi lʊkt æt, ðə ˈoʊnli wən hu ˈhæzənt jɛt ˈgɪvɪn ə rɪˈpɔrt., kən ju ʃɛr jʊr ˈprɑˌgrɛs ɪn ðə ˈhoʊli ˈkɪŋdəm wɪθ ðə ˈəðər ˈgɑrdiənz?" "ɛz ju kəˈmænd," rɪˈplaɪd wɪθ ə boʊ. "maɪ ˌprɛpərˈeɪʃən ɪn ðə ˈhoʊli ˈkɪŋdəm ɪz kəmˈplit. wi kən muv ˈfɔrwərd wɪθ ðə plæn tɪ juz ə." waɪl wɑz ˈwəndərɪŋ waɪ wʊd ˌrikˈwaɪər ə, spoʊk. "doppelganger*? aɪ θɔt ðə plæn wɑz tɪ juz tɪ θroʊ ðə ˈhoʊli ˈkɪŋdəm ˈɪntu dɪˈspɛr, ˈfɔrsɪŋ ðɛm tɪ æsk ðə ˈsɔrsərər ˈkɪŋdəm fər hɛlp. məʧ laɪk wi dɪd ɪn ðə ˈkɪŋdəmz ˈkæpɪtəl." ˈθæŋkfəl ðət nɑt ɔl əv hɪz səˈbɔrdəˌneɪts pəˈzɛst ˈʤinjəs ˈlɛvəl ˌɪnˈtɛləʤəns əˈweɪtɪd rɪˈplaɪ. "kuku*," læft. "du ju ˈrɪli θɪŋk ˈsəmˌwən ɛz ənˈfæðəməbəl ɛz, ðə ˈlidər əv ɔl ðə səˈprim biɪŋz wʊd pleɪ ðə seɪm hænd twaɪs?" "wət ɪz hi ˈtɔkɪŋ əˈbaʊt?!" θɔt səˈzuki ɛz hi fɛlt hɪz nən ɛgˈzɪstənt ˈstəmək eɪk. "ˈwəzənt ðət ɪgˈzæktli ðə plæn?" ˈθæŋkfəl fər hɪz ˈiˌmoʊʃənəl səˈprɛʃən ənd ˈivɪn mɔr fər hɪz skəl feɪs, hi ˈlɪsənd ɔn. "du ju ˈrɪli noʊ ɑr ˈmæstər soʊ ˈlɪtəl? ɪz ə ˈtruli ˌənɪˈmæʤɪnəbəl biɪŋ, huz plænz goʊ fɑr bɪɔnd wət ˈɛni əv ˈjuˈɛs kən ˌkɑmpriˈhɛnd." sɛd sˈmaɪlɪŋ. hæd ə ˈpəzəld lʊk ɔn hər feɪs, ɛz dɪd ðə ˈəðər ˈgɑrdiənz ɪkˈsɛpt fər, hu ˈnɑdɪd əˈpruvɪŋli ˈdʊrɪŋ spiʧ. "bət.. ˈwəzənt ðə ˈhoʊli ˈkɪŋdəm.. ðə nɛkst stɛp ɪn ɑr... ˈkɑŋkwɛst?" æst mɛr, ɪn hɪz ˈpænɪki vɔɪs. "pliz. ɪkˈspleɪn. ɪt. tɪ. ðɪs. ənˈgreɪtfəl. wən." sɛd waɪl ˈlʊkɪŋ æt. aɪz wər ɔn ɪm tu, ˈigər tɪ lərn əˈbaʊt hɪz ˌɪnˈkɑmpərəbəl plæn. "ɪkˈspleɪn wət?! aɪ noʊ ʤɪst ɛz məʧ ɛz ju!" səˈzuki ˈwɔntɪd tɪ skrim. ˈnæʧərəli, hi dɪd nɑt du ðət, ˈhævɪŋ ænˈtɪsəˌpeɪtɪd ðɪs tərn əv ɪˈvɛnts. ɪn fækt, ðə ˈəðər ˈrizən fər ˈgæðərɪŋ ɔl ðə ˈgɑrdiənz wɑz tɪ əˈvɔɪd biɪŋ əˈloʊn wɪθ ənd waɪl dɪˈskəsɪŋ ðə plænz fər ðə fˈjuʧər. "wət wɑz ɪt ðət ˈhæpənd ðə læst taɪm." θɔt əˈbaʊt hɪz læst ˈmitɪŋ wɪθ. ɪt wɑz ˈæftər ðə dwɔrfs ˈæˌlaɪd wɪθ ðɛm. ɪn ə ˌkɑnvərˈseɪʃən wɪθ, hi gɑt dɪˈstræktɪd ənd sɛd ˈsəmθɪŋ aʊt laʊd æt ðə moʊst ənˈfɔrʧənət taɪm. "tɛn ˈθaʊzənd jɪrz" wɑz ɪt? hi traɪd tɪ pleɪ ɪt ɔf ɛz ə ʤoʊk, bət ɪt wɑz ˈɑbviəs ˈdɪdənt teɪk ɪt ɛz səʧ. "ɪt simz hæd sin θru maɪ plænz wəns əˈgɛn," sɛd wɪθ ə ˈʧəkəl. "nɑt æt ɔl. aɪ kʊd ˈnɛvər hæv ˌɪˈmæʤənd haʊ fɑr jʊr plænz goʊ. ɪf ɪt ˈwəzənt fər ðə laɪt ju ʃoʊn, aɪ wʊd stɪl bi ɪn kəmˈplit ˈdɑrknəs ɛz tɪ jʊr tru plænz," rɪˈplaɪd, boʊɪŋ tɪ. "wət ər ju ˈtɔkɪŋ əˈbaʊt?" θɔt. "waɪ dɪz hi ˈɔlˌweɪz meɪk θɪŋz soʊ ˈdɪfəkəlt fər mi?" ˈtruli səˈzuki wɑz fʊl əv rɪˈgrɛts. ɪn ðə bɪˈgɪnɪŋ, hi kʊd hæv ˈizəli toʊld ənd ðət ðeɪ nid tɪ tɛl ɪm ðɛr plænz ɪn ˈɔrdər nɑt tɪ ˌɪnərˈfɪr wɪθ hɪz ˈbrɪljənt skimz. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, hi ˈdɪdənt du ðət. duɪŋ soʊ naʊ wʊd meɪk ðɛm boʊθ fil laɪk ðeɪv feɪld, ðət hi kʊd nɑt trəst ðɛm ənd ðət ðeɪ ˈnidɪd hɪz ˌsupərˈvɪʒən. ɪt kʊd ˈɔlsoʊ rɪˈflɛkt ˈbædli ɔn hɪz oʊn ˈɪmɪʤ ɛz ən ˈrulər sɪns ðə ˈgɑrdiənz wər kənˈvɪnst ðət ɔˈrɛdi nu ðɛr plænz. saɪd, ənd juzd ə nu ˌvɛriˈeɪʃən əv hɪz ˈjuʒəwəl ɪˈskeɪp tul: "ɪt simz ðət nɑt ɔl ðə ˈgɑrdiənz ər ɛz pərˈsɛptɪv ɛz ju ər. du ɪkˈspleɪn tɪ ðɛm ɑr plænz fər ðə ˈhoʊli ˈkɪŋdəm," hi toʊld. ˈæftər boʊɪŋ tɪ, bɪˈgæn. "laɪk ju, aɪ θɔt goʊl wɑz tɪ ˈkɑŋkər ðə wərld ənd rul ɪt ɛz ə səˈprim biɪŋ ʃʊd. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, aɪ bɪˈgæn tɪ daʊt ɪt ˈæftər əbˈzərvɪŋ didz ɪn ðə ˈɛmpaɪər ənd ðə ˈkɪŋdəm. wərld ˈkɑŋkwɛst simd tu ˈsɪmpəl əv ə goʊl fər ðə ˈlidər əv ðə səˈprim biɪŋz. ənd ðɛn ɪn ə ˈrisənt ˌkɑnvərˈseɪʃən wɪθ, hi kənˈfərmd ɪt. jɪrz!" proʊˈkleɪmd ˈlaʊdli. jɪrz! ðæts haʊ fɑr əˈhɛd ɑr ˈmæstər hæd prɪˈdɪktɪd ðə fˈjuʧər əv ðə ˈsɔrsərər ˈkɪŋdəm." ðə θroʊn rum wɛnt ˈsaɪlənt ˌbiˈfɔr wərdz əv ɔ ənd ˌædmərˈeɪʃən fɪld ðə ɛr. wɪŋz hæd ˈoʊpənd ənd kloʊzd frəm ɪkˈsaɪtmənt ənd hər ˈbɑdi ˈʃədərd. "aɪ toʊld ɪm ɪt wɑz ə ʤoʊk, ˈdɪdənt aɪ?" θɔt ˈdɛspərətli, hɪz nən ɛgˈzɪstənt ˈstəmək ˈʧərnɪŋ. "waɪ dɪd hi hæv tɪ brɪŋ ɪt əp hir? naʊ ˈɛvriˌwən θɪŋks ɪts tru tu." "ɪt ɪz ɛz sɪz," ˈsteɪtɪd bɪˈtreɪɪŋ nən əv hɪz ˈɪˌmoʊʃənz. stɪl, ˈivɪn wɪθ hɪz ˈbɑdi ənd feɪs, ˈpʊlɪŋ ɔf səʧ ə θɪŋ tʊk moʊst əv hɪz ˈɛnərʤi. "pliz pərˈsid." "jɛs,! ɪt ˈfaɪnəli meɪd sɛns. ɪf ɔl ˈwɔntɪd wɑz tɪ ˈkɑŋkər ðə wərld, hi wʊd nid bət tɪ gɪv ə kəˈmænd tɪ ðə ˈliʤənz əv wɪʧ hæv bɪn kriˈeɪtɪd. ðeɪ wʊd ˈoʊvərˌrən ənd ˈkɑŋkər ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ ɪn ðɛr weɪ. ənd əˈlaʊ ˈjuˈɛs tɪ əbˈzərv ˈɛniˌwən hu kʊd stɑp ðɛm, səʧ ɛz ðə ˈpɑrti riˈspɑnsəbəl fər maɪnd kənˈtroʊlɪŋ. wi kʊd ðɛn ˈgæðər ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən ɔn ˈɛni səʧ ˈɛntɪtiz ənd ɪˈlɪməˌneɪt ðɛm." "ˌhaʊˈɛvər, səʧ ə plæn ɪz ˌʃɔrtˈsaɪtəd. ɪt wʊd brɪŋ ˌɪˈmiˌdiət rɪˈzəlts bət wʊd kɔz ˈmɛni ˈprɑbləmz ɪn ðə lɔŋ tərm. ɔn ðə ˈəðər hænd, plæn ˈsækrəˌfaɪsɪz səm ˌɪˈmiˌdiət rɪˈzəlts fər ðə ˈlɔŋˈtərm ædˈvæntɪʤɪz. hɪz ˈækʃənz ɪn ðə ˈɛmpaɪər ənd ðə ˈkɪŋdəm hæd əˈlaʊd mi tɪ pik æt hɪz tru plænz. ˌɔlˈðoʊ aɪ kʊd ˈnɛvər ˈfʊli ˌkɑmpriˈhɛnd ðɛm." "wət ðə hɛl ɪz hi ˈtɔkɪŋ əˈbaʊt?" ˈwəndərd. "ɔl aɪ dɪd ɪn ˈɛmpaɪər wɑz duəl ðə ərˈinə lɔrd. ənd waɪl rɪˈkrutɪŋ ənd riˈkleɪmɪŋ ˈkæpɪtəl wɑz ə gʊd əˈʧivmənt, aɪ doʊnt θɪŋk ðæts wət ɪz ˈspikɪŋ əv." "aɪ stɪl doʊnt ˌəndərˈstænd," sɛd, ˈlʊkɪŋ laɪk ə ˈstudənt hu ʤɪst kænt græsp ðə ˈlɛsən. "mi tu," ˈædɪd ˈɔrə, "ˈdəzənt wɔnt tɪ ˈkɑŋkər ðə wərld?" "ðɛr ɪz ə ˈdɪfərəns bɪtˈwin duɪŋ soʊ, ənd duɪŋ soʊ ɪn ə weɪ ðət wɪl rɪˈzəlt ɪn ˈsɔrsərər ˈkɪŋdəm ˈreɪnɪŋ səˈprim fər jɪrz." sɛd. ɔl aɪz wər ɔn hər ɛz ʃi kənˈtɪnjud. "frəm ɑr ˈrisərʧ ˈɪntu ðɪs wərldz ˈhɪstəri wi noʊ ðət ˈɛvəri tu ˈhənərd jɪrz ər soʊ, ˈpaʊərfəl biɪŋz əˈpɪr ɪn ðɪs wərld. ˈsɪmələr tɪ haʊ hæd bɪn trænˈspɔrtəd hir. baɪ ɔl əˈkaʊnts, ðoʊz biɪŋz maɪt bi ɔn ðə seɪm ˈlɛvəl ɛz ˈjuˈɛs." ðɛr wɑz ə kəˈmoʊʃən ɪn ðə θroʊn rum ɛz gæsps əv səˈpraɪz ənd ˌɛkskləˈmeɪʃənz əv ˈproʊˌtɛst wər hərd. "ˈnæʧərəli, noʊ wən kən ˈʧælənʤ ðə maɪt əv!" ɪkˈskleɪmd, hər wɪŋz ˈoʊpənɪŋ ənd ˈkloʊzɪŋ ɪn ɪkˈsaɪtmənt. "bət ɪf wi juz fɔrs tɪ ˈkɑŋkər ðɪs wərld, ɪts ˌɪnˈhæbɪtənts wʊd bi ˈʧɑmpɪŋ æt ðə bɪt tɪ ʤɔɪn ˈfɔrsɪz wɪθ ˈɛniˌwən hul əˈpoʊz ˈjuˈɛs. bi ɪt səm ˈnuli ˈtrænsfərd biɪŋz, ər ðoʊz ɔˈrɛdi ɪn ðɪs wərld." ˌəndərˈstændɪŋ dɔnd ɔn ɔl əv ðə ˈgɑrdiənz. "aɪ si. siks tɪ ˈkɑŋkər ðə wərld ɪn ə weɪ ðət wʊd meɪk ðə ˈsɔrsərər ˈkɪŋdəm nɑt ən ˈɛnəmi, bət ə ˈhɪroʊ tɪ ðə ˈpipəl əv ðɪs wərld. prɪˈvɛnɪŋ ðɛm frəm ˈælaɪɪŋ wɪθ ɑr ˈɛnəmiz ɪn ðə fˈjuʧər ənd ˈivɪn ˈhɛlpɪŋ ˈjuˈɛs faɪnd ˈɛni əv ðə wənz ɔˈrɛdi hir," sɛd. "ˌɪnˈdid. ɪf ju lʊk æt əˈkɑmplɪʃmənts ɪts klɪr ðət hi həz bɪn pərˈsuɪŋ ðɪs goʊl frəm ðə stɑrt. kɑrn ˈvɪlɪʤ,, ˈɛmpaɪər, ðə ˈkɪŋdəm, ˈivɪn hɪz ˌriɔrgənəˈzeɪʃən əv ðə gɪld. hi hæd nɑt ˈsɪmpli əˈʧivd ˈvɪktəri ˈoʊvər ðɛm baɪ fɔrs, bət ˌɪnˈspaɪərd ðə kaɪnd əv ˌædmərˈeɪʃən ənd ˈwərʃɪp ðət səʧ ə səˈprim biɪŋ dɪˈzərvz." "ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ðɛr ər stɪl ˈɑbstəkəlz səm fulz ʤɪst doʊnt noʊ ðɛr pleɪs," sɛd, ə skaʊl ɔn hɪz feɪs. "ðət ful, əv ðə ˈɛmpaɪər. ɪt simz hi hæd ˈgɪvɪn əp ɔn əˈpoʊzɪŋ ˈjuˈɛs ˈoʊpənli bət ɪz stɪl ˈlʊkɪŋ fər ə weɪ aʊt" "wɪʧ brɪŋ ˈjuˈɛs tɪ ðə ˈhoʊli ˈkɪŋdəm. wi wɪl juz ðɪs ˈkəntri tɪ meɪk ðə ˈlɛʤənd əv gaʊn, ˈmeɪkɪŋ ɪm ə ˈhɪroʊ tɪ ðə ˈpipəl əv ðɪs wərld. waɪl ˈfləʃɪŋ aʊt ðoʊz hu əˈpoʊz ˈjuˈɛs ənd ˌɪnˈspaɪərɪŋ ˈivɪn ˈgreɪtər ˈlɔɪəlti frəm ðoʊz lɔɪəl tɪ ðə ˈsɔrsərər ˈkɪŋdəm." həz ɪkˈspleɪnd maɪ goʊlz kwaɪt wɛl. naʊ ðət ju noʊ əv maɪ tru plænz, aɪ hoʊp ju wɪl wərk hɑrd tɪ fʊlˈfɪl ðɛm" ɔl əv ðə ˈgɑrdiənz boʊd tɪ ækˈnɑlɪʤ ðɛr ˈmæstərz wərdz. "stɪl jʊr ˌɪnˈtɛləʤəns noʊz noʊ ˈlɪmɪts. tɪ θɪŋk ðət ju hæv ɔˈrɛdi prɪˈdɪktɪd ðɪs kɔrs əv ˈækʃən bæk wɪn juv kriˈeɪtɪd pænˈdɔrəz ˈæktər," θru koʊld ˈwɔtər ɔn hu hæd ˈbeɪgən tɪ rɪˈlæks. "wət?!" səˈzuki θɔt, ˈθæŋkfəl fər hɪz skəl feɪs wɪʧ kʊd nɑt bɪˈtreɪ ˈɛni ˈɪˌmoʊʃənz. "waɪ ɪz hi ˈmɛnʃənɪŋ pænˈdɔrəz ˈæktər naʊ? aɪ ˈtruli doʊnt ˌəndərˈstænd hɪz plænz" "ju gɪv mi tu məʧ ˈkrɛdɪt, ɪt ɪz ʤɪst ə koʊˈɪnsɪdəns." "aɪ ʃʊd bi seɪf seɪɪŋ ðɪs, raɪt?" səˈzuki ˈwəndərd. "stɪl, ðə hoʊl plæn wʊd bi ˌɪmˈpɑsəbəl ɪf ɪt ˈwəzənt fər pænˈdɔrəz ˈæktərz əˈbɪləˌti. ɛz ðə ˈoʊnli wən ɪn prɑˈfɪʃənt ɪˈnəf tɪ ˈfʊli rɪˈzɛmbəl ˈɛniˌwən, kʊd ɪt ˈtruli bi ə koʊˈɪnsɪdəns sɪns hi ɪz ðə wən biɪŋ kriˈeɪtɪd baɪ?" æst wɪθ ə smaɪl. "haʊ ʃʊd aɪ ˈænsər ɪm? aɪ æm nɑt ˈivɪn ʃʊr wət hi nidz pænˈdɔrəz ˈæktər fər, ər waɪ hiz səʧ ə ki tɪ ðə plæn." ˈægəˌnaɪzd fər ə fju ˈsɛkəndz, ˌbiˈfɔr goʊɪŋ wɪθ wət hi θɔt wɑz hɪz ˈseɪfəst ˈɔpʃən. "aɪ hæd kənˈsɪdərd ˈsɛvərəl ˌpɑsəˈbɪlətiz æt ðə taɪm. ˌɔlˈðoʊ, ˈivɪn aɪ ˈkænɑt si soʊ fɑr ˈɪntu ðə fˈjuʧər. naʊ, ɪkˈspleɪn ɑr ɪgˈzækt plæn əv ˈækʃən fər ðə ˈhoʊli ˈkɪŋdəm soʊ ðət ˈɛvriˌwən ˈprɛzənt hir kən ˌəndərˈstænd ɪt" ˈɔrdərd.
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(cnn) did a who broke into a nevada wildlife refuge kill one of the world's rarest fish?
the national park service and the sheriff's office in nye county sure think so.
here's what they said happened: during a night of drinking, three men broke into devils hole, a protected area that's part of the death valley national park.
one of them went skinny dipping in the only habitat for one of the world's rarest fish -- the devils hole.
national park service released this image of the suspects involved in the april incident.
that person clumsily plodded through the shallow end of the pool, stomping on the algae and kicking up dirt. his naked adventure was caught on camera. he also left behind a pair of dirty underwear.
authorities suspect the april 30 intrusion left one of the critically endangered dead. the exact cause of the fish's death is unclear. but at the last count in april, there were only 115 devils hole left in the world, the national park service said.
"video footage recorded this man walking on the shallow shelf, potentially stressing and crushing, which are slow-moving, docile, and as they have no natural predators, curious by nature," the national park service said.
these blue, are unique. they are believed to have survived in the same location in the mojave desert for tens of thousands of years in a harsh environment that's usually not compatible for fish.
the national park service suspects the intruder extensively damaged the habitat by disturbing the algae and its food supply. the agency is also concerned that the skinny dipper crushed eggs, as april and may are spawning season.
how it unfolded
footage released by the national park service showed three men riding before arriving at the tall black fences that protect devils hole.
police say the three men came to the area after a night of shooting rabbits and drinking. they were armed with a shotgun, authorities say.
they jumped over the fence and fired at least 10 shots into two gates' locks, two surveillance cameras and electric sensors, according to authorities. they removed cables from security cameras and damaged scientific equipment, according to the park service.
they left behind the dirty boxers, three beer cans and some vomit. a dead was found nearby.
police say they've contacted three suspects -- all nevada residents. federal charges are expected to be filed against the trio, with possible counts including conspiracy to commit a crime, killing of an endangered species, destruction of property, trespassing and destruction of habitat, the nye county sheriff's office said.
uniqueness of devils hole
scientists closely monitor the devils hole and its habitat. the species is believed to have been isolated for to years because they've adapted to water and an oxygen concentration that's usually deadly for fish.
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(ˈsiˈɛˈnɛn) dɪd ə hu broʊk ˈɪntu ə nəˈvɑdə ˈwaɪlˌdlaɪf ˈrɛfjuʤ kɪl wən əv ðə wərldz ˈrɛrəst fɪʃ? ðə ˈnæʃənəl pɑrk ˈsərvɪs ənd ðə ˈʃɛrɪfs ˈɔfəs ɪn naɪ ˈkaʊnti ʃʊr θɪŋk soʊ. hɪrz wət ðeɪ sɛd ˈhæpənd: ˈdʊrɪŋ ə naɪt əv ˈdrɪŋkɪŋ, θri mɛn broʊk ˈɪntu ˈdɛvəlz hoʊl, ə prəˈtɛktɪd ˈɛriə ðæts pɑrt əv ðə dɛθ ˈvæli ˈnæʃənəl pɑrk. wən əv ðɛm wɛnt ˈskɪni ˈdɪpɪŋ ɪn ðə ˈoʊnli ˈhæbəˌtæt fər wən əv ðə wərldz ˈrɛrəst fɪʃ ðə ˈdɛvəlz hoʊl. ˈnæʃənəl pɑrk ˈsərvɪs riˈlist ðɪs ˈɪmɪʤ əv ðə ˈsəˌspɛkts ˌɪnˈvɑlvd ɪn ðə ˈeɪprəl ˈɪnsədənt. ðət ˈpərsən ˈkləmsəli ˈplɑdɪd θru ðə ˈʃæloʊ ɛnd əv ðə pul, ˈstɑmpɪŋ ɔn ðə ˈælʤi ənd ˈkɪkɪŋ əp dərt. hɪz ˈneɪkəd ədˈvɛnʧər wɑz kɔt ɔn ˈkæmərə. hi ˈɔlsoʊ lɛft bɪˈhaɪnd ə pɛr əv ˈdərti ˈəndərˌwɛr. əˈθɔrətiz ˈsəˌspɛkt ðə ˈeɪprəl 30 ˌɪnˈtruʒən lɛft wən əv ðə ˈkrɪtɪkəli ɪnˈdeɪnʤərd dɛd. ðə ɪgˈzækt kɔz əv ðə ˈfɪʃɪz dɛθ ɪz ənˈklɪr. bət æt ðə læst kaʊnt ɪn ˈeɪprəl, ðɛr wər ˈoʊnli 115 ˈdɛvəlz hoʊl lɛft ɪn ðə wərld, ðə ˈnæʃənəl pɑrk ˈsərvɪs sɛd. "ˈvɪdioʊ ˈfʊtɪʤ rɪˈkɔrdɪd ðɪs mæn ˈwɔkɪŋ ɔn ðə ˈʃæloʊ ʃɛlf, pəˈtɛnʃəli ˈstrɛsɪŋ ənd ˈkrəʃɪŋ, wɪʧ ər slow-moving*, ˈdɑsəl, ənd ɛz ðeɪ hæv noʊ ˈnæʧərəl ˈprɛdətərz, ˈkjʊriəs baɪ ˈneɪʧər," ðə ˈnæʃənəl pɑrk ˈsərvɪs sɛd. ðiz blu, ər juˈnik. ðeɪ ər bɪˈlivd tɪ hæv sərˈvaɪvd ɪn ðə seɪm loʊˈkeɪʃən ɪn ðə moʊˈhɑvi ˈdɛzərt fər tɛnz əv ˈθaʊzənz əv jɪrz ɪn ə hɑrʃ ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt ðæts ˈjuʒəwəli nɑt kəmˈpætəbəl fər fɪʃ. ðə ˈnæʃənəl pɑrk ˈsərvɪs ˈsəˌspɛkts ðə ˌɪnˈtrudər ɪkˈstɛnsɪvli ˈdæmɪʤd ðə ˈhæbəˌtæt baɪ dɪˈstərbɪŋ ðə ˈælʤi ənd ɪts fud səˈplaɪ. ðə ˈeɪʤənsi ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ kənˈsərnd ðət ðə ˈskɪni ˈdɪpər krəʃt ɛgz, ɛz ˈeɪprəl ənd meɪ ər ˈspɔnɪŋ ˈsizən. haʊ ɪt ənˈfoʊldəd ˈfʊtɪʤ riˈlist baɪ ðə ˈnæʃənəl pɑrk ˈsərvɪs ʃoʊd θri mɛn ˈraɪdɪŋ ˌbiˈfɔr ərˈaɪvɪŋ æt ðə tɔl blæk ˈfɛnsɪz ðət prəˈtɛkt ˈdɛvəlz hoʊl. pəˈlis seɪ ðə θri mɛn keɪm tɪ ðə ˈɛriə ˈæftər ə naɪt əv ˈʃutɪŋ ˈræbəts ənd ˈdrɪŋkɪŋ. ðeɪ wər ɑrmd wɪθ ə ˈʃɑtˌgən, əˈθɔrətiz seɪ. ðeɪ ʤəmpt ˈoʊvər ðə fɛns ənd faɪərd æt list 10 ʃɑts ˈɪntu tu geɪts' lɑks, tu sərˈveɪləns ˈkæmərəz ənd ɪˈlɛktrɪk ˈsɛnsərz, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ əˈθɔrətiz. ðeɪ riˈmuvd ˈkeɪbəlz frəm sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈkæmərəz ənd ˈdæmɪʤd ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk ɪkˈwɪpmənt, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ðə pɑrk ˈsərvɪs. ðeɪ lɛft bɪˈhaɪnd ðə ˈdərti ˈbɑksərz, θri bɪr kænz ənd səm ˈvɑmət. ə dɛd wɑz faʊnd ˈnɪrˈbaɪ. pəˈlis seɪ ðeɪv ˈkɑnˌtæktɪd θri ˈsəˌspɛkts ɔl nəˈvɑdə ˈrɛzɪdənts. ˈfɛdərəl ˈʧɑrʤɪz ər ɪkˈspɛktɪd tɪ bi faɪld əˈgɛnst ðə ˈtriˌoʊ, wɪθ ˈpɑsəbəl kaʊnts ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ kənˈspɪrəsi tɪ kəˈmɪt ə kraɪm, ˈkɪlɪŋ əv ən ɪnˈdeɪnʤərd ˈspiʃiz, dɪˈstrəkʃən əv ˈprɑpərti, ˈtrɛˌspæsɪŋ ənd dɪˈstrəkʃən əv ˈhæbəˌtæt, ðə naɪ ˈkaʊnti ˈʃɛrɪfs ˈɔfəs sɛd. juˈniknəs əv ˈdɛvəlz hoʊl ˈsaɪəntɪsts ˈkloʊsli ˈmɑnətər ðə ˈdɛvəlz hoʊl ənd ɪts ˈhæbəˌtæt. ðə ˈspiʃiz ɪz bɪˈlivd tɪ hæv bɪn ˈaɪsəˌleɪtɪd fər tɪ jɪrz bɪˈkəz ðeɪv əˈdæptɪd tɪ ˈwɔtər ənd ən ˈɑksɪʤən ˌkɑnsənˈtreɪʃən ðæts ˈjuʒəwəli ˈdɛdli fər fɪʃ.
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narrative science view profile we are hiring located in the heart of the loop, our office provides easy access to public transportation and some of chicago's favorite destinations. announced a new collaboration with microsoft today, bringing the chicago natural language generation (nlg) capabilities to power bi data analytics tool.
narrative power bi extension will draw insights from user data sets from a range of data sources including salesforce, and adobe analytics and automatically generate written narratives to accompany data and tables.
“microsoft’s vision and leadership is reflected in power bi. the platform embodies making analytics more accessible to a wider audience and helping organizations to maximize the value of their business intelligence efforts,” said stuart frankel, ceo of narrative science, in a statement. “we’re thrilled to a join such a high caliber community dedicated to innovating bi.”
founded in 2010, narrative science is the maker of the quill platform, which specializes in translating data sets into narratives. featured in an economist special report on artificial intelligence last year, the technology has already been used by forbes to cover financial stories, with a number of additional companies also using the platform to generate financial reports and other documents.
the narratives for power bi extension can be customized in a number of ways, including vocabulary adjustments and verbosity.
“our vision of modern business intelligence includes making powerful analytics and data visualization easily accessible to everyone,” said nick caldwell, general manager of microsoft power bi in a statement. “our collaboration with narrative science aligns very well to this goal. integrating advanced into microsoft power bi enables our customers to automatically turn complex data into insightful stories.”
the extension is already available for download.
images via narrative science.
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ˈnɛrətɪv saɪəns vju ˈproʊˌfaɪl wi ər ˈhaɪrɪŋ ˈloʊˌkeɪtəd ɪn ðə hɑrt əv ðə lup, ɑr ˈɔfəs prəˈvaɪdz ˈizi ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ˈpəblɪk ˌtrænspərˈteɪʃən ənd səm əv ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊz ˈfeɪvərɪt ˌdɛstəˈneɪʃənz. əˈnaʊnst ə nu kəˌlæbərˈeɪʃən wɪθ ˈmaɪˌkroʊˈsɔft təˈdeɪ, ˈbrɪŋɪŋ ðə ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊ ˈnæʧərəl ˈlæŋgwɪʤ ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən (nlg*) ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlətiz tɪ paʊər baɪ ˈdætə ˌænəˈlɪtɪks tul. ˈnɛrətɪv paʊər baɪ ɪkˈstɛnʃən wɪl drɔ ˈɪnˌsaɪts frəm ˈjuzər ˈdætə sɛts frəm ə reɪnʤ əv ˈdætə ˈsɔrsəz ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ salesforce*, ənd əˈdoʊbi ˌænəˈlɪtɪks ənd ˌɔtəˈmætɪkli ˈʤɛnərˌeɪt ˈrɪtən ˈnɛrətɪvz tɪ əˈkəmpəni ˈdætə ənd ˈteɪbəlz. ˈvɪʒən ənd ˈlidərˌʃɪp ɪz rɪˈflɛktɪd ɪn paʊər baɪ. ðə ˈplætˌfɔrm ɛmˈbɑdiz ˈmeɪkɪŋ ˌænəˈlɪtɪks mɔr ækˈsɛsəbəl tɪ ə ˈwaɪdər ˈɔdiəns ənd ˈhɛlpɪŋ ˌɔrgənəˈzeɪʃənz tɪ ˈmæksəˌmaɪz ðə ˈvælju əv ðɛr ˈbɪznɪs ˌɪnˈtɛləʤəns efforts,”*,” sɛd stɔrt ˈfræŋkəl, ˈsiˌiˈoʊ əv ˈnɛrətɪv saɪəns, ɪn ə ˈsteɪtmənt. θrɪld tɪ ə ʤɔɪn səʧ ə haɪ ˈkæləbər kəmˈjunɪti ˈdɛdəkeɪtəd tɪ ˌɪnəˈveɪtɪŋ bi.”*.” ˈfaʊndɪd ɪn 2010 ˈnɛrətɪv saɪəns ɪz ðə ˈmeɪkər əv ðə kwɪl ˈplætˌfɔrm, wɪʧ ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪzɪz ɪn ˈtrænsˌleɪtɪŋ ˈdætə sɛts ˈɪntu ˈnɛrətɪvz. ˈfiʧərd ɪn ən ɪˈkɑnəmɪst ˈspɛʃəl rɪˈpɔrt ɔn ˌɑrtəˈfɪʃəl ˌɪnˈtɛləʤəns læst jɪr, ðə tɛkˈnɑləʤi həz ɔˈrɛdi bɪn juzd baɪ fɔrbz tɪ ˈkəvər ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl ˈstɔriz, wɪθ ə ˈnəmbər əv əˈdɪʃənəl ˈkəmpəˌniz ˈɔlsoʊ ˈjuzɪŋ ðə ˈplætˌfɔrm tɪ ˈʤɛnərˌeɪt ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl rɪˈpɔrts ənd ˈəðər ˈdɑkjəmənts. ðə ˈnɛrətɪvz fər paʊər baɪ ɪkˈstɛnʃən kən bi ˈkəstəˌmaɪzd ɪn ə ˈnəmbər əv weɪz, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ voʊˈkæbjəˌlɛri əˈʤəstmənts ənd verbosity*. ˈvɪʒən əv ˈmɑdərn ˈbɪznɪs ˌɪnˈtɛləʤəns ˌɪnˈkludz ˈmeɪkɪŋ ˈpaʊərfəl ˌænəˈlɪtɪks ənd ˈdætə ˌvɪʒwələˈzeɪʃən ˈizəli ækˈsɛsəbəl tɪ everyone,”*,” sɛd nɪk ˈkɔldwɛl, ˈʤɛnərəl ˈmænɪʤər əv ˈmaɪˌkroʊˈsɔft paʊər baɪ ɪn ə ˈsteɪtmənt. kəˌlæbərˈeɪʃən wɪθ ˈnɛrətɪv saɪəns əˈlaɪnz ˈvɛri wɛl tɪ ðɪs goʊl. ˈɪnəˌgreɪtɪŋ ədˈvænst ˈɪntu ˈmaɪˌkroʊˈsɔft paʊər baɪ ɪˈneɪbəlz ɑr ˈkəstəmərz tɪ ˌɔtəˈmætɪkli tərn ˈkɑmplɛks ˈdætə ˈɪntu ˈɪnˌsaɪtfəl stories.”*.” ðə ɪkˈstɛnʃən ɪz ɔˈrɛdi əˈveɪləbəl fər ˈdaʊnˌloʊd. ˈɪmɪʤɪz ˈviə ˈnɛrətɪv saɪəns. du ju noʊ əv ˈɛni ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊ tɛk ˈkəmpəˌniz wi ʃʊd bi ˈkəvərɪŋ? sɛnd ˈjuˈɛs ən iˈmeɪl æt [iˈmeɪl prəˈtɛktɪd].
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david cameron has insisted britain can only impact approach to israel by remaining inside the as he called on the community to roundly reject the “divisive and intolerant” campaign of nigel.
the prime minister used his only address to of the referendum to insist that the influence is “enhanced” rather than diminished by being part of the union on issues from the economy to climate change to preventing iran getting the bomb.
speaking at jewish annual dinner which raised he said: “when fighting terrorism and islamist extremism are we better doing that out on our own or fighting together with ourropean partners. whenrope is discussing its attitude towards israel do you want britain greatest friends in there opposing boycotts or do you want us outside the room, powerless to affect the conversation.”
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cameron spoke of his “love” of the country and described jewish function as some of the most patriotic attended. invoking his predecessor winston churchill, he said the wartime leader chose to fight hitler alongside allies, rather than operate alone, when he took the “greatest decision in our history”.
he also launched a blistering attack on the leader over the ‘breaking point’ poster he unveiled last week as part of the campaign to leave the. it featured a line of immigrants passing throughrope and was condemned as having echoes of imagery of george osborne.
“when i look at that poster which nigel stood in front of for the leave campaign i see the opposite of everything that makes our country great,” cameron told the more than guests at the grosvenor house hotel. “i’m proud that britain is home to people who fled persecution including those who fled the nazis and from russians pogroms. we should say to and his campaign of division and intolerance ‘we want your vision of britain, we want selling, not selling the kind of country we want for ourselves or our grandchildren and i say we should vote decisively to reject it on thursday.”
while his diary was in a state of flux during the final build up to the referendum, cameron drew huge applause for saying the dinner was one engagement he was “always going to keep”.
on the day the house of commons was recalled to pay tribute to murdered jo cox, the prime minister reflected on her husband call to oppose hate in her memory.
“wherever we find hatred we should drive it out of our politics and drive it out of our communities. no one understands this better than our jewish community.”
reflecting on the rise of anti-semitism, he said: “i hate that this scourge has returned to this world and specifically to our country. i promise wherever we see from politicians who should know better to abusive graffiti daubed on synagogues and homes i will do everything i can to drive it out of this country. for as long as prime
minister got that extra i promised to every year for as long as necessary.”
in a speech to an audience that included new israeli ambassador mark regev, he also hailed transformation from “dessert to city” as “one of most remarkable stories of the modern democratic world” and reiterated that his commitment to her security is “non-negotiable”.
“i will always stand up for right and obligation of israel to defend its citizens a right enshrined in international law, in natural justice and in fundamental morality. never stand by when people talk about boycotts or israel comes under attack from rockets or terror tunnels.”
cameron heaped praise on the staff and volunteers of jewish care as the ‘best of jewish and the best of british.
‘i love you. all of you individually as i have a referendum to win. but i love jewish care and all you do. you leave things to government. you help communities . you bring people together to play their part. that is the big society in action.”
the event included a campaign video featuring three service users including millie who said a jewish care club had given her a lifeline to get out and socialise. cameron described her as a “complete inspiration” after a meeting ahead of his speech.
.@number10gov to dinner: 'you are the best of jewish and the best of british' justin cohen (@cohenjust) june 20, 2016
former x factor winner leona lewis, who donated her time to perform at the event, said she felt “honoured and privileged to be part of such a special and meet some of the inspirational people that are assisted by jewish care”. she dedicated a song he composed for her parents to the charity.
chairman stephen lewis announced plans to submit an application for a new care campus in redbridge. he stressed that must be raised annually to continue its work, with an additional required by 2020.
jewish care president and labour peer lord levy who hailed the pm as “a true friend to our community and our beloved state of israel” said: it was a truly special evening. a night that showcased the vital work of jewish care and celebrated the way we as a community come together to provide care and support to those who need it.”
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ˈdeɪvɪd ˈkæmərən həz ˌɪnˈsɪstɪd ˈbrɪtən kən ˈoʊnli ˌɪmˈpækt əˈproʊʧ tɪ ˈɪzriəl baɪ rɪˈmeɪnɪŋ ˌɪnˈsaɪd ðə ɛz hi kɔld ɔn ðə kəmˈjunɪti tɪ ˈraʊndli ˈriʤɛkt ðə ənd intolerant”*” kæmˈpeɪn əv ˈnaɪʤəl. ðə praɪm ˈmɪnɪstər juzd hɪz ˈoʊnli ˈæˌdrɛs tɪ əv ðə ˌrɛfərˈɛndəm tɪ ˌɪnˈsɪst ðət ðə ˈɪnfluəns ɪz ““enhanced”*” ˈrəðər ðən dɪˈmɪnɪʃt baɪ biɪŋ pɑrt əv ðə ˈjunjən ɔn ˈɪʃuz frəm ðə ɪˈkɑnəmi tɪ ˈklaɪmɪt ʧeɪnʤ tɪ prɪˈvɛnɪŋ ˌɪˈrɑn ˈgɪtɪŋ ðə bɔm. ˈspikɪŋ æt ʤuɪʃ ˈænjuəl ˈdɪnər wɪʧ reɪzd hi sɛd: ˈfaɪtɪŋ ˈtɛrəˌrɪzəm ənd ˈɪsləmɪst ˌɪkˈstrɛmɪzəm ər wi ˈbɛtər duɪŋ ðət aʊt ɔn ɑr oʊn ər ˈfaɪtɪŋ təˈgɛðər wɪθ ɑr ˌjʊrəˈpiən ˈpɑrtnərz. wɪn ˈjʊrəp ɪz dɪˈskəsɪŋ ɪts ˈætəˌtud təˈwɔrdz ˈɪzriəl du ju wɔnt ˈbrɪtən ˈgreɪtəst frɛndz ɪn ðɛr əˈpoʊzɪŋ ˈbɔɪˌkɑts ər du ju wɔnt ˈjuˈɛs ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ðə rum, ˈpaʊərləs tɪ əˈfɛkt ðə conversation.”*.” gɪt ðə ʤuɪʃ nuz ˈdeɪli ɪˈdɪʃən baɪ iˈmeɪl ənd ˈnɛvər mɪs ɑr tɔp ˈstɔriz fri saɪn əp ˈkæmərən spoʊk əv hɪz ““love”*” əv ðə ˈkəntri ənd dɪˈskraɪbd ʤuɪʃ ˈfəŋkʃən ɛz səm əv ðə moʊst ˌpeɪtriˈɑtɪk əˈtɛndəd. ˌɪnˈvoʊkɪŋ hɪz ˈprɛdəˌsɛsər ˈwɪnstən ˈʧərʧɪl, hi sɛd ðə ˈwɔrˌtaɪm ˈlidər ʧoʊz tɪ faɪt ˈhɪtlər əˈlɔŋˈsaɪd ˈælaɪz, ˈrəðər ðən ˈɔpərˌeɪt əˈloʊn, wɪn hi tʊk ðə dɪˈsɪʒən ɪn ɑr history”*”. hi ˈɔlsoʊ lɔnʧt ə ˈblɪstərɪŋ əˈtæk ɔn ðə ˈlidər ˈoʊvər ðə point’*’ ˈpoʊstər hi ənˈveɪld læst wik ɛz pɑrt əv ðə kæmˈpeɪn tɪ liv ðə. ɪt ˈfiʧərd ə laɪn əv ˈɪməgrənts ˈpæsɪŋ θru ˈjʊrəp ənd wɑz kənˈdɛmd ɛz ˈhævɪŋ ˈɛkoʊz əv ˈɪmɪʤri əv ʤɔrʤ ˈɔzˌbɔrn. aɪ lʊk æt ðət ˈpoʊstər wɪʧ ˈnaɪʤəl stʊd ɪn frənt əv fər ðə liv kæmˈpeɪn aɪ si ðə ˈɑpəzɪt əv ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ ðət meɪks ɑr ˈkəntri great,”*,” ˈkæmərən toʊld ðə mɔr ðən gɛsts æt ðə ˈgroʊvnər haʊs hoʊˈtɛl. praʊd ðət ˈbrɪtən ɪz hoʊm tɪ ˈpipəl hu flɛd ˌpərsəˈkjuʃən ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ðoʊz hu flɛd ðə ˈnɑtsiz ənd frəm ˈrəʃənz ˈpoʊgrəmz. wi ʃʊd seɪ tɪ ənd hɪz kæmˈpeɪn əv dɪˈvɪʒən ənd ˌɪnˈtɑlərəns wɔnt jʊr ˈvɪʒən əv ˈbrɪtən, wi wɔnt ˈsɛlɪŋ, nɑt ˈsɛlɪŋ ðə kaɪnd əv ˈkəntri wi wɔnt fər ɑrˈsɛlvz ər ɑr ˈgrænˌʧɪldrən ənd aɪ seɪ wi ʃʊd voʊt dɪˈsaɪsɪvli tɪ ˈriʤɛkt ɪt ɔn thursday.”*.” waɪl hɪz ˈdaɪəri wɑz ɪn ə steɪt əv fləks ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈfaɪnəl bɪld əp tɪ ðə ˌrɛfərˈɛndəm, ˈkæmərən dru juʤ əˈplɔz fər seɪɪŋ ðə ˈdɪnər wɑz wən ɛnˈgeɪʤmənt hi wɑz goʊɪŋ tɪ keep”*”. ɔn ðə deɪ ðə haʊs əv ˈkɑmənz wɑz rɪˈkɔld tɪ peɪ ˈtrɪbjut tɪ ˈmərdərd ʤoʊ kɑks, ðə praɪm ˈmɪnɪstər rɪˈflɛktɪd ɔn hər ˈhəzbənd kɔl tɪ əˈpoʊz heɪt ɪn hər ˈmɛməri. wi faɪnd ˈheɪtrəd wi ʃʊd draɪv ɪt aʊt əv ɑr ˈpɑləˌtɪks ənd draɪv ɪt aʊt əv ɑr kəmˈjunɪtiz. noʊ wən ˌəndərˈstændz ðɪs ˈbɛtər ðən ɑr ʤuɪʃ community.”*.” rɪˈflɛktɪŋ ɔn ðə raɪz əv anti-semitism*, hi sɛd: heɪt ðət ðɪs skərʤ həz rɪˈtərnd tɪ ðɪs wərld ənd spəˈsɪfɪkli tɪ ɑr ˈkəntri. aɪ ˈprɑməs wɛˈrɛvər wi si frəm ˌpɑləˈtɪʃənz hu ʃʊd noʊ ˈbɛtər tɪ əˈbjusɪv grəˈfiti dɔbd ɔn ˈsɪnəˌgɔgz ənd hoʊmz aɪ wɪl du ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ aɪ kən tɪ draɪv ɪt aʊt əv ðɪs ˈkəntri. fər ɛz lɔŋ ɛz praɪm ˈmɪnɪstər gɑt ðət ˈɛkstrə aɪ ˈprɑməst tɪ ˈɛvəri jɪr fər ɛz lɔŋ ɛz necessary.”*.” ɪn ə spiʧ tɪ ən ˈɔdiəns ðət ˌɪnˈkludɪd nu ˌɪzˈreɪli æmˈbæsədər mɑrk regev*, hi ˈɔlsoʊ heɪld ˌtrænsfərˈmeɪʃən frəm tɪ city”*” ɛz əv moʊst rɪˈmɑrkəbəl ˈstɔriz əv ðə ˈmɑdərn ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk world”*” ənd riˈɪtərˌeɪtɪd ðət hɪz kəˈmɪtmənt tɪ hər sɪˈkjʊrəti ɪz ““non-negotiable”*”. wɪl ˈɔlˌweɪz stænd əp fər raɪt ənd ˌɑbləˈgeɪʃən əv ˈɪzriəl tɪ dɪˈfɛnd ɪts ˈsɪtɪzənz ə raɪt ɛnʃˈraɪnd ɪn ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl lɔ, ɪn ˈnæʧərəl ˈʤəstɪs ənd ɪn ˌfəndəˈmɛnəl ˌmɔˈræləˌti. ˈnɛvər stænd baɪ wɪn ˈpipəl tɔk əˈbaʊt ˈbɔɪˌkɑts ər ˈɪzriəl kəmz ˈəndər əˈtæk frəm ˈrɑkəts ər ˈtɛrər tunnels.”*.” ˈkæmərən hipt preɪz ɔn ðə stæf ənd ˌvɑlənˈtɪrz əv ʤuɪʃ kɛr ɛz ðə əv ʤuɪʃ ənd ðə bɛst əv ˈbrɪtɪʃ. ləv ju. ɔl əv ju ˌɪndɪˈvɪʤəli ɛz aɪ hæv ə ˌrɛfərˈɛndəm tɪ wɪn. bət aɪ ləv ʤuɪʃ kɛr ənd ɔl ju du. ju liv θɪŋz tɪ ˈgəvərnmənt. ju hɛlp kəmˈjunɪtiz ju brɪŋ ˈpipəl təˈgɛðər tɪ pleɪ ðɛr pɑrt. ðət ɪz ðə bɪg soʊˈsaɪɪti ɪn action.”*.” ðə ɪˈvɛnt ˌɪnˈkludɪd ə kæmˈpeɪn ˈvɪdioʊ ˈfiʧərɪŋ θri ˈsərvɪs ˈjuzərz ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈmɪli hu sɛd ə ʤuɪʃ kɛr kləb hæd ˈgɪvɪn hər ə ˈlaɪˌflaɪn tɪ gɪt aʊt ənd socialise*. ˈkæmərən dɪˈskraɪbd hər ɛz ə inspiration”*” ˈæftər ə ˈmitɪŋ əˈhɛd əv hɪz spiʧ. tɪ ˈdɪnər: 'ju ər ðə bɛst əv ʤuɪʃ ənd ðə bɛst əv ˈbrɪtɪʃ' ˈʤəstɪn koʊən (@cohenjust*) ʤun 20 2016 ˈfɔrmər ɛks ˈfæktər ˈwɪnər ˈlioʊnə luɪs, hu ˈdoʊˌneɪtɪd hər taɪm tɪ pərˈfɔrm æt ðə ɪˈvɛnt, sɛd ʃi fɛlt ənd ˈprɪvɪlɪʤd tɪ bi pɑrt əv səʧ ə ˈspɛʃəl ənd mit səm əv ðə ˌɪnspərˈeɪʃənəl ˈpipəl ðət ər əˈsɪstɪd baɪ ʤuɪʃ care”*”. ʃi ˈdɛdəkeɪtəd ə sɔŋ hi kəmˈpoʊzd fər hər ˈpɛrənts tɪ ðə ˈʧɛrɪti. ˈʧɛrmən ˈstivən luɪs əˈnaʊnst plænz tɪ səbˈmɪt ən ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən fər ə nu kɛr ˈkæmpəs ɪn redbridge*. hi strɛst ðət məst bi reɪzd ˈænjuəli tɪ kənˈtɪnju ɪts wərk, wɪθ ən əˈdɪʃənəl rikˈwaɪərd baɪ 2020 ʤuɪʃ kɛr ˈprɛzɪdənt ənd ˈleɪbər pɪr lɔrd ˈlɛvi hu heɪld ðə piɛm ɛz tru frɛnd tɪ ɑr kəmˈjunɪti ənd ɑr bɪˈləvəd steɪt əv israel”*” sɛd: ɪt wɑz ə ˈtruli ˈspɛʃəl ˈivnɪŋ. ə naɪt ðət ˈʃoʊˌkeɪst ðə ˈvaɪtəl wərk əv ʤuɪʃ kɛr ənd ˈsɛləˌbreɪtɪd ðə weɪ wi ɛz ə kəmˈjunɪti kəm təˈgɛðər tɪ prəˈvaɪd kɛr ənd səˈpɔrt tɪ ðoʊz hu nid it.”*.”
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atlanta once was stained by a scandal for underreporting crimes. now, dekalb county has fallen under scrutiny for vastly crimes to win millions of dollars in federal grants. it counted 39 too many rapes; 102 too many robberies, 113 too many burglaries, 326 too many and a staggering too many aggravated assaults in 2008, says a new report by a government watchdog agency. how'd that happen? the agency wanted to know, because the county wouldn't have won the grants if it had provided accurate data.
so the agency asked the dekalb county police department. and the round robin began:
it couldn't explain the differences, had no documentation, and pointed investigators to the former police department grant manager. she said the statistics came from the police department's grants coordinator, who used documentation from a police department file. the coordinator said she didn't know of any such file and pointed to the department's crime analysis unit as the source of the information. the police department researched again and told the agency it had no more documentation.
by the way, the millions in unjustified grant money dekalb got should have gone to memphis and chattanooga, the watchdog agency reports.
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æˈtlæntə wəns wɑz steɪnd baɪ ə ˈskændəl fər ˈəndərrɪˈpɔrtɪŋ kraɪmz. naʊ, dɪˈkælb ˈkaʊnti həz ˈfɑlən ˈəndər ˈskrutəni fər ˈvæstli kraɪmz tɪ wɪn ˈmɪljənz əv ˈdɔlərz ɪn ˈfɛdərəl grænts. ɪt ˈkaʊntɪd 39 tu ˈmɛni reɪps; 102 tu ˈmɛni ˈrɑbəriz, 113 tu ˈmɛni ˈbərgləriz, 326 tu ˈmɛni ənd ə ˈstægərˌɪŋ tu ˈmɛni ˈægrəˌveɪtɪd əˈsɔlts ɪn 2008 sɪz ə nu rɪˈpɔrt baɪ ə ˈgəvərnmənt ˈwɑʧˌdɔg ˈeɪʤənsi. haʊd ðət ˈhæpən? ðə ˈeɪʤənsi ˈwɔntɪd tɪ noʊ, bɪˈkəz ðə ˈkaʊnti ˈwʊdənt hæv wən ðə grænts ɪf ɪt hæd prəˈvaɪdɪd ˈækjərət ˈdætə. soʊ ðə ˈeɪʤənsi æst ðə dɪˈkælb ˈkaʊnti pəˈlis dɪˈpɑrtmənt. ənd ðə raʊnd ˈrɑbɪn bɪˈgæn: ɪt ˈkʊdənt ɪkˈspleɪn ðə ˈdɪfərənsɪz, hæd noʊ ˌdɑkjəmɛnˈteɪʃən, ənd ˈpɔɪntɪd ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪtərz tɪ ðə ˈfɔrmər pəˈlis dɪˈpɑrtmənt grænt ˈmænɪʤər. ʃi sɛd ðə stəˈtɪstɪks keɪm frəm ðə pəˈlis dɪˈpɑrtmənts grænts koʊˈɔrdəˌneɪtər, hu juzd ˌdɑkjəmɛnˈteɪʃən frəm ə pəˈlis dɪˈpɑrtmənt faɪl. ðə koʊˈɔrdəˌneɪtər sɛd ʃi ˈdɪdənt noʊ əv ˈɛni səʧ faɪl ənd ˈpɔɪntɪd tɪ ðə dɪˈpɑrtmənts kraɪm æˈnælɪsɪs ˈjunɪt ɛz ðə sɔrs əv ðə ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən. ðə pəˈlis dɪˈpɑrtmənt riˈsərʧt əˈgɛn ənd toʊld ðə ˈeɪʤənsi ɪt hæd noʊ mɔr ˌdɑkjəmɛnˈteɪʃən. baɪ ðə weɪ, ðə ˈmɪljənz ɪn ənˈʤəstəˌfaɪd grænt ˈməni dɪˈkælb gɑt ʃʊd hæv gɔn tɪ ˈmɛmpfɪs ənd ˌʧætəˈnugə, ðə ˈwɑʧˌdɔg ˈeɪʤənsi rɪˈpɔrts.
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fx has ordered a third season of drama series tyrant for premiere in 2016.
season 2 of tyrant, executive produced by howard gordon, along with glenn gordon caron, chris keyser, david fury, gideon raff, avi nir and hugh fitzpatrick, has been better received creatively and has done well in delayed viewing, averaging million total viewers and million adults in. its june season 2 premiere posted the highest live+ same day to lift of any original season premiere in total viewers and adults,. it grew +149% in the demo (376,000 to) and +121% in total viewers (1.06m to 2.35m).
the series revolves around an unassuming american family drawn into the inner workings of a turbulent fictional middle eastern nation. bassam “barry” al-fayeed, the younger son of the dictator, ends a exile to return to his homeland. his reluctant homecoming leads to a dramatic clash of cultures as he is thrown back into the familial and national politics of his youth.
tyrant is produced by fox 21 television studios and productions.
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fx* həz ˈɔrdərd ə θərd ˈsizən əv ˈdrɑmə ˈsɪriz ˈtaɪrənt fər prɛˈmɪr ɪn 2016 ˈsizən 2 əv ˈtaɪrənt, ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv prəˈdust baɪ haʊərd ˈgɔrdən, əˈlɔŋ wɪθ glɛn ˈgɔrdən kɑˈrɔn, krɪs ˈkaɪzər, ˈdeɪvɪd fˈjʊri, ˈgɪdiən ræf, ˈɑvi nɪr ənd ju ˌfɪtˈspætrɪk, həz bɪn ˈbɛtər rɪˈsivd kriˈeɪtɪvli ənd həz dən wɛl ɪn dɪˈleɪd vjuɪŋ, ˈævrɪʤɪŋ ˈmɪljən ˈtoʊtəl vjuərz ənd ˈmɪljən ˈædəlts ɪn ɪts ʤun ˈsizən 2 prɛˈmɪr ˈpoʊstɪd ðə haɪəst lɪv+ seɪm deɪ tɪ lɪft əv ˈɛni ərˈɪʤənəl ˈsizən prɛˈmɪr ɪn ˈtoʊtəl vjuərz ənd ˈædəlts ɪt gru 149 ɪn ðə ˈdɛmoʊ tɪ ənd 121 ɪn ˈtoʊtəl vjuərz tɪ 2.35m*). ðə ˈsɪriz riˈvɑlvz əraʊnd ən ˌənəˈsumɪŋ əˈmɛrɪkən ˈfæməli drɔn ˈɪntu ðə ˈɪnər ˈwərkɪŋz əv ə ˈtərbjələnt ˈfɪkʃənəl ˈmɪdəl ˈistərn ˈneɪʃən. ˈbæsəm ““barry”*” al-fayeed*, ðə ˈjəŋgər sən əv ðə ˈdɪkteɪtər, ɛndz ə ˈɛkˌsaɪl tɪ rɪˈtərn tɪ hɪz ˈhoʊmˌlænd. hɪz rɪˈləktənt ˈhoʊmˌkəmɪŋ lidz tɪ ə drəˈmætɪk klæʃ əv ˈkəlʧərz ɛz hi ɪz θroʊn bæk ˈɪntu ðə fəˈmɪljəl ənd ˈnæʃənəl ˈpɑləˌtɪks əv hɪz juθ. ˈtaɪrənt ɪz prəˈdust baɪ fɑks 21 ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən ˈstudiˌoʊz ənd pərˈdəkʃənz.
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the technology giant synonymous with photocopied documents has set its sights on highly efficient solar panels.
researchers at parc, an subsidiary of xerox, say developing a new digital printing process that could make it much cheaper to concentrated solar photovoltaic systems. such systems can dramatically increase the efficiency of solar cells by using lenses to concentrate and focus the sunlight onto small cells.
increasing efficiency could be an effective way to bring down the cost of solar modules, whose price has already fallen dramatically during the past several years. much of the cost of conventional silicon systems is now due to things like wiring, installation, and permitting. more efficient panels would mean we need fewer of them to produce the same amount of in turn cuts the costs of hardware and installation. but concentrated photovoltaic technology has so far failed to gain traction because still too expensive and bulky to compete with conventional silicon solar panels.
parc hopes to make the technology more competitive by shrinking the components and designing a new form factor, and by developing a relatively inexpensive manufacturing process. the new process will build on a larger effort by parc researchers to invent a new kind of printer that can precisely deposit “inks” made of tiny semiconductor chips, called “chiplets,” by using assembly principles similar to those behind xerox photocopiers.
so far, they have demonstrated only the ability to make devices by wiring together a few printed. but eventually the technique could allow people to design and print very large arrangements of small electrical and optical components similar to the way they would design and print a document using a xerox printer, say the parc researchers. they say this should make it possible to develop a new class of electronic devices made of printed arrangements of various kinds of.
the first real application could be new kind of solar power system. in august, the parc group, along with collaborators at sandia national laboratories, won a grant from to apply the innovative printing process to build arrays of photovoltaic cells on a flat panel, and the group has three years to do it (see “doe attempts to concentrated solar”).
in recent years, engineers have developed ways to shrink the components needed for concentrating and focusing sunlight down to the millimeter scale. researchers at sandia national laboratories have developed solar cells that can be paired with those concentrating elements in a design. but the smaller the components, the more individual parts there are to assemble for a given area, and they must be arranged with extreme precision, says patrick maeda, a principal engineer at parc.
the existing method for doing this, which relies on an automated system that picks up individual components and places them in target spots, is much too expensive to achieve’s ambitious cost objective, says maeda. the parc researchers say the new printing approach could lead to a high-speed manufacturing process that is orders of magnitude cheaper for building these systems over large areas.
the big challenge now is to design and build a system with hundreds of wired together, says eugene chow, a parc principal scientist. in three years the group must deliver an electrically functional array of solar cell. such a “backplane” could then be combined with miniature optical components that can be made using methods commonly used to manufacture optical films used in displays.
the funding has pushed the group to “get more serious about industrial applications” for the printing process, says chow. “but we still have a long way to go.”
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ðə tɛkˈnɑləʤi ʤaɪənt səˈnɑnəməs wɪθ ˈfoʊtoʊˌkɑpid ˈdɑkjəmənts həz sɛt ɪts saɪts ɔn ˈhaɪli ɪˈfɪʃənt ˈsoʊlər ˈpænəlz. ˈrisərʧərz æt pɑrk, ən səbˈsɪdiˌɛri əv ˈzɪrɑks, seɪ dɪˈvɛləpɪŋ ə nu ˈdɪʤɪtəl ˈprɪnɪŋ ˈprɔˌsɛs ðət kʊd meɪk ɪt məʧ ˈʧipər tɪ ˈkɔnsənˌtreɪtɪd ˈsoʊlər ˌfoʊtəˌvoʊlˈteɪɪk ˈsɪstəmz. səʧ ˈsɪstəmz kən drəˈmætɪkəli ˌɪnˈkris ðə ɪˈfɪʃənsi əv ˈsoʊlər sɛlz baɪ ˈjuzɪŋ ˈlɛnzɪz tɪ ˈkɑnsənˌtreɪt ənd ˈfoʊkɪs ðə ˈsənˌlaɪt ˈɔntu smɔl sɛlz. ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋ ɪˈfɪʃənsi kʊd bi ən ˈifɛktɪv weɪ tɪ brɪŋ daʊn ðə kɔst əv ˈsoʊlər ˈmɑʤulz, huz praɪs həz ɔˈrɛdi ˈfɑlən drəˈmætɪkəli ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə pæst ˈsɛvərəl jɪrz. məʧ əv ðə kɔst əv kənˈvɛnʃənəl ˈsɪləkən ˈsɪstəmz ɪz naʊ du tɪ θɪŋz laɪk ˈwaɪrɪŋ, ˌɪnstəˈleɪʃən, ənd pərˈmɪtɪŋ. mɔr ɪˈfɪʃənt ˈpænəlz wʊd min wi nid fjuər əv ðɛm tɪ ˈproʊdus ðə seɪm əˈmaʊnt əv ɪn tərn kəts ðə kɔsts əv ˈhɑrdˌwɛr ənd ˌɪnstəˈleɪʃən. bət ˈkɔnsənˌtreɪtɪd ˌfoʊtəˌvoʊlˈteɪɪk tɛkˈnɑləʤi həz soʊ fɑr feɪld tɪ geɪn ˈtrækʃən bɪˈkəz stɪl tu ɪkˈspɛnsɪv ənd ˈbəlki tɪ kəmˈpit wɪθ kənˈvɛnʃənəl ˈsɪləkən ˈsoʊlər ˈpænəlz. pɑrk hoʊps tɪ meɪk ðə tɛkˈnɑləʤi mɔr kəmˈpɛtɪtɪv baɪ ʃˈrɪŋkɪŋ ðə kəmˈpoʊnənts ənd dɪˈzaɪnɪŋ ə nu fɔrm ˈfæktər, ənd baɪ dɪˈvɛləpɪŋ ə ˈrɛlətɪvli ˌɪnɪkˈspɛnsɪv ˌmænjəˈfækʧərɪŋ ˈprɔˌsɛs. ðə nu ˈprɔˌsɛs wɪl bɪld ɔn ə ˈlɑrʤər ˈɛfərt baɪ pɑrk ˈrisərʧərz tɪ ˌɪnˈvɛnt ə nu kaɪnd əv ˈprɪnər ðət kən prɪˈsaɪsli dɪˈpɑzət ““inks”*” meɪd əv ˈtaɪni ˌsɛmɪkənˈdəktər ʧɪps, kɔld ““chiplets,”*,” baɪ ˈjuzɪŋ əˈsɛmbli ˈprɪnsəpəlz ˈsɪmələr tɪ ðoʊz bɪˈhaɪnd ˈzɪrɑks ˈfoʊtoʊˌkɑpiərz. soʊ fɑr, ðeɪ hæv ˈdɛmənˌstreɪtɪd ˈoʊnli ðə əˈbɪləˌti tɪ meɪk dɪˈvaɪsɪz baɪ ˈwaɪrɪŋ təˈgɛðər ə fju ˈprɪnɪd. bət ɪˈvɛnʧəwəli ðə tɛkˈnik kʊd əˈlaʊ ˈpipəl tɪ dɪˈzaɪn ənd prɪnt ˈvɛri lɑrʤ ərˈeɪnʤmənts əv smɔl ɪˈlɛktrɪkəl ənd ˈɑptɪkəl kəmˈpoʊnənts ˈsɪmələr tɪ ðə weɪ ðeɪ wʊd dɪˈzaɪn ənd prɪnt ə ˈdɑkjəmɛnt ˈjuzɪŋ ə ˈzɪrɑks ˈprɪnər, seɪ ðə pɑrk ˈrisərʧərz. ðeɪ seɪ ðɪs ʃʊd meɪk ɪt ˈpɑsəbəl tɪ dɪˈvɛləp ə nu klæs əv ˌɪˌlɛkˈtrɑnɪk dɪˈvaɪsɪz meɪd əv ˈprɪnɪd ərˈeɪnʤmənts əv ˈvɛriəs kaɪnz əv. ðə fərst ril ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən kʊd bi nu kaɪnd əv ˈsoʊlər paʊər ˈsɪstəm. ɪn ˈɔgəst, ðə pɑrk grup, əˈlɔŋ wɪθ kəˈlæbərˌeɪtərz æt ˈsændiə ˈnæʃənəl ˈlæbrəˌtɔriz, wən ə grænt frəm tɪ əˈplaɪ ðə ˈɪnəˌveɪtɪv ˈprɪnɪŋ ˈprɔˌsɛs tɪ bɪld əreɪz əv ˌfoʊtəˌvoʊlˈteɪɪk sɛlz ɔn ə flæt ˈpænəl, ənd ðə grup həz θri jɪrz tɪ du ɪt (si əˈtɛmpts tɪ ˈkɔnsənˌtreɪtɪd solar”*”). ɪn ˈrisənt jɪrz, ˈɛnʤəˈnɪrz hæv dɪˈvɛləpt weɪz tɪ ʃrɪŋk ðə kəmˈpoʊnənts ˈnidɪd fər ˈkɑnsənˌtreɪtɪŋ ənd ˈfoʊkɪsɪŋ ˈsənˌlaɪt daʊn tɪ ðə ˈmɪləˌmitər skeɪl. ˈrisərʧərz æt ˈsændiə ˈnæʃənəl ˈlæbrəˌtɔriz hæv dɪˈvɛləpt ˈsoʊlər sɛlz ðət kən bi pɛrd wɪθ ðoʊz ˈkɑnsənˌtreɪtɪŋ ˈɛləmənts ɪn ə dɪˈzaɪn. bət ðə sˈmɔlər ðə kəmˈpoʊnənts, ðə mɔr ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl pɑrts ðɛr ər tɪ əˈsɛmbəl fər ə ˈgɪvɪn ˈɛriə, ənd ðeɪ məst bi əreɪnʤd wɪθ ɪkˈstrim priˈsɪʒən, sɪz ˈpætrɪk meɪˈidə, ə ˈprɪnsəpəl ˈɛnʤəˈnɪr æt pɑrk. ðə ɪgˈzɪstɪŋ ˈmɛθəd fər duɪŋ ðɪs, wɪʧ rɪˈlaɪz ɔn ən ˈɔtəˌmeɪtɪd ˈsɪstəm ðət pɪks əp ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl kəmˈpoʊnənts ənd ˈpleɪsɪz ðɛm ɪn ˈtərgət spɑts, ɪz məʧ tu ɪkˈspɛnsɪv tɪ əˈʧiv æmˈbɪʃəs kɔst əˈbʤɛktɪv, sɪz meɪˈidə. ðə pɑrk ˈrisərʧərz seɪ ðə nu ˈprɪnɪŋ əˈproʊʧ kʊd lɛd tɪ ə ˈhaɪˌspid ˌmænjəˈfækʧərɪŋ ˈprɔˌsɛs ðət ɪz ˈɔrdərz əv ˈmægnəˌtud ˈʧipər fər ˈbɪldɪŋ ðiz ˈsɪstəmz ˈoʊvər lɑrʤ ˈɛriəz. ðə bɪg ˈʧælənʤ naʊ ɪz tɪ dɪˈzaɪn ənd bɪld ə ˈsɪstəm wɪθ ˈhənərdz əv waɪərd təˈgɛðər, sɪz ˈjuʤin ʧaʊ, ə pɑrk ˈprɪnsəpəl ˈsaɪəntɪst. ɪn θri jɪrz ðə grup məst dɪˈlɪvər ən ɪˈlɛktrɪkəli ˈfəŋkʃənəl əreɪ əv ˈsoʊlər sɛl. səʧ ə ““backplane”*” kʊd ðɛn bi kəmˈbaɪnd wɪθ ˈmɪnɪˌʧʊr ˈɑptɪkəl kəmˈpoʊnənts ðət kən bi meɪd ˈjuzɪŋ ˈmɛθədz ˈkɑmənli juzd tɪ ˌmænjəˈfækʧər ˈɑptɪkəl fɪlmz juzd ɪn dɪˈspleɪz. ðə ˈfəndɪŋ həz pʊʃt ðə grup tɪ mɔr ˈsɪriəs əˈbaʊt ˌɪnˈdəstriəl applications”*” fər ðə ˈprɪnɪŋ ˈprɔˌsɛs, sɪz ʧaʊ. wi stɪl hæv ə lɔŋ weɪ tɪ go.”*.”
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san francisco robert moses is 92, an african american and a world war navy veteran.
don baird is a couple of weeks shy of his birthday, is scheduled for heart surgery next week, and is also a world war veteran.
aside from being former servicemen, both men also share one other thing: they are about to lose the homes they owned, each for more than four decades, to foreclosure.
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“we were granted loans we should not have been given because we were not financially capable,” asserted wife, tina, 81, a former teacher.
chase has set the foreclosure date on their home in redwood city, calif., for september 24.
homeward residential, the current loan servicer for deutsche bank, has temporarily suspended the foreclosure on town house.
neither institution returned calls seeking comment for this story.
yesterday, sept. 17, members of the alliance of californians for community empowerment (acce), activists from occupy noe and occupy bernal and about 40 other activists gathered outside the war memorial veterans building to protest bank foreclosures on veterans and seniors.
“seniors have been set upon by these banks in a very, very vicious manner,” asserted archbishop king of the st. john coltrane african orthodox church, who said he was himself a senior and lost his home to foreclosure recently. “we have to shake off that cloak of shame and put on our war clothes and fight these gangsters.”
redlined black and hispanics
king pointed out that there was a time when banks “redlined” blacks and hispanics and routinely rejected their loan applications. then, during the housing boom of the mid-2000s, mortgage brokers steered minority borrowers into expensive mortgages with financial institutions that often charged them higher fees and rates than their white counterparts who posed the same credit risk.
“these brokers are just like satan,” king said.
according to a recent study titled, “nightmare on main street: older americans and the mortgage market crisis,” while the mortgage crisis has hit every age group, americans who are have been disproportionately hurt, especially those in the african-american and hispanic communities.
moses said he refinanced his nearly loan with deutsche in 2006 so he could bring his home up to city code. he had purchased the home in 1972 for $79,000. with the $520,000 new adjustable rate mortgage loan he took out, he was able to give the house a complete makeover, he said.
he said deutsche set a percent rate on the loan and remembers the bank telling him that the rate would adjust to less in a few years. at the time, moses figured that he could comfortably make the $1,700 monthly payments with his monthly income of a little over $3,000, which includes his pension of $1,300, his union pension of $450, and his social security of about $1,300.
last december, he was shocked to see that his interest rate had gone up to percent, which translated to payments of $3,400 a month.
“they lulled him into a false sense of security and then lowered the boom on him,” said his niece, yarbrough who, along with her daughter, is living with moses.
moses let the loan provider know that he afford the new rate and asked if he could modify the loan. (a loan modification is an adjustment to the terms of the existing loan, often for a short period of time to allow the borrower to get back on his financial feet.) in the meantime, to avoid being delinquent, moses said he sent homeward residential a check for $2,300, saying that was all he could afford.
moses said homeward told him they accept a “partial payment.”
“but they return the money i sent them,” moses said, adding that since then, he has not paid his mortgage, while trying unsuccessfully to modify his loan “three or four times.”
don’t make enough for loan modification
the cost of applying for a loan modification is about $1,000 per application, pointed out benjamin reed jr., who was speaking at protest on behalf of his father, a tuskegee air force veteran, who retired from the military in the 1970s.
reed said his parents, both in their 80s, have so far spent $3,000 on loan modification applications with wells fargo, but have not succeeded in their efforts. the reeds have been living in their twin peaks home for 27 years. the home is currently facing foreclosure.
“this fight must have taken 10 years off their lives,” reed said.
the are also weary of fighting to get their loan modified with chase. they said that since 1989, they refinanced multiple times to pay off their medical bills and credit card bills, and the last time in 1999 to help their daughter and her family out.
the current combined income is around $3,550 a month. the amount they owe chase is approximately $750,000, and at the current interest rate the bank is charging them, their monthly mortgage payment is about $2,500.
“donald and tina are beating themselves [up] about having taken out all those loans,” observed grace martinez, an organizer with acce.
between 2008 and 2011, more than one million homes were lost to foreclosure, with an additional currently in the foreclosure pipeline. seven of the 10 hardest hit cities by foreclosure rate last year were in california. martinez said that 84 percent of the foreclosures that happened in san francisco between 2009 and 2011 were “illegal.”
like the and moses did, many older people, most of them on a fixed income, tapped their home equity before the recession struck for fixing their homes or paying their medical bills, the study points out.
“the banks’ pitch line to seniors is: ‘you are sitting on a pile of equity; why you take out money to clear your debts,'” noted martinez.
this past july, california passed the homeowners bill of rights to protect homeowners and borrowers during the mortgage and foreclosure process by prohibiting unfair bank practices. the bill goes into effect next january.
over the last three years, the have tried unsuccessfully four times to get their loan modified, but chase has told them each time it because they make too little money.
tina baird asserted that as bad as the situation she and her husband are in, what moses is facing is even worse.
“what the bank has done to him is outrageous,” she said, noting that perhaps their “white skin” has helped them in some way.
moses is hoping that homeward residential will give him a break and let him pay the percent he was originally charged, else his wife, stella, who is currently in a rehab facility in the city recovering from leg surgery, have a home to come back to when she is discharged.
“they keep telling me my income is too low to have my loan modified,” moses said. “what do they want me to do take up a part-time job?
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sæn frænˈsɪskoʊ ˈrɑbərt ˈmoʊzɪs ɪz 92 ən ˈæfrɪkɑn əˈmɛrɪkən ənd ə wərld wɔr ˈneɪvi ˈvɛtərən. dɑn bɛrd ɪz ə ˈkəpəl əv wiks ʃaɪ əv hɪz ˈbərθˌdeɪ, ɪz ˈskɛʤʊld fər hɑrt ˈsərʤəri nɛkst wik, ənd ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ ə wərld wɔr ˈvɛtərən. əˈsaɪd frəm biɪŋ ˈfɔrmər ˈsərvəsmɛn, boʊθ mɛn ˈɔlsoʊ ʃɛr wən ˈəðər θɪŋ: ðeɪ ər əˈbaʊt tɪ luz ðə hoʊmz ðeɪ oʊnd, iʧ fər mɔr ðən fɔr ˈdɛkeɪdz, tɪ fɔrˈkloʊʒər. klɪk hir tɪ səˈpɔrt nuz fri əv ˈkɔrpərət ˈɪnfluəns baɪ ˈdoʊˌneɪtɪŋ tɪ truthout*. wər ˈgrænɪd loʊnz wi ʃʊd nɑt hæv bɪn ˈgɪvɪn bɪˈkəz wi wər nɑt ˌfaɪˈnænʃəli capable,”*,” əˈsərtəd waɪf, ˈtinə, 81 ə ˈfɔrmər ˈtiʧər. ʧeɪs həz sɛt ðə fɔrˈkloʊʒər deɪt ɔn ðɛr hoʊm ɪn ˈrɛdˌwʊd ˈsɪti, ˈkælɪf., fər sɛpˈtɛmbər 24 ˈhoʊmwərd ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl, ðə ˈkɑrənt loʊn ˈsərvɪsər fər dɔɪʧ bæŋk, həz ˌtɛmpərˈɛrəli səˈspɛndɪd ðə fɔrˈkloʊʒər ɔn taʊn haʊs. ˈniðər ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃən rɪˈtərnd kɔlz ˈsikɪŋ ˈkɑmɛnt fər ðɪs ˈstɔri. ˈjɛstərˌdeɪ, sɛpt. 17 ˈmɛmbərz əv ðə əˈlaɪəns əv ˌkælɪˈfɔrnjənz fər kəmˈjunɪti ɪmˈpaʊərmənt (acce*), ˈæktɪvɪsts frəm ˈɑkjəˌpaɪ noʊ ənd ˈɑkjəˌpaɪ ˈbərnəl ənd əˈbaʊt 40 ˈəðər ˈæktɪvɪsts ˈgæðərd ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ðə wɔr məˈmɔriəl ˈvɛtərənz ˈbɪldɪŋ tɪ ˈproʊˌtɛst bæŋk fɔrˈkloʊʒərz ɔn ˈvɛtərənz ənd ˈsinjərz. hæv bɪn sɛt əˈpɑn baɪ ðiz bæŋks ɪn ə ˈvɛri, ˈvɛri ˈvɪʃəs manner,”*,” əˈsərtəd ˈɑrʧˈbɪʃəp kɪŋ əv ðə st*. ʤɑn ˈkoʊltrən ˈæfrɪkɑn ˈɔrθəˌdɑks ʧərʧ, hu sɛd hi wɑz hɪmˈsɛlf ə ˈsinjər ənd lɔst hɪz hoʊm tɪ fɔrˈkloʊʒər ˈrisəntli. hæv tɪ ʃeɪk ɔf ðət kloʊk əv ʃeɪm ənd pʊt ɔn ɑr wɔr kloʊðz ənd faɪt ðiz gangsters.”*.” blæk ənd hɪˈspænɪks kɪŋ ˈpɔɪntɪd aʊt ðət ðɛr wɑz ə taɪm wɪn bæŋks ““redlined”*” blæks ənd hɪˈspænɪks ənd ruˈtinli rɪˈʤɛktɪd ðɛr loʊn ˌæpləˈkeɪʃənz. ðɛn, ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈhaʊzɪŋ bum əv ðə mid-2000s*, ˈmɔrgɪʤ ˈbroʊkərz stɪrd məˈnɔrəti ˈbɑroʊərz ˈɪntu ɪkˈspɛnsɪv ˈmɔrgɪʤɪz wɪθ ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃənz ðət ˈɔfən ʧɑrʤd ðɛm haɪər fiz ənd reɪts ðən ðɛr waɪt ˈkaʊntərˌpɑrts hu poʊzd ðə seɪm ˈkrɛdɪt rɪsk. ˈbroʊkərz ər ʤɪst laɪk satan,”*,” kɪŋ sɛd. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ə ˈrisənt ˈstədi ˈtaɪtəld, ɔn meɪn strit: ˈoʊldər əˈmɛrɪkənz ənd ðə ˈmɔrgɪʤ ˈmɑrkɪt crisis,”*,” waɪl ðə ˈmɔrgɪʤ ˈkraɪsəs həz hɪt ˈɛvəri eɪʤ grup, əˈmɛrɪkənz hu ər hæv bɪn ˌdɪsprəˈpɔrʃənətli hərt, əˈspɛʃəli ðoʊz ɪn ðə ˈæfrɪkənəˈmɛrɪkən ənd hɪˈspænɪk kəmˈjunɪtiz. ˈmoʊzɪs sɛd hi ˌrifəˈnænst hɪz ˈnɪrli loʊn wɪθ dɔɪʧ ɪn 2006 soʊ hi kʊd brɪŋ hɪz hoʊm əp tɪ ˈsɪti koʊd. hi hæd ˈpərʧəst ðə hoʊm ɪn 1972 fər wɪθ ðə nu əˈʤəstəbəl reɪt ˈmɔrgɪʤ loʊn hi tʊk aʊt, hi wɑz ˈeɪbəl tɪ gɪv ðə haʊs ə kəmˈplit ˈmæˌkoʊvər, hi sɛd. hi sɛd dɔɪʧ sɛt ə pərˈsɛnt reɪt ɔn ðə loʊn ənd rɪˈmɛmbərz ðə bæŋk ˈtɛlɪŋ ɪm ðət ðə reɪt wʊd əˈʤəst tɪ lɛs ɪn ə fju jɪrz. æt ðə taɪm, ˈmoʊzɪs ˈfɪgjərd ðət hi kʊd ˈkəmfərtəbli meɪk ðə ˈmənθli ˈpeɪmənts wɪθ hɪz ˈmənθli ˈɪnˌkəm əv ə ˈlɪtəl ˈoʊvər wɪʧ ˌɪnˈkludz hɪz ˈpɛnʃən əv hɪz ˈjunjən ˈpɛnʃən əv 450 ənd hɪz ˈsoʊʃəl sɪˈkjʊrəti əv əˈbaʊt læst dɪˈsɛmbər, hi wɑz ʃɑkt tɪ si ðət hɪz ˈɪntəˌrɛst reɪt hæd gɔn əp tɪ pərˈsɛnt, wɪʧ trænzˈleɪtəd tɪ ˈpeɪmənts əv ə mənθ. ləld ɪm ˈɪntu ə fɔls sɛns əv sɪˈkjʊrəti ənd ðɛn loʊərd ðə bum ɔn him,”*,” sɛd hɪz nis, ˈjɑrbəroʊ hu, əˈlɔŋ wɪθ hər ˈdɔtər, ɪz ˈlɪvɪŋ wɪθ ˈmoʊzɪs. ˈmoʊzɪs lɛt ðə loʊn prəˈvaɪdər noʊ ðət hi əˈfɔrd ðə nu reɪt ənd æst ɪf hi kʊd ˈmɑdəˌfaɪ ðə loʊn. (ə loʊn ˌmɑdəfəˈkeɪʃən ɪz ən əˈʤəstmənt tɪ ðə tərmz əv ðə ɪgˈzɪstɪŋ loʊn, ˈɔfən fər ə ʃɔrt ˈpɪriəd əv taɪm tɪ əˈlaʊ ðə ˈbɑroʊər tɪ gɪt bæk ɔn hɪz ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl fit.) ɪn ðə ˈminˌtaɪm, tɪ əˈvɔɪd biɪŋ dɪˈlɪŋkwənt, ˈmoʊzɪs sɛd hi sɛnt ˈhoʊmwərd ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ə ʧɛk fər seɪɪŋ ðət wɑz ɔl hi kʊd əˈfɔrd. ˈmoʊzɪs sɛd ˈhoʊmwərd toʊld ɪm ðeɪ əkˈsɛpt ə payment.”*.” ðeɪ rɪˈtərn ðə ˈməni aɪ sɛnt them,”*,” ˈmoʊzɪs sɛd, ˈædɪŋ ðət sɪns ðɛn, hi həz nɑt peɪd hɪz ˈmɔrgɪʤ, waɪl traɪɪŋ ˌənsəkˈsɛsfəli tɪ ˈmɑdəˌfaɪ hɪz loʊn ər fɔr times.”*.” meɪk ɪˈnəf fər loʊn ˌmɑdəfəˈkeɪʃən ðə kɔst əv əˈplaɪɪŋ fər ə loʊn ˌmɑdəfəˈkeɪʃən ɪz əˈbaʊt pər ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən, ˈpɔɪntɪd aʊt ˈbɛnʤəmən rid jr*., hu wɑz ˈspikɪŋ æt ˈproʊˌtɛst ɔn bɪˈhæf əv hɪz ˈfɑðər, ə ˈtəskəˌgi ɛr fɔrs ˈvɛtərən, hu rɪˈtaɪrd frəm ðə ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ɪn ðə 1970s*. rid sɛd hɪz ˈpɛrənts, boʊθ ɪn ðɛr 80s*, hæv soʊ fɑr spɛnt ɔn loʊn ˌmɑdəfəˈkeɪʃən ˌæpləˈkeɪʃənz wɪθ wɛlz ˈfɑrˌgoʊ, bət hæv nɑt səkˈsidɪd ɪn ðɛr ˈɛfərts. ðə ridz hæv bɪn ˈlɪvɪŋ ɪn ðɛr twɪn piks hoʊm fər 27 jɪrz. ðə hoʊm ɪz ˈkərəntli ˈfeɪsɪŋ fɔrˈkloʊʒər. faɪt məst hæv ˈteɪkən 10 jɪrz ɔf ðɛr lives,”*,” rid sɛd. ðə ər ˈɔlsoʊ ˈwɪri əv ˈfaɪtɪŋ tɪ gɪt ðɛr loʊn ˈmɑdəˌfaɪd wɪθ ʧeɪs. ðeɪ sɛd ðət sɪns 1989 ðeɪ ˌrifəˈnænst ˈməltəpəl taɪmz tɪ peɪ ɔf ðɛr ˈmɛdɪkəl bɪlz ənd ˈkrɛdɪt kɑrd bɪlz, ənd ðə læst taɪm ɪn 1999 tɪ hɛlp ðɛr ˈdɔtər ənd hər ˈfæməli aʊt. ðə ˈkɑrənt kəmˈbaɪnd ˈɪnˌkəm ɪz əraʊnd ə mənθ. ðə əˈmaʊnt ðeɪ oʊ ʧeɪs ɪz əˈprɑksəmətli ənd æt ðə ˈkɑrənt ˈɪntəˌrɛst reɪt ðə bæŋk ɪz ˈʧɑrʤɪŋ ðɛm, ðɛr ˈmənθli ˈmɔrgɪʤ ˈpeɪmənt ɪz əˈbaʊt ənd ˈtinə ər ˈbitɪŋ ðɛmˈsɛlvz [əp] əˈbaʊt ˈhævɪŋ ˈteɪkən aʊt ɔl ðoʊz loans,”*,” əbˈzərvd greɪs mɑrˈtinɛz, ən ˈɔrgəˌnaɪzər wɪθ acce*. bɪtˈwin 2008 ənd 2011 mɔr ðən wən ˈmɪljən hoʊmz wər lɔst tɪ fɔrˈkloʊʒər, wɪθ ən əˈdɪʃənəl ˈkərəntli ɪn ðə fɔrˈkloʊʒər ˈpaɪˌplaɪn. ˈsɛvən əv ðə 10 ˈhɑrdəst hɪt ˈsɪtiz baɪ fɔrˈkloʊʒər reɪt læst jɪr wər ɪn ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə. mɑrˈtinɛz sɛd ðət 84 pərˈsɛnt əv ðə fɔrˈkloʊʒərz ðət ˈhæpənd ɪn sæn frænˈsɪskoʊ bɪtˈwin 2009 ənd 2011 wər ““illegal.”*.” laɪk ðə ənd ˈmoʊzɪs dɪd, ˈmɛni ˈoʊldər ˈpipəl, moʊst əv ðɛm ɔn ə fɪkst ˈɪnˌkəm, tæpt ðɛr hoʊm ˈɛkwəti ˌbiˈfɔr ðə ˌriˈsɛʃən strək fər ˈfɪksɪŋ ðɛr hoʊmz ər peɪɪŋ ðɛr ˈmɛdɪkəl bɪlz, ðə ˈstədi pɔɪnts aʊt. banks’*’ pɪʧ laɪn tɪ ˈsinjərz ɪz: ər ˈsɪtɪŋ ɔn ə paɪl əv ˈɛkwəti; waɪ ju teɪk aʊt ˈməni tɪ klɪr jʊr debts,'”*,'” ˈnoʊtɪd mɑrˈtinɛz. ðɪs pæst ˌʤuˈlaɪ, ˌkæləˈfɔrnjə pæst ðə ˈhoʊˌmoʊnərz bɪl əv raɪts tɪ prəˈtɛkt ˈhoʊˌmoʊnərz ənd ˈbɑroʊərz ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈmɔrgɪʤ ənd fɔrˈkloʊʒər ˈprɔˌsɛs baɪ proʊˈhɪbətɪŋ ˌɔnˈfɛr bæŋk ˈpræktɪsɪz. ðə bɪl goʊz ˈɪntu ˈifɛkt nɛkst ˈʤænjuˌɛri. ˈoʊvər ðə læst θri jɪrz, ðə hæv traɪd ˌənsəkˈsɛsfəli fɔr taɪmz tɪ gɪt ðɛr loʊn ˈmɑdəˌfaɪd, bət ʧeɪs həz toʊld ðɛm iʧ taɪm ɪt bɪˈkəz ðeɪ meɪk tu ˈlɪtəl ˈməni. ˈtinə bɛrd əˈsərtəd ðət ɛz bæd ɛz ðə ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃən ʃi ənd hər ˈhəzbənd ər ɪn, wət ˈmoʊzɪs ɪz ˈfeɪsɪŋ ɪz ˈivɪn wərs. ðə bæŋk həz dən tɪ ɪm ɪz outrageous,”*,” ʃi sɛd, ˈnoʊtɪŋ ðət pərˈhæps ðɛr skin”*” həz hɛlpt ðɛm ɪn səm weɪ. ˈmoʊzɪs ɪz ˈhoʊpɪŋ ðət ˈhoʊmwərd ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl wɪl gɪv ɪm ə breɪk ənd lɛt ɪm peɪ ðə pərˈsɛnt hi wɑz ərˈɪʤənəli ʧɑrʤd, ɛls hɪz waɪf, ˈstɛlə, hu ɪz ˈkərəntli ɪn ə rihæb fəˈsɪlɪti ɪn ðə ˈsɪti rɪˈkəvərɪŋ frəm lɛg ˈsərʤəri, hæv ə hoʊm tɪ kəm bæk tɪ wɪn ʃi ɪz ˈdɪsˌʧɑrʤd. kip ˈtɛlɪŋ mi maɪ ˈɪnˌkəm ɪz tu loʊ tɪ hæv maɪ loʊn modified,”*,” ˈmoʊzɪs sɛd. du ðeɪ wɔnt mi tɪ du teɪk əp ə ˈpɑrtˈtaɪm ʤɑb?
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rip currents powerful, channeled currents of water flowing away from the shore represent a danger to human life and property. rip currents are responsible for more than one hundred deaths on our nation's beaches each year, according to the united states lifesaving association, and if rip currents persist long enough they can cause beach erosion.
henry, professor in the school of marine and atmospheric sciences at stony brook university, and ph.d. candidate michael slattery found that rip currents at east hampton village beach lasted on average a little over one minute, not long enough to substantially alter the shoreline. they will present their findings october at the american shore and beach preservation association's 2009 national coastal conference, "integrating coastal science & policy."
with funding from the east hampton beach preservation society and the halpern foundation, dr. and graduate student michael slattery set up a video camera to record an image of a half mile stretch of the east hampton village beach every 20 seconds. in the images, rip currents can be detected as a gap in the line of incoming waves. they collected over 500 hours of video images and observed hundreds of rip currents in this short stretch of coast.
the monitoring showed that the rip currents were not associated with man-made structures and they were short lived, with the most persistent rip currents lasting no more than a few minutes. "most rip currents we observed did not last long enough to change the character of the shoreline, although they could pose a risk to swimmers unfortunate enough to encounter them," said dr..
besides gathering statistics on the occurrence of rip currents, dr. and michael slattery are studying the wave patterns that lead to rip currents. rip currents are generated by a combination of waves, including, long, low, barely perceptible waves that appear along the ocean shoreline, called waves." waves cannot be measured directly and computer models are inadequate for predicting them. and slattery are using a novel approach to study these waves; they deploy to measure the noise created by breaking waves.
"it appears that very slow, changes in the amount of wave noise are precursors to the generation of rip currents," said dr.. "we are hopeful that can be used to measure wave patterns that we can't easily observe in any other way. in the future, we hope to utilize this method to monitor and ultimately forecast wave conditions that cause rip currents."
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rɪp kərənts ˈpaʊərfəl, ˈʧænəld kərənts əv ˈwɔtər floʊɪŋ əˈweɪ frəm ðə ʃɔr ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnt ə ˈdeɪnʤər tɪ ˈjumən laɪf ənd ˈprɑpərti. rɪp kərənts ər riˈspɑnsəbəl fər mɔr ðən wən ˈhənərd dɛθs ɔn ɑr ˈneɪʃənz ˈbiʧɪz iʧ jɪr, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts ˈlaɪfˌseɪvɪŋ əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən, ənd ɪf rɪp kərənts pərˈsɪst lɔŋ ɪˈnəf ðeɪ kən kɔz biʧ ɪˈroʊʒən. ˈhɛnri, prəˈfɛsər ɪn ðə skul əv mərˈin ənd ˌætməsˈfɛrɪk ˈsaɪənsɪz æt ˈstoʊni brʊk ˌjunəˈvərsəti, ənd ph.d*. ˈkænədɪt ˈmaɪkəl sˈlætəri faʊnd ðət rɪp kərənts æt ist ˈhæmptən ˈvɪlɪʤ biʧ ˈlæstɪd ɔn ˈævərɪʤ ə ˈlɪtəl ˈoʊvər wən ˈmɪnət, nɑt lɔŋ ɪˈnəf tɪ səbˈstænʃəli ˈɔltər ðə ˈʃɔˌrlaɪn. ðeɪ wɪl ˈprɛzənt ðɛr ˈfaɪndɪŋz ɑkˈtoʊbər æt ðə əˈmɛrɪkən ʃɔr ənd biʧ ˌprɛzərˈveɪʃən əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃənz 2009 ˈnæʃənəl ˈkoʊstəl ˈkɑnfərəns, "ˈɪnəˌgreɪtɪŋ ˈkoʊstəl saɪəns ˈpɑləsi." wɪθ ˈfəndɪŋ frəm ðə ist ˈhæmptən biʧ ˌprɛzərˈveɪʃən soʊˈsaɪɪti ənd ðə ˈhælpərn faʊnˈdeɪʃən, ˈdɑktər. ənd ˈgræʤəˌweɪt ˈstudənt ˈmaɪkəl sˈlætəri sɛt əp ə ˈvɪdioʊ ˈkæmərə tɪ ˈrɛkərd ən ˈɪmɪʤ əv ə hæf maɪl strɛʧ əv ðə ist ˈhæmptən ˈvɪlɪʤ biʧ ˈɛvəri 20 ˈsɛkəndz. ɪn ðə ˈɪmɪʤɪz, rɪp kərənts kən bi dɪˈtɛktɪd ɛz ə gæp ɪn ðə laɪn əv ˈɪnˌkəmɪŋ weɪvz. ðeɪ kəˈlɛktəd ˈoʊvər 500 aʊərz əv ˈvɪdioʊ ˈɪmɪʤɪz ənd əbˈzərvd ˈhənərdz əv rɪp kərənts ɪn ðɪs ʃɔrt strɛʧ əv koʊst. ðə ˈmɑnətərɪŋ ʃoʊd ðət ðə rɪp kərənts wər nɑt əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪtəd wɪθ ˈmænˌmeɪd ˈstrəkʧərz ənd ðeɪ wər ʃɔrt lɪvd, wɪθ ðə moʊst pərˈsɪstənt rɪp kərənts ˈlæstɪŋ noʊ mɔr ðən ə fju ˈmɪnəts. "moʊst rɪp kərənts wi əbˈzərvd dɪd nɑt læst lɔŋ ɪˈnəf tɪ ʧeɪnʤ ðə ˈkɛrɪktər əv ðə ˈʃɔˌrlaɪn, ˌɔlˈðoʊ ðeɪ kʊd poʊz ə rɪsk tɪ sˈwɪmərz ənˈfɔrʧənət ɪˈnəf tɪ ɪnˈkaʊnər ðɛm," sɛd ˈdɑktər.. ˌbiˈsaɪdz ˈgæðərɪŋ stəˈtɪstɪks ɔn ðə əˈkərəns əv rɪp kərənts, ˈdɑktər. ənd ˈmaɪkəl sˈlætəri ər ˈstədiɪŋ ðə weɪv ˈpætərnz ðət lɛd tɪ rɪp kərənts. rɪp kərənts ər ˈʤɛnərˌeɪtɪd baɪ ə ˌkɑmbəˈneɪʃən əv weɪvz, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ, lɔŋ, loʊ, ˈbɛrli pərˈsɛptəbəl weɪvz ðət əˈpɪr əˈlɔŋ ðə ˈoʊʃən ˈʃɔˌrlaɪn, kɔld weɪvz." weɪvz ˈkænɑt bi ˈmɛʒərd dɪˈrɛkli ənd kəmˈpjutər ˈmɑdəlz ər ˌɪˈnædəkˌweɪt fər prɪˈdɪktɪŋ ðɛm. ənd sˈlætəri ər ˈjuzɪŋ ə ˈnɑvəl əˈproʊʧ tɪ ˈstədi ðiz weɪvz; ðeɪ dɪˈplɔɪ tɪ ˈmɛʒər ðə nɔɪz kriˈeɪtɪd baɪ ˈbreɪkɪŋ weɪvz. "ɪt əˈpɪrz ðət ˈvɛri sloʊ, ˈʧeɪnʤɪz ɪn ðə əˈmaʊnt əv weɪv nɔɪz ər priˈkərsərz tɪ ðə ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən əv rɪp kərənts," sɛd ˈdɑktər.. "wi ər ˈhoʊpfəl ðət kən bi juzd tɪ ˈmɛʒər weɪv ˈpætərnz ðət wi kænt ˈizəli əbˈzərv ɪn ˈɛni ˈəðər weɪ. ɪn ðə fˈjuʧər, wi hoʊp tɪ ˈjutəˌlaɪz ðɪs ˈmɛθəd tɪ ˈmɑnətər ənd ˈəltəmətli ˈfɔrˌkæst weɪv kənˈdɪʃənz ðət kɔz rɪp kərənts."
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2 i kept silent for decades because i was taught being raped was worse than death
for a very long time, rhonda didn't tell anyone. she talks about it now, obviously -- she's even published a book about the attack and her subsequent battle with ptsd. but she didn't say a word about any of this for decades. "the first thing i thought [was] 'no one can ever know' ... everyone would think it was my fault. why would i get in the car with a stranger?"
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only about a third of rape victims ever report the crime to police. and that's today. "i was raised very conservative [mormon], and actually what church leaders would say to young women was, 'the most important thing a young woman can have is your virtue. you're probably better off if you lose your life.' and i had lived. so i had that guilt also."
rhonda kept quiet and went on with her life. but over the next few months, other young women went missing around utah. "i thought [it] was an isolated incident ... and then ... another girl turned up missing. and her father was on the police force ... and he was on the news because he was [the] sheriff, to get publicity for his daughter. and he was asking the public for help ... and when i saw that, i recognized things ..."
there were no pictures of bundy circulating yet, so rhonda didn't know for certain that it was the same guy. but women kept disappearing, and on november 8, bundy botched a double kidnapping. he was in the news now. "and that's when i knew ... it had to be the same guy. and that's when i really started feeling guilt. if i had come forward earlier, maybe those other girls wouldn't have gotten ..."
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well, no, it's not fault that she grew up believing some deeply fucked up things about "virtue." and it's definitely not her fault that ted bundy was a goddamn serial killer. what's important is that survivors survive.
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2 aɪ kɛpt ˈsaɪlənt fər ˈdɛkeɪdz bɪˈkəz aɪ wɑz tɔt biɪŋ reɪpt wɑz wərs ðən dɛθ fər ə ˈvɛri lɔŋ taɪm, ˈrɑndə ˈdɪdənt tɛl ˈɛniˌwən. ʃi tɔks əˈbaʊt ɪt naʊ, ˈɑbviəsli ʃiz ˈivɪn ˈpəblɪʃt ə bʊk əˈbaʊt ðə əˈtæk ənd hər ˈsəbsəkwənt ˈbætəl wɪθ ptsd*. bət ʃi ˈdɪdənt seɪ ə wərd əˈbaʊt ˈɛni əv ðɪs fər ˈdɛkeɪdz. "ðə fərst θɪŋ aɪ θɔt [wɑz] 'noʊ wən kən ˈɛvər noʊ' ˈɛvriˌwən wʊd θɪŋk ɪt wɑz maɪ fɔlt. waɪ wʊd aɪ gɪt ɪn ðə kɑr wɪθ ə ˈstreɪnʤər?" kənˈtɪnju ˈrɛdɪŋ bɪˈloʊ ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt ˈoʊnli əˈbaʊt ə θərd əv reɪp ˈvɪktɪmz ˈɛvər rɪˈpɔrt ðə kraɪm tɪ pəˈlis. ənd ðæts təˈdeɪ. "aɪ wɑz reɪzd ˈvɛri kənˈsərvətɪv [ˈmɔrmən], ənd ˈæˌkʧuəli wət ʧərʧ ˈlidərz wʊd seɪ tɪ jəŋ ˈwɪmən wɑz, 'ðə moʊst ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt θɪŋ ə jəŋ ˈwʊmən kən hæv ɪz jʊr ˈvərʧu. jʊr ˈprɑbəˌbli ˈbɛtər ɔf ɪf ju luz jʊr laɪf.' ənd aɪ hæd lɪvd. soʊ aɪ hæd ðət gɪlt ˈɔlsoʊ." ˈrɑndə kɛpt kwaɪət ənd wɛnt ɔn wɪθ hər laɪf. bət ˈoʊvər ðə nɛkst fju mənθs, ˈəðər jəŋ ˈwɪmən wɛnt ˈmɪsɪŋ əraʊnd ˈjuˌtɔ. "aɪ θɔt [ɪt] wɑz ən ˈaɪsəˌleɪtɪd ˈɪnsədənt ənd ðɛn əˈnəðər gərl tərnd əp ˈmɪsɪŋ. ənd hər ˈfɑðər wɑz ɔn ðə pəˈlis fɔrs ənd hi wɑz ɔn ðə nuz bɪˈkəz hi wɑz [ðə] ˈʃɛrɪf, tɪ gɪt pəˈblɪsɪti fər hɪz ˈdɔtər. ənd hi wɑz ˈæskɪŋ ðə ˈpəblɪk fər hɛlp ənd wɪn aɪ sɔ ðət, aɪ ˈrɛkəgˌnaɪzd θɪŋz ðɛr wər noʊ ˈpɪkʧərz əv ˈbəndi ˈsərkjəˌleɪtɪŋ jɛt, soʊ ˈrɑndə ˈdɪdənt noʊ fər ˈsərtən ðət ɪt wɑz ðə seɪm gaɪ. bət ˈwɪmən kɛpt ˌdɪsəˈpɪrɪŋ, ənd ɔn noʊˈvɛmbər 8 ˈbəndi bɑʧt ə ˈdəbəl ˈkɪdˌnæpɪŋ. hi wɑz ɪn ðə nuz naʊ. "ənd ðæts wɪn aɪ nu ɪt hæd tɪ bi ðə seɪm gaɪ. ənd ðæts wɪn aɪ ˈrɪli ˈstɑrtɪd ˈfilɪŋ gɪlt. ɪf aɪ hæd kəm ˈfɔrwərd ˈərliər, ˈmeɪbi ðoʊz ˈəðər gərlz ˈwʊdənt hæv ˈgɔtən kənˈtɪnju ˈrɛdɪŋ bɪˈloʊ ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt wɛl, noʊ, ɪts nɑt fɔlt ðət ʃi gru əp bɪˈlivɪŋ səm ˈdipli fəkt əp θɪŋz əˈbaʊt "ˈvərʧu." ənd ɪts ˈdɛfənətli nɑt hər fɔlt ðət tɛd ˈbəndi wɑz ə ˌgɑˈdæm ˈsɪˌriəl ˈkɪlər. wəts ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt ɪz ðət sərˈvaɪvərz sərˈvaɪv.
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image copyright images image caption there are cars with engines registered in london, of which were fitted with the "defeat devices"
car firm volkswagen (vw) has said it will not pay the the mayor of london claims it owes in missed congestion charge payments, following the 2015 scandal.
sadiq khan said engines fitted with "defeat devices" were registered in london.
the devices, which detected when an engine was being tested, changed performance to improve results.
vw said the cars had "validly" qualified for a low emissions discount.
'no basis'
the world's largest car manufacturer admitted about 11 million cars worldwide were fitted with the device.
however, a spokesperson for said all of its vehicles which benefitted from the congestion charge greener vehicle discount "did so validly throughout the relevant period".
there is "no basis on which it can be said that transport for london has lost any sums as a result of the issue."
"no sums are therefore due in compensation," the spokesperson added.
volkswagen scandal 11 million vehicles affected worldwide set aside by
$18bn potential fines
no. 1 global carmaker in sales
mr khan said the actions of were "nothing short of a disgrace".
last year a us court ordered pay a $14.7bn (£12bn) settlement over the scandal.
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ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkɑpiˌraɪt ˈɪmɪʤɪz ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkæpʃən ðɛr ər kɑz wɪθ ˈɛnʤənz ˈrɛʤɪstərd ɪn ˈləndən, əv wɪʧ wər ˈfɪtɪd wɪθ ðə "dɪˈfit dɪˈvaɪsɪz" kɑr fərm ˈvoʊlksˌwægən (vw*) həz sɛd ɪt wɪl nɑt peɪ ðə ðə meɪər əv ˈləndən kleɪmz ɪt oʊz ɪn mɪst kənˈʤɛsʧən ʧɑrʤ ˈpeɪmənts, ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ðə 2015 ˈskændəl. kɑn sɛd ˈɛnʤənz ˈfɪtɪd wɪθ "dɪˈfit dɪˈvaɪsɪz" wər ˈrɛʤɪstərd ɪn ˈləndən. ðə dɪˈvaɪsɪz, wɪʧ dɪˈtɛktɪd wɪn ən ˈɪnʤən wɑz biɪŋ ˈtɛstɪd, ʧeɪnʤd pərˈfɔrməns tɪ ˌɪmˈpruv rɪˈzəlts. sɛd ðə kɑz hæd "ˈvælɪdli" kˈwɑləˌfaɪd fər ə loʊ ɪˈmɪʃənz ˈdɪskaʊnt. 'noʊ ˈbeɪsɪs' ðə wərldz ˈlɑrʤəst kɑr ˌmænjəˈfækʧərər ədˈmɪtəd əˈbaʊt 11 ˈmɪljən kɑz ˈwərldˈwaɪd wər ˈfɪtɪd wɪθ ðə dɪˈvaɪs. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ə ˈspoʊkspərsən fər sɛd ɔl əv ɪts ˈviɪkəlz wɪʧ ˈbɛnəfɪtɪd frəm ðə kənˈʤɛsʧən ʧɑrʤ ˈgrinər ˈviɪkəl ˈdɪskaʊnt "dɪd soʊ ˈvælɪdli θruaʊt ðə ˈrɛləvənt ˈpɪriəd". ðɛr ɪz "noʊ ˈbeɪsɪs ɔn wɪʧ ɪt kən bi sɛd ðət ˈtrænspɔrt fər ˈləndən həz lɔst ˈɛni səmz ɛz ə rɪˈzəlt əv ðə ˈɪʃu." "noʊ səmz ər ˈðɛrˌfɔr du ɪn ˌkɑmpənˈseɪʃən," ðə ˈspoʊkspərsən ˈædɪd. ˈvoʊlksˌwægən ˈskændəl 11 ˈmɪljən ˈviɪkəlz əˈfɛktɪd ˈwərldˈwaɪd sɛt əˈsaɪd baɪ pəˈtɛnʃəl faɪnz noʊ. 1 ˈgloʊbəl ˈkɑrˌmeɪkər ɪn seɪlz ˈmɪstər kɑn sɛd ðə ˈækʃənz əv wər "ˈnəθɪŋ ʃɔrt əv ə dɪsˈgreɪs". læst jɪr ə ˈjuˈɛs kɔrt ˈɔrdərd peɪ ə £12bn*) ˈsɛtəlmənt ˈoʊvər ðə ˈskændəl.
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ludington, mi startling reports of government surveillance inside public bathrooms has been revealed through the use of hidden cameras. now attorneys and city managers grapple over the definition of “reasonable expectation of privacy,” and whether a person has it while standing at a urinal, washing their face in a mirror, or even sitting on a toilet.
the independent news blog called the ludington torch helped break the story by identifying fourteen cameras in ludington public restrooms. twelve were hidden cameras.
tom, who posted the story on the torch, exposed cameras that were planted inside air ducts and inside smoke detectors that had built in cameras. these cameras, once identified, were in position to look down inside the bathroom stalls, and effectively “watch you poo,” as called it on the blog.
rotta even went as far as to track down the receipts for the cameras through the ludington town maintenance department. it turns out, at least some of the cameras were purchased by the town as early as august 2000. when fox 17 looked into it, they found that the cameras had been in use as far back as the late 1990s.
rotta appealed to the town council to honor his foia request, which he says the council has violated at will. he stated before the council in an august 26 meeting:
“in the michigan penal code, section 750.539(j) it says: ‘a person shall not… surveil, photograph, or otherwise capture or record another individual… under circumstances in which the individual would have a reasonable expectation of privacy.’ as far as definitions, ‘person’ can refer to a body corporate, such as the city of ludington, and ‘reasonable expectation of privacy‘ has historically covered bathrooms, even public bathrooms. when one steps up to a urinal, or one sits on a toilet, he expects to do so with privacy, and should not be able to look up and see a recording camera pointed at his private parts. this is a felony violation.”
rotta investigated the restrooms as well, and found cameras above the stalls there too. he says his only guess as to why they are there is for “lewd and lascivious purposes.”
the ludington police department says only looked at the video twice in the past 12 years, and another when filed for a copy. not only is there no way to verify that, says worried the videos are being sold.
according to fox 17, says considering a class action lawsuit against the city of ludington for invasion of privacy.
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ˈlədɪŋtən, mi ˈstɑrtlɪŋ rɪˈpɔrts əv ˈgəvərnmənt sərˈveɪləns ˌɪnˈsaɪd ˈpəblɪk ˈbɑθˌrumz həz bɪn rɪˈvild θru ðə juz əv ˈhɪdən ˈkæmərəz. naʊ əˈtərniz ənd ˈsɪti ˈmænɪʤərz ˈgræpəl ˈoʊvər ðə ˌdɛfəˈnɪʃən əv ˌɛkspɛkˈteɪʃən əv privacy,”*,” ənd ˈwɛðər ə ˈpərsən həz ɪt waɪl ˈstændɪŋ æt ə urinal*, ˈwɑʃɪŋ ðɛr feɪs ɪn ə ˈmɪrər, ər ˈivɪn ˈsɪtɪŋ ɔn ə ˈtɔɪlət. ðə ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənt nuz blɔg kɔld ðə ˈlədɪŋtən tɔrʧ hɛlpt breɪk ðə ˈstɔri baɪ aɪˈdɛntəˌfaɪɪŋ ˌfɔrˈtin ˈkæmərəz ɪn ˈlədɪŋtən ˈpəblɪk ˈrɛˌstrumz. twɛlv wər ˈhɪdən ˈkæmərəz. tɑm, hu ˈpoʊstɪd ðə ˈstɔri ɔn ðə tɔrʧ, ɪkˈspoʊzd ˈkæmərəz ðət wər ˈplænɪd ˌɪnˈsaɪd ɛr dəkts ənd ˌɪnˈsaɪd smoʊk dɪˈtɛktərz ðət hæd bɪlt ɪn ˈkæmərəz. ðiz ˈkæmərəz, wəns aɪˈdɛntəˌfaɪd, wər ɪn pəˈzɪʃən tɪ lʊk daʊn ˌɪnˈsaɪd ðə ˈbæθˌrum stɔlz, ənd ˈifɛktɪvli ju poo,”*,” ɛz kɔld ɪt ɔn ðə blɔg. ˈivɪn wɛnt ɛz fɑr ɛz tɪ træk daʊn ðə rɪˈsits fər ðə ˈkæmərəz θru ðə ˈlədɪŋtən taʊn ˈmeɪntənəns dɪˈpɑrtmənt. ɪt tərnz aʊt, æt list səm əv ðə ˈkæmərəz wər ˈpərʧəst baɪ ðə taʊn ɛz ˈərli ɛz ˈɔgəst 2000 wɪn fɑks 17 lʊkt ˈɪntu ɪt, ðeɪ faʊnd ðət ðə ˈkæmərəz hæd bɪn ɪn juz ɛz fɑr bæk ɛz ðə leɪt 1990s*. əˈpild tɪ ðə taʊn ˈkaʊnsəl tɪ ˈɑnər hɪz ˈɛˈfoʊˈaɪˈeɪ rɪkˈwɛst, wɪʧ hi sɪz ðə ˈkaʊnsəl həz ˈvaɪəleɪtɪd æt wɪl. hi ˈsteɪtɪd ˌbiˈfɔr ðə ˈkaʊnsəl ɪn ən ˈɔgəst 26 ˈmitɪŋ: ðə ˈmɪʃɪgən ˈpinəl koʊd, ˈsɛkʃən 750.539(j*) ɪt sɪz: ˈpərsən ʃæl not…*… sərˈveɪl, ˈfoʊtəˌgræf, ər ˈəðərˌwaɪz ˈkæpʧər ər ˈrɛkərd əˈnəðər individual…*… ˈəndər ˈsərkəmˌstænsɪz ɪn wɪʧ ðə ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl wʊd hæv ə ˈrizənəbəl ˌɛkspɛkˈteɪʃən əv privacy.’*.’ ɛz fɑr ɛz ˌdɛfəˈnɪʃənz, ‘‘person’*’ kən rɪˈfər tɪ ə ˈbɑdi ˈkɔrpərət, səʧ ɛz ðə ˈsɪti əv ˈlədɪŋtən, ənd ˌɛkspɛkˈteɪʃən əv privacy‘*‘ həz hɪˈstɔrɪkəli ˈkəvərd ˈbɑθˌrumz, ˈivɪn ˈpəblɪk ˈbɑθˌrumz. wɪn wən stɛps əp tɪ ə urinal*, ər wən sɪts ɔn ə ˈtɔɪlət, hi ɪkˈspɛkts tɪ du soʊ wɪθ ˈpraɪvəsi, ənd ʃʊd nɑt bi ˈeɪbəl tɪ lʊk əp ənd si ə rɪˈkɔrdɪŋ ˈkæmərə ˈpɔɪntɪd æt hɪz ˈpraɪvət pɑrts. ðɪs ɪz ə ˈfɛləni violation.”*.” ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪtɪd ðə ˈrɛˌstrumz ɛz wɛl, ənd faʊnd ˈkæmərəz əˈbəv ðə stɔlz ðɛr tu. hi sɪz hɪz ˈoʊnli gɛs ɛz tɪ waɪ ðeɪ ər ðɛr ɪz fər ənd ləˈsɪviəs purposes.”*.” ðə ˈlədɪŋtən pəˈlis dɪˈpɑrtmənt sɪz ˈoʊnli lʊkt æt ðə ˈvɪdioʊ twaɪs ɪn ðə pæst 12 jɪrz, ənd əˈnəðər wɪn faɪld fər ə ˈkɑpi. nɑt ˈoʊnli ɪz ðɛr noʊ weɪ tɪ ˈvɛrəˌfaɪ ðət, sɪz ˈwərid ðə ˈvɪdioʊz ər biɪŋ soʊld. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ fɑks 17 sɪz kənˈsɪdərɪŋ ə klæs ˈækʃən ˈlɔˌsut əˈgɛnst ðə ˈsɪti əv ˈlədɪŋtən fər ˌɪnˈveɪʒən əv ˈpraɪvəsi. səˈpɔrt pəˈlis steɪt ˈjuˈɛˈseɪ ɪf ju wʊd laɪk tɪ ˈkɑnˌtækt ðə ˈlədɪŋtən ˈsɪti ˈgəvərnmənt, pliz meɪk juz əv ðə ˈsɔrsəz bɪˈloʊ. meɪər ʤɑn ˈhɛndərsən: 231 iˈmeɪl: ˈlədɪŋtən pəˈlis dɪˈpɑrtmənt: 231 ˈsɪti ˈmænɪʤər ʤɑn ʃeɪ iˈmeɪl: ˈkaʊnsəlmən dɪk rathsack*: 231 iˈmeɪl: ˈkaʊnsəlmən ˈwɔli taranko*: 231 iˈmeɪl: ˈkaʊnsəlmən lɛs ˈʤɑnsən: 231 iˈmeɪl: ˈkaʊnsəlmən ˈwɑndə marrison*: 231 iˈmeɪl: ˈkaʊnsəlmən nɪk tykoski*: 231 iˈmeɪl: ˈkaʊnsəlmən ˈgɛri castonia*: 231 iˈmeɪl: ˈkaʊnsəlmən keɪ ˈfərgəsən ˈhɑlmən: 231 iˈmeɪl:
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image copyright image caption many electronic companies are now sourcing their minerals from "conflict-free" mines
more than two-thirds of mines in eastern democratic republic congo which produced "conflict minerals" four years ago are no longer run by warlords, a report by enough project says.
it follows a us law implemented in 2010 which required firms to determine the origin of minerals used in products.
tin, tantalum and tungsten, used to make computers and mobile phones, used to generate $185m (£110m) a year for armed groups, the report said.
this fuelled decades of conflict.
the us law was brought in under the financial reform act that requires any company that might be using conflict minerals register with the us securities and exchange commission and then disclose its supply chain.
image copyright image caption many miners are now benefitting from better wages
this, together with other reforms and the recent defeat by un troops of two powerful rebel groups, has helped significantly in reducing the number of mines run by militias, the enough project said.
however, mining of gold was still funding army commanders, its report said.
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bbc international development correspondent mark doyle
this rare good news from dr congo illustrates how a consumer campaign in the rich world can impact positively in an country. the us companies making laptops and smart phones simply did not want to be associated with warlords committing atrocities - and more to the point, perhaps, knew that campaigners in the us would expose them if they did.
so pressure from us consumers, working with the new us law which required companies to guarantee a "clean" supply chain, has forced change.
of course, a more robust military campaign by the intervention brigade against some of the armed groups has also helped.
the next stop for the campaigners, after the computer companies, will be jewellers. it will be interesting to see if they can pull off the same effect in dr congo's gold mines. many of these are still controlled by warlords operating with impunity.
the enough project said its report was based on five months of field research which showed that 67% of tin, tantalum (refined from coltan) and tungsten in north, south and provinces were no longer in the hands of the armed groups or the congolese army.
it said this contrasted with a 2010 un group of experts report which stated that "in the provinces, almost every mining deposit [was] controlled by a military group".
for the first time in dr congo's history there is now a validation process to evaluate whether mines are conflict-free, the enough project said.
the reforms have also meant that wages have gone up for miners - in some areas threefold - and more workers now receive safety equipment, it said.
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ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkɑpiˌraɪt ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkæpʃən ˈmɛni ˌɪˌlɛkˈtrɑnɪk ˈkəmpəˌniz ər naʊ ˈsɔrsɪŋ ðɛr ˈmɪnərəlz frəm "conflict-free*" maɪnz mɔr ðən ˌtuˈθərdz əv maɪnz ɪn ˈistərn ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk riˈpəblɪk ˈkɑŋgoʊ wɪʧ prəˈdust "ˈkɑnflɪkt ˈmɪnərəlz" fɔr jɪrz əˈgoʊ ər noʊ ˈlɔŋgər rən baɪ ˈwɔˌrlɔrdz, ə rɪˈpɔrt baɪ ɪˈnəf ˈprɑʤɛkt sɪz. ɪt ˈfɑloʊz ə ˈjuˈɛs lɔ ˈɪmpləˌmɛnəd ɪn 2010 wɪʧ rikˈwaɪərd fərmz tɪ dɪˈtərmən ðə ˈɔrəʤən əv ˈmɪnərəlz juzd ɪn ˈprɑdəkts. tɪn, ˈtæntələm ənd ˈtəŋstən, juzd tɪ meɪk kəmˈpjutərz ənd ˈmoʊbəl foʊnz, juzd tɪ ˈʤɛnərˌeɪt £110m*) ə jɪr fər ɑrmd grups, ðə rɪˈpɔrt sɛd. ðɪs fjuəld ˈdɛkeɪdz əv ˈkɑnflɪkt. ðə ˈjuˈɛs lɔ wɑz brɔt ɪn ˈəndər ðə ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl rɪˈfɔrm ækt ðət rikˈwaɪərz ˈɛni ˈkəmpəˌni ðət maɪt bi ˈjuzɪŋ ˈkɑnflɪkt ˈmɪnərəlz ˈrɛʤɪstər wɪθ ðə ˈjuˈɛs sɪˈkjʊrətiz ənd ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ kəˈmɪʃən ənd ðɛn dɪˈskloʊz ɪts səˈplaɪ ʧeɪn. ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkɑpiˌraɪt ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkæpʃən ˈmɛni ˈmaɪnərz ər naʊ ˈbɛnəfɪtɪŋ frəm ˈbɛtər ˈweɪʤɪz ðɪs, təˈgɛðər wɪθ ˈəðər rɪˈfɔrmz ənd ðə ˈrisənt dɪˈfit baɪ ˈjuˈɛn trups əv tu ˈpaʊərfəl ˈrɛbəl grups, həz hɛlpt sɪgˈnɪfɪkəntli ɪn rɪˈdusɪŋ ðə ˈnəmbər əv maɪnz rən baɪ mɪˈlɪʃəz, ðə ɪˈnəf ˈprɑʤɛkt sɛd. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ˈmaɪnɪŋ əv goʊld wɑz stɪl ˈfəndɪŋ ˈɑrmi kəˈmændərz, ɪts rɪˈpɔrt sɛd. æˈnælɪsɪs ˌbibiˈsi ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl dɪˈvɛləpmənt ˌkɔrəˈspɑndənt mɑrk dɔɪl ðɪs rɛr gʊd nuz frəm ˈdɑktər ˈkɑŋgoʊ ˈɪləˌstreɪts haʊ ə kənˈsumər kæmˈpeɪn ɪn ðə rɪʧ wərld kən ˌɪmˈpækt ˈpɑzətɪvli ɪn ən ˈkəntri. ðə ˈjuˈɛs ˈkəmpəˌniz ˈmeɪkɪŋ ˈlæpˌtɑps ənd smɑrt foʊnz ˈsɪmpli dɪd nɑt wɔnt tɪ bi əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪtəd wɪθ ˈwɔˌrlɔrdz kəˈmɪtɪŋ əˈtrɑsətiz ənd mɔr tɪ ðə pɔɪnt, pərˈhæps, nu ðət kæmˈpeɪnərz ɪn ðə ˈjuˈɛs wʊd ɪkˈspoʊz ðɛm ɪf ðeɪ dɪd. soʊ ˈprɛʃər frəm ˈjuˈɛs kənˈsumərz, ˈwərkɪŋ wɪθ ðə nu ˈjuˈɛs lɔ wɪʧ rikˈwaɪərd ˈkəmpəˌniz tɪ ˌgɛrənˈti ə "klin" səˈplaɪ ʧeɪn, həz fɔrst ʧeɪnʤ. əv kɔrs, ə mɔr roʊˈbəst ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri kæmˈpeɪn baɪ ðə ˌɪntərˈvɛnʃən brɪˈgeɪd əˈgɛnst səm əv ðə ɑrmd grups həz ˈɔlsoʊ hɛlpt. ðə nɛkst stɑp fər ðə kæmˈpeɪnərz, ˈæftər ðə kəmˈpjutər ˈkəmpəˌniz, wɪl bi ˈʤuələrz. ɪt wɪl bi ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ tɪ si ɪf ðeɪ kən pʊl ɔf ðə seɪm ˈifɛkt ɪn ˈdɑktər ˈkɑŋgoʊz goʊld maɪnz. ˈmɛni əv ðiz ər stɪl kənˈtroʊld baɪ ˈwɔˌrlɔrdz ˈɔpərˌeɪtɪŋ wɪθ ˌɪmˈpjunɪti. ðə ɪˈnəf ˈprɑʤɛkt sɛd ɪts rɪˈpɔrt wɑz beɪst ɔn faɪv mənθs əv fild ˈrisərʧ wɪʧ ʃoʊd ðət 67 əv tɪn, ˈtæntələm (rɪˈfaɪnd frəm coltan*) ənd ˈtəŋstən ɪn nɔrθ, saʊθ ənd ˈprɑvənsəz wər noʊ ˈlɔŋgər ɪn ðə hænz əv ðə ɑrmd grups ər ðə ˌkɑngəˈliz ˈɑrmi. ɪt sɛd ðɪs kənˈtræstəd wɪθ ə 2010 ˈjuˈɛn grup əv ˈɛkspərts rɪˈpɔrt wɪʧ ˈsteɪtɪd ðət "ɪn ðə ˈprɑvənsəz, ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˈɛvəri ˈmaɪnɪŋ dɪˈpɑzət [wɑz] kənˈtroʊld baɪ ə ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri grup". fər ðə fərst taɪm ɪn ˈdɑktər ˈkɑŋgoʊz ˈhɪstəri ðɛr ɪz naʊ ə ˌvæləˈdeɪʃən ˈprɔˌsɛs tɪ ɪˈvæljuˌeɪt ˈwɛðər maɪnz ər conflict-free*, ðə ɪˈnəf ˈprɑʤɛkt sɛd. ðə rɪˈfɔrmz hæv ˈɔlsoʊ mɛnt ðət ˈweɪʤɪz hæv gɔn əp fər ˈmaɪnərz ɪn səm ˈɛriəz θˈriˌfoʊld ənd mɔr ˈwərkərz naʊ rɪˈsiv ˈseɪfti ɪkˈwɪpmənt, ɪt sɛd.
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if you think all differences between the way males and females act are socially conditioned, how come male spatial superiority is evident in infants as young as 5 months?
ravefromthegrave:
fantastic-nonsense: ravefromthegrave: if you knew shit all about spatial superiority, also know that only true in patriarchal societies and that been tested in, where the result is 100% equal. at least waste my time with stuff you know anything about, greyface. …except there has never been a matriarchy? there has literally never been a society in all of history that has been a matriarchy? and even if there had been, they would have exist before things like spatial testing and testing existed. going to tell me “tested” spacial superiority in matriarchal societies when no such societies exist? yeah, waste my time with stuff you know anything about. needed]. except ding dong you are wrong educate yourself:/ http://utopianist.com/2011/06/5-societies-run-by-women-and-what-we-can-learn-from-them/ and by the way, how did i “waste your time” when you apparently read my blog voluntarily? not like i sent you a pm, get over yourself
you seem to understand what “matriarchy” means. a country simply ruled by a woman is not a matriarchy. otherwise the and germany would be, and we all know not true. a matriarchy is a social system in which females are the primary authority figures central to social organization, occupying primary roles of political leadership, moral authority, and control of property, and where mothers hold authority over fathers and children.
the first link seems to confuse the terms “matrilineal” with “matriarchy.” they are not the same thing. the jewish people are matrilineal, but they are not a matriarchy. the are matrilineal, not matriarchal. information on the indicate that while women are often the head of house and inheritance is through the female line, political and social power is often in the hands of male. therefore…matrilineal, not matriarchal. the description of the aka does not describe them as matriarchal at all; they just have a general reversal of gender roles when it comes to hunting vs. childcare. it mentions nothing about their system of government.
iceland is far from matriarchal. more egalitarian than anything. i think the author of that article knows what a matriarchy is either, since trying to present iceland as one.
…also if the study you talked about is from the albania example, it must be a shitty study considering only 13 women that live there and most of them are lesbians. you need a large and diverse population for a good study. also did you not see the part where some girls are forced into the role of living there? and the fact that they literally spend the rest of their lives after they leave as men? not exactly matriarchy, dear. and again, the india example is not an example of matriarchy, but of matrilineality.
women “rule” in any of the societies mentioned in the first article. in most of them, the power is divided evenly between women and men, making the societies more egalitarian than anything.
the only society in both of the links you provided me that you could make a case for would be the hopi tribe, but seeing as how they operate under a “neither sex is inferior” code and are highly egalitarian, they do not make the list either.
the vast majority of anthropologists agree that there are no known unambiguous. there are several societies in which women enjoy political and sexual freedom on par with men, which are called egalitarian societies, but there are no known societies (ever) in which matriarchy is a thing. the hypothesis that was littered with was a popular thesis in the century, particularly with wave feminism, but that hypothesis has been widely discredited today based on lack of proof and lots and lots of research.
also, please link me to the studies you say have been done on matriarchal societies that show that% equal” number. spatial superiority in males has been detected as early as three days old, and newer studies present the hypothesis that this is a side effect of testosterone (previous studies have shown that women who take testosterone often show improvement in their spatial navigational skills). however, this relationship is complex, and as it is a relatively new field of study, future studies may be more forthcoming about this. science has shown that male and female brains show significant biological differences; for example, women often have better language skills, both written and aural, than men, while men often have better spatial skills.
you cannot simply say that there is “no difference” in spatial abilities because the tests are highly complex. women often score higher on spatial memory but men often score higher on spatial navigation. we are still learning about the various complexities of the mind and the differences that gender creates (or rather, the different chemical of the brain because of gender differences).
so actually, no, you obviously have no idea what talking about. please refrain from spouting off bullshit pseudoscience. not helpful.
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ɪf ju θɪŋk ɔl ˈdɪfərənsɪz bɪtˈwin ðə weɪ meɪlz ənd ˈfiˌmeɪlz ækt ər ˈsoʊʃəli kənˈdɪʃənd, haʊ kəm meɪl ˈspeɪʃəl ˌsupɪriˈɔrɪti ɪz ˈɛvədənt ɪn ˈɪnfənts ɛz jəŋ ɛz 5 mənθs? ravefromthegrave*: fantastic-nonsense*: ravefromthegrave*: ɪf ju nu ʃɪt ɔl əˈbaʊt ˈspeɪʃəl ˌsupɪriˈɔrɪti, ˈɔlsoʊ noʊ ðət ˈoʊnli tru ɪn ˌpeɪtriˈɑrkəl səˈsaɪɪtiz ənd ðət bɪn ˈtɛstɪd ɪn, wɛr ðə rɪˈzəlt ɪz 100 ˈikwəl. æt list weɪst maɪ taɪm wɪθ stəf ju noʊ ˈɛniˌθɪŋ əˈbaʊt, greyface*. ðɛr həz ˈnɛvər bɪn ə ˈmeɪtriˌɑrki? ðɛr həz ˈlɪtərəli ˈnɛvər bɪn ə soʊˈsaɪɪti ɪn ɔl əv ˈhɪstəri ðət həz bɪn ə ˈmeɪtriˌɑrki? ənd ˈivɪn ɪf ðɛr hæd bɪn, ðeɪ wʊd hæv ɪgˈzɪst ˌbiˈfɔr θɪŋz laɪk ˈspeɪʃəl ˈtɛstɪŋ ənd ˈtɛstɪŋ ɪgˈzɪstəd. goʊɪŋ tɪ tɛl mi ““tested”*” ˈspeɪʃəl ˌsupɪriˈɔrɪti ɪn ˌmeɪtriˈɑrkəl səˈsaɪɪtiz wɪn noʊ səʧ səˈsaɪɪtiz ɪgˈzɪst? jæ, weɪst maɪ taɪm wɪθ stəf ju noʊ ˈɛniˌθɪŋ əˈbaʊt. ˈnidɪd]. ɪkˈsɛpt dɪŋ dɔŋg ju ər rɔŋ ˈɛʤəˌkeɪt ˈjɔrsɛlf: http://utopianist.com/2011/06/5-societies-run-by-women-and-what-we-can-learn-from-them*/ ənd baɪ ðə weɪ, haʊ dɪd aɪ jʊr time”*” wɪn ju əˈpɛrəntli rɛd maɪ blɔg ˌvɑlənˈtɛrəli? nɑt laɪk aɪ sɛnt ju ə piɛm, gɪt ˈoʊvər ˈjɔrsɛlf ju sim tɪ ˌəndərˈstænd wət ““matriarchy”*” minz. ə ˈkəntri ˈsɪmpli ruld baɪ ə ˈwʊmən ɪz nɑt ə ˈmeɪtriˌɑrki. ˈəðərˌwaɪz ðə ənd ˈʤərməni wʊd bi, ənd wi ɔl noʊ nɑt tru. ə ˈmeɪtriˌɑrki ɪz ə ˈsoʊʃəl ˈsɪstəm ɪn wɪʧ ˈfiˌmeɪlz ər ðə ˈpraɪˌmɛri əˈθɔrəti ˈfɪgjərz ˈsɛntrəl tɪ ˈsoʊʃəl ˌɔrgənəˈzeɪʃən, ˈɑkjəˌpaɪɪŋ ˈpraɪˌmɛri roʊlz əv pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈlidərˌʃɪp, ˈmɔrəl əˈθɔrəti, ənd kənˈtroʊl əv ˈprɑpərti, ənd wɛr ˈməðərz hoʊld əˈθɔrəti ˈoʊvər ˈfɑðərz ənd ˈʧɪldrən. ðə fərst lɪŋk simz tɪ kənfˈjuz ðə tərmz ““matrilineal”*” wɪθ ““matriarchy.”*.” ðeɪ ər nɑt ðə seɪm θɪŋ. ðə ʤuɪʃ ˈpipəl ər ˌmætrɪˈlɪniəl, bət ðeɪ ər nɑt ə ˈmeɪtriˌɑrki. ðə ər ˌmætrɪˈlɪniəl, nɑt ˌmeɪtriˈɑrkəl. ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən ɔn ðə ˈɪndəˌkeɪt ðət waɪl ˈwɪmən ər ˈɔfən ðə hɛd əv haʊs ənd ˌɪnˈhɛrətəns ɪz θru ðə ˈfiˌmeɪl laɪn, pəˈlɪtɪkəl ənd ˈsoʊʃəl paʊər ɪz ˈɔfən ɪn ðə hænz əv meɪl. therefore…matrilineal*, nɑt ˌmeɪtriˈɑrkəl. ðə dɪˈskrɪpʃən əv ðə ˈɑkə dɪz nɑt dɪˈskraɪb ðɛm ɛz ˌmeɪtriˈɑrkəl æt ɔl; ðeɪ ʤɪst hæv ə ˈʤɛnərəl rɪˈvərsəl əv ˈʤɛndər roʊlz wɪn ɪt kəmz tɪ ˈhəntɪŋ ˈvərsəz. ˈʧaɪldˌkɛr. ɪt ˈmɛnʃənz ˈnəθɪŋ əˈbaʊt ðɛr ˈsɪstəm əv ˈgəvərnmənt. ˈaɪslənd ɪz fɑr frəm ˌmeɪtriˈɑrkəl. mɔr ɪˌgæləˈtɛriən ðən ˈɛniˌθɪŋ. aɪ θɪŋk ðə ˈɔθər əv ðət ˈɑrtɪkəl noʊz wət ə ˈmeɪtriˌɑrki ɪz ˈiðər, sɪns traɪɪŋ tɪ ˈprɛzənt ˈaɪslənd ɛz wən. ɪf ðə ˈstədi ju tɔkt əˈbaʊt ɪz frəm ðə ælˈbeɪniə ɪgˈzæmpəl, ɪt məst bi ə ˈʃɪˌti ˈstədi kənˈsɪdərɪŋ ˈoʊnli 13 ˈwɪmən ðət lɪv ðɛr ənd moʊst əv ðɛm ər ˈlɛzbiənz. ju nid ə lɑrʤ ənd dɪˈvərs ˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃən fər ə gʊd ˈstədi. ˈɔlsoʊ dɪd ju nɑt si ðə pɑrt wɛr səm gərlz ər fɔrst ˈɪntu ðə roʊl əv ˈlɪvɪŋ ðɛr? ənd ðə fækt ðət ðeɪ ˈlɪtərəli spɛnd ðə rɛst əv ðɛr lɪvz ˈæftər ðeɪ liv ɛz mɛn? nɑt ɪgˈzæktli ˈmeɪtriˌɑrki, dɪr. ənd əˈgɛn, ðə ˈɪndiə ɪgˈzæmpəl ɪz nɑt ən ɪgˈzæmpəl əv ˈmeɪtriˌɑrki, bət əv matrilineality*. ˈwɪmən ““rule”*” ɪn ˈɛni əv ðə səˈsaɪɪtiz ˈmɛnʃənd ɪn ðə fərst ˈɑrtɪkəl. ɪn moʊst əv ðɛm, ðə paʊər ɪz dɪˈvaɪdɪd ˈivənli bɪtˈwin ˈwɪmən ənd mɛn, ˈmeɪkɪŋ ðə səˈsaɪɪtiz mɔr ɪˌgæləˈtɛriən ðən ˈɛniˌθɪŋ. ðə ˈoʊnli soʊˈsaɪɪti ɪn boʊθ əv ðə lɪŋks ju prəˈvaɪdɪd mi ðət ju kʊd meɪk ə keɪs fər wʊd bi ðə ˈhoʊpi traɪb, bət siɪŋ ɛz haʊ ðeɪ ˈɔpərˌeɪt ˈəndər ə sɛks ɪz inferior”*” koʊd ənd ər ˈhaɪli ɪˌgæləˈtɛriən, ðeɪ du nɑt meɪk ðə lɪst ˈiðər. ðə væst məˈʤɔrəti əv ˌænθrəˈpɑləʤɪsts əˈgri ðət ðɛr ər noʊ noʊn ˌənæmˈbɪgjəwəs. ðɛr ər ˈsɛvərəl səˈsaɪɪtiz ɪn wɪʧ ˈwɪmən ˌɛnˈʤɔɪ pəˈlɪtɪkəl ənd ˈsɛkʃuəl ˈfridəm ɔn pɑr wɪθ mɛn, wɪʧ ər kɔld ɪˌgæləˈtɛriən səˈsaɪɪtiz, bət ðɛr ər noʊ noʊn səˈsaɪɪtiz (ˈɛvər) ɪn wɪʧ ˈmeɪtriˌɑrki ɪz ə θɪŋ. ðə haɪˈpɑθəsəs ðət wɑz ˈlɪtərd wɪθ wɑz ə ˈpɑpjələr ˈθiˌsɪs ɪn ðə ˈsɛnʧəri, ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli wɪθ weɪv ˈfɛmɪˌnɪzəm, bət ðət haɪˈpɑθəsəs həz bɪn ˈwaɪdli dɪˈskrɛdɪtɪd təˈdeɪ beɪst ɔn læk əv pruf ənd lɑts ənd lɑts əv ˈrisərʧ. ˈɔlsoʊ, pliz lɪŋk mi tɪ ðə ˈstədiz ju seɪ hæv bɪn dən ɔn ˌmeɪtriˈɑrkəl səˈsaɪɪtiz ðət ʃoʊ ðət equal”*” ˈnəmbər. ˈspeɪʃəl ˌsupɪriˈɔrɪti ɪn meɪlz həz bɪn dɪˈtɛktɪd ɛz ˈərli ɛz θri deɪz oʊld, ənd nuər ˈstədiz ˈprɛzənt ðə haɪˈpɑθəsəs ðət ðɪs ɪz ə saɪd ˈifɛkt əv ˌtɛˈstɑstərˌoʊn (ˈpriviəs ˈstədiz hæv ʃoʊn ðət ˈwɪmən hu teɪk ˌtɛˈstɑstərˌoʊn ˈɔfən ʃoʊ ˌɪmˈpruvmənt ɪn ðɛr ˈspeɪʃəl ˌnævəˈgeɪʃənəl skɪlz). ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ðɪs riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp ɪz ˈkɑmplɛks, ənd ɛz ɪt ɪz ə ˈrɛlətɪvli nu fild əv ˈstədi, fˈjuʧər ˈstədiz meɪ bi mɔr ˈfɔrθˈkəmɪŋ əˈbaʊt ðɪs. saɪəns həz ʃoʊn ðət meɪl ənd ˈfiˌmeɪl breɪnz ʃoʊ sɪgˈnɪfɪkənt ˌbaɪəˈlɑʤɪkəl ˈdɪfərənsɪz; fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ˈwɪmən ˈɔfən hæv ˈbɛtər ˈlæŋgwɪʤ skɪlz, boʊθ ˈrɪtən ənd ˈɔrəl, ðən mɛn, waɪl mɛn ˈɔfən hæv ˈbɛtər ˈspeɪʃəl skɪlz. ju ˈkænɑt ˈsɪmpli seɪ ðət ðɛr ɪz difference”*” ɪn ˈspeɪʃəl əˈbɪləˌtiz bɪˈkəz ðə tɛsts ər ˈhaɪli ˈkɑmplɛks. ˈwɪmən ˈɔfən skɔr haɪər ɔn ˈspeɪʃəl ˈmɛməri bət mɛn ˈɔfən skɔr haɪər ɔn ˈspeɪʃəl ˌnævəˈgeɪʃən. wi ər stɪl ˈlərnɪŋ əˈbaʊt ðə ˈvɛriəs kəmˈplɛksɪtiz əv ðə maɪnd ənd ðə ˈdɪfərənsɪz ðət ˈʤɛndər kriˈeɪts (ər ˈrəðər, ðə ˈdɪfərənt ˈkɛmɪkəl əv ðə breɪn bɪˈkəz əv ˈʤɛndər ˈdɪfərənsɪz). soʊ ˈæˌkʧuəli, noʊ, ju ˈɑbviəsli hæv noʊ aɪˈdiə wət ˈtɔkɪŋ əˈbaʊt. pliz rɪˈfreɪn frəm ˈspaʊtɪŋ ɔf ˈbʊlˌʃɪt ˌsudoʊˈsaɪəns. nɑt ˈhɛlpfəl.
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(here is comcast's ex parte to the fcc. the footnotes have been omitted for reasons. to find the full text of the letter plus the footnotes, please visit this link: http://www.comcast.com/medialibrary/1/1/about/pressroom/documents/comcastexparte1130.pdf)
comcast corporation
300 new jersey avenue,
suite 700
washington, dc 20001
november 30, 2010
sharon gillett
chief
wireline competition bureau
federal communications commission
445 street,
washington, d.c. 20554
re: preserving the open internet, docket no.
dear sharon:
this letter summarizes our call yesterday concerning the press release level 3 issued yesterday afternoon, and follows up on questions you posed to us during that call.
as we explained yesterday, despite level effort to portray its dispute with comcast as being about an "open internet," it is nothing but a good old-fashioned commercial peering dispute, the kind that level 3 has found itself in before. notwithstanding level claims, this is not about online video, it is not about "paid prioritization," it does not involve putting "toll booths" on the internet, and it is not about net neutrality. indeed, if anything, it is level 3 that is seeking "non-neutral" treatment that would favor its network traffic over those of all its competitors.
taking a step back from this dispute, it is important to start with how the internet works today. as you know, when network a (an internet backbone provider) wants to connect with network b (another internet backbone provider), it can either ask network b for free "peering" (i.e., the direct exchange of traffic between the two networks), or purchase services from network b. networks like comcast maintain peering policies (www.comcast.com/peering) that set forth the business and technical criteria for defining another network as a peer. peering is typically appropriate when each carrier sends a roughly balanced level of traffic to the other's network.
in a circumstance where network b sends traffic to network a that is significantly out of balance with the traffic it receives from network a, however, network b is expected either to remedy the situation or to pay something to network a to compensate for that imbalance (that "something" is known as "settlements").
content delivery networks ("cdns"), such as akamai, limelight, and amazon cloudfront, are not internet backbone providers. their business involves sending significantly more traffic than they receive. for that reason they typically purchase services ("paid interconnection") from internet backbone providers. this description is not just relevant to how comcast operates -- rather, it is a characterization of the way the internet market works, here and around the world.
the dispute between comcast and level 3 relates to how level 3 wants comcast (and
presumably other networks) to treat their new influx of traffic, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with any content, application, or service that level 3 is transmitting. this concerns only the vast increase in the amount of traffic level 3 told comcast that it wants to send to comcast's network on a "peering" basis. given that this will throw traffic between the two networks grossly out of balance, and in keeping with settlement practices on the internet backbone, comcast has asked level 3 to enter into commercial negotiations to achieve a solution that accounts for this new and significant traffic imbalance.
despite level complaints, comcast is neither resisting carrying internet video traffic nor imposing new "tolls" on internet video traffic. the simple fact is that comcast terminates huge amounts of online video traffic to our high-speed internet customers, most of it pursuant to longstanding, mutually acceptable commercial arrangements we have in place with the leading companies. our customers get access to all the online video they want, along with any other internet content, application, or service they choose -- regardless of its source. and, regardless of how this dispute turns out, that will continue to be the case.
but level 3 is trying to game the process of peering -- one that has worked well and
consensually, without government interference, for over a decade -- in order to gain a unique and unfair advantage for its own expanding service. level problem apparently arises out of the fact that it recently won a bid to become one of primary providers -- in competition with the major nationals that already send and other traffic to comcast's network. in order to undercut its competitors, level 3 wants to avoid the commercial arrangements other companies use to terminate traffic onto comcast's and other providers' networks, and instead force comcast to accept its traffic for free, under a "peering" relationship. this is not how peering works, here or anywhere in the world. what level 3 is suddenly pushing -- a "new theory" of peering -- would throw the traditional, "balanced traffic" peering rulebook out the window, give level 3 an unfair cost advantage over its competitors, and shift all of the costs from level 3 and its content customers onto comcast and its high-speed internet customers.
until level 3 fomented this dispute, comcast and level 3 exchanged internet traffic as part of a commercial interconnection agreement, under which comcast paid level 3 for interconnection facilities. although the parties exchanged traffic at a ratio of about, with comcast terminating more of level traffic, this was well within the industry's established bounds for "roughly balanced" traffic, and they exchanged their traffic on a basis. at some point, we are told, some of the traffic sent by level 3 to comcast came from services operated by level 3. because this traffic was within the traditional industry criteria for "roughly balanced," this did not raise any issues for comcast.
now, level 3 has decided to reinvent itself as a major, in competition with other
commercial players, all of whom pay for transmission of their traffic on comcast's and others' networks. and in so doing, level 3 would more than double the amount of traffic it sends to comcast -- which would result in a traffic imbalance that could be in the range of about.
the parties' current interconnection facilities could not begin to support that type of traffic flow. as a result, level 3 approached comcast approximately two weeks ago (shortly after reaching their agreement, we later learned, although they made no mention of it at the time) and demanded 27 to 30 new interconnection ports, which would allow them to send a much greater amount of traffic onto comcast's network. to that request, level 3 added the following twist: it insisted that comcast should provide it with all those new facilities -- and support this vast new influx of traffic -- for free.
comcast was able to scramble and provide level 3 with six ports (at no charge) that were, by chance, available and not budgeted and forecasted for comcast's wholesale commercial customers. the amount of traffic that would be exchanged over these six ports (and the parties' preexisting ports) was just barely within the generally accepted bounds of a roughly balanced traffic exchange between the parties. level 3 accepted those ports, and they are using them right now to send traffic to comcast's network.
the additional ports level 3 requested -- and the traffic to be exchanged over that large number of ports -- would put the traffic ratio between the parties far out of balance. as a result, comcast explained to level 3 that it would be willing to provide additional ports on a commercial wholesale basis (just as it does with level competitors). comcast offered level 3 twenty ports under a commercial arrangement, but it informed level 3 that it had to commit quickly if it wanted to ensure that these ports were committed to its business, before another commercial customer submitted a competing order. this makes level statement that comcast's offer was "take it or leave it" patently absurd. in fact, comcast tried to help level 3 secure as much capacity as possible, as quickly as possible, given time and business constraints. the agreement comcast offered level 3 would also facilitate level ordering additional ports as soon as those become available in the new calendar year.
as level 3 reports, it has in fact entered into a commercial ports agreement with comcast (in addition to receiving the six free ports). level statement that it has done so "under protest" is entirely disingenuous. to be sure, level 3 would prefer to force comcast into arrangements that give it all the ports it wants for free. that's a great strategy for level 3 to undermine all of its competitors, which have long done business based on commercial wholesale arrangements, not just with comcast but also with other network providers. level preferred arrangement would also allow it to enter into its new venture at little cost to level 3 or its customers, while shifting its costs to comcast and its broadband customers. most importantly, as noted above, this would do nothing to increase the amount of online video traffic on the network or affect the accessibility of online video to comcast's customers, who already have robust access to delivery of the precise same content. it would simply produce improved margins for level 3.
level 3 has been on the opposite end of exactly such a dispute repeatedly over the past several years, including as recently as a few months ago. it has been quick to decry an arrangement such as the one it wants with comcast as an unfair "subsidy" that is unsuitable for the type of peering it demands here. when level 3 realized that cogent was "sending far more traffic to the level 3 network than level 3 was sending to network," it revised the parties' relationship and insisted on negotiating a more balanced arrangement. in level own words,
"to be lasting, business relationships should be mutually beneficial. in cases where the benefit we receive is in line with the benefit we deliver, we will exchange traffic on a basis. contrary to [other isps] public statements, reasonable, balanced, and mutually beneficial agreements for the exchange of traffic do not represent a threat to the internet. they don't represent a threat to anyone other than those trying to get a free ride on someone else's network."
in comcast's case, level 3 has its way into a new business deal that will significantly increase the amount of level traffic comcast would carry, and suddenly wants to seriously disrupt the settled economics of internet traffic to meet its new business plan. its position is not based on any principles of on the internet, but instead is merely the result of its rash bid to carry traffic at radically low rates, based on the flawed assumption that it could use its tier 1 internet backbone status to cram its traffic onto others' networks on a basis.
all that said, we have not given up hope that level 3 will make a reasonable business decision in the context of the parties' overall commercial relationship. to that end, and in that spirit, we have continued to have discussions with level 3 as recently as this morning. commercial resolution is the appropriate path forward here: level 3 itself has expressly stated that "regulatory scrutiny" should not apply to these types of arrangements. as level 3 has explained, internet backbone facilities and "high capacity connections to facilities of content and application robustly competitive, service elements are unbundled and purchases are generally made by enterprises with substantial buying power."
nevertheless, if we are unable to resolve the issues satisfactorily in these conversations, we would be pleased to participate in a meeting between the parties overseen by and with the participation of commission staff if that will facilitate a better understanding of the matters at issue.
please let me know if you have further questions.
sincerely,
/s/ joseph w. waz, jr.
joseph w. waz, jr.
senior vice president, external affairs
and public policy counsel
/s/ lynn r.
lynn r.
vice president, legal regulatory affairs
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(hir ɪz ˈkɑmˌkæsts ɛks ˈpɑrteɪ tɪ ðə fcc*. ðə ˈfʊtˌnoʊts hæv bɪn oʊˈmɪtɪd fər ˈrizənz. tɪ faɪnd ðə fʊl tɛkst əv ðə ˈlɛtər pləs ðə ˈfʊtˌnoʊts, pliz ˈvɪzɪt ðɪs lɪŋk: http://www.comcast.com/medialibrary/1/1/about/pressroom/documents/comcastexparte1130.pdf*) ˈkɑmˌkæst ˌkɔrpərˈeɪʃən 300 nu ˈʤərzi ˈævəˌnu, swit 700 ˈwɔʃɪŋtən, ˌdiˈsi 20001 noʊˈvɛmbər 30 2010 ˈʃɛrən ʤɪˈlɪt ʧif ˈwaɪˌrlaɪn ˌkɑmpəˈtɪʃən ˈbjʊroʊ ˈfɛdərəl kəmˌjunəˈkeɪʃənz kəˈmɪʃən 445 strit, ˈwɔʃɪŋtən, d.c*. 20554 ri: prɪˈzərvɪŋ ðə ˈoʊpən ˈɪntərˌnɛt, ˈdɑkət noʊ. dɪr ˈʃɛrən: ðɪs ˈlɛtər ˈsəmərˌaɪzɪz ɑr kɔl ˈjɛstərˌdeɪ kənˈsərnɪŋ ðə prɛs riˈlis ˈlɛvəl 3 ˈɪʃud ˈjɛstərˌdeɪ ˌæftərˈnun, ənd ˈfɑloʊz əp ɔn kˈwɛsʧənz ju poʊzd tɪ ˈjuˈɛs ˈdʊrɪŋ ðət kɔl. ɛz wi ɪkˈspleɪnd ˈjɛstərˌdeɪ, dɪˈspaɪt ˈlɛvəl ˈɛfərt tɪ pɔrˈtreɪ ɪts dɪˈspjut wɪθ ˈkɑmˌkæst ɛz biɪŋ əˈbaʊt ən "ˈoʊpən ˈɪntərˌnɛt," ɪt ɪz ˈnəθɪŋ bət ə gʊd ˌoʊldˈfæʃənd kəˈmərʃəl ˈpirɪŋ dɪˈspjut, ðə kaɪnd ðət ˈlɛvəl 3 həz faʊnd ˌɪtˈsɛlf ɪn ˌbiˈfɔr. ˌnɑtwɪθˈstændɪŋ ˈlɛvəl kleɪmz, ðɪs ɪz nɑt əˈbaʊt ˈɔnˌlaɪn ˈvɪdioʊ, ɪt ɪz nɑt əˈbaʊt "peɪd prioritization*," ɪt dɪz nɑt ˌɪnˈvɑlv ˈpʊtɪŋ "toʊl buθs" ɔn ðə ˈɪntərˌnɛt, ənd ɪt ɪz nɑt əˈbaʊt nɛt nuˈtræləti. ˌɪnˈdid, ɪf ˈɛniˌθɪŋ, ɪt ɪz ˈlɛvəl 3 ðət ɪz ˈsikɪŋ "non-neutral*" ˈtritmənt ðət wʊd ˈfeɪvər ɪts ˈnɛtˌwərk ˈtræfɪk ˈoʊvər ðoʊz əv ɔl ɪts kəmˈpɛtɪtərz. ˈteɪkɪŋ ə stɛp bæk frəm ðɪs dɪˈspjut, ɪt ɪz ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt tɪ stɑrt wɪθ haʊ ðə ˈɪntərˌnɛt wərks təˈdeɪ. ɛz ju noʊ, wɪn ˈnɛtˌwərk ə (ən ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈbækˌboʊn prəˈvaɪdər) wɔnts tɪ kəˈnɛkt wɪθ ˈnɛtˌwərk bi (əˈnəðər ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈbækˌboʊn prəˈvaɪdər), ɪt kən ˈiðər æsk ˈnɛtˌwərk bi fər fri "ˈpirɪŋ" (i.e*., ðə dɪˈrɛkt ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ əv ˈtræfɪk bɪtˈwin ðə tu ˈnɛtˌwərks), ər ˈpərʧəs ˈsərvɪsɪz frəm ˈnɛtˌwərk bi. ˈnɛtˌwərks laɪk ˈkɑmˌkæst meɪnˈteɪn ˈpirɪŋ ˈpɑləsiz (www.comcast.com/peering*) ðət sɛt fɔrθ ðə ˈbɪznɪs ənd ˈtɛknɪkəl kraɪˈtɪriə fər dɪˈfaɪnɪŋ əˈnəðər ˈnɛtˌwərk ɛz ə pɪr. ˈpirɪŋ ɪz ˈtɪpɪkəli əˈproʊpriˌeɪt wɪn iʧ ˈkɛriər sɛndz ə ˈrəfli ˈbælənst ˈlɛvəl əv ˈtræfɪk tɪ ðə ˈəðərz ˈnɛtˌwərk. ɪn ə ˈsərkəmˌstæns wɛr ˈnɛtˌwərk bi sɛndz ˈtræfɪk tɪ ˈnɛtˌwərk ə ðət ɪz sɪgˈnɪfɪkəntli aʊt əv ˈbæləns wɪθ ðə ˈtræfɪk ɪt rɪˈsivz frəm ˈnɛtˌwərk ə, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ˈnɛtˌwərk bi ɪz ɪkˈspɛktɪd ˈiðər tɪ ˈrɛmədi ðə ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃən ər tɪ peɪ ˈsəmθɪŋ tɪ ˈnɛtˌwərk ə tɪ ˈkɑmpənˌseɪt fər ðət ɪmˈbæləns (ðət "ˈsəmθɪŋ" ɪz noʊn ɛz "ˈsɛtəlmənts"). ˈkɑntɛnt dɪˈlɪvəri ˈnɛtˌwərks ("cdns*"), səʧ ɛz akamai*, ˈlaɪmˌlaɪt, ənd ˈæməˌzɑn cloudfront*, ər nɑt ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈbækˌboʊn prəˈvaɪdərz. ðɛr ˈbɪznɪs ˌɪnˈvɑlvz ˈsɛndɪŋ sɪgˈnɪfɪkəntli mɔr ˈtræfɪk ðən ðeɪ rɪˈsiv. fər ðət ˈrizən ðeɪ ˈtɪpɪkəli ˈpərʧəs ˈsərvɪsɪz ("peɪd ˌɪntərkəˈnɛkʃən") frəm ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈbækˌboʊn prəˈvaɪdərz. ðɪs dɪˈskrɪpʃən ɪz nɑt ʤɪst ˈrɛləvənt tɪ haʊ ˈkɑmˌkæst ˈɑpərˌeɪts ˈrəðər, ɪt ɪz ə ˌkɛrɪktərɪˈzeɪʃən əv ðə weɪ ðə ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈmɑrkɪt wərks, hir ənd əraʊnd ðə wərld. ðə dɪˈspjut bɪtˈwin ˈkɑmˌkæst ənd ˈlɛvəl 3 rɪˈleɪts tɪ haʊ ˈlɛvəl 3 wɔnts ˈkɑmˌkæst (ənd prɪˈzuməbli ˈəðər ˈnɛtˌwərks) tɪ trit ðɛr nu ˈɪnˌfləks əv ˈtræfɪk, bət ɪt həz ˈnəθɪŋ ˌwətsoʊˈɛvər tɪ du wɪθ ˈɛni ˈkɑntɛnt, ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən, ər ˈsərvɪs ðət ˈlɛvəl 3 ɪz trænsˈmɪtɪŋ. ðɪs kənˈsərnz ˈoʊnli ðə væst ˌɪnˈkris ɪn ðə əˈmaʊnt əv ˈtræfɪk ˈlɛvəl 3 toʊld ˈkɑmˌkæst ðət ɪt wɔnts tɪ sɛnd tɪ ˈkɑmˌkæsts ˈnɛtˌwərk ɔn ə "ˈpirɪŋ" ˈbeɪsɪs. ˈgɪvɪn ðət ðɪs wɪl θroʊ ˈtræfɪk bɪtˈwin ðə tu ˈnɛtˌwərks ˈgroʊsli aʊt əv ˈbæləns, ənd ɪn ˈkipɪŋ wɪθ ˈsɛtəlmənt ˈpræktɪsɪz ɔn ðə ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈbækˌboʊn, ˈkɑmˌkæst həz æst ˈlɛvəl 3 tɪ ˈɛnər ˈɪntu kəˈmərʃəl nɪˌgoʊʃiˈeɪʃənz tɪ əˈʧiv ə səˈluʃən ðət əˈkaʊnts fər ðɪs nu ənd sɪgˈnɪfɪkənt ˈtræfɪk ɪmˈbæləns. dɪˈspaɪt ˈlɛvəl kəmˈpleɪnts, ˈkɑmˌkæst ɪz ˈniðər rɪˈzɪstɪŋ ˈkɛriɪŋ ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈvɪdioʊ ˈtræfɪk nɔr ˌɪmˈpoʊzɪŋ nu "toʊlz" ɔn ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈvɪdioʊ ˈtræfɪk. ðə ˈsɪmpəl fækt ɪz ðət ˈkɑmˌkæst ˈtərmɪˌneɪts juʤ əˈmaʊnts əv ˈɔnˌlaɪn ˈvɪdioʊ ˈtræfɪk tɪ ɑr ˈhaɪˌspid ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈkəstəmərz, moʊst əv ɪt pərˈsuənt tɪ ˈlɔŋˌstændɪŋ, mˈjuʧuəli əkˈsɛptəbəl kəˈmərʃəl ərˈeɪnʤmənts wi hæv ɪn pleɪs wɪθ ðə ˈlidɪŋ ˈkəmpəˌniz. ɑr ˈkəstəmərz gɪt ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ɔl ðə ˈɔnˌlaɪn ˈvɪdioʊ ðeɪ wɔnt, əˈlɔŋ wɪθ ˈɛni ˈəðər ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈkɑntɛnt, ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən, ər ˈsərvɪs ðeɪ ʧuz rəˈgɑrdləs əv ɪts sɔrs. ənd, rəˈgɑrdləs əv haʊ ðɪs dɪˈspjut tərnz aʊt, ðət wɪl kənˈtɪnju tɪ bi ðə keɪs. bət ˈlɛvəl 3 ɪz traɪɪŋ tɪ geɪm ðə ˈprɔˌsɛs əv ˈpirɪŋ wən ðət həz wərkt wɛl ənd consensually*, wɪˈθaʊt ˈgəvərnmənt ˌɪnərˈfɪrəns, fər ˈoʊvər ə ˈdɛkeɪd ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ geɪn ə juˈnik ənd ˌɔnˈfɛr ædˈvæntɪʤ fər ɪts oʊn ɪkˈspændɪŋ ˈsərvɪs. ˈlɛvəl ˈprɑbləm əˈpɛrəntli ərˈaɪzɪz aʊt əv ðə fækt ðət ɪt ˈrisəntli wən ə bɪd tɪ bɪˈkəm wən əv ˈpraɪˌmɛri prəˈvaɪdərz ɪn ˌkɑmpəˈtɪʃən wɪθ ðə ˈmeɪʤər ˈnæʃənəl ðət ɔˈrɛdi sɛnd ənd ˈəðər ˈtræfɪk tɪ ˈkɑmˌkæsts ˈnɛtˌwərk. ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ ˈəndərˌkət ɪts kəmˈpɛtɪtərz, ˈlɛvəl 3 wɔnts tɪ əˈvɔɪd ðə kəˈmərʃəl ərˈeɪnʤmənts ˈəðər ˈkəmpəˌniz juz tɪ ˈtərməˌneɪt ˈtræfɪk ˈɔntu ˈkɑmˌkæsts ənd ˈəðər prəˈvaɪdərz' ˈnɛtˌwərks, ənd ˌɪnˈstɛd fɔrs ˈkɑmˌkæst tɪ əkˈsɛpt ɪts ˈtræfɪk fər fri, ˈəndər ə "ˈpirɪŋ" riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp. ðɪs ɪz nɑt haʊ ˈpirɪŋ wərks, hir ər ˈɛniˌwɛr ɪn ðə wərld. wət ˈlɛvəl 3 ɪz ˈsədənli ˈpʊʃɪŋ ə "nu ˈθɪri" əv ˈpirɪŋ wʊd θroʊ ðə trəˈdɪʃənəl, "ˈbælənst ˈtræfɪk" ˈpirɪŋ ˈrulˌbʊk aʊt ðə ˈwɪndoʊ, gɪv ˈlɛvəl 3 ən ˌɔnˈfɛr kɔst ædˈvæntɪʤ ˈoʊvər ɪts kəmˈpɛtɪtərz, ənd ʃɪft ɔl əv ðə kɔsts frəm ˈlɛvəl 3 ənd ɪts ˈkɑntɛnt ˈkəstəmərz ˈɔntu ˈkɑmˌkæst ənd ɪts ˈhaɪˌspid ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈkəstəmərz. ənˈtɪl ˈlɛvəl 3 ˈfoʊmɛntɪd ðɪs dɪˈspjut, ˈkɑmˌkæst ənd ˈlɛvəl 3 ɪksˈʧeɪnʤd ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈtræfɪk ɛz pɑrt əv ə kəˈmərʃəl ˌɪntərkəˈnɛkʃən əˈgrimənt, ˈəndər wɪʧ ˈkɑmˌkæst peɪd ˈlɛvəl 3 fər ˌɪntərkəˈnɛkʃən fəˈsɪlɪtiz. ˌɔlˈðoʊ ðə ˈpɑrtiz ɪksˈʧeɪnʤd ˈtræfɪk æt ə ˈreɪʃiˌoʊ əv əˈbaʊt wɪθ ˈkɑmˌkæst ˈtərməˌneɪtɪŋ mɔr əv ˈlɛvəl ˈtræfɪk, ðɪs wɑz wɛl wɪˈθɪn ðə ˈɪndəstriz ɪˈstæblɪʃt baʊndz fər "ˈrəfli ˈbælənst" ˈtræfɪk, ənd ðeɪ ɪksˈʧeɪnʤd ðɛr ˈtræfɪk ɔn ə ˈbeɪsɪs. æt səm pɔɪnt, wi ər toʊld, səm əv ðə ˈtræfɪk sɛnt baɪ ˈlɛvəl 3 tɪ ˈkɑmˌkæst keɪm frəm ˈsərvɪsɪz ˈɑpərˌeɪtəd baɪ ˈlɛvəl 3 bɪˈkəz ðɪs ˈtræfɪk wɑz wɪˈθɪn ðə trəˈdɪʃənəl ˈɪndəstri kraɪˈtɪriə fər "ˈrəfli ˈbælənst," ðɪs dɪd nɑt reɪz ˈɛni ˈɪʃuz fər ˈkɑmˌkæst. naʊ, ˈlɛvəl 3 həz ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd tɪ ˌriɪnˈvɛnt ˌɪtˈsɛlf ɛz ə ˈmeɪʤər, ɪn ˌkɑmpəˈtɪʃən wɪθ ˈəðər kəˈmərʃəl pleɪərz, ɔl əv hum peɪ fər trænzˈmɪʃən əv ðɛr ˈtræfɪk ɔn ˈkɑmˌkæsts ənd ˈəðərz' ˈnɛtˌwərks. ənd ɪn soʊ duɪŋ, ˈlɛvəl 3 wʊd mɔr ðən ˈdəbəl ðə əˈmaʊnt əv ˈtræfɪk ɪt sɛndz tɪ ˈkɑmˌkæst wɪʧ wʊd rɪˈzəlt ɪn ə ˈtræfɪk ɪmˈbæləns ðət kʊd bi ɪn ðə reɪnʤ əv əˈbaʊt ðə ˈpɑrtiz' ˈkɑrənt ˌɪntərkəˈnɛkʃən fəˈsɪlɪtiz kʊd nɑt bɪˈgɪn tɪ səˈpɔrt ðət taɪp əv ˈtræfɪk floʊ. ɛz ə rɪˈzəlt, ˈlɛvəl 3 əˈproʊʧt ˈkɑmˌkæst əˈprɑksəmətli tu wiks əˈgoʊ (ˈʃɔrtli ˈæftər ˈriʧɪŋ ðɛr əˈgrimənt, wi ˈleɪtər ˈlərnɪd, ˌɔlˈðoʊ ðeɪ meɪd noʊ ˈmɛnʃən əv ɪt æt ðə taɪm) ənd dɪˈmændɪd 27 tɪ 30 nu ˌɪntərkəˈnɛkʃən pɔrts, wɪʧ wʊd əˈlaʊ ðɛm tɪ sɛnd ə məʧ ˈgreɪtər əˈmaʊnt əv ˈtræfɪk ˈɔntu ˈkɑmˌkæsts ˈnɛtˌwərk. tɪ ðət rɪkˈwɛst, ˈlɛvəl 3 ˈædɪd ðə ˈfɑloʊɪŋ twɪst: ɪt ˌɪnˈsɪstɪd ðət ˈkɑmˌkæst ʃʊd prəˈvaɪd ɪt wɪθ ɔl ðoʊz nu fəˈsɪlɪtiz ənd səˈpɔrt ðɪs væst nu ˈɪnˌfləks əv ˈtræfɪk fər fri. ˈkɑmˌkæst wɑz ˈeɪbəl tɪ ˈskræmbəl ənd prəˈvaɪd ˈlɛvəl 3 wɪθ sɪks pɔrts (æt noʊ ʧɑrʤ) ðət wər, baɪ ʧæns, əˈveɪləbəl ənd nɑt ˈbəʤɪtɪd ənd ˈfɔrˌkæstɪd fər ˈkɑmˌkæsts ˈhoʊlˌseɪl kəˈmərʃəl ˈkəstəmərz. ðə əˈmaʊnt əv ˈtræfɪk ðət wʊd bi ɪksˈʧeɪnʤd ˈoʊvər ðiz sɪks pɔrts (ənd ðə ˈpɑrtiz' ˈpriɪgˈzɪstɪŋ pɔrts) wɑz ʤɪst ˈbɛrli wɪˈθɪn ðə ˈʤɛnərəli ækˈsɛptɪd baʊndz əv ə ˈrəfli ˈbælənst ˈtræfɪk ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ bɪtˈwin ðə ˈpɑrtiz. ˈlɛvəl 3 ækˈsɛptɪd ðoʊz pɔrts, ənd ðeɪ ər ˈjuzɪŋ ðɛm raɪt naʊ tɪ sɛnd ˈtræfɪk tɪ ˈkɑmˌkæsts ˈnɛtˌwərk. ðə əˈdɪʃənəl pɔrts ˈlɛvəl 3 rɪkˈwɛstɪd ənd ðə ˈtræfɪk tɪ bi ɪksˈʧeɪnʤd ˈoʊvər ðət lɑrʤ ˈnəmbər əv pɔrts wʊd pʊt ðə ˈtræfɪk ˈreɪʃiˌoʊ bɪtˈwin ðə ˈpɑrtiz fɑr aʊt əv ˈbæləns. ɛz ə rɪˈzəlt, ˈkɑmˌkæst ɪkˈspleɪnd tɪ ˈlɛvəl 3 ðət ɪt wʊd bi ˈwɪlɪŋ tɪ prəˈvaɪd əˈdɪʃənəl pɔrts ɔn ə kəˈmərʃəl ˈhoʊlˌseɪl ˈbeɪsɪs (ʤɪst ɛz ɪt dɪz wɪθ ˈlɛvəl kəmˈpɛtɪtərz). ˈkɑmˌkæst ˈɔfərd ˈlɛvəl 3 tˈwɛnti pɔrts ˈəndər ə kəˈmərʃəl ərˈeɪnʤmənt, bət ɪt ˌɪnˈfɔrmd ˈlɛvəl 3 ðət ɪt hæd tɪ kəˈmɪt kˈwɪkli ɪf ɪt ˈwɔntɪd tɪ ɪnˈʃʊr ðət ðiz pɔrts wər kəˈmɪtɪd tɪ ɪts ˈbɪznɪs, ˌbiˈfɔr əˈnəðər kəˈmərʃəl ˈkəstəmər səbˈmɪtəd ə kəmˈpitɪŋ ˈɔrdər. ðɪs meɪks ˈlɛvəl ˈsteɪtmənt ðət ˈkɑmˌkæsts ˈɔfər wɑz "teɪk ɪt ər liv ɪt" ˈpætəntli əbˈsərd. ɪn fækt, ˈkɑmˌkæst traɪd tɪ hɛlp ˈlɛvəl 3 sɪˈkjʊr ɛz məʧ kəˈpæsɪti ɛz ˈpɑsəbəl, ɛz kˈwɪkli ɛz ˈpɑsəbəl, ˈgɪvɪn taɪm ənd ˈbɪznɪs kənˈstreɪnts. ðə əˈgrimənt ˈkɑmˌkæst ˈɔfərd ˈlɛvəl 3 wʊd ˈɔlsoʊ fəˈsɪləˌteɪt ˈlɛvəl ˈɔrdərɪŋ əˈdɪʃənəl pɔrts ɛz sun ɛz ðoʊz bɪˈkəm əˈveɪləbəl ɪn ðə nu ˈkæləndər jɪr. ɛz ˈlɛvəl 3 rɪˈpɔrts, ɪt həz ɪn fækt ˈɛnərd ˈɪntu ə kəˈmərʃəl pɔrts əˈgrimənt wɪθ ˈkɑmˌkæst (ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ rɪˈsivɪŋ ðə sɪks fri pɔrts). ˈlɛvəl ˈsteɪtmənt ðət ɪt həz dən soʊ "ˈəndər ˈproʊˌtɛst" ɪz ɪnˈtaɪərli dɪsɪnˈʤɛnjuəs. tɪ bi ʃʊr, ˈlɛvəl 3 wʊd prɪˈfər tɪ fɔrs ˈkɑmˌkæst ˈɪntu ərˈeɪnʤmənts ðət gɪv ɪt ɔl ðə pɔrts ɪt wɔnts fər fri. ðæts ə greɪt ˈstrætəʤi fər ˈlɛvəl 3 tɪ ˈəndərˌmaɪn ɔl əv ɪts kəmˈpɛtɪtərz, wɪʧ hæv lɔŋ dən ˈbɪznɪs beɪst ɔn kəˈmərʃəl ˈhoʊlˌseɪl ərˈeɪnʤmənts, nɑt ʤɪst wɪθ ˈkɑmˌkæst bət ˈɔlsoʊ wɪθ ˈəðər ˈnɛtˌwərk prəˈvaɪdərz. ˈlɛvəl prɪˈfərd ərˈeɪnʤmənt wʊd ˈɔlsoʊ əˈlaʊ ɪt tɪ ˈɛnər ˈɪntu ɪts nu ˈvɛnʧər æt ˈlɪtəl kɔst tɪ ˈlɛvəl 3 ər ɪts ˈkəstəmərz, waɪl ˈʃɪftɪŋ ɪts kɔsts tɪ ˈkɑmˌkæst ənd ɪts ˈbrɔdˌbænd ˈkəstəmərz. moʊst ˌɪmˈpɔrtəntli, ɛz ˈnoʊtɪd əˈbəv, ðɪs wʊd du ˈnəθɪŋ tɪ ˌɪnˈkris ðə əˈmaʊnt əv ˈɔnˌlaɪn ˈvɪdioʊ ˈtræfɪk ɔn ðə ˈnɛtˌwərk ər əˈfɛkt ðə ˌæksɛsəˈbɪlɪti əv ˈɔnˌlaɪn ˈvɪdioʊ tɪ ˈkɑmˌkæsts ˈkəstəmərz, hu ɔˈrɛdi hæv roʊˈbəst ˈækˌsɛs tɪ dɪˈlɪvəri əv ðə prɪˈsaɪs seɪm ˈkɑntɛnt. ɪt wʊd ˈsɪmpli ˈproʊdus ˌɪmˈpruvd ˈmɑrʤənz fər ˈlɛvəl 3 ˈlɛvəl 3 həz bɪn ɔn ðə ˈɑpəzɪt ɛnd əv ɪgˈzæktli səʧ ə dɪˈspjut rɪˈpitɪdli ˈoʊvər ðə pæst ˈsɛvərəl jɪrz, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ɛz ˈrisəntli ɛz ə fju mənθs əˈgoʊ. ɪt həz bɪn kwɪk tɪ dɪˈkraɪ ən ərˈeɪnʤmənt səʧ ɛz ðə wən ɪt wɔnts wɪθ ˈkɑmˌkæst ɛz ən ˌɔnˈfɛr "ˈsəbsɪdi" ðət ɪz ənˈsutəbəl fər ðə taɪp əv ˈpirɪŋ ɪt dɪˈmændz hir. wɪn ˈlɛvəl 3 ˈriəˌlaɪzd ðət ˈkoʊʤənt wɑz "ˈsɛndɪŋ fɑr mɔr ˈtræfɪk tɪ ðə ˈlɛvəl 3 ˈnɛtˌwərk ðən ˈlɛvəl 3 wɑz ˈsɛndɪŋ tɪ ˈnɛtˌwərk," ɪt rɪˈvaɪzd ðə ˈpɑrtiz' riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp ənd ˌɪnˈsɪstɪd ɔn nɪˈgoʊʃiˌeɪtɪŋ ə mɔr ˈbælənst ərˈeɪnʤmənt. ɪn ˈlɛvəl oʊn wərdz, "tɪ bi ˈlæstɪŋ, ˈbɪznɪs riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪps ʃʊd bi mˈjuʧuəli ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃəl. ɪn ˈkeɪsɪz wɛr ðə ˈbɛnəfɪt wi rɪˈsiv ɪz ɪn laɪn wɪθ ðə ˈbɛnəfɪt wi dɪˈlɪvər, wi wɪl ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ ˈtræfɪk ɔn ə ˈbeɪsɪs. ˈkɑntrɛri tɪ [ˈəðər isps*] ˈpəblɪk ˈsteɪtmənts, ˈrizənəbəl, ˈbælənst, ənd mˈjuʧuəli ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃəl əˈgrimənts fər ðə ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ əv ˈtræfɪk du nɑt ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnt ə θrɛt tɪ ðə ˈɪntərˌnɛt. ðeɪ doʊnt ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnt ə θrɛt tɪ ˈɛniˌwən ˈəðər ðən ðoʊz traɪɪŋ tɪ gɪt ə fri raɪd ɔn ˈsəmˌwən ˈɛlsɪz ˈnɛtˌwərk." ɪn ˈkɑmˌkæsts keɪs, ˈlɛvəl 3 həz ɪts weɪ ˈɪntu ə nu ˈbɪznɪs dil ðət wɪl sɪgˈnɪfɪkəntli ˌɪnˈkris ðə əˈmaʊnt əv ˈlɛvəl ˈtræfɪk ˈkɑmˌkæst wʊd ˈkɛri, ənd ˈsədənli wɔnts tɪ ˈsɪriəsli dɪsˈrəpt ðə ˈsɛtəld ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪks əv ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈtræfɪk tɪ mit ɪts nu ˈbɪznɪs plæn. ɪts pəˈzɪʃən ɪz nɑt beɪst ɔn ˈɛni ˈprɪnsəpəlz əv ɔn ðə ˈɪntərˌnɛt, bət ˌɪnˈstɛd ɪz ˈmɪrli ðə rɪˈzəlt əv ɪts ræʃ bɪd tɪ ˈkɛri ˈtræfɪk æt ˈrædɪkli loʊ reɪts, beɪst ɔn ðə flɔd əˈsəmpʃən ðət ɪt kʊd juz ɪts tir 1 ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈbækˌboʊn ˈstætəs tɪ kræm ɪts ˈtræfɪk ˈɔntu ˈəðərz' ˈnɛtˌwərks ɔn ə ˈbeɪsɪs. ɔl ðət sɛd, wi hæv nɑt ˈgɪvɪn əp hoʊp ðət ˈlɛvəl 3 wɪl meɪk ə ˈrizənəbəl ˈbɪznɪs dɪˈsɪʒən ɪn ðə ˈkɑntɛkst əv ðə ˈpɑrtiz' ˈoʊvərˌɔl kəˈmərʃəl riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp. tɪ ðət ɛnd, ənd ɪn ðət ˈspɪrɪt, wi hæv kənˈtɪnjud tɪ hæv dɪˈskəʃənz wɪθ ˈlɛvəl 3 ɛz ˈrisəntli ɛz ðɪs ˈmɔrnɪŋ. kəˈmərʃəl ˌrɛzəˈluʃən ɪz ðə əˈproʊpriˌeɪt pæθ ˈfɔrwərd hir: ˈlɛvəl 3 ˌɪtˈsɛlf həz ɛkˈsprɛsli ˈsteɪtɪd ðət "ˈrɛgjələˌtɔri ˈskrutəni" ʃʊd nɑt əˈplaɪ tɪ ðiz taɪps əv ərˈeɪnʤmənts. ɛz ˈlɛvəl 3 həz ɪkˈspleɪnd, ˈɪntərˌnɛt ˈbækˌboʊn fəˈsɪlɪtiz ənd "haɪ kəˈpæsɪti kəˈnɛkʃənz tɪ fəˈsɪlɪtiz əv ˈkɑntɛnt ənd ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən ˌroʊˈbəstli kəmˈpɛtɪtɪv, ˈsərvɪs ˈɛləmənts ər ənˈbəndəld ənd ˈpərʧəsɪz ər ˈʤɛnərəli meɪd baɪ ˈɛnərˌpraɪzɪz wɪθ səbˈstænʃəl baɪɪŋ paʊər." ˌnɛvərðəˈlɛs, ɪf wi ər əˈneɪbəl tɪ riˈzɑlv ðə ˈɪʃuz ˌsætɪsˈfæktrəli ɪn ðiz ˌkɑnvərˈseɪʃənz, wi wʊd bi plizd tɪ pɑrˈtɪsəˌpeɪt ɪn ə ˈmitɪŋ bɪtˈwin ðə ˈpɑrtiz ˈoʊvərˌsin baɪ ənd wɪθ ðə pɑrˌtɪsəˈpeɪʃən əv kəˈmɪʃən stæf ɪf ðət wɪl fəˈsɪləˌteɪt ə ˈbɛtər ˌəndərˈstændɪŋ əv ðə ˈmætərz æt ˈɪʃu. pliz lɛt mi noʊ ɪf ju hæv ˈfərðər kˈwɛsʧənz. sɪnˈsɪrli, /ɛs/ ˈʤoʊzəf ˈdəbəlju. waz*, jr*. ˈʤoʊzəf ˈdəbəlju. waz*, jr*. ˈsinjər vaɪs ˈprɛzɪdənt, ɪkˈstərnəl əˈfɛrz ənd ˈpəblɪk ˈpɑləsi ˈkaʊnsəl /ɛs/ lɪn ɑr. lɪn ɑr. vaɪs ˈprɛzɪdənt, ˈligəl ˈrɛgjələˌtɔri əˈfɛrz
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if you can judge a man by the company he keeps, david cameron is a pinball machine. look at the random bunch of advisers he hangs or in one case hung around with. just look at them.
first, andy coulson, the "man of the people" who rose to become editor of the nation's foremost surveillance unit. at the other end of the spectrum, george gideon oliver king rameses osborne, novelty chancellor and future baron of and a man so posh he probably weeps champagne. and finally, at the opposing end of the spectrum to the other end of the spectrum thereby hopelessly the spectrum we have "blue-sky" policy guru steve hilton, who apparently wanders around downing street barefoot, "thinking outside the box" like some groovy ceo.
imagine sitting in a meeting room trying to make sense of that lot. imagine them collectively giving you policy advice over a tea urn and a platter of sandwiches. andy darkly and and breaking off every few minutes to check the guardian on his iphone. gideon wondering how many coins there are in a pound then snorting through his nose as he draws a penis murdering a tramp on his satchel. steve idly tossing a sack around and suggesting the next cabinet meeting should be held in a birthing pool. talk about conflicting approaches. the cognitive dissonance would grow so loud you'd turn olive and giddy. and then you wouldn't know which one to vomit over first. (although since you're david cameron, the correct answer is "yourself".)
andy and gideon we're familiar with, of course. andy is the sinister man in the shots on the news, and gideon is the naughty boy who's broken the economy. but steve is more of a mystery. i've only ever glimpsed him in still photographs and a bit of news archive of him sitting on a bench somewhere.
last week, the aura of mystery was punctured somewhat after the financial times printed a leaked list of some of his bluer "blue-sky" ideas, such as the abolition of maternity leave and the closure of job centres. ministers were quick to point out none of this was going to become official policy rather, this was all a bit of amusing crazy talk designed to internal discussions. you know, an icebreaker like opening a meeting by suggesting everyone follows you down to the local duck pond to watch you chop the head off a swan with some shears. it gets people talking. the head stays on the swan was never in danger but some truly concepts might spin out of the ensuing debate. only by thinking the unthinkable can we define what's thinkable. the swan has to die in our heads to survive in our hearts. or something.
previously, such led hilton to suggest the use of nascent "cloudbusting" technology to create longer summers no, really and more famously, to dream up the "big society". frustratingly for hilton's critics, who like to paint him as a sort of misguided guff engine, the big society has been a resounding, concrete success. from the village to the hugest metropolis, there's a big society community on every corner, staffed by volunteers in unicorn costumes. i can't recall the last time an authentic grassroots movement captured the public imagination on such a grand scale, apart perhaps from 2009 band" advertising campaign, which culminated in a hit single that stayed at number one for 79 consecutive weeks in mad mind.
anyway, most of the focus thus far has been on hilton's dress sense and the professor of his ideas, which started out funny but seem less the more extreme they become. but what sticks in my craw is the sheer stinking, blunted of them.
"nudge unit". "big society". "hug a hoodie". they sound like the titles of nauseating books: the sort of who moved my cheese? groovy ceo bullshit routinely found cluttering the shelves of every airport bookshop in the world. as well as being a pallid substitute for actual creativity a device for making grey business wonks mistake themselves for david bowie at his experimental peak these books are the direct equivalent of those embarrassing motivational self-help tomes that prey on the insecure, promising to turn their life around before dissolving into a of "strategies" and "systems" and above all excruciating metaphors.
be honest. we've all read at least one of these personal empowerment classics. or at least through it in a bookshop. any idiot could churn one out. in fact, let's write one now.
we'll call it break in your. chapter 1: imagine your hopes and dreams are a galloping stallion, wild and untamed. chapter 2: now picture yourself throwing a glowing lasso of light around its neck. chapter 3: the dream stallion tries to jerk away from you, but if you dig in your heels and whisper at it, it will eventually calm down. chapter 4: while it grazes, unsuspecting leap on and saddle up! chapter 5: ride it through the canyons of doubt and over the horizon of fear. congratulations! you're achieve-anating! that'll be thanks. don't forget to visit our website to buy the official grooming kit containing exclusive and a guide to your saddle. coming soon: break in your (relationship for the recently bewildered), and break in your strategies for the under-12s.)
there you go. beam an of that to hilton's kindle, and i guarantee there'll be a in every nudge unit by 2013. unless he's his way to having us all diced up and fed to the swans by big society shock troopers as part of some initiative by then. which is inevitable. inevitable.
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ɪf ju kən ʤəʤ ə mæn baɪ ðə ˈkəmpəˌni hi kips, ˈdeɪvɪd ˈkæmərən ɪz ə ˈpɪnˌbɔl məˈʃin. lʊk æt ðə ˈrændəm bənʧ əv ædˈvaɪzərz hi hæŋz ər ɪn wən keɪs həŋ əraʊnd wɪθ. ʤɪst lʊk æt ðɛm. fərst, ˈændi ˈkaʊlsən, ðə "mæn əv ðə ˈpipəl" hu roʊz tɪ bɪˈkəm ˈɛdɪtər əv ðə ˈneɪʃənz ˈfɔrˌmoʊst sərˈveɪləns ˈjunɪt. æt ðə ˈəðər ɛnd əv ðə ˈspɛktrəm, ʤɔrʤ ˈgɪdiən ˈɑlɪvər kɪŋ ˈræməˌsiz ˈɔzˌbɔrn, ˈnɑvəlti ˈʧænsələr ənd fˈjuʧər ˈbɛrən əv ənd ə mæn soʊ pɑʃ hi ˈprɑbəˌbli wips ʃæmˈpeɪn. ənd ˈfaɪnəli, æt ðə əˈpoʊzɪŋ ɛnd əv ðə ˈspɛktrəm tɪ ðə ˈəðər ɛnd əv ðə ˈspɛktrəm ˈðɛrˈbaɪ ˈhoʊpləsli ðə ˈspɛktrəm wi hæv "blue-sky*" ˈpɑləsi ˈguˌru stiv ˈhɪltən, hu əˈpɛrəntli ˈwɑndərz əraʊnd ˈdaʊnɪŋ strit ˈbɛrˌfʊt, "ˈθɪŋkɪŋ ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ðə bɑks" laɪk səm ˈgruvi ˈsiˌiˈoʊ. ˌɪˈmæʤən ˈsɪtɪŋ ɪn ə ˈmitɪŋ rum traɪɪŋ tɪ meɪk sɛns əv ðət lɔt. ˌɪˈmæʤən ðɛm kəˈlɛktɪvli ˈgɪvɪŋ ju ˈpɑləsi ədˈvaɪs ˈoʊvər ə ti ərn ənd ə ˈplætər əv ˈsænwɪʧɪz. ˈændi ˈdɑrkli ənd ənd ˈbreɪkɪŋ ɔf ˈɛvəri fju ˈmɪnəts tɪ ʧɛk ðə ˈgɑrdiən ɔn hɪz ˈaɪˌfoʊn. ˈgɪdiən ˈwəndərɪŋ haʊ ˈmɛni kɔɪnz ðɛr ər ɪn ə paʊnd ðɛn sˈnɔrtɪŋ θru hɪz noʊz ɛz hi drɔz ə ˈpinɪs ˈmərdərɪŋ ə træmp ɔn hɪz satchel*. stiv ˈaɪdli ˈtɔsɪŋ ə sæk əraʊnd ənd səˈʤɛstɪŋ ðə nɛkst ˈkæbənət ˈmitɪŋ ʃʊd bi hɛld ɪn ə ˈbərθɪŋ pul. tɔk əˈbaʊt kənˈflɪktɪŋ əˈproʊʧɪz. ðə ˈkɑgnɪtɪv ˈdɪsənəns wʊd groʊ soʊ laʊd jʊd tərn ˈɑlɪv ənd ˈgɪdi. ənd ðɛn ju ˈwʊdənt noʊ wɪʧ wən tɪ ˈvɑmət ˈoʊvər fərst. (ˌɔlˈðoʊ sɪns jʊr ˈdeɪvɪd ˈkæmərən, ðə kərˈɛkt ˈænsər ɪz "ˈjɔrsɛlf".) ˈændi ənd ˈgɪdiən wɪr fəˈmɪljər wɪθ, əv kɔrs. ˈændi ɪz ðə ˈsɪnɪstər mæn ɪn ðə ʃɑts ɔn ðə nuz, ənd ˈgɪdiən ɪz ðə ˈnɔti bɔɪ huz ˈbroʊkən ðə ɪˈkɑnəmi. bət stiv ɪz mɔr əv ə ˈmɪstəri. aɪv ˈoʊnli ˈɛvər glɪmpst ɪm ɪn stɪl ˈfoʊtəˌgræfs ənd ə bɪt əv nuz ˈɑrˌkaɪv əv ɪm ˈsɪtɪŋ ɔn ə bɛnʧ ˈsəmˌwɛr. læst wik, ðə ˈɔrə əv ˈmɪstəri wɑz ˈpəŋkʧərd ˈsəmˈwət ˈæftər ðə ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl taɪmz ˈprɪnɪd ə likt lɪst əv səm əv hɪz bluər "blue-sky*" aɪˈdiəz, səʧ ɛz ðə ˌæbəˈlɪʃən əv məˈtərnɪti liv ənd ðə ˈkloʊʒər əv ʤɑb ˈsɛntərz. ˈmɪnɪstərz wər kwɪk tɪ pɔɪnt aʊt nən əv ðɪs wɑz goʊɪŋ tɪ bɪˈkəm əˈfɪʃəl ˈpɑləsi ˈrəðər, ðɪs wɑz ɔl ə bɪt əv əmˈjuzɪŋ ˈkreɪzi tɔk dɪˈzaɪnd tɪ ˌɪnˈtərnəl dɪˈskəʃənz. ju noʊ, ən ˈaɪsˌbreɪkər laɪk ˈoʊpənɪŋ ə ˈmitɪŋ baɪ səˈʤɛstɪŋ ˈɛvriˌwən ˈfɑloʊz ju daʊn tɪ ðə ˈloʊkəl dək pɑnd tɪ wɔʧ ju ʧɑp ðə hɛd ɔf ə swɔn wɪθ səm ʃirz. ɪt gɪts ˈpipəl ˈtɔkɪŋ. ðə hɛd steɪz ɔn ðə swɔn wɑz ˈnɛvər ɪn ˈdeɪnʤər bət səm ˈtruli ˈkɑnsɛpts maɪt spɪn aʊt əv ðə ˈɛnsuɪŋ dəˈbeɪt. ˈoʊnli baɪ ˈθɪŋkɪŋ ðə ənˈθɪŋkəbəl kən wi dɪˈfaɪn wəts thinkable*. ðə swɔn həz tɪ daɪ ɪn ɑr hɛdz tɪ sərˈvaɪv ɪn ɑr hɑrts. ər ˈsəmθɪŋ. ˈpriviəsli, səʧ lɛd ˈhɪltən tɪ səˈʤɛst ðə juz əv ˈneɪsənt "cloudbusting*" tɛkˈnɑləʤi tɪ kriˈeɪt ˈlɔŋgər ˈsəmərz noʊ, ˈrɪli ənd mɔr ˈfeɪməsli, tɪ drim əp ðə "bɪg soʊˈsaɪɪti". ˈfrəˌstreɪtɪŋli fər ˈhɪltənz ˈkrɪtɪks, hu laɪk tɪ peɪnt ɪm ɛz ə sɔrt əv mɪsˈgaɪdɪd gəf ˈɪnʤən, ðə bɪg soʊˈsaɪɪti həz bɪn ə riˈsaʊndɪŋ, ˈkɑnkrit səkˈsɛs. frəm ðə ˈvɪlɪʤ tɪ ðə ˈhjuʤəst məˈtrɑpələs, ðɛrz ə bɪg soʊˈsaɪɪti kəmˈjunɪti ɔn ˈɛvəri ˈkɔrnər, stæft baɪ ˌvɑlənˈtɪrz ɪn ˈjunɪˌkɔrn ˈkɑstumz. aɪ kænt ˈriˌkɔl ðə læst taɪm ən əˈθɛnɪk ˈgræsˈruts ˈmuvmənt ˈkæpʧərd ðə ˈpəblɪk ˌɪˌmæʤəˈneɪʃən ɔn səʧ ə grænd skeɪl, əˈpɑrt pərˈhæps frəm 2009 bænd" ˈædvərˌtaɪzɪŋ kæmˈpeɪn, wɪʧ ˈkəlməˌneɪtɪd ɪn ə hɪt ˈsɪŋgəl ðət steɪd æt ˈnəmbər wən fər 79 kənˈsɛkjətɪv wiks ɪn mæd maɪnd. ˈɛniˌweɪ, moʊst əv ðə ˈfoʊkɪs ðəs fɑr həz bɪn ɔn ˈhɪltənz drɛs sɛns ənd ðə prəˈfɛsər əv hɪz aɪˈdiəz, wɪʧ ˈstɑrtɪd aʊt ˈfəni bət sim lɛs ðə mɔr ɪkˈstrim ðeɪ bɪˈkəm. bət wət stɪks ɪn maɪ krɔ ɪz ðə ʃɪr ˈstɪŋkɪŋ, ˈbləntɪd əv ðɛm. "nəʤ ˈjunɪt". "bɪg soʊˈsaɪɪti". "həg ə hoodie*". ðeɪ saʊnd laɪk ðə ˈtaɪtəlz əv ˈnɔʒiˌeɪtɪŋ bʊks: ðə sɔrt əv hu muvd maɪ ʧiz? ˈgruvi ˈsiˌiˈoʊ ˈbʊlˌʃɪt ruˈtinli faʊnd ˈklətərɪŋ ðə ʃɛlvz əv ˈɛvəri ˈɛrˌpɔrt ˈbʊkˌʃɑp ɪn ðə wərld. ɛz wɛl ɛz biɪŋ ə ˈpæləd ˈsəbstəˌtut fər ˈækʧəwəl ˌkrieɪˈtɪvəti ə dɪˈvaɪs fər ˈmeɪkɪŋ greɪ ˈbɪznɪs wɑnks mɪˈsteɪk ðɛmˈsɛlvz fər ˈdeɪvɪd boʊi æt hɪz ɪkˌspɛrɪˈmɛntəl pik ðiz bʊks ər ðə dɪˈrɛkt ɪkˈwɪvələnt əv ðoʊz ɪmˈbɛrəsɪŋ ˌmoʊtəˈveɪʃənəl ˈsɛlfˈhɛlp toʊmz ðət preɪ ɔn ðə ˈɪnsəkjər, ˈprɑməsɪŋ tɪ tərn ðɛr laɪf əraʊnd ˌbiˈfɔr dɪˈzɔlvɪŋ ˈɪntu ə əv "ˈstrætəʤiz" ənd "ˈsɪstəmz" ənd əˈbəv ɔl ɪkˈskruʃiˌeɪtɪŋ ˈmɛtəfɔrz. bi ˈɑnəst. wiv ɔl rɛd æt list wən əv ðiz ˈpərsɪnəl ɪmˈpaʊərmənt ˈklæsɪks. ər æt list θru ɪt ɪn ə ˈbʊkˌʃɑp. ˈɛni ˈɪˌdiət kʊd ʧərn wən aʊt. ɪn fækt, lɛts raɪt wən naʊ. wɪl kɔl ɪt breɪk ɪn jʊr. ˈʧæptər 1 ˌɪˈmæʤən jʊr hoʊps ənd drimz ər ə ˈgæləpɪŋ ˈstæljən, waɪld ənd untamed*. ˈʧæptər 2 naʊ ˈpɪkʧər ˈjɔrsɛlf θroʊɪŋ ə gloʊɪŋ ˈlæsoʊ əv laɪt əraʊnd ɪts nɛk. ˈʧæptər 3 ðə drim ˈstæljən traɪz tɪ ʤərk əˈweɪ frəm ju, bət ɪf ju dɪg ɪn jʊr hilz ənd ˈwɪspər æt ɪt, ɪt wɪl ɪˈvɛnʧəwəli kɑm daʊn. ˈʧæptər 4 waɪl ɪt grazes*, ˌənsəˈspɛktɪŋ lip ɔn ənd ˈsædəl əp! ˈʧæptər 5 raɪd ɪt θru ðə ˈkænjənz əv daʊt ənd ˈoʊvər ðə hərˈaɪzən əv fɪr. kənˌgræʧəˈleɪʃənz! jʊr achieve-anating*! ˈðætəl bi θæŋks. doʊnt fərˈgɛt tɪ ˈvɪzɪt ɑr ˈwɛbˌsaɪt tɪ baɪ ðə əˈfɪʃəl ˈgrumɪŋ kɪt kənˈteɪnɪŋ ɪkˈsklusɪv ənd ə gaɪd tɪ jʊr ˈsædəl. ˈkəmɪŋ sun: breɪk ɪn jʊr (riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp fər ðə ˈrisəntli bɪˈwɪldərd), ənd breɪk ɪn jʊr ˈstrætəʤiz fər ðə under-12s*.) ðɛr ju goʊ. bim ən əv ðət tɪ ˈhɪltənz ˈkɪndəl, ənd aɪ ˌgɛrənˈti ˈðɛrəl bi ə ɪn ˈɛvəri nəʤ ˈjunɪt baɪ 2013 ənˈlɛs hiz hɪz weɪ tɪ ˈhævɪŋ ˈjuˈɛs ɔl daɪst əp ənd fɛd tɪ ðə swɔnz baɪ bɪg soʊˈsaɪɪti ʃɑk ˈtrupərz ɛz pɑrt əv səm ˌɪˈnɪʃətɪv baɪ ðɛn. wɪʧ ɪz ˌɪˈnɛvətəbəl. ˌɪˈnɛvətəbəl.
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michelangelo often surreptitiously inserted pagan symbols into his works of art, many of them possibly associated with anatomical representations. a new analysis suggests that michelangelo may have concealed symbols associated with female anatomy within his famous work in the medici chapel.
for example, the sides of tombs in the chapel depict skulls and horns with similarity to the uterus and fallopian tubes, respectively.
numerous studies have offered interpretations of the link between anatomical figures and hidden symbols in works of art not only by michelangelo but also by other renaissance artists.
"this study provides a previously unavailable interpretation of one of michelangelo's major works, and will certainly interest those who are passionate about the history of anatomy," said dr. de campos, lead author of the clinical anatomy article. another recent analysis by dr. de campos and his colleagues revealed similar hidden symbols in michelangelo's sistine chapel.
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ˌmɪkəˈlænʤəˌloʊ ˈɔfən ˌsərəpˈtɪʃəsli ˌɪnˈsərtɪd ˈpeɪgən ˈsɪmbəlz ˈɪntu hɪz wərks əv ɑrt, ˈmɛni əv ðɛm ˈpɑsəbli əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪtəd wɪθ ˌænəˈtɑmɪkəl ˌrɛprəzənˈteɪʃənz. ə nu æˈnælɪsɪs səˈʤɛsts ðət ˌmɪkəˈlænʤəˌloʊ meɪ hæv kənˈsild ˈsɪmbəlz əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪtəd wɪθ ˈfiˌmeɪl əˈnætəmi wɪˈθɪn hɪz ˈfeɪməs wərk ɪn ðə mɛˈdisi ˈʧæpəl. fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ðə saɪdz əv tumz ɪn ðə ˈʧæpəl dɪˈpɪkt skəlz ənd hɔrnz wɪθ ˌsɪməˈlɛrəti tɪ ðə ˈjutərəs ənd fəˈloʊpiən tubz, rɪˈspɛktɪvli. ˈnumərəs ˈstədiz hæv ˈɔfərd ˌɪnˌtərprɪˈteɪʃənz əv ðə lɪŋk bɪtˈwin ˌænəˈtɑmɪkəl ˈfɪgjərz ənd ˈhɪdən ˈsɪmbəlz ɪn wərks əv ɑrt nɑt ˈoʊnli baɪ ˌmɪkəˈlænʤəˌloʊ bət ˈɔlsoʊ baɪ ˈəðər ˌrɛnəˈsɑns ˈɑrtɪsts. "ðɪs ˈstədi prəˈvaɪdz ə ˈpriviəsli ˌənəˈveɪləbəl ˌɪnˌtərprɪˈteɪʃən əv wən əv ˌmɪkəˈlænʤəˌloʊz ˈmeɪʤər wərks, ənd wɪl ˈsərtənli ˈɪntəˌrɛst ðoʊz hu ər ˈpæʃənət əˈbaʊt ðə ˈhɪstəri əv əˈnætəmi," sɛd ˈdɑktər. də ˈkæmpoʊz, lɛd ˈɔθər əv ðə ˈklɪnɪkəl əˈnætəmi ˈɑrtɪkəl. əˈnəðər ˈrisənt æˈnælɪsɪs baɪ ˈdɑktər. də ˈkæmpoʊz ənd hɪz ˈkɑligz rɪˈvild ˈsɪmələr ˈhɪdən ˈsɪmbəlz ɪn ˌmɪkəˈlænʤəˌloʊz ˈsɪstin ˈʧæpəl.
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lindzen & douglass slam media for 'completely misrepresenting climategate': scandal revealed 'explicit evidence of the manipulation of proxy records used in reconstructions, suppression of other viewpoints, manipulation of process, and intimidation of journal editors were all evidence of serious breaches of ethics. muller's findings hardly alters these findings'
richard has given climate depot permission to publish this analysis.
the below commentary was written by dr. richard s., an alfred p. sloan professor of atmospheric sciences and and dr. david h. douglass, professor of physics at the university of rochester
by richard & david douglass october 23, 2011
the [october 21, 2011 christian science monitor] article “koch brothers accidentally fund study that proves global warming” is innocent enough.
existing land based records of temperature, showing a small net warming since 1950, are probably correct (at least within the unreported uncertainty limits). as to whether estimates over the oceans (which cover 70% of the earth) are reliable is left open.
while muller carefully avoided any claims concerning attribution, even attribution is not the main issue. what was left unsaid was that the observed warming is entirely consistent with there being very little problem. concerns focus on climate sensitivity. some current models predict much more warming than the modest warming that increasing would result in. this is because water vapor and clouds (both far more important greenhouse substances than) in these models act as powerful positive feedbacks. such models can be brought into agreement with past behavior by invoking aerosols. but, as the acknowledges, these are essentially unknown, and, indeed, each modeling group chooses a different value according to the amount of warming they need to cancel.
unfortunately, although the article is innocent enough, the title of the article and the one sentence summary seem designed to mislead the reader. part of the problem stems from a semantic issue: ‘warming’ is ambiguous in that it can be passive or active. if one is simply referring to whether the global mean temperature anomaly has been increasing a bit since 1950, as muller is showing, there is nothing remarkable; if it refers to the active version wherein something is causing warming, it could be somewhat more serious (especially with the claim of ‘proof’), but the title leaves matters ambiguous.
similarly, the reference to the koch brothers suggests that their support was contingent on expectations of a different result. in point of fact, there is not the least evidence that this was the case. the koch brothers support many things ranging from the restoration of the lincoln center theater, to an exhibit on evolution, to a major cancer center at mit. they also give some support to libertarian think tanks whose views are frequently different from what are commonly claimed to be right wing views. to be sure, the koch brothers are frequently demonized by the left as a counterpoint to the right wing demonization of george soros. it is only the fact that the koch brothers are relatively unknown that allows such demonization to gain traction.
the summary sentence completely misrepresents ‘climategate.’ this refers to the release of thousands of emails, commented code, etc. from the climate research unit at the university of east anglia. the land based instrumental temperature record was not the primary focus of the problems revealed in these documents. rather, the explicit evidence of the manipulation of proxy records used in reconstructions, suppression of other viewpoints, manipulation of the process, and intimidation of journal editors were all evidence of serious breaches of ethics. findings hardly alters these findings.
richard s.
alfred p. sloan professor of atmospheric sciences
mit
cambridge, mass
david h. douglass (phd mit)
professor of physics
university of rochester
[climate depot note: for more on muller see here and here.]
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lindzen* ˈdəgləs slæm ˈmidiə fər 'kəmˈplitli mɪsˌrɛprəˈzɛnɪŋ climategate*': ˈskændəl rɪˈvild 'ɪkˈsplɪsət ˈɛvədəns əv ðə məˌnɪpjəˈleɪʃən əv ˈprɑksi ˈrɛkərdz juzd ɪn ˌrikənˈstrəkʃənz, səˈprɛʃən əv ˈəðər vˈjuˌpɔɪnts, məˌnɪpjəˈleɪʃən əv ˈprɔˌsɛs, ənd ˌɪnˌtɪmɪˈdeɪʃən əv ˈʤərnəl ˈɛdɪtərz wər ɔl ˈɛvədəns əv ˈsɪriəs ˈbriʧɪz əv ˈɛθɪks. ˈmələrz ˈfaɪndɪŋz ˈhɑrdli ˈɔltərz ðiz ˈfaɪndɪŋz' ˈrɪʧərd həz ˈgɪvɪn ˈklaɪmɪt ˈdipoʊ pərˈmɪʃən tɪ ˈpəblɪʃ ðɪs æˈnælɪsɪs. ðə bɪˈloʊ ˈkɑmənˌtɛri wɑz ˈrɪtən baɪ ˈdɑktər. ˈrɪʧərd ɛs., ən ˈælfrɪd pi. sloʊn prəˈfɛsər əv ˌætməsˈfɛrɪk ˈsaɪənsɪz ənd ənd ˈdɑktər. ˈdeɪvɪd eɪʧ. ˈdəgləs, prəˈfɛsər əv ˈfɪzɪks æt ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv ˈrɑˌʧɛstər baɪ ˈrɪʧərd ˈdeɪvɪd ˈdəgləs ɑkˈtoʊbər 23 2011 ðə [ɑkˈtoʊbər 21 2011 ˈkrɪsʧɪn saɪəns ˈmɑnətər] ˈɑrtɪkəl ˈbrəðərz ˌæksəˈdɛnəli fənd ˈstədi ðət pruvz ˈgloʊbəl warming”*” ɪz ˈɪnəsənt ɪˈnəf. ɪgˈzɪstɪŋ lænd beɪst ˈrɛkərdz əv ˈtɛmpərəʧər, ʃoʊɪŋ ə smɔl nɛt ˈwɔrmɪŋ sɪns 1950 ər ˈprɑbəˌbli kərˈɛkt (æt list wɪˈθɪn ðə ˌənriˈpɔrtɪd ənˈsərtənti ˈlɪmɪts). ɛz tɪ ˈwɛðər ˈɛstəˌmeɪts ˈoʊvər ðə ˈoʊʃənz (wɪʧ ˈkəvər 70 əv ðə ərθ) ər rɪˈlaɪəbəl ɪz lɛft ˈoʊpən. waɪl ˈmələr ˈkɛrfəli əˈvɔɪdɪd ˈɛni kleɪmz kənˈsərnɪŋ ˌætrɪˈbjuʃən, ˈivɪn ˌætrɪˈbjuʃən ɪz nɑt ðə meɪn ˈɪʃu. wət wɑz lɛft ənˈsɛd wɑz ðət ðə əbˈzərvd ˈwɔrmɪŋ ɪz ɪnˈtaɪərli kənˈsɪstənt wɪθ ðɛr biɪŋ ˈvɛri ˈlɪtəl ˈprɑbləm. kənˈsərnz ˈfoʊkɪs ɔn ˈklaɪmɪt ˌsɛnsɪˈtɪvɪti. səm ˈkɑrənt ˈmɑdəlz prɪˈdɪkt məʧ mɔr ˈwɔrmɪŋ ðən ðə ˈmɑdəst ˈwɔrmɪŋ ðət ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋ wʊd rɪˈzəlt ɪn. ðɪs ɪz bɪˈkəz ˈwɔtər ˈveɪpər ənd klaʊdz (boʊθ fɑr mɔr ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt ˈgrinˌhaʊs ˈsəbstənsɪz ðən ɪn ðiz ˈmɑdəlz ækt ɛz ˈpaʊərfəl ˈpɑzətɪv feedbacks*. səʧ ˈmɑdəlz kən bi brɔt ˈɪntu əˈgrimənt wɪθ pæst bɪˈheɪvjər baɪ ˌɪnˈvoʊkɪŋ ˈɛrəˌsɑlz. bət, ɛz ðə ækˈnɑlɪʤɪz, ðiz ər ɛˈsɛnʃəli ənˈnoʊn, ənd, ˌɪnˈdid, iʧ ˈmɑdəlɪŋ grup ˈʧuzɪz ə ˈdɪfərənt ˈvælju əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ðə əˈmaʊnt əv ˈwɔrmɪŋ ðeɪ nid tɪ ˈkænsəl. ənˈfɔrʧənətli, ˌɔlˈðoʊ ðə ˈɑrtɪkəl ɪz ˈɪnəsənt ɪˈnəf, ðə ˈtaɪtəl əv ðə ˈɑrtɪkəl ənd ðə wən ˈsɛntəns ˈsəməri sim dɪˈzaɪnd tɪ mɪsˈlid ðə ˈridər. pɑrt əv ðə ˈprɑbləm stɛmz frəm ə sɪˈmæntɪk ˈɪʃu: ‘‘warming’*’ ɪz æmˈbɪgjuəs ɪn ðət ɪt kən bi ˈpæsɪv ər ˈæktɪv. ɪf wən ɪz ˈsɪmpli rɪˈfərɪŋ tɪ ˈwɛðər ðə ˈgloʊbəl min ˈtɛmpərəʧər əˈnɑməli həz bɪn ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋ ə bɪt sɪns 1950 ɛz ˈmələr ɪz ʃoʊɪŋ, ðɛr ɪz ˈnəθɪŋ rɪˈmɑrkəbəl; ɪf ɪt rɪˈfərz tɪ ðə ˈæktɪv ˈvərʒən wɛˈrɪn ˈsəmθɪŋ ɪz ˈkɔzɪŋ ˈwɔrmɪŋ, ɪt kʊd bi ˈsəmˈwət mɔr ˈsɪriəs (əˈspɛʃəli wɪθ ðə kleɪm əv ‘‘proof’*’), bət ðə ˈtaɪtəl livz ˈmætərz æmˈbɪgjuəs. ˈsɪmələrli, ðə ˈrɛfərəns tɪ ðə kɔʧ ˈbrəðərz səˈʤɛsts ðət ðɛr səˈpɔrt wɑz kənˈtɪnʤənt ɔn ˌɛkspɛkˈteɪʃənz əv ə ˈdɪfərənt rɪˈzəlt. ɪn pɔɪnt əv fækt, ðɛr ɪz nɑt ðə list ˈɛvədəns ðət ðɪs wɑz ðə keɪs. ðə kɔʧ ˈbrəðərz səˈpɔrt ˈmɛni θɪŋz ˈreɪnʤɪŋ frəm ðə ˌrɛstərˈeɪʃən əv ðə ˈlɪŋkən ˈsɛnər ˈθieɪtər, tɪ ən ɪgˈzɪbɪt ɔn ˌɛvəˈluʃən, tɪ ə ˈmeɪʤər ˈkænsər ˈsɛnər æt ˈɛˈmaɪˈti. ðeɪ ˈɔlsoʊ gɪv səm səˈpɔrt tɪ ˌlɪˌbərˈtɛˌriən θɪŋk tæŋks huz vjuz ər ˈfrikwɛntli ˈdɪfərənt frəm wət ər ˈkɑmənli kleɪmd tɪ bi raɪt wɪŋ vjuz. tɪ bi ʃʊr, ðə kɔʧ ˈbrəðərz ər ˈfrikwɛntli ˈdiməˌnaɪzd baɪ ðə lɛft ɛz ə ˈkaʊntərˌpɔɪnt tɪ ðə raɪt wɪŋ ˌdimənəˈzeɪʃən əv ʤɔrʤ ˈsɔroʊs. ɪt ɪz ˈoʊnli ðə fækt ðət ðə kɔʧ ˈbrəðərz ər ˈrɛlətɪvli ənˈnoʊn ðət əˈlaʊz səʧ ˌdimənəˈzeɪʃən tɪ geɪn ˈtrækʃən. ðə ˈsəməri ˈsɛntəns kəmˈplitli mɪsˌrɛprəˈzɛnts ‘‘climategate.’*.’ ðɪs rɪˈfərz tɪ ðə riˈlis əv ˈθaʊzənz əv iˈmeɪlz, ˈkɑmɛntəd koʊd, ˌɛtˈsɛtərə. frəm ðə ˈklaɪmɪt ˈrisərʧ ˈjunɪt æt ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv ist ˈæŋgliə. ðə lænd beɪst ˌɪnstrəˈmɛnəl ˈtɛmpərəʧər ˈrɛkərd wɑz nɑt ðə ˈpraɪˌmɛri ˈfoʊkɪs əv ðə ˈprɑbləmz rɪˈvild ɪn ðiz ˈdɑkjəmənts. ˈrəðər, ðə ɪkˈsplɪsət ˈɛvədəns əv ðə məˌnɪpjəˈleɪʃən əv ˈprɑksi ˈrɛkərdz juzd ɪn ˌrikənˈstrəkʃənz, səˈprɛʃən əv ˈəðər vˈjuˌpɔɪnts, məˌnɪpjəˈleɪʃən əv ðə ˈprɔˌsɛs, ənd ˌɪnˌtɪmɪˈdeɪʃən əv ˈʤərnəl ˈɛdɪtərz wər ɔl ˈɛvədəns əv ˈsɪriəs ˈbriʧɪz əv ˈɛθɪks. ˈfaɪndɪŋz ˈhɑrdli ˈɔltərz ðiz ˈfaɪndɪŋz. ˈrɪʧərd ɛs. ˈælfrɪd pi. sloʊn prəˈfɛsər əv ˌætməsˈfɛrɪk ˈsaɪənsɪz ˈɛˈmaɪˈti ˈkeɪmbrɪʤ, mæs ˈdeɪvɪd eɪʧ. ˈdəgləs (ˈpiˌeɪʧˈdi ˈɛˈmaɪˈti) prəˈfɛsər əv ˈfɪzɪks ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv ˈrɑˌʧɛstər [ˈklaɪmɪt ˈdipoʊ noʊt: fər mɔr ɔn ˈmələr si hir ənd hir.]
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ralph fiennes as lord voldemort in harry potter and the deathly hallows: part 1. courtesy of warner bros.
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answer by ramesh:
my first instinct was to laugh at this question, but the more i thought about it, the more i realized how very valid this question is. it begs us to explore into character.
did voldemort ever have sex? we explicitly know, but easy to guess. voldemort is a very unifaceted, character. evil, and about all. there are no layers of complexity to his persona, unlike dumbledore or even draco malfoy. we know that voldemort was incapable of love. he did not love anyone, and did not care to be loved. he felt nothing for his family, and only wanted his friends in school to rally around him because he wanted to hold power over them. lestrange was obviously in love with him and worshiped him, but he only cared for her servitude, not her. we know that he did not date anyone, even when at hogwarts.
but sex is different from love. while love often accompanies sexual desires, perfectly possible for a person to have sex independent of emotions, or to use it as a weapon to exert power and machismo. we see it around us in the media all the time: a prime example being james bond. sex is instinctive and offers one of the highest forms of pleasure. to most people, that is. voldemort, in my opinion, was above that. he would have looked at sexual desire as a that could be exploited and used against him, something that would distract him from his goal of immortality. sex is a basic human need, and voldemort wanted to distance himself from being human as much as possible. he would abhor the physical union of a man and a body (or a man and a man’s). in fact, i believe he was too consumed by megalomania to share his body with anyone else at all. to him, his body was his own, and was made to experiment with.
voldemort was also a psychopath, and psychopaths have a very deviant sexuality (in most cases of real life examples). if anything at all got voldemort sexually excited, it was the prospect of to kill, not power to rape. anywhere we find sexual undertones to his character, it has been just before a display of power and has also been harry and riddle meet at the chamber of secrets, when voldemort is about to get his body back in the graveyard, when he and harry are in the cage, etc. j.k. language is very vivid when she describes these scenes. the words are soft, slippery, dangerous, and filled with sexual connotations. she especially describes long fingers, his silky voice, his nostrils flaring up in excitement, his heavy breathing, his gently caressing his wand. she uses words like penetrate, forcibly taken, and many other euphemisms for rape. however, in my opinion, these lines of text written with the sole purpose of making the reader aware of lord perversion (and for us to be disgusted by him), and to possibly hint that power to kill is the only thing that got him sexually excited. whether really intended for her words to have erotic connotations is almost irrelevant as she achieved the sole purpose of using make our skin crawl, to make us understand that voldemort is perverse, loves danger, and is to be feared.
sex also has a evolutionary purpose, but voldemort care for his bloodline. he never expressed any kind of desire to have progeny, because, sure, he think there was any woman who was worth carrying his child. voldemort is very dismissive of women in general. not equating my previous point with misogyny here, but his dealings with female characters have been very indicative of how less he accepts and values members of the female gender. he finds ginny boring, he demeans lily love (including his infamous “stand aside, girl!” want to bother with her), he uses disturbingly casual language when talking about how he violated bertha jorkins, he is sadistic about the female teacher he tortures in house. reiterating, i think he was misogynistic. he just bother to think women important and find them interesting, even as victims. the sole exception was lestrange, and again, for her unwavering loyalty. when he talked about one of the characters being pregnant, he uses the word mated. how impersonal and reproduction with women is to him.
however, despite his own views about himself engaging in a sexual act, i do believe he knew exactly how much other people valued sex, attraction, and love. he is often described as being irresistibly handsome as tom riddle, and he is sure to have known that. with people like smith, he played her attraction toward him to achieve his means. when he became lord voldemort, he had reached a stage where he had a faithful base and need to charm anyone to get his way. even more so because he had lost so much of humanity in his transformations, he had only the basic human need for survival: food. by the time he was lord voldemort (despite what i said earlier about the graveyard scene), tom riddle had become fully and completely asexual.
so my answer to the question is yes, lord voldemort was a virgin.
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rælf fˈjɛnɛs ɛz lɔrd ˈvoʊldəˌmɔrt ɪn ˈhɛri ˈpɑtər ənd ðə ˈdɛθli ˈhæloʊz: pɑrt 1 ˈkərtəsi əv ˈwɔrnər bros*. ðɪs kˈwɛʃən ərˈɪʤənəli əˈpɪrd ɔn kˈwɔrə. ˈænsər baɪ ˈrɑˌmɛʃ: maɪ fərst ˈɪnstɪŋkt wɑz tɪ læf æt ðɪs kˈwɛʃən, bət ðə mɔr aɪ θɔt əˈbaʊt ɪt, ðə mɔr aɪ ˈriəˌlaɪzd haʊ ˈvɛri ˈvælɪd ðɪs kˈwɛʃən ɪz. ɪt bɛgz ˈjuˈɛs tɪ ɪkˈsplɔr ˈɪntu ˈkɛrɪktər. dɪd ˈvoʊldəˌmɔrt ˈɛvər hæv sɛks? wi ɪkˈsplɪsətli noʊ, bət ˈizi tɪ gɛs. ˈvoʊldəˌmɔrt ɪz ə ˈvɛri unifaceted*, ˈkɛrɪktər. ˈivəl, ənd əˈbaʊt ɔl. ðɛr ər noʊ leɪərz əv kəmˈplɛksɪti tɪ hɪz pərˈsoʊnə, ənˈlaɪk ˈdəmbəlˌdɔr ər ˈivɪn ˈdrækoʊ malfoy*. wi noʊ ðət ˈvoʊldəˌmɔrt wɑz ˌɪnˈkeɪpəbəl əv ləv. hi dɪd nɑt ləv ˈɛniˌwən, ənd dɪd nɑt kɛr tɪ bi ləvd. hi fɛlt ˈnəθɪŋ fər hɪz ˈfæməli, ənd ˈoʊnli ˈwɔntɪd hɪz frɛndz ɪn skul tɪ ˈræli əraʊnd ɪm bɪˈkəz hi ˈwɔntɪd tɪ hoʊld paʊər ˈoʊvər ðɛm. lɛˈstreɪnʤ wɑz ˈɑbviəsli ɪn ləv wɪθ ɪm ənd ˈwərʃɪpt ɪm, bət hi ˈoʊnli kɛrd fər hər ˈsərvəˌtud, nɑt hər. wi noʊ ðət hi dɪd nɑt deɪt ˈɛniˌwən, ˈivɪn wɪn æt ˈhɑgˌwɔrts. bət sɛks ɪz ˈdɪfərənt frəm ləv. waɪl ləv ˈɔfən əˈkəmpəniz ˈsɛkʃuəl dɪˈzaɪərz, ˈpərfəktli ˈpɑsəbəl fər ə ˈpərsən tɪ hæv sɛks ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənt əv ˈɪˌmoʊʃənz, ər tɪ juz ɪt ɛz ə ˈwɛpən tɪ ɪgˈzərt paʊər ənd məˈʧɪzmoʊ. wi si ɪt əraʊnd ˈjuˈɛs ɪn ðə ˈmidiə ɔl ðə taɪm: ə praɪm ɪgˈzæmpəl biɪŋ ʤeɪmz bɑnd. sɛks ɪz ˌɪnˈstɪŋktɪv ənd ˈɔfərz wən əv ðə haɪəst fɔrmz əv ˈplɛʒər. tɪ moʊst ˈpipəl, ðət ɪz. ˈvoʊldəˌmɔrt, ɪn maɪ əˈpɪnjən, wɑz əˈbəv ðət. hi wʊd hæv lʊkt æt ˈsɛkʃuəl dɪˈzaɪər ɛz ə ðət kʊd bi ˈɛkˌsplɔɪtəd ənd juzd əˈgɛnst ɪm, ˈsəmθɪŋ ðət wʊd dɪˈstrækt ɪm frəm hɪz goʊl əv ˌɪmɔrˈtælɪti. sɛks ɪz ə ˈbeɪsɪk ˈjumən nid, ənd ˈvoʊldəˌmɔrt ˈwɔntɪd tɪ ˈdɪstəns hɪmˈsɛlf frəm biɪŋ ˈjumən ɛz məʧ ɛz ˈpɑsəbəl. hi wʊd æˈbhɔr ðə ˈfɪzɪkəl ˈjunjən əv ə mæn ənd ə ˈbɑdi (ər ə mæn ənd ə man’s*). ɪn fækt, aɪ bɪˈliv hi wɑz tu kənˈsumd baɪ ˌmɛgəloʊˈmeɪniə tɪ ʃɛr hɪz ˈbɑdi wɪθ ˈɛniˌwən ɛls æt ɔl. tɪ ɪm, hɪz ˈbɑdi wɑz hɪz oʊn, ənd wɑz meɪd tɪ ɪkˈspɛrəmənt wɪθ. ˈvoʊldəˌmɔrt wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ ə ˈsaɪkoʊˌpæθ, ənd ˈsaɪkoʊˌpæθs hæv ə ˈvɛri ˈdiviənt ˌsɛkʃuˈæləti (ɪn moʊst ˈkeɪsɪz əv ril laɪf ɪgˈzæmpəlz). ɪf ˈɛniˌθɪŋ æt ɔl gɑt ˈvoʊldəˌmɔrt ˈsɛkʃuəli ɪkˈsaɪtɪd, ɪt wɑz ðə ˈprɑspɛkt əv tɪ kɪl, nɑt paʊər tɪ reɪp. ˈɛniˌwɛr wi faɪnd ˈsɛkʃuəl ˈəndərˌtoʊnz tɪ hɪz ˈkɛrɪktər, ɪt həz bɪn ʤɪst ˌbiˈfɔr ə dɪˈspleɪ əv paʊər ənd həz ˈɔlsoʊ bɪn ˈhɛri ənd ˈrɪdəl mit æt ðə ˈʧeɪmbər əv ˈsikrɪts, wɪn ˈvoʊldəˌmɔrt ɪz əˈbaʊt tɪ gɪt hɪz ˈbɑdi bæk ɪn ðə ˈgreɪvˌjɑrd, wɪn hi ənd ˈhɛri ər ɪn ðə keɪʤ, ˌɛtˈsɛtərə. j.k*. ˈlæŋgwɪʤ ɪz ˈvɛri ˈvɪvɪd wɪn ʃi dɪˈskraɪbz ðiz sinz. ðə wərdz ər sɔft, sˈlɪpəri, ˈdeɪnʤərəs, ənd fɪld wɪθ ˈsɛkʃuəl ˌkɑnəˈteɪʃənz. ʃi əˈspɛʃəli dɪˈskraɪbz lɔŋ ˈfɪŋgərz, hɪz ˈsɪlki vɔɪs, hɪz ˈnɑstrəlz ˈflɛrɪŋ əp ɪn ɪkˈsaɪtmənt, hɪz ˈhɛvi ˈbriðɪŋ, hɪz ˈʤɛntli kərˈɛsɪŋ hɪz wɑnd. ʃi ˈjuzɪz wərdz laɪk ˈpɛnəˌtreɪt, ˈfɔrsəbli ˈteɪkən, ənd ˈmɛni ˈəðər ˈjufəˌmɪzəmz fər reɪp. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ɪn maɪ əˈpɪnjən, ðiz laɪnz əv tɛkst ˈrɪtən wɪθ ðə soʊl ˈpərpəs əv ˈmeɪkɪŋ ðə ˈridər əˈwɛr əv lɔrd pərˈvərʒən (ənd fər ˈjuˈɛs tɪ bi dɪsˈgəstɪd baɪ ɪm), ənd tɪ ˈpɑsəbli hɪnt ðət paʊər tɪ kɪl ɪz ðə ˈoʊnli θɪŋ ðət gɑt ɪm ˈsɛkʃuəli ɪkˈsaɪtɪd. ˈwɛðər ˈrɪli ˌɪnˈtɛndɪd fər hər wərdz tɪ hæv ɪˈrɑtɪk ˌkɑnəˈteɪʃənz ɪz ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˌɪˈrɛləvənt ɛz ʃi əˈʧivd ðə soʊl ˈpərpəs əv ˈjuzɪŋ meɪk ɑr skɪn krɔl, tɪ meɪk ˈjuˈɛs ˌəndərˈstænd ðət ˈvoʊldəˌmɔrt ɪz pərˈvərs, ləvz ˈdeɪnʤər, ənd ɪz tɪ bi fɪrd. sɛks ˈɔlsoʊ həz ə ˌɛvəˈluʃəˌnɛri ˈpərpəs, bət ˈvoʊldəˌmɔrt kɛr fər hɪz ˈbləˌdlaɪn. hi ˈnɛvər ɪkˈsprɛst ˈɛni kaɪnd əv dɪˈzaɪər tɪ hæv ˈprɑʤəni, bɪˈkəz, ʃʊr, hi θɪŋk ðɛr wɑz ˈɛni ˈwʊmən hu wɑz wərθ ˈkɛriɪŋ hɪz ʧaɪld. ˈvoʊldəˌmɔrt ɪz ˈvɛri dɪsˈmɪsɪv əv ˈwɪmən ɪn ˈʤɛnərəl. nɑt ɪkˈweɪtɪŋ maɪ ˈpriviəs pɔɪnt wɪθ ˈmɪzəʤɪni hir, bət hɪz ˈdilɪŋz wɪθ ˈfiˌmeɪl ˈkɛrɪktərz hæv bɪn ˈvɛri ˌɪnˈdɪkətɪv əv haʊ lɛs hi ækˈsɛpts ənd ˈvæljuz ˈmɛmbərz əv ðə ˈfiˌmeɪl ˈʤɛndər. hi faɪndz ˈʤɪni ˈbɔrɪŋ, hi dɪˈminz ˈlɪli ləv (ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ hɪz ˈɪnfəməs əˈsaɪd, girl!”*!” wɔnt tɪ ˈbɑðər wɪθ hər), hi ˈjuzɪz dɪˈstərbɪŋli ˈkæʒəwəl ˈlæŋgwɪʤ wɪn ˈtɔkɪŋ əˈbaʊt haʊ hi ˈvaɪəleɪtɪd ˈbərθə jorkins*, hi ɪz səˈdɪstɪk əˈbaʊt ðə ˈfiˌmeɪl ˈtiʧər hi ˈtɔrʧərz ɪn haʊs. riˈɪtərˌeɪtɪŋ, aɪ θɪŋk hi wɑz misogynistic*. hi ʤɪst ˈbɑðər tɪ θɪŋk ˈwɪmən ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt ənd faɪnd ðɛm ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋ, ˈivɪn ɛz ˈvɪktɪmz. ðə soʊl ɪkˈsɛpʃən wɑz lɛˈstreɪnʤ, ənd əˈgɛn, fər hər ənˈweɪvərɪŋ ˈlɔɪəlti. wɪn hi tɔkt əˈbaʊt wən əv ðə ˈkɛrɪktərz biɪŋ ˈprɛgnənt, hi ˈjuzɪz ðə wərd ˈmeɪtɪd. haʊ ˌɪmˈpərsənəl ənd ˌriprəˈdəkʃən wɪθ ˈwɪmən ɪz tɪ ɪm. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, dɪˈspaɪt hɪz oʊn vjuz əˈbaʊt hɪmˈsɛlf ɪnˈgeɪʤɪŋ ɪn ə ˈsɛkʃuəl ækt, aɪ du bɪˈliv hi nu ɪgˈzæktli haʊ məʧ ˈəðər ˈpipəl ˈvæljud sɛks, əˈtrækʃən, ənd ləv. hi ɪz ˈɔfən dɪˈskraɪbd ɛz biɪŋ ˌɪrɪˈzɪstəbli ˈhænsəm ɛz tɑm ˈrɪdəl, ənd hi ɪz ʃʊr tɪ hæv noʊn ðət. wɪθ ˈpipəl laɪk smɪθ, hi pleɪd hər əˈtrækʃən təˈwɔrd ɪm tɪ əˈʧiv hɪz minz. wɪn hi bɪˈkeɪm lɔrd ˈvoʊldəˌmɔrt, hi hæd riʧt ə steɪʤ wɛr hi hæd ə ˈfeɪθfəl beɪs ənd nid tɪ ʧɑrm ˈɛniˌwən tɪ gɪt hɪz weɪ. ˈivɪn mɔr soʊ bɪˈkəz hi hæd lɔst soʊ məʧ əv juˈmænɪti ɪn hɪz ˌtrænsfərˈmeɪʃənz, hi hæd ˈoʊnli ðə ˈbeɪsɪk ˈjumən nid fər sərˈvaɪvəl: fud. baɪ ðə taɪm hi wɑz lɔrd ˈvoʊldəˌmɔrt (dɪˈspaɪt wət aɪ sɛd ˈərliər əˈbaʊt ðə ˈgreɪvˌjɑrd sin), tɑm ˈrɪdəl hæd bɪˈkəm ˈfʊli ənd kəmˈplitli eɪˈsɛksjuəl. soʊ maɪ ˈænsər tɪ ðə kˈwɛʃən ɪz jɛs, lɔrd ˈvoʊldəˌmɔrt wɑz ə ˈvərʤɪn. mɔr kˈwɛsʧənz ɔn kˈwɔrə:
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last year, i looked at av retention rates, a measure of how sticky a composition was from year to year. get to the methodology in a minute, but start with two examples.
cincinnati was very consistent from 2014 to 2015. andy dalton was the quarterback both years, and jeremy hill, bernard, and a.j. green were the three leaders in yards from scrimmage in 2014 and again in 2015. the offensive line was unchanged, with andrew whitworth, andre smith, clint boling, kevin zeitler, and russell bodine as the main five in both years, although smith and zeitler missed some time in 2014. the big change on offense external, either: it was the return from injury for both tyler eifert and marvin jones, which dropped mohamed down in the pecking order.
on defense, geno atkins, peko, and carlos dunlap were starters on the defensive line both years, with rey manning the middle and reggie nelson and george at safety. adam jones and leon hall were two of the three to play 60%+ of defensive snaps in both years, with the main change in the secondary being being kirkpatrick replacing terence newman (minnesota). on the line, the big change was the return of michael johnson from a one-year stint in tampa, with wallace dropping from 73% of snaps to 58% as a result. and at linebacker,, vincent rey, burfict, and emmanuel were the four to see the most snaps in both 2014 and 2015, though the pecking order changed a bit.
in other words, the 2015 bengals looked a whole lot like the 2014 bengals. but in washington, turnover was the story of the 2015 season. in 2014, kirk cousins started 5 games; last year, he started all sixteen. matt jones and chris thompson combined for over 50% of snaps at running back last year, reducing the heavier load endured by alfred morris in 2014. tight end jordan reed caught 11 touchdowns and led the team in targets last year, but started two games and score in 2014.
on the offensive line, only trent williams was a holdover. with chris chester inanta, overall pick brandon scherff took over and started all 16 games. morgan moses, a third round pick in 2014 who started just one game as a rookie, took over at right tackle, relegating 2014 starter tom compton to the bench now inanta with chester). kory (center) and shawn (left guard) both started in 2014, but were lost early in the season with injuries, putting spencer long (g) and josh (c) into the lineup.
at safety, ryan clark, brandon meriweather, and phillip thomas were replaced by goldson, jarrett and trent robinson. at corner, breeland was the consistent presence year over year, but david amerson (one of the lone blunders from front office last year) and e.j. biggers were replaced by will blackmon and deangelo hall (limited to just 3 games in 2014). the front seven was relatively consistent year over year, though jarvis jenkins and brian were gone in 2015, with preston smith, ricky jean-francois, terrance knighton coming on board.
of course, going can be pretty tedious, so i whipped up a formula to measure retention rates.
i calculated the amount of turnover each team had from 2014 to 2015 using the following methodology:
1) calculate the percentage of team av gained by each player in 2015.
2) calculate the percentage of team av gained by that player for that team in 2014.
3) take the lower of those two values.
4) sum the values of each player for each team to derive a team retention grade for each franchise.
using this methodology,% of the bengals value was retained from 2014 to 2015, compared to just% for washington. in the graph below, plotted each of the 32 teams, with their av retention rate on the and winning percentage in 2015 on the x-axis. washington, seen in the bottom right, has the lowest av retention percentage of any team to make the playoffs, whilecinnati and many of the best teams from last year are in the upper right corner of the graph.
i have presented the same information below in table form, and also included 2014 win percentage and the difference between team winning percentage in 2014 and 2015 for each franchise. as always, please leave your thoughts in the comments.
rk team av % 2014 win % 2015 win % improvement 1% 2 sea% -0.125 3% -0.125 4 pit% -0.063 5 car% 6 min% 7 bal% -0.313 8 ari% 9 dal% -0.500 10% 11% -0.250 12% 13 phi% -0.188 14 hou% 15% -0.188 16% -0.063 17% 18% 19 den% 20 kan% 21 mia% -0.125 22% -0.250 23% -0.313 24% 25% 26 ten% 27 was% 28 nor% 29 tam% 30 chi% 31 oak% 32% -0.188
the bengals really stand out here, as the only team over 70%. only three other teams pittsburgh, green bay, and seattle were over 60%. the packers and steelers are rightfully famous for having homegrown rosters, but the bengals consistent success with homegrown players is an underrated nfl storyline.
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læst jɪr, aɪ lʊkt æt ˌeɪˈvi riˈtɛnʃən reɪts, ə ˈmɛʒər əv haʊ ˈstɪki ə ˌkɑmpəˈzɪʃən wɑz frəm jɪr tɪ jɪr. gɪt tɪ ðə ˌmɛθəˈdɑləʤi ɪn ə ˈmɪnət, bət stɑrt wɪθ tu ɪgˈzæmpəlz. ˌsɪnsəˈnæti wɑz ˈvɛri kənˈsɪstənt frəm 2014 tɪ 2015 ˈændi ˈdɔltən wɑz ðə kˈwɔrtərˌbæk boʊθ jɪrz, ənd ˈʤɛrəˌmi hɪl, ˈbərnərd, ənd a.j*. grin wər ðə θri ˈlidərz ɪn jɑrdz frəm ˈskrɪmɪʤ ɪn 2014 ənd əˈgɛn ɪn 2015 ðə əˈfɛnsɪv laɪn wɑz ənˈʧeɪnʤd, wɪθ ˈændru ˈwɪtˌwərθ, ˈɑnˌdreɪ smɪθ, klɪnt ˈboʊlɪŋ, ˈkɛvɪn ˈzaɪtələr, ənd ˈrəsəl boʊˈdini ɛz ðə meɪn faɪv ɪn boʊθ jɪrz, ˌɔlˈðoʊ smɪθ ənd ˈzaɪtələr mɪst səm taɪm ɪn 2014 ðə bɪg ʧeɪnʤ ɔn əˈfɛns ɪkˈstərnəl, ˈiðər: ɪt wɑz ðə rɪˈtərn frəm ˈɪnʤəri fər boʊθ ˈtaɪlər ˈaɪfərt ənd ˈmɑrvɪn ʤoʊnz, wɪʧ drɑpt moʊˈhɑmɛd daʊn ɪn ðə ˈpɛkɪŋ ˈɔrdər. ɔn dɪˈfɛns, ˈʤinoʊ ˈætkɪnz, ˈpiˌkoʊ, ənd ˈkɑrloʊs ˈdənlæp wər ˈstɑrtərz ɔn ðə dɪˈfɛnsɪv laɪn boʊθ jɪrz, wɪθ reɪ ˈmænɪŋ ðə ˈmɪdəl ənd ˈrɛʤi ˈnɛlsən ənd ʤɔrʤ æt ˈseɪfti. ˈædəm ʤoʊnz ənd liɑn hɔl wər tu əv ðə θri tɪ pleɪ 60 əv dɪˈfɛnsɪv snæps ɪn boʊθ jɪrz, wɪθ ðə meɪn ʧeɪnʤ ɪn ðə ˈsɛkənˌdɛri biɪŋ biɪŋ kərˈpætrɪk rɪˈpleɪsɪŋ ˈtɛrəns ˈnumən (ˌmɪnɪˈsoʊtə). ɔn ðə laɪn, ðə bɪg ʧeɪnʤ wɑz ðə rɪˈtərn əv ˈmaɪkəl ˈʤɑnsən frəm ə ˈwənˌjɪr stɪnt ɪn ˈtæmpə, wɪθ ˈwɔlɪs ˈdrɑpɪŋ frəm 73 əv snæps tɪ 58 ɛz ə rɪˈzəlt. ənd æt ˈlaɪnˌbækər,, ˈvɪnsɪnt reɪ, burfict*, ənd ɪˈmænjuəl wər ðə fɔr tɪ si ðə moʊst snæps ɪn boʊθ 2014 ənd 2015 ðoʊ ðə ˈpɛkɪŋ ˈɔrdər ʧeɪnʤd ə bɪt. ɪn ˈəðər wərdz, ðə 2015 ˈbɛŋgəlz lʊkt ə hoʊl lɔt laɪk ðə 2014 ˈbɛŋgəlz. bət ɪn ˈwɔʃɪŋtən, ˈtərˌnoʊvər wɑz ðə ˈstɔri əv ðə 2015 ˈsizən. ɪn 2014 kərk ˈkəzənz ˈstɑrtɪd 5 geɪmz; læst jɪr, hi ˈstɑrtɪd ɔl ˈsɪkˈstin. mæt ʤoʊnz ənd krɪs ˈtɑmsən kəmˈbaɪnd fər ˈoʊvər 50 əv snæps æt ˈrənɪŋ bæk læst jɪr, rɪˈdusɪŋ ðə ˈhɛviər loʊd ɪnˈdʊrd baɪ ˈælfrɪd ˈmɔrɪs ɪn 2014 taɪt ɛnd ˈʤɔrdən rid kɔt 11 ˈtəʧˌdaʊnz ənd lɛd ðə tim ɪn ˈtɑrgəts læst jɪr, bət ˈstɑrtɪd tu geɪmz ənd skɔr ɪn 2014 ɔn ðə əˈfɛnsɪv laɪn, ˈoʊnli trɛnt ˈwɪljəmz wɑz ə ˈhoʊlˌdoʊvər. wɪθ krɪs ˈʧɛstər ɪn æˈtlæntə, ˈoʊvərˌɔl pɪk ˈbrændən ʃərf tʊk ˈoʊvər ənd ˈstɑrtɪd ɔl 16 geɪmz. ˈmɔrgən ˈmoʊzɪs, ə θərd raʊnd pɪk ɪn 2014 hu ˈstɑrtɪd ʤɪst wən geɪm ɛz ə ˈrʊki, tʊk ˈoʊvər æt raɪt ˈtækəl, ˈrɛləˌgeɪtɪŋ 2014 ˈstɑrtər tɑm ˈkɑmptən tɪ ðə bɛnʧ naʊ ɪn æˈtlæntə wɪθ ˈʧɛstər). ˈkɔˌri (ˈsɛnər) ənd ʃɔn (lɛft gɑrd) boʊθ ˈstɑrtɪd ɪn 2014 bət wər lɔst ˈərli ɪn ðə ˈsizən wɪθ ˈɪnʤəriz, ˈpʊtɪŋ ˈspɛnsər lɔŋ (ʤi) ənd ʤɑʃ (si) ˈɪntu ðə ˈlaɪˌnəp. æt ˈseɪfti, raɪən klɑrk, ˈbrændən ˈmɛrɪˌwɛðər, ənd ˈfɪlɪp ˈtɑməs wər ˌriˈpleɪst baɪ ˈgoʊldsən, ˈʤɛrət ənd trɛnt ˈrɑbənsən. æt ˈkɔrnər, ˈbrilənd wɑz ðə kənˈsɪstənt ˈprɛzəns jɪr ˈoʊvər jɪr, bət ˈdeɪvɪd ˈæmərsən (wən əv ðə loʊn ˈbləndərz frəm frənt ˈɔfəs læst jɪr) ənd e.j*. ˈbɪgərz wər ˌriˈpleɪst baɪ wɪl ˈblækmən ənd dəŋˈgɛloʊ hɔl (ˈlɪmɪtɪd tɪ ʤɪst 3 geɪmz ɪn 2014 ðə frənt ˈsɛvən wɑz ˈrɛlətɪvli kənˈsɪstənt jɪr ˈoʊvər jɪr, ðoʊ ˈʤɑrvɪs ˈʤɛŋkɪnz ənd braɪən wər gɔn ɪn 2015 wɪθ ˈprɛstən smɪθ, ˈrɪˌki jean-francois*, ˈtɛrəns ˈnaɪtən ˈkəmɪŋ ɔn bɔrd. əv kɔrs, goʊɪŋ kən bi ˈprɪti ˈtidiəs, soʊ aɪ wɪpt əp ə ˈfɔrmjələ tɪ ˈmɛʒər riˈtɛnʃən reɪts. aɪ ˈkælkjəˌleɪtɪd ðə əˈmaʊnt əv ˈtərˌnoʊvər iʧ tim hæd frəm 2014 tɪ 2015 ˈjuzɪŋ ðə ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ˌmɛθəˈdɑləʤi: 1 ˈkælkjəˌleɪt ðə pərˈsɛnɪʤ əv tim ˌeɪˈvi geɪnd baɪ iʧ pleɪər ɪn 2015 2 ˈkælkjəˌleɪt ðə pərˈsɛnɪʤ əv tim ˌeɪˈvi geɪnd baɪ ðət pleɪər fər ðət tim ɪn 2014 3 teɪk ðə loʊər əv ðoʊz tu ˈvæljuz. 4 səm ðə ˈvæljuz əv iʧ pleɪər fər iʧ tim tɪ dəraɪv ə tim riˈtɛnʃən greɪd fər iʧ ˈfrænˌʧaɪz. ˈjuzɪŋ ðɪs ˌmɛθəˈdɑləʤi, əv ðə ˈbɛŋgəlz ˈvælju wɑz rɪˈteɪnd frəm 2014 tɪ 2015 kəmˈpɛrd tɪ ʤɪst fər ˈwɔʃɪŋtən. ɪn ðə græf bɪˈloʊ, ˈplɑtɪd iʧ əv ðə 32 timz, wɪθ ðɛr ˌeɪˈvi riˈtɛnʃən reɪt ɔn ðə ənd ˈwɪnɪŋ pərˈsɛnɪʤ ɪn 2015 ɔn ðə x-axis*. ˈwɔʃɪŋtən, sin ɪn ðə ˈbɑtəm raɪt, həz ðə loʊəst ˌeɪˈvi riˈtɛnʃən pərˈsɛnɪʤ əv ˈɛni tim tɪ meɪk ðə pleɪɔfs, waɪl ˌsɪnsəˈnæti ənd ˈmɛni əv ðə bɛst timz frəm læst jɪr ər ɪn ðə ˈəpər raɪt ˈkɔrnər əv ðə græf. aɪ hæv pərˈzɛnəd ðə seɪm ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən bɪˈloʊ ɪn ˈteɪbəl fɔrm, ənd ˈɔlsoʊ ˌɪnˈkludɪd 2014 wɪn pərˈsɛnɪʤ ənd ðə ˈdɪfərəns bɪtˈwin tim ˈwɪnɪŋ pərˈsɛnɪʤ ɪn 2014 ənd 2015 fər iʧ ˈfrænˌʧaɪz. ɛz ˈɔlˌweɪz, pliz liv jʊr θɔts ɪn ðə ˈkɑmɛnts. tim ˌeɪˈvi 2014 wɪn 2015 wɪn ˌɪmˈpruvmənt 1 2 si 3 4 pɪt 5 kɑr 6 mɪn 7 bæl 8 ˈɑri 9 dæl 10 11 12 13 faɪ 14 hu 15 16 17 18 19 dɛn 20 kæn 21 ˈmiə 22 23 24 25 26 tɛn 27 wɑz 28 nɔr 29 tæm 30 kaɪ 31 oʊk 32 ðə ˈbɛŋgəlz ˈrɪli stænd aʊt hir, ɛz ðə ˈoʊnli tim ˈoʊvər 70 ˈoʊnli θri ˈəðər timz ˈpɪtsbərg, grin beɪ, ənd siˈætəl wər ˈoʊvər 60 ðə ˈpækərz ənd ˈstilərz ər ˈraɪtfəli ˈfeɪməs fər ˈhævɪŋ ˈhoʊmˈgroʊn ˈrɑstərz, bət ðə ˈbɛŋgəlz kənˈsɪstənt səkˈsɛs wɪθ ˈhoʊmˈgroʊn pleɪərz ɪz ən ˌəndərˈreɪtɪd ˈɛˌnɛˈfɛl ˈstɔriˌlaɪn.
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a new study of registered voters in dane and milwaukee counties who did not vote in the 2016 presidential election found that approximately eligible voters in those counties were prevented or deterred from voting by voter id law. due to financial constraints, the social scientists were only able to do a study of two of 72 counties, but the authors say that extrapolating statewide as many as people stayed home because of the law.
donald trump won the state of wisconsin by only votes, the first presidential victory in the state since ronald regan in 1984. the shocking upset garnered national attention and helped deliver the electoral college to trump as the popular vote went to clinton.
the study, conducted by ken mayer and michael g. decrescenzo, at the university of wisconsin department of political science, provides definitive evidence that the controversial voter id bill, passed in 2011 and held up in the courts until 2016, worked precisely as wisconsin republicans intended to make it more difficult for targeted voters to cast their ballots.
although voter preferences were not included in the study, the survey documents that the burdens of voter id fell disproportionately on low-income and minority populations considered likely to support democrats. among low-income registrants (household income under $25,000),% were deterred, compared to% for those whose household income was over $25,000.% of white registrants were deterred, compared to% of african americans.
roughly 80% of registrants who were deterred from voting by the law, and 77% of those actually prevented from voting, cast ballots in the 2012 election. the number of voters negatively impacted is far greater than the number of “fraud” cases the law was designed to stop. when the law was challenged in federal court and initially ruled a violation of the voting rights act, the state failed to present a single case of voter impersonation that the law would have prevented.
the results prompted the county clerks from milwaukee and madison to issue strongly worded statements and a call for a suspension of the voter id law. “i was shocked by the numbers and am furious to see that jim crow laws are alive and well,” said milwaukee county clerk george christenson.
“the photo id law must be suspended until changes can be made to restore every access to the ballot box,” said dane county clerk scott mcdonell whose office commissioned the study.
“what i am concerned about here is winning”
while most republican stuck to the official talking points that the photo id law was all about preventing nonexistent “voter fraud,” some forgot the script.
on the night of 2016 presidential primary, republican congressman glenn (r-wi) flatly stated in an interview with charles benson that photo id law would help the win wisconsin in the november 2016 election.
when asked about the fact that wisconsin has consistently voted for democrats in recent presidential elections, assured bensen that democratic hillary clinton was a “weak candidate,” then added “and now we have photo id, and i think photo id is gonna make a little bit of a difference as well.”
rep. was a state senator in 2011 when wisconsin debated and passed its voter id law, so he was privy to the back room conversations and dealings on the issue.
those back room conversation came to light five years later when the bill was implemented and people immediately started having problems. former staffer turned coffee shop owner, todd albaugh, was frustrated when one of his employees could not vote in the 2016 spring elections and decided to blow the whistle.
albaugh, who once worked for wisconsin senator dale shultz center), stated in a social media post:
“i was in a closed senate republican caucus when the final round of multiple voter id bills were being discussed. a handful of senators were giddy about the ramifications and literally singled out the prospects of suppressing minority and college voters. think about that for minute. elected officials panning and happy to help deny a fellow constitutional right to vote in order to increase their own chances to hang onto power.”
“a vigorous debate on the ideas good enough,” said albaugh “they had to take the way out and come up with a plan to suppress the vote under the guise of ‘voter fraud.'”
later on the witness stand in a lawsuit brought by one wisconsin now challenging the voter id law, albaugh described the tension in closed door caucus as provisions in the bill were being debated.
as described by the milwaukee journal sentinel, albaugh testified that committee chair sen. mary berlin) made the case for passing the bill, which made it much harder for students, the elderly and the poor to vote:
“she got up out of her chair and hit her fist or her finger on the table and said, ‘hey, got to think about what this would mean for the neighborhoods around milwaukee and the college campuses,” albaugh said. “grothman said, ‘what concerned about here is winning, and what really matters here. we better get this done quickly while we have the opportunity,'” albaugh said. albaugh named two other senators leah and randy hopper as being gleeful over passing the bill. “they were politically at the mouth,” he said of and hopper, who lost a recall election a few months after the voter id law passed.
alec members toe the koch party line
all four of the legislators named by albaugh were at the time members of the american legislative exchange council (alec). leah, described as “frothing at the mouth” over the bill, served for years as an officer of alec, was national chairman in 2016, and was given “iron woman” award in 2017.
the american legislative exchange council (alec) drafted and approved a “model” “voter id act” in august of 2009. the wave of bills that followed were constructed differently by different legislatures, but have a common purpose to disenfranchise constituencies that are more likely to vote democratic.
alec has attempted to distance itself from this ugly history of voter suppression (it did away with its “public safety and elections task force” and no longer touts voter id as a “model bill”) after sustained campaigning by the online civil rights group color of change and others, but alec has done nothing to get voter id policies repealed in the states where its members pushed for and passed the bill.
the partisan motivation behind the voter id act with vision of founder, the late paul weyrich of wisconsin, who in 1980 told a group of religious fundamentalists: “i want everybody to vote. elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. as a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”
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ə nu ˈstədi əv ˈrɛʤɪstərd ˈvoʊtərz ɪn deɪn ənd mɪlˈwɔki ˈkaʊntiz hu dɪd nɑt voʊt ɪn ðə 2016 ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ɪˈlɛkʃən faʊnd ðət əˈprɑksəmətli ˈɛlɪʤəbəl ˈvoʊtərz ɪn ðoʊz ˈkaʊntiz wər prɪˈvɛnɪd ər dɪˈtərd frəm ˈvoʊtɪŋ baɪ ˈvoʊtər ˈaɪˈdi lɔ. du tɪ ˌfaɪˈnænʃəl kənˈstreɪnts, ðə ˈsoʊʃəl ˈsaɪəntɪsts wər ˈoʊnli ˈeɪbəl tɪ du ə ˈstədi əv tu əv 72 ˈkaʊntiz, bət ðə ˈɔθərz seɪ ðət ɛkˈstræpəˌleɪtɪŋ ˈsteɪtˌwaɪd ɛz ˈmɛni ɛz ˈpipəl steɪd hoʊm bɪˈkəz əv ðə lɔ. ˈdɑnəld trəmp wən ðə steɪt əv wɪˈskɑnsən baɪ ˈoʊnli voʊts, ðə fərst ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ˈvɪktəri ɪn ðə steɪt sɪns ˈrɑnəld ˈrigən ɪn 1984 ðə ˈʃɑkɪŋ ˈəpˌsɛt ˈgɑrnərd ˈnæʃənəl əˈtɛnʃən ənd hɛlpt dɪˈlɪvər ðə ɪˈlɛktərəl ˈkɑlɪʤ tɪ trəmp ɛz ðə ˈpɑpjələr voʊt wɛnt tɪ ˈklɪntən. ðə ˈstədi, kənˈdəktəd baɪ kɛn meɪər ənd ˈmaɪkəl ʤi. dɪkrɛsˈʧɛnzoʊ, æt ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv wɪˈskɑnsən dɪˈpɑrtmənt əv pəˈlɪtɪkəl saɪəns, prəˈvaɪdz dɪˈfɪnɪtɪv ˈɛvədəns ðət ðə ˌkɑntrəˈvərʃəl ˈvoʊtər ˈaɪˈdi bɪl, pæst ɪn 2011 ənd hɛld əp ɪn ðə kɔrts ənˈtɪl 2016 wərkt prɪˈsaɪsli ɛz wɪˈskɑnsən rɪˈpəblɪkənz ˌɪnˈtɛndɪd tɪ meɪk ɪt mɔr ˈdɪfəkəlt fər ˈtɑrgətɪd ˈvoʊtərz tɪ kæst ðɛr ˈbæləts. ˌɔlˈðoʊ ˈvoʊtər ˈprɛfərənsɪz wər nɑt ˌɪnˈkludɪd ɪn ðə ˈstədi, ðə ˈsərˌveɪ ˈdɑkjəmənts ðət ðə ˈbərdənz əv ˈvoʊtər ˈaɪˈdi fɛl ˌdɪsprəˈpɔrʃənətli ɔn ˌloʊˈɪnkəm ənd məˈnɔrəti ˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃənz kənˈsɪdərd ˈlaɪkli tɪ səˈpɔrt ˈdɛməˌkræts. əˈməŋ ˌloʊˈɪnkəm ˈrɛʤəstrənts (ˈhaʊsˌhoʊld ˈɪnˌkəm ˈəndər wər dɪˈtərd, kəmˈpɛrd tɪ fər ðoʊz huz ˈhaʊsˌhoʊld ˈɪnˌkəm wɑz ˈoʊvər əv waɪt ˈrɛʤəstrənts wər dɪˈtərd, kəmˈpɛrd tɪ əv ˈæfrɪkɑn əˈmɛrɪkənz. ˈrəfli 80 əv ˈrɛʤəstrənts hu wər dɪˈtərd frəm ˈvoʊtɪŋ baɪ ðə lɔ, ənd 77 əv ðoʊz ˈæˌkʧuəli prɪˈvɛnɪd frəm ˈvoʊtɪŋ, kæst ˈbæləts ɪn ðə 2012 ɪˈlɛkʃən. ðə ˈnəmbər əv ˈvoʊtərz ˈnɛgətɪvli ˌɪmˈpæktɪd ɪz fɑr ˈgreɪtər ðən ðə ˈnəmbər əv ““fraud”*” ˈkeɪsɪz ðə lɔ wɑz dɪˈzaɪnd tɪ stɑp. wɪn ðə lɔ wɑz ˈʧælənʤd ɪn ˈfɛdərəl kɔrt ənd ˌɪˈnɪʃəli ruld ə vaɪəˈleɪʃən əv ðə ˈvoʊtɪŋ raɪts ækt, ðə steɪt feɪld tɪ ˈprɛzənt ə ˈsɪŋgəl keɪs əv ˈvoʊtər ˌɪmpərsəˈneɪʃən ðət ðə lɔ wʊd hæv prɪˈvɛnɪd. ðə rɪˈzəlts ˈprɑmptɪd ðə ˈkaʊnti klərks frəm mɪlˈwɔki ənd ˈmædɪsən tɪ ˈɪʃu ˈstrɔŋli ˈwərdɪd ˈsteɪtmənts ənd ə kɔl fər ə səˈspɛnʃən əv ðə ˈvoʊtər ˈaɪˈdi lɔ. wɑz ʃɑkt baɪ ðə ˈnəmbərz ənd æm fˈjʊriəs tɪ si ðət ʤɪm kroʊ lɔz ər əˈlaɪv ənd well,”*,” sɛd mɪlˈwɔki ˈkaʊnti klərk ʤɔrʤ ˈkrɪstɪnsən. ˈfoʊˌtoʊ ˈaɪˈdi lɔ məst bi səˈspɛndɪd ənˈtɪl ˈʧeɪnʤɪz kən bi meɪd tɪ rɪˈstɔr ˈɛvəri ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ðə ˈbælət box,”*,” sɛd deɪn ˈkaʊnti klərk skɑt məkˈdɑnəl huz ˈɔfəs kəˈmɪʃənd ðə ˈstədi. aɪ æm kənˈsərnd əˈbaʊt hir ɪz winning”*” waɪl moʊst rɪˈpəblɪkən stək tɪ ðə əˈfɪʃəl ˈtɔkɪŋ pɔɪnts ðət ðə ˈfoʊˌtoʊ ˈaɪˈdi lɔ wɑz ɔl əˈbaʊt prɪˈvɛnɪŋ ˌnɑnəgˈzɪstənt fraud,”*,” səm fərˈgɑt ðə skrɪpt. ɔn ðə naɪt əv 2016 ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ˈpraɪˌmɛri, rɪˈpəblɪkən ˈkɑŋgrəsmən glɛn (r-wi*) ˈflætli ˈsteɪtɪd ɪn ən ˈɪntərvˌju wɪθ ˈʧɑrəlz ˈbɛnsən ðət ˈfoʊˌtoʊ ˈaɪˈdi lɔ wʊd hɛlp ðə wɪn wɪˈskɑnsən ɪn ðə noʊˈvɛmbər 2016 ɪˈlɛkʃən. wɪn æst əˈbaʊt ðə fækt ðət wɪˈskɑnsən həz kənˈsɪstəntli ˈvoʊtɪd fər ˈdɛməˌkræts ɪn ˈrisənt ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ɪˈlɛkʃənz, əˈʃʊrd ˈbɛnsən ðət ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk ˈhɪləri ˈklɪntən wɑz ə candidate,”*,” ðɛn ˈædɪd naʊ wi hæv ˈfoʊˌtoʊ ˈaɪˈdi, ənd aɪ θɪŋk ˈfoʊˌtoʊ ˈaɪˈdi ɪz ˈgɑnə meɪk ə ˈlɪtəl bɪt əv ə ˈdɪfərəns ɛz well.”*.” rɛpriˈzɛtətɪv. wɑz ə steɪt ˈsɛnətər ɪn 2011 wɪn wɪˈskɑnsən dəˈbeɪtɪd ənd pæst ɪts ˈvoʊtər ˈaɪˈdi lɔ, soʊ hi wɑz ˈprɪvi tɪ ðə bæk rum ˌkɑnvərˈseɪʃənz ənd ˈdilɪŋz ɔn ðə ˈɪʃu. ðoʊz bæk rum ˌkɑnvərˈseɪʃən keɪm tɪ laɪt faɪv jɪrz ˈleɪtər wɪn ðə bɪl wɑz ˈɪmpləˌmɛnəd ənd ˈpipəl ˌɪˈmiˌdiətli ˈstɑrtɪd ˈhævɪŋ ˈprɑbləmz. ˈfɔrmər ˈstæfər tərnd ˈkɔfi ʃɑp ˈoʊnər, tɑd əlˈbɔ, wɑz ˈfrəˌstreɪtəd wɪn wən əv hɪz ɪmˈplɔɪiz kʊd nɑt voʊt ɪn ðə 2016 spərɪŋ ɪˈlɛkʃənz ənd ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd tɪ bloʊ ðə ˈwɪsəl. əlˈbɔ, hu wəns wərkt fər wɪˈskɑnsən ˈsɛnətər deɪl ʃʊlts ˈsɛnər), ˈsteɪtɪd ɪn ə ˈsoʊʃəl ˈmidiə poʊst: wɑz ɪn ə kloʊzd ˈsɛnɪt rɪˈpəblɪkən ˈkɔkəs wɪn ðə ˈfaɪnəl raʊnd əv ˈməltəpəl ˈvoʊtər ˈaɪˈdi bɪlz wər biɪŋ dɪˈskəst. ə ˈhændˌfʊl əv ˈsɛnətərz wər ˈgɪdi əˈbaʊt ðə ˌræməfəˈkeɪʃənz ənd ˈlɪtərəli ˈsɪŋgəld aʊt ðə ˈprɑspɛkts əv səˈprɛsɪŋ məˈnɔrəti ənd ˈkɑlɪʤ ˈvoʊtərz. θɪŋk əˈbaʊt ðət fər ˈmɪnət. ɪˈlɛktɪd əˈfɪʃəlz ˈpænɪŋ ənd ˈhæpi tɪ hɛlp dɪˈnaɪ ə ˈfɛloʊ ˌkɑnstəˈtuʃənəl raɪt tɪ voʊt ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ ˌɪnˈkris ðɛr oʊn ˈʧænsɪz tɪ hæŋ ˈɔntu power.”*.” ˈvɪgərəs dəˈbeɪt ɔn ðə aɪˈdiəz gʊd enough,”*,” sɛd əlˈbɔ hæd tɪ teɪk ðə weɪ aʊt ənd kəm əp wɪθ ə plæn tɪ səˈprɛs ðə voʊt ˈəndər ðə gaɪz əv fraud.'”*.'” ˈleɪtər ɔn ðə ˈwɪtnəs stænd ɪn ə ˈlɔˌsut brɔt baɪ wən wɪˈskɑnsən naʊ ˈʧælənʤɪŋ ðə ˈvoʊtər ˈaɪˈdi lɔ, əlˈbɔ dɪˈskraɪbd ðə ˈtɛnʃən ɪn kloʊzd dɔr ˈkɔkəs ɛz prəˈvɪʒənz ɪn ðə bɪl wər biɪŋ dəˈbeɪtɪd. ɛz dɪˈskraɪbd baɪ ðə mɪlˈwɔki ˈʤərnəl ˈsɛntənəl, əlˈbɔ ˈtɛstɪˌfaɪd ðət kəˈmɪti ʧɛr sɛn. ˈmɛri bərˈlɪn) meɪd ðə keɪs fər ˈpæsɪŋ ðə bɪl, wɪʧ meɪd ɪt məʧ ˈhɑrdər fər ˈstudənts, ðə ˈɛldərli ənd ðə pur tɪ voʊt: gɑt əp aʊt əv hər ʧɛr ənd hɪt hər fɪst ər hər ˈfɪŋgər ɔn ðə ˈteɪbəl ənd sɛd, ‘‘hey*, gɑt tɪ θɪŋk əˈbaʊt wət ðɪs wʊd min fər ðə ˈneɪbərˌhʊdz əraʊnd mɪlˈwɔki ənd ðə ˈkɑlɪʤ campuses,”*,” əlˈbɔ sɛd. sɛd, kənˈsərnd əˈbaʊt hir ɪz ˈwɪnɪŋ, ənd wət ˈrɪli ˈmætərz hir. wi ˈbɛtər gɪt ðɪs dən kˈwɪkli waɪl wi hæv ðə opportunity,'”*,'” əlˈbɔ sɛd. əlˈbɔ neɪmd tu ˈəðər ˈsɛnətərz ˈliə ənd ˈrændi ˈhɑpər ɛz biɪŋ ˈglifəl ˈoʊvər ˈpæsɪŋ ðə bɪl. wər ˈplɪtɪkli æt ðə mouth,”*,” hi sɛd əv ənd ˈhɑpər, hu lɔst ə ˈriˌkɔl ɪˈlɛkʃən ə fju mənθs ˈæftər ðə ˈvoʊtər ˈaɪˈdi lɔ pæst. ˈælɪk ˈmɛmbərz toʊ ðə kɔʧ ˈpɑrti laɪn ɔl fɔr əv ðə ˈlɛʤəsˌleɪtərz neɪmd baɪ əlˈbɔ wər æt ðə taɪm ˈmɛmbərz əv ðə əˈmɛrɪkən ˈlɛʤəsˌleɪtɪv ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ ˈkaʊnsəl (ˈælɪk). ˈliə, dɪˈskraɪbd ɛz æt ðə mouth”*” ˈoʊvər ðə bɪl, sərvd fər jɪrz ɛz ən ˈɔfɪsər əv ˈælɪk, wɑz ˈnæʃənəl ˈʧɛrmən ɪn 2016 ənd wɑz ˈgɪvɪn woman”*” əˈwɔrd ɪn 2017 ðə əˈmɛrɪkən ˈlɛʤəsˌleɪtɪv ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ ˈkaʊnsəl (ˈælɪk) ˈdræftɪd ənd əˈpruvd ə ““model”*” ˈaɪˈdi act”*” ɪn ˈɔgəst əv 2009 ðə weɪv əv bɪlz ðət ˈfɑloʊd wər kənˈstrəktɪd ˈdɪfərˈɛntli baɪ ˈdɪfərənt ˈlɛʤɪsˌleɪʧərz, bət hæv ə ˈkɑmən ˈpərpəs tɪ dɪsɪnˈfrænˌʧaɪz kənˈstɪʧuənsiz ðət ər mɔr ˈlaɪkli tɪ voʊt ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk. ˈælɪk həz əˈtɛmptəd tɪ ˈdɪstəns ˌɪtˈsɛlf frəm ðɪs ˈəgli ˈhɪstəri əv ˈvoʊtər səˈprɛʃən (ɪt dɪd əˈweɪ wɪθ ɪts ˈseɪfti ənd ɪˈlɛkʃənz tæsk force”*” ənd noʊ ˈlɔŋgər taʊts ˈvoʊtər ˈaɪˈdi ɛz ə bill”*”) ˈæftər səˈsteɪnd kæmˈpeɪnɪŋ baɪ ðə ˈɔnˌlaɪn ˈsɪvəl raɪts grup ˈkələr əv ʧeɪnʤ ənd ˈəðərz, bət ˈælɪk həz dən ˈnəθɪŋ tɪ gɪt ˈvoʊtər ˈaɪˈdi ˈpɑləsiz rɪˈpild ɪn ðə steɪts wɛr ɪts ˈmɛmbərz pʊʃt fər ənd pæst ðə bɪl. ðə ˈpɑrtəzən ˌmoʊtəˈveɪʃən bɪˈhaɪnd ðə ˈvoʊtər ˈaɪˈdi ækt wɪθ ˈvɪʒən əv ˈfaʊndər, ðə leɪt pɔl ˈwɛrɪk əv wɪˈskɑnsən, hu ɪn 1980 toʊld ə grup əv rɪˈlɪʤəs ˌfəndəˈmɛnəlɪsts: wɔnt ˈɛvriˌbɑdi tɪ voʊt. ɪˈlɛkʃənz ər nɑt wən baɪ ə məˈʤɔrəti əv ˈpipəl, ðeɪ ˈnɛvər hæv bɪn frəm ðə bɪˈgɪnɪŋ əv ɑr ˈkəntri ənd ðeɪ ər nɑt naʊ. ɛz ə ˈmætər əv fækt, ɑr ˈlɛvərɪʤ ɪn ðə ɪˈlɛkʃənz kwaɪt ˈkændɪdli goʊz əp ɛz ðə ˈvoʊtɪŋ ˈpɑpjələs goʊz down.”*.”
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[update 2] are now back up and running.
[update] games has passed along a statement addressing online's issues.
"we are aware of some issues today with players having problems connecting to online, as well as issues with the live service," a representative said. "we are working to restore full access to online as quickly as possible. in the meantime, players can monitor the performance of all platforms on our online status page, located here."
the original story is below.
the release of grand theft auto v's online mode today hasn't gone entirely smoothly. fans are widely reporting connectivity issues that are, in some cases, preventing them from forming a crew and taking on some of the new heist jobs available in online.
gamespot attempted to form a crew to take on a heist job, but was unable to get all players into a party at the same time to start the mission. eventually, it worked, but clearly online is experiencing some teething problems.
we've been able to connect to online just fine, but accessing and completing has been particularly problematic.
players are reporting online issues across all platforms. for its part, microsoft has issued a service alert for 360, notifying users of connectivity problems.
server woes are nothing new for online. when the mode launched in october, it faced widespread issues. these have been largely corrected, and games even thanked players with free currency and more for their troubles.
gamespot will continue to monitor online's status, updating this post with new information as it becomes available. we've also reached out to, asking for further insight into what might be going wrong and when a fix will be deployed.
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gɪt ðə ˈleɪtəst nuz ənd ˈvɪdioʊz fər ðɪs geɪm ˈdeɪli, noʊ spæm, noʊ fəs. [ˈəpˌdeɪt 2 ər naʊ bæk əp ənd ˈrənɪŋ. [ˈəpˌdeɪt] geɪmz həz pæst əˈlɔŋ ə ˈsteɪtmənt æˈdrɛsɪŋ ˈɔnˌlaɪnz ˈɪʃuz. "wi ər əˈwɛr əv səm ˈɪʃuz təˈdeɪ wɪθ pleɪərz ˈhævɪŋ ˈprɑbləmz kəˈnɛktɪŋ tɪ ˈɔnˌlaɪn, ɛz wɛl ɛz ˈɪʃuz wɪθ ðə lɪv ˈsərvɪs," ə ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnətɪv sɛd. "wi ər ˈwərkɪŋ tɪ rɪˈstɔr fʊl ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ˈɔnˌlaɪn ɛz kˈwɪkli ɛz ˈpɑsəbəl. ɪn ðə ˈminˌtaɪm, pleɪərz kən ˈmɑnətər ðə pərˈfɔrməns əv ɔl ˈplætˌfɔrmz ɔn ɑr ˈɔnˌlaɪn ˈstætəs peɪʤ, ˈloʊˌkeɪtəd hir." ðə ərˈɪʤənəl ˈstɔri ɪz bɪˈloʊ. ðə riˈlis əv grænd θɛft ˈɔtoʊ viz ˈɔnˌlaɪn moʊd təˈdeɪ ˈhæzənt gɔn ɪnˈtaɪərli sˈmuðli. fænz ər ˈwaɪdli rɪˈpɔrtɪŋ kənɛkˈtɪvɪti ˈɪʃuz ðət ər, ɪn səm ˈkeɪsɪz, prɪˈvɛnɪŋ ðɛm frəm ˈfɔrmɪŋ ə kru ənd ˈteɪkɪŋ ɔn səm əv ðə nu haɪst ʤɑbz əˈveɪləbəl ɪn ˈɔnˌlaɪn. əˈtɛmptəd tɪ fɔrm ə kru tɪ teɪk ɔn ə haɪst ʤɑb, bət wɑz əˈneɪbəl tɪ gɪt ɔl pleɪərz ˈɪntu ə ˈpɑrti æt ðə seɪm taɪm tɪ stɑrt ðə ˈmɪʃən. ɪˈvɛnʧəwəli, ɪt wərkt, bət ˈklɪrli ˈɔnˌlaɪn ɪz ɪkˈspɪriənsɪŋ səm ˈtiðɪŋ ˈprɑbləmz. wiv bɪn ˈeɪbəl tɪ kəˈnɛkt tɪ ˈɔnˌlaɪn ʤɪst faɪn, bət ˈækˌsɛsɪŋ ənd kəmˈplitɪŋ həz bɪn ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli ˌprɑbləˈmætɪk. pleɪərz ər rɪˈpɔrtɪŋ ˈɔnˌlaɪn ˈɪʃuz əˈkrɔs ɔl ˈplætˌfɔrmz. fər ɪts pɑrt, ˈmaɪˌkroʊˈsɔft həz ˈɪʃud ə ˈsərvɪs əˈlərt fər 360 ˈnoʊtəˌfaɪɪŋ ˈjuzərz əv kənɛkˈtɪvɪti ˈprɑbləmz. ˈsərvər woʊz ər ˈnəθɪŋ nu fər ˈɔnˌlaɪn. wɪn ðə moʊd lɔnʧt ɪn ɑkˈtoʊbər, ɪt feɪst ˈwaɪdˈsprɛd ˈɪʃuz. ðiz hæv bɪn ˈlɑrʤli kərˈɛktɪd, ənd geɪmz ˈivɪn θæŋkt pleɪərz wɪθ fri ˈkərənsi ənd mɔr fər ðɛr ˈtrəbəlz. wɪl kənˈtɪnju tɪ ˈmɑnətər ˈɔnˌlaɪnz ˈstætəs, ˈəpˌdeɪtɪŋ ðɪs poʊst wɪθ nu ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən ɛz ɪt bɪˈkəmz əˈveɪləbəl. wiv ˈɔlsoʊ riʧt aʊt tɪ, ˈæskɪŋ fər ˈfərðər ˈɪnˌsaɪt ˈɪntu wət maɪt bi goʊɪŋ rɔŋ ənd wɪn ə fɪks wɪl bi dɪˈplɔɪd. fər naʊ, ɪf jʊr ɪkˈspɪriənsɪŋ ˈtɛknɪkəl ˈtrəbəlz, ju kən ˈvɪzɪt ðə ˈɔnˌlaɪn səˈpɔrt peɪʤ.
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image copyright essex police image caption had left her home in woodrow way, colchester, and was attacked off avon way
a university student killed near an essex nature reserve was stabbed 16 times, police say.
saudi arabian national, of woodrow way, colchester, had been in the for less than a year and was studying at the university of essex.
she was found dead on tuesday morning on a footpath off avon way.
media playback is unsupported on your device media captionief steve appealed for members of the public with any suspicions about who could be involved to come forward
essex police said although there was no evidence of the killing being a hate crime, it was "one of the main lines" of inquiry being pursued.
a man arrested earlier in connection with the murder on tuesday has been eliminated from police inquiries, a spokesman for essex police said.
speaking at a press conference, steve said: "a post-mortem was carried out on's body yesterday afternoon.
image caption officers said ms lived with her brother in the town
"we can now confirm that the cause of death was knife wounds.
"she suffered at least two knife wounds which would have proved fatal on their own, but in total she was stabbed 16 times to her body, neck, head and arms."
image copyright essex police image caption was carrying this bag before she was attacked
mr said the force was also investigating threats of revenge attacks being posted on social media.
cctv images of ms's last movements have been issued in the hope of encouraging witnesses. a picture of the bag she was carrying and a map of the route she was likely to have walked have also been released.
the saudi arabian embassy confirmed that prince mohammed bin bin abdulaziz, ambassador to the, had contacted the victim's family.
image copyright pa image caption police have been searching the local area for evidence, including at salary brook trail
officers said ms lived with her brother and would normally walk to university with him, but she was walking alone when she was attacked because she had earlier lectures.
the university of essex said she was a "very hard-working and conscientious" student on the english language programme and was due to finish her studies in august.
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ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkɑpiˌraɪt ˈɛsɪks pəˈlis ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkæpʃən hæd lɛft hər hoʊm ɪn ˈwʊˌdroʊ weɪ, colchester*, ənd wɑz əˈtækt ɔf ˈeɪvɑn weɪ ə ˌjunəˈvərsəti ˈstudənt kɪld nɪr ən ˈɛsɪks ˈneɪʧər rɪˈzərv wɑz stæbd 16 taɪmz, pəˈlis seɪ. ˈsɔdi əˈreɪbiən ˈnæʃənəl, əv ˈwʊˌdroʊ weɪ, colchester*, hæd bɪn ɪn ðə fər lɛs ðən ə jɪr ənd wɑz ˈstədiɪŋ æt ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv ˈɛsɪks. ʃi wɑz faʊnd dɛd ɔn ˈtuzˌdeɪ ˈmɔrnɪŋ ɔn ə ˈfʊtˌpæθ ɔf ˈeɪvɑn weɪ. ˈmidiə ˈpleɪˌbæk ɪz ənsəˈpɔrtɪd ɔn jʊr dɪˈvaɪs ˈmidiə ˈkæpʃən ʧif stiv əˈpild fər ˈmɛmbərz əv ðə ˈpəblɪk wɪθ ˈɛni səˈspɪʃənz əˈbaʊt hu kʊd bi ˌɪnˈvɑlvd tɪ kəm ˈfɔrwərd ˈɛsɪks pəˈlis sɛd ˌɔlˈðoʊ ðɛr wɑz noʊ ˈɛvədəns əv ðə ˈkɪlɪŋ biɪŋ ə heɪt kraɪm, ɪt wɑz "wən əv ðə meɪn laɪnz" əv ˌɪnkˈwaɪˌri biɪŋ pərˈsud. ə mæn ərˈɛstɪd ˈərliər ɪn kəˈnɛkʃən wɪθ ðə ˈmərdər ɔn ˈtuzˌdeɪ həz bɪn ɪˈlɪməˌneɪtɪd frəm pəˈlis ˌɪnkˈwaɪəriz, ə ˈspoʊksmən fər ˈɛsɪks pəˈlis sɛd. ˈspikɪŋ æt ə prɛs ˈkɑnfərəns, stiv sɛd: "ə poʊstˈmɔrtɛm wɑz ˈkɛrid aʊt ɔn ˈbɑdi ˈjɛstərˌdeɪ ˌæftərˈnun. ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkæpʃən ˈɔfɪsərz sɛd mɪz lɪvd wɪθ hər ˈbrəðər ɪn ðə taʊn "wi kən naʊ kənˈfərm ðət ðə kɔz əv dɛθ wɑz naɪf wundz. "ʃi ˈsəfərd æt list tu naɪf wundz wɪʧ wʊd hæv pruvd ˈfeɪtəl ɔn ðɛr oʊn, bət ɪn ˈtoʊtəl ʃi wɑz stæbd 16 taɪmz tɪ hər ˈbɑdi, nɛk, hɛd ənd ɑrmz." ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkɑpiˌraɪt ˈɛsɪks pəˈlis ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkæpʃən wɑz ˈkɛriɪŋ ðɪs bæg ˌbiˈfɔr ʃi wɑz əˈtækt ˈmɪstər sɛd ðə fɔrs wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪtɪŋ θrɛts əv riˈvɛnʤ əˈtæks biɪŋ ˈpoʊstɪd ɔn ˈsoʊʃəl ˈmidiə. ˈsiˌsiˈtiˌvi ˈɪmɪʤɪz əv mɪz læst ˈmuvmənts hæv bɪn ˈɪʃud ɪn ðə hoʊp əv ɪnˈkərəʤɪŋ ˈwɪtnəsɪz. ə ˈpɪkʧər əv ðə bæg ʃi wɑz ˈkɛriɪŋ ənd ə mæp əv ðə rut ʃi wɑz ˈlaɪkli tɪ hæv wɔkt hæv ˈɔlsoʊ bɪn riˈlist. ðə ˈsɔdi əˈreɪbiən ˈɛmbəsi kənˈfərmd ðət prɪns moʊˈhæmɪd bɪn bɪn æbˌduləˈziz, æmˈbæsədər tɪ ðə, hæd ˈkɑnˌtæktɪd ðə ˈvɪktɪmz ˈfæməli. ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkɑpiˌraɪt pɑ ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkæpʃən pəˈlis hæv bɪn ˈsərʧɪŋ ðə ˈloʊkəl ˈɛriə fər ˈɛvədəns, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ æt ˈsæləri brʊk treɪl ˈɔfɪsərz sɛd mɪz lɪvd wɪθ hər ˈbrəðər ənd wʊd ˈnɔrməli wɔk tɪ ˌjunəˈvərsəti wɪθ ɪm, bət ʃi wɑz ˈwɔkɪŋ əˈloʊn wɪn ʃi wɑz əˈtækt bɪˈkəz ʃi hæd ˈərliər ˈlɛkʧərz. ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv ˈɛsɪks sɛd ʃi wɑz ə "ˈvɛri ˌhɑrdˈwərkɪŋ ənd ˌkɑnʃiˈɛnʃəs" ˈstudənt ɔn ðə ˈɪŋlɪʃ ˈlæŋgwɪʤ ˈproʊˌgræm ənd wɑz du tɪ ˈfɪnɪʃ hər ˈstədiz ɪn ˈɔgəst.
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poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201610/457/1155968404_5190231744001_5190217748001-vs.jpg?pubid=1155968404" true man with menacing stare says he was actually protesting trump
phoenix security guards removed a man perceived to be staring menacingly at the press from a donald trump campaign rally on saturday.
a television reporter notified a security guard that the rally attendee was holding an object in his hand and described him as a “very dangerous man” after noticing the man facing away from trump and staring at length directly at members of the press. minutes later, security guards removed the man from the phoenix convention center.
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but following the publication of this article, the man, anton weber, reached out to politico to report that in fact he had turned his back on trump in protest of the claims that the election is “rigged” against him.
“i am and did not want to stare at the floor any longer so i was staring at the floor of the press platform,” weber explained. “i fully support the press.”
the incident comes as attacks on the press have grown more extreme in recent weeks, with the republican nominee accusing journalists and bankers of colluding with hillary campaign to destroy him as part of a vast conspiracy.
earlier this month, in response to that rhetoric, jonathan greenblatt, the head of the league, warned, "whether intentionally or not, donald trump is evoking classic themes that have historically been used against jews and still reverberate today."
it was not the only incident at saturday's rally. minutes before the man was removed, two other men began shouting at the press pen. one of them, wearing a hat with a mushroom cloud and the words “bombislam.com” as well as a shirt with former president bill face and the word “rape” began shouting, “bill a rapist.” his companion, wearing a “hillary for prison” shirt, shouted at the press, “you are rapists” and “you need to pay for bill rape,” adding, “you are responsible.”
that same man, when the crowd broke into a chant of “u-s-a” stood at the metal barrier separating the press from the crowd and shouted at members of the press, “jew-s-a.”
trump campaign spokeswoman hope hicks said: "the campaign strongly condemns this kind of rhetoric and behavior. it is not acceptable at our rallies or elsewhere."
toward the end of speech, as the travelling press filed out of the pen to wait by motorcade backstage, the republican nominee called reporters “terrible people” and said the media tell the public that the national murder rate is at a high, a false claim that trump regularly repeats at his rallies.
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poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201610/457/1155968404_5190231744001_5190217748001-vs.jpg?pubid=1155968404* tru mæn wɪθ ˈmɛnəsɪŋ stɛr sɪz hi wɑz ˈæˌkʧuəli ˈproʊˌtɛstɪŋ trəmp ˈfinɪks sɪˈkjʊrəti gɑrdz riˈmuvd ə mæn pərˈsivd tɪ bi ˈstɛrɪŋ ˈmɛnəsɪŋli æt ðə prɛs frəm ə ˈdɑnəld trəmp kæmˈpeɪn ˈræli ɔn ˈsæˌtɪˌdeɪ. ə ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən rɪˈpɔrtər ˈnoʊtəˌfaɪd ə sɪˈkjʊrəti gɑrd ðət ðə ˈræli əˈtɛnˈdi wɑz ˈhoʊldɪŋ ən ˈɑbʤɛkt ɪn hɪz hænd ənd dɪˈskraɪbd ɪm ɛz ə ˈdeɪnʤərəs man”*” ˈæftər ˈnoʊtɪsɪŋ ðə mæn ˈfeɪsɪŋ əˈweɪ frəm trəmp ənd ˈstɛrɪŋ æt lɛŋθ dɪˈrɛkli æt ˈmɛmbərz əv ðə prɛs. ˈmɪnəts ˈleɪtər, sɪˈkjʊrəti gɑrdz riˈmuvd ðə mæn frəm ðə ˈfinɪks kənˈvɛnʃən ˈsɛnər. ˈstɔri kənˈtɪnjud bɪˈloʊ bət ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ðə ˌpəblɪˈkeɪʃən əv ðɪs ˈɑrtɪkəl, ðə mæn, ˈænˌtɔn ˈwɛbər, riʧt aʊt tɪ pəˈlɪtɪˌkoʊ tɪ rɪˈpɔrt ðət ɪn fækt hi hæd tərnd hɪz bæk ɔn trəmp ɪn ˈproʊˌtɛst əv ðə kleɪmz ðət ðə ɪˈlɛkʃən ɪz ““rigged”*” əˈgɛnst ɪm. æm ənd dɪd nɑt wɔnt tɪ stɛr æt ðə flɔr ˈɛni ˈlɔŋgər soʊ aɪ wɑz ˈstɛrɪŋ æt ðə flɔr əv ðə prɛs platform,”*,” ˈwɛbər ɪkˈspleɪnd. ˈfʊli səˈpɔrt ðə press.”*.” ðə ˈɪnsədənt kəmz ɛz əˈtæks ɔn ðə prɛs hæv groʊn mɔr ɪkˈstrim ɪn ˈrisənt wiks, wɪθ ðə rɪˈpəblɪkən ˌnɑməˈni əˈkjuzɪŋ ˈʤərnəlɪsts ənd ˈbæŋkərz əv kəˈludɪŋ wɪθ ˈhɪləri kæmˈpeɪn tɪ dɪˈstrɔɪ ɪm ɛz pɑrt əv ə væst kənˈspɪrəsi. ˈərliər ðɪs mənθ, ɪn rɪˈspɑns tɪ ðət ˈrɛtərɪk, ˈʤɑnəθən ˈgrinblət, ðə hɛd əv ðə lig, wɔrnd, "ˈwɛðər ˌɪnˈtɛnʃənəli ər nɑt, ˈdɑnəld trəmp ɪz ɪˈvoʊkɪŋ ˈklæsɪk θimz ðət hæv hɪˈstɔrɪkəli bɪn juzd əˈgɛnst ʤuz ənd stɪl rɪˈvərbərət təˈdeɪ." ɪt wɑz nɑt ðə ˈoʊnli ˈɪnsədənt æt ˈsætərdiz ˈræli. ˈmɪnəts ˌbiˈfɔr ðə mæn wɑz riˈmuvd, tu ˈəðər mɛn bɪˈgæn ˈʃaʊtɪŋ æt ðə prɛs pɛn. wən əv ðɛm, ˈwɛrɪŋ ə hæt wɪθ ə ˈməʃrum klaʊd ənd ðə wərdz ““bombislam.com”*” ɛz wɛl ɛz ə ʃərt wɪθ ˈfɔrmər ˈprɛzɪdənt bɪl feɪs ənd ðə wərd ““rape”*” bɪˈgæn ˈʃaʊtɪŋ, ə rapist.”*.” hɪz kəmˈpænjən, ˈwɛrɪŋ ə fər prison”*” ʃərt, ˈʃaʊtɪd æt ðə prɛs, ər rapists”*” ənd nid tɪ peɪ fər bɪl rape,”*,” ˈædɪŋ, ər responsible.”*.” ðət seɪm mæn, wɪn ðə kraʊd broʊk ˈɪntu ə ʧænt əv ““u-s-a”*” stʊd æt ðə ˈmɛtəl ˈbɛriər ˈsɛpərˌeɪtɪŋ ðə prɛs frəm ðə kraʊd ənd ˈʃaʊtɪd æt ˈmɛmbərz əv ðə prɛs, ““jew-s-a.”*.” trəmp kæmˈpeɪn ˈspoʊksˌwʊmən hoʊp hɪks sɛd: "ðə kæmˈpeɪn ˈstrɔŋli kənˈdɛmz ðɪs kaɪnd əv ˈrɛtərɪk ənd bɪˈheɪvjər. ɪt ɪz nɑt əkˈsɛptəbəl æt ɑr ˈræliz ər ˈɛlsˌwɛr." təˈwɔrd ðə ɛnd əv spiʧ, ɛz ðə ˈtrævəlɪŋ prɛs faɪld aʊt əv ðə pɛn tɪ weɪt baɪ ˈmoʊtərˌkeɪd ˈbækˈsteɪʤ, ðə rɪˈpəblɪkən ˌnɑməˈni kɔld rɪˈpɔrtərz people”*” ənd sɛd ðə ˈmidiə tɛl ðə ˈpəblɪk ðət ðə ˈnæʃənəl ˈmərdər reɪt ɪz æt ə haɪ, ə fɔls kleɪm ðət trəmp ˈrɛgjələrli rɪˈpits æt hɪz ˈræliz.
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those who feel that pluto has always been a planet and jolly well ought to be one again have received a boost - this time from a top nasa boffin, albeit a slightly biased one.
"it's very hard not to call an object with this level of complexity in its geology, and such complex seasons, a planet," said alan stern, new horizons' principal investigator at southwest research institute, during a press conference about the probe's latest update.
"astronomers and planetary scientists differ on this question but that's how science works scientists make individual decisions and consensus is reached. i think we're going through a period of transition at the moment."
data from the new horizons space probe has shown pluto to be active, with new glacier plains of nitrogen ice carving out new surface features and eroding away impact craters from meteor strikes.
it has a large, hazy atmosphere extending 100 miles from the surface, and the new horizons data has revealed a lot about the dwarf planet's history.
we heard during the briefing that pluto is almost perfectly spherical, which was unexpected considering what we think happened during its formation.
it's likely that way back in its history, pluto was hit by a massive object that tore away a huge chunk of its mass, which went on to form into the five moons.
but no remnant of that impact can be seen on the surface or in its current clean, spherical form.
that means that pluto must have been spinning very rapidly after the impact, william mckinnon, new horizons at washington university said, before reaching equilibrium with its relatively massive moon charon.
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ðoʊz hu fil ðət ˈplutoʊ həz ˈɔlˌweɪz bɪn ə ˈplænət ənd ˈʤɑli wɛl ɔt tɪ bi wən əˈgɛn hæv rɪˈsivd ə bust ðɪs taɪm frəm ə tɔp ˈnæsə boffin*, ɔlˈbiɪt ə sˈlaɪtli baɪəst wən. "ɪts ˈvɛri hɑrd nɑt tɪ kɔl ən ˈɑbʤɛkt wɪθ ðɪs ˈlɛvəl əv kəmˈplɛksɪti ɪn ɪts ʤiˈɑləʤi, ənd səʧ ˈkɑmplɛks ˈsizənz, ə ˈplænət," sɛd ˈælən stərn, nu hərˈaɪzənz' ˈprɪnsəpəl ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪtər æt ˌsaʊθˈwɛst ˈrisərʧ ˈɪnstɪˌtut, ˈdʊrɪŋ ə prɛs ˈkɑnfərəns əˈbaʊt ðə proʊbz ˈleɪtəst ˈəpˌdeɪt. "əˈstrɑnəmərz ənd ˈplænəˌtɛri ˈsaɪəntɪsts ˈdɪfər ɔn ðɪs kˈwɛʃən bət ðæts haʊ saɪəns wərks ˈsaɪəntɪsts meɪk ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl dɪˈsɪʒənz ənd kənˈsɛnsəs ɪz riʧt. aɪ θɪŋk wɪr goʊɪŋ θru ə ˈpɪriəd əv trænˈzɪʃən æt ðə ˈmoʊmənt." ˈdætə frəm ðə nu hərˈaɪzənz speɪs proʊb həz ʃoʊn ˈplutoʊ tɪ bi ˈæktɪv, wɪθ nu ˈgleɪʃər pleɪnz əv ˈnaɪtrəʤən aɪs ˈkɑrvɪŋ aʊt nu ˈsərfəs ˈfiʧərz ənd ɪˈroʊdɪŋ əˈweɪ ˌɪmˈpækt ˈkreɪtərz frəm ˈmitiər straɪks. ɪt həz ə lɑrʤ, ˈheɪzi ˈætməsˌfɪr ɪkˈstɛndɪŋ 100 maɪəlz frəm ðə ˈsərfəs, ənd ðə nu hərˈaɪzənz ˈdætə həz rɪˈvild ə lɔt əˈbaʊt ðə dwɔrf ˈplænəts ˈhɪstəri. wi hərd ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈbrifɪŋ ðət ˈplutoʊ ɪz ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˈpərfəktli sˈfɛrɪkəl, wɪʧ wɑz ˌənɪkˈspɛktɪd kənˈsɪdərɪŋ wət wi θɪŋk ˈhæpənd ˈdʊrɪŋ ɪts fɔrˈmeɪʃən. ɪts ˈlaɪkli ðət weɪ bæk ɪn ɪts ˈhɪstəri, ˈplutoʊ wɑz hɪt baɪ ə ˈmæsɪv ˈɑbʤɛkt ðət tɔr əˈweɪ ə juʤ ʧəŋk əv ɪts mæs, wɪʧ wɛnt ɔn tɪ fɔrm ˈɪntu ðə faɪv munz. bət noʊ ˈrɛmnənt əv ðət ˌɪmˈpækt kən bi sin ɔn ðə ˈsərfəs ər ɪn ɪts ˈkɑrənt klin, sˈfɛrɪkəl fɔrm. ðət minz ðət ˈplutoʊ məst hæv bɪn ˈspɪnɪŋ ˈvɛri ˈræpədli ˈæftər ðə ˌɪmˈpækt, ˈwɪljəm məˈkɪnən, nu hərˈaɪzənz æt ˈwɔʃɪŋtən ˌjunəˈvərsəti sɛd, ˌbiˈfɔr ˈriʧɪŋ ˌikwəˈlɪbriəm wɪθ ɪts ˈrɛlətɪvli ˈmæsɪv mun ˈkɛrən.
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tension prevailed off island on wednesday morning, when turkish coastal guards called a slovenian patrol boat of agency to leave the area and a greek patrol boat was rushed to clear the territorial issue of the island.
greek media report that the captain of the turkish boat called the slovenian boat to ‘withdraw from turkish territorial waters”.
the captain of the slovenian boat refused to obey the turks, arguing that this was part of the international unit combating illegal immigration.
a greek boat rushed to the spot and reminded the turkish officers that the area is in greek territorial waters and that thet is full licensed to operate in the eastern aegean sea.
according to news portal zougla.gr:
the captain of the slovenian boat informed the operation centre about the incident that occurred at 3 a.m. the operation centre sent a greek. the turkish captain called the greek boat as well to withdraw from the area. however he received the answer that the area was greek and that he had to go away. the turkish boat attempted to ram the greek boat, but the greek captain managed to avoid the ramming and eventually turned towards the turkish boat causing both boats to collide. after some very tense moments where even weapons were ‘unlocked’ on both sides, the greek captain manage to diffuse the dangerous situation. the turkish boat left after the area.
farmakonisi, a small island belonging to group, with some fishermen as residents and an army unit. turkey does not recognizes it as greek, although it is nautical miles away from the turkish coast and turkish sea borders extend just 3 nautical miles off the coast.
greek foreign ministry reportedly prepares a protest note to turkey.
the navy or the defence ministry did not issued any press release as the coastal guard is assigned to greek police.
ps all greeks needed right now would be a confrontation with turkey over allegations on “disputed zones“.
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ˈtɛnʃən prɪˈveɪld ɔf ˈaɪlənd ɔn ˈwɛnzˌdeɪ ˈmɔrnɪŋ, wɪn ˈtərkɪʃ ˈkoʊstəl gɑrdz kɔld ə sˌloʊˈviniən pəˈtroʊl boʊt əv ˈeɪʤənsi tɪ liv ðə ˈɛriə ənd ə grik pəˈtroʊl boʊt wɑz rəʃt tɪ klɪr ðə ˌtɛrɪˈtɔriəl ˈɪʃu əv ðə ˈaɪlənd. grik ˈmidiə rɪˈpɔrt ðət ðə ˈkæptən əv ðə ˈtərkɪʃ boʊt kɔld ðə sˌloʊˈviniən boʊt tɪ frəm ˈtərkɪʃ ˌtɛrɪˈtɔriəl waters”*”. ðə ˈkæptən əv ðə sˌloʊˈviniən boʊt rɪfˈjuzd tɪ oʊˈbeɪ ðə tərks, ˈɑrgjuɪŋ ðət ðɪs wɑz pɑrt əv ðə ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl ˈjunɪt kəmˈbætɪŋ ˌɪˈligəl ˌɪməˈgreɪʃən. ə grik boʊt rəʃt tɪ ðə spɑt ənd riˈmaɪndɪd ðə ˈtərkɪʃ ˈɔfɪsərz ðət ðə ˈɛriə ɪz ɪn grik ˌtɛrɪˈtɔriəl ˈwɔtərz ənd ðət ðə ɪz fʊl ˈlaɪsənst tɪ ˈɔpərˌeɪt ɪn ðə ˈistərn ˌeɪˈʤiən si. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ nuz ˈpɔrtəl zougla.gr*: ðə ˈkæptən əv ðə sˌloʊˈviniən boʊt ˌɪnˈfɔrmd ðə ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən ˈsɛntər əˈbaʊt ðə ˈɪnsədənt ðət əˈkərd æt 3 a.m*. ðə ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən ˈsɛntər sɛnt ə grik. ðə ˈtərkɪʃ ˈkæptən kɔld ðə grik boʊt ɛz wɛl tɪ wɪθˈdrɔ frəm ðə ˈɛriə. ˌhaʊˈɛvər hi rɪˈsivd ðə ˈænsər ðət ðə ˈɛriə wɑz grik ənd ðət hi hæd tɪ goʊ əˈweɪ. ðə ˈtərkɪʃ boʊt əˈtɛmptəd tɪ ræm ðə grik boʊt, bət ðə grik ˈkæptən ˈmænɪʤd tɪ əˈvɔɪd ðə ˈræmɪŋ ənd ɪˈvɛnʧəwəli tərnd təˈwɔrdz ðə ˈtərkɪʃ boʊt ˈkɔzɪŋ boʊθ boʊts tɪ kəˈlaɪd. ˈæftər səm ˈvɛri tɛns ˈmoʊmənts wɛr ˈivɪn ˈwɛpənz wər ‘‘unlocked’*’ ɔn boʊθ saɪdz, ðə grik ˈkæptən ˈmænɪʤ tɪ dɪfˈjuz ðə ˈdeɪnʤərəs ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃən. ðə ˈtərkɪʃ boʊt lɛft ˈæftər ðə ˈɛriə., ə smɔl ˈaɪlənd bɪˈlɔŋɪŋ tɪ grup, wɪθ səm ˈfɪʃərmɪn ɛz ˈrɛzɪdənts ənd ən ˈɑrmi ˈjunɪt. ˈtərki dɪz nɑt ˈrɛkəgˌnaɪzɪz ɪt ɛz grik, ˌɔlˈðoʊ ɪt ɪz ˈnɔtəkəl maɪəlz əˈweɪ frəm ðə ˈtərkɪʃ koʊst ənd ˈtərkɪʃ si ˈbɔrdərz ɪkˈstɛnd ʤɪst 3 ˈnɔtəkəl maɪəlz ɔf ðə koʊst. grik ˈfɔrən ˈmɪnɪstri rɪˈpɔrtədli pərˈpɛrz ə ˈproʊˌtɛst noʊt tɪ ˈtərki. ðə ˈneɪvi ər ðə dɪˈfɛns ˈmɪnɪstri dɪd nɑt ˈɪʃud ˈɛni prɛs riˈlis ɛz ðə ˈkoʊstəl gɑrd ɪz əˈsaɪnd tɪ grik pəˈlis. ɔl griks ˈnidɪd raɪt naʊ wʊd bi ə ˌkɑnfrənˈteɪʃən wɪθ ˈtərki ˈoʊvər ˌæləˈgeɪʃənz ɔn zones“*“.
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image caption china hailed the trial as a model of
a notorious ethnic shan warlord, naw, has gone on trial in the southern chinese city of, charged with the murder of 13 chinese citizens on board two boats on the mekong river last october.
naw, who was widely believed to run much of the smuggling and narcotics business in the golden triangle region where the borders of laos, burma and thailand meet, was detained in laos in april after a joint operation by the security forces from the three countries and china.
five of naw associates are also on trial.
the prosecution's case is simple: that the two boats were suspected of trafficking narcotics, bypassing naw, so he killed the crew to set an example to the hundreds of other ships that ply the mekong, carrying the expanding river trade, both legal and illegal, between the four countries.
naw is accused by the chinese authorities of terrorizing chinese ships along the mekong for many years. convicting him for a crime which outraged public opinion in china would be a popular move.
after reportedly confessing and apologizing to the chinese police, he has now denied the charge in court and blamed the killings on the thai security forces.
'solid evidence'
image caption reports from china say naw "overturned" his earlier confessions
but there is a great deal about this case that is not clear or simple.
the two boats, the hua ping and the yu xing 8, were found on the thai side of the mekong, not far from the river port of chiang saen, some time in early october.
the chinese authorities say the boats were attacked on october. it took several days to discover the bodies of all 13 victims, most of whom had their hands tied and had been shot.
at the end of october the thai police announced that after speaking to more than 100 witnesses, they were naming nine soldiers from a thai army unit responsible for security along the mekong, as suspects in the killings.
some of the witnesses described seeing the soldiers open fire on the boats. the thai military responded by saying its troops had found the two boats, already riddled with bullets, on the river bank, with the captain of one slumped dead over his gun.
they reported finding methamphetamine pills on board.
the nine thai soldiers are still viewed by the police as suspects, although they have not been charged.
they have denied killing the victims, and the commander of the thai army, general has called for them to be allowed to clear their names.
but the interior minister, yubumrang, has insisted that there is ''solid evidence'' that thai soldiers fired on the boats. he has repeatedly stated that the case is close to being complete on the thai side, but there is little sign of this.
thai forces involved?
image caption crime is active in the stretch of mekong river bordering thailand, laos and burma
so what really happened? we will probably never know.
violent crimes are routinely never solved in thailand, especially in the lawless border regions, where the security forces are widely believed to collaborate with underworld figures like naw as often as they try to combat them.
add to that the rivalry and mistrust between the thai police and military, fuelled by the political polarization of the country in recent years.
"the evidence suggests the thai security forces were involved", says chulapongsathorn, chairman of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee, which conducted its own inquiry into the killings.
"but the investigation on our side not resulted in any charges. perhaps the result of the chinese trial will influence what happens here."
in fact we would probably have learned very little about this case, had it not been for the involvement of china.
chinese 'arm-twisting'
senior chinese officials arrived in thailand soon after the boats were found, and demanded action be taken.
within a month, the four countries had agreed to beef up river patrols, although an initial proposal to allow chinese gunboats to operate along thai stretches of the mekong was firmly rejected by general.
the speed with which naw - previously an untouchable warlord who moved with impunity for many years along the mekong - was captured, demonstrates the impact of chinese pressure.
the fact that he is being tried in china, even though the crime took place far from chinese territory, is another indication of how powerful china's voice now is in the region.
thailand has sent ten police officers to testify at the trial. the chinese authorities have described this case as a model of.
in truth, it has been an example of by the regional superpower.
whether chinese power can impose order on the lawless mekong is another matter. attacks on river boats have continued this year, though on a smaller scale.
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ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkæpʃən ˈʧaɪnə heɪld ðə traɪəl ɛz ə ˈmɑdəl əv ə noʊˈtɔriəs ˈɛθnɪk ʃæn ˈwɔˌrlɔrd, nɑ, həz gɔn ɔn traɪəl ɪn ðə ˈsəðərn ʧaɪˈniz ˈsɪti əv, ʧɑrʤd wɪθ ðə ˈmərdər əv 13 ʧaɪˈniz ˈsɪtɪzənz ɔn bɔrd tu boʊts ɔn ðə ˈmeɪkɑŋ ˈrɪvər læst ɑkˈtoʊbər. nɑ, hu wɑz ˈwaɪdli bɪˈlivd tɪ rən məʧ əv ðə sˈməgəlɪŋ ənd nɑrˈkɑtɪks ˈbɪznɪs ɪn ðə ˈgoʊldən ˈtraɪˌæŋgəl ˈriʤən wɛr ðə ˈbɔrdərz əv lɑoʊs, ˈbərmə ənd ˈtaɪˌlænd mit, wɑz dɪˈteɪnd ɪn lɑoʊs ɪn ˈeɪprəl ˈæftər ə ʤɔɪnt ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən baɪ ðə sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈfɔrsɪz frəm ðə θri ˈkəntriz ənd ˈʧaɪnə. faɪv əv nɑ əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪts ər ˈɔlsoʊ ɔn traɪəl. ðə ˌprɑsəˈkjuʃənz keɪs ɪz ˈsɪmpəl: ðət ðə tu boʊts wər səˈspɛktɪd əv ˈtræfɪkɪŋ nɑrˈkɑtɪks, ˈbaɪˌpæsɪŋ nɑ, soʊ hi kɪld ðə kru tɪ sɛt ən ɪgˈzæmpəl tɪ ðə ˈhənərdz əv ˈəðər ʃɪps ðət plaɪ ðə ˈmeɪkɑŋ, ˈkɛriɪŋ ðə ɪkˈspændɪŋ ˈrɪvər treɪd, boʊθ ˈligəl ənd ˌɪˈligəl, bɪtˈwin ðə fɔr ˈkəntriz. nɑ ɪz əˈkjuzd baɪ ðə ʧaɪˈniz əˈθɔrətiz əv ˈtɛrəˌraɪzɪŋ ʧaɪˈniz ʃɪps əˈlɔŋ ðə ˈmeɪkɑŋ fər ˈmɛni jɪrz. kənˈvɪktɪŋ ɪm fər ə kraɪm wɪʧ ˈaʊˌtreɪʤd ˈpəblɪk əˈpɪnjən ɪn ˈʧaɪnə wʊd bi ə ˈpɑpjələr muv. ˈæftər rɪˈpɔrtədli kənˈfɛsɪŋ ənd əˈpɑləˌʤaɪzɪŋ tɪ ðə ʧaɪˈniz pəˈlis, hi həz naʊ dɪˈnaɪd ðə ʧɑrʤ ɪn kɔrt ənd bleɪmd ðə ˈkɪlɪŋz ɔn ðə taɪ sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈfɔrsɪz. 'ˈsɑləd ˈɛvədəns' ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkæpʃən rɪˈpɔrts frəm ˈʧaɪnə seɪ nɑ "ˈoʊvərˌtərnd" hɪz ˈərliər kənˈfɛʃənz bət ðɛr ɪz ə greɪt dil əˈbaʊt ðɪs keɪs ðət ɪz nɑt klɪr ər ˈsɪmpəl. ðə tu boʊts, ðə hwɑ pɪŋ ənd ðə ju ʃɪŋ 8 wər faʊnd ɔn ðə taɪ saɪd əv ðə ˈmeɪkɑŋ, nɑt fɑr frəm ðə ˈrɪvər pɔrt əv ʧæŋ saen*, səm taɪm ɪn ˈərli ɑkˈtoʊbər. ðə ʧaɪˈniz əˈθɔrətiz seɪ ðə boʊts wər əˈtækt ɔn ɑkˈtoʊbər. ɪt tʊk ˈsɛvərəl deɪz tɪ dɪˈskəvər ðə ˈbɑdiz əv ɔl 13 ˈvɪktɪmz, moʊst əv hum hæd ðɛr hænz taɪd ənd hæd bɪn ʃɑt. æt ðə ɛnd əv ɑkˈtoʊbər ðə taɪ pəˈlis əˈnaʊnst ðət ˈæftər ˈspikɪŋ tɪ mɔr ðən 100 ˈwɪtnəsɪz, ðeɪ wər ˈneɪmɪŋ naɪn ˈsoʊlʤərz frəm ə taɪ ˈɑrmi ˈjunɪt riˈspɑnsəbəl fər sɪˈkjʊrəti əˈlɔŋ ðə ˈmeɪkɑŋ, ɛz ˈsəˌspɛkts ɪn ðə ˈkɪlɪŋz. səm əv ðə ˈwɪtnəsɪz dɪˈskraɪbd siɪŋ ðə ˈsoʊlʤərz ˈoʊpən faɪər ɔn ðə boʊts. ðə taɪ ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri rɪˈspɑndɪd baɪ seɪɪŋ ɪts trups hæd faʊnd ðə tu boʊts, ɔˈrɛdi ˈrɪdəld wɪθ ˈbʊləts, ɔn ðə ˈrɪvər bæŋk, wɪθ ðə ˈkæptən əv wən sləmpt dɛd ˈoʊvər hɪz gən. ðeɪ ˌriˈpɔrtəd ˈfaɪndɪŋ ˌmɛθæmˈfɛtəmin pɪlz ɔn bɔrd. ðə naɪn taɪ ˈsoʊlʤərz ər stɪl vjud baɪ ðə pəˈlis ɛz ˈsəˌspɛkts, ˌɔlˈðoʊ ðeɪ hæv nɑt bɪn ʧɑrʤd. ðeɪ hæv dɪˈnaɪd ˈkɪlɪŋ ðə ˈvɪktɪmz, ənd ðə kəˈmændər əv ðə taɪ ˈɑrmi, ˈʤɛnərəl həz kɔld fər ðɛm tɪ bi əˈlaʊd tɪ klɪr ðɛr neɪmz. bət ðə ˌɪnˈtɪriər ˈmɪnɪstər, yubumrang*, həz ˌɪnˈsɪstɪd ðət ðɛr ɪz ''ˈsɑləd ˈɛvədəns'' ðət taɪ ˈsoʊlʤərz faɪərd ɔn ðə boʊts. hi həz rɪˈpitɪdli ˈsteɪtɪd ðət ðə keɪs ɪz kloʊz tɪ biɪŋ kəmˈplit ɔn ðə taɪ saɪd, bət ðɛr ɪz ˈlɪtəl saɪn əv ðɪs. taɪ ˈfɔrsɪz ˌɪnˈvɑlvd? ˈɪmɪʤ ˈkæpʃən kraɪm ɪz ˈæktɪv ɪn ðə strɛʧ əv ˈmeɪkɑŋ ˈrɪvər ˈbɔrdərɪŋ ˈtaɪˌlænd, lɑoʊs ənd ˈbərmə soʊ wət ˈrɪli ˈhæpənd? wi wɪl ˈprɑbəˌbli ˈnɛvər noʊ. ˈvaɪələnt kraɪmz ər ruˈtinli ˈnɛvər sɑlvd ɪn ˈtaɪˌlænd, əˈspɛʃəli ɪn ðə ˈlɔləs ˈbɔrdər ˈriʤənz, wɛr ðə sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈfɔrsɪz ər ˈwaɪdli bɪˈlivd tɪ kəˈlæbərˌeɪt wɪθ ˈəndərˌwərld ˈfɪgjərz laɪk nɑ ɛz ˈɔfən ɛz ðeɪ traɪ tɪ ˈkɑmbæt ðɛm. æd tɪ ðət ðə ˈraɪvəlri ənd mɪˈstrəst bɪtˈwin ðə taɪ pəˈlis ənd ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri, fjuəld baɪ ðə pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˌpoʊlərɪˈzeɪʃən əv ðə ˈkəntri ɪn ˈrisənt jɪrz. "ðə ˈɛvədəns səˈʤɛsts ðə taɪ sɪˈkjʊrəti ˈfɔrsɪz wər ˌɪnˈvɑlvd", sɪz chulapongsathorn*, ˈʧɛrmən əv ðə ˌpɑrləˈmɛntəri ˈfɔrən əˈfɛrz kəˈmɪti, wɪʧ kənˈdəktəd ɪts oʊn ˌɪnkˈwaɪˌri ˈɪntu ðə ˈkɪlɪŋz. "bət ðə ˌɪnˌvɛstəˈgeɪʃən ɔn ɑr saɪd nɑt rɪˈzəltɪd ɪn ˈɛni ˈʧɑrʤɪz. pərˈhæps ðə rɪˈzəlt əv ðə ʧaɪˈniz traɪəl wɪl ˈɪnfluəns wət ˈhæpənz hir." ɪn fækt wi wʊd ˈprɑbəˌbli hæv ˈlərnɪd ˈvɛri ˈlɪtəl əˈbaʊt ðɪs keɪs, hæd ɪt nɑt bɪn fər ðə ˌɪnˈvɑlvmənt əv ˈʧaɪnə. ʧaɪˈniz 'arm-twisting*' ˈsinjər ʧaɪˈniz əˈfɪʃəlz əraɪvd ɪn ˈtaɪˌlænd sun ˈæftər ðə boʊts wər faʊnd, ənd dɪˈmændɪd ˈækʃən bi ˈteɪkən. wɪˈθɪn ə mənθ, ðə fɔr ˈkəntriz hæd əˈgrid tɪ bif əp ˈrɪvər pəˈtroʊlz, ˌɔlˈðoʊ ən ˌɪˈnɪʃəl prəˈpoʊzəl tɪ əˈlaʊ ʧaɪˈniz ˈgənˌboʊts tɪ ˈɔpərˌeɪt əˈlɔŋ taɪ ˈstrɛʧɪz əv ðə ˈmeɪkɑŋ wɑz ˈfərmli rɪˈʤɛktɪd baɪ ˈʤɛnərəl. ðə spid wɪθ wɪʧ nɑ ˈpriviəsli ən ənˈtəʧəbəl ˈwɔˌrlɔrd hu muvd wɪθ ˌɪmˈpjunɪti fər ˈmɛni jɪrz əˈlɔŋ ðə ˈmeɪkɑŋ wɑz ˈkæpʧərd, ˈdɛmənˌstreɪts ðə ˌɪmˈpækt əv ʧaɪˈniz ˈprɛʃər. ðə fækt ðət hi ɪz biɪŋ traɪd ɪn ˈʧaɪnə, ˈivɪn ðoʊ ðə kraɪm tʊk pleɪs fɑr frəm ʧaɪˈniz ˈtɛrɪˌtɔri, ɪz əˈnəðər ˌɪndəˈkeɪʃən əv haʊ ˈpaʊərfəl ˈʧaɪnəz vɔɪs naʊ ɪz ɪn ðə ˈriʤən. ˈtaɪˌlænd həz sɛnt tɛn pəˈlis ˈɔfɪsərz tɪ ˈtɛstɪˌfaɪ æt ðə traɪəl. ðə ʧaɪˈniz əˈθɔrətiz hæv dɪˈskraɪbd ðɪs keɪs ɛz ə ˈmɑdəl əv. ɪn truθ, ɪt həz bɪn ən ɪgˈzæmpəl əv baɪ ðə ˈriʤənəl ˌsupərˈpaʊər. ˈwɛðər ʧaɪˈniz paʊər kən ˌɪmˈpoʊz ˈɔrdər ɔn ðə ˈlɔləs ˈmeɪkɑŋ ɪz əˈnəðər ˈmætər. əˈtæks ɔn ˈrɪvər boʊts hæv kənˈtɪnjud ðɪs jɪr, ðoʊ ɔn ə sˈmɔlər skeɪl.
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stephen productive laziness
january 11th, 2017 28 comments
hawking’s fixed schedule productivity
in the 1980s, at the height of his intellectual productivity, stephen hawking used to head home from his office between five and six. he rarely worked later.
here’s how he explained his behavior to his phd student bruce allen (now a professor at the max planck institute for gravitational physics):
“bruce, some advice: the problem with physics is that most of the days we make any major headway (on our projects). why you should do other stuff: listen to music, meet good friends. one exception to this rule: if you find a solution for a given problem, you work 24 hours a day and forget everything else. until the problem is solved in its entirety.”
i’ve seen this behavior before from other elite level creatives. for them, deep, audacious results are the only currency that matters. the idea of being busy for the sake of being busy in between those big swings seems superfluous.
to be sure, they constantly seek inspiration in reading and daydreams and conversation with other elite producers, but this is a pleasurable background hum that precedes the cacophony instigated by the eventual epiphany.
(for a great study in the reality of hours a day and forget everything else” technical work at the highest level, i recommend birth of a theorem.)
most of us are not stephen hawking and never will be. i wonder, however, if not a more general lesson lurking for anyone who wants to produce valuable things: go big when the work demands it, but outside those situations leave plenty of time for music and good friends.
(photo by bryan alexander. the above quote was translated to english from a german newspaper article. hat tip: david.)
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ˈstivən pərˈdəktɪv ˈleɪzinəs ˈʤænjuˌɛri 11th*, 2017 28 ˈkɑmɛnts fɪkst ˈskɛʤʊl ˌproʊdəkˈtɪvɪti ɪn ðə 1980s*, æt ðə haɪt əv hɪz ˌɪnəˈlɛkʧuəl ˌproʊdəkˈtɪvɪti, ˈstivən ˈhɔkɪŋ juzd tɪ hɛd hoʊm frəm hɪz ˈɔfəs bɪtˈwin faɪv ənd sɪks. hi ˈrɛrli wərkt ˈleɪtər. haʊ hi ɪkˈspleɪnd hɪz bɪˈheɪvjər tɪ hɪz ˈpiˌeɪʧˈdi ˈstudənt brus ˈælən (naʊ ə prəˈfɛsər æt ðə mæks plæŋk ˈɪnstɪˌtut fər ˌgrævɪˈteɪʃənəl ˈfɪzɪks): ““bruce*, səm ədˈvaɪs: ðə ˈprɑbləm wɪθ ˈfɪzɪks ɪz ðət moʊst əv ðə deɪz wi meɪk ˈɛni ˈmeɪʤər ˈhɛdˌweɪ (ɔn ɑr ˈprɑʤɛkts). waɪ ju ʃʊd du ˈəðər stəf: ˈlɪsən tɪ mˈjuzɪk, mit gʊd frɛndz. wən ɪkˈsɛpʃən tɪ ðɪs rul: ɪf ju faɪnd ə səˈluʃən fər ə ˈgɪvɪn ˈprɑbləm, ju wərk 24 aʊərz ə deɪ ənd fərˈgɛt ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ ɛls. ənˈtɪl ðə ˈprɑbləm ɪz sɑlvd ɪn ɪts entirety.”*.” sin ðɪs bɪˈheɪvjər ˌbiˈfɔr frəm ˈəðər ɪˈlit ˈlɛvəl creatives*. fər ðɛm, dip, ɑˈdeɪʃəs rɪˈzəlts ər ðə ˈoʊnli ˈkərənsi ðət ˈmætərz. ðə aɪˈdiə əv biɪŋ ˈbɪzi fər ðə seɪk əv biɪŋ ˈbɪzi ɪn bɪtˈwin ðoʊz bɪg swɪŋz simz ˈsupərflˌwəs. tɪ bi ʃʊr, ðeɪ ˈkɑnstəntli sik ˌɪnspərˈeɪʃən ɪn ˈrɛdɪŋ ənd ˈdeɪˌdrimz ənd ˌkɑnvərˈseɪʃən wɪθ ˈəðər ɪˈlit prəˈdusərz, bət ðɪs ɪz ə ˈplɛʒərəbəl ˈbækˌgraʊnd həm ðət prɪˈsidz ðə kæˈkɑfəni ˈɪnstəˌgeɪtɪd baɪ ðə əˈvɛnʧuəl ɪˈpɪfəni. (fər ə greɪt ˈstədi ɪn ðə ˌriˈæləˌti əv aʊərz ə deɪ ənd fərˈgɛt ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ else”*” ˈtɛknɪkəl wərk æt ðə haɪəst ˈlɛvəl, aɪ ˌrɛkəˈmɛnd bərθ əv ə ˈθɪrəm.) moʊst əv ˈjuˈɛs ər nɑt ˈstivən ˈhɔkɪŋ ənd ˈnɛvər wɪl bi. aɪ ˈwəndər, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ɪf nɑt ə mɔr ˈʤɛnərəl ˈlɛsən ˈlərkɪŋ fər ˈɛniˌwən hu wɔnts tɪ ˈproʊdus ˈvæljəbəl θɪŋz: goʊ bɪg wɪn ðə wərk dɪˈmændz ɪt, bət ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ðoʊz ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃənz liv ˈplɛnti əv taɪm fər mˈjuzɪk ənd gʊd frɛndz. (ˈfoʊˌtoʊ baɪ braɪən ˌælɪgˈzændər. ðə əˈbəv kwoʊt wɑz trænzˈleɪtəd tɪ ˈɪŋlɪʃ frəm ə ˈʤərmən ˈnuzˌpeɪpər ˈɑrtɪkəl. hæt tɪp: ˈdeɪvɪd.)
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east rutherford, n.j. rookie cornerback eli apple is willing to chalk up performance against the philadelphia eagles as a rookie learning experience. so are the new york giants.
defensive coordinator steve spagnuolo said role “won’t change” on monday night against the cincinnati bengals. that means apple probably will be back outside as the starting cornerback opposite jenkins. he started last week in the giants base defense against the eagles before being replaced for the most of the second half after struggling badly.
veteran dominique was primarily the slot cornerback.
“i will tell you this, a big eli apple fan. i said that from the beginning,” spagnuolo said. “he’s going to help us win football games. he has.”
rookie eli apple didn't blink over last week's and apparently will be back in the lineup on sunday. photo by rich
the giants are heavily invested in apple. and for good reason. he was the overall pick in this draft.
as they try to get him back on track, spagnuolo chose his words carefully when describing what happened sunday against the eagles.
“i even call it a,” said. “he was struggling a little bit. we went over and said, ‘look, just take a series off and see what happens.' then our guys kind of got in a groove and we just left it like that. ... nobody has lost confidence in eli. a good football player. bounce back.”
the giants insist apple has rebounded with a strong week of practice. the pick was thrown right back into the mix and shown signs that being taken out of sunday's game will affect him moving forward.
“honestly, i see anything different with eli,” coach ben mcadoo said. “he’s come out, gone about his business and been productive on the practice field.”
in the nfl, these kinds of games happen, especially for rookies and with cornerbacks. a position where difficult to succeed early. tampa bay's vernon hargreaves has struggled at times his rookie season after being the overall pick, especially against the raiders.
apple's trouble may be attributable to his health problems. he has been trying to get back in the groove. he missed time first with a hamstring injury then with a groin problem. he was finally close to 100 percent against the los angeles rams in london but then came the bye week.
spagnuolo thinks this might have affected his performance.
“he built the to get through a season like this,” spagnuolo said. “he’s struggled a little bit with that. going to be fine.”
apple is a smooth and unassuming personality. he generally doesn't seem to allow criticism or praise to affect him much either way. apple handled last controversy involving his criticism of his employer with impressive poise.
the has been similar.
“you want to get back to the basics, to the fundamentals that got you here,” apple said of how he has handled the poor performance. “you want to lean on your teammates because going to give you the real talk that you need. so what been doing.
“pick my head up a little bit and play with the confidence i played with in college. be more comfortable. that is the main thing.”
apple insists the comfort there because his rookie season gone smoothly because of injuries. learning to play in the nfl in staccato style.
“you have to be in your groove,” apple said.
he’ll have another chance to get there on monday night.
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ist ˈrəθərfərd, n.j*. ˈrʊki ˈkɔrnərˌbæk ˈilaɪ ˈæpəl ɪz ˈwɪlɪŋ tɪ ʧɔk əp pərˈfɔrməns əˈgɛnst ðə ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə ˈigəlz ɛz ə ˈrʊki ˈlərnɪŋ ɪkˈspɪriəns. soʊ ər ðə nu jɔrk ʤaɪənts. dɪˈfɛnsɪv koʊˈɔrdəˌneɪtər stiv spɑgnjuˈoʊloʊ sɛd roʊl change”*” ɔn ˈmənˌdeɪ naɪt əˈgɛnst ðə ˌsɪnsəˈnæti ˈbɛŋgəlz. ðət minz ˈæpəl ˈprɑbəˌbli wɪl bi bæk ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ɛz ðə ˈstɑrtɪŋ ˈkɔrnərˌbæk ˈɑpəzɪt ˈʤɛŋkɪnz. hi ˈstɑrtɪd læst wik ɪn ðə ʤaɪənts beɪs dɪˈfɛns əˈgɛnst ðə ˈigəlz ˌbiˈfɔr biɪŋ ˌriˈpleɪst fər ðə moʊst əv ðə ˈsɛkənd hæf ˈæftər ˈstrəgəlɪŋ ˈbædli. ˈvɛtərən dɔmɪˈnik wɑz praɪˈmɛrəli ðə slɑt ˈkɔrnərˌbæk. wɪl tɛl ju ðɪs, ə bɪg ˈilaɪ ˈæpəl fæn. aɪ sɛd ðət frəm ðə beginning,”*,” spɑgnjuˈoʊloʊ sɛd. goʊɪŋ tɪ hɛlp ˈjuˈɛs wɪn ˈfʊtˌbɔl geɪmz. hi has.”*.” ˈrʊki ˈilaɪ ˈæpəl ˈdɪdənt blɪŋk ˈoʊvər læst wiks ənd əˈpɛrəntli wɪl bi bæk ɪn ðə ˈlaɪˌnəp ɔn ˈsənˌdi. ˈfoʊˌtoʊ baɪ rɪʧ ðə ʤaɪənts ər ˈhɛvəli ˌɪnˈvɛstɪd ɪn ˈæpəl. ənd fər gʊd ˈrizən. hi wɑz ðə ˈoʊvərˌɔl pɪk ɪn ðɪs dræft. ɛz ðeɪ traɪ tɪ gɪt ɪm bæk ɔn træk, spɑgnjuˈoʊloʊ ʧoʊz hɪz wərdz ˈkɛrfəli wɪn dɪˈskraɪbɪŋ wət ˈhæpənd ˈsənˌdi əˈgɛnst ðə ˈigəlz. ˈivɪn kɔl ɪt ə benching,”*,” sɛd. wɑz ˈstrəgəlɪŋ ə ˈlɪtəl bɪt. wi wɛnt ˈoʊvər ənd sɛd, ‘‘look*, ʤɪst teɪk ə ˈsɪriz ɔf ənd si wət ˈhæpənz.' ðɛn ɑr gaɪz kaɪnd əv gɑt ɪn ə gruv ənd wi ʤɪst lɛft ɪt laɪk ðət. ˈnoʊˌbɑˌdi həz lɔst ˈkɑnfədɛns ɪn ˈilaɪ. ə gʊd ˈfʊtˌbɔl pleɪər. baʊns back.”*.” ðə ʤaɪənts ˌɪnˈsɪst ˈæpəl həz riˈbaʊndɪd wɪθ ə strɔŋ wik əv ˈpræktɪs. ðə pɪk wɑz θroʊn raɪt bæk ˈɪntu ðə mɪks ənd ʃoʊn saɪnz ðət biɪŋ ˈteɪkən aʊt əv ˈsənˌdiz geɪm wɪl əˈfɛkt ɪm ˈmuvɪŋ ˈfɔrwərd. ““honestly*, aɪ si ˈɛniˌθɪŋ ˈdɪfərənt wɪθ eli,”*,” koʊʧ bɛn ˈmækəˌdu sɛd. kəm aʊt, gɔn əˈbaʊt hɪz ˈbɪznɪs ənd bɪn pərˈdəktɪv ɔn ðə ˈpræktɪs field.”*.” ɪn ðə ˈɛˌnɛˈfɛl, ðiz kaɪnz əv geɪmz ˈhæpən, əˈspɛʃəli fər ˈrʊkiz ənd wɪθ cornerbacks*. ə pəˈzɪʃən wɛr ˈdɪfəkəlt tɪ səkˈsid ˈərli. ˈtæmpə beɪz ˈvərnən ˈhɑrˌgrivz həz ˈstrəgəld æt taɪmz hɪz ˈrʊki ˈsizən ˈæftər biɪŋ ðə ˈoʊvərˌɔl pɪk, əˈspɛʃəli əˈgɛnst ðə ˈreɪdərz. ˈæpəlz ˈtrəbəl meɪ bi əˈtrɪbjətəbəl tɪ hɪz hɛlθ ˈprɑbləmz. hi həz bɪn traɪɪŋ tɪ gɪt bæk ɪn ðə gruv. hi mɪst taɪm fərst wɪθ ə ˈhæmˌstrɪŋ ˈɪnʤəri ðɛn wɪθ ə grɔɪn ˈprɑbləm. hi wɑz ˈfaɪnəli kloʊz tɪ 100 pərˈsɛnt əˈgɛnst ðə lɔs ˈænʤəlɪs ræmz ɪn ˈləndən bət ðɛn keɪm ðə baɪ wik. spɑgnjuˈoʊloʊ θɪŋks ðɪs maɪt hæv əˈfɛktɪd hɪz pərˈfɔrməns. bɪlt ðə tɪ gɪt θru ə ˈsizən laɪk this,”*,” spɑgnjuˈoʊloʊ sɛd. ˈstrəgəld ə ˈlɪtəl bɪt wɪθ ðət. goʊɪŋ tɪ bi fine.”*.” ˈæpəl ɪz ə smuð ənd ˌənəˈsumɪŋ ˌpərsəˈnælɪti. hi ˈʤɛnərəli ˈdəzənt sim tɪ əˈlaʊ ˈkrɪtɪˌsɪzəm ər preɪz tɪ əˈfɛkt ɪm məʧ ˈiðər weɪ. ˈæpəl ˈhændəld læst ˈkɑntrəˌvərsi ˌɪnˈvɑlvɪŋ hɪz ˈkrɪtɪˌsɪzəm əv hɪz ɪmˈplɔɪər wɪθ ˌɪmˈprɛsɪv pɔɪz. ðə həz bɪn ˈsɪmələr. wɔnt tɪ gɪt bæk tɪ ðə ˈbeɪsɪks, tɪ ðə ˌfəndəˈmɛnəlz ðət gɑt ju here,”*,” ˈæpəl sɛd əv haʊ hi həz ˈhændəld ðə pur pərˈfɔrməns. wɔnt tɪ lin ɔn jʊr ˈtimˌmeɪts bɪˈkəz goʊɪŋ tɪ gɪv ju ðə ril tɔk ðət ju nid. soʊ wət bɪn duɪŋ. maɪ hɛd əp ə ˈlɪtəl bɪt ənd pleɪ wɪθ ðə ˈkɑnfədɛns aɪ pleɪd wɪθ ɪn ˈkɑlɪʤ. bi mɔr ˈkəmfərtəbəl. ðət ɪz ðə meɪn thing.”*.” ˈæpəl ˌɪnˈsɪsts ðə ˈkəmfərt ðɛr bɪˈkəz hɪz ˈrʊki ˈsizən gɔn sˈmuðli bɪˈkəz əv ˈɪnʤəriz. ˈlərnɪŋ tɪ pleɪ ɪn ðə ˈɛˌnɛˈfɛl ɪn stəˈkɑˌtoʊ staɪl. hæv tɪ bi ɪn jʊr groove,”*,” ˈæpəl sɛd. hæv əˈnəðər ʧæns tɪ gɪt ðɛr ɔn ˈmənˌdeɪ naɪt.
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for most kids, the static electricity that builds up as they go down playground slides does little more than make their hair stand on end. but for thousands of children, static can shut down their cochlear implants in an instant.
to try to help kids with implants enjoy slides, a group of missouri researchers is studying just how much static electricity can build up on plastic playground slides as part of an attempt to find a solution to the cochlear conundrum.
it won't come too soon for mary mcginnis, director of teacher education at the john tracy clinic, which serves children in los angeles. "this has been the bane of my existence," said mcginnis, who's seen several cases of implants fried by static electricity.
an estimated american children have cochlear implants, which convert sound into electrical impulses that the brain can detect.
static electricity has been a problem for the implants since they first became available in the mid-1980s, mcginnis said. one of the first children to have an implant, she said, erased its memory by simply pulling a sweater over her head, and had to have the device replaced.
new generations of implants are less susceptible to static and typically don't need to be after getting zapped. but playground slides and other sources of heavy static (like balloons) can still zap an implant and require it to be reprogrammed, which costs up to $1,000. the child, meanwhile, must go hours or days without being able to hear.
armed with a $25,000 federal grant, researchers launched a study of exactly how much static electricity is created when a child goes down a slide. they filed their report with the united states access board in march.
by hooking sensors to children as they slid down slides in st. louis and tucson, arizona, the scientists found that children easily built up volts of electricity, the limit of the measuring devices.
"that's a pretty good lightning bolt," said study lead author bob morley, an associate professor of electrical and systems engineering at washington university.
plastic slides are such a strong generator of static because large parts of the body come in contact with the surface area, causing electrons to be rubbed free and cling to the kids, morley said.
what to do? one idea is to coat the slides with an material. a st. louis company called is developing an coating for the of navy planes and has offered to look into whether its product might work for slides, too.
the coating contains polymers that conduct electricity and dissipate any charge, "never really generating the potential for a spark," said patrick kinlen,'s chief technology officer, who thinks the product could be used on slides at an affordable cost.
for the time being, however, children with cochlear implants should stay away from plastic playground slides. (metal slides don't pose a great risk at least one playground designed for the disabled has installed them to protect kids but they get hotter in the summer.)
staying away from slides is "very hard for a child," said mcginnis, the trainer of teachers for kids. "but it's probably even harder for a parent. all the parents i know want their children to look and be like all the other children."
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fər moʊst kɪdz, ðə ˈstætɪk ɪˌlɛkˈtrɪsəti ðət bɪldz əp ɛz ðeɪ goʊ daʊn ˈpleɪˌgraʊnd slaɪdz dɪz ˈlɪtəl mɔr ðən meɪk ðɛr hɛr stænd ɔn ɛnd. bət fər ˈθaʊzənz əv ˈʧɪldrən, ˈstætɪk kən ʃət daʊn ðɛr ˈkɑkliər ˌɪmˈplænts ɪn ən ˈɪnstənt. tɪ traɪ tɪ hɛlp kɪdz wɪθ ˌɪmˈplænts ˌɛnˈʤɔɪ slaɪdz, ə grup əv məˈzʊri ˈrisərʧərz ɪz ˈstədiɪŋ ʤɪst haʊ məʧ ˈstætɪk ɪˌlɛkˈtrɪsəti kən bɪld əp ɔn ˈplæstɪk ˈpleɪˌgraʊnd slaɪdz ɛz pɑrt əv ən əˈtɛmpt tɪ faɪnd ə səˈluʃən tɪ ðə ˈkɑkliər kəˈnəndrəm. ɪt woʊnt kəm tu sun fər ˈmɛri məˈgɪnəs, dɪˈrɛktər əv ˈtiʧər ˌɛʤəˈkeɪʃən æt ðə ʤɑn ˈtreɪsi ˈklɪnɪk, wɪʧ sərvz ˈʧɪldrən ɪn lɔs ˈænʤəlɪs. "ðɪs həz bɪn ðə beɪn əv maɪ ɪgˈzɪstəns," sɛd məˈgɪnəs, huz sin ˈsɛvərəl ˈkeɪsɪz əv ˌɪmˈplænts frid baɪ ˈstætɪk ɪˌlɛkˈtrɪsəti. ən ˈɛstəˌmeɪtɪd əˈmɛrɪkən ˈʧɪldrən hæv ˈkɑkliər ˌɪmˈplænts, wɪʧ ˈkɑnvərt saʊnd ˈɪntu ɪˈlɛktrɪkəl ˌɪmˈpəlsɪz ðət ðə breɪn kən dɪˈtɛkt. ˈstætɪk ɪˌlɛkˈtrɪsəti həz bɪn ə ˈprɑbləm fər ðə ˌɪmˈplænts sɪns ðeɪ fərst bɪˈkeɪm əˈveɪləbəl ɪn ðə mid-1980s*, məˈgɪnəs sɛd. wən əv ðə fərst ˈʧɪldrən tɪ hæv ən ˌɪmˈplænt, ʃi sɛd, ɪˈreɪst ɪts ˈmɛməri baɪ ˈsɪmpli ˈpʊlɪŋ ə sˈwɛtər ˈoʊvər hər hɛd, ənd hæd tɪ hæv ðə dɪˈvaɪs ˌriˈpleɪst. nu ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃənz əv ˌɪmˈplænts ər lɛs səˈsɛptəbəl tɪ ˈstætɪk ənd ˈtɪpɪkəli doʊnt nid tɪ bi ˈæftər ˈgɪtɪŋ zæpt. bət ˈpleɪˌgraʊnd slaɪdz ənd ˈəðər ˈsɔrsəz əv ˈhɛvi ˈstætɪk (laɪk bəˈlunz) kən stɪl zæp ən ˌɪmˈplænt ənd ˌrikˈwaɪər ɪt tɪ bi riˈproʊˌgræmd, wɪʧ kɔsts əp tɪ ðə ʧaɪld, ˈminˌwaɪl, məst goʊ aʊərz ər deɪz wɪˈθaʊt biɪŋ ˈeɪbəl tɪ hir. ɑrmd wɪθ ə ˈfɛdərəl grænt, ˈrisərʧərz lɔnʧt ə ˈstədi əv ɪgˈzæktli haʊ məʧ ˈstætɪk ɪˌlɛkˈtrɪsəti ɪz kriˈeɪtɪd wɪn ə ʧaɪld goʊz daʊn ə slaɪd. ðeɪ faɪld ðɛr rɪˈpɔrt wɪθ ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts ˈækˌsɛs bɔrd ɪn mɑrʧ. baɪ ˈhʊkɪŋ ˈsɛnsərz tɪ ˈʧɪldrən ɛz ðeɪ slɪd daʊn slaɪdz ɪn st*. luɪs ənd ˈtuˌsɑn, ˌɛrɪˈzoʊnə, ðə ˈsaɪəntɪsts faʊnd ðət ˈʧɪldrən ˈizəli bɪlt əp voʊlts əv ɪˌlɛkˈtrɪsəti, ðə ˈlɪmət əv ðə ˈmɛʒərɪŋ dɪˈvaɪsɪz. "ðæts ə ˈprɪti gʊd ˈlaɪtnɪŋ boʊlt," sɛd ˈstədi lɛd ˈɔθər bɑb ˈmɔrli, ən əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪt prəˈfɛsər əv ɪˈlɛktrɪkəl ənd ˈsɪstəmz ˈɛnʤəˈnɪrɪŋ æt ˈwɔʃɪŋtən ˌjunəˈvərsəti. ˈplæstɪk slaɪdz ər səʧ ə strɔŋ ˈʤɛnərˌeɪtər əv ˈstætɪk bɪˈkəz lɑrʤ pɑrts əv ðə ˈbɑdi kəm ɪn ˈkɑnˌtækt wɪθ ðə ˈsərfəs ˈɛriə, ˈkɔzɪŋ ˌɪˈlɛktrɑnz tɪ bi rəbd fri ənd klɪŋ tɪ ðə kɪdz, ˈmɔrli sɛd. wət tɪ du? wən aɪˈdiə ɪz tɪ koʊt ðə slaɪdz wɪθ ən məˈtɪriəl. ə st*. luɪs ˈkəmpəˌni kɔld ɪz dɪˈvɛləpɪŋ ən ˈkoʊtɪŋ fər ðə əv ˈneɪvi pleɪnz ənd həz ˈɔfərd tɪ lʊk ˈɪntu ˈwɛðər ɪts ˈprɑdəkt maɪt wərk fər slaɪdz, tu. ðə ˈkoʊtɪŋ kənˈteɪnz ˈpɑlɪmərz ðət ˈkɑndəkt ɪˌlɛkˈtrɪsəti ənd ˈdɪsəˌpeɪt ˈɛni ʧɑrʤ, "ˈnɛvər ˈrɪli ˈʤɛnərˌeɪtɪŋ ðə pəˈtɛnʃəl fər ə spɑrk," sɛd ˈpætrɪk kinlen*, ʧif tɛkˈnɑləʤi ˈɔfɪsər, hu θɪŋks ðə ˈprɑdəkt kʊd bi juzd ɔn slaɪdz æt ən əˈfɔrdəbəl kɔst. fər ðə taɪm biɪŋ, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ˈʧɪldrən wɪθ ˈkɑkliər ˌɪmˈplænts ʃʊd steɪ əˈweɪ frəm ˈplæstɪk ˈpleɪˌgraʊnd slaɪdz. (ˈmɛtəl slaɪdz doʊnt poʊz ə greɪt rɪsk æt list wən ˈpleɪˌgraʊnd dɪˈzaɪnd fər ðə dɪˈseɪbəld həz ˌɪnˈstɔld ðɛm tɪ prəˈtɛkt kɪdz bət ðeɪ gɪt ˈhɑtər ɪn ðə ˈsəmər.) steɪɪŋ əˈweɪ frəm slaɪdz ɪz "ˈvɛri hɑrd fər ə ʧaɪld," sɛd məˈgɪnəs, ðə ˈtreɪnər əv ˈtiʧərz fər kɪdz. "bət ɪts ˈprɑbəˌbli ˈivɪn ˈhɑrdər fər ə ˈpɛrənt. ɔl ðə ˈpɛrənts aɪ noʊ wɔnt ðɛr ˈʧɪldrən tɪ lʊk ənd bi laɪk ɔl ðə ˈəðər ˈʧɪldrən."
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the intriguing, yet somewhat malodorous, topic of poo transplants is in the news. a study published today found poo transplants are better at treating a particular type of diarrhoea than an antibiotic or placebo (a fake or dummy treatment).
the study and the results from earlier studies in how effective poo transplants were in treating diarrhoea caused by the bacterium.
researchers have been interested in alternative treatments for this condition due to the rise in resistance to standard treatments (including antibiotics). so this type of diarrhoea has quickly developed into a more life-threatening disease.
read more: poo transplants and does anything work to improve the health of our gut?
the study findings are in line with recent european advice strongly encouraging setting up centres in poo transplants to treat c. diarrhoea.
despite the apparent success of poo transplants for this particular condition, there is still much we know about this therapy. important to figure out how long the effects last, and which bugs in the poo transplant help us cure disease and which.
how do poo transplants work?
poo transplants (or “faecal transplantation”) involve transferring poo from a healthy donor to a sick recipient. the collective community of bugs and compounds (the gut) in the poo is then believed to establish itself in the gut.
the scientific consensus is poo transplants work if the gut is “restored”. the most consistent measure of this has been an increase in the diversity of the community of organisms in the gut. by encouraging a more diverse and beneficial community of organisms in the gut, the idea is that this allows the recipient to resist being overwhelmed by the “bad” bugs.
before donating their poo, donors’ poo and their blood is screened for many infectious agents such as c., and viral hepatitis (a, b and c). this is to make sure a donation transfer pathogens (disease causing microorganisms) by accident.
the screened donor poo is then delivered to the recipient in a number of ways.
delivery methods from above involve recipients swallowing a poo capsule (or “crapsule”) containing frozen poo. alternatively, a diluted sample can be delivered through a plastic tube inserted into the nose down to the stomach or small bowel intubation).
samples can also be delivered from below via colonoscopy, where a tube is inserted into the rectum and goes deep into the gut to the (just above the appendix). or recipients can have an enema, where fluid is infused through the rectum.
what works?
poo transplants made their way into the medical literature a long time ago with the first successful result in 1958. interest in poo transplants was ignited in 1989, in australia, when various conditions including irritable bowel syndrome responded to therapy.
however, it was not until 2013 that the first controlled trial for c. diarrhoea was carried out, which showed the treatment was better than antibiotics and placebo.
the trial was stopped early as the ethics committee considered it unethical to withhold this therapy from the control group. the research out today backs these findings.
read more: the brain and the gut talk to each other: how fixing one could help the other
there is also evidence that poo transplants may be beneficial for patients suffering from the gut conditions and disease, a range of infectious or inflammatory liver conditions, and in eliminating bacteria from recipients’ guts.
preliminary studies also suggest benefit for disease (in a single person), irritable bowel syndrome (in mice), and for bowel and symptoms in children with autism spectrum disorders (this was a small study).
what work?
some studies have not shown a benefit from poo transplants for some of the above conditions. for example, a study in 2015 that looked at the effectiveness of poo transplants in patients with (a type of chronic inflammatory bowel disease) did not find a significant benefit.
the likely reason poo transplants do not work for all people is because we are still some way away from a defined, consistent form of this therapy.
future research will focus on which bugs lead to poo transplants not working. for instance, work by our group suggests the group of bacteria is one to watch. and other studies suggest certain viruses that infect bacteria (bacteriophages) could play a key role in the effectiveness of poo transplants.
we also need to keep in mind both “good” and “bad” bugs may differ according to the disease.
poo transplants can also lead to generally mild like wind, cramps and constipation. there are also reports of patients with inflammatory bowel diseases worsening after therapy but this was found to be marginal and unclear if the therapy itself was the cause.
what we still know
there are many aspects of poo transplants we need to study in more detail. we still know:
how many transplants are needed per treatment
the best delivery method
how long the effects last
the long-term safety
the best mixture of bugs to transplant (and what they do).
all these factors also depend on the type of medical condition being treated.
for instance, a recent (analysis of a combination of earlier studies) shows symptoms improved with a greater number of transplants and when these transplants were given through a lower route.
we now need to conduct other controlled studies on the conditions mentioned above as well as other conditions, and update treatment guidelines for the medical community.
in a nutshell
while there is much we know about poo transplants, there is growing evidence they can work for certain conditions.
if thinking about this type of treatment for yourself or a loved one, consult your and gastroenterologist, and only use practitioners experienced in this therapy.
this article was by professor thomas j. borody, founder and medical director of the centre for digestive diseases (cdd). he declares a grant to from australia research llc, for research into transplantation, and he has filed patents in this field (numbers and).
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ðə ˌɪnˈtrigɪŋ, jɛt ˈsəmˈwət malodorous*, ˈtɑpɪk əv pu trænˈsplænts ɪz ɪn ðə nuz. ə ˈstədi ˈpəblɪʃt təˈdeɪ faʊnd pu trænˈsplænts ər ˈbɛtər æt ˈtritɪŋ ə ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr taɪp əv ˌdaɪərˈiə ðən ən ˌæntibaɪˈɑtɪk ər pləˈsiboʊ (ə feɪk ər ˈdəmi ˈtritmənt). ðə ˈstədi ənd ðə rɪˈzəlts frəm ˈərliər ˈstədiz ɪn haʊ ˈifɛktɪv pu trænˈsplænts wər ɪn ˈtritɪŋ ˌdaɪərˈiə kɔzd baɪ ðə bækˈtɪriəm. ˈrisərʧərz hæv bɪn ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪd ɪn ɔlˈtərnətɪv ˈtritmənts fər ðɪs kənˈdɪʃən du tɪ ðə raɪz ɪn rɪˈzɪstəns tɪ ˈstændərd ˈtritmənts (ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˌæntibaɪˈɑtɪks). soʊ ðɪs taɪp əv ˌdaɪərˈiə həz kˈwɪkli dɪˈvɛləpt ˈɪntu ə mɔr ˈlaɪfθˌrɛtnɪŋ dɪˈziz. rɛd mɔr: pu trænˈsplænts ənd dɪz ˈɛniˌθɪŋ wərk tɪ ˌɪmˈpruv ðə hɛlθ əv ɑr gət? ðə ˈstədi ˈfaɪndɪŋz ər ɪn laɪn wɪθ ˈrisənt ˌjʊrəˈpiən ədˈvaɪs ˈstrɔŋli ɪnˈkərəʤɪŋ ˈsɛtɪŋ əp ˈsɛntərz ɪn pu trænˈsplænts tɪ trit si. ˌdaɪərˈiə. dɪˈspaɪt ðə əˈpɛrənt səkˈsɛs əv pu trænˈsplænts fər ðɪs ˌpɑˈtɪkjələr kənˈdɪʃən, ðɛr ɪz stɪl məʧ wi noʊ əˈbaʊt ðɪs ˈθɛrəpi. ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt tɪ ˈfɪgjər aʊt haʊ lɔŋ ðə ˈifɛkts læst, ənd wɪʧ bəgz ɪn ðə pu trænˈsplænt hɛlp ˈjuˈɛs kjʊr dɪˈziz ənd wɪʧ. haʊ du pu trænˈsplænts wərk? pu trænˈsplænts (ər transplantation”*”) ˌɪnˈvɑlv trænsˈfərɪŋ pu frəm ə ˈhɛlθi ˈdoʊnər tɪ ə sɪk rɪˈsɪpiənt. ðə kəˈlɛktɪv kəmˈjunɪti əv bəgz ənd ˈkɑmpaʊndz (ðə gət) ɪn ðə pu ɪz ðɛn bɪˈlivd tɪ ɪˈstæblɪʃ ˌɪtˈsɛlf ɪn ðə gət. ðə ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk kənˈsɛnsəs ɪz pu trænˈsplænts wərk ɪf ðə gət ɪz ““restored”*”. ðə moʊst kənˈsɪstənt ˈmɛʒər əv ðɪs həz bɪn ən ˌɪnˈkris ɪn ðə dɪˈvərsɪti əv ðə kəmˈjunɪti əv ˈɔrgəˌnɪzəmz ɪn ðə gət. baɪ ɪnˈkərəʤɪŋ ə mɔr dɪˈvərs ənd ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃəl kəmˈjunɪti əv ˈɔrgəˌnɪzəmz ɪn ðə gət, ðə aɪˈdiə ɪz ðət ðɪs əˈlaʊz ðə rɪˈsɪpiənt tɪ rɪˈzɪst biɪŋ ˌoʊvərˈwɛlmd baɪ ðə ““bad”*” bəgz. ˌbiˈfɔr ˈdoʊˌneɪtɪŋ ðɛr pu, donors’*’ pu ənd ðɛr bləd ɪz skrind fər ˈmɛni ˌɪnˈfɛkʃəs ˈeɪʤənts səʧ ɛz si., ənd ˈvaɪrəl ˌhɛpəˈtaɪtəs (ə, bi ənd si). ðɪs ɪz tɪ meɪk ʃʊr ə doʊˈneɪʃən ˈtrænsfər ˈpæθəʤənz (dɪˈziz ˈkɔzɪŋ ˌmaɪkroʊˈɔrgəˌnɪzəmz) baɪ ˈæksədənt. ðə skrind ˈdoʊnər pu ɪz ðɛn dɪˈlɪvərd tɪ ðə rɪˈsɪpiənt ɪn ə ˈnəmbər əv weɪz. dɪˈlɪvəri ˈmɛθədz frəm əˈbəv ˌɪnˈvɑlv rɪˈsɪpiənts sˈwɑloʊɪŋ ə pu ˈkæpsəl (ər ““crapsule”*”) kənˈteɪnɪŋ ˈfroʊzən pu. ɔlˈtərnətɪvli, ə dɪˈlutəd ˈsæmpəl kən bi dɪˈlɪvərd θru ə ˈplæstɪk tub ˌɪnˈsərtɪd ˈɪntu ðə noʊz daʊn tɪ ðə ˈstəmək ər smɔl baʊəl intubation*). ˈsæmpəlz kən ˈɔlsoʊ bi dɪˈlɪvərd frəm bɪˈloʊ ˈviə colonoscopy*, wɛr ə tub ɪz ˌɪnˈsərtɪd ˈɪntu ðə ˈrɛktəm ənd goʊz dip ˈɪntu ðə gət tɪ ðə (ʤɪst əˈbəv ðə əˈpɛndɪks). ər rɪˈsɪpiənts kən hæv ən ˈɛnəmə, wɛr fluɪd ɪz ˌɪnfˈjuzd θru ðə ˈrɛktəm. wət wərks? pu trænˈsplænts meɪd ðɛr weɪ ˈɪntu ðə ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈlɪtərəʧər ə lɔŋ taɪm əˈgoʊ wɪθ ðə fərst səkˈsɛsfəl rɪˈzəlt ɪn 1958 ˈɪntəˌrɛst ɪn pu trænˈsplænts wɑz ˌɪgˈnaɪtɪd ɪn 1989 ɪn ɔˈstreɪljə, wɪn ˈvɛriəs kənˈdɪʃənz ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈɪrətəbəl baʊəl ˈsɪnˌdroʊm rɪˈspɑndɪd tɪ ˈθɛrəpi. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ɪt wɑz nɑt ənˈtɪl 2013 ðət ðə fərst kənˈtroʊld traɪəl fər si. ˌdaɪərˈiə wɑz ˈkɛrid aʊt, wɪʧ ʃoʊd ðə ˈtritmənt wɑz ˈbɛtər ðən ˌæntibaɪˈɑtɪks ənd pləˈsiboʊ. ðə traɪəl wɑz stɑpt ˈərli ɛz ðə ˈɛθɪks kəˈmɪti kənˈsɪdərd ɪt əˈnɛθɪkəl tɪ wɪθˈhoʊld ðɪs ˈθɛrəpi frəm ðə kənˈtroʊl grup. ðə ˈrisərʧ aʊt təˈdeɪ bæks ðiz ˈfaɪndɪŋz. rɛd mɔr: ðə breɪn ənd ðə gət tɔk tɪ iʧ ˈəðər: haʊ ˈfɪksɪŋ wən kʊd hɛlp ðə ˈəðər ðɛr ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ ˈɛvədəns ðət pu trænˈsplænts meɪ bi ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃəl fər ˈpeɪʃənz ˈsəfərɪŋ frəm ðə gət kənˈdɪʃənz ənd dɪˈziz, ə reɪnʤ əv ˌɪnˈfɛkʃəs ər ɪnˈflæməˌtɔri ˈlɪvər kənˈdɪʃənz, ənd ɪn ɪˈlɪməˌneɪtɪŋ bækˈtɪriə frəm recipients’*’ gəts. prɪˈlɪməˌnɛri ˈstədiz ˈɔlsoʊ səˈʤɛst ˈbɛnəfɪt fər dɪˈziz (ɪn ə ˈsɪŋgəl ˈpərsən), ˈɪrətəbəl baʊəl ˈsɪnˌdroʊm (ɪn maɪs), ənd fər baʊəl ənd ˈsɪmptəmz ɪn ˈʧɪldrən wɪθ ˈɔˌtɪzəm ˈspɛktrəm dɪˈsɔrdərz (ðɪs wɑz ə smɔl ˈstədi). wət wərk? səm ˈstədiz hæv nɑt ʃoʊn ə ˈbɛnəfɪt frəm pu trænˈsplænts fər səm əv ðə əˈbəv kənˈdɪʃənz. fər ɪgˈzæmpəl, ə ˈstədi ɪn 2015 ðət lʊkt æt ðə ˈifɛktɪvnəs əv pu trænˈsplænts ɪn ˈpeɪʃənz wɪθ (ə taɪp əv ˈkrɑnɪk ɪnˈflæməˌtɔri baʊəl dɪˈziz) dɪd nɑt faɪnd ə sɪgˈnɪfɪkənt ˈbɛnəfɪt. ðə ˈlaɪkli ˈrizən pu trænˈsplænts du nɑt wərk fər ɔl ˈpipəl ɪz bɪˈkəz wi ər stɪl səm weɪ əˈweɪ frəm ə dɪˈfaɪnd, kənˈsɪstənt fɔrm əv ðɪs ˈθɛrəpi. fˈjuʧər ˈrisərʧ wɪl ˈfoʊkɪs ɔn wɪʧ bəgz lɛd tɪ pu trænˈsplænts nɑt ˈwərkɪŋ. fər ˈɪnstəns, wərk baɪ ɑr grup səˈʤɛsts ðə grup əv bækˈtɪriə ɪz wən tɪ wɔʧ. ənd ˈəðər ˈstədiz səˈʤɛst ˈsərtən ˈvaɪrəsɪz ðət ˌɪnˈfɛkt bækˈtɪriə (bacteriophages*) kʊd pleɪ ə ki roʊl ɪn ðə ˈifɛktɪvnəs əv pu trænˈsplænts. wi ˈɔlsoʊ nid tɪ kip ɪn maɪnd boʊθ ““good”*” ənd ““bad”*” bəgz meɪ ˈdɪfər əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ðə dɪˈziz. pu trænˈsplænts kən ˈɔlsoʊ lɛd tɪ ˈʤɛnərəli maɪld laɪk wɪnd, kræmps ənd ˌkɑnstəˈpeɪʃən. ðɛr ər ˈɔlsoʊ rɪˈpɔrts əv ˈpeɪʃənz wɪθ ɪnˈflæməˌtɔri baʊəl dɪˈzizɪz ˈwərsənɪŋ ˈæftər ˈθɛrəpi bət ðɪs wɑz faʊnd tɪ bi ˈmɑrʤənəl ənd ənˈklɪr ɪf ðə ˈθɛrəpi ˌɪtˈsɛlf wɑz ðə kɔz. wət wi stɪl noʊ ðɛr ər ˈmɛni ˈæˌspɛkts əv pu trænˈsplænts wi nid tɪ ˈstədi ɪn mɔr ˈditeɪl. wi stɪl noʊ: haʊ ˈmɛni trænˈsplænts ər ˈnidɪd pər ˈtritmənt ðə bɛst dɪˈlɪvəri ˈmɛθəd haʊ lɔŋ ðə ˈifɛkts læst ðə ˈlɔŋˈtərm ˈseɪfti ðə bɛst ˈmɪksʧər əv bəgz tɪ trænˈsplænt (ənd wət ðeɪ du). ɔl ðiz ˈfæktərz ˈɔlsoʊ dɪˈpɛnd ɔn ðə taɪp əv ˈmɛdɪkəl kənˈdɪʃən biɪŋ ˈtritɪd. fər ˈɪnstəns, ə ˈrisənt (æˈnælɪsɪs əv ə ˌkɑmbəˈneɪʃən əv ˈərliər ˈstədiz) ʃoʊz ˈsɪmptəmz ˌɪmˈpruvd wɪθ ə ˈgreɪtər ˈnəmbər əv trænˈsplænts ənd wɪn ðiz trænˈsplænts wər ˈgɪvɪn θru ə loʊər rut. wi naʊ nid tɪ ˈkɑndəkt ˈəðər kənˈtroʊld ˈstədiz ɔn ðə kənˈdɪʃənz ˈmɛnʃənd əˈbəv ɛz wɛl ɛz ˈəðər kənˈdɪʃənz, ənd ˈəpˌdeɪt ˈtritmənt ˈgaɪˌdlaɪnz fər ðə ˈmɛdɪkəl kəmˈjunɪti. ɪn ə ˈnətˌʃɛl waɪl ðɛr ɪz məʧ wi noʊ əˈbaʊt pu trænˈsplænts, ðɛr ɪz groʊɪŋ ˈɛvədəns ðeɪ kən wərk fər ˈsərtən kənˈdɪʃənz. ɪf ˈθɪŋkɪŋ əˈbaʊt ðɪs taɪp əv ˈtritmənt fər ˈjɔrsɛlf ər ə ləvd wən, kənˈsəlt jʊr ənd gastroenterologist*, ənd ˈoʊnli juz prækˈtɪʃənərz ɪkˈspɪriənst ɪn ðɪs ˈθɛrəpi. ðɪs ˈɑrtɪkəl wɑz baɪ prəˈfɛsər ˈtɑməs ʤeɪ. borody*, ˈfaʊndər ənd ˈmɛdɪkəl dɪˈrɛktər əv ðə ˈsɛntər fər daɪˈʤɛstɪv dɪˈzizɪz (cdd*). hi dɪˈklɛrz ə grænt tɪ frəm ɔˈstreɪljə ˈrisərʧ llc*, fər ˈrisərʧ ˈɪntu ˌtrænzplænˈteɪʃən, ənd hi həz faɪld ˈpætənts ɪn ðɪs fild (ˈnəmbərz ənd
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there a bright future in store for a clinic serving people who once had little hope of a future. aids project of the ozarks, which now brands itself as, is excited about it's brand new clinic that'll soon be under construction.
the represent the old days, but not the 'good ole days' for aids project of the ozarks. the agency began serving the region during the start of the aids crisis.
"aids project of the ozarks (apo) began in 1983 when a group of concerned folks began meeting at a local church to discuss how to help those with aids who were returning home to the springfield area to die," states the agency's website.
executive director lynne, who has been with the agency from the beginning, says their first location was a very office in downtown.
"they did not want our name in the office directory because they were concerned their other tenants may move out." added, "we had had different threats. so, we were just fine not being on the office directory."
they moved to their current location, an office complex on bennett st., in 1994.
times have certainly changed since the. the newest home for, under construction now, will be on a very visible piece of property on one of the busiest streets in town.
"i think the community is much more accepting of people with now and more compassionate, and i think that comes along with education," said genevieve chavez, a case manager at.
the new clinic, to include square feet of space, is much larger than the current sq. ft. facility on bennett. it's being constructed on property that was home to the old penny power office building until it was demolished in recent days.
chavez laughed, "yes, we absolutely need more space. we are kind of a mixed hodgepodge, pieced together because we have continued to grow."
these days, is serving more clients than ever. explained it's not so much because more people are getting. in fact, infection rates have stayed steady in recent years.
"in the old days, folks died within two years of being diagnosed with full blown aids. so, there was a lot of turnover in the population we served by definition."
with medications,- the virus that leads to aids- is no longer quite the death sentence. that means clients are needing long term care.
"still no cure, that's very important to note," said. "but, they can keep the virus under control so people live longer."
the new modern facility will have medical treatment and testing offices, outreach and educational programs, and a branch of grove pharmacy
chavez stated, "we are jam packed into this office right now and having a new update office will be really great for clients to feel valued.
the construction of the new facility also coincides with an expansion of the agency's mission. in addition to it's care and prevention services, is also offering primary care for people not comfortable with traditional care settings, more outreach to the community, and services for youth.
"medical care can be kind of scary," explained. "and, i am not going to say we are going to make it fun, but certainly a more comfortable setting."
meyerkord says the latest developments have been a big surprise and major blessing for the agency. since doesn't have it's own funding available for such a project, the architect- buxton kubik dodd creative; the construction firm- build; and development adviser mike of rankin company, are all working together to make the clinic a reality. once completed, will not own the building, but will enter a long-term lease agreement for the property.
"if you would have told me even five years ago that we were going to have a major developer and a major architectural firm that wants to work with us, i might have chuckled at you, said"
the new clinic is set to be open this coming summer.
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ðɛr ə braɪt fˈjuʧər ɪn stɔr fər ə ˈklɪnɪk ˈsərvɪŋ ˈpipəl hu wəns hæd ˈlɪtəl hoʊp əv ə fˈjuʧər. eɪdz ˈprɑʤɛkt əv ðə ˈoʊˌzɑrks, wɪʧ naʊ brændz ˌɪtˈsɛlf ɛz, ɪz ɪkˈsaɪtɪd əˈbaʊt ɪts brænd nu ˈklɪnɪk ˈðætəl sun bi ˈəndər kənˈstrəkʃən. ðə ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnt ðə oʊld deɪz, bət nɑt ðə 'gʊd ˌoʊˈleɪ deɪz' fər eɪdz ˈprɑʤɛkt əv ðə ˈoʊˌzɑrks. ðə ˈeɪʤənsi bɪˈgæn ˈsərvɪŋ ðə ˈriʤən ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə stɑrt əv ðə eɪdz ˈkraɪsəs. "eɪdz ˈprɑʤɛkt əv ðə ˈoʊˌzɑrks (apo*) bɪˈgæn ɪn 1983 wɪn ə grup əv kənˈsərnd foʊks bɪˈgæn ˈmitɪŋ æt ə ˈloʊkəl ʧərʧ tɪ dɪˈskəs haʊ tɪ hɛlp ðoʊz wɪθ eɪdz hu wər rɪˈtərnɪŋ hoʊm tɪ ðə ˈsprɪŋˌfild ˈɛriə tɪ daɪ," steɪts ðə ˈeɪʤənsiz ˈwɛbˌsaɪt. ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv dɪˈrɛktər lɪn, hu həz bɪn wɪθ ðə ˈeɪʤənsi frəm ðə bɪˈgɪnɪŋ, sɪz ðɛr fərst loʊˈkeɪʃən wɑz ə ˈvɛri ˈɔfəs ɪn ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn. "ðeɪ dɪd nɑt wɔnt ɑr neɪm ɪn ðə ˈɔfəs dɪˈrɛktəri bɪˈkəz ðeɪ wər kənˈsərnd ðɛr ˈəðər ˈtɛnənts meɪ muv aʊt." ˈædɪd, "wi hæd hæd ˈdɪfərənt θrɛts. soʊ, wi wər ʤɪst faɪn nɑt biɪŋ ɔn ðə ˈɔfəs dɪˈrɛktəri." ðeɪ muvd tɪ ðɛr ˈkɑrənt loʊˈkeɪʃən, ən ˈɔfəs ˈkɑmplɛks ɔn ˈbɛnɪt st*., ɪn 1994 taɪmz hæv ˈsərtənli ʧeɪnʤd sɪns ðə. ðə nuəst hoʊm fər, ˈəndər kənˈstrəkʃən naʊ, wɪl bi ɔn ə ˈvɛri ˈvɪzəbəl pis əv ˈprɑpərti ɔn wən əv ðə ˈbɪziəst strits ɪn taʊn. "aɪ θɪŋk ðə kəmˈjunɪti ɪz məʧ mɔr əkˈsɛptɪŋ əv ˈpipəl wɪθ naʊ ənd mɔr kəmˈpæʃənət, ənd aɪ θɪŋk ðət kəmz əˈlɔŋ wɪθ ˌɛʤəˈkeɪʃən," sɛd ˈʤɛnəˌviv ˈʧæˌvɛz, ə keɪs ˈmænɪʤər æt. ðə nu ˈklɪnɪk, tɪ ˌɪnˈklud skwɛr fit əv speɪs, ɪz məʧ ˈlɑrʤər ðən ðə ˈkɑrənt sq*. ft*. fəˈsɪlɪti ɔn ˈbɛnɪt. ɪts biɪŋ kənˈstrəktɪd ɔn ˈprɑpərti ðət wɑz hoʊm tɪ ðə oʊld ˈpɛni paʊər ˈɔfəs ˈbɪldɪŋ ənˈtɪl ɪt wɑz dɪˈmɑlɪʃt ɪn ˈrisənt deɪz. ˈʧæˌvɛz læft, "jɛs, wi ˌæbsəˈlutli nid mɔr speɪs. wi ər kaɪnd əv ə mɪkst ˈhɑʤˌpɑʤ, pist təˈgɛðər bɪˈkəz wi hæv kənˈtɪnjud tɪ groʊ." ðiz deɪz, ɪz ˈsərvɪŋ mɔr klaɪənts ðən ˈɛvər. ɪkˈspleɪnd ɪts nɑt soʊ məʧ bɪˈkəz mɔr ˈpipəl ər ˈgɪtɪŋ. ɪn fækt, ˌɪnˈfɛkʃən reɪts hæv steɪd ˈstɛdi ɪn ˈrisənt jɪrz. "ɪn ðə oʊld deɪz, foʊks daɪd wɪˈθɪn tu jɪrz əv biɪŋ ˌdaɪəgˈnoʊst wɪθ fʊl bloʊn eɪdz. soʊ, ðɛr wɑz ə lɔt əv ˈtərˌnoʊvər ɪn ðə ˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃən wi sərvd baɪ ˌdɛfəˈnɪʃən." wɪθ ˌmɛdəˈkeɪʃənz,- ðə ˈvaɪrəs ðət lidz tɪ eɪdz- ɪz noʊ ˈlɔŋgər kwaɪt ðə dɛθ ˈsɛntəns. ðət minz klaɪənts ər ˈnidɪŋ lɔŋ tərm kɛr. "stɪl noʊ kjʊr, ðæts ˈvɛri ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt tɪ noʊt," sɛd. "bət, ðeɪ kən kip ðə ˈvaɪrəs ˈəndər kənˈtroʊl soʊ ˈpipəl lɪv ˈlɔŋgər." ðə nu ˈmɑdərn fəˈsɪlɪti wɪl hæv ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈtritmənt ənd ˈtɛstɪŋ ˈɔfəsɪz, ˈaʊˌtriʧ ənd ˌɛʤəˈkeɪʃənəl ˈproʊˌgræmz, ənd ə brænʧ əv groʊv ˈfɑrməsi ˈʧæˌvɛz ˈsteɪtɪd, "wi ər ʤæm pækt ˈɪntu ðɪs ˈɔfəs raɪt naʊ ənd ˈhævɪŋ ə nu ˈəpˌdeɪt ˈɔfəs wɪl bi ˈrɪli greɪt fər klaɪənts tɪ fil ˈvæljud. ðə kənˈstrəkʃən əv ðə nu fəˈsɪlɪti ˈɔlsoʊ ˌkoʊɪnˈsaɪdz wɪθ ən ɪkˈspænʧən əv ðə ˈeɪʤənsiz ˈmɪʃən. ɪn əˈdɪʃən tɪ ɪts kɛr ənd priˈvɛnʃən ˈsərvɪsɪz, ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ ˈɔfərɪŋ ˈpraɪˌmɛri kɛr fər ˈpipəl nɑt ˈkəmfərtəbəl wɪθ trəˈdɪʃənəl kɛr ˈsɛtɪŋz, mɔr ˈaʊˌtriʧ tɪ ðə kəmˈjunɪti, ənd ˈsərvɪsɪz fər juθ. "ˈmɛdɪkəl kɛr kən bi kaɪnd əv ˈskɛri," ɪkˈspleɪnd. "ənd, aɪ æm nɑt goʊɪŋ tɪ seɪ wi ər goʊɪŋ tɪ meɪk ɪt fən, bət ˈsərtənli ə mɔr ˈkəmfərtəbəl ˈsɛtɪŋ." sɪz ðə ˈleɪtəst dɪˈvɛləpmənts hæv bɪn ə bɪg səˈpraɪz ənd ˈmeɪʤər ˈblɛsɪŋ fər ðə ˈeɪʤənsi. sɪns ˈdəzənt hæv ɪts oʊn ˈfəndɪŋ əˈveɪləbəl fər səʧ ə ˈprɑʤɛkt, ðə ˈɑrkəˌtɛkt- ˈbəkstən ˈkjubɪk dɑd kriˈeɪtɪv; ðə kənˈstrəkʃən fərm- bɪld; ənd dɪˈvɛləpmənt ædˈvaɪzər maɪk əv ˈræŋkɪn ˈkəmpəˌni, ər ɔl ˈwərkɪŋ təˈgɛðər tɪ meɪk ðə ˈklɪnɪk ə ˌriˈæləˌti. wəns kəmˈplitɪd, wɪl nɑt oʊn ðə ˈbɪldɪŋ, bət wɪl ˈɛnər ə ˈlɔŋˈtərm lis əˈgrimənt fər ðə ˈprɑpərti. "ɪf ju wʊd hæv toʊld mi ˈivɪn faɪv jɪrz əˈgoʊ ðət wi wər goʊɪŋ tɪ hæv ə ˈmeɪʤər dɪˈvɛləpər ənd ə ˈmeɪʤər ˌɑrkəˈtɛkʧərəl fərm ðət wɔnts tɪ wərk wɪθ ˈjuˈɛs, aɪ maɪt hæv ˈʧəkəld æt ju, sɛd" ðə nu ˈklɪnɪk ɪz sɛt tɪ bi ˈoʊpən ðɪs ˈkəmɪŋ ˈsəmər.
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the heirs mostly civilized family contest to become the next publisher of a publisher
from left: sam, arthur gregg sulzberger, and david perpich.
paintings by roberto parada
the issue of succession is a difficult matter not just for businesses but for the families that run them. take the murdochs, for instance. or the binghams, the kentucky newspaper clan that imploded in the 1980s. historically speaking, transitions in the sulzberger family, which has run the new york times for 119 years, have not gone all that smoothly. during the early days, patriarch adolph ochs agonized over which heir should follow him: his nephew julius ochs adler or his son-in-law, arthur hays sulzberger. (his daughter,, was never considered.) the competition took a toll on all involved. in 1932, sulzberger suffered a heart attack, which crippled his left hand; a year later, adler had a nervous breakdown and spent six weeks in a mental institution. ochs clung to the notion that maybe they could share the crown. “there can be only one head to a business,” sulzberger replied. ultimately, ochs on the decision. when he died in 1935, his will essentially left it to arthur, julius, and to work it out among themselves., being the deciding vote, supported her husband, thus a fault line in the family that was never repaired. the adlers and stopped speaking. in 1959, the final adler was forced out of the paper.
now, three generations and 80 years later, descendants are confronting a similar dilemma: multiple capable family members from different branches want the top job. the house of sulzberger is made up of four families, all descendants of daughter, and each harbors its own ambitions and grievances. the central rivalry is between the two most powerful wings: the and the. but the outcome is not just a matter of family politics; the next publisher of the new york times will be responsible foreserving the independence of the greatest newspaper in an increasingly challenging media environment.
in recent months, i spoke with more than 65 current and former times executives and journalists, plus members, advisers, and friends, to learn how the company is grooming its short list of potential successors. three finalists have emerged: the current chairman and publisher arthur ochs sulzberger son, arthur gregg “a. g.” sulzberger, best known for leading the committee thatoduced the digital wake-up call known as the “innovation report”; nephew david perpich, 38, a harvard m.b.a. who successfully launched the digital subscriptions; and sam, 34, the son of cousin lynn golden, an influential and outspoken family member. a.g. and sam have ascended through the newsroom ranks as perpich climbed the business side. a.g. wasomoted to senior editor for strategy in july 2014; two months later, was named senior editor for mobile. then, on july 23, was appointed associate editor. a week later, aess release went out announcing a.g. had the same title. meanwhile, to boost his newsroom experience, perpich, named senior vice-president in march, has started attending news masthead meetings. “david, arthur, and sam were put in jobs that were perceived as essential to the paper when they might be running it,” a former senior editor says.
and this does not mean running it in the future. sulzberger has joked that “there’s a mandatory retirement age for everyone except for me.” but not true. according to the guidelines, sulzberger, who turns 64 this september, may remain chairman of the board until 70. however, he is already three years older than his father, arthur “punch” sulzberger, was when, in january 1987, he named sulzberger assistant publisher, designating him heir apparent. when punch turned 65, he gave his son the full title of publisher. under thisecedent, the family is behind schedule.
what’s different this time around is that there are three candidates with a legitimate shot at the top job. “i have to say this in a way that make me sound like a guy,” says executive editor dean, “but all really good.”
inside the competitive newsroom of the times, job appointments are forensically dissected by times journalists to determine their institutional significance. so not surprising that handicapping the race between the sulzberger cousins is a popular pastime at the paper. “perpich is data-driven. if i had to sum him up in one word, be m.b.a.,” a former executive says. has written stories but lacks management experience. “sam is kind of junior and young and hasimarily an editorial background,” a source who worked on the business side says. that means a.g. with management and newsroom experience, not to mention the sulzberger name is generally considered to be the front-runner.
the cousins rarely, if ever, acknowledge any suggestion of a rivalry. “they hate the idea of a horse race,” a times staffer says. and they mostly refrain from expressing any outward entitlement or ambition. “it’s a testament to their personal style and values that you know they are part of the family,” says kinsey wilson, the times’ new digital chief. a veteran staffer wonders: “do they even want it? i have no fucking clue.”
but hard to think that they. all three cousins grew up steeped in times mythology, gathering at hillandale, the onetime sulzberger connecticut estate, where copies of the times were placed on benches in the gardens, and the belief that the family are stewards of a public trust. this indoctrination is how the keep each new generation attached to the institution. (a good thing, considering that michael bloomberg, long considered the times’ in the event that the decided to sell, recently told me through a spokesperson that he was not interested in buying.) a total of six (out of 27) cousins currently hold positions at the times. “ouromise to members of the family who want to work at the new york times and have the skill set to do so is to give them careers,” sulzberger recently said.
it creates turbulence in the family when one cousin gets attention over another. a couple of years ago, after adweek published a gushingofile of perpich headlined “the heir to the times’ throne?” michael greenspon, another cousin, who has worked at the times since 2007, was said to have walked into the times’ office. “whose idea was this?” he said. “how could perpich do this?” an executive responded that perpich never talked to the reporter. “if theess focuses on certain people and says been anointed as the possible successor, that can be very painful for anyone not on the list,” a family member told me. (the cousins declined to be interviewed on the record for this story.)
the selection of the next publisher is perhaps the most critical challenge facing the times. arthur sulzberger jr. steered the paper into the digital age andotected its journalism, but the next publisher afford to just be a competent steward; he (and almost certain to be a he) must navigate what wilson called “one of the most turbulent, convulsive periods that media has gone through since gutenberg.” this year, digital subscriptions plateaued at 1 million, a respectable number, certainly, but far below what the paper needs to fund its $300 million budget. meanwhile,int advertising continues a seemingly inexorable decline, down 13 percent in the last quarter alone. this past winter, the paper suffered a brain drain in a wrenching round of buyouts and layoffs, losing a cadre of top editors and marquee bylines. and there is a widely held view that more layoffs are coming.
the last time power was transferred at the times, “punch” sulzberger only had to convince his three sisters before naming his son publisher. now the decision will involve balancing a complex set of competing interests, including a family that has grown to 40 cousins, who must get along without the benefit of the dividend generated by their times stock. “we’ve created a veryocess such that when the time comes for me to announce a successor,” sulzberger told me in june during a public event at hunter college, “it involves the board of directors, because obviously they have a stake in this; the family, because obviously they have a stake in this; and management, because they have a stake in this.”
photo: national portrait gallery, smithsonian resource, (a.s. ochs); nancy r. images (bertha ochs); (a.h. sulzberger); robin images (m. sulzberger); courtesy of the university of tennessee at chattanooga (r. sulzberger); marina garnier (j. sulzberger); fred r. new york (“punch” sulzberger); gregory (c.j. sulzberger); larry images for the new york times (a.o. sulzberger jr.); todd new york times (dolnick, a.g. sulzberger); earl new york times (perpich)
like earlier generations of, the contenders were encouraged by their parents to cut their teeth outside the times. first job after graduating from brown was at theovidence journal. “he wanted to be treated like everyone else. he may have grown up in a famous family, but he truly did not feel confident,” recalled former deputy executive editor carol young, who was in charge of hiring. “a.g. did not plant his name at all,” she said. “if you called his voice-mail, all it said was, ‘you’ve reached arthur,’ not ‘this is arthur sulzberger.’
a.g. quickly made friends with a group of junior reporters and even dated one of them, a harvard grad named elizabeth gudrais, who covered state politics. he was eager to become a political writer himself, and, in august 2006, after two years in rhode island, he got his break to do that at the portland oregonian. the editor, stephen engelberg, a times veteran, took him under his wing. “i knew his father, and i wanted to keep an eye on him,” engelberg, now the editor ofopublica, told me. after a few months, engelberg teamed a.g. with les zaitz, the most senior investigative reporter, to dig into accusations that a corrupt county sheriff had had an affair with the wife. a.g. always seem comfortable in the role. after interviewing one particularly chatty woman, he atinting her revelations. “we walked out, and he said he felt bad because the lady was so nice,” zaitz recalled. he told a.g. to toughen up. “she’s old enough to handle talking to theess,” he said. articles created a splash in oregon political circles. in may 2008, the sheriff resigned.
at the times, senior editors had been monitoring career, feedingogress reports to his father. that summer, editor jill abramson told sulzberger it was time for his son to come home. sulzberger was thrilled. there was, however, oneoblem: a.g. agree. “he think he was talented enough,” a times source told me. abramson had to persuade him to take the job.
with his stubble and dark plastic glasses, a.g. looked like any serious young timesman. “we had some curiosity when he first came,” says metro editor wendell jamieson, “but he just turned out to be sort of, i want to say ‘unassuming,’ but just a regular guy.” not the full story, though. “he’s not a patsy at all. underneath that very affable exterior is a certain amount of ambition,” aominent times writer says. he is also extremely reserved. “he’s almost willfully not his father,” a former times executive says. “i’ve never heard him crack a joke or laugh. you want him to loosen up.” inivate moments, a.g. explains his reserve as a coping strategy. “when been writing about you since you were 5, you learn to beivate,” he told a friend. but a difficult stance from which to run an organization, particularly one so public as the times. “it’s hard to know what he believes,” a former senior executive says. “it’s like if you go see a spiritual guru. tell you, ‘the answer is within yourself.’
a.g.’s arrival, in february 2009, inevitably ignited speculation about succession. to many, it seemed that sulzberger was handing his son a head start just as his father, punch, had done a generation earlier. the unintended casualties of favoritism were the four children of his sister ruth golden, some of whom harbored hopes of one day running the paper themselves. their disadvantages began with their birthplace, tennessee, where the family patriarch, adolph ochs, got his start in newspapers as the owner of the chattanooga times. the golden kids michael, stephen, lynn, and arthur grew up in a turbulent home rife with resentment toward their new york relatives. their father, ben hale golden, was a hard drinkerone to bouts of verbal and physical violence. as publisher of the chattanooga times, he felt inadequate and indebted to the for employment and social position. one drunken evening, he slashed a sulzberger family portrait with a knife. another time, he threatened ruth with a gun. they divorced in 1965, and ruth took over as publisher of the chattanooga times.
when the golden boys went knocking on the door of the new york times in the 1970s, punch opened it but sidelined them with jobs. stephen started in the group before transferring to the times’ purchasing department and, later, the division. michael was more credentialed: he spoke french, had a journalism degree and an m.b.a., and had helped his mother run the chattanooga times. but in 1987, when punch gave arthur the newly created job of assistant publisher, michael was stuck in the magazine marketing division. “the race had started with michael on second base and arthur on third,” a former senior editor close to the family said. “the felt slighted by that.”
what kept the rivalry from boiling over was the firm hand of the family matriarch,. “iphigene had four children. they all agreed,” the longtime trust lawyer, ted wagner, told me. michael may have complained to his mother, ruth, about not getting equal opportunities, but she going to question her mother. “it’s all family dynamics,” wagner said. but when died in 1990, it was suddenly every cousin for himself.
so, for the, arrival at the times was a call to action. sam, the oldest son of lynn golden, was the same age as a.g. and also a talented journalist. “lynn is ambitious for her son,” says a former senior times editor who knows the family well. in order toevent history from repeating itself, lynn embarked on a campaign to make sure there would be a competition, not a coronation.
before a.g. arrived at the times, lynn lobbied her cousins to formalize theocess by which succession would be decided. as a result of these conversations, the board created the “family career development committee,” a group that included sulzberger jr., michael golden, the times’ ceo, and the head of hr. their official mandate was to ensure that family members working for the company received “fair” evaluations and an equal shot atomotion, according to a family member. “there were memos written in the beginning. they wanted the newsroom to be invested in making sure that all members of the family were being exposed to different things,” says a former editor. unofficially, the group was also tasked with making sure a.g. get too far ahead.
the cousins were inclined to listen to lynn. by this time, she was a power center in family matters. like her mother, ruth, lynn was forthright and very smart. she attended brandeis in the ’70s, earning an undergraduate degree and a ph.d. in biology. there, she met her husband, the journalist and author edward. in 1996, she became the first member of her generation to be named a trustee of the trust, the vehicle through which the family controls the times. in 2005, she joined the times’ board of directors.
she also had allies. in january 2008, her brother michael returned to headquarters from paris, where been publisher of the international herald tribune. michael became a gatekeeper to securing employment for the fifth generation. “if in the family and you want to work at the company, you have to talk to michael,” a former senior executive says. michael hosts annual family reunions at his columbia county home, like the ones that used to take place at hillandale.*
after graduating from columbia, sam interned for the village investigative reporter wayne barrett, then moved to the night shift at the staten island advance. like a.g., he worked hard not to flaunt his connections, an effort made easier by the fact that hardly anyone knew that the name was times royalty. in fact, colleagues him by dumping the worst assignments on his desk. “when the editor would yell out, ‘who’s going to take a notice?,’ we gave him extension,” recalled glennback, a former reporter. like a.g., sam also found love in the newsroom. he started dating a reporter named heidi shrager, whom he later married.
but whereas a.g. wanted to be a political reporter, ambitions were more literary. his father was a successful author; ben, his younger brother, was a novelist. at the advance, editors particularly embrace his sensibility. “get the fucking information in the lead!” one told him after he read his first story, which began with a sentence. it was a sensitive point. months later, the editor regaled staffers about it over drinks at the local watering hole. sam pulled him aside afterward. “i wish you would have talked to me about this and not to my colleagues,” he said.
in 2004, sam joined the associatedess. he spent three years as a metro reporter, covering everything from the convention to bill quadruple bypass. then he left for new delhi to be a foreign correspondent. editors were keenly aware that they were grooming a potential times publisher and made sure he secured plum assignments. “it was always understood that we needed to give him a wide range of experience,” a former senior ap editor said.
in august 2009, seven months after a.g. joined the metro desk, sam came aboard as a metro reporter. having two cousins working so closely together could haveesented challenges. but a.g. soon shipped out to kansas city to open a midwest bureau. there, he wrote stories about a retired postman who built a replica of the golden gate bridge over a creek behind his home, and got experience covering the catastrophic tornado that ripped through joplin, missouri.
shortly before a.g. left for the midwest, david perpich, the son of cathy, joined the business staff. his recruitment was another plank in the’ plan to position challengers to a.g. “michael golden brought perpich back,” with blessing, said a former senior executive.
it easy convincing perpich to come. for years, he resisted the gravitational pull of the family business. after graduating from duke during the bubble, he dived into the start-up world. in the spring of 2002, he bumped into a duke alumnus named robincipe, who mentioned he was starting a company called scratch academy with jam master jay of that would teach spinning records to the masses. “that is so simple. and i love it,” perpich toldincipe. the business soon grew to several million dollars in revenue. “dave wasoud of his family, but he also wanted to build his own experience, initially, independent of his family,”incipe told me. after three years at scratch, perpich went to harvard business school, then landed at the consulting firm booz allen.
when perpich finally did come to the times, he got an assignment with tremendous visibility: launching the digital subscriptions, an attempt to get readers to pay for times content online. “the risk was so high; if we stumbled in the execution, it would have been unforgivable,” a former senior executive told me. confidence and competence, combined with the success of the so-called paywall, rapidly raised hisofile. he was eventually put in charge oft beta, an in-house incubator with its own investment budget to finance newoduct launches. in the summer of 2012, perpich was part of a team that persuaded the board to back a new series of times apps liket now and cooking, designed to bring in new subscribers at lowerice points.
around this time, according to a high-level source, managing editor bill schmidtesented a memo to jill abramson outlining how a.g. and sam would rotate through various departments on the business side, following the path sulzberger had traveled in the early 1980s. but a.g. and sam wanted to be journalists not suits and they rejected theoposal.
instead, they gotomotions that elevated theirofiles in the newsroom. in march 2012, a.g. was named an editor on the metro desk a job that gave him crucial management experience. meanwhile, sam spent more than a year reporting an investigativeoject aboutivatized halfway houses in new jersey. lynn often advocated for sam with times leadership. “she’d come in and say, ‘what are you doing about sam? is he being treated unfairly because of arthur gregg?’ recalls an executive involved in the conversations. “there’s nothing subtle about it.” less than a year after a.g. joined the editorial ranks, sam was named deputy sports editor.
keenly aware of history, the fourth generation undertook elaborate measures to bring the three contenders closer together. to foster better relations between them, abramson and organized monthly lunches at which they walked them through newsroom decisions, such as publishing the snowden documents or investigating the vast wealth of communist leadership. the families also hired a consultant and psychologist named katherine grady, who met regularly with the cousins and interviewed their colleagues, reporting back to their parents on theirogress.
in 2013, abramson put a.g. in charge of a committee tasked with dreaming upoducts that could bolster the times’ bottom line. it could have been a assignment, like any number of committees the times has convened that haveoduced earnest reports and memos that collect dust. but the hope was that a.g., who had very little digital experience at that point, might learn a thing or two. a.g. and his team set up shop in a conference room off the newsroom. they brought in a design expert who had worked for ideo, the san francisco design firm, and filled with concepts. but after two months, according to a committee member, a.g. reached a startling conclusion: the digitaloblems ran much, much deeper than the leadership suspected. the graham family had just sold the washington post, which lent an additional sense of urgency to theoject. if family wanted to avoid the fate of the grahams, the times would need a lot more than an app.
so a.g. changed his mission to critiquing the times’ culture. in clinical detail, the “innovation report” the committee eventuallyoduced documented how the times found itself bogged down by outmodedocesses, beset by baroque turf battles, and ultimately in danger of falling behind competitors like buzzfeed, vox, and vice news. the report called for revolutionary changes, none more extreme than ending the division between the newsroom and business departments that had been all but a religion to an earlier generation of times journalists. “it was a slap in the head,” told me.
by this point, the relationship with executive editor abramson had frayed. sulzberger had been hearing troubling dispatches from a.g. and sam about her management style. “a.g. and sam were the eyes and ears in meetings and did report back it going well,” a former senior times editor says. on friday, may 9, sulzberger fired abramson andomoted to executive editor. (abramson declined to comment.)
the week after dismissal, the “innovation report” was leaked to buzzfeed. a.g. was exposed to the judgment of the times journalists he hoped to one day lead. the kid, who even have a facebook page or an active twitter account, telling us to figure out the internet? “think about the optics,” one times staffer grumbled.
whether he wanted to or not, the leak pushed a.g. into the public role been avoiding his entire career. in what amounted to a political campaign, he the paper and defended the findings to employees in meeting after meeting. at first, he faced skepticism and disbelief. in one session, senior editors audibly gasped when a.g. displayed a chart that showed traffic to the times had plummeted from 160 million readers per month to 80 million in just two years. “news people were in a state of shock,” a veteran times journalist says. but salesmanship was, by all accounts, a success. “he was humble about what he know,” an attendee recalls. after one session, pulitzerize–winning investigative reporter david barstow gushed: “that was a piece of reporting.”
on june 19 last year, a.g.esented the report to the board of directors. it was his first audience with the 14 men and women who would help decide whether he would follow his father as publisher.
one senior editor told me that the next publisher of the new york times will likely be decided in the next couple of years. and a times spokesperson confirmed that sulzberger will step down before he turns 70. in some ways, a.g. seems to be the most likely to be chosen. after all, his “innovation report” is actually changing the way the times operates. his core insight is essentially a matter of distribution: fond of telling colleagues that the company historically invested millions of dollars in gettingint papers from the plant to homes and needs to do the same in a digital context. this push to get times content in front of as many readers as possible has fallen under the rubric of “audience development,” a goal to which 35 jobs are now dedicated.
meanwhile, the apps developed byoduct team, while successful with users, have not generated revenue. and has struggled to gain the stature a.g. was afforded by the “innovation report.” last summer, editors approached him about leading a committee that would study how to improve theint newspaper. according to a senior times source, the golden family felt theintoject was “looking backwards.” so instead sam was named senior editor for mobile, assigned to work ont now and the relaunch of the times app. (in june, the team sam worked on persuaded times editors to temporarily shut off desktop access to the so employees could read it only on their phones, a move some felt was a stunt.)
that said, right now, the eight trustees of the trust, which elects 70 percent of the board of directors, are not automatically lined up in favor, a senior executive with knowledge of the family dynamics told me. the golden wing has the most votes, with three trustees uncle michael, aunt trudy, and cousin hays). arthur and his brother-in-law steven green represent the. perpich can count on his father, joe. the swing votes include carolyn greenspon, said to back or perpich; and james cohen, said to be undecided. (a times spokesperson said: “any idea that specific trustees would be voting for their children, nieces, or nephews would be wrong.”)
one possible path to avert a family rupture would be to divide the top jobs among the three contenders. “i heard they were intrigued by the deal,” a former editor says of the cousins. in this scenario, a.g. could become publisher and chairman, perpich could eventually become ceo, and could eventually take over the running of the newsroom. such a plan would play to each respective strengths. and it would bind the family ever tighter to the paper during an era when investing in serious public-spirited journalism requires a long-term view. “i believe, and the board of the company believes, that a strategic strength for the company to have family control,” ceo mark thompson told me.
but there are risks involved in carving up fiefdoms for the three cousins, no matter their talents. if this scenario came to pass, it would be the first time that the positions of ceo and executive editor were held by family members. one senior editor told me it was essential for the times’ stature as the paper of record that the newsroom be run by a member. others wonder whether the times would be able to retain top talent if the biggest jobs were monopolized by family members.
in the end, the “all-three deal” isobably less realistic than it is mollifying, another way to soothe anxieties and quiet the talk of horse races. after all, as great-grandfather arthur hays sulzberger told adolph ochs some 80 years ago, “there can be only one head to a business.”
*this article appears in the august 24, 2015 issue of new york magazine.
*this article has been corrected to show that michael house is in columbia county, not orange county.
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ðə ɛrz ˈmoʊstli ˈsɪvəˌlaɪzd ˈfæməli ˈkɑntɛst tɪ bɪˈkəm ðə nɛkst ˈpəblɪʃər əv ə ˈpəblɪʃər frəm lɛft: sæm, ˈɑrθər grɛg ˈsəltsbərgər, ənd ˈdeɪvɪd ˈpərpɪk. ˈpeɪnɪŋz baɪ rəˈbɛrtoʊ pərˈædə ðə ˈɪʃu əv səkˈsɛʃən ɪz ə ˈdɪfəkəlt ˈmætər nɑt ʤɪst fər ˈbɪznɪsɪz bət fər ðə ˈfæməliz ðət rən ðɛm. teɪk ðə murdochs*, fər ˈɪnstəns. ər ðə binghams*, ðə kənˈtəki ˈnuzˌpeɪpər klæn ðət ˌɪmˈploʊdɪd ɪn ðə 1980s*. hɪˈstɔrɪkəli ˈspikɪŋ, trænˈzɪʃənz ɪn ðə ˈsəltsbərgər ˈfæməli, wɪʧ həz rən ðə nu jɔrk taɪmz fər 119 jɪrz, hæv nɑt gɔn ɔl ðət sˈmuðli. ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈərli deɪz, ˈpeɪtriˌɑrk ˈeɪdɔlf ɑks ˈægəˌnaɪzd ˈoʊvər wɪʧ ɛr ʃʊd ˈfɑloʊ ɪm: hɪz ˈnɛfju ˈʤuljəs ɑks ˈædlər ər hɪz ˈsənɪnˌlɔ, ˈɑrθər heɪz ˈsəltsbərgər. (hɪz ˈdɔtər,, wɑz ˈnɛvər kənˈsɪdərd.) ðə ˌkɑmpəˈtɪʃən tʊk ə toʊl ɔn ɔl ˌɪnˈvɑlvd. ɪn 1932 ˈsəltsbərgər ˈsəfərd ə hɑrt əˈtæk, wɪʧ ˈkrɪpəld hɪz lɛft hænd; ə jɪr ˈleɪtər, ˈædlər hæd ə ˈnərvəs ˈbreɪkˌdaʊn ənd spɛnt sɪks wiks ɪn ə ˈmɛntəl ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃən. ɑks kləŋ tɪ ðə ˈnoʊʃən ðət ˈmeɪbi ðeɪ kʊd ʃɛr ðə kraʊn. kən bi ˈoʊnli wən hɛd tɪ ə business,”*,” ˈsəltsbərgər rɪˈplaɪd. ˈəltəmətli, ɑks ɔn ðə dɪˈsɪʒən. wɪn hi daɪd ɪn 1935 hɪz wɪl ɛˈsɛnʃəli lɛft ɪt tɪ ˈɑrθər, ˈʤuljəs, ənd tɪ wərk ɪt aʊt əˈməŋ ðɛmˈsɛlvz., biɪŋ ðə ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪŋ voʊt, səˈpɔrtɪd hər ˈhəzbənd, ðəs ə fɔlt laɪn ɪn ðə ˈfæməli ðət wɑz ˈnɛvər rɪˈpɛrd. ðə ˈædlərz ənd stɑpt ˈspikɪŋ. ɪn 1959 ðə ˈfaɪnəl ˈædlər wɑz fɔrst aʊt əv ðə ˈpeɪpər. naʊ, θri ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃənz ənd 80 jɪrz ˈleɪtər, dɪˈsɛnɪnts ər kənˈfrəntɪŋ ə ˈsɪmələr dɪˈlɛmə: ˈməltəpəl ˈkeɪpəbəl ˈfæməli ˈmɛmbərz frəm ˈdɪfərənt ˈbrænʧɪz wɔnt ðə tɔp ʤɑb. ðə haʊs əv ˈsəltsbərgər ɪz meɪd əp əv fɔr ˈfæməliz, ɔl dɪˈsɛnɪnts əv ˈdɔtər, ənd iʧ ˈhɑrbərz ɪts oʊn æmˈbɪʃənz ənd ˈgrivənsɪz. ðə ˈsɛntrəl ˈraɪvəlri ɪz bɪtˈwin ðə tu moʊst ˈpaʊərfəl wɪŋz: ðə ənd ðə. bət ðə ˈaʊtˌkəm ɪz nɑt ʤɪst ə ˈmætər əv ˈfæməli ˈpɑləˌtɪks; ðə nɛkst ˈpəblɪʃər əv ðə nu jɔrk taɪmz wɪl bi riˈspɑnsəbəl fər prɪˈzərvɪŋ ðə ˌɪndɪˈpɛndəns əv ðə ˈgreɪtəst ˈnuzˌpeɪpər ɪn ən ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋgli ˈʧælənʤɪŋ ˈmidiə ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt. ɪn ˈrisənt mənθs, aɪ spoʊk wɪθ mɔr ðən 65 ˈkɑrənt ənd ˈfɔrmər taɪmz ɪgˈzɛkjətɪvz ənd ˈʤərnəlɪsts, pləs ˈmɛmbərz, ædˈvaɪzərz, ənd frɛndz, tɪ lərn haʊ ðə ˈkəmpəˌni ɪz ˈgrumɪŋ ɪts ʃɔrt lɪst əv pəˈtɛnʃəl səkˈsɛsərz. θri ˈfaɪnəlɪsts hæv ˈimərʤd: ðə ˈkɑrənt ˈʧɛrmən ənd ˈpəblɪʃər ˈɑrθər ɑks ˈsəltsbərgər sən, ˈɑrθər grɛg ““a*. g.”*.” ˈsəltsbərgər, bɛst noʊn fər ˈlidɪŋ ðə kəˈmɪti ðət prəˈdust ðə ˈdɪʤɪtəl ˈweɪˌkəp kɔl noʊn ɛz ðə report”*”; ˈnɛfju ˈdeɪvɪd ˈpərpɪk, 38 ə ˈhɑrvərd m.b.a*. hu səkˈsɛsfəli lɔnʧt ðə ˈdɪʤɪtəl səbˈskrɪpʃənz; ənd sæm, 34 ðə sən əv ˈkəzən lɪn ˈgoʊldən, ən ˌɪnfluˈɛnʃəl ənd ˈaʊtˈspoʊkən ˈfæməli ˈmɛmbər. a.g*. ənd sæm hæv əˈsɛndəd θru ðə ˈnuzˌrum ræŋks ɛz ˈpərpɪk klaɪmd ðə ˈbɪznɪs saɪd. a.g*. wɑz prəˈmoʊtəd tɪ ˈsinjər ˈɛdɪtər fər ˈstrætəʤi ɪn ˌʤuˈlaɪ 2014 tu mənθs ˈleɪtər, wɑz neɪmd ˈsinjər ˈɛdɪtər fər ˈmoʊbəl. ðɛn, ɔn ˌʤuˈlaɪ 23 wɑz əˈpɔɪntɪd əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪt ˈɛdɪtər. ə wik ˈleɪtər, ə prɛs riˈlis wɛnt aʊt əˈnaʊnsɪŋ a.g*. hæd ðə seɪm ˈtaɪtəl. ˈminˌwaɪl, tɪ bust hɪz ˈnuzˌrum ɪkˈspɪriəns, ˈpərpɪk, neɪmd ˈsinjər ˈvaɪˈsprɛzədənt ɪn mɑrʧ, həz ˈstɑrtɪd əˈtɛndɪŋ nuz ˈmæˌsthɛd ˈmitɪŋz. ““david*, ˈɑrθər, ənd sæm wər pʊt ɪn ʤɑbz ðət wər pərˈsivd ɛz ɛˈsɛnʃəl tɪ ðə ˈpeɪpər wɪn ðeɪ maɪt bi ˈrənɪŋ it,”*,” ə ˈfɔrmər ˈsinjər ˈɛdɪtər sɪz. ənd ðɪs dɪz nɑt min ˈrənɪŋ ɪt ɪn ðə fˈjuʧər. ˈsəltsbərgər həz ʤoʊkt ðət ə ˈmændəˌtɔri rɪˈtaɪərmənt eɪʤ fər ˈɛvriˌwən ɪkˈsɛpt fər me.”*.” bət nɑt tru. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ðə ˈgaɪˌdlaɪnz, ˈsəltsbərgər, hu tərnz 64 ðɪs sɛpˈtɛmbər, meɪ rɪˈmeɪn ˈʧɛrmən əv ðə bɔrd ənˈtɪl 70 ˌhaʊˈɛvər, hi ɪz ɔˈrɛdi θri jɪrz ˈoʊldər ðən hɪz ˈfɑðər, ˈɑrθər ““punch”*” ˈsəltsbərgər, wɑz wɪn, ɪn ˈʤænjuˌɛri 1987 hi neɪmd ˈsəltsbərgər əˈsɪstənt ˈpəblɪʃər, ˈdɛzɪgˌneɪtɪŋ ɪm ɛr əˈpɛrənt. wɪn pənʧ tərnd 65 hi geɪv hɪz sən ðə fʊl ˈtaɪtəl əv ˈpəblɪʃər. ˈəndər ðɪs ˈprɛsɪdənt, ðə ˈfæməli ɪz bɪˈhaɪnd ˈskɛʤʊl. ˈdɪfərənt ðɪs taɪm əraʊnd ɪz ðət ðɛr ər θri ˈkænədɪts wɪθ ə ləˈʤɪtəmət ʃɑt æt ðə tɔp ʤɑb. hæv tɪ seɪ ðɪs ɪn ə weɪ ðət meɪk mi saʊnd laɪk ə guy,”*,” sɪz ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv ˈɛdɪtər din, ɔl ˈrɪli good.”*.” ˌɪnˈsaɪd ðə kəmˈpɛtɪtɪv ˈnuzˌrum əv ðə taɪmz, ʤɑb əˈpɔɪntmənts ər fərˈɛnsɪkəli daɪˈsɛktəd baɪ taɪmz ˈʤərnəlɪsts tɪ dɪˈtərmən ðɛr ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃənəl sɪgˈnɪfɪkəns. soʊ nɑt səˈpraɪzɪŋ ðət ˈhændiˌkæpɪŋ ðə reɪs bɪtˈwin ðə ˈsəltsbərgər ˈkəzənz ɪz ə ˈpɑpjələr ˈpæˌstaɪm æt ðə ˈpeɪpər. ɪz data-driven*. ɪf aɪ hæd tɪ səm ɪm əp ɪn wən wərd, bi m.b.a.,”*.,” ə ˈfɔrmər ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv sɪz. həz ˈrɪtən ˈstɔriz bət læks ˈmænɪʤmənt ɪkˈspɪriəns. ɪz kaɪnd əv ˈʤunjər ənd jəŋ ənd həz praɪˈmɛrəli ən ˌɛdəˈtɔriəl background,”*,” ə sɔrs hu wərkt ɔn ðə ˈbɪznɪs saɪd sɪz. ðət minz a.g*. wɪθ ˈmænɪʤmənt ənd ˈnuzˌrum ɪkˈspɪriəns, nɑt tɪ ˈmɛnʃən ðə ˈsəltsbərgər neɪm ɪz ˈʤɛnərəli kənˈsɪdərd tɪ bi ðə front-runner*. ðə ˈkəzənz ˈrɛrli, ɪf ˈɛvər, ækˈnɑlɪʤ ˈɛni səˈʤɛsʧən əv ə ˈraɪvəlri. heɪt ðə aɪˈdiə əv ə hɔrs race,”*,” ə taɪmz ˈstæfər sɪz. ənd ðeɪ ˈmoʊstli rɪˈfreɪn frəm ɪkˈsprɛsɪŋ ˈɛni ˈaʊtwərd ɛnˈtaɪtəlmənt ər æmˈbɪʃən. ə ˈtɛstəmənt tɪ ðɛr ˈpərsɪnəl staɪl ənd ˈvæljuz ðət ju noʊ ðeɪ ər pɑrt əv ðə family,”*,” sɪz ˈkɪnzi ˈwɪlsən, ðə times’*’ nu ˈdɪʤɪtəl ʧif. ə ˈvɛtərən ˈstæfər ˈwəndərz: ðeɪ ˈivɪn wɔnt ɪt? aɪ hæv noʊ ˈfəkɪŋ clue.”*.” bət hɑrd tɪ θɪŋk ðət ðeɪ. ɔl θri ˈkəzənz gru əp stipt ɪn taɪmz məˈθɑləˌʤi, ˈgæðərɪŋ æt hillandale*, ðə ˈwənˈtaɪm ˈsəltsbərgər kəˈnɛtəkət ɛˈsteɪt, wɛr ˈkɑpiz əv ðə taɪmz wər pleɪst ɔn ˈbɛnʧɪz ɪn ðə ˈgɑrdənz, ənd ðə bɪˈlif ðət ðə ˈfæməli ər stuərdz əv ə ˈpəblɪk trəst. ðɪs ˌɪnˌdɑktrəˈneɪʃən ɪz haʊ ðə kip iʧ nu ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən əˈtæʧt tɪ ðə ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃən. (ə gʊd θɪŋ, kənˈsɪdərɪŋ ðət ˈmaɪkəl ˈblumbərg, lɔŋ kənˈsɪdərd ðə times’*’ ɪn ðə ɪˈvɛnt ðət ðə ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd tɪ sɛl, ˈrisəntli toʊld mi θru ə ˈspoʊkspərsən ðət hi wɑz nɑt ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪd ɪn baɪɪŋ.) ə ˈtoʊtəl əv sɪks (aʊt əv 27 ˈkəzənz ˈkərəntli hoʊld pəˈzɪʃənz æt ðə taɪmz. ˈprɑməs tɪ ˈmɛmbərz əv ðə ˈfæməli hu wɔnt tɪ wərk æt ðə nu jɔrk taɪmz ənd hæv ðə skɪl sɛt tɪ du soʊ ɪz tɪ gɪv ðɛm careers,”*,” ˈsəltsbərgər ˈrisəntli sɛd. ɪt kriˈeɪts ˈtərbjələns ɪn ðə ˈfæməli wɪn wən ˈkəzən gɪts əˈtɛnʃən ˈoʊvər əˈnəðər. ə ˈkəpəl əv jɪrz əˈgoʊ, ˈæftər ˈædwik ˈpəblɪʃt ə ˈgəʃɪŋ ˈproʊˌfaɪl əv ˈpərpɪk ˈhɛˌdlaɪnd ɛr tɪ ðə times’*’ throne?”*?” ˈmaɪkəl ˈgrinˌspɑn, əˈnəðər ˈkəzən, hu həz wərkt æt ðə taɪmz sɪns 2007 wɑz sɛd tɪ hæv wɔkt ˈɪntu ðə times’*’ ˈɔfəs. aɪˈdiə wɑz this?”*?” hi sɛd. kʊd ˈpərpɪk du this?”*?” ən ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv rɪˈspɑndɪd ðət ˈpərpɪk ˈnɛvər tɔkt tɪ ðə rɪˈpɔrtər. ðə prɛs ˈfoʊkɪsɪz ɔn ˈsərtən ˈpipəl ənd sɪz bɪn əˈnɔɪntɪd ɛz ðə ˈpɑsəbəl səkˈsɛsər, ðət kən bi ˈvɛri ˈpeɪnfəl fər ˈɛniˌwən nɑt ɔn ðə list,”*,” ə ˈfæməli ˈmɛmbər toʊld mi. (ðə ˈkəzənz dɪˈklaɪnd tɪ bi ˈɪntərvˌjud ɔn ðə ˈrɛkərd fər ðɪs ˈstɔri.) ðə səˈlɛkʃən əv ðə nɛkst ˈpəblɪʃər ɪz pərˈhæps ðə moʊst ˈkrɪtɪkəl ˈʧælənʤ ˈfeɪsɪŋ ðə taɪmz. ˈɑrθər ˈsəltsbərgər jr*. stɪrd ðə ˈpeɪpər ˈɪntu ðə ˈdɪʤɪtəl eɪʤ ənd prəˈtɛktɪd ɪts ˈʤərnəˌlɪzəm, bət ðə nɛkst ˈpəblɪʃər əˈfɔrd tɪ ʤɪst bi ə ˈkɑmpətɪnt stuərd; hi (ənd ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˈsərtən tɪ bi ə hi) məst ˈnævəˌgeɪt wət ˈwɪlsən kɔld əv ðə moʊst ˈtərbjələnt, kənˈvəlsɪv ˈpɪriədz ðət ˈmidiə həz gɔn θru sɪns gutenberg.”*.” ðɪs jɪr, ˈdɪʤɪtəl səbˈskrɪpʃənz plæˈtoʊd æt 1 ˈmɪljən, ə rɪˈspɛktəbəl ˈnəmbər, ˈsərtənli, bət fɑr bɪˈloʊ wət ðə ˈpeɪpər nidz tɪ fənd ɪts 300 ˈmɪljən ˈbəʤɪt. ˈminˌwaɪl, prɪnt ˈædvərˌtaɪzɪŋ kənˈtɪnjuz ə ˈsimɪŋli ˌɪˈnɛksərəbəl dɪˈklaɪn, daʊn 13 pərˈsɛnt ɪn ðə læst kˈwɔrtər əˈloʊn. ðɪs pæst ˈwɪntər, ðə ˈpeɪpər ˈsəfərd ə breɪn dreɪn ɪn ə ˈrɛnʧɪŋ raʊnd əv baɪaʊts ənd leɪɔfs, ˈluzɪŋ ə ˈkædri əv tɔp ˈɛdɪtərz ənd mɑrˈki ˈbaɪˌlinz. ənd ðɛr ɪz ə ˈwaɪdli hɛld vju ðət mɔr leɪɔfs ər ˈkəmɪŋ. ðə læst taɪm paʊər wɑz ˈtrænsfərd æt ðə taɪmz, ““punch”*” ˈsəltsbərgər ˈoʊnli hæd tɪ kənˈvɪns hɪz θri ˈsɪstərz ˌbiˈfɔr ˈneɪmɪŋ hɪz sən ˈpəblɪʃər. naʊ ðə dɪˈsɪʒən wɪl ˌɪnˈvɑlv ˈbælənsɪŋ ə ˈkɑmplɛks sɛt əv kəmˈpitɪŋ ˈɪntərɪsts, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ə ˈfæməli ðət həz groʊn tɪ 40 ˈkəzənz, hu məst gɪt əˈlɔŋ wɪˈθaʊt ðə ˈbɛnəfɪt əv ðə ˈdɪvɪˌdɛnd ˈʤɛnərˌeɪtɪd baɪ ðɛr taɪmz stɑk. kriˈeɪtɪd ə ˈvɛri ˈprɔˌsɛs səʧ ðət wɪn ðə taɪm kəmz fər mi tɪ əˈnaʊns ə successor,”*,” ˈsəltsbərgər toʊld mi ɪn ʤun ˈdʊrɪŋ ə ˈpəblɪk ɪˈvɛnt æt ˈhəntər ˈkɑlɪʤ, ˌɪnˈvɑlvz ðə bɔrd əv dɪˈrɛktərz, bɪˈkəz ˈɑbviəsli ðeɪ hæv ə steɪk ɪn ðɪs; ðə ˈfæməli, bɪˈkəz ˈɑbviəsli ðeɪ hæv ə steɪk ɪn ðɪs; ənd ˈmænɪʤmənt, bɪˈkəz ðeɪ hæv ə steɪk ɪn this.”*.” ˈfoʊˌtoʊ: ˈnæʃənəl ˈpɔrtrət ˈgæləri, smɪθˈsoʊniən ˈrisɔrs, (eɪz. ɑks); ˈnænsi ɑr. ˈɪmɪʤɪz (ˈbərθə ɑks); (a.h*. ˈsəltsbərgər); ˈrɑbɪn ˈɪmɪʤɪz (ɛm. ˈsəltsbərgər); ˈkərtəsi əv ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv ˌtɛnəˈsi æt ˌʧætəˈnugə (ɑr. ˈsəltsbərgər); mərˈinə ˈgɑrniər (ʤeɪ. ˈsəltsbərgər); frɛd ɑr. nu jɔrk (““punch”*” ˈsəltsbərgər); ˈgrɛgəri (c.j*. ˈsəltsbərgər); ˈlɛri ˈɪmɪʤɪz fər ðə nu jɔrk taɪmz (a.o*. ˈsəltsbərgər jr*.); tɑd nu jɔrk taɪmz (dolnick*, a.g*. ˈsəltsbərgər); ərl nu jɔrk taɪmz (ˈpərpɪk) laɪk ˈərliər ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃənz əv, ðə kənˈtɛndərz wər ɪnˈkərəʤd baɪ ðɛr ˈpɛrənts tɪ kət ðɛr tiθ ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ðə taɪmz. fərst ʤɑb ˈæftər ˈgræʤəˌweɪtɪŋ frəm braʊn wɑz æt ðə ˈprɑvədəns ˈʤərnəl. ˈwɔntɪd tɪ bi ˈtritɪd laɪk ˈɛvriˌwən ɛls. hi meɪ hæv groʊn əp ɪn ə ˈfeɪməs ˈfæməli, bət hi ˈtruli dɪd nɑt fil confident,”*,” rɪˈkɔld ˈfɔrmər ˈdɛpjəti ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv ˈɛdɪtər ˈkɛrəl jəŋ, hu wɑz ɪn ʧɑrʤ əv ˈhaɪrɪŋ. ““a.g*. dɪd nɑt plænt hɪz neɪm æt all,”*,” ʃi sɛd. ju kɔld hɪz voice-mail*, ɔl ɪt sɛd wɑz, riʧt arthur,’*,’ nɑt ɪz ˈɑrθər sulzberger.’*.’ a.g*. kˈwɪkli meɪd frɛndz wɪθ ə grup əv ˈʤunjər rɪˈpɔrtərz ənd ˈivɪn ˈdeɪtɪd wən əv ðɛm, ə ˈhɑrvərd græd neɪmd ɪˈlɪzəbɪθ gudrais*, hu ˈkəvərd steɪt ˈpɑləˌtɪks. hi wɑz ˈigər tɪ bɪˈkəm ə pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈraɪtər hɪmˈsɛlf, ənd, ɪn ˈɔgəst 2006 ˈæftər tu jɪrz ɪn roʊd ˈaɪlənd, hi gɑt hɪz breɪk tɪ du ðət æt ðə ˈpɔrtlənd ˌɔrəˈgoʊniən. ðə ˈɛdɪtər, ˈstivən ˈɛŋgəlbərg, ə taɪmz ˈvɛtərən, tʊk ɪm ˈəndər hɪz wɪŋ. nu hɪz ˈfɑðər, ənd aɪ ˈwɔntɪd tɪ kip ən aɪ ɔn him,”*,” ˈɛŋgəlbərg, naʊ ðə ˈɛdɪtər əv propublica*, toʊld mi. ˈæftər ə fju mənθs, ˈɛŋgəlbərg timd a.g*. wɪθ lɛs zeɪts, ðə moʊst ˈsinjər ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪtɪv rɪˈpɔrtər, tɪ dɪg ˈɪntu ˌækjəˈzeɪʃənz ðət ə kərəpt ˈkaʊnti ˈʃɛrɪf hæd hæd ən əˈfɛr wɪθ ðə waɪf. a.g*. ˈɔlˌweɪz sim ˈkəmfərtəbəl ɪn ðə roʊl. ˈæftər ˈɪntərvˌjuɪŋ wən ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli ˈʧæti ˈwʊmən, hi æt ˈprɪnɪŋ hər ˌrɛvəˈleɪʃənz. wɔkt aʊt, ənd hi sɛd hi fɛlt bæd bɪˈkəz ðə ˈleɪdi wɑz soʊ nice,”*,” zeɪts rɪˈkɔld. hi toʊld a.g*. tɪ ˈtəfən əp. oʊld ɪˈnəf tɪ ˈhændəl ˈtɔkɪŋ tɪ ðə press,”*,” hi sɛd. ˈɑrtɪkəlz kriˈeɪtɪd ə splæʃ ɪn ˈɔrəˌgɑn pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈsərkəlz. ɪn meɪ 2008 ðə ˈʃɛrɪf rɪˈzaɪnd. æt ðə taɪmz, ˈsinjər ˈɛdɪtərz hæd bɪn ˈmɑnətərɪŋ kərɪr, ˈfidɪŋ ˈprɑˌgrɛs rɪˈpɔrts tɪ hɪz ˈfɑðər. ðət ˈsəmər, ˈɛdɪtər ʤɪl ˈeɪbrəmsən toʊld ˈsəltsbərgər ɪt wɑz taɪm fər hɪz sən tɪ kəm hoʊm. ˈsəltsbərgər wɑz θrɪld. ðɛr wɑz, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, wən ˈprɑbləm: a.g*. əˈgri. θɪŋk hi wɑz ˈtæləntɪd enough,”*,” ə taɪmz sɔrs toʊld mi. ˈeɪbrəmsən hæd tɪ pərsˈweɪd ɪm tɪ teɪk ðə ʤɑb. wɪθ hɪz ˈstəbəl ənd dɑrk ˈplæstɪk ˈglæsɪz, a.g*. lʊkt laɪk ˈɛni ˈsɪriəs jəŋ timesman*. hæd səm ˌkjʊriˈɑsəti wɪn hi fərst came,”*,” sɪz ˈmɛˌtroʊ ˈɛdɪtər ˈwɛndəl ˈʤeɪmɪsən, hi ʤɪst tərnd aʊt tɪ bi sɔrt əv, aɪ wɔnt tɪ seɪ ‘‘unassuming,’*,’ bət ʤɪst ə ˈrɛgjələr guy.”*.” nɑt ðə fʊl ˈstɔri, ðoʊ. nɑt ə ˈpætsi æt ɔl. ˌəndərˈniθ ðət ˈvɛri ˈæfəbəl ɪkˈstɪriər ɪz ə ˈsərtən əˈmaʊnt əv ambition,”*,” ə ˈprɑmənənt taɪmz ˈraɪtər sɪz. hi ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ ɪkˈstrimli rɪˈzərvd. ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˈwɪlfəli nɑt hɪz father,”*,” ə ˈfɔrmər taɪmz ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv sɪz. ˈnɛvər hərd ɪm kræk ə ʤoʊk ər læf. ju wɔnt ɪm tɪ ˈlusən up.”*.” ɪn ˈpraɪvət ˈmoʊmənts, a.g*. ɪkˈspleɪnz hɪz rɪˈzərv ɛz ə ˈkoʊpɪŋ ˈstrætəʤi. bɪn ˈraɪtɪŋ əˈbaʊt ju sɪns ju wər 5 ju lərn tɪ bi private,”*,” hi toʊld ə frɛnd. bət ə ˈdɪfəkəlt stæns frəm wɪʧ tɪ rən ən ˌɔrgənəˈzeɪʃən, ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli wən soʊ ˈpəblɪk ɛz ðə taɪmz. hɑrd tɪ noʊ wət hi believes,”*,” ə ˈfɔrmər ˈsinjər ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv sɪz. laɪk ɪf ju goʊ si ə ˈspɪrɪˌʧuəl ˈguˌru. tɛl ju, ˈænsər ɪz wɪˈθɪn yourself.’*.’ ərˈaɪvəl, ɪn ˈfɛbruˌɛri 2009 ˌɪˈnɛvətəbli ˌɪgˈnaɪtɪd ˌspɛkjəˈleɪʃən əˈbaʊt səkˈsɛʃən. tɪ ˈmɛni, ɪt simd ðət ˈsəltsbərgər wɑz ˈhændɪŋ hɪz sən ə hɛd stɑrt ʤɪst ɛz hɪz ˈfɑðər, pənʧ, hæd dən ə ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən ˈərliər. ðə ˌənɪnˈtɛndɪd ˈkæʒəwəltiz əv ˈfeɪvərɪˌtɪzəm wər ðə fɔr ˈʧɪldrən əv hɪz ˈsɪstər ruθ ˈgoʊldən, səm əv hum ˈhɑrbərd hoʊps əv wən deɪ ˈrənɪŋ ðə ˈpeɪpər ðɛmˈsɛlvz. ðɛr ˌdɪsədˈvænɪʤz bɪˈgæn wɪθ ðɛr ˈbərθˌpleɪs, ˌtɛnəˈsi, wɛr ðə ˈfæməli ˈpeɪtriˌɑrk, ˈeɪdɔlf ɑks, gɑt hɪz stɑrt ɪn ˈnuzˌpeɪpərz ɛz ðə ˈoʊnər əv ðə ˌʧætəˈnugə taɪmz. ðə ˈgoʊldən kɪdz ˈmaɪkəl, ˈstivən, lɪn, ənd ˈɑrθər gru əp ɪn ə ˈtərbjələnt hoʊm raɪf wɪθ rɪˈzɛntmənt təˈwɔrd ðɛr nu jɔrk ˈrɛlətɪvz. ðɛr ˈfɑðər, bɛn heɪl ˈgoʊldən, wɑz ə hɑrd ˈdrɪŋkər proʊn tɪ baʊts əv ˈvərbəl ənd ˈfɪzɪkəl ˈvaɪələns. ɛz ˈpəblɪʃər əv ðə ˌʧætəˈnugə taɪmz, hi fɛlt ˌɪˈnædəkˌweɪt ənd ˌɪnˈdɛtɪd tɪ ðə fər ɪmˈplɔɪmənt ənd ˈsoʊʃəl pəˈzɪʃən. wən ˈdrəŋkən ˈivnɪŋ, hi slæʃt ə ˈsəltsbərgər ˈfæməli ˈpɔrtrət wɪθ ə naɪf. əˈnəðər taɪm, hi θˈrɛtənd ruθ wɪθ ə gən. ðeɪ dɪˈvɔrst ɪn 1965 ənd ruθ tʊk ˈoʊvər ɛz ˈpəblɪʃər əv ðə ˌʧætəˈnugə taɪmz. wɪn ðə ˈgoʊldən bɔɪz wɛnt ˈnɑkɪŋ ɔn ðə dɔr əv ðə nu jɔrk taɪmz ɪn ðə 1970s*, pənʧ ˈoʊpənd ɪt bət ˈsaɪˌdlaɪnd ðɛm wɪθ ʤɑbz. ˈstivən ˈstɑrtɪd ɪn ðə grup ˌbiˈfɔr trænsˈfərɪŋ tɪ ðə times’*’ ˈpərʧəsɪŋ dɪˈpɑrtmənt ənd, ˈleɪtər, ðə dɪˈvɪʒən. ˈmaɪkəl wɑz mɔr krəˈdɛnʃəld: hi spoʊk frɛnʧ, hæd ə ˈʤərnəˌlɪzəm dɪˈgri ənd ən m.b.a*., ənd hæd hɛlpt hɪz ˈməðər rən ðə ˌʧætəˈnugə taɪmz. bət ɪn 1987 wɪn pənʧ geɪv ˈɑrθər ðə ˈnuli kriˈeɪtɪd ʤɑb əv əˈsɪstənt ˈpəblɪʃər, ˈmaɪkəl wɑz stək ɪn ðə ˈmægəˌzin ˈmɑrkətɪŋ dɪˈvɪʒən. reɪs hæd ˈstɑrtɪd wɪθ ˈmaɪkəl ɔn ˈsɛkənd beɪs ənd ˈɑrθər ɔn third,”*,” ə ˈfɔrmər ˈsinjər ˈɛdɪtər kloʊz tɪ ðə ˈfæməli sɛd. fɛlt sˈlaɪtɪd baɪ that.”*.” wət kɛpt ðə ˈraɪvəlri frəm ˈbɔɪlɪŋ ˈoʊvər wɑz ðə fərm hænd əv ðə ˈfæməli ˈmeɪtriˌɑrk,. hæd fɔr ˈʧɪldrən. ðeɪ ɔl agreed,”*,” ðə ˈlɔŋˌtaɪm trəst ˈlɔjər, tɛd ˈwægnər, toʊld mi. ˈmaɪkəl meɪ hæv kəmˈpleɪnd tɪ hɪz ˈməðər, ruθ, əˈbaʊt nɑt ˈgɪtɪŋ ˈikwəl ˌɑpərˈtunətiz, bət ʃi goʊɪŋ tɪ kˈwɛʃən hər ˈməðər. ɔl ˈfæməli dynamics,”*,” ˈwægnər sɛd. bət wɪn daɪd ɪn 1990 ɪt wɑz ˈsədənli ˈɛvəri ˈkəzən fər hɪmˈsɛlf. soʊ, fər ðə, ərˈaɪvəl æt ðə taɪmz wɑz ə kɔl tɪ ˈækʃən. sæm, ðə ˈoʊldəst sən əv lɪn ˈgoʊldən, wɑz ðə seɪm eɪʤ ɛz a.g*. ənd ˈɔlsoʊ ə ˈtæləntɪd ˈʤərnəlɪst. ɪz æmˈbɪʃəs fər hər son,”*,” sɪz ə ˈfɔrmər ˈsinjər taɪmz ˈɛdɪtər hu noʊz ðə ˈfæməli wɛl. ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ prɪˈvɛnt ˈhɪstəri frəm rɪˈpitɪŋ ˌɪtˈsɛlf, lɪn ɛmˈbɑrkt ɔn ə kæmˈpeɪn tɪ meɪk ʃʊr ðɛr wʊd bi ə ˌkɑmpəˈtɪʃən, nɑt ə ˌkɔrəˈneɪʃən. ˌbiˈfɔr a.g*. əraɪvd æt ðə taɪmz, lɪn ˈlɑbid hər ˈkəzənz tɪ ˈfɔrməˌlaɪz ðə ˈprɔˌsɛs baɪ wɪʧ səkˈsɛʃən wʊd bi ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd. ɛz ə rɪˈzəlt əv ðiz ˌkɑnvərˈseɪʃənz, ðə bɔrd kriˈeɪtɪd ðə kərɪr dɪˈvɛləpmənt committee,”*,” ə grup ðət ˌɪnˈkludɪd ˈsəltsbərgər jr*., ˈmaɪkəl ˈgoʊldən, ðə times’*’ ˈsiˌiˈoʊ, ənd ðə hɛd əv hr*. ðɛr əˈfɪʃəl ˈmænˌdeɪt wɑz tɪ ɪnˈʃʊr ðət ˈfæməli ˈmɛmbərz ˈwərkɪŋ fər ðə ˈkəmpəˌni rɪˈsivd ““fair”*” ɪˌvæljuˈeɪʃənz ənd ən ˈikwəl ʃɑt æt pərˈmoʊʃən, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ə ˈfæməli ˈmɛmbər. wər ˈmɛmoʊz ˈrɪtən ɪn ðə bɪˈgɪnɪŋ. ðeɪ ˈwɔntɪd ðə ˈnuzˌrum tɪ bi ˌɪnˈvɛstɪd ɪn ˈmeɪkɪŋ ʃʊr ðət ɔl ˈmɛmbərz əv ðə ˈfæməli wər biɪŋ ɪkˈspoʊzd tɪ ˈdɪfərənt things,”*,” sɪz ə ˈfɔrmər ˈɛdɪtər. ənəˈfɪʃəli, ðə grup wɑz ˈɔlsoʊ tæskt wɪθ ˈmeɪkɪŋ ʃʊr a.g*. gɪt tu fɑr əˈhɛd. ðə ˈkəzənz wər ˌɪnˈklaɪnd tɪ ˈlɪsən tɪ lɪn. baɪ ðɪs taɪm, ʃi wɑz ə paʊər ˈsɛnər ɪn ˈfæməli ˈmætərz. laɪk hər ˈməðər, ruθ, lɪn wɑz ˈfɔrθˈraɪt ənd ˈvɛri smɑrt. ʃi əˈtɛndəd ˈbrændaɪs ɪn ðə ’70s*, ˈərnɪŋ ən ˌəndərˈgræʤəwət dɪˈgri ənd ə ph.d*. ɪn baɪˈɑləʤi. ðɛr, ʃi mɛt hər ˈhəzbənd, ðə ˈʤərnəlɪst ənd ˈɔθər ˈɛdwərd. ɪn 1996 ʃi bɪˈkeɪm ðə fərst ˈmɛmbər əv hər ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən tɪ bi neɪmd ə ˌtrəˈsti əv ðə trəst, ðə ˈviɪkəl θru wɪʧ ðə ˈfæməli kənˈtroʊlz ðə taɪmz. ɪn 2005 ʃi ʤɔɪnd ðə times’*’ bɔrd əv dɪˈrɛktərz. ʃi ˈɔlsoʊ hæd ˈælaɪz. ɪn ˈʤænjuˌɛri 2008 hər ˈbrəðər ˈmaɪkəl rɪˈtərnd tɪ ˈhɛdˌkɔrtərz frəm ˈpɛrɪs, wɛr bɪn ˈpəblɪʃər əv ðə ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl ˈhɛrəld ˈtrɪbjun. ˈmaɪkəl bɪˈkeɪm ə ˈgeɪtˌkipər tɪ sɪˈkjʊrɪŋ ɪmˈplɔɪmənt fər ðə fɪθ ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən. ɪn ðə ˈfæməli ənd ju wɔnt tɪ wərk æt ðə ˈkəmpəˌni, ju hæv tɪ tɔk tɪ michael,”*,” ə ˈfɔrmər ˈsinjər ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv sɪz. ˈmaɪkəl hoʊsts ˈænjuəl ˈfæməli riˈunjənz æt hɪz kəˈləmbiə ˈkaʊnti hoʊm, laɪk ðə wənz ðət juzd tɪ teɪk pleɪs æt ˈæftər ˈgræʤəˌweɪtɪŋ frəm kəˈləmbiə, sæm ˈɪnˌtərnd fər ðə ˈvɪlɪʤ ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪtɪv rɪˈpɔrtər weɪn ˈbɛrɪt, ðɛn muvd tɪ ðə naɪt ʃɪft æt ðə ˈstætən ˈaɪlənd ədˈvæns. laɪk a.g*., hi wərkt hɑrd nɑt tɪ flɔnt hɪz kəˈnɛkʃənz, ən ˈɛfərt meɪd ˈiziər baɪ ðə fækt ðət ˈhɑrdli ˈɛniˌwən nu ðət ðə neɪm wɑz taɪmz ˈrɔɪəlti. ɪn fækt, ˈkɑligz ɪm baɪ ˈdəmpɪŋ ðə wərst əˈsaɪnmənts ɔn hɪz dɛsk. ðə ˈɛdɪtər wʊd jɛl aʊt, goʊɪŋ tɪ teɪk ə notice?,’*?,’ wi geɪv ɪm extension,”*,” rɪˈkɔld glɛn nyback*, ə ˈfɔrmər rɪˈpɔrtər. laɪk a.g*., sæm ˈɔlsoʊ faʊnd ləv ɪn ðə ˈnuzˌrum. hi ˈstɑrtɪd ˈdeɪtɪŋ ə rɪˈpɔrtər neɪmd ˈhaɪdi shrager*, hum hi ˈleɪtər ˈmɛrid. bət wɛˈræz a.g*. ˈwɔntɪd tɪ bi ə pəˈlɪtɪkəl rɪˈpɔrtər, æmˈbɪʃənz wər mɔr ˈlɪtərˌɛri. hɪz ˈfɑðər wɑz ə səkˈsɛsfəl ˈɔθər; bɛn, hɪz ˈjəŋgər ˈbrəðər, wɑz ə ˈnɑvələst. æt ðə ədˈvæns, ˈɛdɪtərz ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli ɪmˈbreɪs hɪz ˌsɛnsɪˈbɪlɪti. ðə ˈfəkɪŋ ˌɪnˌfɔrˈmeɪʃən ɪn ðə lead!”*!” wən toʊld ɪm ˈæftər hi rɛd hɪz fərst ˈstɔri, wɪʧ bɪˈgæn wɪθ ə ˈsɛntəns. ɪt wɑz ə ˈsɛnsɪtɪv pɔɪnt. mənθs ˈleɪtər, ðə ˈɛdɪtər rɪˈgeɪld ˈstæfərz əˈbaʊt ɪt ˈoʊvər drɪŋks æt ðə ˈloʊkəl ˈwɔtərɪŋ hoʊl. sæm pʊld ɪm əˈsaɪd ˈæftərwərd. wɪʃ ju wʊd hæv tɔkt tɪ mi əˈbaʊt ðɪs ənd nɑt tɪ maɪ colleagues,”*,” hi sɛd. ɪn 2004 sæm ʤɔɪnd ðə əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪtəd prɛs. hi spɛnt θri jɪrz ɛz ə ˈmɛˌtroʊ rɪˈpɔrtər, ˈkəvərɪŋ ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ frəm ðə kənˈvɛnʃən tɪ bɪl kwɑˈdrupəl ˈbaɪˌpæs. ðɛn hi lɛft fər nu ˈdɛli tɪ bi ə ˈfɔrən ˌkɔrəˈspɑndənt. ˈɛdɪtərz wər ˈkinli əˈwɛr ðət ðeɪ wər ˈgrumɪŋ ə pəˈtɛnʃəl taɪmz ˈpəblɪʃər ənd meɪd ʃʊr hi sɪˈkjʊrd pləm əˈsaɪnmənts. wɑz ˈɔlˌweɪz ˌəndərˈstʊd ðət wi ˈnidɪd tɪ gɪv ɪm ə waɪd reɪnʤ əv experience,”*,” ə ˈfɔrmər ˈsinjər ˌeɪˈpi ˈɛdɪtər sɛd. ɪn ˈɔgəst 2009 ˈsɛvən mənθs ˈæftər a.g*. ʤɔɪnd ðə ˈmɛˌtroʊ dɛsk, sæm keɪm əˈbɔrd ɛz ə ˈmɛˌtroʊ rɪˈpɔrtər. ˈhævɪŋ tu ˈkəzənz ˈwərkɪŋ soʊ ˈkloʊsli təˈgɛðər kʊd hæv pərˈzɛnəd ˈʧælənʤɪz. bət a.g*. sun ʃɪpt aʊt tɪ ˈkænzəs ˈsɪti tɪ ˈoʊpən ə ˌmɪdˈwɛst ˈbjʊroʊ. ðɛr, hi roʊt ˈstɔriz əˈbaʊt ə rɪˈtaɪrd ˈpoʊstmən hu bɪlt ə ˈrɛplɪkə əv ðə ˈgoʊldən geɪt brɪʤ ˈoʊvər ə krik bɪˈhaɪnd hɪz hoʊm, ənd gɑt ɪkˈspɪriəns ˈkəvərɪŋ ðə ˌkætəˈstrɑfɪk tɔrˈneɪˌdoʊ ðət rɪpt θru ˈʤɑplɪn, məˈzʊri. ˈʃɔrtli ˌbiˈfɔr a.g*. lɛft fər ðə ˌmɪdˈwɛst, ˈdeɪvɪd ˈpərpɪk, ðə sən əv ˈkæθi, ʤɔɪnd ðə ˈbɪznɪs stæf. hɪz rɪˈkrutmənt wɑz əˈnəðər plæŋk ɪn ðə goldens’*’ plæn tɪ pəˈzɪʃən ˈʧælənʤərz tɪ a.g*. ˈgoʊldən brɔt ˈpərpɪk back,”*,” wɪθ ˈblɛsɪŋ, sɛd ə ˈfɔrmər ˈsinjər ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv. ɪt ˈizi kənˈvɪnsɪŋ ˈpərpɪk tɪ kəm. fər jɪrz, hi rɪˈzɪstɪd ðə ˌgrævɪˈteɪʃənəl pʊl əv ðə ˈfæməli ˈbɪznɪs. ˈæftər ˈgræʤəˌweɪtɪŋ frəm duk ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈbəbəl, hi daɪvd ˈɪntu ðə ˈstɑrˌtəp wərld. ɪn ðə spərɪŋ əv 2002 hi bəmpt ˈɪntu ə duk əˈləmnəs neɪmd rɑb prinˈʧipi, hu ˈmɛnʃənd hi wɑz ˈstɑrtɪŋ ə ˈkəmpəˌni kɔld skræʧ əˈkædəmi wɪθ ʤæm ˈmæstər ʤeɪ əv ðət wʊd tiʧ ˈspɪnɪŋ ˈrɛkərdz tɪ ðə ˈmæsɪz. ɪz soʊ ˈsɪmpəl. ənd aɪ ləv it,”*,” ˈpərpɪk toʊld prinˈʧipi. ðə ˈbɪznɪs sun gru tɪ ˈsɛvərəl ˈmɪljən ˈdɔlərz ɪn ˈrɛvəˌnu. wɑz praʊd əv hɪz ˈfæməli, bət hi ˈɔlsoʊ ˈwɔntɪd tɪ bɪld hɪz oʊn ɪkˈspɪriəns, ˌɪˈnɪʃəli, ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənt əv hɪz family,”*,” prinˈʧipi toʊld mi. ˈæftər θri jɪrz æt skræʧ, ˈpərpɪk wɛnt tɪ ˈhɑrvərd ˈbɪznɪs skul, ðɛn ˈlændɪd æt ðə kənˈsəltɪŋ fərm buz ˈælən. wɪn ˈpərpɪk ˈfaɪnəli dɪd kəm tɪ ðə taɪmz, hi gɑt ən əˈsaɪnmənt wɪθ trɪˈmɛndəs ˌvɪzəˈbɪlɪti: ˈlɔnʧɪŋ ðə ˈdɪʤɪtəl səbˈskrɪpʃənz, ən əˈtɛmpt tɪ gɪt ˈridərz tɪ peɪ fər taɪmz ˈkɑntɛnt ˈɔnˌlaɪn. rɪsk wɑz soʊ haɪ; ɪf wi ˈstəmbəld ɪn ðə ˌɛksəˈkjuʃən, ɪt wʊd hæv bɪn unforgivable,”*,” ə ˈfɔrmər ˈsinjər ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv toʊld mi. ˈkɑnfədɛns ənd ˈkɑmpətɪns, kəmˈbaɪnd wɪθ ðə səkˈsɛs əv ðə ˈsoʊˈkɔld paywall*, ˈræpədli reɪzd hɪz ˈproʊˌfaɪl. hi wɑz ɪˈvɛnʧəwəli pʊt ɪn ʧɑrʤ əv ˈbeɪtə, ən ˌɪnˈhaʊs ˈɪŋkjəˌbeɪtər wɪθ ɪts oʊn ˌɪnˈvɛstmənt ˈbəʤɪt tɪ ˈfaɪˌnæns nu ˈprɑdəkt ˈlɔnʧɪz. ɪn ðə ˈsəmər əv 2012 ˈpərpɪk wɑz pɑrt əv ə tim ðət pərsˈweɪdɪd ðə bɔrd tɪ bæk ə nu ˈsɪriz əv taɪmz æps laɪk naʊ ənd ˈkʊkɪŋ, dɪˈzaɪnd tɪ brɪŋ ɪn nu səbˈskraɪbərz æt loʊər praɪs pɔɪnts. əraʊnd ðɪs taɪm, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ə ˌhaɪˈlɛvəl sɔrs, ˈmænəʤɪŋ ˈɛdɪtər bɪl ʃmɪt pərˈzɛnəd ə ˈmɛˌmoʊ tɪ ʤɪl ˈeɪbrəmsən ˈaʊˌtlaɪnɪŋ haʊ a.g*. ənd sæm wʊd ˈroʊˌteɪt θru ˈvɛriəs dɪˈpɑrtmənts ɔn ðə ˈbɪznɪs saɪd, ˈfɑloʊɪŋ ðə pæθ ˈsəltsbərgər hæd ˈtrævəld ɪn ðə ˈərli 1980s*. bət a.g*. ənd sæm ˈwɔntɪd tɪ bi ˈʤərnəlɪsts nɑt suts ənd ðeɪ rɪˈʤɛktɪd ðə prəˈpoʊzəl. ˌɪnˈstɛd, ðeɪ gɑt pərˈmoʊʃənz ðət ˈɛləˌveɪtɪd ðɛr ˈproʊˌfaɪlz ɪn ðə ˈnuzˌrum. ɪn mɑrʧ 2012 a.g*. wɑz neɪmd ən ˈɛdɪtər ɔn ðə ˈmɛˌtroʊ dɛsk ə ʤɑb ðət geɪv ɪm ˈkruʃəl ˈmænɪʤmənt ɪkˈspɪriəns. ˈminˌwaɪl, sæm spɛnt mɔr ðən ə jɪr rɪˈpɔrtɪŋ ən ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪtɪv ˈprɑʤɛkt əˈbaʊt ˈpraɪvəˌtaɪzd ˈhæfˈweɪ ˈhaʊsɪz ɪn nu ˈʤərzi. lɪn ˈɔfən ˈædvəˌkeɪtɪd fər sæm wɪθ taɪmz ˈlidərˌʃɪp. kəm ɪn ənd seɪ, ər ju duɪŋ əˈbaʊt sæm? ɪz hi biɪŋ ˈtritɪd ənˈfɛrli bɪˈkəz əv ˈɑrθər gregg?’*?’ ˈriˌkɔlz ən ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv ˌɪnˈvɑlvd ɪn ðə ˌkɑnvərˈseɪʃənz. ˈnəθɪŋ ˈsətəl əˈbaʊt it.”*.” lɛs ðən ə jɪr ˈæftər a.g*. ʤɔɪnd ðə ˌɛdəˈtɔriəl ræŋks, sæm wɑz neɪmd ˈdɛpjəti spɔrts ˈɛdɪtər. ˈkinli əˈwɛr əv ˈhɪstəri, ðə fɔrθ ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən ˌəndərˈtʊk ɪˈlæbərˌeɪt ˈmɛʒərz tɪ brɪŋ ðə θri kənˈtɛndərz ˈkloʊzər təˈgɛðər. tɪ ˈfɑstər ˈbɛtər riˈleɪʃənz bɪtˈwin ðɛm, ˈeɪbrəmsən ənd ˈɔrgəˌnaɪzd ˈmənθli ˈlənʧɪz æt wɪʧ ðeɪ wɔkt ðɛm θru ˈnuzˌrum dɪˈsɪʒənz, səʧ ɛz ˈpəblɪʃɪŋ ðə sˈnoʊdən ˈdɑkjəmənts ər ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪtɪŋ ðə væst wɛlθ əv ˈkɑmjənəst ˈlidərˌʃɪp. ðə ˈfæməliz ˈɔlsoʊ haɪərd ə kənˈsəltənt ənd saɪˈkɑləʤəst neɪmd ˈkæθərɪn ˈgreɪdi, hu mɛt ˈrɛgjələrli wɪθ ðə ˈkəzənz ənd ˈɪntərvˌjud ðɛr ˈkɑligz, rɪˈpɔrtɪŋ bæk tɪ ðɛr ˈpɛrənts ɔn ðɛr ˈprɑˌgrɛs. ɪn 2013 ˈeɪbrəmsən pʊt a.g*. ɪn ʧɑrʤ əv ə kəˈmɪti tæskt wɪθ ˈdrimɪŋ əp ˈprɑdəkts ðət kʊd ˈboʊlstər ðə times’*’ ˈbɑtəm laɪn. ɪt kʊd hæv bɪn ə əˈsaɪnmənt, laɪk ˈɛni ˈnəmbər əv kəˈmɪtiz ðə taɪmz həz kənˈvind ðət hæv prəˈdust ˈərnɪst rɪˈpɔrts ənd ˈmɛmoʊz ðət kəˈlɛkt dəst. bət ðə hoʊp wɑz ðət a.g*., hu hæd ˈvɛri ˈlɪtəl ˈdɪʤɪtəl ɪkˈspɪriəns æt ðət pɔɪnt, maɪt lərn ə θɪŋ ər tu. a.g*. ənd hɪz tim sɛt əp ʃɑp ɪn ə ˈkɑnfərəns rum ɔf ðə ˈnuzˌrum. ðeɪ brɔt ɪn ə dɪˈzaɪn ˈɛkspərt hu hæd wərkt fər ideo*, ðə sæn frænˈsɪskoʊ dɪˈzaɪn fərm, ənd fɪld wɪθ ˈkɑnsɛpts. bət ˈæftər tu mənθs, əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ə kəˈmɪti ˈmɛmbər, a.g*. riʧt ə ˈstɑrtlɪŋ kənˈkluʒən: ðə ˈdɪʤɪtəl ˈprɑbləmz ræn məʧ, məʧ ˈdipər ðən ðə ˈlidərˌʃɪp səˈspɛktɪd. ðə græm ˈfæməli hæd ʤɪst soʊld ðə ˈwɔʃɪŋtən poʊst, wɪʧ lɛnt ən əˈdɪʃənəl sɛns əv ˈərʤənsi tɪ ðə ˈprɑʤɛkt. ɪf ˈfæməli ˈwɔntɪd tɪ əˈvɔɪd ðə feɪt əv ðə græmz, ðə taɪmz wʊd nid ə lɔt mɔr ðən ən æp. soʊ a.g*. ʧeɪnʤd hɪz ˈmɪʃən tɪ krɪˈtikɪŋ ðə times’*’ ˈkəlʧər. ɪn ˈklɪnɪkəl ˈditeɪl, ðə report”*” ðə kəˈmɪti ɪˈvɛnʧəwəli prəˈdust ˈdɑkjəˌmɛnəd haʊ ðə taɪmz faʊnd ˌɪtˈsɛlf bɔgd daʊn baɪ ˌaʊtˈmoʊdɪd ˈprɑsɛsəz, bɪˈsɛt baɪ bəroʊk tərf ˈbætəlz, ənd ˈəltəmətli ɪn ˈdeɪnʤər əv ˈfɑlɪŋ bɪˈhaɪnd kəmˈpɛtɪtərz laɪk buzzfeed*, vɑks, ənd vaɪs nuz. ðə rɪˈpɔrt kɔld fər ˌrɛvəˈluʃəˌnɛri ˈʧeɪnʤɪz, nən mɔr ɪkˈstrim ðən ˈɛndɪŋ ðə dɪˈvɪʒən bɪtˈwin ðə ˈnuzˌrum ənd ˈbɪznɪs dɪˈpɑrtmənts ðət hæd bɪn ɔl bət ə rɪˈlɪʤən tɪ ən ˈərliər ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən əv taɪmz ˈʤərnəlɪsts. wɑz ə slæp ɪn ðə head,”*,” toʊld mi. baɪ ðɪs pɔɪnt, ðə riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp wɪθ ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv ˈɛdɪtər ˈeɪbrəmsən hæd freɪd. ˈsəltsbərgər hæd bɪn ˈhirɪŋ ˈtrəbəlɪŋ dɪˈspæʧɪz frəm a.g*. ənd sæm əˈbaʊt hər ˈmænɪʤmənt staɪl. ““a.g*. ənd sæm wər ðə aɪz ənd ɪrz ɪn ˈmitɪŋz ənd dɪd rɪˈpɔrt bæk ɪt goʊɪŋ well,”*,” ə ˈfɔrmər ˈsinjər taɪmz ˈɛdɪtər sɪz. ɔn ˈfraɪˌdeɪ, meɪ 9 ˈsəltsbərgər faɪərd ˈeɪbrəmsən ənd prəˈmoʊtəd tɪ ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv ˈɛdɪtər. (ˈeɪbrəmsən dɪˈklaɪnd tɪ ˈkɑmɛnt.) ðə wik ˈæftər dɪsˈmɪsəl, ðə report”*” wɑz likt tɪ buzzfeed*. a.g*. wɑz ɪkˈspoʊzd tɪ ðə ˈʤəʤmənt əv ðə taɪmz ˈʤərnəlɪsts hi hoʊpt tɪ wən deɪ lɛd. ðə kɪd, hu ˈivɪn hæv ə ˈfeɪsˌbʊk peɪʤ ər ən ˈæktɪv tˈwɪtər əˈkaʊnt, ˈtɛlɪŋ ˈjuˈɛs tɪ ˈfɪgjər aʊt ðə ˈɪntərˌnɛt? əˈbaʊt ðə optics,”*,” wən taɪmz ˈstæfər ˈgrəmbəld. ˈwɛðər hi ˈwɔntɪd tɪ ər nɑt, ðə lik pʊʃt a.g*. ˈɪntu ðə ˈpəblɪk roʊl bɪn əˈvɔɪdɪŋ hɪz ɪnˈtaɪər kərɪr. ɪn wət əˈmaʊnɪd tɪ ə pəˈlɪtɪkəl kæmˈpeɪn, hi ðə ˈpeɪpər ənd dɪˈfɛndɪd ðə ˈfaɪndɪŋz tɪ ɪmˈplɔɪiz ɪn ˈmitɪŋ ˈæftər ˈmitɪŋ. æt fərst, hi feɪst ˈskɛptɪˌsɪzəm ənd ˌdɪsbɪˈlif. ɪn wən ˈsɛʃən, ˈsinjər ˈɛdɪtərz ˈɑdəbli gæspt wɪn a.g*. dɪˈspleɪd ə ʧɑrt ðət ʃoʊd ˈtræfɪk tɪ ðə taɪmz hæd ˈpləmətɪd frəm 160 ˈmɪljən ˈridərz pər mənθ tɪ 80 ˈmɪljən ɪn ʤɪst tu jɪrz. ˈpipəl wər ɪn ə steɪt əv shock,”*,” ə ˈvɛtərən taɪmz ˈʤərnəlɪst sɪz. bət ˈseɪlzmənˌʃɪp wɑz, baɪ ɔl əˈkaʊnts, ə səkˈsɛs. wɑz ˈhəmbəl əˈbaʊt wət hi know,”*,” ən əˈtɛnˈdi ˈriˌkɔlz. ˈæftər wən ˈsɛʃən, ˈpʊlətsər ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌgeɪtɪv rɪˈpɔrtər ˈdeɪvɪd ˈbɑrˌstoʊ gəʃt: wɑz ə pis əv reporting.”*.” ɔn ʤun 19 læst jɪr, a.g*. pərˈzɛnəd ðə rɪˈpɔrt tɪ ðə bɔrd əv dɪˈrɛktərz. ɪt wɑz hɪz fərst ˈɔdiəns wɪθ ðə 14 mɛn ənd ˈwɪmən hu wʊd hɛlp ˌdɪˈsaɪd ˈwɛðər hi wʊd ˈfɑloʊ hɪz ˈfɑðər ɛz ˈpəblɪʃər. wən ˈsinjər ˈɛdɪtər toʊld mi ðət ðə nɛkst ˈpəblɪʃər əv ðə nu jɔrk taɪmz wɪl ˈlaɪkli bi ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd ɪn ðə nɛkst ˈkəpəl əv jɪrz. ənd ə taɪmz ˈspoʊkspərsən kənˈfərmd ðət ˈsəltsbərgər wɪl stɛp daʊn ˌbiˈfɔr hi tərnz 70 ɪn səm weɪz, a.g*. simz tɪ bi ðə moʊst ˈlaɪkli tɪ bi ˈʧoʊzən. ˈæftər ɔl, hɪz report”*” ɪz ˈæˌkʧuəli ˈʧeɪnʤɪŋ ðə weɪ ðə taɪmz ˈɑpərˌeɪts. hɪz kɔr ˈɪnˌsaɪt ɪz ɛˈsɛnʃəli ə ˈmætər əv ˌdɪstrəˈbjuʃən: fɑnd əv ˈtɛlɪŋ ˈkɑligz ðət ðə ˈkəmpəˌni hɪˈstɔrɪkəli ˌɪnˈvɛstɪd ˈmɪljənz əv ˈdɔlərz ɪn ˈgɪtɪŋ prɪnt ˈpeɪpərz frəm ðə plænt tɪ hoʊmz ənd nidz tɪ du ðə seɪm ɪn ə ˈdɪʤɪtəl ˈkɑntɛkst. ðɪs pʊʃ tɪ gɪt taɪmz ˈkɑntɛnt ɪn frənt əv ɛz ˈmɛni ˈridərz ɛz ˈpɑsəbəl həz ˈfɑlən ˈəndər ðə ˈrubrɪk əv development,”*,” ə goʊl tɪ wɪʧ 35 ʤɑbz ər naʊ ˈdɛdəkeɪtəd. ˈminˌwaɪl, ðə æps dɪˈvɛləpt baɪ ˈprɑdəkt tim, waɪl səkˈsɛsfəl wɪθ ˈjuzərz, hæv nɑt ˈʤɛnərˌeɪtɪd ˈrɛvəˌnu. ənd həz ˈstrəgəld tɪ geɪn ðə ˈstæʧər a.g*. wɑz əˈfɔrdəd baɪ ðə report.”*.” læst ˈsəmər, ˈɛdɪtərz əˈproʊʧt ɪm əˈbaʊt ˈlidɪŋ ə kəˈmɪti ðət wʊd ˈstədi haʊ tɪ ˌɪmˈpruv ðə prɪnt ˈnuzˌpeɪpər. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ə ˈsinjər taɪmz sɔrs, ðə ˈgoʊldən ˈfæməli fɛlt ðə prɪnt ˈprɑʤɛkt wɑz backwards.”*.” soʊ ˌɪnˈstɛd sæm wɑz neɪmd ˈsinjər ˈɛdɪtər fər ˈmoʊbəl, əˈsaɪnd tɪ wərk ɔn naʊ ənd ðə riˈlɔnʧ əv ðə taɪmz æp. (ɪn ʤun, ðə tim sæm wərkt ɔn pərsˈweɪdɪd taɪmz ˈɛdɪtərz tɪ ˌtɛmpərˈɛrəli ʃət ɔf ˈdɛskˌtɑp ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ðə soʊ ɪmˈplɔɪiz kʊd rɛd ɪt ˈoʊnli ɔn ðɛr foʊnz, ə muv səm fɛlt wɑz ə stənt.) ðət sɛd, raɪt naʊ, ðə eɪt ˌtrəˈstiz əv ðə trəst, wɪʧ ˌɪˈlɛkts 70 pərˈsɛnt əv ðə bɔrd əv dɪˈrɛktərz, ər nɑt ˌɔtəˈmætɪkli laɪnd əp ɪn ˈfeɪvər, ə ˈsinjər ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv wɪθ ˈnɑlɪʤ əv ðə ˈfæməli daɪˈnæmɪks toʊld mi. ðə ˈgoʊldən wɪŋ həz ðə moʊst voʊts, wɪθ θri ˌtrəˈstiz ˈəŋkəl ˈmaɪkəl, ɔnt ˈtrudi, ənd ˈkəzən heɪz). ˈɑrθər ənd hɪz ˈbrəðərɪnˌlɔ ˈstivən grin ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnt ðə. ˈpərpɪk kən kaʊnt ɔn hɪz ˈfɑðər, ʤoʊ. ðə swɪŋ voʊts ˌɪnˈklud ˈkɛrəlɪn ˈgrinˌspɑn, sɛd tɪ bæk ər ˈpərpɪk; ənd ʤeɪmz koʊən, sɛd tɪ bi ˌəndɪˈsaɪdɪd. (ə taɪmz ˈspoʊkspərsən sɛd: aɪˈdiə ðət spɪˈsɪfɪk ˌtrəˈstiz wʊd bi ˈvoʊtɪŋ fər ðɛr ˈʧɪldrən, ˈnisɪz, ər ˈnɛfjuz wʊd bi wrong.”*.”) wən ˈpɑsəbəl pæθ tɪ əˈvərt ə ˈfæməli ˈrəpʧər wʊd bi tɪ dɪˈvaɪd ðə tɔp ʤɑbz əˈməŋ ðə θri kənˈtɛndərz. hərd ðeɪ wər ˌɪnˈtrigd baɪ ðə deal,”*,” ə ˈfɔrmər ˈɛdɪtər sɪz əv ðə ˈkəzənz. ɪn ðɪs sɪˈnɛrioʊ, a.g*. kʊd bɪˈkəm ˈpəblɪʃər ənd ˈʧɛrmən, ˈpərpɪk kʊd ɪˈvɛnʧəwəli bɪˈkəm ˈsiˌiˈoʊ, ənd kʊd ɪˈvɛnʧəwəli teɪk ˈoʊvər ðə ˈrənɪŋ əv ðə ˈnuzˌrum. səʧ ə plæn wʊd pleɪ tɪ iʧ rɪˈspɛktɪv strɛŋθs. ənd ɪt wʊd baɪnd ðə ˈfæməli ˈɛvər ˈtaɪtər tɪ ðə ˈpeɪpər ˈdʊrɪŋ ən ˈɪrə wɪn ˌɪnˈvɛstɪŋ ɪn ˈsɪriəs ˈpəblɪkˈspɪrɪtəd ˈʤərnəˌlɪzəm rikˈwaɪərz ə ˈlɔŋˈtərm vju. bɪˈliv, ənd ðə bɔrd əv ðə ˈkəmpəˌni bɪˈlivz, ðət ə strəˈtiʤɪk strɛŋθ fər ðə ˈkəmpəˌni tɪ hæv ˈfæməli control,”*,” ˈsiˌiˈoʊ mɑrk ˈtɑmsən toʊld mi. bət ðɛr ər rɪsks ˌɪnˈvɑlvd ɪn ˈkɑrvɪŋ əp ˈfifdəmz fər ðə θri ˈkəzənz, noʊ ˈmætər ðɛr ˈtælənts. ɪf ðɪs sɪˈnɛrioʊ keɪm tɪ pæs, ɪt wʊd bi ðə fərst taɪm ðət ðə pəˈzɪʃənz əv ˈsiˌiˈoʊ ənd ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv ˈɛdɪtər wər hɛld baɪ ˈfæməli ˈmɛmbərz. wən ˈsinjər ˈɛdɪtər toʊld mi ɪt wɑz ɛˈsɛnʃəl fər ðə times’*’ ˈstæʧər ɛz ðə ˈpeɪpər əv ˈrɛkərd ðət ðə ˈnuzˌrum bi rən baɪ ə ˈmɛmbər. ˈəðərz ˈwəndər ˈwɛðər ðə taɪmz wʊd bi ˈeɪbəl tɪ rɪˈteɪn tɔp ˈtælənt ɪf ðə ˈbɪgəst ʤɑbz wər məˈnɑpəˌlaɪzd baɪ ˈfæməli ˈmɛmbərz. ɪn ðə ɛnd, ðə deal”*” ɪz ˈprɑbəˌbli lɛs ˌriəˈlɪstɪk ðən ɪt ɪz mollifying*, əˈnəðər weɪ tɪ suð æŋˈzaɪətiz ənd kwaɪət ðə tɔk əv hɔrs ˈreɪsɪz. ˈæftər ɔl, ɛz ˌgreɪtˈgrændˌfɑðər ˈɑrθər heɪz ˈsəltsbərgər toʊld ˈeɪdɔlf ɑks səm 80 jɪrz əˈgoʊ, kən bi ˈoʊnli wən hɛd tɪ ə business.”*.” *ðɪs ˈɑrtɪkəl əˈpɪrz ɪn ðə ˈɔgəst 24 2015 ˈɪʃu əv nu jɔrk ˈmægəˌzin. *ðɪs ˈɑrtɪkəl həz bɪn kərˈɛktɪd tɪ ʃoʊ ðət ˈmaɪkəl haʊs ɪz ɪn kəˈləmbiə ˈkaʊnti, nɑt ˈɔrɪnʤ ˈkaʊnti.
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6 opposition lawmakers visiting china to oppose. august. 06, 2016. by eligius@donga.com.
six lawmakers with the main opposition party of korea, who are opposed to the deployment of the terminal area defense (thaad) system in south korea, are visiting beijing from monday, saying that they will check situation in china. they are kim, kim byeong-ok, park jeong, shin dong-geun, and sohn hye-won. they are scheduled to hold a forum with beijing university professors, but will reportedly not meet with senior officials with the chinese communist party. rep. kim studied international politics at beijing university, and is serving as secretary for the response committee, but other lawmakers are not specializing in foreign affairs and diplomacy. rep. sohn has uploaded a twitter post urging people to join a campaign to make an appeal to the u.s. white house in against deployment.
the intention of lawmakers who are seeking to find a solution amid conflict over is understandable. rep. kim said, “i want to ask the chinese government to take more aggressive acts to deter pyongyang from pursuing nuclear development going forward.’” however, there is virtually zero chance for beijing to pay attention to and accept his demand. on the contrary, chances are high that beijing will use the lawmakers in its propaganda from the moment they arrive at the beijing airport, saying that lawmakers opposed to deployment have come to china. china is screening and editing articles by koreans protesting deployment, and only publishing messages that it likes on its media outlets.
it is for this reason that kim jong-in, chairman of the emergency committee, expressed a negative view on such moves, saying, “i have no idea what kind of diplomacy they will pursue.” despite this, the fact rep. sohn is refuting him by saying, “are we going to china to sell our country?” is an act that she apparently has taken due to her lack of understanding about ramifications that the visit will bring about and its seriousness. some critics say that in the party, real lawmakers are keeping silence since they are mindful of ramifications, and only certain lawmakers who are confused with politics and civic movement are taking the lead in protesting deployment. even if they take such acts in order to increase their public visibility, they will be easily criticized as engaging in diplomacy" and taking "acts of betrayal."
through an editorial in the daily on friday, china clearly expressed its intention to retaliate south korea. as the south korean government is highly wary of neighboring countries and people opposed to deployment, while not only opposition parties but also ruling parity lawmakers representing the region are opposing the measure, china might misjudge that it would be possible to withdraw deployment if it pushes further. north korean leader kim jong un will also feel thrilled to see nonsensical south korean politics that continue internal dispute over. even though ruling and opposition parties lock horns without reservation, they would pool wisdom and seek unity for the sake in the face of a national crisis if they are in a country. it is rational and reasonable that the lawmakers with the party suspend their visit to china, and instead discuss issues over at the national assembly.
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6 ˌɑpəˈzɪʃən ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ ˈʧaɪnə tɪ əˈpoʊz. ˈɔgəst. 06 2016 baɪ eligius@donga.com*. sɪks ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz wɪθ ðə meɪn ˌɑpəˈzɪʃən ˈpɑrti əv ˌkɔˈriə, hu ər əˈpoʊzd tɪ ðə dɪˈplɔɪmənt əv ðə ˈtərmənəl ˈɛriə dɪˈfɛns (thaad*) ˈsɪstəm ɪn saʊθ ˌkɔˈriə, ər ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ frəm ˈmənˌdeɪ, seɪɪŋ ðət ðeɪ wɪl ʧɛk ˌsɪʧuˈeɪʃən ɪn ˈʧaɪnə. ðeɪ ər kɪm, kɪm byeong-ok*, pɑrk ʤɛŋ, ʃɪn dong-geun*, ənd sɑn hye-won*. ðeɪ ər ˈskɛʤʊld tɪ hoʊld ə ˈfɔrəm wɪθ ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ ˌjunəˈvərsəti prəˈfɛsərz, bət wɪl rɪˈpɔrtədli nɑt mit wɪθ ˈsinjər əˈfɪʃəlz wɪθ ðə ʧaɪˈniz ˈkɑmjənəst ˈpɑrti. rɛpriˈzɛtətɪv. kɪm ˈstədid ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl ˈpɑləˌtɪks æt ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ ˌjunəˈvərsəti, ənd ɪz ˈsərvɪŋ ɛz ˈsɛkrəˌtɛri fər ðə rɪˈspɑns kəˈmɪti, bət ˈəðər ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz ər nɑt ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪzɪŋ ɪn ˈfɔrən əˈfɛrz ənd dɪˈploʊməsi. rɛpriˈzɛtətɪv. sɑn həz ˈəˌploʊdɪd ə tˈwɪtər poʊst ˈərʤɪŋ ˈpipəl tɪ ʤɔɪn ə kæmˈpeɪn tɪ meɪk ən əˈpil tɪ ðə juz. waɪt haʊs ɪn əˈgɛnst dɪˈplɔɪmənt. ðə ˌɪnˈtɛnʧən əv ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz hu ər ˈsikɪŋ tɪ faɪnd ə səˈluʃən əˈmɪd ˈkɑnflɪkt ˈoʊvər ɪz ˌəndərˈstændəbəl. rɛpriˈzɛtətɪv. kɪm sɛd, wɔnt tɪ æsk ðə ʧaɪˈniz ˈgəvərnmənt tɪ teɪk mɔr əˈgrɛsɪv ækts tɪ dɪˈtər ˈpjɔŋˈjæŋ frəm pərˈsuɪŋ ˈnukliər dɪˈvɛləpmənt goʊɪŋ forward.’”*.’” ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ðɛr ɪz ˈvərʧuəli ˈziroʊ ʧæns fər ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ tɪ peɪ əˈtɛnʃən tɪ ənd əkˈsɛpt hɪz dɪˈmænd. ɔn ðə ˈkɑntrɛri, ˈʧænsɪz ər haɪ ðət ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ wɪl juz ðə ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz ɪn ɪts ˌprɑpəˈgændə frəm ðə ˈmoʊmənt ðeɪ əraɪv æt ðə ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ ˈɛrˌpɔrt, seɪɪŋ ðət ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz əˈpoʊzd tɪ dɪˈplɔɪmənt hæv kəm tɪ ˈʧaɪnə. ˈʧaɪnə ɪz ˈskrinɪŋ ənd ˈɛdɪtɪŋ ˈɑrtɪkəlz baɪ ˌkɔˈriənz ˈproʊˌtɛstɪŋ dɪˈplɔɪmənt, ənd ˈoʊnli ˈpəblɪʃɪŋ ˈmɛsɪʤɪz ðət ɪt laɪks ɔn ɪts ˈmidiə ˈaʊˌtlɛts. ɪt ɪz fər ðɪs ˈrizən ðət kɪm jong-in*, ˈʧɛrmən əv ðə ˈimərʤənsi kəˈmɪti, ɪkˈsprɛst ə ˈnɛgətɪv vju ɔn səʧ muvz, seɪɪŋ, hæv noʊ aɪˈdiə wət kaɪnd əv dɪˈploʊməsi ðeɪ wɪl pursue.”*.” dɪˈspaɪt ðɪs, ðə fækt rɛpriˈzɛtətɪv. sɑn ɪz rɪfˈjutɪŋ ɪm baɪ seɪɪŋ, wi goʊɪŋ tɪ ˈʧaɪnə tɪ sɛl ɑr country?”*?” ɪz ən ækt ðət ʃi əˈpɛrəntli həz ˈteɪkən du tɪ hər læk əv ˌəndərˈstændɪŋ əˈbaʊt ˌræməfəˈkeɪʃənz ðət ðə ˈvɪzɪt wɪl brɪŋ əˈbaʊt ənd ɪts ˈsɪriəsnəs. səm ˈkrɪtɪks seɪ ðət ɪn ðə ˈpɑrti, ril ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz ər ˈkipɪŋ ˈsaɪləns sɪns ðeɪ ər ˈmaɪndfəl əv ˌræməfəˈkeɪʃənz, ənd ˈoʊnli ˈsərtən ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz hu ər kənfˈjuzd wɪθ ˈpɑləˌtɪks ənd ˈsɪvɪk ˈmuvmənt ər ˈteɪkɪŋ ðə lɛd ɪn ˈproʊˌtɛstɪŋ dɪˈplɔɪmənt. ˈivɪn ɪf ðeɪ teɪk səʧ ækts ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ ˌɪnˈkris ðɛr ˈpəblɪk ˌvɪzəˈbɪlɪti, ðeɪ wɪl bi ˈizəli ˈkrɪtəˌsaɪzd ɛz ɪnˈgeɪʤɪŋ ɪn dɪˈploʊməsi" ənd ˈteɪkɪŋ "ækts əv bɪˈtreɪəl." θru ən ˌɛdəˈtɔriəl ɪn ðə ˈdeɪli ɔn ˈfraɪˌdeɪ, ˈʧaɪnə ˈklɪrli ɪkˈsprɛst ɪts ˌɪnˈtɛnʧən tɪ rɪˈtæliˌeɪt saʊθ ˌkɔˈriə. ɛz ðə saʊθ ˌkɔˈriən ˈgəvərnmənt ɪz ˈhaɪli ˈwɛri əv ˈneɪbərɪŋ ˈkəntriz ənd ˈpipəl əˈpoʊzd tɪ dɪˈplɔɪmənt, waɪl nɑt ˈoʊnli ˌɑpəˈzɪʃən ˈpɑrtiz bət ˈɔlsoʊ ˈrulɪŋ ˈpɛrəti ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnɪŋ ðə ˈriʤən ər əˈpoʊzɪŋ ðə ˈmɛʒər, ˈʧaɪnə maɪt mɪsˈʤəʤ ðət ɪt wʊd bi ˈpɑsəbəl tɪ wɪθˈdrɔ dɪˈplɔɪmənt ɪf ɪt ˈpʊʃɪz ˈfərðər. nɔrθ ˌkɔˈriən ˈlidər kɪm ʤɔŋ ˈjuˈɛn wɪl ˈɔlsoʊ fil θrɪld tɪ si nɑnˈsɛnsɪkəl saʊθ ˌkɔˈriən ˈpɑləˌtɪks ðət kənˈtɪnju ˌɪnˈtərnəl dɪˈspjut ˈoʊvər. ˈivɪn ðoʊ ˈrulɪŋ ənd ˌɑpəˈzɪʃən ˈpɑrtiz lɑk hɔrnz wɪˈθaʊt ˌrɛzərˈveɪʃən, ðeɪ wʊd pul ˈwɪzdəm ənd sik ˈjunɪti fər ðə seɪk ɪn ðə feɪs əv ə ˈnæʃənəl ˈkraɪsəs ɪf ðeɪ ər ɪn ə ˈkəntri. ɪt ɪz ˈræʃənəl ənd ˈrizənəbəl ðət ðə ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz wɪθ ðə ˈpɑrti səˈspɛnd ðɛr ˈvɪzɪt tɪ ˈʧaɪnə, ənd ˌɪnˈstɛd dɪˈskəs ˈɪʃuz ˈoʊvər æt ðə ˈnæʃənəl əˈsɛmbli.
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101- the best lyricist, the indian film industry ever had
image & text contributed by mazumdar, dubai.
this is a photograph of an incredible team who marked the beginning of a golden era in hindi music.
shailendra, (my father, whom we called baba), shankar and came together to create some of the most powerful and beautiful songs of the hindi film industry, and it was none other than raj kapoor who discovered and brought this foursome together.
my father, (extreme right with a cigarette in his hands) came from a very humble background. as a young boy in rawalpindi (now in pakistan) he used to sing (religious songs) in temples but after my grandfather lost all his money, they relocated to pradesh). it seemed that the times were always hard on his family. by 1948 he was an apprentice at a railway workshop in bombay and was struggling to make ends meet. poetry, however was his savior & first love, and he wrote about social issues of the time and would often be invited to recite his poems at small cultural events. he came from lived in rawalpindi, which made him skilled in various hindi & urdu dialects and their expressions.
on one such evening at a poetry soiree by the progressive writers’ forum, my recitation of his poem on partition of india, titled “jalta punjab” caught the attention of another attendee, actor and director raj kapoor. it was about the massacre of hindus and muslims alike during partition and how it left those who witnessed it scarred for life.
raj kapoor, who introduced himself to baba as son, insisted that he wanted the same poem for his then under production film aag. of course the firebrand poet that my father was, and barely 25 years old, he refused point blank with a terse comment “my poetry is not for sale!” raj kapoor then scribbled his name and address on a piece of paper and told him “if ever you change your mind, this is where you will find me”.
when my parents were expecting their first child, my brother shailey, the hard times only got worse and baba knew it was time for some tough decisions. he went back to raj kapoor who welcomed him and gave him the first break in ‘barsaat’. the songs “barsaat mein hum se mile sajan, se mile hum” and, nazar” were to bear testimony to golden times ahead.
“awara hoon” and “mera japani” were two songs that won global acclaim and are popular even today. both songs have been translated in several languages including russian and chinese. in fact the song ‘aawara hoon’ even got a mention in nobel laureate aleksandr novel ‘the cancer ward.’
i think genius was in his ability to express the deepest and most profound thoughts in plain and simple hindi. his songs thus reached out to the masses but without compromising on their literary appeal.
his genius also lay in expressing a grievance without offense. in an industry where composers would recommend lyricists to producers, promised that they would recommend him around, but then forgot about it. baba then sent them a note with the lines, “chhoti si yeh duniya,n. to miloge, haal” (the world is small, the roads are known. meet sometime, and ask ‘how do you do?). realizing the hidden meaning in the message, then not only apologized but turned the lines into a popular song. the song was then featured in the film (1962)
it was a meteoric rise for him since, the movie that launched him. amongst his memorable works are songs from sangam, sri 420, raho, madhumati, guide, kathputli, bandini, to name a few. he worked with each and every well known music director in the industry, including the first ever film “ganga chhadaibo“, with music director chitragupta. baba also won three awards. “yeh pan“, from yahudi, “sub humne“, from and “main so jao“, from brahmachari. the last was earned posthumously.
he also produced the film based on a story by nath for which he was awarded the gold medal. the film was initially considered a failure and took a toll on baba, but ironically over time won huge critical acclaim and is now considered a huge success.
interestingly, was the first film for all four people in this photograph. and baba wrote lyrics for each and every raj kapoor film thereafter with joker as his last. he passed away on december 14, on the birthday of his mentor raj kapoor. i think what once stated in a was accurate “shailendra was the best lyricist the indian film industry ever had.” his songs would never let us and his future generations forget that.
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101 ðə bɛst ˈlɪrɪsɪst, ðə ˈɪndiən fɪlm ˈɪndəstri ˈɛvər hæd ˈɪmɪʤ tɛkst kənˈtrɪbjutɪd baɪ mazumdar*, duˈbaɪ. ðɪs ɪz ə ˈfoʊtəˌgræf əv ən ˌɪnˈkrɛdəbəl tim hu mɑrkt ðə bɪˈgɪnɪŋ əv ə ˈgoʊldən ˈɪrə ɪn ˈhɪndi mˈjuzɪk., (maɪ ˈfɑðər, hum wi kɔld ˈbəbə), ˈʃæŋkɑr ənd keɪm təˈgɛðər tɪ kriˈeɪt səm əv ðə moʊst ˈpaʊərfəl ənd ˈbjutəfəl sɔŋz əv ðə ˈhɪndi fɪlm ˈɪndəstri, ənd ɪt wɑz nən ˈəðər ðən rɑʤ kəˈpur hu dɪˈskəvərd ənd brɔt ðɪs ˈfɔrsəm təˈgɛðər. maɪ ˈfɑðər, (ɪkˈstrim raɪt wɪθ ə ˌsɪgəˈrɛt ɪn hɪz hænz) keɪm frəm ə ˈvɛri ˈhəmbəl ˈbækˌgraʊnd. ɛz ə jəŋ bɔɪ ɪn ˌræwɔlˈpɪndi (naʊ ɪn ˈpækɪˌstæn) hi juzd tɪ sɪŋ (rɪˈlɪʤəs sɔŋz) ɪn ˈtɛmpəlz bət ˈæftər maɪ ˈgrænˌfɑðər lɔst ɔl hɪz ˈməni, ðeɪ ˌriˈloʊkeɪtɪd tɪ prəˈdɛʃ). ɪt simd ðət ðə taɪmz wər ˈɔlˌweɪz hɑrd ɔn hɪz ˈfæməli. baɪ 1948 hi wɑz ən əˈprɛntɪs æt ə ˈreɪlˌweɪ ˈwərkˌʃɑp ɪn bɑmˈbeɪ ənd wɑz ˈstrəgəlɪŋ tɪ meɪk ɛndz mit. ˈpoʊətri, ˌhaʊˈɛvər wɑz hɪz ˈseɪvjər fərst ləv, ənd hi roʊt əˈbaʊt ˈsoʊʃəl ˈɪʃuz əv ðə taɪm ənd wʊd ˈɔfən bi ˌɪnˈvaɪtɪd tɪ rəˈsaɪt hɪz poʊəmz æt smɔl ˈkəlʧərəl ɪˈvɛnts. hi keɪm frəm lɪvd ɪn ˌræwɔlˈpɪndi, wɪʧ meɪd ɪm skɪld ɪn ˈvɛriəs ˈhɪndi ərˈdu ˈdaɪəˌlɛkts ənd ðɛr ɪkˈsprɛʃənz. ɔn wən səʧ ˈivnɪŋ æt ə ˈpoʊətri swɑˈreɪ baɪ ðə prəˈgrɛsɪv writers’*’ ˈfɔrəm, maɪ ˌrɛsəˈteɪʃən əv hɪz poʊəm ɔn pɑrˈtɪʃən əv ˈɪndiə, ˈtaɪtəld punjab”*” kɔt ðə əˈtɛnʃən əv əˈnəðər əˈtɛnˈdi, ˈæktər ənd dɪˈrɛktər rɑʤ kəˈpur. ɪt wɑz əˈbaʊt ðə ˈmæsəkər əv ˈhɪnˌduz ənd ˈməzlɪmz əˈlaɪk ˈdʊrɪŋ pɑrˈtɪʃən ənd haʊ ɪt lɛft ðoʊz hu ˈwɪtnəst ɪt skɑrd fər laɪf. rɑʤ kəˈpur, hu ˌɪntrəˈdust hɪmˈsɛlf tɪ ˈbəbə ɛz sən, ˌɪnˈsɪstɪd ðət hi ˈwɔntɪd ðə seɪm poʊəm fər hɪz ðɛn ˈəndər pərˈdəkʃən fɪlm aag*. əv kɔrs ðə ˈfaɪərˌbrænd poʊət ðət maɪ ˈfɑðər wɑz, ənd ˈbɛrli 25 jɪrz oʊld, hi rɪfˈjuzd pɔɪnt blæŋk wɪθ ə tərs ˈkɑmɛnt ˈpoʊətri ɪz nɑt fər sale!”*!” rɑʤ kəˈpur ðɛn ˈskrɪbəld hɪz neɪm ənd ˈæˌdrɛs ɔn ə pis əv ˈpeɪpər ənd toʊld ɪm ˈɛvər ju ʧeɪnʤ jʊr maɪnd, ðɪs ɪz wɛr ju wɪl faɪnd me”*”. wɪn maɪ ˈpɛrənts wər ɪkˈspɛktɪŋ ðɛr fərst ʧaɪld, maɪ ˈbrəðər shailey*, ðə hɑrd taɪmz ˈoʊnli gɑt wərs ənd ˈbəbə nu ɪt wɑz taɪm fər səm təf dɪˈsɪʒənz. hi wɛnt bæk tɪ rɑʤ kəˈpur hu ˈwɛlkəmd ɪm ənd geɪv ɪm ðə fərst breɪk ɪn ‘‘barsaat’*’. ðə sɔŋz min həm seɪ maɪl sajan*, seɪ maɪl hum”*” ənd, nɑˈzɑr hai”*” wər tɪ bɛr ˈtɛstɪˌmoʊni tɪ ˈgoʊldən taɪmz əˈhɛd. hoon”*” ənd japani”*” wər tu sɔŋz ðət wən ˈgloʊbəl əˈkleɪm ənd ər ˈpɑpjələr ˈivɪn təˈdeɪ. boʊθ sɔŋz hæv bɪn trænzˈleɪtəd ɪn ˈsɛvərəl ˈlæŋgwɪʤɪz ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈrəʃən ənd ʧaɪˈniz. ɪn fækt ðə sɔŋ hoon’*’ ˈivɪn gɑt ə ˈmɛnʃən ɪn noʊˈbɛl ˈlɔriət ˌæləkˈsændər ˈnɑvəl ˈkænsər ward.’*.’ aɪ θɪŋk ˈʤinjəs wɑz ɪn hɪz əˈbɪləˌti tɪ ɪkˈsprɛs ðə ˈdipəst ənd moʊst proʊˈfaʊnd θɔts ɪn pleɪn ənd ˈsɪmpəl ˈhɪndi. hɪz sɔŋz ðəs riʧt aʊt tɪ ðə ˈmæsɪz bət wɪˈθaʊt ˈkɑmprəˌmaɪzɪŋ ɔn ðɛr ˈlɪtərˌɛri əˈpil. hɪz ˈʤinjəs ˈɔlsoʊ leɪ ɪn ɪkˈsprɛsɪŋ ə ˈgrivəns wɪˈθaʊt əˈfɛns. ɪn ən ˈɪndəstri wɛr kəmˈpoʊzərz wʊd ˌrɛkəˈmɛnd ˈlɪrɪsɪsts tɪ prəˈdusərz, ˈprɑməst ðət ðeɪ wʊd ˌrɛkəˈmɛnd ɪm əraʊnd, bət ðɛn fərˈgɑt əˈbaʊt ɪt. ˈbəbə ðɛn sɛnt ðɛm ə noʊt wɪθ ðə laɪnz, si jɛ duniya*, heɪn. tɪ miloge*, haal”*” (ðə wərld ɪz smɔl, ðə roʊdz ər noʊn. mit ˈsəmˌtaɪm, ənd æsk du ju du?). ˈriəˌlaɪzɪŋ ðə ˈhɪdən ˈminɪŋ ɪn ðə ˈmɛsɪʤ, ðɛn nɑt ˈoʊnli əˈpɑləˌʤaɪzd bət tərnd ðə laɪnz ˈɪntu ə ˈpɑpjələr sɔŋ. ðə sɔŋ wɑz ðɛn ˈfiʧərd ɪn ðə fɪlm 1962 ɪt wɑz ə ˌmitiˈɔrɪk raɪz fər ɪm sɪns, ðə ˈmuvi ðət lɔnʧt ɪm. əˈməŋst hɪz ˈmɛmərəbəl wərks ər sɔŋz frəm sangam*, ˈɛˈsɑˈraɪ 420 raho*, madhumati*, gaɪd, kathputli*, bandini*, tɪ neɪm ə fju. hi wərkt wɪθ iʧ ənd ˈɛvəri wɛl noʊn mˈjuzɪk dɪˈrɛktər ɪn ðə ˈɪndəstri, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ðə fərst ˈɛvər fɪlm chhadaibo“*“, wɪθ mˈjuzɪk dɪˈrɛktər chitragupta*. ˈbəbə ˈɔlsoʊ wən θri əˈwɔrdz. pæn hai“*“, frəm yahudi*, humne“*“, frəm ənd soʊ jao“*“, frəm brahmachari*. ðə læst wɑz ərnd ˈpɑsʧʊməsli. hi ˈɔlsoʊ prəˈdust ðə fɪlm beɪst ɔn ə ˈstɔri baɪ næθ fər wɪʧ hi wɑz əˈwɔrdɪd ðə goʊld ˈmɛdəl. ðə fɪlm wɑz ˌɪˈnɪʃəli kənˈsɪdərd ə ˈfeɪljər ənd tʊk ə toʊl ɔn ˈbəbə, bət aɪˈrɑnɪkli ˈoʊvər taɪm wən juʤ ˈkrɪtɪkəl əˈkleɪm ənd ɪz naʊ kənˈsɪdərd ə juʤ səkˈsɛs. ˈɪntəˌrɛstɪŋli, wɑz ðə fərst fɪlm fər ɔl fɔr ˈpipəl ɪn ðɪs ˈfoʊtəˌgræf. ənd ˈbəbə roʊt ˈlɪrɪks fər iʧ ənd ˈɛvəri rɑʤ kəˈpur fɪlm ðɛˈræftər wɪθ ˈʤoʊkər ɛz hɪz læst. hi pæst əˈweɪ ɔn dɪˈsɛmbər 14 ɔn ðə ˈbərθˌdeɪ əv hɪz ˈmɛnˌtɔr rɑʤ kəˈpur. aɪ θɪŋk wət wəns ˈsteɪtɪd ɪn ə wɑz ˈækjərət wɑz ðə bɛst ˈlɪrɪsɪst ðə ˈɪndiən fɪlm ˈɪndəstri ˈɛvər had.”*.” hɪz sɔŋz wʊd ˈnɛvər lɛt ˈjuˈɛs ənd hɪz fˈjuʧər ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃənz fərˈgɛt ðət.
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early hockey memories for me are really just my early memories. watching games with my grandparents, cheering on my senators with my dad, and watching my younger brother grow to love the game.
as i grew older, i knew i liked hockey. what i have imagined throughout my childhood is how much it would touch the rest of my life. i applied hockey to soccer when i played it. i lived and died by my team, gave them my all, and fought for them- sometimes literally. it shaped my relationships, my friends became family, something i had struggled with early on. i learned that you protect what you love at any cost.
even later still, i got into it a little more. some of my friends were big fans and talked about it constantly. i wanted to be able to talk players, stats, and the results of the previous game. from there, it grew to the point where i felt comfortable dropping the “casual” from my title of casual fan.
after i left high school, i went through a hard time personally. i was riddled with depression, but most of all i was unmotivated, lonely, and losing sight of the beauty of the world. i know how i got it back, but in large part it was thanks to my amazing family, friends, teachers, and… yeah, hockey. i threw myself even more into the world that is the national hockey league. i could tell you names of every ottawa player, including their number and details of their contract. i could name almost every player in the league. and now? well, reading this. i guess on my way to being the expert! since beginning writing for the (huge thanks go to aaron lieberman and riley nicklaus evans at the for helping me get started), only fallen more in love with the fastest game on earth. as for the next chapter, have to wait and see! one for sure, though; thinking hockey.
“i’m a fan of hockey to a much higher degree than i am a sens fan.”
today, i do my best to stay non-partisan. a fan of hockey to a much higher degree than i am a sens fan. i am a sens fan because of my family, the distant connections to the town i was born in, and my address.
that mean i give them my all when sitting in the stands. that mean that i think of myself as a lesser fan. just the opposite. in sports, just as in politics, sometimes important to take off the visor and realize that the man in the red sweater deserves a penalty, a suspension, or credit for a great play!
hockey is my passion, my outlet, the only thing that keeps me sane sometimes. hard, not unique. i pride myself on my appreciation for the greatest sport in the world, and my ability to forget about the crest on the front of that jersey.
sports are supposed to unite us. as big a fan of a good rivalry as the next person, but no place for hatred in the sport. if you fight other fans, to rip on another team because of the letterhead on their contract, no true hockey fan in my opinion.
i say it often, you can be an ottawa senators fan, a toronto maple leafs fan, anything you want to be, but that make you a fan of hockey.
let me tell you, fans like that one.
to be a true fan, all you need to do is open your eyes. whether you watch one game a year or 100 , set aside your loyalty for just a moment, and appreciate the small things. a quick dangle, a beauty pass, or a celebration.
hockey is more than your team. more than a player, more than a championship.
it’s a community, a family, and for me? a life.
quentin young is a sports writer for and a public relations student at algonquin college. follow him on twitter at @young_quentin, and check out his weekly sens news recap every thursday.
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ˈərli ˈhɑki ˈmɛməriz fər mi ər ˈrɪli ʤɪst maɪ ˈərli ˈmɛməriz. ˈwɑʧɪŋ geɪmz wɪθ maɪ ˈgrændˌpɛrənts, ˈʧɪrɪŋ ɔn maɪ ˈsɛnətərz wɪθ maɪ dæd, ənd ˈwɑʧɪŋ maɪ ˈjəŋgər ˈbrəðər groʊ tɪ ləv ðə geɪm. ɛz aɪ gru ˈoʊldər, aɪ nu aɪ laɪkt ˈhɑki. wət aɪ hæv ˌɪˈmæʤənd θruaʊt maɪ ˈʧaɪlˌdhʊd ɪz haʊ məʧ ɪt wʊd təʧ ðə rɛst əv maɪ laɪf. aɪ əˈplaɪd ˈhɑki tɪ ˈsɑkər wɪn aɪ pleɪd ɪt. aɪ lɪvd ənd daɪd baɪ maɪ tim, geɪv ðɛm maɪ ɔl, ənd fɔt fər ðɛm- ˈsəmˌtaɪmz ˈlɪtərəli. ɪt ʃeɪpt maɪ riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪps, maɪ frɛndz bɪˈkeɪm ˈfæməli, ˈsəmθɪŋ aɪ hæd ˈstrəgəld wɪθ ˈərli ɔn. aɪ ˈlərnɪd ðət ju prəˈtɛkt wət ju ləv æt ˈɛni kɔst. ˈivɪn ˈleɪtər stɪl, aɪ gɑt ˈɪntu ɪt ə ˈlɪtəl mɔr. səm əv maɪ frɛndz wər bɪg fænz ənd tɔkt əˈbaʊt ɪt ˈkɑnstəntli. aɪ ˈwɔntɪd tɪ bi ˈeɪbəl tɪ tɔk pleɪərz, stæts, ənd ðə rɪˈzəlts əv ðə ˈpriviəs geɪm. frəm ðɛr, ɪt gru tɪ ðə pɔɪnt wɛr aɪ fɛlt ˈkəmfərtəbəl ˈdrɑpɪŋ ðə ““casual”*” frəm maɪ ˈtaɪtəl əv ˈkæʒəwəl fæn. ˈæftər aɪ lɛft haɪ skul, aɪ wɛnt θru ə hɑrd taɪm ˈpərsənəli. aɪ wɑz ˈrɪdəld wɪθ dɪˈprɛʃən, bət moʊst əv ɔl aɪ wɑz unmotivated*, ˈloʊnli, ənd ˈluzɪŋ saɪt əv ðə ˈbjuti əv ðə wərld. aɪ noʊ haʊ aɪ gɑt ɪt bæk, bət ɪn lɑrʤ pɑrt ɪt wɑz θæŋks tɪ maɪ əˈmeɪzɪŋ ˈfæməli, frɛndz, ˈtiʧərz, and…*… jæ, ˈhɑki. aɪ θru ˌmaɪˈsɛlf ˈivɪn mɔr ˈɪntu ðə wərld ðət ɪz ðə ˈnæʃənəl ˈhɑki lig. aɪ kʊd tɛl ju neɪmz əv ˈɛvəri ˈɑtəˌwɑ pleɪər, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ðɛr ˈnəmbər ənd ˈditeɪlz əv ðɛr ˈkɑnˌtrækt. aɪ kʊd neɪm ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˈɛvəri pleɪər ɪn ðə lig. ənd naʊ? wɛl, ˈrɛdɪŋ ðɪs. aɪ gɛs ɔn maɪ weɪ tɪ biɪŋ ðə ˈɛkspərt! sɪns bɪˈgɪnɪŋ ˈraɪtɪŋ fər ðə (juʤ θæŋks goʊ tɪ ˈɛrən ˈlibərmən ənd ˈraɪli ˈnɪkləs ˈɛvənz æt ðə fər ˈhɛlpɪŋ mi gɪt ˈstɑrtɪd), ˈoʊnli ˈfɑlən mɔr ɪn ləv wɪθ ðə ˈfæstəst geɪm ɔn ərθ. ɛz fər ðə nɛkst ˈʧæptər, hæv tɪ weɪt ənd si! wən fər ʃʊr, ðoʊ; ˈθɪŋkɪŋ ˈhɑki. ə fæn əv ˈhɑki tɪ ə məʧ haɪər dɪˈgri ðən aɪ æm ə sɛnz fan.”*.” təˈdeɪ, aɪ du maɪ bɛst tɪ steɪ nɑnˈpɑrtəzən. ə fæn əv ˈhɑki tɪ ə məʧ haɪər dɪˈgri ðən aɪ æm ə sɛnz fæn. aɪ æm ə sɛnz fæn bɪˈkəz əv maɪ ˈfæməli, ðə ˈdɪstənt kəˈnɛkʃənz tɪ ðə taʊn aɪ wɑz bɔrn ɪn, ənd maɪ ˈæˌdrɛs. ðət min aɪ gɪv ðɛm maɪ ɔl wɪn ˈsɪtɪŋ ɪn ðə stændz. ðət min ðət aɪ θɪŋk əv ˌmaɪˈsɛlf ɛz ə ˈlɛsər fæn. ʤɪst ðə ˈɑpəzɪt. ɪn spɔrts, ʤɪst ɛz ɪn ˈpɑləˌtɪks, ˈsəmˌtaɪmz ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt tɪ teɪk ɔf ðə ˈvaɪzər ənd ˈriəˌlaɪz ðət ðə mæn ɪn ðə rɛd sˈwɛtər dɪˈzərvz ə ˈpɛnəlti, ə səˈspɛnʃən, ər ˈkrɛdɪt fər ə greɪt pleɪ! ˈhɑki ɪz maɪ ˈpæʃən, maɪ ˈaʊˌtlɛt, ðə ˈoʊnli θɪŋ ðət kips mi seɪn ˈsəmˌtaɪmz. hɑrd, nɑt juˈnik. aɪ praɪd ˌmaɪˈsɛlf ɔn maɪ əˌpriʃiˈeɪʃən fər ðə ˈgreɪtəst spɔrt ɪn ðə wərld, ənd maɪ əˈbɪləˌti tɪ fərˈgɛt əˈbaʊt ðə krɛst ɔn ðə frənt əv ðət ˈʤərzi. spɔrts ər səˈpoʊzd tɪ ˈjuˌnaɪt ˈjuˈɛs. ɛz bɪg ə fæn əv ə gʊd ˈraɪvəlri ɛz ðə nɛkst ˈpərsən, bət noʊ pleɪs fər ˈheɪtrəd ɪn ðə spɔrt. ɪf ju faɪt ˈəðər fænz, tɪ rɪp ɔn əˈnəðər tim bɪˈkəz əv ðə ˈlɛtərˌhɛd ɔn ðɛr ˈkɑnˌtrækt, noʊ tru ˈhɑki fæn ɪn maɪ əˈpɪnjən. aɪ seɪ ɪt ˈɔfən, ju kən bi ən ˈɑtəˌwɑ ˈsɛnətərz fæn, ə tərˈɑntoʊ ˈmeɪpəl lifs fæn, ˈɛniˌθɪŋ ju wɔnt tɪ bi, bət ðət meɪk ju ə fæn əv ˈhɑki. lɛt mi tɛl ju, fænz laɪk ðət wən. tɪ bi ə tru fæn, ɔl ju nid tɪ du ɪz ˈoʊpən jʊr aɪz. ˈwɛðər ju wɔʧ wən geɪm ə jɪr ər 100 sɛt əˈsaɪd jʊr ˈlɔɪəlti fər ʤɪst ə ˈmoʊmənt, ənd əˈpriʃiˌeɪt ðə smɔl θɪŋz. ə kwɪk ˈdæŋgəl, ə ˈbjuti pæs, ər ə ˌsɛləˈbreɪʃən. ˈhɑki ɪz mɔr ðən jʊr tim. mɔr ðən ə pleɪər, mɔr ðən ə ˈʧæmpiənˌʃɪp. ə kəmˈjunɪti, ə ˈfæməli, ənd fər mi? ə laɪf. kˈwɛntɪn jəŋ ɪz ə spɔrts ˈraɪtər fər ənd ə ˈpəblɪk riˈleɪʃənz ˈstudənt æt ælˈgɑŋkwɪn ˈkɑlɪʤ. ˈfɑloʊ ɪm ɔn tˈwɪtər æt @young_quentin*, ənd ʧɛk aʊt hɪz ˈwikli sɛnz nuz ˈriˌkæp ˈɛvəri ˈθərzˌdeɪ.
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i do remember the year 2000. one of the games that accompanied the presidential elections was the swapping of the votes between different leftists. a ralph nader voter in a swing state was viewed as damaging for gore. so a gore voter in a different state found him, promised to vote for nader instead, and the nader fan had the duty to vote for gore, after all.
in that way, gore was supposed to win the swing states where every vote mattered. on the other hand, nader got the same number of votes in the whole u.s. you may remember that these groups of leftists ultimately didn't succeed, gore lost, and nader became pretty much irrelevant, too. but could they have succeeded? hasn't the worked in the opposite direction than they intended?
scott aaronson celebrates this "wonderful" idea in 2016, too. gore has been replaced by hillary and nader has been replaced by candidates such as jill stein.
this trading of the votes is just borderline legal and people who participate do run the risk of prosecution. is not quite ethical, at least according to some people, and this fact leads to extra damages for the left in the election results that aaronson et al. foolishly or arrogantly overlook. the commitments cannot be verified in a way that would be legal. the whole scheme incorrectly assumes that both sides of the "trade" are at the same frequency and can trust each other. some people may generalize the and switch to real sales of their votes for money or material goods which is surely illegal. the exchange rate of the swapped votes is almost certainly incorrectly calculated and a compensation for that defect would be illegal. is really not how democracy should work. people should pick their best candidates and those rather than the voters should negotiate before and after the elections. focus on similar technicalities affecting a small number of votes shows that some partly dirty tricks are more important for the participants than their careful and impartial analysis of or debate on the issues and values.
maybe we can extend that beyond vote swapping: in canada so cannot vote for the more exotic candidates, but i promise that in exchange for a vote for the sane candidate i will write a paper arguing that is discrete at the planck scale, or engage in a passionate argument (making up the rules as needed) on whether we live in a simulation, or even whether reality is really real (that last one will really have to be for a close swing state).
people like aaronson are bigots and technologists of power. they don't discuss politics, their understanding of the political questions especially subtle ones is extremely superficial. but they want to be disciplined servants of their extreme ideology and invent the right methods to make this ideology conquer the people like aaronson take over a country, they become secretaries responsible for the logistics deciding e.g. how to get the to a gulag with a limited number of buses etc. there are several fundamental flaws in this whole way of discuss all those topics in some more i wrote, the has been labeled legal by a court. but you know, it was surely a subtle matter because the straight sales and purchases of the votes are illegal. they're illegal for a good reason. the country doesn't want the whole power over the system to be bought by a rich person, let alone interests connected to some foreign entities the decision of the court was the "right" is surely not any fundamental right in any sense you should always be worried that because of some technicality, what you're doing will be found illegal and you will be fined or if the exercises are labeled legal, they are surely viewed as morally problematic by many people, including the people who are just thinking hard whether they will vote for the donald or a of these undecided voters will notice and are already noticing that the activists are involved in which will look like a dirty deal from their viewpoint. and this feeling may very well push them to the trump side because the trump camp doesn't seem to be involved in similar dirty a result, the existence of the may very well lead to a bigger support for trump than what he would otherwise have. it's totally plausible that similar dirty tricks actually helped george w. bush to win the 2000 is a (not so) hidden expense that the fans of the are overlooking or at least not taking into account. overlooking some important costs (or benefits) is a frequent fallacy of the leftists who commit it many times a often see or want to see just one side. it's great to switch from coal plants to wind turbines, some of them say, completely ignoring the extra costs connected with the wind energy that make it unequivocal that it's a bad idea to switch from coal or nukes to wind, at least at this moment.similarly, climate alarmists are overlooking the fertilization effect of increasing concentration that is far greater than the hypothetical "damages" caused by through a warmer generally, leftists love to regulate everything, force you to fill extra forms and do many things like that and these nasty jerks just don't give a damn about the consequences, poor citizens who have to find out what to do with the extra forms, how to earn the extra money to pay the extra taxes, and so on. they only see one side the side that is linked to "their pockets". most leftists are parasites who are trying to suck as much blood out of the system as possible (through redistribution, taxes, fees for renewable energy, you name it) out of the productive animal called a nation and they don't really care about the well-being of the animal. they only care about their own when people like me who have lived in a totalitarian society for years tell the americans that the current u.s. progressives think (and want to act) in the same way and may be much more dangerous for the very western system than the communists were decades ago, not everyone believes me. but the more dirty tricks similar to are taking place, the more people will believe me that i am right and that the threat posed by the leftists should be assertively is a technicality. but it matters. the ballots are secret and you can't really take a picture of your voting and show it to third parties. for that reason, the two sides of the contract have to trust one another. this is problematic because their interests are sufficiently like aaronson always assume that everyone except for the "basket of who are already awaiting their bus to auschwitz or a gulag" has exactly the same priorities as he has. aaronson et al. are already mentally living in a "1984" society. so he thinks that it's just some random fluctuation that makes people prefer jill stein over it's not a random fluctuation. people who prefer jill stein over hillary in a swing state probably have a good (from their viewpoint) reason to do so. they differ from hillary's voters and they may even sometimes think in a way that is closer to average trump voters. they may very well vote for jill stein even if they formally sign a contract. the point is that this decision to vote for jill stein anyway is legal. in other words, the deal can be in no way legally enforced. any attempt to enforce such a deal is and even more clearly, jill stein's voters simply cannot trust hillary's voters. you can't really trust anyone who supports hillary, especially not hillary herself. these individuals are lying 24 hours a day and 365 or 366 days a year. if they tell you that they are as healthy as ever, they may easily suffer from pneumonia at the same moment. it's bizarre to make deals with them that rely on their "honor". you wouldn't give them the responsibility over the toilet paper in your restroom and a vote may be a more important thing than one roll of the toilet was absolutely shocked to see a comment by moshe, a string theorist whom i know and who lives in i understand well, moshe offers to write crackpot papers that he knows to be rubbish if it helps to subtract one vote from donald trump. are you serious, moshe? sorry but if you wrote this comment seriously, then you are not a scientist with the scientific integrity but if i have to stick to a highly polite and diplomatic vocabulary a worthless piece of corrupt šit. if some average people were selling their vote, the price would be some $10 a vote (the social democrats were buying gypsy votes in for $2 some decade ago). is $10 how much you value what should be your scientific integrity?also, as scott aaronson has been capable of telling you, such a deal a crackpot paper for a vote is definitely illegal. regardless of the knowledge of the laws which may be complex, i am terribly disappointed that you don't see that what you propose is totally immoral. a scientist simply cannot sell his integrity in this way not for money and not for votes.moshe, i always wanted to "subtract" people like you from the dishonest vermin that has polluted much of the academia. but i may have been completely wrong. everyone who fails to fight against this terrible fails because he or she lacks the normal counting assumed that one vote has the same value as one vote. if there were a free market, it would certainly not be the case. there's no reason for this "same price" of two things in an absolutely believe that that nader or stein votes are significantly more valuable than the hillary votes because they're more scarce. after all, a voter who "transfers" his vote to a different state isn't helping his candidate at all because it's just the overall federal count that matters for these hopeless the other hand, the voter would benefit. now, would it still be legal to exchange a stein vote for 2 hillary votes in a different state? it would surely be illegal to exchange it for 1 hillary vote and a bottle of should measure how many people choose this politician or another as their #1 candidate while all considerations about the future (including the ability of the candidate to win and make a difference) are taken into account. such elections produce some results and the politicians who get some mandate must deal with the result. they may create coalitions, trade favors with other politicians etc. they may also create coalitions before the polls. but voters have clear options and it's assumed that each voter expresses his or her own opinions. that's how things should normally work, how the democratic system was you insert a whole new layer of trading to the stage of elections, you are challenging the assumption that there exists a "right answer" concerning the support for various candidates or parties. because some votes were transferred from one state to another, the results in individual states no longer reflect the actual opinions in that state. you admit that the result may be affected by many variables and those variables are allowed to be adjusted by various once they may be adjusted, voters are de facto trading their votes for material benefits, too. you know, for a member of a "class" etc., having one candidate in the white house may literally be more pleasant financially which is sometimes or often if not mostly the reason that makes the people vote in one way or another. so exchanging the vote may be viewed as an exchange of some material goods, anyway. is just a case of barter have already expressed the same point from different angles. but i chose a separate entry because what i want to say in this section is that democracy should measure the opinions of the voters in some least corrupt and accurate way and makes the things more corrupt or less accurate and more "buyable", whether or not judges say that it is also brings me to the final et al. would be better humans and better citizens if they spent at least a tiny fraction of their time not by dirty tricks but by listening to someone who understands politics better than they do, and even trump is surely an example, learning as much as they can, and trying to think about these matters rationally. dan richardson was more or less the only commenter on aaronson's blog who wanted make the other folks think more carefully about the topics e.g. what obama has done in foreign policy and whether the americans should really want this process to have already mentioned a similar point but now i will use different words. elections are a process in which a large animal a nation is deciding what is best for it. different organs may provide different answers but they should still think as a "whole" of some sort. to do so, the organs have to carefully answer the question "what we, the nation or the animal, actually are?". and that decision may be hard because you need to figure out how to make the rest of your nation the animal live happily and productively for you and for the whole animal the such as the aaronson leftists don't do this work because their primary identity is to be a part of an organ or a parasite that sits on the nation and sucks its blood. aaronson et al. don't think what is actually good for the animal a difficult question because what they're actually obliged to care about is just the amount of blood being sucked from the animal according to a fixed algorithm.thankfully, they don't represent the majority of the electorate.
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aɪ du rɪˈmɛmbər ðə jɪr 2000 wən əv ðə geɪmz ðət əˈkəmpənid ðə ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ɪˈlɛkʃənz wɑz ðə sˈwɑpɪŋ əv ðə voʊts bɪtˈwin ˈdɪfərənt ˈlɛftɪsts. ə rælf ˈneɪdər ˈvoʊtər ɪn ə swɪŋ steɪt wɑz vjud ɛz ˈdæmɪʤɪŋ fər gɔr. soʊ ə gɔr ˈvoʊtər ɪn ə ˈdɪfərənt steɪt faʊnd ɪm, ˈprɑməst tɪ voʊt fər ˈneɪdər ˌɪnˈstɛd, ənd ðə ˈneɪdər fæn hæd ðə ˈduti tɪ voʊt fər gɔr, ˈæftər ɔl. ɪn ðət weɪ, gɔr wɑz səˈpoʊzd tɪ wɪn ðə swɪŋ steɪts wɛr ˈɛvəri voʊt ˈmætərd. ɔn ðə ˈəðər hænd, ˈneɪdər gɑt ðə seɪm ˈnəmbər əv voʊts ɪn ðə hoʊl juz. ju meɪ rɪˈmɛmbər ðət ðiz grups əv ˈlɛftɪsts ˈəltəmətli ˈdɪdənt səkˈsid, gɔr lɔst, ənd ˈneɪdər bɪˈkeɪm ˈprɪti məʧ ˌɪˈrɛləvənt, tu. bət kʊd ðeɪ hæv səkˈsidɪd? ˈhæzənt ðə wərkt ɪn ðə ˈɑpəzɪt dɪˈrɛkʃɪn ðən ðeɪ ˌɪnˈtɛndɪd? skɑt ˈɛrənsən ˈsɛləˌbreɪts ðɪs "ˈwəndərfəl" aɪˈdiə ɪn 2016 tu. gɔr həz bɪn ˌriˈpleɪst baɪ ˈhɪləri ənd ˈneɪdər həz bɪn ˌriˈpleɪst baɪ ˈkænədɪts səʧ ɛz ʤɪl staɪn. ðɪs ˈtreɪdɪŋ əv ðə voʊts ɪz ʤɪst ˈbɔrdərˌlaɪn ˈligəl ənd ˈpipəl hu pɑrˈtɪsəˌpeɪt du rən ðə rɪsk əv ˌprɑsəˈkjuʃən. ɪz nɑt kwaɪt ˈɛθɪkəl, æt list əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ səm ˈpipəl, ənd ðɪs fækt lidz tɪ ˈɛkstrə ˈdæmɪʤɪz fər ðə lɛft ɪn ðə ɪˈlɛkʃən rɪˈzəlts ðət ˈɛrənsən ɛt æl. ˈfulɪʃli ər ˈɛrəgəntli ˈoʊvərˌlʊk. ðə kəˈmɪtmənts ˈkænɑt bi ˈvɛrəˌfaɪd ɪn ə weɪ ðət wʊd bi ˈligəl. ðə hoʊl skim ˌɪnkərˈɛktli əˈsumz ðət boʊθ saɪdz əv ðə "treɪd" ər æt ðə seɪm ˈfrikwənsi ənd kən trəst iʧ ˈəðər. səm ˈpipəl meɪ ˈʤɛnərəˌlaɪz ðə ənd swɪʧ tɪ ril seɪlz əv ðɛr voʊts fər ˈməni ər məˈtɪriəl gʊdz wɪʧ ɪz ˈʃʊrli ˌɪˈligəl. ðə ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ reɪt əv ðə swɔpt voʊts ɪz ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˈsərtənli ˌɪnkərˈɛktli ˈkælkjəˌleɪtɪd ənd ə ˌkɑmpənˈseɪʃən fər ðət ˈdifɛkt wʊd bi ˌɪˈligəl. ɪz ˈrɪli nɑt haʊ dɪˈmɑkrəsi ʃʊd wərk. ˈpipəl ʃʊd pɪk ðɛr bɛst ˈkænədɪts ənd ðoʊz ˈrəðər ðən ðə ˈvoʊtərz ʃʊd nɪˈgoʊʃiˌeɪt ˌbiˈfɔr ənd ˈæftər ðə ɪˈlɛkʃənz. ˈfoʊkɪs ɔn ˈsɪmələr ˌtɛknɪˈkælətiz əˈfɛktɪŋ ə smɔl ˈnəmbər əv voʊts ʃoʊz ðət səm ˈpɑrtli ˈdərti trɪks ər mɔr ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt fər ðə pɑrˈtɪsəpənts ðən ðɛr ˈkɛrfəl ənd ˌɪmˈpɑrʃəl æˈnælɪsɪs əv ər dəˈbeɪt ɔn ðə ˈɪʃuz ənd ˈvæljuz. ˈmeɪbi wi kən ɪkˈstɛnd ðət bɪɔnd voʊt sˈwɑpɪŋ: ɪn ˈkænədə soʊ ˈkænɑt voʊt fər ðə mɔr ɪgˈzɑtɪk ˈkænədɪts, bət aɪ ˈprɑməs ðət ɪn ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ fər ə voʊt fər ðə seɪn ˈkænədɪt aɪ wɪl raɪt ə ˈpeɪpər ˈɑrgjuɪŋ ðət ɪz dɪˈskrit æt ðə plæŋk skeɪl, ər ɪnˈgeɪʤ ɪn ə ˈpæʃənət ˈɑrgjəmənt (ˈmeɪkɪŋ əp ðə rulz ɛz ˈnidɪd) ɔn ˈwɛðər wi lɪv ɪn ə ˌsɪmjəˈleɪʃən, ər ˈivɪn ˈwɛðər ˌriˈæləˌti ɪz ˈrɪli ril (ðət læst wən wɪl ˈrɪli hæv tɪ bi fər ə kloʊz swɪŋ steɪt). ˈpipəl laɪk ˈɛrənsən ər ˈbɪgəts ənd ˌtɛkˈnɑləʤɪsts əv paʊər. ðeɪ doʊnt dɪˈskəs ˈpɑləˌtɪks, ðɛr ˌəndərˈstændɪŋ əv ðə pəˈlɪtɪkəl kˈwɛsʧənz əˈspɛʃəli ˈsətəl wənz ɪz ɪkˈstrimli ˌsupərˈfɪʃəl. bət ðeɪ wɔnt tɪ bi ˈdɪsəplənd ˈsərvənts əv ðɛr ɪkˈstrim ˌaɪdiˈɑləʤi ənd ˌɪnˈvɛnt ðə raɪt ˈmɛθədz tɪ meɪk ðɪs ˌaɪdiˈɑləʤi ˈkɑŋkər ðə ˈpipəl laɪk ˈɛrənsən teɪk ˈoʊvər ə ˈkəntri, ðeɪ bɪˈkəm ˈsɛkrəˌtɛriz riˈspɑnsəbəl fər ðə ləˈʤɪstɪks ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪŋ e.g*. haʊ tɪ gɪt ðə tɪ ə ˈguˌlɑg wɪθ ə ˈlɪmɪtɪd ˈnəmbər əv ˈbəsɪz ˌɛtˈsɛtərə. ðɛr ər ˈsɛvərəl ˌfəndəˈmɛnəl flɔz ɪn ðɪs hoʊl weɪ əv dɪˈskəs ɔl ðoʊz ˈtɑpɪks ɪn səm mɔr aɪ roʊt, ðə həz bɪn ˈleɪbəld ˈligəl baɪ ə kɔrt. bət ju noʊ, ɪt wɑz ˈʃʊrli ə ˈsətəl ˈmætər bɪˈkəz ðə streɪt seɪlz ənd ˈpərʧəsɪz əv ðə voʊts ər ˌɪˈligəl. ðɛr ˌɪˈligəl fər ə gʊd ˈrizən. ðə ˈkəntri ˈdəzənt wɔnt ðə hoʊl paʊər ˈoʊvər ðə ˈsɪstəm tɪ bi bɔt baɪ ə rɪʧ ˈpərsən, lɛt əˈloʊn ˈɪntərɪsts kəˈnɛktɪd tɪ səm ˈfɔrən ˈɛntɪtiz ðə dɪˈsɪʒən əv ðə kɔrt wɑz ðə "raɪt" ɪz ˈʃʊrli nɑt ˈɛni ˌfəndəˈmɛnəl raɪt ɪn ˈɛni sɛns ju ʃʊd ˈɔlˌweɪz bi ˈwərid ðət bɪˈkəz əv səm ˌtɛknɪˈkælɪti, wət jʊr duɪŋ wɪl bi faʊnd ˌɪˈligəl ənd ju wɪl bi faɪnd ər ɪf ðə ˈɛksərˌsaɪzɪz ər ˈleɪbəld ˈligəl, ðeɪ ər ˈʃʊrli vjud ɛz ˈmɔrəli ˌprɑbləˈmætɪk baɪ ˈmɛni ˈpipəl, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ðə ˈpipəl hu ər ʤɪst ˈθɪŋkɪŋ hɑrd ˈwɛðər ðeɪ wɪl voʊt fər ðə ˈdɑnəld ər ə əv ðiz ˌəndɪˈsaɪdɪd ˈvoʊtərz wɪl ˈnoʊtɪs ənd ər ɔˈrɛdi ˈnoʊtɪsɪŋ ðət ðə ˈæktɪvɪsts ər ˌɪnˈvɑlvd ɪn wɪʧ wɪl lʊk laɪk ə ˈdərti dil frəm ðɛr vˈjuˌpɔɪnt. ənd ðɪs ˈfilɪŋ meɪ ˈvɛri wɛl pʊʃ ðɛm tɪ ðə trəmp saɪd bɪˈkəz ðə trəmp kæmp ˈdəzənt sim tɪ bi ˌɪnˈvɑlvd ɪn ˈsɪmələr ˈdərti ə rɪˈzəlt, ðə ɪgˈzɪstəns əv ðə meɪ ˈvɛri wɛl lɛd tɪ ə ˈbɪgər səˈpɔrt fər trəmp ðən wət hi wʊd ˈəðərˌwaɪz hæv. ɪts ˈtoʊtəli ˈplɔzəbəl ðət ˈsɪmələr ˈdərti trɪks ˈæˌkʧuəli hɛlpt ʤɔrʤ ˈdəbəlju. bʊʃ tɪ wɪn ðə 2000 ɪz ə (nɑt soʊ) ˈhɪdən ɪkˈspɛns ðət ðə fænz əv ðə ər ˈoʊvərˌlʊkɪŋ ər æt list nɑt ˈteɪkɪŋ ˈɪntu əˈkaʊnt. ˈoʊvərˌlʊkɪŋ səm ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt kɔsts (ər ˈbɛnəfɪts) ɪz ə ˈfrikˌwɛnt ˈfæləsi əv ðə ˈlɛftɪsts hu kəˈmɪt ɪt ˈmɛni taɪmz ə ˈɔfən si ər wɔnt tɪ si ʤɪst wən saɪd. ɪts greɪt tɪ swɪʧ frəm koʊl plænts tɪ wɪnd ˈtərbaɪnz, səm əv ðɛm seɪ, kəmˈplitli ˌɪgˈnɔrɪŋ ðə ˈɛkstrə kɔsts kəˈnɛktɪd wɪθ ðə wɪnd ˈɛnərʤi ðət meɪk ɪt ˌənɪkˈwɪvəkəl ðət ɪts ə bæd aɪˈdiə tɪ swɪʧ frəm koʊl ər nuks tɪ wɪnd, æt list æt ðɪs moment.similarly*, ˈklaɪmɪt əˈlɑrmɪsts ər ˈoʊvərˌlʊkɪŋ ðə ˌfərtəlɪˈzeɪʃən ˈifɛkt əv ˌɪnˈkrisɪŋ ˌkɑnsənˈtreɪʃən ðət ɪz fɑr ˈgreɪtər ðən ðə ˌhaɪpəˈθɛtɪkəl "ˈdæmɪʤɪz" kɔzd baɪ θru ə ˈwɔrmər ˈʤɛnərəli, ˈlɛftɪsts ləv tɪ ˈrɛgjəˌleɪt ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ, fɔrs ju tɪ fɪl ˈɛkstrə fɔrmz ənd du ˈmɛni θɪŋz laɪk ðət ənd ðiz ˈnæsti ʤərks ʤɪst doʊnt gɪv ə dæm əˈbaʊt ðə ˈkɑnsəkˌwɛnsəz, pur ˈsɪtɪzənz hu hæv tɪ faɪnd aʊt wət tɪ du wɪθ ðə ˈɛkstrə fɔrmz, haʊ tɪ ərn ðə ˈɛkstrə ˈməni tɪ peɪ ðə ˈɛkstrə ˈtæksɪz, ənd soʊ ɔn. ðeɪ ˈoʊnli si wən saɪd ðə saɪd ðət ɪz lɪŋkt tɪ "ðɛr ˈpɑkəts". moʊst ˈlɛftɪsts ər ˈpɛrəˌsaɪts hu ər traɪɪŋ tɪ sək ɛz məʧ bləd aʊt əv ðə ˈsɪstəm ɛz ˈpɑsəbəl (θru ˌridɪstrəˈbjuʃən, ˈtæksɪz, fiz fər riˈnuəbəl ˈɛnərʤi, ju neɪm ɪt) aʊt əv ðə pərˈdəktɪv ˈænəməl kɔld ə ˈneɪʃən ənd ðeɪ doʊnt ˈrɪli kɛr əˈbaʊt ðə ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ əv ðə ˈænəməl. ðeɪ ˈoʊnli kɛr əˈbaʊt ðɛr oʊn wɪn ˈpipəl laɪk mi hu hæv lɪvd ɪn ə ˌtoʊˌtælɪˈtɛriən soʊˈsaɪɪti fər jɪrz tɛl ðə əˈmɛrɪkənz ðət ðə ˈkɑrənt juz. prɑˈgrɛsɪvz θɪŋk (ənd wɔnt tɪ ækt) ɪn ðə seɪm weɪ ənd meɪ bi məʧ mɔr ˈdeɪnʤərəs fər ðə ˈvɛri ˈwɛstərn ˈsɪstəm ðən ðə ˈkɑmjənəsts wər ˈdɛkeɪdz əˈgoʊ, nɑt ˈɛvriˌwən bɪˈlivz mi. bət ðə mɔr ˈdərti trɪks ˈsɪmələr tɪ ər ˈteɪkɪŋ pleɪs, ðə mɔr ˈpipəl wɪl bɪˈliv mi ðət aɪ æm raɪt ənd ðət ðə θrɛt poʊzd baɪ ðə ˈlɛftɪsts ʃʊd bi əˈsərtɪvli ɪz ə ˌtɛknɪˈkælɪti. bət ɪt ˈmætərz. ðə ˈbæləts ər ˈsikrɪt ənd ju kænt ˈrɪli teɪk ə ˈpɪkʧər əv jʊr ˈvoʊtɪŋ ənd ʃoʊ ɪt tɪ θərd ˈpɑrtiz. fər ðət ˈrizən, ðə tu saɪdz əv ðə ˈkɑnˌtrækt hæv tɪ trəst wən əˈnəðər. ðɪs ɪz ˌprɑbləˈmætɪk bɪˈkəz ðɛr ˈɪntərɪsts ər səˈfɪʃəntli laɪk ˈɛrənsən ˈɔlˌweɪz əˈsum ðət ˈɛvriˌwən ɪkˈsɛpt fər ðə "ˈbæskət əv hu ər ɔˈrɛdi əˈweɪtɪŋ ðɛr bəs tɪ ˈɔʃwɪts ər ə ˈguˌlɑg" həz ɪgˈzæktli ðə seɪm praɪˈɔrətiz ɛz hi həz. ˈɛrənsən ɛt æl. ər ɔˈrɛdi ˈmɛnəli ˈlɪvɪŋ ɪn ə 1984 soʊˈsaɪɪti. soʊ hi θɪŋks ðət ɪts ʤɪst səm ˈrændəm ˌfləkʧuˈeɪʃən ðət meɪks ˈpipəl prɪˈfər ʤɪl staɪn ˈoʊvər ɪts nɑt ə ˈrændəm ˌfləkʧuˈeɪʃən. ˈpipəl hu prɪˈfər ʤɪl staɪn ˈoʊvər ˈhɪləri ɪn ə swɪŋ steɪt ˈprɑbəˌbli hæv ə gʊd (frəm ðɛr vˈjuˌpɔɪnt) ˈrizən tɪ du soʊ. ðeɪ ˈdɪfər frəm ˈhɪləriz ˈvoʊtərz ənd ðeɪ meɪ ˈivɪn ˈsəmˌtaɪmz θɪŋk ɪn ə weɪ ðət ɪz ˈkloʊzər tɪ ˈævərɪʤ trəmp ˈvoʊtərz. ðeɪ meɪ ˈvɛri wɛl voʊt fər ʤɪl staɪn ˈivɪn ɪf ðeɪ ˈfɔrməli saɪn ə ˈkɑnˌtrækt. ðə pɔɪnt ɪz ðət ðɪs dɪˈsɪʒən tɪ voʊt fər ʤɪl staɪn ˈɛniˌweɪ ɪz ˈligəl. ɪn ˈəðər wərdz, ðə dil kən bi ɪn noʊ weɪ ˈligəli ɛnˈfɔrst. ˈɛni əˈtɛmpt tɪ ɛnˈfɔrs səʧ ə dil ɪz ənd ˈivɪn mɔr ˈklɪrli, ʤɪl staɪnz ˈvoʊtərz ˈsɪmpli ˈkænɑt trəst ˈhɪləriz ˈvoʊtərz. ju kænt ˈrɪli trəst ˈɛniˌwən hu səˈpɔrts ˈhɪləri, əˈspɛʃəli nɑt ˈhɪləri hərˈsɛlf. ðiz ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəlz ər laɪɪŋ 24 aʊərz ə deɪ ənd 365 ər 366 deɪz ə jɪr. ɪf ðeɪ tɛl ju ðət ðeɪ ər ɛz ˈhɛlθi ɛz ˈɛvər, ðeɪ meɪ ˈizəli ˈsəfər frəm nəˈmoʊnjə æt ðə seɪm ˈmoʊmənt. ɪts bɪˈzɑr tɪ meɪk dilz wɪθ ðɛm ðət rɪˈlaɪ ɔn ðɛr "ˈɑnər". ju ˈwʊdənt gɪv ðɛm ðə riˌspɑnsəˈbɪləti ˈoʊvər ðə ˈtɔɪlət ˈpeɪpər ɪn jʊr ˈrɛˌstrum ənd ə voʊt meɪ bi ə mɔr ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt θɪŋ ðən wən roʊl əv ðə ˈtɔɪlət wɑz ˌæbsəˈlutli ʃɑkt tɪ si ə ˈkɑmɛnt baɪ ˈmoʊʃə, ə strɪŋ θiərɪst hum aɪ noʊ ənd hu lɪvz ɪn aɪ ˌəndərˈstænd wɛl, ˈmoʊʃə ˈɔfərz tɪ raɪt ˈkrækˌpɑt ˈpeɪpərz ðət hi noʊz tɪ bi ˈrəbɪʃ ɪf ɪt hɛlps tɪ səbˈtrækt wən voʊt frəm ˈdɑnəld trəmp. ər ju ˈsɪriəs, ˈmoʊʃə? ˈsɑri bət ɪf ju roʊt ðɪs ˈkɑmɛnt ˈsɪriəsli, ðɛn ju ər nɑt ə ˈsaɪəntɪst wɪθ ðə ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk ˌɪnˈtɛgrəti bət ɪf aɪ hæv tɪ stɪk tɪ ə ˈhaɪli pəˈlaɪt ənd ˌdɪpləˈmætɪk voʊˈkæbjəˌlɛri ə ˈwərθləs pis əv kərəpt ššit*. ɪf səm ˈævərɪʤ ˈpipəl wər ˈsɛlɪŋ ðɛr voʊt, ðə praɪs wʊd bi səm 10 ə voʊt (ðə ˈsoʊʃəl ˈdɛməˌkræts wər baɪɪŋ ˈʤɪpsi voʊts ɪn fər 2 səm ˈdɛkeɪd əˈgoʊ). ɪz 10 haʊ məʧ ju ˈvælju wət ʃʊd bi jʊr ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk integrity?also*, ɛz skɑt ˈɛrənsən həz bɪn ˈkeɪpəbəl əv ˈtɛlɪŋ ju, səʧ ə dil ə ˈkrækˌpɑt ˈpeɪpər fər ə voʊt ɪz ˈdɛfənətli ˌɪˈligəl. rəˈgɑrdləs əv ðə ˈnɑlɪʤ əv ðə lɔz wɪʧ meɪ bi ˈkɑmplɛks, aɪ æm ˈtɛrəbli ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd ðət ju doʊnt si ðət wət ju prəˈpoʊz ɪz ˈtoʊtəli ˌɪˈmɔrəl. ə ˈsaɪəntɪst ˈsɪmpli ˈkænɑt sɛl hɪz ˌɪnˈtɛgrəti ɪn ðɪs weɪ nɑt fər ˈməni ənd nɑt fər votes.moshe*, aɪ ˈɔlˌweɪz ˈwɔntɪd tɪ "səbˈtrækt" ˈpipəl laɪk ju frəm ðə dɪˈsɑnəst ˈvərmɪn ðət həz pəˈlutɪd məʧ əv ðə ˌækəˈdimiə. bət aɪ meɪ hæv bɪn kəmˈplitli rɔŋ. ˈɛvriˌwən hu feɪlz tɪ faɪt əˈgɛnst ðɪs ˈtɛrəbəl feɪlz bɪˈkəz hi ər ʃi læks ðə ˈnɔrməl ˈkaʊntɪŋ əˈsumd ðət wən voʊt həz ðə seɪm ˈvælju ɛz wən voʊt. ɪf ðɛr wər ə fri ˈmɑrkɪt, ɪt wʊd ˈsərtənli nɑt bi ðə keɪs. ðɛrz noʊ ˈrizən fər ðɪs "seɪm praɪs" əv tu θɪŋz ɪn ən ˌæbsəˈlutli bɪˈliv ðət ðət ˈneɪdər ər staɪn voʊts ər sɪgˈnɪfɪkəntli mɔr ˈvæljəbəl ðən ðə ˈhɪləri voʊts bɪˈkəz ðɛr mɔr skɛrs. ˈæftər ɔl, ə ˈvoʊtər hu "ˈtrænsfərz" hɪz voʊt tɪ ə ˈdɪfərənt steɪt ˈɪzənt ˈhɛlpɪŋ hɪz ˈkænədɪt æt ɔl bɪˈkəz ɪts ʤɪst ðə ˈoʊvərˌɔl ˈfɛdərəl kaʊnt ðət ˈmætərz fər ðiz ˈhoʊpləs ðə ˈəðər hænd, ðə ˈvoʊtər wʊd ˈbɛnəfɪt. naʊ, wʊd ɪt stɪl bi ˈligəl tɪ ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ ə staɪn voʊt fər 2 ˈhɪləri voʊts ɪn ə ˈdɪfərənt steɪt? ɪt wʊd ˈʃʊrli bi ˌɪˈligəl tɪ ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ ɪt fər 1 ˈhɪləri voʊt ənd ə ˈbɑtəl əv ʃʊd ˈmɛʒər haʊ ˈmɛni ˈpipəl ʧuz ðɪs ˌpɑləˈtɪʃən ər əˈnəðər ɛz ðɛr 1 ˈkænədɪt waɪl ɔl kənˌsɪdərˈeɪʃənz əˈbaʊt ðə fˈjuʧər (ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ðə əˈbɪləˌti əv ðə ˈkænədɪt tɪ wɪn ənd meɪk ə ˈdɪfərəns) ər ˈteɪkən ˈɪntu əˈkaʊnt. səʧ ɪˈlɛkʃənz ˈproʊdus səm rɪˈzəlts ənd ðə ˌpɑləˈtɪʃənz hu gɪt səm ˈmænˌdeɪt məst dil wɪθ ðə rɪˈzəlt. ðeɪ meɪ kriˈeɪt ˌkoʊəˈlɪʃənz, treɪd ˈfeɪvərz wɪθ ˈəðər ˌpɑləˈtɪʃənz ˌɛtˈsɛtərə. ðeɪ meɪ ˈɔlsoʊ kriˈeɪt ˌkoʊəˈlɪʃənz ˌbiˈfɔr ðə poʊlz. bət ˈvoʊtərz hæv klɪr ˈɔpʃənz ənd ɪts əˈsumd ðət iʧ ˈvoʊtər ɪkˈsprɛsɪz hɪz ər hər oʊn əˈpɪnjənz. ðæts haʊ θɪŋz ʃʊd ˈnɔrməli wərk, haʊ ðə ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk ˈsɪstəm wɑz ju ˌɪnˈsərt ə hoʊl nu leɪər əv ˈtreɪdɪŋ tɪ ðə steɪʤ əv ɪˈlɛkʃənz, ju ər ˈʧælənʤɪŋ ðə əˈsəmpʃən ðət ðɛr ɪgˈzɪsts ə "raɪt ˈænsər" kənˈsərnɪŋ ðə səˈpɔrt fər ˈvɛriəs ˈkænədɪts ər ˈpɑrtiz. bɪˈkəz səm voʊts wər ˈtrænsfərd frəm wən steɪt tɪ əˈnəðər, ðə rɪˈzəlts ɪn ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl steɪts noʊ ˈlɔŋgər rɪˈflɛkt ðə ˈækʧəwəl əˈpɪnjənz ɪn ðət steɪt. ju ədˈmɪt ðət ðə rɪˈzəlt meɪ bi əˈfɛktɪd baɪ ˈmɛni ˈvɛriəbəlz ənd ðoʊz ˈvɛriəbəlz ər əˈlaʊd tɪ bi əˈʤəstɪd baɪ ˈvɛriəs wəns ðeɪ meɪ bi əˈʤəstɪd, ˈvoʊtərz ər də ˈfæktoʊ ˈtreɪdɪŋ ðɛr voʊts fər məˈtɪriəl ˈbɛnəfɪts, tu. ju noʊ, fər ə ˈmɛmbər əv ə "klæs" ˌɛtˈsɛtərə., ˈhævɪŋ wən ˈkænədɪt ɪn ðə waɪt haʊs meɪ ˈlɪtərəli bi mɔr ˈplɛzənt ˌfaɪˈnænʃəli wɪʧ ɪz ˈsəmˌtaɪmz ər ˈɔfən ɪf nɑt ˈmoʊstli ðə ˈrizən ðət meɪks ðə ˈpipəl voʊt ɪn wən weɪ ər əˈnəðər. soʊ ɪksˈʧeɪnʤɪŋ ðə voʊt meɪ bi vjud ɛz ən ɪksˈʧeɪnʤ əv səm məˈtɪriəl gʊdz, ˈɛniˌweɪ. ɪz ʤɪst ə keɪs əv ˈbɑrtər hæv ɔˈrɛdi ɪkˈsprɛst ðə seɪm pɔɪnt frəm ˈdɪfərənt ˈæŋgəlz. bət aɪ ʧoʊz ə ˈsɛpərˌeɪt ˈɛntri bɪˈkəz wət aɪ wɔnt tɪ seɪ ɪn ðɪs ˈsɛkʃən ɪz ðət dɪˈmɑkrəsi ʃʊd ˈmɛʒər ðə əˈpɪnjənz əv ðə ˈvoʊtərz ɪn səm list kərəpt ənd ˈækjərət weɪ ənd meɪks ðə θɪŋz mɔr kərəpt ər lɛs ˈækjərət ənd mɔr "buyable*", ˈwɛðər ər nɑt ˈʤəʤɪz seɪ ðət ɪt ɪz ˈɔlsoʊ brɪŋz mi tɪ ðə ˈfaɪnəl ɛt æl. wʊd bi ˈbɛtər ˈjumənz ənd ˈbɛtər ˈsɪtɪzənz ɪf ðeɪ spɛnt æt list ə ˈtaɪni ˈfrækʃən əv ðɛr taɪm nɑt baɪ ˈdərti trɪks bət baɪ ˈlɪsənɪŋ tɪ ˈsəmˌwən hu ˌəndərˈstændz ˈpɑləˌtɪks ˈbɛtər ðən ðeɪ du, ənd ˈivɪn trəmp ɪz ˈʃʊrli ən ɪgˈzæmpəl, ˈlərnɪŋ ɛz məʧ ɛz ðeɪ kən, ənd traɪɪŋ tɪ θɪŋk əˈbaʊt ðiz ˈmætərz ˈræʃənəli. dæn ˈrɪʧərdsən wɑz mɔr ər lɛs ðə ˈoʊnli ˈkɑmɛntər ɔn ˈɛrənsənz blɔg hu ˈwɔntɪd meɪk ðə ˈəðər foʊks θɪŋk mɔr ˈkɛrfəli əˈbaʊt ðə ˈtɑpɪks e.g*. wət ˌoʊˈbɑmə həz dən ɪn ˈfɔrən ˈpɑləsi ənd ˈwɛðər ðə əˈmɛrɪkənz ʃʊd ˈrɪli wɔnt ðɪs ˈprɔˌsɛs tɪ hæv ɔˈrɛdi ˈmɛnʃənd ə ˈsɪmələr pɔɪnt bət naʊ aɪ wɪl juz ˈdɪfərənt wərdz. ɪˈlɛkʃənz ər ə ˈprɔˌsɛs ɪn wɪʧ ə lɑrʤ ˈænəməl ə ˈneɪʃən ɪz ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪŋ wət ɪz bɛst fər ɪt. ˈdɪfərənt ˈɔrgənz meɪ prəˈvaɪd ˈdɪfərənt ˈænsərz bət ðeɪ ʃʊd stɪl θɪŋk ɛz ə "hoʊl" əv səm sɔrt. tɪ du soʊ, ðə ˈɔrgənz hæv tɪ ˈkɛrfəli ˈænsər ðə kˈwɛʃən "wət wi, ðə ˈneɪʃən ər ðə ˈænəməl, ˈæˌkʧuəli ər?". ənd ðət dɪˈsɪʒən meɪ bi hɑrd bɪˈkəz ju nid tɪ ˈfɪgjər aʊt haʊ tɪ meɪk ðə rɛst əv jʊr ˈneɪʃən ðə ˈænəməl lɪv ˈhæpəli ənd pərˈdəktɪvli fər ju ənd fər ðə hoʊl ˈænəməl ðə səʧ ɛz ðə ˈɛrənsən ˈlɛftɪsts doʊnt du ðɪs wərk bɪˈkəz ðɛr ˈpraɪˌmɛri aɪˈdɛntəˌti ɪz tɪ bi ə pɑrt əv ən ˈɔrgən ər ə ˈpɛrəˌsaɪt ðət sɪts ɔn ðə ˈneɪʃən ənd səks ɪts bləd. ˈɛrənsən ɛt æl. doʊnt θɪŋk wət ɪz ˈæˌkʧuəli gʊd fər ðə ˈænəməl ə ˈdɪfəkəlt kˈwɛʃən bɪˈkəz wət ðɛr ˈæˌkʧuəli əˈblaɪʤd tɪ kɛr əˈbaʊt ɪz ʤɪst ðə əˈmaʊnt əv bləd biɪŋ səkt frəm ðə ˈænəməl əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ə fɪkst algorithm.thankfully*, ðeɪ doʊnt ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnt ðə məˈʤɔrəti əv ðə ɪˈlɛktərət.
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sunlight + water = hydrogen gas, in a new technique that can convert 60 per cent of sunlight energy absorbed by an electrode into the inflammable fuel.
to generate the gas thomas and colleagues at the university of east anglia in norwich, uk, dip a gold electrode with a special coating into water and expose it to light. clusters of indium 5 wide on its surface absorb incoming photons and pass electrons bearing their energy on to clusters of a iron compound.
this material combines those electrons with protons from the water to form gaseous hydrogen. a second electrode plain platinum this time is needed to complete the circuit electrochemically.
new benchmark
organic molecules have been used before to perform the same feat. but they are quickly bleached by the sunlight they are collecting, rendering them inefficient after a few weeks.
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the inorganic materials used in the university of east system are more resilient. their first generation proof of concept is “a major breakthrough” in the field, they say, thanks to its efficiency of over 60 per cent and ability to survive sunlight for two weeks without any degradation of performance.
“in fact the 60 per cent figure is probably a worst-case scenario,” says. “this is still a preliminary study.”
bigger net
that high efficiency is largely thanks to the indium clusters being better at grabbing photons than organic molecules. “think of them as a butterfly net for catching photons,” says.
by the standard measure of the probability that a material will absorb a photon that hits it, each cluster is 400 times better at netting photons than organic molecules used in previous systems. “that’s why it works so well,” says.
he and colleagues now plan to refine the system, including lowering the cost by making it with less expensive materials. “there is no major reason for using gold or platinum,” he says: those materials were used simply because they are common in the laboratory.
welcome result
the experiment has been welcomed by others in the field. “it’s a significant result,” says vincent at the joseph fourier university in grenoble, france. there is still room to improve efficiency and reduce materials costs, but “my overall appreciation of this work is highly positive, both regarding the scientific level and the promises that are held by the new result”, he says
licheng sun at the royal institute of technology in stockholm, sweden, agrees. “it will certainly [provide] future research topics for water splitting,” he says.
journal reference: chemie international, doi:
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ˈsənˌlaɪt ˈwɔtər ˈhaɪdrəʤən gæs, ɪn ə nu tɛkˈnik ðət kən ˈkɑnvərt 60 pər sɛnt əv ˈsənˌlaɪt ˈɛnərʤi əbˈzɔrbd baɪ ən ˌɪˈlɛktroʊd ˈɪntu ðə ɪnˈflæməbəl fjuəl. tɪ ˈʤɛnərˌeɪt ðə gæs ˈtɑməs ənd ˈkɑligz æt ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv ist ˈæŋgliə ɪn ˈnɔrwɪʧ, uk*, dɪp ə goʊld ˌɪˈlɛktroʊd wɪθ ə ˈspɛʃəl ˈkoʊtɪŋ ˈɪntu ˈwɔtər ənd ɪkˈspoʊz ɪt tɪ laɪt. ˈkləstərz əv ˈɪndiəm 5 waɪd ɔn ɪts ˈsərfəs əbˈzɔrb ˈɪnˌkəmɪŋ ˈfoʊˌtɑnz ənd pæs ˌɪˈlɛktrɑnz ˈbɛrɪŋ ðɛr ˈɛnərʤi ɔn tɪ ˈkləstərz əv ə aɪərn ˈkɑmpaʊnd. ðɪs məˈtɪriəl kəmˈbaɪnz ðoʊz ˌɪˈlɛktrɑnz wɪθ ˈproʊˌtɑnz frəm ðə ˈwɔtər tɪ fɔrm ˈgæsiəs ˈhaɪdrəʤən. ə ˈsɛkənd ˌɪˈlɛktroʊd pleɪn ˈplætənəm ðɪs taɪm ɪz ˈnidɪd tɪ kəmˈplit ðə ˈsərkət electrochemically*. nu ˈbɛnʧˌmɑrk ɔrˈgænɪk ˈmɑləˌkjulz hæv bɪn juzd ˌbiˈfɔr tɪ pərˈfɔrm ðə seɪm fit. bət ðeɪ ər kˈwɪkli bliʧt baɪ ðə ˈsənˌlaɪt ðeɪ ər kəˈlɛktɪŋ, ˈrɛndərɪŋ ðɛm ˌɪnɪˈfɪʃənt ˈæftər ə fju wiks. ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt ðə ˌɪnɔrˈgænɪk məˈtɪriəlz juzd ɪn ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv ist ˈsɪstəm ər mɔr rɪˈzɪljənt. ðɛr fərst ˌʤɛnərˈeɪʃən pruf əv ˈkɑnsɛpt ɪz ˈmeɪʤər breakthrough”*” ɪn ðə fild, ðeɪ seɪ, θæŋks tɪ ɪts ɪˈfɪʃənsi əv ˈoʊvər 60 pər sɛnt ənd əˈbɪləˌti tɪ sərˈvaɪv ˈsənˌlaɪt fər tu wiks wɪˈθaʊt ˈɛni ˌdɛgrəˈdeɪʃən əv pərˈfɔrməns. fækt ðə 60 pər sɛnt ˈfɪgjər ɪz ˈprɑbəˌbli ə ˈwərstˈkeɪs scenario,”*,” sɪz. ɪz stɪl ə prɪˈlɪməˌnɛri study.”*.” ˈbɪgər nɛt ðət haɪ ɪˈfɪʃənsi ɪz ˈlɑrʤli θæŋks tɪ ðə ˈɪndiəm ˈkləstərz biɪŋ ˈbɛtər æt ˈgræbɪŋ ˈfoʊˌtɑnz ðən ɔrˈgænɪk ˈmɑləˌkjulz. əv ðɛm ɛz ə ˈbətərˌflaɪ nɛt fər ˈkæʧɪŋ photons,”*,” sɪz. baɪ ðə ˈstændərd ˈmɛʒər əv ðə ˌprɑbəˈbɪləˌti ðət ə məˈtɪriəl wɪl əbˈzɔrb ə ˈfoʊˌtɑn ðət hɪts ɪt, iʧ ˈkləstər ɪz 400 taɪmz ˈbɛtər æt ˈnɛtɪŋ ˈfoʊˌtɑnz ðən ɔrˈgænɪk ˈmɑləˌkjulz juzd ɪn ˈpriviəs ˈsɪstəmz. waɪ ɪt wərks soʊ well,”*,” sɪz. hi ənd ˈkɑligz naʊ plæn tɪ rɪˈfaɪn ðə ˈsɪstəm, ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ loʊərɪŋ ðə kɔst baɪ ˈmeɪkɪŋ ɪt wɪθ lɛs ɪkˈspɛnsɪv məˈtɪriəlz. ɪz noʊ ˈmeɪʤər ˈrizən fər ˈjuzɪŋ goʊld ər platinum,”*,” hi sɪz: ðoʊz məˈtɪriəlz wər juzd ˈsɪmpli bɪˈkəz ðeɪ ər ˈkɑmən ɪn ðə ˈlæbrəˌtɔri. ˈwɛlkəm rɪˈzəlt ðə ɪkˈspɛrəmənt həz bɪn ˈwɛlkəmd baɪ ˈəðərz ɪn ðə fild. ə sɪgˈnɪfɪkənt result,”*,” sɪz ˈvɪnsɪnt æt ðə ˈʤoʊzəf ˈfʊrieɪ ˌjunəˈvərsəti ɪn grəˈnoʊbəl, fræns. ðɛr ɪz stɪl rum tɪ ˌɪmˈpruv ɪˈfɪʃənsi ənd rɪˈdus məˈtɪriəlz kɔsts, bət ˈoʊvərˌɔl əˌpriʃiˈeɪʃən əv ðɪs wərk ɪz ˈhaɪli ˈpɑzətɪv, boʊθ rɪˈgɑrdɪŋ ðə ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk ˈlɛvəl ənd ðə ˈprɑməsəz ðət ər hɛld baɪ ðə nu result”*”, hi sɪz sən æt ðə rɔɪəl ˈɪnstɪˌtut əv tɛkˈnɑləʤi ɪn ˈstɑˌkhoʊlm, sˈwidən, əˈgriz. wɪl ˈsərtənli [prəˈvaɪd] fˈjuʧər ˈrisərʧ ˈtɑpɪks fər ˈwɔtər splitting,”*,” hi sɪz. ˈʤərnəl ˈrɛfərəns: ˈʧɛmi ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl, dɔɪ:
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gennifer flowers, juanita, and paula jones are three skeletons in the clintons’ closet, and they all want a front row seat to this first presidential debate.
“gennifer flowers,” donald trump in response to hillary clinton inviting mark cuban to the first presidential debate, where be sitting smack dab in the first row.
the presidential debate, which is set for monday night, is causing mass speculation over who each candidate will try and get to sit in the front row in order to cause as much preoccupation and discomfort as possible to their fellow running mate. hillary clinton has given that job to mark cuban, a former reality tv star and owner of the dallas mavericks.
cuban pledged his support to clinton earlier this year, and according to business insider he believes donald trump would be perilous to the united states if elected president. the two have engaged in combative twitter conversations, and not long ago cuban challenged trump to a “policy debate,” offering the presidential nominee $10 million to do it, which trump obviously declined.
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in response to learning of mark first row presence during the presidential debate, trump retaliated, saying like gennifer flowers, who used to work as a news anchor in arkansas during the time bill clinton was governor, to sit up front as well.
according to mediaite, flowers was thrust into the national public eye in 1992, when she admitted to being romantically involved with the married mr. clinton, a claim the former president denied at first and later confirmed to be true.
bill clinton and juanita (far right) at nursing home. date is unknown. [image by images]
gennifer flowers, like many women, was betrayed by the clintons, so why would she want them to get away with it?
at first, word was that she accepted the invitation and confirmed to trump that be there, but since then been reported that not only will she not be attending, but she was never invited by campaign in the first place.
luckily for trump, if he really wants to have a former flame of bill clinton sitting front and center, gennifer flowers is not the only one. there are plenty to choose from, and if trump really wants to get nasty he could invite one (or two or three) of rape accusers. more than one of them as well, and a couple have expressed interest in being there monday night.
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the american mirror reported that juanita, a woman who claims former president clinton raped her in a hotel room back in 1978, expressed interest in attending the presidential debate once she got word of flowers’ possible attendance.
“‘sure i would like to be at such an epic event just to look hillary in the face,’ exclusively tells the american mirror. “when asked what she would say to clinton, responded, ‘remember me? the one your husband raped and you threatened. still here telling the truth and you are a liar.'”
in november of 2015, the washington times reported that had lashed out at hillary clinton for tweeting, “every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.”
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according to, shortly after the rape, hillary approached her when it was just the two of them and told juanita, “i just want you to know that bill and i appreciate all the things you do for him.” she says after that mrs. clinton tried to grab her, but she was able to flee without further incident.
from that point on juanita was, and still is, convinced that hillary knew bill had raped her, and thanking her had been mrs. way of asking her, or telling her, to keep silent about it.
paula jones, like gennifer flowers and juanita, has also expressed her desire to sit in the front row during the presidential debate.
paula jones and gennifer flowers talk to reporters with clinton presidential library in the background in 2008. [image by danny images]
jones, who once worked for the state of arkansas, sparked yet another clinton scandal in the when she sued the then american president for sexual harassment. most recently, paula has spoken out against hillary, saying the former first lady is not presidential material, as reported by politico.
“‘she should not be running with the terrible history they have,’ jones said, warning that the former president should not be allowed back in the white house. “jones said that both clintons would do anything ‘to get to the top,’ adding that it is ‘all about political status.’ “‘he does not have a right to be in the white house to serve the people the way he treated women, sexually harassing women,’ she said.”
in regards to the democratic presidential nominee, paula jones insists that mrs. clinton had been well aware of sexual liaisons and predatory behavior towards women, and played an active role in covering it all up.
gennifer flowers, juanita and paula jones all want to confront hillary clinton. all three of these women feel she has done them wrong by lying to them and about them. she surely has gone out of her way to snub them, and she never once reached out to them when they needed it, so how could it be that hillary clinton cares about women?
[featured image by darren images]
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ˈʤɛnɪfər flaʊərz, ˌʤuəˈnitə, ənd ˈpɔlə ʤoʊnz ər θri ˈskɛlətənz ɪn ðə clintons’*’ ˈklɑzət, ənd ðeɪ ɔl wɔnt ə frənt roʊ sit tɪ ðɪs fərst ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl dəˈbeɪt. flowers,”*,” ˈdɑnəld trəmp ɪn rɪˈspɑns tɪ ˈhɪləri ˈklɪntən ˌɪnˈvaɪtɪŋ mɑrk ˈkjubən tɪ ðə fərst ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl dəˈbeɪt, wɛr bi ˈsɪtɪŋ smæk dæb ɪn ðə fərst roʊ. ðə ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl dəˈbeɪt, wɪʧ ɪz sɛt fər ˈmənˌdeɪ naɪt, ɪz ˈkɔzɪŋ mæs ˌspɛkjəˈleɪʃən ˈoʊvər hu iʧ ˈkænədɪt wɪl traɪ ənd gɪt tɪ sɪt ɪn ðə frənt roʊ ɪn ˈɔrdər tɪ kɔz ɛz məʧ priˌɑkjəˈpeɪʃən ənd dɪˈskəmfərt ɛz ˈpɑsəbəl tɪ ðɛr ˈfɛloʊ ˈrənɪŋ meɪt. ˈhɪləri ˈklɪntən həz ˈgɪvɪn ðət ʤɑb tɪ mɑrk ˈkjubən, ə ˈfɔrmər ˌriˈæləˌti ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən stɑr ənd ˈoʊnər əv ðə ˈdæləs ˈmævərɪks. ˈkjubən plɛʤd hɪz səˈpɔrt tɪ ˈklɪntən ˈərliər ðɪs jɪr, ənd əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ ˈbɪznɪs ˌɪnˈsaɪdər hi bɪˈlivz ˈdɑnəld trəmp wʊd bi ˈpɛrələs tɪ ðə juˈnaɪtɪd steɪts ɪf ɪˈlɛktɪd ˈprɛzɪdənt. ðə tu hæv ɪnˈgeɪʤd ɪn ˌkɑmˈbæˌtɪv tˈwɪtər ˌkɑnvərˈseɪʃənz, ənd nɑt lɔŋ əˈgoʊ ˈkjubən ˈʧælənʤd trəmp tɪ ə debate,”*,” ˈɔfərɪŋ ðə ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ˌnɑməˈni 10 ˈmɪljən tɪ du ɪt, wɪʧ trəmp ˈɑbviəsli dɪˈklaɪnd. nəl ɪn rɪˈspɑns tɪ ˈlərnɪŋ əv mɑrk fərst roʊ ˈprɛzəns ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl dəˈbeɪt, trəmp rɪˈtæliˌeɪtɪd, seɪɪŋ laɪk ˈʤɛnɪfər flaʊərz, hu juzd tɪ wərk ɛz ə nuz ˈæŋkər ɪn ˈɑrkənˌsɑ ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə taɪm bɪl ˈklɪntən wɑz ˈgəvərnər, tɪ sɪt əp frənt ɛz wɛl. əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ mediaite*, flaʊərz wɑz θrəst ˈɪntu ðə ˈnæʃənəl ˈpəblɪk aɪ ɪn 1992 wɪn ʃi ədˈmɪtəd tɪ biɪŋ roʊˈmæntɪkəli ˌɪnˈvɑlvd wɪθ ðə ˈmɛrid ˈmɪstər. ˈklɪntən, ə kleɪm ðə ˈfɔrmər ˈprɛzɪdənt dɪˈnaɪd æt fərst ənd ˈleɪtər kənˈfərmd tɪ bi tru. bɪl ˈklɪntən ənd ˌʤuəˈnitə (fɑr raɪt) æt ˈnərsɪŋ hoʊm. deɪt ɪz ənˈnoʊn. [ˈɪmɪʤ baɪ ˈɪmɪʤɪz] ˈʤɛnɪfər flaʊərz, laɪk ˈmɛni ˈwɪmən, wɑz bɪˈtreɪd baɪ ðə ˈklɪntənz, soʊ waɪ wʊd ʃi wɔnt ðɛm tɪ gɪt əˈweɪ wɪθ ɪt? æt fərst, wərd wɑz ðət ʃi ækˈsɛptɪd ðə ˌɪnvɪˈteɪʃən ənd kənˈfərmd tɪ trəmp ðət bi ðɛr, bət sɪns ðɛn bɪn ˌriˈpɔrtəd ðət nɑt ˈoʊnli wɪl ʃi nɑt bi əˈtɛndɪŋ, bət ʃi wɑz ˈnɛvər ˌɪnˈvaɪtɪd baɪ kæmˈpeɪn ɪn ðə fərst pleɪs. ˈləkəli fər trəmp, ɪf hi ˈrɪli wɔnts tɪ hæv ə ˈfɔrmər fleɪm əv bɪl ˈklɪntən ˈsɪtɪŋ frənt ənd ˈsɛnər, ˈʤɛnɪfər flaʊərz ɪz nɑt ðə ˈoʊnli wən. ðɛr ər ˈplɛnti tɪ ʧuz frəm, ənd ɪf trəmp ˈrɪli wɔnts tɪ gɪt ˈnæsti hi kʊd ˌɪnˈvaɪt wən (ər tu ər θri) əv reɪp əˈkjuzərz. mɔr ðən wən əv ðɛm ɛz wɛl, ənd ə ˈkəpəl hæv ɪkˈsprɛst ˈɪntəˌrɛst ɪn biɪŋ ðɛr ˈmənˌdeɪ naɪt. nəl ðə əˈmɛrɪkən ˈmɪrər ˌriˈpɔrtəd ðət ˌʤuəˈnitə, ə ˈwʊmən hu kleɪmz ˈfɔrmər ˈprɛzɪdənt ˈklɪntən reɪpt hər ɪn ə hoʊˈtɛl rum bæk ɪn 1978 ɪkˈsprɛst ˈɪntəˌrɛst ɪn əˈtɛndɪŋ ðə ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl dəˈbeɪt wəns ʃi gɑt wərd əv flowers’*’ ˈpɑsəbəl əˈtɛndəns. aɪ wʊd laɪk tɪ bi æt səʧ ən ˈɛpɪk ɪˈvɛnt ʤɪst tɪ lʊk ˈhɪləri ɪn ðə face,’*,’ ɪkˈsklusɪvli tɛlz ðə əˈmɛrɪkən ˈmɪrər. æst wət ʃi wʊd seɪ tɪ ˈklɪntən, rɪˈspɑndɪd, mi? ðə wən jʊr ˈhəzbənd reɪpt ənd ju θˈrɛtənd. stɪl hir ˈtɛlɪŋ ðə truθ ənd ju ər ə liar.'”*.'” ɪn noʊˈvɛmbər əv 2015 ðə ˈwɔʃɪŋtən taɪmz ˌriˈpɔrtəd ðət hæd læʃt aʊt æt ˈhɪləri ˈklɪntən fər tweeting*, sərˈvaɪvər əv ˈsɛkʃuəl əˈsɔlt dɪˈzərvz tɪ bi hərd, bɪˈlivd, ənd supported.”*.” nəl əˈkɔrdɪŋ tɪ, ˈʃɔrtli ˈæftər ðə reɪp, ˈhɪləri əˈproʊʧt hər wɪn ɪt wɑz ʤɪst ðə tu əv ðɛm ənd toʊld ˌʤuəˈnitə, ʤɪst wɔnt ju tɪ noʊ ðət bɪl ənd aɪ əˈpriʃiˌeɪt ɔl ðə θɪŋz ju du fər him.”*.” ʃi sɪz ˈæftər ðət ˈmɪsɪz. ˈklɪntən traɪd tɪ græb hər, bət ʃi wɑz ˈeɪbəl tɪ fli wɪˈθaʊt ˈfərðər ˈɪnsədənt. frəm ðət pɔɪnt ɔn ˌʤuəˈnitə wɑz, ənd stɪl ɪz, kənˈvɪnst ðət ˈhɪləri nu bɪl hæd reɪpt hər, ənd ˈθæŋkɪŋ hər hæd bɪn ˈmɪsɪz. weɪ əv ˈæskɪŋ hər, ər ˈtɛlɪŋ hər, tɪ kip ˈsaɪlənt əˈbaʊt ɪt. ˈpɔlə ʤoʊnz, laɪk ˈʤɛnɪfər flaʊərz ənd ˌʤuəˈnitə, həz ˈɔlsoʊ ɪkˈsprɛst hər dɪˈzaɪər tɪ sɪt ɪn ðə frənt roʊ ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl dəˈbeɪt. ˈpɔlə ʤoʊnz ənd ˈʤɛnɪfər flaʊərz tɔk tɪ rɪˈpɔrtərz wɪθ ˈklɪntən ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ˈlaɪbrɛˌri ɪn ðə ˈbækˌgraʊnd ɪn 2008 [ˈɪmɪʤ baɪ ˈdæni ˈɪmɪʤɪz] ʤoʊnz, hu wəns wərkt fər ðə steɪt əv ˈɑrkənˌsɑ, spɑrkt jɛt əˈnəðər ˈklɪntən ˈskændəl ɪn ðə wɪn ʃi sud ðə ðɛn əˈmɛrɪkən ˈprɛzɪdənt fər ˈsɛkʃuəl hərˈæsmənt. moʊst ˈrisəntli, ˈpɔlə həz ˈspoʊkən aʊt əˈgɛnst ˈhɪləri, seɪɪŋ ðə ˈfɔrmər fərst ˈleɪdi ɪz nɑt ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl məˈtɪriəl, ɛz ˌriˈpɔrtəd baɪ pəˈlɪtɪˌkoʊ. ʃʊd nɑt bi ˈrənɪŋ wɪθ ðə ˈtɛrəbəl ˈhɪstəri ðeɪ have,’*,’ ʤoʊnz sɛd, ˈwɔrnɪŋ ðət ðə ˈfɔrmər ˈprɛzɪdənt ʃʊd nɑt bi əˈlaʊd bæk ɪn ðə waɪt haʊs. sɛd ðət boʊθ ˈklɪntənz wʊd du ˈɛniˌθɪŋ gɪt tɪ ðə top,’*,’ ˈædɪŋ ðət ɪt ɪz əˈbaʊt pəˈlɪtɪkəl status.’*.’ dɪz nɑt hæv ə raɪt tɪ bi ɪn ðə waɪt haʊs tɪ sərv ðə ˈpipəl ðə weɪ hi ˈtritɪd ˈwɪmən, ˈsɛkʃuəli hərˈæsɪŋ women,’*,’ ʃi said.”*.” ɪn rɪˈgɑrdz tɪ ðə ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk ˌprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl ˌnɑməˈni, ˈpɔlə ʤoʊnz ˌɪnˈsɪsts ðət ˈmɪsɪz. ˈklɪntən hæd bɪn wɛl əˈwɛr əv ˈsɛkʃuəl liˈeɪˌsɑnz ənd ˈprɛdəˌtɔri bɪˈheɪvjər təˈwɔrdz ˈwɪmən, ənd pleɪd ən ˈæktɪv roʊl ɪn ˈkəvərɪŋ ɪt ɔl əp. ˈʤɛnɪfər flaʊərz, ˌʤuəˈnitə ənd ˈpɔlə ʤoʊnz ɔl wɔnt tɪ kənˈfrənt ˈhɪləri ˈklɪntən. ɔl θri əv ðiz ˈwɪmən fil ʃi həz dən ðɛm rɔŋ baɪ laɪɪŋ tɪ ðɛm ənd əˈbaʊt ðɛm. ʃi ˈʃʊrli həz gɔn aʊt əv hər weɪ tɪ snəb ðɛm, ənd ʃi ˈnɛvər wəns riʧt aʊt tɪ ðɛm wɪn ðeɪ ˈnidɪd ɪt, soʊ haʊ kʊd ɪt bi ðət ˈhɪləri ˈklɪntən kɛrz əˈbaʊt ˈwɪmən? [ˈfiʧərd ˈɪmɪʤ baɪ ˈdɑrən ˈɪmɪʤɪz]
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ayrton senna is perhaps the most legendary driver in formula 1, and undoubtedly a hero to anyone who follows international motor racing. come february 5, fans will get to bid on a piece of senna history that played a crucial part in his career: the very last racing he ever competed with.
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bonhams has the details on the notable: fielded by the team, senna drove it in his finaling competition, the 1981 world championship in parma, italy. at the time, senna had already begun racing formula fords, and lefting to focus on formula racing full-time. the was purchased from in september of 1981 without an engine, and has been owned by the purchaser since then. an engine identical to has since been installed.
it may not be the mclaren honda car that became most recognizable ride, but this is a historically important artifact in legendary racing life. and hey, closer than any of the rest of us will get to sitting in old seat; the best we can do is play the senna tribute expansion pack on gran turismo 6. want it in your garage? it crosses the auction block tomorrow, with an estimated value reaching $32,000.
a version of this story originally appeared on via autoblog.
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bonhams* ˈsɛnə ɪz pərˈhæps ðə moʊst ˈlɛʤənˌdɛri ˈdraɪvər ɪn ˈfɔrmjələ 1 ənd ənˈdaʊtɪdli ə ˈhɪroʊ tɪ ˈɛniˌwən hu ˈfɑloʊz ˌɪnərˈnæʃənɑl ˈmoʊtər ˈreɪsɪŋ. kəm ˈfɛbruˌɛri 5 fænz wɪl gɪt tɪ bɪd ɔn ə pis əv ˈsɛnə ˈhɪstəri ðət pleɪd ə ˈkruʃəl pɑrt ɪn hɪz kərɪr: ðə ˈvɛri læst ˈreɪsɪŋ hi ˈɛvər kəmˈpitɪd wɪθ. ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt kənˈtɪnju ˈrɛdɪŋ bɪˈloʊ həz ðə ˈditeɪlz ɔn ðə ˈnoʊtəbəl: ˈfildɪd baɪ ðə tim, ˈsɛnə droʊv ɪt ɪn hɪz ˈfaɪnəl ˌkɑmpəˈtɪʃən, ðə 1981 wərld ˈʧæmpiənˌʃɪp ɪn ˈpɑrmə, ˈɪtəli. æt ðə taɪm, ˈsɛnə hæd ɔˈrɛdi ˈbeɪgən ˈreɪsɪŋ ˈfɔrmjələ fɔrdz, ənd lɛft tɪ ˈfoʊkɪs ɔn ˈfɔrmjələ ˈreɪsɪŋ ˈfʊlˌtaɪm. ðə wɑz ˈpərʧəst frəm ɪn sɛpˈtɛmbər əv 1981 wɪˈθaʊt ən ˈɪnʤən, ənd həz bɪn oʊnd baɪ ðə ˈpərʧəsər sɪns ðɛn. ən ˈɪnʤən aɪˈdɛntɪkəl tɪ həz sɪns bɪn ˌɪnˈstɔld. ɪt meɪ nɑt bi ðə məˈklɛrən ˈhɔndə kɑr ðət bɪˈkeɪm moʊst ˌrɛkəgˈnaɪzəbəl raɪd, bət ðɪs ɪz ə hɪˈstɔrɪkəli ˌɪmˈpɔrtənt ˈɑrtəˌfækt ɪn ˈlɛʤənˌdɛri ˈreɪsɪŋ laɪf. ənd heɪ, ˈkloʊzər ðən ˈɛni əv ðə rɛst əv ˈjuˈɛs wɪl gɪt tɪ ˈsɪtɪŋ ɪn oʊld sit; ðə bɛst wi kən du ɪz pleɪ ðə ˈsɛnə ˈtrɪbjut ɪkˈspænʧən pæk ɔn græn ˈtʊrɪsmoʊ 6 wɔnt ɪt ɪn jʊr gərɑʒ? ɪt ˈkrɔsɪz ðə ˈɔkʃən blɑk təˈmɑˌroʊ, wɪθ ən ˈɛstəˌmeɪtɪd ˈvælju ˈriʧɪŋ ə ˈvərʒən əv ðɪs ˈstɔri ərˈɪʤənəli əˈpɪrd ɔn ˈviə autoblog*.
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this mod adds full 360 controller support for playing mass effect mass effect game shipped with all the original controller interfaces but in a very broken state with some functionalityremoved. this mod corrects these issues and features where necessary. the mod switches over to use all theuser interfaces, with the exception of mini and settings. these exceptions have been adjusted to work with this mod will break some elements of the keyboard and mouse support. the console will work fine. if you want to keyboard and mouse, this mod.- adding a 50% drop in right stick when zoomed are two installation directories. one inside your user profile, one inside the game order: -> -> ->controller1. copy the contents of (backup originals first) to :c:\users\ files are marked as "read only" to prevent the game modifying them on startup. if you want to modify them change them back to "read only" before launching the. copy the contents of "mass effect" directory to your install directory overriding the originals (back them up first). these override the original files. (example directory : you are using use the binaries from the mass effect mod uses the same controls as the 360. these can be found 360 controller for mass effect 2 and 3 by moonshine can be found here you want to adjust the sensitivity of the controller (never has a number been discussed more). open and y axis can be inverted in the setup menu.**** remember to set the file back to "read only" before you launch the game.- moonshine for his work on and which inspired me to make this mod.- for all his support.- and for there relentless enthusiasm and testing.- for her only mod which found all the interfaces that weren't broken.- for extra testing: libm, daninthemix,, b3ft, gikoku, daiyus,, and.- the creators of the tools used:explorer, free flash and explorer.
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ðɪs mɔd ædz fʊl 360 kənˈtroʊlər səˈpɔrt fər pleɪɪŋ mæs ˈifɛkt mæs ˈifɛkt geɪm ʃɪpt wɪθ ɔl ðə ərˈɪʤənəl kənˈtroʊlər ˈɪnərˌfeɪsɪz bət ɪn ə ˈvɛri ˈbroʊkən steɪt wɪθ səm functionalityremoved*. ðɪs mɔd kərˈɛkts ðiz ˈɪʃuz ənd ˈfiʧərz wɛr ˈnɛsəˌsɛri. ðə mɔd sˈwɪʧɪz ˈoʊvər tɪ juz ɔl ðə ˈɪnərˌfeɪsɪz, wɪθ ðə ɪkˈsɛpʃən əv ˈmɪni ənd ˈsɛtɪŋz. ðiz ɪkˈsɛpʃənz hæv bɪn əˈʤəstɪd tɪ wərk wɪθ ðɪs mɔd wɪl breɪk səm ˈɛləmənts əv ðə ˈkiˌbɔrd ənd maʊs səˈpɔrt. ðə ˈkɑnsoʊl wɪl wərk faɪn. ɪf ju wɔnt tɪ ˈkiˌbɔrd ənd maʊs, ðɪs mɔd.- ˈædɪŋ ə 50 drɔp ɪn raɪt stɪk wɪn zumd ər tu ˌɪnstəˈleɪʃən dɪˈrɛktəriz. wən ˌɪnˈsaɪd jʊr ˈjuzər ˈproʊˌfaɪl, wən ˌɪnˈsaɪd ðə geɪm ˈɔrdər: ˈkɑpi ðə ˈkɑntɛnts əv (ˈbæˌkəp ərˈɪʤənəlz fərst) tɪ :c:\users*\ faɪlz ər mɑrkt ɛz "rɛd ˈoʊnli" tɪ prɪˈvɛnt ðə geɪm ˈmɑdəˌfaɪɪŋ ðɛm ɔn ˈstɑrˌtəp. ɪf ju wɔnt tɪ ˈmɑdəˌfaɪ ðɛm ʧeɪnʤ ðɛm bæk tɪ "rɛd ˈoʊnli" ˌbiˈfɔr ˈlɔnʧɪŋ ðə ˈkɑpi ðə ˈkɑntɛnts əv "mæs ˈifɛkt" dɪˈrɛktəri tɪ jʊr ˌɪnˈstɔl dɪˈrɛktəri ˈoʊvərˌraɪdɪŋ ðə ərˈɪʤənəlz (bæk ðɛm əp fərst). ðiz ˈoʊvərˌraɪd ðə ərˈɪʤənəl faɪlz. (ɪgˈzæmpəl dɪˈrɛktəri ju ər ˈjuzɪŋ juz ðə ˈbaɪnəˌriz frəm ðə mæs ˈifɛkt mɔd ˈjuzɪz ðə seɪm kənˈtroʊlz ɛz ðə 360 ðiz kən bi faʊnd 360 kənˈtroʊlər fər mæs ˈifɛkt 2 ənd 3 baɪ ˈmunˌʃaɪn kən bi faʊnd hir ju wɔnt tɪ əˈʤəst ðə ˌsɛnsɪˈtɪvɪti əv ðə kənˈtroʊlər (ˈnɛvər həz ə ˈnəmbər bɪn dɪˈskəst mɔr). ˈoʊpən ənd waɪ ˈæksəs kən bi ˌɪnˈvərtɪd ɪn ðə ˈsɛˌtəp rɪˈmɛmbər tɪ sɛt ðə faɪl bæk tɪ "rɛd ˈoʊnli" ˌbiˈfɔr ju lɔnʧ ðə geɪm.- ˈmunˌʃaɪn fər hɪz wərk ɔn ənd wɪʧ ˌɪnˈspaɪərd mi tɪ meɪk ðɪs mɔd.- fər ɔl hɪz səˈpɔrt.- ənd fər ðɛr rɪˈlɛntlɪs ɪnˈθuziˌæzəm ənd ˈtɛstɪŋ.- fər hər ˈoʊnli mɔd wɪʧ faʊnd ɔl ðə ˈɪnərˌfeɪsɪz ðət wərənt ˈbroʊkən.- fər ˈɛkstrə ˈtɛstɪŋ: libm*, daninthemix*, b3ft*, gikoku*, daiyus*, ənd ðə kriˈeɪtərz əv ðə tulz juzd: me1explorer*, fri flæʃ ənd ɪkˈsplɔrər.
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twelve steps, a jump, and his body was over the bar at 7 feet, 1 inch. wally ellenson had broken the marquette university high jump record in his golden eagle debut. he had cleared that height in high school (setting the wisconsin state record in the process) and during limited practices with mu last fall. “all business,” he called it.
his sights were set on greater heights, and he quickly reached them, all the way to 7 feet, inches. pretty good for someone who balances a busy schedule as an championship contender and a member of the marquette men's basketball team.
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“coming into madison and having a great jump to start was perfect,” ellenson said of his work in the wisconsin open on jan. 17. “i’m ready to go and get a national championship. never felt the pressure and whenever a big meet, rise to the occasion and set a personal best.”
at the time, was the best jump of 2015 by an american and the in the world. ellenson was the american in 2014, but his performance in madison put him among the top seven from a year ago. the top three performers at this year's u.s. outdoor track and field championships will represent their country at the world championships in beijing.
ellenson knows he has a chance.
“this year is about just improving in height,” he said. “each centimeter that i can get higher will just make my chances better to compete for team usa and head to beijing.”
2014: eugene
quick flashback to last june: ellenson is gearing up for a jump at the outdoor track and field championships at hayward field. he raises his arms to begin the slow clap for support, to no avail. the crowd is fully engaged in cheering on one of their own, oregon's laura roesler, to a national title in the 800 meters.
as roesler pulls away in the final stretch, ellenson takes off. roesler crosses the finish line. ellenson clears the bar. the crowd goes wild as ellenson comes off the mat throwing his left arm up in the air and jumping for joy.
“i think i got a little carried away,” he recalled. “it was a pure adrenaline rush because of how perfectly executed everything was and being able to improve when it meant the most.”
the reaction from his fellow competitors, as usual, is much different. who is this basketball player from minnesota coming out of nowhere?
“they give me strange looks at first and then they see me jump,” ellenson joked. “every high jumper met thinks they can play basketball pretty well because they can jump and dunk. you hear the opposite from basketball players, but still great to have that dynamic of being good in both.”
as ellenson boarded a plane back to minneapolis, the victory in eugene would wear off quickly as his attention shifted to finding a school for the fall.
'a basketball decision'
ellenson was one of several new faces on the marquette campus last semester. head basketball coach buzz williams had left the program to try to resurrect the virginia tech program. soon after, the spirit of al mcguire delivered steve wojciechowski from mike staff at duke to take the reins.
the guard opened the recruiting process when he decided to transfer from minnesota after playing in 18 games for the gophers over two seasons.
wally ellenson, then a gopher, skies for a attempt against ohio state. (getty images)
soon after visiting marquette with his younger brother henry, a recruit, he decided to play in his home state (he's from rice lake, which is about 4 hours northwest of milwaukee).
“coming here was purely a basketball decision,” ellenson said. “i wanted to get in a better environment. is an unbelievable coach and been awesome working with all these other coaches that thrived in their own college careers. after a semester, i know i made the right move.”
he has to sit out the basketball season because of transfer rules, but he is eligible to compete for the indoor and outdoor track team. when the basketball team is on the road, ellenson trains with the track team.
“he’s an track athlete. we want to give him the opportunity to pursue that passion.” wojciechowski said. “on the court, a fighter and hard worker. behind the scenes, been a key part and making our team better. the thing is, you just see that now.”
the process is new to wojciechowski; most of the players he encountered at duke had a focus. nets forward mason plumlee jumped in high school, but only played basketball for the blue devils.
“when talking the olympics, the best of the best and hard to match up to that in two sports,” wojciechowski said.
at minnesota, ellenson joined the track team the day after basketball season ended.
“basketball has always been my first love,” he said. “high jump has been a great experience, especially in college. i seen the ceiling to the heights i can clear yet.”
one day, he may have to leave behind that first love to seriously pursue a shot at the 2016 summer olympics in rio de janeiro. not ready for that day yet.
“right now doing both sports and going to push them both to the limit,” he said.
the sports gene
the ellenson gene pool is one of the deepest in the country. the height traces back to grandparents, and wally's great uncle jessie played professional basketball in australia. wally's father, john, was a high jumper in high school and competed at the wisconsin state championship. john oversaw wally's development as a high jumper at rice lake high school. mother holly coaches at rice lake.
wally was the first to come into the world and was quickly followed by ellwood, henry and ella. ellwood plays for valley city state university in north dakota. he transferred from division bemidji state to play for coach jeff kaminsky, whom john has known for close to two decades.
henry is among the top five recruits in the class of 2015 and will join with his brother at marquette next season. ella is a sophomore at rice lake and already receiving division i attention.
“a lot of bonding has always taken place on the court and at events like tournaments,” wally said. “at the same time, whenever on the court against any of them things will get intense.”
this winter has been a particularly busy one for parents with four basketball teams and an indoor track team to follow. even though wally can't be on the court at harris bradley center for marquette home games, the family is there to take in the atmosphere ahead of wally and henry being teammates in 2015.
as soon as body cleared the bar in madison, john and holly celebrated briefly before heading to their car to go watch henry play, and then ella.
his parents were not in attendance friday for the panther meet at the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. that didn't bother ellenson, who won with a jump of. not a bad day at the track for someone who rushed over after basketball practice.
minutes after the victory, ellenson packed his bag and rushed back to campus for a basketball team meeting ahead of saturday's big east home game against villanova.
even as he sits atop the in high jump, basketball comes first for ellenson at the end of the day.
this article has been corrected, ellwood school was incorrect in previous versions.
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twɛlv stɛps, ə ʤəmp, ənd hɪz ˈbɑdi wɑz ˈoʊvər ðə bɑr æt 7 fit, 1 ɪnʧ. ˈwɔli ˈɛlɪnsən hæd ˈbroʊkən ðə mɑrˈkɛt ˌjunəˈvərsəti haɪ ʤəmp ˈrɛkərd ɪn hɪz ˈgoʊldən ˈigəl ˈdeɪbju. hi hæd klɪrd ðət haɪt ɪn haɪ skul (ˈsɛtɪŋ ðə wɪˈskɑnsən steɪt ˈrɛkərd ɪn ðə ˈprɔˌsɛs) ənd ˈdʊrɪŋ ˈlɪmɪtɪd ˈpræktɪsɪz wɪθ mu læst fɔl. business,”*,” hi kɔld ɪt. hɪz saɪts wər sɛt ɔn ˈgreɪtər haɪts, ənd hi kˈwɪkli riʧt ðɛm, ɔl ðə weɪ tɪ 7 fit, ˈɪnʧɪz. ˈprɪti gʊd fər ˈsəmˌwən hu ˈbælənsɪz ə ˈbɪzi ˈskɛʤʊl ɛz ən ˈʧæmpiənˌʃɪp kənˈtɛndər ənd ə ˈmɛmbər əv ðə mɑrˈkɛt mɛnz ˈbæskətˌbɔl tim. mɔr: ˈrənɪŋ ɑr maʊðz ˈpɔdˌkæst, ep*. ˈsɛvən ˈrioʊ 2016 træk ənd fild ˈskɛʤʊlz ˈɪntu ˈmædɪsən ənd ˈhævɪŋ ə greɪt ʤəmp tɪ stɑrt wɑz perfect,”*,” ˈɛlɪnsən sɛd əv hɪz wərk ɪn ðə wɪˈskɑnsən ˈoʊpən ɔn ʤæn. 17 ˈrɛdi tɪ goʊ ənd gɪt ə ˈnæʃənəl ˈʧæmpiənˌʃɪp. ˈnɛvər fɛlt ðə ˈprɛʃər ənd wɛˈnɛvər ə bɪg mit, raɪz tɪ ðə əˈkeɪʒən ənd sɛt ə ˈpərsɪnəl best.”*.” æt ðə taɪm, wɑz ðə bɛst ʤəmp əv 2015 baɪ ən əˈmɛrɪkən ənd ðə ɪn ðə wərld. ˈɛlɪnsən wɑz ðə əˈmɛrɪkən ɪn 2014 bət hɪz pərˈfɔrməns ɪn ˈmædɪsən pʊt ɪm əˈməŋ ðə tɔp ˈsɛvən frəm ə jɪr əˈgoʊ. ðə tɔp θri pərˈfɔrmərz æt ðɪs jɪrz juz. ˈaʊtˌdɔr træk ənd fild ˈʧæmpiənˌʃɪps wɪl ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnt ðɛr ˈkəntri æt ðə wərld ˈʧæmpiənˌʃɪps ɪn ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ. ˈɛlɪnsən noʊz hi həz ə ʧæns. jɪr ɪz əˈbaʊt ʤɪst ˌɪmˈpruvɪŋ ɪn height,”*,” hi sɛd. ˈsɛntəˌmitər ðət aɪ kən gɪt haɪər wɪl ʤɪst meɪk maɪ ˈʧænsɪz ˈbɛtər tɪ kəmˈpit fər tim ˈjuˈɛˈseɪ ənd hɛd tɪ beijing.”*.” 2014 ˈjuʤin kwɪk ˈflæʃˌbæk tɪ læst ʤun: ˈɛlɪnsən ɪz ˈgɪrɪŋ əp fər ə ʤəmp æt ðə ˈaʊtˌdɔr træk ənd fild ˈʧæmpiənˌʃɪps æt ˈheɪwərd fild. hi ˈreɪzɪz hɪz ɑrmz tɪ bɪˈgɪn ðə sloʊ klæp fər səˈpɔrt, tɪ noʊ əˈveɪl. ðə kraʊd ɪz ˈfʊli ɪnˈgeɪʤd ɪn ˈʧɪrɪŋ ɔn wən əv ðɛr oʊn, ˈɔrəˌgɑnz ˈlɔrə ˈroʊsələr, tɪ ə ˈnæʃənəl ˈtaɪtəl ɪn ðə 800 ˈmitərz. ɛz ˈroʊsələr pʊlz əˈweɪ ɪn ðə ˈfaɪnəl strɛʧ, ˈɛlɪnsən teɪks ɔf. ˈroʊsələr ˈkrɔsɪz ðə ˈfɪnɪʃ laɪn. ˈɛlɪnsən klɪrz ðə bɑr. ðə kraʊd goʊz waɪld ɛz ˈɛlɪnsən kəmz ɔf ðə mæt θroʊɪŋ hɪz lɛft ɑrm əp ɪn ðə ɛr ənd ˈʤəmpɪŋ fər ʤɔɪ. θɪŋk aɪ gɑt ə ˈlɪtəl ˈkɛrid away,”*,” hi rɪˈkɔld. wɑz ə pjʊr əˈdrɛnələn rəʃ bɪˈkəz əv haʊ ˈpərfəktli ˈɛksəˌkjutɪd ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ wɑz ənd biɪŋ ˈeɪbəl tɪ ˌɪmˈpruv wɪn ɪt mɛnt ðə most.”*.” ðə riˈækʃən frəm hɪz ˈfɛloʊ kəmˈpɛtɪtərz, ɛz ˈjuʒəwəl, ɪz məʧ ˈdɪfərənt. hu ɪz ðɪs ˈbæskətˌbɔl pleɪər frəm ˌmɪnɪˈsoʊtə ˈkəmɪŋ aʊt əv ˈnoʊˌwɛr? gɪv mi streɪnʤ lʊks æt fərst ənd ðɛn ðeɪ si mi jump,”*,” ˈɛlɪnsən ʤoʊkt. haɪ ˈʤəmpər mɛt θɪŋks ðeɪ kən pleɪ ˈbæskətˌbɔl ˈprɪti wɛl bɪˈkəz ðeɪ kən ʤəmp ənd dəŋk. ju hir ðə ˈɑpəzɪt frəm ˈbæskətˌbɔl pleɪərz, bət stɪl greɪt tɪ hæv ðət daɪˈnæmɪk əv biɪŋ gʊd ɪn both.”*.” ɛz ˈɛlɪnsən ˈbɔrdɪd ə pleɪn bæk tɪ ˌmɪniˈæpəlɪs, ðə ˈvɪktəri ɪn ˈjuʤin wʊd wɛr ɔf kˈwɪkli ɛz hɪz əˈtɛnʃən ˈʃɪftɪd tɪ ˈfaɪndɪŋ ə skul fər ðə fɔl. 'ə ˈbæskətˌbɔl dɪˈsɪʒən' ˈɛlɪnsən wɑz wən əv ˈsɛvərəl nu ˈfeɪsɪz ɔn ðə mɑrˈkɛt ˈkæmpəs læst səˈmɛstər. hɛd ˈbæskətˌbɔl koʊʧ bəz ˈwɪljəmz hæd lɛft ðə ˈproʊˌgræm tɪ traɪ tɪ ˌrɛzərˈɛkt ðə vərˈʤɪnjə tɛk ˈproʊˌgræm. sun ˈæftər, ðə ˈspɪrɪt əv æl məgˈwaɪr dɪˈlɪvərd stiv wɔɪʧɪˈhɔfski frəm maɪk stæf æt duk tɪ teɪk ðə reɪnz. ðə gɑrd ˈoʊpənd ðə rɪˈkrutɪŋ ˈprɔˌsɛs wɪn hi ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd tɪ ˈtrænsfər frəm ˌmɪnɪˈsoʊtə ˈæftər pleɪɪŋ ɪn 18 geɪmz fər ðə ˈgoʊfərz ˈoʊvər tu ˈsizənz. ˈwɔli ˈɛlɪnsən, ðɛn ə ˈgoʊfər, skaɪz fər ə əˈtɛmpt əˈgɛnst oʊˈhaɪoʊ steɪt. (ˈgɛti ˈɪmɪʤɪz) sun ˈæftər ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ mɑrˈkɛt wɪθ hɪz ˈjəŋgər ˈbrəðər ˈhɛnri, ə rɪˈkrut, hi ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd tɪ pleɪ ɪn hɪz hoʊm steɪt (hiz frəm raɪs leɪk, wɪʧ ɪz əˈbaʊt 4 aʊərz ˌnɔrθˈwɛst əv mɪlˈwɔki). hir wɑz ˈpjʊrli ə ˈbæskətˌbɔl decision,”*,” ˈɛlɪnsən sɛd. ˈwɔntɪd tɪ gɪt ɪn ə ˈbɛtər ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt. ɪz ən ˌənbəˈlivəbəl koʊʧ ənd bɪn ˈɔsəm ˈwərkɪŋ wɪθ ɔl ðiz ˈəðər ˈkoʊʧɪz ðət θraɪvd ɪn ðɛr oʊn ˈkɑlɪʤ kərɪrz. ˈæftər ə səˈmɛstər, aɪ noʊ aɪ meɪd ðə raɪt move.”*.” hi həz tɪ sɪt aʊt ðə ˈbæskətˌbɔl ˈsizən bɪˈkəz əv ˈtrænsfər rulz, bət hi ɪz ˈɛlɪʤəbəl tɪ kəmˈpit fər ðə ˈɪnˌdɔr ənd ˈaʊtˌdɔr træk tim. wɪn ðə ˈbæskətˌbɔl tim ɪz ɔn ðə roʊd, ˈɛlɪnsən treɪnz wɪθ ðə træk tim. ən træk ˈæθˌlit. wi wɔnt tɪ gɪv ɪm ðə ˌɑpərˈtunəti tɪ pərˈsu ðət passion.”*.” wɔɪʧɪˈhɔfski sɛd. ðə kɔrt, ə ˈfaɪtər ənd hɑrd ˈwərkər. bɪˈhaɪnd ðə sinz, bɪn ə ki pɑrt ənd ˈmeɪkɪŋ ɑr tim ˈbɛtər. ðə θɪŋ ɪz, ju ʤɪst si ðət now.”*.” ðə ˈprɔˌsɛs ɪz nu tɪ wɔɪʧɪˈhɔfski; moʊst əv ðə pleɪərz hi ɪnˈkaʊnərd æt duk hæd ə ˈfoʊkɪs. nɛts ˈfɔrwərd ˈmeɪsən ˈpləmˌli ʤəmpt ɪn haɪ skul, bət ˈoʊnli pleɪd ˈbæskətˌbɔl fər ðə blu ˈdɛvəlz. ˈtɔkɪŋ ðə oʊˈlɪmpɪks, ðə bɛst əv ðə bɛst ənd hɑrd tɪ mæʧ əp tɪ ðət ɪn tu sports,”*,” wɔɪʧɪˈhɔfski sɛd. æt ˌmɪnɪˈsoʊtə, ˈɛlɪnsən ʤɔɪnd ðə træk tim ðə deɪ ˈæftər ˈbæskətˌbɔl ˈsizən ˈɛndɪd. həz ˈɔlˌweɪz bɪn maɪ fərst love,”*,” hi sɛd. ʤəmp həz bɪn ə greɪt ɪkˈspɪriəns, əˈspɛʃəli ɪn ˈkɑlɪʤ. aɪ sin ðə ˈsilɪŋ tɪ ðə haɪts aɪ kən klɪr yet.”*.” wən deɪ, hi meɪ hæv tɪ liv bɪˈhaɪnd ðət fərst ləv tɪ ˈsɪriəsli pərˈsu ə ʃɑt æt ðə 2016 ˈsəmər oʊˈlɪmpɪks ɪn ˈrioʊ də ʤəˈnɛˌroʊ. nɑt ˈrɛdi fər ðət deɪ jɛt. naʊ duɪŋ boʊθ spɔrts ənd goʊɪŋ tɪ pʊʃ ðɛm boʊθ tɪ ðə limit,”*,” hi sɛd. ðə spɔrts ʤin ðə ˈɛlɪnsən ʤin pul ɪz wən əv ðə ˈdipəst ɪn ðə ˈkəntri. ðə haɪt ˈtreɪsɪz bæk tɪ ˈgrændˌpɛrənts, ənd ˈwɔliz greɪt ˈəŋkəl ˈʤɛsi pleɪd prəˈfɛʃənəl ˈbæskətˌbɔl ɪn ɔˈstreɪljə. ˈwɔliz ˈfɑðər, ʤɑn, wɑz ə haɪ ˈʤəmpər ɪn haɪ skul ənd kəmˈpitɪd æt ðə wɪˈskɑnsən steɪt ˈʧæmpiənˌʃɪp. ʤɑn ˈoʊvərˌsɔ ˈwɔliz dɪˈvɛləpmənt ɛz ə haɪ ˈʤəmpər æt raɪs leɪk haɪ skul. ˈməðər ˈhɑli ˈkoʊʧɪz æt raɪs leɪk. ˈwɔli wɑz ðə fərst tɪ kəm ˈɪntu ðə wərld ənd wɑz kˈwɪkli ˈfɑloʊd baɪ ˈɛlˌwʊd, ˈhɛnri ənd ˈɛlə. ˈɛlˌwʊd pleɪz fər ˈvæli ˈsɪti steɪt ˌjunəˈvərsəti ɪn nɔrθ dəˈkoʊtə. hi ˈtrænsfərd frəm dɪˈvɪʒən bəˈmɪdʤi steɪt tɪ pleɪ fər koʊʧ ʤɛf kəˈmɪnski, hum ʤɑn həz noʊn fər kloʊz tɪ tu ˈdɛkeɪdz. ˈhɛnri ɪz əˈməŋ ðə tɔp faɪv rɪˈkruts ɪn ðə klæs əv 2015 ənd wɪl ʤɔɪn wɪθ hɪz ˈbrəðər æt mɑrˈkɛt nɛkst ˈsizən. ˈɛlə ɪz ə ˈsɑfˌmɔr æt raɪs leɪk ənd ɔˈrɛdi rɪˈsivɪŋ dɪˈvɪʒən aɪ əˈtɛnʃən. lɔt əv ˈbɑndɪŋ həz ˈɔlˌweɪz ˈteɪkən pleɪs ɔn ðə kɔrt ənd æt ɪˈvɛnts laɪk tournaments,”*,” ˈwɔli sɛd. ðə seɪm taɪm, wɛˈnɛvər ɔn ðə kɔrt əˈgɛnst ˈɛni əv ðɛm θɪŋz wɪl gɪt intense.”*.” ðɪs ˈwɪntər həz bɪn ə ˌpɑrˈtɪkjələrli ˈbɪzi wən fər ˈpɛrənts wɪθ fɔr ˈbæskətˌbɔl timz ənd ən ˈɪnˌdɔr træk tim tɪ ˈfɑloʊ. ˈivɪn ðoʊ ˈwɔli kænt bi ɔn ðə kɔrt æt ˈhɛrɪs ˈbrædli ˈsɛnər fər mɑrˈkɛt hoʊm geɪmz, ðə ˈfæməli ɪz ðɛr tɪ teɪk ɪn ðə ˈætməsˌfɪr əˈhɛd əv ˈwɔli ənd ˈhɛnri biɪŋ ˈtimˌmeɪts ɪn 2015 ɛz sun ɛz ˈbɑdi klɪrd ðə bɑr ɪn ˈmædɪsən, ʤɑn ənd ˈhɑli ˈsɛləˌbreɪtɪd ˈbrifli ˌbiˈfɔr ˈhɛdɪŋ tɪ ðɛr kɑr tɪ goʊ wɔʧ ˈhɛnri pleɪ, ənd ðɛn ˈɛlə. hɪz ˈpɛrənts wər nɑt ɪn əˈtɛndəns ˈfraɪˌdeɪ fər ðə ˈpænθər mit æt ðə ˌjunəˈvərsəti əv wisconsin-milwaukee*. ðət ˈdɪdənt ˈbɑðər ˈɛlɪnsən, hu wən wɪθ ə ʤəmp əv nɑt ə bæd deɪ æt ðə træk fər ˈsəmˌwən hu rəʃt ˈoʊvər ˈæftər ˈbæskətˌbɔl ˈpræktɪs. ˈmɪnəts ˈæftər ðə ˈvɪktəri, ˈɛlɪnsən pækt hɪz bæg ənd rəʃt bæk tɪ ˈkæmpəs fər ə ˈbæskətˌbɔl tim ˈmitɪŋ əˈhɛd əv ˈsætərdiz bɪg ist hoʊm geɪm əˈgɛnst ˌvɪləˈnoʊvə. ˈivɪn ɛz hi sɪts əˈtɑp ðə ɪn haɪ ʤəmp, ˈbæskətˌbɔl kəmz fərst fər ˈɛlɪnsən æt ðə ɛnd əv ðə deɪ. ðɪs ˈɑrtɪkəl həz bɪn kərˈɛktɪd, ˈɛlˌwʊd skul wɑz ˌɪnkərˈɛkt ɪn ˈpriviəs ˈvərʒənz.
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here is what you need to know on this sunday, september 4, eight days before the washington redskins open their season against the pittsburgh steelers.
timeline
—today's schedule: off day, no availability
—the redskins last played a game that counted 238 days ago. it will be eight days until they host the steelers in their 2016 season opener.
—days until: cowboys @ redskins 14; browns @ redskins 28; redskins @ ravens 35
checking in on the redskins’ draft picks
wr josh (1st is now off of the list because there one after the cut to 53. the wide receiver is now eligible to practice for the first time since. but that mean that he will. we really get a read on that until thursday, when the redskins issue their first injury report.
lb/s cravens (2nd)—he was all over the place during preseason games. although he played inside linebacker during those games, it surprise me if they have been carving out an additional role for him during the practices that have been closed since after the second game. cravens may not always be where he's supposed to be but he does make plays.
cb kendall fuller (3rd)—there were concerns about his knee coming in but he was very nearly a full go from the moment he arrived for the program. he appears to be in competition with phillips for the nickel cornerback role. for the moment it looks like phillips is ahead but it could be decided in practice this week.
dl matt (5th)—the only draft pick to get cut today, he has to qualify as a disappointment, at least in these early stages. possible that he could land on the practice squad, work on his fundamentals, and land back on the roster as a productive player whether later this year or in 2017. but for now, i'm looking at a defensive line that got no help from the draft and at all of the wheeling and dealing for future picks that scot did around the fourth and fifth rounds in the draft and wondering if he could have done better. he was the third highest drafted player to get cut.
qb nate (6th)—it’s a good thing he being judged by his preseason numbers. completed just percent of his passes and gained yards per attempt. but he throw an interception and that along with his steady improvement in practice since likely helped convince jay and scot that he is worth trying to develop.
lb steven daniels (7th)—daniels suffered a shoulder injury early on in camp and landed on injured reserve. he was a project and may not have made the 53 even if he had been healthy. daniels will get a year to go to meetings and the injury happened early enough so that there is a good chance that he will be ready to go for the program.
rb keith marshall (7th)—we’ll never know what he would have done with his chance to make a case for a roster spot during that third preseason game against the bills because he suffered a sprained elbow on his first carry. marshall has the physical tools to be a good back but he has to learn to stay on the field.
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a nice sunset in ashburn tonight. rich (@tandlernbcs) september 3, 2016
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hir ɪz wət ju nid tɪ noʊ ɔn ðɪs ˈsənˌdi, sɛpˈtɛmbər 4 eɪt deɪz ˌbiˈfɔr ðə ˈwɔʃɪŋtən ˈrɛdˌskɪnz ˈoʊpən ðɛr ˈsizən əˈgɛnst ðə ˈpɪtsbərg ˈstilərz. ˈtaɪmlaɪn ˈskɛʤʊl: ɔf deɪ, noʊ əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪti ˈrɛdˌskɪnz læst pleɪd ə geɪm ðət ˈkaʊntɪd 238 deɪz əˈgoʊ. ɪt wɪl bi eɪt deɪz ənˈtɪl ðeɪ hoʊst ðə ˈstilərz ɪn ðɛr 2016 ˈsizən ˈoʊpənər. ənˈtɪl: ˈkaʊˌbɔɪz ˈrɛdˌskɪnz 14 braʊnz ˈrɛdˌskɪnz 28 ˈrɛdˌskɪnz ˈreɪvənz 35 ˈʧɛkɪŋ ɪn ɔn ðə redskins’*’ dræft pɪks ʤɑʃ ɪz naʊ ɔf əv ðə lɪst bɪˈkəz ðɛr wən ˈæftər ðə kət tɪ 53 ðə waɪd rɪˈsivər ɪz naʊ ˈɛlɪʤəbəl tɪ ˈpræktɪs fər ðə fərst taɪm sɪns. bət ðət min ðət hi wɪl. wi ˈrɪli gɪt ə rɛd ɔn ðət ənˈtɪl ˈθərzˌdeɪ, wɪn ðə ˈrɛdˌskɪnz ˈɪʃu ðɛr fərst ˈɪnʤəri rɪˈpɔrt. ˈkreɪvənz wɑz ɔl ˈoʊvər ðə pleɪs ˈdʊrɪŋ ˌpriˈsizən geɪmz. ˌɔlˈðoʊ hi pleɪd ˌɪnˈsaɪd ˈlaɪnˌbækər ˈdʊrɪŋ ðoʊz geɪmz, ɪt səˈpraɪz mi ɪf ðeɪ hæv bɪn ˈkɑrvɪŋ aʊt ən əˈdɪʃənəl roʊl fər ɪm ˈdʊrɪŋ ðə ˈpræktɪsɪz ðət hæv bɪn kloʊzd sɪns ˈæftər ðə ˈsɛkənd geɪm. ˈkreɪvənz meɪ nɑt ˈɔlˌweɪz bi wɛr hiz səˈpoʊzd tɪ bi bət hi dɪz meɪk pleɪz. ˈkɛndəl ˈfʊlər wər kənˈsərnz əˈbaʊt hɪz ni ˈkəmɪŋ ɪn bət hi wɑz ˈvɛri ˈnɪrli ə fʊl goʊ frəm ðə ˈmoʊmənt hi əraɪvd fər ðə ˈproʊˌgræm. hi əˈpɪrz tɪ bi ɪn ˌkɑmpəˈtɪʃən wɪθ ˈfɪlɪps fər ðə ˈnɪkəl ˈkɔrnərˌbæk roʊl. fər ðə ˈmoʊmənt ɪt lʊks laɪk ˈfɪlɪps ɪz əˈhɛd bət ɪt kʊd bi ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪd ɪn ˈpræktɪs ðɪs wik. mæt ˈoʊnli dræft pɪk tɪ gɪt kət təˈdeɪ, hi həz tɪ kˈwɑləˌfaɪ ɛz ə ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt, æt list ɪn ðiz ˈərli ˈsteɪʤɪz. ˈpɑsəbəl ðət hi kʊd lænd ɔn ðə ˈpræktɪs skwɑd, wərk ɔn hɪz ˌfəndəˈmɛnəlz, ənd lænd bæk ɔn ðə ˈrɑstər ɛz ə pərˈdəktɪv pleɪər ˈwɛðər ˈleɪtər ðɪs jɪr ər ɪn 2017 bət fər naʊ, əm ˈlʊkɪŋ æt ə dɪˈfɛnsɪv laɪn ðət gɑt noʊ hɛlp frəm ðə dræft ənd æt ɔl əv ðə ˈwilɪŋ ənd ˈdilɪŋ fər fˈjuʧər pɪks ðət skɑt dɪd əraʊnd ðə fɔrθ ənd fɪθ raʊnz ɪn ðə dræft ənd ˈwəndərɪŋ ɪf hi kʊd hæv dən ˈbɛtər. hi wɑz ðə θərd haɪəst ˈdræftɪd pleɪər tɪ gɪt kət. neɪt ə gʊd θɪŋ hi biɪŋ ʤəʤd baɪ hɪz ˌpriˈsizən ˈnəmbərz. kəmˈplitɪd ʤɪst pərˈsɛnt əv hɪz ˈpæsɪz ənd geɪnd jɑrdz pər əˈtɛmpt. bət hi θroʊ ən ˌɪnərˈsɛpʃən ənd ðət əˈlɔŋ wɪθ hɪz ˈstɛdi ˌɪmˈpruvmənt ɪn ˈpræktɪs sɪns ˈlaɪkli hɛlpt kənˈvɪns ʤeɪ ənd skɑt ðət hi ɪz wərθ traɪɪŋ tɪ dɪˈvɛləp. paʊnd ˈstivən ˈdænjɛlz ˈsəfərd ə ˈʃoʊldər ˈɪnʤəri ˈərli ɔn ɪn kæmp ənd ˈlændɪd ɔn ˈɪnʤərd rɪˈzərv. hi wɑz ə ˈprɑʤɛkt ənd meɪ nɑt hæv meɪd ðə 53 ˈivɪn ɪf hi hæd bɪn ˈhɛlθi. ˈdænjɛlz wɪl gɪt ə jɪr tɪ goʊ tɪ ˈmitɪŋz ənd ðə ˈɪnʤəri ˈhæpənd ˈərli ɪˈnəf soʊ ðət ðɛr ɪz ə gʊd ʧæns ðət hi wɪl bi ˈrɛdi tɪ goʊ fər ðə ˈproʊˌgræm. kiθ ˈmɑrʃəl ˈnɛvər noʊ wət hi wʊd hæv dən wɪθ hɪz ʧæns tɪ meɪk ə keɪs fər ə ˈrɑstər spɑt ˈdʊrɪŋ ðət θərd ˌpriˈsizən geɪm əˈgɛnst ðə bɪlz bɪˈkəz hi ˈsəfərd ə spreɪnd ˈɛlˌboʊ ɔn hɪz fərst ˈkɛri. ˈmɑrʃəl həz ðə ˈfɪzɪkəl tulz tɪ bi ə gʊd bæk bət hi həz tɪ lərn tɪ steɪ ɔn ðə fild. ɔn tˈwɪtər ə nis ˈsənˌsɛt ɪn ˈæʃbərn təˈnaɪt. rɪʧ (@tandlernbcs*) sɛpˈtɛmbər 3 2016 ɪn keɪs ju mɪst ɪt
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brussels (reuters) - british andropean union negotiators exchanged recriminations on wednesday over a lack of progress in the latest round of talks on withdrawal, with both sides demanding change to meet looming deadlines.
director general at the department for exiting theropean union sarah healey, britain's secretary of state for exiting theropean union david davis, britain's permanent representative to theropean union tim barrow meet in brussels, belgium august 30, 2017. vidal
ahead of a planned thursday morning news conference with his british counterpart david davis, chief negotiator michel rejected complaints that his team was too rigidly tied by laboriously agreed guidelines from the member states to find compromises with demands for close new relations.
for their part, british officials hotly denied accusations they were too short on ideas and preparation to make progress the wants to see on the divorce settlement before the other 27 leaders will agree to launch talks on a future trade pact.
“it’s quite difficult to negotiate with people who seem to have the flexibility that would allow them to negotiate,” one said, echoing call for more “flexibility and imagination” from brussels.
in a pointed tweet, rejected the suggestion that the guidelines handed to him by the other governments themselves the product of months of negotiation were tying his hands. he renewed calls for britain to give more detail on its wishes.
“guidelines are designed for serious and constructive negotiations but we need clear positions on all issues,” the former french foreign minister said. if potential compromises can be identified by the technicians, officials say, they can go back to political leaders for approval to cut deals.
with little more than a year left to agree the withdrawal terms and transitional arrangements to avoid disruption to lives and business across the continent when britain leaves in march 2019, both sides hope an summit on oct. can agree that “sufficient progress” has been made to launch free trade talks.
officials said differences had narrowed on some issues in a divorce settlement that must determine the rights of expatriate citizens, border arrangements, especially on the island of ireland, and disparate technicalities including legal relations and ties with theratom nuclear materials treaty.
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however, a gulf remains over demands that britain pay possibly 60 billionros ($70 billion) on departure. british negotiators presented on tuesday their legal analysis of what london accepts will be some obligations to the.
though neither side is advancing hard figures yet, the british rejected what they called a sweeping “top down” approach from the and argued for a more detailed, “bottom up” review based on diverse legal arrangements across many budget areas.
britain would like to see the pace of direct talks stepped up, beyond the roughly monthly schedule agreed in july. two more rounds are scheduled before the october summit. davis also wants’s team to loosen their refusal yet to discuss future trade arrangements, arguing that this hampers progress on agreeing some divorce elements, such as the irish land border.
a source close to stressed that the was willing to discuss the future relationship once “sufficient progress” a deliberately vague concept is made. that could, the source said, help resolve complaints from britain, such as about an refusal to agree now that british tourists could keep cards that give them easy access to medical care across the union.
several officials offered downbeat assessments of progress “awful” was the verdict of one diplomat. however, others cautioned that results this week were never expected to be great and said both sides are still figuring out exactly what the other wants and where potential areas for trade-offs will lie.
while many doubt a breakthrough by october some senior officials see prime minister theresa may spoiling for a with her counterparts some diplomats close to the process cautioned against too deep a pessimism.
the executive has a track record of creative and the 27, while demanding much from britain, also do not want to see it depart in chaos.
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and while’s boss,ropean commission president juncker, blasted as inadequate a series of british proposals over the summer, one senior official said they showed signs may was trying to prepare public opinion for compromises that may disappoint many britons who voted for last year.
“we need to be careful not to be too negative about these papers,” he said. “you can say a lot of things about the brits, but they dumb ... even if we are very disappointed with where we are ... maybe about creating a haze, under the cover of which you can turn the ship around.”
guy verhofstadt, theropean point man, told fellow lawmakers on wednesday that while he dismissed many british proposals a call for an “invisible” border in ireland was “surrealist”, he said he believed that threat of walking out without any deal had now firmly receded.
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ˈbrəsəlz (ˈrɔɪtərz) ˈbrɪtɪʃ ənd ˌjʊrəˈpiən ˈjunjən nɪˈgoʊʃiˌeɪtərz ɪksˈʧeɪnʤd rɪˌkrɪmɪˈneɪʃənz ɔn ˈwɛnzˌdeɪ ˈoʊvər ə læk əv ˈprɑˌgrɛs ɪn ðə ˈleɪtəst raʊnd əv tɔks ɔn wɪθˈdrɔəl, wɪθ boʊθ saɪdz dɪˈmændɪŋ ʧeɪnʤ tɪ mit ˈlumɪŋ ˈdɛˌdlaɪnz. dɪˈrɛktər ˈʤɛnərəl æt ðə dɪˈpɑrtmənt fər ˈɛgzɪtɪŋ ðə ˌjʊrəˈpiən ˈjunjən ˈsɛrə ˈhili, ˈbrɪtənz ˈsɛkrəˌtɛri əv steɪt fər ˈɛgzɪtɪŋ ðə ˌjʊrəˈpiən ˈjunjən ˈdeɪvɪd ˈdeɪvɪs, ˈbrɪtənz ˈpərmɑˌnɛnt ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnətɪv tɪ ðə ˌjʊrəˈpiən ˈjunjən tɪm ˈbɛroʊ mit ɪn ˈbrəsəlz, ˈbɛlʤəm ˈɔgəst 30 2017 vaɪˈdæl əˈhɛd əv ə plænd ˈθərzˌdeɪ ˈmɔrnɪŋ nuz ˈkɑnfərəns wɪθ hɪz ˈbrɪtɪʃ ˈkaʊntərˌpɑrt ˈdeɪvɪd ˈdeɪvɪs, ʧif nɪˈgoʊʃiˌeɪtər ˈmɪʧəl rɪˈʤɛktɪd kəmˈpleɪnts ðət hɪz tim wɑz tu ˈrɪʤɪdli taɪd baɪ ləˈbɔriəsli əˈgrid ˈgaɪˌdlaɪnz frəm ðə ˈmɛmbər steɪts tɪ faɪnd ˈkɑmprəˌmaɪzɪz wɪθ dɪˈmændz fər kloʊz nu riˈleɪʃənz. fər ðɛr pɑrt, ˈbrɪtɪʃ əˈfɪʃəlz ˈhɑtli dɪˈnaɪd ˌækjəˈzeɪʃənz ðeɪ wər tu ʃɔrt ɔn aɪˈdiəz ənd ˌprɛpərˈeɪʃən tɪ meɪk ˈprɑˌgrɛs ðə wɔnts tɪ si ɔn ðə dɪˈvɔrs ˈsɛtəlmənt ˌbiˈfɔr ðə ˈəðər 27 ˈlidərz wɪl əˈgri tɪ lɔnʧ tɔks ɔn ə fˈjuʧər treɪd pækt. kwaɪt ˈdɪfəkəlt tɪ nɪˈgoʊʃiˌeɪt wɪθ ˈpipəl hu sim tɪ hæv ðə ˌflɛksəˈbɪləti ðət wʊd əˈlaʊ ðɛm tɪ negotiate,”*,” wən sɛd, ˈɛkoʊɪŋ kɔl fər mɔr ənd imagination”*” frəm ˈbrəsəlz. ɪn ə ˈpɔɪntɪd twit, rɪˈʤɛktɪd ðə səˈʤɛsʧən ðət ðə ˈgaɪˌdlaɪnz ˈhændɪd tɪ ɪm baɪ ðə ˈəðər ˈgəvərnmənts ðɛmˈsɛlvz ðə ˈprɑdəkt əv mənθs əv nɪˌgoʊʃiˈeɪʃən wər taɪɪŋ hɪz hænz. hi rɪˈnud kɔlz fər ˈbrɪtən tɪ gɪv mɔr ˈditeɪl ɔn ɪts ˈwɪʃɪz. ər dɪˈzaɪnd fər ˈsɪriəs ənd kənˈstrəktɪv nɪˌgoʊʃiˈeɪʃənz bət wi nid klɪr pəˈzɪʃənz ɔn ɔl issues,”*,” ðə ˈfɔrmər frɛnʧ ˈfɔrən ˈmɪnɪstər sɛd. ɪf pəˈtɛnʃəl ˈkɑmprəˌmaɪzɪz kən bi aɪˈdɛntəˌfaɪd baɪ ðə tɛkˈnɪʃənz, əˈfɪʃəlz seɪ, ðeɪ kən goʊ bæk tɪ pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈlidərz fər əˈpruvəl tɪ kət dilz. wɪθ ˈlɪtəl mɔr ðən ə jɪr lɛft tɪ əˈgri ðə wɪθˈdrɔəl tərmz ənd trænˈzɪʃənəl ərˈeɪnʤmənts tɪ əˈvɔɪd dɪsˈrəpʃən tɪ lɪvz ənd ˈbɪznɪs əˈkrɔs ðə ˈkɑntənənt wɪn ˈbrɪtən livz ɪn mɑrʧ 2019 boʊθ saɪdz hoʊp ən ˈsəmɪt ɔn ɔkt. kən əˈgri ðət progress”*” həz bɪn meɪd tɪ lɔnʧ fri treɪd tɔks. əˈfɪʃəlz sɛd ˈdɪfərənsɪz hæd ˈnɛroʊd ɔn səm ˈɪʃuz ɪn ə dɪˈvɔrs ˈsɛtəlmənt ðət məst dɪˈtərmən ðə raɪts əv ɛkˈspeɪtriˌeɪt ˈsɪtɪzənz, ˈbɔrdər ərˈeɪnʤmənts, əˈspɛʃəli ɔn ðə ˈaɪlənd əv ˈaɪərlənd, ənd ˈdɪspərɪt ˌtɛknɪˈkælətiz ˌɪnˈkludɪŋ ˈligəl riˈleɪʃənz ənd taɪz wɪθ ðə ˈnukliər məˈtɪriəlz ˈtriti. rɪˈleɪtɪd ˈkəvərɪʤ ˈtæktɪks ˈrəðər ðən ˈpɑləsi ʃɪft? ˈleɪbər səˈpraɪzɪz ɔn ˈməni ˈtrəbəlz ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ə gəlf rɪˈmeɪnz ˈoʊvər dɪˈmændz ðət ˈbrɪtən peɪ ˈpɑsəbli 60 ˈbɪljən ˈjuˌroʊz 70 ˈbɪljən) ɔn dɪˈpɑrʧər. ˈbrɪtɪʃ nɪˈgoʊʃiˌeɪtərz pərˈzɛnəd ɔn ˈtuzˌdeɪ ðɛr ˈligəl æˈnælɪsɪs əv wət ˈləndən ækˈsɛpts wɪl bi səm ˌɑbləˈgeɪʃənz tɪ ðə. ðoʊ ˈniðər saɪd ɪz ədˈvænsɪŋ hɑrd ˈfɪgjərz jɛt, ðə ˈbrɪtɪʃ rɪˈʤɛktɪd wət ðeɪ kɔld ə sˈwipɪŋ down”*” əˈproʊʧ frəm ðə ənd ˈɑrgjud fər ə mɔr dɪˈteɪld, up”*” ˌrivˈju beɪst ɔn dɪˈvərs ˈligəl ərˈeɪnʤmənts əˈkrɔs ˈmɛni ˈbəʤɪt ˈɛriəz. ˈbrɪtən wʊd laɪk tɪ si ðə peɪs əv dɪˈrɛkt tɔks stɛpt əp, bɪɔnd ðə ˈrəfli ˈmənθli ˈskɛʤʊl əˈgrid ɪn ˌʤuˈlaɪ. tu mɔr raʊnz ər ˈskɛʤʊld ˌbiˈfɔr ðə ɑkˈtoʊbər ˈsəmɪt. ˈdeɪvɪs ˈɔlsoʊ wɔnts tim tɪ ˈlusən ðɛr rɪfˈjuzəl jɛt tɪ dɪˈskəs fˈjuʧər treɪd ərˈeɪnʤmənts, ˈɑrgjuɪŋ ðət ðɪs ˈhæmpərz ˈprɑˌgrɛs ɔn əˈgriɪŋ səm dɪˈvɔrs ˈɛləmənts, səʧ ɛz ðə ˈaɪrɪʃ lænd ˈbɔrdər. ə sɔrs kloʊz tɪ strɛst ðət ðə wɑz ˈwɪlɪŋ tɪ dɪˈskəs ðə fˈjuʧər riˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp wəns progress”*” ə dɪˈlɪbərətli veɪg ˈkɑnsɛpt ɪz meɪd. ðət kʊd, ðə sɔrs sɛd, hɛlp riˈzɑlv kəmˈpleɪnts frəm ˈbrɪtən, səʧ ɛz əˈbaʊt ən rɪfˈjuzəl tɪ əˈgri naʊ ðət ˈbrɪtɪʃ ˈtʊrɪsts kʊd kip kɑrdz ðət gɪv ðɛm ˈizi ˈækˌsɛs tɪ ˈmɛdɪkəl kɛr əˈkrɔs ðə ˈjunjən. ˈsɛvərəl əˈfɪʃəlz ˈɔfərd daʊnˈbit əˈsɛsmənts əv ˈprɑˌgrɛs ““awful”*” wɑz ðə ˈvərdɪkt əv wən ˈdɪpləˌmæt. ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ˈəðərz ˈkɔʃənd ðət rɪˈzəlts ðɪs wik wər ˈnɛvər ɪkˈspɛktɪd tɪ bi greɪt ənd sɛd boʊθ saɪdz ər stɪl ˈfɪgjərɪŋ aʊt ɪgˈzæktli wət ðə ˈəðər wɔnts ənd wɛr pəˈtɛnʃəl ˈɛriəz fər ˈtreɪˌdɔfs wɪl laɪ. waɪl ˈmɛni daʊt ə ˈbreɪkθˌru baɪ ɑkˈtoʊbər səm ˈsinjər əˈfɪʃəlz si praɪm ˈmɪnɪstər tərˈisə meɪ ˈspɔɪlɪŋ fər ə wɪθ hər ˈkaʊntərˌpɑrts səm ˈdɪpləˌmæts kloʊz tɪ ðə ˈprɔˌsɛs ˈkɔʃənd əˈgɛnst tu dip ə ˈpɛsəˌmɪzəm. ðə ɪgˈzɛkjətɪv həz ə træk ˈrɛkərd əv kriˈeɪtɪv ənd ðə 27 waɪl dɪˈmændɪŋ məʧ frəm ˈbrɪtən, ˈɔlsoʊ du nɑt wɔnt tɪ si ɪt dɪˈpɑrt ɪn keɪɑs. 2 ˈɪmɪʤɪz) ənd waɪl bɔs, ˌjʊrəˈpiən kəˈmɪʃən ˈprɛzɪdənt juncker*, ˈblæstɪd ɛz ˌɪˈnædəkˌweɪt ə ˈsɪriz əv ˈbrɪtɪʃ prəˈpoʊzəlz ˈoʊvər ðə ˈsəmər, wən ˈsinjər əˈfɪʃəl sɛd ðeɪ ʃoʊd saɪnz meɪ wɑz traɪɪŋ tɪ priˈpɛr ˈpəblɪk əˈpɪnjən fər ˈkɑmprəˌmaɪzɪz ðət meɪ ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt ˈmɛni ˈbrɪtənz hu ˈvoʊtɪd fər læst jɪr. nid tɪ bi ˈkɛrfəl nɑt tɪ bi tu ˈnɛgətɪv əˈbaʊt ðiz papers,”*,” hi sɛd. kən seɪ ə lɔt əv θɪŋz əˈbaʊt ðə brɪts, bət ðeɪ dəm ˈivɪn ɪf wi ər ˈvɛri ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd wɪθ wɛr wi ər ˈmeɪbi əˈbaʊt kriˈeɪtɪŋ ə heɪz, ˈəndər ðə ˈkəvər əv wɪʧ ju kən tərn ðə ʃɪp around.”*.” gaɪ vərˈhɔfˌstæt, ðə ˌjʊrəˈpiən pɔɪnt mæn, toʊld ˈfɛloʊ ˈlɔˌmeɪkərz ɔn ˈwɛnzˌdeɪ ðət waɪl hi dɪsˈmɪst ˈmɛni ˈbrɪtɪʃ prəˈpoʊzəlz ə kɔl fər ən ““invisible”*” ˈbɔrdər ɪn ˈaɪərlənd wɑz ““surrealist”*”, hi sɛd hi bɪˈlivd ðət θrɛt əv ˈwɔkɪŋ aʊt wɪˈθaʊt ˈɛni dil hæd naʊ ˈfərmli rɪˈsidɪd.
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